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Dean aspires to enhance experiences BY KRISTINE ROSETTE ENERIO UNIVERSITY EDITOR

After she was appointed dean of Douglass Residential College this summer, Jacquelyn Litt received words of congratulations from her father. The letter he wrote reminded her that she had wanted this job since she was a little girl and that she finally made it. “Apparently, I would make all my cousins and siblings sit down and I would teach them, starting from when I was five,” Litt said. “And I remember I used to make libraries in our basement. I always wanted to be dean.” But now that Litt finally assumed the position at the start of this month, she said she is trying to find 15 free minutes on her calendar. “This is a job that, by definition, JACQUELYN to do it well, I have LITT to reach way out to our alumnae, to our students, to our staff and to various administrators and faculty across campus,” she said. In her candidacy speech last spring, Litt said one of her goals was to strengthen bonds between Douglass and the University in order to enhance the curriculum for students. To achieve this, she aims to create more collaborative programming that will make Douglass a site where learning can take place outside a classroom but can supplement classroom lessons as well, Litt said.

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The Stadium West lot in Zone B on Busch campus is one of the lots students complain is difficult to find available parking areas.

U. oversells Busch campus parking spaces BY COLLEEN ROACHE ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

While some University students can wake up, hop on a bus and get to class in 20 minutes, some commuters spend that amount of time just looking for a parking space. Too many cars and not enough places to put them is a problem at the sold-out Zone B on Busch campus — which includes Stadium West Lot and Lots 62, Lot 67 and Lot 65 D — and some students are displeased. “We’re still having problems with Zone B,” Department of Transportation Ser vices Director Jack Molenaar said. “We oversold it, and we’re trying to fix that problem.” Even though the DOTS is working to increase the number of available parking spots on the campus, Andi Zhupa, a School of Engineering sophomore, is not happy.

“We drive past Route 18, that’s already [delayed], so when you get here, you want to find parking,” he said. “Sometimes, it’s very inconvenient.” Zhupa said there are times, especially around midday, when he must circle around 15 to 30 minutes to find a spot. School of Arts and Sciences junior Kyle Dronne agreed. But he said sometimes, the wait could be even longer. “You’re wasting like an hour of your time just in the car,” he said. School of Arts and Sciences student Mary Beley said parking is sometimes a hassle, but making sure there is sufficient time to find a spot for her car before she goes to class is helpful. Beley does not mind leaving even an hour earlier if it means she will find parking.

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“It’s manageable if you come early,” she said. “It’s no worse than when you’re in corporate America and you have to park.” Liz Chambers, a Rutgers College senior, also parks in the Stadium West Lot. Although she has never received a ticket herself, Chambers witnessed others who were penalized. “A lot of times, people aren’t able to park in stalls, so [they] get tickets,” she said. “You have to circle around and around, and it takes forever.” Chambers, who has parked in the lot over the past three years, said doing so has never been so difficult. While Zhupa acknowledged that more spaces are available, he complained that there is too much distance between the bus stops and the new spaces.

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Pianist Sezi Seskir performs at the Schumann Anniversary Performance yesterday at the Marryott Music Building on Douglass campus, hosted by Mason Gross School of the Arts.

The New Brunswick City Council passed a resolution Wednesday night in an effort to increase efficiency in government, with few members of the public present. The resolution would require members of the city council and other elected of ficials to attend courses, containing basic and instructional information per taining to government duties. “We, as members of the city council and as elected officials, will make a good faith effort to attend and complete at least one such course each year,” said Elizabeth Garlatti, city council president. According to a press release, the resolution is an extension of Gov. Chris Christie’s attempt to increase best practices in local governments across New Jersey. “Establishing a framework to review existing services, programs and work-

forces and setting budget priorities gives officials at all levels of government more of the tools they need to manage their budgets and fund priority ser vices, without raising property taxes,” Christie said in the release. In a letter from the governor’s office, Department of Community Affairs Commissioner Lori Grifa said the initiative began after hearing concerns from local governments. “Their concerns are largely the same in all parts of our state — how to make government operate more efficiently, provide needed ser vices and pr udently manage taxpayers’ financial resources,” she said. “The DCA shares in these concerns and is committed to working together with all of New Jersey’s municipalities in changing the way we conduct business.” The letter provided a checklist for each municipality to use to self-assess their operations.

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Initiative to foster campus civility BY CHASE BRUSH CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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Dillard University Associate English Professor Mona Lisa Saloy reads poems from her book at yesterday’s “Gulf Coast Poets Benefit Reading” at the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus.

Poets recite verses to remember Gulf BY ANDREW SMITH CONTRIBUTING WRITER

With the effects of Hurricane Katrina still lingering, four poets used their talents to commemorate the five-year anniversary of the storm that brought destruction to the Gulf Coast. The “Gulf Coast Poets Benefit Reading” recognized the anniversary of the natural disaster and the recent BP oil spill Wednesday in the Multipurpose Room of the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus. The event, the first of the semester for the Writers at Rutgers Readings Series, featured four writers from the gulf region reading their works related to the tragedy, their background and their culture. “[People] act like it’s over. It ain’t over,” said Mona Lisa Saloy, an associate professor of English at Dillard University. “I’m not in my house, so I have a responsibility to represent. It’s rare that people still care.” Saloy, a native of New Orleans, won the 2005 T.S. Eliot Prize for her manuscript, “Red Beans and Ricely Yours,” receiving the prize just six months before Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf. Among the writers present were Dar rell Bourque, poet laureate of Louisiana and author of “The Blue Boat,” and Tonya Foster, author of the for thcoming “A Swarm of Bees in High Cour t.” Bourque was quoted as being too over whelmed to put the BP oil spill into words on Yahoo! News, but offered his take on the par tnership of humans and nature. “One of the great lies and the great myths we’ve told ourselves is that there’s a division between the natural world and the human world,” he said in the July article. “And I think we’re as much an extension of the natural world as the plankton and the pelican.” Princeton University Professor Yusef Komunyakaa also read at the event. Komunyakaa is a recipient of the

Pulitzer Prize, Kinglesy Tufts Poetry Award and the William Faulkner Prize for his collection, “Neon Vernacular.” Although the authors’ works possessed stylistic dif ferences and dif ferent thematic focuses, all were connected to the Gulf Coast. “Geography creates culture, and culture creates us,” Bourque said. University Professor of English Mark Doty introduced the authors and understood the inevitable customs developed through living in a par ticular place. “I live in New York City, which like New Orleans, is a quintessentially American place that is barely attached to the rest of nation,” he said. “It has its own culture, its own life, and I think that’s one reason I feel some kinship with that great city.” The series not only commemorated Hurricane Katrina, but the disaster in the gulf that devastated the coastline and its marine life for the majority of the summer. “When we planned the event, the oil spill hadn’t yet happened, but at this point it’s doubly significant,” said Carolyn Williams, director of the Writers at Rutgers Reading Series. School of Ar ts and Sciences sophomore Glenn Ramirez praised the experience and the authors. “Like some of the poets said, the fact that [the series is] commemorating the anniversary of a disaster struck me,” he said. “But, the fact that so much creative insight came out of it was very interesting.” Williams said the ultimate goal of the series is to have University undergraduates exposed to critically acclaimed writing. “We want them to have a small enough venue so that they can talk to the poets and writers,” she said. “It’s all for the undergraduates. We just want to give something really fancy and nice to them.”

A little kindness goes a long way. Over the next few weeks, the University will take par t in a new initiative with that idea in mind. Project Civility is a two-year program that will attempt to generate an ongoing debate on how a community interacts in regard to what its members say and how they treat each other, said Mark Schuster, senior dean of students. “Civility is something that impacts all aspects of human relations. We’re not always aware of its presence but are jarred by its absence,” said Sattik Deb, a graduate student at the School of Education and a key planner in the project’s logistics. The idea is that the University can do better in regards to civility, said Kathleen Hull, director of the Byrne Family First-year Seminars and the one who originally proposed the concept of Project Civility. “I’ve always been the kind of teacher who wanted to give my students a complete education and to explore what it means to be a human being in all aspects,” Hull said. “What does civility mean to us as individuals, as an educational institution, as par t of the wider world?” The program, sponsored by the Offices of Student Affairs and Undergraduate Education, will involve a series of events and activities where students and faculty alike can confront

the problem of retaining a sense of understanding and tolerance in an increasingly diverse society, Schuster said. Hull said the inspiration for the project stemmed from the work of Peir M. Forni, a former University faculty member and author of “Choosing Civility: The Twenty-five Rules of Considerate Conduct.” The idea began with his desire to study the importance of civility, politeness and good manners in everyday life, said Forni, director of the Civility Initiative at Johns Hopkins University. “If I hold the door for you or hold your spot on line at the grocery store, I am in a small way acting respectful and considerate. And by behaving this way, I have a beneficial effect on the quality of your life,” Forni said. Forni will inaugurate Project Civility on Sept. 29 with “Kick Off: Choosing Civility,” a public program which will feature Forni as the keynote speaker with an introduction from University President Richard L. McCormick in the Multipurpose Room of Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus. The program will feature a student-produced documentar y about our current notions of civility at the University. “Though other universities have organized civility-related programs, Rutgers certainly stands out for its ambition and seriousness towards the initiative,” Forni said. The project will confront an array of problems facing society, from poor table manners to foul

language and cultural intolerance, Schuster said. Schuster, who is also coordinating the project, believes the University is the perfect atmosphere to facilitate such a discussion. With more than half of the incoming students identifying themselves as non-Caucasian, the University is one of the most culturally and ethnically diverse research institutions in the United States. “An action that is positive in one culture can be negative in another,” Schuster said. “Different cultures have different rules of etiquette, and something that is music to one person’s ears can be white noise to another.” He hopes the movement will create a paradigm shift across the nation in the way people understand civility and in which they overcome differences. Other program events taking place throughout the fall semester include “Fireside Chats,” where students can participate in discussing a variety of contemporary issues facing society with faculty and debate exhibitions hosted by the Rutgers University Debate Union, Schuster said. Ultimately, Hull believes the project’s end lays not so much in a specific definition of civility, but that students and all citizens engage themselves more openly in issues af fecting their communities. “It’s about taking ownership of the community,” Hull said. “This is a chance for students to really help shape the place they’ve spent the last four years in.”

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SPACES: U. does not plan to build deck due to cost continued from front “I paid $160 [for a parking pass],” Zhupa said. “I want to park close to the buses.” Molenaar said new studentparking areas on campus improve travel for students. “In comparison to bus stops all over the place, it’s pretty much consistent with walks everyone does around the University and, sometimes, closer,” he said. “It’s just different, that’s all.” DOTS based how many permits it should sell for Zone B on how many spaces were available and numbers from last year, Molenaar said. As most commuters do not stay on campus for an extended period of time, DOTS thought it was logical to oversell the lot. But this year, possibly because of the increased number of classes available, many more

people seem to be on campus at the same time, which Molenaar found surprising. “We’ve got to sell less of Zone B next year in order to make it work better,” he said. For now, students will have to

“The goal is actually to push down parking demand to try to keep it cheap.” JACK MOLENAAR Department of Transportation Services Director

park on Livingston campus and take the buses to their classes on Busch campus, Molenaar said. Although a parking deck could help increase the amount of available parking, he sees building one as an absolute last resort.

“It’s not even on the table,” he said. “The goal is actually to push down parking demand to tr y to keep it cheap. If you build more parking, then I have to charge it directly back to the students.” The money would be better used if it went toward improving buses and creating more bicycle and pedestrian friendly roads than building a deck, which would be costly to build and maintain, Molenaar said. Making sure students have appropriate places to park is a top priority, he said. “A student not finding a stall is the worst possible thing,” Molenaar said. “I can’t have that.” Sometimes, on the path to a solution that pleases everyone, a few people will be upset, he said. “I had someone complain that we made changes,” Molenaar said. “And I said ‘Because we’re trying to fix it.’ If we sat here and did nothing, you would have been annoyed, too.”

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AUTHORITIES CHARGE 53 FOR LARGE-SCALE FRAUD Federal authorities in New Jersey said they broke up a large-scale identity theft and fraud ring that stretches from the insular Korean enclaves of northern New Jersey to U.S. territories in the Pacific. Fifty-three people, many of them Korean immigrants living in New York and New Jersey, are charged with helping people fraudulently obtain credit cards, bank accounts and loans using illegally obtained Social Security numbers. Authorities say the alleged ringleaders operated a scheme to buy Social Security cards from brokers who fraudulently obtained them from Asian immigrants — mostly Chinese nationals — working in American territories, including Guam, American Samoa and Saipan. They then resold the cards to Korean immigrants in the territorial U.S. who used them to apply for U.S. driver’s licenses in California, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Nevada, New York and elsewhere. Several of the defendants then used their identifications to apply for credit cards. Some used all the credit they obtained, buying luxury goods such as vehicles, designer bags or liquor, some of it to resell. Forty-seven defendants were arrested yesterday, and another already is being detained by the state. Authorities still are trying to locate five defendants. Officials from the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s office said yesterday that 43 of the defendants are charged with participating in a large-scale criminal enterprise of fraud and identity theft. Separately, 10 people are charged with similar offenses. — The Associated Press

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Department of Transportation Services Director Jack Molenaar says increasing parking efficiency on campus is a top priority. He said the large enrollment this year probably contributes to the overcrowding.

“It even sounds odd to talk about them in separate entities because we are a part of Rutgers,” she said. “We use the expertise of Rutgers faculty. We create programs with other units at Rutgers.” Working to form innovating pedagogies with other University groups is a means of continuing the mission of Douglass Residential College, which is to support the advancements of women, Litt said. “Rutgers faculty, Rutgers student life all contributes to the mission,” she said. While her visions for the residential college seem clear, Litt is still learning the ins and outs of her job as well as Douglass itself. “As I learn about our programs, I’m sort of seeing new ways to build new offerings for students,” she said. “I see much more clearly what the peer academic leaders do, undergrad students who work with other undergrad students and how that is so much the core of the intellectual community on campus.” Litt was delighted to also learn the staff she is working with is more wonderful than she imagined. “I knew I could do this job because the staff here is so good,” she said. “If I had come into a situation where I thought, ‘There isn’t enough talent or expertise. This would be too difficult,’ I wouldn’t have taken it.” To Litt, the Douglass Residential College staff functioned efficiently, so she believed she already had a jumpstart on the things she wanted to do. “Dean [Harriet] Davidson did such a miraculous job through the last few years during a period of transition, sort of laying the ground work for whoever got the position,” she said. Davidson ser ved as the interim dean of the college while the staff deliberated over a new dean. In turn, members of the Douglass Residential College fac-

ulty seem glad to work with Litt and are excited for her plans. Vice Dean of Douglass Residential College Barbara Balliet said she finds Litt enthusiastic and believes she has wonderful ideas for the program. “She’s trying to really learn what we do as a sort of institution, and she’s going to be thinking about what we could be doing better,” Balliet said. Balliet said Litt was exploring to see what new things Douglass could be taking on and what partnerships with other University entities it could make. “What she wants us to be is the best environment for women to learn in New Brunswick and she wants as many women as possible to take advantage of our program,” she said. University President Richard L. McCormick said Litt’s research, experience and commitment to women in education and the workplace will ser ve her well. “I know she will bring the leadership and sustaining vision necessar y to supporting and enhancing women’s education at Rutgers in the 21st centur y,” McCormick said in a statement. Co-workers aside, Litt feels the students she interacts with are the best part of her job. Litt, who lives on campus, often sees students. But the first time she met students was at a leadership dinner. “I was just blown away by how wonderful our students are — committed and smart and energetic and funny — and I’ve been seeing them ever since,” she said. But her love for learning and confidence in her abilities led her to vie for the position. “I think trusting myself to be able to learn and develop partnerships was really important and that was something I want to model for our women students too,” Litt said. She also extends the same advice to students. “Trust yourself to be able to do challenging new adventures,” Litt said. “You have to really listen, get information, get knowledge and be willing to learn — but trust yourself.”

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Helyar House on Cook/Douglass campus is hosting an ice cream social as a fundraiser for Give Kids the World Village. Give Kids the World is a nonprofit resort in Central Florida that makes magical memories for children with life-threatening illnesses and their families by providing them a week-long, cost-free vacation. It is priced per serving just like any ice cream parlor and all the proceeds will be sent directly to the World Village. Thomas Sweet on Easton Avenue has kindly donated supplies for the event. Ice cream will be served at 5 p.m. at the Nicholas Hall Coffeehouse on Cook campus.

The members of Delta Epsilon Psi fraternity put themselves at the mercy of nearly 100 potential bidders Wednesday at its date auction fundraiser for Pakistan, raising $2,000. The fraternity held the event in the Multipurpose Room of the Livingston Student Center to raise awareness and money for the Islamic Relief Fund to help victims of the recent flood in Pakistan, fraternity member Omar Khan said. Upon hearing of the tragedy, which left millions homeless and more than 1,600 dead, the members of Delta Epsilon Psi wanted to help but did not want to run an average fundraiser, said Khan, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences sophomore. Some members in the fraternity are from Pakistan, including Khan himself, so they thought it would be beneficial to fundraise for the disaster’s relief, Khan said.

Recreation classes begin today. There are more than 300 available classes including aquatics, dance, fitness, body/mind/spirit, personal enrichment, spor ts, martial arts and outdoor recreation trips. Register online now 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. For complete details, visit: http://recreation.rutgers.edu/cl asses. Questions? Write to recclass@rci.rutgers.edu or call (732)-932-8204. Rutgers Empowering Disabilities’ first general body meeting is from 8 to 9:30 p.m. in Room 402 of the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus. This is to give an opportunity to introduce the club, officers and other members together in a fun trivia game. Come and learn what they are about and many ways to get involved. Refreshments will be ser ved.

The Clothesline Project is a visual display bearing witness to all forms of interpersonal violence. Join the Office for Violence Prevention and Victim Assistance at Voorhees Mall on the College Avenue campus from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. to view more than 200 shirts made by University students. Sur vivors and loved ones are welcome to make a shirt to include on the line. For more information, contact lluciano@echo.rutgers.edu.

The Rutgers Entrepreneurial Society will host “The Sexy Side of Entrepreneurship,” an exposition showcasing music, fashion, art and entertainment featuring a variety of industry experts at 7 p.m. in the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus. Hor d’oeuvres and refreshments will be served. Rutgers Study Abroad will be hosting its second annual study abroad fair from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus. It will be an excellent oppor tunity to find out more about our 65 programs in 30 dif ferent countries. Program representatives, University faculty, alumni and international students will be on hand to answer all of your questions and tell you ever ything you need to know about living and studying overseas.

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“We wanted to do our part in for $80 by his helping out because we just can’t girlfriend Shaheen Indawala, leave it to everyone else to do a School of Ar ts and something,” he said. “We have to Sciences sophomore. take action as well.” School of Arts and Sciences The decision to go with a date juniors Eva Patel and Saira auction was simple, Khan said. Zafar were a two-for-one deal “It is entertainand sold for $345 ing, and it will to their friend keep the audi“Everyone at Ruchit Patel, a ence interested,” School of Ar ts the fraternity did he said. and Sciences Eight volunsophomore. They their part and teers from the said they already worked really Delta Epsilon Psi have a date fraternity and p l a n n e d hard to get this Delta Phi Omega for him. thing going.” sorority, its sister But not everysorority, were one at the event OMAR KHAN auctioned of f to knew someone to School of Environmental the highest bidbid on. and Biological Sciences der. One group of Sophomore Hosts Tejinder first-year stuJangi, a School of dents went to Arts and Sciences sophomore, suppor t Pakistan, meet new and Priya Shah, a School of Arts people and check out the eligiand Sciences senior, kicked off ble bachelors. the auction. “[It was] a ver y great and Harsh Shah, a Rutgers interesting event,” said Business School sophomore, Rowaida Abdelaziz, a School of was the first to be auctioned off Ar ts and Sciences first-year at the event. He was bought student. “We want to suppor t

Pakistan and branch out of our dorm room, and this is a fun way to do it.” The Date Auction Fundraiser was a collective idea, and a lot of preparation went into the event, Khan said. “Ever yone at the fraternity did their part and worked really hard to get this thing going,” he said. Arrangements began in the summer, and the process was extensive — from booking the room to preparing participants, Khan said. “Advertising was a huge aspect to make this event a success,” he said. In addition to the auction itself, the fraternity collected canned goods for the Pakistani victims of the flood. Ultimately, the event raised $2,000, which Khan expects to go a long way. “I honestly didn’t expect that big of turn out, but it was great that we had it, and it’s great that people are aware [of the disaster],” he said.

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PROGRAM FOCUSES ON EDUCATION FOR WORKING ADULTS The University’s Center for Women and Work is hosting a public seminar next Wednesday entitled, “Making the Grade: Access to Post-Secondary Education for New Jersey’s Working Adults.” The seminar features a panel of professionals from a variety of backgrounds, including Deborah Howlett, president of the New Jersey Policy Perspective, and Brandon Roberts, executive director of the Working Poor Families Project, according to a University Media Relations press release.

The program will look into how the state tries to alleviate the concerns of working class adults, according to the release. Education and training are considered two principle factors that affect the dynamic of what kind of profession an individual will gain, according to the release. The CWW will explore challenges the state encounters — such as post-secondary education affordability — as tuition costs rises, state-funding decreases and financial aid access decreases. The center will also dis-

cuss the effective policies and programs of other states, according to the release. During the seminar, the CWW will also release its research and study, “Paying for College: Availability of Needbased Financial Aid for New Jersey’s Working Adults.” The event will be held from noon to 2 p.m. at the Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building on the Douglass campus. — Reena Diamante

COUNCIL: City set to receive $14M in state aid continued from front “Each municipality will need to meet an established percentage of the checklist items in order for all or part of your last state aid payment to be released,” Grifa said in the letter. The number of questions answered “yes” determines the amount of state aid received, according to the letter. For instance, if the municipality answers between 78 and 88 questions “yes,” they receive 100 percent of their state aid. But if the municipality answers between zero and 15 questions “yes,” they only receive 95 percent of their state aid. The city of New Brunswick is set to receive more than $14 million in municipal state aid for the third and fourth quarters for the 2010 fiscal year, according to the Depar tment of Community Affairs website. If the governing body answers “yes” to only 15 questions, they would lose more than $700,000 in municipal state aid. The council said Mayor Jim Cahill highly recommends the resolution, and Garlatti agreed nothing negative could come out of the courses. “The benefit, of course, is that ever ybody’s need “[We] certainly skills refreshing,” don’t want she said. “And this is to have anything an important that is going part of the process to to pollute acquire the the waterway.” m a x i m u m amount of ALAN GODBER municipal President of the aid for Lawrence Brook the city.” Watershed Partnership The resolution to promote best practices was not the only item for discussion on the city council’s agenda. The council also looked at the potential installment of fish ladders on the dam of Lawrence Brook, a tributary of the Raritan River located in a small part of New Brunswick. President of the Lawrence Brook Watershed Partnership Alan Godber said the fish ladders are important because of a dwindling herring population on the East Coast. “One of the main reasons is that we understand the herring population in the Atlantic just off the coast here has decreased very considerably in the last 10 years due to poor fishing habits and such,” he said. But Charles Renda, a resident of the 5th Ward, had concerns about what exactly the fish ladders were and their effect on the water. “I’m just curious what kind of metal would be used and whether it would put any pollutants into the water supply,” he said. Godber was able to answer Renda’s question, making sure he knew the LBWP would do nothing harmful to the city’s water. “My understanding is that there are three of four different designs that can be used for this purpose,” he said. “I totally agree with this gentleman that [we] cer tainly don’t want to have anything that is going to pollute the water way.”

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Week in review: laurels and darts

hris Coons had a chance of winning a seat in the Senate up until the moment Harry Reid named him as his “pet.” The front-running Delaware Democratic candidate faces the opposition’s Christine O’Donnell, whose chances just got better. Senate Majority Leader Reid, after fouling at last week’s “green” summit by showing up in a fleet of giant SUVs, showed his support for Coons by using the words, “He’s my pet.” The reactions have not been kind to Reid and multiple pundits have come out against him, cracking jokes and fashioning him as the Lord of the Ring’s Gollum cradling Coons, “his precious.” They have not been kind and neither are we. Senator Reid receives a dart for perhaps a simple misnomer, yet something that may keep Democrats away from legislature as Republicans steer back into the Senate. *

Prices are rising once again — this time in the field of health insurance as if to surprise those of us who believed in President Barack Obama’s health reform. According to CTnow.com, several health insurers are asking for immediate rate hikes of more than 20 percent in Connecticut, citing rising medical costs and federal health reform laws. It remains to be seen if the requests will be completed, but state governments will have their hands full with midterm elections and the need to please the people. Aetna, for example, asked for an average 24.7 percent increase last year for small-group HMO plans. State regulators, instead, approved an average increase of 18 percent for all of Aetna’s small-group plans. A dart goes to the previously lauded health reform and the insurers that are once again trying to benefit from their customers’ misfortune. *

Students face another cut in tuition aid grants, as expected after Gov. Chris Christie’s all-round budget cutbacks. University costs have once again increased and students find it harder and harder to bare the weight of college costs. TAG awards have decreased on average by $400, and can total up to a $714 loss for the neediest students. While these figures do not make much of a difference to some of us, $700 is a sufficient amount to a lower-income family. While it is sad to see money being taken away from those students who need it, all must make sacrifices during this time and they should be done equally across the board. We laurel the equity of the cuts which do not deem certain students more worth of aid than others. *

The E! Entertainment Television network recently announced plans for a new reality show entitled “Bridalplasty,” in which brides-tobe will compete against one another for the chance to win free plastic surgery procedures. The network has said that the show aims to give women the opportunity to become “the perfect bride.” E! receives a very sharp dart for this show, which perpetuates the rather misogynistic idea that a woman must be physically perfect in order to be the best that she can be. The show dehumanizes women, turning them into little more than showpieces. There is far more to being “the perfect bride” than a facelift or liposuction. It’s shocking that E! would find the thoroughly degrading concept behind “Bridalplasty” acceptable in today’s day and age. *

“Don’t ask! It’s hell. I can’t stand it!” An alleged quote uttered by first lady Michelle Obama in reference to her role as America’s most influential woman. The quote appeared in a new biography of French first lady Carla Bruni titled “Carla and the Ambitious.” According to abc.com, the White House, naturally, denies the comment, it does leave one wondering whether it is true. The legitimacy of the biography is also in question. According to the site, Emmanuel Lenain, a spokesman for the French Embassy to the U.S., said, “[The book] was not authorized and the authors alone are responsible for its contents.” While European media reported the biography was authorized to which Lenain told ABC, “I don’t have all the details, I’ll have to get back to you.” Since when did world leaders start acting like children? We dart Obama and Bruni for acting like elementary school girls instead of setting an example for the rest of the world. *

The city of New Brunswick has plans to revitalize Remsen Avenue, an area that is sorely in need of work. Some citizens of the city have been calling for improvements to be made to this area and look at the development of downtown to be a slight against them. Finally, their cries have been heard. We laurel the city for finally developing an area of New Brunswick that has been neglected for too long and hope to see continuing improvements being made.

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Live with higher standards The S Friday Rants

“whoever sleeps with more lutgers, The State women obviously has the University of New bigger penis and thus has a Jersey. Now, there higher self-esteem?” Or is it are two types of people at because young women this University. The first will nowadays have taken the be offended or disgusted at female sexual revolution so this atrocious nickname of the supposedly prestigious SEAN CURTIS far as to the point where it’s just downright self-degradUniversity, ranked rather ing and unattractive? high among this country’s public schools. The sec“Blame evolution” — that’s what I’ll hear from ond type is made up of the lovely people who gave my more intelligent philosophical adversaries. us the nickname, and they will merely snicker when Scientists have recently started using the sexual they hear it. Surprisingly, the second category does escapades of bonobos, relatives of chimpanzees and not just consist of the disgusting Ke$ha and The our closest evolutionary cousins, to define the Situation wannabes who drunkenly run up and nature of human sexuality. Bonobos are famous for down College Avenue on Friday nights, pathetically the random orgies they partake in, which relieve begging me for a cigarette. No, I’ve sadly found that tensions within the troop and make for a more coheeven the most intelligent students here at the sive social environment. They invented free love in University contribute to the University deserving the jungle long before we did in Haight-Ashbury. So, this wonderful title. Of course, intelligence is surely if our closest evolutionary cousins aren’t wired to be no indication of moral integrity and self-control, monogamous, evolution thus dictates that humans though I did expect a bit more from the supposed aren’t either. OK, I see the logic. future leaders of our generation. Oh, wait. Never mind. Cases of The majority of college and uni“Look at the good cannibalism have been reported in versity students in this nation sold bonobos, haven’t they? You mean out to MTV and other mainstream our conformity scientists have actually seen our media titans’ obvious sexploitation is doing for closest evolutionary cousins eating long ago. We loved sex before. Then their own young!? Well, there goes TV and pop music made it really this country.” that argument. But, I would just love cool — and profitable, I might add. for some pretentious scientist to try Now we really love sex. It’s the clasto use our evolution from apes to justify human cansic “everybody’s doing it” cliché. The “Jersey nibalism, wouldn’t you? Never trust a man who Shore” cast gets wicked orange tans — you want to looks to apes as a moral guide. He will cheat on you get one too! The “Jersey Shore” cast gets a bad case and then possibly eat you. of gonorrhea — you want to get one too! Apparently Maybe that’s why they call it evolution. We have we fail to see the lack of originality in our misguidevolved. We are supposed to be the better version. ed sexual adventures. Doesn’t anyone want to be We’ve developed willpower and self-control, things different in America anymore? I mean, teen pregthat bonobos don’t have. Why would we look backnancy rates are up, chlamydia is more common than ward in trying to justify our promiscuity? Perhaps ever, and syphilis is making a comeback. Look at because, deep down, that’s the only justification we the good our conformity is doing for this country. can find, as poor as it is. Maybe — just maybe — we So why are we so hypersexual, and why do we know it’s wrong and that bonobos are just a conventhink it’s okay? Why do we think it’s so much “coolient excuse for living without standards, discipline er” to attempt to sleep with as many of the almost or responsibility. If we could accept that and stop 38,000 other students here in New Brunswick as looking to apes and people who act like them as possible instead of seeking a stable monogamous moral compasses in a sex-crazed world, then perrelationship? I’ll bet you 10 bucks the STD rate here haps we can finally find the opportunity to obtain would plummet if we made a few tweaks in the value something a little deeper, something that won’t system we so eagerly gobbled up from mainstream leave us alone with a herpes simplex on Sunday media. But that of course would make the big boys morning. So, how about it, Slutgers? I’m getting a litwho know how to target your pocketbooks lose tle tired of the bonobos in New Brunswick who gave quite a bit of money. Plus, there wouldn’t be much us the nickname. Aren’t you? of a point for the guys to go out on Thirsty Thursdays anymore. Is it because we still have a bit Sean Curtis is a School of Arts and Sciences sophto go until we can finally start acting like mature omore majoring in East Asian studies. His column, adults? Is it because young men are still caught up “The Friday Rants,” runs alternate Fridays. in that age-old and delusional competition of

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mokers have already been forced out of cafes, restaurants and other closed public spaces in the New York City area, and while they have coped with that until now, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has proposed a new ban that will affect my fellow smokers and me. Yes, I am a smoker and I know about the health risks — the threat to my heart, lungs or whatever else they figure on putting on the box to avert my addiction. But Bloomberg’s plan on banning smoking outdoors in the New York City limits is over the line. The mayor’s war against smokers has the prospects of banning me from smoking in the city’s parks, beaches, marinas, board-

walks and pedestrian plazas, according to The Associated Press. This means my regular run through Central Park with a cigarette in my mouth and with the numerous smoking French tourists walking through Times Square will be deemed illegal. He claims that smokers affect themselves along with those around them, and that’s absolutely true. But I am not going to light a cigarette while I am sitting next to a mother and her baby, and I am also not planning on blowing smoke in anyone’s face. This ban is, simply put, unethical and unfair to those who have been barred from smoking in bars or even outdoor sitting areas. If officials are really that concerned with this “dangerous” habit, t h e y should put an end to it a l t o g e t h e r. Giving me the explanation that smoking is dangerous and therefore it should not be done outdoors will not make me stop smoking. Stop the production, let the tobacco companies and their political lobbyists cut their losses and get out of the business, but do not turn a legal habit into a crime in the NICHOLAS BRASOWSKI / SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER limits of a single city.

holds for smokers: The fact that bothers people terribly and can they enjoy a self-harming potentially ruin a bystander’s behavior does not mean they mood. The solution to not holdare poor human beings. ing really loud cell-phone conNonsmokers, remember that versations in public spaces is to there is a high chance that you hold the conversation where also engage in harmful behavthe people around you can’t iors. For example, you probably here it and therefore won’t be MATTHEW KOSINSKI drink alcohol, which can lead to bothered by it. The same holds liver disease. Or maybe you for smoking: If you’re going to “The science is clear: like to go tanning, which can smoke in public, just smoke Prolonged exposure to secondlead to melanoma. Or maybe somewhere away from people hand smoke, whether you’re you like to drink coffee, which where they won’t be bothered indoors or out, hurts your contains the dr ug caf feine, by it. Of course, smoking is health,” Bloomberg said in a which can lead to sleep more than just an annoyance: statement. “Today, we’re doing disorders. When was the last It’s also ver y detrimental to something about it.” time that a recreone’s health. But, That science has been clear ational drinker, a as the ar ticle for a long time, but this ban isn’t “We engage in sunbather or a says, the threat of just about that. It’s also about fee fan was secondhand creating sharp social divisions a habit that many cof shunned from smoke is present between groups of people. It society because people don’t find within a threecasts smokers and nonsmokers of the harmful foot radius as enemies of one another. very appealing.” side ef fects of around a smoker. This sort of imposing, widetheir habits? So, when lighting reaching ban does not have to Probably never. up a cigarette in be the solution to the problem Smokers are human beings, public, smokers just need to of secondhand smoke. and human beings all have their remember to move more than Smokers and nonsmokers vices. Those vices don’t have to three feet away from nonsmokcould get along just fine in outbe shameful little secrets. Just ers to eliminate the threat. It’s a door public places if both parremember two things: First, if simple, civil solution that works ties just follow some simple you’re going to engage in behavfor ever yone. rules of etiquette. The governiors that can cause harm or Now, nonsmokers, you’re all ment doesn’t have to get annoyance to others, make sure guilty of bad etiquette, too. You involved, especially not at such you act in such a way as to elimineed to stop marking smokers a highly personal level. It all nate any threats to those around as dir ty ne’er-do-wells. Laws comes down to common sense you. Second, don’t pass judgment like this aren’t helping: All they and common decency. on someone’s moral character do is further ostracize smokers Smokers, remember: We based solely on something as and solidify their baseless repuengage in a habit that many petty as a cigarette habit. tation as “bad people.” It isn’t people don’t find ver y appealOK to judge all obese people as ing. It’s similar, in a sense, to Matthew Kosinski is a School of poor human beings, even the annoying tendency some Arts and Sciences junior majoring though they overeat, which people have to hold really loud in English and minoring in philositself is a habit that is incredibly cell-phone conversations in pubophy and cultural anthropology. bad for their health. The same lic spaces. It’s a habit that

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Today's birthday (9/17/10). You feel more in control of your own existence this year. First, your mind is clearer and your ideas more practical. Second, you understand the needs of the people around you more easily. Third, your imagination provides a rainbow of possibilities to explore. To get the advantage, check the day's rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging. Aries (March 21--April 19) -Today is a 7 -- Tossing an idea back and forth allows you to express hidden emotions with a friend. At the same time, you get your work done. Go figure. Taurus (April 20--May 20) -Today is an 8 -- Responsibilities shared between partners make chores easy to complete. Cross-training proves valuable now, if one person is absent. Gemini (May 21--June 21) -Today is an 8 -- Ditch logic, and let your feelings guide you to a productive day and delightful evening. Someone surprises you with an unexpected visit. Cancer (June 22--July 22) -Today is a 7 -- Your awareness of lucky possibilities increases now. Before you put your heart and soul into a project, try to consider all the angles. It works out. Leo (July 23--Aug. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- You need no web to draw people in today. Instead, inspire them to be both imaginative and sympathetic. These elements merge into a perfect expression of love. Virgo (Aug. 23--Sept. 22) -Today is a 7 -- Take your creative power to a higher level by using your personal judgment after putting in the research. Then push ahead.

Libra (Sept. 23--Oct. 22) -Today is a 6 -- If travel is part of your near future, consider going by boat. A journey of the heart is just what you need to balance something from the past. Scorpio (Oct. 23--Nov. 21) -Today is an 8 -- If romance is on the agenda for today, then you're in luck (as well as love)! Give your imagination free reign to plan an adventure. Sagittarius (Nov. 22--Dec. 21) -Today is a 7 -- Plan your day to include private time alone with your favorite person tonight. No need to go out. Home is where the heart is. Capricorn (Dec. 22--Jan. 19) -Today is a 7 -- Nothing can diminish your enthusiasm today. Both genders contribute to a revolutionary project. Begin a task that expands, as one thing leads to another. Aquarius (Jan. 20--Feb. 18) -Today is a 6 -- A romantic social setting allows you to spend lavishly without destroying your budget. Accept organizational help from close associates. Pisces (Feb. 19--March 20) -Today is a 6 -- If you don't already have plans to get out of town for the weekend, you may want to make some. A romantic exploration hits the jackpot.

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strongly about. When it was over, it was like, ‘Wow, this could’ve been ours.’” offers another top-five test This time, however, the matchup is at the friendly concontinued from back fines of Yurcak Field, where Rutgers previously fell, 1-0, to Rutgers owns a 10-3-2 record Monmouth on Aug. 29, but over the past two years. rebounded with a positive result “I think it’s going to be really against Princeton. interesting, especially after “It’s definitely pretty big,” what we saw after Portland,” Pace said. “It’s the Big East Pace said. “We played really opener for us, so we want to well against Por tland [last] start that off on the right foot. weekend and that was just And then also it’s another something that showed us kind Jersey school. It’s just about of what we can do and this is proving who we are in Jersey, just the next step.” especially since we want to Despite a positive showing throw [the Monmouth match] against the vaunted Pilots out the window.” attack, the Knights’ loss to The Pirates Monmouth was are led by freshthe team’s biggest man Kaitlyn “The Portland game lesson of the seaRitter, the Big son, which is ... We need East Freshman of almost at its the Week after halfway point. to learn to get over tallying three “After that goals. The forthe hump against game, we realward leads Seton we cannot a top-five program ized Hall in points on take any team for the season. granted,” said like that.” After clashing redshir t freshGLENN CROOKS with the Pirates in man for ward South Orange, Jonelle Filigno. Head Coach N.J., Rutgers “We need to returns home for come out to a Sunday matinee against No. 5 ever y game and give 110 perBoston College (5-0-1). cent. That’s what we’ve been The Golden Eagles’ only tie doing. Even though we lost to came against No. 2 Stanford, 1-1, Portland … they scored in the in an Aug. 20, showdown. last five minutes. We held our Rutgers had its own battle own in that game.” with a top-five power last weekNeedless to say, Pace plans to end, when the Knights fell, 2-1, replicate last year’s performance to No. 4 Portland at the Nike against the Pirates and match the Invitational. Knights’ call for effort. “The Portland game, that’s The sophomore’s first goal in one of those games where we 2010 came on Aug. 27, against need to learn to get over the Colgate, followed by a twohump against a top-five promatch drought before finding gram like that,” said head the back of the net Sept. 5, coach Glenn Crooks. “We’ve against Bucknell. experienced that with Notre If the trend continues, Pace is Dame as well, with last year due for another goal tonight at being a perfect example. They Seton Hall. And if Pace scores, split the final minutes and made she won’t be able to thank the it 1-0 in a game that we felt game tape.

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Rutgers head women’s soccer coach Glenn Crooks leads the Knights in a home matchup Sunday against No. 5 Boston College. The team is 3-2 since Crooks’ Aug. 29 return from suspension.

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WEEKEND:

The Hawks (2-2) ride a twogame win streak into the weekend after wins over Central Connecticut State and Quinnipiac. Wins over Hartford and LIU continued from back would allow Rutgers to head into Knibbs was proud of his team’s Big East play riding a three-game performance Sunday, despite win streak. harsh weather conditions. The defense’s play over the “Sunday was probably one of weekend is paramount to the worst games we have played building confidence heading in condition-wise, so it was defiinto the conference schedule. nitely a struggle out there to And as one of the most experikeep the shutout,” he said. “All of enced groups on the squad, our guys did a great job and we communication comes as secreally pride ourselves in keeping ond nature. the ball out of the net.” “We feed off each other very It was a performance that well,” Calafiore said. “The comimpressed first-year head coach munication is there all the time. A Dan Donigan, but there is still lot of the times we don’t even room for improvement. need to communicate because “I think that we read each we still gave up other so well.” some chances to Just like the “We’re not afraid St. Peter’s that we shutout on didn’t want to,” to talk to each other, Sunday, Donigan he said. “I felt we yell at each other, likes his defendgave them too ers’ comfort with to make sure we are one another, but many oppor tunities to get back is always on the same page.” there into the game. room to improve. PAULIE CALAFIORE But overall, we “I think they Senior Defender are still pleased are all comfortto have kept them able with one scoreless.” another,” he said. Rutgers’ next opportunity to “They have all played in some big hold an opponent scoreless matches, but as we start to enter comes tonight against Long the conference schedule, I still Island at Yurcak Field. The want to see them improve and Knights (1-1-1) find themselves limit the amount of chances the in the midst of a five-game opposing team gets.” homestand that star ted last And with that comfor t, week and concludes next there is no harm in any of the Friday with the Big East opener defenders raising their voices against Marquette. to make sure ever yone is on Long Island (2-2) provides a the same page. great opportunity for Rutgers to “We know where the others go over .500, with the Blackbirds are going to be at all times,” only recording their wins at Calafiore said. “We’re not afraid home against Cornell and NJIT to talk to each other, yell at in overtime. each other, to make sure we are After Friday’s contest, the on the same page. There’s no Knights return to the pitch hard feelings taken between Sunday afternoon for a 2:30 p.m. what’s said as long as the job affair with Hartford. gets done.”

Knights in midst of five-game homestand

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Senior captain Jenna Bull played in all six games for the Rutgers field hockey team thus far and had one goal, which came in a 3-2 failed comeback effort against Richmond.

CHALLENGE: Goalies in competition to get starts continued from back practice now that we’re into academics and into the school year.” The head coach used the same apparatus to evaluate the goaltenders, after the goalie competition between sophomore Vickie Lavell and freshman Sarah Stuby became wide open following difficult games against No. 20 American and No. 2 Maryland. The Knights allowed a combined 11 goals in the two games. “We’re keeping stats of [Lavell and Stuby’s] saves and save percentage during each practice,” Tchou said. “Whoever can apply the improvements from practice into the games will probably get the start.”

In the end, the team’s chances at victory come down to its ability to defend inside the circle. Syracuse has a knack for converting within the 25 and proved that earlier in the season after posting 15 penalty corners against Kent State, though they fell, 2-1, in the contest. In-state rival Monmouth, the Knights’ second foe of the weekend, is no slouch either. The Hawks (4-1) enter Sunday’s contest after defeating Delaware, 3-1. They also defeated Richmond, 3-1, earlier this season — a team to which Rutgers fell by a 3-2 score. Penalty corners are a huge part of the Hawk offense, as the squad posted 10 and 15 penalty corners in its last two games, respectively. If the Knights are not able to suppress Syracuse and Monmouth’s

early attacks, it could spell doom for Rutgers’ shot at victory. “We know Syracuse really loves to draw corners,” Tchou said. “We can’t allow that, we can’t give them that many opportunities. We have to buckle down.” Bearing down must start from the very beginning of the contest, as the team looks to avoid heading into halftime trailing for the fourth straight game. Senior Jenna Bull thinks the backs are up for the challenge. “Our defense is pretty good at stepping up and they’re playing pretty good defense right now,” said the co-captain. “I think being patient and not jumping into a tackle, making sure we’re playing to the best of our ability and keeping it outside the circle for sure are the topthree things.”

Veteran squad ready for talent-rich field BY NICHOLAS ORLANDO

“We played three good rounds of golf. I would like to take that consistency into the tournament The Rutgers women’s golf at Princeton.” team is trying to build on its But the Knights battled more g o o d than just the playing field last WOMEN’S GOLF p l a y weekend at Bucknell, facing a f r o m slew of bad weather in the RUTGERS AT l a s t process. In terms of the level of PRINCETON INVITE, w e e k competition, however, the SATURDAY a n d Princeton Invitational presents carr y it similar obstacles. into the Princeton Invitational “The field at Princeton is this weekend. going to be a little stronger than The Scarlet Knights the field was at make the short trip Bucknell,” said down Route 1 to tr y Waters-Ballard. and improve on their The strong finish at third place finish from the Bucknell a week ago at the Invitational required a Bucknell Invitational. total team effort, as The Knights finished Waters led the way and third overall in the 18the Knights finished team field, and also saw with 22 birdies to lead JEANNE their senior captain the field. Jeanne Waters finish “I think we’ll need WATERS second overall. our fourth and fifth playIt is important for ers to step up for us this Rutgers’ veteran leadership to stay weekend,” Waters-Ballard said. “If consistent this season and improve we can have everyone break 80 we each and every time out on the will be in great shape.” course. According to head coach Waters-Ballard’s squad travels Maura Waters-Ballard, the Bucknell to Springdale Golf Club in Invitational was a great start. Princeton, N.J. The course, made “I am happy with our finish at in 1915 is a par 72 with a length of Bucknell,” Waters-Ballard said. 5,546 yards from the gold tees. CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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he third annual “Clinic to end all Clinics” kicks off tonight at Manhattan College and features Rutgers head women’s basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer along with Big East men’s basketball coaches Jim Calhoun (Connecticut) and Jay Wright (Villanova). Stringer also plans on assisting with the “Wheeling Jesuit University Basketball Coaches Clinic” on Sunday in West Virginia.

AFTER

ADDING FUEL TO

the fire involving Mexican reporter Ines Sainz’s recent trip into the New York Jets locker room, Washington Redskin running back Clinton Portis decided to tape his mouth shut. Literally. The Jets were accused of making catcalls to the reporter last week and after making inappropriate comments on the matter, the Redskins running back thought it best to keep quiet. Following yesterday’s practice, Portis had his mouth taped by defensive lineman Albert Haynesworth and held signs to the media that read, “No Comment,” and “Have a good day.”

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Senior safety Joe Lefeged took home four awards after his performance against Florida International last weekend, when he had six tackles, two forced fumbles, an interception and two blocked punts that set up 10 Rutgers points in a 19-14 win.

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Senior Lefeged channels former Knight McCourty in dominant performance on special teams, defense BY SAM HELLMAN CORRESPONDENT

Joe Lefeged said he believes what he has is contagious. He hopes to infect the rest of the Rutgers football team with it. If he’s right, that spells trouble for any FOOTBALL team tr ying to win the field position battle against the Scarlet Knights this season. “When you make a play on special teams, that’s a big boost for your football team,” said Lefeged, who had the best statistical game of his career and one of the best individual performances this season in college football last weekend against Florida International. “It changes the momentum of the game when you’re able to score like that. “Special teams is a big par t of a football game and creating takeaways on defense is a big par t. We spend a lot of time in practice focusing on those main points and it shows in the game.” Against FIU, Lefeged represented the essence of what head coach Greg Schiano teaches: Force turnovers and play hard on special teams. By the end of the first half, his performance was dominant. By the end of the game, his performance was borderline surreal.

As if an interception, six tack- about it, but I’m ready to put it les, two forced fumbles and a pass behind me and get ready for deflection on defense wasn’t North Carolina.” enough, the 205-pound senior No matter how full his trosafety from Germanton, Md., also phy case became based on the threw in two blocked punts for per formance, nothing meant good measure. more than a message he got “I didn’t go into the game like, from a friend in the NFL the ‘I’m going to make plays like next day. that,’” Lefeged said. “Me being a “I talked to [Devin McCourty] senior, you see a lot of different and he told me I looked like him things and watchon the field,” ing film. You’re Lefeged said. aware of opportu“[Joe Lefeged] is a “That’s a great nities, especially compliment comgreat leader and our ing from a firstwhen you’re aware of the ball security draft pick captain and he just round of a certain player and one of the showed what he can best special teams and things like that and be aware of players in college do. He just led those things.” football last year. Lefeged’s perIt’s someone who by example.” formance was I look up to and KHASEEM GREENE enough to make helped me out a Sophomore Safety him the first ever lot throughout Big East Defensive the years.” Player of the Week Between his and Special Teams Player of the touchdown in Week 1 and week in the same day. He also Madden-esque performance received recognition as one of Saturday, Lefeged is doing his nine “Paul Hornung’s Most best to fill the McCourty mold for Versatile Performances” and the the 2010 Scarlet Knights. Jim Thorpe Defensive Back of the Part of following McCourty’s Week Award. footsteps is being a better leader, “I was happy. I heard it from Lefeged said. Ask his counterpart my mom at first,” Lefeged said of in the secondary, and Lefeged the Big East honors. “[On that does a great job as a team captain. day], she informed me. I didn’t “I think it was a great performreally know what to think of it. It’s ance,” said sophomore safety a humbling experience. I didn’t Khaseem Greene. “He’s a great really expect it. I’m just happy leader and our captain and he just

showed what he can do. He just led by example and we followed. He led by example.” Greene, in his second year as a star ter, credits Lefeged with much of his progress at the position. “The first thing he taught me was about having a linebacker mentality at safety and going all out when I tackle people, because that’s one of the things he can do well,” Greene said. “He’s really smart when it comes to off the field studies. He knows the defense inside and out. These past two years, all I did was just learn his habits and the way he does things and allow those to model what I do.” Lefeged said he recognizes that performances like that do not come every week. He doesn’t expect the same statistics when North Carolina travels to Piscataway in eight days, so all he can do is get ready. The bye week was a good start, he said. “As a defense, we need to work on a lot,” Lefeged said. “We missed a lot of tackles and little things, hitting our gaps. They had a lot of big plays, we missed a lot of tackles. We need to work on that. For myself, I need to work on tackling. I missed a few tackles during the game and if we can all improve our game just a little bit more each week, we’ll be fine.”

ROCKETS

center Yao Ming missed time in each of the past five seasons due to bone injuries in his foot. In order to prevent that from being a problem for the 2010 campaign, the Rockets announced the center will play no more than 24 minutes a game during the season. The center underwent complex foot surgery last summer and averages 19.1 points per game for his career.

PHILADELPHIA

EAGLES

quarterback Michael Vick is expected to start Sunday when the team takes on the Detroit Lions. Kevin Kolb, the team’s starter for last week’s matchup against the Green Bay Packers, suffered a concussion last week and still hasn’t passed his next phase of concussion testing.

DENVER

NUGGETS

forward Carmelo Anthony still wants out of Denver. According to sources, Anthony is still in the process of seeking a trade, with desirable locations including Philadelphia and New Jersey. The Nuggets offered the three-time NBA all-star a $65 million contract extension to stay on with the team but Anthony turned it down.

PADRES

STAR TER

Chris Young will return to the rotation Saturday against St. Louis after missing most of the season with a strained right shoulder. The 6-foot-10 Princeton product finds himself in the thick of a pennant race, as San Diego struggled of late and finds itself in competition with the San Francisco Giants and Colorado Rockies for the National League West title.

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Confident ‘D’ leads Rutgers into weekend

Big East foe gives Knights new challenge

BY A.J. JANKOWSKI

BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ

ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

CORRESPONDENT

It was a day of firsts for the Rutgers men’s soccer team last Sunday against St. Peter’s. Not only was the victory the first of the year for the Scarlet Knights, it also marked the first time in the MEN’S SOCCER 2010 season that they held an oppoLONG ISLAND AT nent scoreless, winRUTGERS ning 2-0. TONIGHT, 7 P.M. For a team that only shut out four teams last year — while being held scoreless nine times itself — keeping a clean sheet is of the utmost importance. “Going into ever y game, that’s our goal. We want to keep a clean sheet,” said senior captain and outside defender Paulie Calafiore. “Keeping a clean sheet is an accomplishment for us, but it also sends a message to the other teams that we are about to play that when they come to play us, it’s not going to be easy to score.” The back line for Rutgers boasts four defenders who all played at least one season. Even with injuries sidelining him for most of 2009, Calafiore still has 21 starts under his belt. Fellow captain Andrew Cuevas has 17 starts to his name — four of which came as a freshman at Iona. Joining Cuevas on the right side of the defense is senior Chris Edwards. Edwards has been a pillar of the squad since arriving on the Banks, amassing 48 starts to date. Those 48 starts are tied for the team lead. Fellow senior Yannick Salmon has also started 48 contests on the pitch for the Knights. And finally there is junior Bryant Knibbs, who played as a midfielder last season, but started in the back line twice as a freshman.

Attempting to emulate the intensity of a conference game in practice is a difficult thing to do. FIELD HOCKEY Even though the Rutgers field hockey SYRACUSE AT team’s upperclassRUTGERS, men admittedly SATURDAY, 1 P.M. turned up the tempo during practice this week, the squad’s freshmen have to learn on the fly when the Scarlet Knights take on Syracuse on Saturday in the team’s first Big East matchup. “The freshmen really don’t know what they’re in for yet,” said head coach Liz Tchou. “Each [Big East] game you play is so intense and so exciting.” Rutgers (1-5) aims at grabbing its second home win and first Big East victory of the season, but No. 6 Syracuse comes to the Banks wanting a win of its own. The Orange (4-2) enter the game following a thrilling 2-1 overtime loss to No. 3 Virginia and plan on getting back on track against Rutgers in Piscataway. But do not expect the Knights to take them lightly. “These are the games that count,” said senior co-captain Heather Garces. “We’ve always had really close games within our conference [and] since we’ve been improving we feel like we’re ready for Syracuse on Saturday.” A key instrument in preparing for Syracuse during the week was the use of film during practice. Tchou recorded certain defensive drills and then used the tape to show the team its mistakes. Tchou hopes the tool helps the team have better practices for the remainder of the season. “I think our girls are great at seeing themselves visually and they’ve been able to improve.” Tchou said. “We have to be very efficient in

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ERIC SCHKRUTZ

Senior defender Chris Edwards is tied with classmate Yannick Salmon with 48 games started. Edwards is part of an experienced defensive corps that shut out St. Peter’s.

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Sophomore faces familiar keeper in NJ road matchup BY TYLER BARTO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

When the No. 24 Rutgers women’s soccer team takes the pitch against intrastate rival Seton Hall tonight, WOMEN’S SOCCER sophomore forward Stefanee Pace will RUTGERS AT be prepared for the SETON HALL, Pirates’ defense. TONIGHT, 7 P.M. The Kearny, N.J., native did not have to watch any game tape, and the Scarlet Knights (5-2) did not have to replicate Seton Hall’s defensive scheme. Pace just happens to be the former high school teammate of Seton Hall sophomore Jennifer Pettigrew, the Pirates’ starting goalkeeper. “It’s a pretty big game, especially since it’s 10 minutes from our hometown,” said Pace, who has two goals on the season. “Even last year there was a big Kearny crowd, it was pretty interesting. We were the players who carried our high school team.” Prior to her short career at Rutgers, Pace earned Hudson County Player of the Year all four years at Kearny High School. Pettigrew, meanwhile, enjoyed her own successes for the Kardinals, starting all four seasons and earning 47 shutouts.

The pair even played for current Seton Hall head coach Kazbek Tambi with the Arsenal World Class club team. “I guess it always is a big advantage,” Pace said of playing her former teammate. “I’m sure it is even for them. I have two other former club team members too that I used to play with that play [for Seton Hall], so it’s a pretty big rivalry game for me.” The matchup with Rutgers is the second for Seton Hall (3-3) against a ranked opponent. The Pirates previously lost to No. 8 Mar yland. Tambi’s squad also fell to Princeton, whom the Knights bested, 2-0, on Sept. 3. Rutgers edged out Seton Hall, 2-1, in overtime last season. Pace assisted on senior forward Ashley Jones’ game-winner in the 98th minute. “There’s definitely competiveness with this rivalry between the both of us,” Pace said of Pettigrew. “Coming in, I know she wants to win this one really bad because of it and obviously I do too. Our parents are really good friends … so they’ll probably be together in the stands too.” The Seton Hall contest is not only the Big East opener for both squads. It also marks the third intrastate matchup for the Knights this season.

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JENNIFER KONG

Sophomore forward Stefanee Pace faces former high school teammate and current Seton Hall goalkeeper Jennifer Pettigrew tonight in South Orange, N.J.