The Daily Targum 2010-10-01

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Pallone, Little vie for sixth NJ district

Investigation continues over student death

BY KRISTINE ROSETTE ENERIO

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Although Democratic Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. has held the congressional seat of the 6th district of New Jersey for 22 years, his challenger believes he has lost touch with his constituents.

“There’s a disconnect between the people of district six and their elected representative,” said Anna Little, the Republican candidate facing Pallone. “He does not listen to them. He thinks he knows better than they do, and they are irate.”

But Pallone feels the opposite and believes he is in touch with his constituents, especially students, considering the University falls within his district’s territory.

“A main issue I’ve been working on is trying to help students to get additional help paying for college education, because I’m concerned about the fact that the cost of tuition

Student and musician Tyler Clementi began his career at the University as part of the Class of 2014 just one month ago, but after a series of events last week at Davidson Hall on Busch campus, the 18-year-old’s life came to an end.

Attorney Paul Mainardi, who represents the Clementi family, issued a statement on its behalf.

“The family is heartbroken beyond words,” Mainardi said. “They respectfully request that they be given time to grieve their great loss and that their privacy at this painful time be respected by all.”

University President Richard L. McCormick, who spoke with Clementi’s parents to extend his own sympathies as well as the University’s, expressed a similar sentiment.

“We grieve for him and for his family, friends and classmates as they deal with the tragic loss of a gifted young man who was a

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University student Tyler Clementi, who killed himself last week after roommate Dharun Ravi allegedly filmed Clementi engaging in sexual activity with another man, lived with Ravi in Davidson C residence hall, above, on Busch campus.

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Bicyclists pedal for cancer

BY PAIGE TATULLI CORRESPONDENT

Justin McDonnell and Michael Blau’s bike ride took an unexpected turn when they heard a bear’s growl echo through the woods.

“We just rode as fast as we could on a trail that was about the size of our bicycle tire,” said McDonnell, a non-matriculating student at the University.

They did not know where the trail was going to lead them, but they did not care, he said.

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McDonnell said he and his friend just wanted to get as far away from the noise, even if it meant carr ying their bikes over ditches and streams.

But this wasn’t the only thing out of the ordinary about their bike ride.

The two bicyclists were taking part in a 10-day, 565-mile ride to benefit cancer. They began their biking journey in Baltimore, continuing through Maryland and West Virginia to Columbus, Ohio.

The motivation to take part in the race came soon after

McDonnell’s mother received a diagnosis in March revealing she had breast cancer, he said.

The diagnosis left both McDonnell and Blau shocked and helpless.

This is when the two stumbled upon the Pelotonia organization, which is a group using grassroots bike tours in an attempt to put an end to cancer, according to its mission statement.

Ever y dollar raised by Pelotonia and its riders is

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Rutgers University Student Association President Yousef Saleh said the elections this semester brought the highest number of candidates ever, but not as many voters.

UNIVERSITY The “Planet of Slums” art exhibit showcases pieces that concentrate on life in the ‘slums.’

RUSA elections bring lower voter turnout

OPINIONS NYC is forced to change its 250,900 street signs — an operation costing $27.6 million.

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The Rutgers University Student Assembly Fall 2010 Election produced the highest number of University students who ran for elected positions.

Conversely, they also brought in a lower voter turnout than last semester.

RUSA President Yousef Saleh expected a smaller turnout because it was a midterm election, he said. Students are not running for major executive board positions such as the president, vice president and treasurer.

“Really big elections are in the spring. That’s when ever yone brings their A-game and ever yone’s interested,” said Saleh, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “There’s a presidential

debate on RU-tv and a lot of flyering.

Candidates work a lot harder to bring up the vote.”

Voter turnout is difficult to get for fall elections because it is a new year and students are still trying to figure out their schedules, said Dan Herbert, Class of 2011 senator for Busch campus. Also firstyear students, one of the main focuses of the fall election, are not well acquainted yet with the University. “[The first-years] haven’t been at Rutgers long enough to build a sense of community to find out about election and candidates,” said Herbert, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “It’s a matter of catering to the people who are less plugged in.”

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Art exhibit puts spin on definition of ‘slums’

BY JACK MURTHA CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Rather than studies and panel discussions, this month the University will examine the changing face of lowincome urban environments through ar twork.

“Planet of Slums,” an ar t show in the Mason Gross Galleries at Civic Square in Downtown New Brunswick, incorporates work from 21 nonUniversity artists in an attempt to challenge students’ definitions of slums throughout the world, said LaToya Frazier, cocurator of the exhibition.

“Mega-cities are becoming places where the rich and wealthy are living,” Frazier said.

“People pushed to the periphery are living in homes made out of plastic and straw. These are what we call slums.”

Frazier, along with co-curator Omar Lopez-Chahoud, based the exhibition on urban theorist Mike Davis’s book, “Planet of Slums,” which outlines global pover ty through the physical composition of contemporar y slums. The exhibition complements Davis’ findings.

The show features national and international artists, who were chosen because their work represents a sociopolitical understanding of the way land is used, she said.

“The artists have an emphasis towards land use, the environment, the economy, globalization and foreign policies,” Frazier said.

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Takashi Horisaki’s mixed-media installation, above, is an example of other pieces at the “Planet of Slums” art show in the Mason Gross Galleries at Civic Square. The exhibit aims to show art’s political and social potential.

The exhibition aspires to show art’s social and political potential, she said.

Frazier hopes University students will experience powerful social messages through several different mediums, including sculpture, photography, paintings and film.

Art exhibits allow viewers to deal with issues such as global poverty and what life is like in struggling areas in a different way, said Nyugen Smith, a Jersey City artist whose sculpture is featured in the show.

Academic studies tend to force information upon readers, while art may forge a connection with viewers, he said.

“With ar t, you’re able to physically encounter something that relates to an idea or concept,” he said.

Smith’s sculpture, “Una Situacion Delicada,” is comprised entirely of disposed materials found throughout Jersey City and other urban areas.

People facing extreme poverty must use what they can find to secure shelter and other necessi-

ties, making these materials a part of the daily lives of slums residents, he said.

“The exhibits are what some people are dealing with right now,” Smith said. “Not everybody is living like that in an urban area, but a lot of people are forming lives from what’s available to them.”

Using recycled materials while maintaining the basic elements of art is tricky, he said.

He wants University ar t students to notice how the piece is constructed.

The exhibition’s large number of international artists is groundbreaking for the gallery, Frazier said.

“Exhibitions like this bring us to a place where we think about what’s happening around the world,” Smith said. “We are not just living in a glass bubble.”

Waseem Wain, a Rutgers College alumnus, said the artists’ diversity build a more complete picture of the global poor.

“International ar tists can offer different perspectives on pover ty,” Wain said. “There may be a contrast in how the poor live in other countries, compared to here.”

Frazier and Smith said they want attendees to become consciously aware of what is going on in their world, and to act in defense of those living in unpleasant conditions.

“I think the exhibition can inspire change through people realizing that they have a voice,” Smith said. “It doesn’t have to be written or yelled.

There’s a way to ar ticulate your thoughts and feelings through other means.”

“Planet of Slums” runs through Oct. 23 at the Mason Gross Galleries at Civic Square.

The opening reception is next Wednesday from 5 to 7 p.m. at the gallery.

“The exhibition is coming at a point in time when we need to look at these things because of our own financial economy,” Frazier said. “It’s very uncomfortable to walk through the exhibit, knowing that what you’re seeing is fact.”

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CANCER: McDonnell, Blau plan to ride coast to coast continued from front used to fund cancer research at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center-Ar thur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute, McDonnell said.

Once they registered to ride, McDonnell and Blau had to start preparing. For McDonnell, this meant actually getting a bike.

ELECTIONS: RUSA sees most candidates running continued from front Voting started last Monday at 12:02 a.m. and ended at 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, Saleh said.

A total of 1,194 students voted, this semester, Herbert said. The votes represent 4.06 percent of the University community.

“I’m trying to have a more competitive, vibrant election season for the spring so that we can say, without a shadow of a doubt, that these people represent the interests of their candidates,” Saleh said.

There is still a lot of work to be done considering this is the first year of democratic RUSA, Saleh said. Their goal is to have at least 50 percent participation.

Although Herbert dreams of having 100 percent voter participation, a small percent of voters is suitable, he said.

“Five percent of people care about their own politics and their representatives to go out and vote,” Herbert said. “Even 5 percent polling rate is a statistically significant number that RUSA can claim to represent the study body.”

To bring in voters, Saleh sent out e-mail messages to the entire University, he said. One described how to register to run for a RUSA position and another encouraged students to vote.

“We’ve never done that before,” Saleh said. “I was trying to make it even easier where peo-

“I didn’t even own a bike so I had to borrow one and it wasn’t in great condition, so we had to work on that before we did anything else.” he said.

After acquiring a bike, McDonnell and Blau’s next task was to raise money. McDonnell committed himself to raising $2,000 for cancer research and asked people to donate through Pelotonia’s website to help him meet this goal.

The race began in August, with both McDonnell and Blau waking up every morning by 6 a.m. and riding anywhere

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between 60 to 100 miles in mostly desolate areas.

“We’d ride for 20 to 30 miles sometimes without a gas station or convenience store,” Blau said.

But when they ran out of water or needed shelter, McDonnell said the people in the area were more than willing to help out.

On the first day of the race, McDonnell and Blau made it from Baltimore to Shepherdstown, W.Va., where they spent the night with a few friends.

Since most of the trails would go into people’s yards, the two encountered dogs of all sizes and

fended them off, McDonnell said.

On the last day of the race, friends and family waited as McDonnell and Blau crossed the finish line together.

“It was a sense of great accomplishment when we got to that finish line,” McDonnell said. “It was our own way of saying we love you and support you.”

Despite plans to teach in Brazil within the next year, McDonnell said this is something he plans to continue.

“Michael and I are talking about going from coast to coast either this summer or the follow-

ing one. We don’t have anything in the works just yet, but we’re both hooked,” he said.

McDonnell and Blau met during their first year at Goucher College in Baltimore, where they lived on the same floor, adding that he couldn’t imagine letting his “confidant” take this journey alone.

He said over the 10-day event, the people he was riding to raise money for were always on his mind.

“Every mile I would ride was in honor of Janet and others like her,” McDonnell said.

ple could open up their inbox and more enthusiastic response as a click a link to vote.” result of an online application.”

Meanwhile, he wrote an e-mail Seventy-eight students subattached with a letter and registra- mitted their letters of intent to tion form to all the first-year stu- run for election, Herbert said. dents prompting them to run and About 50 students ran last attend RUSA meetings, he said. spring semester, Saleh said.

“We want the people who want Students who wanted to become to be there to be there,” Saleh a candidate prior to the fall semessaid. “That only happens through ter needed to attend an information very competitive elections.” session, he said. Students submitIn the future, Saleh plans to ted a form in person stating they reach out to different organiza- were going to run for office. tions at the University and There are now two ways for stuencourage them to put in candi- dents to submit the letters of intent, dates so they can represent their both in person and online, Saleh organization’s said.

RUSA interests, he said. received many sub“I was trying “We need to missions online show our face to and will continue to make it even the study body putting registration and we need to easier where people forms on the web. show that we elected could open up their as Newly exist,” he said.

RUSA senator, The candidates Alison Lee regisinbox and click themselves also tered online for a link to vote.” need to do a better her candidacy. job of promoting “I actually preYOUSEF SALEH themselves and ferred doing it RUSA President RUSA need to betonline because I ter promote the had a pretty rough actual election, Saleh said. schedule so I wasn’t able to go in Aside from the voter turnout, person,” said Lee, a School of this election attracted the high- Arts and Sciences senior. est number of candidates, he Jonathan Nycz, student represaid. This was due in part to the sentative of the Board of fact that registration forms Governors, did not think the were provided online for the online registration for intent to first time ever. run is a good idea.

“We did it because not everyUnlike the information sesone could make it out to the infor- sions held in the past, the regismation session as we hoped, but tration website did not provide we made sure people would know any clear rules about how elecwhat they were getting them- tions were run, Nycz, a School of selves into,” Saleh said. “We had a Engineering senior, said.

“I didn’t remember looking at any real rules of how elections were supposed to go in the past,” Nycz said. “All it really said was how you declare your intent to run and then once you ran there weren’t any clear cut rules of how elections went.”

The idea to place registration forms online were spur of the moment, Saleh said. He believed it would get more students involved and make it easier.

“Everyone’s got a busy schedule. Before you had to go to the information session and hand it in, in person,” Saleh said. “It’s old school and you get to see the people who were running. I personally like it, but it’s unrealistic for me to keep doing that to get that same number of people.”

The new RUSA elected representatives will be inaugurated on Oct. 7. at the Student Activities Center on the College Avenue Campus.

Of the candidates who ran this election, School of Engineering firstyear Shaban Hani won as the Class of 2014 representative for Busch campus; School of Arts and Sciences first-year Joseph Fontana earned Class of 2014 representative for Livingston campus; and School of Business first-year Pavel Sokolov is now Class of 2014 representative for College Avenue campus.

School of Arts and Sciences firstyear Julie Ryan is the Class of 2014 representative for Cook campus, and School of Arts and Sciences Katherine Yabut is the Class of 2014 representative for Douglass campus.

For more winners, visit the RUSA website.

DISTRICT: Pallone favors government student aid continued from front and the cost of an education is rising,” he said. “I don’t want the cost to continue to go up.”

As a graduate of Rutgers Law School and former assistant professor at Cook College briefly, Pallone said he understands the students’ needs and their dependence on the government’s help.

“When I graduated in the late ’70s, it was maybe $325 for firstyear law school tuition,” he said. “I had a scholarship or loan that paid for it. I didn’t have to pay any tuition essentially. Well now, tuition is a lot, and that’s why we need to do more in terms of Pell Grants, work-study and student loans.”

During his time in Congress, Pallone said they passed pieces of legislation such as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which made major increases to Pell Grants and also extended work-study programs.

Congress also made changes to the student loan programs that now involve direct student loans, rather than having to go through banks and pay their interest rates, Pallone said.

“These are ways of trying to basically provide student loans or grants or work-study so that students have an easier time paying to college education,” he said.

While his opponent is supportive of grants, Little believes simply increasing the availability of government aid is not enough and might even be detrimental.

“We need to make sure that the grants that are available for access to college education are functioning in a manner which is helping the economy,” she said.

“I do not like the government takeover of the college loans.”

Little said it eliminated the industry from our economy at a time when people need jobs and that it will also drive interest rates up.

“The best that I can do for those of you who are actually attending college and looking for jobs when you get out … is straighten out this economy,” she said.

Since filing for candidacy in April, jobs and unemployment in the state are issues Little has been focusing on throughout her campaign.

About 86,000 jobs were lost in New Jersey since January 2009, and since May 2009, the state has been at a stagnant unemployment rate of 9.5 percent, which does not necessarily indicate that people have stopped losing jobs, Little said.

“It just means those who are falling off the unemployment roles are falling onto either a welfare role or leaving with family or working off-the-books and therefore falling off the radar, and

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CALENDAR U. author hopes to bring LGBT families closer OCTOBER “Responsible Drinking Happy Hour” event will take place from 4 to 7 p.m. in the Cook Café in the Cook Campus Center. “Responsible Drinking Happy Hour” was established to unite the community in a social, relaxing and familiar atmosphere while emphasizing the importance of responsible drinking. It is held on the first Friday of every month during the semester. Come meet old friends, colleagues, staff or make new friends. Free food, music and sodas will be served.

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A 5K run will be held at 9 a.m. in the Heylar Woods adjacent to Rutgers Gardens on the Cook/Douglass campus. The race will benefit the Frank G. Helyar Woods and the Rutgers University Ecology and Evolution Graduate Student Association. To register and for more information, please visit www.active.com/r unning/newbr unswick-nj/r un-for-thewoods-2010.

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The annual Fall Research Mixer will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Multipurpose Room of the Cook Campus Center. This event will give students the opportunity to meet with faculty and discuss possible research projects.

Whether looking for paid research assistant positions, research projects or senior honors research opportunities next semester or in the summer, this event can help students of multiple needs. Attendees will have an oppor tunity to hear faculty describe their projects and meet individually with them. Light refreshments will be provided.

Those who plan on attending, please reply to Joan Jones by Oct. 7 at joanba@echo.rutgers.edu.

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The Cook Leadership Breakfast meeting will start at 7:30 a.m. in Multipurpose Room C at the Cook Campus Center. The theme for this meeting will be “Come Meet your Advisor.”

Those with any questions regarding courses are free to attend.

Friends are welcome.

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The Of fice of C o m m u n i t y Engagement, Rutgers Against Hunger and Farmers Against Hunger is sponsoring “Gleaning” at the Giamarese Farm from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. in East Brunswick.

Harvested crops will be donated to Elijah’s Promise Soup Kitchen and the Franklin Food Bank to help provide fresh produce to the hungry, who often have a limited availability of fresh foods.

Faculty, staff, alumni and students are welcome to bring their boots and gloves and lend a helping hand. The event is free but registration is required and limited to 30 spaces. Please complete and return the registration form

by Oct. 13. Contact the Office of Community Engagement at (732)-932-2000, ext. 4211 for any questions, or e-mail discovery@aesop.rutgers.edu.

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BY AMANDA ALCANTARA CONTRIBUTING WRITER

A new book written by one University professor ser ves to help families and children of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community become closer.

The book “Coming Out, Coming Home” by Michael LaSala, director of the Master of Social Work program and associate professor at the School of Social Work, is meant to help parents adjust to having a gay or lesbian child.

LaSala conducted his study by asking questions to 65 parents and their homosexual child. He inter viewed at least one parent in each family and asked questions such as “Did you suspect that your child was homosexual?” and “What did you do when you found out?”

LaSala also took part in asking questions to the homosexual child.

“A proportion of the families get warmer and closer than

ever before,” he said. “That was part of the finding.”

LaSala also found that all of the children eventually admitted to their parents they were homosexual, either because the parents found out and confronted them or because the child decided to tell their parents.

Richard Hutchinson, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, is an example of someone who came out to his parents.

Hutchinson claims his mother basically forced him to reveal that he was gay.

“My mother in so many ways forced it out of me,” he said. “My parents did not accept the fact at first and made me feel ostracized.”

This caused the relationship between him and his mother to go sour, Hutchinson said. But after three years, it has improved.

“They don’t like it, but they are slowly accepting it,” he said.

LaSala hopes his book of fers three things: that it of fers a guideline for social workers, therapists, educators

and anyone who has to deal with families who are going through the process of accepting their child’s sexuality and that the book ser ves as a good example for parents on how other families overcame their issues.

But most impor tantly, LaSala wants the book to provide hope.

“Not all parents can adjust,” he said. “I hope this [book] provides a beacon of hope for families who are struggling with this issue.”

Lesley Pairol, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, who identifies as queer, came out to her mother about a year ago.

Pairol said although she is happy she overcame the fear of telling her mother, she feels their relationship changed for the worst. She said it was ver y dif ficult for her mother to address the issue.

“A few weeks or so passed without us talking,” Pairol said. “[That] is a lot for me and my mom because she calls me ever y day.”

She said her mother got really depressed, quit her job and started going to therapy in order to deal with the news of her daughter’s sexuality.

“As of now it’s something we do not address in my house, and my mom sort of prevented me from telling anyone else in my family,” Pairol said. “It’s almost as if she is ashamed.”

After the book was published last June, LaSala received invitations to speak at several conferences around the United States. He will be giving a workshop at a conference in Connecticut held by Tr ue Colors, which will provide information and training on LGBTQ issues.

He has also been asked to give a presentation for PFLAG, Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays.

LaSala also has a blog in psychologytoday.com, “Gay and Lesbian Well-Being,” in which he covers issues vital to the psychological health and happiness of gays, lesbians and their families.

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DISTRICT: Little plans NEW BRUNSWICK MAN FACES STABBING CHARGES Nineteen-year-old Carlos Lara appeared in court in New Brunswick yesterday to face charges in connection with stabbing a 14-year-old New Brunswick High School student to death Saturday morning.

Lara, a New Brunswick resident, is also charged with possession of a knife and possession of it for unlawful purpose, according to an article on nj.com.

Middlesex Countr y Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan has not released the identity of the 14year-old victim. The victim was stabbed following a dispute in New Brunswick.

A 17-year-old boy who was with the victim was also stabbed during the altercation but sur vived, Kaplan said. The prosecutor said the identities of

either teenager remain unreleased to protect the 17-year-old who is a witness.

A judge set bail for Lara at $1 million on the murder.

Superior Cour t Judge Frederick De Vesa, who supervised the brief hearing, kept the bail at the same amount.

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to tackle health care if elected continued from front other people are still losing jobs to maintain that stagnant unemployment rate,” she said.

Little said this was a bad sign for New Jersey and the stimulus that was implemented has not created any jobs.

Instead, she proposes a different approach of reducing taxes by pushing tax cuts and reforming tax structure.

While Little considers a flat tax, where all citizens or households pay the same rate, as an option, she believes there are other ways to achieve her goal.

“I’m really a proponent of the fair tax, that would be a construction-based tax elimination of the income tax … it would mean we wouldn’t have to report as we do on April 15,” she said. “It would be just another day in your life.”

This structure would put business and government on the same side in regard to development, Little said. Rather than taking money away from business operation the government will receive profit at the end of the production line.

Another issue she plans to tackle, if elected, is health care reform.

Little currently serves as the mayor of Highlands, N.J., and focuses largely on water transportation and environmental issues.

“I’ve been responsible for the establishment of the first completely active environmental commission,” she said.

Pallone is not a stranger to environmental action either. He said one of the biggest issues he

has dealt with over the years is cleaning up Superfund and brownfield sites, two kinds of waste sites found in New Jersey.

“Middlesex County has more of those sites than any other county in the state. And the state has more than any other state in the country,” he said. “I’m a sponsor of the brownfield legislation, that provides money back to the states to clean up brownfield sites.”

Although there is a little more than a month left in the election, Little and Pallone have not yet faced off in a debate.

“He’s had four opportunities [to debate] and he has shot me down four times,” Little said. “I am going to continue to endeavor to have this man sit side-by-side and give the people of district six the opportunity to make an informed decision on Nov. 2.”

But Liz Duthie, campaign manager for Pallone for Congress, said the office has not received a single request from Little’s campaign and neither have they made an attempt to talk about a debate with them.

“Let there be no doubt about our willingness and desire to debate Anna Little on the issues and to challenge her on her policy positions,” Duthie said. “We believe a full airing of the sharp contrasts between Anna Little and Frank Pallone will help define the choice for the voters in the 6th District.”

Duthie said they have accepted an invitation to debate on Oct. 17, a few weeks before the November midterm elections, to be moderated by the League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization experienced in hosting debates.

“We don’t know if the Little campaign has agreed to participate,” she said.

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STUDENT: Court date for both has not yet been set continued from front strong student and a highly accomplished musician,” he said.

“We will continue to respect the family’s request for privacy.”

McCormick urged members of the University community to honor Clementi’s life with civility, dignity, compassion and respect for one another.

The Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office is considering the motives behind an alleged Internet transmission of a personal encounter prior to the death of Clementi, who committed suicide last week.

Yesterday’s autopsy of the body, showed that he died of drowning and blunt impact injury to the torso after jumping from the George Washington Bridge, said Ellen Borakove, spokeswoman for the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

School of Arts and Sciences first-year student Dharun Ravi and Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy first-year student Molly Wei are charged with two counts each of invasion of privacy after allegedly recording Clementi’s involvement in sexual acts with another male in his room in Davidson Hall C on Busch campus, Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan said.

Ravi faces two additional charges for attempting to watch and transmit similar footage involving Clementi on a different date.

“Now that two individuals have been charged with invasion of privacy, we will be making every effort to assess whether bias played a role in the incident, and, if so, we will bring appropriate charges,” Kaplan said.

Ravi and Wei have both been released, he said. The date for a court hearing has not yet been set.

The investigation is ongoing, the prosecutor’s office said.

Although no official source has purported that a relationship between the two exists, a message board thread on justusboys.com, an online community for gay males, features posts about scenarios similar to those that took place last week in Davidson Hall, according to screenshots of the site on gawker.com.

Under the alias “cit2mo,” a member of the community posted a message in reaction to his roommate spying on him on Sept. 21, according to the website. That and other posts described events that paralleled those involving Clementi and Ravi.

According to the posts, “cit2mo” was upset his roommate had used a webcam to spy on him and a guest on two separate nights last week. He then requested a room change.

“I ran to the nearest [resident assistant] and set this thing in motion,” he wrote on Sept. 22, after observing posts about the occurrences his roommate put on Twitter.

A later post from “cit2mo” indicated that the RA seemed to take it seriously when he received an email from “cit2mo” regarding the incident, according to the posts.

University spokesman Greg Trevor did not comment on the incidences involving Clementi specifically, but he did say that for the University, meeting students’ housing needs is a priority.

“The University does have wellestablished procedures in place to deal with requests for residents to switch roommates,” he said. “If a resident requests a new roommate, the staff makes every effort to accommodate that request as soon as possible.”

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The National Institutes of Health donated $3.7 million in August to Robert Wood Johnson Medical School’s INSPIRE Program to help future doctors that plan on teaching and utilizing their research abilities.

The five-year INSPIRE program coaches postdoctoral fellows on how to teach undergraduate students while helping them with research. It focuses 70 percent on research and 30 percent on education.

“What makes this program unique is that it teaches its trainees research techniques, teaching techniques and career development.

It combines research and training for postdoctoral fellows,” said Dr. Michael Leibowitz, principal investigator for the INSPIRE program and director of Graduate Academic Diversity at the medical school.

Typical postdoctoral programs focused solely on research, said Leibowitz, also a professor of molecular-genetics microbiology and immunology at RWJMS. One of INSPIRE’s goals was to show the trainees how to take control

of their careers while also teaching them about the various careers in research.

The first year of the program, to take place at RWJMS, is the preparation, where the trainees are sent to seminars, workshops and courses on teaching college courses, he said.

In the second year, the trainees will teach an existing course at one of three undergraduate schools — creating a joint venture between RWJMS and minorityserving universities: New Jersey City University, Medgar Evers College-City University of New York and Long Island UniversityBrooklyn, Leibowitz said.

The directors chose the minority-serving institutions to enhance the diversity in science research, he said.

The trainees will teach their own hybrid course at one of the undergraduate schools in the third year, Leibowitz said. The last year will be a highly technical and customized course. This class will be one entirely new to the undergraduate school.

Teaching at an undergraduate school through the program will help the student network with the school they worked

with, said Mar tha Soto, the program’s co-director.

She said the program is special because it gives postdoctoral fellows a unique career path, especially those interested in teaching at smaller colleges.

“It is beneficial because it turns these postdoctoral fellows into role models and gives the undergraduates the opportunities at research facilities in Rutgers and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School,” said Terri Goss Kinzy, senior associate dean for research at RWJMS. Through the program, the trainees will meet numerous professors and administrators that can be valuable resources, said Soto, who is also an assistant professor of pathology at RWJMS. The INSPIRE program partners the trainee with a training mentor, a current science professor, to ease them through the program.

The directors’ other main goal is to help the students at the undergraduate schools with research by giving them access to the research facilities at the University and RWJMS during the summer, she said.

“The program is beneficial

because it teaches science teachers how to teach,” Soto said.

“Another good aspect is that the undergraduate colleges the program helps are minority schools.”

Normally, doctors achieve their Ph.D.s and then begin teaching without an education on how to do so, she said. Without knowing how to teach properly, doctors were not teaching to the best of their abilities.

The INSPIRE program changes this by demonstrating how to correctly teach a collegelevel class, Soto said.

Applicants must be U.S. citizens, have a Ph.D. and have a commitment to education. They do not have to be a minority, Leibowitz said.

NIH issued the grant for a fiveyear plan and may reissue it again, he said. INSPIRE, short for IRACDA, Institutional Research and Career Development Award, New Jersey/ New York for Science Partnerships in Research and Education, accepted two trainees this year and plan on accepting two more next year.

In the future, the program, which runs at 17 other U.S. universities, plans on steadily accepting more applicants, Leibowitz said.

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Week in review: laurels and darts

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elaware Republican Senatorial candidate Christine O’Donnell has yet again lied to the public, at least according to another website on which O’Donnell claimed she graduated from Oxford University. While she may wish she had gotten a degree at the prestigious university, sources — including Oxford itself — say that O’Donnell never attended the school. The truth is that she simply took a course with the Phoenix Institute on Oxford’s campus. On a Zoom Info entry though, the Delaware Republican is described as having gotten a “certificate” in “Post Modernism in the New Millenium” at the University of Oxford. The first incident appeared on LinkedIn and O’Donnell claimed that someone had doctored the website, yet this second count makes us forget her previous excuse. We give a dart to O’Donnell for misleading voters. *

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Western intelligence agencies have uncovered an al-Qaida plan of launching attacks in France, Britain and Germany, according to Agence France-Presse. The militants were planning simultaneous attacks in London and cities in France and Germany. According to a security official, whose anonymity was kept, France and Britain had been targets, “explaining that orders had been given at the highest level of al-Qaida to punish Europe, and France in particular,” according to AFP. The plan had been to seize Western hostages and murder them in a similar fashion to the Mumbai killings two years ago. While those who uncovered the obvious threat have remained anonymous, we give them a laurel for managing to provide our safety and security. *

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We have already pointed out several senators’ refusals to do their jobs because of fears of losing their seat. It seems as if the trend has continued. Congress has once again failed to do its job, as it failed to approve a budget for the government year that begins on Friday.

According to The Associated Press, as a last necessary task before leaving, the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives passed a temporary spending measure that will manage to keep federal agencies operating when the new budget year begins. The situation has been engulfed in partisan fire as both parties have vowed their attention exclusively to having more seats in Congress. Both houses receive a dart for their failures to do what is best for the country, and rather solely choosing their jobs. *

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The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation on Wednesday that will provide $7.4 billion to rescue workers and residents of New York City who suffered illnesses and injuries due to the toxic fumes and dust from ground zero. According to The New York Times, the vote was 268 to 160, with several Republicans voting alongside Democrats in support of the bill. The fate of the bill in the U.S. Senate is still unknown, but we hope they will follow the House’s example. There are around 60,000 people enrolled in health and treatment programs for those injured in the 9/11 attacks, according to the proponents of the bill.

We give a laurel to those who voted for this much-needed legislation that will go on to aid all those who served us in the worst of times. *

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There is one unneeded change that is happening in New York City as federal copy editors are demanding the city change its 250,900 street signs. According to the New York Post, the change will cost $110 per sign — totaling to $27.6 million. The all-caps style used for more than a century will be changed to one that capitalizes only the first letters. The Federal Highway Administration contends that changing “BROADWAY” to “Broadway” would save lives by improving the readability of the signs. This is just another useless, expensive change that will set New York back more than $20 million. A dart goes to The Federal Highway Administration for this unwanted change. *

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The race for New York governor has reached its worst point yet. The slanderous relationship between nominees Carl Paladino and Andrew Cuomo has overshadowed the arguments that each candidate should be presenting — for our sakes. Paladino alleged Tuesday that Democrat Cuomo had been unfaithful years ago to his ex-wife. This claim has just made the race nastier with neither candidate promoting their views for the state’s future or giving the voters reasons to vote for them. We give a dart to both Cuomo and Paladino for their inability to present a proper campaign that does not completely depend on slander and disrespect to their opponent.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “I think the exhibition can inspire change through people realizing that they have a voice. It doesn’t have to be written or yelled.”

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Speak up against bigotr y he news of the and hatred, stop the usage death of an innoof hurtful words and cent young man embrace those who are difthis week swept the ferent. You just might University campus. Many learn something. are furious, many are I applaud the efforts of heartbroken, most of us SEAN CURTIS the lesbian, gay, bisexual, are ashamed. University transgender and queer comfirst-year student Tyler munity and Robert O’Brien, Department of Clementi’s suicide is a stark reminder of how far Anthropology assistant instructor, for seeking a we as a University still have to go until we can change at the University. But we must remember, call ourselves a school of diversity and acceptwe cannot look solely to the administration or any ance. The rest of the nation now sees that as other leading political body to rid our communities well. But to me, the most disturbing aspect of of hatred and disrespect. Doing so only takes this stor y is not the fact that someone would be responsibility away from the individuals who sit despicable enough to invade a roommate’s priidly and allow such tragedies to occur. No matter vacy. No, the most horrifying part is the fact that what kind of programs, policies or “safe spaces” Tyler felt ashamed enough of his sexuality to kill our University establishes, the gay community, as himself because others had discovered it and well as other minorities, will continue to be made it public. As much blame as we may want harassed and discriminated against if we do not to put on School of Arts and Sciences first-year urge the individual students to change. We must student Dharun Ravi for breaching another convince them to make the right choice and that is man’s privacy or the University for failing to set to accept gays for who they are. up “safe spaces,” the blame lies completely with And to the people who still stand us — each and ever y student and

by Dharun Ravi, a School of Arts faculty member here at Rutgers — for failing to create an environ“I ask for a country and Sciences first-year student, and claim he’s a “good guy” — shame on ment where Clementi would have where our gay you. Not only did he Tweet about felt safe, secure and comfortable with himself. relatives and friends how he spied on his roommate making out with another man — only Had this been an incident where can be safe.” highlighting his obvious immaturity a heterosexual couple was spied on, and lack of acceptance — but days there would have been no suicide. later he invited anyone with an iChat High-fives would be passed around to video chat him at specific hours so they could spy between pigs, and the girl would be just another one on the private life of his roommate once again. This of those poor victims of sick voyeurism that float all public invitation happened a day before Clementi’s over the Internet. But because Tyler was a homosuicide. A “good guy” would have realized the indesexual, the incident was deadly. I have no doubts cency of his actions and the breach of privacy he whatsoever that Tyler was surrounded with anti-gay was committing. Whether a homophobe or not, his sentiments every day, as we all are. We still hear the crimes must not go unpunished. Ravi’s actions words “queer” and “faggot” pass between people on destroyed a life and robbed a family of a loved one. a daily basis, whether it is jokingly or truly maliThose who support him are an embarrassment to cious, and it is the usage of words like these that our University. continue the delusion that there is something Finally, I ask that all gay individuals who may read wrong with homosexuality. So much so that many this to remember that you are not alone. You are beauhomosexuals themselves feel there is something tiful, you are loved. Be proud of who you are, and wrong with it, as Tyler probably did when he took never hide it. To everyone else, my request is simple. his own life.

I ask for a country where our gay relatives and friends The truth is plain and simple: There is nothing can be safe, where people like Clementi won’t feel wrong with homosexuality. It is not a defect, it is ashamed of who they are, and where we can finally not a sin, it is not a disease. To preach otherwise is become a society that has outgrown hatred and bigthe true sin, and homophobia is the real disease. If otry. May the building of such a nation begin here we are to prevent tragedies such as this from ever with us at the University, and may we always keep occurring again, we must find the cure quickly.

Clementi and his family in our thoughts and prayers.

The sooner we destroy the bigotry and taboos that surround homosexuality, the sooner we can start Sean Curtis is a School of Arts and Sciences sophsaving lives and start calling ourselves a diverse omore majoring in East Asian studies. His column, and accepting school. I urge every student at the "The Friday Rants," runs on alternate Fridays.

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O’Brien, University groups get it all wrong Letter CHARLES WANG

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ivility without safety was at the crux of the argument that Robert O’Brien, Department of Anthropology assistant instructor, and a bunch of protestors stated at the die-in staged last night across the University.

Ignoring the complete lack of respect for the members implicated by this incident, civility without safety is nothing more than just an ideal dream made by protestors who expect that civility is something that can be obtained without a fight and with safety in mind.

While ideally civility comes with safety, the notion that civility must come with safety is something that is completely preposterous. If we

take the definition of civility as a courtesy or politeness, we can see that this does not include safety, as it is completely possible to be civil but to act in a non-safe manner.

Already, we can see that the rally itself made by O’Brien and the University community caused a bunch of discussion and a wide range of opinions. One can even argue that O’Brien’s attempt at politicizing this event is completely uncivil as the University needs time and the families involved need time. To immediately use this event as a launching board for their beliefs and goals — no matter how noble — is just wrong.

They are being callous to the sensitivity of the issue and calling for immediate change and demanding a safe zone for the lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender com-

munity — without considering how uncivil the action is. Project Civility is about making people nicer and friendlier on campus and should not be held hostage by demands that being safe is a necessary condition.

“Everyone should want safety and privacy in their area of residence.”

Safety is not guaranteed. There is bound to be opposition to civility, and inherently, there is a risk and danger for trying social change, just as there is for the LBGT movement and other civil rights movements in the past. There are risks involved in social change movements and ask-

ing for safety is like asking for a free lunch — there is a price to pay for all actions and movements.

By demanding a safe zone or rallying behind a catchy but flawed slogan of “Civility without safety, over our queer bodies,” they are simply missing the point of Project Civility.

Project Civility is about an attempt to promote a more diverse and tolerate college campus for the University.

By isolating the community and retreating to a safe zone, they counter the attempts for University students to be more civil to the community and limit interactions. This does not mean that they will be accepted or fully understood; this is an uphill battle and there is no guarantee that they will be safe, that Project Civility will result in all positive interactions for the members that are involved or that have a stake

in the matter. That is not the way to promote tolerance or acceptance of the LBGT community, and this is certainly not the time to do so, especially when all the facts aren’t out yet. There is evidence that he had a support group online, that he had a place where he felted wanted. There is no guarantee that a safe zone would have changed anything.

Everyone should want safety and privacy in their area of residence. If there is a lesson to be taken from this it is that in this digital age it is very easy to have your privacy invaded and that the Internet is a public forum. But the rally held by O’Brien and University groups completely miss the point.

Charles Wang is a School of Arts and Sciences junior majoring in political science.

Speak up, form one peaceful community Letter MICHAEL ROSENTHAL

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n light of the recent tragedy of University student Tyler Clementi’s suicide, there is much to learn and take from what happened and where we as a society currently stand. Any time we hear of such tragedies, it’s nice to see that most people react sympathetically, but what’s more important here is whether the tragedy will bring a lasting effect. These kinds of tragedies — suicide, discrimination, hatred — happen on a daily basis, more or less extreme, but nonetheless they happen.

People cannot wrap their heads around this one instance but rather the bigger picture, and just as important, people need to remember what happened and the effects it had. All too often do we all join the memorial Facebook groups

and then quickly forget about the severity of the issue.

By no means am I saying we need to rally against this cause every day, honor Clementi every day and cease to carry on normal lives. Carrying on with our normal lives is exactly what we need to do, but we have to be aware of these kinds of issues. We have to know that this tragedy happens on smaller scales every day and that we as people should be more aware of this fact. Another thing we can all learn from this tragedy is that there are much more serious things in life and worse places to be, so who are we to complain when we get a B+ or lose in a videogame? The problems of three little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world, but at the same time, experience sadness, gladness, dismay, panic, anxiety, friendship — all of the emotions of life — because that’s why we’re here. Just keep in mind how

fortunate a guy like me is to be able to stress so much about the Yankees in October.

As for the two students who videotaped the sexual encounters that allegedly led to suicide, it is necessary to look deeper into their true intentions. I doubt their motives parallel the ultimatum.

“We as a society have to pull together and put the blame on us.”

They were acting very homophobic — bottom line. The thought of two men together was an uncomfortable and foreign notion, and through their insecurities, they decided to spread the word in a very humiliating fashion. It wasn’t pure hatred of any sort, or anti-homosexual activity, but this insecurity is a

reflection upon how many people in society, though they may not hate homosexuals, are irrationally uncomfortable and scared of the concept. When you do not think about the consequence and severity of your actions, you may have to live with knowing you drove someone to suicide for the rest of your life.

It’s no better to “support the cause” by reciprocating those students’ ignorance through hatred.

This issue goes beyond homosexual rights and fair treatment but is a microcosm for all mistreatment and hatred of people, but throwing back hatred in return will only make this world a worse place.

The rally conducted by the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community last night does a great job of demonstrating a means of fighting back, but we as a society have to pull together and put the blame on us as a society and not an individual or group. The unautho-

rized taping of two male students performing sexual acts is most certainly inexcusable. Since we see news of people protesting homosexual rights across the country, this illegal taping doesn’t seem like such a bad idea to a young guy.

The last thing the Clementi family wants to do in this time of grievance is to deal with the national attention of their son’s death, but if people start to grow more aware of unsolicited hatred and phobia, maybe we won’t need to hear another Clementi-like story. Realize how great life is and how we should all enjoy it for what it is, but when someone clearly commits a wrongdoing, speak up and make the world a better place, not a world in which a group like homosexuals have different rights from us “normal” people.

Michael Rosenthal is a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences sophomore.

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PAST: Werneke prepares gameplan for Pittsburgh’s Town continued from back

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incinnati Bengals wideout Chad Ochocinco’s cereal line, “OchocincO’s,” was pulled from the shelves due to a misprinted phone number on the back of the box.

The phone number was supposed to send callers to Feed the Children, which benefits from sales of “OchocincO’s,” but instead directed callers to a sex phone line.

The toll-free prefix to the number read “800,” rather than “888” as it should have.

A WORLD SERIES

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will have its first pitch for the earliest time since 1987, as Game 3 of the Fall Classic is scheduled to begin on Oct. 30 at 6:57 p.m — at least an hour earlier than every other game.

Each other game will begin at 7:57 p.m., except for Game 4, when the first pitch will be around 8:20 p.m. after a full Sunday of NFL football.

Major League Baseball moved the start times up half an hour last season due to concerns that longer games and late start times prevented fans from watching.

AUSTIN

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Rivers is the son of Boston Celtics head coach Doc Rivers and is a 6-foot-3 guard for Winter Park High School (Fla.).

Rivers will join St. Patrick (Elizabeth, N.J.) guard Kyrie Irving in the Blue Devils backcourt next season. Irving was the nation’s No. 4 recruit this season and is expected to have an immediate impact in his freshman season.

YET

ANOTHER

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France champion is surrounded by steroid allegations, but three-time champion Alberto Contador has a reason.

The Spanish rider blamed the failed drug test from this year’s race on contaminated meat, which was brought from Spain to France during an offday of the race.

Contador tested positive for a “very small concentration” of clenbuterol, which is sometimes given to cows, pigs and other animals to increase their growth rate.

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conference found a solution to the departures of Colorado to the Pac-10 and Nebraska to the Big Ten. The conference plans on removing its conference championship game and instead playing a round-robin schedule that pits each team against each other every year.

When it was a 12-team league, the Big 12 was split into North and South divisions, without every team playing each other and the division winners meeting at the end of each season to play for the Big 12 Championship.

JEFFREY LAZARO / SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Injuries held senior outside hitter Emma Chrystal out of Rutgers’ road trip last weekend, but she may be able to go this weekend at RU.

this weekend. They are team leaders with 168 and 149 kills, respectively.

But the Panthers have their own ace in the hole in Amy Town, who averages 3.69 kills per set, ranking her fourth in the Big East in the category.

Keeping her and Pittsburgh’s ideal gameplan in check is the key to victor y, according to Werneke.

“Their plan of attack is to run the middle with two big physical middles who are pretty good athletes, but need to become more acclimated with the volleyball experience,” Werneke said. “Amy Town’s a great all-around player, so we need to know where she is at all times so we can contain her a little bit.”

The fact that this home stretch is so long makes these defining Big East matches more bearable, according to Werneke. The odds of winning consecutive home matches are much higher when the team

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keeps to the usual schedule. “[After last weekend, it gets easier], not just with the other teams, but also playing at home,” Werneke said. “We don’t have to travel, our kids can stay in their routine and sleep in their own beds — that’s much easier than going on the road.

“Our kids have done a great job at focusing on what we’re tr ying to do at practice and the gameplan and there’s no doubt in my mind we’re going to do that [tonight].”

After the Pittsburgh match, the Knights get one day of rest before West Virginia visits the College Avenue Gym on Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. for another conference tussle.

The Mountaineers are 11-6 overall and 1-1 in the Big East and come of f of a four-set downing of DePaul after a sweeping defeat at the hands of Notre Dame.

WVU, who are 22-19 all-time against the Knights, are coached

by Jill Kramer who is in her first season with the Mountaneers.

“We’ll start talking about West Virginia on Saturday morning, but right now the focus is on Pitt,” Werneke said.

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OCTOBER 1, 2010

Knights face big test after win

BY MICHAEL KUPERSHTEYN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Rutgers women’s cross countr y team enjoyed more success thus far this season than it has in a WOMEN’S XC l o n g while.

RUTGERS AT T h e PAUL SHORT INVITE Scarlet TODAY, 1 P.M. Knights took the title at the Monmouth Invitational in Holmdel, N.J., on Sept.18 to win their first team title since head coach James Robinson took over the program four years ago.

“It’s a great win for us — the first team title since I took over the program with coach Jan Merrill-Moran so we’re ver y excited and pleased with the per formance,” Robinson said about the win. “It’s a stepping stone and the next opportunity is Friday. There will be a lot more teams and a lot more competition. The ladies are showing great early season form.”

The Monmouth Invitational was a stepping-stone for the young Knights roster, and it ser ved as a measuring stick for

their potential success. The competition was somewhat limited when compared to the team’s upcoming meet, as there were only 12 teams competing in the 5K race, with 113 runners total.

“It’s a stepping stone and the next opportunity is Friday. ... The ladies are showing great early season form.”

JAMES ROBINSON Head Coach

This weekend’s meet — the Paul Short Invitational in Bethlehem, Pa. — will test the team more significantly.

“It’s early in the season — only the second race this year — so we have a good opportunity these next two weeks to train hard and beat the larger competition,” Robinson said.

“There will be 40 teams that we will be against, so we want to see what we can do.

“If we can place in the top five there, that would be great.

Early on, we’re running well so far. You want to see how they respond to harder competition [this] week. We’ll continue our growth as the year goes on.”

The coaches have enforced a step-by-step mentality with their runners.

“I’ll plan for that after these next two races,” sophomore Jennifer Spitzer said, rather than talking about her goals for the season. “I like to think about one race at a time.”

This meet should be good preparation for an even more impor tant test at the Metropolitan Championships the following week in the Bronx. Spitzer follows this credo, as she said the team is “looking for ward to competing well in preparation for the [Metropolitan Championships] next weekend.”

The Knights take their places on the star ting line Saturday at the Paul Shor t Invitational. The race will happen rain or shine, and given the heavy thunderstorms, it is up to the Knights to respond to the tricky conditions presented at the meet.

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RUTGERS SET TO TAKE PART IN PENN STATE INVITATIONAL The Rutgers women’s golf Do not expect the Knights team travels to State College, to falter again this weekend, Pa., this weekend to compete at because the week off gave WOMEN’S GOLF t h e Waters-Ballard’s team a P e n n chance to reflect and get State Invitational. geared up for what is ahead.

The Scarlet Knights come “As always, the girls are off of a 10th-place finish at prepared and will do their the Princeton best,” said senior Invitational two captain Jeanne weekends ago.

Waters.

“I’d like to see In fact, the week more consistency of f may be a key from the girls,” said contributor in the head coach Maura process of bouncing Waters-Ballard. “I back from a tough want to see ever yfinish. After all, it is body have multiple always better to good rounds rather have a week of f MAURA than one good WATERS-BALLARD after a poor perround and a formance rather mediocre one.” than a good one.

The finish at the Princeton “The week of f helped us Invitational was especially gather out thoughts,” hard to swallow because the Waters-Ballard said. “It also Knights just finished third in allowed us to get some good the Bucknell Invitational the rounds of practice in. That is previous week. always impor tant.”

Intrastate rival and host The Penn State Princeton and Big East foe Invitational features a tough St. John’s were two of the field, but the Knights feel nine squads that finished they are up to the task. ahead of the Knights at the Princeton Invitational.

— Nicholas Orlando

SHOT: Knights struggling

A positive weekend performance may hinge on whether Schacher, who moved from the midfield to for ward against Georgetown, can take some of continued from back the offensive pressure off of fellosses to Seton Hall and Villanova low for ward Jonelle Filigno.

— programs traditionally not the The Knights have just four goals strongest in the Big East. in their last six games, causing the “We’re seeing that the level team to fall out of the national rankof competition in the league is ings and into a tie for fifth in the Big so much better now,” Crooks East’s National Division. said. “Seton Hall beats us, we “We’re struggling to score beat Georgetown, Georgetown goals and that’s not a good beat Seton Hall [last Sunday]. thing,” Crooks said. “At the same Just looking at that little troika time, we’re allowing things defenthere and you get the idea that sively that we shouldn’t.” each game is its own entity.”

Scoring goals posed a probLast weekend’s frantic play lem for Providence (7-2-1, 1-1-1) during the final 30 minutes in its past three outings, in against Villanova needs to carr y which the Friars registered just over into the two-game homestwo balls that reached the back tand against the Huskies and of the net.

Providence, according Providence is enjoyto senior defender ing a rebound year Allie Hambleton. under head coach Jim “We basically can’t McGirr, whose team lose anymore, so ended the 2009 camthat’s our mentality,” paign at 8-8-3 and 3-6-2 Hambleton said. “We in the Big East. come on the field and The Friars, whom the we’re not losing and N.S.C.A.A. ranked 10th it’s not even an in the Northeast prior to ALLIE option, so that’s how an 0-1-1 weekend, sport a we practiced.”

HAMBLETON pair of four-goal scorers A shor t stay at in Amanda Webster and home may be just Jill Camburn. what the doctor ordered for For the Knights to contain the Knights prior to a fourtwo high-powered Big East game road trek, which attacks, communication includes a pit stop at No. 5 between the Rutgers back four Notre Dame. and its midfielders needs to be Last Friday’s victory over the fluid — a problem in the Hoyas improved Rutgers’ record Knights’ glaring Sept. 19, 3-1 at home to 4-2 on the year. home loss to then-No. 5 “We always like to play at Boston College. home in front of our home crowd, “I think our play in general with more support and everyhas improved since the Boston thing like that,” said junior Karla College loss,” Schacher said.

Schacher, who owns two goals “There were a lot of communicathis season. “The importance of tion errors and basically we’ve these games this weekend is not communicated in practice on about being at home, but more how to fix those errors, as well as about getting the results, getting in functional situations where we the win.” can fix those same problems.”

to find net in past six games

ERIC SCHKRUTZ

Sophomore Carlie Rough (17) is second on the team in points this season with seven, while leading the team with three assists. Freshman Lisa Patrone (13) scored one goal last weekend against Villanova.

PROSPECTS: Lavell re-establishes role as starter continued from back Tchou said. “If we can get the girls to execute that in the game, then we’re going to be a lot better off.

“We didn’t transfer the ball out of areas in the West Chester game, which hurt us. If we can do that, then I think we’re going to be pretty successful [today].”

The communication trickles down from the backs to the cage and sophomore goalkeeper Vickie Lavell.

Lavell started the past two games for the Knights and allowed three goals, while making three saves en route to two victories.

Freshman Sarah Stuby started three games prior to last weekend for Lavell, but Lavell is on her way to settling in at the starting position. “[Lavell is] really communicating well with our defense and organizing our players early,” Tchou said. “That’s one thing we needed to work on and something that with a young team you have to just keep working on.”

The Knights return to the Banks Sunday to square off with Lafayette, which enters the game fresh off a two-game homestand.

The contest against the Patriot League foe could mark a possible fourth-straight win for the Knights, barring a loss against Georgetown.

But it all starts one game at a time, making Georgetown the focus for ever yone on the team.

“The way we’ve been practicing is the way we’ve been playing,” Garces said. “We know that we need this win and that we don’t have another option if we want to make it to the Big East [Tournament].”

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SPORTS

PA G E 1 6

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Knights hope to forget past against Pitt

Home weekend offers RU shot at redemption

BY BILL DOMKE

BY TYLER BARTO

CORRESPONDENT

ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

History does not repeat itself.

At least that’s what head coach CJ Werneke is telling the Rutgers volleyball team leading up to VOLLEYBALL tonight’s game against Big East foe PITTSBURGH AT Pittsburgh.

RUTGERS, The Panthers (6TONIGHT, 7 P.M. 11, 1-1 Big East) are the Scarlet Knights’ first opponent in a five-game home stretch that Rutgers can attempt to use as a springboard to come back from a daunting 0-2 conference start.

“We’re really excited about being home,” Werneke said. “We had a great week of practice. We feel like our team is really prepared for what Pitt does, so we’re excited to play at home and have the opportunity to get our first Big East win tomorrow.”

A win against Pitt not only helps the Knights get back to .500, but it also chips away at what is currently a one-sided matchup between the two schools. Pitt is 246 all-time against Rutgers.

As for its two injured players — senior Emma Chr ystal and freshman Tiffany Regmund — the team is slowly welcoming its outside hitters back to the court.

“Emma is going to get back on the court this week, so we’ll see how she feels [today], but we’re excited to have her practice again this week,” Werneke said. “Hopefully that translates to the court [tonight] and we’ll go from there.”

Senior outside hitter Caitlin Saxton and junior middle blocker Hannah Cur tis ser ve as anchors for the team to lean on

The Rutgers women’s soccer team returns to Yurcak Field in Piscataway tonight for a 7 p.m. matchup with Big East foe Connecticut.

WOMEN’S SOCCER The Scarlet Knights (6-5, 1-2) CONNECTICUT AT come into tonight’s RUTGERS, showdown off a 1-1 TONIGHT, 7 P.M. weekend, highlighted by their victory over then-No. 19 Georgetown — the team’s first win over a ranked opponent this season.

Head coach Glenn Crooks’ team came out last Sunday against Villanova — a team it tied, 1-1, last season — and suffered its fifth loss of the year, further magnifying the Knights’ consistency issues.

“I still think we’re OK. We’ve still got eight games left in the league. That means there are a lot of points available,” Crooks said. “We put ourselves in a bit of a bind — not only finishing first or second in the league, but now qualifying for the Big East playoffs. But there’s plenty of time.”

UConn (5-4-2, 1-1-1) comes into the night meeting fresh off a 3-0 thrashing of Syracuse, which gave the Huskies their first Big East win of the season. Junior forward Jessica Shufelt paces a UConn squad that owns a 141-4 record all-time against Rutgers.

But the Knights may welcome a matchup with the Huskies with open arms, after delivering several impressive performances against top-tier programs, including a narrow 2-1 loss to then-No. 4 Portland and last Friday’s win over the Hoyas.

Rutgers showcased little of what once made the team a top-25 caliber squad in its recent

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ERIC SCHKRUTZ

Junior forward Karla Schacher moved from her normal position in the midfield to forward last Friday against Georgetown. The Toefield, Canada, native has two goals on the year.

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Tourney prospects hang over weekend matchup in DC ANTHONY HERNANDEZ CORRESPONDENT

ERIC SCHKRUTZ

Senior Heather Garces returned from offseason shin surgery this season for Rutgers. The co-captain registered one goal this season, which came in an 8-1 loss against Maryland.

No matter the spor t, most head coaches will tell you that success star ts by taking things one step FIELD HOCKEY at a time — one game at a time.

RUTGERS AT For the Rutgers GEORGETOWN, field hockey team, TODAY, NOON a noon matchup today against Big East foe Georgetown is on the agenda, but with conference tournament implications sur rounding the meeting, the game may take on a larger significance.

“We approach pretty much ever y game the same, but there is something to be said about having this opportunity to win and play in the Big East Tournament,” said head coach Liz Tchou. “Without even me saying anything, I think they understand that this Friday is a huge game for us to be able to move on and give ourselves an opportunity to make the Big East Tournament.”

Both Rutgers and Georgetown head into the matchup on opposite wavelengths, with the Scarlet Knights (3-7, 1-1) riding a two-game winning streak and the Hoyas (5-5, 0-1) sputtering back home after losing their last two contests.

The Hoyas’ most recent loss came in a 21 double-over time setback against Davidson Sunday.

The Wildcats defeated Georgetown, 4-2, on penalty strokes despite a 14-save performance from sophomore goalkeeper Briana Pereira.

The goalie boasts a .727 save percentage and poses a challenge for a revitalized Rutgers offense, but scoring over the last two games has not been a problem for the Knights.

The squad’s forwards, anchored by freshman Gia Nappi, sophomore Carlie Rouh and junior Nicole Gentile, come into the game on a huge upswing and plan to continue their strong play.

Gentile, last week’s Big East Offensive Player of the Week, leads the team with five goals, while Nappi and Rouh each have two scores to their names this season.

The three remain an integral part of the Knights success this weekend, according to senior co-captain Heather Garces.

“Nicole has been stepping up during practice making big plays,” Garces said.

“Their connection [Nappi, Rouh, Gentile] is going to feed us in our game [today]. I think we definitely need them in the game in order to win.”

Improved forward play over the past two games is an encouraging sign for Tchou and her team, but for the Knights to be effective all three lines must be in sync — starting with the backs.

“The backs have really improved on outletting and being able to transfer the ball,”

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