The Daily Targum 2010-10-11

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Freshman quarterback Chas Dodd delivered a historic performance in his first start and found classmate Jeremy Deering to set up a winning field goal against UConn.

Campus feels shock weeks after suicide

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to communicate effectively and demonstrate some degree of positive interpersonal relations,” Hopewell said.

At the end of their three months at the University, the trainees spent several weeks in Colombia at an agricultural training institute followed by a week of leave.

“Our group was invited to the White House, where we met President [John F.] Kennedy and Vice President [L yndon B.] Johnson the day before leaving from New York City for a flight to Bogota,” Hopewell said.

The volunteers lived in Hegeman Hall on the College Avenue campus while they attended classes in a number of lecture halls, he said.

Since the death of University first-year student Tyler Clementi almost two weeks ago, the campus saw a number of emotionally-charged rallies, protests and memorials in response to one of the most publicized student suicides.

There was a rally for safer spaces, memorials, debates, a candle light vigil at the steps of Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus and a town hall meeting at the Rutgers Student Center, among others.

Many students reacted differently toward the death that captured national attention.

While most students did not know Clementi personally, it affected many in some way.

“I’m still thinking about it,” said Scott Lazes, a School of Arts and Sciences senior.

“But the only connection I have with him is we’re both students here. That’s important.”

Some students feel the attention given to Clementi’s death has decreased since media outlets left the University campus.

“Now news groups have left, people are talking about it in a much lesser degree,” said Kailynn Barbour, a School of Arts and Sciences junior.

Brenna Thompson, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, feels the issue is still prevalent but not as widespread.

“I was on Yahoo a couple of days after the incident and it was already on my news feed,” she said. “Yesterday when I Googled the Rutgers academic calendar, news about it came up also.”

Rebecca Zandstein, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, agreed with Thompson, saying the University community is still aware of what happened and is trying to make positive changes.

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The first Peace Corps volunteers lived at Hegeman Hall on the College Avenue campus during their training session in the summer of 1961.

Peace Corps alumnus looks back on time at U.

BY KRISTINE ROSETTE ENERIO UNIVERSITY EDITOR

Seventy-one-year-old Byron Hopewell first stepped on campus 49 years ago, but he did not arrive as a student or faculty member.

Instead, he came as one of many men in the summer of 1961 who were to take part in the first Peace Corps training session in the United States.

For 12 weeks, Hopewell’s group, known as Colombia I, prepared themselves at the University for two years of ser vice in Colombia by learning different aspects of the countr y’s way of life as well as American government.

“We studied Latin American and Colombian history and culture, community organization and development, Spanish

[and] American democracy, with one lecture on Communism,” Hopewell said.

Various documents from Hopewell’s notebooks that summer show lessons that covered topics such as the economic development of Colombia and the importance of coffee as an export, taught by former University economics Professor James Street.

His notes also show lessons on U.S. foreign policy as well as pragmatism in American culture.

Aside from these classes, the trainees also had a physical education program where they learned to play soccer, Hopewell said.

In addition to good health and academic knowledge, practical lessons were part of their curriculum.

“We were judged on our ability to adjust to new circumstances, learn enough Spanish

NJ voters question president’s religion

BY JEFF PRENTKY STAFF WRITER

Nearly two years into President Barack Obama’s term in the White House, many New Jersey residents and Americans in general hold inaccurate opinions about what religion the commander-inchief practices.

The University’s Eagleton Institute of Politics released a poll last week revealing that 12 percent of New Jersey residents still believe the president to be Muslim.

The poll of 912 registered New Jersey voters was conducted from Sept. 23 to 26.

Obama is Protestant, a fact that 43 percent of respondents correctly identified, according to the poll.

Three percent think he is Roman Catholic, while 38 percent said they did not know. Nationally, 43 percent do not know Obama’s religion, according to a Pew Center poll released last month.

David Redlawsk, director of the Rutgers-Eagleton Poll and a professor of political science, said in an Eagleton press release that the public’s misconceptions about Obama’s religion are widespread and well documented in New Jersey.

“The reason this matters for Obama — while not meaning much for other elected officials — is that those who identify him as Muslim do so in a negative way,” Redlawsk said in the release. “Being Muslim is seen as out of the mainstream.

Being identified as Protestant when you are Catholic has limited consequences.”

About three-in-four respondents who think Obama is Muslim said they learned so from the media.

Ten percent said they think so because of presidential behavior or statements, and 7 percent got such information from the Internet. The

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Voters ask Christie to focus on state issues The poll also asked voters what issues they felt were of most importance for the state.

According to the poll, 32 percent As Gov. Chris Christie continfeel the economy and unemployues to gain national recognition, a ment is a priority, while 13 perrecent poll shows many New cent want the governor’s focus to Jersey voters want the governor be on education. to focus on the state rather than “Voters tend to think that he’s the country. either out campaigning or he’s The poll, conducted by the working on issues. In reality of Eagleton Institute of Politics at course he can do both at the the University, asked 912 regissame time,” Redlawsk said. “Just tered New Jersey voters their because he’s out of the state opinions regarding Christie’s doesn’t mean he’s not paying recent nationwide tour with attention to what’s going on in Republican candidates. the state.”

According to the poll, 64 perThir ty-seven percent of cent feel Christie should stay in those polled said Christie’s New Jersey while 24 percent national recognition makes suppor t his tour with other them proud to be from the party members.

Garden State, while 56 percent In addition, of the 52 percent do not. of voters polled who say Christie Rhaeev Jaim, a Democrat is doing a poor job in office, from South Jersey, is a voter who three-quarters believe the goveris not proud of Christie, saying nor should stay in and work on he does not agree the Garden State. with anything the “The people has who mostly say he “Just because he’s governor accomplished should stay home while in office. are Democrats out of the state seen and Independents, doesn’t mean he’s any“I haven’t significant but Republicans are much more not paying attention improvements in the time he’s likely to say that to what’s going on been here. I know he should camfor certain I don’t paign for in the state.” like what he’s Republican candidone with educadates,” said David DAVID REDLAWSK Eagleton Institute of Politics tion,” Jaim said.

Redlawsk, the Poll Director “Ever y teacher director of the has been worried Rutgers-Eagleton about their job poll. “It’s a clear since he’s been in office. I feel partisan thing.” like his attempts are for personRedlawsk, also a University al gain and not really anything to political science professor, said it help New Jersey.” is understandable Christie is Christie’s approval across touring with his Republican counthe countr y varies. According terparts, but whether he will run to the poll, 42 percent of voters for president in 2012 is hard to polled have an unfavorable gauge at the moment. impression of Christie, while “I think he doesn’t mind 46 percent have a favorable increasing his national visibility impression and 12 percent whether that would be for 2012 or are unsure. not,” Redlawsk said. “On the Christie’s run for office may other hand, he’s become a really be unclear, but it is certain he is visible figure in the Republican getting his image out there, Party and so any politician would Redlawsk said. want to take advantage of that.”

“The biggest thing camSteve Miller, an independpaigning for each other does is ent voter from Hillsborough, get the base of the party’s supsaid there is no problem with porters excited and interested Christie’s tour because it is … but it doesn’t really affect putting taxpayers’ money to the average voter,” he said. good use.

“But what it really does is gives “They pay taxes to the govthem an opportunity to raise ernment, and the government money to get the base voters needs to take care of that money excited and, in the case of and not waste it or steal it,” he Christie, his own image out said. “That’s what Christie stands there in the public.” for as far as I’m concerned.”

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Volunteers board a bus on the College Avenue campus that drove them to the Foran Stewardship Courtyard on Cook/Douglass campus, where they helped set up places for composters.

Group works on student-kept courtyard

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Student volunteers got their hands dirty Saturday in the Foran Stewardship Courtyard in an effort to improve their gardening skills for the Scarlet Day of Service.

The garden, located between Foran Avenue and the Cook/Douglass Lecture Hall, is not only maintained by University students but is also considered a sanctuary for many as well.

Under the guidance of Priscilla Hayes, the senior program coordinator, 10 student interns each work a total of 160 hours throughout the semester in the garden.

“Part of the Scarlet Day of Service is to give these other students three or four hours of time in the garden,” she said. “They don’t know how much it takes to keep these things going.”

Student volunteers gathered in the garden for a variety of tasks, which included remulching and setting up a place for three composters donated to the University by the Rutgers Earth Center, Hayes said.

“There are a bunch of students in the dorms that want to bring their compost somewhere,” she said. “What we’re going to do is have a workshop in the garden where we can train people who want to bring stuff to us.”

Suitable items for composting include fruit and vegetable

peels, leaves and paper without colored dye, said student intern Devin Goldman.

“Instead of having your garbage go to a landfill, it becomes a nutrient rich soil additive,” said student intern Nick D’Arcangelis.

Goldman, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences junior, said the garden includes many plants native to New Jersey. Native plants thrive with less care, and this means less fer tilizer, less chemical additives and an overall less harmful impact to the environment, he said.

“I learned some basics about gardening, composting and landscaping today,” said Lisa Tran, a volunteer and a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “It was humbling to see firsthand how much hard work goes into maintaining this space”.

The idea behind the garden is to create a public natural space, said D’Arcangelis, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences junior.

Originally an English major, D’Arcangelis said he switched to environmental policy because he is a firm believer in the movement to improve the environment. He said working in the garden gives him and the other inter ns a chance to do something outside the classroom.

“I don’t want to do an internship in an of fice,” said Katherine Torok, an intern and School of Environmental and

Biological Sciences junior. “It’s awesome to be able to do this at school.”

Both D’Arcangelis and Torok said they want the garden to raise environmental awareness within the University and the Scarlet Day of Ser vice was a way to promote that awareness to students.

Through their volunteer work, a place was established for the composters, which will be available to students.

Some other goals for the garden this fall are adding new plants and a new table, Torok said.

“I walk through [the Foran cour tyard] often,” said Kyle Narcoonis, a School of Engineering junior.

“It impressed me to find out that the space is student maintained and it makes me respect the amount of ef for t that goes into it.”

Hayes said the volunteers were great and added student volunteers are welcome anytime throughout the semester.

“The next generation has to be better than my generation.

That’s why I want to work with the students and to make sure that people understand resources better than my generation did,” she said. “We have to be able to use our resources well.”

The interns have a blog that can be followed, forangardenfall2010.tumblr.com, where they share updates about the garden with the University community.

RUSA TO LISTEN, DISCUSS STUDENT CONCERNS University students are getting a chance to be heard at the new “What’s on your mind week.”

Inspired by last year’s “What’s on your mind month,” Rutgers University Student Assembly’s University Affairs Committee is dedicating this week to discuss student concerns.

“What I am hoping happens is students use it as a vehicle to voice their concerns,” said Kristen Clark, University Af fairs committee

chair.

“We are giving this [list] to administrators.”

The administration took the results of the previous “What’s on your mind month” and drafted a response to each and ever y concern or request.

University Affairs is working to let the people know about this coming week, there will be a Facebook event, flyers and tabling in high traffic areas, Clark said.

“It is a time crunch,” she said. “[President Richard L.] McCormick gave us three weeks notice he was coming so now we are in a rush to get it done.”

McCormick will be at the next RUSA meeting on Oct. 21 at the Student Activities Center on the College Avenue campus to address the results of “What’s on your mind week.”

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ALUMNUS: Pearson says corps was life-changing continued from front “We were an all-male group and found girlfriends among the summer students, drank at the local taverns, went into New York City on weekends,” Hopewell said. “Some, if they lived fairly close, went home on those weekends that were free, often taking other volunteers with them.”

Although Hopewell arrived in a group of more than 80 volunteers, not all of them were sent out, according to an Aug. 7, 1961 ar ticle of the Summer Times, an old summer session paper at the University.

“About 20 of those who arrived at the beginning were ‘deselected’ during or at the end of training,” Hopewell said.

Only 62 men were sent out to Colombia to work, said Nicole Pride, University Media Relations public relations specialist.

Those who met the Peace Corps selection committee’s standards would be used in Washington, D.C., for service, according to the article.

Despite their curriculum, the volunteers had their own feedback about the program and decided to write a letter to then Director of the Peace Corps Robert Sargent Shriver, inviting him to visit the group at the University.

“Keep in mind that we were being trained to be community organizers and activists and so it was quite natural that we, as a group, wanted to make certain that our training was relevant,” Hopewell said. “When some of us determined that some changes needed to be made, we went to the top to get some action.”

A committee was formed to discuss training issues with the training administration, which Hopewell served on as a clerk.

Though the trainees found the program reasonably good, they felt there was something missing.

“When the volunteers arrived at Rutgers, there was a general feeling of dedication, enthusiasm and challenge,” according to a draft of the letter. “In the course of the program, much of this feeling has been lost.”

They attributed this to a lack of stimulation throughout the program, according to the draft.

The system seemed to reward those who played by the rules or who competently carried out orders, according to the draft.

While they acknowledge this can be effective, it does not foster individual initiative. “[The Peace Corps’] aim is to foster dedication to an ideal which transcends any administrative setup; an aim which requires the individual to take initiative and to be creative,” according to the draft.

They instead suggested that volunteers should be urged to take par t in decision-making processes by making suggestions, according to the draft.

They also suggested that the administration and faculty of the training program should tr y to achieve a unanimous decision with volunteers when possible.

“These volunteers are not just employees. If they are treated as such, they can be expected to respond as such,” according to the draft.

At a vote of 23 to 15, the committee decided to send the letter on July 18, 1961, and they received a response back from journalist Bill Moyers, who was involved with the

Peace Corps during its early days, Hopewell said.

The effects of their suggestions to the program are unknown.

Despite the criticisms found in the draft, Hopewell still has a ver y positive outlook on the organization and took many things away from his experience in Colombia.

“It is often said that the Peace Corps does more for the volunteer than it does for the countr y being helped and this is probably true,” Hopewell said.

His group was assigned to work with the Colombian Community Action Agency, which was recently formed at the time to stimulate democratic action in r ural areas by forming local committees, or juntas, that could legally contract or seek help from government and other agencies, Hopewell said.

They also worked with the National Federation of Coffee Growers, community action promoters and home extension agents to help organize the juntas that then carry out community projects like schools, roads or aqueducts, he said.

“The impact of our work on the overall economic development of a countr y, including Colombia, would be dif ficult to measure, but each one of us could point to several instances where we changed the lives of individual Colombians for the better — even in some cases saving a life by helping get a person to a hospital,” Hopewell said.

More than half of Hopewell’s colleagues are expected to visit the site of their former training program for a two-day celebration of the Peace Corps’ 50th anniversary on Nov. 4 and 5 at the University, Pride said.

“Rutgers maintains its association with the Peace Corps,” she said “According to Peace Corps Regional Manager Vinny Wickes, Rutgers students and alumni make up one of the largest groups of volunteers.”

Since the start of the organization, 584 University alumni have ser ved as volunteers, Pride said.

Fellow volunteer, John Pearson was a rural primar y school teacher in Sarawak, Malaysia, from 1968 to 1969, and said he took a lot more away from his experience than he gave.

“To say it was an eye-opening life-changing experience … is sort of stating the obvious,” Pearson said. “To live with people in a very different climate, a very different cultural context just makes you realize there’s a big world out there and not everybody lives and works and thinks the way we do.”

For a volunteer, the work with the Peace Corps was a life-changing or directing experience, Hopewell said. Many used their skills to help with their careers.

“In my own case, the [Peace Corps] experience no doubt led to my marr ying a citizen of Mexico,” he said.

Hopewell currently resides in Arlington, Va., and in December, will celebrate 45 years of marriage with his wife, Luz Hopewell, director for the Office of International Trade at the Small Business Administration. They have four children and five grandchildren.

He donated his notebook this past summer and other training materials from 1961 to the University’s archives.

“We were all very ordinary Americans getting ready to do what many thought was an extraordinary job,” Hopewell said.

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Professor discusses black women’s struggles

BY ANDREW SMITH STAFF WRITER

Despite a low student turnout, Melissa Harris-Lacewell, associate professor of politics and African American studies at Princeton University, visited the University Thursday night to discuss the struggles black women face.

Her presentation, “Black Women: Citizens of the Crooked Room,” was the inaugural event of a two-year series by the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, said Donna Murch, codirector of the RCHA. The name of the presentation originated from experiments done after World War II, where scientists discovered that many people could not perceive the sensation of being upright when ever ything around them is crooked, Harris-Lacewell said.

“My claim is that this is a kind of metaphor for the experience of African-American women who are bombarded with crooked images or distorted images of black womanhood, and that the politics [of this issue] is in part a politics of trying to find the upright in the context of everything being distorted and crooked,” she said.

Shame plays a role in framing black women and men, but there are ways people can combat these negative portrayals, HarrisLacewell said.

Harris-Lacewell used first lady Michelle Obama to explain the concept of a strong black woman, and her example of selflessness and caring can empower black women to help fight the years of shame they have been subjected to, she said.

“When a marginal group is trying to figure out how to straighten the images of the crooked room, one of the things they use is role models,” she said. “The idea of a role model is built on the concept that

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Princeton University Professor Melissa Harris-Lacewell talks about the troubles of black women in society to kick off a two-year series run by the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis Thursday night in the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum on the College Avenue campus.

even if someone is unrelated to you, the good things that they did will somehow reflect positively on you.”

Organizers felt Harris-Lacewell was a good choice for the inaugural event because her work was intriguing and would attract a large base, said Murch, a University associate professor of history.

“She’s both a well-respected and well-known academic, but also has a public voice and is seen in a larger public world,” she said.

“We thought her work would be a

brilliant example for making categories of analysis and raise intersects of gender and intersects of sexuality and intersects of race.”

Despite their efforts, Murch said the turnout was less than what the event coordinators expected.

“I thought the turnout was pretty good, but we were hoping to get a larger turnout, so we’re still trying to figure out how to get undergraduates to come out,” she said.

Some students present at the event felt just as passionate as

Harris-Lacewell did about improving the situation of black men and women alike.

Lucie Lozinski, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, said she was impressed by Harris-Lacewell’s ideas because they offered a look into a perspective she does not have.

“I was intrigued specifically by her ideas about Michelle Obama and how a single person can affect an entire group of people who are unrelated or

don’t even know each other,” Lozinski said.

Upcoming events after HarrisLacewell’s presentation will feature four lectures, with one featuring an artist from the Black Panther Party and another featuring a book signing, Murch said.

With a positive outlook about future events, the RCHA expects their upcoming presentations will draw more undergraduates and be more accessible to a wider student base, Murch said.

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RELIGION: Partisanship has effect on answers in poll continued from front remaining 7 percent were unsure or said his ancestry or name reveals his faith.

Rutgers Business School sophomore Jeffrey Daniel said Obama’s name — which the president himself has acknowledged as a distinguishing feature — may lead people to believe he is Muslim and think negatively of him.

“In this day and age, [the misconception is] probably more negative than anything just because of … Sept. 11 and recently what’s been happening in the news with Iraq,” Daniel said. “I just think it sort of gives a negative connotation toward him, even though he is Protestant.”

School of Engineering firstyear student Nicole Emmanuel said the media has constructed the image of Obama, as reflected in the poll.

“I think it’s the media that creates that image,” she said. “They try to use it against him.”

In general, those polled also knew little about the religious

beliefs of Gov. Chris Christie — 56 percent said they did not know Christie’s religion, according to the poll. Fourteen percent correctly identified him as Catholic, while 25 percent of respondents believe Christie is Protestant, according to the Eagleton poll.

Forty-eight percent of respondents who attend religious services at least once a week correctly identified Obama’s religion, according to the poll. Ten percent of that group said he is Muslim, and 33 percent said they did not know.

Less religious poll participants were most likely to incorrectly identify Obama’s religion, according to the poll. Among those attending religious services monthly, 16 percent labeled him as Muslim, 34 percent said he is Protestant and 41 percent were unsure.

Partisanship also affects questions about Obama’s religion.

While 8 percent of Democrats and 6 percent of independents said he is Muslim, nearly a quarter of Republicans believed the president practices Islam, according to the poll.

On the other hand, 54 percent of Democrats know Obama’s religion, twice the percentage of Republicans and 12 percent high-

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Obama has seen a five percentage-point gain among registered voters in his New Jersey favorability ratings, now 57 percent, since an August RutgersEagleton Poll. Thirty-four percent hold an unfavorable view, down from 36 percent.

“One thing we know is that the belief that Obama is Muslim is part of a package of negative feelings toward him,” Redlawsk said in the release. “While most who disapprove of Obama do not say he is Muslim, a significant number do, while few of those who approve of him say the same.”

Such correlation was evident in the results of the poll — 8 percent with a favorable view said he is Muslim, 51 percent correctly identified him as Protestant and 34 percent said they did not know his religion. Among respondents who disapprove of the president, 18 percent said he is Muslim, 31 percent said he is Protestant and 43 percent were unsure.

In February, voters were asked to agree or disagree with a series of questions, including several about Obama and his administration. Of those polled, 25 percent say the Obama administration is

T H E DA I LY TA R G U M un-American, up from 18 percent in February, and 39 percent argue that Obama is a socialist, up from 32 percent, according to the poll.

When asked if thinking about the government in Washington angered them, 59 percent said yes and 38 percent said no. This anger is unrelated to beliefs about Obama’s religion, Redlawsk said in the release.

Among poll participants who said Washington evokes their anger, 44 percent knew Obama’s religious beliefs. Nearly as many, 42 percent, who are not angry accurately identified Obama as Protestant. Twelve percent of those who are angr y with Washington said Obama is a Muslim, compared to 11 percent who are not angry.

The idea that Obama is Muslim is not about Washington politics as such but is directed at the president himself, Redlawsk said in the release.

“For the 12 percent of New Jersey voters who say that Obama is Muslim, the issue is personal,” he said in the release.

“Most think he is a socialist and many consider him un-American, but they are no more likely to be angr y at ‘the government in Washington’ than anyone else.”

CAMPUS: Groups hold more events to honor Clementi continued from front “Some [people] are turning events into bullying and a lot of things like that when we don’t know what happened and what the legal ramifications say,” she said. “But I think we are moving forward.”

But Malcolm Bare, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, has not heard much discussion from it.

“I feel like students are changing their focus [to] exams than the tragedy that happened a couple of weeks ago,” he said.

While Barbour believes the media coverage is not as pressing, she said it could not be forgotten.

“It didn’t just affect [lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender] students at Rutgers. It affected everyone,” she said.

The vigil was a healing process, Barbour said. But she believes the process is different for every individual.

“Grieving doesn’t disappear [in] a week. Still, someone in the community didn’t know all the resources that were available,” “Some Barbour [people] are s a i d . turning events “ S o m e o n e be grievinto bullying.” will ing in different ways for REBECCA a long time.”

ZANDSTEIN Some stuSchool of Arts dents feel and Sciences Senior the news had a huge impact on the way people reacted to the story.

Thompson said nobody could have expected the effects of the news and media.

“I think the news still wants to try to get a story out of it, but Rutgers already felt the impact,” she said. “For the most part, [I think many] people are over it but there will be groups who will bring it up and use it as an example.”

Lazes said he saw a transition of people’s reactions to Clementi’s death.

“There were impulsive reactions initially,” he said. “Now that we have more time to process it, there are more thoughtful and more productive discussions happening that could hopefully keep this from happening again.”

There will be several events relating to Clementi’s death that will take place in the upcoming weeks.

Bare saw a Facebook invitation being spread to University students.

“I know that people are supposed to wear purple on the 20th in honor of the youths who committed suicide,” he said.

Still, others groups continue to host events in response to the incident.

Rutgers Hillel will host an event today concerning privacy in relation to the Torah perspective, Zandstein said.

Dan Savage, a national sex columnist, will speak at the University Oct. 18 to discuss his new project, “It Gets Better,” a response to the LGBT youth suicides, Barbour said. It is a YouTube Channel where individuals can add a video giving message of hope to youth.

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Do not ban drivers’ aides

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here are bans protecting us from ourselves, and then there are those imposing regulations that far surpass the law’s jurisdiction. U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood claims motorists are distracted by any use of mobile devices while driving, including hands-free calls, as the department begins discussion of a broader ban. This will only lead to unreasonable bans on in-car aid systems and unnecessary fines for drivers across the nation.

LaHood, who has already enforced tougher restrictions in 30 states, said his concerns extend to entertainment systems and driver’s aides such as Ford’s Sync and General Motors’ OnStar, according to bloomberg.com.

These systems, however, have successfully aided drivers with their safety by making most functions hands-free. OnStar, for example, even alerts the authorities wirelessly of an accident that may have occurred with the driver. Rather than making driving more dangerous, these systems provide the convenience of hands-free control of car electronics.

The fact of the matter is LaHood is trying to restrict these useful utilities. There are many other distractions that should be banned — or ones that are just as “dangerous” as hands-free talking on a phone. The radio is just one of many distractions that alter drivers’ capabilities. Singing along perhaps, should be banned as well. Talking to a passenger can be considered even more dangerous as the driver turns to look at the person or simply gets too involved in the conversation. There are simply too many other distractions — as the DOT calls them.

“I don’t want people talking on phones, having them up to their ear or texting while they’re driving,” LaHood said in an interview this week. “We need a lot better research on other distractions,” including Bluetooth-enabled hands-free calls and the in-car systems, he said.

LaHood simply doesn’t get it. Banning hands-free devices — let alone the ones that serve the driver more than they affect his ability to drive — does not solve the problems of bad drivers. Strengthening the process of receiving a driver’s license is only one of many other methods of decreasing accidents on the road. Navigation systems, for example, help drivers reach their destinations more safely instead of forcing them to swerve for an exit at the last second. The problem isn’t the devices we use — it is in the drivers we let on the road. LaHood should examine this problem rather than limiting trivial “distractions.”

Nobel Peace Prize rightly honors Liu

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hina may not want to honor its own Liu Xiaobo for winning this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, but his compatriots should. It is a shame China warned the Norwegian Nobel Committee not to give the honor to the democracy activist who took part in the 1989 anticommunist protest in Tiananmen Square. Liu may be serving an 11-year sentence for spurious subversion charges, according to The New York Times, but the people of China should be proud of this accomplishment.

We see the reasons behind Beijing’s choice to express their dissatisfaction with the committee, but they should still be ashamed of their lack of support for their citizen. Liu represents China’s ability to be current. The 54-year-old scholar, writer, poet and social commentator is an advocate for China’s inclusion in modernity. He staged a hunger strike during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, and he negotiated a peaceful retreat of student demonstrators as soldiers stood against them, armed with rifles.

His most recent arrest came in December 2008 — a day before his pro-democracy manifesto entered the cyber spheres. This “Charter 08” proved the importance of freedom, human rights, equality as “universal values shared by all humankind.” According to the Times article, this made the case for “direct elections, judicial independence and an end to Communist Party dominance.”

Liu is an impassioned, imprisoned critic of a system that has oppressed its people for more than half a century. “The Nobel Committee giving the Peace Prize to such a person runs completely contrary to the aims of the prize,” Ma Zhaoxu, a spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement posted on the ministry’s website. “Liu Xiaobo is a criminal who has been sentenced

by Chinese judicial departments for violating Chinese law.”

The Nobel Committee made the right choice during a time of pressure from the Chinese government. We support their decision to not sway under the words of a Communist government, which has only sought to limit Liu’s liberal thought. Despite what Beijing says or does, the world will not disregard Liu. We will not forget his push for democratic thought. We will not forget the Chinese government’s repression — or at least attempts to sway the Committee’s decision. Beijing should be ashamed, and its people should be proud. We, as Liu’s Chinese compatriots, should honor his struggle for freedom — a struggle that represents many of China’s citizens’ courage.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “To say it was an eye-opening life-changing experience … is sort of stating the obvious.”

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After the prescription hen I am workorder is entered into the ing in the pharpharmacy’s computer sysmacy or spendtem, it has to be processed ing time with friends, a conthrough insurance, and this stant question I get asked is: is where the second hurdle “Why does it take so long to arises. The point that I canget a prescription filled? I not emphasize enough is mean, don’t you just transfer BO WANG that the pharmacy does not pills from big bottles to control your co-pay, cosmaller ones?” In a boiledinsurance, deductible or any other cost-sharing down way, yes, in the same sense that all the presimeasure that you are subjected to by your insurdent has to do is chit-chat and sign some paperance. The prescription order is put into the system, work. However, behind the scenes, there are many and the health insurance company spits back a patient-centered activities the pharmacy staff perprice. Done, end-of-story, non-negotiable from the forms and many hurdles that have to be cleared in pharmacy’s end. order to accurately fill the hundreds of medication So if you have to pay more for your medication orders that get dropped off at the drugstore every this time than you had to pay for the same drug day. I will highlight some of the more important before, then it is an issue that can only be worked ones in this column and hope that even if it does not out between you and your insurance company. make the wait for your prescriptions any less frusHours are spent each day explaining this fundatrating that you can at least feel assured that there mental fact to patients. is a good reason for it.

More time-consuming than Let’s first talk about the prescrip“The pharmacist explaining the above though is dealtion itself. How many of you can ing with insurance rejections, which actually understand what your often has to call occur when insurance companies physician wrote? Contrary to what some may believe, pharmacies are the prescriber, verify outright refuse to pay for a particular, often expensive, medication. In order not equipped with high-tech the drug information to cover the drug, they often require decrypters that can magically decithat the patient’s physician provide pher the handwriting, nor do pharand wait for justification that the non-covered macists take courses in school with a call back” drug being prescribed is clinically a similar objective. It all comes necessary for the patient and that it down to experience, but even that cannot be substituted with a cheaper may not be enough sometimes. drug that is covered — i.e. prior authorization.

Take for example Celebrex and Celexa: The forWhile the pharmacy staff often helps out the mer is taken for inflammation and pain, while the patient in these cases by starting the telephone latter is used for depression. When written with chain, the entire process of calling the physician’s good penmanship, the names of these two drugs office, explaining the situation to the patient, checkare easy to tell apart. Facing an increasing amount ing with the insurance company to see if the physiof time pressure though, physicians often have little cian followed up and ensuring that the approval has choice but to speedily write down the prescription been factored into the price the patient pays takes a and hope that the pharmacist or technician can considerable amount of time. make do. As a result, it is sometimes impossible to To make the insurance hassle more time-efficient tell the difference between the names, and unlike for the patient, it really should be dealt with before other products, medications can cause serious the patient leaves the doctor’s office. The widespread harm if taken inappropriately. adoption and implementation of electronic health Examples of these look-alike, sound-alike drugs records can help by allowing physicians to have abound, from epinephrine and ephedrine, to hydroxaccess to a particular health insurance plan’s formuyzine and hydralazine, and the confusion can also lary — that is, the drugs they will cover — before extend to the drug strength and dosage instructions prescribing a particular medication. This way, — “qid,” which means four times a day, can look patients can know exactly how much they will be payawfully like “qod,” which means once every other ing before even stepping foot in the pharmacy. day, when the letters are scribbled. In these cases Despite the time strains posed by the bureaucratic then, the pharmacist often has to call the prescriber, hurdles above, the most important reason you are verify the drug information and wait for a call back waiting so long for your prescription is to allow the if the prescriber is not available. Electronic prepharmacist to fulfill his or her primary role as a health scription orders and typed prescriptions have helped to alleviate this time burden and potential SEE WANG ON PAGE 9 hazard, but at this time they are still not widely used.

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Individuality must prevail over social titles Letter LONNIE AFFRIME

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f I asked “Who are you?” most likely you would begin with an introduction. But what’s in a name? Next you might mention University and perhaps your place of employment. But those are just temporary social conditions. Exasperated, you may turn to the abstract, mentioning your gender, race, background, sexual orientation, friends and family, etc. In the end, all of these things and more make up our essence. The danger comes when we begin perceiving ourselves, or others, as being mainly part of a single label. Historically this has been common among persecuted factions: Those in the Holocaust perceive themselves as primarily “Jewish,” those in the civil rights movement become primarily “Black,” etc.

This is dangerous for a few reasons. As an individual you’re denying, or at least devaluing, the many facets of your persona — an

unhealthy endeavor that I’m sure would be frowned upon by any psychologist. Perhaps even more importantly, your emphasis has irrevocably shifted to the differences, rather than similarities, of those outside your movement or worldview, therefore crippling your efficaciousness at best, or sowing the seeds of your own undoing at worst.

Instead we must all see ourselves — first and foremost — as being human, regardless of gender, race, sexual orientation, income, etc. That should have been the message of the recent tragedy involving University firstyear student Tyler Clementi — humanities’ peaceful collaboration. But it wasn’t. Instead, thanks to the media’s want for a good story and the student bodies’ zeal, Clementi will forever be remembered as a gay rights icon.

Maybe that is what he would have wanted, but who knows? His friends and family would probably have been the most apt to answer that question. But they were not asked, were they? No. In a passion-

Council calls for U. intervention McCormick has failed to make it a point to stand in support of the New Jersey In-State Tuition Act and JORGE CASALINS has not done his part to move this he members of the act forward and that is what led us Latino Student Council to walk out of his Sept. 24 speech. and its allies were surMcCormick, we believe you prised at the recent outcry over when you say you support the our efforts to get University tenets of the federal DREAM Act. President Richard L. McCormick We know you understand that to state clearly his position in access to higher education is an regard to in-state tuition for the important moral value for all of New children of undocumented immiJersey’s young people. We feel cergrants. McCormick has bobbed tain you have seen the evidence sugand weaved in regard to this issue gesting that expanding educational for too long. opportunities leads to economic savHis silence at key moments ings and a healthier democracy. has spoken louder than his words.

If this is true, as you assert, that When members of the council only the state legislature and the recently walked out of a speech governor have the power to change given by McCormick, there were state tuition law, then we call on you, some who questioned how we as the president of the state’s flagcould do such a thing to “our presiship public university, to stand up dent.” Our response is that the and affirm these statements pubpresident serves licly. We urge you to the community at support a change in “McCormick has the University, not state policy that the other way would bring New failed to make it around. It is our job Jersey into the fold to question him and of the states with a point to stand hold him accountlarge immigrant in support of the able for his actions. populations — We strongly New Jersey In-State states such as New believe there is no York, California, Tuition Act.” point in punishing Texas and at least the children of seven others — that undocumented have passed laws immigrants as they seek a better extending the right to pay in-state life for themselves in the United tuition to undocumented students.

States by charging them more We also ask that you tell us than twice the normal rate of why the University cannot unilattuition. This makes no economic erally decide to charge the chilor ethical sense. dren of undocumented immiMcCormick assures us that he grants in-state tuition rates. It supports the Development, Relief seems the president confuses and Education for Alien Minors Act, residency with immigration stawhich would allow in-state tuition tus. We know legislation like the for the children of undocumented DREAM Act would require you immigrants. But he has done to charge immigrants in-state absolutely nothing to bring it about. tuition rates. But is it really the When the N.J. Legislature case that you are powerless in debated in-state tuition early this the absence of such legislation? year, McCormick was absent The University has been silent from the debate. There was not on this issue for too long. It is so much as a peep or tweet from time that McCormick spoke loudthe president. He used no politily and clearly on this issue. cal capital to try and sway a few wayward Democrats to vote for Jorge Casalins is a School of the legislation. In fact, many in Arts and Sciences sophomore the Statehouse whisper that it is majoring in political science. He is the opposition by the University the political chair of the Latino that keeps it from passing.

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ate fervor hundreds of people descended to remember an individual they had never known, to pay homage to “Tyler the Homosexual,” rather than “Tyler the Human Being” — just like the rest of us.

Once again, maybe he would have liked to be remembered this way, as an activist for gay rights. But we will never know.

And what is worse, we did not try very hard to find out. In life

“Clementi will forever be remembered as a gay rights icon.” we may seek endlessly for the spotlight, to be known. But in death I think we often search for an authenticity that cannot be fathomed by a procession of mourners who know nothing about how we lived, only how we died. Instead of taking time to learn about who Clementi really was, we hastily crafted an icon and sought to fill it with our own

WANG continued from page 8 care provider by monitoring medication therapies and providing health advice and expertise. The average patient over the age of 60 is taking four medications, and from my experience it is not uncommon to see someone taking 15 or even 20 drugs at a time. As you might expect, many of these drugs have the potential to interact with a patient’s medical conditions, the patient’s diet, or one another.

So why not just rely on software that gives red flags for possible interactions? Because medicine is not black and white — just because

spirit and preconceptions.

Clementi has not changed us, we have changed him. The result is a memorial that no better fits Clementi than any other homosexual student, in other words, a eulogy lacking any profound or distinctive meaning.

Clementi has become an archetype, all of his other characteristics — his passion for violin, the way he laughs — have been supplanted by what we, who know nothing about him, think is most important. And to stack on one final indignity, we have drawn lines in the sand, claiming this newfound symbol for ourselves and creating a milieu of war, rather than peace.

But this is not a commentary on Clementi, as we too were strangers. This is not an attack on School of Arts and Sciences first-year student Dharun Ravi or Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy first-year student Molly Wei either. Their crimes were obviously infantile and beyond imbecilic. Lifelong guilt, among other punishments, will

be duly justified. Nor is this an indictment of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, who fight for an admirable and worthy cause, regardless of whether I may deem their methods to be ineffective or inappropriate at times.

This is an appeal to you humanity. The world is a scary place.

The great sociologist and philosopher Erich Fromm wrote that we differentiate ourselves from others to escape the fear of death and nagging questions about life’s purpose. Maybe if we stopped labeling ourselves we could achieve, or at least make progress toward, the equality so desperately craved?

The real tribute to Clementi will forever be in the hearts and minds of those who actually knew him. To them I give my deepest condolences, and I pray Clementi may rest in the peace that seems to forever elude all of us.

two medications have been shown to interact with one another in laboratory experiments does not mean that patients cannot take them together. Only pharmacists, in conjunction with other health care professionals, can decide from their training and experience whether potential interactions are significant enough to warrant a change in the medication regimen.

Often times they are not.

The health service that pharmacists provide is also unique to the profession. Think about it: Where else can you expect to walk into a health care setting and receive free professional advice for your healthrelated needs? From a nagging cough to a bad rash to a fever, pharmacists often serve as the gateway

caregiver to many patients’ health problems, in the process saving patients time and money. And in an era of rising primary care shortage, their roles have become even more crucial to help promote public health and well-being. So the next time you drop off your prescription and hear that the wait is going to be an hour, try your best to give the people behind the counter a break. Trust me, they don’t want to keep you waiting any longer than they have to.

Lonnie Af frime is a Class of 2010 School of Ar ts and Sciences alumnus.

Bo Wang is an Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy sixth-year student and former president of the Pharmacy Governing Council. His column, “Doctor’s Orders,” runs on alternate Mondays.

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NOTEBOOK: Harrison

DODD: RU holds Huskies

breaks out with 100-yard game continued from back In last season’s win in Hartford, Conn., Harrison’s only catch was his 20-yard touchdown, and although this weekend’s score was one of the plays of the game, Harrison was a factor for all 60 minutes.

Head coach Greg Schiano said he saw progress from Harrison leading up to the game on the practice field, but was waiting for everything to click under the lights.

After catching five passes for 112 yards — his first 100-yard receiving performance — Harrison believes Friday night’s game could be that moment.

“I think this was it, but there’s more to come,” Harrison said. “It’s about just staying humble, but it’s exciting to do what I did today.

There’s no better feeling than to score that game-tying touchdown and have [kicker San San Te] finish it up for us. It was great.”

Harrison’s 52-yard touchdown is the one that will make the highlight reels, but once he was open, the most challenging part of that play was holding up enough to catch the slightly underthrown ball.

On a number of his other catches, Harrison made a reception short of the first-down marker, shook off a tackler and picked up the extra yards to move the chains.

The 6-foot-3, 230-pound receiver put his size to use to pick up yards after the catch.

“I worked on that a lot in practice, just catching it, puncturing it and trying to run somebody over and get that extra yardage,” Harrison said. “You have to fight for that inch, and that’s exactly what I did in practice. I know it paid off, so that just keeps me humble to know what I can do. Now it keeps me fighting for more.”

JEFFREY LAZARO / SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Sophomore wideout Mark Harrison had his first 100-yard receiving game, with no catch bigger than his 52-yard, game-tying score.

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his bag of tricks in the third quarter with a decision that could have proved costly if not for the Scarlet Knights’ late comeback.

Rather than opt for a 34-yard field goal, Schiano called for a trick play where quarterbackturned-tight end D.C. Jefferson attempted a pass to freshman holder Kyle Sullivan.

Jefferson lined up on the left side of the line and pulled to the right after the snap, taking a pitch from Sullivan who swung into the flat.

Sullivan was bumped by a defender, but was then wide open before the strong-armed sophomore Jefferson overthrew the pass.

“We probably just were a little bit fast there, because when he got up he was wide open,” Schiano said. “The guy he ran into wasn’t covering him.

[Special teams coach Robb

Smith] and [tight ends coach Phil Galiano] had discovered something and sure enough it was there. We just kind of rushed it a little. I don’t know exactly why, but it’s a shame because I think that was a touchdown.”

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Caleb Ruch returned to the starting lineup two weeks after redshirt freshman Antwan Lowery replaced him on the line.

The offensive line remains a work in progress, as UConn had five sacks and the rushing game totaled 88 yards.

“The end result isn’t what we want it to be,” Schiano said. “We had 88 yards [rushing], so that’s not where we want to be running the ball, but it’s better than we’ve been. We just need to keep moving forward and blocking is part of it.”

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Savage may not start against Army even if he’s healthy.

“We’ve got two special quarscoreless to set up late rally terbacks in our program,” Schiano said. “I know people continued from back want to talk about that now. Hey, “I just saw them open up. Once he I know we have two special caught it I was about to beat him quarterbacks in our program to the end zone.” and I’m excited about that. I’ve The defense, strong all night said that all along, but now with the exception of a poor playthey’ve both won big games.” call on a 66-yard run by Jordan The Scarlet Knights contained Todman, got the offense the ball the Big East’s top-rusher with the back with 1:31 to play and about exception of Todman’s 66-yard 35 yards to go to get into field run, which Schiano chalked up to goal range. a bad play-call.

Dodd and tr ue freshman Todman, who ran the ball 37 Jeremy Deering did it all on times in the Huskies’ last game, one play. had 57 yards on 23 attempts Dodd, who hit Deering for a when you take away his touchtouchdown earlier in the game, down run. hit the fellow “That one play freshman in kind of hurt us “I know we have stride for a 45really, but besides yard gain to set that one play, I’m two special up a game-winimpressed with ning 34-yard field quarterbacks in our how we did,” said goal for junior senior defensive program and I’m San San Te. end Alex Silvestro, “We were on excited about that.” who had a careerthe sideline high eight tackles.

GREG SCHIANO watching it and “He’s a good runwe just had full ning back. He’s Head Coach confidence in our quick and he of fense,” said moves well. We senior safety and team captain did a good job of getting him Joe Lefeged, who returned a down and trying to control him.” kick for 75 yards and made five Connecticut held Rutgers tackles. “People have been without a sack yet again, but downplaying them all season quar terback Cody Endres but we knew they were going to managed to complete just half pick it up and they won us the of his passes for 153 yards, game today. The offense did a throwing an interception to great job.”

Mohamed Sanu of all people Dodd finished with a smaton the final play. tering of career and true fresh“I am not happy at all,” said man highs with 322 yards in his UConn coach Randy Edsall, first start, including two touchwho lost the last three games downs and 18 completions on against rival Rutgers by a total 29 attempts. of nine points. “When you don’t Dodd started the game over win, you are not happy at all. sophomore Tom Savage, who That’s the bottom line, we didsuffered an injur y to his thrown’t win. We had opportunities ing hand last week and a rib to me where we could have injur y the week before. After won had we had some plays, Dodd’s stellar per formance offensively and defensively and against Connecticut (3-3, 0-1), we didn’t get it done.”

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True freshman wideout Jeremy Deering pulled in a 45-yard catch in the game’s final minutes to set up San San Te’s game-winning field goal against Connecticut. Deering also scored his first career touchdown on a 46-yard catch in the first quarter and had his first 100-yard receiving game in a breakout performance for the receiving corps.

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ntering the first Big East game of the year against Connecticut on Friday, Mohamed Sanu was the only bright light shining in an otherwise bleak and unstable Rutgers offense.

So when the sophomore phenom only rushed eight times for 27 yards and hauled in just two receptions against the Huskies, conclusions of an absolute meltdown on offense and a three-game losing streak flood the mind.

But something happened against UConn that hasn’t been the case in games past: Other receivers made more plays and outshined Sanu.

Before the game against the Huskies, wideouts Jeremy Deering and Mark Harrison — the top-two receivers after Sanu — combined for just 143 yards on 10 receptions and no touchdowns in four games. That stat line jumped on Saturday morning to 357 yards on 18 receptions for two scores.

Both touchdowns came at key moments in the game.

Buffalo Soldier A.J. JANKOWSKI Deering’s 46-yard score served as the first points in the game and came on a third-and-14 play. The true freshman caught the ball on a crossing route by the first down marker and turned upfield to scamper the rest of the way into the endzone.

“At first I thought somebody was going to be there,” said Deering of his run after the catch.

“But when I turned around I just saw green and I just ran.”

Not to be outdone in a game against his home state, Harrison’s touchdown couldn’t have come at a better time, tying the game with less than four minutes to play.

Even tight end D.C. Jefferson got into the mix on Friday night, hauling in four balls for 57 yards.

These three targets in particular — Deering, Harrison and Jefferson — need to continue to contribute down the road if the Scarlet Knights look to make serious noise in the free-for-all that is the Big East conference.

Not only do the receivers give opposing defenses much more to key in on, but they also spell Sanu from having to utilize his versatility to account for all of the offense’s production.

Having the trio more involved allows the Wild Knight package to go back to what it was intended to be: a gimmick that is meant to serve as a change of pace.

And the best way to get production out of these talents is to continue to roll with true freshman Chas Dodd at quarterback.

It was Dodd who stepped into the pocket and waited that extra second to see Deering cut across the middle unmarked for the score.

It was Dodd who figured out that having a 6-foot-6, 258pound tight end running down the middle of the field is a good target to find.

It was Dodd whose pump fake to running back Jordan Thomas sprung Harrison open deep down the field for the game-tying score.

And it was Dodd who led a fourth-quarter comeback and a game-winning drive in his first collegiate start — against a Big East team nonetheless.

Whether Tom Savage — who sat out the game with an injured hand — would have made those plays and led the Knights to victory is something we will never know. But with only one and a half games under his belt thus far, Dodd’s body of work this year has already begun to outshine Savage’s.

Dodd owns a higher passer efficiency rating, a higher completion percentage and averages more yards per game than Savage. The Byrnes High School

(S.C.) product also has already thrown for 105 more yards, for two more touchdowns and for two less interceptions.

“That’s a good question,” said head coach Greg Schiano when asked who will start going forward. “We’ll deal with that during the week. Certainly like I said, we have two ver y good quarterbacks, and that’s something that’s a blessing.”

The question of who will star t Saturday against Army has a glowing answer, but it’s a tough one to pull the trigger on. Bench the high profile, face-of-the-program Savage and go with the floppy-haired, undersized, L yman, S.C., native.

Because when Dodd is under center, every bright light shines.

— A.J. Jankowski is an associate sports editor for The Daily Targum and accepts comments, criticisms and witticisms at jankowskialex@gmail.com.

Scoreless streak snaps, result absent against Louisville

BY A.J. JANKOWSKI ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

The good news is that Saturday night against Louisville, the Rutgers MEN’S SOCCER men’s LOUISVILLE 2 soccer RUTGERS 1 t e a m ended its g o a l drought that lasted 426 minutes.

The bad news is the goal was not enough to end a four-game skid and walk away from Yurcak Field with a victory.

The No. 6 Cardinals stole momentum right back after the Scarlet Knights scored their first goal since Sept. 19 and went on to win, 2-1.

Although the Knights lost their fifth game in a row, it was not for lack of effort.

“I was proud of the way we played,” said head coach Dan Donigan. “Against a team like

Louisville … you’ve got to be on top of your game and I thought we really were for the most part.

“I feel bad for our guys to only come away from this with a 2-1 loss.

I was happy with the way we played, but I feel bad for our guys because I wish they were rewarded with something better than that.”

The Rutgers (3-6-1, 0-3) goal came in the 67th minute, when the Knights trailed Louisville, 1-0.

Starting in the fourth game of his collegiate career, freshman midfielder Brennan McNicoll sent a free kick from 40 yards out toward the back post. As the ball curled in, senior captain Yannick Salmon made a run into the box.

Salmon timed a perfect header that blitzed into the back of the net and brought the Knights on even terms with the Cardinals.

“It’s funny, because me and [junior captain Andrew] Cuevas were deciding which run we were going to make,” said Salmon, who

leads the team with four goals. “I was calling back post and I said, ‘I got it.’ It went back post and I got a good head on it.”

As Rutgers mounted another attack to go for the lead just two minutes later, the Cardinals answered.

Louisville cleared the ball quickly after a Knights corner and showed why it is one of the best in the Big East, taking the lead on a lightning-quick counterattack.

Forward Aaron Horton collected the ball down the right wing for the Cardinals and flipped the ball into the middle of the field as two Rutgers defenders converged, where substitute Andrew Farrell awaited.

With nothing between Farrell and Rutgers goalkeeper Adam Klink but 30 yards of grass, Farrell drove to the net and let a shot go from inside the 18-yard box. Klink made the initial save, but the ball’s momentum carried it into the

back of the net and put the Knights back down by a score.

“They were effective on the counter [attack] and they were effective on set pieces,” Cuevas said. “It’s unfortunate because we contained them for most of the game, but they are good players and they are going to find ways to score and they did.”

The Cards (8-0-2, 3-0) opened the scoring in the 47th minute on a corner kick when Kenney Walker’s delivery found the head of Austin Berry on the near post.

The midfielder buried the ball inside the left post for his third goal of the year.

The game offered few chances for either team, with the two squads combining for only four shots on goal.

Playing this close against an undefeated team left the Knights with nothing to hang their heads about.

“I think we did ver y well against one of the so-called best teams in the country,” Cuevas said. “They are tops of the Big East and haven’t lost a game yet and I think we outplayed them.

I’m proud of my guys.”

In fact, this loss serves as a confidence booster for a team that failed to score a goal in four straight games, including a 1-0 loss to lowly NJIT. A solid 90-minute effort is just what Donigan wanted heading into six straight Big East games to close out the season.

“Our guys deser ved more than what they got tonight, but what you want is a result and we haven’t gotten the result,” Donigan said. “You can’t sulk.

You can’t dwell, because we still have a very good chance of making the [Big East] postseason tournament. We can get the points necessary to get into that tournament and that’s our goal.”

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THANK DODD Freshman leads fourth-quarter comeback, throws for 322 yards in first start to set up Te’s winning kick

BY SAM HELLMAN CORRESPONDENT

Since the turn of the Rutgers football program in 2005 and 2006, the fourth-quarter comeb a c k FOOTBALL played the role of the Holy Grail — always in sight, but forever out of reach.

Mike Teel seemed to be only one pass away on multiple occasions during his senior season. It was the same stor y for Tom Savage against North Carolina two games ago and the same for Chas Dodd the next week against Tulane.

In fact, the only fourth-quarter comeback for Rutgers since 2006 came last season against Connecticut on one long sprint by Tim Brown.

But on Friday night under the ESPN national spotlight against the Huskies, Dodd led the Scarlet Knights to their El Dorado in his first career start, defeating UConn, 27-24.

“I really thought [Dodd] could do special things,” said Rutgers head coach Greg Schiano, who won his third straight game against rival Connecticut. “I think he went in there and he’s a ver y cool customer. When we recruited Chas, you saw just what a fabulous player he was … once we saw him in our camp and saw him throw and got to meet him, we knew he was a special guy.”

Trailing by seven points going into the fourth quarter, the Knights’ (3-2, 1-0) offense kicked it into high gear.

Co-offensive coordinator Kirk Ciarrocca got the action started with a play-call that had the entirety of the Connecticut defense confused.

Dodd pump-faked a swing pass on the play to running back Jordan Thomas, who lived off that play for the last two games, and the entire defense bit on it.

That left sophomore receiver Mark Harrison wide open down the sidelines for a 52-yard, gametying touchdown.

“It was just a little stutter route, trying to get them to bite on it and then beat them outside,” Dodd said.

GAME 5

JEFFREY LAZARO / SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

True freshman quarterback Chas Dodd delivered a historic performance in his first career start, throwing for 322 yards and making a pair of big plays on a 52-yard game-tying touchdown pass with less than four minutes to go and setting up a field goal with a 46-yard toss in the final two minutes.

BIG EAST SCORES Syracuse South Florida

KEY STATS 13 9

Pittsburgh Notre Dame

17 23

UNLV West Virginia

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KNIGHT NOTEBOOK

LEADERS PASSING CHAS DODD, RU 18-29, 322 YDS, 2 TDS RUSHING J. TODMAN, UCONN 24 CAR, 123 YDS, 1 TD RECEIVING MARK HARRISON, RU 5 REC, 122 YDS, 1 TD

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UCONN RUTGERS

Total Yds 284 453

Pass 153 365

Rush 131 88

EXTRA POINT The number of combined third-down conversions for both teams in 29 opportunities. The Knights’ first conversion came on a third-and-14 when quarterback Chas Dodd found fellow freshman Jeremy Deering for a 46-yard touchdown catch to give Rutgers an early 7-0 lead.

UConn did not convert a third down in the fourth quarter.

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BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

Mark Harrison played 13 games against 12 different teams, and none of them felt the impact of the Rutgers football team’s sophomore wideout quite like Connecticut.

The Stratford, Conn., native has two career touchdowns to his name, in both games against his home state school — one last season and one in Friday night’s 27-24 win.

“It always feels good, because when I go back home I don’t have to hear my friends and such saying, ‘Why didn’t you score against Connecticut?’” the Bunnell High School product said. “It feels good to get that edge over everybody and be able to go back home and be comfortable with everything and just talk about the game and how exciting it was.”

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