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Students discuss understanding of privacy issues BY COLLEEN ROACHE ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
Along with boxes of their belongings, most first-year students bring to campus concerns about being away from home for the first time and sharing the space between four walls with a complete stranger. Three members of the Class of 2014 — Tyler Clementi, Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei — have become the center of much discussion about privacy in residence halls on campus, but many of their classmates said their situation is not reflective of the entire class. School of Arts and Sciences first-year student Kyle Rosa said setting rules is one way to prevent problems. “I think it’s about just getting to know ever yone on your floor more than anything,” said Rosa, who lives in the Quads on Livingston campus. “You can definitely set some boundaries. You shouldn’t have to tell your roommate not to record you doing personal things, but you can tell them you’re not comfortable with them bringing random people in the room.” Nakicha Veillard, a School of Ar ts and Sciences first-year student, said she gets along well with her roommate. The two students, who ENRICO CABREDO
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University first-year students in Davidson Hall on Busch campus discuss how to get along with and respect their roommates.
Senators question delayed higher education initiative BY DEVIN SIKORSKI ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
As the nation’s education system struggles in the dire economic times, Gov. Chris Christie is attempting to assess and improve this system in the Garden State. Christie formed the Higher Education Task Force in July to report on the status of higher education in New Jersey. Headed by former Gov. Thomas Kean, the task force is in the process of putting together its December report for the governor.
“The Higher Education Task Force has been meeting with the stakeholders,” said Sean Conner, a spokesman from the governor’s office. “It is an ongoing process in preparation for their December report that is due for the governor.” The role of the Higher Education Task Force is to make recommendations for the governor on how to improve the state’s higher education system, Conner said.
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University alumna swings back after tragic experience
Should the University make the Internet safer by implementing privacy settings?
Michael LaSala, associate professor in the School of Social Work, speaks out at National Coming Out Day yesterday on the College Avenue campus about the recent number of suicides among LGBT students.
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After jumping from a third-floor window to escape an intruder, University alumna Elizabeth Choi is using her experience and her love for tennis to give back to the community. Choi teaches tennis in Ridgewood, N.J., where she enjoys working with children and people with injuries. “It doesn’t surprise me that she has taken her situation and turned it into something that can help other people,” said Marian Rosenwasser, Choi’s head tennis coach when she was on the University’s team. Although she has fully bounced back from the 2008 incident, Choi underwent more than a year of rehabilitation, in which she had to relearn how to walk and speak because of a brain injury she sustained. Even after she recovered enough to return home, she continued to undergo months of therapy at the Rehabilitation Specialists Center in Fair Lawn, N.J. “She really had to overcome a lot,” Rosenwasser said. “She suffered life-threatening injuries and came back
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In accordance with National Coming Out Day, University graduate students and staff spoke out about the recent string of tragedies that have faced the nation. The “Come Out, Speak Out” event was held outside Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus yesterday and was tied intimately to both the recent suicide of first-year University student Tyler Clementi and National Coming Out Day.
Event organizer Gretchen Abbot felt that in light of recent events, National Coming Out Day was an opportune moment to have an open discussion about homophobia and gay rights. “We were inspired to take a par ticular kind of ver y public action today because of what happened with Tyler,” said Abbott, a teaching assistant. “It moved all of us a great deal, and as graduate students we were really tr ying to find a way that we could use our position at the University to reach out to other [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and question-
ing] people who are in our community who might need help.” With a week and a half of planning, the group of doctoral students organized an event that Alix Genter, a graduate fellow, described as a “teach-in,” where speakers were invited to talk from an academic perspective about LGBTQ issues in a public setting. Genter and the other event organizers chose such a public setting so passersby and attendees could hear their voices.
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Report reveals methods to decrease textbook costs BY EDEN MESFUN CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The United States Public Interest Research Group last week released a report about potential ways to lower textbook costs. Nicole Allen, USPIRG national director of textbook campaigns, attributes the rise in textbook prices to three publishing companies — McGraw-Hill Education, Cengage Learning and Pearson — with substantial control over the industry. “There’s been massive consolidation in the textbook industr y over the past few decades that has led to just a handful of companies dominating a majority of the market,” Allen said. “That’s one of the reasons why prices have been able to rise so quickly — because there’s ver y low competition.” The companies depend on a variety of techniques to ensure college textbook prices stay high, such as bundling compact disks and pass codes into textbooks, she said. These supplements cause price inflation while undermining resale value. The three major companies also publish new editions regularly to undermine the used-book market, Allen said. Such costs make it harder for students to pay for an education, Allen said. However, Bruce Hildebrand, exective director for higher education at the Association of American Publishers said recent data shows that average student spending on books has
been flat or declining since the spring of 2006. “The latest Student Monitor data shows that the average 4year college student spent $659 in 2009, down 7 percent from 2008, and less than the average spent in 2005,” Hildebrand said. “Adjusted for inflation, the average student spent 8 percent less for textbooks in 2009 than in 2001.” Regardless, the 2008 Higher Education Oppor tunity Act addresses the issue of pricey textbooks in three dif ferent ways — by requiring publishing companies to inform professors of textbook prices, limiting a publishing company’s ability to bundle textbooks with CDs or other material and requiring professors to tell students which books will be assigned for a course during the registration period. This law helps faculty members like Professor Rober t Boikess, who recently negotiated the textbook package for Organic Chemistr y as cross coordinator. “I think there really has to be more motivation to try and make these books affordable for students,” he said. Boikess has negotiated with publishing companies for more than five years and is familiar with advocating for lower textbook prices. Materials for his class, valued at $400, were available to students for $126. “If you’re teaching a big course, [publishing companies] are ver y anxious to use your books,” he said. “Rutgers is a
UNIVERSITY RESEARCH TEAM RECEIVES GRANT TO STUDY PROSTATE CANCER The University is part of a cancer research team that received a $3.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to enhance the reliability of prostate cancer imaging. The University received the NIH grant through the industrial-academic partnership program in order to quickly transfer research to patient care, according to a University Media Relations press release. The team includes clinicians from Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and engineers at the GE Global Research and is led by Riverside Research Institute. The researchers are developing a technology that can accurately identify the areas of suspicious cancerous tissue in the prostate gland, according to the release. It will be done using magnetic resonance images and ultrasound images while biopsies and localized treatments are performed. Urologists currently use conventional ultrasound imaging to examine the prostate gland. Conventional ultrasound cannot precisely reveal the presence of cancerous tissues. “Urologists aren’t always confident about ruling out cancer after a negative biopsy guided by conventional ultrasound,” Anant Madabhushi, associate professor of biomedical engineering at the University and co-investigator on the NIH grant, said in the release. About one million prostate biopsies are performed in the United States every year, Madabhushi said in the release. Twenty percent are positive. Men whose biopsies are negative are sometimes asked to repeat the procedure later. Magnetic resonance signals depend on dynamic components of tissue, while ultrasound signal properties depend on microscopic architecture of tissue. The researchers can utilize computerized technology to scale data from both imaging methods. The method can be a challenge because there are two differing resolution of the method. MRI is also still and the ultrasound image is changing. “If we can do these biopsies in a more targeted fashion, we will be more confident that there’s no cancer if the biopsy is negative,” Madabhushi said in the release. “From a patient’s perspective, that would be far more comforting news.”
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prestigious school so we can take advantage of that by saying, ‘Well we want to give our students the best possible price.’” In a course like “Organic Chemistr y,” in which 1,500 students are enrolled, negotiating is easier than in smaller classes, Boikess said. Publishing companies are more willing to negotiate discounts if their books will be used in multiple courses for a program.
“That’s one of the reasons why prices have been able to rise so quickly — because there’s very low competition.” NICOLE ALLEN USPIRG National Director of textbook campaigns
Many students keep their books for future courses, he said. This becomes an encouraging factor for publishing companies that know the books will not be sold back, affecting the used-book market. Although technological options such as the e-book and ereaders have become alternatives in a hard-covered world, Boikess does not find them useful for students in the sciences. “Most students I talk to want to have a book. They want to carr y it around and have it in
front of them and touch it,” he said. USPIRG’s Textbook Report researched multiple options like purchasing new textbooks and renting books. The organization reported that renting reduces the amount spent by 33 percent, but Simon Dalmanian, campus organizer for New Jersey Public Interest Research Group, said the savings are not enough. “You’re still paying quite a lot of money renting the books, and on top of that, you’re not going to be able to sell that book afterwards because it’s a rental and you have to return it,” Dalmanian said. The report also examined the efficiency of e-books and e-readers, which may be read anywhere, but Dalmanian did not believe these options were the best either. “They’re not really suitable,” he said. “You can’t make notes on your Kindle, unlike a textbook where you can switch pages quickly and make notes on different pages.” Seven years of research concluded that e-readers could reduce textbook costs by 1 percent overall, while e-books could reduce textbook costs by 8 percent overall. The low percentage of reduction costs may be influenced by resale sabotage, meaning that an e-product may seem cheaper because of its upfront price, but wastes money because it has no resale value. Instead, the USPIRG encourages the use of the open textbook solution.
First analyzed in 2007, open textbooks are textbooks published under copyright rules that are eased, decreasing textbook prices. “Open textbooks have the potential to be a lot more than just your average textbook,” Allen said. “Online, there is an oppor tunity to integrate with new forms of media, like video or other sources on the Web. There is just so much potential, but they are quite similar to any other textbooks.” USPIRG is spreading the information through a Day of Action, during which the organization will educate professors about open textbooks. Faculty members who endorse open textbooks will contribute to the USPIRG’s national goal of reaching 500 professor endorsements. “Our main priority this semester is educating the faculty because they are the ones who have say about whether to actually make these open textbooks an option for their students,” Dalmanian said. The open textbook solution is the cause for which the organization should advocate, Allen said. “It’s going to take students and faculty and colleges to stand up and call for open textbooks and make sure they are a reality,” she said. Until then, there are publishers that print open-source text. Established sites such as flatworldknowledge.com have open source textbooks for business, science, math, social sciences and humanities.
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Project recognizes top engineering faculty BY JACQUELYN ALVAREZ CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Alumni of the University’s School of Engineering recently published citation statistics for the top-26 School of Engineering faculty members, using the Thomson Reuters Web of Science tool to uncover these statistics. The Web of Science tool of Thomson Reuters is a search environment giving access to objective content and tools to search, track, measure and collaborate in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities, according to Reuters’ Web of Knowledge website. Tim Maguire, an associate research professor in the department of biomedical engineering, said this project was a great way to give recognition to the faculty. Out of 163 University faculty/staff members, 26 were listed. The citation statistics note the name of the professor, rank, department they work in, amount of peer-reviewed papers, total citations and their H-Index. The H-Index, developed by J.E. Hirsch of the University of California-San Diego, is an index to characterize the scientific output of a researcher, being defined as the number of papers with a citation number higher or equal to H, according to the physics department website of UCSB. All of the 26 School of Engineering faculty members
had citations in the thousands, and the majority had more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, according to the citation statistics. Manish Chhowalla, an associate professor of material science and engineering, ranked second among his colleagues in the engineering department. “I am very fortunate to have great students and Ph.D.’s,” Chhowalla said. A professor receives citations for doing an experiment that shows both novelty and creativity and is recognized among the science community, he said. “It gets published in major science publications, then others will repeat the experiment and do something different, which they will then write a paper on and cite your work,” Chhowalla said. He believes the H-index, as well as the amount of citations alone, is a good indicator of how effective the research is going. The H-index is the standard in the science community and an effective way to rate professors or institutes against one another. “When you submit a proposal to the National Science Foundation or Department of Energy, it helps if you have a strong track record,” Chhowalla said. He said prospective graduates and Ph.D. students might use the rankings to choose a par ticular program, adding a high H-index number is a demonstration of success.
Philip Batson, a research professor ranked 13th, said the amount a professor is cited helps gauge how much people are paying attention to what you are doing. Joe Cascio, a senior mechanical engineering major, said it is very important to have a recognized professor as a student because it provides motivation to do well. “When you go to class and your professor is noted in the engineering community throughout the world … it gives you a drive to succeed not only in their class but in your future aspirations as an engineer,” he said. “A run-of-the-mill professor with no credentials on the other hand could never inspire me to persevere at such a great level.” Maguire said creating a ranking system gives undergraduates a good idea of what the department is all about and creates a point of entr y for them to get involved. Janine Solujich, a graduate from the School of Engineering and an engineer at AECOM in Piscataway, said the ranking system opens the door for the amount of research professors and students alike can participate in. “This, in return, gives Rutgers a good name, showing that we’re trying to find new and better things,” she said. “It kind of keeps Rutgers on the map, like a ‘look out world, Jersey may be small, but we know our stuff.’”
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when things get violent and tragic,” Genter said. “People do only violence brings up issues not pay attention to the more subtle instances of homophobia that can make queer people’s continued from front lives miserable.” He said there is usually a lot of “We decided on a public attention around bullying, but it’s speak-out because we wanted only because of these instances people who didn’t necessarily of suicide. choose to be there to hear the “When people go to such messages that we wanted to extreme measures that you convey,” he said. “Because it hear about these issues,” was a public speak-out in the Genter said. middle of camStudents like pus on a good School of Arts and day, we thought “At least now Sciences sophowe’d get a wider people are talking more Luke Tully selection of peowere empowered ple that would about it ...” and touched by come to a teachthe graduate stuin about homoLUKE TULLY dents’ efforts. phobia.” School of Arts Tully, a new Speakers and Sciences Sophomore member of Delta talked about Lambda Phi, a many topics, gay fraternity on campus, was including sexual identity and the at the “Come Out, Speak Out” idea of hidden homophobia. event and thought it helped Organizers also handed out shine a light on issues affecting flyers outlining various support the LGBTQ community. sites available to LGBTQ stu“It was good,” he said. “It’s dents and pins for queer and unfor tunate that all those horally students, Abbott said. rible things had to happen for The speakers discussed the LGBT issues to become an role Clementi’s death played in issue on a national scale, but at the outpour of attention into least now people are talking LGBTQ issues at “Come Out, about it and it’s going to Speak Out.” help these things happen “It angers me that this much less often.” attention only comes around
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Media Relations. The statement also clarified that the University’s Board of endorses Christie’s task force Governors adopted the remaining elements in continued from front the legislation. “They are actively working But Christie has not on that by meeting with the appointed a secretar y on highstakeholders and doing er education, which has some research, speaking with stumembers of the political dents and professors, commitsphere in New Jersey asking tee members and folks who what is going on and why the are par t of the finance world,” Higher Education Task Force he said. is needed. The University is supportive Erin Carragher, chief of of the Higher Education Task staff for Sen. Raymond Lesniak Force, saying the force is work(D-Union), said both Lesniak ing to address issues of imporand Assemblyman Patrick tance to colleges and universities Diegnan (D-Middlesex) have in New Jersey. met with the governor’s office “The Rutgers to find out why community has this position has “They don’t have great respect for not been filled. the knowledge the luxury to choose “As far as we and expertise of can tell, they whether or not the members of have made no the task force,” strides in impleto implement it. ” according to a menting that law. ERIN CARAGHER statement from They’ve made no Chief of Staff for University Media effort to appoint Sen. Raymond Lesniak (D-Union) Relations. “We a commissioner are pleased to of higher educawork with them tion,” she said. and look for ward to “Sen. Lesniak and Diegnan are their report.” tr ying to put pressure on the The Higher Education Task governor’s office to review the Force’s role is similar to the State status of the governor impleCommission of Investigation, menting that law.” which former Gov. Jon S. According to the senate bill, Corzine put together in 2007 to the governor is to make the review the status of higher edunecessar y appointments within cation in the state. 15 days after the bill passed From this review, Corzine and the commission on higher signed a bill into law that education should hold its first required the implementation of a meeting within 30 days of commissioner on higher educathe appointment. tion for New Jersey. The two senators asked why According to the bill, the govthe Higher Education Task ernor, with the advice of the state Force is needed if the law is senate, shall appoint a secretary already in place, but they have of higher education who will not received a straight answer serve the governor during his or from the governor’s of fice, her term. Caragher said. The bill also required the “What our best assessment governing board of a public at this point is that they are research university to establish waiting for the task force to an audit committee, an internal release their report,” she said. auditor as well as an independ“We reminded them that it is ent outside auditor, according law and that they don’t have to the bill. the luxur y to choose whether These positions were or not to implement it. But already in place before the legwe haven’t been able islation became law, according to get a straight answer to a statement from University from them.”
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Program works to indentify causes, effects of depression Screening for Mental Health Inc. attempts to treat, prevent suicide among college-aged students BY ANKITA PANDA CONTRIBUTING WRITER
With the recent string of high profile teenage suicides across the nation, the importance of treating and preventing depression has become an essential issue to certain groups. More than 1,000 college students commit suicide each year, said Douglas Jacobs, founder of Screening for Mental Health Inc. Many are depressed but are scared to seek treatment. “Back in the late ’80s and early ’90s, research indicated that depression was a common [and] prevalent diagnosis but undertreated,” Jacobs said. “I decided to develop a model for screening for depression using the principles of health screening.” Jacob’s screening can also detect other disorders like bipolar, anxiety and alcoholism. “The screening program does not actually give a diagnosis of what someone might be suffering,” he said. “It gives a good indication as to whether a person might be suffering from an illness.” Negative life events and stress can bring on depression for college students who leave home
and face newfound financial pressures, Jacobs said. People who take the screening tests have to identify whether they experience any of the symptoms of depression, he said. The test then gives them a report of how severe their condition is and how much further treatment they should seek. The organization has specific programs to help college-aged teenagers treat their depression, Jacobs said. About 500 to 600 colleges today utilize Jacobs’ screening tests. “For colleges, initially we just had the in-person screening for alcohol and depression, and then … in the past five or six years, we’ve been able to access the Internet and that’s become a large par t of colleges,” he said. About 200,000 college students undergo screening, and 20 to 30 percent score positive, Jacobs said. For students who test positive for depression, students can seek fur ther help from their school’s health ser vices. The University’s Counseling, Alcohol and Other Drug Assistance Program and Psychiatric Ser vices of fers
students with depression access to psychologists and special workers who evaluate each student’s psychological state of mind and diagnose and treat accordingly. “We have the capacity to access anyone who comes in and is concerned about their mood or anything else about their life, and then [we] provide psychothera-
“Humans can only handle a certain amount of stress before they snap.” RUDRA PATEL School of Arts and Sciences sophomore
py,” said Michal Saraf, the associate director of Clinical Services at the University’s Counseling, ADAP and Psychiatric Services. In order to diagnose depression, psychologists at the center look at a person’s symptom picture, history and personality, as well as his or her family history in cases of hereditary depression, Saraf said. A lot of people with depression do not necessarily hide it, she said.
“If you often feel sad and aren’t interested in things and don’t want to engage in things, people know you’re depressed,” Saraf said. If psychologists see it fit, individuals may sit through group psychotherapy if they share common elements of depression with others, she said. Saraf encourages students with depression to make use of the many ser vices the University offers. “We have a lot of information out there,” she said. “We have a website, brochures and we reach out to the community in many different ways.” Students who want help from CAPS must make an appointment, Saraf said. They then get set-up for a telephone inter view. Based on their telephone interviews, students get scheduled for therapy sessions with University counselors. For emergency situations, walk-ins are acceptable, Saraf said. Rudra Patel, a School of Ar ts and Sciences sophomore, thinks the University has done an exceptional job in increasing suicide and depression awareness.
“I think [the University] has already done an excellent job in promoting awareness,” Patel said. “Almost all of my professors took time in lecture to talk about the recent suicides. The vigil [for University first-year student Tyler Clementi] was also a great way to promote awareness.” Patel, a psychology major, believes that students are not aware of how to deal with too much stress. “Humans can only handle a certain amount of stress before they snap, and sometimes we make the wrong choices in how to deal with the stress and depression,” he said. Patel, who has known with individuals battling depression, said these people were often in a depressed mood, constantly felt worthless and guilty and had recurrent thoughts of death and suicide. Jacobs recommended that students complete a depression screening at helpyourselfhelpothers.org, which offers a test specifically meant for college students. They key to depression is knowing there are people who care about you and want to make you better, he said.
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ISSUES: Some students say respect is most important continued from front reside in Demarest Hall on the College Avenue campus, established limits, which they made sure to outline in their roommate contract earlier in the semester. “We understand each other’s privacy,” she said. In addition to outlining rules for their room, Veillard said she and her roommate find that hanging a “Do Not Disturb” sign on the outside of the door is a way of communicating that they need private time in the room. Fellow School of Arts and Sciences first-year student Danielle Perkins, who lives in Tinsley Hall on the College Avenue campus, said communicating helps to deal with roommate discrepancies.
“It’s easy to talk it out with her,” she said. “It usually gets resolved from there.” Still, Perkins said she feels reaching out to her resident assistant would be feasible if the two were unable to work out a problem. “I feel like I could go to my RA if I couldn’t resolve it on my own,” she said. Although she tr usts her roommate, Perkins locks up belongings she wishes to keep private. “It’s not necessarily for your roommate,” she said. “If they have guests over, you’re not friends with their guests. You don’t know who they are.” School of Arts and Sciences first-year student Amanda Rodriguez said respect is the foundation for a solid roommate relationship. “We get along and we’re kind of friends now,” she said. “I respect her privacy and she respects mine.”
U NIVERSITY Students who have conflict with their roommates can foster a good relationship by finding common interests and having fun together, Rodriguez said. “That way there’s more of a bond so that you guys trust each other and respect each other more,” she said. If there were a problem, Rodriguez said she would feel comfortable talking to her roommate or a resident assistant to resolve it. Bisexuals, Gays, Lesbians and Allies of Rutgers University coPresident Ronni Auld, who completed her first year at the University, said residents here can feel safe, regardless of their sexual orientation and mentioned that groups and institutions on campus can help. “I feel that Rutgers is an extremely safe environment,” said Auld, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore. “Of course, there are always things you can do, but Rutgers has really just reached out.”
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ALUMNA: Choi gets into local high school’s Wall of Fame continued from front from all that.” Despite all her hard work, Choi credits her recovery to tennis, a sport she has been playing since she was 6 years old. “Tennis taught me to fight and never give up,” she said. “I just fought and always tried to stay positive.” Choi said her main goal was to play the sport again. “That was one of the things I was really scared of at first, that I’d never be able to play tennis,” she said. Tom O’Donnell, Choi’s father, agreed that tennis helped her survive and overcome her injuries. “Luckily she was an athlete,” he said. “Ver y few people would have been able to survive that jump.” O’Donnell also said the Philadelphia hospital that provided Choi’s medical care, as well as the rehabilitation center, played a great role in helping her return back to normal. “It’s really miraculous and pretty wonderful,” O’Donnell said. Choi’s injuries came about as a result of an intruder, who one morning in Februar y 2008 broke into her apartment in Philadelphia armed with a knife and attacked her and her roommate. While the assailant briefly left the room, she acted quickly and locked her door in hopes of delaying the attacker. When he returned, he began to kick the door in, and Choi did what she had to do to save her life — she jumped out the thirdfloor window to the street below. Startled after her leap, the assailant fled the scene, sparing the life of her roommate. Choi was quickly found and rushed to a hospital where she was admitted anonymously. She suffered 22 broken bones and head trauma from the jump. Doctors placed her in a neck and
body brace while in a medically induced coma. “I was in a coma for five weeks,” Choi said. She had no memory of the entire incident and was unable to speak when she woke up. After she was identified, the hospital called her parents, and they rushed to Philadelphia from their home in Mahwah, N.J., staying with Choi for the seven long weeks of her recovery. “It just struck us as unfair and unjust for this to happen,” O’Donnell said. “She’s always been the perfect daughter.” Her assailant was found and arrested just two months after the incident in New York and extradited to Pennsylvania, where he was convicted and sentenced to up to 20 years in prison, O’Donnell said Eight years prior to this incident, Choi was just another University graduate. “My days at Rutgers were probably the greatest time of my life,” she said. During her time in college, she earned a full athletic scholarship, and in her senior year, earned the title of Most Valuable Player and became captain of the tennis team. She also was the first University alumna to be inducted into her local Mahwah High School’s Wall of Fame. Rosenwasser said Choi was a good student and talented tennis player that everyone could get along with. “Now she is involved in giving back, which is the way she has always been in college as well,” Rosenwasser said. Although the road to recovery was difficult, her family and friends are looking toward the bright side of the situation. “She’s perfectly normal now,” O’Donnell said. “It’s a terrible thing to happen but the outcome for us is fantastic.” Choi is now married and has a 10-month-old son. “I’m really appreciative of everything I have now,” she said. “I just had to learn how to cope with what happened.”
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Jeffrey D. Sachs, special adviser to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, will be presenting a lecture “Is There a Path to Sustainable Development — And Can the World Get on It?” Sachs is the Director of the Earth Institute and a Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development at Colombia University. The lecture will take place at 7:30 p.m. in Trayes Hall in the Douglass Campus Center. Following the event will be a reception and book signing. For more information, contact global@rutgers.edu. Looking for accurate nutrition advice from someone in the know? Kappa Omicron Nu, Nutrition Honor Society, is offering individualized nutrition advice sessions free of charge. Appointments can be made during the hours of 2 to 4 p.m. on Wednesdays and 9 to 11 a.m. on Thursdays. Please e-mail RutgersKON@gmail.com to schedule an appointment or for additional information. Please include your preference of day and time when inquiring about an appointment. Air Force ROTC and MEET are sponsoring a blood drive from 12 to 6 p.m. in the Busch Campus Center Multipurpose Room. Each donor will receive a free T-shirt and snacks. For more information, please e-mail Jared at JTamasco@nybloodcenter.org.
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Students ice for prizes in RUSA cupcake competition BY VAISHALI NAYAK CONTRIBUTING WRITER
While the lights were out, the heat was on during the Rutgers University Programming Association’s “Ace of Cupcakes” competition. The event challenged 31 students to design the best cupcakes possible Sunday in a one-hour time period, of which some time was spent without power after an unexpected campus power outage. Competition par ticipant Kelly Sanders was glad to have the opportunity to prepare the treats. “I love baking,” said Sanders, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences sophomore. “I did the Iron Chef competition last year, and I hope to be a chef one day. Baking is therapeutic.” RUPA provided students with large chocolate and vanilla cupcakes along with an assortment of tools for decorating during the event, which took place inside the Busch Dining Hall’s faculty lounge. Tools included different types of multi-colored sprinkles, food coloring sprays, sparkling food gels and pre-filled pastry bags with colored icing. Students entered their cupcakes into four different categories for judging: Rutgers Pride, Halloween, Cutesy Cupcake and Most Creative. Uniqueness, neatness and use of decorating tools were also criteria for judging the cupcakes’ quality.
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School of Engineering first-year student Serena Mueller decorates a cupcake Sunday in the Busch Dining Hall at RUSA’s “Ace of Cupcakes.”
Preeya Kuray, a School of Engineering first-year student, won the Cutesy Cupcake category. Her cupcake featured a pink rose crafted from icing, which she placed inside a halo of daisyshaped sprinkles. She described her cupcake theme as “very spring-y, Easter and pastel.” “I found out [about the event] through freshmen orientation,” she said. “Cupcake decorating is a big hobby of mine. I took
classes and things like that, and it’s just something I do in my spare time, so it’s really nice to have a competition dedicated to that.” Like the other three winners, Kuray was awarded a gift. “I’m hoping it’s some sort of cupcake decorating book,” she said while ripping away the gift’s wrapping paper. Her guess was right — all four winners received a copy of “Hello Cupcake” as well as a Starbucks gift card.
“This is actually the book I wanted for my birthday,” Kuray said. Sanders, the winner of the Halloween categor y, was also pleased with her gift. “I never win anything,” she said. “I’m so happy.” Her cupcake resembled a graveyard. “I used icing for the pumpkin, and I iced the paper to make the gravestone,” Sanders said. “I only took like 20 minutes, but it looks like it took an hour.”
There was pressure to bake the cupcakes in the allotted time, but many students came to relieve stress. Anthony Eng, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, attended the event with his friends after returning from a biology exam. He said the competition was a pick-me-up after the test. “Cupcakes are amazing. They are God’s gift to the world,” he joked.
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POLICE INVESTIGATE WASHINGTON PARTY DEATHS ELLENSBURG, Wash. — Police are questioning dozens of Central Washington University students to find out what sickened many of them at a party in Roslyn. The university in Ellensburg is reviewing the conduct of students who were at the off-campus party. Sanctions could range from an alcohol education class to suspension or expulsion. Campus police were notified by the Kittitas County sheriff’s office and used vans early Saturday to bring 27 students back to residence halls. At the party house in Roslyn Friday night, police found as many as 50 underage people, many of whom had been drinking alcohol that was apparently drugged. Twelve were treated at a hospital. Police are waiting on test results to identify the drug. —The Associated Press
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NY gang members face sexual abuse, robbery charges THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Gang members used an anti-gay slur to ask two teen boys and a 30-year-old man about their sexuality before brutally torturing and beating them last week in a working-class Bronx neighborhood, authorities said in court, where eight suspects stood with drooped heads at their first appearance as their relatives wept behind them. During the proceeding Sunday, Assistant District Attorney Theresa Gottlieb said each victim was asked prior to being beaten in the Oct. 3 attacks: “Is it true that you’re a fag?” The defendants did not enter pleas to charges that include robbery, assault, sexual abuse and unlawful imprisonment as hate crimes. The most serious charge carried a potential 25-year prison term. Police were looking for a ninth suspect, who had been expected to turn himself in but didn’t show. The nine men, members of the Latin King Goonies gang, had heard a rumor one of their teenage recruits was gay and on the night of Oct. 3, found him, stripped and beat him and sodomized him with a plunger handle until he confessed to having had sex with a man, police say. The gang members then found a
second teen they suspected was gay and tortured him, police say. They also invited the man, the first teen had admitted having sex with to a house, telling him they were having a party, police say. When he arrived, five of them burned, beat and tortured him for hours, police say. The man was sodomized with a miniature baseball bat by a defendant who taunted him with, “You like that. You like that,” the criminal complaint said. Two of his attackers went to his home, cour t papers and authorities said, where they encountered the man’s brother. They punched him, bound his hands with rope, put tape around his head before and threw a mattress on top of him, authorities said, and demanded money and jewelr y and threatened him with death before leaving with cash and a 52-inch flat-screen television. The suspects were identified as Ildefonzo Mendez, 23; Elmer Confresi, 23; David Rivera, 21; Steven Caraballo, Denis Peitars, Nelson Falu and Bryan Almonte, all 17; and Brian Cepeda, 16. Bronx Criminal Court Judge Harold Adler set bail for Peitars and Caraballo at $100,000 bond or $50,000 cash; the other six were held without bail. Two attorneys, Paul Horowitz and Fred
Bittlingmeyer, represented the eight at the hearing but didn’t expect to represent all of them through the legal process. Bittlingmeyer, representing Peitars, said his client only punched one of the complainants after the other defendants said they “were going to find out who the men are in this room and who the fags are in this room.” Bittlingmeyer said if Peitars did not throw a punch he would have been attacked himself. He also denied it was a scheme by a gang, describing it as people getting together on a Sunday night and “one individual let it get out of hand.” Horowitz, representing Caraballo, said his client had not previously been in trouble with the law and denies the allegations. He said the only offense of which Caraballo was accused was hitting one of the complainants with his fist. Falu’s mother, Caroline Falu, said her son is a “good boy.” “I just know my son is innocent,” she said. “I know my son. He’s not like that.” New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he was sickened by the accusations of violence “and saddened by the anti-gay bias.” The beatings in the Bronx followed a string of anti-gay attacks and teen suicides attributed to anti-gay bullying.
Gay men and women live openly in Morris Heights, the largely Hispanic neighborhood where the Oct. 3 beatings took place, and while residents were disturbed by some past violent behavior blamed on the defendants, some said they hadn’t previously targeted homosexuals. On Sunday, outside the fourstory brick building where police say the assaults happened, a police officer was posted in threewheeled scooter, and crime scene tape stretched across the bottom of it. Children played in the street in front of the home, which faces Primary School 226. An assortment of colorful flowers were laid in front of the home with a sympathy card that read: “Prayers for healing — for our community.” Two blocks away, young men stood on the corner outside the building where the 30year-old victim and his brother live in a fifth-floor walk-up. A sign at the building’s entrance warned that it was patrolled by the police depar tment’s Operation Clean Halls. In the deli on the main floor of the building, Jose Aurelio said the 30-year-old victim stopped in every morning on his way to the bus, often just to say hello. “He comes here every day, happy, nice,” he said. “Everybody liked him.”
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Man stalks, stabs boy five times THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — A man accused of repeatedly stabbing an 8-year-old boy playing video games at a restaurant arcade had spent weeks stalking potential victims at area shopping malls, police said Monday. “His intent was to kill a child,” Nassau County Police Sgt. Vincent Garcia said of 23-yearold Evan Sachs. Sachs was arrested Friday night, moments after police say he plunged the 4-inch blade of a hunting knife five times into the boy’s back. The child suffered a punctured lung but was expected to survive, said Nassau police Lt. Ray Cote. The stabbing happened at about 8:30 p.m. as the boy was playing in an arcade that is part of a Dave & Buster’s restaurant in Westbury. The boy’s parents were only several feet away, but Sachs apparently waited until they were momentarily distracted to begin assaulting him, Cote said. A person who witnessed the attack told the boy’s father; they quickly confronted Sachs near a restaurant restroom and held him until police arrived. Sachs, a Merrick resident, has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder, assault and weapons charges. He is being held without bail pending his next court appearance on Wednesday. Cote said it does not appear Sachs has a criminal record. Police said the suspect was carrying a typed note indicating his intent to kill a child; the victim was chosen at random. “Anyone of that age and sex would have been suitable,” Cote told reporters. The note also indicated that Sachs had spent several weeks trolling area malls in search of the right victim. “He’s been scouting locations in the area to find an appropriate place to kill a young boy,” Cote said. Defense attorney Eric Sachs, who is not related to the suspect, declined to comment on reports about the note. “I haven’t seen it, so I can’t comment on it,” he said. “The main focus of my client and his family has been on the little boy. They are more concerned the little boy has a full recovery.” The suspect’s mother, Randi Sachs, told 1010 WINS Radio on Monday that she was grateful that the boy was going to survive. She said her son was under psychiatric care at the time of the stabbing. “We’re very sorry for what happened,” Randi Sachs said. “My son is very sorry. We hope this young boy is going to be fine.” Of her son, she added: “He needs more mental health treatment.” Sachs graduated in 2004 from Sanford H. Calhoun High School in Merrick and later from the University at Albany, according to Newsday. He was employed as an usher at a Farmingdale movie complex.
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WISCONSIN MAN CHASES GOOSE INTO RIVER WAUSAU, Wis. — Wausau authorities rescued and arrested a drunken man who plunged into the Wisconsin River while chasing a one-legged goose. The 40-year-old Wausau man told officers he wanted to catch the bird and roast it. Authorities said he was overcome by the cold water and had to be rescued by
firefighters. Police said the man had been drinking heavily before the stunt. The man was arrested on an outstanding warrant for bail jumping. Witness Sergio Lopez, works by the river, said he often sees people jump in the water during hot summer days but rarely in October.
Police told the Wausau Daily Herald that as far as they know, the goose is still on the loose
— The Associated Press
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Should the University implement safeguards against Internet abuse in residence halls?
CAITLIN JOYCE SAS FIRST-YEAR STUDENT
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“I think it would make everybody safer and more aware and give everybody a better idea of precautions to take while using the Internet.”
“What kind of regulations do you think they can implement? I think it’s impractical because whatever barrier they put [students] will just go around it.”
SANTIAGO SALICRUP SEBS SENIOR “The Internet really is a place where you can just be yourself, as in you can do what you want to do. You should police yourself, I believe, and you should just know how to use it.”
RYAN RAGOZA SEBS SOPHOMORE
JASMINE FARAHAT — COLLEGE OF NURSING SOPHOMORE
“I can see how it might be a good idea. Especially in light of what’s happened recently, it might be appropriate to at least have some sort of way of monitoring what’s going on so you don’t have something like that where you have someone invading someone else’s privacy.”
BY THE NUMBERS Sources: ruwireless.rutgers.edu, ruoncampus.rutgers.edu
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Number of days that Internet activity logs must be kept at the University
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Areas covered by RUWireless, including places in downtown New Brunswick
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JUSTIN MEYER SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING FIRST-YEAR STUDENT “Yeah, I think so. I feel like especially with the wireless [Internet] people can just hack it and hack into other people’s computers using the Internet — using the wireless Internet at least.”
KIRAN SAMUEL SAS SENIOR “I’m not completely sure how we can regulate Internet usage. It’s going to be hard especially with the amount of technology that people are learning. People are prone to develop ways and holes around it.”
ONLINE RESPONSE It is invasion of privacy. — 20%
It would improve student safety. — 56%
Some regulations would be good. — 17%
Yes, it would improve students’ safety.
56%
No, it is an invasion of privacy.
20%
Some regulations would be good, but not many.
17%
I live off campus.
7%
I live off campus. — 7%
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MTV town hall avoids real issues P
resident Barack Obama’s sit-down for his MTV “youth town hall” this Thursday might as well be played out by actors. The audience of young people who will ask the questions in this played-out debacle will be gathered by a casting call. We not only disagree with this loss of individual thought, but we also find Obama’s decision to appear on MTV to be another pointless attempt to reconnect with a dissatisfied audience. Apart from Obama’s questionable decision to appear on MTV, it is absurd that the teen-filled audience should have to be pre-screened. As a result then, the few of us who will be watching will be subjected to a series of juvenile, pointless questions. MTV, BET and CMT are the networks casting the audience — “Seeking Audience Members: males and females, 18+.” There will likely be no quality dialogue to makes us sway in favor of the Democrats or the Republicans come midterm elections or even the 2012 presidential elections. MTV’s lack of legitimacy in American politics will also undoubtedly undermine Obama’s reputation. With his ever-decreasing popularity, this appearance will only hurt him. MTV has lately become an outlet for shows such as “Jersey Shore” and “Real World - the nth edition.” Why then is Obama appearing on the channel? Ultimately, he will lose the respect of legitimate voters and will instead bring a group of 18year-old girls to tears if only for the fact that they just shook our president’s hand. This debacle will be a repetition of President Bill Clinton’s 1994 MTV town hall meetings. “The world’s dying to know,” asked Laetitia Thompson, 17. “Is it boxers or briefs?” Clinton’s response: “Usually briefs.” It is publicity — plain and simple. But in this time of economic distress and Obama’s falling ratings — currently only 29 percent of polled people strongly approve of him — he should be attempting, or at least pretending, to repair the economy or create more jobs. Appearing on MTV is one thing, but casting the audience turns the town hall into a joke. The decision to do this publicity stunt is a mistake. Fans of “Jersey Shore” who fervently model their lives after the show will tune in to watch the town hall meeting and there may be a few 16-year-olds, but otherwise this will just decrease Obama’s image.
Paladino represents old-fashioned ideas
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arl Paladino, a New York Republican gubernatorial candidate, claims he is not a bigot. While appearing on the “Today” show on NBC, he announced that he does not discriminate against gays and that he would have no problem hiring a gay person to work for his administration. Of course, these statements become almost laughable when one considers the speech he made the day before appearing on the “Today” show. In front of an audience of Orthodox Jewish leaders, Paladino expressed a completely different set of opinions regarding homosexuality, including his viewpoints that gay culture is harmful to children and that homosexuality is not an acceptable alternative to heterosexuality. It is clear from such repulsive, intolerant opinions that Paladino is nothing but a bigot, no matter how much he protests the tag. Is there a more appropriate term for someone who says that he wants to prevent children from being “brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality” is OK? We certainly don’t think so. For Paladino to think that such statements do not make him a bigot suggests that he is, quite frankly, crazy. It also suggests that he has severely underestimated the intelligence of the public. Did Paladino really think that people wouldn’t notice the radical incongruity between the two sets of opinions he expressed? Maybe he thought it would be easy to sweep his anti-gay comments under the rug. Maybe he figured the old adage of “out of sight, out of mind” would apply to this situation. Whatever Paladino’s thoughts may be, they are wrong. People have taken notice and people will continue to take notice. Paladino isn’t fooling anyone: He is obviously homophobic. No amount of damage control will erase that reality. Paladino is old and out of touch. He is, in many ways, representative of the old generation of leadership. His generation still believes that it is OK to judge others who do not fit into their rigid social orders. They believe they have a right to impose their morals onto society at large with no consideration for dissenting opinions. This is inexcusable. For the most part, the upcoming generation does not agree with this sort of leadership. The upcoming generation is a generation that promotes tolerance and understanding. It is a generation that values the differences between human beings rather than attempting to quash those differences with arbitrary moral order. This new generation will hopefully obliterate the old style of leadership embodied in Paladino when they finally take control of society. It is time for these outdated and dehumanizing moral codes to be done away with for good.
QUOTE OF THE DAY “This is actually the book I wanted for my birthday.” Preeya Kuray, a School of Engineering first-year student, on receiving a copy of “Hello Cupcake” STORY IN UNIVERSITY
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something bad or effemihe suicide of nate tells us more where we University first-year are as a society than any student Tyler federal law. When the govClementi is tragic at the ernment bans gays from very least. His death stands serving openly in the milias a deafening wake up call tary and denying citizens not only for University students, but society as a AARON MARCUS equal protection under the law it is a power issue. whole. While the basis When the citizens of the behind the taking of his own life will never be perfectly clear all signs point country allow bigotry to flourish the outcome is far toward the revelation of his sexual orientation as worse. Perhaps the government thinks they are the motive. At a university that prides itself on diver- working in our interest. While the federal government needs to establish sity and acceptance if this is happening here, the situation throughout the rest of the country can only equal protection under the law, we must change definitions. The foundation for this is in a title. be worse. As Americans, we are brought up with the Ironically enough, many believe the creation of the notion that the United States was founded on the word “homosexual” stemmed from a suicide. After a principles of religious freedom. No religious friend of Hungarian journalist Karl-Maria Kertbeny moral code should dictate the basis of freedom. took his own life after the threat of blackmail would Yet since the inception of America and back fur- reveal his sexual orientation, Kertbeny decided to ther to the moral codes of the world’s three most use the word “homosexual” in order to replace pejorative terminology. prevalent religions, being “gay” While titles help classify individhas been considered bad. “If stereotyping ... uals, they also builds barriers. Hatred exists in most countries is bad, why do we These terms are widely used today because of institutionalized bigotry. and represent “politically correct” Where the government has over the find no fault methods in addressing people. This course of time pounded into the is the primary problem. It irks me masses the notion that a certain in labeling every time I am asked what type of group based on gender, race or in people heteroan American I am. Africanthis case sexual orientation is someAmerican, Chinese-American, how less human than the rest of the or homosexual?” Hispanic-American — why can’t we general public. Adolf Hitler used all just be called Americans? Gay, this method against non-Aryans, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt against the straight, bisexual, transgender — why can’t we all Japanese, countless Southern states against blacks just be people? Autonomous and unique individuals with different emotional, sexual and physical and, for thousands of years, religions against gays. While the United States will never be perfect, it desires. We can take pride in our heritage or way of will take our society and more importantly our life but must try to remember that at the end of the generation to create a culture that doesn’t brand day we are all created equal. If stereotyping groups of people is bad, why do one group of people as normal and another as not. Our generation needs to transcend titles and insti- we find no fault in labeling people hetero- or homotutionalized separation. In Merriam-Webster’s sexual? The word heterosexual solely defines reproNew International Dictionar y, Second Edition duction between a man and a woman but today is Unabridged, published in 1934, the definition of used to identify those who are attracted to members heterosexual was summed up in two words — of the opposite sex. Yet when was the last time you, “normal” sexuality. In the 1950s, U.S. law enforce- or anyone you know, was attracted to every member ment agencies released a series of educational of the same or opposite sex? The claim is outrageous videos titled “Boys Beware,” depicting all gay men at the very least. I have only dated women in my life, as possible pedophiles and warning children and but who am I to say that the emotional and physical their parents to stay away from them. These comfort I have found from a woman cannot be reproimages evoke an eerie similarity between Nazi duced or exceeded within a man. We are all attractpropaganda videos warning Germans to stay away ed to specific types of people but more importantly from Jews. Yet still today it is commonplace and we are all attracted to individuals. If this weren’t the acceptable in most cases to say something is “gay” case there would be no point in dating, no point in or call someone a “fag” if the outcome of a situation marriage, we would pick a partner randomly from a isn’t desirable. As trivial as these accusations may SEE MARCUS ON PAGE 13 sound, the fact that gay is still used to describe
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Social titles play important roles for everyone Letter DONNA MARTINO
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n the letter yesterday in The Daily Targum, titled “Individuality must prevail over social titles,” the author implied that identification based on social titles such as ethnicity and orientation is deterring people from seeing the point of equality and tainting the memory of University first-year student Tyler Clementi, whose tragic death has been on the mind of students, faculty and various communities outside of the University. It seems almost ironic that this letter was published the same day as National Coming Out Day. Much like the name implies, National Coming Out
MARCUS continued from page 12 group of people and move on with our lives. Deciding who to emotionally and physically connect with is one of the most personal decisions an individual will ever make and society needs to accept ever y decision that is made. It took centuries for the world to create a profound hatred for those who choose to emotionally and physically connect with members of the same sex, and it will take some time to counteract this cataclysmic wrong. The tragic death of Clementi is not the fault of School of Ar ts and Sciences first-year student Dhuran Ravi or Er nest Mario School of Pharmacy first-year student Molly Wei, as reprehensible
Day is a day in which people that don’t identify with the hetero-normal labels can announce it to remind the people in their lives that they’re here, they’re queer and they’re human beings. The author said that in light of Clementi’s death, he has been labeled as “‘Tyler the Homosexual,’” not “‘Tyler the Human Being.’” However, the author fails to see that Clementi’s situation is one of too many examples of judgment based on sexual orientation. Everyone that is using this as a reason to fight is not necessarily taking Clementi and turning him into a poster-boy, but asking themselves, as queer people, as allies, as human beings, how they can prevent this from happening again. This is why revealing our sexual orientation, or support of people their acts were. Rather it is the fault of our society as a whole that an individual even contemplated life and death as a result of personal life decisions. The saddest par t after the loss of life is that there is clearly a presence at the University and around the world that was ready to open up their arms for Clementi. The question we must ask ourselves is why Clementi and people in his situation feel alienated from those who have been in their shoes or just simply want to help? When we can answer that question, we can star t to change the world, but we can’t change the world until we change ourselves. Aaron Marcus is a School of Arts and Sciences junior majoring in political science and histor y. His column, “Marcus My Words,” runs on alternate Tuesdays.
that do not comfortably fit a hetero-normal orientation label is so important. The author is correct in saying that using social titles does point out the differences of people. However, the author, and many others that think people should
“We need to show others that queer people have faces.” avoid using social titles as a means of identification, fail to remember that society is built on hetero-normal ideas and it has taught people that fit this idea to judge others when they can’t or refuse to fit it. To want to avoid those labels and expect acceptance is denying that
we all have a right to be who we feel comfortable being and should not be judged because of it. I love the University. I work as a Scarlet Ambassador, so my job is to hop on a bus and tell prospective students why the University is amazing and can be the perfect fit for a lot of people. This school has given me so many opportunities and so many resources to meet people that are ver y important to my life. Through the different people I have met, from a teacher’s assistant that broke down feminism in a way I could understand and identify with to a significant other that has done nothing but support me when I try to fight for equal rights, I’ve realized how important it is in this moment to be open as a queer person. We need
to show others that queer people have faces and while, yes, we’re different, we’re also part of this school, part of this country, part of this world that all the “normal” people are in. I honestly believe that we, as a community, can work together to make sure what happened to Clementi will never happen again, but only if we proudly identify with our differences and say, yeah, we’re human, but we’re not exactly like you and should be embraced for it. Only then can we attain the peace that so many people want from our school. Donna Martino is a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore majoring in history and double minoring in English and women's and gender studies.
Don’t rush to judgement Letter WILLIAM DOBBS
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he narrative about University first-year student Tyler Clementi’s suicide is so compelling that it must be true. Many questions, though, are raised by his death: What led to it? Was it preventable? Did the University somehow fail him? There are also larger issues of youth suicide, bullying of virtual and real nature and how to counter what is all too often a chilly climate for sexual-minority youth. Clementi’s suicide is just one among a spate of gay young people who took their own lives recently. The media attention and public outrage have been swift, with loud clamoring for the
heads of the two other University students, who popular sentiment holds responsible for the freshman’s death. Though the pair has already been charged with felonies, it is not good enough for some. The statewide New Jersey gay organization is demanding more serious charges and “the maximum possible sentence.” Another gay group wants the two charged with manslaughter; that call is echoed by some 18,000 people on a social-networking site. A national group ser ving lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender college students demands “immediate expulsion.” Why the rush to judgment? There hasn’t even been time for a thorough investigation. We know something about what happened to Clementi,
but much less about why. It’s reckless to proceed without more facts. For a cautionar y campus tale, the Duke University lacrosse case springs to mind. The depth of this tragedy is not a license to destroy individuals, to scrap due process and fair ness. The University administration ought to stand against prejudging this case or scapegoating anyone. That’s the least it can teach its students, community and the public. Others on campus and elsewhere who know the dangers of vengeance should also speak out. William Dobbs is a longtime gay activist and civil liber tarian. A version of this letter was published in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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Today's birthday (10/12/10). You achieve balance this year as you pursue social and career objectives, while managing household issues imaginatively. Practical and ethical considerations occupy your thoughts and could detract from pursuing romantic interests. Don't let that happen! To get the advantage, check the day's rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging. Aries (March 21-April 19) -Today is a 7 -- Secrets have a way of becoming public information. Tell no one. Instead, remain open and friendly on every other topic of conversation. Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 5 -- Although you'd like to maintain privacy within the family circle, good fortune arises from sharing feelings with others around you. Let go of fears. Gemini (May 21-June 21) -Today is a 7 -- Your favorite person has a dream or intuition that challenges you to explain exotic symbols. An Internet search produces great information. Cancer (June 22-July 22) -Today is a 6 -- You discover something about the way people work together when you sit back and watch. People naturally pair off to get the job done today. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Spread your arms wide enough to enfold both logic and passion. Others need your sensitive touch. Create a natural balance between comfort and energetic movement. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -Today is a 5 -- Get both genders on the same page for maximum creativity. Combined efforts produce the change you desire. An associate points out an obstacle.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -Today is a 6 -- Personal effort overlaps with group activities. Schedule time for your own projects, separate from the pack. That way you meet your own needs, too. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -Today is a 5 -- If you were by yourself, you'd enjoy getting your work done without stress. Others want you to play now. Get them to help with the work first. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -Today is a 6 -- The stagecoach races with you at the reins. Make haste without tiring the horses or overturning the carriage. Slow down to get there faster. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -Today is a 7 -- A dream provides a new philosophical perspective. You see beyond the obvious to identify idealistic potential. Don't force the issue. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -Today is a 6 -- You lead in an independent direction today. When others pose questions, your answers reveal this. Wait until tomorrow for a peaceful resolution. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -Today is a 6 -- Don't take no for an answer. Maybe it's workable, so go with that and revise details along the way. You'll get a yes soon enough.
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Head coach Greg Schiano would not create a quarterback controversy while sophomore Tom Savage recovers from a throwing-hand injury.
NOD: Center-of-attention Dodd adjusts to new interest continued from back And he leans on Savage to help him adjust. “I asked him a lot about his experience last year, coming in and getting the starting job and how he felt and how he coped with it,” Dodd said. “Obviously, seeing the difference from the first couple of weeks I was here to now — all of a sudden people want to be your friend.” Dodd met with a crowd of reporters after Schiano’s announcement and dealt with a newfound fanfare for a quarterback who only received one scholarship offer after committing to Rutgers. The offer came from Georgia Southern. Did he cut his hair and trim his beard? Yes and yes. Why no ‘e’ on the end of Chas (pronounced Chase)? His mom saw the name on a movie’s credits and liked the way it looked. Being an undersized 6-foot quarterback is not that bad, is it? “There might be a little [advantage], just being able to squeeze out of smaller holes or something — that would be No. 1,” Dodd laughed. “But with everything else it seems to be against me.” But after playing quar terback for his entire career and going home to a stepfather who was also his assistant coach at South Carolina football powerhouse Byrnes High School, Dodd’s height forced him to do other things well — namely manage the pocket so passes are not batted down at the line of scrimmage. “A lot of people ask me about that and I think one reason why I don’t have a lot of knockdowns is because of the windows,” Dodd said. “For me being short,
if I have a lineman in front of me, I can’t just throw it over him, I might have to move. I’m always looking for windows and pockets to move into, so that helps me.” That pocket presence is what impressed Schiano most about the quarterback who has six quarters of meaningful college football under his belt. It was displayed on any number of plays against UConn, like when he took a big hit, but got the ball out to freshman tailback Jordan Thomas for a 21yard gain, or when he evaded two tacklers, scrambled 12 yards and dove, reaching for a first down. Most of all, he found receivers downfield. Rutgers’ longest pass completion entering the game was a 37-yard swing pass to Thomas. Dodd averaged just less than 18 yards per pass and had three completions for more than 40 yards. “I think what he’s doing right now and what he’s doing in practice is he’s hanging in there and giving some things time to develop,” Schiano said. “There’s that clock in your head, where you can hold it, but then you just have to get rid of it. I thought he had a good feel for that clock.” For Dodd, who knows he will get his second career start when he looks at the clock in the Scarlet Knights’ locker room counting down to 2:05 p.m. Saturday, his poise is a product of playing the position his entire life and knowledge of what he has to do. “I think that’s most of it — just being at the position of quarterback and playing it and practicing it,” Dodd said. “Another part is just knowing that you have to stay in the pocket and keep your eyes downfield, other wise you’re going to miss something.”
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VICTORY: Gentile adds to team-high goal total in win continued from back so badly, but there’s got to be this idea of balancing ourselves with our forwards and midfielders. I think this is going to be good motivation heading into this weekend.” After one period of play, the Knights outshot the Explorers, 12-2, but that only covers part of the team’s dominance. La Salle (5-7) failed to register its first stat of the game –– a penalty corner –– until there was just 4:45 left to go in the first half, a testament to how much the possession stayed with Tchou’s squad. By that time, Rutgers held a 1-0 advantage courtesy of freshman forward Gia Nappi. The Fairfield, N.J., native squeaked a penalty shot by La Salle goalkeeper Emma Ruth at the 24:10 mark after Ruth committed a foul while tr ying to make a play on the attacking Nappi. The foul set the freshman up with her fourth goal of the season, a leading mark among rookies for the Knights this year. “I just stayed more composed than usual and focused on scoring
and winning today,” said Nappi, who earned Big East Conference honors for her performance. The second Rutgers tally came in the 45th minute, when junior Mackenzie Noda and Nappi assisted junior for ward Nicole Gentile for her eighth score. The Jamison, Pa., product continues to lead the team in points with 16, while the junior has scored in six of the team’s past seven games. Still, for an outing in which the Knights recorded their most shots (24) and shots on goal (16) this season, a 2-0 victor y seems to come up a bit short. SARAH Ruth shut down 14 Rutgers’ shots in what was a busy game in the cage, but according to Nappi, the team’s shots could have been a bit more accurate. “If we just move the goalie we would’ve scored so many more goals,” Nappi said. “We were shooting right into her.” Perhaps the most refreshing sign of all was the play of the backs and freshman goalkeeper Sarah Stuby. The shutout marked the first for the Knights since their Sept. 3
win at home against Ohio, and the first of the walk-on’s young career. Stuby’s four key saves held the Explorers in check while an increased possession time for the offense made her job in the cage a little easier. “I think our marking has improved greatly,” said Stuby. “We did a lot of drills this week to work on our marking and we were on the ball almost all the time, so it was really good.” On Saturday, Stuby and company welcomed No. 8 Louisville to the Banks for a Big East showdown –– one with massive conference STUBY tournament implications. The Knights stormed out of the gates and registered the game’s first two penalty corners, but after missing some key opportunities, the Cardinals were able to take control en route to a 2-0 win. Louisville (9-4, 3-1) outshot the Knights, 15-10, as five of the Cardinal tallies were on goal. Senior Nicole Youman –– the points leader for her team this season –– assisted on both Louisville scores to increase her points total to 37 on the year.
T H E DA I LY TA R G U M Aside from two short Rutgers surges at the beginning of both periods, the Cardinals controlled much of the game and upped their standings in the Big East, while putting the Knights in a bit of a bind. “We don’t look at any team as being any better than any other team, so we just took it to them,” said senior co-captain Jenna Bull. “We did struggle a little bit, but fixed what we needed to fix and we stuck by our game plan and did what we needed to do. It’s just unfortunate the outcomes didn’t reflect how hard we played.” The team travels to Providence on Saturday to take on the Friars in a huge conference showdown. Only the top five Big East teams make the postseason tournament, and with Rutgers currently behind Villanova in the sixth spot, a win in Rhode Island could make or break the team’s season. Moments after the Knights’ win Sunday, the tide immediately shifted to beating the Friars. “All we’re going to do is get the urgency of playing [Providence] in practice every second we’re out here,” Tchou said. “I know the team’s really excited about this weekend. We still have a chance for the Big East Tournament and that is our ultimate goal.”
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he Rutgers men’s lacrosse team celebrated a “Day for Doc” Saturday in the team’s first annual Doc Peterson alumni game. The day commemorated longtime program affiliate Dr. Earle Peterson, who has spent the past 40 years supporting the squad’s players and coaching staff. Following the game, the team held a banquet to further honor its oldest friend. Peterson decided to step away from the team for this season to be with his family in Cooperstown, N.Y.
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guard Greg Nosal tore off the tip of his pinkie in the first half of his team’s matchup with Central Michigan, but afterwards did not do what most sensible human beings would. The lineman took a pain injection and elected to stay in the game and postpone the reattachment of his pinkie until after the contest. When the Hokies’ lead ballooned to 31-7 in the fourth quarter, team doctors took the pinkie off ice and surgically reattached it.
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Junior forward Karla Schacher scored her team-leading fifth goal of the season Sunday in a 3-2 loss to No. 5 Notre Dame.
SWEEP: Irish break out with pair of second-half goals continued from back The Irish opened up the floodgates 20 minutes into the second half, when Big East Preseason Player of the Year Melissa Henderson registered her 12th goal of the season. Notre Dame teammate Erica Iantorno widened the Irish lead less than two minutes later, when she beat Rutgers goalkeeper Emmy Simpkins for the Irish’s third and final goal of the contest. The loss Sunday marked the second match this season that Simpkins and the Rutgers defense allowed three goals in a game. The Irish threatened again over the next 10 minutes, when they registered another three shots against the Knights’ defense. Junior captain Karla Schacher kept the Knights close when she scored her team-leading fifth goal of the season in the 76th minute. “[Notre Dame is] definitely a top-caliber program,” Schacher said. “But at the same time, we competed with them really well. We hung around with them the entire game. We even attacked them well at certain times in the game. It was just an unfortunate two errors on our part … that led to unfortunate goals on us.” Schacher’s goal marked the last Rutgers shot of the match until redshirt freshman Jonelle Filigno’s off-balance shot found the hands of Notre Dame netminder Nikki Weiss. “It was a great college soccer match,” Crooks said. “We were especially good in the first half. It’s safe to say we had the better first half. [Notre Dame] was putting a lot of pressure on us, which is what I expected. We just had a tough time keeping the ball in the second half, and ultimately that led to what [Notre Dame] got.” Rutgers started the weekend off on the wrong foot against DePaul on Friday, when the Blue Demons (9-4-2, 4-2) blanked the Knights, 2-0. The loss Friday was the fourth match this season in which Rutgers was shut out. DePaul came out swinging in the match’s early going, when it took three shots and
earned a corner in the game’s first five minutes. Blue Demon midfielder Tara Strickland beat Simpkins for an early goal during the same span. DePaul got on the scoreboard again in the 23rd minute, when Ashleigh Goddard blasted a shot off Simpkins to provide the Blue Demons with a two-goal cushion. The Knights tallied a few opportunities on goal, including a shot by senior midfielder Gina DeMaio that was deflected. The match ended with Rutgers being outshot, 8-4, despite ear ning four more cor ner kicks than the host Blue Demons. “It was kind of disorganization,” Schacher said. “We weren’t ready to star t the match. It showed in our warmup that we just really weren’t ready for the [DePaul] game. I don’t know if it was coming off the plane or traveling, but you could tell in our warmup we weren’t ready for that game.” The Knights’ two-loss weekend came on the heels of wellplayed victories over Connecticut and Providence the weekend prior. Rutgers failed to put together a three-match streak without a loss this season, magnifying the team’s woes with consistency. “We came off of a great weekend like last weekend and then played a poor game against DePaul,” Crooks said. “[Inconsistency] is exactly what it is. There’s still time and we still have a chance to be a special team, but there’s a hell of a lot of work left.” Struggling Syracuse and St. John’s welcome the Knights next weekend for the team’s last road contests of the season. The Orange and Red Storm make up two of the Big East American Division’s bottom three teams, but Rutgers has no room for error over the season’s final four matches. “Ever y game left is a mustwin game. We cannot lose another game,” Schacher said. “That’s really drilled into our heads right now. We know that going into next weekend. It doesn’t matter who we’re playing or where we’re playing right now, we just have to win.”
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SCARLET KNIGHTS RELEASE 2010-11 GYMNASTICS SCHEDULE The Rutgers gymnastics team announced its 2011 season schedule yesterday, revealing an openGYMNASTICS ing meet Jan. 8 against New Hampshire in Durham, N.H. The Scarlet Knights return with 11 gymnasts that competed last season, with the most decorated being senior Erica Gerlach, who tied for third place last April on the bars at the USAG Collegiate National Championships. The contest marks the 10th straight season that the squad opens against the Wildcats. The Knights narrowly fell to New Hampshire last season by a 189.725-188.925 margin. Head coach Crystal CholletNorton and company host their first meet of the season when the Knights welcome Pennsylvania, Brown, and last year’s EAGL Champion North Carolina, on
Jan. 22 in the Livingston Recreation Center. In the team’s second home meet on Feb. 4, Rutgers welcomes Brown to the Banks for the second time, while also playing host to Bridgeport. The Knights then enjoy consecutive matchups at home, with a Feb. 26 tri-meet between Bridgeport and Ursinus marking the first competition of the homestand. The team competes in its final home contest on March 5, when it welcomes Cornell, Southern Connecticut, West Chester and Yale. The upcoming season’s EAGL Championships kicks off on March 19 in Washington, D.C., making the team’s trip to Towson to compete in a tri-meet with Yale a week prior the last live action before postseason competition commences. — Anthony Hernandez
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Sophomore Jenna Zito competes in the all-around for the Scarlet Knights, averaging a score of 37.743 and topping 38 five times with a season-high 38.475.
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Senior captain Jeanne Waters shot a 74 on Friday for two over par and the match’s best score against Seton Hall.
WATERS LEADS WIN OVER SETON HALL The Rutgers women’s golf team beat Seton Hall in a headWOMEN’S GOLF t o - h e a d matchup Friday at the Rutgers University Golf Course in Piscataway. The match marked the first competition for the Scarlet Knights outside of tournaments this season and they made the most of the opportunity. Despite the recent struggles the Knights endured, they were able to play well and beat the Pirates, 308-350 — a significant margin of victory. Senior captain Jeanne Waters, who shot a 74, shot a two over the par for the course. Head coach Maura Waters-Ballard relies on Waters to give a solid effort every time out, and the senior lived up to expectations. A surprise coming out of the match was the play of junior Elisa Mateer, who shot a 76 in the match. It was Mateer’s second start of the season.
Junior Lizzy Carl, sophomore Brittany Weddell and sophomore Karen Cash rounded out the Rutgers starters. Carl and Cash both shot an 80 for the course, while Weddell posted a 78. Junior Lauren Heiba also participated as an individual and shot a 92. Seton Hall’s best performance on the day came from Hannah Basilone, who shot a 77. The rest of the Pirates starters were Haley Van Es, Samantha Massei, Stacie Ballou and Nicole Longobarto. The Pirates shot 82, 90, 101 and 108, respectively. The Knights look to build off the win and take it into the Rutgers Invitational this weekend. The team has been anticipating this tournament for some time and plan to revert back to early form with a successful outing. — Nicholas Orlando
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First Big East set win not enough in loss to ’Nova BY BILL DOMKE CORRESPONDENT
Baby steps are better than no steps. The Rutgers volleyball team lost another Big East game against Villanova this weekend, but it VOLLEYBALL wasn’t wept VILLANOVA 3 sand the RUTGERS 1 s e t s were a lot closer. “I thought we had a great match and played some of our best volleyball since the home tournament,” said head coach CJ Werneke. “From our last competition to this one we’ve definitely improved.” The changes were present throughout the game. The Scarlet Knights lost a hard-fought fourth set, 25-21, after going point-for-point with the Wildcats for most of the set. It wasn’t until a 3-point run in the end that Nova (15-4, 4-1) closed out the game. Still, keeping games close is all Werneke asks. “We played some good volleyball,” he said. “I thought it put us in a good position one game apiece going into the break. The wins and losses will take care of themselves as long as we take care of our approach.” Senior outside hitter Emma Chrystal and sophomore setter Stephanie Zielinski certainly took that approach to heart. Chrystal reverted back to a familiar dominating style of play with a double-double on a teamleading 17 kills and 10 digs. “Emma is coming back and doing some really good
things,” Werneke said. “Offensively she had a really good game for us and followed the game plan and took advantage of her ability offensively.” Zielinski led the Knights’ attack with 45 assists in the game and tied for a team-leading 13 digs with freshman Brittany Bozzini. “Stephanie did some nice things and we got more consistency out of her,” Werneke said. “Any time she gets double-doubles it’s a good thing.” Rutgers (7-11, 0-5) needs to take any momentum it can get into today’s matchup with Rider, the Knights’ only opponent in a five-game home stretch not from the Big East. The team plans to take its first win of the month using some newfound momentum. “This time of year we’re not teaching a whole lot. It’s more about getting reps in practice,” Werneke said. “We feel it’s more impor tant to put ourselves in competitive situations. Rider is another opportunity to get better and see how we can move for ward.” The Broncs (0-8) come off a 3-0 loss against St. Peter’s Sunday. Werneke knows the importance of today’s game and plans to use it as a springboard to come back when Big East play resumes. “We still need to find a way to play consistently from play to play,” he said. “It’s going to put us in another situation and it’s going to give us another oppor tunity to work some things out before we face our in-state rival Seton Hall. It’ll give us an opportunity to win. There’s nothing that builds confidence like winning.”
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Sophomore setter Stephanie Zielinski led the Rutgers volleyball team with 45 assists in a 3-1 loss to Villanova on Saturday and tied freshman Brittany Bozzini with 13 digs.
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The Rutgers football team rallied late to beat Connecticut, 27-24, on Friday night, when the student section had a blackout for the first time. For the third straight year, less than four points separated the two rivals as the Knights opened Big East play with a win.
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PRACTICE NOTEBOOK
A BREU, T E BY SAM HELLMAN CORRESPONDENT
With Manny Abreu’s 10tackle performance in the 2724 victor y over Connecticut on Friday night, the Rutgers junior linebacker caught the eye of the Big East and earned his first weekly honor roll mention. “I think Manny has become a consistent performer in our defense and it’s huge for us,” said head coach Greg Schiano. “It’s great for him. He’s had his ups and
TAKE HOME CONFERENCE HONORS downs here and I’m just so happy for him that he’s enjoying football. And I’m so happy for us that we have him, because he’s a big, physical presence at linebacker.” “I think what’s happened is that he’s really gotten comfortable with what we do, so he knows how to do it.” The Union City, N.J., native Abreu got the news immediately after practice that he earned Big East honors for his per formance. “I’m glad that I’m in a position to get an honor like that,
but at the end of the day, I still have to do what I do best and continue to get better,” Abreu said. “I feel like I’ve improved. I’m never satisfied, but I see the improvement from the spring to camp to the first game and then to now. I see myself more relaxed out there.” Abreu, who is in his fourth year at Rutgers, from Union City, N.J., credited fifth-year senior Jim Dumont with helping him grow into his starting role. “I’m always asking Jim — always,” Abreu said. “Even though he’s hurt now, he still has it up here. He has it in the head and every time I come off the sideline, he’s always coaching me up — ‘Oh Manny, you did this right. Manny do this better.’”
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Knights (4-2) sent an early message to the Scarlet Knights by throttling Tulane , 41-23, on the road, just seven days after Rutgers’ embarrassing Homecoming loss to the the Green Wave’s embarrassing victory over Rutgers on Homecoming. The win means Army could be even more of a handful than usual with its tripleoption offense. “We’ve dedicated time during training camp,” Schiano said on preparing for the triple option. “The thing that makes it a little tricky is they changed what they do. They’re still doing the core of their offense, but they’ve added some different things.”
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Sophomore wideout Mohamed Sanu only made two catches, but threw a 43-yard pass, rushed for a score and had an interception.
Sanu had one of his quietest performances as a receiver, pulling in two catches for 11 yards, but he completed a 43yard pass and ran the ball eight times for 27 yards and a touchdown out of the Wildcat. On UConn’s last play of the game, Sanu came in on defense, where he began his Rutgers career during spring practices, and intercepted the Hail Mar y attempt.
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Junior linebacker Manny Abreu recorded 10 tackles, including one for a loss, and forced a fumble to make the Big East honor roll.
SEC/BIG EAST TICKETS ON SALE Tickets for the fourth annual DIRECTV SEC/BIG EAST Invitational went on sale yesterday, MEN’S BASKETBALL w i t h prices ranging from $15 to $50. The tournament features four SEC and Big East matchups, with a double-header Dec. 8 in Louisville followed by another double-header on Dec. 11 in Pittsburgh. Rutgers and first-year head coach Mike Rice square off with Auburn on Dec. 11 at 12:30 p.m. at the Console Energy Center. The game will be televised on ESPN2 and marks the only SEC opponent for the Scarlet Knights this season. Tennessee then faces Pittsburgh, which finished in a three-way tie for second in the Big East last season, to wrap up the tournament at 3 p.m. The first game of the two Dec. 8 contests features a clash between Seton Hall and Arkansas at 7 p.m. Notre Dame plays Kentucky at 9:30 p.m. to mark the second game of the night in a nationally televised game on ESPN. The Big East holds a 7-5 record in the first three seasons of the tournament, while teams from the two conferences combine to account for four of the past eight NCAA national champions. –– Anthony Hernandez
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this season, sophomore wideout Mohamed Sanu earned the title of one of four “Paul Hornung’s Most Versatile Performances of the Week.”
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Te earned Big East Special Teams Player of the Week for his game-winning field goal against the Huskies. Te made two field goals and three extra points against UConn and is
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that the Scarlet Knights’ clash next Saturday with Pittsburgh will be the conference game of the week. The game kicks off at noon from Heinz Field. The Last time the Knights took the field in Pittsburgh, they defeated Pitt and now-Philadelphia Eagles running back LeSean McCoy, 54-34, behind 361 passing yards and six touchdowns from quarterback Mike Teel. Former receivers Kenny Britt and Tim Brown combined for nine catches, 270 yards and five touchdowns.
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GETS THE NOD Schiano hands freshman second career start in Saturday’s matchup with Army at New Meadowlands BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR
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True freshman quarterback Chas Dodd earned Big East Offensive Player of the Week honors for his 18-for-29, 322-yard, two-touchdown performance against Connecticut last weekend and will start against Army on Saturday while Tom Savage’s injured hand heals.
There was no hiding it this week — not after Chas Dodd threw for 322 yards and two touchdowns, led a four th-quar ter comeback and FOOTBALL earned Big East Offensive Player of the Week honors for his first career start. The freshman quarterback will start again Saturday against Army. “I didn’t know I was going to [play this early],” Dodd said. “I was just going to come in and prepare and work hard as if I was going to, just in case something like this did happen. That’s what I’ve been focusing on, so when I was called on, I was ready.” But Rutgers head football coach Greg Schiano refuses to create a quarterback controversy. Dodd’s first start was a product of incumbent sophomore starter Tom Savage’s hand injury, and that is the same reason he will once again get the nod. As Savage continues to recover this week, Schiano maintained that the full-time starting situation will not be addressed until the time comes. “I hope that Tom is healthy to practice some this week and then it’s a week-toweek thing,” Schiano said. “Friday night it would have been ver y painful. Hopefully he’ll get some practice reps this week that will allow him to be more available.” Although the circumstances are different, Dodd finds himself in the same position Savage was in last season — starting as a true freshman. The 6-foot-4 Savage was well known from the day he committed to Rutgers, long before he set conference records for passing yards and touchdowns for a true freshman. Dodd was not, but after throwing a 52yard game-tying touchdown pass with less than four minutes to play against Connecticut and a 46-yard pass to set up a game-winning field goal in the 27-24 victory, Dodd noticed some changes.
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Inconsistency shows through in road sweep
Knights target improvement despite victory BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ
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It’s not easy to come back a day after a tough conference loss FIELD HOCKEY and put together a LA SALLE 0 dominant performance. But on the Banks RUTGERS 2 Sunday afternoon, a win seemed imminent from the opening whistle for the Rutgers field hockey team. Sporting pink uniforms to “Play 4 the Cure” and support breast cancer awareness, the Scarlet Knights (4-9, 1-2) amassed 24 shots to just six for La Salle, as the squad earned a 2-0 win –– its 14th victory all-time against the Explorers. For head coach Liz Tchou and her team, the showing yielded mixed emotions. “Overall, the team wasn’t happy with our performance,” Tchou said. “It’s all well and good that we got those shots, but at the same time it was too frantic in the circle. They want to score
The more things change, the more they stay the same for the Rutgers women’s WOMEN’S SOCCER soccer team. The Scarlet RUTGERS 2 Knights (8-7, 3-4) NOTRE DAME 3 fell, 3-2, to No. 5 Notre Dame (13-1, 7-0) Sunday in South Bend, Ind., in a game that was televised on ESPNU. Head coach Glenn Crooks’ team’s last victor y over the Fighting Irish came in 2001. Notre Dame’s Rose Augustin kicked off the scoring in the 14th minute, when she put home a shot in the lower left side of the net. The Knights answered back less than a minute later, when pressure on the Irish’s backline forced an own goal — the final score of the first half. Rutgers went into the locker room outshooting Notre Dame by a 4-3 margin.
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Freshman forward Gia Nappi contributed to the Knights’ score Sunday against La Salle, scoring off a penalty shot and assisting on junior Nicole Gentile’s second-half goal.
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