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True freshman Samantha Perretty and sophomore Emmy Simpkins split time in net for the Rutgers women’s soccer team last weekend in New York.

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LeGrand’s full recovery remains uncertain “We ask our fans and the entire Rutgers community to believe and pray for Eric as he begins the recovery process,” he The condition of Rutgers said in a statement. defensive end Eric LeGrand, Joe Lefeged, the captain who is temporarily paralyzed and starting safety for the after sustaining a spinal cord Knights, dealt with many injury in Saturday’s football emotions after seeing the game, is still unknown. hit LeGrand endured, but LeGrand under went he said the only way to play emergency surger y at football is to play as hard as Hackensack University one can. Medical Center the night ERIC “If we give anything after suffering the injur y LEGRAND less, we would get hurt. during the fourth quarter against Army. His family and friends So we have to play the game like issued a statement thanking the Eric would play,” said Lefeged, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. University community for its support. “We want to say thank you to “If we all play like he did and came ever yone for all of your prayers, with the passion to practice like he kind words and well wishes,” they did every day, we’d be a much better said in the statement. “We appreci- football team.” Timothy Hosea, an associate ate ever y single thought. Eric is in good spirits and we are praying for a clinical professor of orthopedics at Robert Wood Johnson University full recover y.” The University’s head football Medical School, explained the coach Greg Schiano said he and his spinal cord is the ner vous system team are confident the School of Arts that runs from a person’s head to and Sciences junior will recover from the tailbone. the injury, but he is still asking the SEE RECOVERY ON PAGE 4 University community for help.

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Rutgers defensive tackle Eric LeGrand suffers a spinal injury in Saturday’s game against Army, leaving him, currently, paralyzed from the neck down. Doctors are still unsure about his recovery.

Study breaks down cost of dropouts BY RYAN FLOOD CONTRIBUTING WRITER

While the government is providing financial support for more students to go to college for four years, some are calling it quits after just one — and they are not the only ones paying the price. Federal and state governments distributed more than $6 billion of taxpayers’ money to universities and colleges toward a four-year education for students who left college after their first year in school, according to an October 2010 repor t released JOVELLE ABBEY TAMAYO / PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

New Brunswick High School senior Edson Martinez practices public speaking skills yesterday at the RU Ready Leadership Conference.

by the American Institutes for Research. “When students enroll in a college or university and drop out before the second year, they have invested time and money only to see their hopes and dreams of a college degree dashed,” according to the report. “These costs can be heartbreaking for students and their families, but the financial costs to states are enormous.” In New Jersey, $1.4 billion from the state government and $1.5 billion in grants from the federal government went to supporting students who did not return for their sophomore year.

New Jersey ranked 17th in the nation in terms of state money and 22nd for the amount of federal student aid spent on first-year dropouts. The cost of education in America is rising, but the same cannot be said of the graduation rate. Only 60 percent of students graduate from four-year universities within six years, according to the report entitled “Finishing the First Lap: The Cost of First-Year Student Attrition in America’s Four-Year Colleges and Universities.”

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INDEX UNIVERSITY The Rutgers Business School will host a contest for young entrepreneurs.

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In an attempt to help prepare and organize young leaders from New Brunswick High School, RU Ready, a civic engagement project created by the University’s Eagleton Institute of Politics, held its first of a series of meetings this year with selected New Brunswick High School students. One of the main reasons for the meetings is to help acquaint the young leaders with a better sense of civic responsibility and engagement, said Elizabeth Matto, director of the Youth Political Participation Program.

“The purpose of the program is to go into New Brunswick High School and work to provide the students the tools and encouragement they need to be civically and politically engaged,” Matto said. The program tries to link already established research with the practice of politics through a system of peer-to-peer interactions between more experienced collegiate-level leaders and the somewhat younger and less experienced high school leaders, she said. Throughout the meeting, the young leaders were instructed on rudimentary fundamentals of organization, leadership and civic duty.

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Cincinnati high school brings students to voting locations, giving them only Democratic sample ballots.

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Students decorate pumpkins with paint yesterday outside the Engineering Building on Busch campus. The Engineering Governing Council, which hosted the table, bought and gave out 100 pumpkins for the event.

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U. TO TEST EMERGENCY RESPONSE SYSTEM The University will participate in an on-campus simulation today designed to test the emergency response system to an oncampus incident. The simulation will include personnel from Piscataway, Edison, Middlesex County, the National Guard and the University, and will take place on Busch and Livingston campuses, according to an Office of Emergency Management press release. It will involve a test of the emergency text notification system, according to the release. A text message will be sent to subscribers’ cell phones to notify them of emergency and serious conditions. To sign up for the text message alert visit http://personalinfo.rutgers .edu and provide the requested information. — Neil P. Kypers

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Student businesses go head-to-head in contest BY ANKITA PANDA CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Details for this year’s Rutgers Business School 2011 Business Plan Competition were released earlier this month, giving entrepreneurs the opportunity to expand their businesses. The competition, sponsored by the Sales Executives Club of Nor thern New Jersey Foundation, will be held from Dec. 1 to March 4 at the Rutgers Business School and will allow business owners to present their plans to a panel of experts. Judges look for a plan with long-term viability, said William McIlroy, the director of Corporate Outreach at the business school. “Some of them are just not thought out from a conceptual basis and some of them just require too much capital … [we] have to see the complete business plan,” McIlroy said. Business owners will also have the oppor tunity to attend a boot camp around mid-December. “We have professors come in and teach [business owners] how to write a business plan,” McIlroy said. Once semifinalists are picked, they have the opportunity to receive constructive criticism

from a business school professor, he said. While judges and entrepreneurs do not interact much during the competition, entrepreneurs have plenty of other resources available to them, including the choice to attend a range of seminars, said Richard Romano, president of the Sales Executive Club of Northern New Jersey Foundation. “We thought that by providing this competition and the prizes that go along with it, we would be encouraging students to participate not only in class work, but in a real competition where they can get their businesses started,” said Romano, a member of the Rutgers Business School-Newark Board of Advisers. The competition is unique in that it reaches out to all kinds of businesses. “Many [universities] go after big businesses, but we’re not doing that. We’re doing it in a way that all businesses can get through,” Romano said. “We’re getting the people with student ef for t, dedication and logical business plans.” The 2010 winners, Maria Franz and Rutgers Business School graduate student Sunay Shah, agreed that the competition prize money helped them expand their business Stratimed.

“The $20,000 funding helped us secure a sales representative, improve our marketing sector and access some of the Rutgers Business School-Newark alumni who might be interested in our company,” Franz said. “We’ve been able to expand our client base since.” The competition is a great way for business owners to receive unique advice, Shah said. “No matter what your entrepreneurial venture is, [or] whether [you are] just making your business plan, it’s a great way for you to gain additional perspective on architectural ideas and have somebody provide you with feedback and analyses that you may otherwise not receive,” Shah said. Yuriy Yakimenko, Rutgers Business School graduate student and founder of trainlogic.net — currently known as Rail Bandit — in 2009 came in second place. Despite the monetary benefits, Yakimenko said he wished the competition helped him network more. “I worked on the plan almost entirely by myself, learning how to write it and how to present it,” he said. “There was not much networking involved.” Shamoon Siddiqui, a Rutgers Business School alumnus, cofounded BookSwim, the 2008 winning business. While the

competition was very helpful for BookSwim, there were a few aspects he wished would improve. “The thing that was lacking the most was information communication,” he said. “The competition website and communication did not clearly let us know what we had to do. There was a lot of ambiguity.” Siddiqui found the competition a useful experience. If given the oppor tunity to par ticipate in the competition again, he said he would be up to the challenge. “I would par ticipate ever y year, as long as I’d gain something from the competition. In this case, I think I did,” he said. Although Siddiqui no longer works with BookSwim, he said the competition motivated him to par ticipate in many more competitions with his new business. Both McIlroy and Romano expressed a desire to increase interaction between judges and participants. McIlroy wishes to implement a more ef ficient system to allow judges and all par ticipants, regardless of who won or lost, to speak one-on-one about the par ticipants’ business plans and formulate future strategies. “After all, this is an education process as well as a competition,” he said.

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RECOVERY: Doctors must stabilize spinal cord first continued from front “It provides all the impulses that move all your extremities and the function of a lot of your internal organs,” he said. “If you have any injur y to the spinal cord where it is severed or significantly bruised, then you lose function.” After suffering a spinal cord injury, the worst-case scenario is that the injured person could either qualify as a paraplegic or a quadriplegic. “A paraplegic is someone who has lost function somewhere below their neck, which means their upper extremities work. Quadriplegic means someone does not have function of all four extremities,” he said. “Quadriplegic means damage happened to the cervical spine, which is the upper part of your spine.” The first step in working with a spinal cord injur y is to stabilize the spinal cord, which helps in preventing any fur ther injur y. “That’s what they did on [LeGrand] Saturday night,” he said. “Now it is basically a waiting game to see what happens and whether the spinal cord may heal.” LeGrand is currently temporarily paralyzed and Hosea said it might take a while to see if the University student’s spinal cord will recover. “I would talk more toward a month. If you have a window of months, the chance of [the injur y] healing after that period of time is ver y remote,” he said. “But he is ver y early on, so to anticipate or expect anything going out right now is

just not going to happen. It just isn’t appropriate.” The area of the spinal cord that is damaged is significant when figuring out whether the person will be paralyzed since each injury is different, Hosea said. “For your cervical spine area, it depends on what type of injury it is. The lower down on your cervical spine the injury occurs, the more function you can have with your arms,” he said. “But as you get higher up, you lose less function of your upper extremities.” Although the outlook for LeGrand’s recover y is somewhat opaque at this time, Hosea

referenced two football players who endured similar injuries and fully recovered. A hit put on Penn State cornerback Adam Taliaferro in 2000 caused damage to the C5 part of his spinal cord. Buffalo Bills tight end Kevin Everett took a devastating hit in 2007 during a special teams play, causing damage to the C3 and C4 parts of his spinal cord. Although the expectation for each player to walk again was grim, they both recovered from their injuries. In addition, Everett’s spinal cord injury was in the same area of LeGrand’s injury.

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“But [the injuries] are all dif ferent,” Hosea said. “So it’s impossible to predict who will do well and may not do so well.” School of Ar ts and Sciences senior Eric Schultz said he attended Saturday’s game and did not know what to think after seeing the hit LeGrand took. “It took a long time to get him off. It’s just one of those scary things,” he said. “All I kept thinking about was not being able to feel anything below my neck, and it’s just a scary feeling.”

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After he sustained injuries, University medical personnel take Eric LeGrand off the field, being sure keep his spine immobilized in order to prevent further injury.

NFL CHANGES RULES FOR DEVASTATING BLOWS The National Football League is set to change its view on what they deem as “devastating hits” Wednesday, following a weekend full of player concussions and near paralysis. League officials feel the rule must be changed to ensure the safety of players, saying they will not tolerate the increasing number of devastating hits, according to an article on espn.com. “We can’t and won’t tolerate what we saw Sunday,” said NFL Executive Vice President of Football Operations Ray Anderson in the article. “We’ve got to get the message to players that these devastating hits and head shots will be met with a ver y necessar y higher standard of accountability. We’re talking about avoiding life-altering impacts.” The call for severe consequences for such hits happened after Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jackson and Cleveland Browns wide receiver Mohamed Massaquoi were helped off the field after sustaining helmet-to-helmet contact hits while playing against the Atlanta Falcons and Pittsburgh Steelers, respectively, according to the article. Anderson would not release the number of players who would be punished for helmet-to-helmet hits that occurred Sunday. — Devin Sikorski

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Documentary captures international U. projects BY AMY ROWE

our residents,” said Pal, director of Development for EWB. “I look larger. As I entered The University’s student Rutgers I wanted to cure canchapter of Engineers Without cer, but now I want to help Borders implemented a water eliminate the world’s water cripurification project in Thailand sis, a fight that plagues over 1 two summers ago and a new billion people.” short documentary will chroniThe villagers of Nong Bua let cle their story. the engineers know their appreThe documentary, filmed by ciation despite the language barthe University’s Writers House, is rier, Eyong said. still in the editing process, said “We had a translator at one Dena Seidel, the film’s director point who told us they appreciatand producer. ed what the engineers and the “We have 70 hours of crew were doing, so it was nice,” footage that needs to be cut Eyong said. down to 20 minutes while still The film compiles footage involving a narrative arc,” said from student projects in three Seidel, a faculty lecturer in the countries, though the system has English department. only been implemented thus far Seidel sent the film’s co-pro- in Thailand. ducer and University alumna Students also traveled to Chantal Eyong as well as Guatemala and Kenya to assess School of Ar ts and Sciences the water situations and develjunior Steve Holloway to rural op a plan for implementation. Nong Bua, Thailand, for three “Traveling to Guatemala was weeks during the summer of a life-changing experience for 2008 in order to shoot the me,” said Monal Agrawal, the University’s project leader for engineering stuGuatemala. “It dents imple“This documentary made me realize menting the that I, an engiwill help show ... water system. neering underInstalling the graduate, could that Rutgers system involved make a dif fershock chlorinat- students embody the ence to improve ing the entire life.” ‘Jersey Roots, Global someone’s water system, Footage was erecting a wire edited into a Reach’ ideology.” fence around the three-minute MONAL AGRAWAL aeration unit to promotional School of Engineering Junior prevent animals video available from contaminaton the Writers ing the water House website, and installing a chlorinator to Seidel said. remove bacteria, according Busch campus Dean to the University’s EWB chap- Thomas Papathomas, College ter website. Avenue campus Dean Matt Eyong and Holloway had the Matsuda and Cook campus opportunity to film the process Dean Rick Ludescher provided of implementation and the final funds for the video, Seidel said. stages of the clean water sys- They also supplied inter views tem for the village. at the University and the crew’s “It was a great experience,” travel expenses. Eyong said. “We’re lucky to be a “The documentary allows the part of it.” Rutgers chapter to represent the People in the village were organization worldwide,” Seidel grateful but also worried that said. “It’s a huge honor for us, the system was too complex and they also provided us with or expensive to maintain, the funds to finish the film.” Seidel said. EWB plans to circulate the “It’s a real stor y,” Seidel said. film at various film festivals, “We have to turn it into a dra- Seidel said. matic narrative that is truthful “I felt tremendous pride in and accurate but also creates a being filmed for a documentar y sense of anticipation, hope and about the work Engineers pride in Rutgers.” Without Borders-Rutgers Language was a challenge does,” said Agrawal, a School of the film crew and engineers Engineering junior. “This docuencountered while in Thailand, mentar y will help show the Eyong said. world that Rutgers students “It would have been nice to embody the ‘Jersey Roots, get their feedback more in the Global Reach’ ideology.” film,” Eyong said. “I’m doing a Engineers Without Borders lot of the inter viewing, but I is a nation-wide, non-profit don’t know how to speak Thai humanitarian organization that much and they don’t joins professional and student know English.” engineers with developing comWorking in Thailand can munities around the world to have a drastic change on a per- enhance their quality of life son’s perspective of the world, through sustainable engineersaid David Pal, a School of ing projects, according to the Engineering senior who helped group’s website. measure the dimensions of the The University’s chapter was water system. founded five years ago and has “I no longer look at what since sent students to Africa, only plagues our countr y or Central America, and Asia. CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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SKILLS: Program will expand to high school classes continued from front Some of the topics addressed were the meaning of leadership, how to conduct a meeting, how to establish an agenda, how to fundraise and how to develop relationships between other officers, leaders and the general student body. One activity included a crash course in public speaking. “Meetings for me weren’t very good,” said Jerah Degrandez, a New Brunswick High School senior and president of the Junior ROTC program. “But after this training I feel like I can speak to other people equally now.” New Brunswick High School senior Tiffany Hernandez found the public speaking segment useful. “I always had problems speaking in front of a crowd.” Hernandez said. “Speaking 101 was very helpful for me.” The young leaders also had lunch with and picked the brains of

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current leaders at the University in President Talisa Sanchez took order to familiarize them with the full advantage of the meeting and collegiate environment. its opportunities. Yousef Saleh, Rutgers “The one thing I would take University Student Association away from today would have to be president, Braulio Salas, co- how to influence the whole school chair of the Latino Student body, not just the officers,” Council, Brittany Grierson, pres- Sanchez said. ident of the West Indian Student Sanchez also believed the Organization, and p r o g r a m Michael Galley, was ef fective. Recreational “As they keep “I think we helped Activities Crew doing the proa bunch of the president, were gram, it’ll keep the University getting better New Brunswick student leaders at ever y year. I like High School leaders it. I’m for it,” the event. N e w she said. lead better.” Brunswick High S h i e l d s School Student STEPHANIE BROWN Buono approved Council Adviser the program. RU Ready Volunteer Michele Shields“I think it’s Buono was surexcellent,” she prised at how thorough the meet- said. “It gives [the students] ing was. At one point the students good direction and shows them were asked to write impromptu how to be exceptional, organized two-minute long speeches. and strong leaders.” “They showed them an agenStephanie Brown, a RU da template,” she said. “They Ready volunteer, said the proactually filmed the speeches and gram is a big step forward for then critiqued them.” high school students. New Brunswick High School “I think RU Ready is a great National Honor Society program,” said Brown, a

T H E DA I LY TA R G U M School of Ar ts and Sciences senior. “Implementing civic engagement in the high schools is a way to get committed voters for the rest of their lives.” She said the program, now in its fourth year, can serve as a great resource to young leaders. “I think we helped a bunch of the New Brunswick High School leaders lead better,” Brown said. “They have a resource here at Rutgers that they can utilize any time they need to.” Matto intends to expand the program and get more involved directly in New Br unswick High School classrooms. For now, meetings will continue periodically throughout the year. Eagleton Institute of Politics in 2007 created the RU Ready initiative to involve New Brunswick High School’s senior class in the political process, according to the group’s website. Its mission is to give these young students encouragement and practical advice to allow them to be active civic members in the city.

AID: Some say money will not bring dropouts to zero continued from front The University’s six year graduation rate sits around 70 percent for students who enter as first year students and complete their undergraduate education, according to an Office of Institutional Research report. Despite this statistic, the money spent on sending future dropouts to college is not necessarily a waste, said Jef frey Rubin, a University economics professor. The report does not explain why students are leaving their schools after their first year, because its purpose is to focus on how the level of student dropouts is costing taxpayers, according to the report. To improve the education system and use taxpayers’ money more efficiently, one of two strategies may be employed, Rubin said. Either those distributing the funds must figure out who will potentially drop out and cut support to those individuals, or they must find those who are struggling and increase the spending needed to make “Getting called higher education posinto work was sible. a good excuse But no level of not to go spending is to class.” going to MICHELLE ARCHER bring the first-year School of Arts dropout and Sciences rate down first-year student to zero, he said. “Nobody thinks making getting through school easier and reducing the value of a degree should be a solution,” he said. “Some people will not make it through no matter what.” The current state of the economy may be contributing to the problem. Many people cannot afford school, even with aid and grants, and some may need to drop out and get a job to suppor t a family, Rubin said. Although these conditions may be short-term because of the economy, this is hard to determine right now. Talha Mubashir, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences junior, said assisting the newest students on campus is impor tant. “The first year is stressful. Extra efforts to help students would relieve some of the stresses,” Mubashir said. Michelle Archer, a School of Ar ts and Sciences first-year student, has first-hand experience with leaving college as a first-year, as she left twice before returning this year for another tr y. She agreed with Rubin’s idea that the need for a job and other outside stresses can place a burden on many firstyear students. “I was working full time to pay for school and commuting, so it made it hard to focus,” Archer said. “It is easier being at school and living on campus because of the support from both fellow students and the college environments. Getting called into work was a good excuse not to go to class.”

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POLICE INVESTIGATE ON-CAMPUS SEXUAL ASSAULT A male University student confronted a female student on Saturday, Oct. 16 inside her residence hall, according to the Rutgers University Police Department. The incident occurred between the hours of 2:30 a.m. and 3:00 a.m. When the victim asked the individual, who did not have permission to be in the room, to leave, the suspect left but returned shortly thereafter and sexually assaulted the female student, Lt. Leonard Safko said in an e-mail to the University. The victim then fled the room and the suspect left the area. The identity of the suspect has not been confirmed by the police but is tentatively reported to be a male student living in the residence hall, Safko said. The University is currently providing support services to the victim. The RUPD’s Investigation Unit asks that anyone with information about this incident call (732)-932-8025 and speak with Detective Sean Skala. — Aleksi Tzatzev

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Elinor Ostrom, joint winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics, will come to speak at 2:30 p.m. in Trayes Hall in the Douglass Campus Center. Philip J. Furmanski, executive vice president for Academic Affairs, will introduce her and a reception will follow the talk, titled. “Institutional Robustness: How Institutional Arrangements Facilitate or Detract from Efforts to Sustain Ecological Systems.” Ostrom is the Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science and a Professor at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. She has developed a framework for understanding complex socio-ecological systems in the context of major environmental and political challenges.

The Office of Community Engagement, Rutgers Against Hunger and Farmers Against Hunger is sponsoring “Gleaning” at the Giamarese Farm from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. in East Brunswick. Harvested crops will be donated to Elijah’s Promise Soup Kitchen and the Franklin Food Bank to help provide fresh produce to the hungry, who often have a limited availability of fresh foods. Faculty, staff, alumni and students are welcome to bring their boots and gloves and lend a helping hand. The event is free but registration is required and limited to 30 spaces. Please complete and return the registration form by Oct. 13. Contact the Office of Community Engagement at (732)-932-2000, ext. 4211 with any questions, or e-mail discovery@aesop.rutgers.edu

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What is your favorite part about fall?

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“My favorite thing about autumn would have to be the fashion. The fashion changes and the colors, the leaves. It’s just a new world when you walk outside.”

“When it starts getting cold. I just like the cold weather and the leaves changing.”

CHRISTABEL CRUZ SAS SENIOR “[I like] the leaves changing, and it’s just so beautiful. Thanksgiving is nice and a lot of stuff happens in the fall semester on campus so that’s cool. There are a lot of fun events going on.”

WILLY GONZALEZ — SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES JUNIOR

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The world record weight in pounds of the largest pumpkin

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“My favorite part about autumn is knowing that the semester is almost over, and just seeing the leaves fall and seeing the change as far as people and weather.”

RACHEL ISSA SAS FIRST-YEAR STUDENT “My favorite part about autumn … the weather. It’s not too cold, not too hot.”

NICOLE CHAU SAS FIRST-YEAR STUDENT “Clothes. I like fall clothes, … you can wear boots and jackets and stuff.”

ONLINE RESPONSE Start of football season. — 27%

Fall holidays. — 30%

Change in weather. — 36%

The change in weather.

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The start of football season.

27%

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Apple/pumpkin picking. — 7%

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EDITORIALS

Support NJPIRG during referendum

eferendum for New Jersey Public Interest Research Group Student Chapters begins today as the nonprofit organization seeks to continue to make a real impact on some of society’s most pressing problems. NJPIRG, in the last year alone, has helped pass legislation boosting student grants by $36 billion and contributed to ending some of the credit card industry’s worst practices. Now is the time for the University to support the group whose board of directors is made up by University students. We endorse NJPIRG and support the student chapter’s efforts in lobbying for what is most needed by students and locals alike. A referendum is held every three years as University students vote to reaffirm funding for the NJPIRG. This then leaves it completely up to the students. They do not vote on whether to pay $11.20 on their term bills, but rather on the fee appearing on the bill at all. It is a voluntary fee. The student chapters have already targeted the lack of affordability of higher education in the state. NJPIRG lobbied for President Barack Obama’s Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act, which infused $36 billion into the federal Pell Grant program — benefiting 8 million students. NJPIRG in February 2010, also helped pass the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act, which ended some of the worst abuses of the credit card industry. This law requires greater transparency for marketing targeted exclusively at college campuses and students under the age of 21. NJPIRG uses funds for the benefit of the surrounding areas and us as they hire on and off-campus members to organize campaigns such as last April’s Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness. In this push for helping the less fortunate, the organization raised more than $8,000 for agencies such as A Better World Cafe, a joint partnership of Elijah’s Promise Soup Kitchen and Who Is My Neighbor?, in addition to several others in Newark and Camden. Students should continue to support this organization as they did three years ago. We support their focus on making a real impact on social problems, which often enough affect University students as well. Increasing Pell Grants and the CARD Act are only two among the many benefits backed by NJPIRG. Today and during the next few weeks, polling locations all across University campuses will be allowing for students to show their support. After all, $11.20 is a small price to pay for the benefits of which all University can take advantage.

Present unbiased views in classroom

ushing one party’s views onto voters is one thing, but when this predominant political quality affects high school students, it becomes an entirely different problem. Hughes High School, a Cincinnati high school, sent three van loads of its students — during school hours — to vote and were given sample ballots only of Democratic candidates, a lawsuit alleges. Students were given ice cream at the end of the day. This is not only unethical, but it takes advantage of potential voters who have not yet been exposed to the voting method and campaigns both Republican and Democratic parties use. The complaint makes sense. It was filed Monday by Thomas Brinkman Jr., a Republican candidate for Hamilton County auditor and the Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes against Cincinnati Public School, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer. This is a prime example of partisanship stepping over its line. This is the first election in which these students are allowed to vote. Offering them the opportunity to see both sides of the election would have been the appropriate way of informing 18-year-olds on the political spheres in the country. Presenting one side though creates a biased opinion for those students who before this trip had little political knowledge. These students are easily swayed, and unfairly led into voting for one party only. Once again the unethical side of politics is obvious. In this case, however minimally, tax-payers’ money is taken into voting capital for the Democrats in the area. Had the school trip been a fair exposure to both sets of candidates, it would have served the students well. The school though is teaching them only one side of the story — something unacceptable during this era of highly polar political-party face-off. The lawsuit was warranted, if only to deter the rest of the schools in the area from doing the same as Cincinnati’s Hughes High School. The idea of bringing students to the voting booths may have actually been a great idea, but when one party’s politics got involved, polarity cast a shadow over this goal. Brinkman and COAST have every right in securing an even playground. Students were treated as children instead of as adults who have every right to vote and choose their vote according to their own opinions.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “I look larger. As I entered Rutgers I wanted to cure cancer, but now I want to help eliminate the world’s water crisis, a fight that plagues over 1 billion people.” David Pal, a School of Engineering senior and Engineers Without Borders member, on larger-world epidemics STORY IN UNIVERSITY

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Primaries favor popularity Progressive P Offensive

to run the primaries in a residential primarstate. This is what almost ies strongly oppose happened two years ago the democratic in Florida. Par ty of ficials value of “r ule by the in Florida scheduled their majority” in many facets. primar y date earlier in the Some states hold nonyear so they could binding primaries, in which the electors do not GORDON MORRISETTE increase their influence. Because this interrupted necessarily have to vote the Democratic Par ty’s for the nominee — which schedule, the Democratic National Committee they would reasonably be expected to do so. threatened to discount all of Florida’s delegates. This places the power of choosing the presidenIn the end the DNC decided to seat all of tial candidate in a small cliché of people far Florida’s delegates, but only give them half a smaller than the population of the state they repvote. Republican primaries are resent. Clearly, non-binding primaries are olialso ver y undemocratic in nature. Their method garchic and in no way democratic. Binding priof tallying delegates is such that the winner maries force electors to vote for the candidate receives the votes of all the delegates within the they officially and publicly declare. However, state, regardless of how each voted. This not this democratic process was and is wholly negatonly discounts a delegate’s vote but also may ed with the introduction of super delegates. reverse it completely. This idea of transferring Party officials chose these super delegates withvotes is fur ther reiterated if a candidate drops out any regard to the candidates’ current public out. When a candidate withdraws from the race, support. The candidates are forced upon the they choose which contender gets their delepublic, which in turn, forces them to vote solely gates’ votes. along party lines. By not allowing Again, votes are being given to voters to choose for whatever “Entire states can individuals who were not candidate they want, democracy directly voted for by be neglected when is suppressed. the people. The structure of the presidential national party Fur thermore, presidential priprimary system effectively disenfranchises the citizens in many officials disagree with maries are undemocratic because they allow outside influences — states. As approximately 2,000 delethe methods used to other than campaigning — to gates are needed to secure a nomifect the voters. Again, this is nation, any states whose primary run the primaries.” af par tially due to the of fset timing falls after that mark may as well be of each states primar y. This disregarded. This is most directly allows for the “bandwagon ef fect” where people apparent in the absolute neglect of certain state’s unsure of whom to give their vote will simply primaries by national party officials. The current vote for whoever is in the lead in their par ty. method for holding primaries, in both parties, Also, front-runners always have an advantage makes this apparent. I refer to the fact that presibecause of their increased media coverage. As a dential primaries are held over the course of weeks result of this, they receive more donations and and not on a single day. It is for this very reason more people become educated on their views. that New Jersey party officials moved their priPeople will not vote for a candidate they know mary to Super Tuesday. As former Secretary of nothing about even if their views coincide perState Eric Clark said in 2000, “It’s obvious to me fectly. This is fur ther exacerbated by the that too many Americans, including extremely shor t time in which most of the counMississippians, are effectively left out of the tr y’s primaries are held. Lesser known candiprocess. The problem now is that too many states dates have significantly less time to build up any are having their primary elections very early in the momentum on the year, and the nomination is locked up in a matter of national front. weeks. The nominees had effectively been decided by March 7. Mississippians had no meaningful Gordon Morrisette is a School of Ar ts and voice in the process. In fact, Americans in 33 states Sciences sophomore majoring in political scihad no meaningful voice in the process.” ence and histor y. His column, “Progressive Entire states can be neglected when national Of fensive,” r uns on alternate Wednesdays. par ty of ficials disagree with the methods used

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Unite against preaching on campus I was raised a Catholic, and I am proud to say there are some aspects to Christianity. MEREDITH DUGANDZIC great Unfortunately, evangelists like these make me embarrassed to s I was walking out of the even call myself Christian. I Loree Building on the understand that people want to Cook/Douglass campus spread the good word to students Wednesday, I stumbled upon a and to “help us mend our ways.” I crowd circled around a man with understand that people want to a Bible. He was citing passages debunk some of the myths about from the Bible condemning Christianity. But please, don’t do it homosexuality as sin. I was horriso adamantly on our campuses. fied at his insensitivity, given forI’ve seen you year mer University after year, and student Tyler rather than showClementi’s recent “I was raised ing how death. I confronta Catholic, and Christianity can be ed him and demanded that he I am proud to say a loving religion, you turn it into tell me Jesus’s there are some something ugly position on homothat pushes people sexuality. He knew great aspects even further away his bible: Jesus from Christianity. never mentioned to Christianity.” There are plenty h o m o s e x u a l i t y. of religious minRather, the man istries on campus where people stated that “Pedophilia wasn’t can voluntarily ask their questions mentioned by Jesus either, but and explore various faiths. We are we know that to be immoral.” a diverse group of intelligent indiI lingered for another 15 viduals who care about each minutes to hear the reactions of other, and if you are going to other students. They bombardmake intolerant statements about ed the man with inquiries to get particular groups, don’t be surhim out of his comfort zone. prised if you become bombarded One student yelled at the man, with students united against you. “You’re wearing mixed fibers, and so you’re not following the Meredith Dugandzic is a Bible.” The man responded, School of Arts and Sciences senior “I’m always surprised at how majoring in chemistry with a much you students know about minor in geological sciences. the Old Testament.”

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STEPHAN PASTIS

Today's birthday (10/20/10). This year your potential to bring everything together into a beautiful, successful package is high. Handle the details. You care more than anyone else, after all. Desire meets intelligence to form just the right energetic mix. Follow your heart for best results. 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 an 8 — You must devise a creative plan that includes your partner and other important individuals. You won't satisfy everyone, but will provide basic needs. Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 7 — Your need for independence may lead to travel away from home. A friend suggests an unexpected destination that suits your mood beautifully. Gemini (May 21-June 21) — Today is a 6 — Rapidly developing circumstances force you to adapt to social demands. In the process, an idea transforms and you discover opportunities. Cancer (June 22-July 22) — Today is a 7 — If you want the spotlight today, you can have it, but only if you overcome an objection from a close associate. You can share, if you're willing. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 6 — What you think you want in the morning changes dramatically halfway through the day. Others offer alternatives that seem more appealing. Now you have choice. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 7 — You want change, and you're willing to run right out and make it. Younger people may seem inflexible on at least one point. Be patient.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 7 — The course of love doesn't run smooth for someone in your family. You can soothe ruffled feathers by telling jokes and being utterly silly. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 7 — Apply your creativity to concrete problems with a sibling or neighbor. It's better to have a great plan than to rush forward without one. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 7 — You may need to spend money today on others. Listen to demands, and then figure out what can be done to accommodate them without breaking the budget. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 7 — Creative requirements at home put you on notice that you're skills are in high demand. Shop carefully for the best bargain and quality. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 7 — You want to shout your news from the rooftops. Call the essential parties first. They deserve to know in advance. Then issue a press release. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 7 — You don't have to take the spotlight today. In fact, others benefit when you allow them to have their say and reserve your response for another day.

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campaign with just one career start, in which she registered rolls on with Crooks undecided one save and surrendered a goal on Aug. 27, 2009, in a 4-1 win over Stony Brook. continued from back Despite sharing playing “They both did great,” said time, both Simpkins and senior for ward Ashley Jones. Per retty responded well to “They were strong on the ball. their new roles, according They didn’t give up much. Their to teammates. effort was outstanding.” “They cheer each other on Despite the positive showand are each other’s biggest ing, Crooks remains noncomfans,” said DiPaolo. “That’s mittal about naming a consisreally awesome about the two tent starter between the pipes, of them.” echoing back to his wait-andThe netminding pair finish see approach during the prethe season with home matches season. against Cincinnati “Par t of the [deciand Louisville — sion] is if one of the teams in the middle of two emerges on the the pack in the way to the Big East Big East’s National Tour nament and Division. hopefully more, then Louisville lost a perhaps I would go pair of decisions last with that keeper,” weekend, allowing Crooks said. “But I Rutgers to hold sole EMMY like using them both possession of four th SIMPKINS right now. I think it’s place in the division. going well.” Although the tranRutgers’ goalkeeping conunsition to equal playing time will drum is something entirely fornot be exactly smooth, eign to Crooks, who relied on Simpkins and Perretty get the former Big East Goalkeeper of chance to finish out the season the Year Erin Guthrie for the within the confines of Yurcak past four seasons. Field in Piscataway. Guthrie posted a .885 save They also have the possibilpercentage last season and ity of hosting a first-round pitched 11 shutouts en route to match in the Big East a 14-4-3 record and appearance Tournament if the results do in the NCAA Tournament. not var y much. The Sparta, N.J., native has If that is the case, Rutgers since moved on to Women’s will need only one more win Professional Soccer with FC before playing host to the Gold Pride, leaving a major void semifinal and final rounds of to fill for Simpkins. the tour nament at Yurcak The Knights’ opening-day Field — where the carousel starter in 2010 came into the may finally come to a halt.

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ANDREW HOWARD / SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Junior linebacker Manny Abreu (51) injured his knee against Army, giving Ka’Lial Glaud a chance to start at strongside linebacker.

START: Glaud makes leap from limited special teams role continued from back removed from a Big East honor roll performance for his 10-tackle, one-forced fumble showing against Connecticut. The 6-foot-2, 223-pound Glaud’s experience consists of two years of special teams play, but head coach Greg Schiano spoke in past weeks about wanting to give him an opportunity on defense. That oppor tunity comes this week. “Ka’Lial’s that kind of guy that wants the responsibility. He wants it,” Schiano said. “He’s been yearning for it. He just hasn’t been able to crack the lineup. I think he’s not happy with the way it came about, but he’s ready to do it and I believe that he is ready.” Glaud joined the Knights as the No. 25 prospect in New Jersey, according to Rivals.com, out of Winslow Township High School. He committed to Rutgers over West Virginia, with offers to Iowa and Tennessee, among others. Like Schiano said, Glaud wanted the responsibility of being an every-down defensive player, but through the first season and a half he has 12 tackles to his name. “At first it was a little frustrating because coming out of high school, everybody thinks they’re going to be playing,” Glaud said. “I reached the reality that if I was as good as

the person in front of me, I would be playing. I just worked and they kept telling me to work and be patient until I got my chance.” Now that he has that chance — the product of another injury to a Rutgers linebacker and another position change for Glaud — he is preparing the same way. The Atco, N.J., native spends his free time in film study with linebacker coaches Tem Lukabu and Bob Fraser and linebackers Steve Beauharnais, Antonio Lowery and Abreu. That workload will only increase. “I’m getting extra film study in,” Glaud said. “I’m always studying film, but now I’m seeing it from a different angle at Sam. I’ve been paying attention and listening to the other Sams, so it’s not as hard of an adjustment.” While he turns to other strongside linebackers, the other twothirds of his starting unit — Beauharnais at middle linebacker and Lowery at weakside —offer more encouragement than advice. From all of his time learning new positions, Glaud is more than comfortable with the defense. “Sitting in on meetings, I listen to everything, and I also played Sam a couple days during the springtime, so it’s not a completely new position,” Glaud said. “I’m really cool with the whole linebacker corps and everybody’s out there on the field with me, so I know they have my back and I’ll have theirs. I’m ready.”

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Senior linebacker Antonio Lowery (50) will start with Ka’Lial Glaud, who began the year backing up Lowery at weakside linebacker.

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Targum volleyball beat writer Bill Domke chats with assistant volleyball coach Jason Donnelly about pickup basketball with Rutgers Athletics, his personality on the bench and during his collegiate career and ping pong ...

Bill Domke: Word on the street is you play a mean game of basketball and that you’re a sniper from beyond the arc. Jason Donnelly: (Laughs) How do you want me to respond to that? I play a lot of basketball. I love to get out there and compete. When you have an opportunity to play yourself whether it’s basketball or pingpong, I love to play. BD: Pingpong? JD: Whenever I can. Not as often as I would like, but whenever I can. BD: I hear you play basketball a lot with [sports information directors] and coaches. How must those games go? JD: When you have a bunch of people that are around athletics all day and want to go break a sweat, it’s usually good competition. I think I’m one of the older guys, but yeah those games are fun. It’s definitely something I look for when you’re in the grind of a season, you know finding time to exercise is key and I use it as an outlet to get away from the film, practice or volleyball for a little bit. BD: Are they aggressive? JD: Yeah. The games are competitive. Everybody wants to win, everybody wants to play well. Those are some good games. BD: Would you be horribly opposed if I called you the most vivacious coach on the sidelines during volleyball games? JD: Opposed? No. I am who I am. The kids understand that, [head coach CJ Werneke] and [assistant coach Lindsey Lee] understand that — that’s just who I am. I’m pretty into it. That’s how I was as a player, and that’s how I am as a coach. Whether it’s coaching basketball or coaching volleyball, I’m animated. I love games. I really love practices, but competition really drives me. BD: And you played volleyball in college too? How was that? JD: I did. That was a good experience. You grow up playing sports your whole life and I was fortunate enough to have an opportunity to play and kind of rebuild our brand new program at the University of the Pacific and watched how that program went from the bottom of the division to the middle and when we graduated we made the tournament for the first time. It was a good experience. It taught me a lot. BD: What kinds of things did something like that teach? JD: What it takes to compete at the Division I level. It’s more than just showing up and being ready to play. You’ve got to get the work done in the film room. You got to get work done in the classroom. You have to think about practices and how much you’re going to put into it. You have to lift weights. You have to condition. You have to do all that stuff, and if you’re not willing to do that, somebody’s going to come along and take your job pretty quick. BD: OK, revisiting for a minute … pingpong? Really? I don’t know too many people that play pingpong. JD: Well obviously there are not too many opportunities. I love the game, I could play pingpong all day long, but it’s not like there’s a pingpong table in my house. If I could I would, but it’s just not readily available all the time.

other with competitiveness continued from back “I feel like I had a pretty good weekend,” Jones said. “We’ve been working on a lot of things in practice and things are finally starting to come together. I’ve gotten the hang of things.” Jones made an impression on the coaching staf f early. Last year, the Chesapeake, Va., native was second on the team in total blocks with 53, seven of which came on a career performance against St. John’s last November. “She’s been the player we expected her to be coming in and working over the spring,” said head coach CJ Werneke. “Even with other teams preparing for her she’s figuring out how to play at a higher level.” The benefits of Jones’ offensive production are felt often.

OCTOBER 20, 2010 When the Rutgers offense finally got going against Seton Hall on Friday, Jones swatted three kills in a tie-breaking fifth set race to 15. Against Lousiville, last year’s conference champions, Jones led the team with 10 total kills. In every game this month, Jones took a top-three spot in offensive production minus one game, where she was fourth. “For a sophomore to be as effective as she is both offensively and defensively is a tribute to the kind of kid she is,” Donnelly said. “She had to learn what it takes to work at this level. She did everything she was asked to do and more.” Part of the credit for Jones’ growth can be attributed to her partner on offense — junior middle blocker Hannah Curtis. “[Jones and Curtis] challenge each other,” Donnelly said. “It’s kind of like a big sister, little sister thing. They always kind of want to outdo one another in blocking, hitting — whatever it

may be. That’s fun to see — that relationship — the competitive side of them in practice.” That competitive relationship is exactly what Jones needs to push herself to do better. “We work well together,” Jones said. “We help each other out a lot. We talk to each other if we’re doing something wrong or in the game. We have a good relationship, and yes, we do like to challenge each other a lot.” Werneke believes that the combination of Jones’ camaraderie with teammates and her ability to constantly push forward is and will continue to be a tremendous asset to the team. “[She’s] really becoming more of a student of the game,” he said. “Seeing herself and seeing the opponent’s tendencies, making those changes on the court, and as a result, she’s a better blocker. “She’s going to continue to figure things out, put in the work to make the improvement. She needs to continue her growth.”

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OCTOBER 20, 2010

T H E DA I LY TA R G U M

PRACTICE NOTEBOOK

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PRESENTS STRONG ATTACK

BY SAM HELLMAN CORRESPONDENT

The Rutgers football team is back at practice in the wake of junior Eric LeGrand’s injur y and has just four days to prepare for one of the toughest offenses the Scarlet Knights will see all season. The Scarlet Knights travel to Pittsburgh Saturday to take on an experienced Panther team, highlighted by wide receiver Jonathan Baldwin and running backs Dion Lewis and Ray Graham. “We are not ready yet but we will be,” said head coach Greg Schiano. “We implemented the game plan. I think our coaching staf f has done a tremendous job of staying focused on the job. The players have done a great job.” After an off day Monday in which the team watched tape and game-prepped, Rutgers returned yesterday to the practice field. “[Yesterday’s] practice I thought was good,” Schiano said. “There are a lot of kinks to work out when you introduce the new game plan. They worked extremely hard and were extremely focused. It has been a weird season with all the different byes and Fridays and different days. This is an old-fashioned game week. You get a Tuesday, you get a Wednesday and you get a Thursday and you go play.”

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sophomore quarterback Tom Savage is fully healed from his hand injur y, but that tr ue freshman Chas Dodd remains the starter — for now. “I thought Tom — for the first time — looked like his old self again [yesterday] in practice,” Schiano said. “But in my mind right now, Chas is taking the first-team reps and he will be our starter, but I am not going to get locked into anything. We are going to do what is best.”

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Te handled kickof f duty against Army while something

irritated punter Teddy Dellaganna’s leg. Te may handle kickof fs again against Pittsburgh if Dellaganna doesn’t improve, Schiano said. “I was really pleased. San San did a nice job for not having done it all year,” Schiano said. “I thought he did a good job. I don’t know where we will go this week. We will see how it plays out. It is good to know that we have two kickers for the kickoff duties.” Te drilled one field goal and made two extra points last week at New Meadowlands Stadium and looks for ward to his return to Heinz Field, he said. “I kind of like it,” Te said on kicking at NFL stadiums. “It’s weird. I guess because it’s so big, it makes the post seem smaller, you know, not as high. I guess it kind of helps with direction and stuf f like that. I do enjoy kicking in those stadiums.”

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fter helping the Rutgers volleyball team earn its first Big East victory, sophomore Stephanie Zielinski is starting to reap the benefits. The Big East named the setter to its weekly honor roll after Zielinski recorded 46 assists and a career-high 21 digs in a come-from-behind, five-set win Friday over visiting Seton Hall. In a game earlier last week against Rider, Zielinski amassed a double-double, with 23 assists and 11 digs as the Scarlet Knights took the match in three sets. ANDREW HOWARD / SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Freshman quarterback Chas Dodd, above, remains Rutgers’ starter, while Desmond Stapleton (73) practiced in preparation for Pitt.

freshman Isaac Holmes into LeGrand’s vacated defensive tackle spot on the two-deep where he, and redshirt freshman Mike Larrow, will have to pick up the slack on the field. “We are a little bit in a depth situation there,” Schiano said. “Certainly at the defensive line, some guys now get the call. Isaac Holmes gets the call inside and Michael Larrow now gets put into the mix. There it will be a little different.”

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Desmond Stapleton practiced yesterday after leaving last weekend’s matchup with Army with an injury. “I was concerned that he wouldn’t [practice],” Schiano said. “He did some good things.” Schiano limited sophomore wideout Mohamed Sanu in practice — a product of the number of touches and hits Sanu takes in games. Junior linebacker Manny Abreu’s knee injury will hold him out this weekend, but it will not end his season.

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head-to-head matchup away from the Banks this season, the Rutgers tennis team narrowly fell to Columbia yesterday, 3-2. The doubles team of true freshman Stefania Balasa and junior Leonora Slatnick registered one of the Knights’ two points, while freshman singles player Vanessa Petrini won her match to tally a score for her squad. The team hops back into action tomorrow to compete in the ITA Regional Championships in Hanover, N.H. The event marks the final tournament that the Knights will compete in this fall, as they will resume play on Jan. 26 against Princeton to kick off their spring season.

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KNIGHTS LEAP FIVE SPOTS TO FINISH 11TH Despite finishing tied for 16th after Day 1 of the LincolnMercur y Intercollegiate, the Rutgers MEN’S GOLF men’s golf team climbed five places to place 11th out of 18 teams Sunday at Fiddler’s Elbow Country Club. Strong winds affected the field during the first round of the tournament, as Binghamton’s Jake Katz was the only player under par after 18 holes, shooting a 70 — two under par. Freshman Jonathan Renza posted his best outing of the season, carding a total score of 147 (77-70). The rookie finished sixth out of 95 players in the Knights’ third 11th-place finish of the year. Renza also sank eight birdies and led the entire field in parthree scoring, shooting a personal-best minus-three. Weather certainly assisted Rutgers’ comeback Sunday, as the Knights shot an impressive 20 shots better after winds died down

for the second round of play. Four out of Rutgers’ five golfers improved their scoring in the final round of the 2010 fall season. Freshman Jeff Lefevre was second in the Knights’ scoring and placed 50th overall, shooting 157 (80-77). Fellow freshman Doug Walters tied for 64th with a 160 (83-77). The event marked the first time the three rookies topped the team in shooting all season. Junior Andrew Tursky and sophomore Jonathan Fagan rounded out Rutgers’ scorecard, shooting 162 (85-77) and 163 (81-82), respectively. Tursky finished tied for 74th and Fagan tied for 78th place. Binghamton won the tournament hosted by Seton Hall, besting the Scarlet Knights by 35 strokes. The Bearcats finished with a 587 total score on the par 72 course. Justin Martinson of Delaware finished as individual champion for the second year in a row. — Steve Ziegler

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manager, Mike Quade, received a promotion to manager yesterday from the organization. Quade, who took over for Lou Pinella after he retired, led the Cubs to a 24-13 record to wind down the season. Quade managed the Iowa Cubs, a Chicago affiliate, from 2003-06, and served as a third-base coach to Pinella since the 2007 season. The newest Cubs manager won more than 1,200 games minor league games as manager.

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for ward Wayne Rooney expressed his discontent about renegotiating with the English Premiere League club past his last season in 2012. Team manager Sir Alex Ferguson did not know why Rooney was so adamant about not returning to the Red Devils after his contract expires. Rooney has 34 goals to his name in the Premiere League, but his performance for Man. U. has significantly declined this season.

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Giants defeated the Philadelphia Phillies, 3-0, yesterday to put the team up two games to one in the National League Championship Series. Star ting pitcher Matt Cain pitched seven strong innings for the Giants and did not allow a run while striking out five Phillies. Outfielder Cody Ross continued his tear against the two-time defending National League champions, singling in the Giants’ first run of the game off of Phils starter Cole Hamels.

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T H E DA I LY TA R G U M

OCTOBER 20, 2010

THE DAILY TARGUM

ANDREW HOWARD / SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Senior captain James Beatty, left, and the Rutgers men’s basketball team did not host their usual “Midknight Madness” this season, instead opting to hold a closed practice within the confines of the Louis Brown Athletic Center. But sophomore Joe Langel and the wrestling team opened their Sunday practice to the public.

Fall sports hit conference strides as winter season begins A.J. JANKOWSKI’S

T HE GOOD, T HE B AD As midterms loom over the masses at Rutgers University and students have gone to lengths as great as referring to the Alexander Library as “Club Alex” to make studying fun, the Athletic Depar tment made a couple of smart calls of its own this weekend. The men’s basketball team decided not to cut into the budget this year and host “Midknight Madness.” The premise of this countr ywide event is for students to pack their respective gymnasiums and watch their school’s men’s program practice in the wee hours of the nights. Free T-shirts and laser light shows are usually involved, but first-year head coach Mike Rice

decided to skip the festivities and focus on the upcoming season instead. While it was a good call for the basketball team to forgo an open practice, the wrestling team opened up a Sunday morning practice for fans to come and watch. The grapplers enter 2010 touted as one of the nation’s best, poised for a breakout year. While it was a good move for Rice to keep his practices under wraps, it was an equally wise move for head wrestling coach Scott Goodale to get his program out in the open. However, basketball and wrestling are a good month away and the fall spor ts are smack dab in the middle of their conference schedules.

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Senior Emma Chrystal, left, and junior Kallie Pence go for digs in the Scarlet Knights’ Big East victory over Seton Hall.

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As per usual, the department’s programs suffered an array of successes and disappointments. To help aid us in highlighting this week’s action, we turn to the environmentally friendly Sting and his band The Police, who bring us today’s “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.”

Saturday against Providence. Now if Rutgers takes down Connecticut, the squad is automatically in the postseason tournament, joined by the flying pigs and the devil on ice skates. Time to prove the haters wrong.

quarterback Chas Dodd. The floppy-haired southern gunslinger stepped up and made the throws that mattered despite eating more grass than Grateful Dead fans thanks to eight sacks.

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Hole In My Life — Let’s go back to the days when the women’s soccer team won games despite a plethora of injuries. Now the mainly healthy squad continues to squander opportunities to show the flashes of brilliance ever yone took for granted in 2009. The Knights fell, 1-0, to Syracuse this weekend before playing St. John’s to a scoreless draw. Luckily for Rutgers, of the two games remaining on the season both are at home and both are against less-than comparable opponents in Cincinnati and Louisville. Beat either the Bearcats or Cardinals and the Knights are postseason bound. A trip to the semifinals of the Big East Tournament — taking place at Yurcak Field — would go a long way toward re-filling the space in students’ hearts that last year’s team won over.

Message In A Bottle — The men’s soccer team traveled to Pittsburgh this weekend in search of its first Big East win and first road goal of the season. The search continues. What makes this sevengame losing streak all the more painful is that the Knights are still not out of the playof f picture. Rutgers is almost like the Titanic, sinking ever so slowly and making it all the more painful. The Knights host St. John’s on Wednesday with a chance to right the ship. Time to send out an SOS for a goal.

THE GOOD Don’t Stand So Close To Me — The volleyball team dropped visiting Seton Hall on Friday night like it was a bad habit. In doing so, the Knights earned their first Big East victor y and a ton more confidence. The best part about the win is that Rutgers still has seven more conference games to go, while most other spor ts are already rounding out their schedules. If the Knights can relay the message they sent to Seton Hall — aka “Get on my level” — then the team will make serious strides in turning the page on what used to be a dormant volleyball program. Everything Little Thing She Does Is Magic — The field hockey team has a legitimate shot at making the Big East Tournament. Let’s just take a few moments so that message can sink in. Better? OK, now whom do we thank? Head coach Liz Tchou has done a great job getting the most out of her players and the play of goalkeepers Vicky Lavell and Sarah Stuby has been tremendous, but the main reason for the resurgence of field hockey on the Banks is junior for ward Nicole Gentile. The Jamison, Pa., native leads the team by a mile with nine goals and tallied the lone mark in the Knights’ 1-0 victor y

Too Much Information — The football team defeated Army Saturday, 23-20, at New Meadowlands Stadium. There, that’s all anybody needs to know. Not that the Scarlet Knights ran for a grand total of -1 yards. Not that Rutgers committed 12 penalties. Not that Army jumped out to a 17-3 halftime lead. TMI my friends, TMI. Well, facts are facts and it’s tough to ignore the secondstraight fourth quarter comeback led by freshman

Canary In A Coalmine — Dear Rutgers students, Why don’t you hop on a bus and travel 30 minutes up the Turnpike to see your team compete in a “home” game. Sincerely, Rutgers Athletics. Either that letter got lost in the mail or the student body didn’t think Army’s triple option was cute enough to warrant its attention, because the student section at Saturday’s game was absent. I can understand not wanting to watch a game between two middle-of-the-road teams, but the trip was almost worth it just to get to see New Meadowlands Stadium for a small price. No need to worry, the Knights — random horseman and all — are back within the confines of Rutgers Stadium on Nov. 13, when they host Syracuse.

T H E D A I LY TA R G U M

SPORTS

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OCTOBER 20, 2010

Crooks’ keeper rotation lacks offensive support BY TYLER BARTO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

ERIC SCHKRUTZ

Freshman goalkeeper Samantha Perretty played the second halves of last weekend’s games against Syracuse and St. John’s, splitting time with normal starter Emmy Simpkins. Perretty started two games earlier in the season, while Simpkins recovered from a concussion.

The wheels are in motion for the Rutgers women’s soccer team, and that might not necessarily be a good thing. Head coach Glenn Crooks opted twice last weekend to change goalkeepers after halftime for the first WOMEN’S SOCCER two times this year, when sophomore Emmy Simpkins and true freshman Samantha Perretty each saw time between the posts — further magnifying the keeper carousel. “I want to play two keepers,” Crooks said. “We have four quality keepers, but I thought down the stretch I would play both [Simpkins and Perretty] so that if anything happens to one of them, the other is ready.” Still, the move comes in the midst of a 24-1 stretch for the Scarlet Knights, whose recent problems can be attributed to a lack of offense. Simpkins and Perretty combined to allow just one goal in last weekend’s road contests against Syracuse and St. John’s. Both decisions went against the Knights because they failed to convert opportunities into goals for the fourth time in five road tests in the Big East. “Overall ever yone gave a great effort,” said junior captain Tricia DiPaolo. “We played well. We just struggled to put the ball in the back of the net. We had our chances, but things weren’t falling our way.” Perretty has given up only two goals in 290 minutes of action, while Simpkins sports a .750 save percentage in 15 games started this season. Perretty previously star ted against then-No. 19 Georgetown and Villanova earlier in the season, when Simpkins recovered from a concussion she suf fered against then-No. 5 Boston College. Perretty, an American Heritage (Fla.) product, posted a shutout in her first collegiate appearance for Rutgers, but surrendered her first goal in a loss to ’Nova two days later.

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Strongside start stops Glaud’s position cycle

Sophomore emerges as key to RU’s win

BY STEVEN MILLER

BY BILL DOMKE

SPORTS EDITOR

CORRESPONDENT

Plenty of linebackers heard the description before: They play all over the field. They make countless tackles from sideline to sideline and find their way into the backfield to break up FOOTBALL plays. Ka’Lial Glaud will make his first start for the Rutgers football team Saturday against Pittsburgh, but the sophomore was already all over the field in practice — just for a different reason. He began his career at middle linebacker, moved to weakside, spent two practices at strongside, moved back to weakside and then shifted inside to the middle. He will finally be the Scarlet Knights’ starting strongside linebacker. “This is a good opportunity for me to prove I’m [versatile] throughout the whole linebacker corps,” Glaud said. “I learned Will all year, and then I practiced at Mike. I know Mike and Will really well, and now I’m getting a chance to play Sam.” Glaud gets the nod in place of junior Manny Abreu, who injured his knee last weekend against Army. Abreu was one week

Rutgers’ first Big East win over Seton Hall since 2004 on Friday was no fluke. The Rutgers volleyball team not only showed resilience, but real skill in handling the Pirates in VOLLEYBALL order to take three straight sets after first and second set losses. The victory was a team effort and not just a product of the dynamic relationship between team captains Caitlin Saxton and current Big East Player of the Week Stephanie Zielinski. Enter sophomore middle blocker Alex Jones. “[Jones is] a wonderful Division I volleyball player,” said assistant coach Jason Donnelly. “She takes her strengths and focuses on what she does well, but the thing about [Jones] that I love is she wants to make what she does feel right.” Having the second-most kills with 11 on Friday and second-most blocking assists with four cer tainly must feel right.

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Sophomore linebacker Ka’Lial Glaud has 12 career tackles in a special teams role with limited defensive repetitions but will start at strongside linebacker against Pittsburgh.

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