The Daily Targum 2010-11-02

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The Rutgers field hockey dropped its final conference contest to Connecticut, but thanks to a Villanova loss the Knights advanced to their first Big East Tournament since 2003.

Goldman Sachs gives $1.5M to U. students

NJ Republicans show higher voting interest

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In the week leading up to today’s midterm elections, the Eagleton Institute of Politics conducted a poll showing New Jersey Republicans are more enthusiastic about voting than their counterparts in the Democratic Party.

About 64 percent of registered Republican voters polled said they were enthusiastic about voting, according to the poll. When asked the same question, 42 percent of registered Democratic voters polled said the same.

“The party not in power gets excited about beating the party that’s in power. It’s harder to get enthusiastic about continuing work than it is about change,” said David Redlawsk, director of the Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling. “[Right now,] Republicans are about change and Democrats are about continuing what they’ve been doing.”

The shift in party enthusiasm is a reflection of which party is dominant in the legislature, he said. For example, in 2008,

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According to a University poll, 64 percent of registered Republican voters polled are enthusiastic about voting today for Republican candidates, like Anna Little, above.

ATTORNEYS DISPUTE CLAIMS AGAINST RAVI, WEI Attorneys representing Dharun Ravi, of Plainsboro, and Molly Wei, of West Windsor — who face invasion of privacy charges after allegedly using a webcam to watch Ravi’s roommate Tyler Clementi during an intimate encounter with another male — are disputing allegations against them, according to an article in The Washington Post.

Steve Altman and Rubin Sinins, who represent Ravi and Wei respectively, said the webcam stream was only viewed on a single computer and did not show the men having sex, according to the article.

“When the forensic evidence from all the seized computers is revealed, the truth will

come out,” Altman said in an article on nj.com. “Nothing was transmitted beyond one computer and what was seen was only viewed for a matter of seconds.”

Sinins said the idea that the aforementioned encounter was sexual is unfounded.

“I’m unaware of any evidence of sexual contact,” he said. “The statute defining sexual contact refers to nudity and private par ts, and, to my knowledge, nothing like that was seen. I’m also unaware of any evidence that any video was recorded, reproduced or disseminated in any way.”

University spokesman Greg Trevor

declined to comment on the status of the two students.

Ravi allegedly visited Wei’s room in Davidson Hall C on Busch campus one evening in late September and watched the encounter. He tried using the webcam to do so a second time days later.

Both students have withdrawn from the University.

Clementi committed suicide on Sept. 22 by jumping from the George Washington Bridge.

No court date has yet been scheduled for Ravi and Wei, according to the article.

— Colleen Roache

Goldman Sachs Gives, a charitable organ of the investment bank Goldman Sachs, donated $1.5 million to the University to help students in need of financial assistance.

Har vey Schwar tz, co-head of the Securities Division at Goldman Sachs, recommended the donation and ensured that the money was directed to the University through the charity fund, which is managed separately from Goldman Sachs.

“We hope this partnership between Goldman Sachs Gives and Rutgers will open new opportunities for New Jersey students,” said Schwartz, a University alumnus.

Schwartz, who received a significant amount of financial aid when he was a student, was inspired by his struggle to help others in the same position.

“I was for tunate to benefit from the opportunities that come with an education from an outstanding institution like Rutgers,” he said.

Schwartz earned his bachelor’s degree in economics at the University.

The scholarship money will be used specifically for students enrolled in the School of Arts and Sciences, said Douglas Greenberg, executive dean of the School of Arts and Sciences.

Greenberg said donors often share a desire for their financial contributions to be spent a cer tain way. Therefore, not all money endowed to the University is dealt with in the same manner.

“Donors give us money for par ticular purposes, and we’re obligated to spend them,” he said. “Sometimes the donor will give money to students who are majoring in a par ticular field. Sometimes the donor will be giving money for students depending on

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Leaders debate over ARC cancellation

BY DEVIN SIKORSKI ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Although Gov. Chris Christie cancelled the Access to the Region’s Core project last week, the issue New Jersey politicians have with the controversial decision is far from over.

Sen. Frank Lautenberg, DN.J., launched an investigation last Thursday into the governor’s decision to discontinue the ARC project, an initiative planned over the past two decades to build a transHudson River tunnel.

Lautenberg said in a press release that Christie’s move will plague New Jersey citizens for decades, damaging the ability to acquire transportation resources in the future for the state.

“It is critical that the public know what happened and how we can prevent this

from happening in the future,” he said in the release. “This investigation will root out the falsehoods and potential conflicts of interest surrounding the ARC tunnel and identify the motivations and factors that led to the project’s demise.”

Michael Drewniak, a spokesman for the governor’s office, said he does not know how much clearer Christie can be with the ARC project, adding that it seems Lautenberg is taking “the defeat” personally.

“New Jersey cannot afford to be on the hook with a blank check for this project stretching years into the future,” he said via e-mail.

“Sen. Lautenberg has been in Washington for too long and has clearly lost touch with New Jersey, its taxpayers and

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Enjoy tango lessons from RU Ballroom, music from a live DJ, museum scavenger hunts and great raffle prizes, food, and more. Formal attire required!

Tickets sold T – F from 12 – 3 pm, and Wednesday from 6 – 9 pm at the Zimmerli. Reservations are limited. Mask included with $10 ticket.

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SCI to launch new undergraduate minor

BY NICOLE JOYCE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The University’s School of Communication and Information introduced its new minor program — digital information, communication and media — just in time for spring 2011 course registration.

The minor was developed to allow students to gain the skills needed to communicate effectively through technology, said Marianne Martens, a lecturer at the School of Communication and Information.

“The goals of this minor are for students to achieve the technological communication skills needed in today’s world and also to gain leadership in this new digital realm,” Martens said.

Comprised of six hybrid three-credit courses, which are

held both online and in-person, doctoral students will instruct the classes with syllabi that the School of Communication and Information staff designed, she said.

Meant to complement any major, the program may be tailored to a student’s personal interests, Martens said.

Although it is open to all students, not just those enrolled in the School of Communication and Information, Martens suggests that students talk to advisers in their individual schools before declaring.

The new minor draws from various disciplines of the communication department, she said.

“This minor creates a digital portfolio — through its courses and the capstone project — that students give prospective employers or graduate schools,” Martens said.

One of the key features of the program that Martens highlighted is the capstone project, a semester-long project that applies the technological communications skills learned to another field of study or personal interest of the student.

Some students like Daniela Gonzalez, a School of Arts and Science first-year, are not accustomed to and are turned off by the idea of a hybrid course.

Still, Gonzalez said she sees a minor like DCIM is useful in the digital world where technological communication skills are important.

“I like how it can complement almost any major, and the classes for that minor fulfill requirements to graduate [from the School of Arts and Sciences],” she said. “It would be a minor that would be very useful for a lot of things.”

For the courses, the doctoral students will use eCompanion, an online course supplement website.

“The beauty of the hybrid courses is that students who don’t like to speak can shine and really get a chance to participate,” Marten said.

School of Arts and Sciences sophomore Nadine Aponte believes learning topics that require interactive learning would be better understood in a physical classroom with instructors.

“I do feel as though this minor might not be as effective as a hybrid simply because the skills you learn from this minor seem to be more of an interactive thing to learn and would be probably be understood and applied better [with] more face-to-face learning,” she said.

But Aponte said the minor would be helpful in the job mar-

ket today because it provides professional job training and skills that can be used in real life situations.

“It’s something I would be interested in taking, because it is an area of study that educates students in a professional sense, preparing them for a job and at the same time also teaching individuals things that they may use in real life situations,” she said.

An information session on the minor program is scheduled for Nov. 8 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus.

There will also be an online information session on Nov. 12 from 12 to 1 p.m. with DCIM advisors.

For more information, see the School of Communication and Information website, comminfo.rutgers.edu/dcim.

U. PROFESSOR JOINS NURSING ACADEMY AS FELLOW Rachel Jones, an associate professor at the Rutgers College of Nursing, will be inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing next Saturday during the academy’s 37th annual meeting and conference in Washington, D.C. The FAAN selected Jones for her work in communicating ways to reduce the risk of contracting HIV to young women in urban areas via soap operas on mobile phones, according to a University Media Relations press release.

“A Stor y About Toni, Mike and Valerie,” a pilot video Jones created with a team of students, actors, IT specialists and a filmmaker, is in demand by public health personnel.

The Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey earlier this year awarded Jones the Lester Z. Lieberman Humanism in Healthcare Award, in addition to other honors she holds. She also won the Esteemed Woman in the Field of Women and HIV/AIDS award

last year from the New Jersey Women and AIDS Network, according to the release.

Although there are more than 2.6 million registered nurses in the United States, about 1,600 researchers, policymakers, scholars, executives and practitioners in the field of nursing may use the credentials of FAAN. — Colleen Roache

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Department of Education rules address college aid, recruitment

BY RYAN FLOOD STAFF WRITER

The U.S. Department of Education has established a new set of rules and regulations focused on closing up student financial aid loopholes and protecting students from aggressive or misleading recruitment campaigns.

The new rules and regulations will focus heavily on twoyear colleges and technical schools including cosmetology, radiology and mechanical schools, Glickman said.

This set of rules would require recruiters to provide prospective students with any eligible program’s graduation and job placement rates, according to a report released by the U.S. Department of Education.

“Some rules are to protect students from aggressive or misleading recruiting programs,” said Jane Glickman, U.S Department of Education spokeswoman. “These schools cannot pay recruiters simply on how many students they enroll.”

Both traditional universities and technical schools occasionally use aggressive recruitment techniques, often not giving enough information on graduation and job rates for these types of programs, she said. Students go into the schools with expectations different from what they experience.

Other rules in the report pertain to the regulations placed on a student’s eligibility for aid, varying from establishing definitions like what a credit hour is to defining when a student has withdrawn, allowing for calculations on how federal funds must be returned.

The report addresses loopholes and overlooked situations within financial aid, setting

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The U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, above, and other members announced a new set of rules for two-year colleges.

stricter standards on how and when aid should be given, who receives it and how it can be returned in some cases.

On a broader scale, the new regulation system also aims to protect borrowers and taxpayers from the misuse of federal funds in higher education institutions, according to the report.

“Students at for-profit institutions represent 11 percent of all higher education students, 26 percent of all student loans and 43 percent of all loan defaulters,” according to the report. “The median federal student loan debt carried by students earning associate degrees at for-profit

institutions was $14,000, while the majority of students at community colleges do not borrow.”

While increasing rates for enrollment, debt and default have an adverse effect on the students themselves, the taxpayers carry a huge piece of this burden.

“More than a quarter of forprofit institutions receive 80 percent of their revenues from taxpayer-financed federal student aid,” according to the report.

The rules and regulations will be put into place after all final revisions have been made.

“The department announced plans to change the publication date of these final regulations

from Nov. 1 to early 2011,” according to the report. “This will still allow the department to publish final regulations in time for them to go into effect on or around July 1, 2012, as originally planned.”

School of Environmental and Biological Sciences sophomore Sean Coban said it is impor tant for financial aid regulations to be as clear as possible to students.

“As a recipient of student aid, I find that FAFSA is essential to my academic success,” Coban said. “Revisions which bring aid to students who need it are essential.”

School of Environmental and Biological Sciences sophomore Kevin Gallagher said in regard to recr uitment programs, it is impor tant that schools focus on the benefits of the program rather than increasing enrollment through misleading information.

“It’s essential that schools keep the focus on standards and not just boosting enrollment, too many schools seem to be all about profit and hyping up programs,” Gallagher said. “The students end up in programs which they are unprepared, in the end it’s bad for ever ybody.”

OLD BRIDGE TEENS ALLEGEDLY BRAG OF ASSAULT VIA TEXT The five Old Bridge teenagers charged for beating a computer scientist to death in June allegedly attacked the man unprovoked and later sent text messages to each other celebrating the assault.

Julian Daley, 16, Christian Tinli, who turned 18 in September, Cash Johnson, 17, Christopher Conway, 17, and Steven Contreras, 17, are accused of the attack on Divyendu Sinha on June 25 as the Old Bridge resident walked with his family in his neighborhood, according to an nj.com article.

Middlesex County Prosecutor Christopher Kuberiet said prosecutors obtained time-stamped messages between the teenagers — sent within an hour of the fatal assault — saying how much they enjoyed the attack and discussing another similar attack the next day, according to the article.

“Mr. Conway and Mr. Daley are talking back and forth regarding the nature of this horrendous incident and talking about how this was a great incident and this was a good incident,” Kuberiet said in the article, describing the text messages. “They’re joking that they hurt the victim to the point that they may have hurt or broke their own hand.”

Johnson apologized to the Sinha family during a court hearing recording obtained by the Star-Ledger.

“I really apologize to the victim’s family and the victim,” Johnson said in the ar ticle. “I hope one day they can forgive me and see that I’m not a monster like ever ybody in the media says we are. I hope they can find it in the bottom of their hear t to forgive me seriously.”

— Ariel Nagi

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ALUMNI MAKE SIX-FIGURE DONATION FOR SCHOLARSHIPS The School of Communication and Information Alumni Association voted to make a one-time $100,000 gift to pay for student scholarships over the next few years.

Funds for the donation will come from a part of the association’s treasur y as an investment, according to the school’s website.

Interest income generated from the principal endowment will provide awards with varying amounts for a number of students each academic year.

Scholarship money will go each year to undergraduate and graduate students across the school’s six degree programs, according to the school’s website.

Winners benefitting from the new fund include School of Arts and Sciences senior Nicole Chasan, and the school’s gradudate students Krista Welz and Noah Beckman.

“We’ve always supported students through scholarships.

Now, we will be able to do so for a much longer period because of this investment,” said School of Communication and Information Alumni Association President Jennifer Sneed in a statement.

— Kristine Rosette Enerio

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Course to blend art, public planning

BY CECILY SMITH CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Civic Square Building in downtown New Brunswick is home to both Mason Gross School of the Ar ts and Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, but a new course seeks to bring the two schools closer.

Mason Gross Visual Ar ts Associate Professor Gerald Beegan and Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy Associate Professor Antone Nelessen collaborated to create a new upper-level course called “Art and City Design,” which intends to unite ar tists and planning and policy students.

The course will be available to students in Spring 2011.

Although they share the same building, the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy and Mason Gross students do not interact much with one another, Beegan said. But this course will give students the oppor tunity to do so.

The course will provide both groups with an understanding of the ways in which ar t is used in civic design, Nelessen said.

It will focus on public art, street art, murals and other interventions.

“Ever y space can be improved and expanded by the

inclusion of art into the public hope is that the ar tists will streams and public spaces of a teach the planners how to working city,” he said. “We felt recognize good ar t and the it was ver y timely and ver y nec- planners will teach the artists essar y that for the first time how to create artwork that can artists and planners really got be used in a specific context.”

The course will consist of together to understand how we can encourage more ar t in guest speakers, academic articles, site visits and multimedia, the city.”

Examples the class will use Nelessen said.

“It will be a matter of talking include the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. about how one begins to put by landscape architect Maya together one of these projects Lin as well as public art found and bringing other people that have actually put these projects in that capital’s metrorail.

Andrew Zitcer, a teaching together and the kinds of assistant at the Bloustein responses they’ve gotten from these ar t projSchool of ects inside the Planning and “Artists and planners city itself,” he Public Policy said. with a backreally got together Students will ground and to understand how work on pieces exper tise in collaboratively urban planning, we can encourage with teams of will teach the course. more art in the city.” designers, artists Z i t c e r and planners, ANTONE NELESSEN designed the Zitcer said.

Bloustein School of Planning course to “We’re going and Public Policy Associate Professor address the to talk about all civic design of the things that art from the pergo into it, from spective of history, planning the- how the public approval ory, politics and aesthetics. He process works to budgeting to plans to discuss how artists and timelines to the constraint on a policymakers implement the site and how you actually put arts in their respective roles. something on a site,” he said.

“We wanted to find a course The teams will each put that would appeal to both together vir tual proposals at Bloustein students and Mason the end of the semester for a Gross students,” he said. “My site in New Brunswick, Zitcer

said. The presentations will be graded on how well they integrate the course material and how persuasive the project is.

“My hope is to show those to people in the administration of the University or maybe in New Brunswick real estate development and civic communities and just get them thinking about these projects for the future and maybe in the future we can actually do one for real,” he said.

Zitcer formerly worked at the University of Pennsylvania from the late 1990s to the mid2000s where he wrote his master thesis on urban planning.

At the University of Pennsylvania, he was also responsible for a series of cultural facilities, including a performing ar ts venue, an ar t galler y, an ar tist’s and residence program and a film studio.

He helped these dif ferent groups with their programming, budgets, the management of their art spaces and with any support they needed to succeed in the West Philadelphia neighborhood, he said.

Beegan, Nelessen and Zitcer are highly anticipating the start of their new course.

“We’re ver y excited about this whole new venture,” Beegan said.

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STUDENTS: Money will

students based on need, Herring said.

Some of the funds will go to help financially needy students students who have financial emergencies, including situations in continued from front which parents lose their jobs or merit or for students who went there is a sickness in the family. to a cer tain high school.”

There is no limit to the numFor this scholarship, the only ber of students who receive the restriction is that students who scholarship as long as they qualireceive it have to demonstrate fy, Herring said. significant financial need, “It really depends on how Greenberg said. [the scholarship] is being “We have had other donors awarded,” she said. “The who have made bigger income on a million-dollar endowment gifts, but endowment is $45,000 a year [Goldman Sachs’ gift] is wonand that could be awarded to derful and we’re ver y grateful nine students, two students, or for it,” he said. it could be awarded to any Carol Herring, president of range of students depending the Rutgers upon need.”

University Students who Foundation wish to apply for “[Goldman Sachs’ this scholarship agreed with Greenberg in gift] is wonderful must apply for finanthat donors usucial aid through and we’re very ally decide how the University, their money Herring said. grateful for it. ” should be used.

After they comDOUGLAS GREENBERG “A relatively plete a form, the School of Arts and Sciences small propor tion University will Executive Dean of money that we evaluate their raise is in unrefinancial need and stricted form, decide if the stumeaning that the use of it is dents are qualified to receive the not restricted,” she said. “We scholarship. use the money The money will be available to exactly as the donor students in the upcoming school has designated.” year, Greenberg said.

The Rutgers University “We are very hopeful that the Foundation, responsible for scholarship will reach out to stuobtaining donation payments, dents who are in need of help,” reached out to Schwartz first, he said.

Herring said.

The money will count “The foundation [matches] toward the University’s recent the priorities of the University fundraising campaign “Our with the interests of the donor,” Rutgers, Our Future,” which she said. “So we look to find seeks to raise $1 billion over donors who are interested in seven years and has just funding scholarship.” entered its public phase Schwar tz’s donation is recently at a gala at the New among the most generous gifts Jersey Per forming Ar ts Center the University has received, in Newark.

Herring said.

Nearly half of the $1 billion About $1.5 million of the was raised through private-secscholarship will be granted to tor donations.

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Robert Andrews, center, speaks at the unveiling of the Democrats running for congress in today’s midterm elections, where a poll shows that 37 percent of those polled intend to vote for their incumbent.

VOTING: 41 percent say they will vote for Democrats continued from front Democrats were more motivated than Republicans.

The results of the poll in New Jersey are also representative of what is going on nationwide, Redlawsk said. “[The party that is out of office] can just complain, but they’re not responsible for making anything happen,” he said.

“The party that’s in office is responsible. [It is] almost guaranteed that some people will be unhappy with what they do. It’s much easier to be in opposition because you don’t actually have to do anything.”

Eagleton polled 885 randomly selected registered Democrats, Republicans and Independent voters by phone from Oct. 21 to 27, according to an Eagleton Institute of Politics press release.

One question pollsters asked respondents was which party in their congressional district they plan to support with their votes.

In New Jersey, 41 percent of registered voters said they intend to vote for Democrats, while 31 percent plan to vote for Republicans.

Independents in New Jersey are leaning more toward voting for Republicans than Democrats, Redlawsk said.

This is likely because Independents are unhappy with the current administration.

“Independents are more likely to be unfavorable toward President [Barack] Obama and they’re more likely to think the country is going in the wrong direction than they were two years ago,” he said. “They’re at the moment of being a little more Republican.”

One of the closest races in the New Jersey midterm elections is in the third congressional district, with incumbent Democrat John Adler going up against Republican Jon Runyan, Redlawsk said.

Both Adler and Runyan are expected to receive 44 percent of the vote, according to the press release.

Two major issues of concern for Adler and Runyan are of fshore drilling near New Jersey and the state’s farmland assessment program, Redlawsk said.

Runyan supports oil drilling off the New Jersey shore, while Adler opposes it, he said. Voters in the district, which is historically Republican, are split on the issue.

“The candidates running against [incumbents] ... don’t have much recognition or are well known.”

DAVID REDLAWSK Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling Director

“When Adler won two years ago, it was a shock. Republicans filled that district for hundreds of years,” Redlawsk said. “The fact that Adler is keeping it close when things are bad for Democrats says a lot about the power of being the incumbent.”

There are similar tight races in the sixth and twelfth districts, he said. Both districts have incumbent Democrats, but the partisan lines are split about more evenly balanced.

Across the state, results show voters are supportive of their congressmen. Of the registered voters polled, 37 percent would vote for their incumbent, compared to 26 percent who would vote for a challenger, according to the release.

In New Jersey, there is great support for incumbents, many of whom do not face popular challengers. There are 13 open congressional seats in New Jersey and in 10 of them, incumbents are vying for the office.

“The candidates running against [incumbents] don’t have very much money, don’t have much recognition or are well known. [Challengers] don’t have much coverage,” Redlawsk said.

“The primary reason that people vote for incumbents is that they recognize incumbents.”

Five seats held by Republican congressmen right now do not look to be in danger of losing their seats in office, Redlawsk said.

Some students at the University have witnessed the enthusiasm gap between Republicans and Democrats.

“Democrats are still trying to determine an agenda and they find difficulty in collaborating on an underlying issue they can initiate and put forward,” said Jon Pagtakhan, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “Republicans just need to get back on track.

The fact that they’re not in power in Congress is a huge factor.”

Some University students also say they hear more about Republicans in the news.

“We hear all about Republicans in the tea party movement pushing for their candidates in the election, like [Delaware Senate candidate Christine] O’Donnell, more than ever before,” said Jeff O’Yang, a Rutgers Business School junior.

T H E DA I LY TA R G U M ARC project as they await the determination of the State Ethics Commission. into James Simpson’s role “Simpson self-repor ted to the State Ethics Commission, continued from front and then recused himself from fur ther par ticipation on the fiscal condition.”

ARC steering committee. The Although Lautenberg takes reports to the governor came pride in the creation of the from the chair of that commitproject, Drewniak said the tee, James Weinstein, executive constr uction of the tunnel director of NJ Transit,” he said. would hur t rather than help It was the governor who made some of the senator’s closest the decision based on the costs of constituents — New the project and funding imbalJersey families. ance from Washington, “Perhaps the senator can Drewniak said. explain why he is insisting New John Weingart, associate Jersey tax and toll payers fund director of the Eagleton Institute 70 percent of a project while of Politics, said just as political billions in federal funding pour motives played into Christie’s out of Washington for highdecision to scrap the ARC projspeed rail lines in other states ect, the same can be said for like Florida, which will pay Lautenberg’s investigation, callonly 20 percent of project ing both political strategies. costs,” he said.

“When an elected of ficial Despite the disagreement calls for an investigation, most between Lautenberg and the often that is a political tactic governor, the investigation is more than a real search for ongoing and elements of impar tial information,” he Christie’s decision are being said. “He strongly believes that examined by the state. the gover nor’s decision is One focus of the investigawrong. I think calling for an tion is the role of Department investigation is a way of underof Transpor tation scoring how strongly he Commissioner James Simpson believes that.” and his work on the ARC projWeingart explained if ect. Simpson super vised planRepublican members were sucning of the ARC project under cessful in taking over one house former President George W. of Congress, a plethora of investiBush, which breaks the New gations would be initiated to Jersey Uniform Ethics Code, review the deciaccording to the sions and policies release. of the Obama The N.J. “I think most administration.

Uniform Ethics “It’s not going people don’t have Code does not to be about a allow a state offiany particular personal feeling cial to work on a project if he or feeling about this about Obama. It is going to be she was involved tunnel one way about their diswith the same agreement with project for anothor the other.” policies of the er government or administration, JOHN WEINGART private entity, and they’re Eagleton Institute according to the using this as a of Politics Associate Director release. way to draw The State attention to the E t h i c s disagreements,” he said. “So I Commission will investigate wouldn’t say it is personal Simpson’s role in the ARC [for Lautenberg].” project, which Executive Although politicians use Director Kathleen Wiechnik investigations of policy decisions said is normal with an ethics to shed light on their political case involving a member views, this does not mean they of government. are unsuccessful, Weingart said.

“If there is an allegation “Occasionally, an investigathat a state official who is in tion does find some criminal the executive branch of state malfeasance or finds procegovernment has violated any dures that were violated or provision of the Conflicts of that should perhaps be Interest law, that is the basis changed to lead to better decifor the State Ethics sion making in the future,” he Commission to do an investigasaid. “Most often, it’s a way of tion,” she said. drawing attention to a point of The commission follows an view [and] may result in more investigative process after the press coverage.” complaint is received, conductWeingar t said although it ing inter views with all those seems Lautenberg voiced his involved with the case and concerns louder than his politireviewing related documents, cal constituents, he is by no according to their website. means the only person frustrat“The case will be presented ed with the cancellation of the to the commission, and the ARC project. commission makes the deter“It’s a complicated issue, mination whether there are or and I think most people don’t are no indications of a violahave any par ticular feeling tion of the conflicts law,” about this tunnel one way or Wiechnik said. the other,” he said. “But Sen. Drewniak said the goverLautenberg is far from isolated nor’s office is confident there just as Gov. Christie is far from was no conflict with the role of isolated on this issue.”

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ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS

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Peter Montagu, director of Environmental Research Foundation, speaks at “A Purgenvenient Truth” last night hosted by NJ Community Water Watch and Sierra Club. Purgen is a coal plant plan that proposes to sequester carbon dioxide in liquid form 1.5 miles under the ocean.

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After you cast your vote join Rutgers University Programming Association as it welcomes musical comedian Evan Wecksell. Check him out at www.evanwecksell.com.

The event will take place at 8 p.m. in the Red Lion Café of the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus.

Admission is free, light refreshments will be served.

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Those who attend Art after Hours at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum between 5 and 9 p.m. can expect to learn about how the University’s student chapter of Engineers Without Borders is making a sustainable impact in the world by empowering third-world countries. David Hill, a professor from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, will lecture on the water problems around the world. Guests will get to work on real engineering projects and win prizes. They will also get a chance to speak to current Kenya, Guatemala and Thailand project members during a poster info-session on Engineers Without Borders’ clean water projects with complimentary refreshments and music. All galleries are open. The event is free to Rutgers students, faculty and staff.

James Hughes, dean of Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, and other school staff members will begin the conference by presenting the R/ECON™ short-term forecast for New Jersey’s economy. It will be followed by presentations about the residential real estate market by Patrick O’Keefe, director of Economic Research at J.H. Cohn LLP, and on the commercial market by Gil Medina, executive managing director of Cushman & Wakefield. A discussion period will follow the formal presentations, which begins at 10:30 a.m. in the Special Events Forum of the Civic Square Building.

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The USTOGAZA fundraiser, hosted by BAKA: Students United for Middle Eastern Justice, will be held from 7:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. in the Busch Campus Center Multipurpose Room. The fundraiser is open to the public and is $5 for students and $25 for non-students. It will feature Col. Ann Wright, Adam Shapiro, Fida Qishta and Nada Khader. All proceeds will go to the US Boat to Gaza.

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Bhatki-The Higher Taste will host an event called Sacred Sounds at 8:30 p.m. at the Rutgers Student Center Multipurpose Room on the College Avenue campus. The event features yogi and spiritual leader Radhanath Swami and kirtan bands Gaura and the Mayapuris. For more information visit bhakticlub.org/sacredsounds.

Enjoy an energetic live show with a performance by a New York group, whose debut album, The Rhumb Line, was one of the most critically acclaimed albums of 2009. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show will start at 8 p.m. on Cook campus.

Tickets are $10 for students and $15 for faculty, staff, alumni and guests. Tickets can be purchased at the Student Activities Center on the College Avenue campus.

To have your event featured on www.dailytargum.com, send University calendar items to university@dailytargum.com.

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Have you noticed any effects of the state budget cuts at the University?

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SENTHIL MUPHIA GRADUATE STUDENT “Just the LXc. That’s the only problem I have. I think there are many Highland Park residents right now. I know they are affected. I know not all of them have cars.”

“We still have a lot, but there are a lot that was cut.

That shouldn’t be happening to us because we pay so much and we should be gettingmore."

RISHI MATHUR SAS SENIOR “I know for a fact that even the tuition and everything went up by a lot. And when I got my loans back, they increased the interest that I have to give back because everything has sky-rocketed price wise because of the budget cuts.”

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Source: Office of the University President

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The percentage of state funding cut from the University’s budget for 2010-11

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WHICH WAY DOES RU SWAY?

The approximate amount Gov. Chris Christie’s administration cut from the University’s original appropriation for the current fiscal year

CAMPUS TALK

“Honestly I haven’t noticed anything notable.”

MAXIM VAL SAS JUNIOR “I haven’t noticed any cuts, but I’m sure there are.

I thought there were just always crowded classes and buses.”

SIGOURNEY HUNTER SAS FIRST-YEAR STUDENT “I don’t really notice anything because everything is new to me. I notice that things are so packed because everything is reduced, that’s really the only thing.”

ONLINE RESPONSE There are fewer campus services. — 10%

There is a delay in maintenance.

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I haven’t noticed many changes.

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Classes and buses are noticeably more crowded.

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I haven’t noticed many changes

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THIS WEEK’S QUESTION

Do you think an anti-bullying law would be effective?

Cast your votes online and view the video Pendulum at www.dailytargum.com

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DeLay faces charges for money laundering THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AUSTIN, Texas — Tom DeLay took part in a scheme to illegally channel corporate money into Texas legislative races in order to strengthen his power and influence, prosecutors said yesterday in opening statements of the former U.S. House majority leader’s money laundering trial.

DeLay’s attorneys countered that no corporate money was given to Texas candidates and that the only thing the once-power ful but polarizing ex-lawmaker is guilty of is being a good politician.

Travis County prosecutor Beverly Mathews said DeLay and two associates — Jim Ellis and John Colyandro — illegally funneled $190,000 in corporate money, which had been collected by a group DeLay started, through the Washington-based Republican National Committee to help elect GOP state legislative candidates in 2002. Under Texas law, corporate money cannot be directly used for political campaigns.

“The evidence will show you they took the corporate money they knew could not be given and came up with a scheme where that dirty money could be turned clean and given to candidates,” Mathews said.

DeLay, who has long denied any wrongdoing, is charged with money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

If convicted, he could face up to life in prison.

Mathews told jurors the $190,000 that was collected by DeLay’s Texas political action committee was exchanged for the same amount through the Republican National Committee and ultimately given to seven Texas candidates. She said the money swap was super vised and facilitated by DeLay. Mathews said the Republicans won a majority in the Texas House as a result of DeLay’s scheme, meaning they could then push through a congressional redistricting plan engineered by DeLay that would send more Texas Republicans to Congress.

Republicans won a majority in the Texas House in 2002 and congressional redistricting sent more Texas Republicans to Congress in 2004.

“There is nothing wrong with Republicans trying to dominate the political world,” Mathews said. “But the means to achieve that gain must be lawful.”

During his opening statement, DeLay’s lead attorney repeatedly told jurors that no corporate money was ever given to Texas candidates.

Dick DeGuerin acknowledged DeLay’s political action committee sent $190,000 in corporate money to an arm of the Republican National Committee and that the national committee used money collected from individual donations to send $190,000 to seven Texas GOP candidates.

“It’s not the same money. No money was laundered,” DeGuerin said. As DeGuerin spoke to jurors, a television screen next to him displayed the words: “No corporate money went to candidates in Texas.”

DeGuerin said DeLay, who did not make decisions for his political action committee, lawfully raised money and promoted the interests of the GOP. “He did it so successfully that there was a lot of anger. You cannot convict Tom DeLay because he was a better politician than the other side was. That’s not a crime,” DeGuerin said.

Before opening statements, DeLay was upbeat as he entered the Austin courtroom.

“The prosecution doesn’t have a case. How can I not feel confident?” said DeLay, standing next to his wife, Christine.

The first two witnesses, Craig McDonald, the director of Texans for Public Justice, a liberal watchdog group, and Fred Lewis, an Austin-based independent political watchdog, testified that they filed complaints with the Travis County District Attorney’s Office, asking it to investigate DeLay’s political action committee, which they suspected of using corporate money for political candidates.

DeGuerin tried to portray McDonald and Lewis as individuals biased against Republicans.

Both men denied that.

Testimony was to resume Tuesday with George Ceverha, the ex-treasurer of DeLay’s Texas-based political action committee.

DeLay has been pressing for a trial since he was indicted five years ago, but the case was slowed by appeals of pretrial rulings, including his attorneys’ attempt to move the trial out of Austin — the most Democratic city in one of the most Republican states.

DeLay and DeGuerin have said the charges are politically motivated by former Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle, who brought the original case but has since retired. Earle is a Democrat.

Prosecutors deny the charges are politically motivated.

DeLay’s defense team also worried about the trial being held in liberal Austin and its timing, with testimony beginning a day before the contentious midterm elections. Jurors were selected last week, and the trial is expected to last three weeks.

DeLay was once one of the most powerful Republicans in Congress, earning the nickname “the Hammer” for his heavyhanded style.

The criminal charges in Texas, as well as a separate federal investigation of his ties to disgraced former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, forced DeLay to step down as majority leader and eventually to resign after representing suburban Houston for 22 years. The Justice Department ended its federal investigation into DeLay’s ties to Abramoff without filing any charges against DeLay.

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Many of the promised BP claims to reimburse the businesses affected by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are either not adding up to the income losses or being denied to people who were previously promised money.

Thousands of claims denied for oil spill THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. — Denied claims for Gulf of Mexico oil spill victims are rising dramatically because of a flood of new filings coming in without proper documentation or with no proof at all, the head of the $20 billion BP fund said yesterday.

Some 20,000 people have been told they have no right to emergency compensation, compared to about 125 denials at the end of September. This is in addition to many others who say they are getting mere fractions of what they have lost, while others are receiving large checks and full payments.

In an inter view with The Associated Press, claims administrator Kenneth Feinberg denied allegations the process is beset by chaos. He said the claims facility has sent about 30 potentially fraudulent claims to the Justice Department for investigation, and hundreds more are under review.

“I disagree about disarray,” Feinberg said. “There are discrepancies in claims based on documentation and your ability to demonstrate a connection to the spill and your damage.”

He said since Oct. 1, the fund has received thousands of new claims for emergency six-month payments, bringing the total to about 315,000, in an apparent rush to meet a Nov. 23 deadline.

After that, residents can only file a claim for a final payment, which would be granted only if they sign away their right to sue BP. Thousands are suffering from a summer of lost revenue after BP PLC’s April 20 well blowout off the Louisiana coast spewed more than 170 million gallons of oil into

the sea. Fishermen who were not working for BP’s cleanup sat idle at the docks with no seafood to sell, while beachside restaurants found themselves with few patrons, and hotels were nearly empty during a time when many depend on high-season revenue to carry them through the slow winter months.

The well was permanently capped on Sept. 19.

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“I’m at my breaking point.

I don’t know what else to do except file bankruptcy.”

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would have expected would have come in shortly after Aug. 23,” Feinberg said, referring to the date he took over the process from BP. “But two-thirds of the claims have come in since Oct. 1, and many of those claims are undocumented.”

He speculated that some who do not deserve a payment sense a gold rush and are inundating the facility with illegitimate requests.

The Justice Department last week announced the first criminal charges filed in an oil-spill related case against a Fayetteville, N.C., woman who pretended to be employed by a New Orleans oyster company, according to a federal complaint. Charlotte Johnson is charged with wire fraud and faces up to 20 years in prison after authorities say she sought $15,500 in fictional lost wages.

A telephone message left for her federal public defender was not immediately returned. A man who answered the phone at Johnson’s home said she is in federal custody on the charges. He declined further comment.

About 92,000 claimants have been paid or approved for payment as of Oct. 30, amounting to roughly $1.7 billion. The claims facility declined to reveal the total amount requested by the nearly 315,000 people who have now filed.

For Gulf coast residents with apparently legitimate claims, the process can be maddening.

“Why can’t they just explain why they denied me?” said Sher yl Lindsay, an Orange Beach, Ala. wedding planner whose business has plummeted.

“Why are they so secretive?”

Lindsay sought about $240,000 for lost revenue because of beach wedding cancellations and received a check for just $7,700. She was told, like so many others, she could request additional money in her claim for a final payment, a check that likely will not arrive for months.

“I have three weddings booked for next year. That’s it.

Normally, by this time, I would have 50 on the books,” Lindsay said. “I’m at my breaking point. I don’t know what else to do except file bankruptcy.”

President Barack Obama tapped Feinberg to oversee the BP claims fund, which the oil giant created under government pressure to ensure that it paid those hurt by the spill.

Feinberg is paid by BP, but says he is operating the fund independently. He has declined to say how much he is getting for his ser vices.

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Paperwork causes fines, confusion for employers THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SEATTLE — They cost clothing chain Abercrombie & Fitch $1 million in fines, tripped up Meg Whitman’s campaign for California governor, prompted mass layoffs across the country and have been at the center of countless other workplace immigration disputes.

An obscure federal document called the I-9 form has emerged as a contentious element in the national immigration debate since the Obama administration vowed to go after employers who hire undocumented workers. Employers must fill out and sign the form, which requires them to acknowledge, under penalty of perjury, that they examined documents that allow an employee to work.

The Obama administration a year ago announced plans to ramp up I-9 audits — a shift from the notorious work site raids common under the Bush administration.

But most employers with questionable record-keeping are not being punished for failing to prove their employees have legal status, an analysis of documents obtained by The Associated Press shows.

Most receive only warnings if the I-9s turn out to be based on fraudulent documents.

Some are fined. Few face arrest. And the AP analysis also shows that many of the employers the government has targeted had no violations.

“The I-9 system is deeply flawed,” said Daniel Costas, an immigration policy analyst at Economic Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C., think tank. It “relies on employer eyesight for the verification of government identification and documents. If this is how the system is going to

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After the Obama administration increased I-9 audits, which ICE officials say are part of a comprehensive strategy, such employers like Abercrombie & Fitch were fined $1 million for ineligible employees.

work, then it’s a big waste of time and money.”

The system is meant to thwart illegal immigrants from working in the United States, where about 7.8 million illegal immigrants have jobs, according to a 2009 report by the Pew Hispanic Center.

But at its foundation is a law that requires a promise that employers check their workers’ eligibility to work. Those forms are never submitted to the government. Employers must simply keep them on hand in case the government decides to audit the business and do a check of its workers’ immigration status. All employers are required to keep the forms — no matter the size of the business.

Whitman, the Republican hoping to become California gover-

nor Tuesday, has struggled to overcome a scandal over her forced revelation that she had an illegal immigrant housekeeper for nine years. The maid was required to fill out an I-9 form when she was hired, and Whitman says she fired her last year when she learned the woman had lied on the form.

During an audit, ICE agents go through the I-9 forms and check Social Security numbers to make sure they are real, matching them against copies of other forms of ID. Early this year, The AP asked for each of the audits conducted since the changes to the system were made. The U.S. Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement responded just recently with limited details of a

sampling of audits covering a seven-month period.

The AP reviewed summaries of 430 audits conducted between July 1, 2009, and Jan. 31, 2010.

During the seven-month period, ICE agents found 22,000 “suspect” documents among the more than 86,000 I-9s reviewed. Suspect documents mean the person’s legal authorization to work in the United States is questionable.

ICE audited more than 200 companies with fewer than 25 employees, including 50 businesses agents listed as having fewer than five workers. More than 250 of the companies did not have a single suspect form.

Administrative arrests, usually arrests of immigrants without the proper documentation, dropped

from nearly 5,200 in the fiscal year 2008 to 765 through August of fiscal year 2010. Criminal arrests of employers rose slightly, from 135 in 2008 to 150 so far in that same time period.

Criminal arrests of workers dropped from 968 to 208.

ICE officials say their I-9 audit efforts are part of a comprehensive strategy.

“We’re trying to create a culture of compliance,” said Brett Dreyer, the current head of ICE’s work site enforcement unit. “We’re using the best tool available. We believe in this work site mission as part of the entire strategy.”

Dreyer said in the mid1990s, immigration agents would target industries known to have a significant number of illegal immigrants. Now, ICE prefers to follow investigative leads to better use their resources, he said.

But without large fines and arrests, it is hard to tell how much effect the audits are having, said Julie Myers, a former Assistant Secretary at ICE during the Bush administration.

ICE reported it collected more than $6.9 million in fines this year, up from $1.33 million in 2009. But some of those fines come from cases initiated in previous years, including the $1 million from Abercrombie & Fitch.

More than 200 companies were fined in fiscal year 2010 — some fines were as low as a few hundred dollars. There were also examples of harsher fines.

Abercrombie & Fitch will pay more than $1 million for failing to verify the employment eligibility of its workers in stores in Michigan, authorities announced in September, after the company agreed to have the case made public.

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Court decides to extend freeze on gays in military THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals cour t yesterday indefinitely extended its freeze on a judge’s order halting enforcement of the militar y’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, heightening pressure on the Obama administration to persuade the U.S. Senate to repeal the law before a new Congress is sworn in.

A divided three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the U.S. government’s request for a stay while it challenges the trial court’s ruling that the ban on openly gay service members is unconstitutional.

The same panel, composed of two judges appointed by President Ronald Reagan and one appointed by President Bill Clinton, on Oct. 20 imposed a temporary hold keeping “don’t ask, don’t tell” in place.

Yesterday’s decision means gay Americans who disclose their sexual orientations still can’t enlist in the armed forces and can be investigated and ultimately discharged if they already are ser ving.

“We continue to warn ser vice members that it is unsafe to come out as long as this law remains on the books,” said Aubrey Sar vis, executive director of the Ser vicemembers Legal Defense Network.

In an eight-page order, two judges said they were persuaded by the Department of Justice’s argument that U.S. District Court Judge Virginia Phillips’ worldwide injunction against the policy “will seriously disrupt ongoing and determined efforts by the Administration to devise an orderly change.”

“The public interest in enduring orderly change of this magnitude in the military — if that is

what is to happen — strongly militates in favor of a stay,” Judges Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain and Stephen S. Trott wrote in their majority order. “Furthermore, if the administration is successful in persuading Congress to eliminate (the policy), this case and controversy will become moot.”

Another reason they gave for imposing the freeze was decisions by four other federal appeals cour ts that cast doubt on whether Phillips exceeded her authority and ignored existing legal precedents when she concluded gays could not ser ve in the militar y without having their First Amendment rights breached.

Judge William Fletcher entered a partial dissent, saying he would have preferred the panel had heard oral arguments before granting the stay.

Fletcher said he thinks “don’t tell, don’t tell” should not be

used to discharge any existing service members while the case was on appeal.

“Defendants would not be required during the pendency of the appeal to change their recruiting practices, to change their personnel manuals, or, subject only to the requirement that they not actually discharge anyone, otherwise to change their practices,” Fletcher said.

President Barack Obama repeatedly has said he opposes “don’t ask, don’t tell” but favors ending it legislatively instead of through the cour ts. Over the summer, he worked with Democrats to write a bill that would have lifted the ban, pending completion of a Defense Depar tment review due Dec. 1. The legislation passed the House but was blocked in the Senate.

The president has pledged to push for another vote during

Congress’ lame duck session after Tuesday’s elections.

“The president claims to want to see ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ ended. It is time that he stop talking and star t working to make a real difference for gay and lesbian Americans by pushing for repeal when Congress returns,” said R. Clarke Cooper, executive director of Log Cabin Republicans, the gay rights group that sued to over turn “don’t ask, don’t tell” in Phillips’ court, The court ordered the government to submit its brief in its broader appeal by Jan. 24 and gave Log Cabin Republicans until Feb. 22 to reply. It did not schedule oral arguments in the case.

“For the reasons stated in the government’s submission to the appellate court, we believe the stay is appropriate,” Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said.

TEENAGER FINDS FAMILY SLAIN ON HALLOWEEN COLUMBUS, Ohio — A 16-year-old boy thought he stumbled onto a Halloween prank when he found the bloodied bodies of his brother, mother and stepfather in his family’s home in Martin in northwest Ohio, authorities said yesterday.

His stepbrother, who authorities say has a history of mental health problems, was arrested in the slayings.

Devon Griffin had spent the night out and returned home Sunday to change his clothes before church, authorities said.

After returning from church, he discovered the bodies of his brother, Derek Griffin, 23; their mother, Susan Liske; and her husband, William Liske.

The teenager told authorities it looked like a joke from a Halloween party, Ottawa County Sheriff Bob Bratton said. But he soon realized the bodies were not decorations.

He ran outside and called an aunt, who called 911.

“My nephew came home and there’s blood ever ywhere,” Griffin’s aunt told a dispatcher on the 911 call.

Bratton said the Liskes and Derek Griffin suffered severe trauma to the head. It was not immediately clear whether a gunshot or a blunt object killed them, Bratton said. Autopsies are being conducted.

William Liske’s 24-year-old son, also named William Liske, was arrested Sunday at the family’s cabin near Scio, some 170 miles away from Martin. He was jailed and did not have a lawyer as of yesterday afternoon. He is due in court this week.

The Blade newspaper in Toledo reported that in 2004, the younger Liske was charged with assault and robbery after he allegedly hit his stepmother with a coffee cup and took her car keys. A plea of not guilty by reason of insanity was filed for him. The state later dropped the charges.

— The Associated Press

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US warrants criticism for rights violations

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he United Nations rarely exhibits any more power than some sort of advisory influence. And when a nation such as the United States seems to have more power than the international body itself, cooperation relies heavily on the more powerful player. That is why when the U.S. comes under criticism at the U.N.’s human rights assembly over the next week, it is important for leaders to listen and take notice.

According to Agence France-Presse, the 47-member council, will review 16 members of the U.N. over the next 12 days , including the United States. This will give some sort of legitimacy to the 300-or-so U.S. civil liberties groups calling for the Obama administration to bring American “substandard human rights practices” up to international standards. In opposition, non-governmental organizations will lobby for the U.S. human right standards, while the administration will join the defense to its record.

This practice of scrutinizing the United States and several other U.N. members will at least bring up the issues that need the greatest attention. Issues that must be addressed will include the discriminator y impact of foreclosures, racial profiling and harsh immigration policies. The U.N., in recent years, called out the United States’ handling of terror suspects.

The U.N.’s focus on these issues will give some sort of legitimacy for domestic organizations. Instead of letting internal conflict tear states and the nation apart, this scrutiny will allow for an international society to passively intervene. We doubt that anything will immediately change within the treatment of certain individuals in the United States, but at least this conference has the potential to shine a light on the issues. It will be up to government officials to decide whether to follow their citizens’ requests or needs, but this will seemingly make it easier.

The other countries under the microscope includes Andorra, Bulgaria, Croatia, Honduras, Jamaica, Liberia, Libya, Lebanon, Malawi, Maldives, the Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Micronesia, Mongolia and Panama — a random assortment it is. And while a couple of these countries seem to uphold some form of modern standards, the rest have histories of violence and human rights violation.

The United States must come under scrutiny even if the skeptics win the debate of whether this will accomplish any greater standards.

Perhaps we will do best by dealing with the issues from the inside.

But when an advisory international player joins, there is a somewhat greater chance of success.

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police officer in Bangor, Maine, was denied the right to vote.

According to Bangor Daily News, James Dearing, an officer in the district for the past 18 years, was asked to surrender his firearm before casting his early vote. After refusing to hand over his weapon, Dearing eventually left the polling location before voting.

The election warden who requested that Officer Dearing surrender his weapon has since been dismissed, and the Bangor police chief has stated that officers are not required to give up their firearms at the polling locations.

Dearing was on duty when he decided to stop over at the Bangor Civic Center on Friday to vote. The fact that he was on the job allows for him to “maintain the peace and safety” — even within the voting places. Asking the of ficer to surrender his weapon to another police of ficial does not make any sense.

This scenario also brings up the issue of the multitude of voters who are too busy to go vote outside of work. We all have jobs and most of us try to make it to the polling places, sometimes during the workday. This case is no different. Voters cannot be turned away on the basis of wearing inappropriate attire or being too smelly. No matter these appearances, we cannot be denied the right to vote.

We applaud the officer for not complying. Policemen go into banks all the time, dealing with the same financial problems as the rest of us, and with the vast amounts of money in a bank’s safe, one would think there would be a law against guns. And yet, officers do not seem to present any threat to customers, bank tellers or election wardens. On the contrary, they provide a certain security.

Dearing said he left the voting place embarrassed and insulted, and he posted details of the event on his Facebook page. He received strong responses almost immediately. “One fellow officer, who is stationed in Iraq, said ‘What am I over here fighting for?’” Dearing said.

This case hardly presented any threat for people who were at the polling place at the same time as Dearing. It is necessar y for anyone with the right to vote, to be given that right, and police of ficers must be no dif ferent. The fact that a police of ficer tried to vote with his gun by his side is not an issue.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “Every space can be improved and expanded by the inclusion of art into the public streams and public spaces of a working city.”

Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy Associate Professor Antone Nelessen on the incorporation of art in public spaces STORY IN UNIVERSITY

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bowl of chicken soup. She roponents of the knows that the chicken she’s legalization of mariabout to eat was probably juana often refer to raised on a factory farm. She’s smoking weed as a “victimprobably seen a news proless crime.” In some ways, gram or possibly one of those that seems like a pretty fair pamphlets People for the judgment. If you merely Ethical Treatment of Animals consider the isolated act of MATTHEW KOSINSKI is always handing out around rolling and smoking a joint, campus about what happens then smoking marijuana in factory farms. So she probably knows that the chicklooks as innocent as consuming alcohol. The only en she’s about to consume was abused by its handlers, repercussion is someone gets high. No one around had its beak chopped off, was shot full of strange chemthat person gets hurt, and life continues on the icals and just had an all-around terrible time before same way it always has. But the “victimless crime” being slaughtered and put in her soup. She also knows designation only holds true if you approach the act that, although she does not support animal abuse, she of smoking marijuana as an incident isolated from really enjoys eating chicken. So, she separates her the larger social networks in which it is embedded. bowl of chicken soup from the factory farm practices This is a glaring oversimplification of the act, one that resulted in her meal. that ignores where the marijuana you are currently The situation of the marijuana smoker is pretty smoking may have come from, and what kind of similar. He knows that there is a chance that the tragic violence was left in its wake. weed he just bought was grown in Mexico and It is fairly common knowledge that a large proporsmuggled into the country. He also knows that tion of the weed smoked in America comes from someone has probably just died in, say, Tiujana Mexico. It is also fairly common knowledge that the because of drug violence. He knows that he would U.S.-Mexico border is plagued by violence related to never condone such terrible violence. But he does the drug trade. In fact, according to the Trans-Border not see the fact that the man who was just beheadInstitute’s mid-year report on drug violence in ed in Tiujana may have met his grisMexico for 2010, there were 6,587 ly end because of the very same pot drug-related homicides in Mexico in “Despite marijuana’s he just scored from the dealer 2009, and 5,775 drug-related homiacross the street. cides in the first half of 2010 alone. If commonly held I am not making any sort of moral drug violence continues at this rate, judgment with regards to the aforewe could see more than 10,000 drugstatus as mentioned marijuana smoker. He is related homicides in Mexico at the a ‘victimless crime,’ not a bad person for unwittingly supend of this year. We are aware of the drug-related violence along the borthere is ... evidence porting a Mexican drug cartel with an astronomical body count, and he der, but when we see the abstract to the contrary. ” is certainly not a bad person for notion of death presented in the comwanting to sit back, relax and light paratively concrete form of a tally, we up. He isn’t even a bad person if he recognize just how bad things really reads this column, considers the connection between are. What we usually do not recognize is the very poshis joint and a recent public execution in Puebla, sible connection between the joint we are smoking Mexico, and decides to just shrug his shoulders and and the 6,587 people who were killed last year. go on with his life. Although in that case, he would be People like to compartmentalize. We like to take an incredibly lazy and apathetic individual who I our knowledge of the world and file it away into neat litwould not hesitate to chastise for his voluntary ignotle slots in our brains. There’s nothing wrong with this. rance in the face of accessible fact.

It makes sorting through the miscellaneous facts and The fact of the matter is that, despite marijuana’s figures we memorize much easier when we need to commonly held status as a “victimless crime,” there is a recall them. But the dangerous aspect of this tendency lot of evidence to the contrary. A lot of the marijuana to compartmentalize is the fact that it makes it much smoked in America leaves behind a trail of untold easier for us to miss the ways in which these bits of destruction as it makes the journey from Mexico to the knowledge are inextricably connected. Take, for states. Stateside consumers of pot are one of the reasons instance, the cigarette smoker. He knows that smoking such violence continues — as long as we keep demandcauses lung cancer and a slew of other terrible dising, the cartels will keep supplying, and violence is an eases. He also knows that smoking brings him some inherent part of the cartel’s business model. I don’t sort of pleasure. So he separates these two bits of mean to make it seem like American pot smokers are knowledge and ignores the fact that his pleasure is tied to the possibility of his death. Or for an even better example, consider a woman sitting down to enjoy a SEE KOSINSKI ON PAGE 15

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any organizations show up to help after a natural disaster has struck, especially when a disaster hits a poverty-stricken nation. However, there are a slew of other people that bring attention to these places long before the world takes notice in the event of a catastrophe. The non-profit organization, Heifer International,

KOSINSKI continued from page 14 responsible for the level of violence.

I only want to point out that we are helping to support an industry that endorses ruthless bloodshed. To draw another comparison, the American pot smoker is just like the American Nike consumer. The Nike consumer would probably never condone the use of sweatshop labor but, in buying Nike products, he is supporting a company that endorses it.

Of course, this knowledge doesn’t mean the pot smoker

helps communities in Third World countries who want to improve their standards of living by providing them with livestock, such as goats, chickens, feed and training to make them self reliant. The Heifer field offices are available to help these communities along the way.

The basic premise behind this type of charitable support as opposed to just handing out food, clothing or even bottled water is the idea of the gift that keeps on giving.

The families who sign up for the proneeds to cease and desist immediately. It just means that he should start paying more attention to where his weed is coming from. The only way he can safely separate the joint in his hand from a slew of homicides in Mexico is if he knows the exact origins of his marijuana. Think of it like buying local produce instead of the stuff churned out by corporate farms — if you’re going to smoke pot, buy as local as possible. Only then can the “victimless crime” tag truly apply.

Matthew Kosinski is a School of Arts and Sciences junior majoring in English with a double minor in philosophy and cultural anthropology.

gram raise and take care of the animals they have been given. When a new offspring is born, depending on the animal the number of offspring varies per year, it is given to another family within the community and this gift keeps on giving.

Goats are a great source of nutritious milk, meat and even a stable income from selling the excess milk to acquire everyday necessities. People have grown out of poverty and into self-sustaining individuals through this program.

As a class project, four students, including myself, will be holding a clothing exchange event to raise money to help donate a symbolic goat to a third world country through Heifer International.

How it works: Please donate your used, but clean, clothes for a charitable cause. In return, you will be given a ticket with the number of items you have donated that you can then exchange for other people’s clothing of your choice that have also donated for the simple admis-

sions fee of $2. These clothes can be brought from 9:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. on Wednesday to the Cook/Douglass Lecture Hall room 103. The clothing exchange will also take place in the same location from 9:15 a.m to 12:15 p.m. on Nov. 10.

Please attend.

Waqar Tariq is a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences senior majoring in genetics with a minor in environmental and business economics.

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n the coming days, University students have a chance to make a statement about their suppor t of a caring and socially just campus, state of New Jersey and society by voting for the referendum to continue to fund New Jersey Public Inter est Resear ch Gr oup Student Chapters.

NJPIRG pr ovides valuable

leadership and ser vice lear ning experiences to students through its inter nship program, building skills such as writing for the media, conducting research, organizing grassr oots campaigns and public speaking. Students lear n how to make their voices count on essential public issues, such as poverty, energy and the environment. I greatly value the way in which NJPIRG provides oppor tunities for University students to become civically

engaged and to lear n deeply about the social issues of our community and our state. I hope students will stop by a polling table and vote “yes” so that NJPIRG can continue its tradition of helping University students become better citizens and leaders.

Maurice Elias is a University professor in the Department of Psychology. He is the academic director of the Rutgers Civic Engagement and Service Education Partnerships Program.

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Aries (March 21-April 19) -Today is a 5 -- Romantic ideas concerning travel occupy you. If you plan a trip, allow for adjustments in the itinerary. Something lucky happens along the way.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -Today is a 6 -- Seemingly minor changes transform your personal work as if by magic. Greater harmony persuades others effectively. Allow time to receive and send communications.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is a 7 -- A close associate points out the need for intense focus.

Everyone has done their research. Now sort out the salient facts and create your action plan.

Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Apply mental effort to your work. Others are creative, but you need to keep your eye on theoretical parameters. A partner offers solid advice.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Harness your enthusiasm and apply it to a creative task. This makes the work go quickly and easily. Family and coworkers appreciate the focus, if not the noise.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -Today is a 6 -- Apply physical energy to household activities.

Your mind's going three directions at once, but keep your hands and feet busy organizing and doing cleanup tasks.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -Today is a 7 -- Communicate with neighbors, friends and distant relatives. Opportunities today may not be completely smooth sailing, but there is power in building toward goals.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -Today is a 5 -- Plan for more folks around the dinner table than usual. It's better to have leftovers than fall short.

Choose your best recipe.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -Today is a 7 -- Paying attention to the task at hand may be difficult now. Fresh opportunities distract from a priority. For best results, stay in the moment.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -Today is a 7 -- Stick to basics as you discuss important issues in private. Group members are ready for a change. Effective direction is necessary.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -Today is a 6 -- Pay close attention to another team member's enthusiastic presentation.

You find practical information that affects your side of the equation. Take notes.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -Today is a 5 -- If you find yourself in the spotlight today, you may squirm a bit. You're more ready than you thought to take on personal transformation.

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Freshman quarterback Chas Dodd completed 44 of 78 pass attempts for 635 yards, four touchdowns and two interceptions in three starts.

JOB: Injured players OK to take on USF at Raymond James continued from back During his consecutive comebacks, Dodd completed 73 percent of his passes for 285 yards and three touchdowns in the fourth quarter and overtime.

“I do feel comfortable,” Dodd said. “That’s one of the reasons I picked to come here, because it is so similar to the offense I ran in high school. I love the spread offense, how it’s ran and how you spread the ball around.”

Schiano said that Savage is available and fully healthy to come in if need be and did not rule out using both quarterbacks in some capacity against the Bulls.

“We’re going to do whatever gives us the best chance to win,” Schiano said. “They’re both qualified. They’re both prepared.

They’re both very comfortable with the plays.”

KNIGHT NOTES: Although Savage is fully healthy, a number of key offensive contributors are limited by injuries. Sophomore wideout Mohamed Sanu (ankle), junior tailback Joe Martinek (ankle), sophomore tight end D.C. Jefferson (ankle) and junior tight end Fabian Ruiz (lower) will all be OK to play, but could be hampered with injuries though they showed improvement.

Junior linebacker Manny Abreu (knee) will not play, with sophomore Ka’Lial Glaud making his second consecutive start in Abreu’s stead.

Sophomore cornerback Marcus Cooper is also out against USF, after suffering a leg injury in practice. Cooper, a converted wideout, earned a larger role in the secondary against Pittsburgh.

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Freshman goalkeeper Sarah Stuby made six saves against UConn but allowed a season-high six goals in the Knights’ loss.

BERTH: Defense suffers

Syracuse by a 2-0 score, making both the Knights and setback against No. 4 Huskies Wildcats even in the standings with two conference wins apiece. Since the Knights own continued from back the tiebreaker, they were able the 14:08 mark and the third to move into fourth place after score clocking in with less than Georgetown lost, 3-1, to 18 minutes left in regulation.

Providence, sealing the final By that time, the Huskies held Tournament spot. a 5-0 lead and showed no signs For seniors Bull and Heather of letting up.

Garces, there is still another “We let them get into the game to be played. circle — we didn’t play ver y “I think they’re ver y excited strong defensively,” said senfor the program and for the ior co-captain Jenna Bull. “I team,” Tchou said of the senthink that allowed them to iors. “I said to them after the have more shots than we wantgame, ‘Even though we lost ed them to have and unfor tuagainst UConn, it’s really nice nately they were to be able to be able to capitalize reaching the end on them. It’s of the season and “We grew up so tough to say. still be talking much as a team that about the Big They definitely had more shots instead if we play our game East than we would’ve of talking about [against Syracuse], how the season wanted to give up and I think it then it’ll be a very is over.’ came down to “It was rewardour defense as a ing to be able to good match.” whole unit in say it was a testaJENNA BULL the end.” ment to the girls Senior Midfielder As a team, and how much UConn gave the we’ve improved Knights all they and how far we’ve could handle on both ends of come to be able to say we’re still the field. The Huskies rattled in the hunt for the Big East.” off 21 shots, with 12 of them The stage is now set for directed at freshman goalkeepTchou’s squad –– a rematch with er Sarah Stuby. The walk-on was the Orange, the Big East regular under siege the entire game season champions. and by the final whistle surrenSyracuse buried the Knights dered the most goals in a single its last time out by a 5-1 margame for a Rutgers’ goalkeeper gin, but the team relishes the this season. opportunity of having another Stuby and the defense came shot at their conference foe, into the conference matchup according to Bull. with plenty of momentum, hav“The match against ing shut out their opposition in Syracuse is awesome. I know four of the previous five games.

I’m really excited about that But the Huskies showed why because we played them [in] they are the No. 4 team in the one of our first Big East games nation, making it clear they and we didn’t do all that well,” would not fall to the Bull said. “I think that this upstart Knights. weekend coming up when we Luckily for Tchou and Co., play them again, we grew so the teams that needed to fall much as a team that if we play for Rutgers to gain entr y into our game, then it’ll be a ver y the Big East Tournament did good match. I’m looking forso. Villanova lost to No. 7 ward to that rematch for sure.”

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STYLE: Rice works with number of different lineups continued from back Rice went on to repeat the procedure 29 more times in the first half, as ever yone except freshman walk-on Frank Mitchell saw action in the first stanza.

“They were a little fresher,” Rice said of his substitutions.

“They have to get used to it.

Some of our guys aren’t used to it. I’d actually like to sub more.

You have to play with that effort for as long as you can and as hard as you can.”

Reser ves Mike Kuhn and Charlie Rigoglioso both saw time on the court together at one juncture in the opening period.

The first-year Rutgers coach opted at times for a big lineup, with Mitchell, Biruta and 6-foot7 senior Robert Lumpkins in the frontcourt.

Rice just as easily went small, featuring guards Beatty, Coburn and freshman Austin Carroll in the backcourt.

“It’s kind of a learning experience for me in feeling out what combinations are good together,” Rice said.

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first half with 16 team fouls and combined with McGill for

27 stoppages of play in the opening period.

“Aggressive doesn’t mean putting your hands on the offensive opponent,” Rice said.

“We want to make the team play quicker than they want — get them out of some of their of fensive sets — but … we have to play with a little of that aggressiveness and a little more purpose.”

The Knights also struggled defensively on the perimeter, collapsing the lane and aiding the Redmen’s 5-for-12 three-point clip in the first half.

On the other hand, Rutgers struggled from beyond the arc, converting only one of eight early opportunities.

Rice stuck with a man-to-man pressure against McGill and MIKE the Knights switched defensive matchups on Redmen pick-and-rolls under Rice’s scheme.

“I have to use more zone [defense],” Rice said. “When I do have a bigger, slower team in, we can’t switch and kind of put pressure on the basketball. We’ll go back, watch the film and see what happens.”

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and often for the Knights, registering seven rebounds, four

on of fense, in the first half alone.

The St. Benedict’s (N.J.) product took advantage of a McGill team sporting just four players over 6-foot-6.

“We have to get better at rebounding because Hamady [N’Diaye] left and someone has to step up,” Biruta said.

The 6-foot-8 freshman converted his lone three-point shot in the second half on an assist from Beatty.

Biruta also made good on both of his free throw attempts during the opening period, and the Knights shot 8-for-11 collectively from the charity stripe in the same stanza.

“Gil played hard like always,” said Mitchell, who finished with 16 points in 23 minutes.

RICE “He attacked the [defense]. He’s relentless going after the ball.”

RICE PUT THE finishing touches on his 2011 recruiting class Saturday, when 6-foot-9 forward Greg Lewis committed to the Knights.

Lewis, a St. Frances (Md.) senior, was the seventh and final commitment in Rice’s first full class at Rutgers.

The 225-pound Lewis, a three-star recruit according to

T H E DA I LY TA R G U M Rivals.com, completes Rice’s collection of three- or four-star commitments for the class.

Lewis narrowed down his final choices between Rutgers, Mar yland and South Florida but ultimately opted to venture to the Banks after relationships he built with Rice and associate head coach David Cox. Lewis visited Rutgers in early October.

“That was pretty much it — I didn’t do any more visits after that,” Lewis said. “It was just my relationship with the coaches.

I’ve gotten close with coach Rice and coach Cox.” Lewis reunites with Class of 2011 recruits Malick Kone and Jerome Seagears, as well as 2012 commit Jordan Goodman as D.C. Assault AAU players committed to Rutgers.

While he knows Kone and Seagears personally, he is also familiar with the New York-area commitments Kadeem Jack, Myles Mack, Derrick Randall and Mike Taylor, having played against them.

Lewis joins Randall, a South Kent (Conn.) for ward, as the Knights’ sole big men from the Class of 2011, which largely features guards and wing players.

— Steven Miller contributed to this report

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utgers volleyball sophomore setter Stephanie Zielinski earned Big East weekly honors for her performance against conference rivals Georgetown and South Florida. The setter recorded 31 assists and 15 digs in the contest to lead the team against the Hoyas, though the team went on to lose in five sets.

Against the Bull, Zielinski stepped up her game even further, posting 62 assists and 17 digs to propel the Scarlet Knights to victory. The pair of doubledoubles marked the 18th of the sophomore’s young career, earning her Big East honors for the second time in two years.

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Jonelle Filigno of the Rutgers women’s soccer team tallied six points in the Canadian National team’s 8-0 win over Guyana in the CONACAF World Cup Qualifier.

Filigno saw time off the bench for the Canadians, seeing 40 minutes of action and making the most of the opportunity. The freshman notched two scores in the contest and assisted on two others.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS released its preseason NCAA men’s basketball All-American Team, as selected by a 65-member group media panel.

Duke senior forward Kyle Singler garnered the most votes in the poll with 62, as three other seniors made up the team.

Guard Jacob Pullen (Kansas State) received 53 votes, guard Jimmer Fredette (Brigham Young) got 49 votes and JaJuan Johnson (Purdue) earned 46 votes to round out the seniors.

North Carolina freshman Harrison Barnes marked the first rookie to make the team since voting began before the 1986-87 season, as the forward received 17 votes.

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to Minnesota was supposed to be his shot to relive the successes of his early NFL career.

However the all-pro receiver’s stay with the Vikings was all but impressive.

The Vikings released the outspoken Moss yesterday, just weeks after the team initially traded for him.

Moss will now be on waivers until later today, raising the question of whether the New England Patriots –– the team with which Moss started the year –– would resign the deep threat.

To do so, the other 31 NFL teams would have to pass up on claiming Moss, and in the event no team claims him, the receiver will be free to sign as a free agent with any team in the league.

EDISON PENA,

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the 33 Chilean miners who was stuck underground for 69 days, accepted an invitation to participate in the New York City Marathon.

Pena jogged regularly through the unblocked tunnels.

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In his first three seasons on the Banks, head coach Scott Goodale posted a 50-19-1 record and sent 12 wrestlers to the NCAA Championships, including seven last season.

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Goodale and Co. welcome transfers Mario Mason and Alex Caruso to the Banks and Scott Winston returns to the lineup after redshirting last season following a phenomenal freshman campaign.

“It was the first time that I wasn’t in the starting lineup in my entire life,” Winston said. “It was something to get used to from a life standpoint — not having to compete every week. It was an adjustment all around, basically, to my life.”

Mason, a Blair Academy product, returns to New Jersey after spending two seasons in Minnesota with the Golden Gophers’ program.

“I wasn’t wrestling well out there. I just wasn’t comfortable I guess,” the Moorestown, N.J., native said. “Coming back here with coaches and wrestlers that I know has been great.”

As a redshirt freshman last year, Mason placed fifth at the Big Ten Championship and qualified for the NCAA Tournament.

While Mason was not happy with his performance, Goodale believes that hunger will only make the 149-pounder better.

“He finished fifth in the Big Ten Championship. Fifth in the Big Ten is almost harder than the national tournament,” Goodale said. “[Mario] wasn’t happy with the year he had, and he’s hungr y. So now you have one of the top wrestlers in the countr y, and he’s hungr y.”

Caruso is a little more familiar with the Knights’ rise over recent years. Wrestling at fellow EIWA school Lehigh for the past four years, Car uso

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was a par t of the Mountain Hawk program that is 39-1 against Rutgers.

But Car uso’s 174-pound spot in the lineup at Lehigh fell in favor of upstar t Rober t Hamlin, making the Green Brook, N.J., native’s decision to return to the Garden State much easier.

“We’ve got a tremendous work ethic along with incredible talent,” Goodale said. “It just makes it a much better room and it’s reached the point where guys are watching. Our younger guys are watching how they work, train and prepare. It’s been awesome.”

Winston, Mason and Caruso all are set to wrestle in tonight’s Wrestle-Offs to determine the starting lineup.

While tonight may show who has made the most strides in the of fseason in order to make the starting 10, it might not necessarily be those wrestlers who compete when Rutgers opens its season Sunday against Sacred Heart and East Stroudsburg.

The duals may be taking place at the Louis Brown Athletic Center, but the opposing sides are a far cry from the toughest opponents that test the Knights this season.

Rutgers opened its season last year against Sacred Heart and blanked the Pioneers, 43-0.

The Knights also took down East Stroudsburg, 20-15, later in the year while resting most of their starters.

Still, it is a prime opportunity to kick the season off on the right note.

“It probably won’t draw a huge crowd like some of our other matches later in the year will,” Goodale said. “But it’s still at the RAC. It’s still our opener, so let’s go. We are at least excited to wrestle somebody else, that’s for sure.”

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Five-set win salvages Big East weekend split

BY BILL DOMKE CORRESPONDENT

When the Rutgers volleyball team (10-14, 2-8) matches up against Georgetown and South Florida VOLLEYBALL in the 3 same RUTGERS weekSOUTH FLORIDA 2 e n d , great games are bound to follow.

The Scarlet Knights split the weekend when they took a dramatic fifth-set victor y against the Bulls after losing a fifth-set hear tbreaker Friday against the Hoyas.

“I’m very satisfied with the weekend,” said head coach CJ Werneke. “More importantly it’s how we’re playing volleyball right now. We showed a lot of character at Georgetown.”

With a four-set loss to USF (10-12, 6-5) last year not far in the back of their minds, the Knights did not look to take another loss so easily.

After taking a tough 25-19 first-set loss, Rutgers rallied to take a 25-17 victory to even the score going into the break.

It looked like the match would end similarly to last year, when the Bulls took a 2-1 lead after a strong 25-17 win to answer the Knights.

Rutgers pulled together to even the set again with a 25-20 fourth-set win that saw 13 ties and three lead changes.

“We felt pretty confident going into that fifth set,” Werneke said.

The final set saw a “win by two” situation. Freshman outside hitter Brittany Bozzini swatted her 24th kill of the day followed by another kill from senior Emma Chrystal to take an 18-16 fifth set win.

Both of Rutgers’ Big East wins have come from fifth-set-winning

kills from the senior outside hitter.

“Emma’s been great,” Werneke said. “It’s unfortunate about her injury on the year, but battling back she’s always looking forward and not in the past.”

Bozzini led all Knights in scoring with her 24 kills on the day.

Sophomore setter Stephanie Zielinski had her 12th doubledouble on the season with 62 assists and 17 digs.

The win was especially satisfying after the heartbreaker that came at the hands of the Hoyas two days earlier.

The game looked as if it spiraled out of control after Georgetown (14-12, 4-6) took the first two sets by scores of 25-21 and 25-19.

To make matters worse, the Hoyas jumped out to an 11-4 lead at the beginning of the third set that forced Werneke to call a timeout.

A subsequent 10-3 run helped the Knights obtain a 14-14 tie lead that they pushed to the end for a 26-24 victory.

The fourth set went back and forth, but was highlighted by an 18-10 run by the Knights that led to a 25-23 victory to force a fifth set.

“Getting down early in the first set really put us behind, but our kids fought back to get back into the match,” Werneke said.

“That shows a lot of character.”

But Georgetown jumped out to a 13-7 lead in a crucial fifth-set race to 15 that the Knights could not overcome. Rutgers dropped the final set, 15-13.

After finishing out their away schedule, the Knights have four home matches left in their season.

“One of our goals now is to win out,” Werneke said. “That’s the goal. We want to get some favorable matchups with [Marquette in next Saturday’s game].”

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Sophomore setter Stephanie Zielinski earned a spot on the Big East Weekly Honor Roll after her pair of performances against Georgetown and South Florida, which included a double-double.

BIG EAST ANNOUNCES KICKOFF TIME FOR RUTGERS’ MATCHUP WITH SYRACUSE The Rutgers football But Rutgers dropped team’s Nov. 13 matchup with each of its past two trips to Syracuse at Rutgers Stadium Cincinnati, including a 30-11 w i l l Bearcat win that ended FOOTBALL kickof f the Knights’ unbeaten star t at 3:30 p.m. and be aired to the 2006 season at on ESPNU, the Big nine wins.

East announced.

The Bearcats also won in With the game 2008, 13-10 — part live on ESPNU, of a 1-5 start Rutgers now has at for Rutgers. least four of its A time and the telfinal five games on evision coverage for national television, this year’s contest including tomorwill be announced as row’s matchup early as Monday. with South Florida The Knights’ final on ESPN2. two games are GREG After the meeting against Louisville SCHIANO with Syracuse, and West Virginia which beat Rutgers, and both will be aired 31-13, at the Carrier Dome last on ESPN, ESPN2 or ABC. season, the Scarlet Knights Rutgers played a similar head to Cincinnati to take on matchup with Louisville last the Bearcats. season — nationally televised Although Cincinnati rout- the day after Thanksgiving — ed Rutgers last year, the and that game kicked off at squad is struggling in its first 11 a.m. season with head coach Butch The Knights won, 34-14.

Jones and finds itself in the Big East cellar.

— Staff Report

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Freshman’s swipe catches Stringer’s eye in practice

BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ CORRESPONDENT

The leap from high school to college basketball is a tough one and often times freshmen stumWOMEN’S BASKETBALL ble into t h e i r rookie years while still adjusting.

Take the leap from high school to Rutgers women’s basketball with coach C. Vivian Stringer with a competitive Big East schedule, and adjusting can be all the more challenging.

Luckily for Stringer, whose team is as young as ever heading into the 2010-11 season, one rookie is doing her best to stand out.

“First of all, it’s a joy to coach [Daisha Simmons].

She’s done ever ything we’ve asked of her and more,” Stringer said of the freshman guard. “She’s a winner. She wants to be a winner. It’s interesting because she has come in just like ever y other freshman quite honestly — kind of starstr uck, humbled, not really asser ting herself. So it was completely difficult for me to tell, ‘Was she having the same issues that ever yone else was having in adjusting?’”

With less than two weeks remaining until a date at California, the Scarlet Knights are still working out the kinks of their offense. At the same time, the Knights are tr ying to round out the edges of their patented 55 full-cour t press, something Stringer hinted that the team will use more this season.

That’s where Simmons comes into play.

The Jersey City, N.J., native averaged close to a triple-double in her senior season at Gill St. Bernard’s (N.J.) with 21.5 points, 8.4 assists and 8.2 rebounds per game, all the while displaying her versatility.

But coming to the Banks presented a far greater challenge

ANDREW HOWARD / SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

C. Vivian Stringer enters her 40th season as a head coach with a squad that returns no seniors from last year.

Freshman guard Daisha Simmons could assume a role in the 55, the team’s full-court press.

for the freshman, who was ranked the 11th-best shooting guard by ESPN. “It’s been a fun experience so far,” Simmons said. “[Stringer] wants the best from you every day, so you know you just have to work hard.”

Simmons showed that ability during practice, grabbing her coach’s attention as well as the rest of the team’s.

While working on the 55 during practice, Simmons had the responsibility of guarding the ball-handler who just so

happened to be former Rutgers point guard Matee Ajavon.

The former Knight plays in the WNBA for the Washington Mystics, after initially being drafted by the Houston Comets in 2008.

During her time with Rutgers, Ajavon served as a sparkplug for offense, scoring willfully by slashing to the basket and utilizing her ball-handling skills.

Ajavon averaged 12.2 points a game in her senior season, second only to guard Epiphanny Prince, who has gone on to

establish herself among the elite in the WNBA. When it came to breaking the press, Ajavon did it at will against the 2010 edition of the Knights, leaving Stringer’s squad searching for answers.

But it only took one play for Simmons to get her coach’s undivided attention.

Ajavon dribbled the ball up the floor, again with Simmons guarding her. This time, though, Simmons got the best of the former Rutgers standout and stripped the ball away to get a steal at midcourt.

Stringer initially stood in disbelief.

“Because of the angle that I was, I thought that Daisha, who was playing [Ajavon], had fouled her,” Stringer said of the play. “I said, ‘No, that was a foul,’ and so the girls on the sideline were saying, ‘No, strip.’ I stopped and said, ‘No one strips Matee. She didn’t strip you, did she, Mat?’ Mat said, ‘No that was clean.’ I then went on to ask her a question, ‘Who here has handled you?’

Because she was running all over e v e r y body. She said, ‘Man this one right here is tough.’

DAISHA And it was SIMMONS Daisha.”

W i t h the caliber of a player that Ajavon was during her career on the Banks, Simmons’ defensive stop of the pro guard does more than just get Stringer’s attention.

The freshman may have done enough to cement herself a spot on the floor and onto one of the most vital components of the Knights’ game this season –– the 55-press.

But before Simmons focuses on having an immediate impact, the freshman sticks to a modest plan for her rookie showing, one that could be even more impactful than anyone anticipated.

“I mean I’m working hard, and with hard work you can do a lot,” Simmons said. “As long as I keep working hard then I will be ready. If I stay confident and work hard, I will be able to do a lot of good things, but I won’t know until that time comes so we’ll see what happens with working hard and stuff and staying confident.”

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Trio of Knights head home to Tampa area for USF matchup

BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

Although the Rutgers football team is just beginning to stretch its recruiting reach into t h e FOOTBALL T a m p a area, the Scarlet Knights matchup Wednesday with South Florida still marks a homecoming for some members of the squad.

The numbers are not as high as the Knights’ game against Florida International in Miami, but there are still three key Rutgers players heading home.

Senior defensive end Jonathan Freeny and freshman wideout Jeremy Deering both hail from Tampa, where the Knights will take on USF at Raymond James Stadium.

Sophomore tight end D.C. Jef ferson is from Winter Haven, Fla. — about an hour drive from Tampa.

While preparing for quarterback B.J. Daniels and the Bulls’ offense, Freeny was also busy

collecting tickets for his friends and family.

“I’m trying to get a lot of family down there to watch me play,” Freeny said. “A lot of the underclassmen have given me tickets already, so I’ll be all right.”

The Coconut Creek High School product has 22 tackles and a fumble recovery on the season, but only half a sack after leading the team in the categor y a year ago.

Deering’s JONATHAN role will be FREENY significantly larger than Rutgers’ last game in Florida, where he played, but did not make any catches.

With sophomore wideout Mohamed Sanu bothered by an ankle injur y, Deering could also be relied upon to run the Wildcat package once again. He had four carries for five yards

splitting time with Sanu against Tulane, but with Sanu limited against Pittsburgh, the Leto High School product had five carries for 25 yards.

Sanu is only one of a number of Knights suf fering ankle injuries, but all are set to play Wednesday, including Jef ferson.

The Winter Haven High School product has nine catches for 160 yards and a touchdown, which came in the September matchup in Miami.

Jefferson injured his ankle against Pitt, but returned later in the game with a slight limp, and recovered enough during the time off that he will be OK to play.

“They’re all hobbled, but they’re all going to play. They’re not 100 percent, but they’re going to play,” head coach Greg Schiano said of Jefferson and fellow tight end Fabian Ruiz, a Miami native. “I think with D.C., you would have to tie him up to get him not to play — he’s going home.”

ANDREW HOWARD / SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Sophomore tight end D.C. Jefferson (10) injured his ankle against Pittsburgh but will be able to play Wednesday in Tampa.

GIANTS CLAIM WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONSHIP The San Francisco Giants won the World Series yesterday, clinching the series WORLD SERIES with a 3 - 1 victor y over the Texas Rangers in Arlington.

The 4-1 series victor y marked the first title for the Giants since relocating to San Francisco and the first for the organization since 1954.

Reigning two-time National League Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum took the ball for the Giants and won his second World Series start, tossing eight innings of one-run ball.

The Rangers’ lone run came on a Nelson Cruz homer, as they were unable to back ace Cliff Lee. Lee entered the series unbeaten in his playof f career but took two losses to the Giants as he matched up against Lincecum in each start.

The Giants’ runs came on a three-run Edgar Renteria home run in the seventh inning, securing his Most Valuable Player Award.

Renteria, who only played in 72 games throughout the regular season, hit .412 (7for-17) in the series, hitting two home runs and driving in six runs.

The Giants took each of their two home games by a combined 20-7 score, then hit the road to Rangers Ballpark, where they took two of three from the American League Champions.

Behind a staff that consisted of Lincecum, Matt Cain, Jonathan Sanchez and Madison Bumgarner, the Giants kept the Rangers’ explosive offense quiet for a majority of the season.

After the starters did their jobs, San Francisco turned to Brian Wilson, who closed out the series with a strikeout.

— Staff Report

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Senior guard Mike Coburn and the Rutgers men’s basketball team played its first scrimmage of the season yesterday, topping McGill, 80-68, at the Louis Brown Athletic Center and marking the transition from the fall to winter seasons, as the women’s basketball and wrestling teams’ seasons will be underway shortly.

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ith a weekend of f from football, it appeared as if the Rutgers population would have some time off from mindless consumption and tomfooler y to really hit the books and study.

Luckily for students, Halloween came to the rescue to give ever yone a chance to keep the kegs flowing and keep the outfits minimal despite the inclement weather.

While the football team had the weekend to go out and enjoy the finer aspects of the holiday, the rest of the fall lineup hit their respective fields of play to tr y and end the season on a high note. Two teams saw their seasons come to a close while another’s lived on despite a negative result.

In honor of the buzzed state that the University experienced this weekend, the alternative rock of the ’90’s known as “Buzz Ballads” brings us today’s “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.”

THE GOOD It’s Been Awhile by Staind — Do you want the good news or the bad news concerning the field hockey team first? The bad news? OK, the Scarlet Knights fell hard to No. 4 Connecticut by a 6-0 score.

Now time for the good news: With the loss, Rutgers advances to the Big East Tournament due to its 2-4 conference record, usurping Villanova’s 2-4 record because of a tiebreaker. It’s the first

time the Knights earned a spot in the Big Dance — as far as Big East field hockey is concerned — since 2003, head coach Liz Tchou’s first season on the Banks.

It’s a great accomplishment for a team that worked hard all year long, my apologies for associating you with the band Staind.

If You Could Only See by Tonic — The men’s basketball team scrimmaged a Canadian school yesterday, the wrestling team grapples each other today and the women’s basketball team heads to Cali on Nov. 12 to tussle with Cal and Stanford.

The winter sports have indeed arrived and not at a moment too soon.

As the weather worsens outside and fall sports continue to drop like flies, it’s time to enjoy some nice, indoor competition.

No matter your preference — basketball, wrestling, swimming or gymnastics — there are going to be a plethora of spor ts on campus to watch.

Now we just need ever yone to start winning and we would be in business.

THE BAD The Reason by Hoobastank — Sophomore Stephanie Zielinski almost had as many assists for the volleyball team this past weekend as the amount of radio stations this song flooded in America at its peak — yeah, that many. In the Knights’ two games, the setter dished out 93 dimes between a loss to

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Georgetown and a win over South Florida.

Unfortunately the volleyball team falls into the “Bad” because a win over the Hoyas would have gone a great way to improving its 2-8 conference record.

Zielinski is already seventh all time in assists at Rutgers (1623) and still has two years left.

Here’s to hoping that she stays relevant longer than Hoobastank ever did.

Whatever happened to those guys?

Youth of the Nation by P.O.D. — Youth led the swimming and diving team this past weekend, highlighted by a first-place finish from sophomore Taylor Curado in the 100-meter butterfly. The negative side is that the team only mustered one victor y over the three Big East schools faced.

It is tough to expect immediate results from head coach Phil Spiniello in his first season, and it appears as if he has plenty of young talent to turn the program around in years to come.

THE UGLY Hanging by a Moment by Lifehouse — In a one-goal soccer game, it often comes down to just one moment. West Virginia seized that moment from the women’s soccer team as the Mountaineers took down the Knights 1-0 in the Big East Quarterfinals.

While the NCAA Tournament bracket will not be announced until Nov. 8, it appears as if

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Freshman forward Todd Webb and the Scarlet Knights’ season came to an end after only winning one conference matchup.

Rutgers’ season has reached its end. The loss ends a tough season on a bitter note after 2009’s squad made it to the second round of the national tournament.

Desperately Wanting by Better Than Ezra — The first season of the Dan Donigan era with the men’s soccer team came to a disappointing end when the team fell 2-0 at home to DePaul in what was basically

a play-in game for the Big East Tournament.

The Knights end the year with just one win in conference play and say goodbye to the team’s leading goal scorer in senior Yannick Salmon.

If Rutgers can’t stay healthy in 2011 and the team duplicates this marginal success, the Scarlet supporters will be “desperately wanting” to latch allegiance to a different school.

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Dodd keeps starting job for USF game

BY SAM HELLMAN CORRESPONDENT

squad. The Knights also failed to register a penalty corner in the first half and finished the game with just two –– a stark contrast to the offense’s play in its prior two games.

For UConn, the offense assumed its familiar form.

Freshman forward Anne Jeute –– the team’s leader in points –– tallied her 11th, 12th and 13th goals of the season in the contest.

All three of Jeute’s goals were scored consecutively, with the first one coming at

True freshman Chas Dodd will get the chance to redeem his first loss as the Rutgers football team’s starting quarterback after head coach Greg FOOTBALL Schiano officially announced he will retain the position at yesterday’s practice.

“We’re going to start Chas,” said Schiano at the end of the final practice before the Scarlet Knights head to South Florida.

“They’re both ready to play. I’ve said it before, they’re two good quarterbacks. We’ll play it by ear.”

Sophomore and deposed star ter Tom Savage gave Dodd a serious push for the star ting job this week after how both performed in the Oct. 23, 41-21, loss to Pittsburgh.

Dodd played the worst he has in three starts for Rutgers, completing just eight of 19 passes, throwing an interception and putting up just 62 yards.

Savage, now fully healthy after hand and rib injuries led to Dodd’s starting in the first place, came in after the game was long decided and led a successful drive against the Pitt defense, capped off by a Mark Harrison touchdown catch.

“To be honest, not knowing the quarterback can affect you sometimes, but not with those two,” said Harrison, a sophomore. “I know they can both make every throw and know all the plays. I’d be more than confident with either of them against USF.” Prior to Dodd’s poor performance against Pittsburgh, where he also took six sacks, the Byrnes High School (S.C.) product became the first quarterback under Schiano to lead back-to-back fourth-quarter comebacks.

Though he took eight sacks against Army and struggled for three quarters, Dodd turned it on in the fourth quarter and in overtime just as he did against Connecticut to eke out a win at New Meadowlands Stadium.

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Senior midfielder Jenna Bull is one of two seniors on the Scarlet Knights this season who earned a spot in the Big East Tournament for the first time in their careers. The Knights fell to Connecticut, 6-0, but other conference matchups went in the Knights’ favor to give them the bid.

Despite loss RU still earns Big East berth

BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ CORRESPONDENT

Coming into last weekend, the Rutgers field hockey team had its sights set on upending No. 4 Connecticut to solidify a guaranteed berth into the Big FIELD HOCKEY East Tournament.

Though a 6-0 loss RUTGERS 0 is not what the team CONNECTICUT 6 had in mind, it still accomplished something Rutgers (8-11, 2-4) has not done since the 2003 season — qualify for postseason play.

“We were disappointed in our play [Saturday] for sure and kind of made a pact that if we made the Tournament that we had to come out a lot stronger against Syracuse,” said head coach Liz Tchou. “I think it kind of gave us a wake-up call. We haven’t played this kind of caliber team since Stanford and we had players kind of in and out of the play. We needed ever yone to play great [Saturday] to win and we were just inconsistent.”

The Huskies (14-4, 4-2) held the Scarlet Knights in check the whole game, surrendering just four total shots to Tchou’s

Wrestle-offs give first glimpse of new-look squad

Rice’s style immediately evident in win

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ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

Rutgers head men’s basketball coach Mike Rice unveiled his new-look Scarlet Knights in more MEN’S BASKETBALL ways than one last night during their MCGILL 68 80-68 victory over RUTGERS 80 visiting McGill.

In the team’s first and only preseason scrimmage at the Louis Brown Athletic Center, the Knights introduced the Rutgers faithful to new Nike uniforms as well as a slew of different lineups.

Rice opened up the contest with the projected starting lineup of seniors James Beatty, Mike Coburn and Jonathan Mitchell, as well as sophomore Dane Miller and freshman Gilvydas Biruta.

But the first Knights substitution came just three minutes into the game and featured three early entries — part of Rice’s plans to keep the contest at a frenetic pace.

When the Rutgers wrestling team hits the mat at the College Avenue Gym tonight for its annual Wrestle-Offs, it will be a much different lineup than WRESTLING the squad sent out last season.

RUTGERS AT But sometimes COLLEGE AVE. GYM, change is good.

TONIGHT, 6:30 P.M. “There’s a lot of competition [in the practice room], which is a good thing,” said fourth-year head coach Scott Goodale. “Guys are fighting hard to survive on that mat and you have to. There are just too many good guys, and there are no breaks. That’s the difference — that has to be the difference. It’s the only way you get to be a great program.”

The Scarlet Knights are on their way to becoming a great program, boasting nine wrestlers with NCAA Tournament experience — three of which weren’t wrestling last season with Rutgers.

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Sophomore forward Dane Miller scored 19 points and grabbed 12 rebounds in the Knights’ exhibition game against McGill, leading all players in both categories.

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