The Daily Targum 2010-11-09

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Head coach Greg Schiano did not name a starting quarterback for Saturday’s game against Syracuse, but either Chas Dodd or Tom Savage will face the Orange’s blitzes.

University provides free legal services

BY DEVIN SIKORSKI ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Whether it is to dispute an off-campus housing lease or desiring representation in court, the University is offering an outlet for students to address any of their legal concerns with a service that is, for the most part, free of charge.

Student Legal Ser vices opened its doors to University students this semester, offering mostly free legal counsel for students with legal concerns.

The office specializes in issues with landlord-tenant relationships, which Director for Student Legal Services Donald Heilman said is a huge problem for off-campus students.

“It’s often their first contract that they sign, and they often do it without attorney assistance,” he said.

“If you have an issue with your landlord, you can come in here and see me confidentially so I can sort what the legal issues are for you and try to resolve them.”

By allowing off-campus students to obtain his services for free, leases can be reviewed and problems with a landlord can be avoided before signing it, Heilman said.

“The first time that a student sits down with someone who is actually licensed to review a lease is with me, and that is after they signed it and half the problems have arisen,” he said. “[So] the No. 1 benefit all revolves around that [opportunity].”

In conjunction with Off-Campus Housing Service, Student Legal Services will also provide an arbitration process for landlords and tenants in order to work out their differences, Heilman said.

Student Legal Services is currently in the process of designing an educational program for off-campus students in order to detail what it means to sign a lease and how one reviews it, he said.

“Before [students] are out looking, they can come to one of our workshops and learn about signing a lease — what the pitfalls are and the things to look out for,” he said. “We’re also going to design a landlord

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Erik Opczynski, Rutgers-Camden College Republicans president, requested that the administration remove Paul Robeson’s name from the Robeson Library in Camden, arguing that Robeson was associated with communist ideals.

Student challenges values of alumnus

BY COLLEEN ROACHE ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

When Erik Opczynski, president of the Rutgers-Camden College Republicans, wrote an opinion’s piece for the campus newspaper, The Gleaner, he sought to further the school’s knowledge of Paul Robeson’s legacy.

Opczynski requested in the Sept. 20 commentary “Robeson Library conveys wrong message” that the administration remove Robeson’s name from the library on campus, citing Robeson’s association with the Communist Party as his reasoning.

“Rutgers-Camden, as a public institution of higher learning, should be

ashamed that a librar y — one of America’s most important promoters of freedom — bears the name of an unabashed Communist, who despised the capitalism and liberty we are so fortunate to enjoy,” wrote Opczynski, a RutgersCamden School of Business senior.

He said associating Robeson’s name with locations on campus implies the University accepts such values.

“The use of Mr. Robeson’s name on the walls and buildings of RutgersCamden suggests to students a clear message that the university may reward you even if you decide to become a racist, anticapitalist, anti-American activist,” Opczynski wrote.

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Although he acknowledges Robeson, the University’s first black valedictorian, was a “brilliant” man, Opczynski’s words were soon met with attention from major news media, some of which he said distorted his ideas.

“Our goal was to act as a catalyst on a political issue that might be of interest to students, something our group has attempted to do every week for the past two semesters in The Gleaner,” Opczynski said via e-mail. “Several leftwing blogs and small news sites picked up the story and twisted it further and further out of context.”

Volunteers sell baked goods Sunday at Buccleuch Park during the Elijah’s Promise Turkey Trot, an annual event hosted by Elijah’s Promise Soup Kitchen, where a number of people walked to raise money for the soup kitchen.

The University and 23 other New Jersey schools are joining the U.S. Commercial Service in “Study New Jersey,” a nationwide initiative to increase the number of international students attending state colleges and universities.

International students contribute to the economy because they pay out-of-state tuition for most universities and typically are not eligible to receive federal student aid, said Joel Reynoso, director for the U.S. Commercial Service.

While some universities do offer scholarships, many international students end up paying full tuition.

“International students are currently contributing to the local and state economy, and students who attend school in the U.S. are more likely to return and contribute to the economy in the future,” Renoso said.

International students cost the University little, but they bring a significant amount of financial assistance to the University, said Sandra Lanman, University spokeswoman.

The University does not receive subsidies for the attendance of international students. Instead it receives an economic boost because of the out-of-state tuition rate, about double what in-state students pay, said Courtney McAnuff, University Vice President of Enrollment Management.

The out-of-state tuition rate at the University is currently $21,682, while the in-state tuition rate is $9,926, according to the University’s website.

International students brought in $435.7 million to the state economy in 2008 to 2009, according to a University Media Relations press release.

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CORRECTIONS In yesterday’s University story “U. reunites first Peace Corps trainees,” the photo caption incorrectly identifies the speaker as Kevin Quigley. The speaker is Ronald Schwarz, an anthropologist and member of Colombia I. In yesterday’s front story “BAKA event raises questions about fundraising,” Ghalib Mahmoud was incorrectly identified as the BAKA events coordinator. Mahmoud no longer holds that position. University Associate Professor Deepa Kumar was incorrectly identified as male. Army Col. Ann Wright set sail on a flotilla in May, not March.

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University research team discovers galaxy clusters

BY PRATHUSHA MADURI CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Using an Atacama Cosmology Telescope, a team of researchers led by University faculty recently discovered 10 new galaxy clusters in the southern sky of Chile located above the Andes Mountains.

Two University researchers involved in the discovery, Professor Jack Hughes and Research Associate Felipe Menanteau, agree that confirming the existence of these galaxy clusters with the use of optical telescopes from ACT data is an important astrological achievement.

Hughes, a Department of Physics and Astronomy professor, said this breakthrough allows scientists to get closer to quantifying the birth of the universe and creating a timeline from the start of existence.

He wrote the proposal for ACT in 2000 along with professors from Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania. It took three years to officially start funding and building the ACT. “Though it is a long process that has taken nearly 10 years, looking back at 2000, we’ve accomplished a lot of what we hoped to do successfully — that is, to find these optical counterparts, the galaxy clusters, associated with the S-Z signals,” Hughes said.

Eric Gawiser, a Department of Physics and Astronomy assistant professor, said he is proud of the discovery.

“It is very inspiring to see my colleagues expanding the boundaries

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UDFy-38135539, circled above, is one of 10 galaxy clusters found by a research team led by Professor Jack Hughes and Research Associate Felipe Menanteau. The team used an Atacama Cosmology Telescope, which is able to study distances beyond the reach of observable light.

of human knowledge,” Gawiser said via e-mail correspondence.

Hughes said their work attempts to place humanity, the Earth and the solar system in a bigger context.

“The questions have always been, ‘Who are we? Where are we? Where are we going? What is the meaning?’” he said. “I struggle for that meaning through my work. Being able to connect with how the universe is forming and evolving gives you a sense of the power of the universe, the vastness of it and the beauty of it.”

Before the creation of radiowave sensing telescopes like ACT, optical telescopes were used to try to observe the sky, Menanteau said.

The limitation of optical telescopes is that they can observe only photons from light, which fades in direct proportion with distance, he said. This makes it difficult to gauge the expanse of the universe.

But the ACT is unique because it bases readings off the radio-wave spectrum rather than the visible-light spectrum like most optical telescopes, he said.

It focuses on the interference between remnant cosmic background radiation from the Big Bang and galaxy clusters to produce a quality resolution.

This interference is called a shadow, and is also known as the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect or “S-Z effect,” named after physicists Rashid Sunyaev and Yakov Zel’dovich who predicted its existence 40 years ago, Menanteau said.

The ACT’s sensitivity to interference and its 6-meter diameter make it one of the most advanced radio telescopes to date, Hughes said.

“The bigger the telescope we make, the finer the resolution of the spot,” he said.

The telescope generates large amounts of data and receives the interference from large sur veys of sky, which is then processed by supercomputers to produce images of space, Menanteau said.

The computers detect galaxy clusters of images with analytical techniques, opening the window to study the universe at distances beyond the reaches of observable light, he said.

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4,000 TURN THEMSELVES IN AT FUGITIVE SAFE SURRENDER Nearly 4,000 fugitives have turned themselves in via the Central Jersey Fugitive Safe Surrender program, according to a press release from the New Jersey State Parole Board.

Through the program, held Nov. 3-6 at First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens in Somerset, N.J., residents of Middlesex, Mercer, Monmouth and Somerset counties with outstanding warrants had the opportunity to surrender to police in exchange for more favorable sentencing.

Since 2008, more than 10,000 individuals have turned themselves during the annual

ENROLLMENT: U. aims to build diverse campus continued from front The program aims to build international relations and expose students to different ways of thinking.

“Our goal is to build a very diverse undergraduate class, represent all states and more than 100 countries,” McAnuff said. “We feel it is critical to the classroom experience. Having international students adds a lot to the class. If you’re surrounded by people just like yourself, you never learn about the world abroad.”

event, which in the past has been held in Camden and Newark, according to the release. Of the 20 events held nationwide during this period, all three of the New Jersey events have ranked in the top five in terms of turnout.

“More than 10,000 fugitives turned themselves in during the last three years in the nor thern, southern and central regions of New Jersey,” New Jersey Attorney General Paula Dow said. “Ten thousand people who are no longer living in fear. … Ten thousand people who are getting a second chance. We are more

The University has been working to attract more international students in the future, McAnuff said. Representatives from the University have met with embassy officials and worked with more than 400 cultural departments around the world.

According to the website, DiversityInc ranks the University among the nation’s top five higher education institutions for commitment to diversity, with more than 3,300 international students from 125 different countries enrolled.

While graduate students comprise the majority of international students enrolled at the

than thrilled with the success of this lifealtering program.”

Of the surrendered, 71 percent had at least one warrant from municipal courts, 15 percent had at least one warrant form a superior court, 14 percent had no warrants and one half of 1 percent were taken into custody because they were involved in violent crime or had warrants from other states demanding extradition, according to the release.

A total is not yet available for this year, as cases are still being processed.

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University, the state and the U.S. Commercial Ser vice is tr ying to increase undergraduate enrollment for international students at the University, according to the release.

More international students come for graduate school partially because there is more availability for scholarships, but also because many of these countries do not have enough slots in their graduate schools to support the number of students applying, Reynoso said.

Also, students who receive education in the United States can return to their home countries with a prestigious degree, McAnuff said.

“The U.S educational system is perceived to be the best in the world,” he said.

Darlene Wei, a first-year international student, said the ability to study in another countr y is an opportunity that many people may never have.

“I think it’s pretty cool that I can come and study in the U.S. Not many people get to do that,” Wei said. “I can meet people from other countries. I would recommend it to other students.”

The University will hold a kick-off event for “Study New Jersey” Nov. 16 at the Rutgers Visitor Center on Busch campus.

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ALUMNUS: U. does not honor request to remove name continued from front Rutgers-Camden Director of Communications Mike Sepanic said the University has no plans of honoring the Rutgers-Camden College Republicans’ request, and Opczynski said the RutgersCamden College Republicans have since moved on to other issues, such as the results of the midterm election.

But members of the RutgersNew Brunswick Black Student Union still has Opczynski’s comments etched in their minds.

The group expressed its discontent with Opczynski’s stance last week at a meeting.

BSU Secretary Ashley Otto said Robeson, a civil rights leader, agreed with communist ideals, like equality, which he was denied as the only black student during his four years at the University.

“It was a ludicrous idea for them to even want to remove his name, because it seems as though the only premise they’re going by is that a lot of his ideals mirrored those of Communists,” said Otto, a School of Ar ts and Sciences sophomore.

“Principles of equality — not the fact that Communists are responsible for massive death — that’s what Paul Robeson was trying to promote.”

Removing Robeson’s name from campus buildings would be a great dishonor to a man who suffered during his lifetime, facing many challenges to make strides for blacks in America, she said.

“The removal of Paul Robeson’s name would basically say, ‘Thanks, Paul Robeson, but no thanks,’” Otto said. “I feel as though it would be a slap in the face, because that man fought and lost blood, sweat and tears for us.”

No one has a perfect record, and Robeson’s political affiliation should not be a cause for disrespecting his legacy, Otto said.

“You can dig up every person’s past and find any ill will, any woes, any ‘negative things’ a leader has done, and at the end of the day, all leaders are humans, all leaders have made mistakes,” she said. “They were leaders for a reason.”

Rutgers-New Br unswick College Republicans President Noah Glyn said the solution to the dispute does not lie in removing Robeson’s name from buildings, but honoring other accomplished alumni who made contributions to the University.

“I think it is interesting that so many things at Rutgers are named after him, while you don’t have anything named after Milton Friedman, another Rutgers grad,” said Glyn, a School of Ar ts and Sciences junior. “I’m not going to say anything bad about Paul Robeson … As a black man, maybe he thought communism [accepted him]. Maybe that’s how he felt.”

Glyn said his organization had no intention of taking on a similar endeavor here at the University.

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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.

Men for an End is hosting “Thursday Night Double Header,” an event open to all men of the University who would like to be a part of the solution leading toward eliminating sexual and domestic violence against women. The event will be at the Rutgers Zone in the Livingston Student Center and they will be highlighting the Miami Heat versus Boston Celtic basketball game on every television in the room to attract students and obtain a big audience. Free food will be served, and the Rutgers Zone will provide Men for an End with free games for all participants. A small program during half time will explain what the club is and what people can do to be active around campus. For more information, e-mail Adebambo Ogunfowora at adetim03@yahoo.com.

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.

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Leslie W. Kennedy, professor at the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers-Newark, will present a lecture called, “Global Risk Assessment: The Search for a Common Methodology.” Her talk will examine the framework for the study of threats, use cases from terrorism, health and disasters to see how agencies addressed these problems, and discuss the merits of a common methodology for risk assessment. The lecture will take place at 4:30 p.m. in the fourth floor Lecture Hall at the Alexander Librar y.

Following the event will be a reception. For more information, contact global@rutgers.edu.

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The Nichiren Buddhist Association is hosting “Building a Culture of Peace for the Children of the World Exhibit” at the International Lounge in Busch Campus Center from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The exhibit is meant to unite the ideas of hundreds of people and organizations dedicated to discovering a path to lasting peace. For more information, please contact Heidi at hhsu18@gmail.com.

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Join the Rutgers University Programming Association as it hosts “The J Spot — A Sex Lecturer Tells All,” a mind-blowing lecture performance by Jay Friedman, an award-winning writer, speaker and sex educator who tackles the toughest of topic in a refreshing and educational way. Doors open at 8 p.m. in the Cook Campus Center Multipurpose Room.

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Panel promotes fair labor practices across countries

BY MAXWELL BARNA STAFF WRITER

A panel of business owners met last night in the Labor Education Center on Cook campus to discuss concepts surrounding fair labor sourcing outside of the United States.

Panelists at the talk, which was sponsored by the School of Management and Labor Relations, included Knights Apparel CEO Joe Bozich, Executive Director of the Worker Rights Consortium Scott Nova and School House clothing founder Rachel Weeks.

The presentation began with an explanation of how bigger clothing companies like Nike and Adidas have promised to help improve the conditions of their factory workers but have yet to deliver.

“Unfortunately, the brands have not been too good at improving wages and working conditions,” Nova said. “These are the two issues where we see the least amount of progress, yet they are the most important to a worker’s livelihood.”

The panelists said the bigger brands have not delivered on many of their promises, but there has been some amount of progress.

Tipping their hats to things like nationwide student activism and university codes of conduct, which universities use to help regulate the clothing sold in their stores, they explained how different brands have agreed to unprecedented negotiations between themselves and their workers.

“It is because of the universities and student activists efforts to hold big brands accountable to these labor standards that they’ve been able to facilitate change,” Nova said.

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Panelists Rachel Weeks, Scott Nova and Joe Bozich discuss ways to promote better business strategies around the world yesterday at the Labor Education Center on Cook campus.

Marybeth Schmutz, assistant director of the Trademark Licensing Office and board member of the WRC, said among more than 100 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada, the University was the third school to tell Russell Clothing, a branch of Fruit of the Loom, it would not be renewing its contract with the company because of its disregard for their workers’ rights to unionize.

Bozich said his involvement with Alta Gracia clothing line, a subsidiary of Knights Apparel, has been rewarding.

“Alta Gracia apparel means freedom from poverty through job creation, living wages and education,” he said.

Bozich also explained that a large portion of the company’s marketing strategy is geared toward allowing consumers to see how working for Alta Gracia has directly affected the lives of every person responsible for the

direct production of the clothing.

On every tag there is a personal story from different employees.

Weeks, sharing similar sentiments, centered her discussion around how, despite the company’s small size and the poor state of the economy, the rate at which their clothing sells and the contribution of every customer keeps her company moving.

“I think one of the greatest challenges is reaching students directly and articulating just how important every T-shirt is to the success of these initiatives,” she said. “I just can’t drive home how much ever y T-shirt we sell inspires us.”

Aside from promoting worker well-being and the organization of foreign and domestic labor unions, the panelists also placed emphasis on one concept in particular — employing people under what is called a “living wage.”

In a market dominated by companies whose sole concern is

getting their products manufactured as inexpensively as possible, a living wage — the amount of money a worker must be paid in order to cover all of life’s necessities — works wonders for workers everywhere, Bozich said.

It is this ideal, among others, that separates companies like School House and Alta Gracia from bigger brands, he said.

John Cusick, the general manager of the Rutgers University bookstores, supports the companies’ initiatives.

“It’s an honor to sell their products in our store,” he said.

“Being in retail, to have a product like this that follows all the guidelines with fair labor makes it more enjoyable to sell the product. We were really excited for it.”

Zachary Lerner, president of the Rutgers United Students Against Sweatshops, agreed with the worker-friendly business strategies outlined by Weeks, Nova and Bozich.

“You’re taking companies who are showing that you can make a profit while actually giving people living wages and the rights to organize, which is unheard of by other companies who pay [their workers] basically nothing,” said Lerner, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “If companies like this are able to succeed, it could set a precedent throughout the entire industry that this business model works.”

In response to that, Nova also noted these initiatives depend on retailer and consumer support in order to function.

“If we can someday, through a variety of means and tactics, convince the bigger brands to make the same commitment to legitimately respect the rights of workers to create a union, then we will see a world of difference,” he said.

Osinachi Onukogu, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, was satisfied with the discussion, but was concerned with the lack of emphasis on worker knowledge and talk of benefits.

She added that she was also concerned about what her fellow students should but do not know about both foreign and domestic working conditions.

“I want students to be aware of how these companies are destroying humans and their families,” she said. “They need to know.”

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“I think there could be a huge movement in cause-related products. I think it could turn into, not just the right thing to do, but a great business opportunity,” he said. “The bigger it gets, the more people we’ll employ, and that’s where I think it could go.”

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SERVICES: Attorneys provide discount legal council continued from front outreach program for landlords that might be interested.”

Student Legal Services will also hold several nights in which, for a rough estimate of $25 to $35, students can have an attorney review their lease and address concerns.

“You come in with your lease.

You sit down and get a review of that lease with an attorney,” he said. “[The attorney] will generate a letter to the landlord saying, ‘I’m their attorney. This is the stuff I want fixed or corrected if anything needs to be.’”

The idea to open Student Legal Services stemmed from talks with Vice President for Student Affairs Gregor y S. Blimling, who said many off-campus students are desperate for legal advice on their lease.

“Based upon that conversation, we established [Heilman’s] office as a way to assist off-campus students primarily but on-campus students as well with landlord-tenant disputes and the issues that would grow out of it,” he said.

Many students do not understand the relationship between a landlord and tenant, which affects the way students sign a lease, Blimling said. “[Heilman] is in a position, as an attorney, to be able to explain those contracts and to [help people] understand the provisions of those contracts,” he said. “Also, when a landlord fails to keep his or her side, [he suggests] what recourse a student can have in that relationship.”

Although the primary focus of Student Legal Services are issues dealing with landlord-tenant relationships, it could potentially expand in the future, Blimling said.

“If a student came there with another kind of legal problem, it would depend on what the problem was,” he said. “[Heilman’s] office can not represent any student in any kind of legal issues, so they can’t actually represent them in court.”

This does not mean other legal concerns cannot be brought to Student Legal Services, since they have several extensive referral networks to provide students with, Heilman said.

“One referral network will be a list of attorneys approved by the University who have already agreed that they will see students either for free for a 20-minute consultation or at a very discounted consultation fee rate based on their specialty,” he said.

Nels Lauritzen, an attorney in New Brunswick who specializes in helping tenants, is one of the lawyers in the referral network.

Lauritzen said he is always available to help students deal with landlords.

“When I heard about [Student Legal Services], I was eager to join,” he said. “It just looked like another great opportunity to help serve the Rutgers off-campus student population.”

Lauritzen has worked closely with tenants since September 2003 and offered legal counsel through Rutgers Free Legal Clinic until it was discontinued in 2008.

“I’m very accessible and students often see me on the street. I live in New Brunswick and I work

in New Brunswick,” Lauritzen said. “I’m very accessible and I’ve always helped out students for the last seven years.”

Heilman also works closely with the Middlesex County Bar Association, another referral service for students, and is currently working on a specific service for University students. “[They] are only one of two American Bar Association accredited and approved referral services in the state,” he said.

“They likewise agree to see students for a 20-minute consultation and have the same discounted fee arrangement. For many of the cases, that fee is $75 an hour.”

By offering his services free of charge and providing other attorneys at a discounted rate, Heilman said it helps students save money in what would otherwise be a costly process.

“It can really set you back [financially],” he said. “In an addition to losing your deposit, if you had to pay an attorney to fight for it and that attorney is unsuccessful, attorney fees are anywhere from $150 to $300 per hour.”

Jack Yoon, chair of the Legislative Affairs Committee in the Rutgers University Student Assembly, found out about Student Legal Services and became interested in how the office provides legal referrals for students. “[Heilman] told me not only do they refer people, but they also give free legal advice and that Student Legal Services would see itself as a representative for the undergraduate students here,” said Yoon, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “I thought that was really good and necessary.”

Yoon acknowledged the value of an opportunity for University students to receive free legal advice for their concerns.

“You normally wouldn’t have access to that as a student and that’s why it is exciting,” he said.

“It is a venue where students can go to fix their legal matters and solve for free. That has never happened at Rutgers.”

In agreement with Yoon, RUSA Internal Affairs Chair John Aspray said Student Legal Services would advance the renting knowledge for both tenants and landlords while decreasing lease disputes at the same time.

“On the RUSA side of things, we are working to advise [Heilman] on various cases that are happening or anything that we hear about,” said Aspray, a School of Arts and Sciences senior.

“RUSA is [also] putting together a booklet called ‘Your Rights as a Tenant,’ and he is going to assist us in fact checking it.”

Aspray said there must be more education on lease signing and renting for off-campus students, adding most do not know their rights.

“Many people consider renting as though you are sleeping over someone’s house,” he said. “[Students] don’t actually perceive that you have legal rights regarding your privacy and property through the lease you signed.”

Aspray said this creates a multitude of issues dealing with security deposits, privacy and many other lease concerns. But he added these are issues Student Legal Services will help clear up for prospective and current off-campus students.

“In general, Heilman’s office is definitely going to come into use for a lot of students,” he said.

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Volunteers trot to raise funds for holiday meals

BY JACQUELYN ALVAREZ CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Decked out in turkey hats, suppor ters of Elijah’s Promise, New Br unswick’s soup kitchen, walked around Buccleuch Park Sunday afternoon for the second annual Turkey Trot.

The 3K Turkey Trot consisted of a walk, kids’ arts and crafts and samplings of different food, including bite-sized cheesecake, turkey sandwiches and apple cider.

Turkey impersonators, the Scarlet Knight and a princess were all on the scene to entertain walkers.

Funding raised from this year’s trot will be put toward meals this winter. “[Elijah’s Promise] ser ves thousands of meals a year, and a lot of people really rely on it,” said New Brunswick resident Stuart Grant.

Steven Satz, an attorney, walked with team Hoagland, Longo, Moran, Dunst & Doukas LLP, a premier law firm located on George Street and this year’s Top Turkey Sponsor.

“I suppor t Elijah’s Promise because it’s a wonder ful thing to do,” said Satz, a New Brunswick resident.

More than 500 guests attended the Turkey Trot last year, and the event raised tens of thousands of dollars, according to an Elijah’s Promise press release.

Although it was open to the public, the event involved collective ef for ts of multiple University groups, including Deep Treble, Phi Kappa Psi

“I love to donate my time to anything that’s a worthy cause, and this seemed to fit that bill.”

ALEX SHINDER School of Arts and Sciences Senior

and the Civic Engagement and Ser vice Education Par tnerships program.

Fraternity Alpha Kappa Lambda donated about $200, said Dan Mullen, Alpha Kappa Lambda president.

“Me and my fraternity brothers came here to do our part in ending hunger for those less fortunate than us,” said Mullen, a School of Arts and Sciences senior.

Even though his fraternity, Phi Kappa Sigma, was not directly involved, School of Ar ts and Sciences senior Alex Shinder came out to suppor t the soup kitchen.

“I love to donate my time to anything that’s a wor thy cause, and this seemed to fit that bill,” he said.

This year’s Turkey Trot was held in memor y of Jane Betz, a long-time volunteer and board member of Elijah’s Promise.

Betz also created the artwork displayed on T-shirts at the walk.

Elijah’s Promise last year ser ved more than 100,000 meals, which cost on average $2.50 per meal to prepare, said Executive Director at Elijah’s Promise Lisanne Finston in a letter to potential sponsors.

Elijah’s Promise was founded in 1989 with the creation of a soup kitchen, according to their website. In addition, the soup kitchen created a culinar y arts training program in 1997, teaching the basics of cooking for those interested in jobs in the food ser vice industr y.

The goal of the organization is to empower lives, invite justice and alleviate hunger, according to their website.

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Members of the public and the University community walk in Buccleuch Park Sunday afternoon as part of the second annual 3K Turkey Trot, which was sponsored

by New Brunswick soup kitchen Elijah’s Promise. Attendees enjoyed children’s arts and crafts as well as different food samplings, like apple cider and cheesecake.

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

ADRIENNE MASSIES SAS SOPHOMORE

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“I don’t think laws affect people except in a harmful way because they don’t actually solve the problem.

They just persecute you without actually letting you know what you did wrong and teaching you the right way of solving things.”

“I think the most effective thing is for it to be a home-grown movement where people are more accepting and feel better about themselves and have a network to fall back on if they do have problems.”

SEAN BATTLE SAS SENIOR “When dealing with the Net in general, you are dealing with possible threats to the First Amendment, so there has got to be a balance there in terms of any type of law.”

BRYAN-JON MARTIN — SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES JUNIOR

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MAHEEN ALI SAS SOPHOMORE

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“I think there should be a law put in place to control it because it can get to extreme situations such as suicide and feelings of depression.”

115,291

160K

282K

Students in the United States that stay home because they are too afraid to go to school

Students physically attacked in the United States in secondary schools each month

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WHICH WAY DOES RU SWAY?

New Jersey students from the ages of 5 to 18 that are victims of bullying

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“I think people can get around laws no matter what.

Especially with online stuff, people always find a way to get around things. So no matter what you do, it will still go on, but it might decrease it.”

NATASHA SETH SAS SENIOR “I think that cyber bulling is an up-and-coming problem that more parents need to pay attention to, and I do think that having a law would make at least more people aware.”

ONLINE RESPONSE It would help slow bullying. — 4%

It should have happened a long time ago.

— 24% There needs to be more education.

— 16% It is good in theory, but not in practice.

— 56%

It is good in theory, but not in practice.

56%

It should have happened a long time ago.

24%

There needs to be more education on bullying first.

16%

It would definitely help slow bullying.

4%

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What do you think of the University’s new student legal services?

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Canada to remain in Afghanistan until 2014 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TORONTO — Canada will keep between 900 and 950 troops in Afghanistan in a noncombat training role after Canada’s combat mission ends in 2011, a senior government official said Monday.

The of ficial said that 750 militar y trainers and about 200 support troops will remain and most likely be based in Kabul.

They would remain in Afghanistan until no later than 2014.

The official said NATO allies pressured Canada to remain in a combat role but said that is something Canada won’t consider. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because no authorization was given to speak publicly.

Parliament has mandated that the combat mission end in 2011.

Canada has about 3,000 troops in Afghanistan. More than 150 Canadian soldiers have been killed and more than 1,500 have been wounded since Canada first sent troops to support the U.S.-led invasion after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Canada has suf fered the highest per capita casualty rate of any coalition member.

The U.S. has been hoping for months that Canada would not pull its troops out of Afghanistan. U.S. Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, the commander of NATO’s training mission, said earlier Monday that the NATO mission faced a critical shortage of 900 trainers. Afghan President Hamid Karzai wants his nation’s police and army to take the lead in protecting and defending their homeland by 2014.

International support for the war is waning, yet Caldwell said he remained hopeful that NATO nations would pledge more trainers, possibly at a meeting of the alliance later this month in Portugal.

Canada had repeatedly insisted that its mission in Afghanistan would be a purely civilian operation after its troops pull out of volatile Kandahar province in 2011.

However, Defense Minister Peter MacKay said Sunday that Canada was considering a U.S. request to keep troops in Afghanistan past 2011, but switch them from a combat to training role.

MacKay hosted a variety of foreign politicians, diplomats and militar y officers at the Halifax International Security Forum over the weekend.

Republican Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, both Senate Armed Ser vices Committee members, urged Canada to keep its troops in Afghanistan past 2011 in a training role at the Saturday forum.

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President Barack Obama yesterday endorsed India’s bid to join the United Nation’s Security Council permanently. The nation is part of the Group of Four along with Germany, Japan and Brazil, which have all been seeking to become world political and economic powers.

Obama backs India’s move into Security Council THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW DELHI — Deepening America’s stake in Asian power politics, President Barack Obama on Monday endorsed India’s bid to become a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, hoping to elevate the nation of a billion people to “its rightful place in the world” alongside an assertive China.

Obama’s declaration, delivered to the pounding applause of India’s parliament members, spoke to a mission broader than the makeup of one global institution. By spending three packed days in India, announcing trade deals, dismissing job-outsourcing gripes and admonishing India’s rival Pakistan, Obama went all in for an ally whose support he hopes to bank on for years.

“I want every Indian citizen to know: The United States of America will not simply be cheering you on from the sidelines,” Obama said inside the soaring legislative chamber of the capital city. “We will be right there with you, shoulder to shoulder, because we believe in the promise of India.”

To Obama, that promise entails shaking up the world order by giving more voice to developing countries that offer lucrative markets for U.S. products and potential help to counter terrorism and a warming planet.

India fits Obama’s agenda perfectly because it is the world’s largest democracy and sits in the heart of a pivotal, vexing region.

The diplomacy in India also gave Obama a chance to reassert himself on the global stage, far from Washington in the aftermath after humbling congressional elections.

His final day in India began with a lavish welcome ceremony at the majestic palace residence of India’s president and

ended there as Obama and his States has endorsed for permawife, Michelle, were toasted to nent membership is Japan. a state dinner.

Pakistan criticized Obama’s The capstone of Obama’s out- statement, accusing India of “blareach here came when he tant violations” of U.N. resolutions announced support for India’s and calling on the United States to long push to achieve a permanent “take a moral view and not base place on the Security Council, the itself on any temporary expedienelite body responsible for main- cy or exigencies of power politics.” taining international peace. It China has long objected to India’s underlined Obama’s contention proposed ascension to the council. that the partnership between the The dangerous tensions U.S. and India could have defin- between neighboring Pakistan ing impact on both countries and and India helped frame Obama’s the world. trip. Pakistan is vitally impor“The just and sustainable tant to Obama’ bid to root out international order that America terrorists and win the war in seeks includes a United Nations Afghanistan. But India is deeply that is efficient, effective, credible suspicious of Pakistan and and legitimate,” Obama said as he demanding a stronger crackcalled for India to be part of a down on extremist elements reformed council. within the countr y’s borders.

Yet White House aides In another key gesture, Obama acknowledge any changes to the went further than he had earlier council could be messy and in addressing the terror threat years in the makinside Pakistan. ing. Attempts to “We will con“We will be right expand the council tinue to insist to have long failed Pakistan’s leadthere with you ... because of rivalries ers that terrorist because we believe safe havens withbetween countries.

India considered in their borders in the promise Obama’s move to are unacceptable, be an enormous and that the terof India.” coup regardless. rorists behind the BARACK OBAMA India is par t Mumbai attacks President of the so-called be brought to jusGroup of Four, tice,” the presiwith Germany, dent said. He was Japan and Brazil, that has been referring to the 2008 attacks on seeking permanent seats as the Indian financial hub that left major economic and political 166 people dead at the hands of powers. United States backing Pakistani-based extremists. for a permanent seat for India is Much of any discussion about impor tant, but of ficials here India is also seen through the must also win support of the prism of China — both by the other veto-wielding council White House and by nations members, and the General within Asia that are war y of Assembly has to agree on China’s growing might. A higher reform plan. standing by India is widely seen The five permanent members as a way to keep power in balof the Security Council are the ance in Asia, although Obama is United States, China, France, the also reaching out to China and United Kingdom and Russia. The will meet with its president later only other country the United this week.

Obama coupled the Security Council endorsement with an admonition for India that “with increased power comes increased responsibility.” He said it is leadership, not intervention, when a countr y acts to the stop the oppression of another.

“Faced with such gross violations of human rights, it is the responsibility of the international community — especially leaders like the United States and India — to condemn it,” Obama said in his parliament speech. “And if I can be frank, in international fora, India has often shied away from some of these issues.”

Earlier Monday, Obama and India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stood in solidarity at a news conference in citing all the ways, from security to education, that their nations’ relationship is growing. On the economy, Singh joined Obama in dismissing criticism of outsourcing work to other countries, saying his nation “is not in the business of stealing jobs from America.”

Questioned about Pakistan, Obama answered carefully, encouraging India and Pakistan to move toward peace and saying the United States would be “happy to play any role the parties think is appropriate” but could not “impose a solution.”

Singh said that while he believes a strong, moderate Pakistan is in the interest of India and the wider region, India can not engage in talks as long as Pakistan’s “terror machine is as active as ever before.”

Obama departs early Tuesday for Indonesia, the country where he spent four years as a boy.

From there, he heads to economic meetings in South Korea and Japan. The president returns to Washington on Nov. 14.

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UN says Iran’s nuclear program not peaceful THE ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. nuclear chief said Monday he still can’t confirm that all aspects of Iran’s nuclear program are peaceful, and he expressed serious concern at North Korea’s refusal to allow the return of nuclear inspectors.

Yukiya Amano, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, called on Iran to fully implement all resolutions of the IAEA board of governors and the U.N. Security Council, including demands to suspend uranium enrichment and start negotiations to ease global concerns that it is seeking to make atomic weapons.

Amano also called for “concerted efforts” to resume sixpar ty talks on dismantling Nor th Korea’s nuclear program “at an appropriate time.”

He addressed the General Assembly Monday with his first annual repor t since he took over the post from Mohamed ElBaradei late last year.

North Korea conducted two nuclear weapons tests in 2006 and 2009, drawing international condemnation and U.N. sanctions and heightening concern that the country is building a nuclear arsenal. The autocratic Asian state has not permitted the Vienna-based watchdog to implement safeguards in the country since December 2002 and no inspectors have been allowed in since April, making it impossible for inspectors to report about its atomic activities.

The six-party talks — including the U.S, China, Russia, Japan, North Korea and South Korea — have been stalled since Pyongyang walked out last year amid international criticism of its long-range missile launch.

Prospects for resuming negotiations had been clouded since the deadly March sinking of a South Korean warship blamed on North Korea.

A North Korean diplomat rejected the IAEA’s allegations saying they are based on a misunderstanding of the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula.

The diplomat said North Korea’s nuclear deterrence is a response to the nuclear threat from the United States dating back to the 1950s, and the only way to denuclearize the Korean peninsula is to build confidence between Washington and Pyongyang and conclude a peace treaty officially ending the 1950-53 Korean War. Amano’s statement that “Iran has not provided the nec-

essar y cooperation to permit the agency to confirm that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities” came as Tehran is negotiating on a date and place to resume talks with six major powers — the U.S., China, Russia, Britain, France and Germany. Tehran has said it would be ready to renew talks, which floundered a year ago, some time after Nov. 10, and on Sunday it proposed Turkey as a venue.

Iran’s Deputy U.N. Ambassador Eshagh Al-Habib said his government is “waiting to see the goodwill of the other par ties and their real intention for meaningful and successful talks.”

Iran denies having nuclear weapons ambitions and says it only wants to enrich uranium to the lower levels used in producing fuel for power plants and nuclear medical radioisotopes used to treat cancer.

Al-Habib reiterated Iran’s commitment to the peaceful use of nuclear energy and said Iran has fulfilled its requirements under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty’s safeguards agreement. He said additional requests “have been made under the pretext of the illegal resolutions of the U.N. Security Council.”

“Therefore, claiming that ‘Iran has not provided the necessar y cooperation’ is incorrect and misleading,” AlHabib said.

Amano told the 192-member General Assembly that there is growing interest in nuclear power “as a clean and stable source of energy that can help mitigate the impact of climate change.”

Some 60 countries are considering introducing nuclear energy and the IAEA expects up to 25 new countries to bring their first nuclear power plants on line by 2030, he said, and many countries with nuclear power are planning or building new reactors or trying to extend the life of existing reactors.

Amano said he has made cancer treatment in developing countries “a high priority for my first year in of fice,” noting that some 665 people in developing countries die of cancer ever y hour — nearly three times as many as in developed countries. He said the IAEA has delivered more than $220 million wor th of cancer-related assistance to developing countries since 1980 and the new focus has increased pledges and donations.

TRAIN COLLISION IN POLAND SPARKS FIRE, EXPLOSION WARSAW, Poland — Firefighters say a train has run into another in northeastern Poland, causing a fire and explosion and injuring one of the train drivers.

Bialystok fire department spokesman Marcin Janowski said a train carrying tanks of oil was stopped on the tracks yesterday after another cargo train hit it from behind. Seventeen of the 33 oil tanks that the train was carrying caught fire. Two of the tanks exploded before the fire could be put out.

Janowski says that though one of the train drivers was hurt in the crash the explosion caused no injuries.

A primar y school near the site was closed for the day as a precaution.

Some 40 teams of firefighters worked to put out the fire.

— The Associated Press

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House Democrats need new leader

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new leader for the Democrats is needed — that is a certainty. With Republicans winning 60 seats in the House of Representatives, the new minority must take it upon itself to replace its current leader, Nancy Pelosi. According to The New York Times, Pelosi stated on Friday that she would seek the position of House minority leader. This will only hurt the already injured Democratic Party, as Pelosi has become more of the face of defeat and failure rather than any figure of leadership.

Pelosi has been a hard-hitting opponent to the Republican Party and a key player in the polarization of Congress. Her passing of hundreds of bill may have been successful within her own party, but it has proven unpopular with the public. Health care reform especially set her place in Democratic ranks, but this is hardly what Democrats — or Pelosi — need.

Her taking the job of House minority speaker is not a good idea for her less-favored party. Democrats will not be the party passing the bills come January 2011 in the House. What the Democrats need is change within themselves. Pelosi has been unable to provide enough basis for American voters to support and understand the party. The midterm elections proved just that.

Both Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who had the good fortune of running against a poorly campaigning Sharron Angle, need to change the image of the Democratic party. And while Reid will probably choose to keep his position, the Democrats have the ability of reforming just as the voters have chosen. Keeping Pelosi in Congress might not be detrimental to the party, but keeping her as their head in the House will undoubtedly cause for more voter disillusion.

No matter what her intentions were, Americans have perceived Pelosi as a sort of a socialist leader part of the party destroying the economy.

Democratic policies have brought these notions on and Pelosi might have had the opportunity to change this. Nevertheless, the image of the Democrats must change and Nancy Pelosi’s withdrawal from the race for House minority leader must be the first of its many reforms.

Obama correctly endorses India

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ndia is bound sooner or later to join the United Nations Security Council and now, with the suppor t of President Barack Obama, this will inevitably occur sooner. On his 10day trip to Asia, Obama will visit four countries. It is no accident that in his visit to India on Monday Obama declared, “India has emerged.” It will be a dif ficult process for India and it might take some time, but with their recent signing of an international nuclear liability pact, a bid for the U.N. Security Council was inevitable and expected.

Now we wait as India faces at least several months of proving its wor th. A warning from Pakistan, India’s rival and a tentative player in the United States’ war in Afghanistan, criticized Obama’s backing of India. They called it “power politics,” which lack a moral foundation.

But India is a world power player now due to its nuclear abilities.

It has shown cooperation with international guidelines when, at the end of October, it signed a nuclear energy accident liability pact. This move has proven to smooth over U.S.-India relations as, according to The Wall Street Journal, U.S. nuclear-energy companies raised concerns over India’s nuclear law signed in August.

India seeks to become the sixth member of the council as it attempts to join the United Kingdom, China, Russia, France and the United States. Its status currently is a two-year contemporary member state.

This move will challenge China’s position as the sole Asian member countr y — something that is needed as China has retained a dangerous international economy. Obama’s visit to Asia also — seemingly intentional — will not include China. It does, however, include four democracies. We agree with his decision to strengthen U.S. relations with India, a countr y with the potential to expand its role in the world economy. The U.S. should, as it has, promote India as a global power, especially at a time when China seems to be more and more influential.

“In Asia and around the world, India is not simply emerging,” Obama said in his speech. “India has emerged.”

According to The New York Times, the five permanent members are unlikely to veto the introduction of any new member. And as India has proven to be a nuclear player, perhaps this is the best decision. A permanent seat will bring change and influence to the council’s agenda and its voting. It is a key moment for the United States and India, as well as for the needed reform to the Security Council.

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Disallow BAKA fundraising

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had the opportunity to supporters in the United attend a student-fee States. She explained sponsored event run by ever y reason why there is the University group BAKA: discontent with the curStudents United for Middle rent PA administration, Eastern Justice. The mission but stopped just short of of the event was to fundraise proclaiming her allegiance for a U.S. sponsored flotilla, AARON MARCUS to Hamas. It wasn’t until “The Audacity of Hope,” to after Khader compared breach the Israeli blockade Zionism to white supremaon Gaza. The University saw the potential ramificacy that the night took a strange course. Almost tions of using student fees to pay for an event. immediately after the speaker’s ignorant accusaHowever, the event still took place without any regard tion, two members of BAKA approached me and for the students who may disagree with the extremity told me I had to stop recording the speeches. behind the ideology of the event. So I trekked to Dumbfounded, I asked, “Why?” To which the Busch campus to attend. Armed with a video camera BAKA members blatantly lied and said there was a and note pad, I would make sure that there was at “no recording policy” mentioned in the flier. I shut least one counter perspective on the theme of the off my camera since I had no intention of causing night. What I encountered was nauseating. conflict but found it ironic that the moment Zionists “When these people go on suicide mission, what were called white supremacists, I became the vicmade them do this? You have no choice either blood tim of religious discrimination. Had no one else in or blood ... this is the choice we have,” said Fida the room full of 200 or so supporters hoisted a camQishta as she opened up the fundraiser. Qishta, a era, I would have found this request acceptable. Yet Palestinian journalist and filmmaker, was referring it was shrieked at me with vengeful eyes while the to Palestinian homicide bombers who kill themroom was filled with recording devices. It also wasselves while blowing up buses, cafés and nightclubs n’t the first instance of peculiar treatment. Earlier in in an attempt to murder as many the night while sitting at a table civilians as possible. While she with another Jewish colleagues, we “I am completely called these people horrible, her were both asked to show our wristtone and the reaction of the crowd bands, while the other eight disgusted at was that suicide bombings are a patrons at our table — all Muslim the University for completely rational retaliation — were asked no such question. against Israelis. So I would like to be I’m not complaining about the allowing an event the first to congratulate the treatment, although I will produce a University, Rutgers University video shortly with some of the “greatlike this to occur.”

Student Assembly and BAKA for est” moments of the student-sponallowing this hate-inspired message sored hate event. What is most disapto be broadcast on behalf of the student body. pointing for me is the message that members of BAKA brought quite an event to campus.

BAKA and supporters of flotilla ships don’t underAnother speaker, Adam Shapiro, fuelled the raustand. It’s that in the middle of conflict the best cous crowd with even more “peaceful” rhetoric. method for creating enduring peace is to lead by “Transform this conflict from one between Israel example and establish peace. Nothing is more tragic and the Palestinians … to one between the rest of than the loss of human life and property right violathe world and Israel,” Shapiro said. As I sat in astontions on both the Israeli and Palestinian sides of the ishment at the level of violence and hatred directed conflict. There are amazing Israelis and Palestinians, toward the sole Jewish state in the world, I could and I know amazing Jews and Muslims. I can tell you only wonder how these individuals planned on that the difference between these amazing people and improving relations between Israelis and those who created the flotilla fundraiser is the measly Palestinians. Through more violence and more desire to have peace between Israel and Palestine at hate? Then I realized they have no intention of all costs instead of only a Palestine at all costs. improving relations — their goal is to see a Middle While I will fight until the end of my life for the right East free of Israel. for all to freely assemble, I am completely disgusted at As the night moved along, speaker after the University for allowing an event like this to occur. speaker demonstrated more and more hate.

Everyone is entitled to his or her opinion even if that Shapiro proclaimed that we are in the middle of message is anti-peace or anti-Semitic, but why must I a third intifada. At one point Nada Khader said pay for it? It is an infringement on my right to free outright that the Palestinian Authority does not SEE MARCUS ON PAGE 13 represent the Palestinian people and their

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MARCUS continued from page 12 speech that my money is used in an effort to displace and harm my family and friends in Israel. The University should be promoting peace and open, positive dialogue — not mini-intifada rallies and reasoning for why suicide bombings are justified.

Israel surrendered the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza and is considering uprooting thousands of families in the West Bank all for the slight possibility of peace. If there is one group of people who should be carr ying signs echoing the mantra “Audacity of Hope,” it should be the millions of Jews, Christians and Muslims living in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza who really want peace in the Middle East — not the international activists wielding rocks, weapons and a flotilla ready to fight in order to promote their cause and false sense of selflessness.

Aaron Marcus is a School of Arts and Sciences junior majoring in political science and history.

His column, “Marcus My Words,” runs on alternate Tuesdays.

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Aid for Gaza must be raised appropriately Letter SARAH MORRISON

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here is room for debate and disagreement about issues regarding the Middle East, Israelis, Palestinians, Hamas and Gaza.

Yet there should be no disagreement when it comes to a state university’s funding allocation being used to promote sending a flotilla ship from the United States to Gaza on a mission that violates federal law and may even provoke an incident in international waters.

There are so many misconceptions surrounding campus group BAKA: Students United for Middle Eastern Justice’s recent fundraiser for U.S. to GAZA, and rumors surrounding the opposition to it. At no time did Rutgers Hillel call for the event to be canceled. BAKA has their right to express their views on the Middle East, just as Rutgers Hillel does. Our objection lies with the planned U.S. to GAZA flotilla’s violation of federal law.

When the RUSA Allocations Board approved funding for

the event at the end of issues and public criticism.

September, BAKA was told that Therefore, Hillel unequivocally U.S. to GAZA could not be the supports the University’s posirecipient of the funds that were tion, which was to allow the raised because it is not a tax- event to be held while working exempt, recognized 501(c)(3) with BAKA to designate a charcharitable organization. The ity that satisfies University oblifundraiser was still adver tised gations, and to assure that the as one for U.S. to GAZA. money collected at the However you feel about it fundraiser could go towards a politically or morally, there is purpose that the University can serious concern that any be assured is fully lawful.

American civilian There are so ship sent to run a many other ways “The main goal foreign militar y that money could blockade is in have been raised of U.S. to GAZA direct violation of to provide aid to several federal is to interfere with those in Gaza. laws. In particuThere are countthe blockade, lar, the federal less other organiNeutrality Act 18 not to deliver aid.” zations, some of U.S.C 960 makes which even have it a felony for pria presence on vate citizens to under take a our campus and cer tainly in naval expedition against a surrounding communities, that friendly nation. Sending a flotil- could have appropriately la ship to Gaza from the United assured that aid in one form or States falls squarely under this another is received by Gazans description. Not only would it who need it. More impor tantly, be inappropriate for University these organizations would be allocations — your tuition glad to take the money that was money and student fees — to raised and deliver food, clothes be used toward an illegal pur- and supplies in a per fectly legal pose, it leaves the University manner. It is a simple request vulnerable to enormous liability to pick an organization that

follows the absolutely reasonable guidelines of the University and the laws of the United States of America.

However, U.S. to GAZA uses the most politically provocative way to deliver goods and ser vices. If their aim was humanitarian aid, why not do so through the United Nations and other organizations that deliver more than 16 tons of humanitarian aid a day at the Israeli por t of Ashdod, which is then delivered to Gaza?

U.S. to GAZA’s website clearly states, in bold lettering on its home page, that they will persist “until the illegal blockade of Gaza and the occupation of Palestine ends.” Where is the humanitarian aid in that mission? Where is their goal of sending food, clothes and medicine? The main goal of U.S. to GAZA is to inter fere with the blockade, not to deliver aid. That goal has no place on our campus, no matter where someone lies in the political spectrum.

Sarah Morrison is the president of Rutgers Hillel and a School of Arts and Sciences junior.

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well and then just lose steam in the end. The third game being to retain momentum in defeats the perfect example.”

Saxton led the team in kills on Sunday with nine, followed continued from back by sophomore middle blocker Thanks to a 6-0 r un the Alex Jones with eight, and junOrange (23-7, 5-7) were able to ior middle blocker Hannah stop a surging Scarlet Knights Curtis and Bozzini with seven.

(10-16, 2-10) team dead in “There’s no question its tracks to take the final [Saxton and Curtis] work pretset, 25-21. ty hard and teams game plan The Orange’s Lindsay for them,” Werneke said. “And McCabe and Hayley Todd both even with that, they’re still proscored four kills ducing at the in the set. level we feel we “It just felt The fact that need. To still the Knights nearproduce at that like they were ly doubled their high level — attacking er rors that’s a credit to going on runs with seven in the their play.” and we didn’t third set did not Things did help the not go much betrespond with situation, either. ter Saturday any runs.”

“The team a f t e r n o o n that plays consisa g a i n s t CAITLIN SAXTON tent at the highMarquette. The Senior Captain est level is going Knights were to win, and also swept by the [Syracuse] did Golden Eagles that better than we did today,” (19-7, 9-2) with scores of 25-22, Werneke said. “At this level 25-21, and 25-23. when you’re going point-forSaxton also led the team on point, and all of a sudden the Saturday with 12 kills. other team separates, it’s Sophomore setter Stephanie tough to get real points late in Zielinski recorded 69 assists on the game.” the weekend, with 34 coming It was the same story for the against Marquette and 35 yesfirst two sets. terday against the Orange.

Rutgers could not get past 21 “I thought we played pretty points in either set, falling, 25-21, well all throughout the matchand, 25-20. Momentum would not es,” Werneke said. It was just go Rutgers’ way. some of the inconsistencies “It just felt like they were we’ve been talking out all year. going on runs and we didn’t It’s just when they separate respond with any runs,” said by three or four points [against senior outside hitter Caitlin Syracuse] and then we go back Saxton. “We would start really to swapping points, it’s tough.”

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PRESSURE: Rutgers’ scheme combats pass rush continued from back make big throws. Some would say those throws are what he does best.”

But with a struggling offensive line and a spirited Syracuse pass r ush, Dodd’s legs could prove more important than his arm.

Savage went 7-for-17 at the Carrier Dome last season for 66 yards, scrambled for 12 yards and lost 94 on the CHAS Orange’s sacks.

The surprising upset proved to be one of the Knights’ most embarrassing defeats, and a year later, Dodd is left preparing to face the same pressure.

“It’s just a matter of preparing mentally for it, knowing what you have to do and what to look for by studying the film,” he said. “I really don’t know what to think — I wasn’t here last year so I don’t have a feel for it yet. It’s just getting used to it, getting focused and knowing what you have to do.”

The Lyman, S.C., native recognizes one of the things he has to do is handle blitzes better and he will face as big a test as ever against Syracuse.

“I think I’ve done OK, not as good as I should. There’s always room for improvement,” Dodd said. “I think I really need to improve on seeing blitzes and being able to distinguish whether they will come or not. I think I’ve improved, but there’s always room for improvement.”

Dodd also had to find his receivers quicker against USF, DODD but after the roughest performance of his young career — an 8-for-19 showing against Pittsburgh — he benefited from the opportunity to get into more of a rhythm against the Bulls.

“Definitely it helps having your receivers there and getting short, quick gains and getting some yardage, being productive and getting the ball in the playmakers’ hands,” Dodd said. “That’s what we did last week. It’s a good game plan to go with.”

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Sophomore quarterback Tom Savage, who backed up Chas Dodd last week although he was healthy, was 7-for-17 through the air for 66 yards against Syracuse last season with nine sacks.

CHOP SQUAD TO HONOR LEGRAND BEFORE ‘CUSE Rutgers Athletics plans to honor Eric LeGrand prior to the Scarlet Knights’ Big East battle Saturday against Syracuse as he continues to recover from a spinal cord injury he suffered on Oct. 16 against Army.

T-shirts will be given out to the first 1,500 students that arrive at Rutgers Stadium, while an honorary Chop Squad for LeGrand is also set to form in the student section for the game.

Line captains will organize students in sections 136 and 139 to help form a 52, LeGrand’s playing number.

The “Believe 52” banner for LeGrand will also hang outside the stadium from noon until about 2 p.m.

Saturday, and it will be available for signing at the Scarlet Walk, next to Gate D. LeGrand sustained the spinal cord injur y at the C3C4 level while covering a kick against Army and received emergency surger y to help stabilize his spine.

After two weeks at Hackensack University Medical Center, LeGrand moved to Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation to help stimulate movement, but last week moved to Saint Barnabas Medical Center due to a high fever.

Contributions by check can be made payable to the “Eric LeGrand Believe Fund” or interested parties can visit www.scarletknights.com/beli eve to make contributions to the LeGrand family.

All checks must be sent to: “Eric LeGrand Believe Fund” PNC Wealth Management Attn: Kimberly G. Kingsland, Senior Trust Advisor One Palmer Square Suite 201 Princeton, N.J., 08542 — Anthony Hernandez

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Sophomore Marcus Cooper has done nothing but impress Rutgers coaches since moving from wideout to cornerback in the spring.

SETBACK: Strides from

transferred to Temple — and earned Schiano’s praise throughCooper limit Ryan’s playing time out the spring and training camp.

Cooper’s emergence put the 6-foot, 186-pound Ryan in an unfacontinued from back miliar spot.

Cooper appeared in ever y “There was no reaction, game except for one this seareally,” Ryan said. “I just had to son, but in recent weeks he work hard and do my job, that’s stood out even more and played what I am doing and that’s his way into a larger role. what a lot of players are doing.

With improved consistency There’s open competition out of senior Brandon Bing and around here ever y day, so whothe experience of junior David ever is doing the best is going Rowe, Ryan sufto play.” fered the conseFor at least quences of one week, that “Hopefully Cooper’s strides, was Cooper.

[Marcus Cooper] landing on the But the sidelines for much Bloomfield, got them all of the Pitt contest.

Conn., native’s out of the way “I wouldn’t say status remains there was an extra uncer tain for and he’ll have push — I’m always Saturday’s game pushed. It definiteagainst Syracuse a nice stretch.” ly opened my after suf fering GREG SCHIANO eyes,” Ryan said. a leg injur y Head Coach “Anybody can play in practice. at any time if “I don’t know they’re doing their what Coop’s job. Coach is going to put the going to be like, so we’ll see. If best players on the field.”

Coop can play, he gives us a Since the spring after his redbig shot in the arm,” Schiano shirt season, Ryan was one of said. “Coop was really coming those players. on, I mean really coming The Eastern High School on, taking over the thirdproduct ranked No. 1 among down duties.

New Jersey cornerbacks, accord“I saw him on the rise. He’s ing to Rivals.com and was the No. been that way his whole 15 corner in the nation, accordcareer. He just seems to have ing to ESPN. these setbacks, which is a He separated himself from a shame. Hopefully he got them trio of coveted cornerback all out of the way and he’ll have recruits in the Class of 2008 — a nice stretch when he Darrell Givens moved to safety won’t have any, because he’s and Abdul Smith since ver y talented.”

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Redshirt freshman Jonelle Filigno capped off a successful rookie campaign by making the Canadian National Team.

Redshirt freshman Jonelle The Mississauga, Canada, Filigno notched a goal and native earned the first start a s s i s t of her career in Rutgers’ seaWOMEN’S SOCCER Friday son-opener and promptly as a member of the Canadian notched her first goal in a National Team. Team Canada Knights uniform in the victodefeated Costa Rica, 4-0, quali- r y over Stony Brook. fying for the 2011 FIFA Filigno earned All-Big East Women’s World Cup Second Team honors in the process. for her rookie season, The Rutgers marking the only women’s soccer Knight to earn suchteam’s leading pointdistinction during the getter also tallied a 2010 season. score three days All of her accoearlier in a win over lades came after a host Mexico. brief freshman camFiligno star ted paign in 2009, where JONELLE 15 games for the Filigno injured her FILIGNO Scarlet Knights in knee just seven min2010 and scored utes into a scrimmage four goals, good for second against Montreal. on the team. She missed the Filigno then received a last stretch of the regular medical redshir t and season while tr ying out for showed no signs of a lasting Team Canada. effect in the process.

Filigno formerly split time Filigno and teammates between the Senior National Karla Schacher and April Team and Canada U20, earn- Price return in 2011 to form a ing the countr y’s U20 formidable group at forward.

Female Player of the Year prior to joining the Knights.

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The move marked the first time in Jones’ career that he fired a head coach midseason.

Jones and Phillips agreed on a two-year extension when last season brought the franchise its first playoff win since 1996.

Offensive coordinator Jason Garrett will assume the head coaching position for the remainder of the season, hoping to be the change the team can believe in.

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Fame veterans committee released its ballots yesterday, revealing possible candidates that could be elected into the Hall next year. Longtime New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, who died in July, headlined the ballot with former Yankees manager Billy Martin also making the cut.

The “Bronx Bombers” won seven World Series Championships, 11 American League pennants and 16 AL East titles since 1973 under Steinbrenner’s ownership.

Martin lead the Yankees to back-to-back AL pennants while leading the team to a World Series victor y in the 1977 season. Steinbrenner fired Mar tin four times while he was the manager of the Yankees.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS safety Troy Polamalu voiced his disapproval with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell’s power in deciding fines for hits deemed to be dangerous. This week Goodell fired back, stating that no active players or team officials would be involved in deciding fines and punishments for flagrant hits.

Polamalu’s teammate, linebacker James Harrison, already received $100,000 in fines thus far this season.

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Allen Iverson touched down in Istanbul yesterday to begin his stint playing basketball in Turkey. Iverson agreed to a two-year, $4 million contract with the Turkey Besiktas and promised to give fans “something they haven’t seen before.”

A light and music show is set to take place today to honor “The Answer’s” arrival.

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remain the only winless team in the NFL after Sunday’s 2219 loss in Toronto to the Chicago Bears.

Chan Gailey’s squad faces the Detroit Lions next week, when former No. 1 pick Matthew Stafford may be unable to play due to a shoulder injury.

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Coaching change strengthens senior’s leadership

BY MATT CANVISSER CONTRIBUTING WRITER

For Rutgers swimming and diving team captain Jen Betz, leadership SWIMMING & DIVING is a little bit of both brain and brawn.

Betz certainly has the muscle to back up anything she says as captain, routinely setting the bar high for the rest of the diving team. Betz, the Scarlet Knights’ only senior, tries to let her talents in the pool do the talking, but she is not afraid to reach out to a teammate when needed.

“It’s an honor to be a captain of this team,” Betz said. “We have such a close group of girls that work together so well.

Being a captain, I try to lead by example and work hard every

day and also communicate any issues on our team between coaches and athletes.”

One of the keys to the Knights’ success — this season and in the future — will be how Betz can aid in the development of the team’s younger athletes.

But that should not be a problem, as she has been coaching divers since she was a freshman in high school.

Betz loves watching improvement in the sport, no matter if it is from her teammates or the young children she coaches.

Before coming to Rutgers, Betz was the MVP of her high school diving team all four years.

She also won league championships during the same timeframe and was a district champion as a senior. Penn State

Syracuse misses out on conference opportunity

BY SAM HELLMAN CORRESPONDENT

Even in a down week with just half of the conference in action, Big East FOOTBALL football made yet another MID-WEEK REPORT strange statement as Syracuse fell to Louisville in the Carrier Dome with a shot at bowl eligibility on the line.

Syracuse had a chance to crack the Associated Press Top 25 and get to a bowl game in head coach Doug Marrone’s second year but did not get it done against Louisville and threw yet another wrench into the Big East tool shed.

The Big East season is half over and there is still no separation between No. 2 and No. 7 in the standings.

BIG EAST

1.) Pittsburgh (5-3, 3-0) — With a bye last week, the Panthers remain undefeated through three games in league play with a Thursday night face-off with Connecticut on tap this week. Pitt’s unblemished conference record marks the second consecutive year in which the Panthers were undefeated through three games.

The potent Pittsburgh offense is well-documented, but it is the defense that has truly stepped up for the Panthers in recent weeks.

Defensive end Jabaal Sheard, who terrorized Rutgers two weeks ago, had two sacks and two forced fumbles against Louisville before the bye week and leads the conference with nine sacks and 12.5 tackles for loss.

2.) Syracuse (6-3, 3-2) — The Big East is full of fluke wins and fluke losses. Syracuse’s game Saturday against the Scarlet Knights will show whether the 2820 loss to Louisville last week was a fluke or not.

Until then, the Orange, who took down West Virginia in Morgantown, remain the No. 2 team in the conference.

3.) West Virginia (5-3, 1-2) — The Mountaineers put up two terrible performances in a row, but had a bye week to regroup.

It will be interesting to see which Geno Smith shows up at quarterback against a struggling Cincinnati defense this weekend.

But WVU is the best in the Big East defensively and one of the best nationally, ranking fourth overall in total defense and fifth overall in scoring defense. The Mountaineers have also not allowed more than 21 points in any game this season.

4.) South Florida (5-3, 2-2) — Watch out, the Bulls figured out how to win in November and how to win against Greg Schiano. Skip Holtz led USF to a slow start, but the Bulls are up to 2-2 in the conference and are a win away from a bowl game despite severe struggles early on.

Running back Moise Plancher showed that quarterback B.J. Daniels isn’t the only player on USF that can run the ball and the Bulls executed the shovel pass perfectly against Rutgers multiple times in the win.

The win was also the 100th in school history.

5.) Louisville (5-4, 2-2) — The Cardinals finally broke a three-year road losing streak in the Big East — losing its last 12 — by taking out Syracuse at the Carrier Dome.

The impressive part of the win came from the fact that they did it without the Big East’s leading rusher in Bilal Powell. Louisville used a combination of Jeremy Wright and former freshman phenom Victor Anderson to run for 144 yards and two touchdowns to support backup quarterback Justin Burke, who threw for two touchdowns and completed half of his passes.

Louisville hosts USF this weekend, with the winner earning bowl eligibility and a winning record in the conference.

6.) Connecticut (4-4, 1-2) — Connecticut pulled off one major upset in the form of a win over WVU, but good luck making it two in a row on a Thursday night in East Hartford, Conn., against Pittsburgh.

7.) Rutgers (4-4, 1-2) — Yes, Rutgers has a win over Connecticut this season and that was while the Huskies still had their starting quarterback. But UConn has a win over West Virginia this season.

When was the last time Rutgers could say that?

8.) Cincinnati (3-5, 1-2) — Cincy is dead to rights until quarterback Zach Collaros gets healthy.

heavily recruited the Ivyland, Pa., native, but she felt more at home on the Banks.

“I feel like I am on a completely different team and I’m loving every minute of it.”

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Betz could not have asked for a better start to the 2010 season.

In the Sonny Werblin Invitational at the RU Aquatic Center, she set the school

record in the three-meter dive previously held by Erin Saunders. Betz registered a record score of 313.80 over six dives, beating Saunders’ previous record of 312.07.

“I was shocked when I heard my total at the end of the meet,” Betz said. “I had no idea that I was even close to the record. But it’s incredible to break one of Erin’s records — she was an amazing diver and athlete.”

Betz also placed first in the three-meter dive at last weekend’s Big East Quad meet against Connecticut, Georgetown and Villanova.

While Betz wasn’t able to match her record score, her 269.60 was enough for a firstplace finish.

The fact that Betz was able to have continued success in

what has become her signature event is a good sign for the Knights’ future.

“For the divers, consistency is our main focus,” she said. “I think we are all training ver y well and we have a ver y positive outlook on the rest of our season.”

A switch from rule with an iron fist toward a more personable coaching style can be what makes a senior season truly special. A change in philosophy can sometimes be just what the doctor ordered, even for a veteran like Betz.

“I feel like I am on a completely different team, and I’m loving ever y minute of it,” Betz said. “The motivation and excitement from the coaches and athletes is something we’ve never had before.”

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PRACTICE NOTEBOOK

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BY SAM HELLMAN CORRESPONDENT

Growing up just 80 miles from the Carrier Dome, true freshman running back Jordan Thomas knows all about Syracuse.

Add in the fact that he is good friends with starting defensive end Chandler Jones and hosts the Orange Saturday at Rutgers Stadium, and it is an exciting time for the Union-Endicott (N.Y.) product.

“One day we were just driving by the Bubble and seeing the home games and I’m like, ‘Oh, there’s Syracuse,’” Thomas said.

“It’s going to be a good game. I was just smiling every time I pass that.”

Jones, who finished ahead of Thomas at Union-Endicott High School, leads Syracuse with four sacks and ranks fourth on the team with his 42 tackles.

“I know a lot of kids on Syracuse,” Thomas said. “I really have good ties with Chandler Jones. He went to my school. I played with him and stuff like that. He was like my older brother when I was there. I talk to him all the time.”

Though Thomas grew up in nearby Syracuse, he said he grew up a Penn State fan.

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Syracuse was one of eight schools to offer Thomas a scholarship last season before he verbally committed to the Scarlet Knights before the 2009 season even began. “[Syracuse] came pretty hard, but I called them to let them know what my decision was and they respected it,” Thomas said.

Now seven games into his freshman season, Thomas is third on the team in rushing with 213 yards and fourth in receiving with 12 catches for 149 yards, but has yet to break his first touchdown.

Thomas began returning kicks three weeks ago as well — using his high school track speed — but averages just 14 yards per return.

Thomas nearly broke his first touchdown against South Florida, but could not out-muscle a USF defender en route to the end zone.

“I think that coming in as a freshman, you don’t have the weight or necessarily the build to go out there and perform to your max,” Thomas said. “I think that being in the weight room with [head strength and conditioning coach] Jay Butler and getting big and whatnot is going to play a huge role.”

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junior linebacker Manny Abreu continues to heal from a knee injury he suffered against Army and his status for Syracuse is unclear.

“I hope so. I’m not sure,” Schiano said. “We’ll see if he can.

He’ll play if he can. We’ve missed Manny big, big time.”

Sophomore Marcus Cooper missed the last game with a hamstring injur y and is also uncertain for Syracuse as the team’s third or fourth option at cornerback.

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with four games left on the schedule, the Knights need at least two more wins to make a sixth consecutive bowl appearance.

“You can’t be more urgent than we are for ever y one of these games,” Schiano said. “I really believe that. I think maybe to our fans or maybe to families, ‘Oh my goodness, yeah.’ But if that were the case than we’d be cheating ever ybody in the other eight games, the other two-thirds of the season. I think one thing this program does, it gets pretty urgent for twelve contests.”

ANDREW HOWARD / SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Freshman tailback Jordan Thomas ranks third on the Knights with 213 yards but averages only 14 yards per kickoff return.

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JEFFREY LAZARO / SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Sophomore Joseph Langel, red, won his season-opening match against East Stroudsburg’s Chris Carpenter with a pin in 3:39, part of the Rutgers wrestling team’s first-day sweep over East Stroudsburg and Sacred Heart, which they beat by a combined 88-6 score Sunday at the Louis Brown Athletic Center.

Wrestling blowout headlines weekend filled with Seinfeld-isms A.J. JANKOWSKI’S

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t is not snowing outside.

There is no snow accumulating on the ground, nor in the air, nor anywhere on College Avenue. So anyone who ran cross-campus to update your Facebook status to say, “Really snow? Are you serious?” my rebuttal to you is: Calm down.

If you want to complain about inclement weather, hop in a car and drive six hours to upstate New York to experience real snow.

The truth of the matter is that it did not snow yesterday, nor will it snow in the foreseeable future. In fact, on Friday it will

reach a high of 60 degrees. So quit the complaining and enjoy the fact there are a few sunny days left before needing to hit up the tanning booths.

Remember that episode of “Seinfeld” when Kramer fell asleep in the tanning booth? It seems as if ever y moment in life can be a “Seinfeld” moment.

Why not apply television’s greatest contribution to society to Rutgers athletics?

Let’s do it. This week’s installment of “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” comes courtesy of the four New Yorkers that made it cool to be the “master of your domain.”

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If only the cool bass lines transcribed to words better.

THE GOOD The Yada Yada — East Stroudsburg and Sacred Hear t bused a combined 161 miles to face the Rutgers wrestling team and — yada yada yada — they went back home with losses.

Perhaps that is how fans of those schools will read into what went down at the Louis Brown Athletic Center on Sunday, but for the Scarlet Knights’ faithful, they can

relish in their team’s 88-6 combined dismantling of the opposing schools.

While Rutgers faces much stiffer competition later in the season — as early as two weeks against Penn State — it is still a great kickoff to what should be an exciting season.

The Wig Master — Immediately after the season ended for the women’s soccer team, freshman forward Jonelle Filigno swapped her scarlet threads for the colors of her native Canada.

OK, so they may be the same colors, but Filigno shined in Canada’s 4-0 win over Costa Rica to qualify for the World Cup. The Knight notched a goal and an assist in the same week the Big East named her to the conference’s Second Team.

Not bad, eh?

The Conversion — Before

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ANDREW HOWARD / SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Quarterback Chas Dodd won each of his first two starts behind fourth-quarter comebacks but lost to Pittsburgh and South Florida as pressure continues to mount on the freshman.

our eyes, the field hockey team converted from a cellar dweller with two wins in a season — last year — to a berth in the Big East Tournament this season, emerging as one of the conference’s top four teams.

The Knights may have fallen in the first round to eventual champion Syracuse, but the body of work put together by the team this season has been nothing short of admirable and lands it in the “Good” section.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

The Label Maker — Unlike the field hockey team who rebounded from a rough 2009, the conference woes of the volleyball team spilled over into the new decade.

After a weekend that saw Rutgers swept consecutively by two Big East squads in Syracuse and Marquette, the Knights are now labeled as the second worst team in conference play above lowly DePaul.

Luckily, Rutgers still has a chance to scrounge one more conference win this season with a season-ending contest at home against the Blue Demons.

THE UGLY The Puf fy Shir t — The only type of person who would call a screen pass on third-and-21 on their own 4-yardline seems like someone who would fancy “the puffy shirt.” That play-call in the third quarter led to a safety and made about as much sense as the aforementioned pirate shirt, as Rutgers fell by only one point to South Florida.

And what about quarterback Chas Dodd throwing the screen with running back Kordell Young still standing in the endzone? Or Young, a fifth-year senior, catching the ball while still the endzone and a defender bearing down on him?

The decision to run that play down to the execution was altogether puffed up.

The Soup Nazi — Head coach Greg Schiano gave freshman Chas Dodd another shot and it led to another dud. While nobody will ever know whether sophomore Tom Savage could have salvaged a win against South Florida, the fact remains that with the loss a bowl game seems eons away.

The Dodd project worked for two games, but the magic has run out.

No starts for you.

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Ryan makes most of time after setback

Dodd prepares to face pressure against Orange

BY STEVEN MILLER

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BY STEVEN MILLER

SPORTS EDITOR

Logan Ryan’s wakeup call came against Pittsburgh — the game in which Marcus Cooper took over the FOOTBALL redshirt freshman cornerback’s third-down responsibilities.

His bounce-back opportunity came against South Florida — the game in which a leg injury held Cooper out, returning Ryan to a more regular role.

And Ryan’s moment came on a third down — the play in which Ryan snuffed out a pitch for a two-yard tackle for a loss.

“He made a big stop on third down when his job was just that: Go get the pitch.

He was onto it, he recognized it and he executed,” said football head coach Greg Schiano. “Those are the big things: recognition and execution. He did both. For a young guy, that’s really good, so hopefully he’ll continue to play more.”

Ryan entered the season working regularly with the first-team defense, and although the Berlin, N.J., native did not make any glaring miscues through the first six games, pressure from Cooper increased.

The path into the Scarlet Knights’ secondar y could not be any different for the pair, as Ryan joined the team as a highlytouted defensive back and Cooper played wideout before making the transition to defense in spring practices. “[Cooper] went from wideout to DB, but it looks like he’s a natural out there,” said sophomore safety Khaseem Greene.

“When he’s out there, he’s poised and plays the position ver y well. On the flipside, he played wide receiver, so you can see in him. He knows when a receiver is going to do this or that or make this type of cut or that route. He’s a natural.”

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Redshirt freshman cornerback Logan Ryan (11) lost his third-down duties to Marcus Cooper against Pittsburgh, but returned to the role and made a key tackle against South Florida.

If Chas Dodd felt pressure in each of his first four starts, it should only increase against Syracuse.

Although Rutgers head football coach Greg Schiano refused to name a starter for the Scarlet Knights’ FOOTBALL Saturday matchup with the Orange, the freshman will likely retain his spot ahead of sophomore Tom Savage on the depth chart.

If last season’s Syracuse result is any indication, Dodd is not in an enviable position.

In a 31-13 Rutgers loss last year, the Orange sacked Savage nine times, and second-year head coach Doug Marrone’s squad likes to bring the heat now as much as ever. “[Monday] we had pretty much our first meeting about Syracuse and what they do. I found out they’re about 50 percent a pressure team, blitz team,” Dodd said. “It’s just a matter of preparing for that, because it’s not ever y day you see a team that does as much as they do. It’s something we have to get used to and get ready for.”

Dodd should get ready for more of the same gameplan the Knights utilized last week against South Florida: shor t, quick passes.

The 6-foot signal caller completed 19 of his 22 pass attempts for 139 yards in that game, and the Bulls got to him for their first of two sacks in the third quarter.

When the Knights needed to stretch the field in an effort to mount a comeback, Dodd’s time in the pocket was severely limited, along with his ability to display arguably his best asset to Rutgers’ offense.

“He’s got a big arm — a real big arm,” Schiano said. “I hate to say he’s accurate, because that sounds like he’s a guy who can’t

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Freshman shows improvement despite pair of losses

BY BILL DOMKE CORRESPONDENT

RAMON DOMPOR / ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Freshman outside hitter Brittany Bozzini posted seven kills in the Knights’ two losses last week against Syracuse and Marquette.

The Knights sport just two conference wins to their name this season, standing just above bottom-ranked DePaul in the Big East.

Despite a tough weekend for the Rutgers volleyball team that saw two losses by way of sweeps, head coach CJ Werneke caught some valuVOLLEYBALL able glimpses into the progression of SYRACUSE 3 some players.

RUTGERS 0 For the second straight weekend, freshman outside hitter Brittany Bozzini showed her skill in kills, recording seven on the day — the third most on the team. “[Bozzini] hit pretty well today and followed the game plan, and we were pretty pleased with her per formance,” Werneke said.

The true freshman led the team in kills for the first two sets before Werneke subbed her out to tr y a different rotation.

“I felt like I did everything I could. I went for every ball to try to keep the team winning,” Bozzini said.

Rutgers controlled the tempo of Sunday’s game against Syracuse for the majority of the final third set but could not hold on once the game got to 20 points.

Senior libero Emma Chr ystal notched a match-high 12 digs in the loss, while classmate Lauren Voss contributed 2 blocks during the match.

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