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The Rutgers wrestling team traveled to Albany, N.Y., last weekend and returned with a marquee victory over No. 16 Missouri and two other wins in the Northeast Duals.

Program links global students through video BY ANKITA PANDA STAFF WRITER

Although they may be thousands of miles apart, students and teachers across New Jersey can talk face-toface with peers from other countries using a new videoconferencing program. Judy Bornstein, senior technology specialist at the Center for Mathematics, Science and Computer Education (CMSCE) on Busch campus, initiated the program one year ago when she partnered up with the Peace Corps to pair teachers in New Jersey with volunteers stationed abroad. The number of teachers who showed interest in the program was so overwhelming that the CMSCE had to narrow down the list of participants, Bornstein said. “I wrote up a questionnaire that teachers filled out,” she said. “They had to indicate what type of equipment they had, what age group child they had, and they had to give me a paragraph saying how they would participate, what kinds of activities they were planning.” The Peace Corps then looked at time zones and infrastructure in choosing which schools would be able to engage in the program, Bornstein said. “I set up a phone [call with somebody at the Peace Corps] and we made matches based on age levels,” she said. “We started off with a small group of 10 or 12 volunteers who said they would be interested, and we picked time zones that were doable for the kids to talk to each other.” American teachers and Peace Corps volunteers connect with each other through a videoconferencing medium called Elluminate, Bornstein said. “Elluminate is a step above a Skype-type product because it has a whiteboard and the ability to have multiple people on it at the same time,” she said. “They can share PowerPoint presentations … and share pictures of each other, their homes and their families.” Brittany LeBlanc, a Peace Corps volunteer in Restauracion, Dominican Republic, described the

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Troy Kaiser, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, donates blood at the Every Drop Counts blood drive yesterday in the Busch Campus Center while his friend Samantha Betruzzi, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, accompanies him.

Blood drive calls for FDA policy revision BY DEVIN SIKORSKI ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Although some University students came to donate blood yesterday at the second Every Drop Counts blood drive, many others just gave their signature. Run by the Rutgers University Student Assembly in the Multipurpose Room of the Busch Campus Center, the event was held in protest of a Food and Drug Administration regulation banning men who have sex with men from donating. RUSA President Yousef Saleh said it is also a good way to shed light on what he deemed an “antiquated” FDA rule. He encouraged students to donate

blood on behalf of someone affected by this policy. “Every time they get blood, they check it for banned substances or diseases and ask you many questions,” said Saleh, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “It is just as likely to pass HIV to someone else from a straight person.” RUSA University Affairs Chair Kristen Clarke coordinated the blood drive and said students either donated blood or signed a petition to change the rule, which also asks students to notify their congressional representative. “It is a calling to the legislature to either sponsor or support legislation to reverse this ban or petition the FDA to get

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rid of the ban,” said Clarke, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. The FDA does not allow men who have sex with other men (MSM) to donate blood because of the high risk of the donor having HIV or AIDS, according to its website. Since the regulation was put into effect during the 1980s, Clarke said the rule is outdated because we no longer live in a world uncertain about HIV or AIDS. “We have made so many advances and we know it is not just gay men that can contract HIV/AIDS. It is anyone who partakes in high risk behavior,” she said. “So

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Conducted by Ben Hankle, the Rutgers Jazz Ensemble Too performs in a free concert last night at the Nicholas Music Center on Douglass Campus.

Recent explosions in Edison and gas leaks that shut down Route 1 have prompted New Jersey residents and environmental organizations to urge the Middlesex County Board of Freeholders to pass a resolution opposing liquefied natural gas facilities off the New Jersey coast. To fuel their cause, members of environmental advocacy organizations like Food & Water Watch, Clean Ocean Action and other community activists voiced their concerns about the state’s energy sustainability at a recent board meeting. Among top environmental concerns are energy independence and sustainability, said Cindy Zipf, executive director of New Jersey’s Clean Ocean Action, a coalition of organizations that focus on protecting New Jersey’s coastal waters.

Community concerns centered on a new proposal to develop liquefied natural gas facilities off the coast of New Jersey, which would include a pipeline to transport the gas through various communities in Middlesex County. The new project, headed by the Canadian company Liberty Natural Gas, is one of three proposals to develop liquefied natural gas facilities off New Jersey’s coast and will be composed of offshore and onshore components, Zipf said. “Tankers will be used to transport the gas from foreign countries like Trinidad and Libya ... and then will be siphoned through a pipeline 36 inches in diameter which will run through some very important fish estuaries and into towns like Perth Amboy and Carteret,” she said. But New Jersey’s coast is not unaccustomed to these kinds of projects, Zipf said. Liberty Natural

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Professor explores musical genre of mash-ups BY ALEX PACE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

In the midst of the everchanging world of popular music, a University professor has immersed himself in a new musical art form that is rising in popularity. Aram Sinnreich, an assistant professor in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies, is studying the music style known as the mash-up, and wrote a book, “Mashed Up,” which explores the culture of remixing. “A mash-up is a song made of two or more songs from dif ferent genres that should not fit together but do,” Sinnreich said.

The book includes interviews with disc jockeys and record executives as well as stories about music that span its entire history from ancient Athens and China to the present day, Sinnreich said. His book is based off the argument that music can forecast social changes and that new mash-up music style suggests there will be new and interesting social ideas emerging in the near future. Teaching assistant Sheena Raja said the book is insightful and provides a close look on the effect of music on culture in today’s society. “This book really strikes a chord in students, DJs and

people who are curious about the role music and the music industries play in our society,”

“This book really strikes a chord in ... people who are curious about the role music ... play[s] in our society.” SHEENA RAJA Teaching Assistant

Raja said. Sinnreich recommends his book to anyone interested in

music in general because it covers a wider variety of topics than just mash-ups. Sinnreich said his passion for music star ted at a ver y young age. “My earliest memories are being a two-year-old and being completely transfixed by the music my parents played in our house,” he said. “I have been pretty obsessed with it since then.” He enjoyed a variety of music, but one of his favorite bands was The Beatles, he said. “I was mostly a Beatles freak. It was the Beatles, it was the Stones — specifically the ‘Let it Be’ album, Bob Dylan’s ‘Greatest Hits Volume II’ and

‘The Best of the Everly Brothers,’” he said. Sinnreich met his wife 15 years ago after he was hired to play the bass in her band. “Next time you are being hired, look out,” he said. When asked to describe him in one word, his wife Dunia BestSinnreich said “Aram,” because she believes he is unique. She said his work reflects his passion for music. “His friends, I think, benefit a great deal from [his music]. The fact that he cares so much about his subject matter is a really important thing,” Best-Sinnreich said. “When he teaches about music I think it is implied that he also loves what he is doing.”

CAMDEN EDUCATOR PUBLISHES WORK ON PUERTO RICAN HISTORY Inspired by the growing Hispanic population in America and the appointment of Sonia Sotomayor as the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, RutgersCamden Assistant Professor of histor y Lorrin Thomas wrote her book, “Puerto Rican Citizen: History and Political Identity in Twentieth-Century New York City.” Her writing focuses on the conflict of a people struggling to understand what their U.S. citizenship meant, according to a University Media Relations press release.

“For Puerto Ricans, U.S. citizenship has been the de facto and the only option between 1918 and 1997,” Thomas said in the release. Many people who came to America thought they would find freedom they did not have in Puer to Rico, but were faced with discrimination and second-class citizenship, Thomas said. “Formal legal citizenship was not necessarily going to deliver all of those freedoms,” she said in the release.

Thomas’ interest in the region developed at Columbia during undergraduate study. “A lot of what we do not know about Latin America is just simple arrogance,” Thomas said. “We are the biggest and the best so we do not really need to worry about other people.” Her next project will focus on the transition from pleas for civil rights in countries around the Americas to a fight for human rights. — Neil P. Kypers

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GLOBAL: Power outages cause problems for program continued from front PowerPoint presentations her class is responsible for making every week. “Sometimes we go around and take pictures of my students and of somebody in the profession ‘of their dreams,’” LeBlanc said. “I can guide the presentation for both sides as my students get up and present [to the American class]. When I change slides, it changes for both my screen and theirs.” LeBlanc said the American students have helped her class write and become more creative — two things she said public school teachers in the Dominican Republic do not emphasize. “Their class has shown my students you have to think about your future and that education is important,” she said. “They have encouraged my students to read because most of my students are

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reading at four levels below and the more we do this, the where they should be.” more world peace can come LeBlanc’s videoconferencing about,” Lavelle said. partner, technology teacher Amanda Meng, also a Peace Sister Ann Lavelle, and her class Corps volunteer teacher, said at the Holy Family School in she had a dif ficult time reachFlorham Park, N.J., donated ing her New Jersey videoconalmost $400 in books when ferencing par tner and was Lavelle found out the Dominican reassigned to a teacher students in LeBlanc’s class had in Mar yland. no books to read. Like LeBlanc “Some of the and Lavelle, Meng “The more we few books they said the program had were ver y beneficial for do this, the more was old, boring her students, who books,” Lavelle learned more world peace can said. “So we had a about American come about.” book fair [where] culture. we tried to raise “American culANN LAVELLE funds … for ture has a really Holy Family School books for the kids big impact here Technology Teacher in the Dominbecause of all the ican Republic.” tourism, but to Lavelle and her class managed actually put faces to it and to put to buy nearly 100 books for reality to it … makes ever yLeBlanc’s class. thing more real,” Meng said. She said the program is a Meng, who teaches high way to achieve world peace. school in Restauracion, said the “We learn from the biggest improvement she Dominican students what they noticed in her students was like, what they don’t like, their their comprehension of the similarities and the differences, English language.

T H E DA I LY TA R G U M “While they have [English classes] ever y day, they have never gotten to the level where they are at now thanks to this program,” she said. “Now they can form English sentences and be motivated to learn English more.” The program’s likeliness to continue in the future remains slim because of equipment problems, such as power outages, Bornstein said. Without improvements in technology and the Internet, schools in America and volunteer countries will have a difficult time videoconferencing. “The problem we tend to have with the infrastructure in other countries is that when it doesn’t work, it’s because the power outages are terrible in the volunteer countries,” she said. “There were times in the Dominican Republic that Brittany’s school had to get gasoline from a neighboring city in order to fill the generator … so she could do the project.” Bornstein said she would like to see the project continue and overcome such challenges.

STATE: Project opponents fear dependence on foreign fuel continued from front Gas is the third proposal to bring liquefied natural gas to the state, beginning with Exxon Mobil’s plan to build a floating gas terminal 20 miles off shore from Asbury Park. If passed by regulators, the project would provide natural gas to a number of households across the state, but would not come without cost, she said. “The recent [liquefied natural gas] developments and proposals represent a new industrial attack on our oceans,” said Zipf, who expressed her concern regarding the project’s impact on the environment as well as surrounding communities. Zipf and other opponents of the project fear that such energy sources will only increase the state’s dependence on foreign fossil fuels and raise energy costs — something that she believes New Jersey, as well as the nation, should be trying to break free from. New Brunswick resident Dan Cummings said the majority of residents throughout Middlesex County and surrounding areas are opposed to the dangers that the construction of a gas pipeline would bring to their communities. “There [have] been instances of these pipelines being placed next to school and community centers in the past, and that is certainly not something that the residents of Middlesex would want,” Cummings said. “We need to be moving toward cleaner energies.” Jim Walsh, New Jersey director of Food & Water Watch, said actions taken by numerous municipal bodies, state residents and environmental groups are reflections of the strong concerns with the proposed liquefied natural gas plans for the state. “Resolutions have already been passed by the Highland Park Environmental Commission, Monmouth County and the New Jersey Senate Environment Committee rejecting [liquefied natural gas] as an energy source,” he said. The governor has also vowed to veto any project proposed by Liberty Natural Gas on Earth Day, Walsh said. Despite these notions, Liberty Natural Gas has submitted a formal appeal to the Federal Energy Regulator y Commission to build the pipeline through communities like Perth Amboy, Zipf said. She believes residents of these communities must take an active role in opposing the company’s advances. “This is a foreign energy, from a foreign source that is going to cause greater environmental harm, industrialize our ocean and put us at great risk,” she said. Zipf hopes that University students, who she claims are the real champions of these causes, will step up to the plate and oppose the idea. “[The project] is not in the public’s interest at all,” she said. “The clock is ticking. We need to weigh in loud and weigh in fast and weigh in clear.”

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CALENDAR NOVEMBER The University’s chapter of the Foundation for International Medical Relief of Children will be hosting a Jeopardy show at 8:15 p.m. in Room 116 of the Busch Campus Center. Those who want to learn more about the places that FIMRC goes, both in the community and abroad, are encouraged to attend. There will be free food and drinks. Guests are welcome to bring friends to create a team and compete together for a prize. For more information, contact Ashwini Dhokte at adhokte@gmail.com.

DECEMBER The Daily Targum will be holding a writers meeting at 9:30 p.m. in Suite 431 of the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus. Wait outside the door until Kristine, the University editor, arrives. Assignments will be given out, and other business will be discussed during the meeting. All those interested are welcome. There is no experience necessary.

The Responsible Drinking Happy Hour event will run from 4 to 7 p.m. in the Cook Café of the Cook Campus Center. Responsible Drinking Happy Hour was established to unite the community in a social, relaxing and familiar atmosphere while emphasizing the importance of responsible drinking. They are held on the first Friday of every month during the semester. Come meet old friends, colleagues, staff or make new friends. There will be food and music and sodas are free.

Written by Mason Gross School of the Arts graduate student Lisa Huberman, Mason Gross production Egyptology tells the story of a gay parent who tries to reclaim her child when her partner leaves her for a man. The play will run until Dec. 11 in the Philip J. Levin Theater on the Cook/Douglass campus. Tickets are $25 for general admission, $20 for University alumni and employees and $15 for University students. For more information call (732)-932-7511 or visit masongross.rutgers.edu. Rutgers Undergraduate Geography Society is holding a “Desserts from Around the World” bake sale from 11 am to 3 pm at the Douglass Campus Center. The society welcomes all students to stop by their table whether or not they are Geography majors or minors. All treats are homemade and include vegan banana cupcakes, Jamaican coconut drops, baklava, English Victorian cake and much more. School of Environmental and Biological Sciences students are invited to attend the International Summer Science Scholarship Panel to find out how they can receive up to $5,000 in support for an international science-based summer experience. The event will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Room 138B of Foran Hall on the Cook/Douglass campus. Awardees from this past summer will share their experiences and secrets of their successful applications. For more information, contact Monica Emer y at memery@aesop.rutgers.edu.

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Organized by Lambda Theta Phi Latin fraternity, several groups on campus discuss ways community service helps break ethnic barriers and understand differences in the Douglass Campus Center.

FDA: Sen. Lautenberg sent a letter to address blood policy continued from front having the ban just on gay men is discriminating against their sexual orientation.” Clarke added many gay men do not have HIV or AIDS, which does not help increase the number of donations during a time when the nation deals with a shortage of donated blood. “So why would we want to prevent more people from donating?” she said. “All they have to do is donate and if, god forbid, they are HIV-positive, they just do not use that blood.” RUSA sent a letter to Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., last year about the ban on MSM, Clarke said. He was caught by surprise and felt the rule needed to be updated. “[But] to date, there has really been nothing done,” she said. “So that is why we are doing a second round of it and we are hoping to get other student organizations on board.” Along with several other N.J. senators, Lautenberg sent a letter to FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg last March in an effort to have the rule revised or revoked. “With hospitals and emergency rooms across the country in constant and urgent need of blood products, we believe certain blood donor deferral policies should be reviewed and appropriately modified,” according to the letter. Heterosexual donors who had sexual relations with a person known to have HIV are only banned for one year while gay men are banned for life, according to the letter. This is one of the issues that motivated Lautenberg and his fellow senators to protest the rule. “The safety, availability and integrity of our nation’s blood supply are vital,” according to the letter. “For these reasons, we agree with the American Red Cross, America’s Blood Centers … and others that the time has come for the FDA to modify the lifetime deferral for MSM.” To address the controversy surrounding the regulation, the FDA dedicates a section of more than 2,000 words to their website dealing with the ban on MSM. The section attempts to clarify why the rule exists while addressing social concerns like discrimination. “FDA’s deferral policy is based on the documented increased risk of certain transfusion transmissible infections, such as HIV,

associated with male-to-male sex and is not based on any judgment concerning the donor’s sexual orientation,” according to its website. The section also addresses Lautenberg’s issue of how heterosexual men suspected to be HIV-positive are not permanently deferred. According to the website, MSM are more likely to contract the disease despite rising numbers among heterosexuals. “While statistics indicate a rising infection rate among young heterosexual women, their overall rate of HIV infection remains much lower than in men who have sex with other men,” according to the website. The FDA recognizes how many donors are deferred by the regulation and continues to monitor and consult with health experts to see if the rule needs revision. “FDA’s primary responsibility is to enhance blood safety and protect blood recipients. FDA would change this policy only if supported by scientific data showing that a change in policy would not present a significant and preventable risk to blood recipients,” according to the website. U.S. Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and Availability (ACBSA) reviewed the ban on MSM in June in an effort to determine whether the rule needs to be changed. Despite the improvements of disease detection in donated blood samples, the ACBSA voted nine to six against revising the MSM regulation, according to a resolution provided by HHS Senior Advisor for Blood Policy Jerry Holmberg. “Whereas we believe that the current donor deferral policies are suboptimal in permitting some potentially high-risk donations while preventing some potentially low-risk donations, we find currently available scientific data are inadequate to support change to a specific alternative policy,” according to the resolution. Although the committee felt the rule should not be changed at this time, ACBSA members voted unanimously to dedicate more research to the area in hopes of revising the rule in the future, according to the resolution. “A U.S. Public Health Service working group was convened to review the current MSM deferral and to propose strategic steps, including scientifically valid research for developing and validation of an HHS alternative policy that would guide a possible change in deferral,” according to the website.

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How do you feel about the football team not making a bowl game for the first time in six years?

QUOTABLE BRENTON NICO SAS FIRST-YEAR STUDENT “It sucks, but it happens. You can’t win ‘em all.”

“The fact that [head coach Greg] Schiano is the highest paid state employee and we didn’t make a bowl game is really disappointing. I would be much more willing and excited to go to a game if we won.”

TIMOTHY LIU SAS SENIOR “It’s disappointing considering how much hope we put into the program.”

ANNE FARINELLA — SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES JUNIOR

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DANNY WAN SAS JUNIOR “I’m very upset. I’m disappointed by how the program is being run.”

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1 The amount of bowl games the Scarlet Knights played in before head coach Greg Schiano took over the program

70 The number of teams that will play in bowl games this year

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The number of consecutive bowl games the Rutgers football team reached before this season

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ALEX PUGH SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING JUNIOR “I kind of saw it coming. They haven’t been doing that great since I’ve been going to school here.”

VALENTYNA OLYNYK SAS SOPHOMORE “It’s really disappointing. We have such a spirited school and to not have anything to show for it is disheartening.”

ONLINE RESPONSE

It’s been downhill since Ray Rice left. — 27%

I was expecting big things this year. — 26%

Maybe less will be spent on athletics. — 31%

I don’t care about football. — 16%

Maybe now the administration will spend less money on athletics.

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It’s been downhill since Ray Rice left.

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I’m upset, I was expecting big things this year.

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I don’t care about football.

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hite House Press Secretar y Robert Gibbs is understandably upset about the 250,000 U.S. State Department cables that WikiLeaks has gotten its hands on and has begun releasing on the Internet. In fact, he and the administration are so upset that Gibbs has gone on record to say that the administration may seek legal action against the website. Obviously the administration feels the need to run damage control on the situation, as the aforementioned cables contain sensitive information regarding U.S. foreign policy, but a lawsuit against the website would not be the most appropriate course of action. This is a matter of the freedom of the press. Whether or not the leaked information is sensitive or classified, WikiLeaks has the right to disseminate it. The American people deser ve to know what the U.S. government is up to at any given time. After all, ever ything the Obama administration does has some sort of impact on how U.S. citizens live. It is only fair if the citizens can access information pertaining to their lives. The Obama administration needs to remember that members of the WikiLeaks staff did not steal this information themselves. Someone who readily had access to the cables gave it to them. The real fault lies not with WikiLeaks for making the cables public but with the security procedures in place within the U.S. government. If the government is so worried about the information leaking, it should take steps to make the information more secure. We cannot ignore the connection between Gibbs’ statements regarding the possibility of the administration taking legal action and the recently passed Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, otherwise known as COICA. The bill, which gives the attorney general the ability to censor websites in the name of copyright enforcement, is itself a rather fascistic move on the part of the government. As such, the bill should be repealed immediately. But for now it is in effect, and one can easily see the administration calling upon the bill in order to censor WikiLeaks. The government should not have the power to censor whatever it deems necessary in the name of copyright infringement or national security. Quite frankly, allowing the government to have such a power goes against much of what America stands for, as do the administration’s thoughts on seeking legal action against WikiLeaks or any other media outlet that may leak information.

Chavez must take major action to help

n what can only be described as a public relations stunt, Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez recently invited 25 homeless families to move into the presidential palace in Caracas with him. The 25 families became homeless — along with thousands of other families — as a result of a rash of flooding and mudslides in the country. While Chavez’s invite is a nice gesture, it is little more than just that. It is a gesture, meant to make him look good. As the leader of the nation, Chavez should be seeking a viable course of action, which legitimately remedies the problems these thousands of displaced families are facing. By allowing 25 families to live with him he is making a show of good will and crafting an image of himself as a caring leader. But what about the thousands of other families affected? What are they supposed to do? Maybe they should sit tight and hope that their caring leader soon discovers more guest rooms within the palace. Critics of Chavez often call attention to the fact that he has not done much in the way of providing new housing during his 11-year stint in office. If he had, this situation may not have been as much of a catastrophe as it is now. However, there is no use in dwelling on what Chavez could have done. The past is the past. Now is Chavez’s chance to move forward. It is his chance to correct his own mistakes and give the citizens of his country better lives. Unsurprisingly, Chavez is not treating it as such. Instead, he is using it as an opportunity to focus first and foremost on his image. The irony of the situation is, if he would take real action and provide more housing, he would be at the same time cultivating an image of himself as a dedicated leader. It is almost humorous how far off the mark Chavez is with his response to his country’s needs. Also, one cannot help but wonder about how life will be for the 25 families moving into the palace. Chavez has been decidedly tight-lipped with regard to the specifics. No one knows just how long the families will be allowed to stay — the official word is they will move in temporarily. Does temporarily mean a few days, a few months or a few years? Only Chavez knows, and that is more than a little disconcerting. The families will probably be under constant security surveillance. After all, who would be comfortable with letting 25 strange families roam freely around their palace without anybody keeping an eye on them? What Chavez needs to do, then, is provide housing for these displaced families — for all of them, not just a ver y slim portion of the whole. While he’s at it, he should probably start fixing the slew of other problems plaguing his countr y. It couldn’t hurt.

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Value freedom over security

I understand the need for he Transpor tation security, but even Benjamin S e c u r i t y Franklin believed, “They Administration that can give up essential began a new screening polliberty to obtain a little temicy on Nov. 1 at 69 porary safety deserve neiAmerican airpor ts. The ther liberty nor safety.” new r ule allows for the TSA to use X-ray machines AARON MARCUS What is next for the TSA and Obama administration? to look under the clothing of soon-to-be-passengers or perform a thorough If, God forbid, there is ever another terrorist attack shake down. These new laws are a microcosm against America, what will become of our freedom? for the current state of individual freedom in Will the Third Amendment be repealed? What about America. Yes, it is invasive and yes it is incon- our right to freely assemble or speak? Where are venient, but is anyone really surprised? The new those freedom-loving Liberals now that the “chosen voyeuristic and demeaning approach to secure one” has turned on his basic principle of extending our airplanes has been in the making for years. civil rights? The subser vient nature of American citizens With the signing of the USA Patriot Act in 2001 by former President George W. Bush, Americans is in fact surrender to al-Qaida and all those who have slowly but surely surrendered their free- have long wished to destroy the United States. What else did al-Qaida seek to destroy when dom in the name of security. Now almost 10 years after the passing of the they attacked us on 9/11? It was not just the loss initial Patriot Act, our freedoms continue to of life and destruction of our financial and milicrumble. However, now under the guise of pro- tar y capitals they sought, but it was the demise gressive liberalism is the left silent. I’ll never of American ideals. They wanted to make the forget the streets of New York City in 2004 dur- United States more like Saudi Arabia — more intrusive, more authoritarian and ing the Republican National Convention when hundreds of “Americans have ... less free. How peculiar that with each thousands of leftist, socialist and surrendered their enemy that attempts to take down anti-war protestors took to the United States, our governstreets demanding Bush reinstate freedom in the name the ment responds with threats to our our freedoms and end U.S.-led liberty. The vision of destroying wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Six of security.” American ideals pre-dated the rise years later, these same individuof Islamic fanaticism. Republican als are silent while the same wars are fought and more freedoms perish. After all, and Democrat administrations have clamped Obama was one of them, and now he sits in the down on freedom for centuries, both economicalOval Of fice perpetuating the same undermining ly and socially in the name of security. This is the nature of our government and the precise reason of liber ty as his predecessor. What should be done when the man trusted why it must be limited. From Woodrow Wilson’s with reinstating the honor of the American people Committee on Public Information created to psynot only clamps down on economic freedom, but chologically influence American suppor t for also individual liberty? Perhaps the president who World War I to Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal declared the new TSA policy as “frustrating but created to make Americans slaves to governmentnecessar y” should remember what it is like to be sanctioned programs and the eventual rise of the a private citizen of the United States. As a state Militar y-Industrial Complex. Then throughout senator of Illinois running for a seat in the U.S. the Cold War we fought proxy wars and funded Senate, Obama promised he would help repeal terrorist groups like the Contras, Taliban and the Patriot Act. Yet he voted for it in 2006 and Saddam Hussein’s regime. Now as we fight signed an extension of the bill earlier this year. against the same terror groups we once funded, Now as a supporter of a government-run voyeur our government believes a key component in program with little outrage from the left, I begin defeating our enemy is to deny us our right to our to wonder if this is what American liberalism most basic piece of property — our body. Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) said on the floor of the looks like — civilian trials, habeas corpus and constitutional rights for terrorists held at House of Representatives, “What we’re doing Guantanamo Bay, but no regard for the SEE MARCUS ON PAGE 9 Constitution when it comes to American citizens.

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MARCUS continued from page 8 and what we’re accepting and putting up with at the airpor ts is so symbolic of us just not standing up and saying, ‘Enough is enough.’” Paul continued that the executive branch holds the belief that those who board airplanes sacrifice their rights so that government can make us safe. “That isn’t the case,” said Paul. “You never have to sacrifice your rights. The duty of the government is to protect our rights, not to abuse them.” How have we allowed the government to become so overbearing? Think about it, if any private citizen did what some government agencies do, they would be arrested and thrown in jail. What would happen to a private citizen who took pornographic images of another person against their will or fondled and groped them inappropriately for the sake of feeling at ease? What would happen to a private citizen who coerced his or her neighbor into giving away possessions with the threat of armed men to take them away to a confined prison? Ask yourself, if a fellow student or colleague conducted any of these actions against you, would you not seek legal action? Would you not want them to be stopped? Ronald Reagan once said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” It has been rattled time and time again, but let’s make sure we are not the generation that allows it to be destroyed. 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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Get tested for diabetes, be aware early on Letter MADHURA BHALERAO

orld Diabetes Day is recognized as Nov. 14 worldwide. A group of Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy students passionately celebrated its version of the day on Nov. 19 by educating fellow students in an attempt to raise awareness about the proliferating disease. Diabetes affects more than 20 million Americans today, and prediabetes affects another 57 million Americans. In healthy humans who do not have diabetes, insulin, a hormone secreted by the pancreas, controls the blood sugar level. In patients with diabetes, either too little insulin is

secreted or a resistance to insulin is developed. There are three main types of diabetes: Type 1, Type 2 and gestational diabetes. Type 1 generally is diagnosed in early childhood and is an autoimmune disease in which the body attacks its own cells instead of attacking an infection. The body is unable to make sufficient insulin because the body attacks its own insulin-producing cells, destroying them. A patient with Type 1 diabetes must take daily insulin injections to stay alive. If not diagnosed and given regular insulin, a person with Type I diabetes can face a deadly condition called diabetic ketoacidosis. Type 2, on the other hand, is the most prevalent type of diabetes. Unlike Type 1 diabetes,

Type 2 generally af fects adults. With Type 2 the body develops insulin resistance, which prevents the body from using all the insulin produced ef ficiently, causing a higher than normal blood glucose level that requires regular monitoring. Type 2 diabetes, unlike Type 1, is caused by genetic factors, obesity, old age, physical inactivity and ethnicity. Therefore, testing to get checked for Type 2 diabetes is a must for Asians, Puer to Ricans and members of other high-risk ethnic groups. Gestational diabetes develops among pregnant women who have high blood sugar. Women with gestational diabetes are at high risk for developing Type 2 diabetes later in their lives.

Regardless of race and family histor y of diabetes, one should plan to get tested for diabetes early in life. Moreover, diet and exercise play a key role in diabetes. Therefore, a balanced diet and regular exercise are mandator y for those with diabetes and essential for those who want to prevent it. Hopefully, this World Diabetes Day, we will celebrate by raising awareness like the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy students and also by making the necessar y changes in our lifestyles to suppor t a diabetes-free life. Madhura Bhalerao is an Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy sophomore.

Donate wisely, save lives together Letter NICK BECKSTEAD & MARK LEE

ne-year-old Jessica McClure fell into a dry well in Midland, Texas in 1987. As rescuers worked for two and a half days to reach her, CNN broadcasted images of the rescue to millions of viewers around the world. Donors from all over sent in money to help rescue baby Jessica. They sent in so much money that Jessica now has what has been reported to be a milliondollar trust fund. It was obvious to everyone involved that Jessica must be rescued, no matter what the cost. Similarly, we do not abandon lost sailors, or as in recent events in Chile, trapped miners. We think it would be monstrous to let them perish just because it would cost a lot to save them. We do these things because we recognize that a human life is

immensely valuable and worth saving, if not at any cost, at least any non-astronomical cost. What we may not recognize is that we each have the power to save a person’s life, at very little cost to ourselves. There are several extremely efficient organizations combating easily preventable diseases in the developing world. One such organization, Stop TB Partnership (stoptb.org), runs the Global Drug Facility, which provides drugs for curing tuberculosis to government and non-government health programs as part of a highly effective treatment program called DOTS — directly observed therapy, short-course. It costs just $22.40 to treat a patient infected with drug-sensitive tuberculosis. Close to 14 million treatments have been provided by Stop TB Partnership in their 8 years of operation. According to the Disease Control Priority Report, this kind of intervention can be expected to save lives for somewhere between $150 and $750 each.

GiveWell (www.givewell.org), an independent charity evaluator, confirms that Stop TB Partnership has a significant funding gap. Because organizations like Stop TB Partnership are so effective, one need not be rich to make a massive impact through wisely chosen donations. By giving just 10 percent of our income to efficient organizations, we can each expect to save more than 500 lives in our careers (This calculation assumes an average income of $60,000/year over one’s working life and that one is able to save lives at $450 each throughout that period). It is difficult to imagine a more worthwhile endeavor, or a more noble use of a fraction of our wealth. We can donate this money and save these lives without compromising our quality of life. In fact, many people who give this much find it has improved their lives. Giving others a chance to lead and

enjoy life is incredibly rewarding and meaningful — a growing body of psychological research suggests this experience is far from atypical. For these reasons, we have created a community called Giving What We Can (www.givingwhatwecan.org/ru tgers) to promote ef fective philanthropy and share information on how best to direct our giving. We currently have 64 members, mostly students like you and me, who have pledged 10 percent of their incomes — some have pledged more) toward eliminating pover ty in the developing world. Collectively we have pledged more than $20 million, which can save 45,000 lives. Would you be our 65th member? Nick Beckstead and Mark Lee are graduate fellows with the Department of Philosophy.

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Today's birthday (11/30/10). You've noticed changes occurring in heart and mind. This is the year to realize them. Circumstances place you in the right place for assistance and support. All you have to do is mobilize your philosophical aspirations. Take the first step. To get the advantage, check the day's rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging. Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 7 — Your challenge involves appropriate use of emotional power. Think before criticizing others. The process and the end result are equally important, as are those around you. Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 9 — Ideas abound in your immediate environment. To make the most of them, establish a bridge of communication. Others may resist this at first but will get it eventually. Gemini (May 21-June 21) — Today is a 6 — Today's a good day for building bridges. Use them to bring diverse factions together for productive discussion. This will lead to brilliant new discoveries. Cancer (June 22-July 22) — Today is a 5 — An associate applies pressure now. To achieve balance and proportion, gather more data and analyze it logically. Clarity allows people to relax. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 5 — Don't hurt yourself working so hard. Use circumstances to your advantage, and shift focus from one project to another. Less effort, better results. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 6 — You don't need more information to complete a creative project. Weave your skills and wisdom together, and you get beautiful results. You surprise yourself.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is an 8 — End the month on a high note. You've worked hard and have earned it. You may not have shifted the universe, but you've discovered your own potential. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 6 — Your desire for perfection may not be satisfied today. Children or others want to go on to the next fun thing. There's a certain degree of chaos. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 9 — Group members see the wisdom in addressing a specific challenge. Unification results in more power going where it's needed. Your optimism grows. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 7 — Today you want everyone to like you. Simultaneously, you want to persuade them to your view. You may need to compromise. What are you more committed to? Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 6 — Clear up concerns with a distant associate. Ask another member of the group for suggestions and possible mediation. Things can turn out better than expected. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 6 — Take action out of the personal realm. Distant friends and a possible social engagement consume your energy. Get ready for tons of fun ahead.

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he EIWA conference named Rutgers heavyweight DJ Russo the Wrestler of the Week on Monday, marking the third time in Russo’s career that he earned the award. The Netcong, N.J., native is 10-0 so far this season, propelling him to a No. 5 national ranking after a 32-8 showing a year ago. Russo and the rest of the Scarlet Knights get back on the mat Saturday when the team heads to State College, Pa., to compete in the Nittany Lion Open.

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weekend in the realm of college football, and when the dust settled, Oregon and Auburn remained atop the BCS standings. Auburn overtook the No. 1 ranking after overcoming a 21point deficit to stun then-No. 11 Alabama and earned a spot in the SEC Championship game this weekend against No. 23 South Carolina.

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laid an egg, making it 109 points given up in the last two losses. The running game dealt the finishing blow against an exhausted front-seven, which played without at least four of its initial members on the two-deep for the fifth straight game. Louisville running back Bilal Powell scored three touchdowns in the first 20 minutes of the game and finished with 151 total yards. “[I’m] disappointed in the way we played, disappointed in the way we coached,” Schiano said. “We just didn’t do a good enough job as an organization and they did. We got licked.” The offensive line gave up even more sacks — a seasonhigh nine. That makes 55 sacks through 11 games this season and marks the worst total of all 120 FBS teams. “It was definitely hard [to stay in the pocket on the last two drives],” said true freshman quarterback Chas Dodd, who threw two interceptions and completed just 14 of 32 passes. “A couple of times, they just brought one more rusher than we had blockers and we weren’t prepared for that. We couldn’t handle it. We didn’t pick it up.” With a bowl game appearance now an impossibility instead of simply unlikely, the Knights acknowledge that they need to find another motivation for the final game of the season — a road bout with West Virginia. Schiano, in his 10th year as head coach at Rutgers, has 10 losses to

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West Virginia, including the worst loss in his tenure in 2001 when his team fell, 80-7. “That would be lovely to do that,” said senior linebacker Antonio Lowery, who leads the team with 97 tackles. “It’s just going out there and being prepared and getting ready to play some football. It’s really vague, but that’s what you have to do.” The clash at the WVU Coliseum Saturday marks the final college game for 17 members of the Knights.

For the underclassmen, it is a chance to send the seniors out on a more positive note. For most of the seniors, it is a chance to say goodbye to football for good. “It’s going to be hard [to get motivated], but you have to understand that it’s a blessing to get to play college football,” said senior defensive end Alex Silvestro, a three-year starter and the team’s leader in tackles-for-losses and sacks. “For a lot of people here, for me, it could be the last game I ever

play so you can’t take anything for granted. You have to go out there. The reason I star ted playing football is you love it. It takes you where it takes you, but it’s your last game. It’s what I love to do so I just want to keep playing.” The Knights (4-7, 1-5) get the chance to play spoiler, as well. The Mountaineers (8-3, 4-2) are fresh off a win in the Backyard Brawl and with a win and Connecticut loss, will represent the Big East in a BCS bowl game.

TEAM: Big East basketball becomes crowded with 17 teams continued from back Frogs fans. It should be interesting, we certainly don’t seem to be getting bored.” The move expands the conference to include 17 men’s basketball teams. The Horned Frogs’ last winning season on the basketball court came in the 2004-05 season and they are 60-94 since. “We dare to be great academically and athletically. This move today is great for TCU,” said Athletic Director Chris Del Conte. “We’re moving into a realm and an arena that we’ve always dreamed about. The academic institutions we are going to be associated with are unbelievable. The people in this building are so excited about this opportunity. “We’ll have West Virginia playing here at Amon G. Carter Stadium. We’ll have Connecticut playing our women’s basketball program right in here. We’ve got Villanova coming. We’ve got Syracuse coming.”

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NOVEMBER 30, 2010

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T H E DA I LY TA R G U M

TITLE: Sykes earns MVP

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Sophomore forward Monique Oliver scored in double figures in both Rutgers wins this weekend in her hometown of Las Vegas, but the Knights’ backcourt was outrebounded, 80-67, in the tournament.

forcing 15 tur novers. The Knights continued their great with combined 37-point effort play in the second half, when they led by as many as 41 points (65-24) at one juncture continued from back of the game. mistakes with the 55-press, Sykes catapulted the offense opening with a 16-0 r un. for Rutgers, going 8-of-12 shootOregon State never came back ing from the field to lead the within six points. charge offensively. “We weren’t pressing at the “I thought [Sykes] was really beginning and we needed to relaxed and calm,” Stringer said. step it up, so we started going “She didn’t seem to be rushing to our 55 defense and it always things. She stayed in a flow and let kind of fuels our fire,” said head the ball come to her. We have to coach C. Vivian Stringer. have everyone know what that Junior forward April Sykes feels like. It was great for us and earned tournament MVP honfor April and I like that the team ors, as she led is unselfish.” Rutgers in scoring Sykes was just both nights, regisone of four players “We started tering 18 against for Rutgers to going to our the Beavers and score in double figscoring 19 the ures, as Rushdan 55 defense night before ver(14), Oliver (13), sus Pacific. and Chelsey Lee and it always “They might (10) all also kind of fuels not have been — reached the douthey were,” said ble-digit mark. our fire.” Sykes on the two Knights had C. VIVIAN STRINGER games possibly great ball movebeing the two best ment and shared Head Coach of her career. the basketball, “I just think that I totaling 19 assists was relaxed and my teammates for the game, led by Nikki Nikki Speed and Khadijah Speed’s eight. [Rushdan] did a great job of get“I think what we’re seeing at ting me involved.” least through these five games Monique Oliver, a Las Vegas that we’ve played is that they native, came up big playing in have demonstrated that they’re her hometown for the first unselfish and they’re willing to time, scoring 16 points — 12 in make the extra pass,” Stringer the first half — along with a said. “They had some beautiful career-best six blocks and four passes. It just flowed and that steals against the Beavers. was good.” The Knights’ weekend startRutgers held Pacific to just 22.3 ed out on Friday, when terrific percent shooting for the game and defense and great ball moveforced a total of 28 turnovers. The ment on offense lifted Rutgers win improved Rutgers to 2-0 allto an easy 71-39 victor y over time against Pacific. The 32-point Pacific (2-3) in the opening margin of victory was the largest round of the tournament. for the Knights since an 84-49 vicRutgers completely domitory last November over Kean. nated the first half in all areas Rutgers returns to action of the game, leading Pacific, again on Wednesday, when they 38-11, at the half and holding travel to Philadelphia to take on the Tigers to just 3-of-23 shootTemple hoping that their great ing from the field, as well as play doesn’t stay in Vegas.

ERA: Rinaldi responds with undefeated day at 184 pounds continued from back “I thought that it was going to be very difficult to take this kid down,” Goodale said. “But with about 20 seconds to go, [Russo] just started wrestling hard. When DJ wrestles hard, it’s hard to beat him.” Rinaldi also delivered a critical victory of his own against the Tigers at 184 pounds. The sophomore earned a 2-0 decision as part of an undefeated day for the Lodi, N.J., native. The three wins come one week after Rinaldi let a 4-1 lead over No. 6 Quentin Wright of Penn State fall by the wayside in the form of a 6-4 overtime defeat. “You can look at it two ways: You can either dwell on it and keep kicking yourself in the tail for it or you can learn from it and move forward from it,” Rinaldi said. “I’m going to choose the road of learning from it and not making that mistake again.” Missouri took the first three matches of the dual to jump out to a 10-0 lead. But the Knights came storming back courtesy of three straight wins, including a pin at 165 pounds from No. 8 sophomore Scott Winston that flipped the score from Missouri being ahead, 10-7, into a 13-10 Rutgers lead. “That was a huge swing of not only momentum, but the team score also,” Goodale said. “That’s like another win for us.”

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Sophomore Dan Rinaldi made the jump from 174 pounds to 184 pounds and owns a 6-2 record, including three straight wins in Albany, N.Y., after dropping a decision two weeks ago to No. 6 Quentin Wright of Penn State in a match he led by two points late in the bout. The Jackson Memorial High School product’s victor y came just two minutes into the match, when both he and No. 14 Zach Toal scrambled on the mat. With both wrestlers in vulnerable positions, Winston was able to hold down Toal’s shoulders long enough for his third pin of the young season.

“We were just in a scramble and watching the film, I honestly think that I was pinned a couple of times,” Winston said. “I ended up coming out on top.” For Goodale, even the losses in the lighter weight classes marked contributions for the Knights’ first signature win.

“Someone like [junior 133pound] Mike DeMarco, you look at it where he loses 5-3 — that’s a win for us,” Goodale said. “I’m sure that [Missouri] expected to get bonus points out of that match because they do a good job down low.” The win over the Tigers is one that was four years in the making

and it might be the win that gets the Knights rolling. “I think that win put us on the map as a program,” Winston said. “It was a great atmosphere. Both teams were into it. People in the stands who weren’t with Rutgers or Missouri were into the match. It’s a win we have been searching after for a while.”

S P O RT S

T H E DA I LY TA R G U M

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Rutgers rally falls short in similar fashion to opener BY TYLER BARTO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

PHILADELPHIA — The Rutgers men’s basketball team found itself with a six-point halftime MEN’S BASKETBALL d e f i c i t RUTGERS 76 for the second ST. JOSEPH’S 70 t i m e this season Friday night at The Palestra against St. Joseph’s. And for the second time under head coach Mike Rice, the Scarlet Knights fell on the road, losing to the Hawks, 76-70, in front of 5,219 in the finale of the Philly Hoop Group Classic. “I don’t know many times [St. Joe’s] scored a key bucket, a key offensive rebound or we committed a foul in the last 10 seconds of the shot clock,” said Rice, who took the loss at the hands of mentor and Hawks head coach Phil Martelli. “We didn’t seem to be able to finish off possessions defensively. When we got close, we got in our own way.” A 3-point basket from Charoy Bentley provided the finishing touches on a St. Joe’s (3-2) victory, putting the Hawks up by nine with less than a minute left in the nonconference matchup. Moments earlier, the Hawks’ Carl Jones tallied four straight points to stretch the St. Joe’s lead to five. “We have to toughen up a little more as a team and move forward,” said senior guard Mike Coburn, who finished the contest with a team-leading 13 points on 5-for-9 shooting. “We have to learn from this and really come together more as a team — be more tough.” The Knights (3-2) showed some mettle by shrinking the Hawks’ lead to a single possession on multiple occasions, capped off by sophomore

JOVELLE ABBEY TAMAYO / PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Senior guard Mike Coburn scored 13 points in the Scarlet Knights’ 76-70 loss to St. Joseph’s on Friday at The Palestra. The Mount Vernon, N.Y., native leads the team in scoring with 11.4 points per game.

for ward Austin Johnson’s putback with three minutes to play. But St. Joe’s had an answer each time Rutgers inched closer, aided by several second-chance opportunities in the second half. The Hawks outrebounded Rice’s team, 35-27, on the evening, with eight coming on the offensive glass. “We didn’t have an edge [Friday night],” Rice said. “We didn’t have an edge. Our big guys didn’t have an edge. There was no physicality in our defense. [St. Joe’s] dribbled around [and] did whatever they wanted to do. We were always chasing.”

Rutgers lengthened its uphill climb when a turnover — combined with a 3-pointer from the Hawks’ Langston Galloway — stretched the St. Joe’s lead to 11 with just over 12 minutes to go in the second half. Jones aided the Hawks’ fast-break attack minutes earlier with five straight points after Rutgers again began to chip away at its deficit. Perhaps the biggest reason the Knights found themselves down 34-28 at halftime lied in the absence of go-to scorers Jonathan Mitchell and Dane Miller.

Mitchell finished the first half with a 0-for-2 shooting clip and a personal foul in 13 minutes of action. “With Jonathan and Dane not producing, you’re going to put pressure on your defense to stop,” Rice said. “When we’re down six with those two laying an egg, I was kind of happy. We’ll work it out. We have to make [Mitchell] get aggressive. It seems like when he makes his first shot … he stays hot a little quicker.” Miller fared even worse in the first period of play,

managing two fouls in six minutes. The Rochester, N.Y., native did not tally a shot attempt during the span. “As one of the returning guys from last year, I feel like I didn’t come out to perform,” Miller said. “I was very passive and I waited too long to try and take over the game. My attention to details [Friday] was terrible.” Back-to-back 3-point buckets from guards Austin Carroll and James Beatty shrunk the Rutgers deficit to five in the waning moments of the first half. The Knights finished the game shooting 33 percent from beyond the arc but managed to sink just 10 of 19 shots from the foul line in the process. As a team, Rutgers is shooting just 56 percent from the charity stripe through five games, while opponents have taken almost 50 more attempts in the process. “There’s no excuse for 10for-19 [free-throw shooting],” Rice said. “On the road, you have to make free throws. You have to do the little things. We don’t seem to be doing the little things right now on the road or at home.” The Knights began to wrestle some of the momentum from the Hawks with seven minutes to play in the first half, when senior forward Robert Lumpkins scored four straight points to put Rutgers up by one. But officials called a technical foul on Lumpkins, who hung on the rim following a breakaway dunk. St. Joe’s promptly went on a 12-0 r un, which ended four minutes later on a Galloway reverse layup. “It’s always disappointing when you lose a game no matter what game it is,” Coburn said. “We want to win every single game we come out and play. We didn’t do a good job as a team [Friday] at all.”

Rice credits Martelli with rejuvenating basketball career BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

PHILADELPHIA — As much as head coaches Mike Rice and Phil Mar telli a n d KNIGHT Rutgers NOTEBOOK assistant c o a c h Jimmy Martelli wanted to avoid Friday’s matchup at The Palestra, it was impossible from the outset. The trio faced countless questions before the Rutgers men’s basketball team met St. Joseph’s in the Philly Hoop Group Classic final about mentor facing pupil and father facing son. Rice spent the 2004-06 seasons as an assistant under Phil Martelli, whose son, Jimmy, is now on Rice’s staff at Rutgers. But for all the talk of ignoring it once the game star ted, there was no chance of that before tipof f of the 76-70 Hawks victor y. “I was really good with everything and then the first person I saw when I got off the bus and into the lobby of The Palestra was Jimmy out there hustling people,” Phil Martelli said. As Phil Martelli made his way from the locker room to his bench before the game, he stopped to embrace his son and Rice. After he made it to the

bench, he looked back once, only to see Jimmy Martelli getting the better of him. “When I looked down, that little sucker Jimmy had our call before I had our call on a foul shot,” he said. “I had to bite my lip from not laughing.” But there was no laughing for Rice, who credits the 16th-year St. Joseph’s head coach with bringing him back to basketball. Rice was an assistant at Chicago State before spending three years at the Hoop Group in Neptune, N.J., before Mar telli of fered him another chance at coaching, just one year after his Jameer Nelson and Delonte West-led team was No. 1 in the nation. “I came from Chicago State, which was 330th [in the nation] out of 331, into when [St. Joe’s] were first in the countr y. He brought me back into basketball,” Rice said. “Without him, I couldn’t have done any of this. I could spend all night talking about what Phil means to me and my family. He housed me. When I went to St. Joe’s, I spent the first four months living in Jimmy’s room when he was out coaching.” But all Martelli did for Rice last weekend was snap a threegame winning streak. “When the ball goes up, I could care less who it is,” Rice said. “I want to win and it’s not

a good feeling when you take an ‘L.’ I don’t care who’s on the other side.”

T HE S CARLET K NIGHTS split their pair of games while school was out of session over Thanksgiving break, as they beat Nor folk State (1-3) last Tuesday, 83-59. Point guard James Beatty led all scorers with 18 points and went 5-for-6 from behind the arc. The scoring output left an impact on Phil Mar telli, who had his defense key on the 6foot-2 senior in the Knights’ second game. The Wilmington, N.C., native scored nine points on 3-of-8 shooting. “I think Beatty is really a tough match because he takes shots in the middle of their of fense, just bounce, bounce and shoot,” Mar telli said. “We really star ted our plan here with Beatty. I thought he was the primar y guy.” Beatty was one of five players to score in double figures against Nor folk State, including Gilvydas Bir uta, Mike Coburn, Dane Miller and Mike Poole. Bir uta combined for 23 points and 10 rebounds over the two games after he struggled with foul trouble through the first few games of his freshman season.

RAMON DOMPOR / ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

St. Joe’s head coach Phil Martelli, left, and Rutgers coach Mike Rice embrace after the Hawks topped the Knights, 76-70.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2010

TCU joins Big East as 17th team BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

with a takedown in the match’s waning moments to earn a 4-3 decision and give Rutgers (7-1) the win. “It was nerve-racking. It gave me a heart attack,” said sophomore Dan Rinaldi about the match. “It was a roller coaster — such a wide range of emotions. With 11 seconds left, [Russo] almost gets a takedown and then he almost gets taken down. Then Bradley’s sitting on a single leg with short time left and DJ throws in a whizzer and hips him over. The whole side just went nuts.” Russo remains undefeated with the win, a victory that was all but decided after Bradley jumped out to a 3-1 lead.

From the Mountain West to Big East, Texas Christian is an equally awkward geographic fit in its new BIG EAST conference, but marks the first step toward expansion. Texas Christian and the Big East announced that the Horned Frogs accepted an invitation yesterday to become the 17th team in the conference, which it will officially become a member of on July 1, 2012 and compete in for the 2012-13 year. TCU’s Board of Trustees unanimously approved the invitation. “When you think of conferences, they tend to be shaped by geographical proximity and historical contingency,” said Notre Dame president and chairman of the Big East CEO Executive Committee John I. Jenkins. “But with this addition of TCU to the Big East, we transcend some geographical boundaries to create some really interesting cross-regional competition.” The Horned Frogs must travel as far as 1,723 miles to travel to Connecticut’s campus and 1,559 to Rutgers Stadium in Piscataway. Although all 20 TCU athletic programs will participate in the conference, it is a football-driven move, and the Horned Frogs bring plenty to the BCS conference. The No. 3-ranked team in the BCS appeared in the Fiesta Bowl last season after winning the Mountain West and is set for another marquee bowl this year with its second straight 12-0 regular season. By joining the Big East, TCU becomes part of an automatic qualifying conference. “It is a great scenario for us,” said head football coach Gary Patterson. “As I told a lot of people via e-mail and text, it has been a hard road, an interesting road. But the last two seasons we have gone to BCS games and I have been proud of how the [Dallas-Fort Worth] community has embraced us, becoming

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Rutgers head wrestling coach Scott Goodale notched his first signature win Saturday over No. 16 Missouri at the Northeast Duals in Albany, N.Y. The fourth-year coach has a record of 57-20-1 thus far with the Rutgers wrestling team.

Rutgers earns biggest win in Goodale era BY A.J. JANKOWSKI ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

Scott Goodale and the Rutgers wrestling team came close for years, but could never take down a top-tier program — until this weekend. The fourth-year WRESTLING head coach and his Knights RUTGERS 19 Scarlet came within one MISSOURI 16 point of beating Penn State last year and fell by three to Virginia Tech two seasons ago as their search for a signature win hit dead ends at every turn — until this weekend. At the Northeast Duals in Albany, N.Y., the No. 24 Knights went toe-to-toe with

No. 16 Missouri and finally flexed their muscles, winning, 19-16. “That was a huge win for this program,” said Goodale, whose team also earned wins in Albany over Stanford and Columbia by scores of 18-13 and 29-9, respectively. “You have to put teams like that on your schedule. I don’t care what sport it is — you have to challenge your athletes against the best teams in the country.” The dual against the Tigers (5-3) came down to the final bout tied at 16 apiece. The match pitted senior DJ Russo, the No. 5 heavyweight in the country, against No. 2 Dom Bradley. The Missouri junior took a 3-2 lead into the final seconds before Russo stormed back

Knights return with tourney title in Vegas

RU drops fifth straight, snaps bowl streak

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LAS VEGAS — It was a happy Thanksgiving weekend for the Rutgers women’s basketball team, as the Scarlet Knights traveled west for the second time in three weeks. WOMEN’S BASKETBALL But this time the result was a litRUTGERS 65 tle different. OREGON ST. 52 After a convincing 71-39 win over Pacific Friday, the Knights faced an Oregon State team the next day that gave Rutgers all it could handle early on. The Knights eventually came away with a 65-52 victor y to win the Hyatt Place Lady Rebel Round-Up, the second straight holiday tournament win for Rutgers after winning last year’s Paradise Jam. The first half saw seven lead changes along with five ties, as Rutgers (4-2) trailed Oregon State (4-2) at the half, 33-30. But the Knights came out firing in the second half and forced the Beavers into

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Junior forward April Sykes paced the Knights offensively with a combined 37 points in a pair of wins over Pacific and Oregon State in the Lady Rebel Round-Up.

Before the clock struck noon on Black Friday, the clock struck midnight for the Rutgers football team after Louisville put up 21 points almost immediately FOOTBALL in an eventual 40-13 LOUISVILLE 40 embarrassment. Not only did the RUTGERS 13 loss send out 17 seniors on the worst possible note, but it ensured a sub-.500 finish for the first time under head coach Greg Schiano since 2004 and the end of the Scarlet Knights’ five-year bowl streak. “There’s no one on the planet that’s more frustrated than I am,” Schiano said during his day-after teleconference. “Can I feel [the fans’] frustration? Fifty times over. They’re frustrated but then they go to a job or they go back to their family or they go do something. My frustration doesn’t end. So yeah, I feel their frustration, sure I do.” For the second straight game, the Rutgers defense — traditionally forceful —

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