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U. Senate reviews alma mater change BY AMY ROWE STAFF WRITER

In response to complaints that parts of the University’s alma mater “On the Banks of the Old Raritan” are discriminatory to women, the University Senate’s Student Affairs Committee is currently reviewing the logistics of changing or replacing the song. “An alma mater ideally serves as a link across generations of students for a school rich with tradition,” said Sam Rabinowitz, faculty co-chair of the Student Af fairs Committee. “Sometimes the words may not translate as

well from one generation to the next.” The committee received this charge more than a month ago, after the Douglass Governing Council petitioned for a change last semester, said Adam Helgeson, student co-chair of the Student Affairs Committee. “Unfortunately we are still in the research stage, so I do not know if it will change,” said Helgeson, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore. Several members of the Douglass Governing Council found fault with the lyric, “My father sent me to old Rutgers,

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PENTAGON STUDY SHEDS LIGHT ON ‘DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL’ Pentagon leaders confirmed yesterday that having gay troops serve openly in the military would not have a detrimental effect on the armed forces’ ability to fight, according to The Associated Press. A new poll shows most troops would not mind having the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy repealed, according to the AP. The law, in effect since 1993, prohibits those who identify as gay from ser ving. President Barack Obama is opposed to the ban and is urging the Senate to repeal it before Congress leaves Capitol Hill for its recess in a few weeks, according to the AP. “I am absolutely confident that [service members] will adapt to this change and remain the best led, best trained, best equipped fighting force the world has ever known,” Obama said. But it seems unlikely Republicans who favor the policy will be convinced otherwise before Congress adjourns. Sen. John McCain leads the effort against repealing the law and said the charge to do so, which is politically motivated, threatens morale in the military and is dangerous at a time when the country is involved in two wars, according to the AP. — Colleen Roache

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By donating half of Monday’s gross profits to the “Eric LeGrand Believe Fund,” Easton Avenue eatery Sanctuary Inc. raised about $1,000 for LeGrand, a University football player who suffered a paralyzing spinal cord injury.

Sanctuary serves up aid for LeGrand BY JACK MURTHA CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Sanctuar y Inc., an Easton Avenue eater y, raised about $1,000 for injured University football player Eric LeGrand on Monday through eating. Half of the restaurant’s gross profits from the benefit serviced the “Eric LeGrand Believe Fund,” said Richard Borr, owner of Sanctuary. “It was such a horrible thing that happened to LeGrand,” Borr said. “We wanted to do what little we could to help him and his family.” LeGrand suffered a paralyzing spinal cord injur y on Oct. 16 during

a University football game against Army. Ever y order placed added to the Sanctuar y’s contribution, whether for deliver y, takeout or dine-in, Sanctuar y Manager Amanda Moyer said. Sanctuary, along with many New Brunswick businesses, relies on University students to stay afloat, she said. When the University is in need, local businesses must respond. Cory Zoblin, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, said Sanctuar y’s efforts to help LeGrand is an effective form of charity. He said groups asking for change outside of Brower Commons on the College Avenue

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campus might not catch most University students’ attention. “Most people get annoyed when they are solicited for change,” Zoblin said. “When they go to Sanctuary, they just want to buy food.” Stephanie Haue, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said customers might be more inclined to order more food because of the benefit. “With food, you can never go wrong,” Hau said. “If you order more, it’s like leaving a tip for [LeGrand].” School of Arts and Sciences junior Matthew White said off-campus benefits such as this highlight the

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Peer Awareness, Compassion, Tolerance for Autism presents “Triple A Expo,” an autism awareness art exposition with art, photography and musical performances. The event raised donations for the Douglass Developmental Disabilities Center yesterday at the Douglass Campus Center.

The University’s largest fundraising campaign, “Our Rutgers, Our Future: A Campaign for Excellence,” is nearly at its halfway mark, with $472 million of the $1 billion goal collected so far, said Rutgers University Foundation President Carol Herring. Although contributions to the University have decreased because of the economy, Herring remains optimistic that loyal donors will continue to provide support. “Money is harder to raise right now … a lot of people have been hit hard,” she said. “But we find that people know that now it is even more important to give to a cause they care about, so they try even harder to find money.” Most individual donors are University alumni, but many people unaffiliated with the University choose to contribute, Herring said. “Rutgers does so many things and has so many interesting programs that there are a lot of projects here that people who have never gone to Rutgers are interested in supporting,” she said.

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University Press sale attracts buyers with discounted books BY ANDREA GOYMA STAFF WRITER

With the holiday season approaching, customers were able to purchase $1 paperbacks and $2 hardcover books this week at the University Press’ first warehouse clearance sale. The sale ran Monday and Tuesday from 12 to 5 p.m. on Livingston campus and featured an extensive line of books, ranging from cosmology to Alfred Hitchcock’s script and commentary for “North by Northwest,” at prices below list price. University Press Director Marlie Wasserman said the clearance sale is a good way to give back to the community while increasing public awareness. “It is a great opportunity to show everyone on campus the wide range of what we publish,” she said. “Because we’re doing this right before the holidays, it is a way for people to get beautiful and wonderful books for an inexpensive amount of money.” Customers could find recently published books in the main room of the University Press office, said Elizabeth Scarpelli, marketing and sales director for University Press. Hardcover books were available for $10 and paperbacks for $5. “I hear people walking and saying, ‘This is the University

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The University Press holds its first warehouse clearance sale Monday and Tuesday at its press office on Livingston campus. Books included University Press, trade and academic titles. Press, I think it is the newspaper,’ who purchased two or more “The books and the prices are and they have no idea what we do books received an additional dol- wonderful. I bought several here,” she said. “They think all lar off the order for every book books for my husband, who is a the books are these dry, boring purchased, Scarpelli said. history teacher, for Christmas,” monographs, but it’s not. We’ve Maisy Card, a second-year grad- she said. “[The University Press] got some great accessible books.” uate student at the School of is a treasure that maybe people In the main salesroom, book Communication and Information don’t know too much about, so I’ll titles included “Local Heroes: who was helping out at the sale, said definitely be telling my colThe Asbury Park Music Scene,” she felt tempted by the low prices. leagues to look.” “Sex and the University” and “I think I may actually get some The University Press usually “There’s More to New Jersey of these clearance books before holds an annual holiday sale, but it than the Sopranos,” she said. It is they are all taken,” she said. is traditionally limited to recently also where the University Press’ Cathy Liapes, instructional published N.J. trade gift books, titles on subjects like American course designer at the School of Scarpelli said. The majority of cuscinema and regional books on the Social Work, said the warehouse tomers who are aware of the sale tri-state area were sold. sale was her first visit to the are University staff and faculty. Although only cash and University Press and she was The warehouse clearance checks were accepted, customers impressed by the low prices. sale is dif ferent because it

features a larger selection of titles and is marketed to the public, Scarpelli said. “Wasserman and I wanted to create an event that showcased more of our titles, particularly our trade titles and academic titles,” she said. “The warehouse sale allows anyone to come in, browse our titles and become more familiar.” The University Press has minimal visibility because it is located on Livingston campus where parking can be difficult, Wasserman said. The warehouse sale reminds people where the University Press is, and the variety and quality of books they provide. “Unlike today’s sale, the annual holiday sale is primarily over the Internet because we found it difficult during the holidays to find a central place on campus,” she said. “[So the warehouse sale] is the only on-site sale that we really have.” Established in 1936, the University Press publishes approximately 90 books per year in print and electronic format, offering an array of disciplines across the humanities to general and social sciences, Scarpelli said. For those who were unable to make it, select titles from the warehouse clearance sale will be available via the University Press website, she said.

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LEGRAND: Manager advocates community support continued from front connection between the University and New Brunswick as a whole. “This is hard for the team and the [University],” Moyer said. “It is important for us to give back to the [University], because Sanctuary would not be what it is without the students.” Nicholas Tanzi, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, said New Br unswick and the University have forged a strong relationship through the years. The connection is beneficial for both University students and businesses operating in the city. “All the small businesses and restaurants benefit from the University,” Tanzi said. “They do

CHANGE: McCormick, Senate responsible for choice continued from front And resolv’d that I should be a man,” because it lacks gender inclusivity, he said. Michelle Coleman, the Rutgers University Student Assembly representative for the council, said the line is no longer applicable, and it refers to a time when women were not allowed to attend the University by virtue of their gender. “That’s not what an alma mater should be celebrating essentially,” she said. “When you consider the implications of what it means to be singing the alma mater … it should apply to your experience at the University. It should be inclusive of all the people who attend [and] be broad enough to include the people who attend.” Coleman, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said the council is not suggesting it should ignore history, but if people believe this is the purpose of an alma mater, then the current lyrics are obsolete at this point. “If we do make a major change to the song, we will want it to

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what they can to help out. It is community building.” Some University students think areas like Easton Avenue are an irreplaceable part of the University community. “Even though it is unofficial, Easton Avenue is pretty much a par t of the University,” Zoblin said. Sanctuar y employees worked to ensure the majority of the restaurant’s customers would know of the benefit, Moyer said. Tanzi said he learned of the benefit weeks before through signs posted around the eater y. “We handed out flyers for about two weeks,” she said. “Every time we delivered food, we put flyers in the bags.” The restaurant’s advertising campaign paid off, Moyer said. Sanctuary achieved their goal of raising $1,000 to $2,000.

Sanctuary often serves food to University football players, Borr said. The tragedy hit close to him and his staff, particularly because of their connection with the team. “I know a lot of the players,” Moyer said. “I know what they are going to buy. They are regular customers.” University football players took notice of the benefit, she said. Several players ordered food from Sanctuary on Monday, while others chose to stop in for snacks. “The football team comes in all of the time,” Moyer said. “They have always been great patrons. They were glad to help their teammate.” School of Arts and Sciences sophomore Egzona Marku said outside of collecting money, Sanctuar y’s actions can reignite awareness of LeGrand’s tragic situation. “[Sanctuar y’s charity event] makes people more aware of

what is going on with LeGrand’s situation,” Marku said. “It is more about involvement than just throwing money at his problem. This will bring attention back.” The benefit also served as a reminder for LeGrand and his family because community support for his situation is pivotal right now, Marku said. “I think it will help him in his recovery, knowing that the community is behind him,” Marku said. “It is something to encourage him to keep going.” Motivation for the event stemmed from heartbreak felt for LeGrand’s condition, along with a deep connection with the University, Moyer said. “We are going to donate the money we made,” she said. “It is no cost to anybody but us. We felt really awful for LeGrand and we are glad to help him in what little way we can.”

reflect everyone here so we would not have to change it again,” Helgeson said. The Student Affairs Committee created a sub-committee of about seven people who are compiling a survey to determine alumni opinions, Helgeson said. “The subcommittee has started this examination and will reach out to various stakeholder groups to gauge feelings about any modifications of the wording or the song itself,” said Rabinowitz, an associate professor of management and associate dean at the RutgersCamden campus. The Student Affairs Committee will use its research to make recommendations on whether the lyrics of the alma mater need revision, which will be presented to the full University Senate, he said. “People who have graduated from Rutgers have immense pride in the song and might not appreciate the change,” Helgeson said. “If the alumni do not like the song we come up with and we change it, we could lose funding.” From an objective viewpoint, Coleman said it would make sense to leave the alma mater’s lyrics if the compromising of alumni contributions would pre-

vent certain students from being able to attend. “I can’t imagine that [action] would be looked upon with any amount of understanding on anyone’s part,” Coleman said. “I think that would be kind of disgraceful on [the alumni’s] part to be consciously taking away from students.” But regardless, she does not think its revision would ever spark such a consequence. The decision lies ultimately in the hands of University President Richard L. McCormick and the Senate, which consists of current students and faculty as well as alumni from the New Brunswick, Newark and Camden campuses, Helgeson said. Aside from the sub-committee’s inquiries into the song, School of Arts and Sciences senior Daniel Comito conducted related research for his thesis about the history of the alma mater at the University and how other colleges have completely changed their songs, Helgeson said. Although the Douglass Governing Council asked for this issue to be visited, the University has received other complaints in the past, Helgeson said. “This is not the first time the issue has been brought up,” he

said. “It was brought up a few times during the 20th century, as early as 1930, even before the University was integrated as a coeducational institution.” The interest of current University students in changing the alma mater caught the University’s attention on this issue, Helgeson said. But not all students want a completely new song. “It would be in everyone’s best interest if we changed the exclusively male lines to either include females or be gender-neutral,” said Chelsea Gohd, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences first-year student. “We should keep most of the alma mater the same because it is such a deep-bred tradition.” The alma mater has undergone several changes over the years, from verse revisions or additions to a completely new song, which are no longer in practice, Helgeson said. “It is being worked on, but it takes time,” he said. “We just need everyone to be patient so we can make it meaningful and applicable to everyone.” — Kristine Rosette Enerio contributed to this story.

CALENDAR DECEMBER Rutgers Students for Environmental Awareness will host a panel called, “Sustainable Communities — How We Can Become One” to discuss the importance of environmentally sustainable development at 8 p.m. in Trayes Hall B at the Douglass Campus Center. Panelists will be Mayor Jerr y Fried of Montclair, N.J., Executive Director of Groundwork Elizabeth Jonathan Phillips and author and environmental policy professor at Stockton College Dr. Patrick Hossay. Refreshments will be provided. Please contact SEA Programs Coordinator Eliav Levy at eliavnl@eden.r utgers.edu for more questions.

Kevin McMahon, director of Waterlife, a documentary about the Great Lakes, will discuss his experiences about his documentar y filmmaking, the Great Lakes and ecological awareness at 3 p.m. in the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum. The film will be shown at 6 p.m. Refreshments will be served as part of the Zimmerli’s Art after Hours program. 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 Ar ts 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 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Douglass Campus Center. The society welcomes all students to stop by their table whether they are Geography majors or minors or not. 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. Pizza and drinks will be served. For more information, contact Monica Emer y at memery@aesop.rutgers.edu.

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GOAL: Fifteen percent of funds to go to U. programs continued from front The University has a process for attracting donors, Herring said. First it identifies potential supporters from a list of University alumni, then it works to cultivate their interest in donating to certain causes and finally it solicits the individual’s money. Donors are either individuals or corporations and foundations, she said. “There is no typical donor,” Herring said. “We get probably about 55 percent of our money from individuals and the remainder from corporations and foundations.” The organization has laid out specific uses for the $1 billion, said Julie Shadle, the Foundation’s vice president for Campaign and Development Operations. Forty percent will go toward supporting faculty and research, 25 percent will support students’ learning through scholarship and fellowship, she said. Meanwhile, 15 percent will be for campuses and their facilities, 15 percent will go toward University and community programs, and the remaining 5 percent will be used for miscellaneous needs, she said. Students are also playing a role in the fundraising effort, Shadle said. “We do have some student help in our annual giving program, which requires students to help us with our Telefund effort, so these are paid student helpers who call alumni and ask them to make donations,” she said. Students sometimes inspire alumni to donate by speaking in front of the Board of Trustees about their experiences at school, Shadle said. “That is always very powerful, for alumni and donors to hear what life is like for current students,” Shadle said. “It is a very inspirational thing for prospective donors.” Herring said while students are not overwhelmingly involved with the campaign, she remains hopeful they can come together in a joint effort and raise money. “We hope we will be able to get students to work together to give a senior class gift when they graduate … and that students

will think … about how much help they are getting from those people who went before them and how much they can help the students who come after them,” Herring said. Robert Mortensen, a member of the Board of Overseers — the financial arm of the Rutgers Foundation — said he raises money for the campaign through the Rutgers University Glee Club and Mason Gross School of the Arts. “Annually, or at least every two or three years, [members of RUGC Advisor y Board] rehearse and then perform with the undergraduate Glee Club, so that is a great motivator for the alumni, and it is certainly a lot of fun for undergraduates as well,” said Mortensen, chair of the RUGC Advisory Board. Mortensen, also chair of the Mason Gross School of the Arts Leadership Council, said he helps potential donors with single cash donations, gift planning and fundraising for new buildings. “I make phone calls to people that either I or the Foundation have identified and are interested in a specific area … and I convince them, usually without a great deal of trouble, that they want to support something that is impor tant to them,” said Mor tensen, a University alumnus. Donors generally choose how to allocate their contributions, Shadle said. It is rare for the Foundation to decide how funds will be used. “We do rarely get … unrestricted gifts where the foundation would make the decision about where to allocate those funds … for example, they might look over to the President’s Fund where University President [Richard L.] McCormick would have the decision to decide how to apply the dollars,” Shadle said. Herring remains hopeful that by 2014 the Foundation will reach its goal of $1 billion. “It is ambitious … It is twice what the goal of the last campaign was,” she said. “It’s not going to be easy, especially in this economy, but we have a lot of very good support.” The Foundation developed the idea for the campaign in 2004 and in 2007 put it into effect.

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London students turn violent amid tuition hike riots THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — British police made 153 arrests during student demonstrations in London yesterday against proposed university tuition hikes, officials said. Police reported the arrests following a day of cat-and-mouse between demonstrators and riot officers that culminated in a violent standoff in the capital’s Trafalgar Square. Students are furious about the coalition government’s decision to allow schools to triple the cap imposed on tuition fees, allowing the best universities to charge up to 9,000 pounds ($14,000) per year in a bid to reduce the burden on Britain’s debt-laden public sector. British students currently pay up to 3,000 pounds ($4,675). Earlier this month, activists tried to ransack the governing Conser vative Par ty’s headquar ters in London in a protest, touching of f a wave of demonstrations. “We need to keep up this momentum because eventually we’ll get through to them and we can start negotiations,” said Shayan Moghedam, 17, from Woodhouse College in north London. “This is not something that can just be ignored and the fact that students keep coming out week after week proves that.” Moghedam was one of thousands of young demonstrators marching, staging sit-ins at university campuses and — in at least one case — occupying local government offices.

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One hundred fifty-three British students were arrested while protesting proposed tuition hikes yesterday in London’s Trafalgar Square. The increase in fees would triple tuition for students who currently pay up to 3,000 pounds. The demonstrations were mostly nonviolent — police in Birmingham praised students for their sensible and “wholly peaceful” protest. But in London, demonstrators veered from the planned route and scattered across the wintry streets. Lines of police in fluorescent yellow vests stood guard outside Parliament, where lawmakers were debating the merits of the fee hikes. As evening fell, protesters congregated in Trafalgar Square, vandalizing Nelson’s Column — erected in the honor of the British naval hero — and attacking nearby businesses. Police said two officers were injured in the clashes. Elsewhere, thousands of students from the southwest English city of Bristol’s two universities marched on the city’s shopping district. The demonstration was largely peaceful,

although at one point protesters lit flares and pelted police with ketchup and mustard. In the northern city of Sheffield, police guarding the constituency office of Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg shrugged off snowballs as they faced off against about 200 protesters. Clegg — the leader of Britain’s Liberal Democrats — has come under par ticularly stinging criticism over the proposed tuition hike. His par ty, which once enjoyed strong student suppor t, had pledged to oppose any such move — only to renege on the promise once it joined the Conser vative Par ty as the junior par tner in the coalition government. “Nick Clegg is a snake,” said Grace Charlesworth, 17, also from Woodhouse College. “He said our educations didn’t

depend on the money in our parents’ pockets but that is exactly what it will become. He is a lying snake who couldn’t care less about our education.” Prime Minister David Cameron said yesterday students have “a responsibility to know the full facts about what they are objecting to.” “This is a solution that is fair on the taxpayer in a time of financial anxiety,” he said in a statement. “It’s fair on the student, who will get better teaching and it’s fair on the graduate, who will pay when they can afford it.” Back on the frozen streets of the British capital, students weren’t buying it. “I honestly just feel cheated by the entire system,” said Victoria Rabin, 18, of west London. “I don’t know what the right thing to do is, but I want my voice to be heard. There has to be some sort of middle ground.”

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Alcohol ad ban serves no purpose

he U.S. Supreme Court chose on Monday to disregard an appeal to a ban on alcohol advertising in Virginia’s college newspapers. The appeals came from the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia but were turned down by the court. We disagree with this decision, not because of the inherent disregard for the First Amendment but because of the pointlessness of the law. The upheld law bans the advertisement of beer, wine, mixed drinks and the mention of “happy hour” or any alcoholrelated lingo. In reality, a large par t of the college population across the nation is of age to drink alcohol. Adver tising wine, beer and whatever else companies sell is a good business decision and one that brings revenue to the always-struggling college newspapers. This action benefits both the company and newspaper and equally promotes legal drinking to legal drinkers. Fur thermore, allowing these adver tisements to be published does not af fect underage drinkers who will most likely continue to drink in their residence halls illegally rather than at any bar promoted in a college newspaper. Limiting these advertisements hinders newspapers and companies alike. These limitations are placed on commercial speech and adversely affect a college newspaper’s ability to continue publication. Two of the biggest examples are newspapers at two major universities — University of Virginia and Virginia Tech. These papers are put at a disadvantage when competing with other publications for ad revenue. The Supreme Court refused to review the decision by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals — the ruling banning these ads — and we agree with this decision. The Supreme Court has more important matters to rule on. However, the arguments will continue in the lower courts, and that is what Virginia’s college newspapers need. We support the removal of this ban if there is to be any sort of fairness to the university papers as far as financial security goes.

Professors must make rules against texting

hould professors leave unruly classes? The simple answer is no. But something does need to be done with students who seem to be paying attention to their phones rather than the class material. A Syracuse University professor set of f a debate two years ago with a simple policy — if a student is spotted texting, he would walk out of the class. While we do not agree with this approach, we think there should be stricter measures against those students who find a given class less interesting than their lives. At the University, we need more professors who have authority over their classes, no matter the issue — Facebook, texting or tweeting. Instead of walking out of a class they are paid to teach, professors should be implementing their own rules. Grade reduction or at least threatening to take away points are just two options for when a student is seen texting in class. Even kicking the student out would ser ve a better job, allowing those who want to learn to do so. In the chaotic environment of a college class, professors must take control, rather than hinder the performance of those students who are in class to learn. Those students who disrespect the class and the professor only take away from the rest of the class, who are hopefully there to learn. There is a certain classroom etiquette, which professors should enforce if students cannot adhere to it. We all pay the same overinflated tuition and a lot of us take out student loans, but in the end, we are here to learn. And along with the rest of the student population, we must be held up to some standard. Professors should be the ones who determine them. By leaving a class, professors show a disregard for the rest of the students’ intentions of learning. Leaving makes educators seem unbothered by the fact that students will be the ones to suffer. There are better ways of upholding some sort of classroom standard. Embarrass the student, sure. Call them out and perhaps they will not text again — or at least not as transparently. We all pay the thousands of dollars per year for education, and when a professor chooses to leave simply because of an inconsiderate student, we do not get our (inevitable) debt’s worth. We need stricter rules against phones, if only to protect the value of education, other wise we risk going into debt without learning much. It is up to professors to implement individual rules for classes, because walking out is not an option.

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Lost in meritocracy

into the real world and apper Kanye West found your own company mentioned in his “Lil potentially making millions Jimmy Skit” on the or even billions of dollars “College Dropout” album that like Zuckerburg? his father passed away and These entrepreneurs had left him with all of the acaa brilliant idea that revolutiondemic degrees that he ized the world, along with a earned, joking that he was so AMIT JANI highly practiced skill in their obsessed with getting respective fields that made degrees that he stole his son’s the option of dropping out of college worthwhile for as well. “I’m gonna learn too, I’m gonna get super them. Attending college for the rest of us does have smart so that I too can die without … I won’t have any many benefits, one being the option for us to explore money. But I’ll be the smartest dead guy,” he said. our talents before deciding on a career. As author Now, now Mr. West, we obviously know that the Tucker Max writes in “Assholes Finish First,” “The higher the degree we earn, the more significant our biggest difference between school and work is not free salary potential will be. Consider the statistics showing time, not responsibility, not money, not even access to college graduates earn an average of $20,000 more per college bars and parties. The biggest difference is year than those with a high school diploma or GED, hope.” He goes on to say no matter how hard classes according to the National Center for Education or exams might get, students know that college is Statistics. A master’s earns $8,949 more annually than eventually going to end and that we can go on to do a bachelor’s degree in philosophy, $11,232 more in something different. chemistry and $16,103 more in economics. I came into college with aspirations of going to medAside from what our degrees will earn us in dollars, ical school to become a cardiologist, but soon found scidoes college really make us smarter? Most of us are ence courses to be dull and uninteresting. I then sought very aware of the screeching cries in residence halls anthropology, business and economwhen a student finds out she failed ics. After two years of switching her organic chemistry final exam or “College gives us majors, I realized my passion lies in the constant blabbering we face from writing. I cannot imagine how misera student who received an NP on his a lesson able I would be if I went straight into fourth “Expository Writing” paper. that would take medical school and not had the previIsn’t our grade point average just a ous two years to explore my strengths. number that hangs lazily under our several years to gain College also gave me the opportunity names on a transcript? Does our GPA to participate in activities that better truly reflect how smart or mentally in the real world.” honed my skills as a leader and helped capable we are? I would probably be strengthen my characteristics as an much more intelligent if I was locked individual. Where else can someone be a president of an in a Barnes & Noble for a year, enjoying all the books organization, journalist, politician, researcher, etc. while I’d like to read rather than coming to college (providsimultaneously balancing academics? College gives us ed that the Starbucks is fully stocked). As Walter Kirn the ability to participate in so many diverse activities and described in his memoir “Lost in the Meritocracy,” explore various perspectives of life that it would make “the temple of higher learning he expected [at the most ambitious polymath envious. Princeton] was instead just another arena … of kissAside from helping to discover who we truly are, ing-up, cramming, and competition.” Are we really lost college gives us a lesson that would take several years in the meritocracy of the University? Did Mark to gain in the real-world discipline. Gates did not just Zuckerberg, the college student who dropped out of wake up his sophomore year with a revelation and school and became a multi-billionaire by starting decide to pursue computer programming. He had been Facebook need meritocracy? How about Bill Gates, codoing it ever since he attended Lakeside School in the founder of Microsoft and one of the world’s richest eighth grade. He had the discipline to sit on a computmen, who dropped out of college in his sophomore er for more than 10,000 hours until he mastered the year. Let’s not forget Steve Jobs, who has a net worth subject. The same holds true for Zuckerburg. These of $5.5 billion but dropped out of Reed College in individuals possessed discipline well before college Portland, Ore., after just one semester. and at an age earlier than that of their peers. Jobs still The aforementioned individuals did not need a audited classes at Reed College even after he dropped college degree to become successful or enhance out of school. He later stated, “If I had never dropped in their academic abilities. They had the motivation on that single [calligraphy] course in college, the Mac and discipline to focus on their goals and to accomwould have never had multiple typefaces or proporplish them. I believe the same holds true for a wide tionally spaced fonts.” Perhaps the idea of college is not percentage of students here at the University. But if college does not necessarily make you smarter, SEE JANI ON PAGE 9 then why attend college at all? Why not venture

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U. reputation remains untouched despite cuts Letter BILAL AHMED

have attended the University for several years and have been hearing about the RU1000 Movement for quite some time. After initially being quite amused at the “President McGormless” interview on their website, I read an argument that is a point of contention between me and anyone who seriously endorses their entire platform. I agree that it is frustrating to deal with higher tuition and salar y freezes when $100 million is being invested in a football stadium. I also agree that it is silly for parties to claim that the University athletics programs are generating revenue when they would likely be hemorrhaging money without significant financial support. And yes, I do not dispute that it is difficult to justify spending cuts due to unwise spending and that the sheer number of students our University boasts can be somewhat questionable.

JANI continued from page 8 to make us smarter, but rather to discipline us so we can independently handle any problem thrown our way in life. Essentially, meritocracy exists so we can simply learn to learn — a practical skill we will carry with us to our dying day. College might be a formal institution of higher learning for only a limited time, but the values it instills in its students are priceless. College is just the beginning. We are given freedom to explore our talents, the discipline to work tirelessly through a problem and most importantly, the ability to learn efficiently throughout our lives. Our university is one of the best places to start our journey into the real world — let’s take advantage of all the rich and diverse opportunities that Old Queens has to offer. Amit Jani is a School of Arts and Sciences junior majoring in journalism and media studies. His column, “The Fourth Estate,” runs on alternate Wednesdays.

However, the implication that University education has somehow been degraded as a result of allowing a certain type of student to attend is foolish, arrogant and profoundly irritating. RU1000 points out that The College of New Jersey tightened admissions standards, which led to a rise in the SAT scores of incoming freshmen — a strange argument since any serious educator is aware that the SAT does not truly reflect academic ability. It goes on to mention that the University’s entering class would somehow have a combined math and critical reading score of 1360 by now if it followed similar procedures, but laments that “you can do things at a small public liberal arts college that you can’t do at a state university.” Perhaps RU1000 and its supporters need a dose of reality. Our institution is a state university for a reason — it made a conscious decision to become one in the 1950s and pledged to abandon intense notions of an “academic reputation” for the sake of providing a strong education to

as many students in New Jersey as possible. That is the purpose of a public-run state university — to serve as the highest avenue for public education in the state of New Jersey. It is therefore asinine to assert that the University is worse off for attempting to fulfill that purpose by letting in “poor students.”

“The implication that University education has somehow been degraded ... is foolish.” The purpose of placement exams, introductor y courses and other mechanisms is to group students by their current ability in order to further prepare them in a university setting. University academics are unaffected by this, and most “good students” will find that their classroom experiences are not worsened by the presence of

these “bad students.” Lecture classes function with a huge number regardless, 300- and 400-level courses are usually populated with serious students of a given major, especially senior seminars and so on. Most students will find instead that it is those students who are painted as good who make learning difficult by pressing professors for “A” grades they do not necessarily deserve and expressing their anger at them for not succumbing to their wishes by way of a bad teaching review — essentially a kiss of death for non-tenured faculty. Not only are most “serious undergraduates” unaffected, but the reputation of our University is also untouched. Because of research grants and other forms of funding being tied to graduate programs rather than undergraduate programs, other institutions tend to overlook most negative trends in the undergraduate programs, which are overstated anyway. And it is true that the University will always have students here to party, but serious

thought reveals the fact that many partying students are either sequestered in majors such as psychology or destined to fail out of the University. It is relatively easy for a group such as RU1000, which has relatively no political power, to panic nonsensically over issues such as these. However, logic — and limits greater than 750 words — suggests otherwise. It is interesting to me that issues such as SAT scores and our school’s reputation are brought up constantly by RU1000 and its supporters — essentially an obsession over the University’s rank in popular conscience and publications such as U.S. News & World Report. I would like for RU1000 to answer the following question: What does our University truly gain from being an academically-elitist school such as Columbia or Princeton, and how does that truly help students in New Jersey? Bilal Ahmed is a School of Arts and Sciences junior majoring in Middle Eastern studies and political science.

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shots in Rice’s motion of fense. The Rochester, N.Y., native is third on the team in scoring in the young season, averaging 9.8 points per game. But Miller should not feel burdened on the offensive end, par ticularly with a unit that came into the season with veteran guard play, according to Rice. “I don’t know who said that [Miller] has to take over a game,” the first-year head coach said. “Who says he has to take over a game? He’s got to play stronger. He’s got to finish a little bit harder, but as far as taking over games, I think we’re a team that doesn’t have a guy to just say, ‘Go get me 30. Go get me 20.’” Miller’s woes on both ends of the cour t against St. Joe’s magnified a larger defensive str uggle in Philadelphia, where the Knights gave up 42 second-half points. Rutgers also allowed the Hawks to shoot 51 percent from the field in the contest, including St. Joe’s 4for-9 effort f r o m beyond the arc in the second half. “ W e d i d n ’ t accept the c h a l DANE MILLER l e n g e , ” said senior guard Mike Coburn, the Knights’ leading scorer with 11.4 points per game. “We didn’t communicate ver y well. We let guys drive right by us. As a team, we just didn’t play good team defense.” Miller rebounded in the second half to play 13 minutes and attacked the basket more often, but for minimal results, as he finished with a season low two points. Miller’s best play came when he drove to the bucket from the left sideline with less than five minutes remaining and found freshman for ward Gilvydas Biruta under the basket with a nifty pass for a dunk. But his per formance was a case of too little, too late, Miller said. “Me playing within the system in the beginning hur ts me a little bit because I wait so long to finally play how I want to play,” he said. “Coach Rice lets me play the way I want to play, but at the same time, I have to be aggressive and get the guys the ball. I wasn’t attacking the basket. I wasn’t of fensive rebounding that much. I was lost.” Miller and the Rutgers (3-2) offense get a chance to rebound from their loss on Friday against NJIT (1-3) tonight at the Louis Brown Athletic Center. The Highlanders held Miller scoreless in last year’s matchup in Newark, but that was with depar ted veterans Gregor y Echenique, Hamady N’Diaye and Mike Rosario. For the Knights to replicate last season’s 71-62 win, Miller would rather find himself on the stat sheet than three seats down from Rice. “Coach Rice prepares us to play anywhere,” Miller said. “To help my team win, I have to play with the same energy that ever ybody else is playing with.”

going this season, a reflection of the team’s inability to play man-to-man due to an extra focus on offense this offseason. Temple welcomes the Knights to McGonigle Hall fresh off a two game road losing streak, but look to make it two straight seasons of beating Rutgers after a 61-52 win last season in Piscataway. And with 6-foot-3 center Joelle Connelly and 6-foot-4 center Victoria Macaulay on their roster, the Owls have no intentions of dropping their third straight. Still, the Knights come into the game with the past four wins behind them and according to Stringer, they can easily turn it around on the glass despite an obvious height deficiency. “You can be the smallest team in the world, but you know that you can be far, far better if you just block out,” Stringer said. “A person 5-foot-9 can block out a 6-foot-3. You may not get the rebound yourself, but you can block them out and we’re not doing that. That’s something I’ve got to emphasize.”

third in the 200-medley relay at the Invitational. These were the same relay team members, minus Ward and plus freshman Emilie Kaufmann, that disqualified at West Virginia. “We were disqualified on our relay for a false start, which is where a girl leaves the blocks before the girl in the water has touched the wall,” Curado said. “That race has taught us that we need to pay attention to small details, but it also showed us how fired up we could get when a competition comes down to the wire in a final race.” If these past performances are any indication — despite the slipup against WVU — Rutgers will be rolling come championship time. “We are competing in a way that is setting us up to go extremely fast at the end of the season in championship meets,” Curado said. “Individually, this is the hardest I have ever had to work in a practice setting, but I think it’s going to pay of f when championship season rolls around.”

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Junior guard Khadijah Rushdan leads the Knights in scoring with 13.5 points per game and averages 35 minutes a contest.

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Sophomore linebacker Steve Beauharnais is fourth on the team with 69 tackles and has three recovered fumbles and one forced.

The Texas Christian Horned Frogs are an of ficial member of the Big East for the 2012-13 academic year and Rutgers head coach Greg Schiano loves it. “I think it is great,” Schiano said yesterday at his weekly press conference. “I think it is great for the league. I really think they are a ver y good football program. I don’t know a ton more about the University. I know Gar y [Patterson] well and I think Gar y is an excellent coach and a great person. It is going to be great to have him in our league. I love it, I think it is great.” TCU ranks third in both the BCS Standings and The Associated Press poll and presents the possibility of recruiting more in the state of Texas for the Scarlet Knights. “It might,” said Schiano on possibly opening up recruiting oppor tunities in the Lone Star State. “Obviously this isn’t the first time I have heard it. I did-

n’t wake up and TCU was in the league. We actually considered it two years ago. “Houston is a hub for Continental and Dallas, there is a zillion flights out of there, so we have thought about it. It is just man power. The further you spread yourself, the less information you really truly get. I am trying not to make recruiting mistakes. When you make them, they really hurt you.”

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on West Virginia, the Rutgers defense is excited for the oppor tunity to go against some of the top playmakers on the of fensive side of the ball. At quarterback, Geno Smith is second in the league in touchdown passes with 22 and is third in passing yards with 2,215. “He has a big arm and can make all the throws, but he is also ver y elusive,” Schiano said. “They still do the gun-run game and when he does it, he makes people miss. He runs away from people and he runs over people. He is a big man. “He is also very tough in the pocket to get down on the

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ground. I can see why they were so excited about him when I heard coach [Bill] Stewart talk about him. You could tell he thought he would be a really good player and he is.” Sophomore middle linebacker Steve Beauharnais, who started and made seven tackles against the Mountaineers last season, is excited to yet again go against running back Noel Devine. “I did it last year and I thought it was a great experience,” Beauharnais said. “Like I said last year, I used to play as Noel Devine in [“NCAA Football 2008”] and he was one of my favorite players. It’s just a privilege to go against him.”

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switched from outside to inside linebacker over the offseason, is fourth on the team with 69 tackles and credits outside linebacker coach Tem Lukabu with his successful transition. “He does everything he can, everything in his power,” Beauharnais said. “If he has to stand behind me and tell me what to see, he does it. He does it all. I spend so much time with him. That’s honestly the only guy I talk to during the week. We spend hours and hours together.”

Horned Frogs immediately become Big East’s best BY SAM HELLMAN CORRESPONDENT

It’s a great day to be a frog. Not only does Texas Christian get a shot at an automatic BCS bid by BASKETBALL joining the Big East, but MID-WEEK REPORT it adds m a j o r legitimacy in all of its sports by joining the conference. Oh yeah, and TCU is probably the odds-on favorite to win the conference from Day 1. In terms of the power rankings, three teams are still in the running to go to the BCS and there is no way that any team gets an at-large bid. All Connecticut has to do is win against South Florida, after taking out Pittsburgh and West Virginia in back-to-back games. West Virginia needs a win and an UConn loss, and the Panthers need a lot of magic.

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1.) TCU (12-0) — It doesn’t matter that the Horned Frogs are not in the conference for another two years, they’re already the best. Rutgers better win the conference next year, because the odds

decrease significantly with the addition of TCU to the Big East. 2.) West Virginia (8-3, 4-2) — Though the Mountaineers lost heads-up to UConn, they have the most talent on both sides of the ball in the conference. That much is clear. Also the idea of Connecticut representing the Big East in the BCS is kind of hard to picture. Defensively, West Virginia is the only team in the country to not yet allow 21 points in a game and they rank second nationally in both scoring defense and rushing defense and third in total defense. 3.) Connecticut (7-4, 4-2) — The Huskies have perhaps the most potent offensive weapon in the Big East in running back Jordan Todman, who has 1,481 rushing yards and 14 touchdowns this year. It’s just hard to rank a team that lost to Rutgers as the top in the conference. 4.) Pittsburgh (6-5, 4-2) — The top team in the preseason polls needs a lot of help to win the Big East and may not even stay above .500 if the Bearcats put up half the offensive onslaught they did against Rutgers at Nippert Stadium.

5.) Syracuse (7-5, 4-3) — The Orange started off strong but sort of came back down to earth at the end of the season. Still, becoming bowl eligible in Doug Marrone’s second season is an impressive feat. 6.) South Florida (7-4, 3-3) — Already bowl eligible in Skip Holtz’ first season, South Florida has a chance to play spoiler and alter the Big East picture against the Huskies. 7.) Louisville (6-6, 3-4) — The Cardinals qualified for a bowl game for the first time since 2007 after taking down Rutgers but will probably not get one of the Big East’s six bowl bids and end up somewhere random. 8.) Cincinnati (4-7, 2-4) — Cincinnati, like Rutgers, is not going bowling this season, but has the oppor tunity to play spoiler in the final week. The Bearcats have Pittsburgh on the schedule and can crush the Panthers’ BCS hopes even before all eyes descend on Raymond James Stadium at 8 p.m.

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Quarterback Andy Dalton threw for 2,638 yards, 26 touchdowns and just two interceptions in TCU’s second straight 12-0 regular season. 9.) Rutgers (4-7, 1-5) — It season already over. But it also almost seems unfair that of every seems almost poetic that Rutgers game to be nationally televised on would break the WVU losing skid a Saturday, it’s when Rutgers when there is absolutely nothing takes on West Virginia with the on the line.

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DECEMBER 1, 2010

Stringer seeks strides on glass against Temple

Miller faces growing pains in new system

BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ

BY TYLER BARTO

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ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

Sure, the Rutgers women’s basketball team rides a four game winning streak into tonight’s 7:30 p.m. matchup WOMEN’S BASKETBALL against Temple. And yes, the RUTGERS AT Scarlet Knights (4TEMPLE, 2) conquered their TONIGHT, 7:30 P.M. struggles of traveling west last weekend by taking home the Hyatt Place Lady Rebel Round-Up in Las Vegas. Still, head coach C. Vivian Stringer knows how to keep her team levelheaded, and this early on in the season, that could be the difference between winning and losing. “I want them to laugh and have fun, but in the next two or three weeks we will probably take them through a lot,” Stringer said. “They’ll probably think, ‘Oh, coach really doesn’t like me,’ but we see things and we can be small, but we can do something about that smallness.” No one is having more fun right now than junior forward April Sykes, who led the Knights in scoring in each of the past two games. Not only is Sykes pacing the team offensively as she always knew she could, she is starting to knock down shots from beyond the arc, something she struggled to do in her first two seasons on the Banks. Sykes delivered a 6-for-9 shooting clip from 3-point range in Las Vegas to earn the Tournament MVP title, putting to fruition the promise she showed out of high school as a deadly 3-point shooter. For the Starkville, Miss., native, it was just a matter of letting the game come to her. “After the North Carolina A&T game I was a little frustrated with myself personally,” Sykes said. “A lot of people saw it on my face and I wasn’t feeling like myself. I’ve been here so long and I’ve struggled for so long and I felt like it was time for me to break out. I had a conversation with coach [Chelsea] Newton and she just told me to let it flow.” The improved production does not end with Sykes though, as a number of Knights also jumped on the scoring wagon for the team to see success. Overall, Stringer’s squad boasted a 48.6 field goal percentage in Nevada, thanks in part to the performances of junior Khadijah Rushdan and sophomore Monique Oliver. Oliver established a presence in her return to her native Las Vegas, averaging 14.5 points over the two wins, while Rushdan, the team’s leading scorer, did her part from the perimeter. The junior guard averaged 13.5 points for the tournament to help guide the Knights to their first two road wins this season, which should bode well for the team as the season unfolds. “It’s a big deal because it’s always hard to play on the road,” Rushdan said. “Whenever you’re able to get wins being on the road, it makes a big difference. I think it helped our confidence knowing we can be on the road and actually win while we’re not playing at the RAC.” But if the Knights want their win streak to be intact after their battle with the Owls (2-4) tonight, they will have to turn their attention to two of the most fundamental components of the game –– defense and rebounding. Opponents are outrebounding Rutgers by four boards a game on average, while two of the worst rebounding performances of the season for Stringer’s team came in its past two wins against Pacific and Oregon State — two programs that do not measure up to the team’s Big East competition. The Knights were edged on the glass by a combined 15 rebounds in the two games, while Stringer noted weaknesses on defense as well. The Hall of Fame coach turned to the 2-3 zone more than usual in the early

Dane Miller usually occupies the wing for the Rutgers men’s basketball team, shoots a mid-range jumper at the elbow or attacks the paint. MEN’S BASKETBALL But recently the sophomore NJIT AT wing has found RUTGERS, himself in a more TONIGHT, 7:30 P.M. disconcer ting location under head coach Mike Rice — the bench. “Dane’s cer tain stat line does not help us win at all,” Rice said after a Friday loss to St. Joseph’s. “Your supposed go-to guy is sitting on the bench. When you call plays for him, he’s not finishing at the rim. Again, he’s going to learn. The last three minutes [against St. Joseph’s], he finally went to the rim. He’s got to learn, he’s got to learn.” Miller played only 11 minutes in the first halves of the Scarlet Knights’ two previous wins against Miami and Nor folk State. The sophomore followed up those first-half per formances with just six minutes of action in the first stanza against St. Joe’s. The Big East’s 2009-10 Rookie of the Year runner-up picked up six combined first-half personal fouls in the process. “I got in foul trouble easy, like the last two games I got in foul trouble,” Miller said. “I was doing stuf f that didn’t fit into the rules of our defense.” On a Knights team that lost its leading scorer from the past two seasons to transfer, Miller and his 11.9 points per game in conference play last year were supposed to be counted on early. But Miller’s foul troubles impeded his of fensive consistency through five games, leading to forced, out-of-sync

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Sophomore wing Dane Miller struggled with fouls early in each of the Knights’ past three games, when he averaged 20 minutes per game and fouled out once.

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Knights take opportunity to learn from DQ BY MATT CANVISSER CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Rutgers swimming and diving team set several lofty goals for itself before this season, SWIMMING & DIVING but it never expected that learning to deal with adversity would be on that list. That is where the Scarlet Knights stand now, tr ying to evade the haunting memor y of a disqualification in Morgantown, W.Va., that cost them the meet against Big East rival West Virginia. The rebounding process began the weekend of Nov. 19 when 14 teams converged for the Frank Elm Invitational at the RU Aquatic Center. The Knights (1-3, 1-3) managed to emerge from the field relatively unscathed with a third place finish and a score of 1026 over the three-day event. Only Big East foe Pittsburgh and Bucknell, who finished with 1576.5 and 1157.5 points, respectively, bested their total. Sophomore Taylor Curado paced Rutgers, capturing one of only three first-place finishes for the squad. Curado completed the 100-yard butterfly in 56.41, which was good for the victory. The win keeps her undefeated in the 100-yard butterfly for the season. “The 100 fly has been the strength of my swimming and practicing,” Curado said. “Training with the girls on this team has helped me to get faster. We push each other a lot in practice situations, which pays of f during meets.” The other swimming victory for the Knights came in the form of junior Jacquelyn Ward, who took first in the 400-yard individual

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Sophomore Taylor Curado took first place in one of the Scarlet Knights’ three victories in their last meet, winning the 100-yard butterfly and remaining unbeaten in the race. medley with a time of 4:24.11. Ward also came in second in the 200-yard individual medley and third in the 200-yard breaststroke, scoring valuable points for Rutgers. The diving corps also added a win as freshman Nicole Scott placed first in the platform diving event with a score of 251.95.

Curado and Ward have both been contributors to the Knights impressive relay teams in the early par t of the season. The team of Curado, Ward, junior Brianne Lindblad and freshman Mar y Moser took

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