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TSA security earns limited state approval BY REENA DIAMANTE CORRESPONDENT
A recent Rutgers-Eagleton poll reveals that the more N.J. adults know about Transportation Security Administration security measures, the more concerned they are about the agency’s policies. Still, respondents were interested in feeling that they are safe and secure and to some degree, willing to sacrifice a certain amount of privacy to feel protected, said David Redlawsk, director of the Rutgers-Eagleton poll. Two controversial measures to detect contraband and illegal weapons are the full-body scan and enhanced pat-downs, Redlawsk said. The full-body scan produces a nude image, which a TSA employee inspects in a closed-off area. Those who refuse to go through a scanner are subsequently patted down all over the body.
“Just saying, ‘Are these measures going too far?’ More people say they [are not], but when you ask the same question after asking questions about specific measures — scans or the pat-downs — people are far more likely to say some measures go too far,” Redlawsk said. The way the Rutgers-Eagleton poll conducted the survey allowed pollsters to look at what happens if people are asked about security measures in a vacuum, without additional information, he said. Although N.J. adults do not directly oppose the measures, they do think about the possibility that the government might violate their privacy even further, he said. “People are clearly more likely to think that the pat-downs are invasive and too much without adding a lot of security,” Redlawsk said.
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A Rutgers-Eagleton poll reports that N.J. residents feel full-body scans are less intrusive than their alternative, enhanced pat-downs. To some degree, respondents were willing to sacrifice some privacy for a sense of security.
Council to vote on revised budget BY ANKITA PANDA STAFF WRITER
The Engineering Governing Council is in the process of revising a budget that would cut funding from all engineering societies and tonight will vote on it once again at an emergency meeting. The budget cuts would affect many engineering societies, but the Sigma Phi Delta engineering fraternity, and to a smaller degree, the Sigma Phi Rho engineering sorority, expressed the most discontent. “I feel partly responsible that I didn’t meet the societies’ needs properly,” said council Treasurer
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Casey Moure of the failure of a council budget to pass for the first time in seven years. The budget, which was voted down with eight yes votes, nine no votes and nine abstentions, would affect recruitment during rush week more than any other event, said Sigma Phi Delta treasurer Matthew DeCarlo. “By numbers, this is as much funding as we’ve ever got, but for rush week, this is the first semester that they’re starting cutbacks,” said DeCarlo, a School of Engineering senior. Moure, a School of Engineering senior, said the organization wanted
to cut back funding on the fraternity’s rush events and instead allocate that money to other events. The cutback, a result of bad economic times, is an effort to allocate funding more efficiently based on the fraternity’s needs, he said. “We go over ever y funding request … and then at the end of the semester, we allocate a certain amount of money to each of these societies based on what they’ve requested,” Moure said. The council’s budget of about $35,600, down about $300 from last semester, must be split among
POLICE IDENTIFY CALIFORNIA WOMAN AS ROUTE 18 VICTIM Authorities identified Chelsea Traynor, of Concord, Calif., as the University student who was killed riding her bicycle Thursday morning while crossing Route 18 North, according to an article on nj.com. Traynor, 21, was a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences sophomore majoring in nutritional science, Senior Director of University Media Relations Greg Trevor said in the article. She was pronounced dead after a Ford pickup truck, driven by 40year-old South River resident Roger Hoden, struck her at the intersection of George Street and Route 18. The investigation is continuing and no charges have been filed, Trevor said. Those with any information or who may have witnessed the accident are asked to call Officer Mark Smith of the New Brunswick Police Department at (732)-745-5005 or county Investigator Sean O’Lone at (732) 745-3315.
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Participants take a breather and enjoy a snack on Saturday after trekking the annual Big Chill, a 5K run/walk marathon. Rather than paying a registration fee, runners were required to donate new toys for children ages 3 through 14. About 6,200 people showed up and more than 8,000 toys were donated.
The field of computer science can be elusive to the public, but a University professor and his team of student researchers is attempting to make programming easier and more accessible. With the help of his students, computer science Professor Michael Littman is creating a way for people to program everyday devices using Scratch, a programming language developed in 2007 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “The project is about allowing people who have little or no programming experience to use basic programming available through a colorful and simple interface, [Scratch], to customize their home appliances,” said Monica Babes, a principle graduate researcher and computer science teaching assistant. By clicking blocks together that correspond to the functions of an appliance, a person can easily program anything in his or her home using Scratch, said Jordan Ash, a School of Engineering sophomore.
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Physics experiments bring waves of children to annual lecture BY ANDREA GOYMA STAFF WRITER
With demonstrations like exploding hydrogen balloons, a physics professor lying on a bed of nails and using sound to shatter glass, the University’s Depar tment of Physics and Astronomy enter tained children and adults of all ages with its 13th annual Rutgers Faraday Christmas Children’s Lecture. The three-night event, which began Friday, attracted large crowds and filled the Physics Lecture Hall Saturday on Busch campus to full capacity. “I love that all these people come to our shows and stuff themselves in this room for these science demonstrations,” said physics support specialist David Maiullo. “Who could have thought it 20 years ago?” Undeterred by the lack of available seating at the lecture hall, children and adults optimized space by sitting on the stairs and standing along the edge of the auditorium to view physics demonstrations on topics ranging from light, electricity and magnetism, all performed by Maiullo and physics Professor Mark Croft. Maiullo, who has been building and setting up demonstrations for the University for 26 years, said he expanded the collection in order to generate a bigger appeal to all types of audiences. “I’ve changed a lot of things with the help of friends from other schools who also do demonstrations,” Maiullo said. “We have our own association where we share and build on each other’s ideas and this has helped us here at Rutgers, where we’ve been able to compile a huge collection.” The demonstrations are a way of enter taining people through humor and the imagination, as well as giving them information, Croft said.
“In our introductor y physics courses, we find that people clearly enjoy the demonstrations if it in any way embarrasses the professor, endangers the professor and hopefully gets the professor dirty, which are real payoffs,” he said. The Faraday Lectures are named in honor of British physicist Michael Faraday, who contributed to research in electrochemistr y and was one of the fathers of electricity and magnetism, Croft said. “Faraday also founded the Faraday Children’s Lecture in 1826 at London’s Royal Society, which he per formed ever y year. So it’s a Christmas tradition that is still upheld in London,” he said. “And we decided we wanted to do something like that [at the University] and named it as an homage to him.” One of the show’s demonstrations involved Croft dropping objects like bananas, broccoli and flowers into liquid nitrogen, where temperatures can reach minus 320 degrees Fahrenheit. He then proceeded to smash each object with a hammer. In a demonstration to illustrate the ef fects of standing waves, Maiullo took a garbage can with a small hole on one end and a rubber covering on the other and filled the can with fog. To the audience’s amusement, he tapped the rubber covering and smoke rings flew in all directions toward the audience. Maiullo said for a show this long — an hour and a half — preparation is integral for a successful performance. “That’s one of the reasons why it’s hard for us to take [the Faraday Lectures] and move it into a dif ferent facility that would have even more seating because there’s too many things in this room that are integral to the demonstrations.
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Hundreds of people crowd into the Physics Lecture Hall on Busch campus Saturday to watch a variety of physics demonstrations co-performed by physics Professor Mark Croft.
We need the setups that we have [at the Physics Lecture Hall on Busch campus],” he said. But Maiullo said although the Faraday Lectures require a lot of work, the ability to engage with the public makes it worth it. “It’s so much fun and it’s great to give back and show the public that [the University] wants them to take part, but it also shows the people that our undergraduate students are so involved and are great with sharing these ideas with them,” he said. Raj Mago heard about the Faraday Lectures through a colleague of his wife and traveled from Newtown, Pa., in order to attend. “I absolutely enjoyed it. It was unbelievable, and it far exceeded my expectations,” Mago said.
Mago’s 10-year-old son Rishi said his favorite demonstration was one in which Croft was upon a bed of nails. For 12-year-old Harr y Seabrook and his friends, 13year-old Charles Homans and 11-year-old Lucy Royt, the Faraday Lectures have turned into a birthday tradition. “We’ve been coming here ever y year for the past five years or so, and now it’s basically become a tradition to celebrate my birthday,” Seabrook said. The liquid nitrogen demonstrations are an all-around favorite for Seabrook, Homans and Royt, who all reside in New York City. Joey Reicher t, one of the undergraduate volunteers, said ever y year he looks for ward to the Faraday Lectures. “This is the best part of Christmas. We get to see all the happy faces,” said Reichert, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore.
Farah Malik, also a volunteer, said she enjoys encouraging children to learn. “If you learn something and then we’re able to show it to other kids and they get interested, it encourages them to come again,” said Malik, a School of Ar ts and Sciences sophomore. “We like it because we do it for them and they do it for us.” Croft said the Faraday Lectures, along with his granddaughter, are the light of his life and hopes he and Maiullo’s passion for performing the lectures will inspire future scientists. “I hope [the audience will] become inspired to become scientists, and if not, I hope they come to think about science as like being good art — it enriches one’s life and understanding how things work in the universe just makes you a happier human being,” he said.
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Physics support specialist David Maiullo shoots smoke rings out of a garbage can to demonstrate the effects of standing waves during the Department of Physics and Astronomy’s 13th annual Rutgers Faraday Christmas Children’s Lecture. Although the show is meant to entertain, it is also intended to teach people about different scientific facts.
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TRAIN HITS, KILLS UNIDENTIFIED PERSON An Amtrak train approaching the New Brunswick station Saturday night at approximately 9:45 p.m. fatally struck an unidentified person, delaying trains traveling north on the Northeast Corridor line for hours, authorities said. Authorities could not identify the person yet, and it is still unknown whether the incident was a suicide or an accident. Amtrak is still investigating the incident. Amtrak officials could not be reached for a comment at press time, but spokeswoman Vernae Graham told The Star-Ledger on Saturday that none of the 210 passengers on the Amtrak Train 158 sustained any injuries. The Washington, D.C., train was en route to New York Penn Station. While Graham could not comment on how fast the train was traveling at the time, she said regional Amtrak trains could sometimes travel up to 125 miles per hour. — Ariel Nagi
GADGET: Foundations of project begin last semester continued from front “Our goal is to show that this new way of controlling devices not only empowers the user with added functionality but is also more intuitive and straightforward than what is currently available,” Ash said. So far the team used Scratch to program a coffeemaker, a lamp, an alarm clock, a fan and holiday lights, Babes said. By programming household appliances with Scratch, people will be able to streamline the process of adding new gadgets to their homes, Babes said. “People wouldn’t have to read a manual and spend time learning how to use each new appliance,”
she said. “Once they understand the code and learn to use one household item, they know how to use them all.” The foundations of the project began last semester in Littman’s honors seminar “Programming for the Masses,” which expanded into summer research, said Sameen Jalal, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore. “What I love most is that it is our project, meaning we thought of the idea as a class,” Jalal said. “This discussion wasn’t just fluff. It led to something concrete and practical.” The research team worked over the summer on the software and hardware components of the inter face, Babes said. “The software team tried to figure out what we wanted our
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software to look like and do and then brainstormed about implementing it,” she said. “The hardware team worked in parallel, and we had meetings once a week, updating each other on our progress.” Originally developed to teach programming to children, Scratch is now a popular programming language with a large online community, said Gal Cohen, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “Scratch has been proven to be a powerful tool in teaching people of all ages the basics of programming in a fun and easy way,” Cohen said. “We decided that Scratch will be the language we will modify to communicate and control household appliances.” Current research includes programming more appliances
and supporting a network of programmable devices, Cohen said. If proven successful, the research will be introduced to the public. “We are attempting to take programming — something that people avoid and cringe at the mention of — and turn it into an easily acquired medium,” Cohen said. Cohen said the team’s research on the practical uses of Scratch in everyday life is essential in making computer science user-friendly. “We strive to educate and introduce people to the concepts and world of computer science while at the same time making their lives easier by letting them use their appliances in a way they could never before,” Cohen said.
When adults were asked about the full-body scans, 30 percent said they were too intrusive. Forty-one percent felt the same about the patdowns, according to an Eagleton Institute of Politics press release. The scanner is less invasive to respondents because someone else’s hands are not actually touching them, Redlawsk said. Some University students reflected the sentiments expressed in the poll and preferred going through a full-body scan. “I think that the body scan should be in effect,” said Inbarasi Sathiyamoorthy, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “I think when they do the pat-down you feel a little violated. It’s a little too personal. It feels creepy and weird.” Taylor Lampton, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, is an out-of-state student and flies frequently. She said the full-body pat-downs may lead to employees abusing their power and believed body scans are the more effective choice. “Every time you walk into a store and there are security cameras, you’re putting yourself up for privacy reasons,” Lampton said. “It just has to do with whether or not you think the risk outweighs the benefits.” Upon considering the past several years and issues regarding airplane security, she said measures, although unsettling at times, are important. “I’d rather be a little uncomfortable and go through something that’s annoying to me and be safe on the flights,” Lampton said. Like some other students at the University, School of Arts and Sciences junior David Feinblum understood that certain rights need to be given up in order for protection. He did not see the problem with the TSA trying to protect people from the possibility of attacks. “I just think it’s more on the individual level that there is an issue,” he said. “The individual employees need to be held more accountable for what they do.” Other University students did not think the new TSA measures are an invasion of privacy, since sacrificing privacy for some is necessary when trying to protect the population as a whole. “Slipped under the measures before, a lot of people have suffered from poor security,” said Alan Slaughter, a Livingston College senior. “If it’s that big of a deal you should just drive your personal vehicle, if you don’t want to be subjected to [policies] necessary for security.” Some students see the full-body scan as a more efficient technology. “It’s a lot quicker than having somebody pat me down,” said Michael Zamzam, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “[A major factor is] definitely the time. I just want to be on the plane sitting.” Slaughter agreed that he preferred going through a scan, not because another individual would not touch him, but for effectiveness. “I think scans are better at detecting certain things that even a pat-down can’t,” he said. “I don’t know how thorough the pat-down is. I would prefer the scan. It’s faster and probably more accurate.” The poll of 906 N.J. adults was conducted from Dec. 2 to Dec. 6, according to the press release. The margin of error for the survey was +/- 3.3 percentage points.
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BUDGET: Council splits $35K between 26 societies continued from front around 26 societies, Moure said. Although there are not set criteria, he said the council considers different factors when determining how much to allocate. “We evaluate the events that they’re having and the allocation packet is basically a list of events and what they need to host those events,” Moure said. “We tr y and evaluate things like basically how much the event is going to benefit the School of Engineering [and] if there’s a chance this event is going to be a big success or not.” Instead of rush, the fraternity would use the allocation of $150 to host an information session to attract members, he said. Joseph Tadros, president of Sigma Phi Delta, said if the bill passed, the fraternity would be forced to charge extra for membership and seek other ways of recruiting members. “Rush week’s a big thing for us because it helps us recruit more people, because that’s the only chance we get to recruit someone, while in other societies, you get the whole semester,” said Tadros, a School of Engineering junior. “We need rush week. We only have a limited time.”
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The Engineering Governing Council last Monday failed to pass their budget for next semester. An emergency meeting will be held to vote on a revised bill tonight and address concerns raised over reductions in funding. Although Moure said the cutback applies to all societies, Tadros remains unconvinced that Sigma Phi Delta is being treated fairly. “We do a lot around the community outside, yet [they] still fund ever yone else, when they want to cut this from us,” said Tadros. Funds from the fraternity’s rush have been cut, but due to the success of the fraternity’s most popular event, “Mr. Engineer,” Sigma Phi Delta received double
its usual annual allocation for special events — about $2,000 this year, Moure said. The fraternity used about $700 to $800 last semester for rush week, DeCarlo said. However, there was a period of time when it did not apply for funding with the council. “Once we started applying for funding again, we were getting increasingly more and more amounts of funding for our rush week,” DeCarlo said. “So it just struck me as odd that
the semester after we’ve received the most funding for rush week, they decide to cut most of it off.” Moure argued that no group receives all the funds it would like to be allocated, and every society suffered cuts. EGC met 86 percent of societies’ needs this semester, but the proposed budget would only cover 75 percent. “No society really gets their full request. There’s not enough money, especially in these times,
to go around to ever yone,” Moure said. “Actually [Sigma Phi Delta was] getting almost double the amount of money they usually get.” DeCarlo, who was happy with last Monday’s results, said tonight he will just hope for the best. “I guess [I’ll] just do the same thing as before and plead our case,” he said. “If people agree with us, they agree with us. If they don’t, we can’t really do much else.”
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Charlie Collick, far right, instructional designer of the Office of Instructional and Research Technology discusses plans for the new Sakai website, Sakai 3, with other staff members of OIRT Thursday during the 2010 OIRT Technology Showcase at the Administrative Services Building Annex I on Busch campus. The showcase consisted of a two-day workshop discussing several technologies on campus.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Christine O’Donnell’s TV ad declaration “I’m not a witch” during her U.S. Senate campaign topped this year’s best quotes, according to a Yale University librarian. O’Donnell’s quote is cited by Fred Shapiro, associate librarian at Yale Law School, who released his fifth annual list of the most notable quotations of the year. In the ad, O’Donnell was responding to reports of her revelations that she had dabbled in witchcraft years ago. “It was such a remarkable unconventional quote to be a part of the political discourse,” Shapiro said. The quote by O’Donnell, a tea party favorite running in Delaware, tied for first place with “I’d like my life back,” the lament made in May by BP’s CEO Tony Hayward after the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. “People resented the fact that he was wanting to get back to his yacht races and other aspects of his normal life when those little problems were dwarfed by the magnitude of what people on the Gulf Coast were dealing with,” Shapiro said. Shapiro noted that the top quotes stemmed from two of the biggest news stories of the year, the oil spill and the emergence of the tea party. The original Yale Book of Quotations was published in 2006. Since then, Shapiro has released an annual list of the top 10 quotes. He said they will be incorporated into the next edition of the book. Shapiro picks quotes that are famous, important or revealing of the spirit of the times. The quotes aren’t necessarily the most eloquent or admirable. O’Donnell, who lost the Senate race to Democrat Chris Coons, also made the list for questioning, during a debate in October, whether the First Amendment includes the language “separation of church and state.” She was not the only tea party candidate on the list. Sharron Angle, who lost the Senate race in Nevada to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, also made the list. “I hope that’s not where we’re going, but you know, if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies. They’re saying: My goodness, what can we do to turn this country around?” Angle said in January. Republican Sarah Palin’s tweet: “Don’t retreat. Instead — reload!” also made the list. “The quotes become perhaps stronger, harsher, more unconventional ever y year,” Shapiro said. On the Democratic side, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made the list when she spoke in March to the National Association of Counties. “We have to pass the (health care) bill so you can find out what is in it,” Pelosi said.
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Sexuality testing violates human rights
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he Czech Republic has rightfully come under fire for the strange approach it takes to proving whether gay refugees coming into the country are telling the truth about their sexuality. The Czech government utilizes phallometric testing, in which male refugees who claim to be gay are hooked up to a device which tracks blood flow to the penis. The men are then made to watch heterosexual pornography. If the device determines that the man becomes sufficiently aroused while watching heterosexual pornography, the Czech government denies him asylum. This testing is wrong on an assortment of levels. First of all, it is a violation of human rights. A person’s sexuality is a deeply personal part of their life. No one should have to prove their sexuality to anyone — especially not in such a degrading manner, hooked up to a machine like some sort of science experiment. Also, these tests are set up so that a machine can refute a person’s claims about their sexuality. Why is it that the device’s conclusion is taken more seriously than the person’s claims? Wouldn’t a person be far more aware of their own personal sexuality than the machine they are attached to? Frankly, the testing method is utterly disgusting and dehumanizing. Even if one were to ignore the human rights violations — but really, how could they? — there are still a slew of problems with the method itself. When people experience sexual situations, they tend to become aroused. That is just the biological response. A gay man can be aroused by straight pornography and vice versa. Anyone watching two people engage in intercourse is bound to feel some sort of sexual response. Also, the testing completely ignores the existence of bisexuality. By assuming that only straight men are aroused by straight porn, the Czech Republic is essentially saying that bisexuality does not exist. If the Czech government took into account the reality of bisexuality, they may begin to see the flaws in their testing — and in their assumptions that human sexuality is some sort of blackand -white issue. The Czech Interior Ministry has tried to defend itself by saying that the test has only been performed in less than 10 cases, but that is still too many. The testing should never be performed. It is simply unacceptable. These phallometric tests are a violation of human rights, and the methodology perpetuates a dangerously uneducated worldview.
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oon-to-be House Speaker John Boehner has a plan to cut every House committee’s budget by 5 percent, and it’s about time for someone to take this needed step. Boehner’s plan will cut $2530 million from the overall budget — a necessary measure, considering that $900 billion has been added to the deficit as a result of the agreement to extend the Bush tax cuts. As everyone knows, the United States is in a serious financial hole, and Boehner’s intentions to start slashing from the budget as soon as he becomes the House speaker are a good indication that he may be what the country needs right now. Boehner’s plan is not only impressive as a symbol of the good things he may do once he officially becomes speaker — it is also impressive from a logistical standpoint. The plan will only cut 5 percent from each committee’s budget, which is a thoroughly minimal amount. The committees probably won’t even miss the money they are losing. For all we know, Boehner’s cuts could be eliminating nothing more than the money they spend on coffee and doughnuts each year. Boehner’s plan is also impressive because it is completely fair. Each committee is losing the same amount of money. No one is being hit with higher cuts than anyone else. The members of the House will all shoulder the burden together — and, in doing so, they will be making the burden that much smaller. Plus, fair cuts mean less of a chance of partisan divisiveness. That is, the Democrats cannot start crying foul against the Republicans with claims of being singled out for budget cuts. Although, less of a chance of fighting between parties does not mean no chance. It would not be surprising if the parties did fight, regardless of how fair the cuts are. The fact of the matter, though, is that Boehner’s plan is as fair as it gets. Any fighting that stems from it will simply be childish. Boehner’s plan may not be radical, or even especially bold, but it is a great start. If the United States ever hopes to climb out of the hole it is in, financial cuts need to be made. As long as taxes are not bringing in much revenue — and they won’t be, considering the Bush-era cuts have been extended — elected officials need to shrink budgets in every way possible.
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Do not fall for shaming, diversion tactics in debate Letter MICHAEL DUNICAN
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he Daily Targum published a letter, “Sympathize with Israel in conflict with Palestine,” on Friday in which a respected University professor was the subject of a shameful ad hominem attack. The author apparently found issue with University Professor of Middle Eastern studies Hamid Abdeljaber’s remarks at the Palestinian cultural festival held last Sunday by the University chapter of Palestine Children’s Relief Fund. The author’s charge that Abdeljaber fails to present both sides is ludicrous and false — something the author should know if he actually attended the event or Abdeljaber’s lecture. If the author had attended the lecture on life in Gaza, he would have heard Abdeljaber address issues of Israeli suffering. Contrary to the author’s imagined lecture, Abdeljaber did talk about the rockets Hamas indiscriminately fired toward Sderot and Ashkelon. He did speak
about captured Israeli Defense Force soldier Gilad Shalit and the international efforts to release Shalit. The author would even have witnessed a member of the audience criticize Abdeljaber as being too objective with regard to the disproportionate assault that was the Gaza War and he would have heard Abdeljaber defend the importance of academic objectivity in response. If the author were in attendance at the lecture, he would have learned the context of the Gaza War. Hamas and Israel reached a ceasefire on June 19, 2008, through Egyptian mediation. Both sides upheld this agreement until Nov. 4, when the Israeli Defense Force launched a raid that brought ground forces 250 meters into Gaza while air strikes targeted Hamas positions. Six Palestinians were killed, and the cross-border violence eventually escalated into Operation Cast Lead, or Gaza War, which began on Dec. 27, 2008. When Israel unilaterally declared a ceasefire on Jan. 18, 2009, more than 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis had been killed. Furthermore, the
author neglects the telling fact that Israel broke the ceasefire on a day when the world’s media was focused on the historic election of President Barack Obama and stopped fighting the day before Obama’s inauguration.
“The ... charge that Abdeljaber fails to present both sides is ludicrous and false.” The author clearly lives in a world of his own invention. He ignores the documented record to reiterate often-heard apologetics for Israel’s actions. The United Nations does not call for East Jerusalem as a Palestinian capital; they recognize it as occupied territor y. Since the 1967 War, the United Nations has repeatedly declared “the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war.” The only territories acquired in the war were the Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Golan Heights —
all by Israel. Every year since 1967, the U.N. General Assembly votes on a “Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine” resolution. It reiterates the inadmissibility of acquiring land by force, the illegality of the settlements in occupied territories (Judea and Samaria) including East Jerusalem, stresses the need for an Israeli withdrawal to pre-1967 borders and the realization of inalienable rights of the Palestinian people to both selfdetermination and an independent state. There have been no more than seven votes opposed to this resolution, while there have been no less than 131 votes in favor of the resolution since 1997. This semester concludes my third consecutive semester taking classes with Abdeljaber. I can speak of Abdeljaber from personal experience. With regard to the Arab-Israeli conflict, he has always presented both sides. When he takes his classes to the United Nations, he invites the Palestinian and the Israeli delegations to speak. In his four years at the University,
Abdeljaber has never been accused of bias or subjectivity. Friday’s letter demonstrates tactics often used by people of similarly narrow-minded opinions: shaming and diversion. In smearing the professor, the author tries to detract from the fact that the ratio of death tolls in the Gaza War was more than 100 Palestinians to 1 Israeli. The author utilizes the “delegitimization” tactic, in which anything short of positive excuses showered upon Israel is portrayed as an attempt to delegitimize the state. This tactic attempts to turn any criticism of the political entity into a normative statement through these attempts to obscure the facts — like the documented record of human rights abuses in the world’s longest occupation — by emphasizing tangential topics, such as Israel’s contribution to America’s security, foreign policy goals or economic gains at home and abroad. Michael Dunican is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in Middle Eastern studies with minors in religion and political science.
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Senior guard James Beatty scored in the double-digits for the first time in the past four games with his 13-point showing Saturday against Auburn in the SEC/Big East Invitational. Beatty also dished out three assists and grabbed four rebounds.
WIN: Mitchell’s second half helps Knights secure victory continued from back during 30-second timeouts to get ever yone energy, I would do that.” The Knights earned their largest lead of the contest at 51-34 with just over five minutes to play, when senior forward Jonathan Mitchell nailed a 3-point basket from the left sideline. Freshman guard Austin Carroll jumped in the air to save an errant pass and with just one touch found Mitchell in the corner for the contested 3-pointer. Mitchell rebounded from an 0-for-6 first half with a perfect 4for-4 shooting clip from the field in the second period and finished the game with 14 points. The 6-foot-7 senior picked up the scoring slack in the front-
BARN: RU favors Langel’s style against No. 13 grappler continued from back Langel against Frey,” said head coach Scott Goodale. “We knew that a win would put him right back into the thick of things in the national poll.” And once Goodale named Langel the starter against Princeton in the middle of the week, the Howell, N.J., native began to focus on the wrestler who pinned him a year ago in Bethlehem, Pa. “We knew about middle of the week that I was going to go up against Frey,” Langel said. “We thought that the matchup was good. And [Goodale] knew that I wanted revenge against Frey.” Langel entered as the No. 2 seed at the EIWA Tournament
court, which missed freshman Gilvydas Biruta for long spurts with foul trouble. Biruta picked up his third personal foul with 12:47 left in the contest, when officials called the 6-foot-8 big man for an over-theback foul. The St. Benedict’s (N.J.) product also earned two fouls within a 30-second span in the first half and totaled less than two minutes of playing time during the same timeframe. “Gilvydas … was a little slower … at the beginning, but he’ll be fine,” Rice said. “He usually gives us that — it’s difficult for a freshman to do. He is the guy that gives us that energy. He was a little slower than he usually plays.” Miller was a force for the Knights out of halftime, when the sophomore either accounted for or contributed to four straight scores to stretch the Rutgers lead to 13.
But the Rochester, N.Y., native’s biggest contributions came on the boards, where he spearheaded the Knights’ 46 total rebounds to the Tigers’ 33. “The last couple days we’ve done a lot of rebounding drills,” Miller said. “We star t practice with a rebound drill and end practice with a rebound drill. We just have to be relentless for us to be able to compete in this conference or win any games.” A pair of Carroll free throws capped off a 15-0 Rutgers run more than halfway through the first half, when Auburn opted for a 2-3 zone. Senior point guard James Beatty made two 3-pointers during the spurt and shot 3-for-4 from beyond the arc over the course of the first half. Beatty snapped a threegame drought from 3-point territor y with a converted bucket eight minutes into the first half
and finished the game without a turnover. “If I’m out there scoring — I’m a pretty good defensive player — but when I’m scoring it gives me even more energy to get out and defend,” said Beatty, who totaled 13 points on the afternoon. “With me making shots, it helps my overall game. That was definitely a good thing that I knocked my first [3-point shot] down.” The Knights shot 2-for-15 from the field to start the game, aiding the Tigers in their 7-0 run over the first three minutes. But a timeout from Rice helped change the tides of the contest, which sparked Rutgers in its first road win of the season. “Coach [Rice] got after us a little bit in the huddle,” Beatty said. “We always talk about getting great starts to the games. We don’t want to come out flat and let teams jump on us early. We always want to come out and throw the first punch.”
last year and a heavy favorite, intentions of taking the match while Frey came in as the sev- to overtime. enth seed. With less than 15 seconds When they faced off this time left in regulation, Langel around, Frey came in ranked brought a packed Barn to its while Langel was feet by taking not even the condown Frey and “[Head coach crete starter in the earning the 6-4 Knights’ lineup. decision. Scott Goodale] The rematch “I could sense stayed close heading into the knew that through the first third that we I wanted two periods, with were both getFrey entering the ting fatigued,” revenge against third with a Langel said. “I [Garrett] Frey.” 4-2 lead. just kept riding But Langel him and I could JOE LANGEL held on over two sense mentally Sophomore Wrestler minutes of riding that I was time, giving him starting to wear one point at the end of him down.” the match if he held a The rest of the Princeton minute advantage. matchup went according to Langel escaped early in the plan, as the Rutgers grapplers third to bring the score to 4-3 — did not give the Tigers any 4-4 realistically due to the riding room to breathe. time point — but Langel had no The Knights’ ability to keep
focus and take down opponents of lesser quality defined the team in recent years, as Rutgers moved to 9-1 on the year. “We just take it as any other match,” said senior Dar yl Cocozzo, who earned a pin and a major decision on the day. “We get a good warm-up in, get mentally prepared and get ready to score a lot of points.” The Knights have a few days off before traveling to Illinois for the Midlands Tournament during winter break. The tournament serves as a good barometer for where the team is with only one semester separating the squad and the NCAA Tournament. “[The momentum] will end tomorrow,” Goodale said. “We will have a couple of days off to recover our bodies and we will look forward to two hard weeks of training for what is really a mini National Tournament.”
WHILE FLORIDA HEAD football coach Urban Meyer cited family as the main contributor to him stepping down at the end of the season, a source close to the situation recently reported that recurring health concerns are the main reason. Meyer reportedly experienced frequent burning sensations in his chest and doctors informed the coach last week that he faced cardiovascular risks if he continued coaching. Florida moved quickly in naming a replacement for Meyer, as it hired Texas defensive coordinator Will Muschamp, who was the heir apparent to Mack Brown at Texas. DUE
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Win gives RU second victory over “Big Six” nonconference foe BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR
PITTSBURGH — When the Rutgers men’s basketball team won a November game against Miami at the Louis B r o w n KNIGHT Athletic NOTEBOOK Center, it marked the Scarlet Knights’ first win since 2006 over a “Big Six” nonconference opponent. Rutgers doubled that win total on Saturday with its 63-54 victory over Auburn in the SEC/Big East Invitational — the first time since the 1999 season that it won a pair of regular season games over “Big Six” nonconference foes. “It’s a team that has a chip on their shoulder and wants to do things that nobody thinks they can,” said head coach Mike Rice. “Hopefully those type of stats, I won’t have to address in press conferences because it shows how much we struggled.” Save for stretches that opened and closed the first half, the Knights dominated their
KNIGHTS DROP DECISION TO RANKED BC The Rutgers women’s basketball team failed to make it two in a row against a ranked opponent WOMEN’S BASKETBALL yesterd a y , when the Scarlet Knights fell, 8475, to No. 25 Boston College. Rutgers (6-4, 1-0) played from behind the entire day and struggled to carry over its strong defensive performance from a win against No. 11 Georgetown. And despite a career effort from junior forward April Sykes, the Knights could not duplicate similar offensive production either. Head coach C. Vivian Stringer’s team faced an eightpoint deficit with a minute remaining in regulation, but after a missed 3-pointer by Sykes, the Golden Eagles iced the game with a pair of free throws at the 47-second mark. The Golden Eagles (10-0) got out to an early 10-0 lead on the Knights in the game’s first two minutes, while Stringer’s offense struggled to retain possession, turning the ball over four times. BC’s lead ballooned to 18 with three minutes to go in the first half. BC had four players score in double figures, as 6-foot-6 center Carolyn Swords paced the team with 20 points. Sophomore Monique Oliver scored just four points off 2-for-6 shooting. Fellow post player, junior Chelsey Lee, finished the contest with a lowly four points. Of the Knights’ total 75 points, 55 came from the scoring efforts of Sykes and junior guard Khadijah Rushdan –– the team’s leading scorers though 10 games this season. Sykes’ 32 points shattered her previous career high of 20 points, as the Starkville, Miss., native continued her double-figure scoring stretch to eight out of the past nine games. Rushdan tallied her best offensive effort of the season, scoring 23 points off 7of-17 shooting. Stringer’s team takes the floor again Wednesday against intrastate foe Kean at the Louis Brown Athletic Center. — Anthony Hernandez
Southeastern Conference opponent, outrebounding Auburn by 13 and taking advantage with 24 points in the paint, compared to Auburn’s 14. Rutgers also earned 20 second-chance points, compared to just two Auburn. The pair of victories and 6-2 start to the regular season came as a surprise to many who wrote off a team with only nine scholarship players. And those nine players had doubts, as well. “Coming into this season, Mike Rosario transferred — our leading scorer. Hamady N’Diaye, the best defensive player in the conference, graduated,” said sophomore Dane Miller, who led the Knights’ with 17 points. “No one thought we would come out and start the season 6-2. We even questioned ourselves a little bit.” So rather than just working on rebounding, foul shooting or offensive sets with his squad, one of Rice’s biggest tasks is convincing it that a pair of “Big Six” nonconference wins are not out of reach and could someday become commonplace.
The Knights have one more chance against a marquee conference opponent Dec. 28, when they play Nor th Carolina at Madison Square Garden, before beginning their Big East schedule. “Instead of thinking positive, it’s, ‘What’s going to happen next? What’s going to happen now and how are we going to lose this game?’” Rice said. “Usually it’s your seniors talking to your freshmen, but our seniors, with their histor y, they’re sometimes the ones thinking, ‘OK, we’re on the tracks and here comes the train.’”
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topped No. 3 Pittsburgh, 83-76, in the second leg of Saturday’s double-header, leaving Rutgers as the only Big East team to take a win this season in the eightteam, four-game tournament. Arkansas beat Seton Hall, 7162, and No. 17 Kentucky topped No. 23 Notre Dame, 72-58, at Freedom Hall in Louisville. The Big East and SEC tied, 8-8, in the overall conference series.
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Pittsburgh junior guard Ashton Gibbs (12) shot 4-for-13 from the field Saturday in the Panthers’ 83-76 loss to Tennessee.
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SCHIANO RECEIVES PAIR OF COMMITMENTS ON OFFICIAL VISITS
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Sophomore wing Dane Miller (11) led the Scarlet Knights with 17 points and 10 rebounds Saturday in a 63-54 win over Auburn in the SEC/Big East Invitational. The Rochester, N.Y., native posted his second straight double-double in the process.
Miller leads Knights to win in Rice’s hometown BY TYLER BARTO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
PITTSBURGH — As silent as the Consol Energy Center was Saturday during the MEN’S BASKETBALL Rutgers men’s basketball team’s nonRUTGERS 63 conference matchup with Auburn, the AUBURN 54 Scarlet Knights just as quietly went about their business in the Steel City. The Knights defeated the Tigers, 63-54, as part of the final series of the SEC/Big
East Invitational and sent head coach Mike Rice back to Piscataway with a victor y in his hometown. “It’s fun to win in the city that you grew up in, where I’ve coached and been for the last four years,” said Rice, whose Knights moved to 6-2 with the win. “I’m excited about representing the Big East. I’m excited about beating a great institution like Auburn. So all of those things excite me about my first go-around in the Big East.” Auburn’s Kenny Gabriel made a contested 3-pointer with 1:35 remaining in the game to shrink the Tigers’ deficit to 57-50,
but four points from sophomore wing Dane Miller sealed the SEC representative’s fate. Miller recorded team-highs in both points and rebounds against Auburn (3-5) with 17 and 10, respectively, for his second straight double-double. “At the beginning of the game, usually I’m telling jokes,” Miller said. “But I feel like this was a big one for me and the team. I thought I had to come out with a lot of energy and if I had to hand out water
The Rutgers football team hosted a number of official visitors this weekend — many of them already committed for the Class of 2011 — FOOTBALL but received a boost with two more commitments, according to ScarletReport.com. Punter Anthony DiPaula received a scholarship of fer and committed on his trip and defensive end Myles Jackson also promised his future to the Scarlet Knights. DiPaula played at St. John Vianney and will replace Teddy Dellaganna, who once earned Big East Special Teams Player of the Week honors but struggled due to injur y at the end of his senior year. Freshman Kyle Sullivan punted in his place, while San San Te took over kickoff duties GREG — both of SCHIANO which DiPaula should handle. Jackson is a 6-foot-3, 235-pounder from West Chester, Pa., and also had interest from Temple and Connecticut after a strong senior year at Henderson High School. Jackson bolsters a defensive line that loses both starting ends — Alex Silvestro and Jonathan Freeny. Fellow defensive end Chad Hannah from Tampa, Fla., was one of the top uncommitted prospects on campus for the weekend, along with Jacksonville, Fla., of fensive lineman Kaleb Johnson and one-third of the St. Peter’s Prep trio. Uncommitted Jersey City safety Sheldon Royster took his of ficial visit this weekend, while teammates Keith Lumpkin and Savon Huggins are scheduled to be on campus in Januar y. The of fensive lineman Lumpkin already committed to Rutgers, while Huggins is undecided as one of the most sought after tailbacks in the nation. — Steven Miller
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Rutgers takes two at Barn as Langel upsets No. 13 Frey BY A.J. JANKOWSKI ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
On the surface, it was nothing new for the Rutgers wrestling team. The No. 18 Scarlet Knights demolished George Mason and Princeton on Saturday night at the College Avenue WRESTLING Gym by scores 36-9 and PRINCETON 0 of 42-0, respectively. RUTGERS 42 But the expected result came with a silver lining for a sophomore 125-pounder. “I just went out there [Saturday] with nothing to lose,” said Joe Langel, who took down Princeton’s Garrett Frey, avenging an early-round loss in last year’s EIWA Tournament. Frey, ranked No. 13 in the countr y, marked one of the few challenges facing the Knights on a night when Rutgers took 17 of a possible 20 bouts. Who would take on Frey was a question mark heading into the dual, but when fellow sophomore Matt Fusco took on George Mason’s Zack Huxford, the Langel and Frey rematch was decided. “Joey is a funker and they wrestled together growing up, so we wanted to see
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Sophomore Joe Langel got himself back in the national rankings discussion at 125 pounds after taking down No. 13 Garrett Frey of Princeton, coming from behind in the third period to win the match, 6-4, as the Knights cruised at the Barn.