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The Rutgers men’s soccer team welcomes a pair of ranked opponents to Yurcak Field this weekend, when it hosts Iona and Indiana.
Allocations board strives toward more transparency BY ANASTASIA MILLICKER ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
In the process of finalizing more than $1 million of student funds in order to distribute them among the University’s 350 student organizations, the Rutgers University Student Assembly (RUSA) Allocations board is working this semester to become more transparent. “We’re really accessible through [Google Chat], and we’ve launched a Twitter account,” said Emmi Morse, the group’s external secretary. “We are really transparent as possible. If you follow us you can see how much we allocated during appeals meetings.” The Twitter account (RUSAAllocations) is updated every night with the amounts awarded to groups after these meetings.
Students can sign up for an appeals meeting, which is held every Thursday night in the atrium of the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus through the RUSA Allocations website. “Students have the opportunity to talk for 10 minutes and could potentially receive hundreds,” Morse said. If a club changes its programs or adds more programs than the original two programs the Allocations board funds, then clubs are encouraged to schedule an appeal meeting. Vice Chair of the RUSA Allocations Board Tyler Seville said not everything in the Allocations guidelines is black and white and that the board was available to help with budgeting.
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Members of the local community are unsure of how the city will change after the completion of the Gateway building, located on the intersection of Somerset Street and Easton Avenue.
Students, city residents raise concerns over Gateway project BY ALEKSI TZATZEV CORRESPONDENT
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Campus organizations table to recruit potential members on Cook/Douglass campus Wednesday afternoon as part of “Cook/Douglass Community Day.” Students also enjoy food and other refreshments. Read the full story on PAGE 3.
With months to go before the tallest building in New Brunswick building is finished, some people expressed their disagreement with the planning of the structure. The building is a part of the Gateway Transit Village, a $150 million project faces questions from New Brunswick residents and University students regarding traffic patterns, economic displacement and aesthetics. “My first concern would probably have to be traffic down there — pedestrian as well as vehicular,” said Charles Renda, lifelong resident of New Brunswick.
Renda said the intersection of Route 27 and Easton Avenue is already congested. “I can’t imagine how you are going to get 1,500, maybe 2,000 cars a day through and keep it safe,” he said. Taking traffic congestion and the scale of the project into account, Renda expressed his concern with pedestrian safety in particular. He said the major logistical problem would be the entrance to the parking garage on Wall Street at the foot of Easton Avenue. “I know that there’s been a parking problem on Easton Avenue, and I think this building addresses some of the problems the city had in the area, but it does it on such a
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Scholar assumes IWL director position
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With a longstanding record of advancing women’s issues, Alison Bernstein, scholar and former vice president of the Ford Foundation, is settling into her post as director of the University’s Institute for Women’s Leadership (IWL). Bernstein said the IWL, which represents a consortium of eight units at the University, has an array of focuses from science to the arts to politics, which is one of the many aspects that attracted her to the department. “There’s a set of programs and a residence college that run a spectrum of concerns from women in interdisciplinary research institutes to a PhD in women’s studies, which is rather unique,” she said. “They aspire to working more collaboratively. My challenge is to help them do that.” Throughout her career, Bernstein said she made it a point to understand
She also serves as a vice chair of how gender impacts and shapes the Bates College Board of Trustees social phenomena. and was chosen by Change maga“In my career, whether it was at zine as an Outstanding Leader in the City University of New York or Higher Education in 2000, said Princeton, I’ve always had an interest University President in what I call using a ‘genRichard L. McCormick at dered lens’ to understand yesterday’s welcome social dynamics, institutionreception for Bernstein. al structures,” she said. As an only child, Bernstein, a trained hisBernstein said she owes torian who earned her docmuch of her success to torate in histor y from her parents. Her father Columbia University, spent the first part of his began her career teaching career writing comic at Staten Island books, and her mother Community College. ALISON was a school teacher. She has held positions as BERNSTEIN “I like to say I get my the associate dean of faculty discipline from my mother at Princeton University and and my creativity from my father,” was a program and planning officer at she said. the Fund for the Improvement of Bernstein worked from 1996 to Postsecondary Education within the 2010 at the Ford Foundation — a U.S. Department of Education. philanthropic organization created Bernstein also served as the vice by Henr y Ford in 1936 dedicated president for the Education, to the preser vation of human welCreativity and Free Expression fare — to fund organizations like Program at the Ford Foundation.
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the New Jersey Preforming Ar ts Center and improve access to higher education for women and returning veterans. “[Ford] saw that it would make sense to create a philanthropy that would not just be a charity but would work to solve systemic social problems,” she said. In the end, Bernstein said she sees her return to a research university a fitting transition from her previous work, but said she is humbled by the show of suppor t and feels undeser ving of it until she makes some real strides within the depar tment. “I’ve come full circle,” she said. “I always had a kind of special perspective looking at how women were doing in any one of these programs. Now I get to devote all my attention to that.” Bernstein said much of her expertise is derived from her experiences
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On-campus festivity builds student community BY MATTHEW MATILSKY CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Student organizations threw a party for students at “Cook/Douglass Community Day,” an event designed to welcome new students. The event, which featured music, a free raffle and a barbeque, helped students learn about programs in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) and facilitated interaction between campus organizations, said Zaid Abuhouran, president of the SEBS Governing Council. “It was very intimate because many people knew each other and it was also very welcoming at the same time,” said Abuhouran, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences senior. Students chatted in small groups and ate at round tables under a tent stretched out on the lawn near Passion Puddle. “I saw a bunch of smoke, smelled the food and came over,” said Ben Schindel, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “It’s almost like another involvement fair.” Ashley Anderson, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, agreed but said this event was more useful. “I walked around almost every booth at the involvement fair,” she said. “But some of these [organizations] I didn’t see there.” Rober t Goodman, executive dean of the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, said the event helped put students in touch with one another.
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During “Cook/Douglass Community Day” on Wednesday students interacted with campus organizations and learned about different programs in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. The party also included food, live entertainment and giveaways.
“For everybody, it’s a chance to belong,” Goodman said. “I wouldn’t be surprised if there were 1,500 or 1,700 students here by the time we’re done.” The Rutgers University Programming Association (RUPA), Dining Ser vices and other groups set up display booths, but most groups present were related to the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and School of Arts and Sciences. “It gets the Douglass and Cook organizations and the
FORMER UNITED NATIONS OFFICIAL JOINS RUTGERS-NEWARK STAFF Jean-Marc Coicaud will serve as the director of the Division of Global Affairs (DGA) and a tenured law and global affairs professor at Rutgers-Newark. Steven Diner, chancellor of Rutgers-Newark, said he was pleased to appoint Coicaud, whose previous experience as director of the United Nations (UN) University Office in New York suggests he is well suited for the position, according to a Rutgers-Newark press release. “His broad global experience at the UN and in academia will serve him well at DGA, a highly respected center of study and research, whose faculty and students constitute a mini United Nations here in New Jersey,” Diner said in the article. A native of France, Coicaud’s academic record boasts of positions at Harvard University, New School University, New York University School of Law, among other schools across the globe. He joined the UN as a speechwriter at the Executive Office of the Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali and has since held positions in the UN Department of Political Affairs, according to the press release. In addition to his UN positions, Coicaud also served as a legislative assistant to the Finance Committee of the European Parliament. In recognition of his work, Institute d’Etudes Politiques awarded Coicaud a Doctorat d’Etat in political philosophy. The University of Paris I at Sorbonne awarded the Frenchman a doctoral degree in political science and law. Coicaud has written numerous books in the past, including “Légitimité et Politique,” according to the press release. To date, he serves on the advisory board of Global Policy Innovations and is a member of the Har vard Sachs Foundation. He has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in linguistics, literature and philosophy. — Ankita Panda
community on these campuses together,” said Kristy Haar, a student in the Graduate School of Education. Katie Hector, a representative for the Mason Gross Student Gover nment Association, said knowing there is a sense of community around the University is a breath of fresh air for any firstyear students still adapting to the college environment. “For freshmen who are already a little over whelmed, we’re here to say ‘hey, we’re
here for you,’” said Hector, a Mason Gross School of the Ar ts sophomore. Students were not required to sign up for the organizations at community day, as the event was not just about getting involved but also an opportunity for students to hang out. “I met a bunch of new people today,” said Allison Manziano, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences junior who just transfer red from Brookdale Community College.
She was happy to get a free Tshirt, food and to talk to members of the Rutgers University Mounted Patrol. Many charitable organizations were also present at the event, like Rutgers Against Hunger (RAH). “Anyone who [brought] a canned food donation [got] an extra raf fle ticket,” said Christopher Retzko, program manager for RAH, sitting next to a small mountain of non-perishables. The food will be donated to a local food bank, he said.
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BOARD: Clubs present budget through online system continued from front Clubs and organizations submit a budget every semester through an online system, and the board analyzes how closely the program matches the mission statement and how many students would benefit using a discrete formula program, said Zain Ahmad, the board’s chair. In order to receive funding, Student Involvement must recognize the club, and the purpose of their planned programs must reflect the organization’s mission, said Zain Haq, RUSA Allocations logistic chair. At least two primary officers of the clubs have to participate in the budgeting process and funds cannot be used toward T-shirts, promotional giveaways or alcohol, Ahmad said. “Clubs could fundraise or use general funds from the club toward that sort of stuff, but Allocations gives money toward programs,” said Ahmad, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “We don’t compare clubs to each other — each club has its specific needs.” Rutgers Beer Appreciation Society receives funding from RUSA Allocations, but the money is not used toward beer but rather toward programs and trips, Morse said. “The club goes on field trips to breweries and focuses of the appreciation of the process of how it’s made,” said Morse, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “We don’t fund the drinking — they could use their clubs general fees toward it, but we pay for the trips and the lecturers they have come in.” Many of the board’s members are part of external organizations. Ahmad said he believed that outside involvement allows board members to better relate to the clubs they are allocating for, but the board cannot be treasurers because of the main purpose of treasurer is to budget. Otherwise, members can be involved in other organizations but cannot be on the executive board according to bylaws, Ahmad said. “When we do a budget for a club that a member of the board is affiliated with or involved in, they have to leave the room,” he said. “This removes the political element from it.” Ahmad said if students stayed on the board and were able to be
involved in their own club budget, students could mobilize to increase funds toward their club. “We want to be non-biased and eliminate the political method from the voting process,” he said. Ahmad said he is involved with the Pakistani Students Association and attended Leadership Quest. Seville, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, said he was involved with the Off-Campus Students’ Association, as well as Circle K, swim recreation and triathlon clubs. Morse said she is the director of scholarship for the National Panhellenic Council and alumnae-collegiate relations chair for Zeta Tau Alpha. Haq, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said he was a part of the debate team last year and hall government. Tara Koschuha, RUSA Allocations technology chair, said she is a senior for the School of Arts and Sciences and a part of the Public Speaking Club, as well as a Google Student Ambassador. Pranali Shingala, RUSA Allocations public relations, said she is a School of Arts and Sciences junior who is actively involved with the American Medical Association. The RUSA Allocations board is a branch of RUSA but a separately run entity comprised of student members elected by RUSA, Ahmad said. The Allocations board consists of a chair, vice-chairs, a treasurer, internal and external secretary, faculty advisers and the RUSA treasurer, Ahmad said. “The RUSA treasurer is on the board as a part of the RUSA constitution,” said Scott Siegel, RUSA treasurer. “The RUSA treasurer is the only representative elected by the student body and is responsible for reporting back to RUSA.” All student activity fees from the School of Arts and Sciences and a portion of the professional schools’ student activity fees go toward the funds to be allocated, Ahmad said. Of the $1.4 million, about 80 percent of the fees come from the School of Arts and Sciences, while 20 percent come from the professional schools, he said. “We try to fairly allocate student activity fee money to benefit as many students as possible through programs and events,” Ahmad said. “We have a faculty adviser, Karen Ardizzone, who assures funding is in accordance with the University’s accord.”
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NYPD MONITORS MUSLIM NEIGHBORHOODS, STUDENT GROUPS IN NEW YORK CITY An Associated Press investigation reveals that the New York Police Depar tment (NYPD) collected intelligence on Muslim neighborhoods and infiltrated more than 250 mosques and Muslim student groups around New York City. With the CIA’s help, the NYPD Intelligence division sent out undercover of ficers to monitor the daily life of Muslim or Arab-American neighborhoods, according to a Washington Square News ar ticle. The of ficers allegedly scrutinized these communities. Those of Middle Eastern descent and Muslims were classified as “ancestries of interest,” according to the article. NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Public Information Paul Browne said in the article that the department is doing all it reasonably can to stop terrorism. “We don’t apologize for [our work] and we’re not deterred by petite jealousies that success sometimes breeds,” Browne said via email.
SCHOLAR: Bernstein draws from past experiences continued from front working with the foundation, whose offices span 12 countries throughout the world. “I think that gave me a much broader scope of thinking about women’s concerns not just in the United States but across the globe,” she said. “I think that’s very important, and it aligns with Rutgers’ mission ‘Jersey Roots, Global Reach.’” IWL Director of Development Lisa Hetfield,
CONCERNS: Project aims to increase transit travel continued from front gigantic scale that it creates other problems,” he said. In response to these complaints, the New Brunswick Development Corporation (DEVCO) conducted a full traffic study to solve most future trafficrelated problems, said Christopher Paladino, DEVCO president. “[This project] is supposed to encourage more transit-oriented travel,” Paladino said. “We are hoping more people use this opportunity to commute into New Brunswick to go to class or work and that people living in the apartments and condominiums use this transit hub instead of using their cars.” In addition to relieving traffic in certain areas, the Gateway Transit Village will provide a shopping hub, which includes a Barnes & Noble and several local businesses — leaving 2,000 square feet of space still to be occupied by businesses, he said. “Any increase in traffic will be of people coming in to use the garage to go to Barnes & Noble or go to the restaurants,” Paladino said. “We found it that most likely someone in this building will not be using a car — they will use the train.” The building will hold 150 apartments, 42 condominiums and 50,000 square feet of office space, he said.
A list of monitored groups has not been released to the public, but Abid Hossain, chair of the Islamic Law Students Association at New York University (NYU), thinks entities in the NYU community were likely subjects of surveillance. “If this surveillance was conducted on our organizations, they would learn that the association is the kind of organization that fosters an attitude that combats terrorism,” Hossain said in the article. According to the NYPD report, student organizations were targeted for being “involved with religious and political activities” and for having members that are “politically active and are radicalizing.” But NYU law professor Burt Neuborne said he is unsure if it is illegal to have police in the mosques. “It is morally questionable ... because it alienates the community, and you get no more information than you would through other means,” he said in the article. — Kristine Rosette Enerio
who ser ved as the interim director for the IWL between the previous director’s departure and Bernstein’s assuming the position in July, said Bernstein is the ideal candidate for refocusing and promoting the IWL’s ef for ts at the reception. “We all know the institute will thrive with [Bernstein’s] guidance,” she said. McCormick said the institute is the nation’s foremost leader of women’s issues in leadership, equality, research and science. “You can’t read the list of members of the IWL consortium without being reminded
what an extraordinar y place this is for the education of women and for education by and about women,” he said. McCormick also believes Bernstein’s experience makes her the best candidate for the job. “The values of diversity in higher education, and the values of diversity worldwide are all commitments Alison made early in her life through her scholarship, and expressed extraordinarily well and with enormous impact here at Rutgers,” he said. “There could be no more an appropriate director than Alison Bernstein.”
Matt Cordeiro, president of the Rutgers University Student Assembly, said the project might change the area economically for both local residents and University students. “I have some reser vations about it — I don’t want the purpose of the building to be serving high-class clientele, coming in and out from [New York City],” he said. “The prices may rise and that creates a problem for students.”
have a histor y of displacing local residents and limiting affordable housing. “It is also tough to know how this will turn out since the housing market is not doing too well and these luxury units may be difficult to be filled right away,” Cordeiro said. Renda said the initial planning of the building misled residents of New Brunswick. “They started out with the plan of having 192 condo units, and they got their approvals — zoning board, city council, state funding, etc. — and after they were well under construction, they changed it to 150 apartments, 20 percent of which will be affordable, and 42 condos,” he said. Renda also expressed concern with the building’s placement with regard to Kirkpatrick Chapel and Old Queen’s campus. “The building is way out of perspective to the church and the college campus and even the city,” he said. “Even driving in from Franklin Township, you see this monstrosity on the horizon.” The Gateway project nears its completion in 2012 and will provide students and local residents with a modern shopping and transit hub. “I really want it to succeed and be a force for good — I personally have some reser vations about it,” Cordeiro said. “I am just not sure how it is going to turn out.”
“These luxury units may be difficult to be filled right away.” MATT CORDEIRO Rutgers University Student Assembly President
Cordeiro, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, said he is concerned that students and local residents may be subjected to a form of economic displacement under the pressure of increasing property prices. “In that section between Somerset and Hamilton [Streets], students go there a lot, and they might be pushed out,” Cordeiro said. “Are students going to get pushed further into the city?” He added that urban development projects such as this
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Poker Run/Walk will start at 1 p.m. on the Cook/Douglass campus. Travel the campus picking up poker cards along the way. The best poker hands win free prizes. Register with Sue Beaudrow by emailing beaudrow@rci.rutgers.edu. For more information call (732) 932-9178.
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King Of The Couch Tournaments will host “LeGrand Bowl 2011,” a video game tournament for Eric LeGrand at 11 a.m. at the Busch Student Center. The tournament will have participants play Madden 12 and NCAA 12 on both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Students can join the tournament for $10 with their student identification while non-students will pay $20. For more information visit legrandbowl.com or call (201) 981-3537.
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Does your health add up? Find out key health indicators such as blood pressure and body mass index (BMI) at NUMB3RS. Health Outreach, Promotion and Education (HOPE) is hosting the event from noon to 3 p.m at Morrell Street on the College Avenue campus. Take a fitness challenge and learn more about portion control and calories. Sign up for free chair massage.
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The Third Annual National Postdoc Appreciation Day Symposium, presented by the UMDNJ/Rutgers Postdoctoral Association, will take place in from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the West Lecture Hall of UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. The symposium is an opportunity for graduate students and postdocs to present their work, attend career development panels and network with other researchers in the area. Registration for the event is free, and lunch is included for registrants. Postdocs, faculty, students and administrators are all welcome. For more information e-mail pda@umdnj.edu. Register online at http://pda-nj.appspot.com/symposium.html.
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Tournament to raise charity funds BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR
Eric LeGrand and his teammates on the University football team typically spend their free time sitting around a television in their off-campus house, controllers in hand and “Madden” or “NCAA Football” on their gaming console. The defensive tackle, who suffered a paralyzing spinal cord injury last season against Army, said he misses playing football. But a few months removed from his injury, LeGrand, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, said he misses playing video games with his friends nearly just as much. LeGrand will not play, but he will be on hand at the Multipurpose Room in the Busch Campus Center, where King of the Couch Live Video Game Tournaments will host the “LeGrand Bowl” video-game tournament on Sunday to raise funds for the “Eric LeGrand Believe Fund.” Rod Lane, who organized the event through King of the Couch, said he wanted to run an event that involved a younger crowd. “There’s been a lot of fundraisers like walks and things basically for an older crowd. I wanted to do something for the Rutgers students that enjoy football, and ‘Madden’ football was the platform I chose to use,” he said. The event begins at 10 a.m. and costs $10 for University students
with an ID and $20 for non-students. Since all proceeds benefit the Believe Fund, Lane said participants are welcome to donate more than the minimum amount required to play. Par ticipants can play in a “Madden ’12” or “NCAA Football ’12” tournament and must bring their own controllers, but there will also be televisions and consoles set up for pick-up games. Prizes, which range from video-game controllers to NFL memorabilia, are valued at more than $500, Lane said. Lane organized video-game tournaments for the past seven to eight years, regularly featuring “Madden,” “NCAA Football,” “Call of Duty,” “Halo” and “Super Smash Bros.” The former college football player, who lives in North Brunswick, heard about LeGrand’s injury and realized he had a way to help. “Mr. Lane is that type of guy,” said University tight end Malcolm Bush, who knew Lane as a teacher at Hackensack High School. “He’ll try to take advantage of any opportunity to better someone’s situation, so this is not uncommon for him.” Lane teaches world history at Hackensack, and he reached out to University alumnus Kevin Brock and Bush when he came up with the idea. Brock, now on the Oakland Raiders’ practice squad, played four seasons at the University
after graduating from Hackensack and Bush is in his third season with the Scarlet Knights. “He told me the idea, what he had planned and wanted to get done,” said Bush, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “He needed to talk to somebody inside the program, so I gave him [assistant to the head coach Todd Greineder’s] number, and it went from there.” Bush said he is unsure of whether any of his teammates will be able to attend the event, but he still remembers living with LeGrand the summer before LeGrand suf fered his injur y. “Eric loves video games,” Bush said. “He got ‘NCAA [Football ’11]’ the day it came out, and we played that all day. He was Rutgers. I was Rutgers. It was Rutgers on Rutgers.” When playing “Madden,” LeGrand regularly used his favorite team — the Denver Broncos. “I love Madden and when I am able I accept all challenges,” LeGrand said. The 21-year-old LeGrand’s best game is “FIFA Soccer,” said teammate Scott Vallone, but he could hold his own with “Madden” and “NCAA Football.” “We would play, and it was nothing like any of the blitzes we ran here, but he would call it out, and I would know what it was,” said Vallone, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “I bet it’s going to be a great event and a lot of fun.”
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Eric LeGrand, a football player who was paralyzed after a spinal cord injury, sits with friend Rheanne Sleiman. LeGrand will be present at a video game tournament Sunday that will raise money for his fund.
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Week in review: laurels and darts
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ichele Bachmann is a pretty easy target for jokes. The University of Iowa is the latest to take a crack at her. In response to reports of a cougar prowling around Iowa City, the school’s Twitter feed sent out the update, “I didn’t know Bachmann was in town. Bah-dum-dum.” The joke here, of course, is that Bachmann is not a wild feline, but an older woman interested in romantic entanglements with younger men. The school has since taken the tweet down and issued an apology for its joke. We can’t figure out why. It was a harmless joke, and it’s fun to see the humorous side of higher education. Even Bachmann’s people don’t seem to be offended by it. For making a bigger deal out of the situation than needed, the University of Iowa receives a dart. It would be one thing if the tweet was vitriolic or defamator y, but that was not the case. *
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Public schools in Washington, D.C., are taking an interesting step in health education. The district will be the first school district to give students in grades 5, 8 and 10 a standardized test on sex and sexuality, contraceptive methods and drug use. These are impor tant life subjects, which school districts unfor tunately gloss over often. The best way to keep students safe, with respect to sex and drugs, is to arm them with the knowledge necessar y for them to protect themselves. Therefore, giving them an exam is a good way to ensure that they learn this highly valuable information and retain it for years to come. We give the Washington, D.C., public school system a laurel for deciding to institute this test. *
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You may love or hate the members of MTV’s “Jersey Shore,” but if you are a resident of New Jersey, it does not matter your feelings on the cast: You are paying for them. Thanks to a tax credit that the New Jersey Economic Development Authority gave to the show, taxpayers in New Jersey will be paying for $420,000 worth of the reality show’s production costs. That’s the last bill N.J. taxpayers need to be taking care of. There are far more important things our money should be going to — things that are integral to the continued running of our state. We give the New Jersey Economic Development Authority a dar t for approving this tax break. MTV is a company that does pretty well for itself — it should be able to pay all of its production costs without the aid of the already cash-strapped N.J. public. *
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Facebook is making it easier for users to maintain a separation of their private and public lives on the Internet with the addition of a brand new feature, the subscribe button. The subscribe button lets users follow a person without friending them. Since these followers are not friends, they can only see posts from the people they subscribe to if those posts are specifically marked for the public to see. So, the subscribe button allows people to reach wider audiences without having those audiences pr y into their social lives. This new feature is a win for public figures and average folk alike, so we give Facebook a laurel for finding a way to let users maintain their privacy while speaking to the public. *
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It seems silly to us to brand toddlers as “racist,” “sexist” or “homophobic,” but the British government apparently disagrees. More than 30,000 school-aged children have their names listed in a government database that tracks their supposed discriminator y actions. Inclusion on this database is a black mark on these children’s records that could follow them for their lives. Children should be taught not to use slurs, not be put under government sur veillance whenever they do use hur tful language. The key is education, not punishment. These are ver y young children we’re talking about, not fully developed and freethinking adults. We give the British government a dar t for going to such radical, ridiculous measures.
QUOTE OF THE DAY “I saw a bunch of smoke, smelled the food and came over.” Ben Schindel, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, on “Cook/Douglass Community Day” STORY IN UNIVERSITY
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the hard realization again. I t’s a hard realization might be wrong. when you finally figure I realize now that this is out that you’re not the how people succeed — by smartest person in the TABISH TALIB shutting up and understandroom. It’s even harder when ing that what the other peoyou realize that you probaple are doing is not for your detriment but your benbly will never be. efit. After all, what can the purpose of my professors We here at the University have enjoyed successor editors have in changing my writing besides es of intellect throughout our educations. When we improving it? were students in elementary and high school, we David Foster Wallace gave the commencement wrote well, looked at literature critically and were speech at Kenyon College in 2005. The speech smart kids. At least that’s what I thought of myself. explains that the purpose of a liberal arts college is While that may sound pretentious, I think many not for us to be well learned in different subjects. other students at the University felt the same. Rather, the purpose is for us to learn how to think. Throughout these four long years, or short years The idea is insulting. Wallace admits this himdepending on if I’m feeling impatient or nostalgic, I self, but I like to think he’s right. always had to remind myself that I might be wrong. Wallace tells the graduates that the real world That maybe, just maybe, the person speaking to me, is hard and depressing, and that be it a teacher or a student, might be the only thing you can do is a fraction more knowledgeable than “Realize that change your perspective and me on the subject we’re discussing. you don’t know move away from the “me” world I had the most difficult time — the world where your ego puts with this during my first year in everything and you in the center. “Expository Writing.” While we all He tells us to just think that we have heard the cliché stories of that you will might be wrong, that maybe the how difficult “Expository Writing” never know. ” person in the gas-guzzling SUV is and how incoming first-year stuwho cuts us off on the road is in a dents have a hard time understandhurr y to go the hospital. Or that ing why they are failing assignmaybe she drives the large SUV because she was ments when all they received top grades in high in such a terrible car accident, so the only way school, we’ve heard it because it’s true. she feels safe enough to drive is behind the large I had no clue into why I was doing so poorly in protective chassis of an SUV. “Expositor y Writing” until I stopped being angry The scenario is not probable, but it’s also not at the professor and thought to myself that I just impossible, Wallace said. might be wrong. Maybe all the A’s I received just So perhaps the next time you’re at the inflated my ego, and maybe I had just entered the College Hall bus stop on Douglass campus waitreal world. ing for the F bus, and some kid just pushes and I closed my mouth and my mind and finally gets in front of you and is throwing elbows understood how to write well and squeezed out an around, just think maybe your assumption that A. I was ecstatic. he is a jerk and doesn’t care about anybody is In retrospect, unfor tunately that was the wrong. Maybe he really needs to get to class wrong reaction to have. I boosted my ego all because his professor is stricter than usual and over again. I was thinking, “I got an A in Expos! he is in danger of failing the class. Maybe he I am a pretty good writer.” But I had the same was standing at the bus stop for a long time and problem again when I started writing for jourout of kindness let other people get on two prenalism classes — I didn’t get it at first. But I vious F buses. thought back to my experience in “Expository It’s not probable, but it’s also not impossible. Writing,” switched off my ego and my brain and Take a step back and realize you don’t know learned how to write news stories properly and everything and that you will never know. without fluff. You’ll probably never be the smartest guy in the But the cycle continued, and now I thought since room, but realize that it’s a benefit, otherwise how I did well in my news writing classes that I could would you ever improve. write for The Daily Targum. You can guess what happened next — the Tabish Talib is a School of Arts and Sciences sencycle repeated. I was angr y at the editors for ior double majoring in journalism and media studies changing my leads and moving parts of the stor y and political science. He is a correspondent at The around, but I kept my mouth shut (which may be Daily Targum. why I’m still working for The Targum) and made
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SLATE: Crooks’ welcomes votes in NSCAA Coaches’ Poll continued from back But earning conference victories, especially against teams like Georgetown, which earned 28 votes in this week’s poll, is what could make or break the Knights by the postseason. That is what makes this phase of the season so important. “The third segment is postseason,” Crooks said. “Obviously how we do in this second segment is going to dictate our postseason hopes.”
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he St. John’s men’s basketball team’s No. 3-ranked recr uiting class deflated yesterday, when the NCAA ruled three of its top recruits ineligible. The freshmen trio of Jakarr Sampson, Norvel Pelle and Amir Garrett, who all ranked in the ESPN Top 150, failed to pass NCAA clearinghouse and will be forced to sit the first 10 games. The players could miss the entire season barring improved academics for the spring semester. “We will continue to work with the NCAA in an effort to review Amir, Nor vel and Jakarr’s cases regarding their eligibility,” said head coach Steve Lavin. The Scarlet Knights take on the Red Storm in the final game of the 2011-12 regular season at the Louis Brown Athletic Center. The Knights dropped both games to the Johnnies in 2010, including a controversial loss in the Big East Tournament.
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All-Pro linebacker Brian Urlacher returned to practice yesterday after missing time to be with his family. Mourning the death of his mother, Lavoyda Lenard, Urlacher is slated to star t against the New Orleans Saints this Sunday in New Orleans. The Bears are glad to have Urlacher back as the Bears are 21-13 with Urlacher in the lineup and 7-8 without him since 2008.
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Freshman forward Amy Pietrangelo made a quick impact early in her Rutgers career, scoring a goal and connecting on two assists through her first seven games in a Knights uniform.
Junior Tricia DiPaolo expects to return to the Knights’ roster on Oct. 26, five days after the team closes its regular season against Seton Hall. The date, tentatively set, was pushed back to allow DiPaolo more time to heal. “We’ve just decided to take things a little bit slower since I’ve had so many knee injuries,” DiPaolo said. “As of yesterday I was doing all the speed and agility with the team … hopefully I’ll be able to play for the postseason.”
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YURCAK: Knights face quick turnaround vs. Hoosiers continued from back good team. But at the same time, I thought that was a game we needed to win and we should have won, and for tunately we did,” Donigan said. “I think Iona poses some different problems. They have ver y good speed up top at attack, some ver y crafty players on the ball and they got some big strong kids in the back. They present a ver y formidable opponent.” Only days after facing Iona, the Knights have to regroup and clash with No. 9 Indiana (4-0-1) at Yurcak Field. The Hoosiers arrive on the Banks amid their best start since the 2005 season, in which they also started 4-0-1. “We are going to have to turn around on Sunday and play what I consider to be one of the top programs in the countr y in Indiana,” Donigan said. “This is going to be a very tough weekend for us, but that’s what we want. It’s what the players want to be a part of, and it’s going to help us prepare for the Big East matchups coming up.” Despite the added pressure of facing such highly regarded teams, the Knights do not feel unprepared for the challenges. They come off an impressive 3-1 win at home against Drexel, which featured three different Knights finding the back of the net. “There is always a little bit more pressure playing against ranked teams because you want to get the winning result because it looks so good for the program,” Knibbs said. “But we are taking this mostly as just another bunch of teams. We are going to go in how we want to go in, and control the games how we want them to be played.”
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After inheriting former head coach Bob Reasso’s schedule last season, second-year coach Dan Donigan made a concerted effort to bring in more challenging opponents. The Scarlet Knights face two ranked foes this weekend in No. 25 Iona and No. 9 Indiana.
SLUMP: RU sets sights on Big East Tourney appearance continued from back “This team has to learn to win these games,” Tchou said. “If we can hold possessions better than we have in the past and really focus on each other, it’s going to be a great game.” Rutgers made the Big East Tournament last year for the first time since 2001 and look to repeat that feat this year. Their 1-4 record does not look like that of a team that would make the conference tournament, but heading into today, Rutgers and Syracuse have the same Big East record: 0-0. The only Orange losses (3-2) came to No. 1 North Carolina and No. 2 Old Dominion, but that will not stop the Knights from beginning their Big East play on a high note. “We’re really pushing our skillsets for quicker execution, for anticipation of what’s going to happen next because Syracuse is a high-energy team, but they’re very skilled at the same time,” Tchou said. Syracuse only scored three goals in its past two games, which matches up well with a Rutgers defense that allowed only one regulation goal to UNH. The Knights need to play through their defense in order to put points on the board, Tchou said. “Our defense to attack transition needs to be quick,” she said. “We had a great practice today where the girls showed that they can consistently create offensive opportunities. But we have to
gain more possession time than we have in these past games.” Rutgers showed promise on both the offensive and defensive end against UNH, but the team worked hard on connecting both phases into a cohesive unit all week in practice. “If we can outlet in the backfield, then I think we can come up with some number-up situations on our attacking end and we can finish and come out with the win,” said senior back Christie Morad. The Knights had problems with capitalizing on their of fensive oppor tunities during their losing streak, but they par tly broke out of that slump against UNH. Rutgers only scored one goal, but directed five of its six shots at the cage against a Wildcats defense that has not allowed more than one goal in a game this season. The Knights aim to carr y some of their momentum from the UNH game into Syracuse in order to break out of their slump. “Against UNH, we came out as a team as a whole. We weren’t always connected in our games before that,” Morad said. “We were in a rough patch before that. Hopefully we can come out with the same energy we played with against UNH.” But the Knights know their previous results do not matter when it comes to their goal of making the Big East Tournament. “Every game is important, but the Big East is what we focus on the most if we want to make the Big East Tournament like we did last year,” Morad said.
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While junior running back De’Antwan Williams left the Rutgers football team Wednesday due to his move down the depth chart, it still affects the team’s depth. “We liked our little four rotation going — me and him the two little short backs,” said redshirt freshman Jawan Jamison, who earlier this week took carries as the second tailback ahead of Williams. “But he has to do what’s best for him, and if that’s what’s best for him, I’d rather him do that.” Williams started the first two games this season and split carries with Jamison, freshman Savon Huggins and sophomore Jeremy Deering. Freshman Ben Martin and freshman walk-on Paul James will redshirt and work with the scout team.
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Head coach Greg Schiano admits he would prefer to have another running back, but is OK with the makeup of the position group. “We have five backs, who I think are good backs, in the program,” Schiano said. “An ideal number is six guys in the program, but we have five. It’s OK.” Nothing changed with Williams, who still expects to leave Rutgers, although Schiano left the door open for a return. “It’s not an adversarial thing. He and I have a very good relationship. We did speak,” Schiano said. “Like I said yesterday, sometimes things happen and there’s an initial reaction. Maybe as a younger coach I’d take it personally, but I don’t take it personally now. I know how hard and competitive it is.” Huggins is in line to make his first career start next week against Ohio, with Jamison back-
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ing him up and Deering playing a more versatile role in the backfield and out wide. The Scarlet Knights averaged 2.1 yards per carry though the first two games, but Schiano believes the remaining trio of backs can break out soon. “They’ve all been running well in practice. That hasn’t been an issue. That’s why I’m very optimistic and I still am,” Schiano said. “I think it’s going to pop. They’ve all been doing well. Each back I think has different strengths, which is good. I don’t think we have any clones of each other, which gives us flexibility.”
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pain, and the bye gave the Winslow Township product a chance to rest. “Doctors felt if we rested it this week it might really help him for the rest of the year,” Schiano said. “We wanted to get those other guys work, so it made sense.” One of those players is sophomore Jordan Thomas, who is in his first season at cornerback after starting at running back as a true freshman. Sophomore Logan Ryan and junior Marcus Cooper are ahead of Thomas in the pecking order, but Schiano said he would not hesitate to play Thomas. “He’s done better this week,” Schiano said. “He got opportunities and made the most of them. We’re going to play a lot of guys.”
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last week against North Carolina with an undisclosed injury, did more in practice. “It’s a pain issue. It’s not going to get worse by going,” Schiano said. “People say, ‘Just [play] then,’ but sometimes pain can shut you down. We have to trust Marvin’s interpretation of what his body’s telling him. He wants to play more than anybody, but I told the trainers, ‘Let’s be smart.’”
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bye-week practices yesterday before players get the weekend off and coaches hit the recruiting trail. “I just got done telling them I thought this was the best bye week we’ve had since I’ve been head coach here,” Schiano said. “The kids really busted hump — ver y physical. I was ver y pleased — three days of ver y good work.”
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Junior tight end D.C. Jefferson, left, and sophomore tight end Paul Carrezola combine for only four catches this season for 35 yards. Carrezola earns his first consistent time at the position in his career, while Jefferson started last season and earned playing time there as a redshirt freshman.
Pair of tight ends struggle to produce in offense BY TYLER BARTO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
Rutgers head football coach called D.C. Jefferson a physical specimen, and Paul Carrezola described FOOTBALL himself as a technician at the line of scrimmage. Those attributes would be fine if the junior and sophomore tight ends, respectively, made up just one player. They are not, and the constant shuffling at tight end left the Scarlet Knights without a consistent playmaker at the position since 2006, Clark Harris’ senior season. “I don’t know. They’re different roles,” Schiano said. “There are certain things that [Jefferson] can do. There are certain things we’d rather have Paul do. I like the way they play off each other. It’s a ham and egg combination that I really like.”
Jefferson arrived at Rutgers in 2008 as a highly coveted quarterback prospect who de-committed from LSU. He did not pan out at quarterback when Rutgers lacked a veteran signal caller, and Schiano redshirted Jefferson and moved him to tight end entering his redshirt freshman season. The 6-foot-6 Jefferson thought he knew enough about the position early in the process to make an impact, but tight ends coach Brian Angelichio’s arrival from Pittsburgh changed his mentality, he said. “I think I’ve improved a lot because early on, I thought I had it down pat,” Jefferson said. “But until coach Angelichio came over, I realized that there were a lot more things I could’ve worked on and been doing at the time when I was younger.” Carrezola joined the program a year later from Neshaminy (Pa.) High School, a program
known for churning out quality college prospects. Schiano picked up commitments from both Carrezola and Malcolm Bush in the 2009 recruiting class, but Bush has yet to materialize as a redshirt sophomore. Despite their respective résumés, neither Jefferson nor Carrezola developed two years later into consistent threats for the Knights offense. They own a combined four catches this season for 35 yards. “We have great receivers. I don’t think it’s a concern,” Carrezola said of the tight ends’ lack of catches. “We’re going to keep playing hard and keep doing our job.” The Knights’ lack of a downfield threat at tight end forced them to compensate in other areas, namely their wide receiving corps. Junior Mohamed Sanu hauled in a team-high 20 catches this season, but for only 187 yards –– a 9.4-yard
average. Most of those receptions occurred in the middle of the field, where a tight end normally sits. “Me and Paul are two good tight ends,” Jefferson said. “It’s good having two tight ends on the field and being able to execute our running game better.” But the Rutgers running game regressed in Game 2, when it netted just one yard and failed to convert twice from the North Carolina goal line. Offensive coordinator Frank Cignetti’s gameplan did not require the pair of tight ends to stay in to pass protect, so its offensive production did not skew in that regard. While Jefferson earned some targets in the redzone in back-toback weeks, his 6-foot-6, 258pound frame was an indicator he deserved more looks there earlier in his career. But the Winter Haven, Fla., native consistently dropped passes in two seasons at tight end, and
his lack of prior knowledge at the position showed. Schiano maintains that Jef ferson shows flashes of the ability that made him an SEC recruit. “D.C. is getting better,” Schiano said. “So is Paul, which is the most important thing. They both continue to get better. I thought D.C. had a really good [bye] week.” Perhaps Angelichio and Cignetti’s ar rivals mark the beginning of a revamped emphasis on the tight end position in the pass game. But Jef ferson and Carrezola are not Dorin Dickerson and Nate Byham, who tur ned careers at Pittsburgh to stints in the NFL. Jef ferson never imagined in a million years he would end up at tight end in college, he said. Through two seasons at the position, it is not hard to see why.
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Senior midfielder Bryant Knibbs is one of seven Knights players to score a goal this season. The Pine Bush, N.Y., native and the rest of the team’s attack play host to two ranked opponents this weekend, both of which allow 1.25 goals or fewer per game.
Ranked opponents pay visit to Yurcak BY VINNIE MANCUSO CORRESPONDENT
The Rutgers men’s soccer team finds itself at the biggest bump in the road before Big East play this weekend, when it comes face-toface with Iona and MEN’S SOCCER Indiana in a two-day span for the NO. 25 IONA AT Rutgers/St. John’s RUTGERS Nike Soccer Classic. TONIGHT, 5 P.M. Not only are Iona and Indiana nationally ranked, but both roll into Piscataway sporting undefeated records.
“Well, both teams are ranked, so they’re pretty big games for us,” said senior Br yant Knibbs. “Getting good results in both of them would be really good for us going for ward as a team, so we just have to go out and play our game — get the results we need.” First up for the Scarlet Knights is No. 25 Iona (4-0), which comes of f a 4-3 overtime win against Mount Saint Mar y’s in the Puma Lafayette Classic. The Gales won the tournament’s championship with the victory. “I went and watched [Iona] play La Salle, which is obviously a common oppo-
nent for us. And you know Iona is good,” said head coach Dan Donigan. “They are ver y talented going for ward, and they are pretty organized and structured defensively. It is just going to be a ver y dif ficult team — it’s a ver y good opponent. Just like most games we have this year, we are going to have our hands full and we have to come to play ever y match.” Donigan believes Iona presents dif ficulties the Knights (3-1) have not yet seen this season from any team they faced. “Against Drexel, I thought they were a
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RU welcomes No. 5 ’Cuse amid slump BY JOSH BAKAN CORRESPONDENT
The Rutgers field hockey team looks to end its four-game FIELD HOCKEY losing streak today against Syracuse. RUTGERS AT But that will be SYRACUSE difficult against the TONIGHT, 5 P.M. No. 5 Orange. The Scarlet Knights showed their ability to keep up with elite teams this year despite their recent losing ways, proving their worth in a 2-1 overtime loss Saturday against No. 10 New Hampshire. The Wildcats put the game away with a goal two minutes into overtime, but head coach Liz Tchou said that if the Knights can learn to finish those games, they could see a different result in Syracuse, N.Y.
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Senior back Christie Morad (left) should have her hands full tonight against No. 5 Syracuse, which averages 2.6 goals per game through its first five contests.
With the Rutgers women’s soccer team’s non-conference schedule wrapped up, so too is the first phase of WOMEN’S SOCCER a long and arduous regular season. VILLANOVA AT Phase two starts RUTGERS tonight, when the TONIGHT, 7:30 P.M. Scarlet Knights welcome Villanova to Yurcak Field to open their Big East slate. “We look at the season in segments, and this is the second segment,” said head coach Glenn Crooks. “We’re done with our independent schedule, and we’ve done pretty well. We’ve made progress, and now it’s on to the Big East Conference regular season schedule.” That progress is something Crooks preaches as the season wears on, and there are certainly early indications of the team’s growth. The Knights’ (5-2) only two losses this season occurred on the road against ranked opponents — No. 18 Boston College and No. 4 UCLA — by one-goal margins. And defensively, the Knights make it tough for opponents to score, allowing teams just 9.4 shots and .57 goals per contest. Those statlines helped turn in two consecutive shutouts for the Knights last weekend against a pair of Ivy League opponents, but duplicating them tonight against Villanova will be all but easy. The Wildcats (4-2-2) scored at least three goals in as many games this season and average nearly two per game heading to Piscataway. “We just have to be really focused this weekend on the little details that we need to pay attention to,” said junior back Shannon Woeller. “We need to just keep focusing on those small things, and everything will come together the way it has been.” But the other side of the field is where question marks pop up. The Knights str uggled to score of late, notching only two goals in the past three games. Sophomore forward Jonelle Filigno, who leads the Knights with five goals and 11 points this season, is miles ahead of the nearest teammate on the stat sheet. But even she hit a small rut since her historic Aug. 29 hat trick against Fordham. Although the Mississauga, Canada, native scored on a game-winning penalty shot against Yale on Sunday, it marked her first goal in four games. Behind Filigno stands a two-way tie in points between freshman for ward Amy Pietrangelo and junior for ward Stefanee Pace, with Pace besting her rookie teammate by two goals to one. But statistically the Knights’ attack is topheavy, evident in the shot distribution from the top three players downward. Filigno leads the team with 30 shots while Pace and Pietrangelo tie with 10, making the trio the only players on the team with doubledigit shot attempts. While some may view the offense as a trouble spot, Pietrangelo sees the Knights’ attack as deep and explosive. “We’re all working really hard, and we have a big pool of attackers that the coaches can choose from,” Pietrangelo said. “I think we’re all really fighting for the spot because we want to have a chance to play in this game.” Rutgers managed two victories last weekend despite scoring only two goals, leading to five votes in the latest NSCAA Coaches’ Poll. Crooks embraced the national recognition and said he is happy when Rutgers earns the attention nationally.
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