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The Rutgers men’s soccer team tied its non-conference matchup with Adelphi last night despite a hat trick from sophomore forward Kene Eze.

Students hold vigil on Douglass campus to remember 9/11 BY ANASTASIA MILLICKER ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Lit candles marked the way toward remembrance last night during the “Never Forget Candlelight Memorial” on the back lawn of Woodbur y Commons-Bunting Cobb on Douglass campus. The ceremony, organized by the resident assistants and Peer Academic Leaders (PALs) in Woodbury Commons-Bunting Cobb, featured key speaker Ron Miskoff and student speaker Sarah Morrison, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. Morrison brought with her The Scarlet Tribute, a flag comprised of students’ handprints, making its second appearance on campus.

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Eric Alterman, a columnist for The Nation and professor at Brooklyn College, talks about the lack of objectivity in today’s mainstream media yesterday in the Busch Campus Center Multipurpose Room.

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Columnist gives insight on media bias BY ALEKSI TZATZEV CORRESPONDENT

Opening with a cor rection from “media is” to “media are,” Eric Alterman gave a lecture on media bias and the state of American media last night at the Busch Campus Center to about 20 students. “Media bias is a big problem,” said Alterman, a professor of journalism and English at Brooklyn College, during the lecture sponsored by the Rutgers University Programming Association. “It is one of many big problems that we have with our media today.” Alterman, who is also a columnist for The Nation and numerous

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other online publications, spoke about the plurality of media and its many dif ferent facets, from its creation today and how it is has turned into a largely political factor. “The media are an enormous amalgam of lots of dif ferent kinds of animals,” he said. “They are so different from each other, and there are so many of them that you can say almost anything about the media and it will be true.” Alterman made sure to dif ferentiate between the journalists’ individual viewpoints and their final products — many of them turning objectivity into a detriment. He pointed to Bar r y Goldwater’s 1964 presidential election loss to L yndon B. Johnson, a

liberal, as a turning point for conser vative media. “The conser vatives said to themselves something that was true,” he said. “We are never going to turn this countr y into the conser vative countr y we think it ought to be. … We need to tur n the media around before we turn the countr y around.” In the wake of this transformation, conservatives invested in think tanks that could rival the presumed-liberal media outlets such as NBC, ABC or CBS, he said. “This pressure hassled the mainstream media to report their old ideas as if they were new ideas and to police

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Two women get their hair washed before a cut at Indigo Hair Salon Monday to raise money for needy families. For the full story, see PAGE 5.

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Protests continue after Deloatch’s death BY AMY ROWE

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A group of about 50 New Brunswick residents continued to protest incidents of alleged police brutality yesterday, following the shooting last Thursday of 47-year-old Barry Deloatch involving the New Brunswick Police Department. The protests, which began outside City Hall Thursday, continued ever y day since the shooting, but moved to the intersection of Throop Avenue and Handy Street and took on a mobilized route around the downtown area. Protestors walked from Handy Street to Commercial Avenue, interfering with traffic while walking in the middle of the street. They held signs that said, “Change the Whole Administration” and “Why are we the only city with no police layoffs? Corruption!” “We apologize for inconveniencing anyone, but we’ve been inconvenienced for 30 years,” said Tormel Pittman, a New Brunswick resident, through a megaphone to those in cars stopped on the street.

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Tormel Pittman, a New Brunswick resident, speaks on a megaphone advocating against police brutality while protesters block traffic yesterday afternoon at the intersection of Commercial Avenue and George Street.

The protestors made their way to the intersection of Commercial Avenue and George Street, where they stopped for about 15 minutes and arranged themselves to block traf fic from all four corners. Sadie Rothenberg, a Mason Gross School of the Arts first-year student, said the protestors were very strategic.

“It makes a statement and draws attention to their cause,” she said. “I think it’s effective.” Aver y Whitted, also a Mason Gross School of the Arts first-year student, agreed the protest seemed well organized. “The way they’ve arranged themselves is really smar t, people can’t

ignore them,” he said. In response to car horns honking in the protest’s direction, Pittman advised patience. “Your dinner might be a little cold, but my brother Barry didn’t make it home,” he said.

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RU Press joins forces to publish scholars BY KIERSTEN ZINNIKAS CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Rutgers University Press, in collaboration with four other university presses, is working on publishing first-time scholarly authors. The programs are part of the American Literatures Initiative (ALI), a five-year, $1,000,000 grant sponsored by the Mellon Foundation that focuses on publishing first-time scholarly pieces in American literature, said Marlie Wasserman, director of RU Press. RU Press applied for the grant alongside other university presses at Fordham University, the University of Virginia, Temple University and New York University. “They really allowed us to apply at a time of great turmoil and uncer tainty,” Wasserman said. The publishing industr y has been experiencing a dif ficult time publishing material due to a lack of funding, she said. The ALI grant helps alleviate this problem by supplying funding to these universities. “The Mellon Foundation thought this was a wor thy project for them to devote a lot of money to because publishing in general is in crisis,” said Katie Keeran, associate editor of RU Press. The grant supplies funding used to fund works of literary scholarship that might otherwise not have found a market. RU Press is working on publishing a book concerning transatlantic literature as part of the series, Keeran said. Work by a University scholar has yet to be published as part of the series, but at least one scholar has been published by one of the other university presses, she said. The collaboration of the university presses began with a joint desire to acquire a financial means to publish more books. “We had to use our networks to come together to figure out who would be interested in publishing more books in liter-

ar y studies,” Wasserman said. Wasserman said the collaboration is helpful because it provides a central place or person who is in charge of the copyediting and typesetting aspects of publication. Each individual press is responsible for selecting which manuscripts will be published, she said. Presses will also collaborate advertising efforts, Wasserman said. At the end of the five-year period, there will be 125 books published collectively by the universities involved. Although Wasserman said this collaboration is important because it is innovative, it is also only a small part of RU Press. When picking books for the series, RU Press tries to publish books that have larger cultural implications, Keeran said. They also publish books in a variety of other disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, criminology, human rights, American studies and Asian American studies. They are in the process of acquiring manuscripts about higher education studies, she said. RU Press is also taking other steps to combat the publishing crisis. Wasserman said every book RU Press puts out in print is also published in an e-book format. Although the means of book publishing and the format of books may be changing to suit the times, there are depar tments within RU Press that do not feel the pressure as heavily, said Elizabeth Scarpelli, assistant RU Press director and sales and marketing director. “This is a transition time for marketing people,” she said. Her depar tment is not creating separate marketing ef for ts to publicize e-books, but is searching for ways to include e-books into its existing advertising campaigns. Customers are much more money conscious because of the economy, Scarpelli said. “We have to look at how the customer is going to purchase books,” she said.

EQUINE CENTER KICKS OFF HORSE SPONSORING CAMPAIGN The Rutgers Equine Science Center in New Brunswick launched a “Horse Hero” campaign this month to provide sponsoring initiatives for horses in its research herd. The initiative aims to purchase grain, hay, bedding and veterinary care for the 23 mares, according to a Rutgers Equine Science Center press release. Karyn Malinowski, Equine Science Center director, said the center calls its horses “heroes” because they are essential to their scientific research. “They contribute to knowledge of horse health by assisting equine scientists and students to advance the well-being and performance of all horses and the equine industry,” Malinowski said in the release. Sponsorship levels for “Horse Hero” include “Super Hero” for $2,000, “Champion” for $1,000 and “Hero” for $500, and sponsors receive updated information about their horses. Most of the center’s mares were former racehorses, and this initiative gives them a chance to give back to the campus community, Malinowski said in the release. “The Equine Science Center provides a rewarding second career for these horses, one in which they can give back to the entire equine industry and teach eager students about the science of horses,” she said in the release. — Reena Diamante

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Marc Aronson, a lecturer in the Department of Library and Information Sciences, speaks on a panel about Internet censorship Monday at Alexander Library on the College Avenue campus.

Students rethink book bans, free speech BY ELAINA FORMICELLA CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Banned Books Week started Monday as the University tries to raise awareness in the 20th century of banned books and censorship. Although technology progresses, times change and citizens of the world become more open minded, there are still book bans and censorship in the new millennium, said Har r y Glazer, senior public relations specialist at the Alexander Librar y on the College Avenue campus. “Research conducted by the American Librar y Association indicates that in 2010 alone there were 348 reported challenges to books on librar y bookshelves or in school curricula across the countr y,” he said. Glazer said this could happen anywhere in the United States, from Alabama to California, and in towns near the University. In Monroe Township, N.J., school of ficials removed Haruki Murakami’s best seller “Nor wegian Wood” from a 10th grade honors English summer reading list because a parent complained, he said. John Pavlik, a professor in the depar tment of Journalism and Media Studies, said banned books and censorship issues should make students at the University more aware of their First Amendment rights. “Students should recognize the privilege of living in a socie-

ty where relatively few books are banned and subsequently the responsibility to take ideas seriously, not just to waste time on frivolity, but to tr y to get at the truth in their studies and in their lives,” said Marc Aronson, a lecturer in the Depar tment of

“Students should recognize the privilege of living in a society where relatively few books are banned.” MARC ARONSON Department of Library and Information Sciences Lecturer

Librar y and Information Sciences. Glazer said the University’s libraries strongly espouse intellectual freedom as par t of a state institution. He believes the right to express and access information, even if it may be unorthodox or unpopular, comes with democracy. Aronson said it is important that we question, press and examine where and why a government would block access to certain ideas or creations. “One of the most important aspects of college is that it is a place where students encounter ideas [they] have never seen before,” he said. “We also need to

think about those times [when] someone — a government, a school, a teacher — tries to hinder that exploration.” The University hosted an event about Internet censorship Monday, which brought awareness to rising issues of global censorship, Glazer said. Aronson, a panelist at the event, said books are no longer confined to print, and when talking about these issues, it is impor tant to look online. “Millions of books are now in e-book format and now available via the Internet,” Pavlik said. “If those books are banned online, they are banned to potentially billions of readers around the world.” Censorship can happen at the publisher, where some books, especially controversial ones, might not make the cut, said Kevin Mulcahy, a librarian at the Alexander Library. “[One] might not find a publisher and thus be ef fectively silenced. That of course is the revolutionar y possibility of the internet and social media,” he said. “People with ideas can bypass the authority of government and media executives and reach an audience.” Aronson said students should remember that banned books infringe upon First Amendment rights and should always be aware of this. “[Looking] at books and sites that have been banned opens our eyes to where lines are drawn, why, and when we need to fight back,” he said.

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VIGIL: Old Queen’s Chorale performs during 9/11 ceremony continued from front “The flag has come full circle back to me,” she said. “The campus is united through the flag … the project was done 10 years ago for 9/11 and we want to commemorate that with this flag.” The flag will be given to the University as a gift on behalf of the student body, Morrison said. Devinn Lamber t, coordinator of the event and a School of Ar ts and Sciences junior, said she wanted to commemorate an event that af fected many people on campus by bringing them together during a candlelight memorial. “We are donating donations tonight to the Voices of September 11th charity, [which is] based in Connecticut [and] has their main office in New Brunswick, and we wanted to give back right here,” she said. Stephanie McRae, hall director of Woodbury Commons, said the memorial took about a month to plan and involved a lot of collaboration between hall directors and PALs. “One of the resident assistants, Devinn, decided she wanted to do something for the 10th memorial of 9/11,” she said. “We contacted a professor to speak, we contacted charities and we decided to do a candlelight ceremony.” Kathrena Aljallad, resident assistant at Bunting Cobb, said the event was held on a Tuesday to honor Tuesday’s Children, a 9/11 charity. “We wanted to have it sometime in September and we wanted to have it on a Tuesday, so it just happened to fall on this date,” said Aljallad, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences sophomore. The Old Queen’s Chorale performed two songs, “The Human Heart” and “Hold Me, Rock Me” with a moment of silence in between the pieces. “We do a lot of gigs around campus but this is a great memorial and we’re proud to be a part of it,” said Stephanie Kalebjian, a School of Arts and Sciences senior and president of the Old Queen’s Chorale.

BIAS: Financial pressures foster partiality, Alterman says continued from front themselves much better when it came to any story that could be considered biased,” he said. Alterman said media began to pull away from news and became much more an entertainment source. With the introduction of Fox News in 1996, viewers could view the world from a completely conser vative perspective 24/7, Alterman said. “Fox News is not really a news organization,” he said. “It is a political organization that pretends to be a news — [Fox News] is per fectly happy to make things up.” Alterman compared the financial success of Fox News to the losing business of The New York Times or Washington Post.

Miskoff, a professor in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies, gave a speech about his experience working with the “9/11 Student Journalism Project” and read selections from two of the students’ works. “It’s ironic in a bittersweet way, but on Sept. 11, 2011, the day so many people died, Pulitzer prizes were made,” he said. “I think the students in the ‘9/11 Project’ came to understand that when you arrive as journalists you get the feeling that your work can actually change something.” Miskoff said this was the first time many of the children involved, many of whom are now adults, spoke openly about their lost parent. “They showed us by example the personal horrors they endured, not the political speech … and the inane talk show speculation we hear so often,” he said. “The children of 9/11 turned out to be ordinary people in many ways who, in most cases, became extraordinary human beings.” Morrison interviewed a 27year-old man named Drew, who at the time of 9/11 was a senior in high school accepted on a Division III soccer scholarship to Southern College. “He was very upset, angry … but Drew kept his faith,” she said. “The thing that got me was how his mother’s body was never recovered and he said, ‘Why bother visiting cemeteries or gravesites? My mom’s body is in a dump somewhere.’” Morrison, whose stor y was featured on CNN, said the project helped her develop a thicker skin when tackling emotional subjects. “We were definitely wellprepped when we went into the interview. We had psychologists come to class and show us how to address the subject,” she said. “Drew didn’t cry during the interview but there were moments when it was tough.” Helene Puzio, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences sophomore, said the event held mixed feelings for her. “It’s been 10 years, and we’ve all been through it and felt its impact especially in North Jersey,” she said. “We all remember that day.” He said other media moguls, under financial pressure and by looking at Fox News’ success, have become less objective and more profit-oriented. “This is a strategy to stay alive,” he said. “To throw out the old rule book and just say, ‘We’re going to give the people what they want and that seems to be ideological, angr y news.’” To suppor t this demise of unbiased media, Alterman gave the example of the coverage of global warming by both sides of the media as well as the two sides of Congress. “If you are a journalist going into the 2005-or-so period, the repor ting on this would have been 50-50 [on the matter of whether global warming is manmade],” he said. Alterman said journalists no longer had it in their best interest to report the truth, but rather they stick to their audience and readers in terms of party lines.

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Nate Deloatch, brother of Barry Deloatch, holds up a sign in the middle of George Street yesterday during a continuing protest. Nate Deloatch said he would keep rallying for as long as it takes.

PROTESTS: Officals continue to investigate case continued from front Deloatch was shot during a foot chase with two New Brunswick police officers early Thursday morning, when he ran after being questioned with two other men. He died at 12:37 a.m. at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital from a bullet to his aorta, according to a statement from Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan. Investigators are still unsure whether Deloatch was unarmed, and are continuing the investigation. Those participating in the protests do not plan to stop any time soon, said Fahiym Torres, a New Brunswick resident and friend of Deloatch. “We’re definitely going to march every day. Once you start walking [away], the [police] start sweeping “A significant por tion of the media have decided that they don’t have a responsibility to figure out what is true,” he said. “There is no longer any independent arbiter voice.”

“The media have decided that they don’t have a responsibility to figure out what is true.” ERIC ALTERMAN Brooklyn College Professor

Alterman said people are no longer exposed to dif ferent sides, and a majority of them do not have the oppor tunity to receive unbiased news. “When you look at the media landscape today, you see

stuff under the rug,” he said. “It’s not just for Barry but anyone that gets pulled aside by the cops who need to meet their quotas.” Nate Deloatch, Barr y Deloatch’s brother, said he would keep protesting for his family. “I’m going to protest forever,” he said. “We’re going to do this until we get justice for my family and everyone else’s.”

Joe Czerniawksi, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, joined the protestors in a reaction against Deloatch’s shooting. “The fact of the matter is this kind of injustice has to stop,” he said.

Although the protest was not only in reaction to Deloatch’s death, many held signs with his face on them that read, “Unarmed man ‘Gene’ Barry Deloatch shot and killed by the New Brunswick Police Department.” The mobile protest continued down George Street, blocking intersections of streets along the way with protestors shouting, “No Justice? No Peace!” “We have a corrupt system,” Pittman said. “If you want to prosper in New Brunswick, you must pay to play. We live in a city where we get bullied by police officers.” The protestors looped around the downtown area and made their way back to their star ting point at Throop Avenue and Handy Street, where a candlelit vigil was planned at night. Protests are scheduled for every day of the week except Sunday, according to a sign posted at the starting point.

the old-fashioned media that didn’t get things right all the time. But it tried to weigh all side of an issue and explain each side, and you see that shrinking” he said. But Alterman admitted there was a liberal media, and that he was par t of it, but he also said that media is small and under-funded. “The other side is ver y power ful and incredibly well-funded and getting better and better at it,” he said. Students had the oppor tunity to ask questions to a panel of speakers including Bill Bodkin, a Rutgers College alumnus, and John Pavlik, professor and chair of the School of Communication and Information. For many students, the subject of Alterman’s lecture related to their journalism classes. “I found out about this through the journalism depar tment, and I for warded it to my

professor, and she thought it would be a good idea for us to attend because we were talking about media bias in class,” said Cour tney Davis, a School of Ar ts and Sciences junior. Lisa-Anna Migliore, a School of Ar ts and Sciences junior, attends the same class, which discusses social movements in the media and how new media influences that. “It is nice to hear from journalists who have actually experienced social movements and protests,” she said. John Connelly, a School of Ar ts and Sciences junior, said that Alterman was a columnist he has always looked up to and reads his work regularly. “In most mainstream media, there really is this what he calls ‘a cult objectivity’ where the act of tr ying to be objective leads you to shut out cer tain voices,” said Connelly, the Rutgers University Student Assembly vice president.

“We’re definitely going to march every day.” FAHIYM TORRES New Brunswick Resident

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Salon offers discount cuts to raise funds for needy families BY CHELSEA GRAU CONTRIBUTING WRITER

On their day off, Indigo Hair Salon employees showed up to work on Monday to give haircuts to customers donating $19 to the business’ annual “Winter Wonderland” event. The event, called Indigo’s “10th Annual Cut-A-Thon” will use the customers’ proceeds toward the “Winter Wonderland” event, in which they will adopt an impoverished New Brunswick family during the holidays and provide them with food and other essential needs, said Fawn Kritzler, co-owner of the salon. The salon raised more than $2,500 this year, according to the business’ official Facebook page. By collecting proceeds from the “Cut-A-Thon,” the salon’s staff members decided to combine the two annual events this year in hopes of adopting five families, Kritzler said. “We always adopt families for ‘Winter Wonderland,’ but combining that tradition with the ‘CutA-Thon’ is making it bigger and more special,” she said. Salon co-owner Olivia Fenrow and stylist Stephanie Diaz both said the initiative was more personal this year because, unlike years past, everyone will see the faces of those they help. “It’s a great thing — to be able to see the results of our work,” Diaz said. The first Cut-A-Thon took place in September 2001, and all proceeds

went to the American Red Cross, Kritzler said. Now the salon uses an entire year to prepare for the “Winter Wonderland” event. The staff at the salon sacrifices a lot of their free time to get ready for the event, Fenrow said. Emails were sent out to all of their clients, fliers were posted around town, appearances were made on local radio stations and information was faxed to local companies. Their efforts successfully attracted public attention with a line of people down the street waiting to get haircuts. Within the first hour alone, the salon made $500, Kritzler said. One patron of the salon, School of Arts and Sciences senior Aleksandra Tereshonkova, said while she’s been a client of Indigo for three years, she was never able to make it to a “Cut-AThon” before. “I’ve been putting off getting a haircut for the past three weeks so I could participate in the ‘CutA-Thon,’” she said. Tereshonkova said she has a strong interest in community involvement and has been looking forward to the event. Many local businesses donated to “Winter Wonderland,” including Jersey Subs, Bagel Nosh, Clydz Restaurant, George Street Ale House and the State Theatre, Fenrow said. Both Kritzler and Fenrow admitted they have a strong interest in community service and this interest helped them found the “Cut-a-Thon.” They previously worked at salons that donated their time

NEW BRUNSWICK CHURCH DONATES MONEY TO GUESTS DUE TO ECONOMIC STRUGGLES While churchgoers usually donate money after a sermon, this past Sunday the Liquid Church passed a basket around for all members of service to take money out of instead. More than 2,300 members of the Liquid Church gathered last Sunday in New Brunswick, Morristown and Nutley and removed money from the same basket they normally put cash in, according to an nj.com article. Overall, a total of $30,000 was given out by church leaders in envelopes. Each envelope had either $10, $20 or $50, and church attendees were asked to pick out only one envelope. Church leaders said in the article they were inspired to give back to their believers in light of the tough economy. People who were in financial trouble were asked to keep their money, whereas those who were not were told to donate their cash to some sort of charity. “Right now in Washington, they are debating another $400 billion stimulus to get the economy going,” said lead pastor Tim Lucas in the article. “What we’re doing as a church is really exploring an alternative solution.” People all around the room were abuzz with energy, said Angela Kubisky of West Milford, who picked up $10, in the article. As envelopes passed around the room, many people had different ideas of how to use their cash. One woman said she would use her $50 to bake a cake and sell it so she can use the profit to feed impoverished people in Paterson, N.J. Anthony DeMeo and his wife both collected $20 envelopes from the basket but decided to use the money at a charity poker game, where the proceeds would go to a homeless shelter, according to the article. “Believe me, I have two kids and one salary. We all could use it,” DeMeo said in the article. DeMeo ultimately decided to give the money away. Church leaders also held a 99-cent-a-gallon gas giveaway, as well as a “free” flea market in which parishioners donated items and other goods that disadvantaged families were allowed to buy. The Liquid Church, which first began as a Bible class in 1999 before evolving into its own church in 2007, held services in local hotels and schools in the past. — Ankita Panda

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Indigo Hair Salon stylist Stephanie Diaz cuts customer Jackie Ash’s hair at the “10th Annual Cut-A-Thon” Monday on Easton Avenue. The salon plans to donate proceeds to the annual “Winter Wonderland” event.

and energy toward helping those in need, and Kritzler said she is proud to carry on a tradition of service. To prepare for “Winter Wonderland,” Indigo will be presenting families with baskets full of basic necessities — household cleaning products, hygienic products, canned

goods and school supplies, in addition to the gifts that will be given to the family, she said. Each family member can request a gift that fulfills his or her wants or needs, Kritzler said. In years past, kids asked for comfor ters or coats and parents generally requested silver ware.

“The kids, their wants aren’t toys,” she said. “One family had one fork that they all shared. The things that they don’t have are things we take for granted every day.” Kritzler said the salon will accept donations for “Winter Wonderland” until December and hopes to reach its goal of $4,000.

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CALENDAR SEPTEMBER Comedian Jim Breur, featured in Special Attraction, Comedy Central, O&A, Stern, Sirius and Half Baked will be performing at the Stress Factory Comedy Club on Church Street. The show begins at 8 p.m. and will feature his “More Than Me” routine. Tickets cost $16 and may be purchased at the box office or online at stressfactory.com.

The New Brunswick Jazz Project’s Camille Thurman 4Tet will perform at the Hyatt Regency on Albany Street from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. with free admission. The 4Tet features Camille Thurman singing and playing saxophone and flute, Enoch Smith Jr. on keyboard, Nimrod Speaks on bass and Corey Rawls on drums. For more information, visit nbjp.org. The New Brunswick Library Board of Trustees will meet at 5 p.m. on 60 Livingston Ave. to discuss the latest interests of the community that are at hand. Members of the Board of Trustees are responsible for promoting the New Brunswick Free Library to their community members, accepting and administering donations and gifts made toward bettering the library as well as finding other ways to acquire funding for the library. In addition, board members will discuss ideas to develop collections and exhibits, like painting galleries, to reflect the general interests of the New Brunswick community. Additionally board members are asking city residents to volunteer to assist them library services. For more information about the meeting, please call (732)-745-5108 or visit nbfpl.org.

The Metuchen Dance Center will hold a dance event at 8:30 p.m. on 395 Main St., Suite 7, Metuchen, where attendees will have the opportunity to learn and dance to the tune of American ballroom, Latin and Swing music. This event occurs every Fridays until Dec. 9 and is open to all. No partner is necessary to attend the event. For new learners, the center’s dance instructors will hold a complimentary introduction lesson. To participate, tickets cost $15 per person and can be purchased at (732)-549-2244. Group discounts are available.

OCTOBER

Garth Fagan Dance will perform its critically acclaimed show, which blends the Afro-Carribean, classical ballet and experimental post-modern styles of dance, tonight at 8 p.m. at the State Theatre, on 15 Livingston Ave. The company, led by Tony Award-winning choreographer Garth Fagan, was reviewed by The New York Times as “unfailingly original” and received the New York Governor’s Arts Award. Tickets for the performance range from $27 to $47 and may be purchased online or at the box office. For more information, visit statetheatrenj.org Catoberfest at the Cat Sanctuar y in Ringoes will be hosting a festival from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday that will benefit Tabby’s Place to rescue cats from hopeless situations. The free event takes place at 1100 Us Highway 202, Ringoes, N.J. Events include a silent auction, an open house and tours of Tabby’s Place, free classes on cat and dog behavior with Nancy Meyer and Pia Silvani and low-cost microchipping for cats and dogs. The first 500 guests will receive free goodie bags and mini catnip plants. The silent auction will include more than 100 items including getaways to Sedona, Ariz., and Cape Cod, as well as, Broadway tickets, sports memorabilia and fine arts. People who cannot attend the event can bid on items online at biddingforgood.com/auction/AuctionHome.action?auctionId=1346 47215 starting Sept. 12 and ending before the start of Catoberfest. Maddalenas Cheesecake and Catering will provide refreshments, and WCTC The Voice of Central NJ will be broadcasting live. For more information visit tabbysplace.org, or contact info@tabbysplace.org or (908)-237-5300.

The acclaimed Russian Mariinsky Orchestra will perform Tchaikovsky-composed symphony at 8 p.m. at the State Theatre, on 15 Livingston Ave. The orchestra’s artistic director Valery Gergiev is one the most sought after conductors in the world. Celebrating its 228th anniversary, the orchestra is one of the oldest musical institutions in Russia. According to the London Times, “The orchestra moves as if with a single mind and always with purposeful passion.” Tickets range from $31 to $51 and may be purchased online. For more information, visit statetheatrenj.org.

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Obama presses Congress to pass bill THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Participants in the “Occupy Wall Street” protest gather in a park in the Financial District near Wall Street. The protest is ongoing.

Police arrest protestors for disorderly conduct THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — About 80 people were arrested Saturday as demonstrators who were camped out near the New York Stock Exchange marched through lower Manhattan, police said. The “Occupy Wall Street” protest is entering its second week. Demonstrators said Saturday they were protesting against bank bailouts and the mortgage crisis. Some also held signs decrying Georgia’s execution of Troy Davis, who was put to death Wednesday for the 1989 slaying of an off-duty Savannah police officer. At Manhattan’s Union Square, police tried to corral the demonstrators using orange plastic netting. Some of the arrests were filmed and activists

posted the videos online. One video appears to show officers using pepper spray on women who already were cordoned off, another shows officers handcuffing a man after pulling him up off the ground, blood trickling down his face. Police say the arrests were mostly for blocking traf fic. Charges include disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. But one demonstrator was charged with assaulting a police officer. Police say the of ficer involved suf fered a shoulder injur y. Protest spokesman Patrick Bruner criticized the police response as “exceedingly violent” and said the demonstrators sought to remain peaceful. A police spokesman had no comment about the videos or the arrests.

DENVER — Capping a campaign trip for his economic plan and his re-election, President Barack Obama on Tuesday tried to keep pressure on Congress to consider his nearly $450 billion jobs bill, saying it had been two weeks since he sent the bill to Capitol Hill “and now I want it back.” “I want it back, passed, so I can sign this bill and start putting people back to work,” Obama said from Abraham Lincoln high School, a site chosen to emphasize the education elements of his bill. The president tailored his comments to his audience, saying the school’s science labs were built decades ago and schools around the country need updated facilities. Yet his broader speech was nearly identical to ones he has given around the country. There has been no clear sign that his campaign for his bill is winning over Republicans in Congress whose support he needs. Obama’s spokesman, Jay Carney, told reporters the White House hopes members of Congress are hearing from their constituents about the need to act. Obama made that pitch himself to

the audience of several thousand people, saying: “Every one of you can help make it happen by sending a message to Congress, a simple message: ‘Pass this jobs bill.’” Obama’s bill would spend about $25 billion to modernize public schools. The White House said Colorado’s share could support up to 3,400 jobs. Overall, his jobs plan is a mix of payroll tax cuts and

“I want it back, passed, so I can sign this bill and start putting people back to work.” BARACK OBAMA President

spending that he says could be paid for by requiring wealthier individuals, families and companies to pay more. The president’s three-day trip out West included seven fundraisers in Washington state and California in advance of an important fundraising deadline.

With the economy stuck and unemployment high as the 2012 campaign heats up, Obama has been reminding supporters that he never told them governing would be easy. His own chief political adviser, David Axelrod, underscored that reality Tuesday, when he cast the president’s re-election bid as “a titanic struggle.” With the tough political landscape in mind, Obama has used his West Coast swing to get in some shots at the GOP presidential field. “I urge all of you to watch some of these Republican debates. It’s a different vision about who we are, who we stand for,” Obama told a Hollywood fundraiser on Monday. Republicans have panned Obama’s West Coast swing, saying he has been more interested in saving his own job than creating new jobs for Americans. And Republican National Committee spokeswoman Kirsten Kukowski said Obama was “treating the West Coast as an ATM for his campaign coffers as he makes his way toward the first billiondollar campaign.” Obama was flying back to Washington Tuesday night.

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President Barack Obama announced at Abraham Lincoln High School yesterday that he hopes the public will send messages to Congress asking them to pass his nearly $450 billion jobs bill.

Portugal forces capture NJ prison escapee after 40 years THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWARK, N.J. — A convicted killer who escaped a New Jersey prison in 1970 and hijacked a U.S. airliner two years later while dressed as a priest has been captured in Portugal after more than 40 years as a fugitive, authorities said Tuesday. George Wright was arrested Monday by Portuguese authorities in a town near Lisbon at the request of the U.S. government, the head of the FBI’s New Jersey office said. Wright was convicted of the 1962 murder of a gas station owner in Wall, N.J. Authorities say Wright and three associates had already committed multiple armed robberies on Nov. 23, 1962, when he and another man shot and killed Walter Patterson, a decorated World War II veteran and father of two, during a robbery of the Collingswood Esso gas station in Wall. He received a 15- to 30-year sentence and had served eight

years when he and three other men escaped from the Bayside State Prison in Leesburg, N.J., on Aug. 19, 1970. The FBI says Wright became affiliated with an underground militant group, the Black Liberation Army, and in 1972 he and his associates hijacked a Delta Air Lines flight from Detroit to Miami — and on to Algeria. The group lived as a “communal family” together in Detroit before the hijacking, according to Associated Press reports at the time. News reports said Wright, then 29, dressed as a priest and used the alias the Rev. L. Burgess to board Delta Air Lines Flight 841 on July 31, 1972, accompanied by three men, two women and three small children. When the plane landed at the Miami airport, the hijackers demanded a $1 million ransom — the highest of its kind at the time — to free the 86 people on board. After an FBI agent delivered the money,

the passengers were released, according to AP accounts. The hijackers then forced the plane to Boston, where an international navigator was taken aboard, and the group flew on to Algeria, where the hijackers sought asylum. The group was taken in by Eldridge Cleaver, the American writer and activist, who had been permitted by Algeria’s Socialist government to open an of fice of the Black Panther Movement in that countr y in 1970, after the Algerian president at the time professed sympathy for what he viewed as worldwide liberation struggles. Algerian officials returned the plane and the money to the United States at the request of the American government, and briefly detained the hijackers before letting them stay. Coverage of the hijackers’ stay in Algeria said their movements were restricted, and the president ignored their calls for asy-

lum and requests to return them the ransom money. Wright’s associates were eventually tracked down, arrested, tried and convicted in Paris in 1976. Wright was the last remaining fugitive, and his case was among the top priorities when the New York-New Jersey Fugitive Task Force was formed in 2002, according to Michael Schroeder, a spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service. The Department of Corrections brought along all its old escape cases nine years ago when the task force began operating, Schroeder said. The investigators started the case anew, he said, and for nine years never took a prolonged break from working on it. They looked at reports from the 1970s, interviewed Wright’s victims and the pilots of the plane he hijacked. They had ageenhanced sketches made and tried to track down any communications he may have made with family in the United States.

The address in Portugal was one of several on a list of places they wanted to check out. But Schroeder said there was nothing about it that made it seem especially promising. “It was another box to get checked, so to speak,” he said. That changed last week, when details started falling into place with the help of authorities there. “They have a national ID registry,” he said. “They pulled that. That confirmed his print matched the prints with the DOC. The sketch matched the picture on his ID card.” By the weekend, U.S. authorities were on a plane to Portugal. And Monday, Portuguese police staking out his home found him. Schroeder said he has not been told what, if anything, Wright said when he was caught. U.S. authorities are trying to have him sent back to New Jersey. Until then, he said, it’s not clear whether U.S. law enforcers will be able to interview him.

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EDITORIALS

Recognize legality of school’s new policy

hile it may seem like an odd move to the members of our liberal-leaning University, the administration of Catholic University of America (CUA) has decided to institute a same-sex residence hall policy. Predictably enough, the new policy has sparked some criticism of the school, but the strongest outrage has not come from CUA’s own community. Rather, that distinction belongs to John Banzhaf, a lawyer and law professor at George Washington University, who has mounted a lawsuit against the school. He claims that CUA has violated the District of Columbia’s Human Rights Act on the grounds that the single-sex residence halls are a clear case of gender discrimination. However, Banzhaf’s claims are a little too radical and miss the point — this isn’t gender discrimination. This is a private Catholic school acting according to its own religious principles. Banzhaf’s lawsuit would have certainly had solid ground to stand on if CUA were a public school. But, like the university’s name suggests, it is not a government institution: It is a private Catholic school. As such, the school has a right to act according to religious principles, so long as those principles do not violate human rights. In this case, it is pretty clear that they do not. Critics like Banzhaf are quick to throw the “separate but equal” tag at the school for creating same-sex residence halls. However, that accusation does not stick because CUA has legitimate reasons, according to its religious principles, for the segregation. According to CUA president John Garvey, two of the major reasons for the decision were concerns about students binge drinking and engaging in premarital sex. Aside from the fact that these activities are against Catholic doctrine, neither one is a human right. CUA, then, has every right to take steps to discourage these activities. This includes instituting same-sex residence halls. Banzhaf would do well to realize that his accusations are erroneous and call off the lawsuit. Besides, as a lawyer, aren’t there more important things for him to be worrying about? As of now, he’s raising false red flags and playing the alarmist. We have enough people doing that these days. We don’t need another one.

Bill serves parochial, public communities

bill sponsored by Sen. Ray Lesniak, D-Union, which allows failing parochial schools to change into public charter schools instead of closing down altogether, passed the State Senate yesterday. Obviously, if a school chose to follow this route, it would have to remove religious aspects of its curricula, do away with religious symbols in classrooms and possibly change its name, if the name in question involves a reference to a religious figure or concept. We think Lesniak’s bill is a great idea, as it tackles two problems at once. On the one hand, it offers help to parochial schools, many of which are having trouble maintaining high enough enrollment rates to keep themselves afloat. At the same time, it also follows along the lines of Gov. Chris Christie’s push for the institution of charter schools as an alternative to struggling, under-funded public schools. The bill, of course, would not allow just any struggling parochial school to save itself by converting into a charter school. Only schools that perform well, but are situated in communities where the public schools are not up to snuff, have the option to become charter schools. In today’s economy, it has become hard for many families to pay the high tuition rates of parochial schools. As a result, many schools that are otherwise top-notch have found themselves on rocky footing. This bill is a way to prevent the utter shutdown of these schools. We need all the good schools we can get, charter or otherwise. As stated above, the bill does not only serve the parochial school community. It also serves the general public by turning these schools into public charter schools, which more people would have access to. Similarly, since the schools must be located in places where the public school system is in need of repair, these parochial-turned-charter schools can fill the great voids which are causing children all over New Jersey to suffer due to poor access to quality educations. While some members of the Catholic community in particular are opposed to the bill, saying that changing parochial schools into charter schools takes away their Catholic value, we can’t help but assert that such transitions have the potential to serve the greater good of the community at large. Isn’t that in line with Catholic values?

QUOTE OF THE DAY “One family had one fork that they all shared. The things that they don’t have are things we take for granted every day.” Co-owner of Indigo Hair Salon Fawn Kritzler on the families the salon adopts during “Winter Wonderland”

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US focuses on wrong issues

increase consumption and he Great Recession aggregate demand because of 2007-2009 may be people are more willing to save over in name, but its extra money than spend it dureffects still linger as the MATT KUCHTYAK ing severe downturns. Finally, economy continues to slump. the prevailing Republican conThe unemployment rate hovers above 9 percent and projections for economic sensus to cut spending in an attempt to balance the budggrowth remain uninspiring. Experts have warned of a et and begin to tackle the debt problem will certainly not potential “double-dip” recession that would place fur- summon a confidence fairy to get the economy back on ther Americans out of work and cost the economy track and spur business investment and hiring. This irrational desire for fiscal austerity measures hundreds of millions of dollars in lost potential output. Despite being in the position to solve the eco- shows that many of this country’s leaders, mainly nomic crisis, however, policy leaders around the Republicans, do not understand depression economworld seem increasingly focused on the wrong ics. Many have argued that government spending will issues. Discussions of deficits, debt and inflation have take away from private spending, but this argument carried the day while concerns over demand, credit breaks down when a country is not at full employavailability and jobs seem to have been placed on the ment. Another popular argument is that Obama’s back burner, as leaders seem intent on forgetting the stimulus plan was a failure; however, astute economists such as Paul Krugman have correctly argued lessons of the Great Depression. On Wednesday of last week, the Federal Reserve from the start that the bill was not large enough and announced an unconventional plan to buy $400 mil- did not include enough government spending to stalion worth of long-term Treasury securities. This was bilize aggregate demand. Either Republican leaders done in an attempt to lower interest rates on mort- truly do not know what is going on with the economy gage loans and other forms of credit to spur invest- or they are trying to keep it depressed to enhance their 2012 election hopes. ment, thereby increasing aggregate Backing off on jobs-creating govdemand and potentially creating jobs “I am not simply ernment spending now in favor of in the process. the deficit and the debt Federal Reserve Chairman Ben accusing American slashing would be reminiscent of mistakes Bernanke, a student of the Great Depression, moved the Fed to act decileaders of following made in 1936-1938. At a time when the worst of the Great Depression was sively in the months after the beginincompetent over, policymakers decided to reign in ning of the recession, and he has urged the bank to continue doing economic policies.” expansionary fiscal and monetary policy, thus leading to a double-dip receseverything possible to improve the sion. If federal government leaders flow of credit in the economy. However, after traditional bond-buying pushed interest decide to cut government spending and members of rates down to the zero bound, monetary policy became the Federal Reserve Board of Governors decide to basically ineffective. Two subsequent rounds of an start worrying about inflation instead of unemployuntraditional program called “quantitative easing,” or ment, they would be making some of the same misprinting money to buy financial assets, proved to be takes that policymakers made during the worst downturn in our nation’s history. extremely divisive on the political front. Let me be clear that I am not simply accusing The Federal Reserve’s actions were the correct decisions to make in the face of a severe recession and job- American leaders of following incompetent ecoless recovery, but the bank and Bernanke, specifically, nomic policies. The problem is, instead, global in have become the punching bags for GOP candidates and nature. European leaders such as Chancellor other leading political figures. Texas Governor and pres- Angela Merkel of Germany and Prime Minister idential hopeful Rick Perry called the Fed’s tactics “trea- David Cameron of Britain have pushed for austerity sonous,” and Representative Ron Paul of Texas, another measures on that continent as countries such as presidential hopeful for 2012, has long questioned the Greece, Italy, Spain, Ireland and Portugal all have serious long-run fiscal imbalances. Although it will constitutionality of having a central bank. Leading American political figures on the right, as eventually be essential to address these deficit well as some on the left, have disputed not only these issues, as they will hinder long-term economic moves by the Federal Reserve, but also the prospect of growth, painful austerity measures imposed immemore government spending associated with President diately will only hinder a global economic recovery. Barack Obama’s new proposed jobs legislation. Critics Policy makers need to start addressing unemployhave continually challenged the validity of increased gov- ment now and worry about deficits later. As British ernment spending as the solution to the economic crisis, economist John Maynard Keynes once said, “In the failing to recognize that in a time such as this, no other long run we are all dead.” policy tools are effective. Monetary policy can be someMatt Kuchtyak is a School of Arts and Sciences what useful via alternative policy channels, but it loses its punch when interest rates are nearly zero — a scenario junior double majoring in economics and political scicalled the liquidity trap. Cutting taxes cannot alone ence with a minor in general history.

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NBPD should keep tighter control of protestors Letter SIMON GALPERIN

mourn the loss of Barr y Deloatch. I mourn the loss of any innocent man or guilty man. I mourn the loss of any black man or white man. I empathize with those whose humanity is shaken upon the taking of life just as I empathize with those who do not have the depth to be disturbed by the taking of life. I would stand alongside those who protest police misconduct in front of City Hall. I would stand alongside those seeking to bring attention to an unjust loss of life on any day in any reasonable place.

However, I could not stand alongside the demonstrators who protested Deloatch’s unlawful death on Monday at the intersection of George and New Streets. Ignoring traffic lights, that group of people stood and scowled at me while I was trying to make my way to class, despite communicating my solidarity. I cannot believe that a fellow citizen going about his or her day would be glared and poked fun at so maliciously by demonstrators who seemed aware that the police wouldn’t respond to any of that citizen’s phone calls. Coincidentally, that was the case. All of my calls went dismissed or met with responses like, “We have officers monitoring them,” “I don’t know if they have a

permit to protest,” “Just turn around and go another way,” “Would you like to talk to my supervisor? He’ll tell you the same thing ...” When has not enforcing

“I could not stand alongside the demonstrators who protested Deloatch’s unlawful death.” the law become an option? The New Brunswick Police Department (NBPD) did not enforce the rule of law and undermined public safety, openly allowing a main street to be blocked by

Daily review: laurels and darts

he Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education (RIBGHE) made a huge step forward for education reform Monday when it passed a policy that lets undocumented students pay in-state tuition at public colleges. Such a policy sends a laudable message to the public: If America is to be a land of opportunity, those opportunities should be open to as many people as possible. Some may argue that this measure lets undocumented immigrants “off the hook,” but those people should take into account the fact that eligible students must take the necessary steps to apply for legal status if they wish to pay instate tuition. We give the RIBGHE a laurel for their decision. *

For a long time, rumors of Gov. Chris Christie’s potential presidential bid have been circulating, even though Christie himself has repeatedly denied those rumors. Such rumors flared again Monday, when former Gov. Tom Kean told the National Review “the odds [of Christie running] are a lot better now than they were a couple weeks ago.” Yet again, the hope was false: while Christie himself didn’t extinguish the rumors this time, a source very close to him, his brother Todd Christie, did, saying that he was “sure that [Christie is] not going to run.” We dart Kean — and anyone else spreading the rumors — for making such baseless assertions in public. Leave the governor’s decisions to the governor.

demonstrators not adhering to the law. Under no circumstances should a citizen calling his or her local police department with a complaint of civil misconduct be ignored and have their concerns go unaddressed. The NBPD failed miserably to maintain order at that intersection that day. Demonstrators should have been told to move to the sidewalk. If a street demonstration is legal, it should be accompanied by rerouted traffic, not gridlocked for blocks. What faith can we place in our police department if it cannot handle a complaint of civil misconduct judiciously? What will happen when I call it about something more serious or something lifethreatening?

As for the demonstrators, I stand with them in seeking an investigation into the shooting of Deloatch — may he rest in peace — but I ask, what gives you the right to upend my education and the education of all of the students who didn’t make it to class, just because you are upset and felt like George and New Streets at 6 p.m. on a Monday were the best places to make it known? You have a right to protest that I would die for, but you also have the capacity to do so within the boundaries of the law and with the utmost civility — I hope. Simon Galperin is a School of Arts and Sciences junior.

COMMENT OF THE DAY “Funny how those on the Left always see things in term of color.” User “Kenny S. in response to the Sept. 27th article, “Crowd blocks traffic for day five of protest”

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Pearls Before Swine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

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those fans,” Dodd said. “It’s rare that you get to play in a place like that, so I’m excited about that.” Dodd never played in a dome during his football career, he said, despite playing along the East Coast with Byrnes. The Knights trotted out a quarterback without Carrier Dome experience in 2009, when freshman Tom Savage and Rutgers carried a 7-2 record and that weeklong national ranking into Syracuse. But the Orange sacked Savage, the highest-rated quarterback recruit in program history, nine times, and Savage threw two interceptions. The implosion occurred with an offensive line featuring future NFL first-round pick Anthony Davis and a pair of seniors. All five of the Knights’ starting offensive linemen this season never played a down at the Carrier Dome. “Young guys that haven’t been there, anytime you do something for the first time … it can be an experience,” Schiano said. “It’s a hard job to prepare them to keep their poise under pressure.” Rutgers’ offensive line allowed only one sack against Ohio, and freshman quarterback Gary Nova was under center for the play. Dodd threw for three touchdowns last week, giving the Lyman, S.C., native five in his past two games to go along with 475 passing yards. “A lot of it is just the scheme that we have now is different than what we had last year,” he said. “So that helps us out as far as the problems we had with sacks last year. The new scheme is really taking a lot of that out of the picture.” The Orange took Dodd down twice last season in Piscataway, and he and Savage combined for only 106 yards through the air in a 13-10 loss. The Knights offense plans to practice using silent counts in preparation for the noise it will face inside the Carrier Dome, Schiano said. Rutgers works on simulating crowd noise in practice, and uses its two-minute offense scenario to work on silent counts, Dodd said. But the real test is a different evil. “Even if you’re not on the field, the fans are breathing right there on your neck,” said senior defensive tackle Justin Francis, who makes his third trip to Syracuse, N.Y. “You can feel them. I’m getting goosebumps just thinking about it. It’s that loud.” Dodd is not Savage, and the Knights offensive line is completely different from the one that ventured to the Carrier Dome in 2009, for better or worse. The changes extend to the coaching staff. Cignetti finished 2-0 against Syracuse in his two seasons as Pittsburgh’s offensive coordinator, when the Panthers outscored the Orange by a combined 82-24. “I like that Frank has that success,” Schiano said. “I’d rather have it than the other way. But it’s still the players that have to make the plays.” Not as telling, Dodd has more confidence in the offensive line after last year’s unit featured nine different players who earned starts and a Division I-worst sack total. “The main reason I feel good is because I know the coaches wouldn’t put them there if they didn’t think they were the best guys to do the job at the time,” he said.

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Freshman JP Correa assisted on one of Kene Eze’s goals.

There is no reasoning or rationale. It is not unlucky. It’s sheer poor per formance. And it is those moments that give them life. They come out and score two again and they are unanswered.” The first half saw two Eze goals before Adelphi got on the scoreboard. Eze’s showing marked the second multiple-goal game for a Knight in a span of three days. The first came from freshman for ward JP Correa last week against Pittsburgh.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011 Eze wasted no time in finding the back of the net, scoring his first goal in the first 25 seconds of the game off the side of an Adelphi defender. The Sayreville, N.J., native’s second goal occurred in the 27th minute cour tesy of a Correa assist. “We came out really strong and I scored the goal early, but after I guess we got complacent,” Eze said. “We should have never gotten complacent in this game.” The Knights felt despite not gaining a check mark in the loss column after last night, the game still felt like a negative. “It’s actually a bad feeling after this tie,” Eze said. “Because obviously we were

up 2-0, then we didn’t manage the game well, and that’s about it when it comes to this game.” Donigan schedules his out-of-conference games as tests, and he saw the Knights take a failing grade in last night’s contest. “I don’t know whether it’s us or our preparation,” Donigan said. ‘We will tr y and figure it out, but we are not going to win many games like that. I’m thankful we even came out with the tie and we didn’t lose. I’m a guy who says it like it is, and I’m a little lost for words at this game.” Rutgers begins Big East play Saturday, when it takes on Marquette in Wisconsin.

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BOUNDS WITH J AWAN J AMISON Targum sports editor Steven Miller chats with the redshirt freshman running back about his favorite Youtube videos, transitioning from Florida to Jersey and picking Madden teams ...

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Junior Jacquelyn Ward was consistently among Rutgers’ best swimmers last season, when she finished in fourth place in the 400-yard individual medley at the Big East Championships.

SEASON: Spiniello signs four freshmen in first class continued from back team this year in the pool. Sophomore Chelsea Rolin will also help propel the Knights in conference play after posting an impressive four th-place finish in the 1,650 freestyle at last year’s Big East Championships. “These women came back to campus in shape and with a desire to get better,” Spiniello said. “I’m very excited.” Spiniello’s second year at the helm features his first recruiting class as head coach. Brogan Lee, the Section 5A Swimmer of the Year in her home state of Minnesota, looks to lead the freshman class along with Nicole Honey,

Lindsay Gibson-Brokop and Caroline Carlisle. Spiniello looks to the quartet to contribute to the team’s depth and help the Knights succeed this season. “I’m looking for my first class to join the vision and philosophy of the program,” Spiniello said. “We just want them to work hard, have fun and enjoy being part of the family.” With Spiniello’s first year as head coach in the books, the former Princeton assistant said his first year was an experience. Coaching Rutgers in his second season excites him, he said. “You know, it was a great experience and I learned a lot,” Spiniello said. “I learned that these women have a desire to get better, and we are going to improve in our second year together in many areas of this

program. I’m really excited for Year 2.” The Knights begin the season with an intrasquad meet Oct. 7, at the Rutgers Aquatic Center. Their Big East season starts Oct. 28, when they face of f against Connecticut, Georgetown and Villanova in Storrs, Conn. Spiniello looks for ward to what the season will bring and believes his team will be ready for Februar y, when the Big East Championships roll around. “We have some great meets to look for ward to, and we know that when we show up in Pittsburgh in Februar y for the Big East Championship meet that the other 10 teams will be ready to go, and we will be right there with them,” Spiniello said. “I want to compete to win.”

The Daily Targum: What running backs do you like to watch? Jawan Jamison: I watch Barry Sanders, that’s one of my favorites. Him and Walter Payton on YouTube. DT: What do you like about Barry Sanders? JJ: He’s small like me and very explosive with really good balance. Walter Payton is explosive, too, but he brings a lot of power. I try to emulate both of them. I copy and mimic their moves and put them in my repertoire. DT: Do you ever work Ray Rice into those YouTube film sessions? JJ: Definitely. During the recruiting process, I used to watch him all the time. I’d see how many carries he got a game or how he was doing. When I watched the games, I saw how well he did and how well Rutgers runs the ball. DT: Do you study him or any current NFL running backs? JJ: I follow him a lot, because ever since he’s gotten there, he’s really taken off. I watch him and Reggie Bush because he’s really elusive. I like Ray Rice because of his power, his strength and his quickness, and I like Bush because of his elusiveness. DT: What has been your biggest adjustment to New Jersey? JJ: The weather. Getting used to the snow is the biggest thing for me. I’m not used to it yet. DT: You don’t like the cold? JJ: I like the cold. I like to sleep in the cold, but snow is a different thing for me. DT: What do you like about it up here? JJ: I just like being up here with my friends. New York is right there. Walking around College Ave. and being on campus with everybody is a really cool thing to do. DT: Any go-to food spots on College Ave.? JJ: We always go to Subway. That’s the main place where everyone goes — there and IHOP. DT: Are you much of a video gamer? JJ: I’m not a video gamer. I like to watch video games, actually. My friends play. “Call of Duty: Black Ops,” I like watching that because my roommates play it all the time. DT: Who’s the best? JJ: I think the best person on the team is Marcus Thompson. He’s crazy good. That’s all he does. Him and Fred Overstreet, they’re getting kind of close. That’s all they play every day. DT: No “Madden” or anything? JJ: They used to play “Madden,” and I’ll play “Madden” or “NCAA” every now and then, but “Call of Duty” has taken over. DT: When you pick your team, are you picking based on the running back? JJ: Yeah. I play with the Titans. Chris Johnson is fast.

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H ARRISON

KEEPS HEAD UP

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utgers men’s soccer for ward Juan Pablo Correa earned Big East Weekly Honor Roll recognition. The freshman led the Scarlet Knights with two goals in their win against Pittsburgh to open the Big East season. Correa leads the team with 10 points, including four goals, which leads the Knights, and two assists. He is the second Rutgers men’s soccer player to earn Big East weekly honor roll marks, joining senior forward Ibrahim Kamara.

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golf team placed 17th yesterday in an 18-team field at the Cardinal Intercollegiate. Sophomore Doug Walters led the Scarlet Knights with a 148 in the two-round, par-72 event, which was good for a 29th-place finish. For more coverage, see tomorrow’s edition of The Daily Targum.

THE CHICAGO WHITE Sox released Ozzie Guillen Monday from his contract. After eight seasons as skipper of the White Sox, Guillen is expected to manage the Florida Marlins. His contract with the Marlins will reportedly earn him about $16 million through four years. The White Sox will receive two minor league players from the Marlins as compensation. Don Cooper, the White Sox’s pitching coach, will ser ve as interim manager for the final two games of the season.

PHILADELPHIA FLYERS for ward Wayne Simmonds reportedly called New York Rangers forward Sean Avery a homophobic slur Monday night, which sparked a fight during a preseason game. Simmonds denied the incident and said Avery made a violent comment against Flyers for ward Claude Giroux, but he will still meet with NHL executives. The matter is under review by NHL commissioner Gar y Bettman. If found guilty, Simmonds will face a potential fine of about $2,500.

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LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh plan to host a charity pro-am game in early October at Florida International University. The field is supposed to include NBA stars such as Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul, Amar’e Stoudemire and Russell Westbrook, in addition to James, Wade and Bosh — nine all-stars in total. Comedian Kevin Hart and rapper Rick Ross are set to coach the two teams, with one team representing Nike and the other representing Nike’s Brand Jordan division.

As the leading returning Big East receiver in touchdown catches and yards per reception, it would be understandable for Mark Harrison to show some frustration. After a breakout sophomore season, the Rutgers football team’s junior wideout has only three receptions for 54 yards, compared to two clear drops — one for a sure touchdown. With the Big East season starting Saturday, Harrison thinks it is for the best. “I’m actually happy that it’s happened to me because I never thought it could,” he said. “After the season I had last year, I thought I was invincible. Now it’s a humbling experience to see that I’m only human. I can really focus on the little things.” He did not record a catch as a tr ue freshman until Rutgers’ seventh game, and he star ted last season quietly until a 100-yard receiving game against Connecticut. Then he caught a touchdown pass in six of the Scarlet Knights’ final eight games. “It’s common to put pressure on yourself,” Harrison said. “You expect to do what you did last year, but you really can’t look at it that way. You have to look at it as a new season.” Harrison remains an integral part of the offense this season despite a significantly deeper wide receiver corps. He took over as a starter last year after Tim Wright tore his ACL during training camp,

and he became the top target when Mohamed Sanu began struggling with injuries. Along with Sanu, Wright and redshir t freshman Brandon Coleman, Harrison is now one of four wideouts that receive regular time. Harrison dropped a pass against Ohio, spoke to head coach Greg Schiano on the sideline, then had his number called again and converted a third down. “It’s really just focusing and locking in,” Harrison said. “I’m doing the easy part, getting open. I just have to finish the play.”

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receive a boost to their depth at defensive end, but Schiano is unsure of when. Sophomore Jamil Merrell star ted to practice, but Schiano does not think he will return to practice this week. Junior Mar vin Booker suffered an undisclosed injur y days before the season opener and started the game but did not played since. Schiano said he wanted to see yesterday’s practice tape to get a better idea of how the Piscataway High School product is responding. “Ever y time he’s tried to go, he’s been set back,” Schiano said. “He wants to play, so it’s hard to hold him back. It just hasn’t gotten better, so I don’t know.”

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Junior wide receiver Mark Harrison has only three catches for 54 yards through Rutgers’ first three games of the season. the Knights’ last trip to the Carrier Dome. But Rutgers allowed only five sacks through this season’s first three games, and Schiano believes it is due to a number of factors. “Our goal was that schematically we’re going to help [the offensive line],” Schiano said. “We’re going to get rid of the ball more quickly, and I think we’re going to be a year older, a year stronger. Plus we’re playing with some different guys, too.”

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Syracuse running back Antwon Bailey last season, but he was only a 5-foot-6 change of pace then, not the featured back. “He’s a concern,” Schiano said. “He’s got a unique ability. He’s small. He hides behind a mammoth offensive line, and then he just pops and has great ability to go from standing still to full speed, unique in that way. Not 4.3 speed, but he can pop it.”

Fourth-year coach leans on seniors from outset BY PATRICK LANNI STAFF WRITER

Rutgers head volleyball coach CJ Werneke unified his program on the Banks with a familyVOLELYBALL first mentality, turning a 2-22 team in his inaugural season into last year’s 11-win squad. Building a successful program at Fair field, Werneke led the Stags to four consecutive MAAC championships en route to earning MAAC Coach of the Year honors in 2006 and 2007. Drawn to Rutgers by the competitive Big East conference and unique academic and geographic oppor tunities, Werneke brought his impressive résumé to a program whose last winning season came in 2004. The struggles were apparent in his first season with the Scarlet Knights, but Werneke stuck to his philosophy and continued to preach the little things. “He was ver y big on being uniform and breaking down specific skills,” said senior middle blocker Hannah Curtis. Utilizing their specific skills, captains Cur tis and Kallie Pence bought into their coach’s philosophy. “The program has taken a complete 180. Our first year, we were 2-22,” Cur tis said. “Kallie and I being freshmen, we were kind of thrown into the fire, and it was definitely a rebuilding year.”

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Head volleyball coach CJ Werneke relied on a group of freshmen to help turn Rutgers’ program around after leaving Fairfield. But Werneke and his staff Practicing with fellow saw something in the improv- middle blocker Allie Jones, ing freshmen. Curtis was instrumental in the Cur tis played in all 24 emergence and development of matches that year, leading the junior. the team in blocks and Jones, plagued with injuries finishing second in kills. The for most of the season, shined Wasilla, Alaska, native has been when healthy. Named to the Big a staple in a strong East Honor Roll, Jones led the middle attack. Big East in kills until suffering a

shoulder injury, which forced her to the sideline. Pence also saw action early in her career, playing in all but three matches, and brought a diversified stat line to a struggling squad. With 90 digs and a team-leading 383 assists, the College Station, Texas, native showed promise as a true freshman. “CJ had all his faith in us,” Curtis said. “I don’t know why he did, but he wanted us to make a difference.” It is no surprise Werneke put his faith in a duo that leads by example. Building team chemistry and a model of success in New Brunswick, Curtis and Pence praise their bond with their coach. “What makes him a special coach and what stands out is that he is not just all business,” Curtis said. “It makes it different. Rutgers volleyball is not just about him as a coach and us as players. It’s about a relationship we’ve built.” The program continues to grow, but an injury-plagued season threw a wrench at Werneke. The Knights struggled during their past five matches, resulting in a five-game losing skid. Outmatched, the Knights did not win a set last weekend in two Big East matches. Leading the tight-knit group, Pence and Curtis still look to their fourth-year coach for guidance. The team tests its resiliency on the road in Tampa Saturday against South Florida.

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Transfer’s hat trick saves tie against non-conference foe BY VINNIE MANCUSO CORRESPONDENT

ALEX VAN DRIESEN

Sophomore forward Kene Eze recorded the first hat trick since 2003 for the Rutgers men’s soccer team last night at Yurcak Field. His first-minute goal put the Scarlet Knights ahead, and his 65th-minute strike tied Adelphi at 3 and forced overtime.

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Dodd faces new challenge in Syracuse

Second season brings added familiarity Swimming in a highly competitive conference like the Big East can be an intimidating SWIMMING & DIVING effort. Second-year head swimming coach Phil Spiniello likes to look at the challenge with a positive attitude, embracing the benefits that come with competing at the highest level. “It’s great,” Spiniello said of the conference’s daunting task. “The competitiveness of the Big East drives us to do better. I expect to be competing to win every dual meet that we have on the schedule this year.” For the Scarlet Knights to experience success this season, Spiniello relies on a roster filled with familiarity. A total of 12 upperclassmen return to compete for a team that placed seventh last season in the Big East Championships. “I’m looking for my upperclassmen, my juniors and seniors, to step up and lead this team,” Spiniello said. Senior swimmers Jacquelyn Ward, Trisha Averill and Brianne Lindblad look to lead the

Rutgers head men’s soccer coach Dan Donigan told his team all season the Scarlet Knights’ out-of-conference games were meant to be MEN’S SOCCER tests for conferADELPHI 3 ence play. Yurcak Field RUTGERS 3 lastAtnight, Adelphi gave the Knights a test they will not forget so soon. The third meeting between the teams turned into a back-and-forth battle that ended in a 3-3 tie after the first two overtime periods of the year for Rutgers. The Knights failed to break the tie in the golden-goal-ruled overtime despite a last-second corner kick by freshman forward JP Correa — one of 12 corner kicks for Rutgers. “We were at home, so we felt we should have come out with a win, but obviously this is soccer so ever ything doesn’t work out,” said sophomore for ward Kene Eze. “It’s a hard-fought tie, and hopefully we can get our momentum back.” Eze’s hat trick during regulation lifted the Rutgers offense. The third goal of the sophomore transfer’s hat trick — the first for a Knight since 2003 — tied the game for the second time at 3 and forced extra time. “I just tr y and do anything I can do for this team, and I tr y my hardest to put myself in the best positions,” Eze said. “Obviously, this game it worked out and I scored three goals.” Adelphi charged out of the gates in the 48th minute, tying up the game at two goals apiece. The Panthers took their first lead of the game just minutes later. The Panthers managed to keep themselves in the game before halftime, when midfielder Domenico Parelli slipped a goal past junior goalkeeper Adam McMullen within the 18-yard box with only one second left in the half. “I mean, I just told my guys how I feel,” Donigan said. “They do so many good things, but to give up the goal that late in the half, it’s totally unacceptable.

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Sophomore quarterback Chas Dodd is 55-for-96 through the air to start the season with 588 yards and six touchdowns, but Saturday will mark his first game in a dome.

When Chas Dodd committed to Rutgers head football coach Greg Schiano the summer before his senFOOTBALL ior year of high school, he signed up for a different football environment. The sophomore quarterback adjusted from the spread offense he ran at Byrnes High School (S.C.) to an unidentifiable offense last season, to new offensive coordinator Frank Cignetti’s pro-style system. He went from handing the ball off to Marcus Lattimore, the nation’s second-leading rusher at South Carolina, to a stable of unproven running backs with the Scarlet Knights. He transitioned from leading the No. 36 high school team nationally, according to Rivals.com, to a program that last cracked the top 25 for one solitary week in 2009. Dodd adds yet another distinction to his résumé Saturday, when he plays inside Syracuse’s Carrier Dome for the first time. “I’ve heard that it’s really loud in there, so I’m excited to get there and be in front of all

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