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The Rutgers football team’s defense repeatedly bailed the offense out Saturday at Syracuse, where it forced five Orange turnovers in a 19-16 double-overtime win.

Some U. students participate in NYC Wall Street protests

BY TABISH TALIB CORRESPONDENT

NEW YORK CITY — The New York City Police Depar tment arrested more than 700 protesters at the Brooklyn Bridge as thousands marched on Saturday from Zuccotti Park in downtown Manhattan into Brooklyn as par t of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement, which is now on Day 18.

A handful of University students par ticipated in the protests, including Rutgers University Student Assembly President Matt Cordeiro and RUSA representative to the University’s Board of Governors Kristen Clark. No University students were arrested.

The movement protests the corporate greed and influence of corporations and money in government, said Cordeiro, a School of Ar ts and Sciences senior.

“The movement is tr ying to do something really positive,” he said. “People are upset, concerned and angr y about the current economic and political situation.”

Police allowed protesters to walk on the bridge’s pedestrian walkway, but some broke of f and protested in the street instead, said a spokesman for the Of fice of the Deputy Commissioner, Public Information.

This forced police to close the Manhattan-outbound side of the bridge for three hours while they arrested the group of protesters, the DCPI spokesman said.

“Anyone on the walkway was fine, anyone in a traf fic lane was arrested,” he said. “[Protesters in the traf fic lane] had the chance to leave but they chose not to.”

Cordeiro heard about the “Occupy Wall Street” movement through Reddit.com. He was impressed by how the protest took shape quickly and was organized despite lacking a leader.

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Demonstrators show their support for Barry Deloatch, a 46-year-old New Brunswick man who was shot by NBPD, and stand on the side of Route 18 on Friday to spread awareness to passing drivers.

Police arrest four in city demonstrations

BY AMY ROWE ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Of the many community protestors assembling in downtown New Brunswick for daily marches after the police shooting of a city man, four were ar rested over last week.

About 50 people marched yesterday evening from the intersection of Throop Avenue and Handy Street around Douglass campus, through Route 18 and back, in a protest against alleged police brutality involving 46-year-old Barr y Deloatch, who was shot after a scuffle with two New Br unswick police of ficers.

Throughout the week, protestors blocked traffic by standing in the middle of intersections, causing delays for campus buses and commuters.

As the protestors approached the star t point, they blocked the intersection despite warnings from police officers, said Lt. J.T. Miller of the New Brunswick Police Department.

Two people continued to block traffic in the intersection — 35-year-old Tormel Pitmann, who led the protests every day since the Sept. 22 shooting, and 19-yearold Gabriella Aron, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences junior. They were arrested for obstructing a highway and other public passage, Miller said.

Aron was released by the next day, he said.

Police officers were stationed in cars along the protest route, making sure the protestors stayed on the sidewalks. “[Officers said] they were not allowed to block traffic or arrests would be made,” Miller said.

At Saturday’s protest, organizers were conscious of keeping participants on the sidewalk in single- or double-file lines away from the streets, with members wearing reflector vests leading the way.

“The more civilized we act, the more animal they act … and the more power we have,” Pitmann said on Saturday after he was released on bail from police custody.

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INDEX METRO A group organized a 5K race to support breast cancer victims.

OPINIONS Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen and al-Qaeda operative, was killed in a drone attack.

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More than 700 Wall Street protesters march from Zuccotti Park to downtown Manhattan to Brooklyn on Saturday.

Participants hop across tires Friday afternoon in one of many obstacles in “RU Muddy,” a three-mile course set up by Rutgers Recreation on the Livingston Ecological Preserve.

Other parts included crawling through a tunnel and trudging through a mud pit.

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Conference exposes Caribbean influence on campus

BY KIERSTAN ZINNIKAS CONTRIBUTING WRITER

After receiving the Nicolas Guillén Prize for Philosophical Literature, Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and University graduate, said speaking on campus about the Caribbean this weekend felt like home.

Diaz, who was present with other scholars and activists at the eighth annual conference, “Shifting the Geography of Reason,” signified recognition of the Caribbean’s growing influence upon the University community, said Nelson MaldonadoTorres, Caribbean Philosophical Association (CPA) president.

The conference, which alternates its meeting location between the Caribbean and the United States, focused on a central theme and motto, “Shifting the Geography of Reason,” which challenges how people think about where reason and rationality are found, said MaldonadoTorres, an associate professor in the Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean studies.

“Usually we are trained to conceive of reason as something emanating or coming out of the west or Europe only,” he said. “So that Europe or the United States have reason and theory and the

rest of the world has experience or culture.”

Diaz expressed positive attitudes toward the conference and its efforts to establish a global conversation that for him hits home.

“It’s an extraordinary time and an extraordinary honor,” he said when he received his award.

Having the conference at the University acknowledged the effort for Caribbean studies initiatives, including an increase of hiring specialists on campus, he said.

“By bringing new blood there is a new energy and a new set of questions,” said Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel, professor in the Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean studies.

The Caribbean Studies Initiative is an effort of the Office of the President, Vice President of Academic Affairs and the Executive Dean of Arts and Sciences, she said.

So far six faculty members have been hired in the last two to three years because of the cluster hiring initiative, which was designed to bring growth to the Latino and Hispanic Studies department as research on campus, Martinez-San Miguel said.

These hires went to various departments, such as women’s and gender studies and history,

and a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in Africana Studies was hired as well, said Michelle Stephens, a CPA member.

Martinez-San Miguel hopes the result of the additions will keep the department and the University on the forefront of any questions and debates that help to find new boundaries to make Caribbean studies more provocative.

The conference included per formances, panel discussions and guest speakers. The panels focused on topics such as education, epistemology, shifting geographical imaginaries and social change.

Stephens, an associate professor in the Depar tment of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean studies, ser ved as a panelist who spoke about the theme, “Rethinking the Caribbean from Archipelago Studies.”

“The panel was about the geographic structure of the island and how it can be a kind of metaphor and grounds for a broader way of thinking about questions of nationalism and sovereignty,” she said.

One segment of the conference included the distribution of awards.

The CPA presented the Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award to Molefi

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Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Caribbean Philosophical Association president, says the conference aims to redefine the source of reason.

Kete Asante, a professor in the Depar tment of African American studies at Temple University, and Michel-Rolph Trouillot, a professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago.

The CPA, which was founded in Mona, Jamaica, also takes other initiatives to convey its message and start dialogues with others across the globe, such as pub-

lishing the CLR James Journal, named for a theorist from Trinidad, said Maldonado-Torres who has been with the CPA since its beginning.

The CLR James Journal, which they publish twice a year, features essays by scholars, special issues on Caribbean thinkers, key ideas or problems in the region as well as poetr y, he said.

U. TO EDUCATE ENGINEERS, SCIENTISTS TO RECONSTRUCT LIBERIA Rebuilding through education, the University and other top schools in the nation are planning to educate engineers and agricultural scientists in the hope of reconstructing Liberia after a decade of civil war.

“This initiative is going to be a model for American and African relations in higher education,’’ said University President Richard L. McCormick in a University press release. “It’s the kind of deep international connection that we cherish at Rutgers.”

The Excellence in Higher Education for Liberian Development project, a five-year program funded by an $18.5 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development, aims to reconstruct uni-

versities and infrastructure throughout Liberia with the help of American institutions.

The University will accept $4 million of the grant, according to the release, which will go toward sending 45 faculty and staff members to teach and work at the University of Liberia in Monrovia in the main capital and at Cuttington College, located in the rural section of Liberia.

Other universities include North Carolina State University and the University of Michigan, according to the release.

Liberian civil wars caused both the nation’s schools and universities to close. The University of Liberia and Cuttington College both lost faculty

members and left the institutions with few instructors with bachelor’s degrees.

Liberian faculty and staff will have the opportunity to come to the University for graduate degrees before returning to Liberia, according to the release.

Despite the focus on agriculture and engineering, other disciplines and administrative offices will be implicated including the humanities, library sciences and student affairs, said Emmet Dennis, president of the University of Liberia and a former dean of a University College, in the release.

“What makes it so deep and varied and rich is that it stretches across all departments,” McCormick said in the release.

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tality in New Brunswick, follow the shooting that led to collect 38 items as evidence Deloatch’s death.

Deloatch was shot in an altercation with of ficers in an continued from front alley after running from police, Another arrest was made at Middlesex County Prosecutor Wednesday’s protest, when Bruce Kaplan said. about 40 protestors blocked The Middlesex County the intersection of Easton Medical Examiner’s Of fice Avenue and Albany Street dur- found Deloatch was shot in ing rush hour, Miller said. the side with a single bullet Andre Showell, a Nor th that pierced his aor ta, Brunswick resident involved in Kaplan said. the protest, was arrested for Investigators are looking punching an EMS worker on into whether Deloatch poshis way to work at sessed a weapon he used on Rober t Wood Johnson the of ficers during the inciUniversity Hospital in the face dent. Among the 38 items colwith a water botlected and tle, he said. marked as evi“Until these The 47-year-old dence are the worker asked the results are received of ficer’s gun protestors to used in the and reviewed ... move out of the shooting and a way since they single recovthe investigation blocked his route ered bullet, he and he suffered a cannot be said.

Outside laceration to his labs are analyzcompleted.” face. ing the items.

Showell was “Until these BRUCE KAPLAN ar rested and results are Middlesex County Prosecutor charged with received and a g g r a v a t e d reviewed by the assault, failure to disperse and Middlesex County tr ying to incite a riot based on Prosecutor’s Of fice, the inveshis actions toward the EMS tigation cannot be completed,” worker, Miller said.

Kaplan said.

At the first march on Investigators also interSaturday, Sept. 24, police viewed 37 people who provided arrested another man when a information about the shootcrowd of about 130 protestors ing, including police of ficers, blocked the intersection of emergency technicians called Easton Avenue and Albany on the scene and civilians, Street for the first time, he said. he said.

A local New Jersey Transit bus Protestors will star t their servicing stops in Middlesex second full week of marching County was held up because of the today at 4 p.m. at the intersecprotestors. When the 61-year-old tion of Throop Avenue and driver asked the crowd to move, Handy Street.

Michael White, a 50-year-old from They will hold Tuesday’s New Brunswick punched the protest at the American Perth Amboy resident in the face, Hungarian Foundation at 300 Miller said.

Somerset St., and on He also said White spat at Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. in front police officers during his arrest of City Hall during the City for aggravated assault and Council meeting. refused to be fingerprinted.

The protests, which are Jovelle Abbey Tamayo and held almost daily against Jennifer Miguel-Hellman conalleged instances of police bru- tributed to this story.

DANCE MARATHON OFFERS DISCOUNTED FEE FOR EARLY REGISTRATION Students walking past campus centers today might see or hear “For the kids,” when Rutgers University Dance Marathon members kick off registration for their event next semester.

To promote “FTK Day,” Dance Marathon representatives will be stationed at every campus student center from 9 to 11 a.m. to answer questions and sign up dancers, according to the Facebook event page. A limited supply of coffee and doughnuts will be provided.

Students who sign up today will pay a registration fee of $25, which is 25 percent less than the usual fall fee.

The registration fee is $35 during the fall semester and $45 during the spring

semester, said Julia Crimi, director of Volunteer Management for Dance Marathon. The fee is used to cover the expense of items like meals, T-shirts and dancer care packages.

Dance Marathon is an annual charity event that raises money for children with cancer and blood disorders. As New Jersey’s largest student-run philanthropic event, Dance Marathon culminates with a weekend marathon in which participants must stay standing for 32-hours.

This year’s Dance Marathon is scheduled to take place March 31 to April 1, 2012.

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Those who participated in the “Occupy Wall Street” movement, which is on Day 18 as of today, fight against the influence of corporations and money in government.

PROTESTS: Fourty-five U. students attend 17-day rally continued from front

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Gabriella Aron, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences junior, is arrested on Friday at Handy Street and Throop Avenue.

“I was here the first day, and now two weeks later there are more identified goals and better organization,” he said.

“Occupy Wall Street” par ticipants hope to convene in Zuccotti Park near Wall Street businesses for months, said Clark, a School of Ar ts and Sciences senior.

“It shows that people here are in it for the long haul and here to disrupt Wall Street,” she said. “A protest is just a one day thing and then business goes back to normal.”

The movement aims to take away corporate and governmental influence, Cordeiro said.

“One main idea is to push for campaign finance reform,” he said. “We don’t want voices to be drowned out because someone else has more money.”

Clark said she agrees with the aims of the movement and thinks other people deser ve the money used to bailout Wall Street corporations.

“We’re protesting corporate greed. Wall Street got an $800 billion bailout, and no one is

doing anything to help the other 99 percent,” she said.

The movement began on Sept. 17, according to the organization’s website occupywallstreet.org, and Cordeiro said at least 45 University students have attended “Occupy Wall Street” protests since.

Matthew D’Elia, a School of Ar ts and Sciences senior, was also at the protest and said the movement took hold because people are unsatisfied.

“Right now the elites are shutting people [out] with less power,” he said. “People are here to speak out, people need to feel empowered.”

The disparate economic gap between the wealthy and the middle class motivates many of the movement’s par ticipants, Cordeiro said.

“There is a large divide between the rich and the poor, the stratification that exists now has not been seen since the Great Depression,” he said.

While some criticize “Occupy Wall Street” protesters for using products and ser vices of Wall Street corporations, Cordeiro said he does not see it as hypocritical.

“I don’t think there is necessarily an inconsistency. There is a system that people live in,” he

said. “We should focus on one thing at a time, and the first [thing] we [to] need focus on is to take money out of politics.”

He said there are not just young people involved in the protests.

“The movement does have more younger people, but it is still a diverse group of people,” he said. “But I don’t think we should judge people on how they look.”

Cordeiro, who does not agree with all of the protestors’ behaviors, believes the movement is wor thwhile.

“I don’t agree with ever ything, I don’t agree with all the tactics. [But] people here are tr ying to do something really positive,” he said.

The protest also included five members of the Central Jersey Coalition Against Endless War, said coalition member Tina Weishaus.

Weishaus, a 60-year-old Highland Park resident, was glad people staged “Occupy Wall Street.”

“We’re thrilled, we’ve been waiting for the young to become active,” she said.

Cordeiro said he was not representing RUSA or the University in any way at the protests.

“I am only here in the capacity of a concerned Rutgers student,” he said.

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Residents run to promote breast cancer awareness

BY ANDREW EKLUND

ent vendors and we have a live band.”

Lisa Godfrey and Janice Despite less-than-ideal Gilmore Henr y, who both weather conditions, more than ser ved as co-chairs of the 1,000 women across New event, chose Franklin Jersey par ticipated in the “5K Township High School as the Walk 4 Life Breast Cancer venue and began planning Awareness Race & Walk” on details in early August.

Saturday in honor of breast “This is the second year the cancer awareness in the event has taken place at African-American community. the high school and it will Through the event, Sisters cer tainly be taking place here Network of Central New next year,” Gilmore Henr y Jersey (SNCNJ), a local chap- said. “Our strategy was to split ter of the National African- this into pieces and then put it American Breast Cancer back together like a puzzle.”

Sur vivorship Organization, With the profit raised, Reed aimed to educate mainly said her organization plans to African-American women on suppor t a breast cancer assishow to treat breast cancer. tance program, which of fers “The incidents for African- emergency medical ser vices to American women are the low- women with advanced stages est, but the fatality rate is the of breast cancer. highest. We want women to Some ser vices of fered get their mammograms include food card programs, because we know early detec- transpor ting uninsured women tion works,” said Lareatha to chemotherapy and directing Payne, vice presthem toward free ident of SNCNJ. ammogram “It’s a very invasive m D o r o t h y ser vices, she Reed, SNCNJ said. type of cancer, president, said Reed, who is a so we want to help breast cancer A f r i c a n A m e r i c a n vivor, opened out in as many ways sur women need to the chapter be more aware alongside anothas we can.” about what to do er sur vivor with LAREATHA PAYNE and where to go permission from Vice President of SNCNJ if they are diagthe National nosed with A f r i c a n breast cancer.

American Breast Cancer “Ever y county in New Sur vivorship Organization.

Jersey of fers free mammo“We star ted the central N.J. grams, so we direct [African- chapter and began reaching American women] to those free out to church groups in the ser vices, but most women area. [That’s how] we star ted don’t even know that,” Reed building our memberships,” said. “So that’s where raising she said. awareness becomes key.”

Gilmore Henr y said the Par ticipants registered event was a huge success Saturday at 8:45 a.m., but the because of the volunteers who run of ficially began later in the helped. morning, with trophies award“We had the Girl Scouts and ed to par ticipants who per- Boy Scouts involved, and so formed well in various cate- many other great members of gories, including first-place our community,” she said. male and female 5K winner and The chapter plans to deal individuals who raised the more with breast cancer awaremost money. ness and hopes to keep women Other activities took place with medical conditions safe throughout the day, from and informed, Payne said. blood screenings to “Some of our goals are live enter tainment. to get involved with “We have a mobile health research.

It’s a ver y bus, which provides blood invasive type of cancer, so we screenings, an education tent want to help out in as many [and] a sur vivor’s tent,” ways as we can,” she said. “We Payne said. “[We also have] want to be that beacon of light another tent with food, dif fer- in the community.”

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The Gateway Transit Village, located on Somerset Street, is expected to be completed by next fall.

The building, which stands over New Brunswick, will house 14 residential units on every floor.

Gateway interior nears completion

BY GLEN GABRIEL STAFF WRITER

As construction continues on the Gateway Transit Village, project managers are watching the inner layout of the structure come to life.

The New Brunswick Development Corporation (DEVCO) manages the Gateway building on Somerset Street, which consists of 190 units total, said Jean Holtz, DEVCO vice president. DEVCO officials will open a sales office within the building to manage the building’s initial affairs.

Organizers considered convenience a top priority when sculpting the building’s interior design, especially when deciding where to place the residential units and the bookstore in proximity to nearby restaurants, Holtz said.

Most floors of the building consist of 14 living units, nine of which are two-bedroom living spaces and five of which are one-bedroom living spaces.

The two-bedroom condominiums are also equipped with two full bathrooms.

Rooms in each unit will be equipped with the latest household technology, said DEVCO Development Associate Robin Iantosca.

“We’ve given the rooms a clean look with stainless steel appliances and granite countertops,” Iantosca said. “Our goal was to leave a blank palate for the condo owners. We want people to be able to add their own flare to where they’re going to live.”

P-Tech heating and air conditioning units will regulate each of the rooms, and condo owners will have the ability to cool and heat rooms, Iantosca said.

Workers installed an escalator to the basement of the Gateway building, which will house the University bookstore that is set to open in the fall of 2012. An elevator also leads customers to the third floor, which includes a glass reading area that overlooks College Avenue.

“On a clear day you can see the outline of New York City. The views from this building are breathtaking, there’s no other word to describe it,” she said.

The side of the bookstore will include a 700-space parking garage for customers using the Gateway facilities.

“I’m happy there’s going to be a parking deck to go with the bookstore, that was always the biggest problem with where it currently is, no parking,” said Thomas Leahy, a School of Arts and Sciences senior.

There will be a taxi stand within the building, as well as a path leading onto the train platform that runs parallel with the structure.

A lobby will also be available for those living in the building — a bay of three elevators will accompany two separate elevators on the business space levels.

While a few residents voiced their disapproval of the Gateway Transit Village and its size, Holtz said, on behalf of DEVCO, the building’s grandeur is actually a positive.

“Anyway you cut it, this is an impressive building,” Holtz said.

“Its large scale allows it to not only house dozens of individuals, but to also serve as office space for several businesses.”

Levels three through seven will ser ve as office space to University and outside businesses alike. The New Brunswick Parking Authority and University Press will each occupy a floor, Iantosca said.

Condos in the building will be offered at “workforce” prices, which will be lower than market value to accommodate the people of New Brunswick, Holtz said.

“Our job here at DEVCO is to make sure there’s a place for everyone that works and lives in New Brunswick, regardless of income,” she said.

TINY BUGS, MIDGES REPONSIBLE FOR WIDESPREAD DEER DEMISE IN NEW JERSEY The N.J. deer population dramatically decreased over the past two months because of an epidemic affecting six counties throughout New Jersey, including one case reported in New Brunswick.

The illness, Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHD), is spread by tiny bugs called midges, and does not affect humans — rather it targets deer, authorities said in an nj.com article.

Infected deer exhibit symptoms such as drooling, foaming at the mouth, a blue tongue, disorientation and internal hemorrhaging that cause the deer to bleed from the eyes and lips. The deer die within five to 10 days of infection.

The disease is fairly common but is rarely as widespread or extreme as it is now, said Al Ivany, a biologist for the state Fish and Wildlife division in the article.

The last worst case of EHD was in 2007, when the disease struck 10 counties.

“It’s not something that we can do something for,” Ivany said in the article. “It just needs to run its course.”

Reports of EHD surfaced around six counties including Morris, Union and northern Somerset counties and Mercer, Hunterdon and southern Somerset counties.

Some of the hardest hit areas include Bernards Township in Somerset County and Harding and Long Hill in Morris County, but the damage has not been thoroughly tracked.

“It’s unclear what the illness’ long-term impact could be, although the state’s deer population of roughly 114,000 shouldn’t be af fected too badly,” Ivany said in the ar ticle.

Reports of EHD-related deer deaths lessened over the past week but the death tolls are anticipated to be in the hundreds, authorities said in the article.

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Afghanistan presses Pakistan to stop Taliban THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KABUL, Afghanistan — The Afghan gover nment urged neighboring Pakistan on Sunday to take concrete steps to help end the Taliban insurgency and use its influence to bring the militants to direct peace talks.

The appeal follows accusations that Pakistan, through its historical ties with some of the militant groups, has played an active role in suppor ting attacks across the border on U.S. and Afghan targets — a charge it denies.

The allegations against the country and the calls for its help reveal a central quandary in trying to end the decade of fighting that began with the U.S. invasion after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks: Pakistan, even if it has ties to groups behind the insurgency, would be of central importance in any effort to bring about a negotiated peace.

Afghan leaders, however, are growing impatient.

“Afghanistan has invested a great amount of goodwill and political capital to create an atmosphere of trust and confidence and to tr y to improve relations with Pakistan over the past three years,” Foreign Ministr y

spokesman Janan Mosazai told reporters in Kabul.

“Unfor tunately, we have not been witness to the type of concrete progress that we were expecting — that was promised to us by our brothers and sisters in Pakistan,” he said.

In par ticular, Afghanistan wants its neighbor’s help in the “facilitation of direct negotiations with the Taliban leadership and with any other insurgent leaders who are prepared to join the Afghan national reconciliation process,” Mosazai said.

Pakistan’s northwest tribal region ser ves as a haven for insurgents fighting Afghan and U.S. forces across the border as well as the Pakistani government.

Pakistan has ties with some of the militant groups dating back to the war in the 1980s against the Soviets in Afghanistan.

Afghan and U.S. of ficials, long fr ustrated at Pakistan’s failure to wage an all-out battle against militants on its soil, have recently accused Islamabad of suppor ting attacks across the border, including an hours-long assault on the U.S. Embassy last month in Kabul.

Reflecting the deepening frustration, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said over the weekend

RESCUERS GIVE SUPPLIES TO PHILIPPINE FLOOD SUFFERERS MANILA, Philippines — Rescuers scrambled Sunday to deliver food and water to hundreds of villagers stuck on rooftops for days because of flooding in the northern Philippines, where back-to-back typhoons left at least 59 people dead.

Typhoon Nalgae slammed ashore in northeastern Isabela province Saturday, then barreled across the main island of Luzon’s mountainous north and agricultural plains, which were still sodden from fierce rain and winds unleashed by a howler just days earlier. Nalgae left at least three people dead Saturday. Typhoon Nesat killed 56 others and left 28 missing in the same region before blowing out Friday.

Nalgae was whirling over the South China Sea and heading toward southern China late Sunday afternoon, 230 miles (370 kilometers) from the Philippines’ northeast coast, with sustained winds of 75 miles (120 kilometers) per hour and gusts of 93 mph (150 kph), according to the Philippine government weather agency.

China’s National Meteorological Center urged people in areas expected to be lashed by rainstorms in the next three days, including on southernmost Hainan island and in eastern Taiwan, to stay indoors and cancel large assemblies, China’s official Xinhua News Agency reported Sunday.

Nalgae’s ferocious winds set off a rockslide in the northern mountain province of Bontoc in the Philippines on Saturday, causing boulders to roll down a mountainside and smash a passing van, where a passenger was pinned to death and another was injured, police said.

In northern Tarlac province’s Camiling town, a man sought safety with his two young nephews as flooding rose in their village Saturday. But one of the children was swept away by rampaging waters and drowned, while his uncle and his brother remained missing. A drunken man drowned in flooding in a nearby village, provincial disaster officer Marvin Guiang said.

Nalgae roared through parts of Luzon that had been saturated by Typhoon Nesat, which trapped thousands on rooftops and sent huge waves that breached a seawall in Manila Bay. Nesat then pummeled southern China and was downgraded to a tropical storm just before churning into northern Vietnam on Friday, where 20,000 people were evacuated.

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that he was giving up on trying to talk to the Taliban directly and that the key to ending the war is mediation by Pakistan.

At the same time, Karzai has suspended a series of meetings between Afghanistan, Pakistan and the United States because of the fallout over accusations that Pakistan is playing a double

“Those groups that are hiding in Pakistan, they are sending terrorists at us.”

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game. The Afghan government said it had evidence that Pakistan played a role in the Sept. 20 assassination of former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani.

Karzai’s office said a special commission investigating Rabbani’s death had concluded the attack was planned in Quetta, the Pakistani city where key Taliban leaders are based. The delegation also said the primar y assailant was a Pakistani citizen.

Interior Minister Bismullah Khan Mohammadi said Saturday in an Afghan parliamentary session that Pakistan’s InterSer vices Intelligence agency was involved in the killing.

Pakistan denied the allegation the allegation Sunday, calling it “baseless” and “irresponsible.” It said the evidence given to Pakistan consisted of the confession of an Afghan national, Hamidullah Akundzadeh, accused of masterminding Rabbani’s assassination.

“Instead of making such irresponsible statements, those in positions of authority in Kabul, should seriously deliberate as to why all those Afghans who are favorably disposed toward peace and toward Pakistan are systematically being removed from the scene and killed,” said Pakistan’s Foreign Ministr y in a written statement.

Meanwhile, the members of the High Peace Council that Rabbani had headed met with Karzai and asked for a full review of the process. They said they do not want to waste time trying to reconcile with insurgents on the Pakistani side of the border who have not renounced violence, according to a presidential statement and members of the council.

That would be a major shift for the council, which was

formed to tr y to find a way to get the Taliban leadership to the negotiating table.

“Those groups that are hiding in Pakistan, they are sending terrorists at us. So how can we have peace with those people?” said Ismail Qasemyar, one of the members who met with Karzai.

There is debate over how much influence Pakistan actually has with the Taliban, but most analysts believe that the countr y is vital to the success of any peace talks.

“My own sense is that Pakistani influence and connections and its clout is largely exaggerated,” said Rif fat Hussain, a professor of defense studies at Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad. “But if there is any player who can act as a bridge to bring these guys on board, it has to be Pakistan.”

Specifically, he said, the powerful Pakistani intelligence ser vice must be involved.

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari responded to the growing criticism in a weekend editorial in the Washington Post in which he said the United States was spending too much time dictating to Pakistan rather than treating its government as a par tner.

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US followed proper course to serve justice

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n a drone attack in Yemen this past Friday, U.S. forces succeeded in killing al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. Unlike the death of Osama bin Laden, which evoked nearly universal celebration, al-Awlaki’s death sparked a bit of controversy. That’s because there’s a major difference between al-Awlaki and bin Laden, in that the former was a U.S. citizen. As such, it is thought this is the first time in history when a U.S. citizen was killed because of intelligence collected on him and the president’s command to do so. This situation raises an incredibly salient question, one that we must all consider carefully: Did al-Awlaki’s position as a terrorist outweigh his rights as a U.S. citizen? In other words, was it okay in this situation to forego the established legal channels, including a trial, which al-Awlaki is entitled to as a U.S. citizen? After some careful consideration of our own, we at The Daily Targum assert that, yes, in this specific instance, it was absolutely okay to kill al-Awlaki without a trial.

Al-Awlaki may have been a U.S. citizen, but his involvement with the insidious terror cell al-Qaeda is nothing more than treason. As al-Qaeda’s leader of external operations, according to President Barack Obama, alAwlaki was responsible for the mobilization of many threats to the people of the United States. The killing was by no means reactionary. The CIA placed al-Awlaki on their “kill or capture” list because of the overwhelming evidence it had to prove his licit and dangerous actions. This includes the calls to jihad he posted on the Internet, an airplane bombing plot he formulated in Christmas of 2009 and his efforts to send explosives through the mail to the United States in 2010. In short, his conduct was unforgivable. Not only did al-Awlaki effectively forfeit all of his rights as a U.S. citizen, but the United States was able to obtain more than enough incontestable evidence to convict him of his crimes if he were put on trial.

To be certain, this is indeed tricky political ground to maneuver.

The U.S. government must be careful to not let this set a precedent.

The only reason it was okay to ignore the trial process for al-Awlaki is because of how extreme the man’s actions were. He was an immediate threat to the entire United States, not your average criminal. The United States should always try to uphold the integrity of its legal system, but such a situation as this is an example of the very rare instances wherein the established legal channels must be abandoned for the greater good of the country. After all, the people making these decisions to suspend the legal system are the experts. We have every reason to trust their judgment in this scenario.

U. makes right choice in limiting admissions

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he University has a reputation as being a big school, which makes sense given its status as a public university. After all, public schools always attract larger student bodies than their private counterparts. For the past few years, however, the University’s population has been growing even larger and causing some problems — overcrowded buses, dishearteningly large lecture sections and a shortage of housing, to name just a few. In order to deal with this, the administration decided to become more selective with the admissions process.

While the current acceptance rate is 58 percent, the administration wants to slash that by 4 percent. In the words of Courtney McAnuff, vice president of Enrollment Management, “[W]e’re at capacity with transportation, in classrooms and financial-aid wise. We need to slow growth.”

The decision to limit the incoming classes may not be well received by prospective students, and understandably so. The last thing they want to hear is that it will be harder for them to get into a state school like the University. Despite these contestations, the administration has absolutely made the right decision to scale back the number of accepted students. To put it simply: We’re running out of facilities and services. Our faculty and staff can only handle so many students before the quality of a University education starts to slip. Sure, a higher acceptance rate means more tuition dollars, but keep in mind that those tuition dollars go right back to providing for the students. If there are too many of them, no amount of tuition money will be able to keep up with the increased demands on University resources.

As the New Brunswick campus tightens the admissions process, prospective students can and should look to the lesser-utilized Newark and Camden campuses. These campuses are often passed over by applicants, but they do have similar educational resources as the New Brunswick campus, with the added benefit that these resources are nowhere near as strained under the weight of such demand.

A more selective admissions process is better for everyone. It will prevent the University from stretching itself too thin, thereby retaining the integrity of its educational abilities. It will also enable University services, such as transportation and dining, to more effectively serve the student body. Even prospective students who may bemoan the change should recognize the value of it — if they are accepted, they will be going a school that is capable of providing the college experience they deserve.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “Wall Street got an $800 billion bailout, and no one is doing anything to help the other 99 percent.”

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hether torture is far-fetched, yet it clearly a worthwhile tool describes the rights that we for the U.S. govhave by virtue of selfernment is very different defense. I admit laws aren’t from the question of whether always well written regardtorture is in and of itself ing self-defense, but any wrong. I remember the connon-pacifist should have no troversy a few years ago in qualms with engaging in the EDWARD REEP which many objected the fact action I described above. that the CIA essentially torTorturing a top-level tertured a few captured high-level terrorists. In particurorist for information is the same thing as putting the lar, the terrorists were subjected to waterboarding, a incapacitated serial killer in the trajectory of the harform of simulated drowning. Many of the objections poon. The only difference is that the former situation is to this practice were reasonable and pragmatic. For more abstract. A top-level terrorist like Mohammed example, the U.S. government certainly did hurt its masterminded various terrorist attacks aimed at harmimage abroad by engaging in torture, giving a propaing the innocent and then directed his underlings to ganda field day both to our enemies and “allies.” execute those attacks. When he was imprisoned and Some of these objections were flat-out foolish, no longer an immediate threat to plan or execute new though, and represented emotional rather than attacks, he still withheld information that would foil rational thinking. I am specifically referring to claims possible attacks he had set in motion. Therefore, it was that torture is somehow inherently unethical and perfectly acceptable to cause him pain, suffering or thus should never be employed. Sure, it is wrong in even permanent damage in order to glean that informost circumstances, but so is killing. We may ethimation that would foil those possible attacks. cally kill people in self-defense, and we may likewise The Bush administration claimed that the waterethically torture people in selfboarding of Mohammed was sucdefense. The waterboarding of men cessful. Former President George “I expect the CIA to W. Bush in particular said if he had like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a high-level terrorist, was self-defense. relive the events, he would have get the information to If you are iffy about torture’s the man waterboarded again occasional acceptability, the best because doing so saved lives. The it needs, by hook way to understand how torture can efficacy of torture is a separate issue or by crook.” sometimes be the right thing to do from the ethics of torture, though. is by looking at a violent scenario Even if torture only worked 1 peranalogous to torture — a scenario cent of the time, it would still be where the right and wrong decisions are clear. By appropriate in some situations. Even if the harmful boiling down the concept of torture to its key comprocess you were trying to stop had a 99 percent ponents, we see where black-and-white principles of chance of stopping on its own, torturing someone self-defense can come into play. may still be the ethical thing to do if the 1 percent Imagine that you and a friend have been kidoutcome were unacceptable. napped by a serial killer and taken to his lair. The All this being said, I completely understand why killer has tied you both up to the wall. He also has a Americans would be uncomfortable with governmachine hooked up to a timer that fires a harpoon mental willingness to use torture. Sure, the situaforward after a set time. He puts the machine in tion with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was an acceptfront of your friend and takes a recreational drug so able circumstance, but if you set the precedent, that it is clear he will be completely incapacitated for where can it go from there? Could torture be overthe foreseeable future. You suddenly undo the ropes used or abused? What if someone wrongly accused tying you to the wall and see a way to escape. You is tortured? Those are reasonable questions. Even also realize you do not have enough time to undo though I support the use of torture in certain ciryour friend’s ropes or move the machine before it cumstances, I don’t think it should be legally sancshoots the harpoon at him. Assuming that the serial tioned by the United States. The Obama adminiskiller himself is the only object in the room able to tration did the right thing by disallowing waterblock the harpoon, what do you do? Put him front of boarding. That being said, if many American lives the harpoon, of course. Even though the killer is not are ever truly at stake, I expect the CIA to get the an immediate threat, it is still correct to harm him information it needs, by hook or by crook. because that is the only way to foil a process he intentionally initiated to harm the innocent. So long Edward Reep is a Rutgers Business School junior as he is letting the harmful process continue, even if majoring in supply chain and marketing science with he is otherwise non-threatening, he can still be minors in business and technical writing and ecomorally subjected to violence if this violence will nomics. His column, “Philosophies of a Particular stop the process. The above example is relatively American,” runs on alternate Mondays.

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Politicians should embrace their ethnic backgrounds Letter SUKANYA DUTTA

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y parents emigrated from India to New York for their higher education, and if you had told them then that two people of Indian descent would be the governors of two states in the Bible Belt, they would think you were joking.

If you had told my parents in the ’80s that those two Indian-Americans would tr y to hide their ethnicity, they would be shocked. How is that even possible?

Gov. Bobby Jindal, R-La., has managed to just do that.

Born Piyush Jindal, he goes by the nickname “Bobby” because he felt great kinship with the TV character Bobby Brady because he was the same age as Bobby Brady when he watched “The Brady Bunch.”

By this logic, I should have altered my name to D.W. because I was her age when I watched “Ar thur.” Really,

though, this was superb feat by Jindal — he gave himself a generic American name and emphasized his Wonder Bread childhood to make himself more palatable to conser vative voters. Jindal also had the foresight to convert to Catholicism in high school.

Jindal’s decisions to change his faith and his name may not be intrinsically opportunistic. Many nice people, besides politicians and criminals, change their identities to what they feel is more genuine.

President Barack Obama has disappointed me in some ways, but I will always hold his deep regard for his Kenyan roots in the highest esteem.

A “60 Minutes” inter view in 2009 with Jindal and his wife Supriya showed how far Jindal was willing to go to suppress his background. When asked by “60 Minutes” host Morley Safer if they continued any Indian traditions with their family, the couple rushed to say no, because they had adapted and had been “raised as Americans.” The Jindals define assimilation to be

the abandonment of their parents’ culture, which doesn’t line up with the American virtue of diversity. To be raised as an American doesn’t mean you only have “The Brady Bunch” marathons. I find it hard to believe that Jindal’s parents, who grew up in India, would suddenly stop cooking Indian

“A blandly homogenous body of political opinions will stagnate our progress.” food and celebrating Hindu holidays the moment they reached the United States. My parents lived in Queens for a decade before they had me, and somehow they retained their heritage. As a child, I played in my district’s soccer league, celebrated Halloween and Christmas and read Judy Blume books. At the same time, I read

about Hindu mythology, admired Satyajit Ray movies and dressed up in sparkly Indian clothes for special occasions. I never once thought I was being raised to be anything less than an American.

Gov. Nikki Haley, R-S.C., conver ted to Christianity when she mar ried Michael Haley, and unlike Jindal, still attends Sikh ser vices for her parents.

Presenting a stor y of a minority who succeeded due to America’s gifts, Haley seemed like a proud Indian-American.

Unfor tunately, she only plays the minority card when it is to her advantage. The Associated Press repor ted in July 2011 that Haley denoted her race as “white” on a 2001 voter registration form.

American politics seem to be devolving. Right extremists treat knowledge as superfluous, and the Republican candidates behave as though white bluecollar towns are American havens. The hyperbolic agricultural and folksy backdrops to campaigns evoke an America

that is not representative of the majority. Jindal and Haley offer an assimilation model that is detrimental to minorities, for the political establishment will come to expect first-generation Americans to exchange their rich past and upbringing for platitudes that of fer no real meaning about the complicated and layered United States. A blandly homogenous body of political opinions will stagnate our progress, superpower status and capability to empathize with other nations. American children should not feel uncomfortable if they don’t happen to worship Jesus Christ or love football, and they should have the confidence to say so if they run for political office. Because Jindal and Haley timidly toe the Republican line on ever y issue and lack the audacity to be innovative or complex citizens, they are not American role models.

Sukanya Dutta is a School of Arts and Sciences junior majoring in political science with a minor in history.

Tackle specific problems, not general questions Letter RAULS LASLUISA

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f you are like me and enjoy the Opinions section, then you are a person who likes reading different points of views on issues. There is, however, a very worrying trend I see in most of the pieces — opinions with evidence to support their opinions.

That sounds illogical right? Let me explain my argument by doing the same.

I will ask the question, “Should the government be focusing on creating jobs?”

Does anyone see the problem with the question? The question is too general. I know — it’s obvious you have to take into account the current economic environment, type of economy, social consequences, etc. Now, I ask if you factor all

those things into account has there ever been any point in histor y exactly like 2011? The answer to that is, of course, no.

We can at least still look at similar conditions, right?

To the original question, there are many that would first like to compare our current time to the Great Depression, in terms of the economy. Can we just ignore the iPhone, Google, Netflix, space junk, Viagra and all the other things that weren’t around during the Great Depression? There are well-known economists who studied similar situations to what we are facing now but the problem is the word “similar.”

On the other hand, that is the best we have to work with, which still doesn’t mean you’ll find the “right” answer to the general question. Asking general questions lead to pieces

that provide another person’s work as evidence the opinion in said piece is correct.

As a graduate student, I get to examine other people’s work more often than most, in the form of research papers. The great thing about research papers is they tr y to be as spe-

“Sometimes, trying to look at the big picture ... is pointless.” cific as possible. They detail the exact problem they are tr ying to solve, their theor y, experiment setup, results and finally conclusion. The interesting part is the actual problem and experiment setup, not the answer. What most people don’t

Daily review: laurels and darts

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his semester marks the beginning of Project Civility’s second year. For those of you who may not be aware of what it is — either because you’re new to the school, or because you spent last year actively avoiding the project — it is a University-wide initiative to foster kindness and respect. What makes Project Civility noteworthy is the fact that it is much more than just lip service. Through events, lectures, classes and more, the project actively engages with students on campus and pushes them to make real attempts to become civil people. We laurel Project Civility for all the good work it has done so far, and we look forward to the rest of what we’re sure will be another successful year. *

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Conservative media mogul Andrew Breitbart has some harsh words for labor unions at the Chicago tea party’s TeaCon 2011 Convention on Friday. In no roundabout way, Breitbart expressed his disgust by delivering a literal “f—- you” to “the unions, the Trumkas, the Hoffas.” It’s certainly okay to dislike the unions for an ideological reason, but to be so crass as to curse them out makes Breitbart seems like nothing more than a common thug. If you are a man of influence and importance delivering a speech to any congregation, decorum doesn’t hurt. Breitbart receives a dart for his conduct.

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understand about research papers is that a proposed solution can fail 99.99 percent of the time in general, but in a ver y specific case it can work better than other solutions. This in general is seen as a good paper and good research.

So what does this say when you use another person’s work as evidence? Well, you are using them out of context or the person’s work you are using won’t have a big impact factor in the field. As an experiment, I ask the readers to ask their professors questions about their research. Pay attention to how they answer. They will always begin by explaining the problem and what condition they are taking into account in their research and why. They do this because you cannot possibly take ever y condition into account. Next they will begin to

explain what they see as the smaller problems. They will explain to you piece-by-piece what their solution is and why.

That is because they are experts, and they became so after many years of looking at particular problems and their sub-problems.

I hope the question, “Should the government be focusing on creating jobs?” served to show that, sometimes, trying to look at the big picture of something is pointless. Not because the question is pointless, but because the knowledge to answer such a general question isn’t there. I personally think we would have to wait about 30 years before we can find the solutions to a lot of specific questions and then make a consensus on the general question.

Rauls Lasluisa is a University graduate student.

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Freshman quarterback Gary Nova went 11-for-24 through the air for 122 yards and a touchdown after taking over for Chas Dodd.

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biggest critic of myself. I just feel I could have played better, but we got the win and that’s all that matters. I’m just really happy for the team.”

S CHIANO 122 yards and the game-tying touchdown pass to junior wide receiver Mohamed Sanu. In his second appearance against Syracuse (3-2, 0-1), Dodd managed a 14-for-34 passing clip for 166 yards and an interception.

Dodd and former star ter Tom Savage split time last season against Syracuse, although Dodd eventually seized the job permanently.

Savage became the Knights’ starting quarterback two years ago as a freshman after fifth-year senior Dom Natale suffered a miserable first half in Rutgers’ season opener.

“You won’t know if you handled it correctly in this lifetime,” Schiano said of the move to bench Savage in favor of Dodd last season. “I do what I think is right after listening to all opinions of people on my staff who I value.”

Schiano said it was too early to name either Dodd or Nova the team’s star ter Saturday against Pittsburgh until he met with of fensive coordinator Frank Cignetti and his staff.

“This isn’t going to be a knee-jerk reaction,” Schiano said. “We’ll talk it through and then do what we think is best.”

Nova appeared in two games prior to Syracuse, but never saw extensive action. And he never saw as dangerous a defense.

The Orange sacked Nova four times, but the freshman rebounded, finding sophomore wideout Quron Pratt to convert a crucial fourth-and-9 play. He connected with Sanu five plays later to even the matchup at 13, eventually leading to the Knights’ doubleovertime victor y.

“Of course I always want to play better,” Nova said. “I’m the

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10 defensive linemen at the Carrier Dome, including freshmen Dar yl Stephenson and Myles Jackson.

Jackson made his first career appearance against the Orange.

“It means a lot for the coaches to have enough confidence in me to put me in such a pressure game,” Jackson said. “We’re down. We’re up. It just shows the progress I’ve made to prepare, watch film, study.”

Along with the two rookies, the unit featured two former linebackers, a former fullback and a noticeable lack of experience.

Junior Scott Vallone started as a redshir t freshman, and senior Justin Francis led the Knights’ defensive line in games played heading into the beginning of the season.

“I think our secret up front is going to be playing a lot of people,” Schiano said. “We don’t have a lot of experienced guys.

I think we’re going to roll fresh guys all year, and hopefully they all continue to get better.”

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Lower y replaced redshirt freshman Betim Bujari at right guard Saturday, playing the final drives of the fourth quarter and each overtime possession.

Bujari started against Ohio in Week 3, while Lower y earned the nod in Rutgers’ first two games of the season.

“I tell [offensive line coach Kyle Flood], ‘You’re watching those guys a lot better than I am. You need to make the personnel moves you feel are necessar y,’” Schiano said. “I followed his suggestion on that one. He felt like at that point Antwan was better suited for the situation.”

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Junior cornerback Marcus Cooper scooped and returned Jamal Merrell’s blocked field goal in the fourth quarter, but a Steve Beauharnais penalty brought the ball back to Syracuse’s 46-yard line. Cooper’s touchdown would have tied the score, but the offense did the job instead, and Mohamed Sanu caught his fifth touchdown of the year.

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KEITH FREEMAN / PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Junior wide receiver Mohamed Sanu faced double-teams throughout the game Saturday, but the Orange left him uncovered for a game-tying touchdown in the fourth quarter.

before a Beauharnais penalty brought it back.

Of ficials whistled Beauharnais for an unnecessar y roughness penalty miles away from Cooper and the brigade of blockers that escorted him to the end zone.

“As I put my hands up to celebrate with my team, the collision happened,” said Beauharnais, who had two sacks at middle linebacker. “I even offered to help him up.”

It brought Rutgers back to Syracuse’s 46-yard-line, but the offense finally capitalized.

Freshman quarterback Gar y Nova was already taking snaps in place of a healthy, “out-ofsync” Dodd. He connected with

sophomore wideout Quron Pratt on a four th-and-9 and found Mohamed Sanu for the junior’s fifth touchdown of the year.

“And you know what’s crazy? They didn’t even cover him on that play,” Nova said of Sanu, who ranks second in the nation with 43 receptions and routinely faced double-teams throughout his seven-catch performance in Syracuse.

It capped the closest thing Rutgers had to a drive all day, when it ran 95 of fensive plays and gained only 302 yards.

“It wasn’t a ver y pretty game, but the one thing we did is we fought,” Schiano said.

“Sometimes in life, you just fight. You don’t worr y, don’t judge, you just keep fighting and sometimes it gives you a chance.

That’s what happened.”

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Winless weekend brings Rutgers back to basics

BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

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he Rutgers men’s soccer team (4-4-1, 1-1-0) dropped a 2-0 decision to Marquette on Friday in Milwaukee.

The Scarlet Knights outshot the Golden Eagles, 14-13, but two early Marquette goals were too much for Rutgers to overcome.

The Knights’ defense also suffered a serious blow with an injury to junior captain Joe Setchell.

Rutgers took three corners and got four shots off in the final 20 minutes but could not convert those opportunities into points.

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volleyball team was unable to pick up its first Big East win in a 3-0 loss to South Florida.

Sophomore Tiffany Regmund led the Scarlet Knights (6-13, 0-3) with nine kills from the outside hitter position. Sophomores Brittany Bozzini and Sheridan Taylor and freshman Sofi Cucuz each recorded seven kills.

Junior Stephanie Zielinski put up 28 assists for the Knights.

USF (6-9, 2-1) fended off match points five times to put away Rutgers in the third set.

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remained atop the Associate Press Top 25 college football poll yesterday, with Alabama taking over the No. 2 spot.

The Crimson Tide jumped ahead of Oklahoma, which fell to No. 3.

Alabama’s rise give the Southeastern Conference the top two spots in the AP poll for the 10th time in the past four seasons.

The Tide beat Florida, 3810, to receive 12 firstplace votes.

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outside linebacker Cornelius Washington was arrested early yesterday near Commerce, Ga., and charged with speeding and driving under the influence.

The 22-year-old was booked and released on a $3,500 property bond following his arrest for suspicion of misdemeanor DUI and driving 92 MPH in a 55-MPH zone, according to a Jackson County Jail spokesman.

Washington registered a 0.12 on the test, exceeding the legal limit of 0.08, and failed a standard sobriety test.

Georgia is expected to suspend the junior for at least one game, according to ESPN.

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After Syracuse’s Cecilia Borgstrom tapped a deflected cross by Tina Romagnuolo past Rutgers WOMEN’S SOCCER women’s SYRACUSE 2 soccer g o a l RUTGERS 1 keeper Emmy Simpkins in double-overtime yesterday at Yurcak Field, the entire Scarlet Knights sideline stood staring in disbelief.

The goal gave the Orange a 21 victory, the Knights their third consecutive defeat and shifted head coach Glenn Crooks’ focus from attaining a Big East Championship berth to simply fixing his sputtering team.

“I’m not really focused on Big East goals, I’m just focused on getting us better,” Crooks said.

“Once again it’s [an] overtime game, and in all those games we’ve had opportunities in regulation to finish it off. You could say we were the better team in those games, but it’s the finished product, it’s the final result.”

As was a common theme in the Knights prior four contests — a span in which Rutgers lost three and tied one — scoring opportunities came in abundance yesterday at Yurcak Field, especially in the waning moments of play.

Freshman for ward Stephanie Scholz tallied the Knights’ final three shots of regulation — she had four total — with two of them coming in the final four minutes of the second half. Her final two chances occurred on breakaways that pulled Syracuse goalkeeper Brittany Anghel out of the net, giving Scholz clear seams at goals.

But both shots sailed wide left, leaving Scholz alone in front of the net with her hands on her head in disbelief.

“She’s working so hard,” Crooks said. “As long as she keeps working the way she’s working I’m not thinking about taking her off unless she needs a break for a rest. She’s causing so much havoc and she’s creating so many opportunities for her team and … I’m sure she’ll say, ‘This is ridiculous, I’ve got to finish those.’ But it doesn’t come automatically.”

JENNIFER MIGUEL-HELLMAN / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Junior goalkeeper Emmy Simpkins made six saves for the Knights yesterday at Yurcak Field, but it was not enough, as Syracuse’s Cecilia Borgstrom scored the decisive goal in double overtime.

Senior midfielder Ashley Medcalf scored her first goal of the season after coming out of the gates hot for Crooks, tallying four of the team’s first six shots.

The Waipahu, Hawaii native’s score came in the game’s 12th minute on a corner kick sent in by senior defender Julie Lancos.

Syracuse failed to clear the kick right away, which gave Medcalf a shot at the lower right of the net to beat Anghel.

The goal was the first for Rutgers in its last 381 minutes of action.

“It was nice to get my first goal, but I just wish we would have had a better result,” said Medcalf, who played all 103 minutes. “It’s tough, but we’re going to get through this. We’ll be all right.”

After the Orange tied the contest 10 minutes later, the Knights could not come back to win in regulation.

Finding the finisher against St. John’s on Friday also proved difficult for the Knights’ front third. Despite outshooting the Johnnies, 23-4, the Knights could not score the equalizer after falling behind early to the Red Storm in the team’s first of five consecutive games in Piscataway.

Junior goalkeeper Emmy Simpkins did her best to keep the Knights in both contests, making crucial saves in the second half against Syracuse and the only save by either keeper in the first over time of the same game.

Overall, the Concord, N.C., native made seven saves in the losses, allowing two goals or more for just the third time this season in yesterday’s loss to Syracuse.

“Emmy’s been solid all year,” Crooks said. “She made a tremendous reaction save off a flick header [on the first goal]. That was a marking problem and I

don’t know who lost their mark, but they’ve got to be called out.

We’ll look at the last goal too. We haven’t loss these games because of our goalkeeper.”

The Knights plan on doing the only thing they can after a fourgame winless streak: Get better during this week of practice before continuing their conference homestand on Friday against DePaul.

With six points eluding them in each of their past two weekends, the Knights’ postseason chances are in serious jeopardy with five games remaining in Big East season.

But the team will fight on, according to Medcalf.

“This whole week we’re just going to focus on the next two home games,” Medcalf said.

“We’re taking it one game at a time and we just half to come out with results in both games — six points and we’ll just go from there.”

Knights recover from early struggles after timeout

BY JOSH BAKAN CORRESPONDENT

The plan for the Rutgers field hockey team last weekend was to not look like the team it was during its FIELD HOCKEY sevenRUTGERS 1 game losing COLUMBIA 2 streak.

F o r the most part this weekend, the Scarlet Knights were successful.

Then Rutgers (3-8, 1-2) put together a performance that on paper was reminiscent of other losses it endured all year yesterday at Columbia (4-5). The 2-1 loss saw them in the usual position of generating a lot of shots and penalty corners — 14 and 11, respectively — but only turning that into one goal.

But unlike the other Knights’ losses, they got off quality shots and were able to put together a complete game.

“This was probably the most complete game we’ve played all sea-

son,” said head coach Liz Tchou.

“Our outlets were really sharp and we’re getting quality shots.”

The Knights made a similar effort for most of the 3-2 win against Georgetown on Friday at the Bauer Track and Field Complex.

Rutgers took the decisive lead on a Nicole Gentile goal with 52 seconds remaining in the game.

The senior forward chipped an off-angle shot into the far side on a pass from sophomore midfielder Lisa Patrone. “[Our plan was] to get behind their defense and put pressure as much as we can on their defense,” Gentile said.

The Knights executed that throughout the day against Georgetown (2-8, 0-2) with a season-high 23 shots. Unlike most of the Knights games where they get more shots off than their opponent, enough of their shots on Friday made it to the back of the net.

But the game started out similar to many Knights losses — an incomplete effort.

The Hoyas scored twice within the first 20 minutes to take an early 2-0 lead, prompting Tchou to call a timeout to set the team straight.

“The first 20 minutes, I don’t know who was playing,” she said.

“We were allowing them to beat us to 50-50 balls. I was totally shocked that our team came out so flat.”

The Knights came out of the timeout a different team and tied the score 2-2 heading into halftime with a pair of goals from sophomore for ward Gia Nappi and junior for ward Chelsea Rota.

“It was really good for us to be able to come back and score and tie the game up at half,” Tchou said. “We had our attacks in the first half, but defensively there was a disconnect. The forwards and [midfielders] were coming up, but we were slow in stepping up.”

The defense also stepped it up, not allowing a Hoyas goal after their early strikes. Sophomore

goalie Sarah Stuby saved a season-high seven shots after Tchou’s timeout.

“After the coach talked to us — she was screaming — but that got everyone to focus after those first 20 minutes,” Stuby said.

Stuby became a candidate for Big East Defensive Player of the Week against Georgetown, but she may lose out to her opponent in the opposite net.

Hoyas goalie Briana Pereira saved 16 of the Knights’ shots, making it difficult for Rutgers even on a 23-shot day. But the Georgetown win still reminded Tchou of her team’s earlier losses when they were unable to put together a complete game.

“I definitely don’t think it was a complete game, but the fact that we found a way to win against Georgetown — because we lost to them the last two years — I give credit to our team,” she said.

Since Tchou’s timeout and through the remainder of the weekend, the Knights put forth a complete effort.

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KEITH FREEMAN / PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Junior defensive tackle Scott Vallone (94) and junior cornerback Marcus Cooper (12) celebrate Rutgers’ victory, which the defense secured when Edmond Laryea forced a fumble, and Logan Ryan recovered it in double overtime Saturday at the Carrier Dome. The Scarlet Knights created five takeaways in the 19-16 victory.

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Laryea forces final fumble on only play, capping defensive performance unlike any Schiano ever saw

BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — When Edmond Lar yea ran onto the Carrier Dome field Saturday for his only FOOTBALL play of t h e Rutgers football team’s game against Syracuse, junior defensive tackle Scott Vallone gave the linebacker his assignment.

“Vallone looked at me and said, ‘Let’s go stop them,’” said the sixth-year senior linebacker Lar yea. “That’s all I could think

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of, and I was like, ‘All right, let’s go.’”

Then he learned his play assignment: Syracuse running back Antwon Bailey.

“I saw the opening he saw and I just put my head in there,” Lar yea said.

Lar yea’s tackle jarred the ball loose, forcing a fumble that cornerback Logan Ryan recovered to complete a 19-16 double-overtime victor y that was all about the defense.

The Scarlet Knights created five takeaways, bringing its season total to a national-best 18, and each was more important than the next.

Jamal Merrell’s forced fumble and recovery came on the first play from scrimmage, giving Rutgers’ offense momentum and field position. That, too, was fumbled away two plays later, and Syracuse returned it 66 yards for the game’s first seven points.

“As soon as I touched the ball, I took one step and he was there,” said redshirt freshman running back Jawan Jamison, who fumbled his first of 24 carries.

Defensive tackle Justin Francis’ interception gave Rutgers the ball back after Chas Dodd fumbled a poor snap at Rutgers’ 26-yard line. David

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RUTGERS SYRACUSE

Total Yds 302 295

Pass 297 169

Rush 5 126

EXTRA POINT RUSHING ANTWON BAILEY 23 CAR, 124 YDS, 1 TD

RECEIVING MOHAMED SANU 7 REC, 65 YDS, 1 TDS

“I’ve never seen a performance like that by a defense,” said head coach Greg Schiano. “I’m sure when I turn the tape on we’re going to have mistake after mistake, but you think about all the short fields they were on. You intercept three, you get two fumbles and you block two kicks — that’s an unbelievable day.”

Merrell, the sophomore strongside linebacker, blocked an extra point attempt and fourthquarter field goal that junior cornerback Marcus Cooper scooped and returned for a touchdown

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Rowe’s goal line pick again bailed the offense out after a turnover on the wrong side of the field.

Steve Beauharnais’ fourth-quarter interception gave kicker San San Te an opportunity to erase his two earlier misses with a 44-yard game-winning field goal and 11 seconds on the clock, but that, too, was wide left.

So it went to overtime, where Te made his two field goals and Lar yea, who entered when Khaseem Greene went down with a full-body cramp, forced a fumble that finally ended the 4-hour-20minute affair.

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Rutgers quarterbacks Chas Dodd and Gary Nova completed 22 passes to wideouts not named Mohamed Sanu, compared to 26 completions to other targets through the first three games of the season. Sophomore Quron Pratt was the main beneficiary, pulling in six catches, including one on a fourth-down conversion.

BY TYLER BARTO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — For the third time in as many seasons, the Rutgers football team trotted out a freshman quarterback for significant playing time during a Big East game.

Head coach Greg Schiano opted for rookie signal caller Gary Nova for the Scarlet Knights’ third drive of the third quarter, and sopho-

more Chas Dodd found a permanent spot on the bench. “[Nova] made some mistakes.

He also made some plays,” Schiano said. “He did some things under a great deal of duress. It allowed us to score some points. We moved the ball in the first half, too. We just didn’t score.”

Nova finished the contest completing 14-of-24 passes for

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