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Rutgers head football coach Greg Schiano has yet to decide whether he will start Chas Dodd or Gary Nova on Saturday at High Point Solutions Stadium.

University aims to raise online class enrollment

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Muriel Magenta, an art history professor at Arizona State University, and Rebecca Wright, a professor in the computer science deparment, share stories about being women in the science and art fields last night in the Douglass Campus Center.

Panelists tackle professional gender struggles

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After receiving her Masters of Fine Arts from Arizona State University, Muriel Magenta experienced some difficulty in her field because of her gender.

To an audience of about 100 University students and faculty members, Magenta

explained how she tried teaching in her alma mater’s painting department but was refused a position.

“I went up to my director and he told me, ‘We don’t hire women in studio,’” she said.

The director then told Magenta she could teach in a different department if she had a PhD.

“I decided I was going to do it, and five years after getting my PhD, I became an assistant professor in studio,” she said.

“None of my male colleagues had to get a PhD to teach.”

Magenta, who is now a professor in the School of Art at Arizona State University,

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CAHILL TO ADDRESS CONCERNS OVER DELOATCH CASE AT PUBLIC FORUM Mayor Jim Cahill will host a community forum today to discuss the police-involved shooting of Barry Deloatch and the resulting ongoing Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office’s investigation.

After giving his remarks, the mayor will answer questions from the public, according to a city press release.

The forum is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. at Ebenezer Baptist Church, 125 Lee Ave. Deloatch, a New Brunswick resident, died Sept. 22 after being shot during an incident with two New Brunswick police officers. Deloatch’s family, friends and local residents have been protesting against alleged police brutality in downtown

New Brunswick since. Police arrested four demonstrators this weekend.

The Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office is investigating the case. It marked 38 items as evidence and interviewed 37 witnesses about the shooting. The names of the officers have not been released, but they are on administrative leave until the investigation is complete.

Protestors plan to continue demonstrations today at the American Hungarian Foundation at 300 Somerset St., and tomorrow at 6:30 p.m. in front of City Hall during the City Council meeting.

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Greek life sees high Rush Week turnout

BY KRISTINE ROSETTE ENERIO NEWS EDITOR

Greek organizations around campus expect a total of 572 new members after this semester’s Rush Week — a number that will increase in the coming days as the last organizations hand in their final paperwork.

Interest in greek life has experienced an upward trend in the past two to three years with more than 1,600 students who registered to participate in fall Rush Week altogether, said Joann Arnholt, dean of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs.

“More and more are making the choice to be greek, and that always makes us very proud of our community. We’re happy to welcome new students to be a part of it,” she said.

So far, sororities on campus expect 137 new members collectively while fraternities will see

299 new faces, Arnholt said.

Special interest and professional fraternities will gain 136 students.

Amanda Crawford, president of the Panhellenic Association, believes Rush Week’s success can be attributed to the work of the Panhellenic Association and Interfraternity Council’s cabinet.

“They’ve done a fantastic job with educating potential new members about greek life [and] really showing them what it is about brotherhood and sisterhood and doing good for the community,” said Crawford, a School of Arts and Sciences senior.

The bulk of promotional responsibilities goes to the greek councils, specifically to four elected council members — two directors of Recruitment and two directors of Intake, Arnholt said. Both councils contribute one member to each director position.

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With no classroom, a professor and a class of 25 students, Tom Carr, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, logs into his Exploring New Media course and attends class based solely online.

“This is my first online course and I didn’t know what to expect,” he said. “Our professor in our online course is a great presence — she responds to everything we comment on.”

Carr said the online course is similar to a round table discussion rather than a lecture. Everyone participates in it because their grades depend on it.

His professor posts the textbook online and students respond to the professor’s questions with a 500word response. After the first three weeks, students then make up discussion questions for their classmates for the rest of the semester.

All this takes place without setting foot in a classroom, and for more students at the University, this scenario is becoming the norm.

The University is expanding its online enrollment, since its beginning in 1999, by offering classes with the College of Nursing, Mason Gross School of the Arts, the School of Communication and Information and more, said Raphael Caprio, vice president of Continuing Studies.

“Between fall of 2010 and 2011, we have had a 17 percent growth in the number of students enrolled, and a 19 percent growth in the number of sections,” he said. “Last year, there was an increase in Mason Gross Music elective courses, and it was our second year offering Spanish.”

The biggest area of growth over the past year was with the Mason Gross School of the Arts undergraduate courses, he said.

Despite the increase in enrollment, online class sizes for both undergraduate and graduate courses remain relatively small, Caprio said.

“In the fall of 2010, the average online class size was 19 students. In fall of 2011, the average class size was 18 students,” he said. “When the final numbers are in for online courses, there will be approximately 19 students.”

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INDEX UNIVERSITY The University of Maryland outshines team New Jersey at the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathalon.

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Supporters in the on-going protest for Barry Deloatch, a 46-year-old New Brunswick man who was shot in an altercation with two city police officers, take their cause to the University yesterday by walking through the College Avenue campus.

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Team NJ falls short of solar decathlon victory

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Designing untried structures and using unfamiliar materials were not enough for Team New Jersey to trump 19 other universities last week during its first try at the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon.

Despite trailing behind threetime competitor and decathlon winner, University of Maryland, the two-year path of hard work to Washington, D.C., was well worth the experience to the University and the New Jersey Institute of Technology team.

Dunbar Birnie, team adviser and professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, said Team New Jersey was one of the few teams that thought of the box with the design and materials used to construct the “Enjoy House.”

“In the end, that made it a little bit more of an uphill battle in some of the scoring categories,” Birnie said. “But in fact, I think it’s a beautiful house, and the students had a fantastic experience in learning how to design and engineer with architecture plans.”

Birnie and Clinton Andrews, a professor in the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, said they felt the Depar tment of Energy

should reconsider the reward points in a way that encouraged participants to design with innovative materials and that could be more revolutionary.

“Ironically, given that it’s a solar decathlon that’s supposed to be about innovation, they don’t have a category that prized for innovation,” Andrews said.

One of the categories Birnie said he believes would be sensible to change is affordability and something potential homeowner are willing to buy.

“I think [judges] figured most houses would come in just under 200,000 and this is all within 1,000 square feet, which is pretty expensive,” he said.

“For most of the visitors, it puts it out of the price range. It’s not really something they would go shopping for.”

Birnie said it seemed for extensive designs there was more of a penalty, where there needed to be more emphasis on a team achieving low costs.

One segment Birnie felt was suitable was the solar homes’ capability of delivering hot water in realistic situations. “[Judges] measured whether we could deliver hot water well enough, so if you live in a house and you want to take a shower but the hot water goes away, you’re not going to be happy. It wouldn’t be livable,” he said.

Though unsure about Team New Jersey’s future involvement with the solar decathlon, Birnie said if the team does decide to participate again, they would have a better understanding of competition’s categories and structure.

Andrew said he wished Team New Jersey had done better with the scoring, but on the other hand was happy it created a building he said was unlike any of the others.

“I think there were some grumbles about the scoring system and how it was applied to our design in particular, but I think that grumbles aside, this was a great experience for all of us,” Birnie said.

After a week of construction and a week of competition, Birnie said he, Andrews and Team New Jersey — comprised of 25 students — are currently in Washington, D.C., working on an additional week of taking the “Enjoy House” apart.

“We’re able to learn some of the improvements that we needed to do to really be competitive, brought it down here to Washington and now bringing it back to New Jersey, ” he said.

Washington, D.C., is not the end of the road for the “Enjoy House,” as the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City plans to keep the home at a permanent

exhibit aiming to further teach younger people about solar energy, Birnie said.

About a quarter of a million people visited the 19 houses during the public viewing portion of the competition, including younger generations of students, Birnie said.

“During the week days, [schools] actually did organize trips, and there were many bus loads of kids who visited and were able to visit multiple houses,” he said. “That was a great educational aspect, and now the same kinds of school visits can come the Liber ty Science Center.”

For Birnie, it was inspirational walking around the National Mall’s West Potomac Park to see the different houses, but also to realize the students’ involvement with energy efficiency as something they can carry with them for their careers.

“So ever ybody had the same r ules. All of the 19 [teams] came up with different designs and really interesting clever approaches,” he said. “Some did better than others. Some were more appealing. But different people like different things, so you wouldn’t want ever y house to be the same.”

The U.S. Department of Energy decided to put together the biennial competition with 10

different scoring categories to recognize the complexity of building houses and all of the factors necessary to make it energy-efficient, livable and interesting, Birnie said.

“It’s an unbelievably challenging kind of framework to design for, and so it’s great for its students, doing all of the work, reaching out, designing structures materials systems, hooking them all up and working them together,” he said.

While not only congratulating the University of Mar yland as the winners of the solar decathlon during the closing ceremony, Secretar y of Energy Steven Chu commented on the depar tment’s investment in alternative energy and hope for the future.

In light of a global competition for creating a smaller carbon footprint, Chu said in a U.S. Department of Energy press release that he challenges those who believe the United States cannot win.

“I challenge [them to] visit these houses, feel the student energy, touch their creativity and tell them they can’t win,” he said.

“These people are not here to give up. They’re here to win the clean energy race.”

Kristine Rosette Enerio contributed to this article.

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DEAN EXAMINES AMERICAN TRADITION OF PERFORMANCE POETRY A Rutgers-Camden scholar is the first to write a comprehensive book on the American tradition of performance poetry, which discusses its form, intersection with cultural identities and its history.

Tyler Hof fman, an associate dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and professor of English on the Camden campus, argues in “American Poetr y in Performance: From Walt Whitman to Hip-Hop,” that performances who were popular in their time do not get the recognition they deser ve.

“Even though Walt Whitman wasn’t well-known for performing his poetry, he did do so and was the first American poet to develop a poetics of liveness,” Hoffman said in a Camden news service

press release. “He insisted on the importance of spoken word or vocalness in poetry and imagined his work read out loud, saying that it was best confronted in the open air.”

While the one surviving recording of Whitman’s spoken performance is widely debated, Hoffman feels others who were popular for their willingness to stage poems for the masses, like Vachel Lindsay, are not.

Lindsay, whose biggest credit is discovering Langston Hughes when he was a bus boy, was dismissed as a “real” poet by the elite of his day, Hoffman said.

“A lot of elites found Vachel Lindsay crass. His poetry was about volume, rattling windows with its

intensity, but according to some, appealing to the lowest common denominator,” he said in his book.

His book also investigates how performance can cut against creativity when a person becomes a public figure.

“In some ways these poets were like rock stars, trapped by old hits,” Hoffman said in his book of Lindsay, whose suicide is considered a product of his struggle with the public self he could not abandon.

Hoffman is the winner of the 2004 RutgersCamden Provost’s Award for Teaching Excellence and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses at Rutgers Camden. He resides in Center City, Philadelphia.

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GREEK: Councils continue PANELISTS: Magenta recruitment for spring semester

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“Their job is to continually promote the idea of joining fraternities and sororities,” she said.

“They worked all summer through orientation, and then they’ve been working really quite tirelessly through the month of September to promote through a variety of different activities.”

Such activities include a fraternity pilot program called “Rapid Recruitment,” which is similar to speed dating except with the intention of generating interest, said Chris Daniele, Interfraternity Council president.

Similarly, sororities also hosted the “Sisterhood Shuffle” on Sept. 28, which gave potential members the opportunity to meet current sisters, said Crawford, who is also the marketing director for The Daily Targum.

Both fraternities and sororities on campus will take part in “Greek Knight,” where members of the greek community will attend a basketball game on Nov. 17 at the Louis Brown Athletic Center on Livingston campus to show their support for University athletics, said Daniele, a Rutgers Business School senior.

Daniele said the escalation of rush week participants indicates that University chapters have been portraying a positive image of greek life on campus.

“I personally believe that Rutgers University has one of the best greek systems in the country,” he said. “Each year we continue to grow because of the dedication all members of greek life have to the betterment of the community.”

Although the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs is tallying the final numbers for the fall semester, the council’s recruitment work is not over, and the directors will begin work for spring Rush.

“When we get past homecoming, they will shift their efforts to really focus on the first-year students making sure that they can continue the education that they were providing during the orientation sessions this summer,” Arnholt said.

Since first-year students are not allowed to join a greek organization during their first semester at the University, recruiters will pay par ticular attention to them next Rush season, Crawford said.

Events held through October and November will prepare students for Januar y, when they have to register to take part in spring recruitment, Arnholt said.

“The IFC and Panhell are currently planning a greek-wide event every three to four weeks to ensure that potential new members in the spring do not lose interest,” Daniele said.

Crawford said becoming part of a greek organization can give students a smaller family within a larger community, “Rutgers is such a large school, and [a sorority] really does make it seem more like home,” she said.

“You get a large group of friends, and you really get to meet some of the best people.”

As a transfer student, Crawford did not know many people on campus and joined a sorority to meet new faces.

“I’m really proud of the greek community in general for working so hard to generate interest, and I’m ver y excited for all the men and women that we’re going to have go greek this year,” she said.

said her gender was an important part of her work — a concept touched upon last night in the Douglass Campus Center as part of the “Embracing Technology: Women in Science and Art Discuss the Virtual World” panel discussion.

“We need to make sure our voices are heard, and part of those voices is my own,” she said.

The panel is the fourth in a series of conversations about arts and science, said Ferris Olin, co-director of the Institute for Women and Ar t (IWA), which sponsored the event along with the Douglass Residential College and the Of fice for the Promotion of Women in Science, Engineering and Mathematics.

Speakers discussed interactions and cross sections between art and science and how women could be more influential in both fields, said Anne Swartz, an art history professor at the Savannah

UNIVERSITY: Caprio says courses require discipline continued from front Many schools, such as Rutgers School of Business’ graduate program in governmental accounting, each have their own outreach program initiative to attract students who may be interested in online courses, said Richard Novak, director of special projects for Academic Affairs.

“We enable a student to come to Rutgers even though they are not enrolled in a Rutgers degree,” he said. “We have a cross registration throughout all campuses and [online courses] are accessible to anyone throughout the world.”

The Master of Library and Information Science at the School of Communication and Information is a popular program because it is a solely online masters degree, Novak said.

But not all graduate schools have a solely online-based program.

Novak said the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology has more innovations in its academic area so it would be hard to hold online courses, but there are plans to slowly incorporate them into the curriculum in the future.

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College of Art and Design, who Her focus is less on programmoderated the panel. ming and more on theoretical “Artists are using technology computer science. and are trying to see how to make “I study the mathematical art sexier, how to make it more underpinnings of what the bounderotic,” she said. aries are in what is possible and Rebecca Wright, a professor in not possible,” she said. the University’s computer sciWhile Wright considers herence department who also served self a feminist, she did not experias a panelist, said the lack of ence the same situations many women in the women in science computer scifields deal with. ences creates a “My mother “I found a lot misconception of majored in math at the subject.

MIT, and I grew up of poetry “Many underwith the idea that in technology. grads and many women do math,” people in the pubIt makes you think she said. “I did not lic think computer realize this was and it makes you is science is only unusual until programming, much later.” more emotional.” but it includes a During the conlot more things, versation, Magenta MURIEL MAGENTA including my presented a visual School of Art Professor at Arizona State University work,” she said. art piece titled, Wright was “Times Square,” named the first which showcased full-time female director for the her other artworks in a 3D virtual University’s Center for Discrete representation of Times Square.

Mathematics and Theoretical “I grew up in New York City, Computer Science (DIMACS), and I always loved going to which housed at the University Times Square and wonder if I but partners with other institu- would see my name in the billtions in the industry. boards,” she said. “Every bill-

board in my Times Square has my name on it.”

Samantha Kelly, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said the conversation pushed her to interact with technology.

“I thought the panelists opened my mind to working with technology, which I never really considered before,” she said.

Kelly thinks the ar t industr y is getting easier for women to get into, but admits there is still a barrier.

“It is definitely getting better, but last year a magazine photographer who came to speak said the pictures on 11 out of the 12 covers in her magazine were taken by men,” she said Magenta wants more people to collaborate from different fields.

“It’s important to go interdisciplinary and collaborate with people in other fields,” she said.

Magenta also said ar tists should not be afraid to embrace technology.

“Some people, particularly artists, think technology is cold.

I disagree,” she said. “I found a lot of poetry in technology. It makes you think and it makes you more emotional.”

tives, but some undergraduates “Student reports from across may not be prepared to take a the countr y show they learn course over the Internet. more in an online class,” he said.

“Online courses require a cer- “It’s not an easy way to get three tain degree of discipline. credits … but students really [Students] can’t put things off learn the material on a harder with an online course,” he said. level through discipline.”

Some students sign up for Caprio said graduate stuonline classes thinking they will dents tend to have less of a tranhave fewer connections with sition issue because they work instructors, but they increase full-time, work on their degree oppor tunities to par ticipate, part-time and spend more time Caprio said. dedicated to one subject while “Comparing one professor undergraduates take more teaching 20 stubroad and vardents verse one ied courses. professor teaching “The greatest “The technology 200 students — it’s challenge is to is there to improve get 18- to 24going to be a higher degree of interyear-old underclasses, but it’s action,” he said. graduate stujust a question Carr said online dents to have a courses give probalance,” of when and how.” proper fessors the chance he said. “It’s all to answer ever yabout going to RAPHAEL CAPRIO one — not just the class — that’s Vice President people who raise the reason why of Continuing Studies their hand — and you would want felt there was to be here.” more interaction in the The School of Engineering, online setting than in a tradi- Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy tional classroom. and Mason Gross School of the “I would encourage students Arts graduate music program do to take par t of the experience, not offer online courses, but the but not ever y professor is University is trying experimental the same,” Carr said. “I have courses to go toward the degree, had a completely positive expe- Caprio said. rience and I would encourage “Most of the online majors are students to take them based on at the graduate level, but I do not my experience.” know of anywhere yet that offers Novak said students should a fully online undergraduate be engaged with online courses. degree or major with the excep-

tion of the bridge program at the College of Nursing,” he said.

In comparison with other institutions in the American Association of University Professors, enrollment in online courses at the University is small, Caprio said.

Other AAUP institutions have five to six more times the enrollment.

“We’re more traditional in academics. We’re late arriving at the dance,” he said. “We enroll close to 9,000 students, while Penn State enrolls 100,000 students.”

New Jersey has a much smaller demographic statewide compared to other states, and it is full of colleges and universities that offer online courses, which account for part of the lower online enrollment, Caprio said.

The market demand worldwide for online courses is strong and most corporate training is done online, he said.

“If you’re not taking at least one online course before you graduate, you are not properly prepared for the real world,” he said.

Caprio said a lot of development has occurred in the last 12 years to enhance face-toface classes using technology in the classroom because of data received from online course feedback.

“The technology is there to improve classes,” he said. “But it’s just a question of when and how.”

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US citizens initiate nation-wide protests THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Protests against Wall Street spread across the country Monday as demonstrators marched on Federal Reserve banks and camped out in parks from Los Angeles to Portland, Maine, in a show of anger over the wobbly economy and what they see as corporate greed.

In Manhattan, hundreds of protesters dressed as corporate zombies in white face paint lurched past the New York Stock Exchange clutching fistfuls of fake money. In Chicago, demonstrators pounded drums in the city’s financial district. Others pitched tents or waved protest signs at passing cars in Boston, St. Louis and Kansas City, Mo. The arrests of 700 protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge over the weekend galvanized a slice of discontented America, from college students worried about their job prospects to middle-age workers who have been recently laid off.

Some protesters likened themselves to the tea party movement — but with a liberal bent — or to the Arab Spring demonstrators who brought down their rulers in the Middle East.

“I’ve felt this way for a long time. I’ve really just kind of been waiting for a movement to come along that I thought would last and have some resonation within the community,” said Steven Harris, a laid-off truck driver in Kansas City.

Harris and about 20 other people were camped out in a park across the street from the Kansas City Federal Reserve building, their site strewn with sleeping bags, clothes and handmade signs. Some passing drivers honked in support.

The Occupy Wall Street protests started on Sept. 17 with a few dozen demonstrators who tried to pitch tents in front of the New York Stock Exchange. Since then, hundreds have set up camp in a park nearby and have become increasingly organized, lining up medical aid and legal help and printing their own newspaper, the Occupied Wall Street Journal.

About 100 demonstrators were arrested on Sept. 24 and some were pepper-sprayed. On Saturday police arrested 700 on charges of disorderly conduct and blocking a public street as they tried to march over the Brooklyn Bridge. Police said they took five more protesters into custody on Monday, though it was unclear whether they had been charged with any crime.

Wiljago Cook, of Oakland, Calif., who joined the New York protest on the first day, said she was shocked by the arrests.

“Exposing police brutality wasn’t even really on my agenda, but my eyes have been opened,” she said.

She vowed to stay in New York “as long as it seems useful.”

City bus drivers sued the New York Police Department on Monday for commandeering their buses and making them drive to the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday to pick up detained protesters.

“We’re down with these protesters. We support the notion that rich folk are not paying their fair share,” said Transport Workers Union President John Samuelsen.

“Our bus operators are not going to be pressed into service to arrest protesters anywhere.”

The city’s Law Department said the NYPD’s actions were proper.

On Monday, the zombies stayed on the sidewalks as they wound through Manhattan’s financial district chanting, “How to fix the deficit: End the war, tax the rich!” They lurched along with their arms in front of them.

Some yelled, “I smell money!”

Reaction was mixed from passers-by.

Roland Klingman, who works in the financial industry and was wearing a suit as he walked through a raucous crowd of protesters, said he could sympathize with the anti-Wall Street message.

“I don’t think it’s directed personally at everyone who works down here,” Klingman said. “If they believe everyone down here contributes to policy decisions, it’s a serious misunderstanding.”

Another man in a suit yelled at the protesters, “Go back to work!”

He declined to be interviewed.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a billionaire who made his fortune as a corporate executive, has said the demonstrators are making a mistake by targeting Wall Street.

“The protesters are protesting against people who make $40- or $50,000 a year and are struggling to make ends meet. That’s the bottom line. Those are the people who work on Wall Street or in the finance sector,” Bloomberg said in a radio interview Friday.

Some protesters planned to travel to other cities to organize similar events.

John Hildebrand, a protester in New York from Norman, Okla., hoped to mount a protest there after returning home Tuesday. Julie Levine, a protester in Los Angeles, planned to go to Washington on Thursday.

Websites and Facebook pages with names like Occupy Boston and Occupy Philadelphia also sprung up to plan the demonstrations.

Hundreds of demonstrators marched from a tent city on a grassy plot in downtown Boston to the Statehouse to call for an end of corporate influence of government.

“Our beautiful system of American checks and balances has been thoroughly trashed by the influence of banks and big finance that have made it impossible for the people to speak,” said protester Marisa Engerstrom, of Somerville, Mass., a Harvard doctoral student.

The Boston demonstrators decorated their tents with handwritten signs reading, “Fight the rich, not their wars” and “Human need, not corporate greed.”

Some stood on the sidewalk holding up signs, engaging in debate with passers-by and waving at honking cars. One man yelled “Go home!” from his truck. Another man made an obscene gesture.

“We lean left, but there have been tea party people stopping by here who have said, ‘Hey, we like what you’re doing,’“ said Jason Potteiger, a media coordinator for the Boston protesters.

Protesters in St. Louis stood on a street corner a few blocks from the shimmering Gateway Arch.

“Money talks, and it seems like money has all the power,” said Apollonia Childs. “I don’t want to see any homeless people on the streets, and I don’t want to see a veteran or elderly people struggle. We all should have our fair share. We all vote, pay taxes.

Tax the rich.”

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Local pharmacies provide flu vaccinations

BY CHELSEA GRAU CONTRIBUTING WRITER

While fall brings redder leaves and colder temperatures, this time of year also reigns in the flu season. As more people are catching the flu, pharmacies all over New Jersey are doling out free vaccinations.

In light of the flu season, most pharmacies and drug stores are administering the vaccination for a fee, but some do it for free.

The Rite Aid on George Street offers the shot during its normal hours, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, for an operation cost of $27.99, which is covered by most insurance plans. East Brunswick’s CVS Pharmacy gave out flu vaccinations for free last weekend during certain hours.

Ever yone age six months or older should get the flu shot

because the vaccination is the best form of protection from the virus, said Dr. Tina Tan, the acting commissioner of the N.J. Depar tment of Health and Senior Ser vices.

“We encourage people to get the flu shot early because even though flu activity tends to peak in Januar y and Februar y, getting a vaccination early gives you time to build up immunity,” Tan said.

While the flu affects many people, Tan said it is difficult to pinpoint exactly how many people will contract the virus.

“In New Jersey, influenza is not a reportable disease, so it’s hard to get a number of how many people it affects,” she said.

The vaccination will protect people against three strains of the influenza virus, Tan said.

“Based on what we understand, the most common strains

are going to be the same strains that were circulating last year,” she said. “We monitor the situation and the strains that are circulating as the season progresses.”

Pharmacist Chirag Modi of the Rite Aid on George Street encourages people to get the flu shot. He said even if a person already contracted the flu this season, he or she can still receive a vaccination.

“If you already got the flu, your body will have antibodies that help you to fight it off, but the flu shot could still be of help,” he said. “If you were to get the flu a second time, it would not be as bad as the first time.”

Some warning signs of the flu include fever, headache, coughing, sneezing, aches and pains, Modi said. It usually lasts for about two weeks and can take a serious toll on an individual’s life if left untreated.

But both Tan and Modi agree that besides the flu shot, other preventative measures can be taken to protect oneself from the virus.

“It is important to cover your coughs and sneezes with a tissue, wash your hands and stay home from school and work if you feel sick,” she said.

Modi said people can also make use of other sanitizing products and can be considerate of others.

Justine Langman, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, agreed in part with this holistic approach to flu prevention, but admitted she has never gotten the flu shot.

She believes the need to get a flu shot really differs from individual to individual.

“After a person gets the flu, their immune system is ultimately stronger for it,” she said.

“College students are young and their immune systems are strong. We should let our bodies do the work.”

Langman believes a collective healthy immune system is for the good of the people and a person should only get the shot if necessary or to protect those around them who cannot receive the vaccination.

Tan said a person should not fear getting the flu shot because the flu vaccine is a safe and effective vaccine. Most reactions to the shot are mild and are mainly related to pain from the injection site, she said.

“We do recommend getting the vaccine, because there are a lot of people who cannot [normally] get it because of [their] age or a medical issue,” she said. “[Therefore] we need to try to help protect those people by getting ourselves vaccinated.”

RESIDENTS ACCUSE CHIMNEY CLEANING COMPANY OF FALSE SERVICES A Superior Court in New Brunswick is presiding over a trial involving allegations against a Long Island chimney repair company.

All Care Chimney, a New York-based company, went door-to-door to New Jersey homes of mostly senior, disabled citizens and convinced the people to write checks of repair work, despite there generally being no need for any repair, according to an nj.com article.

Employees of the company accepted checks but did not perform work or do an adequate job, making matters worse than before.

“These are consumers who don’t even know if the repairs were done correctly or adequately or were even needed in the first place,” said Deputy State Attorney General Cathleen O’Donnell in the article.

Following a complaint issued in regard to All Care Chimney’s alleged illicit activities, the state Division of Consumer Affairs issued a temporary restraining order against the company, stopping employees from approaching other residents in New Jersey.

Glenn Berman, the Superior Court judge presiding the case, ordered the company to provide the

state with a complete list of customers it ser ved in New Jersey.

Among one of the customers serviced includes an 84-year-old woman who All Care Chimney employees approached and sought $1,300 in repairs for a dry vent, according to the article.

Michael Lyon, president and owner of All Care Chimney, declined to comment in the article.

His company lawyer, Robert Lee, said in the article that All Care Chimney needs more time to form a response.

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The acclaimed Russian Mariinsky Orchestra will perform a 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.

“It Shoulda Been You” premieres at the George Street Playhouse for its month-long run. The musical is based on a concept by Barbara Anselmi featuring music by Anselmi, and book and lyrics by Brian Hargrove. Sponsored by The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation, the musical runs daily with 8 p.m. weekday shows and a 2 p.m. matinee and 7 p.m. shows on Sunday. Tickets are $41 and may be purchased online at georgestreetplayhouse.org.

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The New Brunswick Public Library will hold “Friends’ Brown Bag Lunch Program” where Richard Kaplan, superintendent of the New Brunswick Public Schools, will speak to residents and attendees about issues that affect the city’s school district. For those who attend, tea and coffee will be served. Kaplan served as superintendent of Eatontown and Boonton Public Schools before he took his current job seven years ago. Kaplan, well known for his support of music education, won the Administrators Award for Distinguished Support of Music Education. The event, which will span from 12:15 to 1 p.m., will take place in the Carl T. Valenti Community Room and is open to all members of the community. For more information, please contact Jennie Fischer, program manager at (732)-846-6610 or visit nbfpl.org/friends.html.

The New Brunswick City Council will hold the first of its two monthly meetings at 6:30 p.m. on 78 Bayard St.

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No Funny Business Comedy show will debut at 7 p.m. in the coLAB Arts Theater Space at 49 Bayard St. coLAB Arts will entertain crowds with a night full of comedy and live music.

The event admission is free and includes a BYOB cocktail hour beginning at 7 p.m. and an 8 p.m. comedy show.

The volunteers of the Institute for Women’s Leadership will be at the New Brunswick Free Public Library to do crafts and discuss the book “Uglies” by Scott Westerfeld. The book will also be provided for free to all those present. For more information visit nbfpl.org.

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The Maurice Sendak storytime session will continue at the New Brunswick Public Library as part of the series “In a Nutshell” where different guests, from artists to poets, come to the library to discuss their work. Sendak, a children’s storybook artist, will read three of his favorite classics, as well as show illustrations from these books. Children are welcome to attend in their pajamas and will have the option of bringing their favorite stuffed animals. For more information about this event, which will take place at the Carl T. Valenti Room from 7 to 8:30 p.m., please contact Joye CroweLogan at joye@lmxac.org or (732)-745-5108 x20.

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Comedian Jay Mohr, from “Saturday Night Live,” “Gary Unmarried,” “Jerry Maguire,” and “Ghost Whisperer,” will perform one show only at the Stress Factory Comedy Club on 90 Church St. in New Brunswick. Tickets cost $30 and can be purchased and printed at www.stressfactory.com.

Doors are at 6 p.m. and the show starts at 8 p.m, seats are first come, first served.

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Comedian and actress Wanda Sykes, known for her HBO stand-up specials, “Wanda Sykes: Sick & Tired,” and “I’ma Be Me,” and for her appearances on “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “The New Adventures of Old Christine,” and “The Chris Rock Show,” will perform her stand-up routine at the State Theatre at 8 p.m. Tickets range from $95-$35 and can be purchased at www.statetheatrenj.com or at the ticket office at 15 Livingston Ave. To have your event featured on www.dailytargum.com, send Metro calendar items to metro@dailytargum.com.

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Nicolas Winding Refn’s achingly hip movie Drive features Ryan Gosling brutally kicking ass and taking names while wearing a satin scorpion-emblazoned jacket.

So naturally, the film’s soundtrack would include lush synthpop and pulsating beats. Surprised? The Miami Vice-esque score, helmed by former Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Cliff Martinez, is a perfect, nasty concoction for a night of mischief.

“Nightcall” by French house DJ Kavinsky, featuring Lovefoxxx of Brazil’s Cansei de Ser Sexy, gets things going with a grimy beat and sex-robot vocals. “I’m gonna tell you something you don’t want to hear/ I’m gonna show you where it’s dark, but have no fear,” he menaces. It’s hard not to imagine being in a seedy-yet-awesome strip

club with this blaring from the speakers. Desire’s “Under Your Spell,” used during a party scene in Drive, contains sultry, harmonized vocals that pay clear homage to ‘80s group Berlin’s “Take My Breath Away.” Chromatics’ “Tick of the Clock,” with sampled beats and dragged-out effects, is another trippy gem — especially so, considering the tune is almost 14 minutes long.

Martinez, though, also proves to be an adept composer. Songs like “Kick Your Teeth” and “I Drive” are attention-grabbing and stick in your head. Sinister rhythms reflect the louche underworld that talented director Refn has so carefully put on the screen.

Martinez, also the composer for Steven Soderbergh’s celebritystudded germfest Contagion, knows how to deliver. So go ahead — put on your denim jacket, hop into your car, pop in this album and drive.

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After a three-year absence from the music scene, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah return with their newest studio album, Hysterical. The Brooklyn quintet created a buzz in 2005 with critics and fans alike with the release of their self-titled and self-released debut album.

However, the band’s popularity was short-lived due to the critical response to its second album, Some Loud Thunder.

Shortly after this release, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah disbanded — leaving many to believe the group would never reunite. With the band’s members taking time off to venture into other musical projects, CYHSY have returned refreshed and renewed.

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Hysterical displays the band’s strength in the songwriting department with a clearer sound and tighter song arrangements in comparison to those heard on their 2007 release. With songs such as “Maniac” and “Ketamine and Ecstasy,” the band’s unique brand of nervous yet powerful energy shines through and stronger than ever.

Front man Alec Ounswor th’s wispy tenor voice and head-

scratching lyrics return in beautiful and dramatic pieces like “Misspent Youth”, where he sings, “The glor y of a misspent youth/Chasing tire stains and muted thunder/Trading sex for drugs”.

Key tracks such as “The Witness’ Dull Surprise” and “Siesta (For Snake)” pronounce Ounswor th and company’s signature sound most ar ticulately.

Unfor tunately, songs like “Into Your Alien Arms” and “Yesterday, Never” lack energy and are dull from the get-go. While Hysterical lacks the quirky experimentation of their first album, or the downright lo-fi sound of their second, the album as a whole produces a dif ferent sound for Clap Your Hands Say Yeah that isn’t necessarily undesirable.

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ocial networking sites are veritable goldmines for advertisers.

Drawing on the personal information people readily offer on websites like Facebook and Twitter, advertisers create and deploy personalized ads in the hopes that consumers will be drawn in more readily than ever. A new website, Shopularity, takes the partnership between social media and advertising to the logical extreme by doing away with even the facade that users are on the site to do anything but sell themselves. On Shopularity, users compete in writing reviews for different products. Other users vote on these reviews, and the user with the most votes wins a prize in the end. Basically, what Shopularity does is use people to sell products to each other, cutting the marketing middlemen out entirely. It’s a crafty maneuver, one we’re rather uncomfortable with.

On a very practical level, we find it difficult to trust the reviews posted on Shopularity. One has to remember that, in order to elicit these reviews in the first place, the website offers it users prizes. And the prizes aren’t anything to laugh at. According to the Huffington Post, Shopularity gives the winners expensive products, like “iPads or designer handbags.” So this is not a service like Amazon.com, where users who post reviews are doing so with no motive other than expressing their true opinions. On Shopularity, the reviews are posted by people who actively compete to make theirs the biggest and best so they might win. That’s not a source of honest reviews. It’s a place for hyperbole and skewed viewpoints, all in the name of winning the prize.

On a more theoretical level, Shopularity makes us even more unsettled. It encourages users to abandon their personal opinions and shamelessly tout whatever product they need to in order to win a new computer, or what have you. It turns people into mindless advertising machines. There’s no dignity in such conduct — and even less honesty. Shopularity calls itself “a popularity contest, version 2.0,” and that’s a pretty accurate description. Like your average popularity pageant, Shopularity is built on vapidity and flashy looks. If users want to participate, they’re free to do so. But perhaps first they should take a long look at what they’re about to do. Is prostituting yourself out to a company worth it just to win a prize or two? We don’t think so.

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mericans are familiar with the high taxes on items such as cigarettes and alcohol — conversationally referred to as “vice taxes.” Taxes of this type serve a twofold purpose. On one hand, they raise revenue for the state, like any other tax. On the other, they attempt to deter the abuse of such substances, which are or can be dangerous to the body. Denmark levied a similar new tax on saturated fats on Saturday, which the country hopes will bring in revenue and make unhealthy foods a less attractive item to consumers. The tax is 16 kroner — which translates to $3 U.S. — per kilogram of saturated fat in a given product. It’s an interesting idea, and we can see where they’re coming from, but such a tax would probably never work here in America.

Like our own vice taxes, the so-called “fat tax” is imposed on a product — in this case, saturated fat — which many consider to be a luxury, not a necessity. That’s certainly true of saturated fat. Far from being a necessity for life, saturated fat is more of a detriment, if anything. In this light, the tax makes sense. The government of Denmark wants both revenue and longer life expectancies. The “fat tax” theoretically gets both of those jobs done.

We would like to call attention to the use of the word “theoretically” in the preceding sentence. It is for precisely this reason — that the “fat tax” theoretically works — that such a tax could not be employed in America. As it is in this country, anti-tax rhetoric is at an all-time high.

President Barack Obama’s recent “Buffet Rule” proposal, for example, has met with widespread resistance. People don’t like the idea of taxing the rich, even if they themselves are unaffected by this new tax.

Now, consider how much saturated fat the average American consumes. According to the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 15 percent of the calories in an average American’s diet come from saturated fats. A tax on these fats, then, would affect everyone, and there is no reason to think the people would take kindly to this. Instead, they would most likely react rather nastily.

As we said earlier, we do think Denmark’s fat tax is an interesting and quite rational idea. That being said, it probably would not translate well to American soil. At least, not in the current political climate, where taxes are unpopular and the increasingly prevalent libertarianleaning political ideologies would decry the government’s attempts to tax fatty foods as the work of a “nanny state.”

QUOTE OF THE DAY “They’re going to be off the — sound like the kids now — off the chain Saturday. A 3:30 start, that’s always great, too.

Give them a little time to have some fun, then get in there.”

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to kill ever y cow because he average Joe of it. It’s asinine, I know. wants to make a difMeanwhile members of ference in the the “1 percent,” who are United States of America, apparently what is wrong right? So for the past two with America, are vocal weeks, University students enthusiasts of “Occupy from across the tri-state Wall Street.”

Russell area and their unemployed AARON MARCUS Simmons, whose net worth counterparts have ascendis about $340 million, is a ed into lower Manhattan to strong supporter of the movement and agrees show greedy corporations that people will not sit that the people need to take away corporate silently while Fortune 500 companies employ milinfluence on politics. Susan Sarandon and lions of Americans, fund charities that help the Michael Moore, both multimillionaires, are homeless and needy, or produce products that strong enthusiasts of arresting wealthy people all over the world use. Wait, what? I bet Americans — except themselves — and redisyou thought the “Occupy Wall Street” protests in tributing their wealth. But the most mind-bogthe financial district of New York City were gling celebrity supporter and subsequently most intended to … oh, that’s right, you don’t know. violent is none other than Roseanne Barr. The Do not fret, my fellow classmates. You are not former sitcom star, whose net alone. No one in the countr y or worth is around $80 million, said the world knows exactly what “Why on earth would in an inter view with a Russian telthese people want, except one station, “I first would thing — money. Ironic, that a you take [your anger] evision allow the guilty bankers to pay, group of individuals calling corpoout on the businesses you know, the ability to pay back rations greedy want to take away over $100 million. … other people’s money and use it that employ millions anything And if they are unable to live on for themselves. that amount of that amount then According to the “Occupy Wall of Americans?” they should, you know, go to the Street” website, the movement is reeducation camps, and if that leaderless with one common doesn’t help, then being beheaded.” theme, that “the 99 percent … will no longer tolSo now we have an “Occupy Wall Street” erate greed and corruption of the 1 percent.” But movement whose activists want to force those what do these people actually want? Some say who employ Americans to forfeit the idea of new they want to end capitalism, others say they want jobs, rob them of their money, and if they don’t action against environmental pollution, others like it, behead them. Now take a moment and are upset over the execution of Troy Davis, a lot compare this to the evil tea party movement that do not want wealthy people to contribute to politwants the government to act in a minimal role ical elections, and some are bussed in by the and follow the Constitution. I know that Granny Ser vice Employees International Union, was really angr y when she called President Communications Workers of America and Barack Obama a socialist, but if the tea party Teamsters unions with no clear incentive at hand. ever called for the type of violent revolution I understand people are angr y that there are few “Occupy Wall Street” calls for, it would have jobs and even fewer high-salar y jobs, but that’s been shut down in minutes. The difference is what happens when you regulate and tax an econthat violence is the essence of the coercive omy to death. methods these radical Communists, Maoists and Now, I understand why the unemployed and Mar xists want to use against wealthy soon-to-be unemployed (students) are upset at Americans. They believe that violence is justithe state of the economy, but why on earth fied if it enhances the “public good,” regardless would you take it out on the businesses that employ millions of Americans? That’s like hating SEE MARCUS ON PAGE 11 the fact that there isn’t enough milk and vowing

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MARCUS continued from page 10 of how brutal and immoral it may be. You see, these people find it abhorrent that a New York City police officer peppersprayed four female protesters last week, but they hypocritically support the beheading of moneymakers on Wall Street. Classy.

It’s up to you, fellow classmates, to support this movement or take it seriously. Just make sure you discover what exactly it is you are aligning yourself with. Ignore for a moment that this movement is made up widely of hipsters from Brooklyn living off Daddy’s paycheck and students spending roughly $40K-$60K a year on education. Ignore again that “Occupy Wall Street” has no clear message, but be wary of violent rhetoric becoming violent action as protestors become

more agitated that nothing is being done to answer their questions. If that’s your thing, join the throngs of people tweeting from their corporate smartphones, snapping pictures with their corporate cameras and wearing clothes made by corporate oppressors all in the name of closing down — you guessed it — corporations. Luckily we still live in a country where freedom of speech is honored, no matter how much those at “Occupy Wall Street” want to infringe on the right of successful Americans to speak freely.

Next time you question why the rest of the world thinks Americans aren’t the brightest of the bunch, remember these idiot protestors bringing stupidity to a whole new level.

Aaron Marcus is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in political science with a minor in history. His column, “Marcus My Words,” runs on alternate Tuesdays.

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t’s fall once again. The wind is biting harder, the workloads are increasing, and Rutgers University Student Assembly fall elections are at hand. I understand, dear reader, if you were unaware that election season was opening up, or if you were not planning on voting.

However — and I cannot stress this enough — it is ver y important that you and all of your friends cast your ballots.

RUSA is your voice at the University. RUSA is charged with airing your grievances to the University administration and pushing for your interests with state and federal legislators. We cannot do this unless we know where you stand.

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ashington became the first state to offer a minimum wage above $9 per hour. Starting Jan. 1, 2011, the state’s minimum wage will be $9.04. That’s $1.79 higher than the measly federal minimum of $7.25. Unlike that federal minimum wage, Washington’s minimum has been keeping pace with inflation and increasing costs of living. Opponents of raising the minimum wage usually argue that doing so will force companies to offer fewer jobs, since they would be required to pay their workers more.

However, according to Jeff Johnson, president of the Washington State Labor Council, “Washington State has one of the highest rates of growth in small business and retail. [Increasing minimum wage] doesn’t seem to be stopping these people from creating new businesses.” Therefore, we laurel Washington for giving their workers better lives, and we’d like to see more states follow in its footsteps. *

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Unhappy with the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality rules, which prevent Internet ser vice providers from privileging certain areas of content on the Web over others, Verizon Communications has decided to sue. Frankly, we think Verizon’s decision to file laws speaks ill of its company’s priorities. We cannot figure out why it disagrees with net neutrality, other than on the grounds that it wants to interfere with the experiences of its users. We dart Verizon for failing to see why net neutrality is so important to maintaining a free and open Internet. The last thing we need is a corporation deciding what we can and cannot look at online.

The process is very simple.

Go to ruassembly.com and cast your ballot on Oct. 5 before midnight. Once you log in, you can vote for senators-at-large, students who will sit on the University Senate alongside faculty, staff and administrators. You can also vote on representatives, depending on your campus. For instance, if you live on Livingston campus, you can vote for Livingston representatives.

In the time it took you to read this description, you could have just cast a ballot of your own. So what’s stopping you? If none of the names on your ballot sound familiar, I suppose you are lucky that you live in the digital age.

Research the candidates. Many of them have already left their mark on campus.

Democracy, it’s often said, doesn’t trickle down from the top, it rises up from the bottom. RUSA

is going to have a hugely productive year. We already have a voter registration drive underway, the beginning of “What’s on Your Mind” Month plans for a series of town hall meetings in midOctober and the groundwork for a Student Empowerment Conference in November. We are working to maintain a statewide student association, meeting with administration on your behalf and researching ways to make textbooks more affordable. We have a busy and productive year ahead of us, and I look forward to meeting and working with the student leaders elected tomorrow. All I need you to do is one thing: vote.

John Connelly is a School of Arts and Sciences junior majoring in history and political science with a minor in social justice. He is the vice president of the Rutgers University Student Assembly.

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Former Rutgers quarterback Tom Savage started as a freshman two seasons ago, but Chas Dodd replaced him as the starter last year after four games into Savage’s sophomore season.

he got his opportunity because of Savage’s hand injury.

Schiano pulled Dodd at Syracuse because he struggled.

“Obviously, you want one quar terback to star t and finish the game, but I wasn’t having the best game,” said Dodd, who was 14-of-31 for 166 yards with an interception. “If I’m not and he feels like he has to make a change, then that’s OK. Obviously, you want to be in the whole game and get all the reps and produce, but if you’re not producing, then he has to make a decision.”

Nova’s game-tying touchdown pass, part of a 10-point fourth quarter, forced Schiano to make a decision.

But Nova also made critical mistakes.

Most of them came with game management, something Schiano said he cannot help but expect from a freshman.

Rutgers used two timeouts on Nova’s first drive and took two delay of game penalties while he was under center.

Nova also tried to throw the ball away to escape a sack, but fumbled and turned the ball over at Rutgers’ 16-yard line.

He threw the ball away again later, and that time referees called it intentional grounding.

“I was pretty disappointed in my play,” said Nova, who went 14for-24 for 122 yards and a touchdown. “There was a couple of third-down plays I made, and I was pretty happy with that, but I

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know I left a lot of offense on the field. We got the win, though, and that was all that mattered.”

Nova’s cell phone greeted him after his first collegiate win with a text message from fellow Don Bosco Prep and former Rutgers quarterback Mike Teel.

Teel, now a quar terbacks coach at Kean, regularly texted Savage while Savage ran Rutgers’ offense before transferring to Arizona.

Savage also started as a true freshman, and then spent the offseason taking ownership of the offense. He started the first four games as a sophomore, and Dodd started each of the 12 games since.

Asked if he was surprised to be in a quarterback competition after building up equity, Dodd said, “Maybe a little.”

“It’s a competition,” he said.

“Ever since Day 1, it’s been a competition. Coach told us as we were being recruited here that he was going to play the best player he feels gives us the best chance to win, so we know no one spot is permanent. You have to keep working and show you want the spot, and that’s how it’s always been.”

Dodd should know because it was the same way last season, when he took over the starting job.

He repeatedly credited Savage with helping him adjust to starting as a true freshman, and Nova said Dodd is more than willing to do the same.

“He went through the same thing last year as a freshman quarterback,” Nova said. “Me and Chas have been really supportive of each other from the beginning, so I just want to keep that going.”

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weekend here, and coming away with nothing.”

The Knights defense suffered a serious blow before the game even star ted, as junior defender Joe Setchell did not play because of an undisclosed injur y.

Setchell, whom teammates voted team captain during the preseason, started every game for the Knights until sitting against Marquette.

Senior Paulie Calafiore took over for Setchell in the star ting lineup.

“Not having Joe Setchell in the middle of the backfield really hurt us because he is a pretty steady force back there,” Donigan said. “We’re tr ying to get him healthy for our next conference matchup.”

Setchell is likely out for tonight game, as well, when Rutgers travels to No. 3 Mar yland. The game against the Terps marks the last stop out of conference before the Knights’ remaining Big East schedule.

“We want to get into a position to qualify for the Big East Tournament, and a guy like [Setchell] is vital to our success,” Donigan said. “I’m not going to sacrifice his health on a nonconference game at this point.”

In addition to one of the Knights’ top defenders in Setchell out, Correa, one of Rutgers’ top playmakers on of fense, received a one-game suspension for penalties.

But the Knights know Mar yland is only a tune-up match for what proves to be the toughest part of their schedule.

“It’s going to be a tough game. I’m suspended, and we won’t have Setchell,” Correa said. “After Mar yland it is all Big East, so whatever happens in Mar yland happens. But after that we have to come back ready to play.”

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Rutgers suffers another sweep in league play

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The Rutgers volleyball team came out flat and str uggled early against South Florida Saturday, but head coach CJ Werneke saw enough out of a strugVOLLEYBALL gling RUTGERS 0 squad despite SOUTH FLORIDA 3 a 3-0 loss.

“This weekend in South Florida we did a better job of competing,” said the four th-year head coach. “Even though we were down at times, we came back and responded well.”

The Scarlet Knights’ stalwar t attack put the pressure on the Bulls to finish on their home cour t by warding of f five match points.

Rutgers trailed the match, 20, and the game by seven points, but with the door essentially closed on the Knights, sophomore Sheridan Taylor recorded consecutive kills.

Back-to-back USF er rors opened the door slightly more, and a Kelsey Ross ser vice ace put the Knights right back in the door way.

LINEUP: Knights total double-digit penalty corners continued from back Rodziewicz, but her injury provided one positive in that others had to improve on penalty corners in her absence. The Knights did exactly that without Rodziewicz by amassing double-digit corners in each of the four games without her.

They began to convert corners into points in wins against Bucknell and Georgetown.

“We’ve been training other players for [the fly], and she pushes out on corners as well,”

USF called a timeout, talked it over and finally slammed the door on the Knights, as USF’s leading hitter, Kayla Walton, drove an attack to the floor.

Shaky from the star t, the Knights fell behind, 8-3, to star t the match, but put together a run of their own to

“This weekend in South Florida we did a better job of competing. ... We came back and responded well.”

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take an 11-9 lead on a Taylor ser vice ace.

The first game remained back and for th until the Bulls grabbed hold of the momentum and carried it into the next game. Three early aces and miscues from the Knights gave USF a 6-0 lead.

Outplayed in the second, the Knights dropped the game to put themselves in a 2-0 hole.

Tchou said. “Our kids have adjusted well without her, but we’re a much better team with her on the field.”

Rodziewicz was unlikely to play against Columbia at first, but she found playing time because of the absence of fellow midfielder Bridgette Sands, who was sick.

The Ocean Township High School product could not make her usual contributions of flying and pushing out on penalty cor ners, but she expects to be at full strength against the Cardinals.

With a completely healthy Rodziewicz, the Knights get more

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he Rutgers men’s basketball team will host “MidKnight Madness” on Oct. 14 at 9:30 p.m. at the College Ave. Gym. The homecoming weekend event is free and open to the public.

One attendee has the oppor tunity to win a two-year lease on a Volkswagon valued at $15,000, cour tesy of Rydel Volkswagon. The fan has to make a halfcour t shot during the event to win the Volkswagon.

Spor ts New York personality and play-by-play voice Chris Carlin will emcee the event.

“MidKnight Madness” will be the first chance for fans to see this season’s highly heralded recruiting class.

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senior Nicole Gentile earned Big East Weekly Honor Roll recognition yesterday, the league announced.

Gentile scored the gamewinner with 52 seconds left in a 3-2 comeback victory Friday against Georgetown.

The goal marked Gentile’s fifth point in a three-game span.

Gentile has eight points on the season, resulting from three goals and two assists.

The forward ended the day with a team-leading six shots, including four shots on goal.

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players Dan Herron and DeVier Posey should return to action after ser ving fivegame suspensions.

But they will not be on the field for Saturday’s matchup against Nebraska, according to Ohio State Athletic Director Gene Smith.

The violation involves excessive compensation regarding hours worked and hours paid, Smith said.

The types of jobs were primarily day labor, such as clean-up work at a carwash, picking up scrap metal at a recycling yard and sorting through items in a storage area, according to a letter from Ohio State to the NCAA.

“It’s very difficult to win and pull out the victory when you come out, and you’re down by six to seven points right away,” Werneke said. “When we do have the perseverance to get back in the match, we have to learn how to finish the match.”

The Knights are now winless in the Big East after struggling to compete in the conference’s opening weekend, when it faced West Virginia and Pittsburgh. Rutgers proved resilient in the second game of its loss to WVU, but could not finish down the stretch.

But last weekend proved dif ferent, and featured long rallies, momentum swings and long-point runs.

It showed enough to convince Rutgers it has what it takes to end a six-game skid.

Rutgers has its first opportunity to do so tonight against Fordham at the College Avenue Gym, where it last played Sept.13 in a 3-0 win against Lehigh.

The Knights play three additional matches at home before they again leave New Brunswick.

“For us, we need better energy to star t a game,” Taylor said. “To finish it, we need that final push. Those two things combined will make for a good one.”

than only a player who makes an impact on corners.

“If you ask her to play left, right, she’s just a really sound player — very consistent with her position.”

LIZ TCHOU Head Coach

They return one of their best defensive midfielders.

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Sophomore Sheridan Taylor registered a service ace to put the Knights up, 11-9, in the first game, but they lost the match, 3-0.

“She’s one of our stronger defending midfielders,” Tchou said.

“She’s been playing the position for three years. If you ask her to play left, right, she’s just a really sound player — very consistent with her position and how she defends.”

The Knights also get back one of their top scorers.

Rodziewicz tied for the team lead with three goals before her absence, already a career-high this season in only seven games.

“In general, it would be nice to get midfielders to score more,” Tchou said. “We’ve been on a scoring drought, but Kat is the one person, especially on corners, who is able to get shots

off. When she’s in there, she gives us opportunities.”

But most impor tantly, Rodziewicz heads to Louisville, Ky., with a rejuvenated team able to improve par tly by making up for her absence.

After taking on the Cardinals, the Knights return to Piscataway for a two-game homestand before eventually heading back on the road.

“Ever yone’s stepping up on all aspects of the field, and we’re working really well together,” Rodziewicz said.

“We’re on a good streak right now. I just hope I can help my team keep that up.”

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Sophomore Jamal Merrell (37), who converted to linebacker in the spring, made his first significant contributions on defense and special teams in the Knights’ 1916 win against Syracuse. Merrell recovered a fumble, made four tackles and blocked an extra point and field goal at the Carrier Dome.

Rangy linebacker steps up as special teams terror

BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Greg Schiano was ready to call it quits with his punt block unit after the Rutgers FOOTBALL football team failed to register a single block in its first three games.

“That’s our calling card, and we haven’t done it,” Schiano said after the Scarlet Knights defeated Ohio. “Maybe we’ll just become a return team.”

But even though the Knights again failed to block a punt against Syracuse in a 1916 double-over time victor y, the head coach will likely rethink the approach.

Big East Special Teams Player of the Week Jamal Merrell is to blame. “[Defensive tackles Scott Vallone and Justin Francis] did a great job penetrating, and it caused some other people to cheat down to help,” Schiano said after Merrell blocked an extra point and field goal at Syracuse. “That freed up

Jamal, and man, he’s such a good athlete.”

Merrell flew in of f the left side and dove at the feet of Syracuse kicker Ross Krautman, who attempted a 44yard field goal that would have made it a two-possession game with less than seven minutes in regulation.

Junior cornerback Marcus Cooper scooped the ball after Merrell’s and ran down the sideline for a 74-yard touchdown.

But officials called the play back after whistling junior linebacker Steve Beauharnais for a block in the back — a call neither Schiano nor Beauharnais seems to agree with.

“Any time you can take points of f the board for the opposing offense, it’s definitely a big play,” Cooper said. “Our guys came up and executed our technique, so I did what I had to do to get the ball.”

But by simply taking three points off the board, the damage was done.

The penalty on Beauharnais, who earned Big East Defensive

Player of the Week honors after recording two sacks and an interception, brought the ball back to Syracuse’s 46-yard line, but Rutgers still moved the ball downfield and scored “I read it on my assignment, and I saw that was open, so I just took it,” Merrell said.

The Bear, Del., native also blocked an extra point on the Orange’s only offensive touchdown of the game early, which proved pivotal in keeping the Knights’ deficit at seven, rather than eight.

That was only par t of Merrell’s day.

The 6-foot-4, 220-pounder kicked of f his career per formance with a forced and recovered fumble on Syracuse’s first of fensive snap of the game. Then he finished it with forcing an Antwon Bailey in over time that cor nerback Logan R yan recovered to secure Rutgers’ victor y.

“That’s one of our main points, emphasis on defense [and] takeaways,” Merrell said. “That was real big for the defense.”

As a whole, the linebacker unit reinforced Schiano’s decision to morph into a smaller, quicker group.

Junior Khaseem Greene finished with a team-high 11 tackles, Beauharnais added nine tackles and an interception, and Merrell had four tackles, wreaking havoc from the beginning.

“I think that we just played with speed like we should,” Greene said. “We obviously trusted our keys and reacted well. That was just the main thing. We played fast, oppor tunities presented themselves, we made turnovers and took advantage of them.”

But it was clear the day on special teams belonged to Merrell, who showed his potential in becoming Schiano’s next force on the unit.

The Hodgson Vo-Tech product arrived in Piscataway as a wide receiver, but before long shifted to defensive end. He eventually moved to linebacker in spring practices. He does not fit the typical linebacker mold, but Merrell now has a

grip on a star ting spot to go with special teams responsibilities, where his length and speed pay major dividends.

“The way my first three years were here — coming in as a receiver, I banged up my knee, tr ying defensive end, getting moved to outside linebacker due to my speed — it was a humbling process,” Merrell said. “I had to keep my head and keep chopping, that’s all it was.”

Merrell still has yet to block a punt, although he was close on one against North Carolina Central in the team’s season opener. But after blocking the first two kicks of his career in the same game, a punt is likely next on the checklist for both Merrell and Schiano.

“He blocked two field goals, and it was just phenomenal,” Greene said. “Those points could have easily been points that ended the game for us. Just to be able to take away points off the scoreboard was an event in itself.”

Schiano could be looking at a new calling card.

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S CHIANO EXPECTS

BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

Shuffling will continue along the offensive line Saturday against Pittsburgh after eight players saw time in a 19-16 win against Syracuse.

Rutgers head football coach Greg Schiano said he will evaluate the entire line, but the bulk of the attention will likely be on the right side.

Freshman right tackle Kaleb Johnson played every snap since starting and making his collegiate debut two games ago, but Betim Bujari appears less secure at right guard.

The redshirt freshman started each of the past two games, but sophomore Antwan Lowery played Rutgers’ final two drives and each overtime possession against Syracuse.

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“We’re going to mess around with the O-line a little bit,” Schiano said. “We didn’t run the ball ef fectively, and we need to be able to do that.

We had some protection issues. We need to be able to protect better.”

Rutgers allowed five sacks against a defense Schiano repeatedly said it does not match up well against and managed 62 yards on 31 designed running plays.

“They were doing a lot of things that test the mental as well as the physical for [Bujari and Johnson],” Schiano said. “I think it might have gotten a little big for the younger guys, a little too much for the younger guys. Now it’s a great experience to win the game and get that experience under their belt. They’re both going

to be better players for having gone through it.”

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on junior wide receiver Mohamed Sanu through the first three weeks, more wideouts were productive against Syracuse.

Sophomore Quron Pratt caught six passes, junior Mark Harrison hauled in five and classmate Tim Wright contributed one. Fullbacks Joe Mar tinek and Michael Bur ton, running back Jawan Jamison and quar terback Gar y Nova also caught passes.

But after a dominant set of 15 spring practices, redshirt freshman Brandon Coleman only has three catches to start the season, which surprises Schiano.

Coleman was the target of a number of deep passes but has

yet to pull any of them in, including one in the end zone Saturday at the Carrier Dome.

“It will come. He’s a ver y gifted guy. He’s just got to stay in the moment,” Schiano said.

“Don’t get too concerned about the result. Result-oriented thinking gets guys in trouble.

They need to just keep doing the process and it will pop for them.”

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back Jeremy Deering was on the field for only one play against Syracuse, but Schiano said he is healthy and can expect to be more involved.

“Looking back, we need to get him more oppor tunities,” Schiano said. “He’s too good of a player not to have oppor tunities.”

Deering car ried the ball eight times for 27 yards and caught two passes for 23 yards since a training camp limited by concussion symptoms. He ranked second on the team last season with 352 rushing yards out of the Wildcat.

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promoting Saturday’s game against Pittsburgh as a blackout for the student section, and Schiano is excited for the oppor tunity to return to High Point Solutions Stadium.

“Our students have been awesome all year,” Schiano said. “They’re going to be of f the — sound like the kids now — of f the chain Saturday. A 3:30 star t, that’s always great, too. Give them a little time to have some fun, then get in there.”

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OCTOBER 4, 2011

Short ‘D’ sputters in shutout loss

BY VINNIE MANCUSO CORRESPONDENT

NOAH WHITTENBURG / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Sophomore quarterback Chas Dodd started each of the past 12 games and began this season completing 69-of-127 passes for 754 yards with six touchdowns and three interceptions before head coach Greg Schiano pulled him in the third quarter against Syracuse.

SAME STORY Scarlet Knights start Pittsburgh preparation without defined starting quarterback

BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

Rutgers head football coach Greg Schiano had every opportunity to stand behind sophomore quarterback Chas Dodd FOOTBALL since benching him Saturday in the third quarter against Syracuse.

He first faced the question of whether the incumbent starter will remain so after Saturday’s win at

Syracuse, where freshman Gary Nova replaced Dodd in a 19-16 comeback win. He faced it again the day after. And he encountered it yesterday in his weekly press conference, when he again declined to name a starter.

A decision between Dodd and Nova will likely be clear early in the week, but do not expect to know for sure until the Scarlet Knights take the field for warmups before Saturday’s 3:30 p.m. kickoff against Pittsburgh.

“I’ll make a decision when I’m ready to make it. I don’t know when that’s going to be,” Schiano said. “I probably won’t go public with the decision until kickoff. I just want to make sure I do what’s right by them and by the team, and that’s what I’ll do.”

Dodd is no stranger to the situation.

But when he replaced Tom Savage midway through last season,

SEE STORY ON PAGE 15

KEITH FREEMAN / PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Gary Nova’s touchdown pass tied the score in Syracuse at 13.

A trend continues to come to light for the Rutgers men’s soccer team. If its opponent scores early and MEN’S SOCCER scores RUTGERS 0 first, the Scarlet MARQUETTE 2 Knights a r e unable to climb out of their hole for a win.

The patter n continued Saturday, when the Knights dropped a 2-0 decision to Marquette in Milwaukee for their first Big East loss.

The Golden Eagles scored two first-half goals, which proved too much for Rutgers to overcome.

“This is a game where I thought we honestly needed to be more competitive. The first half we gave up two goals that were pretty weak,” said head coach Dan Donigan. “We gave them too many free chances in the box, and we didn’t track and stay with runners ver y well with our back four. It’s just poor mistakes that obviously end up costing us a big game.”

Marquette got on the board in the 13th minute as a volley passed junior goalkeeper Kevin McMullen in front of the net, where Marquette for ward Br yan Ciesiulka rocketed it for a goal.

The Golden Eagles’ second tally bounced of f junior Dave McVane’s leg in the 31st minute for an own goal.

“We really didn’t come out as strong as we wanted in the first half giving up those two early goals. We just couldn’t come back from that,” said freshman forward JP Correa.

“We actually didn’t play that bad in the second half, but we just couldn’t finish our chances. It sucks to be out on the road, spending our

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Senior midfielder eases way back into lineup

BY JOSH BAKAN CORRESPONDENT

Returning from a concussion that kept her of f of the field for two weeks, Kat Rodziewicz only FIELD HOCKEY c l o c k e d seven minutes in her retur n Sunday against Columbia. And the senior midfielder’s numbers were blank on the Rutgers field hockey team’s stat sheet.

But even when Rodziewicz star ted games before her injur y, her contributions went beyond the numbers.

Rodziewicz was one of the Knights’ main flyers on their penalty corner defense. It is a job in which she must put herself in harm’s way by doing all she can to block a shot.

The Ocean, N.J., native did not do any flying against the Lions because she was not completely healthy, but she is preparing to return to the role Saturday against Louisville.

“It’s probably going to be a little ner ve-wracking, but if they need me back, I’ll definitely do anything for the team,” Rodziewicz said.

Rodziewicz was a big loss for the Knights, but an outsider would not realize it from theway Rutgers responded to her absence.

The Knights won two of their past three games without Rodziewicz, and their one loss to Columbia was their most complete effort of the season, according to head coach Liz Tchou.

Rutgers will improve with

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NOAH WHITTENBURG / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Senior midfielder Kat Rodziewicz returned to action for the Scarlet Knights Sunday at Columbia.

The midfielder comes back as the Knights’ flyer on penalty corners and a key scorer on offense.