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The Rutgers men’s and women’s soccer teams, as well as the volleyball team, welcome Big East opponents this weekend to the Banks in a crucial stretch.

RUSA inducts new officers, appoints executive leaders

BY ANASTASIA MILLICKER ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

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Matt Cordeiro, Rutgers University Student Assembly president, reveals election results last night during its meeting in the Student Activities Center.

Alumna’s family seeks retrial after brutal murder

After the initiation of 25 elected representatives, the Rutgers University Student Assembly elected two more officials last night to the executive board.

For the rest of the academic year, Salena Diobate will serve as the School of Arts and Sciences Senate leader while Spencer Klein will assume the Legislative Affairs chair.

Dioubate, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, said she was excited to serve the student body.

“After taking a back seat last semester, I’ve come back,” she said. “I felt this connection on RUSA. I am very passionate about RUSA.”

Klein, a School of Ar ts and Sciences junior, emphasized his awareness of campus happenings.

“I am open to working with all committees and I want to work with organizations, not just confined to RUSA, but also outside committees,” he said. “One of my goals would be to ban Styrofoam at Brower Commons and Livingston takeout.” “[Legislative Affairs Chair] is a pragmatic leader and understands the needs of the University on a local and state-level,” said John Connelly, vice president of RUSA and a School of Arts and Sciences junior.

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BY ALEKSI TZATZEV CORRESPONDENT

Two months after the brutal murder of University alumna Kan Mei Chan, 24, her family still looks for justice.

Chan was stabbed 27 times on July 22 by a classmate while studying medicine at the Caribbean Medical University in Curaçao, Dutch Caribbean. She was five days away from flying back to her home in Jersey City.

Willy Chan, her younger brother, said the family would seek a retrial against Moustapha Khalesa, 20, the alleged killer, following, as he described it, an inadequate resolution.

Khalesa has been assigned to psychiatric care for a year.

“We are not happy with the decision KAN MEI made,” Willy Chan said. “We will definiteCHAN ly seek a retrial.”

Kan Mei Chan’s family is speaking with Dr. Farah Syed, a professor at the Caribbean Medical University who was also involved in the incident, to get the full story for the retrial, Willy Chan said.

Questions have also risen concerning the precautions the medical school took following complaints Kan Mei Chan filed against Khalesa, who is said to have a history of schizophrenia.

Syed was also stabbed by Khalesa during the incident, but underwent surgery and is recovering, Willy Chan said.

Khalesa had locked himself out of his residence hall when he got into an argument with Syed. In the moments following he stabbed the professor, at which point Kan Mei Chan came to help her. Khalesa then stabbed Kan Mei Chan to death, according to The Associated Press.

Willy and Kan Mei Chan stayed in touch during her time at the Caribbean Medical University, so he was familiar with what his sister endured.

“When she started medical school, she did still come back home every three months for two weeks and helped out with the [family] restaurant,” Willy Chan said.

He said his sister told him through Skype that she was afraid a certain classmate would hurt her. She said she sought help from the school and police.

“She let the school know that he threatened her on Skype,” Willy Chan said. “But they didn’t do anything about it.”

Radoslaw Lewkowski, a director at Caribbean Medical University, said Kan Mei Chan was the first person to enter the hallway in response to the screams.

The university claimed security cameras were off at the time of the incident, he said. “[Kan Mei Chan] never called the local police. Neither her, nor any other student has expressed fears of Mr. Khalesa,”

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University students Andrew Buckner, left, and Isaiah McNeill perform with their hip-hop group I.O.U. last night as the opening act for “Rutgers Got Talent,” an event hosted by the Palestine Children Relief Fund in the Livingston Campus Center Multipurpose Room.

Civil rights group pushes for grand jury review of NBPD

BY AMY ROWE ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

A city civil rights organization released a review detailing force incidents and citizen complaints of officers in the New Brunswick Police Department following the death of 46year-old Barry Deloatch.

The Latino Leadership Alliance of New Jersey, a civil rights project run out of an office on Jersey Avenue, gathered statistics about officers’ use of force, which were released to the public by the department.

With this information, the Latino Leadership Alliance of New Jersey wants to present Deloatch’s case to a grand jur y for review, said Richard Rivera, committee chairperson for the Latino Leadership Alliance of New Jersey.

Organization members believe the NBPD should not handle its own review of the department’s force use.

“We’re looking to get county and statewide reforms in place for police accountability. The police department has the ability to track use of force, but they don’t,” he said. “From the tragedy and

release of the report, we hope they institute a mechanism to track and report incidents and complaints.”

The review named Officer Brad Berdel the shooter when he and his partner, Dan Mazan, chased Deloatch into the backyard of 105 Throop Avenue.

But the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Of fice has not released the names of the of ficers involved in the incident.

Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan also said in a statement that the incident happened in a Throop Avenue alley.

A Notice of Tort Claim sent by attorneys on Monday on behalf of Deloatch’s estate and two sons also named Berdel and Mazan as the officers involved in the case but did not name the shooter, according to mycentraljersey.com.

Though Kaplan kept the officer’s names confidential, he said one officer was a member of the police department for two and a half years and the other had more than six years of experience at the department. Both were placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.

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Business students react to recent printing restrictions

BY POOJA CHAUDHARY CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Some Rutgers Business School students are upset with the school for implementing a $30 free-printing limit this semester in the Janice H. Levin Building’s computer lab on Livingston campus.

Ceida Plasencia, president of the Rutgers Business Governing Association, said the change has hampered students since they were originally able to print free without an amount restriction in the building.

“I think that it has really hindered our ability to keep up with all of the work that we have and I guess we didn’t really expect to have the paper printing problem,” she said.

Rutgers Business School students face the decision of what to print and what not to print for classes, said Plasencia, a Rutgers Business School senior.

“Before business school students were able to print out all the projects, PowerPoints and handouts for our classes without a limit in the Janice H. Levin Building,” she said. “It’s still only October and I only have like $16 left.”

Although the New Brunswick campus as a whole adapted all of the computer labs to move to limited printing about five years ago, the Rutgers Business School recently implemented this change in the Janice H. Levin Building to conform to the rest of the University, said Kevin Dowlin, director of Information

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Danielle Spero, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, pays 4 cents per page at the Loree Computer Lab. Business students, like those in the School of Arts and Sciences, now have $30 limits, too.

Technology for the Newark and New Br unswick Business School.

“I think that we have seen a 40 percent decrease in the University printing overall — it’s the University’s effort to be green,” he said. “Some students just print unnecessarily.”

Dowlin said for most students, the changes are not a problem and students who want to print more just have to pay for it.

U. AFFILIATED START-UP COMPANY RECEIVES FUNDING TO ENHANCE BREAST CANCER THERAPIES As National Breast Cancer Awareness Month aims to spread knowledge about the disease, the National Institutes of Health awarded a University-affiliated start-up company, Ibris Inc., $207,000 to analyze breast cancer biopsies.

The NIH granted the company funding to further help physicians and patients develop therapies with minimal side effects, according to a University press release.

Anant Madabhushi, a professor of biomedical engineering in the Rutgers School of Engineering, developed the company’s computerized image recognition technology and said about 120,000 women in the United States, and one million women worldwide are diagnosed with ER-positive breast cancer.

“We can help those with less aggressive cancer avoid chemotherapy with its side-effects and expense, and at the same time, we can help those with more aggressive cancer get immediate access to the treatment they need to fight the disease,” he said in the press release.

Madabhushi’s technology analyzes high-resolution digital images to view the specimens and determine if it is cancerous and its degree of severity, according to the press release.

“The problem is, anytime you have a human being in the equation, there’s always a question of variability,” he said.

“What one observer calls aggressive, another may not.”

If effective, Ibris examinations have the potential to bring rapid results to patients and reduce their expenses, especially in developing nations, Madabhushi said.

“With Ibris, a doctor in Mumbai could prepare a tissue sample, digitize it, and upload it to a server where the Ibris technology analyzes it and prepares a report within hours,” he said.

Madabhushi and James Monaco, an assistant research professor in Madabhushi’s lab, established the Piscatawaybased Ibris Inc. in 2010, according to the press release.

“It’s 700 pages that students get every semester and they are able to print at every printing lab, and if a student needs more than that, they can put additional money on their card. This is Rutgers’ effort to conser ve paper,” Dowlin said.

Students have alternating opinions about the printing restriction as the workloads of individual students differ.

May Chiu, secretary of the RBGA, said most students are

unaffected by the restriction.

“From what I know, most people are okay with it because $30 is a really high limit and they only charge about 4 cents a page for black and white and 25 cents for color,” said Chiu, a Rutgers Business School junior. “I don’t really think that it has affected the students that much.”

The RBGA introduced the idea of the swipe system without adding a charge amount to monitor the amount of printing as a

solution to the unnecessary printing last year, Plasencia said.

“That was what we suggested on implementing, but I guess they decided to implement their whole Rutgers printing program without letting us know about their decision so I guess it was kind of a shocker for us,” she said.

The RBGA brought the issue up with Martin Markowitz, a senior associate dean at the Rutgers Business School, at the first assembly meeting to lift the printing restriction in order to benefit students, Plasencia said.

Whether students study in a more physical manner — either by highlighting and underlining — or whether they work in a more virtual manner by accessing the resources online depends on the student, but now that is being affected, she said.

Chiu said the RBGA considered creating a pool from which students with higher printing needs can take funds, because a solution remains yet to be implemented to help those who need more printing.

“We were discussing how some people don’t use all of their money while other students need to print more,” Chiu said. “So we thought that maybe we can share that printing money and put it in a general bank where students can print more if they need to.”

Raider Alvarez, a Rutgers Business School sophomore, lauded the restriction.

“I don’t really see it as much of a problem actually. It’s the University’s effort to be greener and I think that’s great,” he said.

“It just makes people waste less.”

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NBPD: Mayor questions legitimacy of report’s findings continued from front The review shows that Berdel and Mazan were involved in 10 separate reported use-of-force incidents in 2010, with 80 percent of them involving black or Latino men.

While incidents var y from compliance holds to pepper spray to actually discharging a firearm, Berdel’s five incidents in 2010 exceed the department’s average of four reports per officer.

But other officers in the department hold between eight to 17 incidents each, constituting what the organization’s review terms, “the Top 10.”

“It’s ver y telling that the number of force incidents are isolated to a ver y small percentage of of ficers,” Rivera said. “[There] are only a hand-

RETRIAL: Friend says Chan was scared of Khalesa continued from front Lewkowski said via email. “She never told us about any threatening Skype messages, but if there were any they should forward them to the police.”

Sarah Faglio, Kan Mei Chan’s close friend and former roommate, confirmed Kan Mei Chan had told her she was afraid Khalesa might hurt her and informed the local police department and program director, but to no avail.

“What they said in the news is kind of different from what actually happened,” she said. “The school was trying to make it seem like it was an accident, but if you talked to her teacher or her friends, you would know that the guy was threatening her.”

Lewkowski said Kan Mei Chan, whom he called an excellent student without academic issues, only complained about noises from Khalesa’s room when his brother argued with him.

“After the complaint regarding the noise in his room, we warned him that if it doesn’t stop, he would have to move out.

However, the noises stopped and his brother left the island,” Lewkowski said.

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ful of of ficers producing so “You’re assuming that many complaints and so many because it’s in this [review], force incidents.” it’s accurate,” Cahill said In reviewing the police Tuesday at the Ebenezer depar tment’s records, the Baptist Church at a community organization also meeting with analyzed internal those upset over “Hopefully there affairs complaints police br utality from 2001 to in the wake of will be an 2010 and found Deloatch’s death. complaints about A police of fiindependent review excessive force cer fatally shot of the incident.” cases were susDeloatch after he tained 2.7 percent ran from quesRICHARD RIVERA of the time. tioning, piercing Latino Leadership Alliance None of the 67 his side and sevof New Jersey complaints about ering his aor ta, Committee Chairman racial profiling or according to a biased treatment statement from were sustained during that peri- the Middlesex County od, according to the review.

Prosecutor’s Office.

The NBPD and the prosecuInvestigators are determintor’s office had no comment ing whether Deloatch used a about the report, according to weapon against the of ficers mycentraljersey.com. to warrant the shooting and New Brunswick Mayor Jim have sent 38 pieces of eviCahill said he doubts the validity dence, including the bullet of the organization’s review. fired and the of ficer’s gun,

for analysis at outside labs, Kaplan said.

Rivera said the NBPD needs to strengthen its community relations and having a grand jur y review the case could help.

“The NBPD has had a negative relationship with the community, when you have transparency and an open process it fosters communication and understanding,” he said. “The grand jur y lets an outside body look at it and come to their own logical conclusion.”

Rivera also hopes a public forum can be arranged for residents to voice their opinions about police misconduct.

“Hopefully there will be an independent review of the incident that has public par ticipation,” he said. “[People can ask] ‘Where are the flaws, and how can we correct [them]?’”

Faglio said Kan Mai Chan had attacked her with a knife,” he tried to finish her classes and said. “Ms. Chan came to the exams to fly back home as soon room after a while to bring him as she could. the first aid kid and he attacked “She was really scared, and her as well.” that’s why she actually moved her To prevent further incidents, flight a few days earlier,” Faglio Lewkowski said the medical said. “She wanted to come home school plans to screen students earlier because she was so afraid more thoroughly, but through that this guy was going to hurt her.” this process there were no acaThere are no security guards demic or disciplinary reasons to in the residence halls, as the med- dismiss Khalesa. ical school rents “He was a the building to transfer student help students from a medical “She took find housing school in Egypt on the island, and has complether work Lewkowski said. ed three semesreally seriously.”

“Even if there ters with a 3.7 was one, it would GPA,” Lewkowski SARAH FAGLIO have probably said. “He had subClose Friend and happened as well mitted excellent Former Roommate because he recommendation attacked both of letters from two of them without any warnings, any their faculty members and the threats,” he said. dean of the medical school.”

Lewkowski said Khalesa was a Lewkowski said Kan Mei Chan quiet and shy person who never adapted well to an unfamiliar envithreatened anyone. ronment and enjoyed her four “After the incident, we found semesters at the medical school out that probably his mother was and the residence halls, where prescribing him antidepressants she lived during her studies. and the police found pills in his “Just before the incident she room,” he said. wrote me an appreciation letter Lewkowski said during the and asked me to take a photo with incident Khalesa wanted to speak me,” he said. “It’s standing on my to Syed in her room because he desk to remember about her.” cut himself and needed her help.

The incident occurred on July “She opened and Mr. Khalesa 22, but the university did not

inform Chan’s family. Instead, they received the news from a translated Dutch-language website, which reported the murder, Faglio said.

“We didn’t find out about it until Sunday,” Willy Chan said.

“It happened on Friday — we felt the school should have told us immediately.”

Chan graduated Douglass College in 2010 with a major in psychology and a minor in chemistry. During her final year at the University, as part of the psychology program, she worked at the Douglass Psychology Child Study Center.

“She was a very sweet person,” Faglio said. “She always went above and beyond for school, went to extra help, showed up to office hours.”

Faglio and Chan remained friends after being roommates in their first, junior and senior years, and talked during Chan’s time at her new university.

“She took her work really seriously,” Faglio said. “She was so motivated to be a doctor, and that’s why she went to this school in the Caribbean. She was really busy because she was working really hard to get the best grades that she could so she could graduate.”

Willy Chan said his sister felt comfortable at the University.

“She really liked Rutgers,” he said. “It was like home to her.”

RUSA: Group tables ban on plastic bags at University continued from front Matt Cordeiro, RUSA president, said the assembly has a lot of projects in the works and hopes for full participation from the representatives.

“I hope you’re really ready to work, I have a high expectation … and I really expect nothing but the best,” said Cordeiro, a School of Arts and Sciences senior.

The elections ran Monday and Tuesday with some races ending with ver y close results, par ticularly for the College Avenue campus, Cordeiro said.

“People won as close as one vote, those on College Avenue won by the skin on their teeth,” he said. “That’s how democracy works.”

After passing a motion to recycle and go green, Nina Medakovich presented a plan to ban the use of plastic bags on campus on behalf of the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group.

Through tabling and movie screenings, NJPIRG hopes to promote the use of reusable cloth bags on campus, said Medakovich, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences senior.

Americans use and dispose of 100 million plastic bags a year, and less than 5 percent of plastic grocer y bags are recycled per year, according to the motion.

“Plastic bags never biodegrade, and litter which could leak toxins into water ways and cause health problems,” she said.

The first step toward eliminating plastic bag use would be meeting with Dining Ser vices to end the use of plastic bags for takeout, Medakovich said.

“We also plan to hold a plastic bag recycling program and pass out those recycled bags for takeout or encourage students to reuse their own plastic bags for takeout,” she said.

Sustainable U., an NJPIRG initiative, plans to work on 50 college campuses in 19 states through student volunteers, according to the motion.

“We hope to get people involved in Sustainable U. We’ll also be recycling plastic bags at Rutgers and other household projects,” she said.

The project is not limited to the University, but it hopes to outreach to local New Br unswick businesses, Medakovich said.

“We’ve been talking to local businesses on George Street giving them incentives why plastic bags are a waste of money,” she said. “We would give any business pseudo certification recognizing their green initiative.”

Medakovich said NJPIRG was reaching out to local grocer y stores for donations of reusable bags.

“Only 1 percent of our plastic bags are recycled on campus,” she said. “Instead of using four plastic bags, people could just use one reusable bag.”

RUSA decided to wait two weeks before they of ficially suppor ted the plastic bag ban and tabled the motion to conduct fur ther research into the issue.

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STATE DENIES OPENING OF CHARTER SCHOOL The state’s Department of Education did not allow a Hebrew-language charter high school to open even though the school received a federal grant.

Tikun Olam Hebrew Charter High School indirectly received a $200,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education but does not have approval to operate from the state as of yet, according to an nj.com article.

The grant, named Friends of Tikun Olam, was intended to help with developing a curriculum and eventually open the school.

Many Highland Park residents, including teachers and legislators, pushed to have the school’s application blocked in the spring, saying the school would take money away from Highland Park’s other schools, according to the article.

The charter high school can reapply for a charter by midOctober, but has already been denied three times.

The U.S. Department of Education awarded four charter schools grants totaling in $785,000.

Bright Horizon Charter School in Penns Grove, Shalom Academy Charter School in Teaneck and Spirit Preparatory Charter School in Newark were the other three charter schools.

Each school received between $186,000 and $200,000 and is scheduled to open in 2012.

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Local services cater to LGBT residents

BY HENNA KATHIYA STAFF WRITER

Whether it is to worship or to have a fun night out, New Brunswick residents who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender have a variety of local ser vices that tailor specifically to the LGBT community.

Patricia Fox, a co-pastor at the Reformed Church of Highland Park, said her church is friendly toward gay people, especially considering that Fox herself is lesbian.

“Since I’m a pastor in a church, I’m most familiar with the churches in New Brunswick that are gay friendly,” said Fox, whose partner, Lisanne Finston ser ves as executive director of Elijah’s Promise, a New Br unswick soup kitchen.

The Emmanuel Lutheran Church on New Street and the Christ Episcopal Church on Neilsen Street are two other local churches that open their doors to the gay community, she said.

“I think it’s great that there are outlets for students and residents in New Brunswick to feel welcome to,” Fox said.

“It’s usually hard for gay people to find a place to practice religion, but luckily there are

some open minds out there.”

About two miles outside of the University’s College Avenue campus, all the way down Hamilton Street sits a nightclub that caters toward the LGBT population of New Brunswick.

The Den is known as “New Jersey’s most legendar y gay bar” and has ser ved the gay community in New Jersey for more than 60 years, according to the website.

Jimmy Koutantos, The Den manager, said the nightclub is a trendy upscale video bar and nightclub with a warm atmosphere intended to provide a social space for LGBT individuals.

“There aren’t a lot of nightclubs in the Central Jersey area that are for the gay community,” Koutantos said. “People don’t have to travel to the city now ever y time they want to go to a gay nightclub.”

The Den has theme nights ever y week, such as Thursday college night when he said University students like to get together for good socializing.

“We want to make sure and reach out to the students as well, especially since we are so close to campus,” Koutantos said.

From retro Wednesdays to karaoke nights, Koutantos wants more residents and stu-

dents to drop by the nightclub to engage in a myriad of activities.

“I want to be able to form more of a community among the gay people in the area,” Koutantos said. “We already have a lot of regulars that come ever y week. They make friends with the other regulars and so on — it’s how people network and make friends,” he said.

Sabina Weglinska, a gay University student, spoke about LGBT events that occur around campus.

“I think that the gay community has strengthened here at Rutgers over the past year or so. Post-Tyler Clementi, the gay organizations here at school are tr ying to make more of a presence,” said Weglinska, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences senior.

But despite this slight surge of activity, Weglinska believes the University can do more to hold and promote gay events.

“I’ve been to The Den a few times for events and par ties hosted by some organizations at school, but it would be cool if more events could be on campus,” she said.

The University has various queer student organizations such as the Bisexual Gay and Lesbian Alliance at Rutgers

University as well as the LGBTQ People of Color Alliance at Rutgers.

“Rutgers does have a lot of gay organizations, which are great to meet other gay students as well,” she said. “However, I think that the University should of fer more campus-wide gay events to involve even the nongay population.”

Sara Joland, resident of New Brunswick, identifies as bisexual and believes it is nice to have a gay nightclubso close to home.

“Usually you only have gay nightclubs in larger cities, but I think its really cool that The Den is located so close by,” she said. “I feel like this is definitely a step in the right direction.”

Even though there is only one of its kind at the moment, Joland said there is a definite possibility of more LGBT-oriented social venues making an appearance as the city makes more progress.

Likewiese, Fox is also happy with how cities like New Brunswick and Highland Park are increasingly becoming more accepting toward various other cultures and sexual orientations.

“It’s nice to see areas like New Brunswick show a little more diversity to incorporate people of all backgrounds and sexualities,” she said.

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New Brunswick restaurants will invite a lineup of jazz musicians to perform as part of the New Brunswick Jazz Festival.

Due Mari Restaurant on 78 Albany St. will kick off the event at 10 p.m. featuring trumpeter Lee Hogans and vocalist Vanessa Perea. The event will run into Saturday when other jazz musicians, such as The Gambone Project and The Carrie Jackson Trio will perform at Sushi Room on 12 Easton Ave., and Delta’s Restaurant on 19 Dennis St., respectively. Other restaurants to take part in the festival include Panico and Tula’s Restaurant and Lounge. The event’s closing ceremony will take place Sunday at the Hyatt Regency hotel where acclaimed pianist Alex Bugnon and instrumentalist Nelson Rangell will both perform. Tickets for Sunday are $60 and can be purchased at Ticketmaster.com, ticketweb.com or 866-468-7619.

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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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NBC “Today” Show co-host and breast cancer survivor Hoda Kotb will mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month with Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at the annual “Tied to the Cause” event. “Tied to the Cause” kicks off at 5 p.m. in the hospital’s Arline and Henry Schwartzman Courtyard. A suggested donation of $15 will include a complimentary copy of Kotb’s book, titled “How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer and Kathie Lee,” buffet dinner and parking. Dr. Michelle Azu, assistant professor of surgery at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ), will be the physician keynote speaker. The event will take place at the Arline and Henry Schwartzman Courtyard of the hospital from 5 to 8 p.m. To register, please call 1-888-MD-RWJUH (1-888-637-9584).

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The New Brunswick City Council will hold the second of its two monthly meetings at the City Hall, Council Chambers located on 78 Bayard St. All members of the New Brunswick community are welcome to attend. There is no entry fee.

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4-H of Middlesex County will host a “Halloween Tricky Tray” at the County 4-H Center, 645 Cranbury Rd., East Brunswick. Doors open at 6 p.m. and the drawing will start at 7 p.m. Admission to the event is $15 includes a page of tickets. Guests who come in costume (not too scary) will be awarded a special prize ticket. Sponsored by the Middlesex County 4-H Association, this event benefits the Middlesex County 4-H Youth Development program in Middlesex County. Tricky Trays are a fun way to meet new people, potentially win great prizes and help out a worthwhile cause.

Examples of prizes to be won include passes to Disney World, round-trip tickets for the Sea Streak ferry, and gift baskets and certificates galore. Coffee, tea and desserts will be available. For more information please contact Janet at (732)-754-2868 or Lisa (732)-723-9968

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The New Brunswick Zoning Board will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers, at New Brunswick City Hall on 78 Bayard St. The meeting is open to everyone and there is not an admission fee.

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The Friends of the Library Book Club meets once a month (usually on the last Monday of the month) to discuss a specific book. All are welcome to join the meeting. The only requirements are to have read the book and be willing to discuss it. This month's book is Luncheon of the Boating Party

by Susan Vreeland. The meeting starts at 1:30 p.m. in the Carl T. Valenti Community Room.

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United Nations remains split on Syrian resolution THE ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED NATIONS — Behind the Russian and Chinese vetoes of a U.N. resolution on Syria were not only serious differences over President Bashar Assad’s crackdown against civilians but concerns that even threatening sanctions might lead to a repetition of the NATO bombing campaign in Libya.

The result is that nearly seven months after the uprising against Assad began, the U.N.’s most powerful body remains deeply divided and unable to adopt a legally binding resolution to address the violence in Syria that by U.N. estimates has claimed more than 2,700 lives.

It’s a far cry from the heady atmosphere on March 17 when the same council members made history by authorizing, for the first time, the use of military force to protect civilians from violence perpetrated upon them by their own government — in that case attacks by Moammar Gadhafi’s troops in Libya.

At the time, the resolution was seen as ushering in a potential new era of protection for civilians caught in internal conflicts.

But the prospect of Security Council action to protect Syrians or any other civilians engulfed in violence now appears highly unlikely because of opposition from Russia.

Moscow says its chief concern is the way the Libyan resolution has been interpreted by NATO members Britain, France and the United States.

The March resolution banned all flights in Libyan airspace and authorized U.N. members to take “all necessary measures ... to protect civilians and civilian populated areas under threat of attack” while excluding any “foreign occupation force” in Libyan territory.

It was approved by a 10-0 vote.

Russia and China abstained, as did India, Germany and Brazil.

After the resolution passed, NATO launched a bombing campaign which it contends is solely aimed at protecting civilians. But Russia, China, India, South Africa and Brazil argue that the Libya resolution did not justify months of air strikes aimed at toppling Gadhafi’s regime, and they have expressed concern that a new resolution might be used as a pretext for armed intervention against Syria.

The four European nations that sponsored the Syria resolution — Britain, France, Germany and Portugal — watered down its language on sanctions three times to try to win Russia and China’s support. They also specified that any sanctions could not be enforced by military action.

But when the text was sent to Moscow for review, word came back that it was unacceptable, the diplomats said, speaking on condition of anonymity because consultations were private.

No one would speculate on what happened in the Kremlin that led to the rejection of the resolution. But the veto provoked strong rebukes from the U.S. and Western European countries and human rights groups.

“It is not a matter of wording. It is a political choice,” France’s U.N. Ambassador Gerard Araud said after the Tuesday vote. “It is an expression of disregard for the legitimate aspirations courageously expressed in Syria... It’s a rejection of the extraordinary movement in support of freedom and democracy that is the Arab Spring.”

Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said after listening to Araud that “the one thing I agree with ... is

this is really a conflict between different political philosophies and different political strategies.”

“The situation in Syria cannot be considered in the council apart from the Libyan experience,” he stressed. “The international community is alarmed” that the NATO interpretation of the Libya resolution “is a model for future actions of NATO in implementing responsibility to protect ... (and) could happen in Syria.”

Churkin criticized the Europeans for refusing to include language from a rival Russian draft resolution that would have specifically banned any military intervention in Syria. He said the proposed resolution was too critical of Assad’s government, that it ignored government victims of the violence and that an “ultimatum of sanctions” was an “unacceptable threat.”

U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice called claims that the resolution would be a pretext for military intervention “a cheap ruse by those who would rather sell arms to the Syrian regime than stand with the Syrian people.” Syrian allies Russia and China reportedly remain major arms suppliers to the Assad regime.

Churkin strongly objected to the allegation, “especially

coming from a countr y (The United States) which is pumping hundreds of billions of dollars of militar y hardware into the area.”

“Our vote has nothing to do with that,” he told reporters, noting that Russia has supported past sanctions that have led to “major losses” in arms sales.

The Europeans and U.S. said they will bring the Syrian issue back to the council when possible.

Meanwhile, they pledged to seek other international action to pressure the Syrian regime, and to stand with the Syrian people.

Russia and China also warned that Assad should not see the resolution’s defeat as a green light to continue using tanks and soldiers against civilians.

China’s U.N. Ambassador Li Baodong urged Syria to end the violence, “implement reforms and launch a political process as soon as possible.”

“The worst conclusion they can draw from this,” Churkin said, “is that (Syria’s leaders) can slacken their efforts towards reform ... to establishing dialogue with the opposition ... (and) cleaning up their act in terms of excessive use of force.”

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Week in review: laurels and darts

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ea par ty favorite and semi-politician Sarah Palin announced earlier this week that she would not be making a bid for the Republican Par ty’s presidential nomination in the upcoming 2012 election, much to the delight of many. All those spectators waiting up to this moment with bated breath can now take a sigh of relief. Throughout most of her time in the limelight, Palin has done ver y little to make herself seem like a good choice to lead the nation — sure, she seemed serious, but not good. In an admittedly roundabout way, then, we find ourselves handing a laurel to Palin for her decision to bow out somewhat gracefully.

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Legislators in Mexico City devised an interesting plan to deal with the high divorce rates in the city: a temporar y marriage license. The proposed licenses would grant two-year marriages to those who receive them. At the end of the two-year period, if the parties involved find themselves dissatisfied, the license terminates, and they can walk away without clogging the already filled courts with yet another divorce case. We understand that divorces are a drain on legal resources in Mexico City, but these temporar y licenses seem like a bad idea from a more personal perspective.

People who receive them are essentially setting their marriages up for failure by imposing arbitrar y timelines on their nuptials before they begin. Divorce is obviously a tool to which some couples need recourse, but why encourage temporar y marriages? We give the lawmakers pushing this bill a dar t. It may make political sense, but it doesn’t make too much personal sense. *

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The world lost a good man on Wednesday night when Steve Jobs, co-founder and chairman of Apple, died. As far as businessmen and tech wizards go, Jobs was a bit of a celebrity. No matter who you are — and whether or not you use Apple’s products — you know who Jobs is. One cannot help but mourn the death of such a visionar y. He was a man whose products became part of American culture, signifiers of our lifestyles. Few people are as intelligent, motivated and creative as Jobs was, and we will miss him dearly.

We give him a laurel for all of his handwork and dedication over the years. Rest in peace, Steve Jobs. *

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The job of any good police force is to protect and ser ve.

According to Atlantic City Mayor Lorenzo Langford, however, citizens in casino parking lots have for feited their rights to this ser vice. Langford has ordered of ficers to stop patrolling casino parking garages. Oddly enough, this comes in the wake of a Sept.

18 attack in the Trump Taj Mahal garage, in which a man was killed. In fact, two people have been killed in carjackings at the Trump Taj Mahal in the past 16 months. Lorenzo claims that he’s ordering the patrols to stop because the government’s duty is to the citizens “first and foremost.” Are people in parking garages not included in the conception of citizens? Also, we feel the need to point out that Deputy Chiefs Ernest Jubilee and Henr y White stated that sur veilling the garages would not drain money or manpower from the Atlantic City Police. We dar t Langford for ordering the patrols to cease. Police protection should be available to ever yone. *

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The status of pensions for public employees has been hotly contested since the recession struck in 2008. Gov. Chris Christie and his administration have taken serious steps to overhaul and ef fectively save the pension system with the signing into law on Wednesday of a brand new plan to restructure the system. This overhaul, though not exactly a crowd pleaser, is supposed to save $267 million in pension costs for local governments in New Jersey by making public employees shoulder more of the weight of said costs. While it is by no means an ideal solution, it does save the pension system from collapse, as well as ease the monetar y pressure on already ailing governments. We give Christie a laurel.

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out ever being given the he philosophical tools or the training, and concept of desert, or the ones that are success“deser ving” someful applaud themselves for thing, is highly appealed to their hard work, motivation in politics, yet grossly misand resourcefulness. understood. Policy-making Analysts use “indicators” is practically based on desert. Individuals and JOSE PAULINO to measure the performance of things. Indicators groups endlessly demand for an economy include changes in laws because gross domestic product and unemployment. nature deserves to be protected, children deserve a Indicators of personal health include blood pressure good education, undocumented immigrants and the concentration of sugar in the blood. One of deserve human rights, the rich and successful the leading indicators of potential success, repredeserve to keep their hard-earned money, and sented by college graduation rates among other those who don’t work hard enough deserve to things, is a person’s zip code. No matter the race, struggle. Each side of the political isle makes their religion, height, weight or eye color, zip codes have own distinctive demands based on desert. In this been extremely accurate in determining how far a column, however, I’ll focus on one particular perperson will go in life. Why his this the case? spective on deserving, which is dangerously presHard to tell. Some say it’s the ent in our society. I speak of deservpoverty in those areas. Others say ing full praise for or being fully “Success is much that poverty is overrated, and that accountable for success. school quality — which does not Although many politicians and more complicated necessarily depend on the wealth of political pundits disparage higher the district — is to blame. But what taxes for the wealthy with sensible, than choosing does this say about success? Not as respectable reasons such as negato do well in life.” hard to comment on. First off, it tive effects on investment, it has says that success depends on much become customar y, especially more than just personal attributes. It among conservatives, to attribute a might depend on things you cannot control, such as sort of moral wrongness to higher taxes for the the responsibility of your parents, the intelligence of rich. Phrases like “punishing the rich” and “war on your best friend, the dedication of your elementary success” are favorites for people with these views. school teacher, the discipline of your classmates and The New York Times best-selling author Tommy the curriculum of your classes. Second, it says that Newberry went as far as writing a book titled “War the notion of self-determination is very weak. on Success: How the Obama Agenda is Shattering How does one explain that students in the American Dream.” In his online blog, Massachusetts rank fifth in reading performance, Newberry wrote, “Liberty breeds inequality — while students in Washington, D.C., only 400 when people are free, those who make better choicmiles away, come in at 95th in reading? That’s es create a better life. Those who are harder worklower than all 50 states and 45 other countries. Is ing, better motivated and more resourceful will it possible that these students just lacked the right achieve more than others.” values, the commitment? That they were just plain I agree with Newberry on the value of hard lazy? It’s very hard to believe in such a coinciwork, motivation and resourcefulness — to an dence. Success is much more complicated than extent. For example, if you give a kid a basketball choosing to do well in life. and a court to practice in, hard work and motivaWhy does this matter politically? This is overtion can make him a star. It did for Michael whelmingly, blatantly, a pathetically obvious politiJordan. But what if Jordan wasn’t given these cal issue because it forces many to rethink how things? What if he was raised in South Asia, where society, how the government, ought to treat people. basketball is less popular? He would have been a If people decide their own success, there is no reanobody in basketball. His personal strengths would have been wasted. This is also true in the SEE PAULINO ON PAGE 9 “game” of life. Millions are expected to play with-

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PAULINO continued from page 8 son to invest in inner cities. If people choose to have a great job, society does not play a role in employment — just leave everyone alone. But, if that is not the case, if society does play a role in the success of others, then we must admit that society is doing something very wrong because too many people lack even minimal well being. If society does play a role, we actually have to think of policies that address inequality, of policies that will give everyone the tools to play the game of life fairly.

Newberry, John Boehner, Rush Limbaugh and the rest who claim that higher taxes on the wealthy is a war on success, and who praise the superior character of the wealthy, are wrong.

Such thinking only distracts us from putting in the hard work, dedication and commitment — qualities these people love — to designing policies that will work for the most needy. It’s time to stop admiring successful people and begin to admire the people and the environment that helped them become successful.

Ultimately, if we cannot ensure a decent life for our own kind, we are all failures.

Jose Paulino is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in political science with a minor in philosophy.

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have something to say. This country, once the greatest in the world, has hit the fan and exploded into oblivion. My grandparents did not survive the horrors of World War II to have their grandchildren and greatgrandchildren live in a country where there is inequality in every financial sector and hospital bed.

The America my grandparents knew had streets paved with pure gold — a saying that has now been, unfortunately, squeezed and diluted to the point where the only Americans capable of succeeding are trust-fund babies. I don’t like this. Fortunately, I grew up in an affluent middle class family, with all of the opportunities necessary to live a happy and healthy life. I went to great schools, had excellent doctors and above all did not have to live with the daily stress of surviving paycheck to paycheck.

It’s unfortunate that we elect leaders to Congress, when at the time of them serving out their “sentence,” they are rich beyond our wildest dreams. There’s no excuse at all. The laws, regulations and people need to change — not only do the people we keep up on Capitol Hill need to change, but the way they run business needs to change as well.

Justin Timberlake, one of my favorite actors and the overall funniest Saturday Night Live host of

my generation, said it right in one so proudly proclaimed to us. It’s of the greatest roles he will ever always time to react. There is never play — “This is our time!” The a moment when one should not time of my parents is over. The react. There is no time to stop and “boomer” generation is no longer smell the roses, simply because our in the White House, but they still generation was not taught to wait. control all of the “old money” in My parents, if they wanted to this country, and this needs to find out the capitol of Indonesia, change. In addition, our entire needed to leave their Queens aparthealth care system needs to be ments, walk the seven blocks to the revamped, and its functionality library and then ask the librarian needs to be thoroughly looked at. where they might find such inforUndoubtedly, one would think mation. Then, the librarian would that our current senior congress- hand my parents a card containing men such as John Boehner, R-Ohio, all the information needed to find and John McCain, R-Ariz., would the book. Then, my parents would want to reform need to search. In health care, but one texting terms, this would be incredibly is “LOL.” “It’s our time wrong to assume My fears and to change this. The truth is rants are not crazy, there is no personal they’re logic — the system. ” reason for them to basic logic. To do so. Many senalearn from the mistors and congressmen are wealthy takes of the past is exactly what my enough to have a personal doctor grandparents did in World War II. come to their six homes in They adapted. The pogroms of Connecticut to treat them. It’s a Europe had ravaged the Jewish shame how selfish people can be. people for centuries, and the largest In order to fix the system, you pogrom in human history, the need to reboot. Back in the 1970’s, Holocaust, enabled “The Greatest when the first Apple computer was Generation” to react and survive. developed, its functionality There is no more time to wait. It’s seemed vague and obviously sub- now and only now! In addition, as I par. Currently, we know that if our mentioned before, I can take out iPhones or matchbooks or even my iPhone and find out the capitol our iPads freeze, it’s important to of Indonesia in seconds. have them reconfigured so that we To reform health care is not only can still utilize the technology we important for the current generahave all become accustomed to. tion, but more importantly, it’s vital Gone are the days of “back in my that the “boomer” generation day…” It’s “no day but today,” as the receive the proper care it needs in great composers of the musical Rent the future.

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The facts are right out in front of us. In 2007, the first “boomer” became eligible for Medicare. By 2030, more than 80 million people will be over the age of 65, and our system needs to be able to accommodate them. However, the boomers are a special breed.

The reason our country is in the toilet is because they felt privileged having had “The Greatest Generation” as parents. There is no other reason for their toxicity and greed.

All the tools are in place, and nothing is impossible. That’s why I feel the “boomers” dislike President Barack Obama, because he believes in change. That’s a change to a system to which they have become accustomed, but one that desperately needs to be completely over-hauled.

It’s our time. It’s our time to change the system.

The Republican Party is finished in this country. In fact, all party lines should never be drawn in concrete, but in sand, because it is the sands of time that change the outcome of the future.

There are more than 300 million people in this country. What is the hold up? If any of us were ever in an argument or fight on the schoolyard, 1 percent against 99 percent would not stand a chance. We are the future of America.

Joshua Bickel is a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences alumnus, Class of 2011.

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Layover preps RU for Bronx

BY BRADLY DERECHAILO CONTRIBUTING WRITER

With a two-week break entering today’s Metropolitan Championships in the Bronx, Rutgers women’s distance coach J a n CROSS COUNTRY MerrillMorin RUTGERS AT believes METROPOLITAN’S, t h e TODAY t e a m worked hard during its break.

She is also excited to see what her runners are capable of doing.

“We’ve had two weeks off so we could do some really good foundational training,” Merrill-Morin said.

“Everyone has been training really well over the past two weeks, so anything can happen as far as results are concerned. I want to see what they can do.”

The Scarlet Knights aim to improve on their impressive finish at the Monmouth Invitational at Holmdel Park.

“We have been doing real well,” Merrill-Morin said. “Now we want people to make improvements on times from that race, and I think we will see that.”

Sophomores Brianna Deming and Anjelica Brinkofski, who placed eighth and 11th, respectively, in their last race, look to pace the Knights.

“We’ve had a couple of hard weeks just preparing for this upcoming race,” Brinkofski said. “We want to get some faster times and hopefully do well this weekend.”

Merrill-Morin also looks for runners like junior Victoria Pontecorvo, sophomore Rashmi Singh and senior Ashley Deckert to help the team.

“There are about eight or nine of them that we are looking to get high scores out of, and I’m looking forward to seeing what these kids are going to do,” Merrill-Morin said. “This is the turning part into the real competitive part of the season.”

The men’s team also tries to find success today, as it hits the midway point of its season. Senior Ben Forrest looks for himself and his teammates to improve upon their times for their race.

“We want to improve as far as our placing and competing,” Forrest said. “We need to run together more and close the gaps we have between different runners.”

The Knights enter the race after placing third at the Leeber Invitational.

Leading the way with a thirdplace individual finish was sophomore Chris Banafato, whom the team will rely on once again in New York.

“Chris has been out in front a lot at our last two races, so a few of us need to move closer to him for us to do well,” Forrest said.

The Knights saw steady improvement since their first race, when they finished ninth at the Fordham Fiasco and Follies.

“We got some longer, faster and more quality workouts in this week,” he said.

The Metropolitan Championships is one of only two races before both teams head to Louisville, Ky., for the Big East Championships, a race both teams look forward to.

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Junior setter Stephanie Zielinski and the Scarlet Knights play host to a pair of Big East opponents this weekend that sport 4-0 league records. Rutgers announced Zielinski was one of two athletes named the school’s September Student-Athletes of the Month.

BATTLE: Werneke claims Knights play better at home continued from back Curtis, who landed a seasonhigh 17 kills against Fordham, continues to build upon her strong senior campaign.

But after Curtis, the team needs to continue to play together, according to head coach C.J. Werneke.

“We’re going to need all of our hitters to contribute,” he said.

“It’s not one or two hitters that steal the show. We’re good when we have four of five hitters in double digits. I’m more worried

about the serving and passing, have the support of the fans and the ball control aspect of it. It’s you’re in your comfort zone.” our strength and Relying on their weakness.” home-court “It’s easier to handle a d v a n t a g e , Working on ser ving to passknows that pressure when Werneke ing to defense, his team’s best Werneke knows chances against a you’re at home. the Knights must strong team like continually exe- You have the support Cincinnati come cute throughout of the fans ... in your at home. the match.

“The multiplecomfort zone.”

“There’s no point runs don’t doubt that seem to be as C.J. WERNEKE Cincinnati is long at home as Head Coach going to put the on the road,” pressure on us,” Werneke said. “So Werneke said. we can minimize “It’s easier to handle that pres- some of their multiple-point runs sure when you’re at home. You because we are at home, and

because we find a way to get out of there quicker.”

Werneke and the Knights do not escape any tough competition this weekend.

Following today’s matchup against Cincinnati, the Knights take on Louisville, which also sits atop the Big East with a 4-0 record.

Presenting many of the same challenges, the Cardinals bring as daunting of a task for the Knights as the Bearcats.

With plans to defend their home court this weekend, the Knights look to improve their 42 home record against some of the steepest competition in the Big East.

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STRETCH: RU defense takes No. 3 Maryland to OT continued from back Maryland into overtime Tuesday for the first time this season.

The Rutgers defense held the vaunted Terps of fense scoreless in the second half despite playing a man down after a red card to junior midfielder Robin Brown.

“I feel like we are coming out of the Maryland game with a good feeling about how the rest of the season can go. If it wasn’t for that red card, who knows?

Maybe we could have came away with a result there,” said freshman forward JP Correa. “Now to go into the Big East after that, it feels good. Everyone is happy with the way things are going even though we have lost some games lately. We are 1-1 in the Big East, and it is all Big East from here.”

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Correa, the team’s secondleading goal scorer, has high hopes for the rest of the Knights’ season. He feels the oppor tunities in the second half of the season can lead the Knights to the Big East Tournament and beyond.

The Knights were one win away last season from gaining a conference tournament berth.

“My goal from the beginning was to try and make the NCAA Tournament, and things since then have changed up a little bit,” Correa said. “But our team goal right now is to qualify for the Big East Tournament, and maybe we can get enough wins in that time and get into that NCAA Tournament.”

The Knights’ journey starts against Cincinnati.

“We have just a couple more practices before this all starts,” Correa said. “We are just going to get work done, go hard in practice and get ready to play on Sunday. We have to win.”

JENNIFER MIGUEL HELLMAN / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Sophomore forward Jonelle Filigno, who leads the Knights with six goals, is doubtful for tonight’s matchup with DePaul. The Mississauga, Canada native missed the team’s past five matches.

SLUMP: National champs pay visit to Knights at Yurcak continued from back in, and there’s also some pressure to score some goals.”

Scoring goals is the real issue at hand for the Knights, who must improve the trend not only against DePaul tonight, but also for Sunday’s matchup with Notre Dame (6-5-2, 3-2-1).

The defending national champions carry consecutive 3-0 victories into a match tonight against Seton Hall before trekking to Piscataway for a matinee with the Knights.

The Knights biggest threat on the defensive side of the field is for ward Melissa Henderson, who is tied for first in the Big East with 11 goals and first outright in points with 26.

The only Rutgers player to score in the past four games is midfielder Ashley Medcalf, who owns only four career goals.

And the only other Knight to tally a goal since Filigno went down Sept. 16 against Villanova is freshman for ward Stefanie Scholz.

Despite what the numbers reflect during the Knights’ adverse situation, Crooks remains

“They have a lot of responsiblity.

It’s to everybody who’s put so much time into this program.

GLENN CROOKS Head Coach

confident, as does Medcalf.

“Our goals are still not out of reach,” Medcalf said. “If we play well this weekend and get results, then I think we’ll be alright.”

Remaining confident in the Knights’ resolve is not something shared solely by the members of the locker room.

Crooks received an email from one of the program’s biggest boosters of fering words of wisdom and encouragement earlier in the week, only days before the team’s biggest weekend of the season.

The head coach read the note to his team prior to practice, and hopes it can spark a sense of urgency in his players before it is too late.

For Crooks, there is plenty on the line and no time for dwelling on the Knights’ previous four contests.

“They have a lot of responsibility,” Crooks said. “They have responsibility to themselves, to their teammates, to the University, to their families and to alumni — it’s to ever ybody who’s put so much time into this program.”

NELSON MORALES / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Senior defender Julie Lancos admitted to not feeling added pressure if Filigno cannot play. Lancos and the rest of the defense allowed eight goals since Filigno’s injury on Sept. 16 against Villanova.

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Rutgers grips for first invitational in two weeks

BY T.J. NAGY CONTRIBUTING WRITER

After another week of practice, the Rutgers women’s tennis team is ready to pack its bags once again TENNIS a n d head to RUTGERS AT the Big USTA INVITATIONAL, Apple SATURDAY for the annual USTA Invitational.

The Scarlet Knights found success at the tournament last season, especially in their doubles play.

Head coach Ben Bucca hopes for a repeat performance from the team this time around.

“The dynamic of this team is very healthy right now,” Bucca said. “The team is exactly where it should be, and everyone’s anxious to get to New York City and play on the big stage.”

Senior Jennifer Holzberg and sophomore Vanessa Petrini lead the Knights’ doubles competitions. The team of Holzberg and Petrini won two of its three matches two weeks ago at the Brown Invitational.

The National Tennis Center hosts the USTA Invitational and features 20 of the best schools from Washington, D.C., to Boston, including the top Ivy League programs.

With all the top competition, the Knights’ performance this

weekend will go a long way in cementing their place among regional powers.

“It’s the best regional competition going,” Bucca said.

“The USTA Invitational brings together all the top players from the region in one of the finest outdoor facilities in the countr y in the best city in the world.”

The National Tennis Center is also home to the U.S. Open and playing under the lights of New York City this weekend is certainly one of the many obstacles the team faces.

“This will be a good measure for the team,” Bucca said.

“Every year we’ve participated at this tournament, we’ve gotten better and better results. So we’re definitely walking into this tournament as a team with a totally different expectation then when we first walked in here eight years ago.”

After a per formance at Brown that highlighted the team’s strengths and weaknesses, Bucca is optimistic its experience helped the Knights become more seasoned.

Another strong week of practice aided the Knights in becoming a more confident team on the court, as well.

“We brought up the issues we needed to work on after Brown, and the biggest one is that we wanted to bring more variety to our game,” Bucca

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Senior Jennifer Holzberg teamed with sophomore Vanessa Petrini to win two of the pair’s three doubles matches for the Scarlet Knights at the Brown Invitational. said. “At Brown, we were playing aggressive, hard-nosed tennis, and we were probably not doing as well in terms of defense. So we practiced ver y hard at that, and the girls really did a good job this week.”

The Knights plan to handle their biggest challenge yet and leave New York with a successful weekend.

“Ultimately, it all boils down to how we play once we get on the court, and that reflects on our

practices,” Bucca said. “That’s why I think we’ll have some strong play this week. We had a great week of practice, and I think I speak for everyone on the team when I say that we’re primed and ready to play well.”

JENNIFER KONG / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Senior Jacquelyn Ward posted four first-place finishes last year at the Sonny Werblin Invitational, where the Scarlet Knights compete today in their first intrasquad meet. The event is Rutgers’ first since the Big East Championships, where it finished seventh out of 11 conference teams.

Knights prepare for final tune-up before campaign BRADLY DERECHAILO CONTRIBUTING WRITER

With the season around the corner, the Rutgers swimm i n g SWIMMING and divi n g RUTGERS t e a m INTRASQUAD MEET looks to TODAY, 3:30 P.M. get a jump on the challenge presented by competing in the Big East.

Head coach Phil Spiniello wants to see one thing when his

team hits the water in its intrasquad meet today at the Rutgers Aquatic Center.

“I want to see learning,” Spiniello said. “I’m looking for ever y member of the team to get up and race and learn something that they can use when we have our first dual meet down the road.”

This particular event is different than the others ahead.

The intrasquad meet does not count toward its record and ser ves as a tune-up for the Scarlet Knights.

Divers match up against each other while swimmers look to improve on their techniques, which will help them as the season continues.

“The team is split in half,” Spiniello said. “We have a red team and a white team, which will go head-to-head with each other.”

The two teams participate in a series of events during the intrasquad meet to help them get ready for the upcoming season.

The event is Rutgers’ first action since the Big East Championships in Februar y,

when it finished seventh overall out of 11 teams.

“It’s an opportunity for us to get up on the blocks and race and compete,” Spiniello said. “It gives us a chance to shake out the rust before we hit our dual-meet season ahead.”

Coming off a 1-2 record in dual meets last year, the second-year coach welcomes his first recruiting class this season and wants to see it in its first action as freshmen swimmers.

“I’m looking to get them racing experience and some diving

experience for the divers,” Spiniello said. “I want them to apply what they learn when we get into the competition season.”

The intrasquad scrimmage is one of two warm-ups before the Big East season begins. Former swimmers and divers join the team next Saturday on campus as they participate in the alumni meet.

After the Knights host the SWRC Invitational Oct. 21-22, they begin their season in Storrs, Conn., where they face off against Georgetown, Villanova and Connecticut.

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Slumping squad enters key weekend

BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

If the season ended today, the Rutgers women’s soccer team would look at a lost year. With only one point in their past four games and three WOMEN’S SOCCER consecutive losses, the Scarlet DEPAUL AT Knights stand in RUTGERS, seventh place in TONIGHT, 7 P.M. the Big East National Division, two spots below the cut to qualify for a conference postseason berth.

But luckily for head coach Glenn Crooks, five games remain for the Knights, and all are against teams within their division.

Focusing on the team’s recent woes would be catastrophic, Crooks said.

“To feel sorr y for yourself, it’s the wrong time, the absolute wrong time,” he said. “They won’t get any of that from me.

They have to grow up quick, some of these guys.”

The Knights’ growth faces its first test tonight, when the Knights (6-6-1, 1-4-1) welcome lowly DePaul to Yurcak Field.

The Blue Demons (3-9-1, 1-4-1) enter the contest with an identical conference record as Crooks and Co., but own a significantly worse overall record as a result of struggles in non-conference play.

For a Knights defense that allowed only one goal in two of the past three games, a date with DePaul could not arrive any sooner.

The Blue Demons scored a mere 11 goals in 13 games this season, which is certainly inviting for a Rutgers team that snapped a 381-minute scoreless streak in its last game.

Overall, the Knights scored one goal in their past four outings in sophomore forward Jonelle Filigno’s absence. Filigno leads the team with six goals and could return today to the lineup.

But even if Filigno is limited or cannot play at all –– she is doubtful for tonight’s game — that does not raise the intensity for the defense and junior goalkeeper Emmy Simpkins, said senior defender Julie Lancos.

“I think there’s pressure on all of us,” Lancos said. “There’s pressure not to let any

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JENNIFER MIGUEL-HELLMAN / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Freshman forward JP Correa is second on the Knights with four goals this season but leads the squad with three assists. Correa started all but one game for second-year head coach Dan Donigan this season, and is third in shots taken with 20.

RU opens seven-game stretch with Cincy

BY VINNIE MANCUSO CORRESPONDENT

The schedule for the Rutgers men’s soccer team so far featured primarily out-ofconference games MEN’S SOCCER with only two Big East contests.

CINCINNATI AT All that changes RUTGERS, this weekend, when SUNDAY, 2:30 P.M. the Scarlet Knights shift into the latter half of their schedule, which consists of seven conference games in a row.

First up is a visit to Yurcak Field on Sunday by Cincinnati.

“Obviously, now the out of conference part of the season is over. Obviously, … our crossdivisional games are over with Marquette and Pittsburgh,” said head coach Dan Donigan.

“So now we have everything to play for within the conference. From here on out, everything is in our hands, and we have obviously some very tough games coming up.”

The Bearcats roll into Piscataway with an unimpressive 4-6-1 record, but the Knights know every win counts in the Big East, and they cannot take any team for granted.

They also know Cincinnati, 0-1 in the Big East, is as hungr y for coveted conference wins.

Rutgers, which stands at 1-1 in the Big East, does not plan to look past the Bearcats.

“We have the matchup on Sunday at home against a good Cincinnati team that we are going to prepare for and we are going to be ready for,” Donigan said. “We are going to take it one matchup at a time.”

The Knights (4-5-1) enter Sunday’s matchup feeling confident after forcing No. 2

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Home-court advantage sets stage for conference battle

BY PATRICK LANNI STAFF WRITER

KIRK SNYDER

Senior middle blocker Hannah Curtis leads a Scarlet Knights attack intent on improving off its 3-1 victory Tuesday against visiting Fordham.

After snapping its six-game losing streak Tuesday, the Rutgers volleyball team saw firsthand the VOLLEYBALL benefits of playing at home.

CINCINNATI AT Six games on RUTGERS, the road resulted TONIGHT, 7 P.M. in six consecutive losses, but a win against Fordham occurred within the confines of the College Avenue Gym. The Scarlet Knights try to put together back-to-back wins tonight for the first time since competing at the Sacred Heart Tournament in early September.

In their Big East home opener against Cincinnati, the Knights take on an undefeated Bearcat squad, which

boasts more than only a per fect conference record.

At 4-0 in Big East play and 12-6 overall, the Bearcats bring size, strength and a tough attack at the net.

But the Knights are confident they can compete with anyone, especially on their home court.

“Beating Cincinnati would put a lot of confidence in us,” said senior captain Hannah Cur tis. “We know we can compete with any team. It’s just a matter of getting that first Big East win down on paper.”

The Knights, 4-2 at home this season, are excited to start their home Big East season with some momentum.

“We have a little bit of a gust under our feet,” Curtis said.

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