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Rutgers head football coach Greg Schiano kept it a secret last week, but he announced yesterday freshman quarterback Gary Nova will start at quarterback against Navy.
Seton Hall offers lower cost to equal University’s tuition BY ANASTASIA MILLICKER ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
Rising first-year students will have the opportunity to attend a private university for the price of a public one. Incoming full-time first-year students at Seton Hall University with strong academic backgrounds will receive the same tuition rate as University students. “Rutgers is the flagship school around the state,” said Alyssa McCloud, vice president of enrollment management at Seton Hall University. “People from Minnesota and California know about Rutgers. Say if we chose William Patterson, people may not be familiar with the school.”
The tuition break will save students $21,000 off their tuition and slash the tuition by two-thirds, she said. “The tuition is the same rate as the School of Arts and Sciences in-state tuition for the 2011-2012 school year for $10,104. [The break would split that in] half that for each semester,” she said. The University did not have a statement prepared, said E.J. Miranda, a University spokesman. To qualify, students must have a minimum of 27 on the ACT or a combined score of 1200 on the critical reading and math section, with no less than a 550 on either section, McCloud said.
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Residence Life officials Bill O’Brien, left, and Joan Carbone listen to student suggestions, such as an option regarding seniority in housing, last night in the Busch Campus Center.
Residence Life seeks input on housing lottery changes BY AMY ROWE ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
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Seton Hall University, in South Orange, N.J., plans to cut the tuition for incoming first-year students with strong academic backgrounds to match the University’s rate.
Many options are under consideration for the spring 2012 housing lottery, like factoring in seniority during the process and allowing off-campus students to apply for oncampus housing. “Seniors have asked for seniority, which has been a concern for students over the years, so we’re thinking of adding it to the process,” said Joan Carbone, executive director for Residence Life, at a Residence Hall Association town hall meeting on Busch campus.
Jeffrey Mendoza, College Avenue Quads president for RHA, thinks students’ credits or years spent at the University should structure the seniority process. “I think there should be seniority based on the style of living,” said Mendoza, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “You should give seniors more priority in the apartment buildings over residence halls, where first-years should get priority.” Bill O’Brien, associate director of Administration and Graduate Students, said if
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Professor plays role in prize-winning research BY MITAL GAJJAR CONTRIBUTING WRITER
University Assistant Professor Saurabh Jha co-authored the High-z Supernova Search team’s discovery paper in 1998 that explained how the expansion of the universe was accelerating rather than decelerating. The same paper earned the research team’s leaders Brian Schmidt and Adam Reiss the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded last week. “What astronomers and physicists expected was that if you were to watch the galaxies for a long time, you would still see them move apart, but that expansion should be slowing down,” said Jha, an assistant professor for the Department of Physics and Astronomy. But the research showed the universe was in fact moving apar t faster, Jha said. Edwin Hubble, the Hubble Space Telescope’s namesake, discovered that the universe is expanding in 1929, he said. This means that distant galaxies are moving away from the Milky Way galaxy, demonstrat-
ing all galaxies are moving apart from measure it with telescopes to see what other galaxies. it was like in the past, Jha said. A useful analogy to understand the “We used many telescopes, both concept is to imagine throwing a ball on the ground, like at the Cerro up in the air and watching it rise, Jha Tololo Inter-American Observatory in said. The ball represents a galaxy, and Chile, as well as the Hubble Space as it moves away from us, it shows that Telescope, to measure the distance to the universe is expanding. the supernovas and the speed at Since we expect the ball to which their galaxies were slow down as it moves away, moving away from us,” we eventually expect the ball he said. to stop and come back down, It is possible to look all due to the force of gravity, into the past, because light he said. from objects that are bil“There is gravity between lions of light-years away all the galaxies, too, and so can be seen by capturing that’s why everyone expected pictures from telescopes, that the expansion of the uniJha said. verse should be slowing down, “We observed a certain SAURABH as well,” Jha said. class of objects, exploding JHA Scientists believed it was stars called type 1a superpossible for expansion to stop novas, which helped us at some point, resulting in the universe measure how fast the universe was collapsing in on itself — a scenario expanding in the past,” he said. called “big crunch,” he said. To everyone’s surprise, the hypothRather than waiting a long time to esis did not match the observation, and see what the expansion of the universe the universe expanded faster. does in the future, both the High-z “It was as if you threw a ball up in Supernova Search Team and fellow the air, and instead of it rising and researchers at the Supernova falling back down, it started speeding Cosmology Project went out to try to up faster and faster. A ball on earth
doesn’t do that, but the universe does,” he said. The third Nobel Prize laureate, Saul Perlmutter, who was the leader of the Supernova Cosmology Project team, reached the same conclusion and received the Nobel Prize independently, Jha said. One of the major implications of the research is the discovery that something has to cause the universe to expand faster, and no one knows what it is, Jha said. “From the measurements and subsequent work, we know that about 70 percent of the universe must be made of this, what we call, ‘dark energy,’” he said. “That is incomprehensible.” Eric Gawiser, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, said the research has raised more questions. “We still have no idea what dark energy really is or why it exists, so this discovery created the biggest current mystery in physics,” he said If the dark energy continues to act like it does today, the universe will continue to expand faster and faster, Jha said.
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Council aims to bridge gaps among Asian communities BY RAYMOND WANG CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Asian Student Council is under taking goals this year to unify the Asian student body with the various Asian organizations, as well as reach out to the University by collaborating with several volunteering organizations. “We’re here for the Asian organizations, but we’re not tr ying to separate ourselves from the rest of the world,” said Dhara Patel, the president of the ASC. “We’re all about diversity and unity, so why would we segregate ourselves? We want to bring in other organizations and work with them.” The ASC hosts biweekly meetings at the Asian American Cultural Center on Livingston campus. “We can talk about anything there,” said Patel, a School of Environmental and Biological
Sciences junior. “For example, in most Asian cultures, parents can be closed-minded and avoid talking about cer tain topics. We want to open up the world to [their children].” The council held an event called “Let’s Talk About It,” which focused specifically on these issues. “There were four dif ferent discussion groups talking about their experiences,” Patel said. “It was such a comfor table environment and even after we ran out of time, ever yone stayed just to talk.” It is also planning an event to bring in various organizations, including Teach For America, to introduce dif ferent career possibilities after graduation. “It’s not as much of a cultural thing as it is political,” Patel said. “We encourage AsianAmerican activism, and we’re all about speaking up and following your beliefs. Our message is,
activism and becoming involved,” Chan said. Chan said there has been a lack of communication within the Asian community, but the council has been taking steps to fix that. “We work closely with the Asian-American leadership to try to bring them more together,” he said. Jessica Leung, programming chair of the ASC, said one of the goals of the meetings was to have a place for people to communicate. “We’re the umbrella organization of all the Asian clubs,” said Leung, a Rutgers Business School junior. “We bring out all the Asian clubs to come out and meet, and we try to address any stereotypes and break them.” On top of maintaining a government for the many different Asian organizations, the ASC also strives to collaborate with the rest of the University. “We usually do a lot of community service because it’s some-
Asian Student Council ‘Whatever you want to do in life, don’t shy away from it — get up and do it.’” Asian-Americans are in the lowest percentile among voter representatives, said Matthew Chan, the Rutgers University Student Assembly representative for the ASC. “Our events are geared toward political awareness and issues that af fect our day-today lives. We tr y to aim at the bigger world issue,” said Chan, a School of Ar ts and Sciences sophomore. The council planned a panel discussing stereotypes to address any issues the Asian community may have, he said. “We’re also bringing in two speakers who are prominent in their fields to talk about
thing that brings everyone together,” Patel said. “Since there is so much more to Rutgers and our community in New Brunswick than the Asian aspect, we try our best to participate with student volunteering organizations.” The council’s past community ser vice has benefited groups such as homeless shelters, bus drivers and University staff. “We do a [peanut butter and jelly] drive ever y year,” Leung said. “This year we’re thinking about doing a blanket drive, as well. We want to help out and reach out as much as we can.” Between acting as a liaison for Asian groups and as a representative of them, the ASC kept its initiative clear. “Our goal is to get people from other cultures to learn more new things,” Leung said. “We all know that there’s more to people than what you can see. We want to open peoples’ minds up to the dif ferent cultures around them.”
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TUITION: Reduced rates apply to incoming first-years continued from front Applicants must also be in the top 10 percent of their graduating class in high school and must apply by Dec. 15, she said. These two universities are not uncommon competitors, especially in terms of sports, said John Wilson, president of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of New Jersey. Wilson said students often recognize a school by their sports team and the schools they play. “Rutgers has a football program, Seton Hall doesn’t have a football program, both [have a] basketball team,” he said. “Both
RESEARCH: Scientists look to explore ‘dark energy’ continued from front “That means all the other galaxies that are out there will eventually get so far away from us that we won’t be able to see them anymore. So it could be that the universe will become a very lonely place in the next 100 billion years,” he said. Many people work to tr y to understand the proper ties of dark energy more precisely and tell the dif ference between the dif ferent possibilities, Jha said. It is right at the forefront of moder n astrophysics research. Jack Hughes, a professor in the Department of Physics and
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schools are reasonably competitive, but schools don’t talk usually about admissions strategies … among themselves.” Wilson said in terms of enrollment strategy, Seton Hall revealed its plans, and they are in the process of being implemented and evaluated. McCloud said she does not know if enrollment is expected to increase because of the tuition break since it is a pilot program, but she thinks it is a strategic move forward during economic times. Although only first-year students receive the automatic tuition slash, McCloud said substantial scholarships have been given to students in the past, including full scholarships. The tuition reduction is a major financial relief for parents and students by presenting them
with the bottom up-front cost, McCloud said. “Scholarships have a lot of variability and uncertainty, but
Astronomy, said the big question in cosmology for the last 70 years was how fast the universe slowed down. “This boiled down to how much matter the universe contained. More matter [meant] the universe slows down more quickly, less matter and the universe slows down less quickly,” he said. But since then, discover y theorists work to come up with other models to explain the accelerating universe, Hughes said. “It is also possible that Einstein’s theory of general relativity is incomplete and needs to be modified,” he said. But Alber t Einstein might have already come up with an explanation for the phenomenon, Jha said.
Einstein proposed the theory of the “cosmological constant,” which argued empty space itself
“The rate is available for all students from all states, not just in-state students.” ALYSSA MCCLOUD Seton Hall University Vice President of Enrollment Management
with this you’re guaranteed the named [rate] to offset the tuition, and you don’t have the stress of waiting,” she said.
“So it could be that the universe will become a very lonely place in the next 100 billion years.” SAURABH JHA University Professor
has a tendency to expand. This results in the creation of more empty space, which also wants to expand, creating more empty space at a faster rate.
T H E DA I LY TA R G U M McCloud said private education at public school price would be applicable for incoming fulltime first-year students only. The tuition rate excludes graduate students, transfer students, non-Seton Hall enrollment, English as a Second Language, non-matriculated enrollment and study abroad, McCloud said. “The rate is available for all students from all states, not just in-state students,” she said. Br yan Rigor, a Seton Hall University first-year student, said the tuition slash was beneficial for incoming students, but a nuisance to the rest of the student population. “This is cool for the freshmen, yet it’s lowering their standards for people to apply,” he said. “It’s different from getting the schol-
arship and giving it off their tuition during admissions.” Rigor said by giving the automatic tuition reduction, Seton Hall is becoming less selective in terms of scholarships and may extend the notion of less selectivity to enrollment rates. Jamie Jin, a School of Engineering junior, said the competitive tuition would not affect admissions to the University. “I guess it is an effective method to get students to go to Seton Hall, but doesn’t Rutgers have the better name?” Jin said. “I mean, Rutgers is ranked higher than Seton Hall [according to the U.S. News and World Report].” U.S. News and World Report’s list of top national universities ranks the University at No. 68 while Seton Hall ranks No. 132 on the list.
“Because there was no evidence for this during Einstein’s life, he is supposed to have called it his ‘greatest blunder,’” he said. “However, this work shows that Einstein might have been right after all.” Another major implication is measuring how the expansion of the universe has been changing by figuring out when the expansion started — that is the beginning of the universe’s “big bang,” Jha said. “Based on the supernova measurements and other recent work, we now know that the Universe is 13.7 billion years old,” he said. Nobel prizes are not awarded right away — often the prizes are given many decades after a discover y, when people are able to determine the impor-
tance of a particular discover y, Jha said. “Since 1998, our two teams’ discovery has been checked and confirmed with more data and different techniques, such that the accelerating universe is now an accepted part of astrophysics and is in all the modern textbooks,” he said. “It really was a revolution in our understanding of the universe.” Hughes said the expansion of the universe has dominated the field of cosmology since the discovery in 1998 for both theorists and observers. “Both NASA and the European Space Agency are planning new space telescopes designed to characterize the properties of the mysterious ‘dark energy’ that is driving the acceleration of the universe,” he said.
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Kevin Gebizlioglu, a School of Engineering junior, and Monica Matilda Ogou, a Graduate School of Education student, perform a skit last night during the opening ceremonies of “Silent Witness,” which recognizes victims of domestic violence.
Club team works to win ice hockey championship BY JESSICA PAO CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The University’s men’s club ice hockey team is of f to a promising star t this season, with veteran team members’ efforts and defense leading to two wins so far. “Our strengths definitely lie in a group of experienced and talented [members], as well as an exceptional goaltender in Brandon DeLibero,” said Joe Ippolito, the team’s president. “While we have a large number of young players, their hard work is already starting to pay off.” The team played six games at this point in the season, with two wins, two losses, one overtime loss and a tie, said Ippolito, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. He said the players proved themselves in defeating the University of Rhode Island’s topranked team and tying with University of Delaware’s topranked team. It defeated the State University of New York at Oswego’s team Saturday, 8-3, he said. “The more time this group has to mesh, the more we will continue to improve and turn some heads across the country,” Ippolito said. Defenseman T.J. Fiorillo said the team will be succesful this season as long as its members do not lose focus. “We should win our conference this year. … If we can continue to improve and stay focused and use everything we’ve been taught, then we will be fine going into the end of the year,” said Fiorillo, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. He credits his positive attitude to the team’s coach, Andy Gojdycz. “Our team’s work ethic is the backbone of the team this season. ... At the end of the practice coach usually conditions us a little bit. That’s really something we pride ourselves on,” he said. The team feels pressure to win this year’s regular season conference title, which would land it a spot in the national tournament, Fiorillo said. “Another goal that has kind of gotten past us the last few years is winning our playoff championship
for our conference,” he said. “We’ve been beaten each of the three years in the playoffs of our conference. It’s a very big goal of ours to win the playoffs.” This year’s national tournament is dif ferent from the past in that 20 teams can compete, which makes more room for the Knights to compete against talented teams in the first few rounds. “We’d like to make some noise in the national tournament, win a couple games fair,” he said. “The chances of getting a good opponent and winning a game in the first, second and third rounds are good.” Rebecca Fickas, a public relations intern for the team, wants to reach out to University students to create more awareness for the team. “Most people don’t even know we have an ice hockey team. I know there’s a lot of hockey fans at Rutgers. If they knew we had a team, they might come support their fellow classmates,” said Fickas, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. Ippolito also wishes students were more aware of the team. “We’re looking to increase the visibility, local support and service-oriented direction of the program. With continued hard work by our coaches, our veterans and our young players, we hope to set a foundation for success for years to come in our organization,” he said. The team competes at home Friday nights and Saturday afternoons in the fall at ProtecHockey Ponds in Somerset, N.J., about five minutes away from the University. It also participates in several charity games, like its Oct. 22 game, “Pink in the Rink” with proceeds benefiting the Susan G. Komen For the Cure, a breast cancer awareness organization. Fickas said the team will play in Halloween-themed games on Oct. 28 and 29, which include costume contests and prizes. She feels the team will eventually become more prominent on campus. “There’s definitely been a growing atmosphere at Rutgers for the hockey team,” she said. “We just keep getting bigger and better.”
John Worobey, a nutritional science professor, said his department is not proud of the state’s child obesity rates of 18.3 percent for 2- to 5-year-olds. With a devotion to decrease those rates, the Nutritional Sciences Preschool on Douglass campus celebrated 20 years of University students teaching healthy eating habits to preschoolers, said Harriet Worobey, the preschool director. The preschool has 34 students — ages 3 and 4 — and one classroom, but Harriet Worobey said she hopes to implement improvements within the school for the future. Along with an upgraded facility with larger classrooms, she said her goals for the school are to create a scholarship program for New Brunswick families and to include graduate students as part of the program. “Already we’re unique and have had an effect in New Jersey,” Harriet Worobey said. “[I want it to be] a magnet for New Brunswick, New Jersey, the East Coast, even the United States.” Between 350 to 400 families, mostly from local communities, sent their children to the preschool since 1991, according to a University media relations press release. The preschool prohibited snack foods like cookies and chips packed with sugar and processing additives during the past decade, so children were more likely to eat nutritious foods like fruits and vegetables, according to the release. Har riet Worobey thinks educational institutions realize
what younger students need to understand during their developmental ages. “We learned what works and doesn’t, [and] how to implement nutrition in all the aspects of the curriculum,” she said in a statement As part of the University’s “Our Rutgers, Our Future: Campaign for Excellence,” the preschool is of one of the programs in the Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health and the $1 billion initiative, announced last October, said Kelly Watts, director of development at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences.
“We learned ... how to implement nutrition in all aspects of the curriculum.” HARRIET WOROBEY The Nutritional Sciences Preschool Director
“The Nutritional Preschool is a nice little example of how the Institute will work,” she said. Although the Institute is a recent addition to the University, the Department of Nutritional Sciences, which runs the preschool, has been educating young children about nutrition while simultaneously observing their eating habits, Watts said. During the seven-year initiative, the Institute plans to focus on childhood obesity, nutrition and health, Watts said. “[It will serve] as an interdisciplinar y think tank,” John Worobey said.
He hosted a symposium this past September which focused on childhood nutrition, aiming to bringing awareness to the Institute. University faculty members as well as professors from other universities who specialized in fields such as prenatal care and childhood development attended. Aside from researching child nutrition, the Institute will also focus on health care, dining services, psychology, sociology and nursing, Watts said. It will also enlist endocrinologists, food scientists, exercise scientists and pediatrics, among others, John Worobey said. “[The Institute will] holistically look at these issues and change them for the future,” Watts said. There are only six federally funded human nutrition centers in the United States, the closest being Tufts University, which focuses on adult nutrition, John Worobey said. The location of a nutrition research center in New Jersey could be strategic because of the state’s diverse population, as well as the amount of hospitals and pharmaceutical companies in the vicinity, he said. John Worobey said he hopes the Institute and the University’s name will become synonymous with nutrition. “Rutgers is a happening place,” he said. Although the Institute is still in its early stages, Watts said she believes it will bring together many people and organizations to provide a level of ser vice to students. “There are people in this University who are very, very excited about what this Institute will do,” Watts said.
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LOTTERY: Livingston building to feature Starbucks continued from front the process is purely based on class year, it allows seniors to stay on campus, but more sophomores could get pushed off. “We have to try to figure out a way to incorporate seniority but still make it fair so everyone has a shot,” O’Brien said. Michael Lee, a Cook campus vice chair for RHA and a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences sophomore, said merit or a student’s involvement on campus should be considered for seniority. Carbone said although she considered this, she believes it is not a good idea for the University because of its size. “A first-year student struggling to adjust may not be able to get involved in things or may have worse grades than they will in their time here,” she said. “If we take them off campus because of that, we’re setting them up for a negative spiral.” With the addition of the Livingston apartments on campus for next term, 10,000
spaces for upperclassmen are available with 16,000 overall, Carbone said. “Literally this year we believe that we will have enough housing, probably, for everybody that applies,” she said. Because of this, Residence Life is considering allowing students who moved off campus to apply for lottery numbers. “Over the last two years, we’ve not allowed students living off campus to come into the lottery,” she said. “Since we do have more spaces, we’re thinking about letting them do that.” Kathleen Sindoni, public relations chair for RHA, thought it would be unfair if off-campus students took away housing from students already living on campus. “I think you should give a lower seniority [to off-campus students],” said Sindoni, a School of Engineering sophomore. “I know if I had my spot taken away from someone older deciding to come back on campus, I wouldn’t be happy about it.” Carbone reminded those in attendance at the meeting that no permanent decisions have been made. She also discussed adding priority housing for students on
U NIVERSITY Cook campus for School of Environmental and Biological Sciences students. For next term, 50 percent of apartment-style residence halls will be reserved for School of Environmental and Biological Sciences students living together in groups of four, she said. Some wondered if this would take away from the number of students from other schools living on Cook/Douglass campus. “We do know that 41 percent of School of Environmental and Biological Sciences students choose to live somewhere else,” Carbone said. Although more School of Environmental and Biological Sciences students can live on Cook campus, Carbone believes a number of them may opt to live in the Livingston apartments. “Livingston housing, which we think is going to be extremely desirable, may be even for students who have to travel all the way to Cook for their classes,” she said. Carbone said the Livingston apartments would mostly contain four single bedrooms, along with two bathrooms per unit and a stainless steel kitchen complete with a dishwasher, counter and stools.
T H E DA I LY TA R G U M “The whole apartment will have state-of-the-art wood floors with wireless [Internet] available everywhere,” she said. She said seniors and juniors would most likely have seniority while applying for spots in these apar tments, but some sophomores would be able to get in. The bottom floor of the residence hall will include a diner, a Barnes and Noble complete with a Starbucks and three movie theater screens. The theater spaces will be small, two of which will have 100 seats and the other with 150. Some professors will hold classes in the theater areas until 6 p.m., but students can use them for entertainment at night and on the weekends, Carbone said. Students will see how these considerations come into play in the housing lotter y star ting January of next term, when they can apply for a randomly assigned housing lottery number, O’Brien said. “Once you get your number, based on interest or a number of different factors, you have the ability to select a number of different housing options,” he said.
Oct. 1, 1892 In a game against Princeton, University football legend Frank “Pop” Grant first uttered the famous words “I’d die for dear old Rutgers,” as he was being carried off the field with a broken leg. His declaration was later immortalized in the classic play High Button Shoes, which is set in New Brunswick. That song was later parodied into a classic “Rutgers Song” called “Nobody Ever Died for Dear Old Rutgers,” which is sung by the University Glee Club.
Oct. 7, 1745 Henry Rutgers was born. In 1825, this Revolutionary War hero donated $5,000 to Queens College and a bronze bell. On Dec. 5, 1825 the Board of Governors officially voted to change the name of Queens College to Rutgers College, after Rutgers, in an attempt for the colonel to remember the college in his will. Unfortunately for the college, Rutgers left the school nothing.
Oct. 11, 1977 Mason Welch Gross died. Mason Gross was the Univeristy’s 16th president and a champion of the arts and romantic learning — learning for the pure love of learning. Gross is remembered today with a monument on Voorhees Mall on the College Avenue campus and the arts school that bears his name.
Oct. 19, 1873 Rutgers met with Yale, Columbia and Princeton at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in Manhattan. Only four years after the first intercollegiate football game, the purpose of the meeting was to establish a set of rules for intercollegiate competition and to codify the game of football.
— Courtesy of Cesar Rainho, president of the Rutgers University Historical Society
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Restaurant patrons celebrate German culture BY ANDREW EKLUND CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Whether it was the German beer, food or music, New Brunswick residents got a taste of Germany yesterday at the annual Oktoberfest celebration at the Old Bay Restaurant on Church Street. “For the 22nd year in a row, we were really proud to of fer such a great variety of German food, beer and music,“ said Myles Caroll, a manager at Old Bay Restaurant. “We had traditional German music per formed live by the Alpine Express while we ser ved 22 dif ferent draft beers on tap.” The event, which ran from 1 to 5 p.m., attracted more than 300 patrons, said Caroll, who said this year’s turnout was particularly special.
The first 100 people to arrive received a green T-shirt with the event logo on it, he said. Entry was $15 per person, which covered the cost of the food buffet and the first draft of beer. The restaurant’s menu consisted of items like sauerkraut, German chocolate cake and German sausages grilled outside in the beer garden. Colin Hussy, a Somerset resident who attended the feast, called the event a great way for old friends to stay in touch and celebrate good times, both past and present. Hussy attended the annual event on and of f for 20 years. “I like the many great German beers, which is second to none in terms of variety. There are so many great choices between Hacker-Pschor r, Weihenstephaner [and]
Oktober fest.” he said. “However, nothing beats seeing old friends from over the years and getting a chance to catch up.”
“I really enjoy discussing the great variety of beers with so many different patrons.” MYLES CAROLL Old Bay Restaurant Manager
John Litzinger, another patron, said the events at the Old Bay Restaurant never disappoint him. “Any event they throw [here] is a great event,” he said. “If I had next year’s calendar, [this event] would already be on it.”
Patrons and restaurant employees said they were also excited for the upcoming German beerfest in the spring called Maifest, which takes place in May, as well as Mardi Gras in Februar y. Litzinger described how hard it would be to rank the different events, but said he looks forward to Mardi Gras the most. “Mardi Gras would definitely be my favorite event, with Oktoberfest and Maifest tied for a close second,” he said. Pat Pipi, the general manager, said the entire Old Bay Restaurant establishment looks for ward to its upcoming 25th anniversary in the spring. “We’re in the process of planning a nice celebration,” Pipi said. He said the staff takes pride in ser ving the greater New Brunswick area for more than two and a half decades.
“We’re all really proud to be serving great food and beverages to such great patrons over so many years,” Pipi said. Caroll said his favorite part about ser ving the residents of New Brunswick for more than eight years is the talk on German beer and its histor y. “I really enjoy discussing the great variety of beers with so many different patrons,” he said. “It’s a really great experience.” Mar ybeth Grove, a ser ver at Old Bay Restaurant, said her favorite aspect of the Oktoberfest celebration is the friendly atmosphere the patrons and staff members bring. “For me, I always look forward to coming to work because I know when I get [here], I’ll be seeing so many friends, which really makes this place pretty special,” Grove said.
Jazz fans, musicians flock to New Brunswick for festival BY ZACH BREGMAN CONTRIBUTING WRITER
A closing performance at the Hyatt Regency Hotel put last weekend’s New Brunswick Jazz Festival to bed, ending a weekend when musicians across the nation along with city residents and the surrounding communities collected to jam to the beat of the music. Comedian Bill Bellamy, known as the voice of Skeeter in television show “Cousin Skeeter,” hosted the closing ceremony, which featured performances by the John Bianculli Trio and vocalist Jackie Jones, 14K Soul and Radam Schwartz and his band Conspiracy for Positivity. Alex Bugnon, a jazz pianist from Montreux, Switzerland, who studied at the Paris Conser vator y, the Mozart Academy in Salzburg and the Berklee School of Music, headlined the closing performance with flutist Nelson Rangell. Bugnon said his origins influence a large par t of his music.
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Music fans across the state gather to enjoy jazz music at the Hyatt Regency Hotel last weekend during the New Brunswick Jazz Festival.
“Jazz, I was always into it [because] my father was a jazz musician, and I’m also the nephew of a very famous trumpet player, Donald Byrd,” he said. “My father, when I was six years old, had us all start piano. Just like you go into school, you have to do it.” He believes jazz to be anything that is played from the
heart and improvised. He said he is often disappointed that a lot of today’s performers only play something to get on old school jazz radio instead of composing music that comes naturally to them. To Bugnon, the New Jersey Jazz Festival is a thrilling experience that he described as New York but with more space.
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Nelson Rangell, on saxophone, and his band jam out Sunday afternoon during the closing performance of the New Brunswick Jazz Festival at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick.
“I was nervous 20 years ago, but now I just can’t wait to get on stage,” he said. The festival opened Friday at 10 p.m. with the New Brunswick Jazz Project, featuring trumpeter Lee Hogans and vocalist Vanessa Perea at the Due Mari Restaurant on Albany Street, according to the New Brunswick State Theatre website. Other performers who participated in the festival Saturday were the Carrie Jackson Trio at Delta’s Restaurant on Dennis Street and the Gordon James Band at Panico on Church Street, according to the website. Establishments like Tula Restaurant and Lounge and The Sushi Room on Easton Avenue also hosted a variety of jazz musicians. Schwartz, leader of the band Conspiracy for Positivity, advised University students looking to enter the jazz scene to study everything there is, make a statement and find their individuality. “If I told all the guys I’ve worked with that you could learn jazz in school, they would be rolling on the floor laughing because that’s so different from the way they learned music,” said Schwartz, a University alumnus. He stressed that all students should attend more jazz performances, as opposed to mainstream concerts, in order to broaden their horizons and learn tech-
niques after seeing jazz musicians perform on stage. Younger musicians Misha Fatkiev and Anthony Ware, a guitarist and saxophonist, respectively, in Schwartz’s band, both studied at the University and agreed with his advice. Fatkiev implored young musicians to stick to the music, love the music, seek out people they love to play with, be consistent and get out on the scene. “I love being a musician. I leave a gig making a whole bunch of people happy, and I enjoy myself, and on top of that, I get paid,” Fatkiev said. He compared his experience at the University to a big party, a feeling he continues while performing on stage. Ware credits the University for increasing his appetite for music, especially after he met famous jazz musician William Fielder during his undergraduate career. He said the one complaint he has is that only a few people encourage their children to grow up to be musicians. “[Parents] say [to their kids], ‘We want you to be something else,’ or, ‘You can do this on the side,’” he said. People perceive musicians as aloof, unreliable and eccentric, said Ware, who called the notion especially unfortunate.
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Hospital earns recognition for hyperbaric services BY DANIEL GARBER CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Diversified Clinical Ser vices, a national wound management company, awarded Saint Peter’s University Hospital’s Wound Care Center and Hyperbaric Ser vices the Center of Distinction Award for the third consecutive year. “Saint Peter’s Wound Care Center and Hyperbaric Ser vices equaled or exceeded the criteria for the award,” said Olga Gikas, manager of marketing and communications for DCS, via email. “The center scored a healing rate of 98 percent, had a median days-toheal average of 30 days and a patient satisfaction rate of 95 percent.” To give out the honor, DCS looked at stringent criteria, including patient satisfaction ratings greater than or equal to 90 percent, healing rates greater than or equal to 89 percent and median days-to-heal equal to or less than 30 days, she said.
Gikas said she was impressed that the New Brunswick hospital received the honor three years in a row. “[This distinction serves as] a real testament to their clinical excellence and commitment to healing the community,” she said. Saint Peter’s Hospital’s Wound Care Center opened in 1996 and specializes in curing difficult to heal or non-healing wounds, said director Margaret Moss. “Typically these are on the feet or legs,” Moss said. “We see patients who have diabetes, vascular problems and ar terial problems, because the blood doesn’t flow adequately to the feet or legs.” In addition to conventional wound care, the center offers hyperbaric services, where medical professionals use oxygen at a level that is higher than atmospheric pressure in order to treat patients suffering from ailments such as carbon monoxide poisoning and gas gangrene, she said. “Compression of the air [in a hyperbaric chamber] forces the flow of oxygen through the blood
into damaged tissue, which increases the healing of the wound,” said Moss, who also called these services a form of alternate therapy when more conventional methods do not work. A number of college athletic teams are interested in it for their athletes because while
“It’s a passion being able to heal people, helping them move on with their lives.” TRACEY JUBA Hyperbaric Technician at Saint Peter’s University Hospital
hyperbaric ser vices are not considered a performance-enhancing drug, they are known to increase per formance, Moss said. Because of this, many bodybuilders buy hyperbaric chambers for home use. The center offers adjunct therapy on an outpatient basis, with patients usually coming for two
hours every day for up 20 to 40 sessions, she said. “We get to know our patients very well,” Moss said, adding that on a yearly basis the center sees around 2,500 patients, of which 600 are new. Patients often include women who had mastectomies, men who had a prostatectomy and people with neck cancer sustaining oral wounds from radiation therapy, she said. “It’s a great place to work,” said Tracey Juba, a hyperbaric technician. “It’s a passion being able to heal people, helping them move on with their lives.” The hospital’s unit has strong referrals, Moss said. Some specialists refer patients to the center all the way from New York City. Moss called the center’s location in New Brunswick advantageous over other local hospitals because she considers the hospital’s proximity to the University and Johnson & Johnson beneficial in getting its name out. The center plans on expanding to Monroe Township, an
area with a high senior citizen population, said Phillip Har tman, director of public relations for Saint Peter’s University Hospital. “Monroe Township has a high age-impaired, 55-plus population, [and] that population uses [our] ser vices more than others,” he said. The Jamesburg site’s construction has been completed, Moss said. Although an opening date has not been slated, Moss said architectural plans are being drawn, and he expects the expansion to open in early 2012. Other awards Saint Peter’s University Hospital received over the past summer include the Silver Award for Excellence in Stroke Care from the American Stroke Association and the Magnet Award for Nursing Excellence, Hartman said. “[The Magnet Award for Nursing Excellence] was significant because we became the sixth hospital in the world to receive it four consecutive years, and the award is only given every four years,” he said.
ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON RELEASES VIDEO ON CHILD VEHICLE SAFETY Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and the New Jersey Trauma Center Council introduced a video offering tips on how to keep children safe in and around motor vehicles and addressing the four child passenger safety stages. The 17-minute “Stay Safe in the Car” video provides an overview of the safety needs of infants, toddler, school age and older children traveling in motor vehicles, according to a Robert Wood Johnson press release. It also gives tips on preventing backover injuries, hypothermia/hyperthermia and trunk entrapment.
“The New Jersey Trauma Center Council saw a need in this state for an instructional tool that could be used in a variety of settings to educate families in a clear and concise way so that this important, life-saving information is accessible to everyone,” said Diana Starace, injury prevention coordinator at RWJ, in the press release. The video is available in English and Spanish and will be distributed to all New Jersey Trauma Centers and Safe Kids coalitions. It will also be available in
mother-baby units in community hospitals, pediatricians’ offices, law enforcement and social service agencies throughout the state. “It’s easy for a nurse in a hospital to pop in and play this DVD to educate new parents or for a pediatrician to play it in the waiting room,” Starace said in the release. The Rutgers University Police Department and the New Jersey Division of Highway Traffic Safety funded the project with a $10,000 grant.
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The Maurice Sendak stor ytime session will continue at the New Brunswick Public Librar y as part of the series “In a Nutshell” where different guests, from artists to poets, come to the librar y to discuss their work. Sendak, a children’s stor ybook 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 Crowe-Logan 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 surger y at UMDNJ-Rober t 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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Comedian and actress Wanda Sykes will perform her standup act at the State Theatre. Sykes, who has been ranked among “Entertainment Weekly’s 25 Funniest People in America,” has two HBO stand-up specials — “Wanda Sykes: Sick & Tired” and “I’ma Be Me.” She has also been nominated for three Primetime Emmy’s and in 1999 won the Emmy for “Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Special. Tickets are between $35 and $95. The act begins at 8 p.m.
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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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Keep pornography in Connecticut jails
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rison inmates have access to few comforts during their time in jail, and rightfully so. Connecticut’s Department of Correction is looking to limit these comforts even further, now that it has banned “pictorial depictions of sexual activity or nudity” in prisons. In other words, the prisoners will no longer be allowed access to pornography. This decision has spurred a group of prisoners to launch a letter-writing campaign in opposition to the decision, but the DOC staunchly stands behind the ban. Spokesman Brian Garnett claims that the main reasons for the ban are to prevent staff members from being exposed to the pornography and that the use of pornography counters rehabilitative efforts. We disagree with both of these claims. Proponents of the ban state that it creates a better work environment for the prison staff. Removing the pornography from the facilities creates a less offensive, safer workspace for all those working in corrections. In the grand scheme of prison life, however, pornography seems like a pretty small offense. Corrections officers, we imagine, have to deal with a wide range of disturbing scenes and events in prisons, ranging from gang activity to violence to sexual assault and more. It seems unlikely that they would have the time or energy to fret about seeing sexually explicit material when there exists the very real chance that someone could be killed. On the subject of rehabilitative efforts, the connection between pornography and crime is tenuous at best. According to the Pacific Center for Sex and Society, “it has been found everywhere scientifically investigated that as pornography has increased in availability, sex crimes have either decreased or not increased.” That is, no real connection has been established between crime and the use of pornography. In fact, the only scientifically demonstrated effect of pornography on crime is that it has led to a decrease in instances of sexual crimes. How, then, can the DOC argue that prisoners cannot be successfully rehabilitated if they have access to pornography? Plenty of productive, law abiding citizens use it without being driven to crime. In the case of sex offenders, pornography may become an issue. But for the general population, there’s no objective reason to ban it. If the goal of prison is to turn criminals away from their lives of crime, then pornography should — for the most part — be a non-issue. Wasting time and energy worrying about it detracts from more productive rehabilitative efforts. The Connecticut DOC should learn to pick its battles.
Recognize experience of council members
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he President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness is a team of 27 handpicked individuals whom President Barack Obama chose to act as his advisers on issues of job creation. While the idea of a panel of business and economic experts seems good in theory, some have raised objections to the particular individuals Obama has chosen to serve as experts. These contested advisers all have one thing in common: Far from being beacons of hope in the dimness of the recession, their companies have actually been cutting jobs while posting record profits. Examples include Kenneth Chenault, chairman and chief executive officer of American Express, and Jim McNerney, chief executive officer of Boeing. In the case of Chenault, American Express axed 550 jobs while its profits in the fourth quarter of 2010 were up 48 percent from the year before. Meanwhile, McNerney’s Boeing announced that it would be cutting 1,100 U.S. jobs in January, while the second quarter of 2011 saw a 20 percent increase in profits. Critics of the council point to such information as proof that the people Obama has appointed are ill-equipped to advise him on the creation of new jobs. But that might be a snap judgment. While it’s true that McNerney, Chenault and other members of the council may be involved with companies that have lost jobs in recent times, it’s also true that, as high-level executives, they have a lot of experience with business in the United States. Sure, there’s a chance that they are evil villains who cut jobs for the fun of it, but there’s also a chance — perhaps an even more likely chance — that their companies lost jobs because they had no other choice in order to stay afloat. Any time jobs are lost, a variety of complicated factors are at play. It’s tough in the current economic climate for any business, no matter how successful, to survive unscathed. If Obama does not look to titans of industry, then who else is he supposed to ask for advice in matters of business and employment? They have experienced these things firsthand. Chances are they know what they’re talking about. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t be chief executives. Decrying them as unqualified to help turn the country around may be a knee-jerk reaction based on superficial figures regarding employment and profits. We admittedly have no way of knowing for certain whether the council members will affect any real, positive change, but we should at least hear them out before we kick them to the curb. Given how much time they have spent navigating the U.S. economy, it’s very likely that they’ll have at least some good advice.
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might expect that this developtudents are mad. ment would be evidence Student loan debt is enough that the tea party is piling up higher, and not racist, that it opposes there are fewer jobs availPresident Barack Obama able for them. What to do? because of his policies and not “Get mad.” Why get mad? because of his race. “Because Wall Street But, no. The National screwed us, man.” How did NOAH GLYN Association for the they screw us? “The governAdvancement of Colored ment bailed out the Wall People called the tea party racist simply because it Street bankers, because they were greedy and espouses conservative beliefs and the NAACP is a made loans to people who they knew couldn’t afford liberal institution. It had nothing to do with what the it. Now, we are stuck paying for their bonuses.” tea party actually said or did. It was a disgusting ad I agree that many bankers and investors hominem attack. behaved irresponsibly, and the government probaNow the usual suspects are back, questioning bly shouldn’t have bailed them out, but what’s your whether Cain is in fact racist against his own people. point? “Well, we have all this student loan debt that Do you know what real racism is? It’s when a we won’t be able to pay back. If Wall Street bankers group decides that a black man who dares to think can get bailed out, why can’t we?” for himself is somehow guilty of betraying his race. So your position is that when bankers behaved The Daily Targum published a commentary by a irresponsibly, the government should not have Muslim student on Sept. 27 that accused the U.S. bailed them out. But when students behave irregovernment of racism. In part, sponsibly, the government ought “Uncle Sam wants you to be in the to bail them out? “Yeah, but we are “The ‘Occupy U.S. Army … unless you’re a studying at school to become prowoman. America is the world’s ductive members of society.” Wall Street’ protests melting pot … unless you’re a Do you know what the world have made me Mexican. The Constitution grants would be like without banks? You citizens freedom of speech, of know that iPod you’re listening to? fairly depressed press, of religion, and the right to Sorry, without any banks, no one would have been there to give Steve about our generation.” assemble and petition … unless you’re a Muslim and especially if Jobs a loan to start Apple. That house you’re calling out our B.F.F. your parents live in? Sorry, no bank Israel’s policies.” was there to offer them a 30-year mortgage. And so on. Last I checked, women are able to join any “You’re just spewing capitalist lies!” branch of the military, the United States allows Someone who made his income from capitalism people to enter easily and illegally from the southis paying your cultural anthropology professor’s ern border, and this Muslim student attends a salary, by the way. publicly funded university that permits anti-Israel Do you remember that show, “The Wonder groups to assemble, to protest and to make fools Years?” It’s the story of a kid who grows up in the of themselves — a right the author took full late 1960s and early 1970s. Netflix recently added it advantage of. to its “Watch Instantly” selection, and it got me More from the column — “The United States is thinking. In 20 years, what are the chances that supporting and facilitating Israel’s genocide of a there will be a show about us, about our lives? Who civilian population, using our tax money to support would sit down for 30 minutes to watch us transform foreign policies that we do not approve of and is from Gameboy-playing kids to XBox 360-playing discrediting itself in front of the global community teenagers? The fifth season will be dedicated to the by shamelessly defending Israel’s near universally story of how we spent weeks trying to figure out illegal actions.” why former President Bill Clinton was in so much You know what’s funny? When the Third Reich trouble. Talk about dramatic arc. slaughtered six million Jews, many asked, “Why The “Occupy Wall Street” protests have made didn’t the Jews fight back?” When Jews take defenme fairly depressed about our generation. sive action against terrorists who seek to commit Have you heard about Herman Cain? He’s the another Holocaust, many ask, “Why are the Jews former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, a former chairfighting back?” man of the Board of Directors of the Kansas City You know what’s not funny? When a school Federal Reserve Bank, and he’s running for presinewspaper publishes a wholly unsubstantiated coldent as a Republican. Oh, and he’s black, and he umn that accuses Jews of committing genocide. grew up in the segregated South and attended a historically black school, Morehouse College. Noah Glyn is a School of Arts and Sciences senior Cain is not my top choice for the Republican nomimajoring in economics and history. His column, nation. My opposition notwithstanding, Cain’s populari“Irreconcilable Differences,” runs on alternate Tuesdays. ty has soared, especially among tea party activists. One
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QUOTE OF THE DAY “Rutgers is a happening place.” John Worobey, a professor of nutritional science, on drawing attention to nutrition at the University STORY IN UNIVERSITY
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Remember good old “Joe the Plumber,” Sen. John McCain’s, RAriz., campaign’s favorite icon of the average American during the 2008 election? Turns out he’s not quite done with his time in the spotlight. Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher — Joe’s real name — announced his candidacy for Congress in 2012 in Ohio’s Ninth District. The question is, why? What can Wurzelbacher bring to the congressional table, besides his experience with news stations after he was catapulted to stardom almost by accident? We dart Wurzelbacher for trying to outlive his five minutes of fame. It would be one thing if he had real political experience. Instead, he’s trying to jump straight into Congress, where some sort of knowledge of politics is required, we imagine.
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Senior forward Ibrahim Kamara assisted on Nate Bourdeau’s game-winning goal in the 70th minute against Cincinnati.
GOALS: Pair of Knights
“They obviously had us on the ropes in the first half,” Donigan said. “We were disapassist on Bourdeau’s winner pointed in our play there because I challenged them. I said, ‘Can continued from back we go out on the road and play like we did, then come home and Senior forward Nate Bourdeau do the same thing?’ But they scored the eventual game-winner were able to fight back. They in the 70th minute. were again able to show their Bourdeau said the goal was a resilience as a group, and we got team effort, as both freshman JP some great goals as a result of Correa and senior Ibrahim some hard work.” Kamara assisted on the play. The Rutgers offense suffered “Ibrahim was doing a lot of a serious blow within the first hard work — he did all the dirty three minutes of the game. work keeping the ball in Sophomore b o u n d s , ” for ward Kene Eze Bourdeau said. “They were again left the game for “JP, he is great the locker room going for ward, able to show with what but he showed us their resilience appeared to be a [Sunday] he can injur y after a work. He played as a group, and we head collision with a me the ball back, Cincinnati defendand I finished got some great er. The Sayreville, the rest.” goals as a result.” N.J., native did The game not return to the knotted up, 1-1, in DAN DONIGAN game, but he the 52nd minute Head Coach came back to thanks to a defenthe sidelines. sive miscue from Eze leads the team in points the Bearcats. A cross into the box with 12 on five goals and from Bourdeau deflected off the two assists. leg of Cincinnati defender Wyatt “That hurts. Kene is a threat. Stevens and into the net for an We live and die by Kene a lot of own goal. the times,” Donigan said. “Losing “The own goal was luckily him really hurts because he is a just me tr ying to play the ball very talented attacking player. into the box,” Bourdeau said. Hopefully we can get him back “We got lucky that we were soon enough.” crashing and putting pressure The Knights look to build on the defense, and the of f their pivotal Big East win as defender did the rest.” their season winds down and The Knights went into the ever y game becomes a mustlocker room at halftime down a win situation. goal after Cincinnati defender “We dropped some games earMike Brizzi buried a shot past lier this season, which kind of put junior goalkeeper Kevin us in a hole. Coming out and getMcMullen late in the period. ting this win was big,” Bourdeau But while the Knights had said. “This is the Big East season, trouble in the past coming from and we are second in the Big East behind, they managed to rally now. So this was definitely huge.” back against the Bearcats.
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Freshman quarterback Gary Nova appeared for one drive in wins against North Carolina Central and Ohio, but played for the majority of the second half against Syracuse. He never subbed out at home against Pittsburgh, and he earns his second start Saturday.
STARTER: Nova enrolls early, develops relationships continued from back Saturday and ser ved him well in the second half at Syracuse.” But ask Nova, and his preparation began long before the season started. Nova graduated from Don Bosco Prep in May and arrived in Piscataway on June 1 along with freshmen Paul Canevari, Savon Huggins and Kaleb Johnson. The quar tet grew accustomed to dorm life, worked out with the team and became close friends — they still live together now.
“Even before that, I would drive Nova was shaky with his voice up here almost every day of the as he led a comeback at the noisy week and meet with coach Carrier Dome two weeks ago, [Andrew] Janocko to just go over Harrison said, but not anymore. simple stuff,” Nova said. “He took that game “Coming in a month and put it on his shoulbefore everyone else … ders,” Harrison said. we really got ahead of “He went out there ourselves with learning and did what he had to the offense, being do. I’m glad he’s out around the guys and getthere. I feel like practing my timing down tice is where it started with the receivers.” with him really being Nova completed 11vocal and speaking up of-24 passes Saturday to in the huddle.” GARY NOVA six receivers. Nova admitted to Coaches told the Elmwood Park, being overanxious when he N.J., native he showed good control ear ned his first significant of game, and Harrison believes playing time, but he did Nova’s biggest strides occurred in enough to improve his career command of the huddle. record by two more wins.
The last time Nova lost a game was in eighth grade Pop Warner playoffs, but there was no thought of defeat for a simple reason. “I never planned on losing in my whole life,” Nova said. His freshman and junior varsity teams at Don Bosco went undefeated, and then he won a pair of New Jersey state titles and a mythical national championship while going 24-0 as a starter at the Ramsey, N.J., powerhouse. He appeared in four games this season — wins over North Carolina Central, Ohio, Syracuse and Pitt. Now he knows he will start once more on Homecoming. “‘Keep the streak going,’ that’s what I’m telling him,” Johnson said. “Keep the streak going.”
he Big East will consider adding six more football-playing schools to get 12 members, making up for last month’s three departures. Big East presidents and chancellors authorized commissioner John Marinatto yesterday to engage in formal discussions with institutions it targeted in expansion. Pittsburgh and Syracuse announced last month they planned to leave for the Atlantic Coast Conference. TCU accepted an invitation from the Big 12, leaving the Big East with only six football teams. Navy, Air Force and Army are among schools mentioned for potential footballonly membership.
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Chris Snee and Zak DeOssie went to the team’s facility yesterday, one day after suffering concussions in a 36-25 loss to the Seattle Seahawks. Giants brass eventually sent both home to rest. Head coach Tom Coughlin said Snee felt better after spending Sunday in the hospital. But the Boston College product will not be active next Sunday, according to the Star-Ledger. With Snee and center David Baas out of the lineup, Jim Cordle will start his first NFL game. Cordle also replaced DeOssie.
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Eagles are 1-4 following Sunday’s 31-24 loss to the Buffalo Bills, but head coach Andy Reid is not worried about the early losses. Reid said the Eagles improved in most phases of the game. The 13th-year head coach was never one to openly criticize his players and assistants, and he will not start now. Reid said the bright spot against the Bills was the performance in the second half, when the Eagles allowed only 10 points. The coach last faced a 1-4 start in his first year as head coach. He led Philadelphia to nine playoff appearances, five NFC Championship Games and one Super Bowl appearance.
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linebacker Mario Williams is out for the season after tearing a pectoral muscle during Sunday’s 25-20 loss to the Oakland Raiders. Williams will go on injured reserve and undergo surgery in the next week, according to head coach Gary Kubiak. The top overall pick in the 2006 NFL Draft moved from defensive end to outside linebacker this season in new coordinator Wade Phillips’ 3-4 set. Williams had five sacks and a forced fumble before the injur y.
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Junior transfer’s flexibility yields more responsibility BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
On paper, junior Rachel Breton does not make a whole lot WOMEN’S SOCCER of noise. But on the field, her play speaks for itself. The transfer joined the Rutgers women’s soccer team as a for ward this year after leaving Villanova at the end of the 2009 season to be closer to home. Breton played vir tually ever y position but goalkeeper for head coach Glenn Crooks and after a pair of active performances in the back four, the Manalapan, N.J., native may have found her new home. “I love Rachel Breton, and she’ll tell you first thing I’ve gotten on her pretty heavily and pretty hard this year about cer tain things,” Crooks said. “But here’s a kid that comes up and plays for ward for us. Here’s a kid that goes into the midfield when we need her, and now she goes into the back when we need her.” The 5-foot-4 Breton won nearly any ball that came her way while at back against Notre Dame and did not hesitate to push into midfield to become involved in the offense. Her experience at for ward could be to blame, but Breton points to her soccer knowledge as a whole for her success. “It’s hard to get into a certain continuity and get used to things, but I’m a soccer player, so I can play anywhere,” Breton said. It is the same selflessness that earned the attention of her head coach and teammates. “For her to sacrifice like that, and to be quite honest with you
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Junior Rachel Breton played all over the field for head coach Glenn Crooks this season, serving time in the Knights’ attack and most recently as a member of the squad’s defense. her best soccer has been in the back, she played a big role in our four points this weekend,” Crooks said. Breton star ted her collegiate career as a defender for the Wildcats in 2008, but soon moved to the front third. She scored a goal and registered two assists in her last season in Villanova, Pa., two years ago, and now finds her-
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Junior Jess Janosz, left, posted consecutive shutouts in her first two career starts over the weekend at Yurcak Field.
JANOSZ EARNS BIG EAST ATTENTION AFTER TWO CLEAN SHEETS After making the first two star ts of her career last weekend against DePaul and Notre Dame, WOMEN’S SOCCER junior goalkeeper Jess Janosz also earned her first collegiate distinction. The Rutgers women’s soccer team’s 6-foot netminder posted two clean sheets in as many games. In return, the Big East Conference named Janosz its Goalkeeper of the Week. “She was there for ever ything we needed her to be there for,” said junior back Shannon Woeller. “I felt ver y confident with her behind me, and I thought she did an awesome job.” Janosz made seven saves against DePaul Friday in her first career start, which allowed freshman Stefanie Scholz to notch the game-winner early in the second half.
The Ringwood, N.J., native rejected another five shots Sunday against defending national champion Notre Dame, including three in the game’s first overtime. Janosz outlasted the Irish attack in the period and shut down the opposition in the second overtime, ending the game in a scoreless tie. The shutout, the team’s sixth this season, marked the first Rutgers clean sheet against Notre Dame since Oct. 22, 2004. It could not occur at a better time for Janosz and the Scarlet Knights. The Knights are now tied for fifth in the Big East’s National Division and boast two effective goalkeepers in Janosz and Emmy Simpkins. “It definitely was the best feeling to get it against Notre Dame,” Janosz said of her second shutout. — Anthony Hernandez
self operating in her original college position. Although the Freehold Regional High School product still ser ves in a reser ve role for her new team, her impact is apparent when she is in the game and her workload increases. Breton averaged 62 minutes per game in the Scarlet Knights’ pair of contests last
weekend, a sharp rise compared to her season average of 34.6. “I think this weekend was huge for her,” said junior back Shannon Woeller, who averages 94 minutes a game. “She’s kind of raw back there. She doesn’t have the experience as a natural defender, but she works really hard. She listens well to ever y kind of instruc-
tion that you can give her, and she’s a really smar t player so she picks things up real fast.” But the utility player’s move to Piscataway was never about playing time, just like her playing back was never about herself. Breton moved back to New Jersey to feel closer to home and discover a second family, and she accomplished both goals in her move to the Banks, she said. “I knew that it was close to home, and it is somewhat of a home,” Breton said. “When I’m here, the biggest dif ference between Villanova and [Rutgers] is that I feel at home. My whole team and my coaches are on my side 100 percent no matter what, through ever ything.” While the Knights continue to fight for a postseason ber th in the Big East’s National Division, Breton earns even more oppor tunities to compete at the highest level. The Wildcats recorded a miserable 7-12 campaign featuring only two Big East wins last season — Breton’s redshir t season at Rutgers — but qualified for the NCAA Tour nament in her sophomore season. The Knights still have a lot of work to do before they think about NCAA qualification, but Crooks made it clear Breton played a key role last weekend in leading the Knights to four points. Whether her role remains the same Friday is still uncertain, but do not expect Breton to care much if her position changes yet again. “It’s fun. It’s like, ‘What’s my role today?” she said. “It’s, ‘How do I pick up the team?’”
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Sophomore Logan R yan ear ned Big East Defensive Player of the Week honors yesterday, marking the third consecutive week a Rutgers football player earned conference recognition. The cornerback recorded his first career interception against Pittsburgh on Saturday and followed it up with a 45-yard touchdown return on his second. “What he’s done is work very, very hard in practice, and [it] built up,” said head coach Greg Schiano. “When you earn that confidence, then you deserve to have it. You deserve to play with it, and he’s playing with confidence right now.” Ryan also broke up a pass and made four tackles in the Scarlet Knights’ 34-10 win. He recorded four pass breakups the week before against Syracuse, prompting Schiano to call it Ryan’s best game of his career. But he topped the ef for t against the Panthers, registering half of the Knights’ four takeaways. “I just think I’m getting better every game and literally every play,” Ryan said. Ryan and the Knights secondar y last allowed a touchdown through the air Sept. 24 against Ohio. The Eastern High School product was the victim the week before on a 66-yard touchdown reception by North Carolina’s Dwight Jones on the Tar Heels’ first drive. Ryan since moved on from the incident, which Schiano termed “a critical time for him in his career.”
“He’s worked very hard to thicken his skin,” the 11th-year head coach said. The former four-star recruit arrived at Rutgers as a corner in 2009 along with Abdul Smith and Darrell Givens. Only Ryan emerged after Smith transferred to Temple and Givens has yet to earn significant playing time. “It’s just reps in practice building on top of each other,” Ryan said. “It’s tr ying to be great every play and not settle for anything less.”
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end Michael Larrow had successful ankle surgery Sunday, Schiano said. Larrow went down on the first play from scrimmage Saturday and did not return. Sophomore Marcus Thompson replaced Larrow on the depth chart as the Knights’
first-team end, although Schiano cautioned against reading too much into the move. “We will, by the end of the week, figure out who has practiced best, who has looked the best, and we’ll rotate them in that way,” Schiano said. “We’ll continue to play as many guys who have earned the right to play.” Thompson assisted on three tackles against the Panthers, including one for a loss. He moved to defensive end during training camp after practicing at fullback during the spring. Thompson arrived at Rutgers in 2010 as the No. 77 outside linebacker in the nation, according to Scout.com. He played sparingly at linebacker last season as a true freshman and earned his first significant playing time this season as a member of a 10man rotation.
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Junior wide receiver Mark Harrison scored his first touchdown of the season Saturday in a 34-10 win over Pittsburgh.
Harrison rediscovers end zone, confidence BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
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Sophomore cornerback Logan Ryan recorded his first career interceptions Saturday, earning Big East distinction.
Junior wide receiver Mark Harrison does not usually focus on getting FOOTBALL into the end zone during a game. At least that was Harrison’s mentality last season, when he hauled in nine touchdown receptions. Things are dif ferent this time around for the 6foot-3 receiver, and after being shut out of the end zone in the Rutgers football team’s first four games, Harrison admitted it was humbling. But after finding the end zone in a 34-10 rout of Pittsburgh last week — Harrison’s first touchdown since the Scarlet Knights lost to West Virginia last season — scoring was on his mind, he said. “It felt good. It felt real good to get back there,” Harrison said. “It’s been a while, so I feel like that was something I really had my mind on. I usually don’t think about the result, but this week I really wanted to get into the end zone and really get that feel for it again and just really get myself back at it.” The Stratford, Conn., native only caught one other pass in the victor y, and even though it was not a touchdown, it added to the junior’s confidence. The 28-yard connection with freshman quarterback Gar y Nova gave Rutgers a big first down in Panthers territory, marking Harrison’s third longest reception this season. After a start to a season riddled with drops, Harrison now hauls in most of the balls thrown his way, and that directly relates to confidence, he said. “My confidence is high right now,” Harrison said. “I feel good about the season, and I’m looking for ward to playing more opponents that really have great talent in the secondar y. That’s what we like and that’s what we want to go against. It feels good to know that you’ve got more great opponents coming up later in the season.” His second catch against Pitt made it seven in two weeks for Harrison after he hauled in only three in as many games for head coach Greg Schiano. With teams beginning to bear down on junior Mohamed Sanu, Harrison and the rest of the receiving corps could see an increased workload.
“Well, again, the routes are the routes,” Schiano said. “The quar terback needs to read them out. Mo saw double coverage almost the whole game again, and I don’t think that’s going to change. That will open up some other guys.” Regardless of which quarterback throws Harrison the ball, the wideout remains confident in the abilities of both Nova and former starter Chas Dodd. The discontinuity at the position, something Harrison felt last season when Dodd supplanted Tom Savage, is not detrimental to his timing in routes, he said. “We have a great feel for Gar y and for Chas,” Harrison said of the receiving corps. “Whoever is out there, we know that they’re going to put the ball on the money, and we’re just going to have to go make a great play.” Harrison’s playmaking ability is something Nova appreciates heading into his second consecutive game as starting quarterback. The Don Bosco Prep product began the year as a backup, but emerged against Syracuse after Dodd turned in a sloppy first half of play. The squad’s stable of physically imposing receivers made it easier for Nova to adjust, with Harrison’s production also standing out to the rookie. “Mark’s been doing a great job,” Nova said. “This week was a good confidence booster for him, getting that touchdown, getting a few catches. Mark’s probably one of the most athletic guys we have on the team, and once we get him going more and ever ybody else we’re going to be ver y dangerous.” It is usually around this time when Harrison gets hot. He scored his first touchdown in the team’s fifth game last season, as well — against Connecticut in the Knights’ only conference win. Now, the Knights are 2-0 in the Big East, and Harrison once again catches passes from the team’s former backup. But that is not Harrison’s focus heading into a matchup with Navy. “It’s just another game, he said. “You’ve got to go out and just stay focused and stay humble and take success with it.” Based on his late-season surge last year, Harrison’s success is bound to blossom sooner or later.
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Knights drop crucial Big East contest on road BY JOSH BAKAN CORRESPONDENT
NOAH WHITTENBURG / ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Junior forward Carlie Rouh, above, and freshman forward Gia Nappi each recorded a goal and an assist in the first half of the Knights’ 4-2 loss to No. 24 Louisville.
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The door did not completely shut on the Rutgers field hockey team’s FIELD HOCKEY chances RUTGERS 2 of getting into LOUISVILLE 4 the Big E a s t Tournament, but Louisville put them in a deeper hole. The Scarlet Knights headed into Louisville, Ky., tied with the No. 24 Cardinals for the four th spot in the conference and the last seed able to make the tournament. Already on thin ice, the Knights left Kentucky in a worse position after falling to the Cardinals Saturday, 4-2. The loss was enough to lower the Knights (3-9, 1-3) to the sixth spot in the Big East standings and vault the Cardinals (8-5, 2-2) into third. “We’ve definitely put ourselves in a hole,” said head coach Liz Tchou. “We may need help of other teams, too, to help us get in.” The Cardinals grasped opportunity out of the Knights’ hands with a three-goal second half. The Cardinals’ ability to earn penalty corners ultimately put them ahead. Rutgers did not allow a Louisville penalty corner in the first half, but the Cardinals persisted, taking advantage of their corner opportunities in the second period. The Cardinals’ final goal came after a corner save by goalkeeper Sarah Stuby, who allowed a rebound that Louisville senior Heather Stevens put away from the right side. Louisville quickly earned its first penalty corner of the day at the star t of the second half. The Cardinals picked up the oppor tunity in the 39th minute,
and in only two minutes they got two more. The Cardinals could only capitalize on their third, when Louisville’s leading scorer, Haley Turner, notched her eighth goal of the season. And after Louisville secured the 2-2 tie, its offense took off. “Just the fact that they were able to finish on their opportunities, which is something that we’ve been struggling with all season, that made the difference in the game,” Stuby said. The Knights finished the first half executing their game plan, getting better quality shots off to earn a 2-1 lead. Rutgers was able to get shots off all season, but it often had trouble translating them into goals. Although the Knights only rattled off four shots in the first half, their focus on quality manifested in goals from forwards Gia Nappi and Carlie Rouh. Even though the Cardinals clinched the victory in the second half after the Knights could not convert another goal, Tchou was satisfied with her team’s effort. “I thought we played them tough throughout the game,” Tchou said. “For us, we’ve been building a layer on top of a layer. Each week we’ve gotten better.” The Knights put their best foot for ward, but it was not enough playing a ranked team like Louisville. No matter how the Knights perform for the rest of the season, they figure to need other Big East foes to falter. Rutgers stands a half game behind Villanova and Providence, which are tied for the fourth and final spot for the conference tournament. With only two games remaining in the conference schedule, the Knights look to maintain their solid efforts. But they might need some luck in order for their window of opportunity to remain open.
Rutgers fails to earn first conference win at home BY JOSH BAKAN CORRESPONDENT
The first Big East homestand for the Rutgers volleyball team provided a good chance for the Scarlet VOLLEYBALL Knights LOUISVILLE 3 to get t h e i r RUTGERS 0 first confer ence win of the season. The only thing preventing the win was lining up against two of the top teams in the Big East standings. Cincinnati and Louisville entered the College Avenue Gym and beat Rutgers, 3-1 and 3-0, respectively, but the Knights displayed some moments of promise to begin the homestand. One of those moments was how the Knights (7-15, 0-5) ended the weekend, when they fought until the final set Sunday against the Cardinals (14-4, 6-0). The result was a 25-16 Louisville victor y to clinch the match, a similar outcome to its 25-19 and 25-13 victories in the first two sets, but the Knights felt more confident about their per formance in the final set. “We brought out a dif ferent energy,” said junior setter Stephanie Zielinski. “However,
the way we approach the [final] match sets the tone for the whole game. Being aggressive and playing no matter what is a good way to come out of the game.” Head coach CJ Wer neke saw a dif ference in the Knights’ ef for t in the set, so he decided that unlike the first two sets, he would not burn his second available timeout. “I wanted our kids to tr y to figure some things out on their own,” Werneke said. “We overcoach and they look to us too much. I was saying, ‘Hey, let’s see how they respond without us for a minute.’” Another moment of promise occurred Friday in the Knights’ 3-1 loss to the Bearcats (13-7, 5-1), when the Knights opened the match with a 25-22 victor y in the opening set. Rutgers earned the distinction as only the second team to win a set against Cincinnati in its past five Big East matches. “Our inspiring play should give the kids a lot of confidence to know that we can take a game of f one of the best teams,” Werneke said. The Knights can feel confident knowing they do not have to play any teams above the Cardinals in the Big East standings. Werneke is proud they can take their per formance
against Louisville into matches with weaker teams. “Sometimes [Louisville will] make a run because they’re a good team and they’re efficient,” Werneke said. “So when we get against a team who isn’t as talented, who doesn’t have as many weapons and rely on maybe one or two kids instead of three or four, that’s going to be to our advantage if we approach it the same way.” The Knights were underdogs heading into both weekend matchups, but they still have to work on putting it all together for their first conference win. “[We need to] be scrappy. The best part about our team is we may be small, but we’re aggressive, and that’s how we’re going to win games,” Zielinski said. The Knights have to be aggressive next week, when they head to Syracuse and Marquette. If they can put together performances similar to the first set against Cincinnati and the last set against Louisville, Rutgers might get its elusive first Big East win on the road trip. “If we can play with them, we know that the season is going to be better than we expected,” Zielinski said. “If we can play good teams and get good rallies out, it’s really going to set a tone for how we play the rest of the season.”
JENNIFER MIGUEL-HELLMAN / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Senior middle blocker Hannah Curtis (18) recorded four kills in the Scarlet Knights’ opening game Sunday with Louisville.
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Schiano names Nova starter for Navy BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR
THE DAILY TARGUM
Mike Rice lost arguably the most coveted member of his original recruiting class.
Jack suffers foot injury, out 3-4 months for RU BY TYLER BARTO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
After enrolling early in 2010, Rutgers men’s basketball freshman Kadeem Jack found out he must wait longer to MEN’S BASKETBALL make his first career appearance for the Scarlet Knights. Jack will have surgery on his right foot this week after he suffered an injury Friday in a preseason workout, head coach Mike Rice announced. The surgery requires a three- to fourmonth recovery period. “Kadeem has worked extremely hard in preparation for the season,” Rice said. “He will remain very much involved in all team activities, and we look forward to his complete recovery.” Jack’s absence leaves the Knights with only Gilvydas Biruta and Austin Johnson as returning frontcourt players. Johnson earned a spot starting in Big KADEEM JACK East play last season, but saw most of his time off the Knights’ bench in a reserve role. Biruta earned Big East All-Rookie honors a year ago, but he begins the season without Jack, who was a viable candidate to start. Rutgers lost forward Jonathan Mitchell to graduation in May, and the 6-foot-9, 218-pound Jack figured to enter the starting equation. In his place, freshmen Derrick Randall and Greg Lewis should earn significant minutes in the Knights’ frontcourt rotation. Randall was Rice’s first commitment in the heralded Class of 2011, and Lewis was the last before Mike Taylor’s academic issues opened the door for freshman Eli Carter. Jack enrolled at Rutgers mid-year in 2011 after spending less than a semester at South Kent (Conn.), where Randall prepped the 201011 season. He began practicing with the Knights on Dec. 26, and participated in team activities through Rutgers’ loss to St. John’s in the Big East Tournament. Jack played the remainder of the fall at Central Jersey Each One Teach One Academy before he first arrived in Piscataway for the start of the 2011 spring semester. The Rice High School (N.Y.) product was the Knights’ third commit from their 2011 recruiting class. Point guard Myles Mack committed to Rutgers the following day. Jack’s early arrival forced a re-classification, and he became part of Rice’s 2010 class. Rivals.com originally ranked him the No. 33 overall recruit in 2011. The remaining six-member Class of 2011 ranked 24th nationally without Jack, according to Rivals.com.
JENNIFER MIGUEL-HELLMAN / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Freshman quarterback Gary Nova earned the start against Navy Saturday after his two-touchdown performance last week against Pittsburgh.
One look from Gar y Nova told Mark Harrison ever ything he needed to know. First, with single coverage on the edge, the junior wide FOOTBALL receiver received the ball in the end zone. Second, the Rutgers football team’s freshman quarterback is mature beyond his years. “Honestly, that’s really rare. You don’t practice that,” said Harrison, who caught Nova’s eye, then a six-yard touchdown pass. “He looked out to me, and I looked right back at him to give him a nod like, ‘Let’s do it.’ I knew that ball was coming to me.” Now Nova knows he will make his second career start Saturday against Navy. Head coach Greg Schiano kept his decision quiet last week while Nova competed with sophomore Chas Dodd in practice, but Nova showed enough against Pittsburgh to keep his star ting spot. Dodd will again be available off the bench, but for the third consecutive year it appears Rutgers will turn to a true freshman to run its offense. “I didn’t expect it to happen,” Nova said. “Knowing the situation of being a backup, I came in here tr ying to work as hard as I could ever y week. If coach made a decision, then he did, but I was still here to suppor t the team and be here for them.” Nova played at least a series in two of the Scarlet Knights’ first three games, as Schiano tried to prepare the 6-foot-2, 210-pounder in case of an emergency. He entered in the third quar ter Oct. 1 against Syracuse and took ever y snap since. “The reality is we had one quarterback in our program that had ever taken a college snap. So we thought it was critical that Gar y gets snaps just in case he needs to go in,” Schiano said. “As things began to evolve, those snaps ser ved him well
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Senior Nate Bourdeau scored both of the Scarlet Knights’ goals Sunday in a 2-1 against visiting Cincinnati at Yurcak Field. The senior earned credit for Rutgers’ first goal, which bounced off a Bearcat defender and into the net.
Senior’s two goals lift Rutgers over Bearcats BY VINNIE MANCUSO CORRESPONDENT
The Rutgers men’s soccer team hosted Cincinnati Sunday at Yurcak Field to kick of f a seven-game MEN’S SOCCER stretch in the CINCINNATI 1 Big East. The Scarlet RUTGERS 2 Knights overcame the Bearcats, 2-1,
to gain not only a victor y, but also a second-place standing in the Big East’s Red Division. While they acknowledge the competitiveness of the conference, the Knights view the victor y in only one way: one down, six more to go. “This is good. I mean, ever y point we can get is huge. The Big East is one of the most competitive, if not the most competitive, conferences in the countr y in our
opinion,” said head coach Dan Donigan. “There are no easy games, even the ones like this at home. From here we just have to come out, and we have to know that ever yone is going to battle and ever yone is going to want to scrap with us.” The second half belonged to the Knights, as two unanswered goals lifted Rutgers out of the 1-0 hole it found itself in at halftime.
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