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Students share tactics on creating change

BY TABISH TALIB CORRESPONDENT

Through a live webcast, the Rutgers United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) and the Rutgers Student Union heard tips on how to foster social change from their colleagues across the nation.

Attendees of last night’s “Take Back The Economy” event at 11 Stone Street, watched the national USAS conference and discussed future tactics for raising awareness on issues.

Molly Magier, organizing director of the USAS University

chapter, was one of a handful of student speakers at the Washington, D.C., conference.

She spoke on the “Walk into Action” protest against tuition hikes last semester.

“I felt, I don’t want to help victims of the systems anymore. I wanted to change the system,” she said.

Magier, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said the march on Voorhees Mall — which attracted more than 100 participants — and the 34-hour sit-in was successful.

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New Brunswick Mayor Jim Cahill explains how the county prosecutor’s office will now review complaints filed against the New Brunswick Police Department yesterday at NBPD headquarters.

City investigates NBPD complaints

BY AMY ROWE ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

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Rutgers United Students Against Sweatshops and Rutgers Student Union members watch the national USAS conference via webcast.

The Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office will review all complaints filed to the New Brunswick Police Department’s Office of Internal Affairs following an investigation of an officer who from 2003 to 2007 mishandled 81 complaints.

Sgt. Richard Rowe was suspended without pay on March 21 after the depar tment realized internal affairs files he assigned were missing.

In addition to this change, Mayor Jim Cahill introduced guidelines for handling internal affairs complaints

submitted to the New Brunswick Police Department.

“The position of Internal Affairs is one of great trust and perhaps no greater within the police department,” Cahill said at a press conference yesterday at the NBPD headquarters. “When that trust is violated, we have to … reinstill the confidence in the police department.”

The city will hold public meetings star ting in two weeks, hosted by a panel of two council members and Cahill, to improve community relations.

“The council members and I are really trying to make things work better than perhaps they worked before,” he said.

In the meetings, Cahill will give presentations to explain the internal affairs process, including how to file a complaint, how it is investigated and potential discipline or disposition options.

“The community … should have confidence that allegations of inappropriate conduct on the part of an officer will be fully investigated and appropriate action [will be] taken,” he said.

The panel will report how many complaints are received, a breakdown of the types of complaints and the number of internal affairs cases pending, Cahill said.

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Exhibit honors domestic abuse victims’ lives

INDEX UNIVERSITY Two greek councils are collaborating to heighten charity work.

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Krystal Skinner was a single mother with a 2year-old son. Her boyfriend and father of her child stabbed her to death two months before she would have graduated from the University in 2008 with a bachelor’s degree in social work.

This is one of the many domestic abuse stories of Middlesex County women who were manifested in wooden, red silhouettes in the Student Lounge of the Rutgers Student Center as part of the University’s Office for Violence Prevention and Victim Assistance “Silent Witness” exhibit.

Lauren Beckett, a community organizer for the Office of Violence Prevention and Victim Assistance, said “Silent Witness” helps people understand the seriousness of abuse through harrowing stories and visual portrayals rendered by the silhouettes, rather than reading off impersonal statistics about domestic violence.

The Redshaw Elementary School construction is still on hiatus after six years.

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The “Silent Witness” exhibit displays various stories of victims of abuse to increase awareness about domestic violence last night at the Rutgers Student Center main lounge on the College Avenue campus.

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Two councils to collaborate for greek life IFC, Panhellenic Council plan ideas for this semester to boost community service hours, challenge stereotypes

BY MORGAN MURRELL STAFF WRITER

The Interfraternity Council and the Panhellenic Council are teaming up this semester to increase their charity work and campus-wide programs in an effort to break some of the negative stigmas surrounding greek life.

“Our ultimate goal this semester is to continue to increase ser vice hours from the previous year,” said Chris Daniele, Interfraternity Council president. “Last year we accumulated 65,000 charity hours as a greek community. It would be a great accomplishment to surpass this total.”

Several upcoming events have been proposed for the year involving a collaboration of both councils, including a “senior prom” on Oct. 21.

“The senior prom is an oppor tunity for students to interact with senior citizens at the Highland Park Senior Center,” said Daniele, a School of Ar ts and Sciences senior.

“Each year students have enjoyed the experience to inter-

act with members of the Highland Park Senior Center.”

The two councils will also work together toward hosting the New Member Symposium, where members have the opportunity to learn about the four pillars of greek life. “[New members will be] creating a commercial with other members of the community,” Daniele said. “This activity enables students the opportunity to learn in a creative way.”

The Panhellenic Council will be hosting other events at the University, such as a campus clean up, a “party safety” program with Health Outreach, Promotion and Education on Oct. 29 and “Greek Knight” on Nov. 17, said Amanda Crawford, president of the Panhellenic Association.

On an individual level, greek students also feel there is a negative view on their community. Lou Ferdinand, an Omega Psi Phi member, said many think that greek organizations only offer social events.

“It’s like a business,” said Ferdinand, a School of Engineering senior. “You want

BOARD OF GOVERNORS APPOINTS U. PROFESSOR AS FIRST CHAIR IN ASTROPHYSICS The Rutgers University Board of Governors appointed Rachel Somerville, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, yesterday as the first holder of the George A. and Margaret M. Downsbrough Chair in astrophysics.

Somerville’s work on galaxy formation and evolution has offered astronomers the ability to better understand galaxies at greater distances and their existence billions of years ago, according to a University press release.

“Somerville has compiled a brilliant record of research on the formation and evolution of galaxies,” said University President Richard L. McCormick in a statement. “Her professional expertise and track record of mentoring graduate students and post-doctoral researchers will boost Rutgers’ reputation as a leader in the astronomical sciences.”

Prior to teaching at the University, Somerville was an associate research professor at Johns Hopkins University and associate astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute.

“The main thing that attracted me to Rutgers was the people in the astronomy group,” she said in the release. “They are absolutely first-rate.”

The estate of George Downsbrough, the second student to earn a doctoral degree in physics in 1936, funded the $3 million gift as part of “Our Rutgers, Our Future: A Campaign for Excellence,” according to the press release.

people who will work hard, represent in a positive way and effect a change in the people around them, as well as, continuously improve themselves and the organization.”

With a goal to initiate change, the Inter fraternity Council decided to take a more technological approach with

process of adding positions and increasing online awareness through improving websites and other media channels.”

Crawford said students are beginning to recognize the advantage of being in a greek organization and move past the stigma because of the high caliber of students involved.

“Greek students spend about 3,000 hours per semester on community ser vice, raising approximately $10,000 for charity and have a higher average GPA than non-greek students,” said Crawford, marketing director for The Daily Targum.

Ferdinand, who has been a member of Omega Psi Phi for almost three years, said he was able to improve his leadership skills, as well as build an extensive network with his organization, The Interfraternity Council is the University’s central body for the 40 multicultural — African-American, Latino, Asian — and special-interest fraternities on campus, where recruitment and programming are discussed, Daniele said.

“You want people who will work hard, represent in a positive way and effect change in the people around them.”

LOU FERDINAND Omega Psi Phi Member

their strategy to increase exposure about the benefits greek life can have on individuals and the community.

“An initiative of this year’s council is to increase our marketing and online media reach,” Daniele said. “In order to not be left behind, we are in the

It allows the leaders of their fraternities to discuss furthering their collective interests through weekly meetings, he said.

“The council understands that we can better accomplish our goals by collaborating with each other, instead of attempting to achieve them with each member’s individual chapter,” Daniele said.

Similarly, the Panhellenic Council focuses on the University’s 22 Panhellenic sorority chapters on campus, which also include multicultural — Asian, Latina, AfricanAmerican — and special interest chapters.

The Panhellenic Council plans philanthropic events, social events and scholarship events for all sorority chapters, Crawford said.

It also oversees recr uitment and intake activities.

“We hope to expand the numbers of programs we offer for all students on campus,” she said. “The Panhellenic Council aims at fostering greek unity amongst all sororities on campus.”

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Student teams go head-to-head yesterday in the High Point Solutions Stadium on Busch campus as a part of Scarlet Bowl MMXI. Sixteen teams competed over a series of three days for the title of “7 vs 7 Flag Football University Champs.” The contest was just one of many homecoming events.

CHANGE: USAS joins in fight to combat salary freezes continued from front “Because of our actions, the University experienced only a 1.8 percent tuition hike, which is the lowest in two decades,” she said.

Back in New Jersey, about two dozen participants discussed how to improve social actions and awareness last night, including how to combat the pay freeze on faculty salaries.

The organization’s latest attempt to reach out to University President Richard L. McCormick was last Wednesday, through a letter proposing the end of a three-year pay freeze.

It was halted by the Rutgers University Police Department, who blocked the entrance of Old Queens on the College Avenue campus, Magier said.

Students eventually received a response from McCormick, but it was not what the students and faculty were hoping for, she said.

McCormick came out of the building and listened to the students, but said he could not com-

EXHIBIT: Female artists, writers create first silhouettes continued from front “If you go to an event where there are actual, physical representations of people who have been killed because of this violence, that’s something that will make an impact,” she said.

The three-day exhibit began with a performance on Monday from members of SCREAM Theater, who also read victims’ stories aloud.

The following night students dedicated speeches, poetr y readings and musical performances to victims in hopes of informing attendees about domestic violence.

Skinner’s silhouette displayed a photo of her dressed in a graduation cap and gown. Teresa Johnson, Skinner’s aunt, said although her niece suffered, her story would help raise awareness about domestic violence.

“The more we can get the word out, the better. This event is an opportunity for [victims] to realize that it’s not just them,” she said. “And it’s tremendous to see the commitment of so many young people who were touched by [Krystal].”

The exhibit closed last night with a candlelight vigil, where

ment on the pay freeze because the University is in an arbitration process, Magier said.

“President McCormick had empty things to say,” she said. “I was hugely disappointed in his response.”

McCormick was not able to respond at press time, but University of ficials hope to resolve labor issues by talking with the unions and not through ad hoc protests, demonstrations or press releases, according to a statement.

“Rutgers and institutions across the nation continue to grapple with serious fiscal challenges,” according to the statement. “Rutgers’ goal has been to avoid layoffs during this period of extraordinary economic stress on our state and its citizens.”

The University enacted a freeze on pay raises three years ago on staf f and faculty, Magier said.

“In order to share the burden, the union in good faith put off raises for one year,” she said.

“But the University still hasn’t paid raises since then, which amount to $40 million.”

Joseph Cashin, a Rutgers Student Union member and one of the nine students delivering

about 20 people draped black material over the silhouettes to commemorate 58 victims from Middlesex County who died from domestic abuse.

Kathy Sullivan, a Silent Witness of Middlesex County committee member, said the memorial was meant to celebrate the lives of these women.

“The most important thing for people to take away from here [is] the fact that these people meant something to someone, they were somebody’s family,” she said. “We’re tr ying to make ever ybody aware that there’s a spot that they’ve left by their death and to tr y to prevent future domestic violence.”

“Silent Witness” began in 1991 in Minnesota and was brought to the University in 1997 to shed light upon the problem of domestic violence.

“The idea for the exhibit was originally created by a group of female ar tists and writers who were acting in response to the many deaths caused by domestic violence in Minnesota,” said Eve Hook, coordinator of the Middlesex County Silent Witness.

The Of fice of Violence Prevention and Victim Assistance hosted “The Clothesline Project” a week ago, where concerned students

the letter, said USAS and Rutgers Student Union members believe the inaction hurts the University tremendously.

“The faculty is not getting what is owed to them, and President McCormick just keeps repeating what he’s said, that the University fully

“We just want the money from the pay freeze paid back.”

MOLLY MAGIER Rutgers United Students Against Sweatshops Organizing Director

intends to pay the raises,” Cashin said, a School of Ar ts and Sciences sophomore.

The University chapter of USAS became involved in protesting the pay freeze through working with other labor organizations, Magier said. “[Our effort] was born out of the Rutgers Labor Association,” she said. “We’ve done a lot of work abroad, but we wanted to do something local.”

The American Association of University Professors-American Federation of Teachers University chapter funded an independent analysis of the University’s budget conducted

by Howard Bunsis of Eastern Michigan University, said Patrick Nowlan, executive director of AAUP-AFT. Magier said the analysis shows that the University had a budget surplus last year, but has not paid the faculty’s salar y raises.

Data from the analysis found on the AAUP-AFT University chapter’s website claims the University has a $177 million surplus as of fiscal year 2010.

The University has not confirmed this amount.

“We are concerned that the administration is not fulfilling the primary needs of the University,” he said. “We need to have priorities and balance.”

Magier said while the two contracts are independent from one another, she thinks the University should honor the contract with the professors and other faculty.

“We don’t want to defund the athletic department,” she said.

“We just want the money from the pay freeze paid back.”

Nowlan said the University has lost many valuable staff members because of the pay freeze, as there have been dozens of examples in which tenured professors have left.

“If professors get frustrated and say Harvard, Michigan, Berkley or North Carolina is recruiting them, and they have a pay freeze, they will leave,” he said.

Nowlan said, while professors experienced a pay freeze, the administration grew by 82 percent over the past five years, adding more expenditures.

“They have hired a lot of new deans and associate deans and the question is, ‘Are we too top heavy?’” he said.

Data from the University shows that only five executive, administrative and managerial positions were added between 2005 and 2010.

Cashin, who is also correspondent secretary of the Rutgers University Student Assembly (RUSA), said last night’s meeting was to educate students about the issues.

“We want to keep the momentum and build student power against the grievances we have against [administration],” he said.

JENNIFER MIGUEL-HELLMAN / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

The Office for Violence Prevention and Victim Assistance hosts the “Silent Witness” exhibit in the Rutgers Student Center, which displays silhouettes memorializing Middlesex County domestic abuse victims.

designed T-shir ts expressing their feelings about domestic violence, Beckett said.

She said someone made a Tshirt in memory of Skinner, who has made an impact on some who have attended the exhibit.

Hearing the true stories of domestic violence told at “Silent Witness” was an emotional experience for some students.

“I didn’t know what to expect.

The greatest impression left on me is just how overwhelming and inhumane the stories can be,” said Mary Beth Grove, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “It’s completely outside of anything I can imagine.”

Although the victims’ accounts left many speechless, they also raised awareness of

domestic violence as an important issue, Beckett said. “[The ‘Silent Witness’ event] is a really good way of starting a dialogue for people who don’t know how to go about this issue,” she said. “I think it helps people realize how common domestic violence is and how it’s a really big problem.”

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LAW STUDENTS TO OFFER FREE CONSULATION TO NJ RESIDENTS ON CITIZENSHIP APPLICATION The Rutgers School of Law–Camden plans to provide free and confidential citizenship application assistance to legal residents who want to become U.S. citizens.

Law students will be at the Campus Center Multipurpose Room on the Rutgers-Camden campus on Oct. 29 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. to help hopeful immigrants through the process, according to a University press release.

“The citizenship application process can be a little daunting for people who aren’t familiar with it,” said, Joanne Gottesman, a clinical professor of law at the Rutgers School of Law–Camden, in the press release. “This is a chance for them to speak with someone who has knowledge about the process and to be guided through that process.”

There are about 400,000 immigrants of 1.7 million in New Jersey who have yet to become U.S. citizens, according to the press release.

The Eagleton Institute of Politics’ program on immigration and democracy inspired the Rutgers-Camden students to engage with Camden community members on a human rights issue they study.

“This is an opportunity for Rutgers to take the lead in providing a free legal ser vice to the community,” Gottesman said in the release. “The project is targeting the population of lawful permanent residents and helping them to become citizens.”

BEATBOX BONANZA

JENNIFER MIGUEL-HELLMAN / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Sung Lee, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, beatboxes at the Busch Campus Center last night during the People to People International benefit coffeehouse “Caring for Cambodia.”

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Former Chief Workforce Officer of Michigan Andy Levin says industries must invest more time on workforce training at a conferece Tuesday at the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development.

Speaker advises policies to increase jobs

BY ANDREW SMITH STAFF WRITER

With the nation’s current economic state in mind, former Chief Workforce Officer of Michigan Andy Levin stressed the importance of workforce development in the face of the “Great Recession.”

Levin discussed a variety of dif ferent policy changes that enabled unemployed laborers to educate themselves in fields unlike their previous careers Tuesday afternoon at the “Facing Down the Great Recession” conference held at the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development.

He also focused on investment into training toward job creation and the importance of fur ther developing American infrastructure.

During his time in office, he helped implement the “No Worker Left Behind” program, a government funded form of assistance that provided tuition to community colleges for 150,000 unemployed workers across Michigan.

With these funds, individuals were able to train for jobs in fast developing fields like healthcare and medicine, he said.

Applicants to the “No Worker Left Behind” program

in 2010 were eligible if they had a family income of $40,000 or less per year, Levin said.

Seventy-five percent of those who completed training were able to find jobs.

“This is a chance to get up to $10,000 for two years of free tuition, as long as they study towards a certificate of degree that leads to an in-demand job in Michigan,” he said.

In recent years, job-training expenses have gone down 75 percent across all trades, Levin said.

To combat those downward trends, he said industries must reinvest in their workforce through training if they wish to stunt job loss and keep the market growing.

Levin said these changes do not rest solely in the hands of commerce, because worker training needs to be central to workforce development.

The United States does not have a coherent workforce policy, he said. Dif ferent states have varied workforce regulations, many of which overlap and contradict each other.

Levin said a consolidated national workforce policy would provide an incentive for companies to reinvest time to their employees.

Former N.J. Gov. James Florio, representatives from

New York and Connecticut, University students, career counselors and unemployed i n d i v i d u a l s were present to hear Levin speak.

Carl Van Horn, director of the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development, said he invited Levin because of the extensive changes he made to Michigan’s workforce policy.

“Andy impressed me a great deal as someone who was not caught up in the self-congratulator y aspects of the workplace system that some people are involved in, and he had a ver y critical eye about what needed to be done to improve it,” Van Horn said.

Among the guests, Emily Manz, an Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy graduate student, said she felt this information held promise for New Jersey and could be applied to other states across the countr y.

She said she believes New Jersey has suffered significantly from industrial decline as industr y workers left the state.

“Those are the people that need to be retrained and I think that’s applicable to almost ever y state, especially the Nor theast Corridor and Rust Belt,” Manz said.

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New Brunswick school’s construction remains stagnant

BY YASHMIN PATEL STAFF WRITER

Redshaw Elementary School in New Brunswick was knocked down six years ago to make room for a school at the corner of Comstock and Delavan Streets. But today, the space remains empty.

The Schools Development Authority, formerly known as the Schools Construction Corporation, oversees the construction of N.J. public schools, said Richard Kaplan, New Brunswick Public School District superintendent.

It began construction for the Redshaw building with $8.9 billion, but the SCC lost $2 billion — a significant sum of money that organization officials cannot account for, he said. An inspector general was sent to figure out what happened, but nothing came from it.

“They never did find the $2 billion,” Kaplan said.

After the state ran out of money, former Gov. Jon S. Corzine approved a bond for the construction, but this bond was forgotten after he lost re-election in 2009, Kaplan said.

When Gov. Chris Christie took office, he ignored the previous bond and imposed a different policy toward the school’s reconstruction, he said.

“Christie comes in and hears a lot about these things and charges the director of the SDA to do another audit to determine the mission of the authority — and basically two years later he has built nothing,” Kaplan said.

Abbott school districts, generally schools surrounded by poor communities like those in

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Despite plans to build a school in place of the Redshaw Elementary School on Delavan Street, the lot remains empty. School officials do not know when the school project will be complete.

New Brunswick, are given remedies to ensure that their students receive adequate education in accordance to the state constitution, he said. Specifically, these districts receive 100 percent funding to fix and build schools.

Non-Abbott districts receive a 40 percent grant as long as the district has 60 percent of the money to build the school, he said.

“We have very little to say in the process of selecting an architect, picking a design, picking a construction company — all the things that non-Abbott districts can do as a routine course of action to build a school,” Kaplan said.

Abbott districts do not have the authority to make their own decisions, he said. The SDA makes it for them.

The SDA has complete control over the building of the Redshaw Elementar y School, Kaplan said.

“The School Development Authority hasn’t built anything, and that’s important because that’s what’s holding up New Brunswick’s school from being built,” Kaplan said.

Kaplan believes New Brunswick schools are not alone in what he calls injustice, because there are 10 other schools in the same position.

“What we’ve done is kept the pressure on them to build the school,” he said. “Two years ago, we were one of 10 schools that were to be built — none of those 10, including us, have even started to be built.”

Kaplan says that one of the problems is that there is no design in place, and they are in the process of determining what the standards for design should be.

“What they’re doing at the SDA is, rather than building a specific type of school for each specific site, they’ve decided that they’re going to come up with a standardized construction plan,” Kaplan said.

Part of their criteria to standardize the schools includes the number of kids who attend, he said.

“So if you have this many kids at the elementary school, you get this kind of construction,” Kaplan said.

He said a lot of time and money has been wasted by the state.

“Up until this point they have spent millions of dollars with a

professional architect who … tore the school down because they had plans to build, so they already spent [around] $3 to $5 million on architectural plans,” Kaplan said.

Since the construction, students of the Redshaw Elementary School have been moved to warehouses called swing spaces on Jersey Avenue and Van Dyke Avenue, he said. They are in their seventh year of occupying the swing spaces.

One New Brunswick resident thinks the temporary classrooms are reasonable as long as these students are learning.

“I’m sure they’re going to do something about it, but as long as the kids are getting their education, it doesn’t matter where you put them,” said Deborah Jimenez, a New Brunswick resident.

But Kaplan said not all parents agreed to sending their kids on a school bus to a warehouse across town. Because of that, New Brunswick School District officials were forced to accommodate children into other schools, like Livingston Elementar y, Roosevelt and Robeson, thereby causing overcrowding.

Another New Brunswick parent is frustrated that the school has not been built and believes that there is not a lack of funding, but that the funding is not being divided properly.

“These other areas that have more money are getting better schools and they’re subsidizing [this funding] for their schools, so why aren’t they doing the same for this district? That’s what they should be doing,” said Michael Cimilluca, a city resident.

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CITY: Cahill waits on results of Deloatch case investigation continued from front A report with this information might include a breakdown of the ethnicity of those filing the reports, if this is permissible under the attorney general’s guidelines.

“It’s important to communicate to the community so they know who is complaining to police and if there is a racial pattern,” said Rich Rivera, committee chairman for the Latino Leadership Alliance of New Jersey (LLANJ).

LLANJ members reviewed public records of the NBPD’s Office of Internal Affairs and advocated a grand jury’s review.

But Rivera said he is happy with the changes Cahill announced.

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“These are all really good But some believe there are things, but they should’ve more cases not known to the pubtaken place on an ongoing lic in which a complaint may have basis,” Rivera said. “They been overlooked. are good reforms. I look Walter Hudson, a civil for ward to workrights activist who ing with the has been involved police depar twith protests “It’s important ment on impleagainst police bruto communicate menting them.” tality in New For individuBrunswick since to the community als who feel the Sept. 22 fatal so they know their complaint police shooting of filed during the Deloatch, who is complaining.” Barry time period from believes their find2003 to 2007 was ings about Rowe RICH RIVERA handled incorare superficial.

Latino Leadership Alliance of New rectly, the city “Ther e’s Jersey Committee Chairman will establish a more [mishanhearing process dlings] if you dig in front of an deep enough, but they’re just independent hearing of ficer, tossing them out,” Hudson Cahill said. said. “It shows how much peoHe also said the initial ple’s rights are not looked review found no other at or honored.” instances of inappropriate comDeloatch was shot in a scuffle plaint handling. with two NBPD officers who

T H E DA I LY TA R G U M chased him into an alley on Throop Avenue on Sept 22., according to a statement from Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan.

The 46-year-old resident died after a bullet pierced his aorta, Kaplan said.

Evidence from the scene of the shooting, including the officer’s gun and a single bullet, were sent out to outside labs for analysis, he said.

Cahill said while he wishes the results of the investigation would arrive sooner, he understands the reason for the wait.

“I don’t think any of us in the city of New Br unswick doesn’t wish that all of the truth that could be established [will] be done as soon as possible,” he said. “I understand why there is a delay in this matter because it takes time to do the forensics.”

CALENDAR OCTOBER Rutgers Homecoming 2011 takes place this weekend. Highlights include the Rutgers University vs. Navy football game, pregame tailgate, wings bowl, Rutgers Excellence in Alumni Leadership Awards, Young Alumni Celebration, Alumni Leaders Conference and a historical walking tour. For more information and the Homecoming schedule, visit ralumni.com/homecoming.

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The “Run for Rutgers Against Hunger (RAH) 5K Charity Race and 1 Mile Fun Walk” will take place from 8 a.m. to noon at the North Gate of Rutgers Stadium on Busch campus. Rutgers University Alumni Association will host the event.

RAH is working to make a difference in the lives of those suffering from hunger. The proceeds from this event will help RAH fill food pantries, sponsor programs and increase hunger awareness.

Pre-registration price of $20 for the 5K race and $15 for the one mile walk is available through Oct. 10 and registration on race day is $25 for the 5K race and $20 for the one mile walk. Run for RAH 2011 T-shirts are given out to all participants registered by Oct. 10. For more information and online registration, visit alumni.rutgers.edu, call (848) 932-2299 or email RunforRah@winants.rutgers.edu

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An African themed festival, “Tuko Pamoja — We are Together” is taking place from 1 to 4 p.m. at Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus. The Kenya committee of Engineers Without Borders is holding the event, which will include performances, an oppor tunity to take samples of different African cuisines and tables offering EWB information. The committee hopes to raise awareness of the water crisis in developing worlds, allow participants to learn about African culture and help fundraise for their initiatives.

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Rutgers Hillel is offering free, with University identification, Rosh Hashanah services and meals. There will be a ser vice at 6:30 p.m. at the Rutgers Student Center Graduate Student Lounge, followed by free dinner at Rutgers Hillel at 93 College Ave. RSVP is encouraged, please contact Rabbi Esther Reed by emailing RabbiReed@RutgersHillel.org.

For more info, visit RutgersHillel.org

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City, University Latino groups celebrate culture

BY LISA MARIE SEGARRA CONTRIBUTING WRITER

New Br unswick is home to 50,000 residents. The Latino population accounts for 40 percent of the New Brunswick population in comparison to an average of 13 percent in other N.J. cities, according to the United States Census Bureau.

To ser ve this community, New Brunswick hosts a number of Latino groups to spread their culture and fur ther organizational works promoting issues surrounding education, health care, immigration and civil rights for immigrants, said William Ayala, executive director of the Latino Health Institute associated with the Latino Leadership Alliance.

The Latino Leadership Alliance, provides community ser vice oppor tunities for students and New Br unswick

residents to help Latinos within the area.

“The Latino Leadership Alliance is an umbrella group,” he said. “It’s really an organization of organizations of local community groups throughout the state of New Jersey that are Latino-based.”

The overall purpose of the Latino Leadership Alliance is to give a collective voice for all these individual community groups and provide a forum for these groups to come together to address statewide and national issues that impact the Latino community, he said.

Ayala said the Latino Leadership Alliance organizes various events to promote Latino-related topics, including a Latino Health Summit on Oct. 22 that will address health disparities in the community.

But the Latino influence is not isolated to the city. It also extends into the University

realm with a Center for Latino Arts and Culture (CLAC), said Sandra Rocio Castro, associate director of the Center for Latino Arts and Culture.

The center looks to research, document, interpret

“We are very diverse. We’re very family-oriented, and we have a strong work ethic.”

SANDRA ROCIO CASTRO Center for Latino Arts and Culture Associate Director

and promote Latino, Hispanic, Caribbean and Latin American arts and culture. It also works to advance the appreciation and understanding of Latino artistic production, scholarship and cul-

tural studies through various events, she said.

Castro said CLAC will celebrate Latino and Hispanic heritage month in November and will highlight independence for Puer to Rican culture and Hispanic students as “trailblazers” for culture at the University.

“It’s been kind of hard to feel connected to the culture here,” said Casey Nova, a School of Ar ts and Sciences first-year student. “The only time I did was when they had the Hispanic society open house at the Rutgers Student Center. I just spent the whole afternoon feeling at home.”

Nova said an important part of the Latino culture was music and dancing, and the event exemplified that along with music and food.

Castro said it is impor tant for people to stay in touch with

their culture, especially students at the University.

“I think it helps them keep their identity, where they come from and to really know the contributions that their parents and ancestors made in forming this countr y,” she said. “It also makes you a better-grounded citizen when you go out into the real world to be bilingual and bicultural. It’s actually an advantage.”

Castro said other ways for Hispanic students to stay connected are through involvement in the various depar tments on campus, including the Depar tment of Spanish and Por tuguese and the Center for Latin American Studies.

She said there are many aspects to Latino culture and that people’s roots contribute to their diversity.

“We are very diverse,” she said. “We’re very family-oriented, and we have strong work ethics.”

MONROE FIREFIGHTERS AQUIRE 9/11 DEBRIS TO BUILD MEMORIAL The Monroe Township District Two Fire Department brought back a 30-inch long beam left behind as debris following the 2001 World Trade Center attacks.

Maurice Mahler, a fire commissioner at the department, ordered the beam six months ago, along with more than 1,600 groups around the world waiting for 9/11 debris to hang in their towns as memorials, according to an nj.com article.

Mahler, also a University histor y professor, said in the article that he was inspired to create the memorial after seeing news reports show Sept. 11 memorials open in cities like Vancouver and Tennessee.

The Monroe fire leaders retrieved the beam from Hangar 17 at the JFK Airpor t.

“A chill just went through,” said Fire Commissioner Ed Mitnowski in the article. “I felt like crying.”

In addition to the beam were police cars and fire trucks that Mahler said were particularly upsetting to see considering the number of firefighters and police officers who lost their lives that day.

“When you look at that truck and think so many men died in there, there wasn’t a dr y eye,” he said in the ar ticle.

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box that had the American flag over it. The flag, before being wrapped around the box, had been flown over Ground Zero.

A museum in Denver was one of 10 to receive 9/11 debris from Hangar 17 today, according to the ar ticle. Other groups came as far as Brook Park, Ohio; Goldsboro, N.C.; and San Bernadino County, Calif., according to the ar ticle.

The beam will be the second 9/11 memorial to open in Monroe Township and will stand at the base of the flagpole in front of a firehouse located on Halsey Reed Road.

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Jobs act break-up shows compromise

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he Senate blocked President Barack Obama’s American Jobs Act on Tuesday, as Democrats barely mustered a majority and the GOP voted against the act. Obama may have lost, but his new plan of cutting up the bill and trying to pass it in parts may just work. The president will chop up the bill and bring each of its conditions to Congress for a vote. We agree with this strategy because it is a smart compromise, allowing for individual state representatives — hopefully not just according to party lines — to pick and choose parts of the bill.

By breaking up the $447 billion job plan, Obama is showing his ability to reason with a large Republican opposition in both houses. Instead of bringing back the same bill — or a barely altered one — to Congress, Obama’s plan reveals signs of compromise and discussion. Now the president and his colleagues in the legislative branch can reasonably dispute the bill point by point, as it should be in any productive conversation.

“Tonight’s vote is by no means the end of this fight,” Obama said.

This way of discussion also strengthens the president’s image.

Instead of taking a lost battle and replaying it again, he is changing the conditions. Several small bills may go much further than a largely controversial one, which so far has received mixed support and opposition.

Perhaps the biggest issue has been the implementation of a 5.6 percent surtax on annual incomes exceeding $1 million. This issue may be at the base of the entire argument, and its exclusion from the jobs act could spur it along. So far it has been called “class warfare,” and it played a large role in making up the Republicans’ minds to oppose the American Jobs Act, and it probably will in the future. “If Congress does something, then I can’t run against a do-nothing Congress,” Obama said.

But “if Congress does nothing,” he added, “I think the American people will run them out of town.”

If Congress does nothing even after the break-up of the bill into smaller, more reasonable pieces, the only thing people should do is run them out of town.

Inside traders deserve tougher sentences

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nsider trading sentencing is getting tougher, the Wall Street Journal reported, following an analysis of prison sentences and fines given out to some of the business’s biggest criminals. We agree with the current trend and hope it warns others who try to take advantage of Wall Street and correspondingly, the government and people involved in the fraudulent cases.

New York federal courts recently sentenced hedge fund trader Michael Kimelman to two and a half years in prison. According to the WSJ, the median sentence is two and a half years while sentences handed out in the past decade have been 18 months and 11-and-a-half months from 1993 to 1999.

We agree with slapping those convicted with larger penalties as a means to deter others from engaging in these practices. Surely every case is independent and should be reviewed fairly, but a large government crackdown against insider trading is also needed. With regard to the question of tougher measures, prosecutors resorted to using wiretapping, once mostly used in drug busts and terrorism cases. This makes it more difficult for alleged insider traders to refute the charges.

Perhaps the latest and most brazen case of a hedge-fund manager getting involved was the case of Raj Rajaratnam. In his situation, federal prosecutors called for a prison sentence ranging from 19 years and seven months to 24 years and five months, according to the WSJ. The founder of the Galleon Group was convicted earlier this year.

Prosecutors said his scheme “corrupted corporate directors, friends and former classmates.”

As we compare these median sentences of two-or-so years with other crimes, the numbers appear unreasonably unbalanced. The median prison sentence for a robbery was five years and three months for the past fiscal year.

The analysis conducted by the WSJ stated most insider trading cases received short sentences — from 1993 to 2009, half of 84 defendants in the southern and eastern districts of New York received terms of three months or less.

We are finally seeing an appropriate response to a crime that appears to be less serious than it really is. Making huge profits over a number of years is a crime worthy of a heavy monetary fine and a correspondingly long prison sentence, and the New York federal courts are at least attempting to deliver. It isn’t simply a matter of making money, but of the people and organizations damaged in the process and the precedent the crime and punishment set.

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school students whose daily ast Wednesday, in an lives are plagued by bullies. unassuming room in Their stories were compelling, the Livingston fascinating and deeply disturbStudent Center, something ing all at the same time. Some amazing happened — the were tortured because they planets aligned, the skies were gay. Others were torparted, and His Highness tured because people thought Sir Anderson Cooper ALEX LEWIS they were gay. Some were tordescended upon our campus tured just for having the gall to to tape an episode of his be themselves. Filmmaker Lee Hirsch screened clips of show, “Anderson Cooper 360.” My fellow journalism a documentary he made that logs the daily “social commajors would likely have shared my euphoria. bat” of students. Wiseman made demands that legislaYou see, for us journalists, Anderson Cooper is tors do more to stop bullies. Rippa did a lot of almost kind of like a grey-haired Bono. He started his career crying and fanning herself. by faking a press pass (like a boss), voluntarily travBut the most fascinating thing of all was the appareling to the world’s most dangerous war-zones (also ent dearth of knowledge that all parties had about like a boss) and getting access to gripping stories that the right to free speech and how it works in America. no one else could get (similarly boss-like). When he Now, I want to tread lightly here. I don’t want anyone was covering the earthquake in Haiti, he was caught to think that I’m about to say that my right to make on camera single-handedly pulling an injured child mean jokes at other people’s expense trumps the from the wreckage. His military codename while covmental trauma sustained by kids like those who were ering the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq was “Silver present at the taping. But people like Wiseman want Fox.” The term “hero worship” only begins to to use the power of the law to enact unprecedented describe my admiration for the guy. and unconstitutional limits on students’ speech. Even So imagine how disappointed I was when I got to go if these kinds of laws are made with the best intento the taping. Yes, you read that right. I was supremely tions, they have a nasty habit of disappointed that I managed to censoring the protected speech of secure a super exclusive, highly “What would a national people who happen to disagree sought-after ticket to an event where those who write the laws — I would get to meet my hero. The reacollegiate anti-bullying with especially at schools. son is because I knew that Coops (he But I don’t mean to assert that told me I could call him Coops, law really look like?” the rules about what you can and because that’s what his friends do) cannot say to your fellow students was at the University to talk about should be the same in grade school as they are in bullying. His show is currently running a weeklong college. Obviously, the law frequently and rightfully series of specials on bullying in the wake of an apparent says that minors should have a few less rights, for epidemic of homosexual students — including their own good. I’m on board.

University first-year student Tyler Clementi — commitBut then, why have the taping at the University? ting suicide after perceived instances of peers bullying.

Why come to the Garden State to launch the anti-bulBut earlier this year, I made an impassioned plea lying revolution? If you buy University President in “La Nausée” for the University community to move Richard L. McCormick’s P.R. gloss, it’s because “CNN on from overhyped tragedies of the past year. The recognized that the University strives to promote the Clementi episode was one of them. Instead of mournfree exchange of ideas in an atmosphere of civility, ing the shocking and sudden loss of one of our classinclusion and mutual respect.” But if you can use your mates, outsiders tried to politicize the incident into a brain, then you know it’s because most of the country reason to pass overbroad and wholly unconstitutionstill views us as “ground zero” for bullied students al laws that restrict students’ free speech rights in the committing suicide in the wake of Tyler Clementi. name of keeping everything all rainbows and teddy What would a national collegiate anti-bullying law bears on campus. After all, Clementi was a victim of really look like? How much of your benign daily callous privacy invasion, not sustained bullying and expression — the jokes you share with your friends, harassment. I think that, for the most part, everyone the provocative discussions you have in class — would at the University heeded my plea. suddenly become unlawful because someone, someLeave it to the 24-hour news networks to claw us where took a little bit of offense? If you cursed off a Pitt back into their media circus. fan at the game last weekend, should you be thrown in Never one to skimp on the star power, Anderson jail for bullying him? Are you bullying everyone else in brought all the heavy hitters with him to the panel the dining hall if you eat a banana suggestively? Or is discussion. There was lesbian parent and “Glee” it only bullying if you make eye contact with someone? actress Jane Lynch, television psychiatrist and partAre these examples ridiculous? Of course. But they time Mr. Mackey impersonator Dr. Phil McGraw illustrate the point that when you legislate that everyand self-styled “bullying expert” Rosalind Wiseman. one has to be nice to each other — and that as soon as Even Kelly Rippa was there to lend a hand. someone says they’ve been bullied, then they have Bullying’s days were clearly numbered.

The show, which aired last Sunday, featured several SEE LEWIS ON PAGE 11 profiles of extremely brave grade school and high

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Town Hall meetings to allow students interaction with RUSA Letter JOHN CONNELLY

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ellow Rutgers students, one week ago I wrote to you encouraging you to vote in the Rutgers University Student Assembly fall election.

Many of you did, and a great crop of student leaders was elected. But one piece of criticism I received — and which I feel is a valid concern — is that it was difficult to decide whom to vote for. To many of my peers I spoke to last week, the names on

LEWIS continued from page 10 been bullied — you remove objective standards. And objective standards are kind of how the law works.

In a candid moment after the taping was finished, Anderson came over to where we were seated to speak to the students.

Someone asked if he had any advice for young journalists.

“Dye your hair grey,” he said with a wry smile. The Silver Fox was razor sharp.

I asked if he thought that broad legislation was really the answer to the bullying problem.

“I truly don’t know,” he said. “I don’t think you can legislate away the core of the problem, which is how these kids are brought up at home. You can’t make laws to fix people’s f—— up families.”

With a single sentence, Anderson Cooper became my hero once again.

Alex Lewis is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in journalism and media studies and philosophy.

the ballots were just that — names that people did not recognize and had no connection to.

I realize this is a difficult problem to fix at a school this size.

However, for the student assembly to have any legitimacy, it must be a body that is completely approachable to the average student. We cannot be the voice of the students, of course, if we haven’t heard from you first. For this reason, I am encouraging you to attend next week’s Town Hall meetings.

For the past two weeks, I have been working alongside

RUSA University Affairs Chair Christine Honey and members of her committee to plan two Town Halls, one taking place this upcoming Monday on Oct. 17, and one taking place this upcoming Wednesday on Oct. 19. Monday’s meeting will take place at the Livingston Student Center, Room 202.

Wednesday’s meeting will be at the Douglass Campus Center NJC Lounge. Both events will start at 7 p.m. Students will be invited to speak informally with their elected representatives on issues ranging from tuition to

transpor tation, from dining ser vices to campus safety.

For many of you, this is the first opportunity of the year to have a direct interaction with RUSA as a body, and I hope it will not be the last.

Many of the leaders within RUSA and I were elected last year running on the promise to implement real changes, both in the way that RUSA operates and in the say that University students get in University policy. In order to achieve these goals, it must be clear what exactly the student body wants from us. Of course, I

am not just speaking for members of the Rutgers United ticket when I say that we need many University students at the Town Hall in order to give the assembly its legitimacy. The Town Hall meeting has long been a cornerstone of American democracy, the sanctuary in which free speech and participator y democracy reign. Please take part in this tradition by showing up next week.

John Connelly is a School of Arts and Sciences junior majoring in history and political science with a minor in social justice.

Palestinian leaders fail to engage in peace talks Letter EHUD COHEN

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ust two weeks ago, Wednesday’s columnist sardonically scoffed in passing at Israel’s policies in her column, “U.S. persecutes proPalestinian sentiments,” which heavily focused on what she described as a “persecution” of speech. But yesterday in her column, “Israel makes no effort for peace,” the columnist decided to take the gloves off and speak for the “overlooked minority” about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The problem is she repeated the same old factually incorrect and shameful lies in order to support her points, leading me to assume she either believes the readers of this historical collegiate paper to be dim or simply ignorant.

In the column, the author inserts the notion of an “illegal establishment of Israel on Palestinian land in 1948.” This follows a similar false claim by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in an earlier opinion

piece for The New York Times when he claimed that in 1948, “Zionist forces expelled Palestinian Arabs […] and Arab armies intervened.”

Well, in 1948, after the British Mandate ended, the area was officially ungoverned by any nation, resulting in the plan to partition the land between the two peoples living there. Israel then formed a government while the Palestinian people turned to the Arab nations to start a war.

Azzam Pasha, secretary general of the Arab League in 1948, said, “This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre.” Contrary to Abbas, the Arab armies did not “intervene” — they invaded and subsequently ignored the needs of the local Palestinians they displaced.

When Jews were expelled from Arab nations, they resettled in Israel. And the Palestinians?

Well, Jordan militarily occupied the West Bank and did not absorb the Palestinians nor help create a sovereign nation for them, eventually leading to what is known as “Black September,” when the

Palestinians attempted to usurp Jordanian authority and were attacked and killed by Jordanian leadership. Many of them ended up fleeing to Israel for safety.

The columnist then turned to Israel’s actions in warfare, noting “countless war crimes and possible crimes against humanity that Israel has been accused of committing by the UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict.”

This report was recently retracted by its principal author, Richard Goldstone.

And lastly the columnist claimed “the Israeli government doesn’t care about engaging in peace talks with the Palestinians” and made a point to mention “the security of the Palestinian people” without feeling the need to mention the security concerns of the Israeli people. Peace is a two-way street, you have to give to hopefully receive. This was never more evident than when Israel willingly, after failed attempts to give more than 95 percent of the West Bank in negotiations, uprooted her own citizens from the Gaza Strip and even invested

in buying greenhouses to the tune of $14 million for Gaza to kick-start their fledgling economy. Unfortunately, those same greenhouses were immediately looted and destroyed.

In March 1977, Zuheir Muhsein, a Palestine Liberation Organization executive, said, “Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct Palestinian people to oppose Zionism.” This mentality of “only for political and tactical reasons” has continued today, as the Palestinian leadership repeatedly ignores their people’s wishes for peace by refusing to negotiate, caring more to use the people as pawns for their ideological and political games.

Israel has repeatedly tried to make peace and given the land for it. It’s time the Palestinians get their leaders to try too.

Ehud Cohen is a School of Engineering senior majoring in electrical and computer engineering.

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lemson quarterback Tajh Boyd returned to practice after being absent Monday. Boyd injured his left hip in last week’s game.

The sophomore plans to start Saturday against Maryland.

Head coach Dabo Swinney said he plans on having Boyd take all of the first-team reps this week and is in good condition.

Boyd said he was thankful it was his hip he hurt rather than his knee, which made for an easier recovery.

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star defensive tackle Jared Crick for the rest of the season.

Head coach Bo Pelini revealed Wednesday that Crick suffered a torn pectoral muscle during last week’s game.

The senior is eighth on Nebraska’s all-time sacks list with 20 and played this season in five of the Huskers’ six games.

He did not see the field Sept. 24 against Wyoming after suf fering an undisclosed injur y the week prior against Washington.

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General Manager Theo Epstein continues to move closer to changing leagues and taking the job as GM of the Chicago Cubs.

Epstein, who won two World Series titles with the Red Sox in 2004 and 2007, reportedly accepted a fiveyear, $15 million contract.

Since he is still under contract with Boston, the Red Sox will receive compensation once the deal is finalized.

They will most likely receive money and prospects from the Cubs.

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quarterback Terrelle Pr yor practiced with the team Wednesday for the first time.

Pryor was suspended five games after receiving illegal benefits as a member of the Ohio State Buckeyes.

The suspension lifted Monday, one day after the Raiders played their fifth game.

Pr yor could previously only attend team meetings and perform individual drills after the Raiders selected him on Aug. 22 in the NFL Supplemental Draft.

THE ATLANTA FALCONS will be without rookie wideout Julio Jones this week against the Carolina Panthers.

The first-round draft pick suffered a hamstring injury Sunday night against the Green Bay Packers.

The former Alabama star leads the team in receiving yards with 358 and is ninth in the NFL with 42 targets.

Harry Douglas will fill in for Jones in the starting lineup.

getting interceptions, but off of those situations we have to create more field situations for ourselves and be able to finish.”

What separates performances like the first half against Louisville from their sub-par moments this season is communication, Tchou said.

“Where we get caught up sometimes is we stop communicating,” Tchou said. “That’s when other teams take advantage of us. It’s almost as simple as that.”

Rutgers and Providence both underwent turmoil this season, with losing streaks of seven and five games, respectively.

But now the fact that each won only three games, including one Big East victory each, does not matter.

All each team can do is hope is get its fourth win of the season and second conference victory.

Whichever team fails to do that likely misses out on the Big East Tournament altogether.

ENRICO CABREDO

Senior Christie Morad leads the Knights against Providence Friday on the Banks. Rutgers stands a half game behind the Friars in the Big East standings and has a chance to move ahead with a win.

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SPOT: Rutgers overcomes deficit after sloppy start to half continued from back

NOAH WHITTENBURG / ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Villanova goalkeeper John Fogarty charged at Nate Bourdeau in the second half, but the senior midfielder chipped the ball past the goalkeeper to knot the score at 2. Bourdeau scored twice Sunday against Cincinnati, giving him three goals in the past two games.

through and I finished it. That was a huge momentum shift there.”

The Knights managed to knot things up at one goal apiece in the 25th minute off a free kick from freshman JP Correa. The kick landed in the arms of Villanova goalkeeper John Fogarty, but he was unable to secure the slick ball in the light rain.

Knibbs got the rebound and picked up his first goal of the game.

“Someone had to step up. I mean, we had the free kick and when it bounced off the keeper I made my run,” Knibbs said.

“Getting the equalizer was great for us.”

Rutgers, which allowed 12 of its 19 goals this season in the first half, found itself in familiar territory when the Wildcats notched the first goal of the game. A failed clearance by the Knights defense led to a wild bicycle kick by Villanova forward Oscar Umar that soared past the hands of goalkeeper Kevin McMullen.

“The two goals Villanova got I thought were just broken plays,” Donigan said. “Those are preventable in my opinion.”

The Knights look to continue their momentum in the Big East on Saturday, when they travel to Chicago to take on DePaul.

“Going into our next game with this kind of momentum is great,” Donigan said. “Nothing is easy in this conference, so getting a ‘W’ before you go on the road against another tough opponent is what you want.”

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RU hosts alumni for swim meet

BY BRADLEY DERECHAILO CONTRIBUTING WRITER

JENNIFER MIGUEL-HELLMAN / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Freshman linebacker Kevin Snyder recorded a career-high six tackles against Pittsburgh, one of which was a tackle for a loss on Ray Graham. The Mechanicsburg, Pa., native also recorded a half sack in the victory and owns 16 tackles on the season.

FRESHMAN: Rookie earns first sack against Pitt continued from back was only one example of Snyder’s quickness in Beauharnais’ eyes. “[Snyder] plays ver y fast.

That’s why he plays,” Beauharnais said. “[Schiano] said to me this season that he wants to speed up this defense, and Snyder brings that. He has a lot to learn, I still have a lot to learn, we all have a lot to learn, so I just like his speed.”

Another example of Snyder’s speed came late in the second quarter on a second-and-4, as

Snyder and senior safety David Knights’ front seven continues Rowe combined to sack quarter- to pressure the quarterback. back Tino Sunseri.

The The defense recorded 20 Panthers lost seven yards on sacks in its first five games and the play and surrenranks No. 2 nationally dered another sack on behind Texas A&M. the ver y next snap.

After Snyder’s most While his speed active outing for Schiano, mirrors that of a seathe Mechanicsburg, Pa., soned veteran, Snyder native could look at a still showed some greater workload on inexperience in the the strongside. moments immediately Still, Schiano identiafter the play. fied the value of the “That was my first competition between KEVIN one,” Snyder said.

Snyder and sophomore SNYDER “When I got up, I didJamal Merrell and n’t really know what embraced the idea of having a to do.” pair of young, quick linebackers.

It is something easily cor“I’m really excited because rectable and likely will be as the he and ’Mal are both really

good players,” he said. “They can run and hit, and they’re both young guys.”

But Snyder’s youth was hardly evident against the Panthers.

Beauharnais, a former strongside linebacker himself, acknowledged there is still plenty for Snyder to learn at the position. Still, the middle linebacker does not feel the need to relay much advice to the freshman.

More often than not, his speed is there to make up for it.

“I do give Snyder a little advice, but he’s doing fine.”

Beauharnais said. “He’s just got to work on the little things, and the big things will take care of themselves.”

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RU ALUMNI MEET The AT WERBLIN camaSATURDAY, 10 A.M. raderie will not be more evident than at Saturday’s Rutgers swimming and diving alumni meet held at the Werblin Recreation Center.

Second-year head coach Phil Spiniello believes bringing former athletes home is essential for building a successful program.

“The alumni meet is about having fun and bringing alumni of the program back home to meet the current team and have a good time,” Spiniello said. “It’s a great opportunity.”

During the alumni meet, both current and former Knights face off in the pool and on the boards in a series of competitions. The meet serves to help the current team, but also enables fun between the two groups.

Like last weekend’s intrasquad meet, the event does not count toward the swimmers’ records and times, but helps them connect with swimming alumni.

“We are going to have 50s of stroke, all three diving events and some fun relays,” Spiniello said. “We look at it as another oppor tunity to race and get back up on the boards, with the main purpose being able to connect with alumni and welcome them home.”

This weekend’s meet serves as another tune-up for the Knights before they head into the bulk of their season. After next week’s SWRC Invitational, hosted on campus, the team kicks off its regular season when it travels to Storrs, Conn., to compete in its first Big East event of the year.

“We have shown some really good signs, and we are moving for ward in the right direction,” Spiniello said. “We will know at the end of October when we race against UConn, Villanova and Georgetown.”

During last week’s intrasquad meet, both the red and white teams looked impressive, with the red squad winning by a score of 67-43.

Spiniello believes his team looks good during the early stages and believes its hard work will pay off as the season moves on.

“The intrasquad meet went really well,” Spiniello said. “I was happy with the results, and it’s a sign of good things to come for our program this season. We are working on getting there.”

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PRACTICE NOTEBOOK

GLAUD

EMBRACES HYBRID ROLE

BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

YEE ZHSIN BOON

Junior Ka’Lial Glaud began practicing at defensive end, where he played this season, and linebacker, where he started against Pitt last year, after David Milewski suffered an injury.

Entering a matchup with a triple-option offense that will test the Rutgers football team’s front seven, junior Ka’Lial Glaud said he is growing increasingly comfor table at defensive end.

“But now I’m getting a taste of linebacker again,” he said.

Glaud spent the spring as the first-team middle linebacker before moving to defensive end, but an injur y to backup David Milewski last week prompted his move back.

Head coach Greg Schiano listed Nick DePaola as the new backup on the depth chart and expressed confidence in the sophomore Monday, but also said he does not believe Glaud forgot how to play the position.

The 6-foot-2, 230-pound Glaud agrees, although he said he is spending more time in meeting rooms with linebackers than he is with defensive linemen.

“We tweaked some things since the springtime with our scheme, but any question I have in the meeting room or on the field, I shoot to Steve [Beauharnais] real quick and he tells me,” Glaud said.

“Through the summertime I learned the whole defense, so I have a pretty good knowledge of ever y position on the field.”

It is unlikely Glaud is reintroducing himself to middle linebacker for anything more than an emergency backup role.

Beauharnais managed the position as a starter last season, but he is making plays there this year. The junior has 25 tackles, 2.5 sacks, two interceptions, a forced fumble and one recover y.

Glaud has eight tackles, one sack and two fumble recoveries at defensive end.

“I definitely feel confident at whatever position I play right now between linebacker and defensive end. I feel 100 percent confident,” Glaud

said. “I guess I’m a hybrid kind of guy right now, and I’m getting used to playing both positions.”

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FRESHMAN

cornerback Tejay Johnson debuted in the season opener against Nor th Carolina Central, but Schiano said yesterday a hamstring injur y prevented Johnson from playing since.

“He keeps tr ying to practice,” Schiano said. “Maybe we just need to put him on the shelf for a while. He wants to play so bad.”

Johnson signed a National Letter of Intent with the Scarlet Knights in 2010, but did not qualify academically and went to Fork Union Militar y Academy last year.

The Egg Harbor Township High School product did not play football at Fork Union, arrived at Rutgers as a wide receiver, then moved to cornerback during training camp.

“In the short time he was at corner, he showed really good skills,” Schiano said. “I think he can be a really good corner.

I know he can. We just have to get him healthy. I hope we can do that this year.”

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N AVY ’ S

offense is a year-round affair in Piscataway.

Rutgers practices against the triple-option during spring and summer camps, and also during Sunday night practices during the season. Schiano spends the offseason studying the of fense and keeps a librar y on ever y form of it — from Army to Navy to Paul Johnson at Georgia Tech.

Still, Schiano enjoys having Army and Navy on his schedule consistently.

“I love the fact that we play the academies, so maybe it’s the traditionalist in me,” Schiano said. “We’re so grateful for what these kids do for our countr y. They need to play somebody and it’s an Eastern rival.

It’s good for Eastern football.”

ANDREW HOWARD

Knights retool for future tournament action

BY JOEY GREGORY STAFF WRITER

After a ninth-place finish at the Princeton Invitational, the Rutgers women’s golf team worked WOMEN’S GOLF hard to put up a RUTGERS INVITE s o l i d AT RU GOLF COURSE effort at FRIDAY, SATURDAY i t s upcoming home tournament.

The Scarlet Knights had plenty of time in between tournaments to work on any aspects of their game that needed addressing.

They are up against 18 teams arriving on the Banks this weekend for the Rutgers Invitational.

The field includes defending champion Fairleigh Dickinson and South Carolina Upstate, which won the men’s invitational in September.

While the Knights cap off more than two weeks worth of

practice, they are also taking breaks once in a while to recover.

“We’re just working a lot, practicing a lot, a little relaxing, watching some good football games,” said head coach Maura Waters-Ballard.

But watching Monday Night Football will not get the Knights to the level of play they hope to reach. Now it is time for the Knights to get down to business.

“We’re back in tournament mode now,” Waters-Ballard said.

“The last few days we’ve been getting back into it.”

Not only did the players polish their games, but they also paid attention to the course, so they can take full advantage of their home links.

“We know the course really well, so ever y time we come out we tr y to think of it as if we’re in the tournament this weekend,” said junior Brittany Weddell.

“That’s

what we’ve been doing this week.”

They play the course two or three times each week as a team, as well as weekend rounds, she said.

BRITTANY WEDDELL The visiting teams have only one practice round to acclimate to the Rutgers course. But familiarity with the course will not be enough.

The Knights also need to be spot-on with their accuracy for ever y shot they take on a course still recovering from rain.

“The keys are going to be to keep it in the fair way and to hit greens. That’s our motto: fairways and greens,” WatersBallard said. “I think if you just keep it down the middle or at least in the fair way you’ll have a great advantage.”

Heavy rain left the course with ver y thick rough, which spells trouble for any player who strays from the fair way, she said.

Not only do the Knights have to worr y about accuracy and conditions, but they are also up against several strong teams, including Big East schools.

“Seton Hall and St. John’s are here, and they’re pretty good,” Waters-Ballard said.

“But I think we can give them a run for their money.”

She is aiming high with her goal, too, hoping the team can take full advantage of playing at Rutgers as well as the extended practice time.

“I’d like to win it obviously, but most definitely top three,” she said.

The Knights are no strangers this year to top-three finishes. They already took home second place at the Bison Invitational, which could play a part this weekend, as well.

“Our first tournament of the year, we came in second place and that really boosted our confidence,” Weddell said. “We’re excited to see what we can do on our home course.”

KNIGHT NOTE: The Rutgers men’s golf team took sixth-place out of 16 teams at the Connecticut Cup, with a team score of 895, 13 strokes behind the winner, Sacred Heart. Junior captain John Fagan led the Knights, carding a 224, good enough for twenty-first in the 85player field. Sophomore Jeff LeFevre, freshman Hyung Mo Kim and senior Doug Walters also finished in the top 30.

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Freshman LB relies on speed, intelligence

BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

At 6-foot-3 and 225 pounds, freshman Kevin Snyder fits the build of a strongside linebacker.

But it was not his stature or strength that made him most effecFOOTBALL tive for the Rutgers football team last week, when the rookie turned in the most productive game of his short career.

What allowed Snyder to wreak havoc in the Scarlet Knights’ 34-10 win against Pittsburgh was something head coach Greg Schiano saw the moment Snyder arrived in Piscataway.

“Speed and intelligence,” Schiano said.

“He’s playing at a high level. He’s a true freshman and he gets it. He really played fast Saturday. He made some plays in space that were really impressive.”

Snyder, who played at Cumberland Valley High School (Pa.), entered training camp with plenty of experience at both middle linebacker and the strongside position.

But the experience did not immediately translate to an understanding of Schiano’s defensive scheme. The biggest issue Snyder faced was mental, he said.

The learning cur ve was not noticeable last week, when Snyder earned a pair of career firsts in recording a tackle for a loss and half a sack in the Knights’ rout of the Panthers.

Snyder and junior middle linebacker Steve Beauharnais combined for a tackle of Pitt’s Ray Graham a yard deep in the backfield with the Panthers attempting to mobilize a drive.

The tackle for loss was one of 11 the Knights’ defense registered in the win and

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NOAH WHITTENBURG / ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Injury forced senior midfielder Bryant Knibbs into a more attacking role last night against Villanova, and he responded with a pair of goals, including a game-winner in the 66th minute to break a 2-2 tie at Yurcak Field.

Comeback victory gives RU top spot

BY VINNIE MANCUSO CORRESPONDENT

JENNIFER MIGUEL-HELLMAN / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Freshman linebacker Kevin Snyder splits reps with sophomore Jamal Merrell.

The Rutgers men’s soccer team could post a laundry list of reasons why they wanted to beat Villanova last night at Yurcak Field.

On one hand, the Scarlet Knights looked for some revenge after the Wildcats took the last five decisions between MEN’S SOCCER the two teams.

On the other, VILLANOVA 2 RUTGERS 3 with all 16 Big East teams in action last night, the Knights’ contest held the most top-rank sway.

Villanova sat in third place in the Big East entering the game, and a win could catapult

the Wildcats past the second-place Knights in the standings.

Rutgers (6-5-1, 3-1) took care of both, as it picked up a 3-2 victory and took the top slot in the Big East Red Division.

“The game wasn’t pretty, and it took us a while to finally figure things out, but we did. We obviously were able to fight back from a deficit again, which is great,” said head coach Dan Donigan. “This was just one of those hard, tough, Big East hard-fought wins and we are very happy with it.”

Senior midfielder Bryant Knibbs, moved into a more offensive-oriented position with forward Kene Eze unavailable because of injury, ended the day with two goals. His second goal in the 66th minute proved to be the game winner.

“Coach gave me a role this week and let me kind of run free a little bit,” Knibbs said. “I got two great goals for me tonight. It felt great.”

The Wildcats (4-5-4, 2-3-2) took a 2-1 lead immediately after halftime, forcing the Knights to once again fight back to tie things up. Senior midfielder Nate Bourdeau, who scored the game winner last weekend against Cincinnati, broke away from a number of Villanova defenders and chipped one into the goal.

“We came out kind of sloppy and we gave up some goals, but this team is really resilient, more so than most teams that I have ever been on,” Bourdeau said. “I just made a run and [senior forward] Sam Archer played an amazing ball

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Knights, Friars fight for fourth, final playoff berth

BY JOSH BAKAN CORRESPONDENT

No one on the Rutgers field hockey team wanted it to come to this, but the Scarlet Knights find themselves in the same unenviable position they FIELD HOCKEY experienced in PROVIDENCE AT, recent years.

The Knights have RUTGERS an uphill battle late FRIDAY, 4 P.M. in the season to sneak into the fourth and final spot in the Big East Tournament.

Rutgers (3-9, 1-3) has two more Big East games on the schedule, starting tomorrow against Providence at the Bauer Track and

Field Complex. Even if it wins both to bring its conference record to .500, the Knights may need other teams to lose in order to get into the tournament.

Rutgers does not worr y about factors out of its control, said senior defender Christie Morad. The Knights simply want to come out and win both games and see where it gets them.

“We can’t worr y about what other teams are doing or rely on other teams to help us into the Big East Tournament,” Morad said.

“We need to help ourselves by winning our final Big East games in order to earn and secure our own spot in the tournament.”

In the Big East standings, Rutgers stands a half game behind Providence and

Villanova, which are tied for the fourth seed.

The Knights’ matchup with the Friars (310, 1-2) gives them the chance to not only add a Big East victory, but also move ahead of one of its conference foes.

After Louisville beat Rutgers, 4-2, last Saturday, the Cardinals have a chance to help out the Knights on Saturday if they top Villanova.

But Louisville’s performance is a factor out of the Knights’ control. Rutgers is focused on winning its own games, said head coach Liz Tchou.

“I don’t even know if the girls know how many points we’re up or down,” Tchou said. “All I know is that if we win,

we’re still in the hunt. If we lose, we’re out of the running.”

The Knights continue to come closer to putting together more conference victories — they held a 2-1 lead over Louisville at halftime. They look to put forth that kind of effort forth for a full 70 minutes against Providence.

Production starts with a problem the Knights had all season: capitalizing on offensive opportunities.

“We’re worried about gaining more opportunities when we come up with the ball,” Tchou said. “We’re doing a really good job stepping up defensively and

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