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The Rutgers football team improved its record to 5-1 on Saturday, when it blocked a late Navy field goal attempt to preserve a 21-20 victory on homecoming.
Company aims for personalized customer service BY SASKIA KUSNECOV CONTRIBUTING WRITER
With a proximity to New York City, a supply demand at the University and two major regional hospitals, Cen-Med Enterprises finds its home in New Brunswick. Cen-Med, a health care supplies company, chose New Brunswick as its base because it prides itself on being able to establish close relationships with its metropolitan area customers, said John Inzero, the company’s director of marketing. “You know how you see on the news sometimes how doctors still make house calls? Well, we’re like that. We do that,” he said. “Ever y client has our cellphone numbers as well as business, and we’re able to provide really good ser vice anytime. Even in a moment’s notice, if need be.” Inzero said he believes it is Cen-Med’s direct loyalty and dedication to the customer that will set up the company as an illustration of the kinds of businesses needed to turn the economy around. By placing emphasis on altering formal business rules and tactfully building on a diverse, skilled staff, Cen-Med strives to provide personalized attention to its customers as opposed to larger businesses, said Rizwan Chaudhr y, vice president of sales and marketing at Cen-Med. “[In bureaucratic businesses] ever ything is just calling centers,” said Chaudhr y, a University alumnus. Cen-Med’s marketing strategy is a twotiered system of internal and external outreach, Inzero said. Internal entails constant phone calls with corporate accounts nationwide and checking on supply and demand, he said. External outreach means they will occasionally visit clients in a routine cycle, so clients are never left in the dark.
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The merger with the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey will add 5,000 employees to the payroll and $500 million to the overall budget, said Richard L. McCormick, University president.
U. continues work toward UMDNJ merger BY ALEKSI TZATZEV ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
University President Richard L. McCormick announced progress on the merger between the school and the University of Medicine and Dentistr y of New Jersey at Friday’s University Senate meeting. “It’s an unparalleled, once-in-a-lifetime, pick-your-metaphor oppor tunity,” McCormick said of the merger. “My administration, working with faculty and deans and also with faculty and deans at UMDNJ, have begun serious plans for integration.” McCormick announced the appointment of Chris Malloy, dean of the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, as interim provost of Biomedical and Health Sciences. “He has begun the work already,” McCormick said. “But it will be up to my
successor to decide whether that is a permanent position.” The merger would add 5,000 employees to the University payroll and integrate the purchasing of the medical school. The budget of UMDNJ is more than $500 million, he said. “That doesn’t swamp the overall Rutgers budget, which is $2.1 billion, but it’s a ver y significant addition to it so we are taking that ver y seriously,” McCormick said. Dan O’Connor, associate professor at the School of Communication and Information, asked what the anticipated cost of the merger would be. “UMDNJ financials are opaque, to put it kindly, but we are seeking to get involved,” McCormick said. “If those elements of UMDNJ come in with their fair share of the state appropriation for UMDNJ … we will be fine.”
Despite the optimistic outlook, he said talks are not far along, but the University already began searching for professionals to advise the Board of Governors and Board of Trustees on the finances. Paul Panayotatos, chairman of the Senate, opened the floor to Senate members for discussion of the appointment of a new University president. “The Board of Governors has chosen a search committee for the appointment of a University president,” Panayotatos said. The committee had already made available a statement describing the qualifications and characteristics sought, he said. Richard De Lisi, dean of the Graduate School of Education, said a primary concern should be the candidate’s willingness to work to make the University affordable for everyone.
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OPINIONS One high school teacher used her Facebook page to post gay slurs.
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Comedian Kevin Hart performs his stand-up routine at a sold-out show for the University community on Saturday in the College Avenue Gym. The Rutgers University Programming Association invited Hart and other comedians to campus for their annual homecoming comedy show.
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Students launch group to fight health care inequality BY AIMEI CHANG CONTRIBUTING WRITER
United on the issue of health care, GlobeMed connects communities throughout the world with the University to provide open access to health care and reduce preventable deaths. To strengthen the justice for health equity, the University launched a GlobeMed chapter in fall 2011 with 46 other university chapters across the United States, said Selena Suhail-Sindhu, chapter co-founder. “GlobeMed seeks to break the cycle of shor t-term, student-run global health initiatives, which are often based in volunteer ser vice trips and medical supply distribution,” said Suhail-Sindhu, a School of Ar ts and Sciences junior. “GlobeMed’s par tnership model is based on the idea of mutual respect and solidarity.”
Other chapters at Penn State University, University of Michigan, Columbia University, and Princeton University are par tnered with GlobeMed communities in Bajo Lempa, El Salvador; Zwedr u, Liberia, Gulu, Uganda; and Montgomer y, Ala., according to the GlobeMed website. Suhail-Sindhu said unlike any other health care organizations at the University, GlobeMed has an influential relationship with its par tner organizations in the health care system. “While other clubs cost thousands of dollars to go to a volunteer trip for a week, [students from GlobeMed] went to other countries for free,” she said. “GlobeMed is a network of university students across the nation who are building the movement for global health equality on their campus.”
The University is working with Cooperation for Social Services and Development (CSSD) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, focusing on the awareness and prevention of diseases among the entertainment
“GlobeMed will help to expand students’ horizons by making them awake the global [health equality] issue.” REBECCA HONG GlobeMed Co-President
workers and their rights on health in Cambodia, Suhail-Sindhu said. “[CSSD] seeks to reach out to the highest population that is at the highest risk for HIV/AIDS, but they are a marginalized population
because of how and what they do for a living, their social status and their social economic statuses,” she said. “These people are entertainment workers and intravenous drug users.” Suhail-Sindhu said health care providers in Cambodia do not want to give health care and education to these individuals and their children because they are on the fringes of society with their taboo lifestyles. GlobeMed is organizing a summer internship program for a six-to-eight-week period within the University’s office where students will materialize their projects, she said. “It’s not a volunteer trip, [we] are working directly with their mission and directly with the projects we fund for,” Suhail-Sindhu said. “[We] are going to work with the community with them as an internship over the summer.” Rebecca Hong, the co-president of GlobeMed, said the club
is also looking to expand its mission statement. “GlobeMed will help to expand students’ horizon by making them awake the global [health equality] issue,” said Hong, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. Ahmed Ayoub, a School of Engineering first-year student, said GlobeMed is a great organization, especially for those interested in the medical field. “I’ve always wanted to help people. However, with all these diseases going around the world, it’s critical that people get all the help they need in staying healthy or getting healthy,” Ayoub said. “I think GlobeMed ensures a brighter future for all.” Suhail-Sindhu said students who join GlobeMed are from various majors — such as public health, biology, social sciences, English, business and engineering — and there are opportunities for advancement in the club.
PISCATAWAY MAYOR TO VISIT RU DEMOCRATS MEETING Piscataway Mayor Brian Wahler is scheduled to attend tonight’s Rutgers University Democrats general meeting to take par t in an open forum on local politics. The meeting will take place at 9 p.m. in room B2 of Hardenbergh Hall on the College Avenue campus, where the mayor will host an open
question-and-answer session regarding local Piscataway, Middlesex County and N.J. politics. Some potential topics of discussion include construction of Livingston campus’ new business school in Piscataway, the re-election efforts of Sen. Bob Smith, D-17, Wahler’s opinion on the
“Occupy Wall Street” movement and predictions for the 2012 presidential campaign. As an active member of the Advisory Board of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, Wahler has recently been to the White House, which has provided him with insight into Democratic national political strategies, said Christopher Pflaum, former RU Democrats president.
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The University, last week, celebrated its annual homecoming on the New Brunswick/Piscataway campus. The week culminated with Saturday’s homecoming festival, which included the yearly “Homecoming Idol” competition, food and inflatable diversions, and the winning football game against the U.S. Naval Acadamy. Members of the University community on Sunday also ran a charity 5K race for Rutgers Against Hunger.
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MERGER: Officials push to put bond issue on 2012 ballot continued from front “We want our next leader to be a person who endorses our values … around equity and excellence and does not see them as contradictory, but as working together,” De Lisi said. “That is the strength of Rutgers, has been the strength of Rutgers and needs to be the strength going forward.” De Lisi said he wanted the next University president to answer the question: “How are we going to deal with the fact that our nation … has decided that public higher education is an individual benefit and not a public good?” Katherine Yabut, the undergraduate student Board of Trustees representative, said the University as a public institution should be available to as many students as possible. She also highlighted that students do not have as much sway on these issues as students do at other institutions. “The influence, which we are supposed to have here, is really
SERVICE: Cen-Med to initiate internship program continued from front “[Big supply companies] are dinosaurs and we’re mammals, ser vicing other mammals,” Inzero said. Other than fostering close customer service relations, the company plans to further give back to its Metropolitan area customers through developing an internship program, open to University students, he said. The program would be designed so students would not have to work in a tedious field for too long, but instead would move from the internal operations of the company to the external, from generalized to specialized, Inzero said. Since Cen-Med is small, he said the skills an intern would pick up are unquantifiable. The company began as a project in Rizwan Chaudhr y mother’s, Shakila Chaudhr y, basement in Brooklyn, N.Y., Inerzo said. As one of Inc. Magazine’s top-50 retail companies, Cen-Med ser vices 2,000 manufacturers from a New Brunswick warehouse with only 24 employees. “It is not just 24 employees, though,” he said. “Those 24 employees represent significant growth. We’ve added 12 employees to our company over the past three or so years, doubling our staff.” With the support of her husband, Shakila Chaudhry’s project grew into an establishment with the same level of drive to provide for its customers, Rizwan Chaudhry said. “My mother was the first girl in her village, actually, to be educated,” Rizwan Chaudhry said. “It was frowned upon in Pakistan, so from the beginning she had the drive to excel.” Some local residents were supportive of Cen-Med’s mission of tight-knit, close customer service toward economic recovery. “It seems logical to me,” said Lynne Sulton, East Brunswick resident and Amber Lion Antique’s employee. “Obviously customer service has to be the most important thing to companies like that or they’ll lose their customer loyalty.”
not seen,” said Yabut, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore. “At many other universities, there are student representatives at the Board of Governors.” Student senators also expressed concerns over the affordability of many new residence halls. Nathan Gwira, student senator for the College Avenue campus, said many of the newly built residence halls will make it difficult for lower income students to afford. “What are the measures being taken in relation to more affordable housing because people cannot afford the ones now?” he asked. McCormick said the University had taken into account the moderate fee increases in recent years, and since the residence halls are full, the prices have been affordable. “I do recognize that for some students that is cost they can’t bear, and there, the recourse is to our Financial Aid Of fice, which stands to help our students,” he said. In his administrative report, McCormick also addressed the issue of funding campus renovations through the first state bond since 1988.
University presidents in New Jersey are working to put this issue on the November 2012 ballot so residents could vote on whether to approve it. “New Jersey has not done a very good job supporting higher education facilities,” McCormick said. “Some states have annual appropriations for higher education, but we don’t even have those either.” He said there are buildings at the University falling apart under their own weight because of years of neglect and lack of funds. “We are making more progress in solving this problem than we have in a long time,” McCormick said. “I am cautiously optimistic that we can get a bond issue vote on the ballot in November 2012.” A limited number of facilities can be repaired because of cost issues. Therefore, deans from all campuses have been asked to propose their highest priority projects, he said. “We received far more proposals [than expected],” McCormick said. “We don’t know what the bond issue will be, but we are pretty sure that all of the $1.6 billion worth of Rutgers proposals will not be able to fit on it.”
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School of Environmental and Biological Sciences senior Steven Le plays a crazed scientist as part of “Hallway of Horrors,” an event intended to scare residents in the hallways of Starkey Apartments.
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The New Jersey Public Interest Research Group (NJPIRG) is having a food drive for Elijah’s Promise in New Brunswick until Oct. 21 in hopes of collecting 1,000 cans to help feed families who are struggling due to Hurricane Irene. The drop off locations are at any student center and in room 405 of the Rutgers Student Center. Scholars from across several disciplines at Rutgers-New Brunswick have joined together to present a public program focusing on what one professor calls the “ugly twins” of antiSemitism and Islamophobia. “Going Viral: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and the Role of the Media” — reflects what the scholars say is an urgent need to inject reason, tolerance and thoughtfulness into an increasingly rancorous conversation taking place on college campuses, in the media and in the political arena. The program features two speakers, Jack Shaheen and Kenneth Stern, developed from a collaborative effort between School of Arts and Sciences faculty specializing in Jewish studies and their colleagues in Middle Eastern studies who focus more on the Arab and Islamic world. The program begins at 7:30 p.m. in Trayes Hall at the Douglass Campus Center. Award-winning poet, historian and author of the bestselling, “Doubt … a History,” Jennifer Michael Hecht will be the guide to secular inspiration to poetry in the English language. Her talk, “Poetic Atheism and the Secular Sublime,” will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Student Activities Center Lounge on the College Avenue campus. The Veterans Service Fair will take place from 10 a.m. to noon at the Rutgers Student Center. Representatives from the federal and local levels will be available to assist veterans, as they can speak directly with staff regarding pensions, disability claims, educational assistance and health care. Representatives including United States Department of Veterans Affairs, New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, New Jersey Veterans Benefits Bureau, RU for Troops, Seniors 4 Generations and Veterans Business Development Office.
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Learn various and effective job search strategies at the Career Services’ Job Search Strategies workshop at the Busch Campus Center. Special emphasis will be put on innovative strategies, in addition to traditional job search techniques. As space is limited, pre-registration is required. Register online through CareerKnight, by calling (732)-4456127 or email careerservices@echo.rutgers.edu with the workshop name and your RUID number. Karmin is a musical duo that received the attention of millions of viewers online, as well as famous artists and the media. They played with The Roots and have been featured on various talk shows. Their cover of Chris Brown’s “Look At Me Now” received more than 40 million hits on YouTube. Experience this sensational group as they deliver a unique sound to mainstream music with their own fun flair. Will call opens at 6 p.m., doors open at 7:30 p.m. and the show begins at 8 p.m. at the Rutgers Student Center. For tickets, visit the Rutgers University Student Life website and remaining tickets will be available at the door. Show tickets costs $8 for students, who must show valid identification and $12 for guests. All guests must be 18 years of age or older.
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What's the spell to create light in dark places? Know the answer? Test your knowledge of the “Potterverse” against other Muggles before Buzztime Trivia. The “Harry Potter Scene It Game” will take place at 8 p.m. at RutgersZone at the Livingston Student Center.
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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 opportunity 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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Don't miss your chance to visit one of the most haunted prisons in the country, the Eastern State Penitentiary: Terror Behind the Walls. Check out the Eastern State Penitentiary at easternstate.org, and visit rupa.rutgers.edu for information regarding tickets. Bus departs at 6 p.m. from the Rutgers Student Center.
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Release of prisoners yields split response THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM — This week’s planned Mideast prisoner swap is unleashing deep anguish in Israel and widespread elation in the Palestinian territories, laying bare the chasm of perspective dividing the two sides. In Israel, the public is aghast at having to release convicted perpetrators of suicide bombings, deadly shootings and grisly kidnappings, although most understand that’s what it takes to win freedom for a soldier captured during a routine patrol inside Israel at age 19. The Palestinians, with equal vehemence, see the returnees as heroes who fought an occupier at a time of violence and argue moral equivalence between their actions and those of Israel’s army. These diverging narratives have been reflected in reactions to the deal, in which Israel will free some 1,027 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Sgt. Gilad Schalit, captured by Gaza militants in a cross-border raid in June 2006. Shalom Rahum, whose 16year-old son Ofir was lured over the Internet to the West Bank by a woman and killed, said her release was reopening a painful episode. “Our little consolation was our bit of justice,” he said. “If there were a peace treaty, I’d say ... release all the prisoners because we are opening a new page. But we are not signing a peace treaty,” he told Israel TV. Following initial joy over the deal, Israelis have begun to ask questions about the lopsided price their government is paying. Many argue that militants who killed Israelis could return to armed activity and that releasing so many prisoners, including many implicated in deadly attacks, bolsters groups like Hamas at the expense of more moderate Palestinians. To address Israeli security concerns, Hamas agreed to have more than 200 West Bank-based prisoners deported to either the penned-in Gaza Strip or to a third country, where it would be much harder to carry out attacks. Of the 477 prisoners to be freed in the first of two groups, 285 were serving life in prison. The inmate with the longest sentence was serving 36 life terms. While Israel has a long history of lopsided prisoner swaps, the Schalit deal has touched a nerve because memories of the attacks are so vivid. The list of prisoners who are being released reads like a who’s who of perpetrators of some of the grisliest attacks of the second Palestinian uprising, which began in 2000 and lasted roughly five years. They include the woman who directed a suicide bomber to a crowded Jerusalem pizzeria where he killed 16 people in 2001. The woman, Ahlam Tamimi, said in a television interview that she has no regrets. Others on the list are Abdel Aziz Salha, who raised his bloody hands to a cheering crowd after killing two Israeli soldiers who accidentally drove into the West
Bank city of Ramallah in 2000; Nasser Yateima, a mastermind of a hotel bombing that killed 30 people celebrating the Passover holiday in 2002; Ibrahim Younis, who planned a 2003 suicide bombing in Jerusalem that killed seven people, including an American-born doctor and his daughter who were celebrating on the eve of the young woman’s wedding; and Fadi Ibrahim, the mastermind of a bus bombing in 2003 in the northern city of Haifa that killed 17 people. Several families have filed court appeals against the prisoner swap, though that is not expected to halt the deal. Ron Kehrman, whose daughter was among the victims in the Haifa attack, criticized the planned swap, saying it could result in more Israeli deaths. “Is the blood of the next captured soldier or citizen less red than the blood of Gilad Schalit?” he asked. Other bereaved relatives were more accepting, acknowledging that Israel at least has a chance to bring back Schalit alive. Schalit’s fate has become a national obsession, in par t because militar y ser vice is mandatory for Israeli Jews. Among Palestinians, there is ongoing disagreement over whether the use of violence has been counterproductive in the quest for statehood. Recent polls indicate that support for attacks on Israelis has dropped since the uprising ended. But even those opposed to violence on tactical grounds argue that the prisoners sacrificed for a common cause, and the Palestinians have the right to resist Israel’s 44-year militar y occupation, even with what many elsewhere consider terrorist attacks. Palestinians are quick to note that hundreds of Palestinian civilians have been killed in fighting with Israel as well, usually the result of “collateral damage” during military operations, such as targeted killings of militant leaders. Although Israel says it never intentionally targets civilians, Palestinians say civilian deaths are almost inevitable given the nature and locations of targets. “It’s a debate that will never end,” said Kadura Fares, a Palestinian prisoners’ rights advocate who himself spent 14 years in Israeli prisons for belonging to an armed group before emerging as an outspoken proponent of coexistence. “An Israeli army officer, from our point of view, he is a terrorist if he gives orders to kill people or bomb certain areas. For Israelis, he is a hero,” Fares said. Fares said bombers or gunmen should not be held personally responsible for their actions because they were swept up in the atmosphere that prevailed at the time. The issue of the prisoners is deeply emotional in Palestinian society, where virtually every family counts a member who has spent time in an Israeli prison. Israel says it is currently holding more than 5,000 Palestinian prisoners for crimes ranging from theft to infiltrating Israel illegally for work to carrying out deadly attacks.
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Francois Hollande, the former French Socialist Party chief, won yesterday the party’s presidential primary. The Socialist Party said 56 percent of the ballots, with 2.2 million votes counted total, were for Hollande.
Hollande to oppose Sarkozy in election THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS — Former French Socialist Party chief Francois Hollande declared victory yesterday in the party’s presidential primary, urging the left to unite around his bid to unseat embattled conservative Nicolas Sarkozy in elections next year. Hollande, a 57-year-old moderate known more as a behind-thescenes consensus-builder than a visionary, is seen by many as a welcome contrast to the tough-talking, hard-driving Sarkozy. Opinion polls say Hollande is the leftists’ best chance to win the presidency for the first time since 1988. Sunday’s vote for the main opposition party’s presidential nominee comes at a time when many French citizens are worried about high state debt, cuts to education spending, anemic economic growth and lingering unemployment. With 2.2 million votes counted after yesterday’s run-off voting, the Socialist Party said 56 percent of the ballots were for Hollande and 44 percent for his challenger Martine Aubry, who had succeeded Hollande as Socialist Party leader. The party estimates that more than 2.7 million people voted in Sunday’s run-off. “I note with pride and responsibility the vote tonight, which ... gives me the large majority I had sought,” Hollande told supporters in party headquarters as results rolled in. He said the victory gives him “strength and legimitacy” to take on Sarkozy, who is widely expected to seek a second five-year term in elections in April and May. Hollande pledged to reverse Sarkozy-era cuts in school funding and defend “equality and progress” at a time when many voters in France — and around the world — are angry over economic troubles and the sway that financial markets hold over politics. Aubr y quickly conceded defeat. She had sought to be France’s first female president. “I warmly congratulate Francois Hollande, who is clearly ahead. His victory is unquestionable,” said
Aubry, famed for authoring France’s 35-hour workweek law. The bespectacled Hollande was the longtime partner of the Socialists’ last presidential candidate, Segolene Royal. The two split after Royal’s 2007 presidential defeat to Sarkozy but stood side-by-side during Hollande’s victory speech Sunday. Sarkozy’s favorability ratings have hovered near the 30-percent level for months, but he is a strong campaigner and senses a rightward-majority tilt in the French electorate. Sarkozy’s allies urged Hollande to come out with clearer positions on the main issues that concern the French. Valerie Rosso-Debord of Sarkozy’s UMP party dismissed the Socialist Party’s jobs proposals and spending plans as “unrealistic and costly.” “The French should know that none of this will stand up, and at the end, they will have to pay the bill,” she said Sunday night. Early this year, most polls showed that the Socialists’ best hope for toppling Sarkozy was Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who led the International Monetary Fund until he was jailed in May in the United States on charges he tried to rape a New York hotel maid. Prosecutors later dropped the case, but Strauss-Kahn’s reputation and presidential ambitions crashed. Hollande says trimming state debt is a priority, but has kept to Socialist party dogma on issues such as shielding citizens from the whims of the financial markets and raising taxes on the rich. The party’s nominee will face questions about how to keep France competitive at a time when sluggish growth has reined in state spending and emerging economies such as China, India and Brazil keep booming. Hollande is little-known outside of France and has provided no dramatic proposals for saving the euro, shrinking debts, solving tensions with immigrants or other French woes. “There’s no cause for celebration: This is just the third quar-
ter,” said Jean-Marc Ayrault, the Socialist leader in the National Assembly. “Now, the presidential election begins.” The U.S.-styled primary, the first of its kind in France, was designed in part to help Socialists overcome years of dissension in their ranks. It was open to voters beyond those in the party, though some conditions applied. Hollande, the top vote-getter in the first round of voting a week ago, received expressions of support from all four candidates who didn’t make it to Sunday’s runoff. Royal — who ran against Hollande, the father of her four children, in the first round — hailed Sunday’s early result, saying it conferred “great legitimacy that the right cannot question.” Starting with Charles de Gaulle in 1958, France has had a string of conservative presidents over the past half-century, but only one Socialist: Francois Mitterrand. In Paris’ touristic and bohemian Montmartre neighborhood, voters streamed steadily into one polling station at an elementary school near the Sacre Coeur basilica. Several said their priority was unseating Sarkozy, but personality and gender also counted. “It’d be great to have a woman president,” said Michelle Joly, 44, an unemployed former human resources director, who voted for Aubry. “The programs of Aubry and Hollande are a bit ‘six of one, half a dozen of the other.’ And in fact. I’d probably have more negative things to say about Aubry, but I still voted for her.” Joly’s husband, Jean Audouard, however, voted for Hollande. “I like his ability to unite, his humor, and feel he’s less left-leaning than Martine Aubry: I’m center-left,” said the 50-year-old school director, while agreeing that the incumbent president needs to go. “I think Sarkozy isn’t suited to France today — he’s not a unifier at a time when we need cohesion,” he added. “I think Francois Hollande is good. He is a bit soft but he’s really nice, and quite funny — and that counts.”
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s the “Occupy” protests spread throughout the country, Wall Street is no longer the only place where the action is heating up. Members of the movement participating in “Occupy Santa Cruz” got to have their own moment in the sun earlier this week when two female protestors walked into a Bank of America and ended up embroiled in a confrontation. The women asked to close their accounts with the bank, and in response the manager of the branch threatened to call the police on them. According to an official statement from Bank of America, people cannot be customers while they are protestors: “If a customer who is participating in a protest wishes to conduct bank business, including close an account, we ask them to come back when they are not protesting.” Should Bank of America have the power to determine when and where an American can be a protestor? Of course not. We understand the people at Bank of America probably are not big fans of “Occupy Wall Street” and the many sub-movements it spawned in varying locales. After all, Bank of America is a major financial corporation and, in the eyes of the “Occupy Wall Street” crowd, that makes them the enemy, which is precisely why these two protestors wanted to close out their accounts. So it stands that, naturally, the protestors wouldn’t receive a warm reception from the people at Bank of America. Perhaps the branch manager wasn’t even that upset with the specific protestors themselves. For all we know, he thought he was facing the first signs of a potentially disastrous run on the banks, and decided he had to stop these people for the greater good of the country. Whatever the case may have been, the fact remains that Bank of America does not have the right to determine when or where or in what capacity an American can protest a system they see as unfair. The Constitution gives all American citizens the right to assemble peacefully, and that is exactly what these two protestors were doing. They were not threatening the employees of the bank. They merely wanted to close their accounts. No matter what Bank of America feels about the protests, they have no right to tell their customers they cannot become protestors. If anything, this interaction just gives the protests more credence. They claim that the financial institutions of America are abusing their power, and this is a pretty clear case of such an abuse occurring.
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erhaps unsurprisingly, yet another teacher got herself in trouble because of her conduct on the Internet. Union High School special education teacher Viki Knox wrote on her Facebook last week that homosexuality was both a “perverted spirit” and a “sin.” These comments have sparked outrage among many members of Knox’s community, as is to be expected in a case like this. What makes this scenario worth a second look, however, is the claims of some of the people who have come to Knox’s defense — namely, that Knox should not be disciplined at her job for the remarks made on her Facebook, which is a personal webpage and therefore unconnected to her professional life. In the words of one of Knox’s defenders, Rev. Milton Hobbs, the pastor of New Covenant Fellowship in Clark, N.J., Knox’s detractors are “saying I’m not really free to speak my mind because I could get fired from my job.” What Hobbs and the others who have taken up this opinion fail to realize is that this is not a case of a public employee being professionally punished for her personal life. In taking her homophobic slurs to Facebook, Knox took her hatred public and sealed her own fate. People like to think of Facebook as some sort of secret club, as if it were a magical extension of their private social lives, which exists solely for their enjoyment on the Internet. That is not the case at all. What people fail to realize is that Facebook is a website just like any other website. It is accessible to anyone with an Internet connection. Once you post it on Facebook, it is no longer private, no matter what your security settings are. It enters the public sphere and becomes a public statement. Denouncing gays on your own “personal” Facebook is about as private as denouncing them in an interview with any given news website. In both cases, anyone who knew how to use Google would be able to find the page in question and read your words. People have to stop treating Facebook as if it were a place where the rules of normal society don’t apply. Just because it is on the Internet does not mean it is under its own special jurisdiction. Knox might as well have stood in the hallways of her school and made the same claims that she made on Facebook.
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have sex with those of the ay rights have same gender. Actions are come a long way what count at the end of in the past day, not physiological decade. Less than 10 responses. Know that years ago, sodomy was those opposing homosexustill illegal in some parts ality do not really care of the United States. what’s going on in people’s Think about that — in our EDWARD REEP minds. Guided by relilifetimes, in our countr y, gious beliefs, they think two men could go to jail that it’s morally wrong for people of the same for having sex with each other in their own bedgender to have sexual or romantic relationships. room. The Supreme Cour t thankfully struck They do not care whether those involved actualdown sodomy laws in 2003 in Lawrence v. Texas, ly enjoy what they’re doing. If a man who was ending that injustice. There is still a long way to repulsed by the male body decided to have sex go before the gay rights movement achieves its with another man just to see what it was like, the objectives, but so much progress has been anti-gay zealots would have just as much against made. The army now allows gays to ser ve openhim as they would against someone who was in ly. New York State, one of the largest in the bliss ever y time he engaged in gay sex. The antination, now allows gay marriage. Things are gay zealots would say that someone attracted to looking good for the gay rights movement. the same gender should simply ignore their The gay rights movement is at a crossroads, desires, just as someone though. It can stick with the rhetintrigued by robbing banks oric of the past or embrace ideas “If people believe gay should. The anti-gay zealots of the future. This is an important want people with same-gender time for the gay community and sex and romance are attraction to simply choose hetits allies, such as myself. If we truly want to create a world not ethical and moral erosexuality, which is theoretically doable even if it makes the where same-sex relationships are because of the doer miserable. accepted, not just tolerated, we The idea of the future we realneed to make the right choice supposed will of a deity, ly need to embrace is that gay and change our tune. it’s their loss.” sex and romance are completely Specifically, we should elimiviable and moral options for anynate one of the sacred cows of the body. They are, after all, just as gay rights movement. This idea is innocent as traditional sex and romance. No one outdated and ultimately holds back gays from is being deprived of property or personage as in a achieving the station in society that they rightfully bank robber y. No non-consenting individual is deserve. I propose we stop claiming that homobeing maligned or made to feel uncomfortable. sexuality is not a choice. Gay sex and romance are harmless, and if I may Some may say, “I didn’t choose to be gay. I didget religious, these actions are also entirely in n’t choose to be attracted to the same gender. I line with this statement, “For this, Thou shalt not cannot change the way I feel.” Well, I didn’t commit adulter y, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt choose to enjoy eating pizza. I cannot help the not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou fact that its flavor and texture gives me pleasure. However, I do make the choice to eat pizza in the SEE REEP ON PAGE 11 same way that gays make the choice to date and
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REEP continued from page 10 shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law” (Romans 13:9-10). Gay sex and romance are completely ethical and moral
actions — therefore, there’s nothing wrong with consensually engaging in them for whatever reason. If people believe gay sex and romance are not ethical and moral because of the supposed will of a deity, it’s their loss. That should be the new line of the gay rights movement. You see, claiming that people cannot choose to be gay is nothing more than a way of begging forgiveness for gay behavior from those who believe it is wrong or undesir-
able. By saying that people cannot help being gay, you elicit tolerance and maybe sympathy by making people feel sorr y for gays. You fight outright hatred of gays. Saying that homosexuality is not a choice made sense when most of the countr y was opposed to homosexuality, and gays were on the fringes. However, now a large portion of the countr y agrees with what I’ve said above, that gay sex and romance are equivalent to traditional sex and romance.
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OCTOBER 17, 2011 There is no need to portray homosexuality as a shackle any longer. Homosexuality can stand on its own as a legitimate choice with gays being respected in making that legitimate choice. Choice is dignity, and gays have been deprived of dignity for too long. You see, in order for the gay rights movement to move in the right direction, gays cannot let themselves play the victims anymore. When you know that you’ve freely chosen a lifestyle,
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you have power. You are an equal to anyone who chooses any other lifestyle. Let the gay community show society that they are not to be bullied around and called sodomites. Let the gay community show the world with its words that they have power. Edward Reep is a Rutgers Business School junior majoring in supply chain and marketing science with minors in business and technical writing and economics.
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NOTEBOOK: Jamison gets first taste of end zone continued from back Jamison’s 4.6 yards per carry average was the best clip of his young career. “Our mentality coming into the game was we’re going to punish them up front and break them down,” Jamison said. “They were fighting, but we just kept it going and kept pounding it. It came spitting out.” Jamison did his part in slowing down the Midshipmen’s run defense. Head coach Greg Schiano praised his quickness and vision earlier in the season, but it was Jamison’s ability to shed tackles which garnered him continued reps. The Knights won the time of possession battle, which Navy usually controls because of its r un-heavy system. Jamison’s steadiness was a major factor. “It takes the pressure off our quar terback and our wide receivers and our o-line sitting there in pass block,” he said. “Our r unning game, it’s getting going.” Freshman r unning back Savon Huggins unof ficially aided Jamison’s performance. The highly-touted Huggins fumbled at Navy’s 1-yard line in the first quarter, marking his
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S ENIOR RIGHT GUARD A R T Forst made his first start of the season Saturday after playing a limited role as more of an afterthought among the offensive line rotation. Redshir t freshman Betim Bujari still appeared at the position, but Forst garnered the majority of the reps. Sophomore Antwan Lower y, who split time with Bujari at guard prior to Saturday, did not play against Navy. “Art played pretty well. He played physical,” Schiano said. “There were certain things Art struggled with, but who doesn’t in this day and age with all the great defenders and great defensive schemes?” Schiano planned on meeting with offensive line coach Kyle Flood yesterday about the performance of Forst and the of fensive line before making any decisions for a starting unit against Louisville.
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with strong second half showing continued from back He worked the pocket in the fourth quarter until wideout Tim Wright found a hole in the end zone, and then connected with the junior for a 20-yard score and a lead. And he completed 7-of-9 passes in the third quarter, including a 10-yard touchdown pass to sophomore wide receiver Quron Pratt. “He made some mistakes that were costly, but he also made some plays that were incredible,” said head coach Greg Schiano, who called the touchdown pass to Wright “an NFL throw” and said Nova is likely to remain the starter. Nova faced little pressure in the pocket against Navy’s under-
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The result was Pratt’s most consistent stretch of his young career, in which he caught nine passes in the Knights’ past three games. “I knew it would all pay off, all the hard work we do in camp, in the summer,” Pratt said. “All the hard work is starting to pay off now. We’re starting to pop as a unit. We’re all coming as one, and it’s a great feeling.”
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sized front, and the running game also reaped the benefits. Redshirt freshman Jawan Jamison broke the century mark for the first time with 101 rushing yards and found the end zone for the first time with a goal-line scamper in the first quarter. Those short-yardage red zone carries typically belong to Savon Huggins, but the freshman lost a fumble on the goal line and carried the ball only three more times. “We just have to get [Huggins] back in there and keep doing it,” Schiano said. “The good thing is we have a guy in Jawan Jamison who is running the ball well. I thought Jawan saw things well at times [Saturday], really well.” It helped Rutgers win the time of possession battle against a team that ran the ball 46 times, and Navy (2-4) outrushed
Rutgers (5-1) by only 10 yards. The numbers were skewed and include four sacks by an active Rutgers front seven, but Navy entered the game as the nation’s top-ranked rushing offense and it finished more than 200 yards below its average. Navy had to go only a yard to find the end zone on fourth down in the second quarter, but quarterback Kriss Proctor found himself under a pile two yards in the backfield as the Knights celebrated their stop. “When it gets tough, that’s when we thrive and really see the opportunities,” said junior defensive tackle Scott Vallone. “Guys are always fighting and really believe we can do things. A lot of teams might give up on a field-goal block, or might give up on the goal line. We just keep fighting.”
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Sophomore wide receiver Quron Pratt scored the first touchdown of his career when Gary Nova found him for a 10-yard strike.
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reshman Kortnie Maxoutopoulis carded a 150 to win the 19team Rutgers Invitational over the weekend at the Rutgers Golf Course. Junior Brittany Weddell finished tied for second in the 97player field with a 152 for the Rutgers women’s golf team. Boston College posted a score of 616 to win the Rutgers Invitational, marking the Eagles’ third victory in Piscataway in the past four years. Rutgers finished second with a score of 618, ahead of Big East rivals St. John’s and Seton Hall, which finished third and fourth, respectively.
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tailback Marcus Lattimore for the season with a knee injury. Lattimore tore a ligament in his left knee and also suffered cartilage damage. The running back’s injur y requires surger y, although doctors want to keep the knee braced and allow it to stabilize for several weeks before operating. The No. 14 Gamecocks will play out the season without their Heisman Award candidate, who led them with 818 yards this season and 10 touchdowns rushing. Lattimore led the Southeastern Conference in rushing most of the season before Alabama’s Trent Richardson overtook him.
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rookie Adam Larsson spent time on the trainer’s table today, but the 18-year-old is not seriously hurt. Larsson took a shot off the foot in Thursday’s game against the Los Angeles Kings and did not practice yesterday because he rested his foot. The Swedish defenseman will be active in Devils practice today, according to head coach Pete DeBoer. Larsson was active Sunday against the Nashville Predators, when he earned a check into the boards with 4:10 left in the third period. But the impact did not af fect Larsson’s injur y, according to the Newark Star-Ledger.
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Freshman point guard Jerome Seagears won the Scarlet Knights’ dunk contest Friday at MidKnight Madness. He completed all three of his dunk attempts in the final round against former AAU teammate Wally Judge to take home the victory.
‘Madness’ shows flashes of program’s future BY TYLER BARTO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
Rutgers head men’s basketball coach Mike Rice strolled along the College Avenue Gym floor F r i d a y, MEN’S BASKETBALL selling to the maximum-capacity crowd at MidKnight Madness statements it already heard before. But one thing was different about Rice’s impassioned plea for support — he has the tools to demand it. “Rutgers men’s basketball is back,” Rice told the audience. The Scarlet Knights faithful earned their first opportunity to fact-check Rice on Friday, when he took the reins off his highlytouted freshman class. The rookies and veterans did not disappoint a crowd looking for excitement. Freshman Jerome Seagears took home the Knights’ dunk contest, besting former AAU teammate and Kansas State transfer Wally Judge in the process. Seagears, a 6-foot-1 guard from Silver Spring, Md., along with fellow freshmen Myles Mack and Eli Carter, bear the weight of the Rutgers backcourt after both its starters graduated. Seagears showed glimpses of his big-play ability in the finals, converting on all three of his dunks and backing up Rice’s prediction in the process. “It felt great when you really live up to what your coach thinks,” Seagears said. “And I’m the shor test one in the dunk contest. Did you think about that? Height doesn’t mean anything.” Carter joined Seagears in the contest, capturing everyone in
the audience’s attention, including Kyrie Irving, the No.1 overall pick in the 2011 NBA Draft and Carter’s close friend. Car ter and Seagears displayed the one facet of the game departed seniors James Beatty and Mike Coburn could not, despite their best intentions — explosiveness. “He’s got hops,” Carter said of Seagears. The rest of the night was a glorified pageant show meant to entertain the crowd, which for the first time since 2009 witnessed to a midnight madnesstype event. The Knights — and Rice — danced, they dunked — or attempted to — and sealed the night with a message to the crowd from junior for ward Austin Johnson. The crowd remained entranced. “To have a sellout, to have enough buzz in the building, to sell it out with students and alumni and season-ticket holders speaks to the potential of this program and what direction it’s going in,” Rice said. Rutgers held its first practice only hours before on Friday, implementing Rice’s vision before they displayed a portion of it to the Knights’ fan base. “They all yelled at me,” Rice said. “I said, ‘Hey, I get these two hours. You get this hour at night.’” The 60-minute production flashed moments of Rice’s promise upon his hiring to recruit from New York through the Beltway. His commits converged upon New Brunswick for a night, a temporar y home for what Rice deemed a sustained effort.
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Head coach Mike Rice, above, danced to “Ice, Ice Baby,” while transfer Wally Judge performed around the rim.
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Knights meet goal with SHU sweep BY PATRICK LANNI STAFF WRITER
The emotional high coming off Friday’s 3-0 sweep of Seton Hall was no different than the last time the VOLLEYBALL Rutgers 0 volleySETON HALL b a l l 3 t e a m RUTGERS defended its home court a season ago in the storied rivalry. Earning their first Big East win, the Scarlet Knights (8-15, 15) challenged the Pirates from the start, but it was senior captain Hannah Curtis’ kill that sealed the Knights’ victor y at the College Avenue Gym. “I don’t even think words can describe how awesome that [match] was or how we’re feeling,” Curtis said. “I am shaking with excitement.” Establishing a five-point lead early in the third set, the Knights continued to smother Seton Hall’s attack, as a strong defensive presence at the net forced the Pirates (13-8, 4-2) to make mistake after mistake. Nine errors and a .000 hitting percentage in the first set doomed the Pirates, as they str uggled to establish any offense. But the Knights found their groove early, as sophomore Tiffany Regmund’s 13 kills led a balanced attack that consistently found holes in the Pirates’ defense. The Knights had their best offensive showing in Big East play thus far with a .250 hitting percentage. Setter Stephanie Zielinski notched her 11th double-double, landing 27 assists and 15 digs. Zielinski’s highlight reel dives kept the Knights in long rallies, as the junior showcased her strong play all over the floor.
“Stephanie put me in the right spots,” Regmund said. “I knew where to hit it.” Despite leading the charge offensively, Regmund said the win was “all defense.” The Knights showed flashes of potential against other Big East opponents, but the Seton Hall match was the first time Rutgers put together such an effort for a complete game, according to head coach CJ Werneke. “You could see our team getting it against the top teams in the conference, and although we didn’t get the wins, we were playing better. We were competing at a higher level and were giving those teams ever ything they could handle,” Werneke said. “We had another team [Friday night] also at the top of the conference, and it clicked for us.” The Knights could not click at a better time, as winning the instate rivalry match is one of the team’s biggest goals every year. “[Beating Seton Hall] is something we talk about all year long,” Werneke said. “We put it on our calendar, it’s in our goals and it’s something we don’t shy away from.” The Seton Hall win, an important one in the geography battle, elevates the Knights’ record to 21 this season against New Jersey schools. They beat NJIT and Seton Hall, but lost to Princeton in five sets. Outplaying the Pirates at the net, the Knights highlighted their ability to play aggressive defense and hit from the outside. Freshman outside hitter Sofi Cucuz added eight kills opposite of Regmund, as the outside was a favorable matchup for Werneke’s squad. With an attention to detail, a favorable matchup, momentum and defense, the Knights put it together on their home court to earn the victory.
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Junior goalkeeper Vickie Lavell earned her first playing time of the season against Providence after taking over for starter Sarah Stuby, who sat out of the second half with a tweaked hamstring.
RU splits two weekend matches BY JOSH BAKAN CORRESPONDENT
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Senior middle blocker Hannah Curtis’ kill in the third set Friday secured the Scarlet Knights’ 3-0 victory against Seton Hall.
The Rutgers field hockey team entered this weekend’s homestand with a Big East game and an out-ofFIELD HOCKEY confer2 e n c e LAFAYETTE matchup 1 on its RUTGERS hands. The Scarlet Knights learned to utilize their depth in a 2-1 loss to Lafayette yesterday, which is key in keeping their conference tournament hopes alive. The Knights’ loss to the Leopards forced them to compete without two of their key star ters, temporarily playing without sophomore goalkeeper Sarah Stuby and sophomore for ward Gia Nappi. Stuby came out of the cage after the first half nursing a hamstring she tweaked Friday in a 3-1 win against Providence. Her absence provided junior backup Vickie Lavell with her first opportunity this season for playing time. The Knights (4-10, 1-3) stepped up on the defensive end while Lavell was in the game and only allowed two shots. The Haddon Township, N.J., native recorded her first and only save of the season, opening up oppor tunities for her in the future.
“Even though Sarah’s been star ting, it’s always a 50-50 [chance of playing] coming into the game,” Lavell said. “I just woke up ready to play no matter what was going to happen.” Rutgers had to play Lafayette (8-6) without Nappi for most of the closing minutes of the game, when the Knights’ leading scorer suffered a five-minute penalty with 5:32 remaining. Nappi was the second Knight to commit a penalty against the Leopards after junior back Ashley Yanek earned with a five-minute penalty earlier in the period. “The umpires were calling the game a certain way, and the game was starting to get a little more physical then,” said head coach Liz Tchou. “It was pretty obvious that the next hit was going to be a yellow card.” But when Nappi, Stuby and the rest of the Knights perform at their best, they put together performances like their win against Providence at the Bauer Track and Field Complex. They helped their cause with a 3-1 win, putting themselves in position to earn a Big East postseason berth. The victor y placed Rutgers ahead of Providence (3-11, 1-3) in the Big East standings, and the Knights tied themselves with Louisville for the fourth and final conference tournament spot.
“That was the best hockey I’ve seen all year,” Tchou said. “That’s what happens when we per fectly execute our gameplan.” Rutgers claimed a quick 2-0 lead within the first 16 minutes before a delay stopped the game in the 26th minute due to lightning. The teams came back on the field and set up for the Friars’ first penalty corner of the game. In only two minutes, Providence earned five more, finally scoring on the sixth shot. “After we came back from the lightning, they kept getting corners. That’s something that we can’t do,” Tchou said. “They kept countering on us, and that’s something we can’t have happen against any team.” The Knights’ two matchups gave them two things to look back on: their potential when they put together their best 70 minutes and how to compete without key starters. Rutgers should be back to full strength next weekend for its road trip against Maine and Cornell, which ser ve as preparation for its final Big East game against Connecticut in two weeks. The way to beat No. 5 UConn is by putting together complete performances like Rutgers’ win against Providence and by utilizing its depth like it did against Lafayette.
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Senior forward Ibrahim Kamara scored the Knights’ lone goal against DePaul just nine minutes into the action in Chicago, giving Rutgers its first conference victory on the road this season. Kamara improved his season scoring total to two, good for fourth on the team.
Knights stay atop division with win over Blue Demons BY VINNIE MANCUSO CORRESPONDENT
In the middle of its seven-game Big East stretch, the Rutgers men’s soccer team proved it could win at h o m e MEN’S SOCCER l a s t RUTGERS 1 week, when it DEPAUL 0 downed a pair of conference opponents. The Scarlet Knights took to the road and notched their first road conference win of the season Saturday with a 1-0 win against DePaul. “These are crucial points that we are getting with these wins, especially on the road against what we
consider one of the toughest places to play,” said head coach Dan Donigan. “It was great. I’m proud of the effort.” One early goal proved to be the only point the Knights needed to propel themselves past the Blue Demons. In only the ninth minute of the game, a fumbled ball by DePaul goalkeeper Eric Sorby bounced outside the box, where senior forward Ibrahim Kamara waited to capitalize for the goal. “This was a great game to win because they had a lot of people out supporting them, and it was on the road and everything,” Kamara said. “We came out, and I got the only goal in the first half, and we were able to hold on to that one goal and
eventually got those three [Big East] points.” The game-winner marks only the second goal of the North Brunswick, N.J., native’s season, although he led the team in scoring each of the past two years. “I’m not scoring that many goals this year because we have so many people around me who can score. My job so far has been to hold the ball and create space for them,” Kamara said. “As long as we keep on winning, I’m satisfied. It doesn’t matter if I’m scoring or if other people are scoring. As long as we are winning I’m happy.” The early goal by the Knights sent DePaul into attack mode toward the latter half of the game.
The Blue Devils outshot the Knights, 10-4, in the second half and led in corner kicks, 6-1. “The first half was better than the second half, but that’s pretty typical when you get an early goal on the road,” Donigan said. “That’s when they start throwing extra numbers and take a little more chances on the attack. But you just have to kind of weather the storm and that was definitely the case.” The Knights defense carried the team to the conference win, holding the Blue Devils scoreless for its first shutout of the year. The win also marked the first collegiate shutout for junior goalkeeper Kevin McMullen, who finished the game with two saves.
Donigan cited a combined effort from the entire backfield en route to the shutout win. “It is always good to get the shutout, especially the first one of the season. It takes more than just Kevin to have a good game, even though he did make a couple of good saves,” Donigan said. “But [senior Andrew Cuevas], Joe Setchell, Dragan [Naumoski] and Paulie [Calafiore] really defended well. They got a lot of help from the midfield, as well. It starts up top and goes all the way back to the goalkeeper.” The Knights face yet another quick turnaround as they return to Yurcak Field on Wednesday to face conference rival Syracuse.
OT win keeps Rutgers alive amid postseason chase BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
Rutgers head women’s soccer coach Glenn Crooks knew no matter how the dominos fell around WOMEN’S SOCCER the Big RUTGERS 1 East this weekCINCINNATI 0 end, his t e a m
needed to win in order to secure a playoff berth. Although the Scarlet Knights (8-7-2, 3-5-2) escaped the weekend with only one victor y and three points, the team carries the same focus into its final match of the season Friday against Seton Hall. Not only does the match mark yet another meeting between a pair of in-state rivals, but it now
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Senior defender Julie Lancos kept the Knights alive in conference play with a goal three minutes into overtime against Cincinnati.
serves as a play-in game for the Big East Championships. “We came here this weekend to make sure Friday’s game against Seton Hall had meaning,” Crooks said. “That’s what we got, so it was a good weekend for us.” A goal three minutes into overtime from senior defender Julie Lancos lifted the Knights against Cincinnati at Gettler Stadium and preser ved the team’s playoff chances. The Bearcats (6-8-4, 2-6-2) outshot the Knights, 20-11. Rutgers did not register a single corner kick, and were again without its most potent offensive weapon in sophomore Jonelle Filigno. Lancos stepped in to provide the unlikely spark in the 93rd minute, which was undoubtedly the most significant of the Knights’ 16 goals to date. “From freshmen to sophomores to juniors, they all know it means a lot of all of us,” Lancos said of making the postseason. “We’re a pretty tight-knit group, so it’s just as important to us as it is to them.” In return, Louisville, which bested Rutgers, 2-1, Friday, blanked Seton Hall, 3-0, yesterday at home to complete the weekend sweep of New Jersey teams. Had the Pirates won, the Knights’ Senior Day this Friday
would be the last time Lancos and the other four Knights seniors stepped onto a collegiate soccer pitch. At least for now, it is the last time the group will play at Yurcak Field, with victory spelling a new season for the Knights. The winner of the match seals a fifth seed in the Big East National Division with the possibility of earning the No. 4 spot if Villanova drops its final match against Georgetown. “I’m pretty excited,” Lancos said. “Next Friday’s Senior Night. We’re going to be playing under the lights. We’re going to be playing in front of our family and friends. Ever ything is there. It’s just a matter of us getting the job done.” Junior goalkeeper Emmy Simpkins returned to net yesterday after a fractured finger during practice set her back two weeks ago. The Conover, N.C., native responded by making six saves and recording her first clean sheet since a Sept. 23 tie against Pittsburgh. “It feels great,” Simpkins said. “I’m extremely proud of [junior] Jess [Janosz]. She did an awesome job and I hope she continues to do that, as well.” Janosz started Friday’s match and made five saves in a 2-1 loss,
allowing the first goals of her collegiate career after a pair of shutouts a week ago. Crooks did not name a starter prior to leaving for Louisville on Thursday, and again declined to commit to either Simpkins or Janosz after yesterday’s victory. “There are two No. 1 keepers in our program right now,” Crooks said. “Emmy had a great game.” With Janosz and Simpkins both proving effective net, Friday’s match likely rests on the Knights attack’s ability to put goals on the scoreboard. But what the Knights did or did not do in their first 17 matches does not carry much meaning Friday in Piscataway. Crooks and Co. face a win-andget-in scenario against their intrastate rival under the Yurcak Field lights, and the Knights know the playoffs unofficially start with Seton Hall. “It’s a playoff game. Friday night’s game is a playoff game for both teams,” Crooks said. “It’s truthfully going to have a lot of intensity. It’s a local rivalr y, the players know each other, we’re good friends with the coaching staff and there are a lot of good things about Friday night.”
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Fourth-quarter field goal block preserves one-point victory after Knights face halftime deficit against Navy BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR
Brandon Jones returned to the sideline at High Point Solutions Stadium optimistic in the fourth quarter Saturday, even though a Navy field FOOTBALL goal cut t h e Scarlet Knights’ lead to only 1. But the Rutgers football team’s defense and special teams inspire nothing but confidence, and Jones came close enough to blocking the kick that he knew he could get there if he had another chance. “I told coach, ‘I’m going to get the next one,’” the junior cornerback said. “If we had another opportunity to do it, I was going to get it.” The opportunity came in the fourth quarter, when the Scarlet Knights again turned to their defense and special teams to preserve a win. Jones lined up against the long side of Navy’s unusual field goal protection scheme, rushed the edge untouched and smothered Jon Teague’s 34-yard attempt. Jones’ first thought was to get up and block for Khaseem Greene, who scooped the ball, and his second was that he secured a 21-20 win and a 5-1 start to the year. “I realized we had to make the play,” Jones said. “I wasn’t thinking about losing, but I knew it was a big opportunity in the game and I just tried to take advantage of it.” The takeaways Rutgers’ defense relied on were more difficult to come by against Navy’s disciplined tripleoption offense, although Rutgers did intercept two passes. Instead, the Knights had to live with the fact they would give up yards on the ground and trust their offense to take advantage with fewer opportunities. It took time, but the offense finally did. Freshman quarterback Gar y Nova threw his first two interceptions — one that Navy returned for six points — in his second consecutive start, but still delivered arguably his best game. “The win is all that matters in the end,” said Nova, who was 23-of31 for 271 yards.
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Junior cornerback Brandon Jones blocked Navy kicker Jon Teague’s 34-yard field goal attempt in the fourth quarter, preserving a one-point advantage for the Scarlet Knights. Jones also intercepted a pass and was involved in Rutgers’ other takeaway.
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LEADERS PASSING GARY NOVA 23-31, 271 YDS, 2 TDS RUSHING JAWAN JAMISON 22 CAR, 101 YDS, 1 TD
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Rutgers’ defense held Navy and its tripleoption offense in check, limiting the Midshipmen to 204 rushing yards less than its season average, which ranked No. 1 in the nation entering Saturday’s contest. Navy quarterback Kriss Proctor broke one long run for a 54-yard touchdown.
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Redshir t freshman r unning back Jawan Jamison did not know he earned his first career 100-yard r ushing per formance Saturday until he entered the locker room. Rutgers football r unning backs coach Chris Hewitt had to relay the news to Jamison, who also scored his first career touchdown.
“Hewitt walked up to me and was like, ‘You finally got it,’” Jamison said. Jamison’s play was as unassuming as Hewitt’s message. The Bolles School (Fla.) product carried the ball 22 times for 101 yards in the Scarlet Knights’ 21-20 victor y against Navy, which boasted its own impressive rush attack.
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