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The Rutgers football team lost, 16-14, at Louisville on Friday, when it had countless opportunities to win the game, but dropped them all.

Barry Deloatch’s sons speak out at city rally

BY AMY ROWE ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

A month after an officer from the New Brunswick Police Department shot a city man, around 100 community members and University students convened at Feaster Park Saturday for a rally against police brutality.

Across the street, Barry Deloatch’s two sons, Barry Deloatch Jr. and Barry Gavin talked about the loss of their father in front of the alley where he was shot at 105 Throop Ave. “I’m still dealing with this every day.

This is very hard dealing with the loss of my dad,” said the 33-year-old Gavin. “I just want to see justice served. Then everything will fall into place.”

Barry Deloatch Jr., 22, said he thinks the city of New Brunswick has not responded to the incident properly.

“There’s so much happening out here on the street. They shrug it off as just another black [man] being killed,” he said.

Walter Hudson, spokesman for the Deloatch family, said Mayor Jim Cahill did not send a letter of condolence to the sons or pay for Deloatch’s funeral expenses like he asked for at a city council meeting.

Deloatch was shot on Sept. 22 after police stopped him and another man for questioning around 12:10 a.m., according to Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan.

A single bullet entered Deloatch’s side and pierced his aor ta after he ran from police, he said in a statement.

No results of the investigation have been released to the public as 38 items were sent to outside labs for forensic analysis. Among these was a bullet recovered from the scene and the gun that was fired.

The names of the officers involved in the incident have not been released but

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President Barack Obama said last weekend that he will bring home the remaining U.S. troops in Iraq by the end of this year. So far, 4,500 soldiers have died over the nearly nine-year-long war.

Students react to Obama’s withdrawal of troops in Iraq

BY ANASTASIA MILLICKER ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

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About 100 community members, including students, protest against police brutality Saturday, one month after the shooting of city resident Barry Deloatch.

President Barack Obama announced Friday that America’s war with Iraq would be over, with the promise of having the remaining troops home by the end of the year — and some students are questioning why it has not happened sooner.

“Over the next two months, our troops…[will] board convoys for the journey home,” Obama said. “The last American soldier[s] will cross the border out of Iraq with their heads held high, proud of their success and knowing that the American people stand united in support for our troops.”

Obama announced the end to the nearly nineyear-long combat mission in Iraq last year and has removed 100,000 troops since with the intention of removing all troops by the end of 2011, he said in his address.

This announcement has some University students questioning its timing.

Nile Mahbuba, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, said Obama’s promise to end the war was a part of his presidential campaign in 2008 and reaching this solution took him a while.

“Why didn’t he do it sooner? It’s been too long,” she said.

Michael Schwartz, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, said he supported the troop pullout but echoed the question of why the action took nine years.

“I think this will help out his political campaigns,” he said. “I feel like we’ve been there for too long.”

Mamaloghel also said the troop removal at this time could help Obama with his re-election.

“People can relate to him and especially military families will be supportive with the troops returning home,” she said.

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U., community dances night away at garba

Sports betting likely to win voter approval

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BY SARAH INTRONA

A new book claims President Barack Obama sent personal checks to struggling citizens.

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Dressed in colorful, traditional Indian garments, members of the University and local communities danced in celebration of a Hindu holiday.

About 450 people filled the Livingston Recreation Center on Friday night for the Association of Indians at Rutgers annual three-hour-long garba dance event, “Raas Ki Raat.”

“Garba is a dance that celebrates one of the greatest holidays in India and is an event where you can dance and have fun all night,” said Dhara Shah, AIR president.

Garba is a traditional Indian form of dance customarily per formed during Navaratri, a Hindu festival celebrated for nine nights recognizing the triumph of good over evil.

During the dance, which was open to all

An amendment suppor ting gambling at racetracks, spor ting events and Atlantic City casinos is likely to win approval in the upcoming Nov. 8 general election, according to an Eagleton Institute of Politics poll.

“Suppor ters argue spor ts gambling would provide a much needed economic boost to the gaming industr y and bring in new revenue to the state,” said David Redlawsk, poll director.

During a random telephone polling, the poll found 58 percent of 903 likely N.J. voters supported sports betting while 31 percent opposed it.

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School of Arts and Sciences sophomore Dimple Shah performs Friday to celebrate the Hindu festival, Navaratri.

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and star t something and be recognized for that,” he said.

As expansion director, Sigma Pi, a fraternity tr ying Rodgers said he helps colonies to make its way back onto cam- across the United States and pus, will of fer young men inter- Canada establish fraternities. ested in greek life an oppor tu- He visited the University for nity to impact the University two weeks in the summer to and shape the fraternity in its train, recruit and meet each earliest stages. “founding father,” or underThe group of students, with graduate members of the frahelp from the Sigma Pi nation- ternity when it was colonized. al chapter and alumni, hopes to “I gave them all a rundown on recr uit members and reach what it would be like to be a chapter status as founding founding father,” Rodgers said. members create their identity “It went very, very well. We had a at the University. lot of interest in the group.”

“Instead of walking into a fraJoining Sigma Pi has the ternity and learning their ways, potential to be a life changing we get to sculpt Sigma Pi into experience, Rodgers said. what we want it to be,” said Jordan “It’s a tremendous confiZuber, fraternity president. dence booster to be able to Zuber and Ethan Arbuthnot, step into situation, go through the fraternity’s vice president, all the work [and] come out as star ted the project last year a founding father or initiated and traveled to the Sigma Pi brother,” he said. headquar ters in Tennessee To become a Sigma Pi over the summer, he said. brother, young men will have The general council and fra- to pledge, which involves eight ter nity alumni have guided weeks of assignments and them through the process, tasks designed to integrate Zuber said. new members with cur rent “The hardest thing will be ones, said Paul Gorman, the establishing the colony’s grand identity of the herald. group,” said Gorman is “My main concern Adrian Rodgers, concer ned with is that the expansion directhe civil pledge tor at Sigma Pi. process. new group gets Joann Arnholt, “I told them to to have a fresh start ‘think about your dean at the Office of Fraternity and sister, how would and not have Sorority Af fairs you want her to be (OFSA), said treated?’” Gorman old reputations.” some students do said. “I’m not sayADRIAN RODGERS not realize how ing don’t have fun, Sigma Pi Expansion Director hard projects like but be respectful.” this can be.

Gorman said he “We expect is aware of the “frat” that they’ll be going after what- stereotype. From his experiences ever the national council has running risk-management worklaid out before char ter gets shops, he has always avoided the granted,” Arnholt said. well-known “going out and drinkArnholt said she was excit- ing” lifestyle. ed about the new colony, but “I didn’t realize what a great thinks the members need to leader I could be until the day focus on recruitment. after I got into Sigma Pi,” he said.

Sigma Pi’s University colony But Gorman has also seen his must complete a small check- fraternity make mistakes — list before it is elevated to Sigma Pi’s University chapter lost “chapter” status, the largest their charter a few years ago being the Altr uistic Campus because of members who were Experience (ACE) project, not cut out for Sigma Pi, he said.

Rodgers said.

“My main concern is that Sigma Pi’s ACE project is a the new group gets to have a philanthropic event designed fresh star t and not have old to ser ve the needs of a specific reputations or lingering memcampus, according to their bers around,” Rodgers said. website. At one university, But optimism overshadows Sigma Pi stocked a local food the challenges for members as pantr y for two years during a the frater nity assembles its food shor tage. chairmen, committees and a Besides the ACE project, treasurer to establish their recr uiting members is the respective budgets, he said. colony’s primar y goal at the “We get to star t with nothmoment, Rodgers said. ing and build this business,” “I want someone who wants said Mike Simone, a to be a leader, wants to get up fraternity member.

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More than 200 students, faculty and family members walked from Brower Commons on College Avenue campus to the intersection of Hamilton and George Street on Saturday to fight against domestic violence.

Walk raises domestic abuse awareness Group generates $6,200 for scholarship fund in honor of violence victim

BY JODI-ANN RANKINE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Members of the University community walked from Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus to the intersection of Hamilton and George Street to remember a Rutgers-Camden student who lost her life to domestic violence.

Krystal Skinner was a RutgersCamden student pursuing a degree in social work and a single mother of a 3-year-old son who was stabbed to death in March 2008 by her boyfriend.

During the week of her birthday, the Undergraduate Social Work Organization (USWO) raised about $6,200 on Saturday morning toward the Krystal Skinner Memorial Scholarship Fund through the “Third Annual Domestic Violence Awareness Walk,” said Sarah Darish, vice president of USWO. More than 200 students, faculty and family members walked to raise awareness about physical and emotional abuse to the campus community, said Darish, a School of Ar ts and Sciences senior.

“We don’t want to see someone else end up like Kr ystal.

No one deser ves to be treated abusively,” Darish said. “We hope that giving others the educational oppor tunities and awareness [so] they will help others if they know someone in an abusive relationship.”

Professors, parents and students in the School of Social Work began the walk because they wanted to spread knowledge about domestic violence and its effects on the community, said Melanie Krutzel, president of the USWO.

“One in every three women experience physical suffering in a relationship in their lifetime,” said Lisa Smith, domestic violence coordinator for the Department of Sexual Assault and Crime Victim Assistance.

The walk aimed to meet USWO’s fundraising goal of $100,000 for the Kr ystal Skinner Memorial Scholarship Fund, said DuWayne Battle, director of Baccalaureate Social Work Program.

The scholarship is given to undergraduate students pursuing a degree in social work in the state, like Skinner, who demonstrate leadership skills,

“One in every three women experience physical suffering in a relationship in their lifetime.”

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good academic standing and active extracur ricular activities, Darish said.

Those who registered for the walk and sponsors donated and the USWO auctioned off prizes like University memorabilia and gift certificates to participants after the walk, she said.

The USWO has raised $63,000 over the past two years through a combination of these sources, Darish said.

USWO gained support and contributions from Au Bon Pain,

Target, Merck, Sibson Consulting Group, Hansel ’N Griddle and The Vitamin Shoppe, among other local companies, according to a USWO press release.

Skinner’s family attended the walk and thanked participants for their support and honoring.

“Krystal’s family is a life lesson on how to take tragedy and turn it into triumph,” Battle said.

Though the campus’s USWO did not personally know Skinner, Battle felt strongly about raising a scholarship in her name and the organization wanted to help him out, Darish said.

“We really respect [Skinner] for how much she put in the social work program,” Darish said. “It was just a loss. [If] you know [anyone] who dies of domestic violence, it hits home.”

Katherine Conyers, a USWO board member, said she felt compelled to help during the walk because of the statistics of women being killed in domestic disputes.

“I am very interested in changing the lives of women and inspired to help raise money in remembrance of Krystal,” said Conyers, a School of Arts and Sciences senior.

The USWO plans on hosting another walk to take place on the Rutgers-Camden campus in March to remember the date Skinner died, Battle said.

Darish said she felt the turnout at the University was able to spread some awareness about USWO’s cause.

“When I was in the front of the line and looking back, I could see a bunch of people,” she said. “Just to see them being a part of the walk for her really made a big impact.”

Reena Diamante contributed to this article.

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RALLY: Officers involved in shooting under investigation continued from front both were placed on administrative leave pending the investigation, Kaplan said.

The Latino Leadership Alliance of New Jersey in a review of NBPD force conduct named two officers, Brad Berdel and Dan Mazan, to be involved with the incident.

“The family has no official word [on the shooter]. I wish we could ask the mayor,” he said.

Hudson said he is happy state police are also following

IRAQ: Some still skeptical about bringing home all troops continued from front Delmira Martinez, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said the move was not all political, rather a general strategy.

“I thought it was a really good idea,” she said. “It was one of his promises during his campaign.

People will trust him more.”

Other students said they would not believe the withdrawal until they see it.

Matthew Mieles, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences junior, said he was

APPROVAL: Some NJ residents neutral about betting continued from front the amendment.

Unless the sports betting ban is lifted by the federal government, the economy will not experience the benefits from the amendment, said Redlawsk, also a University political science professor.

“Nonetheless, New Jerseyans are ready to position New Jersey to take advantage of any change in federal law,” he said.

The state’s strongest supporters were those living in the New Jersey shore areas like Monmouth, Ocean and Atlantic counties, with support dwindling in the suburban areas of North and South Jersey, according to the poll.

“The potential for economic benefits seems to overcome any

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the case, who will recreate the scene for the investigation.

“It’s a very good thing, if and when this is done, and it shows an inconsistency of the officer’s report.

I’m calling for Cahill and the Chief of Police’s resignation,” he said.

Gavin said he was happy to see everyone at the rally convene for his dad and fight for justice, including University students.

Joel Salvino, a School of Arts and Sciences representative for the Rutgers University Student Assembly who attended the rally, said the way New Brunswick police officers treat students is unfair.

He said he heard of too many accounts of beating and mistreat-

ment of students. Because of this and the Deloatch shooting, RUSA passed a resolution denouncing the NBPD’s actions.

“We’re all part of the same town and they should treat us like people,” Salvino said, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “They view us as an ATM.” Tormel Pitmann, who has been leading rallies every day since the shooting, said people need to fight for justice every day.

“This is a movement. It doesn’t go on for a day, it might be forever,” he said. “When I get out [of] my bed, I fight for justice,” he said.

Gavin hopes the people showing their suppor t will

continue to show up in the winter months.

“I know it’s going to get cold, but keep protesting. We need your support,” he said to the crowd.

Also present at the rally was Bruce Morgan, president of New Brunswick’s National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

He said his organization was present in cor respondence with the National Day of Outrage to register voters so people can enact the change they want to see.

“We’re here to empower people to do their civic duty,” he said.

“We go where the people go.”

skeptical of the troops leaving Iraq with the short time period they have.

“I don’t think it’s going to happen,” he said. “I mean it sounds good, but is it true?”

Mieles said Obama’s sending troops to Uganda might lead the United States into another war.

“I don’t know, we could be pulling troops out of Iraq, but we may be sending more to Africa,” he said.

Graduate student Michael Schlolmanan said if we did pull out from Iraq, the United States would still need to stay involved to prevent further attacks.

“If we completely pull out, there could be chaos,” he said.

“We’ve been productive over there — like very small productivitywise — but still it’s something.”

The United States does intend to keep some troops in the region for stabilization efforts, according to The Associated Press.

Obama said he would continue discussions with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to train and equip their forces.

“The United States will continue to have an interest in an Iraq that is stable, secure and selfreliant,” the president said.

Hafize Mamaloghel, a School of Arts and Sciences nontraditional student and Medical Lab Technician in Middlesex County, said Iraqis have taken responsi-

bility of their government and the need for U.S. troops is no longer needed.

“I support it, we no longer have a reason to be there,” she said. “I think he should remove the troops. We were there to remove their government and [start] a new one. They have a new government, we should leave them be.”

Brooke Macin, a Rutgers Business School sophomore, said although she does not follow politics, removing troops from Iraq could improve relations with Iraq.

“I would like to see an end to the war,” she said. “There is love for the troops, and it would be nice to have the troops home.”

possible doubts in the part of the state that should gain the most,” Redlawsk said.

Employment does not seem to impact opinions as employed and unemployed voters polled supported the measure at 58 percent, according to the poll.

The poll also showed that Catholics are more supportive of sports betting than Protestants.

“I think the economy plays a big role. Gambling can increase state revenue and help casino revenue,” Redlawsk said. “Another reason, however, is that people are used to gambling and don’t have the stigma that they once had before.”

Among the younger voters, betting on sports is more likely seen as acceptable, according to the poll.

At the University, students agreed with the majority of those polled. Vittoriana Camporeale, a School of Arts and Sciences sen-

ior, said gambling is okay unless it harms someone.

“I personally don’t have a problem with it,” said Vittoriana Camporeale, a School of Ar ts and Sciences senior. “If people want to gamble, it’s up to them. I guess I do suppor t gambling.

It’s not going to physically hur t someone.”

Nick Sella, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, saw gambling as harmless as long as those participating are old enough to understand its implications.

“I think that gambling is a harmless vice and [it] should be legal for anyone who is 18 or older, because if you are old enough to fight in a war then you should be able to gamble,” Sella said.

Elizabeth Kearns, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, said gambling is about being in control of one’s actions.

“I don’t understand why they would ban gambling,” Kearns said. “I think people should have control over their habits and if you have a gambling problem, well eventually you’ll run out of money.”

Some N.J. residents were neutral or indifferent about gambling.

“I don’t have any preference one way or another. I’ve seen gambling get people in trouble,” said Raymond Jackson, an East Orange, N.J., resident. “We need jobs all over the countr y, so if it provides jobs and if it can help, I don’t see any detriment to it.”

Edison resident David Yellin and his wife said they are not affected by gambling and remain neutral on the issue of gambling and sports betting.

Redlawsk said if there was no opposition from now until the election, he does not foresee a change in voter views.

GARBA: Event aims to help fund for Nov. 13 AIR show continued from front nationalities, ages and experience level, participants twirled around the idol of the Indian goddess Amba in multiple concentric circles as sign of respect, said Reena Kadakia, AIR graphic designer.

After the traditional Garba dance, a second dance called “raas” takes place. Ever yone holds a “dandiya,” or stick, and participants dance around a partner, said Shah, a School of Arts and Sciences senior.

The event left a positive impression on some University students.

“It’s a great event, and it’s a nice way to see people in the Rutgers community come together for something,” said Maitri Patel, a School of Engineering junior.

Nidhi Radia, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences senior, said she enjoyed her time at the event.

“Everyone is having fun and enjoying the festival,” Radia said.

“It’s nice to know that we can have something fun and cultural like this on the Rutgers campus.”

Jay Tailor, a School of Engineering first-year student, said he looks forward to AIR’s celebration of garba each year.

“It only happens once a year, and it’s a great climate to be in with all these people in one place,” Tailor said.

Preparation was also put into getting the event to run smoothly before and after it started, Shah said.

“We’ve actually been planning this event since the summer since it incorporates heavy decoration, which we’ve rented out from a store in Edison,” Shah said. “We also had to contract a live band to play for us since the event requires the need for a band to play different sorts of music.”

With all the preparation put into the garba, AIR members were thrilled with the attendance at the event.

“The turnout was incredible and everything ran very smoothly,” said Kadakia, a School of Arts and Sciences senior.

The organization also uses the event to help fund the AIR show, the organization’s premiere event.

The 28th AIR show, titled “Pehchaan: Dare to Define,” will take place Nov. 13 at the State Theatre in New Br unswick. The event will bring South Asian groups, fraternities and sororities together to raise awareness for issues involving children in underprivileged parts of the world.

“It’s our biggest show, and we hope we can help raise awareness about the lack of shelter’s and education for children who live in less privileged parts of the world,” Shah said.

She said AIR par ticipates in many cultural and community ser vice events such as Scarlet Day of Ser vice in which more than 100 AIR members participate.

“Along with South Asian fraternities and sororities, we are also trying to get people to register for our bone marrow drive at the event tonight,” Shah said.

AIR also promotes unity by trying to bring people from different walks of life together at the event, she said.

“One of our main goals for this event is to promote our goal of achieving unity at Rutgers,” Shah said.

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Students bring holiday traditions to sick children

BY YASHMIN PATEL STAFF WRITER

To bring a smile and the Halloween spirit to the children of St. Peter’s Hospital, student leaders across campus donated 30 pumpkins they painted during “Har vesting Leadership.”

Leaders joined the National Society of Leadership and Success (NSLS) on Friday at Deiner Park on the College Avenue campus to build leadership skills and help the children in the process, said Christopher Daniel, director of events for NSLS. “It’s a little unconventional, but at the time we thought what better way to have fun and network at the same time and be able to do something that could bring people together,” said Daniel, a Rutgers Business School junior.

The NSLS hosted the event to unite student leaders throughout the University and to build a common ground of helping others, said Cur t Villarosa, director of public relations for the NSLS. “We bring them together so that we’re on the same page where we can make the world a better place,” said Villarosa, a School of Arts and Sciences senior.

Being a leader is more than taking initiative inside the classroom — it is also ser ving the outside community, he said.

“I think it’s about becoming a better individual, that you’re able to look outside of yourself,” Villarosa said. “Along with that people also develop social skills. It can bring leaders together and it’s a good way to network.”

Being involved in community ser vice teaches students to become leaders by using their time in a more effective and useful way, Daniel said.

“Leadership is all about putting the people you’re serving first,” he said. “It’s about using

the skills and mind you’ve been given to help others in the best way possible.”

At “Harvesting Leadership,” student leaders were able to gain a better understanding of what it means to put others before themselves, Daniel said.

“It takes dedication, it takes perseverance,” he said. “Being a leader involves making tough decisions … part of being a leader I would say is just having a serving heart.”

NSLS also hoped to show during the event that leadership involves coming together as a team and accomplishing goals, said Sam Firmin, president of NSLS. “To become a leader is someone who works well with others,” said Firmin, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “If you don’t have the ability to work with other people on achieving a goal, then you’re just by yourself and you don’t have anyone to lead.”

One of the key objectives of NSLS as an honor society is to encourage and help other students to reach their true potential, Daniel said.

“It’s a really important part of being a leader as well as taking responsibility for yourself and meeting others that are sort of on the same path that you’re on,” he said.

Soohyun Hwang, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, attended the event because she was able to use her passion for art as a way to help others.

“I love art and there are not many chances or opportunities to get involved with art,” she said. “I found this event would help ease the stress I had during the week and also follow my passion.”

Hwang said she believes volunteering can help students step away from their studies to expand their horizons and connect with other students. “[We’re trying] to reach out to the community, which Rutgers is benefiting from,” she said. “It is our responsibility to give back to what we are benefiting from.”

U. TARGETS INDIA FOR POSSIBLE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES India’s education system is in the process of expansion in the upcoming years and the University is looking to get its stake internationally.

“We see this as an opportunity to really go to the next level and position Rutgers as one of the leading U.S. universities in India just as they are rethinking their education marketing,” said David Finegold, senior vice president for lifelong learning and strategic growth initiatives in a northjersey.com article.

The University announced last week that it formed a joint center with a Mumbai university, the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, which will provide support to India’s Knowledge Initiative as announced last year by President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

“The number of children going to college will increase from 16 million to about 45 million in the next 10 years,” said Kapil Sibal, the Indian minister of human resource development. “If 604 universities are serving 16 million children, we’ll need another 1,000 universities in the next 10 years.”

The University and Tata are providing initial funding for the initiative and the center is applying for grants from the ObamaSingh Knowledge Initiative.

India is not open to foreign universities developing their own campuses, but if that changes the University could take advantage of that.

It is not a goal at the time, Finegold said in the article.

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Organization honors domestic abuse survivors

BY SASKIA KUSNECOV CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Women Aware Inc., a New Brunswick-based organization, came to the Reformed Church of Highland Park last Friday to pay tribute to Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

The event was aimed to respect and empathize with domestic violence abuse victims, who are mostly women, said Phyllis Adams, Women Aware executive director.

“Sur vivors can teach us what life and love is all about,” Adams said to a crowd of families, local community members and students.

The organization began 30 years ago in response to the murder of a young woman trapped in a violent domestic abuse situation, Adams said.

Women Aware provides care and assistance to women who

feel vulnerable or fall victim to domestic violence.

Women who are in domestic danger are encouraged to call the Women Aware 24/7 hotline, she said. Depending on the severity of the situation, group leaders place women in their own facilities or seek out care in domestic violence organizations of other counties.

“What we wanted to convey here was that domestic violence is prevalent, and it can happen to anyone regardless of age, gender, socioeconomic status, race, religion [or] ethnicity,” said Lynn Shelley, the event’s coordinator.

Rescued women often like to express themselves through various mediums, including art, music, poetry and dance, Shelley said.

“We wanted people to understand that victims of domestic violence are also survivors, and they are here and they have something to say,” she said.

In contrast to most events during the month, which tend to be solemn and somber, Shelley said Women Aware wanted this event to be uplifting so domestic violence abuse victims could be inspired to forge a new life for themselves and their children.

“It was also really important that we have [the event] in Highland Park’s Reformed Church,” Shelley said. “This church is really big on social justice.”

The event on Friday featured the videotaped testimonials of victims living in the Women Aware house. Local musicians and poets like DomChula performed to a large audience.

Highland Park High School’s all-girls a cappella group Amandala sang a piece about women’s empowerment, followed by the New Br unswick-based InSpira Performing Arts and Cultural Center’s dance crew.

POLICE OFFICERS ARREST NEWARK MEN FOR STEALING WAREHOUSE MERCHANDISE South Brunswick Police officers arrested two Newark men for stealing merchandise at a Ridge Road warehouse.

Derick Latchman, 32, and Beejai Budhu, 50, did not realize that police officers had arrived at the warehouse a half hour before them and were monitoring their actions, according to an nj.com article.

“It was over so fast they had no idea what happened,” Ronald Seaman, South Brunswick Police detective, said in the article.

Police arrested the men immediately on Wednesday around 6:30 p.m. and charged them with theft.

Officers had been tipped off about the incident after the warehouse owner moved to South Brunswick from Essex County, according to the article. There were reports that the two men would steal $30,000 in merchandise.

In response to the tip, South Brunswick police of ficers installed a sur veillance system around the warehouse building at 6 p.m. and paid close attention to Latchman and Budhu as they pulled in and began loading merchandise into their truck, according to the ar ticle.

Budhu is being held on $10,000 bail and Latchman is being held on $7,500 bail.

Club holds murder mystery for charity

BY ZACH BREGMAN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

City residents put their heads together Friday night to solve a murder myster y ser ved up by the Rotar y Club of New Brunswick.

The club held a charitable murder myster y dinner to fundraise for the Dictionar y Project, which gives impoverished children in New Brunswick and Highland Park a free dictionar y, said Michael Blackwell, a club member.

Proceeds also went to the Young Actors Program, which helps young people interested in acting break into the industr y, he said.

Blackwell was pleased with the tur nout for the dinner, which attracted New Brunswick and Highland Park residents as well as club members at the Elks Club on Livingston Avenue, he said.

During the course of the night, one Rotar y Club member faked his death and guests were responsible for guessing how the member died and who killed him based on a set of clues given revealed throughout the game.

“It’s a murder myster y.

Someone’s [going to] die unfortunately, and ever ybody’s going to have a chance to guess how it happened and why it happened,” said Boisch, a Rotar y Club member and one of the event’s organizers.

Gifts for the winning participant included restaurant gift cer tificates and other small prizes, he said. Restaurants including Stage Left, Old Man Rafferty’s and Har vest Moon, catered the event free of charge.

Before and after the murder myster y, club members set up tables with food and allowed guests to fraternize with their friends and meet people.

Blackwell said the Rotar y Club of New Brunswick had one objective in throwing this event — to provide a great help to the community.

“Rotar y is a ser vice club in the city of New Brunswick that works on several community projects and their motto is ser vice above self,” he said.

Blackwell said his club was far-reaching, with branches all over the United States, and is growing and expanding abroad.

Franz Gschossmann, who ran the event with Boisch, said

with 32,000 rotar y clubs around the world, the Rotar y Club of New Br unswick is just one example of community ser vice around the globe.

Because of the greater-thanexpected tur nout, Blackwell said he plans to host the event ever y year.

Richard Boisch said it took two months of planning to execute the murder myster y dinner and was pleased with event’s turn out.

“We’ve put this event together for months now and it’s really turned out to be quite a success,” he said.

Gschossmann said he hopes the event shed light on the Rotary Club of New Brunswick’s ultimate objective to promote community service.

“We are a community organization. What we do is for the benefit of the community,” he said. “We work on behalf of scholarships and we locate needy people who are looking for some financial assistance and we give it to them.”

Gschossmann said events like the murder myster y are successful is because people who do not seek any compensation for their work plan them and work only toward helping the community.

The University’s domestic violence and sexual assault outreach and prevention group SCREAM Theater also performed at the event.

“It’s an issue that is really desensitized in our society,” said Eva Grote, a SCREAM Theater performer and School of Arts and Sciences junior. “I’ve never been around actual survivors before, just actors, so this is really exciting for me.”

Domestic abuse victims and their children decorated T-shirts with images of culture and life experiences as part of the Clothesline Project, which Women Aware Vice President Joseph Camarota said would help bring validity to the issue at hand.

Camarota said while the event was to commemorate survivors, it was also imperative to bring awareness to domestic violence occurring today in all age groups.

Domestic violence usually starts with college-aged students in relationships and progresses into abusive routines that could be deadly unless students speak out, he said.

“The homicide rate has gone down, but it is still currently at three women a day,” Camarota said.

Adams credits the University with a large part of her organization’s success and outreach.

“Rutgers University and the students of Rutgers have been really suppor tive of Women Aware,” Adams said. “If they want to get involved [with projects and collaborations], students can always call our main line. We’re looking at a project to feed our families with Rutgers [Against] Hunger.”

Children of domestic abuse victims sang a rendition of “You Are My Sunshine” while images of shelter and rescue floated on a screen in the background.

Jamaican organization networks, raises funds

BY ADAM LOWE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Caribbean songs played throughout Saturday night at De Island Breeze, a Caribbean restaurant and bar in Somerset, N.J., to fundraise for the Save Our Jamaica Foundation.

Save Our Jamaica is a networking organization that seeks to bind other Jamaican foundations into a tightly knit alliance, Chin said.

“Save Our Jamaica’s mission is to support organizations that are in a good position to positively impact the island of Jamaica and its people,” said Raxann Chin, the foundation’s founder and CEO. “I thought I would treat organizations how Wall Street treats corporations and look at them as a business.”

Chin said she began the organization after spending time in the hospital with appendicitis.

“I had a lethal form appendicitis, [I] was pretty much pronounced dead. I was hospitalized for over a month,” she said. “As I was a recipient of someone giving, this experience generated something in me.

Now I want to be the giver.”

Chin said the foundation’s longterm goal is to have an annual benefit concert.

It would highlight the work of not only the Jonathan Hibbert Foundation, which gives Jamaican soccer players the opportunity to display their skills to colleges in the United States, among other Jamaican nonprofit organizations, she said.

“We’re in this together. We need to support each other. For every action you do, there is a reaction,” Chin said. “Jamaica is a small island with a very big voice.”

Some proceeds from the night went to the Jonathan Hibbert Foundation, which was established after Kevin Holmes, the foundation’s director, lost his colleague in a car accident.

“Never stop dreaming. A dream is a powerful thing to have, never let go of that dream,” Holmes said to the crowd. “Our foundation is built upon a dream.

A dream holds our organization together. And have fun — always have fun.”

He said athletes in Jamaica would have trouble participating in college sports without his foundation’s help.

“We are the ones that have to bridge the gap between how students come abroad in Jamaica,” Holmes said. “We do not have SATs in Jamaica, so we’re looking to create a loophole, a bridge to cross that gap and allow our talented students an easier way to come abroad.”

Because the foundation is based in the United States, it is difficult to reach out to more than 300 high schools in Jamaica, Holmes said.

“It’s a slow but steady process. We want this event to show that education and sports can indeed work together for a common goal,” he said. “What I would love to do is get a scholarship program for students that are interested in spor ts management and business.”

Funds from the event will go toward the annual soccer cup competition on Jan. 7, which will display many talented Jamaican athletes, Holmes said.

The charity awarded more than 300 scholarships in the past six years, he said.

“There are many guys at home who are talented soccer players, and the foundation is a gateway for those kids,” said Kriswayne Wallace, a personal friend of Holmes and a scholarship recipient in 2009.

Carlton Bharrat, owner of De Island Breeze, said combining the outreach of a fundraiser with the platform of a business can be a powerful thing and suggested that nonprofits align with businesses to support each other.

“I’m happy to do this. We as human beings don’t give enough,” Bharrat said. “Whether it’s an individual, family or a business, people need to start sharing. No matter where you are in life, there is someone worse off than you. So you need to do your part and help.”

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The New Brunswick Zoning Board will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers, at New Brunswick City Hall on 78 Bayard St. The meeting is open to ever yone and there is no admission fee.

The Alfa Art Gallery is proud to present “Counterparts,” the third exhibition of the 2011 New Brunswick Art Salon, following two exhibitions from the spring. “Counterparts” is an exhibition that highlights the collaboration of opposites.

Contained in this collection of works is a variety of contrasting elements that complement each other — representational with abstract pieces, conversations from past to present, narratives from experienced to imagined and styles that are dynamic and tranquil. Featuring Ellen Weisbord, Jamie Greenfield, Lisa Pressman, Nilufer Ozturk, Sarah Petruziello and Theodosia Tamborlane, this exhibition, varied in style and medium, demonstrates an extensive scope of aesthetic sensibility, where concept is executed into art from different viewpoints, and brings together an explosive showcase of cooperative diversity. The event is currently on display until Nov. 10 at the gallery on 108 Church St. For more information, please contact curator Jewel Lim at (630)656-7866.

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The New Brunswick Zoning Board will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers, at New Brunswick City Hall on 78 Bayard St. The meeting is open to everyone and there is no admission fee.

The Alfa Art Gallery is proud to present “Counterparts,” the third exhibition of the 2011 New Brunswick Art Salon, following two exhibitions from the spring. “Counterparts” is an exhibition that highlights the collaboration of opposites.

Contained in this collection of works is a variety of contrasting elements that complement each other — representational with abstract pieces, conversations from past to present, narratives from experienced to imagined and styles that are dynamic and tranquil. Featuring Ellen Weisbord, Jamie Greenfield, Lisa Pressman, Nilufer Ozturk, Sarah Petruziello and Theodosia Tamborlane, this exhibition, varied in style and medium, demonstrates an extensive scope of aesthetic sensibility, where concept is executed into art from different viewpoints, and brings together an explosive showcase of cooperative diversity.

The event is currently on display until Nov. 10 at the gallery on 108 Church St. For more information, please contact curator Jewel Lim at (630)-656-7866.

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The Friends of the Library Book Club meets once a month (usually on the last Monday of the month) to discuss a specific book. All are welcome to join the meeting. The only requirements are to have read the book and be willing to discuss it. This month’s book is “Luncheon of the Boating Party” by Susan Vreeland. The meeting starts at 1:30 p.m. in the Carl T. Valenti Community Room.

The Unite Square Partnership will sponsor its fifth annual “Trunk or Treat” event. To provide a safe trick or treating experience for neighborhood children, cars sponsored by local community groups and businesses, community residents, church members and student organizations from the University will be parked in the parking lot of the Sacred Heart Church on 56 Throop Ave. Kids will trick or treat trunk to trunk — treats include not only candy, but also an array of safe and healthy treats. For more information, please contact Lorena Gaibor at (908)-698-3661 or lgaibor@ccdom.org.

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The New Brunswick Free Public Library, in partnership with the Global Literacy Project, will host three teen writing workshops this fall, facilitated by published young adult authors. The writing workshops are designed to help students understand the writing process and improve their writing and revision skills. The first workshop, by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, author of the novel “8th Grade Superzero,” will take place at 4 p.m. in the Carl T. Valenti Community Room. To register for one or more workshops, please call the library at (732)-745-5108 ext. 20, or email Darby at darby@lmxac.org.

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Although authorities ordered Occupy Chicago protestors settled in a downtown park to vacate the premises under city ordinance, 130 arrests were made yesterday when they did not comply.

Police arrest protestors in Chicago THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO — Anti-Wall Street demonstrators of the Occupy Chicago movement stood their ground in a downtown park in noisy but peaceful defiance of police orders to clear out, prompting 130 ar rests early yesterday, authorities said.

Occupy Chicago spokesman Joshua Kauner t vowed after the arrests that protests would continue in the Midwest city.

“We’re not going anywhere.

There are still plenty of us,” Kauner t told The Associated Press after the arrests, which took police more than an hour to complete.

Elsewhere in the nation, police repor ted 11 ar rests over night in the Occupy Cincinnati protests. Police said those arrested had stayed in that city’s Fountain Square after Sunday’s 3 a.m. closing time and each was charged with criminal trespass.

In Chicago, police began taking people into custody just before 1 a.m. yesterday. Those arrested were led in groups to vans and two large white buses as others clamored to be arrested.

“Take me next! Take me next!” some shouted as police began the ar rests. Others chanted as they were led away: “We’ll be back!”

Officers had begun placing metal barricades around the area of Chicago’s Grant Park known as Congress Plaza about 11:10 p.m. Saturday, minutes after the park closed.

After ward, police then went through the crowd and warned people to leave or risk arrest for remaining in the closed park in violation of a city ordinance.

Several of the protesters who stayed inside the barri-

cades in the park sat on the ground. Others locked arms as police circled and then began arresting people.

“One: We are the people!

Two: We are united! Three: The occupation is not leaving!” demonstrators shouted. Others joined in from just outside the park.

Chicago police said Sunday morning that 130 arrests had been made.

Kauner t said none of those arrested resisted.

“Ever ybody was ver y peaceful and smiling and there was no violence, though a lot of chanting,” he said.

He urged authorities to let the people resume protesting peacefully against the perceived greed and other ills they see on Wall Street and elsewhere in corporate America. He noted it was the second straight weekend that arrests had been made in the park after 175 arrests the previous Sunday after protesters set up tents past public hours.

“The police came in and again took away our right to free speech and assembly,” he said. “Several paddywagons left and they had two ver y large prison buses and those are gone now.”

Paulina Jasczuk, a 24-yearold dental receptionist, watched as her boyfriend, Philip Devon, was led away in the night hours. She threw him a white sweater against the chill of a fall night in Chicago.

“I’m proud of ever yone who got arrested tonight,” she told AP, adding she hoped they would inspire more demonstrators to join in the movement in the weeks ahead.

Demonstrators were taken away one by one and handcuffed with white plastic ties. Some on the scene shouted: “This is what democracy looks like!”

Dr ums banged and some people clanged on metal.

Jonathan Sumner, 25, of Chicago, watched the arrests from outside the park and began shouting at of ficers: “Why are you doing this?”

“It’s a sad day for the CPD,” he said, refer ring to the Chicago Police Depar tment.

Some said earlier that arrests only signal the importance of the Occupy movement.

“This movement will not be a serious movement until we take a stand, and getting arrested is just one way of taking a stand,” said Max Farrar, 20, a junior political science major at DePaul University, speaking Saturday to a reporter.

About 1,500 people gathered for the protest that began Saturday.

Demonstrators descended on the city park with hopes of making it the movement’s permanent home.

The group star ted in Chicago’s financial district before marching to the park.

Along the way, marchers chanted “Banks got bailed out, we got sold out!” and held signs that read “Greed Sucks” and “No War But The Class War” while police on horses blocked them from walking on the street on Michigan Avenue, leaving them with just the sidewalks to occupy.

Occupy Wall Street began a month ago in New York among a few young people, and has grown to tens of thousands around the country and the world.

In Cincinnati, Police Capt.

Doug Wiesman said early Sunday that the 11 arrests carried out there were “straightfor ward” and without problems. A protester, Aaron Roco, told AP about 30 other protesters who remained on a sidewalk just outside the Cincinnati square during the police action were not arrested.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Yale sophomore Andrew Hendricks has gotten used to receiving strange looks when he crosses the Ivy League campus in his Air Force uniform.

Hendricks, the only Air Force cadet at Yale, wears the uniform on days he drives to the University of Connecticut to train with the Reser ve Officers’ Training Corps, a program that had been barred from his university until faculty agreed to welcome it back beginning next fall.

Judging from the reaction of Yale students, he does not expect much of a stir when cadets start conducting drills amid the Gothic buildings in New Haven.

“I never get anything negative,” said Hendricks, 19, of Fairfax Station, Va. “I think it’s mainly that people are really curious because they don’t see a lot of military influence on campus.”

Four decades after Vietnam War protesters cheered the departure of ROTC programs from some Ivy League universities, their return is bringing little more than a symbolic change to campuses where a new generation of students is neither organizing against them nor lining up to enlist.

Yale, Harvard and Columbia all signed agreements this year to bring back ROTC. The antagonism with elite universities faded with the end of the draft, and much of the lingering opposition to the military dissolved with last year’s repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” the policy that banned gays from serving openly in the armed services. The universities said the policy violated non-discrimination rules for campus organizations.

A tiny number of students at these schools pursue ROTC — a total of three at Yale and five at Columbia do so through offcampus arrangements — and those numbers are not expected to rise dramatically anytime

soon. But the agreements to revive ROTC are important to the schools, which once produced many of America’s most decorated militar y of ficers, and the armed ser vices, which are regaining a presence at some of the countr y’s bestknown universities.

Officials are excited about ROTC because it offers students another path to national leadership, the dean of Yale College, Mary Miller, said in an interview.

She said the administration was influenced by appeals from President Barack Obama, who used his State of the Union address to call on universities to engage more directly with the military, and a survey by Yale’s student government that found support for ROTC. “We hope by making a path to military leadership available on campus, that students will pursue it in part because the opportunities for that leadership come so early in military careers. It has a strong youth culture component, which has been quite striking to me,” Miller said.

The ROTC program, which was founded in 1916, has 490 host units, most of them concentrated in the South and Midwest.

Students receive scholarship money in return for agreeing to military service after graduation.

In the years surrounding World War II, thousands of soldiers and sailors trained on Ivy League campuses. But last year, only 53 students from the conference’s eight universities were commissioned through ROTC programs.

Yale has agreed to host Naval and Air Force ROTC detachments next fall. Air Force officials say it is too early to assess how many might enroll, and Navy officials say they are hoping at least 15 freshmen, from an incoming class of about 1,300, will attend Yale next year on Naval ROTC scholarships.

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Obama must aid all Americans equally

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ashington Post reporter Eli Saslow’s new book, “Ten Letters,” is more interesting than you would probably expect a book about letters presidents read to be. That is because of one small bit of information contained within the book’s pages. According to Saslow’s account, President Barack Obama admitted to sending personal checks to troubled citizens whose letters moved him. To be sure, the White House has yet to officially comment on this claim, but Saslow seems rather certain of it as the truth — at least, enough to include it in his book. If it is true that Obama sometimes sends checks to some of the desperate people who write to him, then we have a problem with our leader. We appreciate the gesture, but such an action is unethical for the president of the United States, who is supposed to treat the concerns of all citizens equally.

If Obama were just another average person, and not the most important political figure in the United States, then his decision to send checks to those in need would be nothing but laudatory.

However, he is the president. As such, if he’s going to send personal checks to some people, he should be sending them to everyone. He could at least set up some sort of criteria, like those that are in place for people applying to receive welfare, for example. If you make below a certain amount, you can send a self-addressed stamped envelope to the White House, and Obama will return it to you with a check inside.

If that sounds absurd to you, that’s because it is absurd and inappropriate conduct for a president to be engaging in.

Rather than sending checks to some of his supplicants when the spirit moves him, Obama should look at these letters as reasons to ensure that our rapidly dwindling social programs dwindle no more — and possibly even expand to the levels at which they need to be in order to meet the demands made upon them. The president cannot pick and choose who deserves his help. The entirety of the United States deserves his aid for whatever problems they may be experiencing.

College president left budget woes unsolved

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s students of a public university, we have all witnessed firsthand and, in some senses, been victims of the seemingly endless budget cuts with which schools across the United States have been inflicted since the recession began in 2008. These cuts always seem to hit where it hurts the students most — in the faculty, educational resources, basic services, etc. Richard Rubsamen, the president of Sierra Nevada College until Thursday, found himself faced with the task of deciding where his school, like so many others, would cut and, shockingly, he threw himself in front of the blade. In order to prevent cuts from affecting the students as much as possible, Rubsamen figured that the best course of action would be to step down. In his own words to Inside Higher Ed, Rubsamen explains that although, “the idea of leaving the college is very difficult, it is the right thing to do. I need to lead by example and practice what we teach.”

Some lauded Rubsamen’s decision to step down as an example of a truly “students first” mindset. Julene Hunter, communications director at Sierra Nevada stated that, “Looking at the current economy, colleges across the nation … are making cuts that are affecting the students. We’re doing the exact opposite … Everything we could do to protect the students was done.”

Rubsamen’s actions are undoubtedly symbolic, and powerfully so.

Here we have a college president so invested in the well-being of his school that he essentially fired himself to save money. However, that’s really all his actions amount to: symbolism. If Rubsamen were that set on making his actions resonate, he could have just given himself a drastic pay cut and stayed on, much like his provost will be doing when he takes over the office, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. As the college’s president, his job was to guide the college toward solutions. While we’re sure his intentions were good, the fact remains that he ultimately did not live up to his responsibilities as the president of Sierra Nevada. At a time of budgetary trouble, he basically jumped ship.

A president’s job — any president, be they the leader of a country or the leader of a business — is to tackle issues head on and work for permanent solutions. Imagine if, rather than trying to fix the economy, President Barack Obama decided to save the taxpayers money by resigning as president of the United States. We highly doubt the American people would be celebrating him as a selfless hero or praising him for putting taxpayers first.

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s I was studying for status in the country, and an exam in my class there are few issues that rile on Jewishus up as well as antiAmerican histor y last Semitism. So if you’re able to Tuesday night, I received an convince enough people that email from my mom.

“Occupy Wall Street” is antiAppropriately, this email Semitic, that’s better than contained a link to an article any hippie comparisons or LEE SELTZER from the Simon Wiesenthal claims of degeneracy.

Center about anti-Semitism However, as important of in the “Occupy Wall Street” movement. an issue as anti-Semitism is, “Occupy Wall Street” is Coincidentally, later that evening, I saw that the colby-and-large not anti-Semitic. They have a tiny facumn posted for the Oct. 19 issue of The Daily tion of anti-Semites, but far more whose views stand Targum also dealt with this issue. in direct contrast to that thinking. The author of the As a Jew and someone raised by a father who is aforementioned column expressed his dissatisfacvery conscious about anti-Semitism — he will not tion with “Occupy Wall Street” before, so when he travel anywhere in Europe because he believes saw these claims, I’m sure he jumped at another Europeans hate Americans and Jews — I was immeopportunity to bash the movement. It doesn’t matter diately intrigued by this issue. I ran a few Google that his claims run contrary to the ADL because searches, which had unfortunate effects on my this is a powerful tool for any conservative to disstudying, and I found a few blog posts about how credit the movement.

“Occupy Wall Street” is anti-Semitic. However, I also At the same time, this does not mean that found a statement issued by the Anti-Defamation “Occupy Wall Street” should just ignore these fanatLeague (ADL). For those who don’t know, these are ics in its ranks. The fact is that this issue provides the guys that devote all their time and resources to them with both a challenge and an opportunity. In finding and stamping out antithe ADL’s statement, they remind us, Semitism. After researching the “Histor y demonstrates time and “There are issue, they found that “There is no again how economic downturns can evidence that these anti-Semitic confew issues that rile embolden anti-Semites to spread spiracy theories are representative of malicious conspiracy theories and us [Jews] up as well promote stereotypes about Jews and the larger movement or that they are gaining traction with other particias anti-Semitism.” money. As a consequence, these pants.” I also found an article in the statements must not be left unchalJerusalem Post that said although lenged.” Anyone who has any knowlthere are anti-Semites to be found in “Occupy Wall edge of Jewish history or a basic Hebrew school Street,” there are also plenty of Jews. In fact, Jews education will be able to support this as being true. are so abundant that they can be found celebrating This means that “Occupy Wall Street” is left with Sukkot, the fall harvest holiday very similar to a choice. They could simply ignore these fringe Thanksgiving and centered on building a hut and groups — to call them out individually, but at large eating in it. simply let them be. If they do this, they will without Perhaps most convincingly, a Jewish friend of a doubt lose support in the Jewish community, and mine told me that his dad recently attended supporters like myself will begin to question if these “Occupy Wall Street.” His father, I should add, is few anti-Semites have any chance of gaining power. also the type that is very concerned about antiThe other option is to work as hard as possible to Semitism, and while he was there, he saw one of the silence the anti-Semites. They need to both contin“Occupy Wall Street” anti-Semites with a sign about ue reacting to them with the strategy witnessed by the Jewish conspiracy. Surrounding this lone antimy friend’s father and to issue a unified statement Semite was a mob of other protesters booing him. condemning those fringe elements. By doing so, They made sure with their cries that it was loud and they will be able to prove that they are able to rise clear to all that the movement does not represent to the challenge of extremism within their ranks. this fanatic’s ideas.

Moreover, it will help to legitimize them in the face At the core, if so many major Jewish organizaof opponents who seek any chance to put them tions agree that “Occupy Wall Street” as a whole is down. From the eyewitness report we have, I feel not anti-Semitic, why do so many people continue to comfortable concluding that the members of insist that it is? The fact is, these nut jobs that keep “Occupy Wall Street” are on the right track. popping up are providing opponents of “Occupy Wall Street” with the perfect opportunity. The Jewish Lee Seltzer is a School of Arts and Sciences junior community has always prided itself on being a majoring in history and economics. His column, strong political presence regardless of our minority “‘Simplee’ Put,” runs on alternate Mondays.

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couple of weeks ago, my girlfriend told me that the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to three women “for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work,” according to the Norwegian Nobel Committee. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is the first democratically elected female president in Africa. Since 2006, her efforts have supplied Liberia with peace as well as social and economic growth.

Leymah Gbowee rallied women of all ethnicities and religions to end their war in Liberia. She then fought for these same women to participate in their nation’s election. Tawakkul Karman battled for democracy and women’s rights in Yemen. She also struggled for

peace before and during the Arab Spring.

As described in Alfred Nobel’s will, one award should be dedicated to “the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.” I am sure we can all agree these are brave women, who fought for what they believed in. Whether it is in the advancement of women’s equality or simply speaking out in countries of great social and economic disparity, our University should applaud these remarkable women for their actions. However as I read the article I could not help but think back to 2009’s Nobel Peace Prize winner — President Barrack Obama.

When they announced Obama as the winner, many Americans, including myself, had no idea why in the world he won. Remember, this was even before he completed

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or the past 80 years, The FBI has operated with a dangerously narrow definition of rape, which limited the act to “the carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her will.” Such a faulty conceptualization of the crime excludes a plethora of other horrifying atrocities from being legally handled as rapes — including nonconsensual anal or oral sex, rape committed with an object and cases where the victims were men or transgender. Thankfully, that all changed last week, when the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report subcommittee voted in favor of changing the definition to a far more inclusive one. Under the new definition, rape is now, “Penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim.” While this is not a perfect definition — rape need not require penetration — it’s certainly much better than the one we had before. We give the FBI a laurel. *

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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., was scheduled to give a speech at the University of Pennsylvania last week on the issue of income inequality. However, this never happened. When Cantor learned the speech was open to the public and not limited strictly to members of the UPenn community, he promptly cancelled. We have to wonder why this knowledge would make Cantor react in such a way. Was he afraid of looking the public in the eye? Perhaps he only felt comfortable speaking to members of the prestigious Ivy League and wanted nothing to do with the common folk. Whatever the case, Cantor deserves a dart for his conduct. As an elected official, he has a duty to the entire American public, not just to the specific parts of it he wants to serve.

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one year in office, or, as I would like to say: “Before the change happened.” If you’re still wondering why he won, it was apparently for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” Yet, if you watch the Nobel documentary, past laureates criticize his selection. The award is won by one’s actions, like the three aforementioned women. It should not be won for what one says he is going to do, especially if his visions do not even come to fruition. By this logic, I should win the prize next year, because I hope to end world hunger!

The irony is that Obama is the commander in chief of a military still fighting wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. On top of this, on Friday, Oct. 14 Obama announced he sent 100 Special Forces troops to Uganda, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, Congo and neighboring countries. The

purpose of this action, Obama says, is to assist regional African forces in removing Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army, “from the battlefield.”

I must have missed the part when they took out the word “peace” in Peace Prize. I understand the argument that he inherited some of these wars, but Obama also had a promise and plan to bring home our fellow Americans.

Since he took office, rather than end a failed practice in nation building, he only expanded it. And although he recently claimed he now has a plan to bring home the troops, I am sure his campaign advisers politically advised it.

Now I could conclude by arguing for an isolationist view as a possible solution, as presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, advocates. However, to turn this country around, one does not need to accept this intense point of view. As a libertarian-leaning

Republican, it is my impression that none of the current GOP candidates are as big of a war hawk as the peace-loving president. These candidates are honestly concerned about the delicate nature of our country and its reputation abroad. Sending money to countries when we are on the verge of financial collapse is one thing, but continuing to send supplies and troops to die in the name of democracy is completely reckless.

I don’t remember learning that presidents Lyndon Johnson or Richard Nixon won a Noble Peace Prize for Vietnam. Do not get me wrong — Obama is great at selling ideas and a powerful orator.

However, he is simply not in the same league as the three women who won the award this year.

Tyler Seville is a School of Arts and Sciences junior majoring in political science and philosophy with a minor in history.

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Quarterback Gary Nova threw three interceptions in a loss.

AWAY: Te misses pair of field goals in two-point loss continued from back fourth quarter. “He was just a little off. It happens.”

But Rutgers did not even need those touchdowns.

It only needed three points, and Te missed twice.

“They’re ver y makeable,” Schiano said.

Each of Te’s misses occurred in the second quarter, and Rutgers finally got on the board on the last play of the half, when it faced fourth-andgoal from the 1-yard line.

Schiano called a timeout with one second remaining, kept his offense on the field and gave the ball to freshman running back Savon Huggins, who sent the Knights into the half with the score knotted at 7.

The touchdown could have been the start of a momentum shift for Rutgers, which blocked a punt to give the offense a short field and set up Huggins’ score.

“Then we came out a little flat,” Huggins said.

Louisville ran the ball for 50 yards on the first three plays from scrimmage in the second half, star ting the defense’s decline.

Fifty-three first-half rushing yards turned into 134 in the second, as the Knights struggled to keep up with the combination of Jeremy Wright, Dominique Brown and Victor Anderson. Wright rushed for 108 yards.

A defense built on pressuring the quarterback only hit Louisville freshman Teddy Bridgewater once — he threw an interception to David Rowe.

The Miami native had as much time in the pocket as he wanted, and it showed on an 18-yard touchdown pass that he placed per fectly behind cornerback Logan Ryan for Michaelee Harris.

“We came out today, just — I don’t know. It wasn’t us,” said senior defensive tackle Justin Francis. “We have to be more focused on what we have to do.”

Harrison echoed the sentiment as he stood in the locker room alone, putting the loss on himself. He knew he had a touchdown, and that is all he thought about as the ball spiraled toward him — not making the actual catch.

The basics avoided Rutgers in Louisville, and ever yone knew it.

“We had a lot of plays … that could have won this football game,” Schiano said. “We win that game if we play better, that’s it. We catch the ball ever y day. We tackle ever y day.

We didn’t do it today.”

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The Rutgers football team took a knee on the field Friday while medical personnel carted senior cornerback Anthony Conner off the field. Conner broke his neck making a tackle with his head down on Rutgers wide receiver Mohamed Sanu.

LOUISVILLE CORNERBACK BREAKS NECK, WILL WALK AGAIN LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Ever y member of the Rutgers football team took a knee on the Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium tur f Friday in a scene that could not help but bring back memories of Eric LeGrand’s paralyzing injur y last season.

Louisville senior cornerback Anthony Conner remained motionless on the turf for about 10 seconds after making a tackle with his head down on wideout Mohamed Sanu.

Medical personnel rushed to Conner’s side, and he eventually showed movement

before team doctors took him of f the field and to a local hospital.

Conner broke his neck, but he will walk again.

“It is so sad,” said Louisville head coach Charlie Strong.

“Our prayers go out to him and his family, but he ended up

breaking his neck. He isn’t paralyzed. We’re going to miss him.

Just on the field, he was talking and squeezing his hand, that was it. It’s just so tough any time a player gets injured. It’s what happens in this game.”

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Gary Nova targeted freshman wide receiver Miles Shuler on one of his deep passes Friday, but Rutgers has yet to connect.

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Harrison had an opportunity for another long touchdown catch at North Carolina, but he LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The mes- dropped that, as well. sage Rutgers head football coach “You can’t get in somebody’s Greg Schiano and wide receivers head, but I think probably the coach P.J. more time [Harrison has] to FOOTBALL F l e c k think about it, [he is] thinking delivered to Mark Harrison on about the result, thinking, ‘I got the field Friday said it all. it, here’s a touchdown, here we “They told me to keep my go,’ rather than just sticking to head up,” the junior wide receiv- fundamentals,” Schiano said. er said. “I was still going to get “We just have to continue to the balls thrown to me, so I can’t work, and probably need to ride on the play that just hap- continue to stress deep balls pened. I had to stay focused and because we have the ability to not think about it.” get behind people.”

Schiano and Fleck rushed The Knights’ longest play onto the Papa John’s Cardinal from scrimmage this season Stadium field, where Harrison was a 60-yard screen pass buried his head in his touchdown by senior hands after dropping a fullback Joe sure touchdown catch.

Martinek. After that, The 6-foot-3, 230it was a 44-yard pound receiver beat his touchdown catch by defender, had Gar y redshir t freshman Nova’s pass between Brandon Coleman the numbers and only against Nor th 38 yards to go to comCarolina Central. plete an 84-yard touchColeman and down and the Scarlet freshman Miles MARK Knights’ comeback Shuler each beat HARRISON against Louisville. their defenders downHarrison dropped field against the pass and Rutgers lost, 16- Louisville, but Nova over14, but Schiano and the threw Coleman and underKnights expressed nothing but threw Shuler. confidence in Harrison after “I feel like a lot of responsithe game. bility is on the receiving corps “He’s made it before and as a whole and I do blame he’ll make it again,” Schiano myself,” Harrison said. “I feel said. “We had a lot of plays like this team is going to pick before and after that that could each other up, work on our mishave won this football game. takes and come out on top.”

That’s one of them.”

Harrison admitted his confiHarrison also dropped a 20- dence was down earlier this yard pass earlier in the game, cre- season after his drop against ating an alarming trend.

North Carolina, but he recovHe broke out as a sopho- ered to catch a touchdown more, tying for the team lead against Pittsburgh. with 44 receptions, leading the But his teammates’ confiteam with 829 receiving yards dence never wavered. and nine touchdowns and earn“I was talking to Mark the ing the team’s Offensive Most whole time. I didn’t lose trust in Valuable Player Award. him,” Nova said. “If I had to But the big plays that defined throw it to him again, I would him last season are now absent. throw it right to him.”

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Junior wide receiver Mohamed Sanu caught his fifth touchdown pass of the season Friday to cut Louisville’s lead to 2 in the fourth quarter. Sanu had 10 receptions on the night to claim sole possession of fifth place all-time in receptions at Rutgers and also recorded his seventh career 100-yard receiving game.

NOTEBOOK: Schiano likes Nova’s pocket presence continued from back avoid a sack in the pocket and his second penalty for an illegal for ward pass once he already crossed the line of scrimmage.

Two of his interceptions sailed over his targets’ heads — something Schiano said could be a product of nerves — and one went directly to a linebacker.

“I didn’t see that guy,” Nova said. “That’s on me.”

But Schiano refused to attribute all of Nova’s errors to his inexperience.

“I think seniors throw interceptions,” Schiano said. “The more times you go through anything the better off you’re

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going to be at it. But the thing I think he does so well is he feels the pocket, moves up in the pocket and delivers the ball down the field.”

That translates to thirddown success, Schiano said, even though statistics say other wise.

Since Nova took over for sophomore Chas Dodd in the third quarter against Syracuse, Rutgers is 19-for-53 on thirddown conversions. The Scarlet Knights were 20-for-44 on thirddown conversions against Football Bowl Subdivision opponents under Dodd.

“We’re converting on third down at a much higher rate than we did in the past, which that’s a tribute to your quarterback,” Schiano said. “On third down … you get the exotic cov-

erages and you get the exotic blitzes. We’re doing a much better job of it.”

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not allow a sack for the first time this season against an FBS opponent, and Schiano credits part of the feat to Nova’s feel for the pocket.

Schiano kept his star ting five of Andre Civil, Desmond Wynn, Caleb Ruch, Art Forst and Kaleb Johnson, but Betim Bujari also saw time at right guard. The unit struggled with r un blocking, as the Scarlet Knights carried the ball 30 times for 91 yards.

“Some of the blocks where we get one-on-one situations that I feel we should win, we had TFL’s, lost yardage plays,” Schiano said. “Are we asking

them to do something they can’t do? Is there some type of uncertainty? Or are we just getting whooped? Sometimes the guy is better than you are.”

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Manny Abreu left the game in the first quarter with a hand injur y and did not return, but Schiano said x-rays revealed it was not broken.

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stick with senior kicker San San Te, who missed each of his past four field-goal attempts, including two at Louisville.

“At the end of the day, he has to make those kicks,” Schiano said. “We just need to get him back to swinging his leg the way he’s capable.”

Sophomore holder J.T. Tartacoff missed a hold against Navy, when his hand was wrapped and he dealt with an injur y, and senior Pat Kivlehan took over holding duties at Louisville.

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Mohamed Sanu ranks fourth in the nation in receptions per game after recording his fourth double-digit catch performance of the season.

One of Sanu’s 10 receptions went for his sixth touchdown, and also put him over the century mark for receiving yards for the fourth time this season.

Sanu became the first Rutgers player to rush and catch for 100 yards against the same opponent after he carried the ball 18 times for 148 yards and two scores in 2009 against Louisville.

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Knights take 16 events at home Invitational

BY BRADLY DERECHAILO CONTRIBUTING WRITER

In its last meet before Big East action, the Rutgers women’s swimming and diving team took SWIMMING & DIVING advantage of a home meet Saturday by capturing 16 first-place finishes at the SWRC Invitational.

Head coach Phil Spiniello was impressed with the way the team performed in the pool.

“It went ver y well,” Spiniello said. “Across the board we look like a better team than we were at this time last year. I’m ver y pleased with the star t of our season.”

Jacquelyn Ward, who finished first in three events, led the way for the Scarlet Knights.

The senior took the top spot in the 200-meter fly with a time of

1:53:07, along with the 100meter butter fly and the 200meter IM. “The team did great for having so many new freshmen and this being our first meet,” Ward said. “Ever yone was able to stay positive, and there was so much energy on the pool deck. We swam great.”

The meet was the Knights’ first competition against other teams. They matched up against Southern Connecticut, St. Peter’s and four club teams.

Although the meet did not count toward any of the swimmers’ records or times, it provided valuable competition for the Knights as they prepare for their first Big East meet this weekend.

“We definitely needed [the meet],” Ward said. “We’ve been working so hard, so we needed to

just get up and race, see some results and have something to base our improvements off of.”

Sophomore swimmer Mar y Moser finished first in the 50- and 100-meter freestyle, while Courtney Sepich and Brianne Lindblad finished first and second in the 100- and 200-meter backstroke, respectively.

Senior Trisha Averill captured the 100-meter breaststroke for Rutgers. Her finishing time of 1:05.69 beat out teammate Victoria Maqueda.

Junior diver Katie Kearney took first place in the one-meter event. Other divers placing for the team include freshman Nicole Honey, sophomore Nicole Scott and junior Carissa Santora.

“The divers stood out,” Spiniello said. “They did a tremendous job on the boards and really had a great start to their season.”

While the team impressed its coach, he knows it still needs to work hard if it wants to be competitive in the Big East.

“We need to learn how to race back-to-back days,” Spiniello said.

“When we show up in February at the Big East Championships, it’s a four-day-long meet so we need to learn how to race and get up and race the next day.”

While Ward also understands Rutgers needs to continue to work hard, the veteran believes the team is ready to compete in the conference.

“We are [ready],” Ward said. “I think we are going to surprise a lot of teams out there.”

The Knights earn their first chance to compete in a Big East meet in Storrs, Conn. The Knights face off against host Connecticut, Georgetown and Villanova.

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he Rutgers women’s basketball team finished fourth in the Big East Preseason Coaches’ Poll with 176 points.

Head coach C. Vivian Stringer’s squad placed one point ahead of Georgetown and 15 shy of third-ranked Louisville. Notre Dame stands as the preseason favorite, finishing with 219 points, three ahead of Connecticut.

Redshirt senior Khadijah Rushdan received a Preseason All-Big East Honorable Mention for the second season in a row. The Wilmington, Del., native received secondteam honors following the 2010-11 season.

Senior forward April Sykes also earned preseason recognition, joining Rushdan on the honorable mention list. Sykes’ 14.1 points per game led the Scarlet Knights a season ago.

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topped the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 24-18, in London yesterday, as Matt Forte’s 145 yards and touchdown led the Bears in the fifth annual game in London’s Wembley Stadium.

The Bears’ defense intercepted four passes, including one with 37 seconds left to seal the victory.

Quarterback Jay Cutler threw for 226 yards and a score in front of 76,981 English fans.

Sunday’s game was the first NFL game in London not to sell out. Organizers blamed the lockout, claiming the shortened selling period plagued the event.

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Jerome Harrison’s surger y went well Friday, as doctors removed a brain tumor that went previously undiagnosed.

Reporting headaches to a Philadelphia Eagles doctor during evaluations, Harrison underwent an MRI that revealed the tumor.

Arteriovenous malformation, an abnormal connection between veins and arteries, reportedly produced the tumor.

THE STAGE IS SET FOR the highly anticipated matchup in Tuscaloosa, Ala., between No. 1 LSU and No. 2 Alabama.

The SEC-West showdown has national championship ramifications, as both undefeated teams face major tests following their bye weeks.

The Nov. 5 contest features LSU’s top-ranked defense against Heisman hopeful Trent Richardson in the season’s biggest game to date.

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receiver Plaxico Burress scored three touchdowns in a win yesterday against the Chargers.

Trailing by four, Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis intercepted a pass and returned it 64 yards to the Chargers 19-yard line.

Burress’ third touchdown followed shortly and put the Jets ahead, 24-21.

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RU TEAMS SUPPORT LACE-UP-4 PEDIATRIC CANCER In support of the Go4theGoal Foundation, a number of Rutgers athletic teams will don bright yellow laces during competition to raise awareness for pediatric cancer.

The men’s and women’s golf, field hockey, women’s lacrosse and women’s soccer

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Junior forward Carlie Rouh scored her sixth goal of the season in the Knights’ 2-0 win against Cornell.

Rutgers earns victory to salvage weekend

BY JOSH BAKAN CORRESPONDENT

It seems strange that the Rutgers field hockey team played two out-of-conference games with only one FIELD HOCKEY week left 2 in the RUTGERS season.

0 CORNELL B u t there is no better practice than gameplay, and a win against Cornell and a loss to No. 13 Maine prepared the Scarlet Knights for a variety of situations.

“Having these back-to-back games with little rest was a good challenge for us,” said head coach Liz Tchou. “We actually travelled five hours to Cornell after the Maine loss from UMass and the girls played with a lot of energy.”

A 2-0 victor y against the Big Red yesterday at Cornell exemplified what the Knights can do when they put it all together for 70 minutes. Rutgers (5-11, 2-3) went back to being a team that can get off a lot of shots, generating 17 against Cornell.

Their top-two scorers were also reliable, with goals from sophomore forward Gia Nappi and junior forward Carlie Rouh putting the Knights on top.

“Coming from the backs through the midfield through the for wards gave us opportunities to take open shots,” Nappi said. “Also, we were taking a lot of shots from outside the circle, which we usually don’t do.”

The only problem with the offense was that the Knights would have liked for more of their 17 shots to get in goal.

“All the girls will acknowledge that we definitely should have scored a few more goals,” Tchou said.

The Knights were consistent on defense for the entire game, allowing only five shots against the Big Red (7-8).

“The defense was really organized today. We organized early. The communication was

really good,” said senior back Christie Morad.

Rutgers will need to put together 70 quality minutes in their final Big East game, as well, when the Knights face Connecticut on Friday at the Bauer Track and Field Complex.

Rutgers used the matchup with No. 13 Maine to prepare for the No. 5 Huskies.

Luckily for the Knights, the Black Bears’ 3-0 victor y did not count against them in the Big East standings, so the game was solely preparation for UConn.

Outside of Rutgers’ 5-1 loss to Syracuse on Sept. 16, the Knights kept up with their opponents, even in losses. The Knights kept it relatively close against the Black Bears, as well, trailing only 1-0 after the first half. Then the Black Bears put it together in the second half.

“Their forward movement was different in the second half,” Morad said. “We needed to communicate that out in order to organize early.”

That was when Maine junior midfielder Megan Miller scored from the center circle to notch her second goal of the season.

The other Black Bear goals came from Alexa Binnendijk and Kelly Newton, who scored their 14th and 13th goals of the year, respectively.

Rutgers will face a similar attack against UConn, which boasts four players ranking among the top-10 goal scorers in the Big East.

In order for Rutgers to upset UConn, the team will have to put together a Cornell-caliber performance against a team closer to Maine’s level, and the key to that will be balance.

“We need to balance our attack and defense in a way,” Tchou said. “We were always understanding where the ball needed to go next on attack and being organized earlier as the play was developing [against Cornell].”

teams will wear the laces while competing as a par t of the Lace-Up-4 Pediatric Cancer initiative, which kicked of f in September to benefit pediatric cancer patients.

Rutgers athletics will continue the initiative in the winter and spring seasons, as well.

The women’s basketball, men’s lacrosse and softball teams also vow to wear the laces during their respective seasons.

To learn more about the initiative, visit Go4theGoal.org.

— Anthony Hernandez

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Head coach Dan Donigan and the Knights are 4-0-1 since taking No. 2 Maryland to overtime Oct. 4 on the road.

Freshman’s goal forces tie with No. 10 UofL

BY VINNIE MANCUSO CORRESPONDENT

Before the Rutgers men’s soccer team’s matchup against No. 10 Louisville on Saturday, freshman forward JP Correa was on a sevenMEN’S SOCCER match 1 scoreRUTGERS l e s s 1 streak.

LOUISVILLE B u t the Montville, N.J., native’s goal against the Cardinals proved to be all the Scarlet Knights needed to force a 1-1 draw after two overtime periods.

“It’s a really good result. We are ver y pleased with it.

Louisville is a ver y good team,” said head coach Dan Donigan.

“They have obviously had some difficulties this year, but they are a ver y good soccer team.

Being on the road and it being Senior Night for them, they have ever ything to play for.”

Correa’s goal came early in the second half with the Knights already down a goal.

Junior defender Dragan Naumoski sent the ball toward senior Ibrahim Kamara, who slipped a ball past both of Correa’s defenders, allowing him to beat the goalkeeper in the left corner of the net.

“It is always nice to score, but it’s not always about me. I’d rather win ever y game and not score than score ever y game,” Correa said. “But this one felt great. It was a huge goal not only for me, but for the team.”

Donigan gave Correa a specific job after the Knights went into the locker room at halftime down, 1-0, Donigan said.

“You know we’re down, 1-0, at halftime and we kind of gave JP an individual challenge because he needed to do a better job for us defensively,” Donigan said. “The way they were playing they were killing us in the midfield. JP needed to come back defensively and sort of pick and choose the times he could go for ward and support the attack. It was just a ver y

heads-up play by him to tie things up.”

The Cardinals got on the board in the 30th minute after a shot deflected of f a Rutgers defender.

Louisville midfielder Andrew Farrell capitalized on the empty Rutgers net for the first goal of the game.

The Knights withstood an onslaught from Louisville to maintain the tie, as the Cardinals outshot Rutgers, 2010, in the match.

The Cardinals held a 12-6 shot advantage in the first half alone.

Junior goalkeeper Kevin McMullen showed resiliency in the middle of the Cardinals’ shot barrage, ending the game with five saves.

In addition to being heavily outshot, the Knights also found themselves outmanned going into the overtime periods.

An 89th-minute red card forced junior defender Joe Setchell from the game, and the captain will not play in the Knights’ midweek matchup against St. John’s.

“We kind of had to weather the storm for quite a bit of the game with all of the shots they were taking,” Donigan said.

“Unfortunately the one negative in the midst of all of this was Joe getting that red card late in regulation. It’s really a hit not to have him in overtime or against St. John’s this week.”

Despite the loss of a key player, Donigan reinforced the momentum the Knights gained going into the St. John’s matchup. Drawing even with a ranked team despite being both outshot and outmanned impressed the secondyear coach.

“The overall effort and commitment the guys showed [Saturday] was fantastic,” Donigan said. “I was ver y proud of them, and they have ever y right to feel good about walking out of there with a tie.”

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Freshman forward JP Correa snapped his seven-match scoreless streak with a goal against No. 10 Louisville, which senior forward Ibrahim Kamara assisted.

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Senior midfielder Ashley Medcalf cleaned up a Jasmine Edwards shot in the 73rd minute to tie the Knights’ match with Seton Hall at 2. With the tie Rutgers solidified a No. 5 seed in the Big East Championships and will play Thursday at 2 p.m. in Providence.

Knights earn playoff berth with Senior Night draw

BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

With the Rutgers women’s soccer team’s season on the line on the Scarlet Knights’ Senior Night, someone needed to WOMEN’S SOCCER step up.

So it SETON HALL 2 is only RUTGERS 2 ft i tht ian gt with 17 minutes remaining and the Knights facing a one-goal deficit to Seton Hall, a pair of seniors answered the call.

Junior for ward Stefanee Pace launched a free kick from near midfield in the 73rd minute, creating a scramble in front of the net as the ball squirted back to senior Jasmine Edwards.

Edwards then sent the ball back on net, where it found senior midfielder Ashley Medcalf and ultimately the back of the Pirates’ net. The goal tied the match at 2-2. The score stood after two overtime periods, giving the Knights a No. 5 seed in the Big East Championships.

“I’m really happy for the girls,” said head coach Glenn Crooks.

“One of the things that made this so difficult was we had a stretch of games where our inability to finish really cost us. Those are things we worked on. I’m happy for them because of that.”

The Knights’ equalizer came only 56 seconds after Seton Hall took its one-goal lead.

Pirates midfielder Ashley Beamish blasted a corner kick past the outstretched arms of junior goalkeeper Emmy Simpkins to Kristina Meier, who tapped it in.

But it did not take long for the Knights to pick up their keeper, who made five saves.

“Emmy’s normally going to catch something like that, and that’s unfortunate, too,” Crooks said. “But I’m glad for her sake that we were able to get that equalizer back.”

For Edwards, Rutgers’ scoring play was reminiscent of one of the more memorable goals in recent Rutgers history. Edwards, then a freshman, scored the game-winner against then-No. 20 Penn State in the first round of the 2008 NCAA Tournament.

“It probably compares to when I won the game against Penn State my freshman year,” Edwards said. “I wish we won [Friday], but a tie is good, too, so we still go on and we’re still playing.”

The Knights first got on the board in 54th minute to tie the game at 1, as sophomore back Tori Leigh knocked the ball in off a deflection.

Senior defender Julie Lancos, who moved up in the Knights’ attack to spark the offense, charged at Seton Hall goalkeeper Jennifer Pettigrew.

When the ball got away, Leigh was there.

The Hamilton, N.J., native saw an increased workload against the Pirates with the absence of junior back Shannon Woeller, who is on duty with the Canadian National Team.

“I think the defense did really well,” Leigh said. “We’re missing Shannon [Woeller] obviously, but I think we stuck it out really well. We have a lot of new people back there but we’re doing really well together.”

Perhaps the most memorable par t of the evening occurred prior to the start of the match, when all five seniors earned honors in their final games at Yurcak Field.

All five — Lancos, Edwards, Medcalf, goalkeeper Casey Rupon and midfielder Karla Schacher — started the match, as well.

For Rupon, it marked the first start of her career in net for the Knights.

And for Schacher, who tore her ACL on Sept. 4 against UCLA, it was the final time she will step on the Knights home pitch as a player.

The Alberta, Canada, native jogged onto the field with a protective brace around her knee, met her teammates on the field and jogged off after Seton Hall respectfully tapped the ball out of bounds, allowing Schacher and Rupon to sub out.

“I’d like to personally thank [Seton Hall head coach] Kazbek Tambi and the Seton Hall staff because that had to be worked out ahead of time,” Crooks said. “I think the team enjoyed it. I think Karla and Casey enjoyed it, and it was a nice moment.”

With all the pressure of qualifying for the conference tournament gone, the team can now turn its focus to the new season.

For the Knights’ five seniors, going home is not an option yet.

“It means so much,” Medcalf said. “Our season’s not done yet.

We’re in the Big East Tournament and the seniors aren’t done. We’re not ready to go home and be regular students yet.”

CONOR ALWELL / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Senior Jasmine Edwards assisted Ashley Medcalf on her goal, while Tori Leigh, below, scored for the first time in her career.

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AWAY

Harrison’s drop highlights night of misses as Rutgers fails to mount comeback, take control of Big East

BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Only Mark Harrison remained in the visitors’ locker room Friday under the stands at Papa John’s Cardinal FOOTBALL Stadium, where he shouldered the blame.

The junior wide receiver had the ball, six certain points and a victor y in his hands before he dropped an 84-yard touchdown and Louisville won, 16-14.

“I feel like this is my fault,” Harrison said. “I do blame myself.”

But freshman quar terback Gar y Nova had the game in his hands all night, and he missed targets downfield or found Cardinals defenders instead.

Countless defenders had Louisville ball carriers within their grasp, but they slipped away, as well.

And senior kicker San San Te missed 31- and 25-yard field goals wide left.

“A lot of things happened tonight that we’re supposed to do,” said head coach Greg Schiano. “We made mistakes in a lot of areas. Good tacklers miss tackles. Good kickers miss kicks. Good quarterbacks miss throws. Good receivers miss catches. Good coaches make bad calls. A lot of things we didn’t do ver y well.”

Still, the Rutgers football team had the game if it did only one thing right.

Harrison’s drop will be the lasting image, but it was only one of three missed deep shots for the Scarlet Knights. Redshir t freshman Brandon Coleman and freshman Miles Shuler each beat their defenders, but Nova underthrew one pass and overthrew the other.

And when the defense came up with its only takeaway to give the offense the ball back with 2:08 remaining, Nova threw his third interception of the game.

“You have to trust your quarterback,” said junior wideout Mohamed Sanu, who caught a 12yard touchdown pass in the

GAME 7

KEITH FREEMAN / PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Junior wide receiver Mark Harrison had a certain 84-yard game-winning touchdown within his grasp in the fourth quarter Friday at Louisville, but dropped the pass. The Scarlet Knights’ had another drive after the drop, which ended with an interception.

NATIONAL SCORES

KEY STATS

No. 15 West Virginia Syracuse

23 49

Cincinnati South Florida

37 34

Texas Tech No. 3 Oklahoma

41 38

No. 6 Wisconsin No. 16 Michigan St.

31 37

KNIGHT NOTEBOOK

LEADERS PASSING GARY NOVA 18-33, 207 YDS, 1 TD, 3 INTS

RUSHING JEREMY WRIGHT 11 CAR, 108 YDS

RECEIVING MOHAMED SANU 10 REC, 128 YDS, 1 TD

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Total Yds 305 423

Pass 143 271

Rush 162 152

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Rutgers blocked a pair of kicks at Louisville — Marcus Cooper got a punt and Justin Francis blocked an extra point — to bring its total to 53 since 2002, which is the third most of any team in the nation. It was the second consecutive week Rutgers blocked a kick after it got to a field goal against Navy.

BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Head coach Greg Schiano issued a vote of confidence in freshman quarterback Gary Nova on Saturday, when he said he thinks Nova will remain the starter against West Virginia.

“We’ll visit as a staff,” Schiano said. “But the plays that he made that are still the reasons that he’s the quarterback, what he sees,

how he feels and moves in the pocket — we just need to keep developing him.”

The Don Bosco Prep product threw five interceptions in his past two starts, three of which occurred in a 16-14 loss to Louisville.

Nova took another intentional grounding penalty as he threw the ball away while tr ying to

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