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The Rutgers football team had a 10-point halftime lead but did not score in the second half and lost for the 17th consecutive time against WVU.
Google app allows riders to pay for ticket through phone BY SPENCER KENT CONTRIBUTING WRITER
New Jersey Transit is teaming up with Google Wallet, a new application, with the aim of making commuters’ lives easier. “What Google Wallet does is, [through a free application] transform our customers’ smartphones into a wallet, [allowing] quick and efficient transactions by storing virtual versions of their credit cards on their
phones,” said John Durso, a New Jersey Transit spokesperson. The application will support payments via a PayPass option by Citi MasterCard or a virtual Google Prepaid card, according to a Google press release. Through “near field communication,” where wireless data transmits between two objects when they are brought close
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This weekend’s storm dropped an unexpected amount of snow throughout the state, making trees collapse, which knocked down power lines and blocked roads.
Snowstorm hits East Coast, leaves many without power BY AMY ROWE ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
An October snowstorm hit the North East over the weekend, leaving more than 600,000 N.J. homes on Saturday without power. Gov. Chris Christie, who also lost power at his residence, spoke to N.J. residents on three New York City television stations over the weekend, answering questions via telephone interviews. Trees full with leaves in late October could not handle the weight of the snow that fell. When the trees collapsed, they brought down power lines and blocked roads all over the state, according to weather.com.
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PSE&G, the electric company serving New Brunswick homes, reported on Sunday morning that 297,000 customers were without power. North Jersey was hit the worst by the storm, with 19 inches of snow accumulating in West Milford, according to a statement issued by the National Weather Service. About 110,000 people in Morris County lost power, Christie said. Christie declared a state of emergency and warned people to stay off the road while electric company crews were outside restoring power.
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Rather than pulling out credit cards or cash, NJ Transit riders will be able to pay for tickets using their smartphone through a new application called Google Wallet.
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HALLOWEEN The Daily Targum takes a look at various festivities from the weekend.
OPINIONS Some companies want to make smokers and obese people pay higher health care premiums.
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Poll results show more support for ‘marriage equality’
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Members of the 1967-68 Glee Club pose in front of Kirkpatrick Chapel on the College Avenue campus in their traditional gray blazers. For an in-depth story about the evolution of the group over 140 years, see In Focus on PAGE 7.
A recent Eagleton Institute of Politics poll found that word choice matters when gay marriage figures into the question. According to the poll, 52 percent of N.J. residents questioned are in favor of gay marriage, but the number jumps to 61 percent when the question is framed in terms of “marriage equality.” Thirty-nine percent oppose legalizing gay marriage, and only 27 percent are against marriage equality. “Framing matters, and we know that,” said David Redlawsk, poll director and a professor of political science at the University. “For many people when asked about marriage equality, it makes them think about their own marriages and makes them think about the idea of equality.” Redlawsk said this was not true for ever ybody, especially in the case of the Republicans questioned. The
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Program connects U., global students
STICKING TO CHANGE
BY KIERSTEN ZINNIKAS CONTRIBUTING WRITER
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School of Arts and Sciences students Theresa Hronich, right, Karen Lin, and Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy student Priya Parikh donate to “Mile of Change,” an event that works to collect a mile of coins. Rutgers UNICEF sponsored the event.
GROUPS COLLABORATE TO BUILD BRIDGE MADE OF PLASTIC BOTTLES IN UNITED KINGDOM The University took part in the construction of a River Tweed crossing made entirely of plastic bottles in Tweeddale, a district in the Scottish Borders region of the United Kingdom. The 90-foot Thermoplastic bridge is composed of 50 tons of plastic waste and has been suitable for heavy goods vehicles, according to the peebleshirenews.com article. “We shouldn’t be sending so much of the UK’s waste plastic to landfill nor should we be shipping it to China,” said Capt. William Mainwaring, CEO of Vertech Limited in the article. “We can now recycle it ourselves to produce increasingly sought after high quality and sustainable construction materials for the European market.”
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Dawyck Estates and Ver tech Limited joined forces with specialist bridge designer Cass Hayward, from Cardif f University’s School of Engineering, Rutgers University’s AMIPP Advanced Polymer Center and Axion International to build the bridge. “This bridge is the most beautiful I have worked on and it went up in just four days, which has to be some kind of a record for a 90-foot road bridge,” University professor Tom Nosker said in the article. The bridge received positive reviews from engineers and green campaigners because plastic will not rust, requires no painting or maintenance and is 100 percent recyclable, according to the article.
When Rutgers Business School sophomore Tif fany Ma transferred to the University from a school in Taiwan this semester, she said it was dif ficult meeting people. But when she joined the University’s Inter national Friendship Program, she was able to acclimate to the University and make friends. “This is a place that helped me get to know ever yone,” said Ma of her experience with the IFP, which has been matching inter national students with University students for 18 years. The Center for International Faculty and Student Services sponsors the IFP, which has three main programs used to assist students academically and socially, said Carissa McCarthy, IFP Coordinator and International Student adviser. The programs are the “Welcome Program,” the “Thanksgiving Dinner” and the “English Conversation Program.” “Our main priority is that people want to practice English and meet new people,” she said. As par t of the “English Conversation Program,” students meet ever y Friday and participate in a number of activities, including going to the movies and learning how to salsa dance, she said. The “Thanksgiving Dinner” program matches international students up with a host family for the holiday and the “English Conversation Program” includes one-on-one conversation partners as well as the weekly meetings, McCarthy said. Each student fills out a form about what they are looking for and students are assigned language par tners and hosts based on personal preferences, she said. McCar thy said ever yone who is a part of the program has a good background in English, but the conversation groups can assist students
with learning certain aspects of the English language, such as idioms. “It’s a good way to practice my English,” said Soyoon Lim, a School of Arts and Sciences senior who transferred from South Korea and has been a part of the IFP for two years. Maria Perez, a School of Ar ts and Sciences sophomore, has been with the program since fall of her first year. She has par tnered with three inter national students during her involvement. “I think [the IFP is] important because it’s something that brings a certain awareness,” said Perez, who is fascinated with different cultures. Monir Haggag, a graduate student working on his Ph.D. in civil engineering, felt the benefits of being a par t of the IFP first hand when he needed assistance with a class. Haggag transferred to the University of Massachusetts from Cairo University in Egypt before coming to New Jersey. “I can see it’s really helpful for new people who come here,” he said, noting that there are academic and social benefits that result from participation in the program. International students hear about the program by word of mouth or by attending the International Student Orientation in the summer, McCarthy said. McCarthy, who has been a part of the program for four years, said she saw the program grow to include a greater number of students and a wider range of activities. Although the program is geared toward the needs of inter national students, she said there are also some dependents, such as spouses, and scholars involved. The program can also be an asset to study abroad students looking to become more familiar with a foreign language, she said. In the future, McCar thy would like to see more domestic University students become involved with the program.
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JUDGE THROWS OUT CASE AGAINST NEW BRUNSWICK MODEL A model from New Brunswick, accused in November 2010 for providing buttocksenhancing injections without a medical license, will have a temporar y break after a judge threw out her case for a faulty indictment. “The statute pursuant to which she was charged has five subsections,” said defense attorney Thomas Ashley, in an nj.com article. “The indictment did not specify which subsection the grand jury found she had violated.” Ashley said the model, Anivia Cruz-Dilworth, could not be expected to mount a defense as a result.
POLL: More people back gay marriage than in past continued from front change in terms did not affect them at all, keeping the ratio of supporters at 36 percent. The poll also found 70 percent of those under 30 years old support legalizing gay marriage and 75 percent favor the idea of marriage equality. Redlawsk said the probable reason for this is a new way of thinking about social issues such as gay marriage, rather than a coming-of-age attitude, which is liable to change later in life. “This is a different way of looking at the world,” he said. “I think young people really wonder why this is an issue at all.” Some University students’ opinions seemed to support the poll’s findings.
PHONE: Program remains in testing phase until summer continued from front together, travelers will be able to make payments by waving their phone in front of a sensor, according to the release. This tap and pay feature will be available at Newark Airport, New York Penn Station and the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City, Durso said. NJ Transit is the first transportation agency in the country to partner with Google Wallet, offering customers the option of using their phones to tap and pay for a ticket to their destination, he said. “It’s an innovative program using cutting-edge technology to help our customers move about their commute in an expeditious and rapid manner,” he said. “This is part of New Jersey Transit’s commitment to our customers to find new innovative solutions to help them about their daily commute.” Some commuters are interested and excited about the app because it could make traveling an easier, faster process. “I think it’s cool, and it will allow people to go about their lives quicker without having to deal with the hassles of ticket machines and customer service,” said Ahmed Eladl, a New Brunswick resident. Some University students who are already using apps on their phones are also happy about the convenience.
It was on these grounds that Newark Superior Cour t Judge Michael Petrolli tossed the case out Friday, according to the ar ticle. The prosecutor’s of fice could still re-indict Cruz-Dilwor th. The 28-year-old owns her own skin care line and has a contract with a major modeling agency. She allegedly told several women, who went to her for buttocks-enhancement injections, that she was a medically trained professional, authorities said in the ar ticle. The injections ended up inducing infections in the women who sought
“I think ever yone should have equal rights,” said Ben Chin, a School of Ar ts and Sciences sophomore. He said ever yone should be recognized and have the legal rights so far held only by heterosexual couples. “I don’t think they should be discriminated against just because they are a same-sex couple,” he said. Chin also said the issue of gays’ rights to marr y and marriage equality are the same, although he would like to see people agree equally with both terms despite the semantic differences. James Enny, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, said the question of the legality of gay marriage should not be an issue in a modern world. “I don’t see why not,” Enny said. “I don’t see it as a religious thing, and I don’t think it should matter if it’s a guy and a guy or a girl and a girl, whatever.”
He said marriage equality and gay marriage legality are one and the same. One student who disagreed with the legalization of gay marriage was
“I could see myself using it because it [seems] very convenient,” said Ko Choi, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. But some are concerned about the possibility of identity theft from having this information available on their phones. “I’m a little leery of the identity theft issue — it raises some suspicion. An application condensed with all your information [is] going to have to give me a lot of information [toward safety con-
“I might step back and watch to see how things go before jumping in and using it,” Green said. Green said Google should provide an online course to help people understand how to use the app safely. Google was unavailable for comment at press time, but the company issued a statement about using Google Wallet safely. To use the app, users must provide an app-specific PIN for access, according to the statement. All payment card credentials will be encr ypted and stored on a secure chip separate from the smar tphone that only authorized programs can access. While the possibility of identity theft looms over the app, it will not deter all from using it. “Because it’s so convenient I would probably still use the app,” said Sarah Bugen, a School of Ar ts and Sciences sophomore. Some students are confident that Google has customer safety in mind in designing the app. “I’m not particularly worried. I imagine Google doing a ver y good job with their network’s security, so I’m not really concerned,” said Brendon Fitzsimons, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore. The Google Wallet is still in the testing stage but in the summer, customers can download the app, according to the release. It is available through the Nexus S 4G on the Sprint network.
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cerns],” said Omisa Green, an Elizabeth resident. Some feel a cellphone is more susceptible to theft, making credit card information stored in Google Wallet more vulnerable. “I think it’s more common that you misplace your phone than your wallet,” Choi said. “So what happens if your phone gets stolen? Or you lose your phone? You’ll lose your credit card information and all that.” Others want to wait and see how this technology holds up before downloading and using the app.
“I think young people really wonder why this is an issue at all.” DAVID REDLAWSK Poll Director
Hira Bakshi, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student. “It’s too personal of an issue,” she said. “Constitutionally, I don’t think you are allowed to do that.” She said the wording of “marriage equality” did not mean anything different, and she still disagreed with its legalization.
help from Cr uz-Dilwor th. The substances were sealed with a liquid adhesive like Krazy Glue, the prosecutor alleged in the ar ticle. As a result, six women were hospitalized and one required s everal surgeries. “In light of the judge’s decision, we’re going to review the case and make a decision in the future as to whether or not we will re-indict the defendant or take another course,” said Katherine Car ter, a spokeswoman for the Essex County Prosecutor’s Of fice, in the ar ticle.
Christian Wilding, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said he supported gay marriage. “If legislation is what it takes to be accepted by ever yone, then yeah,” he said. “I suppor t it because it doesn’t bother anybody — be gay and married, be happy.” He also agreed gay marriage and marriage equality were identical, but marriage equality is a term more easily supported by the general population of New Jersey. According to the poll, nearly a quarter of the state population has a gay or lesbian family member, but those who did not have a gay acquaintance or family member favored marriage equality more. For those who do not know any gay individuals, suppor t climbs 16 points from 43 percent for gay marriage to 59 percent of marriage equality. Redlawsk said people who did not have a gay acquain-
tance, when asked the question of marriage equality, had not previously thought about the term “equality” in those terms. At the same time, people who knew someone gay had already made up their minds, therefore the dif ference was not as great. “People who do not know gay or lesbian people, they probably haven’t thought about the issue as much,” he said. “They are more likely to be swayed by this term, ‘equality.’” The numbers found by the poll did not reflect any changes since this summer’s poll. Redlawsk said there had not been enough time, but as compared to a poll from two years ago, changes were much more significant. “A better indicator is when we polled on this two years ago, we were below 50 percent support,” he said. “It was 46 [in favor] to 40 [opposed] at that time, and now it is 52-36.”
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“It’s kind of random. It put a slight damper on Halloween,” she said. Tsang said the snow did not affect her in terms of traveling or power outages. She stayed on campus, where students did not lose power from the less than six inches of snowfall. “I live on campus but I heard a lot of incidents of car accidents from other people,” she said. For some students who live out of state or out of country, the snow was also unexpected. “It’s kind of strange to see snow in October. I went out late last night to the dining hall and it was so cold,” said Dabbah Maximore, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “I’m from Africa, so I am not used to it being so cold.” Sharlina Keshava, a School of Engineering first-year student, said she did not lose power or experience travel delays when she visited friends at Drexel University in Philadelphia. “It was more like sleet there, but it kept stinging my face,” she said. “If it weren’t for my rain boots, I would have been miserable.” Keshava said the weather in New Jersey has been particularly erratic lately. “It seems like weather is playing an interesting par t in my freshman year,” she said. “First the hurricane, now the snowstorm.” The Saturday snowstorm was the fourth time a storm of this caliber has hit the North East in 135 years, since the start of recordkeeping, according to weather.com.
experience trouble traveling continued from front He also said New Jersey was ready for the storm but got more snow than anticipated. “We had 48 hours notice but this is more snow than we expected,” he said. “It also came earlier than we expected.” Some University students were also surprised to see snow in October. “It’s ver y upsetting. It’s not even Halloween and it’s snowing already,” said Vicky Vazquez, a graduate student in the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy. “I was supposed to go to a Diabetes walk on Saturday but it was cancelled. It’s not supposed to snow until November.” The snow af fected students’ weekend plans in different ways. Vivak Patel, a School of Ar ts and Sciences senior, said his family was celebrating holidays all week and was not prepared to deal with snow this weekend while having his aunts, uncles and cousins over. “I had to shovel our driveway for people to park — that’s a special thing to do in October,” Patel said. “It’s a little messed up that it’s snowing this early.” Cherri Tsang, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, said even though she has seen snow in New Jersey at this time of year, the storm was unexpected.
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Winter Wishes gives New Brunswick preschool children gifts for the holiday season. Students, faculty and staff adopt a child’s wish to purchase a holiday gift for them. Visit the Livingston Student Center from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. to adopt a wish. Happy Halloween!
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In honor of All Saints Day, the family of “Maria Esparanza,” a visionary from Venezuela, will talk about her visions and cause for Sainthood from 8 to 9:30 p.m. in room 174 of the Busch Campus Center. The Catholic Student Association will host the event. For more information contact Logan Murray at lemurray@eden.rutgers.edu or at (732) 545–6663.
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The Daily Targum is always looking for new writers. There will be a Writers’ Meeting at 9:30 p.m. in The Daily Targum Business Office, Suite 431 in the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus. All majors are welcome and no experience is necessary! Editor-in-Chief Mary Diduch will attend the meeting to discuss editor positions for next semester. For more information, contact Reena Diamante at university@dailytargum.com or Ankita Panda at metro@dailytargum.com. As a student leader, acquiring the knowledge and skills in effective motivation are vital in organizational success. From individual empowerment to group inspiration, this workshop will delve into motivation how-tos. Students will learn methods to increase drive within organizations and their members and be challenged with new objectives in advancing towards their own self-development. Visit the Douglass Campus Center NJC Lounge from 7 to 9 p.m. to participate in one of the Student Professional Development Workshop Series.
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The Rutgers Gardens Farmers’ Market takes place every Friday from noon to 5 p.m. until Thanksgiving. Purchase local fresh produce, pasture-raised meat, artisanal cheese, baked goods, flowers and more. Then take a stroll through the gardens and enjoy a picnic. Rutgers Gardens is located at 112 Ryders Lane, next to Hort Farm 2 and the Ralph Geiger Turfgrass Education Center. For more information http://rutgersgardens.rutgers.edu/farmmarket.htm. TGIF! Now you can have some fun at another Responsible Drinking Happy Hour in the Cook Café from 4 to 7 p.m. your usual place to socialize with faculty, staff and friends or make new friends. Don’t forget to bring a faculty member, staff or friend along to join in the fun and your identification.
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Visit the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum for free first Sundays of the month. Visit the museum from noon to 5 p.m. Admission is free to all the first Sunday of every month at the Zimmerli. Scavenger hunts are offered between 12:30 to 4 p.m. and tours for children and adults are available at 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. Visit Studio Z throughout the day for selfguided learning and creativity.
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Join the Associate Curator of European Art of the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum Christine Giviskos, on a bus trip to the Neue Galerie and Morgan Library and Museum in New York City for two exhibitions of rarely seen European masterworks. The bus departs at 8:30 a.m. from the Sears parking lot on Route 1 in New Brunswick and returns by 5 p.m. The cost of the trip, which includes transportation, lunch and guided tours, is $115 for Zimmerli members and $125 for nonmembers. Please call (732) 9327237, ext. 611, or email membership@zimmerli.rutgers.edu to register.
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Study proves inefficency of tutoring program THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MINNEAPOLIS — Dozens of states intend to apply for waivers that would free their schools from a federal requirement that they set aside hundreds of millions of dollars a year for after-school tutoring, a program many researchers say has been inef fective. The 2002 No Child Left Behind law requires school districts that repeatedly fail to meet its benchmarks to set aside federal money to pay for outside tutors. But studies released in the past five years have found mixed results, at best, from the program. They say it has suf fered from par ticipation rates as low as 20 percent, uneven quality among tutors, a lack of coordination between tutors and teachers, poor oversight by the states and a prohibition against giving the lowest achieving students priority. Also, they say, there has been no connection between students’ success and tutors’ paychecks. “We are spending millions of dollars a year, and we are not seeing any measurable results for students,” said Matthew Mohs, who oversees the St. Paul Public Schools’ tutoring program, which set aside about $4.5 million for tutoring this school year. However, the program’s defenders argue it gives poor children access to the same resources as their wealthier classmates and that picking a tutor gives parents an important choice in their child’s education. Patricia Burch, an education professor at the University of Southern California, studied tutoring programs in Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Milwaukee and Minneapolis and found the programs have not worked because of design flaws. States have the authority to approve tutoring companies and monitor their performance, but oversight varies because there is no federal money for it. And, Burch said, schools are not permitted to steer students to the best tutors on the state’s list so parents often base their decisions on the companies’ marketing. “It’s not necessarily that the idea is that bad, it’s just not designed well,” Burch said. John Nunner y, executive director of the Center for Educational Partnerships at Old Dominion University, analyzed multiple studies on the tutoring program’s impact on the math and reading scores of about 140,000 students in 17 states. He concluded the program had “negligible” effects. It can create more financial problems for struggling schools. Failing districts must set aside about 20 percent of their federal education money for poor students for tutoring. In districts where few students sign up, the money goes unspent even as other parts of the budget are slashed. In urban districts, where more students tend to use the program, there is often not enough money to provide enough tutoring — Burch’s research puts it at 40 hours per student, per year — to matter. “The bottom line is we need performance-based contracts if we are going to have outside con-
tracts,” Burch said. She said several states and districts were considering them. Steven Pines, executive director of the Education Industry Association, the trade group for private tutoring companies, estimated $650 million in federal money was spent on tutoring last year for about 600,000 students. His group supports reforms at the state and federal levels, but he said eliminating the program altogether would be unfair to the students it serves. “I understand states and districts are looking for some breathing room financially, but that doesn’t mean they should throw poor kids who are low-income and trapped in struggling schools under the bus,” said Pines, whose group is part of a lobbying effort to save the program. Pines called the research on it “a mixed bag” and said it has been successful in places that have invested in stricter oversight, including Florida and the Chicago Public Schools. For some, the program is not only about test scores. DeLisa Shearod’s 8-year-old grandson has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and a mild form of autism. She credited his tutor with helping him pass the second grade. “They have the patience of Job, I’ll tell you that,” said Shearod, who’s raising her grandson in St. Paul. “His behavior problems aren’t a problem anymore; now he does his homework.” It’s not clear how the program will fare in Congress’ ongoing overhaul of No Child Left Behind. The Senate version of the bill scraps the program, and Rep. John Kline, RMinn, the chairman of the House education committee, was ambivalent about it in an inter view. “It works well in some places and not in others,” he said. Because Congress has been slow to overhaul No Child Left Behind — which both parties agree should be updated — Education Secretar y Arne Duncan announced in September that states would be able to get waivers, including for tutoring if they agree to certain reforms favored by the administration. The department’s own recent research into the program’s effectiveness in five large school districts found small benefits in some districts but no effect in others, said Carmel Martin, assistant secretary for Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development. “We think it can be effective for some students in some cases, but it doesn’t make sense to require every school that misses targets to do the same thing,” Martin said in an email. Thirty-seven states and the District of Columbia have notified the Depar tment of Education they intend to apply for a waiver, with 17 states saying they would apply by the Nov. 14 deadline for the first round. A second deadline has been set for mid-February. Minnesota plans to apply for a waiver. Minnesota schools set aside $16 million last school year for tutoring, although the state Education Department had no estimate for how much was actually spent.
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Glee Club works to keep tradition ‘On the Banks’ BY MARY DIDUCH EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
There once was a time when there were no songs about Rutgers. In the late 19th century, the then-Rutgers College only had a handful of “glees” — popular drinking songs — that students would sing. When colleges across the nation began institutionalizing their respective glees into formal all-male glee clubs, or choral groups, Rutgers College soon followed suit, said Daniel Comito, a Class of 2011 alumnus who wrote his senior thesis on the University’s alma mater. About 140 years later, the University’s Glee Club has withstood the changing of directors, spikes and lulls in membership and an evolving repertoire to stand today as one of the oldest student organizations on the banks of the Old Raritan. ON THE BANKS Rutgers College alumnus Edwin E. Colburn founded the club officially in 1872, when it was known as the “Glee Club of ’76,” as most of its members graduated that year, said Comito, a former Glee Club member and officer. On the day of their first spring concer t about a year later, Colburn realized that the group had no song specifically dedicated to Rutgers College. He summoned poet Howard Fuller to write a song by the end of the day for the group to sing during the show. Fuller wrote the words to what is now the alma mater to the music of a Scottish drinking song, “On the Banks of the Sweet Dundee.” “The song became so popular after the first performance that … the college took it up,” Comito said. Soon, every student at the college knew the song, and it became tradition to sing at football games. Then, in the early 1900s, Howard McKinney became the first music professor at Rutgers College. He took control of the Glee Club, and the group became a more professional organization, Comito said. One of his students in 1932 joined McKinney at the helm, eventually taking over after him full-time in 1946. The student, F. Austin “Soup” Walter, then
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F. Austin “Soup” Walter conducts members of the Glee Club during a recording session. Walter became conductor in 1932 and held the position for 51 years. went to hold the longest-running directorship so far in Glee Club histor y. THE LEGACY OF “SOUP” Walter, who also was a beloved professor, was the director in the mid-20th centur y and is credited by many for transforming the group. Walter, who also ser ved as the conductor of the marching band and other choral organizations during that time, died in 2000. “He turned the Glee Club into one of the premiere choral organizations in the countr y,” Comito said. Richard Shindell, who graduated from Rutgers College in 1957, was a member of the club under Walter. “He was a spectacular leader and an inspiration to all of us,” he said. Shindell said though he did not study music, being in the club influenced him after his time on the Banks. After spending time in the Navy, he worked at Chase Manhattan Bank and then moved to Baltimore for the same line of work. That is when he auditioned for and joined the Baltimore Chorus. “I was doing what I wanted to do as a vocation, and I was also doing what my heart wanted me to do, and that part came
from Rutgers,” said Shindell, who now resides in Bucks County, Pa. Bob Mortensen, a Class of 1963 Rutgers College graduate, was also a member of the club when Walter was director. He said it was an exciting group to be a part of due to its social and musical opportunities. During his years there, the club toured the west coast and Northern Europe. “Soup Walter was a ver y charismatic gentleman and just really brought great energy to choral singing,” Mortensen said. A NEW ERA But when Walter retired in the 1983, the group began to lose its strength. Mor tensen said the combination of Walter’s retirement, remnants of the Vietnam War and the trend away from male choral singing changed the group. After Walter’s retirement, the group had a different director every two to three years. Then in 1993, the club’s present director, Patrick Gardner, took the reigns. “Pat has maintained or surpassed the extraordinarily strong history and what has been laid down by Soup Walter and some before him,” Shindell said. Gardner, who teaches in the Mason Gross School of the Arts’
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Patrick Gardner leads a rehearsal before a performance at St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice, Italy this past summer. Over the years, the group has also traveled to Germany and the Netherlands.
graduate program in choral directing, moved to New York after teaching at the University of Michigan and leading that school’s glee club. “[Gardner] is undoubtedly from a technical standpoint … the best choral director the Glee Club has ever had,” Mortensen said. Gardner said though the group has maintained many traditions over the years, he has aimed during his tenure to increase the difficulty of their repertoire. During Gardner’s tenure, they have had three Pulitzerprize winning composers create a piece just for the club. This year, they will perform a piece from prize-winner M. Lewis Spratlan, Jr. “It’s just a matter of continuing to grow and letting people know what we have,” he said. THE GROUP TODAY Most members are nonmusic majors, and those who are not receiving one credit toward graduation for their work: twice-a-week practices in McKinney Hall on the College Avenue campus, concerts, gigs and weekend rehearsals. “Everyone in the Glee Club is there not as a requirement but as an extracurricular activity,” Gardner said of the now about 80-member group. Gardner said an important aspect of the club is not its musical benefits, but rather the friendship it fosters. Since the club is completely student-run, the members and of ficers in par ticular mature through managing the group and budget, which is around $60,000 in a non-touring year and $300,000 in a touring year, Gardner said. The group also has many traditions — from the annual “Soup Bowl” football game against the Marching Scarlet Knights band to the seniors ringing Col. Henr y Rutgers’ bell in Old Queens after their Christmas show to their mentoring program — that enforces bonding between members. “Most of my guys in the Glee Club would tell you 20 years after that their lifetime friends and their closest associ-
ates are from the Glee Club,” Gardner said. This is evinced by the strong alumni interaction they have — the club has active alumni going back 50 years, he said. “There was a level of consistency throughout [the Walter] years. Soup Walter really created something that has been a lasting legacy,” he said. Both Shindell and Mortensen are some of these active alumni, who also ser ve on the club’s advisor y board. The board provides advice and helps to under write travel costs, especially for the club’s international tours, which happen ever y four years. The club went to Italy over this past summer and sang in the Vatican in Rome and at St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice, said Jonathan Ramteke, club PR manager. The group also tours around the countr y. Ever y year they hold an exchange concert with Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. This spring, the group plans to travel to allwomen’s school to perform with the choir, said Christopher Pasi, Glee Club president. “It’s going to be a really cool concert, and we’re looking forward to performing there,” said Pasi, a School of Ar ts and Sciences junior. Ramteke, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, said many people do not realize that the club performs at many other events aside from their popular football appearances, where the members don their signature gray jackets and red-and-black striped ties. The group will hold their fall concert in Kirkpatrick Chapel this Friday, their Christmas concer t of Dec. 11 also in the chapel, and their 140th spring concert will be held this upcoming April 21 in the Nicholas Music Center on Douglass campus, Ramteke said. Pasi hopes as president, he can spread Glee Club’s prominence and bring more people to their concerts. “People know of us, but they don’t really understand what [Glee Club] is,” Ramteke said. Gardner said outside of the University gigs, other choral groups view the Glee Club as one of the best male choral groups in the country. But as for performing during those games, it’s something all the members love to do. “I think it’s surreal to perform at the games,” Ramteke said. “You’re the reason people are excited.” Pasi said singing the alma mater is something he never tires of. “For me, it’s a sense of pride to think the Glee Club originally wrote it,” Pasi said. “It’s something that transcends time all together. I think the histor y thing really hits home.” Though the group has evolved over the years, Gardner believes the group’s motto — “Ever changing yet eternally the same” — still holds true today. “Though the Glee Club has this very long and strong history,” he said. “We keep doing new things.”
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rom day one of Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, Obama has made it publicly clear that he does not and will not accept donations from lobbyists. On the surface, it looks like he has kept that promise. Obama makes his records of top campaign financiers available to the public, and none of the names appearing in those records belong to registered lobbyists. The problem, though, is that plenty of these people are involved in lobbying without officially bearing the title of lobbyist. Fifteen of Obama’s top “bundlers” — which ABC News defines as “volunteer fundraisers who gather contributions from their deep-pocket friends” — work for law firms or other offices which traffic in lobbying. For example, Sally Susman, who is the chair of Pfizer’s political action committee, has bundled more than $500,000 for Obama. Likewise, David Cohen, the head of Comcast’s government affairs and public affairs departments, has also contributed $500,000 of his and other people’s money to Obama’s campaign. If Obama is going to make a promise that lobbyists will not line his pockets, then he has to live up to that promise. These people may not be official lobbyists, but they are essentially de facto ones. At best, we can call this a loophole in Obama’s criteria. He said he would not accept donations from lobbyists and technically, he has not. But just because these donors lack the official lobbyist title does not mean they do not do the work of lobbyists. These people are the heads of political action departments. They oversee exactly the sort of lobbying which Obama claims to eschew. We all know Obama is a smart man — the “elitist” tag was often thrown at him as an insult in 2008 — so he should have the critical-thinking skills necessary to see through such ruses. The fact that he has not stopped accepting this money does not mean that he is not smart — it means that he is not truly following through with his promise. In some ways, what Obama is doing is worse than his counterparts who openly accept the donations of lobbyists. At least they are being honest. Obama, on the other hand, seems to be covering his tracks. It’s impressive that he has publicly released his records, yes, but that does not let him off the hook for taking money that he himself has condemned.
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o borrow and partially corrupt the words of Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that smoking is bad for you. For years, doctors, public service announcements and your parents warned you against picking up the habit. Now, even your boss may be on your case about your cigarette habit. Some companies are looking to make employees who live unhealthy lifestyles — like smokers and the obese — pay higher for health care. Among these companies is Wal-Mart, which plans to specifically raise the premiums of smokers in 2012, and Veridian Credit Union, which is going after both tobacco users and obese workers. The reasoning behind moves like these is all about the costs. Greg Rossiter, a spokesman for Wal-Mart, points to the fact that employees who use tobacco utilize about 25 percent more health services than employees who don’t use tobacco. Companies like Wal-Mart and Veridian believe that facts like this make it necessary to charge unhealthy employees more for health care. But such measures are incredibly intrusive into the lives of employees. Decisions such as what to eat, whether to smoke, whether to exercise, etc., should be the exclusive choices of the employees themselves. These are, after all, things they do on their own time, not while on the company’s clock. As such, the company should have no say in these activities. Assuming that Wal-Mart, for example, is hiring adults who are responsible enough to hold a job in the first place, why should they treat their employees like children? There also exists a slew of confounding variables, which make determining who should be effectively penalized for their lifestyle choices rather difficult. It is bad enough to attempt to shame an obese or overweight person into losing weight by charging them higher premiums when that person is obese or overweight because of their own lifestyle decisions. But it is another thing when that person’s weight is not entirely up to them. Perhaps they suffer from hormonal conditions that affect their weight. Maybe they take certain medications that make it difficult for them to maintain a slimmer waistline. How will these companies treat cases such as these examples? With their health care pricing systems intrusive as it is, will they hesitate to intrude even into the private lives of their employees? Every aspect of your lifestyle affects your health. What you do with your personal life should be your choice — not your employer’s. By charging select employees higher premiums based on their lifestyles, these companies are attempting to discipline their workers in areas that should be insulated from the workplace. The only time an employee’s health should be an employer’s concern is when it interferes with the employee doing their job properly.
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uite often I hear lines See, real racism is when such as “everyone is the Nazis said that the a little bit racist” or Jews — no how matter “people are still subtly racist.” smart, dumb, moral, I disagree with those stateimmoral, strong or weak — ments. I think that in the conare inferior to them. Real temporary United States, we racism is when the Ku Klux live in one of the most nonKlan says the same thing ED REEP racist societies around, and I about blacks. Real racism is think people come to different irrational and is when people conclusions because they either don’t truly underonly care about race to the exclusion of all other facstand what racism is, or they mistake race for a factor tors. Real racism is when baseball managers lookin their decision-making processes. ing to win did not want athletically gifted people like Consider a classic example used to justify the Jackie Robinson on their team because of the color continued existence of mass racism: Many people of their skin. Real racism is when shopkeepers in walking through low-income neighborhoods at night the Jim Crow South turned away paying customers will become frightened if they see a black or because of the color of those customers’ skin. A real Hispanic person walking around. That example may racist is blind to everything except race and has no ring true, but is the person truly frightened because moral justification. the person is black or Hispanic, or are they frightOur country was able to transition so easily from ened because the other person they encounter is being very racist in the mid- and early-20th century probably dressed like a thug in a neighborhood to being very non-racist now probably because peoknown for thugs? I opt for the latter ple are more educated than they because almost no rational person once were. It is much easier for edu“Most people would be frightened by a black or cated people to see how irrational Hispanic person walking around in racist behavior is. Turning away persee the character work or church clothes. Just as well, fectly good business may have been of one’s culture white or Asian people who dress like acceptable among whites in the thugs can be scary as well. Surely, 1950s South, but one would be conbefore the color you wouldn’t want to mess with biker sidered either crazy or stupid for gangs or triads. doing so now, especially in this econof one’s skin.” Some also say our society unfairly omy. Consider also that Asians, once looks down upon aspects of black and heavily discriminated against and Hispanic culture. In reality, our society treats lowmarginalized in the United States, are now stereoclass white culture with the same contempt it treats typically perceived as high academic achievers. low-class black or Hispanic culture. Consider that This view of the benefits that hard-working Asians the “Jersey Shore” cast is reviled throughout the can provide organizations has actually made Asians country. “Hicks” and “rednecks” are frequently so successful that affirmative action programs have thought of as “white trash” and associated with drug reinstated discrimination against Asians in order to use, violence and broken families. Look at all the prevent Asians from being “overrepresented.” white people on the “Jerry Springer Show” who Social engineering like affirmative action, which many consider poor role models and compare them only takes into account race, is technically a form of to all the blacks and Hispanics in rap videos, who racism that persists in today’s society, but it is a many also consider poor role models. Most people drop in the bucket compared to how non-racist the see the character of one’s culture before the color of United States generally is. one’s skin. There is no soft spot for white culture and I’m certainly not saying the United States is hard spot for black and Hispanic culture, because devoid of true racism or even that the only racism is most recognize there is far more in common in more harmless forms such as affirmative action. between people of the same socioeconomic class True racism, even in the blatant Jim Crow vein, cerwho are of different races than between people of tainly can and does happen in this country and the same race but different socioeconomic classes. should be heavily discouraged, but it is not nearly as I do concede that people often stereotype and commonplace as people think. It is not a practice make inferences about people using race as a facmost people engage in every day, and if we didn’t go tor. But this is not truly racism. These people who around saying there was racism ever ywhere, stereotype and make race-based inferences would maybe we’d take true instances of it more seriously. change their tune regarding individuals upon discovering information about them that contradicted Edward Reep is a Rutgers Business School junior the stereotype or inference. Real racists would not. majoring in supply chain and marketing science with They would maintain their prejudice against peominors in business and technical writing and ecople regardless of what information they find out nomics. His column, “Philosophies of a Particular about them. American,” runs on alternate Mondays.
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he Rutgers men’s soccer team’s game against South Florida, scheduled for Saturday, was postponed because of inclement weather in Piscataway. The season finale is today at Yurcak Field. The Scarlet Knights and Bulls fight for the top spot in the Big East Red Division. USF holds the top spot in the division with 22 points, with Rutgers trailing in second place with 19 points. A win would tie Rutgers for first place in the division entering the Big East Tournament.
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volleyball team exited the weekend with a pair of losses. Georgetown beat the Knights, 3-2, yesterday after Villanova beat Rutgers, 3-0, on Friday. The Knights played both matches at the College Ave. Gym. Junior Stephanie Zielinski picked up her Big East-leading 14th double-double of the season against Villanova, while classmate Alex Jones notched 11 kills in 14 attempts. Rutgers (8-19, 1-9) came close to overtaking ’Nova in the third set, but the Wildcats ultimately won, 25-20, to close the game. For more coverage, see tomorrow’s issue of The Daily Targum.
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in the Associated Press college football poll yesterday came from Clemson and Kansas State. Clemson slipped to No. 10 while Kansas State moved down to No. 17 after both suffered their first losses of the season. The top-five teams held their spots, with No. 1 Louisiana State and No. 2 Alabama holding their ground on byes before their showcase game next weekend. No. 3 Oklahoma State and No. 4 Stanford maintained their spots after victories, while Boise State was idle. The losses by Clemson and Kansas State leave six undefeated teams in Division I-A — the top-five teams and Houston.
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the longtime radio voice for the Oklahoma football team, died yesterday at age 80. Fans knew Barr y as the “Voice of the Sooners” when he took the helm from 196172 and then from 1991-2010, retiring in the spring as Oklahoma’s football and basketball play-by-play man. Barry also called games for Oklahoma State from 1973-90. Oklahoma president David Boren said Barr y represented the best of the Sooner spirit.
RAMON DOMPOR / SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
West Virginia cornerback Brodrick Jenkins (23) intercepted freshman quarterback Gary Nova twice in the Knights’ loss.
Schiano. “That can’t be. It is inexcusable. We drill that.” The gaffe was one of four turnovers for Nova on the day — he threw two interceptions and fumbled another snap. He should be grateful there were not countless others. Nova turned the ball over nine times in the past three games, but Schiano maintains his upside outweighs the mistakes. “I have to make those plays,” said Nova, who was 18-of-46 for 235 yards and two touchdowns. “I won’t use the excuse that I’m a freshman. I have to make those plays.” Schiano still stuck with him, and when Rutgers fell behind, it turned to him. The Knights had 146 rushing yards entering the final quarter, then five more after it. “We probably should have run [Jamison] more,” Schiano said. “We got behind and that kind of dictated things.” Rutgers still led by three when Schiano called for a fake field goal.
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Redshirt freshman Brandon Coleman released off the line and stood uncovered in the end zone, but safety and holder Pat Kivlehan’s wobbling throw allowed safety Dar win Cook time to get back and break the pass up. “I heard on the headset, ‘We got him,’” Schiano said. “I thought we were going to hit it. We hit it in practice all week. I thought we were going to hit it.” The Mountaineers took the ball and marched 88 yards before facing a fourth down on the goal line. West Virginia head coach Dana Holgorsen’s gamble paid off, as Smith took advantage of what Schiano called a blown assignment and scored. It was not the quick-strike, 80yard Tavon Austin reverse run for a touchdown or the 52-yard Shawn Alston score that put the Mountaineers on the board. It was the backbreaking drive that dominated the past 17 years, and with West Virginia bound for the Big 12, maybe the last time. “It was pretty tough,” said fifth-year senior defensive tackle Justin Francis. “I really thought this was the year that I was going to be the victor and walk away saying, ‘I beat West Virginia.’”
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Senior Eric LeGrand led the Scarlet Knights from the locker room Saturday at High Point Solutions Stadium, making his first formal appearance on the field during the 2011 season. Former roommates Khaseem Greene and Scott Vallone accompanied LeGrand in the first row of the team’s entrance.
NOTEBOOK: Friends flank LeGrand for entrance continued from back Greene also gave LeGrand the team’s axe, a ceremonial gift to a Knight who deserves recognition each week. Tight end Beau Bachety and offensive tackle Devon Watkis flanked Greene and Vallone on either side. “It was nice. We like to see him,” Vallone said. “Everybody was talking to him on the way down, getting hyped up for him.” Vallone pointed to LeGrand’s work on a treadmill with assistance during physical therapy as a sign of his improvement. But following the Knights 4131 loss to the Mountaineers, LeGrand probably only had the team’s final outcome on his mind, Vallone said. “I’m sure he had a blast doing it, but I’m sure if you talked to him now he’s probably [feeling] just like everyone else here right now,” Vallone said. “He’s still a part of this team.”
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151 yards on the ground against West Virginia, but the team’s goal is to reach 200 yards per game, Schiano said. “When you’re running the ball for 200 yards a game, that’s when you’re running the football,” he said. “We’ll get there. There’s no doubt in my mind. I don’t know when, but we’re going to get there.” Redshir t freshman Jawan Jamison nearly eclipsed 100 yards rushing for the second time in three games, but he settled for 97 yards and a pair of touchdowns. The performance was Jamison’s first two-touchdown game of his career after r ushing for his first career score against Navy. “I felt really good, especially on my second touchdown,” Jamison said. “The hole was just huge. There was nobody there for 15 or 20 yards. I just walked right into the end zone.”
The team’s 100-yard effort was the fourth of the season, trailing its 159-yard per formance against Ohio and its 152 rushing yards against Navy. Schiano was pleased with the Knights’ ability to run the ball with more ef fectiveness, but pushed for more improvement. “It’s getting better, as I’ve said all along,” he said. “I wouldn’t say we’re anywhere near where we’re going to be or what it’s going to look like. Can we continue to get better at it? That’s the key. Because it’s not where we want it to be.” The of fensive line still saw shuffling. Senior Desmond Wynn left the game with an undisclosed injury, but Schiano said soreness is likely Wynn’s only after effect this week. Senior Desmond Stapleton also saw time, albeit brief, at right tackle.
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quar terback Gar y Nova and senior center Caleb Ruch botched another exchange that led to a turnover. Their cough-up gave the Mountaineers the ball at the Rutgers 7-yard line, and West Virginia scored two plays later. “Handling the [center-quarterback] exchange and handling the ball, we’ve just got to do a better job of that,” Schiano said. Nova and Ruch also accounted for a pair of fumbles against Navy, one of which the Knights lost.
SOPHOMORE
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Redshirt freshman Jawan Jamison, above, recorded his first career two-touchdown game against West Virginia, while sophomore defensive end Jamil Merrell earned his first career start.
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end Jamil Merrell earned his first career start after returning from a foot injury. Merrell, twin brother of linebacker Jamal Merrell, first appeared against Navy and earned significant playing time last week at Louisville. Jamil Merrell also became the Knights’ four th star ter from Delaware in the process, joining Jamal Merrell, Wynn and junior safety Duron Harmon.
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Top-five opponents shut out Rutgers in final weekend BY JOSH BAKAN CORRESPONDENT
When the Rutgers field hockey team prepares for each game, it FIELD HOCKEY o f t e n MARYLAND 5 reaches point RUTGERS 0 awhere it believes it can stay competitive with each opponent. It did not against No. 2 Mar yland, but the game presented the Scarlet Knights with another cer tainty: The final game of the season was an emotional one. For Rutgers’ (5-13, 2-4) seven seniors, it was the final game of their field hockey careers. Emotions flew before the game against the Terrapins (153), when the seniors received flowers and certificates while their families accompanied them onto the field. Head coach Liz Tchou knew watching the seven seniors walk out onto the Bauer Track and Field Complex for the last time would be difficult.
“You’re used to them. You’re used to their personalities and ever ything,” Tchou said. “We’re going to really miss them.” Despite Tchou’s emotions for the departing seniors, she was also disappointed the season did not end the way she and the Knights wanted it to. The Knights worked all season to make their second consecutive Big East Tournament. They disappointingly knew this weekend it would not happen. “I’m disappointed that we weren’t able to create more wins and make the Big East Tournament,” Tchou said. “We expected that this year.” A 5-0 loss to the Terrapins and a loss of the same score to No. 5 Connecticut (16-1, 6-0) on Friday were not desirable ways for the Knights to close out the season, either. Despite a losing record, the Knights kept some of the losses close partly because of their ability to generate penalty corners. But Mar yland kept Rutgers out by blanking them, 12-0, in the categor y.
“What we kind of dropped the ball on was being aggressive on the attacking circle,” said senior back Mackenzie Noda. The Knights were more successful on corners against UConn, which bested the Knights, 9-8, in corners. But UConn shot with such efficiency that it put the game away early. “UConn has one of the best corner executions,” Tchou said. “Their percentage of goals of their corners is probably the best in the country.” Facing two of the top five teams in the nation in one weekend, Rutgers ended up on the losing end of two blowouts Maryland and UConn are used to generating. But at season’s end, the Knights could do nothing but take positives from the weekend. They relished the fact they got to see two elite programs they strive to emulate. “They’re so skilled. We obviously aspire to be that skilled,” Tchou said of Mar yland. “Their ability to finish is really strong.” Rutgers ends the season in disappointment without a con-
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Senior back Mackenzie Noda played in her final game yesterday against Maryland. The Knights allowed 10 goals in two games. ference tournament berth, but the greatest disappointment for many on the team is the departing seniors. “I’m definitely going to miss it,” Noda said. “I’m going to miss the girls and the coaches a lot.”
And although the seniors will not be around for a turnaround, they did their part in forming a culture that strives for such results. “They’ve worked so hard in keeping the team cohesive, and that’s one thing they’re going to leave,” Tchou said.
AP POLL TABS RU 16TH NATIONALLY ENTERING SEASON For the first time since the 2009-10 season, the Rutgers women’s basketball team returned to the national radar. The WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Associated Press Preseason Poll tabbed the Scarlet Knights as the No. 16 team in the nation. The Knights return four star ters f r o m last seas o n . H e a d coach C. Vivian Stringer a l s o brought C. VIVIAN in the No. 3 STRINGER overall recruiting class, according to ESPN HoopGurlz. The Knights join the likes of Notre Dame, Connecticut, Louisville, Georgetown, DePaul and St. John’s as one of seven Big East teams ranked in the top 25. Rutgers also earned the No. 4 ranking in the Big East Preseason Poll. The poll revealed eight ranked opponents for the Knights this season, with tough non-conference tests against No. 3 Tennessee and No. 7 Miami before their conference season hits. “We’re not tr ying to hide and shazam and surprise anybody. We would like to [win a national championship],” Stringer said. “Can I be disappointed if we were to come up short? I would just want to be able to recognize where we are and to know that we made tremendous strides, and if that means including a national championship that would be great.” — Anthony Hernandez
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Senior Trisha Averill led the Scarlet Knights with four first-place finishes in their quad meet at Connecticut. She captured the top spot in the 100-yard breaststroke and the 200-yard IM on Day 1, while she took two more first-place efforts on the meet’s second day.
Knights begin season with quad-meet sweep BY BRADLY DERECHAILO CONTRIBUTING WRITER
While the East Coast could not escape Saturday’s snowstorm, the Rutgers swimming and diving team SWIMMING & DIVING managed to make RU FIRST PLACE the best of it. The Scarlet Knights swept all three participating schools in this weekend’s Big East quad meet in Storrs, Conn. “I thought it was a great start to our season,” said head coach Phil Spiniello. “We had a lot of good swimming and diving for the month of October. We set the tone for the rest of this season and what lies ahead for this team.” The quad meet marked the first Big East event for the Knights, who defeated Villanova, Georgetown and host Connecticut to capture their first team victory of the season. The Knights beat UConn, 204-149, bested Villanova, 200-153, and capped off their sweep with a 26786 win against Georgetown.
Spiniello liked the way the team took to the pool and believes it needs to keep improving upon its performance, which consisted of events throughout a two-day span. “Starting off the season 3-0 is always a good feeling,” Spiniello said. “But walking out of there, I think ever yone knows that we have areas that we need to improve upon and things that we need to keep developing if we are going to be able to compete in Februar y in the Big East Championships.” Trisha Averill, who captured four individual titles, led the Knights. The senior took the 100yard breaststroke on Day 1 with a time of 1:04.02 and the 200-yard medley with a time of 2:05.32. She continued her effort during Day 2 by taking first in both the 400-yard medley and 200yard breaststroke. “I was pretty happy with how it all went,” Averill said. “I think it was a good indicator in general of how our team is doing.”
Spiniello was pleased with Averill’s outing but believes she did not reach her ceiling in only one meet. “Trisha is a very hardworking athlete and will continue to improve throughout the season,” Spiniello said. “It’s going to be exciting seeing her this season.” Along with Averill, two other swimmers placed at the top of their heats. Senior Brianne Lindblad took the 200-yard backstroke title and junior Taylor Curado finished with a first-place time of 56.92 seconds in the 100yard butterfly. Both swimmers also helped the Knights win the 400-yard medley relay, teaming up with Averill and fellow senior Jacquelyn Ward. Sophomore Mary Moser replaced Ward in the Day 2 200-yard medley victory. Along with helping the 400yard relay team place first, Ward contributed with a trio of topthree finishes, including a second-place showing in both the 200- and 400-yard IM.
Emilie Kaufmann also turned in impressive performances as the sophomore placed behind Averill in the 100-yard breaststroke for second place. “I think we did great,” Averill said. “Last year we lost to both UConn and Villanova by over 100 points and this year we beat them. It was just a great showing of ever ything our team has worked on over the past year and a half.” For the divers, junior Carissa Santora delivered a second-place finish in the 3-meter dive and tallied 284.10 points for the Knights. Freshman Nicole Honey placed third in both the 3- and 1-meter dive events. “The divers did a great job on the boards,” Spiniello said. “They really helped rally the team with some big points in necessar y moments of the meet.” The team looks to continue its early season success when it plays host to Wagner on Friday at the Sonny Werblin Recreation Center.
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Freshman quarterback Gary Nova’s second lost fumble Saturday gave West Virginia the ball inside Scarlet Knights territory in the fourth quarter, ultimately leading to the Mountaineers’ fifth and final touchdown of the game. Nova threw a career-high 46 passes in the loss, two of which West Virginia intercepted.
Turnovers doom Knights in scoreless second half as WVU erases 10-point deficit to win 17th straight vs. RU BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR
For a half Saturday it appeared hell froze over. Then it became clear it FOOTBALL was only H i g h P o i n t Solutions Stadium. No matter where the Rutgers football team met West Virginia the past 17 years, the Mountaineers made it
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The offense matched wits with West Virginia and scored 31 points in the first 30 minutes. Then it never scored again. The defense contained the Mountaineers’ high-powered attack save for two big plays in the first half, and then the big plays started outnumbering the stops. And when West Virginia quarterback Geno Smith gave the Mountaineers a lead on a fourthdown touchdown run with 6:18
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Syracuse Louisville
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No. 9 O klahoma No. 8 Kansas State
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Georgia Tech No. 5 C lemson
Rutgers’ hell. This time it was a snowcovered field in Piscataway, where the Scarlet Knights blew a 10-point halftime lead, arguably their best and maybe last chance to end WVU’s dominance and lost, 41-31. “There comes a point where we have to start learning how to win these games and we have to start growing up as a program and start winning,” said junior defensive tackle Scott Vallone. “It stinks to be in this position: up 10 at halftime and blow it.”
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LEADERS PASSING GARY NOVA 18-46, 235 YDS, 2 TDS, 2 INTS
RUSHING SHAWNE ALSTON 14 CAR, 110 YDS, 2 TDS
RECEIVING TAVON AUSTON 8 REC, 67 YDS, 1 TD
remaining, Rutgers’ run game — which was at its best — disappeared, as well. “I was really surprised,” said redshirt freshman Jawan Jamison, who rushed for 96 yards and two touchdowns. “I thought we were going to keep running the ball because they hadn’t been stopping us really, like at all. Every time I got the ball I got like 5 or 6 yards and I thought we were going to keep running it. I don’t know.”
Instead, with Rutgers trailing, freshman quarterback Gary Nova saw another shot downfield fall incomplete on first down. He dropped back on second down, navigated the pocket untouched and dropped the ball, allowing WVU’s Julian Miller to fall on it. “You better have two hands on the football when you are in the pocket,” said head coach Greg
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KNIGHT NOTEBOOK Total Yds 428 WEST VIRGINIA 386 RUTGERS
Pass 218 235
Rush 210 151
EXTRA POINT Rutgers fell to 4-18 against ranked opponents under Greg Schiano and 4-46-1 alltime. Six of those losses under Schiano came against the Mountaineers, who beat Rutgers in each of their past 17 meetings. West Virginia outscored Rutgers, 412-195, in 11 meetings with Schiano at the helm.
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BY TYLER BARTO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
Eric LeGrand’s wheelchair left tire tracks on the snow-covered field Saturday at High Point Solutions Stadium. The senior said via his Twitter account next time there will be footprints. LeGrand led the Rutgers football team out of the tunnel against West Virginia, marking the first time he did so since his
paralyzing injur y Oct. 17, 2010, against Army. “It was an emotional moment,” said head coach Greg Schiano. “It was a really emotional moment.” Former roommates Khaseem Greene and Scott Vallone helped pull LeGrand’s wheelchair out of the tunnel to the 50-yard line and then back to the Scarlet Knights’ sideline.
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