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After two wrestlers fell one win shy of All-American status last season, Rutgers changed its summer and in-season plans to place added emphasis on the NCAA Championships.

Future Scholars to fill maximum enrollment slots

BY JOVELLE ABBEY TAMAYO CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Rutgers Future Scholars will hit full capacity this upcoming academic year at 1,000 scholars, and will represent a par ticipating class year from eighth to 12th grade.

The mentoring program, which provides a select group of students from low-income backgrounds a chance to prepare for college, also reached 100 mentors to guide students throughout the year — doubling last year’s amount, said Aramis Gutierrez, director of the Future Scholars program.

“Many of [the scholars] are earning college credit already,” Gutierrez said. “They’ll come into Rutgers or anywhere else with maybe a semester’s wor th of credits, which puts them ahead of the game.”

The program reached four public school communities in New Br unswick, Piscataway, Newark and Camden since 2008. But not all the campuses hosted a full mentoring program, said Megan SchrammPossinger, senior super visor of the Future Scholars education and mentoring program.

Because of their dif ferent structures, the Newark and Camden campuses are limited to weekend programming and no mentors, she said. The Camden campus hopes to replicate the main campus’ mentoring model in the future.

But even in New Brunswick and Piscataway, personal mentoring is of fered only to scholars in ninth through 12th grade, Schramm-Possinger said.

“It’s an enormous infrastructure to tr y to build and manage,” she said. “Once we have fur ther consolidation of that, we can star t to branch out to the eighth graders.”

To gather data on the program’s effectiveness, Future Scholars hired a researcher to track scholar progress, said Robert Coleman, an assistant principal at Piscataway High School and a liaison for the program.

“We still have a hard time getting unmotivated kids to come take advantage of the program,” Coleman said.

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Members from the Rutgers-Camden community contribute their opinions to the campus-wide search for University President Richard L. McCormick’s successor yesterday at Penn building on Camden campus.

Camden gives input in presidential search

BY ALEKSI TZATZEV ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

CAMDEN — Faculty, staf f and a few students from Rutgers-Camden expressed the need for more recognition for their campus in the search for University President Richard L. McCormick’s successor.

In a discussion setting, they shared their opinions in the second of three forums held yesterday at the Penn building on the Camden campus, moderated by Michael Palis and Debra Valentine, members of the Presidential Search Committee.

“It seems like our campus is systematically undervalued, in various ways, not just money but in other ways,” said Dan Cook, an associate professor in the Department of Childhood Studies at Camden.

He said candidates should be able to balance their duties between the three campuses instead of focusing on New Brunswick.

SENATE GIVES $15 MILLION TOWARD NEW TUNNEL PROJECT The U.S. Senate approved a funding measure including at least $15 million for Amtrak to start designing and engineering the Gateway Tunnel Project in New Jersey.

“The Gateway Tunnel is critical for New Jersey commuters and the economy of our state and the entire region,” said Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., in a statement from his office. “The existing tunnel is more than a century old and not capable of adequately servicing our region’s growing number of transit riders.”

He said the funding will get the Gateway Tunnel Project — not to be confused with the reconstruction efforts of downtown New Brunswick — moving to create jobs, increase commuters’ access to trains and bring a high-speed rail project to the Northeast Corridor.

“People crossing the Hudson River are facing outrageous tolls, traffic jams and train service that is getting less and less reliable,” said Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., in the same statement. “The Gateway Project will add enormous capacity across the Hudson and also pave the way for true high speed rail for the entire region.”

Congestion into midtown Manhattan and increased traffic in New York City threatens the regional economy, according to the statement.

The tunnels facilitating service are 100 years old and already operate to capacity at rush hour. In the next two decades, ridership is expected to double.

Following the canceled ARC Tunnel project, Amtrak fast-tracked plans to build the Gateway Tunnel Project, which will increase NJ Transit rail capacity for commuters.

The project will add 13 trains each hour during peak hours, increasing capacity 65 percent, while also adding eight Amtrak trains during these hours, according to the statement.

“De facto, the president of Rutgers acts as the chancellor of New Brunswick,” Cook said. “It may not be par t of [his or her] title, but essentially there is a conflict of interest.”

He said rumors of the formation of the University of South Jersey, which could include the Camden campus, only deepens the division between campuses.

Gov. Chris Christie’s Task Force of Higher Education suggested the possibility of a merger between RutgersCamden, Rowan University, the School of Osteopathic Medicine in Stratford (par t of the University of Medicine and Dentistr y of New Jersey) and the Cooper Medical School in a December 2010 repor t.

“We are sort of an appendage, and that feeling has only deepened with all these rumors of cutting the appendix that isn’t needed,” Cook said.

Erin Hoesly, a graduate student in the Department of Childhood Studies,

said the multi-campus nature of the University is a benefit, but the Camden campus still gets pushed aside.

“In terms of what attributes the future president might have, I think [it should] be a candidate who comes from a multi-campus system — like [the University of Nor th Carolina], University of California or University of Massachusetts,” she said.

Valentine said the search committee would build a pool of 50 or 60 candidates, out of whom, 10 to 15 will be inter viewed.

“We are selling Rutgers to people who already have a job — we are telling them why we want them,” she said. “We are looking at ver y highquality candidates.”

Valentine said the next president would likely be in position by July 2012.

But candidates’ identities will be kept confidential as a way of attracting high-profile

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Initiative aims to shed light on campus bias

BY RICHARD CONTE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Some students may see the phrase “Stop Hate. Repor t Bias” throughout the campus on T-shir ts, buttons, bookmarks and banners in the dining halls and student centers.

The words ser ve as the slogan for the Bias Prevention and Awareness Campaign that aims to raise awareness of biases at the University.

“The committee encourages people to report when they see any acts of bias occur,” said Rabbi Esther Reed, co-chairperson of the Bias Prevention and Education Committee, which leads the initiative.

The campaign, which the committee began planning for in 2010, started this semester and will last through the school year, she said.

“Our plan is for every third Thursday of ever y the month to be ‘Bias Prevention Education and Awareness Day,’ where we encourage people to try

to be especially aware [of] any bias acts [that] happen,” said Reed, associate director of Jewish Campus Life.

While BPEC does not of ficially organize any specific events as par t of the campaign, the committee hopes that hosting an awareness day ever y month will encourage student groups to hold bias awareness events, Reed said.

The campaign will promote tolerance and diversity throughout the semester while encouraging students to repor t when a bias incident does happen, she said.

While there are many dif ferent definitions of what bias is, the University has an of ficial definition of bias.

Bias is an act — verbal, written, physical or psychological — that threatens or harms a person or group based on race, religion, color, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender

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LTC donates bench to leave impression on Livingston campus

BY LISA MARIE SEGARRA CONTRIBUTING WRITER

From the stage to the Livingston courtyard, the Livingston Theatre Company works to improve not just their stage performances but also Livingston campus.

Their recent endeavor was the donation of a steel bench and plaque.

“We wanted to beautify Livingston while making our mark as an outstanding organization at the same time,” said John Pisciotta, the LTC managing director.

The bench, designated with a plaque reading “Gift of the Livingston Theatre Company 2011,” was installed this past summer on Livingston campus where the circular Livingston Student Center patio, the path to the librar y and the path to the water fountain near Tillet Hall join.

“The renovations to Livingston campus are making it a beautiful place and community. I’m happy to be a part of that change,” said Carly Conroy, LTC member-at-large.

Pisciotta said the process of donating the bench began in March, when he met with Lea Stewar t, dean of Livingston campus and Larr y Por ter, University senior landscape architect.

“The three of us had a meeting where [we discussed] logistics such as location of the bench … what the plaque would say and when the bench would be ordered and installed,” he said.

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A bench sitting on the circular Livingston Student Center patio has a plaque that reads, “Gift of the Livingston Theatre Company 2011.”

LTC donated the steel bench over the summer in an effort to continue improving Livingston campus.

After approving the proof for the plaque, Porter handled the rest of the arrangements and the LTC paid the invoice, Pisciotta said.

The proposed plan involved planting a tree with a plaque, but upon meeting with Porter, it was decided that a bench was more necessary, Stewart said.

Stewart said the LTC has a histor y of contributing to the University community.

“I’m ver y grateful to the LTC for coming up with this idea and to Larr y Porter for making it a reality,” she said. “It’s been a ver y productive partnership and has resulted in an improvement to the campus that can be enjoyed by ever yone.”

Pisciotta said it was this suppor t that helped propel the

PROFESSOR’S RESEARCH REVEALS CHILDHOOD PERSONALITY TRAITS MIGHT LAST INTO ADULTHOOD Christopher Nave, an assistant professor in the psychology deparment at Rutgers-Camden, conducted research that found childhood personality traits show some consistency throughout adulthood.

After using data from a 1960s study of about 2,400 elementar y school children in Hawaii, Nave compared those results with teacher personality ratings and video inter views of those same students 40 years later, according to a University press release.

“Identifying what our personalities were like at an early age may give us important clues to how we may act as adults, but it’s not determinative,” he said in the release.

Nave’s fellow collaborators at the Oregon Research Institute have studies relating first-graders’ personality traits to similar traits adults display, according to the release.

“That tells us that our personality at a young age can predict life outcomes or behavior decades later,” Nave said.

For instance, his research showed that children who tend to be verbally fluent, or talkative, were more inclined to be interested in intellectual subjects and speak fluently as adults, according to the press release. While children who were not so talkative often sought advice or display awkward interpersonal behaviors.

Though the study suggests demonstrated character traits can predict adult behavior, Nave said in the release that they are not absolutely permanent.

“We are finding that there is a remarkable degree of stability across time,” he said. “That does not mean that you can’t change your personality. It just may be a little more difficult than we thought.”

One challenge Nave encountered is how to interact with children once parents or teachers identified them a certain way and if they should change their habits positively, according to the press release.

“But we shouldn’t put unrealistic demands on our children to be totally different than what they really are,” he said. “We should appreciate who they are and not try and make them something they aren’t.”

donation into reality. He said that Stewart always supported the LTC wholeheartedly.

“Having the support of Lea Stewart was incredible,” he said.

“She made me feel like it wasn’t a stupid idea and that we could actually achieve something really awesome by going through with the whole process.”

Pisciotta said he would like to see more groups enhance Livingston campus and other campuses at the University.

“Other organizations can better the campus or University by donating a bench to a particular campus at a particular location that means a lot to them,” he said.

“This will, at the same time, beautify Rutgers and build a campus and University we are all more proud of.”

In response to other student groups who donated benches to Livingston campus, Stewar t hopes to see a continuation of suppor t.

“If you look around the campus, you will see several benches that have been gifts of various groups including benches near the water feature that were donated by the former Livingston Campus Council, another dedicated student group,” Stewart said.

She said she hopes other groups will continue the tradition of donating benches throughout campus.

“It would be amazing to have the entire walkway lined with benches commemorating various students groups that would be used by current students, faculty, staf f and campus

visitors who could enjoy the beauty of Livingston campus,” Stewar t said.

The LTC holds programs that of fer students the ability to stay involved in the campus and University, Pisciotta said.

“We have our main stage productions that typically involve 50 to 60 students each, our 24Hour [Musical] Challenge involves about 40 students, and our performances are open to all students, usually having an attendance of over 800 students,” Pisciotta said.

The LTC will present a show in the spring semester called “bare” about social justice and will create an “It Gets Better” video about harassment against homosexuality, Conroy said.

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BIAS: Program encourages students to report violations continued from front identity or expression, according to the University’s Dean of Students website.

The University also considers acts of bias against a person or group’s national origin, ancestr y, disability, marital status, civil union status, domestic par tnership status, atypical heredity or cellular blood trait, militar y ser vice or veteran status, according to the website.

Reed said people who come into contact with verbal bias might not know to repor t it.

“Bias crimes like assault happen, and people repor t it to the police. But if it’s not the level of a crime, people feel like there’s nothing they can do about it,” she said.

“Our impression is there are probably more bias incidents than the numbers that are repor ted.”

SEARCH: Singley worries over University image branding continued from front people, including sitting presidents of other universities.

“We are representing all of Rutgers with this search committee,” she said.

Palis presented parts of the leadership statement, also available on the search committee’s website, which outlines general qualities sought in candidates.

“It paints with ver y broad strokes what we are looking for in our next president,” he said.

Rafey Habib, an English professor on the Camden campus, said the University needed someone to resolve cer tain ongoing matters.

“We really would like a president, I think, who would resolve the outstanding labor issues,” he said.

Robert Mortensen, a member of the University Board of Trustees, said one of the challenges for the new president would be fund allocation.

SCHOLARS: Private support increases from past continued from front “But it would be interesting to see how the kids [in the program] make out down the road and how they do in college.”

University breaks, like Thanksgiving and winter break, sometimes interfere with the mentors’ ability to maintain momentum in their relationship with their scholars, SchrammPossinger said.

“By having someone to talk to, it really changes their aspects and they’re more positive about their school work,” she said. “It would be ideal if we could mentor all the time.”

Rutgers Future Scholars intends to use its programs to expand and create an initiative that extends to people in similar programs, or those at other universities who are interested in par tnering, Schramm-Possinger said.

“We know what kind of practices are working better and what kind of subjects we should study in order to prepare the mentors, so we’re at a point where we could think about expansion,” she said.

Because of this, the University asked the committee to try and educate students to prevent bias acts, said Cheryl Clarke, BPEC co-chairperson. The committee encourages students to resolve situations in which an act of bias occurs with the people involved.

The BPEC is a 20-member committee that formed in 1992 at the University, said Clarke, Livingston dean of students. The committee is made of the deans of students for each campus along with faculty from different departments of the University, including Dining Services and the Rutgers University Police Department.

Similar to the campaign, the committee’s main goal is to encourage students to report acts of bias if they experience it or see it, she said.

University students like Joseph Baricelli, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, said they do not consider bias an issue at the University.

“I don’t think bias is that big of a problem at Rutgers or that

there is a need for the campaign to report it,” Baricelli said.

Eric Francisco, a School of Ar ts and Science sophomore who is Filipino-American, has not experienced any racial or sexual bias either and is unsure if the campaign will change anything.

“Any campaign that occurs [for] any social issue has to be taken with a grain of salt,” Francisco said. “It’s hard to say if it could be effective.”

Camille Sennett, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, believes the campaign is a good effort, but University students will not report bias.

“I don’t think that many students will take the time to report bias because the biases going on at Rutgers are almost subliminal,” she said.

But Reed said students who take the campaign seriously could help out others at the University.

“It’s a value to report it so that University officials and administration know whether there are problems,” she said.

“We all know about the “A lot of our students go out of declining proportion of funding state — that’s an identity, image coming from the state, and that issue and may be a branding puts tremendous pressure on the issue,” Singley said. “If the presipresident in terms of finding new dent is committed to the highest sources of revenue,” he said. intellectual, academic, scholarly Mortensen said fundraising and pedagogical standard, I could play a major role in over- believe all the rest will come.” coming this hurdle.

Perry Dane, a professor in “The new president has to be a Rutgers-Camden’s School of Law, great communicator with alumni, compared the ideal candidate to foundations and the state govern- John Sexton, New York ment,” he said.

University’s president since 2002 Another one of the major and former chairman of the issues speakers discussed was Board of the Federal Reserve the ambitions of the University Bank of New York. in terms of attracting the best Dane said the next president faculty and students, as well as should be academically involved the institution’s branding. and develop the image of the Carol Singley, an associate University worldwide at the professor of English on the same time.

Camden campus, said Camden Sexton leads one of the most needs to grow as a campus in successful international universiorder to carr y significant ties in the United States, and weight as compared to the rest every semester, he teaches one of the University. course, Dane said.

“Any new president must be “We don’t have to think withcommitted to outstanding facul- in the box,” said Carol ty,” she said. “Right now there is a Kaufman-Scarborough, a procase of declining faculty morale.” fessor in the School of She said the University must, Business-Camden on what the as McCormick had advocated, University should be looking attract the best of N.J. students. for. “We have to set goals.”

Both individuals and corporations offered more support since last year, including University football head coach Greg Schiano, who pledged $250,000 to the Future Scholars Program, Gutierrez said.

“We’re at a point where we could think about expansion.”

MEGAN SCHRAMM-POSSINGER Future Scholars Education and Mentoring Program Senior Supervisor

The main goal of Rutgers Future Scholars is to increase high school graduation rates and encourage underprivileged students to pursue higher education, said Peter Giandonato, Future Scholars mentoring coordinator.

“Some scholars live in single-parent homes where the single parent works all the time and … have other siblings that need taking care of,” he said.

“We help [the students] deal with all those struggles.”

Rutgers Future Scholars aims to provide students with a safe outreach and resources to advance academically and socially, including SAT prep, tutoring and mentoring, on-campus summer courses and field trips, Gutierrez and Giandonato said. The program also of fers enrichment in other areas, such as ar t, music and athletics.

For admittance into the program, students must be in seventh grade, hold good academic standing, and demonstrate financial need, according to the Rutgers Future Scholars website.

The program accepts a total of 200 scholars annually and of ficially brings the students in at the star t of summer, Gutierrez said. The scholars remain with the program and connected with their mentors until high school graduation, even if they move out of the district they star ted in.

Occasional events like “Knight for a Day” allow scholars to come to campus throughout the year to shadow their mentors for a school day, he said.

“They’re in and out,” Gutierrez said. “You might even see one on a shuttle right next to you and you won’t even realize it.”

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Former Gov. Jon Corzine’s securities firm filed for bankruptcy after its holdings of European debt led to partners backing out.

European debt ends Corzine’s business THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The European debt crisis claimed its first big casualty on Wall Street, a securities firm run by former New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine.

MF Global Holdings Ltd., which Corzine led since early last year, filed for bankruptcy protection yesterday. Concerns about the company’s holdings of European debt caused its business partners to pull back last week, which led to a severe cash crunch, the company said in its filing.

Corzine, the former head of investment banking giant Goldman Sachs Group Inc., oversaw MF Global as it amassed $6 billion in debt issued by financially strapped European countries such as Italy, Spain and Por tugal.

Their bonds paid bigger retur ns than U.S. Treasur y debt because bond investors believed that they were more likely to default.

That bet eventually doomed the company. A regulator complained last month that it was over valuing European debt, forcing it to raise more money, according to the papers it filed with U.S. Bankruptcy Cour t for the Southern District of New York.

MF Global’s bankruptcy is the eighth-biggest ever in the U.S., according to the research firm BankruptcyData.com. It’s bigger than Chr ysler LLC’s in 2009 and smaller than those of financial-crisis casualties Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., Washington Mutual Inc. and CIT Group Inc. Last week, MF Global repor ted its biggest ever quarterly loss, and rating agencies downgraded its debt. Its stock plunged 66 percent. Spooked business par tners required it to post more money to guarantee its trades.

Soon shor t of cash, MF Global looked for outside investors or buyers, but no alter native emerged before regulators’ yesterday deadline, the company told the

cour t. Trading in shares of MF Global Holdings Ltd. was halted early yesterday.

MF Global’s bankr uptcy shows the danger of investing when the outcome will be determined by government action, said Daniel Alpert, managing partner at the New York investment bank Westwood Capital Partners LLC. “I don’t think it’s a canar y in the coal mine, but it does show you that it’s still a ver y volatile market,” he said. “The nature of this crisis is that events can lead in any number of ways, and markets are trading on news, not numbers.”

In a statement, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said that they and other regulators closely monitored MF Global’s situation for several days “in anticipation of a transaction that would include the transfer of customer accounts to another firm.”

MF Global told the regulators early yesterday that it hadn’t reached an agreement on a deal and it reported “possible deficiencies” in customers’ futures trading accounts, the two agencies said.

They said they have determined that a bankruptcy proceeding overseen by the industr y-funded Securities Investor Protection Corp., whose mandate is to protect investors when a brokerage firm fails, “would be the safest and most prudent course of action to protect customer accounts and assets.” SIPC, which can provide up to $500,000 for each customer of a failed brokerage, announced separately yesterday that it is beginning the liquidation of MF Global under its customar y procedures.

MF Global’s big bet on Europe might not have happened before Corzine joined. Until he joined, the company was known mainly as a dealer in derivatives, which are investments based on the value of some underlying asset. Corzine wanted to build MF Global into a major investment bank.

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Additional funding rescues New Brunswick group

BY ADAM LOWE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Last minute support from the New Jersey Depar tment of Education saved a nonprofit after school program that was in danger of ending due to insufficient funds.

After announcing that it would close last week, officials of the New Jersey After 3 retracted their statement on Monday and said the organization will continue its operations.

“Due to last minute efforts to sustain New Jersey After 3 with the state, I am excited to say that New Jersey After 3 will not be shutting down,” said Mark Valli, president and CEO of the organization, which first opened in 2004.

The New Brunswick-based organization worked with public schools and other nonprofits to provide after school tutoring and research opportunities to students across New Jersey, Valli said. The group also provided training, technical assis-

tance and monthly conferences with site directors.

Gov. Chris Christie originally cut the program from the state budget on Sunday, but made the unexpected announcement the following day that the organization could remain open.

“By partnering with the New Jersey Department of Education to develop extended learning programs as part of our No Child Left Behind waiver application, New Jersey After 3 will be able to enhance and expand learning opportunities for our school children,” Christie said in a press release.

With the waiver, more groups like New Jersey After 3 will be able to continually support children’s educational opportunities, said New Jersey Acting Education Commissioner Chris Cerf in the release.

“The No Child Left Behind waiver opportunity allows New Jersey to develop and implement more effective programs for our children attending those schools in desperate need of improvement,” Cerf said in the release.

The Depar tment of Education will work closely with the organization to build on its existing program model to meet the objectives of the federal waiver application, according to the release.

“I look forward to working with New Jersey After 3 and other reform-minded members of the education community to implement our No Child Left Behind waiver application,” Cerf said in the release.

The governor’s office could not be reached by press time.

The financial collapse of 2008 resulted in several budget cuts for the organization, Valli said. Originally $15 million in 2009, the budget fell to $10 million in 2010 and $3 million in 2011. Without this funding, the organization would be eliminated next year.

New Jersey After 3 operated almost entirely on a small amount of private funding this year, Valli said. He and other employees were concerned that with next to no state funding left,

they had little choice but to pull the plug.

Valli was grateful to receive funding because two of the organization’s grants were contingent upon state funds and were returned when the state originally pulled support. Also, fewer corporations were willing to support New Jersey After 3 due to fiscal troubles.

“We provided grants to nonprofit partners that ran our model of after school programs — at our height, 45 non profit partners,” Valli said.

In light of the recent funding, he said at the organization’s prime, it served 15,000 kids in 115 schools, had $15 million in state funding and raised about 2 million in non-state funding.

He said New Jersey After 3 employees are looking forward to securing the nonprofit’s private funding so they can bridge the gap toward a renewed private-public partnership in the upcoming times.

“We’re looking forward to a working partnership with the state

and Department of Education and any additional [sponsors] that wish to aid New Jersey After 3,” said Deborah Kerekgyarto, director of New Jersey After 3 Finance, Administration and Technology.

Douglas Kennedy, the organization’s chairman, said the collaboration is an innovative funding method and education approach that mutually benefits the program and the state.

“I am extremely pleased with and grateful for the outreach and cooperation from the Governor’s Office and Acting Education Commissioner Chris Cerf,” Kennedy said in a press release.

New Jersey expects to submit its No Child Left Behind waiver application to the Obama Administration in mid-November, according to the release.

“I wanted my administration to find whatever ways we could to work with New Jersey After 3 [and] to … ultimately make it possible to provide more school children with quality extended learning time programs,” Christie said in the release.

CARTERET OFFICIALS UNVEIL VETERANS APARTMENTS Carteret residents gathered for the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the new Commander George Lisicki Veterans Apartments on Washington Avenue.

Dedicated in honor of George Lisicki, who is also an advocate for promoting veterans’ rights, the building will house four two-bedroom units and will be equipped with an eat-in kitchen, living room, dining room and bathroom, according to a mycentraljersey.com article.

Other features include bay windows, decorative columns and hardwood floors.

Lisicki, a Carteret resident, said in the article that he appreciates the housing because it is a cost-effective solution that should help all veterans in need of a new home.

“Our veterans are asked to make sacrifices, only to come home to low-paying jobs or no jobs at all,” he said in the article. “I am proud that the leadership of the

community of Carteret has stepped up to help ease the burden placed on our returning veterans.”

Mayor Daniel Reiman, who was at the building’s unveiling, said a $352,000 grant from the Middlesex County Public Housing Agency’s Office of Housing and Community Development made its construction possible.

Veterans will have a choice for which units they would like to live in, according to the article.

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Children celebrate Halloween by visiting car trunks for candy

BY SASKIA KUSNECOV CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Many children in New Brunswick did not go door-todoor for candy this year on Halloween. Instead, hundreds gathered in the Sacred Heart Church parking lot.

“Trunk or Treat,” which started five years ago, is an event where church members and volunteers open their car trunks and hand out candy to participating children, said Lorena Gaibor, Sacred Heart Church event organizer.

The event aimed to offer New Brunswick children a safe place to trick-or-treat on Halloween, Gaibor said.

The Sacred Heart Church’s event hit record attendance this year, with nearly 2,000 kids arriving in costume throughout the evening, she said. They usually see about half that amount.

Gaibor believes the event’s biggest attraction is that it provides a safe and friendly environment for children to trick-or-treat. “[Door-to-door is] not safe, so that’s why we put this on,” she

said. “[The children] deserve a safe holiday.”

But in light of the recent protests and crime outbreaks around New Brunswick, Gaibor and planners decided to implement greater security.

“We have a lot more police patrolling this year because things in the area have been a little unsafe,” she said.

Gaibor and other church members planning the event wanted to integrate the various different cultures of New Brunswick together.

“There was a lot of advertising and planning for this event,” said Emily Manz, an Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy graduate student who volunteered at the event. “There was also a lot of contacting sponsors and volunteers who donated candy.”

Rutgers Association of Planning and Public Policy Students, a student organization, set up four cars in the parking lot.

Members of the group collected candy donations for a few weeks preceding the event, said Jarrod Grim, RAPPS activities chair.

“There are a ton of kids, they are wrapped around the block,” said Grim, an Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy graduate student. “It feels really good to give back to the community.”

While volunteers blasted Halloween music, hundreds of children and families walked around to the car trunks or stood around the edges of the parking lot. Event participants ranged from all ages and wore a variety of costumes, both colorful and dark.

Due to the unexpectedly large turnout, Gaibor said she was forced to instruct volunteers to ration their candy so all the children could receive a fair share.

Candy distributors included those from the New Brunswick area as well as residents from other towns like Colonia, N.J. Karla Resetoir, a Colonia resident, heard about “Trunk or Treat” through the Social Justice Ministry of her local church.

Resetoir said she attended the event to see the children and their reaction to receiving all the candy and mingling among others of their age group.

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Families participate in Sacred Heart Church’s “Trunk or Treat,” where volunteers gave out candy from the trunks of their cars.

“I just love to see the expressions on their faces,” said Resetoir, who greeted those walking past her trunk with a “Happy Halloween.”

“Trunk or Treat” is part of the Unity Square Partnership Program, which aims to revitalize the neighborhood, Gaibor said.

“This is just one of many things we do with the communi-

ty,” she said.

Gaibor said she invites University students to volunteer with Sacred Heart Church’s future events because they are of good use to the planning team.

Along with church members, Gaibor said University students and out-of-town residents helped make the night sucessful.

OFFICIALS FIND BEER IN MILLTOWN FIREHOUSE A Milltown firehouse faces police investigation after officers issued summons to Fire Department officials upon finding a partially filled keg hooked up to a tap Thursday afternoon at the Milltown firehouse on South Main Street.

Fire Chief Brian Harto, Deputy Chief Jack Bicsko and Assistant Chief Scott Janssens, said Police Chief Raymond Geipel, the officer who found the keg, received the summons by mail, according to a mycentraljersey.com article.

Geipel said in the article that no one was drinking at the firehouse at the time of the investigation.

The department had a one-day alcohol permit for an event on Oct.18, but the ordinance did not allow for alcohol to be stored in public buildings after that date, the police chief said.

This is not the first time the station was warned. Last year, the department received a similar complaint, according to the article.

Harto said as of Monday, he had not received the summons.

“The last guy there didn’t untap the keg and it basically sat there,” Harto said in the article.

“Nothing was consumed. It was just stale beer on the premises without a permit. It should have been returned for a deposit, but we forgot about it.”

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Led by Oaxacan craftswoman Maria Vivar, a workshop at 7:30 p.m. will provide step-by-step instructions for making and decorating traditional Mexican Day of the Dead sugar skulls. The workshop will take place on 122 College Ave. In order to attend, please make reservations by calling (848)-932-1263.

The New Brunswick Free Public Library will host Dr. Sandra Moss for this month’s “Brown Bag Lunch” program as part of its talk, titled “Mad Hatters, the Radium Girls, and the Asbestos Hotel: Tales of Industrial Medicine in New Jersey.” Moss is a retired internist who practiced at Rutgers Community Health Plan and later at St. Peter’s Medical Center. She was clinical assistant professor of medicine at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and earned a master’s degree on the history of medicine in 2005. Moss published more than 30 works on the history of medicine, with a focus on medicine in New Jersey in the 19th century. In 2011, she taught a course on the history of medicine at the Rutgers lifelong learning program. She is past-president and current program chair of the Medical History Society of New Jersey.

The event will take place at 12:15 p.m. in the Carl T. Valenti Community Room.

The New Brunswick Family Success Center at the Puerto Rican Action Board enters its second day into the Annual Winter Coat Drive. To donate old articles of clothing, please drop by 90 Jersey Ave. For more information, contact Jacqui Rivera and Marlon Osuna at (732)-828-2135.

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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)-7455108 ext. 20, or email Darby at darby@lmxac.org.

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Libraries nationwide will celebrate National Gaming Day. Join the New Brunswick Free Public Library for snacks, Band Hero, board games and an online Smash Brothers tournament against other libraries! All ages are welcome. The event will run from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Carl T. Valenti Community Room. For more information, please contact Darby DeCicco at darby@lmxac.org or (732)-745-5108 x20.

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The Olive Osmond Hearing Fund, founded by Justin Osmond, son of Merrill Osmond, the lead singer in the Osmond Brothers group from the 1970s, will host the Mad Dash at 9 a.m. to raise awareness for children who are deaf and hearing impaired at Johnson Park in Piscataway, NJ. The 5K Run/Walk is open to all family members. To get more information about the event, please visit madrunseries.com/jersey or contact Rosemary Ardolina at ardiodiva@yahoo.com.

The Garden State Track Club is hosting a 5K Gorilla Race/Walk at Buccleuch Park in New Brunswick.

Organizers ask for all residents and University students to participate in the walk wearing their favorite costume.

The event will also include a kids’ race and prize money for the top-three men and women. Registration for the race will start at 8 a.m. and is open to people of all ages.

For more information, please visit the Garden State Track Club’s website at gardenstatetc.org/5k/gorilla.html.

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Keep careful eye on your Web presence

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s if it weren’t already difficult enough to maintain some semblance of privacy on the Internet, Google is now indexing Facebook comments left on non-Facebook sites. For example, if you sign into a news website using your Facebook account and leave a particularly scathing message for the author in the comments section, people will now be able to search for and find that comment using Google.

Luckily, comments left on Facebook proper are not yet being indexed — although, perhaps there will come a day when that happens. Still, though, this is an issue every Facebook user should be aware of.

One of the downsides of the Internet is the difficulty involved in trying to carefully maintain your presence on the Web. People log into so many different websites — from email accounts to blogs to social networking sites — that it becomes an arduous task just trying to remember which websites you have profiles on. Even if you forget about your Hotmail account, that information is still out there waiting to be found.

Google’s decision to index these comments just adds to your list of possible Internet embarrassments. At this rate, will any of us be able to get jobs, or will our terrible web conduct shut us all out of the economy permanently?

We may not like these turn of events, but we are not at all surprised.

After all, Mark Zuckerberg has never been a very big fan of privacy.

Sure, Facebook offers users privacy options, but it’s no secret that Zuckerberg himself dreams of total Internet integration. Whatever you listen to on Spotify pops up in your friends’ feeds. If you’re enjoying some Hulu television, your friends can see that too. It’s only logical, then, that your friends can now Google search your comments. Not that it is Zuckerberg’s doing. We’re only bringing him into the conversation to illustrate the point that the Internet has been barreling toward this terribly annoying conclusion for a long time now.

You’re probably sick and tired of being told by everyone to be careful of what you say on the Internet, but we’re going to deliver that message one more time. We cannot stress it enough — the Internet is no longer a Wild West. Much of what you do can be tracked. Just be sure to watch your back out there.

Value citizens’ voices over corporations’

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he Supreme Court ruled in 2010, in the case of Citizens United v.

Federal Election Commission, that it would be unconstitutional for the government to regulate the money corporations donate to political campaigns. According to the Supreme Court, spending money to influence elections is a form of free speech, and since the corporations are considered people, their free speech must be protected. Sen. Tom Udall, D-NM, is challenging this notion with a proposed constitutional amendment, which, if passed, would essentially reverse the Citizens United ruling. As of now, corporations are free to spend money however they so desire in elections. Udall’s amendment would make three major changes.

First, it would give Congress the ability to regulate the money raised and spent by federal campaign contributors and allow individual states to regulate the money raised and spent in state-level elections. Second, it would regulate independent expenditures. Third, the amendment would grant Congress the power to pass future campaign finance reform laws, as long as those laws themselves are not ruled unconstitutional. Udall’s amendment would effectively return the power of democracy back to the people, wrestling it away from the hands of these corporations.

One of the major dangers of corporate personhood is that it unfairly stacks the deck against the average citizen. In a democracy, the citizen is supposed to be the unit of democratic power. She researches the candidates, contributes to the campaigns of those she supports and ultimately casts her ballot in the voting booth. As things currently stand, however, the corporation is more powerful than the citizen, because the corporation can spend far more money in support of the politicians it supports. Because of the size of the corporate wallet, these corporations also have louder voices, to which the politicians will listen at the expense of the average citizen’s voice. Thus, the concerns of the corporations drown out the issues of the people.

This should never be the case in a democracy. Perhaps wallet-size is considered a valid measure of power in an oligarchy, but in the United States, the goal is equality. The Citizens United case was a violation of this equality, for not only did it give human privileges to something fundamentally non-human, but it also allowed these legal fictions a level of power and influence to which no citizen could ever amount on their own. To be certain, Udall’s amendment faces a lot of challenges from Republican members of Congress. However, if we are to return American democracy to the state of equality at which it should be running — if we are to reinstate the power of the people — then we must undo the Citizens United verdict.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “We went 21-2 and finished ninth in the country last year. To everybody else around [the] University it’s a great year. To us it was very disappointing.”

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especially with his newest ith the election commercial and the catchy year rolling ever impracticality of his “9-9-9” closer and plan. Many Republicans claim Republican primaries scatterthat liberals are using racism ing about our television netand accusations of sexual works and into our daily conharassment as a means of versation, it is critical to take marginalizing him. The an unbiased look at the cliCODY GORMAN author of yesterday’s column mate for American politics in The Daily Targum, and make decisions regarding for whom each citizen will vote. President Barack “Liberals perpetuate poverty,” would believe that any Obama is ending his first term in office with low num- author slamming Cain is attempting to keep the black bers in the poll. Only three candidates from the vote for liberals. However, the facts speak for themRepublican Party are truly noteworthy in any sense: selves. Economists claim that the “9-9-9” plan will Mitt Romney, Herman Cain and Rick Perry. Michele essentially double taxes for lower income families, Bachmann’s poll numbers are incredibly low, beating while flat taxes essentially offer tax breaks for those only Rick Santorum and Jon Huntsman in the polls. earning the most income. The man has no grasp of forRon Paul has again proven himself nearly unelectable eign affairs. He said in an interview that he has no with his absurd social policies and radical economic interest in “Ubeki-beki-stan-stan-stan” (no, that is not a policies — this is the man who said he would imme- typo) until jobs are created in America. He also said he would sign a pro-life amendment to the Constitution — diately overturn Roe v. Wade if elected. Newt which is great if you’re a Republican — but the presiGingrich, by the way, is a half-ton of clearly partisan dent doesn’t sign amendments. He would be autopolitics in a 400-pound bag, who has openly stated graphing the amendment, which I can that he doesn’t care who wins as long only assume would slightly change its as Obama is out of office. As such, I “[Cain’s] campaign value to society. Even discounting the will focus on Obama and the top three candidates from the Republican Party. has been borderline harassment allegations, which took place close to 20 years ago, the man is It’s difficult to decide where to start farcical, especially a joke. With these things in mind, can with Rick Perry. It could be easy to anyone assume that someone critical look at his transcript, where Perry with his newest of Cain is just racist? received two “A’s” in four years at Obama has had many failings in Texas A&M University — they were in commercial.” office. The recipients of the stimulus “World Military Systems” and “Improv. package spent it unwisely, and many of Learning.” He received “D’s” in “Principles of Economics,” “Trigonometry” and banks have continued layoffs and corporate raises for leaders, while some banks have opted for a monthly “Shakespeare” while scraping by with “C’s” in classes charge to increase revenue. The Republicans in on American history. He stumbles through debates, or Congress have ruthlessly vetoed, filibustered and that his family leased a hunting ground with an extremely offensive name, or that his flat tax proposal refused to compromise on issues with the Democrats in Congress, who have essentially been spineless and would still hurt the lower classes and require people to neutered since the loss of Anthony Weiner. Obama’s check their taxes twice for eligibility. His popularity inability to control Congress has hurt his image. He’s seems to come from his charisma and southern accent, which reminds me of another former president also cracked down on marijuana, closing down many shops for medical marijuana in California. from Texas. Perry is all style and no substance.

Unemployment is still high, and the administration Romney has been a bit of a mixed bag. He’s has ignored almost every single petition signed in his clearly been the most composed and well-spoken of “We the People” campaign online. the candidates, but his historical record proves trouAt the end of the day, however, Obama has kept the blesome. So much so that there is an entire website (mittromneyflipflops.com) which chronicles his economy from crashing, inherited two wars — soon to be one — and although failingly, attempted to invest in contradictions in office. These contradictions are too numerous for the size of this article, so it’ll have green power alternatives for the future. As one commenter on Reddit noticed, “If a Republican president to suffice to say he’s flip-flopped on gun control, added 50 percent to the Dow and took out [Osama] bin medicinal marijuana, campaign spending, nationalLaden and [Moammar] Gaddafi, the GOP would ized health care and the bailout. He has built his campaign on the premise that the United States already have named an airport for him.” Due to the facts and my avoidance of blatantly generalized absoneeds to increase its employment rate and that his lutisms concerning any political party, like yesterday’s successes in “fixing” companies qualifies him as opinion column, I think I’ll be voting for Obama again. that leader. However, while CEO of Bain Capital, Romney profited while thousands of workers were Cody Gorman is a School of Arts and Sciences senlaid off. Five companies that Romney acquired in his ior majoring in political science and Middle Eastern tenure went bankrupt and laid off workers.

Herman Cain. To be honest, I’m not sure what else studies with a minor in general history. His column, “The Tuning Fork,” runs on alternate Wednesdays. to say. His campaign has been borderline farcical,

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Residency policy will improve community relations Letter CHARLIE KRATOVIL

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am writing today regarding the Oct. 27 editorial in The Daily Targum titled, “Amendment could promote corruption.”

While I thank the editorial board for recognizing the potential of a residency requirement to improve relations between police officers and community members, I take issue with the argument that by encouraging officers to live in the city, this could somehow lead to more corruption. It is simply irrational and a very misleading way to frame the debate over police residency requirements.

My proposal to the New Brunswick City Council is to require new officers to live in New Brunswick for three years before they join the force. In accordance with state law, once they are hired, they are free to relocate wherever they choose.

This proposal would not affect officers currently on the force, but would ensure that all new hires have significant experience living in the community they will police, before they are given a badge and a gun.

It is absurd to say this proposal has the potential to “promote” corruption. By the same token, the Targum could argue that a mayor would be less prone to

corruption if he or she were to live outside the city. Would we be better served by an out-of-town mayor? The same type of misleading argument was used against a 2009 proposal for a ward-based city government, falsely associating the improved community connectivity, which would result from the change, with supposedly inevitable graft.

The new residency policy I proposed would indeed be an improvement over the current rules, which require officers to be city residents for only the brief period between their civil service test and their hiring. This allows recruits to more easily fudge where they actually live to meet

the requirement and get away with not living in the city at all before joining the force. Make no mistake: The status quo in New Brunswick is corrupt, and something needs to change.

In addition to improving relations between police and the community, this law would likely result in more officers choosing to live in the city after they join the force. New Brunswick is a place that grows on you and, after three years in the community, many officers will stay and hopefully raise families here. Their presence in the neighborhoods will constantly deter crime, and they will spend their hard-earned money here

in New Brunswick instead of the surrounding suburbs.

My proposal will not solve all of our problems, and I’m willing to modify it to reflect constructive input from all sectors of the community, including the Targum editorial board. In the future, please constructively criticize and offer alternative solutions that address your criticisms, especially when discussing a proposal that you readily admit has potential to do good for the community and move us forward as a city.

Charlie Kratovil is a Class of 2009 University graduate and New Brunswick community organizer.

Racial inequality still commonly exists in America Letter ZACH CAMPBELL

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’m writing in response to the column “Recognize infrequency of racism,” which appeared on Oct. 31 in The Daily Targum. It was disappointing to hear such a misguided opinion on race, especially at the University, one of the most diverse schools in the country.

The author maintains that “true racism” in the United States is not nearly as commonplace as people think and holds that what passes as racism is actually a form of classism. He starts by attempting to debunk a supposed “classic example” of racism, namely that people irrationally become frightened by the presence of a black or Hispanic person while walking in a low-income neighborhood.

Although the author’s designation of the potentially frightened person isn’t specific, one could

assume that they are not black or Hispanic.

The author suggests that fear caused while walking through a lower socioeconomic neighborhood is instead the result of encountering a “person … probably dressed like a thug in a neighborhood known for thugs.” It’s unclear what these frightful “thugs” wear, but the author succeeds in inadvertently expressing his prejudice toward the way they dress. Instead of finding fault with class prejudice, he apparently justifies it, maintaining that what passes as contempt for “low-class black or Hispanic culture” is also held for “low-class white culture” as well. What the author seems to be telling us is that it’s not racism, but classism — we don’t like poor whites either.

The author goes on to contrast stereotypes and inferences about people’s race with what he identifies as “true” or “real racism,” of which he offers Nazism and the

Daily review: laurels and darts

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merica is not a theocracy, and the Constitution makes it quite clear that the founding fathers never intended on a stateimposed religion. Despite this, we still find instances today of politicians not quite grasping the concept that, in the United States, you are free to practice whatever religion you desire. Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear participated in a ground-blessing ceremony last Friday for Indian company Flex Film. Gubernatorial candidate David Williams, a Republican, has a problem with this. Williams criticized Beshear, a Democrat, for attending a Hindu religious ceremony, saying that it “doesn’t appear to me to be in line with what a governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky ought to be doing.” We give Williams a dart for his crassly disrespectful comments. Since when was it the governor’s job to tell his state that religions are and are not appropriate? *

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Over the past few weeks, Bank of America has been at the center of a veritable maelstrom of controversy regarding its decision to charge a $5 monthly debit card fee. Average citizens, members of the Occupy Wall Street movement and even a few politicians raised concerns about Bank of America’s decision, often painting it as a rather unsavory move.

But now customers of Bank of America no longer have to worry. It seems the criticism finally got through to the bank’s executives, as Bank of America officially announced that it would not be charging the proposed fee after all. This isn’t just good news for Bank of America customers, as it signifies a shift in banking logic in general. Other banks, like Citigroup and Wells Fargo, also decided against similar debit card fees. We give Bank of America a laurel for coming to its senses.

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Ku Klux Klan as examples. I’m not sure of the author’s background, but I could guess that it has not been extremely difficult, or else his opinion would be tempered with his experience.

“Our privilege blinds us to the realities of our sisters and brothers who have had to suffer real racism.”

As a white male from a comfortable middle class environment, I’ve spent my life becoming conscious of my privilege, through my experience with female colleagues who earned less than me or through seeing black coworkers unfairly passed over for promotion. But one need

not even go that far to see that racism is an integral part of how we live. The continued segregation of our education system largely denies blacks and Hispanics opportunities for class mobility. Larger numbers of blacks, immigrants and other people of color are under- or unemployed compared to their white counterparts. Blacks and Hispanics are too often the victims of deadly police violence. It would be silly to go on because the list would be too long.

The only argument that could assert that this institutional racism is not “real racism” would have to rely on some version of the “Horatio Alger myth” of social mobility. The problem is that this myth maintains that because we’re all born equal as human beings, we have the same access to oppor tunities and the system treats us equally as well. We already know that this is not the case, which is

why af firmative action programs, which grew out of an anti-racist movement and which the author ironically derides as “technically a form of racism,” are still so important.

Though I do agree with the author that progress has been made, there is much work to be done. Perhaps the author would be surprised to find out that the Klan and neo-Nazis, examples he offers of “real racism,” are both still alive and well in the United States. Often our privilege blinds us to the realities of our sisters and brothers who have had to suffer real racism, sexism and classism to make it to where they are today. It is important to learn about their experiences so we do not deceive ourselves into believing that everyone is already treated with equality.

Zach Campbell is a graduate student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

COMMENT OF THE DAY “Yes ... outrage over [Supreme Court Justice] Clarence Thomas' blatant sexual harassment was the result of ‘liberal’ racism, and not the fact that the man sexually harassed Anita Hill.”

John Connelly in response to the Nov. 1 column, “Liberals perpetuate poverty”

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utgers men’s soccer goalkeeper Kevin McMullen earned College Soccer News National Team of the Week honors.

The junior from Blackwood, N.J., shut out No. 11 St. John’s in a 1-0 victory for the Scarlet Knights, posting a career-high 10 saves.

McMullen also blanked No. 5 South Florida on Monday in a 0-0 tie, racking up four saves en route to his third shutout.

The transfer from Southern Methodist also earned Big East Goalkeeper of the Week honors.

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Trisha Averill earned Big East Female Swimmer of the Week recognition.

The Renton, Wash., native helped lift the Scarlet Knights to a 3-0 start at last weekend’s conference quad meet.

Averill took first place in four individual events as well as two relay events.

She clocked a time of 1:03.31 swimming the second leg of the 400-meter medley relay.

Averill also clocked a split of 29.42 in the 200meter medley.

THE NEW YORK YANKEES extended contracts for two key members of their franchise.

Starting pitcher C.C. Sabathia earned a one-year extension through 2016, with an option for a sixth year.

Sabathia’s contract is worth $122 million over five years, and the total rises to $142 million if he comes back for a sixth year.

The Yankees also extended the contract of general manager Brain Cashman, keeping him on through the 2014 season.

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linebacker LaMarr Woodley will not play this week against the Baltimore Ravens, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Woodley injured his hamstring during Sunday’s game against the New England Patriots after recording two sacks on quarterback Tom Brady, bringing his team-leading total to nine.

He joins James Harrison and James Farrior as linebackers set to miss the upcoming game against the Ravens.

T HE T AMPA B AY R AYS locked up two potential free agents while letting a third player go.

They signed star ting pitcher James Shields and closer Kyle Farnswor th and also cut Kelly Shoppach.

Rays ace David Price heads for arbitration, seeking more than the $1.5 million he is set to make in 2012.

The move to get rid of Shoppach helped free up the money the Rays have to pay Price in order to keep him as part of the staff.

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Rutgers head wrestling coach Scott Goodale said his team needs to place All-Americans in March for the season to be a success.

made with a podium spot in mind.

“I should have been [an AllAmerican] last year,” Rinaldi said.

It is a feeling shared throughout the wrestling room, by none more than Mason and Winston.

“They know that they didn’t achieve the things they needed to achieve,” Goodale said. “For Mario, he fully expects to win a national title, if not two. That’s what’s motivating him.”

For Winston, motivation is to wrestle a healthy season.

The Jackson, N.J., native battled a right knee injur y last year and under went surger y a week after a loss to Lehigh’s Brandon Hatchett ended his season. He rehabbed and then spent the final two months of the summer away from wrestling.

Mason also spent time away from the mats while dealing with a summer back injur y, which gave him only more time to think back to last season.

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“I’d like to get a shot at Frank Molinaro again,” Mason said of the No. 1-ranked 149pound Penn State wrestler, who Mason went 1-2 against last season. “I lost to him when it counted at nationals, so that’s a match I’m looking for ward to.”

This entire season is about looking forward to nationals for Rutgers.

It will host a regional bracket of the National Duals tournament in February and it opens its dual-meet schedule at perennial top-five power Oklahoma State.

But national success is measured in March, and now it is measured the same way in Piscataway.

“I don’t want to say they’re dwelling on it,” Goodale said of the wrestlers who came up short, “but they know their careers aren’t going to be complete unless they’re where they should be.”

KNIGHT NOTE: Goodale tweeted Monday that former Rutgers football player and standout high school wrestler Kevin Malast joined the staff as a strength and conditioning coach. Former assistant coach Cory Cooperman left the staff in early September to join Illinois.

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overtime defeat as catalyst continued from back said. “If they play hard and play with their emotion and energy, but also play with their intelligence, they can do anything. If you can get that combination, you can be ver y competitive, and that is what this group has been able to do ever since.”

Looking back, the players identify the Mar yland matchup as the biggest shift in their season. When Mar yland midfielder John Ster tzer found the back of the net for the win, it was personal for each and ever y member of the Knights.

“I thought we were going to get at least a tie that game.

After we got the red card in the second half we just kept pushing and pushing,” said senior for ward Ibrahim Kamara. “We were unfor tunate going into over time with the red card and were all ver y disappointed with the loss, but it made us keep pushing to do whatever it takes to win all our other games.”

Win they did.

The Knights charged out of the gate following Mar yland with four victories in a row en route to a 5-0-2 undefeated streak to end the season.

Three of the games were shutouts for goalkeeper Kevin McMullen, a feat the junior did not accomplish prior to Mar yland.

Three more results came against nationally-ranked opponents. The Knights were 0-2 against ranked opponents before the Mar yland game and did not register a single goal against either team.

The revamped and revitalized Rutgers team is a stark contrast to the Knights squad of last year, which notched only one win in its final 11 games.

“It is really hard to sum things up in terms of how far the program has come in a year,” Donigan said. “I’m ver y happy with the progress we have been able to make. I think anyone in their right mind would be able to see the progress and the positive things that have happened with our program.”

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Redshirt freshman fullback Michael Burton transitioned during the spring from running back.

The Long Valley, N.J., native added about 25 pounds to his frame since his redshirt season.

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Senior forward Ibrahim Kamara and the Knights took 10 shots in a 2-1 loss to No. 2 Maryland before a 5-0-2 unbeaten streak.

job of moving the touches around Burton attributes a portion of his to the people who deserve them,” improved play to Martinek, who also made the switch to fullback during records three rushes, one catch Schiano said.

Burton and Martinek’s back- the spring. and-forth rotation is strictly compleBut Martinek sat out during the continued from back mentary, according to both Burton stretch because of offseason ankle West Virginia, a 1-yard scamper that and Schiano, who said they do simi- surgery, so Burton battled with nowput the Scarlet Knights ahead, 24-21. lar things well and do not tip off defensive end Marcus Thompson But the West Mor ris opposing defenses. for first-team reps.

Central High School product “He’s a hardworking kid who Martinek returned for training also enjoyed his most producloves to learn,” Martinek said. camp, pushing Burton into a tive output of his career, rush“[He] wants to take all my knowl- reserve role, but Burton’s time on ing three times for 13 yards edge and wants to learn it and do the sideline this year and during and hauling in an 11-yard pass. all the right things. That’s a great his redshirt season were beneficial, He set up Jamison’s score start. To have a kid like that who he said. with a fullback dive to I can pass “It was really importhe goal line and also down ever ytant because I was able picked up a first down thing I’ve to get used to the after breaking learned to is a offense,” Burton said. through a mob of great thing to “I was able to get in Mountaineer defendhave and a the weight room more, ers, which caught great thing get more physical, put head coach Greg for the on more weight. That Schiano’s eye. future.” really helped me out in “Bur ton is just Bur ton the end.” doing things that we began learning Bur ton arrived at MICHAEL JOE think he war rants from Martinek Rutgers in 2010 as a BURTON MARTINEK playing time,” far before he 205-pound r unning Schiano said. “You donned a back. Now he plays can see what we’ve seen in Knights uniform for the first time. around 230 pounds and credits practice.”

Martinek’s Hopatcong High his bulkier frame to the But Schiano insists School lies less than 13 miles Rutgers strength program.

Bur ton’s touches do not come north of West Morris Central.

The added muscle allows at the expense of fifth-year senBurton was a freshman when Bur ton to be a more physical ior fullback Joe Mar tinek.

Martinek, then a running back, presence as a run blocker after Mar tinek earned the majorset the N.J. high school career he only wor ried about pass ity of reps at the position rushing record. protection in high school. through eight games, but Martinek translated the suc“That’s my goal is to be able to Bur ton slowly star ted seeing cess to Piscataway over time, open the holes for my running more playing time of late than amassing nearly 1,000 yards in backs, be able to protect the quarterhe did earlier in the year.

2009 as a sophomore. back,” Burton said. “That’s my job. If Mar tinek still ear ned six “He was a big-name guy, so I was I don’t get the ball and I don’t break touches Saturday, including able to follow him and see what he a touchdown run, that’s fine as long three receptions for 17 yards. did,” Burton said. “I was hoping if I as my running backs do and I’m able “I think [offensive coordinator] could have success like he did, to make holes Frank [Cignetti] is doing a good that’d be good.” for them.”

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Fifth-year senior center Caleb Ruch (60) said three botched snaps with Gary Nova were his fault.

Junior wideout Tim Wright (5) has 10 catches and two scores in his first year after ACL surgery.

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Betim Bujari did not practice again yesterday with an ankle injury, and Schiano said Bujari will likely have to return to practice today in order to be able to go Saturday against South Florida.

Bujari started against Ohio and Syracuse and played most of the game at Louisville, but he did not play last week against West Virginia.

“Will he play? I don’t know,” Schiano said. “That hurts.”

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Tim Wright continues to make plays in his first season after undergoing surgery to repair a torn ACL, but Schiano said he is still recovering.

Wright has 10 receptions for 122 yards and two touchdowns, with two of those catches coming against WVU. “He’s made some plays for us and I think he’ll continue to,” Schiano said. “I think this winter will be huge for him as far as getting full 100 percent.”

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Head coach CJ Werneke said junior setter Stephanie Zielinski developed better communication throughout the season.

The College Avenue Gym’s scoreboard remained lit following the VOLLEYBALL Rutgers volleyball team’s Sunday loss to Georgetown.

The board’s 15-13 display indicated the Scarlet Knights’ ninth Big East loss.

Head coach CJ Werneke called the scoreboard remaining lit a “glitch,” but wanted to make sure his team caught sight of the facility error.

“I noticed it, our staff noticed it, and I could’ve removed it,” Werneke said. “We left it up just to remind [the team] that some of the reasons we’re losing are in our control.”

The Knights (8-19, 1-9) did, in fact, control Sunday’s match against the Hoyas.

Winning back-to-back sets after a 0-2 deficit, the Knights stole the momentum and had the Hoyas (14-10, 6-5) where they wanted them.

With momentum favoring the home team, the Knights went back-and-for th with the Hoyas in the decisive fifth set before Georgetown hitter Lindsey Wise landed her 18th

kill, handing the Knights their 19th loss of the season.

Freshman Sofi Cucuz notched 22 kills in an offensive attack that senior captain Hannah Curtis described as “dominating.”

Dominating performances are nothing new for junior setter Stephanie Zielinski, who continued to impress.

The junior’s 16 digs led the Knights defensively and her 50 assists extended the setter’s Big East leading double-double streak to 15 games.

“It has been interesting to see the development of Stephanie,” Werneke said. “She’s been a work in progress and especially in the setter position. Each year you give them a little bit more responsibility and instruction.”

Increased responsibility creates increased results for the Fort Lauderdale, Fla., native, who ranks fourth all-time at Rutgers in assists.

Developing her defensive ability was a struggle at first, but Zielinski showcased her defense this season all over the court.

Tallying 293 digs thus far, Zielinski is second on the team in the category, behind defensive specialist Kallie Pence.

“There is a fine line,” Werneke said. “A lot of setters tend to not be great defenders because they

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Senior center Caleb Ruch is taking the blame for one of Gary Nova’s turnovers last week against West Virginia and at least two other miscues from earlier this season.

Any blown center-quarterback exchange, including one the Mountaineers recovered at the 7-yard line to set up an easy score, was Ruch’s fault, he said.

The pair also botched two snaps against Pittsburgh, when each made their first start.

“Any time it’s ever been fumbled on the ground it’s basically been my fault because I either snapped the ball too late or too early,” Ruch said. “I just have to get in rhythm with his count a little bit more. We’ll be fine.”

Head coach Greg Schiano said he knew what went wrong against Pittsburgh, but declined to place blame. He said earlier this week he did not know who was at fault against WVU, but that it did not matter anyway — there was no excuse.

Nova, who is under fire for turning the ball over nine times in the past three games, echoed the sentiment despite Ruch shouldering the blame.

“We always work on snaps,” Nova said. “It’s my job to get the ball and stay under there and get it.”

The pair works on snaps for about five to 10 minutes while warming up before every practice and game. Rather than simply snapping the ball, Ruch typically jumps out of his stance and practices steps that gave the pair trouble in the past.

A slick ball in the snow was not a factor, Ruch said.

“When I was out there I was kind of a little nervous,” he said. “I saw clumps of snow on the ball and was like, ‘Oh boy, this isn’t going to be good.’ I ended up not having any problem gripping the ball at all.”

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not pay too much attention to news coming out of yesterday’s Big East meeting in Philadelphia, where the league voted unanimously to extend invitations to specific schools, according to The Star-Ledger.

Commissioner John Marinatto refused to reveal those schools, but they are Air Force, Boise State, Central Florida, Houston, Southern Methodist and Navy.

Houston, SMU and UCF will receive the first invitations, which should go out within a week, to join the conference for all sports. Air Force, Boise State and Navy would join for only football.

Marinatto also said the league intends to hold West Virginia to its 27-month waiting period before it leaves for the Big 12, even with WVU filing a lawsuit to leave early.

are more worried about the setting aspect of things than the defensive aspect. It’s kind of a civil war for that position.”

The Knights’ setter averages 9.69 assists per set, good for seventh place in the Big East. Her knowledge, court presence and defensive ability rank the junior among the top performers in the conference.

Named to the Big East Honor Roll on Oct. 17, Zielinski led her teammates to their first Big East win against in-state rival Seton Hall. She assisted 27 kills and dug 15 balls to propel the squad past the Pirates in straight sets.

Werneke’s trust in his setter continues to grow.

Trust and communication are always evident between Werneke and Zielinski. He talks strategy with her before she joins the rest of the team in the huddle and always relays information from the sideline to his floor-general.

“There has to be a relationship there,” the four th-year coach said. “Early on we weren’t on the same page, and that’s where some more direct communication developed and film studies came in. The second half of the season has come to be what we expect of Stephanie, and I think there is a lot of trust there.”

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Coach-speak lasted only so long with Rutgers head wrestling coach Scott Goodale when asked what would make his fifth season in Piscataway a sucWRESTLING cessful one.

“To be boring: Let’s get better every day,” Goodale said. “But people around here are smart enough to know that the end of the year is what this is all about. We need to do a better job at the national tournament. To put it out there: We need to have some guys on that podium. These guys know it. We all know it.”

The Scarlet Knights came close last season.

Juniors Mario Mason and Scott Winston each lost their final matches at the NCAA Championships, keeping them a win away from All-American status.

Instead, Rutgers remained shut out from the podium since 2002.

“That’s how we’re going to be measured,” Goodale said. “We went 21-2 and finished ninth in the countr y last year.

To ever ybody else around Rutgers University it’s a great year. To us it was ver y disappointing.”

It led Goodale and his staf f to re-evaluate the way they operate.

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March and the NCAA Championships, where Rutgers fully expects to place wrestlers in the top eight of their weight classes.

The obvious favorites are Mason and Winston, ranked No. 5 at 149 pounds and No. 6 at 165 pounds, respectively. But Goodale also calls 125 pounds his deepest weight class, and 174 pounds arguably his best.

Junior Dan Rinaldi will star t the season at 197 pounds after wrestling last year at 184 pounds, and that is a move Goodale

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Michael Bur ton does not see the difference between 1 yard and 10 yards. The way the redshir t FOOTBALL freshman fullback sees it, picking up first downs knows no distance.

Bur ton still plays like a running back after switching from the position during the Rutgers football team’s 2011 spring practice. Judging from his per formance Saturday, it might not be a bad thing.

“When we run the plays, the fullback has to read it out like the halfback did,” Burton said.

“Playing running back, I’m able to see the vision and get to hole. But instead of breaking through and running, I’m going to be blocking the guy.”

Burton picked up a key block on classmate Jawan Jamison’s first touchdown against

The Knights spent less time wrestling and instead focused on technique, strength and conditioning. They spent more time in a swimming pool and less time on mats.

Eight traveled to Colorado Springs, where they worked out at the U.S. Olympic Training Center and climbed Pikes Peak.

“It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life,” Goodale said, “and I may not do it again.”

The head coach admits the offseason changes might create a slow start to the season, but that is OK. This season is about

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Head coach Dan Donigan’s team earned its first Big East bye since 1999.

The Rutgers men’s soccer team walked off of Ludwig Field on the Maryland campus nearly a month ago following arguably its MEN’S SOCCER most bitter defeat of the season.

The Scarlet Knights went above and beyond their expectations during the matchup, forcing the No. 2 team in the nation into over time despite playing a man down following a red card. But a single goal early in over time ended the Knights’ hopes of an upset.

Head coach Dan Donigan noted after the game that the team, despite the loss, could go into the rest of the season with a swagger because of its per formance.

Little did he know how far the swagger would take it.

Fast forward to today, when the Knights (9-5-3, 6-1-2) enter postseason play unbeaten since the Maryland matchup. They also have the benefit of the program’s first Big East Tournament first-round bye since 1999.

In Donigan and the Knights’ minds, it all started in Maryland.

“No doubt about it in my mind, absolutely that Mar yland game was a signature game for us,” Donigan said.

“Cer tainly that was a signature statement point in our season that kind of told our guys that they can play and they can compete as long as the stay focused.”

Donigan noted the biggest confidence boost the Knights received all season did not even come with a victor y — it was the fact that they scratched and clawed against the second-ranked team in the countr y despite having the odds heavily stacked against them.

It is that determination that highlighted the latter half of the Knights’ season, according to Donigan.

“Even though we did not get the win or the result, once [junior midfielder] Robin [Brown] got that card we ended up playing down for about 20 minutes into the over time. That shows a lot,” Donigan

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The Rutgers wrestling team made changes to its offseason training and its in-season approach to decision-making with the goal of placing All-Americans in March at the NCAA Championships. Scott Winston, Mario Mason and Dan Rinaldi all expected to earn a spot on the podium last season and have the same goal this year.