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Rutgers head football coach Greg Schiano announced yesterday that Chas Dodd will return to his role as starting quarterback against Army.

Candidates vie for state Legislature seats

BY ALEKSI TZATZEV ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

As New Jersey residents hit the polls today, they will vote for the fate of all 120 state Legislature seats. In District 17, which New Brunswick falls under, three Republican candidates seek to replace incumbents.

Incumbent Democrats Sen. Bob Smith along with Assemblymen Upendra Chivukula and Joseph Egan will face challenges from Republican Senate candidate Jordan Rickards and Assemblymen candidates Carlo DiLalla and Rober t Mettler.

One issue on the top of candidates’ lists is the price of higher education.

“New Jersey, like the rest of the country, is suffering from an economic malaise,” Smith said. “All the students at Rutgers know what is happening to their tuition because the state is not properly supporting higher education.”

He said one of the goals for state Democrats should be that ever yone helps make higher education more af fordable. He suppor ts more taxes going toward dif ferent levels of education.

“The key of getting out of this big recession is to train and retrain employees for jobs in the state,” he said.

Smith’s opponent, Rickards, said state universities used increasing

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Members of the Presidential Search Committee listen to suggestions from students, faculty and staff at an open forum last night at the Livingston Student Center.

Presidential search committee hears from New Brunswick

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Students drop their spare change into empty water jugs yesterday on the College Avenue campus during “Penny Wars,” a charity fundraiser that will last through the weeklong event “Derby Days.”

Some members of the New Brunswick campus community are calling for diversity, approachability and a strong vision in University President Richard L. McCormick’s successor.

Two speakers at last night’s open forum in the Livingston Student Center, which had about 50 people in attendance, asked the presidential search committee members to keep diversity in mind during their search.

Ellen Taraschi, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, said she would like to see an ethnically diverse, female or queer candidate take office in Old Queens. All of the University’s 19 presidents have been white men.

“I’m just hoping you consider people with perspectives different than white males,” she said.

Abena Busia, chair of the University’s Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, said she would look for diverse, qualified candidates to suggest to the committee.

“Take absolutely seriously the women and under-represented minorities on the list,” Busia said. “You’re going to get them because we are going to bring them to you.”

Several speakers also echoed a concern for the University to end faculty and staff salary freezes so the next president would not inherit the problem.

Lucye Millerand, president of the Union of Rutgers Administrators-American Federation of Teachers, said faculty and staff agreed to postpone their raises in 2009 to help the University in a tough economic time.

But two years later, they have not been paid.

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Council supports police department review

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SEBS Governing Council

The School of Biological and Environmental Sciences Governing Council supported a proposal to bring in the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the conduct of the New Brunswick Police Department.

The council unanimously passed a resolution to endorse a letter penned on Friday by community activist Walter Hudson and student leaders asking the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the recent events surrounding the shooting of Barr y Deloatch and other police misconduct.

Peter Canavan, SEBS Governing Council treasurer, presented the resolution to the council and said the shooting took place off of Commercial Avenue, which is where some off-campus School of Environmental and Biological students live.

New Brunswick resident Barry Deloatch was fatally shot on Sept. 22 after an altercation with the NBPD. “The community activists here in New Brunswick feel that the county prosecutor’s

office isn’t taking it seriously enough,” said Canavan, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences sophomore.

The Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office is investigating the details of the case.

At a meeting with about 20 student leaders on Friday, Hudson, the spokesman for the Deloatch family, said the shooting and mishandling of Internal Affairs investigations was a reason to call in a higher authority to investigate the matter.

Canavan, who was at the meeting as a representative from the Roosevelt Institute, a policy-oriented student group, said the endorsement comes from the University’s stance to help the community.

“This would be a way where we as students could help the community and get justice and find out what really happened,” he said. “I know [the Rutgers University Student Assembly] has also endorsed the letter, so this would just be us adding our support to it as well.”

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INDEX IN FOCUS While some stay at the University for four years, some families stay for generations.

OPINIONS A U.S. District Court blocked the FDA from imposing graphic warning labels on cigarette packs.

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Students strive to expand Dance Marathon goals “Basically what [the charity does] is take care of the non-medical needs of kids with cancer and blood disorders,” she said.

About 150 dancers already registered, each with a minimum goal of raising $350, said Julia Crimi, director of volunteer management for Dance Marathon.

“A lot of students raised money through canning at local intersections or set up fundraisers in front of Brower [Commons],” she said.

But Poppiti said the easy part is fundraising — the hard part is the actual dancing.

“If you’re a dancer, going to the marathon is really hard,” she said. “I respect them so much because they’re literally standing for 32 hours straight.

It’s ver y tough.”

Poppiti said some Greek and other student organizations each have one patient that they work

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With Dance Marathon still four months and 24 days away, preparation is in full force for the student-run philanthropy event which has raised more than $2 million in the past 12 years for the Embrace Kids Foundation.

Andrea Poppiti, constituent liaison for recr uitment for Dance Marathon, said she and the other directors are most concerned with improving their effort to help sick children.

“We want to become something that isn’t just sororities and fraternities but people all across Rutgers,” she said.

Dance Marathon is the largest student-r un philanthropic event in New Jersey, Poppiti said, donating all money raised to the Embrace Kids Foundation.

with specifically. The organizations visit their patient at the hospital, spending personal time with their sponsor.

John Reinhardt is the liaison for the “RU4Kids” program, which partners organizations and sick children throughout the school year. “[The groups] do things like eat meals with their [patient’s] family and visit them in the hospital,” he said.

But there are not as many sick children this year for the “RU4Kids” program, said Reinhardt, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore.

“The hardest part this year is that there are so many organizations that applied,” he said.

“I would love to keep that number growing, but we don’t have that many kids, which is good and bad.”

Reinhardt, a member of the Chi Psi fraternity, said he remembered

the day his fraternity spent with “RU4Kid” Jonathon Volpe.

“We spent a day together over the summer at a beach party,” he said. “We got to play in the pool, I tried to teach him how to dive, [and] we went into the ocean.”

Reinhardt said Volpe became one of the brothers. He considers Volpe and his family part of his fraternity.

The Delta Gamma sorority has two “RU4Kids” and plans on “adopting” another this year, said Vicky Muschinske, Delta Gamma representative for Dance Marathon.

“I work a lot with the kids [through ‘RU4Kids’],” said Muschinske, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “We visit them in clinic, play games and do arts and crafts. We took [one of them] to the movies.”

Crimi, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, said one dancer raised $7,000 last year.

Because both Crimi and Poppiti are on the board for the event, they are required to raise $700.

“I would say we’re definitely on track, but we’re always trying to do better,” Poppiti said.

The website provides a direct link for people to donate online, she said, making fundraising a relatively simple aspect of Dance Marathon.

“Each person gets their own donor drive [webpage], and it allows you to tack up how much money you’ve raised,” she said.

Poppiti, a School of Arts Sciences sophomore, said last year Dance Marathon raised $380,351.10 and every year, the amount has gone up.

“It’s the things you don’t think of firsthand when people are sick, things that are still really important, like birthday parties,” she said. “We even sent a girl to her prom once.”

ALUMNI AID BANGLADESHI CHILDREN WITH CLEFT PALATES Two University alumni are literally helping some Bangladeshi children smile.

Dr. Shahid Aziz, a University Class of ’91 alumnus, and his wife Anita Puran, a 2003 Ph.D graduate, founded a medical group that per forms reconstructive surgeries on children with cleft palates and cleft lips.

The nonprofit, Smile Bangladesh, performed 400 cleft palate and cleft lip surgeries on Bangladeshi children, according to a University FOCUS article.

Aziz, a maxillofacial, plastic and reconstruction surgeon led a team of physicians in 2006 and goes back to his father’s homeland twice every yea with his wife, who is the organization’s executive director.

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“There’s a huge social stigma in Bangladesh for children with cleft lips,” Aziz said in the ar ticle.

The children are not allowed to go to school and are ostracized by society, according to the ar ticle. The mothers who give bir th to children with the condition are often blamed for it.

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COMMITTEE: Group enlists search firm for help continued from front “Why does Rutgers have [funds] for executive salaries but not for teachers, police of ficers or student counselors?”

Millerand said.

“Rutgers University hur ts its students [this way]. The low morale of faculty and staf f makes for a poor learning environment.”

She believes McCormick’s push for a merger with the University of Medicine and Dentistr y of New Jersey

SEATS: DiLalla compares state to business principles continued from front financial aid to proportionately increase tuitions and fees.

“When universities recognized that students had more money, they jacked the prices up,” Rickards said. “Take medical students for example. For ever y dollar in loans we give out, tuition goes up 99 cents.”

Rickards said if students receive higher financial aid every year, universities should accept tuition freezes to better fund higher education.

“I think for state schools, there is no reason tuition has gone up this much,” he said.

Rickards said one way to combat the trend of tuition increases would be to institute a tuition freeze and begin to roll back rates to levels comparable to those 10 years ago, with inflation taken into account.

Smith said a more effective way would be more education aid. Tuition increase would not be a realistic option, since cost of living also rises, driving up expenses for universities.

“Everybody would like to do a tuition freeze, including some students. But as other costs keep going up, you need to pay the bills,” he said. “The better way to

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is a misguided attempt to achieve greatness.

“Look for someone who will bring us together for greatness,” she said to the presidential search committee members.

Students at the meeting asked that the new president make himself available to students.

Matt Cordeiro, president of the Rutgers University Student Assembly, said he is not confident some of his fellow students could point McCormick out in a crowd.

Cordeiro, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, suggested that the new president could maintain a Twitter account to keep students updated on University mat-

ters or take walks down College Avenue more often.

“It would go a long way toward bridging the gap between administration and the student body,” he said.

He also said the new president should be able to clearly state a vision for the University.

“I would hope the next president of Rutgers has a grand vision … and wants a place like Rutgers to be as great as it could be,” he said.

Daniel Comito, a University alumnus and staff member in the Public Safety department, said an ideal candidate would see past small issues to realize the larger picture of the University.

“We need someone who is going to work at the state level and improve our position in state,” he said.

Jason Goldstein, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, said the next president should embrace the University’s culture.

“We need deep passion for the University,” he said. “They need to understand what we’re about and see a spark when they get here. We need an inspiration for all the various departments.”

The search committee enlisted a search firm, R. William Funk and Associates, to help suggest new presidential candidates.

The committee welcomes other suggestions for presidential

candidates from the community, said Ron Wilson, chair of the Board of Overseers, who sits on the search committee.

“Next week, we meet with everybody,” Wilson said. “The people at this table will definitely convey your thoughts here in an honest, direct way.”

When asked how many applications the committee received for the position so far, those present did not know the answer.

But Wilson said the University community will have to convince the best candidates to consider the job.

“The really top candidates are not going to raise their hands,” he said.

do it is to provide bigger funding for higher education.”

Smith, who is also the chair for the Senate Environment and Energy Committee, said he would like to go back to the Senate and make the state greener.

He supported the Reduce Plastic and Paper Bag Usage Act in 2010 and a bill that would provide matching grants for local governments to facilitate energy efficiency and conservation of resources in public buildings.

In the race for Assembly in District 17, DiLalla and Mettler are challenging Chivukula and Egan for their seats.

Chivukula said job creation and economic development are at the forefront of his campaign.

His stance on property taxes has so far been to limit fully funding public schools.

“N.J. taxpayers have reached a tipping point on taxes,” Chivukula said in a 2010 press release. “They can no longer afford to pay six-figure salaries for hundreds of superintendents and assistant superintendents along with the costs of other administrators.”

DiLalla said in a survey by thevoterguide.org that he would make sure the state does not misallocate funds. He believes money should be given back to homeowners to help alleviate high property taxes.

He compared running the state to running a business, say-

ing the state should create more revenue or trim the budget, according to mycentraljersey.com.

“By making a push to bring businesses back to New Jersey, it will increase the workforce and bring more revenue into the state,” DiLalla told mycentraljersey.com.

His running mate, Mettler, a lifelong resident of Franklin and former mayor, said

New Jersey must deal with its fiscal crisis.

“While green is good, the middle of an economic crisis is not the time to add new burdens on business or citizens,” he told mycentraljersey.com.

“The high cost of heating a home will, as it is, lead those who can af ford it to seek any sustainable method they can af ford.”

Egan, the incumbent democrat alongside Chivukula, suppor ted legislation that would expand the tuition aid grant program to par t-time undergraduate students.

He is also the chair of the Assembly Labor Committee and is par t of the Telecommunications and Utilities Committee, which Chivukula chairs.

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US News ranks mathematics within top-20 graduate programs

BY RINA MODY CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The University’s Master of Science in the mathematical finance program is among the top-20 mathematical graduate programs in the countr y, according to a U.S. News & World Repor t.

The program star ted in 2006 due to a demand for a finance program at the University that was tailored to current market needs, said Paul Feehan, director of the mathematical finance program.

“Many schools offer similar programs through their business departments,” Feehan said. “I think what makes ours so successful is that it’s offered though the mathematics department.”

He said employers are looking for people who have a strong background in mathematics. The program provides both a theoretical foundation and real-world knowledge.

“Many of the professors have industr y experience so they know the practical applications of what they’re teaching,”

said Feehan, who was previously vice president of quantitative research at J.P. Morgan.

About 450 students applied to the program last year, of whom only about 100 were accepted, he said. The 30-credit program generally takes three semesters to complete.

“There are a lot of one-year programs out there, but that’s not enough time,” Feehan said. “The extra semester allows us to better prepare our students and delve deeper into the material.”

Carla Visser, director of Career Management Ser vices, said upon graduation, about 100 percent of students find jobs in a relevant field.

“Approximately 15 percent of the Januar y graduating class already have job offers,” Visser said. “Our students are very well prepared and our alumni often tell us that they can hit the floor running as soon as they start work.”

She said math is a field very much in demand as graduates of the program are able to find jobs in not only finance, but in the treasury department, engineering and research.

“It’s amazing how many major institutions come to directly recruit our students,” Visser said.

Institutions such as J.P. Morgan, Citibank, Wolfram Alpha, Ernst & Young and Black Rock are all among those that come to recruit graduates of the MSMF program, she said.

“The extra semester allows us to better prepare our students and delve deeper into the material.”

PAUL FEEHAN Director of the Mathmatical Finance Program

Ana Mastrogiovanni, a program administrator, said a great deal of the program’s success is due to the attention students receive from the moment they apply.

“We have a 24-hour response ser vice for applying

students, and I think that really influences a lot of people’s decisions when they’re tr ying to decide whether to go here or to NYU or one of the other schools with great programs,” Mastrogiovanni said.

Joseph Ross, a first semester student in the program, said the provided resources impressed him.

“There are more resources available at Rutgers than any of the previous programs of study I have had,” Ross said.

He said the University’s MSMF program is the only one he knows of that has its own Career Ser vices director. This enables students to receive personalized advice, events and recruiting sessions specifically for the industr y they wish to enter.

Ross said the individual guidance of fered along with the University’s proximity to New York for networking oppor tunities, are what appealed to him most about the program.

Mastrogiovanni said because class sizes are so small, the

staff is able to meet with each individual student to discuss any difficulties they may be having. Classes last year only held about 50 students.

Visser said the staf f tries to stay in contact with the alumni after graduation as well, informing them about job oppor tunities and reviewing their résumés and cover letters. In turn, many of the alumni will retur n to give lectures or par ticipate in mentoring programs.

“We manage to stay in contact with most of our alumni, but I would love if we could manage to stay in contact with 100 percent of them,” Feehan said.

He said he would also like to see more classes and more instructors with industr y experience, but that overall the program does an excellent job of keeping up with changing market needs.

“Topics important three years ago are no longer relevant,” Feehan said. “We constantly change course material to keep up with what is actually happening in the industry.”

NEWARK PROFESSOR RECEIVES $2M GRANT FOR EPILEPSY RESEARCH The National Institutes of Health awarded $2 million to a University professor for her ongoing epilepsy research.

Wilma Friedman, a professor in the Depar tment of Biological Sciences at Rutgers-Newark, is working to find out why epileptic seizures cause brain cells to die, compromising patients over time, according to a University Media Relations press release.

The benefits of her research if she and her team find an answer could extend beyond those stricken

with epilepsy, because the results could also help people who have suffered strokes or other traumatic brain injuries, according to the release.

It may also help for degenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.

“The work is rigorous and rewarding. If it can lead to positive therapies for these patients, then we’ve attained our goal,” Friedman said in the release.

She received numerous grants in the past for her work, with each fund supporting a different aspect of her work.

A previous NIH grant, that began in 2002 and runs through next year, went toward her overarching interest — gauging the role of neurotrophin growth factors in the brain after injury.

“Grants drive our operating budget,” Friedman said in the article. “Most lab positions are funded exclusively through these awards.”

Friedman said working with students drives her.

“It’s extremely gratifying to have students in the lab for four or five years and really have the chance to develop them as scientists,” she said in the article.

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Students from greek organizations answer trivia questions in a game of “Jeopardy” yesterday in Scott Hall on the College Avenue campus. The event was one of many that are part of “Derby Days.”

REVIEW: Members also push priority in B.E.S.T. hall continued from front While Mayor Jim Cahill said at a community forum last month that it is not in his power to invite the U.S. Department of Justice, changes in certain policies have been made. One includes that after a complaint is filed and reviewed by the NBPD, it must also be reviewed by the Middlesex County’s Prosecutors Office before it can be closed.

Diana Onuschak, SEBS Governing Council secretar y, said the call for a justice department investigation does not necessarily mean the students believe the prosecutor’s office would be unfit for the task.

“I don’t think we are questioning their capability, but [the resolution] is just recognizing that there is something going on in the community that we are a part of,” said Onuschak, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences senior.

Canavan said an investigation by the justice department should not affect the prosecutor’s office’s investigation.

“I think the prosecutor’s office should investigate it, but that should be no reason to stop a second check by the justice department,” he said.

Sharon Cubelo, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences junior, said she supported the resolution even though the NBPD does not directly affect students at the University.

“It would be good to support it to show the students at Rutgers actually care about the police department protecting the area around Rutgers,” she said.

The council approved the resolution unanimously after little debate.

The SEBS Governing Council also unanimously approved a resolution to push

for School of Environmental and Biological Sciences housing at the Busch, Engineering, Science and Technology (B.E.S.T.) residence hall.

School of Environmental and Biological Sciences students are currently not allowed to apply for housing in B.E.S.T. Hall, while students from other sciencebased schools are, according to the resolution.

Zaid Abuhouran, SEBS Governing Council president, said the residence hall might be good for some School of Environmental and Biological Sciences students whose majors are based on Busch campus.

“Most [School of Environmental and Biological Sciences] majors are on [Cook] campus but genetics and bioenvironmental engineering majors have their classes on Busch,” said Abuhouran, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences senior.

At a previous meeting about two months ago, Executive Director for Residence Life Joan Carbone said it did not occur to the University that School of Environmental and Biological Sciences students would want to live on Busch campus.

The council also proposed a safety walk on Cook campus, in which students walk around campus to find security and safety issues — such as a lack of lighting or cracked sidewalks — and bring them to the attention to the University.

The walk is something the Rutgers University Police Department community officer coordinates with other departments like University Facilities and Housing, said Michelle Jefferson, dean of students.

“We walk the areas that you want us to cover, and we make notes of lights that are out or shr ubs that need to be trimmed back because they are a safety hazard,” she said. “So it’s really impor tant that we have student participation.”

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

METRO

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Participants trot for local hunger awareness

BY LISA-ANNA MIGLIORE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Walkers of all ages trotted around Buccleuch Park on Sunday afternoon to raise awareness for world and local hunger during the “3K Turkey Trot Walk.”

More than 500 “trotters” including Middlesex County residents, University student groups, chefs and musicians raised $32,341 in donations as of yesterday, with plans to have the final number by later today, said Lisanne Finston, executive director of Elijah’s Promise.

“Elijah’s Promise heavily depends on [monetary] contributions from friends in the community and cannot raise funds without them,” said Michelle Wilson, Development and Community Relations director of Elijah’s Promise.

Pam Johnson, a chef at Elijah’s Promise, said the soup kitchen is more ambitious this year in advocating for its cause.

“Today Elijah’s Promise is trying to raise $60,000. Last year we raised $50,000, so this year we’re hoping to go a little higher,” Johnson said.

Each meal served costs $2.50, so $10 donated will be enough to feed four people, said Rachel Weissenburger, a University senior administrative assistant who volunteered at the event.

Jaimie Vennell, an Elijah’s Promise public relations intern, attended the event on behalf of the Civic Engagement and

Service Education Partnerships, an on-campus organization created to support public service.

“When I first started this, I have to admit, I wasn’t as excited as I am now,” said Vennell, a University alumna. “But with the economic situation we have going on, people don’t think that the middle class [and] working class need that much help, but they really do.”

Vennell, who researched hunger issues and repeatedly volunteers with Elijah’s Promise, said the soup kitchen reaches out to more people than just those who are homeless.

“Elijah’s Promise doesn’t just help the homeless and people that are starving, but the people that can’t meet ends sometimes,” she said. “When they have kids or they work all the time, [the soup kitchen] really [is] such a big help.”

Phi Kappa Psi, a University fraternity, appeared at the event for its second year to show support for Elijah’s Promise because of the soup kitchen’s credible reputation in the New Brunswick community, said Alvin Leung, the fraternity’s fundraising chair.

“Elijah’s Promise is a local food kitchen that makes a huge difference,” said Leung, a Rutgers Business School senior.

“A lot of people donate to large organizations where you don’t know where donations are going to. But with Elijah’s Promise, you know that it’s going to help people in the local area.”

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More than 500 attendants from Middlesex County “trot” in the “3K Turkey Trot Walk” in Buccleuch Park for Elijah’s Promise. They raised more than $32,341 in donations as of Monday.

Nikhil Guddeti, the Phi Kappa Psi’s philanthropy chair who attended the event for the first time, said the “Turkey Trot” was an eventful experience.

“We raise money ahead of time. We come here hours before the event, we come out to put up signs, put up tables [and] man the

stations,” said Guddeti, a School of Arts and Sciences junior.

The Chris Trotta Project, a musical group, performed at the event to entertain participants along the 3K path.

“We are volunteering our talents and our time. We had done a charity event at Pheasant’s

Landing and they invited us back to ‘Turkey Trot,’” said band member Chris Trotta.

Joe Tivade, a fellow band member, said his group wrote a song about the homeless population in New Jersey for Elijah’s Promise, called “Visible Silence.”

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

IN FOCUS

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Families leave legacy through University history

BY REENA DIAMANTE UNIVERSITY EDITOR

Jennifer Meyer met her husband Michael Schnur on March 26, 1985 — her first day working at Thomas Sweet Ice Cream and Chocolate on Easton Avenue.

Excitement ensued when the then University students realized they lived a mile away from each other, had mutual friends and lived in an off-campus apartment only three units away.

Amid confectionery creations and scooping ice cream for customers, Jennifer and Michael worked together throughout their college years until they graduated in 1987.

They achieved what they considered the unthinkable at the age of 24 by defying their previous collegiate ambitions and becoming the owners of Thomas Sweet.

More than 25 years later, the campus community can still find Jennifer and Michael, married, and working at the same shop that is minutes away from the College Avenue campus.

“If it wasn’t for Rutgers, this business probably wouldn’t be here. A lot of our customers are Rutgers faculty and students,” Michael said. “I mean, at the same time, we’re part of Rutgers, going to Rutgers and living at the next town over.”

As their store continues to sell sweets, the Schnurs — who are active alumni — still feel connected to the University, especially since they share the same alma mater as their older relatives and their son, Andrew, is enrolled at the Mason Gross School of the Arts.

But the Schnurs are just one among other families with generations of University graduates and current students who cannot seem to help but to extend their ancestral legacies on the banks of the old Raritan.

The Schnur-Meyer Sweets Before Michael and Jennifer met at Thomas Sweets, Michael said his grandfather was the one person who influenced him to attend the University by buying him engineering books. For Jennifer, she transferred from Raritan Valley Community College to the University and wanted to stay local.

The two followed the footsteps of some of their elder Scarlet Knights. Jennifer’s grandfather, Michael’s mother and his aunt attended the University.

Though Jennifer’s grandfather’s interest in animal husbandr y at Cook College did not encourage her specifically to attend the University, the overarching principle of a family of University graduates proved to be a dif ferent stor y for her son, Andrew.

“He’s got all this family history.

Everybody’s all Rutgers,” she said.

“Of course the fact that we’re still here on Rutgers campus, we still see all of our friends that we went to college with … because they can find us very easily when they come back here.”

To some degree, Jennifer said, her son almost did not want to attend the University because of its popularity among local high students planning for college and its proximity to their Piscataway home.

“But the more he thought about it, the more he realized it was a really good school and it was really what he wanted,” she said. “I think he’s really happy he made the choice to stay.”

Michael and Jennifer said their family’s relationship to the University revolves around them because they still work and live near the University campus.

Michael’s parents now live in southern California but fly to New Jersey on occasion, and his mother is an active alumna.

Several factors keep the Schnurs from relocating their business, like that New Brunswick’s central location in New Jersey between two major cities attracts many alumni, as well as travelers.

But Michael and Jennifer call the campus community the home they never left.

“The kids keep us young. …

We’ve got 25 to 30 employees and they’re almost all Rutgers students,” Jennifer said. “Our friends that we’ve made from going to Rutgers can find us here.”

Occasionally whenever there is a Homecoming Game, Rutgers Day or other major Universitywide event, the Schnurs have a treat and see their old friends and employees.

COURTESY OF STEVEN MILLER

Caryn Miller, a Graduate School of Education student, joins her grandparents, Sally Klein and Nathan Hindes, who are also University alumni, during University commencement last May.

“You wouldn’t have that if we had this business anywhere else,” Jennifer said. “You wouldn’t get the kind of connection.”

The Licciardi Siblings School of Engineering junior Chris Licciardi’s parents, Chris and Donna, attended the University.

His father’s six sibling, as well as some of their spouses — whom they met during school — are Scarlet Knights graduates.

The Licciardi family history enriched within the college proved to be a deciding factor for Chris, who grew up listening to stories surrounding the institution.

“When I was deciding what college to go to, whenever someone would tell me their experience at college, it was their experience at Rutgers and almost everyone had a great experience,” said the younger Chris Licciardi. “I couldn’t think of a reason not to come here.”

His grandmother, Paula, said she encouraged her seven children to attend the University because of its honorable reputation for higher education.

“I knew it was a good school. [I] have a number of children, and I wanted them to have the best education,” Paula said. “I encouraged them. I think they made the right decision. They’re all quite successful and happy. I think they learned a lot.”

The elder Chris Licciardi said he was not accepted into the engi-

neering program at first and spent his first year at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

“I ended up spending four years at Rutgers anyway,” he said. “It was a good school, it was reasonably priced and there was no reason to go any place else, for us anyway.”

Within the Licciardi family, the same alma mater created a sense of solidarity among the members.

“It’s always fun, we don’t really have competitions, like some people went to Harvard and some people went to Yale and compete which is a better school,” the elder Chris Licciardi said. “We all have camaraderie around the fact that we all went to Rutgers.”

Though he cites it is unlikely his 25 nieces and nephews will all choose to attend the institution, he continues to encourage them and expects, what seems like a family tradition, to continue.

“We’re all not going to Rutgers at this point, [but] a lot of the kids are and a lot of the kids plan to anyway,” the elder Chris Licciardi said.

The Miller Band Steven Miller, coordinator of undergraduate studies at the Department of Journalism and Media Studies, said for some reason people in New Jersey are self-haters, because they do not realize what a jewel they are at the University.

COURTESY OF CHRIS LICCIARDI

The Licciardi family is one of the several families on campus with generations of University graduates and current students. All seven of the Licciardi siblings and some of their spouses attained degrees from the institution.

“I’m not just saying that because I got a wonderful education here, and I’ve had career far beyond my greatest expectations here,” said Miller, a Rutgers College Class of 1979 graduate.

Miller’s brother, father-in-law, mother-in-law, his two brother-inlaws, his father-in-law’s sister, his niece, his niece’s husband and his younger daughter, Caryn, all acquired degrees from the University.

“So on both sides of the family, we are Rutgers through and through,” he said. “I keep telling my wife that when I go, they’re going to scatter my ashes in the Raritan or somewhere on campus.”

Miller’s devotion to the school influenced his daughter’s decision to attend the University, because he believes it is one of the best places a student can seek quality education at a reasonable price.

For Caryn, who graduated from the School of Arts and Sciences last May with a degree in history, the most valuable aspects of having a family with many University graduates, was sharing a single history.

“I’ll have my grandparents come here, and he’ll look at Brower, the dining hall, and say ‘Oh, that used to be the gym. That’s where the pool was,’” she said.

The shared experiences are something Car yn said she could easily relate to, unlike stories she hears from her mother who did not attend the University. She further equates her unique family stories to more universal issues.

“My grandfather ended up finishing Rutgers on the G.I. Bill. That’s a huge thing. My grandmother got a Ph.D here at Rutgers, and just women going to college when she did was a huge thing,” she said.

“Rutgers is inter twined with the larger histor y of my family and my community.”

Miller said the University is a place that had served him well, as it offers different opportunities to members of the community.

With a distinct flavor of its own, he called the University, “quintessentially New Jersey,” where students have the freedom to study almost anything.

“Rutgers has something for ever ybody,” Miller said. “Now, is it perfect? No, no place is perfect … but I think if you’re looking for a great education institutional for any member of your family, this is the place.”

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

EDITORIALS

Body cameras foster officer accountability

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new trend has cropped up in law enforcement — giving police officers small body cameras to wear on their shirts. These lightweight video cameras are designed to record everything that happens to an officer in the course of his duties to keep a log of potential evidence in criminal investigations, as well as monitor police behavior.

Currently, officers in Cincinnati, Ohio and Oakland, Calif. are wearing the cameras, and Seattle City Councilman Bruce Harrell wants to see them come to Seattle, too. As these cameras spread to precincts across the United States, some officers are fighting against them, arguing that the cameras keep unbearably close tabs on officers — like having a superior look over your shoulders at all times. Others oppose them on the grounds that victims of some crimes may not want to be recorded in certain situations. We understand the apprehension, but we ultimately feel that the benefits of these cameras far outweigh the potentially negative aspects.

Perhaps the best thing about these cameras is they truly require police officers to be 100 percent accountable for their actions. This is not to say police officers are generally untrustworthy or corrupt. Rather, it is to say that, whether you like it or not, corruption exists in law enforcement, as in most any other line of work. A crooked police officer is one of the more dangerous corrupt individuals in society, and that is why accountability is of the utmost importance. Too often, in instances of possible police misconduct, it is the victim’s word versus the officer’s. These cameras level the playing field by providing objective evidence. For police officers who are not corrupt, there is nothing to worry about.

Sure, the cameras may come as an annoyance, but we are certain that, after getting used to them, officers won’t even notice they are there.

Since these cameras would inevitably be recording the actions of private citizens in some cases, police departments must be careful in making sure these videos are not frivolously released to the public.

They should be the sole property of the departments themselves, and then only viewed when necessary, so as to protect the identities of the victims involved in altercations, as well as to let the officers wearing the cameras know their every move will not be needlessly scrutinized.

Consumers deserve to be kept informed

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ack in June, the Food and Drug Administration announced a plan that would force tobacco companies to place large graphic warnings on each carton of cigarettes. These warnings would include depictions of disturbing images such as a tracheotomy patient smoking through the hole in his neck and cancerous lungs, and they would bluntly let smokers know that “Cigarettes are addictive,” “Cigarettes cause cancer” and “Smoking can kill you.” Many saw this as a triumph of the FDA over the tobacco companies who peddle poisons to the masses. Unfortunately for the FDA and its proponents, these warnings were blocked by a judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, who agrees with the tobacco industry’s assertions that such warnings would infringe upon their First Amendment rights. Judge Richard Leon argues in favor of the tobacco industry that these warnings do not seek to merely inform consumers, but to actively discourage smoking. To this, we ask: Since when does the First Amendment allow major corporations to essentially lie by concealing the side effects of their products on consumers?

It is true that prior court decisions ruled that, in granting citizens freedom of speech, the First Amendment also grants users the freedom to abstain from speech. In special circumstances, however, Congress can force certain bodies to submit their speech to the public if that speech delivers important information to the public. It is clear this is a case where the tobacco industry is attempting to exercise its freedom of silence in keeping important information from the public.

In doing so, it also conveniently ignores the side effects of smoking.

As things currently stand, cigarette warnings are rather weak, alerting smokers to the fact that, “Smoking while pregnant may result in premature birth or low fetal birth weight,” for example. They are not giving smokers the full picture. Congress should have the power to extract the full picture from these companies, no matter how badly it makes the tobacco industry look.

Pharmaceutical companies are required to notify potential patients of possible side effects. You can probably recall seeing an advertisement for a pharmaceutical and laughing at the disconnect between the smiling family on screen and the long list of serious side effects — like death, in some instances — being rattled off by the voice over. If the FDA made drug companies explicitly inform the public of the possible dangers of their products, there is no reason tobacco companies should get off easy. After all — pharmaceuticals are designed to help people.

Why do we punish the companies with the nobler intent? It is not as if cigarettes have any sort of benefit at all which keeps them around.

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Protestors disregard societal laws

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the major theme of “Lord of illiam Golding’s the Flies” — humans long to classic novel return to an unorganized state “Lord of the of barbarism, where people Flies” tells the story of a can impose their own prefergroup of boys lost on an ences onto others. island where they descend The great irony, of course, into savagery and anarchy. is that this sort of anarchy Separated from their parents NOAH GLYN emanates from people who and society’s rules, the boys call on government to tax split into two factions: one led more, to spend more, to regulate more and to control

by Ralph, who seeks to restore order, and the other more. Call it “Lord of the Flies” meets George led by Jack, a savage boy who is only interested in Orwell’s “1984.” The protesters claim the right to be hunting and destroying others to achieve power. free from society, yet they call on Big Brother to help This novel reveals deep insights into human them achieve this separation. The totalitarian vision of nature about people’s inability to conquer their own “Lord of the Flies” emerges from the breakdown of longing for power and the need for society as a order and the triumph of man’s more primal urges. In check against man’s inner desires. “Lord of the “1984,” Big Brother is the product of too much order Flies” also teaches us something about the Occupy and the systematic repression of any natural instincts.

Wall Street protests.

Ultimately, this is a society of laws. Laws exist both The protests might have begun as a legitimate as a check against our primal urges and to protect our complaint against the disparity between the wealthy natural liberties. By living in society, we and the rest of this country and the reject the notion that we can act on all of effects of the current recession on our inclinations. We acknowledge that “The ‘occupiers’ young people. I submit that the rules must regulate us, and those who Occupy Wall Street protests should do not accept disobey the rules ought to be punished. redirect their anger and frustration to The protesters do not have a right Washington, D.C. Even then, I would the standards to remove themselves from society. If disagree with them on the substance of our society.” a woman is raped in Zuccotti Park, of their policy proposals. Nonetheless, the Occupy Wall Street protesters if the Occupy Wall Street movement don’t have the right to withhold the were simply “Protest Wall Street,” information from the police. then it would not be particularly dangerous.

But this is exactly what they have done, accordWe in the United States have a functioning ecoing to Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Rapists, drug nomic and political order — capitalism, democracy dealers, thieves and other criminals continue to and rule of law — that limits the ability of a mob to roam through Zuccotti Park. Because the protesters govern the decisions of an individual. Like the boys in see the police as oppressors, acts of violence are “Lord of the Flies,” the “occupiers” want to overturn going unreported. this system in favor of one that acts more swiftly and One Wall Street “occupier,” who had been sexuarbitrarily on behalf of the collective will. The “occually assaulted but waited several days to report the piers” believe they have isolated themselves from the crime to the police, summed it up thusly: “I’m a perrest of society, all in an attempt to achieve “social” jusfect example of somebody who went through the tice, which really only differentiates from actual jusprocess. I followed all the steps of the law and I felt tice in that it is subjective and not codified in any way. victimized by it. I felt like I was a criminal, too.”

The “occupiers” believe that the “system” has The “occupiers” do not accept the standards of failed them. They are “victims” of the law, the world our society. They live on land they do not pay for. financial system, the federal government and corpoThey bang drums all day and night which disturbs rations. This fanatical worldview pervades their the actual, legal residents of the neighborhood. every interaction with society outside their comThey choose not to report crimes to the authorities. mune. Therefore, when presented with the modest They defecate and urinate in the park. Their request that they vacate Zuccotti Park so their trash protests have resulted in lower sales for local busican be cleaned up, the “occupiers” reject it as a tacnesses, which have in turn resulted in many people tic of their oppressors.

— not people in the 1 percent — losing their jobs.

The Occupy Wall Street crowd is a group of generIt’s time for the government of New York City to ally unorganized people who have joined together assert the rule of law over the impulses of protestdespite any coherent goals or specific policy proposers. The government ought to clear the park and be als. Like Jack’s ruthless band of boys in “Lord of the prepared to use force, if necessary, to put an end to Flies,” they are united by a common scapegoat — the the occupation of private land. elusive “1-percenters.” Similarly, their claim to represent “the other 99 percent” is nothing but an attempt Noah Glyn is a School of Arts and Sciences senior at a majoritarian power grab. In the novel, as in reality, majoring in economics and history with a minor in it’s as though the size of their numbers excuses them Jewish studies. His column, “Irreconcilable from thought and persuasion. That the Occupy moveDifferences,” runs on alternate Tuesdays. ment has spread across the country is a testament to

Irreconcilable Differences

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Right wing uses divisive language to retain power Letter JOHN CONNELLY

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n reading conservative writing about Occupy Wall Street and the movement it spawned, the phrase “class warfare,” as to be expected, comes up often. This term is a favorite invective of the American right, which is strange, considering how little the right likes to talk about class in other contexts.

What I find most interesting, of course, is that to the American right, class warfare seems to be a one-way street.

It is not class warfare, apparently, when conservative writers and politicos demonize public workers. According to the Bureau of Labor, only about 12 percent of the U.S. population is

unionized. Yet, to hear Gov. Chris Christie or any number of Republican presidential wannabes put it, the big bad unions are responsible for our current unstable economic footing. But, in America, demonizing the working-class people and public sector employees is somehow not class warfare.

Also fair game is funding for education, especially higher education. Never mind silly concerns like social mobility or, for that matter, a social contract. If you want an education, go out and work for it, just like the baby boomers did. Just don’t think about the fact that educational funding was much more ef fective in our parents’ and grandparents’ time, the cost of living was lower, or that tuition

was affordable or even free in some states. When we fight for af fordable education, we Millennials are just being “entitled” or even “whiny.”

Ditto whenever anyone defends a program that helps working people or the ranks of our nation’s growing unemployed. Want a return to Clintonian tax rates? You must be jealous of the success of the wealthy. Posit that an economy that allows the top 1 percent to grab a majority of the countr y’s wealth is a fundamentally unhealthy one? You must be a socialist. Concerned that the poor dispropor tionately make up our grotesquely high prison population? Not only are you a class warrior, but you are soft on crime.

Daily review: laurels and darts

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ulture, though largely intangible, costs money. To cultivate a shared sense of history — and the pride that comes along with it — communities have to shell out the cash necessary to maintain historic sights, museums and so forth. In times of perpetual budget crisis, however, scraping together such large sums of money can often be difficult, resulting in landmarks which lapse into disrepair. But historic preservation is not doom and gloom for every community: In Union County, officials last month were able to present $500,000 in matching grants from the Union County Open Space, Historic Preservation and Recreation Trust Fund for use in restoring and maintaining 11 buildings located in eight different towns.

We give those responsible for the grant a laurel for demonstrating to everyone that our shared histories, a source of pride for all, need not suffer in the recession. *

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When a freak snowstorm hit the area on Halloween weekend, Mountainside, N.J., saw the same sort of tree damage that we here in New Brunswick did. However, the major difference between the two towns is that a little more than a week later, much of the debris was cleaned up from the streets of New Brunswick.

In Mountainside, however, public work crews are refusing to clean up the debris, because they’ve been told not to. Mayor Paul Mirabelli told residents they would need to hire private cleaning companies to take care of the downed trees — even the ones that were traditionally maintained by the government — because the town cannot afford the cleanup itself. We give officials in Mountainside a dart for this call. Can things really be so bad that they cannot even give their citizens a clean community?

And so on and so on, ad nauseam. This is not to say that a class war — if you want to use that term — does not exist. But I assure you union workers, Wall Street occupiers, students or anyone else with the ideas of economic justice at heart did not fire the first shots of the class war. If anything, the problem our economy faces is not that those pesky lefty politicos are engaging in “class war,” but that workers have had so few allies in these fights, and those allies have been such reluctant milquetoasts.

Of course, I do not blame right-wingers for using this kind of divisive language. For decades, the Republican Party, conservative pundits and other reactionary figures have owed much of their success to keeping

the working class from thinking critically about class. This has been accomplished by a number of tactics — by relying on a kind of internalized classism working-class people often exhibit, by race-baiting white workers and by successfully scaring the Democratic Party into sounding too much like a pack of “socialists.” What scares them is not that a “class war” is beginning, but rather that we’re finally fighting back.

John Connelly is a School of Arts and Sciences junior majoring in history and political science with a minor in social justice. He is vice president of the Rutgers University Student Assembly and an organizer for the Rutgers United Student Coalition.

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ormer Seton Hall men’s basketball star Kelly Whitney was sentenced to three years in prison for his admitted role in a gunpoint robbery.

The 28-year-old was charged with robbing eight college students at gunpoint March 15, 2010, in an off-campus house in South Orange, N.J. Whitney hoped to play professional basketball in Italy before the incident.

The former Pirate pleaded guilty in August and will be eligible for parole next October.

Whitney left the school in 2006 and ranks 17th on Seton Hall’s all-time scoring list.

His co-defendant, Robert Mitchell, was kicked off the team the day before the robbery.

The 25-year-old also pleaded guilty.

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The fourth-year coach will lead the team for the rest of the season, according to Mississippi Athletic Director Pete Boone, despite the program going more than a year without a Southeastern Conference victory.

Ole Miss (2-7, 0-6) lost 12 consecutive SEC games, bringing Nutt’s record with the Rebels to 24-23.

The Rebels face Louisiana Tech on Saturday at VaughnHemingway Stadium before ending the season with two conference games against Louisiana State and Mississippi State.

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Bradshaw missed the team’s last game because of a stress fracture in his right foot, while Nicks recovers from a hamstring injury. Baas nurses a knee injury.

Head coach Tom Coughlin said their availability depends on whether or not they can perform during the next two days of practice, according to The Newark Star-Ledger.

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Devils general manager Lou Lamoriello said he did not speak to doctors regarding the CT scan Boulton underwent over the weekend, according to The Newark Star-Ledger.

The GM also placed Rod Pelley and Mark Faser on waivers for the second time since the preseason ended.

leave at any time for another shot at the NFL. “What’s good about this job is I’m working with the guys and I’m actively involved in their lives, but I can still train myself,” Malast said. “On my own time I go over to the Hale Center. As long as teams are still calling, I’m going to keep going after it.”

Malast also works with the football team and strength and conditioning coach Jay Butler while at the Hale Center.

He ate lunch with head football coach Greg Schiano on his second day on the job, and Schiano was not surprised to see Malast take up coaching.

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“There’s certain guys you just While Malast trained with the see and say, ‘That guy’s going to football team during the season be a heck of a coach,’” Schiano and offseason, Goodale took his said. “There’s other guys you see wrestling recruits to watch and say, ‘That guy would never Malast in the weight room. do the work it takes to be a The pair goes back to when coach.’ Kevin’s one of those guys Malast grew up in Manchester, that just gets totally N.J., neighboring into something. You Goodale and Jackson have to have a little bit Memorial High School, of an off-center personand Malast trained ality to do this.” under Goodale.

Malast called it Now he takes his a product of his prepatraining under Butler, ration: He studied who develops specific enough game tape programs for ever y ever y week that a situfootball player, and KEVIN ation never caught applies it to the him off guard. wrestling team.

MALAST The results were “I actually went two seasons as a starter. He fin- through the program,” Malast ished second on the team with said. “It’s one thing coming in 92 tackles and 2.5 sacks as a jun- as an outsider and tr ying to ior, and then made 101 tackles as implement his program, but I’ve a senior. been through it — I know it

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works. I know what it’s all about firsthand, so it’s easier to teach that way.”

One of his pupils is Goodale, who welcomes the opportunity to let Malast coach his team for an hour while Goodale trains alongside them.

It is exactly what Goodale hoped for while Malast still played football. Schiano expected it, as well, and although he is quick to say it is only his own speculation, he thinks Malast’s future is coaching football.

“My job here and now is with the strength program. I do love football, though,” Malast said.

“When I’m done playing, an ideal job would be to coach football here one day under coach Schiano and go from there. For now, I’m going to do the best I can with this job, my first real coaching job.”

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SEASON: Sophomore Deering could see more touches continued from back Schiano said he would rather avoid using freshmen Paul James and Ben Martin.

“We have Jeremy Deering, and Jeremy is a multi-talented guy,” Schiano said. “Joe can carry. We’ve given the ball to Joe as a single back, so we can continue to do those things.”

Deering has only 22 rushes in a one-dimensional role, while Martinek last earned steady carries early in 2010 before an ankle injury limited him.

The Rutgers coaching staff did not inform Deering of any potential changes in touches following results from Huggins’ testing, he said.

“They haven’t said anything to me yet. I don’t know anything,” Deering said. “All I do is show up to practice and do what they ask me to do.”

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helmets for the Knights’ matchup Saturday against Army at Yankee Stadium. The all-white helmets feature an American flag logo inside the Rutgers block ‘R.’ The helmets’ significance is multi-fold, Schiano said.

“The biggest is respect for Army, Army football and really all our armed forces both overseas and back home,” he said.

Army head coach Rich Ellerson and the Black Knights’ relationship with Rutgers after Eric LeGrand’s paralyzing injury

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last year also played a part, Schiano said.

The team sent notes, gifts and Army memorabilia to LeGrand and Rutgers while the senior rehabbed following the fractured vertebra he suffered on kickoff coverage against Army last season at New Meadowlands Stadium.

“The level of class that Coach Ellison and his program have shown … is what makes college sports special,” Schiano said.

The all-white helmet is the fourth different variation of the season for the Knights, following the traditional red look and two versions of their allblack uniforms.

“I’m in love with them,” said senior defensive tackle Justin Francis. “It’s just a helmet — that’s what you put on to go play ball — but it’s added to look good and it means something.”

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Khaseem Greene earned Big East Defensive Player of the Week recognition yesterday for his 17-tackle effort against South Florida.

Greene’s 17 stops Saturday gave him 92 for the season. He recorded 77 tackles in 2010 as the Knights’ starting free safety.

“Sometimes I’m just in the right place to make tackles,” Greene said. “I’m very happy about the award, but that’s all credited to the defensive line and secondary.”

Greene was the sixth Knight this season to earn individual Player of the Week honors from the Big East and the third to win the defensive award.

KEITH FREEMAN / PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Junior linebacker Khaseem Greene became the sixth Scarlet Knight to earn Big East recognition yesterday, when the conference announced him as its Defensive Player of the Week.

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Junior wide receiver Mohamed Sanu pulls in an 11-yard reception to convert a fourth-and-9 in the fourth quarter Saturday against South Florida. Chas Dodd completed seven passes to Sanu for 60 yards on a game-tying 80-yard drive after the Scarlet Knights trailed by 14 earlier in the quarter against the Bulls.

DODD: Nova speaks with former QB Teel after benching continued from back “Nothing surprised me. I would have liked to play a lot better,” Nova said. “We weren’t really rolling. Coach told me they wanted to see if Chas could give us a spark, and he did that.”

It created the first adversity Nova ever truly faced.

He went 24-0 as a starter at Don Bosco Prep and won a pair of state titles. He went unbeaten on the freshman and junior varsity teams, as well. He threw six interceptions as the varsity starter in Ramsey, N.J. Then he turned the ball over 10 times in the past four weeks.

Nova says it made him mentally tougher, but it did not stop him from reaching out to former Rutgers and Don Bosco quar terback Mike Teel, who coaches at Kean.

“It just feels good hearing it from someone who’s been

through it,” Nova said. “It’s hard being a freshman, coming in here and being in this of fense for only four months, then playing against West Virginia, Louisville and teams like that. I’m not using that as an excuse. It’s just good to be able to talk to someone like Mike.”

Dodd admits it was tough to watch as turnovers mounted and he remained on the sideline, but it did not stop him from helping Nova.

The sophomore from South Carolina spent the of fseason taking ownership of the offense, and teammates on both sides of the ball pointed to him as a leader.

“It’s kind of weird … going through the spring and being the guy, then missing those four games,” Dodd said. “It’s tough. It’s different. It’s kind of a shock to your system. You just have to get used to it, keep playing and understand it’s coach’s decision.”

By all accounts, Dodd understood.

“He was still leading and still rallying the guys. He was even coaching up Paul Hamersma, who is the third-string quarterback, as well as Gary,” said junior wideout Mohamed Sanu. “Chas is just that type of guy.”

The biggest question comes in the form of on-field production.

Dodd’s completion percentage is 55.6, while Nova’s is 50.5. Dodd averages 175.8 passing yards per game in five appearances and four starts, while Nova averages 154.4 yards through eight games and five starts.

Dodd threw seven touchdowns and four interceptions.

Nova threw for nine scores and seven picks.

“There’s times you get upset about [not star ting], but you know Coach feels that way for a reason,” Dodd said. “He must be doing something better, so you have to up your game. It’s a competition ever y single time we go on the practice field — I know that and he knows that — and it’s going to continue to be that way for the rest of the season.”

KEITH FREEMAN / PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Freshman quarterback Gary Nova was 81-of-158 for 997 yards with seven touchdowns and as many interceptions as a starter.

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Irish handle Rutgers in straight-set sweep

BY PATRICK LANNI STAFF WRITER

The Rutgers volleyball team learned a valuable lesson in a late October five-set loss to Marquette in Milwaukee, Wis. “When you go on the road, y o u VOLLEYBALL have to RUTGERS 0 match t h e NOTRE DAME 3 team’s energy and intensity,” said head coach CJ Werneke.

The fourth-year coach stressed that message this week before the Scarlet Knights took to the road one final time for a pair of weekend matchups.

But the Knights did not answer their coach’s calling.

Notre Dame swept Rutgers in straight sets Sunday, taking advantage of a crowd of nearly 1,000 at Purcell Pavilion in South Bend, Ind. Jeni Hauser led all players with nine kills to pace a balanced Irish (15-9, 8-4) attack that featured nine players in the kill column. Seven Knights (8-21, 1-2) recorded kills, with sophomore Tiffany Regmund finishing atop the stat sheet.

“Notre Dame came out strong and we did not match their intensity,” Werneke said.

“We did not have a good effort or mindset and really did not have a say in the matter.”

Hitting percentages told most of the story, as Notre Dame’s .356 average was the highest an opponent hit against the Knights in Big East play.

The Knights are winless against teams that hit better than .250, let alone .356.

Rutgers countered with a .060 percentage, well below its season average, while the Knights’ 25 kills were its lowest total in Big East play thus far.

It marked a step backward after Rutgers displayed the energy Werneke wanted Friday night at DePaul (7-19, 3-8).

Four players recorded double-digit kills, but the Knights again found themselves on the losing end of a five-set match.

They lost momentum in a 25-17 fourth-set loss.

DePaul carried that over into the decisive fifth set with a 15-12 victor y.

Senior captain Hannah Curtis and freshman Sofi Cucuz paced the Knights offensively with 14 kills.

Libero Kallie Pence handled the Blue Demon attack defensively, tallying a team-high 20 digs. The senior captain from College Station, Texas, brought her season total to 347 in Chicago, placing her eighth all time in Rutgers histor y.

Despite struggling with results, junior setter Stephanie Zielinski continued her Big East leading double-double streak.

Notching Nos. 16 and 17 this weekend, the Fort Lauderdale, Fla., native’s consistency once again put the Knights in the right spots.

The team simply did not capitalize at Notre Dame or DePaul.

Home matches at the College Avenue Gym this weekend present the Knights with an oppor tunity to rebound.

Winless on the road in Big East play and 3-13 on the season, Rutgers is 5-6 at the Barn, where it hosts Connecticut and St. John’s to end the season.

The teams join Rutgers and DePaul to make up the bottom four teams in the conference.

Whether home or on the road, Rutgers has to apply its lesson learned at Marquette to end its season on a high note.

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Sophomore Chelsea Rolin led the Scarlet Knights with two individual titles Friday in a home victory against Wagner. Rolin also won as a member of the Rutgers 200-yard medley relay.

RU clinches fourth straight win

BY BRADLY DERECHAILO STAFF WRITER

The one objective Rutgers head swimming and diving coach Phil Spiniello wanted to accomSWIMMING & DIVING plish at WAGNER 121 l a s t Friday’s RUTGERS 165 h o m e m e e t was to get a full team effort.

The Scarlet Knights responded by capturing a 165-121 win against Wagner en route to their fourth victory of the season. The team now boasts an undefeated record with four wins, including three in the Big East, and took first in 11 out of 16 events.

“It was a good meet,” Spiniello said. “I was happy with the whole team. It was a team effort and we did some good things in both swimming and diving.”

In total, seven swimmers took first in their respective events.

Chelsea Rolin led the Knights with two individual titles. The sophomore took first in both the 100-yard freestyle and 100-yard backstroke. Along with her two individual wins, she captured the 200-yard medley relay along with senior Brianne Lindblad, junior

Taylor Curado and former Big East Swimmer of the Week Trisha Averill.

Lindblad led a trio of Knights in the 50-yard freestyle. Her time of 24:59 beat out teammates Curado and Averill, who finished second and third, respectively, in the event.

Newcomer Lindsay GibsonBrokop narrowly beat out fellow freshman Caroline Carlisle in the 200-yard backstroke.

Gibson-Brokop’s finishing time of 2:11.0 was only .7 seconds less than Carlisle, who took second in the event.

Seniors Jacquelyn Ward and Michelle Berman, junior Taylor Zafir and sophomore Emilie Kaufman also finished in first for the Knights.

“I think it was a great continuation of positive energy,” said junior diver Katie Kearney. “The team came together, kept the enthusiasm up and got another win under our belt.”

For Wagner, the loss marked its first on the short season. The Seahawks posted two team victories along with three individual wins.

Swimmer Alexandra Cooney continued her strong season for Wagner when she took home the 500-yard freestyle

event. The sophomore also aided her team’s first-place finish in the 200-yard freestyle relay.

In diving, Rutgers took home both the 3- and 1-meter dive titles. Sophomore Nicole Scott beat out junior Carissa Santora for a first-place finish in the 1meter event while Santora won the 3-meter dive.

“We need to keep up with finishing our dives,” Kearney said.

“We know how to do our dives and we just need to continue with how we do them in practice.

[Friday] we came together and did great.”

The strong start has Spiniello excited for the rest of the season, but the second-year coach knows his team needs to hit the pool hard this week in order to improve for this weekend’s twoday swim event. The Big East meet, which begins Friday, features Texas Christian and Seton Hall, providing a challenge for Spiniello’s undefeated team.

“It’s going to have to be a complete team effort to beat both of those teams,” Spiniello said. “Both are ver y talented teams and we are going to have to swim and dive to the best of our ability to hang with both of those teams.”

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Carter develops rhythm from wing

BY TYLER BARTO

closely revealed their progress, Rice said.

“The ball didn’t stick in anyThere was a moment in the body’s hand. They’re learning to Rutgers men’s basketball team’s use the offense and use each MEN’S BASKETBALL exhibition other to be successful,” Rice S u n d a y said. “That’s about growth and when freshman Eli Carter found development. You don’t have to his shooting stroke. make ever y play ever y time It was not as palpable as his down the court.” good days during the summer Carter, Mack and Seagears in the Jersey Shore Basketball found out before game time that League, but the results were all three would start after Rice still impressive in Car ter’s held junior Dane Miller out of the first showing. contest because of missed class “It wasn’t like that, but I was in the spring semester. in a little rhythm,” Carter said.

They responded with an The rookie guard led the encouraging showing, Rice said, Scarlet Knights with 18 points flashing the ability to run the and shot 4-for-6 from beyond head coach’s re-screen offense. the arc against RutgersBy all accounts, they needed to.

Newark. His 15 Rutgers gradushots also led ated its starting the team. backcourt of “The ball didn’t Carter once James Beatty and stick in anybody’s Mike Coburn in dropped 40 points at the JSBL May, leading to hand. They’re in Belmar, N.J., the freshmen’s learning to use where the Rutgers accelerated freshmen played learning cur ve the offense and together for the in Piscataway. first time.

If Sunday was use each other.”

“Eli’s a great any measureMIKE RICE guard. You just ment, Rice has get him the ball Head Coach the luxur y of when he’s open turning to threeand I think he’ll guard sets. knock it down,” said freshman “We’re going to play smaller point guard Myles Mack. because those three are really “Just getting him the ball hard to guard,” Rice said. whenever he needs it, that’s “They can all create their own good for him.” shots, create for others or Carter scored 10 points after shoot it. They just have to be intermission, converting two of patient and disciplined.” his three 3-point attempts in 15 The three freshmen also minutes on the floor. sparked the Knights’ transition But he was also one of three game, noticeably absent a season Knights to bring the ball up the ago. There were times in floor, joining Mack and fellow Piscataway when Rutgers even freshman Jerome Seagears. appeared uncomfortable on the Head coach Mike Rice fast break. recruited Carter, then at prep It was not the case for Rice’s school at Brewster Academy slew of backcourt additions.

(N.H.), as a combo guard. He “It speeds it up a lot since we showed flashes of that ability don’t have one person running Sunday at the Louis Brown back to the ball,” Mack said. “We Athletic Center. can just go without thinking “I was just trying to come out about it because we know all and play hard. I was trying to give three of us can handle.” my team some energy,” Carter Mack insists there is no said. “Everybody came out with method to their madness on good intensity [and] came out the break. It all simply star ts playing hard.” with whoever has the ball at The trio of freshman ball han- the time. dlers combined for 10 assists More often than not, it meant and six turnovers in the Knights’ open looks for Carter.

80-66 exhibition victor y. But “Whoever gets the ball, just their ability to move the ball and go,” Mack said. “We play facilitate the offense more from there.”

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Freshman guards Jerome Seagears, Eli Carter and Myles Mack each started for the Scarlet Knights on Sunday in their exhibition against Rutgers-Newark, combining for 10 assists in the win.

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Schedule Poster and Magnet Night

Nov. 20

Hampton

Noon

Kids’ Day and RAH Food Drive

Dec. 3

Louisiana State

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SAAC Toy Drive

Dec. 7

Princeton

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Faculty/Staff Night

Dec. 22

NJIT

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Family 4-Pack

Jan. 4

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Faculty/Staff Night

Jan. 25

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Jan. 28

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Youth Hoopsters’ Night and RAH Food Drive

March 3

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Fan Appreciation Night

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Head coach Mike Rice and the Rutgers men’s basketball team will host nine promotional events in his second season in Piscataway.

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KEITH FREEMAN / PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Sophomore quarterback Chas Dodd started the first four games of the season before freshman Gary Nova replaced him in the third quarter Oct. 1 at Syracuse. Dodd returns to the starting lineup for Saturday’s game against Army at Yankee Stadium.

Schiano turns to sophomore for Saturday’s start after fourth-quarter comeback against USF

BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

Gar y Nova heard the boos for the first time in his life last week as he struggled to produce. Chas Dodd heard the cheers as he trotted FOOTBALL toward the huddle for the first time in five weeks in the four th quar ter Saturday against South Florida.

Each heard Sunday that Dodd will return to the starting role Saturday against Army.

“It’s been a couple weeks since I’ve had to start, and it was big to get it again,” said the sophomore Dodd. “I was just excited about it and I still am.”

Still, neither insists anything changed.

Dodd says he prepared as if he would start even after he spent 20 quarters and two overtime periods on the bench. Nova insists he will do the same.

Rutgers head football coach Greg Schiano said he could go back to Nova at any moment if he decides the freshman gives the Scarlet Knights the best chance to win.

Rutgers went three-and-out and trailed, 10-3, to South Florida when Schiano decided to move away from Nova for the first time.

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FIVE-STAR RECRUIT COMMITS TO STRINGER, 2012 CLASS The Rutgers women’s basketball team’s frontcour t depth took a hit after a preseason injur y to WOMEN’S BASKETBALL senior for ward Chelsey Lee, but the Scarlet Knights took the first steps in addressing that issue yesterday with a commitment from a fivestar recruit.

Rachel Hollivay, a 6-foot-4 post player, committed to head coach C. Vivian Stringer via phone call yesterday as the team practiced, creating a frenzy among Stringer and players, according to ESPN.com.

Hollivay is RACHEL ranked eighth HOLLIVAY overall by ESPN Hoopgurlz and joins guard Precious Person — ranked 69th overall — in the Knights’ 2012 recruiting class.

With Lee receiving an extra year of eligibility after undergoing seasonending shoulder injury, the Knights will enter the 2012 season with four pure post players — Lee, Hollivay, Monique Oliver and Christa Evans.

Hollivay, a Columbus, Miss., native, chose Rutgers over Pat Summit and Tennessee, and is expected this Friday to sign her National Letter of Intent.

With Person offering only a verbal commitment, Hollivay’s signing would mark the first recruit Stringer locked up for her 2012 class.

— Anthony Hernandez

Former LB Malast joins wrestling staff

BY STEVEN MILLER

Huggins set to miss rest of regular season

BY TYLER BARTO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

Freshman running back Savon Huggins saw an abrupt end to his first regular season with the Rutgers football team Saturday, when he suffered a knee injury.

Head coach Greg KNIGHT Schiano said the NOTEBOOK injur y does not require season-ending surgery, and he hopes Huggins will be available for the Scarlet Knights’ bowl game.

“You could tell Saturday night I was very, very concerned,” Schiano said. “It’s not good losing him for any time, but I’m just thankful.

It’s a blessing he doesn’t need surgery.”

Huggins, the highest-rated recruit in program history, rushed for only 146 yards this season for a 2.6-yard average.

He still scored five touchdowns as the Knights’ temporary short-yardage back, but Rutgers must look elsewhere for production behind redshirt freshman Jawan Jamison.

Sophomore Jeremy Deering and senior fullback Joe Martinek figure to be the candidates for increased workloads, as

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Freshman running back Savon Huggins will miss the Scarlet Knights’ final three regular season games after suffering a knee injury Saturday against South Florida.

SPORTS EDITOR

Rutgers head wrestling coach Scott Goodale began courting Kevin Malast when the latter was still a linebacker and captain on the Rutgers football WRESTLING team.

First, Goodale wanted Malast, who won 100 matches at Manchester Township High School, to wrestle for the Scarlet Knights.

Then, Goodale wanted him to coach.

Goodale got his wish last week.

Malast joined Goodale’s coaching staff as a strength and conditioning coach, which he will serve as while still pursuing a career in the NFL. “I always wanted him to be our strength and conditioning coach,” Goodale said. “I just thought with his wrestling mentality and the way he goes about his life, it would be great for our guys. He still has a dream in the NFL and he’ll pursue that dream for as long as possible, but in the meantime he’ll be with our guys.”

Malast started Oct. 21, a week after he was in Oakland to try out with the Raiders.

He was with the Tennessee Titans for training camp and signed with the Chicago Bears after the 2009 Draft, but has yet to stick with a team.

Still, Malast is not ready to give up. His contract contains a clause that allows him to

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