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City opens Gateway parking deck

BY YASHMIN PATEL STAFF WRITER

Once considered a center for transpor tation, New Brunswick can now live up to its “Hub City” nickname.

After several financial setbacks, the vision of a Gateway parking deck on the cor ner of Easton Avenue and Wall Street is now open and available for the public to use.

“There are so many urban projects that fail because people can’t figure out parking,” said Christopher Paladino, president of the New Brunswick Development

Corporation (DEVCO). “In New Brunswick it’s not a problem.”

With the parking deck, the city aims to ease congestion from the limited parking spaces available, Paladino said.

“It’s been very difficult to park in this neighborhood, so this will take some pressure off of that,” he said.

With 657 available parking spaces, the parking deck costs about $15 million and will charge $2 per hour to park, said Mitchell Karon, executive director of the Parking Authority of the City of New Brunswick.

The revenue made from the parking deck will go toward

paying back the banks from which it bor rowed money, Paladino said.

“We borrowed all of it. So for the foreseeable future, all the money goes to paying back bond holders, banks and other financial par ticipants,” he said.

More parking spaces will also make it easier for commuters using the train and for those who are going to the local businesses in the community, Karon said.

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Randi Borgen, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field office director, leads new citizens in the Oath of Allegiance at the Eagleton Institute of Politics on Douglass campus.

Immigrants take oaths at University’s first citizenship ceremony

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City and New Brunswick Development Corporation officials cut a ribbon to officially open the Gateway parking garage for public use yesterday afternoon at the corner of Easton Avenue and Wall Street.

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Thirty-four women and men from 17 countries spanning five continents were naturalized yesterday, marking the end of their months-long journeys to become American citizens.

The Eagleton Institute of Politics’ Program on Immigration and Democracy hosted the ceremony on Douglass campus — the first at the University.

“New Jersey has 400,000 green card holders — well, it has 34 less after today — but we want to extend the resources of Rutgers to help those people move into citizenship and assume those rights and responsibilities,” said Anastasia Mann, program director.

The citizenship candidates hailed from China to Ukraine and live in Middlesex and Somerset counties. Mann said New Jersey is a very diverse state, as about one-quarter of its residents are foreign-born.

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Occupy New Brunswick protesters sit in front of Bank of America on the corner of George Street and Albany Street yesterday, attempting to raise awareness about the struggles of home foreclosures.

With the gender neutral housing program reaching two-and-a-half months at the University, Residence Life officials say the program is off to a good start.

Despite low participation numbers, the program has not experienced any glitches in its first semester.

The administration has decided to leave it untouched until fall 2012 — and possibly expand it to more campuses — when more residence halls could be offered. “[There is] no change for next semester,” said Joan Carbone, the executive director of Residence Life. “It’s possible in the fall of 2012 that we will also include some of the new apartments on Livingston. Then there would pretty much be an oppor tunity on ever y campus.”

Approved last year, the option of gender neutral housing allows for sophomores, juniors and seniors to choose their roommates regardless of gender.

Students who choose this option may live in New Gibbons or Rockoff Hall on Douglass campus or Demarest Hall on the College Avenue campus.

Phil Lu, a School of Ar ts and Sciences sophomore who is part of the program, said he did not find many differences between living with someone of the same gender and his current living situation.

“My experience has been great,” Lu said. “I really think it is more about understanding and respecting your roommate rather than their gender.”

He met his roommate, Nina Macapinlac, last year in their calculus class. The two decided to live together at Demarest Hall on the College

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‘Dancing with the Stars’ selects Mason Gross graduate’s sketches

BY KIERSTEN ZINNIKAS CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Amanda Wolf f, a Mason Gross School of the Ar ts alumna, spent two days scrambling to submit her costume designs for a contest with “Dancing with the Stars.”

But after meeting the Oct. 21 deadline and waiting for two weeks, the Class of 2011 graduate said she was in shock when she lear ned about her win through a phone call from a coworker.

“I thought it would be a fun thing to do,” said Wolf f, who has always loved the show. “I wasn’t expecting to win.”

Dancers Anna Trebunskaya and Derek Hough wore her designs last night during the show

while Wolff said she watched live in the audience in Los Angeles.

The competition was to design costumes for a male and a female dancer per forming Lady Gaga’s song, “Bad Romance,” she said. Wolf f based her designs on what she thought would add an edginess that matched the dance and the song.

“I feel lucky that I have this chance,” she said.

The top-five finalists of the contest were notified Oct. 28 of their standing, Wolf f said. Voting for the winner was open to the public and took place online between Oct. 31 and Nov. 3.

She said she hopes the exposure will help her generate more job opportunities in the future.

As a senior at the University, Wolf f worked in the Mason Gross School of the Ar ts Costume Shop for 12 hours a week, said Catherine Homa-Rocchio, Costume Shop super visor.

She said she thought it was exciting and inspirational to see the possibility of an alumna achieving such a feat after completing her undergraduate education.

“I could tell from her work ethic and her talent that she would have no problem,” Homa-Rocchio said.

Wolff said she has been interested in design for years and helped design costumes for musicals in high school as well as making jackets for the musical, “Forever Plaid” for a community theater.

Before transfer ring to Mason Gross in the beginning of her sophomore year, Wolf f said she attended Savannah College for graphic design.

Wolf f said this was not her first time she designed costumes in theme with Lady Gaga and other contemporar y songs.

She also designed such costumes as par t of a project for her costume design class with Mason Gross School of the Ar ts par t-time lecturer David Murin.

She also designed costumes for the Mason Gross stage production “Egyptology” during her senior year, Homa-Rocchio said.

Wolf f currently works at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia as a costume

apprentice, she said. Her time as an apprentice will last nine months, and she is working on costume designs for “A Christmas Carol.”

George Stauf fer, dean of the Mason Gross School of the Ar ts, said Wolf f’s stor y is an example of what a University degree can do and the benefits a student can find after attending the school.

“At Mason Gross, we are deeply committed to networking our students with professional circles, so they can graduate and move smoothly into the world of the ar ts,” he said.

“Amanda Wolf f stands as a shining example of how quickly that can happen. A Rutgers degree opens the door of oppor tunity.”

Alumna strives to defy disability stereotypes

BY LISA BERKMAN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Alumna Santina Muha, the 2009 Ms. Wheelchair New Jersey, made a guest appearance at the Busch Campus Center on Monday evening during a screening of “Defining Beauty,” a documentar y about her and three other paraplegic contestants.

The screening, courtesy of Rutgers Empowering Disabilities, aimed to remove stigmas associated with disabilities and promote equality for those with disabilities, said Mital Gajjar, RED president.

“We’re trying to show all these people that people with disabilities shouldn’t be defined by their disabilities,” said Gajjar, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “There’s a unique flaw in them, but they’re regular human beings.”

Muha, who has been handicapped since she was a child, said she grew up around people who told her she would be limited in the things she could do. But her family was key to her independence. “[They] did a really good job of treating me like a normal kid,” she said. “My mom taught me to ask for help when I need it, but try to do it myself first. As a general rule of thumb, I did.”

Despite her self-sufficiency, she said navigating around the University was difficult.

“[Rutgers] is one of the oldest colleges out there, so there are a lot of buildings that aren’t accessible,” Muha said. “With transportation, my friends could just hop on the EE, [but] I couldn’t really do that.”

Jamie Nacht, RED vice president, said being a student in a wheelchair is difficult, but she overcame obstacles associated with the disability.

“It’s an uphill battle at times and there are times when you want to do something you just can’t do,” said Nacht, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “But it’s always a very rewarding experience when you find a way to make things work.”

Muha said although it is difficult, she advised those struggling to never give up.

“It’s really important to follow your dreams and not pay too much attention to what people think about you,” she said.

“Just go towards the goal and then let people talk. Don’t let them tell you that you’re not going to get there.”

Victor Troya, Muha’s boyfriend, said people should not assume the disabled are helpless and overcome the traditional stereotypes associated with being in a wheelchair.

“People see her for what she can’t do. They think, ‘She’s in a wheelchair. She can’t do this,’” Troya said. “Ever ybody is so

amazed by the fact that she can do so much.”

Nacht said Muha demonstrated through her achievements it is possible for individuals with disabilities to overcome their adversity and be adventurous.

“In the film, the one that actually inspired me the most is this one girl that goes skydiving and I’m like, ‘That can be my new goal,’” she said. “Even in a wheelchair, I can go skydiving.”

Troya said advocates should be taking a more active role in public speaking to help reshape society’s attitudes about the disabled.

“They should have more people speak out and have public speakers that are in wheelchairs in the schools,” he said. “That way when people see [the disabled] in the street, they won’t stare and think it’s weird because they already met someone who’s just like that.”

Although Muha is leaving behind her beauty pageant career, she plans to continue advocating in schools and pursue a career in media.

“I’m always going to be an advocate because people are always going to have questions,” she said. “If I could get into the entertainment industr y like I would love to do, then I’d like to be an advocate. I’d like to integrate myself in the day-to-day, whatever it may be.”

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Santina Muha, alumna and 2009 Ms. Wheelchair New Jersey winner, says people with disabilities can conquer their challenges.

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DECK: Project cost about

“[It] took six years to design, put together the par tnerships and, most impor tant$150 million, made 325 jobs ly, in the most dif ficult economic times … put together continued from front financing this,” he said.

“There’s $150 million [that] it the platform, it’s going to be took to build this building.” ideal for commuters,” he said.

During the banking crisis in The parking garage will fur2008, the development project ther bring in business for local experienced some struggles, eateries and shops in the comsaid Jim Cahill, mayor of New munity, Paladino said.

Brunswick.

“For the Easton Avenue “Thankfully, the bond fundmerchants, it’s a ver y positive ing created thing because it under President does provide “I would suggest O b a m a ’ s over 600 parking A m e r i c a n spaces for their to you that R e c o v e r y customers,” he Investment Act said. if it was easy, allowed this Paladino said everyone would project to move he could not have for ward,” he imagined continbe doing it.” said. “[It creatuing the Gateway JIM CAHILL ed] over 350 Transit Village New Brunswick Mayor much needed project without construction creating a New jobs over the Br unswick parklast two years.” ing garage.

There will be 325 full-time A mix of understanding the jobs when economics and having a the Gateway building is finstrong, well managed authoriished, Cahill said. ty led to the completion of not “[It’s] a tremendously only the parking deck but also impor tant and much needed the Gateway building, he said. achievement in today’s ecoThe Gateway Transit nomic climate,” he said.

Village — a development projCahill said the team ef for t ect that will include residential from DEVCO, the University units, of fice spaces and busiand the Parking Authority nesses — has been a project in transformed a site that was the making for six years but once dominated by dir t was built in less than 24 and rubble. months, Paladino said.

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John Carter, project manager of the Gateway Transit Village, applauds after the ceremonial ribbon cutting yesterday that opened the 657-space parking deck.

HOUSING: Kurtz hears positive feedback on program continued from front Avenue campus soon after both of them drew high housing lotter y numbers.

“I am a second-year student, so I only have last year to compare to, but last year I lived in an all-girls honors dorm, so I suppose it’s a bit different,” said Macapinlac, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore. “But honestly, I think the difference lies in the residence hall itself, not in my roommate being a guy.”

Macapinlac said she found the experience of living in gender-neutral housing dif ferent but not negative. Moving from Douglass campus to College Avenue gave her the experience of a louder campus, but not an uncomfor table one.

“Having other guys on the same floor is a lot dif ferent, but I am comfor table with [my roommate] because he is one of my best friends,” she said.

Macapinlac said University students are often limited in their choices of roommates.

Having the option of choosing to live with someone of the opposite sex increases the chances of finding someone suitable, she said.

“I think that the University should keep it, because a lot of people are sor t of limited by who they can choose to live with,” she said. “If they want to live with a guy, then that should be fine.”

Jenny Kur tz, director of the Center for Social Justice and LGBT Communities, said she was happy with the current housing and spoke with several students living in genderneutral housing.

“Some of the students who came to me said it was a great experience,” Kur tz said.

She said some of the skepticism from last semester and

the introduction of these residence halls came from doubts over how it all might af fect the University community.

“It’s just another great option,” she said. “It hasn’t af fected the community and there’s no way [for it] to af fect the community.”

Any problems in these gender-neutral residence halls would be similar to those in other residence halls. But students have so far returned only positive feedback, Kur tz said.

“It’s a great experience — it’s about learning,” Lu said.

“But it is also about being a respecting roommate.”

He said some people assumed they had to be gay or lesbian if they were to live in gender neutral housing, but sexual orientation does not play a role.

Residence Life does not ask students to disclose their sexual orientation or their reasons for roommate requests, Kur tz said. When it comes down to it, all residence halls are gender neutral, she said.

“In any given day at any given time, a dorm room is gender neutral,” she said.

“There aren’t any sex-specific visiting hours or specifics about who is allowed to sleep over in a room.”

She said she hopes the program will continue to grow in the upcoming semesters.

Both Lu and Macapinlac are unsure of their future housing plans. Macapinlac may choose to live in her sorority’s house and Lu is applying to be a Resident Assistant next semester.

But they agreed they would live together if their plans line up.

“I feel like I would definitely room with Phil again,” Macapinlac said.

The two joked about the idea last semester before choosing to live together and going for ward.

“And then we found out that we could,” Macapinlac said.

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Sorority acts out book with one-person play

BY SARAH INTRONA CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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Panelists work to redefine the meanings of creolization on Monday at the Alexander Library on the College Avenue campus. As Carribbean studies changes, terms about different cultures change, too.

Scholars consider creolization themes

BY JULIAN MODESTO CONTRIBUTING WRITER

In a roundtable discussion, a range of multidisciplinar y Caribbean studies scholars took a look yesterday at the discrepancies in a concept common to their field — creolization.

The scholars, who sat in the Pane Room of Alexander Librar y on the College Avenue campus, discussed how their par ticular field sees and uses the term.

Creolization refers to the process in which new cultures emerged in areas where European, African and Asian postcolonial people coexisted because of voluntar y and involuntar y migrations, said Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel, one of the coordinators of the discussion.

As the field of Caribbean studies evolved, the term has come to refer to different meanings and cultures, becoming almost ambiguous, said Martínez-San Miguel, a professor in the Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies.

“Creolization has been used in so many ways that it doesn’t have any grounding. It means cultural mixing essentially,” she said. “Any cultural mixing can be creolization, and in a cer tain way I was scared … because I was noticing that the specificity of the term has lost its way.”

The conversation emerged for this reason, since both MartínezSan Miguel and fellow coordinator Yarimar Bonilla taught courses addressing the concept.

“We decided that it would be useful to involve our students in a critical conversation about the concept across the disciplines,” said Bonilla, an assistant professor in the Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies.

Professor of Francophone studies at the University of Iowa Anny Dominique Curtius, who was invited to participate in the discourse, said that scholars have var ying perspectives when it comes to creolization.

“Different scholars from different disciplines think of creolization from their different experiences,” Curtius said. “I first say

“Part of the project is that we can show everybody how we have transcended and have struggled.”

AISHA KHAN New York University Associate Professor of Anthropology

it’s a process that has to do with the mixture of cultural practices.”

But as an anthropologist, New York University Associate Professor of Anthropology Aisha Khan said she uses creolization as a framework to further her ethnographic work in the Caribbean. In some cases, she focuses on the politics of belonging.

“For Caribbean intellectuals, creolization is all about … this ter ribly burdened past.

Par t of the project is that we can show ever ybody how we have transcended and have struggled,” she said. “They all have some sense that [the term is] a Caribbean phenomena that is some sor t of demonstration ef fect for the world,” she said.

Khan, whose research is in the Atlantic World, has written several important articles that question the trope of creolization in Caribbean studies, Bonilla said She has been at the forefront of developing models for thinking about issues of race and ethnicity in the Caribbean.

“How do we talk across disciplines? That’s part of the problem actually,” Khan said But Curtius said it is a scholar’s job to try and answer these kinds of questions.

“It’s up to me as a scholar to go beyond what I feel comfortable with,” Curtius said. “The work that has to be done is how do we break the borders and establish clear connections between these islands” Despite the overextension of the term, some exhibit a resistance to be categorized under creolization.

Anjali Nerlekar, a professor in the Depar tment of African, Middle Easter n and South Asian Languages and Literatures, said she had a student from Trinidad whose parents’ experiences of creolization did not match with the theor y that scholars used.

“In a way, we’re doing a disservice. We’re not getting the real picture,” Nerlekar said.

PROFESSOR UNCOVERS DANGERS OF OVERFISHING IN NJ Rutgers-Newark professor H. Bruce Franklin has helped shape the fishing industry along the Atlantic Coast with his book, “The Most Important Fish in the Sea: Menhaden and America.”

In his book, Franklin alerts readers about overfishing and the dangers it poses to menhaden, a small fish critical to the ocean’s ecosystem. As a result, The Atlantic States Fisheries Commission voted this month to reduce the menhaden harvest, according to a Rutgers Focus article.

Commercial and sports fishing in several states along the Atlantic will see the effects of pro-

tecting the menhaden, according to the article.

Franklin and the others trying to save menhaden had to fight Omega Protein, a major Texas company that harvested thousands of tons of the fish for use in its products. The company attempted to discredit Franklin’s findings about menhaden, but he continued advocating through his book.

The American Studies Association cited the book in 2008, when it awarded Franklin its highest prize for “Lifetime Achievement in American Studies,” according to the article.

“The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” jumped from the pages to the stage Monday night in a one-man show inspired by University alumnus Junot Diaz’s Pulitzer Prize winning book.

The Epsilon chapter of Lamda Theta Alpha Latin sorority hosted the play during its founder’s week at the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus to showcase intellectual Latin culture, said Erica Diaz, a University alumna and LTA sister.

“Every year we try to put on a play that will touch the community, specifically the Latino community,” Erica Diaz said. “We try to bridge the gap between Rutgers, undergraduates, New Brunswick and what LTA pretty much does for the community as far as educating and serving.”

The play, co-sponsored by the Rutgers University Programming Association and the Center for Latino Arts and Culture, centers on Oscar de Leon, an overweight Dominican boy from Paterson, N.J., who is obsessed with science fiction, fantasy and a family curse.

Actor Elvis Nolasco played different characters in the show, from the nerdy Oscar de Leon to his superstitious mother. He said it was easy to transition into the characters because he finds people like them in his own family.

Paula Garcia, a School of Ar ts and Sciences junior, said she was impressed with Nolasco’s per formance.

“I thought it was an amazing performance. I never read the book, [but] it was pretty amazing that it was a one-man show and he pulled [off] the characters very well,” she said.

The adapted play contains references to life at the University, with mentions of the EE bus and Douglass College, set against the sugar cane fields and black-outs of Santo Domingo illustrated in the book.

“I felt connected to him. He does a good job grabbing your attention. The book mentions a

lot of places on campus that the actor said he visited,” said Eliana Perez, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “It’s also very relatable in a Dominican way.”

Erica Diaz was very pleased with the audience’s support of the play.

“When I walked in I was overwhelmed with happiness and excitement with seeing all of my friends and sisters. [It] shows that our chapter is still strong,” she said. “I am so happy we have so much support.”

Members from the Lambda Theta Phi Latin Fraternity, Inc. came to support the sorority’s play.

“A friend of mine brought me here as well as my brothers by telling me that the book is pretty critically acclaimed,” said David Agosto, a School of Ar ts and Sciences sophomore.

“I came here to suppor t LTA’s Epsilon chapter and have a good brotherhood night with the brothers of Lambda Theta Phi.” LTA worked to adapt the play from Junot Diaz’s book with of f-Broadway American Place Theater, said Piper Anderson, a teaching ar tist and actor who works there.

Mar tha Castro, vice president of the Epsilon chapter, said planning for the play began during the summer. The biggest challenge was searching for a book to adapt into an enter taining play that would educate the audience about Latin culture.

“It was between this one and another book, and it went up to a vote within the chapter,” said Castro, a School of Ar ts and Sciences senior.

“Ever yone from the chapter wanted this book because it’s a Rutgers [alumnus] and ever yone knows about it.”

Sarah Shaw, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences junior, said the oneman show was a great oppor tunity to tr y something new.

“It’s something we haven’t done before,” she said. “We wanted to show some variety and show that we want to sponsor with sororities and fraternities.”

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OATHS: Program helps about 250 individuals so far continued from front Isabel Nazario, associate vice president for Academic and Public Par tnerships in the Ar ts and Humanities, thanked the candidates for choosing to become United States citizens.

“It’s the new citizens that really create a new energy. I know this nation will be in better shape in the future because you are the new citizens, and your children will bring good things to our nation,” she said.

At the University, about half of its students are foreignborn or have foreign-born parents, Mann said.

Marlon Avellan, a University Ph.D. candidate who led the ceremony’s Pledge of Allegiance, of ficially became a citizen a couple of weeks ago through the help of Eagleton’s program.

Avellan’s family moved from Costa Rica to Bridgewater in 2006 when he was 19 years old. His father, who worked in the American Embassy in Costa Rica, wanted to move his family to the United States so it would have better oppor tunities.

After taking English courses, he enrolled in Raritan Valley Community College’s mechanical engineering program and received his associate’s degree.

“The science and math is pretty much the same [as in Costa Rica],” Avellan said. “I just had to learn the terms. It was a challenge but not impossible.”

With the help of tutors and professors, he then completed his undergraduate degree in the same field at the University, graduating last May with high honors.

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Thirty-four men and women recite the Pledge of Allegiance yesterday at a naturalization ceremony at the Eagleton Institute of Politics on Douglass campus. The Institute’s Program on Immigration and Democracy hosted the event.

Now, the 24-year-old is working toward a Ph.D. in thermal science.

Avellan said the program helped his family complete its dream of naturalization in less than six months. He and his family attended information sessions and lawyers helped them apply that day.

“We’re ver y grateful. We would’ve been so lost,” he said.

At the ceremony, Institute Director Ruth Mandel shared her tale of immigrating as a child to the United States during World War II with her family.

Though she did not have a celebrator y ceremony when she became a citizen, she remembers the day — a clear morning in May — that she saw the Statute of Liber ty.

“It is that lady in the harbor that is my indelible moment of

ar rival and my coming to America,” Mandel said.

Mandel’s parents embraced their newfound right to vote and they par ticipated in ever y election. But they would not do more — such as write letters to editors, protest or make calls to policymakers — out of fear. They felt if their native Austrian gover nment could turn against them, so could their new countr y.

“I wish you the honor and privilege of par ticipating in all the precious freedoms guaranteed under the Constitution. And in addition, in your life as an American, I wish you forever the freedom from fear,” she said.

The program, founded in 2007, launched “Citizenship Rutgers” this semester to aid

legal, permanent residents in applying for U.S. citizenship, said Mann, who is also an assistant research professor. The program to date has helped about 250 people.

John Thompson, district director of the Newark Field Of fice of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Ser vices, said there are many requirements candidates must complete before qualifying for naturalization.

Some include being a lawful permanent resident for three years, being of good moral character, being able to speak English and having basic knowledge of U.S. histor y and governmental institutions.

On average, the naturalization process takes about four months in New Jersey. The

of fice naturalized 35,000 people last year, Thompson said, though the number fluctuates.

Mann said the Institute’s relatively new program has a three-fold mission — to help policy makers and scholars understand immigration, to educate others and to ser ve communities.

She said immigrants are impor tant to the United States because they pay taxes, contribute to all sectors of the economy and add to the cultural tapestr y that makes up America.

She also said they represent America’s founding as a nation of foreigners.

“You’re par t of a storied histor y,” she said to the candidates. “Without you, where would we be?”

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Celebrate “Geographic Awareness Day” from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Cook Campus Center featuring speakers, posters, refreshments and networking opportunities. For more information email RUGISday2011@gmail.com. Fundamentals of Environmental Geomatics students organized the event.

Ambassador David Balton, deputy assistant secretar y for oceans and fisheries with the U.S. State Depar tment, will address “International Governance for a Changing Arctic” beginning a 4 p.m. in the Alampi Room at the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences on Dudley Road on Cook campus. Balton is responsible for coordinating the development of U.S. foreign policy concerning oceans and fisheries and specifically policy relating to the Arctic and Antarctica. There will be time for a question and answer session and refreshments will be ser ved following the talk.

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Join the Associate Curator of European Art of the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum Christine Giviskos, on a bus trip to the Neue Galerie and Morgan Library and Museum in New York City for two exhibitions of rarely seen European masterworks. The bus departs at 8:30 a.m. from the Sears parking lot on Route 1 in New Brunswick and returns by 5 p.m. The cost of the trip, which includes transportation, lunch and guided tours, is $115 for Zimmerli members and $125 for nonmembers. Please call (732) 9327237, ext. 611, or email membership@zimmerli.rutgers.edu to register.

How To Network Etiquette” will take place at 9 p.m. at Rutgers Zone on Livingston campus. Students can learn the basics of networking with business and alumni contacts.

Visit rutgersalumni.org/ to register.

Not Just Yoga Club’s meeting will last from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the Cook Campus Center Room 202 BC. Students will have the chance to de-stress, learn yoga and mediation methods while meeting new people. Though some yoga mats are provided, the club encourages students to bring one, as well as a water bottle and comfortable clothing. Please RSVP by emailing notjustyogarutgers@gmail.com.

The Student Volunteer Council invites students to the “Winter Wishes Wrapping Day” to volunteer to wrap gifts for New Brunswick pre-school children from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Student Activities Center Raritan River Lounge.

Rutgers Recreation is hosting the 23rd Annual Trivia Bowl at 8:30 p.m. at the Cook/Douglass Recreation Center Annex.

Check-in begins at 8 p.m. There must be three people to a team. The bowl is open to students, faculty, staff, alumni and family, but one member must be affiliated with the University. The event is free and participants must register online at rutgers.edu/registration/trivia/ before Nov. 16 to gain 500 bonus points. More than 100 teams will participate and raffle prizes will be awarded. For more information contact Paul Fischbach at (732) 445-0462 or email fischbach@aesop.rutgers.edu.

Palestine Children Relief Fund is hosting the Middle Eastern Cultural Festival from noon to 8 p.m. at the Rutgers Student Center Multipurpose Room. Palestine Children Relief Fund is an organization dedicated to fighting the medical and humanitarian crisis for children in the Middle East.

There will be free admission, free Middle Eastern food, movie screenings, exhibits, entertainment, speakers and a Middle Eastern souk, or market. For more information, visit the Facebook event page, facebook.com/event.php?eid=137601566341251.

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Operation Smile’s Around the World Benefit will take place from 7 to 11 p.m. at the Livingston Student Center to help raise money and awareness for children with cleft lips, palates and other facial deformities. The fee to attend is $5.

There will be food, cultural performances from around the world and cultural activities like henna tattooing and origami making. For more information email Aileen Zayden at amzaydel@gmail.com

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Threat of war haunts Sudanese boundaries THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NAIROBI, Kenya — The presidents of Sudan and the new nation of South Sudan are both predicting the possibility of a new war in an oil-rich region that has seen a spike in cross-border attacks.

Troop build-ups are being reported on both sides of the Sudan-South Sudan border, the world’s newest international boundary, and rebels in Sudan announced a new alliance with the aim of overthrowing their own government, which is seated in the capital, Khartoum.

The United States is pleading for cooler heads to prevail, even as aid workers are withdrawing from the region after two bombing runs last week into South Sudan by Sudan, its northern neighbor.

After two long wars that spanned decades, South Sudan formally declared independence from Sudan in July following a successful independence referendum in January that was guaranteed in a 2005 peace deal. The world celebrated the peaceful break-up of Sudan. But big disputes that have long lurked in the background are now festering and flaring into violence.

An agreement to split the region’s oil revenues was never reached. The borders were never fully demarcated. And perhaps most important, the break-up left two large groups of people in Sudan’s south in the lurch — groups that Sudan has labeled rebels and that Khartoum’s military has been attacking for months.

In addition, the Khartoum government is facing a financial crisis because of the loss of oil revenue and rising food prices, said John Prendergast, the cofounder of the U.S.-based “Enough Project,” which closely monitors Sudan.

“Each spark heightens the possibility of all-out war, and the sparks are occurring with more frequency now,” Prendergast said.

Sudan President Omar alBashir accuses the south of arming what he calls rebels in Sudan. He said this month that his army is prepared if the south wants to return to war, as he ticked off recent clashes he said the north won.

“We are ready to teach you another lesson,” Bashir said.

South Sudan President Salva Kiir responded last week, saying al-Bashir’s accusations are only to justify “his pending invasion.”

Kiir said South Sudan is committed to peace but allows its sovereignty to be violated.

U.S. and other international of ficials said last week Sudanese militar y aircraft twice flew into South Sudan territor y and dropped bombs. In the second attack, two bombs landed in a refugee camp. There were no casualties.

The United States demanded that Sudan halt aerial bombardments immediately.

“This is a moment where both sides need to show maximum restraint,” said Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. “In the first instance, the government of

Sudan needs to halt all offensive actions against the south immediately. And the south needs to have the wisdom and restraint not to take the bait and not to respond in kind.”

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on the governments of Sudan and South Sudan to refrain from using force.

Ban expressed “deep concern” Monday at the escalating rhetoric between the two governments and called on them “to exercise restraint in managing border tensions,” U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said.

The U.N. chief said outstanding issues in the 2005 peace agreement that ended the northsouth civil war can only be settled through negotiations.

U.N. peacekeeping chief Her ve Ladsous and Hilde Johnson, head of the new U.N. mission in South Sudan, echoed Ban’s comments on Tuesday as they urged both sides to tone down their accusations.

The claims about alleged cross-border incursions are “extremely worrying,” Ladsous told the Security Council during a briefing in New York. “We are concerned by the hate and rhetoric on both sides,” Johnson told council members by videoconference call from South Sudan.

The aid group Oxfam said over the weekend it was pulling out 22 staff members — mainly engineers and health workers — from South Sudan’s Upper Nile state after the staff reported a bombing and heavy artillery on Friday. The staff witnessed planes overhead and a build-up of South Sudan troops, Oxfam said.

“New bombing raids and a build-up of troops along the border of Sudan and South Sudan over the past few days threaten to escalate what is already a significant humanitarian crisis,” it said, adding: “Thousands of refugees are still coming across the border ... they have fled attacks and walked for days to reach a place they thought would be safe, but instead they are now facing more violence.”

The World Food Program also suspended activities in the Yida refugee camp — home to more than 20,000 refugees — after two bombs from Sudanese aircraft fell in the camp and three fell outside of it.

Lise Grande, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator in South Sudan, said the attack “put innocent civilians at extreme risk.”

A new Sudan rebel group calling itself the Sudan Revolutionar y Front has emerged, adding to the dizzying array of political and military groups involved in an ethnic, economic and territorial conflict between the two countries.

The Sudan Revolutionary Front says its aim is to overthrow the Sudan’s ruling National Congress Party through all means — including violence. The group consists of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North, the Justice and Equality Movement and two factions of the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army.

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President Hamid Harzai of Afghanistan wants to establish a relationship with the United States to provide security after the expected removal of troops by the end of 2014.

Afghanistan seeks US alliance THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KABUL, Afghanistan — Despite Taliban threats, about 2,000 Afghan elders will convene this week as President Hamid Karzai seeks support for a security partnership with the United States after the scheduled withdrawal of international troops by the end of 2014.

The loya jirga, or grand council, could give Karzai political cover for negotiations over a deal to keep some American troops in Afghanistan for another decade despite opposition from his people and the war-wear y U.S. public.

Karzai has set out terms for a possible par tnership — such as banning inter national troops from entering any Afghan home and taking control of all detention facilities almost immediately — that have so far been unacceptable to American of ficials, according to people familiar with the discussions.

The roughly 100,000 U.S. troops currently in Afghanistan operate without any bilateral agreement governing their actions.

In Washington, U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said discussions were ongoing with the Afghan government.

“We want an agreement that’s in the best interest of both our countries,” Toner said.

“It’s better to get it right rather than fast.”

Karzai has repeatedly vacillated between criticizing the United States for acting unilaterally in Afghanistan and praising his American allies as brothers in arms against the Taliban. It has been difficult to tell in recent months if he is just tr ying to stoke populist support with his criticism or is really preparing to stand firm on what he sees as a violation of sovereignty.

Few expect the four-day loya jirga, which begins Wednesday, to produce much of substance,

both because its legal status is unclear and because there is no draft accord to present to the assembled elders.

Parliamentarians say the meeting is unconstitutional because it sidelines the legislature, which should be the body to decide national issues.

“The real representatives of the people are in parliament.

We have been elected. The jirga delegates have only been selected by the administration,” said Nasrullah Sadiqizada Nili, a lawmaker from Day Kundi province. Although parliamentarians have been invited, Nili said he and many others would not attend in protest.

“This loya jirga has no legitimacy,” Nili said.

Karzai’s former presidential challenger, Abdullah Abdullah, ridiculed the idea of Karzai’s hand-picking a group of people to represent a national consensus. He said that even the idea of “tribal elder” had been bent to political aims, noting that he was invited as a “dignitar y from the Panjshir tribe” though he has no position of leadership in a tribe.

He went on to warn that if people accept this jirga as legal, Karzai could easily call another to tr y to amend the constitution so that he can run for a third term as president.

“Holding this jirga is illegal.

It is against our countr y’s constitution. The goals and aims are confusing. This jirga has hidden goals and whatever decisions are made in this jirga are not acceptable,” Abdullah told repor ters Sunday.

A spokesman for the meeting said there are no such ulterior motives and that Karzai is simply hoping to get input from a wider cross-section of Afghanistan than that which is represented in parliament.

“This is just the government asking the people their point of view, what they think about whether we should sign a contract with the United States or

not,” Safiullah Zeer said. He noted that the meeting has been dubbed an advisor y loya jirga, to make clear that it does not have any authority to make decisions. He said any par tnership agreement will have to be approved by parliament before it becomes binding.

Toner, the State Department spokesman, called the loya jirga “a traditional way for the Afghans to talk about many issues, and we support it. And you know, we believe that it’s going to lead to a reaffirmation of our strong alliance with Afghanistan.”

The 2,030 delegates will form some 40 committees to discuss issues involving the partnership, along with possibilities for peace with the Taliban, Zeer said.

The Taliban have condemned the meeting as an attempt by the United States to justify a permanent presence in Afghanistan, promising to launch attacks to disrupt it.

The United States “will practice absolute freedom, will not abide by any Afghan stipulations and will continue its militar y operations and presence as long as it wants,” the Taliban said in a statement issued Monday.

The insurgent group also claimed to have obtained a copy of security plans for the conference and said it would use the plans to attack the meeting. The Afghan government and NATO forces said the document, posted on the Taliban’s website, was a forger y.

Much of Kabul went into a security lockdown ahead of the meeting, with extra roads closed and intelligence agents swarming around the meeting hall on the outskirts of the city. At the last such meeting — a “peace jirga” held last June — Taliban insurgents fired into the tent, disrupting the gathering but causing no casualties. Since then, a new hardened structure has been built that should in |theor y be less vulnerable to incoming fire.

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Judges should see conflict of interest

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s the Supreme Court prepares itself to hear the cases for and against the Affordable Care Act this spring, at least one person is already crying foul over the conduct of two justices.

Rev. Al Sharpton, a man who needs no introduction, has publicly called for Judges Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia to sit out the case, on the grounds that they both have clear conflicts of interest. Sharpton points out that Thomas’ wife is the president and CEO of Liberty Central, a conservative group which has taken a strong stance against the Affordable Care Act, and that both of the justices have attended conservative fundraisers in the past. Sharpton has specifically named Federalist Society’s 2011 Lawyer Convention Annual Dinner as one such conservative event that both Scalia and Thomas have attended.

Sharpton is right to call attention to these realities. If the job of the Supreme Court is to determine the constitutionality of any given action or law — in this case, the Affordable Care Act — then the justices who make the decision should be as impartial as possible. If they run around involving themselves in clearly partisan events and issues, then their judgment becomes suspect.

In order to become a Supreme Court justice in the first place, candidates go through intense vetting processes designed to detect any possibly damaging information in their background. Only once a candidate has been thoroughly investigated will the president nominate him or her. If candidates are scrutinized this carefully before they are nominated for appointment, then it follows that the scrutiny should continue — or perhaps even intensify — after they officially become justices. While it is true their attendance at fundraisers does not guarantee they have been influenced, the fact remains that there is a possibility that they have been. When it comes to the Supreme Court, there is no room for us to doubt the abilities of our judges. If their allegiances are called into question, then we must question them harshly.

Both Scalia and Thomas have committed actions that, in this case, call their impartiality into question. Rather than letting it slide, we should call attention to the facts and ask the judges to do what is right and excuse themselves from this particular hearing. We cannot have Supreme Court justices bringing outside political influence into the courtroom — it only taints the case.

NYC protesters should remain in Zuccotti Park

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uccotti Park has become a landmark space since the first Occupy Wall Street protesters laid down with their tarps and sleeping bags in the New York City park two months ago. It is — or was — the tent and generator-ridden nucleus of the sprawling movement that has been reproduced in nearly every major city throughout the nation — not to mention those areas outside the U.S. borders that have also taken up the cause against corporate greed and influence. These protesters for weeks called the park a home and headquarters for their cause. But ongoing pressure from city officials and the park’s owners to relocate — along with the recent ruling of New York Supreme Court Justice Michael Stallman regarding the legality of 24-hour occupation of the area — have forced the protesters to break down their tents and pack their bags.

Though the legality of the issue may be indisputable, such motions should not deter OWS protesters. OWS is a peaceful protest, but a protest nonetheless. It would run contrary to all that OWS is fighting for if the protesters simply abandoned this space, which represents such an important aspect of their campaign.

The park is a privately owned space that specifically prohibits overnight camping and any other related behaviors. As a Supreme Court judge responsible for upholding the law, Stallman is by no means unjustified in ruling that “the movants have not demonstrated that they have a First Amendment right to remain in Zuccotti Park.”

The issue here lies not in the legality of the motion, but in the attitudes taken up by those who wish to oust the occupiers from their beloved home. Breaking up a movement so well received by so many with the argument of “protecting public welfare” seems hollow at best.

Occupy Wall Street is a movement that has clearly resonated among citizens of countries the world over. For the movement as a whole, Zuccotti Park is home base. By preventing the protesters from continuing to advance their cause in the place it was first born could potentially hinder the movement’s momentum.

Yet there is still a bigger argument to make for the continuation of the protesters’ occupation of Zuccotti Park. The cause put forth by these protests is not only one that has gained momentum, but one that may be gaining in historical significance. One day, we may find ourselves reading in history books and looking back upon this time as one that fundamentally altered the fabric of society — and that is something worth fighting for. The protesters should continue to fight to remain in Zuccotti Park. The mayor of New York City and other city officials would do well to show a little understanding and allow Zuccotti Park to remain the home of Occupy Wall Street.

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he life of the that states, “Asomugha must Philadelphia sports cover the best receiver on the fan is riddled with other team.” hardships, pains, embarrassIt’s not something Philly ments, shame, joy, love and fans aren’t used to. Natives mostly frustration. Each one of the city of brotherly love has stories to tell and an have seen Game 6 of the unshakable sense of belong1993 World Series when Joe CODY GORMAN ing to a nation of sorts with a Carter crushed a three-run collective identity, language home run to win the series and social norms that sometimes clash with modern for Toronto. They have seen when the Detroit Red society. Their devotion to the city draws attention and Wings swept the Philadelphia Flyers for the 1997 criticism far and wide — particularly their dogged, Stanley Cup. They’ve seen when the New England relentless hatred of rival players and teams, with a noPatriots took a 24-21 victory over the Eagles in 2005 holds-barred attitude toward public disapproval of said and when the Los Angeles Lakers took the 2001 rivals. Without a doubt, Philadelphia fans are a spectaFinals in five games and Shaquille O’Neal made cle to behold in their natural habitat, a land where Dikembe Mutombo look like a 7-foot-2 baby. Last national history meets “Joe Blow,” where cheese but not least, they saw Rocky Balboa lose to Apollo steaks are a source of geographic pride and all inhabiCreed and Clubber Lang in the “Rocky” movies, and tants maintain that Philadelphia is the best city in the they later watched Apollo Creed die at the hands of United States, despite any evidence to the contrary.

Ivan Drago — although Rocky’s victory against that Although detached from Philadelphia in my South Soviet “manimal” ended the Cold War. Jersey home and without ample sports coverage in It is almost like a Shakespearean tragedy, where this area for constant upkeep, I remain part of this entithe protagonists’ hubris is apparent to everyone but ty. Upon returning to Philadelphia this the cast, and the audience is captive to weekend to witness the debacle of a the consequences of their ignorance.

“That fleeting high Watching Reid in the fourth quarter is football game, I was reluctantly reintroduced to the overbearing, nagging like seeing Romeo lift the poison to feels good to the spouse of Philadelphia sports — disaphis lips as Juliet lies sleeping beside point where pointment. And as in so many awful him, not knowing that she is still alive.

British sitcoms, disappointment The incredible frustration creates I almost forget showed up with a frying pan in hand. great dramatic tension in a play, but I still remember the moment this about the despair.” it’s awfully unrewarding for a group of summer when the Philadelphia Eagles people that have spent most of their signed top free agent Nnamdi lives waiting for a happy ending.

Asomugha, along with Vince Young, Jason Babin, One can only describe Philadelphia fans as a Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie and Ronnie Brown. group of collective masochists at the beck and call Upon the signing of these players, as well as former of professional athletes who continually disappoint.

New York Giant Steve Smith, I shouted in ecstasy. My Philadelphians sit at the edge of their seats waiting roommate from the summer felt the same way, and for that one big win that will establish the team, frankly, so did the Philadelphia community. The lockout while their hearts are weighed down with past, presmay have prevented organized team activities, practices ent and future disappointments. An eerie silence and general bonding among the team. But with the falls over the crowd every time 15 minutes is set on addition of these great players, what could go wrong? the fourth quarter clock, or when Ryan Madson Well, just about everything did. Michael Vick will takes the mound in the bottom of the ninth. And be out again with broken ribs, DeSean Jackson even when the top of the mountain is reached, genmissed the game entirely for oversleeping a team eral managers and owners somehow raise the meeting, defensive coordinator Juan Castillo continuexpectations for the next year with big name signally underutilized Asomugha and Samuel, and Andy ings and larger claims for glory, only to fall short — Reid must have somehow had an unnoticed stroke I’m looking at you, 2011 Phillies. But as a between the third and fourth quarters. The season Philadelphia sports fan, I think I can speak for all of has done them little better. Inexperienced linemen us when I say that at least that fleeting high feels and linebackers, weak safeties and poor offensive line good to the point where I almost forget about the support for Vick have killed our production. Reid’s despair of constant defeat. Almost. pass-first offense has kept us from using LeSean McCoy, who has grown into a top-10 running back.

Cody Gorman is a School of Arts and Sciences senThe Eagles put up a paltry three offensive points ior majoring in political science and Middle Eastern while letting up two touchdowns in the fourth quarter, studies with a minor in history. His column, “The each time when someone who was not Asomugha Tuning Fork,” runs on alternate Wednesdays. covered Larry Fitzgerald, the best receiver in the SEE GORMAN ON PAGE 9 NFL. It is worth noting that there is an unwritten rule

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Student government needs to establish real purpose Letter CARL LEVITT ne of my teachers once said to look at any endeavor, organization or movement, and search out its purpose. If the endeavor fulfills its purpose, then it will succeed.

If it fails to fulfill its purpose, then the endeavor will fail. With this focus on purpose in mind, I turn now to the Rutgers University Student Assembly. In my musings on the matter, I thought that a student assembly’s purpose would be to address student concerns with the University. I thought of how student assembly leaders would be able to commu-

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nicate with administrators and resolve conflicts between students and the University.

I tried to find any information I could about RUSA. Out of desperation, I finally turned to the University website. After searching for RUSA, I found this description on the page about student government and organizations: “RUSA exists to not only serve Rutgers students, but to also empower the student body to be all that it can be. From mobilizing students to affect change on campus and in our communities, to working with University administration, faculty and staff to help students with their daily lives, RUSA is committed to the

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student body and will work hard to live up to your expectations.”

On the actual RUSA homepage, there is no mention of what RUSA does. There are a handful of links on how to run for the student assembly and a very informative link to the RUSA Allocations Board. Sadly missing on the website is any statement of RUSA’s goals and aims. At first, I thought this was an oversight. An organization that represents tens of thousands of students would surely have easily accessible information on their student representatives. An organization that prides itself on transparency would surely have transcripts of meetings available to the student body.

I am not the only student who fails to ascertain RUSA’s purpose.

I have spoken to RUSA representatives who are perplexed as to their purpose as representatives.

After the most recent meeting of the assembly, they talked about how it was essentially a waste of time. They talked about the recent RUSA bills about plastic bag use on campus and RUSA’s condemning of the New Brunswick Police Department.

They talked about how they felt that nothing of substance was accomplished. These are not the vast majority of apathetic students who didn’t vote in the RUSA elections — these are students who care about the

University and feel that RUSA has the potential to represent the student body.

I do not blame the assembly for essentially being a useless body because it has no purpose to fill. I haven’t felt empowered by the student assembly, nor have I seen RUSA work with the faculty to improve my life. So, RUSA will continue to meet, and students will continue to not vote in RUSA elections. The only way for RUSA to truly represent the student body is to find a real purpose that is actually relevant to students.

Carl Levitt is a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore.

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RUTGERS OFFERS ON-CAMPUS TICKET DISTRIBUTION Rutgers head football coach Greg Schiano spent much of the week imploring fans to turn out in force FOOTBALL Saturday for the Scarlet Knights’ game against Cincinnati.

Rutgers Athletics is helping by allowing students to pick up tickets at various locations around campus with a valid RUID. Typically, tickets are only available online.

The Scarlet Knights play for a share of first place in the Big East and will also honor 16 seniors, including Eric LeGrand, before kickof f for Senior Day. Schiano asked that students be particularly loud when the Bearcats have the ball.

Cincinnati typically r uns its spread of fense out of a

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Sixth-year senior linebacker Edmond Laryea (30) rebounded from a pair of medical redshirts to earn a special teams role.

MANTRA: NCAA grants

They allowed a season-worst 69 points to the Bearcats last Laryea year of eligibility in 2010 year, the nadir of one of Schiano’s disappointing campaigns.

Schiano says he tries to continued from back remain “loose and relaxed” Lar yea’s 2010 season ended during weeks with major ramiprematurely after suf fering a fications, but the Knights’ senknee injur y in the Knights’ iors never earned a victor y third game of the year. He before against Cincinnati. was supposed to be a contribu“It should mean exactly the tor at both linebacker and same thing to you. Ever y one fullback last year, but of these games counts the the NCAA granted him a medsame,” he said. “They know ical redshir t. what they deal is. They know Laryea sat out the entire 2007 what the stakes are. Naturally campaign with injury they’re going to woes, as well. be enthused.”

So when he takes Lar yea was at his the field Saturday best earlier this seaagainst Cincinnati in son when the stakes Rutgers’ home finale, were high. the prospect of inchHe appeared for ing closer to a Big only one play on East title does not figdefense against ure to be the only Syracuse in the EDMOND thing weighing on Knights’ Big East openLar yea’s mind. er, but the sixth-year LARYEA “You’re going to man made it count. remember the locker room.

Lar yea and sophomore lineYou’re going to remember backer Jamal Mer rell comthose bonds you had, the close bined to strip Orange running games,” Lar yea said. “You’re back Antwon Bailey of the ball going to remember the victoin over time, sealing Rutgers’ ries. More impor tantly, it’s the first conference win in nearly a people you’re around. That’s year. what’s going to matter.”

The play took on added signifLar yea’s first career appearicance, Rowe said, when the ance against Cincinnati Staten Island native made it in featured a 30-11 dr ubbing New York. that all but eliminated the Lar yea preaches one mesNo. 7 Knights from sage to the younger Knights: conference contention.

“Utilize the time you have.” He Rutgers’ 2009 season openhad more than most during his er fared worse, when stay in Piscataway. He knows the Knights fell, 47-15, on because his teammates will not national television. let him forget it.

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no-huddle system and will star t backup quar terback Munchie Legaux.

The Bearcats scored at will against Rutgers the past two years, and Schiano requested students help in changing that, despite a noon kickoff.

“Once a year we can set those alarms and get on up,”

Schiano said. “I know for this and for biology class, I guess, those are the two big reasons.

We need to get our student section packed and make it loud. That noise when it comes out of the south end zone is deafening, and we need it.”

— Staff Report

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MATCHUP: Oliver, RU face similar post game in BC continued from back

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Fifth-year senior point guard Khadijah Rushdan, who led the Knights with 5.2 assists per game last season, dished out six dimes in the team’s 73-70 win against California. The Knights matched their 16 assists against the Golden Bears with 16 turnovers.

Christa Evans saw limited action in the season opener.

The void left a brunt of the rebounding burden on Oliver’s shoulders. She answered the call with nine boards and three blocks, even though Cal bested the Knights, 40-36, on the glass.

But that was against a more traditional post presence.

Boston College presents a Rutgers-like approach to the frontcourt, as the Golden Eagles sport a pair of 5-foot-11 forwards in sophomores Kristen Doherty and Korina Chapman.

Boston College’s biggest contributor in the post is 6-foot-3 sophomore center Katie Zenevitch, who shot only 20 percent from the field in the team’s season-opening win against Fairleigh Dickinson.

Oliver prepared for most of the competition this season featuring imposing frames in the post. An offseason emphasis on quickness should work in her favor against the Golden Eagles.

“A lot of the girls are much bigger than me, so I’m just trying to get around them to move my feet,” Oliver said.

The Knights also need to look out for sophomore guard Shayra Brown, who dropped 19 points and grabbed seven rebounds.

Stringer’s rotation operated predominantly in a man-to-man look against Cal and will likely match up similarly against Boston College’s smaller, quicker lineup.

One thing is for sure after Game 1: The 55-press has to be more than ready for its second installment at the RAC. “I don’t even think back from my freshman year that we 55’d the whole game,” Rushdan said. “We went at it all game [against Cal].”

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ew York Jets running back LaDainian Tomlinson will miss tomorrow night’s game against the Denver Broncos.

The former Pro Bowl running back sprained his left MCL late in Sunday night’s game against the New England Patriots.

The shortened week of practice combined with Tomlinson’s previous injury on the same knee led to the decision.

But Tomlinson said the injury is not as serious as the last knee injury he suffered.

The Jets are also without starting safety Brodney Pool for at least one more game.

MAJOR

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Baseball announced yesterday Justin Verlander won the American League Cy Young Award in a unanimous vote.

Verlander received all 28 first-place votes, finishing well ahead of second-place pitcher Jered Weaver.

The Detroit Tigers ace led the American League with 24 wins, 250 strikeouts and a 2.40 earned run average.

He also threw his second career no-hitter, which helped the team win a division title.

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LEAGUE

Baseball announced the winners of the 2011 Rookie of the Year Award.

Atlanta Braves closer Craig Kimbrel won the honor in the National League, breaking Neftali Feliz’s rookie record with 46 saves.

Jeremy Hellickson, a starter for the Tampa Bay Rays, was the American League recipient, winning 13 games with a 2.95 ERA and 117 strikeouts.

Hellickson is the second Ray, along with Evan Longoria, to earn Rookie of the Year honors.

The pitchers are the first since 1981 to win both awards during the same season.

AFTER

Junior 174-pounder Gregory Zannetti went 22-12 as a sophomore in the Scarlet Knights’ lineup, including a 7-6 record in tournament matches. He is 3-0 with a title after Rutgers opened its season last weekend at the Brockport/Oklahoma Gold Classic.

Zannetti’s redshirt strides show in opener

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quarterback Matt Schaub will miss the rest of the season with a right foot injury.

Schaub injured the foot on a quarterback sneak trying to escape his own endzone.

He stayed in the game, but threw only three passes in Houston’s 37-9 win against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

The first-place Texans now turn to a six-year veteran, 2004 Heisman Trophy winner Matt Leinart, to start Sunday against the Jacksonville Jaguars.

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ANDREW HOWARD

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A day removed from winning the Brockport/Oklahoma Gold Classic 174-pound title, Gregory Zannetti WRESTLING had no idea his 5-2 decision was technically an upset.

Mar yland’s Jimmy Sheptock ranked only two spots ahead of Zannetti, but Rutgers head wrestling coach Scott Goodale cer tainly knew as much.

Zannetti had no clue.

The junior pays little attention to rankings because like

most college recruiters, rankings long ignored Zannetti.

“You don’t need to have the best credentials. He’s the perfect example,” Goodale said.

“He never won a state title.

Those are the guys that if they want to do it, those are the guys you want. He’s gotten a lot better, but he’s gotten better because he’s taken advantage of ever ything we have to of fer.”

Zannetti’s best season at J.P. Stevens High School ended with a second-place finish in the state finals at 152 pounds. Rider was his only other possible college destination.

MISSING THE LAST

four games before Monday night’s game against the Green Bay Packers with a neck injury, Minnesota Vikings safety Antoine Winfield must now sit out the rest of the season.

Winfield broke his collarbone in the second half of the 45-7 loss. The remaining weeks bring his missed-game total for the season to 11.

ANDREW HOWARD

Head wrestling coach Scott Goodale preaches to his team that a redshirt season is meant for improvement, not to take time off.

He went 11-8 as a freshman at Rutgers, then 22-12 as a sophomore.

He redshir ted last season and won four open tournament titles, and then retur ned to the lineup this season and won the first tour nament of the year.

“It’s a really long process,” Zannetti said. “The first year is tough just to get used to how long the [college] season is.

Then you get over that and it’s things you’re doing wrong. It’s just a whole process ever y year. It depends what you’re doing, really. If you’re doing things right, you’re going to get better.”

For Goodale, Zannetti is the poster child of doing things right.

He likely would have wrestled last season if Alex Caruso did not transfer from Lehigh to take his lineup spot and af ford Zannetti the oppor tunity to redshir t.

“He needed it, but he took advantage of it,” Goodale said.

“If they take advantage of it, it’s a good thing. If they don’t, shame on them. You need to get better, but you waste a year. You can’t waste a year in this spor t.”

So Goodale gives every redshirt the same speech: It’s not a year of f, it’s a year to get better. If you don’t get better, you hur t the program. If you’re not better prepared after redshir ting, you did not do your job.

Zannetti listened.

He went 20-1 in his year out of the lineup and won bracket titles at the East Stroudsburg Open, Wilkes Open, Millerville Open and National Collegiate Open.

His lone loss came against Cornell’s Mack Lewnes, who was the national runner-up.

“You can’t have a better redshirt year,” Goodale said.

Now he is back in the lineup and targeting a spot on the podium.

“If he’s not thinking that, what else are you doing this for?” Goodale said. “The way he trains, if he’s not thinking top of the podium, get out.”

Zannetti is not going anywhere.

He shares the same goal as his coach to win a national title in March and used his redshir t season to gain a dif ferent perspective.

“What did I do wrong last year and how do I fix it this year?” he described it.

A less demanding schedule allowed Zannetti to focus more on himself, but when he returned this season with competition at 174 pounds from sophomore Brendan Ard, a two-time state champion, that focus did not change.

“He’s thinking he’s the guy and he’s going to win the [national] tour nament,” Goodale said.

He now ranks 15th nationally in his weight class — up three spots from where he ranked before beating No. 16 Sheptock. He wrestles in the only class where Oklahoma State, which Rutgers faces Friday, does not have a ranked wrestler.

But if he plans to place in the top eight at the NCAA Tournament to earn All-American honors, it will take more upsets.

Zannetti likely will not know any better.

“Hopefully I’m at the top,” he said. “That’s the only thing I’m training for.”

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Senior running back Isaiah Pead has 260 rushing yards and five touchdowns on 38 carries the past two seasons against Rutgers, when Cincinnati scored a combined 116 points. Pead ranks third in the Big East in rushing yards and averages 6.0 yards per carry.

PRACTICE NOTEBOOK

H ARRISON

BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

For Mark Harrison, there is no better time to return.

The junior wide receiver sat out two weeks ago against South Florida and played sparingly against Army because of lingering ef fects of a head injur y suf fered in practice.

Now he is back in time for the Rutgers football team’s battle for first place in the Big East with Cincinnati, the team he torched for 240 yards last season and four scores.

Head coach Greg Schiano said Monday he expects Harrison to be ready to play Saturday, and Har rison echoed the sentiment.

“I feel great,” he said. “I’m glad to be back out there on the field, running routes and catching balls from Chas and Nova. It feels great to be back.”

Harrison practiced sparingly leading up to last week’s game against Army, and ultimately it was a lack of practice — not his injur y — that forced him into a limited role at Yankee Stadium.

He caught a 45-yard touchdown pass against West Virginia, but was relegated to the sideline in the immediate aftermath.

CONFIDENT HE CAN RETURN FROM HEAD INJURY

“It’s always fr ustrating when you want to do more but really can’t,” Harrison said.

“You prepare all year round and only get 12 of them on the schedule. It was hard to watch, but I kept in my playbook, studied and worked on the things I knew I’d need to work on when I got back.”

Now Harrison prepares for a matchup he said has he and his teammates excited for their home finale.

Histor y is not on the Scarlet Knights’ side, as they lost each of their past five meetings with the Bearcats, but it is on Harrison’s after last year’s per formance.

“Honestly, when I was out there I really didn’t think about how big it was,” he said.

“I just played and took one play at a time.”

SCHIANO

SAID

REDSHIR T

freshman safety Rashad Knight could return Saturday after suf fering a foot injur y in training camp.

A four-star cor nerback recr uit out of Jacksonville, Fla., Knight committed to Rutgers instead of Michigan late in the recruiting process, but has yet to see the field for the Knights. Schiano said he could play special teams or in

defensive subpackages, but he is most likely to debut on special teams.

“I don’t know if he’s ready yet, but he’s a good football player,” Schiano said. “You remember how excited I was about him.

He’s an instinctual football player who will hit you.”

ONLY BEARCATS

RUNNING

back Isaiah Pead matched Harrison’s dominant showing last season in Cincinnati, when he rushed for 213 yards and four touchdowns.

Pead carried the ball eight times for 47 yards and a touchdown as a sophomore in Piscataway, giving him a 6.67 yards-per-carry average against Rutgers.

He ranks third in the Big East in rushing yards, while Rutgers ranks last in run defense, although that is a product of facing two triple-option offense.

Still, Schiano is war y of facing Pead.

“I thought he was a good, young back when we first star ted playing him, but he’s a really good back now,” Schiano said. “He’s going to be a really good NFL player. He’s strong. He’s tough. He has good vision. He gets downhill.

He knows when to go outside.

He catches the ball well. He’s a complete player.”

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Junior wide receiver Mark Harrison is likely to return this week against Cincinnati after missing the past two games with injury.

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KNIGHTS SUFFER FIRST LOSS OF SEASON IN 2011 REMATCH WITH UM The Rutgers men’s basketball team fell, 72-57, last night to Miami in Coral Gables, Fla., in its second game of the season.

MEN’S BASKETBALL T h e RUTGERS 57 S c a r l e t Knights cut MIAMI 72 their deficit to six points in the second half, but foul trouble ultimately sealed their fate late in the contest.

Sophomore guard Austin Carroll led the Knights in scoring with 11 points and shot 3-of-3 from 3-point range.

Carroll was one of five Knights with more than seven points, joining freshmen Eli Carter and Myles Mack and juniors Austin Johnson and Dane Miller, but Rutgers could not keep up with Miami’s scoring output.

The Hurricanes countered with three double-digit scorers: guards Durand Scott and AUSTIN Malcom Grant and CARROLL center Kenny Kadji.

Fouls put the Hurricanes in the double bonus with 3:01 remaining with a nine-point lead, allowing Miami to see out its victory.

Rutgers kept Scott and Grant quiet last season in Piscataway, where Rutgers won, 61-45.

Head coach Mike Rice managed the upset with a methodical, clean game.

But his squad with six freshmen struggled to take care of the ball in its first road game this season.

Rutgers finished the loss more tur novers than assists. Each of Rice’s three freshmen guards — Car ter, Mack and Jerome Seagears — turned the ball over at least twice, and sophomore Mike Poole also struggled with turnovers.

— Staff Report

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Junior center Monique Oliver paced the Scarlet Knights down low in thier 73-70 victory against California, scoring 18 points and hauling in nine boards. Oliver faces a Boston College frontcourt tonight that matches evenly to the Knights in the post.

RU enters second straight RAC matchup

BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

Only one game into the No. 16 Rutgers women’s basketball team’s season, the vibe around the program WOMEN’S BASKETBALL is already different.

Not only do the BOSTON COLLEGE Scarlet Knights have AT RUTGERS, depth and an elite TONIGHT 7:30 P.M. group of freshmen, but they also have their first 1-0 start since the 2008-09 season.

Head coach C. Vivian Stringer also gets to play on the East Coast to start the year, a stark contrast from the Knights’ previous two seasons.

Instead of playing at Stanford or California, the Knights welcome their second

consecutive opponent to the Louis Brown Athletic Center tonight, when ACC foe Boston College arrives in Piscataway.

“It’s great for us,” Stringer said. “I can’t get over it. We have three games this week, but they’re here or in Philadelphia. That beats what has been going on to us.”

Some of what went on with the Knights in years past was a product of difficult scheduling.

But nonetheless, slow starts were commonplace.

Still, that was before Stringer reaped the benefits of a guard-happy class, as she did in the Knights’ 73-70 victory against California.

Rutgers’ 55-press took precedence in the victory, as the Knights recorded 17 steals and forced the Golden Bears into 24 turnovers.

The depth even translated to scoring from more than only senior forward April Sykes or

junior center Monique Oliver, although Oliver still tied for a game-high 18 points.

Sykes chipped in with 12 points, freshman wing Betnijah Laney dropped 18 and junior guard Erica Wheeler displayed her deadly 3point shot with a 4-for-6 shooting clip.

“If you look, we had five players that played over 20 minutes. Usually you don’t see that,” said senior point guard Khadijah Rushdan, who recorded five points and six assists. “Usually we have a six- or seven-man rotation, so for us to have so much depth, it allows us to get into our 55. It allows us to play as hard as we want to.”

The depth has yet to appear in the Knights’ frontcourt, where freshman forward

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Laryea embodies senior mantra in sixth season

BY TYLER BARTO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

ANDREW HOWARD

Sixth-year senior linebacker Edmond Laryea played fullback and linebacker at the start of last year before suffering a season-ending knee injury.

Edmond Lar yea spent nearly onefour th of his life with the Rutgers football team. He is not a SENIOR WEEK graduate assistant, as senior safety David Rowe suggests. He is simply a sixth-year linebacker.

“It’s a little weird to look at it that way,” Laryea said.

Some teammates claim Lar yea hosted former Rutgers fullback Brian Leonard as a recruit on his of ficial visit. Other Scarlet Knights say he helped build the Hale Center.

And even more think he played alongside now-Indianapolis Colt Gary Brackett in the Rutgers linebacking corps.

“I try to get them back when there’s not a crowd around,” Laryea said. “Usually they tend to gang up on me.”

Lar yea cannot help but ear n the attention of his teammates. He is nearly seven years older than some of the Knights’ freshmen and was around when Ray Rice called the Rutgers backfield his own.

He saw the Knights on their national upswing in 2006 and their fall last season, when they failed to earn a bowl ber th for the first time in five seasons under head coach Greg Schiano.

Lar yea’s longevity alone forced him into a leadership role for Rutgers. But his perseverance through a pair of seasonending injuries and his character made him a per fect fit, Rowe said.

“He’s just the per fect leader in my mind, somebody I can look up to and ask questions,” Rowe said. “There aren’t too many guys I can do that to on the team.”

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