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NJUS adopts temporary constitution

BY ANASTASIA MILLICKER ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

NEWARK – New Jersey United Students representatives from five higher education institutions across the state met at the Paul Robeson Campus Center of Rutgers-Newark campus Saturday afternoon to continue planning initiatives for the upcoming semester.

NJUS is a statewide organization started in February 2011 at a conference in New Brunswick that represents both community and four-year public colleges and universities that look to better New Jersey higher education, John Aspray, NJUS co-chair said.

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“The basic premise is anyone who is a current or future scholar at a higher education institution [in New Jersey], or alumni can be a par t of NJUS, but it is centered around the cur rent student,” said Aspray, a University alumnus.

The constitution, which has been in the works since last spring, would allow one representative per 10,000 students and would consist of an 11-person executive board, Aspray said.

With representatives from only five schools present, there were concerns that the absent schools would not agree with all pieces of action in the constitution.

But Aspray said the constitution is not a new piece of legislation and that the information has been available since last spring so the absent schools are aware of it.

The constitution would be under a one-year probationary structure, which would allow for changes to occur by majority vote between November 2011 and November 2012, when the constitution is finalized, said Cabo Granato, NJUS cochair and Newark School of Arts and Sciences senior.

“Passing this doesn’t mean it’s of ficial in any way,” said Donggu Yoon, a School of Ar ts

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Solar powered parking meters installed between Elm Row and Bayard Street in New Brunswick now accept credit card payments.

City accepts credit card payment at new meters

BY MATTHEW MATILSKY STAFF WRITER

The New Brunswick Parking Authority is in its first stage of testing solar-powered credit card machines on parking meters that line downtown streets to determine their reliability in terms of function and accuracy.

Rober t Garcia, Director of Operations for the New Br unswick Parking Authority, said the city wants to determine if the machines — 56 of which are fixed on top of meters on Bayard Street and Elm Row — would convenience the Parking Authority and residents during the 90-day free trial.

INDEX UNIVERSITY A recently formed student organization aims to serve the needs of LGBTQ students in the science, technology and mathematics fields.

OPINIONS Some are calling for UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi to resign following alleged police brutality.

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Already popular in California and similar to paid parking in New York City, the technology may reduce coin usage by about 70 percent, Garcia said.

“It’s going to of fer more options,” he said. “People won’t have to car r y a pocketful of change anymore.”

The parking meters will undergo a testing phase that will last until mid-February and will change the already existing multi-meter space, Garcia said.

“Multi-meter spaces have been in use for over a decade,” he said.

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RAPS Dance Troupe places second on Saturday at PRIDE4, a regional dance competition hosted by Kappa Phi Lambda sorority and Pi Delta Psi fraternity, at the Nicholas Music Center on Douglass campus.

All proceeds from the event will go toward the Embrace Kids Foundation.

‘Occupiers’ localize national movement

BY GIANCARLO CHAUX STAFF WRITER

Local residents and University students brought the global Occupy movement to the community last week through peaceful protests in downtown New Brunswick.

About 25 protesters gathered in front of Bank of America at the corner of George Street and Albany Street on Friday, marching around the intersection and holding up signs in an effort to bring awareness to the public.

“The idea is to challenge the financial institutions of society for bankrupting the rest of us,” said Jeannette Gabriel, one of the protest’s organizers. “We are here to JENNIFER MIGUEL-HELLMAN / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER protest and raise the problems to the public’s attention.”

Occupy New Brunswick protestors stand on the corner of Albany Street and George Timothy Cobb, a protester, said Street last week during a weeklong movement to address local and national issues. Friday’s concluding protest focused

on students because students are one of the main victims of the economic slump.

“Can something direct a Rutgers student any more than student debt?” said Cobb, a School of Arts and Science senior. “We are the next generation coming into a market that really has no room for us. If we don’t do something, then we’ll be lost.”

Protesters from Occupy Wall Street brought the movement to the city on Nov. 10 when they walked through New Brunswick en route to Washington, D.C. James Wiggins, who par ticipated in Friday’s demonstration, said this moment provided a sense of unity between protesters from dif ferent areas.

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Exchange students to experience American Thanksgiving

BY RINA MODY CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Holiday/Home Dinner Program is offering 17 international students a chance to spend a traditional Thanksgiving dinner with host families composed of University students, faculty and alumni.

There are more guests and host families this holiday season, said Carissa McCarthy, an international student adviser.

Fifteen international students participated last year along with nine hosts. But this year the number of hosts increased to 10, McCarthy said.

“The hosts and the students both really enjoy it, and as a result the program is growing,” she said.

Pat Iurilli, an alumnus who graduated in 1984, said he and his family have hosted six to 10

exchange students at their home every Thanksgiving since 1995.

“International students are only in America for about a year and a half usually,” he said. “In that time approximately 75 percent of them never even enter an American home.”

Iurilli’s family prepares 10 different dishes and shares personal American and Italian traditions with their guests each year, he said. Besides preparing customar y Thanksgiving dishes of turkey, corn and pie, he said his family has other less common traditions.

“My family is Italian — one Italian tradition is to crack nuts, like walnuts or peanuts,” Iurilli said. “We do this with the international students and it’s great. The shells go flying all over the place.”

Since Thanksgiving is unique to the United States, Iurilli said it

is a perfect chance for hosts and guests to swap cultural nuances.

Olga Kozlova, a School of Ar ts and Sciences sophomore, said she is still in touch with

“By sharing as much as my own culture with them as they do with me, I can make their time here special.”

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the student her family hosted last year.

“I had a junior from South Korea come over for dinner, and I hadn’t known her at all beforehand,” she

said. “Even though she’s back in South Korea now, we still talk.”

Kozlova and her family not only invited the exchange student over to their house for Thanksgiving dinner, but also took her Black Friday shopping at Garden State Plaza the following day.

“She really seemed to enjoy it,” she said. “She asked us a lot of questions, and we told her a lot about American culture.”

As Kozlova’s family did their shopping, she said they also lear ned a few things about South Korean culture from their guest.

Iurilli, who has hosted students from China, Africa and South America, said his guests always add another element of culture to Thanksgiving.

“We get as much out of it as we give to the students,” he said.

Soyoon Yim, an international student who attended the University for three semesters, said she plans to take par t in the program for the first time this Thanksgiving.

Yim, who previously attended Dongguk University in South Korea, said if it were not for the dinner program, she would be spending Thanksgiving alone.

“I didn’t want to spend Thanksgiving alone,” she said.

“The Thanksgiving program seems like a great opportunity to meet new people.”

Along with organizing the program during Thanksgiving, the International Friendship Program also organizes a similar program during Christmas, McCarthy said.

“I learn so much from them,” he said. “I hope that by sharing as much of my own culture with them as they do with me, I can make their time here special.”

U. PSYCHOLOGISTS HELP EXAMINE COLOR DIFFERENCES IN HUMAN BRAIN Sarah Allred, an assistant professor of psychology at Rutgers-Camden will be recognized in the journal “Current Biology” for her help in researching how the brain perceives color, according to a University media relations press release.

Allred’s research examines how the brain maintains a fixed perception of an object’s color as lighting conditions change, according to the release.

“This is a dif ficult problem for the brain. A white piece of paper in bright sunlight reflects thousands of times more light to the eye than a white piece of paper indoors, but both pieces of

paper look white,” she said in the release. “How does the brain do this?”

Rutgers–Newark psychology professor Alan Gilchrist, University of Pennsylvania professor David Brainard and University of Pennsylvania post-doctoral fellow Ana Radonjic are working with Allred on the perceptual dif ferences between black and white.

“In general, white objects reflect about 90 percent of the light that hits them,” Allred said in the release. “Black objects reflect about 4 percent, a ratio of 30-to-1.”

In addition to objects with different levels of reflectance, various scenes, such as a shadowed area under a tree or under the sun at the beach, have different levels of illumination in the brain, according to the release.

Allred and her team recently disproved a hypothesis that the brain divides scenes into dif ferent regions.

“We also were able to reject several similar models of lightness. We were able to do this because we measured lightness in such high-range and relatively complex images,” she said in the release.

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Protesters stand in front of the Bank of America on George Street Friday to raise awareness about student debt.

OCCUPIERS: Protest joins Thursday’s Sharpton event continued from front world,” said Wiggins, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student. “The economy is crumbling all around us.”

Protesters tackled the subject of police brutality on Thursday, commemorating Barry Deloatch who was fatally shot Sept. 22 in an altercation with New Brunswick Police Department officers, Gabriel said.

Occupy protesters marched to Sharon Baptist Church in New Brunswick this past Thursday, when Rev. Al Sharpton spoke in support of the protesters and the effort to have the American Civil Liberties Union investigate the NBPD, she said.

“The theme was being in solidarity — not just with protesters who have been fighting with local police brutality, but with the police brutality within the Occupy protests as well,” Gabriel said.

Though larger Occupy protests have captured a large portion media attention, Gabriel said she believes smaller movements such as Occupy New Brunswick are just as important.

“People should always protest in the communities where they live because people know and trust you,” she said.

Bill Bray, city spokesman, said some of the criticisms

against the city are unfair and uninformed.

“I can go on and on for a couple of hours listing projects throughout the city that have created jobs and new units of affordable housing,” Bray said. “The people of New Brunswick already know this and that’s why they aren’t standing out on the corner protesting.”

Bray said people should consider projects like the construction of the Gateway Project, which was developed by the New Brunswick Development Corporation (DEVCO) to create more than 325 full-time jobs.

“I challenge the protesters to find any urban area in the state of New Jersey that has produced more affordable housing and more jobs for its residents in the last 20 years,” he said.

Some protesters said concentrating on DEVCO contributes to inequality in the city.

“The development in New Brunswick has been unequal,” Gabriel said. “The focus has been about the DEVCO corporate developments such as Johnson & Johnson and not about helping the community that lives here and supporting them.”

Wiggins said although the movement’s future is uncertain, supporters are pushing to move its ideas to the political platform.

“Hopefully, it will have an impact on the elections,” he said.

“Hopefully, we can get a real candidate out of this that really talks about the issues.”

NEW YORK — An “al-Qaida sympathizer” accused of plotting to bomb police and post offices in New York City as well as U.S. troops returning home has been arrested on numerous terrorism-related charges.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced at a news conference Sunday the arrest of Jose Pimentel of Manhattan, “a 27-year-old al-Qaida sympathizer” who the mayor said was motivated by terrorist propaganda and resentment of U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said police had to move quickly to arrest Pimentel on Saturday because he was ready to carry out his plan.

“We had to act quickly yesterday because he was in fact putting this bomb together. He was drilling holes and it would have been not appropriate for us to let him walk out the door with that bomb,” Kelly said.

The police commissioner said Pimentel was energized and motivated to carry out his

METERS: Units to cut down on coin-collecting jobs continued from front a muni-meter where you enter your space number and pay that way. The new meters just bring that to single parking spaces.”

The units, which will reduce the time spent manually collecting coins, cost about $350 each and will be paid for by the company that produces them, Garcia said.

New Brunswick is one of many cities across the countr y experimenting with the credit card parking meters, which of fer slight variations to already existing parking systems, Garcia said.

Nomora Pearyer, a graduate student from the School of Social

NJUS: Organization looks to work with educational unions continued from front and Sciences senior. “This is a work in progress.”

It was presented previously at NJUS conferences in June and July and was sent to the 13 state public universities and 18 community colleges in the state that are part of the organization, Aspray said.

“I think that a good amount of outreach has been done,” he said.

Each institution had one vote during the meeting to determine whether or not to pass the constitution with a few clarifications. In the initial constitution, the term community college was not clarified but this will be corrected in a new draft of the constitution, Aspray said.

The new constitution will also state that if there is no structure in place to elect an NJUS delegate, the delegation will choose a structure through popular vote, Aspray said.

All three University campuses, New Jersey City University and Montclair University unanimously voted to approve the constitution out of the sixteen schools currently in the organization.

With the constitution approved, elections were held for the 11 available executive positions including a financial officer, public relations officer, secretary legislative affairs officer, campus affairs officer, community/labor liaison, recruitment/retention officer, grassroots coordinator and a parliamentarian.

Of those 11 executive positions, four leaders from the New Br unswick campus were elected.

plan by the Sept. 30 killing of al-Qaida’s U.S.born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.

“He decided to build the bomb August of this year, but clearly he jacked up his speed after the elimination of al-Awlaki,” Kelly said.

Ten years after 9/11, New York remains a prime terrorism target. Bloomberg said at least 13 terrorist plots have targeted the city since the Sept. 11 attacks. No attack has been successful. Pakistani immigrant Faisal Shahzad is ser ving a life sentence for tr ying to detonate a car bomb in Times Square in May 2010.

Pimentel, a U.S. citizen originally from the Dominican Republic, Pimentel was “plotting to bomb police patrol cars and also postal facilities as well as targeted members of our armed ser vices returning from abroad,” Bloomberg said Sunday.

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Work, said she knew of similar credit card and multi-meter devices being used in other cities.

“They have that in Newark,” Pear yer said. “There’s one stand for four meters, and you can swipe and enter your spot number.”

But some students were concerned about the security of their credit card information when using the credit card parking system.

People may find ways to exploit the system, said Kia Alexander, a graduate student in the School of Social Work.

“They have scams now,” she said. “People hack into the machines and I think it would make it more available for people to do that.”

Garcia said the parking meters would not store or disclose credit card information.

The units, which would reject

debit cards without suf ficient funds to prevent overdraft, will only authorize the credit or debit cards.

John Begen, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences first-year student, said the credit card system would be convenient and save time that would be spent searching for coins.

“I think that’s a great idea,” Begen said. “Who carries coins on them? I always have my credit card.”

Kristen Mucci, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, said she would remain cautious until the system entered the mainstream.

“I’m not sure about using my credit card because I haven’t really heard of [the system] yet,” Mucci said. “If it became something that was standard, I would feel more comfortable.”

Aspray and Granato retained their positions as co-chairs, which entails organizing fieldwork and recruitment efforts of NJUS, being the official spokespeople and presiding over NJUS and executive meetings.

Matthew Cordeiro, Rutgers University Student Assembly president, was elected to the position of financial officer, who sets up and maintains a 501(c) 3 legal status of NJUS, reports to the NJUS and oversees the organization’s finances, according to the NJUS constitution.

Spencer Klein, a School of Arts and Sciences junior and RUSA legislative chair, was elected as legislative affairs chair. The legislative affairs chair acts as a liaison between NJUS and the government, organizes legislative campaigns and coordinates lobbying efforts by students drawing from all campuses.

Yoon was elected as recruitment and retention officer. As recruitment and retention officer, he is expected to maintain good relations with member schools and recruit to new public universities, according to the NJUS constitution.

Aspray said in Febr uar y 2012, these positions will be voted on again.

With an upcoming meeting in January to reexamine the constitution and a general February conference, the general body discussed ideas for the upcoming semester.

Aspray said the association should look to partner with teacher’s unions and progressive education unions alike, using the success of the Rutgers One coalition in New Brunswick as an example.

Aspray said the Rutgers One coalition is an alliance between student and faculty that campaign toward accessible and af fordable tuition, fair treatment and respect for all University members and transparency at the University.

Yoon said the coalition planned the “Walk into Action” on April 13 last year where students walked out of classes in the support of lower tuition prices. The coalition also organized a sit-in where students occupied President Richard L. McCormick’s office with eight demands, including a demand for no tuition increase.

The sit-in put pressure on the Board of Governors, which resulted in a tuition increase to be cut in half, Aspray said.

He said unions have more resources to put into rallies, but they often have trouble in terms of professor turnout. Student coalitions often lack the funding, but they have large turnouts.

The collaboration between unions and students would be an efficient way to gain support for a campaign, Aspray said.

In addition to collaborating with unions, NJUS is also planning events such as a legislative phone bank — where students would collectively call one legislator over a particular issue — and a statewide tent city in the spring semester that would expand past the one-week time frame of Tent State.

“Doing something to show how college kids are the future, and showing [legislators] higher education is worth it,” Cordeiro said. “It’s not something we traditionally do, but to do it would be a good practice.”

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oSTEM aims to help LGBTQ members

BY LISA BERKMAN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

A new student group oSTEM (Out in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) held its first meeting Thursday night in an effort to attract members of the LGBTQ community in the science field who may be looking for support.

The group aims to provide LGBTQ students with a nurturing environment while entering a field some feel is discriminatory, said Jackie Alencewicz, co-president of the organization.

“It’s going to help you while you’re an undergrad, so when you are a graduate, you don’t say ‘Okay, where do I go?’” said Alencewicz, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student.

The group welcomes all undergraduates at the University who identify as LGBTQ, but it specifically caters to those majoring in the sciences, said Sharice Richardson, the group’s faculty advisor.

“We hope to be basically a forum for students to explore their fields in the sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics,” said Richardson, assistant dean in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences.

Helene Puzio, co-president of oSTEM, said the professional component sets their organization apart from conventional LGBTQ groups.

“As far as the LGBTQ community is concerned, we need a more professional standpoint [about] what to do in the workplace,” said Puzio, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences sophomore. “That’s something I feel we don’t really have here at Rutgers, that’s definitely a new experience.”

Nick Margolies, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences first-year student, said o-STEM helps him feel more secure in the presence of students at the meeting who are in a similar position.

“I’m transgender and it’s very reassuring to know in the sciences you have a lot of support — not only in academics but also emotionally [and] mentally — so you’re not just walking off a cliff,” Margolies said.

Alex Simao, a member of the group, said oSTEM helps reassure him of his status in the workforce.

“I feel like a lot of other groups are just about civil rights.

But with civil rights you don’t get representation,” said Simao, a

School of Environmental and Biological Sciences sophomore.

Alencewicz said establishing the group on campus and its recognition among both students and faculty are crucial for the University’s status as a diverse campus.

“As diverse as Rutgers is, they’re missing that aspect,” she said. “If they want to keep up their awesome standing, they’ll have to stay on top of that.”

Richardson said the University’s diverse status is necessary to keep up competition with other respected universities.

“It’s important for the Rutgers community because this is found in every major state university of quality,” she said. oSTEM exists at the national level and hosts an annual conference in Washington D.C., which Richardson hopes the University’s branch can participate in once it is more established.

“Hopefully, we’ll in the course of developing this organization have the oppor tunity to send our students to join that conference,” she said.

“Employers from IBM and a lot of other science and technical firms are present there and we’ll be recr uiting and advocating there.”

Members were surprised when about 20 students attended the first meeting in Meeting Room B of the Douglass Campus Center.

“I kind of expected us to be standing in an empty room with a couple cups of cof fee,” Margolies said.

He said the group hopes to have more companies become involved in meetings.

“I’d love to have corporations, panels — basically bring their industr y, their corporation and share with us how to succeed as an [LGBTQ] identified person,” Richardson said.

“Those who are LGBTQ identified can realize there are offerings out there that are safe, and we’ll offer them benefits that average companies won’t.”

No matter where the future takes the group, she believes oSTEM will continue to provide self-identified LGBTQ science students a tight-knit community.

“I think that the students who are interested in an organization like this, they’re just looking to connect to other students who have similar interests,” Richardson said.

RESEARCHERS LINK WIFE OF THOMAS EDISON’S DEATH TO MORPHINE OVERDOSE Researchers of the Thomas Edison Papers center based at the University uncovered evidence leading to the belief that Thomas Edison’s wife, Mary Edison, died of a morphine overdose.

Louis Carlat, an associate research professor, and his colleagues used an extensive database of online sources to link circumstantial evidence between Mary Edison’s death and her longtime morphine use, according to a Rutgers Today article.

“We were only able to find out as much about Mary’s death as we did by using those sources,” said Carlat, in the article. “We would never have been able to get this far otherwise.”

Researchers investigated morphine and its effects, and stumbled upon “congestion of the brain” which may be attributed to Mary Edison’s death, according to the article.

“It turns out that doctors considered congestion of the brain to be a physical symptom of opiate overdose, and at least one medical text prescribed electric shock as a way to revive victims, just as Edison reportedly tried,” Carlat said in the article.

Researchers are unable to confirm this accuracy of these events but said the story seemed plausible in the context of Thomas Edison’s life.

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Author Suzy Ismail addresses the aspects that sparked the current revolutions in the Middle East during The Middle Eastern Cultural Festival yesterday on the College Avenue campus.

Festival focuses on children’s issues Event raises awareness of Middle Eastern culture, medical relief concerns

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Through food, film and speakers, the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund showcased Middle Eastern culture yesterday in the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus.

The Middle Eastern Cultural Festival included film screenings, a market and guest lectures in an effort to draw attention to the lack of medical care available to children in Lebanon, Palestine and Syria in a non-political manner, said Abdul Khan, PCRF vice-president.

“I went through a non-political agenda to raise awareness about the dire crisis for kids in the Middle East,” said Khan, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore.

“I’m not even Middle Eastern, but I felt that this is a great organization and it does a lot to help children abroad.”

The variety of events at the festival aimed to raise awareness about the health conditions children face while introducing students to Middle Eastern culture, he said.

PCRF worked to spread knowledge of the organization’s purpose during the event through fundraisers and speakers, Khan said.

“We typically do that in two ways at our college campus,” he said. “The first is through raising awareness. The second is actually raising monetary funding.”

Guest speaker Suzy Ismail, author of “Nine to Five: Muslims in the Western Workplace,” discussed the different factors moti-

“I went through a non-political agenda to raise awareness about the dire crisis for kids in the Middle East. ” ABDUL KHAN Palestine Children’s Relief Fund Vice President

vating those involved in the revolutions going on in Egypt, Liberia and Yemen.

Students could dance to Arab and American themed music, shop for traditional Arabic garments and jewelr y and sample foods such as hummus, pumpkin seeds and Arabic cof fee.

Maddie Kenny, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, said she learned about the

festival through a friend and thought it sounded fun.

“The festival’s really great,“ she said. “The henna is fun. It looks really good and it was free.”

A collaboration of organizations volunteered during the event and attended the festival to show support for the PCRF, said Zain Abouseido, PCRF secretary.

There were 17 co-sponsoring organizations including the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Muslims without Borders and People to People International.

A University alumnus founded the University’s chapter of PCRF about two years ago as a branch of the national non-political, non-profit PCRF organization, which was established in 1991, Khan said.

The organization helps attain free medical care for children in the Middle East who do not otherwise have the means to attain specialized treatment needed in their homeland, Abouseido said.

He said there are many children who cannot afford medical treatment or access hospitals.

“What we do is we send medical relief in the form of money for them to get treated over there or we have them come here to America or Europe to get treated,” Abouseido said, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “If anyone’s sick, we help them.”

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Join the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences Governing Council for an evening with Congressman Rush Holt from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Multipurpose Rooms ABC on Cook campus. Holt will talk to students about the next generation of scientists about science literacy to possibly inspire scientists to contribute broadly.

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Not Just Yoga Club’s will meet from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the Cook Campus Center Room 202 BC. Students can de-stress, learn yoga and meditation and meet new people. Please bring a yoga mat and a water bottle and wear comfortable clothing. Please RSVP to attend by emailing notjustyogarutgers@gmail.com.

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Rutgers University Programming Association is hosting a Songwriting Seminar at 8 p.m. at The Cove of the Busch Campus Center. Students can learn more about the process of songwriting and this area of the music industry. The seminar might lead to musical talent and knowledge.

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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 The Daily Targum is always looking for new writers. There will be a Writers’ Meeting at 9:30 p.m. in The Daily Targum Business Office, Suite 431 in the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus. All majors are welcome and no experience is necessary. For more information, contact Reena Diamante at university@dailytargum.com.

The Rutgers University Programming Association will have a poetry performance with Phil Kaye, a member of the Spoken Word by Project Voice at 8 p.m in the NJC Lounge of the Douglass Campus Center. The event is free.

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Admission is payable at the door or register online by visiting recreation.rutgers.edu/classes. There will be a ballroom dance social from 8 to 11:30 p.m. Attend with or without a partner. There will be a rotation system in workshops. Dress up — no jeans, T-shirts or sneakers. The social is $10 or $5 with valid University identification. For more information call (732) 932-8204 or email recclass@rci.rutgers.edu.

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I know people say ‘football’ but I’m more about the food.

I’m Italian, so it’s definitely about the food.”

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Condemn the action of UC Davis police

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group of University of California-Davis students engaging in an Occupy Wall Street-related protest on the UC Davis campus on Friday found out that their peaceful protest was not sitting well with the university’s police force when one officer, Lt. John Pike, resorted to firing a group of them with pepper spray at almost point-blank range. In a video of the incident, widely available around the Internet, the protestors can be seen sitting calmly on the ground, their arms linked. They pose no physical threat to the officers.

Without being provoked, Pike walks to the line and fires. In the wake of this act, which many have been quick to call police brutality, some are calling for UC Davis Chancellor Linda P. B. Katehi to resign, claiming that the violent police tactics were her fault. Nathan Brown, an assistant English professor at the school, wrote an open letter to Katehi asserting, “You are responsible for it because this is what happens when UC chancellors order police onto our campuses to disperse peaceful protestors through the use of force: students get hurt.” While we agree that Pike’s conduct is unacceptable, we think it is wrong to totally lay the blame on Katehi. She may have called for the police presence, but she never instructed Pike to use unnecessary force.

If Katehi had pulled the pepper spray trigger herself, then of course she would deserve the blame. If she ordered the officers present to use undue force, then we would point the finger at her and join in calling for her resignation. But all she did was order a police presence, which is pretty standard order procedure for even the most peaceful of protests. Any other person in her position would have done the same thing, and they would be right to do it. A police presence is necessary just to make sure that the non-violent protest doesn’t turn violent.

But the protest didn’t turn violent — it didn’t even threaten to, which is why Pike should never have fired the pepper spray. He of all people deserves the blame for his reprehensible actions. He chose to assault peaceful protestors on a college campus. He was called in by the chancellor to keep order, not lash out unprovoked. If anyone should resign their post, it’s Pike.

Anti-obscenity efforts go too far in Pakistan

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elecommunications authorities in Pakistan are taking drastic measures to ensure that no one in the country texts obscene messages. Anjum Nida Rahman, a spokeswoman for Telenor Pakistan, said authorities are ordering cellphone service providers to block text messages that contain any of the more than 1,500 English and Urdu words they have listed as offensive. For the most part, the words on the list are run-of-the-mill expletives and sexual terms — exactly the sort of things one would expect people to consider “obscene.” But the list also includes some strange terms that don’t seem so bad, including “idiot,” “tampon” and “Jesus Christ.” Of course, Pakistan is its own country, with its own sets of morals and mores, so we should be wary in applying our Western values to what they deem offensive and what they do about it. That being said, this move to censor text messages seems a little bit overboard. Technology in 2011 is becoming less of a luxury and more of a right. Impeding people’s abilities to utilize the technology they have in the name of anti-obscenity is extreme.

As we said above, we by no means wish to question the things that Pakistani culture considers obscene or inappropriate. Whereas a word like “fart” is acceptable on children’s television in the United States, it apparently, for whatever reason, is in the same category as more traditional expletives, according to the Pakistani telecommunications authority. However, we do question the steps that the authority has taken to combat obscenity. By blocking these messages, the authority infringes upon the personal conversations of Pakistanis. No one should have to deal with government officials monitoring what he or she says. Even if the content of a conversation is obscene, there is no reason a government agency should prevent that conversation from occurring — as long as it isn’t hurting anyone.

Perhaps the telecommunications authority in Pakistan should reconsider the steps it is taking to stamp out obscenity. Rather than censor it, maybe they could take a subtler approach, like encouraging citizens to avoid obscene language. As things stand, the authority is attempting to regulate the use of technology in the country to an extreme degree. As technology becomes more ingrained in the lives of people across the globe, this sort of regulation becomes less acceptable. Technology is no longer just a product — it is a facet of many people’s personal lives and it needs to be recognized as such.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “Can something direct a Rutgers student any more than student debt?”

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ike many other studiscovered the details of dents here, I honestwhat had happened. This ly would have to is evidenced by the admit that I felt a tiny bit of Facebook statuses posted shame for being a by almost ever y person I University student at the know that goes to Penn end of last semester. In that State. Most of these statustime, we had seen the es expressed anger at the LEE SELTZER Rutgers University media attention Paterno Programming Association received. They see him as allocate gross amounts of money to “Jersey Shore” being invulnerable to blame and capable of star Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, as well as four shootdoing no wrong. ings by non-University students during Rutgersfest I am even more astonished by the riots that weekend. The campus as a whole was bubbling with occurred following the announcement of discontent and angst.

Paterno’s departure. During these riots, light However, recent events have reminded me that poles were torn down, news vans were overturned things could have been far worse. These events and police were attacked. Thousands of Penn were the recent revelation of former coach Jerry State students participated in these riots. While Sandusky’s child sexual abuse scandal at this may not be entirely representative of the overPennsylvania State University and the subsequent all student body, this is still a very significant porfiring of former head football coach tion. Needless to say, I saw no Joe Paterno. Justice has been Facebook statuses by Penn State “I am proud to be ser ved, and Sandusky has been students about the riots. arrested. The main controversy a University student, Paterno has had a lot of life though, has not been the countless experience, and he knows he because we children who have suffered, but the needs to take responsibility for his firing of Paterno. inaction. I’ve heard a lot of Penn do not riot.”

I am not going to pretend to be State students talking about hindan expert on college football, nor sight, but Paterno knows this goes will I attempt to explain Paterno’s role in the situabeyond hindsight. Regardless of what he knows tion. Only he knows his rationale for his course of now and what he knew then, what happened canaction and what went through his mind. Moreover, not be changed now. He understands that the I can understand why Penn State students glorify real tragedy is what those poor children went him the way they do. When one looks at the through. I’m not saying the students at Penn tragedy in hindsight, he most likely could have State don’t sympathize with the victims. done more. A man close to him conducted the However, they have not done their best to show abuse for God knows how long right under his that they do. nose. Sure, he reported it to his superiors, but Now back to the University. This whole incicould he not have suspended Sandusky until he dent has made me extremely proud to be a had closure or followed up on the report? I mean, University student. Last year during Rutgersfest, if I had the slightest inclination that an employee of the campus descended into anarchy, and as a mine was accused of molesting multiple children in result, the yearly concer t was canceled. a program sponsored by my organization, I would Although the loss of Rutgerfest was not exactly at the very least do that. similar to the loss of Paterno, students saw I am not here to talk about Paterno though — Rutgersfest as a defining feature of the he has been fired. Additionally, he reacted by sayUniversity. Students were annoyed — many were ing that in retrospect it was “one of the great soreven angr y. But in the end, we all accepted it. rows of [his] life.” In short, he responded in the There certainly were not any riots. Unlike Penn appropriate manner upon discovering that child State, we realized that something really terrible molestation occurred right under his nose. He had happened — something so terrible that it responded with class, dignity and most imporcalled for an extraordinar y response. So, as tantly, regret. strange is it sounds, I am proud to be a Rather, I am disgusted by the conduct and University student, because we do not riot. response of Penn State students to this incident.

Penn State students have a long histor y of pride Lee Seltzer is a School of Arts and Sciences junior in their school and football program. As a result, majoring in history and economics. His column, they were over whelmed with grief when they “‘Simplee’ Put,” runs on alternate Mondays.

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Rutgers United, RUSA advocate for students Letter JOSEPH CASHIN hen I grabbed The Daily Targum last Thursday, I flipped to the Opinions section and thought to myself, “Today is finally the day I am printed in The Daily Targum.” My personal jubilation soon shifted to a feeling of annoyance. On the left page, the blow quote from the column “La Nausée” read, “[Rutgers United is] a manifestation of a larger progressive liberal movement.” I was annoyed because, for the second day in a row, instead of doing my homework for my

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“American Presidency” class, I would have to read an entire Targum column and respond.

I am a proud Republican, as well as the Rutgers University Student Assembly’s corresponding secretary and a leader in the Rutgers United Party. Publishing my political affiliation, especially in a college newspaper, is a risky thing. Naturally, college is full of liberal people and ideology. Ask any conservative — if you can identify one — and they will tell you they don’t speak out for conservatism because they are fearful of being alienated and looked down upon at their college or university. But I am willing to do this

because I strongly believe that as a School of Arts and Sciences senator at-large, I represent the entire student body.

“[The] issues RUSA and Rutgers United bring up are student issues.”

I know that “Mr. X” states only 7.5 percent of students participate in the RUSA elections. RUSA Treasurer Scott Siegel first brought this fact to me. Since that time, I have been the most vocal

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about getting better turnout to RUSA events. I feel this will bring out bigger numbers for the upcoming RUSA elections in the spring. As I said in my speech to the RUSA body when I ran for vice president, I would be ecstatic to lose my seat next year if 25 percent of students voted in the online election.

Putting that aside, the supposed liberal causes of Rutgers United are not political causes — they are student causes. If I felt there was a political agenda in Rutgers United or RUSA, I would leave.

I have met very few students that want higher tuition. I have met very few students that feel

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Daily review: laurels and darts

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t is safe to assume that most of the protestors who join Occupy Wall Street and its related movements around the world know and accept the fact that they may be arrested before they get involved. Such is the risk of dissent. However, journalists are less likely to expect to end up in holding cells . They’re just covering the events, not transgressing social order. Regardless, more than a few journalists have wound up on the receiving end of police force or arrested since they have started covering the protests. As the Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, a humanrights group based in Washington, D.C., pointed out in a recent statement, seven journalists have been detained this week alone at the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York. The IACHR is right to condemn police for arresting journalists who are just doing their jobs, and we give them a laurel for calling attention to the issue. *

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the University is a better place when workers have their salaries frozen. I have met very few students that agree with the way the New Brunswick Police Department has handled the death of Barry Deloatch. These issues RUSA and Rutgers United bring up are student issues. I am proud to be a part of an organization on campus that is willing to actively do something about these issues that impact students.

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Rep. Rob Andrews, D-N.J., and his family last June attended a wedding in Edinburgh, Scotland. All in all, the lavish trip cost more than $9,000. This would not be important information to the public if it weren’t for the fact that Andrews himself did not cover those costs. Instead, his campaign funds did. This isn’t the first time that Andrews has used campaign funds for questionable reasons. Andrews used $10,000 in campaign this summer funds to throw a party celebrating his time in Congress and his daughter’s graduation. Andrews staunchly maintains that all of his expenditures are campaign-related, hence the use of campaign funds to pay for them, but we fail to see just how a three-night stay at a five-star hotel in Scotland for a whopping $7,725 counts towards his campaign. We give Andrews a dart for abusing his political position.

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GOAL: BC goalkeeper only stops Cuevas’ penalty kick continued from back is another proud moment for these guys.”

The Knights came out on top of the penalty kick battle, 4-3. Boston College goalkeeper Justin Luthy was only able get his hands on senior Andrew Cuevas’s effort.

“I’ll tell you what, our guys buried their PK’s,” Donigan said. “I told them to make sure you get a good spot, step up with confidence and strike the ball — strike it firm and strike it sharp.”

Donigan went into the penalty kicks with confidence, thanks to junior goalkeeper Kevin McMullen. The Blackwood, N.J., native ended the regular season on a tear, posting back-to-back

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Senior David Rowe (4), junior Brandon Jones (25) and sophomore Logan Ryan (11) combine to tackle Cincinnati running back Isaiah Pead, who carried the ball 14 times for only 28 yards.

FIRST: Schiano, Cignetti commit to run with halftime lead continued from back Jamison’s longest run went for 35 yards, and it was one of four 20-plus-yard runs.

“I looked at the halftime stats and saw that we had a kid averaging 5 yards a touch,” Schiano said. “I said, ‘Let’s keep feeding him,’ and [offensive coordinator] Frank [Cignetti] said, ‘Let’s go.’”

Rutgers entered the half with a 10-3 lead — 7 points coming on Jamison’s second carry of the game for 12 yards and 3 at the end of a nearly-10-minute drive.

The defense set the tone from the outset, as junior cornerback Brandon Jones forced a Munchie Legaux fumble on Cincinnati’s second offensive play of the game.

Legaux never looked comfortable afterward and he had no help on the ground.

Senior running back Isaiah Pead, who ran for 260 yards and five touchdowns the past two years against Rutgers, averaged 2.0 yards per carry.

It put even more pressure on a sophomore quarterback making his first start in place of an injured Zach Collaros, and it showed. Legaux was 12-of-31 for 158 yards through the air, with eight of those completions coming in the fourth quarter.

But when the Bearcats threatened to score with less than a minute remaining, Jones stretched out in the end zone to intercept a game-ending pass.

“You know as a coach that when you are winning, 20-3, that there are only a few ways to lose that game,” Schiano said. “One of them is that if they score a touchdown and onside kick, and now you are into a whole ‘nother game.

When we made the pick I knew that we were in good shape.

That is probably why I got excited.”

Rutgers still had 58 seconds of game clock to run out. When it did, junior defensive tackle Scott Vallone allowed himself 10 seconds to enjoy the win.

Then his thoughts turned to Connecticut, where a win secures Rutgers a share of first place, and with WVU and Louisville losses, sends Rutgers to the Orange Bowl.

Forget the fact Rutgers was all but out of it three weeks ago, because with Jamison’s second carr y of the day it all went out the window.

“We came out like we were going to establish the r un today,” Jamison said. “We were going to get it going and we were going to show them, ‘Don’t count Rutgers out when it comes to r unning the ball.’”

Don’t count Rutgers out of the Big East, either.

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Redshirt freshman fullback Michael Burton takes a pass for 12 yards to the goal line in the third quarter Saturday, setting up a 1-yard Jawan Jamison touchdown run.

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Ibrahim Kamara converted an 86th-minute goal for Rutgers.

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shutouts against ranked opponents and a 10-save game. “[On] the PK’s, we felt 100 percent confident that we were going to win because we had Kevin McMullen. Because we have McMullen I knew we were in pretty good shape,” Donigan said.

“There was no way they were making all their kicks. We had full confidence he was going to get one or two of them, which he obviously did.”

The game went into extra periods on a goal in the 86th minute from senior Ibrahim Kamara.

“That goal was huge for us, definitely,” Kamara said. “I remember I looked at the time and saw only three minutes left and thought I had to do something. I was fortunate to be where the ball was and I just finished.”

The senior forward leads the team in game-winning goals with three and ranks the goal that eventually sent the Knights into the next round of the tournament above all others.

“This has to be my best goal of the season. It takes us to another level,” Kamara said.

“The other goals were gamewinners, but this one was special. It led to us moving on and moving forward.”

Moving for ward for the Knights means a Sunday matchup with 13th-seeded UCLA or Delaware, a pair of teams Donigan knows little about. Their game kicked off at 10 p.m. last not and did not end until after The Daily Targum’s deadline.

“Certainly once you get into this round of the tournament everyone is going to be very good and difficult,” Donigan said. “We will continue to prep over the next two days to get ready.”

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Junior cornerback Brandon Jones sacks Cincinnati quarterback Munchie Legaux and forces a fumble, which Rutgers recovered and eventually converted into points. The Knights harassed Legaux through his final significant play, a fourth-quarter Jones interception.

Defense overwhelms Bearcats’ new starter

BY TYLER BARTO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

Rutgers head football coach Greg Schiano called Cincinnati’s Munchie Legaux “downright scar y” when he tucks the KNIGHT ball and NOTEBOOK runs.

But it was Legaux who suffered Saturday in the Scarlet Knights’ 20-3 home victory, when he managed only 181 total yards.

“Maybe we called a few more things with a young, inexperienced quarterback that could give him some things to look at,” Schiano said. “Zach [Collaros] is a more experienced guy that would have probably recognized something sooner.”

The Knights (8-3, 4-2) forced Legaux out of his comfort zone on nearly every play in the New Orleans native’s first career start.

Junior cornerback Brandon Jones sacked him and forced a fumble on the Bearcats’ (7-3, 3-2) first pass play from scrimmage. He also picked off a Legaux pass on the final significant play of the game.

In between, Rutgers brought constant pressure.

“What was key was we hit him early,” said junior defensive tackle Scott Vallone. “We didn’t get as many sacks as we did hits, [but] we were able to hit him and tr y to confuse him, give him different looks from the back seven. That’s what you have to do to a firsttime starter.”

Legaux completed less than 39 percent of his passes against the Knights and accounted for only 31 yards rushing after running for a score against West Virginia.

The goal was to make the 6foot-5 signal caller a pocket passer, Vallone said.

“We had him reeling. We were able to keep him contained, also,” he said. “When he was on the run he’s a lot more effective. We were able to keep him in the pocket.

Even when we kept him in the pocket, we thought of it as a win.”

Schiano had little time to enjoy the fruits of his defense’s labor.

The 11th-year head coach often found himself in his play sheet to keep up with Cincinnati’s no-huddle offense.

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nearly as much as his own receivers.

And when faced with a sack or an interception, Dodd would much rather accept the former after throwing three picks in his last two games.

“Definitely a sack. You don’t want to turn the ball over,” he said. “You tr y to keep it in our hands. We might get a thirddown play. You definitely don’t want an interception.”

Chas Dodd did not throw an interception Saturday, but he was on the wrong end of three sacks against the Bearcats.

Cincinnati ranks second in the Big East with 34 takedowns through its 10 games this season, but Rutgers allowed only one sack last week against Army.

“I would say [on] a few of them maybe I could’ve gotten the ball out sooner or I didn’t see it cleanly,” said Dodd, who threw for 185 yards on 35 pass attempts. “We might have had a breakdown in pass protection. There are a number of things.”

Still, the 6-foot Dodd threw less batted-down passes than Legaux, who found a defensive lineman’s outstretched arm

Jefferson left the game Saturday and did not return. He remained on the sideline on crutches out of uniform after exiting the training room.

The team continues to await word on Jefferson’s injury, but Schiano has his concerns.

“I am worried that he might not be able to go, but we will see,” Schiano said. “I am hopeful, but who knows? But when a guy leaves the game permanently, that is never good.”

Jefferson is fifth on the team with 11 catches this season for 107 yards. He caught a pair of passes for 17 yards against Cincinnati before leaving the contest.

But what he did see encouraged him, he said.

“We had to get [plays] in fast because if they sense you are running behind, they will go to turbo and speed it up,” Schiano said.

“We had to make sure we had the impressions — whether we were or we weren’t — that we were fully in control when they were ready to go.”

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he Rutgers women’s golf team received a National Letter of Intent from a second West Coast recruit.

Alameda, Calif., native Samantha Moyal signed on to play for Rutgers on Friday, joining Melanie Chambers as the team’s second 2012 commit.

Moyal joins friend and Scarlet Knights freshman standout Kortnie Maxoutopoulis, who she beat at the 2010 Northern California Girls Amateur Junior Championship.

She is the captain of the undefeated Alameda County High School squad and led it to the league championship.

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basketball point guard Shabazz Napier elevated the Huskies yesterday against Coppin State with a triple-double in the team’s 87-70 win.

Napier compiled 22 points, 13 assists and 12 rebounds in the game.

Napier’s triple-double was the ninth in UConn history and the first since Kemba Walker notched one last season against Mar ylandBaltimore County.

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coach Rex Ryan may face a fine after cursing at a fan who heckled him as Ryan walked onto the field at the JetsPatriots game.

ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports the fine should be somewhere between $75,000 and $100,000.

Making an obscene gesture at a fan in 2010 during a UFC event landed him a $50,000 fine.

As he did in 2010, Ryan apologized for the remarks, acknowledging his poor behavior as a result of his emotions and competitiveness.

THE BOSTON RED SOX contacted former New York Mets manager and current ESPN baseball analyst Bobby Valentine about the team’s open manager position.

Valentine admitted he is open to interviewing for the job and spoke to general manager Ben Cherington.

The Red Sox lost a managerial candidate they already interviewed when Milwaukee Brewers hitting coach Dale Sveum took the job as manager of the Chicago Cubs.

Valentine, if interviewed, will be the fifth candidate for the job.

P ITTSBURGH P ENGUINS captain Sidney Crosby makes his season debut tonight against the New York Islanders.

Crosby plays his first game in nearly a year since being sidelined with concussion-like symptoms.

Crosby watched the Tampa Bay Lightning eliminate the Penguins in the opening round of the 2011 playoffs.

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Knights win despite slow start

BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

PHILADELPHIA — The No. 15 Rutgers women’s basketball team entered the Tom Gola Arena l a s t WOMEN’S BASKETBALL night to La RUTGERS 61 face S a l l e LA SALLE 48 with the s a m e approach as any other game.

Whether the Scarlet Knights were awake prior to tipoff, however, remained a question to head coach C. Vivian Stringer following the team’s hard fought 61-48 victory.

By all indications, the Knights would be wise to invest in new alarm clocks.

“We did not handle [the game] well,” Stringer said. “I think we tried in the warm-up and everything else. Let’s give credit to La Salle. The coaches did a great job and the players did really well.”

The Knights (3-0) began the season more explosively than in

recent years, forcing two consecutive opponents into at least 21 turnovers and scoring at least 73 points in back-to-back wins.

But in their first road contest of the season, all but fifth-year senior guard Khadijah Rushdan — who led the team with 20 points on 8-of14 shooting — struggled.

Stringer’s explosive lineup committed 25 turnovers in the victory and began the game as cold as the frigid November air.

The Knights went scoreless for the game’s first 4:45, a span of nine offensive possessions that featured six turnovers, a blocked shot, jump ball and missed layup.

Freshman wing Betnijah Laney averaged 13.5 points in her first two career starts for Stringer. In her third start, Laney scored two points and turned the ball over five times — one of three players to suffer at least four turnovers.

Senior forward Aprils Sykes (six) and junior guard Erica Wheeler (four) also

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Senior guard Khadijah Rushdan led the Knights with 20 points as the first Rutgers player to reach the 20-point mark this season.

succumbed to the Explorers’ (1-3) full-court pressure.

Amid the Knights’ inefficiency on offense — the team shot 36.5 percent from the field — Rushdan did her best to spark the offense.

“Me being a point guard and of course me being a senior, I definitely think it’s important for me to recognize when our team may be struggling,” Rushdan said. “It’s definitely my job to make sure we stay on top of what we need to do.”

By the time the final horn sounded, though, Rushdan was one of only two Knights to score in double-figures.

Sykes scored nine late second half points to finish with 12 after remaining absent for most of the contest. The Starkville, Miss., native also contributed on the glass with eight rebounds.

Junior center Monique Oliver, coming off a double-double against Boston College and back-to-back double-figure scoring efforts, was nowhere to be found.

“Mo just wasn’t here,” Stringer said of Oliver, who finished with five points and as many rebounds in 31 minutes of action. “Mo has been double- and triple-teamed for the first two games — same exact thing. She didn’t [perform tonight].

I didn’t know what it was.”

La Salle’s Alexis Scott kept her team in the contest for as long as she could in the second half, scoring 18 points while contributing to none of the team’s 26 turnovers.

Aside from Scott, the Explorers struggled from the field, shooting 31.4 percent from the floor.

At times, the Knights looked like a team more ready to lose the game than win, while the freshman class appeared more uncomfortable than ever away from the Louis Brown Athletic Center.

But the Knights woke up just enough to preserve their unblemished record, and the team could not be more fortunate, Stringer said.

“We didn’t have the energy, we just weren’t moving — simple as that,” Stringer said. “We should be able to play our game no matter who it is … we’re just fortunate we came out with the win.”

RU frontcourt falters at La Salle

BY JOSH BAKAN CORRESPONDENT

PHILADELPHIA — Monique Oliver was on the court more than anyone on the Rutgers women’s basketball team for the third KNIGHT consecuNOTEBOOK tive game against La Salle on Saturday, when the junior center logged 31 minutes.

But for the first time this season, Oliver was not a dominant force in the Scarlet Knights’ 61-48 victory.

Oliver finished with five points and five rebounds against the Explorers, deviating from her previous near double-double average.

Stringer wants to see Christa Evans contribute more time at center, but the freshman played limited minutes against La Salle because of foul trouble, picking up two fouls in only five minutes.

“We’ve got to get a better effort to stay out of foul trouble from Christa,” Stringer said. “Christa cannot go into the game … and pick up two fouls. We need Christa because I see her doing things in practice. She gets anxious and she’s not handling the ball.”

Oliver played 18 minutes in the first half, resting only two minutes due to Evans’ quick fouls.

Stringer took Oliver out of the game four times in the second half, using either Evans or senior for ward April Sykes at the five position.

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her trademark 55-press more this early in the season than in recent histor y.

The Explorers exploited the press at times by getting to the free throw line.

La Salle earned 22 shots from the charity stripe while Rutgers shot 14 free throws.

“We were tr ying to attack, being aggressive on offensive rebounds — that helped,” said La Salle head coach Jeff Williams.

“Playing athletically and just scrapping and fighting, we were fortunate to get to the line.”

Stringer’s trademark press often throws off unfamiliar teams, but Williams saw plenty of the defense in his seven seasons as an assistant with Pittsburgh through 2010.

Stringer still does not see it as an excuse for when the Explorers took advantage of the press.

“We should be able to play our game no matter who it is,” Stringer said. “It doesn’t matter who it is and what they know.”

The Knights shot eight times from the line with three minutes remaining, but they made a late surge to close the gap when La Salle fouled more in the closing minutes.

Oliver and senior guards Khadijah Rushdan and Nikki Speed added two free throws apiece during the stretch.

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lead throughout the game after Rushdan put the first points of the board with a baseline jumper.

But that did not come until five minutes already ticked off the game clock, as neither team scored in the early going. The Knights turned the ball over six times within the scoring drought, five of which occurred on their first five plays.

Stringer brought in guards Erica Wheeler and Briyona Canty for for wards Sykes and Betnijah Laney, adjusting to the small-ball style she recently implemented.

Rushdan’s basket spawned a 7-2 Rutgers run over the next three minutes.

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Sophomore forward Gilvydas Biruta scored a team-high 17 points and recorded a career-high 12 rebounds against Hampton.

Rutgers rebounds from first-half shooting woes

BY TYLER BARTO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

Dane Miller tried to stop it from happening, but his efforts were to no avail. The Gatorade MEN’S BASKETBALL c o o l e r he flew HAMPTON 52 into secRUTGERS 66 oe anr l di e sr in the second half toppled into the junior wing, showering him 11 minutes earlier than he expected.

“I’ve never been as cold as that in my life,” Miller said.

Miller and the Rutgers men’s basketball team needed the purge yesterday, when they defeated visiting Hampton, 66-52, in a sloppy affair at the Louis Brown Athletic Center.

There were falls — sophomore forward Gilvydas Biruta slipped in a pile of sweat. There were near-halfcourt 3-point attempts within the flow of Hampton’s offense. And there were dives into the stands.

But none awoke the Scarlet Knights (3-1) more than Miller’s leap out of bounds, a follow-up example of his gradual emergence as a leader.

“That’s a teammate — he’s the most unselfish teammate,” Biruta said. “He could be the best scorer probably ever y game. He just works hard on assists, defense, ever ything.”

Biruta posted his own impressive ef for t against the Pirates (1-2), scoring a teamhigh 17 points and recording a career-best 12 rebounds.

He showed discipline on defense, attacked the offensive glass and hustled in transition.

And then there was Biruta’s alley oop.

“I didn’t understand how he caught it,” Miller said. “After he caught it and dunked it he started yelling some Lithuanian stuf f I didn’t understand.”

Bir uta caught the fast-break pass from freshman point guard Jerome Seagears with one hand and finished it with authority in the same motion.

“I loved it,” Biruta said.

“Myles Mack got one, so did

Jerome. Now I’m waiting for [freshman guard] Eli [Carter].”

The score put Rutgers up, 19-10, but it faced mounting pressure from Hampton to close the contest.

The Knights saw their double-digit lead sink to only five with six minutes remaining, prompting head coach Mike Rice to use a timeout.

The Pirates’ loose, playground style on offense proved an eager counterpart to the Knights’ aggressive defense.

But Rice’s first usage of the 23 zone stymied Hampton enough to seal the victory.

“Ever y single day, [associate head coach David Cox] keeps on me, ‘We have to switch with a young team. We have to go more zone. We have to work on it,’” Rice said. “Our mental toughness along with the zone grinded a game out.”

The Knights forced more than 20 turnovers for the second consecutive game, grabbing 26 takeaways against the defending Mideastern Athletic Conference champions.

They also rebounded, gaining a 47-33 advantage on the glass against arguably their most physically imposing opponent yet.

And they overcame a 24 percent ef for t on first-half field goals.

But what Rice did not want the Knights to do was think ahead. Hours from a flight to Mexico for the Cancun Challenge, Rice would not allow it.

“I screamed and killed them every time. They’re excited to go to Cancun, to play — all the things that come with this holiday trip,” he said. “I was very nervous [if] their minds were already on the airplane.”

The Knights take on Illinois State on Tuesday in the tour nament opener before facing of f against either Illinois or Richmond in the final round.

They return to the Rutgers Athletic Center on Nov. 28, when they welcome MarylandBaltimore County.

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Redshirt freshman Jawan Jamison cuts throught Cincinnati’s defense for a 12-yard touchdown run on his second carry of the game. The Jacksonville, Fla., native gave Rutgers an early lead, then scored again later on a goal-line run en route to a two-touchdown, 200-yard game with 34 carries.

Jamison carries Rutgers to dominant victory against Cincy, claiming share of first place in Big East

BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

It accounted for only 12 of his 200 yards, but Jawan Jamison knew after his second carry of Saturday’s game it FOOTBALL was going to be a good day.

Forget Cincinnati’s top-ranked run defense in the Big East and that the

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Scarlet Knights’ ground game ranked last. Forget that Rutgers had a 100yard rusher only once this season.

And forget that Rutgers made a habit of losing these all-important down-the-stretch games in conference play.

The Knights dominated Cincinnati at High Point Solutions Stadium, where Jamison’s 200 rushing yards fell only 25 yards shy of the Bearcats’ total offense in a 20-3 win, giving Rutgers a share of first place in the Big East.

“I thought [Saturday], the way we ran the football, that’s who we want to be,” said head coach Greg Schiano. “It is critical to be able to run the ball if you are going to be a northeastern football team that is going to be consistently successful.”

Rutgers was once a team that ran the ball at will — with Ray Rice — but it was never a Big East Champion. Now it has a chance, no matter how improbable it seemed

after consecutive losses to Louisville and West Virginia.

The West Virginia loss ended by surrendering a 10-point halftime lead and failing to put up any points in the second half. Jamison ran the ball well at times in that game, but the offense diverted from him once Rutgers surrendered its lead.

It never had to Saturday, when Rutgers’s 38:14 time of possession nearly doubled Cincinnati’s 21:45.

“Coaches told me, ‘If you keep running hard, running physical, running downhill — no pitter-patter shake-and-bake — we’re going to feed you the ball,’” Jamison said.

They did.

The 5-foot-8, 195-pounder carried the ball 34 times — more than any game in his career — and averaged 5.9 yards per carry.

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Knights advance on late goal, PKs

BY VINNIE MANCUSO CORRESPONDENT

The Rutgers men’s soccer team knew entering yesterday’s NCAA Tournament second-round matchup it had a MEN’S SOCCER chance to RUTGERS PKS 2 do what no BOSTON COLLEGE 1 S c a r l e t Knights

team has done in a decade — advance to the third round of the tournament.

With formidable No. 4-seeded Boston College standing in its way, it also knew it was not going to be easy.

In a game that came down to penalty kicks, the Knights outlasted their top-ranked opponents for a 2-1 victor y and advanced to the next round of the tournament.

“A lot of credit to BC, they are a very good team. They are very well disciplined, well coached and talented on both sides of the ball,” said head coach Dan Donigan. “Our guys knew that this was going to be a game where we had to be sharp at all ends of the game again. Again, it was just a hard-fought, tough win. It

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Junior goalkeeper Kevin McMullen saved two penalty kick attempts.