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A little more than two months after the Sept.

22 shooting of Bar r y Deloatch by two New Brunswick Police Depar tment of ficers, one of ficer’s lawyer brought for th new information regarding the incident.

Lawrence Bitterman, a New Brunswick lawyer defending Of ficer Daniel Mazan, said the 46-yearold Deloatch beat Mazan with a 2-foot-long stick about the size of a little league baseball bat after fleeing.

Bitterman spoke on behalf of his client for the first time yesterday, dismissing protestors’ claims following the incident that the New Brunswick resident was unarmed.

“He had a club capable of causing serious bodily injur y. Had he lived he would have been charged with aggravated assault [among other charges],” Bitterman said.

Mazan and Of ficer Brad Berdel stopped three men including Deloatch on routine patrol and asked

them to show their hands, he said. Deloatch fled from the of ficers, and as they chased him he tried slipping under a fence into the backyard of 103 Throop Ave. As Mazan took hold of Deloatch’s belt, Deloatch grabbed a stick and began hitting the of ficer, Bitterman said.

Berdel told him to drop the weapon twice, and when he did not comply Mazan heard a single shot fired, he said.

“It’s a tragedy, but if he had simply complied none of this would have happened,” Bitterman said.

Immediately following the shooting, Mazan went to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital for treatment of minor injuries, he said. After seeing a psychologist in compliance with departmental requirements, he was deemed fit to return to work.

He recounted his stor y to the prosecutor’s of fice the day after the incident and was subsequently placed on administrative leave pending the investigation’s outcome.

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Center for Latino Arts and Culture Program Coordinator Silismar Suriel, right, prepares food with School of Arts and Sciences senior Qualiyah Arrington last night during an interactive Latin cooking workshop at the H.O.P.E. building on Lafayette Street on the College Avenue campus.

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U. ADMINISTRATOR TO LEAVE, SERVE AS JMU PRESIDENT The University’s Senior Vice President and General Counsel Jonathan Alger will head south next year to serve as president of James Madison University.

The JMU Board of Visitors unanimously selected Alger to follow JMU President Linwood Rose after his retirement in June of 2012 as JMU’s sixth president.

James Hartman, JMU Board of Visitors rector, said he felt Alger’s selection was the JONATHAN right choice for leading the Virginia school, founded in 1908, into the second century of ALGER its existence.

“We needed someone with an appreciation for the historical strengths of the University and one willing to invest time to understand our distinct institutional culture,” he said.

Alger said in his acceptance speech yesterday that he would continue to push for JMU to be a leading comprehensive university through balancing undergraduate education and graduate research.

“This vision combines the best of liberal arts education — emphasizing student-centered learning — with a strong complement of distinguished graduate programs aimed at meeting strategic state and national needs,” he said.

Alger was appointed as the University’s vice president and general counsel in 2004 and was promoted to senior vice president in 2008.

Alger also served as chief compliance officer and an adjunct professor during his tenure.

Prior to his time at the University, Alger served as assistant general counsel at the University of Michigan where he coordinated the landmark Supreme Court case Grutter vs. Bollinger, which upheld the University of Michigan’s affirmative action policies, according to a University statement.

Alger said in his acceptance speech that he looks forward to working toward creating a more diverse atmosphere at JMU. “Throughout his seven-year tenure Jon has been deeply involved in crafting the University’s strategic decisions, responding to its opportunities and meeting its challenges,” University President Richard L. McCormick said in the statement.

Alger said JMU’s historic ties to James Madison, the father of the constitution, excited him.

“This University can be a model for our nation and our world, as a place where individuals learn how to become fully engaged and enlightened citizens in a democratic society,” he said.

Alger said in order for JMU to continue to succeed it must foster a culture of philanthropy and further its reach.

“We will continue to seek new ways to foster values of diversity, opportunity, civility, sustainability, internationalization and public service,” he said.

— Tabish Talib

Expert explores Christian views on modern sexuality

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A University research team used brain imaging to evaluate the female orgasm.

While sitting with University students last night, Kathr yn Ott, assistant professor of Christian social ethics at Drew University, discussed the dynamic relationship between sex and Christianity.

Over tea and cookies in the dining room at the Trinity house on the College Avenue campus, Ott framed the talk around two so-called “myths” of sexuality, including “hook-up culture” and planned abstinence.

Campus Minister Rev. Barbara Heck, who invited Ott to host the discussion, said she wanted to create a for um for students to talk about these subjects.

“I don’t think students get to talk enough about quality of relationships and intimacy,” she said. “I wanted to create a good place to do that.”

Ott said most couples have sex before getting married, with men having more sexual par tners than women in a lifetime.

People wait longer to get married in today’s culture than they did 60 years ago, which makes it dif ficult to abstain from sex before marriage, she said.

The first “myth” is traditional abstinence: A boy meets a girl and her family, goes on a first date, which

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Kathryn Ott, assistant professor of Christian social ethics at Drew University, talks about two societal perspectives on sexuality last night at the Trinity House on the College Avenue campus.

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Online evaluations improve instructor feedback

BY JOVELLE ABBEY TAMAYO CONTRIBUTING WRITER

As the fall semester nears its end, undergraduate and graduate students on all three University campuses have the oppor tunity to anonymously comment on the quality of the class and their instructor’s teaching skills.

The Center for Teaching Advancement and Assessment Research distributes the Student Instructional Rating Sur veys at the end of each academic semester for about 10,000 courses, said Monica Devanas, director of faculty development and assessment programs at CTAAR. The surveys — offered online and on paper — prompt students to rate their professors on a scale of one to five on certain factors, such as difficulty or helpfulness, Devanas said. The survey also includes open-ended questions based on the department.

“This is a really important part of [the students’] opportunity to have a say in their own education,” she said. “To be open and honest and to make every effort to provide feedback would be a really good gain for us to have more students participate in it.”

CTAAR, which first administered the surveys in 1993,

distributes the surveys to each class a student is enrolled in, Devanas said. Completed surveys are then given to the respective department and professor for review.

The CTAAR worked over the past three years to transition the originally paper-based process into an online system to expedite the review process, cutting down the six- to eight- week turnaround, she said.

“What the faculty likes about online [SIRS] is that usually students have more time to think about the answers,” Devanas said. “If you’re given only three minutes in class to do it, people usually mark all fives or all threes — they hardly have any comments.”

Although the online comments are more thought out, the paper sur veys have a higher return rate with 70 percent response compared to 55 to 65 percent for online sur veys, Devanas said.

“Those students [who respond] are very thoughtful in their comments,” said Ann Coiro, director of undergraduate studies in the Department of English.

“We really read those comments, and they’ve really helped us.”

Through an electronic survey, CTAAR is also working to implement more questions geared toward specific departments and courses, Devanas said.

“With the online structure, we can customize even greater,” she said. “We’d like to get to the point where faculty members can add their own questions and departments can add their own questions.”

Academic departments use the surveys extensively in the short-term planning process and long-term, Devanas said. A department may review SIRS to

“We can see a narrative.

We evaluate our students, but we also evaluate ourselves.”

ANN COIRO Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of English

improve curriculum or to consult when a faculty member is up for tenure.

Patrick Ree, a First-Year Interest Group Seminar peer instructor for “Exploring Anthropology,” taught the 10week course this semester, and his students will evaluate him through SIRS. “They’re not released yet, but I’m really anticipating getting

feedback from my students,” said Ree, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “Having that opportunity definitely makes me really want to let my professors know that I actually have feedback to give them.”

Not all students provide feedback at the end of the semester.

Mona Saleh, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, is skeptical of professors taking the time to read the surveys.

“I always ask the teacher, [teaching assistant] or professor if they actually do look at them,” she said. “A lot of times classes, like ‘Organic Chemistr y,’ have about 900 kids in class — [instructors] are not going to look or care. You’re just going to end up wasting your time doing the sur vey.”

Douglas Blair, an economics professor who has about 360 students in his largest class, said he carefully reads through all the SIRS surveys.

“I also have a weekly feedback form in both of my big classes linked to Sakai, which I read, too,” Blair said. “These weekly surveys tip me off about what isn’t working in particular topics.

I can change how I’m presenting them or return to topics people are having difficulty with.”

Ree and Saleh said they did not know that the SIRS evaluations are available online, so

they turn to other sources for instructor evaluations.

“I do use RateMyProfessors.com, but not strictly,” Ree said. “It has its own biases, but it definitely influences which classes I choose and which I don’t.”

Devanas said she encourages more students to use the SIRS database because it provides a comprehensive and reliable source of feedback from students who were officially in the class.

The CTAAR also checks that students are commenting about the correct instructor, she said.

“It’s a more serious structure than RateMyProfessors.com in a sense that professors want to hear from students in their own class,” Devanas said. “You have no way [of knowing] those comments are made by somebody in the class.”

During the course evaluation process, departments take into account the dif ferent factors affecting an instructor’s review, Coiro said. Some professors receive positive comments in one course but negative comments in others because of the varying workloads.

“I think we’ve come to see that when you have many people teaching [a course] over many years, we can see a narrative,” she said. “We evaluate our students, but we also evaluate ourselves.”

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WEAPON: Police arrest GREASE TRUCK OWNERS TO ADD HEALTHIER OPTIONS TO MENUS

Barry Jr. after Thursday chase continued from front

While the University works on coordinating a survey to send to students to find out what food vendors they would like to see in Lot 8 on the College Avenue campus, the grease trucks standing there now are working on ways to change up their offerings.

One main criticism students and other members of the University community have brought up regarding the trucks — whose lot will be put out to a public bid next year — is an apparent lack of variety. Some claim that the fat sandwiches — for which the grease trucks are nationally recognized for — are too unhealthy and other healthier options should be added.

But the trucks’ owners announced they are working on adding healthier items to their menus to accommodate for this change.

“We’re working to make [students] happy,” said Samir Alkilani, a co-owner of the three night shift trucks.

Some of these healthy items include panini sandwiches and salads, Alkilani said. He also hopes to include the caloric content on the menus and to have the selections available in a month.

But Alkilani said the trucks — those open during both the day and night shifts — already offer healthy food options like vegetarian sandwiches,

hummus and wheat pita, grape leaves, salads and more.

“It bothers me that [students] say we don’t have healthy food,” he said.

Alkilani also said that even if they do offer these healthy food choices, there is no way to force people to select them. Many of his customers choose fat sandwiches, which can easily have thousands of calories, over the healthy choices already available, on their own, he said.

“At the end, it’s a matter of personal choice,” he said.

— Mary Diduch

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Over refreshments, members of the Trinity House and the University community talk about the way Christianity addresses sex among young adults with Drew University Assistant Professor Kathryn Ott last night on Stone Street off of the College Avenue campus.

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you?’” Shepler said. “It was more Ott said these two myths are of, ‘Do I have permission to join both flawed in that they lack conyour family?’” versation and mutuality regardBut some thought this denied ing sex and the progression of women the agency of decision, the relationship. She does as planning the next stage of the not think these offer a foundarelationship is tion for a healthy left entirely up sexual ethic for to men.

Christians, so she “We need to get J u l i a n n e suggested those Gerdes, a School over the idea that participating in the of Arts and discussion to think we have done Sciences sophoof another way. more, pointed out “There has to something wrong.” that relationships be a third option, a JORDAN BUCEY — rather than shared idea of what Second Reformed Church being a gateway your values mean Sunday School Teacher to more meaningto you, and they ful, long-term need to be prioriexperiences — tized right,” Ott are predicated on immediate grat- said. “So if honesty is one perification, making abstinence more son’s highest value, and mutual difficult in this culture. pleasure is the other person’s, “In the hook-up culture, rela- then it might not work out.” tionships aren’t about conversaBut the pressure from the tion. They are about sex,” she said. church to prioritize cer tain val-

stance to combat sex ‘myths’ continued from front escalates into dozens more, and finally gets married — all before having sex.

“One response to this from the church is to say, ‘We’ll just clamp down harder, and make people get married earlier and have sex later and that will all work,’” Ott said.

Despite the admitted outdatedness of this model, some saw potential benefits of this traditional approach, including Douglas Shepler, pastor of the Second Reformed Church in New Brunswick.

“When I asked my father-inlaw permission to marry my wife, it was not so much, ‘Do I have permission to take property from

ues over others could be discouraging, said Jordan Bucey, a Sunday school teacher at the Second Reformed Church.

“My biggest issue with the church is I have to sit there with my friends who are guilty about having sex,” Bucey said.

“This is where the church has gone wrong. We need to get over the idea that we have done something wrong.”

Bucey said one of the most profound memories she had was at a church youth group, when members were asked if they were sexually active.

When three girls raised their hands, Bucey said they were shunned from the group.

“I work with the most amazing group of high school kids at my church,” she said. “My biggest fear is that this is something they are too afraid to talk about.”

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As a witness to the shooting, Mazan is not permitted to speak about the incident.

While the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Of fice has not yet released the results of the investigation, Bitterman said a wooden stick was found with Deloatch.

In the Latino Leadership Alliance of New Jersey’s review of NBPD’s use of force, Mazan filed 11 use-of-force repor ts, but Bitterman said none involved pepper spray, his baton or gun.

“He has never had any accusations of excessive force in his entire [time] at the depar tment,” he said.

Bitterman speculated previous drug charges could have been a motive for Deloatch running. He said Deloatch was caught selling heroin and in possession of cocaine on two separate occasions.

“He might have had drugs on him or because he was under the influence of drugs.

He wasn’t thinking clearly,” he said.

In an unrelated incident, Barr y Jr., Deloatch’s 24-yearold son, was ar rested early Thursday while riding in a car with a driver who fled from police after a repor ted shooting. They then crashed during the chase.

Officer Brian Ruditsky of the Rutgers University Police Department was on patrol and heard gunfire in the area of Easton Avenue and Condict Street, said Lt. Paul Fischer of the RUPD. Ruditsky responded to the scene and found a man with what appeared to be a gunshot wound lying on the ground, bleeding from his abdomen.

At this time, 21-year-old Anthony McLaughlin, who was with Barry Jr. in the passenger seat, sped down Hardenberg Street and turned right onto Somerset Street, Fisher said.

Ruditsky and a unit from the NBPD chased the car, which crashed nearby in Franklin Township on Route 27, he said.

Because of the riders’ condition from the crash, they were transported to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital.

Barry Jr. suffered a collapsed lung and damage to his kidney, said Walter Hudson, spokesman for the Deloatch family.

Barry Jr. was charged with possession of a weapon and obstruction while McLaughlin was charged with eluding and possession of a weapon, Fisher said.

He said the RUPD, the NBPD and the Middlesex County Prosecutors’ Office are all investigating the incident.

Hudson said Barry Jr. was celebrating his birthday and the holiday weekend, and to the Deloatch family’s knowledge, he was not involved in the shooting.

“Barry Deloatch Jr. does not own a handgun and he was not the driver of the vehicle therefore he had no control over the vehicle,” Hudson said.

Hudson said Barr y Jr. has to let the charges against him play out in cour t and let his lawyers handle them. But he does not think any of them will stick. “[I hope] the community keeps him in their prayers and support him as he recovers from the accident,” he said.

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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. Lecturers will teach students more about the process of songwriting and this area of the music industr y.

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Lambda Theta Alpha, National Latin Sorority, RU Community Cares, Delta Epsilon Iota and Psi Sima Phi are sponsoring a blood drive from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Busch Campus Center Multipurpose Room. All donors will receive a free University T-shirt and snacks. Save a Life, Donate Blood.

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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 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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There will be Responsible Drinking Happy Hour from 4 to 7 p.m. in the Cook Café. Please bring University identification.

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Rutgers Recreation will host foxtrot and rumba basics lessons for new or beginning dancers and a quickstep instructional for experienced dancers from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the upper gym of the College Avenue Gym. Workshops will range from $8 to $15 with valid University identification.

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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Attend the museum for free on the first Sunday of the month from noon to 5 p.m. at Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum on the College Avenue campus. Scavenger hunts are scheduled throughout the day.

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There will be Alumni-Student Career Speed Networking Event at 7 p.m. at the Rutgers Student Center. Meet alumni and employer contacts from a wide variety of fields in a speed networking setting.

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CENTER TO SHOW RECENT HORSE SCIENCE STUDIES The Rutgers Equine Science Center will hold its annual Equine Science Update at Cook Campus Center on Dec. 8, according to thehorse.com.

Scheduled presentations at the event include highlights of the Equine Science Center’s activities as well as “Love your Horse, Love the Environment,” a presentation focusing on keeping the industry environmentally clean, according to the website.

Equine Science Update, which will run from 6 p.m. to 9 p. m., provides an opportunity to present cutting edge research work from the horse industry to horse owners, farm owners and other industry professionals.

Both faculty researchers and a team of graduate students hope to use the event to further the Equine Science Center’s initiative of “Better Horse Care Through Research and Education,” according to the article.

In addition to the presentations, the Equine Science Update will include a dinner and optional tour of the Center’s mares and its facilities. Reservations are required in order to attend the event.

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U. researchers study female brain during orgasm

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University neuroscientists mapped the first projection of the female genital system onto the sensor y cortex and published the results in the Journal of Sexual Medicine.

Barr y Komisaruk, a professor in the psychology department at Rutgers-Newark, and his colleagues conducted the sensor y maps to focus on the female orgasm as opposed to the male orgasm, which has traditionally received more attention, said Nan Wise, a Ph.D student and sex therapist in Komisaruk’s lab.

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, Komisaruk’s team discovered that the mechanical stimulation of the clitoris, vagina and cervix each activates a slightly different part of the sensory cortex in the same general region, compared to past research in men using electrical stimulation, Komisaruk said.

“It’s basic sex science. It’s basic brain science,” Wise said.

“There is ver y little that gets so much of the brain activated as an orgasm.”

The use of electrical stimulation in studies of the male sensory cortex stretches back to 1951, when Wilder Penfield, a Canadian

neurosurgeon, developed a map“We patented it,” Komisaruk ping tool called homunculus, said.

“Whether that can Komisaruk said. be developed commercially is The researchers tracked the another issue.” effects of an orgasm throughout Four dif ferent pathways the body and the brain, said from the female genital system Beverly Whipple, a professor to the brain were discovered — emerita at Rutgers-Newark. the genital ner ve, the pelvic “We’ve identified the areas of ner ve, the hypogastric ner ve the brain that are activated,” and the sensor y vagus ner ve, Whipple said. “We [were able] to Whipple said. demonstrate that an orgasm is a With this knowledge, the total body experience and not just focus turned to women one reflex pathway.” who had spinal cord injuries at The recent publications different levels, Komisaruk said. were built upon Women who had past research, the nerve path“There is very little all Komisaruk said. ways through the “I teamed up that gets so much of spinal cord sevwith Beverly ered still had vagithe brain activated nal sensation.

Whipple who did her doctorate with “I found it as an orgasm.” me, and we studver y rewarding NAN WISE ied whether vagiworking with Sex Therapist nal self-stimulawomen with tion in women complete spinal produced the simcord injur y ilar effect of pain blockage, and because they were told they we found a very powerful pain- couldn’t experience orgasm,” blocking action,” he said.

Whipple said. “I had one Along with Frank Jordan, a woman in the lab who had her professor in the Depar tment of first orgasm since her spinal Chemistr y at Rutgers-Newark, cord injur y, and she was cr ying Komisaruk analyzed a peptide and so was I. It’s ver y moving.” that is released into the spinal By recording brain activity, cord during vaginal stimulation Komisaruk found that the vagus and discovered that dif ferent ner ve’s projection zone, which components produced pain- goes directly to the brain outblocking ef fects, he said. side the spinal cord, was

activated in women whose spinal cords had been cut.

One of the ways the team is working to bypass blocks is to have people in the brain scanner looking at their own brain activity in near real-time to see if it is possible to teach themselves how to control brain activity voluntarily, he said.

Komisaruk said if people can learn to activate the pleasureproducing par ts of the brain voluntarily, the possibilities could be positive.

“What would happen if a person who’s depressed learns to do that, or a person who has chronic pain or chronic anxiety or a drug addiction?”

Komisar uk said. “Can we teach our brain to overcome these maladies such as depression or anxiety or addiction or pain?”

Wise said it is still early in the process to definitively state the appropriate benefits of their research.

“It really takes a lot of time and applied stuf f before you can make big jumps into what are the clinical applications,” Wise said. “We’re moving in the direction where they’ll be for thcoming. You’ve got to do the basic legwork before you get to the actual applied stuf f, but it’s there.”

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Marching band hazing results in student death THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LITHONIA, Ga. — Robert Champion fell in love with music at about age 6 when he saw a marching band at a parade in downtown Atlanta. So mesmerized by the festivities, he came home, took out pots and pans and started banging away like a little drummer.

His passion led him to marching bands from middle school through college. He was a drum major for the famed Marching 100 band of Florida A&M University, a group that has performed at Super Bowls, the Grammys and presidential inaugurations. The prestige brought along a “culture of hazing” and a secret world that played a role in Champion’s death, his family said Monday.

“It needs to stop. The whole purpose is to put this out there and let people know there has to be a change,” Champion’s mother, Pam, said at a news conference.

On Nov. 19, after the school’s football team lost an away game to rival BethuneCookman, Champion collapsed on a bus parked outside an Orlando, Fla., hotel. The 26year-old junior had been vomiting and complained he couldn’t breathe shor tly before he became unconscious.

When authorities arrived about 9:45 p.m., Champion was unresponsive. He died at a nearby hospital.

Authorities have not released any more details, except to say hazing played a role. An attorney representing Champion’s family also refused to talk specifics.

“We are confident from what we’ve learned that hazing was a part of his death. We’ve got to expose this culture and eradicate it,” Christopher Chestnut said.

“There’s a pattern and practice of covering up this culture.”

Since Champion’s death, the school shuttered the marching band and the rest of the music department’s performances. The longtime band director, Julian White, was fired.

The college also announced an independent review led by a former state attorney general and an ex-local police chief in Tallahassee, where the historically black college is based.

White, who believes he was unfairly dismissed, said Monday he suspended 26 band members for hazing two weeks before Champion died. He took heat for the decision, par ticularly from the parents of band members, and said the punishments were like suspending star football players.

“And so the band members were apprehensive. ‘Doc, you think we can go without 19 trombone players?’” White said.

“And other folks. ‘Doc, do you thing you can do it without them?’ My comment was, it doesn’t matter, I am not going to sacrifice the performance for the principle.”

Hazing has a long history in marching bands, particularly at

historically black colleges, where a spot in the band is coveted for its tradition and prominence.

Band performances are sometimes revered as much as the school’s sports teams.

FAMU has been at the center of some of the worst cases. In 2001, former FAMU band member Marcus Parker suffered kidney damage because of a beating with a paddle. Three years earlier, Ivery Luckey, a clarinet player, said he was paddled around 300 times and had to go to the hospital.

Champion’s parents said their son never spoke of hazing.

Robert Champion Sr. said he talked to his son just a few days before his death and everything was fine.

“I wanted to believe stuff like that wouldn’t happen,” he said. “I would ask my son questions. ‘Is there anything you need to tell me? Let me know.’ He told me, ‘Dad everything is going OK. I’m working, trying to go to school and practice.’”

As a child, Champion would use a broom handle to mimic a band director’s baton. At one point, he designed his own drum major uniform, his mother said.

“You put him on a field in a performance and he would give you a show,” she said.

His first instrument was the clarinet, which he learned to play in the fifth grade. A middle school teacher recognized his talent and he was tapped to lead the school’s orchestra and perform with the Southwest DeKalb High School band as an eighth grader. He could also sing and play keyboards.

Chapel Hill Middle School band director Natalie Brown said she’ll never forget his outgoing personality and phenomenal musicianship.

“He was always smiling. He never gave me a hard time,” she said. “If class was about to start, he’d get ever yone quiet and start the warm-up process. He had the drum major mentality way back then.”

He was so enthusiastic about performing that his mother would call him “Mr. Band.”

At times he struggled with his schoolwork and he didn’t immediately go to Florida A&M after high school. But he eventually enrolled, balancing a job with school and his band commitments. In late 2010, he was named drum major.

“His experience in the band was, in his words, great. Robert was happy,” his mother said.

“He loved the band and ever ything that went with it. He loved performing. That was his life. You couldn’t take him out of it.”

The family’s attorney said they hoped a lawsuit would lead to changes at the school and prod other hazing victims to come forward.

“We want to eradicate a culture of hazing so this doesn’t happen again,” said Chestnut.

“Hazing is a culture of, ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell.’ The family’s message today is: ‘Please tell.’”

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President Barack Obama met with 565 federally recognized tribes Friday to discuss new rules for Native American reservations. The proposed changes are the first of its kind in 50 years.

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serve as a federal judge. If confirmed, he would be the only Native American actively serving on the federal bench.

“We’ve had more access to federal officials to speak about these important issues in Indian Country,” said Mellor Willie, a Navajo tribe member and executive director of the National American Indian Housing Council.

That was the case on the land leasing rules. Willie said the council asked the administration to consider reforming the rules during the transition between the Bush and Obama administrations.

He said the Obama administration held a number of meetings with tribes on the subject and provided draft proposals to leaders as the rules were being rewritten.

Land on American Indian reservations cannot be bought and sold because it is held in trust by the federal government on behalf of the tribes. If a tribe or tribe member wants to build a house on it or use it for multifamily housing, a business or industry, the Interior Department must approve a “lease” of the land or mortgages.

The proposed changes would set time limits for the Bureau of Indian Affairs to approve such leases. Residential leases, subleases and mortgages would have to be approved in 30 days; leases for commercial or industrial development must be approved in 60 days. If the bureau does not meet the deadlines, leases would automatically be approved.

WASHINGTON — Ahead of a meeting Friday between President Barack Obama and hundreds of Native American leaders, the administration unveiled new rules for tribal lands that officials say will expedite home building and energy development.

The proposed changes — the first of its kind in 50 years — would open the door to badly needed housing development on reservations and for wind and solar energy projects that tribes have been eager to launch.

The plan gives Obama another boasting point for this week’s meeting with leaders of the 565 federally recognized tribes at the White House.

“We have for three years worked very hard to change the relationship between the administration and the nation’s first Americans,” Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Monday. He said Obama tasked him with changing the federal government’s relationship with tribes “in a very complete way.”

Obama is winning high praise among Native Americans. The president appointed Native Americans to high level positions in his administration, signed laws to improve health care and law enforcement for Native Americans and resolved a long running lawsuit over royalties for minerals on tribal lands. Obama nominated Arvo Mikkanen in February to

There are cur rently no time limits.

The proposed rules apply only to land development and not to oil and gas and mining leases.

Larr y Echo Hawk, the Interior Department’s assistant secretary for Indian affairs, said the current rules, which date back to 1961, are paternalistic.

The federal government through the proposed changes is no longer tr ying to exercise as much federal authority over the leasing process, he said.

Although tribes have been leasing property for years for agricultural and other reasons, the process has become slow and cumbersome.

“It is not unusual to hear tribes talk about waiting two or three years for approval of a lease,” said John Dossett, attorney for the National Congress of American Indians.

In recent years, Dossett said, it has been particularly frustrating for tribes applying for more complex leases like those for wind farms, which can take two to three years to review. “By that time, the tribes lose the deal. The business partner doesn’t want to wait that long,” Dossett said.

The administration has been pushing for renewable energy projects and working to advance solar and wind projects on public lands. It gave priority to 18 projects for this year, including the Moapa Solar Project, which will be built mostly on Moapa Band of Paiutes tribal lands in Nevada.

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here is a striking scene in the documentary “Gasland” where a man, whose property was fracked by a company drilling for natural gas, lights his tap water on fire for the camera. You read that sentence correctly — the fracking chemicals in the man’s water supply created flammable tap water. It makes sense, then, that some people are worried about drilling for natural gas. When the technique involves shooting dangerous chemicals into the ground — so they can easily end up in water supplies — it hardly seems worth the energy produced. The New Jersey Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee was right on point yesterday when it voted 4-1, with one abstention, to approve a bill which would ban the treatment, storage or disposal of wastewater produced by fracking in the state.

Currently, there is no fracking being done in New Jersey, and such a bill would prevent the wastewater from other fracking sites, like the ones in Pennsylvania, from reaching our state in any capacity.

Of course, there has been some opposition to this ban. Proponents of fracking argue that the mixture used in the process is more than 99 percent water and sand — two materials that no one in their right mind would claim are dangerous for the environment. As for the other chemicals utilized, these people assert that most of them are relatively harmless. We think Assemblywoman Pamela Lampitt, D-Camden, responded rather aptly to this defense when she said, “When you say the vast majorities of materials are safe, that doesn’t instill a lot of confidence.”

Unfortunately, the Assembly committee’s endorsement of this bill does not mean that New Jersey has effectively outlawed the storage, treatment and disposal of fracking wastewater. First, the bill has to go through the Senate Environment and Energy Committee. After that, the bill still has to make its way to Gov. Chris Christie. As things currently stand, it does not look like the bill will make all of the required stops before the state Legislature’s session ends in January. However, that should not discourage opponents of fracking. The committee’s endorsement of this bill is just the first step in outlawing hydraulic fracturing and all of its dangerous side effects in New Jersey. The journey may be slow, but the ends are worth it — so long as the rest of our legislative body reaches the same conclusion as the Assembly.

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epublican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is taking a strong stance in the war on drugs. “If you’re serious about trying to stop drug use, then you need to find a way to have a fairly easy approach to it and you need to find a way to be pretty aggressive about insisting,” the presidential hopeful said in an interview with Yahoo! on Saturday. In accordance with this insistence on aggressiveness, Gingrich has proposed an extreme deterrent — drug test every single person who receives federal aid. Regardless of the specific benefits — unemployment, food stamps, etc. — Gingrich would like to see every person trying to access them tested. The problem is such a program has already been demonstrated illegal by a federal judge.

Lawmakers in Florida already attempted to implement a similar initiative earlier this year. For four months, from July to October, the state required all welfare recipients to get drug tested before they could access their benefits. One man, frustrated by the requirement, brought his complaints to court, and a federal judge agreed that the compulsory drug tests were unconstitutional. Over a decade ago, in 1999, Michigan tried a similar policy, and that one was also found to violate constitutional rights and shut down as a result. The Fourth Amendment grants citizens “the right … to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures.” It is pretty clear to us, and the courts agree, that this “drug tests for all” approach violates that right.

There is no inherent reason to assume that someone who receives government benefits may be using drugs. A single mother struggling to raise her children may be looking for food stamps because her job doesn’t pay enough for her to feed her kids, not because she’s blowing her paycheck on controlled substances. Consider also the many professionals who lost their jobs in the recession of 2008. Many of them turned to unemployment benefits clearly because they lost their jobs, not because they suddenly got a taste for crack. To put it quite frankly, it is insulting for anyone to assume that just because a person needs government aid, that person is likely to be using drugs. There are subtle elements of classism to that thinking. Conversely, who is to say that we should not be looking at securely employed people as potential drug users? They, after all, are the ones with the cash to buy some recreational pot.

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exploration will increase hat happened the cost of energy and to the ingenucost thousands of jobs. ity and excepThey know that forgiving tionalism that took the student debt, lowering United States from tuition costs and providBritish subjects to the ing countless new ser vicmost powerful and proses with new equipment perous people on the face AARON MARCUS will raise the cost of colof the ear th? Today’s lege. They know that taxyouth take for granted ing the top 10 percent of income earners — who the undaunted courage of our parents and grandalready pay 71 percent of income tax in the parents who fought against Nazism, fascism and United States — even more will halt job creation. communism to make the world a freer and more They know that increasing minimum wage and peaceful place. For years, it became common for workplace regulations will force businesses the leaders of our nation to leave the countr y overseas. They know all of this, but their answer better than the way they found it and full of posto higher energy and education costs — as well sibilities for future generations. Now, this idea as job creation — is simple: They want governhas changed. Through reckless spending, excesment to solve the problem. sive taxation and burdensome regulations, This unfortunate mindset is what has led today’s leaders will be the first to leave America European nations to bankruptcy and exorbitantworse off than the generation before. And how ly high costs of living. If the definition of insanido the youth — the “leaders of the future” — ty is to repeat failed mistakes over plan on fixing this crisis? By exacand over again, then the young erbating the problem. leftist movement in the United A large percentage of college “Today’s youth States is clinically insane. It is not students and young people today take for granted the Republicans who are leading who rise to “take action” do so on the premise of liberal hyperbole undaunted courage grandma to a cliff to throw her off, as Democrats have depicted in the and lack of common sense. They of our parents past. Rather, it is young socialists say they are par t of a global revoseek to grab our future chillution and call for an end to and grandparents.” who dren and grandchildren by the drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and neck and chain them to the dog fracking in Pennsylvania while collars of government. simultaneously protesting for Their ideology is to spend more and more to lower energy costs. They say, “We want our colsolve the world’s problems, but they lack the lege loans forgiven,” and tuition to be lowered basic understanding that the government’s trust or remain the same while simultaneously calling fund comes from the people — whose wallets for more student ser vices, better research fundhave run dr y. I believe that man has an innate ing and equipment. These young people crowd yearning to obtain a decent standard of living, the streets calling for higher taxes on job crebut the leftist approach to attaining that standard ators and then have the audacity to say in the is rooted in entitlement as opposed to empowersame sentence that they are underemployed. ment. I admit this could be a result of capitalism, They call for a substantial increase in minimum which led to the greatest economic advancement wage and workplace regulations while chastisin the histor y of the world between 1983 and ing corporations for shipping jobs overseas. If 2008. Children were given more property by these students are “the future,” then we their parents and entertainment by society in are doomed. those 25 years than ever before and had to do I don’t believe that the young who promote less in order to attain it. Free markets with lower the aforementioned policy initiatives are stupid. taxes and fewer regulations led to advances in Most of them are bright and well-educated. They technology, making life easier for the general know that halting the private sector from energy

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I doubt any leftist regrets the technological advances that occurred in the past 25 years. I come to this conclusion based on the amount of Sony, Panasonic and Apple products that appear at Occupy protests around the countr y. Do these same protesters believe that those products were created out of thin air? The cost of energy, regulations and taxes are all fixed into the price they paid for those products. If those prices go up, the cost of the product goes up, and if the cost of the product is too high for consumers to purchase, the company has no incentive to make the product. The obvious result from this would be cata-

clysmic job loss and an even bleaker future than the one already ahead.

There is a specific reason why immigrants both documented and undocumented immigrate to the United States more than any other countr y in the world. That reason is because the United States for years has been a land of opportunity, where hard work is rewarded, and the individual is able to bear the fruit of his or her labor. This is what drove former President Ronald Reagan to call America “the last best hope of man on earth.”

The real revolution isn’t with those who claim to be the “99 percent,” but in stopping those who wish to tip us over the brink of disaster.

Aaron Marcus is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in political science with a minor in history. His column, “Marcus My Words,” runs on alternate Tuesdays.

Letter AARON YOUNGER n response to yesterday’s editorial, “Negligent parenting does not cause obesity” — are you serious? When I first read the article, I thought today was the Mugrat issue, the joke paper The Daily Targum runs once a semester. Whose fault is it when an 8-year-old boy weighs at 200 pounds? The blame falls squarely on the parents. Who does the grocery shopping? Who prepares the meals? Who is supposed to teach this child proper healthy habits? The parents are, and they are obviously doing a terrible job. An 8-year-old boy is not autonomous enough to make decisions about what he should eat and how much. That is a decision left up to the parents.

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not strap him down and force the food down his throat, but you sure can put the food in front of him and tell him he is not going anywhere until his plate is clean. If he gets up or tries to leave, put him back. If he continues to disobey, take his video games — which he undoubtedly has too many of — away, and tell him he’s not getting any of them back until he changes his attitude. He will eventually get the message and start eating the healthy meals regardless of whether he enjoys them.

You cannot force him to exercise, you say? You’re right. You cannot strap him to a treadmill and crank it to 11, but you sure can limit TV and video-game time and send him outside to play. If the parents want to promote healthy activities, they must lead by example. Do activities as a family. Go out bike riding, go shoot the basketball, do anything that involves moving around outside.

These are just a few examples of what can be done, and there are many more options. Like I said before, the fact that this child weighs more than a grown man at 8 years old rests entirely on the parents. I agree 100 percent with Social Services taking that child away. The only thing that surprises me is that they were not contacted, and the child was not removed sooner. That mother should be ashamed of herself. At least in foster care he’ll get the healthy diet he needs. While in foster care, that child will get healthy meals and be put on an exercise regiment to help him lose the weight because if he doesn’t and he keeps up this pace, he will die before finishing high school.

Aaron Younger is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in psychology and criminal justice with a minor in criminology.

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he National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced on Friday that it would begin an investigation into the Chevrolet Volt. According to tests administered on the Volt, the electric car’s battery may be in danger of catching fire after severe crashes. Fortunately for Volt owners, General Motors is not leaving them out in the cold. Not only is the company reaching out to every Volt driver to assure them of the car’s safety, but it is also offering these owners temporary cars for the duration of the investigation if they feel unsafe getting into their Volts for the time being. We give GM a laurel for going above and beyond the call of duty. Many companies faced with a similar investigation would try to keep the situation under wraps. GM, on the other hand, is actively addressing concerns and putting consumers first.

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Freshman forward JP Correa, who tied for a team-high six goals this season, recorded two shots in the Knights’ loss to UCLA.

GOAL: UCLA records two

honestly fun to watch,” Correa said. “They can hold the ball, insurance goals after early score go for ward with it and defend well — they are just a good team. Teams should be scared continued from back of them going for ward. They The Bruins went on to tally might make a pretty good run two more goals en route to the at it.” victory, while the Knights stayed Despite Rutgers’ season in catch-up mode. coming to a close and the tough UCLA’s late security goal way it came to pass, it is tough came in the 48th for Donigan and minute of the conCo. to not take “[UCLA was] just away positives. test. Bruins forward Chandler For a team that a soccer-playing Hoffman notched had no shot his second goal of at the tournateam. ... Teams the game after talment a season should be scared lying the early, ago, reaching the momentum-shiftthird round is a of them ing goal. definite success. going forward.”

The Bruins’ Now the second goal came Knights want JP CORREA off a deflection to build on Freshman Forward from junior goalthat success. keeper Kevin “I asked them McMullen. when I came in McMullen, who ended the here, ‘Can we bring this day with four saves, got his body thing back into national on a diving save, but could not prominence?’ I can honestly secure the ball. UCLA forward say that these guys did that Victor Chavez was there to capifor us and for Rutgers,” talize, putting the ball into the Donigan said. “My hat’s of f back of the net. to this group of guys who UCLA’s persistence made the were able to bring this proKnights take notice of a dangergram to the level they did ous team. this year. Now we just need “[UCLA was] just a soccerto continue to move this proplaying team. They are gram for ward.”

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Junior Dragan Naumoski was one of two Scarlet Knights to notch three shots in the team’s 3-0 shutout loss at UCLA.

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Mack shows scoring touch in rout after tough Cancun trip

BY VINNIE MANCUSO CORRESPONDENT

Freshman guard Myles Mack found himself in unfamiliar territor y last week in the Rutgers m e n ’ s KNIGHT basketNOTEBOOK b a l l team’s loss to Richmond — with a zero in his points-scored column.

Mack’s no-show came just a day after he shot 3-of-9 from the floor against Illinois State.

“He had been missing wideopen shots, which was the biggest head-scratcher for me,” said head coach Mike Rice after last night’s 94-56 win against Mar yland-Baltimore County. “I’ve watched him so much, I know the one thing he can do is put the ball in the basket.”

The St. Anthony High School product proved as much last night at the Louis Brown Athletic Center. Mack made sure the lack of productivity came to a halt, putting on an of fensive clinic against the Retrievers and scoring in double figures in the first half alone.

The Paterson, N.J., native’s rebound game started in the first half, when he went 5-of-6 from the field, including 2-of-3

beyond the 3-point line, en route to 15 points. Mack ended the contest with a season high 20 points, good enough for more than double his careerhigh, in 21 minutes.

“My teammates were just getting the ball in transition, and I was scoring from there,” Mack said. “We were all taking great shots and the shots were falling.”

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to stop a young Rutgers offense with a 2-3 zone for the majority of the game. The zone proved to be UMBC’s downfall in the 94-56 victor y for Rutgers, as the Knights were especially productive from beyond the 3-point line in the first half.

Starting freshmen guards Mack and Jerome Seagears combined for three 3-pointers in the first half, including back-to-back long-range jumpers with less than five minutes remaining to put the Knights up 14.

Freshman Eli Carter and sophomore Austin Carroll came off the bench to add a 3-pointer apiece in the first half.

“We have not seen much zone this year so far,” Rice said.

“I thought we played offense tonight with a purpose. I liked the purpose in which we attacked.”

The Knights ended the contest shooting 58.8 percent from beyond the arc.

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THE FIRST TIME THIS

season, Rice decided to make changes to his starting lineup.

Seagears and sophomore Mike Poole got the nod from Rice to start last night at the RAC, while usual starters Carter and Dane Miller began the game looking on from the bench.

Seagears finished the game with 7 points, 10 rebounds and a 5 to 2 assist-to-turnover ratio.

Poole came alive in the second half, exiting the locker room and notching nine points within the first five minute en route to a 13-point output.

But no matter his spot in the lineup, Poole is just happy to contribute.

“It’s basketball. Starting, coming off the bench — it doesn’t matter to me,” he said. “I earn playing time. I think I deserve playing time. I still played the same this game as I did every other game.”

Despite losing his spot in the starting lineup, Carter was effective off the bench. The St. Anthony High School product ended the contest with 12 points.

Rice insisted that the starting lineup is not set in stone.

“I wanted to kind of wake my starters up a little bit. It is going to change this year. It might even change the next game,” he said. “We just needed to wake them up and add a different energy, and I think we did.”

KEITH FREEMAN / PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Freshman guard Jerome Seagears drives to the basket against UMBC last night, when he made his first career start and scored seven points while collecting a team-high 10 rebounds.

BACK: Knights’ defense limits UMBC to less than 60 continued from back But UMBC was a willing par ticipant.

The Knights held the Retrievers to only 24 first-half points, relaxing their efforts only once the contest was permanently out of reach.

They converted transition opportunities, played consistent defense in the halfcourt and held their second consecutive opponent to less than 60 points.

More importantly for the Knights, they looked natural doing so.

“We came out with a hunger for a win tonight,” Seagears said.

“After coming off two [losses] we were determined for a win.”

Rutgers neared the 100-point plateau it last recorded in 2004 under head coach Gary Waters.

The matchup was so lopsided raw freshman forward Greg Lewis earned his most extensive playing time of the season, logging 16 minutes on the floor.

For 40 minutes in Piscataway, nearly ever ything went Rutgers’ way.

Reser ves Mike Kuhn and Charlie Rigoglioso entered the game before the final TV timeout.

Freshman for ward Derrick Randall threw down a monstrous

dunk on two steps. And the Knights left with a sorely needed pick-me-up.

The 38-point margin of victory was Rutgers’ largest since a 92-50 victory on December 7, 2005, against Maryland-Eastern Shore.

It could not come at a better time.

The convincing performance put the Knights past their 0-2 performance in Cancun, where slow starts plagued them. The win also occurred before a matchup Saturday with Louisiana State in the Big East/SEC Challenge.

“Perfect timing,” Seagears said. “Coming off the two losses with it being a reality check for us … and LSU on Saturday, I think it’s a great win.”

KEITH FREEMAN / PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Freshman guard Myle Mack lays the ball in at the RAC, where he led all scorers with 20 points on 7-of-9 shooting in 21 minutes.

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hio State hired former Florida head football coach Urban Meyer to run the helm next year.

Meyer will be paid a base salary of $4 million per year through the 2017 season.

Meyer last led the Gators to two national championships before stepping down to spend more time with his family amid ongoing reports of health concerns. He worked as a game analyst since for ESPN, but Meyer stepped down from that job when OSU hired him.

The Buckeyes faced Meyer in the 2007 BCS National Championship when Meyer’s Gators beat Ohio State, 41-14.

Meyer sports a 104-23 record over 10 seasons at a head coach, including a 7-1 record in bowl games.

Rutgers head football coach Greg Schiano, who is close friends with Meyer, said he is “happy for Urban” on the Big East coaches’ conference call.

SYRACUSE

FIRED

assistant men’s basketball coach Bernie Fine on Sunday after alleged sexual abuse of a minor. Fine was the longest tenured assistant coach at a single Division I school in his 36th season with the Orange.

A 10-year-old video emerged in which Fine’s wife acknowledged alleged sexual abuse and another man accused Fine of molesting him nine years ago.

Zach Tomaselli, 23, said Sunday he told police that Fine molested him in 2002 in a Pittsburgh hotel room.

Tomaselli was the third accuser to come for ward in the investigation of child molestation allegations against Fine.

UCLA

FIRED

HEAD

football coach Rick Neuheisel yesterday after four seasons in charge of his alma mater. The school will allow Neuheisel to coach the Bruins in Friday’s Pac-12 Championship against Oregon.

Neuheisel is 21-28 with the Bruins, never reaching his goal of challenging Southern California for Los Angeles supremacy.

UCLA athletic director Dan Guerrero fired Neuheisel two days after USC’s 50-0 victory over the Bruins, the team’s largest loss since 1930 in their crosstown rivalry game.

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basketball team overtook North Carolina for the top ranking in the coaches’ poll.

UNC dropped to No. 5 in the rankings following Saturday’s loss to unranked UNLV. Undefeated Ohio State, Syracuse and Duke round out the top five.

The Buckeyes drew eight of the 31 first-place votes, while the Orange garnered one.

One more team in the top five will get their first loss tonight, when Ohio State takes on Duke.

ANDREW HOWARD / FILE PHOTO

Rutgers head wrestling coach Scott Goodale and the Scarlet Knights went 2-1 this weekend at the Northeast Duals, bringing the fourth-year coach’s dual-meet record to 73-22-1. Rutgers’ next dual is Friday at the Louis Brown Athletic Center against Old Dominion.

POINTS: Hopkins falls

the entire second period, which basically was the match.”

Ashnault had one of three against bigger-bodied Sturgeon pins on the day for Rutgers, with redshirt freshman Anthony continued from back Volpe delivering another at 157 Purdue. That’s a Big Ten pounds against the Tar Heels. school and we really put it on Volpe took down UNC’s those guys. I just wanted to finCorey Mock, who was once ish it right. I knew it was going ranked and qualified for the to be that type of match.”

NCAA Tournament last season, Leading, 15-13, entering in 1:50. the final heavyweight bout, “I really think of it this way: Rutgers (2-1) still had a chance There’s not that much pressure to win with senior Daniel on me because no one knows Hopkins facing 16th-ranked about me,” said Volpe, who Peter Sturgeon. wrestled in a dual-meet for Hopkins won by forfeit against Rutgers for the first time at the UNC (0-7) and then watched Nor theast Duals. “I haven’t as sophomore Carl really done any Buchholz had to college wrestling “I want to have take a medical forexcept for redfeit against Purdue shirting last year. all 10 guys with (2-4) with an ankle I just tell myself the same thing in to go out and injury that will keep him out two the best mind, and that’s to wrestle weeks. Hopkins I can.” gave up back He followed dominate the world points to Sturgeon the pin with a 4-3 and score points.” decision against in a 6-3 loss.

“He just lost to Purdue’s Tommy SCOTT GOODALE a bigger kid,” Churchard, but Head Coach Goodale said. “I lost a 2-1 decision don’t know if against Central he was better, just bigger.”

Michigan’s 20th-ranked Donnie Senior Bill Ashnault (141 Corby on a stalling call. pounds) and juniors Dan In addition to the major deciRinaldi (197 pounds) and Mario sions Rutgers missed against Mason (149 pounds) each won CMU (5-1), it was one of three by at least 6-point decisions, one-point losses that could falling a takedown shy of a have changed the outcome for major decision that would force the Knights. a tie and ultimately give Rutgers “I expect Scotty [Winston] the match. and Mario [Mason] to take care A 7-1 decision for Ashnault of business, and [Gregor y] still capped a strong day, which Zannetti and Danny [Rinaldi], included a pin in 1:39 against but I don’t want to have just five Purdue’s Jake Fleckenstein and a guys,” Goodale said. “I want to loss to 14th-ranked Evan have all 10 guys with the same Henderson of UNC. thing in mind, and that’s to “I basically just put that loss dominate the world and score behind me and came out and points. If they’re not doing that wrestled like I know how,” said … it’s going to be tough all year Ashnault, who ranks 15th nationlong from a dual-meet standally. “As everybody knows it’s point. How do you grow from about the end of the year, so I’m that loss? If you feel sorr y for going to fix those things up by yourself and don’t get better the end of the year and be ready because of it, it’s going to be a to go. [Henderson] just rode me long dual-meet season.”

ANDREW HOWARD / FILE PHOTO

Bill Ashnault, top, and Gregory Zannetti, bottom left, were two of three Knights that fell a takedown shy of major decisions.

ANDREW HOWARD / FILE PHOTO

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Dodd’s shaky play re-opens quarterback questions

BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

EAST HARTFORD, Conn. — In the two games following Chas Dodd’s comeback victory against South Florida, the sophomore quarterback’s production for the Rutgers FOOTBALL football team was hardly eye-popping.

But a 189-yard passing average and a 1:1 touchdown-to-interception ratio are forgivable when the Scarlet Knights win. After a 52 percent completion rate with 172 yards and an interception in a blowout loss to Connecticut, head coach Greg Schiano was not as forgiving.

“I thought he played like the rest of us — just OK,” Schiano said. “We made a move in the fourth. We were down by however many points it was and I said, ‘Let’s try it — we’ve got nothing to lose.’

A Big East Championship [was] on the line. What are we going to go bed with our timeouts and another quarterback on the bench?”

Not on Schiano’s watch. The 11th-year head coach elected to go with freshman Gary Nova at the start of the fourth quarter to begin a drive from Rutgers’ own 2-yard line.

Based on Nova’s stat-padding fourth quarter performance in mop-up duty, he also shared little sympathy for Dodd’s shaky play.

Nova, who star ted four games earlier this season, sparked the offense after facing a 30-point deficit. The Don Bosco Prep product recorded a career-high 298 passing yards — all in the four th quar ter.

Despite throwing two picks, he connected with redshirt freshman wide receiver Brandon Coleman for two touchdowns.

Coleman gained 178 of his 223 yards courtesy of Nova’s emergence in the fourth quarter and showed flashes of the big-play potential Schiano envisioned on his 92-yard scoring burst. “[Nova] just trusted me,” Coleman said. “The ball was in the air and it was just pitch and catch. That was the whole gameplan from the first quarter, even with Chas in there.”

Although Nova’s pair of late touchdowns did little to remedy the Knights’ deficit, his performance was certainly significant.

It marked the second game this season in which Nova sparked a stagnant offense after

entering late against Syracuse to drive the offense 46 yards for a game-tying score.

Nova connected with junior wideout Mohamed Sanu for a 3yard score with 2:09 left on the clock, and the Knights eventually pulled out the game in double overtime. With BCS implications bound to a victory against the Huskies, Rutgers could not overcome an early deficit.

But Nova again made his case to be the starter, while Dodd’s performance likely hurt his standing leading up to the Knights’ awaited bowl game.

“We didn’t come out ver y well and had a slow start and ever ything,” Dodd said. “I’m sure everyone’s upset. I would say turnovers — you can’t win when you turn the ball over that many times.”

The Knights made a habit of turning the ball over at Rentschler Field. Rutgers suffered a season-high six turnovers — three interceptions and three lost fumbles.

Then again, Nova battled the turnover bug during his fourgame stint as a starter. Nova threw seven interceptions in the span, including three in a 16-14 loss to Louisville.

Dodd drove the team to victory two weeks later against South Florida to end Nova’s reign as starter. But Nova also supplanted Dodd with his own comeback victory at the Carrier Dome.

For both quarterbacks, the performances following their comeback outings were average at best.

With one game left to play, Schiano can only hope one of the two puts their stamp on the starting job leading up to the team’s bowl game.

But based on the inconsistent play this season from both quarterbacks, making a decision on who to go with in the game will not come easily.

“The quarterback decision has always been open,” Schiano said. “It’s not like it has to be reopened. I don’t know what that decision will be. We have some time now. We don’t have a game Saturday, so we’ll evaluate things season-long. [Offensive coordinator] Frank [Cignetti] and I will sit down and kind of look at their body of work. Moving forward, I think they both can do it.

[Saturday], we didn’t do it very well with either.”

JENNIFER MIGUEL-HELLMAN / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Chas Dodd and Gary Nova both failed to convincingly take hold of the starting quarterback role this year. Both average around 170 yards per game and threw two more touchdowns than interceptions.

JENNIFER MIGUEL-HELLMAN / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

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BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

Junior wide receiver Mohamed Sanu repeatedly denied he is even thinking about declaring for the NFL Draft, but it remains a possibility.

Rutgers head football coach Greg Schiano said on yesterday’s Big East coaches conference call that he speaks regularly with Sanu and junior linebacker Khaseem Greene, who could also declare early after a dominant first season at linebacker.

“I talk to the players all along about their lives, and that’s a big part of their lives,” Schiano said.

“In all of those decisions, I want them to do what’s best for them and best for their family because certainly they’ve made great sacrifices for Rutgers.”

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They also turned out Big East-best years.

Sanu set a conference record of 109 receptions with a bowl game remaining, while Greene leads the league with 127 tackles — 29 more than the next closest player.

Both are 22 years old and will be 23 at the start of next season.

“I do want to make sure they’re making the decisions based on accurate information,” Schiano said. “There’s a lot of inaccurate information out there.”

Sanu’s career year — he ranks fourth in the nation in receptions and has seven touchdowns and 1,144 receiving yards — comes in his first solely at wideout.

He enrolled a semester early and practiced mostly at safety, and then handled both

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wide receiver and Wildcat quar terback responsibilities for two seasons.

Greene started his Rutgers career at safety but moved down a level to weakside linebacker, where he had 11 tackles for a loss, three sacks and two forced fumbles.

“Khaseem, I thought, really, really adapted to the position very well and just was so productive,” Schiano said. “[He] made plays all over the field, forcing fumbles, making tackles, playing in pass defense, blitzing. I thought he was a complete player.”

T HE S CARLET K NIGHTS have time until they play again, with the Dec. 27 Belk Bowl and Dec. 30 New Era Pinstripe Bowl as their two most likely destinations.

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The layof f allows for Rutgers to take a week off after playing 10 consecutive weeks and also gives Schiano plenty of time to re-evaluate the quarterback position.

Sophomore Chas Dodd started the final three games, but freshman Gar y Nova relieved him in the fourth quarter in Connecticut and threw for 298 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions.

“He made some plays, and he did some freshman-esque stuff,” Schiano said. “In overall tone of the game, we turned the ball over six times, which is not Rutgers football. It’s not anybody football. It’s not winning football, that’s for sure. So there were some good things, but certainly nobody did anything that was winning football.”

Aside from the time bowl preparation allows for sorting out the quarterback position and giving younger players time to practice, Schiano would prefer a quick turnaround because of the nature of Saturday’s loss.

“Although I’m ver y proud for Rutgers to be going to its sixth bowl game in seven years — I think that’s a big accomplishment — right now, I’m just disappointed in the oppor tunity we had and we didn’t per form the way I thought we were capable,” he said. “Usually, right now we’re well into game-planning the next opponent, and that is always the best medicine to get over a loss. You have to get back on the horse and get ready.”

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Early goal dooms RU at UCLA

Knights use UMBC to bounce back

BY TYLER BARTO

BY VINNIE MANCUSO

ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

CORRESPONDENT

The entirety of the Rutgers men’s soccer team’s turnaround season was about overcoming adversity.

MEN’S SOCCER First it had to RUTGERS 0 overcome UCLA 3 the stigma that came along with last year’s losing record and failure to reach the Big East Tournament, a feat it accomplished this year.

The Scarlet Knights then had to hope for an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament, which they received after Connecticut ousted them from the conference tournament.

The adversity finally caught up to the Knights on Sunday at UCLA in the third round of the NCAA Tournament. Rutgers’ run at a national title ended in large part because it could not climb out of one last hole — a UCLA goal 41 seconds into the game in a 3-0 loss.

“Look, we gave up that goal [early in] the game. Unfortunately to be able to get to the point where we got to and be able to continue and advance, you cannot make mistakes like that,” said head coach Dan Donigan “You cannot allow goals like that against teams like UCLA at this point in the season. Giving up that goal that early, you really make your job that much harder.”

The Knights cited the early goal as the game’s immediate turning point. Playing on their heels from the outset, they did not respond.

“We really did not get time to even settle in getting scored on less than a minute into the game,” said freshman for ward JP Correa. “That really changed the whole complexion of the game. Not to take away from UCLA — they were a good side — but it is tough to end the season like that.”

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KEITH FREEMAN / PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Freshman forward Derrick Randall finishes a dunk on a late fast break last night at the RAC, where the Scarlet Knights scored 94 points and shot 55.7 percent from the field.

Mired in a two-game losing streak stemming from its ill-fated trip to Cancun, the Rutgers men’s basketMEN’S BASKETBALL ball team needed a UMBC 56 b o u n c e a c k RUTGERS 94 beffort last night at the Louis Brown Athletic Center.

Visiting Mar yland-Baltimore County obliged, allowing a 55.7percent shooting clip in the Scarlet Knights’ 94-56 victory.

“We have to learn from last weekend,” said head coach Mike Rice. “When we didn’t shoot well, we didn’t come out and execute the next possession better. We have to learn that when the shots don’t go in, you don’t shoot a [3-pointer] off the first pass on a contested shot.”

The Knights (4-3) had little trouble shooting the ball last night, producing four double-digit scorers in the contest and racing to a 22-point halftime lead.

The Retrievers (0-6) tried a 2-3 zone against a Rutgers team struggling from beyond the arc, but the Knights responded with 10 3-pointers in the win.

UMBC attempted to go inside, but the Knights’ size was too much.

And when they opted for set plays, Rutgers held the Retrievers to only 18-for-50 from the field.

“That is a very confident young group,” Rice said of his team.

The Knights freshmen benefited most from the defensive effort.

Point guard Myles Mack broke out for 15 first-half points.

Backcourt mate Jerome Seagears translated his first career start into a five-assist outing. And guard Eli Carter returned to his steady form with a 66.7-percent shooting clip.

“It was a good day,” said Mack, the team leader with 20 points.

For the first time this season, Rutgers put an inferior opponent away early. It failed to do so in its season opener against Dartmouth and could not when Sacred Heart paid a visit to the RAC.

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Bonus points make difference in 2-1 trip

BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

In a match filled with ranked wrestlers but no ranked-versusranked opponent bout, Rutgers h e a d WRESTLING wrestling RUTGERS 15 c o a c h S c o t t CENTRAL MICH. 16 G o o d a l e thought Saturday’s dual-meet against Central Michigan might come down to bonus points.

Three Scarlet Knights fell one takedown shy of a major decision, while Central Michigan’s ninth-

ranked Ben Bennett beat sophomore Daniel Seidenberg, 8-0, to pick up decisive bonus points in a 16-15 CMU victor y at the Northeast Duals.

Rutgers won its first two duals against North Carolina, 33-9, and No. 24 Purdue, 28-15, at the Troy, N.Y., tournament, and then lost its final match to the Chippewas.

“If we learn from it, I’ll be good with it,” Goodale said. “If we don’t learn from it, I won’t be good with it. I thought we did all right with North Carolina and I thought we did really well with

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ENRICO CABREDO / FILE PHOTO

Sophomore 184-pounder Daniel Seidenberg suffered a major decision Saturday at the Northeast Duals, allowing No. 9 Ben Bennett and Central Michigan to pick up bonus points that proved the difference.