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Highland Park police arrested 52-year-old Richard Green last night in connection with acts of vandalism to five Jewish-owned businesses. The front windows of Trio Gifts, Judaica Galler y, Jerusalem Pizza, Jack’s Hardware and Park’s Place Kosher Family Restaurant, all located on Raritan Avenue, were found damaged and smashed Tuesday morning. Green, of Bayard Street in New Brunswick, is charged with five counts of criminal mischief, a fourth-degree offense, and may face additional charges if the crime is upgraded to a bias crime, according to a release from Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan. The preliminary investigation determined that Jewish merchants who sold clothing, food or religious
New Jersey residents may soon be able to view the budget of any public university in the state, pending a bill’s passage in the N.J. legislature. The bill would require “a public institution of higher education [to] post by Aug. 15 of each year its budget for the upcoming academic year,” according to the bill. “The goal of this bill is to increase transparency between public universities and the citizens of New Jersey,” said Sen. Joseph Vitale, D-19. At a time when tuition increases are present, taxpayers will be able to see where their tax dollars are going, he said. “Parents are curious in how their money is being spent,” Vitale said. “Now public university administrators will be under a microscope.”
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Richard Green, 52, allegedly broke the windows of five businesses early Tuesday morning on Raritan Avenue in Highland Park.
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Committee plans policy for mobile food vendors BY KRISTINE ROSETTE ENERIO NEWS EDITOR
A University committee is working to draft a policy that will apply to future mobile food vendors as the group continues the process to put Lot 8 to public bid. Although the grease trucks have occupied the location on College Avenue since 1992, this kind of policy has never existed before. Its necessity arose because of the University’s decision to open the space to bidding, said Lauren McLelland, manager of Planning and Quality Assurance at the University’s Division of Administration and Public Safety.
“It is important to have a global policy that can clearly articulate what health, safety and other applicable rules and regulations any mobile food vendor doing business with the University must adhere to,” McLelland said. Initially, the University handled the grease trucks through contracts that were in 2002 cut down from three-year to one-year agreements, according to a fact sheet provided Monday at a committee meeting. McLelland said there was no need for mobile food vendor regulations because the contract applied
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Don Peck speaks on the ongoing aftermath of the recession and its potential consequences for the millennial generation last night on Livingston Avenue.
GOP candidate Herman Cain is reassessing his bid for the nomination after his latest scandal.
Author discusses lasting outcomes of recession BY TABISH TALIB CORRESPONDENT
College graduates of the millennial generation will experience the deepest impact of the United States’ recession, said Don Peck, features editor of The Atlantic Magazine. Peck spoke to about 40 University students and faculty about his book, “Pinched: How the Great Recession Has Narrowed Our Futures and What We Can Do About It,” last night in the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development on Livingston Avenue. He stressed that people under the age of 30 will suffer from long-term consequences of the recession in their careers.
The editor cited a Yale University study that looked at college graduates in a recession period from 1980 and 1981. It found those graduates were paid 25 percent less than graduates before and after them. The study also showed that those graduates clung on to their jobs more than non-recession graduates, Peck said at the event, which the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy co-hosted. He said the millennial generation has always been told it is special and it can accomplish anything. “More recently, that sentiment has gone away. Many are now living at home and basic privileges and responsibilities,
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Researchers link obesity to lifestyle BY ANDREW SMITH STAFF WRITER
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School of Arts and Sciences sophomores Richard Lopez, left, and Brian Molina wrap gifts for local elementary school children last night during the Winter Wishes Wrapping event at the Student Activities Center on the College Avenue campus.
UNIVERSITY RECEIVES $5 MILLION GRANT TO SUPPORT PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION The University received a $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on Nov. 21 to promote public transportation, according to a University news release. The grant was awarded to the North Jersey Sustainable Communities Consortium, which is composed of several state departments including the North Jersey Transportation Authority, according to the release. The consortium will develop a regional plan for Sustainable Development for 13 counties in New Jersey including minimizing car use, according to the press release. HUD secretary Shaun Donovan said more than half of an average working family’s income goes to housing and transportation costs. “We know that we have a responsibility to fix that and to provide housing and transportation options that can improve their quality of life and economic stability,” Donovan said in the release.
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Two University researchers are under taking a study to determine how to prevent childhood obesity by monitoring suggested lifestyle changes in 900 households. Subjects will receive at-home visitations or online material teaching families how to make healthier food, said Carol Byrd-Bredbenner, a professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences. She said previous research virtually ignores this factor of childhood obesity. “One of the areas that has not received very much attention in the past is the home environment,” said Byrd-Bredbenner, an Extension Specialist in the Depar tment of Nutritional Science. “We know that kids learn a lot by observing their parents and the home provides them with opportunities.” The 18-month study will feature 600 families in New Jersey and 300 families in Arizona, she said. She said the household determines the quality of food, sleep and exercise among children — all key factors in obesity. Households participating in the study will receive materials that will educate them on dietar y health and suggest changes in diet and physical activity for at-risk children, Byrd-Bredbenner said. Her research will monitor the effectiveness of these tools. “We’re hypothesizing that if parents can make these
simple, inexpensive changes in their household environments, there’s much less of a chance excess amounts of weight,” she said. The study will focus on families who have obese or at-risk children because of lower socioeconomic status, membership of certain ethnic groups or a history of gestational diabetes, ByrdBredbenner said. Over the course of the study, subjects will periodically take questionnaires and will have
“This study addresses the parents’ responsibility in the feeding relationship.” MARION GROETCH Senior Dietician
their body mass index measured along with other statistics, she said. “As families move through this process, they’re going to find ways to make their home healthier,” Byrd-Bredbenner said. “It will help [their children] grow up at a healthy weight.” She said throughout the next few months she will monitor the participant’s weight and health to measure the efficiency of online care in obesity. “In the long run, we’re looking at kids at a healthier weight who have reduced risk of all the diseases that go along with obesity,” she said.
Marion Groetch, a senior dietician at the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute, said the study might have significant effects because it focuses on the parents’ role in their child’s nutrition. “This study addresses the parents’ responsibility in the feeding relationship,” she said. “The parent is responsible for what foods are purchased, brought into the home, cooked and served.” Groetch said she is specifically interested in how parents feed their children, which would discuss an important aspect of a child’s upbringing. “[Parents] are responsible for what foods are served,” she said. “Serving family meals has been shown in previous research to have numerous positive effects.” Despite childhood obesity’s presence throughout the country, families in New Jersey were chosen because of the state’s population of obese preschoolers, the second highest percentage in the nation, Byrd-Bredbenner said. She said Arizona also recently experienced the greatest rate of increase in preschool obesity rates. Steven Shikhel, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, said he thinks this study is a positive one and approaches childhood obesity in the right manner. “I think educating the parents is the best way to go, any greater education is good education,” he said. “That is the only way to go about fixing it, not by making laws or anything like that. If people are educated, they will drive their children’s health.”
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VENDORS: City rules ban peddling on College Avenue continued from front solely to the grease trucks and there was no competition for the spot. The one-year contracts expired in 2007 and all five trucks now operate on a monthly rent basis, totaling $62,400 paid per year, according to the fact sheet. The team — made of administrators, staff and students — hopes to have the draft ready for initial review by Januar y, McLelland said. It will include codes on health and safety regulations, a definition of what counts as a mobile food vendor and requirements to adhere to all other University policies. They are also looking to make mobile food vending locations
DAMAGE: Suspect may be tied to similiar U. crimes continued from front items pertaining to the Jewish faith own the targeted shops, according to the release. Judaica Galler y co-owner Shmuel Shimoni said he has never seen an incident like this in his 30 years of residency, but that he did not want to jump to conclusions. “I don’t want to guess. Obviously, because all stores that were hit were Jewish stores, but I have to wait until the police and all the reports come out before making any judgments,” he said. The damage, which left some store windows completely smashed and gone, evoked some emotional reactions by those affected. “The initial reaction was, who did it? Will it happen again? But overall, we were grateful that no
BILL: Senate committee to vote on proposed NJ law continued from front Municipalities have recently been asked to put their budgets online, so he said the state legislature is working to catching up with itself. The N.J. Assembly Higher Education Committee passed the bill last week and it will go into another vote in the Senate Education Committee. If it passes the latter committee, it will then be voted on in the New Jersey State Assembly, Vitale said. Assemblywoman Pamela Lampitt, D-6, Assemblyman Craig Coughlin, D-19, and Assemblyman Troy Singleton, D-7, sponsored the bill, which states institutions must also
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available on the other New Brunswick campuses. But Jack Molenaar, director of the Depar tment of Transpor tation Ser vices, said the other locations would be complicated because he would have to consult other University depar tments like Facilities and Capital Planning, or the police. “We also have to be sensitive to where we put it and the safety aspects of it. We want to make sure that we don’t create another problem,” he said. The committee will keep the standard hours of operation for the vendors, which is from 7 to 2 a.m., Molenaar said. The process of writing the policy is still in its research phase, McLelland said. The team plans to obser ve mobile food vendor regulations in surround-
ing towns and universities across the nation. New Brunswick ordinances define a mobile food vendor as an individual firm, corporation or voluntary organization that sells prepared food from a motorized vehicle at a fixed location, according to chapter five of city ordinances. Such vendors that sell at non-fixed locations are considered peddlers. Peddlers and mobile food vendors in the city are only allowed to operate from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. during October through April. In May to September, the hours change from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. The city’s policy also prohibits peddling in residential areas and specific streets, which include College Avenue, according to the ordinance. While New Brunswick’s regulations are meant to ensure the
orderly operation of such businesses, it also aims to protect non-mobile businesses as well, said Bill Bray, New Brunswick spokesman. Peddlers and mobile venders are not allowed to operate within 1,000 ft. of permanent retail or food establishments. “You have an established business in the city that has paid for a business license, employing people, paying property taxes, paying all these different overhead [costs] to have a brick and mortar location,” he said. “They should not be put in a situation where they are competing with someone who just literally rolls in.” Bray said the ordinance allows for some protection for these permanent businesses. McLelland said she is also looking at the regulations in Highland Park and Somerset as well as other universities’ regu-
lations like Louisiana State University and the University of Connecticut. The committee plans to draw on the University’s existing policies as well. “The University has many food vendors in our student centers and currently has policies regarding those businesses. We will use those policies as a template,” McLelland said. When approved, the policy will apply to all mobile food vendors that operate on University property like the SouperVan, McLelland said. This will include those on the Camden and Newark campuses. There are mobile vendors that serve the Camden and Newark communities, Molenaar said. But since they do not function on University property they are subject to their cities’ policy.
one was hurt and the damages were all repairable,” said Jack’s Hardware owner David Krul. Rabbi Edward Prince, manager for Jerusalem Pizza, said he is trying to stay objective until all the facts are disclosed. “If you look at the stores that were hit, clearly they’re all Jewish. But it’s easy to jump to conclusions,” he said. “If you look at the logic of what was hit, what wasn’t hit — it’s not [so] obvious. It could easily be someone who just went off their meds.” Some community members are also trying to hold off their opinions until the police have fully investigated the matter. “People jump to conclusions very quickly, but it’s important that we all keep level heads until we know exactly what’s going on,” said Gayle Brill Mittler, a Highland Park Council member. Tina Krul, wife of Jacks Hardware’s owner David Krul, said she thinks the attacks purposefully targeted Jewish stores.
“What are you supposed to think? It’s obvious it was because of anti-Semitism,” she said. Officers distributed fliers to the community yesterday afternoon announcing the investigation into the crimes. “All of our officers are aware of the sensitivity of this situation, and we will make every effort with patrols and surveillance to keep everyone safe,’’ Highland Park Police Department Chief Stephen Rizco said in the release. Prosecutors are also investigating similar incidents of vandalism at the Rutgers Hillel and the Chabad House on the College Avenue campus where windows were allegedly broken at both locations Saturday night. Owners and employees said they tried to not let the targeting of Jewish stores affect them, but some neighborhood residents said they felt devastated and shocked when hearing the news. “I’m horrified. It’s awful and I’m very upset. It looks like a hate
crime and I don’t even know what to say,” said Highland Park resident Mary Schmutz. “You read about things like this and hear about them, but this doesn’t happen to your town.” Highland Park resident Scott Thompson said he was surprised the incident occurred in Highland Park. “I consider it very disappointing that there are people, especially here in a place like New Jersey, who would be so bigoted,” he said. “I could understand a less ethnic area, but not here.” Thompson feels that the type of community Highland Park is presents itself as a viable candidate for a situation like this. “If someone wants to try and make an impact and tr y and scare people and produce concern, I [would] think a place like Highland — a quiet town with a large Jewish population. It makes sense someone would target a place like us. But it’s an act of cowardice.”
But resident Leonard Bridges said Highland Park does have some tension regarding different ethnic cultures. “It’s kind of segregated in a strange way — Jewish, black, white. There may be some ethnic tensions. I don’t know. It’s just changed,” he said. Bridges feels Highland Park has changed and is not as warm as it used to be. “Highlands is very different then what it was when I grew up. It used to be a place where people would look out for each other’s kids, but it’s not like that anymore,” he said. David Krul hopes the vandalism is an isolated incident and that the community will go back to business as usual. “I worry about walking down the street no matter what,” he said. “I’ll walk and be a little more vigilant. It’s probably a remote incident. But if it happened again, I’d be much more disturbed by it and much more concerned.”
post a summar y document outlining — in a user-friendly manner — the institution’s major sources of revenue, according to the bill. “The goal of this piece of legislation mirrors the goal of similar legislation championed by Assemblywoman Lampitt, requiring local budgets to be put online,” said Brian McGinnis, Lampitt’s communications director. By ensuring institutions of higher education post userfriendly formats of their budgets on the Internet, the bill intends to help ensure transparency and accountability for the taxpayers who suppor t institutions of higher learning, McGinnis said. If passed by the state legislature, the acts will take effect immediately, according to the bill’s conditions.
University spokesman E.J. Miranda said the University has no problem with the proposed bill. The University posts its budget online within the Office of Institutional Research and Academic Planning’s annual “Rutgers Fact Book.” The Fact Book uses as its source the Division of University Accounting, which performs all general accounting functions required by the University on all its campuses, according to the Fact Book website. Information must be posted in a prominent and easily accessible site, according to the bill. Currently, the OIRAP website is not prominently displayed on the University’s homepage. Nino Azrumelashvili, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, said the bill is essential to providing financial transparency.
“I think this is really important,” Azrumelashvili said. “It would give students, as well as taxpayers, an opportunity to see how their money is being spent.” Everyone should be able to see where the money is used, said Brian Bokserman, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “We need to know where the University money is going because that is also our money,” Bokserman said. “With corruption being what it is, we need to know.” Carisa Sousa, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, said leaders and public university administrators are accountable for how they use the budget. “It keeps a measure of accountability onto our leaders,” Sousa said. “We can see where cuts are needed or where we can improve. It is our money after all.”
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For those looking for a new room decoration or holiday gift idea, the OffCampus Student’s Association will host a candle-making event in the Livingston Student Center Lobby. Each candle will cost $2 and members will be present from 1 to 4 p.m.
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Abstract artist offers insight into personal experiences BY GLEN GABRIEL CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Students, faculty and art admirers packed into the Civic Square Building in downtown New Brunswick on Tuesday night to listen to acclaimed abstract artist Thomas Nozkowski’s stories of developing as an artist. The 67-year-old discussed his inspiration and motivation behind his art, which has been displayed in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum on the College Avenue campus, he said. “What you’re doing as an artist is constructing a memory with all of the visual cues,” Nozkowski said. “I try to push a piece as far as I can. Until the very last day the painting isn’t finished, the paint is still wet.” Nozkowski admitted to never liking the notion of painting on large canvases. The majority of his work has been on either 16 by 20 inch or 18 by 22 inch canvases.
“I want people to have to get up close to my paintings, to have to study them, see the lines, smell the paint,” Nozkowski said as another reason he favors smaller paintings. Despite the size of his art, he said some of his pieces might take more than a decade to finish. In Nozkowski’s paintings, his memories inspire the shapes and images that surface in his works, he said. The smallest feature in a room, such as the glowing light in an overhead projector, may be captured in a piece. “I think we all know the difference between a line that means something and one that doesn’t,” he said. Nozkowski has earned awards including the American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Prize in 1999 for his paintings. During his artistry process, Nozkowski said he attempts to create a flexible work and environment for himself. “I paint for about four or five hours every morning, seven days out of the week, unless I have some other obligation,” he said. “I don’t know of an artist that does-
n’t play music in their studio, [and I have] always been partial to gospel or blues.” Nozkowski said there were times when he did not have the time to paint as freely as he wanted to because he had a job and family to support. “For about the past 15 years I’ve been very lucky do a lot of painting in my own studio,” he said. Bruce Powell, 47, traveled from Eatontown, N.J. to attend the lecture. He said he has been following Nozkowski’s work for years and listened to his lectures before. “Anytime a prospective artist can hear a successful artist speak in such intimate detail about their craft, they’re gaining invaluable knowledge,” he said. Drew Jones, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, said Nozkowski’s explanations of his art were informative and inspirational. “When you get a chance to hear someone speak about a profession they’ve succeeded in, you get a better appreciation for the work that goes into the art,” Jones said.
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Abstract artist Thomas Nozkowski explains his painting preferences Tuesday night at the Civic Square Building in New Brunswick.
CAMDEN PROFESSOR FINDS FUNGI THAT HELPS COOL DOWN ENVIRONMENT In an effort to make New York City greener, Elizabeth Demaray, an associate professor of fine arts at Rutgers-Camden, has developed a way to cool down its streets. Lichen — a fungi and algae combination that lives on the surface of trees and rocks — cools anything it is attached to through photosynthesis. Demaray will transform it into a slurry that can be “painted” onto buildings. “Lichen can live where plants cannot, and it can thrive without human inter vention or maintenance,” Demaray said in an ar ticle on
fastcompany.com. “Also, anyone can ‘plant’ it — all you have to do is smear it on the outside of your building.” Lichen adheres to buildings and other surfaces using an enzyme, Demaray said in the article. If the two do not interact correctly, the lichen dries and blows away, rendering no harm to the building. One building on 14th Street in New York City is considering spreading lichen over the front of the building, according to the article. The lichen will cool down the granite or sandstone surfaces of buildings and in turn cool its surrounding areas.
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To ensure the lichen suited New York City buildings, Demaray collected Flavoparmelia baltimorensis — a rock lichen — from boulders near the city. “In addition to rocks, I actually found it growing on blacktop,” she said in the article. Because Demaray is not a scientist, she is unsure of whether her current crop of lichen will hold up. But she said it is an art project that is mostly working as a hypothesis. Lichen is already growing on 14th Street, but only on trees, according to the article. Demaray said tree lichen will someday work to cool buildings down.
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Elizabeth Alexander speaks on her latest publication, “Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems, 1990-2010,” last night at the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus as part of the “Writers at Rutgers Reading Series.”
like marriage, are moving further and further down the road,” he said. Peck said longer recessions cause more long-term problems, which are detrimental to the graduates’ confidence, health and employability. “We don’t go back to being the same sort of society before the crash,” he said. “We will be changed by high unemployment and economic malaise.” The biggest change the recession caused is the hollowing of the middle class, especially the non-professional working class or those who only have a high school diploma, which accounts for 60 percent of the population, Peck said. “If you look more deeply at jobs, you see a much more worr ying phenomenon. Over whelmingly, the jobs that have been lost are middle-skill jobs,” he said. Peck said students should fear the loss of middle-class jobs because of restructuring within companies. “[It is] unlikely we will reach the same heights of construction or manufacturing jobs. They can be replaced by machines or lower-wage workers throughout the United States,” he said. But, Peck said not all longterm effects are bad. The recession will return the United States to a conservative era, which was lost after long periods of inflation in the 1970s, he said. “There will be a new relationship to money now, which was also there in the periods after the 1920s,” he said. “We will see a turning back toward thrift, and that is probably a good thing.” Peck studied government and economics at Dartmouth College and earned a master’s degree in public affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. He writes about economics and culture for The Atlantic and edits the monthly magazine’s cover stories, said Carl Van Horn, director for the Heldrich Center and the event’s host. Van Horn, a professor in the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, said the Heldrich Center does not often invite journalists, but Peck was an exception he was proud to have. “He looks at the big picture on what [the recession] means economically and culturally, and it was important for the University community to understand that and hopefully use that in their research,” he said. Mark Szeltner, an Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy graduate student, said Peck’s lecture was a good echo chamber for researchers. Szeltner, 25, said he came to graduate school after working at Johnson & Johnson. “The pressure to get a job is pretty high,” he said. “To come from a job, to going to graduate school and then going back out there for a job is pretty difficult.”
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MAN CLAIMS REPEATED ABUSE BY SANDUSKY PHILADELPHIA — The first sex-abuse lawsuit filed against former Penn State football coach Jerr y Sandusky comes from a man who says the coach abused him more than 100 times. The man met Sandusky at age 10 and is now under 30. He is not among the eight victims mentioned in a grand jury report. The man says Sandusky abused him in a Penn State locker room, on trips to Philadelphia and a bowl game, and at the Sandusky home. The suit also names the university and The Second Mile charity as defendants. The man says he knew the coach through the children’s charity, and that the abuse occurred from 1992 to 1996. Sandusky is charged with sexually abusing eight boys over a 15-year period. He acknowledges he showered with boys but denies molesting them. — The Associated Press
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Cain considers dropping out of election THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DAYTON, Ohio — His campaign’s sur vival in question, Herman Cain plowed ahead Wednesday in an effort to move past a woman’s allegation that they had a longtime affair. But he acknowledged the toll was rising and said he would decide by next week whether to drop out of the Republican race. Publicly, there were no signs that the former pizza company executive was calling it quits in his campaign for the presidential nomination. In fact, it was just the opposite: Aides were moving ahead with plans for events in New Hampshire, Tennessee, South Carolina and Georgia and prepared to launch a fresh round of TV ads in Iowa. And Cain himself, on a oneday bus tour of Ohio, insisted he was seeing “a groundswell of positive support” after the latest allegation threatening his campaign. Still, he acknowledged, “We are re-assessing and we are re-evaluating,” in light of the woman’s account, which followed accusations of sexual harassment by other women in recent weeks. In an interview on Fox News late Wednesday, Cain said the controversy has taken an “emotional toll” on his wife, Gloria. “I’ve got to think about my family first, especially my wife,” Cain said. “This is why we are reassessing.” He said he would exit the race if the price proved too high, and by the middle of next week at the latest, he would make a decision. At his campaign stops, he renewed what has become a familiar defense — that he is the victim of attacks by liberals and the establishment, who are threatened by his outsider appeal.
“They want you to believe that with another character assassination on me that I will drop out,” a defiant Cain told a crowd of about 200 in Dayton. The boisterous crowd greeted him with shouts of “no” and “boo.” “One of the reasons they are trying to shoot me down and tear me down is the strength of my message that resonates with the American people,” he said. Cain drew enthusiastic crowds in three appearances in the state. Though there were signs that some in early voting Iowa and New Hampshire were reconsidering their support — and political veterans were beginning to suggest his campaign’s days were numbered — some backers here said they were deeply skeptical of the mounting allegations. “I absolutely trust the character of the man. No man is perfect, but I just don’t believe it,” said Pauline Clark, 80, from Xenia, Ohio. She urged Cain to “tough it out.” George Phillips, of Beavercreek, said he was sticking with Cain because of his ideas and management experience, saying, “I just like him, and he certainly seems to understand the economy.” He added, “It seems funny that every time a candidate rises up, something pops up against him.” And Jim Stansbur y, who drove two hours to West Chester from his home in Louisville, Ky., to show his continued support, suggested that Cain’s enemies were behind the allegations surfacing and called them “an orchestrated event.” Though Stansbur y said Cain’s base of support remains solid, he allowed that the accusations could make it more difficult to persuade undecided
voters to get behind the candidate. Cain’s latest turmoil comes just five weeks before the first votes are cast in the state-bystate march to the nomination. He’s spent a month battling several sexual harassment accusations, which took a toll on both his standing in polls and, suppor ters say, his fundraising. Prominent conservatives who r ushed to his defense when the first allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior surfaced were all but silent after the affair accusation. At least one New Hampshire backer — state Rep. William Panek — switched his allegiance to a Cain rival. And Cain’s campaign has lost some precinct-level supporters in the leadoff caucus state of Iowa. “His campaign is strong enough to sur vive the allegations,” said Michael Farren, 31, an Ohio State University doctoral student in economics, from Pataskala, Ohio. Among political operatives, though, the perception was setting in that Cain’s troubles were causing irreparable harm to his bid. “I don’t see how they walk away from the damage that’s been done and emerge as a viable primar y candidate,” said Rick Wilson, a longtime GOP consultant based in Florida. “All these things about Herman Cain keep coming out drip, drip, drip, and they’re not handling it well. And now conservative Republicans have another place to go — Newt Gingrich.” Dan McLagan, a veteran GOP strategist based in Atlanta, agreed, saying, “Cain is like a zombie at this point — he’s dead, but he does not
appear to have noticed and has kept on walking. His support is all moving to Gingrich and, at some point, he’s going to look back and see that he is grand marshal of a one-man parade.” Indeed, former House Speaker Gingrich has been the beneficiary — in polls, at least — of Cain’s slide in the month since it was disclosed that the National Restaurant Association paid settlements to two women who claimed Cain sexually harassed them while he was president of the organization. A third woman told The Associated Press that Cain made inappropriate sexual advances but that she didn’t file a complaint. A four th woman also stepped forward, saying that in 1997 Cain groped her in a car. Cain has denied wrongdoing in all cases. The latest furor came Monday when Atlanta-area businesswoman Ginger White, 46, accused Cain of a consensual sexual relationship that spanned more than a decade and ended this year before he became a White House candidate. The candidate has denied any such affair, and in a letter addressed to “patriots and supporters,” called her allegations “completely false” and labeled her “troubled.” “It’s very disappointing that he would call me troubled and, you know, it’s unfortunate,” White said Wednesday on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” As Cain was greeted warmly at stops in Ohio, top aides huddled privately to map out a strategy to get past the allegations. Cain has told his top supporters that his campaign must determine whether he will have the financial and grassroots support to move ahead.
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he Senate voted earlier this week in favor of a provision of the National Defense Authorization Act that allows the military to detain terrorism suspects on U.S. soil indefinitely without a trial. “The enemy is all over the world. Here at home. And when people take up arms against the United States and [are] captured within the United States, why should we not be able to use our military and intelligence community to question that person as to what they know about enemy activity?” asked Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., in support of the provision. The problem with this, of course, is that it is highly illegal. According to U.S. law, citizens have the right to a swift trial. This provision allows the military to rob citizens of that right entirely if they are suspected of terrorism. Conceivably, false accusations could lead to an innocent person spending years in jail without the chance to clear their name through a fair trial. “We are not a nation that locks up its citizens without charge,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., asserted — but we will be if we allow the military to hold citizens for as long as it likes. The White House has already expressed disdain for the measure, threatening to veto it. According to a statement issued Nov. 17 by the Obama administration, “It is likely that implementing such procedures would inject significant confusion into counterterrorism operations.” So not only does the provision hurt the public, but it also serves to hinder counterterrorism efforts by government agencies. In short, the provision fails on all levels because it is fueled by alarmist overreaction, rather than well thought out logic. We cannot legislate on feelings alone. It is easy to be outraged at terrorists, and of course we expect the government to take all allegations of possible terrorism seriously for the good of the nation. However, when officials let their emotions get the best of them, they stop using their heads. When the people in charge don’t think clearly, we are the ones who suffer. The Senate cannot start stripping citizens of their rights in the name of security. That’s counterintuitive to the mission of counterterrorism, which seeks to keep us free from harm.
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f you’re looking to watch as the Supreme Court entertains challenges to President Barack Obama’s health care reform law, you’d better get in line now. Although the arguments are set to begin in March 2012, there is a slim chance there will be more than 50 seats available to the public. And forget watching the proceedings on television — though C-SPAN chairman Brian Lamb has asked to televise the case, people expect the court to continue its ban on TV cameras in the courtroom. But this raises the question — why is the Supreme Court so dead-set against televising cases? Does the public not have the right to see what is going on inside the walls of the court, especially when these justices will be ruling on something as nationally important as health care reform? Lamb summarized the problem well when he told The New York Times, “If you can’t do this in public, and you’re doing the public’s business, then something is wrong with this picture.” The arguments of those who oppose televising the court do not hold much water. Some argue the public will not be able to comprehend the material presented in the courtroom, while others fear the opportunities for misinterpretation that TV sound bites present. Obviously, these arguments come from places of deep cynicism and egotism — cynicism in the sense that they paint a picture of the American public as nothing but ill-informed buffoons and egotism in the sense that judges are clearly putting their own concerns before the concerns of the public for whom they work. What the Supreme Court justices must do, to put it bluntly, is get over their misgivings regarding American citizens and their public image. They must realize transparency is key when it comes to government operations. The American people deserve to have a window into the courtroom in the same way C-SPAN provides them with a venue to watch Congress argue over bills. If the majority of the people tuning in do not understand everything happening, then what better way for them to learn than to watch their government in action? Perhaps a better understanding of government operations would lead the public to put more faith in their officials. In the words of Associate Justice Elena Kagan, the rare court member who is in favor of cameras, “If everybody could see [what happens in the Supreme Court], it would make people feel so good about this branch of government and how it’s operating.”
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with a picture of did something very ill Livingston the Former, in advised last year when all its underdeveloped, I changed my majors mud-caked grandeur. and minors as a junior. My first involvement Actually, I’m not quite being with the Daily Targum was fair to myself since I as a contributing reporter received plenty of advice my freshman year and my from the time I was in high ALEX LEWIS very first assignment was school about how it’s A-OK to cover a Livingston to do some self-discovery Campus Council meeting. The trek from the Beck while in college and alter your academic pursuits Hall bus stop — now replaced by the Livingston according to your evolving passions. Plaza stop — was a winding safari through a Of course, I now know that was just another muddy wasteland — now a neatly paved sidewalk carefully crafted lie promulgated by college — to a ramshackle building that seemed almost administrators to delay our graduations and milk completely empty — now the aforementioned as much student loan blood money from us as awesome Livingston Student Center. Once I had they can. But at the time, I bought the spiel scraped most of the mud from my shoes and sat hook, line and sinker and picked up a minor in down to cover the meeting, I found that the priArabic language. mary agenda for the Council was — you guessed I had no idea what I was getting myself into. it — the mud level on campus. I’m not talking about the language itself — You see, all these fancy accommodations that although it is very challenging — seeing that define Livingston campus today didArabic script looks sort of like a set n’t just spring out of the earth. It of dominos after it gets out through “Official policy took years and years of construca wood chipper. No, picking up a tion and landscaping that made new minor meant a much more dire stated that Livingston the most inconvenient proposition: the depar tment of African, Middle Eastern, and South Livingston was not locale at the University. You couldn’t just stroll from one side of the Asian Languages and Literatures, ... a Siberian gulag.” campus to the other. Every logical which hosts the Arabic minor, is route to the classroom buildings, headquartered in Lucy Stone Hall. librar y and dining hall was That meant I would have to frequent obstructed by a series of morphing fences and — gulp — Livingston campus. construction apparatuses that could turn a twoUniversity students who enrolled in the last minute walk into a 10-minute sojourn. Parking was couple of years are probably scratching their a joke. Even if you had a permit for one of the lots, heads and wondering why anyone would dread half the spaces were reserved for faculty and the going to Livingston. After all, the Livingston other half were almost always occupied. Forget Student Center is shiny and new and full of culiabout the pleasant trees and other assorted flora nar y delights like Dunkin’ Donuts and the Rock that we now know and love — back in the day, it Café. The Rutgers Zone gives us a chance to was a drab, barren desert. And worst of all was relive our summers down the shore with some Tillett Dining Hall. skee ball, and the new dining hall makes Brower Those familiar with the pantheon of classic litand even the once-mighty Neilson look like twoerature will recall that in Dante’s Inferno, fraudubit hot dog carts by comparison. And the campus lent sinners were banished to the 8th circle of is still seeing improvement. Last month, the Hell, the treacherous were sentenced to the 9th Daily Targum reported that the residence halls and Livingston freshman were condemned to slowly but steadily materializing before our eyes Tillett. Sure, you could try and catch a bus to on the edge of campus will have air conditioning Busch for all of your meals — but who really had and fitness centers. That’s enough to make any the time, especially when a walk to the bus stop incoming student think twice before hastily jotwas already a half-day commitment? ting down College Avenue as his first choice of Yes, the picture was bleak. At the time, official living accommodation. policy stated Livingston was not, contrary to popuBut wait, underclassmen — don’t go thinking lar belief, a Siberian gulag, but in fact an actual coleverything was always so glamorous. Like an octolege campus meant for learning. Thankfully, as the genarian boring his grandkids with nauseating stories about the way things used to be “back in my SEE LEWIS ON PAGE 9 day,” I would like to provide you whippersnappers
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LEWIS continued from page 8 Targum report notes, an intrepid group of students brought their concerns about the sub-par campus to Old Queens and demanded reform — take note, Rutgers University Student Assembly: students advocating for an issue of actual interest to students, and not just fracking. The administration actually heard their concerns, and shifted some money that was most
likely budgeted for Greg Schiano’s private island to pay for the campus renovations. Now, whenever I hear a freshman or sophomore sing Livingston’s praises, I think back on the bleak picture of how it all was before. Instead of my usual griping, I’d like to take the time to give credit where credit is due — a pat on the back to old Rutgers for putting John Q. Tuitionpayer’s money to good use. Sure, not all is perfect. Livingston will never possess the social draw of College Avenue, since there is no student neighborhood for hosting parties.
And many first-year students living in the Towers still rise every morning to the dulcet tones of construction equipment toiling away outside their windows. But, at least for these students, they will still be at the University to enjoy the spoils when the construction has ended. For us seniors, the muddy memories of the past will have to suffice. Alex Lewis is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in journalism and media studies and political science. His column, “La Nausée,” runs alternate Thursdays.
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ndroid security researcher Trevor Eckhart has made himself an enemy in software company Carrier IQ. The company is unhappy with Eckhart because of a video he posted on YouTube earlier this week in which he reveals to the public that its smartphones are, essentially, tapped by Carrier IQ’s software. On HTC, Blackberry, Nokia and other phones, Carrier IQ’s software runs in the background, unbeknownst to users and records text messages, web searches, phone numbers and so forth. It then reports this information back to service providers. Carrier IQ argues that its software is far from malicious, as Eckhart makes it out to be. Instead, it claims it records this information so that service providers can make sure their phones work properly at all times. However, we agree with Eckhart that this secret software needs to be made public knowledge. Consumers should be told that their actions are tracked, and they should have the option of saying no to such surveillance. We give Carrier IQ a dart. *
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Federal unemployment benefits are set to expire soon, which means Congress will have to figure out whether it should extend those benefits. While our country continues to make the arduous journey out of an economic recession, the last thing the unemployed want to see is their benefits suddenly pulled out from under their feet. Thankfully, Congress has made it clear it is working seriously toward a solution. While Democratic members of Congress are making a big deal out of extending the benefits — which is typical for party members — Republican leaders are less ostentatious about their position. But that does not mean they have bad intentions. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said it best: “Any kind of grand deal that we’ve been after has eluded us. So let’s try to work incrementally towards a conclusion this session that can benefit all Americans.” We give Boehner a laurel for taking such a calm, rational stance of the matter. That is how real solutions get formulated.
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Head coach C. Vivian Stringer and the Knights beat Temple for the first time in the past three tries last night at the RAC.
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Khadijah Rushdan continued to exhibit the same dominant, versatile play she had all season long. On the offensive end of the floor, Rushdan finished with 16 points and a team-leading seven assists. At the start of the game she played guard, facilitating the offense and getting the whole team involved. As Stringer began to substitute, Rushdan slid down to the post and show moves of an experienced forward. “I like to rebound, pass, score, all of it,” Rushdan said. “With the vision I have, it’s easy for me to be at the four because I’m able to see the sweet spots on the floor to hit gaps.” On defense, Rushdan played as many positions. Initially she was on the perimeter, guarding against the
3-pointers, which Temple is known to shoot. Entering last night’s game, the Owls attempted nearly twice as many shots from beyond the arc on the season than Rutgers. But like on offense when the subs began to enter the game, Rushdan slid down to for ward and successfully guarded players several inches taller than her. Stringer believes it is Rushdan’s skill at point guard that allows her to be effective all over the court. “When you play point guard, you can play any position on the floor,” she said. “That’s the reason why [Rushdan] represents two people.”
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aggressiveness turn into an elevated foul total, as it does in most games. The Knights finished with 21 fouls, two more than their season average. Luckily for Rutgers, Temple converted only 11 of its 23 freethrow attempts, leaving it with a 47.8 percentage from the foul line.
shooting 8-of-15 from the floor and scoring 19 points with only one converted 3-pointer. Sykes also spearheaded Stringer’s 55-press up front, forcing Temple into many of their 18 turnovers. “It was personal for me, just being a senior on this team,” Sykes said. “[With] a lot of young people and upperclassmen, we’ve lost the tempo too many times. Like I told Khadijah, Monique, Erica [Wheeler] and Nikki [Speed] before we even walked onto the court, ‘Let’s not even let them think they’re in a game with us.’” Beyond Sykes, the list of offensive contributors stretches down the stat sheet. Rushdan, who scored or assisted on six of the Knights’ first nine possessions, finished the game with 16 points and seven assists. Oliver continued to flirt with her double-double season average, scoring 15 points and hauling in seven boards. And every other contributor in the Knights’ rotation aside from Speed and freshman center Christa Evans scored at least one basket to pad the team’s 54.9 shooting percentage from the field. But it all started with Rushdan in the first half and carried into the latter stages of the victory.
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“I was just trying to do what I could for the team, whether it was driving to the basket being aggressive or finding the open man,” Rushdan said. “I really just wanted to take my time and make sure we got off to a good start.” The Knights suffered 18 turnovers in the contest, and although Temple struggled from the field, 21 Rutgers fouls put the opposition on the free-throw line 23 times in the contest. The Owls converted only 11 of those opportunities, and at moments it maintained — as faint as it was — Temple’s pulse. Rutgers was also sloppier in the second half, dishing two assists to nine turnovers after the Knights tallied 14 first half assists. “I thought the second half was a little sluggish, and it may be because I tried to call two patterns that we worked on not very long,” Stringer said. “It sort of broke our momentum.” Temple’s Shey Peddy, who factored into the Knights’ upset loss a year ago, made her presence felt, leading her team with 16 points and four steals. But the Knights’ best shooting outing of the season quickly halted any Temple heartbeat, preventing their third consecutive victory against Rutgers. “I thought it was the seniors who suffered for the past couple years against Temple,” Stringer said. “The seniors have come to a point where they know what they want to do.”
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Fifth-year senior Bill Ashnault posted a 25-14 record with 12 pin falls two years ago at 133 pounds in his first season with the Scarlet Knights, which ended with an NCAA Championships appearance.
HOME: Location plays role in Ashnault’s move to Rutgers continued from back proximity to Ashnault’s South Plainfield, N.J., home was also a draw. Ashnault’s family was always close when it came to wrestling, and that continues with Bill at Rutgers and younger brother Anthony at South Plainfield. The latter enters his junior season with an 86-0 career high school record and a pair of state titles at 103 and 112 pounds. He is the sixth-ranked 126-pounder nationally and a regular visitor in Piscataway. Goodale cannot comment on specific recr uits, but do not expect him to send Anthony Ashnault to Lock Haven. Bill Ashnault says his brother is only focused on wrestling, which Bill Ashnault will do competitively for Rutgers at home for the first time in more than a year Friday against Old Dominion. He started at 133 pounds in his first year at Rutgers after wrestling at the same weight for two seasons at Lock Haven, and then redshirted last season. “It’s tough. You don’t get to wrestle in dual meets with your team and it’s all individualized,” Ashnault said. “Basically you just have to work on the things you have to get better on and stay in the game. You can’t really focus on things outside of wrestling, just wrestle ever y day and get better.” Ashnault started his redshirt season at 149 pounds, where he went 14-6 before hurting his elbow. He returned to 141 pounds, where he ranks 16th
nationally this year, and went 40 with a National Collegiate Open championship. “We realized for him to be successful and for him to learn, he had to win,” Goodale said. “So we brought him back to 141. That’s his weight class.” Ashnault is 5-2 to start the season, with his only losses coming against Oklahoma’s ninth-ranked Kendric Maple and No. 14 Evan Henderson of North Carolina. Henderson rode Ashnault for the entire second period Saturday at the Northeast Duals, but Ashnault responded with a pin in the next match against Purdue. It is part of his mentality that led Goodale to name Ashnault his
first team captain in four years at Rutgers — classmate Mike DeMarco now joins Ashnault. “I’m not afraid to say something or show by example,” Ashnault said. “I just try to do the right things all the time and follow Coach Goodale.” He began following Goodale five years ago. Chance put his head coach and mother together for a threehour flight, but it had nothing to do with Ashnault’s return. “I think he saw the progress of the program and realized it would be nice to be a part of it and close to home,” Goodale said. “He wanted to be part of a really good team, and that’s why he came back.”
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Coach Scott Goodale knew Bill Ashnault from the New Jersey high school wrestling scene before both ended up at Rutgers.
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he National Football League fined Buffalo Bills wide receiver Stevie Johnson $10,000 for his touchdown celebration during Sunday’s game against the New York Jets. After his 5-yard touchdown catch in the second quarter, Johnson used his hand to form a gun and faked shooting himself in the thigh. The act mocked an incident when Jets wideout Plaxico Burress shot himself in the leg in a nightclub as a member of the New York Giants. After the fake shooting, Johnson mimicked a jet crashing into the ground, prompting a 15-yard penalty.
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Eagles must deal with several injuries in preparation for their night game tonight against the Seattle Seahawks. Atop the list are quarterback Michael Vick, wide receiver Jeremy Maclin and defensive back Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie. All three will miss tonight’s game. Vick is still recovering from broken ribs, Maclin is still nursing an injured hamstring and Rodgers-Cromartie has ankle problems. Running back Lesean McCoy and cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha are questionable for the game.
T HE B OSTON R ED S OX named ESPN baseball analyst Bobby Valentine their new manager. Valentine has prior managing experience, serving as skipper of the Texas Rangers and the New York Mets. He also spent some time managing in Japan. In 2000, he led the Mets to a World Series appearance. Boston searched for its new manager for two months following the departure of Terry Francona after a September collapse caused the Red Sox to miss the playoffs. Valentine is a diversion from past managers, who had been calm and quiet. The new skipper is known for being ver y loud and outspoken.
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Juniors Lindsay Bertulis, left, and Victoria Pontecorvo return to the Knights’ distance teams. Bertulis and the distance medley relay team won first at last year’s Metropolitan Championships, where Pontecorvo and the 4x800-meter relay team finished second.
Experience returns to pace Knights BY ANTHONY RODRIGUEZ CONTRIBUTING WRITER
As the winter nears and the weather grows cold, the Rutgers women’s track and field team MEN’S TRACK g e t s ready to begin its 2011-2012 campaign with the indoor season. The Scarlet Knights open up their season at the New Year’s Invitational,
held Dec. 10, in Princeton, N.J. Head coach James Robinson, who begins his fourth season in the position, leads the Knights. Robinson has been around the program for 15 years, spending 11 years as an assistant coach before taking over in 2007 as head coach. “Coach Robinson is an allaround great person,” said senior sprinter Zainab Bisiolu. “I am ver y proud of him. He
THE HOUSTON TEXANS signed free agent quarterback Jake Delhomme to add depth to the quarterback position. Following season-ending injuries to both starter Matt Schaub and backup Matt Leinart, the depth chart in Houston now consists of projected star ter T.J. Yates, Delhomme and former New York Jets backup Kellen Clemens. Delhomme worked out with the team Tuesday and should serve as the backup for at least this week’s game He spent seven seasons as a signal caller for the Carolina Panthers, losing to the New England Patriots in the 2003 Super Bowl.
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Sophomore Tylia Gillon returns to the Knights after winning the 60-meter dash at last year’s Metropolitan Championships.
recr uited ver y well this offseason.” Alex Kelly, a senior javelin thrower will redshirt this season because of injury. “I cannot say enough about Coach Robinson,” Kelly said. “He is the best motivator and friend you could ask for.” Kelly’s absence this season is a blow to the team. Kelly impressed last year, earning a ber th to the NCAA East Regional as well as earning 2011 All-Academic Track and Field honors by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Countr y Coaches Association. Kelly is interested to see how the athletes coming of f redshir t seasons in 2010-11 fare. “We have several girls coming off of redshirt years,” she said. “Seeing the work these girls put in makes watching them ver y exciting.” With new recruits and the work ethic of the returning competitors, as well as those coming off of redshirt years, the Knights are optimistic entering the season. “This team works well together as a group,” Bisiolu said. “Going into the first meet, there aren’t really any expectations except to see where ever yone is, but by the end of the year, I fully expect to be in the Big East top 10.” As the season progresses, the Knights host two competitions: the Rutgers Tri-Meet, held Jan. 6-7, and the April 1314 Metropolitan Championship. The Knights are excited at the
prospect of competing more in front of their fans. “With more meets at the school, I expect more people to come out and see a different track team,” Bisiolu said. The Knights return several members of their team from the previous year, including sophomore Tylia Gillon as well as juniors Victoria Pontecor vo and Stephanie Krausser. They also see a new face in assistant coach Lou Tomlinson. The longtime men’s assistant sprint coach now also coaches the women’s team sprinters. Tomlinson, a Rutgers graduate, enters his ninth season as an assistant. The previous eight seasons were solely with the men’s team. Rutgers is confident it is much improved from a year ago. “We are just hoping the team continues to improve,” Kelly said. “We want to be the team that people don’t expect much out of but surprises a lot of people.” Bisiolu shares Kelly’s sentiment. “I expect there to be a lot of great times throughout the season,” she said. The Knights are also confident their distance runners will make significant contributions to the season. “Our cross countr y team had some great success in the fall that we are hoping they continue,” Kelly said. It is hard to predict how the season will play out, but one thing is for certain — Rutgers is ready to compete.
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work with that [last night]. They know the importance of sharing the ball. I thought we got points lots of different ways.” After only one half of play, the Knights already boasted three double-digit scorers in fifth-year senior guard Khadijah Rushdan, senior forward April Sykes and junior center Monique Oliver. But for the first time this season, Rushdan had help as the Knights’ closer. The 6-foot Sykes looked as comfortable as ever on the RAC floor against the Owls (2-5),
Chance put Scott Goodale and Sue Ashnault next to each other almost five years ago. WRESTLING Sure, Goodale knew Sue Ashnault’s son, Bill, from the New Jersey high school wrestling scene, where Goodale coached Jackson Memorial and Ashnault wrestled for South Plainfield. And sure, they spent the previous two days at the Clash National High School Wrestling Duals in McHenry, Ill. But to this day, Goodale has no idea why an airline upgraded his seat to first class, putting him next to Sue Ashnault for a flight home to New Jersey. Goodale asked Sue Ashnault where her son would go to college the following year, and she said she had no idea. So Goodale made a call to his alma mater, Lock Haven. “We’re sitting on the tarmac waiting to leave, and I called up my coach, [Rocky Bonomo], and said there’s a really good kid in Jersey,” Goodale said. “By the time I landed and we were walking to get our bags, he was on a visit to Lock Haven.” But after two years at Lock Haven and one NCAA Championship berth, it was hardly chance that took Bill Ashnault to Rutgers. Bonomo, an assistant coach while Goodale was at Lock Haven, resigned as head coach with Lock Haven’s program decline. Goodale and Rutgers — which combined an 11-7 record, two NCAA qualifiers and a top-ranked recruiting class in Goodale’s first season — presented Ashnault with a way out. “I wanted to leave Lock Haven, contacted Coach Goodale and ended up at Rutgers,” said Ashnault, now a senior. “It couldn’t have been a better choice.” In addition to the benefits of what was suddenly a winning program, Rutgers’
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Senior forward April Sykes led the Scarlet Knights in scoring last night against Temple with 19 points on 8-of-15 shooting to follow up her MVP performance last weekend in the San Juan Shootout.
RU overcomes inconsistency in win BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
At times last night at the Louis Brown Athletic Center, the play of the No. 11 Rutgers women’s basketball team had head coach C. Vivian Stringer seatWOMEN’S BASKETBALL ed calmly on the Knights’ TEMPLE 51 Scarlet bench, clapping RUTGERS 70 in approval. At others, the Hall of Fame head coach angrily jolted up
in response to the Knights’ (7-0) poor play. But for as many times as Stringer’s mood appeared to change on the Rutgers bench, one thing remained constant throughout the team’s battle with visiting Temple: the Knights’ ongoing offensive firepower. Rutgers shot 54.9 percent from the field en route to a 71-50 blowout victory at the RAC after shooting an unprecedented 65.5 percent in the first half. “We wanted to attack,” Stringer said. “We’ve been doing a lot of new things, and we wanted to
Knights jump out strong en route to Temple rout BY JOEY GREGORY STAFF WRITER
The Rutgers women’s basketball team came out of the gate a completely different team than the one that started the first six games. The Scarlet Knights have been prone to slow starts KNIGHT so far this season, NOTEBOOK picking up the intensity as each game went on. Against Arizona State on Saturday, the Knights quickly worked into a 7-0 deficit. But in last night’s 70-51 victory against Temple, Rutgers scored on each of its first six possessions, putting up 12 points in the first four minutes. Because of the difference in intensity levels, everything went the Knights’ way in the first half. “It’s going to be crucial for us to get off to a good start ever y time we play because we really know what it [feels like] with this high energy,” said head coach C. Vivian Stringer. “Anything other than
that is probably going to make us uncomfortable.” Senior for ward April Sykes found her stroke, shooting 8-of-15 from the field and scoring four of the Knights’ first six points. But as impressive as the Knights shot the ball, they did not defend as dominantly as usual. Aside from the team’s 11 blocks and 18 forced turnovers, Rutgers’ defensive numbers were not what the team was used to. The Owls put up 30 first-half points and opened the second half with five consecutive points before Rutgers got its first basket of the half. The clean, crisp and intense Rutgers squad that began the game disappeared. In its place was a sloppy, disorganized team, evidenced by 11 turnovers and only two assists in the second half. Luckily for the Knights, as the half drew on, the players slowly began to resemble the ones who started the game and limited Temple’s scoring in the later stages.
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Senior point guard Khadijah Rushdan scored 16 points last night against Temple. Rushdan and senior teammate April Sykes lead the team with 13.3 points per game.