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Family responds to Deloatch accusations

BY ANASTASIA MILLICKER ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

The Deloatch family and their spokesman returned to the backyard pathway where Barr y Deloatch was shot and killed about two months ago by a New Brunswick Police of ficer.

But this week the family spoke about their concerns with a statement from a lawyer representing one of two of ficers involved in the incident.

The statement claimed that Deloatch allegedly str uck

the of ficer with a 2-foot-long wooden stick during the fatal altercation.

Of ficers Daniel Mazan and Brad Berdel stopped Deloatch, a New Brunswick resident, and two other unidentified men during a routine patrol on Sept. 22 and asked them to show their hands, according to the lawyer. Deloatch then dar ted down an alley way and tried slipping under a fence in the backyard of 103 Throop Ave.

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Students pinpoint potentially dangerous areas of the College Avenue campus last night during an “R U Safe?” event blending statistical data and students’ perceptions to determine where they felt vulnerable to crime on campus.

App maps out campus danger zones

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Nate Deloatch, left, Tommie Deloatch and Walter Hudson, family spokesman, not pictured, hold a press conference to respond to a statement by Lawrence Bitterman yesterday in an alley way where Barry Deloatch died.

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Participants in the crime prevention event “R U Safe?” created a map of the College Avenue campus last night, highlighting areas most prone to crime using a smartphone application called “Mobile Mappler.”

Designed by Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy lecturer Wansoo Im, the app allows users to select areas where they feel vulnerable to crime, said Jerilyn Krakower, coordinator of “R U Safe?”

The application pinpoints these at-risk areas on a Google Ear th

template available online as a resource to help maximize safety, said Krakower, a School of Ar ts and Sciences senior.

Krakower, who is in Im’s “Geographic Information Systems in Health and Planning” class, said the mobile app informs users how dangerous an area is with statistical data on crimes.

“What we’re doing basically is going around campus and putting data in variables onto a smar tphone,” she said. “[We are] making a list of perceived vulnerability to crime.”

Variables — such as lighting, amount of police patrol and suspicious-

looking people — could help police in their patrolling, Krakower said.

“GIS creates interactive maps which give you a sense of demographics and different kinds of statistics projected onto a map,” she said.

“R U Safe?” blends statistics on dangerous areas from previous criminal activity with students’ intuitive sense of danger, Krakower said.

Im said he hoped the event made students more aware of their surroundings.

“One thing they did was actually assess what was happening. Students can learn about the safety because they’re actually doing the survey,” he said.

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University of Washington political science Professor James Caporaso gave his prediction of the euro zone’s stability to an audience of mostly political science students yesterday during his visit to the campus.

Speaking to about a dozen students and faculty at the Center for European Studies on Douglass campus, Caporaso said his prediction surprised him as well.

“Two months ago, I would never have said that the euro could collapse, but now there is definitely a chance,” he said.

After the rising national debts of Greece and Italy, the crisis in the euro zone — 17 of the 27 European Union countries that use the euro as its currency — has pushed some economists to agree the status quo is not sustainable.

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Bloustein School reaches 20-year milestone

BY RINA MODY CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Although the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy turned 20 years old at the start of this academic year, its staff and faculty will be celebrating all year long.

The school will commemorate past achievements through a series of monthly presentations designed to raise awareness of the different faculty research projects, said Karyn Olsen, director of Communications at the Bloustein School.

“We really need to showcase our faculty. The work that they’re doing directly affects the careers that students plan on entering,” Olsen said. “It’s crucial for students to understand that what their professors are researching is influencing current public policy.”

The Bloustein School’s graduate urban planning program is ranked third in the nation, according to Planetizen 2012 Guide to Graduate Urban Planning Programs.

Although the Bloustein School was created two decades ago, the programs currently available to its students originated long before the school itself, said James Hughes, the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy dean.

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The Edward J. Bloustein School, on 33 Livingston Ave. in downtown New Brunswick, is hosting a series of events aimed to spread University awareness about 20 years of its faculty’s research.

“This year is really special because it’s not only the 20th anniversar y of the school itself, but there are also a lot of other impor tant anniversaries that we’re celebrating this year,” Hughes said.

The undergraduate urban planning program is celebrating its 65th anniversar y this year, while the graduate urban planning program is celebrating its 45th anniversar y, Hughes said.

Yearlong events include alumni panel discussions, where former Bloustein students return to share with current students their work experiences and the practical applications of what they learned while at the University, Olsen said.

“All of these small events we’re hosting are all leading up to this one large symposium we’re holding in April,” Olsen said.

The Symposium on Planning Healthy, Sustainable Communities

will focus on the topic of sustainable communities and will bring together all of the different aspects of the Bloustein School, she said.

The intent behind the symposium is to approach the issue of sustainable communities from three dif ferent tracks: livability and environment; society and community; and economic competitiveness with workforce development, she said.

“All of the different institutions from the school will fall under one of those three categories and will be used when considering how to create a sustainable community,” Olsen said.

The Bloustein School incorporated approximately five research centers and institutes since its creation — a number that has now grown to 18, Hughes said.

“The school’s expansion is self-generated,” Hughes said.

“The school provides the state with well-educated and equipped public workers. In return, the state provides the school with funding that can be used to fuel research projects.”

Stephanie Curenton, an Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy assistant professor, who has given faculty research presentations this month, said the opportunity was useful for the students and her colleagues as well as herself.

Curenton said the events are a positive way to celebrate the school’s 20th anniversar y, because they allow opportunities for the community and the rest of the University to get to know the Bloustein School better.

“The presentation allowed me to interact with the rest of the faculty and the students in a way that I would otherwise be unable to,” she said. “I got a lot of good feedback.”

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Stephen Bronner, a political science professor at the University, talks last night about the past political and economic events that may have led to the reasons why the Occupy protests are occurring at the “Teach-In” event at the First Baptist Church in Piscataway. Occupy Central Jersey hosted the event.

FAMILY: Hudson says weapon was misrepresented continued from front “I cannot believe Daniel Mazan and his attorney waited two months to release an unjustified action,” said Walter Hudson, the Deloatch family’s spokesman. “The repor t overall is unethical.”

Despite the claim made by Mazan’s attor ney Lawrence Bitterman, Hudson said the weapon attained by the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Of fice was a 2-by-4 piece of lumber allegedly used to attack Mazan during the time of the incident.

Because Deloatch was 5feet, 3-inches and 135 pounds, Hudson said the lumber would have required a lot of strength to swing, which would have been dif ficult if he was pinned under the fence.

The Deloatch family and Hudson gathered yesterday in the alleyway of f the corner of Throop Avenue and Handy Street, where par t of the fence Deloatch was stuck under was removed. A small memorial sits in front of the tree next to the gap where the fence once stood.

EFFECTS: Countries reluctant to adopt currency continued from front are uncertain. The EU would decentralize or become more unified as a fiscal federation, which would enact unified legislation across Europe, he said.

“Europe can’t stay where it is now. We are at an unstable equilibrium,” he said. “You can either move forward and be further integrated or go back and dissolve the euro.”

The timeline to fix the problem and reassure markets have also shortened, said Caporaso, who is also editor of the journal, Comparative Political Studies.

“The Europeans thought they had 30 to 40 weeks, but now they actually have 30 to 40 days,” he said.

Caporaso said if the euro dissolved, it would be dif ficult

Hudson said he was unsure why Officer Brad Berdel, the shooter according to Bitterman, did not use another method to apprehend him if he was armed.

He said Deloatch was pinned under the corner of a metal fence and if needed could have been pepper-sprayed or struck with a baton.

The police allegedly shot 20 feet away in the dark, but Hudson said the autopsy repor ts would show that he was shot in close range.

The Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office could not comment by press time and has not yet released any results of their investigation.

Barr y Deloatch’s sister-inlaw said she experienced eye and facial trauma when she walked into the metal bar of the fence at the crime scene on Sept. 24 to visit the vigil. She said that the alley way was unlit and dark.

“The aspect that it was so dark — how could he have had any idea what he was shooting at? He could have shot his par tner,” said Tommie Deloatch, Bar r y Deloatch’s younger brother. “He was shot in close range.”

Why Berdel and Mazan stopped Deloatch and the two unidentified men is still under investigation, but Hudson said

some assume it is because of Deloatch’s past criminal record.

The 46-year-old Deloatch in the past has pled guilty to drug possession and distribution charges and completed a rehabilitation program, according to nj.com.

Hudson said he thinks the media neglected to mention that Deloatch graduated from a drug cour t program and was advocating against dr ugs to community members before his death.

“The New Brunswick Police Depar tment is a criminal enterprise. Of ficers are engaged in criminal conduct,” Hudson said, citing Sgt. Richard Rowe who has been charged with mishandling 81 internal af fairs cases at the New Brunswick Police Depar tment.

The city has also held one community forum in the past two months, Hudson said.

Hudson said Deloatch was pinned at the end of the fence with par ts of the metal dug into his midsection, and the bullet pierced his left side and split with no exit wound. One par t of the bullet str uck his aor ta, killing him.

“It’s a story of justice, and it’s totally inaccurate with the discrepancies within itself,” he said. “What happened that night and what Bitterman endorses were wrong.”

for European financial system to function.

“The day-to-day problems that many Europeans will experience are incomprehensible,” he said.

“People will be wondering the conversion of Greek drachmas and euros, and what their money will be worth.”

Professor R. Daniel Kelemen, director of the Center of European Studies and host of the event, said if the euro were to collapse, U.S. institutions would face problems similar to theirs. Many U.S. banks have taken out insurances on the euro, and the adverse effects would be similar to the 2008 American International Group collapse.

Caporaso said the other solution could be that the financial crisis will push Europe toward greater centralization, which will give greater powers to the EU and the European Central Bank.

Caporaso said the option of further integration contains problems

in itself. The consolidation of debt from the euro zone countries would cause the German banks borrowing interest rates to increase, which is one of the reasons Germany opposes full integration.

“The day-to-day problems that many Europeans will experience are incomprehensible.”

JAMES CAPORASO University of Washington Political Science Professor

EU countries not in the euro zone have also pushed back from switching to the euro, whereas previously they were willing to join, he said.

Turkey, which has been trying to join the EU and the euro zone

ZONES: Students rate

Par ticipants recorded data on the application and rated their perception of danger from one to five, Im said. They also filled out a sur vey after the event.

The project only focuses on dangerous areas on the College Avenue campus as of now. But Kristen Clarke, student representative to the Board of Governors and a participant, said she hopes it would expand to other areas.

“In regards to the overall project, I think it’s a good idea and would be really cool to expand this and actually do it on all five campuses, as well as a larger area of the student [neighborhoods] — all of Ward six, most of Wards five and two in [New Brunswick],” she said in the sur vey.

Clarke, a School of Ar ts and Sciences senior, said this information should be accessible to security ser vices around campus.

“This data should not only be advertised but given to the University administrators like [vice president] for Student Affairs, [Department of Transportation

Services], RUPD, maybe even Facilities if it’s concerning the lighting,” she said.

Melissa Gotanco, a student in Im’s class who is completing a final project based on information about lighting in crimeprone areas, said the event heightened her awareness.

“It was fun to see the campus differently. I was more aware of dangerous areas,” said Gotanco, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, in the survey.

Volunteers at the event were mostly students from Im’s class, but also included students in dif ferent areas of public planning such as health, research and activism, said Usman Khan, a School of Ar ts and Sciences senior.

“It was good to see the community getting involved with security issues,” Khan said.

“People overlook the importance of these issues.”

Volunteer Saba Khan, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, said she was concerned with the event’s organization.

“My main concern was the organization of the actual process,” Saba Khan said in the sur vey. “I ran into some students from dif ferent groups and zones, and I felt that the project could have maximized the results if students were distributed evenly.”

for many years, aims to be inducted, but Caporaso said conservative governments in the EU would continue to be against the inclusion of Turkey.

“The addition of Turkey would allow the young workers to offset the both those problems. It will give Europe a bridge into Asia and the Muslim world,” Caporaso said.

Kelemen said the euro zone would not dissolve despite the current economic situation.

“Nietzsche said, ‘Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ I think it won’t fall apart. Europe will become stronger,” he said.

Caporaso said Europe is actually divided into four par ts: the economic, social, fiscal and democratic Europe. The economic policies of Europe are on their way to full integration, but social, fiscal and democratic policies are behind in integration.

He said the lack of political power of the EU and the lack of ability for the organization to create fiscal policies regarding debt are the main culprits of the crisis.

“The problem is not the amount of debt. The problem is structural,” Caporaso said. “It is institutional. If these institutions were in place, you wouldn’t have a run on the bank.”

Amanda Alcantara, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, said she agreed with Kelemen’s predictions instead of Caporaso’s dire outlook.

“I don’t think France and Germany will allow Italy and Greece to bring them down while still being part of the euro,” she said.

Alcantara said Caporaso was drastic in saying the EU could fall apart.

Her experiences in focusing European studies at the University and her time spent studying abroad in Paris do not reflect this prediction, she said.

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Students release stress through meditation five senses is an interesting experience,” Fishkin said.

Once midterms arrive, Gibbons said students recognize Students looking for ways holiday eating is not the sole to relieve stress before finals agent placing pressure on stucan take advantage of meditadents during this time of the year. tion and relaxation during “People are realizing that the “Mindfulness Meditation.” semester’s getting by them and Participants can unwind durthey thought they were okay,” ing an hour-long class that meets she said. “They are realizing that throughout the semester in the they are falling behind and they student centers on Busch, need to get some help.”

Douglass and the College Yu Han, a graduate student Avenue campuses. The class is and assistant at Nelson Biology run by Siobhan Gibbons, a psyLaboratories, said he is a selfchologist for Counseling, ADAP taught meditator and regularly and Psychiatric Services. attends the sessions. He said he “Mindfulness Meditation” learns more about the practice helps those who are overthrough Gibbons’ teachings. whelmed with the holiday sea“The practice here is just to be son, college or life itself, Gibbons aware. They talk about acceptsaid. Meditation sessions encourance with compasage people to be sion,” he said. “I grateful for the think that’s the things they truly “[People] are part I like most.” enjoy in a guiltrealizing that they Han said the free manner. meditation ses“I try to do the are falling behind, sions are conveneating piece and they need ient for students a r o u n d to participate in, Thanksgiving to get some help.” but that they are and Christmas, also available to just because it SIOBHAN GIBBONS faculty and staff can be very diffiCounseling, ADAP and who might face cult for people to Psychiatric Services Pyschologist similar stress. be able to be “Because I aware of what have been participating in other they’re eating,” she said. meditation formats, one thing I Students can benefit from really liked about this session is becoming more self-aware of it’s ver y open,” he said. “You their sentiments by eating in feel free to come, you feel free an unhurried, nonjudgmental to stay. You don’t have to make manner, Gibbons said. any appointment.”

“Mindfulness Meditation” parNataniele Montfort, a School ticipants relish a piece of of Arts and Sciences sophomore, dried mango, cranberr y, bluesaid she initially found the mediberr y or cherr y with all five tating bizarre, but realized the senses before swallowing. experience to be beneficial.

“One student said that she “As finals are approaching, it’s eats deep fried stuff a lot and definitely a factor in me coming she did this exercise with deep here, but it’s also convenient with fried chicken. She realized that my class schedule,” Fishkin said. she didn’t really like the taste “It’s definitely a valuable of the deep fried chicken,” resource that really not a lot of Gibbons said. people are taking advantage of.”

Max Fishkin, a School of Arts Montfort said students who and Sciences senior, said he want to take time out of their enjoyed the slow eating experibusy schedules to relax should ment portion of the session, consider going to the meditation. where he learned something “It looked interesting. I never about the fast-paced lifestyle really meditated before,” she some students experience. said. “I always heard about it, “Trying to eat fruit slowly is [but] never did it. So I wanted to not something most people do try something new.” often. Trying to absorb it with all

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DECEMBER 2, 2011

A WINTER BLOOM

BY LISA-ANNA MIGLIORE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

MASON GROSS ALUMNUS ENVISIONS ‘EXTREME MAKEOVER: HOME EDITION’ INTERIOR DESIGN CONCEPTS Aaron Jackson, a Mason Gross School of the Arts alumnus, plans to build seven houses this season for families whose homes were destroyed last May during a tornado that hit Joplin, Mo. As the design producer of ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” Jackson is set to work with host Ty Pennington to design the interior for the families’ homes, according to a news feature on the Mason Gross School of the Arts website.

“It is emotional, to a point,” he said in the feature. “You get involved in their stories. Some of them are definitely more heartbreaking than others.”

Jackson often spends 14 to 17 hours a day working on a particular construction project from beginning to end with different design concepts, like a zoo-themed room, according to the feature.

“They’re always pushing us to be more and more extreme,” he said. “We’re doing things you wouldn’t normally see inside a house.”

Jackson is dedicated to his work not only as a hobby, but also as a means of helping families rebuild their lives, according to the feature.

“We’re giving them a whole new life sometimes,” he said.

“College scholarships, a new car. There are all kinds of amazing things that happen here.”

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Seventy Poinsettia cultivars are displayed during the annual Poinsettia open house on the Floriculture Greenhouses on Cook campus. Guests have a chance to buy flowers, as well as learn about the growing, handling and marketing of the crop. Today is the last day of the open house.

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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.

Limit one drink per hour.

The International Student Association presents their cultural event of the year, Colors of Nations. Guests can learn different cultures and celebrate the cultural diversity at the University. It features cultural performances and videos from all around the world and free food. The event will take place from 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. at the Busch Campus Center Multipurpose Room.

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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.

RUPA will host a trip to the Museum of Natural History and provide free tickets to the IMAX show “Journey to the Stars.” The bus leaves at noon outside the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus. For more information about the trip and ticket process visit www.rupa.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.

Rutgers Theater Company presents “Nathan's Secret Girlfriend is Coming to Town!” at 2:00 p.m. in the Philip J. Levin Theater on Douglass campus. The cost for students is $15. For more information, call (732) 932-7511 or e-mail jcogan@masongross.rutgers.edu.

There will be a screening of “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Snacks will be served, and a discussion on the themes of the film will follow. The holiday film, starring James Stewart, will play from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Canterbury House. For more information, call (732) 932-1278 or e-mail bezilla@rci.rutgers.edu.

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Learn about upcoming RUPA events in the spring semester from 8:00 to 9:00 p.m. at the Busch Campus Center Multipurpose Room.

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Find out about RUPA events every Tuesday from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. in the Livingston Student Center. Free popcorn and toppings will be provided.

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Syria civil war prompts strike against president THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

It was difficult to gauge how widely Syrians were abiding by BEIRUT — Syria has Thursday’s strike, which activists entered a state of civil war with announced on an opposition more than 4,000 people dead Facebook page. The regime has and an increasing number of sealed the country off from forsoldiers defecting from the eign journalists and prevented army to take up arms against independent reporting.

Residents in Syria’s two ecoPresident Bashar Assad’s regime, the U.N.’s top human nomic powerhouses — the capital, Damascus, and the northrights official said Thursday.

Syrian President Bashar ern city of Aleppo — reported Assad has been tr ying to crush business as usual Thursday.

But in the flashpoint city of an 8-month-old revolt against his autocratic rule, but the vio- Homs, a resident told The Associated Press that most of lence has only intensified.

The U.N. High the shops were closed, except Commissioner for Human for those selling food. Homs Rights, Navi Pillay, said the has been one of Syria’s most U.N. is putting the death toll for volatile cities, with increasing the revolt “at 4,000 but really clashes between troops and the information coming to us is army defectors.

“Few people are in the that it’s much more than that.”

“As soon as there were more streets and only about 20 perand more defectors threatening cent of students went to schools to take up arms, I said this in and universities,” said one resiAugust before the Security dent, who asked that his name Council, that there’s going to not be made public for fear of be a civil war,” Pillay told government reprisals.

A video posted online by reporters in Geneva. “And at the moment that’s how I am activists showed mostly closed shops in the Damascus suburb characterizing this.”

The scathing criticism from of Zabadani, which also has Pillay comes as the pressure piles seen large anti-regime protests.

Despite the recent diplomaton Assad from ic squeeze and home and Thursday’s abroad.

On “As soon as strike, the govThursday, the ernment has European Union there were more ... shown little imposed fresh defectors threatening sign of easing sanctions on its crackdown.

Damascus, and to take up arms, The Local the Syrian opposiI said ... that there’s Coordination tion called a genommittees eral strike inside going to be a civil war.” Cactivist group the country. said security The recent NAVI PILLAY forces swept spate of ecoU.N. High Commissioner through the vilnomic sanctions for Human Rights lage of from the EU, Traimseh in the the Arab League and Turkey are punish- central province of Hama. The ing Syria’s ailing economy, a group said six people were killed, dangerous development for the without giving further details.

The British-based Syrian government in Damascus.

Syrian business leaders have Obser vator y for Human Rights long traded political freedoms also said six people were killed for economic privileges in the and nine wounded in Traimseh. countr y, where the prosperous It added that the operation was merchant classes are key to continuing in the village.

Also Thursday, the governpropping up the regime.

But the sanctions, coupled ment took local journalists on a with increasing calls for trip to the village of Kfarbo in strikes, could sap their resolve. Hama province, where they The new EU sanctions target spoke to the family of a 9-year12 people and 11 companies, and old boy who was shot dead in add to a long list of those previ- Homs three days ago while he ously sanctioned by the EU. The was buying cookies from a shop.

“He was holding a biscuit in full list of names of those targeted will not be known until they his hand not a pistol,” the mother, Georgina are published in the official jour- child’s Mtanious al-Jammal, told nal of the EU on Friday.

The 27-member bloc also reporters. “They have burned imposed some sanctions on my heart.”

She blamed “armed terrorSyria’s ally Iran in the wake of an attack this week by a mob ists” for killing her son.

The shooting is particularly on the British Embassy in resonant in Syria because the Tehran, the Iranian capital.

British Foreign Secretar y boy, Sari Saoud, was from a William Hague accused Iran of Christian family. Christians and supporting Assad’s crackdown, other religious minorities in Syria saying “there is a link between generally support the regime what is happening in Iran and because they feel it offers them important protections. what is happening in Syria.”

Syria is over whelmingly The sanctions came as Syrian troops stormed a village Sunni Muslim, and many in the central province of minorities fear they will be Hama, killing at least six peo- marginalized if a Sunni regime ple — the latest in what has takes over. Assad and the rulbecome daily violence and ing elite are from the tiny Alawite sect. bloodshed in the countr y.

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Hillary Clinton vists former political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi, Thursday, to suggest changes for Myanmar, including ending campaigns against ethnic minorities and terminating ties with North Korea.

Clinton calls for reform in Myanmar THE ASSOCIATED PRESS YANGON, Myanmar — Hillary Rodham Clinton dined Thursday with former political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi, forcefully underscoring a U.S. challenge to Myanmar’s leaders on her historic visit: The new civilian government must expand recent reforms, including the release of political prisoners, to improve relations as it emerges from more than a half-century of repressive military rule.

“We believe that any political prisoner anywhere should be released,” the U.S. secretary of state told reporters. “One political prisoner is one too many in our view.”

Clinton called Suu Kyi a personal inspiration, and her first meeting with the Nobel peace laureate was a highlight of her visit to the long-isolated country also known as Burma. Suu Kyi, a prisoner for most of the past two decades, was released from house arrest last year and is returning to politics.

The two women were to see each other again on Friday.

Greeting one another at Suu Kyi’s home, they noted that Suu Kyi has a poster signed by Clinton and former Secretary of State Madeline Albright. Suu Kyi said she has read books written by both Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton.

Reporters were present for a few moments of banter before dinner.

U.S. officials warned that even the modest incentives Clinton offered to Myanmar’s new, militar y-backed leaders this week would come off the table if the country fails the political-prisoners and other tests of reform.

In meetings with top Myanmar officials in the capital of Naypyidaw and then with Suu Kyi in the commercial hub of Yangon, Clinton said the country’s leaders must end violent campaigns against ethnic minorities and break military ties with North Korea.

Clinton offered a small package of rewards for steps President Thein Sein and other leaders have already taken but said the U.S. was not ready to lift tough sanctions on the country.

Removing some of those sanctions would require approval by Congress, where many lawmakers have criticized the Obama administration for rewarding Myanmar too quickly without enough evidence of change.

The modest first steps Clinton announced include Washington no longer blocking enhanced cooperation between Myanmar and the International Monetary Fund that could lead to the approval of much-needed loans and support for the poorest nation in the region. Also, the U.S. would support intensified U.N. health and microfinance programs and resume bilateral counternarcotics efforts.

Those steps could be followed by an upgrade in diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Myanmar, Clinton said, although U.S. officials stressed that concrete action on American concerns must be completed first.

The U.S. has not had an ambassador in Myanmar since the early 1990s and is represented now by a charge d’affaires.

Clinton delivered letters from President Barack Obama to Thein Sein and Suu Kyi, in which Obama expressed hopes for better ties. The secretary of state made the point directly in her public remarks.

“I came to assess whether the time is right for a new chapter in our shared history,” Clinton said, adding that the U.S. was ready to further improve relations with the civilian government in the Southeast Asian nation — but only if it stays on a path of democratization.

A senior U.S. official said Thein Sein had outlined his government’s plans for reform in a 45-minute presentation in which he acknowledged that Myanmar lacked a recent tradition of

democracy and openness. He asked for U.S. help in making the transition from military to full civilian rule, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe the private diplomatic exchange.

Clinton’s trip is both a mark of approval, and a prod to further reform.

The U.S. is “encouraged by the steps that you and your government have taken to provide for your people,” she said, but those steps must be consolidated and enlarged.

“While measures already taken may be unprecedented and certainly welcome, they are just a beginning,” she told reporters.

“We’re not at the point yet where we can consider lifting sanctions that we have in place because of our ongoing concerns about policies that have to be reversed. But any steps that the government takes will be carefully considered and will be matched.”

In addition to calling for the release of political prisoners and an end to ethnic violence, Clinton said the U.S. wants to see a truly open political system and improvements in human rights.

She also warned the country’s leaders to break suspected illicit military, nuclear and ballistic missile cooperation with North Korea that may violate U.N. sanctions.

“Better relations with the United States will only be possible if the entire government respects the international consensus against the spread of nuclear weapons ... and we support the government’s stated intention to sever military ties with North Korea,” she said.

In his presentation, Thein Sein vowed that Myanmar would uphold its U.N. obligations with respect to North Korea, according to the senior U.S. official. Thein Sein also told Clinton that Myanmar was actively considering signing a new agreement with the U.N. nuclear watchdog that would allow unfettered inspections of atomic sites in his country, the official said.

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he N.J. Assembly Higher Education Committee passed a bill earlier this week that, if it makes a successful journey through the rest of the state’s legislature, will require N.J. public universities to post their budgets online for easy access. This would obviously foster better transparency. Taxpayers would be able to see exactly how the schools they are funding are using the money. Not only is this good for the taxpayers, but it may also have considerable positive benefits for the universities themselves. Such transparency would make officials more accountable for their actions, with respect to issues of funding.

Maybe such accountability would encourage those in charge to make smarter decisions with their schools’ purses. We give the N.J. Assembly Higher Education Committee a laurel for pushing this bill forward. *

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The relatively quiet community of Highland Park sustained damage early Tuesday morning from a vandal who broke the windows of five businesses, all which have Jewish owners. As of now, the Highland Park police have apprehended a suspect, Richard Green. They are charging him with five counts of criminal mischief. Some feel that Green’s crimes were grounded in anti-Semitism, making them bias crimes. What Green did — if he is in fact responsible for the crimes — was just plain malicious, regardless of the motive for his actions. We give him a dart for going on a destruction spree.

Thankfully, no one was hurt — but they could have been, and so it is better for us all that the Highland Park police was so quick to find a culprit. *

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Whenever our country’s leaders and politicians had the opportunity to address the nation’s problems over the past few years, failure and shortcoming appropriately summarized most efforts on both sides of the aisle.

Whether it’s been passing legislation to correct the declining state of health care in the United States or coming to a decision on budget matters, Washington has neither lived up to expectations nor performed its duties by the average American’s standards. It comes as no surprise, then, that Washington’s so-called Super Committee failed in its attempt to bring about any significant reductions to the nation’s deficit. The impact of this failure will no doubt be felt throughout many aspects of the economy, including funding for higher education. What is surprising, though, is the unfailing ability of American citizens to continue to seek out answers in the hollow promises of politicians. As a testament to all of this, just take a look at the dismal approval ratings of Congress over the past few months. According to the Huffington Post, a greater percentage of Americans approve of polygamy than they do of our nation’s leaders. We give the Super Committee a dart for their failed efforts. *

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The Middlesex County Department of Human Services conducted its annual 2011 Point-in-Time survey last year in an effort to document the number of homeless individuals throughout the county. A total of 946 persons were reported as being without permanent housing. Yet year after year, food, temporary shelter and clothing for these individuals can be found at Elijah’s Promise, the city’s local soup kitchen.

Headed by the non-profit’s Executive Director Lisanne Finston, programs like Code Blue, a yearly community “Turkey Trot” and a culinary school help to address food scarcity and homelessness throughout city. “We are a connection and entry point for people who are lowincome and homeless,” she said. Finston was awarded recently the 2011 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Community Health Leaders Awards for her efforts. From us, she can add a laurel to her wall of accomplishments. We praise Finston for her continued efforts to fight homelessness and feed the hungry throughout New Brunswick. *

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Americans have a thing for keeping their private lives private. The Patriot Act, for example, is one piece of legislation thought by many to encourage infringement on a citizen’s right to privacy. Wire-tapping regulations are strongly enforced and regarded by many as essential to the protection of such fundamental rights. Which is why a recent video, released by researcher Trevor Eckhart, that details hidden software installed on smartphones used to log users’ activities, has so many people up in arms.

On his HTC smartphone, Eckhart found that the application, named Carrier IQ, logged HTTP traffic on his browser, accessed phone numbers and recorded ingoing and outgoing text messages — all unknown to him.

According to Paul Ohm, a former Justice Department prosecutor, the program, which runs in the background of a wide range of smartphones, may be in direct violation of wiretap regulations: “This is a clear, massive, felony wiretap.” We’re hesitant to form an opinion of Carrier IQ use on smartphones so early in the investigation, but if the story holds true, the companies that use this software deserve a dart. No one — Americans especially — need someone listening in on their private messages and phone calls.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “Trying to eat fruit slowly is not something most people do often.”

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here is something stock-photo agencies, but strange about they do not tell the whole Reuters reporting story. I have become on a story involving CNN, attached to photojournalism but that’s what I read last sites such as The New York week. CNN cut about 50 Times’ Lens or the National employees at the beginning Geographic photography secof November deemed tion, because those photoALEKSI TZATZEV replaceable by “technologijournalists tell the story cal advances.” The British behind the image. Do yourJournal of Photography picked up the story yesterself a favor: visit one of these photo rolls, and do not day, citing that “a dozen” photojournalists were part read the rest of this column. Make up your own mind. of the firings. Cuts were quietly made in Miami, I have already made up mine. Studying the Washington, D.C., New York, Los Angeles and decline of journalistic professionalism, especially in Atlanta, according to Reuters. cable news, I can say this continues the trend. Fox Jack Womack, CNN’s senior vice president of News will continue to be based entirely on profits domestic news operations, wrote to his staff, as — I refuse to believe the majority of their anchors reported by Reuters: “For the past three years, we believe what they say, but viewers certainly do. And have been analyzing our work process across Image CNN apparently has joined the club, if not as obvi+ Sound, both in the field and in our editing and proously and not just right leaning, but simply less production areas. … Consumer and pro-sumer techfessional and more profit-oriented. nologies are simpler and more accesHere is an interesting quip relatsible. Small cameras are now high ing to this story. And I got the story, “A man on the street once again, behind the photo, from broadcast quality. More of this technology is in the hands of more people.

The British Journal of Photography. can tell a story, After completing this analysis, CNN Photojournalist Daniel Morel found determined that some photojournalbut it matters who himself in the middle of a legal batists will be departing the company.” tle after AFP and CNN, among othhe is and how Apart from the obvious mistreaters, distributed his award-winning ment of employees, this is damaging he tells the story.” photo of a woman under the Haiti to journalism. earthquake rubble. He posted the I guess we shouldn’t be surprised photos to Twitter, at which point that a corporation as big as CNN would do somesocial media did its worst. Getty Images was also thing like this if only for financial reasons — saving involved in the scandal. I say this to prove the money out of insatiability rather than necessity. But value of photographers to the first-hand reports it is the readers, viewers or Web surfers who will from the scene. Maybe it is a bit naïve to think that lose. First-hand news reporting will decline, and a more professional photojournalists are good, but I trend of reporters re-reporting what colleagues of hold there is some practical truth behind this too. other publications write will continue. Raw news, or I will not start a fight over copyright and such, the raw product, will be abstracted a little more only the fact that these people are necessary, and with every journalist replaced by so-called more CNN could do with keeping them rather than efficient technological advances. replacing them with technology, part of which is Reuters, The Associated Press and Agence CNN’s user-generated content.

France-Presse remain three of the biggest They say social media will play a big role in this. newswires with thousands of journalists all over the But that doesn’t mean they cannot report alongside world. They will remain leaders in primary reportthe trained journalists. A man on the street can tell ing, but CNN donates to a trend of reliance on just a story, but it matters who he is and how he tells those wires rather than doing the job itself. the story. The readership he gets is much more difIt seems like philosopher Noam Chomsky and ferent than a Washington Post reporter’s, for exameconomist Edward Herman’s propaganda model of ple. And this does not take into account skill, just political economy holds true. As one of the five filcredibility. Anyone can take a photo and write two ters, ownership matters hugely in this case as CNN lines below it. But a photo does not tell the full aims to sacrifice in order to save money. Higherstory, the journalist does. ups have taken this step without regard for unbiased, first-hand reporting.

Aleksi Tzatzev is School of Arts and Sciences senAll the same goes for photojournalism. Getty ior majoring in English and political science. He is Images remains one of the world’s biggest an associate news editor at The Daily Targum.

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RUPA concerts fail to account for diverse tastes Frontlines I n the midst of last year’s scandal where Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi was paid $32,000 for her comedy shows in the Livingston Student Center, the University community became very interested in how the Rutgers University Programming Association funded entertainment acts.

People wanted to know how much rapper Pitbull charged RUPA to headline Rutgersfest, and it wasn’t cheap — Pitbull was paid $50,000 to perform a set. The other performers, electronic act 3OH!3 and another rapper Yelawolf, did not make for a very well-rounded line up. When dropping big bucks like this on performers, RUPA should try to have all bases covered. To best cater to all of the varying music tastes among students here, an independent artist that is not a rapper should have been included in the lineup. There wasn’t even a token irrelevant alternative rock band included in the lineup, which was Brand New the previous year and Motion City Soundtrack the year before that.

As someone who is generally disappointed in today’s popular music, I feel RUPA has repeatedly missed the mark when booking concert acts the University’s student body would want to see. Yes, a lot of people went to the now-defunct Rutgersfest, because it was an opportunity for a free concert and an excuse to get wasted. But what about all of the smaller concerts booked throughout the year? Indie rock fans are deprived of quality

entertainment at a taken place or even school like been announced.

Rutgers, where RUPA needs to generic bands are survey the student booked to appease body more effecthe general student tively while planbody. Since I startning for a concert, ed attending and bring a band AMY ROWE Rutgers in 2009, here that I would the only bands that actually like to see.

RUPA considered indie rock that have per- These bands that I’m talking about wouldformed are Reel Big Fish and Circa Survive. n’t cost RUPA an arm and a leg either — But Reel Big Fish is a ska band and Circa Best Coast, a surf-rock band, had a $5,000 Survive, while alternative, is a band I would asking fee this spring when they were tourhave liked to see when I was a freshman in ing. No Age, a noise-pop band, also asks for high school. Indie rock is such a blanket $5,000 according to concertideas.com, term for a multitude of different styles of where RUPA quotes prices for performmusic, and it’s unfortunate that RUPA does ance acts. For these two bands to perform not realize this and book beta full show, it would cost the ter bands to come here. same that RUPA paid “I know [RUPA] With the return of Yelawolf for his 20-minute Rutgersfest nowhere in can’t make everyone opening act at Rutgersfest. sight and RUPA restricted To be fair, RUPA has happy, but they from hosting a major congone through a lot while cert in April for fear of all could at least try.” dealing with the flack over hell breaking loose like it Rutgersfest. We’re lucky to did this year, RUPA promeven have free concerts proised to make up for it by providing smaller vided to us at this school. But it would be concerts throughout the year. But what better for RUPA to appeal to certain groups have they done so far? While there are plen- in the University’s population that feel negty of students here who would have gone to lected by their artist choices. They really see LMFAO perform at the State Theatre, it should consider developing a new way to was cancelled. No other concerts, unless gauge the musical taste of such a diverse you count YouTube sensation Karmin, have student body. I know they can’t make

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If students who adore mainstream music are treated to free concerts they enjoy, so should those who listen to other genres.

It also wasn’t always like this. As an editor at The Daily Targum, I have seen a Rutgers College yearbook from 1997 sitting in the Targum’s business office. I’ve thumbed through it while waiting to check pages in the wee hours of the night, and I have seen how lucky students were to see some of the artists who performed that year. With Run D.M.C., Lisa Loeb and Yo La Tengo performing at Rutgersfest, the programmers were obviously trying to cater to every student’s taste then. I would be happy if Yo La Tengo would come perform at the University this year. Another awesome band that performed at Rutgers in 1997? Radiohead. These bands are still acts I would like to see come here, even more than a decade later. So RUPA — please be a little more open minded when booking alternative acts and strive for concerts that are more representative of students’ music tastes here. You might want to look back at the University’s history as an example to provide more diverse acts.

Amy Rowe is a School of Arts and Sciences junior majoring in journalism and media studies with minors in American studies and art history. She is an associate news editor at The Daily Targum.

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Redshirt junior Gregory Zannetti, left, and redshirt freshman Anthony Volpe draw Old Dominion’s ranked wrestlers tonight in ninth-ranked 174-pounder Te Edwards and No. 15 John Nicholson at 157 pounds, respectively. Zannetti is 6-0 to start the season, while Volpe has a 4-3 record.

REDSHIRTS: Zannetti unbeaten entering ODU match continued from back very good. We expect him to be fighting for a spot on the podium.

That’s why we recruited him. It’s to excel, and expectations are high. I think of him like I think of Greg Zannetti, Dan Rinaldi and guys like that.”

Zannetti draws Old Dominion’s only other ranked

wrestler in ninth-ranked 174pounder Te Edwards. Along with 149-pound Mario Mason, Zannetti is one of two unbeaten wrestlers on Rutgers’ roster after four bouts.

He won his bracket at the Brockpor t-Oklahoma Gold Classic with a decision against Jimmy Sheptock of Mar yland, and then took Sheptock’s place as the 16th-ranked 174-pounder in the nation. But Edwards presents his biggest test to date.

The Arizona State transfer and NCAA qualifier already beat a pair of ranked opponents, including then-No. 7 Chris Spangler in an upset of Iowa State.

While Zannetti prefers to ignore the rankings, his coach does not.

“It’s a great opportunity for him,” Goodale said. “Greg has a great opportunity, and I look forward to that match for sure.”

It marks Zannetti’s first match at the RAC since he wrestled at 165 pounds two years

ago in a dual-meet victor y against Virginia.

Ashnault and sophomore Daniel Seidenberg also wrestled in that match, but Seidenberg’s 184-pound class is now with some uncertainty for Goodale.

“We have some young guys in the lineup,” Goodale said. “Vinny Dellefave has been with us three years, but [the Northeast Duals were] his first dual meet in a big spot. Dan Hopkins is a fifth-year guy, but DJ [Russo had] been there. Anthony Volpe, as good as

he is coming out of high school, it’s his first time in a big spot. Danny Seidenberg’s never been in our lineup. We have to start believing we can win those close matches.”

Goodale expects those close matches to occur against an Old Dominion team that last wrestled Nov. 20 against Iowa State and arrives in Piscataway off what Goodale likened to a bye week.

“It will be highly contested with a lot of tossups,” he said. “I like those matches.”

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Freshmen guards Myles Mack, left, and Jerome Seagears joined Mike Poole on Monday against UMBC as starters in the Knights’ deep, inexperienced backcourt.

Mack scored 20 points with four assists, while Seagears scored 7 points with five assists in his first career start.

CHALLENGE: Young squad puts losses behind it continued from back The Knights earned a victory against Auburn last season in the inter-conference meeting, but with a team-oriented offense.

They did so out of necessity.

This year’s team is different.

There is a deep talent pool.

There are explosive playmakers.

And there is a confidence Rice said is infectious.

But there is also over whelming inexperience.

Freshman point guard Myles Mack said the Knights’ two-loss outing in Cancun was an opportunity to get his “head on straight.” Freshman guard Jerome Seagears referred to it as “a reality check.”

But the whole team is calling it the past.

“Losing is a part of basketball, so therefore there are going to

But the two seniors were the only bright spots on an evening by sloppy play, which the ranking since top-five spot in ’08 marred Knights succumbed to at some point in each victory. continued from back The Knights average 18 13.3 points per game — is finally turnovers per game, and breakrubbing off on Stringer’s herald- ing that trend could be crucial to their success in Gainesville, Fla., ed freshman class.

Now the Knights, who own and Monday at Miami.

Florida (6-1) handily upset their highest ranking since being then-No. 21 Florida State at home ranked No. 3 in 2008, are eager to battle tougher opponents, Sykes Nov. 17, and the Gators’ only loss said, beginning tonight with a trip came in their season opener against Michigan. to Florida.

Miami (5-1), which only lost “We’re looking for ward to to No. 8 Tennessee this season, the experience and the challenge,” said Sykes, who scored boasts a dynamic backcourt in seniors Shenise Johnson and a season-best 19 Riquna Williams, p o i n t s who both hold Wednesday “I was afraid double-figure against Temple. averages. “[No. 9] Miami to jump on [tough scoring Stringer said it and Florida are repeatedly in games] initially two great teams recent years — it and they’re going because we had so is a part of to be in their terRutgers’ identity many freshmen.” ritor y, so it’s to go out and play going to be a C. VIVIAN STRINGER a demanding great road test schedule early in Head Coach for us.” the season.

In the Knights’ But all rules first road game of the season, the squad did not are meant to be broken, and if that means deferring the Knights’ react as well as Stringer hoped.

It took 4:34 for the Knights identity until the third week of to score their first points the season, it is OK by Stringer.

“Nothing does more for the against La Salle in Philadelphia, confidence than to win excellent a game that was competitive until the final three minutes of games,” Stringer said. “I was play. In their first nine offensive afraid to jump on games like that possessions, the Knights suf- initially because we had so many fered six of their season-high freshmen, but I think it was a wise decision on our part to pull back a 25 turnovers.

Sykes quietly scored 12 points little bit and gradually get to it.”

After the Knights’ next four and snagged eight rebounds in games — a stretch that also the contest. Rushdan led the charge offensively with 20 points includes a home matchup with on 8-for-14 shooting — the only Tennessee — Stringer will know Knight to score at least 20 points if breaking her rule was the right decision. in a game this year.

be some tough times,” Seagears said. “I think Cancun was a rough time.”

The rough times are not likely to go away anytime soon. The Knights have to “grind it out as a team” this year, Rice said.

But the Rutgers of fense learned something from Rice’s three practices since Cancun, accounting for an unprecedented 27 assists against UMBC. The mark was the most the Knights had in a game since

1992. Not surprisingly, the effort extended to the defensive end, Rice said.

“These guys had energy because they’re finally making shots,” he said. “And Mike Poole stepped up. I know we’re talking about the freshmen. Mike stepped up and played an unbelievable second half.”

Through seven games, Poole boasts a 44.7 shooting percentage, second in the Rutgers backcourt behind Seagears’ 48.8-percent mark. He likely knows it, too.

But it will not stop him from improving more, he said.

“You just want to always prepare and be ready,” Poole said.

“It always feels good to make shots, take shots you know you work on. It’s always a great feeling.”

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Freshman for ward Malick Kone did not practice yesterday with a knee injur y and is doubtful for the game, according to ScarletRepor t.com.

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Senior forward April Sykes enjoyed her most productive night of the season in the Scarlet Knights’ 70-51 victory against Temple, scoring 19 points on an 8-of-15 shooting clip.

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he Rutgers football team returns to practice tomorrow after enjoying a week off following its 40-22 loss at Connecticut to close the regular season.

Rutgers would have earned a share of first place in the Big East with a win against the Huskies and had an outside chance at obtaining a BCS bid.

But now the Scarlet Knights await their bowl destination, which could be a bid to the New Era Pinstripe Bowl at Yankee Stadium or the Belk Bowl in Charlotte, N.C. Head coach Greg Schiano will announce Rutgers’ bowl destination Sunday in a press conference.

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lacrosse team announced its 15game 2011 spring schedule yesterday, as the Scarlet Knights enter their first season under head coach Brian Brecht.

The spring slate includes four opponents that qualified for the NCAA Tournament last season, beginning with perennial powerhouse Duke, which won the national title two years ago, in the season opener. A visit to Notre Dame on March 25 marks the first conference road test of the season for the Knights.

Brecht and Co. also play host to NCAA Tournament qualifiers Villanova and defending Big East Champion Syracuse in Piscataway.

N EW Y ORK YANKEES closer Mariano Rivera will undergo surger y today on his vocal cords, but it is not expected to affect his ability to pitch next season, according to ESPN. The 42-year-old is scheduled to have polyps on his vocal cords removed at New York Presbyterian Hospital in a procedure that will not allow him to speak for a week.

He is expected to recover by the end of the month.

NEW ORLEANS HORNETS point guard Chris Paul requested a trade to the New York Knicks through his agent, according to a Yahoo!

Sports report.

The Times Picayune (New Orleans, La.) cited two league sources that denied the report.

Hornets general manager Dell Demps said he wants to meet with Paul and hear the trade request in person once lockout-related restrictions are lifted before moving for ward.

Paul was also connected to a trade with the Boston Celtics in recent days, but Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge said the Celtics “love” point guard Rajon Rondo and will not trade the all-star.

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Senior swimmer Trisha Averill was part of the Knights’ 200-yard medley relay team that took first place in a tri-meet sweep against Texas Christian and Seton Hall the last time she was in the pool. She won Big East Swimmer of the Week honors earlier this season.

Knights finish first half at Princeton’s Invite

BY BRADLY DERECHAILO CONTRIBUTING WRITER

For the Rutgers swimming and diving team, today marks the half-way point for an undeSWIMMING & DIVING f e a t e d p r o RUTGERS AT gram.

H e a d BIG AL INVITE, TODAY TO SUNDAY c o a c h P h i l Spiniello is excited not only for this weekend’s meet at Princeton, but for the rest of the season going for ward.

“The team is looking good and they’re excited,” Spiniello said. “The energy level is high and we are ready for our midseason invites.”

The invites begin today, when the Knights compete in the Big Al Open on Princeton’s campus.

For the swimmers, it is the first time in three weeks they will compete. Their last action came Nov. 12, when they took down Texas Christian and Seton Hall in a tri-meet to earn their fifth and sixth victories of the season.

The divers travel to Princeton after participating in the Galbraith Invitational, held at the Sonny Werblin Recreation Center. The success of both groups has Spiniello looking for ward to seeing them hit the water.

The former assistant at Princeton sees the weekend as an opportunity for his program to get experience before it enters the Big East Championships later in the season.

“This is a great practice to what the Big East is going to be like,” Spiniello said. “Our expectations are to swim and dive to our full potential the rest of the way.”

The meet, which concludes Sunday, features fellow Big East member Villanova along with

host Princeton, Brown, Fordham, James Madison and Rider.

The long layoff has senior swimmer Trisha Averill excited to get back into the pool and compete.

“It was nice to step aside from school to mentally prepare and seeing their families,” Averill said. “But coming back we feel rejuvenated. You can tell that ever yone stayed in real good shape and we are getting stronger in the water. We look good.”

Spiniello also believes the break was essential for his team to continue per forming well this season.

“It was good for them to go home and regroup,” Spiniello said. “It was good for them to get focused and get ready for this upcoming meet in Princeton.”

Averill, along with senior swimmer Jacquelyn Ward, looks to pace the Knights during the three-day event. Ward took first place in both the 200and 400-yard individual medleys the last time the Knights competed and looks to build on her strong first half.

Sophomore diver Nicole Scott enters the weekend with a first-place finish in the 3meter dive at the Galbraith Invitational. Junior teammate Carissa Santora followed her in second place.

After this weekend’s Invitational, the Knights conclude the first half of the season and open up against Bucknell in Januar y, when they return to action.

In all, there are four meets remaining before the Big East Championships, something that has Averill motivated about the opportunity the team has going for ward.

“We are unstoppable right now,” Averill said. “We’re really excited.”

KEITH FREEMAN / PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Sophomore diver Nicole Scott won the 3-meter dive and finished second in the 1-meter dive at the Galbraith Diving Invite.

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Confident Knights host LSU in Big East/SEC Challenge

BY TYLER BARTO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

Mike Poole was never one to not tell it like it is. The Rutgers men’s basketball team’s sophomore guard displays his confidence on the stemming MEN’S BASKETBALL floor, from his street ball LOUSIANA STATE upbringing in AT RUTGERS, Queens.

So he did not SATURDAY, 7 P.M. flinch when faced with his biggest weakness during the summer.

“It was more or less I just wasn’t a great shooter. That’s what it was,” Poole said.

“There were the same shots I’m getting now. I’m always high on confidence. It’s just I wasn’t a great shooter, so they weren’t dropping.”

Poole had to take shots last season, when the Scarlet Knights had only eight scholarship players. He was a late signee out of St. Benedict’s in Newark, an afterthought when head coach Mike Rice scrounged together a 2010 recr uiting class.

The first guard off the bench a season ago, the Knights needed Poole’s aggressiveness, since their starting backcourt featured a pair of undersized point guards.

The case was different a season later, when Rice welcomed three freshmen contributors at guard, each impactful on offense.

But that did not mean Poole had to become a niche defensive exper t — although he is more than capable.

“I get up a lot more shots. When you get more shots, the more confidence comes,” Poole said. “So I guess I’m even more confident than I was last year.”

The attitude spread to the rest of the team, which insisted its confidence never wavered after two losses last week at the Cancun Challenge.

Its offense often looked out of sync while its defensive intensity kept it within single digits of both Illinois State and Richmond. The Knights again struggled on the of fensive end against Miami, regressing to one-on-one matchups they won in the past, Rice said.

“We just all tried to make a play ourselves. Nobody screened for one another.

Nobody moved,” he said. “These guys know. That’s what most of them did in high school. All of them did it in AAU. They just went and tried to make a play.”

Rutgers (4-3) faces another power conference opponent tomorrow in Louisiana State (4-3) as part of the Big East/SEC Challenge.

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KEITH FREEMAN / PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Sophomore guard Mike Poole made his first start of the season Monday against UMBC and scored 13 points, bumping his season average to 7.9, and recorded five steals.

RU’s redshirts get first taste of RAC against Old Dominion

BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

ing in a 68-40 rout of Lehigh at the Louis Brown Athletic Center.

The team’s unblemished start bumped it up five spots to No. 11 in The Associated Press rankings after the Knights began the year ranked No.16 — their first spot in the polls in two years.

And the Knights’ senior leadership from forward April Sykes and guard Khadijah Rushdan — who are tied with a team-high

At least five members of the Rutgers wrestling team’s lineup spent last year’s matches at the Louis Brown Athletic Center on the sideline.

WRESTLING “I was there last year on the sideOLD DOMINION lines itching, itchAT RUTGERS, ing to get out on the TONIGHT, 6:30 P.M. mat,” said redshirt freshman Anthony Volpe. “Now I just want to get out there, wrestle in front of the home crowd and show Rutgers University what I can do.”

Volpe and four other wrestlers fresh off redshirt years return to the RAC tonight to face Old Dominion, and most of them occupy a weight class where head coach Scott Goodale is quick to say the Scarlet Knights need improvement.

Goodale knows what to expect out of seniors Billy Ashnault and Dan Rinaldi, and juniors Mario Mason, Scott Winston and Gregor y Zannetti. And while he acknowledges his wrestlers at the 125, 133, 157, 184 and heavyweight weight classes are mostly in the lineup for the first time, he still wants more.

That includes Volpe, the youngest of the bunch who had a pin fall in last weekend’s 21 showing at the Northeast Duals with a loss to 20th-ranked Donnie Corby of Central Michigan. He will be tested again tonight against No. 15 John Nicholson.

“I think we probably put more [expectations on Volpe] than what’s necessary, but that’s where our program’s at,” Goodale said of his 157-pounder. “We expect him to be

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Freshman wing Betnijah Laney scored 18 points in her Rutgers debut on Nov. 13, the most points scored in a freshman debut since the 1996 season. Laney and the rest of Knights’ freshman class face their first true road test tonight against Florida.

Florida trip offers Stringer first test

BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

As the Rutgers women’s basketball team enters every season, head coach C. Vivian Stringer has one rule she makes sure to WOMEN’S BASKETBALL abide by.

“We play California, Stanford RUTGERS AT — teams that are in FLORIDA, the top five — the TONIGHT, 8 P.M. first two to three

games, or we’ll have them here,” Stringer said. “My purpose for doing that is to establish very quickly what is the level of expectation, just in case we don’t have everybody’s attention.”

But Stringer admittedly broke her own rule for this year’s Scarlet Knights (7-0), and the program’s best start since the 2005 season justified her decision.

Five of the Knights seven victories this season were by a margin of at least 13 points, with the team’s most emphatic victory com-