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Website answers questions about on-campus life BY TABISH TALIB CORRESPONDENT
From an informational blog to a website, three University students answer thousands of anonymous questions on topics ranging from New Brunswick student life to classes with a studentoriented perspective. Rutgerstips.com is a website designed to help current and prospective University students with questions they may have about student life or navigating the system, said Yvgeniy Demo, a School of Ar ts and Sciences junior. Demo, along with School of Ar ts and Sciences students Stephanie Lanza and Aakil Fer nandes, created the website during the summer to help students by sharing their experiences they went through at the University. Demo said some students are unaware of what websites to consult for information and gave an example of a student who was unsure of what classes she needs for her degree and how to access Degree Navigator. “Some of the tools, like Degree Navigator — she didn’t even hear about them, and she was taking random classes that were not for the major she wanted to go for,” he said. Many of the answers on the website are based of f the creators’ knowledge of the topic and their experiences at the University. One question posted on the website on Nov. 25 asked, “Are we allowed to hang Christmas lights from the ceiling?” The answer below it said, “You can’t hang anything from the ceiling because it’s a fire hazard. Just hang it along your walls.” Demo said he knew the answer because he spent his first year at the University living in a residence hall where a resident assistance told him these rules. When the creators cannot answer the questions, they look for answers on University websites. Answers also come from other students’ voices.
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A group of students yell together on the steps of Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus last night for one minute to raise awareness about gender violence and the resources available at the University.
U. community raises voice against violence BY ALEKSI TZATZEV ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
On the 22nd anniversar y of the massacre of 14 young women at the École Polytechnique in Montreal, about 60 people screamed in unison last night against gender violence. The Students Challenging Reality and Educating Against Myths (SCREAM) program organized the event, which took place in front of Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus and included a reading of a poem by Abena Busia, chair of the Depar tment of Women’s and Gender Studies.
Megan Blazak, president of the Women’s Center Coalition, said the day had a par ticular significance other than its commemoration of the Montreal massacre. It falls between the “International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women” on Nov. 25 and “Human Rights Day,” which is observed on Dec. 10, she said. “We are really interested in establishing more safe spaces,” Blazak said. “It’s kind of an awareness initiative but with this idea that in the future, this will lead to more conversation.” The University provides resources for dealing with violence, but she said
The Human Rights House hosted a coffeehouse to raise awareness about gender violence and militarism.
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most students are unaware of this. They might not encounter these resources until something happens to them or to an acquaintance. “A lot of the issues we are talking about — street harassment, sexual harassment, date rape — aren’t things that are commonly spoken about,” Blazak said. “We are trying to facilitate a more public discussion about violence … because a lot of it is silence, and that’s why we are screaming.” She said she hoped students’ screams, as well as the discussions following them, would open this
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A panel of speakers suggest different ways inventors can earn funding for their early-stage technologies yesterday at the Fiber Optic Materials Research Building on Busch campus. The Office of Technology Commercialization hosted the event.
With the economic downturn and shifting landscape of the journalism field, some University students are starting to question the value of a journalism and media studies degree. All journalism and media studies majors are required to take a minimum of 30 credits within the depar tment and, upon depar tmental approval, have an option to work 24 hours a week through an inter nship wor th six credits, according to the “Undergraduate Student Handbook” for journalism and media studies. But despite the depar tment’s administrators and professors working to connect students to open internship positions through daily emails, Woo Ree Kim, a School of Ar ts and Sciences junior, said the experience does not live up to students’ expectations. “I guess the internships are jour nalism-related, but they’re
usually not in the fields of journalism that me and most of the people I know are tr ying to get into,” Kim said. “Why spend so much money on a degree and not have experience in the field I want?” Sarah Introna, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, said she is completing an internship at Viacom. What Introna first thought would be the internship of her dreams became a disappointment, she said. “I just run around Manhattan and hop on different subways and run errands,” Introna said. “I’m not getting any type of experience or learning anything about journalism.” Elizabeth Fuerst, a part-time media lecturer, said she believes the strength of the department lies within the internship opportunities. “Because the journalism and media studies department has spent decades developing relationships with publications and editors, we are
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Fashion show exhibits military influence on gender violence BY ANDREW SMITH STAFF WRITER
Students, faculty and staff strutted down a catwalk Monday in military-themed outfits for a fashion show aimed to raise awareness of militarism and gender violence. The Human Rights House Learning Community hosted its third annual “Justice and Java” coffeehouse event in Trayes Hall in Douglass Campus Center to bring attention to the effects of militarism on women, the environment and American culture, said Christina Doonan, coordinator and instructor of the Human Rights House. “The point of [the event] is to raise awareness about gender violence in the University community and the community more broadly,” she said. “We also have the goal of raising money for Manavi, which is a New Jerseybased women’s rights group.” Sex traf ficking occurs near militar y bases and women’s lives are af fected by militarism both emotionally and physically, according to a slideshow presented at the event. Christine Ahn, a writer and activist for the Global Fund for
Women, said there is a higher rate of domestic abuse in military families in which militarism becomes a part of gender violence. As part of the Center for Women’s Global Leadership’s “16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence,” the goal is to fight gender violence with a different theme every year, Doonan said. The event included a number of per formances and presentations that showed a correlation between militarism, human rights and women’s rights, she said. Focusing on the popularization of the military patterns in day-to-day life, Ahn said there is an increasing prevalence of camouflage-patterned clothing, furniture and children’s toys. She said military style has become a symbolic part of fashion, and the event featured outfits that represent ways in which militarism is ingrained into culture and society. One outfit featured a camouflage jacket to represent the federal budget and devotion to war. The skirt had various colors to represent the distribution of money in the United States budget, Ahn said.
“Patterned after a pie chart, the colors on her skirt show blue for health, red for energy, yellow for transportation and purple for international affairs,” she said. Other outfits included a representation in which militarism plays a role in gender violence through having an affect on families, individuals and women’s sexuality. A number of different groups and performances made appearances onstage throughout the evening with educational presentations, sketches and videos. Among the performances was a recital by the OrphanSporks, a University a capella group, a raffle, poetry readings and most prominently, a fashion show and a video Ahn made. Jessica Mintz, a peer academic leader for the Human Rights House, felt the event reached the goal of spreading the word about gender violence through the theme of militarism. “We did meet the goal of the theme,” Mintz said, a School of Ar ts and Sciences senior. “Militarism and environmentalism, militarism and food, militarism and publicity — you name it, we got it.”
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Christine Ahn, an activist for the Global Fund for Women, discusses on Monday the negative effects of the military on families.
TEAM OF PROFESSORS TO EXPLORE COSMOLOGICAL MYSTERIES University philosophers and scientists plan to undertake a three-year project aimed at answering some of the most important questions about the universe, according to a media relations press release. Working with a $967,000 grant from the John Templeton Foundation, the team of researchers hopes to transform the philosophy of cosmology into an established field of study.
“What we want to do is establish a community of scholars interested in exploring the big questions about the universe, and we want those scholars to be multidisciplinar y,” Barr y Loewer, a professor in the Department of Philosophy, said in the release. The group will investigate questions such as the meaning of space and time, the origins of the universe
as well as the role human beings play in it, according to the release. “The questions of how the universe began is one that we’ve pondered, in one way or another, for millennia,” Brian Greene, a professor in the Depar tment of Physics at Columbia University, said in the release.
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WEBSITE: Staff replies to more than 1,000 inquiries continued from front “We have a lot of friends who will know the answer,” he said. “If there is a question about pharmacy, I will ask a friend who is a pharmacy major.” Lanza, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, started Rutgerstips.com on blogging website Tumblr this past July and received many questions from incoming first-year students about student life. Demo, who wanted to create a website with a similar concept, found Lanza’s blog and asked if she would move the site to its own domain name so people could ask questions anonymously. Lanza agreed and joined to write tips and help answer questions. Demo then asked his co-worker Fernandes, a School of Arts
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and Sciences senior, to help him Fernandes said the questions design and program the site. are varied and ask about nearly Rutgerstips.com launched in every subject. mid-August and experienced “They range from academic heavy traffic right before the start [issues], to making friends, to of the semester, Lanza said. how the buses work,” he said. “I would some“The more intertimes get 25 to 30 esting questions questions a day. I ask about what “We do it just still get a consistent parties are like for the sake amount of questions and what football every day,” she said. games are like of getting Demo said the and student life.” the information website still Along with receives an average a n s w e r i n g out and helping of 10 questions a questions, week. He answered Rutgerstips.com — other students.” more than 1,000 as is implied in the YVGENIY DEMO questions since name — offers 150 Rutgerstips Co-Founder its inception. tips to students Fernandes said through blog posts, prospective sturanging from bus dents who were accepted into the etiquette to starting a relationship University ask the most questions. with a floormate, Fernandes said. “There [are] a lot of [first-year Lanza said students ask quesstudents], a good number of tions on the website they are transfers and a lot of high school either too afraid to ask their advisstudents who are applying to ers or that they are unable to find Rutgers,” he said. answers to online.
T H E DA I LY TA R G U M “I just feel like there are questions that students have, and they don’t know where to look for it,” she said. “It isn’t prevalent enough. It’s not mentioned as much as it should be.” Lanza, the youngest member of the team, said she will continue the website after Fernandes and Demo graduate. But Demo and Fernandes also plan to pass the reins of the website on to first-year students or sophomores. “You don’t have to be a great programmer or anything to figure it out,” Demo said. “We could probably find somebody at Rutgers to keep it up. It would be sad to see it go.” Although the website does not generate profit, helping other students is enough compensation, Demo said. “We do it just for the sake of getting the information out and helping other students,” she said. “I love the University and it’s a way to express my pride about the University.”
VALUE: Kim says Internet decreases importance of degree continued from front able to secure the best internships for our students,” Fuerst said. “The department provides a unique professional look at the writing world. A student can’t get that anywhere else.” But she and Ron Miskoff, a lecturer in the department, said there are other valuable aspects within the department, like a diverse and well-qualified staff composed of professional journalists. “The journalism department has some of the best professors in the country,” Miskoff said. “There’s nothing like an education. Experience is good, but education kind of jumps you ahead of other people. That’s why it’s so highly prized.” Fuerst said the depar tment’s professors are able to teach students first-hand experience and prepare students for the newsroom and criticism from editors. Although Kim said she does learn from the majority of the professors at the University, she said she could be able to teach herself what she is learning without having to take out loans for her term bill. “I think journalism is all about experience and I’m not getting any of that at Rutgers,” Kim said. “The only thing I see myself gaining from the JMS department is a college degree.” Although Introna was disappointed with her internship experience, she said she still gained relevant knowledge from her courses. “Even though the major hasn’t helped me with internships that much, I have learned great writing skills,” Introna said. “I feel that writing skills will be important for whatever field I get into.” With the advancements in technology and the growth of the Internet, Kim said she thinks websites like Patch and news bloggers are decreasing the value of a journalism degree. Miskoff said that the Internet is flooding with poor and inaccurate writers, which only increases the demand for journalism majors who are good writers. Fuerst said journalists should stick to the truth and stay professional, but technology is allowing anybody to act like a journalist. “Going to a meeting and writing a blog about it isn’t journalism,” Fuerst said. “To me, it’s high-class voyeurism. I don’t believe in citizen journalism. I call that citizen commentary.” Employment in this economy concerns some University students, as 53 percent of all students across the country find fulltime jobs after graduation, according to a study by the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at the University. Kaitlin Donnelly, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, said although the department is working to guide its students, it may not be able to overcome the challenges the economy produces. “The department tries to help students find internships. But in the long run, it’s pretty likely that a lot of journalism students are going to have a hard time finding a job once they graduate,” she said.
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VOICE: Students discuss issues in groups after scream continued from front wider discussion on issues that are sometimes overlooked by most. “Let’s light a candle, let’s light another candle,” read Busia, commemorating the students’ deaths. She said they were murdered simply because they were female engineering students and someone saw that as a problem. Busia gave a bleak outlook of the future and said people are becoming either increasingly intolerant or afraid of any kind of dif ference. “There was a time when cer tain kinds of language, certain kinds of actions would have caused deep widespread social of fense. Things don’t seem to be of fensive anymore,” she said. But Busia said the University provides institutions and ser vices that have helped create safe spaces. “Nothing is per fect, but I think Rutgers has gone a long way in tr ying to set up spaces of safety and tr ying to set up institutional of fices,” she said. “[Not] ever y university … has an of ficer responsible for diverse community af fairs.” Busia said the challenge is empowering people to take advantage of these institutions. “In terms of institutional responses, Rutgers does try and does better than a number of other places,” she said. Radhika Balakrishnan, executive director of the Center for Women’s Global Leadership, said the question of security has changed in the campaign to stop violence against women.
“Starting last year, we are looking at the relationship between militarism and violence against women,” said Balakrishnan, a professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies. “One of the parts of the campaign this year is what security means to them.” She said the campaign would look at government budgets and how money is allocated. Vera Hinsey, an organizer of the event, said SCREAM aims to help students network and create change at the University. “If you meet someone at the event who is interested in something you are interested [in], hopefully you’d tr y to do something in the future,” said Hinsey, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore. Following the minute-long, 60person scream, Blazak invited everyone to the discussion portion at the Red Lion Café on the College Avenue campus. Students sat in four groups labeled as dif ferent discussions — street harassment, sexual assault, people of color and gender identity and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender. According to their interests, they shared in each group how they viewed violence and how it affected different people in various ways. “I was interested in seeing the different perspectives that you all have on relations of people of color,” said Eva Grote, speaking in the 15-person “people of color” group. Grote, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, said she was interested in hearing other students’ views on domestic sexual violence and the different perceptions they have of it. “Sometimes you just need to scream,” she said of the event itself.
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Join the Deans of Love, Deans Tim Grimm, Matt Ferguson, Don Heilman, Matt Matsuda and Michelle Jefferson, as they rock out at the Red Lion Café in the Rutgers Student Center. Refreshments will be provided. This event is sponsored by Student Life. The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life presents a lecture by Israel Gershoni, a professor of Middle Eastern and African history at Tel Aviv University. Gershoni will explore the role of Egyptian intellectuals in criticizing Nazism at the start of World War II. The lecture will take place from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at Trayes Hall at the Douglass Campus Center. For more information contact Sherry Endick at (732) 932-2033.
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Families to hear final report on explosion THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BECKLEY, W.Va. — The families of 29 men killed in the 2010 explosion of Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch mine in southern West Virginia are facing what could be a pivotal day yesterday, talking to both federal mine-safety investigators and federal prosecutors. The U.S. Attorney’s Office is holding a morning teleconference with the families and their lawyers to discuss what prosecutors will only call “significant developments” in the criminal investigation that grew from the deadliest U.S. mine disaster in four decades. Then at noon, officials with the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration will present the families with the agency’s final investigation report on the disaster. The public release of that report is set for later yesterday in Beaver. Gary Quarles, whose son Gary Wayne died in the explosion near Montcoal in April 2010, is hoping for criminal indictments. “Somebody’s got to pay for what’s been done,” he told The Associated Press late Monday. Federal investigators have long blamed a combination of methane gas, coal dust and broken or malfunctioning equipment for the blast. The UMWA, the nation’s largest coal miners’ union, said last month that conditions were so dangerous that Massey — now owned by Virginia-based Alpha Natural Resources — should be prosecuted for “industrial homicide.” MSHA’s final report is likely to include a list of specific violations that contributed, but the agency wouldn’t comment on the report before its official release.
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President Barack Obama pushes his re-election bid yesterday at a high school gym in Kansas. His platform stated that the American middle class is facing economic challenges, and the United States needs to reclaim its standing as a country of prosperity.
Obama sets vision for re-election campaign THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OSAWATOMIE, Kan. — Declaring the American middle class in jeopardy, President Barack Obama yesterday outlined a populist economic vision that will drive his re-election bid, insisting the United States must reclaim its standing as a country in which everyone can prosper if provided “a fair shot and a fair share.” While never making an overt plea for a second term, Obama offered his most comprehensive lines of attack against the candidates seeking to take his job, only a month before Republican voters begin choosing a presidential nominee. He also sought to inject some of the long-overshadowed hope that energized his 2008 campaign, saying: “I believe America is on its way up.” In small-town Osawatomie, in a high school gym where patriotic bunting lined the bleachers, Obama presented himself as the one fighting for shared sacrifice and success against those who would gut government and let people fend for themselves. He did so knowing the
nation is riven over the question of whether economic opportunity for all is evaporating. “Throughout the country, it’s sparked protests and political movements, from the tea party to the people who’ve been occupying the streets of New York and other cities,” Obama said. “This is the defining issue of our time,” he said in echoing President Theodore Roosevelt’s famous speech here in 1910. “This is a make-or-break moment for the middle class and all those who are fighting to get into the middle class,” Obama said. “At stake is whether this will be a country where working people can earn enough to raise a family, build a modest savings, own a home and secure their retirement.” For Obama, saddled with a weak national economic recovery, the speech was a chance to break away from Washington’s incremental battles and his own small-scale executive actions. He offered a sweeping indictment of economic inequality and unleashed his own brand of prairie populism.
He spoke for nearly an hour to a supportive audience, reselling his ideas under the framework of “building a nation where we’re all better off.” Billed as an important address that would put today’s economic debates in context, Obama’s speech seemed a bit like two packaged into one. The first was that of the campaigner, full of loft and reclamation of American values. The second was the governing Obama, who recited his familiar jobs agenda, his feud with Congress over extending a Social Security tax cut, even his fight to get his consumer watchdog confirmed. Obama tied himself to Roosevelt, the president and reformer who came to this town in eastern Kansas and called for a “square deal” for regular Americans. Roosevelt said then the fight for progress was a conflict “between the men who possess more than they have earned and the men who have earned more than they possess.” It is a theme Obama is embracing in a mounting fight
for re-election against Republicans who, regardless of the nominee, will attack his stewardship of the economy. One of the leading contenders for the GOP nomination, Mitt Romney, ridiculed Obama for comparing himself to Roosevelt. Obama “said that he is like Teddy Roosevelt,” Romney said at a campaign event in Paradise Valley, Ariz. “And I thought, ‘In what way is he like Teddy Roosevelt?’ Teddy Roosevelt of course founded the Bull Moose Party. One of those words applies.” Kirsten Kukowski, spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee, said, “Maybe instead of trying to be like other presidents, Obama should try being president.” Obama took aim at the Republicans, saying they would only return the same str uctures that led to America’s economic downturn. “Their philosophy is simple: We are better off when everyone is left to fend for themselves and play by their own rules,” Obama said. “I’m here to say they are wrong.”
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ired of the sort of partisan bickering which so much of politics has devolved into these days, Gov. Jerry Brown, D-Calif., is going straight to the people in an attempt to raise funding for public education in his state. Brown filed a ballot initiative that would ask voters to raise taxes in two ways: by increasing the tax rates on people making $250,000 or more a year and by raising the state’s sales tax by half of a cent, to 7.75 percent. These increases are only temporary — the increase in taxes on the wealthy would only last for five years and the increase in sales tax would last for four — and they are projected to bring in $7 billion in additional revenue over five years, if taxpayers approve. This money is set aside for the state’s school system and public safety, two integral parts of society which are often some of the first to be cut from in these tough times. Brown’s initiative is similar to the higher education bonds that University President Richard L. McCormick has repeatedly asked New Jersey to consider issuing. In both cases, people of power who are concerned about the state of education are going directly to the people and asking for help. We know that times are tough, but that does not mean that we can let education fall by the wayside. If we do, times will only get tougher as the years go by. Very few people want to see their taxes raised. Outside of the rare Warren Buffet or Reed Hastings, people tend to shy away from the idea of spending more money on their government than they have to. Despite this tendency, we have high hopes for this initiative. It may not have a huge impact on us out here in New Jersey, but if the people of California go for the temporary hikes, it could be a powerful symbol for the rest of us. Sometimes, you just have to buckle down and do something that hurts because it will end up being better for you — and what is better for a nation than a well-educated youth prepared to take over and run things? So often, the anti-tax narrative paints all tax increases as evil and bad for the country, but that is clearly not the case here. How can billions of dollars for public education ever be misconstrued as a bad thing?
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he Huffington Post ran an article yesterday on how the top financial executives in the United States will most likely not face criminal prosecution for their practices during the 2008 financial crisis. The story quoted a former top U.S investigator, who said the U.S. Justice Department decided when it comes to the prosecution of financial executives, the responsibility is “better left to regulators” for civil enforcement action. For those of you who feel overwhelmed by nausea and disgust at reading this news, we feel your frustration. The financial crisis of 2008, which has since led the nation down a dismal road of economic stagnation and recession, is largely attributed to the actions of a small handful of individuals. These include CEOs of major investment banks like Goldman Sachs who purposely profited off of deception and fraud, top-tier bankers that made their fortunes from insider trading and financial executives who colluded with politicians and regulators to knowingly support failing institutions. All are equally accused — and, as far as we’re concerned, guilty — of gambling and looting at the helm while America’s ship slowly sank. These individuals are guilty of crimes that stand on par with robbery, theft and embezzlement. But government officials have not successfully prosecuted one financial executive, according to The Huffington Post. We, along with Americans across the country, continually find ourselves asking the same question: “Where’s the justice?” David Cardona, the former top U.S. investigator quoted in the article, said the responsibility for prosecuting these individuals lies in the hands of financial regulators whose job it is to oversee the operations of large financial institutions like Goldman Sachs. Yet there is an obvious problem with this logic. In many instances, regulators themselves have been accused of helping to cover up these companies’ malpractices. According to The New York Times, regulators like Darrel Dochow were accused of “specifically directing” executives at top mortgage banks to alter company reports, making these institutions appear healthier than they truly were. When these financial regulators do their jobs this poorly, government officials are responsible for stepping in and taking charge. Society is in a poor state when people refuse to prosecute individuals responsible for stealing millions from the pockets of its citizens, yet are comfortable sentencing the man on the street to six years in prison for stealing a television set. Everyday Americans are the ones who take the fall for the practices of a handful of individuals at the very top of the social ladder — the least our officials could do is hold them accountable for their actions.
QUOTE OF THE DAY “I had to go with what made me happiest. I think hanging the cleats up will suit me.” David Rowe, senior safety for the Rutgers football team, on leaving football behind STORY IN SPORTS
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account the large number was shopping in a store of minority communities last week when a we have in our country, I woman approached me am going to take the sad to ask me a question. When guess that countless memshe looked up from the bers of those communities product she was examining have been subjected to the and saw my hijab, she was same scrutiny. startled and quickly AMANI AL-KHATAHTBEH This type of experience exclaimed, “I’m so sorry, do demonstrates some ver y you speak English?” deeply entrenched preconceptions that American At this point in my life, the best response I have society harbors toward its minority communities. been able to come up with to this question is a The assumption that one cannot speak English polite smile and a “Yes I do. How can I help you?” in because of one’s culture or religion stems from the hopes that this refined and approachable reachistorical stereotypes of immigrants — specificaltion is enough to break the ridiculous correlation ly, people of color — as being unebetween people of minorities and ducated, illiterate and unassimilattheir ability to speak English. It’s def“Like all great ed. And seeing as how America initely a better alternative to the should be the “salad bowl” of the anger and inner turmoil I used to feel strides toward modern world, it doesn’t make when receiving this question. Probably the first time someone progress in the past, sense that being “unassimilated” should be viewed so negatively in judgmentally asked about my linguischange doesn’t today’s society. tic capabilities — and the experience These preconceptions seem too that most impacted my social and begin at the top, ignorant to have a place in our dispolitical conscientiousness — was but at the bottom.” course today, but sadly, they are the when a police officer pulled over my same preconceptions that shape mom one day when she was driving American policies toward the same me to school. Though my mom communities that they misjudge. Like all great chooses not to wear the hijab, the officer took one strides toward progress in the past, change doeslook at me in the passenger seat under my favorite n’t begin at the top, but at the bottom. In order for bright-pink handpicked scarf and immediately us to advance the situation and treatment of asked, “Do you speak English?” minorities in today’s society, we must socially I flashed back to that moment and saw that same begin questioning the judgments we ourselves face of ignorance and condescending reproach in a harbor of them and from where those judgments hospital security guard a few months ago when I have originated. was visiting someone in the hospital. The guard Whether it’s our parents, the media or the comlooked down at me with a raised eyebrow and munity we live in, there are no stereotypes too asked, “Do you speak English?” strong to overcome. And with that increased conI’m not sure how many times is the norm for scientiousness, we can undoubtedly unshackle the “average American” to be asked if they speak ourselves from the judgments and stereotypes English while living in, you know, English-speakthat have been holding us back from the national ing America, but I’m guessing that number subharmony that we have been trying to achieve for stantially increases if you fall within one of the folso long. lowing categories: One, you have a shade of skin that is not considered white. Two, you wear garAmani Al-Khatahtbeh is a School of Arts and ments that connect you with a certain culture or Sciences sophomore majoring in Middle Eastern religion, and more so if that culture or religion is studies and political science with a minor in flagrantly misrepresented by the media. Three, French. Her column, ‘The Minority Report,’ runs you are actually visiting or have just arrived to the on alternate Wednesdays. United States from another country. Taking into
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ecretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered a speech to the United Nations yesterday in which she warned the world that the United States would not stand for gay rights violations in foreign countries. Although there was no talk of how exactly the United States would enforce this policy, Clinton made it clear that through diplomacy and foreign assistance, the United States would fight for universal gay rights. “Gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights,” Clinton asserted in her speech. We give her a laurel for delivering the speech, and we give President Barack Obama’s administration as a whole a laurel for taking such a strong stand. Now, if only we could solve all of the gay rights problems here at home.
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Letter INTERFAITH CHAPLAINS ASSOCIATION he front windows of Jewish-owned businesses in Highland Park and New Brunswick were found smashed on Tuesday morning. The vandalism struck our campus as well. Rutgers Hillel and Rutgers Chabad, two Jewish chaplaincies on campus, had bricks thrown into their windows. These acts took place a few days earlier over the Thanksgiving weekend. As you may have seen in The Daily Targum on Thursday, a man was arrested and charged for this vandalism. Although the perpetrator was caught, we, as the Interfaith Chaplains Association at Rutgers University, feel it is important to send this letter to show our solidarity with chaplaincies on campus and to express our concern that everyone on campus and beyond should be free to be who they are without fear of repercussion. An act of this nature is unusual for our campus. The police have confirmed that this is the action of a single individual who does not appear to be connected to the University in any way. We know that this does not represent the positive relationships among people of different beliefs on our campus, which is among the most diverse in the countr y. We, the Interfaith Chaplains Association at Rutgers University, cherish our strong collegiality, have a deep respect for each other’s different faiths and work together for the betterment of our campus. We are here for you to discuss this issue or any other concern you might have. We welcome students of all backgrounds to share their feelings with any of us.
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Brother Kenneth Apuzzo is the director of the Catholic Center at Rutgers University. Rev. Gregory Bezilla is the chaplain of the Rutgers Episcopal Campus Ministry. Imam Moutaz Charaf is the chaplain of the Center for Islamic Life at Rutgers University. Rev. Barbara Heck is the director of the Rutgers Protestant Campus Ministries. Rev. Ellen Little is the chaplain for the Wesley Fellowship. Rabbi Esther Reed is the senior associate director of Rutgers Hillel. Rabbi Heath Watenmaker is the reform outreach initiative rabbi of Rutgers Hillel. Rabbi Akiva and Nataly Weiss are the Or thodox Union’s Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus educators of Rutgers Hillel.
Around 60 Indonesian immigrants living in New Jersey are facing deportation as a result of overstaying their visas here in the United States. However, the problem is that most of these immigrants came to New Jersey in the 1990s to escape the chaos, which ensued when the rule of Suharto ended. Since that time, many of these people have built lives here in the United States — after all, it has been more than a decade since many of them arrived. They have jobs here. They are raising children here. It seems startlingly cold for the government to uproot these people suddenly and cast them out. Luckily, people are not taking this news lightly. Some are even staging protests in favor of the Indonesian immigrants. The Reformed Church of Highland Park held a vigil yesterday for those facing imminent deportation. We give a dart to the immigration authorities for lacking the necessary protocol to handle a situation like this. What these people need is a path to citizenship, not to be thrown out of their houses.
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utgers women’s basketball forward/center Monique Oliver became the first player on the team to be named to the Big East Weekly Honor Roll. It is the second career Big East weekly honor for the junior. Oliver averaged 14 points per game in the Scarlet Knights’ two wins against Temple and Florida last week, shooting a 63-percent clip with 8.5 rebounds per game. She also put up 23 points and 19 rebounds Monday night in Rutgers’ double-over time loss to No. 9 Miami.
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committee announced its finalists Monday, with all five traveling to Manhattan on Saturday for the announcement of the winner. Stanford’s Andrew Luck and Baylor’s Robert Griffin III represent the quarterback position. Running backs Monte Ball from Wisconsin and Trent Richardson from Alabama are also up for the award. LSU’s standout Tyrann Mathieu is the only defensive player on this year’s ballot. Mathieu hopes to become the first defensive player to win the Heisman Trophy since 1997, when Michigan’s Charles Woodson took home the award.
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unceremoniously welcomed Rice to the rivalr y with an overtime victor y. Rice plans to remind the team’s five healthy freshmen of the Knights’ season-opening 7873 loss last year, he said. The rookies likely do not need the history lesson. Princeton took eventual Final Four participant Kentucky to the final minute last year in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament behind its patented, patient offense. “You always hear about the Princeton offense,” said freshman point guard Jerome Seagears. “You hear a lot of people saying that it’s the hardest thing to guard. People don’t want to run it. But it’s going to be my first time guarding it, so I’m definitely up for the challenge.” By all accounts, the 2011-12 Tigers are not the same as the ones who used their victor y against Rutgers as a springboard to an Ivy League crown. But all they need is to lull the Knights to sleep long enough to eke out
another victory, said junior forward Austin Johnson. “It can become tiresome,” Johnson said of defending for 35 seconds, customary for Princeton opponents. “But you have to do it because that’s what they prey on. They wait for somebody to stand up and make a mistake so they can get backdoor or come around.” The backdoor cut remains on Seagears’ mind. Coaches and teammates warn against it, he said. In fact, it became Priority No. 1 during the practices leading up to tonight’s contest. Princeton’s offense, popularized by iconic head coach Pete Carril, is likely different than anything Rutgers’ freshmen ever faced. Most likely never faced it at all. They certainly did not see it on the AAU circuit, where one-on-one matchups define wins and losses. “That was the last thing we were thinking about doing,” Seagears said. If Seagears and the Knights have one thing working in their favor, it is associate head coach David Cox. Cox spent three seasons as a Princeton disciple under Georgetown head coach John Thompson III. He helped the Knights hold a pair of Princeton-like opponents — Dartmouth and
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Freshman point guard Jerome Seagears never played against a Princeton-style offense, although he has assistant David Cox. Richmond — to less than 60 points. But the process becomes more taxing when it comes against the offense’s birthright. “They’re not as Princetonlike as the old Princeton
teams,” Rice said. “That’s the mental aspect of playing Princeton that I’m interested in seeing. We have to take the best shot, whether it’s the first five seconds or 35 seconds.”
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Senior kicker San San Te says he had fun on the Rutgers football team’s last trip to Yankee Stadium, but there could be nothing fun about his kicking conditions. Sod in the infield end zone required attention at every stopping point throughout the Nov. 12 game against Army, and the result was a patchy, lumpy surface. Te missed an extra point on the infield side of the field and a 26-yard field goal on the opposite end. “It took a little getting used to, but it wasn’t that bad,” Te said. “I’m not really worried about it too, too much. The
FOCUSES ON FORM, TECHNIQUE IN RETURN TO YANKEE STADIUM main thing I have to focus on is my form, my technique, and that’s what’s going to make kicks for me.” Head coach Greg Schiano said Yankee Stadium officials reached out to him, saying they worked on the surface and expect it to be OK. Army kicker Alex Carlton was still able to make 18- and 19yard field goals on the infield side in the November matchup, while he missed an extra point on the far end. “The footing wasn’t that great. I just have to be a little more cautious when I’m approaching the ball,” Te said. “It’s something that I can defi-
nitely deal with, so it shouldn’t affect my kicking at all.” The Scarlet Knights’ bowl game marks the end of an upand-down career for the Conover, N.C., native. Te tied a career high with 18 field goals this season, but his 64.3 conversion percentage is tied for his worst. He made two 50-plus yard field goals — compared to one entering this season — but missed three between 20 and 29 yards. His consecutive extra point streak snapped at 95 against Army, but he kicked two gamewinning field goals in overtime. “It is my last game and it’s been fun with all these guys, but we have one more game to focus on,” Te said. “That’s all I’m thinking about. I think you have to take the emotional aspect out of it, because that will take you out of your zone a little bit.”
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Hendrikson is progressing on pace after tearing his ACL late last spring and should be ready to participate fully as the starting center this spring. He will also practice in a limited role with the scout team during bowl preparation. And while Schiano was disappointed to lose the player
he recr uited from Iowa Western Community College to start the season, he believes it has benefits. “I know it wasn’t what you wanted to happen, but because of the knee injur y he was able to train in the strength room all season, and he’s really gotten quite a bit stronger — what he needed to be,” Schiano said. “I’m excited to see him play again with that newfound strength.”
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that freshman running back Savon Huggins could return from a knee injury during bowl preparation, although it is still 10 to 12 days away. “I think we’re going to be able to get him going,” Schiano said. “I’m not a doctor, but that’s what they’re telling me.” Senior defensive tackle Justin Francis practiced fully yesterday after suffering a laceration on his leg and receiving stitches against Connecticut. Junior tight end D.C. Jefferson practiced in a limited role, but that will increase.
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CAREER: Rowe prepares for first bowl game since 2009 continued from back “It really doesn’t matter,” Rowe said. “As long as I can get a job somewhere, that’s where I’ll go.” Harmon laughed at the thought of playing his final game alongside Rowe, who moved to safety in the offseason at Schiano’s request. The pair usually spends the of fseason playing basketball, a diversion to Rutgers’ conditioning and weightlifting program. But when Harmon takes the field with Rowe against Iowa State, it will be for the final time. “It’s been fun. He’s a character,” Harmon said. “I’m not going to lie, I’m going to miss him in meetings, on the field. I’m going to miss him a lot, and I’m definitely going
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will stay in New York City in the days leading up to the New Era Pinstripe Bowl, they will practice in Piscataway for the entirety of their bowl preparation. to cherish this game to play with him one more time.” Rowe plans to enjoy the Knights’ final weeks of practice before bowl week, his first since the Beef ‘O’ Brady’s St. Petersburg Bowl his sophomore season. He intercepted his first two career passes in 2009 before adding to his takeaway total at safety. Rowe leads the team with six takeaways this season — three interceptions and three fumble recoveries — while also forcing a fumble. He is the vocal leader on the back end of the Knights’ defense. He sacrificed for Schiano, who needed to improve his prized defense’s coverage skills. But in nearly three weeks, Rowe will complete a decision he called entirely his own. “I had to go with what made me happiest,” he said. “I think hanging the cleats up will suit me.”
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Junior safety Duron Harmon plays alongside senior David Rowe for the final time Dec. 30 against Iowa State.
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Fifth-year senior 133-pounder Mike DeMarco, right, started the season 4-4, then went 5-1 on Sunday at the Nittany Lion Open Tournament, where he wrestled six matches in a span of 10 hours. DeMarco won his match Friday against Old Dominion’s Scott Festejo, 3-2, in an overtime period.
Senior finds way into lineup despite underwhelming roots BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR
Mike DeMarco was ready to spend his next four years at Division III Springfield (Mass.), WRESTLING when he made his rounds at a meet-andgreet with college coaches at the 2007 Senior Nationals. DeMarco had interest and aid of fers from three Division III wrestling programs, despite failing to place in the New Jersey state tournament at 103 pounds as a senior at St. Mar y’s High School. Then he placed four th at Senior Nationals and made his way to a table with then-Rutgers head wrestling coach John Sacchi. “He had noticed that I placed and he was like, ‘Why didn’t you ever call?’” the fifth-year senior said. “I was like, ‘I’m a little guy. I’m not supposed to be
wrestling there.’ I don’t know, it just wasn’t something I looked into, going D-I. I wasn’t really up to that level in high school in terms of what I achieved.” Any doubts DeMarco had soon diminished. He toured Rutgers’ campus a week after Senior Nationals, received a letter of acceptance a week later, then decided to walk-on with the Scarlet Knights. He competed consistently as a freshman, but went 3-15. He was again a regular in the lineup as a sophomore, but went 9-18. He redshirted the following year, and then returned to the lineup last season to post his first winning record at 17-13. Still, the season ended with a letdown. DeMarco was pulled from the lineup before a late-season dual meet against Lehigh in favor of 125-pounder Matt
Fusco, who jumped weight to wrestle at 133 pounds. Fusco won the bout, and then won a head-to-head matchup with DeMarco to take his place as Rutgers’ 133-pound representative at the EIWA Tournament. “He had all the right to bitch and he probably had a pretty good argument,” said head coach Scott Goodale, who took over at Rutgers after DeMarco walked on. “He never said a word. He just felt like, ‘It was a wrestle-of f, he beat me,’ and he never said a word. I don’t know if that bothers him — it might — but he never said a word.” DeMarco acknowledged it was frustrating, but understood the strategy in the move for the Lehigh match and acknowledged he simply lost against Fusco. “You can only control so much,” DeMarco said, “and you have to deal with that.”
DeMarco dealt with it by returning for his fifth year as the only member of his recruiting class to sur vive a coaching change. It comes as no surprise to Goodale, who said he turned to DeMarco from Day 1 to lead that freshman class. “I knew he was going to make it,” Goodale said. “I knew he would never quit. … If I’m for tunate enough where my son grows up to be like somebody, I want him to be like Mike DeMarco. That’s about as good as you get.” Now Goodale turns to DeMarco to lead the entire team. The former Jackson Memorial High School head coach never named a team captain until this season, when DeMarco and senior 141pounder Billy Ashnault assumed the role. DeMarco star ted the season with a 4-4 record, and then
traveled to Penn State for the Nittany Lion Open Tournament on Sunday, when he placed sixth with a 5-1 record. He lost a wrestle-of f to Penn transfer Daniel White at the season-opening intra-squad match and lost again to White at the Brockpor t/Oklahoma Gold Classic. But after DeMarco spent par ts of the past four years in the lineup, Goodale said the former Springfield-bound wrestler is “for sure” his star ter at 133 pounds. “I’ve been dealing with this since I was a freshman,” DeMarco said. “I was always the dude where it was just like, ‘Where the hell is this kid coming from? Why does he keep breaking into the lineup?’ It’s just something I’ve always done. … For what I had achieved in high school, that’s really what I was looking at.”
Knights begin season with in-state invitational BY PATRICK LANNI STAFF WRITER
The Rutgers men’s track and field team begins its 2011-12 indoor season Saturday at the New Year’s Invitational. For the second MEN’S TRACK consecu t i v e RUTGERS AT y e a r, NEW YEAR’S INVITE t h e SATURDAY Scarlet Knights take the short trip south on Route 1 to Princeton. Competing against a collection of local competition, head coach Mike Mulqueen plans to utilize his athletes and get them back into form after a five-month of fseason. “[I want] to get them back in the uniform, get them back competing and [have them]
shake the r ust of f,” Mulqueen said. A handful of Knights saw action a season ago at Princeton’s Jadwin Gym, and a similar group of athletes are ready for success this time around. Seven Knights competed in last year’s 600-meter run, and four placed in the top six. One of those athletes is sophomore Corey Caidenhead, who took first place with a time of 1:21:43 in his collegiate debut. Classmate Hamer Farag followed suit, finishing second in 1:22:44. The New Year’s Invitational is a unique meet in the races it offers. The 300- and 600-meter runs are events not featured at the Big East Championships, but are events Mulqueen plans to make use of Saturday in his team’s debut.
“We will run a 300-[meter dash], a 600-[meter r un] — things like that,” he said. “It’ll be the first time we high [or triple] jump in a while, and hopefully we can get some Big
“Competing [the athletes] wisely, not over-racing them and keeping them healthy are [keys to success].” MIKE MULQUEEN Head Coach
East qualifiers out of the way in a ver y low-key environment.” The field athletes make up a talented squad for the Knights.
They retur n All-American and two-time Big East Champion Adam Bergo, heptathlete Michael Baird, jumper Kevin Bostick, pole-vaulters Chris Wyckof f and Pat Gray, and Big East and IC4A champion thrower James Plummer. Baird competed in the high jump in last year’s meet and saw early repetitions in one of his many events. Bostick also competed in the event, placing four th with a height of 1.95 meters. Pole-vaulters Wyckof f and Gray placed fifth and 10th, respectively. Bergo won a pair of Big East championships in the high jump in his first two seasons with the Knights. He added an outdoor title in 2010 in the event, as well. Plummer and Bergo, both seniors, did not compete in the
meet last season and will likely rest this season, as well. Overcompeting athletes is something ever y track and field coach fears, and Mulqueen is no dif ferent. “Competing them wisely, not over-racing them and keeping them healthy are [keys to success],” Mulqueen said. That fear is why most of his top-notch competitors will not compete in Saturday’s meet. The New Year’s Invitational does not feature the steep Big East competition the Knights face in late Februar y, but the meet does provide Mulqueen’s squad with the oppor tunity to prove its stature in the region. Only three athletes on the roster hail from outside of New Jersey, and continual reign in the state provides Mulqueen a recruiting advantage.
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REPORT: BIG EAST TO EXPAND WITH BOISE STATE, SIX OTHERS The Big East Conference is closing in on negotiations to add five football schools, three of which will compete in all sports, according to a report by The Star-Ledger. BIG EAST T h e league expects to land Boise State and San Diego State as football-only members, while Central Florida, Houston and Southern Methodist would have full membership. The conference’s goal is to add the schools in time for the 2013 season, with Air Force and Navy joining as football-only members afterward. The five remaining football athletic directors met Monday in New York City to discuss the moves, according to The Star-Ledger. The seven-school addition would give the Big East more ammunition in retaining its automatic Bowl Championship Series bid while setting up a two-division football league with a conference championship game. The divisions would likely result in an East-West divide, with Rutgers joining Connecticut, Cincinnati, Navy, South Florida, and UCF in the East Division. Big East commissioner John Marinatto repeatedly made his goal of a two-division conference known since it first faced restructuring. The announcement comes in the wake of Pittsburgh’s and Syracuse’s defection to the Atlantic Coast Conference, while West Virginia opted to join the Big 12. Syracuse was an original member of the Big East, founded in 1979 primarily as a basketball league. Pitt joined three years later, and WVU joined in 1991 in football. Under its new set-up, the conference would have no original members. Rutgers would be the oldest football member, joining in 1991 and in 1995 for all sports.
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Junior forward Austin Johnson plays Princeton for the third time tonight after the Scarlet Knights lost, 78-73, last year in the team’s season opener.
The heat of the moment does not bother Rutgers head men’s basketball coach Mike Rice. He picked up three technical fouls this season through eight games. MEN’S BASKETBALL He wears his emotions on the sleeve of PRINCETON AT his sport jacket, RUTGERS, which he regularly TONIGHT, 7:30 P.M. tosses to the wayside. And he has no problem when his players do, as well. “I don’t mind it. I’d like them to be more detail-oriented, to be honest with you,” Rice said. “I don’t think we have a problem with energy and intensity. We have a problem with details and discipline.” The Scarlet Knights face their biggest test of discipline tonight, when they face off against intra-state rival Princeton at the Louis Brown Athletic Center. First-year head coach Mitch Henderson takes over for Sydney Johnson, who assumed the head coaching vacancy at Fairfield, but the philosophy of the Princeton offense remains. Part of the reason is Henderson, Princeton’s iconic figure from its 1996 upset against UCLA in the NCAA Tournament, who upholds the Tiger legacy. The other part is the offense, based on backdoor cuts and long possessions, which works against power conference opponents. “I like it if I win,” Rice said of maintaining Rutgers’ (4-4) rivalry with Princeton (3-5). “I think it’s difficult, and I don’t think a lot of Big East teams would play them. It is a tradition, and there’s something to be said for that. I respect Princeton’s basketball tradition immensely.” The Tigers added to their tradition of beating Rutgers last year, when they
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Rowe opts to end career in football following bowl game BY TYLER BARTO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
David Rowe plans to put the finishing touches on two careers Dec. 30 — one on the gridiron and the other on the hardwood. Teammate Duron FOOTBALL Harmon hopes to coax him out of retirement and back to basketball cour t, but Rowe is set in his ways with the other. The Rutgers football team’s senior safety will play his final football game in the New Era Pinstripe Bowl, opting not to pursue a career in the NFL. “I’m kind of happy it’s coming to an end,” Rowe said. “I get to play with all my brothers and coaches for one last time.” The three-year star ter in the Scarlet Knights’ defensive backfield has plenty of tape to look over once he does. Rowe arrived at Rutgers in 2008 and saw action as a nickel cornerback during his freshman season. He earned his first star t as a sophomore in the third game of the season and never looked back. Now Rowe hopes to do the same with his football career, although he said the decision was not easy. “I dedicated the early par t of my life to playing football,” he said. “I just think it’s time to do something else, whether it’s
moving to the sideline or what not. But it’s time to do something else.” Rowe spoke with head coach Greg Schiano throughout his senior season about his plans, and Schiano is not surprised Rowe decided to move on, he said. “Ever ybody’s dif ferent,” Schiano said. “What I tell the guys always is, ‘You have to play because you love it.’ It’s way too hard if you’re playing for other people or for the money or for the scholarship. People are like, ‘Are you kidding?’ But you don’t know what another man thinks.” Rowe wants to pursue a career in coaching after he graduates in May. His brother, James, is a defensive backs coach at Bethel University, a Division-III program in Tennessee. But after witnessing the hours Schiano and the Rutgers coaching staf f pour into the job, he said he thinks he will stick to the high school level. He is not sure whether he will remain in New Jersey or return to his home state of Florida, where he once played seven positions at Cocoa High School. James Rowe coached there for four years, when Cocoa won three state titles and boasted a 41-1 mark during the stretch.
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Senior safety David Rowe leads the Scarlet Knights with six takeaways this season after moving during the offseason from cornerback. He plays his final game Dec. 30.