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Memorial event pays tribute to Pearl Harbor

BY DANIEL GARBER CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Honoring more than 2,400 American lives lost at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, the Rutgers Living Histor y Society and the Rutgers Oral Histor y Archives celebrated the 70th Anniversar y Commemoration of Pearl Harbor Day. The commemoration, led by University history Professor John Chambers II, analyzed the historical significance of the attack yesterday morning at Kirkpatrick Chapel on the College Avenue campus.

Following opening performances by the Queens Guard and the University Glee Club, Rev. John Stephenson Jr., a Class of 1952 alumnus, said although he was 10 years old at the time, he was impacted by the attack.

“Looking back, I realized [Pearl Harbor] was a watershed in my life,” Stephenson said. “I suddenly grew up, I realized that even though I was but a Cub Scout, I recognized the significance that we were under attack.”

University President Richard L. McCormick said 247 University students and alumni gave their lives in WWII. “In a strange twist of history, Pearl Harbor had a profound effect on Rutgers,” he said. “It wasn’t the attack itself, but rather the chain of events that followed. Indeed the Rutgers you see today is vastly different from the Rutgers of 1941.”

The draft was extended in November 1943 to include 18and 19-year olds. There were less than 800 undergraduate students in the men’s colleges at the University by the following May, he said.

“In 1943, it looked as if Rutgers would lose … its civilian students, but then there was another sudden change,” McCormick said.

The government announced the Army Specialized Training Program, a military training program geared at training technical personnel to meet wartime demand, for universities across the nation.

“Rutgers was selected as one of its pilot schools … that’s the way it continued throughout the war, everything in a state of flux,” McCormick said.

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Director of Planning, Community and Economic Development Glenn Patterson, left, discusses proposed changes to the city’s bicycle regulations with Andrew Besold, a bicycle advocate from North Brunswick last night at the city council meeting.

Council reworks sidewalk cycling terms

BY AMY ROWE ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

The City of New Brunswick is looking to revise its bicycle regulations, a move that may affect University students who bike through the city.

The revised regulations, which were introduced as an ordinance at last night’s city council meeting, would prohibit those older than 12 years old from riding on the sidewalks, said Glenn Patterson, director of Planning, Community and Economic Development for the city.

It is up to University officials to decide upon regulations for sidewalks

on University property, which may already allow bicycle and pedestrian traffic, he said.

Patterson also said safety standards were considered when drafting the ordinance, which might require bicyclists to have lights and bells on their bicycles.

He said vehicles must be aware of bicycles on the road and give cyclists the appropriate amount of room so they are not pushed into parked cars.

One city resident voiced concern over the proposed ordinance, saying many motorists who come through New Brunswick do not live here and

A professor’s book about marriage and family says one reason for the decrease in the U.S. birth rate is the economic climate.

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might not know to give bicyclists the right of way.

“Are we going to have any signs? I think you’re going to put a lot of cyclists in danger,” said Charles Renda, a resident of New Brunswick.

A public hearing, to be held at the Dec. 21 city council meeting, will allow for more feedback from city residents and University students on the ordinance, Patterson said.

Andrew Besold, an independent bicycle advocate, was satisfied with Patterson’s proposed ordinance and

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Christabel Cruz, a University graduate student, recites poetry as one of various performers last night in the Busch Campus Center as part of “Feed the Poets.”

The event was a fundraiser for the first University slam poetry team.

Career Services added a professional twist last night to the traditional speed matchmaking process. Instead of finding a love match, some students walked out with career-related connections from University alumni.

The fifth annual speed networking event gave students a chance to meet alumni in a fast-paced setting at the Rutgers Student Center Multipurpose Room, said Eugene Gentile, co-chair of the undergraduate committee for the Rutgers Alumni Association. “[Students] have to learn how to network and meet people very quickly,” he said. “You have to get your ‘elevator pitch’ out ver y quickly to make people want to talk with you again. It puts them under a lot of pressure.”

In what looked like musical chairs, students and alumni sat in

rows facing each other, speaking for three minutes before a bell would sound, signaling them to move over a seat and speak with another participant for a total of about 20 discussions.

Alumni were also divided into industr y-specific groups, giving students an additional opportunity to make an impression.

Gentile said students learned how to present themselves to experts in varying fields that did not necessarily relate to their respective majors.

“Networking is not about finding a job,” said Gentile, who graduated from the University in 1980.

“It’s about information-gathering.

If you happen to get a job, that’s great, and that’s happened here, but that’s not the focus.”

Some students practiced fundamental interviewing techniques at the event, said Suzanne Troiano,

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ALUMNI’S SATIRICAL MAP OF NJ GAINS INTERNET FAME University alumnus Joe Steinfeld released his satirical map of New Jersey on Monday night, and by Tuesday it had spread throughout social media sites.

“By the time I had gone to bed it received a few comments.

It wasn’t until I logged onto my Facebook on Tuesday morning to find that over half a dozen of my friends had posted it on their wall,” Steinfeld said to mycentraljersey.com via email.

The alumnus took a blank template of the state and marked the socioeconomic regions of the state with colors and labels including some that referenced N.J. stereotypes, according to the site.

The map labels places like the New Brunswick area as “drunk Rutgers students.” Meanwhile, portions of Somerset and Morris counties are dubbed “executives living in mansions driving Mercedes-Benzes.”

In the area surrounding Atlantic Highlands and parts of Monmouth county, Steinfeld placed the label “where they filmed Clerks”.

“We’re more than a turnpike and a TV show; it’s not just oil refineries and suburbs,” he said on the site. “We have mountains, plenty of forests and farmland, beautiful beaches, and our drivers aren’t nearly as bad as they’re cracked up to be!”

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Professor links decrease in birth rate to economy

BY REBECCA WELSH CONTRIBUTING WRITER

With the economy still in distress, the impacts have affected more than just an individual’s wallets. Researchers have also attributed lower birth rates to the economic bust.

Alan Singer, a part-time lecturer in the School of Social Work, revealed his research on the United States birth rate and ways to counter economic hardships in his book “Creating Your Perfect Family Size: How to Make an Informed Decision About Having a Baby”.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the total births in the United States declined last year from 4.1 million to 4 million, according to reuters.com article.

The United States Census attributed the drop to the recession. When the economy revives, the birth rates will also rise, said Singer, a marriage therapist and University alumnus.

His recommendation during a poor economic climate is to reconsider expanding family sizes.

“I’m not anti-children in the slightest but it shows that people are going about the decision carefully. I think that’s a wonderful thing,” Singer said. “Not everyone has the luxury — in terms of their own biological

potential to have a child — to say ‘let’s wait another year.’”

A human research study conducted a few years ago surveyed about 1,000 parents and asked why they decided to have a child, he said.

Of the surveyed parents, twothirds of the reasons why parents had kids were mixed between continuing the family and having someone to love, while the rest responded with no reason, he said.

“That kind of whimsical and haphazard decision making is what I’m strongly against,” Singer said.

He said some might argue it does not matter how many children a couple has because what is important is how loving they are.

But on average, marital satisfaction tends to decrease with each child, he said.

He said the most important point in his book is marriage and that maintaining a relationship between the parents takes priority, while decisions about family size come second.

“I call it a parenting book about marriage that I wrote on behalf of children because my strong belief is that children need an intact family structure more than they need a sibling or two,” Singer said.

His book addresses some parents’ questions about determining

the per fect family size, which is based on thorough analysis of the current condition of the family and the mar riage, he said.

“First have one child and then see how you are, how you feel, how you’re physically doing, how you’re mentally doing, how’s your relationship with your spouse and how you like parenting,” he said.

“Each time you think you’re ready, then there’s a lot of selftest questions.”

Instead of asking what the total number of children should be, the main questions couples should ask are if they are currently ready to have a child, Singer said.

For instance, if a parent is unemployed, it is not the best time to have another child.

Singer said children cannot divorce a parent the way their parents divorce each other, but research has shown it is more likely for adults to take initiative and solve their own problems.

He said couples today must work harder to ensure their marriage is not put on the backburner, as half of the babies in the United States will be born to married parents.

“Have as many children as you want, but do it from internal desire and not from external pressure,” he said.

The connection between children and marriage inspired Singer to look at past research and conduct his own to understand the decrease in happiness couples feel with each child.

“I just was always curious to see if there is anything that we can do or could be doing differently — therapists, psychotherapists and marriage counselors,” Singer said.

Dan Giordano, a School of Engineering sophomore, said some people do not usually make the connection between the economy and family sizes.

“You don’t normally think of having kids as a monetar y investment, but it really is,” he said.

Jordan Pringle, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said discussing family size is difficult for couples as they must decide whether they are ready or not to provide for a child.

“It’s probably better to have children in a better economic time, but life is short,” he said.

Mil’resa Crippen, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said older couples should be able to have a child if they please.

“But if you’re young and the economy is still bad, you should at least wait, and see where you’re at a couple years later,” he said.

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documenting the stories of University alumni who lived alumni, students fought in WWII through America’s conflicts and wars during the 20th century — shared the stor y of Reece continued from front Haines, a Class of 1941 alumnus, He said the G.I. Bill, which who objected to the war before provided college or vocational the attack. education to World War II veter“‘I changed my draft status ans among other benefits, forevso that I was eligible. I just er changed higher education couldn’t see tur ning the in the United States. At other cheek after us being the University, the impact hit,’” Illingwor th read from was apparent. Full-time enrollHaines’ stor y. ment rose to 9,000 from a preWilliam O’Neill, the keynote war maximum of speaker, said in 3,000 in 1948. addition to “There was an the large numbers “The gist equally dramatic of soldiers killed change in the in the Pearl of today’s events size of the Harbor attacks, is our dedication Rutgers faculty,” there were several McCormick said. to making sure this hundred civilians “Rutgers was who perished 70 day is remembered years ago. suddenly transformed from a “The first is the by all.” small college to loss of course … on BARTON KLION one of the 20 that day approxiRutgers Living History largest universimately 2,400 Society President ties in the nation, Americans were and so of course killed,” O’Neill it remains.” said. “Most of them Barton Klion, president of the were soldiers, sailors, Marines, Rutgers Living History Society, but several hundred civilians said Pearl Harbor marked a sigwere killed as well.” nificant day in American history.

O’Neill, a professor emeritus “Prior to Dec. 7, 1941, the in the Department of History at United States was primarily an the University, said historians’ isolationist country with a relamentions of American World tively small standing army,” War II causalities were minimal Klion said. “From that day going in comparison to other counforward, we became the leader tries like Great Britain and the of the free world. … The gist of Soviet Union, which lost 27 miltoday’s events is our dedication lion people. to making sure this day is “I never say only 400,000 remembered by all.”

Americans were killed because Shaun Illingworth, director of for someone who loses a loved the Rutgers Oral Histor y one, [that death is] never mere,” Archives — a program aimed at he said.

CITY RESIDENT SCAMS FROM TWO LOCAL BANKS New Brunswick resident Amro Badran pleaded guilty yesterday to defrauding two local banks out of $1.5 million in a Trenton federal court.

Badran, 54, an accountant and real estate developer, pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud before U.S. District Judge Freda Wolfson, according to a mycentraljersey.com article.

U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman said, in a Department of Justice press release, Badran was involved in a “check kiting” scheme — an illegal process where a person with two or more nearly empty checking accounts in different banks writes a check from one account to be deposited in another and vice versa.

Badran ran the scheme from June 2006 to August 2008 and maintained about 15 different bank accounts between the New Millennium Bank and Brunswick Bank & Trust, according to the release.

The banks lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in the scheme after discovering the fraud and returning the checks with insuf ficient funds. In total Badran deposited more than $25 million in bad checks.

The plea carries a potential penalty of 30 years in prison and a $1 million fine. Badran will be sentenced in March, according to the release.

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About 60 protestors march through the College Avenue campus yesterday to School of Arts and Sciences Executive Dean Douglas Greenberg’s office to push for the addition of an Asian-American studies program to the curriculum.

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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.

The Rutgers Energy Institute is sponsoring a morning “Café Hour” for conversation on a range of energy-related topics. Students, faculty and staff from a variety of disciplines will be attending the meeting from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. at the Busch Campus Center in the Cove. For more information, contact Beatrice Birrer at bea@marine.rutgers.edu or call (848)-932-3436.

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Labor Education and Research Now (LEARN) is hosting its “Seventh Annual Labor and Management Conference” from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Labor Education Center on Cook campus. For more information, contact Judy Lugo at judylugo@work.rutgers.edu or (732)-932-9504.

The Rutgers Astronomical Society will be complementing the “14th Annual Rutgers Faraday Christmas Children’s Lecture” with elements of astronomy. Several telescopes will be set up to give you the opportunity to experience the thrill of stargazing. Explore what lies beyond our world in the Cosmos from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Physics Lecture Hall on Busch campus. For more information, email vgpandya@eden.rutgers.edu or call (201)-898-0479.

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The Student Volunteer Council is looking for students to volunteer at the “Winter Wishes” party from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Rutgers Student Center Multipurpose Room on the College Avenue campus. At the event, gifts will be distributed to local, underprivileged preschool children. To register, volunteer or for more information, contact the SVC at svc@echo.rutgers.edu.

Patrick Gardner conducts a “Christmas Carol and Song” at 6 p.m. in the Kirkpatrick Chapel on the College Avenue campus. Tickets are $10 for students, $15 for alumni and $20 for general attendees. For more information, contact Jessica Cogan at jcogan@masongross.rutgers.edu, or call (732)-932-7511.

DancePlus will feature works by faculty members John Evans, Paulette Sears and Keith Thompson. The performance will take place at 7:30 p.m. at the Victoria J. Mastrobuono Theater on Douglass campus. Tickets cost $15 for students with advance purchase, $20 for alumni and $25 for a general audience. For more information, email jcogan@masongross.rutgers.edu or call (732)-932-7511.

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There will be an exhibit presenting etchings by Canaletto and Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, two influential Italian artists during the eighteenth century. The presentation will take place from noon to 5 p.m. at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum on the College Avenue campus. For more information, email press@zimmerli.rutgers.edu or call (732)-932-7237.

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Men’s basketball plays host to Monmouth on Monday at 7:30 p.m. at the Louis Brown Athletic Center on Livingston campus.

For more information, email info@scarletknights.com or call (732)-445-4291.

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U NIVERSITY LINKS: Interviewers look for body language, clear speech continued from front who graduated from the University in 1991 and now interviews potential employers at her finance company, Primerica Inc. She said an inter view goes beyond what is found on a résumé.

“Whenever I do an interview, [applicants] have to have a great energy and a great personality,” she said. “Whatever they have on paper is fine, but what I do and what I’m looking for is a person with ease.”

An inter viewee’s body language, handshakes, clearness of speech and eye contact are several cues Troiano and other employers pick up on instantly, she said. Speed networking can allow students to fine-tune their nonverbal skills.

Tammy Samuels, a career management specialist at Career Ser vices, said students could

T H E DA I LY TA R G U M find career and internship guidance during the event.

“I think it’s a great way for students to not only develop their networking skills but also find a mentor and definitely expand their professional network,” said Samuels, a class of 1997 alumna.

Gentile said the event’s chaotic atmosphere and constant communication among all participants are its highlights.

“Watching the kids and the alumni going rapidly with one another, the din in the room and excitement and seeing them gain contacts that they’re going to use — that’s great stuff,” he said.

Anthony Phillips, a School of Engineering sophomore, said he gained important information from every individual he spoke to during the networking experience.

“It’s not even hard. You just express yourself,” he said.

“There’s no negativity at this event. It won’t hurt you in anyway, so I was not nervous.”

Phillips said it was valuable to see how University alumni

developed their careers after graduation, and it gave him a chance to make advancements in his own professional goals.

“My favorite part of the night was when one of the ladies told me to send her my résumé,” he said. “I guess she’ll see if she can give me an internship.”

Yasmeen Fahmy, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, said it forced her to break out of her comfort zone after the first threeminute discussion.

“Of course it was nerve-wracking. I was basically sweating the entire time,” she said. “I definitely got more comfortable as time went on. You learn what they want to ask you.”

David Prado, a School of Engineering junior, said he star ted figuring out how to present himself differently at the event.

“Going from person to person to person, I felt like I had the same intro,” Prado said. “So it definitely taught me switch it up, so otherwise I was going to drive myself crazy.”

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University students speed network with alumni last night in the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus and shift partners every three minutes for a total of 20 rounds.

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Spectators take a look at local photographers’ work last night in the Douglass Campus Center at “Exposure,” a showcase hosted by the Rutgers Photography Club.

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Tormel Pittman disagreed with closing down Giovanelli’s discuss late-night safety issues earlier. Pittman ser ves as a spokesman for the family of Barr y Deloatch, a 46-year-old continued from front New Brunswick resident who in September was shot and killed gave him suggestions when it in an incident with two New was drafted.

Brunswick Police Department “Cycling is not appropriate on officers. Pittman has since been sidewalks downtown, [aside advocating against police viofrom] children,” said Besold, a lence and shootings in the city.

University alumnus and North “It’s a big mistake. Let’s close Brunswick resident. “I’m pretty this man’s business down [so it happy with the [regulations], I will] push them back to Remsen don’t have many objections. I just Ave. where they’ll shoot it up,” have to make sure [Patterson] he said. gets it right.”

Also at the meeting, Gretchen Also discussed at the meetSpencer, a New Brunswick ing were shootings in the city. resident, wondered about the Jadwiga Karanievski, who lives progress of the on Condict Street, A.C. Redshaw was upset to hear Elementar y a gunshot wake “You have the School’s conher up early opportunity to be struction, a Thanksgiving mornschool building ing, an incident that proactive instead the state left an unidentified demolished in man wounded with of reactive.”

2004 and was abdominal bleeding, JADWIGA KARANIEVSKI temporarily she said.

New Brunswick Resident relocated to a Karanievski said warehouse on the council could Jersey Avenue. proactively fight “These kids need to get into these shootings near her home if their schools and out of the they require Giovanelli’s, a pizzewarehouse,” Spencer said, ria on Easton Avenue, to close whose grandchildren attend for the night earlier. She said the school. bars on the street close at 2 a.m., City spokesman Bill Bray but the restaurant stays open explained the state wanted to until 4 a.m., attracting a noisy, loirelocate the students to a used tering crowd. warehouse in Piscataway, where “You have the opportunity to Mayor Jim Cahill opted for somebe proactive instead of reacthing different. tive,” she said to the council “Mayor Cahill was able to members. “I’ve lived on that house them in a brand new street all of my life and haven’t building that was never used heard gun shots until the past by anyone,” Bray said. “If you two years.” go in to the school, it looks Karanievski said to stop nothing like a warehouse. It criminal activity near her has carpets.” home, the council should bring Pittman argued that Bray was the owner of Giovanelli’s to the making the situation seem more next meeting. glamorous than it was.

Council member Kevin Egan “The warehouse is gated and agreed that the restaurant located across from an unemshould close earlier. ployment office,” Pittman said.

“I live not too far from Amidst a shouting match Giovanelli’s. I hear it late at that then ensued between Bray night and I have a problem and Pittman, Council President [with it],” Egan said. “Maybe Rober t Racine adjourned we should place restrictions on the meeting. this place.”

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PENDULUM T H E DA I LY TA R G U M

Q:

What do you think of the Student Instructional Rating Survey?

QUOTABLE EDWARD BOWMAN SAS FIRST-YEAR STUDENT

“I fill out every single one.

So if I don’t like a professor I can point out why, and if I like the professor it will make them look better to those in charge of them.”

“I fill them out because it’s good feedback, takes little time, and they also bombard you with emails.”

CHELSEA PAGANESSI MASON GROSS SCHOOL OF THE ARTS SENIOR “I get the email for the [survey] and I forget about it, and then I get the reminder for it and forget about it because I have other stuff to do.”

JAMES TROSHANE — SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES SOPHOMORE SOUMEN PAUL SAS SOPHOMORE

BY THE NUMBERS Source: Monica Devanas, director of Faculty Development and Assessment Programs at the Center for Teaching Advancement and Assessment Research.

“I don’t think they will really help. Most students don’t fill them out, and there is really no point to them.”

1993 10,000

The percentage of how many paper surveys are returned from students, compared to 55 to 65 percent for online responses

About the number of courses that use the Student Instructional Rating Survey every semester, including the New Brunswick, Newark and Camden campuses, and online

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PATRICK HOWE SAS SOPHOMORE

CAMPUS TALK

WHICH WAY DOES RU SWAY?

The first year the University’s Center for Teaching Advancement and Assessment Research distributed surveys to students

“If we went back to filling them out on paper, obviously a lot more people would do it. But [online] it is like homework or a chore.”

SIVARAM CHERUVU SAS SOPHOMORE “I filled it out for one of my classes because the professor said if 75 percent of the class fills out the survey, everyone will get extra credit. If they give incentives like that, then I would definitely do it.”

ONLINE RESPONSE

I don't think professors read them — 16%

I don't have time/choose not to complete them — 17%

I think it is helpful for teachers to get feedback — 49%

I prefer filling out a paper version — 18%

I think it is helpful for teachers to get feedback

49%

I prefer filling out a paper version

18%

I don’t have time/choose not to complete the surveys

17%

I don’t think professors read them

16%

THIS WEEK’S QUESTION

How will you spend your reading days this semester?

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WORLD

DECEMBER 8, 2011

CHINESE POLICE RESCUE 178 CHILDREN HELD IN TRAFFICKING NETWORK BEIJING — Chinese police arrested 608 suspects and rescued 178 children in busts of two separate child trafficking networks, authorities said yesterday.

The Ministr y of Public Security said prosecutors were preparing cases against the suspects, suggesting charges have yet to be filed.

Its statement posted online said 5,000 police across 10 provinces cooperated for six months on the investigation and moved in to arrest the suspects last week.

Child trafficking is big problem in China, where traditional preference for male heirs and a strict one-child policy has driven a thriving market in baby boys, who fetch a considerably higher price than girls. Girls and women also are abducted and used as laborers or as brides for unwed sons.

Tens of thousands of children go missing every year, though the exact numbers of victims are difficult to obtain.

The rescued children will be put into orphanages while authorities try to reunite them with their families, the ministry said. It didn’t give the age range of the abducted children or other specifics.

State broadcaster CCTV aired footage showing female police officers cradling babies in their arms. The footage also showed more than a dozen suspects handcuffed and

escorted by officers, or lined up outside a building in Fujian province.

Families who bought trafficked children would be forbidden from keeping them, a ministry official told CCTV. “Those who have paid for these children must be punished by losing both the child and the money, so that the market shrinks gradually and eventually, the number of child trafficking cases will be substantially reduced,” Chen Shiqu, director of the ministry’s human trafficking department, was quoted as saying.

An investigation into a traffic accident in south China’s Sichuan province in May led police to the first ring, which was allegedly selling children abducted or bought in Sichuan to buyers in central China’s Hebei province and elsewhere. The ring had links to at least 26 gangs nationwide, the ministry said.

The second ring was uncovered in August and was based in southeast China’s Fujian province and led by a female suspect identified as Chen Xiumei.

The statement said police have cracked more than 7,000 gangs or rings that sold women or children since the beginning of an April 2009 special campaign against human trafficking. It said 18,518 children and 34,813 women have been rescued.

— The Associated Press

Officials scale back plan to save euro THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BERLIN — German and French officials lowered expectations yesterday for a deal to save the euro at this week’s European summit, deflating investors’ hopes for an imminent resolution to Europe’s debt crisis.

On the same day that German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy released the details of a plan for European nations to submit their economies to tighter scrutiny, a senior German official suggested a deal could be weeks away.

The summit, which begins tonight, has been described as do-or-die for the 17 countries that use the euro. A growing number of eurozone economies are being dragged down by crippling debts.

Further urgency was added yesterday after the ratings agency Standard & Poor’s threatened to downgrade the bonds of all EU countries because their economies were intricately linked with those in the eurozone. That would likely make it more expensive for governments to borrow.

Earlier this week, expectations had been rising that an agreement would be reached this weekend, paving the way for the European Central Bank to take bolder action to reduce borrowing costs for Italy, Spain and other heavily indebted countries. That would give governments time to strengthen their finances.

But today the senior German official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because talks were ongoing, said reaching a deal might take until Christmas.

European stocks, which had opened the day higher, fell after the comments were made and

borrowing costs for weak eurozone governments rose.

“There is a ver y, ver y strong expectation that the summit is going to be a success so there is some potential for disappointment,” said Stefan Schneider, chief international economist at Deutsche Bank. “But if there is a convincing plan, which — in contrast to some of the previous plans — might sur vive the next two or three weeks, then that could support markets in the first two or three months of next year.”

The proposal from Merkel and Sarkozy seeks to enforce budget discipline either through a substantial change to the treaty governing all 27 EU countries, or an entirely new treaty for the 17 countries that use the euro.

In their letter to EU President Herman Van Rompuy, Merkel and Sarkozy stressed a decision was needed at this week’s meeting to have the new treaty in place

by March.

“We are convinced that we need to act without delay,” they wrote.

Van Rompuy offered an alternative way to secure future fiscal discipline. He favors simply amending existing rules that apply to the 17 countries that use the euro. That would allow leaders to avoid the trickier step of requiring ever y countr y to approve the new treaty through parliamentary votes.

But Merkel and Sarkozy believe that to restore lost trust in the euro currency and calm markets, Europe needs to take the more formal step, even if it’s politically more difficult.

“If several rounds of negotiations are necessar y for that then we are also prepared for that,” the senior German official said, adding “there is still

no majority on new treaty changes among the member states and institutions.”

A senior French official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because talks were on going, said Paris remained optimistic that a tentative deal among the eurozone’s members — and others who want to join voluntarily — could still be struck by Friday night. This official said it is looking less likely that an agreement would come from all EU leaders.

The 10 EU countries that do not use the euro are concerned about this. They fear being left out of future economic discussions that would affect all of Europe. Germany has insisted that any interested countries would be welcome to adopt the changes of the eurozone 17.

British leader David Cameron is wary of losing influence within Europe if France and Germany create a tighter club of eurozone nations. His government also does not want to transfer any of its decision-making powers to Brussels.

Earlier Wednesday, U.S. Treasur y Secretar y Timothy Geithner struck a more optimistic tone on the prospects for a deal.

“We are very encouraged with the progress that is being made,” Geithner said to reporters following a meeting with French Finance Minister Francois Baroin on the second day of his whirlwind trip through Europe.

A successful resolution of the differences between the European leaders is crucial if the ECB is to step up its support for weak eurozone countries.

ECB President Mario Draghi hinted last week that a commitment by euro countries to crack down on overspending could set the stage for further financial assistance from the bank.

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Alleged election fraud sparks Moscow protests THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MOSCOW — Popular anger against Vladimir Putin’s ruling party and alleged election fraud boiled over into a third straight night of protests yesterday, and police in Russia’s two largest cities arrested scores of demonstrators.

The demonstrations in Moscow and St. Petersburg appeared to attract fewer protesters than in previous days, roughly 300 in each city, but Russians’ willingness to risk jail time and clashes with police indicated significant tensions that could spread.

More than 17,000 people have signed up for a Facebook page calling for a massive demonstration Saturday on Moscow’s Revolution Square. Authorities have sanctioned the rally, but say it has to be limited to 300 participants, so a far larger turnout would almost certainly provoke a harsh police response.

Putin’s United Russia party lost a significant share of its seats in Sunday’s parliamentary election for the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, but will still have a majority. Opponents say even that result was achieved by widespread vote fraud.

United Russia had two-thirds of the seats in the 2007 vote, making the party unassailable and allowing it to push through constitutional changes.

The latest protests came hours after former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev urged Russian authorities to annul the results of Sunday’s vote and hold a new one, according to the Interfax news agency.

“More and more people are starting to believe that the election results are not fair,” he told Interfax. “I believe that ignoring public opinion discredits the authorities and destabilizes the situation.”

Gorbachev, whose 1985-91 rule ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union, remains widely admired abroad but is widely disliked or regarded as insignificant at home. His call for a new election could further encourage the opposition, but is unlikely to influence those in power.

The 80-year-old Gorbachev has long had tense relations with Putin, but until recent years had refrained from directing his criticism of Russian politics at Putin.

Putin, for his part, has been extremely critical of Gorbachev’s legacy, blaming him for the Soviet Union’s demise.

Putin has shown no sign now of moving to appease the protesters. On Wednesday he registered his candidacy for the March presidential elections, in which he seeks to win a third term.

Putin, 59, was president from 2000 to 2008, then switched to premier due to term limits. But even in that No. 2 slot, the steely Putin dominated Russian political life, overshadowing his mildmannered and hesitantly reformist successor Dmitr y Medvedev. His selection in March is virtually guaranteed, and it’s possible he could lead Russia until 2024.

Harsh action by police against protesters this week also indicates authorities are unwilling to give any ground, and will continue to deny opposition groups permission for most rally permits and break up any unsanctioned gatherings.

Thousands of security forces were out in the Russian capital and helicopters roamed the sky Wednesday. At least 51,500 police officers and 2,000 paramilitary troops have been deployed in Moscow since the election, authorities say.

Squads of police lined the sidewalks around Moscow’s Triumphal Square as opposition supporters tried to gather. Police pushed demonstrators back, seized some and dragged them into police vehicles. Demonstrators made several attempts to return to the square but were repeatedly repulsed. Moscow police spokesman Anatoly Lastovetsky said at least 20 people were detained.

In St. Petersburg, demonstrators gathered outside the Gostiniy Dvor shopping complex on the city’s main avenue, many chanting “Shame, Shame!”

Russian news reports said at least 70 people were detained.

A photographer taking pictures for The Associated Press was briefly detained after photographing police preparations around the Moscow square. He was released only after erasing the photos from his camera.

In the face of a huge police presence and the bone-wracking Russian weather, the protests are not likely to last long, said analyst Alexei Malashenko of the Carnegie Moscow Center.

“There’s going to be no Tahrir Square; it’s cold,” he told The Associated Press, referring to the epicenter of the protests that brought down Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. “There will be a crackdown on opposition while the public will be given lots of promises with steps like changes in the government.”

But analyst Yuri Korgoniuk wrote in the respected online gazaeta.ru news site that “authorities face a dilemma — either to start a crackdown or ease the rules of political life.”

Korgoniuk said a full-scale crackdown could strain the state’s resources but even easing political control would inevitably lead to the dismantling of Putin’s “power vertical,” the powerful central control he established as president.

Authorities are also making ef for ts to rally government suppor ters.

About 1,000 people gathered at a pro-Putin concert Wednesday afternoon in central Moscow. The crowd of mainly young people waved Russian flags and danced as organizers spoke on a stage adorned with a banner reading “The Future is Ours.”

Someone dressed as a giant white bear — United Russia’s mascot — danced among the crowd. He stopped occasionally to hug supporters — but kept right on dancing when someone ran out of the crowd to kick him in the rear.

T H E D A I LY TA R G U M

OPINIONS

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EDITORIALS

Lifetime free tuition spoils education

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tudent loan debt is an issue on the tip of nearly ever yone’s tongue, but one lucky student at Cardiff University won’t have to break a sweat worr ying about paying his bills. In an almost unbelievable decision, the school is hosting a contest that will bestow upon the winner free tuition for life. That means that the winner can spend as much time as they want in school, earning an undergraduate degree and all the graduate degrees they so desire. The contest will consist of a series of challenges, both online and in person, which are designed to test the participants’ academic mettle. Unfortunately for University students, the contest is only open to people in the United Kingdom and European Union.

Still, as crazy as this idea sounds, it has some potential benefits.

For starters, whoever wins this contest will obviously be an academically adept person. We imagine the challenges that Cardiff puts for ward will be incredibly difficult, given the high value of the prize. Whoever the winner is, they will have the unique opportunity to study whatever they want without being buried under the oppressive weight of college costs. If only all of us could be so lucky. In a perfect world, free tuition would not be the sort of thing that can only be attained through Herculean efforts.

But we do not live in a perfect world, so not only is this contest positively outlandish in our eyes, it also seems a little bit gimmicky and cheap. We aren’t the only people who feel that way. Philip Dixon, director of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers in Wales, told Wales Online that the contest “is a ver y sad indication of the state in which our higher education system finds itself that gimmicks like this have to be offered by our universities.” Dixon is right to bemoan the gaudiness of this affair, as it does place an indelible mark on the ver y idea of higher education. An education should be a life-enriching journey. This contest makes it seem more like just another commodity to be consumed.

Keep age restrictions in place for Plan B

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urrently, Plan B One-Step, colloquially known as the “morning-after pill,” is only available to women 17 years old or older who must ask for it from a pharmacist. Women 16 years old and younger need a prescription. Following years of study, however, the Food and Drug Administration wants to change that, as FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg attempted yesterday to do away with the age restrictions and make the pill available to ever yone over the counter. U.S. Department of Health and Human Ser vices Secretar y Kathleen Sebelius vetoed this attempt, however, arguing that younger women may not be able to effectively use the pill. Sebelius was right to exercise her veto power in this instance. While Plan B is an incredibly helpful drug, it can be potentially dangerous if it is misused, and there are questions as to whether the young people tr ying to access the pill would have the proper knowledge or maturity level to use the pill without harming themselves.

Plan B is largely a safe method of contraception. But, as with any medication, people who use it can experience side effects. Plan B’s official website lists “changes in your period, nausea, lower abdominal pain, fatigue, headache, dizziness and breast tenderness” as common side effects. Most of these side effects are relatively harmless to the average adult female, but imagine how they could potentially affect the systems of younger women. When it comes to adolescents, we need to be more careful about how a hormonal contraceptive like Plan B affects their bodies.

We also need to be careful about the lack of responsibility to which adolescents can be prone. Very rarely do they take the steps necessary to educate themselves on such important issues as birth control. Many of them lack the maturity to even hold a serious conversation about birth control, let alone know when to use it and how to do so properly and safely.

Making Plan B more accessible may have some potential benefits, but we must seriously consider the possible negative side effects.

When it comes to the question of young women’s bodies, people need to be extra careful about making sure they are always secure.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “I realized that even though I was but a Cub Scout, I recognized the significance that we were under attack.”

John Stephenson Jr., a Class of 1952 alumnus, on Pearl Harbor STORY ON FRONT

MCT CAMPUS

Revitalize lost art of conversation

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ave you ever been expectations for our futures. in a conversation We believe in ourselves, with a person who which is wonderful, but this does not seem to know you has made us so absorbed in are there? That question may ourselves and our personal sound ridiculous because a goals that we may have lost conversation is, by definition, the ability to connect with a “familiar discourse or talk; others and empathize with COURTNEY SHAW free interchange of thoughts their thoughts and desires. and opinions.” The key here This disconnect has affected is interchange, which indicates reciprocity. I am the ways in which people socialize, as the individual afraid that too many people do not understand that a has become more important than the other. The abilitrue conversation necessitates careful listening as ty to hold a conversation depends on an interest in much as — or maybe more than — speaking. what the other person is saying and thinking, and it It strikes me that nowadays the practice of may be that our generation cares too much about our“engaging in conversation” has fallen out of fashion. selves to want to understand anyone else.

Take, for example, those who act as “toppers” in a I also believe that modern society has killed the conversation. This would be a person who, if you told conversation in another way — through the introducthem about a difficult exam you had just taken, tion of new technology. First, the telephone changed would respond by telling you about their own recent conversation in both a positive and negative way. It stressful and demanding exam. True, the two facts opened the possibility of conversing instantaneously are related: You both took exams. However, rather with someone far away. I am personally thankful for than try to engage with the story you the invention of the telephone because had started, the person counters your it lets me stay connected with my “‘Conversation with’ brother who moved to Santa Barbara, statement with a statement of their own. There is no communication He may be less thankful that I another person has Calif. here — only an exchange of facts. can so easily call him to chat about my become confused This is the problem of the lost art of life and ask for his advice, but in any conversation. A dialogue between peocase it is remarkable that, despite the with ‘talking at’ ple is an intellectual exercise that distance between us, we can stay conrequires concentration and a certain nected to each other. The pitfall of the another person.” degree of skill. A good conversationaltelephone is that it introduced a new ist is able to listen to what a person is barrier between people conversing saying, extract information from that and respond with with each other. A face-to-face conversation is always an appropriate comment related to what the other permore intimate and engaging because two people can son had said. So, rather than responding to, “My best make eye contact, examine each other’s body lanfriend hooked up with my boyfriend, and I don’t know guage and detect small clues in intonation that are part what I’m going to do,” with, “Wow, that sucks. of human expression. Over the phone, one can listen Something like that happened to me this one time … ” for vocal cues that indicate tone and emotion, but the a good conversationalist might reply, “That’s awful. physical connection is lost. Concentration is also not a Are you okay? What happened?” The first response guarantee, as it is easy to multitask while having a acknowledges that something terrible happened to phone conversation. Thus, even if there are subtle another person, but it fails to address that person at all. things being expressed by a person’s tone, the listenThe second acknowledges what happened and tries to er may not pick up on them if his attention is divided. delve deeper into the problem at hand.

Then, of course, there is the text message. I know So why is it that nowadays “conversation with” that most people of our generation love texts because another person has become confused with “talking at” they are so convenient. They allow you to tell your another person? I have a friend who believes it is confriends your thoughts as soon as they occur to you or nected to the overwhelming selfishness of our generamake plans for dinner during class. To me, though, text tion, which reminds me of a “Generation Me: Why messaging can be incredibly stressful and bothersome. today’s young Americans are more confident, If I am in a texting conversation with someone who assertive, entitled — and more miserable than ever asks me how my day was, and I don’t have time to before,” a book by Jean Twenge, an associate profesrespond right away, is that rude? What if I just didn’t sor in the Department of Psychology at San Diego see it? What if I’m not in the mood to enter into a conState University. I became very familiar with Twenge versation right now? If you ran into me and asked how this semester while working as a writing tutor, as it my day was, you would know based on my body lanseems her work is a huge favorite of the “Expository guage and tone whether it was truly “fine” when I told Writing” professors. Her study examines how our genyou “fine.” In a text message, though, it is impossible to eration is perpetually dissatisfied with life thanks to SEE SHAW ON PAGE 13 having been raised to have high self esteem and high

Miss Conduct

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Take care in making sweeping condemnations Letter GERMAN DIAGAMA n response to the Dec. 5 column in The Daily Targum titled “Irrationality bolsters homophobia,” I’d like to offer some criticism and explain why some people are against homosexuality in order for others to better understand the position.

The main issue I have with the column is that it seems to make the common equivocation that the people who think homosexuality is immoral must hate or fear homosexuals. In fact, quite the opposite is often true.

Most of the Protestants I know, for example, have gay friends.

Likewise, they love being around their gay friends, but they worry about them because they are gay.

That is to say, they think their friend’s lifestyle is a moral problem for them that they should think about — even if they prefer not to bother them about it most of the time.

Let’s say you are a vegetarian and you have a friend who is not. The fact that your friend eats meat is probably not going

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SHAW continued from page 12 convey or gauge tone, because only the text is there. Skilled writers may be able to express themselves well through text messaging, but the medium itself is not built for lengthy expression. I am afraid to imagine what will happen when we find a new, even less connected way to “converse.”

We can work to relearn the art of conversation fairly easily. The first step is to put down your cellphone. Send out one last text to whomever you were just “talking to” and suggest that the two of you meet for coffee. Then, when you are sitting together, pick up that conversation again and listen to what the other person has to say.

Try to talk only about them and their concerns for a while. You may be surprised by how much you learn about other people and about yourself when you practice stepping outside your own thoughts.

Courtney Shaw is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in English and history with a minor in French. Her column, “Miss Conduct,” runs on alternate Thursdays.

to ruin your friendship, but you might be slightly disturbed that your friend doesn’t seem to care at all about how much the poor cow that her burger is made of had its rights violated. You might not think of your friend as evil — and you might even love them — but you are probably able to sympathize with those who take your friend to be evil and chastise him for it in a Facebook status.

But of course, that analogy won’t do, right? In the vegetarian case, you’re going to have some rational arguments for why your friend shouldn’t eat meat, should the topic come up. “Surely the Christians or Muslims or atheists who dislike homosexuality could not come up with similar sorts of rational argumentation,” you say to yourself. Let’s consider some reasons people actually bring up for disliking homosexuality.

One frequent quibble, which I shall call “the argument from disgust,” is that many people, throughout histor y, have expressed immediate feelings of disgust when considering the notion of homosexual behavior.

The idea is that usually, when things disgust people, this tends to imply that the things are negative in some way — e.g., garbage, murder, greed, smoke, etc. So is it not at least plausible that there is something wrong

“Be careful of dubbing huge swaths of our society as morally corrupted.” with homosexuality given that fact? It might be that we object to one of the premises and say either that people often do not express disgust at homosexuality throughout the world, or that things that we are disgusted by aren’t necessarily bad.

Though I think both of these ideas are rather solid, my own trouble with the argument is that just because homosexuality is prima facie bad, there is no implication that it is bad upon further examination.

Alternately, John Finnis, an Australian legal theorist and philosopher, argues that because gay marital relations do not involve Thomistic fidelity, or the giving up of oneself to one’s partner exclusively, they cannot be real marital relations. So all of these married gay people would essentially be harming themselves psychologically.

Exclusivity here is a rather vague notion of course, and David McWhirter and Andrew Mattison, authors of the groundbreaking popular sexology text “The Male Couple,” have argued therein that although gay relationships are not often sexually exclusive, they maintain a different sense of fidelity that places more emphasis on emotional connectivity than sexual connectivity.

Finally, consider an even more common-sense argument than the first two mentioned, courtesy of Francis Beckwith, a philosopher at Baylor University. Suppose that we say something like, “Homosexuals should not be ashamed of their identity or try to change it.” This normative sentiment appears to have only a

positive, tolerant interpretation.

However, the sentence suggests that those who disapprove of homosexuality have something wrong with them, perhaps even that they are intrinsically bad, or their value set is corrupt in some sense. It seems like the endorsement of such a statement should not be immediate, but rather, take some contemplation. I think it is uncontroversial that we should always be careful of dubbing huge swaths of our society as morally corrupted or dysfunctional.

Can these objections to homosexuality be addressed? I think so but, again, I cannot honestly call defenders of Finnis’ or Beckwith’s position “irrational homophobic bigots bent on ruining everyone’s day” if I am being intellectually honest with myself.

We are all people just trying to figure things out, so we should remember that rather than causing division.

German Diagama is a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences junior majoring in biochemistry with a minor in philosophy.

BAKA events do not incite hatred on campus Letter MURTAZA HUSAIN am writing this letter to address claims made against the student organization, BAKA: Students United for Middle Eastern Justice, in The Daily Targum article published on Tuesday, “Department of Education to investigate University.” The ar ticle discussed the Depar tment of Education’s Office of Civil Rights’ (OCR) pending investigation of claims made by the Zionist Organization of America concerning anti-Semitism and harassment on campus, which they asser t are reflected in “several events by the student group Belief Awareness Knowledge and Action.” No one from BAKA’s executive board was contacted for a statement.

BAKA, a progressive student activist organization, has held events that shed light on — among other things — the active oppression of the Palestinian people through

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occupation and violence on the part of the Israeli state and militar y. Our events do not incite hatred on campus — they encourage getting all the facts and having empathy for innocent people who are forgotten or dehumanized in ever y aspect of American consciousness. They are borne out of solidarity with the innocent Palestinian population that, for the past 60 years, has had its land, water and identity stolen by foreign militar y occupation.

Events pertaining to Israel discuss Zionism, not Judaism, and are based in historical fact, not rhetoric.

The article quotes the ZOA, Jewish University students, Rutgers Hillel Executive Director Andrew Getraer and University President Richard L. McCormick, but fails to take a statement from any member of BAKA, one of the ver y subjects of this investigation. While the article alludes to the allegedly of fensive nature of BAKA events, it does not name any of these events — let alone what

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in response to the various articles, letters, columns and editorials published on the site. The Targum's system requires users to log in, and an editor must approve comments before they are posted.

We believe this anonymity encourages readers to leave comments that do not positively contribute to an intellectual discussion of the articles and opinions pieces published. The Targum does not condone these sorts of personal attacks on anyone. We think the best way to prevent the continued spread of hateful language is to more closely oversee the comment process.

Mur taza Husain is School of Ar ts and Sciences senior majoring in Middle Eastern studies and religion. He is the treasurer of BAKA: Students United for Middle Eastern Justice.

laurels and darts

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ix employees of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission were arrested for producing and selling fake driver’s licenses and using the locations and equipment of the NJMVC to carry out their plans.

NJMVC locations in Lodi, East Orange, Edison, Jersey City and North Bergen were involved in the complex ring. False IDs, especially ones as convincing as the licenses issued by the members of this ring, are dangerous things, as they allow their owners to fake their way into attaining credit cards, acquiring employment under false pretenses, and so on. We give all those involved in this scheme darts for abusing their positions as employees of the NJMVC. *

We believe the comment system should be used to promote thoughtful discussion between readers

state-sponsored or not, at home or abroad, in all its forms.

Where hostility does exist, it is important to look at it in its context rather than in a vacuum.

This is the mentality that I bring to the table as a board member of BAKA, and the spirit of the political discourse that we aim to have on campus.

This response is not directly in regard to the OCR’s investigation. I am confident that the decision of any such investigation, given its impartiality, will find that we are responsibly exercising our freedom of speech, and I thank the University administration for defending our right to do so.

Rather, I wished to comment on the nature of political discourse on campus and the dangers of conflating prejudice with political reality.

Daily review:

“Journalism is about going out there and making it, not sitting back and waiting for someone to do it for you. Stop being so lazy.”

User “jackx16” in response to the Dec. 7 article, “Students consider value of journalism education”

about their content is offensive.

It does not report the threats, slander and derogator y statements that members of BAKA, event co-sponsors and allies in the University community — including Jewish anti-Zionist students — were subject to over the course of the past year.

I witnessed many of these incidents personally. All this is to say that we are denied a legitimate voice.

The misinformation regarding these events and the people holding them — claiming that they incite hatred — is in itself hostile. It denies events that shed light on the oppression of Palestinian people’s legitimacy in political discourse. It denies students their right to free speech. It denies that there is a distinction between a Jewish identity and Zionist political ideology.

Fur thermore, it asser ts that hostility is onesided, with students referenced in the ar ticle as the only targets.

I oppose terrorism and violence, physical or psychological,

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In former CNN journalist Rebecca MacKinnon’s recent TEDtalk, she advocated for an especially salient issue. Given the recent worries over the Stop Online Piracy Act being debated in the U.S. Senate, MacKinnon calls for the public to resist the “sovereigns of cyberspace” and take the Internet back for themselves. MacKinnon points to the power which companies like Apple, Google and Facebook have gained over how almost everything runs on the web. With this power comes hoards of followers, all of whom believe enough in these companies to cede control of the Internet to them slowly but surely. MacKinnon is right.

We “must work to make sure that the Internet, the geopolitical system and the international economy evolve in a way that serves everybody’s rights and interests, not just those of the most powerful one percent.” We give MacKinnon a laurel for her TEDtalk.

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Rutgers Athletic Director Tim Pernetti speaks yesterday before the Big East announced the addition of five football programs.

OTHERS: New football

schedule Boise State and San Diego State, which was a No. 2 in last year’s national tourdesign features two divisions seed nament, as non-conference opponents, and Marinatto believes the continued from back other programs will improve.

“When Pittsburgh joined the ambitious plans, and this expansion is a great stride toward league back in the early ’80s, it certainly wasn’t what it is today,” reaching them.”

The league would also like to Marinatto said. “We’ve had a hisadd two more schools — Air tory of elevating the levels of the Force and Navy, according to mul- programs that left the league tiple reports — in order to play a because of the assets that we offer and provide. So I don’t conference championship game.

In the interim, the Big East will expect that to be any different move forward with what Marinatto than it has been in the past for the schools that will called “the first be joining us.” truly national colPernetti said it “I think that lege football conwas his responsiference.”

The our program bility to focus on league will be the experience divided into East is known more for Olympic and West divisions, on a national level spor ts, as well, but the makeup which was a fachas not been offithan it’s ever tor in limiting the cially decided.

Western schools been known.”

For now, to football-only Marinatto and TIM PERNETTI membership. the conference Athletic Director Boise State and are happy to San Diego State expand, and in were both on turn, sur vive.

“Four different time zones will board with the decision.

The emphasis for Olympic also allow us the potential to schedule four football games on a sports was to allow travel to given Saturday back-to-back-to- enhance, not burden, the experiback-to-back without any over- ence. They can benefit from new lap,” Marinatto said. “It is a pow- markets in Texas and Florida, as erful model and one that we well, though.

“I’ve always felt comfortable believe will be unmatched by any because of the assets Rutgers other conference.”

The move is motivated by foot- possesses,” Pernetti said. “I think ball television contracts, which that our program is known more the Big East will begin negotia- on a national level than it’s ever been known, so being able to tions on in eight months.

It weakens a basketball con- expand the footprint of the conference that confidently called ference to a more national footitself the best in the nation and print, I think, supports that priorboasted Pitt, Syracuse and WVU ity we have on continuing to build as perennial national contenders. the brand of Rutgers not only The league will facilitate con- here in the region, but to build it versations for its members to across the country.”

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inebacker Khaseem Greene and swimmer Trisha Averill were named Rutgers Student-Athletes of the Month for November, the University announced.

Greene transitioned from defensive back this season and leads the Big East in tackles with 127.

The Elizabeth, N.J., native led the Scarlet Knights in tackles in seven games this season.

Averill captured six wins at the meet in Storrs, Conn. — including four individual and two relay — earning her Big East female swimmer of the week honors.

She also captured three wins at the Texas Christian/Seton Hall meet — two individual and one relay — as well as two second-place finishes.

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Redskins suspended two players for four games without pay due to violation of the league’s substance abuse policy.

Tight end Fred Davis and left tackle Trent Williams must sit out until Jan. 2, the day after the team’s regular season finale against the Philadelphia Eagles.

According to The Associated Press, both Williams and Davis failed multiple drug tests.

The results for both showed the use of recreational drugs.

Head coach Mike Shanahan said both players apologized to the team yesterday and must prove themselves if they want to be a part of the team in the future.

THE HOUSTON TEXANS continue to shuffle around quarterbacks in the wake of losing starter Matt Schaub and backup Matt Leinart for the rest of the season.

Rookie T.J. Yates will remain the starter with veteran Jake Delhomme as his backup.

The Texans cut third-string quarterback Kellen Clemens and plan to replace him with 41-year-old Jeff Garcia.

This means Yates, who has limited experience, now has backups with a combined 22 seasons of experience.

THE MIAMI MARLINS added a new name to the list of free agent all-star signings by closing on a four-year $58 million deal with veteran pitcher Mark Buehrle.

Buehrle rejoins former manager Ozzie Gullien. The two know each other well from their days with the Chicago White Sox. The Marlins also signed relief pitcher Heath Bell and shortstop Jose Reyes, and are still in pursuit of all-star first baseman Albert Pujols and starting pitcher C.J. Wilson.

Buehrle joins Josh Johnson, Anibal Sanchez and Ricky Nolasco in the Marlins’ rotation.

what he and Schiano expected when they made the move.

“Now that I look back at it, I quickly after move to linebacker think I did some pretty good things,” Greene said. “Onecontinued from back hundred-and-twenty-seven It is unclear where the 6-foot- tackles obviously is a lot of 1, 220-pounder projects at the tackles. But for the most part … you see guys around the next level.

After playing linebacker at team on offense and defense Elizabeth High School, Greene who moved positions and then moved to safety for a year of excelled at it. I think I did good at excelling at it.” prep school and Greene would his first four sea“Now that be the first sons in Piscataway.

Knight to win the Greene redI look back at it, award, including shirted, then Warren Sapp, played in the secI think I did Donovin Darius, ondar y for subsome pretty Dan Morgan, Ed packages as a redReed, Dwight shirt freshman good things.”

Freeney, Sean and started alongTaylor, Mathias KHASEEM GREENE side Indianapolis K i w a n u k a Colt Joe Lefeged Junior Linebacker and Elvis as a sophomore.

Dumer vil as He moved from the secondar y to weak- past recipients.

Schiano coached Morgan side linebacker in the spring, when Schiano tinkered with his and Reed at Miami, making him defense to increase its speed a strong judge, even if he cannot vote for Greene, who says and productivity.

Greene called the return to he never set any goals for tackles or awards this season. linebacker a return home.

“I just wanted to go out and He had 15 spring practices to return to his roots, then played do my job,” he said, “do what the position naturally — exactly coach asked me.”

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Khaseem Greene tackles Cincinnati quarterback Munchie Legaux, who Greene sacked once in a 20-3 Rutgers victory.

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BY TYLER BARTO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

A slow start again plagued the Rutgers men’s basketball team last night against another Princeton of fenseb a s e d KNIGHT team. This NOTEBOOK time it occur r ed against the offense’s namesake.

The Scarlet Knights missed their first six field goal attempts, five of which were from beyond the 3-point arc.

They squandered two opportunities from the free throw line.

And they watched as the Tigers built an 8-0 lead before junior wing Dane Miller finally ended the drought.

Miller’s driving left-handed lay-in put Rutgers on the scoreboard more than seven minutes into a 59-57 loss at the Louis Brown Athletic Center.

Head coach Mike Rice said Monday the Tigers’ defense was farther along this season than the offensive end. It showed in the intrastate rivalry’s early going.

The pattern was a recurring one for Rutgers.

The Knights waited nearly eight minutes for their first basket against Richmond in the

Cancun Challenge, resulting in a five-point loss in the thirdplace game.

The Spiders’ methodical attack, led by former Tiger and now head coach Chris Mooney, ultimately played a role in the Knights’ slow star t. Rutgers shot only 35.8 percent from the field in the Nov. 23 loss, including a 22-percent mark from 3point territor y.

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Johnson and Princeton senior guard Douglas Davis played against each other in high school, but both matched up last night for the first time as college starters.

Johnson and Davis regularly met when they played at Blair Academy and the Hun School, respectively. Both Pennsylvania natives, they also faced off this summer in Philadelphia’s Sonny Hill League.

Johnson converted a first-half steal into a breakaway layup, which brought the Knights within 4. He scored seven points on the evening while chipping in with six rebounds. Davis finished with 16 points and shot 5-for-11 from 3point range, including a 3-for-3 second-half showing.

Davis sent Princeton to the NCAA Tournament last year,

when his fade-away jumper lifted the Tigers past Harvard in the Ivy League play-in game.

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Gilvydas Bir uta nailed an uncontested first-half 3-pointer, tying the score at 18 before Princeton closed the first half on an 8-2 run.

The conversion temporarily kept Biruta perfect from beyond the arc on the season, but he only attempted three 3-pointers. He missed his only attempt in the second half.

The Jonava, Lithuania, native focused during the offseason on becoming a more viable threat from the perimeter after playing in the post last season.

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contest after coming of f the bench in the team’s previous two games. Rice inserted him for sophomore guard Mike Poole, who earned his first consecutive star ts of his career prior to Rice’s move.

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increased their deficit in the instate series to 74-44 overall and decreased their margin to 11-6 at the RAC. Princeton’s last victor y in Piscataway was a 66-60 overtime decision in 1999.

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Junior wing Dane Miller blocks Princeton guard T.J. Bray’s layup.

Rutgers held the Tigers to 59 points but struggled offensively.

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Freshman guard Eli Carter drives to the basket last night, when he scored 17 points to lead Rutgers in a 59-57 loss.

LOSS: Miller sparks surge in first game back as starter continued from back The move to reinsert junior wing Dane Miller mattered little through two-thirds of the contest.

But then Miller co-led Rutgers’ near comeback. Still, he could only think back to the team’s nonconference play a year ago.

“I don’t think we lost a game at home,” Miller said of Rutgers’ 2010 nonconference slate. “It just doesn’t cut it [this year]. That’s all.”

Freshman guard Eli Carter led the team with 17 points on 6-for-12 shooting, most of which he earned in Rutgers’ late attempt at a rally.

Fellow freshman Myles Mack chipped in with a double-figure scoring effort, as well, finishing with 11 points in 28 minutes.

But Princeton barely resembled its stoic self during the Knights’ five-minute comeback stretch. It suffered a shot-clock violation, Hummer picked up a flagrant foul and the Tigers waded through turnover troubles.

“They just got so frustrated,” Rice said. “We got out and we attacked. For that fiveminute stretch, we ran three or four plays that got us out of a funk. We saw the ball go in the hole a couple times, and that gave us energy.”

But one flick of Hummer’s left wrist dramatically altered the ending Rutgers began to write.

The 6-foot-7 forward pumped his chest near midcourt as freshman point guard Jerome Seagears’ last-ditch shot fell short, arching his back as he let out a yell.

The Knights contained Hummer during their late-half assault, leaving Princeton’s goto scorer at a loss for words. He even failed to draw iron on a shot in the post during the final minutes.

His last shot attempt did not make contact either until it hit the ground, falling through the net.

“Ian was a man playing with boys,” Rice said. “I don’t know how many times we let him get to his left hand … but then that goes back to not following through.”

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Invite presents shot for early qualifiers

BY ANTHONY RODRIGUEZ CONTRIBUTING WRITER

RAMON DOMPOR / SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Redshirt sophomore Asha Ruth long jumps in last season’s Rutgers Invitational, where she finished second and competed unnattached from Rutgers while using her redshirt year.

After months of training, the Rutgers women’s track and field team begins its indoor season at the New Year’s Invitational on Saturday, in Princeton, N.J. The New Year’s Invitational provides the WOMEN’S TRACK Scarlet Knights RUTGERS AT with an NEW YEAR’S INVITE, opportuSATURDAY nity for t h e coaches and athletes to see where the team stands.

“These girls have been training for three-and-a-half months,” said head coach James Robinson. “This meet will help the girls translate the things they are experiencing in practice into competitions.”

The meet allows Rutgers to make some critical assessments, which the team hopes it can build off of and translate into major competitions.

“Our main goal this season is to make impacts in the three major events,” Robinson said.

Those three events are the Big East Championships, the ECAC Championship and the NCAA National Championships.

“We need to shoot for a top-10 finish in the Big East competition,” Robinson said.

But before Rutgers can think about the Big East, it must take the first step, which is competing in the New Year’s Invitational. The Knights enter the season with a lot of youth.

Being able to make assessments at the beginning of the season is crucial.

“Out of the 35 athletes on our

roster, 25 are either freshmen or sophomores,” Robinson said.

“Having a young team brings a lot of excitement and intensity, but also a lot of inconsistency. It takes time, and this week’s competition will help the girls get their feet wet.”

Redshirt sophomore sprinter and long jumper Asha Ruth is excited for the season to get underway.

“I think we have a great coaching staff, and I see a different team from previous years,” Ruth said.

“We are confident that whatever the coaches’ goals are for us, we can achieve them.”

Ruth competes for the first time after redshirting and sustaining injuries over the previous two seasons.

“I am very hungry and ready for competition,” Ruth said.

Even though the focus of the New Year’s Invitational is to see where the team stands, the Knights hope they can get some qualifications out of the way for the bigger competitions.

The team is also aware of the benefits to qualifying for future tournaments at the New Year’s Invitational.

“I really want to qualify for the Big East and ECAC early in the season,” Ruth said. “That way, the rest of the season I can focus on techniques and improving the things I may need to work on.”

Robinson is confident Ruth will have a good season.

“She had a phenomenal fall training,” said Robinson.

The invitational is the only competition for the Knights before the winter recess.

But the Knights believe they are up for the challenge.

“We are really focused on just running fast,” Ruth said.

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Freshman swimmer Lindsay Gibson-Brokop swims the freestyle, which she won in the 200-yard race earlier this season against Wagner. Gibson-Brokop also swims the backstroke but excelled in freestyle events when she competed for the Edmonton Keyano Swim Club in her native Canada.

Freshman adjusts to college, swimming in new country

BY BRADLY DERECHAILO STAFF WRITER

When Rutgers swimming and diving head coach Phil Spiniello first contacted freshman Lindsay SWIMMING & DIVING G i b s o n Brokop about joining his program, the swimmer admits she never heard of Rutgers until she looked it up on her computer.

“When I was going through the recruiting process, [the recruiting coordinator] helping me asked if I heard about this school in New Jersey and I said, ‘No,’” Gibson-Brokop said. “So I looked it up and talked to Phil and found out there is a lot of good stuff going on here. “

The reason Rutgers did not resonate with Gibson-Brokop is not because she is from a different state. It is because she is from a different country — Canada, to be precise.

Gibson-Brokop hails from Edmonton, which is in the province of Alberta and nearly 2,500 miles from New Jersey.

“The type of people here are different,” Gibson-Brokop said.

“It is pretty multicultural here, and there are a lot of people from a lot of different backgrounds.”

Being from a different country draws curiosities from fellow teammates and students, which Gibson-Brokop said sparks an interest in everyone who asks her about her origin.

“It’s interesting,” GibsonBrokop said. “Whenever I meet someone new and they ask where I’m from, I respond, ‘Canada,’ and they are immediately interested.”

Before arriving on the Banks, Gibson-Brokop enjoyed success in the pool as a member of the Edmonton Keyano swim club and swam competitively for more than 10 years before calling New Brunswick her new home.

From the moment Spiniello got a chance to talk with the young swimmer, the second-year coach knew Gibson-Brokop had the makings to compete and flourish as a member of the team.

“As we talked back and forth, I could tell that she had

Scarlet Knight material written all over her,” Spiniello said.

“She has made strides from the first day she has stepped on campus, and she comes in wanting to get better ever y day.

I’m looking for ward to her future here at Rutgers.”

Gibson-Brokop transitioned well in her first year as a Knight.

When the team took on Wagner earlier this year, the rookie captured first in the 200yard backstroke and helped Rutgers win the dual meet against the Seagulls.

The success the team experiences makes the Canadian proud of what it accomplishes and reassures her about her choice of joining Spiniello’s program.

“Coach Phil was really excited about the program when he recruited me, which made me really excited about it,” GibsonBrokop said. “I didn’t know where we would be and I knew we had some rivalries, so it was nice to come out on top of those. I’m really excited about our start.”

While a transition from a different countr y is difficult for anyone, Spiniello is happy Gibson-Brokop’s adjustment has been smooth for her.

“There haven’t been any problems [with the transition],” Spiniello said. “She has been taking care of business day-in and day-out both in the classroom and in the pool. She brings a lot to the program.”

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Collapse in Miami prepares Knights for Fordham

BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

Senior forward April Sykes witnessed firsthand the No. 11 Rutgers women’s basketball WOMEN’S BASKETBALL t e a m ’ s collapse FORDHAM AT on the r o a d RUTGERS, against TONIGHT, 7:30 P.M. No. 9 Miami.

The Starkville, Miss., native knocked down a jumper with a little more than 17 minutes remaining in regulation, extending the Scarlet Knights’ lead to 16.

She then experienced the next 17 minutes of play, as the Hurricanes closed regulation on a 39-23 r un to force double-overtime.

What could have been an emphatic early-season statement eventually turned into a gut-wrenching double-overtime road loss.

In returning to the Louis Brown Athletic Center tonight to face Fordham, Sykes is hopeful the Knights’ focus does not mirror their most recent outing.

“The fact that we were up [16 points] with like [17] minutes left and we allowed them to come back into the game with us — we lost our composure,” Sykes said. “We’ve just got to be a team and stay focused and pull out the win.”

That feat became dif ficult after two of the Knights’ (8-1) star ters — senior guards Khadijah Rushdan and Nikki Speed — fouled out before the end of regulation.

With two of its most experienced members riding the bench, the team relied heavily

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Senior forward April Sykes attempts a 3-pointer in the Scarlet Knights’ most recent home game against Temple. Rutgers returns to the Louis Brown Athletic Center tonight after two road games. on Sykes and junior center Monique Oliver, who took 45 of the team’s 77 shots.

But Sykes, primarily a shooter, and Oliver, predominantly a lowpost presence, could not mount the attack alone.

Without Rushdan — who scored 10 points in 20 minutes of action — or Speed to handle the team’s half-court sets, the game turned sloppy. The Knights finished with a season-high 27 turnovers.

“On the offensive side, we were not attacking like we should,” Sykes said. “We never lost the intensity — we were always playing hard. I think it was just the little things we missed out on.”

With Fordham (5-3) arriving in Piscataway, those little things could have a significant ef fect on the outcome of the game.

But the Knights’ biggest issues are likely to arise on the other side of the court.

Miami attempted 22 3-pointers when the two teams squared off Monday night at the BankUnited Center.

Fordham attempted 161 3-pointers through eight games and averages about 20 per contest.

While the Knights will not have to worr y about Riquna Williams or reigning Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Year Shenise Johnson, the threat of the long ball remains.

Getting burned by 3-pointers to star t the second over time against the Hurricanes will likely keep that thought in the back of the team’s mind.

“We have to understand and know ourselves before we can even attempt to know another team,” Sykes said. “We learned from Miami.”

How much the Knights learned, though, is up for show tonight at the RAC. Head coach C. Vivian Stringer’s explosive squad failed in its first shot at a ranked opponent, and how it responds will say a lot about how the Knights per form in their following game.

But whether Rutgers can perform against Fordham or No. 7 Tennessee next Tuesday, Sykes can apply one key lesson that was reinforced in Miami.

The fact that she witnessed it firsthand only magnified its resonance.

“Any team can beat anybody on any given night,” she said.

Schiano, Pernetti expect strong student turnout

BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

NEW YORK — While Rutgers head football coach Greg Schiano and Athletic Director FOOTBALL T i m Pernetti made an hour drive from Piscataway to Yankee Stadium yesterday, their Iowa State counterparts flew from Ames, Iowa, to New York.

“The truth is, coming from LaGuardia over here to Yankee Stadium, I didn’t see one cornfield,” said Cyclones head coach Paul Rhoads. “And I felt a little out of place.”

Representatives of each team and Yankee and New Era officials met yesterday at the New Era Pinstripe Bowl introductor y press conference, and Rutgers’ home-field advantage was the dominant theme.

Each coach has their own Yankee Stadium experience.

Rhoads was there July 24, 1983, a day before George Brett’s home run was nullified in the now infamous pine tar incident. Schiano was there Oct. 18, 1977, the day Reggie Jackson hit three home runs to help the Yankees clinch a World Series title.

Iowa State Athletic Director Jamie Pollard expressed excitement about playing in front of the 10,000 ISU alumni living on the

East Coast. Pernetti countered with Rutgers’ 200,000.

“This is a great opportunity that gives access to all of our fans to our bowl game, and that’s not something we can always speak to,” Pernetti said. “This opportunity gives us the greatest access to the postseason for our fans. We’re really looking forward to — I don’t want to say red, because we have two reds — a sea of scarlet.”

Pernetti and Schiano fully expect a strong student turnout within that sea.

Rutgers Athletics announced Monday it will provide free student tickets to all full-time undergraduates at the New Brunswick campus, with an opportunity to purchase up to two student guest tickets for $45.

“We’ve never charged a student for a bowl game ticket and we don’t intend to start charging them now,” Pernetti said.

“Our students step up ever y single game. They’re there. They pack our end zone. They’re loud. As much as a bowl game is a reward for our football program, our coaches and our student-athletes, it’s a reward for our students, as well.”

Schiano is perhaps most excited to have Eric LeGrand around the team for the week of bowl activities, which includes visits to Ground Zero, the New York Stock Exchange, MTV Studios and a Sony store.

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Iowa State head football coach Paul Rhoads, left, and Rutgers head coach Greg Schiano exchange glances yesterday at the New Era Pinstripe Bowl introductory press conference at Yankee Stadium.

Schiano said Rutgers would find a way for LeGrand, who is in a motorized wheelchair after fracturing his ver tebrae last season, to remain around the team regardless of the location, but this makes it easier.

And it allows LeGrand to continue going to rehab at the Kessler Institute.

“To have Eric be able to be right here across the river and be able to share in all the bowl

events with our football team, I don’t think there is any coincidence,” Schiano said. “This is greater than a college bowl game for us.”

It presents an oppor tunity for Rutgers, as Pernetti and Schiano repeated, to remain “home for the holidays.” It allows Yankee fans and New York natives another game in the Bronx, where Rutgers beat Army on Nov. 12, 27-12.

And it sets Rutgers up with a distinct home-field advantage, which both sides already recognize, for the Knights’ sixth bowl game in seven years.

“This is going to be a special game for the two of us,” said Schiano, reaching out to Pernetti. “All our family, all our friends, ever ybody is in this area. We really want to make New Jersey and Rutgers University proud.”

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Big East expands to include Boise State, four others

BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

NEW YORK — In the hours after formally accepting a bid to the New Era Pinstripe Bowl, Rutgers Athletic Director Tim Pernetti could take comfort in BIG EAST the fact that a BCS bowl berth should remain in play for the Big East.

The conference officially welcomed Boise State and San Diego State as football-only league members yesterday and Central Florida, Houston and Southern Methodist as full members.

“I think it’s a good step, but it’s certainly not over,” Pernetti said. “I think the important thing is that the rest of it gets executed the right way. I think it’s a strong and important move for the Big East to establish a more national footprint, especially with ever ything that’s going on in college sports. It’s an important step, but it’s not the last step.”

The additions arrive in the wake of defections from Pittsburgh and Syracuse to the Atlantic Coast Conference, and West Virginia to the Big 12. Texas Christian, which accepted an invitation to the Big East last spring, reneged on its commitment.

The conference has no plans to release any of the member schools from their 27month waiting period to exit the league, despite a lawsuit with West Virginia.

Boise State immediately bolsters the name recognition of what became a five-team football conference, while Houston and SMU both spent time in the Top 25 this season.

The programs, which will join the conference for the 2013 season, should ensure the Big East maintains its automatic qualifying bid for the BCS when it is reviewed in 2013.

“They provide us with the solid foundation we require to move forward confidently and boldly with our conference,” said Big East Commissioner John Marinatto. “We have

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The Big East officially expanded yesterday to add Houston and Southern Methodist in Texas, San Diego State in California, Boise State in Idaho and Central Florida.

Greene leads contenders for league award

BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

Rutgers head football coach Greg Schiano cannot vote for his own players for the Big East’s postseason FOOTBALL awards, but that did not stop him from endorsing junior linebacker Khaseem Greene.

“I think he’s the best defensive player in the league,” Schiano said.

Schiano will find out if his vote made a difference today, when the league announces its Defensive Player of the Year Award winner.

Greene is the leading candidate.

The Elizabeth High School product led the Big East with 127 tackles — 20 more than the next closest defender — and ranked 12th nationally in the category.

He recorded 11 tackles for a loss, including three sacks, and forced a pair of fumbles.

Greene also tallied double-digit tackles in all but five of the Scarlet Knights’ 12 regular season games, including a KHASEEM season-high 17 against GREENE South Florida.

“I knew the tackles were going to come,” Greene said. “WILL linebacker, that allows you at times to run free. In any defensive scheme, the weakside linebacker usually has a chance to run free. That’s kind of what I did this year.”

There are questions as to whether Greene will repeat the act next season.

Schiano acknowledged having conversations with the 22-year-old about his future, and the NFL could be part of it.

Like Mohamed Sanu, a Big East Offensive Player of the Year award candidate, Greene insists he has yet to think about declaring early April’s draft.

Greene turns 23 years old in February.

“I put that aside,” he said. “I’m just taking it one day at a time — practice, film study, lift, whatever. Those things will take care of themselves whenever the time is right.”

Greene acknowledges he hopes to have a future in the NFL, though.

“One day. Ever ybody has dreams,” Greene said. “I dreamed it as a little kid, so I would like to play in the NFL one day.”

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Junior forward Ian Hummer takes Gilvydas Biruta to the basket in the first half last night at the Louis Brown Athletic Center, where Hummer scored 21 points, including a game-winning shot with 2.7 seconds remaining to win the game for Princeton.

Last-second shot wastes RU’s late rally

BY TYLER BARTO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

By all accounts, the Rutgers men’s basketball team’s first 32 minutes last night at the Louis Brown Athletic Center was the low MEN’S BASKETBALL point of its young season. The final PRINCETON 59 18.8 seconds against RUTGERS 57 Princeton made it hurt even worse.

Princeton forward Ian Hummer converted a running hook shot with only 2.7 seconds remaining, leaving

the Scarlet Knights with their second lastminute loss in as many games, this one a 5957 defeat.

“Once I got it … it was just practice makes perfect,” Hummer said. “I practice that shot a lot, and it went in.”

Hummer’s last-second hoist laid the Knights’ 24-6 run moments earlier to waste.

The teams traded blows in the final minute, with Rutgers earning the lead twice.

But Hummer, who scored 38 points against Rutgers the last two seasons, was a willing participant, landing the last blow and sending the Knights a game below .500.

“He caught the ball and I tried to jump on his strong shoulder,” said junior forward Austin Johnson. “He got to it. He’s a strong player. It was a good play.”

The Knights’ (4-5) defensive intensity remained, responsible for holding Princeton (4-5) to only a 9-for-27 clip from the field in the first half. But their patchwork offense continues to be an enigma, especially with two freshmen sidelined until January.

Rice changed his lineup for the third time this season after only making one change a year ago.

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