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The No. 11 Rutgers women’s basketball team got back to its winning ways last night against Fordham with a 68-48 victory at the Louis Brown Athletic Center.

Campaign works to ban sale of cigarette brand on-campus BY ANASTASIA MILLICKER AND YASHMIN PATEL STAFF WRITERS

A group of about 10 students paid a visit to the basement of the University bookstore in Ferren Mall early yesterday morning. But unlike most students, they were not there to buy books. Instead the students, par t of United Students Against Sweatshops, found success in their campaign to stop the sale of R.J. Reynolds cigarettes on campus. “We had a small victor y — we had Reynolds [cigarette] products pulled from the campus stores,” said Beth Breslaw, USAS vice president. “This [victor y] is only the first leg of the journey.”

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POLICE OFFICER, UNIDENTIFIED MAN DIE IN VIRGINIA TECH SHOOTING RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia Tech says a police officer has been shot, and a possible second victim has been reported at a parking lot near the campus. Authorities are seeking a suspect. A campus-wide alert tells students and faculty to stay inside and lock doors. The shooting comes the same day as Virginia Tech is appealing a $55,000 fine by the Education Department in connection with the university’s response to a 2007 rampage that left 33 people dead. The suspect is described as a white male wearing gray sweatpants, gray hat with neon

green brim, maroon hoodie and backpack. Authorities have not confirmed whether the second person found shot in the parking lot near campus — described on Virginia Tech’s website as an “unknown male subject” — is a suspect in the fatal shooting, according to CNN. A message left with the university was not immediately returned. Campus police refer red all questions to the university. A student gunman killed 32 students and faculty and then shot himself on the campus in 2007. — The Associated Press

Matt Cordeiro, president of the Rutgers University Student Assembly, talks about unionized worker wages at the University last night at the Student Activities Center on the College Avenue campus.

RUSA talks money at meeting BY ALEKSI TZATZEV ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

The Rutgers University Student Assembly discussed monetary matters for the upcoming semester during its final meeting of the calendar year. Looking to increase the salaries of the University’s unionized workforce, RUSA passed a resolution last night at the Student Activities Center on the College Avenue campus to bring the issue to the Dec. 14 Board of Governors meeting. “Two thousand non-unionized workers are getting raises, and unionized workers will get nothing,” said Francine Glaser, Douglass Governing Council RUSA liaison.

Non-unionized faculty and staff who make less than $100,000 per year will receive a 2.5 percent increase, and those who earn $100,000 or more per year will receive 2 percent, said Glaser, a School of Art and Sciences first-year student. Pam Navrot, a Cook campus RUSA representative, said nonunionized workers would also receive a $500 bonus this year while unionized receive none. “By giving out these salar y increases and holiday bonuses, the Rutgers administration has made it eminently clear that they are able to increase salaries,” said Spencer Klein, RUSA legislative affairs chair.

Donggu Yoon, RUSA senator, said the salary increases are necessary so that University employees can keep with living costs. Students questioned the expenses the University would take on as a result of the possible salary increases. “This University has a $2 billion budget,” Yoon said. “The amount of wages that non-unionized workers would receive would amount to no more than $40 million.” Matt Cordeiro, RUSA president, said the workers’ union had agreed to a salary freeze in 2008 for the period of one year. The University did not resume the salary increase in 2009 and

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An anthropologist tries to educate students about how to have a culturally in-tune experience abroad.

‘Big Chill’ 5K collects gifts for needy children

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Students play pool with Santa Claus Thursday night at the RutgersZone in the Livingston Student Center at Student Life sponsored holiday event. Attendees participated in an ugly sweater contest and watch screenings of “A Christmas Story” and “Elf.”

The “Big Chill 5K Race” plans to warm up thousands of participants, as well as the hearts of underprivileged children. At least 6,500 participants this year signed up for the race on Saturday beginning in front of the College Avenue Gym, said Diane Bonanno, executive director of Recreation at the University. As an entry requirement, they will have to donate toys that will be given as gifts to underprivileged children. “Normally when you give a child a gift, they tear it open,” Bonanno said. “Seeing homeless children who do not do that, who take the present, grab it to their chest because they know they might not get any other presents. It kind of breaks your heart.” Big Chill provided more than 8,000 toys for children last year and aims to bring in 7,000 runners and as many gifts tomorrow, according to the “Big Chill” website. The gifts are distributed to the administrative offices of the New Brunswick Housing and Redevelopment

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Anthropologist’s book offers blueprint for successful study abroad BY NICOLE DENIFLEE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Some University students travel around the globe to expand their educational horizons, but Robert Gordon’s book “Going Abroad: How to Travel Like an Anthropologist” suggests students’ study abroad experiences lack in-depth cultural connection. Gordon, a professor of anthropology at the University of Vermont, discussed Wednesday at the Douglass Campus Center how his book aims to educate students on how they could create a more meaningful travel experience. After researching study abroad programs, Gordon said he found that although travel exposes students to different cultures, it does not change their opinions of those cultures. “I’ve traveled a lot but undoubtedly the most exotic culture I’ve come across is American student culture … they are the most interesting savages I’ve come across,” he said. Gordon said people should travel so they can experience unfamiliar cultures and learn perspectives that are different from their own. “This is what going abroad should be about. It’s seeing new things and experimenting and incorporating ideas from where you’ve been,” he said. As a part of a class assignment, Gordon asked his students to record their experiences in a journal while studying abroad, he said. After reading the journals, he referred to them as ego narratives.

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Anthropologist Robert Gordon shares advice from his book with students Wednesday at the Douglass Campus Center. He suggests students connect with locals in the country to broaden their perspectives.

Rather than connecting with the local people and understanding their culture, students focused on their personal experience, he said. Instead of broadening people’s minds, Gordon said he thinks that traveling confirms people’s stereotypes of particular countries. This happens because of a lack of trying to understand new heritage, said Gordon. “We have a culture of ‘I’m better than everyone else … no one is better than me,’” he said. In order for students to truly experience another countr y’s customs, Gordon said they must be modest and respectful. “To learn humility is to buy a good pair of shoes and walk … walk in your own home because you’ll see things you’ve never seen before,” he said.

UNIVERSITY, PUBLIC OFFICIALS HELP STUDENTS DEFINE ROLE OF INTERNSHIPS After learning about the U.S. Department of Labor’s initiative to effectively define the responsibilities of an internship program, University Career Services revamped its website to ensure that employees and students understand whether interns’ responsibilities generate a valid ground for pay. John Warner, of the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor and University alumnus, said in a Rutgers Focus article that the labor department fears employers misusing their interns because of the poor economic climate. “Internships normally afford students an opportunity to learn in greater depth and detail some aspect of the profession they are studying,” Warner said. “It should not be an opportunity for a company to take advantage of free labor.” Career Services updated its website following Warner’s talk at a Career Services Employer Appreciation Breakfast, to define an internship and work with employers to ensure valid internship programs, said Richard White, director of Career Services. “Internships involve a level of challenge, of independence, of problem solving and project management,’’ White said in the article. “It is not making coffee and running out for bagels.’’ Annika Huq, a Rutgers Business School senior, spent last summer as an intern for Prudential learning about project management. Through the company’s internship “Lunch and Learn” program, Huq connected with a marketing vice president in the company’s retirement division. Huq said she has the two job offers to choose from. “You learn about the company itself and you learn about the corporate culture and you get your foot in the door for different fields you might not have known about otherwise,’’ she said in the article. Tammy Samuels, assistant director of Internships at the University, said an internship is an indispensable opportunity students should do, as it helps students’ professional development. “It makes students more competitive as candidates, and it helps them develop real-world experience in terms of time management, working in a team, working with a supervisor, following tasks and producing under deadlines,’’ Samuels said in the article.

Although Gordon’s findings reveal that students do not take full advantage of understanding the traditions and lifestyle of another country, studying abroad remains popular, he said. Gordon said the Sept. 11 attacks is one reason why studying abroad increased. “After Sept. 11, there was a big push for the United States to create global citizens,” he said. Despite Gordon’s efforts to emphasize the benefits of studying abroad, only 2 percent of American students travel while attending college, he said. Of that group, some students see it as a vacation. Aside from discussing his research, Gordon also played music by The Bochabela String Orchestra from South Africa and

gave the audience advice on traveling so they could maximize their experiences. Gordon said he encourages students to travel alone or with only one other person, not in large groups so they can turn to city locals. “Force yourself to accept the hospitality of strangers,” he said. As Gordon took a picture of the audience, he suggested travelers carry around a journal and a sketchbook with them instead of a camera to remember the situation and the perspective. He recommended travelers bring a condom with them since he and his fellow travel mates discovered 93 uses for a condom, including a water container, pillow and cellphone carrier in a desert.

Gordon also said students should be aware of their surroundings while in a foreign countr y. “Paranoia is a good thing to have … because you see things you don’t normally see,” he said. Dorothy Hodgson, chair of the anthropology department at the University and co-sponsor of the event said Gordon is someone whom students would want to listen to, because of his funny and outspoken personality. “[The event’s purpose is to] encourage advised travel ... [and] to support critically engaged study abroad [programs],” Hodgson said. Nicole Ross, a Rutgers Business School sophomore, said she wants to study abroad and considers traveling to Europe. “I still want to study abroad. Not for a vacation … but for meeting people and learning about them,” she said. Ross said she enjoyed the tips Gordon gave and thought he was a good speaker who used sarcastic humor. “I liked when he said that most people make friends with the people they travel with and not meeting the people that live there,” she said. Gordon said traveling abroad can open one’s mind to other cultures, but students can also discover new and exciting things in their hometown communities, as New Jersey has great cultural diversity. “The most exciting place is hiking in my own backyard … [you] realize that in the end, you can go abroad locally,” he said.

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After weeks of protesting against the R.J. Reynolds cigarettes, the group met with John Cusick, general manager of the Barnes and Noble bookstores on campus, and received his approval of the campaign resulting in select campus stores taking certain cigarettes off their shelves. Four campus stores as of yesterday afternoon are removing R.J. Reynolds-brand cigarettes, including Camel and Natural American Spirit cigarettes, from their shelves. These stores include the Livingston Student Center bookstore, the Student Activities Center on the College Avenue campus, the Busch Campus Center and Ferren Mall bookstore. Student Life runs the Cook/Douglass Barnes and Noble and the Cook Campus Center store and would need to be addressed separately, said Breslaw, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. University students held signs yesterday displaying pictures of the harsh conditions within a R.J. Reynolds worker camp in North Carolina, with the intention of seeing Cusick to stop the sale of these cigarettes on campus. According to an open letter R.J. Reynolds issued in October 2011, Reynolds American and R.J. Reynolds state that they support efforts to ensure workers in all parts of the industry have safe working conditions. R.J. Reynolds has contracts with independent farms across the United States, including ones across North Carolina for tobacco-leaf products, according to the letter. “Those contracts require the farmers to comply with all laws — including labor laws covering issues such as employment, and working and living conditions of workers,” the letter reads. “We meet with growers regularly and encourage them to follow all applicable laws and regulations.” Breslaw said the University’s chapter of USAS delivered letters to the general managers of all seven bookstores on campus within the past two months and emailed the letter with their requests to see Cusick. The letter, written on behalf of USAS, Rutgers University Campus Coalition Against Trafficking,

Authority, the Franklin Housing Authority, The Salvation Army of Bound Brook, Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital and American Red Cross of Central New Jersey among other places, according to the website. Modeled after the Thanksgiving race “Turkey Trot,” the Big Chill’s charitable nature helps yield its high turnout, Bonanno said. “I think students like the idea that handing in a toy will benefit someone,” she said. Preparation for this year’s “Big Chill” began this summer, as managing a large community event requires a great amount of work, Bonanno said. “It takes a lot of people — [the students] who volunteer and Rutgers EMS,” she said. “We start meeting in September. A lot goes into getting sponsors.” The “Big Chill” is the second largest race in New Jersey, according to the “Big Chill” website. More than 20 restaurants and 30 business owners in Middlesex and Somerset counties help sponsor the race, which is open to the public. “Ever ything from the shirts we buy — to the timing company we have to pay — comes from donations,” Bonanno said. Anne Finetto, fitness coordinator for Recreation, said the “Big Chill” is a positive way to garner feelings of generosity throughout the community. “I’ve had people come up to me with an envelope of cash, just to donate fur ther to the cause,” she said. “[People like] the charitable end of it and the fact that we give back to the community. It’s just a feel good event.” Danielle Bercovicz, a School of Ar ts and Sciences senior, said the “Big Chill” is a community event that brings in runners from greek organizations and local groups to create an exciting experience for all par ticipants. “It’s so convenient being right on campus,” said Bercovicz, who ran with her sorority, Delta Gamma, two years ago. “It’s not that hard to spend $10 on a gift. You’re doing a good thing and it’s fun.” Jake Spooner, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences senior, said the race is also a good chance for competitive runners to practice their racing times. Spooner said he has run the race every year he has been at the University, and said last year he placed around 40th. “I ran cross country in high school, so I’m always down when I hear about a 5k,” he said. Spooner, who plans to run with his fraternity Alpha Kappa Lambda this weekend, said the event always generates a large turnout. “I’m always kind of shocked about how many gifts they’re able to get,” he said. “It’s pretty impressive.”

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Debbie Wilson, cashier at the SAC Convenience Store on the College Avenue campus, sells cigarettes to a student. The United Students Against Sweatshops removed R.J. Reynolds-brand cigarettes at the store.

Sociedad Estudiantil Dominicana, Rutgers United Students Coalition, Women’s Center Coalition, Rutgers University for the Welfare of Animals, Rutgers Undergraduate Geography Society and the Asian American Leadership Cabinet, addressed the group’s struggle to reach him and their mission. In the meeting, Cusick said he did not receive the emails or the letters but read the letter for the first time yesterday and was taken aback by the photos of the cramped work camps. “Jesus Christ, in my mind that is happening in Honduras or somewhere like that,” he said while looking at the photos of the living quarters of the workers on the posters. Of the 700 Barnes and Noble bookstores on college campuses across the nation, only a handful of those stores sell cigarettes, which suggests why the issue was not addressed, Cusick said. “We originally didn’t want to sell cigarettes when we got here,” he said. The company that ran the Ferren Mall bookstore before Barnes and Noble sold cigarettes in the store, Cusick said. Cusick said he would not be able to make a written statement in support of the campaign until he contacts Joel Friedman, vice president of General Merchandising and Store

Construction/Design at Barnes & Noble College Booksellers. Breslaw and others became involved in the cause after visiting work camps and tobacco fields in Dudley, N.C. The Farm Labor Organizing Committee, a labor organization part of the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organization, hosted the USAS trip to North Carolina over the summer to visit work camps and tobacco fields, Breslaw said. After arriving in Dudley, USAS president Rich Garzon said the workers lived in residence halls made of plywood with no insulation or air conditioning. Garzon said it is strange to think these kinds of places exist in the United States. “It was kind of weird. I’ve been abroad and I’ve seen sweatshops, and this was basically a bad sweatshop and it was in North Carolina,” said Garzon, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. Breslaw, who also visited the farm, said the workers have no protection from the elements in their plywood units and have difficulty accessing clean water. Garzon said the people living on these tobacco farms do not receive water from a municipal source. “There are restrooms which are basically disgusting. All the

faucets and the toilets and everything is [covered] with hard-water stains,” he said. “I don’t know where they get their water from.” When interacting with the workers on the farm, Breslaw found out that they are required to work 12 hours a day with no break, no water and no bathroom facilities during work hours. She said people who work in the fields suffer from tobaccorelated illnesses from the nicotine that is absorbed through the skin. “Even though it’s like 100 degrees outside and there’s no breeze, they have to have every surface of their skin covered,” Breslaw said. “So they have to work in 100-degree weather in gloves and socks.” Breslaw said she heard the stories of the immigrant workers who are trying to make their children’s lives better. “That really made me want to bring inspiration back to people who haven’t seen it and make the invisible issue visible,” she said. Cusick said although he does not usually speak for the company, he would continue to reach out to the group. “As a company, we do not tend to tolerate this,” Cusick said to the protestors. “We will work with [the students] on this.”

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RUSA: Group approves allocations budget for spring continued from front since then, unionized workers have fought for pay-freeze cancellation. The student government approved the recommendation that is to be brought to the Board of Governors with 93 percent voting for and 7 percent against. Continuing with budget matters, RUSA turned from the University budget to the RUSA Allocations budget for the upcoming semester. Ninety-two percent voted in favor of approving the $500,657.02 allocation for next semester. The group allocated the funding for 350 on-campus groups. “We reviewed all applications for funding, but throughout the semester we will get late budgets,” said Zain Ahmad, RUSA Allocations chair. He said the body reviews other requests throughout the semester during the RUSA Allocations board weekly Thursday night appeals meetings. “We try to come as close as we can to the requests we get,” said Ahmad, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “If you want to post another event, you have to go through the appeals process.” When the allocations board budget was settled, RUSA focused

on federal student funding through the Pell Grants, which are distributed to students across the nation based on financial need. Rachel Marcus, federal relations assistant for the University in Washington, D.C., said forprofit universities received more than $1 billion dollars in Pell Grants when their graduation rate reached as low as 4 percent. “Is that a good number?” she said. “Absolutely not.” Francine Newsome Pfeiffer, assistant vice president of Public Affairs in the University Office of Federal Relations in Washington, said that was unacceptable. “If we can make sure that students go to school, they should have a chance of succeeding,” she said. One item that some RUSA members are happy to see cut from the University are the sale of the R.J. Reynolds tobacco companies’ cigarette products, including popular brands such as Camel and Natural American Spirit. John Cusick, University Barnes and Noble general manager, approved the motion yesterday to remove the R.J. Reynold tobacco brand cigarettes in four stores on campus. Rich Garzon, president of the University chapter of United Students Against Sweatshops, reminded the student body government of the R.J. Reynolds tobacco companies exploitation of workers in North Carolina.

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Naa Oyo Kwate, an associate professor of human ecology and Africana studies, will give a lecture called, “New York City Vice: Fast Food Retail, Alcohol Advertising and Health Risk in Black Neighborhoods,” from 2 to 3 p.m. at Davison Hall on Douglass campus. For more information, contact Wendy Creevy at (732) 932-9570. 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.

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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During the past summer, Garzon and members of the USAS visited a few tobacco company plantations and explored the living conditions in the work camps of the immigrant workers. Most of the immigrant workers at the plantations are of a Mexican origin, Garzon said. “They showed us some of the fields from where they get the tobacco,” said Garzon, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “I’ve been to third-world country sweatshops, and this was just as bad.” According to an open letter R.J. Reynolds issued in October 2011, Reynolds American and R.J. Reynolds stated that they support efforts to ensure workers in all parts of the industry have safe working conditions, and that the company has contracts with independent farmers ensuring they follow all laws. RUSA members voted overwhelmingly against the sale of those brands at University stores, 95 to 5 percent. Garzon said he hopes this would at least dissociate the tobacco company from the name of the University, if not make a small impact in their sales. If the University decides to ban the sale of these cigarette brands from all campus locations, Cordeiro said it would have little financial impact on the budget.

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Zain Ahmad, Rutgers University Student Assembly Allocations Board chair, presents next semester’s funding for student organizations.

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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 Wednesday. 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 necessary 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 decisionmaking 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 Wednesday, 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.

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ick Roach, a member of the Florida school board, is a college graduate with two master’s degrees. He has a highlevel position in an organization with 22,000 employees. The last thing anyone would say about Roach is that he was a failure. However, state standardized exams came to this conclusion. In order to understand just how well these tests are really working, Roach took math and reading exams designed for 10th graders. The results? Roach scored a 62 percent on the reading and a 17 percent in math. Obviously, if a successful, accomplished adult like Roach did this poorly on the exams, one should have questions about how necessar y the information these exams test is to the lives of the students taking them. To take Roach’s own words, “A test that can determine a student’s future life chances should surely relate in some practical way to the requirements of life.” We give Roach a laurel for exposing the flaws in standardized testing. Perhaps this will be the first step toward an overhaul of a broken system. *

The Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act of 2011, aimed at stopping the Environmental Protection Agency from imposing strict rules regarding the control of farm dust, passed the House yesterday 268 to 150. But the problem is that the EPA has not imposed such a rule, nor does it plan to. So essentially, Congress “spent an entire day debating about a bill that does not address an existing problem,” said Rep. Diana DeGette, D- Colo. We give Congress a dart for wasting their time when there is a plethora of real problems for which they could be considering solutions. *

Whether or not you are a vegetarian, you probably are not a fan of animal cruelty. Unfor tunately for those of us who do eat meat, many companies that raise livestock engage in questionable treatment of their animals before they are slaughtered. Some companies, however, are star ting to change their ways for the better. Smithfield Foods Inc., the largest pork producer in the world, has plans to phase out the use of gestation crates entirely by the year 2017. Gestation crates are small metal crates that allow the pigs vir tually no room to move around or be comfor table at all. Smithfield plans on moving to a system of group housing instead of utilizing these inhumane cages. For that, we give them a laurel. *

Gov. Rick Perr y, R-Texas, thinks America is broken. While some may agree with this assessment, we hope they do not agree with Perr y’s reasoning behind his conclusion. In a brand new campaign advertisement, which has been widely panned, and rightfully so, Perr y announces there is something wrong with the United States when gays can ser ve in the militar y but children cannot practice Christianity in school. Perr y then goes on to attack President Barack Obama’s “war on religion,” saying that he would end that if he became president. To put it quite simply, the only thing broken here is Perr y’s logic. Equating the struggle for gay rights to the relatively small woes of the Christian majority is just insulting to any and all oppressed groups. We give Perr y a dar t for encouraging hate. *

Americans do not have a lot of confidence in our government right now. According to an October New York Times poll, Congress’ approval rating is at an all-time low of 9 percent. Perhaps that is why President Barack Obama is taking drastic measures to ensure that Congress does its job. In an effort to make the legislature extend payroll tax cuts and unemployment insurance, Obama is prepared to delay his Christmas vacation for as long as it takes, and he is asking Congress to do the same. We give Obama a laurel for showing a tremendous amount of dedication to the American people. When our confidence is at an alltime low, it is reassuring to see politicians put the public before themselves.

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had the chance to sit buildings, in constant use down with a friend last from early morning until late week who, upon arrival, at night, have become shabbegan mournfully explaining bier and shabbier,” he said. to me a deeply seated frusWhat can we — as stutration he had with the state dents, administrators, eduof academics here at the cators and politicians — University. “I’m so pissed,” make of these statements? CHASE BRUSH he lamented. “Rutgers falls The notion that somewhere in national academic rankhidden in the dark bowels of ings every year. I study my ass off, and the school Scott Hall or in a crowded locker room of the football gets worse and worse. What’s the problem?” team resides potential to recreate the University as My friend, an international student from Beijing an East Coast Berkeley or Michigan should be studying accounting, explained to me that he chose incentive enough to get our priorities straight, putRutgers for its reputation and noteworthy academic ting education over extracurriculars and athletics. ranking. He noticed the University has dropped in Yet the problem, it seems, is not the quality of eduits ranking, according to the Academic Ranking of cation or reputation here at the University. Nor is it, World Universities, by several points over the past according to the article, a lack of funding. The probfew years. In 2003, the University was lem may instead be the fact that ranked at 38, but dropped to 54 seven many students, like me, are overly “The University was content with the state of things, the years later. Admittedly, he may have been overquo. Despite a sub-par educalong ago established status stating the matter. After all, Rutgers is, tional experience wrought with as a leading by many standards, an outstanding crowded lecture halls — or classes school. It boasts top-tier departments in taught by teaching assistants and institution in philosophy, mathematics and cognitive graduate students rather than fullscience, among others. Its football the United States.” time professors — and a measly team, though they rarely like to demonreturn on our investment in an overstrate their true talent — out of modsaturated job market, it’s a surprise esty, of course — is nationally renowned. Aside from that we continue to forfeit ever-increasing sums of the handful of individuals who were forced, regrettably money for college diplomas. for reasons beyond them, to settle for the University as Much of this, as my accounting friend epitotheir safety school, most students — myself included mized, may be overstated. The University is a — manage to drift through the hallowed halls of this school where one can pay relatively reasonable ingreat establishment for four years, perfectly content state prices and in return, be handed the keys to with the quality of education we receive. the doors of opportunity, so to speak, if one has But maybe that’s exactly what’s holding us — as enough grit and determination. But this doesn’t New Jersey’s flagship university — back, forever mean there’s no room to grow and indeed, we at fated to dwell among the rankings of lesser schools. the University may have exceptional opportunities Anthony Grafton, a history professor at Princeton in this respect. The University, beyond being locatUniversity, the Ivy-over-yonder, wrote an article on ed in a more than favorable geographic position, Jan. 13, 2011, titled “Our Universities: Why Are has a history that runs deep. The University was They Failing?” In it he outlines the reasons he long ago established as a leading institution in the believes have led American higher education down United States. We were founded as Queen’s the sorry road it has traveled over the last decade. College in 1766, before the American What’s more, he specifically calls out the Revolutionary War. We played the first college footUniversity for its numbered shortcomings: “In ball game against Princeton in 1869. We’ve had many universities … the sideshows have taken over more time than most other schools to get our act the big tent. … It’s hard not to be miserable when together, and we certainly have the potential to live watching what pursuit of football glory has done to up to that fabled story we tell incoming first-year Rutgers, which has many excellent departments students — that the University was once offered a and should be — given the wealth of New Jersey — spot on Team Ivy League. an East Coast Berkeley or Michigan.” The University should capitalize on these facts in He goes on to explain that the University spends the future. The University must put academics first. $26.9 million a year subsidizing its athletic proAs students, we must realize the greatness a school grams, all at the expense of its academics. with such a history and demand a quality education “Meanwhile faculty salaries have been capped and to match. raises canceled across the board. Desk telephones Chase Brush is a School of Arts and Sciences sophwere recently removed from the offices of the histomore majoring in Philosophy and minoring in rians. Repairs have been postponed, and classroom Economics. He is a desk assistant at The Daily Targum.

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Homophobia holds no legitimate intellectual ground Letter BILAL AHMED did not merely disagree with the Dec. 8 letter titled “Take care in making sweeping condemnations” — I was, in fact, completely disgusted. Not only am I shocked that such a letter was written and published in The Daily Targum, but I am also aghast that the author attempts to argue that homophobia is some sort of intellectualist choice. It reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of how bigotr y operates in the political sphere. The author attempts to paint a picture of homophobia as some sor t of intellectualist movement through figures such as philosophers John Finnis and

Francis Beckwith. He also attempts to use an analogy about vegetarianism in order to offer a poorly laid-out parallel for justifying being homophobic and having gay friends. The fact is that homophobia simply is not an intellectualist choice. It is not a phenomenon that is reached through rational thought or logic. This is simply not how bigotry operates. Just as there is no clear-minded and logical reason for embracing Islamophobia or anti-Semitism, there is absolutely none for homophobia. Rather, homophobia arises from emotion rather than intellectualism. It is an emotional reaction to a perceived external “other,” which in this case is the homosexual. Homophobia began not because philosophers

Consider facts when judging Plan B use Letter JESSIE SAGONA he Daily Targum printed an editorial yesterday expressing support for the Department of Health and Human Ser vices’ decision to continue requiring a prescription for girls ages 16 or younger to obtain Plan B, the emergency contraception or “morning-after” pill. The writer lists seven side effects of Plan B and notes, “most of these side ef fects are relatively harmless to the average adult female, but imagine how they could potentially affect the systems of younger women.” Is the writer seriously suggesting that a nine-month pregnancy is a safer, preferable alternative to some lower abdominal pain and breast tenderness, and in a growing teenager — or god forbid, preteen — no less? Yes, birth control pills of all kinds do carr y some health risks, but Plan B, when taken in one dose, contains 1.5 mg of levonorgestrel, a common hormone found in bir th control pills. A girl on conventional daily birth control pills would consume more than twice as much levonorgestrel in just 21 days. Fur thermore, the penultimate paragraph in the editorial suggests teenagers are too irresponsible and immature to

take Plan B — or even other bir th control —properly. Sure, there are couples who will have unprotected sex, never consider Plan B after wards and will wind up pregnant. But Plan B is irrelevant to them. It instead targets those girls who find themselves at the precipice of a life-changing event and do want to make a responsible choice. Anybody who is aware enough to seek out emergency contraception is almost cer tainly capable of taking a pill out of a small paper box and swallowing it. An earlier section of the editorial notes that Plan B can be “potentially dangerous if it is misused,” but I admit that I fail to see how it’s even possible to misuse a one-pill dosage of a drug. I don’t dispute there are logical reasons for upholding the prescription law, but this editorial does not mention a single one, while instead taking an ignorant and unsettling paternalistic viewpoint toward teenage girls. I’d like to suggest that the author put himself or herself in the shoes of a potentially pregnant teenage girl and ask if a full pregnancy really makes more sense than easy, confidential access to a quick dose of hormones. Jessie Sagona is a graduate student in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences.

COMMENT OF THE DAY “Basically, this whole letter is sophistry at its finest: window dressing for an incorrect moral view that few people working in the field of moral philosophy take seriously.” User “AndrewFM” in response to the Dec. 8 letter, “Take care in making sweeping condemnations”

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reasoned that homosexuality is illogical, but because early humans attacked the irregular gay person for defying the heterosexual status quo. Bullying is, at the core, about attacking

“The fact is that homophobia simply is not an intellectualist choice.” those who do not support the status quo, and in homophobia we see the same trend. Homophobia is yet another example of politicized emotion rather than intellectualism, which we obser ve throughout

modern America — most notably in the Tea Party. The other arguments come later and are quite simply an attempt to add an aura of pseudo-intellectualist legitimacy to something that is virulently opposed to difference in a given society. The author clearly has never experienced homophobia firsthand to consider it to be some sort of an intellectualist choice. He has never seen gays driven to the outskirts of town and beat mercilessly until they recanted their sexuality. He has never been forced to explain to his parents why there is nothing wrong with not being a heterosexual, constantly hearing his father say that “it’s really weird” and refusing to look him in the eye. And yes, he has

never tr uly investigated the hateful rhetoric of individuals bent on protecting their own fragile sense of homogeneity in the status quo by attacking those whose only crime was defying it. It is incredibly insulting that someone would attempt to assert that homophobia is anything more than hateful and emotional bigotry that has absolutely no place in a society which respects human rights and the diversity of its populations. Bilal Ahmed is a School of Ar ts and Sciences senior majoring in Middle Eastern studies with minors in political science and African, Middle Eastern and South Asian languages and literatures.

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DECEMBER 9, 2011

RU overcomes early offensive struggles BY JOEY GREGORY STAFF WRITER

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utgers women’s soccer players Amy Pietrangelo and Shannon Woeller earned spots on the Canadian National Team’s 23-player roster. Pietrangelo, a Quebec native, saw action as a member of the team in October during the PanAmerican games. The forward notched her first international goal in a win against Costa Rica. Woeller also saw time at the Pan-Am games, earning Player of the Match honors against Argentina. The duo heads to the team’s December training camp to prepare for the 2012 CONCACAF Women’s Olympic Qualifying Tournament.

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Angels of Anaheim and Albert Pujols agreed to a 10-year, $254 million contract yesterday, sending the former St. Louis Cardinals slugger to the American League West. The three-time NL MVP was the top prospect in the free agent market. Pujols’ deal is the second highest payday in MLB history, second only to Alex Rodriguez’s $275 million, 10year contract with the New York Yankees. The Angels also signed starting pitcher CJ Wilson to a five-year $77.5 million deal. Wilson won 16 games and posted a 2.94 ERA in 2011 for the Texas Rangers.

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brewing in the NBA. Sources indicate the New Orleans Hornets are interested in sending point guard Chris Paul to the Los Angeles Lakers, and the Lakers would in turn send power forward Pau Gasol to the Rockets. The Hornets would receive either Luis Scola or Kevin Martin from the Rockets, as well as a firstround draft pick. The NBA season is set to begin on Christmas day with five games, including a rematch of the 2011 NBA Finals between the Miami Heat and Dallas Mavericks.

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The Rutgers women’s basketball team’s performance in the early going of last night’s victory against Fordham mir r or ed KNIGHT that of the NOTEBOOK m e n ’ s team in Wednesday’s loss to Princeton. The Scarlet Knights came out with a high level of hustle and intensity, but nearly no shots fell. In the first eight minutes, the Knights shot 3-for-13 from the floor, keeping Fordham in the game for most of the first half. At the 11-minute mark, the team kicked into another gear, playing up to its No. 11 ranking. Rutgers scored on five straight possessions, prompting Fordham head coach Stephanie Gaitley to call a timeout. Out of the timeout, the Knights scored on their next five possessions to cap a 21-5 run. The scoring disparity set the tone for a game that serves as a response to the team’s first loss of the season. For the final 11 minutes of the first half, the Knights went 13-for23 from the floor. Once the scoreboard ticked into the second half, shooting was no longer a problem for Rutgers. After five minutes ran off in the second half, the Knights increased their lead from 12 to 20 points and kept their foot on the gas for the rest of the game.

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Christa Evans enjoyed her most productive game as a Knight yesterday, grabbing a season-high six rebounds to go along with two points in 13 minutes of play. “She showed us a lot of stuff. She was aggressive,” said head coach C. Vivian Stringer. “We need at least 10 to 15 solid minutes from her.”

WIN: Rutgers stymies Rams with constant full-court defense continued from back 3-point thr eat For dham brought to Piscataway. If the Rams (5-4) knew what

Evans also served as a reliable substitute for junior for ward Monique Oliver, who cleared 30 minutes played in each of the last three contests, including 47 minutes in Monday’s double-overtime loss to No. 9 Miami. Thanks to Evans, Oliver kept her minutes-played total to less than 30, with Rutgers seeing relatively little drop in production at the position. “I felt really good because we’ve been trying to get [Oliver] a break,” Stringer said.

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work toward her goal of getting her highly touted freshman class as much experience as possible. With six minutes remaining in the game, the Knights, as they have several times this year, went with a lineup of all freshmen. “The freshmen are key. We can’t play our style of game unless the freshmen are there,” Stringer said. “They know how important what they are doing is.” The quintet kept up the offensive production and defensive pressure exhibited by Rutgers for most of the game. All five of the freshmen logged more playing time than starter April Sykes, who was on the court for only 10 minutes.

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Fordham relied almost exclusively on their starters. The Rams totaled only five points from the bench, as opposed to 27 bench points for the Knights. “It’s a huge hurdle,” Gaitley said. “They have so much depth.” Junior guard Arielle Collins and senior guard Becky Peters were at the front of the Rams’ attack last night as they had all season. Collins tallied nine points and five rebounds, scoring most of her points from beyond the arc, while Peters notched 12 points. to expect from the Knights’ full-cour t defensive pressure, they cer tainly did not show it. Lacking the quickness to dribble-penetrate, Fordham relied even more heavily than usual on its 3-point shot, shooting 10-for-32 from beyond the arc — the team’s most attempts

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linebacker Von Miller returned to practice Wednesday wearing a cast over his injured right thumb. The Texas A&M product needed surger y to repair torn ligaments in his thumb and subsequently missed last weekend’s game against the Minnesota Vikings. The second overall draft pick leads all rookies with 10.5 sacks and continues to prove his versatility of f the edge.

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Freshman center Christa Evans, above, grabbed a season-high six rebounds, relieving junior teammate Monique Oliver.

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Freshman forward Betnijah Laney scored 12 points and brought down five rebounds last night against Fordham.

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since Nov. 17 against Cleveland State. The Rams also succumbed to the Knights’ pressure in the 55press, which Stringer immediately went to after Rutgers’ first points of the contest. The Knights, on the other hand, made a living in the paint, whether it was fifth-year senior guard Khadijah Rushdan slashing to the hoop or junior center Monique Oliver conver ting in the post. Oliver followed her doubledouble per formance against Miami with 14 points and five boards. “I think I was patient, and I played smart and went insideout,” Oliver said after the team’s 46-point outing in paint. After fouling out in regulation against Miami and scoring only 10 points, Rushdan stepped onto the RAC floor with something to prove. The Wilmington, Del., native logged 23 minutes of action last night while pacing the Knights with 16 points on 6-for-12 shooting. It marked her seventh double-figure performance in the Knights’ past nine games. “I definitely wanted to come out and be able to attack but just to play a smarter game,” Rushdan said. “It was really important for me to play smart.” Her cousin, freshman wing Betnijah Laney, also made impact last night in Piscataway. The Clayton, Del., native scored 12 points, grabbed five

rebounds and finished with two steals. Senior forward April Sykes, who logged 42 minutes in Monday’s meltdown in Miami, acknowledged the Knights’ loss occurred because of the team losing its composure. The Knights never lacked focus last night, shooting 50 percent from the field while completely shutting Fordham down in the second half. The Rams shot only 28.8 percent from the field in the defeat. “It has everything to do with maturity, especially for us as seniors,” Sykes said. “I think we’ve learned for our last three years, so I think that’s what helped us overcome that loss at Miami because it was a tough one.” After blowing a 16-point second half lead against the No. 9 team in the country, there is no doubt the Knights needed a rebound game before their matchup next week with No. 7 Tennessee. The Knights built their lead as much as 29 in the win, eventually warranting an all-freshman lineup for the final six minutes of regulation. Stringer got the rebound she wanted, and the Knights got back on track before playing host to 1,000plus game-winner Pat Summitt next Tuesday in Piscataway. “It just so happens that Pat and I are great friends, and we go back a long way,” Stringer said. “She wouldn’t spare me. I love her to death, but believe me, she would come in here to win first.”

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DECEMBER 9, 2011

Rice cites growing disconnect following fifth loss BY TYLER BARTO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

During the Rutgers men’s basketball team’s unraveling Wednesday against Princeton, h e a d MEN’S BASKETBALL c o a c h Mike Rice pointed to something he saw that startled him. But the visual was not something he noticed on the court of the Louis Brown Athletic Center. As the Scarlet Knights returned to the bench at the second-half eight-minute mark, Rice let his players know he saw it, too. “Look at what we’ve done,” he said in the huddle, pointing to early departing fans. “Look at what individual play does. Look at what lack of pride does.” The startling image festered with Rice at the postgame podi-

um, where he admitted a disconnect between himself and his players. He repeatedly said his team would not make the same mistakes in the future. He promised to find a way to connect with the roster. And he resolved to improve the state of a fractured relationship. “I have not connected with this team. I’m going to figure that out,” Rice said. “They’re not listening. I’m not coaching well enough, not making them listen. With young players, sometimes it’s harder. Usually you have some of the older guys self-policing.” The Knights’ loss against Princeton marked their four th in six games and second in a row at home, their worst nonconference stretch with Rice at the helm.

Juniors Austin Johnson and Dane Miller, Rutgers’ elder statesmen, each called the run one of the toughest of their careers. There were plenty of theories to go around as to why. “We think we’re better than we really are,” Miller said. Freshman point guard Myles Mack pointed to the players’ focus on their own play instead of the team’s as a whole. He also said its rankings, likely the freshman class,’ got to their head. Maybe the team needs to bond more outside the court, he said. Regardless of the root, Mack called them “possibly fixable.” “It’s just ever ybody having something to say,” Mack said. “We have to stop that and just want to get better and learn every day. That’s one of our biggest problems we need to handle.” Rice said he never experienced the type of disarray he currently bares during Rutgers’ 4-5 start. He likely never envisioned it after landing one of the top recruiting classes in the country, rated No. 24 by Rivals.com after freshman Kadeem Jack enrolled early. But with the preseason acclaim also came baggage. “Their basketball résumé for the last 18 years have been individually going to make a play,” Rice said. “We’re [playing for each other] in practice, but that’s because it’s halfcourt and you have to make six passes. That’s been one of my strengths as a head coach, to be honest with you. That’s something I’m doing a poor job of.” Rice’s passion and desire to change Rutgers’ culture likely landed him seven eager freshmen. But with their ar rival, there are several enduring questions. Do Rice’s on-court antics rub the team the wrong way? How long can the Knights continue to play as individuals until wholesale changes occur? How much does

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Freshman point guard Myles Mack said the Knights’ preseason recognition got to their heads in the first month of the season. the AAU culture and high school success influence Rice’s team? Miller insists the last question is not at all. “My AAU team, we had to pass the ball to each other,” he said. The Knights are only nine games into the season, yes. But comparatively they are off-track with last year’s team, which did not enjoy the talent pool Rutgers currently boast. Maybe there is a correlation, Miller said. “One of the things is we turn it on when we want. We don’t play together at all,” he said. “When we do play together we do a great job. Last year we knew for a fact — media, fans — or it felt like, ‘This is a team with not a lot of players, seven active players playing.’ We played hard every day. We worked hard every day. We

came out and competed. Guys on that team knew their roles. We have to be a team to win.” The Knights “discussed life” and how they will improve following another final-minute loss Wednesday, Rice said. Mack looks forward to the changes, which will occur “in every way,” he said. By all accounts, they have plenty of work to do, on and off the court. Rice enters uncharted territory with arguably his most talented roster as a head coach. The adversity figures to change him, for better or worse. “I’ll connect. It’s what I get paid to do,” Rice said. “We’re not going to make the same mistakes. We’re going to play for one another. We’re going to play basketball the way it should be played. If not, then you’re going to sit next to me.”

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Wynn, sophomore cornerback Logan Ryan, sophomore kick returner Jeremy Deering and junior punter Justin Doerner earned second-team Big East honors.

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Head coach Mike Rice said he never went through the struggles the Knights currently endure in his coaching career.

pounder Gregory Zannetti once, but that was when Goodale began to establish Rutgers as the dominant New Jersey program. “He’s changed the whole culture around here,” Zannetti said. “It’s completely different.” It sets up a matchup with Rider’s 11th-ranked Jim Resnick and gives the unbeaten Zannetti another opportunity to continue his climb through the national rankings. Zannetti was lightly recruited out of J.P. Stevens High School, but Goodale said his No. 1 priority when taking the Rutgers job was locking down New Jersey. Zannetti took note of his early successes. “Once I saw everyone was coming here, I said, ‘Forget it,’” Zannetti said. “[Rider] was under serious consideration at one time, but once I saw everyone coming over [to Rutgers], I had to come.” Rutgers now has a lineup filled with New Jersey high school state champions. Rider has one. Princeton boasts 125pounder Garrett Frey as its most experienced wrestler after four years at Blair Academy and a pair of NCAA Championships appearances. “He was in the Blair room for four years,” said 125-pounder Vincent Dellefave, “so it’s like he’s

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Junior 174-pounder Greg Zannetti faces off tomorrow against Rider’s Jim Resnick, No. 11 in the weight class. been in college six or seven years already with the way they do things.” But Dellefave, a two-time state champion at Toms River East High School, still beat Frey when they met as freshmen. Then Joey Langel beat Frey last season. It is part of the Knights’ dominance in New Jersey — something Goodale and assistant coach John Leonardis attempted to establish on Day 1. They took one of their earliest steps toward it in 2009 at the RAC.

“When I was a freshman and Goody and Leo were saying this kind of stuf f, with the team we had and what they had done so far, it was kind of like, ‘What are these two talking about?’’ said 133-pounder Mike DeMarco, the only member of the team remaining since Goodale’s first year. “Over the course of a year or a year and a half, when you buy into their system and their vision, ever ything falls into place.”

SCHIANO STILL HAS NOT two Knights selected to the seen enough of them, but he said league’s first-team offense. Sanu’s 12-game total was good the addition of five schools to the for fifth nationally, contributing Big East affirms his faith in the 1,144 yards and seven touch- league’s leadership. “I trust the people that are downs in the process. “It’s a great recognition,” Sanu doing the decision making,” he said. “I’m proud that I’m able to be said. “I haven’t studied it enough to know. I know they’re first-team All-Big East. five good football proThat’s a great feeling just grams. It’s going to be to know that all the hard fun to add them to the work you put in is getleague, and I’m excited.” ting recognized.” The Big East Sanu finished the announced Wednesday season in sole possesthat Boise State and San sion of Rutgers’ singleDiego State would join season reception mark, the league in football surpassing former only in 2013, while Knight Kenny Britt’s 87MOHAMED Central Florida, catch haul in 2008. SANU Houston and Southern He needs only four catches in Rutgers’ bowl game Methodist would have complete Dec. 30 to break the program’s membership. The addition aids the confercareer receptions total, held by now-Cincinnati Bengal Brian ence in its hopes to maintain its automatic-qualifying status with Leonard at 207. “Everybody knows he’s get- the Bowl Championship Series, ting the ball, and he still gets it, Schiano said. “All along, we know. The still makes plays,” Schiano said. “He’s got two catches that are the facts are misrepresented,” he top catches I’ve ever seen. He did said. “You know you’re going it in one season. You don’t get to to be AQ at 12 or 13 [schools]. Then there’s a new contract to coach many Mo Sanus.” Senior right guard Art Forst and be negotiated. No one may be junior safety Duron Harmon round- AQ. There may be no AQ. I ed out the Knights’ first-team selec- don’t put that much concern tions. Senior left guard Desmond into that.”

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Goodale, RU separate from in-state rivals BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

The memory of the Rider match in 2009 is still fresh in the minds of the Rutgers wrestling team. For WRESTLING some it brings a smile. Head coach RUTGERS AT Scott Goodale PRINCETON recalls the tight 18TOMORROW, 1 P.M. 6 final score. The match was a milestone for the program. It was the first dual meet at the Louis Brown Athletic Center. It broke a 17-yearlong record for most wins in a season. And it probably never should have been that way. “I give a lot of credit to their coaching staff because it’s a small, private institution that doesn’t have football to sell,” Goodale said. “This one has the facilities, the academic support, football, Big East basketball — it’s got everything you want as an athlete. We have a lot more than Rider, but they do a good job of wrestling.” The first RAC victory came in Goodale’s second year at Rutgers. A pair of lopsided victories followed the next two seasons, and tomorrow the Scarlet Knights travel to both Princeton and Rider as the No. 17 team in the country and unquestioned favorites among the three state schools. The Knights’ last dual-meet loss against Princeton, where they start the day, came in 1990. But before beating Rider at the RAC, Rutgers lost its previous five matches, including a 19-13 match in Goodale’s first season. When asked if the rivalry should have ever been that close, Goodale’s answer was simple: No. “They know what they’re doing and they’re doing something right, but I don’t think it should have been,” Goodale said. “But it was, and I give credit to them. That’s not a slight on them. It’s two totally different schools.” They each recruited 14th-ranked 174-

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KEITH FREEMAN / PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Senior point guard Khadijah Rushdan paced the Scarlet Knights last night with 16 points on 6-for-12 shooting in their win against visiting Fordham. Rushdan scored in double figures for the seventh time in the team’s nine games.

Knights enjoy rebound win at home BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

Relentlessness on both ends of the WOMEN’S BASKETBALL cour t gave the No. 11 Rutgers FORDHAM 48 women’s basketRUTGERS 68 ball team a 16point lead against a ranked opponent its last time out. A lack of focus eventual-

ly turned that lead into an 11-point doubleover time loss. So when the Scarlet Knights built a double-digit lead last night against Fordham, they made sure to keep the foot on the gas and ultimately cruised to a 6848 win at the Louis Brown Athletic Center. “The look on the freshmen — each and ever y one of them looked like they had seen a horror movie,” head coach C. Vivian Stringer said of the team’s reaction

after losing Monday in Miami. “It wasn’t cr ying — it was looking like, ‘What is this?’ I couldn’t get over that. Then it dawned on me. They haven’t lost many games and probably thought that they were invincible. … It was good to see them rally as they did [last night].” Fresh of f a loss to No. 9 Miami, the Knights (9-1) were plenty war y of the

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Greene wins league award, comes full circle at Rutgers BY TYLER BARTO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

Khaseem Greene knew Rutgers head football coach Greg Schiano moved him to linebacker in the offseason for a reason. The Big East’s leading KNIGHT tackler culminated NOTEBOOK the position change with the conference’s Co-Defensive Player of the Year award yesterday, the league announced. Greene’s honor, the first in school history, highlighted the Scarlet Knights’ second-best season total of eight Big East selections. “I’m excited,” Greene said. “I’m very happy for this family. I’m very happy for my family at home. I’m happy for myself. More or less I’m happy for everybody around me.” The Elizabeth, N.J., native recorded 127 tackles in his first year at linebacker, 20 stops more than the conference’s second-leading tackler. He was the face of a defensive unit that ranked first in the Big East in total defense and scoring defense. And he did it all with only 15 spring practices at Rutgers to draw on at linebacker.

“I’m proud of his ef for ts,” Schiano said. “[Greene is] a guy who puts it on the line for this program ever y day, whether it’s in the meeting room or on the practice field. He trusted us when we changed his position and went out and did great. I think it’s well deser ved.” Greene played linebacker at Elizabeth High School and during Pop Warner, but transitioned to safety at Avon Old Farms (Conn.) after committing to Rutgers. He returned to his old position in the spring, when Schiano realized his 2010 defense lacked the resources to contend with Big East spread offenses. Greene turned Schiano’s plan into results, headlining a defensive effort that returned the Knights to their aggressive past. “To coach’s credit, he knew I would be able to do something special there,” Greene said. “I just credit coach and my teammates for putting me in a position to perform.”

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Junior linebacker Khaseem Greene led the Big East with 127 tackles in his ascent to Big East Co-Defensive Player of the Year with Cincinnati’s Derek Wolfe.