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U. study finds paid family leave beneficial BY KRISTINE ROSETTE ENERIO NEWS EDITOR

There are economic and social benefits to providing paid leave for workers who seek time of f to care for a seriously ill family member or a newborn child, according to a University study released yesterday. The National Par tnership for Women and Families commissioned the University’s Center for Women and Work to run the study, which calls for a national family leave policy that will give all workers access to such benefits. “Paid leave policies are good for working families, for businesses and for the public,” said Vicki Shabo, director of work and family programs at the National Par tnership for Women and Families. “This research and its findings … come at a par ticularly impor tant time when working families are struggling and the economy is in trouble.” The data, which spans from 1997 to 2009, represents those born between 1980 and 1984, said Linda Houser, post-doctoral research associate at the Center for Women and Work. Researchers specifically looked at the ef fects of those who took paid leaves versus those who took unpaid leaves for employees working par t-time or 20 hours or more per week. Seventy-two percent of paid-leave workers and 58 percent who did not take leave were working nine to 12 months after bir th, said Houser, an assistant professor at Widener University. “Past research [has] suggested that without leave, women are more likely to disconnect from the workforce,” she said. Sometimes workers face a situation where they must leave a job to care for another family member. When they are ready to return, they

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Activists from Occupy New Brunswick and Barry Deloatch supporters stand outside the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office yesterday in downtown New Brunswick to protest the lack of charges posed against the two officers involved in the Sept. 22 Deloatch shooting.

Protestors demand officers face charges BY ANASTASIA MILLICKER ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

New Br unswick activist Tormel Pittman led the cheer “no justice, no peace” to a crowd of about 20 protesters yesterday in front of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Of fice, occupying the sidewalks as police of ficers drove in marked cars looking on the group. Members of Occupy New Brunswick and Barr y Deloatch suppor ters gathered with demands that New Br unswick police of ficers Brad Berdel and Dan Mazan be charged with the death of Deloatch. Mazan and Berdel stopped Deloatch, a 46-year-old New Brunswick resident, and two other unidentified men during a

routine patrol on Sept. 22. During the stop, Deloatch was shot and killed. “We’re here to make a stand that [the prosecutor’s office] treats these officers like you would any other citizen,” said Pittman, leader of the Deloatch protest. “Leave it to the grand jur y to determine if they’re innocent.” Jim O’Neill, spokesman for the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Of fice, said the prosecutor’s office has not officially identified the police of ficers involved in the shooting. No charges have been filled against the officers, he said. “The case has been presented to the grand jury,” O’Neill said. “We had asked a superior court … to investigate the incident.” Ellen Whitt, an Occupy New Brunswick activist, said despite the fact

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that the prosecutor’s of fice has yet to file charges, they are required to go to a grand jur y where she hopes justice will be ser ved. Whitt said she is still uneasy with the question of whether the officer’s actions against Deloatch were necessary. “Officers have not released details,” she said. “We know that he had a puncture wound, but we don’t know if he had bruises or how he got his injuries.” Whitt said she continues to hand out leaflets with information about Deloatch and Occupy movements with the hopes of keeping New Br unswick residents informed. “[Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan] knows we are here, and we are

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Comedian Adam Mamawala, New Jersey Comedy Festival winner, performs his routine last night in the Cook Campus Center during “Laugh In the New Year,” sponsored by the Rutgers University Programming Association.

With the star t of the spring semester comes the need to obtain textbooks. But this semester, students are turning away from purchasing traditional textbooks in favor of renting or buying e-textbooks and used books. Jessica Zaloom, public relations representative of online textbook retailer and renter eCampus.com, said this season could make-or-break textbook retailers, as the sale and rental of e-textbooks threaten traditional textbook sales. Although this poses a threat to textbook companies and retailers, Matt Montgomer y, CEO of eCampus.com, said his company intends to overcome the obstacles by stocking up on popular textbooks and of fering used options.

“The key to success is having the right books in stock at the right point,” he said. “All of our preparation focuses on ensuring we reach both benchmarks.” He said the cause of low textbook return rates is based on the prospective value of the book for the following semester. “Buyback prices are established based on the future value of the book the next semester,” Montgomer y said. “If a publisher releases a new edition of an existing text, the buyback value of the old edition will decrease dramatically.” He said many students prefer having a physical copy of the book rather than a digital copy because the physical copies do not have a subscription expiration date. “E-books have drawbacks. The greatest is that they are

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U. educates to keep nurses in Haiti BY YASHMIN PATEL STAFF WRITER

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The New Jersey Film Festival Spring 2012 Film Screening, sponsored by the Rutgers Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center and the Rutgers University Program in Cinema Studies, starts today with three films. The festival will take place at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum from 7 to 10 p.m. on the College Avenue campus. General admission fee will be $10 to $9 for students and seniors. The screening of “Calendar Girl” will host in-person director Derek Lindeman and lead actor Jensen Bucher.

Colleges Against Cancer will kick off Relay for Life at the Rutgers Student Center from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. on the College Avenue campus, where there will be free food and drinks for participants. Students can get into the relay spirit and join the fight against cancer with the chance to play games and win prizes. Landscape Architecture will sponsor Harvard Soils Project where guest speaker Eric Fleisher will speak from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Douglass Campus Center about the soil ecology, water conservations, composting and non-toxic pest controls.

Rutgers University Programming Association is hosting a Just For Fun indoor ice skating rink at the Douglass Campus Center from 2 to 11 p.m. Students can attend the Winter Wonderland event where there will be ice skating, a hot cocoa bar and winter-themed crafts, while supplies last.

The Rutgers Energy Institute is sponsoring a morning Café Hour for conversation on energy-related topics. Students, faculty and staff will be attending and are welcome to learn and share ideas. The event will take place from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. in The Cove of the Busch Campus Center where there will be coffee, tea, refreshments and a light breakfast available. There is no fee or reservations needed.

There will be dancing on the 4,500 square-foot wooden dance floor to Brian Nash at the main gym from 8 to 11:30 p.m. on the College Avenue campus. Music includes chacha, foxtrot, hustle, jive, merengue, polka, quickstep, rumba, samba, salsa/mambo, swing, tango and waltz.

TA Project & Center for Teaching Advancement & Assessment Research will sponsor a podcasting event from 9:45 to 11:15 a.m. where students can create and do editing of audio content using the free “Audacity” software and how to distribute the files to students as a “podcast” using RSS or iTunes.

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Because the number of nurses in Haiti declines and the lack of nursing programs in the country persists, the Rutgers College of Nursing established a program abroad to lend a helping hand. Elise Lev, associate professor at the College of Nursing, said she thought of the idea to bring a nursing program to Haiti after learning many nurses there come to the United States for further education and do not return home. “The United States has 940 nurses per 100,000 population. [In] Haiti, there are only 10.7 nurses per 100,000,” Lev said. “What that means is that there isn’t the health teaching [or] the counseling [for patients].” While partnering with Faculty of Nursing Science of the Episcopal University — the only school in Haiti with a program comparable to the College of Nursing — Lev set out to establish an online program designed to help nursing students at Episcopal University achieve a baccalaureate degree. Lev and Gayle Pearson, a College of Nursing assistant dean, teach five students in the program, alongside other educators. Lev said she teaches some of the classes in Haiti. When she is not there, the students get their lessons

from PowerPoint slides that have her voice recorded on them. Joy McDonald, manager of information technology in the Rutgers-Newark Office of Academic Technology, went to Haiti and helped set up a Blackboard site, a learning management system like Sakai. She said the students had no trouble adjusting to the technology. “I think it’s amazing how much technology is pervasive and is used by the citizens in Haiti despite some of the economic issues that they have to deal with,” McDonald said. The initial proposal for the program did not happen because of financial issues, she said. But with the help of the College of Nursing’s Dean William Holzemer, she and other faculty members were later funded to go to Haiti and see if such a program would be possible. “[We] interviewed the students who would presumably be in the program — though they do in fact have a lot of capacity to use technology, and they’re very comfortable using computers,” McDonald said. The Haiti Nursing Foundation provided grant money for a year so the College of Nursing could develop a professional program to help teach both the students and faculty within Episcopal University, Lev said. The first year of the program is in the beginning stages and aims

to give students a certificate in nursing education from the College of Nursing. Rather than the program focusing on the United States’ health priorities, the students in Haiti will learn more about the health issues that concern their country, Lev said. “The hospitals and the health care in Haiti are so very different, and the needs of Haiti are so very different, and what we’re focusing on and what this community health will focus on is the needs of Haiti,” she said. She said nurses could make a difference by educating the people of Haiti in terms of what they need to do to take better health precautions. “The Haitian nurses can change their lives by modifying conditions such as infectious diseases [and] telling them how to prevent them,” Lev said. She said educating in Haiti allows the program to concentrate on the disparities that currently result from health inequalities. John Estrell, a College of Nursing sophomore, said the program is a good way to reach out to Haiti, but the program would be better if it provided more inperson interactions with the students in Haiti. “I completely believe in handson education, but I also think the Internet and doing [it] online is a start, because you can’t get all these professors to move to Haiti,” he said.

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STUDY: Calif., NJ establish paid family leave to care for ill continued from front must work for a different job, she said. When placed in that circumstance for even a short amount of time, individuals are less likely to re-enter the workforce. “The longer the disconnect, the greater the likelihood,” Houser said. The study also found that paid leave has decreased dependency on public assistance income, such as food stamps, cash assistance and disability payments, she said. For women who received paid leave, 15 percent depended on public assistance after they gave birth to their child, she said. But of those who did not take leave or were unpaid, 26 percent were still dependent. The research showed that all women, regardless of marital status or whether they were above or below the poverty line, became less dependent on public assistance after taking paid leave, Houser said. Researchers also saw the same pattern when they looked at men who took family-related leave. “The interpretation here is a little more difficult, because the men are presumably not recovering physically after the birth,” she said. “But still for their full family effect, we see this reduced use of public assistance for their family as a whole.” While the study advocates for a national policy that broadens the standards of eligible workers, only five states provide some sort of personal medical leave policy — California, Hawaii, New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island, Shabo said. California and New Jersey take their policies a step further by establishing paid family leave policies that allow people to care for new children or seriously ill family members, she said. “The New Jersey Family Leave Insurance Program is an excellent example of successful programs that can be implemented to address the issues brought forth in this report,” said Karen White, director of the work and family programs at the Center for Women and Work. So far, more than 73,000 workers have used the paid family leave in the program’s two-and-a-half years of existence, White said. There has been growing support for the implementation of a national program, although this issue has existed for a number of years, Shabo said. President Barack Obama’s administration proposed a statelevel paid leave fund in its budget for the past two years, she said. Their plan awards competitive grants as an incentive for states to establish paid leave programs. But Shabo believes that a stronger U.S. program is necessary. “We really need a national standard and not a patchwork of paid leave policies through the states,” she said. Rep. Pete Starkey, D-Calif., and Rep. Rosa DeLauro, DConn., are working to draft a national system that would provide partial wage replacement programs, just as New Jersey and California’s policies do, Shabo said. “We believe research like this helps to bolster the case, particularly tying it to this economic time and the challenges that families, governments and employers are all facing,” she said. “We believe that this would be a win, win, win solution for everyone.”

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Farmers receive honors for driving local produce market BY GIANCARLO CHAUX STAFF WRITER

Four Middlesex farmers were honored for fueling the county’s growing status as leaders in New Jersey agriculture Wednesday night at the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Hotel in Atlantic City. Middlesex growers Jim and Sue Giamarese from East Brunswick, John Hauser of Old Bridge and William Griffin of Plainsboro each received awards for their various successes in promoting local agricultire, said Bill Hlubik, agricultural and resource management agent for Middlesex County. “I think in terms of leadership, creativity and ingenuity, they are one of the top — if not the top — group in the state,” he said. Hlubik, who also serves as the Middlesex County extension department head, said the county’s multiple showings at the 2012 Vegetable Growers of New Jersey and State Agricultural Convention dinner points to the strength of the area’s farmers. The convention dinner marked a special occasion for those involved in the agricultural industry, drawing in important figures from all over the state, he said.

“It was a significant opporJim Giamarese and his wife tunity for all vegetable growers Sue were awarded the “Vegetable to get together to learn about Grower of the Year” award, the latest on production and adding to their contributions to marketing,” he said. “Even Middlesex County, which began Gov. Chris Christie was there more than two decades ago, to give a talk on the impor tance Hlubik said. of agriculture.” “Jim won the ‘National Hauser, presiYoung Farmer of dent of Hauser the Year’ award “There has been Hill Farms, said in 1989,” he said. he felt honored “I remember quite a step up when the New going up to his Jersey State farm when I first in promoting Hor ticultural star ted and being local and fresh Society awarded ver y impressed him the “Fruit with his enthusi[produce].” Grower of the asm. He was one JOHN HAUSER Year” award. of the first direct President of Hauser Hill Farms “It makes you marketing farmfeel like you are ers, which means doing something he sold directly good in the state,” he said. “It is to consumers in the area.” quite an elite group that has Griffin won the “Distinguished received these honors in the past.” Service to Agriculture” award, Hauser comes from a line of which reflects the multiple leadlocal growers, which he said ership positions he has taken helped establish a close connec- throughout the years, Hlubik tion between the farm shares said. Griffin also serves as presiwith the county. dent of the Middlesex County “I am the fourth generation Board of Agriculture. that has farmed in this same “The [New Jersey] location [in Old Bridge],” he Department of Agriculture takes said. “I farmed with both my dad a look at factors such as business, and my grandfather, so I learned service, leadership and outreach a little bit about his growing from to the community,” he said. their experience.” Jaymie Santiago, project

coordinator and market manager of the New Brunswick Community Farmers Market, said Middlesex County residents should suppor t local farms and farmers markets, because they represent a vital part of the community. “In the long run, it would allow more access to healthy food, as well as help sustainability efforts — a ver y popular issue now in terms of social wants and pressures,” he said. “In terms of investment, it actually increases the money put into the local economy and supports local businesses.” Tailgate markets — outdoor markets where farmers sell produce directly to customers — have grown in number recently, a sign that New Jersey has been improving agriculturally, Hauser said. “There has been quite a step up in promoting local and fresh [produce],” he said. Santiago said local residents might not be aware of the award ceremony, but residents can still appreciate the quality of their county’s farmers. “We do surveying at our farmers markets,” he said. “And the quality of the produce is always at the top of the lists.”

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New Brunswick activist Tormel Pittman calls upon the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office to acknowledge protestors’ demands for charges against two city officers involved in the shooting of a resident.

OFFICERS: Investigator says tipline could aid in case continued from front going to continue to be out here,” she said. “We got to be here for the city.” Rodney Blount, a Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office investigator, said the case is under investigation, but it will take time. “The investigation is a very strange investigation,” he said of the timeliness and parties involved in the investigation. “Anyone who has any more information should come directly to me. We want to step up this investigation.” Blount, who was born and raised in New Brunswick, said information collected from Crime Stoppers of Middlesex County would help bring justice and peace to this case.

Pittman said the officers are said. “We have to fight for the on paid leave, but these efforts good officers. [We] don’t need to are insufficient. Instead, he said address the community.” the officers should be charged He also said the issue of police and placed in front of brutality is not a race issue. a grand jur y to determine “We have all nationalities and their innocence. colors here,” he “If [Officer] said. “Police bruMazan gets tality impacts “The investigation acquitted by the ever yone — grand jur y, then black, whites, is a very strange we will have no Hispanics. We’re investigation. ... problem with it. looking at the But it’s not up to overall picture We want Kaplan to let them and so you can’t to step [it] up.” go,” he said. say it’s a race Pittman said thing.” RODNEY BLOUNT the New Pittman said Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Brunswick Police the city’s absence Office Investigator Depar tment is in the Deloatch there to protect marches and ralits citizens, which some do well. lies has been upsetting. But officers also need to obey He recently attended a march the law. in Gar field, N.J., for Malik “I support the good cops. If Williams, a 19-year-old man shot someone says they don’t like the by police on Dec. 10 after leavcops, then they are crazy,” he ing the police station when he

was booked on assault, according to nj.com. At the march, Garfield Mayor Frank Calandriello and the Garfield Police Chief marched and offered condolences to the family, Pittman said. “[New Brunswick Police Director Anthony] Caputo has not yet to show his face,” he said. “We got to give these police officers a voice. We need to give city council a voice. We need to balk these efforts and bring justice to New Brunswick.” Pittman said he would continue to rally until officers Mazan and Bredel are charged for Deloatch’s murder. “We will continue to be here on a constant basis,” he said. “Next Thursday we will be here [The Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office on Bayard Street] again at 4 p.m. out in the cold. We can’t change the world, but we can change New Brunswick.”

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Nevada fire forces 4,000 to evacuate THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RENO, Nev. — Winds gusting up to 82 mph pushed a fastmoving brush fire south of Reno out of control yesterday as it burned several homes, threatened dozens more and forced more than 4,000 people to evacuate their neighborhoods. Reno Fire Chief Michael Hernandez said more than 230 firefighters were battling the blaze that had grown to nearly 5 square miles about four hours after it started. Hernandez confirmed homes had been destroyed. He said he didn’t know how many but told reporters “the news is not good.” There were no immediate reports of any deaths or injuries. A Reno television station reported at least 10 homes had burned since the fire broke out about 12:45 p.m. along U.S. Highway 395 about 10 miles south of Reno. The blaze was burning about 15 miles from the downtown Reno casino district and within about five miles of the southern city limits. Gov. Brian Sandoval declared a state of emergency. A five-mile stretch of U.S. 395 was closed as the strong winds pushed the flames north toward Reno along the base of the hillsides, Washoe County sheriff’s Deputy Armando Avina said. Heavy smoke reduced visibility to zero. “It’s moving at a very fast rate,” Avina said. “The winds are extremely powerful in this area.” Deputies were going door to door asking people to leave their homes in Pleasant Valley, Old Washoe Valley and Saint James Village, Avina said. They evacuated about 300 students from Pleasant Valley Elementary School. Ten homes had burned — a half-dozen of them in the Washoe Valley Estates neighborhood, KRNV-TV reported. The Reno Gazette-Journal reported explosions could be heard in the area. Firefighters had zero containment of the blaze and were concentrating on using crews and trucks to protect homes in the path of the flames, Hernandez said. He estimated firefighters had saved about 1,000 structures and said another 80 to 120 firefighters are expected to arrive on scene before midnight. “To say we are in the thick of battle is an understatement,” he told reporters. The strong winds blowing over the Sierra ahead of a winter storm caused delays earlier yesterday in Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to Reno, where he was two hours late to give a speech at Galena High School on the south end of town. The air smelled of smoke at the school, which sits on the Mount Rose Highway leading to Lake Tahoe. Biden told the audience about 25 minutes into his speech that he was cutting his remarks short because of the fire. The flames, up to 40 feet high, raced through sage brush, grass and pines in an area where small neighborhoods are dispersed among an otherwise rural landscape. Washoe County animal services officials were helping round up horses and other livestock for evacuation.

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RUTGERS-CAMDEN BLACK LAW STUDENT ASSOCIATION SELECTS THREE HONOREES FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE AWARDS The Rutgers-Camden Black Law Students Association chose three community leaders to be honored on Jan. 26 at the 16th annual “Dr. Mar tin Luther King Jr. Champions of Social Justice” awards banquet. The event will recognize Gwendolyn Blue, N.J. Superior Cour t judge, Bruce Main, president of Urban Promise in Camden, and David Sciarra, executive director of the Education Law Center in Newark, as individuals who have promoted the ideals of King through their contributions towards the community, according to a University release. Molly McNulty, president of the Black Law Students Association, said the banquet has maintained a tradition of praising those who are dedicated to improving the community. “Over the past 16 years, it has been our honor to recognize individuals both within and outside of the

STUDENTS: E-books not expected to impact market continued from front predominantly subscriptions of roughly one semester,” he said. “For students who need to keep their books for future reference, this is clearly not workable.” Montgomer y said e-books are not expected to make a significant impact on the market, but the rising rate of rental books is expected to continue. E-books make up 7 percent of the market and that number is not expected to increase, according to an eCampus.com research repor t. But he expects the opposite to occur with rentals. “We expect to see [textbook rentals] increase over the course of the next several years,” he said. Bob Thiel, general manager at used bookstore NJ Books, said students are more likely to save the most money buying used books and selling them back. “Selling back books can definitely produce the lowest net

legal community whose commitment to social justice and equality has embodied the vision of Dr. King,” McNulty said in the release. Students and faculty advisors representing the Black Law Students Association have honored 75 community leaders since 1997 for aspects such as their impact on society and leadership qualities. The awards banquet will donate all proceeds to a group of Camden high school students competing in a mock trial competition held in Washington, D.C. in March. McNulty said the event is an oppor tunity for the community to come together for a unifying celebration. “Our annual awards banquet is truly a night of reflection, fellowship and inspiration for ever yone in attendance,” she said in the release.

cost to a student,” he said. provided that the publisher has “However, fewer and fewer not released a newer edition of books are available for buy the title. back as publishers often update Some students have their editions.” expressed interest in downThiel said students who would loading their books digitally, prefer to see the savings upfront citing cheaper prices and should look to rentals. more convenience. “Renting books is a safer way to Maxwell Bartels, a School of go, definitely less of Arts and Sciences a gamble,” he said. junior, said he was “Obviously, pur“Selling back books unhappy with the chasing a book can rentals that camcan definitely yield a better return, pus bookstores but there’s also a produce the lowest provide. chance its value will Book retailer net cost decrease.” Barnes and Noble For NJ Books, — which manages to a student.” the sale trends t h e are not as clean Cook/Douglass BOB THIEL cut as the rest of and Penn Plaza NJ Books General Manager the industr y, R u t g e r s Thiel said. Bookstores — “The industry has seen rentals declined to comment at press on the rise, but it’s really hard to time. say because we haven’t offered “This semester I’m going to rentals for very long,” he said. “In download a lot more books,” comparison with last semester, Bar tels said. “It’s cheaper, we have more titles available for it’s simpler, and I won’t have rent, but it seems that students to keep track of any have preferred to purchase books rented books.” and sell them back.” Kirkland Hamilton, a School of Thiel said students could Arts and Sciences senior, sell their books back for up to expressed his concern for the two thirds the initial price, prices of textbooks.

“If my books aren’t available digitally, then I’d rather just go without them,” he said. “Otherwise it’s just too much money out of my pocket at once.” Sam Rea, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said he buys and sells all of his books exclusively online. “I usually only get about 25 percent of my money back,” he said. “I don’t usually rent any books. I just buy them at the star t of the semester and hope I can sell them back for a decent price.” He said if he had the opportunity to download books, he would keep his textbooks digital. Patrick Kessel, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said he prefers a real book instead of a digital copy. “There’s just something about having the book,” he said. “Ebooks aren’t as versatile. You can’t flip back and forth as easily or write notes in the margins.” Kessel said he continues to buy used books and sell them back to the bookstore. “I’ll get rentals if I can save a good amount of money,” he said. “But other than that I stick to used books.”

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arlier this week, the University community celebrated the 15year anniversary of that iconic sandwich, the “Fat Darrell.” Despite being little more than a greasy marriage of chicken fingers, mozzarella sticks, french fries and marinara sauce inside a roll, the fare remains a beloved guilty pleasure of nearly every student on campus. And the forefather of this creation, to whom we all owe a big thankyou, is University alumnus Darrell Butler. Fed up with the limited number of choices offered by the grease trucks in Lot 8 back in 1997, Darrell had the vision of a new, more delicious breed of fat sandwich. The final product became what we now know as the “Fat Darrell.” For this, Darrell Butler deserves a laurel. His inspiration and contribution to our University community will be forever remembered, or at least for as long as the trucks continue to sell the sub that bears his name. *

Health-related problems have been a major concern for many lately, ranging from anorexia to childhood obesity — and it’s important to know what factors are responsible for these conditions. According to Lenna Nepomnyaschy, an assistant professor in the School of Social Work, recent research in the fields of nutrition and social work has uncovered a link between obesity and father involvement among children with unmarried parents. Nepomnyaschy spoke to a group of about 40 people Wednesday in Davison Hall on Douglass campus, explaining that “more frequent contact with fathers … [is often] associated with higher instances of obesity among children.” We laurel Nepomnyaschy and her work, which addresses a concern that affects so many people. Knowing what causes childhood obesity will bring us closer to curbing it. *

By now, most of us have heard about the capsizing of the Costa Concordia last week off the coast of Italy. The cruise ship’s captain, Francesco Schettino, who admitted to steering the ship off-course to salute a colleague, is now being investigated for charges including manslaughter. And to make matters worse, shortly after the ship began going down, Schettino fled on a lifeboat to shore and quickly thereafter caught a taxi home. Despite making a blatant mistake, Schettino has yet to justify exactly how he ended up leaving the ship so quickly after running it aground. According to a recent hearing, the only excuse the captain has come up with is that he “tripped … and ended up in one of the lifeboats.” We find such an excuse ridiculous and insulting. We think a cruise ship captain with so much responsibility should be a bit more mature. Almost more so for his absurd excuse than for his original blunder, we give Schettino a dart. *

Tom Reed, a Middle Township man, recently shattered, and subsequently set, a new state record for bird sightings. Observing a total of 362 kinds of birds, the Cape May County bird watcher spent years driving thousands of miles across the state to catch glimpses of the feathered animals. “It was fun for the most part,” said Reed. “I try to step back and look at it as a regular person might see it as an insane activity.” Such dedication to one’s passion should be commended, so we give Reed a laurel. Whether you’re a bird watcher, a student, a teacher or just someone with a hobby, we can all learn a thing or two from Reed. *

MegaUpload.com, one of the world’s largest file-sharing sites, was shut down yesterday. The site allegedly cost copyright holders more than $500 million in lost revenue from pirated films and other content. Shortly after the recent controversy over bills like Stop Online Piracy Act and Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act, we can’t help but wonder whether campaigners for such crackdowns truly understand the Internet. MegaUpload, considered a “cyberlocker,” is an online resource where users can upload and transfer files that are too large to send by email. For a functional Internet, such sites are necessary. Those who oppose sites like MegaUpload include the Motion Picture Association of America, who, according to a TIME article, “estimated that the vast majority of content being shared on the site was in violation of copyright laws.” Our question is, when will our nation’s leaders and CEOs realize that Internet sites like MegaUpload are fundamentally beneficial resources, providing individuals with services that improve their lives, rather than viewing substantial Web resources and communities as infringements on anti-piracy laws? We dart the Motion Picture Association of America and all others who have waged war against Internet freedom during the past few months. If Internet freedom must come at the cost of a little online piracy, so be it.

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can’t say I feel safe rate,” said Glenn riding my bike Patterson, director of the around New Department of Planning, Brunswick. I don’t feel Community and safe locking it up most Economic Development. places around campus, “Pedestrians often make having one bike stolen jerky movements, which already. But what makes are unpredictable, and ALEKSI TZATZEV me write this column is cyclists will have difficulty the ordinance the New avoiding them.” Brunswick City Council passed on Wednesday. It This holds true for motor vehicles as well. prohibits riders 12 years or older from riding on Drivers aren’t as careful as we would hope, and the sidewalk and requires them to have a bell bicyclists aren’t as skilled as they think, especialand lights on their bikes. Fines will range from ly if they hit the streets. I ride on the streets, feel$25 for a first offense and $50 to $100 for subseing pretty confident (or lucky) that I am not going quent offenses. to get hit, but there have been countless times The inception and deletion of the law itself is that I have been cut off by a car turning right or kind of comical and shows how the city really running a red light because they think they can runs. It was a city ordinance passed back in 1893, make it. I have had University buses not see me which included the sidewalk ban, but was “accigive the signal that I am turning, which is even dentally” deleted on Sept. 15, 2010, more dangerous when it comes to according to former City other drivers who barely know “It was simply Spokesman Bill Bray. It’s back — what hand signals mean. Overall, I with added possible litigations. say it is the safest city. I felt careless instituting can’t It isn’t counter-intuitive that biksafer biking through Paris, where ers should not speed past slower an ordinance before drivers like to back up one-way pedestrians on the sidewalk, but it streets because it is shorter, but it setting the wheels is also necessar y that bikers are is also a city with an extensive provided with the same safety with bike-lane network. in motion for which pedestrians are allocated. One last point I will make is the bike lanes.” Bike lanes have been proposed that city officials are simply overand have been in the talks at city reaching and abusing their council, but I am willing to bet they authority. Law enforcement aren’t going to be built on George Street (campus already doesn’t have the noblest of reputations commuters going from the College Avenue camwhen it comes to New Br unswick citizens. pus to Douglass campus). The street was rebuilt Tr ying to pull over bikers can only lead to just last year after months of detoured traffic, so unwanted conflict. What’s next? Bike licenses? that’s out of the question. The other possibility is All-season tires? Inspection? Insurance? introducing the bike lanes to Neilson Street (the I cannot find much good with the ordinance. I alternate to George Street, just north of it), but I cannot find much safety in New Brunswick for can’t foresee bikers circumventing the new bicyclists either. I guess the police cannot fully asphalt of George Street for the pothole-ridden prevent bike theft, but they could stay away from Neilson Street. pulling bikers over for passing through a sidewalk On a more critical note though, it was simply or two. careless instituting an ordinance before setting the Also, don’t steal my bike, and give back The Daily wheels in motion for the bike lanes. Risking injury Targum design editor’s bike. Or we will get you. to bicyclists for the sake of reinstating a 100-yearDon’t touch the Targum photo editor’s bike old law because it was accidentally deleted is someeither. We will get you. thing that, I guess, was to be expected from the city. I fully support a ban on sidewalk-riding, but that is only if the same protections are offered to bicyAleksi Tzatzev is a School of Arts and Sciences senclists as are to pedestrians. ior majoring in political science and English. He is an “The reason they do this is because pedestriassociate news editor and a former opinions editor at ans are walking on the sidewalk at a much slower The Daily Targum.

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Criticism fails to advance journalistic principles Letter BILAL AHMED he author of the Jan. 19 column, “Plurality begets progress,” clearly believes in the tenets of a fair democratic process and the role journalism plays in it. As a student who is represented by the Rutgers University Student Assembly and has never been an elected part of the Rutgers Student Union, I appreciate such dedication. However, I also appreciate journalistic integrity and a fair approach to the issue that concerns all actors involved, which the author has so far proven himself unable to accomplish. The author continuously argues the talking point that the issues RUSA advocates for rarely match up with genuine student concerns, but he never cites a statistic, quotation or reliable piece of evidence to support this claim. Rather, it becomes abundantly clear that RUSA does not fully represent the author’s political interests, and instead of taking advantage of RUSA’s numerous attempts to fur ther integrate the University student body,

such as the Nov. 17 RUSA “Town Hall,” he has chosen to write articles denigrating the entire organization. I cannot speak for all students, but I myself am not even remotely represented by his argument. What the author claims is an idealistic group of students that does not campaign for student interests helped secure for me the lowest tuition increase in years — one that was lower than during inflation and in effect lowered my tuition costs for the semester. I was also able to obtain two free transcripts, which was greatly appreciated considering the existing stress of graduate school applications. I can say that my own interests were met more than adequately, and these effects certainly had more emotional investment for me than the author’s proposal in the Nov. 17 column in the Targum, “Rutgers United serves own agenda,” for an “Occupy Grease Trucks” campaign. These accomplishments certainly deserved a fair mentioning in the author’s pieces, which is certainly reasonable in my opinion — given the amount of space he has allocated for jokes.

Further on, the author does admit that the issues of student assistance and fracking are important, going on to argue that the problem is that RSU and RUSA fail to adequately represent all of University students’ interests. This broad claim is supported by an anonymous source, Mr. Y, who makes claims regarding RSU irrespon-

“I also appreciate journalistic integrity and a fair approach to the issue that concerns all actors involved.” sibly handling difficulties confronted by psychology majors. But the author never attempts to learn how this issue was confronted by either RSU or RUSA. Not once does the author question the School of Ar ts and Sciences Of fice of Academic Ser vices to check what jurisdiction RUSA even has on the issue. And not once does the author repor t on whether

RUSA President Matt Cordeiro spoke to a concern that forms the crux of his argument — that RSU does not represent student interests. It is striking that in a column where the author sees fit to note the negative reaction that his Nov. 17 column caused in some circles, he does not deem it necessar y to practice basic jour nalistic principles such as fact-checking and proper inter views. One of the trends damaging to democracy in any society is journalists’ improper repor ting on the organizations they purpor t to be holding accountable. I do not have the answers to important questions regarding RSU or RUSA, mainly because I have never adopted a formal role in these bodies, but that is exactly why I want these questions answered properly. I have read the news for quite some time, and I am weary of journalistic failures. It is not enough to simply inter view anonymous sources who clearly cater to a certain perspective. It is not enough to only interview one official at RUSA when directly attacking RSU campaigns such as “Walk Into Action,” ignoring the

need for contextual quotations from other organizers and party members. And it is not even remotely enough to report on an entire political organization without any attempt to understand its histor y, members, political dynamics or future plans, apart from an unverifiable claim that it does not adequately represent student interests. Frankly, I am irritated that the author, who claims to represent my perspective as a student, would take the time to write a column that ignores my need for actual information. I desire a well-researched piece that genuinely repor ts on the activities of RUSA and RSU, and anything other than that from the author is insulting to my intelligence. I’m sure the author, who states that, “tr ue democracy provides a for um for all voices to be heard,” would agree that my requests, criticisms and desires are legitimate. Bilal Ahmed is a School of Arts 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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ll-Star point guard Russell Westbrook signed a five-year contract extension with the Oklahoma City Thunder worth $80 million. Westbrook, 23, is fresh off his first All-Star season in which he helped lead his team to the Western Conference Championship. the Thunder were eliminated the by eventual NBA champions, the Dallas Mavericks. He was also named to the All-NBA second team in 2011, as well as one of 20 finalists of the 2012 Olympics Team USA squad. Westbrook and the Thunder (12-3) currently hold the best record in the Western Conference.

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Bengals players ran into problems with the law in the past three days. Wide receiver Jerome Simpson was indicted on charges of marijuana trafficking of more than eight ounces. He now faces jail time of up to five years and a possible NFL suspension if found guilty. Authorities traced a package with 2.5 pounds of marijuana last September to his home in Kentucky. This came a day after defensive back Adam “Pacman” Jones received a sentence of community service and probation because of an incident at a Cincinnati bar.

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Rockies agreed to terms with 49-year-old Jamie Moyer, pending a physical. They also gave the veteran right-hander an invitation to spring training, which gives him an opportunity to make the major league club. Moyer is one of only two active players who began his career in the 1980s, along with infielder Omar Vizquel. He spent the 2010 season with the Philadelphia Phillies, posting a 9-9 record with a 4.84 ERA before taking last season off to recover from Tommy John surgery. Moyer is 267-204 with a 4.24 ERA for his career.

Rice’s go-to presence on defense, Mike Poole, did not own an offer from Georgetown in high school. In fact, he waited until late in the spring recruiting season to commit. But the sophomore guard owns Rice’s trust. He needs it against the Hoyas, whose Princeton-style attack demands preparation. “For me to be the best communicator, I have to let guys know where they need to be, what’s going on at all times,” Poole said. “They depend on me out there to do that. Young guys have never played a Georgetown team, a real good team with a Princeton-style offense.” On paper, the Hoyas are like the Knights. Both teams receive contributions from at least five freshmen. Both teams lost their starting backcourts from last season to graduation. And both teams recruit along the Beltway through Virginia. But Rice sees the impact veterans sprinkled throughout head coach John Thompson III’s roster, and there is a world of difference.

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Senior forward April Sykes hopes to rebound from scoring only 6 points against St. John’s, less than half her season average.

No. 1 on the list of concerns for the Knights is senior guard Jasmine Wynne, who leads South Florida in both points per game (16.1) and rebounds per game (six). The biggest plus for Rutgers is the absence of guard Andrea Smith, who dropped 20 points and eight rebounds last season on the Knights. Smith tore her ACL last year and is redshir ting while she recovers from surger y rather than attempting to make her season debut later this year. In order to resume their winning ways, the Knights need to get their defense and full-court pressure back on track. They average 3.1 less turnovers per game than their opponents on the season.

“They have a lot of freshmen. But they have [guard] Jason Clark, who’s a senior. They have [senior center Henr y] Sims. They have seniors,” Rice said. “Their freshmen, they have some toughness to them. That’s the reason they’re top 10 in the country, but make no mistake — their team is their seniors.” Seagears, Clark and Georgetown freshman Mikael Hopkins played for the same AAU program, Team Takeover, before Seagears joined D.C. Assault, where Cox once coached. He also matched up with Sims and Hoyas sophomore point guard Markel Starks. The reunion makes Rice anxious about Seagears’ response, which is almost always with uncontrolled energy. Cox saw it with the Assault and when Seagears handled point guard duties at Flora MacDonald Academy (N.C.). On paper, Seagears continues to progress. His assist-toturnover ratio, nearly 2-to-1 now, is a testament to it. But there is always another game to play. “I worry about Jerome being overanxious every game. And now with the hometown fans, yes, that’s an extra concern,” Rice said. “Hopefully he has enough energy and keeps it bottled up. Against the Johnnies, Rutgers committed 12 more turnovers and 12 less points off giveaways. The Bulls also average 4.4 less turnovers than opponents, so the Knights’ task will be no easier than it was three days ago. The second piece absent from the game against St. John’s was senior guard April Sykes. Rutgers’ leading scorer put up just six points Tuesday compared to her 14.2 points per game average. Finally, the Knights need to fix the foul-shot disparity. St. John’s took 32 foul shots, connecting on 26 of them, while Rutgers attempted only 10 free throws. South Florida shoots nearly 70 percent as a team, so it will not be any better sending the Bulls to the line than it was with the Johnnies. If the Knights put in the same effort tomorrow that they did on Tuesday, they can expect a similar result.

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Rutgers prepares for lofty conference goals in Bronx BY ANTHONY RODRIGUEZ CONTRIBUTING WRITER

This weekend provides the Rutgers women’s track and field team with a great opportunity. T h e WOMEN’S TRACK Scarlet Knights RUTGERS AT compete GREAT DANE CLASSIC, at the TODAY N e w Y o r k Armory in the Bronx today in the Great Dane Classic. The New York Armory holds multiple competitions for high schools and colleges across the nation and will be a familiar site to the Knights even after this weekend. Six of Rutgers’ next seven meets will be held there. “We are looking for fast times,” said head coach James Robinson. “It’s definitely one of the best facilities in the country.” One of the six meets is the Big East Championship, and doing well in the Big East Championship has been the Knights’ goal since their preseason training began. “The Big East is a major focus for us,” Robinson said. “Our main emphasis is to finish in the Big East top 10.” Having a meet early in the season at the venue where the Big East competition is held can benefit the Knights in pursuing their goal. It is crucial for Rutgers to make critical assessments from their performance on the track. The Knights enter this weekend looking to continue improving. The coaches want to see more athletes finish with personal-best times, as

CHANCE: Match carries less importance than last year continued from back “They came in here and spanked us pretty good. It was in front of a big crowd, in front of New Jersey … and they came out and embarrassed us.” This year’s EIWA meeting does not hold nearly the impor tance. It is at Lehigh’s 6,000-seat capacity Stabler Arena, not in

well as have more athletes qualify for the Big East Championship and the ECAC Championship. The Knights have had some highlight performances thus far, notably Nwamaka Okobi’s record-breaking triple jump. Last week alone three athletes took first place in a total of four events, but none of the athletes on the team are ready to settle. “I personally like to have more personal bests and see better jumps this weekend,” said junior Ekene Ugboaja, who has already qualified for the Big East Championship in the triple jump. Other athletes will work on certain techniques to improve their performance. “Personally I am going to do some shorter races this coming weekend to work on my speed,” said junior Jennifer Spitzer, a cross country runner who usually competes in the mile. The Great Dane Classic also provides the Knights with an opportunity to compete against a wide range of competition. Based on the performance list, more than 20 schools will be in attendance. Competing against so many different schools with talented athletes gives Rutgers an opportunity to see where it stands. After the Great Dance Classic, the Knights return to the New York Armory next weekend to compete in the Metropolitan Championships. There the Knights look to defend their title. Last year they took the top spot in the Metropolitan Championships. “Defending our championship is impor tant to us,” Robinson said.

front of an anxious Rutgers crowd at the Louis Brown Athletic Center. It features a favored Lehigh lineup with three top-10 wrestlers and another ranked 15th in his weight class. And it welcomes a Rutgers squad not built for dual-meets as much as it was in seasons past, but more focused on placing All-Americans at the NCAA Tournament. As much as Winston and the Scarlet Knights want it, this match is more about an opportunity to pick up résumé-building

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Dan Rinaldi earns a 17-4 major decision against Marcos Aranda of Brown to bolster his unbeaten dual-meet record.

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Junior Ekene Ugboaja qualified for the Big East Championships in the triple jump. Ugboaja and the Knights enter the Great Dane Classic today in hopes for improvement and more qualifiers.

wins and less about picking up the first dual-meet victory against the Mountain Hawks since Feb. 22, 1950. “Those are the [matches] you sign up for, and there’s a lot of them,” said head coach Scott Goodale. “Heck, you can go up and down the lineup — they’re pretty good in a lot of different spots, so there’s a lot of signature wins. You just have to do it.” Winston will miss his rematch with 12th-ranked Hatchett, but Winston does not necessarily need a marquee win. The defending EIWA Champion at 165 pounds will qualify for the NCAA Tournament and be in the AllAmerican conversation. Some of his teammates could bolster their credentials, though. Senior 141-pounder Billy Ashnault won his past seven matches, but has a test Friday in 15th-ranked Stephen Dutton. Junior 197-pounder Dan Rinaldi is 15-3 this year and unbeaten in dual meets, but not against an opponent like No. 10 Joe Kennedy. “He needs a big win, a signature win,” Goodale said of Rinaldi, who could also face an unranked Kadeem Samuels. “You need to pick somebody of f who is highly regarded, then it becomes a confidence thing. He doesn’t have one of those. … If it’s Kennedy, that’s a signature win. If it’s Samuels, that’s a good win. That’s depth.” Lehigh features depth throughout, but its strength is in the heavy weights. Defending NCAA Champion Zach Rey is ranked third nationally at heavyweight and defending national runner-up Rober t Hamlin is ranked four th at 184 pounds.

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Senior 141-pounder Billy Ashnault wrestles Zack Tannenbaum of Brown in a bout that started his seven-match win streak. Sophomore 184-pounder Dan Seidenberg will have arguably the toughest weekend in a Rutgers singlet, facing Hamlin on Friday and Navy’s 13th-ranked Luke Reber tus on Sunday at the RAC. “It’s a big name, and I’ve seen him in big matches,” Seidenberg said of Hamlin. “I know he has incredible pace and wrestles hard, so I’m going to go out there and bang with him.” It is the mindset Goodale tried to instill in his team all

week approaching the match, which Goodale realizes is more about winning individual bouts than snapping a six-decade long streak. But that does not stop Winston from wanting to erase his embarrassment. “It’s something I want to do, go into Stabler Arena and throw them a beating, let them taste it a little bit,” Winston said. “It hasn’t happened in 60 years. They don’t even think about Rutgers wrestling over there.”

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RU takes on unranked foe in USF Bulls

Pupil, coach face Hoyas after exodus

BY JOEY GREGORY

BY TYLER BARTO

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On paper, Georgetown was a perfect suitor for Jerome Seagears, the Rutgers men’s basketball team’s freshman guard from Silver Spring, MEN’S BASKETBALL Md. But then David Cox left. RUTGERS AT Cox, the Scarlet GEORGETOWN, Knights’ associate TOMORROW, NOON head coach, arrived in Piscataway in 2010 as part of head coach Mike Rice’s staff. Cox recruited Seagears, so the move made sense. But Seagears is still trying to figure it out. “That’s where I wanted to go since I was a little kid,” Seagears said of Georgetown. “Cox was my main focus. Somehow he ended up in New Jersey, and I ended up here with him. I don’t know how that works.” Seagears pays his first visit to No. 10 Georgetown (15-3, 5-2) tomorrow with the Knights (11-8, 3-3). He last played at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C., last spring in a high school all-star game, but the stakes are higher. Still, the Knights’ assists leader does not mind the sideshow involved with going home. “There are going to be a lot of people,” Seagears said. “I told [Director of Player Development Eric Murdock], ‘I’m going to show you how you get real love when you go home’ because he doesn’t get any real love in Bridgewater anymore.” The quick-witted Seagears trades barbs with teammates and coaches with ease. But Rice points to his maturation as a reason Seagears continues to find the ball in his hands. “Offensively, he’s my best communicator,” Rice said of the 6-foot-1 guard. “He understands what I want. He’ll communicate to them. That’s a credit to him because he came from the bottom floor.”

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Freshman point guard Jerome Seagears once claimed Georgetown as his future home, but Rutgers associate head coach David Cox left for New Jersey in 2010.

If the Rutgers women’s basketball team had a few more minutes to complete a comeback Tuesday WOMEN’S BASKETBALL night, the conversation would be comRUTGERS AT pletely different. SOUTH FLORIDA, But like it or not, SATURDAY, 7 P.M. the Scarlet Knights (15-3, 4-1) face a rebound game tomorrow when they travel to South Florida (11-8, 3-2). St. John’s shocked No. 7 Rutgers and head coach C. V ivian Stringer when it secur ed a 5-point victor y. Fouls and tur novers sank the Knights and they left Car nesecca Arena victims of histor y, unable to topple a team they had trouble with in the past. “We forced them into a lot of turnovers and we were able to get in the lane,” said St. John’s head coach Kim Barnes Arico. “Even when we weren’t able to score, we were able to draw fouls.” Now instead of trying to maintain a perfect record in Big East play, the Knights are focusing on starting another winning streak in the Sunshine State. But that will be no easy task. Although the Bulls are unranked, they proved to be a formidable conference opponent with three Big East wins, two against ranked opponents. While the Knights are ranked higher than any foe South Florida saw this season, they do not have momentum on their side. Rutgers limps into Tampa, Fla., on the back of its first loss to an unranked opponent while the Bulls enter the evening with a two-game win streak, including an over time victor y over No. 21 DePaul. In addition to the win streak, USF has junior guard Inga Orekhova, who will play her fifth game after sitting out the first 15.

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Lehigh match offers chance to build résumés BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

It does not matter to Scott Winston that his 165-pound counterpart from Lehigh will be absent today with a broken collarbone. It does not matter that the WRESTLING marquee rematch of last year’s AllRUTGERS AT American-deciding LEHIGH, and dual-meetTONIGHT, 7 P.M. momentum-shifting meetings will have to wait until at least the EIWA Tournament. Winston said he was embarrassed by his 7-2 loss to Brandon Hatchett in last year’s dual-meet, but he was equally embarrassed by a 21-9 Lehigh victory that extended its winning streak against Rutgers to 37. “Last year I viewed this as the biggest dual in our program’s histor y, and I think you’re crazy if you didn’t think it was at that time,” said the 10th-ranked Winston.

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Junior 165-pounder Scott Winston wrestles Harvard’s Ian Roy in a Jan. 6 dual meet, which was the last time Winston wrestled. He will not get a rematch with Lehigh’s 12th-ranked Brandon Hatchett, who has a broken collarbone, tonight in Bethlehem, Pa.