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Council aims to promote health literacy

BY ADAM UZIALKO STAFF WRITER

The University’s Pharmacy Governing Council explored the implications of health literacy and the need to advocate not only patients, but also legislators during their second meeting of the spring semester.

University alumnae Alexandra Cruz and Heather Fernandez from Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield met with the council to bring their field expertise to students Tuesday at the Busch Campus Center, discussing the importance of health literacy in pharmacy.

“Basically, health literacy is a patient’s ability to understand their health care and use it to make decisions,” Cruz said.

Cruz presented a video produced by the American Medical Association, which highlighted the problems with achieving health literacy. In particular, the video presented the issue with doctor-patient communications and what information is lost when using advanced medical terminology.

Most patients process science literature at an eighth-grade level, while most health care information is communicated at a college level, according to the video.

Because of this, the information physicians give to their patients is often misinterpreted, according to the video.

For example, one man in the video mistook his doctor’s diagnosis of hypertension to mean he was extremely energetic.

Cruz said it is key for pharmacists to clearly explain to patients what exactly is going on with their health care.

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Sheila Jasanoff, a Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government professor, discusses the social stigmas associated with biotechnology Tuesday at the Alexander Library on the College Avenue campus.

Professor considers biotechnology ethics

BY GIANCARLO CHAUX METRO EDITOR

Inspired by the ethical concerns surrounding the field of biotechnology —which includes stem cell research, a Harvard University professor explored what it means to be a human, animal or embryo.

Sheila Jasanoff, professor at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, explored biotechnology Tuesday during the Center for Cultural Analysis’s open discussion in Alexander Library on the College Avenue campus.

“It seems like the studies of biotechnology are a great place to ask questions about why we believe the kinds of things

we do, as well as what kinds of imaginations we want to construct around those things,” Jasanoff said.

Stem cell research, long-debated by scientists, politicians and activists, is one of the most pivotal issues of biotechnology, but the conflict over its consequences are affected by the many conflicting positions that have come out in recent times, Jasanoff said.

“The problem is that we have many dif ferent definitions about what is involved [in stem cell research],” she said. “Some definitions divorces images of stem cells from people, while others blur the distinctions.”

Jasanoff said politicians mistakenly attempt to appeal to the different kinds of

stem cell definitions. As a result, the legislator’s decision-making process may not match up with the opinions of experts.

“Here you have a discrepancy, because ethicists are still debating whether [these practices] are wrong, but in politics you resolve a debate that has not been settled in philosophical terms,” she said.

These differences in viewpoints among cultures can be reduced to differences in the way that governments have handled scientific issues in the past, she said.

“In the U.S., the constitutional status requires science to be somewhere else apar t from politics,” Jasanof f said. “In

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Activists march against recent city shootings

BY SPENCER KENT STAFF WRITER

New Brunswick community residents protested Tuesday at the corner of Seaman Street and Remsen Avenue against recent police shootings, supporting the existing concerns with local police brutality.

A crowd of about 70 protestors walked through the streets of New Brunswick after the New Brunswick Police Department’s involvement in the recent shooting of 19-year-old city resident Victor Rodriquez.

Rodriguez had fired a gun on Seaman Street near Remsen Avenue at 6:14 p.m. on Jan. 31, when New Brunswick officers on routine patrol shot him. The shot left him injured and possibly paralyzed.

Rodriguez’s relatives said the two shots he fired were blanks.

Andrea Rodriguez, Victor Rodriguez’s aunt, said she wants the police to start taking care of the local citizens instead of increasing brutality toward city residents.

“We want them to stop shooting our people,” she said. “We want them to work for the community, protect the community and not hurt the people living here. That’s what we are looking to get out of this.”

Debra Key, a New Brunswick resident, said the message of the protest focused on the deteriorating relationship between the NBPD and the local citizens.

“I’m here for justice for Barry Deloatch and for Victor Rodriguez. The police are plaguing our streets as we — all the people in the community — are trying to live,” Key said.

Barr y Deloatch, a 47-year-old New Brunswick resident, was shot and killed during a Sept. 22 altercation involving two New Br unswick police of ficers, Daniel Mazan and Brad Berdel, in an alleyway near Throop Avenue and Handy Street.

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About 70 protesters crowd the streets between Remsen Avenue and Seaman Street Tuesday in a rally against police brutality.

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Activists shape women’s context in HIV/AIDS history

BY YASHMIN PATEL UNIVERSITY EDITOR

Female activists gathered Tuesday to examine women’s health history, stressing the need to include women in the definition of AIDS in the United States.

The Institute for Women’s Leadership invited activists who fought for a revised definition of AIDS at the Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building on Douglass campus to show the disparities of HIV/AIDS treatment between men and women.

Dázon Dixon Diallo, the president and founder of SisterLove Inc., the first women’s HIV/AIDS organization in the southeastern United States, said her introduction to reproductive rights, sexual health and feminist health movement came through the black women’s movement. “[It] already created a new frame of defining what women’s health was and is, and it also had a new frame of defining what reproductive health and what reproductive rights really meant,” Diallo said.

While working at a legal service, Terry McGovern, a senior program officer of Reducing HIV/AIDS Discrimination and Exclusion at the Ford Foundation, said she saw many women with HIV were being turned away from receiving treatment in the early 1980s.

“There were these women who were coming in because they couldn’t get Medicaid, they couldn’t get Social Security disability, they were losing their children because they couldn’t work and they clearly had AIDS,” she said.

McGovern said she filed a class-action lawsuit against the Social Security administration because she felt it violated race, gender and disability laws.

She said the lawsuit highlighted a pattern across the United States in which women were being excluded from receiving treatment for HIV and AIDS and was a step to include women as a part of the HIV/AIDS treatments.

In addition to lawsuits, women with HIV/AIDS and their doctors began to speak up about the cause, she said.

“We took to the streets,” Diallo said. “There were marches, they were taking over conferences.

Whenever there was a national HIV conference, we made sure we shut down whatever the discourse was, so they would have to focus on women.”

The definition of AIDS was changed in 1993 to include gender-specific issues or complications that women were experiencing, she said.

Diallo said it is important to look at the disparities between women and men in regard to reproductive health because sexual identity, expression and sex itself is the cornerstone of receiving equal treatment.

“My uterus is the last, the first and final battleground for everything,” she said. “If I don’t have the full human dignity and autonomy … we will not survive as a people, and women will lose on all fronts.”

The differences that divide the treatment of HIV women and men receive are because of the historical, socioeconomic and cultural impacts, Diallo said.

“Those disparities are related to our history of our experience to our lack of access to health care both or all during slavery, during Jim Crow and during the post-civil rights era when health care became so expensive,” she said.

Diallo said there is a crisis among blacks because they account for about 50 percent of all new HIV infections.

“Let’s say black girl, white girl — that means white girls can have sex with 23 people and be less likely to exposed to HIV than a black girl [who has] sex with one,” she said.

The HIV issue is not being addressed within the communities, she said.

“My solutions are not only making sure that people have access to treatment — my solution comes in changing the very core of who we are and how we are together, so people can have access to all of those other things,” Diallo said.

She said there is a national AIDS strategy that needs improvement, but a domestic

strategy should be implemented to help mobilize women’s health needs.

“The highest rates per 100,000 incidents of HIV are actually in the Northeast. … When it comes to rates of HIV and AIDS, you are sitting in the state that has the highest rates of HIV and AIDS among women in the United States,” Diallo said.

McGovern said women were able to make a difference in defining AIDS because they used their voices.

“If you’re going to be an agent of social change, it’s not going to be easy,” she said.

Sulekha Prasad, a graduate student, said the talk highlighted that AIDS is not something that only affects foreign countries but is also problematic in the United States.

“I thought it was incredible because it brought to light exactly what the complexities that women with AIDS faced,” she said. “The struggle of AIDS is not something that is worldwide — it’s home, and it’s horrible, and it’s oppressive to women.”

BLOOD SERVICE GROUPS HOPE FOR LARGEST CAMPUS-WIDE DONATION New Jersey Blood Services, the University Blood Drive Committee and Rutgers Recreation plan to collect the most donated blood at the University on Valentine’s Day during the 4th Annual Pint for a Pint Blood Drive.

Every unit of blood collected across all five New Brunswick campuses equals $2 toward Rutgers Against Hunger, according to a New Jersey Blood Services press release.

RAH is a campus-wide campaign aimed at tackling the concerns surrounding hunger and provide relief to those in need across New Jersey, according to the RAH website.

The organization plans to reach 800 pints of blood, surpassing Seton Hall University’s collection last month of 600 pints of blood in one day, according to the release.

The University of Delaware ran a one-day blood drive last November and received beyond 1,000 pints of blood.

One pint of blood possesses the potential to save three lives, according to the release.

Drives are stationed from 3 to 9 p.m. at the College Avenue Gym, Cook/Douglass Recreation Center, Sonny Werblin Recreation Center and the Livingston Recreation Center, according to the release.

The first 200 donors at each donating site will receive a pint glass, while all donors will receive ice cream, according to the release.

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Key said the community has continued from front a duty to take their voices downtown to receive justice for said in a statement that what was done to Rodriguez Deloatch was armed with a twoand Deloatch. by-four piece of lumber allegedFahiym Torres, a community ly used to attack Mazan, when organizer, said the recent series Berdel shot Deloatch. of events unified the communiThe New Brunswick ty, bonding local citizens togethPatrolmen’s Benevolent er to try and solve the injustice Association Local 23 and 23A they believe has been brought issued a statement last week statupon them. ing the officers used justified “After the Barr y Deloatch force during the incident. incident and now this unfor tuThe Middlesex County nate situation, we wanted to Prosecutor’s Office is currently show that it wasn’t just about investigating one race, but both shootings. A something congrand jur y is cer ning the “We have to stop expected to begin entire city and the violence. hearing the c o m m u n i t y, ” Deloatch case We are here to fight Torres said. next month.

The protescorrupt policemen, tors were not tr yN o r m o n Gordon, New to fur ther we are here to fight ing Brunswick resihurt the relationdent, said further a corrupt system.” ship between the steps should be police and the FAHIYM TORRES taken to educate local citizens, but Community Organizer against the viowanted to raise lence that is affectawareness about ing the city. many of the city’s “The streets social problems, belong to the mayor and to the Torres said. police — we have no rights “This is not a police-bashing down here,” Gordon said. “We thing. This is for people need to tell these little young to know that they cannot kids trying to be [gang memridicule, pull over, shoot or bers] to stop that nonsense and commit any [forms of] corrupstay with the positive.” tion,” he said.

Tony Vega, a New Torres said the protestors Brunswick resident, said that, would remain persistent in like most people who were achieving their goals of fighting present the night of the shootsocial injustice. ing, Tuesday’s protestors “We have to stop the viobelieve police used an unneceslence. We are here to fight corsar y amount of force — a probrupt policemen, we are here to lem that was not prevalent in fight a cor r upt system,” he the past. said.

“Once something “I was here when it went down happens, whether once or 10 and it was overkill. It was a bad times in a row, you have to situation,” he said. “We want the keep doing it and making your cops to be more neighborhoodvoice heard.”

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School of Environmental and Biological Sciences first-year student, Emil Severe, left, and Tom Amadruto, a Rutgers Business School sophomore, perform during Tuesday’s “Hip Hop Open Mic: The Student Cyphers” at the Livingston Student Center.

LITERACY: Pharmacy students held advocacy month continued from front “A lot of patients don’t understand,” she said. “We’re the pharmacists that see patients on a weekly basis, so we need to make sure they know the right information.

Fernandez spoke about the lack of patient comprehension, which is evident when the patients were asked about their health. She also spoke about how this misunderstanding could affect what they know about their medication.

“Sometimes it hasn’t been properly explained to them, but they still need to understand the implications of it,” she said. “Some patients see how their blood pressure is, and they’ll say something like, ‘Around 140, so not too bad.’”

Joseph Kim, the Pharmacy Governing Council president, compared patients’ lack of health literacy to an end-user license agreement on computer programs like iTunes.

“How many of you actually read those? I know I never have and never will,” he said. “It’s the same thing for patients. They don’t want to read something that isn’t written in their language.”

Kim, an Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy graduate student, said though lack of health literacy is a big problem, it comes with a rather simple solution.

“It’s a big problem that people are unaware of,” he said. “It can be solved by spreading awareness and putting information in terms that the patients can understand.”

The council held their annual, month-long awareness event in October to promote the pharmacy profession and bring attention to

problems like health illiteracy.

“We advocate for new things that any pharmacy student can do, such as counseling,” Kim said.

“We also influence policy on the legislative level.”

During the advocacy month, the council oversaw a letter-writing campaign to public officials to promote health literacy, he said.

“This is something that is really a terrific thing to let other schools know about,” Kim said.

At the end of the meeting, pharmacy students received certificates for participating in the program.

The Pharmacy Governing Council’s focus is to foster a good environment for pharmacy students to succeed in, Kim said.

“We try to do our best to enrich the pharmacy experience at Rutgers,” he said. “Any event that effects multiple years of pharmacy students comes to our attention.”

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ETHICS: Jasanoff uses chimeras to break boundaries continued from front the U.K., science is the vocabular y of politics because it is ever ywhere.”

She said the United States was founded without a major focus on the relationship between science and the institutions of government.

“The word ‘science’ only appears once in the Constitution,” she said.

Concerns about the advancements of biotechnology have prompted one organization to produce the Genetic Bill of Rights, a decision that could potentially raise controversy, Jasanoff said.

“The question — ‘who gave this organization the right to speak on behalf of all people’ — is already a starting point of inquiry,” she said.

Jasanoff said she believes the image of a chimera, a mythical creature made up of parts from multiple animals, is appropriate in understanding how biotechnology will break the boundaries between our different beliefs.

“I think chimeras force us to think about classifications simply because, in their nature, they disrupt existing classificatory characteristics,” she said.

Sarah Stinard, a University alumna, said she felt the discussion covered a topic that has become especially relevant in today’s culture.

“I definitely feel there is a lot of conversation around about the constitutionality of life, when life begins and the importance of defining that,” she said.

“This is a very timely discussion because of the discussions of abortions and the whole Susan G. Komen thing.”

Stinard, who did not know much about the topic before the event, said she enjoyed the way Jasanof f was able to explain some of the more complex ideas involved with the biotechnology field and anticipates similar events in the future.

“I was really impressed with her talk and her presentation,” she said. “I am really interested in the Center of Cultural Analysis, and I’d like to see them bring more people.”

Austin Ashamole, a School of Ar ts and Sciences senior, said the event is impor tant because it covers topics that people are generally unaware about, despite their significance to society.

“We are supposed to be the people that push forward the human race, so we are supposed to be more attentive to what goes on in this field,” he said.

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The Eagleton Institute of Politics will host “Humor and Politics: How to Write Jokes when the News is Ridiculous” at 7 p.m. at Trayes Hall in the Douglass Campus Center. The event will feature guest speaker Elliott Kalan, a writer for “The Daily Show with Jon Stewar t.” The event is free to students, faculty and staf f. For more information contact Randi Chmielewski at (732)-932-9384.

Rutgers Study Abroad will introduce students to summer programs at Frelinghuysen Hall, Room B6. Study abroad alumni and staff will be present to field questions. For more information, visit studyabroad.rutgers.edu.

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Rutgers Study Abroad will finish a week of information sessions with a meeting regarding the Africa, Asia and Middle East programs at 8 p.m. at the Livingston Student Center. For more information, visit studyabroad.rutgers.edu.

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Townships should welcome pot centers

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ormer Gov. John S. Corzine signed the New Jersey Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act in January 2010, effectively making the state the 14th in the country to legalize marijuana for medical purposes. Yet in the two years that followed, little progress was made regarding efforts to open up dispensaries or growing facilities within the state.

Since the law’s signing, state-approved centers beginning operations have faced a sluggish response from both the state’s health department and a certain unwillingness to accommodate their facilities from N.J. townships. Only two out of the six centers have found homes thus far, including Greenleaf Compassion Center in Montclair, and more recently, Compassionate Care Foundation in Egg Harbor Township.

The slow-going development of medical marijuana centers in the state may come as a surprise to many, like us, who viewed the passing of the act as the final step in bringing relief to hundreds of patients across the Garden State. Yet it seems public perception of the drug has yet to catch up with state legislation, as many municipalities continue to protest against these centers taking root within their borders.

Compassionate Care, for example, was previously denied their requests to develop a facility in Westhampton by a land-use board. The mayor of Egg Harbor Township has since given permission to set up a growing facility off Delilah Avenue. Montclair’s Greenleaf Compassion Center was also given little support from the health department in opening their dispensary.

On the one hand, the municipalities seem justified in choosing to keep medical marijuana centers away. After all, the signing of a state law legalizing medical marijuana does not necessitate the actual presence of medical marijuana in the state — and it seems many still have negative views of the drug. But towns must also realize that the use of marijuana for medical reasons is extremely beneficial for certain patients suffering from disease, chronic sickness and cancer, and was legalized specifically to bring these benefits to individuals across the state.

Measures should be taken on the state level — including possible tax incentives — to encourage townships to more willingly accommodate these centers, and the state’s health department should play a more active role in promoting their potential benefits. Political delays should not inhibit the development of N.J. medical marijuana facilities.

Use same-sex union ruling as example

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s the same-sex marriage debate in New Jersey continues to preoccupy the conversations of residents and politicians, state legislators should look to other states also battling with the issue’s legalization. Six states and Washington, D.C. currently recognize, or are soon to recognize, same-sex unions while as many as 30 states have added amendments banning same-sex marriage to their constitution.

California, of Proposition 8 fame, banned same-sex marriage in 2008.Yet a recent federal appeals court has declared the state’s ban unconstitutional, arguing that Proposition 8 violates the civil rights of gays and lesbians. This again forces the state and, by extension, people across the countr y, to revisit the argument against samesex marriage.

Proposition 8 will most likely be reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court, bringing national focus to an issue that state legislators have battled with for years. But, despite obstacles placed in the way of supporters of the issue by legislators, the idea of same-sex unions is gaining traction. In the Garden State, Democrats have said they are confident they have the votes needed to pass a same-sex bill in the state.

Gov. Chris Christie, on the other hand, has vowed to veto any such legislation that happens upon his desk, instead arguing that the matter should be put up to referendum.

In the coming weeks, Christie, other N.J. legislators and the public in general should pay close attention to the progression of this ruling against Proposition 8. The ruling by the appeals court itself is strong indication that same-sex marriage may indeed become a reality in the near future, which it should. Christie’s referendum is simply a way to circumvent a crucial decision and remove the responsibility of passing same-sex legislation off the shoulders the governor.

Same-sex marriage, like heterosexual marriage, should not be treated like a sports betting legislation by our state. It is up to state legislators to ensure the rights of these individuals, and the ruling against Proposition 8 should serve as evidence of this fact.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “My uterus is the last, the first and final battleground for everything.”

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he was going to need a f you had told me in the replacement come next fall of 2008, as I was setyear. That’s when he, tling into my new life as Taylere and Mar y — all of a student here on the banks whom I knew from living in of the grimy old Raritan, that Brett Hall — descended I would one day join The upon me. “You’re opinionDaily Targum staff, I would ated,” they reasoned. “Ops have laughed and then MATTHEW KOSINSKI editor is totally your thing.” asked you if you had a brothAnd, because they were er who was 21 and willing to persistent — and because I have a difficult time buy me a couple of forties to sneak into Brett Hall. saying no to people I care about — I assented, But, of course, you know what they say about the and come December 2011, I found myself standbest laid schemes of mice and men — and if you ing in front of a room, answering questions in an don’t, you should read Robert Burns’ “To a Mouse, attempt to prove that, yes, I was the man for the on Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough,” in job. Spoiler alert: After careful minutes of delibwhich our protagonist destroys a mouse’s home eration, the board decided that, yes, I was the with his plough because, well, farmers just do that man for the job. sometimes. Allow me to get metaphorical for a What followed was an incredible year, one in minute here, and I will tell you that, despite my iniwhich I got to serve with the incomparable duo of tial stance on the issue, I became a member of the Mary and Taylere, who were now running the Targum’s staff because I was the mouse and the show as editor-in-chief and managing editor, farmer/plough combo was a sort of tripartite entity respectively, as well as an altogethmade up of Taylere Peterson, Mary er fabulous cast of other characDiduch and Aleksi Tzatzev, who “I didn’t know it was ters, while Aleksi absconded to were design editor, managing ediParis for a semester, before returntor and opinions editor, respectivepossible to ... love ing as an associate news editor. ly, at the time of my recruitment.

You simply cannot fight the pull of See, I had it in my mind that I and be frustrated this paper. was in school for one reason: to by something so It would take far too long for mature as an intellectual person. me to enumerate all the things and Extracurricular activities were out intensely until people that made this year one of of the question because, in my I joined the Targum.” the best years of my life, and while mind, they were the sor ts of some outgoing editors attempt to things reser ved for students who name ever y single one of their went to college because — gasp cohorts in conjunction with some sort of inside — they wanted to get a job. That utilitarian joke, I’m just going to take a direct route and say: approach to higher education — and the sort of Board 143, I love ever y single one of you folks, shameless résumé-padders who subscribed to it and I mean that 100 percent honestly. Reader, you — was sickening to me. I was going to major in will be forgiven for gagging and/or insulting me something useless (and I did — hello, English and/or flipping to the crossword puzzle at this degree) and still be successful (and I have been point because, well, this column isn’t about you.

— hello, Teach For America 2012 corps). But, if it It’s a bit of deeply personal reflection, written as I, weren’t for the aforementioned metaphorical the displaced former opinions editor, sit in the plough, I wouldn’t be shipping up to Connecticut of fice that is no longer mine, watching my come August to teach high school English classreplacement, Chase — who I can tell you right es. Not because the Targum has helped my now is going to do a much better job than I ever résumé (although, it has done this), but because did, just you wait and see — carr y out what used working here has turned me into the kind of perto be my job. son who sees an opportunity like Teach For I didn’t know it was possible to simultaneously America — the kind of opportunity that allows love and be frustrated by something so intensely you to better yourself and, in some small way, the until I joined the Targum. This, I reckon, must be world in which you live — and does ever ything what a parent feels like when their toddler simply they can to take advantage of it.

But I’m getting ahead of myself. In the spring SEE KOSINSKI ON PAGE 9 of 2010, then-Opinions Editor Aleksi realized that

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And, though the Targum introduced me to some of the most amazing people I’ve ever met and made me into an infinitely better person than I used to be — caring where I was once cynical, curious where I was once jaded, accepting where I was once stubborn — it is no longer mine. It belongs now to Board 144, many of whom I know from my time as opinions editor. They are a thoroughly capable group of people, and I truly believe they have what it takes to make the Targum as good as, if not better than, it

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utgers Director of Golf Maura WatersBallard said the vacancy for head men’s golf coach will not remain open for much longer.

The pool of candidates has been narrowed down and a new coach will be named soon.

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Administration is in the process of hiring someone.”

The departure of former head coach Chris Mazzuchetti, who failed to produce tangible results in his short time at Rutgers, left the hole.

The team continues its spring practices and opens its fall season March 16 at the Siena College Homewood Suites Invitational.

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several games … she and [junior center Monique Oliver] have been the most consistent players on our team.”

The Wilmington, Del., native is a triple-threat — she can dribble, pass and shoot.

She is second on the team in points per game (12.7) and field goal percentage (51.3).

But arguably her most impressive stat is her 1.5 assistto-turnover ratio, good enough for eighth in the Big East.

Rushdan has the ability to take over a game, like she did facing DePaul. Against the Blue Demons, she brought the Scarlet Knights back from a 16-point deficit and won the game with a last-second layup.

“If you look at several games, she by herself rebounds, blocks shots, hits foul shots, takes the ball the length [of the court] and scores,” Stringer said. “She has the heart of a lion.”

Stringer credits Rushdan’s extreme aversion to losing.

She said when Rushdan senses she might lose, she does ever ything in her power to avoid it.

The Hall of Fame coach does not expect younger players to have the poise of a seasoned veteran, but she also did not expect filling the void to be

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Anthony injured his groin Monday, leaving six minutes into a 99-88 victory against the Utah Jazz, continuing an injury-plagued season.

Anthony has missed three games with various ankle, hand and wrist injuries. The Syracuse product shot poorly in other games while playing through the pain.

The all-star forward leads the Knicks with 22.3 points per game.

THE DENVER Nuggets announced Tuesday that forward Danilo Gallinari suffered an ankle injury during Monday’s game against the Houston Rockets.

Gallinari will miss a month and will be in a walking boot for 3-5 days. He will receive treatment for a serious ankle sprain.

Gallinari received a fouryear contract extension last month worth $42 million.

SHOWDOWN: Rice, RU claim recent series success continued from back program, they played against each other. They know each other. There’s a lot of smack being talked in the summertime over it. I don’t think it’s where there’s a hostility. It’s a rivalry.”

The Knights claimed two of the past three meetings, including a first-round victory in the Big East Tournament, where Edwin and Theodore fouled out.

The series’ renewal is not without its fair share of gamesmanship.

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as dif ficult as it has been.

“It’s just a struggle,” Stringer said. “It’s going to fall onto freshmen. That’s probably the position that, of all the positions, you don’t want a freshman to be put into.”

The reason it has been so difficult is because all of the candidates have some parts of what Rushdan brings to the table, but not all of them.

Speed, for instance, can handle the duties of a point guard, but she is not the scoring threat that Rushdan is, averaging only 1.9 points per game. The Pasadena, Calif., native is likely not going to take over a game and break it open.

Both Davis and Richardson have assist-to-turnover ratios better than 1, but neither of them come close to Rushdan’s teamleading assist total of 77. They have 25 and 29, respectively.

And, like Speed, neither of them have the scoring output or gamechanging ability Rushdan has.

Wheeler is the highest scorer of the five candidates. She averages 7.7 points per game and owns a 20-point game this season — she dropped 23 on Jan. 14 in an overtime victory against Louisville.

The problem with Wheeler is she is more of a shooting guard than a point guard. She has only 33 assists compared to 48 tur novers and has not shown ability to control the of fense like Rushdan.

It leaves only Canty as the likely replacement during Rushdan’s absence. Stringer hinted she looked for the Trenton Catholic product to take the reins when she

drew comparisons between the freshman and her injured leader.

Canty has shown comfort when handling the ball and also has a build and toughness similar to that of Rushdan.

But while she can drive to the basket, she shies away from pulling up to take the outside shot when she needs to.

It leaves Stringer with only one option.

She has to keep her current strategy of using all five poten-

tial replacements, depending on what the situation calls for.

Although none of the five can make the of fense what it was with Rushdan at the helm, they can hold down the for t until she comes back.

Luckily for the Knights, they do not play again until they welcome St. John’s on Sunday, which gives Rushdan extra time to get healthy and return a hectic and stagnant of fense to form.

shoves during Rutgers’ 2010 Senior Night. The Knights’ (12-12, 4-7) overtime win at Madison Square Garden featured 42 combined fouls.

“It gets chippy. It gets really intense,” said junior forward Austin Johnson. “It gets hot and heavy, a different element to it. It’s a big rivalry — that’s all you can say about it.

Players are running off emotions.”

Pope, the Big East’s second-leading rebounder, sat out Saturday at Connecticut. But he likely will not miss the 61st meeting between teams of a rivalry that spans less than 30 miles.

“You have to be sort of on guard, but you should like to have a rivalry,” Rice said. “It should be important to you. I don’t have to hype it up with them because they played AAU with these guys, they played summer

league against them or with them.

We know them and they know us.”

None know each other than the former Paterson Catholic quartet.

Mack’s and Theodore’s parents both speak regularly. Edwin and Mack find a way to talk nearly every day. And regardless of where they are, they all enjoy a close following.

“When we go home, there’s a lot of love for us,” Mack said.

“I appreciate that from the Paterson citizens. I just love it when I go home because I get a lot of suppor t from ever ybody.”

Mack transferred to St. Anthony for his senior season after Paterson Catholic closed its doors because of financial reasons. Randall prepped for a season at the South Kent School (Conn.) after earning his diploma.

Edwin, the Big East’s leader in steals per game, and Theodore, second in the league in assists, were already in South Orange.

Paterson Catholic product and New York Giant Victor Cruz plans to attend the reunion in Piscataway.

Cruz and Mack have a close relationship, but Mack said he cannot worry about the crowd.

He has enough to focus on with Theodore, his energetic and pesky predecessor. Edwin will likely draw his attention, as well.

“If he doesn’t say anything about it, I won’t say anything about it,” Mack said of Edwin. “That’s how we play it off. Off the court, [Theodore’s] not like that, either. On the court, he probably talks a lot.”

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Freshman Briyona Canty looks for a driving lane against UConn.

Canty is one of five players trying to fill a starting guard role.

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Sophomore runner builds on successful seasons

BY ANTHONY RODRIGUEZ CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Sophomore runner Brianna Deming wasted no time making an impact WOMEN’S TRACK with the Rutgers women’s track and field and cross-country teams.

As soon as Deming arrived at Rutgers, she made her mark.

As a freshman, she was the cross-countr y team’s Most Valuable Player and finished first in all but one meet on her way to qualifying for the Big East Championships. Deming got even better this year.

The Webster, N.Y., native finished first in every race this cross country season and set personalbest times in all her events. She once again earned the team’s MVP award in Year 2.

Deming also dropped in distance for one competition, competing in the mile and setting a personal-best time by about 10 seconds in the event.

So far, she has qualified for the Big East and the ECAC Championships in both the 3,000and 5,000-meter races. She will run the 5,000 meter at the Big East Championships.

“She did things this year that she didn’t do as a freshman,” said head coach James Robinson. “The improvement is a testament to her hard work, perseverance, dedication and focus, and what that yields is what you see both academically and athletically.”

Deming’s teammates share Robinson’s thoughts about the runner’s routine.

“Bri is really focused,” said sophomore runner Ashley Deckert. “Yet she isn’t always so serious where she can have a fun side to her, too.”

Deming did not always think seriously about running. When she was younger she played soccer, so running on the Division-I level did not cross her mind until high school. Now Deming is one of the Knights’ star athletes.

“She has a plan of action,” Robinson said. “She pays attention to every detail. She warms up properly and cools down properly. A lot of athletes will take that for granted, but she doesn’t take anything for granted.”

While at Rutgers, Deming encountered ups and downs.

“My last race [in cross countr y] was definitely a high point by scoring in the 5K,” Deming said. “And I think my low point was probably indoor last year. I was coming of f a little bit of an injur y from cross and I wasn’t quite racing as well as I wanted to.”

Deming’s focus and motivation make her future at Rutgers look bright. Barring any unforeseen setbacks, the Knights have high hopes for Deming for the next two years. She has lofty goals for herself, as well.

“Athletically, I’d like to qualify for NCAA’s and maybe make it to the preliminar y round of NCAA’s,” Deming said.

Robinson is optimistic Deming will accomplish her goal.

“She has a ver y real possibility of being an NCAA qualifier in cross countr y,” Robinson said.

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Sophomore distance runner Brianna Deming won the team MVP award in her first two seasons at Rutgers. Deming won every race in her last cross-country season and is a potential NCAA qualfier.

Medley win serves as goal at Big East Champs

BY BRADLY DERECHAILO CORRESPONDENT

In any sport, consistency is a focal point coaches look for in their athletes.

Rutgers head swimming and SWIMMING & DIVING d i v i n g coach Phil Spiniello sees that characteristic in senior Brianne Lindblad.

“I know what I’m getting when I put her in an event,” Spiniello said.

“She’s reliable, passionate and has a lot of determination for this team.”

That determination aided Lindblad in her final year competing for the Scarlet Knights.

Spiniello plugged her into both

200- and 400-yard medley relays this season, and the veteran enjoyed success. The Knights’ last meet against Fordham and Rider resulted in a 200-yard medley first-place finish.

The senior competed in the 100- and 200-yard backstroke events, as well. Spiniello called her one of the most versatile swimmers on the team.

While Lindblad enjoys competing in every event in which Spiniello places her, her focus for this year’s Big East Championships is on the medley relay. Rutgers finished sixth last season in the race, a finish Lindblad wants to improve on.

“My freshman year, we placed third in this event,” Lindblad said. “With the times we’ve been putting up so far and the energy that we can bring to that relay, I think we can be back in the top three again.”

Spiniello believes her goal is reachable because of the way she performed this season.

“She is really going to have an impact as far as points go for our team,” Spiniello said. “She is setting herself up to be an impact scorer for the team.”

Not only is the medley relay Lindblad’s best event, but it is also her favorite. The fourswimmer team race displays

her will to help make her team successful.

“It is nice that I can be here to support my teammates and set an example for the underclassmen,” Lindblad said. “I’ve tried to use my actions to show the younger girls how to have fun but at the same time to get work done and swim well.”

While Lindblad’s leadership this year is evident, competing for the Knights comes with pain. A back injur y she sustained at the beginning of the season has not made it easy for Lindblad, Spiniello said. But Lindblad knows the team needs her on form.

“She hasn’t let it [af fect her],” Spiniello said. “She has battled through it for her and the program.”

With less than a month left in her final year on the team, Lindblad worked hard to finish her last season strong.

“After last season, we were ver y focused on improving because we knew we had it in us,” Lindblad said. “We set some pretty big goals for our team, and we’ve accomplished them.”

Lindblad wants to finish her career on a high note. She has the oppor tunity next weekend in Pittsburgh for the league championships.

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Former teammates collide in intrastate showdown

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Rutgers freshmen Derrick Randall (15) and Myles Mack welcome former Paterson Catholic teammates Fuquan Edwin (23) and Jordan Theodore to Piscataway tonight, when they wear opposing jerseys for the first time. Mack’s and Theodore’s parents still speak regularly despite being on opposite sides of New Jersey’s rivalry. All four are starters.

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Myles Mack hesitated before doing so, but called the Rutgers men’s basketball team’s affair tonight against MEN’S BASKETBALL Seton Hall “just another game.”

SETON HALL AT The freshman RUTGERS, point guard knows TONIGHT, 9 P.M. what is at stake —

both members of the New Jersey rivalry are tied for 10th in the Big East. Both teams continue to struggle. The Scarlet Knights lost four of five, and Seton Hall dropped its last five games.

And both programs lay claim to a small sliver along Paterson’s 11th street.

The county seat of Passaic once boasted one of New Jersey’s top private basketball programs in Paterson Catholic, where Mack used to call home.

Three other players taking the Louis Brown Athletic Center floor once did, as well.

They collide for the first time — two donning scarlet and the others in blue — in college.

“I’m looking forward to it a lot,” Mack said. “I just want to see how it is and just compete with everybody.”

He will line up across from Pirates senior Jordan Theodore, a former Paterson Catholic point guard who guided Mack as a high school freshman. He will also face off against Seton

REPORT: FLOOD LURES FORMER INTERIM PLAY-CALLER FROM ACC Rutgers head football coach Kyle Tuesday to become the St. Louis Rams’ quarFlood repor tedly found his new of fensive terbacks coach, according to Fox Sports. c o o r d i n a t o r Cignetti worked in the same capacity FOOTBALL Tuesday, according in 2007 with the San Francisco 49ers. He to The Star-Ledger. coached the Knights’ signal callers Dave Brock, Boston College’s interim this season along with his of fensive coordinator and tight ends coordinator duties. coach, could take over play-calling duties Brock likely joins Delaware of fensive by the end of the week, an line coach Damian Wroblewski anonymous source told The on Flood’s coaching staf f, Star-Ledger. which could feature multiple Brock has six-plus seasons of vacancies. experience as an of fensive coorA number of Rutgers assisdinator in a pro-style system. He tants could also move onto the took over play-calling responsiprofessional ranks, joining forbilities in September, when mer head coach Greg coordinator Kevin Rogers took a Schiano with the Tampa leave of absence.

Bay Buccaneers.

Flood and Brock coached on DAVE BROCK Brian Angelichio, P.J. Fleck, the same staf f at Hofstra from Bob Fraser and Jef f Hafley 1997 to 2001. could each reunite with Schiano in Block also spent stints at Kansas Tampa, according to The Star-Ledger.

State, Nor th Carolina and Temple, coachFleck originally became of fensive ing future NFL players Josh Freeman, coordinator Thursday at Nor ther n Jordy Nelson and Hakeem Nicks.

Illinois, his alma mater, but he resigned Brock, a Moorestown native, succeeds shor tly thereafter. former Scarlet Knights offensive coordinator Frank Cignetti. Cignetti accepted a position — Staf f Repor t

Hall sophomore Fuquan Edwin, who Mack is closest with out of anyone, Mack said.

But he will not do so alone.

Freshman forward Derrick Randall wore maroon and gold with Mack, playing a decisive role in Mack’s commitment to head coach Mike Rice.

“It definitely adds to the mix,” Rice said.

“They’re from the same school, same AAU

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Five players share guard role for RU

BY JOEY GREGORY ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

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Head coach Kyle Flood speaks at his introductory press conference.

With fifth-year senior guard Khadijah Rushdan out with a concussion, Rutgers WOMEN’S BASKETBALL head women’s basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer needed to find a replacement, someone to fill the gap.

Looking at the roster, she had five candidates.

Senior Nikki Speed, junior Erica Wheeler and freshmen Briyona Canty, Shakeena Richardson and Syessence Davis have all shown flashes of what it takes, but none have been consistent.

To properly fill the void, the new starting guard needs to do everything Rushdan does, which is a tall order.

“We have known what Khadijah has meant to us,” Stringer said. “If you look at

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