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Although the grease trucks are known for their fat sandwiches, the trucks also have salads, soups and vegetarian options for under $7. But many students come to the grease trucks for the sandwiches, said Ahmed Ahmed, the manager of RU Hungry.

Campus food vendors give range of choices

BY RICHARD CONTE CORRESPONDENT

There are more than 20 eateries on campus that of fer a wide range of foods, but finding a meal that is both healthy and inexpensive could prove dif ficult for some students.

Among food vendors on campus, those with higher fat and caloric content are generally cheaper than those with lower caloric content.

For example, an Au Bon Pain chicken cobb salad with avocado has 410 calories, 24 grams of fat and 10 grams of saturated fat, according to the restaurant’s website. With a small diet soda, the meal costs about $7.

The salad of fers a healthy source of vitamin A and vitamin C, but is more expensive compared to the cheaper, high-fat Wendy’s “Ever yday

Value” meal which includes a Jr. Cheeseburger Deluxe, Value Fries, and a Value Pepsi. The meal would cost a student about $3, but consists of 700 calories, according to the restaurant’s website.

While men require 2,200 to 2,800 calories a day on average and women need 1,800 to 2,200 calories each day, according to the U.S. Depar tment of Agriculture, students on campus must decide between low-priced, highcaloric foods and more expensive, healthier foods.

Students flock to the grease trucks on the College Avenue campus for fat sandwiches, which cost about $7 and can include chicken fingers, mozzarella sticks, french fries and marinara sauce, like in the “Fat Darrell” sandwich. The Tampa Bay Times repor ted in 2005 that the sandwich made up 85 percent of a person’s daily

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caloric intake, at 1,718 calories.

But Ahmed Ahmed, the manager of RU Hungr y, said the trucks of fer more than just fat sandwiches.

“We have salads, we have soups, we have healthy stuf f like veggie stuf f,” Ahmed said.

At the Douglass Campus Center’s Douglass Café, students have access to a variety of healthy foods they can grab on the go, said Nick Kraus, the café’s concessions super visor.

“We’ve brought in fresh fruit cups. … You can just grab one,” he said.

“We have yogur t par faits, as well as cheese and fruit [cups and] a wide variety of salads. We of fer at our register … fresh fruit. We eliminated all the candy and other unhealthy foods.”

Peggy Policastro, a University Dining Ser vices nutritionist, said the

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Though the number of U.S. college students who study abroad has increased every year for the past decade, only 1 in 100 students take advantage of the opportunity to experience another culture or setting.

Even though more than 90 percent of Americans believe it is important to prepare future generations for a global society, according to the National Association of Foreign Student Advisors: Association of International Educators website, only 1.09 percent of University undergraduate students study abroad. University students are choosing to study abroad less frequently, compared to the national average of 1.32 percent in 20092010, according to NAFSA. Two hundred and eleven students traveled abroad through the University in the spring of 2011, and 202 of those were University students, said Amanda Goodman, the outreach and recruitment coordinator for the University Study Abroad Office. Nine students that were not University-affiliated chose to study through one of the University’s abroad programs.

Vera Hinsey, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said few students go abroad because they are afraid of living in an unfamiliar country and facing problems on their own.

Hinsey said this fear explains why the United Kingdom and Australia are the most popular destinations, followed

by Spain and Italy.

Some programs require a basic competency of a foreign language taken at the university level, including programs at the University of Valencia in Spain where courses are taught in Spanish, according to the University Study Abroad website.

But many programs do not require fluency in another language, Goodman said.

The 2011 Institute of International Education’s Open Doors reports an increase in studying abroad in the United States — 270,604 U.S. students studied abroad for credit during the academic year 2009-2010, compared to 260,327 the previous year.

Many European countries have higher rates of students traveling abroad because of the European Community Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students (Erasmus) Project, which, through the Lifelong Learning program 2007-2013, funds student mobility, according to the

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UNIVERSITY Students give back to the community through the Student Volunteer Council’s “Martin Luther King Day of Service.”

OPINIONS The New York Police Department should face legal repercussions for monitoring college Muslim Student Associations.

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BY YASHMIN PATEL Current on-campus students elected the Residence Hall Association’s student-run executive board, chair positions for the residential campus council and presidents for 32 hall governments last Friday for the upcoming year.

The executive board and hall governments act as a voice for the student body to University administrators and address issues that concern students, said Matthew Zielinski, RHA advisor. The election was held between Feb. 15 and Feb. 17 through an RHA website poll.

The newly elected executive board for the upcoming year includes Frederick Grant Whelply as president, Matthew Brazza as vice president and

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Groups host Engineering Week to educate prospective students

BY ELIZABETH KEARNS CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The School of Engineering and the Engineering Governing Council are teaming together to promote engineering among prospective students during National Engineering Week.

They will be hosting events this week from Feb. 20-24 at the Busch Campus Center.

“The main goal is to raise awareness of engineering to prospective students and the Rutgers community,” said Parth Oza, the council president. “We want to have a fun environment where ever yone can work on solving problems and learn things while having a good time.”

To plan this year’s Engineering Week at the University, the School of Engineering created a commit-

tee consisting of deans, staff members, an e-week chair and himself, said Oza, a School of Engineering senior.

Each day multiple events will be held to encourage students to learn more about engineering, said Dhruti Patel, the engineering e-week chair and a senator for the council.

The week kicks off Monday, with tours of the different engineering organizations and departments of the University’s School of Engineering.

There will be a “Destination ImagiNation” program on Tuesday where students will compete in problem-solving activities, said Patel, a School of Engineering senior. “‘Destination ImagiNation’ is a way to get students involved in educational programs related to science. They will work together to solve problems and

challenges that different judges will give them,” said Jay Ravaliya, the secretar y of the council.

Patel said the “Novel Engineering Regional Design”

“We want to have a fun environment where everyone can work on solving problems.”

PARTH OZA President of the Engineering Governing Council

— or “NERD Olympics” — will be the largest event of the week and feature 11 activities taking place in the multipurpose room of the Busch Campus Center.

The “NERD Olympics” is funded by Busch deans, Patel said.

Star ting at 10 a.m. on Thursday, there will be a towerbuilding competition, a textbook relay race, an egg drop competition and a catapult competition. The tower-building competition, which gives students only gumdrops and spaghetti to work with, will also be a test of their engineering skills, Oza said.

Patel said it is important for the participants to understand the properties of the materials that are given to the teams and how to utilize the materials to build a tower for optimal strength.

The council will host its first annual cardboard boat race on Thursday at 8 p.m. in the Sonny Werblin

Recreation Center pool, Oza said.

Ravaliya, a School of Engineering junior, said students will have to take the physics into account for the cardboard boat race.

“They’ll think about how much they weigh, how much of the boat will sink and what design of the boat will be most efficient,” he said.

Vetri Velan, a class representative for the council said he was most excited for the cardboard boat race. “...Teams of two will get about an hour to build a boat out of only a cardboard box and duct tape and then race it across the Werblin pool,” he said.

The week will conclude with an invite-only dinner where the council will give awards to faculty and staff during a blacktie affair, Oza said.

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Students, left, give their time Saturday to the New Brunswick Free Public Library to organize New York Times microfilm during the Student Volunteer Council’s “Martin Luther King Day of Service.” Students also play volleyball with senior citizens at the Roosevelt Care Center in Edison, N.J., as a part of the volunteering efforts.

Council celebrates civil rights leader through volunteering

BY MANUELA JIMENEZ CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Student Volunteer Council held its fourth annual “Martin Luther King Day of Service” Saturday in which 150 students spent their spare time away from schoolwork helping local organizations around New Brunswick, Somerset and Highland Park.

Student volunteers met at the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus to give back to the community in the same way that Martin Luther King Jr. did, turning their day off to a “day on” of community service, said Katie Monsky, a service event coordinator of the council.

Volunteers were shown informative slideshows on King and video clips highlighting the historic accomplishments of the civil rights leader, Monsky said. There was also a disc jockey playing music to motivate students to volunteer.

Monsky collaborated with Coley Conter, also a service event coordinator of the council and a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, to make up a list of organizations that would be available on Feb. 18 to take student volunteers during the afternoon hours of the day.

“We reached out to different sites from New Brunswick and nearby communities to compile a list of sites where volunteers can go to provide service,” said Monsky, a School of Arts and Sciences senior.

Volunteer sites include New Brunswick Free Public Library; Who Is My Neighbor? Inc, a local nonprofit organization; Easter Seals, a nonprofit, communitybased health agency dedicated to helping children and adults with disabilities; First Reform Church in New Brunswick; Roosevelt Care Center and Stop Hunger Now, an international hunger relief agency, Monsky said.

“At the library, they were helping to move around and sort books

and clean,” she said. “At the Roosevelt Care Center, they played games with senior citizens such as beach volleyball.”

“I feel that I am giving [King] the respect he deserves and making a difference.”

NIKITA LOTWALA School of Arts and Sciences Senior

Members of Stop Hunger Now brought bins of grains to the Rutgers Student Center that needed to be packaged and sent out to impoverished countries, Monsky said.

“Student volunteers packaged 10,000 meals,” she said. “Members

of Stop Hunger Now counted each meal [packaged] by boxing them to get the food ready for shipping.”

Sixteen members of the council acted as site leaders, overseeing the volunteers and holding a reflection meeting, Monsky said.

“At the end of every service, [there was] an opportunity for student volunteers to reflect on the volunteer effort and see what people learned,” she said.

Students registered to volunteer for the day of service online through getinvolved.rutgers.edu and signed up for which event they would like to volunteer for, Monsky said. There was a limited amount of students that were able to volunteer for a particular event.

Krista Kohlmann, program coordinator for Community Service for University Student Involvement, said the service’s mission is to raise awareness and let students know that anyone could make a difference for the community — it is just a matter of taking the time.

“The volunteers get a sense of the importance of volunteer work, and hopefully they understand the mission of the groups that they work with … besides only getting their dinner and lunch provided for their time,” Kohlmann said.

Nikita Lotwala, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, said she wanted to participate in the day of service because she wanted to give back the way King did to the community.

“By volunteering at this event I feel that I am giving [King] the respect he deserves and making a difference,” she said.

Chau Nguyen, a School of Engineering first-year student, said she found the day of service to be a rewarding experience.

“This is my first MLK Day,” Nguyen said. “I signed up because you get to meet a lot of students with the common goal of volunteering and helping.”

— Yashmin Patel contributed to this article.

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arship opportunities, especially for Douglass Residential [College] students.

Financial aid to increase program diversity does go toward study abroad program costs.” continued from front The price of an abroad expeEuropean Commission of rience depends on the destination and might include housing Education and Training website.

The Erasmus Project, founded and meals, but there are some in 1987, allows E.U. students to programs that are cheaper than study in another European coun- staying at the University, try while receiving financial aid according to the University from their home governments, Study Abroad website.

The yearlong program at universities and Brussels, the de facto capital of the European Jilin University in China — Union, according to the pro- which costs $10,000, including tuition and housing — is half gram’s website.

In the United States, the the University’s cost, even Senator Paul Simon Study when including the cost of airAbroad Act, approved by the U.S. fare, which can be as low as according to House of Representatives in 2009, $1,400, aims to encourage diversity in the website.

Students who go abroad can student participation in study abroad, according to the NASFA also apply for scholarships to help public policy site. The bill has not them pay for the costs of the program, Goodman said. been passed.

The Gilman Scholarship, for The bill is based on the belief that no education is com- example, offers 2,300 grants for plete without a global experi- up to $5,000 for American citience, according to the NAFSA zens, according to the IIE webwebsite. Its major goal is to site. The University’s Study have 1 million American stu- Abroad Scholarships range dents study abroad each year from $2,500 to $5,000, according to the University’s Study within the next decade.

In New Jersey, 0.71 percent of Abroad website.

Students might also be conU.S. college students studying at N.J. institutions went abroad cerned that they will not be able to from 2009-2010, according to the complete their degree on time if NAFSA Study Abroad they study abroad, Goodman said.

In the latest NAFSA statistic Participation by State Report.

At the University, the number for the 2009-2010 academic year, 22.3 percent of stuof international dents were studystudents has “I think that ing social sciences, increased in the 20.8 percent were last three years, students worry studying business, but still has a about the cost ... and 12.1 were lower rate of stustudying humanidents going but we offer a ties. abroad compared Wojenski recto the national number of ommended that a v e r a g e , scholarships.” students interestGoodman said. ed in going The University AMANDA GOODMAN abroad to anticiStudy Abroad U. Study Abroad Outreach and pate studying Office offers Recruitment Coordinator abroad as part of more than 100 their college programs in 38 careers. countries, either “Depending on their language for a semester, a year or over the summer, said Carrie Wojenski, competency, for example, they the regional coordinator for the can choose to go earlier and take abroad the lower level courses or Study Abroad Office.

“We can help them go abroad later,” she said.

University students can if they want to,” she said. “They study abroad for two weeks in just need to apply.” summer at Renmin One hundred and fourteen the students went abroad with 15 University of China and have non-University students in fall classes with University profes2011, Goodman said. Forty-seven sors and students with whom of those students — 46 of them they are familiar with, accordbeing University students — are ing to the University Study spending the 2011-2012 academic Abroad website.

One of the most popular proyear abroad.

To make students aware of the grams is at John Cabot University opportunities studying abroad in Rome, where the common lanhas to offer, the office organizes guage spoken is English, so stustudy abroad fairs and informa- dents do not need to know anothtion sessions including one this er language, Goodman said.

According to the Tuesday from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Red Lion Café in the basement of International Educator’s Open Secure Borders: the Rutgers Student Center on Doors, of Education the College Avenue campus, Advantages Abroad for Public Policy report, Goodman said.

The office also has Twitter the United States does not proand Facebook accounts, with duce enough Americans with advanced foreign-language more than 1,500 followers.

Goodman speculates that the skills to fill the needs of its lack of motivation to study abroad defense, foreign relations and is because students think the pro- law enforcement agencies.

In that study, research showed grams are more expensive than that students who study abroad they actually are.

“I think that students worry have higher GPAs and degree comabout the cost,” she said. “It can pletion rates than those who did not be scary when they first see it, take advantage of the opportunity.

— Anastasia Millicker conbut we offer a number of scholarships, and there are a lot of schol- tributed to this article.

U NIVERSITY FOOD: Nutrional options poorly placed, students say continued from front dining halls on campus of fer an array of healthy options.

“Healthy beverages include filtered water, skim milk and 100-percent fruit juices,” she said. “Fresh whole fruits are available throughout the day and sliced fresh fruit is always available during the breakfast [and] brunch hours.”

All food items in the dining halls contain no trans fats listed on their nutrition facts label, Policastro said.

Joe Charette, the executive director of Dining Ser vices, said with more than 5,000 food items on inventor y, Dining Ser vices has a vast number of options to choose from.

“If students use the dining hall ingredients like a pantr y, the options are almost limitless,” he said.

Students can use grilled chicken breasts, which are available during lunch and dinner, for sandwiches, wraps, sal-

RESULTS: Second part of elections will occur in fall continued from front Jeffrey Beneducci as internal affairs director, said Cortney Brewer, RHA election organizer.

Other board members include Michael Lee as public relations director, Luis Fernandez as advocacy director, Cortney Brewer as national communications coordinator, Cameron Stowell as secretary and Aisha Farman as treasurer, Brewer said, a School of Arts and Sciences junior.

Zielinski said the candidates do not necessarily come into a position with a pre-planned agenda as to what issues they want to address with administrators.

“Their jobs are to work for their student population. That really changes from year to year,” Zielinski said. “Their job is to represent the students.”

Brazza, a School of Engineering sophomore, said he wants to work with the board to have a more colloborative effort between RHA and resident assistants in the upcoming year.

“I just want to have all the people feel more empowered that they can also accomplish change ... I want to help the students [know] that small things can be changed, like different kinds of safety issues, like having more lamp posts [for the nighttime],” Brazza said.

Planning for the election process began during winter break when Brewer assembled the application forms for students interested in running for election.

Once the Feb. 6 application deadline approached, the RHA examined candidates to see if they met the eligibility requirements.

To be eligible, applicants must have a 2.5 cumulative GPA, cannot be planning to become a resident assistant, have a lotter y number and plan to live on campus next year, and have a good judicial standing with the University, Brewer said.

Eligible applicants were able to begin campaigning after getting campaign material approved by the residence hall administrators before sending out messages through social media groups and fliers, Brewer said.

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ads, pizza toppings or stir fr y, Charette said.

When eating at the dining hall, it is up to the student to eat what they care to for an average cost of about $10 for meal plan holders, he said.

Students also have the option to eat at the food cour t in the student centers across the University, but Charette said the dining halls are a more cost-ef fective option.

“If you went into a student center for just a slice of pizza, for example, you can eat for less than it costs to enter a dining hall,” he said. “When you add, salad, soup, fruits and vegetables, drinks and desser t, it is always more economical to eat in the dining hall.”

Mario Hernandez, a School of Ar ts and Sciences sophomore, said it is easier to find unhealthy choices in the dining halls than healthier ones.

“I think there are healthy food options in the dining halls, but there isn’t as much variety in the healthy options as there are more unhealthy choices,” he said.

Camille Sennett, a School of Ar ts and Sciences junior, said the dining halls have healthy options, but those options are poorly placed.

“In the main lines, they place easy-to-cook, quickly ser ved items, which tend to be unhealthy,” she said. “Students need to search for the healthier options, which may be problematic. … The dining halls focus on ef ficiency in ser ving, not nutrition.”

Another student said she does not think the University of fers healthy af fordable options for students to eat.

“Wendy’s is the cheapest [place to eat], which isn’t that healthy. I’m a commuter student, so I just bring my own lunch to school,” said Erin Hodgkiss, a School of Ar ts and Sciences sophomore.

Shane Whelan, a School of Ar ts and Sciences senior, believes there are healthy options that are also inexpensive.

“There are a lot of options,” Whelan said. “You [just] have to go out of your way to look for them [on campus].”

Zielinski said. The election process happens in February so the newly elected student leaders can be trained for the position they will fill.

“All of those individuals will spend the rest of the semester shadowing the person that they are replacing and will learn that job,” he said. “So if you are elected to be hall president of Voorhees, you will meet the current Voorhees president — you will shadow them.”

The chair and vice chair of the residential campus councils meet with the vice president of every hall government to discuss campus issues and let administrators know about the concerns of students, Zielinski said.

Then the president of every hall government meets with the eight RHA executive committee members to discuss University wide issues, he said.

The RHA executive board aims to make the University residential experience better, Zielinski said.

The president of the executive board is responsible for running and facilitating all of the meetings as well as having an overall vision for the organization, Zielinski said.

“They are the person that gets the student voice and in turn represents the entire campus population and various committee meetings and the vice president’s leadership cabinet,” he said.

Responsibilities delegated to the vice president involve overseeing the internal operations, assisting the president and running the processes of the organization, Zielinksi said.

The treasurer takes care of the budget and handles the money while the secretary takes care of administrative duties, processes information and builds contact lists, he said.

The advocacy chair shares feedback between the students and the administrators, Zielinski said.

“So they get an administrator to come to RHA to speak to the students and they poll the students to get their student voice and send that off to the administrators,” he said.

The public relations director takes care of external communications of the group through their website, Facebook, Twitter and fliers, Zielinski said.

The internal affairs director is responsible for leadership development days in which they train over 300 student leaders for hall government, he said.

Presidents of hall government have been selected for all of the buildings on-campus except for the Livingston Apartments that are set to open for the fall 2012 semester, Zielinski said.

Electing the president for the Livingston Apartments will occur in April or March once all the residents have been placed through the housing lottery process into the apartments, he said.

“We will ask all of those future residents who wants to be the first president in the Livingston Apar tments and those people will have a chance to vote,” Zielinski said.

While all the executive board members were currently elected, Brewer was elected as national communications coordinator back in November, he said.

“That is the person that represents RHA when we go to regional and national conferences. They sit in on national conferences and vote on behalf of the University.”

Brewer said there are legislative issues that are discussed at the national conferences and affect organizational structures of RHA in which the national communications coordinator votes on whether to support a particular issue.

The second part of the election process will take place during the fall semester to fill the remaining positions of the hall governments.

“In September every year students get in their halls and that is when we elect all of the rest of the executive board for the hall government — so everyone else who works for the president, the vice president, secretary, treasurers and reps for all of our hall government,” Zielinski said.

Marina Sharobeam, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, said she thinks the student government can try to focus on improving the social aspects of a residence hall.

“I know our RAs try to do floor activities once in a while — people don’t always show up, but I feel like if the students themselves got to come up with the activities more than the RAs or student government do, then more people would go,” she said.

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Members of the First Reformed Church of New Brunswick are celebrating the 200th anniversar y of their church, focusing on the church’s histor y and role in the surrounding community.

Har tmut Kramer-Mills, copastor at the First Reformed Church on 9 Bayard St., said the year does not mark the beginning of the actual First Reformed Church congregation, but instead is centered around the anniversar y of the Church’s building itself.

“It’s important to us because the building has become a focal point of an incredible community effort in the last three years to restore it. The community and the church pulled together, and we received a grant from the state of almost $500,000 to do this,” Kramer-Mills said.

In celebration of the anniversar y, the church is hosting a series of events throughout the year. The first event, held on Feb. 12, focused on Dutch culture and presented acts performed by local volunteers, said Joan Fekete, a First Reformed Church member.

“We have some members of the congregation that are Dutch dancers,” Fekete said. “[The event] was relatively well attended.”

Although Dutch settlers originally founded the church, different cultural groups located in and around New Brunswick have also

influenced the congregation’s history, Kramer-Mills said.

“It’s actually not as Dutch as many of the other reformed churches in the area because our particular church was part of this hub developing center that had people who were actually French and German speaking together along with the Dutch,” he said.

The only major renovation project the church underwent in recent times occurred after someone set fire to the building in 1971, said Ethel Salamone, a First Reformed Church member.

“Quite a bit of damage was done to the front of the Sanctuary.

We lost many of our windows, pews were taken out and carpeting was replaced. That’s the only very important transformation we have had,” she said.

The church is often referred to as the “Town Clock” because the clock in the steeple belongs to the city of New Brunswick. The clock, installed after 1828, has had a unique relationship with the people of New Brunswick, Salamone said.

“It was a request from the people who used to come and sell vegetables in the area,” she said.

“They needed to know when to start getting things cleaned up because they could only be there a certain time.”

Kramer-Mills said the church also shares a long history with the University.

The idea for introducing the University, originally called Queen’s College, sprouted from the lack of an academic institution in the 18th century that could

NJDOT BEGINS WORK ON ROUTE 18 EXTENSION FOR SAFETY, EFFICIENCY The N.J. Depar tment of Transpor tation announced Wednesday that work has begun on the final phase of the Route 18 extension, which will run from River Road to Route 287, according to a Patch.com ar ticle.

The project, costing a total of $28 million, will modify the current Hoes Lane/Centennial Avenue corridor, conver ting the roadways into the last section of Route 18. The four-lane state highway will be extended by about 2.5 miles, according to the ar ticle.

Piscataway Township owns Hoes Lane and the par t of Centennial Avenue used in the project, but those sections will soon become par t of the state highway system, according to the ar ticle.

NJDOT Commissioner James Simpson said the development plan would provide several benefits for those living in the area, according to the ar ticle.

“Completing the extension of Route 18 through Middlesex County will upgrade the safety and operational per formance of the entire transpor tation system in this area, allowing more ef ficient movement of goods and people in central New Jersey,” Simpson told Patch.com.

To reduce the impacts the construction will have on local residents and motorists, two lanes will be maintained during peak hours on Route 18, Hoes Lane and Centennial Avenue. At least one lane will be open on each roadway throughout the entire construction period.

Existing deteriorated roads will be completely redone as a par t of the extension of Route 18, a process that will significantly improve the quality of the roadways on the new stretch of the highway, according to the ar ticle.

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The First Reformed Church of New Brunswick, located on 9 Bayard St., was founded by Dutch immigrants in 1812. The congregation was formed 100 years prior to the building’s introduction.

educate those who wanted to be pastors, Kramer-Mills said.

“Every [potential pastor] had to be shipped to the Netherlands [to be educated],” he said. “This was a very dangerous journey at the time.”

Kramer-Mills said the link between the church and the University was impor tant to the local community, and evidence of this relationship is still visible today.

“The first four presidents of Rutgers are in [the church’s] graveyard because they used to

be presidents of Queen’s College as well as senior pastors here,” he said.

Kramer-Mills said in response to the Dutch church, the English established the Episcopal Church located on Paterson Street. Now the two buildings represent distinctive par ts of the city, he said.

“What is so unique in New Jersey … is that the Dutch church and the English church are always next to each other when there is a historic core left in the town,” he said. “If you took

[these churches] away, you would bereave us and the community of its historic character.”

Fekete said the church’s significance is highlighted when it is contrasted against all of the modern architecture that surrounds it in the downtown area.

“There’s been a great deal of change [in downtown New Brunswick], but when you see the church you just say ‘wow it’s been here all of these years’,” she said. “It is unique to be in a city that has revitalized itself and still has an old structure.”

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fforts to limit smoking in the workplace or other public areas have seen a rise in recent years — yet none go as far as recently proposed measures at universities in Texas, which aim to ban smoking from college campuses altogether. With billions of dollars in grant money, a state agency is considering campus-wide tobacco-free policies in order to cut down on the number of smokers and prevent instances of cancer in Texas.

Such a policy is likely to draw criticism from both sides. Smokers and proponents of individual liberties might view this as an infringement on personal freedom, while non-smokers and opponents of big tobacco might welcome the measure as an effective way to deter people from consuming tobacco products. While we tend to side with the latter — the policy does seem to have good intentions and would result in a much healthier campus — we realize that there is little opportunity for success in such a sweeping statute.

First, the policy would not prevent individuals from obtaining tobacco products, which is the most effective way to curb smoking habits. By limiting only the areas where one is allowed to smoke, the policy fails to address the root of the problem. Individuals will still be able to get their hands on a pack of cigarettes, and while they may not be able to smoke on campus, they will just as easily be able to indulge elsewhere.

Second, preventing students from smoking on campus might prove to be a daunting task. The plausibility of having campus police or some other task force patrol for smokers at all time seems unlikely. Individuals would no doubt continue to find a way to continue their habit on campus.

A more effective option for these schools would be to create designated smoking areas so that students who wish to smoke can do so without imposing on those who don’t. The idea of restricting smoking campus-wide is unreasonable. But with current campus policies at these schools, which include restricting smoking within 20 feet of a building’s doors, along with the aforementioned added measure, university administrators can make both parties happy while still limiting the amount of smoking on campus.

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any were shocked when, in 2009, news reports broke describing how the New York Police Department had placed undercover officers at New York City and regional colleges, including the University, in order to monitor the acts of Muslim student organizations. More recent reports, however, show that the department’s surveillance activities extend far beyond city limits.

The NYPD went far beyond its jurisdiction to monitor the websites of a number of Muslim student organizations across the Northeast for what they considered “suspicious activities” — including the University’s New Brunswick and Newark campuses.

Students and administrators at these schools — which include Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania, Syracuse University and the University of Buffalo — have a right be outraged. The NYPD did nothing to notify administrators of these schools of their actions, many of whom surely would not have cooperated even if asked. And the members of these associations, whose websites were monitored daily, now must live knowing their names and personal information is included somewhere in the files of the NYPD. The lengths to which the department went to monitor these groups, as well as the nature of the information they targeted, is both surprising and, at the same time, laughable. In one instance in 2008, the NYPD sent an undercover agent on a white-water rafting trip to record students’ names and the number of times members prayed. In this and other instances, information of students and professors who had been accused of no wrongdoing were taken down and included in a formal report.

When asked what evidence the department had for conducting their surveillance, NYPD spokesman Paul Browne noted 12 people arrested or convicted of terrorism charges in the United States or abroad who had once been members of Muslim student associations.

Using this as justification to monitor similar organizations across the Northeast is clearly irrational and, we would argue, dangerous.

Aside from being what seems to be a clear violation of civil rights, the NYPD’s actions extend well beyond what should be considered appropriate conduct for a city police department. The NYPD should be held responsible for their actions, whether that means an investigation into the legality of operating so far outside their jurisdiction, or a conviction for violating the civil liberties of members of these organizations. Individuals, especially those in college, should not have to hide their religious or ideological beliefs out of fear that someone is looking over their shoulder.

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unclean, to him it is unclean” s one raised (Romans 14:14). If people “Jewish” who then want to do some extra things became “Christian” for God, that’s fine, and that’s later in life, I realize more what modern Jews do. and more that there is no As for modern reason for Christianity and Christianity, many of its Judaism to exist as separate ideas come from centuries of religious entities at all. Most EDWARD REEP pagan influence and theolomodern Jews and modern gy based on political expediChristians have so many ency. When one reads the New Testament, they dismisconceptions about the Bible that alleviating both cover that much of what it says is actually in line sides of their misconceptions would make them with the Old Testament, which would make sense. have practically the same religion. I call this combiFor example, in the New Testament, there is no nation the Messianic Jewish Church of Ed Reep, mention of a heaven and hell as Christians comand I’d love some company. monly imagine. As per the Old Testament books of Consider this: did you know that modern Jewish Daniel and Ezekial, the New Testament indicates practice has far more in common with ancient that people remain dead when they Christianity than it does with ancient die until a resurrection at the end of Judaism? You see, almost all modern the days when some will live forevJudaism — even some strains of “There’s no hell, and some will die again — and Orthodox Judaism — is based to and most everybody er you don’t even have to believe in some degree or another on the idea that Jews do not need to follow the ends up with a good Jesus before you die in order to live forever (John 5:29). Really, the secentire Law of Moses, which is the set afterlife anyway.” ond coming of Jesus at the end of of rules God gave the Jews in the the world in the New Testament is Torah. The ancient Jews followed it described exactly the same way as to the letter, but following the Law of the coming of the Messiah described in the Hebrew Moses in the modern day would be ridiculous — prophetic books, so Jews and Christians are waiting especially since it occasionally requires people to do for the same outcome. Realize that in principle, all some heinous things that would get them sent to jail the New Testament really does is describe the for life. Rather, almost all modern Jews believe in mechanisms for how the Old Testament prophecies some fashion that they should choose which aspects can come true. On another note, the New of the Law of Moses that they want to follow based Testament never outright states that Jesus is God upon their personal relationship with God. They may himself, consistent with Old Testament verses like simply pay lip service to high holy days, or they may “God is not a man” (Numbers 23:19). He’s just a guy be devoted and forgo work on the Sabbath every sinwith a major position under God (1 Corinthians gle week for their whole lives. The go-ahead for pick15:28, Revelation 3:12). The idea of one deity coning and choosing aspects of the Law of Moses to folsisting of three distinct parts existed in pagan relilow is found nowhere in the Torah or Old Testament, gions long before Jesus came around.

Judaism’s holy scriptures. Rather, it is found in the Now, what I’m saying probably doesn’t mean anyNew Testament. You see, most modern day Jews are thing if you’re one of the many Jews or Christians living a Christian lifestyle. who don’t actually believe in their religion, but see it One of the key ideas of Christianity is that Jesus’ as more of a cultural artifact that’s worth preserving death made it so that people would no longer be for one reason or another. That’s absolutely fine, bound to following the Law of Moses and that they though. There’s no hell, and most everybody ends just have to love others and be nice and all that up with a good afterlife anyway. But for those inter(Romans 7:1-7:6, Romans 13:8-10). Christianity does ested in discovering supernatural truth about the not forbid people from following the Law of Moses, universe, there is so much lurking beneath the surthough — except for some of those murderous comface. There is no reason for you to limit yourself to mandments. In fact, Romans 14 essentially says it is Judaism or Christianity. I’m not saying Jews have to okay for Christians to still celebrate holidays and believe Jesus is their Messiah or that Christians avoid certain foods if they want. Romans 14 even goes a step further and says “there is nothing unclean of SEE REEP ON PAGE 9 itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be

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REEP continued from page 8 have to forget about the trinity, but everyone should try to think critically about the Bible and their religious beliefs. Maybe the other religions are onto something.

Maybe we can start shedding religious labels and the associated identity politics and move to a more “spiritually blind” world.

One last comment, and I mean no disrespect to Hillel. My father considers himself a Reform Jew — both ethnically and in religious practice — but he shares beliefs similar to mine and sees nothing wrong with Jesus serving some sort of major role under God. I remember being young and going to temple and Hebrew school and asking him about Jesus, and he said things like: “Yes, Jesus is

legitimate. God gives people lots of ways to worship him. Hebrew schools should teach him.”

The Taglit-Birthright program through Hillel that gives students a free trip to Israel might let atheists of Jewish descent who consider themselves Jewish to participate, but I do not think they would let people participate who are of Jewish descent but believe Jesus is the Messiah. That’s fine — the organization can do what it wants.

No one has the right to a free trip anywhere. I think this is proof, though, of the silliness of keeping Judaism and Christianity apart.

Edward Reep is a Rutgers Business School junior majoring in supply chain and marketing science with minors in economics and business and technical writing. His column, “Philosophies of a Particular American,” runs on alternate Mondays.

Oppose comedy’s ‘prom king’ system Letter JASON EBERIGHT tand-up comedy is a pure art form in that it primarily involves only the comic, the audience and the ideas and statements presented from the former to the latter. While props and other details have been incorporated into stand-up, it mostly remains a spoken word performance. Because of this procedural simplicity, stand-up comedy offers a vast and diverse range of opinions, views and thoughts. But the most common venues for stand-up — comedy clubs — are increasingly diluting and narrowing the potency of this outlet for social commentary. The mark of a great stand-up comedian is a keen sense of things, an ability to recognize the nuances of those things, and then effectively deliver one’s own unique and comical take on those things to the audience. But as time goes on, the policy of comedy clubs is to reward not the most talented, but the most popular. This practice not only discourages good comedy, but it turns the art form into a pissing contest designed to put people in seats instead of good comics behind the mic.

Stand-up comedy should be treated as a meritocracy — that is to say, advancement by merit of talent and ability. But on the club circuit the stand-up comedy scene is increasingly being morphed into a plutocracy — advancement by merit of wealth, and in today’s comedy scene, the currency is customers. While open mic nights are notorious for allowing anyone and everyone an opportunity to get on stage and speak to the masses, in reality open mic is becoming more and more of a “bringer” shows where would-be performers must bring audience members along with them in order to be given a shot. What often happens is that people will go to an open mic night once just to “do it” and round up a large number of their friends to come along and watch them bomb.

The people with real comedic talent frequent these open mic nights often or even regularly. Gathering large amounts of people to go pay the cover charge and the two-item minimum week after week is impractical and impossible.

Therefore, most of the night is of awful attempts at comedy being given more time and large audiences, while the most talented subsist on scrap stage time when most of the audience has left and the few remaining tables are either too tired

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Additionally, comedy competitions hosted at these clubs rely on the audience members voting for their favorite performer to advance to the next round. When the crowd is basically factions brought by one comic or another, obviously the vote is almost predetermined by who brought the most voters for themselves. The bottom line is if you hope to get a fair shot at performing, you’d better be prom king, or else you’re not getting the supporters you need to come out give you a decent chance to really perform.

Economically, the prom king system makes a lot of sense, and club owners are wise to employ it.

They are business people, and profit is their main goal. Why shouldn’t they favor performers who bring dollars in the door and put people in the seats? In a floundering economy, it may even be necessary. However, this all funnels down into one breed of comic increasingly dominating the standup comedy scene in a survival of the fittest scenario, where the fittest are those with the most friends they can manipulate into going out and spending money.

The majority of people who are going to be able to do this are likely of a specific personality: a “prom king” personality. They are outgoing, gregarious, popular and unreserved extroverts. While there is nothing wrong with this type of person — and in fact, these people have many qualities most of us envy — it does limit the type of comic and art presented to an audience. The young comics becoming successful in recent times — Dane Cook, Aziz Ansari, Bo Burnham, Daniel Tosh — clearly exhibit this type of persona.

The drawback is that the variety and diversity of successful standup comedy is being suffocated. If the trend continues, will there be any more successful comedians like Steven Wright, Mitch Hedberg or Rodney Dangerfield?

The future of stand-up comedy is looking more homogeneous and standardized as a narrow set of qualities is rewarded above how funny someone is at the breeding grounds where comics start. An industry that should value talent and sense of humor is turning into one big high school, where being the popular kid is everything.

Jason Eberight is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in history with a minor in classical civilization.

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After a short sabbatical, Steven Colbert has announced that his show, “The Colbert Report,” will resume production. Colbert justified his absence, explaining he had to tend to a family illness, which is totally understandable. We’re happy to hear he’ll be back though — Lord knows we’ve been deprived of his satirical genius for long enough (which includes a single missed episode, to be exact). We laurel the return of “The Colbert Report.” Welcome back, America’s ballsiest pundit.

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Today's Birthday (02/20/12). A loved one thinks you can do anything. You know it's an illusion but leave the magic anyway. Home, family and entertaining friends are priorities this year. Pay down debt. Compromise. Your faith keeps your heart thriving. To get the advantage, check the day's rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is an 8 — The next solar month brings a phase of compassion, spirituality and helpfulness. Ride these winds to build positive community structures.

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They can support you in your goals. Love's getting interesting.

Accept an invitation while you can. Find beauty.

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Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 6 — You could rake in a lot of money. Don't sprint before you've warmed up your muscles. You might find some bumps along the romance trail.

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PLAY: Carter misses shot with Rutgers trailing by 4 points continued from back turnovers, which tied for the most on the team.

For nearly 40 minutes, the Orange could not exhale. But Jardine’s late-game performance provided the outlet.

“That took the life out of the gym, forget us,” sophomore guard Mike Poole said of Jardine’s shot. “The whole gym, all the Rutgers fans seemed like they died when that shot happened. It kind of clinched the game for them.”

Carter tried his hand in the heroics as the Scarlet Knights

(12-15, 4-10) trailed by 4 with less than two minutes left. But his contested 3-pointer in transition caromed off the rim, and Syracuse (27-1, 14-1) turned to a gameclincher of its own.

Boeheim called the RAC a shooter’s gym, and Jardine’s 5 late points provided the testament. Jardine calmly controlled the last 90 seconds as only a fifthyear veteran can. But the Philadelphia native was not alone.

Orange sophomore C.J. Fair tied a game high with 21 points and grabbed a game-high eight rebounds. Joseph and sophomore center Fab Melo scored in double figures to go along with Jardine’s 17 points.

“You just don’t know where it’s coming from,” said head coach

Mike Rice. “C.J. Fair is one of the best offensive rebounding wings there is in college basketball. You just don’t know where you’re getting hit at.”

GILVYDAS BIRUTA The Knights, and especially sophomore for ward Gilvydas Biruta, took their fair share of punches. The Orange threatened

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Biruta proved the catalyst, scoring a season-high 21 points and recording seven rebounds.

But only Poole joined Biruta with at least 10 points.

The Knights’ three freshman guards combined to shoot 3-for-16 from 3-point territory and scored only 19 total points. No one else converted a 3-point attempt.

So Rice looked to his defense.

“I always think we need a stop,” he said. “That’s who I am. We just didn’t get stops down the line that we needed. You’re not going to match basket-for-basket with Syracuse. We didn’t do enough.”

Syracuse outshot the Knights, 31-11, at the free-

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throw line, conver ting 12 more than Rutgers. Fair went 8-for-8, while the Knights made nine as a team.

Still, Rutgers had its opportunities in its sixth home matchup against a top-10 team in three seasons. It traded runs, swayed momentum and even took the lead. But the Orange were not Connecticut or Florida, teams the Knights outlasted this season at the RAC. Jardine made sure of it.

“They have an unfair advantage for a college basketball coach in Scoop Jardine running the point,” Rice said. “He had just such a composure and understanding of what he wanted to do.

It hurt us down the line because he was strong.”

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Junior guard Erica Wheeler drives through the Villanova defense Saturday in the Knights’ win. Wheeler scored 16 points on 7-for-10 shooting at the Pavillion.

She returns to Piscataway with consecutive double-figure scoring games after an offensive slump that included three games she came off the bench.

Wheeler ends slump, leads offensive backcourt

BY JOSH BAKAN ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

NOAH WHITTENBURG / PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Junior center Monique Oliver posts up Villanova’s Laura Sweeney.

Oliver played five minutes Saturday and did not score.

VILLANOVA, Pa. — In the midst of a five-game losing streak, the Rutgers women’s basketball team missed a potent threat from KNIGHT the field NOTEBOOK who could consistently sink shots from outside.

But that player was there all along. Junior guard Erica Wheeler finally rediscovered her stroke.

Wheeler started for a second straight game Saturday in the No. 21 Scarlet Knights’ 61-52 win against Villanova.

The Parkway Academy (Fla.) product took advantage of her 39 minutes of playing time with 16 points on 7-for-10 shooting. “[Wheeler] helps open up the game,” said senior point guard Khadijah Rushdan. “Once they start making shots, we’re able to get more drives. When we’re able to make shots like that, the success of our team is very great.”

Head coach C. Vivian Stringer put Wheeler on the court for all 40 minutes of a 60-50 loss Wednesday to West Virginia. Wheeler saw at most 27 minutes per game in the three previous contests.

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Senior point guard Khadijah Rushdan looks to pass Saturday out of a Villanova double-team. She played guard and forward.

In addition to a better shooting performance, Rutgers resumed its customary control of the paint. The Knights outrebounded their opponent, 33-28, for the first time in four games and picked up 28 points in the paint, 10 more than Villanova.

Turnovers were not an issue, either. Rutgers gave the ball away only 13 times, its lowest total since Jan. 10 against Pittsburgh, and only allowed Villanova 10 points off of takeaways.

The Knights’ superior speed and quickness had a large role to play in that. “[Rutgers is] always going to score more points off of turnovers than we are,” said Villanova head coach Harr y Perretta. “They’re better at pressing and getting in the passing lane. We’re just not athletic enough to go out and do that.”

She scored only 16 combined points in those three games, but the guard posted 11 points in her start in Morgantown, W. Va. She put together enough for a Knights (18-8, 7-6) win against the Wildcats.

The Miami native led a productive scoring backcourt, which included Rushdan’s 13 points and freshman guard Syessence Davis’ 6 points.

Junior center Monique Oliver had been a pillar of consistency during the Knights’ losing streak.

But she was a different player against the Wildcats (15-12, 5-8).

Oliver, the team leader in playing time this season, was on the court for only five minutes.

But foul trouble was not the sole cause. Stringer substituted for Oliver twice in the first eight minutes, even though the Las Vegas native did not record a single foul.

Stringer noted Oliver’s early struggles and wanted to put out a better defensive lineup.

“She got two shots snapped early that she shouldn’t have,” she said.

The answer to replace Oliver was not freshman center Christa Evans — she played only eight minutes because of two early fouls.

That left senior forward April Sykes at the five position. Her toughest task was guarding Villanova junior forward Laura Sweeney.

The 6-foot-2 Sweeney scored 19 points, the most by far for the Wildcats. She had no problem getting to the free throw line with a 7-for-9 shooting clip from the stripe. The Marlton, N.J., native also posed a threat on the boards with a team-leading six rebounds.

But the Knights were as active in rebounding, generating a 33-28 advantage on the glass.

Sykes and Wheeler led the way for the Knights on the boards, finishing with seven and five, respectively.

Villanova began the game as the fourth-ranked 3-point shooting team in the Big East with a 33.7 percentage. Rutgers ranked fourth to last at 28.6 percent.

But the Knights’ shooting problems from behind the arc were not apparent. They made 3of-8 from downtown while the Wildcats shot 6-for-31, only 19.4 percent of their 3-pointers.

“We have to be able to make at least 10 [3-pointers] to win the game,” said Villanova head coach Harry Perretta. “[We will not score] 60 unless we get 10 to win the game.”

Rutgers’ perimeter defense was a major factor in its win, as more than half of Villanova’s 51 shots came from 3-point territor y.

The only threat on the offensive end was the Wildcats’ leading scorer, junior Laura Sweeney.

The Marlton, N.J., native totaled 19 points.

While Sweeney surpassed her season average in scoring, the Knights kept her in check on the glass. Sweeney ended the contest with six rebounds, two below her season average.

The low rebound total came as a surprise in a game in which she was at least 2 inches taller than most of the defenders guarding her.

Rutgers’ centers, junior Monique Oliver and freshman Christa Evans, played a combined eight minutes.

Rather than tr y to battle the for wards with height, Rutgers spor ted quicker players such as freshman Syessence Davis to help stifle Villanova’s outside shooters.

“The name of this game was defense,” said Rutgers head coach C. Vivian Stringer. “I went with who I thought could best defend them on the defensive

side. I don’t think anyone would deny that [Davis] is lightning quick, would play hard and could do what we need her to do.”

That left Sykes and Rushdan with the job of covering Sweeney and freshman Emily Leer, both of whom are 6-foot-2.

But that did not bother either of the Rutgers duo.

“In my freshman year I used to deal with [former Rutgers center] Kia Vaughn [in practice],” Sykes said. “You just have to play smar t on the post.

It’s not about how big and strong you are. You just have to move your feet and get around the big man.”

Rutgers is back above .500 in conference play and has a good chance to win its next three games. All three opponents have sub-.500 conference records, including Seton Hall, which is winless in the Big East.

The next test comes tomorrow against the Pirates. The Knights must wait until then to see if the revived of fense remains intact.

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BY STEVEN MILLER CORRESPONDENT

WORD ON THE STREET

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ophomore cornerback Jordan Thomas left the Rutgers football team to run track at Binghamton.

Thomas spent his second season in a crowded secondar y when he finished with eight tackles and returned 16 kickoffs for 310 yards.

The Endicott, N.Y., native began his Scarlet Knights career as a running back, leading the team in rushing in 2010.

He received fewer snaps this season as he transitioned to the defensive side of the ball.

Thomas moved to cornerback last spring. One of his only highlights occurred on a defensive touchdown he scored against Army.

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team completed a 2-1 weekend with a 2-1 win Sunday against Texas State.

The Scarlet Knights finished above .500 in San Marcos, Texas. They defeated Dayton on Saturday, 8-0, and fell to Texas State on Friday, 11-6.

Senior Lindsey Curran led Sunday’s scoring effort with a two-run home run in the top of the third for the Knights (4-3).

Freshman Alyssa Landrith pitched a complete game, allowing one run on two hits for her second straight win.

Senior third baseman Brittney Lindley led the way against Dayton with five RBI, including a grand slam.

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lacrosse team beat Air Force on Sunday, 11-10, marking head coach Brian Brecht’s first win with the Scarlet Knights.

The Knights (1-1) fended off the Falcons after securing an 11-8 lead with three minutes remaining.

Sophomore Nick DePaolera paced the Knights with a career-high five points on two goals and three assists.

Redshirt sophomore attackman Scott Klimchak and senior Will Mangan recorded three points each.

With the score tied, 8-8, and 10:38 remaining, the Knights scored three consecutive goals in the next eight minutes.

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ESPN RELEASED A statement yesterday for three comments on ESPN outlets concerning New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin. The statement called the comments “inappropriate and offensive.”

ESPN dismissed one of its online headline writers and suspended an ESPNEWS anchor for 30 days.

Repor ts indicate the anchor is Max Bretos, according to foxspor ts.com.

Rutgers head men’s basketball coach Mike Rice expected this type of per for mance from Gilvydas KNIGHT Biruta all NOTEBOOK season long, but instead found the sophomore forward on his bench with foul trouble more often than he was involved in the paint.

The Biruta that Rice expected appeared at the Louis Brown Athletic Center yesterday, taking advantage of the holes in the hear t of Syracuse’s 2-3 zone en route to a game-high 21 points.

“There was a Gilvydas Bir uta sighting today, huh?

That’s what I thought I’d have ever y game, to be honest with you,” Rice said after suf fering a 74-64 loss to the secondranked team in the nation.

“The moon and the stars and the planets aligned today for Gil. There was a confidence about him.”

It was apparent from the outset, as Biruta put the Scarlet Knights on the board with a jumper from the foul line.

He scored the first six points for Rutgers and 10 of its first 12.

“That’s the Gil we all remember from last year,” said sophomore guard and former St. Benedict’s Prep (N.J.) teammate Mike Poole. “He’s been through a slump, but he woke up.”

He did it against a patented zone defense and 7-foot sophomore Fab Melo.

Biruta consistently attacked Melo for a 9-of-14 performance from the field. He also made 3-of4 foul shots and matched a career-high scoring total in addition to seven rebounds.

It was the third time in his career Biruta scored 20-plus points, but the first since Feb. 1, 2011, against Providence.

“Something bad is going to happen in this league — it always is,” Rice said. “He responded. You can see with Gil … that he’s not going to respond well, but he did.”

KEITH FREEMAN / SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Sophomore forward Gilvydas Biruta attempts a lay-in yesterday as No. 2 Syracuse’s C.J. Fair (5) and Fab Melo defend. Biruta tied for a game high with 21 points in the Knights’ losing effort.

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C.J. Fair made his presence known of f the Syracuse bench with his put-back baskets and alley-oops, but eight of his game-high 21 points came at the foul line.

Fair shot 8-for-8 from the free throw line, almost single-handedly outshooting Rutgers, which went 9-for-11.

“This team still has young bodies and young minds,” Rice said. “In the Big East, you have to seek that contact. The free throw disparity hurts.”

Rutgers attempted 64 foul shots this season against ranked Big East opponents.

Those opponents attempted 153 in the same games.

The Knights took more trips to the foul line against only thenNo. 10 Connecticut — the last game in which Rutgers completed an upset bid.

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first home loss against a top-10 team since Jan. 29, 2011, when it last welcomed the nation’s second-ranked team to the RAC.

The Knights fell by 2 to Pittsburgh and then beat the next three top-10 foes to travel to Piscataway. Villanova ranked ninth in the national polls last season, then Florida and Connecticut each ranked 10th overall when they fell this season.

“This is a tough place to play, I don’t care who you are,” said Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim. “I think Florida is pretty good, Connecticut is pretty good. Notre Dame lost in here?

They’re pretty good, too.”

RU places third in Maryland quad meet

BY VINNIE MANCUSO CORRESPONDENT

When the Rutgers gymnastics team traveled to Mar yland on Saturday for a quad meet, it s a w GYMNASTICS familiar RUTGERS 191.700 faces in W e s t THIRD PLACE Virginia a n d William & Mar y.

The last time the Scarlet Knights met up with EAGL opponent West Virginia, they fell to the Mountaineers by a score of 193.425-191.650. William & Mary, on the other hand, lost to the Knights, 192.500-191.825, in a quad meet in Pittsburgh.

The results remained the same this weekend, as Rutgers placed third with a score of 191.700, behind host Maryland and West Virginia, coming out on top of only William & Mary.

“There were some individual highlights, for sure. There were

some really good routines,” said head coach Louis Levine. “We just fell a little bit short when it came to putting it all together for a good team score. It is a little disappointing, but we are just going to keep pushing forward.”

The Knights did not earn their first conference win of the year thanks in large part to a disappointing evening on the uneven bars.

Rutgers finished last in the event with a score of 47.775.

Sophomore Alexis Gunzelman, who also LOUIS finished first for the Knights in the all-around, recorded the highest score for Rutgers on bars with a 9.725.

Levine said the worst aspect of the bar routines was not the mistakes, but the fact they were avoidable.

“Bars are definitely where we struggled the most,” Levine said. “We had to record some

falls on bars, and some of them were just lapses in thinking.”

Junior Jenna Zito led the Knights with a 9.800 in their best event of the day, the floor exercise. Rutgers finished the event with a score of 48.50, aided by Zito and her classmate Nicole Romano, who notched a seasonhigh 9.775.

While the lost inconference opportunity disappointed Zito, she was proud of the effort an injur yLEVINE plagued Rutgers put up in Maryland.

“We were hoping for ever ything to finally come together,” Zito said. “I’m proud of my teammates for pushing through, just fighting through all the injuries and the sicknesses we had. I think we were still able to pull out a good meet.

Some of the scores didn’t go our way, but we hung tough.”

Levine cites a problem in the meet that has become consistent for the Knights in the past few weeks — inconsistency. The problem can only be fixed in the gym, Levine said.

“It is not rocket science. You just have to keep doing routines and building confidence, and it will all fall into place,” he said. “Ever y person needs to do their par t.”

As the Knights enter the midpoint of their schedule with an even 7-7 record and no conference wins, they know they have to finally put a full meet together.

To do so, Zito knows the team needs to land all of its events.

That includes the uneven bars.

“We have obvious mistakes that we are all aware of, so we’ll work on that,” Zito said. “The bar routines are coming, but they’re still inconsistent. We have to keep practicing in our lineup so we know every girl can make it in a row. When we do it in a meet, we’ll have the same result.”

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Syracuse’s Scoop Jardine drives against freshman point guard Jerome Seagears yesterday in the No. 2 Orange’s 74-64 victory.

Jardine, a senior point guard, helped to account for three consecutive scoring possessions that clinched their 14th Big East win.

Jardine’s late-game play downs Knights

BY TYLER BARTO SPORTS EDITOR

Scoop Jardine could not help but smile yesterday as he turned from the Louis Brown Athletic Center 3-point line.

The Syracuse MEN’S BASKETBALL senior point guard’s SYRACUSE 74 3-pointer in front of a capacity crowd put RUTGERS 64 the Orange ahead by 8 points as the clock showed only a minute remained. His

efforts on the previous two possessions led to 4 points, as well, lifting the No. 2 Orange to a 74-64 win against the Rutgers men’s basketball team.

“Scoop made some plays down the stretch,” said Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim. “That’s what we would hope for from a senior guard. He has been doing that all year.”

Jardine’s driving floater two possessions earlier did not fall. But forward Kris Joseph put back the miss, which junior wing Dane Miller called the play of the game.

Jardine returned on the next trip with a contested jumper from the wing. But his biggest play put the game out of reach.

Eli Car ter had Jardine in his sights.

But not even the freshman guard could prevent Jardine from having his way and locking up Syracuse’s Big East-best 27th win of the season.

Jardine turned and let loose a toothy grin.

His four misses from the foul line had not cost Syracuse. Neither had his three

Rutgers head football coach Kyle Flood rounded out his defensive staff Saturday, when former Central Florida defensive line FOOTBALL coach Jim Panagos agreed to terms, according to The Star-Ledger.

Panagos spent five seasons at UCF, all of which he worked in the trenches. He parlayed a four-year stint with the Minnesota Vikings into working in Orlando, a future Big East destination.

Panagos grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., and played four seasons along the defensive line at Mar yland.

Flood introduced his defensive assistants Tuesday, but he continued to look for a final piece.

He said he did not want to base JIM PANAGOS the decision on filling positional needs, but the Panagos hire does so.

Panagos replaces former defensive line coach Phil Galiano, who will now coach special teams under Flood.

Other members of Flood’s first staff paid a visit to the Louis Brown Athletic Center yesterday, where they pitched the Scarlet Knights to a host of recruits.

Their sales pitch likely included a home-and-home series with Arkansas, which Rutgers Athletics Communications announced Friday.

The Knights travel to Fayetteville, Ark., on Sept. 22 before hosting the Razorbacks in 2013. The second matchup marks the first with a Southeastern Conference opponent in Piscataway.

Rutgers faced six SEC teams in its histor y, but all meetings took place at Giants Stadium.

The Knights still have a scheduling hole to fill with West Virginia’s departure to the Big 12. The Big East currently claims only seven footballplaying members.

The conference continues to work with Boise State to add the school for the 2012 season, according to The Star-Ledger.

— Staff Report

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Rutgers ends five-game skid behind Sykes’ 20-point effort

BY JOEY GREGORY ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

NOAH WHITTENBURG / PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Senior forward April Sykes takes one of her five 3-point attempts Saturday against Villanova. She notched her first 20-point game since Jan. 21 in a win against USF.

VILLANOVA, Pa. — For the Rutgers women’s basketball team faithfuls who travel to nearly every road game, the battle with déjà vu is over.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL With a 61-52 win against Villanova on RUTGERS 61 Saturday, the streak VILLANOVA 52 of five consecutive games with underwhelming offensive production ended.

The biggest breath of fresh air for the No. 21 Scarlet Knights (18-8, 7-6) came from senior forward April Sykes.

After six unusually quiet games, she broke out of her recent skid and led the attack with 20 points on 7-for-11 shooting.

“I was just in a mental slump, period,” Sykes said. “It wasn’t just about making shots. [During the slump] I wasn’t even attempting shots, I was missing layups.”

Her production came just in time, with the season nearing a close and the Knights still looking lost on the of fensive end.

But as Sykes’ shots began to fall, so did those of the rest of the team. By the end of the game, Rutgers owned three doubledigit scorers.

In addition to Sykes’ 20 points, junior guard Erica Wheeler and senior point guard Khadijah Rushdan added 16 and 13 points, respectively.

Everything that plagued the Knights as a team in the five-game losing streak, especially shooting, did not at Villanova.

During the last five games, Rutgers posted a shooting percentage better than 42 only once — it shot 42 percent from the field Wednesday against West Virginia.

But the Knights shot at a 46-percent clip against Villanova (15-12, 5-8).

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