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Business school to gain core Livingston facility BY LISA BERKMAN CORRESPONDENT
Following a large donation from an anonymous donor, the Rutgers Business School is set to undergo an expansion, with new facilities being constructed on Livingston campus. The expansion started materializing after administrators realized there had not been enough emphasis on business, said Glen Shafer, dean of the Rutgers Business School. “We felt there was a great student need for it,” Shafer said. “I think everyone in the administration felt that we were not meeting the student demand in the area, and they thought it was the right thing for Rutgers to do.” Antonio Calcado, vice president of facilities and capital planning at the University, said it was a crucial decision for the future of the University to invest in the business school. “Let’s face it — the backbone of America is business, and we should be training students in business in the state of New Jersey,” Calcado said. “That’s something we should aspire to do and I think we do it well, so it’s gratifying to see an expansion of the program.”
In an action of gratitude, an anonymous $13 million donation from a University alumnus was received, and of that gift, $3 million was allocated to honor Paul G. Falkowski, a University professor, with an endowed chair, Shafer said. The remaining $10 million will offset the $85 million it will cost to construct the expansion, Calcado said. “[The donor] felt that his education at Rutgers was very important for his business success, and he wanted to give back,” Shafer said. Bonds will fund the rest of the expansion’s cost, Calcado said. Classrooms, office space and business labs will all be included in the facility, which Calcado said will also feature smart boards and laptop-based webinars. “We want to make sure that it’s cutting edge in technology, so we will continue to evolve as we build, because technology continues to evolve,” he said. Calcado said the expansion is a necessary reaction to a growing pool of incoming students. “The business school is expanding because of new programs and because of the demand of the curriculum for the business school,” Calcado said. “We’ve got lots of students who SEE
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President Robert L. Barchi listens to a reporter’s question outside his office in Old Queens. Improving the University’s brand is a part of his agenda. ALEXANDER VAN DRIESEN, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Barchi lays out goals for U. BY AMY ROWE NEWS EDITOR
University President Robert L. Barchi, who arrived at the University just last week, referred to himself as a “newbie” at a press meeting he held on Tuesday outside his office in Old Queens. “You have to recognize that I’m just figuring my way around,” Barchi said. “I’m still trying to figure out where everything is.”
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While climate change may stir controversy, one professor attempts to clear the debate by explaining rising temperatures with a hockey stick. Michael E. Mann, a professor in the Department of Meteorology at Pennsylvania State University, came to speak about his book, “The Hockey Stick and The Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines,” yesterday at the Cook Campus Center, referring to the climate of the Medieval Era. “The hockey stick is a graph that my co-authors and I published more than a decade ago, which was an attempt to find how the temperature of the earth has changed over 1,000 years,” Mann said.
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of Pennsylvania, one of the largest Ivy League institutions. The new president aims to transform the University’s brand and improve its reputation in the health sciences in conjunction with the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey merger over the next five years. “Basically [I hope] to take this place to a University that can really SEE
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He has not seen much of the University’s culture — he has not yet been to the grease trucks — but the former president of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia has been busy getting acquainted with everyone on the Banks and setting up a game plan. While Barchi never worked for a public university until now, he said he is comfortable governing a school as big as the University because he was previously provost at the University
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CAMPUS CALENDAR Thursday, Sept. 6 The new three-story Barnes and Noble on Somerset Street hosts its grand opening celebrations through Sept. 9. Ted Allen of Food Network’s “Chopped” will do a book signing.
Friday, Sept. 7 The Fall 2012 Involvement Fair will take place from 2 to 6 p.m. on Voorhees Mall on the College Avenue campus. Take the opportunity to learn about more than 300 student organizations on campus.
Saturday, Sept. 8 The Scarlet Knights kick off the football season against Howard at High Point Solutions Stadium at 3 p.m. on Busch campus. To purchase tickets, visit the Scarlet Knights website.
Sunday, Sept. 9 The Institute for Women and Art will host a symposium and panel discussion for the exhibit “Fertile Crescent: Gender, Art and Society” from 2 to 4 p.m. at Scott Hall on the College Avenue campus. Pieces in the exhibit focus on Western exoticism of Middle Eastern women.
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Professors seek to save chestnut trees BY ELIZABETH KEARNS STAFF WRITER
Professors at the University are teaming up to prevent the extinction of the American chestnut tree. “The American chestnut was one of the most common trees in the eastern forests and today, we’ve lost almost all the chestnut trees,” said Steven Handel, professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources. These trees were killed mostly from one fungus, he said. “The fungus probably came with wooden material from China. The chestnuts in China, unlike the American chestnuts, are immune to the disease,” Handel said. Before the disease, the American chestnut made up 20 percent of all the trees from New England to the South East, with some trees clearing 150 feet, he said. The fungus prevents the American chestnuts from growing, Handel said. “The fungus kills off the trees but not the actual roots. Therefore, the chutes still come up and after 10 feet, the fungus affects it again and it dies,” he said. To help save the American chestnut tree, the University is working with Duke Farms, the American Chestnut Foundation and geneticists from Pennsylvania State University and Syracuse University, Handel said. Sarah Tremallo, a Duke Farms spokeswoman, said the
farm is always open to working with research par tners who are looking to suppor t environmental stewardship. While Bradley Hillman, professor in the Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, is working to solve the problem of the fungal virus that is taking hold of the American chestnut tree, Handel works with hybrid nuts to create a chestnut tree resistant to disease, he said.
“The fungus kills off the trees but not the actual roots.” STEVEN HANDEL Professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources
“We take the pollen from the Chinese chestnut tree and put it on the American flower to get the offspring,” Handel said. “The ones we planted are 1/16th Chinese chestnut and 15/16th American chestnut, so they look like the American chestnut tree.” Christina Kaunzinger, a senior ecologist for the University’s Center for Urban Restoration Ecology, said one of the biggest challenges is finding a place to plant the fungus-resistant chestnuts in the Northeast and re-introducing them in to the environmental system. The hybrids are planted in the gaps of Duke Farms along with
American chestnut trees and Chinese chestnut trees, she said, which are monitored to check for survival rate and signs of disease on the American chestnut tree and compare it to the blight resistant hybrid. “They’re coming along well,” she said, in which there is about a 50 percent survival rate of the trees planted. Handel said they are working on this project to restore the American chestnut because it is valuable to habitats, where many animals benefit from the chestnuts. “Our world is changing, and the more species we have, the greater chance our native forests can survive,” he said. “If we lose an oak tree, a chestnut tree can be replaced.” Handel’s hopes are high for the success of the hybrid’s chestnuts, he said. “What I’ve read is that the American chestnut was delicious and better than the ones in the market now. The ones in our stores are Chinese. The hybrid should taste just like the original,” Handel said. Michael Silvestri, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, said he wishes Handel and his team the best. “I think it’s great that we are putting our intelligence of science and technology to save the environment,” he said. —Yashmin Patel contributed to this story.
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LANES Stevenson says 700 students have rented bikes from U. program CONTINUED FROM FRONT Highland Park to the University on his bike, said riding on the street is always safer. “When you are on the sidewalk, you are constantly braking and sneaking up on people,” he said. The city will be enforcing the ordinance with fines. A first
offense fine is $25, second offense is $50 and third offense is $100, Marchetta said. Despite the restrictions, University bicycle rentals still sold out last semester, said Jack Molenaar, director for the Depar tment of Transpor tation Ser vices. “Last year, we had roughly 270 rentals. We only have 150
bikes total, so we had people coming back to ride a second, even third time,” he said. Molenaar said the goal of the bike program is to get students actively involved. Transportation Services has even created a position to help raise awareness of the new law, as well as safety precautions cyclists should take while they ride. John Stevenson, senior program coordinator of Transportation Services, said the department might include a class in the spring that will feature classroom instruction on safety rules and apply it by riding along city streets.
Stevenson said the program has more than 700 active users in the database and expects to have them all rented out quickly again. “Last year, we had all of our bikes rented out by the end of the first week of classes,” he said. “Thir ty bikes are already rented out this semester, and 16 more are already reser ved and waiting to be picked up.” Students can sign up to rent bikes on the bicycling website, as well as get access to safety information, including a 10 minute video. Bike rentals are
$10 per month and $25 for the semester. The city has a budget of $106,680 to use for bike lanes on Remsen Avenue between Sandford Street and the border to North Brunswick. It will also fund paths in parts of the Fifth and Sixth wards, where much of the College Avenue campus lies, Marchetta said. The city is now working on a path that would lead from the College Avenue campus to Douglass campus, but as the planned route runs through a few jurisdictions, more time will be needed to plan accordingly, said Marchetta.
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University President Robert L. Barchi constructs a clock, a skill he developed in the late 1960s. COURTESY OF UNIVERSITY RELATIONS
GOALS Merger costs will not affect tuition, Barchi says CONTINUED FROM FRONT fulfill its mission to create the next generation of educated citizens for New Jersey, to drive the business of the New Jersey economy … [and] be a target for attracting the best and brightest students,” he said. While Gov. Chris Christie set a July 1, 2013 deadline for the integration of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, the Cancer Institute of New Jersey and the UMDNJ School of Public Health, Barchi said by that point, the University only aims to see if the merger is feasible. “The actual implementation is actually going to take much longer,” he said. “What we’d like to do between now and July is first to understand the financial ramifications of bringing those elements of the UMDNJ enterprise [to the University].” Where to place administration from those schools, an integration plan and a decision on software and payroll integration are among the logistics that will be hashed out by the deadline, Barchi said. Tuition will not rise to cover the cost of the merger, he said. “Our goal here is to keep tuition absolutely under control,” Barchi said. “There are two tuitions. It’s like buying a car: There’s a sticker price, and there’s a price you pay when you come in and drive the car out of the lot.” More than 80 percent of University students receive tuition support, he said. “If I had my druthers in the best of all worlds, I would like to see a needs-free tuition policy,” he said. “We’re not there yet.” Fundraising is something new to Barchi, but he said he is confident he can negotiate with the legislature and attract private donors. With the state only covering 22 percent of the budget, the University relies heavily on gifts from alumni. “If we want to have a publicprivate partnership, we have to expect that more of our revenue has to come from the equivalent of an endowment,” Barchi said. The new president also wants to be as transparent as possible and make himself available to students. At the University of Pennsylvania, Barchi started a series of fireside chats with students. He said there is no substitute for face-to-face interaction. “To the extent that I can, I’m going to get out there and hear what people have to say,” he said. “We are, after all, here to educate [the students].”
Barchi will be present at a Rutgers University Student Assembly town hall meeting Sept. 27, where he will answer any questions students have for him, said John Connelly, president of RUSA. “I definitely look forward to future meetings with President Barchi,” said Connelly, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “I hope we can take the president up on his word.” He hopes Barchi’s openness will allow students to be heard when it comes to University policies. “I really hope this is the beginning of an era at this University where students have an actual say in day-to-day policy,” he said. “It’s the biggest goal of everyone in RUSA and should be the biggest goal for anyone interested in democracy on campus.” Joe Cashin, student representative to the Board of Governors, said he admires the president’s goal to make sure the University is better known outside of the tristate area. “I personally think that Rutgers is truly one of the best universities in the nation,” said Cashin, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “I think it’s better than Princeton. … I’m glad that one of his missions the first year is to make the nation know Rutgers’ name.” Students might also catch Barchi in his box at High Point Solutions Stadium. Though he shows his support, Barchi said he is not a big sports fan. “I don’t have time, I barely watch TV,” he said. “I do get involved, but I’m not a big watcher.” The president just moved in to the presidential mansion, transporting 200 boxes from his home in Philadelphia to the Piscataway residence. Francis Harper Barchi, the president’s wife, is still working at the University of Pennsylvania. But come January, she will become a faculty member at Rutgers University’s School of Social Work. The couple plans to make the house their own by furnishing the first floor, which is usually reser ved for official meetings and is decorated as such. “It will feel like it is our home,” Robert L. Barchi said. In his spare time, the president constructs clocks from scratch — a passion that grew from his childhood when he deconstructed his mother’s watch. “[I’m interested] in precision mechanics and skeletal clocks,” he said. “I cut the gears and design the movements. They’re incredibly beautiful devices that serve a function so important to life.” Although the president gets absorbed in the mechanical details of clocks, that is not how he does business, he said. “I can become very involved with every screw and nut,” he said. “But in an organization, you can’t act the same way. I’m not a micromanager.”
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AUTHOR Climate should not be political issue, Mann says CONTINUED FROM FRONT He authored a report in 2001 involving climate change, in which the curve of the temperate resembled a hockey stick. “It quickly became an icon in the climate change debate because it told such a simple story,” he said. “You didn’t need to understand the physics of how a climate model works to understand what this graph is telling you.” On the other side of the debate, Mann said he and his colleagues encountered deniers and detractors of the hockey stick. “It represented a threat to the special interests who have been working for decades, who have been trying to stall any efforts to regulate carbon emissions,” he said. The decade-long attack has pressed on to discredit evidence from climate change alarmists, Mann said. “A day doesn’t go by where there isn’t something published on a blog or on a website even in the news media that perpetuates some myth about climate change, often where my work is somehow involved,” Mann said. “What keeps me going in fighting back is that I do get so much support from not just friends and family, but from distinguished sci-
FACILITY Undergraduate enrollment increased by about 150 students CONTINUED FROM FRONT need to be business students but unfortunately we didn’t have a place to put them in.” The school began accepting undergraduates in 2008 to attract more applicants, Shafer said. “Before [2008], the students were all in the School of Arts and Sciences and other schools,” Shafer said. “They’d start there, major in business, and they’d come to the business school as juniors. Instead of just judging their GPA at Rutgers, we’re now looking at their credentials as high school students.” The ef fects of this decision can be seen in enrollment numbers, he said. The number of first-year students enrolled in the undergraduate program rose from 486 in 2011 to 639 this year. The school also saw a sharp increase in international students, rising from 17 last fall to 107 this semester, Shafer said. Diversity has also been on the rise, with 66 percent nonwhite students enrolled this semester — an increase from last year’s 50 percent, said Paul Johnson, assistant vice president of Enrollment Management. But even with the increase in enrollment, the University is still far behind its Association of American Universities peers in international enrollment, lagging at the 14 percent margin, said Courtney McAnuff, vice president of Enrollment Management. The University began increasing its international
UNIVERSITY PAGE 7 entists that I have never met just to thank me for defending the science,” Mann said. Climate change talks should turn to solving the problem, he said. “Whether it’s cap and trade or carbon tax, and what sort of national treaties are appropriate,” he said. “These are all worthy topics for discussion, but we can’t even have [them] … as long as some of our most prominent politicians deny that climate change exists.” He said Gov. Chris Christie has a positive approach to the issue and accepts that something needs to be done about climate change. “This doesn’t need to be a political issue. It shouldn’t be a left versus right issue,” he said. “We all stand to lose out.” Kenneth Miller, professor in the University’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, said the lecture was a great opportunity for students to hear from researchers who deal with the politics of science. “There’s a moment when you can see the human in him, and he almost choked up, and you don’t get that by watching TED, watching YouTube, reading a book or even from hearing it from me,” Miller said. Amanda Sorensem, a University graduate student, said the speech was eye-opening. “We don’t ever think about the policy, the human dimension,” she said. “It focuses around climate, but this is more about how to deal with policy and how policy affects climate habits in the United States and how [that] affects people.”
recruitment since 2010, after the state lifted a heavy fine. “It was part of a movement to improve diversity in the classroom,” he said. “We want it to be extremely diverse, with representatives from many nations and different parts of the United States.” In fact, academic quality of applicants has also been on the rise. The incoming class averaged 12 points higher in SAT scores than last year, with students who graduated in the top 10 percent of their class increasing from 32 percent in 2011 to 40 percent this year, McAnuff said. Shafer said the school is also looking to connect students with the business community through internships and mentoring. “We have a philosophy of continuous improvement,” he said. “Students are interested in a topnotch education. They want to be introduced to what the real world of business is like.” McAnuff said frequent visits from companies and business firms show the importance of business education in today’s day and age. “Business is certainly an instrumental academic discipline that sets a tone for many folks who want to work in New Jersey,” he said. “Many corporations that want to do business in New Jersey are looking for strong students.” But it is the University as a whole that trains its students to be ef fective managers. Shafer said a recent sur vey of 500 companies determined the University to be among the top 10 in the countr y to produce CEOs — but not all of them graduated from Rutgers Business School. “Many students who are not in the business school have careers in business,” he said. “Rutgers is very proud.”
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Local venue prepares for festival Michael McDonald among musicians to perform at blues, jazz series BY JUAN CARLO SALVANIA CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The New Brunswick City Council, which meets every first and third Wednesday of the month, faced questions over the city’s low public school rankings. CONOR ALWELL, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Residents press city council on education BY ADAM UZIALKO CORRESPONDENT
New Brunswick residents are dissatisfied with the city’s public schools and made it known during the public portion of last night’s city council meeting. Charlie Kratovil, a University alumnus who is seeking a seat on the council, was the first to raise the issue. “We assessed that the graduation rate was the poorest in the county,” he said. Kratovil said he was concerned to find, by some measures, that New Brunswick ranks below most other schools in the state. “I know now that new formulas have been applied, and we’re in the bottom part of the state, as well.” Kratovil asked the council what their “vision” for improving the dismal education numbers was. Councilman Glenn Fleming, a former teacher, said that using the same formulas across the board skewed the rankings when applied to urban schools. “You cannot use the same measures and the same paradigms that you use in other districts,” he said. Fleming said the state measures special needs students and those who are the first generation of English speakers in their household by the same standards for tests given throughout all districts. “It only tells you how the kids took the test that day,” he said. “What starts to happen is, you have to look at different measurements.” Low-income factors also affect urban education environments and other districts are not as susceptible to those constraints, he said. “We have a lot of instances where parents didn’t graduate themselves,” he said, “so now how can they help their kids out?” Tormel Pittman, a New Br unswick resident, said Fleming was shifting the blame from teachers who are not concerned about their students’ progress.
“Parents didn’t put the kids in the warehouses,” Pittman said in reference to the A.C. Redshaw School’s temporary location. He said more responsibility should be put on the teachers to prepare their students to go to college. “My kids, they don’t go to New Brunswick’s school system,” Pittman said, “but if my daughter’s [grades] happen to drop at any time, I get an email from her teacher.” Pittman said compassion was lacking in the New Brunswick school system and questioned why funding did not make an impact on the district’s ranking. Fleming said funding does not always make it to the student level because of other costs in the schools. Fleming said the funding goes to different services throughout the schools and that “throwing money at the problem” is not the best solution. Ray Hernandez, an employee of New Brunswick 4H, said his program sought to work with New Brunswick schools to prepare students for college but was repeatedly rejected by the Board of Education. Hernandez, a University alumnus, said the program offers counseling to students who are coming to him more and more with questions about college preparation. “These students come to me with issues and questions about college,” he said, “And they’re not being prepared or taught.” Hernandez said students are being fed false information about what colleges are looking for. “I just want to add one thing,” he said, “4H is free.” Teresa Vivar, president of Lazos America Unida, a program affiliated with 4H, said they were willing to work with the city and education system. “We have parents who care,” she said, “And there’s been unwillingness to work with us.” Vivar said the organizations aim to work together through the city, the schools and the parents. “How many bars do we have?” she asked. “We want good places for the kids.”
The State Theatre will present a series of musical performances later this month as part of its sixth annual New Jersey Blues and Jazz Festival, which will showcase award-winning musicians from across the globe. The festival will run from Sept. 11 through Sept. 21, with all of the performances held at the State Theatre at 15 Livingston Ave. Kelly Blithe, director of Public Relations with the State Theatre, said the festival provides blues and jazz enthusiasts a venue to experience a variety of musicians from all over the United States. “It’s a time of the year that we like to pack in a bunch of blues and jazz events in a short span of time that can gather up some blues and jazz fans around the area and get them excited,” Blithe said. The festival boasts a lineup of famous musicians from around the world this year, she said. Guitarists Jonny Lang and Buddy Guy, who was ranked 30th in Rolling Stone Magazine’s “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time,” will open the festival on Sept. 11, Blithe said. The festival will continue with Michael McDonald on Sept. 12,
followed by the acoustic duo Stanley Clarke and Hiromi on Sept. 16. Trumpet player Chris Botti will round off the performances on Sept. 21 with his State Theatre debut. “We have some big names this time around. We are ver y excited,” Blithe said. “We have trumpeter Chris Botti. He is the all-time best-selling instrumentalist in the world.” The organizers are expecting a bigger turnout in conjunction with the talent being showcased at this year’s festival, Blithe said. For the first time, the whole capacity of the State Theatre is being utilized. “In previous years, we used to do everything on stage, where the performers and the audience were [both] on stage,” she said. “It was a small little venue, where it only had 200 seats. All four of [this year’s] performances are all on the regular-size theater with 1,800 seats.” Since the production for this year’s festival is much bigger than previous ones, ticket prices will also reflect the change, Blithe said. Depending on the performer, ticket prices range from $35 to $120. Russell Marchetta, New Brunswick city spokesman,
agrees with Blithe about the excitement the festival will bring to New Brunswick. Restaurants and shopping boutiques, he said, would especially feel a positive economic impact. “Any festival that takes place in New Brunswick has a positive economic impact on the city,” Marchetta said. “You have people coming in shopping beforehand and eating in our restaurants … parking on our parking decks.” He said the festival shows the city has the ability to attract famous artists and of course, bring in business. Hosting large events, he said, brings pride to the area and proves that New Brunswick is a strong, striving community. “New Brunswick’s nickname is the Hub City. It’s right near the center of the state [so it’s] the place to be,” he said. “[There] are venues that people can come to and enjoy festivals such as the New Jersey Blues and Jazz Festival.” The event may also become popular among students, said Denice Hernandez, a College of Nursing senior. “Students should attend these festivals to broaden and expose themselves to different kinds of music,” she said. Hernandez is excited to see the famous musicians come to a venue near her campus. “It’s different and interesting,” she said. “I would love an opportunity to try new things.”
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Secret Service investigates theft Copies of Romney’s tax records are stolen after accounting office break-in THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FRANKLIN, Tenn. — The Secret Service said yesterday it is investigating the reported theft of copies of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s federal tax records during a break-in at an accounting office in Franklin. Someone claiming responsibility demanded $1 million not make them public. An anonymous letter sent to Romney’s accounting firm and political offices in Tennessee and published online sought $1 million in hard-to-trace Internet currency to prevent the disclosure of his tax filings, which have emerged as a key focus during the 2012 presidential race. Romney released his 2010 tax returns and a 2011 estimate in January, but he has refused to disclose his returns from earlier years. Romney’s accounting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers, said there was no evidence that any Romney tax files were stolen. “At this time there is no evidence that our systems have been compromised or that there was any unauthorized access to the data in question,” PricewaterhouseCoopers spokesman Chris Atkins said.
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ins reported at the site. “We’ve had nothing from that address in August,” Police Lt. Charles J. Warner said. There was no sign of forced entry at the five-story building that housed the accounting firm’s local office, not far from the Cool Springs Galleria, a large mall about 20 miles south of Nashville. The building does not restrict access during business hours and has no guard. Access to the doors and elevators appear to be
controlled by keycard. A spokeswoman for the building manager, Spectrum Properties, said the company would not speculate on the burglary claim. “All of the tenants operate independently and the building is highly secured,” the spokeswoman, Beth Courtney, said. The data theft was claimed in letters left with political party offices in Franklin and disclosed in several Tennessee-area newspapers. Jean Barwick, the executive director of the Williamson County Republic Party, said employees in the GOP office found a small package on Friday with a hand-written address. The package contained a letter and a computer flash drive, she said. An anonymous posting on a file-sharing website said the returns were stolen Aug. 25 from the accounting firm’s office. After “all available 1040 tax forms for Romney were copied,” the posting said, flash drives containing encrypted copies of his pre-2010 tax records were sent to the firm and to Republican and Democratic party offices. Barwick said she turned over the materials to the Secret Service. She said she was not able to confirm that copies of any tax returns were stored on the flash drive The group threatened to divulge the tax files by late September unless it was paid $1 million.
CANGREJAL, Costa Rica — A powerful, magnitude-7.6 earthquake shook Costa Rica and a wide swath of Central America yesterday, collapsing some houses, blocking highways and causing panic and at least one death from a heart attack. Costa Rica President Laura Chinchilla announced there were no reports of major damage and called for calm. At the epicenter, the beach town of Cangrejal, Jairo Zuniga, 27, said everything in his house fell when the quake hit at 8:42 a.m. (10:42 a.m. EDT; 1442 GMT). “It was incredibly strong. I’ve felt earthquakes, but this one was ‘wow,’ he said. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was centered about 38 miles (60 kilometers) from the town of Liberia and 87 miles (140 kilometers) west of the capital, San Jose, where frightened people ran into the streets. The magnitude initially was estimated at 7.9, but was quickly downgraded. Local residents said it shook for about 30 seconds and was felt as far away as neighboring Panama and Nicaragua, where school was canceled in some areas. Officials initially warned of a possible tsunami, and local police supervisor Jose Angel Gomez said about 5,000 people — 80 percent of the population — had been evacuated from coastal towns in the Samara district west of the quake’s epicenter. But by mid-day they were allowed to return. Panama also briefly called for people to evacuate beach areas. In Costa Rica, one man died of a heart attack caused by fright, said Carlos Miranda, a Red Cross worker in the city of Liberia.
Douglas Salgado, a geographer with Costa Rica’s National Commission of Risk Prevention and Emergency Attention, said officials a landslide hit the main highway that connects the capital of San Jose to the Pacific coast city of Puntarenas, and hotels and other structures suffered cracks in walls and saw items knocked off shelves. Rosa Pichardo, 45, who lives in Samara, was walking on the beach with her family when the quake hit. “When we felt the earthquake, we held onto each other because we kept falling,” Pichardo said. “I’ve never felt anything like this. We just couldn’t stay standing. My feet gave out under me. It was terrible, terrible.” In the town of Hojancha a few miles (kilometers) from the epicenter, city official Kenia Campos said the quake knocked down some houses and landslides blocked several roads. “So far, we don’t have victims,” she said. “People were really scared ... We have had moderate quakes but an earthquake (this strong) hadn’t happened in more than 50 years.” Michelle Landwer, owner of the Belvedere Hotel in Samara, north of the epicenter, said she was having breakfast with about 10 people when the earthquake struck. “The whole building was moving, I couldn’t even walk,” Landwer said. “Here in my building there was no real damage. Everything was falling, like glasses and everything.” In the coastal town of Nosara, roughly 20 miles (30 kilometers) southwest of the epicenter, trees shook violently and light posts swayed. Teachers chased primary school students outside as the quake hit. Roads cracked and power lines fell to the ground.
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think that most American citizens — despite the current state of affairs in this country and other countries around the world — would like to believe that deep down, the U.S. government operates within a set of values that represents the concepts of justice and equality all of us were taught in school. We would all like to believe that, especially in cases that deal with our own citizens, all of the necessary steps are taken to ensure a fair, honest and decent legal process in the pursuit of justice. While these ideals are admirable in theory, this vision of due process and the trappings of justice that come with it, is not self-enforcing. Occasionally, the people must demand and fight, not only for their own rights, but also for the rights of others. It is not surprising then, that the first steps, and arguably the most valuable tools in that never-ending fight against tyranny and oppression, are the spread of information and the education of the masses. That fight still rages on today, and once again we must come together to protect and promote the values of fair and impartial justice that we hold so dear. In February of this year Juan Mendez, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment, released an addendum concerning observations on communications to the
General Assembly during the 19th Session of the Human Rights Council. In the addendum, Mendez provided the records of his observations on communications sent to the United States between Dec. 1, 2010 and Nov. 30, 2011, along with the responses he received from said States until Jan. 31, 2012. In the text of the observations, Mendez describes the communications sent and received by the United States government regarding the treatment of U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning, as well as a few additional allegations concerning human rights violations committed by the U.S. government. For those of you who don’t know, Manning is the U.S. Army soldier who is accused of leaking classified information to WikiLeaks, the infamous online government transparency organization headed by Julian Assange. The United States has apparently held Manning in solitary confinement for twenty-three hours a day following his May 2010 arrest in the country of Iraq. He was forced to remain in solitary confinement for the length of roughly 11 months — from the time he was arrested in 2010, until he was transferred from the Marine Base Quantico, where he was being held, to the Joint Regional Correctional Facility at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas on April 20, 2011. In his report, the Special Rapporteur stressed, “solitary confinement is a harsh measure which may cause serious psychological and physiological adverse effects on individuals regardless of their specific conditions.” While solitary confinement for almost an entire year may sound
harsh in its own right, this issue becomes even more complicated by the fact that Private Manning had yet to be formally indicted or convicted of any crimes for the duration of this experience. Indefinite detention, especially in conditions of solitary confinement, of a person who hasn’t been charged with or convicted of any crimes is a frightening violation of Manning’s constitutional, civil and human rights according to 1the 8th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, Article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and Article 11 (1) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, all of which collectively outline Manning’s right to humane treatment, the presumption of innocence, and a speedy trial. Recently, after enduring nearly three years of pretrial detention (the legal maximum is 120 days), unconstitutional treatment, and some impressive judicial gymnastics, Manning’s trial date has been set for Feb. 4, 2013. If convicted, Manning faces life imprisonment or even the death penalty. It is not yet clear how or whether the conditions of his detention will affect the trial process, but hearings have been scheduled prior to the February trial date to consider the manner in which his detention, lack of speedy trial, and other aspects of this case are to be handled. This is just one example of the U.S. government’s disregard for constitutional rights, and their refusal to cooperate with the wishes of the United Nations and the rest of the international community. Bradley Manning’s story is a text-
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book manifestation of the injustice that we as a people have fought against for so long. Unfortunately, a large portion of the American public is not exposed to information like this. Big Media rarely captures and conveys the severity of stories like Manning’s. Instead we are presented with an ever-flowing stream of misinformation and distraction. Unless we continue to promote awareness of these and other injustices, the powers that be will continue to trample the rights of dissidents and whistleblowers alike, while the general public — potentially the most powerful political force in the United States — continues to fixate its attention on the mind-numbing escapades of whichever leatherskinned diva happens to be in the
spotlight this year. If we ever hope to break the vicious cycle of distraction and diversion, we must constantly remind ourselves — and those around us — that when the law only applies to the weak, we consign ourselves to a future devoid of justice and equality for all. It is up to those of us who have access to this knowledge to spread the word to the public in an attempt to draw attention to Private Manning’s predicament and hopefully affect change. Joe Amditis is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in criminal justice and minoring in psychology and criminology. His column, “Swimming Upstream,” runs on alternate Thursdays.
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he Daily Targum is right to remind its readers that policy related to tuition is always more complicated than simply a matter of setting a price tag. The Board of Governors is charged with a very difficult task, balancing the ideal of educational affordability with the needs of the University to expand its efforts, pay our faculty and part-time lecturers, and prepare for the cost of a new medical school. I think I can speak on behalf every student who came to the “Keep Rutgers Public” rally at July’s BOG meeting when I say that we support the University and wish to see the best for it. However, part of our love for the institution we call
home is a love for the ideal of a public university. We have seen a startling trend at New Jersey’s flagship school. Tuition has doubled in the last ten years. Neither wages, nor state and federal aid have been able to keep up with this trend, meaning that University students are graduating with tremendous amounts of debt into an uncertain job market. It is our responsibility to work toward reversing that trend, precisely because we love the image of this University and do not want it to move further down the path toward privatization. We cannot expect the BOG to always have a proper feel for the pulse of the University student community — especially when every student on all three campuses are represented by only one nonvoting student representative. As such, it becomes the responsibility of University students to voice their concerns and to make demands, which may, on
the surface, seem overly idealistic. If students do not explain their ideals, however, there will be no room for compromise, only more of the same. President Robert Clothier, the 14th president of the University, wrote in 1932 that he saw in Rutgers “a great university, great in endowment, in land, in buildings, in equipment, but greater still — second to none — in its practical idealism, and its social usefulness.” Throughout the history of the University, the equipment, the land and the buildings have been the responsibility of the administration. It is up to us as students to provide the spirit of practical idealism. You will find throughout the history of the University that their demands were often painted as “idealistic,” like when students took over Mason Gross’ office in the turbulence of the 1960s or when black students agitated for Africana Studies courses and a program to aid
low-income students during that same time period. Of course, they were. And if it weren’t for that spirit of idealism, the program that allows me to attend this university would not exist today. The Targum editorial board is correct. Across the country, the idea of public education itself is under attack. I am glad that I can say that we have a BOG that attempts to alleviate the plight of working-class students, and it is working to offset its tuition hikes with aid. I am happy that we haven’t seen anything approaching the draconian spikes in tuition other student bodies have had to weather. This does not mean that we as students should not be working to make things better, for ourselves and for generations of Scarlet Knights to follow. A tuition protest is never really about the money you are asked to pay this semester. It is about the hundreds or even thousands of extra dollars a
future student will be asked to pay in a future semester. A time quickly approaches at which University students and students everywhere have to decide for themselves what they think a university should look like. As the student debt bubble grows ever larger, we must stop acting as if tuition and education debt are personal issues, mere questions of another $200 loan or of another few days of work at a minimum wage job. The issue of who funds higher education boils down to a decades-long tale of misplaced priorities. The students who came out to demand a tuition freeze in July represented an attempt to reverse that trend. I am optimistic for the work they will do in the future. John Connelly is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in history/political science with minors in social justice and comparative and critical race and ethnic studies.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Increases threaten future When the Board of Governors announced a 2.5 percent increase in tuition and fees in July, many students breathed a sigh of relief, feeling the increase was minimal and should be regarded as a victory. I, and many other students from the Rutgers Student Union, along with other student organizations on campus, did not. The increase has been worded cleverly, with constant mention toward the seemingly meager increase of $318 per student used to make it seem minuscule and harmless. But
what those applauding this increase fail to realize is just how detrimental this can be toward students who face economic hardships. During that July BOG meeting, many students reminded the board of just how detrimental a seemingly minor increase could be, and how even the 1.6 percent increase of the prior year caused one student to starve and become severely underweight. Furthermore, we must recognize the mentality that this perpetuates — the mentality that education is a privilege that only certain individuals can have. While it may not seem like much, for many, that increase is too much — and for those that must offset that cost with additional loans, the debt they
will further place themselves in is terrifying. An acceptance of this increase is an acceptance of education being for a select group, and that’s unacceptable. Education is — or should be — a right. In order for us to see education as a right we must continue to strive for a lesser tuition increase or even (as mad as it may seem) a tuition freeze. The stake of many students, their degrees and their futures are at risk if we continue to accept these increases, however small they may seem. Marios Athanasiou is a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore majoring in political science.
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Tight ends coach Darnell Dinkins helps develop D.C. Jefferson, a senior. KEITH FREEMAN, SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
VOID Jefferson works to improve catching, blocking to become dual threat CONTINUED FROM BACK than only physical tools. Jefferson has game experience. With Kroft’s relative newness to the first-team offense, the Knights need Jefferson to be a leader and mentor both on and off the field. “I try to do whatever I can to help out the team, help out the players,” Jefferson said. “I want to win. I want to win the Big East Championship.” Rutgers had to take the first step toward that goal without Carrezola, and it is unclear if he will play in Saturday’s home opener. Flood called him a gametime decision. “Paul is getting a little better day by day,” Flood said. “We still didn’t do much with him [in practice]. I think he’ll probably be more of an emergency reservetype role this week because he’ll be limited practice-wise.” If he is not at full strength come game time, Jefferson and Kroft will be needed in the same capacity they were at Tulane. Jefferson said he will be ready. “I honestly feel the best I’ve ever felt at the tight end position, physically and mentally,” he said. Although he has the size to be an effective pass blocker as well as a tough matchup for opposing defenders, dissenters noticed last season his elevated number of dropped balls.
Jefferson no longer sees that as an issue. “[Dropping passes] isn’t even a statement anymore,” he said. “I’ve worked too hard this offseason to even have that be a statement.” He said he does not even think about catching balls anymore. He simply makes his block and if the ball is thrown his way, he catches it. But catching passes is only one facet of the job that Jefferson has worked at improving. He has also tried to better his blocking to turn himself into a dual-threat weapon. “The tight end that can catch and block is the best one,” he said. “So I want to be able to master both catching and blocking.” Rutgers’ tight end position does not always garner as many opportunities for receptions as receivers in recent memory, so Jefferson needs to take advantage of chances like he did in Tulane. He had one catch for 19 yards and saw it all the way into his hands. “I knew it was coming,” he said. “It was my opportunity. I was going to execute. There was no chance I wasn’t going to catch the ball.” The Knights need Jefferson to continue to execute this weekend against Howard and well into the Big East portion of the schedule, especially if Carrezola’s injury concerns linger.
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DEFENSE Team’s back four makes up for lack of consistent scoring punch CONTINUED FROM FRONT
Sophomore forward J.P. Correa tied for the team lead with six goals last season, but he has yet to score one this year while recovering from a February hip surgery. PAT DAVITT
START Top two 2011 scorers fail to meet coach’s offensive standards CONTINUED FROM BACK Correa, who combined for 12 of the Knights’ 32 goals last year. “Those guys have to show up and have to make an impact every game,” Donigan said. “Obviously we’ve gone three games now without much productivity from those two.” Correa and Eze are also recovering from offseason surgeries. Correa had hip surgery in February, and Eze had shoulder surgery during the summer, which is part of the reason for their stalled offensive production.
Correa has not played a full 90 minutes in a game this season, recently seeing a season-high 71 minutes against Creighton. “They’re both fighting physical recoveries from their surgeries, but I’ve been doing this for a long time,” Donigan said. “I’ve worked with a lot of players. And those two both have a commitment and a desire to be the best.” Despite finishing tied for first on team in goals last year, the Sayreville, N.J., native only scored in four games, including a career-best three-goal game last year against Adelphi in a 3-3 tie. Eze wants to be more consistent at his position in more than only scoring. “I have to run the plays a little bit more, work on my defensive shape,” he said.
Eze has shot the ball three times this year — twice on goal — with no luck. He had the most accurate foot on Rutgers last year, making a team-leading 19.4 percent of his shots. The wing was not as in tune with his role last year, transitioning positions and starting inconsistently. Eze intended on starting in solid form this season, but that changed against Creighton. He could start Saturday against Princeton, but Donigan will continue to be tough on Eze and Correa while they recover from surgery and work toward last year’s form. “I’ve been very critical. I’ve been all over him in front of the team,” Donigan said. “Him individually, I’ve made it a personal challenge for him and J.P. the same thing.”
We lean on her to guide everything back there.” The per formance of the improved],” Woeller said. “I’ve defense has allowed the grown up a lot with helping Knights to get away with fewer other people around me become goals, but Crooks has stressed better as well.” the fact that Rutgers needs to While the defense also feaget more shots on net and goal tures another defensive leader opportunities as it gets deeper in junior Tori Leigh, she is usuinto its schedule. ally out wide. So it is up to Woeller agrees the whole Woeller to take control of team can improve the defense. before its Big East As a center next back, Woeller’s “Shannon [Woeller] opener Friday against other responsibiliis absolutely the Villanova. ties include organ“I think someizing the midfieldvoice back there thing big for us ers to get them and the leader is working on our better opportunidesire to score ties up field while of the back four.” goals and our also controlling GLENN CROOKS composure in the ball. Head Coach front of the net,” Crooks said Woeller said. she has done a “Hopefully we can good job so far for gain a lot in that area over the a team that is currently ranked next two games, but as a team we No. 21 in the country and sports all have room to improve.” a 5-1 record. Rutgers has two more outBesides a 4-1 loss to top-25 of-conference games left to Texas A&M last week, Woeller fine-tune for the upcoming has been par t of a defense Big East schedule. The that posted four shutouts and Knights take on Stony Brook only allowed five goals on tomorrow before traveling to the season. Hanover, N.H., on Sunday to She is also tied for second face Dar tmouth. on the team in minutes played As Rutgers shoots for two with sophomore defender more wins this weekend, Morgan Kennedy and regisWoeller believes this is as taltered a goal in the season openented a team as she has ever er against Monmouth. been a part of. “[Woeller] is really guiding “I think it is a really great everything that is going on in the team,” Woeller said. “There is a back,” Crooks said. “Tori is playlot of upside to everyone on the ing a lot of wide so she needs team and we all work really well direction, too. Shannon is together. So I think we can do absolutely the voice back there big things.” and the leader of the back four.
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SEPTEMBER 6, 2012 VOLLEYBALL ZIELINSKI EARNS FOURTH BIG EAST HONOR
IN BRIEF BACK TO SCHOOL The Rutgers men’s lacrosse team announced yesterday that its annual Doc Peterson Alumni Game is scheduled for Sept. 22 at the Practice Bubble on Busch campus. The event includes two games: the current team against young alumni and an alumnionly game. “As we begin to start our fall practices, I am excited with the playing opportunities our program will have this fall,” said head coach Brian Brecht. “Our annual Doc Peterson Alumni Game will be an excellent opportunity to have many great Rutgers players back and catch up, as well as meet the 2013 team.”
LAST STAND Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerr y Sandusky regrets not taking the stand at his child sex abuse trial, in which he will likely be sentenced in October, according to his lawyer. Attorney Joe Amendola said he has not received a pre-sentence report from the county cour t system, according to CBS Sports. “The reality is Jerry is going to get a sentence, which, if it’s not reversed on appeal, is going to be tantamount to a life sentence,” Amendola said. Sandusky maintains his innocence, acknowledging he showered with boys but never molested them, Amendola said. Amendola suggested in his opening statement to the jur y that Sandusky might testify. The lawyer has repeatedly warned Sandusky about plans to make a statement at sentencing to Judge John Cleland because going into specifics could be consequential for Sandusky.
TROUBLE IN TEXAS Allegations continue to surface of Texas Tech head men’s basketball coach Billy Gillispie mistreating his players. Sources close to the Texas Tech program told CBS Sports that Gillispie reneged on several promises to coaches, kept players in scholarship limbo — which caused them to miss money and oppor tunities — and practiced injured players so severely they openly cried in practice. Calls to Gillispie and Texas Tech Athletic Director Kirby Hocutt have not been returned.
MAN DOWN Oakland Athletics starter Brandon McCarthy left yesterday’s game after being hit in the back of the head by a line drive from Los Angeles Angels infielder Erick Aybar. McCarthy did not lose consciousness and was taken to Summit hospital for precautionary reasons. The 29-year-old walked of f the field with help, and reliever Travis Blackley replaced him with two outs in the four th. McCar thy had two stints on the disabled list already this season with a shoulder injur y. He entered yesterday’s game with an 8-5 record and a 3.10 ERA.
Freshman outside hitter Alex Lassa leaps to spike the ball Tuesday in a 3-0 win against Lafayette. She led the Big East with 51 kills in the Hurricane Invitational before making the conference’s weekly honor roll. NELSON MORALES, SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Senior, rookie lead RU on 5-0 stretch BY AARON FARRAR STAFF WRITER
Two members of the Rutgers women’s volleyball team earned Big East Weekly Honor Roll recognition in back-to-back weeks. Senior setter Stephanie Zielinski and freshman outside hitter Alex Lassa were the latest Scarlet Knights acknowledged by the conference for their respective performances. It is the fourth time Zielinski has been recognized by the league in her career. The Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., native won the spot for her play throughout last week, leading Rutgers on a 4-0 stretch. She earned MVP honors in the Rutgers Invitational, during which she collected 40 or more assists in three of the four wins and helped the Knights clinch the championship.
She earned her second and third double-doubles of the season, with one in a victory against Fordham on Aug. 29 with 43 assists and 10 digs and another after defeating New Hampshire on Aug. 31 with 40 assists and 12 digs. Zielinski also recorded 65 assists in the final match of the Rutgers Invitational, a new career high. The total broke her previous best of 63 from 2009 against St. John’s. Lassa won her spot Aug. 27, a week before her teammate. The Big East recognized her before she even sat in her first college lecture. Lassa was pleased to win the award, especially since her career is only beginning. “It was really exciting,” she said. “It gave me confidence going into the rest of the season. It kind of proved to [me] of what type of player I can be.”
The outside hitter accumulated a conference-best 51 kills in three matches at the Hurricane Invitational. At the end of the tournament, she made the All-Tournament team. Lassa totaled a tournamentbest 4.25 kills per set, which is second in the Big East. Head coach CJ Werneke was impressed with the Eagle, Colo., native’s effort during the week. “She had a great first weekend,” he said. “[She] really showed us some things that we hadn’t seen in our gym and really kind of turned it on as a competitor during matches, so it’s nice to see her aggressiveness and her ability to raise it to the next level when it comes match time.” In addition to her coach, Lassa also has the support of her teammates, who are thrilled to see her thrive.
“I think it’s awesome,” said senior middle blocker Alex Jones. “She’s a great player and we’re lucky to have her. I think she can do really great things for this program and I’m happy for her.” Werneke is optimistic about what Lassa can bring to the team during her career. He believes she adds some good qualities to the unit. “She’s a really composed player. I really like that about her,” he said. “She’s pretty even keel, no matter if she’s up [or] down. I really like her court demeanor, and we just need to continue to work on her aggressiveness. I think as she matures, and as she gets more experience at this level, those things will improve.” Lassa has plans to enhance her game throughout the season, while Zielinski continues her upward spiral in her final campaign.
SEPTEMBER 6, 2012
SPORTS PAGE 21 FOOTBALL FRESHMAN LEARNS LESSON IN FIRST GAME
Rookie kicker adapts to college football BY JOEY GREGORY ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
Kyle Federico stood near midfield at the Superdome on Saturday staring at the 34-yard field goal attempt he had in front of him, the first of his career as kicker for the Rutgers’ football team. Holder J.T. Tarticoff took the snap, and Federico sent the ball on its way and then watched it sail wide left. “I think I just got a little anxious,” Federico, a freshman, said. “I went faster than what I do normally. I was too excited and went too fast through the ball.” That could have easily been it for his time as the Scarlet Knights’ place kicker. The Ponte Vedra, Fla., native could have allowed the miss to spiral into a much bigger problem. But he would have none of that. Instead he bounced back, drilling his next field goal — a 28yard attempt — and all three of his extra point attempts. “It didn’t surprise me because he’s been that way since he’s been here in January,” said head coach Kyle Flood. “He’s got a great demeanor about him, and I think he’ll only get better as we go forward.” He said Federico’s poise only grew as the game drew on. The rookie kicker agrees. “After I made that first kick my confidence got a boost,” he said. “I just felt more and more comfortable.” The biggest adjustment Federico had to make was adapting to the stage. The rush from
his first game in college got the better of him and threw him off. He knows better now. “I’ve definitely learned to slow myself down and calm down,” he said. “In the game, obviously, the adrenaline kind of got me. That’s why on that first kick I got a little anxious.” Rather than succumbing to the rush that comes with a game, Federico said he has to take a deep breath and try to replicate what he does in practice. That was his focus following the missed field goal, and it paid off, he said. Now the Tulane game is behind him, and he has to deal with a completely different animal. Federico has his first encounter Saturday with the home crowd at High Point Solutions Stadium. “It’s definitely going to be a bigger crowd [than at the Superdome], I’m guessing,” he said. “It’s really exciting to get the season kicked off at home.” He said in order for him to continue to find success in pressure situations, he needs to take what he learned in the season opener and apply it to every game. Flood places a special emphasis on special teams, and Federico is on the front lines of the group. Federico, a former soccer standout at Ponte Vedra High School and the No. 10-ranked kicker in his class by ESPN.com, must continue to approach games like he did the end of the Tulane game and every day of practice.His role as the kicker will only grow more vital as the Knights hit the Big East portion of the schedule.
MEN’S BASKETBALL
RU begins league season with contest at Syracuse The Rutgers men’s basketball team released its 2012-2013 schedule yesterday, and the Scarlet Knights face a daunting task in their first Big East game of the season. Syracuse, a No. 1 seed in last season’s NCAA Tournament, will serve as the Knights’ first conference test. The Jan. 2 matchup is the last time Rutgers makes a trip to the Carrier Dome in Big East play, as the Orange are set to leave the conference after this season. The Knights gave Syracuse a scare in its last visit there, sending the game to overtime before eventually eventually losing, 8480, in the final minutes. While the Knights failed to upend Syracuse last season at the Louis Brown Athletic Center — losing a close game to the Orange, 7464 — they did manage to beat three tournament teams at the RAC in Florida, Cincinnati and Notre Dame. It will be hard for Rutgers to duplicate those results as the Knights face both the Bearcats and Fighting Irish away from home. After the Jan. 30 contest with Cincinnati, Rutgers remains at home for three straight contests with its best chance at staging an upset. Louisville, Georgetown and Seton Hall all visit the RAC begin-
ning Feb. 9. Louisville and Georgetown made the NCAA Tournament last season. Seton Hall, which split with Rutgers in two contests last season, lost both Jeremy Hazell and Herb Pope from a team that exited the NIT in the second round. The Knights see the Pirates again March 5, when they travel to Newark in their regular season finale. Though the Big East slate is littered with tournament teams and name-brand opponents, the nonconference slate does not feature the same marquee matchups. Rutgers faces one BCS member in the non-conference portion, visiting Oxford, Miss., to face Ole Miss in the Big East/SEC Challenge. Only two other true road games are present in the non-conference slate. Princeton entertains the Knights on Nov. 16, and a Nov. 25 visit to North CarolinaGreensboro is Rutgers’ last true road game until Syracuse. Rutgers travels to Madison Square Garden on Dec. 8 to play Iona in the Holiday Festival. While the Gaels made the tournament last season, they lose the bulk of their offense in Scott Machado, Michael Glover and Lamont Jones. — Bradly Derechailo
Freshman kicker Kyle Federico missed his first field goal as a Scarlet Knight before drilling his next kick along with all three extra point attempts. KEITH FREEMAN, SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
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SEPTEMBER 6, 2012 KNIGHT NOTEBOOK OFFENSE SPORTS 2-TO-1 RUN-PASS RATIO IN WEEK 1
Knights’ template reveals cloudy WR picture BY TYLER BARTO SPORTS EDITOR
With two capable running backs and a quarterback with six career starts, the Rutgers football team could rely on its ground game for the early part of the season. The Scarlet Knights ran the ball 35 times Saturday against Tulane, while sophomore Gary Nova threw only 20 passes. Two of those designed pass plays turned into Nova scrambles. The question, then, remains where the Knights’ bevy of receivers fit in. “It might give or take,” said sophomore wide receiver Brandon
Coleman. “It might flip one game here, one game there. I don’t see that as a bad ratio. If we’re running the ball extremely well, then we’re going to run the ball.” Senior wideout Tim Wright led the Knights with only three receptions. Coleman and sophomore running back Jawan Jamison tied for the most receiving yards with 41. Part of it has to do with the Knights’ high-percentage passes — a combination of screens, wheel-outs and checkdowns likely designed to ease Nova’s progression. But it could point to an increased reliability on the run game. Former head coach Greg
Schiano primarily employed a run-first attitude with his offensive coordinators in Piscataway. But for the first time recent memory, the Knights have a pair of backs equipped to do so. Still, the number of wideouts employed — a familiar task — remains to be seen. “Since I’ve been at Rutgers, there’s always been a big package of guys that have been rotating,” Wright said yesterday. “It’s regular for us, it’s normal for us to do that.” Head coach Kyle Flood said the receiver rotation changes week to week based on Rutgers’ opponent. With at least six players vying for time, it could involve creativity.
Junior Jeremy Deering and sophomore Miles Shuler appear on special teams return units. Deering could still appear in a hybrid receiver-safety role, as well. “I think everybody on offense has a role, according to whatever defense we’re seeing and what the gameplan is,” Flood said. “We don’t ever send out a pass play other than a goal line fade where the play is designed to throw to one guy.” Whatever the plan, the Knights’ 10 first-half points Saturday likely will not sit well with anyone if it continues. “You know that’s not acceptable to start slow,” said Coleman,
who scored in the fourth quarter at Tulane. “If we want to be the explosive offense that we say we want to be, we have to prove it by our actions.”
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immediate plans for distributing playing time Saturday against Howard should the game get out of hand. Thirteen Knights contributed on offense a year ago in a season-opening 48-0 win against Norfolk State. “If the game presents itself like that, then you have the opportunity to do it,” Flood said. “We don’t think in those terms as a coaching staff. We’re going to go out there on the first play and fire all the bullets in the gun, so to speak, and see how well we can play.” Rutgers faces South Florida five days later in Tampa. The Bulls, meanwhile, take on Nevada on the road Saturday before returning home for the short week. “Anything above and beyond [playing well], I don’t think about,” Flood said. “If opportunities present themselves during the game, then I think that’s a positive.”
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Marvin Booker remains out with a bone bruise, Flood said. He could return after the Knights’ Sept. 29 bye before a matchup Oct. 6 against Connecticut. The Piscataway, N.J., native injured his lower body against Tulane, where he recorded one tackle in the 24-12 win. Booker appeared in only four games last season because of a knee injury in the team’s season opener. He saw action in only two contests in 2010 and only one in 2009 because of injury.
SENIOR
Sophomore wide receiver Brandon Coleman hauled in a 43-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter Saturday against Tulane, but he managed only one catch for -2 yards earlier. KEITH FREEMAN, SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
PUNTER
JUSTIN
Doerner drew praise from Flood for his three punts inside the 20yard line against Tulane. His five punts are the most in the Big East after only one game. “We have high expectations for him,” Flood said. “He was an all-league punter for us last year. A big reason why he was an allleague punter was his ability to stop the ball inside the opponent’s 20.”
TENNIS COACH PRAISES SOPHOMORE’S ATTITUDE
New Brunswick native overcomes family hardships BY MIKE MORTON CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Rutgers tennis team sophomore Satreethai Sasinin and her family truly know what it means to come from nothing. Sasinin’s mother and siblings, 12 in all, came to the United States from Laos in 1980, with literally nothing but each other. They previously lived in a Laotian refugee camp for four years, awaiting sponsorship to come to the United States, until they were finally sponsored. “My mom and her siblings went to California first, to a refugee camp,” Sasinin said. “[My mother
and father] were the only family who then moved to The First Reformed Church in New Brunswick.” Once taken in by the church, Sasinin’s parents opened up an upholstery business, which has been very successful, she said. Sasinin finished up a productive high school tennis career in 2011 at New Brunswick High School. She played first singles all four years of high school, and was also her class valedictorian. But because she was unable to travel to many tournaments, she was not heavily recruited. “The only reason I knew of Tai was because of my being in the New Brunswick community and
her living in the New Brunswick community,” said head coach Ben Bucca. Bucca said it was an easy decision to put Sasinin on the team. “I saw that she seemed to really enjoy playing tennis, wanted to get better, and had a great sense of appreciation for the opportunity that could be provided for her,” Bucca said. “And I believed that if given the opportunity, she would fully take advantage of it.” Sasinin did so. She arrived at Rutgers last fall and earned significant playing time through hard work. “In practice I kept a consistent work ethic,” Sasinin said. “Even if I
was tired, or when I got sick at one point earlier this year, I still tried to make it to practice. Even though I wasn’t playing at that time, I still tried supporting the team a lot.” Bucca took notice and said Sasinin’s teammates appreciate her presence. “Last season I think she had a very strong impact on the team,” Bucca said. “She came in rather attentive, and feeling perhaps a little insecure among the team. But in a very short period of time, she fully integrated with the team, and I think that in many ways she was an inspiration to a lot of the players on the team through her work ethic and enjoyment of the sport.”
Sasinin had also been working hard to stay in condition throughout the offseason. “I went to some Rutgers gyms to work out and run,” Sasinin said. “I was also teaching at a summer camp, where I played my own matches. I would also hit a lot with a bunch of different people.” Bucca thinks Sasinin is so dedicated to tennis because of how she was raised and the journey her parents had to take to get where they are now. “One of the reasons I think Tai is such a great person and why she’s so smart is because she fully takes advantage of all the opportunities that are provided to us,” Bucca said.
NUMBERS GAME The Rutgers football team’s wide
UNDERDOG TALE Rutgers tennis sophomore Satreethai
SEASON UPDATE The Rutgers men’s
receivers could face a pinch if the Scarlet Knights continue to run heavily behind sophomore quarterback Gary Nova. / PAGE 23
Sasinin, the daughter of Laotian refugees, used a strong work ethic to earn playing time under head coach Ben Bucca. / PAGE 23
basketball team takes on Syracuse in its 2012-2013 Big East opener. / PAGE 21
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SPORTS
QUOTE OF THE DAY “It isn’t even a statement anymore.” — Senior tight end D.C. Jefferson on troubles with dropping passes
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2012
WOMEN’S SOCCER VETERAN WORKS TO IMPROVE COMMUNICATION
MEN’S SOCCER
Wing hopes to pick up play after slow start BY JOSH BAKAN ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
Junior forward Kene Eze wants to score 10 goals this season, a year after tying for the Rutgers men’s soccer team lead with six. Head coach Dan Donigan wants Eze to earn time as a 90-minute player, rather than coming off the bench as he did for 11 of 20 games last season. Donigan gave Eze a wake-up call Sunday against Creighton that he was not on track to do either. Eze could not play all 90 minutes against the second-ranked team in the country, coming off the bench and playing 52 minutes. “It was difficult actually coming off the bench and going back in and coming out,” Eze said. “So I’m definitely going to work on getting myself more fit, doing stuff on my own to be the 90-minute player that I should be.” Eze has not been the scoring presence he was last year, as with his other returning teammates. The Scarlet Knights scored only one goal — a score in the sixth minute of the season opener against Fordham from freshman defender Mitchell Taintor — in three games this season. Rutgers has not scored a goal in two games, and Donigan puts much of that on the slow starts from Eze and sophomore forward J.P.
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Senior center back Shannon Woeller started more than half of the Knights’ matches during her freshman season, but she admits it took until her junior campaign to become more outspoken. ENRICO CABREDO, ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Senior leads defense from center back BY BRADLY DERECHAILO CORRESPONDENT
With seven freshmen in the rotation so far this season, it is easy for the Rutgers women’s soccer team to appear unorganized at times on the field. For head coach Glenn Crooks, senior defender Shannon Woeller serves as the orchestrator of the back four and someone he
feels comfortable with controlling the team as a whole. “When you are a center back for any team, you have to speak,” Crooks said. “You have to direct people, you have to organize, and part of that is just growing up a leader, and she has done that.” Being a vocal leader is something Woeller believes has been her biggest improvement from her freshman year.
While the Vancouver native appeared in 16 games for the Canadian national team and is in her fourth year as a full-time starter, Woeller started to control the defense as a junior, so her voice was necessary to keep everyone together. “I think mostly just my confidence and my leadership on the field [have
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FOOTBALL CARREZOLA’S INJURY PROMPTS CHANGE
Jefferson fills void at tight end left by injured starter BY JOEY GREGORY ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
Senior tight end D.C. Jefferson had one catch for 19 yards Saturday at Tulane. He started in place of an injured Paul Carrezola. KEITH FREEMAN, SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Rutgers head football coach Kyle Flood would not classify the team’s injury concerns as serious. “I’m pleased with where we are,” he said. “We’re about as healthy as anybody is this time of year.” But injuries to two potential starters have forced Flood and his staff to come out with a new depth chart. Sophomore tight end Paul Carrezola is one of those starters. He suffered a foot injury before the Scarlet Knights’ season opener Saturday at Tulane.
EXTRA POINT
MLB SCORES Chicago (N) Washington
1 9
Los Angeles (A) 7 Oakland 1
Philadelphia Cincinnati
6 2
Minnesota Chicago (A)
2 6
New York (N) St. Louis
6 2
Cleveland Detroit
1 7
JONELLE FILIGNO leads the Big East this season with five goals. The Rutgers women’s soccer team’s junior forward fought through injury during the last three seasons.
That brought senior D.C. Jefferson, the starter for the majority of last season, to the top of the chart. The injury also forced redshirt freshman Tyler Kroft to see action earlier than expected. The Downingtown, Pa., native did not play during the 2011 season, but Jefferson does not think that is not a problem. “He’s looking really good,” Jefferson said. “[He is] developing. He’s going to be a really good tight end.” At 6-foot-6, Kroft has a frame that rivals Jefferson’s, but there is more to the position
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RUTGERS SPORTS CALENDAR WOMEN’S SOCCER
FIELD HOCKEY
VOLLEYBALL
MEN’S SOCCER
vs. Stony Brook
at Maine
at UNC-Wilmington
at Princeton
Tomorrow, 7 p.m., Yurcak Field
Tomorrow, 3 p.m. Orono, Maine
Tomorrow, 4 p.m. Norfolk, Va.
Saturday, 2 p.m. Princeton, N.J.