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Festival to show ‘Meherjaan’ film shot in Bangladesh BY AMY ROWE NEWS EDITOR
The New Jersey Film Festival this Sunday will screen Meherjaan, a film that centers on loving the other, a notion exemplified through the character Meher, a young Bengali woman who falls in love with an enemy soldier during the Indo-Pakistani war of 1971. The film’s writer and director, Rubaiyat Hossain, chose to highlight this narrative in her film in response to the nationalism she encountered growing up during the 1980s in Bangladesh, where the film was shot. Hossain said after the war, which involved Pakistani soldiers raping many women from Bangladesh and Bengali freedom fighters training in India to challenge Pakistan for the country’s independence, widespread nationalism developed. “I grew up a very nationalist child, I went to a Bengali school … and I always supported India versus Pakistan,” she said. “I was reading books from writers whose fathers died in the war. One said he would not even take a connecting flight if the plane landed in Pakistan.” SEE
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Record amount of women run for election in Senate, House BY AMANDA GOMEZ
Siva Vaidhyanathan, professor and chair of the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia, encourages his audience to be wary of data surveillance yesterday at Alexander Library on the College Avenue campus. RYAN LEDERER
Speaker warns students of data privacy BY KRISTIN BARESICH CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Most people drive through an E-ZPass lane without a second thought, but they might be paying for this convenience in more than just dollars. Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of “The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry),” spoke to more than 100 students and faculty yesterday afternoon about data surveillance in everyday life and its implications for consumer privacy. His presentation, “The Cr yptopticon: Knowledge and Dignity in the Era of Big Data,” held in the Alexander Library on the College Avenue campus, focused on how bits of information accumulate into a vast collection that provides companies with valuable consumer data.
“Most of the stuff we do is mundane to us,” said Vaidhyanathan, professor and chair of the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. “When you go through a tollbooth, you don’t think, ‘I am being surveilled.’ But in total, to somebody, [this information] means something.” Vaidhyanathan, who is also a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, said the concept of big data is enormous amounts of unstructured data produced by instruments that track and analyze behavior. Companies seeking to boost their online marketing have a huge stake in big data, Vaidhyanathan said. He cited the way Google fills in possible entries on the search bar once a site user starts typing and Amazon book recommendations as products of data tracking. He said these kinds of companies gain consumer profiles through browser cookies
and computer IP addresses — not just customers’ interaction with the company site. “They follow you around the Web,” he said. While many people may notice these targeted recommendations, Vaidhyanathan said not enough of them realize how much they are being watched — evidence of a phenomenon he calls the “Cryptopticon.” The “Cryptopticon” is rooted in English philosopher Jeremy Bentham’s design for a prison called the “Panopticon,” which featured a guard tower lit around the clock, so that inmates would not be able to tell whether they were being watched. Bentham theorized that prisoners would assume that they were always subject to surveillance and would tailor their behavior accordingly, Vaidhyanathan said. SEE
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BY ADAM UZIALKO A record number of women are running in the upcoming election for seats in the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives, according to a report released by the Center for American Woman and Politics at the Eagleton Institute of Politics. “It’s a year of opportunity,” said Debbie Walsh, director of the Center for American Woman and Politics. “We didn’t just break the record, we pushed through.” According to the report, 18 women — 12 Democrats and six Republicans — are running for seats on the Senate. There are 163 women, in which 116 are Democrats and 47 are Republicans, running for the House of Representatives, the report said. In the Senate, six female Democrats are seeking re-election and 66 Republican women are seeking re-election, while 45 Democrats SEE
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Professor Michael Rockland speaks about his day he spent with Martin Luther King Jr. AMY ROWE, NEWS EDITOR
Michael Rockland, a professor in the University’s Department of American Studies, has spent a day with Martin Luther King Jr., swam in the Mediterranean with a U.S. ambassador and served in foreign office in Argentina and Spain. In his new book “An American Diplomat in Franco Spain,” which was made available in English last week, Rockland details his time as cultural attaché in the U.S. embassy in Spain and provides firsthand accounts of historic events he witnessed. “Cultural attachés, their business is basically to get people in other countries to like the United States, especially culturally,” he said. “You’re kind of like an American Studies professor at an embassy, in a way.” The professor recalled his time in Spain, recounting a full day he spent hanging out with Martin Luther King, Jr. when the pastor
came to Madrid for a day of rest before he left to Amsterdam for an international Baptist convention. “I had the opportunity to spend the whole day with [King] on a first name basis,” he said, “Two guys hanging out in Madrid is what it was like.” Though King is a monumental icon in American culture, Rockland said he knew him as a human being and meeting him was comical, recalling a time when King answered his hotel room door while only wearing his underwear after having just woken up from a nap. “Sometimes I’m disappointed when I walk into classrooms,” he said. “I’m glad he has a national holiday and I think he deserves it, but he’s so cleaned up, if you will.” Rockland said he helped to arrange a shor t press conference and took King on a tour of Madrid, including lunch in a SEE ON PROFESSOR PAGE 4
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Civil War lecturer connects past to present BY AMANDA GOMEZ CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Civil War historian James McPherson discussed “Why the Civil War Still Matters Today” on Wednesday night at the Scholarly Communications Center at Alexander Librar y on the College Avenue campus. McPherson said the Civil War casts a shadow in U.S. histor y because of the amount of people that were in conflict with one another. McPherson said the Civil War led to the deaths of two percent of the population in 1860, in which about 620,000 to 750,000 soldiers died. “The Civil War impresses us 150 years later,” McPherson said. “Drama, romance and tragedy help explain why it is popular but not why it matters today,” he said. Through quoting Isaiah Berlin, McPherson said there is a difference between negative liberty, the freedom from something, and positive liberty, the freedom to do something. McPherson said these topics are still debated between political parties in this election year. “Presidential election is putting negative and positive liberties against each other,” he said. Freeing 4 million slaves was the first social issue the U.S. government tackled, he said.
“The legacy of slaver y in the form of discrimination plagued the United States and still haunts us,” McPherson said. New Jersey was the last northern state to abolish slaver y, he said. “New Jersey saw themselves as fighting for the union, not the abolishing of slaver y,” McPherson said. After the Civil War, the United States was seen as a single entity and considered a nation that was no longer divided, he said. Inequalities in American society have existed since 1865 because of capitalism, McPherson said. In the 1960s, the U.S. government began to keep the promises it made 100 years before, after African Americans fought for their civil rights, he said. “I became convinced that I cannot understand events in my own time if I didn’t know the histor y behind it,” he said. McPherson became more interested in histor y during the Civil War’s centennial anniversar y, after making the connection between the civil rights movement and the Civil War. He said students should be aware of the impor tant role that the federal government has and how it affects the lives of all Americans.
IN BRIEF PROFESSOR CORRELATES SOCIAL RESOURCES, PERSPECTIVE Kent Harber, associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Rutgers-Newark said people with fewer social resources see challenging situations as being more difficult to face, according to University Media Relations. “Those with fewer friends, with lower self-esteem and with less opportunity to disclose their emotions tend to visually amplify threats,” Harber said. She said perceptions become more disturbed and lasts longer than what actually exists in reality. In Harber’s recent study, he tested to see whether the resource of self-worth affected distance perception to a live tarantula, in which subjects were asked to recall a successful or failed moment in their lives while pulling a cart closer to their faces. Some people saw that the cart contained a harmless cat toy while others thought it contained a live tarantula. “As expected, feeling good, neutral or bad about oneself had no effect on distance to the cat toy but did affect distance to the tarantula,” Harber said. “Those who felt bad about themselves saw the tarantula as looming closer than it was — those who felt good about themselves were strikingly accurate.”
U. ORAL HISTORY FOUNDER PASSES AWAY Tom Kindre, founder of the Rutgers Oral Histor y Archives died on Sept. 11 at 91 years old, according to University Media Relations. Kindre met with faculty at the University’s history department to start an oral history program, in which Kindre and his friends provided the initial funding for the program in 1994. The University oral history archives have grown to include University alumni, faculty, staff and New Jersey residents.
NEUROSCIENTIST LINKS MOTIVATION WITH CULTURAL TRAINING Joan Morrell, a University neuroscientist, focuses on how certain parts of the brain controls the motivation people have, according to University Media Relations. “Our motivational habits have been falsely wired [in our brains] by our cultural training,” says Morrell, professor in the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience at Rutgers-Newark. She said knowing that exercise is good for the body is not enough. “My postulate is we can lear n that exercise and its afteref fects are rewarding. That’s what’s going to get us out of this pickle we’re in,” Morrell said.
James McPherson, a Civil War historian, shares the importance of the events of the 19th century at Alexander Library on the College Avenue campus. LAWRENCE CABREDO President Barack Obama would not be in office, he said, if it were not for the Civil War or the civil rights movement. “I hope [the audience] takes away the themes that I mention of the Civil War and understand the parallel between the past and the present,” McPherson said. Cristina Gherasimov, a University graduate student, said the discussion was ver y relevant to today’s events. “Both parties represent both types of liber ties,” she said.
“They must learn how to deal with the tension.” Russell Brindley, a University graduate student, said he came to see McPherson because he is considered a highly respected historian. “I was expecting a little bit more up-to-date,” he said. Brindley said McPherson’s talk made an impact on him because he was able to describe what the world was like during the Civil War’s 100th anniversar y and how the world is today.
Matthew Beckles, a School of Arts and Science senior, said the sur vival of the union was ver y important. “There’s still this notion about the south being a conquered nation,” Beckles said. Marianne Gaunt, vice president for Information Services at the University, said the lecture and the opening of the exhibition are part of a series of six programs sponsored by the University Libraries to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.
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FILM Hossain says working as female director is challenging CONTINUED FROM FRONT Post-war film and literature painted a picture of female rape victims as women who bravely sacrificed their chastity for their country, which gave Hossain the idea that the Bangladeshis equated the woman’s body with the land. “When the body is invaded, the nation is shamed,” Hossain said. “The individual voice and pain of the woman was marginalized and she was desexualized.” Upon realizing this, Hossain began looking at the war between the Pakistanis and the Bangladeshis from a different perspective. “I broke off from the binary of hero and villain,” she said. After interviewing a woman who had an af fair with a Pakistani soldier during the war for her thesis at the University of Pennsylvania, Hossain decided to show this narrative in a feature film. “She talked to me about this story of compassion and love,” Hossain said. While challenging the idea that Pakistanis are evil in a film set in Bangladesh, Hossain encountered a lot of backlash from the public, she said. The day after the film began showing in 2011, a letter was published in a newspaper that accused Hossain of degrading heroic women in the war and the freedom fighters, she said. “Someone said I worked as a Pakistani agent, [people were] saying ridiculous things like that,” she said.
SEPTEMBER 21, 2012 After only a week in theaters, the film was yanked off screens after a soldier from the Bangladeshi army commanded the distributor to do so, Hossain said. The director said she did not expect people would be so angry about her film. “I have a different way of thinking, I came to America,” she said. “I only used my voice as a woman. That’s what America gave me.” A particularly hurtful message on an intellectual blog in Bangladesh said that a Pakistani solider raped Hossain’s mother and that is how she was born, she said. “That’s ridiculous because I was born in 1981,” Hossain said. While touring with the film at festivals, Hossain said many men asked her husband and producer of Meherjaan, Ashique Mostafa, who studied film at the School of Visual Arts in New York, why he made his wife make his film. “I have really worked my ass off to make this film, and when I hear that [sic], you know?” she said. Ashique Mostafa said he did not expect such a strong reaction to the film from the public. “Of course we expected some kind of debate and we wanted to open up the discussion, but we didn’t expect it would be that kind of extreme reaction,” he said. The film is on the festival circuit again, but Rubaiyat Hossain said she is disappointed the film was taken out of theaters in Bangladesh. “I still feel defeated. I made this film in Bangladesh, I was able to take it to the theater, but I kind of lost there,” she said. The few screenings of Meherjaan in Bangladesh were sold out, she said, and although it gets viewed in festivals, Hossain
is not making the money she had hoped to make. As one of only a few Bangladeshi female filmmakers, Hossain said her job is difficult at times. “It’s definitely very challenging. Even globally, filmmaking [and] directing have been a man’s profession,” she said. “Very few female directors can really make it out there.” Even giving her crew direction was troubling for Hossain. “Shooting is hard to get your authority [over] the whole crew, because you’re a woman,” she said. Albert Nigrin, director of the New Jersey Film Festival, said Meherjaan is a “Romeo and Juliet” kind of story in the sense that it is trying to bridge cultures at a very difficult time. “American audiences will find it moves slowly, but that’s a strong suit. … It’s not a roller coaster ride.” He said women are the central focus of the film, which is a forward-thinking idea considering its target audience. Students can learn about differences in the world through watching the film, Nigrin said. “The world is not necessarily a place where ever yone comes together, only through love can that be obtained,” he said. Ashique Hossain said he and his wife still plan to make movies in Bangladesh in the future. “[The people of Bangladesh] have a lot of stories to tell that have not been told,” he said. “There are so many things happening in the country that we want to tell for the global audience.” Students can purchase tickets for Meherjaan at the door for $9 before the screening, which begins Sunday at 7 p.m. in room 105 of Voorhees Hall on the College Avenue campus.
PROFESSOR Rockland swam in Mediterranean to prove its safety CONTINUED FROM FRONT bodega below street level at the Plaza Mayor. Rockland was also witness to a U.S. militar y catastrophe that caught the U.S. embassy in Spain completely off guard, he said. In an attempt to send a message to the Soviet Union during the Cold War, a wing of bombers would leave the United States every six hours to replace another wing flying over the Soviet border, he said. Each bomber carried four hydrogen bombs, which are 75 times more powerful than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagaski, Rockland said. One of the bombers crashed into a refueling tanker over the coast of Spain on Januar y 17, 1966, Rockland said. Three of the unarmed bombs fell onto a small Spanish town, with one falling into the Mediterranean Sea. Two of the three bombs that landed over the town split open and forced the inhabitants to evacuate because of plutonium contamination. To prove to the locals that the town was not contaminated,
WOMEN 12 percent of nation’s governors are female CONTINUED FROM FRONT
PRIVACY Vaidhyanathan says ‘No-Fly’ list produces false positives CONTINUED FROM FRONT But as applied to data surveillance, Vaidhyanathan said companies want an authentic picture of a potential customer’s behavior gleaned from their activity on the Web — which would suffer if customers were aware of technology tracking their every online move. “We are constantly being watched, but we’re not supposed to know it,” Vaidhyanathan said. “The goal of instruments of surveillance ... is to get us to explore our niche affiliations.” He said companies often refer to their tracking behavior in euphemisms like “enhancing user experience” and “recommending products” to keep customers’ guards down. But he said online shoppers are hardly the only ones affected. Another institution that citizens should be aware of is the Department of Homeland Security, he said. Vaidhyanathan said the depar tment keeps “No-Fly” and “Ter rorist Watch” lists, both of which contain several hundred thousand names, according to estimates by nongovernmental organizations. A major problem with these lists is that they breed “false pos-
itives” — people who are erroneously tagged as dangerous because their name is similar to one on the list, he said. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga.; former Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass.; and Nobel Peace Prize winner Nelson Mandela have all been stopped by airport security for this reason, Vaidhyanathan said. Thirty-thousand people have complained that airline software falsely matched their names to the “No-Fly” list as of 2005, according to the Transportation Security Administration, he said. Vaidhyanathan said the TSA’s goals are important, but he wants to increase accountability. Too often, there is a rush to build technology without considering safeguards, he said. While information tracking might seem like a new problem — stemming from 21st century technology — Vaidhyanathan said the issues date back to the 1960s, when the expanding credit card business and Social Security needed more efficient ways to collect and organize data. “Americans became subjects of data, producers of data, leavers of data trails between 1965 and 1975,” he said. “And yet it didn’t feel any different to be an American.” He said he wants people to feel the difference. “The key to security is to understand what we as individuals do with our choices … how we express our allegiances to certain products,” Vaidhyanathan said.
There is a widening gap between people who have the resources to modify their digital reputation and those who do not, Vaidhyanathan said. Tech-savvy young people, for example, adjust their Facebook privacy settings much more than older people, he said. Robert Schomburg, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, said he installed a Firefox plug-in called NoScript that blocks active scripting content that could lead to security exploitations. Because of that, he said he has not experienced much targeted advertising. “A lot of my Google ads are really offbeat,” he said. But Vaidhyanathan said people like Schomburg are in the minority. “It was pretty interesting considering the amount of people who know about it and don’t do anything,” said Ray Zhang, a Rutgers Business School firstyear student. “I know I’m one of those people who don’t do anything about it.” Vaidhyanathan acknowledged that big data has advantages, noting that huge quantities of information can compensate for the occurrence of “garbage” data, which would ordinarily corrupt analysis of a smaller information sample. Still, he takes issue with the methodology. “I don’t want anyone to boycott Google,” he said, “but I want people to be aware of the costs and benefits.”
and 21 Republicans are running for re-election in the House of Representatives, according to the report. The record was made in 2004 when 141 women ran for the House of Representatives — 88 Democrats and 53 Republicans. Fourteen women — nine Democrats and five Republicans — ran for the Senate in 2010. “We have spent the last two years engaging and inspiring women to run,” Walsh said. “There were efforts from groups to get more women to run.” Walsh said the opportunity came because of the 2010 Census. “Based on the census, every state and legislation district lines get redrawn. In the years of redistricting, there are more seats. The incumbent is less secure in his office.” She said people tend to retire around the redistricting time, resulting in more opportunities for candidates in a redistricting year. “We also put a lot of work into putting a spotlight on the fact there are not many women in Congress,” Walsh said. Many women politicians are known nationally, Walsh said, citing Michelle Bachmann, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi and Condoleezza Rice, which gives the impression that there is equality in terms of who occupies government positions. According to the Center of American Women and Politics’ website, 17 percent of the Senate is made up of women, 16.8 percent of the House of
Rockland said he and the U.S. ambassador swam in the Mediterranean several miles north of where the bomb landed. Throughout the book, Rockland discusses meeting with the Kennedys, living next door to an exiled Nazi and being invited to government functions in Francisco Franco’s fascist Spain. Rockland came to the University shortly after his time in Vietnam during the war. Allan Isaac, an associate professor of American studies at the University, said Rockland brings a unique and exciting view to the University. “He brings an intimate view of historical eras and figures,” Isaac said. “[It is] an intimacy that complicates and humanizes them.” Isaac said Rockland was one of the founding members of the American studies depar tment when it began at Douglass College. “He offers one of the many exciting approaches to the study of American culture offered by our diverse faculty and curriculum,” he said. Adam Scaramutz, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, said he was surprised to learn that a former U.S. diplomat was now a professor at the University. “I’m shocked that he works here,” he said. “To see someone with his experience and hear his stories makes Rutgers wor thwhile.”
Representatives accounts for women, and 12 percent of governors are women. New Jersey currently has no women in Congress, Walsh said. The Center for American Women and Politics also has data divided by states on their website. Four women are running for seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, according to the Center of American Women and Politics. Walsh said women bring new topics and different priorities to the table such as domestic violence, women’s health and environmental issues. “Women come together with issues that affect women, family and children,” she said. “Their leadership style is more inclusive, and there’s more transparency.” Walsh said once some women are in legislation, they feel responsible for bringing issues to the table because they realize if they do not raise those issues, no one will. “It becomes part of their portfolio,” Walsh said. Angelina Plaza, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, said having more women in Congress would mean a stronger voice for all women when it comes to building the future of America. “More women in Congress would also provide a different perspective, a different outlook on what America should be and could be,” Plaza said. Elaina Formichella, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said having women in Congress shows that the nation is moving forward. “We are more accepting of women in higher positions,” she said. “It’s better for other women to be in Congress ... because they would be more empathetic and there will be more benefits for women.”
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Amish guilty of hair-cutting hate crimes THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CLEVELAND — Sixteen Amish men and women were convicted yesterday of hate crimes for a series of hair- and beard- cutting attacks on fellow sect members in a religious dispute that offered a rare and sometimes lurid glimpse into the closed and usually self-regulating community of believers. A federal jury found 66-year-old Samuel Mullet Sr., the leader of the breakaway group, guilty of orchestrating the cuttings last fall in an attempt to shame mainstream members who he believed were straying from their beliefs. His followers were found guilty of carrying out the attacks, which terrorized the normally peaceful religious settlement that aims to live simply and piously. Prosecutors and witnesses described how sons pulled their father out of bed and chopped off his beard in the moonlight and how women surrounded their mother-in-law and cut off two feet of her hair, taking it down to the scalp in some places. Prosecutors say they targeted hair because it carries spiritual significance in their faith. The defendants face prison terms of 10 years or more at their Jan. 24 sentencing. Prosecutors plan to file a request today to revoke bond for defendants who had remained free pending trial. All the defendants are members of Mullet’s settlement that he founded in eastern Ohio near the West Virginia panhandle. The Amish eschew many conveniences of modern life, including electrical appliances and automobiles, and embrace their centuries-old roots. Federal officials said the verdicts would send a message about religious intolerance. “The victims in this case are members of a peaceful and traditional religion who simply wanted to be left to practice their religion in peace,” U.S. Attorney Steven Dettelbach said. “Unfortunately, the defendants denied them this basic right, and they did so in the most violent way.” Members of the Amish community who sat through the trial hurried into a hired van without commenting, some covering their faces. Defense attorneys said the defendants were bewildered by the verdicts and said likely appeals would be based on a challenge to the hate crimes law. “They really don’t understand the court system the way the rest of us have, being educated and reading newspapers,” said Joseph Dubyak, whose client, Linda Schrock, has 10 children with her husband, who was also convicted. Attorney Rhonda Kotnik said the verdicts would destroy Mullet’s community of about 25 families. The defendants, including six couples, have a total of about 50 children, she said.
President Barack Obama suggests that Mitt Romney’s advocation for education cuts may lead to the spread of teacher strikes, similar to the recent strike in Chicago. He spoke with Romney yesterday in Florida at a town hall-style forum. GETTY IMAGES
Obama suggests Romney is out of touch THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI — President Barack Obama cast Mitt Romney yesterday as an out-of-touch challenger for the White House and an advocate of education cuts that could cause teacher strikes to spread from Chicago to other cities. The Republican countered that the U.S. economy “is bumping along the bottom” under the current administration and he predicted victory in the fall. The two men eyed each other across hotly contested Florida, a state with 29 electoral votes, more than any other battleground in the close race for the White House. “When you express an attitude that half the country considers itself victims, that somehow they want to be dependent on government, my thinking is maybe you haven’t gotten around a lot,” the president said. That was in response to a question about Romney’s recent observation that 47 percent of Americans pay no income tax and believe they are victims and entitled to an array of federal benefits. Obama spoke at a town hallstyle forum aired by the
Spanish-language television net- race a close one, likely to be settled in eight or so swing states work Univision. For his part, Romney was where neither man has a solid eager to move past that contro- edge. Obama has gained ground versy, which has knocked him in polls in some of those states off stride. He disclosed plans for since the completion of the a three-day bus tour early next Democratic National Convention week through Ohio with run- two weeks ago, while Romney ning mate Paul Ryan and sought has struggled with controversies to return the campaign focus to of his own making that have left the economic issues that have Republicans frustrated at his per formance as dominated the a candidate. race all year. Still, there were At a fundraiser “My campaign fresh signs of in Miami, Romney is about the weakness in the looked ahead to nation’s job market his televised head100 percent as the two candito-head encounin America.” dates vied for supters with Obama port in Florida. this fall. “He’s a MITT ROMNEY The Labor ver y eloquent Republican Candidate Department said speaker, and so the number of I’m sure in the debates, as last time ... he’ll be Americans seeking unemployment very eloquent in describing his fell only slightly last week, to a seavision,” the Republican said. “But sonally adjusted level of 382,000, he can’t win by his words, suggesting that businesses remain because his record speaks so reluctant to add to their payrolls. loudly in our ears. What he has The four-week average rose for the done in the last four years is fifth straight week to the highest establish an economy that’s level in nearly three months. After more than two days of bumping along the bottom.” Less than seven weeks before struggle, Romney seemed eager Election Day, polls make the to leave the 47 percent contro-
versy behind as he appeared at the Univision forum Wednesday night. “‘My campaign is about the 100 percent in America,” he said firmly. But Obama made his most extensive comments to date on the subject since the emergence of a video showing Romney telling donors last May that as a candidate his job wasn’t to worry about 47 percent of the country. “Their problem is not they’re not working hard enough or they don’t want to work or they’re being taxed too little or they just want to loaf around and gather government checks,” the president said.” “Are there people that abuse the system? Yes, both at the bottom and at the top,” he added, including millionaires who he said pay no income taxes. He said many at the low end of the income scale pay other forms of taxes, and some who don’t pay taxes are senior citizens, students, disabled, veterans or soldiers who are stationed overseas. “Americans work hard, and if they are not working right now I promise you they want to go to work,” he said.
Syrian airstrike hits gas station, kills at least 30 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — Regime airstrikes hit a gas station in northern Syria yesterday, setting off a fier y explosion that killed at least 30 people and wounded dozens, opposition activists said. Amateur video showed thick black smoke engulfing the scene. A Syrian military helicopter crashed near the capital of Damascus earlier yesterday, and Syria’s Information Ministry said the helicopter went down after its rotor accidentally clipped the tail of a Syrian passenger plane with 200 people on board. The larger aircraft landed safely at
Damascus International Airport and no one was hurt, the ministry said. The airstrikes and the close call in the sky underscored the growing turmoil and violence in Syria. The country is embroiled in a civil war between forces fighting for President Bashar Assad and those trying to topple him. More than 23,000 people have been killed in the 18-month conflict, according to activists. Assad’s regime has stepped up airstrikes in northern Syria in recent weeks, in an attempt to dislodge rebels from areas they control there. Activists said yesterday’s air attack hit near the town
of Ain Issa, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) from Turkey. Rebel fighters had seized control of a border a day earlier, crossing north of the town. Rami Abdul-Rahman of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said that witnesses counted at least 30 bodies and that dozens of people were wounded. Another group, the Local Coordination Committees, which gathers information from a network of activists across Syria, put the death toll at 55. Amateur video showed thick black smoke rising near the gas station, which was partially intact. Several vehicles, including a bull-
dozer and pickup trucks, were on fire. The video, whose authenticity could not be confirmed independently, also showed several damaged cars. A man could be heard shouting “your son is dead.” Both groups quoted witnesses as saying the blast was caused by airstrikes on the gas station. The Syrian conflict appears to have reached a stalemate. The rebels are holding some territory despite the government’s military superiority but have been unable to score decisive victories. At the same time, the international community is averse to getting involved militarily and instead hopes economic sanctions will squeeze the Assad regime.
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George Street Co-op educates on healthy food options BY SUE KANG CONTRIBUTING WRITER
With a history rooted at the University that spans almost 30 years, members of the natural foods market George Street Coop continue to seek ways to connect local residents with their food sources and community. John Leary, general manager at the George Street Co-op, said the nonprofit cooperative is important because it centers on eating, which is an essential activity in our lives. “The goal is to provide better ... quality food at a ... lower price [and] having it be a kind of community that takes part in providing food for itself,” Leary said. “Most people go through life pretty disconnected with the source of their food. They don’t have much say.” The co-op began in 1973 as a buying club, consisting of 10 members of the Rutgers Vegetarian Club who would supply their members with produce in bulk, Leary said. Now located on 89 Morris Street, Leary said the co-op continues to follow its mission statement of better educating people about healthy foods while creating a tight-knit community that is open to the opinions of its members.
April Heliotis, a School on Environmental and Biological Sciences junior, looks for dried goods at the George Street Co-op in downtown New Brunswick. ENRICO CABREDO, ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Selen Altiok, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences junior, said the George Street Co-op appealed to him because it is based on a democratic system where everyone could contribute, leaving out much of the bureaucracy found in other organizations. “If I wanted to add something that I thought was beneficial to the community, it can certainly be done if other members agree and
vote that it is. I have a voice and a choice while I’m there,” said Altiok, a volunteer at the cooperative. New members have the opportunity to choose from different incentives, Leary said. For $100, a volunteer can buy a share of the organization, which makes them a part owner. They can also work two hours a month for five months in exchange for yearlong discounts, a process called “Sweat Equity.”
“There are people who come here because they are environmentalists, because they care about food justice, because they like healthy foods, and some because they want to learn more about healthy foods,” he said. “There are some people who come here just because they think it’s filled with a lot of cool and friendly people.” Debra Key, a volunteer at the co-op, said she became a member of the organization and grew more enthusiastic about volunteering as she got involved. “I started off working here two hours a week as a volunteer. But then I started coming here almost four hours a day, several days a week,” Key said. Altiok and Key are two of about 50 to 60 volunteers involved with the organization, Leary said. But despite the number of members and volunteers, the location only employs a sixperson working staff. Altiok said the co-op, which is within walking distance of the College Avenue campus, is an accessible option for students in the University. “I hear people talking about how restricted we are to nonorganic produce, that they just get bored of dining halls. ... The co-op is diverse in its own way. It
is a great place for students to volunteer and help out. ... I’ve been a fan for quite a while,” Altiok said. Leary said the goal at the coop is to push residents to get involved with the community in any way. “We try to do our part to help other organizations and causes, like Arbor Day, World Water Day or International Day of Peace,” he said. “We put things like that on our sites and boards to encourage everyone to get involved in a lot of other good causes.” The co-op also works closely with the University, Leary said, adding that the organization plans to support an anti-domestic violence initiative headed by the School of Social Work. Leary said membership is not required to take part in the coop’s healthy food initiatives. Customers are able to bring their own containers to carry the food they buy instead of using plastic bags or other wasteful packaging products. “There are choices that you can make when you eat that can make the difference between foods that shorten your life or better your health, foods that harm the environment or help make a pesticide-free planet, or foods that support or fight unfair treatment of workers,” he said.
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The Scarlet Knight — the University’s bobble-headed-cheap-plastic-foam-suit of a mascot — has officially moved from 15th to 14th place in Capital One’s Mascot challenge. Does that mean it’s time to raise that red solo cup and R-U-RAH-RAH the night away, you ask? Maybe, if it wasn’t for the fact that there are only 16 contestants in the competition. Basically, the only mascots not sucking as bad as we are right now are Brigham Young University’s “Cosmo the Cougar” and the University of Maryland’s “Testudo the Turtle.” We dart the Knight’s current standing and the failure of University students to prove their school spirit.
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Oh Mitt, when are you going to learn? “Mother Jones” magazine released a video this week in which presidential candidate Mitt Romney eloquently dismissed almost half of the U.S. electorate by saying they’re all dependent on the government and probably won’t vote for him anyhow. Be careful what you wish for, Mitt … because with snarky comments like that, it may just come true. For this, we give Romney a dart.
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e all experience sadness or “the blues” at some point in our lives, but depression is much more than that. Depression generally lasts longer and can interfere with day-to-day functions and affect one’s academic performance. In a 2009 American College Health Association survey, about 30 percent of college students admitted to having difficulty functioning because of depression. I was one of those students. I experienced depression my first year at the University because of the pressures of school and family. At the time I was too embarrassed to seek help or talk to my friends about my feelings because I was fearful of their reactions. I felt ashamed and thought they would shun me for my illness. Unfortunately, for this reason, my grades were af fected. I eventually sought help a year later, but it was at the expense of my GPA. In hindsight, I wish I hadn’t let my fears keep me from speaking with someone because that is a year of my life I can never get back.
“If it were that simple, who would choose to endure this?” Continuing stigmas of depression and lack of knowledge about the symptoms keep a lot of students from seeking professional help. A member of the H.O.P.E. (Health Outreach, Promotion & Education) here on campus admitted to me that many students are ashamed to be seen entering the building. Society’s attitude toward those with mental illnesses causes those who desperately need help to suffer alone. Despite more acceptance and education on the illness, many still treat those with depression with reproach — not realizing that these very attitudes have a negative impact. People believe depression is not
Courtney Averette is a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student. Her column, “Weighing In,” runs on alternate Fridays.
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capital gain is an accounting term that denotes the positive difference between buying an asset and selling for more than you paid for it. It’s pretty much a straightforward definition. Not surprisingly, a capital loss is the negative dif ference i.e., the money you lose when you sell an asset. When politicians, economists and the like talk about capital gains tax, they’re referencing a tax on a capital gain. Though this sounds like an arcane accounting concept, it is actually a tax everyone interacts with: your parents would pay a capital gains tax on the profit they generate from selling their house or from the profits of the stocks and bonds in their retirement account. Capital gains tax is a politically relevant topic: for families earning more than $250,000, Obama wants to raise capital gains from 15 percent to 23.8 percent, which is currently scheduled to occur in 2013. Romney wants capital gains to stay at 15 percent for roughly the top 2 percent of earners, families earning more than $200,000 and for the tax to become 0 percent for families earning less than 200,000. Theoretically, the lower tax rate for capital gains instead of their regular income tax should incentivize people to invest their money in financial instruments. Ideally, this should fill the market with liquidity i.e. money for everyone who asks for it — not deserves it or will use it properly, but just for who asks for it. It would allow companies to raise capital to make additional investments, launch new products or hire more employees. Capital gains tax is often critiqued as a loophole for the rich to pay lower taxes, which is not a completely false statement. However, let’s start with who pays the lowest capital gains tax — drum roll please — families making under $70,000 pay a whopping 0 percent on long-term capital gains. From $70,000 on up, everyone pays 15 percent for long-term capital gains. Highincome earners have a higher ratio of their total income taxed from capital gains instead of
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as serious as perceived, and that it’s just easy to “snap out of it,” which is not the case. If it were that simple, who would choose to endure this? A quote from Jonathan Davis puts things into perspective: “A lot of people don’t realize that depression is an illness. I don’t wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they shrug it.” Even though depression is a general term, there are actually different kinds of depression. They include chronic depression or dysthymia, which lasts two years or more, and is a major depressive disorder which can interfere with one’s ability to sleep, study, eat, work, etc. There is also manic depression or bipolar depression, which alternates between moments of clinical depression and mania. Seasonal affective disorder is also a common type that occurs the same time each year. These are a few types that many people have and contrary to popular belief, depression af fects about 15 million Americans every year. It affects all races, socioeconomic groups, ages and ethnicities. Recognizing the symptoms of depression is one of the biggest obstacles in getting diagnosed and treated. About half the people who have the symptoms don’t get diagnosed for treatment. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, symptoms may include, but are not limited to fatigue or decreased energy, hopelessness, irritability, loss of interest in activities or hobbies, difficulty concentrating or remembering things, persistent sadness, loss of appetite or overeating. Some of these symptoms may coincide with other illnesses, but it’s best to seek help regardless. If you have any of these symptoms, please contact University Health Ser vicesH.O.P.E. department at (732) 932-1965 or visit their facility on the College Avenue campus at 8 Lafayette St. Don’t feel ashamed to seek help because no one should have to suffer alone.
ordinar y income, but the tax incentive is available to everyone. Corporations have incentive to pay their senior management in stock options because the tax rate is lower for the employees than salar y. There is also a strong incentive for senior management to increase profitability in their companies because a higher profit equals a higher salary. If we look at one of my favorite CEOs, Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs, he took home about 16 million dollars last year and only 12.5 percent was salar y, 18.75 percent in bonus, and the rest, about 70 percent, in stock options.
“Capital gains tax is often critiqued as a loophole for the rich to pay lower taxes, which is not a completely false statement.” In general, there is a stronger financial incentive for investment because of the possible dif ference in tax payments. For example, when capital gains taxes are low, the number of Initial Public Offerings filed is high and vice versa. The same type of relationship exists between low capital gains taxes and venture capital activity — thus the investment into certain types of small businesses (small businesses like Facebook once was, not the deli down the street.) There is a tenuous and uncertain relationship between capital gains tax rates and economic growth. So far, I think there is a somewhat convincing case to leave capital gains tax low and the argument is inspired by supply-side economic theor y. Let’s consider the other side of this: raising capital gains taxes. In general, the average Joe would not see a major difference in the taxes they file, but would see the difference in the distribution of wealth and how it is accumulated. Remember how your parents’ house and retirement funds are liable to capital gains? There is an exemption of capital gains of up to $500,000 on a primary residence — your house — which makes it tax-free. Also, many retirement plans like Roth IRAs, if you meet the requirements, will allow you to claim
capital gains tax almost tax free. For most folk, their bottom line would not change drastically. One reason to increase capital gains tax is a short-term increase in revenue for the government. Additionally, it’s impor tant to note that an increase of capital gains would fall mostly on the highest earners since they derive more of their total income from capital gains than salar y; think Lloyd Blankfein. Since the tax burden would be on the richest, their relative wealth from capital gains would shrink. There is a correlation between higher capital gains rates and income inequality — if the highest earning group pays the lowest tax share, their wealth will be dispropor tionately large. The less economic inequality translates to less political polarization. Banks and so on would have to be more careful with their investments. Some people may scream wealth redistribution, socialist scheme, and all other types of demagoguer y that makes a good sound bite. I find those people irritating. Historically, capital gains tax has cycled from 12.5 percent to 38.5 percent. There was a short time period around WW1 where the rate was 78 percent, but I’m counting that as an anomaly. To paraphrase Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, taxes are the price we pay to live in a civil society. But here is where the difficult part begins: it is not the fact of capital gains tax that is controversial — unless you’re an economist that believes capital gains is double taxing profits — but to what rate we should tax and if the consequences are palatable and fair. Today, I have attempted to provide an unbiased and fair presentation of capital gains tax. To put it shortly: they have a purpose, they have a potential for abuse, and reasonable people can disagree on how we should manage the relationship between these two potentialities. My goal, this week and in the weeks to come, will be to write about complicated issues — issues that are displayed as onesided — and show that there really are 50 shades of gray. Ben Gold is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in philosophy and history. His column, “Vantage Points,” runs on alternate Fridays.
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SPORTS PAGE 13
Senior wideout Mark Harrison is one of four Knights receivers this season to catch a pass and only one of two to own a touchdown reception. ALEX VAN DRIESEN, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
OUTLOOK Penalities present RU with hurdle in game with reeling Arkansas CONTINUED FROM BACK Wilson, meanwhile, has managed 563 passing yards despite only attempting two more passes than Allen. But senior linebacker Khaseem Greene is not as concerned with Arkansas as much as he is his own team. “They have … some good guys over there,” he said. “At the same time we have good guys, too, and we have to do what we have to do. At the end of the day, it’s going to be about what we do and less about what they do, so if we don’t execute, nothing about them is going to matter because they are going to kill us.” In Wilson’s only full game this season, Arkansas pulled off a 49-24 victory against Jacksonville State. But while the Razorbacks starter is the strength of the team, the defense has been less than stellar, allowing 36.7 points per game.
Fifty-two of those points came against No. 1 Alabama, which puts up impressive numbers against most teams. But eliminate them from the mix and the average is still 29 points per game, more than 20 points more than Rutgers’ defense. That does not bode well for Arkansas, considering the Knights not only had three extra days of preparation, but also proved for the first time last Thursday that they can beat teams on the ground or through the air. Sophomore quarterback Gary Nova threw for 277 yards and a touchdown without turning the ball over at South Florida. “You can’t just focus on one receiver,” said senior wideout Mark Harrison. “In this game I feel like we really just have to tackle all areas of the field. We’re going to have to spread that ball out. I’m excited for what we got and where we’re going.” The passing game has many weapons — including sophomore running back Jawan Jamison, who averages 18 yards per catch — it can go to. Senior wideout Tim Wright modeled the theory against the Bulls.
CHANCE Rutgers faces pair of Hoyas forwards with five goals apiece this season CONTINUED FROM BACK But not that many Hoyas have scored, as only four have at least one goal this season. Rutgers’ biggest problem is that for wards Brandon Allen and Andy Reimer have outscored the Knights’ entire of fense this year, 10-4. Donigan views Allen as the biggest threat. The freshman that ESPN ranked the No. 11 prospect in the countr y last year already has five collegiate goals to his name. “He may not do anything for 80 minutes, but then he’ll kill you with two late goals,” Donigan said. “He’s ver y ef ficient. He has great instincts around the box. He’s a ver y big, strong, tough, durable kid who has a hell of a left foot.”
Even if Georgetown did not have elite scorers, the College of Charleston proved last Friday that Rutgers can still have problems with an opponent that maintains possession without a great scoring threat. The Cougars maintained the ball for most of the game, and Rutgers was lucky none of their 15 shots landed in the net. Rutgers has been outshot in each of its last two games — Princeton outshot Rutgers, 1511, on Sept. 8 in Rutgers’ 2-0 win — but senior defender Dragan Naumoski sees no problem as long as the Knights defense holds its ground. “Not as long as they’re not getting behind us,” Naumoski said of whether preventing Georgetown possessions is a concer n. “If we’re keeping
After spending most of his time at Rutgers recovering from injuries, Wright led the Knights with eight catches for 125 yards. “You really never know who’s going to have that game,” Harrison said. “We all work so hard and it’s a lot of competition. We compete every day with each other in practice, so it’s really difficult to focus on that one guy.” Regardless of what the passing game looks like, for the Knights to win the game, they have to eliminate penalties that have stained their record so far. Although Rutgers pulled out wins in all three of its games, giving up that much yardage likely will not yield the same result against a strong SEC team. “We just continue to focus on [penalties] in practice and make the players aware of it,” Flood said. “They are certainly not intentional, but at the same time, and as I said after the [South Florida] game, it is the most glaring par t of our program right now where I know we can be a lot better.” Rutgers will have to be tomorrow, especially with Wilson taking the snaps.
them in front of us on possession, we’ll just counter. We have speed going for ward, so I think we’ll be alright.” Rutgers ear ned sparse oppor tunities to score against Charleston, but one of those chances went in. Junior for ward Kene Eze sealed the 1-0 victor y with his first goal of the season in the 82nd minute. It was Eze’s first goal of the year and also the first goal from any Knight who was on last year’s team that made the Sweet 16. Rutgers got off to a slow start in out-of-conference play that year, too, ending the stretch by getting shut out twice by Iona and then-No. 9 Indiana. But something clicked to help Rutgers win five of its first six Big East games and score 11 goals in that span. The Knights can only hope for a similar turn in its conference opener. “That might be the goal that gets the ball rolling,” Donigan said of Eze’s goal.
Junior Vanessa Petrini earns her first chance to replicate her successful sophomore campaign this weekend at Brown. CONOR ALWELL, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
CHALLENGERS Away matches offer chance for Knights youth to jell, focus on individual play CONTINUED FROM BACK “It can be ner ve-wracking for a freshman,” said freshman Mariam Zein. “But I’m totally ready to play with my team and I’ve been practicing hard, so hopefully I’ll get some good results.” Bucca also has confidence in the young team and wants it to be prepared and execute what it has worked on in practice. “With a young team like this, I’m looking for the players to come ready to play and be implementing some of the strategies that we’ve been working ver y hard on,” Bucca said. Bucca also looks for ward to the trip to see the team bond
and grow closer together through the tournament. “The Brown tournament is a fun trip, because not only are we going for a full weekend of ver y strong competition, but it’s also the first time the team gets to travel together,” Bucca said. “It enables us to have some team-building and teambonding experiences, which makes playing on a college tennis team so much fun.” The Brown Invitational is a tournament that consists of individual flighted tournaments. The tournament is anchored more toward individual rather than team play, Bucca said. “We’re looking for ward to the competition as well as enjoying one another’s time as teammates,” Bucca said.
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SEPTEMBER 21, 2012 VOLLEYBALL SOUTH FLORIDA-RUTGERS, TOMORROW
Senior setter Stephanie Zielinski said the Knights will make the Big East Championship this season, a feat the program has yet to accomplish under CJ Werneke, the team’s head coach. It earns its first chance tomorrow in its conference opener against South Florida. NELSON MORALES, SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Knights begin Big East play at home BY AARON FARRAR STAFF WRITER
The Rutgers volleyball team takes its home floor tomorrow afternoon looking to make a statement. The Scarlet Knights put outof-conference play behind them and tip off Big East competition, opening with a matinee match against South Florida. Rutgers improved to 14-1 last weekend after winning the Penn Invitational Championship, defeating Radford, George Mason, and host Penn. The Knights look to rack up another victor y to add to their 12-match winning streak. Rutgers wants to rewrite its story from last season, when it finished with an unfavorable 3-11 record against Big East opponents. And so they enter the match with a chip on their shoulders. “This is a test,” said senior setter Stephanie Zielinski. “This is what hurt us last season. We really want to prove ourselves. We’ve had some individual recognition, but we haven’t been recognized as a team that can compete with other people and take away games from big teams.” It was yet another week in which individual Knights received awards from the con-
ference for their per formances. Zielinski ear ned Big East Player of the Week honors Monday, while freshman middle blocker Sarah Schmid received Freshman of the Week recognition. The Big East acknowledged at least one Knight each week since the start of the season. Rutgers wants to be viewed as a legitimate contender in the league this season and is willing to do what is necessar y to achieve that status. “It’s only about preparation,” said head coach CJ Werneke. “We talked to our team this week about how when you hit the Big East, you start preparing at a different level. You have more time to prepare for your opponents rather than in a tournament setting where you’re playing three opponents in two days. We’re able to get familiar with our opponent and ready for when we see them across the net on the weekend.” The Knights are content about the opportunity to begin their Big East quest on their home court. They enter the gym with momentum from their impressive play and look to add to it. “We’re excited to be back at home,” Werneke said. “We’re excited about our Big East play.
We’ve learned a lot about ourselves as a team with the out-ofconference play, but now it’s another level. We have to execute consistently like we have been. It’s just a different feeling when you enter Big East play.” The fifth-year head coach knows the Knights have what it takes to be victorious this weekend, but need to translate their preparation to the cour t, he said. But a part of their preparation has been learning from different experiences throughout the year. “So far we’ve responded well to a variety of situations throughout the pre-season,” Werneke said. “I’m really excited about how our team has responded. It always hasn’t been pretty, but we’ve been good when it mattered. Going into conference play, we need to continue that.” Rutgers takes a crack at its first Big East challenger of the year against USF, which it holds a 5-5 record against, and hopes to emerge as a threat in the conference. Zielinski holds true to the faith she has in the Knights and their plans. “We want to prove to ever ybody else that we’re a really good team this year,” she said. “We’re going to go to the Big East Championship.”
Freshman middle blocker Sarah Schmid earned Big East honors this week, leading up to tomorrow’s match against USF. NELSON MORALES, SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
FIELD HOCKEY SYRACUSE-RUTGERS, TODAY, 3 P.M.
RU shows ability to bounce back BY ANTHONY RODRIGUEZ STAFF WRITER
The Rutgers field hockey team faces its highest-ranked opponent of the season when it takes on No. 2 Syracuse this afternoon at 3 p.m. in Big East play. The Orange (7-0) enter the game as one of the nation’s most dominant teams. The Orange already registered three shutouts, while the Scarlet Knights (4-4) begin the weekend with a .500 record. To be successful, the Knights must find a way to stop forwards Lauren Brooks and Kelsey Millman, who have both tallied 13 points this year. Brooks has managed six goals and one assist, and
Millman has contributed five goals and three assists. “I think Syracuse is one of the top teams in the conference,” said head coach Meredith Long. “This weekend I really just want to go out and compete and give them a game. I’m really excited to take some of the things out of the UConn game, to just really tweak and clean up a few areas that we have to focus on. But we are not far off from where we need to be which is really exciting.” Seniors forward Carlie Rouh and senior defender Ashley Yanek lead the Knights. Rouh enters the weekend with eight points on three goals, and two assists, and Yanek is one of the rocks of the Knights defense.
“I’m looking for more wins, playing together and playing hard every game,” Rouh said. After the contest against Syracuse, the Knights get one day to prepare for their next matchup Sunday at 1 p.m. against Cornell (1-4). Forward Hannah Balleza, who has tallied nine points including four goals and an assist, leads the team. Regardless of how the Syracuse game turns out, the Knights have shown they are fully capable of coming back and earning a victory. The Knights have lost their first game of the weekend twice in a row, but have returned in the second game to win twice in shutout fashion. “I think our decision-making has improved tremendously,” Long said.
SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
SPORTS PAGE 15 KNIGHT NOTEBOOK ANKLE INJURY SETS JUNIOR BACK
IN BRIEF THE RUTGERS
VOLLEYBALL
team is off to its best start under fifth-year head coach C.J. Werneke with a 14-1 record. The Scarlet Knights have not lost since Aug. 25 against Miami. They tr y to continue that start tomorrow at home, where they open Big East play against South Florida, and the following day when they face Pittsburgh. The Bulls are 8-5 and are in the midst of a six-game winning streak, while the Panthers own a 9-5 record. The matchup tomorrow is a blackout, and the first 100 fans will receive a free “Blackout” Tshirt. The game against Pitt is Camper Appreciation Day, when all campers wearing their Tshirts and the first 50 to enter the game receive a free volleyball. The team will host an autograph signing for campers on the court after the game. Following the two home matches, Rutgers travels to Villanova, followed by a road game against Georgetown.
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cornerback Darelle Revis said he has been medically cleared and plans to play in the team’s upcoming game against the Miami Dolphins. Revis suffered a concussion in the season opener against the Buffalo Bills after teammate Bart Scott inadvertently kicked him in the head. As a result, he was held out of Sunday’s loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers. While Revis said he was going to play, head coach Rex Ryan is not as declarative. He said he still could hold Revis out if the doctors think that would be better. Ryan said he hopes Revis will play, but it is not set in stone, according to The New York Times.
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manager Dusty Baker remains in the hospital after he had to leave Wrigley Field two hours before the first pitch of Wednesday’s game. Doctors want to keep Baker in the hospital at least for today further tests. The team said Wednesday’s tests were to “rule out pneumonia” as a cause of Baker’s irregular heartbeat. Chris Speier, the team’s interim manager, told The Associated Press that Baker could return to the team as early as today, depending on the test results.
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Carolina hospitals released UNC head men’s basketball coach Roy Williams a day after he under went a three-and-a-half hour surgery to remove a tumor on his right kidney. According to university officials, Williams checked out of the hospital yesterday afternoon. It is not yet clear how much time the 62-year-old coach will miss before preseason practice begins. It is also not certain how severe the tumor is. The test results are expected to be in within the week. Williams may also need another procedure to remove a tumor on his left kidney.
Junior Jeremy Deering returns a kickoff 55 yards Sept. 1 at Tulane, the last opponent Deering saw a meaningful touch against. Head coach Kyle Flood maintains Deering is valuable because of his versatility. KEITH FREEMAN, SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Deering faces numbers crunch at WR BY TYLER BARTO SPORTS EDITOR
Despite only a 55-yard kick return Sept. 1 at Tulane on his résumé, junior wide receiver Jeremy Deering remains one of Rutgers head football coach Kyle Flood’s assets. Deering, who sat out the Scarlet Knights’ Sept. 8 game against Howard, has yet to record a catch or carry. “I think as the season goes on,” Flood said yesterday, “people will see that Jeremy is going to be one of the more valuable pieces to the puzzle at Rutgers.” The Knights coaching staff inserted Deering into the defensive back rotation during training camp. But Deering’s ankle injury, suffered in practice before Rutgers’ second game of the season, likely stunted his growth at safety. He remains the Knights’ kick returner, but gains have been modest. Deering’s field-position-changing return at the Superdome was the only time Rutgers brought a kickoff out of its end zone. New kickoff rules, namely its spot at the 35-yard line, have hindered results. “Certainly every week and every game plan we’re trying to find ways to highlight him as a playmaker. Every week we hope that kickoff return is one of them,” Flood said. “Unfortunately it’s not one we totally control. We don’t want to just mindlessly bring the ball out of the end zone nine yards deep.” Flood did not rule out Deering’s return to safety, but it largely depends on his health.
A crowded receiving corps has not helped Deering, either. Only four wideouts have caught a pass this season, but three of them — sophomore Brandon Coleman and seniors Mark Harrison and Tim Wright — occupy many of the team’s packages. The emergence of sophomore running back Jawan Jamison — and his Big East-high 69 carries — has also negated the need for more passing weapons. But Flood insists Deering has not yet tapped the staff’s vision for him. “We’ve done a lot of stuff this year with Jeremy,” Flood said, “and not all of it has been used on game day.”
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performer suffered a season-ending injury Aug. 11, 2011, and had not taken a snap since the Razorbacks’ Jan. 4, 2011, Sugar Bowl appearance.
BECAUSE
OF A SIZE SHIFT
in college wide receivers, the Knights coaching staff makes targeting height in cornerback recruits a priority, Flood said.
“To play defensive back under 5-foot-10, 5-foot-11,” he said, “you’re putting yourself in a jumpball disadvantage.” The Knights’ top-four corners all stand at 6-foot or taller. Senior Marcus Cooper and redshirt freshman Tejay Johnson, both former wide receivers, are listed at 6-foot-2. “That’s a sign of the times,” he said.
SAID HE IS UNSURE
if Arkansas running back Knile Davis has gotten enough carries to be effective. Davis, who rushed for an SEC-best 1,322 yards in 2010, averaged only 63.7 yards per game in the Razorbacks first three contests. His 3.5 yards-per-carry average is a career low. “When you talk to a tailback, every one of them wants to run the ball a significant amount of times every game,” Flood said. “I know they’ve had a couple guys rotate through that position.” Senior Dennis Johnson has earned 16 carries this season, and Wildcat quarterback Brandon Mitchell’s presence likely took away touches from Davis. It could point to the Arkansas’ staff’s insistence on monitoring Davis’ workload. The 2010 first-team All-SEC
Senior Marcus Cooper is one of two Knights cornerbacks that is 6-foot-2. The coaching staff views secondary size as an asset. KEITH FREEMAN, SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
NO PLACE LIKE HOME The Rutgers field hockey team hosts No. 2 Syracuse and then Cornell a week after finishing 2-2 on its recent road trip. / PAGE 14
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OUT OF PLACE An ankle injury and depth at wide receiver prompt the Rutgers football team’s coaching staff to re-evaluate the role of junior Jeremy Deering, the Knights’ kick returner. / PAGE 15
SET FOR SUCCESS The Rutgers volleyball team begins Big East play against USF today riding a 12-match winning streak. / PAGE 14
SPORTS
QUOTE OF THE DAY “They have about five or six guys that can kill you at any given moment.” — Rutgers head men’s soccer coach Dan Donigan on Georgetown’s scoring threats
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
FOOTBALL RUTGERS-ARKANSAS, TOMORROW
TENNIS
Freshman Mariam Zein earns her first opportunity in tournament play. CONOR ALWELL, SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Senior linebacker Khaseem Greene combines with junior cornerback Logan Ryan to bring down South Florida’s B.J. Daniels in last Thursday’s 23-13 win. Arkansas quarterback Tyler Wilson presents a different matchup. ALEX VAN DRIESEN, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Wilson changes game’s outlook BY JOEY GREGORY ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
At the start of the season, the Rutgers football team’s chances, on paper, of winning tomorrow’s game against Arkansas would have been slim at best. The Razorbacks were the No. 8 team in the nation while the Scarlet Knights (3-0, 1-0) were one of seven unranked Big East teams.
But three weeks, two losses and one injured quarterback later, Arkansas (1-2) is looking much more conquerable than before. Of course, that injured quarterback — AllSEC quarterback Tyler Wilson — will play after he received medical clearance following yesterday’s practice. That changes the entire picture. “I would imagine that with [Wilson] on the field, they will be a completely different team,”
said head coach Kyle Flood. “He’s one of the elite quarterbacks in the country, a great challenge for our defense to defend him, and the weapons that they have.” The numbers back that up. Since Wilson suffered a concussion against Louisiana-Monroe, second-string quarterback Brandon Allen has totaled only 145 yards through the air. SEE
OUTLOOK ON PAGE 13
MEN’S SOCCER RUTGERS-GEORGETOWN, TOMORROW
Knights get second chance at top-10 opponent BY JOSH BAKAN ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
Facing Creighton on Sept. 2 showed the Rutgers men’s soccer team that the Scarlet Knights could hold the then-No. 2 team in the nation scoreless for 62 minutes, but they could still lose, 3-0. Creighton is now the seventh-ranked team, and Rutgers has gotten more on track by shutting out its last two opponents.
But those opponents were not of Creighton’s caliber, like No. 9 Georgetown, which Rutgers faces tomorrow in Washington, D.C. “It’s on the road to open up Big East conference play against one of the toughest teams in the countr y, so absolutely it’s a great measuring stick,” said head coach Dan Donigan. Rutgers’ (3-2) game against Georgetown (7-0-1) will display how far the Knights have come against an elite opponent.
The Knights tied Northern Illinois for allowing the most goals to Creighton this season, and the Hoyas’ offense is as difficult to defend. “They have about five or six guys that can kill you at any given moment,” Donigan said. “As soon as you have a mental lapse or anything to play of f of or a split second of hesitation, they’re going to get you.” SEE
CHANCE ON PAGE 13
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ASHLEY DECKERT finished second in the Monmouth Invitational on Saturday with a time of 18:31.7 to lead the Rutgers women’s cross country team for the second time this season.
Challengers await RU at Invitational BY MIKE MORTON CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Rutgers tennis team begins its tournament schedule this weekend when it competes in the Brown Invitational in Providence, R.I. The Scarlet Knights are one of six teams participating in the tournament, which includes Binghamton, Boston University, Boston College, Brown and Providence. Boston College and Brown each finished last year near the top of the Northeast Rankings. Head coach Ben Bucca is excited for the tournament, and feels the team is ready for the challenge. “I’m hopeful that we go to Brown where the competition is very strong and that they play well and play in a style that we have worked on at practice,” Bucca said. The Knights have been working hard in practice to prepare for the tournament. They have specifically been focusing on certain strategies for singles and doubles play to use for the tournament, Bucca said. “We’ve had a very strong two-and-a-half weeks of practice, and we’re now really starting to show signs of being ready to play strong competitive tennis,” Bucca said. The Brown Invitational also ser ves as the first oppor tunity for three incoming freshmen to compete in a collegelevel tournament. SEE
CHALLENGERS ON PAGE 13
RUTGERS SPORTS CALENDAR WOMEN’S GOLF
TENNIS
FIELD HOCKEY
WOMEN’S SOCCER
Yale Intercollegiate
Brown Invitational
vs. Syracuse
vs. South Florida
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Today Providence, R. I.
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Tonight, 7 p.m. Yurcak Field