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Director employs map technology to ease gas ration Geographical Information Systems play crucial role post-Sandy, professor says
Bhairavi Desai, co-founder and executive director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, explains how drivers still paid to lease their cabs even while they sat in a lot after Hurricane Sandy. The School of Managment and Labor Relations sponsored yesterday’s talk in the Labor Education Center on Douglass campus. CONOR ALWELL, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Alumna shares taxi drivers’ trials NY Taxi Workers Alliance director says drivers are 30 times more likely to be killed on job BY HANNAH SCHROER CORRESPONDENT
A taxi driver picked up a passenger on a Sunday night. As he loaded his passenger’s luggage into the trunk of the cab, an SUV struck him. His left leg was amputated, but he was eligible for disability, said Bhairavi Desai,
co-founder and executive director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, last night in the Labor Education Center on Douglass campus. Desai, a University alumna, co-founded the NYTWA to organize taxi drivers in New York City through media, political and grassroots campaigning with the people to drive their issues to light.
After 16-and-a-half years of organizing, the union won the fight to give drivers a living-wage increase, raising their pay about 40 percent, she said. The union was also able to send additional money directly to the drivers, she said. Desai said the union members usually ask her for things like bathrooms — or toilet paper for the bathroom — in dispatch waiting rooms and receipts for how much money the driver earns per shift, she said. SEE
Professor Rick Lathrop shows a map of areas Hurricane Irene and Sandy affected yesterday in the Cook Campus Center. SHAWN SMITH
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RHYME OR REASON George Moore, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, performs a theatrical reading of his original poem, which focused on his feelings toward his love interest last night in Murray Hall. Verbal Mayhem members invited students to share stories about how they survived Hurricane Sandy along with other disasters in their lives at their first November meeting. MARIELLE SUMERGIDO, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Aside from the tremendous damage Hurricane Sandy spread throughout the Northeast, commuters in New York and New Jersey in particular felt another post-Sandy impact at the pumps. As power became restored all over New Jersey and New York, lines formed at gas stations and people waited hours to fill up their tanks. Two days after Sandy hit, local geographic information system users utilized Mappler, a program aimed at sharing knowledge of station information, as well as wait times, said Joel Wattacheril, director of operations and community engagement at Vertices, LLC. The Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources sponsored a conference celebrating Geographic Awareness Day yesterday to show how technology in environmental, business and city planning is used, said Marcia Meixler, assistant professor in the department. “One of the ways it is used is figuring out how to get water to people,” she said. Speakers from different fields explained how they use geographical information systems on a daily basis, and some, like Wattacheril, connected geographical awareness to work during Hurricane Sandy’s aftermath. Wattacheril said by using geographic information systems along with Twitter, Facebook and group SEE
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CAMPUS CALENDAR Thursday, Nov. 15 Best-selling author Rebecca Skloot gives a lecture and book signing on her novel “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” at 7 p.m. at the College Ave Gym. This event is only open to the University community, alumni and invited guests. Rutgers Recreation hosts its 25th annual Trivia Bowl on history, science, sports, movies, pop culture and more at 8:30 p.m. at the Cook/Douglass Recreation Center Gym Annex. Check-in begins at 8 p.m., three people per team. Teams that pre-register online before Nov. 14 at bit.ly/RuRec_TriviaBowl_Signups receive 500 bonus points.no experience necessary.
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Panelists identify struggles LGBTQA community faces at work important to her that her partner of 19 years was ready to come out as well. Some of General Electric “It’s about safety, it’s about Healthcare’s employees shared comfort. You want to make sure their personal struggles with that you’re comfortable in every coming out in the workplace and way,” Bolyog said. “Nothing at home to show lesbian, gay, changed at work except for more bisexual, transgender, queer and of my freedom to talk about [my ally students soon entering the partner], to come in and talk work force they are not alone. about my weekends.” GE Healthcare co-sponsored, Debbie Cohen, senior scien“A Career Panel and Networking tist at GE Healthcare who started Event for LGBT and Ally the GLBTA Alliance, also shared Students,” which included a her experience of coming out at panel discussion of issues sexual work and at home. minorities face in the workplace “It’s a struggle because the confrom LGBTQA employees. sequences are unknown, and the The University’s chapter of Out fear takes over,” in Science, Cohen said. “And Te c h n o l o g y, then it became ‘you “I want to make Engineering and know what, I’m Mathematics sure that people get tired of this fear. It’s organized the event consuming me.’” insights that Tuesday night in Greg Sobol, the Douglass career manager I didn’t have.” Campus Center for specialist at Career TERI BOLYOG LGBTQA students Services who modGlobal Director of Quality who are pursuing a erated the discusManagement at General Electric career in the relatsion, asked paned fields. elists how their Teri Bolyog, identities affected global director of quality managetheir job searches after college. ment at GE, said she struggled as Sharice Richardson, assistant a member of the LGBTQA comdean for first-year students in the munity when she was younger. School of Environmental and “I want to make sure that peoBiological Sciences, said ple get insights that I didn’t LGBTQA students sometimes have,” Bolyog said. “I think that’s have to deal with employees who really important in the GLBTA assume they are straight or their [gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgenown fears of exclusion upon them der and ally] or any community.” finding out the truth. Bolyog said when she came “There are a specific set of out in the workplace, it was issues and circumstances that
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Some General Electric Healthcare employees share stories of coming out in the workplace Tuesday night at the Douglass Campus Center. ENRICO CABREDO, SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER are a little bit different for a student who is LGBTQA when they’re looking for jobs or internships,” Richardson said. Bolyog said all the interactions before the initial handshake during an interview, such as emails or phone conversations, can affect whether a candidate is eliminated. At the end of the panel, speakers answered questions students had about their own struggles and fears of whether they should indicate their sexu-
ality on an application for a job or an internship. Students also had the opportunity to speak one-on-one with the employees afterwards. Bolyog said GE believes in having a diverse workplace, which fosters varied thought processes within people working alongside each other. “It’s so much better to have a multitude of diversity culturally,” Bolyog said. “We want to make sure that we remain diverse, that
we have opinions from all around, so we could get the best products out.” Jackie Alencewicz, co-president of oSTEM, said as an exercise science major, she finds it difficult to find science-based corporations that are pro-LGBTQA. “I’m not going to be limited in my options. ... GE is not outright a sport [company], but I figured, why not?” said Alencewicz, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore.
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Group highlights women’s empowerment through film Event creates dialogue on gender equality BY JONATHAN DAVID CONTRIBUTING WRITER
With inspiration from a Chinese proverb, GlobeMed at Rutgers University has brought the “Half the Sky” movement to campus to bring attention to women’s roles on a global scale. The event’s title derives from a Chinese proverb that says, “women hold up half the sky,” said Sai Khisty, a GlobeMed global health university coordinator. She said it is important for men to realize this, but more so for women to recognize how much power they actually hold. “It’s the women themselves not understanding ... how important they are to the functioning of the world, and they don’t understand that,” she said. “It’s the message to them that you’re strong, you hold up half the globe, and without you we collapse.” Khisty, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, said through flyers and social media, the organization hosted a screening of “Half the Sky,” a documentary that offers a different lens through which to view women’s rights Tuesday night at the Cook Campus Center. “Sometimes the most effective way isn’t just to talk at [students] but to have them experience it for themselves, so we thought that a documentar y would be the perfect way to do it,” Khisty said.
Ann Graham, professor in the Edward Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, compared her college experiences with “Half the Sky,” a documentary that values women’s roles in today’s society Tuesday at the Cook Campus Center. NELSON MORALES, SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER “Half the Sky” used examples like sex trafficking in Cambodia, rape in Sierra Leone and education in Vietnam to illustrate how women’s rights issues play a role globally. Ann Graham, a professor in the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, linked her own experience as a college
student in the 1960s to the message of the documentary. She said people have such an advantage now because they understand and more importantly discuss issues such as rape, unequal pay and sexism, which were considered taboo decades ago. But Christina Lee, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year stu-
dent, said the United States has a long way to go to resolve this issue. “As much as we would like to believe ... there still isn’t gender equality in the workforce or at home, so it’s kind of an eye-opener, and it’s not just a problem in Southeast Asia or the Middle East, it’s also a problem at home,” she said.
Graham said women who live in third-world countries have a hard time voicing their concerns in public because of the harsh backlash they could receive from men and their husbands. The issue boils down to a struggle for power, she said. Kevin Xie, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, said he found watching the documentary beneficial. As a University student, he said the film gave him a sense of what life is like outside of the United States. “Here at Rutgers, we don’t get to see outside of it much, and this is kind of like our portal into Southeast Asia,” he said. Selena Suhail-Sindhu, co-president of GlobeMed, said if given the chance, she would share this experience with the entire University community. “We’re privileged getting an education, and we have a responsibility to stand up for women everywhere who aren’t as privileged as we are,” said Suhail-Sindhu, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “I think that everyone has a stake in this as well.” Suhail-Sindhu said women’s issues are important to understand today because the only way real change can take effect is if people pick up the conversation and not let gender discrimination go unnoticed and unpunished. “One of the [writers] of this movie says the issue in the 19th centur y was slaver y, the issue in the 20th centur y was totalitarianism, and the issue that we’re facing is violence and discrimination against women,” she said.
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Of all the taxi drivers in New York, 94 percent are immigrants, she said. “So much I learned about Immigrant workers dominate community and fighting for the top 10 most dangerous and change and, you know, walking top 10 lowest paying jobs in the that walk, comes from [the country, she said. University],” Desai said. Taxi drivers are 30 times Desai emigrated from India in more likely to be killed on the 1979 and grew up in a small New job, but there is no special initiaJersey town. Her mom was a factive to protect taxi drivers in New tor y worker, and her father York City, she said. worked in a bodega. Unless the alliance tries to Even as a child, Desai knew change these facts, these condithat if her mom worked for a tions could begin to affect other union, she would get medical industries, Desai said. care if she were injured on the “If you really want to raise up job, she said. the ceiling, you have to raise up Desai said she always underthe floor,” she said. stood women as a class, and they Desai said the alliance is fightwere the first class she felt alleing to get a sticker giance to. placed on taxis Immigrant declaring fines women of color did “I’ve never had and imprisonment not get due a year where I didn’t for assaulting the respect, Desai driver, but has said. She was not have to go met resistance interested in jointo a funeral or an from taxi compaing a movement where she would emergency room.” nies and government officials. not be respected, BHAIRAVI DESAI “It’s just a she said. Director of the sticker and you’d After graduatNew York Taxi Workers Alliance think, what’s the ing with a degree big deal? It’s just in women’s and a damn sticker,” she said. gender studies, she entered the The anti-violence sticker industr y in 1996 shortly after aims to protect workers, but graduating college and began resisters claim the alliance does approaching drivers about not do enough to protect them, organizing. The union now has she said. more than 15,000 members, “Essentially, the idea of safety, she said. the idea that someone should be “It was the graciousness of protected … shouldn’t be a polititaxi drivers to engage me in concal issue,” she said. “What should versation to want to organize, to matter is that a crime occurred.” want to unionize,” she said. Working people are the Though union members are engine of the U.S. economy, makfrom 100 different countries, ing it the richest country in the they all speak the same lanworld, Desai said. guage, she said. Though it only gets talked Desai said more New York about after disasters like City taxi drivers are independHurricane Sandy, poor people ent contractors than before, payshow resilience ever y day of ing money out of pocket every their lives, Desai said. day to rent a taxicab and a “If you believe in justice you medallion, the serial number on fight for it wherever you are,” she top of cabs that shows the vehisaid. “The battleground is cle is operating with a citybeneath your feet.” issued permit. Emily Najjar, a School of Arts Workers begin each day in the and Sciences junior, said Desai’s red and have to pay the company message opened her eyes to the back before taking home any overrepresentation of immigrant profit, so they bear the brunt of workers as stealing jobs. the industr y when times are Najjar said she had been ignohard, she said. rant to the number of assaults on “It’s a story that doesn’t get taxi drivers. told,” she said. “That was pretty disappointDesai said drivers whose ing to hear,” she said. “It’s pretty houses were destroyed or who scary, actually.” were unable to get to work Abena Busia, chair of the because of Hurricane Sandy Department of Women’s and were still responsible for paying Gender Studies, said it is the lease on a car that was sitting empowering to see how Desai in the lot. managed to organize a male“We’ve had members who’ve dominated industry. had to pay $80 just to fuel up for Busia said it was striking their shift. The bosses are able how Desai illustrated working to take all [their] expenses and conditions. She said no one conput them on the backs of the siders how leasing affects dridrivers,” she said, adding that vers’ incomes or how long their drivers have to pay for fuel out shift has been when they get of pocket. into a taxi. After Sept. 11, people “I confess, I haven’t thought slashed tires on taxicabs and about it to that degree,” Busia said. targeted immigrant drivers She said Desai has the because they looked different, passion to make a change and but even before, violence brilliantly highlighted the comtoward taxi drivers was compassion of men to accept her mon, she said. into the industr y as a path to “I’ve been organizing in this social justice. industry for 17 years,” she said. “I think a lot of us learned to “I’ve never had a year where I see the world differently didn’t have to go to a funeral or [tonight],” Busia said. an emergency room.”
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WORLD BRIEFS BEIJING — Months of sharp behind-the-scenes jostling reach a climax yesterday with the announcement of a new Chinese leadership that almost regardless of its makeup is likely to be much like the one it replaces: divided, deliberative and weak. All but officially announced, Xi Jinping is expected to head the new leadership as Communist Party chief, joined by Li Keqiang, the presumptive prime minster, in a choreographed succession that began five years ago when the two were anointed as successors. Alongside them at the apex of power, the Politburo Standing Committee, will be a handful of senior politicians drawn from top positions in the provinces and bureaucracies. Their ascent was nudged along yesterday when a weeklong party congress closed by naming Xi, Li and the other leading candidates to the Central Committee, a 205-member body that appoints the new leadership yesterday. WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi last night about rocket attacks being launched from Gaza into Israel and escalating violence in the Gaza Strip. The White House said Obama reiterated U.S. support for Israel’s right to self-defense from rocket attacks being launched against its civilians and urged Israel to “make every effort to avoid civilian casualties” in its response. Israel carried out a blistering offensive of more than 50 airstrikes in the Gaza Strip yesterday, assassinating Hamas’ military commander in the most intense attack on the territory in nearly four years. Israel said the airstrikes, launched in response to days of rocket fire out of Hamas-ruled Gaza, were the beginning of a broader operation against Islamic militants. Israeli defense officials said a ground operation was a strong possibility in the coming days though they stressed no decisions had been made. Obama and Netanyahu agreed Hamas needs to stop its attacks on Israel to allow tensions to ease, the White House said. TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — U.S. officials are demanding answers after learning soldiers who were trained, vetted and equipped by the U.S. government chased down and killed a 15-yearold boy in Honduras, a country plagued by crime where the U.S. is already withholding tens of millions of dollars in police and militar y aid due to concerns about human rights violations. Ebed Yanes was killed the night of May 26 after driving through a military checkpoint. His father, Wilfredo Yanes, a mildmannered organic food supplier, tracked down the soldiers, eventually uncovering an allegedly highlevel attempt to hide evidence. Further, his quest led to new information reported this week that the unit in question was supported by the U.S. “The incident with Ebed Yanes was a tragedy and we urge the Honduran government to assure the perpetrators are brought to justice,” State Department press adviser William Ostick said yesterday. — The Associated Press
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terns and trends, which may not be apparent when looking at raw data. The University offers the App charts stations with power, gas Environmental Geomatics certifion map after hurricane cate program, which is a 19-credit program designed to give stutially created by [youth commudents an understanding and CONTINUED FROM FRONT nity mapping initiative] IMSOworking knowledge of remote CIO [students] to create safe sensing and GIS technology. chats, University undergraduates walking routes to local elemenRick Lathrop, a professor from worked with students from tary schools in Somerset.” the Center for Remote Sensing Franklin Township High School Michael Hsu, a and Spatial to create the gas station map School of Arts and Analysis, spoke after Hurricane Sandy. Sciences senior, about how GIS “We were using new technolo“We started out said GIS is essenwas used after gy to gather data and get gas statrying to help tial for students Hurricane Sandy tion information,” he said. “We who are looking to to create pre and even created a smartphone applilocally, and it go into fields relatpost maps of cation so station information could turned into ing to ecology, affected areas on be updated from anywhere.” evolution and natthe Jersey shore. Wattacheril said FEMA and something ural resources. “We developed Google contacted him to create a “Use of GIS is a Mid-Atlantic porcrisis map of affected areas and to incredible.” growing rapidly tal, using interachelp spread gas station statuses. JOEL WATTACHERIL with applications tive mapping to Information gathered includDirector of Operations and in many different get information ed whether a station was open, Community Engagement fields, ranging out to a much current wait times, how many at Vertices, LLC from urban planwider audience gallons were left and if the station ning and crime that may not be had full power or was running off mapping to natural resource and GIS savvy,” he said. “It is also a generator, he said. wildlife management,” he said. used to drive off-shore renewable “We started out trying to help Hsu said GIS mapping allows energy, like wind energy, as well locally, and it turned into someresearchers to visualize and examas being used for recreational thing incredible,” he said. “The ine geographical data to reveal patactivities like off-shore fishing.” technology that was used was ini-
Lathrop used GIS to show a map of the Jersey shore, with an update of highlighted areas showing flooded areas as a result of both Hurricane Irene and Sandy’s destruction. Patricia Ingelido, principal environmental specialist from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, said GIS is used by the NJDEP to maintain surface water quality standards throughout the state. “Different areas have different standards and we are able to monitor them all,” she said. “We use a biological monitoring network to classify a stream’s health, whether it is good or poor or unknown.” Ingelido said the NJDEP also uses GIS to monitor the Total Maximum Daily Load of water resources, or how much pollutant the water body is able to hold while still maintaining quality standards. Pollutants include nitrogen and phosphorous, which are used more during the growing season than any other time of the year. “Every stream is different, so we look at each one differently,” she said. “We also look at each pollutant differently.”
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resident from Sewell, N.J., has recently proposed that the state of New Jersey secede from the rest of the country. According to nj.com, the man has filed the petition with the White House’s “We the People” website in order for New Jersey to “peacefully grant the State of New Jersey to withdraw from the United States of America to create its own NEW government.” We haven’t talked to the guy, but this seems to us like a pretty awful idea. It’s funny to imagine anyone seriously wanting to divorce an entire state from its parent country, but the idea seems to have become somewhat of a trend following the 2012 general election. All 50 states have filed petitions to secede from the United States, with some gaining some serious attention. Texas, for example, has more than 100,000 e-votes backing its
own petition. Somewhat less impressive, New Jersey has about 11,000. While such petitions warrant little credibility in our opinion, they do help to underline the increasingly divisive nature on American politics. The outpouring of negative response in the form of petitions like these and via social media outlets like Twitter following this year’s election all point to a population too intimately attached to its political sphere. The appointment of a country’s leaders should serve to unite, not divide. The good news is New Jersey’s petition still has 13,000 signatures to go, so residents need not worry too much (if they ever did). We wish the N.J. petition to secede a slow, ultimately unsuccessful passage, and advise its author to find a more productive way to make use of his frustration.
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or the third time in less than two months, downtown New Brunswick has ser ved as the locale of yet another violent killing, after a 24year-old city resident named Joshua Negron was shot to death Monday night near Hale Street. It’s obvious to us that the increased occurrence of extreme violence in these locations should ser ve as a wake-up call to city administrators and local police forces to increase super vision of the city’s most dangerous areas. The shooting is the eighth homicide this year in New Brunswick. In early October, a community college student was shot and killed in the basement of an off-campus resident on Robinson Street. Less than a week later, a 21-year-old North Brunswick woman was fatally injured less than a block west of where this week’s shooting to place. What’s most concerning about Monday night’s shooting then is its close proximity to other recent killings along Hale Street. On Saturday — just two days before Monday’s shooting — a New Brunswick teen was stabbed to death just feet from the spot Negron fell. These incidents, together with the shooting that took place in October, paint this section of
New Brunswick as a hotbed for violent acts and conspicuous behavior. We’re then forced to question why, with hardly two days passed, a second shooting was allowed to take place in the exact same place. Clearly, measures can be taken to crack down on the circumstances under which acts like this occur. In the case of Negron, reports of people gathering at the intersection of Remsen and Hale in the moments preceding the incident seem to infer a lack of adequate patrol by city authorities. The shooting may not have been entirely random, as Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan noted in a statement — but that should by no means discredit its seriousness. While we’re ready to grant that the occurrence of certain shootings are invariable in a city like New Brunswick, preventative steps must be taken in the future to ensure that such violence is limited. Community watch groups, along with greater surveillance of the areas, could do much to combat the possibility of violent crime taking place. Civic engagement from surrounding communities can help in this way as well. In the end, we hope that incidents like these do not go unattended, either by New Brunswick authorities or by their surrounding communities.
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Polarization in the media “right/left” language is unapologetically pointed to the U.S. political climate, especially considering that it was released during election season. Maker’s Mark whiskey has SALLY REISCH rallied the people to come together for the “Cocktail Party.” The n my last column, “False ad features two pundits, choices for sale,” I explored Democrat James Car ville and the use of false choice as an Republican Mary Matalin, comadvertising technique. I argued ing together in favor of the that perpetuating false choice has “Cocktail Party.” Matalin says, detrimental effects on the health “It’s not about the Democratic of the nation because it puts viewParty.” Carville responds, “It’s ers in a state of false dichotomy. not about the Republican Party.” In this week’s column, I will Together, they declare, “It’s inhabit another realm of choice in about the cocktail party.” The the consumer culture. This is the implications are heartbreakingly culture industry’s exploitation of cynical — if this past election our polarized political climate. I pushed me to do anything it was believe it is even more dangerous to make my way to the bar to to us than we are to ourselves. drown my sorrows. I guess I’ve The trending topic of many casted my vote for Maker’s Mark social media sites this week india few times since I turned 21, cates that all 50 states in the union most recently at Makeda have active petitions to secede. I’m Restaurant downtown, on the not particularly worried, because rocks. I didn’t realize I was fulfillthese petitions are just another ing my civic duty. expression of the sentiment, “I’m Lastly, anyone who stepped moving to Canada if candidate X is into a 7-Eleven in the past month elected.” I hear it every four years. knows that they became “7However, it is no Election” in secret that the the spirit of “The trending topic of d e m o c r a c y. United States is as polarized drinkers many social media sites Soft now as it was could choose before the Civil this week indicates that between an War. Market or all 50 states in the union Obama research, just Romney cup, like Pew polls, and 7-Eleven have active petitions most likely tallied the to secede.” show that the votes. Winnation is dividwin: Pick your ed. And the culcandidate, ture industry has made its decision: sport your support. Apparently Let’s get in on this. Obama won. In discussing this Mike & Ike candy has rolled with a friend, I found myself askout its new brand: Mike vs. Ike. ing, what’s the difference The story goes that Mike and Ike between this and the real elechave seceded from the union of tion? What’s in the cup? Should Mike & Ike because Mike likes it matter? music and Ike likes art. You can’t This is the sad truth. There is make this up. This is the source some link between money, of their irreconcilable differpower, spending and voting. ences. Now, the packaging shows These companies are exploiting “Mike” or “Ike” crossed out. The the atmosphere, which is toxic to aesthetic affect of the packaging our union and to the progress of is hostile because it looks like our nation. In the wake of vandalism. No coincidence. Who Hurricane Sandy, we saw Gov. hasn’t had thoughts of vandalizChris Christie “reach across the ing Obama or Romney signs preaisle” to Obama. The gesture 2012 election? (For the record, I meant a lot to the weary. definitely haven’t.) I don’t think the consumer Another politically polarized culture necessarily has a responadvertisement comes out of the sibility to repair what our political new Twix ad campaign, which system has broken. However, involves a story of two brothers these examples show the ways in in competition with one another. which the consumer culture From what I can tell from the injures our political body and our online ad, they roll out the Twix national spirit. In this union, we prototype in ancient steampunk are pitted against each other. industrial times, only to break it Who will help us? into two. It starts a feud. They set up opposing factories. It’s cute Sally Reisch is a School of Arts because Twix doesn’t hide the and Sciences junior majoring in fact that the “left” Twix and English with a minor in philosophy. “right” Twix share the exact Her column, “Miss Lonelyhearts,” same formula. Regardless, the runs on alternate Thursdays.
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Today's Birthday (11/15/12). Get your priorities straight. Step into a bigger level game. Double-check travel arrangements, and send launch news after 11/26. New possibilities and perspectives unveil themselves after the Winter Solstice. Career rises steadily through next June, when an educational opportunity beckons. To get the advantage, check the day's rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging. Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is an 8 — Establish a new regimen. There are excellent party conditions, but you may have to wait. Compromise and careful word choice are required. Not everyone is ready to boogie yet. Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 6 — Share, but don't give it all away. You'll need some later. Private time is more productive; gracefully minimize interruptions. Resist spending for the time being. Relax and recharge. Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Today is an 8 — Get a feel for the balance of new tools. Make adjustments to your schedule, and accept a nice benefit. Controversy could arise. You're gaining respect. Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Today is a 7 — Schedule carefully. It looks good for a romantic excursion; go ahead and profess your love. Enjoy your surroundings. There is no shortage of benefits. Expand your field of vision. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 9 — Save more than you spend. See what you can do without. Get help from a strong partner. A female makes interesting dessert. Your popularity is growing. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 9 — There is less than expected. The more you learn, the better you look. Avoid making an avoidable error. The end result provides substantial gain. Love grows, along with other benefits.
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Junior linebacker Jamal Merrell tackles an Army ball carrier in Rutgers’ 28-7 victory. Merrell has a career-high 62 tackles. YEE ZHSIN BOON
ATHLETICISM Junior extends reach to special teams this season with two blocked kicks CONTINUED FROM BACK He credits film study and attempting to learn everything he can about the position, especially from the players around him. Those players have taken notice. “There was a point that I had to tell him every call on the field, “Beauharnais said. “Now he just does it on his own. He took it upon himself to go in the offseason and sit in the film room and study himself. Obviously it pays off.” But there are some things Merrell cannot learn in the film room. Some aspects of the position can only be learned on the field in live action. Luckily for Merrell, he has two award-nominated veterans to provide the support he needs. “They congratulate me when I do well, but when I mess up they get on me,” Merrell said. “They’re just pushing me to stay true to what I do and keep playing well.” Merrell may not be the prototypical linebacker in terms of body type with a more lean physique. But Beauharnais said that is not an issue, because Merrell has other physical tools that allow him to work around that. “For such a skinny guy, he’s really physical,” he said. “Even if he makes a mistake, his speed definitely can make up for it.” Beauharnais said now that Merrell knows his position so well, those mistakes are few and far between. His production is not limited to defense and tackling, either. Merrell’s jumping ability and long reach have yielded
him a niche on special teams, which he has turned into five career blocked kicks and punts. “Just to be able to be on defense and be a contributor alongside [Beauharnais and Greene] and then to go to special teams and also be a contributor, it just shows who I am,” Merrell said. “I don’t look at anything less. I just take my opportunities and make the best of them.” The recognition of Merrell’s improvement is not limited to players. Coaches have shown faith in Merrell by starting him every game and leaving him in for the vast majority of plays, including his role on special teams. “Jamal has been extremely productive on defense,” said head coach Kyle Flood. “He’s done a good job in terms of playing the run. He’s done an excellent job on special teams blocking kicks for us. Jamal is … a ver y valuable guy on the team.” But all of this does not mean Merrell reached his peak. He is, after all, only in his second season as a linebacker after transitioning from wide receiver. “Me and my brother [junior defensive tackle Jamil Merrell] always say we haven’t seen anything yet,” Merrell said. “We have so much more to learn. I’m just trying to learn more each day. I always tell myself I’m not done yet. I’m going to keep getting better.” For updates on the Rutgers football team, follow Joey Gregory on Twitter @JGregoryTargum.
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WIN Rutgers captures first home victory despite high turnover total CONTINUED FROM BACK from the right wing to put the team up, 54-52. Turnovers plagued Rutgers for the second straight game, allowing the Colonials to keep the game close. The Knights turned the ball over 16 times in the first half alone, allowing George Washington eight points off of the mishandles. They finished with 27 turnovers, surpassing the 25 they had in an opening game against No. 10 Georgia. Rutgers also could not find its range from behind the arc, going 0-for-5 from 3-point territor y. With 4:30 left to play, senior for ward Chelsey Lee got the Knights back in the game after a turnaround shot from point blank range, cutting George Washington’s lead to 47-45. The basket gave Rutgers some momentum to pull out the victor y. “I think we just as a unit, just tried to stay focused,” Lee said. “We just tried to stay focused and not lose control of the game.”
A backdoor pass form Oliver set up the winning shot from the floor. The frontcourt duo hopes to have more connections like that as the season progresses. “We definitely look for each other, especially when it’s crunch time,” Oliver said. “So I just tried to patient, and I got it into her.” Lee saw the crucial play as a sigh of relief that they were able to be on the same page at a ver y impor tant time in the game. They are still getting accustomed to one another after Lee sat out the 2011-2012 season following shoulder surger y, but the play was a good sign for the team. “Sometimes I think I make blind passes just thinking that Monique is going to catch them,” Lee said. “I knew she would be looking for me, so I think that was just one of the moments where we were just in sync with one another.” Rutgers rebounded in the second half of play after George Washington went on a 7-0 run, led by Shi-Heria Shipp, with 14 minutes remaining. Shipp scored six of the seven unanswered points for the Colonials. The Knights entered the locker room with a slight advantage at 24-20. Freshman guard Kahleah Copper ignited the Knights offensively, leading
Senior guard Erica Wheeler secured Rutgers’ victory last night by hitting two free throws with eight seconds left. Wheeler scored six points overall. NELSON MORALES, SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER the team with six first-half points and finishing the night with 10. Rutgers was sluggish to open up the game until a fast break layup and continuing free throw from Oliver with nine minutes remaining in the opening half gave the Knights a
three-point lead, their first of the game. Head coach C. Vivian Stringer was pleased to see the Knights come away with the first victory of the season at home, but she was not thrilled by the fashion. Turnovers cannot continue to be a constant for the team, she said.
“Well, I wish it would’ve been and could’ve been much cleaner,” Stringer said. “But again, this is some things that we learned. Each game I’m looking to see different people and how they function in crucial situations and understand what it is that we want.”
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Werneke, who completed his fifth year at the helm, saw the players make additions to the program’s record books and recognitions by the Big East several times. Senior setter Stephanie Zielinski claimed sole possession of second place on the all-time assists list with 4,255. Classmate Alex Jones moved into 10th all time on the career kills list, recording 917 during her four years. Freshman Sarah Schmid ended her first season third on the single-season hitting percentage list with a .355 mark. Zielinski represented the squad multiple times on the Big East Honor Roll during the year, being acknowledged four times this season and seven overall. Under Wer neke’s leadership, the Knights clinched their best season since he joined the program. Rutgers
went on a season-high 14match win streak that ranged from a win against Fordham on the road Aug. 29 through a Sept. 15 victor y against Penn. The Knights graduate four seniors and prepare to move on with a core of young players that have shown signs of growth and productivity. Werneke is ready to see what the future has in store, but is also grateful for where the program has come since he took over. “We often talk about the journey and not the destination,” Werneke said. “Any journey is worth it once you get to the destination. I always tell the team that it’s a great journey and we’re going to get there. … So that’s just going to catapult us as something we’re going to use this spring as a footprint for next year and for the years to come. It’s no going to change.”
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Senior setter Stephanie Zielinski registered 1,342 assists in her final year, claiming second on all-time career list in the process. CONOR ALWELL, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
good things are going to happen. Lately, we’ve done that.” Werneke sees the program’s success as a progression, starting with the Knights’ success in out-of-conference matches. “This year, it all came together,” Werneke said. “Part of it is, we had to learn how to win outside of conference and starting out 14-1, the best start in program histor y, and we did that. We learned how to win outside of conference. Before you can learn how to win inside the conference, you have to learn how to win outside of the conference.”
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Mixed experiences prepare QB Nova BY TYLER BARTO SPORTS EDITOR
Gary Nova has appeared in 19 games, started 14 of them and faced eight different Big East teams in two years. But the Rutgers football team’s sophomore quarterback cautions against calling himself a veteran. “I’m still only 19 years old,” he said yesterday. Nova will have to play like one Saturday, when Cincinnati marks the beginning of a critical threegame stretch to end the Scarlet Knights’ season. He has turned the ball over nine times in the Knights’ last three games, including six interceptions in a 35-23 loss Oct. 27 to Kent State.
One, a first-half-ending interception Oct. 20 at Temple, was inconsequential. But Nova had nine giveaways in a three-game stretch in 2011, and then-sophomore backup Chas Dodd took over. “I feel like I’ve been through pretty much ever y situation,” Nova said. “I’ve gotten through it in some way, and I feel pretty good out here.” The confidence stems from the Knights’ coaching staff, which still places a lot of offensive responsibility on Nova. He makes check-downs, aligns teammates and trusts offensive coordinator Dave Brock. “He won’t put us in bad situations on Saturdays,” Nova said.
Nova threw only 17 passes last week against Army, his lowest total of the season. A season-opening 20-pass per formance at Tulane came closest to that output. The figure could change Saturday. Cincinnati, which leads the Big East with 34.2 points per game, is the fourth top-45 offense nationally Rutgers faces this season. The other three — Arkansas, Army and Syracuse — provided mixed results in terms of indirect effect on Nova’s production. For example, Nova threw a combined 40 times against Army and Syracuse. He nearly topped that with 35 attempts against Arkansas alone.
“If it turns into a shootout, that’s a quarterback’s dream — I always say that — going back and forth,” Nova said. “We’re more than capable of doing it.” Rutgers has twice surpassed Cincinnati’s pergame scoring average. But it has only been necessar y twice, when the team allowed a combined 61 points to Arkansas and Kent State. Excluding the two results, the Knights have surrendered an average of nearly 8.5 points per game, decreasing the likelihood of high outputs from Nova. But head coach Kyle Flood said other intangibles matter as much as production.
“When you go on the road late in the year against a good football team like Cincinnati,” Flood said, “you need a quarterback in the huddle who has tremendous composure, tremendous confidence in himself and the people around him.”
SENIOR MARCUS COOPER credits his relationship with defensive coordinator Robb Smith — along with a host of factors — in his development as an every-down cornerback. Smith ser ved as special teams coordinator last year and worked with the Knights’ cornerbacks in 2010. “It definitely played a significant part in my improvement,” Cooper said. “I’ve already had a connection with him established as a special teams player. We have an understanding already.” Cooper, a former wide receiver, became a de-facto starter this season, playing interchangeably with classmate Brandon Jones. He is second among Knights corners with 29 tackles, moves outside in three-receiver packages and blocked a field goal against Army. “I want to be the best at everything I do,” Cooper said, “so that’s a pretty easy thing to carry over.”
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of future games will not enter his decision making with sophomore running back Jawan Jamison, who is questionable for Saturday’s game. Jamison left practice early yesterday for the training room and did not practice earlier in the week. He is second in the Big East this season with 953 rushing yards. “We are not thinking about anything other than the Cincinnati game,” Flood said. “It won’t be a situation where we keep a guy out because the next game is coming.”
Sophomore Gary Nova throws a pass at the line of scrimmage to wide receiver Brandon Coleman on Saturday in a 28-7 victory against Army. Nova has turned the ball over nine times in the team’s last three games. YEE ZHSIN BOON
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WRESTLING SMITH TRAINS WITH FORMER NCAA QUALIFIER
Year off provides development for heavyweight BY BRADLY DERECHAILO CORRESPONDENT
Scott Goodale got a taste of what Billy Smith’s opponents go through ever y time they grapple with the heavyweight on the mat. The Rutgers head wrestling coach went against the redshirt freshman in practice Tuesday, a bout that featured an instructor doing his best to corral a 19-yearold only starting to scratch the surface of his potential. Smith liked his coach’s energy. “Goodale likes to ride a little funky stuff [on the mat] and likes to go on top of me to try and get me down,” Smith laughed. “He’s a good workout.” While Goodale is one of the fitter coaches around, he was a little gassed when describing Smith.
“Not good for me, not good for me,” Goodale said. “He’s a horse.” Wrestling at around 250 pounds, Smith faced an opponent more his size in Phil Catrucco during the Scarlet Knights’ first dual match against Clarion. He had little trouble with him, either. The Wantage, N.J., native registered two takedowns against Catrucco en route to a 6-1 win in his first-career dual start, controlling most of the match. Goodale felt Smith was capable of that performance last season, straight out of High Point (N.J.) High School. With the graduation of one of the top heavyweights in program history in D.J. Russo in 2011, the temptation to plug Smith in right away was always there. But Goodale knew Smith
needed an extra year to develop, so he redshirted him knowing it might have an effect on the team’s performance. “We probably would have been better if he was in our lineup and would have had a better record and won a lot of matches, but a lot of this is an individual sport,” Goodale said. “For him, he needed that year to prepare, be around some of the guys and see how we compete.” Smith could not agree more with the decision. “It was really important,” Smith said. “I was physically and mentally immature last year. That one year really helps you grow up a bit. It really wasn’t up to me, but I’m glad I did.” Smith is now a fixture in Goodale’s lineup this season, but his development is far from over.
While Goodale tries his best to handle Smith in practice, he has a familiar face to give his heavyweight a more even match. “We have to bring D.J. in here,” Goodale said. “Those two have been going at it and those two have been really good for each other.” Russo, a former NCAA qualifier and holder of 104 career wins at Rutgers, comes in twice a week to work with Smith on his technique. The way Russo works Smith is something Smith credits for getting him ready for wrestlers that may be bigger than him. “It’s just one-on-one with him compared to an open practice,” Smith said. “It is a lot of one-onone attention with D.J., someone who has competed in national tournaments. He is a really funky wrestler, so he really helps me
become more athletic with these bigger guys.” And while grappling with him in practice may be difficult at times, Goodale sees in Smith’s work ethic no reason why he will not have a successful season. But Smith still has a whole season — and career — ahead of him. “That’s my expectation — for him to get better every day and be there in March at the end of the year at the national tournament,” Goodale said. “That being said, there is a process. He has to take the process seriously and get better every day.” For updates on the Rutgers wrestling team, follow Bradly Derechailo on Twitter @BradlyDTargum
COMING OUT PARTY Freshman heavyweight Billy
SILVER LINING Despite ending the season without a Big
TRIAL BY ERROR Sophomore Gary
Smith is ready for a starting role for the Rutgers wrestling team after taking a redshirt season to develop his technique. / PAGE 19
East Tournament berth, the Rutgers volleyball team had a number of players earn league honors and move up all-time record lists. / PAGE 14
Nova of the Rutgers football team does not consider himself a veteran quarterback yet. / PAGE 15
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QUOTE OF THE DAY “[Head coach Scott] Goodale likes to ride a little funky stuff [on the mat].” — Redshirt freshman heavyweight Billy Smith on Goodale’s wrestling style
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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL RUTGERS 56, GEORGE WASHINGTON 52
FOOTBALL
Linebacker’s athleticism yields results BY JOEY GREGORY ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
Senior center Monique Oliver earned her first double-double of the year in last night’s 56-52 win against George Washington. Oliver totaled a game-high 20 points and 10 rebounds in Rutgers’ first win of the season. CONOR ALWELL, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Late free throws seal win for Knights BY AARON FARRAR CORRESPONDENT
Senior guard Erica Wheeler iced the game with two free throws with eight seconds remaining and the Rutgers women’s basketball team grabbed its first win of the season in its home opener last night,
defeating George Washington, 56-52. The Scarlet Knights (1-1) narrowly escaped after a battle that went back and forth the entire way, managing to be too much for the Colonials (1-1). Senior forward Monique Oliver led the way with a game-high 20 points and 10 rebounds in the victory.
Wheeler went to the free-throw line with the game on the line and delivered for Rutgers. The Miami native nailed both shots and gave the Knights a four-point lead to win the contest. With less than two minutes remaining, Oliver drained a wide-open jumper SEE
Senior linebacker Steve Beauharnais is not shy about the talent among his position group. “This is the best linebacker corps we ever had in Rutgers history,” he said. But the Rutgers football team’s second level did have one question mark at the beginning of the season. Beauharnais was set to begin his third full season as a starter in the middle and classmate Khaseem Greene was fresh off winning Big East Co-Defensive Player of the Year honors at weakside linebacker. But junior Jamal Merrell was not quite as proven. He played nearly a full season at linebacker, but had not gained nearly the notoriety his battery mates did. So he had to improve his game, and it started with his playing style. “In the past, I played conser vative. I tried to play too fast, I was thinking too much,” Merrell said. “Now, I know the system 100 percent. I devoted myself to film, I devoted myself to studying ever y day.” It has paid off. Through nine games this season, Merrell has 62 tackles, 18 more than he compiled all of last season.
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VOLLEYBALL LEAGUE PLAYOFF BIRTH REMAINS FUTURE GOAL FOR YOUNG ROSTER
Struggles in Big East play prevent RU from goal BY AARON FARRAR CORRESPONDENT
A 14-match winning streak, seven sweeps and a young core that contributed were a few accomplishments achieved by the Rutgers volleyball team during the 2012 season. Although the Scarlet Knights fell short in clinching their goal of a Big East Tournament bid, they took steps in the right direction. The Knights (18-12, 4-11) finished the year by losing their final two regular season matches against St. John’s and DePaul. The losses closed out a year that did not quite end the way Rutgers hoped it would, but
freshman outside hitter Alex Lassa sees the positives that came out of the season. “I’m really happy with the way it went,” Lassa said. “It was my first [Division] I college season. We had a really good start this season and in our preseason, and then it carried over to the conference.” Rutgers struggled against Big East opponents, only scraping out four victories in conference. It suffered two difficult losses after forcing five games in mid-October against Marquette at home and in-state rival Seton Hall on the road. The Knights did manage to pull out some hard-fought victories, two coming from the
very teams they fell to at the end of the season. The four conference victories marked the most since the 2005 squad recorded six. Head coach CJ Werneke led Rutgers to its best season since 2000 and is pleased with the results. But he is vocal in his desire to take the team to the next level. “It’s a work in progress,” Werneke said. “As you come and you tell players, ‘Hey, let’s stick to the plan, we have a game plan, it’s a five-year plan,’ as long as we stick to it and don’t deviate from it, SEE
STRUGGLES ON PAGE 14
EXTRA POINT
NBA SCORES Detroit Philadelphia
94 76
New Orleans Houston
96 100
Utah Boston
93 98
Memphis Oklahoma City
107 97
Indiana Milwaukee
85 Charlotte 99 Minnesota
89 87
JONELLE FILIGNO leads the Rutgers women’s soccer team this season with 33 points. The junior’s total is one more than the total points of her next six teammates combined.
Alex Lassa had 312 kills and 91 digs in her first year with the Knights. CONOR ALWELL, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
RUTGERS SPORTS CALENDAR SWIMMING, DIVING
MEN’S BASKETBALL
WOMEN’S SOCCER
CROSS COUNTRY
Frank Elm Invite
at Princeton
at Virginia
NCAA Championships
Tomorrow, 10 a.m. RU Aquatic Center
Tomorrow, 7 p.m. Princeton, N.J.
Tomorrow, 7 p.m. Charlottesville, Va.
Saturday Louisville, Ky.