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FILMS AND FELINES The director of the Rutgers Film Co-op discusses how and why he started the New Jersey Film Festival, now an international event in its 31st year. / UNIVERSITY, PAGE 3
The Rutgers wrestling team went 7-2 over winter break, including a 3-0 record against Stanford, Arizona State and CSU Bakersfield on its west coast trip. / SPORTS, BACK
RELIEF IN SANDY’S WAKE A $50 billion Hurricane Sandy relief package should receive swift passage in the senate this week. / OPINIONS, PAGE 12
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Rutgers Cinema opens on Feb. 8, seeks student input BY ALEX MEIER CORRESPONDENT
The Rutgers Cinema will open its doors in February to students eager to enjoy its convenient on-campus location. But the theater’s owner Larry Haber said students should be most excited about how the theater is specially geared toward catering the needs of University students. “We want to give students a unique experience because we want them to view themselves as stakeholders,” he said. “You guys pay tuition. Eventually you’re going to be alumni. This is your place. This is your theater. No other theater in the area can say this is a Rutgers theater.” Rutgers Cinema is officially scheduled to open Feb. 8, Haber said. The
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U. works to build contracts with collaborative committee BY SKYLAR FREDERICK STAFF WRITER
As a member of the Committee on Institutional Corporation, the University can interact with member-universities in a more intimate manner than was previously possible. The CIC operates numerous email listservs and collaborative web spaces so that groups of peers in different member-universities can meet and talk on a regular basis, with little to no hassle, said Barbara Allen, executive director of the CIC. “You can learn faster and implement solutions faster than other universities can because of the partnership,” Allen said. The member universities meet on a regular basis to discuss what products or services they need, making it possible to enter into communal contracts together that provide a number of benefits for the member universities, Allen said. “The implemented process is figuring out which institutions want to be involved in that contract,” she said. She said there are benefits for the University as a result of collaborating with other member-institutions. “You can get more attractive maintenance services or software or other kinds of ongoing services,” Allen said. “By working together, each campus doesn’t have to negotiate the same contract over and over, so you develop one process and then everybody gets to use it.” This also allows for the universities to share expertise when purchasing new products, which everyone can take advantage of while simultaneously saving money, Allen said. “The University will have access to a whole set of communities of peers who are running very
similar universities and addressing very similar problems and challenges,” Allen said. “So it’s almost like you’re getting a network of consultants who are helping you on your campus, making decisions every day.” In preparation for the University’s official admission into the committee July 1, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Richard L. Edwards visited the CIC headquarters Friday in Champaign, Illinois. While there, Edwards became oriented with the CIC’s components and began discussions about possible contracts the University could join. Allen said the University would work with the other purchasing directors in the CIC to figure out what services or contracts that the University needs to have in place. “Some contracts that you need to have in place other [universities] might already have in the CIC,” Allen said. “Sometimes it means that you have to go out and get a whole new contract.” Before his visit, Edwards said the University was unsure what contracts and services of the CIC the University would become a part of or join. “We’re not in a position yet to know exactly what components of the CIC we will become involved in immediately and what we might become involved with at a later time,” Edwards said. “None of the contracts kinds of issues have been addressed here at this point.” Edwards said they would like to provide opportunities for students but he does not know exactly what that entails. “We will look for opportunities for students to have input where that makes sense,” Edwards said. SEE
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theater will show newly released movies that Friday. But from Tuesday, Feb. 5 to Thursday, Feb. 7, the theater will host free evening shows for students along with free popcorn and soda. Rutgers Cinema houses three auditoriums — two with 84 seats and one with 155 seats, Haber said. He said screenings would most likely be held at 5:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m., 10:30 p.m. and midnight. The theater will open at noon on weekends, he said. The auditoriums will double as classrooms during the weekdays as well, Haber said. Mondays through Thursdays, classes will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Fridays from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. SEE
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Transportation director talks parking on campus BY SHAWN SMITH CORRESPONDENT
While the prices for parking passes on campus have remained the same for the past few years, any University student with a car knows that parking tickets can add up fast. “When students park in the wrong lot, on the wrong campus and at the wrong time, they will receive multiple tickets,” said Jack Molenaar, director of the Department of Transportation Services at the University. “The parking enforcement is trained to give tickets for everything they see and then we sort them out here.” Molenaar said the goal is not to get more money out of students. His depart-
ment has come up with prices for tickets that will encourage students to purchase passes, rather than take a chance at a meter or parking lot. “Our goal is not to catch people, it’s to enforce the rules,” he said. “We are not looking to increase our revenue, we want people to comply with the regulations.” Abena Adu-Gyamfi, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said she feels the rules for parking are too complicated. “There are different rules to follow for different times of the day and different semesters. It gets really confusing,” she said. SEE
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Director of the Department of Transportation Services Jack Molenaar says public safety officers use a computer program to view the status of a parked vehicle. He said students can also acquire a one-day pass for visitors. SHIRLEY YU
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Wednesday, Jan. 23 The Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy will host Professor Frank J. Popper for an event titled “Revisiting LULUs (Locally Unwanted Land Uses).” The event will address the interconnectedness of public planning and environmental concerns from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in the Civic Square building on the College Avenue campus. The Rutgers University Programming Association will host a gathering starting at 8 p.m. at the Cook Café in the Cook Campus Center. There will be food and dancing at the ’50s themed event. The Daily Targum will hold its weekly writers meeting at 9:30 p.m. at the Rutgers Student Center, Room 431 on the College Avenue campus. No experience necessary, all majors are welcome.
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METRO CALENDAR Tuesday, Jan. 22 NJ Blood Services will host a free blood drive at the St. Mary and St. Peter Catholic Academy on Somerset Street in New Brunswick. The organization is seeking O Negative blood type donors because of the recent shortage of this supply. All donors must present a signed for photo ID to be eligible.
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Director transforms film festival into global collaboration BY ERIN PETENKO CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The largest film festival in New Jersey began with just one graduate student, a small budget and a few minor films. Today that graduate student, Al Nigrin, is the executive director and curator of the Rutgers Film Co-op and has expanded the festival to include many films from around the world. Nigrin said the festival he started in 1982 now receives entries from places such as Poland, Israel and Morocco. “We used to show art house movies that were premiering in other parts of the country. Now with home video making these movies more accessible, we focus on more independent filmmakers,” said Nigrin, a professor in the cinema studies program. All together, the festival receives more than 200 entries a year, said School of Arts and Sciences senior Allie Steiger, who also works as an intern for the NJ Film Festival. A committee of students, professors and academics use a rating system to cull the number of films to the 50 shown this year, she said. The committee is broken into smaller groups that watch the films and rate them according to
originality, creativity, production, performances and the quality of the DVD, she said. Entries range in subjects — from “Set for Life,” which features three people who lost their jobs, to “Starting from Scratch,” a film from University alumnus James Huang about how the economy has affected a marriage. “Over the years, the festival becomes a mirror for the times,” Nigrin said. He said the festival opens Friday, with two short films and a rare treat: the premiere of the Chinese horror film “Haunting Love.” “The Chinese government usually doesn’t allow any horror movies, not even ghosts,” Nigrin said. Interaction between the filmmakers was difficult because of government censorship, Nigrin said. The film barely met the deadline for submission, and the applicants had to communicate through a third party. Dianne Sadoff, director of the cinema studies program, said the film festival, which has been rated first among Universitylevel festivals on the East Coast, is an important aspect of culture at the University. “There are many interesting, of f-the-beaten-path films from around the world,” said Sadoff,
IN BRIEF STUDY CONNECTS MIGRAINES TO SOCIAL STIGMA Joanna Kempner, an assistant professor in the Depar tment of Sociology who has dealt with migraines since childhood, is working on understanding the sociological repercussions of migraines. “Migraine is a complicated and disabling disease, but it is widely perceived to be simple to treat,” Kempner said. She said the image of a typical patient with the neurological condition is a white middle-class woman who is not good at handling stress, according to University Media Relations. Kempner worked on a study alongside neurologists from Thomas Jef ferson University, where 305 patients who were being treated for either episodic or chronic migraines or epilepsy were asked if they felt the condition was a stigma to them. The study found that those who have chronic migraines with at least 15 headache days a month felt more stigmatized by their condition than those who have epilepsy. “Although there have been tremendous breakthroughs in the treatment of migraine, there still isn’t a consistently ef fective treatment,” she said.
PROFESSOR ADDRESSES FOLK MAGIC MISCONCEPTIONS IN BOOK Katrina Hazzard-Donald, associate professor in the Department of Sociology, said hoodoo, a remedy that uses oils and candles to ward off bad vides, is more than what it seems, according to University Media Relations. She unfolds the history behind the African-American tradition of herbal healing in her new book, “Mojo Workin’: The Old African American Hoodoo System,” where she describes how hoodoo is a folk magic that is not to be confused with Voodoo, a West African religion. “A tremendous amount of exploitation has taken place among merchants and Hoodoo emerges as a commercial enterprise right around World War I among people who were not believers or practitioners even though they were willing to sell it,” Hazzard-Donald said. She said what people begin to see is a more commercialized version of Hoodoo. She said a misunderstanding of hoodoo in commercial markets is “hot foot” powder which comes from the traditional spell known as “the walkin’ foot,” which was actually designed to make the victim’s legs tremble. “Commercial marketers have capitalized on Hoodoo practices to make money,” Hazzard-Donald said. “It has been presented as the ‘real authentic’ Hoodoo.”
an English professor. “Al is one of the few people bringing film to campus. He introduces students to a whole new aspect of cinema culture.” Nigrin said his interest in filmmaking began not with a movie, but a Genesis concert he attended. “They showed slides to go with
AL NIGRIN Curator of Rutgers Film Co-op the concept of the music which inspired me to try making slides to go with my brother’s own band,” he said. Later, the still images became moving images when he began making films of his own. He said he created short films throughout his career and has been toying with a new project. Nigrin teaches cinema studies courses such as “American Experimental Film,” “Cult Films
in American Culture,” “American Film Directors” and “David Lynch and the American Film Avant-Garde,” Sadoff said. “Students love his teachings because he’s so laid back,” she said. “His classes are a lot of fun.” Steiger said his classes helped her decide on her cinema studies minor. “Nigrin taught me about artbased, independent films that are interesting in ways you’ve never thought of,” she said. “I didn’t know about experimental film before I came to college, but now I love it.” Steiger said working as an intern with the festival is a good way to get a feel for the production side of filmmaking. She said she goes to see one of the films every weekend to get a different experience from a mainstream theater. “Lots of times the directors come, and there are question-andanswer sessions with the filmmakers,” she said. “It helps me to see the cogs of filmmaking.” Nigrin said the festival is a wonderful opportunity for students looking to network as well. “It’s right in our own backyard, and it’s only $9, including catered food and a meeting with the filmmaker,” he said. In addition to his film work, Nigrin is known for his generous
spirit, said Helene Grynberg, the administrative assistant for the Department of American Studies. She said he cares for a colony of stray cats on Douglass campus. “While my wife and I were graduate students, she noticed many stray cats by the train station. We brought them cardboard boxes and blankets for the cold, and that’s how the colony began,” Nigrin said. He said he estimates the number of cats he has rescued from the streets to be as high as 150. Most of the cats have been adopted, though some have joined his home, he said. He said many of the cats are injured or sick when he finds them. One cat he rescued had been hit by a car, and had to receive an expensive emergency surgery, he said. To raise money for the procedure, he said he posted the cat’s story online and received enough money in donations to cover the cost. One of the people who donated ended up adopting the cat after it recovered, he said. Though they may seem random, Nigrin said he sees his two interests as similar. “The movies we show at the festival are like stray cats,” he said. “The emerging filmmakers just need love and care to succeed.”
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COMMITTEE Allen says working together with other universities would save millions CONTINUED FROM FRONT By joining the CIC, Edwards hopes to enter into opportunities that will allow the University to save money, providing benefits for both faculty and students. “The purchasing power which would save us money in a number of areas, the opportunities for students to have exchange possibilities, the opportunities for our faculty to be involved in collaborative research proposals and activities with other CIC university members: all of those things represent real advantages for us here at Rutgers,” Edwards said. He said being a part of the Big Ten Athletic Conference and the CIC brings greater visibility to the University as well. “I think [this] is something that increases the prestige and visibility of Rutgers so that’s a value to all of our students,” Edwards said. “I think it will aid us in recruitment of students.” Edwards said changes that will follow the University’s entrance into the CIC are unclear, but is sure everyone will experience some form of benefit. “It’s hard to say that there will be exactly this or that kind of benefit but there are some overall benefits, that all of us, faculty, staff and students at Rutgers will see from being a par t of and linking up with
these other research universities,“ he said. Allen said by entering into these agreements that allow the universities to purchase resources at a lower price, universities often see other results. “By working together to be more sufficient and save money together, we believe that our campuses save millions of dollars a year that they can use in their academic programs and that help keep the cost of education down per student,” Allen said. Though it will not be possible until 2014, University students will be able to take classes through other CIC universities, she said. These classes will be taken in an online format and would show up as a part of the regular course catalog, she said. “A student who enrolls in a language course offered by Iowa will get credit for that on [their] local transcript,” Allen said. “So all of that takes place in the back and we try to make it almost even invisible to you that it’s being offered by another CIC university.” In addition, graduate students have the opportunity to study on another university’s campus within the CIC for up to one year, she said. Allen said the first meetings between the University and the CIC will be the first of many steps before any real changes will take effect.
BURRITO BONANZA Students wait on line at Qdoba Mexican Grill, which opened yesterday at the Livingston Plaza and is currently the only operating vendor. The first 25 customers each day will receive free burritos, a promotion that continue will through Friday. The restaurant is also promoting their new location through social media. Foursquare check-ins will result in a free entree for customers and a “Like” on their Facebook page will give them free chips and queso. NISHA DATT
“It will probably take until the spring for the decision makers there on campus and attorneys to look through that list and decide what activities make most sense for Rutgers,” she said. Allen said once those decisions are made, CIC staff would be visiting the University to continue meeting with administrators and begin the process of initiating these changes. The University also has the opportunity to offer its student services to other member universities through sharing best practices, Allen said. “If there’s a particular great service that’s been implemented at Rutgers, then through our coordination and collaboration the other [universities] can learn about [it], use it and develop it on their own campuses to make sense,” Allen said. The University can also expect to see a great change in the materials available to students and faculty through the library, she said. The libraries among the CIC universities are some of the most important research university libraries in the world, as they contain world-class collections, she said. “In addition, our universities coordinate their purchases of electronic texts and electronic journals so that you’re able to have access to more than you can normally afford,” Allen said. In 2007, 11 CIC universities signed a contract with Google to make up to 10 million volumes digitally available from the participating libraries, said Mark Sandler, director of the Center for Library Initiatives.
The contract states that Google will scan, index and make these volumes searchable online, he said. Sandler said this is also in conjunction with Google’s Books project. Most of the material that has become available online through the project has come from CIC universities. He said this is different from material found through “Google Scholar.” “These are actual librar y books that are pulled off the shelves and sent off to be scanned by Google,” he said. “Then the files are ultimately returned to HathiTrust where all of the CIC files are ultimately being held.” HathiTrust is a digital repositor y that is hosted by the University of Michigan and Indiana University, he said. “This is a ver y intentional effort on their part to digitize as much of the world’s library as possible,” Sandler said. The material that is not copyrighted is fully and freely available through Google and the copyrighted material is restricted, though it is still searchable, he said. “You can actually see what books have material that you’d be interested in and then can go off presumably to your library and find the print copies for that,” he said. Sandler said the reason CIC libraries are involved with this initiative is to give access to students to help them in their academic studies. “I think it’s really a part of our mission to support scholarship
worldwide and to make information accessible to our communities, like Rutgers,” he said. “I think our universities see that as a way to give back, to make our collections more accessible and more available.” Sandler said the work is ver y expensive and time consuming, and although Google is absorbing the majority of the costs, it is still a burden for the participating libraries. “Sure there’s cost, but I think they see it as a good strategy for preser ving scholarship longterm,” he said. “Libraries just really don’t have the resources to do this at the level and scale that Google is doing it.” Sandler said between 15 and 20 million volumes have been published already, but there are more than 100 million volumes that have yet to be digitized. Sandler said the CIC plans continue to do this work in the next five to 10 years. At that point, the CIC will evaluate future plans. “Things would be able to move more quickly five years from now, or people just won’t care and we’ll agree to stop,” he said. “So it’s hard to say because we just don’t know how this material is going to be represented down the road.” Allen said CIC staff will visit campus in the coming months to assess what the University has to offer, as well as what programs the students need. “We don’t just think we’re adding another university,” Allen said. “We’re building a whole new CIC that you’re a part of and we’re pretty excited about that.”
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PARKING Department provides payment plan in severe cases CONTINUED FROM FRONT Molenaar said that while some of the regulations do change for different semesters, they are all available at parktran.rutgers.edu. He said lot signs have been simplified to make compliance with the rules easier. “If we had all of the regulations on the signs, they would be huge parking signs,” he said. “We made the signs simple and easy to read and just include the basics. We used to have people tr y to fight the signs, so we’ve made them ver y simple to understand.” He said the department uses a computer program that is synced to devices enforcement officers use to view past warnings, prior tickets and outstanding balances. The system will also tell the parking authority when a parking permit was purchased down to the second, he said. “We see when permits were purchased, so if someone gets a
ticket and argues that they already had a permit to park in the lot, we can look up to see when it was purchased and if the ticket is valid,” he said. Tickets can be appealed, Molenaar said. The department then investigates to see if something was out of place when the ticket was given, he said. He said video surveillance or an officer’s description is used for the person walking away from a vehicle to verify if it was a student or a family member coming to visit. “We will sometimes do a Facebook search to see if the student posted something about getting a ticket as proof that they were the one who parked the vehicle,” he said. Molenaar said sometimes students would provide false information to try and get out of a ticket but are unaware of how serious of an offense it is. “If a student provides false information in an appeal, it is treated the same as if they were caught plagiarizing a paper for class,” he said. “It has to be egregious for us to pass it on to the next level.” Molenaar said the moment a ticket is issued, a hold is placed on the students account.
“The hold is the same as a financial hold for an unpaid term bill,” he said. “The student will be unable to register for classes or graduation until their account is brought into good standing.” If a student racks up tickets that exceed more than $300, their car will be towed next time, Molenaar said. If the balance is severe, the department is willing to work with the student in creating a onetime payment plan, he said. “We will create a courtesy, one-time payment plan, bringing their account into good standing so they may register for classes or whatever they need to do,” he said. “If they miss a payment, the hold is replaced and the entire balance would then be due immediately.” Sam Hollander, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, said he feels some tickets are given out in unfair circumstances. “What if a friend or family member comes up to visit?” he said. “I don’t think students or visitors know how to get a oneday pass.” University visitors can register for passes on the parking website, and a digital note will be attached to their license plate number, he said. When a public
safety officer pulls up that license plate, the note will tell them they are registered. “One of the things our officers look for are notes in the windshield and cars parked with their hazards on,” he said. “These are indications that the vehicle is not parked where it should be, or that it is not authorized by us to be parked there.” Molenaar said tickets are given out any time a violation occurs, and they usually see a spike in tickets issued around September with the influx of new students. “They [first-year students] hear from friends that they can park wherever they want and they learn the hard way that is not the case,” he said. “When we issue parking passes, we attach all of the regulations with them so the students have all the information they need.” He said most violations occur in parking lots near buildings, especially on the College Avenue campus. “It’s a part of the learning cur ve, especially for students from suburban areas,” he said “They are being forced to walk instead of being able to drive right up to their door. People do it in cities every day.”
Molenaar said that while the point of the tickets and passes is not to increase revenue, the funds are put right back into the system. “We use the money we collect from the tickets to help pay for the bus system,” he said. “The funds are used to pay for more buses and drivers, as well as increasing service.” Nick Mergel, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said drivers should be able to park on the streets for free instead of paying for meters. “We should be able to use RU Express to pay for spots,” he said. Molenaar said a new program is going to be in place at Livingston by next September called Park Mobile, a ser vice where you can pay for the spot with your cellphone. “[Parking] stalls will be numbered, and you can link the app on your phone to your debit card or PayPal account,” he said. “We are hoping to eventually have all of the meters on campus replaced with this system.” He said this new system would reduce the amount of appeals the parking authority will see, and will make visitor parking on campus easier.
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The new Rutgers Cinema will have three auditoriums, which will also be used as classrooms during the day. Owner Larry Haber says he will allow DVDs to be played for special events. NELSON MORALES, SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
CINEMA Theater will show cartoons on Saturdays CONTINUED FROM FRONT Patrons will be able to purchase tickets in advance from the cinema’s website, said Sean Crean, vice president of operations at the Rutgers Cinema. A Rutgers Cinema application compatible for iPhones and Androids will connect directly to the cinema’s website. “You’ll be able to bring your phone after purchasing a ticket, have it scanned, and go see a movie,” he said. The website will also serve as a way to receive student feedback so the theater can experiment with new ideas, Haber said. “We don’t want to bring our preconceived notions to Rutgers Cinema. We want the students to dictate what we do and what we show, and we need input,” he said. “What we want to do is get into everyone’s mind here and see what’s the most fun for you.” After receiving feedback from a sur vey conducted by the University, Haber said he would experiment with hosting midnight shows every night of the week and screening free cartoons on Saturday mornings. Haber said the survey indicated that students do not enjoy 3-D movies. The theater will not host 3-D screenings unless there is a change in student opinion. Students, alumni, faculty and administration will receive discounts at Rutgers Cinema. Haber said concession stand prices would run significantly lower than concessions from competing theaters. “To give you an example, we haven’t set prices in concrete yet, but I think this is where we’re going,” he said. “AMC for an adult ticket is $11.50, Regal’s $11.00. We’re going to have student tickets for $8.50.” Haber said the cinema charges less per person because they want to profit from the volume of customers. He said he began working with Rutgers Cinema three years ago when University officials visited the Garden Theater in Princeton, which Haber also owns. As the cinema’s owner, Haber said his main goals are to please the student body, make money and have fun. “We’re here to service the customer,” he said. “Our main customer is the Rutgers student. We have to give the best experience to the students that we can because we want them to come. If we can make [students] happy and profit and have fun — wow, what a wonderful thing.” Haber said he plans to host many events at Rutgers Cinema. Some possible events include a
Valentine’s night and a formal Oscars party. “We’re going to have film festivals,” he said. “We’re going to be hosting special events during the year. This is a fully digital stadium seating so we can get DVDs. For a special club or special event, we’ll play their DVD. When we play a DVD, we won’t charge.” Haber said he expects the theater to yield great profits for the University. “I think we can give the University a good business return on their investment,” he said. “The dollar amounts — I don’t know yet. I think the University … can expect five, six, seven or eight percent return in a year on what they put in.” Anthony Rojas, a student manager for Rutgers Cinema, said he was very excited when he learned that the University planned to build a movie theater on campus. “Many of us, from my hall, we thought it was just a rumor,” said Rojas, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “Once I found out there was actually a movie theater, we were all very excited. They kept asking and asking when’s it going to open. And now it’s finally here.” Crean said he hired Rojas mainly because he is a Residence Hall Association president for the Livingston Apartments. “I think there are many things Anthony can contribute,” he said. “He can strengthen our connection with the students and his connection will keep the theater as a student theater.” Qdoba Mexican Grill opened up next to the cinema yesterday and remains the only operating vendor in the Livingston Plaza. Tiffany Thrasher, Qdoba’s regional marketing specialist, said the restaurant offers many discounts for their grand opening, including free entrees to the first 25 customers every day until Friday. Qdoba heavily promotes their new location via social media as well, Thrasher said. For example, those who become a fan of Qdoba on Facebook are rewarded with free chips and queso. Patrons using Foursquare who check in to the Piscataway location can earn a free entree. Thrasher said she believes Qdoba will make a great contribution to the atmosphere at the Livingston Plaza. “We think it will help with our business once the other [vendors] open up, especially the movie theater, you know, to grab people and get them to come get dinner before a movie,” she said. “It just gives the students something different.”
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Residents raise concerns over police, city attorney relations Newly elected president Escobar says complaints take time to process BY MEGAN MORREALE CONTRIBUTING WRITER
In her first meeting as city council president, Rebecca Escobar responded to New Brunswick residents’ concerns Wednesday on police raids and the lengthy process of acquiring a meeting with the city attorney. New Brunswick resident Danielle Moore said a raid on a neighboring home carried over to hers when residents in the raided house jumped onto her roof to escape the police. “All [of a] sudden my house is lit up with lights and guns pointing,” Moore said. “I am scared to know if it’s [going to] happen again.” She said she wanted to know if there was any way she could be
warned ahead of time that the house next door would be raided. She said this was the third incident she had in her house. New Brunswick Police Department Capt. J. T. Miller said he did not have any immediate knowledge of the raid in question and would look into the matter. In addition to Moore’s complaint about the raid, Timothy McDougal, a New Brunswick resident, said a recently promoted police officer was guilty of illegal behavior in previous years and should not have been promoted. “I was assaulted, arrested and had marijuana planted on me by this police officer,” McDougal said. “How is he still working for the police department?” He asked the council for some type of administrative action.
“I want some type of action not to file a report that will get swept under the rug,” McDougal said. The council urged McDougal to speak to Assistant City Attorney Charly Gayden about the matter after the meeting.
“I want some type of action, not to file a report that will get swept under the rug.” TIMOTHY MCDOUGAL New Brunswick Resident
“I’m scared to put it in Ms. Gayden’s hands,” McDougal said. “It sounds like she’s too busy.” Tormel Pittman, a New Brunswick resident, said his friends were having trouble getting speedy appointments with Gayden.
“People contact me and I point them to Ms. Gayden,” Pittman said. “She makes appointments with them a week away, and this is an issue because they may not be available for the appointment.” Gayden said her office hours were Thursday afternoons and that she was scheduling people to see her as soon as she could. Pittman said somebody else who is not as busy should replace Gayden. “The last woman that talked to me, her daughter was in the background cr ying,” Pittman said. “We need some immediate reaction to the situation.” Escobar said legal matters are a process, and Gayden was doing everything she could to make appointments as quickly as possible. She said he should help educate the members of the community about the process. “As an activist and someone who cares about the community, maybe you should educate and
encourage them to continue contacting Ms. Gayden.” Escobar said. The council also went into a closed session to decide and award a building contract for a new community center to Tekton Development Corporation, a New Brunswick-based firm. Brendan Murray, Tekton Development president, said the council should choose his company for the development because he provided all the necessary data and experience beforehand. “It was [the other] companies fatal flaw to pick and choose their price,” Murray said. “The council should disregard their bids.” The council based its decision for choosing a company on requirements they set forth in an application, which consisted of a monetary bid along with materials and reference lists, said Councilman Glen Fleming. Other bids were rejected because they provided an overestimated budget without a thorough materials list, he said.
White Rose Hamburgers coming to Easton Avenue BY JUSTINA OTERO STAFF WRITER
White Rose Hamburgers, a popular burger joint in Highland Park, is branching out with a new location on Easton Avenue in New Brunswick. The new location will include a full menu of burgers, breakfast items, platters and sandwiches with prices ranging from $2.50 to $8. The owners hope the new location will operate 24 hours and seven days a week, but hours have not yet been finalized. Mike Litos, owner of White Rose, said he has wanted to open the restaurant in New Brunswick and has been waiting for an area to open near campus. “It suits our purpose because the people in the town are familiar with
our product so we like to bring our product a lot closer to the school and the city of New Brunswick,” Litos said, “It was a natural thing.” White Rose Hamburgers, which has been open in Highland Park for 57 years, is known for its unique recipe in hamburgers and exceptional quality, Litos said. They pride themselves on both quality and the speed of their service. “Everybody in the area knows our menu. We [have been] famous for many, many years — generations for that matter. … That’s the famous White Rose … and everybody who lives in the [area] always knows White Rose,” he said. Since the new location is still in its early stages, the exact date of the spring opening has not been finalized.
White Rose Hamburgers, a restaurant in nearby Highland Park, is set to open a location on Easton Avenue this spring. Owner Mark Litos said he wanted to bring his restaurant a little closer to the University with the New Brunswick location. SHIRLEY YU
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Prince of Wales returns from Afghanistan tour of duty THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — Capt. Wales is coming home to be Prince Harry once again. The Ministry of Defense revealed yesterday that the 28-yearold prince is returning from a fivemonth deployment in Afghanistan, where he served as an Apache helicopter pilot with the Army Air Corps. It did not immediately divulge his exact whereabouts. In interviews conducted in Afghanistan, the third in line to the British throne described feeling boredom, frustration and satisfaction during a tour that saw him fire at Taliban fighters on missions in support of ground troops. When asked whether he had killed from the cockpit, he said: “Yea, so lots of people have.” He also spoke of his struggle to balance his job as an army officer with his royal role — and his relief at the chance to be “one of the guys.” “My father’s always trying to remind me about who I am and stuff like that,” said Harry, the younger son of Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana. “But it’s very easy to forget about who I am when I am in the army. Everyone’s
wearing the same uniform and doing the same kind of thing.” Stationed at Camp Bastion, a sprawling British base in the southern Afghan desert, the prince — known as Capt. Wales in the military — flew scores of missions as a co-pilot gunner, sometimes firing rockets and missiles at Taliban fighters. “Take a life to save a life. That’s what we revolve around, I suppose,” he said. “If there’s people trying to do bad stuff to our guys, then we’ll take them out of the game.” Harry’s second tour in Afghanistan went more smoothly than the first, in 2007-2008, which was cut short after 10 weeks when a magazine and websites disclosed details of his whereabouts. British media had agreed to a news blackout on security grounds. This time, the media were allowed limited access to the prince in return for not reporting operational details. A member of the air corps’ 662 Squadron, the prince was part of a two-man crew whose duties ranged from supporting ground troops in firefights with the Taliban to accompanying British Chinook and U.S. Black Hawk helicopters as they evacuated wounded soldiers.
Prince Harry performs maintenance at the British controlled flight-line in Camp Bastion southern Afghanistan, where he has served as an Apache Helicopter Pilot/Gunner with 662 Sqd. Army Air Corps on Oct. 31 in Afghanistan. GETTY IMAGES
Online postings troublesome for teachers, staffers THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WOODLAND PARK, N.J. — Teachers and other school employees across the country are discovering — often the hard way — that they can get into hot water for what they say and post on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, even when those comments are made on their own time, on their personal pages and not intended for the public. At the same time, school districts are grappling with how to set appropriate boundaries in an age when using social networking sites is almost second nature to teachers and students. It’s a relatively new frontier in which school administrators must balance employees’ rights to free speech against the desire to create safe learning environments, while simultaneously weighing the potential educational costs if those policies are too restrictive.
Some teachers and their advocates have argued that the few headline-grabbing missteps are anomalies, and common sense and good judgment are what’s needed. “I think we need to trust our teachers,” said Eric Sheninger, the principal of New Milford High School, himself a prolific Twitter user and blogger, who thinks that teachers should not “friend” their students on their personal Facebook pages as a protection for both teachers and the students. “I think that a model policy should not be too restrictive,” he told The Record of Woodland Park. “It should give general guidelines about how and why social media should be used and maybe give a few bullet points on best practices that are not demeaning. Simple things like know your role within the community; understand that you have a digital footprint, so once you post something, it’s online; refrain from personal interactions (with students) because that’s
where the line sort of gets blurred a little bit. If you have conversations focused on teaching and learning, there is no problem.” There are no definitive statistics on the number of school districts that have adopted policies or guidelines on using social networking sites, but anecdotal evidence suggests that the numbers are increasing and will continue to grow as more applications are developed, said Ann Lee Flynn, the director of education technology and state association services at the National School Boards Association. “Obviously with the growth of social media, it is a new policy area that’s being addressed,” she said. Last year, New York City, the nation’s largest school district, barred teachers and Department of Education employees from friending students on their personal Facebook pages. The same is true for Park Ridge and Fort Lee. In Wayne and Ridgewood, teach-
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IN BRIEF BEACHED WHALE EUTHANIZED IN SOUTH NJ EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Officials say a pygmy sperm whale was euthanized after it washed up on a beach in southern New Jersey. The Press of Atlantic City reports the whale was alive but sickly and injured when it was found Monday morning on Malibu Beach in Egg Harbor Township, between Ocean City and Longport. Marine Mammal Stranding Center Director Bob Schoelkopf told the newspaper that the mature, 10-foot animal should normally be feeding on squid in the deep ocean this time of year. He suspects the whale had heart problems that caused it be lethargic and float to shore, something he said is common in this species.
SECURITY BREACH CLOSES NEWARK AIRPORT CHECKPOINT NEWARK, N.J. — A checkpoint at Newark Liberty International Airport was briefly shut down after officials discovered that a bottle of liquid had passed through there without being properly screened. Transportation Security Administration officials say the bottle’s owner was quickly found and the bottle was rescreened “with negative results.” The passenger was then cleared to fly, and the checkpoint reopened around 7:45 a.m. Authorities did not identify what type of liquid was in the bottle but told the newspaper that it was something that is allowed on planes. However, it was larger than the 3.4 ounce limit that the TSA has set for passengers. — The Associated Press
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Minister recalls lessons of MLK in Newtown THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
gregation and spoke of the long journey ahead. NEWTOWN, Conn. — A for“Though we are all interconmer leader of one of the country’s nected, our destiny lies in our abilmost prominent liberal Protestant ity to be one, as a community and churches told residents on as a nation,” he said. “Tonight we Sunday, weeks after one of the gather to heal and mend hearts.” deadliest school shootings in U.S. As the congregation sang the history, that the Rev. Martin hymn “When Aimless Violence Luther King Jr.’s words “are needTakes Those We Love,” many ed now more than ever before.” fought back tears and others simThe Rev. James A. Forbes Jr., ply wept. the first black minister to lead Forbes told the congregation New York’s historic Riverside his message would be one of hope Church, spoke Sunday night at the and healing. Newtown Congregational Church With great passion, he spoke of in a service honoring King and the his experiences during the civil school shooting victims. rights movement and the strugAbout 300 residents filled the gles and challenges along the way. church for the community worBut, he said, one way to get ship service, called “For the encouragement is Healing of to recognize when Newtown.” Forbes progress is made. “What if history delivered a ser“As a communimon calling for a ty, overcoming a records what transformation tragedy will take happened in and healing of time, but progress communities. Newtown and that will be made,” he “The saddest said. leads to face I ever saw on Forbes said Martin Luther that King a new America?” King was at the believed in the JAMES A. FORBES funeral of the four power of commuReverend of Riverside Church little girls slain in nity and faith and Birmingham, the need for good Ala.,” he said. “We to come from tragedy. He ask today, as King did then, ‘Lord, stepped down from the pulpit to what can come out of this that will be closer to the congregation honor those lost in this tragedy?’” as he raised his voice to finalize Twenty Sandy Hook his message. Elementary School first-graders “We have seen that violence and six school officials died in the can strike anywhere,” Forbes belNewtown shooting last month. lowed. “Yes, King talked about The gunman who killed them had violence, but he also talked about killed his mother at home before transformation and healing in the going to the school and later comwake of violence.” mitted suicide. He then asked people in the Forbes’ message of transforchurch to consider something: mation was delivered to the “What if history records what Newtown community a day before happened in Newtown and that the federal holiday honoring leads to a new America?” King’s legacy and a little more “Maybe if we listen to the than a month after the Dec. 14 Spirit, we as a town will be able school shooting. to stay out of the depths of The senior minister of the despair,” he said. “If we listen Newtown Congregational to the Spirit, there will emerge Church, the Rev. Matt a beacon of light that can lead Crebbin, welcomed the conan entire nation.”
An Indian paramilitary soldier stands guard yesterday during a protest by pro-independence groups on the 23rd anniversary of the 'Gaw Kadal' massacre in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Administered Kashmir, India. GETTY IMAGES
Kashmir villagers brace for violence THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHAKOTHI, Pakistan — Villagers in Kashmir are building bunkers as they brace for more clashes along the fragile line of control that divides Pakistan and India after the recent killings of soldiers on both sides in one of the worst flare-ups in violence in the disputed Himalayan region in a decade. Three Pakistani and two Indian troops have died in clashes in the past two weeks on the heavily-militarized border, drawing harsh words from both Islamabad and New Delhi. Caught in the middle are villagers who have lived for years near the makeshift border splitting the region. There has been low-level shooting and shelling across the 750kilometer (460-mile) line since a cease-fire was signed in 2003. Civilians and livestock have died in
the skirmishes, but now soldiers are being killed and many people in this village of 5,000 worry that simmering tension could boil over. “We are perplexed and scared about recent incidents of shooting on the line of control,” said Muhammed Shabbir, a shopkeeper in Chakothi who is building a bunker near his house in the village, surrounded by snow-capped peaks, just 500 meters (yards) from the line. Some villagers built bunkers a decade ago during heavy violence in the area, but many were destroyed during a 7.6 magnitude earthquake in 2005. Worried about the recent clashes, some villagers are trying to rebuild the shelters. “We are not certain about our future after these shootings,” said Shabbir, whose wife was killed in shelling in May 2003, about six months before the cease-fire took effect.
He added that many residents who used to freely graze their livestock near the line of control are now avoiding the area. Since 2005, both countries have let local residents cross the line to visit relatives. But Shabbir said that last Monday — the travel day for local residents — none of the villagers from the Pakistani side went to the Indian-held side because they were worried about escalating tensions. Both countries claim the Muslim-dominated Kashmir region in its entirety, and two of the three major wars the two nucleararmed nations have fought have been over the mountainous Himalayan region. Multi-layered barbed wire fences separate the two sides, and Indian and Pakistani troops man guard towers, eyeing each other’s territory.
Superstorm challenges definition of basement in NJ Hoboken residents, business owners dispute with insurance companies THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HOBOKEN, N.J. — Irene Sobolov believes the first floor of her house is just that. The federal government and her insurance company say it is a basement. The semantics, Sobolov has learned, are very expensive. Sobolov and others whose lower-level apartments or businesses sustained water damage during Superstorm Sandy say the property they own is being classified as a basement, severely limiting what is covered under the National Flood Insurance Program. “It’s the battle of the definitions,” said Sobolov, standing on concrete that a wood floor once covered. She says the damage to her home came when the sewer overflowed, sending a repellent brew of sewage, condoms and
garbage water up through her toilet and drain. “No one told us about this basement thing.” The basement classification has become a point of contention in Hoboken, a city of 50,000 across the Hudson River from Manhattan. Hoboken sustained major flooding when the Hudson jumped its banks and roared into the city during Superstorm Sandy, one of the strongest storms to ever hit the area. It is one of the densest cities in the countr y, and there are about 1,700 belowground units that house people or businesses, according to Mayor Dawn Zimmer. People whose homes or businesses were classified as a basement are eligible for grants that are part of the $50.7 billion Sandy aid package approved by the
House of Representatives last week, a spokesman for Sen. Frank Lautenberg said. It is unclear how much will be allocated or what the rules will be. While there may be some relief coming, the classification is leading some to call for changes to the National Flood Insurance Program, saying the basement definition unfairly punishes people who own property in cities. The flood insurance rules “do not reflect the reality” of urban living, Zimmer told Congress last month. “A store or apartment that requires you to walk down one or two steps is plain and simply not a basement,” Zimmer told the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. “For many people, that’s their primary residence. It’s where they have the kitchen, the bedroom,” Zimmer said in an interview. “It’s their home.” A basement is classified as “any area of the building, including any sunken room or sunken portion of a room, having its floor below
ground level (subgrade) on all sides,” according to a spokesman for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Basement flood coverage is limited to items including central air conditioners, hot water heaters and “cisterns and the water in them,” according to the program’s website. Floors, paneling and most personal proper ty in buildings classified as basements are not covered. Jersey City resident Patrick Donnelly is suing a number of insurance companies, saying he and others were denied damage claims after Hurricane Irene in 2011 and Sandy. A judge will decide if the suit can move forward as a class action. “We’re seeing situations where the insurance company is denying claims in buildings we do not believe met the definition of a basement,” said Jeffrey A. Bronster, Donnelly’s lawyer. Jersey City mayor Jerramiah Healy said he thinks the lawsuit is a “valid argument.”
Elsewhere, “traditionally a basement is where you throw stuff. It’s 8 to 10 feet below the ground,” Healy said. “Here in Jersey City we have a lot of places that are ground level or 3 feet below. It’s living space.” Proper ty owners with a mortgage are required to have federal flood insurance. The policies are issued by private insurance companies. Robert Hunter, director of insurance for the Consumer Federation of America and former federal insurance administrator, said insurance is typically calculated on the ground level of a structure. Anything below that is typically classified as a basement, he said. The basement issue rarely came up after Hurricane Katrina, Hunter said, because so many Gulf Coast homes were built on slabs. “I’ve been fighting this battle for a long time,” Hunter said. “I think they’re too stringent in how they interpreted those basement rules.”
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n response to growing concerns over illegal firearm possession in their communities, towns and municipalities across the country have been experimenting with ways to curb gun-related crime. South Brunswick introduced a gun amnesty program last week, “Project Safe Surrender,” aiming to do just that. Specifically, the project aims to collect unwanted guns without risk of arrest for participants. Yet the problem here is that these “unwanted” guns might come from wanted criminals. South Brunswick Police Department has good intentions, but has failed in its execution. Liberating potential murderers is too steep of a price for gaining miscellaneous guns ¬– and probably only a handful, at that. Despite an element of relief in taking guns off the streets, there is no way to prevent gunmen from restocking. It is one thing to take away a gun. It is another thing entirely to change a violent personality. The authorities aren’t even going to attempt the latter. They will, however, pay you for your cooperation. Last April, Middlesex County resolved to reduce gun crime through a buy-back program; “when you turn in guns, you make our neighborhoods safer and may save
a life,” said Middlesex County prosecutor Bruce Kaplan. Middlesex County’s buy back program, like South Brunswick’s amnesty program, also promised an unquestioning atmosphere. The added bonus was, of course, the cash: $80 for operable handguns and $150 for operable assault weapons. According to a few reliable sources on staff, only about four handguns were turned in through Middlesex’s big buy back. So, what makes South Brunswick any different? How can authorities ensure its success, its worth? Unless the gun-holder is currently facing gun-related charges, unlawful possession of the gun is overlooked. In fact, no background check is required to give up weaponry to South Brunswick. Just as violent video games don’t make a person violent, owning a gun doesn’t make a person a criminal. But violent people exist, and criminals walk among us daily. In light of recent gun-related tragedies (Newtown’s shooting, Obama’s gun control proposal, etc.), the project seems ill-timed and potentially ineffective Getting guns off of the street is a good thing, but leaving the criminals behind, albeit unarmed, isn’t a good thing at all. The balancing act proves tricky.
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In defense of fictional violence PHILOSOPHIES OF A PARTICULAR AMERICAN ED REEP
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ust before winter break, a madman named Adam Lanza went on a killing rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut that took the lives of more than a dozen innocent children. Since then, social and political leaders have been playing the blame game. Some blame overly lax mental health laws. Some blame overly lax gun laws. Some blame overly strict gun laws. The National Rifle Association of all organizations has even blamed violent movies and videogames. This stance by the NRA has an absurd implication I’d like to point out: that real gun ownership is somehow safer than virtual gun ownership. While I think there is a legitimate public policy discussion to be had about mental health laws and gun control laws in both the loosening and tightening directions, I think the idea that we should do something about violent fiction to protect society is extremely misguided. Sure, someone already open to the idea of murder may watch a movie or read a book and get inspired to commit a real murder. That’s happened multiple times in our history. Off the top of my head, I can name four highly entertaining and artistic works that have inspired madmen: “American Psycho,” “Taxi Driver,”
“Natural Born Killers,” and “The Catcher son would faze us. Since fictional characin the Rye.” But our society has to make ters are representations that do not actutradeoffs between protecting us from ally feel and think, we do not truly madmen and allowing us sane people to empathize and sympathize with them. have a life worth living in the first place. They are there for our amusement, to be As a sane, moral person, the joy that I get the recipient of whatever thoughts and from observing and participating in imag- feelings a work of fiction inspires us to let inary violence (such as that found in loose on them, and violent thoughts and movies, books, and videogames) is far feelings just happen to be some of the worth the minutely increased risk that a most satisfying and powerful that get let madman might slaughter me. Not every- loose. People like me will watch images of body is into violent fiction, which is actual people dying on the news and be as absolutely fine. I find celebrity gossip bor- disapproving as anyone else, but then we ing personally, but will watch images of let me explain the imaginar y people appeal of and give a dying in a war “Do we stop eating apples full defense for ficmovie and be in because some nuts put razor heaven. Someone tional violence, one of my favorite should probably do blades in them?” things in the world. a psychology study Let explain to you based on this why I am uncertain dichotomy and scan that it would be worth living in a world people’s brains. It would be groundbreakwithout “Grand Theft Auto,” “Scarface,” ing and probably reveal that my ilk is actuor “A Clockwork Orange.” ally quite common. To understand why a sane, moral perOne of the most splendidly violent son would enjoy the maiming and mur- movies I have ever seen is the recently dering of fictional characters, you must released “Django Unchained.” The pasunderstand the way that I and others like sionate and hateful brutality in that movie me think. You must understand specifical- is a super pleasure to watch, a real dream ly the way that we empathize/sympathize — a natural high if there ever was one. with others, which is different than how a Seeing vengeance sadistically unleashed lot of people do it. When we regard oth- has never been so spectacular, so raw, so ers, we do so not on the basis of how oth- cinematically well-executed. And note that ers appear to us. We do so rather on the if for a second I had any reason to believe basis of how we imagine others actually that the slave overseer getting sadistically feel and think. A representation of a suf- whipped in that movie was a real person fering person would not faze us as it actually getting sadistically whipped, my would many; only an actual suffering per- elation in viewing it would have turned to
horror. Oh, elation, what a grand feeling. For sane, moral people who like fictional violence, watching a movie like “Django Unchained” is one of those blissful natural highs that make life a happy place. And that is my defense of non-real violence. Yes, non-real violence can inspire those already deranged to do things that hurt others. Perhaps it might have inspired Adam Lanza to do what he did over winter break, but so what? Do we stop eating apples because some nuts put razor blades in them? Listening to the debate that followed the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy, it almost feels like everything and everyone has been blamed except the killer himself, who chose to engage in an evil act that any millions of Americans could engage in on any weekday if they so had the inclination. Random lunatic violence happens. It’s a fact of the condition, an outlier to be sure, but still relevant. In the end, there’s only so much we should do about it or even think about it. You don’t want to go to the grocery store afraid of the possibility that the bag boy might snap and blow your brains out with a 9MM. That could happen, you know. They don’t generally have metal detectors or armed guards at grocery selling establishments. Ed Reep is a Rutgers Business School senior majoring in supply chain and marketing science and minoring in business and technical writing and economics. His column, “Philosophies of a Par ticular American,” normally runs on alternate Mondays.
Unchaining the truth behind slavery LEE SELTZER
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s some of you probably know, there are other ways to celebrate Christmas besides exchanging gifts and ham with your family members. No, as a Jew, I choose to celebrate this national holiday with kosher Chinese food and by seeing a movie. Unfortunately, this year the kosher Chinese place was closed. Luckily, the movie I saw was good enough to make up for my lack of chow mein. That movie was “Django Unchained,” and it kept up a tradition of truly captivating films directed by Quentin Tarantino. Like all of Tarantino’s works, “Django” received largely widespread praise, as well as a number of Oscar nominations in the categories of Best Picture, Best Screenplay, and of course Best Supporting Actor for the performance of Christoph Waltz. Tarantino has received his fair share of criticism for this film though. It is not unusual for a director as well known as Tarantino to deal with negative responses to their films. However, these allegations are of a slightly more unusual sort. As you may be aware, “Django Unchained” has been labeled as racially insensitive. The first to express this
was Spike Lee, who now famously these tools, “Django” would be a far less tweeted “American Slaver y Was Not A powerful and important movie. Do not Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It Was get me wrong, the “N” word is used A Holocaust. My Ancestors Are Slaves. enough to shock the ears of any racially Stolen From Africa. I Will Honor sensitive individual. However, this is Them.” Moreover, Katt Williams has meant to invoke the attitudes that existed expressed outrage over the use of the surrounding slaver y. How many slave constant use of the “N” word through- owners do you think referred to their out the film. slaves as “African Americans?” If you ever However, I believe that people holding had to read “The Adventures of sentiments such as these have misguided Huckleberry Finn” in high school, you anger. To start off, Spike Lee has stated should be able to infer that the correct that he has no intention of seeing the answer is none. movie. If he saw the movie and developed During my sophomore year, I had the an educated opinoppor tunity to ion about it, then take a histor y “Castration, amputation, he might have a class where I point. However, about brutal beatings, rape, and other learned Spike Lee’s anger slaver y and slave comes largely unimaginable tortures were part revolts. In this from pre-formed class, my profesof daily life on plantations.” biases, and dare I sor taught us say extraordinary that most hubris. It is also Americans have interesting to see that he uses the word a more benign image of slaver y than “Holocaust” to describe slavery, whereas what actually existed. Although the myth Tarantino has already written a movie cen- of the righteous slave owner was not tered on the Holocaust. Maybe it did not entirely false, these slave owners were depict death camps the way “Django” only kind in an attempt to prevent slave depicted plantations, but come on, there revolts. It was not out of good nature, was a character in the movie known as but rather out of selfishness. “the Jew Killer.” In the case of the vast majority of slave My biggest problem with this criticism owners, life on a plantation was absolutely is that it misinterprets the often casually ruthless. The institution itself was a genoexpressed usage of explicit violence and cidal one. It was not uncommon for those racial slurs. I would argue that without in plantations to be dealt extreme punish-
ments, and white slave owners were rarely prosecuted for unnecessar y violence against their slaves. Castration, amputation, brutal beatings, rape, and other unimaginable tortures were part of daily life on plantations. Tarantino did a fantastic job of depicting this. In the movie, slave owners nonchalantly subject their slaves to abhorrent punishments including being fed to dogs. The reason they were so nonchalant about it was because for these fictional slave owners, this violence was both institutionalized and normalized, just like in the actual system of slavery. Spike Lee was right about one thing: Slaver y was unbelievably horrible. However, Tarantino does not disrespect the legacy of slaves. Instead, he honors them by bringing to light ever ything they went through. This is especially important as slaver y is rarely shown when depicted in pop culture to be as terrible as it was at the time. For this reason, I would argue that rather than “Django Unchained” being racially insensitive, it is instead perhaps the most important piece of work made about American slaver y since “Roots.” Lee Seltzer is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in history and economics with a minor in mathematics. His column, “What’s Bubblin’,” runs on alternate Tuesdays. Follow Lee on Twitter @simplee_bubblin.
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NEUTRAL Flood endorses Nova as coordinator search begins in earnest
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Jamison, Ryan face different paths to NFL BY TYLER BARTO SPORTS EDITOR
CONTINUED FROM BACK “Obviously it’s a frustrating night, but you just tr y to keep fighting through it,” Nova said. “We didn’t get the outcome we wanted.” Head coach Kyle Flood reiterated his faith in Nova as the starter postgame and again Jan. 7, much like he did Aug. 20, when Nova emerged as Flood’s full-time quarterback. He has hitched his wagon on Nova’s 6foot-2 frame, for better or worse. His and Nova’s fates are inextricably linked. “I don’t believe in just throwing things against the wall to see if they work,” Flood said. “Gary’s our starting quarterback. … When you invest the reps and the preparation in your starting quarterback, you have to believe that as he goes through the game he’s going to get better.” After blowing a 10-point halftime lead and throwing 13 interceptions in the second half of the season, neither proved particularly true for Nova. Six interceptions Oct. 27 against Kent State distort that number. Losing sophomore running back Jawan Jamison, who suffered an ankle injur y Nov. 10 against Army and then against Virginia Tech certainly hurt, as well. But more than anything, a lack of offensive continuity ultimately led to Nova’s undoing. “I think I got a little better ever y game,” Nova said. “Obviously the turnovers toward the end of the season were not I wanted. I just have to keep getting better.” The responsibility briefly fell on Brock. The career assistant — he became head coach at Delaware on Jan. 18 — spent nearly 10 months leaving his imprint on Rutgers’ offense, which lasted five drives in Virginia Tech territory without scoring a touchdown. Brock said before the season he lacked the frame of reference on how Rutgers’ defense remained its legacy. “Sometimes if you have a decent day,” Brock said Aug. 11 during the team’s media day, “people think it’s a great day because I don’t know how many decent days people have had here.” Flood said he could not discount the first share of a Big East title in program history in defining this season, his first with a head coach’s responsibility. He sat teary-eyed at his postgame press conference, answering more questions about the fate of his starting quarterback — nearly a year after trying to provide the position with stability. He likely did not envision doing so three games ago, when Rutgers sat in first place in the Big East, prime realty for a BCS berth. Flood, the Knights’ former offensive line coach, ultimately found himself following the muddied footprints of seasons past. “We wanted to go out with 10 wins,” Vallone said, “and instead, we get a three-game losing streak.” This story originally appeared online at dailytargum.com on Dec. 29.
For the first time in recent memory, two members of the Rutgers football team opted to forgo their remaining eligibility and enter the NFL Draft. One, junior cornerback Logan Ryan, earned a first-round talent evaluation from ESPN NFL Draft analyst Mel Kiper. Ryan led the Scarlet Knights in pass breakups, finished second with four interceptions and ranked No. 2 on the team with 94 tackles.
“I hope it separates me,” Ryan said Dec. 31 of his role in run defense. “Corner’s a prima donna position, and I feel like I approached the game very blue collar-like. I want to do it all.” Jawan Jamison announced his intention Jan. 5 after hearing he earned a third-round grade from NFL Draft personnel, according to The Star-Ledger. The sophomore running back led the Knights with 1,075 rushing yards in 2012, becoming the first back to break the 1,000-yard mark since Ray Rice in 2008.
Jamison dealt with lingering right ankle issues this season. He left the Dec. 28 Russell Athletic Bowl after aggravating an injury he first suffered Nov. 10 against Army. The Knights struggled to establish a consistent running game with Jamison hobbled and ended the season on a threegame losing streak. Head coach Kyle Flood cited the run game’s ineffectiveness as a factor in the offense’s low-scoring numbers down the stretch. Flood must conduct his first coaching search since taking the
job a year ago after former offensive coordinator Dave Brock was hired Jan. 18 as head coach at Delaware. But his defensive coordinator, Robb Smith, returns, albeit with a secondary losing four prominent pieces to graduation and the NFL Draft. “I think there’s a lot of promise there,” Smith said Dec. 31. “Now we get a chance to sit down, reevaluate … see what tools they have … and get a jump on 2013.” For updates on the Rutgers football team, follow Tyler Barto on Twitter @TBartoTargum.
JANUARY 22, 2013
SPORTS PAGE 18 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL GEORGETOWN-RUTGERS, TONIGHT 7 P.M.
Offense improves after recent struggles BY AARON FARRAR CORRESPONDENT
Two teams with identical records prepare for a battle on the hardwood tonight in front of a national audience. The Rutgers women’s basketball team takes on Georgetown at home, a tipping off at 7 p.m. The Scarlet Knights (10-7, 13) look to build on momentum as they welcome the Hoyas (107, 2-2). But they have a daunting task of figuring out a way to contain Georgetown senior guard Sugar Rogers, the nation’s leading scorer who averages 24.6 points per game. After picking up their first Big East victory Wednesday against Providence, the Knights hope they can put together a complete game and earn another home win. Sophomore wing Betnijah Laney, who scored a career-best
24 points, led an offensive clinic against the Friars. “It’s not like I have in my head that I’m trying to go out and get 20 points,” Laney said in a statement. “I just go out to improve each game.” Senior forward Monique Oliver shot 4-for-4 from the field before halftime, scoring 10 of her 16 points in that span, and the Knights scored a season-high 87 points. Head coach C. Vivian Stringer watched as the squad tallied its most points in a conference game since 2007. The Knights shot 61.5 percent from the floor and scored 30 points off turnovers. “I’ve never seen 87 points. That would have been nice to get 90 just once,” Stringer said in a statement. “I was shocked we got 87. It was really nice to see those kind of points. It’s about where they came from, because 22 of those points came from the free throw line. Others came from
breaks and stealing the ball, so that was good.” Rutgers dictated the pace early on in the contest. The Knights were aggressive and the offense flowed from the opening tip. It did not take long for them to take advantage of their size down low. Rutgers’ frontcour t contributed to the team’s 54 points in the paint, 14 of which came from freshman wing Kahleah Copper. Inside presence in the paint is crucial for Rutgers, who must prepare to disrupt junior forward Andrea White’s rhythm. White is second in scoring behind Rogers with 11.3 points per game. She is also active around the glass, helping the Hoyas with 6.1 rebounds per game. Meanwhile, fifth-year senior Chelsey Lee leads the Knights with 4.9 boards per game.
Sophomore wing Betnijah Laney attempts a shot during the Knights’ Dec. 9 win against Louisiana Tech. JOVELLE TAMAYO, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF / DECEMBER 2012
In a matchup that will test physicality, Rutgers is also concerned about protecting its home floor, where it is 8-1 this season. “[The win] has given us
much more confidence,” Oliver said in a statement. “We’re ready to get into these next few games, like Georgetown, with a lot more confidence.”
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Historic win faces obstacles BY JOSH BAKAN ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
Rutgers head women’s basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer is five wins away from becoming the third Division-I coach with 900 victories. Because of struggles in Big East play and the upcoming schedule, Stringer’s historic moment might not arrive until late Februar y or March. The Scarlet Knights’ resume action tonight against Georgetown. Stringer could reach 900 wins with a victor y against the Hoyas and then against Seton Hall, Marquette, Villanova and Cincinnati. If Rutgers puts together a winning streak culminating with a win Feb. 9 against the Bearcats, it would allow Stringer to reach the milestone in front of her home fans at the Louis Brown Athletic Center. But losing only one of the next five games would mean Stringer attempts her 900th victor y during a difficult stretch. The Knights would proceed Feb. 12 against DePaul, which fought the Knights until the final seconds of Rutgers’ 65-64 victor y last season. Rutgers faces No. 3 Connecticut on Feb. 16 and then visits Syracuse, the first team out of yesterday’s AP Rankings. After that, the Knights visit a St. John’s team Feb. 23 that has beaten Rutgers in three straight games. The schedule does not ease up until Feb. 26 against USF and March 2 against Cincinnati, which combine for one Big East victor y this season.
JANUARY 22, 2013
SPORTS PAGE 19 KNIGHT NOTEBOOK RUTGERS SITS TIED FOR SIXTH IN BIG EAST
Sophomore point guard Jerome Seagears looks for a passing lane in the Knights’ Jan. 17 win against South Florida. Following a slow start to the season, Seagears has started the last five games, raising his scoring total to 4.3 points per game while dishing out 40 assists and only 21 turnovers. SHIRLEY YU
Knights defeat three of first six conference foes BY JOEY GREGORY ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
The Rutgers men’s basketball team is in rarified air, at least according to recent history, sitting at 3-3 in conference play. If the season were to end today, the Scarlet Knights would own a first-round bye in the Big East Tournament. But it does not end today, and the Scarlet Knights have 12 more games. Fortunately for the Knights, only three of those opponents — Cincinnati, Louisville and Marquette — sit above them in the standings. And they have already
shown they can stand against ranked opponents. In their home conference opener, the Knights rebounded from a 25-point defeat at the hands of then-No. 7 Syracuse to defeat then-No. 24 Pittsburgh, despite watching a double-digit lead shrink to one point. “When we were punched [against Syracuse], we blinked and backed up, and [against Pitt] we didn’t,” said head coach Mike Rice on Jan. 5. “The guys were great in the huddle. The guys were communicating and protecting each other, and that’s a step forward with this team.” Since the Jan. 2 loss to the Orange, a theme has developed for Rutgers.
While it has held off late charges from its opponents in each of its three conference victories, it has also shown the lack of an ability to play from behind. A 24-0 Syracuse run proved to be too much for the Knights while Cincinnati rode a lead that reached 18 points to victory. In its latest loss, a 3-point defeat Saturday at then-No. 20 Notre Dame, Rutgers could not climb out of a 13-point hole. Rice still sees the difference in the team’s players. “I know that I have a better team than I’ve had the last two years,” Rice said in a statement. “I know that I have some scoring ability, inside and out. I know we have to become more
consistent in ever ything that we do.”
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factor in the improvement of Rutgers’ conference play — it is only three wins shy of tying its record for Big East wins under Rice — is the emergence of sophomore point guard Jerome Seagears. Seagears replaced classmate Eli Carter in the starting lineup against the Panthers after Carter committed what Rice called a violation of team rules. “He was aggressive, he was a leader,” Rice said Jan. 5. “I thought he was tremendous defensively, tremendous in the huddles, and it also gives [sophomore guard] Myles [Mack] a chance to get off the
ball and run more plays for Myles.”
THE KNIGHTS HAVE developed consistency in at least one respect: their performance at home. So far this season, they have lost only two games at the Louis Brown Athletic Center and only one home conference matchup. Luckily for the Knights, they take on likely their two toughest opponents — Louisville on Feb. 6 and Marquette on March 5 — from the comfort of the RAC. “If you want to do anything in this league, you have to protect your own home court,” Rice said. “I think we’re starting to have a feeling, a sense of mentality that this [losing] isn’t going to happen to us and we’re going to protect it.”
JANUARY 22, 2013
SPORTS PAGE 20 GYMNASTICS 192.925, SECOND PLACE
Pre-meet injury dampens Rutgers’ performance BY GREG JOHNSON STAFF WRITER
On an afternoon when fans packed bleachers inside the Livingston Recreation Center, the Rutgers gymnastics team faced high expectations in its first home quad meet of the season. The Scarlet Knights (4-2) defeated Penn and Ursinus on Saturday to capture second place with a score of 192.925, but fell short of Bridgeport, which won the meet with a score of 194.100.
Coming off a tri-meet victory score of 193.900 on Jan. 12 — their highest team score in nearly two years — the Knights looked to duplicate that performance. But they would have to do so without senior co-captain Jenna Zito, injured during team warm-ups. It was not an easy void to fill, said senior Danielle D’Elia. “She has a really, really big impact on our team. She really makes a difference and without her it’s going to be hard,” D’Elia said. “That’s what we’ve been talk-
ing about as a team. Someone always has to step up and that’s why we are a team.” Freshman Jenna Williams delivered strong performances in several events. She matched a careerbest 9.850 score on the uneven bars to take first place individually and also took third on vault with a career-high 9.850 routine. Williams, recently named EAGL Rookie of the Week, was the only Knight to score at least a 9.800 in more than one event and has quickly become
a fixture in Rutgers’ early season success. “She’s doing exactly what I expected her to do on vault and bars, and on beam she’s exceeded my expectation,” said head coach Louis Levine. “She’s really been one of the people leading our team through this.” But two Knights fell from the bars during their routines, including D’Elia, who was disappointed after putting together two strong routines on bars in the first two meets.
The event was a focal point of improvement for the team in the offseason. Levine believes that if it can achieve a more consistency on bars, Rutgers can compete with any team in the country in the event. “It was just a bad day. I don’t think it’s a sign of things to come,” Levine said. “Danielle was a millimeter away from having a 9.900.” Despite the incomplete performance on bars, the Knights do not point to a few miscues in one event as the reason they did not finish in first place.
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uke returned to the No. 1 spot in the Associated Press’ college basketball poll after dropping from the same position the week before. Michigan took the No. 2 spot while Kansas, Syracuse and Louisville rounded out the top five. Arizona moved up one position to No. 6 while Indiana dropped five spots to No. 7 thanks to its loss to Wisconsin. Florida was eighth, Butler ninth and Gonzaga finished at No. 10 in the polls. Two other Big East schools made the rankings, as Cincinnati finished at No. 21 and Notre Dame at No. 24.
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group has agreed to a deal to acquire the Sacramento Kings and are intent on moving the franchise to Seattle for next season, according to ESPN.com. The Maloofs, who own the Kings, and the relocation group that valued the franchise at $525 million notified NBA teams of the deal Sunday night. The group will file for relocation before the NBA’s March 1 deadline, but the deal still has to be approved by the league formally. Seattle last housed an NBA franchise in 2008, when the Seattle SuperSonics played there.
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Woody Johnson forced the team’s trade for quarterback Tim Tebow, according to a CBSSports.com report. Johnson told general manager candidates the Tebow trade was not his idea and that he did not want Tebow on the team. Johnson told former Denver Broncos general manager Ted Sundquist the Jets wanted to part ways with Tebow because they felt he was a distraction to the team. The Jets acquired Tebow from the Broncos last offseason after the Broncos signed quarterback Peyton Manning during free agency. Tebow appeared in 12 games this season, with 39 passing yards and 102 yards on the ground.
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JANUARY 22, 2013 WRESTLING RUTGERS GOES 7-2 OVER BREAK, REMAINS UNDEFEATED IN CONFERENCE
Lehigh victory highlights winter break action BY BRADLY DERECHAILO CORRESPONDENT
One of the biggest benefits Rutgers head wrestling coach Scott Goodale said the team received during winter break was rest.
Goodale gave the team nine days off when finals began, a decision he felt it needed to combat the effects of a long season. “It was important,” Goodale said. “Ever since [assistant] coach [Frank] Molinaro arrived, we have
Senior Scott Winston takes down Iowa State’s Logan Molina in the Knights’ 19-15 loss to the Cyclones on Jan 11. ENRICO CABREDO, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / JANUARY 2013
WRESTLING
Freshman delivers in final bout BY BRADLY DERECHAILO CORRESPONDENT
Billy Smith admitted he had struggled for the Rutgers wrestling team entering the Scarlet Knights’ 17-16 win Friday against Lehigh. The redshirt freshman heavyweight dropped two of his three bouts before facing the Mountain Hawks, including a 7-5 loss to Iowa State’s Matt Gibson. The defeat was the decisive match, as Rutgers trailed, 16-15, entering the last match against Iowa State. Smith faced the same situation against Lehigh on Friday after junior 197-pounder Dan Seidenberg dropped his match to Lehigh’s John Bolich, giving the Mountain Hawks a 16-14 lead with only Smith left to wrestle. Smith left no doubt this time, as the Wantage, N.J., native jumped out to a 2-0 lead against Lehigh’s Jack Delia on a takedown in the first period. Smith continued to handle Delia until the final buzzer and finished with a 6-0 victory and the first win for Rutgers against Lehigh since 1950. “I knew it was coming down to me.” Smith said after the win. “Mentally I just got prepared. I knew it was going to be a tough match, and I knew it was coming down to me. This match I felt more comfortable and I could stay within myself and not do anything extra. It felt good.” Although it is always not the case, Smith is usually the last wrestler to take the mat in dual matches. And while sometimes it comes down to the final bout, Smith anticipates those opportunities. As Smith continues to navigate through the season, a victory to clinch the Knights’ first win against Lehigh in more than 60 years can only help his confidence.
been at it since the summer with the plan. We have been on the mat for six months straight with not much of a break, so to get away from it for nine days was good.” The Knights put their rest to good work, going 7-2 during break while remaining undefeated in the EIWA at 6-0. In front of their home crowd at the Louis Brown Athletic Center on Friday, the Knights took down previously ranked Lehigh, 17-16, to give Goodale his first win against the Mountain Hawks as head coach. The win was also the first time Rutgers defeated Lehigh since 1950. Beating Lehigh was one of Goodale’s personal goals. “We’re all human,” he said. “You hear the people talking about not being able to defeat Lehigh or being able to win a big match, so it’s something I really wanted to do. It’s been personal.” Rutgers completed the break this weekend with a sweep of
Harvard and Brown. “I’ve just been trying to get better every day, that’s the goal,” Winston said. “That’s been the goal the past couple of years. We need to keep on a straight arrow and believe what coach [Goodale] is putting us through. We need to continue to get better individually and as a team.” Rutgers suffered a loss to Iowa State, 19-15, after returning from a three-match road trip. The streak began with a 1-1 dual split at the Grapple at the Garden event Dec. 16 at Madison Square Garden thanks to Nebraska’s 22-10 victory. Despite the loss, Goodale said it was natural for the team to see losses at this point in the season. “We didn’t wrestle great there, but I don’t think much has changed,” Goodale said. “We stuck to our plan and our process and trying to peak at certain times in the season.” Rutgers traveled to California
after New Year’s, arriving in the Golden State for matches against CSU Bakersfield, Arizona State and Stanford. The Knights had little trouble with each school. Senior 157-pounder Scott Winston saw the trip as an oppor tunity to train in a dif ferent atmosphere. It also did not hurt that the Jackson, N.J., native went 3-0 in his three matches and was one of three wrestlers to go without a loss during the trip. “I could have done some things better, but it was good to get out there, and it was fun,” Winston said. “We did a lot of traveling and got to see the beach right next to the mountains, so that’s cool. We saw some different campuses out there. It was a great experience.” For updates on the Rutgers wrestling team, follow Bradly Derechailo on Twitter @BradlyDTargum.
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JANUARY 22, 2013 FOOTBALL PRO-STYLE SYSTEM COULD BE INTERPRETIVE
Head coach Kyle Flood walks the sideline at Florida Citrus Bowl Stadium following Rutgers’ loss to Virginia Tech in the Russell Athletic Bowl. JOVELLE TAMAYO, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
RU enters first search with Flood BY TYLER BARTO SPORTS EDITOR
Kyle Flood must find a new offensive coordinator — the Rutgers football team’s fourth in as many seasons — following Dave Brock’s hiring Jan. 18 as head coach at Delaware. Flood said Jan. 18 any candidate must have play-calling experience and run a variation of a pro-style offense. “For me, a pro-style system should always be one that is able to utilize its weapons,” Flood said. “A pro-style system will be a two-back offense, and sometimes a pro-style system will be a one-back offense, and at times a pro-style system will be a no-back offense.” Flood ser ved as co-offensive coordinator from 2009-2010, when the Scarlet Knights flirted with the Wildcat formation and other sets that deviated from their traditional past. The Knights lost Jawan Jamison, the team’s leading rusher, to the NFL Draft, and little proven talent remains behind junior Savon Huggins. The result is likely creative play-calling. “The system is the system because it’s the one I want, and that’s not going to change,” Flood said. “Whoever the new offensive coordinator is, he’s going to be somebody that’s going to be able to use the weapons that are in the program to the best capabilities.” If Flood’s hire holds true, he could look to the passing game. The Knights return four veterans, including leading receiver
Brandon Coleman, at wideout next season, along with a corps from their 2012 recruiting class. But a lot rides on the development of junior quarterback Gar y Nova. Nova averaged six yards per pass attempt in Rutgers’ last four games — a 1-3 finish. His struggles in the Knights’ overtime bowl loss to Virginia Tech were well documented.
“[The new offensive coordinator is] ... going to be able to use the weapons ... in the program.” KYLE FLOOD Head Coach
He will now learn from his third offensive coordinator in as many seasons, although Flood insists the offense’s existing language will remain. “Gar y will handle it like a professional, and I think that’s the way he has handled most things in this process,” Flood said. “It’s certainly not ideal, and it’s not his fault or my fault or Coach Brock’s fault that this is happening.” Flood’s philosophy, based on creating one-onone matchups in the passing game, could come from several sources. He said he would not limit himself in a coaching search, which will include inhouse candidates Rob Spence and Norries Wilson. “I think it’s important to really explore every option,” Flood said.
Flood found himself in a similar situation nearly a year ago, when Greg Schiano’s move to the NFL prompted Athletic Director Tim Pernetti’s head coaching search. Former Florida International head coach Mario Cristobal, a former Rutgers assistant, was rumored to be the frontrunner for the job. Flood met with the media at the Louis Brown Athletic Center following his inter view, and he replaced Schiano a few days later. “I don’t have a timeframe that I’ve put on it,” Flood said. “I think if it could be before signing day [Feb. 6], there would certainly be some advantages to that but only if you found the right person. The real key and the importance of this search is to find the right person for our football program.” It will likely be someone familiar with Flood. Including Brock, six of Flood’s assistants have ties to the Colonial Athletic Conference, where Flood coached on staffs at Delaware and Hofstra. Ever y member of Flood’s staff, except for tight ends coach Darnell Dinkins, has coaching familiarity with the Northeast. Flood likely hopes Rutgers’ newest play-caller makes his permanent residence in Piscataway. “You certainly would like to have a continuity of having the same offensive coordinator year after year,” he said. “It’s part of the reality of our program right now that this is happening.” For updates on the Rutgers football team, follow Tyler Barto on Twitter @TBartoTargum.
JANUARY 22, 2013
SPORTS PAGE 23 FOOTBALL FLOOD EXPECTS DODD TO RETURN FOR FINAL SEASON
Sophomore quarterback Gary Nova surveys the field Dec. 28 at Florida Citrus Bowl Stadium against Virginia Tech, which held Rutgers without an offensive touchdown in the Knights’ first bowl loss since 2005. Nova will enter spring practice as the team’s starter, head coach Kyle Flood said postgame. ENRICO CABREDO, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Flood reconfirms faith in tested Nova BY TYLER BARTO SPORTS EDITOR
Gary Nova said following the Dec. 28 Russell Athletic Bowl he deserved to be the Rutgers football team’s starting quarterback entering spring practice. Head coach Kyle Flood agreed Jan. 7, reiterating his support for the sophomore in his end-of-year teleconference.
“If there’s ever a situation where there’s a player who’s clearly the best player at the position, then they’ll star t,” Flood said. “There are no endowed positions at Rutgers, but I think Gar y’s got a unique opportunity coming in as the starter and getting the starter’s reps this spring.” Nova’s completion percentage dipped to nearly 56 percent
in the Scarlet Knights’ last seven games, including the 13-10 overtime bowl loss to Virginia Tech in Orlando in which he completed a season-low 42.5 percent of his passes. Nova threw 14 interceptions during that stretch after tossing only two in the Knights’ first six games. Still, Flood said he never considered benching Nova in
Sophomore running back Jawan Jamison, who announced Jan. 5 he will enter the NFL Draft, looks for running room against Virginia Tech. JOVELLE TAMAYO, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
the season finale, when five trips inside Virginia Tech ter ritor y ended without touchdowns. “If I felt like the quar terback wasn’t playing well and the rest of the of fense was and I felt a change could have a significant impact, I think then you consider it,” Flood said. “That game on of fense, there was not a lot of things going right at any position.” Nova’s backup, junior Chas Dodd, has appeared in six meaningful games in which he did not star t. He threw only one pass in his last appearance Nov. 24 at Pittsburgh before Nova, who said he got the wind knocked out of him, returned. Dodd replaced Nova on Nov. 5, 2011, against South Florida, engineering an overtime victory on 11-for-17 passing. Flood dismissed the possibility of Dodd transferring. “I think players that are looking for other options … you don’t see that kind of commitment to the program,” he said. “I never once doubted Chas’ commitment to the program.” Dodd and Nova entered last spring in competition for reps with the Knights’ first-team offense. It spilled into the summer, when Flood named Nova the team’s starter Aug. 20, days before Rutgers’ season opener at Tulane. Flood said he expected his coaching staf f to remain intact, but of fensive coordinator Dave Brock agreed Jan. 18 to become the next head coach at Delaware. Flood began his search that weekend for the team’s next playcaller, its fourth in as many seasons and Nova’s third. “Coach Brock is a really fine football coach and has been for a
long time,” Flood said Jan. 18. “[Delaware’s interest in Brock] did not surprise me, and the fact that they wanted to hire him did not surprise me.” Nova will need a dynamic of fense. The Knights lacked it in their last three games — all losses — when Flood said a lack of running game undid their of fense. “When you don’t r un the ball with consistency, you’re going to struggle on of fense,” he said. “The biggest dif ference in the Cincinnati game [a 10-3 win, was] we were able to run the ball with tremendous consistency. That was not the case in the Virginia Tech game, and it eventually caught up with us.” Jawan Jamison’s NFL Draft declaration does not help. The sophomore rushed for 1,075 yards this season, the team’s first 1,000-yard season for a running back since 2007. But recurring ankle injuries diminished Jamison’s production down the stretch, and the Knights faltered without a threat on the ground. “Cer tainly we’re not where we want to be of fensively,” he said. “I think we’re closer than we were a year ago. The biggest issue I think we have on of fense is we need to perform more consistently. There’s just not enough consistency in of fensive per formance. There was more than there was last year. … We want our of fense to play with the same kind of consistency our defense does. We haven’t been able to get there yet.” For updates on the Rutgers football team, follow Tyler Bar to on Twitter @TBar toTargum.
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REVOLVING DOOR Rutgers head football coach Kyle
SHIFTING GEARS Sophomore guard Jerome
17-16 victory against Lehigh on Friday served as the high point of its winter break. / PAGE 19
Flood knows what he wants from the team’s fourth offensive coordinator in as many years. / PAGE 22
Seagears has lifted the Rutgers men’s basketball team to success. / PAGE 19
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QUOTE OF THE DAY “We wanted to go out with 10 wins, and instead, we get a three-game losing streak.” — Rutgers football team defensive tackle Scott Vallone
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A pair of Virginia Tech defenders bring down sophomore running back Jawan Jamison during the Knights’ Dec. 28 loss to the Hokies in the Russell Athletic Bowl. Jamison since declared for the NFL Draft and Dave Brock, Rutgers’ offensive coordinator, took a head coaching job at Delaware. ENRICO CABREDO, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
STUCK IN NEUTRAL Offense stalls despite five second-half trips in Virginia Tech territory, Hokies snap Rutgers’ five-bowl winning streak BY TYLER BARTO SPORTS EDITOR
ORLANDO — For more than 60 minutes Dec. 28, it appeared the rainy Florida Citrus Bowl Stadium had become watered down. Then the Rutgers football team’s offense made its own case. For nearly an entire season, the Scarlet Knights tr udged through mud. They found none on the soaked Citrus Bowl tur f, but a 13-10 over time loss to Virginia
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team largely came from the other side of the ball. Rutgers never followed up its fumble recovery in the end zone on Virginia Tech’s second play from scrimmage, and sophomore quarterback Gary Nova’s 16th interception of the season set up the Hokies’ (7-6) only touchdown. Nova took blame for the error — he said it was a poor pass to sophomore wide receiver Brandon Coleman, but the two have a history of miscommunication on the field — as well
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Tech dampened a once-promising run. “You’d love your offense to score 40 points and be able to get into a fourth quarter where you’re rushing the passer every play, but that’s just not the case sometimes,” said senior defensive tackle Scott Vallone. “The style of offense that we run — wanting to run the football and commit to that — those are kind of the games we plan on playing in.” The Knights (9-4) resigned themselves to a similar fate in the Russell Athletic Bowl, where the only offense from either
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CHRIS WYCKOFF earned Big East Field Athlete of the Week after he logged the top pole vault score Jan. 5 at the Rutgers Invitational with a final height of 5.12 meters.
as a fourth-quarter fumbled exchange Virginia Tech recovered. He finished 17-for-40 for 129 yards despite — or perhaps because of — offensive coordinator Dave Brock’s catered play calling. A combination of three-step drops, screen passes and quick timing patterns littered Nova’s evening, but little worked. Neither did the Knights’ 39 rush attempts, a mentality Vallone said is “the brand we play.” SEE
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