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THE D AILY T ARGUM Volume 141, Number 17 S E R V I N G T H E R U T G E R S C O M M U N I T Y S I N C E 1 8 6 9 THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 24, 2009 INDEX Rutgers head coach Greg Schiano has not yet cleared quarterback Tom Savage to play against Maryland. Several of the University’s major initiatives to go green have been brought to light, but what about the little things? START SPREADING THE NEWS Today: Partly cloudy High: 82 • Low: 55 New York City kicked off the first of many Fashion Weeks around the world, showcasing styles to come for Spring 2010. Inside Beat looks at some of the designers featured on the runways. ONLINE @ DAILYTARGUM.COM SPORTS UNIVERSITY OPINIONS ....... 10 DIVERSIONS ...... 12 CLASSIFIEDS ...... 14 SPORTS ...... BACK UNIVERSITY ....... 3 NCADD of Middlesex County Preventionist II Jennifer Smith hangs ornaments on a tree at yesterday’s eighth annual Tree of Hope event at Edison’s Oxford House, held to increase awareness of substance use disorders and to promote recovery in Middlesex county. LESLIE LIAPES HOPE GROWS Court upholds decision for one ballot question BY MARY DIDUCH ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR New Brunswick voters will only see one referendum question asking to change the city council format on November’s ballot after an appeals court upheld a lower court’s ruling in favor of local grass-roots organization Empower Our Neighborhoods. Judges Dorothea Wefing, Carmen Messano and Laura LeWinn of the Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey unanimously upheld Middlesex County Superior Court Judge James Hurley’s Sept. 18 decision, invalidat- ing the City’s approval of another commu- nity group’s — Unite New Brunswick — petition to add a second charter-change question in addition to EON’s on the ballot. Now voters can either vote for EON’s proposition of a hybrid, ward-based coun- cil or to keep the current five-member, at- large council. “This period of distraction is over now,” EON spokesman Charlie Kratovil said. “People can finally have a fair debate about whether or not wards are better for the city.” City spokesman Bill Bray said the city is dissatisfied with the judges’ ruling. “The city is reviewing the judges’ ruling, which obviously came in late today, and we are disappointed,” he said. “We’re confident that our reading of the law was correct. Unfortunately, the courts have disagreed.” While the city could appeal the deci- sion to the state supreme court, Bray A University alumnus was sen- tenced Tuesday in the Middlesex County Superior Court with a 12-year jail sentence, six years for each of the two counts of vehicular manslaughter of two University engineering gradu- ate students. Kapil Goel, a 25-year-old Highland Park resident who finished graduate school in engineering, killed his two roommates, Karan Bhandari and Amarinder Cheema, both 24, while driving under the influence in July 2008, said Sgt. Dominick Masi of the Edison Police Traffic Division. “It was a one-car crash. The vehi- cle was traveling at 90 to 120 miles per hour [according to] witness state- ments,” he said. Goel, driving a 2003 Acura TL, hit a utility pole by the Motor Vehicle Inspection center by Cedar Lane and Road 2 in Edison after neglecting to follow a bend in the road, causing the car to roll more than 200 feet and eject the back passenger from the vehicle, Masi said. Goel had a blood alcohol content of .164 when taken by officers, possi- bly as high as .186 at the time of the crash — more than twice the legal limit, Masi said. Edison EMS and Police pro- nounced both passengers Bhandari and Cheema dead at the scene, he said. Goel was transferred to Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Hospital in critical condition. Goel remained unconscious in the intensive care unit for about 26 hours, Masi said. When he awoke, he did not remember the crash. Masi said all three had been drink- ing a bottle of Jack Daniels and were driving home to their apartment on Cedar Lane after buying another bot- tle at a Rite Aid in Highland Park. —Mary Diduch U. ALUMNUS SENTENCED TO 12 YEARS IN PRISON ON DRUNK DRIVING MANSLAUGHTER CHARGES SEE DECISION ON PAGE 4 Union to boycott president’s address BY CAGRI OZUTURK ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR The contract negotiations between the Union of Rutgers Administrators- American Federation of Teachers and the University administrators have not reached a settlement yet, and the delay looks to continue as the rela- tionship seems to strain. “When President [Richard L.] McCormick gives his State of the Molenaar clears up transportation myths on bus ride BY GREG FLYNN CORRESPONDENT Among the students standing on the packed EE bus Tuesday stood Director of Transportation Services Jack Molenaar. He rode around the entire campus once, answering student’s questions, dispelling myths, receiving complaints and compliments. Molenaar said he understands the system has it flaws but he takes pride in its efficiency. “You have to learn the system,” he said. “You have to plan your schedule ahead of time, you have to realize that there’s going to be traffic, there’s going to be accidents and you might be late at times. That’s the life of any commuter.” The bus system is the largest system for a University in the nation and the second largest transit system in the state, Molenaar said. Director of Transportation Services Jack Molenaar says the B bus, which is an express traveling between the Busch and Livingston campus, is the most frequently used by students who have 20 minutes between classes. RAMON DOMPOR/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER SEE MYTHS ON PAGE 4 SEE UNION ON PAGE 6
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Rutgers head coachGreg Schiano has notyet cleared quarterback Tom Savage to play against Maryland.
Several of the University’s majorinitiatives to gogreen have beenbrought to light, but what about the little things?
START SPREADING THE NEWS Today: Partly cloudy
High: 82 • Low: 55New York City kicked off the first of many Fashion Weeks around the world, showcasing styles to come
for Spring 2010. Inside Beat looks at some of the designers featured on the runways.
ONLINE @DAILYTARGUM.COM
SPORTS
UNIVERSITY
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DIVERSIONS . . . . . . 12
CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . 14
SPORTS . . . . . . BACK
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NCADD of Middlesex County Preventionist II Jennifer Smith hangs ornaments on a tree atyesterday’s eighth annual Tree of Hope event at Edison’s Oxford House, held to increaseawareness of substance use disorders and to promote recovery in Middlesex county.
LESLIE LIAPES
HOPE GROWS Court upholds decisionfor one ballot question
BY MARY DIDUCHASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
New Brunswick voters will only seeone referendum question asking tochange the city council format onNovember’s ballot after an appeals courtupheld a lower court’s ruling in favor oflocal grass-roots organization EmpowerOur Neighborhoods.
Judges Dorothea Wefing, CarmenMessano and Laura LeWinn of theAppellate Division of the Superior Court ofNew Jersey unanimously upheldMiddlesex County Superior Court JudgeJames Hurley’s Sept. 18 decision, invalidat-ing the City’s approval of another commu-nity group’s — Unite New Brunswick —petition to add a second charter-changequestion in addition to EON’s on the ballot.
Now voters can either vote for EON’sproposition of a hybrid, ward-based coun-cil or to keep the current five-member, at-large council.
“This period of distraction is overnow,” EON spokesman Charlie Kratovilsaid. “People can finally have a fair debateabout whether or not wards are better forthe city.”
City spokesman Bill Bray said the cityis dissatisfied with the judges’ ruling.
“The city is reviewing the judges’ ruling,which obviously came in late today, and weare disappointed,” he said. “We’re confidentthat our reading of the law was correct.Unfortunately, the courts have disagreed.”
While the city could appeal the deci-sion to the state supreme court, Bray
A University alumnus was sen-tenced Tuesday in the MiddlesexCounty Superior Court with a 12-yearjail sentence, six years for each of thetwo counts of vehicular manslaughterof two University engineering gradu-ate students.
Kapil Goel, a 25-year-old HighlandPark resident who finished graduateschool in engineering, killed his tworoommates, Karan Bhandari andAmarinder Cheema, both 24, whiledriving under the influence in July2008, said Sgt. Dominick Masi of theEdison Police Traffic Division.
“It was a one-car crash. The vehi-cle was traveling at 90 to 120 miles perhour [according to] witness state-ments,” he said.
Goel, driving a 2003 Acura TL, hita utility pole by the Motor VehicleInspection center by Cedar Lane andRoad 2 in Edison after neglecting tofollow a bend in the road, causing the
car to roll more than 200 feet and ejectthe back passenger from the vehicle,Masi said.
Goel had a blood alcohol contentof .164 when taken by officers, possi-bly as high as .186 at the time of thecrash — more than twice the legallimit, Masi said.
Edison EMS and Police pro-nounced both passengers Bhandariand Cheema dead at the scene, hesaid. Goel was transferred to RobertWood Johnson Medical SchoolHospital in critical condition.
Goel remained unconscious in theintensive care unit for about 26 hours,Masi said. When he awoke, he did notremember the crash.
Masi said all three had been drink-ing a bottle of Jack Daniels and weredriving home to their apartment onCedar Lane after buying another bot-tle at a Rite Aid in Highland Park.
—Mary Diduch
U. ALUMNUS SENTENCED TO 12 YEARS IN PRISONON DRUNK DRIVING MANSLAUGHTER CHARGES
SEE DECISION ON PAGE 4
Union to boycottpresident’s address
BY CAGRI OZUTURKASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
The contract negotiations betweenthe Union of Rutgers Administrators-American Federation of Teachers andthe University administrators have not
reached a settlement yet, and thedelay looks to continue as the rela-tionship seems to strain.
“When President [Richard L.]McCormick gives his State of the
Molenaar clearsup transportationmyths on bus ride
BY GREG FLYNNCORRESPONDENT
Among the students standing on the packedEE bus Tuesday stood Director ofTransportation Services Jack Molenaar. Herode around the entire campus once, answeringstudent’s questions, dispelling myths, receivingcomplaints and compliments.
Molenaar said he understands the systemhas it flaws but he takes pride in its efficiency.
“You have to learn the system,” he said.“You have to plan your schedule ahead oftime, you have to realize that there’s going tobe traffic, there’s going to be accidents andyou might be late at times. That’s the life ofany commuter.”
The bus system is the largest system for aUniversity in the nation and the second largesttransit system in the state, Molenaar said.
Director of Transportation Services Jack Molenaar says the B bus, which is an express traveling between theBusch and Livingston campus, is the most frequently used by students who have 20 minutes between classes.
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In an effort to decrease itscarbon footprint, the Universityis making green strides bygoing back to basics.
Campus deans and DiningServices are launching initia-tives to promote more environ-mental awareness through sev-eral different programs.
Dining Services FacilitiesSupervisor Steve Riecks said heis overseeing a pilot program atNeilson Dining Hall for an RUBoomerang Box, an optionalreusable takeout container thatcan be purchased by residentsfor $5 for use exclusively at theCook/Douglass dining hall.While recyclable takeout contain-ers are still used at the facility,the new option presents a smallway to decrease staggeringwaste figures.
“We were hoping since CookCollege is a little greener, theywould buy into it sooner … thereare always a few students who areadamant about the use ofStyrofoam,” Riecks said.
Last year, the student popula-tion consumed 369,200 poly-styrene clamshells, 134,500 foiltakeout pans and 133,500 panlids, all which end up in landfills,according to an RU BoomerangBox press release. While subsand pizzas do not fit in theboxes, they will replace the needfor disposable polystyrene con-tainers, reducing theUniversity’s carbon footprint.
Riecks said Eckerd Collegewas one of the first colleges toexecute the idea for an “eco-tain-er” upon receiving a federal
grant. Other colleges and univer-sities have the same programincluding Syracuse University,University of North Carolina andUniversity of Florida. Some col-leges even allow students to takethe containers with them to thedining facilities, complete with asystem for monitoring studentouttake of food.
Although flyers for the RUBoomerang Box are seen pub-licly, so far students have pur-chased about 10, Riecks said. Theprogram began Aug. 29, accord-ing to the press release.
The pilot program’s successwould lead to the dishwasher-safetakeout boxes becoming availableat other campus takeout venues,Riecks said. Dining services hasordered 40 dozen reusable boxes,equating to a capacity of use for240 students.
The box is returned and thensanitized in exchange for a newone when the student gets take-out, Riecks said. Dining Servicesis also researching usingreusable beverage cups, mugsand bags that could be free with astudent ID card swipe.
Cook Campus Dean RickLudescher said through an e-mailcorrespondence that he would beorganizing fun events for stu-dents to get them more involvedin green initiatives on campus.
“We will be putting even moreemphasis on the energy competi-tion this coming year across theNew Brunswick campus, andespecially on Cook to get morestudents involved and excited,”Ludescher said.
He will be working with fac-ulty members from the Schoolof Environmental and Biological
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Neilson Dining Hall on Douglass campus instituted reusable green boxes, dubbed Boomerang boxes, to cut downcost and waste at their takeout line. Students pay $5 to participate in the program. When they return a usedBoomerang, they receive a new clean one. The old one is cleaned and recycled for later use.
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Sciences to develop more living-learning communities, whichwill include at least one with anenvironmental focus, he said.The effort is still in its earlyplanning stages, with moreinformation becoming availablelater through their Web site, http://rulc.rutgers.edu.
In addition, this fall the RU-tvWeatherWatcher Living-Learning Community opened onCook campus at PerryResidence Hall, he said. The pro-gram allows students to run aweather show that broadcasts onRU-tv in their new studio.
“This group will also investi-gate how they can use theirskills in analyzing and commu-nicating weather and climate
information to branch out intoother areas of scientific commu-nication, centered about theenvironment and other issues,”Ludescher said.
College Avenue campus DeanMatt Matsuda and Ludeschersaid they would also be workingclosely with New Jersey PublicInterest Research Group StudentChapters Campus OrganizerHeather Plante on the newEnergy Service Corps initiativethat hopes to involve a diverseundergraduate population.
In an e-mail correspondence,Matsuda said his office is collab-orating with the organization onweatherizing off-campus hous-ing to help students save onenergy costs in the winter.
“The group will also beextending its reach off-campus inthe local business community sothat students can get involvedwith doing assessments and help-ing build campus and communityrelations,” he said.
Another environmentally con-scious program happening oncampus is a two-year seriescalled “Ecologies in theBalance” that will featureforums, projects and connec-tions between student and facul-ty research on issues of globalsustainability, Matsuda said. Thefirst program, a panel discussionto encourage student questions,was launched Wednesday with arepresentative from each schoolin the University.
change,” Fleming said. “We don’tfeel like we lost, but the people ofNew Brunswick lost.”
He said yesterday’s deci-sion is still new for the group,but they will still work fortheir cause of expanding theat-large council.
“We’re still going to do what-ever we can, even if we have toget it on the ballot next year,”Fleming said.
Every day EON memberscanvass thestreets and mostbelieve wardsare the best wayto govern NewB r u n s w i c k ,Kratovil said.
“I’m reallyexcited aboutfinally gettingto be able tohave a fair elec-tion on this,”
he said.EON President Mar tha
Guarnieri said she is happy the appellate judges ruled with Hurley.
“I think that people in NewBrunswick want wards, and nowthey get an honest shot at havingthem,” she said.
Guarnieri said she is lookingforward to November’s election,as it will incorporate the masses.
“Now the real battle begins,”she said.
The University began usingthe Nextbus system and installedthe electronic notification signs in2006. Prior to that, the Universityused whereismybus.com, a sys-tem Molenaar found less accu-rate. Before that, students had torely on a set schedule.
“Students would come out andhope for the best. There was noinformation,” he said.
Nextbus gives students infor-mation and choices, Molenaarsaid. When a student knows theyhave eight minutes, they mightgrab a bite to eat or walk toanother stop.
The bus system gives studentsexperience and develops theirindependence as well, he said.
“Most Rutgers students —I’m generalizing — come fromsuburban communities wherethey were driven to everythingthat they’ve ever done,”Molenaar said. “Students haveto think about how to actuallyget places. No one’s there tospoon-feed you.”
He said that as the semestertrucks on, students figure out away to use the buses in a fashionthat suits them.
“People change their sched-ules based on when they cango,” he said. “It might be moreconvenient to go at the sametime as everybody else, butwhen crowded, you might recon-sider. I don’t go shopping on theday after Thanksgiving becauseI don’t want to have to deal withall that.”
At the Public Safety Buildingstop, Molenaar let an EE buscrammed with students pass.
“I don’t think we’re going to geton this one,” he said. “Wait fourminutes or get really friendly.”
He said all the buses have acapacity limit and that students
are generally good judges ofwhen to wait for the next bus.
Molenaar squeezed onto thenext EE. Due to the completionof Route 18 construction the EEnow goes through downtownNew Brunswick while the Ftakes Route 18 to CollegeAvenue. The F now uses thelarge reticulated buses.
After listening to several stu-dents’ make small talk,Molenaar discussed the socialbenefits of transit.
“Riding the buses is one ofthe few things that every stu-dent has to do. You meet a lotof people on the bus. You endup having conversations withpeople you don’t know,” he
said. “It’s a great equalizer.”He caught the A from the stop
at the Student Activities Centeron the College Avenue campus.
School of Arts and Sciencesjunior Saiyid Rizvi said the Atakes too much time to stop atthe football stadium and otherareas most students don’t use.
“I have to leave 20 minutes earlyjust to get on the bus,” he said. “Ittakes half an hour to get over fromCollege Avenue to the Hill Center.A BX [bus would help].”
Molenaar said ever y timehe puts in new express
buses people star t requesting new stops.
Molenaar boarded the Bfrom the Hill Center stop, a busMolenaar observes being usedthe most often because stu-dents who have a class onBusch and then a class onLivingston have 20 minutes toget from class to class.
School of Environmental andBiological Sciences sophomoreJoe Mychalczuk said he had noqualms with the bus systemand figured out how to use thesystem quickly.
He spaced out the time peri-ods between his classes so he wouldn’t have to bolt across campuses.
“I prefer that rather than rush-ing from class to class,”Mychalczuk said.
Ernest Mario School ofPharmacy first-year studentSerena Cheng said gettingbetween campuses on weekendswas time consuming.
“It’s really hard to get toDouglass from Livingston onweekends,” Cheng said.
But fewer buses run on week-ends for financial reasons,Molenaar said.
“There are not as many peoplehere,” he said. “To run the samesystem I would have to increaseyour transportation fee or cutservice from somewhere else todo that.”
School of Arts and Sciencessophomore Jennifer Torres saidshe would like to see theexpress buses stop at theHenderson Apartments onDouglass campus.
Molenaar explained expressbuses are explicitly for academic stops.
After briefly allowing theREXL to stop at the Quads this
“You look at input but it’snot the deciding factor,” hesaid. “There are also budgetconsiderations that I have toconsider. I mentioned that, aswell as making sure that thesystem works for all studentsin a fair and equitable manner— especially since all studentspay for half of the budget forthe bus system.”
The REXL has 55 minutes to getstudents from Livingston campusto the Cook/Douglass campuses.
“This is one that if [it’s late,]students miss their class,”Molenaar said.
He picked up the REXL at theLivingston Student Center.
School of Arts and Sciencessophomore Allie Rober tsonspoke frankly about the hecticCollege Hall stop on Douglass campus.
“The College Hall stopsucks,” Rober tson said.“Between the hours of 3 and 6p.m. there are [about] 500 peo-ple at College Hall and a madrush to get on the EE or F.”
Molenaar said he was aware ofthe crowding at the stop.
“We added more buses thissemester than we ever hadbetween that time period,” he said.
Molenaar said the stop is lessfrantic 15 or 20 minutes afterclasses let out and that studentscould go pick up a pack of pret-zels or read books while the stopcalms down.
After getting off the REXL,Molenaar walked back to thePublic Safety Building, passingthe College Hall stop where amultitude of students were peer-ing down George Street, waitingfor the next bus.
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would not comment on whetherthe city would take this action.
The ballots for November areto be printed this week.
EON filed the lawsuit whenCity Clerk Dan Torrisiapproved UNB’s petition askingvoters to expandthe five-member,at-large city coun-cil to seven mem-bers at-large.
But EONclaimed this actwas illegal, asstate law said twoquestions couldnot be placed onthe same electionballot by two dif-ferent petitions. Hurley hadalready mandated that EON’squestion be placed on the ballotin a previous decision in August.
Although Hurley ruled infavor of EON last week, the cityappealed and subsequently lost.
UNB member Glenn Flemingsaid it is unfortunate the voterswould not be able to have morechoices for their governmentcome November.
“A lot of people did wantchange, just not that type of
The overall budget for thetransit system this year is $7.9million. Forty nine percent ofthat is state aid, $1.8 million istransportation fines, $3.6 millionis permit revenue and $4 millionfrom transportation fees areincluded on each student’ssemester bill, he said. All otherfees are small, the most beingaround $70,000 from meters.
“On a typical Tuesday duringthe fall or spring semester, weprovide 360 hours of service,which equals approximately$24,000,” said Molenaar, whoalso said Tuesday is the biggestclass day.
The bus system started in 1962when Davidson Hall was built inPiscataway, Molenaar said. Thesystem developed organically asthe University grew.
“I know the improvementsmade are generally not seenwithin the typical timeframe ofa student at Rutgers,” he said.“It also keeps us on our toes. Itdoesn’t matter what we did yes-terday; we’re judged by whatwe do today. It’s the ultimatetest, really, to make sure wecontinually improve. You’re notgoing to be complacentbecause you have no idea howit was in the past.”
In a room at transportationservices, dispatch services inter-act with emergency communica-tions to keep an eye on all routesand view accidents in the regionto keep drivers informed, he said.Transportation uses a camerasystem to check on the routesand verify complaints.
MYTHS: Express buses
are strictly for academic stops
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“Most Rutgers students— I’m generalizing —come from suburban
communities where theywere driven to everything
that they’ve ever done. JACK MOLENAAR
Director of Transportation Services
DECISION: UNB plans
to get on ballot next year
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“We don’t feel like we lost, but
the people of New Brunswick lost.”
GLENN FLEMINGUnite New Brunswick member
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Council searches nationfor new Douglass dean
BY GREG FLYNNCORRESPONDENT
Douglass Residential Collegeis scouring the nation to find anew dean for their changing iden-tity with the help of a nationalsearch company.
Council External VicePresident Kate Barbour dis-cussed the search Tuesday nightat the Douglass GoverningCouncil meeting in Trayes Hall ofthe Douglass Campus Center.
The search is being carriedout in a similar fashion to thesearch for the new athletic direc-tor conducted earlier this year,Barbour said. A national searchcompany is being hired to findcandidates who will be reviewedby a committee of administrators,alumni and students.
The council’s Internal VicePresident Emily Rogalskydescribed the qualities she hopesthe new dean will have.
“What we really need forDouglass is someone who isgoing to represent all the womenand fight for the traditions thatDouglass still has,” saidRogalsky, a School ofEnvironmental and BiologicalSciences junior. “We just needsomebody who’s not going to bepushed around by the bureaucra-cy at Rutgers and be able to real-ly stand up for us.”
Barbour and Ashley Sawyer, aDouglass College senior, are on thecommittee to promote studentinput. Vice President forUndergraduate Education Barry V.Qualls is chairing the committee.
Soon after the consolidation ofthe University’s colleges in 2007,Douglass College Dean CarmenTwillie Ambar left DouglassResidential College in 2008 tobecome president of Cedar CrestCollege, another all women’sschool in Allentown, Pa.
“One of the things we teachstudents is to go after theirdreams and to take on leader-ship at a higher level, and thiswas my opportunity to do that inthe context of my career in high-er education,” Ambar said. “Ilove Douglass students, and Ihate to leave them because Ihave always been committed totheir development and advance-ment and success.”
Professor Harriet Davidsonwas appointed as the interimdean of the college and Douglasscampus in August, and she is a
DouglassGoverningCouncil
The University has been awarded millions of dollars to pursueresearch in improving identification of prostate cancer using magneticresonance imaging.
The American Recovery Act in part provided the five-year, $3.4 mil-lion grant. The University will work with Penn Medicine and Siemenson this pioneering research, according to a University Media Relationspress release.
Studies by both institutions show that powerful, high-resolution MRItechnology may reveal cancerous tissue in prostate glands and pinpointconcentrated tissue, according to the release.
“This is an immense and complicated task,” said Assistant Professorof Biomedical Engineering Anant Madabhushi, the University’s princi-pal investigator on the grant and member of The Cancer Institute ofNew Jersey. “Our tools will have to account for variations in MRI and tis-sue image sizes, tissue that was imaged but lost in the process of sec-tioning, or MRI images shaped differently from tissue sample imagesdue to gland deformation.”
Penn Medicine researchers will develop magnetic resonance imagesof prostate glands under the grant in cancer patients and prepare tissuesamples that have been surgically removed during treatment.
“Rutgers and Siemens researchers will then develop computerizedtools that align MRI views with digitized images of tissue slices,”according to the release. “These tools will allow investigators to bet-ter identify MRI features that reveal cancerous tissue and develop pat-tern recognition software that will help radiologists make accurateand timely diagnoses.”
— Sara Gretina
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widely recognized scholar-criticworking in literary modernism,contemporary poetry and femi-nist theory, according to the col-lege’s Web site.
“I think that Dean Davidson isdoing a really good job as dean,”Rogalsky said.
Barbour complimentedDavidson’s work but said the col-lege is looking for someone to fillthe spot permanently, preferablya woman who will live in thedean’s residence located onDouglass campus.
“[We are looking for] some-body that can representDouglass, has the ability tofundraise, communicate withalumnae and students, some-body who will be encouragingand gracious,” Barbour said.“Somebody to attend our eventsand basically be our advocate atthe University.”
Rutgers University StudentAssembly representative KaylaDuran-Uren said a dean shouldbe receptive to student input.
“I want a dean that will listento us and take our thoughts andideas into serious considera-tion,” said Duran-Uren, a Schoolof Arts and Sciences sopho-more. “I want a dean that isstraightforward, that is able tospeak to students and relate tostudents and is able to bringtheir ideas back to the adminis-tration and make them valid andmake them actually happen.”
Rogalsky said she wouldlike to see past Douglass traditions revitalized.
“All we really talk about noware Yule Tide and Sacred Pathbut there are so many traditionsthat Douglass used to have,”Rogalsky said. “We used to haveyearbooks. It was a college. A lotof that was lost when DouglassCollege became DouglassResidential College.”
Rogalsky said a Douglassalumna would have a betterunderstanding of the traditions.
“We have had a lot of distin-guished women graduate fromDouglass but we would be doinga disservice to ourselves if welimited our search to Douglassgrads,” she said.
members are contacting us toask for help.”
The administration did notwant to discuss the details ofongoing negotiations with bar-gaining units.
“We are in discussions withthe URA and a number of otherunions,” Vice President forAcademic Affairs Philip J.Furmanski said. “What I wouldpoint [out] is that we came to avery good agreement with theAmerican Association ofUniversity Professors-AFT,which is the largest group thatrepresents the faculty, which isthe largest salary base.”
There are 13 bargaining unitsthat the University negotiateswith and some of them are in thesame union, he said. The URArepresents 1,900 members fromthe three campuses.
“We have been following,with the unions, the state pack-age which calls for givebacksand furloughs and things of thatsort,” Furmanski said. “We’vebeen trying … to tailor the pro-gram for academic institutions… We came to a very goodagreement with our facultyunions in that regard, so we arelooking to apply some of the
same principles toour other unions. “
U n i v e r s i t yadministration set-tled with the AAUP-AFT, the part timelecturers and thegraduate students.
“We’re prettyclose with a coupleothers — that’s thestatus at this point,”Furmanski said. “We
don’t want to drag on and we cer-tainly would like to reach settle-ment as soon as possible.”
The American Federation ofState, County and MunicipalEmployees, who is also in con-tract negotiations with the admin-istration, was not available forcomment at press time.
“There is an enormousamount of anxiety among ouremployees,” Furmanski said.“Obviously, it’s a very dif ficulteconomic time and so the pro-tection of their jobs and whattheir salaries are going to beare things we would like to set-tle for their sake since it’s avery uncertain period and sothey would like to know whatthe situation is going to be andwe would certainly like to dothat with them.”
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University speech on Friday,URA members will warn mem-bers and passersby to avoid theevent as a toxic hazard,” URA-AFT Executive Vice PresidentNat Bender said.
Members of the URA-AFTplan to boycott McCormick’saddress Friday at the UniversitySenate meeting in theMultipurpose Room of theRutgers Student Center on theCollege Avenue campus.
“There are no developmentsin talks. We will not be going tothe address for the health andsafety of our members,” URA-AFT President LucyeMillerand said. “We will beinforming our members thatgoing to this address will causethem some symptoms, so theyshould go to more relaxingevents instead like yoga onLivingston [campus].”
Bender said members of theURA-AFT are in risk of suchtongue-in-cheek symptoms aschronic fatigue from doingthree people’sjobs, foreclo-sure virusspreading tolaid-off employ-ees and month-long incuba-tion periodsince they lastspoke with theadministration.
“We’re try-ing to use ironyto bear, but none of this is alaughing matter. Other unionsdefer raises to save jobs, butRutgers doesn’t,” Millerand said.“Our goal is to save jobs to servethe faculty, to serve the students,to serve the public.”
On their Web site, they havea list of 10 things to do insteadof going to the address, such astraveling through theLivingston campus construc-tion, driving past RutgersStadium to see “where themember’s raises went” andwatching McCormick’s addressonline on mute and making uptheir own dialogues.
“We continue to get notices ofmembers getting laid off, whoare forced to deplete their pen-sions so they don’t lose theirhomes,” Millerand said. “Our
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faculty, to serve thestudents, to serve
the public.”LUCYE MILLERAND
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Wake up and come to the first Leadership Breakfastmeeting in the Cook Campus Center in Room 202ABC on the second floor. Breakfast will begin at 7:30a.m. with leadership activities beginning at 8 andending at 9 a.m. Don’t miss this monthly opportuni-ty to discuss issues pertinent to the progress anddevelopment of Cook campus. Please bring a friendalong. The Leadership Breakfast meeting providesan opportunity for diligent Cook student leaders andstaff to discuss issues such as student welfare, safe-ty matters, transportation, housing, campus centerand construction projects pertinent to Cook.
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The Raritan River collaborative’s first annual Fall Float,a gentle six-mile float from Riverside/Bakelite Park inPiscataway to the Rutgers boat dock in NewBrunswick, takes place at 1 p.m. The float will pass bycolorful autumn foliage and under the historic archbridges of the Raritan. Arrive with your canoe or kayakand life vest at Riverside Park for sign-in between 12and 12:45 p.m. Vans will return paddlers to RiversidePark between 3 and 5 p.m. Events at Rutgers boat dockinclude snacks and drink, booths by local organiza-tions and free T-shirts for participants! Donations are$10 per person. Please pre-register by Oct. 1. Space islimited. The event will be canceled in the event ofheavy storms, lightning or small craft advisories.Contact Karen Lowrie at [email protected], (717)471-0160, or see www.blueraritan.org.
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In his seventh annual address to the University com-munity, University President Richard L. McCormickwill summarize accomplishments of University facul-ty, students and administrators during the past yearand reaffirm the University’s commitment to all itsstakeholders during challenging economic times.The address will begin at 1:10 p.m. in theMultipurpose Room of the Rutgers Student Center onthe College Avenue campus.
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The Engineering Governing Council is one of theoldest governing councils on campus. We representthe engineers and voice their opinions on mattersthat they are concerned with. Council Meetings areevery other Monday at 8 p.m. in the Busch CampusCenter in Room 116abc. Our next meeting will beon Monday, September 28 and our next councilmeeting will be October 12.
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The Department of English will host “A MemorialCelebration of the Life and Work of Richard Poirier”at 2 p.m. in Kirkpatrick Chapel on the CollegeAvenue campus. Speakers are expected to includeUniversity President Richard L. McCormick,President of the Library of America Cheryl Hurleyand Columbia University Professor Ross Posnock.
The seventh annual High Speed Chase for the Cure5K Run/3K Walk will begin at 9:30 a.m., rain or shine,at the Louis Brown Athletic Center on Livingstoncampus. Rutgers University police officers startedthe race in 2003 as a way to honor a colleague wholost his life to cancer. Proceeds will support cancerresearch, treatment and community outreach at TheCancer Institute of New Jersey. Course roads areUSA Track and Field certified, and scoring will becomputerized with results posted onwww.compuscore.com. Awards will be given to bothmales and females in various age categories. Checkwill be from 8 to 9:30 a.m
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Executive Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences Douglas Greenberghas been selected as the recipient of Phi Beta Kappa’s Award forDistinguished Service to the Humanities.
Greenberg will be presented the award at the closing banquet of the42nd Triennial Council of the nation’s oldest honor society on Saturday,Oct.3, in Austin, Texas, according to a Phi Beta Kappa press release.
The Award includes a cash prize and a medal named for Mr. and Mrs.William B. Jaffe, whose gift of $25,000 enabled the society to establishthe award in 1970. This award is given once every three years, accordingto the release.
Greenberg graduated from the University in 1969 and holds a bachelorof the arts degree with highest distinction in history, and received his mas-ter’s degree in 1971 and doctorate in 1974 from Cornell University.
He came to the School of Arts and Sciences in 2008 from his position asprofessor of history at the University of Southern California and executivedirector of the Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History andEducation, according to the release.
He served as president and CEO of the Chicago Historical Society from1993 to 2000, and as vice president of the American Council of LearnedSocieties, according to the release. Greenberg has taught history at theUniversity, Lawrence University and Princeton University and joined thefaculty at USC in 2006.
He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for theHumanities and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, according to therelease. Greenberg is also an elected member of the American AntiquarianSociety and a Fellow of the Society of American Historians.
— Heather Brookhart
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Professor Robert W. Lake speaks at the 2009-2010 Global Initiativesseries, “Ecologies in the balance?” yesterday, where a University-wideecology theme was announced, on the College Avenue campus.
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BALANCING ACT
Perhaps it is too much toexpect fantastical films to betaken seriously enough tomotivate real-world change.It would be a definite shamefor this planet to be populat-ed solely by nine stuffed-animal-like beings, but Icannot really blame you fornot taking action against
that highly unlikely risk. However overblown theymay seem, these on-screen scenarios may meritsome consideration, especially in an era where deci-sions to go hi-tech are made without good reason.
Originally, technological advancement wasbased on the idea that it was making things easierfor people — communication, production, day-to-day household activities. Even when technology
resulted in layoffs, it could bejustified for the greater goodit helped achieve. Whenmechanized parts replacedthe human assembly line, theshift was accepted because itwas more than simply costef fective, but it also sped up production.
There appears to be bigchanges of this natureapproaching. The day islooming when major newspa-
pers will be forced to close their doors once andfor all because Internet publications allow forwider readership. Many people in this industrywill lose their jobs.
Online colleges are causing the same ramifica-tions as online newspapers. As with print media,academia may have to one day admit that their tech-nological counterparts are simply more effective.
You may feel, as I do, that attending a collegeclass in the flesh is an experience you could notpossibly trade for a course behind your comput-er screen. Those who love the feeling of a news-paper crinkling in their hands and the black inkresidue on their fingers could say the samething about print media. I am fairly sure that themen and women who lost their places on theassembly line due to technological advances
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I think we can finallyadmit it is coming: theimpending event
referred to by some affec-tionately and others callous-ly as the “virtual revolu-tion.” It has been predictedtime and time again — usu-ally resulting in aTerminator-esque, post-apocalyptic world where humanity is taken over bythe machine. More realistic though than the risk oflosing our lives to freethinking robotic weaponry,is the potential for a growing number of individualsto lose their livelihoods.
The Ridgewood, N.J., school district replacedits three Spanish elementary educators with thecomputer language learning software, RosettaStone. Debra Anderson, arepresentative from the dis-trict, said that “this was agood solution in view of thefinancial constraints,” seeingas the switch cost only$70,000, which is less thanhalf the combined salaries ofthe three teachers, accordingto The New York Times.
Ridgewood is only one in anumber of school districts inthe tri-state area who are cut-ting back on foreign language instruction.Certainly, saving money has become the drivingforce behind most decisions made in the wake ofthe economic crisis, but does the reduction in costoffset other losses?
Almost a decade ago we became preoccupiedwith the threat of Y2K. The belief was that we werealready so immersed in technology that potentialnew-millennium computer data failures would haveramifications in every sphere of our lives, begin-ning with banking errors and extending as far asmass chaos.
Of course, we did not appear to learn fromthe Y2K scare that we could be more cautiouswhen it comes to the power we give our tech-nology. Nor did the four “Terminator” films,“The Matrix” and its sequels, “I-Robot,” “Wall-E,” or the newly released “9” seem to get acrossthat point.
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Internet publications allow for wider readership.”
Scarred for lifeS ome of the most frightening childhood memories come from
the moments you got into trouble for bad behavior by yourparents. Many children have what is and what is not accept-
able behavior engrained in their brains at very young ages.Parenting techniques for disciplining children range greatly, espe-cially in today’s day and age. Many of our parents used negativereinforcements like spanking and verbal abuse to reprimand chil-dren for bad behavior, because it is how their parents handled themas children. The spankings taught us not to do that bad thing again,or hide it from your parents instead of letting them see what you aredoing. Spanking worked as a tool to prevent disobedience for some,but for others, it led to more damaging behavior. Is spanking rightor wrong?
A new study published in the journal Child Development foundthat “popping” your kids can do more harm than good. The study ofmore than 2,500 toddlers from low-income families found thatspanking may have detrimental effects on behavior and mentaldevelopment. Lisa Berlin, the lead author and research scientist atthe Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University, and hercolleagues found that children who were spanked as one-year-oldstended to behave more aggressively at age two, and did not per-form as well as other children on a test measuring thinking skills atage three. The main focus of the study was low-income families,especially those with a single parent raising the kids. The studyfound spanking occurred in these families more because of addedstress of their living situation. At all three ages, black children werespanked significantly more frequently than those from white andMexican-American families, and verbally punished more than theother children at ages two and three. Previous research also foundthat parents who spank are more likely to be younger, less educat-ed, single, and/or depressed and stressed. Spanking is most com-monly used among parents who were spanked as children them-selves, who live in the South and/or who identify themselves asconservative Christians.
Nowadays, parenting styles tend to go into two extremes. Someare all about teaching their children discipline and respect, and do sowith violent behaviors like spanking. There are also those who wantto be nothing like their own parents, and decide they would rather bea best friend to their child rather than a parent. A happy mediummust be found between the two. The lenient parents of today resem-ble those of Amy Poehler’s character in “Mean Girls,” where she did-n’t want to be a “regular mom” — she wanted to be a “cool mom.”Those parents usually have children who get away with everythingand participate in bad behavior because they can. But on the otherhand, authoritative parents may raise children who grow up beingafraid to tell them anything because of the repercussions they mightreceive for something that might not even be that big of a deal.
It all depends on the child. This study focuses on children growingup in a specific type of environment. The environment a one to three-year-old is dealing with in a low-income family with a single parent ismuch different than that of middle class. The living environment ismuch more stressful. Single parents in these homes may be strugglingto make ends meet, working a lot to pay the bills and taking care ofmultiple children. Not that these are excuses for hitting children — itjust may be when a parent is at wits end, they do not think about alter-native options of punishment. The age of the children studied is alsoimportant to look at. Spanking would have more detrimental effects ona toddler, because at ages one to three, they do not have the cognitiveskills to know right from wrong. Spanking becomes a negative way ofinstilling values into your child when you hit them on an everydaybasis. It only puts fear and bad memories into their heads.
One cannot generalize how spanking will affect children, becauseevery child is different. It really is based on the individual, theirenvironment and the relationship they have with their parents. Ifyour parents spank you, but it is known that that is the punishmentfor only the worst of behavior, that could just let the child know notto do it again. If it is instilled in the child that there is still love com-ing from the parents, then it should not cause them to be moreaggressive or have mental problems. Parents want their children tobe able to come to them when they have issues. Constantly usingspanking, or any kind of violence as a punishment, may hurt anytype of grown up relationship you can have with your child. Thiswhere negative effects from the study can come into play in an indi-vidual’s life. A child could hide bad behavior out of fear of their par-ents, be very sneaky or not be able to come to their parents withproblems. They can have issues with handling emotions and angerwhen violence is used as the answer.
Like everything else in life, spanking can be a useful punishmentif done in moderation. You do not want your children to walk allover you, but you also do not want to cross the line into abuse.Parents should find a balance somewhere in the middle — and findwhat it is to be that “cool” mom or dad, while still being a parent.
“We just need somebody who’s not going to bepushed around by the bureaucracy at Rutgers
and be able to really stand up for us.”
Emily Rogalsky, the Douglass Governing Council’s internal vice president, on the qualities she hopes the new dean will have
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the “party of no.” Just becauseleftists choose to not listen to usdoes not mean we have no ideasand no plans.
Typical of leftists and pro-gressives, the column turns theinsurance companies into theboogey-men capitalists who willdeny care to grandma if it meansmaking an extra buck. The col-umn laments the fact that thehealth care industry is being leftto free markets, which —according to him — do not work.That argument assumes the gov-ernment is not currentlyinvolved in the health care insur-ance market. Of course, govern-ment does interfere in the nor-mal workings of health care sup-ply and demand. By setting man-dates and increasing entitle-ments, government programsactually increase costs and makeindividually-purchased insurancemore unaffordable. The authorwrites, “The ultimate goal ofhealth insurance companies isnot to ensure the well-being oftheir clients, but to maximizetheir own profits.” Again, this is
supply and demand at work. In afree market, if consumers do notlike their insurance providers,then they can opt out of it andswitch to another, cheaperprovider. They should have thefreedom to do so. However, left-ists want to pass a bill that wouldtake away that liberty by forcingeveryone to buy insurance — or
if you are an employer, to giveinsurance to your employees —and failure to do so will lead to atax increase. That is not free-dom; that is government micro-managing people’s lives.
The author also contends thatpublic polling has shown that themajority of Americans support apublic option. First of all, even if
this were true, it would not makeit right. The United States wasfounded under certain founda-tional beliefs. One of these wasthe principle that the majoritycannot oppress the minority.Even if the majority favored atyrannical government, we stillshould not accept such an out-come. Secondly, everyone knowsthat such polling is skewed, andthe results could be dramaticallyaltered by changing the question.Instead of asking whether peoplethink it is “necessary to create apublic health insurance plan,” Icould ask whether people sup-port “government takeover of thehealth insurance market.”Believe me, the numbers wouldbe different. But the fact is thatpolling is most accurate whenasking simple questions aboutwho or what you prefer orapprove of, and not specific poli-cy questions. Furthermore,according to the latest NBC poll,“More Americans think‘[President] Barack Obama’shealth care plan’ is a ‘bad idea’(41) than think it’s a ‘good idea’
(39); last month, 42 [percent]thought it was a bad idea and 36[percent] said it was a goodidea.” Maybe the majority ofAmericans do not favor the publicoption? But, unlike the column’sauthor, I do not presume to know.
Yes, the debate over healthcare reform often gets overheat-ed, but it is disingenuous to arguethat it is all the blame lies at con-servatives’ feet. Nancy Pelosiimplied protesters were Nazis,and she — along with Rep. StenyHoyer, D-Md. — called town hallquestioners “un-American” andcountless liberal journalistscrudely refer to tea party partici-pants as “teabaggers.” So my rec-ommendation to the author —andeveryone else, too — is to calmdown, do not call anyone Hitler,go to your doctor and take a chillpill. I think your insurance planwill cover it.
Noah Glyn is a School of Artsand Sciences sophomore major-ing in economics. He is the vicepresident of the University’sCollege Republicans.
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Leftists demonize insurance companies, make dubious claims
T he “Zeitgeist” columnnormally causes me toscratch my head, roll
my eyes or groan aloud.Sometimes all three at once.Yesterday, the column, “Healthcare reform in dire condition,”did not disappoint. I foundfaults and fallacies in nearly allthe author’s arguments.
The author’s first dubiousclaim is that conservatives “haveinsisted that any reform is unnec-essary or unwanted.” Readersknow this is false, as The DailyTargum published a letter ofmine on Sept. 13, “More govern-ment will not fix broken healthcare,” which laid out a case forfree-market reforms that do notincrease entitlement spending. I,of course, am not special. Manyother conservatives have laid outsuch plans. As the vice presidentof the University’s CollegeRepublicans, I must object to theclassification of Republicans as
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were equally opposed to mak-ing the change.
But it is hard to deny theperks that come along with trad-ing our commonplace way of get-ting the news and attending a uni-versity for the modern, mecha-nized alternatives. Likewise, Ican imagine it may have been dif-ficult to justify keeping factoryworkers over installing machinesto do the work.
Online colleges are signifi-cantly more affordable for thestudent and allow you to com-
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plete your degree without com-promising your ability to workand see to other responsibilities.It also permits more studentsthan you can cram into a lecturehall the ability to receive the samestandard of education.
However, the arguments thatmay apply to computerizingeducation for the college-agedstudent dif fer tremendouslyfrom the arguments for chang-ing K-12 education. Accordingto The New York Times, “someeducators said they were re-evaluating foreign-languageprograms not just because offinances but to update them andincorporate new technology.”Yet, aside from the fact that
they are money-saving, whatadvantages do these technologi-cal programs provide for thechildren who will now be forcedto use them?
One explanation that hasbeen of fered is that RosettaStone will allow the children to“learn at their own pace.” Withstudents expected to keep totheir teacher’s pace inMathematics, English, SocialStudies, Science, Health, Music,Art and Physical Educationclasses, why would we viewlearning a foreign language attheir “own pace” as construc-tive? If indeed this could be con-strued as a necessary change ineducation, then surely the way
we are teaching all other sub-jects must be unsuitable. I think,however, the school district mayhave some dif ficulty dism-issing all their staff in favor of electronic learning.
Replacing a teacher with acomputer program will onlyprevent students from gettingtheir questions answered, andit will cause them to lose ele-ments like positive reinforce-ment and a motivational tonethat only a person can provide.Not to mention that it will elim-inate a critical element to learn-ing a language: conversation.
I think our fears may be mis-placed. As “The Terminator”suggested, there is real reason
to be careful with how we useour technology. Yet, it seems asif it will not be the machinesthat will turn against us, butrather people that are workingas impediments to their peersand as allies of the machines.
Rather than guarding againsta takeover of self-motivated, mur-derous robots, maybe we shouldadjust our focus and avoid choos-ing technology over humanityjust because we can.
Larissa Klein is a School ofArts and Sciences junior. Hercolumn “Definition of Insanity”runs on alternate Thursdays.She welcomes feedback [email protected].
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Today's Birthday (09/24/09) Finish up a lot of old projects thisyear, or simply decide not to do them. (That is one of youroptions, remember.) Start with a list of old stuff. To get theadvantage, check the day's rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 themost challenging.
Aries (March 21-April 19) —Today is an 8 — Hide out untilthe dust settles. There's a bigmess at work, but someone fig-ures out the problem.Taurus (April 20-May 20) —Today is a 7 — Not a goodday to gamble. Don't evenshop. Odds are too greatyou'll get the wrong color orsize or something.Gemini (May 21-June 21) —Today is a 7 — You're in themidst of the confusion. It'seasy to see why you'd want toget out, but it won't happenfor a few days.Cancer (June 22-July 22) —Today is a 7 — There will bemistakes. You're in the learn-ing phase. If you knew how todo this, you wouldn't be learn-ing, would you?Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Todayis an 8 — The better educatedyou are, the more interestingpeople you attract. This is atrue win-win situation.Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) —Today is a 6 — You're stirringthings up to get them justright. Take responsibility forthe mess you're making.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) —Today is a 7 — Take every-thing you hear with a grain ofsalt. Spiritual matters may takea giant step forward now.Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) —Today is an 8 — This is agood day for you, so makethe most of it. Your one-trackmind takes you in manydirections. Enjoy!Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)— Today is an 8 — Today isyour day! Make the most ofevery opportunity. Eat import-ed chocolate, if possible.Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) —Today is a 5 — Stick to thegame plan, even if others areon vacation emotionally. Com-passion is your best tool.Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) —Today is a 7 — Use the ideasthat have been rollingaround in the back of yourmind. Pull them out of a hatlike a magician.Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) —Today is a 9 — When you'reon, you're on. Take advan-tage of today's opportuni-ties. They will serve you intothe future.
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assistant coach for the AmericanUniversity cross country squad.
AU’s head coach MattCentrowitz moonlights as well.The two-time Olympian and for-mer American record-holder inthe 5,000 serves as Culley’s coach.
Centrowitz is another impor-tant factor in disseminatingCulley’s former view of the sportfrom her new affinity for it.
“I can honestly say in the lasttwo and a half years that I love it.I really enjoy it,” she said. “I thinkI learned to love it from my coachnow in a different way.
“I enjoy it so much now. Thetraining is that much harder, theeffort level is so much harder andthe recovery is longer, but I reallythink my coach, the passion I feltfrom coaching and transitionswith the coach I do have now justgave me a totally new perspectiveon the sport. I fell in love with italmost for the first time.”
Culley hopes that more col-legiate runners realize thatcontinued success is possibleafter graduation.
“For those who are payingattention and did see that, I hopeit serves as inspiration in someway because Rutgers should begreat,” she said. “There are somany talented kids that just needto know that it doesn’t have toend the day they graduate.
“Of course it’s a sport that does-n’t have a draft and I’ve had to workseveral jobs to get by despite thefact that I’ve made it. If it’s some-thing you truly want and believe inthen you can make it happen.”
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Silvestro is tied for third onthe team with one sack, behindFreeny and Johnson.
Freeny has turned himselfinto a pass rush specialist, lead-ing RU with four sacks after con-secutive two-sack games.
“I’m not really surprised, butI’m impressed,” Johnson saidabout Freeny’s start to the year.“He’s been working really hard athis pass rush and I knew it wasgoing to pay off in time, just notthis soon.”
Schiano credits Freeny’s suc-cess to physical developmentand a greater understanding ofhis role.
Schiano also said he is confidentin all four of the defensive tackles.
“I think the inside rotation isgood,” Schiano said. “Certainyears, when you see the other
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Defensive tackles Charlie Noonan (96) and Blair Bines (48) havea combined seven tackles through three games.
guy go in there, and you arelooking at your roster, you say‘oh!’ and you get a little nerv-ous. I don’t get that way withthese guys.”
Bines started all throughcamp, until a late injury allowedVallone to claim the spot oppo-site Noonan.
Yet LeGrand leads the groupwith seven tackles.
“As a whole we push our-selves as a defensive line,”Silvestro said. “We have a thing,we call ‘having a party in thebackfield.’ We just want to try toget back there as many times aswe can and get as many sacks aswe can.”
Johnson, the elder statesmanand veteran of the line, said therotation helps the group to pusheach other.
“Anytime anybody comesin, I’m expecting them to playup to their highest levelbecause we demand that,”Johnson said, “both the coach-es and the players.”
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Course managementkey for equilibrium
BY KEVIN O’ROURKESTAFF WRITER
The formula for winning golfseems simple enough.
Eliminate the big numbers,slip in af e w
birdies and you’ll find yourself incontention. Efforts to makebirdies, however, can easily leadto big numbers, meaning strikinga balance between the two is notso simple.
Rutgers men’s golf headcoach Jason Bataille said the keyto finding equilibrium lies incourse management.
“It’s kind of a double-edgedsword because the team thatwins the event never leads inthe par category,” Bataille said.“The team that wins the eventhas the most birdies but theyalso have the most bogeys orothers. I think that what mat-ters more than the par categoryis that they learn to play theholes correctly.
“I think if we learn to play a lit-tle bit smarter when the holecalls for it, you’ll see that par sta-tistic come up, as well as how wefinish in tournaments.”
A week after leading the fieldin pars in their RutgersInvitational win, the ScarletKnights finished last in pars enroute to a ninth place finish atThe McLaughlin. If RU can stringtogether more pars as a team the
Knights may look forward tofuture success.
The Knights finished in thetop-four or better in birdies ineach of their first two events.
Senior Jimmy Arbes is pleasedwith RU’s play thus far and saidthe group is close to putting it alltogether.
“All of us have the talent toplay really well but the consisten-cy still has to improve a little bit,”Arbes said. “We’re going to makea few bogeys, but we all haveplenty of game to come back witha birdie. It’s just trying to mini-mize those bogeys.”
Arbes and Bataille agreed thatsenior James Hilaire hasemerged as Rutgers’ best andmost consistent player to thispoint. Coming off of a difficultspring 2009 season, Hilaire post-ed a solid 26th place finish in TheMcLaughlin to back up a fourthplace Rutgers Invitational show-ing. Hilaire credited his improvedplay to his mindset and his putter.
“You can hit the ball well, youcan hit the ball bad,” Hilaire said.“But if you putt well, you’ll shoota consistent score every time.”
The Knights have ampleopportunities to work on theirgames with a two-week layoffbefore heading to Delaware forthe Scotty Duncan Classic. Inpreparation for the tournament,Bataille and RU head to the pres-tigious Trump National Golf ClubSaturday in Colts Neck, N.J.
MEN’S GOLF
Graduate studentnew kid on track
BY MATT SUGAMSTAFF WRITER
He’s the Greg Paulus of crosscountry runners.
Well, sort of.Taylor Burmeister is a gradu-
ate stu-dent, and
while he’s not switching sports,he did decide to use his last yearof eligibility to run at Rutgers.
Burmeister has a fifth-year ofeligibility after sitting out his jun-ior season at Haverford, aDivision III school outsidePhiladelphia, with a stress frac-ture in his left hip.
Rutgers head coach MikeMulqueen said Haverford is oneof the best Division III schoolsthere is in terms of track.
“Taylor comes from a verygood background at Haverford,”Mulqueen said.
“Very good” may be an under-statement.
The school has eight top-10national rankings and five in thelast 10 years, including a secondplace finish in 2007. The pro-gram touts 15 All-American nom-inations and five multi-All-American athletes.
“It’s a strong program, and Iwas very privileged to run therefor four years,” Burmeister said.
Though he’s here to get hisPhD in mathematics, Burmeisteris a major contributor to the crosscountry team.
Mulqueen isn’t looking forBurmeister to be a superstar.
“I told him he’s not coming inand expected to be the next worldchampion or Olympic champion,”
Mulqueen said. “What he willbring to us is another good, strongperson in that top three or four.”
Because he had to clear paper-work, Burmeister only had a fewworkouts with the team. He par-ticipated in his first race this pastweekend at the Br. John “Paddy”Doyle/Iona College Meet ofChampions. He finished fourthon the team.
Teammate Nick Miehe thinksBurmeister will get back in theswing of things quickly.
“Later on in the season he’llreally start showing how good heis because he’s more of a longerdistance runner,” Miehe said. “Sowhen we get to [NCAA East]Regionals and we’re running a10k instead of the 8k, he’s goingto really show just how good hereally is.”
Although he’s four yearsremoved from his freshmanyear, being the new guy doesgive Burmeister a freshman-like feeling.
“The difference is when I wasa freshman, it was just a lot moreintimidating,” Burmeister said.“I’ve been through four years ofcollege running. I guess it’s likebeing a freshman but having alot more confidence and a lotmore experience.”
With four years of college run-ning under his belt and one lasthurrah, Burmeister is ready toput together a strong season.
“I want to run well,” he said.“I’d like to run a personal best for8k cross country. I’d like to placewell at Big East and at [NCAAEast] Regionals and hopefullyjust help the team out.”
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NICHOLAS BLEW
The United States is one point away from qualification for the 2010World Cup. They face Honduras away and Costa Rica at home.
It leads to the perfect segue ofwhy it is time to start taking futbolseriously — not only at Rutgers,but in the United States too.
We are in a World Cup year(qualifying is well underway, andthe World Cup itself is comingthis summer to South Africa) andthe tournament is the biggestinternational sporting event inthe world. Nothing matches thepassion of the fans that come outto support their home nation.
The United States is down toits final two qualifying matches,beginning with a difficult Oct. 5trip to Honduras. The Americansneed one point from their finaltwo games — the other a homematch with Costa Rica — to booka place in South Africa.
If there ever was a time tobring futbol into mainstreamAmerican culture, this is it. Futbolmatches last 90 minutes — andthe clock never stops. That meansno commercial breaks and beercommercials that are not funny.There is nothing worse than anAmerican football game thatdrags on and on because it takesan hour in real time to completethe last five minutes of a game.
FUTBOL: World Cup
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BY STEVEN WILLIAMSONSENIOR WRITER
At quick glance, the situa-tion of the Rutgers andGeorgetown field hockey teamsis nearly identical.
Both approach the halfwaypoint oft h e i rseasonsr e ly ingheav i lyon theplay of
freshman goalkeepers. Bothhave lost a number of games
by a narrow one-goal margin orin overtime.
Both are winless.“[Georgetown is] also strug-
gling with getting wins, but Iknow for us we just need to focuson ourselves,” said head coachLiz Tchou. “We have a lot ofthings that we need to focus on inthis game, but we just need tokeep improving.”
With the first win — and a con-ference win at that — on the tablefor both the Scarlet Knights andthe Hoyas at tomorrow’s game atthe Bauer Track and FieldComplex, the matchup is the
JOHN PENA/ SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Junior Jenna Bull (23) has two goals and one assist through theScarlet Knights’ first eight games. Rutgers will face a winless Georgetown tomorrow in its second conference game.
GEORGETOWN ATRUTGERS, FRIDAY, 4 P.M.
FIELD HOCKEY
most crucial for both Big Eastsquads to date.
The Knights come off a 4-2loss to Maine in which they wereunable to carry over offensivepressure from the first half intothe second. Though the Knightsseemed to be making strides intheir second half scoring in theirseveral previous contests, theymust be sure to not fall back intohabits that plagued them earlierin the season.
The biggest key for the team isimproving control in the offensiveand defensive zones, Tchou said.
“We have to continue toimprove the little things that areoccurring inside the 25,” shesaid. “[We need to improve]defense inside the 25 as well asour attack.”
The team had no problem dis-patching the Hoyas last season ina neutral site contest in Marylandbehind two goals from graduatedsenior Amy Lewis and seniorJessika Hoh.
Hoh is the Knights’ primaryscoring option this season andleads the team with seven goals.
Though tomorrow’s contestmarks Georgetown’s first BigEast game of the 2009 season,the Knights already clashed withconference rival Villanova in atough 6-1 defeat. The 0-1 recordin conference play makes thegame crucial to Rutgers, whoneeds a win.
With tough games againstSyracuse, Connecticut andProvidence on the horizon — allteams that bested the Knightslast season — tomorrow’s gameis a must win.
“It should be a very competi-tive game,” Tchou said. “It’s amust win for us, but it’s moreimportant to me that we improvefor the following weeks. We justcan’t stay stagnant.”
This is also the deepest play-er pool the United States hasever had. If they are ever goingto make a deep run into theWorld Cup (I’m talking semi-finals), this is the team to do it.FIFA, the governing body ofworld futbol, announced that theUnited States has sold the mosttickets thus far.
Bash futbol all you want, but Ichallenge you to show up for aUSA World Cup match and notcome back with the feeling thatyou just witnessed one of theworld’s supreme sporting events.
Think about a USA-Englandmatch in the World Cup. Howcool would it be to stick it to ourneighbors across the pond?Historical side note — the Britishhave won the World Cup once, in1966, yet they will tell you howgreat they are.
For the record, the Britsalways find a way to crash out ofthe tournament, usually by shoot-ing themselves in the foot.
This summer, the focus ofthe sporting world — includingthat of the United States — willbe on futbol.
Start watching now, becausefutbol is the game that captivatesthe world.
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BY SAM HELLMANASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
Head coach Greg Schianothinks Tom Savage will startagainst Maryland.
Savage, a true freshman,hurt his head Saturdayagainst FIU, but Schiano saidyesterday at practice that helooks “OK.”
“He’s not easily affected, buthe’s a tough kid,” Schiano said.“I think he will [start], but we’llwait and see. I have to meetwith the doctors still.”
Fifth-year senior quarter-back Dom Natale got addedreps Tuesday and continued tosee added reps yesterday justin case Savage does not get thego-ahead from team doctors.
“They both got work but[Natale] handled most of it,”Schiano said.
Savage, who only speakswith the media on Mondaysand after games, said Mondaythat he expects to play and thathe feels fine.
“I feel good. We had thewalkthrough and I worked outa bit [Sunday night],” Savagesaid. “I feel really good. … I gota little bump on my head butI’m fine now.”
FRESHMAN CORNERBACKDarrell Givens has separatedhimself from the two other truefreshmen cornerbacks andpracticed yesterday with thevarsity squad.
“Givens is working withthe varsity,” Schiano said. “Idon’t know if he’s going to getin or not, but he’s workingwith them.”
Schiano has yet to turn toGivens, or other true fresh-man corners Logan Ryan andAbdul Smith, at the corner-back position, but a lack ofdepth at the position couldlead to Givens seeing his firstcareer playing time in hishome state of Maryland.
“I don’t know if it’s ahead orbehind, it’s just we had to makea choice on one of them,”Schiano said. “They’re veryclose in ability and it could’vebeen any of the three. It may bemore than that as we go along,who knows.”
Givens was the last of thethree to arrive at Rutgers afterchoosing the Scarlet Knightswhen Penn State gave him prob-lems during the summer and hedropped his commitment.
THE STARTING WIDEreceivers for the Scarlet
PRACTICE NOTEBOOK SCHIANO THINKS SAVAGE WILL START
BOUNDSOUTof
WITH HANNAH CURTIS
Targum’s volleyball beat writer Bill Domkechats with the sophomore middle blockerabout hunting for sustinence in Alaska, the prevalence of bear meat and playingArctic tundra volleyball until 3 a.m. ...
Bill Domke: The most important question on mymind and probably everyone who will read this —why Rutgers?Hannah Curtis: Because I wanted to go to the EastCoast and because I just wanted to get somethingcompletely different than Alaska. Being fromWasilla, it’s probably the complete opposite envi-ronment than New Brunswick. I wanted to be nextto a city because I’ve never experienced anythinglike the New York City vibe.
BD: How is Alaska different than Jersey?HC: It’s completely different. I don’t even thinkthere’s one thing similar. Where I’m from is verywoodsy and not very populated at all.
BD: Was it really cold where you lived?HC: Yeah. Usually in the winter, where I lived, it gotto be -30 degrees. Pretty chilly.
BD: How was the food?HC: It’s great. Great seafood. Great meat. Every-thing. We had caribou and moose.
BD: Was bear meat prevalent?HC: Yeah. I’ve never had bear meat though. I’mnot a big hunter girl like my friends are.
BD: Wait, your friends hunt for their food a lot?HC: Mmhmm. Yeah.
BD: Were there specific designated days wherethey would go out hunting?HC: There are specific days … I think moose sea-son is in the summer.
BD: You said it was really cold there. Do the ici-cles there make the ones Bruce Willis used in “DieHard 2” look like child’s play?HC: I’ve never seen “Die Hard.”
BD: Ok, you just come home in the middle of asnowstorm and you want soup. What’s your soupof choice?HC: Chicken noodle.
BD: Did you have any pets back home?HC: Yeah, I had two dogs and a cat. Two gold-en retrievers.
BD: Did you name either of them Balto?HC: No, but I should have.
BD: How do you pass time in Alaska?HC: It depends on the season. In the summer, I gohiking and fishing a lot. In the winter we go sled-ding. It depends on how cold it is. If it’s -30degrees, we don’t really go outside.
BD: For those who think that volleyball is common-ly played on a sandy beach, where are some hotspots on the tundra?HC: We play a lot of grass volleyball in Alaska,and especially since it’s light out in the summer allthe time — we can play until 3 a.m.
THE DAILY TARGUM’S
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Head coach Greg Schiano has yet to clear freshmanquarterback Tom Savage to play Saturday against Maryland.
Knights — senior Tim Brownand freshman Mohamed Sanu— have a combined 29 catchesfor 507 yards and a touchdownthrough three games.
The rest of the Rutgersreceivers have a combined onecatch for nine yards.
Minus that one play by seniorJulian Hayes against Cincinnati,the other Rutgers receivers haveyet to make an impact of anykind this season.
“Some days, one of themlooks good and then the nextday another looks good,”Schiano said of his search for athird receiver. “They’re young.They’re not able to play, butthat’s who we got and that’s whythey’re playing.”
JUST TWO DAYS AFTER for-mer safety Courtney Greenejoined the Jacksonville Jaguars’
active roster, classmate TiquanUnderwood did the same.
Jags receiver TroyWilliamson is out for the seasonwith a severe shoulder injury sohead coach Jack Del Rio activat-ed Underwood from the prac-tice squad.
The Jaguars draftedUnderwood in the seventhround of the 2009 NFL Draft, butwaived him during preseasoncamp, only to sign him to thepractice squad alongside formerKnight Cam Stephenson thenext day.
Underwood marks the sixthScarlet Knight from last year’sdraft class to join an active roster— QB Mike Teel, WR KennyBritt, LB Jamaal Westerman, DBJason McCourty and Greene.
“The Jags are a smart team,”Schiano said shortly before call-ing Jacksonville “Rutgers South.”
BY JOSHUA SPIELMANSTAFF WRITER
Sometimes you don’t realize howmuch you love something until it’sgone. For Rutgers alumna JulieCulley, nothing could be truer.
A f t e rgraduating
in 2005, Culley hung up her spikesand turned to coaching.
Now, four years removed fromher collegiate career at Rutgerswhere she was a five-time teamMVP, All-American and the recipi-ent of the 2004 NCAA Woman ofthe Year Award, Culley is back atthe top of her game.
The former Scarlet Knightrecently represented the UnitedStates for the third time at the Trackand Field World Championships,finishing seventh in the first heat ofthe 5,000-meter race.
Culley has come a long wayfrom her time at RU to finishingseventh in Berlin last month.Throughout her career atRutgers, injuries and letdownsplagued her career.
“I had some really good successbut it would almost immediately befollowed by an injury,” she said. “Inever got into a consistent upswingand pattern. I ran a great seasonand then kind of fell apart.”
To make things worse, Culleynever had a major interest in trackin the first place.
“I started running trackbecause I played soccer for like 12years and my coach never had topull me off the field because Inever got tired,” she said. “So hetold me I should try long distancerunning and that’s how I got into it.
“I think that I really enjoy run-ning and I enjoyed track ... [but] Idon’t think I enjoyed it as much asI hoped to. I think it was somethingI was good at for a while. “
After retiring, Culley receivedan offer to coach at Lafayette(Md.), thanks in large part to a rec-ommendation from her formerRutgers coach and mentor,Roberta Anthes.
It wasn’t long after that shehad an epiphany: She missed rac-ing. For the first time, she reallywanted to run and compete, and alot of her new outlook on thesport stemmed from her experi-ences as a coach.
“It didn’t really click before. Itwasn’t something I was excited togo do getting out of bed in themorning. It was what my scholar-ship was for,” she said. “I have theperspective from having coachedfor a few years.
“I just don’t take it as life ordeath as I feel it was in college. Ireally look at it being such a greatbonus of something happening inmy life. I take it seriously, and it’sthe focal point of everything I doright now.”
Culley hasn’t given up her day jobeither, despite the return to competi-tive athletics. She also serves as an
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Depth, versatility bolster pass rush
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Rutgers junior Alex Silvestro transitioned from his starting role at defensive tackle to starting left end at thestart of spring camp. Through three games, Silvestro has 12 tackles, one sack and an interception.
BY STEVEN MILLERCORRESPONDENT
On any play, there could be adifferent combination of defensivelinemen for the Rutgers football
team.It could
be the starters, senior GeorgeJohnson, juniors Alex Silvestro andCharlie Noonan and redshirt fresh-man Scott Vallone.
Or juniors Blair Bines andJonathan Freeny and sophomoresJustin Francis and Eric LeGrandcould rotate in.
Rarely, though, is there anydrop-off.
“I feel good with any of the fourin there [at defensive tackle],which is a good feeling to have,”said head coach Greg Schiano.“Same thing out on the perimeter— I really think we have flexibilityout there with who we play, whichis a real positive.”
In some cases, the ScarletKnights feature four defensiveends across the line. Sliding insideto defensive tackle is somethingSilvestro — who started all 13games at tackle last year — isused to.
This year, he is back at defensiveend and comfortable at the position.
“It’s a little bit different, but I didplay a little bit there as a freshman,”Silvestro said. “After the first coupleof plays in, I wouldn’t say the firstgame, more like the second game, Istarted settling down, really under-standing it and feeling a lot morerelaxed and comfortable out there.”
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Real futbol greater than American football
NICHOLAS BRASOWSKI/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
American football is the dominant sport in the United States, but soccer is starting to catch on, withthe FIFA 2010 World Cup set to begin this summer in South Africa.
F utbol, fussball, football.Only in America can we calla sport that requires its par-
ticipants to use their feet and out-laws the use of hands by a com-pletely different name — soccer.
Before I get rolling, let me say thatI do not dislike American football. Ienjoy watching the NFL on Sundaysand the occasional college game onSaturdays, but I have an alternative —the real futbol. You know, the one therest of the world worships.
I understand the argument peo-ple have against futbol. The playersdive and drop like they just gotshot, there is not enough scoringand games can end in a draw.
But seriously, is it any worse thanwatching the Rutgers football teamtrudge through a first half againstHoward that takes two hours and 45minutes to complete? Will peopleeven show up for the calamity of agame scheduled against TexasSouthern in two weeks?
Yes, because it’s homecoming— but not for the quality of play.
For those that haven’t noticed,both the men and women’s futbolteams at RU are off to great starts. Themen are 2-0 in conference play and thewomen are ranked in the top 25.
