THE D AILY T ARGUM Volume 141, Number 19 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 MONDAY SEPTEMBER 28, 2009 INDEX Parents and conservatives are upset by a recent video circulated on YouTube involving their children singing songs about Obama. The Alfa Art Gallery in downtown New Brunswick hosts a night of featured performances from local musicans and artists. DEFENSE WINS CHAMPIONSHIPS Today: Showers High: 78 • Low: 52 The Rutgers defense shouldered the load for the Scarlet Knights, forcing five turnovers and scoring two touchdowns in the team’s 34-13 road win against the Maryland Terrapins. ONLINE @ DAILYTARGUM.COM OPINIONS METRO OPINIONS ....... 8 DIVERSIONS ...... 10 CLASSIFIEDS ...... 12 SPORTS ...... BACK UNIVERSITY ....... 3 METRO .......... 7 President Richard L. McCormick speaks to the University community Friday about last year’s successes and shortcomings, along with goals for the year ahead at his annual address. JEFF LAZARO McCormick outlines plans to improve U. BY MARY DIDUCH ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR In his seventh annual state of the University address, University President Richard L. McCormick spoke of the school’s financial status, successes, areas of improvement and goals for the future. Standing in front of University sena- tors, students, faculty and administra- tors in the Multipurpose Room of the Rutgers Student Center at a University Senate meeting Friday, McCormick began his address talking about the bur- den of the economy on the University. The decline in state support — now at about 40 percent, a decrease from 70 percent in 1990 — has made the situa- tion harder to deal with, but it could be worse, he said. “Up to this point, the recession has not fundamentally changed the charac- ter of our institution,” McCormick said. A comprehensive effort to find sav- ings and efficiencies, federal stimulus funds, shared faculty sacrifices, good management and expanding revenue sources lessened the blow, he said. One saving this year came from the Livingston campus solar farm, which generates 10 percent of the electricity for the campus, he said. “These and other efficiencies are now saving Rutgers millions of dollars a year, and I thank all of you for par- ticipating in them. The next round of efficiency savings will be more diffi- cult,” McCormick said. “They will require us to change the ways we do business and to give up some conven- iences we cherish.” He thanked the faculty and their union for agreeing to defer their raises, preventing larger cuts to be made. Union protests administration outside annual address BY ARIEL NAGI CORRESPONDENT Dressed in white jumpsuits, hard hats, construction vests and gas masks, Union of Rutgers Administrators-American Federation of Teachers members stood in front of the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus Friday, boycotting University President Richard L. McCormick’s annual address. Calling the address the “Toxic Incident Site,” the union was protesting against management greed, which they said is hazardous to the University community. URA-AFT Executive Vice President Nat Bender said University management broke their contract and froze negotiated raises using the general economy and projections of next year’s budget as an excuse, although the University’s overall funding continues to increase. “The University’s management is not listening when we tell them that they are overreaching far beyond what thousands of commit- ted workers at Rutgers might agree to as a fair trade-off between deferred raises and job security,” Bender said. URA-AFT President Lucye Millerand said the annual address lacks substance and fails to address these issues. Students and community members run at the seventh annual High Speed Chase for the Cure 5K Run/3K Walk yesterday in memory of RUPD officer Randy McIntyre and to fund cancer research. DAVID PAL Hundreds pound pavement for cure BY JOE BEGONIS CONTRIBUTING WRITER More than 1,000 students, community members and offi- cers from the Rutgers University Police Department hit the ground running to help raise awareness and money for cancer yesterday despite the rain. The University’s seventh- annual High Speed Chase for the Cure 5K Run/3K Walk — held at the Rutgers Athletic Center on Livingston campus — was created as a way to pay trib- ute to Randy McIntyre, a University police officer who lost his life to cancer. “I’ve been running since it started,” said Ron Cohen, an RUPD officer. “It’s about family.” Web site acts as information hub BY MARY DIDUCH ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR With the University’s 585 aca- demic units and 27 schools, University Media Relations saw a need to bring cohesion to all the top news stories and features. Today, they will launch Rutgers Today — a news center Web site that pulls together content from various sources around the University, said Rutgers Today Executive Editor Greg Trevor. “The goal is to better inform citi- zens about the University, and what we hope Rutgers Today will become is a Web site people will turn to on a daily basis,” said Trevor, senior director of Media Relations. The site features news about University research, events, MAYA NACHI/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER BY DEIRDRE S. HOPTON CORRESPONDENT The Residence Hall Association paid homage to the Parker Brothers yesterday with their Monopoly- themed Leadership Development Day, which they billed as “RHA–Opoly.” The day consisted of about 21 leadership-learning sessions with titles like “Building Your Monopoly” and “How to Prevent Your Time from Being Monopolized” with the goal of ensuring every elected leader in the residence halls is competent in their role, RHA Vice SEE PLANS ON PAGE 4 SEE UNION ON PAGE 4 SEE HUB ON PAGE 4 SEE CURE ON PAGE 5 SEE LEADERS ON PAGE 5 RHA Vice President of Internal Affairs Becca Heller calls off the names of “RHA-Opoly” raffle winners yesterday at Leadership Development Day. Students game for developing skills as RHA leaders
Transcript
THE DAILY TARGUMV o l u m e 1 4 1 , N u m b e r 1 9
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
MONDAYSEPTEMBER 28, 2009
INDEX
Parents and conservatives areupset by a recentvideo circulated onYouTube involvingtheir children singingsongs about Obama.
The Alfa Art Galleryin downtown NewBrunswick hosts anight of featuredperformances fromlocal musicans and artists.
DEFENSE WINS CHAMPIONSHIPSToday: Showers
High: 78 • Low: 52The Rutgers defense shouldered the load for the Scarlet Knights, forcing five turnovers and scoring
two touchdowns in the team’s 34-13 road win against the Maryland Terrapins.
ONLINE @DAILYTARGUM.COM
OPINIONS
METRO
OPINIONS . . . . . . . 8
DIVERSIONS . . . . . . 10
CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . 12
SPORTS . . . . . . BACK
UNIVERSITY . . . . . . . 3
METRO . . . . . . . . . . 7
President Richard L. McCormick speaks to the University community Friday about last year’ssuccesses and shortcomings, along with goals for the year ahead at his annual address.
JEFF LAZARO
McCormick outlinesplans to improve U.
BY MARY DIDUCHASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
In his seventh annual state of theUniversity address, University PresidentRichard L. McCormick spoke of theschool’s financial status, successes, areasof improvement and goals for the future.
Standing in front of University sena-tors, students, faculty and administra-tors in the Multipurpose Room of theRutgers Student Center at a UniversitySenate meeting Friday, McCormickbegan his address talking about the bur-den of the economy on the University.
The decline in state support — nowat about 40 percent, a decrease from 70percent in 1990 — has made the situa-tion harder to deal with, but it could beworse, he said.
“Up to this point, the recession hasnot fundamentally changed the charac-ter of our institution,” McCormick said.
A comprehensive effort to find sav-ings and efficiencies, federal stimulusfunds, shared faculty sacrifices, goodmanagement and expanding revenuesources lessened the blow, he said.
One saving this year came from theLivingston campus solar farm, whichgenerates 10 percent of the electricityfor the campus, he said.
“These and other efficiencies arenow saving Rutgers millions of dollarsa year, and I thank all of you for par-ticipating in them. The next round ofefficiency savings will be more dif fi-cult,” McCormick said. “They willrequire us to change the ways we dobusiness and to give up some conven-iences we cherish.”
He thanked the faculty and theirunion for agreeing to defer their raises,preventing larger cuts to be made.
Union protests administration outside annual addressBY ARIEL NAGI
CORRESPONDENT
Dressed in white jumpsuits,hard hats, construction vests andgas masks, Union of RutgersA d m i n i s t r a t o r s - A m e r i c a nFederation of Teachers members
stood in front of the RutgersStudent Center on the CollegeAvenue campus Friday, boycottingUniversity President Richard L.McCormick’s annual address.
Calling the address the “ToxicIncident Site,” the union wasprotesting against management
greed, which they said is hazardousto the University community.
URA-AFT Executive VicePresident Nat Bender said Universitymanagement broke their contractand froze negotiated raises using thegeneral economy and projections ofnext year’s budget as an excuse,
although the University’s overallfunding continues to increase.
“The University’s managementis not listening when we tell themthat they are overreaching farbeyond what thousands of commit-ted workers at Rutgers might agreeto as a fair trade-off between
deferred raises and job security,”Bender said.
URA-AFT President LucyeMillerand said the annual addresslacks substance and fails to addressthese issues.
Students and community members run at the seventh annual High Speed Chase for the Cure 5KRun/3K Walk yesterday in memory of RUPD officer Randy McIntyre and to fund cancer research.
DAVID PAL
Hundreds pound pavement for cureBY JOE BEGONISCONTRIBUTING WRITER
More than 1,000 students,community members and offi-cers from the Rutgers UniversityPolice Department hit theground running to help raise
awareness and money for canceryesterday despite the rain.
The University’s seventh-annual High Speed Chase forthe Cure 5K Run/3K Walk —held at the Rutgers AthleticCenter on Livingston campus —was created as a way to pay trib-
ute to Randy McIntyre, aUniversity police of ficer wholost his life to cancer.
“I’ve been running since itstarted,” said Ron Cohen, anRUPD officer. “It’s about family.”
Web site acts as information hubBY MARY DIDUCHASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
With the University’s 585 aca-demic units and 27 schools,University Media Relations saw aneed to bring cohesion to all thetop news stories and features.
Today, they will launch RutgersToday — a news center Web sitethat pulls together content fromvarious sources around theUniversity, said Rutgers TodayExecutive Editor Greg Trevor.
“The goal is to better inform citi-zens about the University, and what
we hope Rutgers Today will becomeis a Web site people will turn to on adaily basis,” said Trevor, seniordirector of Media Relations.
The site features news aboutUniversity research, events,
MAYA NACHI/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
BY DEIRDRE S. HOPTONCORRESPONDENT
The Residence Hall Association paid homage to theParker Brothers yesterday with their Monopoly-themed Leadership Development Day, which theybilled as “RHA–Opoly.”
The day consisted of about 21 leadership-learningsessions with titles like “Building Your Monopoly” and“How to Prevent Your Time from Being Monopolized”with the goal of ensuring every elected leader in theresidence halls is competent in their role, RHA Vice
SEE PLANS ON PAGE 4
SEE UNION ON PAGE 4
SEE HUB ON PAGE 4
SEE CURE ON PAGE 5 SEE LEADERS ON PAGE 5
RHA Vice President of Internal Affairs Becca Hellercalls off the names of “RHA-Opoly” raffle winnersyesterday at Leadership Development Day.
Students game fordeveloping skillsas RHA leaders
T H E D A I L Y T A R G U MS E P T E M B E R 2 8 , 2 0 0 9 DIRECTORY2
1 2 6 C o l l e g e A v e . , S u i t e 4 3 1 , N e w B r u n s w i c k , N J 0 8 9 0 1
The Daily Targum is a student-written andstudent-managed, nonprofit incorporated news-paper published by the Targum PublishingCompany, circulation 17,000.
The Daily Targum (USPS949240) is pub-lished Monday through Friday in NewBrunswick, NJ, while classes are in session dur-ing the fall and spring semesters. No partthereof may be reproduced in any form, inwhole or in part, without the consent of themanaging editor.
Display and classified advertising may beplaced at the above address. Office hours:Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Fri-day, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Postmaster: Send address corrections to TheDaily Targum c/o Business Manager, 126 CollegeAve., Suite 431, New Brunswick, NJ 08901.
732-932-2012
AdvertisingClassifiedsProductions
PHONE:BUSINESS FAX: E-MAIL:WEB:
CORRECTIONSThe Daily Targum promptly
corrects all errors of substance. If you have a comment or question
about the fairness or accuracy of a story, send an e-mail to
EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS — Matt Ackley, Bryan Angeles, Bill Domke, Ramon Dompor,Katherine O’Connor, Nancy SantucciSENIOR EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS — Steven WilliamsonSENIOR WRITERS — Steven WilliamsonCORRESPONDENTS — Bill Domke, Greg Flynn, Deirdre S. Hopton, Steve Miller, Chris Melchiorre, Ariel Nagi SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER — Bryan Angeles, Brendan McInerney, John PenaSTAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS — Angelica Bonus, Nicholas Brasowski, Ramon Dompor, Aimee Fiscella, Jodie Francis, Jennifer-Miguel-Hellman, Maya Nachi, Isiah Stewart
ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES — Sagar Agrawal, Jateen Chauhan, Pat Mcguinness, Chelsea Mehaffey,Amanda SolomonCLASSIFIEDS ASSISTANTS — Kristine EnerioACCOUNTING ASSISTANTS — Laura Avino, Justin Chan, Liliya Dmitrieva
PRODUCTIONS ASSISTANTS — Dan King, Corey Perez, Mike Maroney, Kelsey Schwartz
PRODUCTIONS
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
WEATHER OUTLOOKCourtesy of the Rutgers Meteorology Club
TUESDAYHIGH 66 LOW 50
WEDNESDAYHIGH 63 LOW 46
THURSDAYHIGH 62 LOW 45
TODAY Scattered showers, with a high of 76°
TONIGHT Mostly cloudy, with a low of 52°
T H E D A I L Y T A R G U M
P A G E 3S E P T E M B E R 2 8 , 2 0 0 9 UNIVERSITY
BY NICHOLAS ORLANDOCONTRIBUTING WRITER
A fast start turned to disap-pointment in Friday’s homeopener for the Rutgers men’shockey club against TheUniversity of Rhode Island,ranked seven in the country.
The team lost 7-2 againstRhode Island.
Head coach Andy Gojdyczwas displeased with the per-formance his team put forwardand said he planned to makemajor changes in lines and theway they played.
“[The Knights have to] winthe one-on-one battles to thepuck,” he said.
While he did see somebright spots in the performanceof certain players, overallGojdycz said his team tookadvantage of the early lead andthat should not happen.
The Scarlet Knights got offto an extremely fast start, scor-ing at 2:19, when senior for-ward Jeff Katz of Rutgers-Newark found the net for thefirst goal of the season after an
opportunity was missed justseconds before.
“It’s always good to get the firstshift off to a good start,” Katz said.
The lead was preserved fiveminutes later by a diving save infront of an open net by forwardTim Nakajima, a School of Artsand Sciences junior.
The team held off a five-on-three early, only allowing threeshots on goal and clearing twice.School of Arts and Sciences first-year student Matt Ruthberg’sput-in led to another goal,increasing RU’s lead to two,assisted by Andrew Shapiro, aSchool of Arts and Sciences jun-ior, and Jason Adams, a School ofEnvironmental and Biologicalfirst-year student.
This lead did not last though,as Rhode Island scored back-to-back goals within two minutesof each other to close out thefirst period and tie the game.
Rhode Island came out in thesecond period firing four shotswithin the first five minutes.
This trend continued as theyoutshot the Knights again andtook a 5-2 lead.
The face-off between theRutgers men’s hockey cluband the University of RhodeIsland Saturday night wasmuch like the previous.
Knowing the loss of thenight before, the team had toplay the game all three periodsin order to win, said Jeff Katz,forward and Rutgers-Newarksenior. But Rhode Island came
and took two from Rutgers in aconvincing fashion with a finalscore of 6-2.
The first period was tight,very sharp and almost even.Both sides exchanged hit afterhit and save after save, withneither team scoring.
To start the second period,the Scarlet Knights brokethrough with a goal 32 seconds
in from Tim Nakajima on aredirect from Tyler Rogers.This put the Knights up againjust as they were at the Fridaynight game.
After giving up two quickgoals, the Knights had to staveoff two separate five-on-threes,totaling 1:34. The team wouldescape unscathed but RhodeIsland scored two more times
toward the end of the period,including one goal with 40 sec-onds left.
The opponents scored fourtimes in the period as theKnights committed six penalties.
The lead going into the thirdperiod was 4-1 Rhode Island,and the Knights faced a largehill to climb if they wanted tomake the game competitive.
In the last 20 minutes, RhodeIsland made two goals, one on afive-on-three and one on a penal-ty shot. This put the score at 6-1and Rhode Island was in control.
In a last, trying effort,Nakajima, a School of Arts andSciences junior, would add hissecond goal of the night withfour minutes left in the game.
— Nicholas Orlando
SCARLET KNIGHTS LOSE HEAT ON ICE
Families swoon over Colby the dog Saturday in hopes of adopting him from
the Sayerville Pet Adoption Center. Students, alumni, faculty and staff were
invited to SPAC’s special “Red and Black” Open House held in honor of the
University to see the dogs and cats available to take home.
ELIAS TSANG
SEE SPOT SAVED
Scarlet Knight John Beatrice checks a University of Rhode Island player against the boardsFriday night at the Knight’s home opener. Prior to their two games this weekend, RhodeIsland was ranked seventh in the country and beat the Knights in both games.
ANDREW HOWARD/ PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Club hockey sports team faces double defeat
URI held RU without a goalin the second and they werebadly outplayed, giving up threegoals at nine, 11 and 16 minutes.
Starting out slowly, the thirdperiod picked up for RhodeIsland as they scored goals at7:49 and 10:53. This pushed theteam’s lead to five and sealedthe game. All seven of RhodeIsland’s goals were unanswered
after the Scarlet Knights tookthe early lead.
Shapiro said the team need-ed to turn things around forSaturday night’s game.
“[The physicality] will begreater because we need toincrease the amount of hitstomorrow if we are going to havea chance to win,” Shapiro said.“[We’ll need] to build on the first
12 minutes of tonight’s game andplay like that for the full 60.”
RU finished last year with a15-15-3 record while going 12-1-1 inside its conference.
The team lost in the semi-finals to Cornell, who went on towin the championship, Shapirosaid. The goal this year is to reachnationals in Chicago, which wasso narrowly missed last season.
T H E D A I L Y T A R G U MS E P T E M B E R 2 8 , 2 0 0 9 U NIVERSIT Y4
School of Arts and Sciences Executive Dean Douglas Greenberg speaks on the College Avenue campus
yesterday at the memorial of Richard Poirier, a University English Professor Emeritus who died this summer.
JEFF LAZARO
CELEBRATING LIFE
Deans and administratorshave reshaped business practicesto better allocate limitedresources, he said. This hasallowed the University to addmore courses to accommodate alarger student population.
McCormick said more fundshave been made available to off-set the 20 percent increase inrequests for financial aid anddecrease in state support.
Research funding set a newrecord with $391 million, a 21percent increase from last year,he said. The Rutgers Foundationalso recorded $128.6 million inphilanthropic gifts.
McCormick said there areways for the University to gener-ate funds on its own so as not torely heavily on state support inthe future.
“Last year, I encouraged theexpansion of revenue-generatingacademic programs: executiveeducation, continuing education,certificate programs, profession-al master’s degrees, online andhybrid courses and off-campusdegree completion programs,”he said. “These programs fill theneeds of students and theyimprove our finances.”
Revenue from online and off-campus programs increased lastyear to $20.5 million,McCormick said.
He expects revenue fromsuch programs to grow threefoldto more than $65 million in thenext five years.
McCormick also expectsincreased enrollment, fundrais-ing and obtaining more researchgrants to provide more revenue.
“Through this combination ofsacrifice and hard work we havea reprieve, not a pass,” he said.
Osher Lifelong LearningInstitute Director Marvin Schlaffersaid McCormick’s speech wasoptimistic in hard times.
“The items that he coveredshow great growth and progressat the University … The way theUniversity is dealing with therecession seems to be fair andequitable,” he said.
School of Arts and Sciencessophomore Afriyie Amankwaasaid McCormick did well in dis-cussing the economy.
“He was very poised and hekind of added some relief tosome serious questions, like hehad a joke here and there,” shesaid. “I just thought that … loos-ened up the situation a bit.”
McCormick also discussedthe status of the 2-year-old Schoolof Arts and Sciences undergradu-ate program.
“We have unified admissionsstandards, enabled students toreceive key services such asadvising wherever they live andcreated student-friendly offices ofcampus deans and deans of stu-dents,” he said.
There has been an increase inthe number of participants in theByrne Family First-YearSeminars and undergraduateresearch, McCormick said.
“Students are getting moreinvolved in campus life and, as aresult, satisfaction levels amongour residential students nowexceed that of most of our peerinstitutions,” he said.
Some feared a loss in studentdiversity with a single admissionsstandard, but it increased diversi-ty, McCormick said.
But he acknowledged the pro-gram still needs work.
“The University’s communica-tions with prospective under-
academics and athletics, andleads those interested in theUniversity to one place electroni-cally, Trevor said. The Universityhas many great stories, but theyare hidden and scattered on hun-dreds of sites.
“Unless people are lookingspecifically at those sites on a reg-ular basis, they’re not necessarilygoing to see that,” Trevor said.
The new site also featureslinks to external media coverageand state higher education news,Trevor said.
Visitors will be able to seevideo clips and audio slideshowsof featured University stories aswell as participate in an interac-tive poll to voice their opinion oncurrent issues.
“One of the most excitingaspects of it is we’re going tohave the capacity to display mul-timedia,” Trevor said.
Karen Smith, who works onthe project full-time, said RutgersToday plans to extend into therealm of social media sitesbecause many people accessthem daily.
“Since President McCormickhas taken no action to establish areal dialogue, I see no real valuein listening to his preparedaddress,” Millerand said in apress release.
In July, the University decidednot to pay the previously negoti-ated salaries without informingany of the union members,according to the release.
The University has publiclyclaimed to hope to avert layoffs,but layoffs continue even as rais-es remain frozen, Bender said.
“This goes against the letterand the spirit of the deal thatunions such as CommunicationWorkers of America agreed towith the state, other AFT statecolleges unions agreed to and thefull-time faculty agreed to here atRutgers,” he said.
The union is supposed to benegotiating salaries, accordingto a proposal they made morethan a month ago, URA-AFT
HUB: Viewers can utilize
University slideshows, videos
continued from front
PLANS: McCormick looks
for ways to generate funding
continued from front
UNION: President does
not comment on negotiations
continued from front
graduates are less well coordinat-ed than they should be, and con-fusion persists over why a stu-dent should enroll in the Schoolof Arts and Sciences rather thanthe School of Environmental andBiological Sciences, or viceversa,” McCormick said.
The University also strugglesto provide adequately for nontra-ditional students and veterans,he said.
School of Arts and Sciencessophomore Frank Garcia said hehoped for more qualitative andnot quantitative informationabout academic units and cam-pus communities.
“Most of the talks here werefinancial, and I understand that’slike a hot topic — the economy —but … I’m not sure whether or notthat was a good thing,” he said.
McCormick explained hisgoals for the future in research,academics and making studentsmore globally aware.
“We will continue to seek dis-tinction in research thataddresses the most demandingchallenges facing humanityacross the state and around theworld,” he said. “That meansrecruiting and retaining out-standing faculty — such as theover 100 new faculty we wel-come this year in fields frompoetry to shock wave theory —and it means investing in strate-gically selected fields such as cli-mate change, energy, nutrition,human genetics and proteomics,advanced materials, transporta-tion, childhood studies andurban entrepreneurship.”
To help students becomeglobal citizens, McCormick pro-posed maximizing study abroadexposure, implementing moreinternational courses and master-ing another language.
“Within five years we mustincrease dramatically the num-ber of Rutgers students who havemeaningful international expo-sure by the time they graduate,”he said.
Dean of InternationalPrograms Joanna Regulska likedthis proposal.
“I think it’s great thatMcCormick recognized itsimportance and that we have aroadmap for a variety of issues,”she said.
At the conclusion of hisspeech, McCormick said hewould try to visit the campusesand schools throughout the yearto hear student and faculty issuesand concerns.
Livingston College senior IlanaWarner said McCormick did notaddress some of her issues.
“I think he just tends to be apolitician about all his respons-es,” she said.
Warner said people shouldnot expect him to fix minuteproblems at the University.
“The solutions aren’t going tostart from the top down, theyhave to start from the bottom up.I can’t look to McCormick to helpour groups and our culturalneeds,” she said.
Warner said students shouldwork on their problems and cre-ate a better demand for theirissues to make the administra-tion notice and take action.
The full presidential addresscan be viewed atwww.dailytargum.com.
“One of our goals is to useFacebook, Twitter and YouTubeto deliver news and information,”Smith said.
Starting tomorrow, RutgersToday will be one of the defaultchannels on the MyRutgerspor tal for students, saidManaging Editor Carla Cantor,assistant director of media-edi-torial communications forMedia Relations.
Students and faculty will alsoreceive e-mail updates via theirUniversity address, Trevor said.The site is geared towardUniversity employees, students,alumni, leaders, and local busi-nesses and communities.
“We define our audience in avery simple way,” Trevor said.“Our audience is anyone who isinterested in Rutgers University.”
Trevor said the idea for thesite originated in 2004, when the University ran aresearch project seeking pub-lic opinion and perceptionsabout the University.
“Among the many findings ofthat was a need for Rutgers to doa better job of providing impor-tant information about the institu-tion,” he said.
Many projects have arisenfrom the ConstituencyResearch Project, such as the
block “R,” Rutgers Day, thenew interactive University Website, and now, Rutgers Today,he said.
After the release of the survey,they came up with the idea forRutgers Today after looking atthe new hub sites of more than adozen other institutions aboutthree years ago, Cantor said.
“Many other universities takecontent from all over their univer-sity and repurpose it into theirown news center pages, but wedidn’t do that,” she said.
It is better to pull informationstraight from the source becausethe University is so diverse,Cantor said.
“We are not repurposing con-tent, but we’re actually linking tothe content that is created bymany people around theUniversity,” she said.
Cantor said Rutgers Today isnot replacing the Office ofUniversity Relations’ news page,and they are still creating theirown content.
The team has been preparingfor the site’s launch all summer,giving more than 40 presenta-tions to University faculty, staffand students, Trevor said.
“We really hope that this willbecome a place that people willturn to,” he said.
Campus Vice President KathrynNeal said.
“It’s been very disturbing andvery upsetting working withthem … [We] have not heard any-thing back from them,” Neal said.“With this kind of attitude, theyare being very laissez-faire andthey’re acting like this is not a bigpriority for them.”
Although the Universityreached a settlement last monthwith the union, management isasking for more in deferrals fromstaff, according to the release.
“We reject the idea that theState University of New Jerseyshould be run like a corporationwhere management slices anddices workers’ rights to savemoney for executive compensationor projects,” Bender said. “Thatwill expand the physical infrastruc-ture without taking into accountthe additional services that will beneeded by the students that occu-py the new spaces.”
In his address, McCormickthanked faculty, staff and admin-istrators for deferring salaryincreases to help the budget.
“Our faculty and the union thatrepresents them deserve enor-
mous credit for agreeing to defertheir raises,” McCormick said.“The savings from these agree-ments are being used to preventwhat would have been devastatingcuts to our essential programs ofinstruction and research. To mycolleagues, I want to express aheartfelt thank you.”
In the question and answer ses-sion following the address,McCormick said he could notcomment on ongoing negotiations.
URA-AFT member ProfessorRichard Gomez askedMcCormick to layout the sacri-fices administrators have made.
“With respect to administrators,they too have no raises,” he said.
McCormick said only full-timefaculty members were asked todefer, not part-time lecturers, andstaff and faculty have been figur-ing budget cuts throughout theUniversity this past year, he said.
“The administrative officeshave been struck more severelythan anything in the academicrealm of Rutgers, and rightly so,”he said.
—Mary Diduch contributed tothis article
board member, you learn somuch about leadership andcooperation [and] about work-ing toward a common goal. It’sjust great.”
Hall governments consist of apresident, vice president, secre-tary, treasurer, RHA representa-tive and floor representatives,who deal with advocacy issues,coordinating hall events andmaking students’ campus experi-ence the best they can be, saidRHA National CommunicationsCoordinator Chelsea Hudson.
RHA LeadershipDevelopment Days have beengoing on for three consecutiveyears, and they get better eachtime, Petolla said.
Hudson, aSchool of Arts andSciences sopho-more, also thoughtthe day was a hugesuccess.
“We have agreat experiencegoing on here. I’mso happy that allthe student leaderscame out to attendthe sessions,because we put alot of work intothis,” she said.
RHA Vice President ofInternal Affairs Becca Heller saidRHA started planning the eventlast May.
“We had to pick a theme, thenwe had to plan what session top-ics we thought were essential forthe student leaders to start work-ing on their hall government. Soafter that we were each assigneda topic and we had to work withthe ResLife staff members andgrad students to plan the ses-sions,” said Heller, a School ofEnvironmental and BiologicalSciences sophomore. “Obviouslywe ordered food and made thevideo and slide shows — just a lotof work went into this.”
T H E D A I L Y T A R G U M S E P T E M B E R 2 8 , 2 0 0 9 5U NIVERSIT Y
PJ’S GRILL & PIZZA732-249-1800 • PJSGRILL.COM
$2 OFF FOR OUR LOYAL CUSTOMERS:
Minimum order $8.00. Not valid online or with any other offer. Does not have any monetary value. Must mention coupon when ordering and surrender coupon when
receiving merchandise. Coupon valid through Oct. 31, 2009
BY DEIRDRE S. HOPTONCORRESPONDENT
The University’s number ofaward-winning professors roseThursday as the National Instituteof Health announced that twoUniversity assistant professorsreceived the 2009 Director’s NewInnovator Awards.
Vikas Nanda and Ki-Bum Leewill both obtain $1.5 millionthroughout the next five years tofund their research on separateprojects in biochemistry andchemical biology respectively.
The NIH Directors’ Awardswere given to 115 individuals thisyear, with the goal of promotinghigh-risk and innovative researchthat cannot fit into a specificdescription, said Nanda, an assis-tant biochemistry professor. The
goal of the award is to fundresearch that will launch theirfield forward.
“What our lab does is design[synthetic] proteins; we take anengineering approach using basicphysical principals,” Nanda said.“Then we come up with a specificapplication, whether it’s physical— like seeing how the proteininteracts with say cancer cells —or industrial, whether they canconduct electricity.”
Center for AdvancedBiotechnology and MedicineDirector Aaron J. Shatkin, wasdirectly involved in recruitingNanda in September of 2005.
“Nanda is officially a medicalschool faculty member but I con-sider him part of the Rutgersfamily,” Shatkin said. “This isjust amazing for [the University]
that Rutgers received two ofthese grants.”
While Nanda will work on a bio-chemistry project, Lee is an assis-
tant professor at the Department ofChemistry and Chemical BiologyLee and researches the modulationof stem cells and cancer cells.
“The primary research inter-est of my group at Rutgers is todevelop and integrate nanotech-nologies and chemical functionalgenomics to modulate signalingpathways in cells towards specificcell lineages or behaviors,” Leesaid. “In particular, my group isinterested in studying how micro-environmental cues functionallyaffect stem cell fate.”
Both Lee and Nanda workwith teams of graduate and post-doctorate students.
Both teams — 13 students inNanda’s group and Lee with twograduate students and one post-doc-torate student — said they couldn’tbe happier about the award.
“We feel really excited at thisopportunity, as all our hard workfor almost the past two years insetting up the lab has paid off,”
said Aniruddh Solanki, a graduatestudent working in Lee’s laborato-ry. “This award is extremely pres-tigious, as it is especially given toa select few investigators who arewilling to take up high-riskresearch which will have greatimpact on medical science.”
Though Nanda’s team is sig-nificantly smaller, the studentssaid they are just as enthusiasticabout this honor as Lee’s team.
“I am proud of my adviser,”said Fei Xu, who is a post-doctor-ate student that works in Nanda’slab. “At the same time, I feelencouraged in my work. It is sucha significant recognition of thisproject. This fund will give usmore latitude for our group.”
He said he is very optimisticabout the project as a direct resultof the NIH award.
“This awardis extremely
prestigious, as it isespecially given
to a selectfew investigators.”
ANIRUDDH SOLANKIGraduate Student
Two professors receive National Institue of Health award
President of Public RelationsJared Trachtenberg said.
“If a president doesn’t knowhow to make an agenda, thenwe really didn’t do our job. Wewant to make sure that everyperson that has been electednow has an understanding ofthe tools that they need to dowhat they need to do,” saidTrachtenberg, a School of Artsand Sciences sophomore.
Roughly 400 students were inattendance, representing theexecutive boardsof all 34 resi-dence hallsincluding thehotel, said RyanHarrington, RHAvice president ofadvocacy. A goodresidence hallboard is a groupof people whocan work togeth-er to accomplishsimilar goals tomake a positivecommunity.
“You’re surrounded by thesepeople all the time, so it’s impor-tant to develop a positive commu-nity. That’s what we’re trying toteach them how to do today,” saidHarrington, a School ofEnvironmental and BiologicalSciences sophomore.
President of the SilversApartments on Busch campusChristina Pettola said the ses-sions taught her a lot about dele-gation, organization and unity.
“I’m also learning a lotabout how to be cohesive withthe residents and work towarda common vision this year,”said Pettola, a School of Artsand Sciences junior. “As an e-
The proceeds of the eventgo toward patient relief, cancerresearch and treatment at theCancer Institute of New Jersey,which sponsored the eventwith RUPD, said LeAnneKochy, special events coordina-tor for the institute.
Rutgers football head coachGreg Schiano was in attendanceto kick off the start of the race.
“Very few people haven’t beentouched by this disease,” Schianosaid. “It’s a great cause and it’sgreat that all the students and[fraternities] get involved.”
Several contributors to therace were from University frater-nities and sororities.
“One of our main focuses iscommunity ser vice,” said
CURE: Competition draws
in more participation each year
continued from front
LEADERS: Event brings
RHA members closer together
continued from front
“You’re surroundedby these people all the time, so it’s important to develop a
positive community.” RYAN HARRINGTON
RHA Vice President for Advocacy
School of Arts and Sciencesjunior Angelica Poon, commu-nity service director of KappaPhi Lambda.
Many fraternities have beenrunning the race for the past fewyears because of their strongbelief in giving back.
“It’s about philanthropy; it’sa good cause and it’s betterthan sitting around doing noth-ing,” said Rutgers College jun-ior Rob Tsai, member of PhiDelta Psi.
Some of the fraternities wereenthusiastic about the run andwhat it stood for.
“Every philanthropist organi-zation has an obligation to dogood for the community whenev-er they can,” said Rutgers Collegesenior George Leu, a member ofDelta Sigma Phi.
Several alumni were also run-ning to show their support.
“As a former Rutgers student,I think this is a good way to par-
ticipate in student activities,” saidRaza Merchant, a member of PsiSigma Phi.
Winners were categorized inan open competition and a mas-ter’s competition.
The top runner for the malerace was Ernest Mario School ofPharmacy fifth-year student BoWang. The female winner was 43-year-old Yana Rodgers from BelleMeade, N.J.
In the master’s competition,the winner of the male race was51-year-old Farid Touati fromManalapan and N.J. Rodgers wasthe master’s competition’sfemale winner.
She said the run has grown sig-nificantly since it started in 2003.
Kochy said sponsors such asWells Fargo, Road RunnerSports, The Daily Targum andNew Millenium Bank were a fewof the companies that joined thehelp the cause throughout thepast few years.
Paragraph performs at Alfa Art Gallery, located at 108 Church St., with Like Trains & Taxis and Bern & theBrights Thursday night, bringing together a mix of gallery art exhibition, music and video.
BY AMBER MAURIELLOCONTRIBUTING WRITER
Combining all forms of art,including videos, paintings andmusic, the Alfa Art Gallery inNew Brunswick hosted a musicvideo premiere Thursday nightfor local band Like Trains& Taxis.
The band premiered theirsingle “Crooks” of f theirupcoming album, “Tales from aRevolving Door,” expected tobe released in early 2010.
“[We] try to play in alterna-tive places, like the Alfa ArtGallery, to be seen in a dif fer-ent light,” said Like Trains &Taxis lead singer and key-boardist Chris Harris.
The video, directed bySchool of Arts and Sciencessenior Daniel Pillis, consistedentirely of stop-motion anima-tion with sequences of the bandperforming and themes ofnewspapers and dominos.
“The music video is [a] com-mentary on the aesthetic of themusic video, abstracting thebasic principle of the form,”Pillis said.
University alumnus ChrisHarris said he wanted to choosea director that had a vivid visionfor the video.
“The element of his workthat attracted me was the ten-dency toward the absurd,”Harris said. “As a visual artist,[Pillis] is amazing.”
Drummer Mike Del Prioresaid making the music videowas an opportunity to learnmore about each other as a band.
School of Arts and Sciences jun-ior Catherine DePalma said sheenjoyed the stop-motion animation.
“[The event was] engagingand upbeat,” she said.
METRO P A G E 7S E P T E M B E R 2 8 , 2 0 0 9
T H E D A I L Y T A R G U M
JENNIFER MIGUEL-HELLMAN/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Local band debuts first music video Indigo Hair Salon is holding
a “Cut-a-Thon” fundraiser todayfrom 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. for theJimmy D’heron Foundation.
The salon, located at 354George St., will be offering $19haircuts — including consulta-tion, shampoo and cut — $6eyebrow waxing and $4 lipwaxing, said Indigo salonowner Olivia Fenrow.
“Every year we do a cut-a-thon for a local charity, andthis year we picked the JimmyD foundation to work with,”Fenrow said. “We volunteerour tips and offer discountedhair cuts.”
Prizes including gift cer-tificates from local business-es will be raf fled of fthroughout the day and 100percent of the proceeds willgo to benefit burn victims,Fenrow said.
The foundation was estab-lished in memory of DeputyChief James D’heron of theNew Brunswick FireDepartment, who was killed ina fire five years ago, she said.D’heron’s wife and daughterstarted the foundation.
On Sept. 3, 2004, the firedepartment was dispatched toa fire in a multiple-family resi-dence and D’heron arrivedfirst, according to the founda-tion’s Web site. He entered thestructure to alert residentswhen an explosion occurredand he was mortally burned.
The NewBrunswick FreePublic Library willbe hosting the Bee
Real project for seventh andeighth grade girls, a seriesof programs created andconducted by students fromthe Institute for Women’sLeadership at the University.It will feature activities cen-tered on the novel “TheSecret Life of Bees” by SueMonk Kidd. The group willmeet one Tuesday a monthstarting Sept. 29 from 3:30 to5 p.m. at the library at 60Livingston Ave. to discussthe book and create art proj-ects. All materials, includingthe book, will be provided toparticipants free of charge.
The Bee Real program willallow girls to come togetherwith women leaders fromthe University to discussthemes presented in thenovel such as leadership,character, secrets, discrimi-nation, voice and role mod-els using literature, art andwriting. While discussingthe book, students will beprompted to reflect on theirown lives and identitieswhile increasing their litera-cy and social study skills.
29SEPTEMBER
CALENDAR
Other per formers of theevening included Paragraph,Bern & the Brights, along withother video works by Pillis.
Paragraph’s lead singerDaniel Lane said Paragraphand Like Trains & Taxis firstworked together as an experi-ment and have now performedfive or six shows together.
“We really like working with[other] artists,” said Like Trains &Taxis bass player Owen Susman.
The gallery creates a con-cept of blending various ar tmediums, Alfa Ar t Galler yAssistant Director GalinaKourteva said. For this night,they had the art of film makinginterlinking with music, in addi-tion to the exhibition ofthe gallery.
Like Trains & Taxis will betouring in November, a singlerelease of “Charlie EP” comingout on Oct. 6 and a newly record-
ed album to be released earlynext year.
“I wrote a lot of the stuff onthere, and a lot of it is influ-enced from being here and theNew Brunswick community,”Harris said.
He said he describes theirmusic as “indie soul.”
“We try to play anywhereand everywhere we can,” hesaid. “We’ll bring the musicanywhere people want it.”
to the Poconos together fortheir retreat. The LCC hada successful year but theCAC experienced a turbu-lent year that saw theimpeachment of its presi-dent, consistently low atten-dance and a few resolutionsthat made no perceptibleimpact on the student body.
Its biggest achievement was the give away of sev-eral thousand dollars to student organizations. Ifoff-campus retreats were as worthwhile as Slavinasserts they are, both campus councils wouldhave had a successful year. If it is clear that a smalloff-campus retreat does not guarantee success,why would we expect a larger one to be produc-tive? If the necessity of past retreats stands inquestion, what justifies the use of $20,000 onanother retreat today? It is clear that wastefulspending in the past does not justify wasteful
spending today and that biggerversions of past events will notsucceed merely because theyare bigger. Success takes morethan a retreat, and examplesexist to prove this. TheDouglass Governing Council,for example, has not held itsown retreat; however, it hasalready arranged several events,including a visit from three NewJersey assemblywomen, who arecoming to speak to the Douglass
community and the University community as awhole about what it means to be a woman involvedin politics. They are also assisting in efforts to finda new dean for Douglass. Empower OurNeighborhoods is on the verge of changing NewBrunswick government for the better, yet you donot see its executive board using $20,000 to plan aretreat so that organization members can becomeexcited and make friends.
This realization leads us to the third and mostmisguided justification that has been given to usfor this $20,000 retreat: that $20,000 should bespent on elected representatives in order to helpexcite them about a position that they voluntarilydecided to take in the first place, to help themmake friends on the assembly and to allow them to
OPINIONST H E D A I L Y T A R G U M
P A G E 8 S E P T E M B E R 2 8 , 2 0 0 9
A t last week’s RutgersUniversity StudentAssembly meeting,
several student representa-tives, including myself, took astand against the use of up to$20,000 in student fee moneyto fund a retreat for 150 mem-bers of RUSA at “Happinessis Camping.” The retreat wasconceived of by RUSA Chairman Werner Born andapproved by the nine members of the Council ofPresidents over the summer before the first meetingof the assembly. According to Josh Slavin, chairman ofthe Internal Affairs Committee, “The retreat is a partof the assembly’s attempts to build better relation-ships between members … It’s the best way to get stu-dents excited about student government.”
To be fair to the views of those who supportthe retreat, retreats were once held by each of thenine separate campus and professional schoolcouncils, and this year theCouncil of Presidents, which ismade up of the presidents ofeach campus and professionalschool councils, thought itwould be a good idea to pooltheir funds in order to hold alarge retreat. The reasoningbehind this decision was articu-lated by Slavin, who said,“We’ve tried on-campus activi-ties and it did not foster the typeof relationships we want to seebetween people that will work together in three-hour meetings for the entire year.”
At this point in time we have been given threeerroneous justifications for the retreat by its sup-porters. The first justification is that spending inthe past justifies spending today; because RUSA’sexecutive board is spending the same amount offunding that the campus councils had spent onseveral smaller retreats in the past, it can justifi-ably pool that money and spend it on an even larg-er retreat today. The second justification is thatbigger is better and that the results of the smallerretreats, which did not foster the type of relation-ships among a small group of people, will not berepeated in a larger, less intimate retreat for 150people. These two assumptions, however, areclearly flawed. Last year, the College AvenueCouncil and the Livingston Campus Council went
MCT CAMPUS
RUSA retreat an unnecessary expense
EDITORIALS
Due to space limitations, submissions cannot exceed 750 words. If a commentary exceeds 750 words, it will not beconsidered for publication. All authors must include name, phone number, class year and college affiliation ordepartment to be considered for publication. Anonymous letters will not be considered. All submissions are subjectto editing for length and clarity. A submission does not guarantee publication. Please submit via e-mail [email protected] by 4 p.m. to be considered for the following day’s publication.
The editorials written above represent the majority opinion of The Daily Targum Editorial Board. All other opinionsexpressed on the Opinions page, and those held by advertisers, columnists and cartoonists, are not necessarilythose of The Daily Targum.
“If it is clear that a small off-campus retreat
does not guarantee success, why would we
expect a larger one to be productive?”
‘Mmm, mmm, mmm,’don’t sing about ObamaAmericans have an obsession with loving or hating President
Barack Obama. The president has been able to make himself asort of celebrity. His work is not necessarily being talked about,
but his physique, love of “mom jeans” and comments on some rapperswho insult country singers certainly are. What started before the elec-tion even began has now escaladed into something where there is afine line between normalcy and preposterousness.
What has gotten everyone talking now is a YouTube video of chil-dren from Burlington, N.J.’s B. Bernice Young Elementary Schoolsinging about the president to the tune of “Jesus Loves the LittleChildren.” The song praises Obama for his accomplishments and hisdesire to make America’s economy number one again. Many parentswere less than thrilled when news of the video broke, and they wereconcerned that their children were being brainwashed. Some com-mented that politics should be left out of school, and they were con-cerned their children were getting brainwashed instead of educated.Other parents thought it was absurd that there was such uproar aboutthe song. Enough people were upset that the school had to havepolice supervision of the building because they were receiving a num-ber of harassing phone calls. Some could not believe the media atten-tion the video was getting, while others thought it was absolutely nec-essary that this was not swept under the rug. In response to thevideo’s release, the superintendent of the school released a statementsaying that the song was made during Black History Month, and itwas to honor achievements of black Americans. Conservatives flippedout that children sang “Mmm…mmm…mmm, Barack HusseinObama,” in the video during school. FOX News conservative politicalcommentator Glenn Beck went on a rant about how this would havenever been an OK thing to do with former President George W. Bush,so why is it fine to do now? He also went on to say that we might aswell build a statue of Obama with taxpayers’ money so everyone canworship the president.
Beck’s rant goes on and on with ludicrous comparisons and sug-gestions just to be sarcastic, but the parents and conservatives who areupset do make a point. There is no reason to be teaching childrensongs praising a president and his political agenda. It is not right tosing a song lauding a president that not everyone has the same feel-ings and beliefs about — especially when schools get in trouble just forsinging Christmas songs. Not everyone shares the same opinion, andone teacher’s opinion should not be forced onto her students. Parentscan consider it brainwashing because there is no way children in ele-mentary school understand what is going on in the political world.This song is essentially just placing ideas in their heads and teachingthem what is the “right” way to think. Politics should be left out ofschool, and they should just be taught about the basic system of gov-ernment. Let the politics be left out until they are old enough to under-stand it and form an opinion of their own.
This is very reminiscent of the recent Obama back-to-schoolspeech that was to be shown and how parents got upset over it. Thatsituation was different because the president was merely telling stu-dents to do well in school. It is not like he was trying to push his ideasabout health care reform on them. The split in feelings surroundingthe president, and adoration or disapproval toward him, shows howpolarized the country really is about Obama. What everyone needs torealize is that it is not the president himself teaching children thesesongs or forcing anyone in schools to teach about what he has to say.It is becoming clear that with every story that comes out like this, it isthe trendy thing to absolutely love or hate the president. People aremaking it part of their careers, like Beck or author ChristopherAnderson, who has recently written “Barack and Michelle: Portrait ofan American Marriage.” This book only adds to the obsession that popculture has with the Obamas and their personal lives. It is much likeJohn and Jackie Kennedy. There was not as much controversy withAmerica’s love of the Kennedys — people just accepted and liked thatthey were in the public eye. People are very quick to criticize Obamabecause he is appearing on talk shows and making himself seem relat-able to the public.
People also have to realize that the media is different now. Thereare so many forms that a person in the public eye can utilize, but canalso work against them. The Internet is big for that, because Obamacan use it to share information with the public. But also viral videosthat he has nothing to do with can circulate like rapid fire. Somethinglike the video of the students singing could not have really happenedto any other president, because You Tube was not as big. That bringsit back to Beck’s comments about children would never singing asong about Bush. He was a completely different president, with awhole different set of feelings surrounding him. Teaching the stu-dents the song was not right, but it should also not be the Americanpeople’s the main focus.
“Very few people haven’t been touched by this disease. It’s a great cause and it’s great that all the
students and [fraternities] get involved.”Greg Schiano, Rutgers football head coach, on the University’s
seventh-annual High Speed Chase for the Cure 5K Run/3K Walk
STORY ON FRONT
QUOTE OF THE DAY
SEE WEST ON PAGE 9
The Red Lion
BEN WEST
T H E D A I L Y T A R G U M S E P T E M B E R 2 8 , 2 0 0 9 9OP I N I O N S
New campaign to help human rights starts with U.
S imilar to America,Honduras is a country con-sisting of hard working
people that need jobs to supportthemselves and their families.Unfortunately, while there arelabor laws and regulations inHonduras, they are not as widelyenforced when a company violatesthe legislation. Over the course ofthe last 10 years there have beentwo major textile factories sudden-ly closed down without informingits workers in advance. Not onlywere these workers not given anynotice of the closure, they hadbeen on vacation for Christmasfor the immediate decision.Despite labor laws, these workerswere not given any severance payor compensation for sick days that
had not been used as legislationentitles them to.
The University of Washingtonhas begun a campaign to makeadjustments to these events. TheUniversity is indirectly involvedin these shutdowns in that themajority of the production inthese factories is done for Nike,which is also a significantamount of apparel made for theUniversity of Washington.
Hugger de Honduras, a plantthat produced Nike products as amajority, abruptly shut down on Jan.19, 2009. Of the 1,200 hard-workingpeople that were employed at thefactory, none of them received anyterminal compensation that theHonduran laws state. To understandthe complete economic toll theseworkers have taken, the HonduranMinistry of Labor has calculatedthat the compensation owedexceeds $1,000,000.
Vision Tex, another primarycontractor of Nike products, alsounexpectedly closed down recent-ly without notifying its workers.
The difference between the twofactories is that the workers ofVision Tex were engaging in acampaign to have their laborunion recognized by the compa-ny. Before the official shut downof the factory, the company firedthe union’s secretary general,
president, vice president andtreasurer. This firing spree fol-lowed with a complete shutdownof the company, and comparablyto Hugger de Honduras, no com-pensatory pay was given to any ofthe workers. The money that theworkers are entitled to totalsabout $560,000.
While Vision Tex was not dis-closed as a factory that producedapparel for the University ofWashington, Hugger de Hondurashad produced a significant amountof apparel for the school. As theworkers from the two factories arerelying on the liquidation of theplants’ remaining machinery andassets for their compensatory pay,workers rights activists at theUniversity are pushing for fullcompensation for the workers.Rutgers also has a large contractwith Nike for much of our apparelas well. In a drive to get fairness
for these employees, we atRutgers University should help inthe campaign to push Nike to paythe severance that the workersnever received. They have workedhard to produce for Nike anddeserve this compensation thatthey are legally obligated toreceive. To begin this push, theRutgers Labor Association will behaving a general meeting to dis-cuss further strategies in order togive justice and fairness to theworkers in Honduras and to startthis new campaign. There will be ageneral meeting for the campaignon Tuesday, Sept. 29 at 9 p.m. inScott Hall. All interested are invit-ed to attend.
Laura Barrett is a School of Artsand Sciences junior majoring inlabor studies and employment rela-tions. She is also the Rutgers LaborAssociation treasurer.
LAURA BARRETT
Letter
learn how to perform their jobduties. Several questions arise.Should assembly members beallowed to spend $20,000 tobecome excited and makefriends? Should they not alreadybe excited about the opportunityto represent others and look for-ward to making friends as theytake advantage of that opportu-nity and actually work? Couldthese student leaders not also doboth of these things by stayingat the University and using thefunding to perform a communityservice project together? Couldrepresentatives who haveserved longer and who are inleadership positions teach newlyelected representatives how toperform their jobs during small-er meetings on campus? Theanswer to all of these questionsis yes. Furthermore, if ropeswinging, rock climbing and zip-lining are that important, theUniversity offers many of theseactivities on campus; one neednot go to “Happiness isCamping” and pay $20,000 tomake friends, get excited, learnhow to perform one’s job orswing on ropes.
What is most alarming is thatsome of my fellow representa-tives have seemingly ignored ourcode of ethics, which was passedunanimously on Feb. 21, 2008during a RUSA meeting. Thiscode is meant to guide thebehavior of all members ofRUSA, and among its severalclauses it includes a clause on
WESTcontinued from page 8
Health care reform not in critical conditon
F or those of you who readlast Wednesday’s columnon the “dire condition” of
health care reform: Beware.The author has distorted andmanipulated the facts to mis-lead you.
The first issue is his citationof a Harvard study that states45,000 people die annually fromlack of health insurance. Thenumber is probably right;there’s no reason it wouldn’t be.I do, however, have a problemwith the author’s strategy to
appeal to the public’s emotionsin order to garner support forhis party’s health care plan. It’sa tragedy that these people die,but I have a comparable num-ber. Every three days, 45,000children die due to starvation.One could argue that the samenumber of deaths in three daysversus three hundred daysdeserves more attention. If theauthor is really concernedabout needless deaths, I wouldrecommend joining WorldVision instead of the rank-and-file of the Democratic party.
The second issue is theauthor’s quotation of one of themost polarized progressives out
there, Paul Krugman, whoclaims that there are no exam-ples of free market health caresystems that work. First, that isa hyperbole — this country’ssystem has some flaws, but itworks. Second, there are no per-fect systems because there arefew examples of free market sys-tems to begin with. TheEuropeans have abandoned cap-italism and free enterprise,while most of Asia still operatesunder single-party govern-ments, also known as dictator-ships. I would wager that evenour current plan exceeds theeffectiveness of Great Britain’spublic plan.
The author goes on to saythat insurance companies can-not provide for the “mostunhealthy, or least profitable[meaning poorest, I assume],Americans” because they areprofit-oriented. With the cur-rent system, I could not agreemore with the author: It is anextreme misfortune that thereare people who cannot affordhealth care. The argument,though, isn’t whether or notreform is needed or wanted, it’swhat type of reform is best. Ihave a hard time believingRobin Hood economics have abetter solution than the freemarket, which has worked well
for hundreds of years with somehealthy regulation.
The author ends by implyingconservatives are spreading prop-aganda and are staunchly against“progress.” Why, oh why, are westill playing this two-party game?Both Republicans and Democratswant health care reform. BothRepublicans and Democrats careabout the poor and ill. The debateis not which party has morehumane members, it’s aboutwhich plan is best: increasingcompetition or ending it.
Jimmy Winters is a School ofEngineering sophomore majoringin biomedical engineering.
JIMMY WINTERS
Letter
“We at Rutgers University should
help in the campaign topush Nike to pay the
severance that the workers never received.”
“Financial Responsibilities” thatreads: “RUSA is responsible forapproving the distribution of stu-dent fees to recognized studentorganizations at RutgersUniversity. For this reason, rep-resentatives must be aware ofthe requested expenditures andkeep in mind that expendituresshould be justifiable in terms of benefit to the students ofthe university.”
Is an exclusive $20,000 all-expenses paid trip to “Happinessis Camping” for elected studentrepresentatives really justifiablein terms of benefit to the studentsof the University when the suc-cess of past off-campus retreatshas been questionable, whenthere are countless examples ofextremely successful organiza-tions that have not neededretreats and when our Universityhas faced a budget cut nearlyevery year? When the budget isso limited, why is RUSA unneces-sarily spending money when somany other groups on campusare underfunded? Why is RUSA,which has been invisible to manyfor the past three years, retreat-ing when it should be advancingby staying home and serving thestudent body? I encourage you,members of the student body, tocome to the next RUSA meetingat the Student Activities Loungeon the College Avenue campus onThursday, Oct. 8 at 7 p.m. to askRUSA’s executive board, “Why?”
Ben West is a Rutgers Collegesenior majoring in political sci-ence. He is also the chairman ofthe University Affairs Committee.He can be reached at [email protected].
DIVERSIONST H E D A I L Y T A R G U M
P A G E 1 0 S E P T E M B E R 2 8 , 2 0 0 9
Doonesberry GARY TRUDEAU
Horoscopes / LINDA C. BLACK Pearls Before Swine Stephan Pastis
Today's Birthday (09/28/09) You're not quite finished with yourhousehold renovation projects, but you're close enough to take aday off every so often and enjoy what you've accomplished. Toget the advantage, check the day's rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0the most challenging.
Aries (March 21-April 19) —Today is an 8 — It looks likeyou've achieved one majorgoal. Celebrate with friends,but don't forget your chores.Taurus (April 20-May 20) —Today is a 6 — Someone wantsto offer you a new assignment.Have confidence that you cando it. This will lead to moreincome later.Gemini (May 21-June 21) —Today is an 8 — You know youshouldn't gossip, but some-times you do. This time there'sa false rumor going around, sostay out of it.Cancer (June 22-July 22) —Today is a 6 — Is your treasuresafe? Maybe you ought to goover the numbers again. Some-thing may have changed.Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today isan 8 — You feel like you're carry-ing the world on your shoulders.Get your partner involved.Together you can do anything.Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) —Today is a 6 — Don't worry ifyour words are getting tangled.That's going around right now.Keep trying until you get it right.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) —Today is a 6 — You changeyour tune today, so make sureyour voice is up to the task. Doyou remember the words?Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) —Today is an 8 — You reversedirection today. Plan onobjections. Work out the kinksafter lunch.Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)— Today is a 6 — Practicalmeasures don't work today.But wild ideas may work if yougive them just a little thought.Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)— Today is a 6 — If it weren'tfor all the changes, you'd dojust fine. Try to take the newstuff in stride. Tomorrow'sanother day.Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) —Today is a 7 — If you can'tchange your tune today, atleast sing on key. This takeseffort, so apply yourself.Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) —Today is an 8 — Ordinarymethods won't work now. Usewhatever you can to changecourse. Remember: water flowsdownhill easily.
Dilbert SCOTT ADAMS
Find yesterday’s answersonline at
www.dailytargum.com
T H E D A I L Y T A R G U M S E P T E M B E R 2 8 , 2 0 0 9 1 1D IVERSIONS
2nd floor, private entrance, 5 mins walk totrain, 3 mins to park recreations and tenniscourts. Walk to downtown and stores,convenient parking. Four rooms available.Two for $475 + shared utilities. See mapColumbia Park, Dunellen, NJ. Call or email732-325-8053, [email protected]
HOUSE FOR RENT
Great Share Opportunity!!! 4 BedroomHouse for rent. 3.5 baths. Walkingdistance from CA. Eat-in kitchen, livingroomwith fireplace, dining room. Partly furnished.Driveway for 4 cars. Close to NYtransportation by bus or train. Asking$2250/month (negotiable) + utilities. 1 1/2 Security requested. No pets.Available 10/1. Call Anna. 732-699-0683 or 732-485-4143.
The Daily Targum will only beresponsible for errors on the first dayrun; advertisers must call by noon withcorrections. Only advertisers with anestablished credit account may be billed.All advertising is subject to the approval of the marketing director and business manager.
The Daily Targum has not investigat-ed any of the services offered oradvertisers represented in this issue.Readers are encouraged to contact theBetter Business Bureau of Central NewJersey for information concerning theveracity of questionable advertising.
Better Business Bureau of Central NJ1700 Whitehorse Hamilton Square Rd
Trenton, NJ 08690(609) 588-0808
How to Place an Ad:
1.Come to Room 431 of the RutgersStudent Center on College Avenue
2.Mail ad and check to:The Daily Targum126 College Ave Suite 431New Brunswick, NJ 08903Attn: Classified Manager
Room Available • Roommate WantedSublet • Miscellaneous
ElectronicsItems for SaleItems Wanted
Wheels
Rates:Small classified:
up to 20 words, each additional word 30¢ per dayDEADLINE: 12:00 p.m. one (1) business day prior to publication
Large classified:up to 25 words, $8.50 each additional inch (11 words)
DEADLINE: 12:00 p.m. one (1) business day prior to publication
Display classified:Typeset with border; contains graphics, logos, etc.
Cash Rate–$10.15/column inch • Billed Rate–$12.15/column inchDEADLINE: 3:00 p.m. three (3) business days prior to publication
12
1day 3days 5days 10days
$8.00 $7.50/day $7.00/day $6.00/dayStudent rate –$5.00 per day
$21.00 $19.00/day $16.00/day $14.00/dayUniversity billed accounts–$22.00, Student rate –$12.00 per day
“It was so good I will never use another paper to advertise!The response was tremendous, with qualified applicants.”
Jeri Bauer
CLASSIFIEDS
T H E D A I L Y T A R G U M S E P T E M B E R 2 8 , 2 0 0 9 1 3S PORTS
an interception 36 yards for a touchdown.
The Miami native stepped infront of a slant route and walkedinto the endzone untouched.
“When you talk about scoringon defense and creating a turnoverto start the game by making a greatread, breaking on it and then fin-ishing by getting in the endzone,that gives the defense a hugeboost,” McCourty said.
Lowery was all over the fieldrecording eight tackles and draw-ing an unnecessary roughnesspenalty against Maryland.
“So far it was [my best game],but I’m looking for better ones,”Lowery said. “It was great outthere, running around. I felt goodpregame, so it was real good.”
Three turnovers later, the RUdefense found itself in the end-zone again.
Junior Joe Lefeged, a native ofGermantown, Md., forcedMaryland quarterback ChrisTurner to fumble.
Senior defensive end GeorgeJohnson dove on the ball in theendzone, giving the Knights a leadthe offense was unable to provide.
“I don’t know if you want to say
expected, but that’s what we’re try-ing to do,” senior linebackerDamaso Munoz said of the touch-downs. “We know that’s what greatdefenses try to do, so if we get theball, we’re trying to score.”
Johnson left the game after thetouchdown with an injury to his“lower extremities,” Schiano said.X-ray results were negative.
THE MARYLAND RUNNINGgame was not nearly as productive.
Senior tailback Da’Rel Scottentered the game averaging91.7 rushing yards per game,but was held to just 22 yards onnine rushes.
“Certainly, our defense playedvery well today,” Schiano said.“When you can hold [a team] to28 yards rushing, that to me isthe biggest thing. People maypoint to the touchdowns and thetakeaways but 28 yards rushing isa very telling stat to me.”
Sophomore defensive tackleEric LeGrand, in his first careerstart for a sick Charlie Noonan,said stopping the run game isalways a point of emphasis forthe Knights.
“We take a lot of pride inthat,” LeGrand said. “We havein our defensive room [a signthat says], ‘Stop the run.’ … Tohold a great running back likethat to 20 yards, that says a lotabout the coaches, the players
and our gameplan.”ON THE FIRST DRIVE OF THE
second quarter, junior Shamar Graves made his debut at fullback.
The former wide receiverturned former tight end wasreplaced by redshirt freshmanD.C. Jefferson as starting tightend against Howard.
“We’re trying to get our bestplayers in the best positions,”Schiano said. “D.C. [Jef ferson]moved ahead [at tight end], sowe’re trying to find a role forShamar [Graves]. We’ll be mov-ing him around a little bit. A lotof times we’ll do two tight ends,so he’ll play at tight end, butwe’ll also do some h-back.”
The move was not an indict-ment of senior fullback JackCorcoran, who saw the bulk ofthe work at fullback.
MARYLAND’S PLAY OF THEday came in the third quarter,when Terps backup punter TedTownsley pooched a 29-yardkick from his own goal line.
After dropping the snap,Townsley recovered the balland tried to scramble but found himself surrounded by Knights.
Somehow, out of the crowdof white shir ts, Townsley’spunt emerged over four charg-ing RU players.
NOTEBOOK: Knights
shut down Terp running game
continued from back
JOHN PENA/ SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Junior linebacker Antonio Lowery took an interception to the house onthe Terrapins’ first play from scrimmage to give Rutgers a 7-0 lead.
Perplexing offensive moves make Book of Blunders
T he Rutgers football teamsurvived againstMaryland purely because
of its opportunistic defense.Simply put, until the waning
moments of the fourth quarter,the Scarlet Knights’ offense waspositively atrocious.
I’m just a reporter, watchingthe game from the Marylandpress box some ungodly heightabove the action, and I assumethat a number of coaching deci-sions are made for good reason.
But upwards of 60 percent ofRU’s offensive game plan Saturdayboggled the mind, and for a num-ber of outwardly-visible reasons.
TIMEOUT MANAGEMENT HASlong been a problem for RU, soseeing the Knights burn all threeof their first-half timeouts beforereaching the 13-minute mark ofthe second quarter should not bea surprise.
But the way they disappeared offthe scoreboard is quite befuddling.
In what has become a recur-ring theme, the “Jabu Package”brings a wasted timeout alongfor the ride every time seniorquarterback Jabu Lovelaceenters the game. And here’swhat makes no sense: He runsthe same three plays.
Here’s the playbook for whenLovelace enters: fake handoff,run left; fake handoff, run right,or straight rush up the middle.That’s it.
Throw in the fact that theentire Maryland defense, coach-ing staff, stadium and RU-tv view-ing audience knows it’s coming,and the burned timeouts reallybecome incomprehensive. Thedefense is going to be stacked inthe box every time.
That said, the “Jabu Package”was effective in the first half.
ANGELICA BONUS/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Senior tight end Shamar Graves (3) throws a pass on a fake field goal attempt in the second quarter.Former Rutgers quarterbacks D.C. Jefferson and Andrew DePaola were also on the field for the play.
MATTHEW STEIN
Mindof Stein
Lovelace grinded out toughyardage everywhere from themiddle of the field to the redzone, but one such call for hisentrance made as little sense aspinch-hitting David Wright in aclutch situation — you know suc-cess is just not coming.
Lovelace, who has a career 3.9yards per attempt, struck outrushing on a third-and-11 fromabout midfield. Is there that littlefaith in senior Dom Natale’s abili-ties to try to complete a pass inMaryland territory? And whenLovelace comes in on third down,is there any doubt what he isgoing to do with the ball?
If that is the play call, just take aknee and punt the ball away. Thereis less risk of a fumble at least.
The third timeout of the half?Head coach Greg Schiano
burned it trying to get the refer-ee’s attention to challenge aTerrapin touchdown. He lostthe review.
ULTIMATELY, NATALE DIDwhat he was supposed to do — hemanaged the game well and didnot give the ball to Marylanddefensive backs.
Here’s what he also didn’t do —give the ball to Rutgers’ receivers.
Natale completed two passesearly in the first quarter, bothscreen passes to sophomore JoeMartinek — and then did notcomplete another pass until just31 seconds remained in thethird quarter.
“Obviously, it didn’t go exactlyhow we wanted it to,” Natale said.“There were a couple of thingshere and there, small things.”
The game plan was to relyheavily on the rushing attack,but Natale frequently missedwhen given the chance to throwand faced a ton of pressure. Hecompleted four of 12 passes onthe day, but you have to wonderwhen situational passes couldhave been utilized.
LIKE THIS ONE:Coming off an interception
deep Maryland territory, RUcould not capitalize.
Sophomore running backJourdan Brooks got fourstraight carries on a first-and-goal situation, without success.On third and fourth downs, helost yards.
“It looked like we didn’t goin there hard,” Schiano said. “Iwas disappointed. At the time,
we weren’t exactly movingwell, and it felt like we neededthe points.”
No changes, no nothing —just four straight divesbetween the tackles, and aturnover on downs.
“[The defense] gave usgreat field position all day, and we didn’t capitalize,” Natale said.
THIS WAS THE PLAY OF THEnight.
Fourth and eight on theMaryland 25, middle of the sec-ond quarter in a 10-10 deadlock— the Knights’ field goal unit wason, and tight end Shamar Gravestook a direct snap, presumably torun for a first down.
Nope. Graves, who hadn’t thrown
a pass since high school,cocked back and hurled a passdownfield, a severely under-thrown ball to a wide-openAndrew DePaola.
“I tried to take my glove off,but I didn’t have time because itwas raining,” Graves said. “Wedid that in practice, throwingwater on my hand — but hey,that’s what happens. I had toworry about the next play.”
In theory, the play was bril-liant. But why was Gravesthrowing the ball? Redshir tfreshman D.C. Jefferson is alsoon the field goal unit, and heplayed quarterback for theKnights just five weeks ago.DePaola is a former Rutgersreserve under center.
The play call was brilliant. Thepersonnel decision was not.
THIS WASN’T AN RU MISCUE,but a challenge flag has to bethrown on the announced atten-dance of 43,828 spectators.
Please — Byrd Stadium wasnowhere close to capacity, andto believe that many peopleshowed up is preposterous,unless Friedgen counts for20,000 on his own.
On a quick side note,“Fridge” holds his postgamepress conferences in the teamdining hall. How appropriate.
T H E D A I L Y T A R G U MS PORTS1 4 S E P T E M B E R 2 8 , 2 0 0 9
BY STEVEN WILLIAMSONSENIOR WRITER
All good things come to thosewho wait.
The Rutgers field hockey teamwai ted .T h eS c a r l e tKnightsb a t t l e dthrough
nine games, enduring every man-ner of heartbreak along the way.The team fought through over-time defeats, setbacks againsttwo conference opponents andseven crushing one-goal losses.
But after trailing late in thesecond half against Sacred Heartyesterday, Rutgers roared back topick up a 4-3 victory, its crucialfirst win of the year.
Though their first victorycame much later than theyhoped, the Knights are relievedto get over the hump.
“[The win is] huge,” said jun-ior midfielder and co-captainJenna Bull. “We didn’t really playdifferently today, we just had a lotmore confidence and we playedtogether as a team for the fullgame this time. Our saying was,going into the game, it was get-ting the monkey off our back andI think that’s definitely what wedid [yesterday].”
With the Knights trailing by agoal with just under six minutesto play yesterday against SacredHeart, the team appeared to beon track for another loss.
But when the ball foundBull’s stick, it was all over forthe Pioneers.
The midfielder scored two goalsin under three minutes to help keythe offense late in the game.
Bull, a preseason All-Big Eastselection, said she knew the vic-tory was never out of reachdespite RU falling behind in thesecond half.
“My mindset didn’t change atall; I knew we were going to get[the win],” Bull said. “It was just amatter of seeing those open ballsthat were there and I just hap-pened to be the one that was inthose spots.”
The two goals were part of alate offensive attack orchestrat-ed in part by senior back Melissa
Bowman, who helped set up Bullon both of her scores. Bowmandelivered a crisp pass across thetop of the semicircle to an openBull, who danced into the middlebefore rifling a shot past the goalkeeper.
The duo struck again withless than four minutes remain-ing with Bowman and juniorback Chelsey Schwab assistingon Bull’s game-winner.
Rutgers head coach Liz Tchousaid the game was a far cry fromFriday’s contest againstGeorgetown, where she felt theteam failed to play together downthe stretch.
“When we spoke togetherafter the game [yesterday] therewas the excitement about how westuck together,” Tchou said. “Westuck together the whole time. Inthis game we continued to passthe ball and possess the ball. … Itwas much more of a team effortwhen it came to building the ballout of the backfield.”
Though they only scoredfour goals, RU (1-9, 0-2) out-shot Sacred Heart (1-9) by acommanding 26-7 margin andheld an 11-2 advantage inpenalty corners.
The Knights put together oneof their strongest halves of the sea-son, dominating possession andpreventing the Pioneers fromcrossing the 50 for most of the firstperiod. Rutgers put together 14shots, though they resulted in onlytwo first half goals.
The much-needed win servedas a rebound from the Knights’ 3-2 loss Friday to a winlessGeorgetown team. The Knightsnever held the lead against theHoyas (1-8, 1-0) and fell to 0-2 inthe conference.
The loss prompted Tchou tohave her captains run portions ofpractice on Saturday, a move thatpaid off for yesterday’s game.
“One thing [the team] real-ized is that they need to com-municate with each other bet-ter and help the younger play-ers who are out there and notleave them hanging,” she said.“It was really cool to see ourcaptains lead the team[Saturday] and get more com-munication going betweenthem and the younger players.”
FIELD HOCKEY
SACRED HEARTRUTGERS
34
ANDREW HOWARD/ PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Junior midfielder Jenna Bull scored twice in three minutes at the endof the second half to push Rutgers to a 4-3 victory over Sacred Heart.
Knights finally getfirst win of season
Rutgers still on top despite defeatBY KYLE FRANKO
ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
Playing more than half thecontest down a man and a goalSunday against Georgetown, the
Rutgersm e n ’ ss o c c e rt e a mc o u l dn o t
maintain its perfect start to con-ference play last weekend as theysplit a pair of games.
Georgetown scored on a fourth-minute header to take an early leadand added an 89th minute insur-ance goal to down the ScarletKnights 2-0 in front of a crowd of1,233 at North Kehoe Field.
The Knights played the majorityof the game with 10 men after the
referee sent junior midfielderYannick Salmon off for his secondbookable offense in the 33rd minute.
“The big issue was we spentso much energy [Friday night]in a big local derby and we hada shor t turnaround with anafternoon game [Sunday],”said head coach Bob Reasso.“There is no doubt we had amental hangover and wealways looked likely to give upa goal.”
Without Salmon — reigningBig East Offensive Player of theWeek — RU pushed players upthe field in search of the equaliz-er, but were unable to breachthe Georgetown goal.
Sophomore forward IbrahimKamara registered four shots ongoal and had the Knights’ finalchance in the 77th minute, but
his shot was saved by Hoyasgoalkeeper Mark Wilber.
Wilber kept his seventh cleansheet of the season.
“We didn’t play well in thefirst half and we were flat thefirst 20 minutes,” Reasso said.“I thought we played much bet-ter in the second half. It’salways an uphill battle whenyou’re down a man and you’rechasing the game. We were upagainst it, but the guys foughthard and we still had somechances late.
“I’m disappointed [in theloss], but I’m pleased with theeffort in the second half. Wehave another Big East game[this Friday] against Syracuse,and we have to regroup andmove forward.”
Despite Sunday’s loss, theKnights (5-3-0, 3-1-0) earned aweekend split with a 2-1 doubleovertime victory Friday night atSeton Hall.
Kamara slid home the winner26 seconds into the secondextra time period. The goal tiedthe North Brunswick productwith Salmon for the team-highfour goals.
“It took a lot of courage andresiliency in the overtime,”Reasso said. “Seton Hall had allthe momentum, but we were thebetter team in [extra time], andwe can credit that to our fitness.We decided we needed to switchsomething up, we came out inan attacking lineup and it was agreat result for us.”
Seton Hall equalized oneminute from time through juniordefender Andrew Welker to forcethe extra session.
Junior defender AndrewCuevas headed home the openinggoal after 15 minutes when thePirates (4-3-1, 1-1-1) were unableto clear an RU corner.
“I’m very pleased with theway we played [against SetonHall],” Reasso said. “It was atremendous ef fort in a greatgame played with a lot of pas-sion. We made a late mistake tolet them force overtime, butgive Seton Hall credit, theyfought hard in the second half.”
RU still sits atop the Big EastRed Division with nine points.Louisville and South Florida aretied for second with sevenpoints each.
As a result of his red card yes-terday, Salmon is suspended forFriday’s game against Syracuse.
NICHOLAS BRASOWSKI/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER/ FILE PHOTO
Sophomore forward Ibrahim Kamara scored 26 seconds into thesecond overtime period Friday to push Rutgers past Seton Hall.
MEN’S SOCCER
RUTGERSGEORGETOWN
02
The Rutgers women’s soccer team over-came an early 1-0 deficit against Villanova lastnight to eventually draw the Wildcats 1-1 in thesecond of two Big East games overthe wekend.
Senior forward Karla Schacherscored a goal in the 53rd minute tohelp RU recover from an earlyVillanova goal.
The Scarlet Knights beatGeorgetown Friday in WashingtonD.C. 1-0 on a goal by junior forwardAshley Jones.
For complete coverage of theScarlet Knights’ (8-1-2, 2-0-1) BigEast weekend see tomorrow issueof The Daily Targum for a complete recapwith reactions from head coach GlennCrooks and select team members.
— Sam Hellman
The Rutgers tennis team made its way to theBrown Invitational this weekend to face three2009 nationally ranked teams in Brown, Auburn
and Boston. With one day of competition
left, sophomore Jennifer Holzbergremained undefeated and led theScarlet Knights heading into play yesterday.
To add to her impressive perform-ance, Holzberg defeated two region-ally ranked players in her bout toremain unbeaten.
Junior Amy Zhang and sopho-more Leonora Slatnick also con-tributed two wins each to the
Knights’ cause. For complete coverage of the tennis team’s
tournament see tomorrow’s issue of The DailyTargum for a complete recap.
— Melissa Falica
WOMEN’S SOCCER WINS ONE, DRAWS ONE;TENNIS COMPETES IN BROWN INVITATIONAL
JENNIFERHOLZBERG
T H E D A I L Y T A R G U M S PORTS S E P T E M B E R 2 8 , 2 0 0 9 1 5
RU ‘punches G’Town in face’ for weekend splitBY BILL DOMKE
CORRESPONDENT
Head coach CJ Wernekeissued a warning to the
Rutgersv o l l e y -b a l lt e a m ’ so p p o -n e n t s
this weekend.“They’re going to see a differ-
ent team than they’ve seen in thepast, and if they don’t respect usthey’re going to get punched inthe face for it,” he said.
It’s fair to say that he backedup his words.
The Scarlet Knights split theweekend’s matches, dropping a 3-1
decision against USF beforerebounding to sweep Georgetown.
More importantly, the winagainst the Hoyas tied RU at thesame number of conference victo-ries as last year overall.
“I said from day one, and ourkids believe it, this year’s a newyear, it’s a new attitude, it’s a newoutlook, it’s a new program,”Werneke said. “The atmosphereis exciting, we take everybodyseriously. … We can’t controlwins and losses, but we can con-trol how we play.”
The Knights (7-8, 1-1) cameout flaring in their final set againstGeorgetown (10-7, 0-2), takingthe first four points of the set andmaintaining a lead for the majori-ty of the game.
With a 25-19 third set win, RUsecured their first Big East win ofthe season. The team is now 1-1 inthe conference — a record thatmakes last year’s end record of 1-11 seem laughable.
“[Our team is] a lot better thanlast year,” said senior libero JamieGodfrey. “We’re putting it alltogether and it feels really good.”
The Rahway, N.J. native led theteam against Georgetown in digswith 10, notching five in the last set.
Despite winning every set, theKnights encountered turbulenceto start.
In the first set, the team fellquickly into an 8-1 deficit, andfaced a difficult comeback againsta blazing Georgetown middleblocker Vanessa Dorismond, whoprovided the majority of thegame’s early strife. The senior ledthe Hoyas in kills with 11.
RU labored through the entirefirst set to get back into the gamebefore winning the set with afrom-behind 26-24 victory to givethe team a 1-0 lead in the match.
The win was exactly what fresh-man setter Stephanie Zielinski waslooking for — the Ft. Lauderdale,Fla. native’s family made the trip upto New Brunswick to see the team’sfirst home stand.
“I think we had more of amatchup this game,” Zielinski said.“We came out and we played welleven though we made mistakes.”
Zielinski also established herselfthroughout the entire game, notch-ing 33 of the team’s 41 assists and animpressive .714 hitting percentage.
Things did not go as smoothlyfor the Knights the day before, asthe team fell to USF (9-3, 2-0) in a 3-1 decision.
Height and experience provedto be the difference Saturdaybetween the Bulls and RU.
While the Scarlet Knights wasable to stay with the Bulls in thefirst two sets, splitting the series at
1-1, USF came into the third andfourth sets with new life, hitting forteam-high percentages of .429 and.519, respectively.
“I think we just took a littlelonger to recover after some ofthe adjustments they made,”Werneke said. “At the ten-minuteintermission at this level, teamsmake adjustments.”
Adjustments were not the onlything RU had to worry about. TheBulls came into the series ranked30th in the country in blocks — andthey showed it.
“When you’re a smallerteam,” said junior outside hitterCaitlin Sacton. “You just kind ofhave to accept that you’re goingto get blocked. It’s just a part ofthe game that you’re going to getblocked. … You just get anotherset and live to fight another day.”
But the loss is only a small set-back after yesterday’s sweep.
“I knew we could come thisfar,” Zielinski said. “The progres-sion of the team is crazy. We’regoing to continue to get better —this isn’t our peak.”
VOLLEYBALL
GEORGETOWNRUTGERS
03
RAMON DOMPOR/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Senior co-captain Jamie Godfrey led the Scarlet Knights this weekendwith 10 digs in each contest against Georgetown and South Florida.
RAMON DOMPOR/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Freshman setter Stephanie Zielinski led the Knights this weekend inassists with 33 against Georgetown and 30 against South Florida.
“It’s an awesome feeling, forc-ing turnovers,” Anderson said.“We pride ourselves on being ballhawks. We work on it during theweek, and today it just paid off in areal big way.”
Maybe Tom Savage really isthe savior of this team, becausethe Knights’ offense is complete-ly lost without him.
Natale did not complete apass for 41 straight minutesafter two quick passes to sopho-more running back JoeMartinek on the first drive, andhe did not complete a pass to awide receiver until the end ofthe third quarter when he hitfreshman Mohamed Sanu for afirst down.
But Natale did the one thingthat the Knights needed him todo — not turn the ball over.
“It was a big thing for thewhole offense just to not maketurnovers,” said Natale, who gothis first career win as a starter.“It’s always a huge thing, but onthe road, it’s especially big.”
Rutgers head coach GregSchiano made the final decisionto keep Savage on the benchafter a head injury Saturdaymorning, but said that he’ll beOK down the road.
“During the week, I wasmore encouraged earlier in theweek thinking that he wasgoing to get better, and it justwas a little slower,” Schianosaid. “I wouldn’t let my own
HOMECOMING:Natale, offense picked up by D
continued from back
JOHN PENA/ SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Senior defensive end George Johnson (31) and junior linebacker Antonio Lowery (50) each scored a defensive touchdown in RU’s 34-13 win.Lowery had a pick-six on Maryland’s first play from scrimmage, and Johnson recovered a fumble in the end zone for the decisive score.
son play with it, so I wasn’tgoing to let Tom Savage playwith it.”
The running game was not near-ly as effective as it had been in previ-ous games through three quarters.
Sophomore running back JourdanBrooks, also from Germantown,Md., had 56 yards on 17 carries.
Mar tinek struggled early,gaining only 17 through threequarters, but showed that he
knows how to close out a game.His 29-yard touchdown scam-per with five minutes left sentthe remaining Terrapin fanspacking, and his 61-yarder aminute later turned a close
game into a blowout.“Whoever’s in the game,
we’re all confident that that per-son will get the job done,” saidMartinek, who finished the daywith 147 yards.
BY STEVEN MILLERCORRESPONDENT
COLLEGE PARK, Md. —Head coach Greg Schiano made aname for himself as a defensive-minded coach, but he never hada day like Saturday’s 34-13 winover Maryland.
For the first time under Schiano,the Scarlet Knights scored twodefensive touchdowns in a game.
The feat could not have come ata better time.
“When you look at our defense,we’ve got two captains over thereand a bunch of guys that haveplayed a lot of football forRutgers,” said senior captainDevin McCourty. “Our defensehas to come out and play greatfrom beginning to end, and that’swhat we’re trying to do.”
Junior Antonio Lowery set thetone for the RU defense on thefirst play of the game, returning
RUTGERSMARYLAND
173
23
10
370
4170
Final3413
KEY STATS
EXTRA POINTFor the first time in head coach GregSchiano’s tenure, the Scarlet Knightsscored two defensive touchdowns in agame. Antonio Lowery returned an
interception to the house on Maryland’s first play from scrim-mage, and George Johnson recovered Joe Lefeged’s forced fum-ble in the end zone.
In his athletic return to the Old Line State, junior safety Joe Lefeged (26) turned the tides of a tight game against the Terps with his sack and forced fumble in the end zone,which was recovered by senior defensive end George Johnson for the Rutgers football team’s second touchdown in a 34-13 victory over Maryland.
BY SAM HELLMANASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
COLLEGE PARK, Md. —Growing up 30 miles from thenation’s capital, Joe Lefeged knows
a littlesomethinga b o u tbailouts.
The Germantown, Md., nativeand the rest of the Rutgers defenseexecuted a perfect one Saturday inLefeged’s homecoming to theBeltway area.
The Tom Savage-less ScarletKnight of fense did absolutelynothing against Maryland, but thedefense — behind two touch-downs and five turnovers — bailedout the ailing of fense in theRutgers football team’s 34-13 victo-ry at Byrd Stadium.
“That’s what great defenses do— they score on defense,” saidLefeged, who played a key role intwo RU turnovers. “They createturnovers, and we’ve been practic-ing all week, all training camp, andwe came through today.”
Both of Lefeged’s forcedturnovers came on hits toMaryland quarterback ChrisTurner, neither of which could bemisconstrued as dirty.
The first time Lefeged got to thequarterback, the ball flew up intothe air, and an alert Billy Andersoncamped out under the ball for hisfirst career interception.
“I just turned around and sawthe ball getting bounced around,and I just went and got it,” the fifth-year senior cornerback said. “JustinFrancis was with me in the bottom
of the pile, and we were both fight-ing for it, but I won out.”
Lefeged’s second turnover, thedifference-maker in the win, camein the Terps’ end zone.
A bone-jarring hit by Lefegedknocked the ball out of Turner’shand for the senior quarterback’sfourth turnover of the day. Seniorright end George Johnson fell on itfor the go-ahead touchdown, mak-ing the score 17-13 with three min-utes to go in the third quarter.
“I saw the quarterback trying toget it out, so I [jumped] on the ball
and then everyone else jumped onme,” Johnson said. “It feels goodbecause we know that great defens-es have to score on defense. We’retrying to find ways to get turnoversand score on defense.”
The Knights (3-1) forced theirfifth turnover against theTerrapins (1-3) minutes laterwhen senior linebacker DamasoMunoz jarred the ball loose andjunior defensive end AlexSilvestro fell on it.
HELL OF A HOMECOMING
FOOTBALL
GAME 4
SEE HOMECOMING ON PAGE 15
JOHN PENA/ SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
SPORTSP A G E 1 6 S E P T E M B E R 2 8 , 2 0 0 9
T H E D A I L Y T A R G U M
Maryland native Lefeged, opportunistic defense force five turnovers to propel Scarlet Knights to victory
