THE D AILY T ARGUM Volume 141, Number 37 S E R V I N G T H E R U T G E R S C O M M U N I T Y S I N C E 1 8 6 9 THURSDAY OCTOBER 22, 2009 INDEX A pair of 34th minute goals by Ibrahim Kamara and Sam Archer boosted the Rutgers men’s soccer team over NJIT 2-1 last night at Yurcak Field. FORGET THE GOOD Today: Sunny High: 76 • Low: 52 Not all entertainment is created equal. This week Inside Beat takes a look at the unwatchable, unwearable and unbearable, exposing the bad and the ugly. ONLINE @ DAILYTARGUM.COM SPORTS UNIVERSITY OPINIONS ....... 10 DIVERSIONS ...... 12 CLASSIFIEDS ...... 14 SPORTS ...... BACK UNIVERSITY ....... 3 Amid suggestions from students that the Department of Transportation make changes to the B bus during the 20-minute class change, Jack Molenaar considers alternating the bus’ route. Sara Gretina: Let me start off by asking, how do you say your last name? I’ve heard lots of variations. Andrew McMahon: ‘McMan.’ Like Ed McMahon. I might as well just make it ‘M-A-N’ but it’s my Irish heritage that gave me that one. SG: Why not tell me a little about the “Dear Jack” DVD, EP and foundation. Which one came first; what inspired the others? AM: The very beginning of it was a song called “Dear Jack,” which was the namesake of the band, and it was a song I wrote for a friend who was kind of going through a tough time. But he was also — completely coincidentally — a leukemia survivor. So I named the band after him and then when I was sick with the same thing, it was this bizarre — I don’t know if serendipitous is the word, consider- ing — but it was definitely a weird, faded deal. I didn’t put the song out. I’m putting it out with the “Dear Jack” EP that’s going to come out with the [“Dear Jack”] movie. But then when I started recovering and decided I would start a foundation, trying to give back for the sake for that I was here and well, it seemed appropriate to call the foundation Dear Jack. When we started the documentary, that was kind of the working title throughout and it ended up making sense, so we stuck with it. This will probably be the last of anything named “Dear Jack” at this point, but that’s how it all came to be. SG: You have a little tour going on right now. You have screenings, one tomorrow and then out in California. AM: All the money from the screenings is going to the founda- tion as well. And some of my [mer- chandise] proceeds from this tour will also go back to the foundation. SG: So what can people expect from the screenings? Will it just be a screening or will it be a show also? AM: No, no. It’s just a screen- ing, but I’m not actually sitting in the theaters watching the screen- ings. I thought it would awkward to be in the theater while, one, I’m watching me, and other people are watching me, and then turn around and see me. You know what I mean. It seemed inverted Jack’s Mannequin, U. ‘Made For Each Other’ Jack’s Mannequin Guitarist Bobby Anderson, left, and Andrew McMahon, below, jam at the College Avenue Gym last night before a crowd of fans from the University and local community. The 90-minute set featured songs from albums “The Glass Passenger” and “Everything in Transit.” They performed “Walking By” from Something Corporate’s album “North,” McMahon’s old band. ANGELICA BONUS/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER At the Visitor Center grand opening on Busch campus yesterday, University President Richard L. McCormick and Vice President of Enrollment Management Courtney McAnuff cut the ribbon. Tours will be given at the center and offer University information for prospective students and families. MAYA NACHI/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Republicans confident despite Corzine endorsements BY ARIEL NAGI CORRESPONDENT Gov. Jon S. Corzine attracted thousands this year, bringing famous political leaders like President Barack Obama and for- mer President Bill Clinton into the state and University, but Republicans argue this glitz and glamour will not save him come Election Day. With the election just two weeks away, incumbent Corzine and Republican challenger Chris Christie are in a statistical dead heat, according to the Monmouth University/Gannett New Jersey Poll. As of Tuesday, Corzine and Christie are tied at 39 percent, and independent candidate Chris Daggett has support from 14 per- cent of likely voters, according to the poll. Rutgers University College Republican member Tali Rasis said Tight-knit community attracts students to Cook BY ARIEL NAGI CORRESPONDENT Next to a fenced-off area for horses stands a farm with a chicken coop, a barn and a pasture for cows. This isn’t a scene from rural America — this is Cook campus. Campus Dean Richard Ludescher said the campus estab- lishes a strong sense of community values because of its size, location and exclusivity as the official cam- pus for the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. “There are not a lot of strangers on [Cook] campus because you’re either on campus because you live there or you go to class there … so you recognize people more likely than you would, for example, maybe at Douglass or the College Avenue campus,” Ludescher said. “So this kind of smaller community spirit gives people a sense of [what it is like] living [on Cook campus].” Although any student can apply to live on Cook, most of the students living there are part of the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, and most of the buildings as well as classes are for the students of that school, he said. Cook is a campus well known for its environmentally friendly atmosphere, but others emphasize that the campus is friendly overall, Campus Identity Campus Identity SEE COOK ON PAGE 9 SEE REPUBLICANS ON PAGE 4 SEE MANNEQUIN ON PAGE 6 ANGELICA BONUS/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Before last night’s Jack’s Mannequin show at the College Avenue Gym, University Editor Sara Gretina sat down with the band’s lead vocalist and pianist Andrew McMahon to talk about his music, his inspirations and his future plans
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THURSDAYOCTOBER 22, 2009
INDEX
A pair of 34th minute
goals by Ibrahim
Kamara and Sam
Archer boosted the
Rutgers men’s soccer
team over NJIT 2-1 last
night at Yurcak Field.
FORGET THE GOODToday: Sunny
High: 76 • Low: 52Not all entertainment is created equal. This week Inside Beat takes a look at the unwatchable, unwearable and unbearable, exposing the bad and the ugly.
ONLINE @DAILYTARGUM.COM
SPORTS
UNIVERSITY
OPINIONS . . . . . . . 10
DIVERSIONS . . . . . . 12
CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . 14
SPORTS . . . . . . BACK
UNIVERSITY . . . . . . . 3
Amid suggestions
from students that the
Department of
Transportation make
changes to the B bus
during the 20-minute
class change, Jack
Molenaar
considers alternating
the bus’ route.
Sara Gretina: Let me start offby asking, how do you say your lastname? I’ve heard lots of variations.
Andrew McMahon:‘McMan.’ Like Ed McMahon. Imight as well just make it ‘M-A-N’but it’s my Irish heritage thatgave me that one.
SG: Why not tell me a littleabout the “Dear Jack” DVD, EP andfoundation. Which one came first;what inspired the others?
AM: The very beginning of itwas a song called “Dear Jack,”which was the namesake of theband, and it was a song I wrote fora friend who was kind of goingthrough a tough time. But he wasalso — completely coincidentally— a leukemia survivor. So I namedthe band after him and then when Iwas sick with the same thing, it wasthis bizarre — I don’t know ifserendipitous is the word, consider-ing — but it was definitely a weird,faded deal. I didn’t put the song out.I’m putting it out with the “DearJack” EP that’s going to come outwith the [“Dear Jack”] movie. Butthen when I started recovering anddecided I would start a foundation,trying to give back for the sake forthat I was here and well, it seemed
appropriate to call the foundationDear Jack. When we started thedocumentary, that was kind of theworking title throughout and itended up making sense, so westuck with it. This will probably bethe last of anything named “DearJack” at this point, but that’s how itall came to be.
SG: You have a little tourgoing on right now. You havescreenings, one tomorrow andthen out in California.
AM: All the money from thescreenings is going to the founda-tion as well. And some of my [mer-chandise] proceeds from this tourwill also go back to the foundation.
SG: So what can peopleexpect from the screenings? Willit just be a screening or will it bea show also?
AM: No, no. It’s just a screen-ing, but I’m not actually sitting inthe theaters watching the screen-ings. I thought it would awkwardto be in the theater while, one, I’mwatching me, and other people arewatching me, and then turnaround and see me. You knowwhat I mean. It seemed inverted
Jack’s Mannequin, U.‘Made For Each Other’
Jack’s Mannequin Guitarist Bobby Anderson, left, andAndrew McMahon,below, jam at the College Avenue Gym lastnight before a crowd offans from the Universityand local community.The 90-minute set featured songs fromalbums “The Glass Passenger” and “Everything in Transit.”They performed “Walking By” from Something Corporate’salbum “North,” McMahon’s old band.
ANGELICA BONUS/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
At the Visitor Center grand opening on Busch campus yesterday, UniversityPresident Richard L. McCormick and Vice President of Enrollment ManagementCourtney McAnuff cut the ribbon. Tours will be given at the center and offer University information for prospective students and families.
Gov. Jon S. Corzine attractedthousands this year, bringingfamous political leaders likePresident Barack Obama and for-
mer President Bill Clinton into thestate and University, butRepublicans argue this glitz andglamour will not save him comeElection Day.
With the election just two weeksaway, incumbent Corzine and
Republican challenger Chris Christieare in a statistical dead heat, accordingto the Monmouth University/GannettNew Jersey Poll.
As of Tuesday, Corzine andChristie are tied at 39 percent, andindependent candidate Chris
Daggett has support from 14 per-cent of likely voters, according to the poll.
Rutgers University CollegeRepublican member Tali Rasis said
Tight-knit communityattracts students to Cook
BY ARIEL NAGICORRESPONDENT
Next to a fenced-off area forhorses stands a farm with a chickencoop, a barn and a pasture for cows.This isn’t a scene from ruralAmerica — this is Cook campus.
Campus Dean RichardLudescher said the campus estab-lishes a strong sense of communityvalues because of its size, locationand exclusivity as the official cam-pus for the School of Environmentaland Biological Sciences.
“There are not a lot of strangerson [Cook] campus because you’reeither on campus because you livethere or you go to class there … soyou recognize people more likely
than you would, for example,maybe at Douglass or the CollegeAvenue campus,” Ludescher said.“So this kind of smaller communityspirit gives people a sense of [whatit is like] living [on Cook campus].”
Although any student canapply to live on Cook, most of thestudents living there are part ofthe School of Environmental andBiological Sciences, and most ofthe buildings as well as classesare for the students of that school,he said.
Cook is a campus well knownfor its environmentally friendlyatmosphere, but others emphasizethat the campus is friendly overall,
Campus IdentityCampus Identity
SEE COOK ON PAGE 9
SEE REPUBLICANS ON PAGE 4
SEE MANNEQUIN ON PAGE 6
ANGELICA BONUS/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Before last night’s Jack’s Mannequin show at theCollege Avenue Gym, University Editor Sara Gretina sat downwith the band’s lead vocalist and pianist Andrew McMahon to
talk about his music, his inspirations and his future plans
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With only 20 minutesbetween periods to ship studentsacross Busch and Livingstoncampuses, the B bus is saddledwith a tricky task.
Department of TransportationServices Director Jack Molenaarsaid the department is looking atpossibly having the B bus stop atonly academic stops to make itmore efficient.
“The B route would only servethe Beck [Hall] and LivingstonStudent Center stop on theLivingston campus and the Hill[Center] and Allison RoadClassroom stops on the Buschcampus,” Molenaar said.
He said the full round trip forthe B bus takes 20 minutes. Onan average weekday, the B bus ismost crowded during the 1:20p.m. class break, Molenaar said.Tuesday is the biggest class day,and four buses were on the Broute this past Tuesday.
School of Engineering first-year student Michael Egan said hehas “Expository Writing” in BeckHall and needs to get to the ARCby 1:40 p.m. for a calculus class.
Egan said he walked to theBusch-Livingston Health Centerstop from Beck Hall because thestop is the last one on Livingstonand shaves off time from his trek.
He said he usually uses theBeck Hall stop on Tuesdays whenbuses are overcrowded.
Molenaar advised students touse the Beck Hall stop instead ofthe Health Center stop duringweekday afternoons.
Egan said the 20-minute schlep isa minor inconvenience, noting thathe has not missed calculus class butis frequently a few minutes late.
“Usually, I’m five minutes latebut class hasn’t even really start-ed until then. So I don’t reallymiss anything, so it doesn’t both-er me at all,” Egan said.
By the time he realized howdifficult it was to make his classon time, the add/drop period hadalready passed and Egan wasstuck with the 20-minute window.
Widening the 20-minute windowby 10 minutes would make takingconsecutive classes on Busch andLivingston more attractive, he said.
Molenaar said any changes toclass schedules are not under thepurview of his department.
“What I do know is that the cur-rent staggered class schedule wasimplemented in fall of 2005 andthat to widen that window wouldcause changes to all the scheduleson all campuses,” Molenaar said.
School of Arts and Sciencessophomore Jamie Colon said shewonders why the B bus even trav-els on Route 18.
“I feel like it shouldn’t go onRoute 18, it should just gostraight to Busch on DavidsonRoad,” Colon said.
But Molenaar said the B routeto Busch takes Route 18 in orderto get to the academic stops asquickly as possible.
“On the way back, the last stopon Busch is the campus center,since Davidson Road is fasterthan going back down to CampusDrive than to Route 18 North. Touse it in the direction would notbe efficient at all,” Molenaar said.
School of Arts and Sciencessophomore Megan O’Brien sug-gested a B express bus that wouldgo on Davidson Road instead ofRoute 18. Colon and O’Brien alsodiscussed how having two differentB bus routes might benefit students.
But Molenaar said any timeTransportation Services addsroutes, it costs money.
“We have not seen this to be aproblem, especially since theBusch campus has an H route,which goes in the opposite direc-tion,” Molenaar said.
He said it was hard to tell howmany students only have a 20-minute window to get from classto class.
Busch campus resident JesseMarvosa said he uses the B busoften and has three classes onLivingston. He said he does nothave any classes where there areonly 20 minutes to get from cam-pus to campus.
“My schedule didn’t work outthat way,” said Marvosa, a Schoolof Arts and Sciences sophomore.
He said it would be convenientif the B bus stopped at the studentcenter first.
Molenaar said the B routeused to stop at the Busch CampusCenter first, then go around thewhole campus.
“That was changed two yearsago, based on a student govern-ment request from Livingston,”Molenaar said. “Students at theBusch Campus Center were usingit to go to class in the ARC area ofthe campus instead of walking,and it was slowing down theroute. That is why it uses Route 18on the way to Busch now.”
B bus may see route changes
Brittany Desiderio, a School of Arts and Science junior, is picturedabove in late September after winning the Sport Horse Nationals.Over her lifelong career, Desiderio has won more than 100 titles.
COURTESY OF BRITTANY DESIDERIO
BY CIARA COPELLCONTRIBUTING WRITER
School of Arts and Sciencesjunior Brittany Desiderio rodeher way to a national champi-onship at the Sport HorseNationals, taking home thenational title in the Sport HorseUnder Saddle Open.
As an amateur, she competedagainst 57 of the nation’s best rid-ers, including professionals, atNationals from Sept. 22 to 27,Desiderio said.
“[We] go through a rigorousqualification process in order toget to nationals. Once at nationals,there are three eliminationrounds,” she said. “The finalround consists of the top 16 in theUnited States. From there, theychoose the top 10 and lastly, thetop two.”
Along with her nationalchampionship, Desiderio alsocame home from Sport HorseNationals with two Reser veNational Championships and13 National Top Tens,Desiderio said.
But this is not her first suc-cessful run at nationals. Withalmost two decades of compet-ing under her belt, she has woneight national championships,seven Reserve NationalChampionships and more than100 National Top Tens in a widerange of events including west-ern, side saddle and jumping,Desiderio said.
“I competed for the first timewhen I was four in the 10-and-under age group, and went tonationals for the first time at theage of six,” she said. “[Now]riding is second nature to me,like walking. Because of myexperience, it makes handlingthings much easier: my ringpositioning, the dif ferent gaitsand what to do in bad situa-tions. I don’t even have to think.I just react.”
Peter Webster, a friend of theDesiderio family, said dedica-
tion is present in every aspect ofher life.
“She is one of the most inde-pendent spirits I have ever met[and] one of the hardest-workingwomen in what she does,” Webstersaid. “She works at the stables, sheis also a full-time student, and shedoes so much for her family. She isjust a 360 degree amazing woman.”
Riding is an event for thewhole family. Brittany’s mother,Dana Desiderio, is her trainer andthe two travel together all aroundthe country every summer.
“People always say it is not agood idea to train your ownchild. In my situation, this wasnot the case,” Dana Desideriosaid. “I think that is because asparents, we expect more fromour children. I have been fortu-nate to have a daughter that isnot only a good listener, but ahard worker.”
But the Desiderio women arenot the only riders in the family;Brittany Desiderio is a fourth-generation equestrian.
“Riding is in the Desiderioblood. My grandfather’s fatherboarded his horses at mygrandmother’s parents’ farm75 years ago,” BrittanyDesiderio said.
Along with spending everysummer traveling to competi-tions, Brittany Desiderio is con-stantly practicing, she said.
“I ride every day, as manyhorses as they put me on, andhave done so consistently for aslong as I can remember,” BrittanyDesiderio said.
She said although equestriantakes up most of her time, she isvery interested in ice hockey. Sheplays for the University team aswell as the Bridgewater WingsIce Hockey team.
Brittany Desiderio said sheplans on attending law schoolafter graduation and hopes topublish a book. While she doesnot intend on making a career outof horses, she will continue toride as a hobby.
U. student gallops intonational championship
in New Jersey for more than adecade, DeMarzo said.
“Normally, at this time,Democrats are up by 6 percent,”he said.
Patrick Murray, who man-ages the MonmouthUniversity/Gannett NewJersey poll, said Christie wasin the lead during the summer,but people are beginning tobecome skeptical about hisability to change the state.
“Christie had a double-digitlead in the summer that hasevaporated. People are notcomfor table with ChrisChristie,” Murray said.“Christie has not given peoplea specific reason to vote forhim. That has opened up theopportunity for Corzine’s nega-tive attacks to [take ef fect onvoters’ opinions].”
He said the poll resultscould be related to the politicalfigures Corzine brought intothe state.
“It looked like this summerDemocrats were not going tovote at all in the race,” Murraysaid. “If Jon Corzine could con-nect himself to Obama, itwould bring out [more votersand supporters].”
Eagleton Institute ofPolitics Associate Director
John Weingar tsaid the advantageCorzine has is thatmany people inNew Jerseya d m i r eDemocratic politi-cians such as Obama and Clinton.
“This is theadvantage thatCorzine has and istaking advantage
of,” Weingart said. “There area number of prominent demo-cratic politicians admired inNew Jersey and there aren’tmany [admired] Republican[leaders to represent] Chris Christie.”
Corzine may get more votesby bringing leaders to the state,but this will not make Christiesupporters vote for Corzineinstead, Weingart said.
“It’s not likely to convincepeople who are voting forChristie to vote for Corzine,but it convinces people tovote,” he said.
He said although Christiebrought former Republicanpresidential candidate MittRomney and intends to bringformer New York City MayorRudolph Giuliani to the state,he will not receive as muchrecognition because these arenot prominent, admired politi-cians by the state.
Weingar t said theUniversity has focused much ofits attention on Democraticleaders this past year, but if theRepublican Par ty wanted tobring leaders to representChristie on campus, they wouldreceive just as much supportfrom the University to organizethe event.
“I would assume that if theRepublicans wanted to [bring apolitical leader] into theUniversity, they would get [the]same consideration theDemocrats did,” he said.
Rasis said regardless of thepoll results, she is confident vot-ers will make the decision thatworks best for the state and forhigher education.
“Voters can look beyond theglitz and glam,” she said. “Ihave a lot of faith in the peopleof New Jersey that comeElection Day, they will makethe right choice.”
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this would not discourage stu-dents and other New Jerseyresidents who plan to vote for Christie.
“[Corzine’s] approval rat-ings are so low, he has to getthese celebrities ... but comeElection Day, voters aren’tgoing to be looking at that,”said Rasis, a School of Arts andSciences junior. “They’re goingto be looking at his failedrecord. They’re going to belooking for someone who’sactually going to fix the state.”
College Republican memberJared Fusia said although heunderstands that bringingClinton to the University was agood way to encourage morestudents to vote, it is unfairthat Republicans are still underrepresented.
“This is a college campus,and there’s a strong liberalbase,” said Fusia, a School ofArts and Sciences junior.“There’s nothing dedicated toconservatives. I think it’s a lit-tle unfair and biased, but that’sthe way it is.”
Rasis, alongwith otherC o l l e g eR e p u b l i c a n s ,protested theevent Tuesdayevening butalso continuedto phone bankand dedicateher time to theChristie cam-paign, regard-less of the thou-sands that stood in line for the rally.
Rasis said she does notthink the University is promot-ing its views or leavingRepublicans in the shadows byallowing these Democratic fig-ures on campus. She said inmany ways, having a formerpresident on campus is positivefor students, whether the for-mer president was aRepublican or a Democrat.
“As students, Corzine hasreally screwed us over interms of higher education,”she said. “So, I think a lot ofstudents were here to seePresident Clinton. It was notabout [representing] Corzine.”
The governor has continual-ly lied to students and raisedtaxes and tuition when hepromised to help higher educa-tion, Rasis said.
“He’ll tell you one thing toyour face, and he’ll do anotherthing,” she said.
College RepublicanTreasurer Ben DeMarzo saidfor this reason, Corzine is try-ing to gain the student voteback by bringing in leaderswhom students admire, likeObama and Clinton.
Having someone likeClinton at the event is a strate-gy Corzine is using to under-mine and hide his failures,DeMarzo said.
“Right off the bat, you bringin national celebrities whenyou’re unpopular,” saidDeMarzo, a Rutgers Collegesenior. “He brought Clintonhere to headline because he did-n’t want to be the headline.”
DeMarzo said he is satisfiedwith the poll results so far.
Some polls, such poll-ster.com, show Christie aheadby 0.4 percent.
The polls have not had aRepublican candidate in the lead
REPUBLICANS: U.would allow rallies for Christie
continued from front
“As students,Corzine has reallyscrewed us over in
terms of highereducation.”
TALI RASISCollege Republican member
It’s never too early to start planning for anevent as large as Rutgers Day.
The University is seeking volunteers and look-ing for new hands-on event ideas for the secondannual Rutgers Day, which is set to take place onApril 24, 2010, according to an e-mail from theSchool of Communication and Information.
The school is not only seeking news ideas thatparticularly pertain to its departments, but toother aspects of the University as well, accordingto the e-mail. Events should represent the dynam-ic programs around campus.
There are two submission periods for eventideas: Nov. 2-3 and Jan. 25 to Feb. 5, according tothe e-mail.
Anyone who submits an idea by Nov. 13 willautomatically be entered into a random drawingfor either a 50 percent reduction for campus park-ing for 2010, a dinner for two at the Rutgers Club
located on the College Avenue campus or a foot-ball helmet signed by head football coach GregSchiano, according to the e-mail.
Last year’s first-ever Rutgers Day was a suc-cess, according to the e-mail. The Universityconnected with the New Jersey communitythrough various events throughout the five cam-puses, ranging from cultural shows featuringlive music and food, live band performances,games and more.
Rutgers Day is not only for students, staff andfaculty, but is also largely geared toward state res-idents. It represents the best of what theUniversity has to offer its community, accordingto the e-mail.
Volunteers and anyone with ideas for potentialevents can contact the School of Communicationand Information at (732) 932-7500.
— Ariel Nagi
RUTGERS DAY LOOKS FOR NEW IDEAS, U. VOLUNTEERS
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Drew Lachey speaks on autism
Matt Reed: Why did you decide to raise awarenessfor autism? Drew Lachey: In 1994, my mother adopted a littleboy who, unbeknownst to her, ended up havingautism. So it’s something me and my family dealwith on an everyday basis. For me, raising aware-ness about autism is more of a way for me to try andhelp my mom. Obviously I don’t live at home — I’ma little bit old for that — but she goes through itevery day. Every day is a challenge with new stress-es and new realities setting in. So for me, trying touse what recognition I have to try and raise aware-ness is the least that I can do.
MR: How long have you been doing this for? DL: I started getting involved with Autism Speaksabout a year-and-a-half ago, attending events thatthey sponsor. I also just did “Are You Smarter thana 5th Grader?” on behalf of Autism Speaks. It’s justlittle things like that, trying to get the word outthere. Every day the word gets out there more,and people are starting to realize what an epidem-ic it is.
MR: Why do you think autism gets so little notice? DL: I think because, unlike a lot of the other dis-eases that get major funding — diabetes, cancer,leukemia, AIDS — autism isn’t deadly. You’re notfaced with this mortality rate, but what I thinkpeople fail to understand is that this is truly anepidemic. One out of every 100 kids is diagnosedwith autism [in the United States]. It’s rising at ahuge rate. It really isn’t getting a lot of the atten-tion, I think, because people can live with it, butwe have to start looking at the quality of life, notonly for the people who do have it but their fami-lies as well.
MR: Can you tell me anything about your per-sonal experiences or your mother’s experienceswith autism? DL: Every day is a story. My brother Zac getshyper-focused on one item in the grocery store. Itcould be the most random thing in the world[like] a bowl of rice. He gets fixated on it. There’sno breaking his attention, and he’ll have atantrum. He is 15 years old. A tantrum at 15 isn’tthe same as when you have a two year old whowants candy. It’s not the same thing. He’s a youngman. He’s almost 6 feet tall and 180 pounds. He’sthe size of a man but has the capacity sometimesof a child. There’s also frustration in dealing withhis triggers and social cues. He’s a high-function-ing Asperger’s case, so hissituations are dif ferentfrom everybody else,but the constantfrustration thatcomes along withtrying to raise some-body that has autismis a daily challengefor my mom. Is hegoing to be able to goto college? Is hegoing to be ableto live onhis own?Is hego ingto bea b l et o
socially become capable enough to get a girl-friend and get married? So, you have to look pastjust raising an Asperger’s child to what’s theirquality of life going to be like, and trying to setthem up so they can have as close to a normal lifeas possible.
MR: Where else have you been speaking lately? DL: I did a couple of speeches at different col-leges. This is the first time I’ve spoken aboutautism. Normally my speaking engagements aremore about following your dreams, inspirationalmotivational kinds of things. But honestly, this is amuch more meaningful speech to me because Ifeel about getting the word out to people who arein a position to make a difference. This is thefuture generation of the politicians, doctors andteachers, so getting the word out and raisingawareness now is really going to be key to fixingthe problem down the road.
MR: Have you seen any positive stories throughoutthe past couple years in regards to more people get-ting involved with making positive strides in autismawareness? DL: I remember when “Rain Man” came out,nobody knew what autism was. It was not as com-mon, and I had never even heard of it. At that point,everybody thought if you had autism, you wererocking back and forth in your chair and you [hadto] count toothpicks on the floor. That’s what peoplethought autism was, this kind of idiot savant thing.I think people now have a different idea. There’s abetter understanding of it. People have opinionsabout it. Some of them are completely off the walland unfounded. Some of them are possible, likewhat causes it. Some people think it’s from vaccinesand drinking out of plastic bottles. Whatever theidea is, people are at least talking about it now.[The] government is making it a point to promoteawareness. That’s in no small part due to the par-ents of kids with autism getting out there, gettingthe word out, raising awareness and forcing peopleto listen to them. So I think there have been dra-matic strides in the past four or five years, but wehave a long way to go.
MR: A lot of people are talking about the swine fluvaccine. Do you think there’s a link betweenincreased vaccinations and the rise in autism? DL: I have a 3-year-old, so every time it’s time fora new vaccination, we go straight to our doctor,who we trust very much. Every time you thinksomething’s fine, there’s another report that saysvaccines are causing [autism]. Honestly, if I said Ihad an opinion one way or the other, I would just befueling the fire. I have no idea what causes it. I wishI did. I wish there was some sort of concrete evi-dence out there, but for every report that says thisis what causes it, there are five that say it doesn’t.So at this point it’s still too early to tell. That’s whywe have to keep raising money and keep research-ing it and finding out what truly does cause itbefore we get down to one in every 50 kids, one in
every 25 kids. Boys are five times more likelyto get it than girls. I mean, why would that
be? If it is vaccines, why would it affectboys more than girls?There are lots of dif-
ferent triggersthat make youq u e s t i o nwhether or notthat is the truecause. Hopefully
we’ll find out soon.
MR: For the students whoare reading this interview, what kind of actionwould you like them to take? DL: For anybody, donating to an autism chari-ty is hugely helpful. Autism Speaks is a greatone; Easter Seals is another — there’s a tonof great charities out there. Also, when
you’re voting and talking with others, keep thisin mind. This isn’t something that’s going away.If anything, this is getting worse — it’s com-pounding. It’s going to be something we aregoing to have to contend with for a long time tocome. Also, stay educated on the signs ofautism, so that when you have children, you areable to identify it early because that is a verycrucial part of it.
Former member of 98 Degrees Drew Lachey spoke to University studentslast night about autism awareness at the Rutgers Student Center on the
College Avenue campus. Before the event, Daily Targum Staff Writer Matt Reed met with Lachey to discuss why he is raising awareness
at the University and why it is pertinent to the nation.
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and weird. But I will come out and do a short Q&A withmyself and the two filmmakers.
SG: What was it like to work with Tommy Lee on this?AM: It was awesome. We were working together quite
a bit while I was working on “[Everything in] Transit,”which is how Tommy [Lee] ended up factoring into thefilm and whatnot. Working with him on the music was —I want to say a dream come true — but I don’t even knowif I had the forethought to dream that dream. When I wasin second and third grade, Motley Crüe was all over MTV.And we loved it. It was great. When we realized we wouldneed a narrator, obviously your instinct is to find someonewho’s going to lend some sort of additional credibility tothe project or an additional celebrity to peak people’sinterest, so immediately — just because Tommy is alreadyin so much of the footage that we were cataloguing — itwas like ‘Dude, let’s get Tommy to do it.’ He’s got a big,deep voice, and it’s recognizable and he’s our friend. So heobliged us and came in. Did the voiceover for a day or two.And it was great.
SG: So do you have plans to collaborate with anyoneelse in your music?
AM: Collaborations are something I’m always open to.I started recording new music — just the beginning,hatching stages — put my toe in the water and see what’scoming next. I did a couple tracks with Steve Ferrone,who’s the drummer for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers,and he was in Duran Duran. He did drums with us on acouple of tracks, which was awesome. So on this nextrecord, I’ll probably invite a handful of different people tojoin us in the studio and kind of provide us with their clas-sic qualities that go into making those great records. Sothere’s some of that. I just recently collaborated with TheAcademy Is [and] put out a track with them for theirrecord. It’s something I’m definitely starting to get intomore and more.
SG: Is there anybody that you dream about collab-orating with?
AM: Hmm, in truth, I think it would be awesome tostep outside myself, outside my world, and collaboratewith someone, like a pop artist. You know what I mean?Write songs for somebody who’s doing something alto-gether different to kind of challenge myself. I mean obvi-ously, I’m not going to get a gig writing for Madonna any-time soon or something like that, but I could see it beingfun to kind of tap into that world.
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SG: Why did you choose to come back to theUniversity for a show last night?
AM: They asked us. I made a point probably since thesecond Something Corporate album broke. It became aneffort of ours to play the colleges. When you go to an all-ages gig, it’s always going to be a certain kind of show.When you open up for people in big venues, it’s alwaysgoing to be a certain kind of show. To do the colleges forus is a good way for to inform people who actively listen toand trade music. It gives us a chance to play to those peo-ple and people who haven’t heard the music already. Whenyou end up doing the college gig, it’s a more affordableshow and it becomes a campus event, and in that sense, itgives us an opportunity to reach out to people who areonline and talk a lot. And that’s good for our base.
SG: So what can students expect?AM: [A] big a-- rock show! (laughs) The whole band
will be here and we’ll be partying. Our goal when we goout to play shows is just to play well, to give a good, enter-taining rock show, to give people a good rock concert. Totry and conceptualize too far beyond that is a step awayfrom what rock music is to begin with. You know? We don’ttry to over-think it. Everyone just plugs in and hopefullypeople are dancing and having a good time, and it’s all saidand done.
SG: What’s your favorite song to play?AM: I hate to evade the question, but it sort of
changes on a nightly basis depending on the crowd. Imean obviously playing the bigger songs is fun,because it’s the bigger moment in the set. Especially ona college campus, where [it’s]‘My friend’s a fan of theband and I can get in cheap, so I’ll go.’ There are a lotof people at these shows that aren’t as familiar with theband say as if we went and booked a proper show in thecity and people bought tickets. Playing the biggersongs, songs like “Dark Blue,” “The Mixed Tape” and“Resolution,” you know the tunes that people havealready here a lot of can be the sweetest moment in thesets cause people are most engaged.
SG: How did having leukemia and being sick affectyour musical career?
AM: Career-wise, it’s sort of the story that hauntsme. I can’t get away from it. And at some point thatbothered but I think I’ve reconciled that in the sensethat it is a part of what I’ve been through, so I accept iton some levels. As far as the music goes, like anything,it’s going to inform your perspective. On the lastrecord, I tried to avoid it, and I realized that trying toavoid it altogether was counterintuitive to the way thatI work, which is generally through autobiography and
through telling that story that’s going on. So I think ifnothing else, it has definitely affected this period of mycareer, but it hasn’t changed my process. It changedmy outlook — obviously to some extent — which willaffect my art. But I think just as many things that havechanged there are probably an equal amount of thingsthat have stayed the same.
SG: Are there ways in general that your music is evolv-ing? From your first album to your second, you jam a littlemore and there are more rock undertones in the second.What would you say your music is moving toward now, innatural evolution?
AM: Yeah, yeah. I think from “Transit” into “The GlassPassenger” in the same sense in the Something Corporateworld from “Leaving through the Window” into “North”there was a sort of similar evolution from one thing to thenext. There was a very clean, simplistic pop approach tothe first record. And, you know, I wear that hat almostevery other record. And I like to wear that hat. But I thinkwith “Passenger,” I was playing with a group of pro-musi-cians for two or three years leading up to the making of“Passenger” that it made me want to approach“Passenger” as a little bit more as an expression in themusicality within the songs themselves. How that’s goingto affect the next thing? I’m not sure. I find myself scalingback a little bit and going into the studio with me and a pro-ducer and really kind of trying to hash the songs first,rather than trying to work out that most insane guitarwhile I’m also writing the tune. I think the next record insome ways will be a hybrid of the ideologies of record oneand record two. Really focus on hashing the songs in a suc-cinct way and then bring people in afterwards to close it upand apply that additional level of musicality.
SG: Do you have plans for a new album?AM: Yeah. I’m making it right now. The perception of
the way a lot of people make records is that they writesongs for a couple months and record for a couple months,and the record’s done. I’ve always had this feeling that youshould live the piece of art you are making. And there’ssomething to be said about having it be sort of a fluidthought, where you start with a song and you go in the stu-dio and see where that song takes you and you see wherethe day [and the week] takes you. So I’ve started that idea;it could take a year — I don’t know how long it will take.But I’m definitely having fun in the studio, having the heav-iness of “Passenger” and the documentary and finally clos-ing that chapter has been a very freeing way sort of way tomake music again because I don’t have all that baggage tocarry around any more. It’s been pleasant. (laughs) I’mthrilled actually.
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23For this year’s “Make a Difference Day,” the Energy ServiceCorps is going into Newark homes to show residents how tosave energy and money by making changes in each room ofthe house. Volunteers will also help residents seal up cracksaround windows and doors, change old light bulbs to CFLbulbs and insulate hot water pipes. To participate, meet at 10a.m. in Room 303 of the Rutgers-Newark Paul RobesonCampus Center.
Residence Life and the Residence Hall Association will behosting the “Cook/Douglass Ninth Annual Monster Mash.”The community service-based program acts as a safe trick-or-treating alternative for children in the New Brunswickarea. This will be the largest “Monster Mash” held by theUniversity. The event will take place between 6 and 9 p.m. inthe Cook/Douglass Recreational Center.
Please join us at the Center for Race and Ethnicity for aroundtable discussion titled “Governing Inequality: Race andthe Challenge of American Federalism.” Experts from allUniversity campuses will come together to exploreAmerican-style federalism and its relationship to inequalityacross various policy areas. Panelists include: Karen O’Neill(Human Ecology, R-NB); Heidi Swarts (Political Science, R-Newark); G. Alan Tarr (Political Science, R-Camden); DavidTroutt (School of Law, R-Newark) and Lisa L. Miller (PoliticalScience, R-NB). The event will take place at 12 p.m. at theCenter for Race and Ethnicity, 191 College Ave. Lunch will beprovided. The favor of an RSVP is requested if you plan toattend, so the appropriate amount of food can be provided.
The Unplugged Rutgers Board Game Club will be having itsweekly meeting at 7 p.m. in Room 174 of the Busch CampusCenter. Come by to meet new people, chow down on foodand try some board games that you have never seen! Weplay everything from chess to Last Night on Earth, a zom-bie-survival horror game, so feel free to stop by!
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with a tight-knit community likeno other, Ludescher said.
The campus has severalunique clubs that make it a verydistinct one. For example, thereis a farm on campus and a seeing-eye puppy club called “TheSeeing Eye,” where studentsraise puppies to aid the blind, hesaid. There are about 15 puppieson campus.
“They’re the only animals thatlive on campus in the [residen-tial] halls … you see puppies withtheir handlers around campus ona regular basis,” Ludescher said.“That’s another element thatgives Cook a unique flavor.”
There are a number of clubson Cook campus that pertainspecifically to majors at theSchool of Environmental andBiological Sciences, rangingfrom animal science clubs, envi-ronmental science clubs, foodscience clubs and more, he said.
School of Environmental andBiological Sciences junior NicolePeterson is involved in the FoodScience Club on Cook campus.
“[The Food Science Club] isreally awesome because I’m ableto meet people in my major; itreally helped me with classes andknowing which classes to lookout for and getting books fromother students, and even justhelping me with my other stud-ies,” Peterson said.
She said the club also planstrips to chocolate shows and isplanning to visit the MarsCandy factory.
School of Arts and Sciencessophomore Rosemary Devinesaid although she does not havemany classes on Cook, she choseto live in the Starkey Apartmentsbecause she did not like thecrowded, city life atmosphere onCollege Avenue, where she livedher first year.
“[Cook campus] is just theprettiest,” Devine said. “It givesoff the best atmosphere … I livedon College Avenue and it was justreally ugly.”
She said living on Cook cam-pus feels more like a suburb, andshe does not always feel like it isa part of New Brunswick becauseof its rural setting.
“I walk out of my apartmentand there’s like a huge farmright there and I see horsesevery morning,” Devine said.“It’s just awesome.”
She said the only problem shehas with the campus is its prox-imity to the other campuses.
“It’s just kind of far,” Devine said. Ludescher said the campus is
also unique in that it is namedafter one of the most importanthistorical figures at theUniversity, George H. Cook.
“[George H. Cook] is anextremely important person inthe history of RutgersUniversity and arguably, in myopinion, the most important sin-gle individual in terms of hisimpact on the structure of theinstitution,” he said.
Members of the SEBS/CookCouncil recently passed a motionto celebrate Cook’s birthday,Ludescher said. Although hisbirthday is in early January whenmost classes are not in session,the members decided to have acelebration honoring his birth-day during the first week of thespring semester each year.
“It would be an event to cele-brate his birthday, his impor-tance to Rutgers and his impor-tance to the School ofEnvironmental and BiologicalSciences,” he said.
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continued from frontVolunteers will travel door-to-door throughout New Brunswick
tomorrow in an effort to increase energy efficiency for this year’sMake A Difference Day.
Students and local residents plan to distribute 300 compact flu-orescent lightbulbs to community homes as a part of “ProjectPorchlight,” an endeavor set forth by New Jersey Public InterestResearch Group’s Energy Service Corps, according to an NJPIRGpress release.
A joint project of NJPIRG, the Service Corps works to improveenergy efficiency by educating and engaging University students
and community members to make simple changes in the home tosave both money and energy, according to the release.
“Community members will also be asked to pledge to doone energy saving action in their homes and will be informedabout state and federal funding that they can apply for,” therelease said.
Volunteers should plan to meet at 2 p.m. in Room 407 of theRutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus.
— Lauren Caruso
STUDENTS, CITY RESIDENTS TO INCREASE LIGHTBULB EFFICENCY
bate also are thrown in thereby some food-Frankensteinlaboratory worker.McDonald’s is even kindenough to tell you they aremade with liquid margarine,instead of plain old butter.More of the same — andworse — went into yourinnocent hash brown.
How can you be a savvy foodie? Start bydecoding all of these ingredients like you woulda huge vocabulary word on the Graduate RecordExamination. Partially-hydrogenated vegetableoil shows up in everything from peanut butter tosaltine crackers, and it will kill you slowly whileexpanding your waistline and shrinking yourarteries. It is made from healthy vegetable oilsin liquid form, injecting some hydrogen into itso it becomes solid and easier to cook with.
Somewhere in that science exper-iment, trans-fats pop up. A lot ofnegative spotlight has beenshown on PHVO, and we as asociety know it is bad, but do wecheck if we are consuming it?Rarely. Do we ask restaurants if they have it? Doubt it. So we eat it.
When a friend pours that pow-dery fake sugar into her coffee, Iam always tempted to reprimand.I have never researched studies
on fake sugar; it just intrinsically seems terrible.You know the words saccharin, aspartame andall of their friends. Saccharin has been involvedin countless studies, the results of which found itcauses cancer of the urinary bladder of rodents,as well as uterus, ovaries, skin, blood vesselsand other organs. The National Cancer Instituteeven found it was associated with a higher risk ofbladder cancer.
Aspartame, which is in the same vein, has beenlinked to brain cancer, leukemias/lymphomas andbreast cancer. The Food and Drug Administrationhave curiously deemed both saccharin and aspar-tame as safe, after the diet-food industry pres-sured the U.S. and Canadian governments and theWorld Health Organization to take saccharin offtheir lists of cancer-causing chemicals. The indus-try acknowledges that saccharin causes bladdercancer in male rats, but argues that those tumors
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I have a few heroes, one ofwhom is author MichaelPollan. He has written
foodie books such as “TheBotany of Desire” and “TheOmnivore’s Dilemma.” Hislatest, “In Defense of Food:An Eater’s Manifesto,” isabout the industrial foodindustry and how to eathealthier in the age of processed foods. He has ageneral rule of thumb that states one should not eatanything with more than five ingredients, or “if youcan’t say it, don’t eat it.” But Pollan has also beencaught by readers buying Coco Puffs cereal in thegrocery store, which has about 24 ingredients. Ifthe experts cannot avoid processed foods, how canwe normal eaters be expected to do so?
With popular phrases thrown around like “gov-ernment subsidized corn,” 100 percent naturalingredients and certified sustain-able and organic ingredients, it iseasy to get overwhelmed and giveup caring about what is in your food,as long as it is in your belly. But it ispossible and necessary for con-sumers to be informed. It is espe-cially important when it comes towhat they eat, where it comes fromand what in the world those longingredients lists mean. Can you pic-ture hydrolyzed corn gluten orriboflavin? Why would Nestlé putthat in our Hot Pockets?
Take a normal college breakfast — well, let usjust say there is such a thing. Stopping atMcDonald’s right before they stop ser vingbreakfast, you order the scrambled eggs. Thename has one ingredient, and it appears to bejust that — eggs that the nice McDonald’s work-ers scrambled for you. It was a late night, so youadd in an order of the hash browns too, whichseem to just be potatoes even though the greasemakes the paper container quite window-like.
Even though McDonald’s breakfast is obvious-ly not healthy by any means, when in the arc oftime did scrambled eggs start to include thingslike pasteurized whole eggs with sodium acidpyrophosphate, citric acid, monosodium phos-phate and nisin, which are the first ingredients.Hydrogenated cottonseed oil, soy lecithin(sounds like a dance-move), mono and diglyc-erides (sounds like chemistry class), sodium ben-zoate (sounds like medicine) and potassium sor-
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Heartless evictionT here are always stories about children getting lost in the system
when it comes to foster care. The purpose of it is usually to takecare of a child until they are able to be on their own, or their
legal guardians can care for them again. So it does not seem right tosend an innocent girl, with two loving guardians who want to take careof her, into this complicated government system. Residents at a 55-and-older living community in Largo, Fla., are perfectly at ease with it.
Kimberly Broffman, a 6-year-old girl, is facing eviction. She has beenliving with her grandparents, her legal guardians, since she was a babybecause her mother lost custody due to a drug problem. The policy ofthe retirement community only allows residents 55 years old and up tolive there. The homeowners’ association is expecting a ruling from ajudge very soon to kick the child out. The debate about whether she hasto be evicted or not has been going on for five years. By the time hergrandparents accepted the fact that it would be best for them to move,the housing market was so bad they are finding it hard to sell theirhome. They are also lowering the price of their home significantly to tryto get out of there faster. If an eviction notice does show up on their door,Kimberly will have to go into foster care until the house is sold.
This situation is absolutely infuriating, and it is hard to believe theresidents of this housing community do not sympathize more with thislittle girl’s situation. It seems almost heartless to want to send her outinto the foster care system and separate her from the only parents shehas ever known. If the grandparents are planning on moving, theyshould let her stay there until they are able to find a new home else-where. There is no need for Kimberly’s life to be rearranged and haveher forced into the foster care system. It is hard to believe a judgewould even side with the residents, just because of a technicality in aliving policy. How much of a disturbance is one 6-year-old? Her pres-ence in the community cannot possibly be bothering that many people.
The residents should also consider the financial situation they are put-ting the Broffman family in. They are selling their home for a lot less thanit is worth and may not be able to afford a nice home in a good neigh-borhood for Kimberly to live in. She deserves a safe environment and agood school district. She might not be able to get what she deservesbecause of the low price her grandparents are being forced to sell theirhome for. That also may compromise the well-being of the child.
The residents of this living community should stop being so selfish andreally think about what they are putting this family through. There is noneed for the Broffman family to be ripped apart. There is also no reason forKimberly to go into foster care when her grandparents have been and wantto be taking care of her. These residents need to think about what is best forthis girl, instead of what a living policy says. Stop being heartless!
“Big a-- rock show.”Andrew McMahon, Jack's Mannequin frontman, on what students
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“When a friendpours that powdery
fake sugar intoher coffee, I amalways tempted to reprimand.”
War on Fox News
F ox News Channel is known for its ridiculous commentators, likeBill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck, who pick on the White House andpresident non stop. As if the Obama administration did not have
enough war on their hands — what with trying to figure out if more troopsshould be sent to Iraq and Afghanistan — they are now picking a fightwith Fox News. This may not be their smartest decision, when freedomof the press can beat them in the end. There really is not anything theycan do to stop the madness that is a Beck rant about the White House.
According to the Associated Press, President Barack Obama’sCommunications Director Anita Dunn says it was Fox News, not the WhiteHouse that picked a fight. Dunn said during a CNN interview last week, FoxNews is like “a wing of the Republican Party,” which ignited one of the mostunusual verbal volleys between a presidential administration and journalistssince Vice President Spiro Agnew complained during the Nixon years aboutthe “nattering nabobs of negativism.” Obama himself has reportedly saidthere is one station, Fox News, entirely devoted to attacking his administra-tion. The station’s coverage of health care demonstrations over the summer,and former administration official Van Jones and the community activistsACORN clearly knocked the administration off stride. Dunn has complainedthat the station misrepresents what goes on in the White House, and the offi-cial White House blog, “Reality Check,” has said that Fox News flat out lies.
All this has done is given off the notion that the administration is thin-skinned. When you are in the public eye — you cannot get more in thepublic eye than being the president of the United States — you are goingto be criticized. Sometimes you have to suck it up and move along. Thatis not to say that the things that come out of the mouths of some of thesecommentators are not absolutely ridiculous. Beck’s rant about schoolchildren singing about Obama went on to say we might as well build goldstatues and worship him, and he has said on numerous occasions thatObama has a “deep-seeded hatred towards white people.”
That kind of behavior is uncalled for, but it is what keeps the network upin ratings. Unfortunately, people are going to keep watching the station tohear what a commentator will say next about the White House. Viewers justhave to remember to separate fact from opinion. If we do that, then there isno need for a fight between the administration and Fox News. Obama andhis administration need to learn to take the punches. Yes, you are dealingwith a lot but there are more concerns than what someone is saying aboutyou “behind your back.” Fox News needs to remember that if they are goingto try to be considered a legitimate news source then they should calm downwith the ludicrous commentary and start reporting the facts. The whole sit-uation seems like high school drama. Stop with the he said, she said and getback to what is important: informing people about the issues.
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Blood drive discrimination unfair
are caused by a mechanism thatwould not occur in humans.
High-fructose corn syrup canbe seen as the most prevalent ofall processed ingredients and can
E ach year dozens of cen-ters, departments andstudent organizations at
the University come together toorganize blood drives and otherevents that encourage studentsto donate blood and give back tothe community. But some stu-dents are limited in the ways thatthey can contribute, with theFood and Drug Administrationcurrently prohibiting men whohave had sex with men fromdonating blood. More specifical-ly, any man who has had sex withanother man since 1977 — thebeginning of the HIV/AIDS epi-demic in the United States — is
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Letter ruled out based on his risk forHIV and other diseases that maybe transmitted by blood. Thosediseases, of course, are tested forprior to transfusion, but this pop-ulation continues to be deferredfor blood donation in the UnitedStates. Though supporters arguethat this precautionary measurecan help decrease the risk offalse negatives on HIV tests, thelaw contains no restrictions onmany other high-risk sexualbehaviors. Conceivably, a hetero-sexual person who has hadunprotected sex with multiplepartners can give blood while aman who engaged in protectedsex with another man threedecades ago will be barred fromdoing the same.
Clearly, this law is bothredundant and inconsistent —
but above all it is discriminato-ry, isolating a community thatshould in no way threaten thepractice of donating blood. Forthis reason, the RutgersUniversity Senate plans to voteon whether or not blood drivesviolate the University’s nondis-crimination policy Friday.Unfortunately, the potential out-come of this vote is worrisomefor a number of reasons. First ofall, should the Senate acknowl-edge the discriminatory natureof this law, we would face thedanger of having to ban blooddrives from the University, assome schools around the coun-try already have. Voting that thelaw is not discriminatory,though, would directly under-mine the efforts of the lesbian,gay, bisexual, transgender and
questioning community at theUniversity in our fight for equal-ity, sending a very negative mes-sage to the University at large.As we approach the 40th year ofLGBT activism at the Universitythis year and look back at all theaccomplishments that havebeen made, we must realize thatno good can come from thisdecision, and we cannot affordthat setback.
So, what are our options? TheUniversity, after all, must abide byFDA laws when allowing blooddrives to take place on campus.But this does not mean that theymust agree with the legal restric-tion itself. The Rutgers UniversityStudent Association will have ameeting today to offer a resolu-tion based on that very idea, sup-porting the continuation of blood
drives on campus while opposingthe discrimination sanctioned bycurrent law. The meeting isplanned for 7 p.m. in the StudentActivities Center on the CollegeAvenue campus, and we urge allavailable students to attend andsupport their decision. Hopefully,student support will push theSenate to table this issue for thetime being and consider the impli-cations of simply voting “yes” or“no” in response to the questionat hand.
Cynthia Douglas is aLivingston College senior andLauren Felton is a School of Artsand Sciences junior majoring inEnglish and sociology. They areexecutive board members forLLEGO, the Queer People of ColorUnion at the University.
now be found in everything frompickles to pasta sauce. Basicallyanything that can be made a littlebit sweeter so our caveman tastebuds like it more. As MichaelPollan says, “Do you know any-one who cooks with high-fructosecorn syrup? It’s not an ingredientyou’ll find in a home pantry. It’s atool of food science.”
We as consumers mustalways be war y of the foodindustr y. For example, nowthat it is common knowledgeabout the ills of high-fructosecorn syrup, Coca-Cola andSnapple are marketing theirproducts as ones with none ofthat, just all natural products.OK, well they are just telling us
that other kinds of sugar arehealthy, when that is not trueeither. This brings us back toPollan’s point to avoid thesechemical catastrophes — justeat and drink things you canpicture in your head. Häagen-Dazs has even co-optedPollan’s five ingredients idea,with their “Häagen Dazs five”
product. It is a step in the rightdirection, but we cannot live onice cream alone, unfortunately.
Joanna Cirillo is a School ofAr ts and Sciences sophomoremajoring in journalism andmedia studies. Her column “So Fresh So Green” runs onalternate Mondays.
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first-string running back,”Young said. “Even when Raywas here, I competed as if I wasthe starter.”
As for the Knights’ startingtailback position, Joe Martinekappears to be the guy — for now.
Four backs have received sig-nificant carries this season, butwith 434 rushing yards,Martinek has nearly 200 yardsmore on the ground than any ofhis backfield battery mates.While the starting tailback rolehas continually fluctuated sinceRice’s departure, Martinek ishappy to have it.
“It feels great to start for thisteam, and it means a lot to me,”he said. “But you have to keepproving yourself to the coaches.”
Martinek has nine touch-downs in 13 collegiate games,
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tonight. But he did get the game-winner, so everything is OK.”
NJIT (4-10-0, 1-0-0 ASC) near-ly made things not “OK” in thesecond half when its best chancewent wide in the 68th minute.Alex Brito played a dangerousball to the back post only towatch as Rahim Stennett scuffedhis shot wide of an open net.
“We made it very, very hardwork for ourselves tonight,” Reassosaid. “But you have to credit NJIT;with three former Rutgers guys onthe bench I kind of figured they’dbe ready to play and we were lethar-gic in the first half and fell behind.”
But Archer, a player who hasstruggled to find his form, bailedthem out.
“Sam scored a spectaculargoal,” Reasso said. “He’s beensick and hasn’t been able to geton the field, but it looked like thatgoal ignited him. It was a tremen-dous strike and it was just whatthe team needed at that time.”
THE KNIGHTS JUMP BACKinto league play when they trav-el to Louisville for a Saturdaynight game.
The Cardinals (9-2-2, 5-2-1) leadthe Big East Red Division with 16points. RU is sixth with 12 points.
“It’s huge,” Kamara said of theimportance to Saturday’s game. “Weneed all three points, and if we canwin [Saturday] I guarantee we’regoing to win the league becauseteams are going to lose points. Theteams ahead of us are going to go onthe road and play better schools, soSaturday is big for us.”
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GOALS: Kamara, Archer
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Sophomore running back Joe Martinek has nine touchdowns in13 collegiate games, averaging more than five yards per carry.
averaging more than five yardsper carry as a Knight. His consis-tency, as well as his hard down-hill running style, helps himemerge as one of the offense’stop weapons.
“We’ve got a great group ofbacks here, and we supporteach other,” Martinek said.“We are all competitive so youcan’t stop working hard foreven one day.”
Young’s greatest impact sincehis return from his latest kneesurgery came in the 24-17 loss toPittsburgh where he emerged asan offensive threat for the firsttime this season.
Young touched the ball fivetimes — a season high — andwent for 39 yards, including a 26-yard reception on the first drivethat helped set up freshmanMohamed Sanu’s Wildcat touch-down run.
“I’ve had to battle through alot with the injuries,” Youngsaid. “It feels great to be back inthe mix.”
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RU is not mathematically outof the race for first place, but amore likely scenario is that theKnights finish second, earningthem a first round bye and ahome game in the second roundof the conference tournament.
Georgetown poses the biggestthreat to that plan as the Hoyassit just one point behind RU inthe standings.
With only two games remain-ing in the regular season, ifGeorgetown loses one game andRutgers wins one game, theKnights clinch second place.
That scenario seems evenmore plausible when you considerthe matchups of Georgetown andRutgers this weekend.Georgetown plays DePaul thisweekend and conference jugger-naut Notre Dame — a team ridinga 61-game unbeaten streak in theconference. RU plays Cincinnatithis weekend and Louisville — twoteams that combine for only threeconference wins this season.
But, as usual, the Knights arenot taking anything for granted.
“Playing away at Louisville …my sophomore year … was thehardest game I’ve ever played,”Guthrie said. “Just because of theatmosphere there, it’s a verytough environment to play in.And Cincinnati is a great team. Sowe just have to work our buttsoff, and hopefully it will pay offfor this weekend.”
Guthrie is this week’s BigEast Goalkeeper of the Weekafter recording clean sheetsagainst Syracuse and St. John’slast week. She is the anchor of adefense that has only allowedthree goals in its last nine games.
“[For] both of the games thisweekend, I didn’t really have to
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Senior goaltender Erin Guthrie, above, and the Rutgersdefense have shut out four of their previous five opponents.
come up with any big-timesaves,” Guthrie said. “So I get thecredit for the Big East keeper ofthe week, but really that’s adefensive award.”
The RU defense, which alsoincludes one of this week’s BigEast honorable mentions, sen-ior Jenifer Anzivino, have shutout four of their last five oppo-
nents. In 17 games this season,the Knights have only allowedseven goals.
“We control our own destiny,”Guthrie said. “We’ve had somegreat practices this week. Butgoing away makes it a lot harder.But I think that if we stay focusedand work hard, I’m really confi-dent that we’ll win both games.”
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R utgers women’s basket-ball head coach C. VivianStringer was named a
Distinguished Daughter ofPennsylvania yesterday atGovernor Edward G. Rendell’sresidence in Harrisburg.
The accomplishments andcontributions of Stringer andseven other distinguishedprofessionals in their fieldswere honored.
Stringer, also recently induct-ed into the 2009 NaismithMemorial Basketball Hall ofFame, was the first coach —male or female — to lead threeseparate teams to the Final Four.
THOUGH MOST PLAYERSwent with the typical dark suitwith a button-down shirt and tieto match, a few players strayedfrom the norm at the Big Eastmedia day at Madison SquareGarden. Some made it work,others failed completely. Villanova head coach JayWright tops the list in a blacksuit, vest and all, with blue pin-stripes of varying widths liningthe sides. Notre Dame guardTory Jackson was a close sec-ond in his cream-toned suit,also with a vest, with a blackdress shirt underneath. Three players fill out the lowertier with dif ferent coloredargyle sweaters that did not fitthe look.
FORMER METS GENERALManager and current ESPN ana-lyst Steve Phillips took a leave ofabsence from the network in thewake of an affair with a produc-tion assistant. A bad breakupturned ugly when the womanbegan to harass Phillips’s family.
FOR COVERAGE ON LASTnight’s showdown between theRutgers volleyball team andFordham, see tomorrow’s edi-tion of The Daily Targum.
Doubles teams lead way to ITA RegionalsBY MELISSA FALICA
STAFF WRITER
The Rutgers tennis teamfaces its biggest competition yet
of the falls e a s o n
Friday at the IntercollegiateTennis Association RegionalChampionships.
The event culminates the fallseason for the Scarlet Knightsand serves as a barometer ofwhere their skills are as a group.
The doubles teams of seniorKatherine Arlak and sophomoreMorgan Ivey, along with juniorAmy Zhang and sophomoreJennifer Holzberg, qualified fordoubles play, while Zhang andHolzberg individually qualifiedfor the singles main draw as well.
This is the first time theKnights have had more than oneplayer in the singles draw.
Being that this is her final yearplaying for the Knights, Arlak isgrateful to have the opportunity
to participate in the event. “I’m a senior and I really want-
ed to go this year, whether it wasfor doubles or singles, and I’mglad that I was able to make it,”she said.
If this fall has shown anythingabout the doubles team of Arlakand Ivey, sophomore LeonoraSlatnick said it’s the duo’s abilityfor teamwork.
“They’re a really good team,”Slatnick said. “They’ve done wellso far in the fall and they have
practiced well together, so I thinkthey’re going to do well.”
Slatnick also sees the fall successof Holzberg and Zhang continuinginto this weekend and sawTuesday’s scrimmage againstColumbia as a match that would fur-ther their development even more.
“I think it’s good because lastyear we didn’t really have a matchclose to Regionals, so it just kind ofgot us practicing against differentplayers since we always play againsteach other in practice,” she said.
As for the meaning of thisweekend, Arlak sees it as an indi-vidual accomplishment that eachof the Knights have worked on allfall to achieve.
“Every match you play in the fall,every victory that you have, increas-es your chances of going,” she said.
But for her and the other RUplayers going to Regionals, theywill have to work with each otherto guarantee success.
“For Jennifer and Amy, they’replaying both singles and doubles,so they need to continue workingtogether on the doubles courtand working hard for singles,”Arlak said.
Regardless of how the fourKnights do in this weekend’sevent, she said the team looks for-ward to the competition and wish-es her other teammates couldalso participate.
“We’re hoping to make it towardsthe end of the weekend at least, andI know the tournament ends onTuesday but we have a lot of match-es till then, so I’m just hoping wehave as many victories as we can,”Arlak said. “It’s unfortunate thatmore people weren’t able to qualify.”
ANDREW HOWARD/ PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
The Rutgers doubles team of senior Katherine Arlak and sophomore Morgan Ivey, above, qualifiedfor the ITA Regionals along with senior Amy Zhang and sophomore Jennifer Holzberg.
TENNIS
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Since he went down in theRutgers football team’s firstgame against Cincinnati, sopho-more Pat Kivlehan saw a pair ofplayers fill in for him successful-ly at the safety position.
Now that Kivlehan is withinsight of his return to the field,safety is one of the deepest posi-tions for the Scarlet Knights.
“That’s the biggest thing theteam needs is depth, and we def-initely have the depth at safety,”Kivlehan said. “And from all of usto feed off each other and thecompetitiveness between us justmakes everyone better.”
Head coach Greg Schianosaid that Kivlehan’s leg injuryis nearly healed up and that theWest Nyack, N.Y., native has achance to play tomorrowagainst Army.
“I’ve been working out but Ihaven’t really been out practic-ing. I’m also trying to play[tomorrow] so it’s a little bit ofboth,” Kivlehan said. “It feelsgood [being back]. I’ve been outfor a while and it’s just good tofinally be a part of the team againand practice.”
He returned to practiceMonday, returning to his oldrole as a reserve safety behindjunior Joe Lefeged and seniorZaire Kitchen.
While Kivlehan sat on thesidelines, redshirt freshmanKhaseem Greene emerged as aweapon for the Knights.
Greene now has 20 tacklesand a sack to go along with a32-yard pick against Howard,and true freshman DuronHarmon — last year’sGatorade State Player of the Year in Delaware — hasfive tackles.
“Being hurt is definitely ahumbling experience,”Kivlehan said. “You star t tomiss the game a lot and youtake it for granted, but you justwant to get back in there as fastas humanly possible.
“I’m good now. I definitelytook all the precautions and allthe time I needed. I wouldn’t beout here if I wasn’t ready.”
Being from New York, he isa little extra excited for tomor-row’s game, where more familymembers than usual will enterMichie Stadium in West Point,N.Y., to cheer him on.
“I’m from New York so I’vebeen up to a couple of games
and played a couple of PopWarner games up there,” hesaid. “My family will be thereso that’s always exciting.”
Schiano said yesterday atpractice that Kivlehan “should beOK” to go.
TRUE FRESHMAN quarter-back Tom Savage takes the nextstep in his career tomorrowwhen he makes his first roadstart against Army.
Savage got some of the roadexperience Sept. 26 at Maryland,but did not play because of hisconcussion symptoms.
“We’ve had the [crowd] noiseout here and our offense is kindof built for that anyway,” Schianosaid. “Tom is a cool customer.They do some things differentschematically. They do somethings different schematicallyand that’s more my concern.”
SENIOR MIDDLE line-backer Ryan D’Imperio andsophomore guard DesmondWynn “should be OK,” Schianosaid, but sophomore CalebRuch will not play despitereturning in some capacity topractice this week.
FOOTBALL PRACTICE NOTEBOOK KIVLEHAN EXPECTS TO PLAY VS. ARMY
JOHN PENA/ SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Linebacker Ryan D’Imperio suffered a stinger against Pitt, butthe team’s third leading tackler will play vs. the Black Knights.
ANDREW HOWARD/ PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
After a leg injury against Cincinnati, sophomore Pat Kivlehan(47) is expected to return to the field tomorrow against Army.
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Villanova, UConn atop preseason power rankings
T here’s no better confer-ence in the country thanthe Big East. Villanova
and Connecticut both advanced tothe Final Four while Louisville andPittsburgh made Elite Eight runs.
The Wildcats and Panthersproduced one of the tourna-ment’s best games that endedwith Scottie Reynolds’ end-to-endbuzzer-beating floater.
“This is a league where youhave to respect everybody,” saidVillanova head coach Jay Wrightduring yesterday’s Big EastMedia Day at Madison SquareGarden. “You can’t go throughthis league on talent alone, andone thing this team has is greatleadership and toughness, andyou have to have that every yearto survive in this league.”
Who does sur vive anddance their way into March?That’s the mystery.
1. Villanova (30-8, 13-5)— The Wildcats are the presea-son pick for the league title, andfor good reason. They come offan NCAA tournament run thatended with a Final Four loss toeventual champs UNC.
Reynolds tested the NBAwaters before electing to returnto the Main Line for his seniorseason. The Herndon, Va., nativeaveraged 15.2 points per game.
“There’s no pressure at all,”Reynolds said in regards to beingthe conference’s preseasonfavorite. “We know there is goingto be added pressure from the
BY MATTHEW STEINSPORTS EDITOR
NEW YORK — JohnThompson III summed it up best.
“Last year was the greatestbasketballc o n f e r -
ence ever,” the Georgetowncoach said yesterday at Big EastMedia Day.
Nine teams were ranked in thetop 25 nationally at one point andthree Big East teams earned No.1 seeds in the NCAA tournament.Both Connecticut and Villanovamade the Final Four.
After graduating a large num-ber of players to the NBA, manyare looking at the upcoming sea-son as a down year for the BigEast. Those that coach in arguablythe toughest conference in thecountry vehemently disagree.
“It’s a bad league now — weonly have two teams ranked inthe top 10,” West Virginia headcoach Bob Huggins joked. “Ithink it’s unfair to compare any-thing to last year; last year wasthe best year in the history of col-lege basketball.”
The biggest issue for typicaltop contenders such as Syracuse,Marquette, Louisville andPittsburgh is replacing graduatedleaders. Each squad lost multiplecentral players that will be hardto replace.
“It’s just a different year thanlast year. I called it a perfectstorm, where so many teams lastyear had returning guys thatcould’ve gone in the draft and did-
n’t go, so you had a unique situa-tion,” said Pittsburgh head coachJamie Dixon. “This year I think ismore a reflection of what confer-ences normally do.”
The Panthers lost their topthree scorers and playmakers inDeJuan Blair, Levance Fields andSam Young, and Marquette lostits backcourt trio of JerelMcNeal, Dominic James andWesley Matthews.
“We knew at this time lastyear that those four seniors were[out of eligibility],” saidMarquette head coach BuzzWilliams. “We have a lot of newkids that have done a great jobadjusting to our culture, and theones that are returning havedone a great job of showing theyoung players how to function.”
THE BIG EAST COACHESawarded Villanova the favoriteto win the conference this sea-son. The Wildcats earned 10 of apotential 16 first-place votes,barely edging West Virginia fortop honors.
The Mountaineers finishedwith a total of 215 points, just threebehind Villanova. Connecticut,Louisville and Georgetown roundout the top five, followed bySyracuse, Cincinnati, Notre Dameand Pittsburgh.
Rutgers is ranked 15th.“It’s a different year. Names
don’t change but playerschange, that’s the most impor-tant thing,” said Cincinnati headcoach Mick Cronin. “You have16 coaches that are going to tell
you the players are the differ-ence. When players change, thelandscape of the conference isgoing to change.”
The coaches selected NotreDame center Luke Harangodythe Big East Preseason Playerof the Year for the secondstraight season, only the secondplayer in conference history —after Patrick Ewing — to earnthe honor more than once.
“It’s a huge honor eventhough it’s preseason,”Harangody said. “I can’t take it forgranted, and I know that I have toput the team on my shoulders forus to be successful.”
Cincinnati guard DeontaVaughn, Georgetown center GregMonroe, Marquette forwardLazar Hayward, Villanova guardScottie Reynolds and WestVirginia forward Da’Sean Butlercompile the Preseason All-BigEast First Team.
“It’s just something I have tokeep proving myself day in andday out,” Vaughn said. “I don’treally care too much about therankings and where coachesput me, I just feel like a lot ofcoaches give me the respect ofbeing one of the better guardsin this league.”
LOUISVILLE HEAD COACHRick Pitino, surrounded by out-side media for the first time sincehis noted offseason troubles, wasrelatively comfortable andanswered the questions thrownhis way with ease — though hedid have a grayer undertone to
BRENDAN MCINERNEY/ SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
The Big East coaches awarded Luke Harangody (44) as the Big EastPreseason Player of the Year for the second consecutive season.
Replacing departed key to continuing national dominance
MEN’S BASKETBALL
DAN BRACAGLIA/ MULTIMEDIA EDITOR
Villanova senior guard Scottie Reynolds returned to the Wildcats this offseason after testing NBAwaters. The Herndon, Va., native averaged 15.2 points per game in leading Villanova to the Final Four.
KYLE FRANKO
FullyFranko
media, but all we can control is uswhen we’re out on that floor.”
Wright, the reigning Big EastCoach of the Year, also welcomesa top-10 recruiting class.
2. Connecticut (31-5, 15-3) — Jim Calhoun’s bunchloses three players that aver-aged in double figures, but theHuskies do return guardJerome Dyson and all-aroundathlete Stanley Robinson.
Calhoun also needs a big yearout of sophomore Kemba Walker,who averaged 8.9 points per
game as a freshman after injuriesforced him into the lineup.
3. Louisville (31-6, 16-2)— Oh, Rick Pitino — scan-dalous allegations of extortionwere not what the Cardinalshead coach wanted to deal within the offseason.
Louisville’s Jan. 2 visit toKentucky should be quite thecircus when Pitino and JohnCalipari match.
And by the way, replacing thescoring of NBA draftees EarlClark and Terrence Williams
won’t be easy, but love him or hatehim, Pitino gets the job done.
4. West Virginia (23-12, 10-8) — Picked to finish second in thepreseason poll, the Mountaineersare good, but not ready to make thejump into the top two quite yet.
Head coach Bob Huggins hasa heck of a tandem in DevinEbanks, a sophomore who aver-aged 11.1 points per game andguard Da’Sean Butler, a first teamAll-Big East selection.
5. Georgetown (16-15, 7-11) — The Hoyas were a disap-
pointment last season. There’s nodoubt about that — just sevenBig East wins and a flameout inthe first round of the NIT.
DaJuan Summers is the onlyplayer who averaged in doublefigures that isn’t returning, andwith center Greg Monroe a yearolder the Hoyas will return to thetop of the conference.
6. Syracuse (28-10, 11-7) —Syracuse is what it is, and as long asJim Boeheim is the coach theOrange will win around 20 gamesand be in the NCAA tournamentconversation.
7. Seton Hall (17-15, 7-11) — It’s year four under headcoach Bobby Gonzalez and thePirates are primed to be thesleeper team that makes a run atthe NCAA tournament.
SHU welcomes three addi-tional transfers this year, some-thing that will take some of thescoring load off do-everythingguard Jeremy Hazell.
“We’re trying to turn a corner,”the outspoken Gonzalez said.“There’s a buzz around the pro-gram. We have the best team we’vehad here in years and … I thinkwe’re going to be a dangerous teamcome March.”
8. Notre Dame (21-15, 8-10) — Big East Preseason Playerof the Year Luke Harangody leads aFighting Irish team that under-achieved last season, missing outon the NCAA tournament.
They did, however, reach theNIT semifinal before a loss toPenn St. ended their season.
Expect the Irish to be on thebubble again.
Pittsburgh comes in at numbernine, followed by Cincinnati,Marquette, St. John’s, Providence,Rutgers, South Florida and DePaul.
— For a complete Big Eastpreseason breakdown, visit dailytargum.com
his hair and looked pale from therecent stresses.
THE CONFERENCE EXTEND-ED its agreement to play the BigEast tournament at MadisonSquare Garden through 2016.
“The Big East Conferencehas become as much a part ofthe landscape of New York City as the Statue of Liberty and The Empire StateBuilding,” said CommissionerJohn Marinatto.
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There are number of scenariosthat couldplay outthis week-end forthe ninth-r a n k e dR u t g e r s
women’s soccer team.But the Scarlet Knights know
one thing for certain: If they winboth of their games, they’ll play athome in the Big East tournament.
“That would be amazing if wegot to play one more homegame,” said senior goalkeeperErin Guthrie. “For some of myfamily members to be able to seeme one other time would be really special. But it’s not always a given.”
The Knights (12-2-3, 6-1-2) have20 Big East points, putting themjust five away from No. 6 NotreDame, the first place team in theBig East National Division.
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Road tripstands inway of RU,second place
Two goals in sameminute drop NJIT
BY TYLER DONOHUECONTRIBUTING WRITER
In 2006, Rutgers tailbackKordell Young provided theturning point in the most
m e a n -i n g f u l
game in Scarlet Knights’football history. In a battle ofunbeaten teams, the Knightstrailed Louisville 24-7 late inthe second quar ter. Theywere on the verge of beingrouted in front of a record-breaking home crowd andmaking a quick return trip tonational obscurity.
It was at that momentwhen quarterback Mike Teelfound Young streaking acrossthe middle in open space. Theinfrequently-used backupcaught Teel’s pass and raced39 yards into the Louisvillered zone. On the next play,first-team tailback Ray Ricescored from 18 yards out tocut the Cardinals’ lead to 11 atthe half.
The rest is history.Three years and two
knee surgeries removedfrom his breakout gameagainst Louisville, Young ispart of an RU backfield thatis full of intrigue.
He entered the 2007 seasonas Rice’s primary backup andpotential heir-apparent. Butmidway through the Knights’third game of the year, a home
matchup with Norfolk State,Young suffered a season-end-ing left knee injury.
After rebounding to leadthe team in rushing yards lastseason, Young fell victim toyet another left knee injury inthe Knights’ PapaJohns.comBowl win.
Faced with another sur-gery and further rehab, it wasdecision time for Young.Would he attempt yet anothercomeback from a devastatinginjury or was it time to cut hisfootball career short?
“Coach [Greg] Schianotold me to think everythingthrough and do what was bestfor me,” Young said. “The sur-geries were tough, but I decid-ed I was willing to fightthrough the pain.”
He worked his way backonce more, missing springpractice and this season’s firstfew games in the process.Since his return to the field,Young has stepped into therole of third-down tailback.
The task predominatelyrequired him to pick up thedefensive pass rush and pro-tect quarterback Tom Savage,while occasionally gettingtouches on the ground andthrough the air.
“I will always prepare asthough I’m the starter,whether I’m the fifth-string or
HealthyYoung getting back into ’06 groove
DAN BRACAGLIA/ MULTIMEDIA EDITOR
Junior tailback Kordell Young provided a spark with his 24-yard reception inthe Scarlet Knights’ scoring drive to open Friday’s 24-17 loss to Pittsburgh. SEE GROOVE ON PAGE 15
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WOMEN’S SOCCER
BY KYLE FRANKOASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
It took Sam Archer long enoughto finally contribute this season.
The sophomore struck gold withhis firstgoal of theseason 11m i n u t e sfrom half-time to
help the Rutgers men’s soccer teamerase an early deficit and knock offNJIT 2-1 last night at Yurcak Field.
“It felt good, and it was my firstgoal of the season and that reallyfeels great,” Archer said. “Youknow, we lost five in a row and wefinally won one last week, and nowthis one brings us back to .500 so itwas a great win tonight.”
Trailing 1-0, the sophomorepicked up a loose ball after NJITwas unable to deal with a cross andfired a 30-yard rocket into the topcorner of the goal.
“When I connected I knew some-thing good was going to happen,”Archer said. “I was just thinking tomyself when the ball was coming tome ‘technique, technique,’ and I justconnected really well and the ballended up in the back of the net.”
The Scarlet Knights took thelead 19 seconds later when Archergot involved again. This time heflicked his header on for IbrahimKamara and the sophomore forwardmade no mistake placing his shotpast goalkeeper Ryan Sutherland.
“We made a couple substitutionsand were able to get two goals real
quick,” said Rutgers head coachBob Reasso. “We really shouldhave had a third and that wouldhave put the game away.Unfortunately, we didn’t do thatand we didn’t manage the one goallead good enough.
“You’re always concerned whenyou have a game sandwichedbetween two huge Big East games… give them credit, but we madevery difficult work of it.”
The Knights (7-7-0, 4-4-0) cameout lethargic and fell behind after20 minutes. Jack McVey lobbed aball into the Rutgers box andOsvaldo Perez beat his marker andtapped the ball past sophomoregoalkeeper Alex Morgans.
“It’s a Wednesday game and wecame out flat,” Kamara said. “Welooked at the schedule and thoughtit was going to be an easy game allover the pitch, but it was hard andwe fell behind and had to comeback. Luckily, we were able tocome back and win the game.”
RU controlled most of the pos-session and could have extended itslead one minute after halftime, whenKamara broke free on goal butlooped his shot over the crossbar.
The North Brunswick productled the Knights with eight shots.
“If you ask Ibe I’m sure he will tellyou he should have had four goalstonight,” Reasso said. “You alwaysjudge your players to the best oftheir abilities, and if you look at theone he scored and ones he missedhe should have had three or four
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JENNIFER MIGUEL-HELLMAN/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Sophomore Ibrahim Kamara (9) netted one of two goals for the Rutgers men’s soccer team inthe 34th minute last night as the Scarlet Knights dispatched NJIT by a one-goal margin.
