THE D AILY T ARGUM Volume 141, Number 42 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 29, 2009 INDEX The Rutgers men’s soccer team was shut out 3-0 by Villanova last night at Yurcak Field. Despite the loss, the Scarlet Knights still qualified for the Big East Tournament. THE RESOLUTION OF ANDREW MCMAHON Today: Partly cloudy High: 60 • Low: 44 Jack's Mannequin's frontman took the stage last week at the College Avenue Gym. Inside Beat took this chance to sit down with him and talk about the band and “Dear Jack.” ONLINE @ DAILYTARGUM.COM SPORTS UNIVERSITY OPINIONS ....... 10 DIVERSIONS ...... 12 CLASSIFIEDS ...... 14 SPORTS ...... BACK UNIVERSITY ....... 3 The Eagleton Institute of Politics held a day-long workshop for local high school students to encourage them to demonstrate leadership. Students endure burden of rising tuition rates at U.S. universities BY GREG FLYNN CORRESPONDENT The steepest climb in published tuition and fees at public four-year colleges in the last 30 years occurred in the past decade, Rutgers University included. After being hit hard with state budget cuts, four-year public colleges hoisted tuition and fees by an average of 6.5 percent last year, according to a report titled “Trends in College Pricing” released by College Board last week. Tuition and fees rose at an annual rate of 4.9 percent in infla- tion-adjusted dollars. In July, the University Board of Governors approved a resolution limiting tuition, fees and room and board raises to 3 percent, which came after tuition rose 8.5 percent last year and 7.8 the year before. “The goal of the University as a public institu- tion is to keep tuition as low as possible in order to attract students from a variety of backgrounds,” said Vice President for University Budgeting Nancy Winterbauer. She said the cap is only in place for one year, but the University is always looking for new ways to keep tuition low while promoting quality. The State Assembly implemented the cap into Gov. Jon S. Corzine’s recommended New Jersey budget bill. Hundreds counter Westboro Baptist Church protest BY JOHN S. CLYDE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Hundreds of students and community members stood together outside Rutgers Hillel yesterday and drowned out the voices of the Westboro Baptist Church protesting on the opposite side of College Avenue. “[Rutgers Hillel] was so happy with the turnout,” Hillel Student Board President Hilary Neher said. “We’re so happy that all of these people came out to stand with us against hate. [The counterprotest] was peaceful and it was tasteful, and that’s exactly what we wanted.” Six members of the Topeka, Kan., based group, known for protesting outside funerals of fallen American servicemen, protested at the corner of Mine Street and College Avenue with signs saying “God Hates You” and “Fag University.” The group arrived and left earlier than scheduled, and protested from about 8:15 until about 8:35 a.m. The protest had been scheduled to take place between 8:45 and 9:15 a.m. yesterday. Despite the early arrival and a rainy morn- ing, students lined both sides of College Avenue surrounding Rutgers Hillel, forcing the Westboro Baptist Church, which had planned to protest in front of the Hillel, to move across the street. Neher said the counterprotest was suc- cessful and united the community. “Everything that we did was completely on our terms,” said Neher, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “Nobody was looking at them, nobody was acknowledging them, everyone was focused [on Rutgers Hillel] and that’s exactly what we wanted.” Lt. J.T. Miller of the New Brunswick Police Department confirmed that the protest remained peaceful and there were no arrests. University officials estimated that more than 650 people attended the “Rutgers United Sam Weiner, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, thanks hundreds of University affiliates peacefully rallying against yesterday’s Westboro Baptist Church protest outside Rutgers Hillel. DAN BRACAGLIA/ MULTIMEDIA EDITOR Women find support, success in unique campus program BY ARIEL NAGI ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR More commonly known for its strong women and dedication to women’s leader- ship, Douglass is a campus composed of many identities and is one of the most unique college communities in the country. Douglass College, founded in 1918, is distinctive in many ways, campus Dean Harriet Davidson said. It attracts many women to the campus because of the Douglass Residential College tight-knit community, one of the only all-women com- munities in the nation. “Douglass is not only unique at Rutgers because it has retained its unique identity as a women’s campus, but it’s the only public research university that has a women’s com- munity like this,” Davidson said. DRC is open to all women on campus, whether they are first-year students or upper- classman, and traditional, nontraditional or transfer students, she said. DRC offers hands-on guaranteed intern- ships with alumnae, scholarships to study abroad, specialized advising and portfolio building for career opportunities, Davidson said. A lot of students are attracted to these different aspects of the campus. “We seem to have a lot of women that come to Rutgers that want to stay here, not because they don’t want to be around men, but they have a sense of the advan- tages here,” Davidson said. “There are women who are impressed by our statis- tics. We have really high-achieving women here.” Campus Identity Campus Identity SEE HUNDREDS ON PAGE 7 SEE WOMEN ON PAGE 8 School of Arts and Sciences juniors Georges Garcon, above, and Dina Hashem, and senior Nick Marinelli are the winners of last night's New Jersey Comedy Festival. All three will advance to the January finals against other students. MAYA NACHI/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER LAUGH OUT LOUD SEE STUDENTS ON PAGE 7
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The Rutgers men’ssoccer team was shutout 3-0 by Villanovalast night at YurcakField. Despite the loss,the Scarlet Knightsstill qualified for theBig East Tournament.
THE RESOLUTION OF ANDREW MCMAHONToday: Partly cloudy
High: 60 • Low: 44Jack's Mannequin's frontman took the stage last week at the College Avenue Gym.Inside Beat took this chance to sit down with him and talk about the band and “Dear Jack.”
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The Eagleton Institute of Politicsheld a day-long workshop for local high school students to encouragethem to demonstrate leadership.
Students endureburden of risingtuition rates atU.S. universities
BY GREG FLYNN CORRESPONDENT
The steepest climb in published tuition and fees atpublic four-year colleges in the last 30 years occurredin the past decade, Rutgers University included.
After being hit hard with state budget cuts,four-year public colleges hoisted tuition and feesby an average of 6.5 percent last year, according toa repor t titled “Trends in College Pricing”released by College Board last week. Tuition andfees rose at an annual rate of 4.9 percent in infla-tion-adjusted dollars.
In July, the University Board of Governorsapproved a resolution limiting tuition, fees androom and board raises to 3 percent, which cameafter tuition rose 8.5 percent last year and 7.8 theyear before.
“The goal of the University as a public institu-tion is to keep tuition as low as possible in order toattract students from a variety of backgrounds,”said Vice President for University BudgetingNancy Winterbauer.
She said the cap is only in place for one year, butthe University is always looking for new ways tokeep tuition low while promoting quality.
The State Assembly implemented the cap intoGov. Jon S. Corzine’s recommended New Jerseybudget bill.
Hundreds counter Westboro Baptist Church protestBY JOHN S. CLYDE
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Hundreds of students and communitymembers stood together outside RutgersHillel yesterday and drowned out the voicesof the Westboro Baptist Church protesting onthe opposite side of College Avenue.
“[Rutgers Hillel] was so happy with theturnout,” Hillel Student Board PresidentHilary Neher said. “We’re so happy that all ofthese people came out to stand with usagainst hate. [The counterprotest] waspeaceful and it was tasteful, and that’s exactlywhat we wanted.”
Six members of the Topeka, Kan., basedgroup, known for protesting outside funeralsof fallen American servicemen, protested atthe corner of Mine Street and CollegeAvenue with signs saying “God Hates You”and “Fag University.”
The group arrived and left earlier thanscheduled, and protested from about 8:15until about 8:35 a.m. The protest had been
scheduled to take place between 8:45 and9:15 a.m. yesterday.
Despite the early arrival and a rainy morn-ing, students lined both sides of CollegeAvenue surrounding Rutgers Hillel, forcingthe Westboro Baptist Church, which hadplanned to protest in front of the Hillel, tomove across the street.
Neher said the counterprotest was suc-cessful and united the community.
“Everything that we did was completelyon our terms,” said Neher, a School of Artsand Sciences senior. “Nobody was looking atthem, nobody was acknowledging them,everyone was focused [on Rutgers Hillel]and that’s exactly what we wanted.”
Lt. J.T. Miller of the New BrunswickPolice Department confirmed that theprotest remained peaceful and there were noarrests.
University officials estimated that morethan 650 people attended the “Rutgers United Sam Weiner, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, thanks hundreds of University affiliates
peacefully rallying against yesterday’s Westboro Baptist Church protest outside Rutgers Hillel.
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Women find support, success in unique campus programBY ARIEL NAGI
ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
More commonly known for its strongwomen and dedication to women’s leader-ship, Douglass is a campus composed ofmany identities and is one of the most uniquecollege communities in the country.
Douglass College, founded in 1918, isdistinctive in many ways, campus Dean
Harriet Davidson said. It attracts manywomen to the campus because of theDouglass Residential College tight-knitcommunity, one of the only all-women com-munities in the nation.
“Douglass is not only unique at Rutgersbecause it has retained its unique identity asa women’s campus, but it’s the only publicresearch university that has a women’s com-munity like this,” Davidson said.
DRC is open to all women on campus,whether they are first-year students or upper-classman, and traditional, nontraditional ortransfer students, she said.
DRC offers hands-on guaranteed intern-ships with alumnae, scholarships to studyabroad, specialized advising and portfoliobuilding for career opportunities, Davidsonsaid. A lot of students are attracted to thesedifferent aspects of the campus.
“We seem to have a lot of women thatcome to Rutgers that want to stay here,not because they don’t want to be aroundmen, but they have a sense of the advan-tages here,” Davidson said. “There arewomen who are impressed by our statis-tics. We have really high-achievingwomen here.”
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School of Arts and Sciences juniors Georges Garcon, above, and Dina Hashem, and senior Nick
Marinelli are the winners of last night's New Jersey Comedy Festival. All three will advance to the
January finals against other students.
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LAUGH OUT LOUD
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Several University studentsare encouraging local highschool students to becomeactive in politics and function asbetter leaders.
RU Ready, an initiative by theEagleton Institute of Politics,held a leadership training ses-sion Tuesday for NewBrunswick High School stu-dents on Douglass campus, saidRU Ready Program DirectorElizabeth Matto.
“The purpose of RU Ready isto reach out to the entire sen-ior class of New BrunswickHigh School and provide themwith the tools that they needand the encouragement thatthey need to be engaged intheir communities in the politi-cal process upon graduation,”she said.
Matto had University stu-dents go into New BrunswickHigh School classes threetimes throughout the year tospeak to and interact with stu-dents, she said. In these ses-sions, students par ticipated in discussions, debates and role-playing activities.
“We [have University stu-dents run the program] becausewe feel that the messages we tryto convey with RU Ready aregoing to be heard better by highschool students if they are com-
ing from college students whoare not that much older thanthey are,” Matto said.
A new component to RUReady is the leadership trainingsession held at the institute, shesaid. This program is designedto help students become moreefficient leaders.
“We are having them for theday to, first of all, applaud them[and] to help them explorewhat it means to be a leader,”Matto said. “[It is to] help themunderstand that even if you arenot the best public speaker —even if you are not terriblycharismatic, loud or outgoing— there are lots of ways thatyou can be a leader and exertleadership skills.”
In the training session, thehigh school students partici-pate in multiple activities tobecome better leaders in theircommunity, New BrunswickHigh School senior TalisaSanchez said. They work inter-actively on public speaking andtechniques to run meetingsmore ef fectively, such as mak-ing an agenda and taking minutes properly.
“We are doing the training toget an idea of how to run ourmeetings and how to incorporateeverything we learn in our clubs.What we learned today is going tohelp us become leaders in NewBrunswick High School,”Sanchez said.
The RU Ready Universityleaders spend countless hoursgetting ready for the sessionswith the high school students,School of Arts and Sciencesjunior Brendan Kaplan said.Assigned readings and weeklymeetings — often severalhours long — prepare theUniversity students for theleadership sessions.
“We do a lot of assigned read-ing that has to do with youthparticipation in politics and civicengagement among young peo-ple,” Kaplan said. “In addition,we do simulations ourselves forall the different programs weare going to run at least a fewtimes before we go into theclassrooms, so it is never us say-ing it for the first time.”
RU Ready hopes to encouragestudents to become active leadersin both their high school andcommunity, Matto said. The train-ing session provides the highschool students with a fun, inter-active way to learn leadershipskills they can bring back to theirown community.
“Our goal is to help the stu-dents become active in poli-tics,” Kaplan said. “If I can doone thing for them this year, Iwant them to understand com-ing out of the program thatpolitical behavior has conse-quences for their lives. [I] tryto empower the kids a little bitthat way.”
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The Rutgers Rugby Football Club, which recently enteredthe MARFU Premier League, travels to Delaware for agame at 7 p.m. against the Blue Hens.
The Unplugged Rutgers Board Game Club will be havingits weekly meeting at 7 p.m. at Room 174 in the BuschCampus Center. Come by to meet new people, chow downon food and try some board games that you have neverseen! They play everything from chess to “Last Night onEarth,” a zombie-survival horror game.
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2 The Livingston Campus Council will meet at 7:30 p.m. inRoom 113 of the Livingston Student Center. They holdweekly meetings.
The Latino Student Council’s Latino Heritage MonthOpening Ceremony will be held at 8 p.m. in Trayes Hall inthe Douglass Campus Center.
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Hoping to diminish the impactcareless drivers have on pedestri-ans, the Douglass GoverningCouncil passed a measureTuesday night that recommendsreinvigorating University trafficlaw enforcement.
Council External VicePresident Kate Barbour wrote theresolution to address the difficultypedestrians have crossing anystreet throughout campus due tothe negligence of drivers towardposted speed limits and traffic laws.
“People are not courteousdrivers: they don’t observe therules, they don’t respect pedestri-an’s right of way and it’s danger-ous,” said Barbour, a DouglassCollege senior.
This resolution aims to bringthis to the attention of theRutgers University PoliceDepartment, she said.
“Since these roads are priva-tized, it’s their responsibility toenforce the laws on them, andRutgers is also charged with pro-tecting students and the Universitycommunity,” Barbour said.
A car turning into a parkinggarage on Easton Avenue struckBarbour on Oct. 20 while she wasriding her bicycle. She receivedminor injuries.
The council discussed the“Resolution to Enforce the PostedCampus Speed Limits” on Oct. 13and passed it unanimously onOct. 27.
Barbour sent the resolution toLt. Kenneth Ackerman of theRUPD, Douglass CommunityPolicing Officer Jennifer Hammill,Cook Community Policing OfficerRichard McGilvery and Director of Transportation Services Jack Molenaar.
Transfer and non-traditionalstudents’ representative IrinaUshakov said the resolution reit-erates the council’s commitmentto a safe campus.
“There are clearly issues withpeople speeding through cross-walks [and] people making illegalturns at lights, and it has reallycome to our attention,” saidUshakov, a School of Arts andSciences junior.
Exceeding posted speed limitsand ignoring stop signs jeopardizesthe safety of pedestrians and driv-ers, according to the resolution.
The University is responsiblefor maintaining and enforcinglaws laid out for motorists on itsprivately-owned roadways onCook and Douglass campuses,and protecting the Universitycommunity and guests, accord-ing to the resolution.
University Senator ValerieWeiss said a crosswalk cop couldregularly patrol the intersectionof George Street and NickelAvenue to impose traffic laws andensure pedestrian safety.
Ushakov said an increasedpolice presence at certain keylocations during rush hourwould send the message to stu-dents and commuters.
“There’s rush hour in the mid-dle of the day and people drivethe same route every Tuesdayand every Wednesday,” Ushakovsaid. “If there was a police pres-ence there just once or twice amonth, those people would bereminded to drive safely.”
While discussing the aggres-sive state of many New Jersey driv-ers, Ushakov said drivers might bemore polite in other states becausepedestrian laws are more stringent.
Cops actively ticket jaywalkingin Seattle and San Francisco,while jaywalking is not targetedin New Jersey, Ushakov said.
Weiss said commuters shouldunderstand that as soon as they parktheir cars, they become pedestrians.
“Most students should under-stand while driving that they willeventually have to walk,” saidWeiss, a School of Arts andSciences sophomore.
Weiss and Ushakov said thecouncil aspires to garner supportfor the resolution from other cam-puses to bring light to the issue.
“It happens on all campuses,but this is what we can do on ourcampus, and we’d love to forward[this resolution] to the others,”Ushakov said.
DGC: Careless drivingwarrants U. investigation
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fees increased at an annual rateof 4.3 percent in inflation-adjust-ed dollars. The highest hike of 8percent occurred in 2003-2004.The lowest increase happenedduring 2000-2001.
School of Arts and Sciences jun-ior Joshua O’Neal said he has seenhis term bill swell over time andsaid rising tuition prices are thebiggest problem facing universities.
“Higher education pricesare kind of out of control,”O’Neal said.
In an e-mail correspon-dence, University ClinicalAssociate Professor of Financeand Economics John Longosaid tuition could continue toincrease at rates faster thaninflation for another couple ofdecades at private schools andperhaps three decades for public schools.
A breaking point would bereached for all but the top-rankedschools, he said.
“Consider a private schoolthat charges $40,000 per yearand has their average graduateearn $50,000 per year upongraduation,” Longo said.
“Assume the cost of attendinga four-year college willincrease at 5 percent per year,and inflation and the students’salary will increase at 3 per-cent per year.”
A private school that currentlycosts $40,000 a year will grow tocost $106,000 per year in 20years. The students’ startingsalary would grow to $90,000 peryear, Longo said. A student wouldwind up losing nearly half theirpre-tax income to service$400,000 plus in loans.
“The increased expenses forstudent loans may force them todelay other important purchases,such as that of a new home,”Longo said. “At this point itbecomes unsustainable, unlesssubstantial grants or scholarshipswere awarded to the studentreducing the loan amount.”
He said higher educationwould remain sustainable aslong as wealthy families canaf ford exorbitant collegeexpenses and the less well-offare willing to take on significantamounts of debt for the possibil-ity of superior job prospects andlearning experiences.
School of Arts and Sciencesjunior Jason Moreira said risingtuition is a problem but is moreintrigued by which issuesreceive priority in theUniversity’s budget.
“What I think is a biggerproblem is, where is the moneygoing? For instance, there’s adebate about whether weshould keep the libraries openlonger, whereas we somehowhave the money to expand thefootball stadium and do [a]myriad [of] other things,”Moreira said.
them the connection to oneanother that we all built here,”Getraer said. “Anything thatunites people, that brings peo-ple together and makes themfeel connected to one another isa positive thing.”
Across the street from theHillel the Second ReformedChurch hung rainbow coloredflags and large banners whichread “Love thy neighbor,”“Love your enemies,” “Let lovebe genuine” and “God is love.”
“We wanted big beautiful ban-ners to overpower their punyhate-filled banner,” said the Rev.Barbara Heck at RutgersProtestant Campus Ministries. “Ialmost have to thank WestboroBaptist Church for comingbecause it brought the campus
together in abeautiful way.”
Students heldsigns saying“God is Love”and “Coexist,”and spoke outagainst thegroup’s message.
“I wasn’tplanning oncoming becauseI thought itwould be best ifwe just ignored
the picketers because attentionis exactly what they want, but Idecided to come because I sawa lot of Rutgers students werecoming [and it was going to bea peaceful protest which iswhat was needed],” said ZaidAbuhouran, a School ofEnvironmental and BiologicalSciences sophomore.
Senior Dean of Students MarkSchuster said the group has a his-tory of seeking media attentionand he came out to supportRutgers Hillel to oppose mes-sages of hate.
“I was also there to supportthe [lesbian, gay, bisexual andtransgender] community as anopenly gay and proud LGBTadministrator,” Schuster said.
Rutgers College senior andBusch Campus CouncilPresident Shaival Shah said hesaw a group of students whowere united against hate, and itwas a good sign that WestboroBaptist Church left early.
“There’s so many dif ferentgroups that came togethertoday for the purpose of unitingagainst the hate that does existin this world,” said Sam Weiner,a School of Arts and Sciencessophomore. “It was an empow-ering site to see.”
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The economic climate ledthe University to consider a capbefore the state mandated one,Winterbauer said. TheUniversity prefers to develop itsown cap as the legislature willoften not take into account thecuts it has made to theUniversity’s budget.
“If the state were to provideus with adequate funding, wein fact could keep tuitionincreases low, but [the legisla-ture] is not providing us withthe funding we need and thenthey cap our tuition,”Winterbauer said.
The University does not havethe money it needs to provide forthe programs and servicesrequired, she said.
“I think political people inTrenton like to say that they kepttuition low, but what they’vetaken out of that equation is theydidn’t give [us] the funding thatwe need,” Winterbauer said.
Full-time in-state tuition at theUniversity for the 2009-2010school year is $9,546, and full-time out-of-state tuition is$20,456, which is $974 more thanlast year.
In the 2009-2010 academicyear, New Jersey had the secondhighest average published tuitionand fees for in-state students atpublic four-year colleges and uni-versities at $11,167, according tothe report.
In the academic years of1999-2000 and 2009-2010, theaverage University tuition and
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Against Hate” rally, SeniorDirector of Media Relations GregTrevor said.
The counterprotest featuredperformances by student a cap-pella groups Deep Treble, KolHalayla and Shockwave, jointinterfaith and diversity state-ments, and recitations of theUniversity’s fight song.
“I’m amazed and grateful,”Executive Director of RutgersHillel Andrew Getraer said. “Youjust saw people from everyaspect of the campus comingtogether, and I think that’s whatit’s all about.”
The Universityhas the thirdlargest Jewish pop-ulation of any cam-pus in America,said Getraer of whyhe thinks thegroup protestednear Rutgers Hillel.
“The impetusfor the trip wasKosherfest. Wewere stopping atthe colleges andhigh schools of New Jersey andRutgers because they wereraised on a lie,” said MeganPhelps-Roper, the granddaugh-ter of the group’s founder andpastor Fred Phelps. “We’re toinject a little truth into thisinsane orgy of fag lies.”
The group protested at NewBrunswick Public High Schoolprior to coming to the University.
About 30 counterprotesterswere present during the protest,Miller said.
“We finished at NewBrunswick High a couple min-utes early so we decided to getout here and get [started],”Phelps-Roper said.
The group has protested inmore than 41,000 locations,according to its Web site.
Jael Phelps, a granddaughterof Fred Phelps, said the counter-protest was similar to the othersshe has been to.
“We’re not trying to convertanybody. We’re not trying toget anybody on our side. Thisis the typical showing,” JaelPhelps said.
Across the University studentswore red today in opposition tothe Westboro Baptist Church.
“Hopefully [members of thecommunity] will carry with
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University a capella groups, including Deep Treble, Shockwave andKol Halayla, perform while hundreds counterprotest in the rain.
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HUNDREDS: U. unites
in red at counterprotest
“If the state were toprovide us with
adequate funding,we in fact could
keep tuitionincreases low ...” NANCY WINTERBAUER
University BudgetingVice President
“You just saw people from
every aspect of the campus
coming together ...” ANDREW GETRAER
Executive Director of Rutgers Hillel
School of Arts and Sciencesfirst-year student Allison Colesaid she loves everything aboutthe campus.
“Douglass is just wonderful,”Cole said.
There are a number of nega-tive stereotypes about Douglasswomen, ranging from the “man-hating” campus to the radicalfeminists, Davidson said.
“Any woman that hasexpressed interest in women’sissues has been labeled a man-hater, and I don’t know why westill think that, because most peo-ple, if you ask them, they supportwomen’s rights,” she said. “Yet assoon as you say something aboutwomen’s issues, they say some-thing derogatory.”
Diaz said shecame across a fewpeople who havemade negativecomments aboutDouglass campus.
“I think it’skind of silly. …The girls aren’teven that radical,”she said. “It’s notthat serious. It’snot like we’re
going to go hunt you downbecause you’re a man.”
Davidson said the Douglasscommunity continues to reachout to other people in theUniversity community to try toerase any negative stereotypesabout the campus.
She said many of the dormson the campus are coed, so shedoes not understand why peoplestill label the campus as preju-diced against men.
“There’s nothing here aboutman-hating,” Davidson said. “Thisis about having women equality,having women leadership.”
Not all of the women onDouglass are feminists orwomen’s and gender studiesmajors or minors, she said. Thecampus is diverse, and a lot ofpeople in the University do notrecognize that.
But the Douglass communityalso comes together regardless oftheir differences, Davidson said.
“It also is scattered becausethe majors are so scattered,” shesaid. “But when you come at theend to some of our events in thesenior year, like the senior brunchand our convocation, everyonereally feels like a Douglasswoman. And that’s really part ofthe strength of this group.”
Diaz said more women shouldconsider joining DRC.
“I just feel like if you’re a girlon campus, you should joinDRC,” she said. “There are justso many opportunities here.”
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Although the merging of theliberal art colleges eliminatedDouglass College, DRC has keptthe women’s community alive,she said. Five of the seven resi-dence halls on the campus arestill all women.
There are 11 living-learningcommunities on the campus,where women live in residencehalls with other women who are inthe same program and take a classin the residence hall, Davidsonsaid. Some of the living-learningcommunities travel as well.
“These 11 living-learning housesprovide a really won-derful experience ofwhat we call integra-tive learning … itgives you the senseof studying with agroup and workingtogether … so it cre-ates a tight-knitc o m m u n i t y , ”Davidson said.
School of Arts and Sciencessophomore Sherylene Diaz, aDRC student, said she lovesDouglass because of the variousliving-learning houses offered.
She lives in the SpanishLanguage House in JamesonResidence Hall, also known as theGlobal Village.
“The dorms are so peaceful andthe girls on Douglass are so united,”Diaz said. “Most of them are verygoal-oriented and determined.”
She said although the campus isnot as exciting as the action-packedCollege Avenue campus, Douglasshas more of a home-like setting.
“It’s so peaceful. That’s what Ilove about Douglass,” Diaz said.“I feel like when I come home, Iwould want to come home to apeaceful environment.”
She said the opportunities forwomen’s leadership offered onDouglass are not offered in thesame capacity anywhere else.
“I feel like there are so manyopportunities for Douglass girls,”Diaz said. “That’s why I chose tolive here.”
Davidson said these living-learn-ing communities establish closerelationships among the women liv-ing on the campus, especiallybecause the University is so large.
“I think that there’s a sensefrom some women that they real-ly just want the small communityin the large University, and that’sa wonderful thing because alarge university can be kind ofoverwhelming,” Davidson said.
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“I think it’s kind of silly. ... The girls
aren’t even that radical.” SHERYLENE DIAZ
Douglass Residential College student
movie premiere?” sit adja-cent to one another. Whenyou navigate over to “mostpopular,” “Kate Gosselintalks remarriage … In about40 years” appears at the verytop, even trumping “Bestand worst states for H1N1flu vaccine info.”
It is difficult to say, how-ever, if standards of the news industry are slippingor if it is our own values which have plummeted.Are we fueling the media’s fire with what we read orare they fueling ours with what they publish? Theideas of what is worth publishing could have simplybeen readjusted to cater to our strange infatuationwith celebrities and reality television stars, or KateGosselin news may have sparked our interest justbecause it’s being run at the top of the page. It’s achicken and the egg scenario, and we may never beable to solve it.
It seems that whether you are using up yourpleasure reading credits on a Targum column,Google News or Dan Brown, you’re taking a similarrisk. Brown may have devoted five years longer to
his preliminary research than I havefor this column, but you still may notlike what he as to say or the way hehas to say it. Likewise, Google Newsmay give the appearance of a siteintent on bringing you the best ofthe best, but you will have to drudgethrough some tabloid pieces theretoo in your quest to find somethingmore laudable.
I know this is not your “Field ofDreams.” I did not write this under
the presumption that you have been waiting allyou life to read it, nor did I suspect that it mightbring you profound change. I did not even go asfar as to assume that if I write it, you or someonesitting next to you on the bus, a very bored persondoing the crossword puzzle in your class or evena single person who picks the Targum up todaywill read it.
I’m fairly convinced that no one can be as certainas that voice was out in the cornfield when he toldKevin Costner’s character, “If you build it, he willcome.” I certainly doubt that Jon or Kate Gosselincould have foreseen their coveted spot as “mostpopular” atop the Google News page. So, just maybeyou’ll get stumped by the crossword today, needsomething else to do and stumble across this.
Larissa Klein is a School of Arts and Sciencesjunior. Her column “Definition of Insanity” runson alternate Thursdays. She welcomes feedbackat [email protected].
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aged to find its way ontothe back of the Diversionspage. On days when thecrossword puzzle getsextracted from the rest ofthe paper as the only hopeof salvation from yourtedious classes, there too remains some hope forthe column. Maybe you’ll finish your“Wonderword” and your crossword puzzle orbecome hopelessly stuck on both and go insearch of another distraction, which brings you tounfold the sheet and turn over to the column.
This fortunate little column will attempt to notbore you into concentrating on the lecture beinggiven by the professor at the head of the room. Itmay not be a hard-hitting news story or a touchingtale of a charity event, but it should help to pass thetime just as well. Once you look up at the chalk-board full of equations you don’t want to hearexplained, you rarely feel your two minutes devotedto skimming the column was wasted; in fact, youmay even be grateful for the extraseconds of mind-numbing entertain-ment the piece provides.
Perhaps you would rather not getyour hands dirty with the residue ofThe Daily Targum ink or bother withthe inflated and impetuous writingsof a pitiable, unpaid columnist.Instead, you may choose to explorethe cavernous depths of the WorldWide Web for something worth read-ing. Certainly, as college studentswith so much required reading to do, any extraneoustexts are tightly constrained by a strict personalquota and every bit better merit your attention.
Maybe you go for Google News, which com-piles articles from a variety of sources and desig-nates 10 categories for your reading pleasure: topstories, world, U.S., business, sci/tech, entertain-ment, sports, health, spotlight and most popular.Where else but through a database can you remaincommitted to finding only the most newsworthystories from an upstanding, unbiased and all-encompassing source?
Unfortunately, there may not be an answer tothat question. Even with Google News pullingwhat they deem to be the best from a wide rangeof otherwise less than objective papers, they tooseem to be deviating from the once high standardson newsworthiness.
Under “top stories,” the headlines “As NASAtests new rocket, long-range mission remainsunclear” and “Will Michael Jackson attend his own
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Don’t judge a Kindle by its cover
I magine you go into a library hoping to check out your favorite bookor open an encyclopedia to do research, only to find that half thebooks in the library were scrapped for an electronic device. That is
what students at Cushing Academy, a boarding school near Boston, expe-rienced. Recently, the school decided to scrap the idea of books in itsattempt to introduce a new fad in the sphere of publishing. We have allheard of the decreasing trend in paper media, however, this has only justasked the question of new media entering the market of book publishing.
Cushing Academy is the very model of such modern transforma-tion. The venerable school has begun its elimination of physical text,and in lieu has chosen the newly-popular Kindle electronic reader.According to USA Today, the school has chosen to forsake the palpa-ble aspect of the library, and instead introduced a “cyber café.” Whilethis new scheme of digital media may aid the shopper-friendly Websites instantly sell e-books, it also has the ability to destroy the veryessence of traditional learning, be it high school or collegiate.
The school in question is an institution for very privileged children.It may have the financial means to put forth such a large operation,however, this may be a problem for many public or private schools. Thisdisassociation from the general idea of pre-collegiate education couldpotentially put the graduates of Cushing Academy into a social and edu-cational disadvantage. No institution of higher learning would adapt tothis newly-founded system of reading and learning. Most colleges,including those targeted by kids who attend private schools, have thetendency of retaining the values of their forefathers. ColumbiaUniversity, a member of the Ivy League, would not desert the idea oflibraries in exchange for additional cafes and hang-out spots. It wouldaim to retain the traditionalism within the foundation of the school.
While perhaps a large portion of Rutgers students only visits thelibrary for its abundance of computers, graduates of Cushing Academywould have no choice but to resort to this electronic source. The writ-ten word would essentially have absolutely no meaning in their under-graduate or graduate careers. Tons of dusty books would be leftuntouched and therefore unlearned, leaving only the thought of all thatlost information. Surely, scholars would attempt to transfer the billionsof books into one Kindle, but would they also bring along the essenceof the written — the physically present — word?
To address the more sentimental side of matters, a Kindle e-readerwould simply take away from the traditional book-reading experience. Thefeel of paper as one flips through the book would be lost, along with theemotional attachment to a certain book. If technology progresses as itrecently has, we might attain affections for .doc or .pdf files. The idea of a“favorite book” could disappear, or only be retained by the older membersof society. The children of people who grew up with books would be leftdisconnected from values taught by these objects of knowledge.
Our memories of book projects and research assignments in schoolcould soon be based on intangible sources of information such as theInternet and now Kindle. The idea of reading a book on a rainy daymight disappear. Instead, our children may be looking forward todrinking coffee and reading their Kindles at the local coffee shop.Perhaps that is a thought not far away from contemporary times.
Think about the idea of reading T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” orJames Joyce’s “Ulysses” on a lit-up electronic screen. Imagine a class-room full of students who happily, ignorantly, study the presence ofrealism in contemporary literature.
The easiness of portability and cost of a newly programmed Kindlemay be the attraction for most. The idea being impregnated is that astechnology advances, one should not lag behind with his or her printedbook or old Kindle. The update will always come due to the large num-ber of soon to be moderately paid programmers. A consumer Americawould always opt out for the new, more marketed piece of technology,and perhaps that is where modern society goes wrong. While the oldand established might be a source of weakness in society, the thoughtof books retains its qualities of knowledge and education. It may be theonly thing present today to have come from the past and to have heldits position for that long. Works from as far back as “Beowulf” to as con-temporary as “Harry Potter” have been written or printed on paper, andif justice had its way, these pieces would remain there.
An opponent of such burial of technology might argue that Kindle issimply a part of a developing world, however, The Daily Targum is notconvinced. The image of a young child reading “Where the Wild ThingsAre” or a Rutgers University student reading “Don Quixote” brings acertain feeling of trust in an ever-developing society. Maybe this is justan idea of an ageing generation, the last to praise books, but maybe thethought of a library full of Kindles is truly a picture painted by econo-mists and programmers. Cushing Academy, Rutgers University andany other institution of education has been based on books long beforethe beasts of technology showed up, and it should stay that way.
“There’s so many different groups that came together today for the purpose of
uniting against the hate that does exist in this world.It was an empowering sight to see.”
Sam Weiner, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, on the counterprotest held against the Westboro Baptist Church
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resisters, he refused to abandonthe country of his birth to emi-grate to Israel or the UnitedStates. To leave, he felt, wouldbe a capitulation to the sameracist attitudes, which hadinspired the Nazi Holocaust. ForEdelman, living out the rest ofhis years in his native Poland, toexist was to resist.
And resist he did. Edelmanremained active in politics,speaking out against the injus-tices of the Stalinist regime,which took power after the war.
For his refusal to be silent,Edelman was even jailed for atime. When the Stalinist govern-ment asked him to speak at 1983commemoration of the Uprising,Edelman refused. To speak at theevent, he said, “would be an actof cynicism and contempt” in acountry “where social life is dom-inated throughout by humiliationand coercion.”
Edelman believed that it washis duty to speak out againstinjustice wherever it existed,with no exceptions. In later life,Edelman noted with dismaythat the Israeli government,
falsely claiming to act in thename of the entire Jewish peo-ple, was engaging in oppressivebehavior of its own. Foundedon land seized after 800,000 for-mer Palestinian residents hadbeen violently expelled — tothis day denied the right toreturn — Israel has no fewerthan 30 laws which bestowrights upon Jewish citizens thatare denied to Palestinians.Edelman resented the mannerin which the oppression experi-enced by Jews was now offeredas a justification for the oppres-sion of another people andremained a vocal defender ofPalestinian rights to the end.For his insistence on moralconsistency, Edelman, despitehis heroism, has been largelyignored or denounced by manyIsraeli historians.
Westboro Baptist Churchmay be a tiny fringe group. Buttheir beliefs — that those who donot conform to their warpedvision of a homogeneous, totali-tarian world must be pushed tothe margins of society — aredangerous. Like MarekEdelman, we must take a standagainst oppression. Like MarekEdelman, we must not be afraidto speak out — and to act —even as others urge us to besilent. And like Marek Edelman,we must refuse to oppose somemanifestations of bigotry only toendorse or ignore others.
Abraham Greenhouse is a 2005alumnus of University College,where he majored in history.
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Ignorance is not your friend
T hey may seem like ahandful of idiots, if par-ticularly obnoxious
ones. It is tempting to justignore them. Unfor tunately,history has proven time andagain that even the most out-landish ideologies of hate canrapidly evolve into somethingthat extends far beyond merewords. Likewise, mere wordsare an insuf ficient means ofresponding to those whowould incite the world to hate.We cannot af ford to wait untildemagogues — even those asridiculous as the WestboroBaptist Church — become too powerful.
No one understood this betterthan Marek Edelman. The lastsurviving leader of the WarsawGhetto Uprising, Edelman died atthe age of 90 only weeks ago. Bythe time resisters began theiruprising — the idea of such astruggle having been resisted bymost of the Ghetto population —it was too late to win, but theyfought anyway. As Edelman putit, “We fought simply not to allowthe Germans alone to pick thetime and place of our deaths.”Fighting impossible odds, theuprising lasted only a few weeks,but succeeded in striking a star-tling blow to the Nazi warmachine, no doubt saving manyinnocent lives.
Edelman survived the war,but unlike many of his fellow
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out againstinjustice wherever
it existed ...”
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fight it,” Haslam said. “If Coachdoes tell me to go to left tackle likethat, it’s an opportunity.”
Haslam returned to right tack-le, the spot where he has spentthe last two years of his career,but his versatility on the linethroughout his time at RU provesto be invaluable.
“Kevin’s one of my bestfriends, and we’ve been here for
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Senior Kevin Haslam has started at both guard and tackle posi-tions on the offensive line over the past two seasons.
DAVID PAL
Junior Yannick Salmon came closest to scoring for Rutgerswhen his shot rolled off the crossbar early in the second half.
because they’re so good at sittingback and cutting off passes. Ifyou can’t catch them on thecounter, they’re going to be diffi-cult to score against.”
Nova’s Chris Christian addedinsult to injury with an 82ndminute penalty after RU’s sopho-more goalkeeper Alex Morganstripped Lawrence inside the box.
“This is the game we neededto win, and it was pretty obvious
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five years and we’ve watchedeach other grow, and his poten-tial is through the roof,” said sen-ior center and team captain RyanBlaszczyk. “He’s really come intohis own on the right side and he’sso versatile. He can play any posi-tion on the offensive line. He’sreally grown.”
It isn’t just Haslam that pro-vides versatility on the line, how-ever. Every starter on either sideof Blaszczyk has game experi-ence at other positions.
Davis came into the rotationas a right guard, sophomoreleft guard Art Forst got his
star t at right guard, juniorHoward Barbieri plays bothguard spots and center andHaslam played it all.
“I think it’s a theme withRutgers linemen,” Haslam said.“If you look in the past, other line-men have played multiple posi-tions as well and I think it’s justimportant to learn every positionjust to know what everybody’sdoing on the field.
“All you really need to know istackle and guard. Left side orright side is just a matter of howyou feel. If you just know bothpositions, it gives you a betterfeel for the game.”
For Haslam, whereverSchiano and offensive line coachKyle Flood ask him to go iswhere he wants to play. Tackle istackle and it does not matterwhich side he’s on, just wherehe’s comfortable.
“Where I’ve been thelongest,” Haslam said on wherehe prefers to play. “It’s not that Ireally want to play this specificposition. Anybody will say thatwhen they’ve been there for awhile, they would say they’remore used to it.”
Opponents often attackHaslam on the line because theyhave the choice of him or Davis— a consensus All-Big East tack-le last season — but the fifth-yearsenior said that he’s OK with thatand welcomes the challenge.
Ask the running backs andHaslam blocks just as well as Davis.
“Everyone talks about AD asthe big blocker, but I’m just ascomfortable running behindHaslam,” sophomore runningback Joe Martinek said. “Hehelps open up big holes on theright side of the field for all of therunning backs.”
that a few guys were justfatigued from the week,” Salmonsaid. “I think a lot of the guyswere tired, and that caught upwith us tonight.”
The Knights still have theopportunity to finish the regularseason with a win when they hostUSF Saturday at home.
“We were abysmal [lastnight] at the worst time,” Reassosaid. “It was a horrible effort allthe way down the line thatlacked effort, competitivenessand fighting spirit. We want towin a ball game [Saturday], butwe’re just destroyed over thisand it’s very disappointing.”
Junior forward Karla Schacher leads all non-injured ScarletKnights with 13 points on five goals and three assists.
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The Knights did not play WestVirginia this season but pulledout a dramatic 1-0 win over theMountaineers last season. At thetime, West Virginia was the No.13 team in the country.
Though West Virginia failedto garner a national ranking thisseason, they have been a solidteam this decade, earning a bidto the Sweet Sixteen in the NCAATournament in 2007.
The Knights are trying tobounce back this year after adisappointing showing in lastyear’s tournament.
A third-place finish in BigEast last season had the Knightstraveling to Milwaukee where
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they lost to Marquette 1-0 in thequarterfinal round of the confer-ence tournament.
The 2008 Knights had anequally, if not more depletedroster than this year’s team. ButRU went on to make it to theSweet Sixteen, where they lost1-0 to Stanford.
Crooks sees no reason whyhis team this year cannot topthat success.
“I think with what we’ve gonethrough already this season, aless strong, less resilient teammight not be able to deal with itthe way we have,” he said. “We’velearned a lot about each otherover the last two years, and thebiggest thing I’ve learned is thatwe don’t make excuses, we don’tbelabor the fact that we don’thave everyone in our fold. Whatwe do is we deal with it and wemove on.”
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J unior Charlie Rigogliosoreturned to the Rutgersmen’s basketball team
after playing for the school as afreshman before transferringto Moravian College, but mustsit out because of NCAA trans-fer rules.
“It feels like my freshmanyear again, even though I havetwo more years of basketballunder my belt,” Rigogliososaid. “I like being the under-dog and trying to work myway up. I like being lost in thebig school.”
THE RUTGERS VOLLEY-BALL team faces the statistical-ly best and worst teams of theBig East this weekend.
The Scarlet Knights travelto Chicago to take on DePaulSaturday at 3 p.m. and thenSouth Bend, Ind., to take on theIrish — the only team left unde-feated in conference play.
For full coverage, seetomorrow’s edition of TheDaily Targum.
THE RUTGERS SWIMMINGand diving team takes onConnecticut and Villanova thisFriday and Saturday at a tri-meet in Storrs, Conn.
For full coverage, see tomor-row’s edition of the Targum.
THE RUTGERS WOMEN’Sbasketball team holds its annu-al media day today at the LouisBrown Athletic Center.
For full coverage, see tomor-row’s edition of the Targum.
ANDRE AGASSI, AN eight-time Grand Slam winner in ten-nis, admitted to using crystalmeth in his book “Open: AnAutobiography.”
Agassi said he used thedrug in 1997 along with hisassistant, Slim, who was aknown drug user. Later, whenAgassi failed a drug test, heblamed Slim and said he dranka spiked soda.
A PHILADELPHIA WOMANtook a page out of “It’s AlwaysSunny in Philadelphia,” using aform of “the World Seriesdefense” in pleading not guiltycharges of offering sex forWorld Series tickets.
Susan Finkelstein’s lawyersaid she is “a nice lady over-come with Phillies fever.”
Finkelstein posted ads onCraigslist, but never explicitlyoffered sex, her lawyer said.Undercover police arrestedFinkelstein when they met ata bar.
FORMER NBA REFEREETim Donaghy was set torelease a tell-all book, “Blowingthe Whistle: The Culture ofFraud in the NBA,” but the pub-lisher cancelled it.
Donaghy remains in jail,part of a 15-month prison sen-tence for trading inside NBAtips, sometimes involvinggames he called, in exchangefor thousands of dollars froma gambler.
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The Rutgers men’s golf teamcan make a statement this weekendwhen it travels to Pine Needles Golf
Club forthe inau-gural BigE a s tM a t c hP l a ye v e n t .
Coming off of a ninth place finish inlast year’s Big East Championship,the Scarlet Knights aim to cap offtheir fall slate in style and carrymomentum into the spring season.
“I think whatever wins we canrack up at the Pine Needles …will go a long way to showing the
other schools and even our-selves that Rutgers can be one ofthe elite teams,” said coachJason Bataille.
None of RU’s players compet-ed in a match play event in col-lege, but the change in formatcould be beneficial.
Unlike in stroke play, scoresfrom each hole do not carry overin match play. As a result, streakyplay is sometimes rewardedsince one bad hole cannot mar anentire round.
“Anything can happen inmatch play,” said senior captainJordan Gibbs. “It’s not necessarilythe best team is going to win eachday so [the] potential for an upsetis much bigger. Any given day wecan play with the best teams.”
In preparation for the tourna-ment, Bataille split the squad intotwo units to face off against oneanother for the Rutgers Cup. Asimulation of the Ryder Cup, thepractice served to give theKnights a taste of head-to-headplay, as well as alternate shot andscramble match play formats. Italso helped create excitement dur-ing the two and a half week layofffrom the team’s seventh place fin-ish at the Connecticut Cup.
“Anytime you’re competingagainst your friend it’s alwayssomething a little extra special,”Bataille said.
Senior Jimmy Arbes said theevent serves as a gauge to meas-ure the progress he and his team-mates made since last season.
“We definitely take our seed-ing in Big East very seriously. Ithink if we can do well in thistournament, it would be a hugeconfidence booster given that it isthe hardest field that we’ve facedthis fall.”
Play begins Friday inSouthern Pines, N.C., at the7,015 yard Pine Needles GolfClub, which played host to the2001 U.S. Women’s Open.Defending Big East championLouisville is the conference’smodel program and will be thefavorite, Bataille said.
“It’s very important to com-pete in the Big East and that’sone of my top priorities — to be one of the best teams in theBig East.”
Ultimate tournament to gauge fall progress
BIG EASTMATCH PLAY, SATURDAY
MEN’S GOLF
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The Rutgers tennis teamwrapped up the fall season this
w e e k e n dwith its
biggest competition of the year atthe ITA Regionals.
The event was marked bygreat comebacks and upsets forthe Scarlet Knights in both sin-gles and doubles play.
Junior Amy Zhang and sopho-more Jennifer Holzberg repre-sented the Knights in singlesplay. Zhang, who was seeded inthe main draw, prevailed overBuffalo’s Adi Petrova (6-3, 4-6, 6-3), but later fell to Yale’s JessieRhee, 6-3, 6-0.
“I’ve seen Amy play better tennisand I’m sure she’s a little disap-pointed,” head coach Ben Buccasaid. “But nevertheless she compet-ed hard and put out a great effort.”
Down early against RhodeIsland’s Kiersten Leikem,
Holzberg mastered a terrificcomeback to take the match anddefeat Leikem 2-6, 6-3, 6-0.
“That was a great win forJennifer because she started outwhere she was clearly not playingto the level she was capable of,”Bucca said. “She stayed patientand competitive and worked herway into the match and eventual-ly started playing to her level,and that is when she dominatedher opponent.”
She later fell to Hilary Bartlettof Princeton, 3-6, 2-6.
Zhang faced Rhee again, asher and Holzberg fell to the dou-bles team of Yale’s Rhee andSarah Lederhandler 9-7.
Senior Katherine Arlakteamed up with sophomoreMorgan Ivey to pull off a hugeupset against Jesse Adler andSara Leonard of Dartmouth 8-5.
“I think we’ve gotten morecomfortable with playing witheach other and I think that defi-nitely showed this weekend,
because we were more familiarwith each other’s game,” Iveysaid. “We could feel each otherout on the court and I think itworked really well.”
The duo ended up falling toAlex Kelleher and OlgaKhmylev of Boston College 8-5in the next round.
“On a better day, we could’vedefinitely beaten them, but weplayed well and it’s not like weplayed badly, they just outplayedus a little bit,” Ivey said.
For Arlak, the weekend wasbittersweet because it marked thelast time she took part in the ITARegionals since she is graduatingat the end of the spring.
“I went in thinking my firstmatch that this could be my lastmatch of the fall so I played ashard as I could,” Arlak said.“And I played as well as I couldso I’m happy with whateverresults this weekend.”
On the other hand, it wasIvey’s first time in the ITAs.
“I found myself actuallymore excited than ner vousbecause I realized what anopportunity this was,” she said.“It was the last tournament ofthe fall and we’re not going toplay again for a few months, soI was just really excited to goout there,”
RU kicked off the fall seasonwith a successful scrimmageagainst Long Island, had somegreat showings in the Brown andUnited States Tennis AcademyInvitationals and won all of itsmatches in last week’s scrim-mage against Columbia.
Despite the team’s successfulfall run, Arlak said there is alwaysroom to do better.
“I know this team wants to doreally well this spring, better thanour results last year, so there’salways room for improvement,”she said.
RU won’t be back in actionuntil Jan. 31 against Big Eastfoe Syracuse.
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Targum Sports Editor Matthew Stein chatswith the redshirt freshman tight end aboutroad-tripping with Marvin Booker, doing
the Dirty Bird and being “the guy” ...
Matthew Stein: What was D.C. Jefferson like in highschool?D.C. Jefferson: D.C. Jefferson was the guy; he defi-nitely was the guy, playing quarterback. I’m justtelling you how it is — excited about everythingand being the guy to make the play.
MS: What’s your favorite position to play, offensive-ly or defensively?D.C.: I only played quarterback. I played defen-sive end in Pop Warner; that was fun. I like to hitpeople, so I got a kick out of that.
MS: What’s one thing about D.C. Jefferson wewouldn’t know?D.C.: I like to draw. Anything, I just draw.
MS: Which teammate would you go on a road tripwith and where would you go?D.C.: Marvin Booker. We were here together whenwe first got here and we’re close now. I would takehim to Florida, show him a good time. People thereare more laid back and friendly, they have a goodtime wherever you go.
MS: What Nickelodeon character are you?D.C.: Squidward. I’m just different.
MS: Who would play you in a movie and whatwould that be about?D.C.: Jamie Foxx. It would be a football movie,called “D.C. Jefferson.” From right to left.
MS: What’s your favorite thing from the GreaseTrucks?D.C.: The “Fat Homo.”
MS: What’s the name of your fantasy team?D.C.: I don’t have a fantasy team. I’m not big onvideo games. My free time is spent socializing.
MS: If you were a McDonald’s item what would yoube?D.C.: The “Big Mac.”
MS: Say there was no excessive celebration rule incollege football, what would your end zone cele-bration be?D.C.: I would do the Dirty Bird, old-school AtlantaFalcons style.
MS: From being on the campus itself, what makesRutgers better than other colleges you visited?D.C.: I would say the diversity. There are all differ-ent types of people here.
MS: What’s your favorite other Rutgers sport toattend?D.C.: Men’s lacrosse. I’ve been to a couple ofgames, so I would say that’s one I would like toattend.
MS: Cash, credit or RU Express?D.C.: Cash.
MS: What’s your favorite piece of gear given toyou by the football program?D.C.: The Rutgers beanies that we get. I lovethose.
Up-tempo style new wrinkle in ’09BY STEVEN MILLER
CORRESPONDENT
If one thing is different for theRutgers men’s basketball team
this sea-son, it is
the offensive tempo.Head coach Fred Hill Jr. and
players stressed the team’semphasis on running the floor ina fast-paced, transition offenseyesterday at the Scarlet Knights’media day.
“You’re going to see a differ-ent style of play — the way we’vealways wanted to play,” Hill said.“We want to get up and down, wewant to play like North Carolina.But you need talent and depth tobe able to do that.”
After a season when theKnights averaged 63 points pergame and were held under 50points six times, Hill expects amore productive offensive gamewith six new faces.
“We’re going to play a stylethat is much more conducive toscoring and much more effi-cient,” the fourth-year headcoach said. “That is part of usmoving forward. I think whatyou’ll see is a much more explo-sive offensive team.”
Defensively, Hill does not planon making many changes. TheKnights will press more, a depar-ture from Hill’s traditional belief.
“I’m not a big pressing guy,but we will add that to our reper-toire,” he said.
But the offensive tempo willstart on defense, where Hill countson a healthy senior center HamadyN’Diaye. The Dakar, Senegal nativestruggled with a back injury lastyear after he finished 10th in thenation in blocks as a sophomore.
“I think we’re going to getback the H that we need to have,”Hill said. “As a shot blocker andrebounder, he is going to ignite
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Junior tranfer James Beatty ran an up-tempo offense while at JuniorCollege, which will benefit Rutgers as it adapts to a similar style.
our break from the defensivepoint of view.”
THE KNIGHTS HAVE NOTsettled on a starting lineup orrotation yet.
“We’re still evaluating each andevery day and we change our teamseach and every day,” Hill said.“What I do have the luxury of doingis we’re two-deep at every position.”
Point guard is one of thosetwo-deep positions where a battleto start is taking place. JuniorMike Coburn and junior-college
transfer James Beatty expect toshare time at the spot.
Coburn arrived at RU as a scor-ing guard but changed his stylewhen sophomore Mike Rosarioarrived last season. Beatty is amore traditional point guard.
“[Coburn] still likes to score,but he did a great job this sum-mer in developing a pass first,score second mentality,” Hill said.“I think James brings the naturalability of a pass-first point guard.He really sees the floor andunderstands the game.”
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D.C. Jefferson is 6-foot-6 and245 pounds, but his focus is onthe little things.
About two months ago, theredshirt freshman switched fromquarterback to tight end. Havingno experience at the position,everything was brand new.
But seven games into the sea-son, things are starting to slowdown for Jefferson.
“It’s pretty much the smallstuff [that I’m working on now],”Jefferson said. “I’ve got the bigpicture down, but there are allthe little things I have to get usedto doing. I’m pretty confidentwith what I have to do, but I stillhave to get better.”
Jefferson made a splash in hisdebut against Howard, pulling ina 48-yard reception. AgainstFlorida International a weeklater, he added a 35-yard catch.
Since then, Jefferson has justone catch for three yards.
“When you play a position foronly a month and a half or two,there are going to be ups anddowns,” said head coach GregSchiano. “He is going to be agreat tight end — there is nodoubt in my mind. There is awant to, and there is a physical
ability to. When you have thosetwo things, it is going to happen.”
Jefferson’s toughest gamewas Friday against Army.
The Winter Haven, Fla.,native dropped a pass and wascalled for a holding penalty thatnegated a 12-yard run.
“He is frustrated in that heknows he can do it and he hasdone it,” Schiano said. “Now, itis just a matter of doing it con-sistently. There is not a doubtin my mind that he will do that.If you look at him, that is what[tight ends] are suppose tolook like.”
AFTER PULLING AHEAD OFother receivers in terms of play-ing time, making two catches for48 yards last week, true fresh-man receiver Mark Harrison hasanother tough battle on hishands for Connecticut — the bat-tle for tickets.
Harrison, a native ofStratford, Conn., wants to get allof the tickets he can for theRutgers football team’s visit toEast Hartford so his family canwatch him play.
“It’s going to be exciting. Ican’t wait,” Harrison said. “It’skind of tough, but a lot of peopleknow I’m from Connecticut, sothey’re kind of helping me out alittle bit.”
Harrison began his collegesearch as a low-level recruit, butafter he blew up at a local campwith a 4.38 40-yard dash, his sizeand speed made him a big-nameguy overnight.
True freshman quarterbackTom Savage, who knows a littlesomething about being a big-name recruit, said that his ath-leticism comes as no surprise.
“He’s one of the most giftedreceivers you could possiblyimagine,” Savage said. “He’s 6-foot-3, 221 [pounds], and he’s fast,strong and can jump. When hecaught the ball and punctured upthe middle, I thought he almostbroke four tackles. He was carry-ing guys on his back. He’s defi-nitely a talented receiver.”
ONLY SEVEN GAMESthrough his senior season, four-year playmaker Tim Brownalready smashed his career-highin receiving yards.
His 101-yard day againstArmy boosted the wide receiverto 648 yards on the season afterrecording just 565 as a slotstarter last season.
“I’m not surprised at all. I’veworked hard for it,” Brown said.“I went in with a chip on myshoulder because people thoughtthat I couldn’t do it. I had to stepup. I have to be the man.”
FOOTBALL PRACTICE NOTEBOOK GAME SLOWING DOWN TO NEW TIGHT END JEFFERSON
BY MELISSA FALICASTAFF WRITER
The stakes are higher thanusual when facing a fellow confer-
e n c eo p p o -nent, butimaginet h eh e i g h tof an
event where you will be facing allof them at once.
The Rutgers men’s cross coun-try team is in that exact positionthis weekend when it heads to theBig East ChampionshipsSaturday in Kenosha, Wisc., toface its toughest competition yet.
Although it may be nerve-wracking to face conference
rivals, junior Kevin Cronin thinksof it in a positive light.
“We’re very competitiveagainst our rivals in the Big Eastand we have to show them thatwe’re Rutgers and we’re betterthan them,” Cronin said. “It’s veryexciting and very motivating to goto a race and know that you’recompeting against rivals in theBig East.”
That added motivation isexactly what Cronin needs, as hehas been nursing a bruised knee.
But just being in the zone in arace makes him block every-thing but his performance out ofhis mind.
“Most of the times, whenever Igo into the race with an injury itdoesn’t really affect my perform-ance, mostly because I’m more
focused on just running and notreally what’s bothering me andwhat’s hurting,” Cronin said.
He is not all that worriedabout hisknee, as itkeeps get-ting betterevery day— perfectt i m i n gsince theS c a r l e tK n i g h t shave setbig goalsfor them-
selves this weekend. If he had to depict the race in
any way, head coach MikeMulqueen would describe it interms of two races.
“You got six teams that arenationally ranked and then youhave from seven to 14,” he said.
Both Mulqueen and Croninagree that the Knights’ focus isprimarily on the second part ofthat race.
“I really feel like we can reallyshow up this year and make a defi-nite improvement, maybe evenmove up three spots because wewere 10th last year, and maybe moveup to the seventh, which is reallygood in the Big East,” Cronin said.
Mulqueen said that the team’spractices and previous races thisfall would bolster RU’s chances ofplacing higher than last year.
The team has shown improve-ment both place-wise and time-wise, which was its goal for thefall season, Mulqueen said.
The head coach also has nodoubt the Knights will try toimprove that goal Saturday.
“I think when they finish therace, I don’t think anybody whocompeted in the race will say, ‘Iheld back or I had more in me,’ orsomething like that,” he said. “Ireally think that they’ll put it outthere because they’ve trained realhard and they’re excited for it.”
Regardless of what place theKnights finish the race in, Croninwants the team to come out of theChampionship with an increasedsense of confidence.
“Well, our season isn’t overafter this race so we want to gainmore confidence going upagainst stronger runners oropponents going into Regionals,”Cronin said.
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Converted quarterback D.C. Jefferson has three catches as a tightend this season, but none since a three-yard grab against TSU.
GUARD CALEB RUCHreturned to practice this weekafter missing the past five gameswith a leg injury. The sopho-more responded well.
“He looked a little rusty, buthealth-wise he was OK,” Schiano
said. “I don’t think he’s startingthis week, but he’ll be back inthe competition.”
Sophomore Desmond Wynnalso returned to practice aftersuffering a shoulder injurybefore the Pitt game.
BY CHRIS MELCHIORRECORRESPONDENT
It’s hard to understate the importance ofhaving home field advantage in the BigEast Tournament.
But the fact that the Rutgers women’s soc-cer team finishedsecond in the BigEast means theScarlet Knights geta bye Friday and donot have to playuntil Sunday when
West Virginia comes to Yurcak Field.And, any way you look at it, the Knights
could use the rest.“It’ll be nice to for team to get that rest
this week,” said Rutgers head coach GlennCrooks. “From that perspective, what weaccomplished [last weekend] worked outvery well for us.”
As someone who has coached in the BigEast for the last 10 seasons, Crooks knowsjust how rare it is for a team with the Knights’depleted depth have to be where they arethis weekend.
“Our depth has taken a beating this year,”Crooks said. “And, over the years, the deep-est teams at the end of the season tend to riseto the top. So for us to be where we are thisweekend is significant.”
West Virginia finished third in the BigEast American division with a 5-3-3 overallrecord in conference play this year.
The Mountaineers finished with an 8-5-6overall record and their résumé this seasonincludes wins over Penn State when theNittany Lions were the fifth ranked team inthe country. The only other top-20 opponentthe Mountaineers faced this season wasVirginia which was ranked ninth in the coun-try when the Mountaineer tied them Sept.11 1-1.
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Versatilitykeys senior’sprogress atright tackle
BY SAM HELLMANASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
With left tackle Anthony Davisbenched for disciplinary reasons atthe start of the Army game, fresh-
man quar-t e r b a c k
Tom Savage’s blindside seemedripe for the taking by the BlackKnights’ pass rush.
But that wasn’t the case.Normal right tackle Kevin
Haslam filled in for Davis on the leftside, with sophomore DesmondStapleton on the right. Haslam’sability at left tackle orchestrated aquick touchdown and field goal inthe first half before Stapleton wentdown and Davis entered the game.
“Coach [Greg Schiano] asked meto step in for whatever the time peri-od was and I said, ‘Sure, whatever, noproblem.’ I wasn’t really going to
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Knights earn Tourneyberth despite shutout
BY KYLE FRANKOASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
For a team that could haveclinched a Big East Tournament
berth witha win, theR u t g e r smen’s soc-cer teamdid not
play like it.The Scarlet Knights fell behind
after 13 minutes and never got backinto the game, dropping a disap-pointing 3-0 decision last nightagainst Villanova at Yurcak Field.
“They wanted to win more thanwe wanted to win,” said Rutgershead coach Bob Reasso. “I’mabsolutely shocked. That was ourworst performance of the year.”
RU still clinched a spot in the BigEast Tournament after Louisvillebeat Cincinnati 3-1 in Kentucky.
Villanova (9-6-2, 5-4-1) jumped ontop after Jordy Griffith flicked homea cross from Emerson Lawrence 13minutes into the game.
The Knights responded wellwith sophomore midfielderGateano Panuccio going just widein the 22nd minute. RU managed 12
shots on goal, but none of themreally troubled Villanova goalkeep-er Chris Bresnahan.
Junior forward Yannick Salmoncame closest to scoring for theKnights (7-9-0, 4-6-0) when his left-footed lob rolled across the top ofthe crossbar one minute into thesecond half.
The inability to equalize provedcostly when the Wildcats doubledtheir advantage in the 48th minuteon a strike by Sean Mergenthal.The junior picked up a pass at thetop of the 18-yard box and fired ashot into the top corner after the RUdefense failed to close him down.
“That second goal we gave upjust killed us,” Reasso said. “It wassomething simple where we left theguy wide open at the top of the box.We just didn’t compete tonight, andI take responsibility for that.”
The Wildcats played withoutleading scorer Mike Seamon, whowas sent off in their 3-1 loss toSouth Florida.
“They’re always going to be dif-ficult [to break down],” Salmonsaid. “The whole purpose is to getthem on the counter attack,
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DAVID PAL
The Rutgers men’s soccer team was shut out by Villanova in whathead coach Bob Reasso called “the worst performance of the year.”
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