Laziness is when you don’t want to do anything, but procrastination is when you just don’t want to do it now, he said. Cham jokingly attributed some of today’s most popular innovations to graduate students. “Google [was] started by grad stu- dents,” he said. “There were two grad stu- dents and the professor just happened to go on ‘sabbatical,’ so one of them said to the other, ‘Hey, why not try to categorize the entire Internet.’” The audience, which consisted main- ly of graduate students asked Cham what motivated him to create the comic strip. “I’ve been drawing these comics for a long time, and what inspired me to draw the comics initially was there have always been a lot of grad student stories that you don’t really hear anywhere else,” he said. On TV, it is always about the lawyers, doctors and their dramas, but there is no stor y about the graduate stu- dents, he said. “What I was trying to show was that THE D AILY T ARGUM Volume 143, Number 31 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 COMING OUT PARTY Today: T-storms High: 74 • Low: 51 FRIDAY OCTOBER 14, 2011 The Rutgers men’s basketball team unveils its new freshman class along with returning players tonight during MidKnight Madness at the College Avenue Gym. INDEX ONLINE @ DAILYTARGUM.COM DIVERSIONS ...... 10 CLASSIFIEDS ...... 12 Breast cancer survivors unite to promote awareness. Students comment on what they are most looking forward to this Homecoming Weekend. PENDULUM SPORTS ...... BACK METRO UNIVERSITY ....... 3 OPINIONS ........ 8 METRO .......... 5 PENDULUM ........ 7 Costumed students from Alpha Zeta, left, and Alpha Kappa Alpha race down College Avenue on decorated beds last night during “The Fourth Annual Homecoming Charity Bed Races,” held by the Rutgers University Programming Association. Prizes were awarded to the winner of the race, the best decorations and most donations. NELSON MORALES / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER BED-TO-BED COMPETITION U. study shows NJ loses revenue from online sales Groups step onto campus to shed light on abuse Sen. Loretta Weinberg, D-37, speaks yesterday at Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus about ending domestic violence. JENNIFER MIGUEL- HELLMAN / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER BY ANASTASIA MILLICKER ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR Fifty-three decorated shoes topped six purple tables situated on the steps of Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus yesterday to symbolize victims of domestic abuse as part of the “Baring Our Soles” campaign. “[These shoes are] a way to listen to a victim’s story in a confidential way and walk in the shoes of a domestic violence victim,” said Samantha Muccini, a social worker with Amanda’s Easel Art Therapy. The project began in 2009 and offers abuse victims an opportunity to bring forward the abuse through art, she said. BY AMY ROWE ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR The state lost more than $170 million in revenue as of 2009 to online, out-of-state retailers that do not collect a 7 percent sales tax from New Jersey consumers. The finding, which comes from a recent study con- ducted by the University’s Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, will support New Jersey Retail Merchants Association’s efforts to change this loophole. John Holub, president of the NJRMA, said owners of businesses with a physical presence in state complain about online businesses that do not collect sales tax because they are required to charge 7 percent more for goods. BY ALEKSI TZATZEV ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR Few expected a man with a Ph.D in engineering to make a crowd laugh. But in front of a packed audience last night, Jorge Cham did just that. Cham, creator of Piled Higher and Deeper — also known as PhD, the car- toon chronicling the realities of graduate work — visited the Busch Campus Center for an event organized by the Graduate Student Association to talk about procrastination and his comic strip. “How’s research going?” he asked several times — the question no graduate student wants to answer. Cham, who said the PhD comic strip overshadowed his research in robotics, played up the role of procras- tination in the creation of the comic. He also showed a movie version of the comic strip sharing the same title. “I know what you’re thinking — that it’s a bad thing, sex, drugs, procrastina- tion,” he said. “But people often confuse it with its close cousin, which is laziness.” Cartoonist shares tales of graduate experience SEE TALES ON PAGE 4 SEE ABUSE ON PAGE 4 SEE REVENUE ON PAGE 4 Jorge Cham speaks last night about his comic strip Piled Higher and Deeper and the realities of graduate school in the Busch Campus Center. JENNIFER MIGUEL-HELLMAN / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
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Laziness is when you don’t want to doanything, but procrastination is when youjust don’t want to do it now, he said.
Cham jokingly attributed some oftoday’s most popular innovations tograduate students.
“Google [was] started by grad stu-dents,” he said. “There were two grad stu-dents and the professor just happened togo on ‘sabbatical,’ so one of them said tothe other, ‘Hey, why not try to categorizethe entire Internet.’”
The audience, which consisted main-ly of graduate students asked Cham whatmotivated him to create the comic strip.
“I’ve been drawing these comics for along time, and what inspired me to drawthe comics initially was there have alwaysbeen a lot of grad student stories that youdon’t really hear anywhere else,” he said.
On TV, it is always about thelawyers, doctors and their dramas, butthere is no story about the graduate stu-dents, he said.
“What I was trying to show was that
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Costumed students from Alpha Zeta, left, and Alpha Kappa Alpha race down College Avenue on decorated beds last night during “The Fourth Annual Homecoming Charity Bed Races,”held by the Rutgers University Programming Association. Prizes were awarded to the winner of the race, the best decorations and most donations.
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BED-TO-BED COMPETITION
U. study shows NJ loses revenue from online sales
Groups step ontocampus to shedlight on abuse
Sen. Loretta Weinberg, D-37, speaks yesterday at Brower Commonson the College Avenue campus about ending domestic violence.
JENNIFER MIGUEL- HELLMAN / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
BY ANASTASIA MILLICKERASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
Fifty-three decorated shoes topped six purpletables situated on the steps of Brower Commons onthe College Avenue campus yesterday to symbolizevictims of domestic abuse as part of the “Baring OurSoles” campaign.
“[These shoes are] a way to listen to a victim’sstory in a confidential way and walk in the shoes ofa domestic violence victim,” said Samantha Muccini,a social worker with Amanda’s Easel Art Therapy.
The project began in 2009 and offers abuse victims anopportunity to bring forward the abuse through art, she said.
BY AMY ROWEASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
The state lost more than $170 million in revenue as of2009 to online, out-of-state retailers that do not collect a 7percent sales tax from New Jersey consumers.
The finding, which comes from a recent study con-ducted by the University’s Edward J. Bloustein School ofPlanning and Public Policy, will support New Jersey RetailMerchants Association’s efforts to change this loophole.
John Holub, president of the NJRMA, said owners ofbusinesses with a physical presence in state complain aboutonline businesses that do not collect sales tax because theyare required to charge 7 percent more for goods.
BY ALEKSI TZATZEVASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
Few expected a man with a Ph.D inengineering to make a crowd laugh. But infront of a packed audience last night, JorgeCham did just that.
Cham, creator of Piled Higher andDeeper — also known as PhD, the car-toon chronicling the realities of graduatework — visited the Busch CampusCenter for an event organized by theGraduate Student Association to talkabout procrastination and his comic strip.
“How’s research going?” he askedseveral times — the question no graduatestudent wants to answer.
Cham, who said the PhD comicstrip overshadowed his research inrobotics, played up the role of procras-tination in the creation of the comic.
He also showed a movie version ofthe comic strip sharing the same title.
“I know what you’re thinking — thatit’s a bad thing, sex, drugs, procrastina-tion,” he said. “But people often confuse itwith its close cousin, which is laziness.”
Cartoonist shares talesof graduate experience
SEE TALES ON PAGE 4
SEE ABUSE ON PAGE 4SEE REVENUE ON PAGE 4
Jorge Cham speaks last night about his comic strip Piled Higher and Deeperand the realities of graduate school in the Busch Campus Center.
JENNIFER MIGUEL-HELLMAN / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
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U. strives to maintain retention rates BY CLIFF WANG
STAFF WRITER
The University is activelycombating the “sophomoreslump” through programs toimprove retention rates forreturning students.
“Rutgers has invested more inacademic support programs, andwe are enrolling stronger academ-ic students who historically tend toreturn at a much higher rate,” saidPaul Johnson, assistant vice presi-dent of Enrollment Management.
Researchers say the slump isa letdown that may follow a firstyear filled with fanfare and newexperiences, according toInside Higher Ed, an onlinepublication focused on collegesand universities.
A second-year slump affectsabout a quarter of all collegeundergraduates, according to thepublication, which cited researchby Azusa Pacific UniversityProfessor Laurie Schreiner.
The main reasons studentsstop attending are major per-sonal and financial dilemmas,Johnson said.
“Some $4 million of Universityfunds was added this year toassist more students to remain inschool,” he said.
Courtney McAnuff, vice presi-dent of Enrollment Management,chairs a committee to increaseretention rates at the University.
“The University does have aStudent Success [committee,which] is charged with retentionand recommendations to improveretention on all three Rutgerscampuses,” he said.
Assuring that Universityresources are allocated to sup-port student financial aid is also a
priority of the administration,McAnuff said.
“One of our recommenda-tions, for example, was imple-mented for next fall, which wasto reduce the size of the incom-ing class by 4 percent to makesure that we have adequateservices and resources to serveall the new students whoenroll,” he said.
The University’s first-yearretention rate was 91.9 percentlast year, which is significantlyabove the Public ResearchUniversity average of 80.6 per-cent, McAnuff said.
The Association of AmericanUniversities, an organization oftop research universities, report-ed the average retention rate atAAU schools is 90.6 percent.
The University of Arizona andthe University of Kansas have 79percent and 81 percent retentionrates, respectively, according tothe AAU. Meanwhile, TheUniversity of Michigan has a 96percent retention rate and theUniversity of Virginia has a 97percent retention rate.
Some Universities are hold-ing second-year convocationsdedicated to re-energizing andwelcoming back their second-year students.
The University of SouthCarolina Research Center con-ducted a national survey of soph-omore initiatives in 2008, con-cluding that two-thirds of thefour-year colleges have second-year convocations focused onretention, according to theresearch center’s website.
Some colleges that have institut-ed such second-year kick-offs
include Emory University, PaceUniversity, Stanford University,Trinity University, the University ofDenver and Yale University, accord-ing to a New York Times blog.
Stephen Nowicki, dean ofundergraduate education at DukeUniversity, said in an InsideHigher Ed article that the slumpoccurs because students have notbuilt identities for themselves.
“The sophomore year is a timeof transition, where studentssometimes do feel like they’re ina slump,” she said in the article.“They’re not yet necessarilydeeply on their track towardwhatever their path is, but they’reno longer in that special momentof being the first-year class whomeverybody dotes on.”
Justin Mui, a School of Artsand Sciences sophomore, said thesecond-year kick-off ceremonieswould be helpful for students.
“I think that the decision tocome back to Rutgers was aneasy one based on things likeaffordability and convenience,but I would like to see them holda sophomore-year kick-off toreenergize us and get us motivat-ed again,” he said.
Students are returning to theUniversity in increasing numbersand the school is taking a moreaggressive role in keeping themenrolled, Johnson said.
Archana Babu, a School ofArts and Sciences sophomore,said the retention rates help theUniversity stand out.
“I’m glad that the University istaking initiatives to try and retain alltheir students, and it’s good to knowthat our retention rate is so muchhigher than the average rate atthose other competing schools,”she said.
The University’s Board of Governorsapproved the nomination of Catherine Murphyas the first endowed faculty chair of the MasonGross School of the Arts.
Murphy is a renowned painter and her worksappeared in many public collections includingthe Metropolitan Museum of Art and theMuseum of Modern Art, according to aUniversity press release.
A $3.4 million endowment from Marlene andDavid Tepper resulted in the creation of the fac-ulty chair position.
Diane Neumaier, chair of the Mason GrossSchool’s visual arts department, said Murphywould be an asset to all of the department’s pro-grams in the press release.
“From painting and graphic arts, to mediaarts and sculpture, Catherine’s knowledge ofcontemporary art will benefit each discipline ofour program,” she said in the press release. “Inaddition to being a highly regarded painter,Catherine is well known for her dynamic andenergetic studio engagement with undergradu-ate and graduate students in all mediums.”
BOARD OF GOVERNORS HIRES PAINTER AS FIRST ENDOWED CHAIR OF MASON GROSS
14 Rutgers Homecoming 2011 takes place this weekend.Highlights include the Rutgers University vs. Navy footballgame, pregame tailgate, wings bowl, Rutgers Excellence inAlumni Leadership Awards, Young Alumni Celebration,Alumni Leaders Conference and a historical walking tour.For more information and the Homecoming schedule, visitralumni.com/homecoming.
The Rutgers University Alumni Association is hosting the2011 Rutgers in Excellence Alumni Leadership Awardstonight starting at 5 p.m. at the Life Sciences Building onBusch campus. The event, which has a $35 registration fee,includes a reception, awards ceremony, food, drinks and liveentertainment. Contact Kara McGann at [email protected] for more information.
16 The “Run for Rutgers Against Hunger (RAH) 5K CharityRace and 1 Mile Fun Walk” will take place from 8 a.m. tonoon at the North Gate of Rutgers Stadium on Busch cam-pus. Rutgers University Alumni Association will host theevent. RAH is working to make a difference in the lives ofthose suffering from hunger. The proceeds from this eventwill help RAH fill food pantries, sponsor programs andincrease hunger awareness. Pre-registration price of $20 forthe 5K race and $15 for the one mile walk is availablethrough Oct. 10 and registration on race day is $25 for the5K race and $20 for the one mile walk. Run for RAH 2011 T-shirts are given out to all participants registered by Oct. 10.For more information and online registration, visit alum-ni.rutgers.edu, call (848) 932-2299 or [email protected].
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28 Rutgers Hillel is offering free, with University identification,Rosh Hashanah services and meals. There will be a serviceat 6:30 p.m. at the Rutgers Student Center Graduate StudentLounge, followed by free dinner at Rutgers Hillel at 93College Ave. RSVP is encouraged, please contact RabbiEsther Reed by emailing [email protected]. Formore info, visit RutgersHillel.org.
18 Learn various and effective job search strategies at theCareer Services’ Job Search Strategies workshop at theBusch Campus Center. Special emphasis will be put on inno-vative strategies, in addition to traditional job search tech-niques. As space is limited, pre-registration is required.Register online through CareerKnight, by calling (732)-445-6127 or by email at [email protected] withthe workshop name and your RUID number.
“The penetration of broadbandusage is high [in New Jersey]compared to the nation,” he said.“[There are] a lot of sophisticatedconsumers using the Internet,and New Jersey is significantlyand adversely affected.”
William Irving, a senior proj-ect administrator at the BlousteinSchool, said whena resident pur-chases a good orservice from anonline or out-of-state retailer, theyare responsible forpaying the tax tothe state.
“In New Jersey,if you buy a bookfrom Amazon,you, the purchas-er, have to remitthe sales tax your-self,” he said.“Hardly anyone does that.”
Irving said he and the othermembers of his research teamuncovered this information afterlooking at records of taxes.
They also studied the prolifer-ation of broadband usage in New
Jersey to see how Internet con-nective residents are and exam-ined records of retail purchasesversus online retail purchases.
“There’s a national discussionover this — the state is trying tocollect taxes from Amazon andany Internet-based retailer thatdoesn’t have a lot of physical pres-
ence anywhere,”he said.
Irving said hefound the resultsfrom his months ofresearch interest-ing.
“It reflectssomething thatwe already knew,and it’s becomingmore widely rec-ognized,” he said.“States are experi-encing tax losseswhen many of
them are cash-strapped.”He said people should know
that the NJRMA does not wantto raise taxes in state or proposea new tax.
“[Tax] is being foregonelargely to the absence of any
mechanism that allows for collec-tion of tax on these out-of-state,Internet-based retail transac-tions,” Irving said.
The estimates for lost tax rev-enue are consistent with theamount other states have project-ed, he said.
“Some studies in Californiacame up with losses of [morethan] $1 billion annually,” he said.
But some states are taking anactive role in accounting forthese losses and negotiating withonline retailers.
California came to an agree-ment with Amazon about taxcollection, and Texas has a dis-pute with the same retailer,Irving said.
Seneca believes the solution tothis problem should be enactedon a national scale.
“The best solution [is] anational solution that requires allvendors to collect sales tax,” hesaid. “Getting to that takes a longtime. It’s not surprising that NewJersey and California and a num-ber of others are looking intohow to collect sales tax in a vari-ety of methods.”
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The Middlesex CountyProsecutor’s Office reachedout to the New Jersey StatePolice Forensic InvestigationBureau to independentlyreview the fatal police shootingof 46-year-old Barry Deloatch.
To assist the prosecutor’soffice’s ongoing and activeinvestigation, the New JerseyState Police ForensicInvestigation will reconstruct adiagram of the scene of theshooting near Throop Avenuewith aerial photographs andlaser measurements.
The investigation followswith reviewing witnesses andtheir statements, receivingmedical records and scientifictesting results along with ana-lyzing video and audiotapesfrom the police vehicles, saidBruce Kaplan, MiddlesexCounty Prosecutor.
After these tasks are fin-ished, the Middlesex CountyProsecutor’s Of fice willdetermine whether to submitthe matter to a MiddlesexCounty grand jury sitting inNew Brunswick, he said in a statement.
The prosecutor’s office willbase this decision off theinvestigation’s results and theattorney general’s guidelineson police shootings. TheDeloatch family will know theresults first and then they willbe made public.
Deloatch was shot in theside in a Throop Avenue alleyafter he ran from police ques-tioning. He died from a singlebullet to his aorta. The prose-cutor’s office has not deter-mined whether Deloatch useda weapon against the officers.
— Amy Rowe
PROSECUTORCALLS ON STATETO INVESTIGATE
“We want a level playing field,we obviously represent thebricks-and-mortar retailers,[because] those invested in NewJersey are at a competitive disad-vantage,” he said.
The study projects the lostrevenue will climb to $310 millionby 2015 if these retailers do notbegin collecting state sales tax,Holub said.
“It’s such a competitiveindustry, no one segmentshould have an unfair advantageover the other,” he said. “It’s aloophole that needs to beclosed, and we’re hopeful thatthat’s going to happen.”
Joseph Seneca, a professorat the Bloustein School, saidthis is an especially large issuefor New Jersey because it is ahigh-income, high-consumingstate with online purchasesgrowing at a faster rate than anyother state.
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Although the majority ofshoes are from females,Muccini said there is a rise indomestic abuse repor ted by males.
Janet Lee, super visor ofDomestic Violence Suppor tGroups at 180 Turning Lives Around, said not many victims know of the helpavailable — not just on the per-sonal level but with the courtsand rebuilding processes as well.
“Statewide, our sisters inbreast cancer awareness arewell known, which is great, butnot ever yone knows abouthelp of fered for domestic vio-lence,” she said.
Lee said many people suf-fering with domestic violencedo not go for help before thebattering begins.
“The most violent time ofthe relationship is when theabused tries to get out,” shesaid. “It has the highest risk.”
Vicky, a domestic violencevictim and mother of five,of fered words of encourage-ment for others who haveexperienced abuse.
“Don’t give up, don’t givein,” she said. “It’s what theabuser is counting on.”
Vicky said her husband liftedher off her feet by her hair, put
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all these grad students, professors,teachers are not just one-dimen-sional stereotypes as they are por-trayed in popular culture,” he said.
Cham pointed to the televisionshow the “Big Bang Theory” asan example.
“These comics are about youguys and your experiences,” hesaid. “I’m just the guy putting itin cartoon form.”
He shared his stories of grad-uate school and how his comicstrip is based on people from hislife. He said it relates to gradu-ate students going through thesame processes.
“I think the real reason peopleidentify with the comic is becausethe underlying theme of the comicis always asking, ‘Why?’” he said.
A graduate student in theaudience asked if after Cham fin-ished his graduate studies, he feltlike it was a waste of time.
“I hope we have never madethat statement in the comic stripbecause that is really not how Ifeel,” he said.
Cham, who left the robotics fieldfor the PhD comic, was asked whathe would choose between a steadyjob in academia and the cartoon.
“I don’t know,” he said. “It’sbetween free comic strips on theInternet and a job in academia, soI guess it depends on how manybooks you guys buy tonight.”
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“The best solution[is] a national solution that
requires all vendorsto collect sales tax.”
JOSEPH SENECAEdward J. Bloustein
School of Planning andPublic Policy Professor
her head through a wall, and hit,kicked, beat and spit on her.
“When ever yone seemsagainst you … for those whofeed of f your abuse, rememberthe whole system is run bypeople,” she said. “Every per-son has their good days andbad. You just need to perseverethrough them.”
Lee said an important partof recovery is for the victim togain a sense of self-confidenceand life.
“One client’s mother said toher, ‘What if he told you youwere a tree. Would you believehim?’” Lee said. “That’s whyour shirts say ‘I am not a tree,’because we want women to dis-cover who they really are.”
Sen. Loretta Weinberg, D-37, also joined the ranks of theorganizations on campus yesterday, not to campaign but to speak out againstdomestic violence.
Weinberg, who ser ved inthe N.J. State Senate since2005, said she was honoredand privileged to speak butadmitted she was confused atfirst with the decorated shoes.
“I didn’t get it at first. Ithought someone didn’t knowhow to spell ‘souls,’ and then Irealized what you have done here and it is extraordi-nary. Everyone should get it,”she said.
Women who are abused arenot nameless, she said.
“There are victims in thecrowd, and they were able to
report the acts of violence,”she said. “[If we report] we candramatically reduce the vio-lence across the United Statesand world.”
Weinberg said she had theoppor tunity to visit Turkeywith two University professors.During her trip, she spoke withthe only female cabinet mem-ber in Turkey on the issue ofdomestic violence.
“We spoke about the initia-tive to put battered women’sadvocacy flyers in women’srooms in synagogues, church-es and public buildings with800 numbers, everyone notedthis down,” she said.
Weinberg said this initiativemay be one of the better ideasexported from the country.
“We may be able to helpwomen all over the world,” she said.
But at the University, other initiatives are already in place to combat domestic abuse, including a cer tificate in violence against women in the School ofSocial Work, said AllisonBlake, commissioner of theDepartment of Children andFamilies.
Ruth Anne Koenick, direc-tor of the Office for ViolencePrevention and VictimAssistance, said she wasmoved by the “Baring OurSoles” display.
“Each [person] carries theirscars,” she said. “It’s not achoice and we may not see it.”
In an air of graduate studentsolidarity, members of the audi-ence reacted similarly as they relat-ed with the comic Cham created.
“Everybody in this room identi-fies with the characters, we all knowthat we have all lived these charac-ters,” said Anthony Barker, a gradu-ate student of physics.
He said he thought most of theaudience also identified in thesame way, signifying the skill of thecartoonist — the ability to repre-sent everybody.
“It’s quite hard,” he said. “Howdo you make one character fiteverybody and still fit in a very spe-cific section of the demographic.”
Reshma Nayyar, president ofGSA, said she felt like most of theaudience connected with thecharacters in the cartoon.
“I think it was obvious fromever ybody in the audience,”she said. “We are nameless, weare faceless.”
Laura Transue, vice presidentfor events and programming atGSA, said the comics make her feellike she’s not alone.
“You know other people haveexperienced it and you will getthrough it,” Transue said.
Will Tam of the JointMolecular Biosciences GraduateStudent Association devised theidea for the event, and the GSAsponsored it.
Cham said he learned a lot ofthings in graduate school, which hecould not have done anywhere else.
“[I learned] how to stand infront of audiences and make stuffup,” he said jokingly.
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Advocates unite to share cancer storiesBY RAYMOND WANG
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Breast cancer survivor andNBC “Today” show co-host HodaKotb kicked off Robert WoodJohnson University Hospital’sannual “Tied to the Cause” pro-gram Wednesday at the Arlineand Henry SchwartzmanCourtyard in honor of BreastCancer Awareness Month.
Doctors diagnosed Kotbearly in 2007 with breast can-cer. The four-time Emmy nomi-nee said the news was especial-ly dif ficult to digest and she kept her battle a privatestruggle from professionals inher industry.
But the secret to winningthe battle was having faith inher mother, a person Kotb saidremained remarkably strongdespite her medical concerns.
“I always say this — behindevery woman is a strongerwoman,” she said.
Initially, Kotb kept her diag-nosis a secret from others, butdecided to speak out about itafter meeting a man on an air-plane who approached herabout it.
“‘What is wrong with you,’”Kotb said, quoting the passen-ger,“‘Breast cancer is a part ofyou. It’s like going to school orworking at NBC.’”
After the man recommend-ed she share her story, shestar ted speaking to airplanepassengers to spread her newsto the public. Kotb said shewas inspired to promote aware-ness any way she could.
“If you are still standing afteranything big, like breast cancer, youget four words — ‘You can’t scareme,’” she said. “Applying for a pro-motion was like nothing after that.”
Lynn Lutwin, director of theBreast Care Connection pro-gram at the hospital, said eventorganizers tried to invite vari-ous speakers in addition toKotb who could inspire andeducate women about stayinghealthy and happy despite abad diagnosis.
“We try to send a messageto women to be aware and to support each other,” Lutwinsaid. “We want them to encourage each other to getmammograms and breast cancer screenings.”
The event’s name comes fromthe ultimate theme of the pro-gram, she said.
“You know when you tie astring around your finger toremind you to do something?That’s what the name ‘Tied tothe Cause’ represents — it’sthat string around your fingerreminding you to get breast cancer screenings,”Lutwin said.
RWJUH’s Breast CareConnection program of fersfree screenings for women,both unemployed andemployed, she said.
“Breast cancer still is themost common cancer inwomen,” Lutwin said. “There ismuch to be done in the processof curing this disease.”
Dr. Michelle Azu, assistantprofessor of surger y atUMDNJ-Robert Wood JohnsonMedical School and the CancerInstitute of New Jersey,believes that despite some peo-ple’s pessimism, medical pro-fessionals in the sciences havemade significant progresstoward finding a cure forbreast cancer.
“I can’t think of any betterway to raise awareness,”
said Azu, the physician keynote speaker.
The audience itself wasmostly comprised of womenfrom all walks of life, includingthose with breast cancer andthose who have survived it.
“I really look forward to theday I can tell you that we’vefound the cure for cancer ...and that I’m out of a job,” Azu said.
Ellen Levine, director of theCancer Suppor t Communityprogram, attended the event onWednesday to encouragewomen to get a check up in order to ensure they are can-cer-free.
“[‘Tied to the Cause’] is veryuseful as a reminder for womenfrom all walks of life to getscreened,” Levine said.
Kotb, Levine, Lutwin andAzu all said they wanted to pro-mote a sense of communitybetween women, survivors andsupporters alike.
“It’s a nice opportunity forthe diagnosed community tofeel an empowering unity andhopefully to help find a cure,”Levine said. “It’s also a wonder-ful celebration for the diagnosedand their families.”
The Cancer Suppor tCommunity is a nonprofitorganization that provides freeemotional and social supportfor patients with every type ofcancer, she said.
“It gets so much easier to bearwith if you have a communitywith you,” Levine said.
Kotb said women shouldproceed with their lives as theynormally would, breast canceror no cancer.
“The way you spend your daysis the way you spend your life,”she said.
City looks to installinformation kiosks
BY ANDREW EKLUNDCONTRIBUTING WRITER
As a means of helping of f-campus University studentsand commuters navigatearound New Brunswick, cityof ficials proposed a plan to create informational kiosks for settling in and around New Brunswick.
Bill Bray, city spokesperson,said he and government of fi-cials are looking to expand theknowledge of municipal servic-es into the of f-campus studentcommunity. He hopes installingthese kiosks will achieve that purpose.
“We’d like to extend thereach of City Hall,” he said. “Werealize that the vast majority ofstudents either have too muchgoing on to make it down[here] or they may not evenknow that the City can evenhelp with certain issues.”
Student interns or volun-teers would staf f the informa-tion tables, but would first haveto undergo training to assistother students with questionsregarding public safety, tenantrights or trash removal servic-es, he said.
Bray hopesthat Universitystudents wouldbe encouragedto voice out anyconcerns theymay have abouttheir off-campusliving experi-ence to the vol-unteers thatwould operatethe tables.
“The studentv o l u n t e e r swould also betrained in eitherhelping to address their issueor, at the ver y least, providing that student with theright direction in terms who at City Hall can be most helpfulwith a par ticular issue,” he said.
But city officials are still debat-ing where the tables should belocated, Bray said.
“The initiative is still in thevery early stages of planningand development,” he said.“Our initial thoughts were [toput them by the] student centers or the dining halls [due to] the high amount ofstudent traf fic.”
Mike Galley, a School ofEnvironmental and BiologicalSciences senior who lives of f-campus and commutes, said hewas especially interested tohear the outcome of the pro-posed initiative.
“I remember when I firstmoved of f-campus, I had noidea that the town recycled old
fridges,” Galley said. “We did-n’t have our internet yet so itwas hard trying to find thatstuf f out when you can’t evengo online.”
Galley said he likes the idea ofthese kiosks helping students andhopes they could be implementedin the near future.
“To have the opportunity tojust ask a question to anotherstudent who is knowledgeableabout town ser vices soundslike a great idea,” he said.
Debbie Kim, UniversityPublic Relations specialist for Off-Campus Housing, wasalso pleased with the aim ofthis initiative.
While her of fice provideseducation for students interest-ed in moving of f campus, Kimsaid they specialize more indirecting students towardother resources or helpingthem deal with landlords.
Kim said the city proposi-tion was a fresh breath of airand a unique idea that shouldprove helpful to a good majori-ty of University students.
“[This initiative] soundslike a great resource for stu-dents to have the opportunity
to talk withother studentson campusabout garbagepickup, amongother municipalser vices,” shesaid. “It’s greatthat they don’thave to go outsearching forthe informationand that it’sright there.”
S u s a nRomano, assis-tant director ofS t u d e n t
Involvement and Commuter Life,also expressed interest in helpingspread the word about the initia-tive.
“I think keeping the of f-campus students informedabout the local area is veryimpor tant. To be there toaddress their concerns will betremendously beneficial,”Romano said.
Even without kiosks, resi-dents with any questions aboutNew Brunswick can seek themunicipal government’s serv-ices, Bray said.
“Apart from the staf f mem-bers who address constituentconcerns over the phone, wealso … update our Facebook,Twitter and YouTube pages,”he said.
City of ficials are trying toprovide more information tostudents via electronic means,such as social networking web-sites, as students are especiallyactive online, he said.
“To have the opportunity
to just ask a question to another student ...about town services
sounds like a great idea.”
MIKE GALLEYSchool of Environmental
and Biological Sciences Senior
Hoda Kotb, co-host of the “Today” show, spoke at Wednesday’s “Tied to the Cause” event, hostedby the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, about cancer from a survivor’s perspective.
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together, and the questionis simply: Who should bethe one to pull the dooropen? What, then, is therule with strangers — areyou expected to hold thedoor open for everyone?Imagine, for example, youare at an elevator bank. Doyou hold the door for the
person coming right after you? Is it a question ofhow many seconds it will take them to reach theelevator? Theoretically, if you keep holding thedoor for one more person each time it is aboutto close, you could end up waiting for severalminutes. In that time, you probably could havewalked. But on the other hand, you do not wantto be the one to let a door close in someone’sface. It’s a dilemma.
Here at the University, I would say theanswer is no, you are not required to hold the
door for every single person fol-lowing you through anentrance. We attend a schoolwith thousands of undergradu-ate students, all of whom arerushing through their own busylives. If you are on such a strictschedule that holding a dooropen will throw you of f-track, orif you find door-holding so frus-
trating that you resent the person for whom thedoor is held, I absolve you from doing so.Holding a door should not be an obligatorystress that ruins your mood.
I think, though, that should you choose to bea door-holding citizen, you will be doing the restof the student community a good service. It ispolite to hold the door for someone because itindicates that you have taken the time to thinkabout that person and chose to contribute an actof kindness to them. Holding the door open is asmall gesture that shows you respect anotherperson enough to take a moment out of your dayto engage with them. It takes a lot of energy toshow that respect to ever y person youencounter, and as tired college students withoverwhelming lives, finding that energy can bea challenge. Demonstrating politeness andrespect toward others always takes ef fort, but Ithink that ef fort is worthwhile — it never hurtsto make someone’s day a bit better. So if youhave a moment, hold the door.
Courtney Shaw is a School of Arts and Sciencessenior majoring in English and history with a minorin French.
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“I always say this — behind every woman is a stronger woman.”
Hoda Kotb, NBC “Today” show host and breast cancer survivor
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I received an email thisweek from a Universitystudent with a dilem-
ma: When should one holdthe door open for anotherperson? He writes, “Oftenholding the door open caus-es more trouble than mere-ly letting someone elseopen it for themselves. The worst is when you’reholding a door open, and the person has to rushover to it, so you aren’t left waiting for too long.There is too much stress involved when opening adoor is such a minor task. I think we hold doorsopen too much. It should only be done when some-one has a lot of things in their hands and can’t do it.”
I can relate. My underclassman residence hall,Brett Hall on the College Avenue campus, has asingle entrance door that you access by swipingyour RUID. Because of this, door holding was acommon social practice. If you had just swiped inand saw someone heading towardthe door, you would hold the doorso they didn’t have to find their ID(mine was always buried in thedepths of my bag) to swipe them-selves in a few seconds later.
This was the nice thing todo. Plus if you did not, youfaced the danger of runninginto them in the hallway whileyou were still waiting for the elevator. Thiswould be clear proof that you did in fact havetime to hold the door, but you were just too lazyor impatient to stand there. So essentially youheld the door because you would feel guilty fornot doing so. It was a nuisance, and as my ques-tioner points out, it can be rather inef ficient.You waste your own time by waiting and forcethe second person to race to reach the door asquickly as possible. It can be rather frustratingfor everyone involved.
So why, then, is it common practice to holdthe door open for other people? And should it be?
Let’s look first at why we do it. The practiceof holding the door was at one point connectedto the traditions of chivalr y. A man wouldalways hold the door open for a woman as amark of respect for the fairer sex. With thearrival of modern feminism, or perhaps just themodern age of equality between the sexes,door-holding became a more egalitarian prac-tice. The shift occurred to the current practicewhereby the first person to reach the doorholds it for the second.
However, these rules both presuppose thatthe people entering the door have arrived
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Take the time, hold the door
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“Holding the door openis a small gesture
that shows you respectanother person.”
H erman Cain, Republican presidential nomination hopeful andformer Godfather’s Pizza CEO, has lately been throwingaround the idea of scrapping the current tax system and
replacing it with his own. The proposed 9-9-9 plan, as he calls it, wouldcut down corporate taxes (now close to 40 percent) to 9 percent, fed-eral income taxes (now around 35 percent) to 9 percent and wouldmake consumers pay a federal sales tax of, you guessed it, 9 percenton top of any other state tax. If the lunacy of this plan isn’t evident, letus elaborate. If it isn’t about the pure salesman technique of selling theplan (9-9-9 is simple branding), then the problem lies in the fact thatCain’s plan would burden the working class the most while lettingthose who could afford to pay higher taxes off the hook. So far, it has-n’t been a secret — most Republicans aim to do nothing more, butCain takes it much further with branding and selling it. We do notoften like to side with Michele Bachmann, who also criticized the 9-9-9 stunt, but we give Herman Cain a dart for his unobstructed attemptto sell us something that can only hurt us.
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Student activism has a way of working sometimes. We like what theparticipants in Wednesday night’s “Take Back The Economy” did. TheRutgers Student Union and members of the Rutgers UniversityStudents Against Sweatshops listened to colleagues across the nationvia webcast on how to raise awareness on certain issues. MollyMagier, organizing director of the USAS chapter at the University,spoke from Washington, D.C., on the “Walk into Action” protestagainst tuition hikes last semester. The University increased tuition byonly 1.8 percent, which is the lowest in two decades. The organiza-tion’s latest attempt was reaching President Richard L. McCormick todiscuss removing the pay freeze for faculty and staff. We respect thestudents’ cause and believe they can accomplish something. For that,we give them a laurel and continue to support them.
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The FBI apprehended a man suspected to be have hacked intomore than 50 celebrities’ mobile phones. Christopher Carney, a 35-year-old Jacksonville, Fla., resident, was accused of hacking andspreading personal photos of celebrities like Mila Kunis and ScarlettJohansson. Other personal data included financial information andpersonal correspondence. The truth is, just because someone is infront of the camera and is making unthought-of sums of money, does-n’t mean they should be targeted and not be given the same rights asthe rest of us. Chaney, authorities said, didn’t stand to make muchmoney of his scheme and was working alone. We give a laurel to theactions of the FBI, and hope the case gets resolved. As for the Newsof the World want-to-be reporter Chaney, he receives a dart forinvading the privacy of people who hold nothing vital to theAmerican public, other than several photos and the attention of mil-lions of followers.
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We like Alec Baldwin — most of his movies, his recurring appear-ances on “Saturday Night Live” and most of all perhaps, “30 Rock.”The man can do anything. It is no surprise then Baldwin has a new giglined up with WNYC as a podcaster. The scotch-imbued voice of JackDonaghy will host an interview-format radio show where he will inter-view everyone from other celebrities to politicians. The actorannounced this season of “30 Rock” might be his last, and he wants tomove on to other things. As long as he has another gig lined up, we arehappy. And while there is no quantifiable reason for our hailingBaldwin, we like what he has done and we would like to see him con-tinue on radio. We just like him, ergo (as a lot of you eager Englishmajors like to say in your letters to the editor) we give him a laurel.
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The University, this weekend, is concluding its annualHomecoming Week. Last night the Rutgers University ProgrammingAssociation hosted its popular bed races, in which student organiza-tions decorated beds and raced them down College Avenue.Tomorrow is the fall comedy show with Kevin Hart, and Sunday is theRutgers University Alumni Association’s Homecoming 5K CharityRace, which raises money for Rutgers Against Hunger. And of course,we cannot wait for the main event, tomorrow’s football game againstNavy. Even though many may feel lost at such a large institution, welaurel the University for once again putting together a week that trulyexemplifies the strength of the University community.
Miss Conduct
COURTNEY SHAW
Week in review:laurels and darts
sary action for students to takebefore being able to criticallyevaluate something. An Englishmajor, for example, must studythe time period that the workcomes from, accepted literaryforms, vocabulary and informa-tion about the author before hecan successfully critique a pieceof literature. Similarly, once a biol-ogy major understands basicssuch as cell division, genetics andprotein synthesis, he can go tothe scientific literature and beginto evaluate the methods used andconclusions drawn from pub-lished research.
Critical thinking is as essentialto a scientific course of study as itis to a liberal arts one. Onceundergraduates get past the intro-ductory science courses, theyenter advanced courses that chal-
lenge them to question acceptedscientific ideas and new conclu-sions drawn by researchers.Science is anything but linear. Itis only through critical evaluationof previous work that the field
moves forward, and each ques-tion asked opens the door for aplethora of new research projectsto be undertaken. Memorizationof basic information is merely a
stepping stone that provides thebuilding blocks for future work inthe field.
In addition to learning aboutscience in the classroom, manyscience majors at the Universitywork in research labs, where crit-ical-thinking skills are, if any-thing, more important than in theclassroom. In the midst of run-ning an experiment, one mustcontinually ask questions aboutthe work being done: Why am Idoing this? Can my methods bechanged so this experimentworks better? What do theseresults tell me? There is veryrarely an experiment that workscorrectly the first time, and it isonly by critically evaluating whatwas done that a researcher canpredict what needs to be changedor done next.
While yes, it can be arguedthat the sciences require morememorization of basic conceptsthan the liberal arts do beforereaching the level of being ableto critically evaluate a piece ofwork, it cannot be said that criti-cal thinking is absent from thestudy of science. It does taketime to reach the point at which itis possible to critically thinkabout the sciences, but the skill isa hugely important part of what itmeans to be a scientist. If a sci-ence major does not find himselfusing critical-thinking skills inclass or in research, something issorely wrong.
Aliyah Weinstein is a School ofArts and Sciences senior majoringin molecular biology, biochemistryand French.
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T he article “Languagedegrees help students’professional prospects”
from Wednesday’s issue raisedmany good points about the ben-efits of studying a foreign lan-guage. But the contention thatmajors in the liberal arts requirecritical-thinking skills while sci-ence majors do not was a largelyinappropriate comparison of thetwo fields.
Introductory-level biologycourses, like introductory cours-es in any discipline, teach thefundamentals required to build afoundation in the subject.Memorization of “already accept-ed concepts” in a field is a neces-
Science students utilize critical thinking, tooALIYAH WEINSTEIN
Letter
“If a science majordoes not find himself using
critical-thinkingskills ... something
is sorely wrong.”
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While the bulk of the Knights’Big East schedule remains,Werneke thinks the worst isbehind them.
Louisville and Cincinnati, twoteams Rutgers already faced, arefirst and third in the Big East,respectively. Seton Hall isfourth. But despite the Pirates’high conference rank, Wernekebelieves the team is set up wellto face the opposition.
“We match up well againstSeton Hall,” he said. “We’re notout-matched physically againstthem like we are against some ofthe other Big East teams.”
The Knights need to work ongetting favorable matchups andlining their strongest hitters upagainst the weaker blockers onthe Pirates, Werneke said.
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Sophomore outside hitter Sheridan Taylor, right, averages .31 killsmore per set when playing at the College Avenue Gym.
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Sophomore outside hitter Tiffany Regmund recorded double-digitkills in 10 consecutive matches for head coach CJ Werneke.
“We need to take advantage ofopportunities against SetonHall,” he said.
As if Big East competition wasnot enough this season, the teamalso caught the injury bug.
“We’ve been dealing withinjuries throughout the year,”Werneke said. “We don’t have alot of depth.”
Werneke is right about theschedule getting at least a little eas-ier. After Seton Hall, the Knightstake on Syracuse and Marquette,who are seventh and second in theBig East, respectively.
Rutgers then takes on teamsin the middle of the Big East, fol-lowed by lower-ranked teams.The Knights end their seasonagainst Connecticut and St.John’s, the other two teams cur-rently winless in Big East play.
But none of that matters to Werneke.
His sights are set firmly onSeton Hall and attaining theKnights’ first Big East victory.
1 freshman guard from FloraMacDonald Academy (N.C.).
Judge and Seagears played onthe same AAU program, D.C.Assault. Freshman forwardMalick Kone also suited up forthe Assault, and associate headcoach David Cox has strong tiesto the program.
Freshmen Myles Mack andDerrick Randall played together
at PatersonCatholic beforeMack transferredand Randall took the prepschool route.
And Mack andfellow freshmanEli Carter bothplayed dif ferentstints at St.Anthony underNaismith Hall ofFame coach Bob
Hurley.They unite for the first time at
Rutgers tonight, and the unionfigures to provide the renewedexcitement Rice first unveiledlast season at the Louis BrownAthletic Center.
“It’s going to be fun, whetherthey’re dancing, dunking, half-court shooting — whatever itmay be,” Rice said.
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His previous stop atPittsburgh as an assistant didnot host a midnight madness-type event, but it already had theluxury of being a nationallyranked program.
“The first sixgames of last year,the studentsmaybe didn’t real-ize our season hadstarted,” Ricesaid. “We need tokick off our sea-son, make our stu-dents aware that itis basketball sea-son. We have a lotof talented individ-uals that I think people are goingto be excited about.”
Wally Judge, a transfer fromKansas State, is one of them.Judge must sit out the 2011-12season under NCAA transferguidelines, but Johnson tabbedhim as the favorite to take homethe slam dunk contest.
Rice threw his confidencebehind Jerome Seagears, a 6-foot-
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“It’s going to be fun, whether
they’re dancing,dunking [or]
half-court shooting.”MIKE RICEHead Coach
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Head coach Mike Rice will unveil his heralded recruiting classtonight at 9:30 at the College Avenue Gym.
F ormer Rutgers basket-ball standout JonathanMitchell leads his
Spanish professional team, CBTarragona, in scoring andrebounding through its firstthree games.
Averaging 17 points andeight rebounds, the MountVernon, N.Y., native is makingthe most of his European debut.
Officially signed on Aug.15, Mitchell made the transi-tion to northeast Spain shortlyafter, and shined thus far.
Mitchell, whose four-pointplay against No. 9 Villanovaled the Scarlet Knights overthe Wildcats in upset fashion,was a second-team All-Metropolitan selection a sea-son ago.
PRESIDENT BARACKObama is set to attend theCarrier Classic basketballgame, scheduled for Veteran’sDay aboard the USS CarlVinson, the same aircraft carri-er that buried Osama binLaden at sea.
The Nov. 11 matchup is thefirst collegiate game played onan active warship, and boasts anon-conference showdownbetween No. 8 North Carolinaand Michigan State.
A basketball fan, Obamafilled out an NCAA bracketthe past three years, andeven correctly predictedNorth Carolina in 2009 asnational champions.
NEW ORLEANS SAINTSsafety Roman Harper wasfined $15,000 for his late hit onCarolina Panther Steve Smith.
Smith, who slowly crossedthe goal line after a 50-yardcatch and run, suffered the hitfive yards into the end zone.
Warranting a 15-yard per-sonal foul penalty and criticismaround the league, Harperoffered no apology.
“If you’re going to score, goscore, but a guy is not going totry and just walk it in on us likethat you’re going to have topay for it as you get past thegoal line,” Harper said.
OUTFIELDERS LANCEBerkman and Jacoby Ellsburyearned Comeback Player ofthe Year recognition yester-day, Major League Baseballannounced.
Berkman, who hit 31 homeruns and 91 RBIs this season,improved his batting averageto .301 from a dismal .248 in2010.
Playing in the NLCS,Berkman and the Cardinalsface the Milwaukee Brewerswith hopes of advancing to theWorld Series.
Ellsbury joined the his-toric 30-30 club this season byblasting 32 home runs andstealing 39 bases. His 105 RBIand .321 batting average gar-nered recognition from theMLB after an injury-plagued2010 season.
WORD ON THE STREET
consecutive year after playingwith Team Canada.
While Woeller’s absence putsthe defense in a bind, juniorgoalkeeper Jess Janosz is confi-dent others can step up inWoeller’s stead.
“Shannon is definitely rocksolid,” said Janosz, who made herfirst two career starts last week-end. “She’s one of those few play-ers that logs all 90 minutes of agame and overtime, too. She justnever needs a sub. It’s going to betough, but we have good defend-ers that will definitely step up.”
Freshman defender MorganKennedy fills in for Woeller atcenter back in front of theKnights goal, but who will mindthe net remains a tossup.
Janosz, who earned Big EastGoalkeeper of the Week this
week, posted consecutive cleansheets in her first career startsand may see more time this week-end away from Piscataway.
Crooks said he will notname a starter until the teamarrives in Louisville, Ky., mean-ing junior goalkeeper EmmySimpkins, who started the pre-vious 13 games, could return tothe lineup.
“The thing to note is that Iknow that we have two very goodkeepers,” he said. “Either onethat I put in I’ll have a high levelof confidence in.”
With a date against theCardinals, the top team in theNational Division, and a trip toCincinnati, six crucial points areat stake.
But the only thing Crooksworries about is his team andwhat it can control.
That means playing on theroad, and the Knights’ 1-4-1record away from Piscataway is anon-factor.
“The thing we focus on isthat it’s all about us,” he said.“We know our situation … allwe can do is win the games andget three points. Honestly, Ihaven’t looked at it very closelybecause I do know that withseven, eight or nine points it’sgoing to be rough.”
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Filigno’s absence keeps thescoring burden on the Knights’crop of young forwards, led byfreshman Stefanie Scholz andjunior Stefanee Pace.
Each player owns two goalsthis season, with Scholz breakinga five-match scoreless streak lastFriday in the Knights’ 1-0 victoryover DePaul.
Although the offense managedonly four goals since Filigno’sinjury Sept. 16, Scholz continuesto record shots and is now thirdon the team with 23 shots.
“After the West Virginia gamethe coaches told us we need tohave a better mentality and getthe ball more,” Scholz said. “Ikind of took that into my ownhands and tried to use my speedand get the forwards to try andget more shots off to score somemore goals.”
But preventing goals is chal-lenging this weekend for theKnights, who are also withoutjunior back Shannon Woeller.
Woeller is spending the weekwith the Canadian National Teamand will miss time for the second
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“We know our situation... All we
can do is win the games and
get three points.”GLENN CROOKS
Head Coach
RUTGERS VISITS DEPAUL FOR CONFERENCE BATTLE
The Rutgers men’s soccerteam continues its Big East
slate thisw e e k -e n d ,when theS c a r l e tKnightstravel to
Chicago to take on DePaul. The Knights (6-5-1, 3-1) enter
the conference match off with a3-2 victory over Villanova, whichhelped Rutgers ascend to theNo. 2 spot in the Big East Red Division.
With sophomore forwardKene Eze, who leads theKnights with five goals, miss-ing action against ‘Nova to
recover from a head injury,head coach Dan Doniganreceived a scoring boost from senior midfielderBryant Knibbs.
Knibbs notched two goalsagainst the Wildcats –– hisfirst career multi-goal effort ––and lifted his season scoringtotal to three.
The last time Knibbs scoreda goal was in the Knights’ sec-ond game of the season in a 3-1 loss against Furman.
Nine dif ferent Rutgersplayers scored at least onegoal this season, and that balance should fair well onthe road against a shaky DePaul squad.
The Blue Demons (4-7-2, 1-2-1) are 1-1-1 in their lastthree matches, which includea 2-0 loss to the No. 1 team inthe Red Division, SouthFlorida, and a 1-1 tie against Villanova.
DePaul averages two goalsper game in its past three con-tests as it welcomes theKnights to Wish Field.
After its match withDePaul, Rutgers has only fourconference games on theschedule before the season’send, with the most anticipatedmatch coming in the seasonfinale against USF.
— Staff Report
NOAH WHITTENBURG / ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Senior midfielder Bryant Knibbs notched his first career multiple-goal game against Villanovaearlier this week, and is fourth on the Knights with three goals.
RUTGERS AT DEPAUL, SATURDAY, 1 P.M.
MEN’S SOCCER
when the Knights compete in a variety ofcontests. The showcase features a slam dunkcompetition, shooting contests, player intro-ductions and a highlight video.
“I’m excited. I think it’s a good thing forus,” said sophomore guard Austin Carroll. “Ithink it’s a good thing for the school to getsome publicity out there and get peopleexcited for the season.”Carroll, along with eight other Knights, com-peted in the Jersey Shore Basketball Leagueduring the summer at St. Rose High Schoolin Belmar.
The summer league provided the firstglimpse of Rutgers’ future — six freshmensuited up — but tonight is its first appearanceon campus.
“It’s going to be nice because we’ve beenplaying against each other in empty arenasall summer,” said junior forward AustinJohnson. “JSBL was really nice because wehad a good outpouring of support. It’s reallynice to get back to that.”
Johnson and fellow junior Dane Millerwere the only remaining Knights who partic-ipated in the 2009 event under former headcoach Fred Hill Jr.
Rice held a similar event twice at RobertMorris, where he coached for three seasonsprior to arriving in Piscataway.
But the Knights’ road record is not a con-cern for head coach Glenn Crooks as the teamheads into its final road weekend of the season.
“To be honest with you, out of those fiveor six road games I can only look back andsay there was one where we were outplayedand did not play up to our standards,” Crookssaid. “All the others we played very, verywell. We just haven’t gotten the results.”
In order for the Knights to qualify for theBig East Championships, the results mustcome this weekend on the road.
And the offense, which scored only threegoals in six road matches this season, has to
score without the spark of sophomore for-ward Jonelle Filigno.
The Mississauga, Canada, native missedseven games while nursing an ankle injuryand is unavailable tonight against Louisville(7-5-3, 4-1-2) and Sunday against Cincinnati(5-7-4, 1-5-2).
Crooks described the team’s leading scor-er as being “week-to-week” and did not put atimetable on her return.
“It’s hard to say. It’s a very slow recovery,” hesaid. “She’s not going to travel this weekend.”
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T H E D A I L Y T A R G U M
BY TYLER BARTOASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
The Rutgers men’s basketball team getsits first opportunity to perform in front of anaudience at the College Avenue Gym tonight
at 9:30 p.m., when it hosts “Mid-Knight Madness.”
The event is thefirst under second-year head coach MikeRice, who steered the
Scarlet Knights to a 15-17 record last seasondespite only nine scholarship players.
The 2011-12 Knights are not as shorthanded.“Whether it’s size, athleticism and depth
— those three keys are how and why you winin this league,” Rice said. “I think we havethose. People are going to get excited aboutthe future of Rutgers basketball.”
Rice’s Class of 2011, his first full recruit-ing class, once ranked in the top 10 national-ly in all major recruiting services.
Freshman Kadeem Jack, who will not par-ticipate in the event because of injury,enrolled early and re-classified to the 2010recruiting class. The remaining six-memberclass ranked No. 24 overall, according toRivals.com.
The freshmen earn their first chance toplay in front of the Rutgers faithful tonight, SEE CLASS ON PAGE 14
THE DAILY TARGUM
Junior Dane Miller displayed an ability to finish around the rim in his first two years atRutgers and will participate in MidKnight Madness tonight at the College Avenue Gym.
MidKnight Madness eventintroduces heralded class
NOAH WHITTENBURG / ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Freshman forward Stefanie Scholz scored two of the Scarlet Knights’ three goals, with the latest coming last Friday in a 1-0 winagainst DePaul. The South Hackensack, N.J., native is tied for second on the team with two goals.
NJ rival paysvisit to RU forconference test
BY JOEY GREGORYSTAFF WRITER
Rutgers head volleyball coach C.J.Werneke is not thinking about the five Big
East losses the team suf-fered this season, or thehistory Rutgers has within-state rival Seton Hall.
He remains focusedon the present.
The Scarlet Knightsare only 1-5 in their last six matches against thePirates, who are 4-1 this year in Big East play.
Still, Werneke is only concentrating ontonight’s match at the College Avenue Gym.
The key to stopping the Knights’ two-game conference slide is a stronger offense,Werneke said.
“Our offense has been struggling latelytrying to find ways to score points,”Werneke said. “The players need to hit at ahigher percentage.”
Now in the heart of the Big East schedule,the offense needs to improve fast.
The opportunities are there, but the teamis not capitalizing on them as often as itshould be, he said.
The Knights need better ball control, andthe numbers back Werneke’s observations.
Although the Knights totaled 178 moreattacks than their opponents this season,their hit percentage is only .163, compared to.224 for their opponents.
In matches which the Knights record ahitting percentage of .250 or better, they area perfect 5-0. When their hitting percentagedips below .250, their record is only 2-15.
In addition to elevated play from theiroffense, the Knights need to maintain theirconsistent defense and passing to keep themin matches, Werneke said.
“We’ve been out-digging teams and pass-ing at a pretty high clip,” he said.
SETON HALL AT RUTGERS, TONIGHT, 6 P.M.
VOLLEYBALL
SEE TEST ON PAGE 13
BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
With eight points and three gamesremaining in conference play, the Rutgerswomen’s soccer team faces an uphill climb
in the Big EastNational Division.
The ScarletKnights (7-6-2, 2-4-2)also face the test ofplaying two of theirfinal three games on
