THE D AILY T ARGUM Volume 143, Number 47 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 COMEBACK KID Today: Sunny High: 60 • Low: 39 MONDAY NOVEMBER 7, 2011 Sophomore quarterback Chas Dodd led the Rutgers football team to a 20-17 comeback victory Saturday against South Florida. INDEX ONLINE @ DAILYTARGUM.COM DIVERSIONS ...... 14 CLASSIFIEDS ...... 16 The Women Farmers Project aims to teach Turkish women how farming can lead to sustainable life. New Jersey is holding a referendum to legalize sports betting in the Garden State. OPINIONS SPORTS ...... BACK UNIVERSITY OPINIONS ........ 12 UNIVERSITY ....... 3 Activists work to localize global Occupy protests BY ALEKSI TZATZEV ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR Occupy New Brunswick hopes to gain traction next week, sharing ambitions with its New York sister, two months after the Occupy Wall Street movement began. It started quietly last Wednesday at the steps of Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus, but more public protests are planned. Banks are once again at the heart of the problem in the minds of the “occupiers,” who decided to bring the worldwide move- ment to New Brunswick. “We are going to take on the banks here in New Brunswick,” said Jeannette Gabriel, an activist and University alumna. “This is about bringing Occupy Wall Street to people who want to do something in their own community and can’t get to New York every day.” The week of rallies bears the name, “Take on the Banks,” and has a theme for each day. It is planned to start Nov. 14 at 4 p.m. at the intersection of George Street and Albany Street, Gabriel said. “There are a lot of great activists in New Brunswick,” she said. “It’s a shame that we haven’t done something on Occupy sooner. Over and over again, we’ve heard people want to start something in their own community.” Gabriel said the movement would be a good way of bringing together student and community activists who were already involved in local issues. “This was initially called by community activists and we are trying to bridge that gap and all work together,” she said. Occupy New Brunswick has not communicated its plans with the City of New Brunswick yet, Gabriel said. “One of the themes of the Occupy Wall Street movement has been that the people don’t need permits and we are going to follow through with that,” she said. “We are going to be on the sidewalk and we are going to be utilizing public space.” Still in the prenatal stages of the Occupy New Brunswick movement, about 20 people — most of whom are students — stood in solidarity with the Occupy Oakland strike last Wednesday, which took the stage from Occupy Wall Street for the majority of the week. Students compete in a game of tug-of-war yesterday at the start of “Derby Days” in Buccleuch Park off College Avenue. The event launched a week of fundraising for the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. NELSON MORALES / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ‘Derby Days’ to benefit children’s charity BY YASHMIN PATEL STAFF WRITER The Iota Psi chapter of Sigma Chi fraternity hopes to break its own national record for amount of funds raised by a greek group this week, attempting to earn $100,000 through the annual “Derby Days”. Sigma Chi raised $95,000 last year through Derby Days, a weeklong event where seven sororities raise money through fundraising, school spirit events and donations, said Sagar Shah, “Derby Days” director. “The main objective of “Derby Days” is to raise as much money as possible for the Children’s Miracle Network and some of the other philan- thropies the sororities who participate are dedicated to,” said Shah, a Rutgers Business School senior. The Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals is one of the nation’s largest pediatric rehabilitation health care centers aimed at helping sick children across the country, he said. “Half of the money goes to the Children’s Miracle Network, which is Sigma Chi’s philanthropy,” Shah said. “The other half gets divided between the seven sororities.” While raising funds, the sororities will also compete against one another to win “Derby Days” by trying to earn the most points, he said. “[The sororities] get half of what they raised back,” he said. “If the win- ning team raised $20,000, they get $10,000, whereas if the losing team only raised $10,000, they only get $5,000 back.” The sororities that will participate with Sigma Chi are Alpha Chi Omega, Delta Gamma, Gamma Phi Beta, Phi Sigma Sigma, Sigma Delta Tau, Sigma Kappa and Zeta Tau Alpha, Shah said. Some of the events will include Penny Wars, a brotherhood SEE CHARITY ON PAGE 4 Deloatch family spokesman Walter Hudson, pictured at a past event, called on students Friday for help in seeking justice in the Barry Deloatch case. KEITH FREEMAN / PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR / FILE PHOTO Deloatch spokesman asks for student leader support BY ANASTASIA MILLICKER ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR Walter Hudson of the Community Awareness Alliance met with University student leaders this past weekend, inviting students to join the protest against police brutality in New Brunswick. Hudson, using a form letter provided by the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, created a rough draft of a let- ter with student representatives Friday afternoon addressing the U.S. Department of Justice for an investigation into the conduct of the New Brunswick Police Department. New Brunswick resident Barry Deloatch was fatally shot on Sept. 22 after an altercation with the NBPD. “This tragic event culminates years of concern about police practices,” according to a rough draft of the letter to Thomas Perez, assistant attorney general of the U.S. Department of Justice. Hudson and about 20 student leaders from more than one dozen student organ- izations — known together as Rutgers United Student Coalition — discussed the letter’s contents. They include actions to initiate reorganization of the NBPD’s policing in the community as well as requests for continued support and jus- tice for Deloatch. Hudson said because of Deloatch’s death and Sgt. Richard Rowe’s mishan- dling of 81 NBPD Internal Affairs com- plaints, there is a need for investigation from higher authorities. In the letter, Hudson and the student leaders referred to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 — the largest crime bill in U.S. history — as a basis for asking the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the matter. In response to both Deloatch’s and Rowe’s cases, the City of New Brunswick instilled a series of policy changes. One includes that after a com- plaint is filed and reviewed by the NBPD, it must also be reviewed by the Middlesex County’s Prosecutors office before it can be closed. EE PROTESTS ON PAGE 4 SEE SUPPORT ON PAGE 4 NATION ......... 9
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The Women FarmersProject aims to teachTurkish women howfarming can lead to sustainable life.
New Jersey is holding a referendum to legalize sports betting in the Garden State.
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Activists work to localize globalOccupy protests
BY ALEKSI TZATZEVASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
Occupy New Brunswick hopes to gain traction next week,sharing ambitions with its New York sister, two months after theOccupy Wall Street movement began.
It started quietly last Wednesday at the steps of BrowerCommons on the College Avenue campus, but more publicprotests are planned.
Banks are once again at the heart of the problem in the mindsof the “occupiers,” who decided to bring the worldwide move-ment to New Brunswick.
“We are going to take on the banks here in New Brunswick,”said Jeannette Gabriel, an activist and University alumna. “Thisis about bringing Occupy Wall Street to people who want to dosomething in their own community and can’t get to New Yorkevery day.”
The week of rallies bears the name, “Take on the Banks,”and has a theme for each day. It is planned to start Nov. 14 at4 p.m. at the intersection of George Street and Albany Street,Gabriel said.
“There are a lot of great activists in New Brunswick,” shesaid. “It’s a shame that we haven’t done something on Occupysooner. Over and over again, we’ve heard people want to startsomething in their own community.”
Gabriel said the movement would be a good way of bringingtogether student and community activists who were alreadyinvolved in local issues.
“This was initially called by community activists and we aretrying to bridge that gap and all work together,” she said.
Occupy New Brunswick has not communicated its plans withthe City of New Brunswick yet, Gabriel said.
“One of the themes of the Occupy Wall Street movementhas been that the people don’t need permits and we aregoing to follow through with that,” she said. “We are goingto be on the sidewalk and we are going to be utilizing public space.”
Still in the prenatal stages of the Occupy New Brunswickmovement, about 20 people — most of whom are students —stood in solidarity with the Occupy Oakland strike lastWednesday, which took the stage from Occupy Wall Street forthe majority of the week.
Students compete in a game of tug-of-war yesterday at the start of “Derby Days” in Buccleuch Park off CollegeAvenue. The event launched a week of fundraising for the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.
NELSON MORALES / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
‘Derby Days’ to benefit children’s charityBY YASHMIN PATEL
STAFF WRITER
The Iota Psi chapter of Sigma Chifraternity hopes to break its ownnational record for amount of fundsraised by a greek group this week,attempting to earn $100,000 throughthe annual “Derby Days”.
Sigma Chi raised $95,000 last yearthrough Derby Days, a weeklongevent where seven sororities raisemoney through fundraising, schoolspirit events and donations, said SagarShah, “Derby Days” director.
“The main objective of “DerbyDays” is to raise as much money as
possible for the Children’s MiracleNetwork and some of the other philan-thropies the sororities who participateare dedicated to,” said Shah, a RutgersBusiness School senior.
The Children’s Miracle NetworkHospitals is one of the nation’s largestpediatric rehabilitation health carecenters aimed at helping sick childrenacross the country, he said.
“Half of the money goes to theChildren’s Miracle Network, which isSigma Chi’s philanthropy,” Shah said.“The other half gets divided betweenthe seven sororities.”
While raising funds, the sororitieswill also compete against one another
to win “Derby Days” by trying to earnthe most points, he said.
“[The sororities] get half of whatthey raised back,” he said. “If the win-ning team raised $20,000, they get$10,000, whereas if the losing teamonly raised $10,000, they only get$5,000 back.”
The sororities that will participatewith Sigma Chi are Alpha Chi Omega,Delta Gamma, Gamma Phi Beta, PhiSigma Sigma, Sigma Delta Tau, SigmaKappa and Zeta Tau Alpha, Shah said.
Some of the events will includePenny Wars, a brotherhood
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Deloatch family spokesman Walter Hudson, pictured at a past event, calledon students Friday for help in seeking justice in the Barry Deloatch case.
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Deloatch spokesman asksfor student leader support
BY ANASTASIA MILLICKERASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
Walter Hudson of the CommunityAwareness Alliance met with Universitystudent leaders this past weekend, invitingstudents to join the protest against policebrutality in New Brunswick.
Hudson, using a form letter providedby the American Civil Liberties Union ofNew Jersey, created a rough draft of a let-ter with student representatives Fridayafternoon addressing the U.S.Department of Justice for an investigationinto the conduct of the New BrunswickPolice Department.
New Brunswick resident BarryDeloatch was fatally shot on Sept. 22 afteran altercation with the NBPD.
“This tragic event culminates years ofconcern about police practices,” accordingto a rough draft of the letter to ThomasPerez, assistant attorney general of theU.S. Department of Justice.
Hudson and about 20 student leadersfrom more than one dozen student organ-izations — known together as Rutgers
United Student Coalition — discussed theletter’s contents. They include actions toinitiate reorganization of the NBPD’spolicing in the community as well asrequests for continued support and jus-tice for Deloatch.
Hudson said because of Deloatch’sdeath and Sgt. Richard Rowe’s mishan-dling of 81 NBPD Internal Affairs com-plaints, there is a need for investigationfrom higher authorities.
In the letter, Hudson and the studentleaders referred to the Violent CrimeControl and Law Enforcement Act of 1994— the largest crime bill in U.S. history —as a basis for asking the U.S. Department
of Justice to investigate the matter. In response to both Deloatch’s and
Rowe’s cases, the City of NewBrunswick instilled a series of policychanges. One includes that after a com-plaint is filed and reviewed by theNBPD, it must also be reviewed by theMiddlesex County’s Prosecutors officebefore it can be closed.
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Faculty cultivates Turkish women’s agricultural skills BY SYJIL ASHRAFCONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Women Farmers Project,a program launched in part by aUniversity professor, centers ontraining Turkish women how togrow as farmers.
Robin Brumfield, a farm man-agement specialist at the School ofEnvironmental and BiologicalSciences, and Mick Minard, strate-gic communications consultant,created the program, which is mod-eled after Annie’s Project — an edu-cational initiative for women farm-ers in New Jersey.
Minard, who is also a photogra-pher, said all humans face two majorglobal challenges: climate changeand population growth, both ofwhich are being countered by sus-tainable farming practices.
“Women farmers … are criticalagents for enhancing agriculturaland rural development, povertyreduction and a healthier planet,”she said. “The Women FarmersProject… recognizes that womenfarmers are at the heart of innova-tive opportunities in agriculture,capable of social value and a moresustainable future.
Brumfield said she was moti-vated to extend the project after itproved successful in New Jersey.She contacted her friend, BurhanOzkan, a Department ofAgricultural Economics professorat Akdeniz University, who askedher to research gender analysis inthe Turkish greenhouse industry.
“I chose Turkey because mydaughter Suzanne is half Turkish,and I wanted to empower farm-women in her second country,” shesaid in an email from Antalya,
Turkey. “I [also] had an invitationfrom Akdeniz University in Antalyato conduct my sabbatical work in Turkey.”
Brumfield, Ozkan and Minardinterviewed farmwomen in theAntayla Province of Turkey inSeptember to create a pilot,Brumfield said. They developed twoprograms — one that focuses ongreenhouse tomato production, andthe other which focuses on citrus production.
Bedrullah Ercin, provincialdirector of food, agriculture and live-stock in Antalya Province, and aselect team of AgriculturalExtension Educators at TheMinistry of Food, Agriculture andLivestock (MINFAL) helped theteam find women and propose alocation and plan for the program,Brumfield said.
The purpose of the project is tohave the women develop businessplans for their farming, whichBrumfield said would help themsucceed and prosper in a regionwhere women are not usuallytaught such skills.
“Dr. Ozkan and I are teachingthe business management portionof the program,” she said. “TheExtension Educators are deliver-ing the technical program or bring-ing in technical experts fromAkdeniz University.”
Additionally, Minard will teachcomputer literacy, with a focus onnew media, marketing and informa-tion technologies for the manage-ment, promotion and profitability ofsmall- to medium-sized agriculturalenterprises, Brumfield said.
The three selected 45 womenfor the pilot program based on afixed criterion by MINFAL, which
Keziban Durmas is one of 45 Turkish women participating in The Women Farmers Project, a Universitypilot program aimed to educate them on how to grow as farmers for sustainable living.
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included being between the ages of25 and 45, married with one or twochildren and owning at least 0.4hundred acres of greenhouse area,she said.
All women were first-time partic-ipants and had to demonstrate a pas-sion for learning this field of study,Brumfield said.
“From our initial interviews …they seemed to see agriculture as …a way to make money to educatetheir children, but not somethingthey want their children to do,” she said.
But Brumfield hopes to see achange in their attitude toward farm-ing by providing them with the nec-
essary tools and resources to maketheir farms more profitable as a busi-ness the women could be proud of.
Minard said she wants to useher specialization in media and pho-tography to publicize the programand shed light on female agricultur-al enterprises and activities.
Brumfield said the WomenFarmers Project is turning out tobe as successful as its predeces-sor, Annie’s Project, sincewomen are much more respon-sive to this type of program thanany other demographic.
She said there is something sig-nificant and distinct about femalefarmers uniting for a cause that
inspires them to make Annie’sProject and the Turkish WomenFarmers Project as successful as it is.
The women of Antalya areinvolved in their program andhave found a great deal of inspira-tion, said Brumfield, who hopesshe herself contributed to thisflourishing mentality.
“The women are all doingtheir homework, completing theirbusiness plans, coming to all ofthe workshops and sharing witheach other,” she said. “Many ofthem bring cameras from hometo take pictures with me and havetold me I am their hero.”
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“The position of InternalAffairs is one of great trust andperhaps no greater within thepolice department,” Mayor JimCahill said at a press confer-ence last month. “When thattrust is violated, we have to …reinstill the confidence in thepolice department.”
At the press conference, Cahillsaid he wishes the results ofDeloatch’s investigation wouldarrive sooner, but noted there is areason for the wait.
“I understand why there is adelay in this matter because ittakes time to do the forensics,”he said.
But Michael Sutton, NewBrunswick Police BenevolenceAssociation president, reaffirmed
the organization’s support for theofficers in a statement releasedlast Thursday.
“Officers do not work theirshifts with the intent or desireto use deadly force,” he said inthe statement. “In cer taininstances, however, the use ofsuch force becomes necessaryfor police of ficers entrustedwith protecting the lives andsafety of the public.”
Sutton also asked that resi-dents wait for the results of theMiddlesex County Prosecutor’sinvestigation of the situationbefore passing judgment onNBPD officers.
“Recently, individuals out-side our community and a smallgroup within the individualsprotesting have attempted tocreate division between thecommunity and its policeforce,” he said. “This groupseeks to advance its own per-sonal and political agenda,
which is harmful to the inter-ests of our community.”
Hudson said University stu-dents are a part of the NewBrunswick community andshould be involved in communi-ty activities such as freeholder,school board and city council meetings.
“The University has beendirectly af fected,” he said. “Noone is immune from the com-munity, from the college stu-dents to regular citizens, whohave been living in the community.”
John Connelly, a member ofthe Rutgers United StudentCoalition, said the meeting withHudson on Friday was to callout to the justice department toaddress other potentialinstances of police brutality inNew Brunswick.
Connelly, who is also vicepresident of the RutgersUniversity Student Assembly,
said the students plan to continuethe discussion.
Hudson and students spokeduring a video chat Sunday after-noon about suggested actions forthe student body to take.
“[I] told them that the firstpriority [is for] student organi-zations to enforce this letterand get it sent out,” Hudson said.
Donggu Yoon, a RUSC mem-ber, said the meeting generallycalled for an end to police brutality.
“The letter will be from theNew Brunswick community tothe assistant attorney generalsaying that the problem is notjust a New Brunswick issue,rather it is going on across thenation,” said Yoon, a School ofArts and Sciences senior.
Students can personallyendorse the letter or have theirrespective groups endorse theletter, he said. He also encour-
aged students to participate incity council meetings.
The turn out for the phoneconference was limited becauseit was a weekend and a few daysbefore Election Day on Nov. 8.But there are hopes to holdanother phone conference andmeeting within the next week,Yoon said.
Hudson said he was in theprocess of contacting otherhuman rights groups, includingreaching out to the state presi-dent of the NationalAssociation for theAdvancement of ColoredPeople and the First Baptist Church.
There is a meeting scheduledwith Deloatch’s sons, NAACPPresident of Metuchen ReggieJohnson, Deloatch supporters andthe Middlesex County Prosecutor’sOffice Nov. 14 at 10 a.m. to addressthe lack of response from the city,Hudson said.
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auction and a lip sync dance competition.
“‘Penny Wars’ takes place out-side the steps of Brower, andevery team gets a five-gallonwater jug,” Shah said. “Peoplecan drop pennies in there, andevery penny is a positive point.Other coins like a nickel or dimeis a negative point.”
Another fundraising eventinvolves auctioning off the mem-bers of Sigma Chi.
“The brothers get auctionedoff for a date to whatever sorority
bids on them,” Shah said. “Lastyear, that event alone raised$20,000. Some guys got boughtout for $1,000 or $2,000.”
The sororities will compete onstage in a dance competition at theLivingston Student Center on thelast day of “Derby Days,” he said.
“It’s the biggest event. Thereare 1,200 guests that attend it …we invite people’s parents, all ofour friends on campus and all theother fraternities to come over[to] watch this performance,”Shah said.
Sigma Chi faced the obstacleof ensuring full participation ofthe sororities, he said. Forinstance, some of the sororities’initiation events conflict with theevents of the week.
“It was really tough, but every-one understands that this is sucha huge event and so everyonekind of worked around it, founddifferent schedules and movedtheir initiation days so that wecan make it work this week,”Shah said.
Sarah Curtin, coordinator of“Derby Days” for Gamma PhiBeta, said the sorority supportsthe cause to help others. It alsobrings the chapter togethertoward a common goal, she said.
“It’s important for people tosupport “Derby Days” becauseall the money raised goestoward local camps and hospi-tals in our community,” saidCurtin, a School of Arts andSciences junior.
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Michael Carr, one of the organ-izers and a School of Arts andSciences senior, said more wouldcome, including Wednesday meet-ings at 7 p.m. at the Scarlet Lattein Alexander Library on theCollege Avenue campus.
“We are trying to gear up andraise interest in the movement,”he said, still unsure of the details.
Carr said in addition to eco-nomic turmoil themovement will tryto battle, protesterswill continue amuch-polarized dis-cussion of policebrutality, which hastaken root in thecity over the lasttwo months.
“We are verygrassroots,” Carrsaid. “There are aton of people whocame to organizethis from differentareas, and we are trying to workand build it together.”
Students who decided to jointhe movement early on held dif-ferent views on what had tochange — banks’ policies, policebrutality or workers’ rights —but all agreed on the necessity ofOccupy New Brunswick.
As a member of a single-par-ent family, School of Arts andSciences senior Kaye Toal saidstudent debt is a problem affect-ing her and her classmates.
“My mom worries aboutmoney a lot, so I’m here [at the
University] basically on schol-arships and grants, so I should-n’t be in as much debt as I am,”she said.
School of Arts and Sciencessenior Shayna Slininger said shewould like to see PresidentBarack Obama address theOccupy movements so protesterscould make informed decisions.
She compared some of theU.S. government’s treatment ofpeople to that of dictators whomthe United States has unseated.
“We as an American popula-tion have gone into other coun-tries for the same reasons which
[we] are fightingagainst here andsaved citizensfrom their gov-ernments fromabusing them,”Slininger said.
Carr said hehoped NewB r u n s w i c kcould gatherenough peopleto make a differ-ence despite thelow turnout onthe steps of
Brower Commons, which hefound disappointing.
“This is more about gettingthe word out and getting theinformation out and hopefully bea bigger part of the whole move-ment,” he said.
The week of “Take on theBanks” rallies will begin nextMonday with “We are the 99Percent,” which will be followedby protests on foreclosure, work-ers’ rights and police brutalityalong with “We are the Future”that focuses on student debt, inthe days following.
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Six Deadly Venoms, a Brooklyn bluegrass folk group, performs Friday at the annual “Scarlet Harvest” onSkelley Field on Cook/Douglass campus. Hosted by the Rutgers University Programming Association,the festival featured a corn maze and pumpkin carvings. Go to DailyTargum.com for a video.
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WELCOMING FALL
“I’m here basicallyon scholarships
and grants, so I shouldn’t be in as much debt
as I am.” KAYE TOAL
School of Arts and Sciences Senior
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Pharmacy groups educate public at diabetes walkBY LISA BERKMANCONTRIBUTING WRITER
BRIDGEWATER —Extending beyond the Universitycommunity, students from fourdifferent pharmacy on campusgroups spent yesterday at “StepOut: Walk to Stop Diabetes” toeducate more than 900 partici-pants on the disease.
“[Each organization] put togeth-er materials, posters discussingdiabetes and interactive projects tobring more awareness to thepatients and help them better man-age their conditions,” said XiaoZhang, National CommunityPharmacists Association president.
The walk, sponsored by theAmerican Diabetes Association atTD Bank Ballpark in Bridgewater,featured a rise in the number ofpre-registered walkers, said ErinGeiger, manager of fundraising andspecial events at the AmericanDiabetes Association.
The purpose of the event wasto inform members of the commu-nity about the risks and realities ofdiabetes, a disease that affects mil-lions of Americans, said ClementChen, a member of the Universitychapter of the NCPA.
Members of the University’sNCPA, American PharmacistsAssociation, Academy ofManaged Care Pharmacy andStudent National PharmaceuticalAssociation set up their booths atthe event in partnership with theAmerican Diabetes Association.
Zhang, an Ernest MarioSchool of Pharmacy graduate stu-dent, said the resources weredesigned to be hands-on to
enhance the learning experiencefor participants.
“This year we have lots of infor-mation,” said Chen, an ErnestMario School of Pharmacy graduatestudent. “We’re providing self-carediaries, monitoring books and hand-outs for medication adherence.”
Glucose meters were also setup as an additional medical serv-ice, an improvement from the pre-vious year, Chen said.
Other than awareness, thepharmacy organizations focusedon charity.
“We raised money to donate,”Zhang said. “We made announce-ments in all the pharmacy classestalking about the event, asking peo-ple to donate whatever they have.”
At the walk, the groups set upactivities with informative compo-nents geared toward children.
“There’s a haunted trail,there’s trick-or-treating, there’spumpkin picking and pumpkindecorating,” said Nickita Rokad,president of the AMCP. “There’s alot of Halloween-related themesand games.”
Chen said the pharmacy stu-dents showed demonstrative proj-ects for the younger participation atthe walk, since children tend tolose interest if they are not involvedwith something hands-on.
In one project, the studentsmeasured the amount of sugar invarious sodas. The students alsohosted Jeopardy games with dia-betes facts.
Rokad said the active assis-tance the pharmacy studentsdemonstrated reflects an effort inthe school to improve relationsbetween patients and pharmacists.
“There’s a lot of health care lit-eracy initiative going on in ourpharmacy school, because cer-tain basic questions might besomething patients might notunderstand,” said Rokad, anErnest Mario School ofPharmacy graduate student.
Zhang said she believes openand accessible information was animportant component of the walk.
“They don’t have to do anothertrip to the pharmacy,” Zhang said.“We’re providing another avenueto ask questions.”
Geiger said an ask-the-expertarea at the walk was a positiveresource for attendees.
“The ask-the-expert area has alot of different professionals, likepodiatrists and diabetes educa-tors, but I think you get a reallydiverse choice of different people
with different kinds of informa-tion,” she said.
Some visitors at the walk foundthe various resources to be helpful.
“I got good information thistime on what you eat and how itraises your sugar,” said FranWojcik, a Perth Amboy resident.“This is really an adjunct to any-thing the doctors would tell us.”
Elise Storch, a Bridgewatermother whose niece was diag-nosed with Type 1 diabetes twoyears ago, said she believesawareness is vital to the progres-sion of medical research.
“It’s raising money,” Storch said.“They need to come up with a curefor this terrible disease, as it’s affect-ed the lives of so many people.”
Theresa Zupko, a Middlesexresident who is a borderlinediabetic, said she hopes
through generating awarenessand raising enough funds, acure can be discovered.
“If they could find a cure andget rid of it so we don’t have tostab ourselves, that’d be great,”she said.
The event drew in othersattendees like Roy Lawrence ofBound Brook, who walked in sup-port of relatives with diabetes.
“Both my parents died from dia-betes complications, so I did this intheir honor,” Lawrence said.
Some attendees said theyviewed the event as moreinformative than a regular visitto the doctor.
“Sometimes you say, ‘Ah,[the doctors] aren’t telling thetruth,’” Wojcik said. “But thesepeople really seem to care, you know?”
Participants in yesterday’s “Step Out: Walk to Stop Diabetes” browse awareness booths manned by students from University pharmacy organizations at TD Bank Ballpark in Bridgewater.
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“Humanism Around the World” is an event featuring DebbieGoddard, a former student activist and now campus out-reach coordinator for the Center For Inquiry and director ofAfrican-Americans for Humanism of the Council for SecularHumanism. She will talk about the state of humanismspreading to different continents at 7:30 p.m. in MeetingRoom E of the Douglass Campus Center. Goddard is report-ing back after attending the 18th World Congress of theInternational Humanist and Ethical Union, where she metwith more than 500 humanist leaders from 50 countries andsix continents. Humanist Chaplain Barry Klassel, saidhumanist goals include “peace, justice, and opportunity forall” in a “world of mutual care and concern, free of crueltyand its consequences, where differences are resolved coop-eratively without resorting to violence.” For more informa-tion visit rutgershumanist.org.
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Dance! Drums! Devotion! Bhatki’s award winning SacredSounds is back. Join the extraordinary kirtan bands Guaraand the Mayapuris from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. at the RutgersStudent Center Multipurpose Room for an electrifyingevening of musical meditations, exotic drumming, entranc-ing dance and free cultural food. Sample the experience byvisiting bhatkiclub.org/sacredsounds.
Rutgers South Asian Students in Sciences will host a “MovieNight” at 8 p.m. at the Busch Campus Center in Center Hall.They will be screening “Inception.” Food will be provided forfree. For more information email [email protected].
“The Power of Genomics” is featured Executive Dean’sDistinguished Lecture featuring Debashish Bhattacharya.Lecture begins at 6 p.m. followed by a reception in WinantsHall General Assembly Room on the College Avenue cam-pus. Bhattacharya will discuss how his fascination withmarine biology while training in Atlantic and Pacific Canadaled him to begin exploring single cell genomics to answerimportant questions about biodiversity and the evolution oflife forms. For more information visit discov-ery.rutgers.edu/debashish.html.
The Rutgers University Programming Association is host-ing an event with Jamie Tworkowsi, founder of “To WriteLover on Her Arms,” to bring his message of hope and helpto those dealing with depression, addiction and thoughts ofsuicide at 8 p.m. at the Rutgers Student CenterMultipurpose Room.
Join the Zimmerli Student Advisory Board for the “3rdAnnual Student Masquerade Ball.” Do not miss out on deli-cious Italian food, the chance to win a variety of raffle prizes,a waltz lesson from RU Ballroom and hours on the dancefloor as a night in the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museumon the College Avenue campus turns into “A Night inVenice!” Masks will be provided, but feel free to bring yourown. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and formal attire is requiredfor entry. Rutgers University Programming Associationcosponsors the event. Tickets are on sale now and are onlyavailable online. To purchase your ticket visit pay-page.scholarchip.com/?university_id=100000010801.
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Informant aids drug bustsfor more than 15 years
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NEW YORK — The mostbankable star witness at the trialof an ex-Soviet officer known asthe Merchant of Death was a for-mer drug dealer turned U.S. gov-ernment-sponsored actor whobecame one of the highest paidinformants in history.
Carlos Sagastume, 40, earnedmore than $9 million over 15 yearsby convincing drug dealers and aweapons merchant that he was asbad — if not worse — than they.
Collecting evidence againstViktor Bout was another majorachievement in a remarkablecareer for Sagastume. He posedas a member of the RevolutionaryArmed Forces of Colombia, alsoknown as the FARC, to coax Boutto travel from Russia to Thailandin March 2008 to arrange to senddeadly weapons to Colombianrebels to fight Americans.
The monthlong trial in federalcourt in Manhattan endedWednesday with Bout’s convic-tion on conspiracy charges. Thearms dealer, an inspiration for thecharacter playedby Nicolas Cagein the 2005 film“Lord of War,”faces a potentiallife sentence.
S a g a s t u m emade most of hismillions throughthe StateD e p a r t m e n t ’ sN a r c o t i c sR e w a r d sProgram, collecting $7.5 millionfrom two rewards for work he didfor the Drug EnforcementAdministration. Another $1.6 mil-lion was earned through work on150 investigations, though someof the money covered expenses.
He was paid $250,000 for theBout probe. In all, the StateDepartment paid more than $62million in rewards since Congressestablished the program in 1986to reward individuals who provideinformation to help arrest andconvict drug dealers.
Myrna Raeder, aSouthwestern Law School profes-sor, said she found it interestingthat Sagastume lived a life of dis-guise for so long.
“One would think that one’scover would be blown much earli-er,” she said. “This sounds likefodder for a movie with that kindof background.”
Thomas Pasquarello, a formerDEA special agent who headedthe Bout probe in Thailand, saidSagastume was among the DEA’sbest informants.
“If you’re looking at big fish,you need big bait,” he said. “That’swhat guys like Carlos are good at.They’re pros at what they do andthey have deep connections.”
A good informant risks his lifeand can fake underground con-nections to reassure someone likeBout that he’s authentic, he said.
“Look at Viktor Bout. He wasn’tgoing to fall for a rookie informant.Guys like that could see through arookie undercover in five min-utes,” said Pasquarello, now chiefof police in Somerset, Mass.
The Guatemalan-bornSagastume did not seem a likelycandidate to be a prosecutor’s
best friend when he begantransporting drugs — after hefinished a five-year stint inGuatemala’s Army, where hespecialized in gathering intelli-gence on subversive activityand guerrilla activists.
Speaking through an inter-preter —even though he couldbe heard on taped conversa-tions speaking English — hetestified at Bout’s trial that hewas paid $450,000 for helpingtransport up to 3,000 kilos ofcocaine and $3 million in cashfor drug organizations.
He said that after he was kid-napped by federal police inMexico and a $60,000 ransomwas paid to free him, he contact-ed the DEA in Guatemala, look-ing for a new line of work.
By 1998, he had moved to theUnited States and was steadilydelivering successful results inDEA investigations.
In January 2008, he was sum-moned to join a sting operationdesigned to catch Bout, who wasknown as a supplier of weaponsthat fueled civil wars in South
America, theMiddle East andAfrica. His clientsranged fromLiberia’s CharlesTaylor and Libyanleader MoammarGadhafi to theTaliban govern-ment that onceran Afghanistan.
S a g a s t u m ewas assigned to
pose as a FARC member whowanted to buy 100 surface-to-airmissiles, 20,000 AK-47 rifles,350 sniper rifles, 5 tons of C-4explosives and 10 millionrounds of ammunition, amongother weapons. He teamed upwith Ricardo Jardenero, 52, aColombian-born informant whoposed as “The Commandant,” acommanding of ficer in theFARC, classified by Washingtonas a narco-terrorist group.
Jardenero was one of theDEA’s better paid informants aswell, making $500,000 duringfour years working undercover.He was paid $320,000 for theBout probe.
Like Sagastume, Jardeneroalso was a former drug dealerwho could project himself like arebel commander after a decadein the Colombian Army and timespent shipping weapons for aparamilitary group that opposedthe FARC.
Karen Greenberg, a historyprofessor at Fordham LawSchool, said large payoutsmake sense in pursuit of tar-gets like Osama bin Laden andBout as the governmentrewards informants who livedin a criminal world themselveslong enough to mimic the lan-guage and attitudes of thosethey must catch.
“You still have to be carefulwith how much governmentmoney you’re throwingaround,” she said. “Once thatkind of money is out there forthe pool of people who canhelp, it will be harder and hard-er to discern who you cantrust. Who wouldn’t take thatkind of money?”
MESA, Ariz. — The architectof the groundbreaking Arizonaimmigration law that thrust theissue into the national politicaldebate faces a recall electiontomorrow likely to be viewed as areferendum on the state’s hard-line immigration policies.
The effort to oust state Sen.Russell Pearce, R-Ariz., has trans-formed a normally quiet legisla-tive district in a Phoenix suburbinto a closely watched battle-ground on immigration that alsofeatures issues such as schoolfunding cuts and state mandateson local governments.
People on both sides of thedebate believe that removingPearce would send a powerfulmessage to the Legislature thatuncompromising stands on immi-gration and other issues will notbe tolerated by voters. On the flipside, a Pearce victory will say atough stance on illegal immigra-tion is just what voters demand.
“The folks running the recallare trying to send a message tothe rest of the Legislature that ifthey can take out Russell Pearce,then they can take out any one ofus, and to get us to stop runningbills against illegal immigration,”said Republican Sen. Ron Gould.
Pearce is facing fellowRepublican Jerry Lewis, a charterschool executive and formeraccountant who hopes his candi-dacy will help the district andArizona shed false images asbeing home to intolerance. Theelection marks the first time inArizona that a sitting legislatorhas faced a recall.
It’s a surprising turnaroundfor Pearce, who was riding high ayear ago with enactment of theimmigration enforcement lawknown as SB1070 and his eleva-tion to the Arizona Senate’s topleadership post.
But then came the recall drive,the state Senate’s surprisingrejection last spring of a handfulof Pearce-backed immigrationmeasures and disclosures that
he’d accepted numerous freetrips to college football games,courtesy of the Fiesta Bowl.
The race has also been note-worthy for some its viciousattacks, campaign shenanigansand relatively large spending for alegislative race.
Pearce is going head-to-headagainst Lewis, although the nameof a mystery third candidate willappear on ballots despite the factthat she dropped out. A court bat-tle over the candidate, OliviaCortes, revealed that Pearce sup-porters helped her get on the bal-lot in an effort to dilute the voteagainst him. Ballots cast for herwon’t count, but they could stillsiphon votes away from Lewis.
Advocates on both sides ofthe immigration debate said theelection likely would have mini-mal impact nationally becausemost people concerned with theissue have fairly set positions.But the stakes in Arizona areseen as higher.
A rare Republican lawmakerpublicly supporting Lewis, Sen.Rich Crandall, said that the elec-tion outcome could af fectArizona politics and the tone ofthe Legislature.
“The tone is going to be whatare the real solutions to real prob-lems,” the Mesa lawmaker said.
The GOP-dominatedLegislature has taken a forcefulrole on several conservativecauses in recent years, includingbusiness tax cuts, school privateschool vouchers, abortion lim-its, gun rights, union restric-tions and immigration.
Nationally, Pearce gainednotice when he won approval ofa 2007 state law requiringArizona employers to use a fed-eral system to check newemployees’ work eligibility.
He followed that up in 2010with enactment of a sweepingimmigration enforcement lawknown as SB1070.
A federal judge has blockedimplementation of key provisionsof SB1070 and an appeal is pend-ing before the U.S. Supreme
Court, but Pearce’s stock soaredamong immigration hardlinersand other states moved to enacttheir own versions.
Recall backers didn’t empha-size the immigration issue,instead focusing on sayingPearce was giving short shrift toconcerns about education, healthcare and the economy.
Pearce denies that and pointsto his wide-ranging legislativerecord on concerns rangingfrom gun rights to business taxcuts. And despite what his oppo-nents say, Pearce says he’s beentargeted by critics of his immi-gration legislation.
“They’re trying to hide thatissue,” he said in an interview.
Lewis, who was not part ofthe recall campaign, said hisapproach on immigration wouldbe to do more to forge consen-sus for comprehensive action.“The image that people have ofus is something that we’re not,”he said.
Supporters of both candidatessaid the race is close, and votersinterviewed outside the citylibrary said SB1070 and its spon-sor were concerns for them.
When asked about her deci-sion to vote for Lewis, Mesa resi-dent and Democrat BarbaraBryan responded: “He’s notRussell Pearce. It’s the negativetone about too many things.”
Leslie Ann Cluf f, aRepublican, said she supportsPearce “just became I’m againstillegal aliens, and he helped toget that law passed.”
Pearce has endorsementsfrom Gov. Jan Brewer and dozensof other elected Republicanofficeholders, while his pre-elec-tion campaign finance reportshows that his Senate presidencyand his role in promoting immi-gration legislation provided himwith a more than 3-to-1 fundrais-ing advantage over Lewis.
Out-of-state contributorsaccounted for a fifth of Pearce’s1,800 individual donors, and mostof the Arizonans had addressesoutside Mesa.
Incumbent state Sen. Russell Pearce, R-Ariz., above, and rival Republican Jerry Lewis have uppedtheir district race with a battle over immigration stances and school funding cuts.
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Roman Catholic parishes to use new translation at massTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
RIVER EDGE, N.J. — EachSunday for decades, RomanCatholic priests have offeredthe blessing — “Lord be withyou.” And each Sunday, parish-ioners would respond, “Andalso with you.”
Until this month.Come Nov. 27, the response
will be, “And with your spirit.”And so will begin a small revolu-tion in a tradition-rich faith.
At the end of the month,parishes in English-speakingcountries will begin to use a newtranslation of the Roman Missal,the ritual text of prayers andinstructions for celebratingMass. International committeesof specialists worked under aVatican directive to hew close tothe Latin, sparking often bitterprotests by English speakersover phrasing and readability.After years of revisions negotiat-ed by bishops’ conferences andthe Holy See, dioceses arepreparing anxious clergy andparishioners for the rollout, oneof the biggest changes inCatholic worship in generations.
“We’re tinkering with a veryintimate and personal moment,”said the Rev. Richard Hilgartner,executive director of the worshipoffice for the U.S. Conference ofCatholic Bishops. “It’s publicworship, it’s the church’s officialpublic prayer, but for the individ-ual faithful, it’s one of the pri-mary means of their encounterwith the Lord.”
The biggest challenge will befor priests, who must learn intri-
cate new speaking parts — oftenlate in their years of service tothe church. At an Archdiocese ofNewark training at St. Peter theApostle Church in River Edge,many clergy had just received afinal published copy of theMissal, a thick hardcover boundin red, accompanied by an equal-ly dense study guide. Earlierdrafts had been available for ori-entation sessions that have beenongoing for months nationwide.
Many clergy are upset by thenew language, calling it awkwardand hard to understand. The Rev.Tom Iwanowski, pastor of St.Joseph Roman Catholic Churchin Oradell and New Milford, N.J.,turned to the section of the newmissal that calls funeral rites, “thefraternal offices of burial.”
“How can I say those words? Itdoesn’t make sense,” saidIwanowski, who has been a priestfor 36 years. “It separates religionfrom real life.”
In the new translation, in theNicene Creed, the phrase “one inBeing with the Father,” willchange to “consubstantial withthe Father.” When a priest praysover the Holy Communion breadand wine, he will ask God forblessings “by sending down yourspirit upon them like the dewfall.”
The new missal grew out ofchanges in liturgy that startedwith the Second Vatican Council,the 1960s meetings on moderniz-ing the church that permittedMass in local languages insteadof Latin. Bishops in English-speaking countries created theInternational Commission onEnglish in the Liturgy to under-
take the translation. The panelproduced a missal by 1973, butthat version was considered tem-porary until better texts could becompleted. As the commissionworked to make the Mass morefamiliar in idiomatic English,some of the language strayedfrom the Latin. Also in somecases, the commission sought touse language that would be gen-der neutral.
The work took a new directionin 2001, when the Vatican office incharge of worship issued thedirective Liturgiam Authenticam,or Authentic Liturgy, whichrequired translations closer to theLatin. The Vatican also appointedanother committee, Vox Clara, orClear Voice, to oversee theEnglish translation, drawing com-plaints from some clergy andliturgists that the Vatican wascontrolling what should be amore consultative process.(Cardinal George Pell, theSydney, Australia, archbishop andchairman of Vox Clara, has calledthe complaints baseless and ideo-logically driven.)
The Rev. Anthony Ruff, aBenedictine monk and theologyprofessor at St. John’s Universityin Minnesota, said he wasremoved last year as head of themusic panel of the internationaltranslating commission becauseof criticisms he posted on hisblog. In an open letter to U.S.bishops published in the Jesuitmagazine America, Ruff can-celled his plans to speak on thetext to diocesan priests because,“I cannot promote the new missaltranslation with integrity.”
In South Africa, church offi-cials accidentally introducedmuch of the new text in parishesahead of schedule in late 2008,generating similar complaintsabout ponderous language,although church officials now saymost parishioners have adapted.
Jeffrey Tucker, a lay musicianat St. Michael the ArchangelCatholic Church in Auburn, Ala.,said he also had concerns abouthow the translation was handled.Still, he said he found the newmissal “extraordinary.” The textand music are truly integrated forthe first time since the changesfrom the Second Vatican Council,Tucker said. He has been intro-ducing the new text to lay peopleand church leaders in recentmonths, and has found the reac-tion to mostly be, “Oh, wow.’“
“The language is more accu-rate, but that is the most boringthing you can say about it. Themore important thing about thelanguage is that it’s beautiful,”said Tucker who is managing edi-tor of Sacred Music, the journal ofthe Church Music Association ofAmerica. “Hardly anything evergood comes out of a committee.This time it did.”
Parishes around the UnitedStates have spent the summertrying to prepare church mem-bers for what’s ahead. Priestshave been discussing thechanges in homilies, in notices inparish bulletins, and in work-shops and webinars. Many clergyplan to use poster-sized laminatedcue cards for parishioners as thenew text is introduced. The intro-duction of the new text comes on
the first Sunday of Advent, justahead of the Christmas season —a time when infrequent churchgo-ers attend services.
The Catholic Community atPleasanton, Calif., which serves5,000 families in the Diocese ofOakland, has been organizingministry training sessions andtown hall meetings for parish-ioners to ask questions andexpress concerns. Mark J.Sullivan, the church music direc-tor, said he has seen reactionsrange from people fully embrac-ing the change to others asking,“Why now?”
“They say, ‘I’ve got every-thing memorized. Why are youmessing with it?’“ Sullivan said.“If people do get a little nerv-ous, it because things are in adif ferent place, and it is morecontent, but it’s more for greatreasons. We’ve got more towork with.”
The Rev. Michael Ryan, pas-tor of St. James Cathedral inSeattle, started an online peti-tion called, “What If We JustSaid Wait,” that drew more than22,000 signatures from clergy,lay people, liturgists and othersaround the world, who urged alimited, one-year introductionof the new translation followedby an evaluation before the textwas adopted across the country.
Despite the protest, Ryan saidhe has been preparing parish-ioners for the change and he willbe ready to recite the new text onNov. 27.
“I’m not going to stand apartfrom the church,” Ryan said.
are certainly not correlated,I will concentrate on themoney factor.
In fact, a study conductedin 2008 shows that womenwho have an income of$21,600 get 69 percent of allabortions performed. Nowyou may be thinking that I’mmaking just as ridiculous of
a claim as Cain is. There’s no divide in incomebetween black and white, right? Wrong — the factsstate otherwise. A 2009 survey showed that themean income of whites was $73,240 per year.However, the mean income of blacks was shown tobe $46,046. This is an extremely significant differ-ence, as it shows that there is a larger percentage oflow-income blacks than whites.
So this means that a black person’s salary islikely to be lower than a white person’s. There is noneed to dance around it. These are the statistics
talking. So that means that if you gointo a low-income area, it is morelikely that you will encounter a blackperson than a white person. If thereis a Planned Parenthood in that area,it isn’t because black people livethere — it’s because it’s a low-income neighborhood, and poorerpeople tend to have more of a needfor abortions.
The only way to fix this discrep-ancy is if our society acknowledges that every-thing was not instantly fixed after Martin LutherKing Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. We have torecognize that after 300 years of slavery followedby 100 years of institutionalized discrimination, itis ridiculous to expect that things could possiblygo back to normal just like that. The only waythat we can bridge this gap is through a consci-entious effort to patch up inequality. We need towork on building up these low-income areas andproviding equal opportunities. If we can do this,then maybe you will see a smaller proportion ofblacks getting abortions.
So if you really want to take care of race rela-tions in this country, you should actually do some-thing to change them in the long run and go afterthe underlying sociological issues that lie at thebottom of the inequalities in the United States.Instead, Cain is ignoring the real issues by choos-ing to live in a terrible “Lifetime” movie wherePlanned Parenthood spearheads a conspiratorialgenocide against black people.
Lee Seltzer is a School of Arts and Sciences juniormajoring in history and economics. His column,“‘Simplee’ Put,” runs on alternate Mondays.
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Y our job should never make you do something you feel morallyuncomfortable with. Such an employment ideal is the motiva-tion behind the lawsuit filed by a group of nurses against the
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. The nurses claimthat despite the fact that they object to abortion on religious or moralgrounds, UMDNJ subjected them to training procedures that madethem aid in the process anyway. The nurses argue that if they aremorally opposed to the act of abortion, they should have the right toabstain from helping with the procedure without threat of penalty.Until the lawsuit moves forward in court, UMDNJ says it will notrequire nurses to train for abortion scenarios. Frankly, there is no rea-son why UMDNJ should grant the nurses the ability to abstain. If theyare uncomfortable with medical procedures, these people should nothave become nurses in the first place.
There are plenty of people who object to abortion for all sorts of rea-sons (usually morally grounded), and we do not wish to debate herewhether or not abortion is right. The fact of the matter is that abortionis legal in the state of New Jersey, where these nurses are employed ortraining. Because abortion is legal, most medical providers who havethe capability to provide it will in fact provide it. It follows that if some-one does not want to be involved in the abortion process, they shouldnot pursue a job that makes abortion one of their duties. Working ortraining at UMDNJ — as is the case with most hospitals in the state —will most definitely put someone in a position where abortion couldpotentially be something they have to do.
To offer a comparison: Imagine you are a vegetarian because yourmorals or religion dictates it. If you work at a restaurant that servesmeat, and you told your boss that you refuse to serve meat to the cus-tomers because you object to eating meat, she would probably fire youbecause you failed to fulfill your employment duties. The same logicapplies to these nurses.
T he race card is usedexceptionally oftenin politics. Don’t get
me wrong — sometimes Ithink claims regardingracist policy are legitimate.However, many politiciansand activists bring up raceat inappropriate times andcontexts. A striking exam-ple of this was demonstrated last week whenRepublican presidential candidate Herman Cainrepeated his accusations that PlannedParenthood engages in “planned genocide”against blacks when setting up facilities in pre-dominantly black neighborhoods. Moreover, hestated that the mission of Planned Parenthoodwas and currently is to prevent “black babiesfrom being born.”
Cain is correct about one thing — black womendo represent a disproportionate amount of abor-tions from Planned Parenthood. Infact, black women are almost fivetimes more likely than white womento get an abortion. The questionremains as to why this is the case.
Cain believes PlannedParenthood is actively engaging ingenocide. By this logic, those activein the organization must meet andcook up schemes to get black peopleto get abortions. However, any half-intelligent mind can gather that this is completelyabsurd. There are two possible explanations toCain’s thinking. One is that he is part of the factionthat genuinely believes Planned Parenthood isengaging in genocide and should be put on thesame level as the Nazi Party and the Ku Klux Klan.If this is the case, he is quite possibly an insaneman. The other possibility is that he’s simply play-ing the race card in a pathetic attempt to combinethe need to attract black voters with a need to sat-isfy social conservatives. If this is the case, he ismanipulative and insulting the intelligence of theblack demographic he is trying to attract whilesimultaneously belittling victims of actual geno-cides like the one in Darfur. Regardless of which istrue, it isn’t exactly the best rhetoric to use duringa presidential campaign.
At the same time though, if PlannedParenthood is not committing genocide, why areso many blacks getting abortions? To answer this,you must think deeply about what drives a personto get an abortion in the first place. There are twoprimary reasons. One is that you are not confidentthat you are responsible enough to have a child,and the other is that you do not have enoughmoney to raise the child. As responsibility and race
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See value in legalizingsports betting in NJ
Nurses must consentto provide legal care
A s it stands today, betting on sports teams in New Jersey is ille-gal — along with marijuana, passing on the right and pumpingour own gas. The Garden State, though largely tolerant of
other forms of gambling in places like Atlantic City in South Jersey, isjust one out of 46 states that prohibit individuals from betting on sportsunder the 1992 federal Professional and Amateur Sports ProtectionAct — unfortunate, maybe, for all the avid sport fans out there lookingto wager their last dollar on the next Giants game.
Luckily this could all change with the passing of next Tuesday’selection. A non-binding referendum is set to be included on the ballotthat will ask voters whether or not they approve of allowing betting onprofessional sports teams. For many, it will be the first step in a longprocess to bring sports betting to the Garden State in an effort to revi-talize Atlantic City casinos — the state’s ailing gambling community —and bring in more revenue. If legalizing sports betting can bring ben-efits like this, there’s no reason to keep prohibiting it.
Gov. Chris Christie has already sounded his opinion — a confident“yes” — at least until the referendum tells him otherwise.
Gambling in New Jersey is obviously familiar to its residents. Foryears, Atlantic City has served as “America’s Playground.” It’s that curi-ous place where individuals can go to spend hours at the slot machinesand feel good about coming away with negative winnings, every time. It’san atmosphere second, only, to the blaring lights and smoky blackjacktables of Las Vegas. So when we at The Daily Targum heard about aproposition that differs little from what already goes on down in the casi-no rooms of A.C. — and that could potentially channel huge amounts ofrevenue into the state — our reaction was: What’s the problem?
Wagering on professional sports teams seems to find its roots as farback as the birth of man. As natural risk takers, individuals have beenbetting on makeshift horse races, cockfights and bare-knuckle brawlsfor, well, as long as we can remember. Today, the only difference isthat, in many places, it is done in the shadows rather than in the open.
We realize, of course, opening up this form of gambling to a greaternumber of people, and one relating to one of America’s most wildly pop-ular past-times, may have its downsides. Some contest it could increaseaddiction to the practice and a dangerous one that already boasts a sig-nificant number of victims. Nonetheless, we feel strongly that if indi-viduals across the state were really going to engage in this sort ofhobby, they would’ve done so regardless of whether it was being donein the light or kept in the shadow.
“Many politiciansand activists
bring up race at inappropriate times
and contexts.”
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T he Rutgers swimmingand diving teamremained unbeaten (4-
0, 3-0) Friday when it defeatedWagner, 165-121, at the RUAquatic Center.
The Scarlet Knights tookfirst place in 11 of the 16events, with nine differentswimmers taking home gold.
The Knights took the topthree spots in both the 100-meter freestyle and the 50-meter freestyle, as well.
They also took the top twoplaces in the 200-meter freestyleand the 200-meter backstroke.
Sophomore Chelsea Rolinwon both the 100-meter freestyleand the 100-meter backstroke.
Sophomore EmilieKaufman took home the goldin the 200-meter backstroke,beating teammate MaryMoser by three seconds.
For full coverage see tomor-row’s issue of The Daily Targum.
THE RUTGERSvolleyball team lost yesterdayto Notre Dame, 3-0, droppingthem to 8-21 and 1-11 in theBig East.
The Scarlet Knights alsolost to DePaul Saturday, 3-2,despite four players reachingdouble-digits in kills.
Leading the Knights in killswere senior Hannah Curtisand freshman Sofi Cucuz, with14 each.
Junior setter StephanieZielinski brought her Big East-leading double-double total to16, recording 54 assists and 10digs.
For full coverage see tomor-row’s issue of The Daily Targum.
THE BIG EAST SELECTEDthree Rutgers field hockey play-ers as members of the All-BigEast second team.
Senior Christie Morad, juniorCarlie Rouh and sophomore LisaPatrone all secured their firstpostseason honors.
Morad, one of three team cap-tains, started all 18 games thisseason on the Knights’ backline.
Rouh led the team with fiveassists and was second with five goals.
Patrone, who received BigEast weekly honors on Oct. 17,finished third on the squad withfour assists, and scored her firstcareer goal in a 3-1 victory over Providence.
HOUSTON QUAR TER-BACK Case Keenum set anNCAA football career pass-ing record with 17,212yards, eclipsing a mark pre-viously held by Hawaii’sTimmy Chang.
Keenum, a sixth-year sen-ior, also has a nine-touch-down game to his credit thisseason as Houston is off to itsfirst ever 9-0 start.
He also holds NCAArecords for career touchdownpasses (141) and total offense(18,101 yards), in addition tothe 163 touchdowns for whichhe is responsible (141 passing,22 rushing).
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passes for 60 yards on the game-tying drive, were both on thefield-goal block unit as SouthFlorida attempted to win it astime expired.
It did not matter. USF kicker Maikon Bonani
missed his 27-yard attempt wide left.“He kind of shanked it pretty
good,” Schiano said.The defense started overtime
with a takeaway — junior safetyDuron Harmon intercepted his fifthpass of the season. The offense tookover, ran the ball three times and letsenior kicker San San Te kick a 37-yard game-winner.
Dodd was the first person toswarm Te on the field, then every-one from graduate assistant coachAndrew Janocko to defensive linecoach Phil Galiano made their wayto Dodd to congratulate the deposed starter.
“It was good to just go in thereafter not getting the playing timethat I wish I would have gotten thepast couple weeks,” Dodd said. “Itwas really big for me to go in thereand be able to lead us back to a vic-
tory, be able to throw a touchdownor just get playing time at all. It washuge to get in there. I love it.”
It was the same story forColeman, who received less criti-cism than only Harrison for drop-ping passes earlier this season,which will now end with a bowl berth.
Harrison caught a 45-yard touch-down pass last week and believes heis past it, but a head injury sufferedin practice kept him out against USF.Coleman took over as the primarydeep threat and for the first timesince the spring, he showed why.
“As the ball went up in the air,[Harrison said he] knew I was goingto catch that ball,” Coleman said.“That was just an emotional momentfor the both of us. We’ve beenthrough a lot earlier in the season —both of us.”
So did Dodd and classmateJeremy Deering.
Deering went from the team’ssecond leading rusher and fourth-leading receiver as a freshman wide-out to an underused running backand kick returner this year.
He finally broke one against USF,returning a kick 98 yards to startRutgers’ rally.
“I look at it as an example ofbelief,” Coleman said. “Trust and belief.”
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Sophomore Jeremy Deering returns a kickoff 98 yards for atouchdown Saturday in a 20-17 win against South Florida.
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The Rutgers football team ralliedfrom a 14-point deficit Saturday to beat South Florida, 20-17, in overtime. The Knights clinched a bowl berth and effectively savedtheir season, as a loss would betheir third in a row against Big Eastcompetition. Mohamed Sanu hadmore than 100 receiving yards andSan San Te kicked a game-winningfield goal. The Knights swarmed Tein celebration on the field.
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Jamison had more negative rush-ing plays than positive ones at onepoint in the first quarter.
“They were pretty good,”Jamison said of the Bulls’ front four.“It wasn’t really them as much as itwas us stopping ourselves, like miss-ing a blocking or not staying on ablock too long. It was us stopping ourselves.”
South Florida entered the gameleading the nation in tackles forloss and added to its total with 11negative plays at High PointSolutions Stadium.
The lack of production againprompted offensive line coach KyleFlood to restructure the Knights’five linemen.
Sophomore David Osei, whobegan the season as the startingcenter, split time with recent starterArt Forst at right guard. SeniorDesmond Stapleton, who startedevery game last season at left tackle,entered the game at times for soph-omore Andre Civil.
“[Stapleton] could go in thetank, but he just continues to pre-pare,” Schiano said. “When he getshis chance, coach Flood has theconfidence in him in these situa-tions where he’s been there before.He’s got medical things where hecan’t go 70 to 80 plays, but he’s ableto give us 20 great plays.”
FRESHMAN RUNNING BACKSavon Huggins left the game in thesecond quarter with an apparentknee injury. Huggins appeared tosuffer the injury when senior centerCaleb Ruch rolled over the knee onone of Huggins’ two rushes.
Huggins underwent testingyesterday, and Schiano stillawaits results.
“I’m worried about Savon,”Schiano said following the game.
Huggins appeared in all of theKnights’ nine games this season,accumulating 146 rushing yards foran average of 2.6 yards per carry.His five touchdowns are second onthe team among skill-position play-ers behind junior wide receiverMohamed Sanu’s seven scores.
Schiano did not want to speculateabout changes at running back ifRutgers lost Huggins for a signifi-cant period of time, he said.
Schiano said he would haveanswers about the team’s backfieldsituation today.
THE KNIGHTS CLINCHED bowleligibility yesterday with their sixthwin of the season, but players had toremind Schiano of the feat.
“I was just so happy to win thegame,” Schiano said. “It’s great.”
Rutgers returns to a bowl for thefirst time since 2009, the last of fourconsecutive bowl game victoriesafter losing in 2005 to Arizona State.
The Knights lost out on bowl eli-gibility last year with a six-game los-ing streak to close the season.
“Six times in seven years, Ithink 10 years ago Rutgers peo-ple might have signed up forthat,” Schiano said. “I understandwhy expectations are higher, butI’m happy we’re going back to abowl game. Wherever it is, I’mhappy we’re going.”
Redshirt freshman quarter-back Gary Nova also said theKnights have their eyes on alarger goal.
“We just have to get this thingrolling now,” he said. “We want toplay for the big bowl game, I’ll putit that way.”
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Freshman running back Savon Huggins ran for 146 yards and five touchdowns in eight-plus gamesthis season in primarily a reserve role. He carried only twice Saturday before leaving the game.
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Rutgers head wrestling coachScott Goodale gave the fans credit
F r i d a yafter the
Scarlet Knights’ annual wrestle-offs at the College Avenue Gym.In an event that pits Rutgerswrestler against Rutgers wrestler,it is impossible to cheer.
He should give just as muchcredit to his grapplers.
“We do it for the fans, butnobody really likes it,” said junior174-pounder Gregory Zannetti.“Everyone’s friends on the team.Everyone’s wrestling their friend.”
For Zannetti, that meant amatchup with fellow 174-pounderBrendan Ard in one of the twomost contested weight classes.
Zannetti won his matchupwith the sophomore Wisconsintransfer, 5-2, and senior Daniel
Hopkins took the four-manheavyweight bracket.
Hopkins spent last seasonwrestling at 197 pounds, andGoodale would like to bounceHopkins between 197 and heavy-weight this season. Hopkins’ 7-0decision against junior JesseBoyden and 5-3 decision againstfreshman Billy Smith might forceGoodale to commit to Hopkins atthe weight class.
“Winning put my name at thetop of the list at heavyweight,but like I always say to thecoaches, wherever they need mefor the team, that’s where I’llgo,” Hopkins said. “It doesn’tmatter if they need me at heavy-weight one match and want meat 184 the next match, I’ll dowhat I have to do.”
The Jackson Memorial HighSchool product wrestled at 210pounds Friday, but said his naturalbody weight is about 220 pounds.
He could easily gain thatweight and then some if he stuckto heavyweight, fitting the mold offormer heavyweight D.J. Russo,who was not as big-bodied as mostin the weight class, but faster andequally strong.
“As long as you can keep upwith them strength-wise and notget stuck underneath [Lehigh’sNational Champion] Zach Rey oranyone like that who is reallyheavy for the weight class, I feellike I’ll do fine,” Hopkins said. “Ifeel like I can easily stay with any-body in the country strength-wiseand I’m definitely faster.”
Hopkins showed that againstSmith, who won a state champi-onship last season at High PointHigh School.
Goodale would like to redshirtSmith, but a 3-2 decision againstsophomore Carl Buchholz in thefirst round and his finish againstHopkins complicates issues.
“Billy Smith’s trying to scorelate in his first match ever in thisfacility with a lot of people here,and I was excited about that,”Goodale said. “We’ll probably starthim out at a couple of open tour-naments, but those two guys thatwrestled, they want to be in thelineup. We’re going to have tomake a decision pretty quick, but Idon’t know what we’re going to doright now.”
Those in the contested weightclasses will have another opportunity to clear up the pictures Saturday at the Brockport/Oklahoma Gold Classic.
Fifth-ranked 149-pounderMario Mason, who won hiswrestle-of f bracket, and sixth-ranked 165-pounder ScottWinston, who did not wrestleFriday, are among the favoritesentering the tournament inNew York.
Sophomore Jordan Beverly,typically a 157-pounder, chal-lenged Mason in the 149-poundfinal — not necessarily a goodthing for Goodale — but the headcoach also saw good things.
Sophomore VincentDellefave, junior Daniel Whiteand senior Billy Ashnault won at125 pounds, 133 pounds and 141pounds, respectively, after eachmissed last year.
Dellefave redshirted after aninjury, White dealt with academ-ic and personal issues andAshnault redshirted and movedup a weight class.
“You look for guys to get after itand wrestle hard, but you knowthe reality is they wrestle eachother all the time, so there’s anxi-ety and they’re friends,” Goodalesaid. “All in all, it was good. Therewere some upsets, there wereguys who wrestled really goodguys close. I thought it was good.”
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Senior Dan Hopkins rides junior Jesse Boyden en route to a 7-0 decision in a first-round heavyweight matchup Saturday at the College Avenue Gym. Hopkinswent 8-4 last year at 197 pounds in his first season at Rutgers after transferring from Middlesex County Community College.
Hopkins’ heavyweight win highlights night at Barn
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Sophomore Gilvydas Birutaoften wondered what he was doingwhen he had the ball beyond the
foul linelast sea-son fort h eRutgersbasket -
ball team.But he returned yesterday with a
renewed confidence in his ball han-dling, scoring 11 points in the ScarletKnights’ 80-66 exhibition victoryagainst Rutgers-Newark.
“Last year mentally I wasn’tready because I knew my role was tobe a [center],” Biruta said. “Once Igot the ball on the perimeter I wasn’treally sure — ‘Can I break thisoffense? Will I get yelled at?’”
Biruta saw the effects of hiswork with the Lithuanian U-19National Team pay off at the LouisBrown Athletic Center, where heeven brought the ball up in oneoffensive set.
The 6-foot-8 forward took theball from the perimeter on oneplay, spun to the basket and con-verted a lay-in. Biruta’s play forcedhead coach Mike Rice to admit heneeded to get the sophomoremore shot attempts.
“Gilvydas’ ability to go off thebounce is something he had lastyear,” Rice said. “He could beable to do it, but he alwaysseemed to … rush throughthings. [He’s] a tremendous ballhandler when he does the ballhandling. It’s just now havingthe confidence.”
Biruta’s performance was all themore significant given junior for-ward Austin Johnson’s foul trouble.Johnson fouled out after only nineminutes of floor time.
Freshmen Greg Lewis andDerrick Randall earned more min-utes in his stead, and rookie MalickKone moved to the four position.
Kone finished with 15 points andeight rebounds, but he cannot repli-cate Biruta’s explosiveness.
“[Biruta] has the burst going tothe basket like no other power for-ward in this league, that’s for sure,”Rice said.
THE KNIGHTS STARTED threefreshmen at guard, and the trioshowcased the explosiveness of BigEast-caliber players.
Eli Carter, Myles Mack andJerome Seagears combined for 37points in 79 minutes of action in thevictory.
Carter led the team with 18points on 4-for-6 shooting from 3-point range.
“They’re learning. They’redeveloping,” Rice said. “If youwould’ve watched the Iona scrim-mage, you would’ve really beenscratching your head. I thoughtthey had a little more poise tothem this game.”
Rice’s three-guard lineupcompensated for the absence ofjunior wing Dane Miller, whosat out the exhibition as acoach’s decision.
Miller missed class during thespring semester, Rice said.
“You can run them in themorning. You can make them runwith bricks up the football stadi-um and do a lot of punishment,”
Rice said. “One thing they reallymiss is games.”
Miller will be available forRutgers’ season opener Fridayagainst Dartmouth, Rice said.
Without Miller, the Knights’multi-look of fense still looked capable during its fast-break opportunities.
The matchup opened up in thesecond half, when Rutgers scored45 points.
“Us three guards, whoever getsit, the other two just go and just kickit ahead and get easy lay-ins,” Macksaid. “We were very comfortable inthe second half — more comfortablein the second than the first.”
KONE SAW MORE MINUTESthan Rice initially anticipatedbecause of his ability to crash theboards, according to Rice.
The freshman from Guineaarrived at Rutgers as a wing player,but will play more at power forwardbecause Rice does not ask as muchof Kone, Rice said.
Kone’s eight rebounds led theteam while he shot 6-of-10 fromthe floor.
“As long as we’re rebounding …Malick is going to earn more min-utes,” Rice said. “He’s comfortable atthe four. If the game can slow downfor him, we’re going to use him.”
RANDALL AND SOPHOMOREAustin Carroll suffered fromstomach viruses earlier in theweek, but both still played a com-bined 32 minutes.
Randall and sophomore MikePoole were the Knights’ first substi-tutions, entering the game less thantwo minutes in.
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Sophomore forward Gilvydas Biruta scored 11 points and showeddeftness with the ball yesterday for the Scarlet Knights.
Biruta displays old form as ballhandler in exhibition
RU loss to Connecticut ends with brawl, eliminationBY VINNIE MANCUSO
CORRESPONDENT
With a tied game 60 minutesinto the Big East quarterfinalsbetween the Rutgers men’s soccerteam and Connecticut at Yurcak
F i e l dy e s t e r -day, itw a sclear itw o u l d
be a tightly-contested affair.But a team-wide brawl dis-
rupted action for five minutesafter the second goal of thegame and changed its entirecomplexion. It was only a matterof time before one of the teamsmade a statement.
The message came in the formof a 25-yard rocket from UConnforward Tony Cascio that sailedpast junior goalkeeper KevinMcMullen and into the net, givingthe Huskies an advantage.
Another UConn goal with onlysix minutes left in the game effec-tively ended not only the ScarletKnights’ seven-game win streak,but also their stay in the Big EastTournament with a 3-1 loss.
“That is just postseason soccer.There are a lot of emotions run-ning high. The adrenaline is flow-ing and it is already a highly-con-tested match. I actually thought itwas a very evenly contested gamefor the majority of it,” said headcoach Dan Donigan. “I give TonyCascio a hell of a lot of credit. Ithought he was very effective forthem the whole game.”
The Knights got on theboard first in the 51st minute,when sophomore forward KeneEze buried the ball in the backof the net.
But the Huskies respondedless than a minute later, when
UConn defender Andrew Jean-Baptiste capitalized on a failedclear by Rutgers to even things upat one goal apiece.
“[Connecticut] responded verywell, but that will always happen,”Donigan said. “They are playingfor their season and a chance to goto the NCAA Tournament — thesame as we are.”
The conference rivals battledto a standstill in the first half, withboth teams entering the lockerroom at halftime knotted up at 0-0.
The Huskies had an opportu-nity to gain the advantage with afree kick outside the 18-yardbox that sailed wide of the leftpost with only 10 seconds left onthe clock.
The Knights had opportunitiesof their own in the first, but couldnot find the solution toConnecticut goalkeeper AndreBlake. The freshman recordedonly two saves in the half, but bothstopped pinpoint shots from sen-ior midfielder Bryant Knibbs.
“[Blake] is talented — he isvery good. He made some big-time saves today against us,”Donigan said. “They have somespecial players on UConn. Theyhave a very talented team.”
The Knights now look to theirfinal hope of continuing their sea-son — a chance at a bid for theNCAA Tournament.
“They are obviously a goodside. I think we are a good side.[The score], I do not think, is agood indicator of where we areand where UConn is,” Donigansaid. “I just have to think about thefuture and the NCAATournament. We have to just keepour fingers crossed now that wedid enough during our season andthis game today to earn therespect of the committee so wecan get a bid.”
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Seniors Sam Archer (11) and Ibrahim Kamara were among the Scarlet Knights involved in a brawlyesterday during their 3-1 Big East Tournament quarterfinals loss to Connecticut.
BY STEVEN MILLERSPORTS EDITOR
Forget the past four weeks,Chas Dodd waited two years tomake his 34-yard dash to meet
BrandonColemanin the end zone.
The pair began throwing togetherwhen they joined the Rutgers footballteam as fellow freshmen prior to lastseason and they connected for high-light-reel catches all spring.
Then Coleman started his red-shirt freshman season with a boutof drops and diminishing playingtime. Dodd was benched fourgames into the season and did notplay since.
But Dodd returned in the fourthquarter Saturday against SouthFlorida, Coleman played an increasedrole with Mark Harrison injured, andthe pair connected on a game-tyingtouchdown to force overtime and setup a 20-17 Rutgers win.
“I’ve been waiting to throw one tohim,” said Dodd, who went 11-of-17 for125 yards in one quarter. “Runningdown the field, I just wanted to get tohim as fast as I could.”
It was the same old Dodd flingingthe ball around the High PointSolutions Stadium field when headcoach Greg Schiano turned to him totake over for Gary Nova at the start ofthe fourth quarter and the ScarletKnights trailing, 10-3.
He took three sacks — one of thereasons Schiano started Nova the pastfour games.
And he threw an interception — itis not only Nova who makes thosemistakes, and Schiano has yet tomake a decision as to who will startnext week against Army.
But with 1:08 remaining andRutgers trailing by a score, Dodd didwhat Schiano repeatedly said Novadoes so well: He stepped up in thepocket and let it go.
“Perfect ball,” said Coleman,Dodd’s 6-foot-6 beneficiary.“Perfect ball.”
Rutgers still had another pos-session, but Dodd threw an inter-ception to set USF up with anopportunity to win in regulation.Coleman and 6-foot-3 wideoutMohamed Sanu, who caught seven
BY TYLER BARTOASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
The Rutgers football team’s num-bers on the ground Saturday againstSouth Florida spoke for themselves,but head coach Greg Schiano did notmind shedding light on the subject.
“That was the best defensivefront we played,” Schiano said.“We didn’t play physical up front.We didn’t play the way we’recapable of playing. I’m disap-
pointed with the way we playedup front.”
The Scarlet Knights ran the ball28 times against the Bulls for nega-tive-7 yards, by far their worst outputof the season. They gained an aver-age of 3.3 yards per play in a 20-17overtime victory.
Redshirt freshman running backJawan Jamison netted only 12 yards— a team-high — on 15 carries.
Redshirt freshman wide receiver Brandon Coleman pulls in a 34-yard pass from sophomore Chas Dodd on Saturday in the fourthquarter, when Rutgers marched 80 yards in 2:22 to tie South Florida at 17 and force overtime at High Point Solutions Stadium.
KEY STATS
EXTRA POINTJunior wide receiver Mohamed Sanurecorded the eighth 100-yard receivinggame of his career and fifth of this season.He entered the fourth quarter with three
receptions for 33 yards, then caught seven passes for 60 yards onthe Knights’ game-tying touchdown drive.
PASSINGB.J. DANIELS14-34, 160 YDS, 1 TD, 1 INT
RUSHINGDARRELL SCOTT19 CAR, 100 YDS
RECEIVINGMOHAMED SANU11 REC, 113 YDS
Total Yds381228
Pass160235
Rush221-7
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LEADERS
NATIONAL SCORESKNIGHT NOTEBOOK2128
3835
2623
96
FOOTBALL
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SyracuseConnecticut
LouisvilleNo. 24 West Virginia
CincinnatiPittsburgh
No. 1 Louisiana St.No. 2 Alabama
SOUTH FLORIDARUTGERS
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2100
303
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Dodd, Coleman hook up for game-tying touchdown to force overtime, set up Te’s game-winning field goal
