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THE D AILY T ARGUM Volume 142, Number 56 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 INDEX CRUNCH TIME Today: Sunny High: 50 • Low: 34 The Rutgers football team travels to Cincinnati this weekend to take on the Bearcats in a meeting of the Big East’s cellar dwellers that is vital to the Scarlet Knights’ postseason hopes. ONLINE @ DAILYTARGUM.COM OPINIONS ........ 8 DIVERSIONS ...... 10 CLASSIFIEDS ...... 12 A sex educator visits the University to encourage open sexuality. The GOP filibustered the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would have combated gender discrimination in the workplace. UNIVERSITY OPINIONS UNIVERSITY ....... 3 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 19, 2010 SPORTS ...... BACK Former Black Panther Billy Jennings talks to a crowded room last night at Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus about his experiences with the Black Panther Party. Jennings joined the party at age 17, a week after he graduated from high school. JOVELLE ABBEY TAMAYO / PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR The Foundation for International Medical Relief of Children hosts an evening of poetry and jazz at the Red Lion Cafe in the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus. Last night’s event was held to raise funding for the March of Dimes. SCOTT TSAI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER TUNES FOR TOTS Online courses accommodate high enrollment BY DEVIN SIKORSKI ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR As enrollment numbers increase steadily year after year, the University is turning to online courses to con- tinue providing a quality education while dealing with a budget crisis. Philip J. Furmanski, executive vice president for Academic Affairs, said online courses provide major benefits to students — reaching out to those unable to come on campus and expanding the dimensions of a classroom. “If you only have a classroom that can hold 30 peo- ple, you can get the same class online and get 40 peo- ple,” he said. “That is one of the virtues of online cours- es, and allows us in effect to increase our enrollments without putting more stress on our physical facilities.” But the point of an online course is not to generate revenue for the University, Furmanski said. Rather, it provides students with an online-learning experience to enhance life-long skills. “I think what is going to be increasingly important is the ability to continue to be educated online,” he said. “I think therefore it is very valuable for all of our students to get experience with online courses.” Furmanski said there is a misconception of online courses as easier than face-to-face courses, but if an online course is well done, it can be rigor- ous and just as educationally valid as a course in a classroom setting. “This doesn’t just mean sitting in your pajamas and watching a video of somebody giving a lecture,” he said. “They actually learn at least as much as the stu- dents who take the conventional course with lectures and seminars.” School of Arts and Sciences senior Neepa Rana said although she never took an online course, her roommate completed an expository writing hybrid course at the same time she took the class in a con- ventional setting. “We both got the same grade and we both had the same writing style,” she said. “[But] she could work on it when she wanted and could submit it online and be LGBT community remembers lives lost BY ANDREA GOYMA STAFF WRITER Despite the rain and wind, mem- bers of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community and the Center for Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities gathered at the steps of Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus to light candles in remem- brance of those who lost their lives due to transgender-related deaths and crimes. The vigil was held yesterday evening in observance of Nov. 20’s national Transgender Day of Remembrance. “I hope [this vigil] will enable students to think about why we have a disproportionate number of transgender or perceived-to-be- transgender students killed each year, and that it will also encourage others to think of ways they can dis- rupt the climate of transphobia,” said Jenny Kurtz, acting director for the Center for Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities. Because Transgender Day of Remembrance falls on a Saturday this year, the Center for Social Justice Education decided to hold it on a day more accessible to students. “Obviously, we are a couple of days early. Due to students’ sched- ules, we thought it was more impor- tant to have the vigil on a day stu- dents would actually be on cam- pus,” said Paul DeStefano, a gradu- ate assistant in the Graduate School of Education’s College Student Affairs program. The vigil is held in remembrance of lives, reported and unreported, that have been lost. “There has been a huge level of unreporting — for a variety of rea- sons — this year in anti-transgender Former Black Panthers share stories with U. BY COLLEEN ROACHE ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR Say the word “panther” and some may think of a large cat, others may think of the Carolina football team and for others, the word may evoke the memory of Bobby Seale, Huey P. Newton and a revo- lutionary movement that changed America’s history in the 1960s. Hundreds of people attended “Original Black Panthers Speak,” a discussion with former Black Panthers Emory Douglas and Billy Jennings, and learned more about the latter definition last night in the crowded conference rooms of Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus. Douglas, revolutionary artist of the Black Panther Party and later its Minister of Culture, designed many aspects of the party’s newspaper. Jennings, who worked with both co-founders, Newton and Seale, created publications for the It’s About Time Committee, which aims to preserve the party’s legacy and offer information about social justice issues. The event was sponsored by the Center for Historical Analysis and the Department of History at the University. “To become a Panther is to really work hard,” Jennings said. “Besides having to deal with the police department and different agencies of the government trying to shut us down, trying to raid our office, trying to belittle us, the Black Panther Party, to me, is one of the greatest organizations in American history during that time.” Jennings, who joined the party at age 17 just a week after graduating from high school, said he was inspired to get involved with the party because of its ideals and sense of camaraderie. “What really got me interested in the party was the 10-point program,” he said. “It wasn’t the guns or anything, because I was born in the South. 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Former Black Panther Billy Jennings talks to a crowded room last night at Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus abouthis experiences with the Black Panther Party. Jennings joined the party at age 17, a week after he graduated from high school.

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The Foundation for International Medical Relief of Children hosts an evening of poetry and jazz at the Red Lion Cafe in the Rutgers Student Center on the CollegeAvenue campus. Last night’s event was held to raise funding for the March of Dimes.

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Online coursesaccommodatehigh enrollment

BY DEVIN SIKORSKIASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

As enrollment numbers increase steadily year afteryear, the University is turning to online courses to con-tinue providing a quality education while dealing witha budget crisis.

Philip J. Furmanski, executive vice president forAcademic Affairs, said online courses provide majorbenefits to students — reaching out to those unableto come on campus and expanding the dimensionsof a classroom.

“If you only have a classroom that can hold 30 peo-ple, you can get the same class online and get 40 peo-ple,” he said. “That is one of the virtues of online cours-es, and allows us in effect to increase our enrollmentswithout putting more stress on our physical facilities.”

But the point of an online course is not to generaterevenue for the University, Furmanski said. Rather, itprovides students with an online-learning experienceto enhance life-long skills.

“I think what is going to be increasingly importantis the ability to continue to be educated online,” hesaid. “I think therefore it is very valuable for all of ourstudents to get experience with online courses.”

Furmanski said there is a misconception ofonline courses as easier than face-to-face courses,but if an online course is well done, it can be rigor-ous and just as educationally valid as a course in aclassroom setting.

“This doesn’t just mean sitting in your pajamas andwatching a video of somebody giving a lecture,” hesaid. “They actually learn at least as much as the stu-dents who take the conventional course with lecturesand seminars.”

School of Arts and Sciences senior Neepa Ranasaid although she never took an online course, herroommate completed an expository writing hybridcourse at the same time she took the class in a con-ventional setting.

“We both got the same grade and we both had thesame writing style,” she said. “[But] she could work onit when she wanted and could submit it online and be

LGBT communityremembers lives lost

BY ANDREA GOYMA STAFF WRITER

Despite the rain and wind, mem-bers of the lesbian, gay, bisexual,transgender and queer communityand the Center for Social JusticeEducation and LGBT Communitiesgathered at the steps of BrowerCommons on the College Avenuecampus to light candles in remem-brance of those who lost their livesdue to transgender-related deathsand crimes.

The vigil was held yesterdayevening in observance of Nov. 20’snational Transgender Day of Remembrance.

“I hope [this vigil] will enablestudents to think about why wehave a disproportionate number oftransgender or perceived-to-be-transgender students killed eachyear, and that it will also encourageothers to think of ways they can dis-rupt the climate of transphobia,”

said Jenny Kurtz, acting director forthe Center for Social JusticeEducation and LGBT Communities.

Because Transgender Day ofRemembrance falls on a Saturdaythis year, the Center for SocialJustice Education decided tohold it on a day more accessibleto students.

“Obviously, we are a couple ofdays early. Due to students’ sched-ules, we thought it was more impor-tant to have the vigil on a day stu-dents would actually be on cam-pus,” said Paul DeStefano, a gradu-ate assistant in the Graduate Schoolof Education’s College StudentAffairs program.

The vigil is held in remembranceof lives, reported and unreported,that have been lost.

“There has been a huge level ofunreporting — for a variety of rea-sons — this year in anti-transgender

Former Black Panthers share stories with U.BY COLLEEN ROACHE

ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Say the word “panther” and some maythink of a large cat, others may think ofthe Carolina football team and for others,the word may evoke the memory ofBobby Seale, Huey P. Newton and a revo-lutionary movement that changedAmerica’s history in the 1960s.

Hundreds of people attended “OriginalBlack Panthers Speak,” a discussion withformer Black Panthers Emory Douglasand Billy Jennings, and learned moreabout the latter definition last night in thecrowded conference rooms of BrowerCommons on the College Avenue campus.

Douglas, revolutionary artist of theBlack Panther Party and later its Ministerof Culture, designed many aspects of theparty’s newspaper. Jennings, who workedwith both co-founders, Newton and Seale,created publications for the It’s AboutTime Committee, which aims to preservethe party’s legacy and offer informationabout social justice issues.

The event was sponsored by theCenter for Historical Analysis and theDepartment of History at the University.

“To become a Panther is to really workhard,” Jennings said. “Besides having to dealwith the police department and differentagencies of the government trying to shutus down, trying to raid our office, trying to

belittle us, the Black Panther Party, to me, isone of the greatest organizations inAmerican history during that time.”

Jennings, who joined the party at age17 just a week after graduating from highschool, said he was inspired to getinvolved with the party because of itsideals and sense of camaraderie.

“What really got me interested in theparty was the 10-point program,” he said.“It wasn’t the guns or anything, because Iwas born in the South. When you’re bornin the South, you grow up with guns.”

After reading “The Autobiography ofMalcolm X” and hearing the messages of

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Sex educator promotes sexual freedom BY ANASTASIA MILLICKER

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Talk of sex and food attract-ed attendees to the CookCampus Center’s MultipurposeRoom Wednesday for sex edu-cator Jay Friedman’s lecture,“The J-Spot — A Sex LecturerTells All.”

With more than 400 studentsat the event, sponsored by theRutgers University ProgrammingAssociation, Friedman promotedoutercourse and gave studentsthe opportunity to become moreopen about sex through videosand comedic antics.

“We try to have a differentsex-related program each year,and we thought Jay would beperfect for the student bodybecause he does not discouragesex,” said RUPA Arts andCulture Committee VicePresident Sarah Shaw, a Schoolof Environmental and BiologicalSciences junior.

During the lecture, Friedmansaid intimacy involves muchmore than intercourse.

“Outercourse is an opportuni-ty to recognize that your mostimportant lovemaking tools arenot between your legs, ratherbetween your ears,” he said. “It isyour brain, eyes, mouth and theability to speak more openlyabout sex.”

In America, sex education is acontroversial issue, which leavesmany students without qualityinformation, Friedman said.

“Most questions I have got-ten have been because of misin-formation and ignorance wehave in our society when itcomes to sex, but it is not ourfault,” he said. “We live in acountry that promotes opencommunication about sex, [but]does not provide quality, com-prehensive sex education inschools. That’s why I do my job.”

Friedman compared theAmerican approach to sex tothe European approach. A mid-dle-school sex education tapethat would be considered tabooin America would be normal tomiddle-schoolers in Belgiumand Denmark, he said.

While many audience mem-bers seemed shocked at thegreat detail the video went intoexplaining sexual organs andsex, School of Ar ts andSciences junior DavidBuckelew said he was not sur-prised.

“In England you can open anewspaper and find a toplessactress on the second page andpeople will recognize her forher upcoming talent and thencontinue to read the sports sec-tion,” Buckelew said. “Theyhave a much more casualapproach overseas.”

Friedman expressed hisconcern for the negative viewof sex in American culture andencouraged audience membersto take on a dif ferent perspec-tive of what is considered nor-mal in today’s society.

“In the U.S., when a womanhas her first sexual encounter,we say she lost her virginity. InEurope, when a women has thatsame experience, she is said tohave her sexual debut,”Friedman said. “Now isn’t that afar more positive connotation?”

Eleftheria Lekkas, a Schoolof Arts and Sciences sopho-more, was a sex educator to herpeers in high school and saidshe enjoyed the opportunity tobe a part of the audience.

“America definitely needs toopen up their eyes to continuedsex education,” Lekkas said.“Teen pregnancy is up, abortionis up, and it is important we learnabout other countries that seemto have sex education down.”

Throughout the lecture,Friedman encouraged people to

become active in their sex livesthrough self-discovery and com-munication with their partnersin an effort to help eliminate thesocial stigmas behind sex.

“Sex does not equal death,rather sexual ignorance equalsdeath,” Friedman said in oppo-sition to those who protestagainst sexual activity.

Education is the first steptoward eliminating stigmas,Friedman said.

“Most sex lectures I’ve beento spoke focused on absti-nence, which is unrealistic foreverybody in today’s society, sothe ‘J-Spot’ lecture was veryinformative and unlike any lec-ture I’ve attended before,” saidAlana Millich, a RUPA memberand School Of Ar ts andSciences sophomore.

Friedman is not only a sexeducator, but also a gastronautwho is not afraid to mix his culi-nary expertise with his sexualknowledge.

He hosted a question-and-answer session during the lecturein which he encouraged audiencemembers to shout out some oftheir favorite foods to be analyzedin relation to sex.

One audience member shout-ed out “watermelon.”

“What does watermelonteach us about sex?” Friedmansaid. “With watermelon we haveseeds, and we are left to ques-tion ourselves, ‘Are we going tospit or swallow?’”

Friedman did not have afavorite sexy food in particular,but found the more adventur-ous the food, the more eroticthe person.

“Chef Masaharu Morimotofrom Iron Chef thought the sex-iest food had white truffle in it,”he said.

Friedman examines the rela-tionship between smell and sexin his columns for the SeattleWeekly website.

Jay Friedman, a sex lecturer, encourages students to be more open about sex and notedintimacy can involve more than just intercourse Wednesday at the Cook Campus Center.

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Teams battle for prizesduring 23rd Trivia Bowl

BY AMY ROWESTAFF WRITER

A three-man team com-prised of Senior Dean ofStudents Mark Schuster,School of Environmental andBiological Sciences seniorMichael Maniscalco andSchool of Arts and Sciencessenior Andrew Germek tooktop prize at Wednesday’s 23rdannual Trivia Bowl.

“I am shocked and awed [towin],” Germek said.

Rutgers Recreation hostedthe competition in theCook/Douglass RecreationCenter annex, and drew inmore than 100 teams ofUniversity students, faculty,alumni and their friends andfamily. Teams were tested ontheir knowledge of several cate-gories like sports, popular cul-ture and history.

The game was carried out ina jeopardy-like format with PaulFischbach, associate director ofRutgers Recreation, emceeingand asking questions he andUniversity alumni Kevin Switekand Mike Dobiesz formulated.

Prizes were given out to indi-vidual team members, thosewith winning raffle tickets andthe top three teams.

“It’s mostly about having funand bringing the communitytogether,” Fischbach said. “Wehad a few alumni and a highschool student win prizes.”

First-place prize was a $50Visa gift card, a $15 iTunes giftcard, movie tickets and an EricLeGrand “Believe” shir t foreach player.

Fischbach was inspired bythings he read, watched or sawin current events for most of thisyear’s questions.

“I never know if I’m askingquestions that are easy orhard,” he said. “I asked a ques-tion about the Chilean miner

earlier and no one got that,[despite the rescue] being ahuge deal.”

During the game, Fischbachasked each three-member teama series of questions from acertain category, with valuesranging from $200 to $1,000 fortwo rounds.

“The lower-valued questionsare a lot easier than the higherones,” said Nicole Tirri, aSchool of Arts and Sciencesjunior. “You could miss some ofthe easy ones but catch up byanswering the harder ones [correctly].”

Teams answered the ques-tions by filling out an answersheet for each category, and stu-dent runners dressed in refereeshirts collected the sheets andlooked for cheaters, Tirri said.

“We rely on the honor sys-tem,” she said. “We have towatch everyone to make surethey aren’t looking answers upon their cell phones.”

The Rutgers Recreation stafftallied up the answers, saidJessie Yannette, a School ofArts and Sciences junior.

Yannette said she enjoyedrefereeing over answering triv-ia questions.

“The questions are hard,”she said. “It looks like everyoneis here to have fun.”

After the second round, stu-dents waited while the scorerscalculated the points to deter-mine the 11 teams who wouldgo on to the final round.

A “speed texting” challengeoccupied the players duringthis time, which entailed tex-ting “My momma always said‘Life is like a box of chocolates,you never know which oneyou’re gonna get,’” the fastest.

Rutgers Against Hunger vol-unteers sold student-made 9-inch pies at the event to raisemoney for local food banks,Fischbach said.

A team of University students answers trivia questions to win prizes such

as a $50 Visa gift card or a $15 iTunes gift card during the Trivia Bowl

Wednesday at the Cook/Douglass Recreation Center annex.

SCOTT TSAI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Novak acknowledged onlinecourses have become attractiveduring a time when theUniversity is struggling withunfavorable budget cuts.

“They have provided anotheropportunity for the University toserve additional students and toserve additional special popula-tions, like non-traditional adultstudents,” he said. “That certain-ly helps in terms of generatingrevenue for the University.”

But as Furmanski noted, thepurpose of online courses are notto generate extra revenue but toprovide students with education-al benefits while keeping theUniversity as a competitor inhigher education, Novak said.

“Of our peer institutions, over90 percent are doing exactly thesame thing,” he said. “So forRutgers to be perceived as compet-itive in the higher education land-scape, we need to be in the gamejust like all the other institutions.”

Novak repeated a well-con-structed online course could berigorous, with many faculty andstudents noting it is more workwhen compared to a convention-al course.

“Even though it is more work,faculty and students also report

that it is a veryrich experience,”he said. “It’s justthe realizationthat it is not just aquick and easyway to get college credit.”

School ofEngineering sen-ior Sean Quinnsaid afterenrolling in anonline class for

the first time this semester, theonly reason he would takeanother one is because theyseem much easier than a face-to-face class.

Quinn said the reason hefinds the class easy is notbecause the material is simple,but he is able to get around cer-tain requirements, speaking of atime-log feature where aninstructor can see how long astudent reads posted material.

“I basically just have to sit atan computer, open a reading doc-ument and leave it open for about30 minutes, scroll down and clickon a link,” he said.

Although he finds onlineclasses to be helpful for of f-campus students, the conceptof academic integrity is severe-ly hindered.

“It is the question of howmany people are actually learn-ing and how many people are justprinting out the pages and leav-ing the browser open so it lookslike they are reading,” he said.“[This system] is completely rea-sonable, but I think it could beimplemented better.”

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A crowd gathers in the conference rooms of Brower Commons on the College Avenue campuslast night to hear stories from former Black Panther members Billy Jennings and Emory Douglas.

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Seale and Eldridge Cleaver whenhe moved to Oakland, Calif.,Jennings wanted to become aPanther himself, a process hesaid took dedication.

“You just couldn’t walk intothe organization and say, ‘I wantto be a Panther,’” he said. “Therewas a six-week training period.”

While training to become apart of the party, Jenningslearned much about politicalissues and the party’s viewpointon them.

“I had never heard the word‘imperialism’ before I joined theBlack Panther Party,” he said.“That was one of the words theBlack Panther Party introducedto the community.”

The party ran schools, organ-ized programs to distribute freemeals and ran clinics — two ofwhich still exist — to help thesick, regardless of their ability tofund care, factors Jennings saiddrew him to the organization.

“We merged nutrition andeducation together,” he said. “Noone had done that before.”

Jennings said while thecountry was at war in Vietnam,there were issues of injusticethat needed to be addressedright at home.

“There certainly wasn’t anyfreedom here,” he said. “We [did-n’t believe] that we should gofight for this country and therewasn’t any freedom here. Youcould wear the uniform inVietnam, but when you cameback to America, bad thingsmight happen to you.”

Following Jennings’ talk,Douglas presented a slide showof artwork he drew in the ’60sand ’70s, as well as pieces he didmore recently.

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over with it. It was more conven-ient for her.”

This convenience factor isone of the key benefits for onlinecourses, which Director ofSpecial Projects for AcademicAffairs Richard Novak said is amajor reason for its popularity atthe University.

“At Rutgers we know thatmore and more students areworking. They are trying to jug-gle very busy work schedulesand school schedules,” he said.“Online learning provides a con-venience factor that helps themwith their very busy lives.”

Online courses also provideaccessibility for many non-tradi-tional adult students who areunable to come on campus — apopulation Novak said is a majorcommitment for the University.

“We probably have morenon-traditional adult students inour off-campus locations and inour online courses than wehave on campus,” he said. “Itmakes it easier, more conven-ient and moreaccessible forthese students.”

To prove theincreasing popu-larity of onlinecourses at theU n i v e r s i t y ,Novak said therewere 3,200 stu-dents in onlinecourses in fall of2009 and 4,435this semester.

“The number of online cours-es offered and the number of stu-dents who are taking onlinecourses have increased dramati-cally over the last few years,” hesaid. “We have pretty much beenseeing double-digit increaseseach year.”

Director of Scheduling andSpace Management ArunMukherjee confirmed a steadyincrease of online courses andsaid it is rapidly growing, espe-cially in recent years.

“I see most of the increasecoming in the last two years,starting in fall of 2008 in onlinecourses,” he said. “There was really only a handfulbefore that.”

Mukherjee added anotherreason for increased enrollmentwas because of the expandingnumber of classes and depart-ments going online, but he wasunsure if it connected to thebudget situation.

“It certainly helps in terms ofscheduling that we don’t have tolook for a classroom,” he said.“So the more courses online helpour classroom situation.”

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A decreasing murder rate helped drop NewJersey’s overall crime in 2009, according to an arti-cle on nj.com.

There were 320 murders in the state last year, a15 percent decrease from the previous year and thelowest since 2000, when 288 were reported.

New Jersey’s Uniform Crime Report, an annualreport by the state police, also found that in 2009 crim-inals stole less cash and fewer cars but more jewelryand furs, according to the article.

Homicide victims were also most likely to be killedon a Monday, but least likely on a Thursday, and thesummer saw more violent crimes than the winter.

On the average day, there was one murder, 32 rob-beries, 39 aggravated assaults and 352 larcenies,according to the article. Essex County had the highest

murder, hitting 117 in 2009, followed by CamdenCounty, which had 40.

Attorney General Paula Dow said while the lowercrime rate provides hope for the state’s future, lawenforcement will have to continue working to keepcrime down.

“While I am encouraged by this downward trendin the overall crime index and violent crime, lawenforcement will have to continue to work evenharder and smarter, especially during this econom-ic crisis facing our state and nation,” Dow said inthe article.

Aside from New Jersey, crime has also droppedin the country, according to the article. Thenationwide violent crime rate fell to 4.3 last yearfrom 4.6 previously.

New Jersey’s violent crime rate was even lower,down to 3.1 in 2009 from 3.3 in 2008, according tothe article.

Andrew Karmen, a professor at the John JayCollege of Criminal Justice, said while the numbersare dropping during the recession, there is still a con-nection between crime and the economy, accordingto the article.

Most crimes are committed by poor people againstpoor people, Karmen said in the article.

“It’s not as simple as someone gets laid off and goesout and robs a bank,” he said in the article. “It takesyears perhaps for someone to be ground down enoughfor despair to set in.”

— Ariel Nagi

DECLINE IN MURDERS DECREASES STATE’S OVERALL CRIME RATE

“It makes it easier,more convenient

and more accessiblefor these students.”

RICHARD NOVAKAcademic Affairs Special

Projects Director

“This artwork is not ‘me’ art,it’s ‘we’ art. It came out of thestruggle and the politics at thattime,” Douglas said. “It justhappened that I was the onewho interpreted a lot of it dur-ing that period.”

Drawings of the party’s sym-bol, a black panther, helpedmobilize illiterate black voters,he said.

“The panther became the sym-bol when blacks in the ruralsouth went to the place to vote,they knew to vote for the blackpanther,” Douglas said.

Many of Douglas’ pieces por-trayed policemen and otheragents who oppressed blacks aspigs, an expression of blacks’animosity toward authority atthe time.

“This is how we began todefine the police at that particulartime,” Douglas said. “There werea lot of rebellions, a lot of riots inthe ’60s. Black people [were]being abused by the police whenthey came into the community,particularly young black men[were] shot.”

Like Jennings, Douglasexpressed the idea that the bat-tles at the time should havebeen fought domestically, not overseas.

“The Vietnamese weren’tcalling us a cause of unemploy-ment. The Vietnamese weren’ta cause of inferior education. …The Vietnamese weren’t callingus ‘nigger,’” he said. “So ourfight was not in Vietnam.”

Panthers continue to influencetoday’s world, Douglas said.

“A lot of people don’t knowthat the only race [President]Barack Obama ever lost wasagainst a Black Panther,” he said.“[U.S. Rep.] Bobby Rush was aBlack Panther.”

There are several issues thePanthers fought against that con-tinue to afflict the black commu-nity, Douglas said.

“If you’ve been convicted of acrime, you can be subjected to slav-ery,” he said. “That’s on the books.”

Black Men’s CollectivePresident Quadeer Porter saidhe, as a black leader on campus,was inspired by the party’s perse-verance in the face of adversityand enjoyed the event overall.

“Huey Newton talked abouthow the capitalistic society waspretty much taking overAmerica, and things need tohappen,” said Porter, a School ofArts and Sciences junior. “Thispretty much solidified his ide-ologies, and everything that I’veread and studied about prettymuch came alive today — fromthe artwork to the depth andintellect these men have in their’60s. They’re still sharp.”

Porter said he would like tosee more events of this natureat the University and hopesthat next time there will be alarger venue.

Rob DiMatteo, a School ofArts and Sciences senior, hadseen the event advertised, heardhis professor talking about it andwanted to feed his interest inpolitical terrorism and interna-tional law.

“I’m a senior now. I’m about tograduate. I just feel like thesekind of lectures and events areimportant,” he said. “I skippedclass to come today.”

School of Arts and Sciencessenior Courtney Sample hadstudied the Black Panthers inclass and came out to see whatshe had read about in person.

“It’s so important, and it’s sopivotal in our society,” she said.“A lot of the programs that weknow today, like the free lunchprogram the government sup-ports now, originated in the BlackPanther Party. It was seen as amilitant organization, but that mil-itancy only lasted seven months.The rest was based on communi-ty-service-oriented programs.”

the spot they’d like the deans andfaculty to answer.”

Despite the pre-selectedquestions, Council PresidentAndrew Zullo said the secondpart of the “Open Forum” is hec-tic because students ask ques-tions on the spot.

“That is when there is usuallymore tension,” said Zullo, anErnest Mario School of Pharmacygraduate student.

Although there may be con-flict between students and faculty,these events have proven suc-cessful for students in the past,said Bhavini Parikh, vice presi-dent external of the council.

Students’ concerns havehelped create change in the cur-riculum and when courses areoffered to be able to make theprogram more easily manageableto all its students, said Parikh, anErnest Mario School ofPharmacy sophomore.

Aside from addressing studentconcerns, the council is also mak-ing an effort to help the commu-nity through a Student HealthCare Alliance ProvidingEducation and Support event,Zullo said.

The initiative is a collaborativeeffort between the Ernest MarioSchool of Pharmacy, the RobertWood Johnson Medical school,the Rutgers-Newark College ofNursing and the University ofMedicine and Dentistry of New

Jersey’s Physician AssistantProgram, he said.

Students and faculty go toElijah’s Promise Soup Kitchen inNew Brunswick to educate resi-dents on issues such as substanceabuse, depression and poor nutri-tion, Zullo said. They try to targetissues they know will be problemswithin the particular community.

“Different schools will focuson the strengths of what theywant to talk about during theirsession,” Parikh said.

The council also discussedthe challenges of the

old-fashioned buildings where itsclasses are held.

“Our building has not beenupdated in 30 or 40 years,”Zullo said. “Our classrooms inthat building seat 120 students,but a typical pharmacy class isnow in excess of 200 students.So we cannot utilize our ownschool, unfortunately.”

Zullo explained that pharma-cy students are forced to takeclasses all over campus in vari-ous buildings, such as theAllison Road Classroom buildingor Hill Center on Busch campus,

thereby creating a distance andlack of unity among students ofthe school.

But he said there is a plan inthe works for a new phar-macy building.

“Tony Calcado, vice presidentfor Facilities and CapitalPlanning, is considering renovat-ing the William Levine Hall [onBusch campus] as the new schoolof pharmacy building,” Zullo said.

The Pharmacy GoverningCouncil meets ever y otherTuesday at the Busch Campus Center.

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Council strives to meet pharmacy students’ needsBY TIFFANY KATEHAKIS

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Pharmacy GoverningCouncil met Tuesday at theBusch campus center to discussinitiatives that will serve bothstudents and the NewBrunswick community.

To bring staff and studentscloser, the council deemedNovember “What’s on Your MindMonth,” during which pharmacystudents can suggest actionplans for the department andsubmit them to the heads of thedepartment, faculty and deans.

These suggestions and ques-tions will be addressed duringthe “Open Forum” on Jan. 27 inthe Center Hall in the BuschCampus Center.

Priya Amin, internal vice pres-ident of the council, helped cre-ate the forum as a two-part plat-form for students to voice theirconcerns directly to faculty andhave them answered.

During the first part of thediscussion, deans and facultyfirst address the pre-selectedquestions and concerns stu-dents had submitted during themonth, she said. Students thenhave the chance to ask ques-tions to the deans and faculty atthe forum.

“I made it into a discussionand the questions have alreadybeen submitted to the deans andfaculty so they can give ananswer to those questions,” saidAmin, an Ernest Mario School ofPharmacy graduate student.“After that we have other stu-dents that may have questions on

The Pharmacy Governing Council discusses ways to help pharmacy students ease academic stress by creating entertaining events that fit their schedule during their meeting Tuesday at the Busch Campus Center.

JENNIFER KONG / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Students and visitors listen as Dr. Wise Young discusses the benefits of stem cell research during hislecture “Stem Cells: The Inevitability of Cures,” last night at the Busch Campus Center. The event wassponsored by the American Medical Students Association and Student Society for Stem Cell Research.

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THE POSITIVE SIDE OF STEM CELLS

A five-student team from the Economics Department atRutgers-Newark will head to Washington, D.C., on Nov. 30 forthe second year in a row as national finalists of the CollegeFed Challenge.

The team took the top spot earlier this month in theregional level of the competition, a contest for undergradu-ate college students inspired by the workings of the FederalOpen Market Committee.

At nationals, the team will represent the New YorkFederal Reserve District and face off against other schoolssuch as Northwestern University, Lafayette College andBentley College.

This trip marks the third time within five years a Rutgers-Newark team has advanced to this level. Rutgers-NewarkEconomics Department Chair John Graham coaches theteam, and two members of this year’s team are veterans fromlast year.

— Kristine Rosette Enerio

U. TEAM MAKES FINALS OF COLLEGE FED CHALLENGE

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The conference is for LGBTQyouth, their allies and their sup-porters to come and reflect on theissues facing the LGBTQ commu-nity, Kurtz said. This year’s forumtopic is working with and support-ing LGBTQ students of color.

The goal this year is to cele-brate the fact that people comefrom dif ferent backgrounds,races and ethnicities,DeStefano said.

“Topic discussions include …being an activist, navigating cul-tural differences and being anally, students advocating about

their rights and religious diversi-ty within the LGBT community,”DeStefano said.

Jessica Rosney, a School ofArts and Sciences junior, said itis important to remember thepeople who have died or beenmurdered for who they arebecause society has not fullyaccepted them.

“It’s imperative for every-body to be aware of the issuesfacing the LGBTQ community,”she said.

The University is also hostingits Seventh Annual New JerseyGay-Straight Alliance Forum,which will take place Saturday atthe Douglass Campus Center.

The New Jersey chapter of theGay, Lesbian and StraightEducation Network and HiTOPS,a nonprofit organization whosemission is to promote adolescenthealth and well-being, are spon-soring the event, in addition tothe Center for Social JusticeEducation, the Office ofUndergraduate Admissions andthe Office of the Vice Presidentfor Student Affairs.

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violence,” Kurtz said. “The hopeis that we come together andgrieve for the losses of the com-munity, as well as energize thecommunity to make some con-crete changes.”

DeStefano said when some-one is part of a marginalizedminority, it is easy to lose anoth-er cultural or ethnic identity.

“One thing the mainstreampopulation does is it assumes allLGBTQ-identified people arethe same because we identify asLGBTQ,” DeStefano said. “It issort of like saying that becauseI am Korean, all Koreans arethe same. We are not, and nei-ther are the members of theLGBTQ community.”

There will also be an extensivedisplay of the names of those lost,as well as information and hand-outs about LGBTQ issues withinthe campus center, Kurtz said.

19 The Center for Race and Ethnicity is co-sponsoring a screen-ing of the film “My Name is Albert Ayler” by Kasper Collin.The documentary features the story of Albert Ayler, afamous jazz saxophonist, and will begin playing at 6 p.m. inRoom 105 of Voorhees Hall on the College Avenue campus.A question-and-answer portion with the director will followthe film.

The University organization Helping Others Prepare forEternity will be hosting an event called “The Jewishness ofJesus.” The event will run from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in Room411 ABC of the Rutgers Student Center on the CollegeAvenue campus.

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3 The Responsible Drinking Happy Hour event will runfrom 4 to 7 p.m. in the Cook Café of the Cook CampusCenter. Responsible Drinking Happy Hour was estab-lished to unite the community in a social, relaxing andfamiliar atmosphere while emphasizing the importance ofresponsible drinking. They are held on the first Friday ofevery month during the semester. Come meet old friends,colleagues, staff or make new friends. There will be foodand music and sodas are free.

Written by Mason Gross School of the Arts graduate stu-dent Lisa Huber, Mason Gross production Egyptology tellsthe story of a gay parent who tries to reclaim her child whenher partner leaves her for a man. The play will run until Dec.11 in the Philip J. Levin Theater on the Cook/Douglass cam-pus. Tickets are $25 for general admission, $20 forUniversity alumni and employees and $15 for University stu-dents. For more information call (732)-932-7511 or visitmasongross.rutgers.edu.

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21 “The Dangers of Beauty” event will begin at 8 p.m. in themain lounge of Bunting-Cobb Residence Hall. During theevent they will present information about the dangerouseffects of chemicals and aluminum as well as a five-minuteclip of a video from The Story of Stuff Project regarding thecosmetics industry. At the end they will distribute care pack-ages to attendees including a box of chlorine-free tampons,aluminum-free deodorant and organic lip balm.

Jessica Rosney, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, stands in front of Brower Commons on theCollege Avenue campus in rememberance of the lives lost due to LGBTQ-related deaths and crimes.

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The Rutgers Taiwanese American Student Association collaborated with Pi Delta Psi for the eighthannual “TASA Free-style,” based around the theme of dreams. Held last night in the Busch CampusCenter, the event featured celebrity guests, including singer Jason Chen and violinist Jason Yang.

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“It’s imperative for everybody to be aware of

the issues facing the LGBTQ community.”

JESSICA ROSNEYSchool of Arts and

Sciences Junior

which we are willing tocompromise either.Submitting to Big Brotheris double ungood, and soare unsafe airways.

I have seen images fromthese scanners — enoughpeople with access toGoogle have. Frighteninglyenough, many were doc-

tored to include skin tone and shading, makingthem incredibly graphic. Truthfully, the actualimages are not that graphic. They are not porno-graphic. The full-body scanners emit low-levelrays that are calibrated to pick up things we don’twant on planes like pocketknives, guns or thatpair of toenail clippers that in 2003 would get youa body-cavity search. They aren’t calibrated tocenterfold setting. Even the attractive examplewas turned into a textbook image, a gray outlineof a woman without truly distinguishable detail.

Let’s face it, being transformed into a nakedgray blob and having that image transmitted toan isolated room to have an officer radio back“no bombs here” — why does everything seemlike a pun here? — is preferable to the annoyed

stranger who will be required togrope a side-boob when you for-got to take 27 cents from your pocket.

In the end, I believe this can bedone well and tactfully. Airportsnow are opting toward scannersproduced by Rapiscan, which cre-

ates far less detailed images than those from theL-3 scanners, which have been unequivocallyturned down. With those scanners and withtrained professionals working according toguidelines, our privacy will be far less violatedthan a mandatory second-grade physical.

Who do we blame? We can blame the radical-leftist-authoritarian government, the militaristic-unethical-Big-Brotherly TSA. We can blame theterrorists, the airports or just technology. Maybewe can blame the employees on the other end ofthe screen, watching us and violating our privacy.Maybe we can do all this and refuse securitymeasures en masse. Which reminds me, opt forthe bus this Wednesday — I am.

Thus, denizens of the airways, let us take adrink of victory gin, travel the airways — invadedor not — and have a double-plus-goodThanksgiving among the proles.

Patrick Danner is a School of Arts and Sciencessenior majoring in English and minoring inItalian. His column, “Stoop Musings,” runs onalternate Fridays.

T here is a popularmythos surround-ing airport securi-

ty: racial profiling,abysmally long lines, theidea of arriving at 8 a.m. fora noon flight just in caseand making sure you haveonly enough toothpaste tobrush your incisors. It con-sists of standing behind an octogenarian who, forthe sake of him, cannot figure out how to collapsehis granddaughter’s stroller. And now there’s thissupposedly optional full-body image scanning,introduced to expedite the security process whilemaintaining — if not, improving — the safety ofour airports.

Today these scanners can be found fromAtlanta to Chicago, San Diego, San Francisco,Denver and 34 other airports throughout theUnited States. They have gone international,being installed in Saskatchewan and Toronto,Rome, London, Seoul and eight other airportsscattered throughout the continents.

Many opponents to the idea see it as a windowinto a gross invasion of privacy — a pseudo-1984-esque move by the governmentsimilar to that of the USA PatriotAct of yesteryear. Several oppo-nents have declared the scannersand the accompanying images per-ver ted. These claims stop justshort of predicting a new wave ofTransportation SecurityAdministration-themed pornography with char-acters of hot TSA officers and hot airline passen-gers, pulled into interrogation when it is discov-ered that, as a man passed through the scanner,he was harboring a massive weapon — interpretas you will.

Many supporters of the measures cite theopposite — though equally per ver ted —extreme. Many believe that in order to fly, allpassengers should be required to consent to thescan. I could write 800 words on the irony of theidea of forced consent but instead I’ll just saythis — really?

I will concede that the authorities have attempt-ed to placate both sides of the issue. Airports willgive passengers the opportunity to bypass thescanners if they submit to a physical searchbecause that may seem less invasive than thescanners. Again, really?

The problem here lies in the debate itself.This is not simply a debate of which is more valu-able — safety or privacy — because both arealways compromised as soon as we step into anairport. The debate has to weigh the extent to

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“What does watermelon teach us about sex? With watermelon we have seeds, and we are left to question ourselves,

‘Are we going to spit or swallow?’”

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QUOTE OF THE DAY

“This is not simply a debate of which is more valuable.”

Stoop Musings

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R epublicans in the Senate successfully filibustered the PaycheckFairness Act on Tuesday, an act which would help to remedyinstances of wage discrimination stemming from gender bias. It is

not surprising to see Republicans and Democrats unable to work togethertoward any goal, but ending gender discrimination in the workplace is tooimportant an issue to get caught up in games of party versus party. At least,it should be too important of an issue. Instead, the GOP decided that dis-agreeing with the Democrats takes precedence over making any significantstrides in social justice. We are sick of seeing the leaders of our country actlike particularly petty middle school students. Therefore, we give the GOPa dart for choosing to filibuster a bill — a bill that has the potential to bringabout more gender equality — only because Democrats backed it.

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If Facebook is going to be an integral part of everyone’s life in modernsociety, the website should at least be used for productive purposes everyonce in a while. That is why Huntington Beach, Calif., Councilman DevinDwyer deserves a laurel for his proposal that the names of people arrest-ed for drunk driving be made public via the city’s Facebook page. A pub-lic list of offenders is already available on the city’s website but, in all hon-esty, very few people take the time to visit their city’s official webpage. Incontrast, almost everyone logs onto Facebook at least once a day. By post-ing the names of drunk drivers on Facebook, the city is making it easierfor citizens to access the information. It is also far more likely that citizenswill take the time to look at the list. Hopefully the city will enact Dwyer’sproposal. If the list is made as readily available as possible, the social stig-ma attached to being a publicly recognized drunk driver may very wellmake people think before they get behind the wheel.

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Recently struck by a car, 14-year-old Luis Jovel Jr. from Clarksburg,Washington, D.C., is now a quadriplegic suffering from permanent braindamage. As if that were not tragic enough, the police officer that struckhim received nothing but a $185 speeding ticket and state officials refuseto make any comment on whether Officer Jason Cokinos was disciplinedfurther. What Cokinos did was more than just speed. He essentiallyended a young boy’s life. This seems like a blatant abuse of police author-ity. If anyone else had struck the boy, he would have faced dire conse-quences. It is obviously suspicious that Cokinos was found not guilty ofnegligent driving. And if injuring a 14-year-old that badly is not negligentdriving, then what is it? The state should disregard Cokinos’ status as apolice officer when it comes to judging his crimes. For not deliveringproper justice, the Montgomery County District Court and theMontgomery County Police Department both receive a dart.

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University Professor Scott Glenn recently received the title of 2010New Jersey Professor of the Year from The Carnegie Foundation for theAdvancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Supportof Education. A marine and coastal sciences professor, Glenn has a longlist of impressive accomplishments under his belt, including involvementin the University’s trans-Atlantic glider project. The University needsmore professors like Glenn, who not only actively conduct importantresearch but engage with their students as well, helping them to grow intheir respective fields. Glenn should also be recognized for his leadershipabilities, as he has had a major role in making the University’s CoastalOcean Observation Laboratory one of the foremost names in oceanobservation. We give Glenn a laurel for all of his achievements as aresearcher and as a role model.

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It is understandable that Principal Jeffrey Szymaniak wants to do allthat he can to prevent and discourage bullying. As the principal ofWhitman Hanson Regional High School in Boston, one of his jobs isensuring student safety. That being said, banning students from wearingpink shirts at an upcoming pep rally because pink shirts can lead to teas-ing seems like the wrong way for Szymaniak to be going about his duties.Anti-bullying measures should aim to discourage the act of bullyingitself. Szymaniak’s decision to ban pink shirts suggests that it is the vic-tim’s fault he was being bullied because his clothing choice spurred thebullies on. Following Szymaniak’s logic, schools should begin banningglasses, nerdy kids, gays, any sort of quirks a student may have and soon — after all, aren’t these some of the reasons why students are bullied?Effective anti-bullying measures should begin by encouraging studentsto lovingly accept diversity, not by discouraging students from engagingin activities that may lead them to be bullied. We give Szymaniak a dartfor seeming to not understand how to properly prevent bullying.

Jay Friedman, a sex educator, on how food can teach people about sex

Week in review:laurels and darts

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I have chosen to write thisin the wake of recentevents as an individual and

a University student ratherthan on behalf of any group.

The last three and a halfweeks have been stressful andduring them I have enter-tained many labels. I was firsttold that my role as an activistwas greatly diminished by nothaving the correct sexual andethnic orientation to expressmy disdain. Par ties entirelyseparate from University of fi-cials then told me that that Iwas irresponsibly attemptingto provide support for Hamasand trigger an internationalincident. And now, everyonewho enjoyed a recent eventhosted by BAKA: StudentsUnited for Middle EasternJustice have been told by theauthor of a Wednesday letterin The Daily Targum,“Holocaust denial industr yaf fects wide range of people,”that their support of NormanFinkelstein is equal to endors-ing a denial of the Holocaust.

In shor t, during the lastthree and a half weeks I havebeen labeled through insult asa Pakistani, homosexual, ter-rorist/terrorist supporter andnow a Holocaust denier. Thehumble idealism, which Ienjoyed while assisting in plan-ning these events, has been

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tainted with over whelmingfrustration. I feel my mouthfilled with the ashes of bitter-ness and I am annoyed by theimmature and vicious allega-tions thrown at me. However,like everyone who has experi-enced these tactics before, Imust move on.

We as students and activistsmust remember in momentssuch as these why we have cho-sen — and it remains a choice —to undergo the process of

expressing academic freedoms,which often feel like a burden. Itmay be hurtful to hear our namesassociated with hateful labelssuch as terrorist, but we mustmove on. It may be irritating to beforced to combat unfair mediaportrayals and individualsaggressively accusing us of beingaggressive, but we must move on.It may feel as though the forcesthat allegedly militarize and dic-tate human society are too stub-born to allow for global peace, butwe must always seek to move on.

I became an activist afterwatching footage of AmericanGIs bitterly smoking cigarettesnext to the burning corpses ofVietnamese civilians. I becameinvolved with the Israel-

Palestine conflict when I grewto understand the nature ofhuman shields and that the sizeand strength of the Israeli mili-tary machine make this strate-gy especially terrifying. And assuch, despite the overwhelm-ing temptation to embrace apa-thy, I must move on.

What would I say to thosewho are dead and continue todie in the face of flawed policyand questionable internationalconduct? That I apologize, butmy pride prevents me fromspeaking out? That I am sorry,but I must lay low for the sakeof preserving my reputation?That I must evacuate to seclu-sion from politics, and I sendmy deepest regrets?

There is no ill treatment thatwe experience in this nationthat will compare to the injus-tices we protest and will contin-ue to protest thousands — oreven dozens — of kilometersaway. Labels will remain labels,and words will remain words.They are not helicopter gun-ships. They are not unmanneddrone attacks piloted fromTexas. And they are certainlynot jingoist accusations of hate-ful attitudes accompanied byracism and lethal force.Pretending other wise is notonly ignorant — it is obnoxious.

Bilal Ahmed is a School ofArts and Sciences junior major-ing in Middle Eastern studieswith a minor in political science.

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R utgers field hockeyteam captain Jenna Bullearned a spot on the

2010 Longstreth/ NFHCADivision I All-Mid-AtlanticRegion Second Team yester-day, which was announced bythe National Field HockeyCoaches Association.

The senior tallied two assistsand a goal this season for theScarlet Knights but did most ofher work in the midfield by shut-ting opposing offenses down.

The Ontario, Canada, nativealso secured a spot on the All-Big East First Team for her playthis season.

YANNICK SALMON OF THERutgers men’s soccer teamearned Third Team All-Big Easthonors for his play this seasonfor the Scarlet Knights.

The senior forward led theteam in scoring this season withsix goals, as the Knights went 3-1-1 in games that Salmon scored.

The Westbury, N.Y., nativeearned Big East OffensivePlayer of the Week honors fourdifferent times in his career andends his time on the Banks with12 career goals.

DESPITE A SLIM WINNINGpercentage during the 2010MLB season, Seattle Marinerspitcher Felix Hernandez wonthe American League CyYoung award.

Hernandez posted a 13-12record for his club this seasonwith a 2.27 ERA. He edged outTampa Bay Rays pitcher DavidPrice and New York Yankeesace CC Sabathia by earning 21of 28 first place votes.

Seven players combined forsix sacks in addition to six quar-terback hurries, as two lineback-ers, two defensive backs andthree defensive linemen got in onthe action.

“That’s what we do: We goafter the quarterback,” said sen-ior linebacker Antonio Lowery,who had half a sack. “That’s us,we have a swarming defense.That’s what our job is to do andthat’s what we want to bring toevery game, every week.”

The task will be magnified inthe next three weeks, whenRutgers faces Cincinnati,Louisville and West Virginia,ranked Nos. 1, 2 and 3 in totaloffense in the Big East.

While the Bearcats average409 yards per game, they are alsoturnover prone.

The Knights lead the confer-ence in turnover margin at plus-eight, while Cincinnati sits last atminus-10. The game tomorrowpresents an opportunity to combatthe Bearcats’ high-powered attackwith takeaways and the nation’sfifth-ranked third-down defense.

“Ball security has been theirbiggest issue,” Schiano said.“They’re struggling in thatarea. That can negate a lot of

BASICS: Rutgers begins

stretch against top offenses

continued from back

ANDREW HOWARD / SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Senior linebacker Antonio Lowery leads the Knights with 82 tackles

this season and forced two fumbles and recovered three.

Knights face daunting ordeal with ’CanesBY TYLER BARTO

ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

Rutgers head men’s basketballcoach Mike Rice preaches an up-tempo attack while also taking an

opponentout of itscomfor tzone.

B u tthose twoi d e o l o -

gies come to a head on Sunday,when the Scarlet Knights (1-1) wel-come Atlantic Coast Conferencechallenger Miami (1-1) to theLouis Brown Athletic Center.

“Against Miami, we can’t runup and down,” Rice said. “We can’thave a ton of possessions — not tothe point where it’s got to be 43

JENNIFER KONG / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Senior point guard James Beatty is responsible for defending the Miami backcourt of Durand Scott and

Malcom Grant, who combined for 38 points in a loss to No. 19 Memphis.

This week we tried some-thing a little different. Instead of

a typicalsimula-

tion of “NCAA Football 2011,” wedid it twice — once with ChasDodd as the quarterback andonce with Tom Savage.

With Dodd taking snaps,the Scarlet Knights lost, 30-15,to the Cincinnati Bearcats.

Dodd finished the game 19-of-44 passing for 210 yards, onetouchdown and one interception.

With Savage as the starter,the Scarlet Knights reignedvictorious, sneaking by theBearcats, 28-26.

Savage completed 16 of 20passes on the day for 220 yards,three touchdowns and no inter-ceptions. Receiver MarkHarrison caught six balls for119 yards and two touchdowns.

For Cincinnati, quarterbackZach Collaros was the commontheme as an offensive threat.Collaros averaged 270.5 passingyards in the two games and threwthree touchdown passes withoutturning the ball over once.

The Daily Targum’s week-ly simulation is 6-3 this sea-son, mis-picking the gamesagainst Tulane, South Floridaand Syracuse.

— Sam Hellman

SAVAGE LEADSKNIGHTS TO WIN

NCAA ‘11 SIM

MIAMI AT RUTGERS, SUNDAY, 2 P.M.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

possessions for the game for us towin. We still have to fast break toscore points. We pick and choosewhen we fast break.”

Head coach Frank Haith’steam matches wits with NorthCarolina Central tonight beforeheading to the Banks.

The Hurricanes, picked to fin-ish eighth in the ACC, come intoSunday’s matchup on the heels ofa 72-68 loss to No. 19 Memphis.

Miami sophomore DurandScott and junior Malcolm Grantcombined to score 38 points in thenationally-televised defeat. Scott,a Rice High School (N.Y.) prod-uct, and Grant, a Brooklyn native,return to the New York metropol-itan area for the 2 p.m. contest.

Scott earned Miami’s firstACC-All Rookie First Team

selection in his rookie season.But the biggest matchup night-mare for the Knights comes in theform of 6-foot-10, 303-pound cen-ter Reggie Johnson, who posted adouble-double against the Tigers.

The Knights’ success Sundaylargely lies in their ability to pre-vent Johnson from wreakinghavoc in the paint, as well as keep-ing the 2009-10 ACC-All RookieSecond Teamer off the boards.

“We’ll try a couple of differentthings,” Rice said in terms ofdefending Johnson. “Whether it’sdigging in the post, double-team-ing in the post, fronting the post— we’re going to throw thekitchen sink at not just Johnson,but their whole frontline.”

Miami offers the Knights thefirst of many games in which they

will be the undersized opponent, asthe Hurricanes’ roster includes fiveplayers who stand at 6-foot-8 or taller.

But Rutgers’ first two contestsfeatured the Knights as the high-profile team with a target on theirbacks. When Miami hits thehardwood on Sunday, the roleswill be reversed.

“Coach Rice is definitely hugeon our preparation before games,”said senior forward JonathanMitchell. “We’ll just come in withthe same focus. [The Fairfieldwin] is over with. We took care ofbusiness at home and now it’stime to move forward to an ACCteam that’s going to come in hereand try to win one on the road.”

The matchup at the RACmarks the first contest betweenthe two schools since 2004 —Miami’s last year in the Big Eastbefore opting to join the ACC withBoston College and Virginia Tech.

The Hurricanes own an 8-4advantage in the short-livedseries, but the Knights won two ofthe past three meetings betweenthe former conference foes.

The game also features the firstRutgers opponent from a “Big Six”conference — not named NorthCarolina — since a Nov. 28, 2009loss to Florida in Atlantic City.

“That’s what I came to collegefor,” said freshman guard MikePoole. “That’s what I came to theBig East for — to play the topteams, the top ‘Big Six’ conferenceteams — and I’m just ready. I wantto practice for [Miami] right now.”

Like Rice, Haith gained public-ity in basketball circles for hisability to recruit, evidenced by hisluring New York City talents Scottand Grant to Coral Gables, Fla.

But unlike the seventh-yearhead coach, Rice’s resurrectionof a Division I program is still inthe infant stages.

“I love this,” Rice said. “Youhave to realize what your strengthsand weaknesses are. When youplay Miami, you’re going to realizewhat your weaknesses are in ahurry. I love it for my team and thefans like it in bringing back someenergy to this building.”

positive plays.”With Cincinnati there are

plenty of positive plays.There are some new faces,

with quarterback Zach Collarosreplacing Tony Pike and wide-outs Armon Binns and D.J.Woods stepping into bigger rolesin place of Mardy Gilyard. AndRutgers knows the big-playpotential of the Bearcats.

“Playing against Tony Pikeand that offense last year, theywere scoring at will against us,”Lefeged said. “I don’t even knowif they punted in that game. Itseemed like they were scoring onevery drive.”

Pike and Gilyard led the showin a 47-15 win at Rutgers Stadium,but Binns and Woods combinedfor nine catches and 112 yards.Tailback Isaiah Pead, who alsoreturns, averaged 5.9 yards oneight carries and found the endzone once.

With playmakers remaining atskill positions, the biggest changein the Bearcat offense is with the6-foot dual-threat quarterbackCollaros replacing 6-foot-6 Pike.

And the challenges present-ed are not just pass or scramble,because the junior who leadsthe Big East in individual totaloffense uses his legs to buytime downfield.

“Big arm, can make all of thethrows, very mobile and a verygood thrower on the run,” Schianosaid. “Not mobile just to get away

from the rush, but mobile andkeeps his vision down the field. Hehurts people with big plays on the scramble.”

Rutgers faces a complicated taskagainst Collaros and Co., whichforces opponents to walk a fine line

with their pressure. In a team effort,the Knights will need help from theiroffense, but the defense will attemptto do what it is accustomed to.

“We just go out there and playRutgers football,” Lefeged said,“Rutgers defense.”

T H E D A I L Y T A R G U MS PORTS1 4 N O V E M B E R 1 9 , 2 0 1 0

Rushdan delivers winner to escape with victoryBY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ

CORRESPONDENT

There is no other way to put it:The Rutgers women’s basketballteam got away with one last nightagainst Princeton.

After building a 13-point leadto end the first half, the Scarlet

Knightsd i de v e r y -thing tol o s et h e i r

home opener, but amid the fouls,turnovers and general miscues,guard Khadijah Rushdanknocked down the game winner,allowing the Knights to escapethe Louis Brown Athletic Centerwith a 54-53 win.

“The look was to see myoptions and try to drive,”Rushdan said of the Knights’ finalpossession. “The shot was what Ihad, so that’s why I took it.”

With just 12.2 seconds left onthe clock following a Princetonmiss by forward NiveenRasheed, head coach C. VivianStringer took a timeout and gath-ered her troops with the game onthe line.

Junior point guard Nikki Speedbrought the ball up court, passing itoff to Rushdan around midcourt.From there, the Wilmington, Del.,native pulled up from about 15 feetout and knocked down the shot withabout four seconds left, sealing theteam’s first victory of the season.

Rushdan finished 4-for-10 fromthe field and led the team with 13points while attacking offensivelyand getting to the free throw line,something she failed to do in theteam’s first two games.

“We wanted to try to attackthem inside and get them in foultrouble,” Rushdan said. “Just toget free points from the freethrow line — I think we wenttwice against Stanford — andwe’ve been struggling that past

Wheeler keeps rolling after scoring success in Cali

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BY SAM HELLMANCORRESPONDENT

Guard Erica Wheeler built onan impressive California trip with

a n o t h e rs c o r i n gboost offthe benchin theS c a r l e t

Knights’ 54-53 victory last nightover Princeton.

Wheeler, a 5-foot-7 sopho-more from Miami, droppedeight points on 3-of-7 shootingfrom the floor.

“A great spark,” said juniorguard Khadijah Rushdan onwhat Wheeler brings of f thebench. “She’s not necessarilyconcerned with herself, notthinking, ‘I get to start becauseI’ve been shooting it well.’ Sheloves being that extra energy.”

Wheeler has just four careerstarts — all coming last sea-son — but averages 28 minutesper game through three gamesthis season off the bench.

In the first half alone,Wheeler scored eight points ona perfect 3-for-3 shooting clip in11 minutes but fell off in thesecond half without scoring abucket and turning it overseven times on the game.

“She can play,” said headcoach C. Vivian Stringer. “Ithink [she and junior forwardApril Sykes] are playing very

well, much better than all oflast year, so I hope that they won’t worry about any-body else.”

FRESHMAN GUARD DAISHASimmons saw her most signifi-cant playing time to date, scor-ing a career-best four points in16 minutes.

Simmons struggled earlyon, committing three turnoversin her first five minutes, butcalmed down after that and didnot commit a turnover in herlast 11 minutes.

THE KNIGHTS TOOK THEfloor at the Louis BrownAthletic Center for the firsttime this season after begin-ning this year’s campaign onthe West coast.

A total of 2,518 fans were inattendance for the first homegame in Stringer’s 16th seasonat Rutgers and 40th as a head coach.

“It was exciting to be playingon a brand new floor,” said jun-ior forward Chelsey Lee. “Itwas always great to open uphome and everyone’s cheeringfor you.”

LEE WORE NO. 52 FOR THEgame to honor paralyzed Rutgersfootball junior defensive tackleEric LeGrand. Lee’s number-change from 34 to 52 is a perma-nent change for the season.

KNIGHTNOTEBOOK

NICHOLAS BRASOWSKI / SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Junior guard Khadijah Rushdan led the Scarlet Knights in scoring with 13 points, none more critical thanthe two she made on a jumper in the game’s final seconds, giving Rutgers a 54-53 win over Princeton.

JARED MILLER

Sophomore guard Erica Wheeler led all bench scorers in her 24 minutes of play with eightpoints, all of which came in the first half. The Miami native turned the ball over seven times.

weekend so it was definitely aconcern for us.”

Rutgers faced its first deficit ofthe second half at the 11:05 mark,leading to a battle in a game thatappeared to be a blowout. TheTigers rallied behind a 14-point runstarting with 15:36 on the clock topull ahead of Stringer’s squad.

Junior forward April Sykesfinally laid the ball up with 11:01on the clock to end the Knights’scoring drought.

Sykes went just 4-for-13 fromthe field — ending the contest withnine points — and down the

stretch the Starkville, Miss., nativenever saw the floor for Stringer.

But it was not because the for-ward was struggling.

“It wasn’t because [Sykes] wasstruggling, because for that matterErica [Wheeler] was strugglingjust as bad,” Stringer said. “It was,‘Who are you going to put inbetween the two strugglers?’ That’sreally what it came down to.”

The Knights turned the ballover seven times in the secondhalf, with three coming in thegame’s final three minutes.Sophomore Monique Oliver

played much of the second halfwith four fouls.

To compensate for the foultrouble, Chelsey Lee carriedthe Knights down low, finishing with 11 points andeight boards.

And luckily for Rutgers, theTigers missed four layups in thefinal five minutes, allowingRushdan to notch the game winner.

Still, Princeton did its bestdown the stretch to seize a victory.

“I think it was just the fightof the kids,” said Princeton

head coach Cour tneyBanghart. “We had 22 pointsgoing into halftime and that’slike ridiculous for us. From thefield, even on the game, weshot 23 percent from [the 3-point line] and our two startingguards were both above 40 per-cent last year. The kids justnever stopped.”

The Knights built a comfort-able cushion heading into thelocker room at halftime, follow-ing a 10-3 run starting at theeight-minute mark to pull awayfrom the Tigers.

After a jumper by Wheeler,the Tigers came away empty intheir next six possessions, turn-ing the ball over three timesand missing three shots.Wheeler tabbed five of theKnights’ points during the runand was perfect from the fieldin the half, finishing with eightpoints and two 3-pointers.

While Stringer’s squadthrived from beyond the arc inthe half, getting to the lineproved to be another commontrend, as well.

The Knights went 5-for-5from the charity stripe, a far cryfrom their past two games,when the group went 0-for-2against Stanford and 5-for-9against California.

But heading into their nextgame against North CarolinaA&T, the Knights must cleanup their second-half perform-ance if they hope to make it twoin a row against last year’sMEAC conference champions.

“I thought we were in agood rhythm at first and thenwe started to play to create sit-uations on our own,” Stringersaid. “All of a sudden we starthesitating — throwing the ballup — and the next thing youknow, we start forcing shotsand struggling. When we dothat it makes the shooters look bad.”

“We came in together fresh-man year,” Lee said. “As fresh-men, we lived together thewhole summer, so we got toknow each other pretty wellover the past two years. I’m nota football fan, but when I went to the games I made sure

I talked to him after the games.”

THE WIN YESTERDAY BY THEKnights is the 15th win over in-state rival Princeton in 16 gamesbetween the two schools.

NORTH CAROLINA A&T ISup next for the Knights (1-2).Rutgers has a chance to even outits record as the heavy favorite,but A&T is no joke, winning theMEAC and making it to the thirdround of the NIT last season witha 23-11 overall record.

BY SAM HELLMANCORRESPONDENT

For the first time this season,there is no official starting quarter-back or even a leader to get thestarting nod, with just one daystanding between the Rutgers foot-ball team and kickoff.

True freshman quarterbackChas Dodd struggled mightily inthe first half last week againstSyracuse and took the bench infavor of sophomore Tom Savagefor the second half.

Since then, neither quarterbackseparated himself in practice, andneither is the starter as of yester-day’s meeting between the mediaand head coach Greg Schiano.

“I think I know,” Schiano said.“We practiced them both. Theymay both play. All those areoptions. I want to talk throughwith the staff. We have some timenow. I’ll probably go backthrough and watch some of thegames. I have a bunch of hourshere to maybe watch the prac-tices and just try to figure outwhat kind of game it’s going to bewith their defense.”

Through nine games, theScarlet Knights (4-5, 1-3) took thefield with Savage as the starter fourtimes and Dodd as the starter onfive occasions.

Savage went 2-2 as the starterand lost his starting spot after aseries of injuries he sufferedagainst North Carolina and Tulane.

Dodd started off with a blast,winning two straight, leading twofourth-quarter comebacks andearning Big East Offensive Playerof the Week. But the freshmanfrom Byrnes High School (S.C.),then lost three games in a row andhas not thrown a touchdown passin the month of November.

“I think they’re both goodenough to win games,” Schianosaid. “There is no doubt in mymind of that. I really think it’s moreof what [works] right now becausewe’re in a little bit of a spot. We’vehad a bunch of injuries, and we’retrying to win a game here.”

Cincinnati’s 47-15 trouncing ofthe Knights last season is a gamemost members of the team wantto forget, but it was a specialgame for Savage, who took hisfirst college snap.

Savage, coming as a highly tout-ed recruit from Cardinal O’Hara

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[ ]CINCINNATI (3-6)

PASSINGZ. Collaros

RUSHINGI. PeadJ. Goebel

RECEIVINGA. BinnsD. WoodsM. BarnettI. Pead

DEFENSEJ. SchafferR. JohnsonM. Bomar

INJURIESQuestionable — RB J. Rains, RB D. WilliamsOut — WR V. Hazelton, LB A. Delisi

YDS2,139

YDS696191

YDS826775292111

AVG.267.4

AVG.7.26.6

AVG.14.516.113.3

5.6

INT110

INT.6

LNG8028

LNG62696925

SCK111

TD20

TD23

TD9720

TKL855553

CMP60.7%

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INSIDEthe

NUMBERS

Key MatchupRutgers defense vs. QB Zach Collaros

The Scarlet Knights struggled at times against the last dual-threat quarterback they faced in B.J. Daniels and should have their hands full against Zach Collaros,

who leads the Big East in total offense for an individual with 274.1 yards per game.

SCOTT TSAI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Sophomore quarterback Tom Savage made his collegiate debut against

Cincinnati last season, going 15 for 23 for 135 yards and a score.

PROJECTED STARTING LINEUP: DEFENSE

PROJECTED STARTING LINEUP: OFFENSE

MOHAMEDSANUWide ReceiverSophomore6’-2”, 218 lbs.

DESMONDSTAPLETONTackleJunior6’-5”, 285 lbs.

DESMONDWYNNGuardJunior6’-6”, 290 lbs.

HOWARDBARBIERICenterSenior6’-5”, 304 lbs.

CALEBRUCHGuardJunior6’-4”, 290 lbs.

DEVONWATKISTackleSophomore6’-7”, 310 lbs.

D.C.JEFFERSONTight EndSophomore6’-6”, 258 lbs

MARK HARRISONWide ReceiverSophomore6’-3”, 230 lbs

CHASDODDQuarterbackFreshman6’-0”, 197 lbs

COLINMCEVOYFullbackSenior6’-1”, 215 lbs

JOEMARTINEKRunning BackJunior6’-0”, 215 lbs

JONATHANFREENYRight endSenior6’-3”, 250 lbs

CHARLIENOONANTackleSenior6’-2”, 274 lbs

SCOTTVALLONETackleSophomore6’-3”, 270 lbs

ALEXSILVESTROLeft endSenior6’-4”, 260 lbs

MANNYABREULinebackerJunior6’-3”, 245 lbs

STEVEBEAUHARNAISLinebackerSophomore6’-2”, 230 lbs

ANTONIOLOWERYLinebackerSenior6’-2”, 225 lbs

DAVIDROWECornerbackJunior6’-0”, 196 lbs

JOELEFEGEDStrong SafetySenior6’-1”, 205 lbs

KHASEEMGREENEFree SafetySophomore6’-1”, 215 lbs

BRANDONBINGCornerbackSenior5’-11”, 180 lbs

High School (Pa.), came in at half-time after then-starter Dom Natalethrew three interceptions in thefirst half.

Savage completed 15 of 23passes for 139 yards and his firstcareer touchdown.

“It was unbelievable just goingout there and playing,” Savagesaid. “That was in the past, and wehave a good Cincinnati team wehave to worry about now. They’re agreat defense. I mean, it’sCincinnati. You always have to pre-pare for them. We haven’t beatenthem in a while, so we have to goout there and just play.”

Offensively, the Bearcats (3-6,1-3) boast the most dynamic quar-terback in the Big East in ZachCollaros, who leads the confer-ence with 2,139 passing yardsand 20 touchdowns. But first-yearhead coach Butch Jones is veryconcerned with the problems pre-sented by the Rutgers defense.

“[Rutgers is] probably thebest defense to date that I’veseen on film of creatingturnovers and stripping the ball,and we all know the problemsthat we’ve had hanging onto thefootball,” Jones said. “That’sgoing to be a great challenge.And you look at their third-downdefense, their overall first downsallowed, they’re playing like atypical Greg Schiano footballteam on defense — tough and physical.”

Defensively, Cincy has 18sacks this season and four inter-ceptions. Junior linebacker JKSchaffer leads the team in tackleswith 85.

“They’re really athletic,” saidjunior left tackle DesmondStapleton. “They have highmotors and they can just get tothe ball. It’s tough to describe,but they’re just a good team. Youcan tell that from the tape.”

“We played our defense last week,” saidsophomore safety Khaseem Greene. “Wegave up 13 points, so that wasn’t good. Butyou definitely look at the defense last weekand think, ‘Wow, that’s how Rutgers defenseis supposed to be played.’”

The Knights recovered two fumblesand intercepted a pass, but the biggest change was the presence in the backfield.

SPORTSP A G E 1 6 N O V E M B E R 1 9 , 2 0 1 0

T H E D A I L Y T A R G U M

BY STEVEN MILLERSPORTS EDITOR

There is no question it takes a team effortto win a football game.

But for the Rutgers football team, a teameffort means some contributions from the

offense, maybe a fewspecial teams points

and a whole lot of defense.That typical defense was absent for the

first two games of the Scarlet Knights’ three-game losing streak, but with the exception ofa final, costly drive against Syracuse lastweekend, it returned in a 13-point showingagainst the Orange.

“It was something coach [GregSchiano] talked about during the week,that we have to get back to playing Rutgersfootball,” said senior safety Joe Lefeged.“We gave up 50-some points in two games,which you don’t see too often fromRutgers’ defense.”

It was actually 69 points againstPittsburgh and South Florida, which com-bined for 819 yards, five passing touchdownsand three on the ground.

The Knights had three takeaways and twosacks in those games.

Against Syracuse, the defense had thesame number of takeaways and three timesthe number of sacks as its previous two loss-es. It was a return to Rutgers defense.

THE DAILY TARGUM

BACK TO BASICS

NICHOLAS BRASOWSKI / SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Senior safety Joe Lefeged recorded half a sack and recovered a fumble lastweekend in the Scarlet Knights’ 13-10 loss to Syracuse at Rutgers Stadium.

SEE BASICS ON PAGE 13

HURRICANESEASON

The Rutgers men’s basketball team faces a difficult task defendingagainst Miami’s talentedbackcourt in Sunday’s 2 p.m. matchup with the ACC foe at the RAC. pg. 13

KNIGHTS GAMEDAY

For the second straightseason, the Knights donot have an announcedstarting quarterbackentering their matchupwith Big East opponentCincinnati. pg. 15

FOOTBALL

Rutgers finds typical defensive success through pressure with season on line, bowl berth in question