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The Rutgers football team received a verbal commitment Friday from All-American running back Savon Huggins, who announced his decision at St. Peter’s Prep.

Senate to enact new academic integrity policy

BY AMY ROWE CORRESPONDENT

The Rutgers University Senate passed a new academic integrity policy at its meeting Friday in the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus. The policy, which took more than six years to draft, will come into effect this September.

The policy — introduced by the Academic Standards, Regulations and Admissions Committee (ASRAC) — addresses student academic integrity from a different angle.

ASRAC’s policy used to have four levels of violation based on a case’s severity, but now has two — separable and non-separable, said Martha Cotter, ASRAC’s cochair and chair of the Academic Integrity committee.

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A group of protestors from the Jewish community bear signs asking for peace in Israel outside “Never Again for Anyone,” an event hoping to end suffering worldwide, Saturday night outside the Douglass Student Center. For a full-page photo spread, see PAGE 4.

Admission changes cause controversy

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University Senate members vote on Friday to approve the new academic integrity policy.

A last-minute change to the admissions policy for “Never Again for Anyone,” led some members of the Jewish community to protest Saturday outside of Trayes Hall in the Douglass Campus Center.

The event was intended to shed light on Jewish suffering during the Holocaust and Palestinian suffering in the 1948 ethnic cleansing known as “Nakba” in order to show that all suffering affect all humans, said Hoda Mitwally, public relations officer for BAKA: Students United for Middle Eastern Justice.

“Whenever we see injustice, we must speak out no matter how small or large it may be,” said Mitwally, a School of

Arts and Sciences senior. “All human suffering is equally unjust and unacceptable, and that is the purpose of tonight to say, never again to all forms of oppression.”

American Muslims for Palestine, the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) and the Middle East Children’s Alliance, who sponsored the event, initially advised that it be advertised as free and open to the public, said Sami Jitan, BAKA event coorindator.

But on the day of the event, Sara Kershnar, founder of the IJAN, changed the price of admission to $5 because of changes within the contract.

“The contract with BAKA was canceled and a new contract was created with American Muslims for Palestine because the University felt that it was not a student

event, but it was an event by outside organizations,” she said.

The University instead needed to charge a private room rate, which Kershnar said was three times the original rate.

“Combined with the fact that these different Zionists organizations put out a call for protest, we then also had to pay for two additional security guards,” she said.

“When we were on site we decided to charge everyone a minimum of $5 to $20 because we had to pass on to some of the costs to participants which is not unusual.

That was true for anyone who came in.”

Because it was no longer a BAKA event, the student group did not know anything about the change and found out at the same time everyone else did, Kershnar said.

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Fairleigh Dickinson student earns laughs, top prize

BY ANASTASIA MILLICKER AND ANKITA PANDA STAFF WRITERS

Farleigh Dickinson University graduate Gordon Baker-Bone took home the title “King of Campus Comedy” at the finals of this year’s New Jersey Comedy Festival Saturday in the Livingston Student Center.

The event showcased the comedy routines of 27 college students from all over the state.

“A lot of them had these awesome acts. There are a lot of great young comics in New Jersey [and] to go against them is hard work, and you have to try your best,” Baker-Bone said.

Baker-Bone, who received $5,000 and a scholarship to attend the Stress Factory School of Comedy as well as the opportunity to act at the Stress Factory Comedy Club, said he plans to use his prize to further his comedy career. “[I want to] start up a comedy website [and I’m] probably going to move to New York City,” he said.

The festival traveled to 16 college campuses this year and to the

Stress Factor y twice to find talented comedians, said Dennis Hedlund, the competition’s chairman and founder.

The organizers decided to host this year’s finals at the University in the hopes of attracting a larger crowd.

“Before it was held at Rutgers, it was held at Monmouth University, which we considered a ‘suitcase school,’ and we had a low turn-out,” Hedlund said. “I don’t know whether the students were at a football game or a basketball game then [but] we’ve always had a good turnout at Rutgers.”

Megan Jeffers and Sarah Freeman, seniors at Monmouth University, came to support two friends who performed.

“There have been some really bad comics in the past, but we hope there are some good ones,” Jeffers said. “I mean, they made it this far.”

Freeman said she believes a large part in determining the winner is left to the audience.

“It matters how much the crowd is involved,” she said. “The louder

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INDEX UNIVERSITY Project Civility hosts a fireside chat looking at student’s etiquitte on University buses.

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Students discuss the manners and interactions of those riding the University’s buses. The event was part of Project Civility, a year-long initiative focused on improving on-campus relations.

Students examine bus etiquette

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Riding crowded buses to class may not always be pleasant, but the founders of an on-campus initiative on civility aim to show students that a little kindness can go a long way in making the trips a little more bearable.

Nine first-year students gathered around the fireplace in the NJC Lounge of the Douglass Campus Center Thursday night to discuss bus etiquette during a chat called “Get on the Bus: Can We Be Kinder Towards One Another on the Rutgers Buses?”

The event was part of Project Civility, a program which was in part inspired by co-founder Kathleen Hull’s Byrne Seminar “Ain’t Misbehavin’: Civility, Manners and Society.”

The project focuses on the social aspects of daily life and the mannerisms of people in stressful situations, with the theme of civility weaved throughout each planned discussions, said Hull, director of the Byrne Family First-Year Seminars.

“The idea for it came out here at my seminar, where I asked what’s the rudest thing you’ve ever experienced, and the one of the things that came up during this was riding the buses,” Hull said.

During a class discussion, one student mentioned she felt uncomfortable on a bus to her campus after a football game, which brought up the issue of regulation on the bus, she said.

“We thought it would be really wonderful if students could own the buses in a sense of [their] own responsibility and how’d they like the buses to be for themselves, as opposed to adults making all these rules and regulations,” she said.

Cook/Douglass Campus Dean of Students Michelle Jefferson, who moderated the fireside chat, said it has become normal for students to be uncivil while on the buses.

“I can’t even imagine what you [addressing the first-year students] will be like when you’re that rude uncivilized student beating down on all the first-year students to get a spot on the bus,” she said.

Hull said she noticed people do not associate with each other while riding the bus. “[The] first time I took the bus from College Avenue to Cook/Douglass, the bus was completely quiet and no one was talking to each other at all,” she said. “I thought people would be reading on the bus, but it was like everyone was on their own.”

Most students listen to their iPods and isolate themselves while on the bus, Hull said.

“When you’re on the bus, you figure you’re never going to see that person again, so why go out of your way to make a conversation with them?” School of Arts and Sciences first-year student Ciarra Martin said.

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“I thought people would be reading on the bus, but it was like everyone was on their own.”

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days as a University student riding the buses.

“I remember we used to love to ride the buses,” she said. “We would get on the buses to meet people, sit down and start a conversation with people, but now it sounds like people get on the bus with their headphones or they’re on the phone.”

Director of Transportation Services Jack Molenaar said if people are isolated but still being nice, there is no problem.

School of Arts and Science first-year student Licelot Gonzales thought pushing to get on the buses is a larger issue, especially last week during the snowy weather and the reduced number of buses.

Pushing is not a new issue but has gotten better over the past four years due to NextBus, Molenaar said.

“There were no screens, and the pushing onto the buses was a lot more [common] then because

no one knew when the bus was coming,” he said. “So now we find the actual complaints of people pushing has dropped hugely, because of all that technology.”

Students also expressed concern about the safety of the bus and the public’s use of the University’s bus system.

The bus system, which is not only open to students but to members of the community, was established to reduce the build up of students waiting to get on and to accommodate the volume of people using the bus, Molenaar said.

“What it will morph into eventually is how the light rail [works], where there are spot checks, and if a student doesn’t have their ID, they get a ticket,” he said. “But I can imagine a student missing a test just because they don’t have their student ID, and I don’t want that.”

When the new bus company begins operating the system in July, the buses will include more security features, like two cameras.

Molenaar said the single camera system has not been the most effective method of surveillance.

“During the football games, we hear reports from drivers [identifying] an 18- to 22-year-old wearing a red Rutgers football shirt, and [we] laugh because it’s so ambiguous,” he said. “So now with the two cameras we can better investigate the reports.”

Students suggested ways to improve the current bus system to create a more civil environment, like playing music on the buses.

“I know with the ward shuttle, they play nice music on there, and the bus drivers are also so polite,” said Louis Levya, a Graduate School of Education student. “But there’s not that chaotic group of people on the bus. Maybe there’s this psychology that if you’re in a large group of people, you’re less likely to be civil.”

Martin, on the other hand, thought the issue of incivility on the bus would not improve unless students make an effort to change.

“Civility is a thing where people need to learn how to respect others,” she said. “[They need to] think how they want to be treated and make that change themselves.”

While most people only deal with medications when they are sick, the subset of University students that have dedicated their lives to them had a chance to benefit their careers Thursday night in the Busch Campus Center.

The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy and co-ed pharmacy fraternity Alpha Zeta Omega hosted the second annual Pharmacy Speed Networking event, where pharmacy students had the opportunity to connect with PharmD graduates and explore career options.

Graduate students shared their experiences with pharmacy students and gave them professional advice.

“It’s like passing the torch,” said Jeana Parmi, clinical science specialist at Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc. “I know how I felt when I was a student and I didn’t have a lot of people to ask except my bosses.”

Students had the opportunity to speak with professionals from their respective fields of pharmacy during a discussion panel.

“Most non-pharmacists think you can do retail pharmacy and that’s it, which a lot of us do,” said Gaurav Gangoli, president of The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy. “But a lot of us do other things … like nuclear pharmacy.”

The University’s Of fice of Career Ser vices also hosted a workshop on elevator speeches, short autobiographical pitches often used to describe oneself to potential employers.

“A lot of opportunities come along, and whether or not you get that opportunity may depend on whether you have that elevator speech prepared and ready to go,” said Bill Dreitlein, director of Drug Information and Pharmacogenomics at Medco Health Solutions, Inc. Students saw the elevator

speech workshop as an opportunity not only to rehearse for the speed networking session that followed, but also as a stress relief exercise.

“I got to practice my elevator speech a little bit,” said Xiao Zhang, an Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy senior. “That was good because I didn’t really prepare for it beforehand so it was good to get the ner ves out and practice a little bit.”

The event concluded with a main focus group on the importance of networking.

“To get jobs in the future, you need to be able to talk to people in order to start conversations,” event coordinator Alyse Scaffidi said. “It’s a good way to learn how to meet with people, how to converse with people and you really have nothing to lose.”

Health care professionals answered students’ questions and helped them build connections within the pharmacy community.

“The pharmacy world is actually a pretty small world,” said Athena Patrikios, Clinical Pharmacist with Horizon Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey. “You never know where your career is going to take you, so it’s really good to maintain relationships with individuals.”

Students like Neeha Patel, a School of Pharmacy senior, attended the event to broaden the scope of their career options.

“I already have a job in retail, but I really want to expand that.

I want to see if I can go into something different,” Patel said.

Students could supplement their degrees in pharmacy by combining it with another degree, such as one in business, writing or law, Dreitlein said.

“Medicine in general is becoming complex,” he said.

“One can’t understand it all.

There’s a growing need to have people specialize in the drug par t of it. I think there’s a bright future for pharmacists and for pharmacy.”

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Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy students network with alumni at the second annual Pharmacy Speed Networking event.

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Although originally advertised as a free and open event, sponsors of “Never Again for Anyone” received blacklash due to a last-minute $5 admission fee. The event was meant to shed light on the similar sufferings during the Holocaust and 1948 ethnic cleansing known as “Nakba.” Members of the Jewish community came to protest the event.

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POLICE STUDY MEASURES GANG ACTIVITY THROUGHOUT STATE Data and interviews with law enforcement experts in a New Jersey State Police report released Friday indicates that real-life gang activity does not resemble widely held ideas about gang life.

The 158-page survey reports that the 244 distinct gangs operating within the state stretch across all 21 counties, according to an nj.com article. But more than half are not involved in violent crime.

Also, 51 percent of gangs are not involved with drug trafficking, and gang-related violence rarely deals with drug trade or turf battles.

Findings also show there is little cohesion in major gangs such as the Bloods, Crips or Latin Kings, according to the article.

Rivalry disputes usually occur between the 1,575 gang subsets that exist.

Police officials and experts are praising the report for its depth and scope.

“It’s one of the best pieces of work like this I’ve ever read,” Director of the Center for Crime Prevention and Control David Kennedy said in the article. “Not only for the depth of the data, but the intelligence with which they thought it through.”

Despite the positive feedback, some leaders like Elizabeth Mayor Chris Bollwage criticized the repor t for its lack of solutions.

“There’s no follow-up from the state police or other law enforcement agencies to help municipalities,” Bollwage said in the article. “There’s no valuable law enforcement tool in this report.”

Some officials warned the shrinking police force has made the gang situation worse, even if their presence and activity has been relatively static within the last three years.

“It’s become more visible and more palpable,” State Troopers Fraternal Association President Dave Jones said in the article.

“This is a clear and present danger.”

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CHANGES: Speakers hope to see end to oppression continued from front “We made that decision on site and then they were there and we let them know that it was our decision,” Kershnar said.

Some students wearing yellow shirts emblazoned with “Don’t politicize the Holocaust” danced and sang with others to songs of solidarity to Israel, the United States and freedom, said Shoshana Smolen, a School of Arts and Sciences senior.

“We came here to be peaceful.

We came to sit here, listen and voice our opinions with our shirts, not with our voices,” said Max Hockley, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “They said they would charge only the 150 Zionists — Jews essentially — even though it was advertised as being free.”

Student protestors originally thought BAKA was behind the event and claimed a right to admission, considering that student organizations receive funds from the student body, Smolen said.

But even after they realized the event was privately sponsored, they still felt campus groups that endorse events should still allow fellow students to join them, she said.

“If you’re talking about barring people because of ethnicity, race, religion, that was not the case,” said Jitan, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “We had Jews, Christians, Muslims, Atheists inside who calmly participated in the event. We were not discriminatory. People who wanted to pay got in.”

Members of BAKA, the University chapter of Psi Sigma Phi Multicultural Men’s Fraternity, Youth Action International, the University chapter of Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, LLEGO: The LGBTQQIA (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex and Ally) People of Color Union at the University and Hub City AntiRacist Action endorsed and volunteered at the event.

“If there was anything in the advertisement that was sent that should have changed before coming in, then that should’ve been given to us in the advertisement,” Jitan said. “IJAN was running the show.”

As part of the event, self-identified Anti-Zionist Jews and survivors of the Holocaust Hedy Epstein and Haja Meyer, survivor of his village Deir Yassi’s ethnic cleansing Dawud Assad and Osama Abu Irshaid, founder and editor-in-chief of Al-Meezan newspaper, shared their personal testimonies and called for activism.

“We are not claiming a sort of equivalence between oppressions. We are not claiming that one oppression is worse than the other,” Mitwalla said. “Frankly, that isn’t our point. Our point is to say that all human suffering matters no matter the scale, no matter where or when it occurs, no matter the effects.”

A principle goal for the speakers was to show that people should not solely act as witnesses when others are dehumanized and experience racism, ethnic cleansing and genocide, Kershnar said. People also cannot use past atrocities as an excuse to commit similar acts against others.

But some students who protested during “Never Again for Anyone” felt the memory of the Holocaust should not be a means of attracting attention to the event.

Students like Hockley said systematic murders, ethnic cleansing and starvation are not currently taking place in Palestine.

“Even Osama admitted the atrocities are not the same,” Hockley said. “Whether Israel has made mistakes, to compare it to the Holocaust is shouting fire just to get attention and is inappropriate and an insult.”

Daniel Levy, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, respected the speakers’ personal experiences of the Holocaust but felt they were not equipped to discuss a more developed, modern-day Palestine.

“I’ve been to the border of Gaza,” Levy said. “I’ve looked over Gaza. It’s not hard to see where you are. I see tall buildings.

I see farming. I see farmers.”

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The Livingston Theatre Company performs songs from the television show, “Glee,” at the Crossroads Theatre yesterday as part of their 24-Hour Musical Challenge. Proceeds go to Rutgers University Dance Marathon.

LAUGHS: Judges say rating contestants difficult continued from front we cheer, the better it is for the [comedian].”

In the middle of the competition, School of Ar ts and Sciences senior Bryn Coleman included a series of racial slurs in his performance. Coleman, whose routine was booed at, threw the microphone and left the stage.

David Stein, the executive producer of the competition, said he was shocked by Coleman’s outrage and disappointed that members of the audience had to witness it. “[It’s never happened] to that great degree,” Stein said. “We’ve had, after the finals, when the winner was announced and the kids who didn’t agree with the judges [would] get a little upset, but nothing like this.”

Comedian and judge Frankie Hudak made light of the situation. “[I’ll] wear my bulletproof vest with NJ Comedy logo on it

[next time] just in case he comes back,” he said.

Each contestant at this year’s finals had to pass a preliminary round, Hedlund said.

“We usually get 15 to 20 kids to try out per college, and we limit that down to three to perform at the festival,” he said.

In terms of judging, Hedlund said they adjudicate in four main categories that are worth 10 points each.

“They are judged in audience reaction, stage presence, originality and material,” he said. “The most [points] they can get is 40.”

The judges are picked for different reasons, Hedlund said. Each is chosen for a unique quality.

“We try to have a performer, comedy writer, someone who is very versatile and dabbles in the business,” he said.

Hudak said he was looking for someone who captivated the audience like a professional. “[I want] someone that gets on stage and has a great presence, invokes the audience and leaves them wanting more,” Hudak said.

Steven Gorelick, executive director of New Jersey Motion

Picture and Television Commission, said he often finds it difficult to score each contestant.

“It’s very subjective in a group like this where anyone can win,” he said.

Gorelick, who has worked with comedians like Steve Martin in the past, said he finds himself conflicted over how to judge the comedians.

Stein agreed that the judging process is subjective.

“Just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean I don’t like it, so it’s very personal,” he said.

Guest speakers who performed at the festival were former winners Adam Mamawala and University alumna Dina Hashem, as well as Comedy Central comedians Richard Vos and his wife, Bonnie McFarlane. Vos was later inducted into the New Jersey Comedy Hall of Fame.

Stein, who is responsible for marketing, booking and attracting contestants to the competition, said he was impressed by this year’s quality of talent.

“I thought the competition went better than before,” he said.

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Gordon Baker-Bone, a Fairleigh Dickinson University graduate, takes the title “King of Campus Comedy.”

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“Strategic Human Resource Management: Business Strategy” is the first in a series of workshops in the Strategic Human Resource Management Certificate Program. This workshop will consider decisions regarding strategic expansion, the introduction of new products or services as well as the diversification into complimentary industries. The course is scheduled to run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Janice H. Levin Building on Livingston campus. Each workshop, sponsored by the Rutgers Center for Management Development, costs $475. Visit www.cmd.rutgers.edu/humanresorucesadvanced.html for more information.

Apply to be a staff member for Rutgers Model Congress 2011. The conference will be held on April 14 to 17 in the Hyatt Regency Hotel. Designed for high school students, Rutgers Model Congress is a conference that simulates the workings of Congress. Help teach approximately 500 high school students from around the country the value of civic engagement and political involvement in domestic and international politics. A general interest meeting will be held at 9 p.m. in A6 in Frelinghuysen Hall on the College Avenue campus.

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Vanessa Farquharson, author of the book “Sleeping Naked is Green,” is coming to talk about her 366-day journey to live a more environmentally conscious lifestyle by making one positive change each day. She is also going to give away the secrets about how students can go green on campus. The event is sponsored by the Rutgers University Programming Association and will take place at 8 p.m. in Cook Campus Center Multipurpose Room.

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Art After Hours will feature a tour from 5 to 9 p.m. of the exhibition “Dancing with the Dark: Joan Snyder Prints,” a women’s themed poetry showcase, including an open-mic opportunity and a performance of Renaissance and Baroque madrigals. Complimentary light refreshments are also offered. Take advantage of a 20 percent discount in the museum store and receive 50 percent off the soft cover monograph on Joan Snyder’s paintings with the purchase of “Dancing with the Dark: Joan Snyder Prints.”

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Ananya Roy, a leading scholar in comparative urban studies and international development will present a lecture entitled, “The Urban Centur y: Ecologies and Epistemologies of Dwelling in the Global South.” In this talk, she will present an analysis of global urbanism, paying particular attention to cities of the global south. Roy is a professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California-Berkeley. The lecture will take place at the Alexander Library in the fourth floor lecture hall at 4:30 p.m. It will be followed by a reception.

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An executive dean’s lecture featuring Susan Solomon entitled, “A World of Change: Climate Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow,” will take place at 6:30 p.m. at the Cook Campus Center Multipurpose Room. Solomon is a senior scientist at the Earth System Research Laboratory at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She is an internationally recognized leader in atmospheric science, particularly for her insights in explaining the cause of the Antarctic ozone “hole.” Solomon’s current research focuses on issues relating to both atmospheric chemistry and climate change. Please join us for this dynamic presentation, which is part of the “Ecologies in the Balance?” year-long seminar series to examine possible solutions to sweeping and unprecedented global environmental, social and economic challenges and to explore the opportunities for intervention that these changes represent.

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Stephanie Becker and her uncle Dave Becker make fossils together on Saturday as part of the Rutgers Geology Museum Open House, which featured presentations and other activities. Other activities for families and children included coloring and touring the museum.

SENATE: Policy aims to enlarge student voice in system continued from front “Non-separable violations are less serious infractions that occur because a student is unfamiliar with the principles of academic integrity [while] separable violations are more severe and will more likely result in suspension and expulsion,” said Cotter, a chemistry professor.

Another new feature in the policy is the honor pledge, Cotter said. The pledge, a promise that the student has not cheated on an assignment, is to be written and signed on exams and major assignments before they are submitted for grading.

“We’re trying to promote a stronger culture of integrity at the University,” she said. “I hope a lot of students think twice about cheating if they’re pledging that they won’t.”

The academic integrity policy will feature an expanded list of sanctions, including terms that apply to graduate students, Cotter said.

For non-separable violations, students who fail a course might receive a grade of “XF” if they violated a principle of integrity unknowingly, she said. The “X” is removed in time if the student has no other violations.

Cotter and ASRAC’s co-chair Dan Schantz asked that a committee be formed to handle the new policy’s implementation.

“We wanted to give students a larger voice in the system,” Cotter said. “Students are hurt most by the policy, so they should have a say in it.”

The new policy includes revised integrity violation hearing procedures, which Cotter said makes the process less troublesome for faculty and less adversarial for students by providing them with more assistance.

“I applaud this new policy,” said Gayle Stein, associate director of Information and University senator. “I teach in large lecture halls where there is a tremendous potential for violations, so

it’s nice to know something will be formally codified.”

At the meeting University President Richard L. McCormick also presented his administrative repor t, which praised the New Jersey Higher Education Task Force report’s recommendations about budgeting at the University.

The report also proposed that both University of Medicine and Dentistr y of New Jersey and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School merge to become a part of the University, he said.

“It will make Rutgers one of the greatest research universities,” McCormick said. “[There will be] so many great oppor tunities for collaborations across disciplines.”

Staff senator and associate histor y Professor Norman Markowitz thought the report

was not as positive as McCormick said.

“We’ve got to be careful with merging,” Markowitz said. “It leads to the elimination of useful jobs.”

Students in attendance also voiced concern for the repor t’s section on eliminating tuition caps, which they said increase tuition at the University each year.

“Removal of tuition caps is a great concern of the student body,” said University Sen. John Aspray, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “Although 80 percent of students receive financial aid, most of it comes in the form of loans, which contribute to a lot of debt.”

McCormick said because the University needs sufficient funds for research, tuition will continue to rise.

“Without tuition increases, the University would have slipped into a state of mediocrity,” he said.

Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Philip J. Furmanski, wrote a report that discussed state of the University’s budget.

“We need to be really careful when talking about tuition caps,” Furmanski said. “We’ll try our best to temper those increases.”

The University appointed 139 faculty members this year, with 73 of them employed on the New Brunswick campus, he said.

“Our faculty is extremely important to Rutgers’ reputation,” Furmanski said. “We have to keep hiring excellent faculty who can provide their advanced knowledge to our students.”

Furmanski also said the University is becoming more

diverse, with 12 percent of the student body comprising of outof-state students in fall 2010 and another five percent made up of international students.

With this in mind, Project Civility co-founder Kathleen Hull delivered a presentation on her project’s efforts to determine how the University community can best interact together.

Project Civility has been in the works for about a year and has so far provided some programming on the New Brunswick campus, including talks about the role technology plays in deterring civility, she said.

Hull said she was ready to launch the project last fall on the night of Tyler Clementi’s suicide.

“Any community can take a tragedy and shape it to help move on and better [promote] civility on campus,” she said.

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University President Richard L. McCormick presented his administrative report at Friday’s senate meeting. The report praised the New Jersey Higher Education Task Force’s budget recommendations.

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Survey to reflect homelessness in Middlesex County

BY CHASE BRUSH CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Middlesex County Department of Human Services conducted its annual 2011 Pointin-Time survey last Wednesday in an effort to document the number of people without homes in the county.

From 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at two locations — Elijah’s Promise Soup Kitchen in New Brunswick and the Salvation Army in Per th Amboy — volunteers from across the state surveyed homeless persons who are marginally housed, l iving on the street or in emergency and transitional housing programs.

Coinciding with the count, Project Homeless Connect provided direct relief to those experiencing homelessness at these locations with housing, health and case management ser vices, said Bridget Kennedy, director of the Division of Social Work Ser vices of Middlesex County Department of Human Ser vices.

Depar tments on both the local and state level conducted the sur vey last week, but results were administered on a county level, she said. Ever y county has an identical version of the sur vey, so ever yone receives the same questions. “[The count] is something the U.S. Depar tment of Housing and Urban

Development requires of ever y continuum of care jurisdiction throughout the state of New Jersey,” Kennedy said.

Any state or municipality that wishes to qualify for suppor tive housing funds must carr y out the sur vey in order to determine approximately how much funding is needed to rectify homelessness, she said.

“For those that are low-income and homeless people, we do not have as much housing stock and resources as we should,” Kennedy said.

The form itself is composed of two pages back-to-back and contains 24 questions, she said.

Questions inquire the status of an individual’s cur rent living situation, background information, length of homelessness and factors that may have contributed to the individual’s homelessness. “[Sur vey questions] delve into a lot of different things and are not focused on only unsheltered homeless persons, but both sheltered and unsheltered,” Kennedy said.

None of the questions are directed toward any one type of person because homelessness is a broad definition, she said.

“A lot of times we envision homeless people as people living out on the street,” Kennedy said. “The reality is that many times they are struggling families in temporar y housing or living with relatives — and partic-

ularly where there are children involved, those families will do anything so [the children] don’t wind up on the street.”

Mike Wishnia, a homeless man in New Brunswick who daily frequents the soup kitchen at Elijah’s Promise, described the trials that come

“There’s a certain sense of community among homeless groups we can learn a lot from.”

MELISSA BELLAMY Middlesex County’s Department of Housing and Community Development Representative

with being homeless.

“If you’re homeless, you’re almost invisible to the rest of the world [and] it’s going to take more than one group of people to change things,” he said. “These people [like the volunteers at Elijah’s Promise] are wonder ful, but they can only do so much.”

Gover nment and private sectors, along with nonprofit community outreach organizations and faith communities, collaborated to sponsor this one-day event, said Melissa Bellamy, a representative of Middlesex County’s

Depar tment of Housing and Community Development.

“By combining these resources we hope to increase the survey’s scope and accuracy,” Bellamy said.

Although the numbers for the 2011 account will not be released until June, last year’s sur vey recorded a total of 1,536 homeless men, women and children throughout Middlesex County, according to the 2010 Point-in-Time Count Report for Middlesex County.

Despite the numbers recorded in last year’s reports, the true number of homeless people without permanent housing in 2010 may have been as high as 5,718, Bellamy said.

“Last year we had quite a large increase in the number of recorded homeless individuals,” she said. “This was due not only to what we believe to be a true increase in homelessness, but also due to various other factors like a wider community outreach.”

All of these efforts represent more than just a collaborative endeavor to combat homelessness, Kennedy said. They embody a new approach and methodology that communities and organizations across Middlesex County and New Jersey are adopting to end homelessness altogether.

Bellamy said the nonprofit corporation, Coming Home of Middlesex County, Inc., is one

example of a group that is focused on ending homelessness.

Working closely with the Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders, Coming Home has implemented a plan to end chronic homelessness and develop permanent, supportive and affordable housing for those in need, she said.

“Those communities that have put together a 10-year plan … are attempting to change their entire system so we are no longer simply trying to manage homelessness, but are actually trying to get people as rapidly rehabbed or into permanent housing as quickly as possible,” she said.

Wishnia, who was educated at Stockton College in Pomona, N.J., agrees that in order to end homelessness nation-wide, society must embrace homelessness as a reality and not ignore it as a possibility.

“We are people and we’re not here because we want to be,” he said. “The only difference between me and you is that you have a room and a warm bed to go home to. We don’t.”

Despite not having permanent housing, Wishnia manages to find time to volunteer at Elijah’s Promise by helping ser ve food.

“We should all be conscious that we are the human community,” Bellamy said. “There’s a cer tain sense of community among homeless groups we can learn a lot from.”

EDISON WIFE KILLS HUSBAND BY BACKING OVER HIM WITH CAR A 70-year-old Edison man was killed Friday morning when his wife backed her car over him while the couple was clearing snow.

Joseph Gallof and his wife Carole were shoveling snow from their driveway in front of their Tyroler Avenue home before the accident occurred around 8:35 a.m., said Sgt. Dominick Masi in an ar ticle on mycentraljersey.com.

Carole Gallof got into her 2000 Nissan Sentra to move it to the street when she accidentally ran over her husband in reverse.

The car was covered with at least a foot of snow at the time of the accident.

Carole Gallof felt her car stop as she backed up and got out to see her husband pinned under the car, according to the article. As soon as she saw her husband, she went to her neighbor’s house for help.

Investigators are unaware whether Joseph Gallof slipped and fell under the car or if he was directly struck.

“It’s a tragic accident,” Masi said in the article.

Police determined the death as accidental and his wife will not receive charges.

This is the second death attributed to the weather over the past month, according to the article.

Earlier this month a Nor th Brunswick worker was crushed between a flatbed and a large toolbox while clearing snow from his truck with a coworker.

Unaware of his colleague’s whereabouts, Thomas Serinese and his coworker raised the flatbed of the truck to allow snow to fall off, pinning Serinese and resulting in his death.

—Anastasia Millicker

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bortion is, always has been and probably always will be, one of the most controversial topics in United States politics.

There never seems to be much in the way of compromise regarding stances on abortion. However, the lack of compromise is taking a frightening turn for the worse, thanks to the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act.” The bill seeks to revamp the current allowances for victims of rape or incest to use government funds to pay for abortions. Instead, the bill aims to limit the rape exemption to cases of “forcible rape.” Also, the bill would make it so that federal funds would only cover abortions in cases of incest if the woman is younger than 18 years old.

Quite frankly, the only way to describe this bill is downright absurd. There is no justice in limiting the exception for pregnancies resulting from rape to instances of forcible rape only. What about women who are drugged by their attacker, or women who are not in the right state of mind to give proper consent? Where is the justice for them? It is unacceptable for politicians to push their own personal moral agendas at the expense of the people, especially with regards to rape, which is hands down one of the most atrocious crimes anyone could commit. To limit the exception to cases of forcible rape only is to ignore many of the different — though equally dangerous — ways in which rapes can and do occur. Just because the victim is not “forcibly” raped does not mean that said victim does not deserve that the utmost justice be served.

Also, “forcible rape” is an incredibly ambiguous term. What exactly does that mean? Will there be some arbitrary threshold of force required in order for something to be considered forcible rape and therefore eligible for a taxpayer-funded abortion? The fact that anyone even has to ask these questions is revolting.

In the case of the incest exemptions, it makes no sense to put an 18 years old cutoff into place. Incest can occur regardless of age.

Narrowing the definition does nothing except make it impossible for people to receive the help they need and deserve.

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, has called the bill a “top priority.” We sincerely hope this priority is one that does not reach fruition. It will do nothing but damage the nation as a whole. Besides, are there not far more important things the new Congress should be worrying about instead of committing this sort of injustice against the citizens of the United States?

George W. Bush demonstrates poise F

ormer President George W. Bush left all sorts of impressions on the American public during his days in office, ranging from outright disgust to fervent praise. But love him or hate him, Bush does not plan on sticking around in the public eye for much longer. In a recent interview on C-Span, he announced that he intends to bow out of politics for good and retire to civilian anonymity in peace. We feel he is displaying an incredible amount of responsibility with this decision.

Bush gave a slew of reasons as to why he no longer wants to be public figure, all of which are compelling. Among those reasons, Bush stated, “I think it’s bad for the country, frankly, to have a former president criticize his successor. It’s tough enough to be president as it is without the former president undermining the current president.” We agree with Bush on this sentiment. It is no longer his job to run the country — why should people keep seeking him out for his opinions on the country’s direction right now? In fact, more politicians should follow Bush’s example. When your time is up, it is time to turn the country over to a new set of leaders and let them run things according to their own plans and priorities. There is, after all, a twoterm limit on presidency in the United States.

Bush was never praised for his poise — on the contrary, he became the butt of jokes everywhere for his lack thereof. This is a new side of Bush, one that we can easily empathize with. It has to be incredibly draining to be the president of the United States. The man deserves to finally have some rest and be allowed to return to normalcy. There’s also a level of integrity present in Bush’s decision to eschew campaigning and fund-raising. Regardless of how anyone feels about his time in office, Bush is still a person. He should not have to reduce himself to a political tool.

Of all of Bush’s comments regarding his desire to disappear from the limelight, the one which resonates the most is his statement, “Being out of the press, at least in this stage of the post-presidency, is something that makes me very comfortable and its somewhat liberating, frankly.” For eight years, Bush dedicated his life to serving the United States. People may drastically disagree with respect to how well he really served the nation, but the fact of the matter remains that he gave up any semblance of a personal life to become the main player in American politics. The least the country can do is let the man feel liberated for a change.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “In high school, I lost the sectional championship, but this is probably the toughest loss I ever had.”

Dane Miller, Rutgers men’s basketball team member, on losing to Pittsburgh STORY IN SPORTS

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hen our lawWhen I informed Carlos makers passed that his blood sugar level the Patient was extremely high — possiProtection and Affordable bly indicative of diabetes — Care Act last March, they and inquired whether he made sure to include stipwas seeing a primary care ulations that prevented physician about this condiillegal immigrants from tion, he quietly informed me BO WANG benefiting from this new that he was an undocumenthealth law. Thus, while 32 million more ed immigrant and therefore, could not get access to Americans will be covered by health insurance health insurance or regular checkups. by 2014, the sans-papiers will neither be able to If there was ever an ER visit waiting to hapbuy insurance nor be eligible for Medicare pen, this was it. Simply put, if Carlos did not and Medicaid. quickly get properly diagnosed and treated with For the sake of this column, let’s look beyond anti-diabetic medications, his blood sugar level the philosophical debate about whether these would likely rise above a critical threshold in individuals are entitled to access basic health the foreseeable future, resulting in him getting ser vices and instead, focus on the economics rushed in a comatose state into the nearest and logistics of this issue. When we do that, we emergency room, where a team of clinicians will see that the sufferers of this denial of coverwould be waiting at the ready to inject him with age are not simply the undocumented, but all fluids, stick him with insulin and do all that is users of our nation’s health care system. In fact, necessar y to provide him with a good healthy denying health insurance to illedose of late-stage, reactive gal immigrants contributes signifAmerican medicine.

“The ERs themselves icantly to rising health-care How much would this hospital expenditures and suboptimal episode of acute diabetic complihave increasingly health outcomes. cation cost taxpayers? About Many a politician has jokingly $20,000 on average. And for all become pushed pointed out that anyone can get free the politicization of rising drug to their limits.” health care in this country by simcosts and “unreasonably high” ply showing up at the emergency reimbursements to physicians, it department. While this freeloading should be noted the annual tab for route to non-urgent health services may seem hospital care in this countr y is as much as drug tempting to many poor Americans — emergency and physician costs combined — almost $800 rooms cannot turn patients away because of finanbillion in 2009 alone. cial reasons — for undocumented, uninsurable This monetar y cost is to say nothing of an immigrants, it is often their only option. equally impor tant consequence — the enorIndeed, a recent study in the policy journal mous physical toll and long-term complications Health Af fairs showed that while emergency that this health emergency would have on this departments managed only 19 percent of initial man, assuming he even sur vives. Wouldn’t it be and acute care visits for privately insured patients, more humane and less financially burdensome it managed more than 60 percent of this care for if he was provided health insurance coverage the uninsured. And while data focused solely on under Medicaid? health care access by undocumented immigrants Luckily for Carlos, we were able to enroll him is not available, I would venture to guess that the with The Promise Clinic, the nearby free health proportion of care handled in the emergency clinic af filiated with Rober t Wood Johnson room is even higher among this subpopulation of Medical School. But countless others slip individuals because of their lower economic status through the cracks. And since the capacity and and widespread fear of being turned over to resources of these safety net providers is severeauthorities and possibly deported if they sought ly constrained, individuals like Carlos frequently help from other locations. have to wait weeks to months before being able Both the monetary and clinical pitfalls took on a to see a health care provider. personal dimension for me last year when I led a The ERs themselves have increasingly multidisciplinar y health outreach initiative at become pushed to their limits as well. Consider Elijah’s Promise Soup Kitchen in New Brunswick. the fact that emergency departments account for There, I met a Hispanic man in his mid-40s — let’s only 4 percent of the physician workforce in this call him Carlos — whose blood sugar level we testcountr y while handling 11 percent of all ambulaed to be 474 mg/dL, more than twice the normal SEE WANG ON PAGE 11 random blood sugar level.

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WANG continued from page 10 tor y visits. And while people may think of hear t attacks, motor vehicle accidents and drug overdoses as some of the main reasons that people go to the emergency room, just as common are reasons of relatively less urgency.

The fact that undocumented immigrants are forced to resort to using the ER for everything from cough and fever to preventable incidences of diabetic ketoacidosis jams, an already overburdened system hinders its ability to treat more serious emergencies for everyone else. And while extending health insurance coverage to more legalized Americans under the Affordable Care Act may help alleviate this situation to a degree, the decreasing number of emergency rooms in this country will temper any progress made.

In addition, the inability of emergency departments to provide coordinated and appropriate long-term preventive care for people like Carlos will almost guarantee that these individuals suffer worse health outcomes and come back for more expensive and suboptimal care in the near future, all at the expense of their own well-being as well as that of our nation in general.

So regardless of your opinion on whether illegal immigrants have a fundamental right to health care in this country, I think that it is in our fiscal and clinical interest to provide them with this service. And with health expenditures continuing to rise through the roof, we cannot afford not to take action at this time.

Bo Wang is a graduate student at the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy. His column, “Doctor’s Orders,” runs on alternate Mondays.

DAN RAUCHWERK

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am a Jew who believes in a free Palestine. Does that mean I embody a contradiction? I don’t think so. My grandfather, a Buchenwald concentration camp sur vivor, who lost his mother, father and younger sister in the Holocaust, believed in the need for a Jewish homeland, but he never said anything about that need infringing on the rights of the Palestinian people to retain their own homeland.

I am inclined to agree with him. After all, if a man who lost ever ything because of hate tells me to love ever yone unconditionally, who am I to disagree?

The issue of Palestine’s right to exist has been quite the controversial topic around the University lately. Honestly, I cannot understand why.

BAKA: Students United for Middle Eastern Justice has been organizing peaceful, educational events to present the case as to why the University population should suppor t a just and peaceful end to the occupation. Their campaign has been criticized as being

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U. needs better communication methods Letter PATRICK KULIKOWSKI

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ollowing the heavy snow storms New Brunswick experienced at the end of the past week, I have come to the realization that the University still fails to deliver critical information to students. I was told by a friend in my residence hall Thursday evening that the University’s Department of Transportation Services (DOTS) issued an announcement on their webpage indicating that students living on Livingston and the College Avenue campuses had to move their cars from Lots 101, 103 and 105 to the Yellow Lot at the Rutgers Athletic Center by 10 p.m. that night or risk being ticketed

and towed, due to scheduled snow removal. This warning would have been acceptable if it was actually more clearly declared.

You will not often find a University student checking the DOTS website for information, and not everyone uses Twitter to connect to their Twitter page.

Ironically enough, they did not even make this snow removal information public on their Twitter page. It was around 8 p.m. when I received word from my friend about this scheduled snow removal, and he heard it from someone else, who in turn heard it from someone else — and apparently the Residence Life staff was e-mailed regarding this issue.

Is it too much to ask for a University-wide e-mail detailing the snow removal information? There

were no notices regarding it in my residence hall and there were no emergency e-mails or text messages from the University dealing with the issue. It is preposterous to think that in this day and age such important information would not be given in an orderly and timely manner. With the help of a few friends, we were able to dig all of our cars out of the snow in time to move them out of the lot. During the shoveling fiasco, I had unknowingly lost my iPod in the snow while I was shoveling, but an incredibly generous student managed to find it and message me on Facebook.

The next day, another friend of mine, who had not removed his car from the lot the night before, informed me there were still many cars in the lot and none of them had been ticketed or towed. Instead, he

found the snow plowmen helping students remove snow from their parked cars. So I discovered, to my chagrin, that the ticket and towing warning issued by DOTS was nothing but an empty threat in an attempt to force students to dig up their cars and leave the lot. Here is my advice to DOTS and the University in general: The next time we are hit with a winter storm, I urge you to send out a Universitywide e-mail and/or emergency text message regarding snow removal procedures and schedules, and if you include a warning indicating that students failing to comply with the procedure will be fined, make sure to follow up on that threat.

Patrick Kulikowski is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in general history.

Sensational rhetoric minimizes suffering Letter NOAM BROWN

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s a Jew, a University alumnus and a student of history, I was deeply offended

by Thursday’s letter in The Daily Targum titled “BAKA encourages justice, not hate.” The author sought to equate the 1948 ArabIsraeli War’s effects on the Palestinians to the suffering of Jews in the Holocaust. Contrary to the author’s assertions, being displaced in war-time is not equivalent to the Holocaust. In fact, compared to the Holocaust, I think the Jews of Europe would have been quite thrilled at the chance to simply be displaced from their homes.

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anti-Semitic, but nothing they have said or proposed could be remotely conceived of as such.

BAKA is calling for a peaceful resolution to this conflict, nothing less and nothing more.

I do not take sides with any nation on the issue of Middle Eastern justice. I take the side of peace. I do not condone any act of violence by any group for any purpose and neither does BAKA. That is not the way permanent, productive change is brought about. I am a Jew, active in multiple Jewish organizations on campus and extremely proud of my heritage, but I do not take the side of Israel. I am a humanitarian, active in campaigns to restore rights to downtrodden people around the world, but I do not take the side of Palestine. I take the side of peace, a faction whose only weapons are love, mutual understanding and that oft-maligned word, compromise. So whether you are Israeli or Palestinian or just a human being in search of a better life for all, I do hope that you will join my side. After all, peace is the only force that has ever changed the world.

Dan Rauchwerk is a School of Ar ts and Sciences senior majoring in marketing.

around quite liberally, I feel it is important to stand up to this abuse of history. Making such unjustified comparisons erodes the significance of the Holocaust and the suffering of its victims.

At this point I could detail the obvious reasons for why the 1948 Arab-Israeli War was not genocidal, but I think the author would be better ser ved visiting a Holocaust museum and seeing for himself. In truth, the Arab civilian deaths, measured in the hundreds, were surprisingly low compared to similar conflicts and even far less than Jewish civilian deaths in that same conflict. If the Palestinians do indeed view the events of 1948 as “their Holocaust” then to me that means someone needs to teach them what really happened in Europe.

I do not mean to discount the history of the unfortunate victims of the Arab-Israeli conflict, but I do wish to keep it in perspective. I have noticed a disturbing trend by opponents of Israel to throw around loaded and unsubstantiated terms like “genocide,” “Nazi” and “apartheid” when they are completely unjustified. Indeed, the author inserted a passing reference to “apartheid in Israel” in Thursday’s letter, and the author of Friday’s letter in the Targum titled, “Take part in logical argumentation, criticism,” threw in “Nazi.” While the situation in the Levant is not roses, it is not as bad as that. There are many Arabs in the Israeli parliament.

Life expectancy in Gaza and the West Bank, at 74 years, is higher

than most of the Arab world and even higher than for African Americans in the United States.

Over the last decade, you are far more likely to have been killed living in Baltimore than in the Palestinian territories. The largest gay pride parade in all of Asia, and the only one in the Middle East, takes place in Israel. Yes, political turmoil and pover ty are problems in the region, just as they are problems in every region outside Europe and Nor th America, but that hardly amounts to a Holocaust.

Let’s try to keep things in perspective and keep the sensationalist rhetoric to a minimum.

Noam Brown is a Rutgers College alumnus, Class of 2009.

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Sophomore wing Dane Miller scored nine points in Rutgers’ loss to Pitt, but missed his final 3-point attempt that would tie the game.

LOSS: RU stops slide to

Trailing by one, senior forward Robert Lumpkins blocked start second half with timeout Gibbs’ driving shot attempt with eight minutes remaining, continued from back but Pitt regained possession and made two quick passes to called a timeout in the middle of find a wide open Gilbert Brown the Knights’ offensive set. on the wing.

Miller was as vocal in that The senior for ward buried a huddle as Rice, and the Knights 3-pointer to stretch reclaimed their lead.

Pitt’s advantage.

“As long as I don’t have to Brown also hit a pair of free motivate or self police in the hudthrows that broke a tie and dles — they were doing that by gave Pitt a lead it would not themselves tonight,” Rice said. relinquish. After a missed 3“They were getting on each other pointer, freshman Lamar about defensive and offensive P a t t e r s o n lapses, and that’s grabbed an part of maturing and improving.”

“Somebody has to o f f e n s i v e rebound and Pitt Now the Knights need to be our Ashton Gibbs. worked it around find their go-to ... When it’s winning until Brown was fouled in the scorer — the guy time in the Big East, post. that drops 15 “They’re bigpoints in the first you have to have ger than us, a lithalf when his team has virtualsomebody step up.” tle stronger than us,” said senior ly no other offenMIKE RICE f o r w a r d sive production.

Head Coach J o n a t h a n Or the guy Mitchell, who that takes an tied with NBA-range 3Lumpkins and Mike Coburn for pointer at the end of a possesa team-high 12 points. “They sion, with just enough time hurt us because we’re scramfrom a Gar y McGhee screen to bling around helping each release and watch it quiet other out and we’re out of posia crowd. tion sometimes. That’s when As Rice said, Rutgers needs to we give up second-chance find its Ashton Gibbs. points sometimes.”

“We were just a little slow getThat is what allowed three ting out to Ashton and boy, did he of Gibbs’ 24 points to be throw a dagger in,” Rice said. the dagger.

“It’s no different than what And that is what sent the [Georgetown’s Austin] Freeman Knights back to the locker room, did to us or [Marquette’s Darius leaving a capacity crowd at the Johnson-Odom] did to us. We Louis Brown Athletic Center just have to maybe secure a without any answers. defensive rebound earlier in the “Somebody has to be our game so that shot doesn’t break Ashton Gibbs and hit a big our back.” shot,” Rice said. “When it’s winBut thanks to Pitt’s 39 ning time in the Big East, you rebounds compared to Rutgers’ have to have somebody step up 30 and the Panthers’ 19 secondand take charge.” chance points, it did.

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Junior forward April Sykes scored 20 points for the second straight game — the first time since 2008 a Rutgers player accomplished that feat. The Starkville, Miss., native leads the Scarlet Knights in scoring with 14.5 points per game.

leading scorers, kept up their production in the win, recording 12 and 17 points, respectively.

Reid shot the lights out, shooting 7-of-11 from the field and ser ving as an integral part in the team’s comeback run with less than 12 minutes to go in the second half.

But the 17-0 run this game was familiar to the 17-2 run t h e Huskies orchestrated a game ago in C. VIVIAN Piscataway.

STRINGER In both games the Knights could not dig themselves out of the hole, and in both games the opposition came out on top.

What could be more disconcer ting for Stringer is that her team dropped to 2-6 when playing on the road this season, and for the sixth straight time when playing the Cardinals away from the Banks, the Knights walked away with a loss.

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forward to immediate competition and feels good about the appear at SPP to support RB offensive scheme.

Newly hired offensive coordinator Frank Cignetti left a lasting continued from back impression on Huggins during your program to different heights his official visit last week, he said, and stuff, it can be better than it is particularly after coaching Pitt running backs Dion Lewis and if you do it out of state.”

Stationed in the St. Peter’s Ray Graham, as well as current Prep librar y, Huggins’ press Detroit Lion tailback Jahvid Best.

His biggest concern with the conference had multiple guest stars along with the newsmak- Rutgers scheme, Huggins said, was the struggles of the offensive er himself.

Shortly after the thunderous line, which gave up a Division Iapplause quieted following worst 61 sacks last season.

“I told Coach Schiano in the Huggins’ announcement, six of his future teammates strolled into beginning, my biggest issue is the room smiling and greeting the offensive line,” Huggins said.

“He went out there and got [centheir new star running back.

Quarterback Chas Dodd, ter Dallas] Hendrikson from Iowa. He is trying to get another wide receivers one from Mohamed Sanu, California [junior Brandon Coleman “He helps me — college tackle Fou and Jeremy Deering and tackor any quarterback Fonoti]. Actually he’s probably le Andre Civil for that matter — going to hit me up made the trip later on today. from Piscataway out so much.

[Union tackle] and quarterback He’s a quarterback’s Josue Matias, he commit Mike wanted to go Bimonte fought best friend.” wherever I wantthe traffic to visit ed to go.” from Manalapan.

MIKE BIMONTE Matias com“They didn’t Quarterback Commit mitted to Rutgers know I was going earlier in the to Rutgers, though,” Huggins said. “I just week, but switched his decision told them to come out. They to Florida State on Saturday, were supporting me regardless according to Rivals.com. Still, it is believed Matias’ decision is one of where I was going.”

Huggins greeted each team- worth watching until Wednesday mate with a hug and handshake for National Signing Day. After acquiring weekend comand switched his Rutgers hat for a personalized “Hug #28” hat com- mitments from Huggins and three-star defensive end Max pliments of Sanu.

“I can’t tell you how happy it Issaka from Woodbridge High makes me,” Bimonte said. “He School (N.J.), Rutgers’ recruiting helps me — or any quarterback class shapes up to be its best ever for that matter — out so much. according to Rivals.com.

Rutgers now has the top two He’s a quar terback’s best friend, a game-changer and a quarterbacks (Gar y Nova and Bimonte), top running back program-changer.”

Huggins has the opportunity (Huggins), top wide receiver for immediate playing time at (Miles Shuler) and the secondrunning back after the transfer best tackle (Huggins’ teammate of Casey Turner and gradua- and best friend Keith Lumpkin) tion of Kordell Young from in the state of New Jersey.

“I think this year is the class Rutgers’ backfield.

Senior Joe Martinek and that will change Rutgers forever,” sophomore Jordan Thomas have Bimonte said. “We’re going to experience advantages over show that you can stay home and Huggins, but he said he looks make a difference.”

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he No. 9 Rutgers men’s wrestling team topped EIWA conference rival Navy on Saturday in Annapolis, Md. The win marked the Scarlet Knights’ 15th straight dual meet victory in a match that saw seven of a possible 10 matches favor Rutgers and head coach Scott Goodale.

After Navy’s Allen Stein kicked of f the match with a 64 decision, the Knights answered right back, tying the score at three with a win

by Trevor Melde. From there, Goodale’s squad never looked back and retained the lead for the remainder of the match to improve to 7-0 in conference competition.

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basketball got quite the shake-up over the weekend, as four conference contests went on to feature four upset victories.

St. John’s capped off the upset weekend by snagging the biggest win of all three games by beating No. 3 Duke yesterday, 93-78.

Duke’s Nolan Smith and Kyle Singler scored 32 and 20 points, respectively, but in the end, 17 turnovers doomed the Blue Devils, giving Dwight Hardy — who scored 26 points — and the Red Storm the victor y.

No. 9 Syracuse continues its conference decline, losing its fourth straight game, 76-70, Saturday against Marquette.

The Orange last lost four games in a row in 2006 and continues to search for answers after they once sat atop the Big East.

No. 20 Georgetown also topped No. 7 Villanova in Philadelphia, 69-66. Preseason All-Big East Player of the Year selection Austin Freeman led the Hoyas with a 30-point outburst.

The final conference upset ended in overtime fashion on Saturday night, as No. 19 Louisville outlasted No. 5 Connecticut, 79-78, in double overtime.

Rutgers fell just three points short of converting its own upset against No.2 Pittsburgh over the weekend but fell narrowly, 65-62.

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The loss extended a losing drought for the British, which have not won a Grand Slam title in 75 years in men’s singles competition.

For Djokovic, the finals victor y marked the second straight match the Serbian took in straight sets, as he beat Roger Federer in the semifinals.

Center that marked a season high was mostly clad in scarlet, there were some Pitt supporters, as well.

Chances are many of them are plenty familiar with Gibbs, who played his high school basketball at Seton Hall Prep.

The Scotch Plains, N.J., native did not disappoint, scoring a game-high 24 points on 7-of14 shooting.

“It feels good — I only live about 25 minutes away,” Gibbs said. “At the same time, it’s not just about you. It’s a team game and I’m just happy to win, just to get out of here with a win — Rutgers is a tough atmosphere.”

For the Rutgers men’s basketball team, Ashton Gibbs’ final 3pointer will be difficult to forget.

But a foul on freshm a n KNIGHT Gilvydas NOTEBOOK Biruta at the 14:24mark was just as costly.

It was Biruta’s fourth foul, which limited the big man to nine minutes of action and put No. 2-ranked Pittsburgh in the bonus for the majority of the second half.

The Panthers made 18 foul shots from that FOR THE SECpoint on “I just model it OND TIME THIS Saturday in their Rice went 65-62 win. after Jamie [Dixon] season, up against a for“Pitt keeps mer employer. swinging and they and what they’ve Along with don’t stop,” said been able Rutgers associate Rutgers head head coach David coach Mike Rice. to accomplish Cox, the first-year “They’re as tough at Pitt.” coach spent one as they come as season on Pitt’s far as physicality MIKE RICE bench under Jamie and always seekHead Coach Dixon. Rice also ing out contact. coached against St. What can I say?

Joseph’s head Twenty-eight for 35 from the free throw line is coach Phil Martelli this season.

After the game, Dixon complitough to beat.”

Biruta’s final foul came with mented the Scarlet Knights’ style just more than nine minutes of play. “‘You guys play incredibly remaining, sending him permanently to the bench and putting hard,’” Rice said Dixon told Pittsburgh in the double bonus. him after the loss. “I just model With the forward battling foul it after Jamie and what they’ve trouble, sophomore Austin been able to accomplish at Pitt Johnson logged 21 minutes, but — their consistency and did not score any points or grab their toughness.”

Both coaching staffs donned any rebounds.

Biruta’s absence allowed sneakers with their suits to supPittsburgh to take advantage of port Coaches vs. Cancer. the post presence of senior center FRESHMAN GUARD AUSTIN Gary McGhee, who is 6-foot-11 and was second on the team with Carroll appeared for the first time since injuring his knee Jan. 13 points.

“That was something that we 2 against Villanova. Carroll did a good job of — attacking the underwent surgery on his left basket and getting [Biruta] in knee afterward.

The 6-foot-3, 200-pounder foul trouble,” McGhee said. “It was good for us to open up the only played four minutes, but lane, and they had to go five his retur n adds depth to guards at the end. We took advan- Rice’s rotation.

“It is another body,” Rice tage of the size advantage.” said. “Our lapses are in the secW HILE THE CROWD OF ond half when guys tend to lose 8,024 at the Louis Brown Athletic that edge.”

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Pittsburgh head coach Jamie Dixon, above, and his squad made use of its size advantage with 6-foot-11 center Gary McGhee (52).

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RU returns from NYC with strong showing

BY LIZ SWERN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The men of the Rutgers track and field team left the Metropolitan Championships in New York City with an array of top performMEN’S TRACK ances.

The RUTGERS 128.5 Scarlet SECOND PLACE Knights finished second overall with 128.5 points at the meet, just four points behind first place Southern Connecticut State.

Among the top performers from the team were triple jumpers Devin Jones and Kevin Bostick. Jones won the event with a leap of 50 feet 5 inches — two inches under the school record. Bostick earned a second-place finish with a jump of 49 feet 3 inches.

“My jump was a personal best, so I’m happy with it,” Jones said.

The two jumpers compete together at every meet, thriving on each other’s competitive

nature. Bostick cites his junior Caidenhead and Younger are teammate as his only competition. another pair of teammates who “Jumping with Devin is compete with each other almost great. We push each other to every weekend. per form at our bests ever y “I’m running faster than I was meet,” Bostick said. “It’s excit- last year at this time,” Younger ing to see how far we said. “Corey is dropping his 500 can go.” time ever y time he On the track, the runs.”

Knights had many Coming off injuries, other top scorers. junior Mike Baird comJunior sprinter Steve peted in the heptathlon Werner won the 200after sitting out the past meter dash with a time three meets. Baird finof 22.09 seconds. ished third overall.

Werner also secured a “It was a good meet second-place finish in to find out where I’m at the 60-meter dash with in all my events and to DEVIN a time of 7.01 seconds. try and improve on my JONES In the 500-meter marks before Big East dash, junior Aaron Younger and [Championships],” Baird said. freshman Corey Caidenhead finThe Knights finished second ished second and third, respec- in each of their relays at the tively. Younger had a time of meet. The 4x400-meter relay, 1:02.23, and Caidenhead fin- comprised of Caidenhead, ished behind him with a time of Werner, Younger and junior 1:04.54.

Kevin Brown, came in second “My time was another per- behind Long Island University sonal best, so it’s good to know with a time of 3:16.22. The time that ever y week I’m decreasing is two seconds faster than its my time,” Caidenhead said. previous time.

“My groin and my hip flexor were acting up, so I couldn’t get out as fast as I wanted in both of my races,” Younger said.

The Franklinville, N.J., native ran against a familiar competitor in both the 500meter and 4x400-meter relay in Julius Mutekenga from Long Island.

“Two second-place finishes behind Julius aside, overall this was probably our best meet for almost ever yone,” Younger said.

The 4x800-meter relay run by freshman Hamer Farag, junior Casey Weiss, as well as seniors Kevin Cronin and Jon Karlsson, earned an IC4A qualifying time of 7:43.22.

“Ever yone stepped up and the team as a whole did ver y well,” Caidenhead said. “The scar y thing about it is that we aren’t even at our peak. So it’s cool to know we have a lot more talent to display on the track.”

The Knights resume action on Feb. 5 at the Penn State Open.

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All-American running back Savon Huggins, left, greets sophomore wideout Mohamed Sanu after verbally committing to Rutgers on Friday at St. Peter’s Prep.

JERSEY CITY — When you add it all together, Rutgers head coach Greg Schiano made running back FOOTBALL Savon Huggins an offer he could not refuse.

The chance at instant playing time, the family atmosphere, the longtime relationship and the chance to showcase New Jersey represented everything Huggins wanted in his college home.

And in front of 200 spectators Friday afternoon at St. Peter’s Prep, Huggins made it official in the biggest recruiting coup in Schiano’s 10-year tenure.

After faking out spectators by hiding his Rutgers cap beneath a North Carolina one, Huggins was all smiles in discussing his verbal commitment.

“I felt that my heart was at Rutgers,” said the top-rated recruit in New Jersey and No.

58 player in the countr y according to Rivals.com. “I’m a part of the family now and I’m proud.”

Rutgers began its cour tship of Huggins while he was a freshman and that long sense of loyalty went a long way, said St. Peter’s Prep head football coach Rich Hansen.

“Coach Schiano has been a par t of Savon’s life for a ver y long time,” he said.

“Recr uits always remember who was there first.”

During the blitz of verbal commitments for the Scarlet Knights this week, staying home and representing New Jersey is the strongest theme between members of the Class of 2011.

“There’s nothing like staying home,” Huggins said. “Marcus Lattimore did it [at South Carolina]. Reggie Bush did it at Southern Cal. If you stay home and you bring

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RU lets lead slip away in loss to UofL

BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ CORRESPONDENT

It was exactly what head coach C. Vivian Stringer did not want to happen.

After falling to No. 2 Connecticut last week, the Hall of Fame coach almost WOMEN’S BASKETBALL i m m e d i a t e l y preached for the RUTGERS 45 Rutgers women’s team to LOUISVILLE 56 basketball focus on the next game: a Saturday evening date with the Louisville Cardinals.

But by game’s end, the Scarlet Knights suffered a 56-45 defeat, making it two conference losses in a row for a team once undefeated in conference play.

The Cardinals (14-8, 5-3) rallied behind a 17-0 run late in the second half to take a 14-point lead, while holding the Knights (12-8, 5-2) scoreless during the stretch. A rejuvenated Louisville defense resulted in a 10-minute dr y spell for Stringer’s team, as junior for ward April Sykes was the only Rutgers player to score in the game’s final 12 minutes.

The Starkville, Miss., native matched her 20-point performance from last week to once again lead the team in scoring.

The outing also marked the fourth time this season that Sykes scored 20 points and the only time since the 2008-09 season that a Rutgers player scored 20 points in consecutive contests.

But after Sykes, the offensive production dropped off.

Behind Sykes’ 20 points on 8-of-15 shooting was nine points from sophomore guard Erica Wheeler, who is filling in the star ting role for the still-injured Nikki Speed.

And when moving down to the post, so too do the stat lines.

The post play of sophomore center Monique Oliver and junior forward Chelsey Lee proved to be the x-factor during the team’s five-game winning streak.

But in the last two games, both players have had their fair share of struggles, as Lee and Oliver are averaging 4.5 and 10 points per game in the pair of losses.

Freshman guard Shoni Schimmel and junior for ward Monique Reid, Louisville’s leading scorers, kept up their production in the win, recording 12 and 17 points, respectively.

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Mike Coburn, Dane Miller and head coach Mike Rice (from left to right) stand for the Rutgers alma mater after dropping a Big East matchup, 65-62, to No. 2 Pittsburgh. Coburn tied for a game-high 12 points, while Miller chipped in with nine points.

Knights left wondering after narrow loss to No. 2

BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

The post-game locker room was no different than the final minute of play.

The Rutgers men’s basketball team could only scratch its collective head, wondering MEN’S BASKETBALL what could have been and seeking for PITTSBURGH 65 explanations how Pittsburgh’s RUTGERS 62 Ashton Gibbs was able to deliver a dagger that was very nearly out of bounds.

Once Gibbs’ 3-pointer made it a four-point advantage with less than a minute remaining

for the No. 2 team in the country, the Scarlet Knights ran out of answers.

And afterward, there was no consolation in a 65-62 loss.

“This is a tough one. I’ve lost a lot of games,” said Dane Miller. “In high school, I lost the sectional championship, but this is probably the toughest loss I ever had.”

The sophomore wing had an opportunity to tie the game in the closing seconds, but the Knights floundered their final possession and came up short.

Head coach Mike Rice wanted senior guard James Beatty to take a 3-pointer, but he was unable to break loose. Mike Cobur n got stuck, Jonathan Mitchell

could not get a clear shot and when Miller had the ball, his tightly-contested shot was no good.

“I wanted the ball to knock down the shot,” Beatty said. “It’s just tough because we fight so hard.”

The Knights fought for 40 minutes, leading at the half and forcing a Jamie Dixon timeout less than two minutes into the game after a 7-1 Rutgers start.

The early second-half collapse that has become as much of a staple of this team as its relentless defense was absent — halted just more than a minute into the half when Rice

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