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The percentage of annual tuition University students pay out of pocket doubled in the last 20 years, while state appropriations have decreased by half.

This trend, if not reversed in the next generation, could mean University students will be paying close to private school costs but without the prestige, said Courtney McAnuff, vice president for Enrollment Management at the University. University tuition is rising faster than private institutions and the difference in tuition between them is shrinking.

“You’re almost quasi-private,” McAnuff said.

“A lot of students say [tuition] is not affordable now. We’re probably one of the most expensive state school systems in the country.”

Tuition at Harvard University increased about 157 percent since 1990, according to the Office of the Provost of Harvard’s website. Yet the University’s tuition increased about 240 percent since 1990, according to the New Jersey Commission on Higher Education website.

University students paid 32.9 percent of tuition and fees of the total University budget in 1990, and state appropriations covered 67.1 percent, according to the University’s state appropriations website. University students pay 65 percent of the budget in 2011 while the state pays 35 percent.

These numbers indicate the steady decline of the state’s contribution to its state university, McAnuff said.

If continued at the same rate, around 2033 state tuition could disappear. If that happens, a full-time, in-state student living on-campus will pay approximately $37,000 in tuition, including annual fees and room and board, not adjusted for inflation.

McAnuff graduated from The City College of New York in 1967 when there was no tuition for admitted students. He said there was a public sense that if you were working, you would not cost the state money but actually make the state money.

“That seems to have gone away and now education is perceived as an individual right that an individual has to pay, and I have a lot of problems with that,” he said.

At about $262.5 million, a 26.3 percent cut from five years ago, direct state appropriations for the University in the 2011 fiscal year are at their lowest level since 1994, according to the Gov. Chris Christie’s Task Force on Higher Education Report.

These figures are not adjusted for inflation, meaning New Jersey is spending much less on the University than just about ever before, according to the report.

Meanwhile, full-time equivalent enrollment is more than 10,000 students higher than in 1994. Consequently, the University canceled pay increases and froze salaries for all employees this year, according to the report.

“One of the driving factors behind tuition increases at public colleges and universities is declining state support,” Vice President for University Budgeting Nancy Winterbauer said via e-mail correspondence.

But Winterbauer does not believe these negative funding trends mean state support for higher education will be eliminated in the years ahead.

“In the United States, public higher education played a critical role in the development of young minds and in the creation of new knowledge,” she said. “It’s unlikely the citizens of any state will want to see such a vital resource disappear.”

Nearly 600 students from around the state gathered Wednesday morning to rally against bullying during the Youth Summit Against Bullying, held by Rutgers Upward Bound in the Multipurpose Room of the Livingston Student Center.

Students from Plainfield, New Brunswick, Perth Amboy and other urban public schools across New Jersey, gathered to ensure bullying is addressed in school, Director of Upward Bound James Whitney said.

“We know this issue goes on in a lot of schools and people talk about and make sure all students get the opportunity to have the forum to discuss bullying,” Whitney said.

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Jodee Blanco, author of “Please Stop Laughing at Me,” leads a panel discussion on the universal effects of bullying yesterday at the Youth Summit Against Bullying.

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Experts advise students on renting rights

BY RYAN FLOOD STAFF WRITER

The University’s Student Legal Services hosted an information session for students looking to live off-campus in New Brunswick as part of an initiative to provide increased legal support for students.

The session covered a wide range of issues for off-campus students like rent control, reading leases and security deposits.

Nels Lauritzen, a New Brunswick attorney who has handled landlord-tenant cases for eight years, led the session with a presentation and answered students’ questions.

“In some incarnation this type of event has been going on since 2005,” Lauritzen said. “Overall it’s getting better between landlords and tenants.”

The purpose of the event was for renters to ask lawyers questions to help sort their issues out, said Don Heilman, director and attorney at Student Legal Services.

Students moving off-campus for the first time can get caught off guard, Heilman said. He hopes to get leases sorted out from the start and help students to make an informed decision.

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Close-knit pharmacy council plans for next semester’s election

BY ROBERT ADASHEV CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Pharmacy Governing Council met Tuesday night at the Busch Campus Center to discuss the upcoming elections for the council board while addressing pharmacy student concerns.

“We have a lot more ef fect than other councils because we are a smaller community,” said Andrew Zullo, president of the council. “We’re only about 1,100 students right now.

We pretty much deal with ever y aspect of school from greek life to honor societies to our organizations.”

The meeting was at full capacity of about 60 students. Zullo said the small community gives the council a wider reach, which allows it to be more effective in serving students’ needs.

“It’s a lot easier for me to do the job of representing the student body,” said Zullo, an Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy junior. “I basically just talk to people, stay in contact with them, find out what they want. We bring those needs and wants into these forums.”

To run for an office position, students need 30 to 120 signatures on a petition depending on what position they are pursuing, said Joseph Kim, the council’s treasurer.

If the student is running for an executive board position, the signatures must come from students of all class years, he said.

The deadline for the petition is March 7 at 5 p.m.

After students complete the petition, they are screened to make sure they attended twothirds of the meetings, Kim said.

The dean then checks the candidate’s academic credentials to make sure they are not on aca-

Pharmacy Governing Council demic probation. Once approved, the student may campaign.

The council president’s responsibilities include presiding over all meetings of the council, acting as a spokesperson of the council and student body and interpreting the council constitution in disputes, according to the council meeting memo.

The Class president’s responsibilities are more focused on planning fundraisers and social events for their respective classes, according to the memo.

Pharmacy students spend six years together wearing long white lab coats and making complex chemical compounds, Zullo said. Plenty of quality time spent together lets the students know each other more personally.

Zullo said he could point out the outsiders just by looking over the attending crowd.

“It’s just a good opportunity for these students to meet other people, especially for the younger students,” said Kim, an Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy sophomore.

Shelly Pezzella, an Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy sophomore, hopes to run for class president so she can help organize events like the White Coat Ceremony.

“It’s when you’re actually a pharmacy student and you get your professional white coat symbolizing that you’re in your professional years of pharmacy school,” she said.

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The Pharmacy Governing Council discusses the process of selecting council members Tuesday night at the Busch Campus Center. Interested students need peer signatures and dean approval to run.

sophomore, who wants to run for recording secretary, believes the council unites all the pharmacy organizations in achieving common goals.

“They really make a lot of decisions on how organizations within the school use the pharmacy school’s resources,” he said.

Faculty repor ts from the meeting included Assistant

Dean of the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy Nancy Cintron-Budet’s announcement about a charity poker tournament to promote tolerance.

Christopher Molloy, dean of the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, talked about a possible program that tours newly accepted pharmacy students around the school.

Council Senator and Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy junior Neil Foglio discussed the formation of a website advisory committee that hopes to improve the pharmacy school’s current website through student involvement.

The next council meeting is scheduled for March 8 at 6:40 p.m. at the Busch Campus Center, Room 122.

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Armington said most people would have to rent after college.

“I feel like I’m better volunteer lawyers to help renters informed, not that [landlords are] out to get you. But you continued from front have to be on your toes,” “When legal ser vices first she said. opened, one of the first problems Students not present at we spotted was a lot of landlordthe meeting are still able to tenant problems that probably access the information covcould have been avoided if the ered, Heilman said. The leases had been reviewed,” PowerPoint will be available on Heilman said. the Student Legal Ser vices He said often students do not website, as well as ads for the realize that the actions of their lease reviews will be in The roommates can fall upon them.

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If one roommate leaves or does In addition to the informanot have enough money for tion session, Student Legal rent, the rest of the roommates Ser vices is scheduled to host can be left with a two more events big problem. on March 9 and “I know what The event 23 featuring volfeatured quesunteer attorthe problems are, tions from both neys who will be and I’m glad to help available students and to landlords on a review leases, any members of the he said. variety of rental issues, and each Vo l u n t e e r Rutgers community.” question was attorneys Anish FLAVIO KOMUVES met with an Joshi and Flavio Attorney answer about Komuves as the matter. well as others Some of the will be available questions spiked debate by appointment to help stubetween the landlords and students, he said. dents, like when one renter men“The normal prices for seetioned an issue over mice and a ing an attorney r un around landlord, who attended the $250 to $350 per hour,” event, responded.

Heilman said. “It’s really a “I am glad and impressed that good deal.”

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“I thought it was ver y “I lived off and on campus at informative, it was information some point. I’ve been there,” ever yone needs when Komuves said. “I know what the [living] off-campus,” said Erin problems are, and I’m glad to Armington, a School of Arts help any members of the and Sciences senior.

Rutgers community.”

U NIVERSITY TUITION: State leaders increase funding to student aid continued from front But still, Winterbauer said these trends must be addressed sooner rather than later.

Christie was confronted with a falloff in state revenues last year that led him to recommend a 9 percent overall cut in state spending to fulfill his constitutional obligation to balance the budget, Public Information Officer for the New Jersey Department of Treasury Bill Quinn said via e-mail correspondence.

“The cuts to Rutgers’ appropriation were part of the overall effort to deal with the state’s serious fiscal situation,” he said.

Quinn said Christie kept student needs in mind by recommending an increase in Tuition Aid Grants, which provides direct support to college students in need of financial assistance.

The legislature ultimately approved a $23 million increase in spending on that program, he said.

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“When the crisis we’ve been in changes, one of the first places [Christie] looks to is increasing aid in higher education,” said Sean Conner, a spokesman for Christie.

As state aid diminishes, Patrick Nowlan, the executive director for the Rutgers Council of the American Association of University Professors, said it becomes challenging for the University to recr uit quality professors and researchers while retaining the ones they have.

Funding cuts affect the variety of classes offered and the frequency they are taught while straining the classroom environment by increasing the number of students, Nowlan said.

“We want to maintain that quality of instruction where you actually interact with the professor or the teaching assistant and not have a rushed environment

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Nowlan does not believe the University should construct new dormitories, classrooms and research laboratories and then cut courses, increase class sizes, cut back on bus ser vices or freeze salaries.

“Getting back to the core mission of the University, it’s about the student and the faculty’s relationship, and student learning, and the faculty members being able to take some of that knowledge and transfer it into research and productive qualities for society,” he said.

The University is looking less like a state institution, not just because there is less money from the state but because there is less oversight and this gives more autonomy to the University president, Nowlan said.

“That’s not necessarily a good thing for the student because it impacts tuition and fees, it impacts decision making,” he said. “If the state doesn’t have a role in what the state university does, then it’s a disadvantage to the employees and the students.”

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Between 1990 and 2011, student tuition and fees that go to the University’s budget jumps 32.1 percent, according to the University budget facts. At the same time, state aid drops by the same amount.

YOUTHS: New Jersey one of first to pass bullying law continued from front The program brought together those who have authority in schools and different aspects of life, including the deputy attorney general, the prosecutor’s office and members from the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), he said.

“Basically we are going to bring together 500 high school students, undergraduates, graduate students and all members of this University community to discuss this summit,” Whitney said. “We are trying to empower them, that’s also why we brought [author] Jodee Blanco who has ... pretty much written the Bible on bullying.”

The goal of the seminar was to make students feel empowered so they can return to school and help facilitate change, he said.

“We thought it would just be a great day given all the things that have happened,” Whitney said. “The tragedies continue, so we tr y to make students aware that bullying comes in all forms and that bystanders are just as responsible as those who actually do it.”

The presentation began with an opening panel, followed by a book signing and panel discussion with Jodee Blanco, author of “Please Stop Laughing at Me.” Hester Agudosi, attorney at the Chief Prosecutor’s

Super vision and Coordination Bureau, Division of Criminal Justice, addressed the issue of bullying beyond the classroom.

“Bullying af fects all of us — harassment, physical abuse, and domestic abuse all are criminal conduct,” she said.

“Violent crimes are hate crimes, and 50 percent of those are committed by youth between the ages of 11 and 17.”

Agudosi said New Jersey has always been in the forefront of anti-bullying legislation.

“In 2002, New Jersey was the first to pass legislation against bullying,” she said. “Gov. Chris Christie recently signed a law impacted by the tragedy that happened at this University.”

With the new updates, schools must have an appointed official designated to handle incidents of bullying and investigate them in a timely manner, Agudosi said.

Outreach Coordinator at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies Shehnaz Sheik Abdeljaber said bullying in schools is not limited to students bullying each other.

“My son was a victim of bullying from both fellow classmates and teachers,” Abdeljaber said.

“The new renovations to the antibullying law now make schools more accountable when investigating acts of bullying, where they have the name of the person in charge of bullying investigations on the school website.”

People should realize others are sometimes unintentionally bullying through misuse of language, Abdeljaber said.

“The use of the words ‘retard’ and ‘gay’ are especially two of the

more common ones,” said Paula C. Rodriguez Rust, board member of the Central New Jersey’s GLSEN chapter.

Rust said although people use these words out of the context of their actual meanings, they are still derogatory and inappropriate.

“If people used my first name as a derogatory term, I would be offended even if they came up to me and said we’re not referring to you, we’re joking around — I would still be very upset about it,” she said.

Blanco closed the summit with an autobiographical reenactment of her life and the hardships she faced with bullying.

“Bullying just isn’t what you physically or verbally do to a person, but all the nice things you don’t do,” she said. “Bullying is like taking a freshly sharpened razor blade and taking bloody chunks from a person’s spirit that never heals.”

During one part of Blanco’s speech, she had audience members close their eyes and reminisce back to a time when someone they loved had hurt them.

“It was ver y emotional,” said Joanna Wojton, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “I was in a state of mind that wasn’t quite nostalgia but close to it, especially when Blanco gave her speech.”

Wojton said this summit gave students and adults ways to address bullies and it also gave audience members hope.

“I thought the summit was very effective, not only for students, but for adults as well,” she said. “It was a great experience, and I really enjoyed it.”

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Date auction raises money for children’s foundation

BY GREGORY FOREST CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Minority Engineering Educational Task (MEET) and the Society of Hispanic Engineers raised more than $1,000 for The Sunshine Foundation during their engineer date auction Tuesday night at the Busch Campus Center Multipurpose Room.

The Sunshine Foundation is an organization that works to help chronically ill, seriously ill, physically challenged and abused children ages three through 18, said MEET President Abiola Eisape. “[The date auction] is an event we want people to come out to,” said Eisape, a School of Engineering senior. “We want people to not only learn more about the organization or increase the number of minorities in the engineering field, but we are trying to make an impact on the community.”

MEET and Society of Hispanic Engineers’ goal of the night was to make and demonstrate their mission statements and reach out to the community, Eisape said.

“The objective of this auction is to raise funds for The Sunshine Foundation,” Eisape said. “We wanted to have an event that was community ser vice-based and help our organization work toward our initiative for The Sunshine Foundation.”

Eisape said the date auction was not only a successful fundraiser but

also a great collaboration between two engineering organizations.

“It will impact the community by showing that two engineer organizations can come together, work toward a common good, not only providing enter taining activities for our members and outside community, but also helping The Sunshine Foundation as they

[work] on their initiative,” she said.

The date auction raised more than $1,348, and there is an expectation for more donations, said Islam Elalem, MEET treasurer and School of Engineering junior.

Society of Hispanic Engineers President Jose Fernandez was excited to host the auction and to

see the collaboration of the engineering organizations.

“The two organizations had been working together for so many years,” said Fernandez, a School of Engineering junior.

“We imagined working together again so we decided to host the auction with MEET.” Highest bidders were awarded prizes that could be used for a pos-

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Contestants try to impress the audience as they auction themselves for a date at an event sponsored by the Minority Engineering Educational Task and Society of Hispanic Engineers on Busch campus.

sible date, said Mark Acquaye, public relations chair of MEET. “The first-place bidder receives tickets to a New Jersey Nets game,” said Acquaye, a School of Engineering sophomore. “Second- and third-place bidders receive tickets to the Stress Factor y Comedy Club in New Brunswick.”

Ahmad Grizado, a Middlesex Community College sophomore, said the Sunshine Foundation is a great charity and helps a lot of children.

“You don’t see too many things involved at [the date auction],” Grizado said. “I thought it was a great way to donate for a good cause.”

MEET donated $300 to The Sunshine Foundation, said MEET member Karon Webster.

“We just wanted to do something for charity, make something big out of it,” said Webster, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “We all came together and decided we wanted to donate and help others out because we’re gifted. We wanted to donate a gift to people in need.”

Webster said the date auction was an overall success.

“Everybody came out, they all helped, they all donated and it was real positive,” Webster said.

“It was a good thing for the school and community.”

Entertainment for the night included hip-hop group I.O.U., Tez “Blessed” Ames and DJ Earl Pierre with School of Engineering juniors Kofi Genfi and Shivani Mehta as masters of ceremony.

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George Street construction project to reopen in spring

BY ANASTASIA MILLICKER CORRESPONDENT

Students will have the oppor tunity to walk along a renovated George Street in fall once the Black Rock Enterprises LLC completes the final stage of the George Street Beautification Project.

The final block of George Street, between Church and Albany Streets, is anticipated to begin sometime this spring, city spokesman Bill Bray said.

“Construction was shut down in the fall with the intention being not to disrupt seasonal traffic and business,” Bray said. “It was best projected [that the] project should restart in the spring when Rutgers lets out of session.”

It is likely George Street will shut down in both directions, Bray said. The project will probably take six to eight weeks to complete.

“With less students on campus and less buses running, it would be easier not only for the city but also for the University,” Bray said. “The reduced summer bus schedule and less traffic on the road are better.”

Meanwhile the block is still proceeding in the other portions, with the addition of two bus shuttles — one in front of Amber Lion Antiques and the other in front of the Sprint store, he said.

The bus stops, which are made of glass and steel, will include an electronic signage board that electricity needs to be wired to, Bray said.

“There is a wooden board underneath the benches where the concrete is yet to be poured,” Bray said. “The concrete can’t be poured unless the temperature is more than 50 degrees.”

Concrete needs a few hours to dry in spring weather before it can settle, he said.

“We were able to sneak some in last week when we had that beautiful weather, but now there is a temporar y platform until the temperatures rise again,” Bray said.

The bus shelter is open and has a place for people to sit and be protected from bad weather, Bray said.

“New sidewalks, curbs, lighting and new furniture are all apart of the renovations that will take place on George Street,” he said.

The newest addition to George Street has been the installation of information kiosks with bulletin boards, Bray said.

“We have a handbill ordinance in New Brunswick [that states there can be] no posting of flyers on trees or light poles through the city because events go by, and no one takes them down,” Bray said.

With the new installments, there will be a city-wide effort to maintain the kiosks, Bray said.

“We installed new information kiosks that are perpendicular to the road instead of the older ones [which] only the pedestrians could see,” Bray said. “Now ever yone passing by can see.”

The kiosks are metal, so people can tape flyers up instead of stapling or push-pinning them on, which makes it easier for removal, Bray said.

The construction company renovating George St. had to outbid numerous other firms, Bray said.

“This project was a bid project, so the lowest and most responsible bidder gets the project,” he said. “The city determines if the company is capable of completing the job in an efficient manner.”

Despite the weather, the project has been progressing steadily over the last few months, Bray said.

Sprint store manager Luis Peralta said he was not worried about the street closure or the bus stop in front of the store.

“I think the bus stop in front of the store is great because it is right in front,” Peralta said. “It’s right there and very convenient.”

Although he liked the bus stop, Peralta said he was

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annoyed he was not given a say on whether the stop should be placed in front of his store.

“I don’t have a problem with the bus stop because it is clear, but if it was dark, I would not have been happy about it,” Peralta said. “It was only put up 20 days ago — really recently — but I wish I would have had a heads up.”

Chipotle store manager Anthony Toth said he was

concerned about the sidewalk and street closing because the restaurant is on the corner of both the roads that are being shut down.

“I would not be worried if only the roads were shut down because most of our business is from people walking,” Toth said. “But if the sidewalks are under construction, then that would be detrimental to our business.”

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Anastasia Millicker: Can you highlight your biggest accomplishment as city spokesperson of New Brunswick?

Bill Bray: Success is measured in hits rather than homeruns — they all add up to a win rather than one shining moment. The greatest accomplishment is informing the public and improving the city’s ability to communicate.

AM: What was one of your most memorable experiences at Rutgers?

BB: Getting arrested at the Rutgers Football Stadium.

AM: Why were you arrested?

BB: I think you can imagine what — underage possession. It was the first football game at the new stadium. Not many people know, but there is a little jail inside the stadium. The memorable thing was that I was the first in my section to go to jail in the new stadium. Remembering back that far brings back some interesting times.

AM: What did you do after graduating college and transitioning from a student to the “real world?”

BB: Managing school and part-time employment. I was used to juggling multiple balls in the air. As a Cook campus student, I had to do an internship and after that, I had a full-time job. They didn’t even have a job for me when I went for an interview. I went to the interview and then the editor said they didn’t have a job and that I did not have the proper experience even though I was a stringer for three years. Then I got home, and there was a message on my machine saying that I got the job.

Now my job is the same commute now as I did as a student.

What most people don’t know is that I dropped out of college and took a year off. At times I would think of dropping out and never going back, but in the end I went back and when I came back to college with a wing fold of knowledge.

AM: What is your favorite fat sandwich?

BB: Everything else is a copycat. My favorite sandwich is a fat cat on pita bread with no onions. I used to have a line of credit with Jimmy’s. Back in the day I would get a Fat Cat, mozzarella sticks, a coke and a pack of cigarettes all for $10. I used to live on Bartlett Street. I would go to the student center ATM and get my $10 and go to Jimmy’s. Some nights I wouldn’t get to the ATM, and Jimmy would let me put it on credit. Some days, I would even eat a Fat Cat for breakfast. Even nowadays I go back and have my Fat Cat on pita and people look back and remember me by it — it makes me unique ’cause the combo never quite caught on. Just like Levi’s is the real blue jeans, the Fat Cat is the real fat sandwich. You made me remember a funny picture that was taken that no one has found yet, but this made me think of it.

AM: Can you give me a hint of where to find this picture?

BB: That would take the fun out of it, wouldn’t it?

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resident Barack Obama has finally spoken publicly on the uprising in Libya, calling the use of violence to quell the protestors “outrageous and unacceptable.” It must be noted, however, that it took Obama nine days to address the revolution in Libya.

These protests are inarguably major events on the global scale — especially for the United States, which considers itself the champion and protector of democracy everywhere. What could have distracted Obama for so long? Why didn’t he respond sooner, as he should have?

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney chalked up Obama’s silence to a “scheduling issue,” but we think that is a weak excuse. As the President of the United States, Obama should have been able to pencil Libya into his schedule much sooner.

When protests began in Egypt, it did not take Obama anywhere near as long a time to address the issues. This fact only scores to underline his lapse on the subject of Libya. We understand Obama probably wants to take his time and deliberate on these issues. But, when things get as serious as they are in Libya, Obama needs to speed up his deliberations. He does not always have the luxury of taking his time.

The fact that it took so long for Obama to address the situation in Libya is especially salient, considering Obama is usually praised for his diplomatic abilities. But what we have here is a moment wherein, to put it bluntly, Obama faltered — and it is never easy to watch a leader you trust drop the ball, so to speak. Instead of hiding behind the “scheduling conflict” excuse, Obama should just admit that he messed up this time and move forward. Besides, did Carney really think anyone would be satisfied with the excuse he proffered? That, in and of itself, is a bit of an insult to the American people and — even more so — the Libyans who are fighting to bring about the changes they desire to see.

If the United States really wants anyone to believe that it is the champion of democracy, then it needs to start acting like it. Obama’s late arrival to the fray — not to mention his sort of tepid comments on the subject — further tarnishes our country’s image on the national stage, not to mention the fact that it makes it hard for even American citizens to believe what we are told about our country’s loyalty to the concept of democracy everywhere.

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unlike Jennings or Rutter, ast week, I.B.M.’s will never buzz in and then quick-computing think about his response mega-machine while the bright blue bar Watson took to the screen in shrinks on his podium. a special edition of the game Even if this is a rare necesshow “Jeopardy!” Pitted sity for the contestants, it is against two previous record a technique they will not holders, Ken Jennings JOE HERNANDEZ hesitate to use if the (longest run on the show) answer is just a second or and Brad Rutter (highest two away from recollection. With Watson, answers winnings), the computer ran away with the victory, have to be instantaneous. trouncing his measly human competition. His fans Another advantage of the “new computer overhailed the events as an unparalleled step forward for lord” is the limit of his knowledge. That is, there is computer science. His detractors sneered at the no limit. Not limitless in the sense that every faceless contraption. (Full disclosure: My friends answer is clear and immediate to this robot and I are militantly faithful “Jeopardy!” fans. We Poindexter but rather that any quantifiable piece of schedule weekday mealtimes around its 7 p.m. TV information he needs lies somewhere in those terslot. So I tend to side with the detractors. I’m also abytes of data. His weaknesses are interpretive and one-eighth Luddite). analytical. When it comes to the content of cateOne can trace Watson’s lineage to his wired relagories, he has no problem. Even contestants with tive, Deep Blue. This chess-playing supercomputer the most encyclopedic knowledge fall silent for gained fame by winning a six-game match against some questions because the topic is too unfamiliar.

Garry Kasparov, generally recognized as one of the And that is what makes “Jeopardy!” great. best chess players ever to have lived. Deep Blue was Contestants on the show are incredible examples of another I.B.M. invention, and was hailed in its own the capacity of the human brain to time, the ’90s, as a technological triunderstand complex questions and umph. I.B.M. built a computer that “My friends and I recall the knowledge to answer it, could not only best the speed of a no one is perfect. human adversary, but outsmart him are militantly faithful butWhat is comfor ting about too. But chess is a logical game.

Watson is that he is not all circuit There are six different pieces, each ‘Jeopardy!’ fans. boards and spark plugs. In a colwith only a certain number of We schedule weekday umn Jennings wrote for Slate magoptions on a board that is only so azine, he recounts the I.B.M. engibig. I don’t mean to be reductive mealtimes around neers’ admission that they modabout chess strategy — as my chessits 7 p.m. TV slot.” eled Watson’s analytical methods playing friends know, I’m no grandafter successful “Jeopardy!” conmaster. But chess has a definite testants — namely, Jennings himlogic to it that cannot be found in a self. This brings me some solace. What always game like “Jeopardy!” made “Jeopardy!” special to me, besides the This is why Watson is so baffling to so many peoopportunity to shamelessly blurt out useless trivia ple. At his most basic level, he has to understand the I know, was that it got at something uniquely meanings of sentences. And that’s to say nothing of Homo sapiens. We humans can play with lanpuns, words with several meanings, contextual comguage, make jokes and store volumes of trivia in plexities, potent potables — the list goes on. Google our gray matter. Consequently, I am decidedly “anthrax.” The first page of results is a mixture of anti-Watson, not because I think the technology is medical analyses of Bacillus anthracis and the heavy not amazing or useless. Watson is an incredible metal band’s fan sites. These kind of problems befall feat and is already slated for use in hospitals. I just I.B.M.’s mental mainframe. Nevertheless, Watson’s think he does not belong on “Jeopardy!” no slouch. Although he occasionally slips up, incorImagine, halfway through the first round, Alex rectly responding with answers no human would Trebek walks up to Watson and tries to introduce reasonably guess, his strengths make up for it. And him, like any other contestant, with a personal anecby too much. dote. How would the machine respond? “System Watson can scan two million pages of data in error,” I’m guessing. three seconds. And he only buzzes in when he’s highly confident about the answer. So, unlike Joe Hernandez is a School of Arts and Sciences Jennings or Rutter, Watson will never wait to make senior majoring in English and Spanish. His column a guess. He buzzes in immediately or not at all.

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Junior guard Khadijah Rushdan scored 14 points — second-best on the team — against the visiting Bulls but also turned the ball over four times to lead the Knights.

RALLY: Lee’s poise with four fouls helps in comeback continued from back Clearly fighting frustration on her way to the bench after obtaining her four th foul at the 13:34 mark, Lee jumped back into the action on the RAC floor with nothing less than sheer relentlessness.

“We knew going into the game we really needed this win, so I think the last five minutes I was playing for another 40 minutes,” said Lee, who finished the game with 17 points to lead the team. “Just making sure I could guarantee another 40 minutes.”

But aside from Lee serving as the reliable threat in the post and junior guard Khadijah Rushdan maintaining the energy on the wing, Rutgers’ offense was as stagnant as ever last night against one of the worst teams in the conference.

Turnovers and poor shot selection kept digging the Knights into a deeper and deeper hole and almost cost the team a must-have game at home.

Pesky South Florida defenders frequently pickpocketed Rushdan — who finished second on the team with 14 points but led with four turnovers — as she drove to the rim, forcing the Knights into 15 turnovers off 11 Bulls’ steals.

Following a completely dominant outing at No. 22 Marquette one game ago, Rutgers failed to duplicate its successes in the half court and displayed the same inconsistencies it has all season.

But getting the win still keeps the train rolling heading into tournament season.

“It’s definitely important, especially going into the Big East,” Rushdan said. “This being one of the top conferences and not being really sure of where we’re going to be seeded at, it’s important to go in there with energy and have games behind us that we can be confident in the way we played.”

The last 24 seconds of the first half just about summed up the Knights offensive struggles of the entire game.

With her team already facing a nine-point deficit, sophomore guard Erica Wheeler

inbounded the ball to Rushdan, who walked up court to set up the team for one last shot. But USF’s Tiffany Conner swatted the ball courtside, leaving four seconds left in the stanza and forcing the Knights into a deep 3-point attempt.

Eight turnovers, sloppy halfcourt sets and 33.3 percent clip from the foul line defined Stringer’s offense in the first half, as it showed no resemblance to the team that upset a conference opponent just days earlier.

But despite a near massive letdown to the Bulls, the Knights still find themselves on a twogame winning streak.

And in a game that does not yield many positives for Stringer to tap into, overcoming an 18-point deficit has to count for something.

“I like to believe that we know that we’re never out,” Stringer said. “For us to come back down by 17 says a lot. We know that we have some fight inside of us. They’re beginning to put on the colors much more reminiscent of the Scarlet Knights that really play and defend with pride.”

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Senior forward Jonathan Mitchell found his rhythm with the Knights this season, leading the team in scoring and taking on a vocal leadership role under head coach Mike Rice. Mitchell also earned a spot on the Big East Weekly Honor Roll earlier in the year.

ROLE: Mitchell wins pair of state titles, draws offers continued from back found out he was only 11, I was a little more patient with him.”

That same dedication to his craft catapulted Mitchell and the Mt. Vernon Knights to two state championships during his four years at the school, ushering in several top college programs to the cramped gymnasium just outside of New York City.

Mitchell eventually committed to Donovan and Florida, spurning offers from a dozen other topflight programs in the process.

But Mitchell quickly found out the uphill climb he faced with a loaded Gator roster and had to act just as quickly to salvage his final two seasons of eligibility.

The former “Mr. New York Basketball” and New York Gatorade Player of the Year placed his vote of confidence in former Scarlet Knights head coach Fred Hill Jr., subsequently teaming up with former Mt. Vernon teammate and long-time friend Mike Coburn as a result.

“Obviously, initially with Fred Hill Jr. — I’ve known him since I was 12, 13-years-old when he

recruited Ben Gordon coming out After spending another seaof high school,” said Mitchell, who son as a role player during the broke Gordon’s all-time scoring 2009-10 campaign behind Mike record at Mt. Vernon. “So I had a Rosario — who since transferred foundation there. I wanted to come to Mitchell’s former program, closer to home, obviously. I wanted Florida — Mitchell now leads the to help Rutgers kind of change, Knights in scoring with 14.8 leave a mark, leave a lasting impres- points per game. sion here for the future.”

Mitchell even strung togethThe choice was er seven games a difficult one for out of 10 Big East “I just feel like Mitchell, who congames with at fided in his uncle, least 20 points, the man above Herb Mitchell, including 25 in throughout the Rutgers’ dramatic had me in his transfer process upset of then-No. plans and ... and during his red9 Villanova at the shirt year under Brown something special Louis NCAA guidelines Athletic Center. in store for me.” in Piscataway.

Still, it took But Mitchell Mitchell time to JONATHAN MITCHELL found solace in get used to a proSenior Forward the presence of gram that did not Coburn, who had have a recent histojust finished his ry of winning after sophomore season with the state titles under Cimmino and Knights when he first heard twice cutting down the net at the about Mitchell’s decision to Final Four with Florida. leave Florida.

“A couple of my friends joked “I just knew that we could do around when I first went here that I something good for this team,” went from the penthouse back to Coburn said. “I was willing to talk the cellar,” Mitchell said. “It’s humto him about it … so that he bling because I was at the top — Mt. would consider [coming to Vernon winning, Florida winning.

Rutgers]. And then he did and I’ve come kind of back to reality, liked what he saw and he liked having to work, fight, scratch and the opportunity and he’s here.” claw every day to have a chance to

win a game. It makes you appreciate it that much more.”

The evolution from transfer to role player to “the guy” for the Knights was one that came to fruition through hours alone in the RAC, much like the time he spent in private at Mt. Vernon to Cimmino’s initial disdain.

“I just tried to be comfortable in my surroundings and decided to adapt to the situation,” Mitchell said. “I think I handled it the right way, and I never quit on myself. I never gave up. I just persevered through everything, all the obstacles I’ve been through. I just feel like the man above had me in his plans and had something special in store for me.”

Still, the hardest part to overcome for Mitchell was sitting out the 2008-09 season, in which the Knights finished 11-21 and lost point guard Anthony Farmer to graduation.

But Farmer’s departure left Hill with a scholarship to fill, leaving the door open for a top junior college point guard with Big East offers biding his time in Miami.

The final installment of a 3-part series on the Rutgers men’s basketball seniors continues in tomorrow’s edition of The Daily Targum and will profile James Beatty.

Lacrosse RPI rankings, behind No. 23 Rutgers in the same poll.

“I’d say Temple was better than they were last year, but I think that we went into the game overconfident,” Welsh said.

But the closeness of the score and the constant lead changes can benefit Rutgers in the future, said head coach Laura Brand.

“This one was certainly a learning experience, knowing that we could pull together at the end when the game’s on the line,” Brand said.

And what does Rutgers need to improve?

“Throwing the ball down in transition and our defensive transitions and some of our shot selection and draw control,” Brand said.

Draw control improved for Rutgers in the second period. The Knights won, 7-6, on draws — an improvement over Temple’s 6-4 advantage of the first half.

“We started focusing on getting the draw [in the second half],” Brand said. “We did a good job of getting draw control and dominated on that. It’s a stat that we need to dominate.”

The improvement on draw controls did not go unrewarded.

Rutgers came back from a 5-4 deficit at the half, scoring seven goals in the second period.

Three of the Knights’ 11 goals came from junior Lindsay Watts, who scored 14 goals last year.

“We’ve moved her to a spot where she can be more aggressive on the field,” Brand said.

“She’s doing a lot of stuff from behind the cage. She’s a very strong dodger.”

With the loss of attackers — including Brooke Cantwell, who led Rutgers in scoring each of the past three seasons — Watts adjusted her game.

“I feel more confident than I did last year,” Watts said. “If I have that opportunity to shoot, I’m definitely taking it more than last year. I feel like I want to pick up the pace of the attack. I definitely want to pick up my role and be more of a key player, especially around the crease.”

The road trip continues for Rutgers when it travels to Ithaca, N.Y., on Saturday to take on Cornell.

Rutgers beat the ranked Big Red, 8-6, last year but lost to them in 2009 in overtime.

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new chapter in the evergrowing story concerning the NFL’s expiring collective bargaining agreement will take place during the annual scouting combine in Indianapolis.

A special meeting has been called for all NFL general managers and head coaches.

The general manager, coach and another high-ranking official from every team in the league will attend the meeting. Its purpose is to brief teams on the labor uncertainty and what to expect in the days leading up to the expiration of the current CBA. This meeting comes after the NFL Players’ Union and the league finally began face-to-face talks, which as of Wednesday already lasted six days.

CALTECH, A SCHOOL known for its academics, had only one noteworthy athletic statistic to its name — a 310-game conference losing streak, the longest in college basketball. But the Beavers defeated Occidental, 46-45, on Tuesday, snapping the streak.

Caltech took the lead with three seconds left, when senior Ryan Elmquist hit the go-ahead free throw. The win marked the Beavers’ first Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference win since Jan. 23, 1985.

The team finished the season, 5-20 — its best record in 15 years.

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lead in the final minutes, South Florida senior center Porche Grant showed her frustration in an altercation with Rutgers forward Chelsey Lee. When Lee pulled in a rebound and used her elbows to clear out space, Grant got violent and a scrum ensued though no one threw a punch.

Grant received a flagrant technical foul, her fifth foul in the game.

She showed the middle finger to the crowd as she stormed off the court with a security escort.

Referees also gave Khadijan Rushdan a technical foul during the altercation, though she was nowhere near Grant or Lee during the exchange.

“With a really close game like that it gets competitive like that, but [nobody] meant any harm, obviously,” Rushdan said. “With two teams going at it back-and-forth

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South Florida’s Porche Grant and junior forward April Sykes get into an altercation in the waning moments at the RAC. like that, it can get rough. We didn’t mean anything by it.”

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56 days, junior guard Nikki Speed checked in at the Louis Brown Athletic Center scorer’s table and entered a game.

Speed injured her foot on Jan. 3 in a win over George Washington and went through the next month

and a half wearing a boot before the medical staff cleared her for action last week.

But her return to action was not a pretty one.

She quickly air-balled a jump shot on the team’s first possession and followed it up a minute later with a sloppy, intercepted pass and a subsequent foul on the other end.

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22-month-long investigation of Tennessee athletics, including football, basketball and baseball, the most serious charges were dropped on former football head coach Lane Kiffin.

Kiffin, who left for Southern California following the 2009 season, was cited with failure to monitor his staff, which was charged with illegal phone calls and contact with recruits. The football team itself was not cited.

Other charges against the Volunteers include head basketball coach Bruce Pearl, who was charged with acting unethically and failure to monitor his staff. No charges were levied against the baseball team.

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On Selection Monday in two weeks, a home loss to South Florida is like a scrawny kid in g y m class. It screams, KNIGHT “Don’t NOTEBOOK pick me.”

A 52-46 victory, however ugly it was, looks a lot better in the eyes of the selection committee. The Rutgers women’s basketball team stands at 16-11 on the season with ranked wins over Georgetown and Marquette. Winning the last two games with two left in the regular season puts the Scarlet Knights in good position to qualify for the NCAA Tournament.

With a similar strength of schedule and conference record last season, Rutgers made the NCAA tournament with 19 wins.

“We knew the importance of winning this game,” said head coach C. Vivian Stringer. “We know the importance of playing and winning the next two games.

And most importantly, we have to know how we tick. What does our game look like?”

The win for the Knights gave the team a crucial boost in the Big East standings with the conference tournament starting a week from

today. Rutgers (16-11, 9-5) jumped from a three-way tie for sixth place into a tie for fourth place with Marquette and Louisville.

With a poor nonconference record at 7-6, the Knights need to win out and get some help to maintain their fourth place position, which allows for a doublebye in the conference tournament. But Rutgers holds a headto-head victory over Marquette.

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that it will employ a new sideline concussion test next season after a 2010 campaign plagued with head injuries.

While more details will be announced Friday at the scouting combine, it is confirmed that the test will include a checklist of symptoms, a balance assessment and a limited neurological evaluation.

The NFL’s Head, Neck and Spine Committee designed the test with input from physicians and athletic trainers from every NFL team.

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Juwan Howard told ESPN 100 that Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose has his vote for MVP over teammate Lebron James.

James is averaging 26.2 points and 7.2 assists on the season, while Rose averages 24.9 points and 8.2 assists. The Heat faced the Bulls last night in Chicago.

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Junior Jacquie Ward earned an NCAA “B” cut with two other teammates at the Big East Championships, leaving open the possibility for Ward to compete at the NCAA Championships in March in the 400-yard individual medley.

New staff rejuvenates junior’s career

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Jacquie Ward is not one to sugarcoat the truth. The junior swimmer will be the first one to tell you that after a SWIMMING miserable freshman year at Indiana and a disappointing sophomore year at Rutgers, swimming was just not one of her top priorities.

But that all changed this season when the Rutgers swimming and diving team welcomed new head coach Phil Spiniello and assistant coach Lisa Pursley.

“I have grown to love the sport of swimming again and I owe this to [Spiniello and Pursley],” Ward said. “Their unrelenting dedication and passion brought my heart back into the sport.”

The Scarlet Knights could not be happier about Ward’s recommitment to swimming, as she led the

team all season in and out of the pool. Named Big East Swimmer of the Week on Dec. 8, Ward’s impact from the team’s first exhibition meet to the Big East Championships went without question.

“Jacquie is a huge contributor to the program in many ways,” Spiniello said. “Her work ethic is admirable and this season she has just begun to scratch the surface of her potential.”

That potential was evident as Ward was one of three Rutgers swimmers to qualify for an NCAA “B” cut.

Making a “B” cut means that Ward is eligible to earn an invitation to the NCAA Championships in March, even though she admits the chances of receiving an invitation are slim.

“It would be an incredible experience,” Ward said. “This has been my goal since high school and to be able to compete

among the best of the best would truly mean a lot to me. It is my first ‘B’ cut ever, and I just want to get faster and be invited to go next year.”

She qualified by posting a time of 4:26.92 in the 400-yard individual medley last weekend at the Big East Championships. Ward’s time was good for fourth in the event while the Knights took seventh overall at the meet.

The strong performance also qualified Ward for summer nationals in California.

“My favorite race of the season was for sure my 400 [individual medley] at Big East,” Ward said.

“I was able to hang out in the front with fastest girls for a while and to me, this means that with some more training I’ll be able to post up a great time.”

Ward is also a part of the Knights’ 800-yard freestyle relay team that dropped 29 seconds

off its seeded time. The squad, also consisting of sophomore Taylor Zafir and freshmen Mary Moser and Chelsea Rolin, finished the race in seventh with a time of 7:27.85.

Despite the seventh-place finish, the Knights are optimistic about their future and Ward is at the forefront of that optimism.

“We know we’re capable of some great things,” Ward said.

“We showed the other teams that we can hang with them. They know we’re coming.”

Ward is unquestionably a leader for the Knights as a junior on a team with no seniors. She holds faith for herself and her teammates going into the future.

“Individually, I want to win at Big East and be invited to the NCAAs,” Ward said. “For the team, I want to be third or better at Big East next year and undefeated in dual meets.”

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contest, as the Bulls blew a 17-point lead in the second half.

With USF on its heels and her team in the middle of a 22-5 run with 5:51 to go, junior forward Chelsey Lee entered the game and gave the Knights their first lead since the first two minutes of the first half.

The Miami native scored the team’s next eight points, went a perfect 4-for-4 from the charity stripe and took USF by storm, all while playing with four fouls.

Jonathan Mitchell was restless. Averaging 11.4 minutes per game in his sophomore season at Florida, the 6-foot-7, 225-pounder was saddled behind three MEN’S BASKETBALL future NBA players, SENIOR DAY - PT. 2 OF 3 two of which operated in the frontcourt in the Swamp.

After seeing playing time sparingly as a true freshman on the Gators’ national championship team JONATHAN MITCHELL in 2005-06, Mitchell and his support group knew it was time to make a move.

“I knew that minutes were a problem at Florida,” said high school coach Bob Cimmino. “I know that he had spoken with [Florida] coach [Billy] Donovan, and it looked like neither side was going to budge, so Jon had been very familiar with Rutgers.

He took an unofficial visit there before going to Florida.”

But before Mitchell found himself in a precarious situation in Gainesville, Fla., and before he went on to gain a cult-like following in just under two seasons at Rutgers, the senior forward’s largest exodus came on a bicycle.

As a dedicated youth in Mt. Vernon, N.Y., Mitchell made a short trip on his bike to Mt. Vernon High School during the summer for Cimmino’s basketball camps.

Mitchell stayed so late putting up jump shots in the gym that Cimmino, who coached now-Detroit Piston Ben Gordon in the same building, promptly lost his patience.

“When you said, ‘Time to go,’ you wanted everybody to leave,” Cimmino said. “And this kid Jon just wouldn’t get out of the gym. So I thought he was a really annoying 15-year-old, and I was mad at him. And then as soon as I

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Junior forward Chelsey Lee grabs one of her eight rebounds last night at the Louis Brown Athletic Center, where she took advantage of second-chance opportunities to lead the Scarlet Knights with 18 points in a win over South Florida.

Rutgers responds with second-half rally past USF

BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

Turnover by turnover and one questionable foul call after the next, everything seemed to WOMENS BASKETBALL work against the Rutgers women’s basSOUTH FLORIDA 46 ketball team last night RUTGERS 52 against South Florida at the Louis Brown Athletic Center.

And if a blowout loss a few games ago was not enough of a wakeup call, the Scarlet

Knights’ narrow 52-46 win over a one-win Big East team should suffice.

“It means everything,” head coach C. Vivian Stringer said of her team’s ability to battle back down the stretch. “This was one of those games much like DePaul where we just had to battle back. … You always want to see a team that fights back, and I thought that we did.”

A light skirmish between the two teams under the hoop following a hardnosed rebound under the Bulls’ basket capped South Florida’s fall from grace in the

Last-minute goal lifts No. 23 Knights over Temple

BY JOSH BAKAN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

A game won on a last minute shot is generally something to celebrate. But when it comes in the first game of the season, the Rutgers WOMEN’S LACROSSE women’s lacrosse RUTGERS 11 team views that y as a learnTEMPLE 10 victor ing experience.

With 1:21 remaining in the final period yesterday, the Scarlet Knights had the ball after a timeout.

Senior midfielder Marlena Welsh had the ball on the right side of the field and passed out of a double team to sophomore Stephanie Anderson.

Anderson got fouled with the ball and made her foul shot with 39 seconds left. But despite coming out with the 11-10 win, the Knights looked for a better performance.

“The past three years that we played [Temple], we’ve usually had a gap in between the scores,” Welsh said. “That’s kind of what we were expecting today. We have to learn from that and treat every team like they’re the No. 1 team.”

The Owls entered the game ranked No. 55 in the most recent NCAA Women’s

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Sophomore Stephanie Anderson scored the game-winning goal against Temple yesterday in Philadelphia. Anderson made a foul shot with 39 seconds left to put the Scarlet Knights ahead, 11-10, to break their tie with the Owls.