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The Rutgers football team had a 10-point halftime lead but did not score in the second half and lost for the 17th consecutive time against WVU.

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The Daily Targumtakes a look at various festivities from the weekend.

Some companies want to make smokers and obese people payhigher health care premiums.

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This weekend’s storm dropped an unexpected amount of snow throughout the state,making trees collapse, which knocked down power lines and blocked roads.

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Snowstorm hits East Coast,leaves many without power

BY AMY ROWEASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

An October snowstorm hit the North Eastover the weekend, leaving more than 600,000N.J. homes on Saturday without power.

Gov. Chris Christie, who also lost power at hisresidence, spoke to N.J. residents on three NewYork City television stations over the weekend,answering questions via telephone interviews.

Trees full with leaves in late Octobercould not handle the weight of the snow thatfell. When the trees collapsed, they broughtdown power lines and blocked roads all overthe state, according to weather.com.

PSE&G, the electric company servingNew Brunswick homes, reported on Sundaymorning that 297,000 customers were with-out power.

North Jersey was hit the worst by thestorm, with 19 inches of snow accumulatingin West Milford, according to a statementissued by the National Weather Service.About 110,000 people in Morris County lostpower, Christie said.

Christie declared a state of emergency andwarned people to stay off the road while electriccompany crews were outside restoring power.

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Google app allows riders topay for ticket through phone

BY SPENCER KENTCONTRIBUTING WRITER

New Jersey Transit is teaming up withGoogle Wallet, a new application, with theaim of making commuters’ lives easier.

“What Google Wallet does is, [through afree application] transform our customers’smartphones into a wallet, [allowing] quickand efficient transactions by storing virtualversions of their credit cards on their

phones,” said John Durso, a New JerseyTransit spokesperson.

The application will support payments viaa PayPass option by Citi MasterCard or a vir-tual Google Prepaid card, according to aGoogle press release.

Through “near field communication,”where wireless data transmits between twoobjects when they are brought close

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Rather than pulling out credit cards or cash, NJ Transit riders will be able to pay fortickets using their smartphone through a new application called Google Wallet.

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Members of the 1967-68 Glee Club pose in front of Kirkpatrick Chapel on the CollegeAvenue campus in their traditional gray blazers. For an in-depth story about the evolutionof the group over 140 years, see In Focus on PAGE 7.

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SING ALOUD TO ALMA MATER Poll results showmore support for‘marriage equality’

BY ALEKSI TZATZEVASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

A recent Eagleton Institute of Politics poll foundthat word choice matters when gay marriage figuresinto the question.

According to the poll, 52 percent of N.J. residentsquestioned are in favor of gay marriage, but the numberjumps to 61 percent when the question is framed interms of “marriage equality.”

Thirty-nine percent oppose legalizing gay marriage,and only 27 percent are against marriage equality.

“Framing matters, and we know that,” said DavidRedlawsk, poll director and a professor of political sci-ence at the University. “For many people when askedabout marriage equality, it makes them think abouttheir own marriages and makes them think about theidea of equality.”

Redlawsk said this was not true for everybody, espe-cially in the case of the Republicans questioned. The

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TUESDAYHIGH 54 LOW 36

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Program connectsU., global students

BY KIERSTEN ZINNIKASCONTRIBUTING WRITER

When Rutgers BusinessSchool sophomore Tif fany Matransferred to the Universityfrom a school in Taiwan thissemester, she said it was dif fi-cult meeting people.

But when she joined theUniversity’s InternationalFriendship Program, she wasable to acclimate to theUniversity and make friends.

“This is a place that helpedme get to know ever yone,”said Ma of her experience withthe IFP, which has been matching international stu-dents with University studentsfor 18 years.

The Center for InternationalFaculty and Student Servicessponsors the IFP, which has threemain programs used to assist stu-dents academically and socially,said Carissa McCarthy, IFPCoordinator and InternationalStudent adviser. The programsare the “Welcome Program,” the“Thanksgiving Dinner” and the“English Conversation Program.”

“Our main priority is thatpeople want to practice English and meet new people,”she said.

As par t of the “EnglishConversation Program,” stu-dents meet every Friday andparticipate in a number of activ-ities, including going to themovies and learning how tosalsa dance, she said.

The “Thanksgiving Dinner”program matches internationalstudents up with a host familyfor the holiday and the “EnglishConversation Program” includesone-on-one conversation part-ners as well as the weekly meet-ings, McCarthy said.

Each student fills out a formabout what they are looking forand students are assigned lan-guage par tners and hostsbased on personal preferences,she said.

McCar thy said ever yonewho is a part of the programhas a good background inEnglish, but the conversationgroups can assist students

with learning certain aspects ofthe English language, such as idioms.

“It’s a good way to practice myEnglish,” said Soyoon Lim, aSchool of Arts and Sciences sen-ior who transferred from SouthKorea and has been a part of theIFP for two years.

Maria Perez, a School ofAr ts and Sciences sopho-more, has been with the pro-gram since fall of her firstyear. She has par tnered withthree international studentsduring her involvement.

“I think [the IFP is] importantbecause it’s something thatbrings a certain awareness,” saidPerez, who is fascinated with dif-ferent cultures.

Monir Haggag, a graduatestudent working on his Ph.D.in civil engineering, felt thebenefits of being a part of theIFP first hand when he neededassistance with a class. Haggagtransferred to the University ofMassachusetts from CairoUniversity in Egypt beforecoming to New Jersey.

“I can see it’s really helpfulfor new people who comehere,” he said, noting that thereare academic and social bene-fits that result from participa-tion in the program.

International students hearabout the program by word ofmouth or by attending theInternational Student Orientationin the summer, McCarthy said.

McCarthy, who has been apart of the program for fouryears, said she saw the pro-gram grow to include a greaternumber of students and a widerrange of activities.

Although the program isgeared toward the needs ofinternational students, shesaid there are also somedependents, such as spouses,and scholars involved. The pro-gram can also be an asset tostudy abroad students lookingto become more familiar with aforeign language, she said.

In the future, McCar thywould like to see more domes-tic University students becomeinvolved with the program.

School of Arts and Sciences students Theresa Hronich, right, Karen Lin, and Edward J. BlousteinSchool of Planning and Public Policy student Priya Parikh donate to “Mile of Change,” an event thatworks to collect a mile of coins. Rutgers UNICEF sponsored the event.

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STICKING TO CHANGE

The University took part in the con-struction of a River Tweed crossing madeentirely of plastic bottles in Tweeddale, adistrict in the Scottish Borders region ofthe United Kingdom.

The 90-foot Thermoplastic bridge is com-posed of 50 tons of plastic waste and has beensuitable for heavy goods vehicles, accordingto the peebleshirenews.com article.

“We shouldn’t be sending so much of theUK’s waste plastic to landfill nor should webe shipping it to China,” said Capt. WilliamMainwaring, CEO of Vertech Limited in thearticle. “We can now recycle it ourselves toproduce increasingly sought after high quali-ty and sustainable construction materials forthe European market.”

Dawyck Estates and Vertech Limitedjoined forces with specialist bridgedesigner Cass Hayward, from Cardif fUniversity’s School of Engineering,Rutgers University’s AMIPP AdvancedPolymer Center and Axion Internationalto build the bridge.

“This bridge is the most beautiful I haveworked on and it went up in just four days,which has to be some kind of a record for a90-foot road bridge,” University professorTom Nosker said in the article.

The bridge received positive reviewsfrom engineers and green campaignersbecause plastic will not rust, requires nopainting or maintenance and is 100 percentrecyclable, according to the article.

GROUPS COLLABORATE TO BUILD BRIDGE MADE OF PLASTIC BOTTLES IN UNITED KINGDOM

“I think ever yone shouldhave equal rights,” said BenChin, a School of Ar ts andSciences sophomore.

He said everyone should berecognized and have the legalrights so far held only by het-erosexual couples.

“I don’t think they should bediscriminated against justbecause they are a same-sexcouple,” he said.

Chin also said the issue ofgays’ rights to marry and mar-riage equality are the same,although he would like to seepeople agree equally with bothterms despite the semantic dif-ferences.

James Enny, a School of Artsand Sciences senior, said thequestion of the legality of gaymarriage should not be anissue in a modern world.

“I don’t see why not,” Ennysaid. “I don’t see it as a religiousthing, and I don’t think it shouldmatter if it’s a guy and a guy ora girl and a girl, whatever.”

He said marriage equalityand gay marriage legality areone and the same.

One student who disagreed withthe legalization of gay marriage was

Hira Bakshi, a School of Arts andSciences first-year student.

“It’s too personal of anissue,” she said.“Constitutionally, I don’t thinkyou are allowed to do that.”

She said the wording of “mar-riage equality” did not mean any-thing different, and she still dis-agreed with its legalization.

Christian Wilding, a School ofArts and Sciences sophomore,said he supported gay marriage.

“If legislation is what ittakes to be accepted by every-one, then yeah,” he said. “I sup-port it because it doesn’t both-er anybody — be gay and mar-ried, be happy.”

He also agreed gay marriageand marriage equality wereidentical, but marriage equalityis a term more easily supportedby the general population ofNew Jersey.

According to the poll, nearlya quarter of the state popula-tion has a gay or lesbian familymember, but those who did nothave a gay acquaintance or fam-ily member favored marriageequality more.

For those who do not knowany gay individuals, suppor tclimbs 16 points from 43 per-cent for gay marriage to 59 per-cent of marriage equality.

Redlawsk said people whodid not have a gay acquain-

tance, when asked the questionof marriage equality, had notpreviously thought about theterm “equality” in those terms.

At the same time, peoplewho knew someone gay hadalready made up their minds,therefore the dif ference wasnot as great.

“People who do not knowgay or lesbian people, theyprobably haven’t thought aboutthe issue as much,” he said.“They are more likely to beswayed by this term, ‘equality.’”

The numbers found by thepoll did not reflect any changessince this summer’s poll.Redlawsk said there had notbeen enough time, but as com-pared to a poll from two yearsago, changes were much moresignificant.

“A better indicator is whenwe polled on this two years ago,we were below 50 percent sup-port,” he said. “It was 46 [infavor] to 40 [opposed] at thattime, and now it is 52-36.”

“I could see myself using itbecause it [seems] very conven-ient,” said Ko Choi, a School ofArts and Sciences junior.

But some are concerned aboutthe possibility of identity theftfrom having this informationavailable on their phones.

“I’m a little leery of the identi-ty theft issue — it raises somesuspicion. An application con-densed with all your information[is] going to have to give me a lotof information [toward safety con-

cerns],” said Omisa Green, anElizabeth resident.

Some feel a cellphone is more susceptible to theft,making credit card informationstored in Google Wallet more vulnerable.

“I think it’s more common thatyou misplace your phone thanyour wallet,” Choi said. “So whathappens if your phone getsstolen? Or you lose your phone?You’ll lose your credit card infor-mation and all that.”

Others want to wait and seehow this technology holds upbefore downloading and usingthe app.

“I might step back and watchto see how things go before jump-ing in and using it,” Green said.

Green said Google should pro-vide an online course to help peo-ple understand how to use theapp safely.

Google was unavailable forcomment at press time, but the company issued a state-ment about using GoogleWallet safely.

To use the app, users mustprovide an app-specific PIN foraccess, according to the state-ment. All payment card creden-tials will be encr ypted andstored on a secure chip separate from the smartphonethat only authorized programscan access.

While the possibility of identi-ty theft looms over the app, it willnot deter all from using it.

“Because it’s so convenientI would probably still use the app,” said Sarah Bugen, a School of Ar ts and Sciences sophomore.

Some students are confident that Google has cus-tomer safety in mind in design-ing the app.

“I’m not particularly worried. Iimagine Google doing a verygood job with their network’ssecurity, so I’m not really con-cerned,” said BrendonFitzsimons, a School of Arts andSciences sophomore.

The Google Wallet is still inthe testing stage but in thesummer, customers can down-load the app, according to the release. It is availablethrough the Nexus S 4G on theSprint network.

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A model from New Brunswick, accused in November 2010 for providing buttocks-enhancing injections without a medicallicense, will have a temporary break after ajudge threw out her case for a faulty indictment.

“The statute pursuant to which she was chargedhas five subsections,” said defense attorney ThomasAshley, in an nj.com article. “The indictment did notspecify which subsection the grand jury found shehad violated.”

Ashley said the model, Anivia Cruz-Dilworth,could not be expected to mount a defense as a result.

It was on these grounds that NewarkSuperior Court Judge Michael Petrolli tossedthe case out Friday, according to the article.The prosecutor’s of fice could still re-indictCruz-Dilworth.

The 28-year-old owns her own skin careline and has a contract with a major modelingagency. She allegedly told several women,who went to her for buttocks-enhancementinjections, that she was a medically trainedprofessional, authorities said in the article.

The injections ended up inducing infections in the women who sought

help from Cruz-Dilwor th. The substances were sealed with a liquid adhesive like Krazy Glue, the prosecutoralleged in the article. As a result, six womenwere hospitalized and one required several surgeries.

“In light of the judge’s decision, we’re going to review the case and make a decision in the future as to whether or not we will re-indict the defendant or take another course,” said Katherine Carter, aspokeswoman for the Essex CountyProsecutor’s Office, in the article.

JUDGE THROWS OUT CASE AGAINST NEW BRUNSWICK MODEL

together, travelers will be ableto make payments by wavingtheir phone in front of a sensor,according to the release.

This tap and pay feature willbe available at Newark Airport,New York Penn Station and thePort Authority Bus Terminal inNew York City, Durso said.

NJ Transit is the first trans-portation agency in the countryto partner with Google Wallet,offering customers the option ofusing their phones to tap and payfor a ticket to their destination,he said.

“It’s an innovative programusing cutting-edge technologyto help our customers moveabout their commute in an expe-ditious and rapid manner,” hesaid. “This is part of New JerseyTransit’s commitment to ourcustomers to find new innova-tive solutions to help them abouttheir daily commute.”

Some commuters are interest-ed and excited about the appbecause it could make travelingan easier, faster process.

“I think it’s cool, and it willallow people to go about theirlives quicker without having todeal with the hassles of ticketmachines and customer service,”said Ahmed Eladl, a NewBrunswick resident.

Some University studentswho are already using apps ontheir phones are also happyabout the convenience.

PHONE: Program remains

in testing phase until summer

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He also said New Jersey wasready for the storm but got moresnow than anticipated.

“We had 48 hours notice butthis is more snow than we expect-ed,” he said. “It also came earlierthan we expected.”

Some University studentswere also surprised to see snowin October.

“It’s very upsetting. It’s noteven Halloween and it’s snow-ing already,” said VickyVazquez, a graduate student in the Ernest Mario School ofPharmacy. “I was supposed to go to a Diabetes walk on Saturday but it was can-celled. It’s not supposed tosnow until November.”

The snow af fected students’ weekend plans in dif-ferent ways.

Vivak Patel, a School ofAr ts and Sciences senior, said his family was celebrating holidays all weekand was not prepared to dealwith snow this weekend whilehaving his aunts, uncles andcousins over.

“I had to shovel our drivewayfor people to park — that’s a spe-cial thing to do in October,” Patelsaid. “It’s a little messed up thatit’s snowing this early.”

Cherri Tsang, a School of Artsand Sciences senior, said eventhough she has seen snow inNew Jersey at this time of year,the storm was unexpected.

POWER: Some students

experience trouble traveling


change in terms did not af fectthem at all, keeping the ratio ofsupporters at 36 percent.

The poll also found 70 per-cent of those under 30 yearsold support legalizing gay mar-riage and 75 percent favor theidea of marriage equality.

Redlawsk said the probablereason for this is a new way ofthinking about social issuessuch as gay marriage, ratherthan a coming-of-age attitude,which is liable to change laterin life.

“This is a dif ferent way oflooking at the world,” he said.“I think young people really wonder why this is anissue at all.”

Some University students’opinions seemed to support thepoll’s findings.

POLL: More people back

gay marriage than in past


“I might step backand watch to see

how things gobefore jumping in

and using it.” OMISA GREEN

Elizabeth Resident

“I think young people

really wonder why this is an issue

at all.” DAVID REDLAWSK

Poll Director

“It’s kind of random. It put aslight damper on Halloween,”she said.

Tsang said the snow did notaffect her in terms of traveling orpower outages. She stayed oncampus, where students did notlose power from the less than sixinches of snowfall.

“I live on campus but I heard alot of incidents of car accidentsfrom other people,” she said.

For some students who liveout of state or out of country, thesnow was also unexpected.

“It’s kind of strange to see snowin October. I went out late lastnight to the dining hall and it wasso cold,” said Dabbah Maximore, aSchool of Arts and Sciences junior.“I’m from Africa, so I am not usedto it being so cold.”

Sharlina Keshava, a School ofEngineering first-year student,said she did not lose power orexperience travel delays whenshe visited friends at DrexelUniversity in Philadelphia.

“It was more like sleetthere, but it kept stinging myface,” she said. “If it weren’t formy rain boots, I would havebeen miserable.”

Keshava said the weather inNew Jersey has been particularlyerratic lately.

“It seems like weather isplaying an interesting par t in my freshman year,” shesaid. “First the hurricane, nowthe snowstorm.”

The Saturday snowstorm wasthe fourth time a storm of thiscaliber has hit the North East in135 years, since the start ofrecordkeeping, according toweather.com.

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31 Winter Wishes gives New Brunswick preschool childrengifts for the holiday season. Students, faculty and staffadopt a child’s wish to purchase a holiday gift for them.Visit the Livingston Student Center from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.to adopt a wish.

Happy Halloween!

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2 The Daily Targum is always looking for new writers. Therewill be a Writers’ Meeting at 9:30 p.m. in The Daily TargumBusiness Office, Suite 431 in the Rutgers Student Center onthe College Avenue campus. All majors are welcome and noexperience is necessary! Editor-in-Chief Mary Diduch willattend the meeting to discuss editor positions for nextsemester. For more information, contact Reena Diamante [email protected] or Ankita Panda [email protected].

As a student leader, acquiring the knowledge and skills ineffective motivation are vital in organizational success.From individual empowerment to group inspiration, thisworkshop will delve into motivation how-tos. Students willlearn methods to increase drive within organizations andtheir members and be challenged with new objectives inadvancing towards their own self-development. Visit theDouglass Campus Center NJC Lounge from 7 to 9 p.m. toparticipate in one of the Student Professional DevelopmentWorkshop Series.

NOVEMBER

4 The Rutgers Gardens Farmers’ Market takes place everyFriday from noon to 5 p.m. until Thanksgiving. Purchaselocal fresh produce, pasture-raised meat, artisanal cheese,baked goods, flowers and more. Then take a stroll throughthe gardens and enjoy a picnic. Rutgers Gardens is locatedat 112 Ryders Lane, next to Hort Farm 2 and the RalphGeiger Turfgrass Education Center. For more informationhttp://rutgersgardens.rutgers.edu/farmmarket.htm.

TGIF! Now you can have some fun at another ResponsibleDrinking Happy Hour in the Cook Café from 4 to 7 p.m. yourusual place to socialize with faculty, staff and friends or makenew friends. Don’t forget to bring a faculty member, staff orfriend along to join in the fun and your identification.

6 Visit the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum for free firstSundays of the month. Visit the museum from noon to 5 p.m.Admission is free to all the first Sunday of every month atthe Zimmerli. Scavenger hunts are offered between 12:30 to4 p.m. and tours for children and adults are available at 1p.m. and 2 p.m. Visit Studio Z throughout the day for self-guided learning and creativity.

17 Join the Associate Curator of European Art of the JaneVoorhees Zimmerli Art Museum Christine Giviskos, on abus trip to the Neue Galerie and Morgan Library andMuseum in New York City for two exhibitions of rarely seenEuropean masterworks. The bus departs at 8:30 a.m. fromthe Sears parking lot on Route 1 in New Brunswick andreturns by 5 p.m. The cost of the trip, which includes trans-portation, lunch and guided tours, is $115 for Zimmerlimembers and $125 for nonmembers. Please call (732) 932-7237, ext. 611, or email [email protected] register.

1 In honor of All Saints Day, the family of “MariaEsparanza,” a visionary from Venezuela, will talk about hervisions and cause for Sainthood from 8 to 9:30 p.m. inroom 174 of the Busch Campus Center. The CatholicStudent Association will host the event. For more infor-mation contact Logan Murray at [email protected] or at (732) 545–6663.

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Study proves inefficencyof tutoring program

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MINNEAPOLIS — Dozensof states intend to apply forwaivers that would free theirschools from a federal require-ment that they set aside hun-dreds of millions of dollars ayear for after-school tutoring, aprogram many researchers sayhas been inef fective.

The 2002 No Child LeftBehind law requires schooldistricts that repeatedly fail tomeet its benchmarks to setaside federal money to pay foroutside tutors. But studiesreleased in the past five yearshave found mixed results, atbest, from the program.

They say it has suf feredfrom participation rates as lowas 20 percent, uneven qualityamong tutors, a lack of coordi-nation between tutors andteachers, poor oversight by thestates and a prohibition againstgiving the lowest achievingstudents priority. Also, theysay, there has been no connec-tion between students’ successand tutors’ paychecks.

“We are spending millions ofdollars a year, and we are not see-ing any measurable results forstudents,” said Matthew Mohs,who oversees the St. Paul PublicSchools’ tutoring program, whichset aside about $4.5 million fortutoring this school year.

However, the program’sdefenders argue it gives poorchildren access to the sameresources as their wealthierclassmates and that picking atutor gives parents an importantchoice in their child’s education.

Patricia Burch, an educationprofessor at the University ofSouthern California, studiedtutoring programs in Austin,Chicago, Dallas, Milwaukee andMinneapolis and found the pro-grams have not worked becauseof design flaws.

States have the authority toapprove tutoring companies andmonitor their performance, butoversight varies because there isno federal money for it. And,Burch said, schools are not per-mitted to steer students to thebest tutors on the state’s list soparents often base their decisionson the companies’ marketing.

“It’s not necessarily that theidea is that bad, it’s just notdesigned well,” Burch said.

John Nunnery, executivedirector of the Center forEducational Partnerships at OldDominion University, analyzedmultiple studies on the tutoringprogram’s impact on the mathand reading scores of about140,000 students in 17 states. Heconcluded the program had “neg-ligible” effects.

It can create more financialproblems for struggling schools.Failing districts must set asideabout 20 percent of their federaleducation money for poor stu-dents for tutoring. In districtswhere few students sign up, themoney goes unspent even asother parts of the budget areslashed. In urban districts, wheremore students tend to use theprogram, there is often notenough money to provideenough tutoring — Burch’sresearch puts it at 40 hours perstudent, per year — to matter.

“The bottom line is we needperformance-based contracts ifwe are going to have outside con-

tracts,” Burch said. She said sev-eral states and districts were con-sidering them.

Steven Pines, executive direc-tor of the Education IndustryAssociation, the trade group forprivate tutoring companies, esti-mated $650 million in federalmoney was spent on tutoring lastyear for about 600,000 students.His group supports reforms atthe state and federal levels, buthe said eliminating the programaltogether would be unfair to thestudents it serves.

“I understand states and dis-tricts are looking for some breath-ing room financially, but thatdoesn’t mean they should throwpoor kids who are low-incomeand trapped in struggling schoolsunder the bus,” said Pines, whosegroup is part of a lobbying effortto save the program.

Pines called the research on it“a mixed bag” and said it hasbeen successful in places thathave invested in stricter over-sight, including Florida and theChicago Public Schools.

For some, the program isnot only about test scores.DeLisa Shearod’s 8-year-oldgrandson has attention deficithyperactivity disorder and amild form of autism. She cred-ited his tutor with helping himpass the second grade.

“They have the patience ofJob, I’ll tell you that,” saidShearod, who’s raising hergrandson in St. Paul. “Hisbehavior problems aren’t aproblem anymore; now he doeshis homework.”

It’s not clear how the pro-gram will fare in Congress’ongoing overhaul of No ChildLeft Behind. The Senate ver-sion of the bill scraps the pro-gram, and Rep. John Kline, R-Minn, the chairman of theHouse education committee,was ambivalent about it in aninter view. “It works well insome places and not in others,”he said.

Because Congress has beenslow to overhaul No Child LeftBehind — which both partiesagree should be updated —Education Secretary ArneDuncan announced in Septemberthat states would be able to getwaivers, including for tutoring ifthey agree to certain reformsfavored by the administration.

The department’s own recentresearch into the program’s effec-tiveness in five large school dis-tricts found small benefits in somedistricts but no effect in others,said Carmel Martin, assistant sec-retary for Planning, Evaluationand Policy Development.

“We think it can be effectivefor some students in some cases,but it doesn’t make sense torequire every school that missestargets to do the same thing,”Martin said in an email.

Thirty-seven states and theDistrict of Columbia have noti-fied the Department ofEducation they intend to applyfor a waiver, with 17 states say-ing they would apply by the Nov.14 deadline for the first round. Asecond deadline has been set formid-February.

Minnesota plans to apply for awaiver. Minnesota schools setaside $16 million last school yearfor tutoring, although the stateEducation Department had noestimate for how much was actu-ally spent.

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Glee Club works to keep tradition ‘On the Banks’BY MARY DIDUCH

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

There once was a time whenthere were no songs about Rutgers.

In the late 19th century, thethen-Rutgers College only had ahandful of “glees” — populardrinking songs — that studentswould sing. When collegesacross the nation began institu-tionalizing their respective gleesinto formal all-male glee clubs, orchoral groups, Rutgers Collegesoon followed suit, said DanielComito, a Class of 2011 alumnuswho wrote his senior thesis onthe University’s alma mater.

About 140 years later, theUniversity’s Glee Club has with-stood the changing of directors,spikes and lulls in membershipand an evolving repertoire tostand today as one of the oldeststudent organizations on thebanks of the Old Raritan.

ON THE BANKSRutgers College alumnus

Edwin E. Colburn founded theclub officially in 1872, when itwas known as the “Glee Club of’76,” as most of its membersgraduated that year, saidComito, a former Glee Clubmember and officer.

On the day of their firstspring concert about a yearlater, Colburn realized that thegroup had no song specificallydedicated to Rutgers College.

He summoned poet HowardFuller to write a song by the endof the day for the group to singduring the show. Fuller wrotethe words to what is now thealma mater to the music of aScottish drinking song, “On theBanks of the Sweet Dundee.”

“The song became so popu-lar after the first performancethat … the college took it up,”Comito said.

Soon, every student at thecollege knew the song, and itbecame tradition to sing at foot-ball games.

Then, in the early 1900s,Howard McKinney became thefirst music professor at RutgersCollege. He took control of theGlee Club, and the groupbecame a more professionalorganization, Comito said.

One of his students in 1932joined McKinney at the helm,eventually taking over after himfull-time in 1946. The student,F. Austin “Soup” Walter, then

Patrick Gardner leads a rehearsal before a performance at St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice, Italy thispast summer. Over the years, the group has also traveled to Germany and the Netherlands.

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F. Austin “Soup” Walter conducts members of the Glee Club during a recording session. Walterbecame conductor in 1932 and held the position for 51 years.

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went to hold the longest-run-ning directorship so far in GleeClub history.

THE LEGACY OF “SOUP”Walter, who also was a

beloved professor, was thedirector in the mid-20th centu-ry and is credited by many fortransforming the group.Walter, who also served as theconductor of the marchingband and other choral organi-zations during that time, diedin 2000.

“He turned the Glee Clubinto one of the premiere choralorganizations in the country,”Comito said.

Richard Shindell, who gradu-ated from Rutgers College in1957, was a member of the clubunder Walter.

“He was a spectacular leaderand an inspiration to all of us,”he said.

Shindell said though he didnot study music, being in theclub influenced him after histime on the Banks. After spend-ing time in the Navy, he workedat Chase Manhattan Bank andthen moved to Baltimore for thesame line of work. That is whenhe auditioned for and joined theBaltimore Chorus.

“I was doing what I wantedto do as a vocation, and I wasalso doing what my heart want-ed me to do, and that part came

from Rutgers,” said Shindell,who now resides in BucksCounty, Pa.

Bob Mortensen, a Class of1963 Rutgers College graduate,was also a member of the clubwhen Walter was director.

He said it was an excitinggroup to be a part of due to itssocial and musical opportuni-ties. During his years there, theclub toured the west coast andNorthern Europe.

“Soup Walter was a verycharismatic gentleman and justreally brought great energy tochoral singing,” Mortensen said.

A NEW ERABut when Walter retired in

the 1983, the group began tolose its strength. Mortensensaid the combination of Walter’sretirement, remnants of theVietnam War and the trend awayfrom male choral singingchanged the group.

After Walter’s retirement, thegroup had a different directorevery two to three years.

Then in 1993, the club’s pres-ent director, Patrick Gardner,took the reigns.

“Pat has maintained or sur-passed the extraordinarily stronghistory and what has been laiddown by Soup Walter and somebefore him,” Shindell said.

Gardner, who teaches in theMason Gross School of the Arts’

graduate program in choraldirecting, moved to New Yorkafter teaching at the Universityof Michigan and leading thatschool’s glee club.

“[Gardner] is undoubtedlyfrom a technical standpoint …the best choral director theGlee Club has ever had,”Mortensen said.

Gardner said though thegroup has maintained many tradi-tions over the years, he has aimedduring his tenure to increase thedifficulty of their repertoire.

During Gardner’s tenure,they have had three Pulitzer-prize winning composers createa piece just for the club. Thisyear, they will perform a piecefrom prize-winner M. LewisSpratlan, Jr.

“It’s just a matter of continu-ing to grow and letting peopleknow what we have,” he said.

THE GROUP TODAYMost members are non-

music majors, and those whoare not receiving one credittoward graduation for theirwork: twice-a-week practices inMcKinney Hall on the CollegeAvenue campus, concerts, gigsand weekend rehearsals.

“Everyone in the Glee Clubis there not as a requirementbut as an extracurricular activi-ty,” Gardner said of the nowabout 80-member group.

Gardner said an importantaspect of the club is not its musi-cal benefits, but rather thefriendship it fosters.

Since the club is completelystudent-run, the members andofficers in particular maturethrough managing the groupand budget, which is around$60,000 in a non-touring yearand $300,000 in a touring year,Gardner said.

The group also has many tra-ditions — from the annual “SoupBowl” football game against theMarching Scarlet Knights bandto the seniors ringing Col.Henry Rutgers’ bell in OldQueens after their Christmasshow to their mentoring pro-gram — that enforces bondingbetween members.

“Most of my guys in theGlee Club would tell you 20years after that their lifetimefriends and their closest associ-

ates are from the Glee Club,”Gardner said.

This is evinced by thestrong alumni interaction theyhave — the club has activealumni going back 50 years, he said.

“There was a level of consis-tency throughout [the Walter]years. Soup Walter really creat-ed something that has been alasting legacy,” he said.

Both Shindell andMortensen are some of theseactive alumni, who also serveon the club’s advisory board.The board provides advice andhelps to underwrite travelcosts, especially for the club’sinternational tours, which hap-pen every four years.

The club went to Italy overthis past summer and sang in theVatican in Rome and at St. Mark’sBasilica in Venice, said JonathanRamteke, club PR manager.

The group also tours aroundthe country. Every year theyhold an exchange concert withMount Holyoke College inMassachusetts. This spring, thegroup plans to travel to all-women’s school to perform withthe choir, said Christopher Pasi,Glee Club president.

“It’s going to be a really coolconcert, and we’re looking for-ward to performing there,” saidPasi, a School of Arts andSciences junior.

Ramteke, a School of Artsand Sciences senior, said manypeople do not realize that theclub performs at many otherevents aside from their popularfootball appearances, where themembers don their signaturegray jackets and red-and-blackstriped ties.

The group will hold their fallconcert in Kirkpatrick Chapelthis Friday, their Christmas con-cert of Dec. 11 also in thechapel, and their 140th springconcert will be held this upcom-ing April 21 in the NicholasMusic Center on Douglass cam-pus, Ramteke said.

Pasi hopes as president, hecan spread Glee Club’s promi-nence and bring more people totheir concerts.

“People know of us, but theydon’t really understand what[Glee Club] is,” Ramteke said.

Gardner said outside of theUniversity gigs, other choralgroups view the Glee Club asone of the best male choralgroups in the country.

But as for performing duringthose games, it’s something allthe members love to do.

“I think it’s surreal to per-form at the games,” Ramtekesaid. “You’re the reason peopleare excited.”

Pasi said singing the almamater is something he nevertires of.

“For me, it’s a sense of prideto think the Glee Club originallywrote it,” Pasi said. “It’s some-thing that transcends time alltogether. I think the historything really hits home.”

Though the group hasevolved over the years, Gardnerbelieves the group’s motto —“Ever changing yet eternally thesame” — still holds true today.

“Though the Glee Club hasthis very long and strong histo-ry,” he said. “We keep doingnew things.”

See, real racism is whenthe Nazis said that the Jews — no how mattersmart, dumb, moral,immoral, strong or weak —are inferior to them. Realracism is when the Ku KluxKlan says the same thingabout blacks. Real racism isirrational and is when people

only care about race to the exclusion of all other fac-tors. Real racism is when baseball managers look-ing to win did not want athletically gifted people likeJackie Robinson on their team because of the colorof their skin. Real racism is when shopkeepers inthe Jim Crow South turned away paying customersbecause of the color of those customers’ skin. A realracist is blind to everything except race and has nomoral justification.

Our country was able to transition so easily frombeing very racist in the mid- and early-20th centuryto being very non-racist now probably because peo-

ple are more educated than theyonce were. It is much easier for edu-cated people to see how irrationalracist behavior is. Turning away per-fectly good business may have beenacceptable among whites in the1950s South, but one would be con-sidered either crazy or stupid fordoing so now, especially in this econ-omy. Consider also that Asians, onceheavily discriminated against and

marginalized in the United States, are now stereo-typically perceived as high academic achievers.This view of the benefits that hard-working Asianscan provide organizations has actually made Asiansso successful that affirmative action programs havereinstated discrimination against Asians in order toprevent Asians from being “overrepresented.”Social engineering like affirmative action, whichonly takes into account race, is technically a form ofracism that persists in today’s society, but it is adrop in the bucket compared to how non-racist theUnited States generally is.

I’m certainly not saying the United States isdevoid of true racism or even that the only racism isin more harmless forms such as affirmative action.True racism, even in the blatant Jim Crow vein, cer-tainly can and does happen in this country andshould be heavily discouraged, but it is not nearly ascommonplace as people think. It is not a practicemost people engage in every day, and if we didn’t goaround saying there was racism everywhere,maybe we’d take true instances of it more seriously.

Edward Reep is a Rutgers Business School juniormajoring in supply chain and marketing science withminors in business and technical writing and eco-nomics. His column, “Philosophies of a ParticularAmerican,” runs on alternate Mondays.

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F rom day one of Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign,Obama has made it publicly clear that he does not and will notaccept donations from lobbyists. On the surface, it looks like he has

kept that promise. Obama makes his records of top campaign financiersavailable to the public, and none of the names appearing in those recordsbelong to registered lobbyists. The problem, though, is that plenty of thesepeople are involved in lobbying without officially bearing the title of lobby-ist. Fifteen of Obama’s top “bundlers” — which ABC News defines as “vol-unteer fundraisers who gather contributions from their deep-pocketfriends” — work for law firms or other offices which traffic in lobbying. Forexample, Sally Susman, who is the chair of Pfizer’s political action commit-tee, has bundled more than $500,000 for Obama. Likewise, David Cohen,the head of Comcast’s government affairs and public affairs departments,has also contributed $500,000 of his and other people’s money to Obama’scampaign. If Obama is going to make a promise that lobbyists will not linehis pockets, then he has to live up to that promise. These people may notbe official lobbyists, but they are essentially de facto ones.

At best, we can call this a loophole in Obama’s criteria. He said hewould not accept donations from lobbyists and technically, he has not. Butjust because these donors lack the official lobbyist title does not meanthey do not do the work of lobbyists. These people are the heads of polit-ical action departments. They oversee exactly the sort of lobbying whichObama claims to eschew. We all know Obama is a smart man — the “elit-ist” tag was often thrown at him as an insult in 2008 — so he should havethe critical-thinking skills necessary to see through such ruses. The factthat he has not stopped accepting this money does not mean that he is notsmart — it means that he is not truly following through with his promise.

In some ways, what Obama is doing is worse than his counterpartswho openly accept the donations of lobbyists. At least they are being hon-est. Obama, on the other hand, seems to be covering his tracks. It’simpressive that he has publicly released his records, yes, but that doesnot let him off the hook for taking money that he himself has condemned.

Q uite often I hear linessuch as “everyone isa little bit racist” or

“people are still subtly racist.”I disagree with those state-ments. I think that in the con-temporary United States, welive in one of the most non-racist societies around, and Ithink people come to differentconclusions because they either don’t truly under-stand what racism is, or they mistake race for a factorin their decision-making processes.

Consider a classic example used to justify thecontinued existence of mass racism: Many peoplewalking through low-income neighborhoods at nightwill become frightened if they see a black orHispanic person walking around. That example mayring true, but is the person truly frightened becausethe person is black or Hispanic, or are they fright-ened because the other person they encounter isprobably dressed like a thug in a neighborhoodknown for thugs? I opt for the latterbecause almost no rational personwould be frightened by a black orHispanic person walking around inwork or church clothes. Just as well,white or Asian people who dress likethugs can be scary as well. Surely,you wouldn’t want to mess with bikergangs or triads.

Some also say our society unfairlylooks down upon aspects of black andHispanic culture. In reality, our society treats low-class white culture with the same contempt it treatslow-class black or Hispanic culture. Consider thatthe “Jersey Shore” cast is reviled throughout thecountry. “Hicks” and “rednecks” are frequentlythought of as “white trash” and associated with druguse, violence and broken families. Look at all thewhite people on the “Jerry Springer Show” whomany consider poor role models and compare themto all the blacks and Hispanics in rap videos, whomany also consider poor role models. Most peoplesee the character of one’s culture before the color ofone’s skin. There is no soft spot for white culture andhard spot for black and Hispanic culture, becausemost recognize there is far more in commonbetween people of the same socioeconomic classwho are of different races than between people ofthe same race but different socioeconomic classes.

I do concede that people often stereotype andmake inferences about people using race as a fac-tor. But this is not truly racism. These people whostereotype and make race-based inferences wouldchange their tune regarding individuals upon dis-covering information about them that contradictedthe stereotype or inference. Real racists would not.They would maintain their prejudice against peo-ple regardless of what information they find outabout them.

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“Most people see the character of one’s culturebefore the color of one’s skin.”

ED REEP

T o borrow and partially corrupt the words of Jane Austen, it is atruth universally acknowledged that smoking is bad for you.For years, doctors, public service announcements and your

parents warned you against picking up the habit. Now, even your bossmay be on your case about your cigarette habit. Some companies arelooking to make employees who live unhealthy lifestyles — like smok-ers and the obese — pay higher for health care. Among these compa-nies is Wal-Mart, which plans to specifically raise the premiums ofsmokers in 2012, and Veridian Credit Union, which is going after bothtobacco users and obese workers. The reasoning behind moves likethese is all about the costs. Greg Rossiter, a spokesman for Wal-Mart,points to the fact that employees who use tobacco utilize about 25 per-cent more health services than employees who don’t use tobacco.Companies like Wal-Mart and Veridian believe that facts like this makeit necessary to charge unhealthy employees more for health care.

But such measures are incredibly intrusive into the lives of employ-ees. Decisions such as what to eat, whether to smoke, whether to exer-cise, etc., should be the exclusive choices of the employees them-selves. These are, after all, things they do on their own time, not whileon the company’s clock. As such, the company should have no say inthese activities. Assuming that Wal-Mart, for example, is hiring adultswho are responsible enough to hold a job in the first place, why shouldthey treat their employees like children?

There also exists a slew of confounding variables, which make deter-mining who should be effectively penalized for their lifestyle choices ratherdifficult. It is bad enough to attempt to shame an obese or overweight per-son into losing weight by charging them higher premiums when that per-son is obese or overweight because of their own lifestyle decisions. But itis another thing when that person’s weight is not entirely up to them.Perhaps they suffer from hormonal conditions that affect their weight.Maybe they take certain medications that make it difficult for them tomaintain a slimmer waistline. How will these companies treat cases such asthese examples? With their health care pricing systems intrusive as it is,will they hesitate to intrude even into the private lives of their employees?

Every aspect of your lifestyle affects your health. What you do withyour personal life should be your choice — not your employer’s. Bycharging select employees higher premiums based on their lifestyles,these companies are attempting to discipline their workers in areas thatshould be insulated from the workplace. The only time an employee’shealth should be an employer’s concern is when it interferes with theemployee doing their job properly.

Obama must screendonators carefully

Employers should notdictate employees’ lives

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Schiano. “That can’t be. It is inex-cusable. We drill that.”

The gaffe was one of fourturnovers for Nova on the day —he threw two interceptions andfumbled another snap. He shouldbe grateful there were not count-less others.

Nova turned the ball over ninetimes in the past three games, butSchiano maintains his upside out-weighs the mistakes.

“I have to make those plays,”said Nova, who was 18-of-46 for235 yards and two touchdowns.“I won’t use the excuse that I’ma freshman. I have to makethose plays.”

Schiano still stuck with him,and when Rutgers fell behind, itturned to him.

The Knights had 146 rushingyards entering the final quarter,then five more after it.

“We probably should have run[Jamison] more,” Schiano said.“We got behind and that kind ofdictated things.”

Rutgers still led by three whenSchiano called for a fake field goal.

Redshirt freshman BrandonColeman released off the lineand stood uncovered in the endzone, but safety and holder PatKivlehan’s wobbling throwallowed safety Dar win Cooktime to get back and break thepass up.

“I heard on the headset, ‘Wegot him,’” Schiano said. “Ithought we were going to hit it.We hit it in practice all week. Ithought we were going to hit it.”

The Mountaineers took theball and marched 88 yards beforefacing a fourth down on the goalline. West Virginia head coachDana Holgorsen’s gamble paidoff, as Smith took advantage ofwhat Schiano called a blownassignment and scored.

It was not the quick-strike, 80-yard Tavon Austin reverse runfor a touchdown or the 52-yardShawn Alston score that put theMountaineers on the board.

It was the backbreaking drivethat dominated the past 17 years,and with West Virginia bound forthe Big 12, maybe the last time.

“It was pretty tough,” saidfifth-year senior defensive tackleJustin Francis. “I really thoughtthis was the year that I was goingto be the victor and walk awaysaying, ‘I beat West Virginia.’”

NO. 17: Nova commits

four turnovers in WVU defeat

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RAMON DOMPOR / SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

West Virginia cornerback Brodrick Jenkins (23) interceptedfreshman quarterback Gary Nova twice in the Knights’ loss.

T he Rutgers men’ssoccer team’s gameagainst South

Florida, scheduled forSaturday, was postponedbecause of inclement weath-er in Piscataway.

The season finale is todayat Yurcak Field.

The Scarlet Knights andBulls fight for the top spot inthe Big East Red Division.

USF holds the top spot inthe division with 22 points,with Rutgers trailing in secondplace with 19 points.

A win would tie Rutgersfor first place in the divisionentering the Big East Tournament.

THE RUTGERSvolleyball team exited theweekend with a pair of losses.

Georgetown beat theKnights, 3-2, yesterday afterVillanova beat Rutgers, 3-0, onFriday. The Knights playedboth matches at the CollegeAve. Gym.

Junior Stephanie Zielinskipicked up her Big East-leading14th double-double of the sea-son against Villanova, whileclassmate Alex Jones notched11 kills in 14 attempts.

Rutgers (8-19, 1-9) cameclose to overtaking ’Nova inthe third set, but the Wildcatsultimately won, 25-20, to closethe game.

For more coverage, seetomorrow’s issue of TheDaily Targum.

THE BIGGEST CHANGEin the Associated Press col-lege football poll yesterdaycame from Clemson andKansas State.

Clemson slipped to No. 10while Kansas State moveddown to No. 17 after bothsuffered their first losses ofthe season.

The top-five teams heldtheir spots, with No. 1Louisiana State and No. 2Alabama holding theirground on byes before their showcase game next weekend.

No. 3 Oklahoma State andNo. 4 Stanford maintainedtheir spots after victories,while Boise State was idle.

The losses by Clemsonand Kansas State leave sixundefeated teams in DivisionI-A — the top-five teams and Houston.

BOB BARRY SR., the longtime radio voice forthe Oklahoma football team,died yesterday at age 80.

Fans knew Barry as the“Voice of the Sooners” whenhe took the helm from 1961-72 and then from 1991-2010,retiring in the spring asOklahoma’s football and bas-ketball play-by-play man.

Barry also called games forOklahoma State from 1973-90.

Oklahoma presidentDavid Boren said Barry rep-resented the best of theSooner spirit.

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Senior Eric LeGrand led the Scarlet Knights from the locker room Saturday at High Point Solutions Stadium, making his first formal appearance on the field during the 2011 season. Former roommates Khaseem Greene and Scott Vallone accompanied LeGrand in the first row of the team’s entrance.

Greene also gave LeGrand theteam’s axe, a ceremonial gift to aKnight who deserves recognitioneach week.

Tight end Beau Bachety andoffensive tackle Devon Watkisflanked Greene and Vallone oneither side.

“It was nice. We like to seehim,” Vallone said. “Everybodywas talking to him on the waydown, getting hyped up for him.”

Vallone pointed to LeGrand’swork on a treadmill with assis-tance during physical therapy asa sign of his improvement.

But following the Knights 41-31 loss to the Mountaineers,LeGrand probably only had theteam’s final outcome on his mind,Vallone said.

“I’m sure he had a blast doingit, but I’m sure if you talked tohim now he’s probably [feeling]just like everyone else here rightnow,” Vallone said. “He’s still apart of this team.”

THE KNIGHTS AMASSED151 yards on the ground againstWest Virginia, but the team’s goalis to reach 200 yards per game,Schiano said.

“When you’re running theball for 200 yards a game, that’swhen you’re running the foot-ball,” he said. “We’ll get there.There’s no doubt in my mind. Idon’t know when, but we’regoing to get there.”

Redshir t freshman JawanJamison nearly eclipsed 100yards rushing for the secondtime in three games, but he set-tled for 97 yards and a pair oftouchdowns. The performancewas Jamison’s first two-touch-down game of his career afterrushing for his first careerscore against Navy.

“I felt really good, especiallyon my second touchdown,”Jamison said. “The hole was justhuge. There was nobody therefor 15 or 20 yards. I just walkedright into the end zone.”

The team’s 100-yard ef fortwas the fourth of the season,trailing its 159-yard perform-ance against Ohio and its 152rushing yards against Navy.

Schiano was pleased withthe Knights’ ability to run theball with more ef fective-ness, but pushed for more improvement.

“It’s getting better, as I’vesaid all along,” he said. “Iwouldn’t say we’re anywherenear where we’re going to be orwhat it’s going to look like. Canwe continue to get better at it?That’s the key. Because it’s not where we want it to be.”

The of fensive line still saw shuffling.

Senior Desmond Wynn leftthe game with an undisclosedinjury, but Schiano said sorenessis likely Wynn’s only after effectthis week.

Senior Desmond Stapletonalso saw time, albeit brief, atright tackle.

REDSHIR T FRESHMANquarterback Gar y Nova andsenior center Caleb Ruchbotched another exchange thatled to a turnover.

Their cough-up gave theMountaineers the ball at theRutgers 7-yard line, and WestVirginia scored two plays later.

“Handling the [center-quarter-back] exchange and handling theball, we’ve just got to do a betterjob of that,” Schiano said.

Nova and Ruch also accountedfor a pair of fumbles against Navy,one of which the Knights lost.

SOPHOMORE DEFENSIVEend Jamil Merrell earned his firstcareer start after returning froma foot injury.

Merrell, twin brother of line-backer Jamal Merrell, firstappeared against Navy andearned significant playing timelast week at Louisville.

Jamil Merrell also becamethe Knights’ four th star terfrom Delaware in the process,joining Jamal Merrell, Wynn and junior safety Duron Harmon.

NOTEBOOK: Friends

flank LeGrand for entrance

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Redshirt freshman Jawan Jamison, above, recorded his first career two-touchdown game againstWest Virginia, while sophomore defensive end Jamil Merrell earned his first career start.


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BY BRADLY DERECHAILOCONTRIBUTING WRITER

While the East Coast could notescape Saturday’s snowstorm, theRutgers swimming and diving team

managedto makethe bestof it. The

Scarlet Knights swept all three par-ticipating schools in this weekend’sBig East quad meet in Storrs, Conn.

“I thought it was a great startto our season,” said head coachPhil Spiniello. “We had a lot ofgood swimming and diving for themonth of October. We set the tonefor the rest of this season andwhat lies ahead for this team.”

The quad meet marked thefirst Big East event for theKnights, who defeated Villanova,Georgetown and hostConnecticut to capture their firstteam victory of the season. TheKnights beat UConn, 204-149,bested Villanova, 200-153, andcapped off their sweep with a 267-86 win against Georgetown.

Spiniello liked the way theteam took to the pool andbelieves it needs to keep improv-ing upon its performance, whichconsisted of events throughout atwo-day span.

“Starting of f the season 3-0is always a good feeling,”Spiniello said. “But walking outof there, I think ever yoneknows that we have areas thatwe need to improve upon andthings that we need to keepdeveloping if we are going to beable to compete in February inthe Big East Championships.”

Trisha Averill, who capturedfour individual titles, led theKnights. The senior took the 100-yard breaststroke on Day 1 with atime of 1:04.02 and the 200-yardmedley with a time of 2:05.32.

She continued her effort dur-ing Day 2 by taking first in boththe 400-yard medley and 200-yard breaststroke.

“I was pretty happy with how itall went,” Averill said. “I think itwas a good indicator in general ofhow our team is doing.”

Spiniello was pleased withAverill’s outing but believes shedid not reach her ceiling in onlyone meet.

“Trisha is a very hardworkingathlete and will continue toimprove throughout the season,”Spiniello said. “It’s going to beexciting seeing her this season.”

Along with Averill, two otherswimmers placed at the top oftheir heats. Senior BrianneLindblad took the 200-yard back-stroke title and junior TaylorCurado finished with a first-placetime of 56.92 seconds in the 100-yard butterfly.

Both swimmers also helpedthe Knights win the 400-yard med-ley relay, teaming up with Averilland fellow senior Jacquelyn Ward.Sophomore Mary Moser replacedWard in the Day 2 200-yard med-ley victory.

Along with helping the 400-yard relay team place first, Wardcontributed with a trio of top-three finishes, including a sec-ond-place showing in both the200- and 400-yard IM.

Emilie Kaufmann also turnedin impressive performances asthe sophomore placed behindAverill in the 100-yard breast-stroke for second place.

“I think we did great,” Averillsaid. “Last year we lost to bothUConn and Villanova by over100 points and this year we beatthem. It was just a great show-ing of everything our team hasworked on over the past yearand a half.”

For the divers, junior CarissaSantora delivered a second-placefinish in the 3-meter dive and tal-lied 284.10 points for the Knights.Freshman Nicole Honey placedthird in both the 3- and 1-meterdive events.

“The divers did a great job onthe boards,” Spiniello said. “Theyreally helped rally the team withsome big points in necessarymoments of the meet.”

The team looks to continueits early season success when itplays host to Wagner on Fridayat the Sonny WerblinRecreation Center.

SWIMMING & DIVING

RU FIRST PLACE

For the first time sincethe 2009-10 season, theRutgers women’s basket-ball team returned to thenational radar. The

Associated PressPreseason Poll tabbed theScarlet Knights as the No.16 team in the nation.

The Knights return fourstar tersf r o mlast sea-s o n .H e a dcoach C.V i v i a nStringera l s obroughtin theNo. 3o v e r a l l

recruiting class, accordingto ESPN HoopGurlz.

The Knights join the likesof Notre Dame, Connecticut,Louisville, Georgetown,DePaul and St. John’s as oneof seven Big East teamsranked in the top 25.

Rutgers also earned theNo. 4 ranking in the Big EastPreseason Poll.

The poll revealed eightranked opponents for theKnights this season, withtough non-conference testsagainst No. 3 Tennesseeand No. 7 Miami before their conference season hits.

“We’re not tr ying tohide and shazam and sur-prise anybody. We wouldlike to [win a nationalchampionship],” Stringersaid. “Can I be disappoint-ed if we were to come upshort? I would just want tobe able to recognize wherewe are and to know that wemade tremendous strides,and if that means includinga national championshipthat would be great.”

— Anthony Hernandez

AP POLL TABS RU16TH NATIONALLYENTERING SEASON

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

C. VIVIANSTRINGER

JOVELLE ABBEY TAMAYO / SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / FILE PHOTO

Senior Trisha Averill led the Scarlet Knights with four first-place finishes in their quad meet at Connecticut. She captured the top spotin the 100-yard breaststroke and the 200-yard IM on Day 1, while she took two more first-place efforts on the meet’s second day.

Knights begin season with quad-meet sweep

Top-five opponents shut out Rutgers in final weekendBY JOSH BAKAN

CORRESPONDENT

When the Rutgers fieldhockey team prepares for each

game, ito f t e nreachesa pointwhere itbelieves

it can stay competitive witheach opponent.

It did not against No. 2Maryland, but the game pre-sented the Scarlet Knights withanother cer tainty: The finalgame of the season was an emo-tional one.

For Rutgers’ (5-13, 2-4) sevenseniors, it was the final game oftheir field hockey careers.

Emotions flew before thegame against the Terrapins (15-3), when the seniors receivedflowers and certificates whiletheir families accompanied themonto the field.

Head coach Liz Tchou knewwatching the seven seniors walkout onto the Bauer Track andField Complex for the last timewould be difficult.

“You’re used to them. You’reused to their personalities andever ything,” Tchou said.“We’re going to really miss them.”

Despite Tchou’s emotionsfor the departing seniors, shewas also disappointed the sea-son did not end the way she andthe Knights wanted it to.

The Knights worked all sea-son to make their second consec-utive Big East Tournament. Theydisappointingly knew this week-end it would not happen.

“I’m disappointed that weweren’t able to create more winsand make the Big EastTournament,” Tchou said. “Weexpected that this year.”

A 5-0 loss to the Terrapinsand a loss of the same score toNo. 5 Connecticut (16-1, 6-0) onFriday were not desirable waysfor the Knights to close out theseason, either.

Despite a losing record, theKnights kept some of the lossesclose partly because of theirability to generate penalty cor-ners. But Mar yland keptRutgers out by blanking them,12-0, in the category.

“What we kind of dropped theball on was being aggressive onthe attacking circle,” said seniorback Mackenzie Noda.

The Knights were more suc-cessful on corners againstUConn, which bested theKnights, 9-8, in corners.

But UConn shot with suchefficiency that it put the gameaway early.

“UConn has one of the bestcorner executions,” Tchou said.“Their percentage of goals oftheir corners is probably the bestin the country.”

Facing two of the top five teamsin the nation in one weekend,Rutgers ended up on the losingend of two blowouts Maryland andUConn are used to generating.

But at season’s end, the Knightscould do nothing but take positivesfrom the weekend. They relishedthe fact they got to see two elite pro-grams they strive to emulate.

“They’re so skilled. We obvi-ously aspire to be that skilled,”Tchou said of Mar yland. “Their ability to finish is really strong.”

Rutgers ends the season indisappointment without a con-

ference tournament berth, butthe greatest disappointment formany on the team is the depart-ing seniors.

“I’m definitely going to missit,” Noda said. “I’m going tomiss the girls and the coaches a lot.”

And although the seniors willnot be around for a turnaround,they did their part in forming a cul-ture that strives for such results.

“They’ve worked so hard inkeeping the team cohesive, andthat’s one thing they’re going toleave,” Tchou said.

ENRICO CABREDO / FILE PHOTO

Senior back Mackenzie Noda played in her final game yesterdayagainst Maryland. The Knights allowed 10 goals in two games.

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BY STEVEN MILLERSPORTS EDITOR

For a half Saturday it appearedhell froze over. Then it became

clear itwas onlyH i g hP o i n t

Solutions Stadium.No matter where the Rutgers foot-

ball team met West Virginia the past17 years, the Mountaineers made it

Rutgers’ hell. This time it was a snow-covered field in Piscataway, where theScarlet Knights blew a 10-point half-time lead, arguably their best andmaybe last chance to end WVU’s dom-inance and lost, 41-31.

“There comes a point where wehave to start learning how to winthese games and we have to startgrowing up as a program and startwinning,” said junior defensive tackleScott Vallone. “It stinks to be in thisposition: up 10 at halftime and blow it.”

The offense matched wits withWest Virginia and scored 31 pointsin the first 30 minutes. Then itnever scored again.

The defense contained theMountaineers’ high-powered attacksave for two big plays in the firsthalf, and then the big plays startedoutnumbering the stops.

And when West Virginia quar-terback Geno Smith gave theMountaineers a lead on a fourth-down touchdown run with 6:18

remaining, Rutgers’ run game —which was at its best — disap-peared, as well.

“I was really surprised,” saidredshirt freshman Jawan Jamison,who rushed for 96 yards and twotouchdowns. “I thought we weregoing to keep running the ballbecause they hadn’t been stoppingus really, like at all. Every time I gotthe ball I got like 5 or 6 yards and Ithought we were going to keep run-ning it. I don’t know.”

Instead, with Rutgers trailing,freshman quarterback Gary Novasaw another shot downfield fallincomplete on first down. Hedropped back on second down, nav-igated the pocket untouched anddropped the ball, allowing WVU’sJulian Miller to fall on it.

“You better have two hands onthe football when you are in thepocket,” said head coach Greg

BY TYLER BARTOASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

Eric LeGrand’s wheelchair lefttire tracks on the snow-coveredfield Saturday at High PointSolutions Stadium. The senior saidvia his Twitter account next timethere will be footprints.

LeGrand led the Rutgers foot-ball team out of the tunnelagainst West Virginia, markingthe first time he did so since his

paralyzing injury Oct. 17, 2010,against Army.

“It was an emotional moment,”said head coach Greg Schiano. “Itwas a really emotional moment.”

Former roommates KhaseemGreene and Scott Vallone helpedpull LeGrand’s wheelchair out ofthe tunnel to the 50-yard line andthen back to the Scarlet Knights’ sideline.

Freshman quarterback Gary Nova’s second lost fumble Saturday gave West Virginia the ball inside Scarlet Knights territory in the fourth quarter, ultimately leading to the Mountaineers’ fifth and final touchdown of the game. Nova threw a career-high 46 passes in the loss, two of which West Virginia intercepted.

KEY STATS

EXTRA POINTRutgers fell to 4-18 against ranked oppo-nents under Greg Schiano and 4-46-1 all-time. Six of those losses under Schianocame against the Mountaineers, who beat

Rutgers in each of their past 17 meetings. West Virginia outscoredRutgers, 412-195, in 11 meetings with Schiano at the helm.

PASSINGGARY NOVA18-46, 235 YDS, 2 TDS, 2 INTS

RUSHINGSHAWNE ALSTON14 CAR, 110 YDS, 2 TDS

RECEIVINGTAVON AUSTON8 REC, 67 YDS, 1 TD

WEST VIRGINIARUTGERS

Total Yds428386

Pass218235

Rush210151

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ConnecticutPittsburgh

SyracuseLouisville

No. 9 OklahomaNo. 8 Kansas State

Georgia TechNo. 5 Clemson

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