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The University’sEagleton Instituteof Politics releaseda poll showing that47 percent of votersforesee a particularly taxing obstacle forChris Christie.
Both celebrities andeveryday peoplealike are feelingthe heat from libelsuits filed becauseof statements madeon the social mediasite, Twitter.
Students with only 0 credits can register for Spring 2010 classes tonight from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Pedestrian fatalities continue to rise throughout New Jersey, a 33 percent increase since2008. The city recently received a grant to improve crosswalks and traffic signs. Once construction is complete, police officers will enforce traffic rules at designated locations.
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BY COLLEEN ROACHECORRESPONDENT
Without a vehicle to travel between campuses,the average student is at the mercy of the Universitybus system.
NextBus GPS aims to make trips a bit easier, butthe lack of the system at the Livingston StudentCenter has often left those going to and fromLivingston campus in the dark.
“It would be really useful if there were a NextBus sign over here,” said AvantikaKhullar, a Rutgers College senior. “I rememberwhen the buses used to come in here and therewere signs.”
Khullar, who was waiting for an LX bus totravel back to College Avenue after a class, said the system would be most helpful to thosewho travel to the Cook/Douglass campuses and need the REXL, which arrives on Livingstonless frequently.
Katherine Germak travels on the REXL bus to getfrom her residence hall on Douglass to a class onLivingston. She said she is often frustrated with thebus to the campus.
“The REXLs don’t come often enough,” saidGermak, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “It’sa huge problem … an L [bus] will pass, an LX[bus] will pass [and] I have to wait 25 minutes fora REXL [bus].”
She said improvements at the student center mayhelp, but NextBus is usually wrong and the bus sys-tem needs reform.
Many students are unaware of the recentimprovements.
The University Department of Transportationhas installed two LED screens in the lobby of thestudent center to replace the screen that was inplace prior to the center’s construction, said JackMolenaar, director of the University Department ofTransportation Services.
The new flat-screen monitors connect to the Internetand incur a one-time cost, unlike the former screens that
University club teams, like the men’s club hockey team, pictured above, may be
losing members because of expensive dues. The RUSA Allocations Board is looking
into ways to increase funding for club sports and other student organizations.
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BY JOHN S. CLYDEEDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Some club sports at the Universitycome with a steep price tag.
Students on the A Division of themen’s club hockey team pay about$1,900 in fees, Director of RecreationStephan Pappas said.
“Some club members have decidedthat it might be too expensive to sus-tain so they back out, or they come tothe first couple of meetings and thenthey find out what the dues are, andthen they decide not to come back,”Pappas said.
In response, the Rutgers UniversityStudent Assembly Allocations Board isin the preliminary stages of forming a
committee to address the matter andto consider the possibility of club teamfunding through RUSA Allocationsinstead of Recreation.
“There is going to be a committeecreated to look at [RUSA] Allocations’guidelines and funding,” RUSAAllocations Chair Shayna Davis said.
Nothing has been decided onwhether to raise the student fee, butRUSA Allocations is starting to form acommittee to discuss having a cam-pus-wide referendum to raise the stu-dent fee, Davis said.
The $71 student fee is split amongthe School of Arts and Sciences, pro-fessional schools, special programs,
Club sports overduefor funding changes
City crashes into course of action for pedestrian safetyBY CHRIS ZAWISTOWSKI
STAFF WRITER
With the number of fatal pedestrianaccidents rising in New Jersey, the city iscoming up with new ways to ensure pedes-trian safety.
“Pedestrian safety is a major issue latelybecause traffic fatalities have come down ona statewide level, motorcycle and bicyclefatalities are about the same and pedestrianfatalities are spiked way up,” said Bill Neary,executive director of Keep MiddlesexMoving, a non-profit transportation manage-ment association.
In New Jersey alone, more than 135 peo-ple were killed last year in pedestrian acci-dents, according to the U.S. Department ofTransportation’s Fatality AnalysisReporting System.
This number will remain high in 2009. A national study by Transportation for
America reports 121 pedestrians havebeen killed in traffic collisions alone thisyear, a 33 percent increase over the sameperiod in 2008.
Because of these figures, Neary saidGov. Jon S. Corzine’s administration hasinvested millions of dollars in pedestriansafety programs.
New Brunswick has been a beneficiary ofthis increase in funding.
More than a year ago, the city wasawarded $476,000 in grants from the NewJersey Department of Transportation tohelp fund improvements to pedestriancrossing areas and police enforcementefforts surrounding the New Brunswicktrain station and the Robeson, Lincoln,
Roosevelt and Lord Sterling schools, CitySpokesman Bill Bray said.
With the funding, the city has installedradar-activated speed limit signs and a num-ber of in-street traffic safety signs with mes-sages like “slow down for pedestrians,”which will help ensure drivers are followingthe speed limit laws and yielding to pedes-trians, Bray said.
The city is using the grant money tostripe crosswalks and make curb improve-ments, replacing some less visible, antiquat-ed slate curbing and painting them to keepdrivers from parking too close to an inter-section, he said.
“This opens up the intersection and opensup the lines of sight [for drivers],” Bray said.
He is unsure of what construction hastaken place already.
Once all the construction is done, target-ed enforcement will be placed in the areas bypolice officers to make sure traffic rules arefollowed, he said.
“[They will be] hitting drivers with ticketsand violations when they fail to yield topedestrians, fail to stop at stop signs or arespeeding,” Bray said.
Projects are also planned around the trainstation area, including a kiss and ride facilityin front of the train station, where motoristscan drop off and pick people up, Bray said.
But these projects have been delayedbecause the city is prioritizing the con-struction of the Gateway Center, and thequestion of reengineering where taxistands and bike racks needs to beaddressed, he said.
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Apartment sign-backs and pri-ority housing for School ofEnvironmental and BiologicalSciences and Mason Gross Schoolof the Arts students continue to bean obstacle for other students whowant to live on Cook campus.
The Lottery Review Committeefaces a decision to keep, alter orabolish sign-backs, which allowCook students to keep their apart-ments for more than one year. TheNov. 30 deadline is fast approach-ing, and the committee must workwith little input from students.
Caitlin Branchick, a RutgersCollege senior majoring in math andmusic, reached an impassé last yearwhen trying to appeal to UniversityHousing and Residence Life.
“Because of my math major,I’m not considered a full-timeMason Gross student,” she said.“But I have to be on Cook early inthe morning, and [they] wouldn’teven consider me.”
Cook campus Dean RichardLudescher is sympathetic tostudents who cannot live onCook campus.
“I think there are academicconcerns to take into considera-tion,” he said. “Mason Grossmajors have limited access topianos, and animal sciencemajors have to get up at 5:30 a.m.to care for their animals.”
Ludescher said the University’sgrowing population is compound-ed by the unique geographical lay-out of the four campuses, and stu-dents returning from Cook cam-pus late at night do not always feelcomfortable doing so.
Those reluctant to lose theirhousing priorities cite thesame reason.
“A lot of research here [con-tinues] into the night, and if welose housing priority, we will bescattered across the campuses,”said Zaid Abuhouran, a School ofEnvironmental and BiologicalSciences sophomore.
As the committee weighs itsoptions, it must look at all theconcerns raised by students andparents who call and e-mailResidence Life.
The committee is only focus-ing on sign-backs and housingpriority, said Assistant Directorfor Residence Life AdministrationBill O’Brien. They are consider-ing giving weight to studentsbased on graduation year and dis-ciplinary records.
Residence Life is aware thatthe choices they make willinevitably lead to complaints.
“Frankly, I don’t know thatthere’s any answer that wouldmake everyone happy, because anyanswer we come to about this isgoing to eliminate some group ofpeople,” Carbone said at the forum.
As the University continues toexpand, housing priority and sign-backs represent only a portion ofthe challenges Residence Life faceswith the burgeoning student body.
“It’s really a thankless task,”Ludescher said.
BY MARY DIDUCHASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
New Jersey voters cite thestate’s high taxes as one of themost important issues facing newGovernor-elect Chris Christie,according to a poll conducted bythe University’s EagletonInstitute of Politics.
Poll Director David Redlawsksaid 47 percent of votersreferred to either property orgeneral taxes when asked to tellin their own words the mostimportant issue the governorneeds to address.
“There isn’t anything thatcomes close to that other than[to] reduce unemployment orpublic education, and they’re waydown at 10 [and 6] percent,”Redlawsk said.
University College seniorJeffrey Guarneri said gay rightsand abortion are the biggestconcerns for him, as he sup-ports both.
He thinks taxes would alwaysbe an issue in the state.
“When you cut taxes, you cutprograms and when you raisetaxes, you piss people off,”Guarneri said.
School of Arts and Sciencessenior Alex Delgado said he is concerned with theUniversity’s budget.
“We need to stop getting cutsto Rutgers,” he said.
Mae-Lin Tang, a School ofArts and Sciences junior, saidshe hopes Christiecan fix the finan-cial situation ofthe state first.
Corzine madeimprovements, butthey were notenough, she said.
“I hope he canreel in the heavyproperty taxes too,because it’s get-ting really expen-sive to live here,”Tang said.
The poll, conducted Nov. 6 to 10with 903 New Jersey adults, askedrespondents to say how likely theyfeel their issue would be resolvedby the new administration.
Redlawsk said there was a lot ofuncertainty among respondents.
“Only 8 percent said theirmost important issue is likely toget done, and 46 percent saysomewhat likely,” he said.
One in 10 people think theirtop issue will not be resolved atall, Redlawsk said.
“There’s a certain amount ofuncertainty about whether thegovernor — or really anyone —can deal with the problemsNew Jerseyans are identifying,”
he said.This could
result from falsepromises madeby past adminis-trations and thegeneral sensethat the state’sproblems arevery significant,Redlawsk said.
“People haveheard promises tocut taxes before,[in] virtually every
gubernatorial election,” he said.But the high taxes of the state
show voters that not much haschanged, Redlawsk said.
Since Christie is against gaymarriage and is pro-life, Guarnerisaid he does not think the gover-nor-elect will help either cause.
“But I don’t know enoughabout him to make a judgmentcall,” he said.
It is too early to tell howChristie will be in office, he said.
“We’ll see what happens … I’mhoping for the best, but I’m stillnot expecting much for themoment,” Guarneri said.
Tang was more optimistic.“I think he might be able to do
something, a little more thanwhat Corzine did, but it still takestime for these issues to beresolved,” said Tang, as the resi-dents of New Jersey need time toadjust and accept changes.
Delgado, who voted forCorzine and does not likeChristie’s policies, said he doesnot think Christie will improvethe school’s budget. He is for cut-ting taxes, which may not be ben-eficial for the University.
The poll also showed thatRepublicans are more positivetoward the prospect of the statethan Democrats, Redlawsk said.Sixty-nine percent of Republicanssaid the future would be betterwith Christie, compared to 9 per-cent of Democrats.
“This is a question that is heav-ily affected by the fact thatChristie won,” he said.“Republicans are more upbeat,Democrats are much less so.”
Housingconveniencecooks upcontroversy
NJ voters want Christie to lower taxes
“Only 8 percentsaid their most
important issue islikely to get done,and 46 percent saysomewhat likely.”
DAVID REDLAWSKPoll Director
alter the signalization or the timingof the signalization,” Bray said.
This particular tragedy high-lights the fact that people stillneed to be careful, Neary said.
Keep Middlesex Moving pro-motes dif ferent programs tohelp improve pedestrian safetyin the state.
“We are not teaching things peo-ple don’t already know,” Neary said.
“We learn in second grade how tocross a street, but people forget,they get lazy and traffic is crazier.”
Neary instructs students toobey traffic signs, look left, rightand left again, and to try to makeeye contact with drivers beforecrossing the street. Although
pedestrians legally have the rightof way in New Jersey, many driv-ers still do not stop.
Students at the Universitybelieve pedestrian safety is goodon campus, but some said there isroom for improvement.
Niala Samnarine, a RutgersCollege fifth-year student, saidmany students think they are enti-tled to cross anywhere they wantin the city, something she did notmind when she lived on campus.
But now as a commuter,with students crossing almostanywhere and everywhere, shehas to be careful drivingaround campus.
“It definitely gets prettyannoying,” Samnarine said.
Andrew Stroffolino, a sociolo-gy graduate student, said if peo-ple cross at the crosswalks, theyshould be safe most of the time.
But the intersection ofHamilton Street and EastonAvenue is potentially dangerousfor pedestrians because of itsangled sightlines, Stroffolinosaid. He is never sure when tocross at that intersection.
“It is always kind of a crap-shoot,” Stroffolino said.
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As for the intersection of Route18 North and CommercialAvenue, where George ColemanJr. died about a month ago whenhe tried to cross there, Bray said itis a safe crossing and refutedreports that people can’t see traf-fic signs until it is too close to stop.
He said there are signal warn-ings well before the intersectionthat flash when the approachinglight is red.
With the intersection servingas the main entrance to the newlyrenovated Boyd Park, pedestriansafety was a top priority whendesigning that particular sectionof Route 18 and the entire high-way, which connects the furthestreaches of the city to downtownby footpath, Bray said.
“The accident was a tragic acci-dent, and the city is going to askthe [Department ofTransportation] to look at the inter-section to determine if anythingcan be done or should be done to
required a monthly fee in order tooperate, Molenaar said.
Livingston Campus Dean LeaStewart sympathized with stu-dent frustrations.
“We need to recognize that ourstudents in New Brunswick spend aconsiderable amount of time waitingfor buses,” Stewart said. “Buses arean important part of campus life.”
SIGNS: GPS bus tracking
may be obsolete in 10 years
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ACTION: Students think
pedestrian safety can improve
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“We are notteaching things
people don’talready know.”
BILL NEARYKeep Middlesex Moving
Executive Director
The University must make sureit does all it can to accommodatethe needs of students, she said.
Though the new screens aremeant to help students, often-times they are not operating,Molenaar said. TransportationServices will investigate theproblem, which may be due toelectrical glitches.
But Molenaar said mobileWeb accessibility might makeGPS tracking of buses obsoletein a decade.
“As more and more peopleget Internet on their phones, the
less we really need the screensbecause you can get theNextBus info on your phones,”Molenaar said.
Jean Rodriguez, aLivingston campus residentwho takes the REXL to a writ-ing class on Douglass campus,said transpor tation has notbeen much of a concern forhim thus far.
“I live in the [Lynton] Towers,so I just look online and thencome [to the stop],” saidRodriguez, a School of Arts andSciences first-year student.
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University Recreation is putting its own take on Jeopardy!tonight at their “22nd Annual Trivia Bowl” at 8:30 p.m. in theCook/Douglass Recreation Center.
Teams of three are eligible to participate, and at least one teammember must be a University student, alumni or staff member.
Trivia Bowl host Paul Fischbach is expecting a big turnout forthe event.
“We have alumni that come back to play. We have parents thatcome back to play. We have friends from other schools that comeback to play,” said Fischbach, associate director of Recreation.“Again, when you’ve been doing this for 22 years, you kind of builda little tradition. We certainly have done well with this event.”
Based on pre-registration, 55 to 60 teams are slated to play. ButFischbach said more teams are welcome to join at the door.
Teams that place in the first three positions will win prizes, butthe biggest prize of the night will be won through a raffle.
“One team at the end of two rounds will actually get drawn,”Fischbach said. “It doesn’t matter if you did great or poor, you havea chance to win a portable DVD player.”
Potential prizes for the top three teams include restaurant giftcertificates and movie tickets.
— Kayla Duran
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21 Be prepared to have your face melted by the musicalstylings of Jagazine’s greatest stars at 8 p.m. in TrayesHall of the Douglass Campus Center. Jagazine will behosting their first-ever “JAGAFEST.”
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20 The Unplugged Rutgers Board Game Club will be havingits weekly meeting at 7 p.m. at the Busch Campus CenterRoom 174. Come by to meet new people, chow down onfood and try some board games that you have neverseen! They play everything from chess to “Last Night onEarth,” a zombie-survival horror game.
The committee could possiblyinclude representatives fromcampus councils as well as a rep-resentative from the AllocationsBoard, Davis said.
“The committee hasn’t beenformed. It hasn’t started meetingyet; it’s just a very brand-newtopic of discussion,” she said.
Davis said the AllocationsBoard is seeking feedback fromthe campus councils, butchanges would have to be madesoon, if at all.
“If we want the changes totake effect in the fall, there needsto be a referendum in the springsemester,” she said.
The referendum would be acampus-wide process involvingstudents on every campus,Davis said.
There are about 1,800 to1,900 students who participatein the about 50 club sports,Pappas said. There are no try-
outs, and any stu-dent can join.
The six varsitysports that weremade club sportsin 2007 becauseof cost-cuttingmeasures arefunded differentlythan other clubs,he said.
“But the fund-ing is no longergoing to be there
in 2010 and 2011,” Pappas said.That was the arrangement
that was made when they wentfrom varsity to club, he said. These teams are aware of the issue and are working on fundraising.
Pappas said that club teamshave had a lot of success.
“Our women’s rugby clubjust made it to nationals,”Pappas said.
He said playing club sports isa great experience for peoplewho want to continue playingsports at a higher level afterhigh school.
“Club teams really don’t havemuch funding,” said Winiris DeMoya, president of theLivingston Campus Council. “Idon’t see why we, RUSAAllocations, couldn’t providefunding for them.”
De Moya, a Rutgers Collegesenior, said the decision shouldultimately rest on what stu-dents want.
“That’s ultimately what mat-ters,” she said.
class treasuries and the RUSAAllocations Board, AssociateDirector for Student Centers andPrograms Kerri Willson said.The student fee generates about$1.5 million.
“The Allocations Board islooking at possibly funding recre-ation sport clubs, but anotherthing too is that a lot of our stu-dent organizations have probablygotten level funding for the lastfive years at least … [as] costshave gone up,” Willson said.
Increasing the fee by only afew dollars could help fund notonly club sports but also theincrease in the number of stu-dent organizations on campus,RUSA Chair Werner Born said.
“[Club teams]are having issueswith funding theway it is set upright now, andthey have to put upa lot of moneyt h e m s e l v e s , ”Davis said. “Sothey want to knowis there a way thatthey can be includ-ed under the allo-cations system.”
The annual funding for clubteams — not including the sixteams that moved from varsityto club sports — is $90,000,Pappas said.
“I’ve had a number of studentgroups that have come to me tostart clubs, but at this momentbecause we’re tight on financing… we have put a hold on thenumber of clubs,” he said.
The ski club not only has to pur-chase its own equipment, but alsohas to pay for lift tickets to practiceand other fees, Pappas said.
“Their [fees] run upwards of$300 a year,” he said.
Roller hockey is very expen-sive and woman’s hockey costshundreds, Pappas said.
“[Under the AllocationsBoard,] it might be possible forclub teams [to receive more fund-ing],” Davis said. “That’s whathas to get worked out throughthis committee.”
But the committee will alsohave to factor in that the numberof student organizations isincreasing, she said.
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“The committeehasn’t been formed.
... It’s just a verybrand-new topicof discussion.”
SHAYNA DAVISRUSA Allocations Chair
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University law students will now be able to take twoJanuary courses through the Rutgers School of Law-Newark winter session 2010, which is being offeredthrough the Office of Summer and Winter Sessions forthe first time, according to a University Media Relationspress release.
The winter session is scheduled to run from Dec. 23through Jan. 16. There will not be any in-person coursemeetings from Dec. 24 through Jan. 3, but each coursewill have directed readings and/or online courseworkover break. Winter session at the Law School is sched-uled to take place from Jan. 4 through Jan. 8.
The Rutgers School of Law-Newark winter session isgeared toward law students who want to earn creditstoward graduation and graduate students.
The session will offer two upper-level courses,“Intensive Trial Advocacy” and “New Jersey Practice,” forlaw school graduates and students who have completedthe first-year program or its equivalent at an ABA-accred-ited law school, according to the release.
The “Intensive Trial Advocacy” course will focus onthe procedure, strategy and evidentiary issuesinvolved in presenting a case to a jury in the civil orcriminal context.
The “New Jersey Practice” course will analyze NewJersey civil procedure, a subject of particular interest forthose who plan to take the state bar exam in February orJuly 2010.
In order for non-Rutgers Law School-Newark studentsto take the courses, they must provide a letter of goodstanding from their law school dean or registrar as partof the registration process, according to the release.
For more information on winter session at the LawSchool, including registration instructions, visithttp://law.newark.rutgers.edu/students/visiting-stu-dent-registration-information-0.
— Heather Brookhart
NEWARK LAW SCHOOLOFFERS WINTER SESSION
but to the fact that theparty af filiation of the cur-rent attorney general isdif ferent than his own.
Bret Stephens, foreignaf fairs columnist for TheWall Street Journal, alsoexpressed disagreementwith Holder’s decision onMonday, contending that
civilian courts generally deal with alleged ter-rorists inef ficiently and inef fectively. While it isextremely frustrating that the trials of terrorsuspects are often very long and convoluted,particularly for the families of terror victims, itdoes not provide us with an excuse to simply dis-miss a defendant’s legal rights. It is true that amilitary tribunal would produce a verdict muchmore quickly than a civilian trial, but at whatcost? Writing for Bloomberg.com, Ann Woolnerargues “the concept of military commissions hasbeen so thoroughly discredited that they have
come to represent a detouraround justice, not a pathwayto it. … [They are] designed toensure convictions regardlessof proof, not to of fer real dueprocess as American standardsdemand.” Indeed, if we trulybelieve in the ability of ourlegal system to decide casesfairly, we will allow the accusedto present their case in publiccourt. And let us not forget:Because the trial will take
place in New York, the jurors will be — that’sright — New Yorkers. I strongly doubt that a sin-gle one of them will feel the slightest tinge ofsympathy for any of the defendants. Amongthose who have faith that the federal courts canindeed deal ef fectively with such a case isSenate Judiciary Committee Chairman PatrickLeahy, D-Vt. “By trying them in our federalcourts,” he said, “we demonstrate to the worldthat the most powerful nation on earth alsotrusts its judicial system — a system respectedaround the world.” The decision by PresidentBarack Obama’s administration has alsoreceived the support of New York City MayorMichael Bloomberg.
In brief, the contention that civilian court is an unsuit-able venue in which to try suspected terrorists is outra-geous. The 1993 World Trade Center bombers wereconvicted in the same district where Mohammed’s trial
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on Friday that a group offive Sept. 11, 2001 sus-pects would soon bebrought fromGuantanamo Bay, Cuba, toNew York City to standtrial in a federal cour t-house just a few blocks from Ground Zero.Among the defendants is Khalid SheikhMohammed, the alleged mastermind behind theSept. 11 hijacking plot. He and his codefen-dants, Waleed bin Attash, Ramzi Binalshibh,Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi and Ali Abd al-AzizAli, stand accused of planning the attacks thatkilled nearly 3,000 people in New York City andthe Pentagon. Holder justified his decision totry the five suspects in civilian court, ratherthan military tribunal, by arguing that their trialshould be held in the place where their crimesoccurred. The venue, claimedHolder, would also of fer thefamilies of Sept. 11 victims “theopportunity to see the allegedplotters of those attacks heldaccountable in court.” He alsoannounced that federal prose-cutors would seek the death penalty for each of the defendants.
Immediately after Friday’sannouncement, the air wavesand the blogosphere wereflooded with strong opinions, both challengingand supporting the attorney general’s position.Among his most outspoken critics is formerNew York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who char-acterized Holder’s decision as “dangerous” and“irresponsible.” Speaking with Fox News’ NeilCavuto, Giuliani contended that allowing terrorsuspects a civilian trial is “unnecessary,” stat-ing, “It is fitting that the 9/11 murderers betreated as war criminals, because it was an act ofwar. This was not just another murder in theCity of New York that year. This was an act ofwar and an act of terror. They should … be pros-ecuted in a militar y tribunal.” Interestingly,Giuliani had no problem with ZacariasMoussaoui, the so-called “20th hijacker,” beinggiven a trial in civilian court back in 2006, stat-ing, “America is dedicated to the rule of law.” Itwould seem that Giuliani’s radical change ofopinion is not due to some thoughtful reevalua-tion of the tenets of United States’ legal system,
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Trial, terror in civilian court
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Be careful whatyou tweet for
P eople take advantage of the Internet as a free space to shareinformation. They post Facebook statuses, tweet updates,links and personal thoughts day in and day out on these social
networking sites. Voicing an opinion — or claiming a statement as afact — in the cyber world can be a very risky thing to do. Now, notonly do people have to worry about not getting jobs or into collegesof their choice, they also have to be concerned with being sued forlibel. We have to treat cyberspace as real life to keep ourselves fromgetting into trouble.
According to CNN, designer Dawn Simorangkir sued rockmusic’s own bad girl Courtney Love for libel for slamming her withdefamatory statements on Twitter. The suit claims that after a dis-agreement over what Love should pay the designer for the clothesshe designed, Love posted allegedly derogatory and false com-ments about Simorangkir — among them that she had a “history ofdealing cocaine” on her now-discontinued Twitter feed. It is not justcelebrities who are bogged down with libel suits for statementsthey make on Twitter. Illinois resident Amanda Bonnen complainedvia Twitter about issues she was having with her landlord. Shetweeted to another user: “Who said sleeping in a moldy apartmentis bad for you? Horizon Realty thinks it’s OK.” Horizon GroupManagement, the company that owned the apartment in question,sued Bonnen for libel over the alleged tweet. Horizon is seeking$50,000 in damages. The question now is how to handle libel casesbased on things said on social networking sites. These cases haveto be watched closely because they address new unconfrontedareas of the law.
The 2009 Oxford Dictionary word of the year is “unfriend,” whichshould show how the popularity of social media has risen and caughton at a very fast pace. You cannot walk past people on laptops and com-puters on campus without seeing at least a few perusing Facebook andchecking up what their followers tweeted. Even though Americansseem used to having social media Web sites, it is still a relatively newtechnology. As little as five years ago, these cases would not even behappening because sites like Twitter were only ideas in the making.The laws for people to abide by on these sites have a lot of gray areabecause it all depends on how you are viewing the cyber world. It iseither a complete separate entity with its own rules and regulations, ora continuation of everyday life. Another challenge for the law is theway the Web crosses state and international borders. If a Facebookuser in England sues another user in Australia for defamatory com-ments posted on the site, who has jurisdiction over the case? Whichcountry’s laws should be applied: England, Australia or the UnitedStates, where Facebook is based?
These factors all make things more complicated when dealingwith how to handle libel suits from social networking sites. Usersshould be more careful with what they say, because they are puttingideas into a public sphere. It is not like tangible space where a state-ment can travel by word of mouth and take time to be proven. Also,word of mouth can alter statements. If someone has an issue withsomething you tweeted or posted, they can simply click on your username and be brought right to the original statement. If in reality youwould not walk right up to a person and say something completelyfalse and damaging of the person’s reputation — which they couldrefute immediately — it should not be done on the Internet. Whenone posts information online knowing it is false, but wouldn’t ordi-narily say the information in person, that is when it is treated as aseparate space.
But even if it is separate, sites are still connected to the real world.Friends, co-workers and professors have social networking pages tokeep in touch. If you wouldn’t walk up to your dean of students andtell them that you “are eating the best sandwich ever,” or “just had asuper fun night with your boyfriend,” then chances are they wouldn’twant to see it posted on Facebook or Twitter either. There is gray areaaround the lines of harassment with defamatory posting toward co-workers on these sites. Would company harassment rules work out-side the office on this social media sphere, where both other co-work-ers and just normal friends could see? There are offices that do notblock Facebook and Twitter that could have people posting thingsduring the workday.
It doesn’t seem weird unless you are thinking of it in that context.Information posted online is just something that is becoming morenormal for people to participate in. Even though it is a norm, you stillhave to watch what you say. The more normal it becomes, the quickerthe law will catch up with technology. There will always be a problemwith the discrepancy between what is posted as fact and opinion, butthat will work itself out. Many libel suits do not go to court, but a newcan of worms is being opened by having another place for people topost comments that are false either without realization or with intent tohurt someone’s reputation.
“We learn in second gradehow to cross a street, but people forget,
they get lazy, and traffic is crazier.”Bill Neary, executive director of Keep Middlesex Moving, a nonprofit
transportation management association, on pedestrian safety instructionSTORY ON FRONT
QUOTE OF THE DAY
Zeitgeist
JOSH BAKER
“If we truly believe in the ability of our legalsystem to decide casesfairly, we will allow the
accused to present theircase in public court.”
SEE BAKER ON PAGE 9
being counted and many othersthat were counted that shouldn’t have — for example,double votes and votes frompeople who do not live in thecity. In an election in which thedif ference is only 82 votes, I’d say this is an ef for t worth pursuing.
The editorial also said“pushing the wards matter fur-ther will only annoy peoplemore and turnpeople of f fromcivic engage-ment.” It fails toback up thisclaim or explainwho is beingannoyed. Is itsimply the edito-rial board? Only14 percent ofvoters in the Targum’s ownonline poll chose: “I’m glad it’sover. I’m tired of the campaign-ing,” while 50 percent were“upset wards did not win.” I’vefound that when people areinvolved in discussions onissues that matter to them,they are in fact more likely tobecome engaged. So I have toask: Who is annoyed by thework of those investigating thiselection? The city administra-tion and the poll workers whoknow they did wrong? I wonderif the Targum even under-stands the implications of thisnonsense argument for the
community they claim to repre-sent. The Targum would hon-estly have its readers believethat University’s student atten-tion spans are so shallow andshort-lived that they cannot bebothered to care whether ornot their votes are counted. Ireject the Targum’s insaneasser tion that students willonly participate in the city gov-ernment if EON stands idly by
while hundredsof legitimatevotes arethrown in thegarbage.
Finally, theeditorial boardsays groups likeEON shouldwork with thecity council and
within the community and “usetheir resources to help othersand not just themselves.” I’dlike to point out that EONmembers attend ever y citycouncil meeting and ask policymakers the questions that mat-ter to residents — more thancan be said about the Targum.The Targum should also recog-nize how EON is helping in thecommunity, especially with therecent incident concerningGeorge Coleman Jr., who washit and killed by a car whilecrossing Rt. 18. It was, in fact,an EON member who alertedthe Targum of the candlelight
vigil that was taking place onNov. 9. Many members attend-ed the vigil while only one cityof ficial, City AdministratorThomas Loughlin, stayedthroughout. (By the way, EONencourages all students toattend the city council meetingtoday at 6:30 p.m. to show sup-port for the Coleman family.)And just yesterday, the Targumran an ar ticle “Volunteersscrub down basement to pre-pare for food pantr y.” Thephoto that accompanied thearticle featured two EON mem-bers: Mike Mishkovsky andCharlie Kratovil.
The Targum’s lack of inves-tigative curiosity and criticismof those who put in such work isa disservice to the students whotake time out of their day to readit. It is easy — and lazy — tothrow wild disjointed com-plaints against a group workingto ensure the rights of studentsand long-time community mem-bers alike. It would be muchmore admirable for the Targumto do the hard work necessaryto uncover the problems thatsurrounded Election Day andproblems that face residents ofour city every day.
Mike Shanahan is a RutgersCollege senior majoring in polit-ical science, Democratic commit-teeman from Ward 6 District 4and EON member.
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Empower New Brunswick, don’t slow it downwill be held. Further, since 2001,more than 100 terror suspects havebeen tried in federal courts. Finally,the fact that Holder elected to pros-ecute these men in civilian courtrather than in a military tribunal —in which a conviction would be prac-tically guaranteed — means thecase against them is very strong.Contrary to the claims of right-wingalarmists, Mohammed and hiscohorts will not simply be allowedto go free and continue plottingagainst Americans. President of theArab American Institute JamesZogby best summarized the situa-tion: “If America is going to startacting like America again, whyshould there be any fall-out? If weare a nation based on respect for thelaw, if we are to be an example forother nations, and if we have confi-dence in our institutions and ourprinciples … why would we bethreatened, and why would we letanyone play politics with our val-ues? Politicians who use scare tac-tics to challenge this just decisionare either demagogues preying offfear or are, themselves, scared little boys.”
Josh Baker is a Rutgers Collegesenior majoring in sociology. Hewelcomes feedback [email protected]. Hiscolumn, “Zeitgeist,” runs on alter-nate Wednesdays. He is also a con-tributing writer for theJohnsonville Press.
BAKERcontinued from page 8
T his letter is in responseto Tuesday’s editorial“Stop campaigning,
start improving.” The editorialseemed to lack a main focusand therefore I’d like toaddress some of the seeminglyscattered conclusions thatwere drawn.
First I’d like to make it clearthat when the editorial said“Empower OurNeighborhoods … is far fromdone with the fight [forwards],” they mean that EONand the Coalition forDemocracy have petitioned fora recount of the votes and areinvestigating reports of fraudand voter suppression. Thatshould be made clear to read-ers. Members of the coalitionare attempting to clean upelections in New Brunswick.As the editorial said, “Therewere a lot of issues for stu-dents at the voting stations.”But while it seems The DailyTargum would let this slide,many students and communitymembers would like to see fairelections in our city. We refuseto believe, as the Targumclaims, the problem “cannot befixed.” Currently, EON and thecoalition are investigating over250 cases of people’s votes not
MIKE SHANAHAN
Letter
“Members of the coalition are
attempting to cleanup elections in
New Brunswick.”
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Sophomore forward April Sykes finished with 12 points despitea poor first half and an 0-for-5 performance from downtown.
Endurance stronger at year’s end BY TYLER DONOHUE
STAFF WRITER
When the Rutgers crewteam first entered the RaritanRiver to commence fall training
m o n t h sago, it
had some distinct intentions. The Scarlet Knights aimed to
improve physical endurance,fine-tune techniques and steadi-ly quicken race times.Reflecting on the season, headcoach Max Borghard said he isconfident that the team accom-plished its goals.
“Looking back on the resultsthroughout the fall, we were ableto do a lot of the things we set outto do,” Borghard said. “We wereable to cut down on our times andrace more aggressively.”
Although the fall crew seasonconsisted of just four regattas, the
Knights gained experience, trav-eling across the northeast andcompeting against some of thecountry’s top talent.
When RU got things started inearly October at the Navy DayRegatta in Philadelphia, theKnights were coming off a periodof arduous training.
“When it comes to endurancetraining, you really can’t take muchtime off,” said senior captain ToriRowlands. “We worked hard allover summer and physically,everyone made huge strides.”
An intensified training regi-ment is a crucial part of the pro-gram’s plan for improvement,Borghard said.
“We laid down some of thefoundation for training last year. Ithink we’ve continued to exceland build on that this season,” hesaid. “I think the team has begunto understand the kind of work
they must put in for real improve-ment to be possible.”
But physical stamina is only apart of the equation. In order tomake the boats move as swift andsmooth as possible, much of theprocess relies on rowing technique.
“It’s been very important for thegirls to work hard at the technicalchanges we’ve focused on,”Borghard said. “When the team canrecognize it’s own success, thatbrings along increased confidence.”
Entering her final season,Rowlands said that she and theKnights need a sense of urgency.
“This off season is a hugeopportunity for us to continueimproving our boat technique andphysical endurance,” she said.“This fall has really motivated themembers of this team to pushthemselves to another level andfocus on improving as an individ-ual and as a team.”
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and [stop this] business of justletting the threes fly at will,”Stringer said. “I think she’lldemonstrate her well-rounded-ness when she’s attacking thebasket. We asked her, ‘Wouldyou rather shoot 2-for-15 three-pointers or five-for-seven attack-ing the basket?’”
In addition to Ray’s perform-ance, the Knights (2-0) foundproduction from fellow seniorMyia McCurdy, who finished justshy of a double-double with ninepoints and seven rebounds.
With 43 minutes betweenthem, the trio of freshmenmade their presence known onthe court.
Forward Monique Oliver con-tinued a strong start to her firstseason at RU, blocking two shotsand grabbing four rebounds andscoring eight.
Classmate Christine Huberregistered her first three pointsin a Rutgers uniform, adding ablock and four rebounds in a
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strong defensive performance.Guard Erica Wheeler contributedsix points, two assists and fourrebounds of her own in only 14minutes of play.
Kean had no problemsshooting from downtown, scor-ing 15 of its 25 points in the firsthalf of f of three-point shotsbehind 5-of-12 shooting.
The Knights were unable todefinitively break away fromKean (0-1) until just under eightminutes to play in the first half.Freshman guard Erica Wheelerdrained two free throws to putRU up by 10, followed by a deepthree from sophomore guardNikki Speed. The Knightswould add to their lead with 12of Ray’s points coming in thefirst half among the numerousother contributors.
“I’m not trying to label myselfas the ‘go-to scorer.’ I just want usto win,” Ray said about her per-formance. “I think that this yearwe’re going to see a lot more bal-ance in scoring; I see Khadijahand April had double figurestonight as well, and Myia was apoint away from that. We’re try-ing to balance out the scoring alittle bit this year.”
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“The coaching staff on thisteam has been involved with a lotof different teams, [associatehead coach Mike O’Neill] and I inparticular, over the course of ourcoaching lives. And we recognizethat this is a very special groupbecause of what they overcame.”
The 2009 Scarlet Knightsreplaced a key group of injuredveterans with a series of fresh-men, some of which are comingoff major injuries themselves andsome walking wounded, who areheaded to the operating roomnow that the season is over.
“There were a lot of silentheroes on this team,” Crookssaid. “We had a bunch of warriorson this team and a number ofthem played through some prettypainful injuries.”
Those silent heroes led RU toits highest national ranking inschool history.
The four weeks that theKnights were ranked in thenation’s top-10 set a new stan-dard for the entire women’ssoccer program.
“There was a lot of growing upthis year not just on the field butoff the field,” Crooks said. “Andit’s really quite a group of players.They’re likable, they work hard,they’re good students, and Ithink they made their Universityproud, not only with this pastweekend but with this season asa whole.”
As it has been over the pastfour years, the Knights’ defenseonce again clearly proved to beone of the best in the nation.
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Goalkeeper Erin Guthrie wrapped up her senior year by letting only 10 goals pass through, supportinga Rutgers defense that broke the school’s 17-year record for fewest goals in a single season.
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But whether Gordonov winsor not, one thing is for sure: Therest of the Rutgers men’s crosscountry team will not be far fromhis mind this weekend.
The fact that Saturday’sIC4A Championships — whichtake place during Gordonov’sinterview — would have beenthe last collegiate cross coun-try race of his career present-ed him with somewhat of aninternal dilemma.
“I’ve been with this team forthe past four years, and this is thefinal race for a lot of us seniors,so it’s kind of a bittersweetmoment,” he said.
However bittersweet it maybe, that dilemma did not stop himfrom going after the opportunityto win one of the most presti-gious academic awards out there.
“Unfortunately, sometimesthe stars just don’t align properly,and you have conflicting sched-ules,” Gordonov said.
What once appeared to be afeat that was impossible to fath-om — let alone be a part of — isnow a reality for him.
Since he has accomplishedthis challenge, Gordonov hasbecome a firm believer thatregardless of how hard an oppor-tunity appears, one must jump onthe chance as soon as possible.
“A lot of students think thatthey’re not good enough to applyfor something but you’ve alwaysgot to seize the opportunity whenit comes,” Gordonov said. “If youdon’t try, you’ll never win. It real-ly opens a lot of doors for you.”
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This year, RU broke theschool’s 17-year record for leastamount of goals allowed in aseason by giving up only 11over 22 games. The Knightsalso broke the RU single seasongoals-against-average markwith a .48 average.
“The defense definitely mademy job a lot easier,” saidGuthrie, who was also goalkeep-er during the previous record-setting year in 2006 when theKnights recorded a 0.5 goalsagainst average. “We just hadsuch a solid back line this year,nothing got through them. Nomatter how highly touted the
forwards were that were comingup against us or how well theother of fense had previouslydone in other games, we wereready for them.”
Guthrie said that mentalitywas never more evident than inthe Knights’ 2-0 first round winFriday over Duke.
“They were blocking so manyshots that I didn’t even knowwhere they were coming from,”Guthrie said. “I was expectingshots, but they just weren’t com-ing to me because they werebeing blocked. They just had thismentality that they were going toget a shut out and they weren’t
going to let any goals in, andthat’s how it was all year.”
As Guthrie closes the finalchapter in a storied four-yearcareer at Rutgers, she, like hercoach, sees this as one of the mostunique teams she’s ever played on.
“Everybody had a role on thisteam,” Guthrie said. “Everyonejust continued to work theirbutts off no matter what wasthrown at us. With all theinjuries and adversity, I think itjust pulled us closer togetherand we never gave up. We justcontinued to get closer andstronger, and I think that’s whatmakes this team so special.”
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A fter a third place show-ing at the OklahomaGold Tournament, six
Rutgers wrestlers made theirway to national rankings onwrestlingreport.com.
Dominick Russo earned theNo. 7 listing after winning theheavyweight bracket.
Lamar Brown earned No. 17in the 197 lbs. weight classafter reaching the finals in hisweight bracket at theOklahoma Gold Tournament.
Bill Ashnault was ranked No.20 in the 133 lbs. class afterstarting 4-1 on the season withtwo pin falls.
Joseph Langell placed at No.24 in his class and Trevor Meldeearned the No. 20 spot in the 141lbs. class.
David Greenwald roundedoff the list at No. 21.
RUTGERS IS ON THE vergeof a sell-out against WestVirginia with nearly three weeksto go before kickoff. The Dec. 5game against the Mountaineersplays a key role in the footballteam’s bowl berth and giveshead coach Greg Schiano achance to win his first-ever gameagainst WVU.
HEAD COACH CHRYSTALChollet-Norton announcedColombia native Luisa Neal andPennsylvania product AlyssaStraub signed National Letters ofIntent to compete for the Rutgersgymnastics team next season.
KANSAS CITY ACE hurlerZack Greinke won the AmericanLeague Cy Young Award yester-day after leading the league witha 2.16 ERA and a 16-8 record.
Beauharnais plays big role as true freshmanBY STEVEN MILLER
CORRESPONDENT
Steve Beauharnais expectedto play, just not this much. Andhe expected to start, just notthis year.
B u tthe true
freshman linebacker caught theeyes of the Rutgers footballteam’s coaching staf f. Whengiven the opportunity to play,he made an impact on the gameas well.
After playing special teams forthe first eight games with appear-ances at linebacker late in gamesagainst Howard and TexasSouthern, Beauharnais started atlinebacker against South Florida.
But the Saddle Brook, N.J.,native is willing to play anywhereon the field.
“I had the mindset that I was-n’t going to redshirt, but I didn’texpect to play this much,”Beauharnais said. “I like whereI’m playing, I like my position. Ireally don’t care where anyoneputs me; I can line up at defensivetackle, end or safety, as long asI’m playing.”
Beauharnais is the backupstrongside linebacker behindsenior Damaso Munoz and a line-backer unit that anchors theScarlet Knights’ defense.
But against the running threatthat USF quarterback B.J.Daniels posed last Thursday,Beauharnais played alongsideMunoz in a nickel package thatput more speed on the field.
It just so happened that theKnights used that package ontheir first defensive play.
“I didn’t know [I was going tostart],” Beauharnais said. “It wasbecause of the personnel andwhen coach called my number, Iwas ready to go in. It was a goodfeeling. The whole season I wassecond string or special teams,and next thing you know, I’m ondefense making the calls. But myteammates gave me confidence,so it wasn’t a problem.”
Along with that confidence,Beauharnais said he is a natural
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Linebacker Steve Beauharnais (42) said he did not expect to earn this much playing time early inhis college career, but the freshman is paying dividends and had four tackles against South Florida.
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at the RU defense’s motto: Swarmthe ball.
Both contributed to the fresh-man’s opportunity to see the fieldso early.
“The easiest is swarming tothe football — that’s all I knowhow to do,” Beauharnais said.“The hardest part is identifyingthe personnel and knowingwhere I have to line up everytime.”
But the 19-year-old did notshow any signs of confusion.
“He played very well [againstSouth Florida],” said head coachGreg Schiano. “He played at a
high speed and very physical. Heis a promising young guy.”
Beauharnais said he showsthat promise because of hispreparation.
Senior linebacker RyanD’Imperio and junior AntonioLowery both said the Knights’defensive scheme is usuallytough for freshmen to grasp.
Beauharnais understands itjust fine.
“It was difficult at first, butwhen you understand the con-cept of a defense, it’s not hard atall,” he said. “Now I’m just play-ing football.”
When he’s not playing foot-ball, Beauharnais is watching film— one of the biggest changesfrom high school and a reason forhis quick success.
“I watched a little more filmthan my teammates did [inhigh school], but I watch waymore now than I did by myselfthen,” the St. Joseph’s productsaid. “It’s a big change. I do alot of preparation and payattention to the details. That’swhat’s important around here— to pay attention to thedetails — so that’s what I wantto do.”
BY MELISSA FALICASTAFF WRITER
Throughout high school,Simon Gordonov heard storiesabout fellow Hightstown graduate
R a n d a lPinkett and
his prestigious award — theRhodes Scholarship.
Each year, the scholarship pro-vides American students with theopportunity to study his or her sub-ject of choice at Oxford for at leastone year.
Pinkett, a Rutgers graduate andformer track star, was the firstblack student from the school towin the award when he did so in1994 for his work in electrical engi-neering and computer science.
“To continue in his legacy isreally a great honor for me,”Gordonov said. “I’m very excitedabout it.”
After reaching the final 14 in therunning for the Rhodes Scholarship,it may be hard to believe that just afew years back it was all but a distantthought to Gordonov.
“I didn’t even think I’d be any-where close to reaching this stage,let alone even applying,” he said.
But as the years passed at RU,the senior heard more and moreabout the award and a scholar-ship director encouraged him to apply.
For Gordonov, the scholarshipparticularly interested him becauseof the magnitude of Oxford’s bio-medical engineering institute,which would help him further hisknowledge on the subject.
“Oxford has a biomedical engi-neering institute that is worldrenowned and they are doing reallygood research in biomedical imag-ing, which interests me,” he said.“I’d really like to go over there andsee how research is being done inthe United Kingdom because it’scompletely different.”
Biomedical imaging involves theanalysis of images of the body inorder to diagnose illness.
Whether or not he will get theopportunity to dive further into bio-medical research at Oxford will bedetermined Saturday.
It is then that each candidate forthe Rhodes Scholarship goesthrough an interview processaround 20 minutes long, followedby a lunch period where the com-mittee deliberates over who theywant to select.
Those selected are called in fora follow-up interview, after whichanother deliberation period takesplace, followed by the results ofwho won.
“There are not many peoplewho get the opportunity to go tothe Rhodes finals so it’s really agreat honor for me,” Gordonovsaid. “It would really be a fantastic achievement.”
If he does win, it would be thesecond consecutive year a student-athlete received the scholarship.Florida State football player MyronRolle chose to forgo the NFL draftto pursue a master’s degree in med-ical anthropology at Oxford afterhis victory last year.
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Sophomore forward Chelsey Lee (34) started for the second straightgame and pitched in four points, six boards and three blocks.
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Erin Guthrie has a draft to get ready for.
Her lifetime of soccer is set to reach anew milestone whenshe likely gets select-
ed in the Jan. 5 Women’s ProfessionalSoccer draft.
But as Guthrie looks back on all the yearsshe has spent in goal trying to prepare forthat moment, it’s the last four that stand outthe most.
“I look back on these four years and Iwouldn’t have changed anything,” Guthriesaid. “The experience that I had at Rutgerswas the best experience of my life. And it wasbecause of all the people that I was involvedwith and all of the girls and the coaches.They just all made it so special.”
Even with five starters on the sideline withseason ending injuries, the Rutgers women’ssoccer team had goals that stretched farbeyond the Big East quarterfinals and the sec-ond round of the NCAA Tournament.
Though the team ultimately fell short ofits lofty goals, both the coaching staff andthe players recognize just how special thisseason was.
“When we look at this season it was reallyamazing,” said head coach Glenn Crooks.
Gordonov hopes to make impossible possible
Records brokenin year markedby senior feats
COURTESY OF RUTGERS ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS
Simon Gordonov — a senior on the Rutgers men’s cross country team — is a finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship,which is awarded to the top students in the country. A committee will select the winners Saturday.
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Senior runner nears elusive honor as one of14 finalists for prestigous Rhodes Scholarship
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WOMEN’S SOCCER
BY STEVEN WILLIAMSONSENIOR WRITER
Heading into yesterday’sgame against Kean, head coachC. Vivian Stringer said her teamcould not afford to disrespect its
oppo-n e n ta n dtake ad a yo f f
from competition.The Scarlet Knights didn’t.They outmatched the visit-
ing Cougars 85-49 behind 20points from senior guardBrittany Ray, as they contin-ued to adjust to their new line-up, with sophomores ChelseyLee and April Sykes helping tolead the way.
“Before the game, [sopho-more guard KhadijahRushdan] mentioned ‘I hateit when we play down to thelevel of our competition,’”Ray said. “We tried to usethat as motivation going intothis game.”
Another strong from Leebolstered the Knights’ play inthe post. Lee dominated theCougars down low, finishingwith six rebounds, threeblocks and a steal.
Combine those totals withher five rebound, one blockperformance against StanfordSunday, Lee is a key con-
tributer to replacing departedcenter Kia Vaughn.
“Chelsey Lee, believe it ornot, she hits the floor and sheis one of our best rebounders,”Stringer said. “But you alsohave to realize she gets thoserebounds in the first 11 min-utes of the game. That meansto me, she wasn’t as aggres-sive going to get the boards[in the second half].”
After playing only four min-utes in the first half, Sykes didnot record her first points ofthe game until the beginningof the second, when sheknocked down a mid-rangejumper. The forward proceed-ed to explode late in the game,finishing with 12 points — allscored in the second half.
After going 0-for-5 in three-point field goals in theKnights’ first game againstStanford, Sykes remained coldfrom beyond the arc.
She missed her first threeshots — all three-pointattempts — against theCougars in the first four min-utes, and remained on thebench for the remainder ofthe half. She went on to missall five three-point attempts inthe game.
“I think what we’re tryingto do with April is two things,get April going to the basket
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