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Incumbents remain U. considersremobilizing grease trucks
BY MARY DIDUCHEDITOR-IN-CHIEF
The University’s famed grease trucks, located in Lot8 on the College Avenue campus, have been part of along-standing tradition on campus with their popularfat sandwiches.
But now some University officials are saying thistradition could change by next year.
For several business, health and safety reasons,the University is considering making the greasetrucks, which have been located in that lot for 18years, mobile again.
To do so, the University is looking to put that primelocation out to bid on the market — which has neverbeen done before, said Jack Molenaar, director of theDepartment of Transportation Services. The winningbidders would then be allowed to serve in that desig-nated space on one condition: They would have to leavethe area at some point during the night.
But the current owners of the five grease trucksthere feel this potential change is unfair because of thetime and money they spent establishing their busi-nesses in the lot.
Regardless of the University’s decision, they said theyare willing to make whatever changes the University asksin order to keep serving their community.
THE UNIVERSITYAccording to a tentative committee composed of
several University officials, the trucks pose severalhealth, safety and financial detriments that the schoollooks to rectify.
The committee, led by Molenaar, whose depart-ment oversees the trucks as they are stationed in aUniversity lot, brought these concerns to light Mondayat a meeting that also included several student leadersin the Public Safety Building on Commercial Avenue.
“We don’t have a problem with the grease trucksthere,” Molenaar said. “We’re just trying to make surewe’re meeting all the rules and regulations.”
The first issue stems from PepsiCo, which has acontract that all food vendors on University propertyserve PepsiCo products, Molenaar said. The greasetrucks do not.
The University also supports the trucks financially.Currently the trucks pay a monthly rent totaling$62,400 a year. But with security, electric and greaseremoval/cleaning costs, the University saw a $93,467deficit last year, Molenaar said.
This does not include solid waste removal costs,which run up to about $5,600 per year, or the lot’spower washing occurs about six times a year at $1,500per wash, said Dianne Gravatt, director ofEnvironmental Services and Grounds, at the meeting.
There are additional costs for pest control and bath-room repair. Students in the past ripped off the greasetrucks’ bathroom sink, racking up additional repaircosts, Gravatt said.
Another issue the University faces with the trucksregards environmental compliance.
Sue Dickison, health safety specialist for environ-mental projects at the University, said the trucks areaccountable for several grease drum spills and havedisposed of used fryer oil down sinks and storm drains.
At the meeting, she said these spills are not oftenproperly cleaned up, which affects the Raritan Riverand does not comply with the Clean Water Act.
She said she has spoken often to the vendors aboutthis issue, and they are aware of it.
“Their practices have been less than desirable,” she said. This led the University about two years ago to con-
sider putting the location up for bid to outside vendors,Molenaar said.
Several outside vendors that offer different foodtypes have approached the University, asking to place
Democratic candidates hold onto NJ Legislative seats in Middlesex
BY ALEKSI TZATZEVASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
EDISON — All three District 17Democrats celebrated victories over theirRepublican challengers at a late nightMiddlesex County DemocraticOrganization event.
Sen. Bob Smith alongsideAssemblymen Upendra Chivukula andJoseph Egan — all incumbents — wonback their seats yesterday in the N.J. Legislature. Early poll results for all three showed them as leaders andnothing changed as of ficial numberswere released.
“We have to look at the bigger picture— Democrats in Middlesex Countr ycrushed the Republicans,” Smith said.
He said labor unions were on theirside as well as successful campaigningover the past several months.
“Look at these great campaigns,adver tisements,” Smith said. “Wecrushed them.”
Smith, Egan and Chivukula each took deci-sive victories in their races, with all three cap-turing at least 60 percent of 13,852 votes. Smithalone had 65 percent of votes at 67 percent ofprecincts reporting, according to nj.com.
Republicanchallengersfall short indistrict vote
BY ANASTASIA MILLICKERASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
EDISON — As JordanRickards waited for the resultsof the senatorial election for thethird time in his political career,he said he was not nervous butcontent with his campaigningprocess.
“Can’t do anything now, justneed to see how the votersvote,” said Rickards in theCrowne Plaza Hotel in Edison.“We did everything we could.”
When the numbers flashedon the pull-down projectorscreen, Rickards only earned35 percent of the counted voteswhile Democratic incumbentBob Smith had 65 percent, win-ning the N.J. Senate chair forDistrict 17.
But Rickards was not theonly one to walk away disap-pointed. Republican Assemblycandidates Carlo DiLalla andRobert Mettler also fell toDemocratic Assembly incum-bents Upendra Chivukula andJoseph Egan.
DiLalla gained 18 percent ofvotes — 8,363 votes, accordingto nj.com. Mettler also won 19percent of the votes with 8,603votes. But both fell to incum-bents, with Egan having 32
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UNIVERSITYT H E D A I L Y T A R G U M
P A G E 3N O V E M B E R 9 , 2 0 1 1
FIMRC holds contest for student initiatives BY KIERSTEN ZINNIKAS
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
While seeking ideas for theirannual service projects, theUniversity’s chapter of theFoundation for InternationalMedical Relief of Children will pitstudents’ proposals against eachother in its first ever competition.
As part of the FIMRC GlobalContest, members will presentideas for a project designed toprovide some sort of assistance tothose living in an impoverishedarea, said Vivian Nguyen, theFIMRC Global Initiatives chair.
“We want more peopleinvolved and to understand theplight of the children involved,”said Nguyen, a School of Arts andSciences junior.
Through the contest, FIMRCaims to increase the level of mem-
ber involvement as well as aware-ness of the organization, she said.
“We wanted to show that theeveryday, average person canmake a difference in the world,”said John Sigva, FIMRC externalvice president.
The contest is open to generalbody members of the organizationas well as University students whoare not members, said Sigva, aSchool of Arts and Sciences senior.
The project needs to be a planof action that addresses a globalcause, Nguyen said.
Students will have to presenttheir project in a five-minute pres-entation in front of the executiveboard and general body on Nov.29, she said.
Several students have alreadyrun their projects past the board,with some involving the collec-tion of school supplies for needy
children and a fundraiser for mos-quito nets to combat the problemof malaria, Nguyen said.
About 10 groups of studentsexpressed interest in entering thecontest so far, she said.Originally, the contest deadlinewas set for Nov. 8, but theyextended it partly because of thisincreased interest.
Nguyen said she hopes stu-dents will use the extended dead-line to further develop the detailsof their projects. For example,some groups will need to contactcompanies because their projectinvolves sending supplies abroad.
The 12 members of the execu-tive board will consider inputfrom the organization’s generalbody members when selectingthe winner, Sigva said.
“We’re going to choose theone we think would be the most
productive,” said Divya Rathi,FIMRC president.
They are looking for a projectthat shows initiative and leader-ship skills, said Rathi, a School ofArts and Sciences senior.
“We’re looking for creativeideas,” Sigva said.
The winning project willbecome the focus of the FIMRCduring the spring semester,Rathi said.
“I think no matter who wins,it will make a dif ference,”Nguyen said. “We’re going tohelp them 100 percent withwhatever they need to carryout their plan.”
FIMRC will then form acommittee to help implementthe winning project as well asprovide resources such asassistance with fundraising,she said.
Nguyen originally presentedthe idea for the contest to theexecutive board. It is possiblethat the organization will con-tinue the project during futuresemesters, she said.
FIMRC was established oncampus six years ago and focuseson global and local service proj-ects. It is especially committed toassisting mothers and childrenby providing an increased level ofhealth care, Rathi said.
The organization has previouslysent members on medical missiontrips to foreign countries duringwinter, spring and summer breaks,she said.
The University chapter, com-posed of 30 to 40 members, has alsovolunteered locally by working withElijah’s Promise Soup Kitchen andthe Ronald McDonald House, Rathi said.
The Institute of International Education chosethe University as one of 18 institutions to be a par t of the 2012 International AcademicPar tnership Program that strives to enhance relations between the University and Brazil.
“It’s an extension of the work we’ve beenalready been doing,’’ said Joanna Regulska, vicepresident for international and global af fairs in a
University media relations press release. “It’sgreat to be chosen for a partnership like this.”
University faculty have been involved with sev-eral Brazilian institutions like the University ofSao Paulo, among others, in areas such as public health, childhood studies, biology, andLatino and Hispanic Caribbean studies, Regulska said.
The institute selected the University becauseof its work with international programs such asthe Brazilian Science Without Borders under-graduate program, according to the release.
The program aims to provide Brazilian stu-dents a chance to study in the United States and the United States will host 30 undergraduate students.
U. LOOKS TO EXPAND ACADEMIC RELATIONSHIP WITH BRAZIL
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The City of New Brunswick creates locations on College Avenue
for food vendors to alleviate traffic problems.
AUGUST: City bans mobile food vendors from all public streets
for traffic, parking and noise issues. SEPTEMBER: Lot 8 is converted for the nine food trucks.
1985
1992
Contracts are renegotiated to change terms
from three-year to one-year contracts.
All vendors pay rent on a month-to-month basis
and all contracts expire.
2002
2007
Contracts with mobile vendors are renegotiated.
New electrical installations are brought to the trucks
at the University’s expense.
1999
2001
Source: Jack Molenaar, director of the Department of Transportation Services
GREASEGREASE
TRUCKTRUCK
TIMELINETIMELINE
their food truck in the primelocation that sees heavy faculty,staff and student traffic.
“[We’re a more] diverseschool than we were 18 yearsago,” he said.
THE TRUCKSOwner of RU Hungr y?
Ayman Elnaggar owns two ofthe five grease trucks, one ofwhich is the $250,000 trailerThe Scarlet Shack. His trucksare open during the day shiftfrom 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Elnaggar, said he is aware ofthese environmental and main-tenance concerns, and heworks to take care of theseissues personally.
“We all do the best we can.We want to stay there. That’show we make our living,” saidElnaggar, who has been in thelot since 1996.
He also said outside establish-ments often dump extra trashinto their dumpsters and disposeof grease into their drums, as thearea — which is relativelygarbage- and grease-free — isunlocked. Though Elnaggar saidhe and his staff take as many pre-cautions as possible, some spillshave happened, and the area isnot perfect.
As for the bathroom issues,he said he has locked it so stu-dents cannot use it anymore.
“We do the best we can tosolve [problems],” he said.
Samir Alkilani — co-ownerof Mr. C’s, Jimmy’s LunchTruck and Just Delicious, thethree trucks that run duringthe 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. night shift— said before he closes eachnight, he makes sure the lot is clean.
“The thing is the kids,Rutgers students, they stayhere hanging out in this area tofour or five in the morning. I’m
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The University’s grease trucks have not moved from the lot for about six years, said Samir Alkilani, who co-owns three trucks.
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losing bid would be devastating
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not going to wait until the laststudent goes home,” he said.
But these issues cause theUniversity to not break evenwith the current rental rates,Molenaar said.
“We shouldn’t be subsidizingbusinesses that make a profithere if we don’t have to,” saidJay Kohl, vice president forAdministration and PublicSafety, at the meeting.
Alkilani and Elnaggar saidthey would be willing to complywith any changes the Universityneeded them to make and payhigher rents to accommodatethe extra costs to the University.A few years ago, the trucks hada lease that was renewed everythree or four years, but now it isa monthly rent.
Kohl said this month-to-month set up keeps the dealwith the trucks flexible, and theUniversity wants to open this tothe marketplace to see if thereare ways to make this opportu-nity not only self-sufficient butalso safer and more enjoyablefor the school.
Elnaggar believes this poten-tial change is unfair. He invest-ed a large amount of money in2003 for his trailer, outdoorseating and dif ferent food itemssuch as specialty coffee, salads,Halal and vegetarian items.
He said only he and the othertrucks have the experiencerequired to serve the needs ofthe University community.
The trucks are known world-wide for their fat sandwichesand have received accolades notjust from publications likeSports Illustrated and Maxim,but literally from around theworld, Elnaggar said.
“I see that we got recogni-tion, and it hurts me that theinstitution that I worked for for14 years, they just want to getrid of me,” he said.
Elnaggar said other universi-ties have asked him to bring histrucks there. But because of hislove for the University, he saidhe wants to stay.
“If we have to bid, I’m goingto follow the rules,” he said.
Elnaggar also believes thischange is unfair because theUniversity had alreadyapproved him bringing in thetrailer and trucks. He thinkswith this, he could never bereimbursed for the changes hehas made to improve the area.
“Now you’re telling me Ihave to get rid of my trailer,which was agreed to [be here]to serve students?” he asked.
Alkilani echoed these senti-ments and said about 25 familieswork with the five trucks. He saidthe loss would be devastating.
“So anybody interestedwho’s got money is going totake my life out?” he asked.
Alkilani thinks due to theirhistory and dedication to thearea — as well as the time andmoney invested — the originaltrucks should be given priorityon how to handle this issue.
“I think before they open itto the market, they open it tous,” he said.
Alkilani said he would be will-ing to make any changes theUniversity asked of him, but if hehad to go to bid, he would as well.
“I have no other choice,” he said.
THEN, NOW ANDTOMORROW
The trucks — which used to besituated up and down CollegeAvenue in the 1980s — weremoved into that lot in 1994 to solvenoise and traffic issues when theCity passed an ordinance banningfood vendors from the streets.
They used generators fortheir electricity, which causedtoo much noise. So theUniversity put them in Lot 8 toreduce pedestrian traf fic andprovided them with electricalsupply to remove the generators,Molenaar said.
“When we put them there,the goal was to solve the prob-lem,” he said.
Now, the mobile vendors,which Alkilani said have notmoved in about six years, are
halfway toward a permanentfood court, Molenaar said.
“We’re in this hybrid state,”he said.
Since the trucks no longermove around campus — thoughElnaggar said they do have thatcapability — Molenaar and thecommittee members are think-ing of reinstituting that functionto solve these issues.
“We think being mobile putscost back where it should be, onmobile vendors. … The goal isfor them to make a profit and[the University] meets healthand safety standards,”Molenaar said.
First, in recognizing the cul-tural significance of Lot 8, thecommittee discussed allowingvendors to bid on the location tohave their trucks there, potential-ly in a painted or fenced-in area,but for only a specified time.
For example, the truckswould have to leave the lotfrom 3 to 6 a.m. every day toan of f-base site in order tomaintain their status as“mobile” and not permanentfood establishments, all whilekeeping pedestrian and noisetraf fic controlled.
Elnaggar said these require-ments are an unnecessary bur-den on the trucks.
“Do I have to do it every dayfor three hours? That’s a lot ofwork for me and RutgersUniversity,” he said. “You’retaking away the focus of serv-ing the students.”
Molenaar suggested that tomake the trucks mobile, theUniversity would remove thetrucks’ electrical supply in thelot, and they would return tousing generators.
Gravatt said today’s genera-tors, which are powered byodorless natural gas, are notnoisy, unlike those in the past.
When they put this designat-ed location out to bid, theUniversity would then outlinecertain requirements biddersmust abide by in the RFP, or arequest for proposal.
Though the University is notsubject to state regulationsregarding the RFP process, theydo have various University,health and safety rules that mustbe followed, said Natalie Calleja,executive director of UniversityProcurement Services. But eachRFP can stipulate certain restric-tions that apply to the situation.
For example, the Universityin this case could specify thatbidders must of fer a certaintype of food at a moderate pricerange, she said.
University Sanitarian JohnNasan said other requirementsthe RFP will consider aremobile food unit health andsafety standards.
These include: being outfit-ted with proper equipment tomaintain and keep foods at safetemperatures; ware-washingand hand-washing sinks withhot/cold potable runningwater; and satisfactory inspec-tion from the MiddlesexCounty Health Depar tment,among several others.
Alkilani and Elnaggar saidthey routinely attend MCHDfood-handling courses. Theirtrucks are inspected ever y six months by the MCHD, other wise they could not serve food.
“Without the healthinspector, we cannot get thecer tificate from the City,”Elnaggar said.
Molenaar said he alsointends to seek student inputon what students want to see inLot 8 and what to include in theRFP, whether it be throughonline polling, forums or socialnetworking sites.
Calleja said the grease trucksituation is unique and she isunsure how the process willultimately unfold, as Monday’smeeting was preliminary. TheUniversity may choose anotherroute altogether.
If the school does choose togo through with an RFP,Molenaar would convene a for-mal committee to draft the stip-ulations of the RFP and evalua-tion criteria for selecting thevendors, which typicallyinvolves a holistic set of stan-dards, she said.
“Cost wouldn’t be the onlyfactor in any of that. It’s usuallyone of many factors,” she said.
But when selecting the win-ning bidders, the Universitycannot favor the grease truckscurrently there, Calleja said.
Molenaar said theUniversity does not want to getrid of the grease trucks, butrather abide by all regulations.
Kohl said this is an impor-tant decision to make and the University plans to look for input from all areas of the community.
Molenaar said there are manyUniversity departments that needto be consulted in making thisdecision with the grease trucks inthe upcoming months.
“It’s not just a fat sandwich,”he said.
Sinagra said some of thelargest areas of focus are taxes,jobs and economy.
“Republicans have some-thing to prove once they havethat position,” he said.
DiLalla said being aRepublican in MiddlesexCounty plays a large role in howpeople voted.
“It doesn’t matter whetherit’s a Democrat or Republican incharge as long as they get the
job done. We did everything wecould,” he said. “People thinkRepublicans are the rich but it’sthe opposite. When Republicanswin, they win by a shoe string.”
DiLalla said a large part ofhis campaign success was dueto volunteer success. Andalthough they did not walk awaywith a win, they managed toclose the voting gap between
the victors and the losers sincethe last election.
DiLalla said if the campaignhad more money, he would haveliked to send campaign mailersout to households in the district.
“We ran ads in newspapers, wedid robo-calls, but I would haveliked to had mailers sent directlyto homes three to four times [dur-ing the period],” he said.“Otherwise, we went to homesand did everything we could.”
DiLalla said although helost, he plans to run again twoyears from now in the nextAssembly election.
Mettler said being aRepublican in MiddlesexCounty, even in SomersetCounty, is hard because a largeproportion is Democrat. He saidneither party is wiser than theother because both parties havetheir flaws.
“Democrats led tremendouslyaround Middlesex County,” hesaid. “I think Republicans canhave the race in the future. It’snot the party but the candidate.”
Mettler said he hopes to runagain in future years despite hisfirst loss in the Assembly race.
“We all did what we could,” he said. “Everyoneworked hard.”
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In New Brunswick, theraces were even less contest-ed, with Smith earning morethan 1,600 votes when just 23percent of votes were counted.Jordan Rickards, theRepublican challenger, earnedless than 400.
“I want to thank all of you,”Chivukula said to the audienceat Pines Manor in Edison.
He said his party had doneits job of providing the con-stituents with jobs and bring-ing money into the district.
“My running partners and Ihave had a strong record ofaccomplishments for the last10 years in the state,”Chivukula said. “We have donea very good job in terms ofconstituents services, and wehave brought money into thedistrict and solved some of thelocal issues.”
On the topic of higher edu-cation, he said the issue oftuition increases and the over-all increasing price of highereducation was something of
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Assemblyman Joseph Egan, left, Sen. Bob Smith and Assemblyman Upendra Chivukula all reclaimed their seats this election with decisive wins against their opponents.
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percent of the votes andChivukula close behind with 31percent of the votes.
Rickards, who has been cam-paigning since March, had toovercome multiple obstacleswhen campaigning, includingmonetary advantages held bythe incumbent and redistricting.
“[My incumbent] began therace with half-a-million dollars,and I was starting with noth-ing,” he said.
Rickards said the majority ofthe district is Democrat andwinning that would be a diffi-cult feat in his campaign race.
Joseph Sinagra, R-18, anAssembly candidate who alsofell short of his Assembly chair,said it does not matter if a can-didate is associated with a cer-tain party, they need to changethe current state.
“A lot of people are upset withthe economy. It doesn’t matter ifyou differentiate betweenRepublican or Democratic. Ifsomething is wrong you need tochange it,” he said.
DISTRICT: Candidates
want winners to create change
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Jordan Rickards, the Republican challenger to long-time incumbentSen Bob. Smith, said last night that he was not nervous.
JEFFREY LAZARO
“We went to homes and
did everything we could.”
CARLO DILALLARepublican Assembly Candidate
concern. The state must putmore money into financial aidand cut administrative costs,he said.
“The money has to comefrom the state to of fset theincreasing cost of education,”he said. “We have to try to cutdown the administrative costs,and that will bring down theoverall expenses, and that inturn will bring down tuition.”
With his party members’ suc-cesses rolling in moments beforereceiving his own news, Egansaid he did not look at the results.
“I didn’t take a look. The onlyresults I know are NewBrunswick, and we did very wellin New Brunswick,” he said ofthe city for which he formerlyserved as a councilmember.
On the topic of higher edu-cation, he shared similar senti-ments with Chivukula.
“I think we need to be morerealistic and need to put moreinto higher education,” he said.“I think we need to concentrateon coming up with more moneyfor higher education.”
He said a tuition freezemight seem like a logical deci-sion, but it is highly unrealisticdespite its popularity with col-lege students.
“While a tuition freeze maysound great for the students,that’s not going to solve theproblem because we need tofigure out a way to give moremoney,” Egan said.
Peter Barnes Jr., chairmanof the Middlesex CountyDemocrats, said theDemocratic Party had done allit could in this election.
“We are ver y optimistic,”Barnes said. “Our candidates,for the last few months, havebeen knocking on doors, meet-ing their constituents.”
He said candidates did agood job of talking to votersabout the issues that most con-cern their districts.
N.J. voters across the statealso in this election backed theissue of sports betting, whichwas put up to a non-binding ref-erendum on the ballot.
With more than 50 percentof votes counted, the resultsshowed voters suppor ted ittwo-to-one.
The next step would be a law-suit to overturn a federal ban onsports betting and official legis-lation within the state. If it pass-es it would be legal to bet atracetrack sites, but it would bancollege sports betting.
N O V E M B E R 9 , 2 0 1 1 T H E D A I L Y T A R G U MU NIVERSIT Y6
Faculty’s study advancesbrain damage treatment
BY JULIAN MODESTOCONTRIBUTING WRITER
University professor BonnieFirestein and her former gradu-ate research assistant, Chia-YiTseng, isolated the activity oftwo proteins that will help in theprevention of further long-termdamage following a stroke.
In a study published in theOct. 26 edition of the Journal ofNeuroscience, Firestein andher assistant revealed theresults of their three-yeargrant awarded by the AmericanHeart Association.
The study finds that the pro-duction of the proteins, cypinand PSD-95, in the brain af fectsecondary damage to neuronsafter brain injury or stroke.
Specifically, cypin protectsneurons from secondary dam-age from the glutamine-induced neurotoxicity, Tsengsaid. Meanwhile, PSD-95 doesthe opposite result.
“In response to [brain dam-age], you get glutamate, whichcauses neurons to die and wemimicked this in a dish,” saidFirestein, associate professorin the Depar tment of CellBiology and Neuroscience inthe School of Artsand Sciences. “Weinduce secondarydamage in a dishin cultured,mature neurons.”
The structureof neurons, orner ve cells, iscomposed ofmicrotubule den-drite branchessimilar to ones inthe skeletal struc-tures that runthrough hands,Firestein said.
Dendrites gather informa-tion from the cell bodies locat-ed on the neurons and transferthe information to axons,which through terminals trans-fer the message to other den-drites, she said.
“I generally study how den-drites develop and get theirshape and how the proteinsinvolved in the development ofdendrites would also preventdendrite injury,” she said.
After brain damage, a largeamount of glutamate is intro-duced. The neuron will form abeady structure called varicos-ity and will be largely brokendown, said Tseng, whoreceived her Ph.D. in neuro-science from the University ina joint program with theUniversity of Medicine andDentistry of New Jersey.
“The glutamate cycle is areally impor tant damagesource for those neurons thatsur vive after stroke,” Tsengsaid. “This is a very commonbeginning pathway for manydiseases, like Alzheimer’s orHuntington’s. That’s why wewanted to see how the neuronssurvive after the neurotoxicityafter stroke.”
Cypin and PSD-95 arelinked to the microtubuleshape changes in the stroke, soFirestein and Tseung inducedthe neurotoxicity and thenmodified the proteins to seetheir ef fects.
“The results confirmed whatwe were guessing — that cypinprotects the neurons from theneurotoxicity and PSD-95 hasopposite result,” she said.
The dendrites varicosities— swollen veins — resemblepearly necklaces, Firesteinsaid. When you have morecypin or less PSD-95, there aremore beads, but the varicosityswelling is much smaller. Ifyou have extra glutamate, thedendritic spines detract and noinformation comes in.
“What we think they [cypin]may be involved in is micro-tubule assembly. Cypin pro-motes more of the skeleton,”Firestein said. “If you take cypinand put them in a dish, you pre-vent neuron death. Cypin makesthe cells really happy. If youhave too much PSD-95, youhave the opposite effect.”
Firestein originally isolatedcypin at the University ofCalifornia, San Francisco.
“My original publication oncypin was in 1999, but under-standing cypin happened in2000,” she said. “No one isstudying cypin. We’ve beenscreening compounds … andby targeting cypin, we can treatstroke injury.”
The future treatment of localbrain degradation throughdrugs or through modificationcould rescue or induce the cypin
protein’s activi-ty, Tseng said.
“If we canfind a cure forstrokes soon,the cypin regu-lation cannotonly rescue theneuron damagefrom a stroke— it can alsorescue the neu-ron damagemaybe fromAlzheimer’s orspinal cord
injury,” she said. “My goal is tolearn how diseases happen orhow to cure these diseases.”
The research through theAHA’s Grant-in-Aid was givento Firestein and Tseng fiveyears ago for their research onstrokes, Firestein said.
“Bonnie has shared infor-mation and has served as anexpert in her field of strokeresearch and has helpedshared the passion of researchthat will lead to new technolo-gies to treat strokes,” saidCourtney Nelson, the regionaldirector of communications forthe AHA in New Jersey.
The AHA focuses on fund-ing research for the treatmentand prevention of cardiac dis-eases and stroke, with heartdisease being the No. 1 lead-ing cause of death in theUnited States and stroke beingNo. 4, Nelson said.
Nelson said research is apriority for the AHA, the sec-ond-largest funder of cardiovas-cular research only second tothe federal government.
“Research leads to things thatwere once considered crazy atone point. People thought, ‘Howcan CPR save lives?’ but becauseof American Heart Associationresearch … CPR [was] discov-ered,” Nelson said.
Nelson said research is key instopping cardiovascular disease.
“All of the research that theAmerican Heart Association sup-ports is peer-reviewed to deter-mine what research initiatives areselected,” Nelson said. “What wedo is seed funders. We help sci-entists that are starting to get offthe ground.”
“Research leadsto things that
were onceconsidered crazy
at one point.”COURTNEY NELSON
American Heart Association inNew Jersey Regional Director
of Communications
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Hillel, bone marrow foundation search for donorsBY MATTHEW MATILSKY
STAFF WRITER
The Gift of Life Bone MarrowFoundation joined hands withRutgers Hillel to look for possiblebone marrow donors inUniversity students.
“What Hillel’s trying to do isbring students together to giveback to the community. By part-nering with us, we’re helpingthem to do so by holding a bonemarrow drive,” said ShaynePilpel, lead recruitment coordina-tor for the foundation.
The bone marrow drive servesas the 10th collaborative effortbetween the Gift of Life BoneMarrow Foundation and theUniversity, he said.
Hillel organized the event tobe a part of its “Days WithoutHate” campaign, which beganMonday, said Aviva Rosenberg,community service chair.
“Ultimately we’re trying tosend a message to the campusand foster an environment sopeople feel safe,” said
Rosenberg, a School of Arts andSciences junior.
Rosenberg contacted Pilpel afew months ago and both groupsstarted planning for the event,Pilpel said.
“We send them everythingfrom consent forms, ballpointpens, informational brochures,the testing kits — everythingthey need to [run the drive],”he said.
Pilpel engaged Rosenberg andher team of volunteers in a 20-minute conversation instructingthem on how to use the testingequipment, he said.
Student volunteers at the drivelooked carefully for potentialdonors who, if their blood type iscompatible with a specific patient,could potentially cure diseaseslike leukemia, said KirillPennington, a School of Arts andSciences sophomore who volun-teered at the event for his frater-nity, Theta Chi.
“We’re asking people to swabtheir mouth with tissue samples,package the sample and send
their information to a lab,” saidPennington, whose fraternitypartnered with Hillel for otherevents in the “Days WithoutHate” campaign.
The Gift of Life Bone MarrowFoundation will study the sam-ples and send the results back tothe University, informing them ifpotential matches were made,Pilpel said.
People with compatible match-es will be notified and will havethe chance to go through aprocess of extracting and donat-ing their bone marrow,Pennington said.
“They make a small incisionin your hip and extract it justlike blood. You’re under anes-thesia and are exhausted for thenext few days, but after a fewdays it gets better and a life issaved,” he said.
Regardless of the pain thatmight accompany the process,Ricki Tannenbaum, a School ofArts and Sciences first-year stu-dent, said she would like todonate anyway, should her sam-
ple prove to be a match. “There’s no way I wouldn’t do
it. Imagine if you’re a match,” shesaid. “That’s like 1 in a millionchance — you’re going to say, ‘Idon’t want to be in pain’ andsomeone else is going to die?”
Tannenbaum hopes to providea compatible sample because shebelieves the benefits of donating abone marrow outweigh its nega-tives.
“It’s the best form of charityyou could do. It’s literally saving alife. There’s no bigger deed ofkindness,” she said.
Matt Homsi, a member ofTheta Chi, encouraged people toput aside their temporary discom-fort and donate.
Homsi, a School ofEnvironmental and BiologicalSciences sophomore, who donat-ed blood numerous times, saidpeople should consider the posi-tive impact their actions can haveon patients on the brink of death.
“Until you’re in a positionwhere you need someone’s help, Iguess you won’t realize that by
doing these things you can makea difference,” he said.
Theta Chi members hope thisevent, as well as others in the“Days Without Hate” campaign,will help them reach their goal of20 community services hours,twice the required amount need-ed, Pennington said.
Rosenberg, who will continueto hold other events for the “DaysWithout Hate” campaign, saidshe enjoyed working with TheGift of Life Bone MarrowFoundation and looks forward tofuture collaborations.
Pilpel agreed and said theUniversity’s suppor t in thebone marrow foundation wasan integral element in promot-ing his message and reachingout to patients with blood-relat-ed cancers.
“Rutgers Hillel has beenextremely supportive of our mis-sion, and we’re extremely grate-ful for it,” he said.
Ankita Panda contributed tothis story.
SAYREVILLE MAN FOUND DEAD, CAUSE WITHHELD FOR FURTHER INVESTIGATION
Edison resident, Kelvin Dumo’s body wasfound earlier in Sayreville, N.J. Authorities pro-nounced the 28-year-old man dead at 5:25 a.m.Monday morning after they found him onJournee Mill Road, occupying property owned byViking Terminal.
Bruce Kaplan, the Middlesex County prosecu-tor, and John Zebrowski, chief of the Sayreville
Police Department, announced yesterday that offi-cials are still looking into his death, according to apress release from the Prosecutor’s Office.
Investigator Michael Daniewicz, who workswith the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Officeand a Sayreville Police Department detectiveDouglas Sprague, were alerted of Dumo’s deathafter a man found Dumo’s body on his way to
work at 4:49 a.m. and called 911, according tothe release.
The man, whose name authorities are with-holding, called 911 soon after.
Authorities have determined from an autopsyreport that Dumo’s death was a homicide, but arewithholding the exact cause of death at this momentin order to continue the investigation more efficiently.
WORLDT H E D A I L Y T A R G U M
N O V E M B E R 9 , 2 0 1 1 P A G E 9
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MONROVIA, Liberia — Anelection that was supposed to solid-ify peace in this nation emergingfrom war was marred by dismalturnout yesterday, after the opposi-tion went ahead with a boycottdespite last-minute appeals fromthe United States and the UnitedNations Security Council.
The move guarantees re-electionfor the continent’s first and onlyfemale president who was justawarded the Nobel Peace Prize, butcountry experts worry that the lowturnout could discredit EllenJohnson Sirleaf’s victory and dele-gitimize her government.
It’s a worrying prospect in theTennessee-sized nation of 3.9 mil-lion that experienced one of Africa’smost horrific civil wars and where afragile peace is held in place largelyby the presence of some 9,000United Nations peacekeepers.
“In life, when you make upyour mind, make it fully,” saidRahim Willie, who didn’t cast hisvote yesterday in keeping with theboycott order issued by oppositionleader Winston Tubman of theCongress for Democratic Changeparty, or CDC. “We are WinstonTubman’s followers,” he said. “Heand we believe the elections wereflawed and we are staying away.Those who see reason to cast theirvotes today can do so. But as aCDC person, I can’t.”
Tubman, the nephew of one ofLiberia’s longest-serving presidentsand a former United Nations diplo-mat, dropped out of the race lastweek and called on his supportersto withhold their vote in protest.The United States called his allega-
Libyan election sees low turnout
Syrian death toll climbsduring 8-month revolt
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIRUT — The death toll inthe Syrian uprising has soared toat least 3,500 people, the UnitedNations said yesterday, a soberingmeasure of the scope of a militarycrackdown that has bloodied cityafter city but failed to crush the 8-month-old revolt againstPresident Bashar Assad’s regime.
Under the strain of dailykillings, some Syrians see a dan-gerous fracturing of society aslong-festering resentments overreligion, sectarian identity andpoverty bubble to the surface.Moreover, there were new signsthat an uprising that has so farbeen largely unarmed is increas-ingly starting to fight back, threat-ening a rise in the bloodshed.
The dangers have been on dis-play this week in the country’sthird-largest city, Homs. Thisweek, security forces have beenbesieging the city for the thirdtime this year to stamp out whathas been epicenter of the revolt.
Most notably this time, dissi-dent troops have been putting upa stiff defense as security forcesblast their way into rebelliousneighborhoods. Amid the fight-ing, there have been tit-for-tatsectarian killings suspected tobe between Sunni Muslims, wholargely back the protests, andAlawites, a Shiite sect thatmakes up the backbone ofAssad’s regime.
In Geneva, a spokeswomanfor the U.N. High Commissionerfor Human Rights said the countof 3,500 dead throughout theuprising was likely a conserva-tive figure.
“We are deeply concernedabout the situation and by thegovernment’s failure to takeheed of international and region-al calls for an end to the blood-shed,” said Ravina Shamdasani.
She told The AssociatedPress the new death toll comesfrom a variety of credible sourceson the ground both within andoutside Syria that are then cor-roborated by the U.N. humanrights office.
Syria has seen the bloodiestcrackdown against the ArabSpring’s eruption of protests.Deaths in Egypt, Tunisia andYemen have numbered in thehundreds. Libya’s toll isunknown and likely higher than
Syrian President Bashar Assad holds loyality with most of thearmed forces, which has led to the bloodiest Arab uprising yet.
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Syria’s, but the conflict differedthere: Early on it became an out-right civil war between twoarmed sides.
Syria, in contrast, has devel-oped into a murderous grind.Though internationally isolated,Assad appears to have a firm gripon power with the loyalty of mostof the armed forces, which in thepast months have moved fromcity to city to put down uprisings.In each place, however, protestshave resumed.
In Homs, one of Syria’s mostdiverse cities with a population ofabout a million people, securityforces have been assaulting Sunni-majority districts that have been thecenter of protests, raiding homesand fighting dissident troops — par-ticularly in the neighborhood ofBaba Amr. At least 110 people havebeen killed in Homs the past week,according to activists, 40 of themfrom Baba Amr.
Electricity, water and phonelines have been cut to the restiveneighborhood, where a man anda woman were killed by securityforces’ fire yesterday, accordingto activist Salim al-Homsi.
“There are mountains ofgarbage everywhere,” al-Homsisaid. “It is difficult to bring inmedical equipment, bread andheating fuel. There is a shortageof everything.”
Amateur video posted onlineyesterday showed a small groupof alleged military defectors fromthe group known as the SyrianFree army driving through BabaAmr on Monday with automaticrifles and shoulder-carried RPGs.
“We are here to protect thepeaceful, unarmed protesters inBaba Amr,” said a soldier whoidentified himself as a member ofthe Al-Farouk brigade. “We willteach them a hard lesson,” hesaid of the attacking forces.
Still, yesterday regime forcescontrolled large parts of the dis-trict after defectors pulled back,said al-Homsi.
The government has largelysealed off the country from for-eign journalists and preventedindependent reporting, making itdifficult to confirm events on theground. Key sources of informa-tion are amateur videos postedonline and details gathered bywitnesses and activist groupswho then contact the media,often at great personal risk.
tions of fraud “unsubstantiated” andState Department spokeswomanVictoria Nuland called his decision“deeply disappointing.”
Lines were only a dozen or sopeople deep in many precincts in thecapital, and an hour after pollsopened, many of the polling boothshad no lines at all. Poll workers atseveral precincts said that voterturnout was as low as 25 percent.
It was a sharp contrast to the firstround of the election in October,when hundreds of people slept onthe sidewalk overnight for a chanceto be among the first to vote. Even asa torrential rain started to comedown, people stood in queues thatsnaked out the doors, switchback-ing across dirt courtyards andmuddy fields.
Instead yesterday, some pollingstations closed before the publishedtime when it became clear that nomore voters would show up.
Whereas last month, poll work-ers worked by candlelight to finishcounting, in some precincts itappeared they would wrap up whileit was still light because there wereso few ballots inside theTupperware containers serving asballot boxes. At four polling stationsin the West Point slum of the capital,the turnout was devastatingly low —with only 83 ballots cast out of 383registered voters at one, for exam-ple, representing just 21 percentvoter turnout.
Helicopters hovered over-head and armored-personnelcarriers patrolled the mainboulevards, especially in theneighborhood where the oppo-sition is headquartered. At leastone person was killed andanother four suf fered bullet
wounds after CDC supportersclashed with police on Monday,as they attempted to lead amarch in support of the boycott.
The boycott won’t stopSirleaf from winning, but itcould undercut her victory andher government since she isrunning unopposed.
“It was irresponsible of theopposition to do this,” saidGeorge Wah Williams, whoheads Liberia DemocracyWatch and who supported theopposition in the election’s firstround despite having previous-ly voted for Sirleaf in the 1995,1997 and 2005 elections. “It willhave implications on the publicoutlook on her election.”
Tubman claims the electoralprocess is rigged in his oppo-nent’s favor and says thisweek’s violence was fur therevidence that the vote shouldhave been postponed. Mostanalysts, however, say Tubmanis boycotting not because offears of fraud but because heknew he could not win.
“If you look at the figures,you can see that Tubman isalmost certainly going to lose.He is 12, 13 points down in thepolls,” said Stephen Ellis, theauthor of a histor y of theLiberian civil war and aresearcher at the AfricanStudies Center in theNetherlands.
“It’s an obvious calculation. Hewithholds legitimacy from thegovernment,” Ellis said. “If it wasfelt by a large part of populationto not be legitimate, in a place likeLiberia, with its history, itbecomes quite worrying.”
Ali’s, and the groundbreak-ing song broke barriers inthe country’s long strugglefor freedom of speech.
Move it over to Egypt,where a popular EgyptianMC that goes by the nameof Deeb raps in a similarfashion. He works with theplatform that hip-hop was
founded on, fighting against discrimination, tovoice his criticisms of the government. During theturmoil in Egypt, Deeb used rich metaphors in hissongs to voice his animosity toward formerPresident Hosni Mubarak and the social ills thatresulted from his faulty regime. Deeb even collab-orated with artists from other Arab countries onsongs that range in topic from Palestine to Iraq,which re-energized Arab youth and reminded
them that all Arabs are facing thesame struggles.
Palestine has been a hotbed ofhip-hop activism as well. The firstPalestinian hip-hop group, DAM,is coming from the Middle East tovisit the University this Friday inthe Douglass Campus Center.Veterans in utilizing the power ofmusic to make their voices beheard, Tamer Nafar, Suhell Nafarand Mahmoud Jreri, the threemembers of the group, have been
rapping for a decade now. Their influential songsfocus on the plight of the Palestinian people, theshortcomings of the Israeli government and ulti-mately their eternal quest for freedom. In anattempt to build bridges, DAM raps in English,Arabic and Hebrew to get their message acrossto as many people as they can.
Obviously hip-hop cannot in any way be credit-ed for bringing about the revolutions, but it doesadd an interesting dynamic to the situation thatresonates with people the world over. Here athome, many Arab-Americans inspired by thestruggles of their brothers overseas have taken tothe mics as well. Syrian-American OmarOffendum and Iraqi-Canadian The Narcicyst aretwo of the most notable Arab rappers in the coun-try. Among their countless songs about the treatment of Arabs and Muslims both in America
OPINIONST H E D A I L Y T A R G U M
P A G E 1 0 N O V E M B E R 9 , 2 0 1 1
EDITORIALS
“It’s not just a fat sandwich.”Jack Molenaar, director of the Department of Transportation Services,
on the complexities of the University’s issues with the grease trucks
STORY ON FRONT
QUOTE OF THE DAY
S alem and Green Run High Schools in Virginia Beach are takingan interesting approach to encouraging students to achieve aca-demically. Whereas most of us probably attended high schools
where the best incentive offered was the teacher’s verbal praise — and,really, who cared enough about that to let it push them to try harder?— students at these schools are receiving cash for a job well done.Thanks to a privately backed grant, these high schools can afford to paystudents $100 for each score of at least a “3” on an Advanced Placementexam a student achieves. So, if little Johnny manages to get a “5” on hiscalculus, history and English composition exams, he’ll stroll out ofschool with $300 in his pocket. That’s some serious cash. While it’s anunorthodox strategy, we can see nothing but good coming out of it.
Whether you like it or not, incentives work, especially when it comes toa group as stereotypically apathetic as high school students. Think aboutit: When you were in high school, would you have taken your studies muchmore seriously if someone were paying you to do well in them? We’re will-ing to bet that you definitely would have, and there’s nothing wrong withthat. After all, that is why people get jobs and do them well — to makemoney. Working hard in school to make money is really no different.
If you’re particularly uncomfortable about high schoolers receivingmoney for good grades, think about they fact that they already do inthe form of college scholarships and the like. These cash payouts aresimilar to such scholarships, just in miniature. Also, consider that thetests themselves cost a hefty amount. Between practice workbooks tostudy from and the $87 registration fee for each test, AP exams are notcheap. These cash awards are essentially making up for the initialcosts incurred by the students to take the test in the first place.
Some argue that the grants should be put to a different use, like hiringmore teachers, but we cannot imagine that a grant which allows the schoolsto pay students $100 per good AP grade would cover the cost of a teacher’ssalary for the duration of their career. In short, that just is not a logical wayto use the money. The cash incentives, though, are much cheaper. One ofAmerican society’s most popular narratives is that we award those whowork hard, so let’s award students who put in the work to succeed.
H ip-hop has been apolarizing musicgenre in our socie-
ty for decades. Some blameit for societal ills likemisogyny, racism andmaterialism. Others view itas an outlet and a neces-sary means of expression.But regardless of how itmay be viewed among Americans, no one reallyforesaw the impact it would have in the globalmovement toward justice, especially within theArab revolutions.
Born from the spoken word poetry of blackartists in the ’60s and ’70s, hip-hop was no doubtborn as a social movement. It became popular onthe heels of the civil rights era, tackling issues suchas poverty, discrimination and adversity. It wasmuch more common to find sociallyconscious rappers on the scene —think today’s Mos Def — thatshaped the hip-hop atmosphere fortheir generation.
Hip-hop was viewed by its ador-ers as standing on the outside look-ing in, being able to swim upstreamin a society where most peoplethought one way and courageouslygetting vocal about issues. It nodoubt represented the opinions ofthose that were otherwise margin-alized in our society during a time when AfricanAmericans were still struggling against the rem-nants of institutionalized discrimination. Hip-hopunified the struggle against the system, and that’swhy it may come as no surprise this same form ofexpression has been harnessed by Arab youth in2011 as a way to publicize their grievances withtheir faulty governments.
Take it back to where it all started — Tunisia.Zine El Abidine Ben Ali had a tight grip over thecorrupt government as well as his own people.But then, amid increasing protests and the grow-ing momentum of the people’s discontent, ayoung Tunisian by the pseudonym of El Generalpopped up on the scene. Rapping a powerful songof dissatisfaction with the government, ElGeneral’s video became a hit on Facebook andYoutube and resonated with youth throughoutthe country. It was unheard of for someone to out-spokenly criticize the government, especially Ben
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Hip-hop plays role in revolutions
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Police must not tracksuspects via GPS
Cash incentives spurstudents to achieve
T echnological advancement, we must remember, is about morethan just coming up with efficient ways to access and shareInternet memes. There are more practical applications, and
some of these applications have downsides. Case in point: The SupremeCourt is hearing a case regarding an incident in which police officersattached a global positioning system device to a suspect’s car withoutthe suspect’s knowledge or a warrant. The GPS tracked the suspectover the course of a few weeks, recording where and when the suspectdrove. The suspect’s lawyer argues that such a use of the GPS deviceviolates his client’s Fourth Amendment rights, which shield citizensfrom unreasonable search and seizure. The U.S. government, for itspart in the case, is arguing that using the GPS in this situation allowedofficers to access the same sort of information they would if they had fol-lowed the suspect themselves — something which is perfectly legal.Despite what the U.S. government may claim, however, there are majordifference between physically trailing a suspect and trusting a GPSdevice to do the work for you, and these differences make the use of aGPS device by police officers in incidents like this unacceptable.
We understand that police officers, like anyone else, gain a varietyof benefits from new technologies like GPS devices. However, thesebenefits do not excuse officers from doing their jobs themselves. Youcannot depend on a GPS to give officers the same information as phys-ically trailing a suspect would give. Computers can be more easily con-fused than humans in many cases, and sometimes this leads to devas-tatingly harmful misinformation. Take, for example, the story ofDonna Cooper and her family, who, while traveling in Death Valley,Calif., found themselves lost for three days because of their GPSdevice’s misdirection. In summary: everything a GPS says cannot beautomatically trusted. We’re certain the police are using far moresophisticated tracking devices, but that does not necessarily precludethe occurrence of similar malfunctions.
Also, as the American Civil Liberties Union points out, using a GPSin this way makes it so that “police could track unlimited numbers ofpeople for days, weeks or months at a time.” Essentially, it opens up acan of worms, forcing officers to navigate such tricky questions as“how frequently should we use this tactic?” and “how do we differenti-ate between when it is permissible and when it crosses the line?” GPStracking is ultimately far more invasive than more traditional means ofintelligence collection. Leave trailing suspects to actual human offi-cers, not their computers.
“No one really foresaw the impact
[hip-hop] wouldhave in the
global movement toward justice.”
AMANI AL-KHATAHTBEH
SEE AL-KHATAHTBEH ON PAGE 11
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“If officers knew that this investigative tool was in place, maybe they would think twice
before breaking the very laws they are sworn to uphold.”
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E ver since President Barack Obama introduced the notion of ahealth care reform, he has met persistent resistance on theissue. Thus far, six appeals courts have seen challenges to the
health care law, with the latest being the U.S. Circuit Court of Appealsfor the District of Columbia. The American Center for Law and Justicefiled the case, on the grounds that requiring people to purchase healthcare infringed on their personal freedom. Luckily, the court ruled touphold the health care requirement, as the judges came to the logicalconclusion that Congress should, in the words of Judge LaurenceSilberman, “be free to forge national solutions to national problems.”We laurel the judges for upholding this requirement. People need toremember that, sometimes, it is okay for their government to helpthem. Federal legislators are not always out to get you.
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Every now and then, a former U.S. president will take time off fromhis retirement schedule to voice his opinion on certain matters andnational events. The latest instance of this sort comes from the mouthof former President Bill Clinton, who said he feels that in the future,presidents should be able to serve a third, nonconsecutive term aspresident. Never mind the possibility that this might be a last-ditcheffort by the 42nd president to serve again at the helm as commander-in-chief in disguise — he’s already emphasized that this rule shouldn’tapply to him. We cannot take this suggestion seriously. The 22ndamendment of the Constitution states, “No person shall be elected tothe office of the president more than twice.” The purpose of this is toprevent any sort of monocratic rule taking root in the White House —a thought that terrified the nation’s forefathers. We give Clinton a dartfor neither respecting nor seeing the value in such a term limit.
and abroad, the two artists col-laborated on the song “#Jan25”in honor of the Egyptian revolu-tion.
While many of today’sAmerican rappers may have lostsight of hip-hop’s roots, thepower of this music genre iscertainly undeniable. It wasborn from the African-Americanstruggle against adversity andinequality, and has transcendedraces and boundaries in attain-ing this end, its influence nowreaching the conflict-riddenMiddle East. Those who say“hip-hop is dead” shouldrethink their stance — it seemslike the true essence of hip-hopis still alive and kicking, inspir-ing marginalized youth acrossthe world.
Amani Al-Khatahtbeh is aSchool of Arts and Sciences sopho-more majoring in Middle Easternstudies and political science with aminor in French. Her column,“The Minority Report,” runs onalternate Wednesdays.
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“Lack of finishing has been a problem for Rutgers [women’s soccer]for years. Is it the players that the coach is recruiting, or is it
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the defensive unit as well, accord-ing to senior defensive tackleJustin Francis.
“Those two guys are somehardworking guys and they pusheach other. They feed off of eachother,” Francis said. “When one’sdown you can kind of see theother amping him up. That’s onething that you love about them.”
In the past two games, therewas plenty of fam-ily present towatch the twoplay together.
The pair’smother, aunts andcountless otherrelatives were inthe stadium towatch the twinsperform, but itwas the presenceof the Merrells’father that likely
meant most.Both identified their father as
crucial to their development asfootball players, and both spenttheir post-game embrace remind-ing each other of the work still tobe done.
“Something about our dad,like how growing up we werebuilt for this basically,” JamilMerrell said of what his brothertold him after the win. “He wasjust telling me, ‘If we keep goinghard, we’ll be all right.’”
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according to ESPN.com. But hesuffered through a foot injury dur-ing the early part of the season.
Over the past two weeks,Jamil Merrell made an impactalong the defen-sive front, record-ing five tacklesagainst the Bullsand four againstWest Virginia.
Jamil Merrellstill knows he hasa long way to gobefore his playmatches theexpectations sur-rounding himwhen he choseRutgers with his brother twoyears ago.
But with his brother nowplaying behind him, JamilMerrell has a constant sourceof motivation.
“Working out we alwayspush each other to try to be thebest at everything we do,” JamilMerrell said. “To have himbehind me … it’s just a betterfeeling on the field.”
The connection not only helpsthe Merrell twins, but the rest of
TWINS: Highly-touted
defensive end makes impact
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Sophomore linebacker Jamal Merrell (37) joined Rutgers’ defense in the spring, after Greg Schianomoved him to the position from wide receiver. Merrell started every game this season.
“Working out we always push
each other to try to be the best at
everything we do.”JAMIL MERRELL
Sophomore Defensive End
senior season to go along with3.4 assists.
Davis also got it done on thedefensive end of the floor, aver-aging an eye-popping six stealsper contest.
The addition of Davis andRichardson offers the Knights adepth at point guard unmatchedin recent seasons, allowing headcoach C. Vivian Stringer to playfast if necessary.
“The way we’vebeen practicing ouroffense, don’t be sur-prised if you see fiveguards out there, aswell as the big players,”Speed said.
But above all else,it is Davis’ passion forbasketball that setsher apart.
Stringer noted theheated competition in
practice thus far improved sincelast season with the freshmanclass. Davis is a reason why,Rushdan said.
“She brings a lot of fire to thegame,” she said. “Shegets us hype and some-times we’ve got to belike, ‘[Syessence], calmdown,’ just because shemay do it at the wrongtime. But you’ve got toappreciate somebodythat comes with thatmuch fire and thatmuch passion.”
No matter howmuch intensity Davis
brings and how much naturalability at point guard Richardsonhas, both have plenty to learn,Stringer said.
“No point guard that I’veever coached, including[Richardson and Davis], automatically knows whatthey’re doing and are comfort-able doing it,” she said. “It’s adif ficult adjustment.”
But the adjustments areundoubtedly easier with bothNeptune High School productscommitting to Rutgers together.
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limited or kept now-seniorNikki Speed out of the lineup.
Fifth-year senior KhadijahRushdan handled the brunt ofthe Knights’ point guardresponsibilities, averaging 11.8points and 5.2 assistper game.
But with Richardsonproviding anotherviable option at theposition and a healthySpeed returning to thelineup, the Knights’point guard play is nolonger a concern.
“It’s definitelyimportant, especiallywhen you have mindsof point guards,” Rushdan saidof the team’s depth. “CoachStringer always says, ‘If you’rea point guard, you can play anyposition because you see thegame so well.’ If wehave all four of us outthere at one time,you’ve got to think it’sa great thing.”
Richardson also hashigh expectations forthe group.
“I see us beingreally good,” she said.“I see us going reallyfar as long as we con-tinue to stay on pathand do the right thing. Weshould be very good.”
With Davis also factoring intothe mix, the Knights are evenmore improved in the backcourt.
ESPN Hoopgurlz rankedDavis the No. 14 combo guard inthe nation among her class, andthe freshman has the ability notonly to dribble, but shoot andscore effectively.
The 5-foot-7 guard and two-time Player of the Year in theShore Conference averaged15.8 points per game her
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SYESSENCEDAVIS
SHAKENARICHARDSON
Santora credits her team-mates as the reason why theteam continues to experience astrong start to the season.
“I’m really excited about that,”Santora said of the team’s suc-cess. “It’s so nice to come into aprogram that is working so hardtogether. Everyone is getting bet-ter and working really hard.”
While the Somers Point, N.J.,native is new to the program,being from the Garden Statemade it easy for Santora to getalong with her teammates andfeel at home at the Sonny WerblinRecreation Center.
“Carissa is great,” said juniordiver Valentina Gordon. “She isreally fun to be around andthere really isn’t a dull momentwith her.”
Even though the junior livedin New Jersey for most of her life,Rutgers presented somewhat of adifferent feel than when she usedto swim for the Hokies.
“The diversity on campus isdifferent,” Santora said. “VirginiaTech is way down south in themiddle of nowhere, so you’re notin the city life at all. Coming herehas been pretty cool.”
While the move benefited heron the boards, Santora knewreturning to New Jersey wouldget rid of the homesickness sheexperienced for two years inBlacksburg, Va.
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new teammates after transfer
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Junior diver Carissa Santora transferred to Rutgers after spending two seasons at Virginia Tech. The move reunited Santorawith diving coach Fred Woodruff, who initially recruited her out of Mainland Regional High School.
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BY JOEY GREGORYSTAFF WRITER
Rutgers head women’s golfcoach Maura Waters-Ballard sawas much as a coach could ask of a
t e a mb e t w e e n
the spring and fall seasons withclear improvement.
As a team, the Scarlet Knightslowered their average finish bynearly three places. They postedthree top-three finishes, com-pared to only one in the spring.And they lowered their scores.
Waters-Ballard took notice ofall of it.
“Our stroke average is about14 shots lower than it was thistime last year, so we’re makinggreat strides,” she said. “The girlsare really working hard and it’spaying off.”
Perhaps one of the biggestquestions facing Waters-Ballardentering the fall season was howshe was going to fill the void leftby former captain Jeanne Waters.
Waters was consistently partof the contributing scores forthe Knights, and finding some-one to match her scores was notan easy task.
Freshman Kor tnieMaxoutopoulis more thananswered the call, leading theKnights in each of the five falltournaments and winning twoof them.
Her only finish outside thetop five was the Rainbow WahineInvitational, at which the Knights saw some of the bestteams in the country, includingNo. 1 UCLA.
“[Kortnie] has been great.She’s played very steady, veryconsistently, very focused,”Waters-Ballard said. “She’s a fabu-lous addition to the team as afreshman, competing so well herfirst year.”
But with all of the excitementsurrounding the emerging fresh-man star, Waters-Ballard has notlost sight of the contributions andstrides of the rest of the team.
“Our captain leader, LizzyCarl, really motivated the girls.She has done a great job keepingus focused. We’ve got great lead-ership and also great underclass-men that are doing a great job,”she said. “Everybody is workinghard and in great spirits.”
The biggest weapon for theKnights during the upcomingspring season might not be theirfreshman standout, but ratheradded experience throughout theentire team, which is most impor-tant to Maxoutopoulis.
Waters-Ballard thinks as goodas Maxoutopoulis was this sea-son, she can come out evenstronger in the spring.
“I think the experienceKortnie gained this fall will doher very well in the spring,”Waters-Ballard said. “I think wecan probably see even a littlebetter play from her in thespring now that she knows whatit’s all about and has a seasonunder her belt.”
In order to prepare for thespring, the work does not stop.The Knights are going to squeezeall of the course time they can outof the fall, as well as move sometraining indoors.
“We’re going to be going intothe gym three days a week, work-ing out,” Waters-Ballard said. “We’llstill play golf on Tuesdays andThursdays, weather permitting.”
The Knights have from nowuntil March 16 to keep in shapeand prepare for the spring, whichWaters-Ballard said could bemore intense.
“I think the spring might be a lit-tle stronger actually, competition-wise, than the fall,” she said. “[TheColumbia Roaree Invitational] willbe Ivy League teams which arevery good. The Cincinnati event isfairly competitive.”
The finale of the spring seasonis the Big East Championships,which showcases the toughestcompetition all year. The Knightstook sixth place last year at theChampionships. Waters-Ballardsees this season’s squad improv-ing on the mark.
The Knights have little time toenjoy the improvements madethis fall because they know fastapproaching is their final exam,the Big East Championships.
“Right now we are ahead ofthree teams in the rankings. Ithink we can keep that posi-tion,” she said. “That would bemy goal, to beat out thosethree, and there are seventeams so we would come infourth place. I see us in the topfive for Big East.”
MAURAWATERS-BALLARD
WOMEN’S GOLF
CONOR ALWELL / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Freshman golfer Kortnie Maxoutopoulis’ only finish this season outside the top-five individual performers was the Rainbow Wahine Invitational, the Scarlet Knights’final tournament of the season. Maxoutopoulis won a pair of tournaments in her first season, including the Bucknell Invitational, her first collegiate appearance.
Head coach notices marked development in fall season
WOMEN’S GOLF2011 SPRING SCHEDULE
MARCH 16-17Siena College Homewood Suites InvitationalPort St. Lucie, Fla.
MARCH 23-24Cincinnati SpringInvitationalCrystal River, Fla.
APRIL 13-14Columbia Roaree InvitationalSuffern, N.Y.
APRIL 22-24Big East ChampionshipsOrlando, Fla.
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R utgers soccer midfield-er Bryant Knibbs andfield hockey midfielder
Lisa Patrone earned RutgersStudent-Athletes of the Monthhonors for October.
Knibbs helped lead theScarlet Knights to a 9-5-3record and a first-round bye inthe Big East Tournament.
He scored two goals andearned an assist in Octoberand also received Big EastWeekly Honor Roll recognitionfor his game-winning goalagainst Villanova.
Patrone ranked second on theteam in assists (4), earning BigEast Weekly Honor Roll honorsfor the second time in her career.
PENN STATE HEADfootball coach Joe Paternoplanned to attend his weeklypress conference yesterday,knowing most of the questionswould involve the scandal sur-rounding former defensivecoordinator Jerry Sandusky.
But PSU administrationreportedly cancelled thepress conference.
Sandusky was indicted oncharges of sexually abusingeight boys he met through hischarity foundation over thecourse of 15 years.
Paterno testified a graduateassistant who witnessed one ofthe incidents informed him,and Paterno passed the infor-mation on to Athletic DirectorTim Curley, who since steppeddown along with senior VicePresident Gary Schultz.
THE NEW ENGLANDPatriots released defensive tack-le Albert Haynesworth, whothey acquired four months ago.
He sat the bench followingan argument with defensive linecoach Pepper Johnson duringthe third quarter of Sunday’sloss to the New York Giants, andtwo days later the Pats cut him.
The veteran linemantotaled three tackles in sixgames for New England.
TEXAS RANGERSpitching coach Mike Madduxwithdrew from candidacy formanager of the Boston Red Sox.
Maddux was supposed tohave an interview yesterday,but canceled.
He said the main reason hedeclined the opportunity forthe position was because ofhis family.
Philadelphia Philliesbench coach Pete Mackaninand Milwaukee Brewers hit-ting coach Dale Sveumalready interviewed.
ARIZONA CARDINALSquarterback Kevin Kolb likelyhas to sit out when the teamtravels to Philadelphia to faceKolb’s former team.
He still suffers from asprained foot and turf toe,which hamper his movement.
Fordham product JohnSkelton will practice with thefirst team this week and will like-ly earn his second straight start.
WORD ON THE STREET
BY PATRICK LANNI STAFF WRITER
An unlikely duo arrived on theBanks four years ago. One trav-eled 4,000 miles from home, the
o t h e r2,000. One
was quiet and reserved, the otherquirky and outgoing.
Now, Rutgers senior volleyballcaptains Hannah Curtis andKallie Pence share a special bondand stories to last far beyondtheir playing careers.
Faced with a 2-22 record theirfreshman year, the pair saw theworst of a developing program.
“Kallie and I came in as fresh-man and we knew it would behard coming into a program thatwas rebuilding,” Curtis said. “Wejust put in a lot of effort.”
The effort resulted in immedi-ate success for the two players.
Curtis finished the seasonfirst on the team in blocks andsecond in kills, while Pence ledthe team in assists from hersetter position.
Patience then became a char-acteristic for them.
“[Our freshman year] took alot of patience and strength togo through,” Curtis said. “Weput in a lot of work and time forthe program.”
The patience paid of f the fol-lowing season, as the 2008squad tallied 10 wins. Curtisagain proved a valuable tool inthe middle, leading the team inblocks for a second consecutiveyear. Her seven blocks againstGeorgetown gave the Knightsthe edge in their first Big Eastwin in two seasons.
Pence also led a Rutgers first.The College Station, Texas,native recorded 36 assists in thefinal two matches of theBucknell Invitational, steeringthe Knights to their first tourna-ment championship in theWerneke era.
With plenty of accolades onthe court to remember theirunderclassmen years, theirjourney on the court sooncomes to a close.
“It’s kind of surreal,” Pencesaid. “I never imagined this timewould come. It’s kind of one ofthose things where you don’t
take your time here for granted,but it’s all just what you do …it’s your life. It just hasn’t quitehit me yet.”
It did not yet hit Curtis, whoalso described her last week ofpractice as “surreal.”
“It’s a little sad. It’s bitter-sweet, but I try not to think aboutit too much,” she said.
The duo plays in its final twogames this weekend at theCollege Avenue Gym againstConnecticut and St. John’s onSaturday and Sunday, respectively.
With eight wins in their up-and-down senior season, Curtisand Pence attempt to get todouble-digits wins for the thirdconsecutive season.
“I’m going to make the lasttwo games the best twogames,” Cur tis said. “[I’mgoing to] go out swinging hard, playing hard and making them the most unfor-gettable experience.”
Two wins on their final week-end would be encouraging forCurtis and Pence, but their sto-ries, relationship and growth arefactors neither can forget.
“I don’t think words can real-ly describe what a great experi-ence this has been for me,”Cur tis said. “The past fouryears have been the best fouryears of my life.”
Four years on the courttogether end abruptly this week-end, but the senior captains agreetheir friendship will remain.
“She’s definitely my bestfriend in the whole entireworld,” Pence said. “Words can’teven describe what our relation-ship is and truly how incredibleit is. I think it’s one that’s honestand we’ll have for the rest of ourlives. She will be my best friendforever, and it’s been a true priv-ilege to spend my four yearswith her.”
Curtis was also quick to valuetheir friendship.
“If we could spend every sec-ond of the day together, wewould. She’s just amazing on andoff the court, and I’ve learned somuch from her,” Curtis said.“We’ve grown up together thepast four years. She’s really spe-cial to me. We’re definitely goingto be friends forever.”
VOLLEYBALL
Seniors Hannah Curtis (left) and Kallie Pence make their final appearances for the Scarlet Knights this weekend, when they welcomeConnecticut and St. John’s to the College Avenue Gym to close the season. Curtis and Pence helped turn around a 2-22 team.
Pair of seniors grip for final matches
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T H E D A I L Y T A R G U M SP O RT S N O V E M B E R 9 , 2 0 1 1 1 9
BY STEVEN MILLERSPORTS EDITOR
If Greg Schiano had theopportunity, the Rutgers headfootball coach would sign up fora 3-yards-per-carry average fromhis rushing game.
“Three yards is OK withme,” Schiano said. And itshould be, since the ScarletKnights average 2.4 yards percarr y entering Saturday’sgame against Army.
The number includes sacks — the average for run-ning backs and fullbacks is3.24 yards per carry — but lastweek backfield players carriedthe ball 22 times for 17 yards.Including sacks, Rutgers’ground game lost 7 yards.
It also lost freshman Savon Huggins.
The result could bechanges to the Rutgersof fense. Schiano said it could mean more carries forfullback Joe Martinek, maybeeven with fullback MichaelBurton blocking.
But the most likely scenarioinvolves more carries for little-used Jeremy Deering.
The sophomore ranked sec-ond on the team in rushinglast season out of the Wildcat,but has only 22 carries for 68 yards in his first season atrunning back.
The decreased productionis part of a numbers game,Schiano said.
Deering had an extra block-er last season, when Schianoand his staf f recognizedRutgers had major deficien-cies on the ground and leanedon the Wildcat.
He also had more opportunities.“He probably hasn’t gotten
as many touches at that as hedid when he got touches full-time at the Wildcat,” Schianosaid. “He ran well [yesterday].I was really pleased. He’ll stickit in there. He may not have asmuch shake-shake as Jawan[Jamison], but he’ll stick it inthere and right now, that’swhat we need.”
Jamison recognized as much,and shouldered the blame forlast week’s showing.
The redshir t freshmanrushed for 101 yards Oct. 15against Navy, then fell 4 yardsshy of the centur y mark two weeks later against West Virginia.
He carried the ball 15 timesfor 12 yards against USF.
“I was just trying to makesomething happen,” Jamisonsaid. “That was my fault. I feel likeI have it figured out more — notas much shaking and side-to-side,but more one cut and go.”
JUNIOR WIDE RECEIVERMark Harrison started practiceyesterday, but stopped after hedid not feel well while dealingwith concussion symptoms.
Harrison did not playSaturday against USF after
suf fering a head injur y in practice and Schiano said he is uncer tain of his status this week.
“I don’t know what’s going tohappen,” Schiano said.
JUNIOR WIDE RECEIVERMohamed Sanu is six recep-tions shy of tying KennyBritt’s single-season recep-tions record at Rutgers, andSchiano is not surprised.
“I don’t put anything by Mo,”he said.
Sanu also needs only 11catches to tie Larry Fitzgerald’sBig East single-season record.
Schiano considers Sanu’sfourth-and-9 reception from hisback against USF his best of aseason filled with highlight-reelgrabs because of its importance.
SENIOR SAFETY PATKivlehan played his biggestdefensive role of the seasonagainst Navy and its triple-option offense earlier this year,when he made two tackles,including half for a loss, andintercepted a pass.
Schiano said Kivlehan is inline for a similar role this weekagainst Army.
“He has a knack for playingthis stuff,” Schiano said.
THE KNIGHTS PRACTICEDyesterday with the white helmetsthey will wear against Army, onlywithout the American flag block‘R’ emblem on them.
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Junior wideout Mohamed Sanu is 12 receptions shy of breakingLarry Fitzgerald’s single-season Big East receptions record.
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Redshirt freshman running back Jawan Jamison averaged 0.8 yards per carry last week against South Florida, which magnified the issues of Rutgers’ ground game.The Stark, Fla., native said it was a product of trying to make something out of nothing and losing yards on too many plays.
PRACTICE NOTEBOOK SCHIANO CHALLENGES RUNNING BACKS TO IMPROVE PRODUCTION ON GROUND
much to the disappointment of Rutgershead diving coach Fred Woodruf f, whorecruited her to stay home and competefor the school he coached at for the past18 years.
“It bummed me out at the time,”Woodruff said. “Then she decided she want-ed to come back home, so I was really excit-ed when she wanted to do that.”
Santora looks back on the decision with alaugh and a smile.
“You live and you learn,” Santora said.“But now I’m here and I love it so far. I like ita lot here.”
The decision to return home benefitedboth Santora and her new team. The Knightshold an unblemished 4-0 record enteringFriday’s Big East meet with Texas Christianand Seton Hall.
The junior quickly became an integralpart of Woodruff’s squad, helping aid theKnights’ strong start. At last weekend’s meetagainst Wagner, Santora took home both the3-meter and 1-meter dive events that pro-pelled Rutgers to a 165-121 home victory.
SPORTSP A G E 2 0 N O V E M B E R 9 , 2 0 1 1
T H E D A I L Y T A R G U M
Merrell twins earn starting roles on Rutgers defenseBY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ
ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
A sea of red quickly flooded the greenturf of High Point Solutions Stadium follow-ing the Rutgers football team’s 20-17 come-
back victory againstSouth Florida.
For sophomore twins Jamil and JamalMerrell, their teammates’ frenzy did little tochange their postgame ritual.
“We always find each other at the end ofthe game,” said Jamal Merrell, who switchedto linebacker from wide receiver in thespring. “We always just say something inspi-rational. This time I was just like — just likeour dad always told us — ‘They haven’t seenanything yet. Just keep going hard and justnever give up.’”
A 37-yard field goal by senior San San Tein overtime completed the Scarlet Knights’17-0 run to close the contest and hand USFits fourth consecutive Big East loss.
But the kick also gave the Merrells theirfirst victory in a game they started togetherafter both earned starting nods last week in a41-31 loss to West Virginia.
Jamil and Jamal Merrell long played foot-ball together on the same team, from PopWarner to Hodgson Vo-Tech (Del.) all theway to this season for Rutgers.
The Bear, Del., natives did not know theywould play on the same side of the ball priorto the season, but both knew they would seethe field.
Then for the second consecutive week,Jamil Merrell started at defensive end andJamal Merrell at strongside linebacker.
“If not the same side, we were both goingto be playing — we knew that,” Jamil Merrellsaid. “Everything was a blessing. We justtake it as a blessing and run with it.”
At 6-foot-4 and 220 pounds, Jamal Merrellinitially was another big body in the alreadypacked stable of receivers. But head coachGreg Schiano decided to move Jamal Merrellback to defense, where he used his experi-ence as a high school safety.
Jamal Merrell now splits time with fresh-man Kevin Snyder and is seventh on theteam in tackles (34) after his modest two-tackle performance against USF.
In the meantime, Jamil Merrell continuedto work on improving his own game. The 6-foot-4 defensive end arrived in Piscataway asthe No. 15 defensive end in the country,
SEE TWINS ON PAGE 15
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Sophomore defensive end Jamil Merrell (92) started his first game in Greg Schiano’s defensive unit in Rutgers’ loss to West Virginiatwo weeks ago in Piscataway. The Bear, Del., native, formerly the No. 15 ranked defensive end by ESPN, has nine tackles.
FOOTBALL
Package dealsends Neptunerecruits to RU
BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
When freshmen guards SyessenceDavis and Shakena Richardson
had Rutgers on their recruiting
trail, there was little question concerningwhere the Neptune, N.J., natives would play.
“Oh, yeah,” Richardson said. “Package deal.”The duo committed to the Rutgers
women’s basketball team early in therecruiting process, and both bring theirown ball handling dynamics to the ScarletKnights’ backcourt.
Richardson, a 5-foot-6 pure point guard,was No. 4 in the country at her position,according to ESPN Hoopgurlz.
The point guard position lacked depthfor a majority of last season because of anagging ankle injur y that consistently
SEE RECRUITS ON PAGE 16
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Junior finds success athome with new program
BY BRADLY DERECHAILOSTAFF WRITER
High school seniors face the dif ficultdecision ever y year of either staying
home to earn theircollege educations
or venturing away from everything theyknow to a school in a dif ferent state.
Rutgers junior diver Carissa Santorachose the latter three years ago.
But it took only a two-year stint atVirginia Tech for Santora to realize howmuch she missed home, and the first-yearScarlet Knight believes she made theright choice by returning to New Jersey.
“I was pretty home sick,” Santora said.“A lot of people from my high school gohere, so it wasn’t really a hard transition.I love my team and my coach, so itworked out.”
Homesickness was not a cause of concernfor the diver initially.
During her senior year at MainlandRegional High School, Santora narroweddown her diving destinations to VirginiaTech and Rutgers. She chose the former, SEE HOME ON PAGE 16
SWIMMING & DIVING
Junior diver Carissa Santora won boththe 1-meter and 3-meter dives Friday.
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