Stress Factory twice to find talent-ed comedians, said DennisHedlund, the competition’s chair-man and founder.

The organizers decided to hostthis year’s finals at the University inthe hopes of attracting a larger crowd.

“Before it was held at Rutgers, itwas held at Monmouth University,which we considered a ‘suitcaseschool,’ and we had a low turn-out,”Hedlund said. “I don’t knowwhether the students were at a foot-ball game or a basketball game then[but] we’ve always had a goodturnout at Rutgers.”

Megan Jef fers and SarahFreeman, seniors at MonmouthUniversity, came to support twofriends who performed.

“There have been some really badcomics in the past, but we hope thereare some good ones,” Jeffers said. “Imean, they made it this far.”

Freeman said she believes a largepart in determining the winner is leftto the audience.

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

Arts and Sciences senior. “All humansuffering is equally unjust and unac-ceptable, and that is the purpose oftonight to say, never again to all formsof oppression.”

American Muslims for Palestine, theInternational Jewish Anti-Zionist Network(IJAN) and the Middle East Children’sAlliance, who sponsored the event, initial-ly advised that it be advertised as free andopen to the public, said Sami Jitan, BAKAevent coorindator.

But on the day of the event, SaraKershnar, founder of the IJAN, changedthe price of admission to $5 because ofchanges within the contract.

“The contract with BAKA was can-celed and a new contract was created withAmerican Muslims for Palestine becausethe University felt that it was not a student

event, but it was an event by outsideorganizations,” she said.

The University instead needed tocharge a private room rate, which Kershnarsaid was three times the original rate.

“Combined with the fact that these dif-ferent Zionists organizations put out a callfor protest, we then also had to pay for twoadditional security guards,” she said.“When we were on site we decided tocharge everyone a minimum of $5 to $20because we had to pass on to some of thecosts to participants which is not unusual.That was true for anyone who came in.”

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

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

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

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A last-minute change to the admis-sions policy for “Never Again forAnyone,” led some members of theJewish community to protest Saturdayoutside of Trayes Hall in the DouglassCampus Center.

The event was intended to shed lighton Jewish suffering during the Holocaustand Palestinian suffering in the 1948 eth-nic cleansing known as “Nakba” in orderto show that all suffering affect allhumans, said Hoda Mitwally, public rela-tions officer for BAKA: Students Unitedfor Middle Eastern Justice.

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Fairleigh Dickinson student earns laughs, top prizeBY ANASTASIA MILLICKER

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Farleigh Dickinson Universitygraduate Gordon Baker-Bone tookhome the title “King of CampusComedy” at the finals of this year’sNew Jersey Comedy FestivalSaturday in the Livingston Student Center.

The event showcased the comedyroutines of 27 college students fromall over the state.

“A lot of them had these awesomeacts. There are a lot of great youngcomics in New Jersey [and] to goagainst them is hard work, and youhave to try your best,” Baker-Bone said.

Baker-Bone, who received $5,000and a scholarship to attend theStress Factory School of Comedy aswell as the opportunity to act at theStress Factory Comedy Club, said heplans to use his prize to further hiscomedy career.

“[I want to] start up a comedy web-site [and I’m] probably going to moveto New York City,” he said.

The festival traveled to 16 col-lege campuses this year and to the

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Ernest Mario studentsmake professional links

BY JENNIFER LIUCONTRIBUTING WRITER

While most people only dealwith medications when they aresick, the subset of Universitystudents that have dedicatedtheir lives to them had a chanceto benefit their careersThursday night in the BuschCampus Center.

The Academy of ManagedCare Pharmacy and co-ed phar-macy fraternity Alpha ZetaOmega hosted the secondannual Pharmacy SpeedNetworking event, where phar-macy students had the opportu-nity to connect with PharmDgraduates and explore career options.

Graduate students sharedtheir experiences with pharma-cy students and gave them pro-fessional advice.

“It’s like passing the torch,”said Jeana Parmi, clinical sci-ence specialist at Hoffmann-LaRoche, Inc. “I know how I feltwhen I was a student and I did-n’t have a lot of people to askexcept my bosses.”

Students had the opportunityto speak with professionals fromtheir respective fields of phar-macy during a discussion panel.

“Most non-pharmaciststhink you can do retail pharma-cy and that’s it, which a lot of usdo,” said Gaurav Gangoli, pres-ident of The Academy ofManaged Care Pharmacy. “Buta lot of us do other things …like nuclear pharmacy.”

The University’s Of fice ofCareer Services also hosted aworkshop on elevator speeches,short autobiographical pitchesoften used to describe oneselfto potential employers.

“A lot of opportunities comealong, and whether or not youget that opportunity may dependon whether you have that eleva-tor speech prepared and readyto go,” said Bill Dreitlein, direc-tor of Drug Information andPharmacogenomics at MedcoHealth Solutions, Inc.

Students saw the elevator

speech workshop as an opportunitynot only to rehearse for the speednetworking session that followed,but also as a stress relief exercise.

“I got to practice my eleva-tor speech a little bit,” said XiaoZhang, an Ernest Mario Schoolof Pharmacy senior. “That wasgood because I didn’t reallyprepare for it beforehand so itwas good to get the nerves outand practice a little bit.”

The event concluded with amain focus group on the impor-tance of networking.

“To get jobs in the future,you need to be able to talk topeople in order to start conver-sations,” event coordinatorAlyse Scaffidi said. “It’s a goodway to learn how to meet withpeople, how to converse withpeople and you really havenothing to lose.”

Health care professionalsanswered students’ questions andhelped them build connectionswithin the pharmacy community.

“The pharmacy world is actu-ally a pretty small world,” saidAthena Patrikios, ClinicalPharmacist with Horizon BlueCross and Blue Shield of NewJersey. “You never know whereyour career is going to take you,so it’s really good to maintainrelationships with individuals.”

Students like Neeha Patel, aSchool of Pharmacy senior,attended the event to broadenthe scope of their career options.

“I already have a job in retail,but I really want to expand that.I want to see if I can go intosomething different,” Patel said.

Students could supplementtheir degrees in pharmacy bycombining it with anotherdegree, such as one in busi-ness, writing or law, Dreitlein said.

“Medicine in general isbecoming complex,” he said.“One can’t understand it all.There’s a growing need to havepeople specialize in the drugpar t of it. I think there’s abright future for pharmacistsand for pharmacy.”

Students examine bus etiquetteBY ANASTASIA MILLICKER

STAFF WRITER

Riding crowded buses to classmay not always be pleasant, butthe founders of an on-campus ini-tiative on civility aim to show stu-dents that a little kindness can goa long way in making the trips alittle more bearable.

Nine first-year students gath-ered around the fireplace in theNJC Lounge of the DouglassCampus Center Thursday nightto discuss bus etiquette during achat called “Get on the Bus: CanWe Be Kinder Towards OneAnother on the Rutgers Buses?”

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

The project focuses on thesocial aspects of daily life and themannerisms of people in stressfulsituations, with the theme of civil-ity weaved throughout eachplanned discussions, said Hull,director of the Byrne FamilyFirst-Year Seminars.

“The idea for it came out hereat my seminar, where I askedwhat’s the rudest thing you’ve everexperienced, and the one of thethings that came up during thiswas riding the buses,” Hull said.

During a class discussion, onestudent mentioned she feltuncomfortable on a bus to hercampus after a football game,which brought up the issue ofregulation on the bus, she said.

“We thought it would be reallywonderful if students could ownthe buses in a sense of [their]own responsibility and how’dthey like the buses to be for them-selves, as opposed to adults mak-ing all these rules and regula-tions,” she said.

Cook/Douglass CampusDean of Students MichelleJefferson, who moderated thefireside chat, said it has becomenormal for students to be uncivilwhile on the buses.

“I can’t even imagine what you[addressing the first-year stu-dents] will be like when you’re thatrude uncivilized student beatingdown on all the first-year studentsto get a spot on the bus,” she said.

Hull said she noticed peopledo not associate with each otherwhile riding the bus.

“[The] first time I took the busfrom College Avenue toCook/Douglass, the bus wascompletely quiet and no one wastalking to each other at all,” shesaid. “I thought people would bereading on the bus, but it was likeeveryone was on their own.”

Most students listen to theiriPods and isolate themselveswhile on the bus, Hull said.

“When you’re on the bus, youfigure you’re never going to seethat person again, so why go outof your way to make a conversa-tion with them?” School of Artsand Sciences first-year studentCiarra Martin said.

Jefferson reminisced on her

days as a University student rid-ing the buses.

“I remember we used to loveto ride the buses,” she said. “Wewould get on the buses to meetpeople, sit down and start a con-versation with people, but now itsounds like people get on the buswith their headphones or they’reon the phone.”

Director of TransportationServices Jack Molenaar said ifpeople are isolated but still beingnice, there is no problem.

School of Arts and Sciencefirst-year student LicelotGonzales thought pushing to geton the buses is a larger issue,especially last week during thesnowy weather and the reducednumber of buses.

Pushing is not a new issue buthas gotten better over the pastfour years due to NextBus,Molenaar said.

“There were no screens, andthe pushing onto the buses was alot more [common] then because

no one knew when the bus wascoming,” he said. “So now we findthe actual complaints of peoplepushing has dropped hugely,because of all that technology.”

Students also expressed con-cern about the safety of the busand the public’s use of theUniversity’s bus system.

The bus system, which is notonly open to students but to mem-bers of the community, was estab-lished to reduce the build up ofstudents waiting to get on and toaccommodate the volume of peo-ple using the bus, Molenaar said.

“What it will morph into even-tually is how the light rail[works], where there are spotchecks, and if a student doesn’thave their ID, they get a ticket,”he said. “But I can imagine a stu-dent missing a test just becausethey don’t have their student ID,and I don’t want that.”

When the new bus companybegins operating the system in July,the buses will include more securi-ty features, like two cameras.Molenaar said the single camerasystem has not been the most effec-tive method of surveillance.

“During the football games,we hear reports from drivers[identifying] an 18- to 22-year-oldwearing a red Rutgers footballshirt, and [we] laugh because it’sso ambiguous,” he said. “So nowwith the two cameras we can bet-ter investigate the reports.”

Students suggested ways toimprove the current bus system tocreate a more civil environment,like playing music on the buses.

“I know with the ward shuttle,they play nice music on there, andthe bus drivers are also so polite,”said Louis Levya, a GraduateSchool of Education student. “Butthere’s not that chaotic group ofpeople on the bus. Maybe there’sthis psychology that if you’re in alarge group of people, you’re lesslikely to be civil.”

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

“Civility is a thing wherepeople need to learn how torespect others,” she said.“[They need to] think how theywant to be treated and makethat change themselves.”

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

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

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“I thought peoplewould be reading

on the bus, but it was like everyonewas on their own.”

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

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“We made that decision onsite and then they were there andwe let them know that it was ourdecision,” Kershnar said.

Some students wearing yellowshirts emblazoned with “Don’tpoliticize the Holocaust” dancedand sang with others to songs ofsolidarity to Israel, the UnitedStates and freedom, saidShoshana Smolen, a School ofArts and Sciences senior.

“We came here to be peaceful.We came to sit here, listen andvoice our opinions with ourshirts, not with our voices,” saidMax Hockley, a School of Artsand Sciences junior. “They saidthey would charge only the 150Zionists — Jews essentially —even though it was advertised asbeing free.”

Student protestors originallythought BAKA was behind theevent and claimed a right to admis-sion, considering that studentorganizations receive funds fromthe student body, Smolen said.

But even after they realizedthe event was privately spon-sored, they still felt campusgroups that endorse eventsshould still allow fellow studentsto join them, she said.

“If you’re talking about bar-ring people because of ethnicity,race, religion, that was not thecase,” said Jitan, a School of Artsand Sciences senior. “We hadJews, Christians, Muslims,Atheists inside who calmly par-ticipated in the event. We werenot discriminatory. People whowanted to pay got in.”

Members of BAKA, theUniversity chapter of Psi SigmaPhi Multicultural Men’sFraternity, Youth ActionInternational, the Universitychapter of Palestine Children’sRelief Fund, LLEGO: TheLGBTQQIA (Lesbian, Gay,Bisexual, Transgender, Queer,Questioning, Intersex and Ally)People of Color Union at theUniversity and Hub City Anti-Racist Action endorsed and vol-unteered at the event.

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we cheer, the better it is forthe [comedian].”

In the middle of the competi-tion, School of Arts andSciences senior Bryn Colemanincluded a series of racial slursin his performance. Coleman,whose routine was booed at,threw the microphone and leftthe stage.

David Stein, the executiveproducer of the competition, saidhe was shocked by Coleman’soutrage and disappointed thatmembers of the audience had towitness it.

“[It’s never happened] to thatgreat degree,” Stein said. “We’vehad, after the finals, when thewinner was announced and thekids who didn’t agree with thejudges [would] get a little upset,but nothing like this.”

Comedian and judgeFrankie Hudak made light ofthe situation.

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Data and interviews with law enforcement experts in a NewJersey State Police report released Friday indicates that real-lifegang activity does not resemble widely held ideas about gang life.

The 158-page survey reports that the 244 distinct gangsoperating within the state stretch across all 21 counties, accord-ing to an nj.com article. But more than half are not involved inviolent crime.

Also, 51 percent of gangs are not involved with drug traffick-ing, and gang-related violence rarely deals with drug trade orturf battles.

Findings also show there is little cohesion in major gangs suchas the Bloods, Crips or Latin Kings, according to the article.Rivalry disputes usually occur between the 1,575 gang subsetsthat exist.

Police officials and experts are praising the report for itsdepth and scope.

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

Despite the positive feedback, some leaders likeElizabeth Mayor Chris Bollwage criticized the report for itslack of solutions.

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

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

“It’s become more visible and more palpable,” State TroopersFraternal Association President Dave Jones said in the article.“This is a clear and present danger.”

— Kristine Rosette Enerio

POLICE STUDY MEASURES GANGACTIVITY THROUGHOUT STATE

The Livingston Theatre Company performs songs from the television show, “Glee,” at the Crossroads Theatre

yesterday as part of their 24-Hour Musical Challenge. Proceeds go to Rutgers University Dance Marathon.

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ALL IN A DAY’S WORK

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

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“If there was anything in theadvertisement that was sent thatshould have changed beforecoming in, then that should’vebeen given to us in the advertise-ment,” Jitan said. “IJAN was run-ning the show.”

As part of the event, self-iden-tified Anti-Zionist Jews and sur-vivors of the Holocaust HedyEpstein and Haja Meyer, survivorof his village Deir Yassi’s ethniccleansing Dawud Assad andOsama Abu Irshaid, founder andeditor-in-chief of Al-Meezan news-paper, shared their personal testi-monies and called for activism.

“We are not claiming a sort ofequivalence between oppres-sions. We are not claiming thatone oppression is worse than theother,” Mitwalla said. “Frankly,that isn’t our point. Our point is tosay that all human suffering mat-ters no matter the scale, no mat-ter where or when it occurs, nomatter the effects.”

A principle goal for the speak-ers was to show that peopleshould not solely act as witnesseswhen others are dehumanizedand experience racism, ethniccleansing and genocide, Kershnarsaid. People also cannot use pastatrocities as an excuse to commitsimilar acts against others.

But some students whoprotested during “Never Again forAnyone” felt the memory of theHolocaust should not be a meansof attracting attention to the event.Students like Hockley said sys-tematic murders, ethnic cleansingand starvation are not currentlytaking place in Palestine.

“Even Osama admitted theatrocities are not the same,”Hockley said. “Whether Israelhas made mistakes, to compare itto the Holocaust is shouting firejust to get attention and is inap-propriate and an insult.”

Daniel Levy, a School of Artsand Sciences sophomore,respected the speakers’ personalexperiences of the Holocaust butfelt they were not equipped todiscuss a more developed, mod-ern-day Palestine.

“I’ve been to the border ofGaza,” Levy said. “I’ve lookedover Gaza. It’s not hard to seewhere you are. I see tall buildings.I see farming. I see farmers.”

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

Each contestant at this year’sfinals had to pass a preliminaryround, Hedlund said.

“We usually get 15 to 20 kidsto try out per college, and welimit that down to three to per-form at the festival,” he said.

In terms of judging, Hedlundsaid they adjudicate in four maincategories that are worth 10points each.

“They are judged in audiencereaction, stage presence, original-ity and material,” he said. “Themost [points] they can get is 40.”

The judges are picked for dif-ferent reasons, Hedlund said. Eachis chosen for a unique quality.

“We try to have a performer,comedy writer, someone who isvery versatile and dabbles in thebusiness,” he said.

Hudak said he was looking forsomeone who captivated the audi-ence like a professional.

“[I want] someone that getson stage and has a great pres-ence, invokes the audience andleaves them wanting more,”Hudak said.

Steven Gorelick, executivedirector of New Jersey Motion

Picture and TelevisionCommission, said he often finds itdifficult to score each contestant.

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

Gorelick, who has workedwith comedians like SteveMartin in the past, said he findshimself conflicted over how tojudge the comedians.

Stein agreed that the judgingprocess is subjective.

“Just because you don’t like itdoesn’t mean I don’t like it, so it’svery personal,” he said.

Guest speakers who per-formed at the festival were for-mer winners Adam Mamawalaand University alumna DinaHashem, as well as ComedyCentral comedians Richard Vosand his wife, BonnieMcFarlane. Vos was laterinducted into the New JerseyComedy Hall of Fame.

Stein, who is responsible formarketing, booking andattracting contestants to thecompetition, said he wasimpressed by this year’s quali-ty of talent.

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

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31 “Strategic Human Resource Management: BusinessStrategy” is the first in a series of workshops in theStrategic Human Resource Management CertificateProgram. This workshop will consider decisions regard-ing strategic expansion, the introduction of new prod-ucts or services as well as the diversification into com-plimentary industries. The course is scheduled to runfrom 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Janice H. Levin Building onLivingston campus. Each workshop, sponsored by theRutgers Center for Management Development, costs$475. Visit www.cmd.rutgers.edu/humanresoruces-advanced.html for more information.

Apply to be a staff member for Rutgers Model Congress2011. The conference will be held on April 14 to 17 in theHyatt Regency Hotel. Designed for high school students,Rutgers Model Congress is a conference that simulatesthe workings of Congress. Help teach approximately 500high school students from around the country the valueof civic engagement and political involvement in domes-tic and international politics. A general interest meetingwill be held at 9 p.m. in A6 in Frelinghuysen Hall on theCollege Avenue campus.

1 Vanessa Farquharson, author of the book “SleepingNaked is Green,” is coming to talk about her 366-day jour-ney to live a more environmentally conscious lifestyle bymaking one positive change each day. She is also going togive away the secrets about how students can go greenon campus. The event is sponsored by the RutgersUniversity Programming Association and will take placeat 8 p.m. in Cook Campus Center Multipurpose Room.

2 Art After Hours will feature a tour from 5 to 9 p.m. ofthe exhibition “Dancing with the Dark: Joan SnyderPrints,” a women’s themed poetry showcase, includingan open-mic opportunity and a performance ofRenaissance and Baroque madrigals. Complimentarylight refreshments are also offered. Take advantage ofa 20 percent discount in the museum store and receive50 percent off the soft cover monograph on JoanSnyder’s paintings with the purchase of “Dancing withthe Dark: Joan Snyder Prints.”

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9 Ananya Roy, a leading scholar in comparative urban stud-ies and international development will present a lectureentitled, “The Urban Century: Ecologies andEpistemologies of Dwelling in the Global South.” In thistalk, she will present an analysis of global urbanism, pay-ing particular attention to cities of the global south. Royis a professor of City and Regional Planning at theUniversity of California-Berkeley. The lecture will takeplace at the Alexander Library in the fourth floor lecturehall at 4:30 p.m. It will be followed by a reception.

10 An executive dean’s lecture featuring Susan Solomonentitled, “A World of Change: Climate Yesterday, Today,and Tomorrow,” will take place at 6:30 p.m. at the CookCampus Center Multipurpose Room. Solomon is a seniorscientist at the Earth System Research Laboratory at theNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Sheis an internationally recognized leader in atmosphericscience, particularly for her insights in explaining thecause of the Antarctic ozone “hole.” Solomon’s currentresearch focuses on issues relating to both atmosphericchemistry and climate change. Please join us for thisdynamic presentation, which is part of the “Ecologies inthe Balance?” year-long seminar series to examine possi-ble solutions to sweeping and unprecedented globalenvironmental, social and economic challenges and toexplore the opportunities for intervention that thesechanges represent.

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

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DEM BONES, DEM BONES

“Non-separable violations areless serious infractions that occurbecause a student is unfamiliarwith the principles of academicintegrity [while] separable viola-tions are more severe and willmore likely result in suspensionand expulsion,” said Cotter, achemistry professor.

Another new feature in thepolicy is the honor pledge, Cottersaid. The pledge, a promise thatthe student has not cheated on anassignment, is to be written andsigned on exams and majorassignments before they are sub-mitted for grading.

“We’re trying to promote astronger culture of integrity atthe University,” she said. “I hopea lot of students think twice aboutcheating if they’re pledging thatthey won’t.”

The academic integrity policywill feature an expanded list ofsanctions, including terms thatapply to graduate students,Cotter said.

For non-separable violations,students who fail a course mightreceive a grade of “XF” if theyviolated a principle of integrityunknowingly, she said. The “X” isremoved in time if the studenthas no other violations.

Cotter and ASRAC’s co-chairDan Schantz asked that a com-mittee be formed to handle thenew policy’s implementation.

“We wanted to give students alarger voice in the system,”Cotter said. “Students are hurtmost by the policy, so theyshould have a say in it.”

The new policy includesrevised integrity violationhearing procedures, whichCotter said makes the processless troublesome for facultyand less adversarial for stu-dents by providing them withmore assistance.

“I applaud this new policy,”said Gayle Stein, associate direc-tor of Information and Universitysenator. “I teach in large lecturehalls where there is a tremen-dous potential for violations, so

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

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it’s nice to know something willbe formally codified.”

At the meeting UniversityPresident Richard L.McCormick also presented hisadministrative report, whichpraised the New Jersey HigherEducation Task Force report’srecommendations about budget-ing at the University.

The report also proposed thatboth University of Medicine andDentistry of New Jersey andRobert Wood Johnson MedicalSchool merge to become a part ofthe University, he said.

“It will make Rutgers one ofthe greatest research universi-ties,” McCormick said. “[Therewill be] so many great opportu-nities for collaborations across disciplines.”

Staff senator and associatehistory Professor NormanMarkowitz thought the report

was not as positive asMcCormick said.

“We’ve got to be careful withmerging,” Markowitz said. “Itleads to the elimination of useful jobs.”

Students in attendance alsovoiced concern for the report’ssection on eliminating tuitioncaps, which they said increasetuition at the University each year.

“Removal of tuition caps is agreat concern of the studentbody,” said University Sen. JohnAspray, a School of Arts andSciences senior. “Although 80percent of students receivefinancial aid, most of it comes inthe form of loans, which con-tribute to a lot of debt.”

McCormick said because theUniversity needs sufficient fundsfor research, tuition will continueto rise.

“Without tuition increases,the University would haveslipped into a state of medioc-rity,” he said.

Executive Vice President forAcademic Affairs Philip J.Furmanski, wrote a report thatdiscussed state of theUniversity’s budget.

“We need to be really carefulwhen talking about tuition caps,”Furmanski said. “We’ll try ourbest to temper those increases.”

The University appointed 139faculty members this year, with73 of them employed on the NewBrunswick campus, he said.

“Our faculty is extremelyimportant to Rutgers’ reputation,”Furmanski said. “We have to keephiring excellent faculty who canprovide their advanced knowl-edge to our students.”

Furmanski also said theUniversity is becoming more

diverse, with 12 percent of thestudent body comprising of out-of-state students in fall 2010 andanother five percent made up ofinternational students.

With this in mind, ProjectCivility co-founder Kathleen Hulldelivered a presentation on herproject’s ef forts to determinehow the University communitycan best interact together.

Project Civility has been in theworks for about a year and has sofar provided some programmingon the New Brunswick campus,including talks about the roletechnology plays in deterringcivility, she said.

Hull said she was ready tolaunch the project last fall on thenight of Tyler Clementi’s suicide.

“Any community can take atragedy and shape it to help moveon and better [promote] civilityon campus,” she said.

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Survey to reflect homelessness in Middlesex County BY CHASE BRUSHCONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Middlesex CountyDepartment of Human Servicesconducted its annual 2011 Point-in-Time survey last Wednesdayin an effort to document thenumber of people without homesin the county.

From 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. attwo locations — Elijah’sPromise Soup Kitchen in NewBrunswick and the SalvationArmy in Perth Amboy — volun-teers from across the state sur-veyed homeless persons whoare marginally housed, living on the street or in emer-gency and transitional housing programs.

Coinciding with the count,Project Homeless Connect pro-vided direct relief to thoseexperiencing homelessness atthese locations with housing,health and case managementservices, said Bridget Kennedy,director of the Division ofSocial Work Ser vices ofMiddlesex County Departmentof Human Services.

Departments on both thelocal and state level conductedthe sur vey last week, butresults were administered on acounty level, she said. Everycounty has an identical versionof the sur vey, so ever yonereceives the same questions.

“[The count] is somethingthe U.S. Depar tment ofHousing and Urban

Development requires of everycontinuum of care jurisdictionthroughout the state of NewJersey,” Kennedy said.

Any state or municipalitythat wishes to qualify for sup-por tive housing funds mustcarry out the survey in order todetermine approximately howmuch funding is needed to rec-tify homelessness, she said.

“For those that are low-incomeand homeless people, we do nothave as much housing stock andresources as we should,”Kennedy said.

The form itself is composedof two pages back-to-back andcontains 24 questions, she said.Questions inquire the status ofan individual’s current living situation, backgroundinformation, length of home-lessness and factors that mayhave contributed to the individ-ual’s homelessness.

“[Survey questions] delveinto a lot of different things andare not focused on only unshel-tered homeless persons, butboth sheltered and unshel-tered,” Kennedy said.

None of the questions aredirected toward any one type ofperson because homelessness isa broad definition, she said.

“A lot of times we envisionhomeless people as people liv-ing out on the street,” Kennedysaid. “The reality is that manytimes they are struggling fami-lies in temporary housing or liv-ing with relatives — and partic-

ularly where there are childreninvolved, those families will doanything so [the children] don’twind up on the street.”

Mike Wishnia, a homelessman in New Brunswick whodaily frequents the soupkitchen at Elijah’s Promise,described the trials that come

with being homeless. “If you’re homeless, you’re

almost invisible to the rest ofthe world [and] it’s going totake more than one group ofpeople to change things,” hesaid. “These people [like thevolunteers at Elijah’s Promise]are wonder ful, but they canonly do so much.”

Government and privatesectors, along with nonprofitcommunity outreach organiza-tions and faith communities,collaborated to sponsor thisone-day event, said MelissaBellamy, a representative ofMiddlesex County’s

Depar tment of Housing andCommunity Development.

“By combining theseresources we hope to increasethe survey’s scope and accuracy,”Bellamy said.

Although the numbers forthe 2011 account will not bereleased until June, last year’ssurvey recorded a total of 1,536homeless men, women and chil-dren throughout MiddlesexCounty, according to the 2010Point-in-Time Count Report forMiddlesex County.

Despite the numbers recordedin last year’s reports, the truenumber of homeless people with-out permanent housing in 2010may have been as high as 5,718,Bellamy said.

“Last year we had quite alarge increase in the number ofrecorded homeless individu-als,” she said. “This was duenot only to what we believe tobe a true increase in homeless-ness, but also due to variousother factors like a wider com-munity outreach.”

All of these efforts representmore than just a collaborativeendeavor to combat homeless-ness, Kennedy said. Theyembody a new approach andmethodology that communitiesand organizations acrossMiddlesex County and NewJersey are adopting to endhomelessness altogether.

Bellamy said the nonprofit cor-poration, Coming Home ofMiddlesex County, Inc., is one

example of a group that is focusedon ending homelessness.

Working closely with theMiddlesex County Board ofChosen Freeholders, ComingHome has implemented a planto end chronic homelessnessand develop permanent, sup-portive and affordable housingfor those in need, she said.

“Those communities that haveput together a 10-year plan … areattempting to change their entiresystem so we are no longer sim-ply trying to manage homeless-ness, but are actually trying to getpeople as rapidly rehabbed orinto permanent housing as quick-ly as possible,” she said.

Wishnia, who was educatedat Stockton College in Pomona,N.J., agrees that in order to endhomelessness nation-wide,society must embrace home-lessness as a reality and notignore it as a possibility.

“We are people and we’re nothere because we want to be,” hesaid. “The only differencebetween me and you is that youhave a room and a warm bed togo home to. We don’t.”

Despite not having perma-nent housing, Wishnia managesto find time to volunteer atElijah’s Promise by helpingserve food.

“We should all be consciousthat we are the human commu-nity,” Bellamy said. “There’s acer tain sense of communityamong homeless groups we canlearn a lot from.”

A 70-year-old Edison man was killed Fridaymorning when his wife backed her car over himwhile the couple was clearing snow.

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

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

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

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

Investigators are unaware whether JosephGallof slipped and fell under the car or if he wasdirectly struck.

“It’s a tragic accident,” Masi said in the article.Police determined the death as accidental and

his wife will not receive charges.

This is the second death attributed to the weath-er over the past month, according to the article.

Earlier this month a North Brunswick work-er was crushed between a flatbed and a largetoolbox while clearing snow from his truck witha coworker.

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

—Anastasia Millicker

EDISON WIFE KILLS HUSBAND BY BACKING OVER HIM WITH CAR

“There’s a certainsense of community

among homelessgroups we can

learn a lot from.”MELISSA BELLAMY

Middlesex County’s Departmentof Housing and Community

Development Representative

When I informed Carlosthat his blood sugar levelwas extremely high — possi-bly indicative of diabetes —and inquired whether hewas seeing a primary carephysician about this condi-tion, he quietly informed methat he was an undocument-

ed immigrant and therefore, could not get access tohealth insurance or regular checkups.

If there was ever an ER visit waiting to hap-pen, this was it. Simply put, if Carlos did notquickly get properly diagnosed and treated withanti-diabetic medications, his blood sugar levelwould likely rise above a critical threshold inthe foreseeable future, resulting in him gettingrushed in a comatose state into the nearestemergency room, where a team of clinicianswould be waiting at the ready to inject him withfluids, stick him with insulin and do all that isnecessary to provide him with a good healthy

dose of late-stage, reactiveAmerican medicine.

How much would this hospitalepisode of acute diabetic compli-cation cost taxpayers? About$20,000 on average. And for allthe politicization of rising drugcosts and “unreasonably high”reimbursements to physicians, itshould be noted the annual tab for

hospital care in this country is as much as drugand physician costs combined — almost $800billion in 2009 alone.

This monetary cost is to say nothing of anequally important consequence — the enor-mous physical toll and long-term complicationsthat this health emergency would have on thisman, assuming he even survives. Wouldn’t it bemore humane and less financially burdensomeif he was provided health insurance coverageunder Medicaid?

Luckily for Carlos, we were able to enroll himwith The Promise Clinic, the nearby free healthclinic af filiated with Rober t Wood JohnsonMedical School. But countless others slipthrough the cracks. And since the capacity andresources of these safety net providers is severe-ly constrained, individuals like Carlos frequentlyhave to wait weeks to months before being ableto see a health care provider.

The ERs themselves have increasinglybecome pushed to their limits as well. Considerthe fact that emergency departments account foronly 4 percent of the physician workforce in thiscountry while handling 11 percent of all ambula-

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W hen our law-makers passedthe Patient

Protection and AffordableCare Act last March, theymade sure to include stip-ulations that preventedillegal immigrants frombenefiting from this newhealth law. Thus, while 32 million moreAmericans will be covered by health insuranceby 2014, the sans-papiers will neither be able tobuy insurance nor be eligible for Medicare and Medicaid.

For the sake of this column, let’s look beyondthe philosophical debate about whether theseindividuals are entitled to access basic healthservices and instead, focus on the economicsand logistics of this issue. When we do that, wewill see that the sufferers of this denial of cover-age are not simply the undocumented, but allusers of our nation’s health care system. In fact,denying health insurance to ille-gal immigrants contributes signif-icantly to rising health-careexpenditures and suboptimalhealth outcomes.

Many a politician has jokinglypointed out that anyone can get freehealth care in this country by sim-ply showing up at the emergencydepartment. While this freeloadingroute to non-urgent health services may seemtempting to many poor Americans — emergencyrooms cannot turn patients away because of finan-cial reasons — for undocumented, uninsurableimmigrants, it is often their only option.

Indeed, a recent study in the policy journalHealth Affairs showed that while emergencydepartments managed only 19 percent of initialand acute care visits for privately insured patients,it managed more than 60 percent of this care forthe uninsured. And while data focused solely onhealth care access by undocumented immigrantsis not available, I would venture to guess that theproportion of care handled in the emergencyroom is even higher among this subpopulation ofindividuals because of their lower economic statusand widespread fear of being turned over toauthorities and possibly deported if they soughthelp from other locations.

Both the monetary and clinical pitfalls took on apersonal dimension for me last year when I led amultidisciplinary health outreach initiative atElijah’s Promise Soup Kitchen in New Brunswick.There, I met a Hispanic man in his mid-40s — let’scall him Carlos — whose blood sugar level we test-ed to be 474 mg/dL, more than twice the normalrandom blood sugar level.

MCT CAMPUS

Give health care to illegal aliens

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“In high school, I lost the sectional championship, but this is probably the toughest loss I ever had.”Dane Miller, Rutgers men’s basketball team member, on losing to Pittsburgh

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“The ERs themselveshave increasinglybecome pushed to their limits.”

F ormer President George W. Bush left all sorts of impressions on theAmerican public during his days in office, ranging from outright dis-gust to fervent praise. But love him or hate him, Bush does not plan

on sticking around in the public eye for much longer. In a recent interviewon C-Span, he announced that he intends to bow out of politics for good andretire to civilian anonymity in peace. We feel he is displaying an incredibleamount of responsibility with this decision.

Bush gave a slew of reasons as to why he no longer wants to be publicfigure, all of which are compelling. Among those reasons, Bush stated, “Ithink it’s bad for the country, frankly, to have a former president criticize hissuccessor. It’s tough enough to be president as it is without the former pres-ident undermining the current president.” We agree with Bush on this sen-timent. It is no longer his job to run the country — why should people keepseeking him out for his opinions on the country’s direction right now? Infact, more politicians should follow Bush’s example. When your time is up,it is time to turn the country over to a new set of leaders and let them runthings according to their own plans and priorities. There is, after all, a two-term limit on presidency in the United States.

Bush was never praised for his poise — on the contrary, he became thebutt of jokes everywhere for his lack thereof. This is a new side of Bush, onethat we can easily empathize with. It has to be incredibly draining to be thepresident of the United States. The man deserves to finally have some restand be allowed to return to normalcy. There’s also a level of integrity pres-ent in Bush’s decision to eschew campaigning and fund-raising. Regardlessof how anyone feels about his time in office, Bush is still a person. He shouldnot have to reduce himself to a political tool.

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

Doctor’sOrders

BO WANG

SEE WANG ON PAGE 11

Oppose limits proposed by bill

George W. Bushdemonstrates poise

A bortion is, always has been and probably always will be, oneof the most controversial topics in United States politics.There never seems to be much in the way of compromise

regarding stances on abortion. However, the lack of compromise istaking a frightening turn for the worse, thanks to the “No TaxpayerFunding for Abortion Act.” The bill seeks to revamp the currentallowances for victims of rape or incest to use government funds topay for abortions. Instead, the bill aims to limit the rape exemption tocases of “forcible rape.” Also, the bill would make it so that federalfunds would only cover abortions in cases of incest if the woman isyounger than 18 years old.

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

Also, “forcible rape” is an incredibly ambiguous term. What exactlydoes that mean? Will there be some arbitrary threshold of forcerequired in order for something to be considered forcible rape andtherefore eligible for a taxpayer-funded abortion? The fact that anyoneeven has to ask these questions is revolting.

In the case of the incest exemptions, it makes no sense to put an 18years old cutoff into place. Incest can occur regardless of age.Narrowing the definition does nothing except make it impossible forpeople to receive the help they need and deserve.

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

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F ollowing the heavy snowstorms New Brunswickexperienced at the end of

the past week, I have come to therealization that the University stillfails to deliver critical informationto students. I was told by a friendin my residence hall Thursdayevening that the University’sDepartment of TransportationServices (DOTS) issued anannouncement on their webpageindicating that students living onLivingston and the CollegeAvenue campuses had to movetheir cars from Lots 101, 103 and105 to the Yellow Lot at theRutgers Athletic Center by 10 p.m.that night or risk being ticketed

PATRICK KULIKOWSKI

Letter

U. needs better communication methods

Sensational rhetoric minimizes suffering

A s a Jew, a University alum-nus and a student of histo-ry, I was deeply offended

by Thursday’s letter in The DailyTargum titled “BAKA encouragesjustice, not hate.” The authorsought to equate the 1948 Arab-Israeli War’s effects on thePalestinians to the suffering ofJews in the Holocaust. Contrary tothe author’s assertions, being dis-placed in war-time is not equiva-lent to the Holocaust. In fact, com-pared to the Holocaust, I think theJews of Europe would have beenquite thrilled at the chance to sim-ply be displaced from their homes.In an age where Holocaust andNazi comparisons are thrown

NOAM BROWN

Letter

I am a Jew who believes in afree Palestine. Does thatmean I embody a contra-

diction? I don’t think so. Mygrandfather, a Buchenwaldconcentration camp survivor,who lost his mother, father andyounger sister in theHolocaust, believed in theneed for a Jewish homeland,but he never said anythingabout that need infringing onthe rights of the Palestinianpeople to retain their own homeland. I am inclined to agree with him. After all, if a man who lost everything because of hate tells me to love ever yone unconditionally, who am I to disagree?

The issue of Palestine’sright to exist has been quitethe controversial topic aroundthe University lately. Honestly,I cannot understand why.BAKA: Students United forMiddle Eastern Justice hasbeen organizing peaceful, edu-cational events to present thecase as to why the Universitypopulation should support ajust and peaceful end to theoccupation. Their campaignhas been criticized as being

DAN RAUCHWERK

Letter

tory visits. And while peoplemay think of hear t attacks,motor vehicle accidents anddrug overdoses as some of themain reasons that people go tothe emergency room, just ascommon are reasons of rela-tively less urgency.

The fact that undocumentedimmigrants are forced to resort tousing the ER for everything fromcough and fever to preventable inci-dences of diabetic ketoacidosisjams, an already overburdened sys-tem hinders its ability to treat moreserious emergencies for everyoneelse. And while extending healthinsurance coverage to more legal-ized Americans under theAffordable Care Act may help alle-viate this situation to a degree, thedecreasing number of emergencyrooms in this country will temperany progress made.

In addition, the inability ofemergency departments to pro-vide coordinated and appropriatelong-term preventive care forpeople like Carlos will almostguarantee that these individualssuffer worse health outcomesand come back for more expen-sive and suboptimal care in thenear future, all at the expense oftheir own well-being as well asthat of our nation in general.

So regardless of your opinion onwhether illegal immigrants have afundamental right to health care inthis country, I think that it is in ourfiscal and clinical interest to providethem with this service. And withhealth expenditures continuing torise through the roof, we cannotafford not to take action at this time.

Bo Wang is a graduate stu-dent at the Ernest Mario Schoolof Pharmacy. His column,“Doctor’s Orders,” runs on alter-nate Mondays.

Choose peace,bring about justice

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and towed, due to scheduled snowremoval. This warning would havebeen acceptable if it was actuallymore clearly declared.

You will not often find aUniversity student checking theDOTS website for information,and not everyone uses Twitter toconnect to their Twitter page.Ironically enough, they did noteven make this snow removalinformation public on their Twitterpage. It was around 8 p.m. when Ireceived word from my friendabout this scheduled snowremoval, and he heard it fromsomeone else, who in turn heard itfrom someone else — and appar-ently the Residence Life staff wase-mailed regarding this issue.

Is it too much to ask for aUniversity-wide e-mail detailing thesnow removal information? There

were no notices regarding it in myresidence hall and there were noemergency e-mails or text mes-sages from the University dealingwith the issue. It is preposterous tothink that in this day and age suchimportant information would not begiven in an orderly and timely man-ner. With the help of a few friends,we were able to dig all of our carsout of the snow in time to movethem out of the lot. During the shov-eling fiasco, I had unknowingly lostmy iPod in the snow while I wasshoveling, but an incredibly gener-ous student managed to find it andmessage me on Facebook.

The next day, another friend ofmine, who had not removed his carfrom the lot the night before,informed me there were still manycars in the lot and none of them hadbeen ticketed or towed. Instead, he

found the snow plowmen helpingstudents remove snow from theirparked cars. So I discovered, to mychagrin, that the ticket and towingwarning issued by DOTS was noth-ing but an empty threat in anattempt to force students to dig uptheir cars and leave the lot. Here ismy advice to DOTS and theUniversity in general: The next timewe are hit with a winter storm, Iurge you to send out a University-wide e-mail and/or emergency textmessage regarding snow removalprocedures and schedules, and ifyou include a warning indicatingthat students failing to comply withthe procedure will be fined, makesure to follow up on that threat.

Patrick Kulikowski is a Schoolof Arts and Sciences senior major-ing in general history.

around quite liberally, I feel it isimportant to stand up to this abuseof history. Making such unjustifiedcomparisons erodes the signifi-cance of the Holocaust and the suf-fering of its victims.

At this point I could detail theobvious reasons for why the 1948Arab-Israeli War was not genoci-dal, but I think the author wouldbe better served visiting aHolocaust museum and seeingfor himself. In truth, the Arabcivilian deaths, measured in thehundreds, were surprisingly lowcompared to similar conflicts andeven far less than Jewish civiliandeaths in that same conflict. If thePalestinians do indeed view theevents of 1948 as “theirHolocaust” then to me that meanssomeone needs to teach themwhat really happened in Europe.

I do not mean to discount thehistory of the unfortunate vic-tims of the Arab-Israeli conflict,but I do wish to keep it in per-spective. I have noticed a dis-turbing trend by opponents ofIsrael to throw around loadedand unsubstantiated terms like“genocide,” “Nazi” and“apartheid” when they are com-pletely unjustified. Indeed, theauthor inserted a passing refer-ence to “apartheid in Israel” inThursday’s letter, and the authorof Friday’s letter in the Targumtitled, “Take part in logical argu-mentation, criticism,” threw in“Nazi.” While the situation in theLevant is not roses, it is not asbad as that. There are manyArabs in the Israeli parliament.Life expectancy in Gaza and theWest Bank, at 74 years, is higher

than most of the Arab world andeven higher than for AfricanAmericans in the United States.Over the last decade, you are farmore likely to have been killedliving in Baltimore than in thePalestinian territories. Thelargest gay pride parade in all ofAsia, and the only one in theMiddle East, takes place inIsrael. Yes, political turmoil andpoverty are problems in theregion, just as they are problemsin every region outside Europeand North America, but thathardly amounts to a Holocaust.Let’s try to keep things in per-spective and keep the sensation-alist rhetoric to a minimum.

Noam Brown is a RutgersCollege alumnus, Class of 2009.

anti-Semitic, but nothing theyhave said or proposed could beremotely conceived of as such.BAKA is calling for a peacefulresolution to this conflict, noth-ing less and nothing more.

I do not take sides with anynation on the issue of MiddleEastern justice. I take the sideof peace. I do not condone anyact of violence by any group forany purpose and neither doesBAKA. That is not the way per-manent, productive change isbrought about. I am a Jew,active in multiple Jewish organ-izations on campus andextremely proud of my her-itage, but I do not take the sideof Israel. I am a humanitarian,active in campaigns to restorerights to downtrodden peoplearound the world, but I do nottake the side of Palestine. Itake the side of peace, a factionwhose only weapons are love,mutual understanding and thatoft-maligned word, compro-mise. So whether you areIsraeli or Palestinian or just ahuman being in search of a bet-ter life for all, I do hope thatyou will join my side. After all,peace is the only force that hasever changed the world.

Dan Rauchwerk is a Schoolof Ar ts and Sciences seniormajoring in marketing.

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Trailing by one, senior for-ward Robert Lumpkins blockedGibbs’ driving shot attemptwith eight minutes remaining,but Pitt regained possessionand made two quick passes tofind a wide open Gilbert Brownon the wing.

The senior forward buried a3-pointer to stretch Pitt’s advantage.

Brown also hit a pair of freethrows that broke a tie andgave Pitt a lead it would notrelinquish. After a missed 3-pointer, freshman Lamar

P a t t e r s o ngrabbed ano f f e n s i v erebound and Pittworked it arounduntil Brown wasfouled in thepost.

“They’re big-ger than us, a lit-tle stronger thanus,” said seniorf o r w a r dJ o n a t h a nMitchell, whotied with

Lumpkins and Mike Coburn fora team-high 12 points. “Theyhurt us because we’re scram-bling around helping eachother out and we’re out of posi-tion sometimes. That’s whenwe give up second-chancepoints sometimes.”

That is what allowed threeof Gibbs’ 24 points to be the dagger.

And that is what sent theKnights back to the locker room,leaving a capacity crowd at theLouis Brown Athletic Centerwithout any answers.

“Somebody has to be ourAshton Gibbs and hit a bigshot,” Rice said. “When it’s win-ning time in the Big East, youhave to have somebody step upand take charge.”

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

called a timeout in the middle ofthe Knights’ offensive set.

Miller was as vocal in thathuddle as Rice, and the Knightsreclaimed their lead.

“As long as I don’t have tomotivate or self police in the hud-dles — they were doing that bythemselves tonight,” Rice said.“They were getting on each otherabout defensive and offensivelapses, and that’spart of maturingand improving.”

Now theKnights need tofind their go-toscorer — the guythat drops 15points in the firsthalf when histeam has virtual-ly no other of fen-sive production.

Or the guythat takes anNBA-range 3-pointer at the end of a posses-sion, with just enough timefrom a Gary McGhee screen torelease and watch it quiet a crowd.

As Rice said, Rutgers needs tofind its Ashton Gibbs.

“We were just a little slow get-ting out to Ashton and boy, did hethrow a dagger in,” Rice said.“It’s no different than what[Georgetown’s Austin] Freemandid to us or [Marquette’s DariusJohnson-Odom] did to us. Wejust have to maybe secure adefensive rebound earlier in thegame so that shot doesn’t breakour back.”

But thanks to Pitt’s 39rebounds compared to Rutgers’30 and the Panthers’ 19 second-chance points, it did.

“Somebody has tobe our Ashton Gibbs.... When it’s winningtime in the Big East,

you have to havesomebody step up.”

MIKE RICEHead Coach

LOSS: RU stops slide to

start second half with timeout

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leading scorers, kept up theirproduction in the win, recording12 and 17 points, respectively.

Reid shot the lights out,shooting 7-of-11 from the fieldand serving as an integral partin the team’s comeback runwith less than 12 minutes to goin the second half.

But the17-0 runthis gamewas famil-iar to the17-2 runt h eH u s k i e sorchestrat-ed a gameago inPiscataway.

In bothgames the

Knights could not dig them-selves out of the hole, and inboth games the opposition cameout on top.

What could be more discon-certing for Stringer is that herteam dropped to 2-6 when play-ing on the road this season,and for the sixth straight time when playing theCardinals away from theBanks, the Knights walkedaway with a loss.

The Knights get back intoconference action Tuesdaynight with a road contest at St. John’s.

LEAD: Knights come out

on wrong end of run vs. Cards

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

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your program to different heightsand stuff, it can be better than it isif you do it out of state.”

Stationed in the St. Peter’sPrep librar y, Huggins’ pressconference had multiple gueststars along with the newsmak-er himself.

Shortly after the thunderousapplause quieted followingHuggins’ announcement, six ofhis future teammates strolled intothe room smiling and greetingtheir new star running back.

Quarterback Chas Dodd,wide receiversMohamed Sanu,Brandon Colemanand JeremyDeering and tack-le Andre Civilmade the tripfrom Piscatawayand quarterbackcommit MikeBimonte foughtthe traffic to visitfrom Manalapan.

“They didn’tknow I was goingto Rutgers,though,” Huggins said. “I justtold them to come out. Theywere supporting me regardlessof where I was going.”

Huggins greeted each team-mate with a hug and handshakeand switched his Rutgers hat for apersonalized “Hug #28” hat com-pliments of Sanu.

“I can’t tell you how happy itmakes me,” Bimonte said. “Hehelps me — or any quarterbackfor that matter — out so much.He’s a quarterback’s bestfriend, a game-changer and aprogram-changer.”

Huggins has the opportunityfor immediate playing time atrunning back after the transferof Casey Turner and gradua-tion of Kordell Young fromRutgers’ backfield.

Senior Joe Martinek andsophomore Jordan Thomas haveexperience advantages overHuggins, but he said he looks

forward to immediate competi-tion and feels good about theoffensive scheme.

Newly hired offensive coordi-nator Frank Cignetti left a lastingimpression on Huggins duringhis official visit last week, he said,particularly after coaching Pittrunning backs Dion Lewis andRay Graham, as well as currentDetroit Lion tailback Jahvid Best.

His biggest concern with theRutgers scheme, Huggins said,was the struggles of the offensiveline, which gave up a Division I-worst 61 sacks last season.

“I told Coach Schiano in thebeginning, my biggest issue isthe offensive line,” Huggins said.“He went out there and got [cen-ter Dallas] Hendrikson fromIowa. He is trying to get another

one fromCalifornia [juniorcollege tackle FouFonoti]. Actuallyhe’s probablygoing to hit me uplater on today.[Union tackle]Josue Matias, hewanted to gowherever I want-ed to go.”

Matias com-mitted to Rutgersearlier in the

week, but switched his decisionto Florida State on Saturday,according to Rivals.com. Still, it isbelieved Matias’ decision is oneworth watching until Wednesdayfor National Signing Day.

After acquiring weekend com-mitments from Huggins andthree-star defensive end MaxIssaka from Woodbridge HighSchool (N.J.), Rutgers’ recruitingclass shapes up to be its best everaccording to Rivals.com.

Rutgers now has the top twoquarterbacks (Gary Nova andBimonte), top running back(Huggins), top wide receiver(Miles Shuler) and the second-best tackle (Huggins’ teammateand best friend Keith Lumpkin)in the state of New Jersey.

“I think this year is the classthat will change Rutgers forever,”Bimonte said. “We’re going toshow that you can stay home andmake a difference.”

PROSPECT: Knights

appear at SPP to support RB

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“He helps me — or any quarterbackfor that matter —

out so much. He’s a quarterback’s

best friend.”MIKE BIMONTE

Quarterback Commit

SAM HELLMAN

Four-star running back Savon Huggins announced his intentions to attend Rutgers nextseason at a press conference with his parents by his side and future teammates looking on.

SAM HELLMAN

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T he No. 9 Rutgersmen’s wrestling teamtopped EIWA confer-

ence rival Navy on Saturday inAnnapolis, Md.

The win marked the ScarletKnights’ 15th straight dualmeet victory in a match thatsaw seven of a possible 10matches favor Rutgers andhead coach Scott Goodale.

After Navy’s Allen Steinkicked of f the match with a 6-4 decision, the Knightsanswered right back, tyingthe score at three with a winby Trevor Melde. Fromthere, Goodale’s squad neverlooked back and retained thelead for the remainder of thematch to improve to 7-0 inconference competition.

For full coverage, see tomor-row’s edition.

BIG EAST MEN’Sbasketball got quite theshake-up over the weekend,as four conference contestswent on to feature four upset victories.

St. John’s capped off theupset weekend by snagging thebiggest win of all three gamesby beating No. 3 Duke yester-day, 93-78.

Duke’s Nolan Smith andKyle Singler scored 32 and 20points, respectively, but in theend, 17 turnovers doomed theBlue Devils, giving DwightHardy — who scored 26points — and the Red Stormthe victory.

No. 9 Syracuse continues itsconference decline, losing itsfourth straight game, 76-70,Saturday against Marquette.The Orange last lost fourgames in a row in 2006 andcontinues to search foranswers after they once satatop the Big East.

No. 20 Georgetown alsotopped No. 7 Villanova inPhiladelphia, 69-66. PreseasonAll-Big East Player of the Yearselection Austin Freeman ledthe Hoyas with a 30-point outburst.

The final conference upsetended in overtime fashion onSaturday night, as No. 19Louisville outlasted No. 5Connecticut, 79-78, in double overtime.

Rutgers fell just threepoints short of converting itsown upset against No.2Pittsburgh over the weekendbut fell narrowly, 65-62.

NOVAK DJOKOVICcaptured his second careerAustralian Open Title over theweekend, beating outEngland’s Andy Murray instraight sets to earn his secondGrand Slam victory.

The loss extended a losingdrought for the British,which have not won a GrandSlam title in 75 years in men’ssingles competition.

For Djokovic, the finalsvictor y marked the secondstraight match the Serbiantook in straight sets, as hebeat Roger Federer in the semifinals.

BY LIZ SWERNCONTRIBUTING WRITER

The men of the Rutgers trackand field team left theMetropolitan Championships inNew York City with an array of top

perform-ances.

T h eS c a r l e tKnightsfinished

second overall with 128.5 pointsat the meet, just four pointsbehind first place SouthernConnecticut State.

Among the top performersfrom the team were triplejumpers Devin Jones and KevinBostick. Jones won the eventwith a leap of 50 feet 5 inches —two inches under the schoolrecord. Bostick earned a sec-ond-place finish with a jump of49 feet 3 inches.

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

The two jumpers competetogether at every meet, thrivingon each other’s competitive

nature. Bostick cites his juniorteammate as his only competition.

“Jumping with Devin isgreat. We push each other toper form at our bests ever ymeet,” Bostick said. “It’s excit-ing to see how far we can go.”

On the track, theKnights had manyother top scorers.Junior sprinter SteveWerner won the 200-meter dash with a timeof 22.09 seconds.Werner also secured asecond-place finish inthe 60-meter dash witha time of 7.01 seconds.

In the 500-meterdash, junior Aaron Younger andfreshman Corey Caidenhead fin-ished second and third, respec-tively. Younger had a time of1:02.23, and Caidenhead fin-ished behind him with a time of1:04.54.

“My time was another per-sonal best, so it’s good to knowthat every week I’m decreasingmy time,” Caidenhead said.

Caidenhead and Younger areanother pair of teammates whocompete with each other almostevery weekend.

“I’m running faster than I waslast year at this time,” Youngersaid. “Corey is dropping his 500

time every time heruns.”

Coming off injuries,junior Mike Baird com-peted in the heptathlonafter sitting out the pastthree meets. Baird fin-ished third overall.

“It was a good meetto find out where I’m atin all my events and totry and improve on mymarks before Big East

[Championships],” Baird said.The Knights finished second

in each of their relays at themeet. The 4x400-meter relay,comprised of Caidenhead,Werner, Younger and juniorKevin Brown, came in secondbehind Long Island Universitywith a time of 3:16.22. The timeis two seconds faster than itsprevious time.

“My groin and my hip flexorwere acting up, so I couldn’t getout as fast as I wanted in bothof my races,” Younger said.

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

“Two second-place finishesbehind Julius aside, overall thiswas probably our best meet foralmost everyone,” Younger said.

The 4x800-meter relay runby freshman Hamer Farag, jun-ior Casey Weiss, as well as sen-iors Kevin Cronin and JonKarlsson, earned an IC4A quali-fying time of 7:43.22.

“Everyone stepped up andthe team as a whole did verywell,” Caidenhead said. “Thescary thing about it is that wearen’t even at our peak. So it’scool to know we have a lotmore talent to display on the track.”

The Knights resume actionon Feb. 5 at the Penn State Open.

Early foul trouble hinders upset hopes

MEN’S TRACK

RUTGERS 128.5SECOND PLACE

DEVINJONES

RU returns from NYC with strong showing

BY STEVEN MILLERSPORTS EDITOR

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

But a foulon fresh-m a nGi lvydasBiruta atthe 14:24-

mark was just as costly.It was Biruta’s fourth foul,

which limited the big man tonine minutes of action and putNo. 2-ranked Pittsburgh in thebonus for the majority of thesecond half.

The Panthers made 18 foulshots from thatpoint onSaturday in their65-62 win.

“Pitt keepsswinging and theydon’t stop,” saidRutgers headcoach Mike Rice.“They’re as toughas they come asfar as physicalityand always seek-ing out contact.What can I say?Twenty-eight for35 from the free throw line istough to beat.”

Biruta’s final foul came withjust more than nine minutesremaining, sending him perma-nently to the bench and puttingPittsburgh in the double bonus.

With the forward battling foultrouble, sophomore AustinJohnson logged 21 minutes, butdid not score any points or grabany rebounds.

Biruta’s absence allowedPittsburgh to take advantage ofthe post presence of senior centerGary McGhee, who is 6-foot-11and was second on the team with13 points.

“That was something that wedid a good job of — attacking thebasket and getting [Biruta] infoul trouble,” McGhee said. “Itwas good for us to open up thelane, and they had to go fiveguards at the end. We took advan-tage of the size advantage.”

WHILE THE CROWD OF8,024 at the Louis Brown Athletic

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

Chances are many of themare plenty familiar with Gibbs,who played his high schoolbasketball at Seton Hall Prep.The Scotch Plains, N.J., nativedid not disappoint, scoring agame-high 24 points on 7-of-14 shooting.

“It feels good — I only liveabout 25 minutes away,” Gibbssaid. “At the same time, it’s notjust about you. It’s a teamgame and I’m just happy towin, just to get out of here witha win — Rutgers is a tough atmosphere.”

FOR THE SEC-OND TIME THISseason, Rice wentup against a for-mer employer.

Along withRutgers associatehead coach DavidCox, the first-yearcoach spent oneseason on Pitt’sbench under JamieDixon. Rice alsocoached against St.Joseph’s head

coach Phil Martelli this season.After the game, Dixon compli-

mented the Scarlet Knights’ styleof play.

“‘You guys play incrediblyhard,’” Rice said Dixon toldhim after the loss. “I just modelit after Jamie and what they’vebeen able to accomplish at Pitt— their consistency and their toughness.”

Both coaching staffs donnedsneakers with their suits to sup-port Coaches vs. Cancer.

FRESHMAN GUARD AUSTINCarroll appeared for the firsttime since injuring his knee Jan.2 against Villanova. Carrollunderwent surgery on his leftknee afterward.

The 6-foot-3, 200-pounderonly played four minutes, buthis return adds depth to Rice’s rotation.

“It is another body,” Ricesaid. “Our lapses are in the sec-ond half when guys tend to losethat edge.”

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“I just model it after Jamie [Dixon]

and what they’ve been able

to accomplish at Pitt.”MIKE RICEHead Coach

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

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Rutgers lands state’s top prospect in RB HugginsBY SAM HELLMAN

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JERSEY CITY — When you add it alltogether, Rutgers head coach Greg Schiano

made running backSavon Huggins an

offer he could not refuse.The chance at instant playing time, the

family atmosphere, the longtime relationshipand the chance to showcase New Jersey rep-resented everything Huggins wanted in hiscollege home.

And in front of 200 spectators Friday after-noon at St. Peter’s Prep, Huggins made it offi-cial in the biggest recruiting coup inSchiano’s 10-year tenure.

After faking out spectators by hiding hisRutgers cap beneath a North Carolina one,Huggins was all smiles in discussing his ver-bal commitment.

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

58 player in the country according toRivals.com. “I’m a part of the family now andI’m proud.”

Rutgers began its courtship of Hugginswhile he was a freshman and that longsense of loyalty went a long way, said St.Peter’s Prep head football coach Rich Hansen.

“Coach Schiano has been a part ofSavon’s life for a very long time,” he said.“Recruits always remember who wasthere first.”

During the blitz of verbal commitmentsfor the Scarlet Knights this week, stayinghome and representing New Jersey is thestrongest theme between members of theClass of 2011.

“There’s nothing like staying home,”Huggins said. “Marcus Lattimore did it [atSouth Carolina]. Reggie Bush did it atSouthern Cal. If you stay home and you bringSAM HELLMAN

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

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

RU lets leadslip away inloss to UofL

BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZCORRESPONDENT

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

After falling to No. 2 Connecticut lastweek, the Hall of Fame coach almost

i m m e d i a t e l ypreached for theRutgers women’sbasketball team tofocus on the nextgame: a Saturday

evening date with the Louisville Cardinals.

But by game’s end, the Scarlet Knightssuffered a 56-45 defeat, making it two con-ference losses in a row for a team onceundefeated in conference play.

The Cardinals (14-8, 5-3) rallied behinda 17-0 run late in the second half to take a14-point lead, while holding the Knights(12-8, 5-2) scoreless during the stretch. Arejuvenated Louisville defense resulted ina 10-minute dry spell for Stringer’s team,as junior forward April Sykes was the onlyRutgers player to score in the game’s final12 minutes.

The Starkville, Miss., native matched her20-point performance from last week to onceagain lead the team in scoring.

The outing also marked the fourth timethis season that Sykes scored 20 points andthe only time since the 2008-09 season thata Rutgers player scored 20 points in con-secutive contests.

But after Sykes, the offensive productiondropped off.

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

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

The post play of sophomore centerMonique Oliver and junior forward ChelseyLee proved to be the x-factor during theteam’s five-game winning streak.

But in the last two games, both playershave had their fair share of struggles, as Leeand Oliver are averaging 4.5 and 10 pointsper game in the pair of losses.

Freshman guard Shoni Schimmel andjunior forward Monique Reid, Louisville’sleading scorers, kept up their productionin the win, recording 12 and 17 points, respectively.

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Knights left wondering after narrow loss to No. 2BY STEVEN MILLER

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

The Rutgers men’s basketball team couldonly scratch its collective head, wondering

what could havebeen and seekingexplanations forhow Pittsburgh’sAshton Gibbs wasable to deliver a dag-

ger that was very nearly out of bounds.Once Gibbs’ 3-pointer made it a four-point

advantage with less than a minute remaining

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

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

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

The sophomore wing had an opportunityto tie the game in the closing seconds, but theKnights floundered their final possession andcame up short.

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

could not get a clear shot and when Millerhad the ball, his tightly-contested shotwas no good.

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

The Knights fought for 40 minutes, lead-ing at the half and forcing a Jamie Dixontimeout less than two minutes into the gameafter a 7-1 Rutgers start.

The early second-half collapse that hasbecome as much of a staple of this team as itsrelentless defense was absent — halted justmore than a minute into the half when Rice

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