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The Arab Cultural Club hosts a fundraiserfor a nonprofit children’s hospital.

Parent Television Councilcriticizes “Glee” stars for posing in racy GQ photo shoot.

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RU UNICEF volunteers Kristi Mriss and Leticia Antunes collect change from passersby and lay the coins on ducttape yesterday in front of Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus, hoping to collect a mile of change.

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Group hopes to collect mile of changeBY JACK MURTHACONTRIBUTING WRITER

The University’s UNICEF chap-ter is fundraising this week outsideof Brower Commons on the CollegeAvenue Campus, with hopes of col-lecting a mile of pocket changefrom passersby.

A mile of quarters adds up toapproximately $17,000, saidMeryl William, president of RUUNICEF. The organization’s earn-ings from the event, “Mile ofChange,” will directly benefitimpoverished children across the world.

“Donations usually help withwater and sanitation projects,” saidWilliam, a School of Arts andSciences senior. “It helps kids buildlives in which they don’t have to leaveschool to walk five miles to get water.”

Coins that RU UNICEF collectsduring the event, which started onMonday and ends Friday, are postedon strips of duct tape, which lay on atarp in front of the group’s table,William said. As of Wednesdaymorning, the strips of change meas-ure up to almost a quarter of a mile.

“We’re willing to go throughmore than a mile of duct tape, but wehope to get at least a mile,” she said.

“We already went through three rollsof duct tape.”

The chapter’s angle of raisingmoney with a visible measure ofprogress is new for them, Williamsaid. Another university’sUNICEF chapter that assembled aball of tape and collected donatedchange provided inspiration forthis fundraiser.

William does not know how muchactual change the organization hasyet to gather. But she said they haveabout $300 in bills in addition to thecoins they have collected.

Public questions citypolice salary increase

BY DEVIN SIKORSKIASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

The New Brunswick CityCouncil met last night to dis-cuss a number of issues, pro-viding both serious discussionand laughter among the publicin attendance.

Charles Renda, a resident ofthe 5th Ward, showed concernover an ordinance to fix thesalaries of New Brunswick policefor three years starting in 2011,which called for a 2.67 percentincrease each year.

“I believe this calls for atwo-and-two-thirds increase inpolice salaries for the nextfour years,” he said. “Howdoes that fit in with the nowmandated cap of 2 percent per year?”

City Administrator ThomasLoughlin assured Renda theincrease in salary would not bein effect until 2011 and is confi-dent it will not cause conflictwith budget restrictions.

“We believe that the 2.67percent that they will get in2011 will still be accommodat-ed within all the budget regula-tions or requirements that wewill have, such as the 2 percenttax levy restriction as well asthe cap on the spending side ofthe budget,” he said.

Renda followed up Loughlin’sresponse by inquiring about thebudgets for 2012 and 2013, ask-ing whether the increase insalary would cause a deficit inthe city’s budget.

The New Brunswick City Council discusses an increase incity police salaries last night at its meeting in City Hall.

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Harry Pozycki, chairman of the Citizens’ Campaign, hosts the city’s first Call to Service Tuesday night in theMiddlesex County Administration Building. The campaign encourages more citizen participation in government.

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New Brunswick’s first Call to Service washeld Tuesday to teach citizens how they can getinvolved in their communities.

The Citizens’ Campaign, a statewide initiativethat recruits, educates and mentors new leaders,housed the event in the Middlesex CountyAdministration Building.

“Some people are highly engaged within theircommunity,” New Brunswick city spokesman BillBray said. “However, for the most part, a lot don’thave a clue about what is going on. The Call toService is held to raise awareness in the community.”

The Call to Service does more than justinform the public about service within their com-munity, said Heather Taylor, communicationsdirector for the Citizens’ Campaign.

“We want to give citizens the power to addresseveryday problems. We want citizens to be able topresent solutions to local governments,” she said.

Call to Service promotes a more goal-orientedsociety often absent because of bickering in poli-tics, Taylor said.

“Citizens should be focused on solutions asopposed to the politics of blame,” she said.

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Fundraiser benefits Middle Eastern children’s hospitalBY ANASTASIA MILLICKER

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The Arab Cultural Club ofRutgers University exceededits original goal of earning$10,000 Tuesday night duringits annual fundraiser at theRutgers Student Center on theCollege Avenue campus.

Instead, the event “Turn TearsInto Cheers” raked in $15,700,which will be donated to theChildren’s Cancer Hospital Egypt57357, a children’s hospital thatserves as the hub of pediatriconcology in the Middle East.

This event has never beendone before, said Omar Mahmoudand Dana Khaddash, former mem-bers of the club.

“We [were] expecting aturnout of 250 students, with 100percent of proceeds goingtoward the [hospital],” said clubSecretary Rania Abdelnaby, aSchool of Environmental andBiological Sciences junior.

More than 200 people, includ-ing students, alumni and fami-lies, attended the event.

The night began with a shortintroduction to the hospitalthrough videos and a speech byRobert Heist, a key player inthe Egypt Cancer Network inthe United States.

Patricia Purden, head of PublicRelations for the hospital, and Dr.Sherif Abou El-Naga, associateprofessor of Pediatric Oncology atthe Association of Friends of theNational Cancer Institute, alsospoke at the event.

“You’re not only helping thechildren in Egypt, but the entireworld,” Prudent said. “This hos-

pital has become a model forthe entire world.”

With 170 beds open and oper-ational, the Children’s CancerHospital Egypt in Cairo is thelargest hospital in the world forchildren and the second largestcharity hospital in the world, El-Naga said.

Patients do not pay for theirservices, and doctors are full-time doctors who are given acompetitive compensation fortheir work at the hospital, El-Naga said.

When the hospital first openedin 1980, there were 16 patientsand two children per bed.

There was little to no funding,and as a result, the patients suf-fered, El-Naga said.

“I used to stick one child witha syringe, then dip it in salineand stick the next patient,” El-Naga said. “I used one syringeper day and threw it away at theend of the day.”

Upset by these conditions, El-Naga sought both monetary sup-port and food for the hospital andin 2000, the hospital received adonation of land.

The modern hospital that isknown today opened in July 2007.

With plans of more expan-sion, the hospital is in urgent

need of support and donations,El-Naga said.

“The facilities are up-to-date,and they try their best to keep upwith the most modern medica-tions,” Shazly said. “They try tomake the kids feel at home. Soccerplayers, musicians and celebritiescome to visit.”

Enter tainment includedmusical performances by stu-dents and dif ferent members ofthe community.

Guests also took part in a raf-fle and auction that sold items likean Egypt National Soccer Teamjersey and soccer ball auto-graphed by head coach Hassan

Shehata, which both raised morethan $700 for the hospital.

The Egypt National SoccerTeam visits the children’s hospitalregularly and is a strong supporterof the hospital, El-Naga said.

The event was co-sponsored bythe Foundation for InternationalMedical Relief of Children atRutgers University, em[POWER],the University’s chapter of PalestineChildren’s Relief Fund, BAKA-Students United For MiddleEastern Justice, Project Nur, theUniversity’s Center for MiddleEastern Study, Rutgers UniversityUnited Nations Children’s Fund,and Rutgers Shalom/Salaam.

Dr. Sherif Abou El-Naga, associate professor of Pediatric Oncology at the Association of Friends of the National Cancer Institute, isthe key speaker for “Turn Tears Into Cheers,” an event that earned $15,700 of funding for the Children’s Cancer Hospital Egypt 57357.

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“We’re not sure of the exactamount of cash we have yet, butwe have at least a couple hun-dred of dollars,” she said.

Despite the hundreds of dol-lars in collections, studentresponse to the event has notbeen encouraging, said Natalia

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“We want to stray away from neg-ativity. Change is the focus, andwe must divert our attention tobringing about change, ratherthan pointing fingers.”

At last night’s New BrunswickCity Council meeting, PresidentElizabeth Garlatti suggested thatthose in attendance consider theCall to Service summit as a way toincrease participation.

“I thought it was a very informa-tive session, and I would encourageall of you, since you are demonstrat-ing your interest in government bycoming to these meetings, … pur-sue that as an additional avenue ofparticipation,” Garlatti said.

Lauren Skowronski, statecampaign director for Citizens’Campaign, said educating peo-ple about the government is cru-cial in raising involvement with-in the community.

“People think the only way toget involved is to run for a majorpublic office, but there are so manyother opportunities,” she said.

The Call to Service promotesthe Path to Service, a four-partplan designed to raise involve-ment and awareness, Bray said.

The first part of the Path toService asks citizens to serve onan appointed board or commis-sion — such as a library or sen-

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The Path to Service four-part plan ask citizens to serve on an appointed board or commision,become legislators, serve at the neighborhood level and get involved in citizen journalism.

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Baranowski, an RU UNICEF vol-unteer and a School of Arts andSciences sophomore.

“It doesn’t seem to bring thecampus together,” Baranowskisaid. “A lot of people just say theydon’t have change and walk away.”

To attract students who mightotherwise walk past RU UNICEF’stable, the group has been offeringsnacks to those who donate.

“Some students don’t care,” RUUNICEF volunteer Erika Velez, aSchool of Arts and Sciences junior,

said. “But many students reallyreact well to free food.”

RU UNICEF relies on Universitystudents to not only offer sparechange but also to open their mindsto volunteer work and larger socialissues, William said. TheUniversity’s large number of volun-teer groups may cause some stu-dents to feel they do not need to vol-unteer because others will anyway,she said.

“We want people to knowmore about what we do and the

projects we do,” William said.“Volunteering doesn’t just meangoing to a food kitchen. You canuse skills you already have tohelp somebody else.”

With an electronic mailing list ofabout 200 University students, only50 to 60 members make the chap-ter’s efforts possible, she said.William does not want “Mile ofChange” to just be a way to raisemoney, but a way to inspire students.

Kujtim Bido, a School of Artsand Sciences junior, said she

noticed more students have vol-unteered in several organizationsthroughout campus.

“From what I’ve noticed, there’sbeen an increase in volunteer serv-ice on campus,” Bido said. “I thinkpeople generally want to increasestandards of living in societiesaround the world.”

Nearly 50 RU UNICEF volun-teers will be out to collect dona-tions during the final hours of“Mile of Change” to show thepower of giving, William said.

ior citizen board, he said.The second part requires

ordinary citizens to become citi-zen legislators.

“Citizens should look at aproblem and devise a policy orordinance to solve it,” Bray said.“It doesn’t have to be anythingbig. [They may find] a simplesolution to a simple problem.”

The third part of the Path toService involves residents serv-ing as a neighborhood-level polit-ical party.

“There are a multitude oflocal level political committeesthat citizens can partake in,”Skowronski added.

The final step involves citizenjournalism, through which localresidents may spread the wordabout government news. Braysaid this brings more issues tothe general public’s attention.

“No matter how many timesyou write about a certain issue,some people are bound to neverhear about it,” he said. “People aremore inclined to read somethingwritten by a neighbor than they areby a journalist in a newspaper.They can relate to their neighbor.”

Taylor said the Call to Serviceis a grassroots movement thatgives non-politicians the chanceto make a difference.

“Coupled with a desire to bringabout change and the Path ofService, the Call to Service aims toconvince citizens within NewBrunswick to become moreinvolved within city affairs,” she said.

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Panel discusses policies for working mothersBY RASHMEE KUMAR

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Working mothers and schol-ars joined together at the John J.Heldrich Center for WorkforceDevelopment on the CollegeAvenue campus Tuesday to dis-cuss how young mothers strug-gle to balance work and family.

“What Mothers Want:Innovative Policies for the 21stCentury Workplace,” whichreceived registrations from morethan 100 people, featured twopanel discussions approachingthe topic from an academic andfirst-hand perspective.

“Mothers are harried, over-worked and not assisted asmuch as they could be by theinstitutions around them inmoving their lives for ward,”said Jocelyn Elise Crowley, aprofessor in the Edward J.Bloustein School of Planningand Public Policy.

Three professors sat on theacademic panel, which focusedon current research on mother-hood and workplace flexibility.

Societal changes such asnon-traditional families, eco-nomic instability and blurringof gender roles create newchallenges for the modern fam-ily lifestyle, said KathleenGerson, professor of sociologyat New York University.

“You no longer enter adulthoodand expect your life to unfold — forbetter or for worse — in a certainorderly way,” said Gerson, authorof “The Unfinished Revolution:

How a New Generation isReshaping Family, Work andGender in America.”

Mothers in particular strug-gle to balance children and acareer because the inflexiblestructure of the workplace leaveslittle time or energy for goodcaretaking, said Melissa Milkie,professor of sociology at theUniversity of Maryland.

“Children have been relativelyignored in work-family balanceresearch,” she said.“Understandingthe experiencesthat parents havewith children isreally important foru n d e r s t a n d i n gmothers’ work life.”

The inabilityof mothers tomaintain work-family balancecaused the “opt-out revolution” in2003, when manywomen left the workforce tobecome stay-at-home moms — amyth that was later debunked,said Pamela Stone, professor ofsociology at Hunter College.

“The media reported thatwomen were returning home tobecome super-mothers when pri-vately, that’s not what you hear,”Stone said. “In fact, the story isthat women were being pushedout once they became mothers.”

Gerson encouraged womento redefine motherhood inorder to confront workplacediscrimination against mothers.

Middle-class women are put-ting off motherhood, while work-ing-class women are more likelyto enter it early, she said.

“In either case, they seegood mothering as breadwin-ning, and, in fact, the youngwomen who had working moth-ers that I talked to [during myresearch] felt that it was evenmore important to be successfulin the workforce in order to helptheir children,” Gerson said.

After a briefintermission, fourpresidents ofmotherhood andwork-family organ-izations presentedtheir approachesto everyday issuesmothers face inthe workplace.

In the event amother must takeleave or workfewer hours,employers must

be accommodating, said EllenGalinsky, president and co-founder of Families and WorkInstitute, which awards theAlfred P. Sloan Award forBusiness Excellence inWorkplace Flexibility.

“The good thing about ouraward is that it’s based onemployee feedback,” Galinskysaid. “The employer has to be inthe top 20 percent of employersnationally, but two-thirds of thescore comes from employees. Wehave unearthed some of the mostincredible examples of flexibility.”

Tara Brettholtz, president ofthe Board of Directors for Mothers& More, said her organizationfocuses more on the well being ofthe mother. She founded the“Power of a Purse” program in2009 to donate purses to abused orimpoverished mothers while rais-ing awareness of their condition.

“Motherhood is not a staticset of definitions,” Brettholtzsaid. “We are constantly evolvingand managing the collisions withsociety. Our organization sup-ports mothers in whatever transi-tion they’re going through.”

Other panel speakers includ-ed Dina Bakst, co-president andco-founder of A Better Balance:The Work & Family LegalCenter, and Cheli English-Figaro,president emeritus and co-founder of Mocha Moms, Inc.

Through breastfeeding lawsand the push for paid sick days,legislation is beginning to addressissues of mothers in the work-place, said Valerie Young, advoca-cy coordinator of the NationalAssociation of Mothers’ Centers.

Brettholtz, who negotiated afour-day workweek with heremployer, urged the mothers inthe audience to fight for moth-ers’ rights in the workplace.

“While policy changes arethe foundation, it’s really up toevery single individual to chal-lenge the norm,” she said. “Weall know that when there’s com-petition between our childrenand our work life, our childrenare going to win, and ouremployers are going to lose.”

School of Communicationand Information AssistantProfessor Todd Wolfson willstudy programs designed totrain Philadelphians in the useof laptops with high-speedInternet, which is part of thegovernment’s goal of expand-ing Internet service acrossthe nation as outlined in theAmerican Recovery andReinvestment Act, accordingto the school’s website.

“Part of the goal is tofigure out what the bestpolicy is around broad-band expansion in low-income communities,”Wolfson said. “It’s alsoabout how we can movefor ward thinking aboutthe digital divide and howpeople become adopters.”

Wolfson is using$170,000 in funds from a$18.3 million federal grantto the city of Philadelphiato assess levels of participa-tion and participants’ expe-riences with the programs,according to the website.

The study aims to deter-mine how people learn touse technology and theeffect it has on graduationrates, employment, civilengagement and otheraspects of everyday life.

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21 The Cook Leadership Breakfast meeting will start at 7:30a.m. in Multipurpose Room C at the Cook Campus Center.The theme for this meeting will be “Come Meet yourAdvisor.” Those with any questions regarding courses arefree to attend. Friends are welcome.

James Shapiro, a Larry Miller Professor of English atColumbia University, will give a lecture called, “ContestedWill: Who Wrote Shakespeare?” He will explain when andwhy many people began to question the author ofShakespeare’s plays, posing fundamental questions aboutthe relationship of life and art. The event will take place inthe Alexander Library on the College Avenue campus at4:30 p.m.

The National Society of Collegiate Scholars is sponsoring ablood drive in Trayes Hall A of the Douglass CampusCenter. Each donor will receive a free T-shirt and snacks.Save a life, donate blood. For more info, please e-mail Jaredat JTamasco@nybloodcenter.org.

27 The Office of Community Engagement, Rutgers AgainstHunger and Farmers Against Hunger is sponsoring“Gleaning” at the Giamarese Farm from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. inEast Brunswick. Harvested crops will be donated to Elijah’sPromise Soup Kitchen and the Franklin Food Bank to helpprovide fresh produce to the hungry, who often have a lim-ited availability of fresh foods. Faculty, staff, alumni and stu-dents are welcome to bring their boots and gloves and lenda helping hand. The event is free but registration is requiredand limited to 30 spaces. Please complete and return theregistration form by Oct. 13. Contact the Office ofCommunity Engagement at (732)-932-2000, ext. 4211 for anyquestions, or e-mail discovery@aesop.rutgers.edu.

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30 The Xiangqi (Chinese Chess) Exhibition Tournament, partof the 2010 New Jersey Open Xiangqi Tournament, willoccur in Scott Hall on the College Avenue campus from 10a.m. to 4 p.m. The tournament, which is open to the publicand offers free on-campus parking in Lot 8, will have someof the top players in North America playing, and representa-tives from the NJXA will be available to teach you how toplay Xiangqi during this event. The New Jersey XiangqiAssociation is sponsoring the event with the help of theUniversity’s Confucius Institute. Chinese Chess, played bymore than 100 million players around the world, is believedto have been invented by General Han Xin in about 210 B.C.during the war between two historical powers, Chu and Han.For more information, please contact Guanghua Li, njc-chess@yahoo.com.

1 Today marks the first day of program submission for theUniversity’s annual spring celebration, Rutgers Day.University organizations wishing to participate may visithttp://rutgersday.rutgers.edu to sign up. The Office ofCommunity Affairs is sponsoring the event, and for moreinformation, contact Terre Martin attmartin@ur.rutgers.edu or (732)-932-7823 ext. 672.

11 Bhatki-The Higher Taste will host an event called SacredSounds at 8:30 p.m. at the Rutgers Student CenterMultipurpose Room on the College Avenue campus. Theevent features yogi and spiritual leader Radhanath Swamiand kirtan bands Gaura and the Mayapuris. For more infor-mation visit bhakticlub.org/sacredsounds.

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25 Rutgers Students for Environmental Awareness aims toraise awareness about environmental issues in a way that isenjoyable and fun for our members and the students wereach out to. We are committed to creating environmentalchange in both the University and New Jersey communitiesby developing awareness campaigns and going above andbeyond for the sake of the public and the environment.Interested in joining? Come to our weekly meetings, everyMonday at 9 p.m. in the Merle V. Adams Room in the CookCampus Center, or e-mail us at Rutgers.SEA@gmail.com.

Rutgers Liberty in North Korea will be holding a specialpresentation of “Hiding,” a documentary exposing thelife of North Korean refugees hiding in China. Doorsopen at 7:45 p.m. in the Multipurpose Room of the BuschCampus Center.

Renda was not the only mem-ber of the public last night toaddress the city council.

Bruce Newling, a resident of6th Ward, discussed issuesdealing with objects inBuccleuch Park.

Newling said as he waswalking in the park over theweekend, he noticed some-thing unusual in a garden onthe south side of theBuccleuch Mansion.

“I noticed from a distancewhat appeared to be two cruci-form features in a rose bush.When I was closer to inspect it,I saw that they were gravemarkers for a couple of cats:Jessie and Hannah,” he said.“How could it be that we estab-lished a pet cemeter y inBuccleuch Park, at least withtwo deceased cats in it?”

Newling’s issue drew laugh-ter from those in attendanceand sparked a witty remark

from City CouncilP r e s i d e n tElizabeth Garlattion his findings.

“I believe, butI could be cor-rected by my col-leagues, that itwas a non-permit-ted event. I wasnot invited to theser vices, and Iam a little upsetbecause I am acat lover,” shesaid. “But I am

sure that Mr. Loughlin willsend the appropriate city of fi-cial down there to inspectand/or remove the said cruci-form objects. But I am quitesure the remains fer tilize the roses.”

In his travels throughBuccleuch Park, Newling alsonoticed a tablet memorializingDaughters of the AmericanRevolution, which he alsobrought to the attention of the council.

“The park, as you know, is amemorial to Joseph WarrenScott, and I don’t think it isintended to be a memorial toanybody else,” he said. “I think… it should be respectfullyrequired to be removed and memorialize the daughters elsewhere.”

The council told Newlingthey would take the necessary steps in addressingthe issue.

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“We can’t predict that at thispoint. There are many factors inputting a budget together. Idon’t know what the revenuestream will look like outside ofthe tax levy in 2011 or 2012,”Loughlin said. “But we feel com-fortable that [with a] 2.67 per-cent [increase] for 145 of ouremployees, we will still be ableto meet all the obligations.”

Another item in the agendaRenda showed concern overwas an ordinance to spendmore than $54,000 for thecleaning, excavation and grad-ing of water utility property.

“I’m just curious on why wehave to spend almost $55,000to clean, excavate and gradewater utility property,” he said.“What do wehave to clean?”

L o u g h l i nexplained the siteRenda was refer-ring to was a 3.5-acre lot behind awater treatmentplant wheredecades worth ofroad debris wasdumped.

“We cleared itfor the purpose ofpreparing theproperty for thesolar panels that we haveengaged in at that location. Theentire lot now has been leveledand all chunks of concrete andleftover storm-water pipe andasphalt that built up there manyyears has been trucked of f-site,” he said. “Now, we are inthe process of installing all theframing for the solar panels.”

Renda questioned Loughlinon whether it was the policy ofNew Brunswick to dump con-crete debris on city propertyand allow it to sit untouchedfor decades.

“I can’t speak to the actionsof people before me, but that isnot my policy to do that,”Loughlin said. “I was left with apretty dirty site to clean up andhad to truck off 35 dif ferentloads of concrete to a crushing and recycling center.Unfor tunately, that drove the cost of the whole project up.”

SALARY: Renda shows

concern over cleaning ordinance

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“There are many factors in putting a budget together. I don’t know what

the revenue stream will look like.”THOMAS LOUGHLIN

City Administrator

bases teacher quality and jobsecurity on students’ per-formances (read: test scores)— is a proven failure, andthey’ll present some studiesthat corroborate their opin-ion. In a statement on theunion’s website regardingChristie’s proposed reforms,Barbara Keshishian, presi-

dent of the NJEA, is quoted as having said, “NewJersey has tremendously successful public schools —the best in the nation.” The NJEA website expandson “best in the nation,” citing five instances in whichNew Jersey public school students outranked theirpeers based on — ironically enough — test scores.The group argues against Christie’s reliance on testscores to evaluate teachers, but cites test scores asproof that teachers are doing a fine job as it stands.The NJEA cannot have it both ways. And althoughthe group has argued fiercely against the merit-paysystem, the NJEA has failed to propose an alternativemethod to evaluate teachers and make them account-able for their students’ progress. I’ll admit that evalu-

ating a teacher by means of their stu-dents’ test scores won’t always pro-vide an accurate picture of thatteacher’s quality, but an imperfectmethod of evaluation is better thannone at all.

When teachers know they’ll beevaluated based on the standardizedtest scores of the students, they“teach to the test.” By this method,

teachers present and emphasize only the materialthat will appear on the standardized test. Critics saythis stifles creativity, that rote memorization of testmaterial isn’t real learning. But as Jay Mathews deft-ly notes in a column in The Washington Post, “Wenever say a teacher is ‘teaching to the test’ if she’susing a test she wrote herself.” All teachers teach toa test, whether it’s a standardized test or one writtenspecifically for that class. Mathews adds, “The think-ing goes [that] she must be forced to adhere tosomeone else’s views on teaching and thus is likelyto present the material too quickly, too thinly, tooprescriptively, too joylessly — add your own favoriteunattractive adverb.”

Maybe the beef teachers have with standardizedtests is that they prevent teachers from dictating thegoings-on in their classrooms. These critics alsoperpetuate the myth that there is nothing to belearned from a standardized test, but the notion thata standardized test inherently lacks the capability toevaluate a student holds no water. Just as there aregood teachers and there are bad ones, there are

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G ov. Chris Christiehas been ruffling thefeathers of the

New Jersey EducationAssociation lately. The gov-ernor’s push for educationreform, namely the elimina-tion of tenure as it standsand the implementation of amerit-based pay system in itsplace, is considered too strong and too wrong by itsopponents. Calling tenure the “the sclerosis thatcoats the veins of our school system,” Christie’sflare for the dramatic may have overshadowed whathe was truly saying and muddled the debate aroundthis issue. But he has a point: Tenure is outdatedand it needs to hit the road.

Geoffrey Canada, the founder, president andCEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone, said,“Education is the only place you have the option tofail.” For reasons that I don’t know — or don’t exist— tenure is a distinctly educational concept. Whydon’t salespeople have tenure? If their numberswere to fall, they’d lose the company money and getthe boot. Why don’t doctors havetenure? Well, nobody wants a half-assed check up. My point is thattenure eliminates the incentive toperform well. Businesses under-stand this and don’t offer anythinglike tenure because they expecttheir employees to work at theirbest all the time. A school is a busi-ness too — its product is a goodeducation. If teachers, their jobs guaranteed, slackoff then the quality of the education wilts and stu-dents suffer. There are great teachers and there arelousy teachers. Eliminate tenure and you get rid ofthe lousy ones. Great teachers have nothing toworry about.

Tenured teachers are officially evaluated byadministrators but tacitly secure in their jobs. Newteachers can be awarded tenure after only a fewyears at the same school. If later they are found tobe ineffective in the classroom, they’re saved frombeing fired by tenure’s all but binding promise of aposition. Even if they try less, they’re safe. That’snot to say that tenured teachers aren’t checked upon, but the specter of tenure permits all but theworst teachers to pass under the radar of the admin-istration come time for in-class evaluations.Administrators can jump through all the requisitehoops to fire an ineffective teacher, but whetherthey will succeed is doubtful. Maybe it isn’t evenworth it to try. Only under extreme circumstanceswill tenured teachers be let go.

Christie has proposed a merit-based systeminstead. The NJEA argues that such a system — that

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through three rolls of duct tape.”Meryl William, a School of Arts and Sciences senior and president of RU UNICEF,

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“Only under extremecircumstances willtenured teachers

be let go.”

F rance has been rocked by protests and marches in the pastweek over President Nicolas Sarkozy’s push to change thelegal retirement age to 62 from 60. The reason perhaps is

Sarkozy’s unpopular image, while the opposing Socialist Party hasbeen pretending for weeks that the retirement age could stayunchanged. Despite these protests though, raising France’s retire-ment age is a necessary step toward battling a deficit and futureeconomic problems.

France’s retirement age is currently at 60 years and is among thelowest in the world. This is more than four years below the averagefor the European Union and six years younger than in the UnitedState, according to The New York Times. In addition to these num-bers, the national pension fund in France has been running a deficitof $15 billion per year.

According to the Times, the deficit would increase tenfold by2050 if the retirement age doesn’t change. And even with therequired age at 62, the country will have to enforce painful adjust-ments to the pension system.

The opposing Socialist Party has been pretending for weeks thatthe required age can stay unchanged. And at the same time,Sarkozy has been leading an unpopular campaign of selling thereform. The real challenge though is the unions in the nation. Thestrikes have paralyzed the country, as some have called it union-backed economic terrorism.

The problem is that Sarkozy has built a reputation of helping thewealthy rather than ordinary people. Protests are also deeplyingrained in the French republic. Public opinion has thereforeremained sympathetic to the terror-centered unions.

The change must become reality unless people want to feel harsh-er reform later on. Tradition cannot prevail over economic reality asunions back that which only benefits them. France’s Parliament mustmake the change by the end of the week. Sarkozy should meet withunion leaders and protest heads in order to create a smooth transitionto the new pension system. Further changes will be needed, but at themoment, only the age has to change. A difference of two years will notaffect the people as much as unions lead them into thinking, and thepayoff will be much larger than the immediate disagreements withSarkozy’s reform.

It is the choice between bankruptcy and a mere two years. Politicalviews must be forgone as France aims to fix a system that has longfailed to improve.

The Soapbox

JOE HERNANDEZ

France needs change

T hey are nowhere near as disturbing as the photo shoot of the“True Blood” stars’ nude and bloody Rolling Stone cover. Sowhy did the Parents Television Council get upset over a racy

shoot for GQ in which the stars from Fox’s “Glee” pose in the hallsof a high school? The pictures were called “near-pornographic” and“border[ing] on pedophilia.” Lea Michele and Dianna Agron, two ofthe female stars of “Glee,” are both 24 and quite capable of makingtheir own decisions. The PTC has no reason in this case to slam“Glee” producers for this photo shoot.

PTC said, “It is disturbing that GQ, which is explicitly written foradult men, is sexualizing the actresses who play high school-agedcharacters on ‘Glee’ in this way. It borders on pedophilia. By authoriz-ing this kind of near-pornographic display, the creators of the programhave established their intentions on the show’s direction. And it isn’tgood for families.”

Parents are once again attempting to censor an outlet that ismostly read by adult men, as the PTC itself said. Men will flipthrough the pages, take a glance and be done with it. The PTC issimply making a bigger deal out of it. As far as their accusations ofpedophilia, both women are 24 years old, therefore fully responsiblefor their actions. If men want to look at them, and the girls are finewith that, then both the magazine and the stars of “Glee” have everyright to publish the racy photo shoot.

The council obviously has a problem differentiating between real-ity and television. The photographs appeared in a magazine gearedtoward men, not on the show itself. The PTC is nitpicking at a publi-cation not supposed to be seen by their children.

This is not “High School Musical” or any other show on DisneyChannel starring high schoolers. “Glee” is not recommended for chil-dren. The show has had a series of episodes that display issues like teenpregnancy and sexual encounters, and parents who allow their childrento watch the show are simply making the choice of introducing them toadolescent matters earlier on.

This parents’ group is just another policing organization. Thebest thing to do would be to ignore them much like they ignore theirchildren sitting in front of the TV watching “Glee.” It is completelyup to the individual parent to decide what is appropriate and what isnot. The problem is not the photo shoot, it is the group oversteppingits boundaries.

Watch your kids

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to decide whether to fund NewJersey Public Interest ResearchGroup Student Chapters StudentChapters through a voluntaryfee on their term bill. This trien-nial vote will occur at pollingplaces across all campusesbeginning this week.

NJPIRG has worked with andorganized University studentsfor three decades, advocating forand providing leadership oppor-tunities on issues that deeplyaffect their lives and futures:environmental degradation andclimate change; consumer pro-tection and health care; hungerand homelessness. Over the pastyear students working withNJPIRG have made a significantimpact by registering thousandsof new voters across NewJersey, helping to pass legisla-tion to dramatically increase fed-eral student aid, weatherizingnearly 100 off-campus houses,increasing the environmentalawareness of thousands of ele-mentary students and mobiliz-ing hundreds of volunteers toclean up our local waterways.

All of these ef forts, andmany more, depend upon thecontinued financial support ofUniversity students. I encour-age all to vote in the ongoingreferendum to ensure thatNJPIRG can continue workingfor the University community.

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ized tests evaluate a student’sknowledge of a concept as well asher ability to apply that conceptabstractly in a certain situation.New Jersey is set to overhaul itsstandardized tests in a few years.Maybe then students will bemore clearly evaluated on theirknowledge and the ability toapply it. But in the meantime,while we evaluate students basedon their scores, we ought to eval-uate the teachers who helped thestudents achieve — or barelyreach — them in the same way.

Tenure is not working for thekids. Bad teachers can keep theirjobs, and this will invariably lead toa decline in the quality of educationour public schools can offer.Supplementing subjective in-per-son evaluations with a considera-tion of test scores will betterensure the quality of teachers. Ifstudents have the wrong answer,they fail. Teachers should be ableto fail too.

Joe Hernandez is a School ofArts and Sciences senior majoringin English and Spanish. His col-umn, “The Soapbox,” runs onalternate Thursdays.

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and vicissitudes, the team stillfinds itself in the hunt for a BigEast Tournament berth.

In the four seasons Garcesand Bull played on the Banks, theteam never came close to snag-ging a postseason spot.

Now in their final attempt atthe conference and with a keygame against Connecticut aweek and a half away, theopportunity rests right in frontof the Knights.

“That would be a hugeaccomplishment for both of

DUO: Bull, Garces target

Tourney berth in final season

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COURTESY OF KYLE FRANKO

First-year head coach Mike Rice addresses the media at Big East

media day, where Rutgers was picked to finish 15th in the league.

“I want our guys to understandthe moment you blink, themoment you don’t want to bepushed, they were right. Go ahead.Hug the damn punching bag.”

Instead of hugs, the Knightspunch the bag every time theywalk past it.

They did not want the No. 16ranking because they believe it iswhere they belong — they want-ed it because they know that thecellar is where everyone elsethinks they belong, and that fitsinto this season’s mentality.

“We just want to go out thereand have an underdog mentality,”Mitchell said. “We don’t think we’rethe 15th-best team. Who is going topencil themselves in at the bottom?We definitely want to come out hereand prove a lot of people wrong.”

Mitchell is one of three seniorcaptains, along with James Beattyand Mike Coburn, whom Rice isleaning on in his early tenure ashead coach.

He preaches intensity,urgency and comfort in chaos.

There is no more urgent situa-tion than a senior who has yet tohave a winning season, so it is upto Mitchell, Beatty and Coburn toensure there is an intensity andwillingness from their under-classmen teammates to buy intoRice’s system.

POLL: Trio of seniors help

Rice instill intensity in Knights

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Rice’s up-tempo, all-out styleimpressed Beatty from Day 1 —May 6, when athletic directorTim Pernetti announced thecoach’s hiring.

But Mitchell knew of Ricebefore that, when he watchedRice lead Robert Morris to a near-upset over NCAA TournamentNo. 2 seed Villanova.

The meeting also impressed’Nova head coach Jay Wright.

“[Robert Morris] didn’t playlike underdogs against us,”Wright said. “I looked at it theother way. They played againstus like they belonged. Theyplayed against us like, ‘We’regood, they’re good, let’s go play.’They didn’t back down to us atall. They didn’t act like theywere uber-excited about any-thing they did. They looked likethey belonged.”

Rice convinced his NortheastConference squad it belongedon the court with the Wildcats,but now Rutgers’ No. 15 rankingtells the Knights they do notbelong anywhere but the base-ment of the Big East.

It may not be the spot theywanted, but it is still punching-bag material.

“Every single day I tell ourguys, ‘OK, not only now is it justthe media, now your opposingcoaches and opposing playersdon’t think much of you,’” Ricesaid. “I don’t know if it’s the mostimaginative motivation in theworld, but it is what we are rightnow and I’m using it.”

us,” Garces said. “We wouldobviously be really excitedknowing that we left gettinginto the Big East for the firsttime. We’re really excited andwe’re just trying to focus on notfate but winning against UConnnext weekend.”

Before a trip to UConn, how-ever, the Rutgers faithful bidfarewell to a pair of seniorsattempting to end their careerson the best note possible.

“We’ve never been as closeas we have been and I thinkthis team is awesome andever ybody really wants tomake it there,” Bull said onmaking the conference tourna-ment. “I think this group ofgirls is going to do it.”

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BY SAM HELLMANCORRESPONDENT

As conference play trulykicked off last weekend,Pittsburgh made the biggest

s p l a s hwith itsm o s tconvinc-ing per-

formanceof the season to jump to 1-0 in theBig East.

Two weeks since Rutgers andConnecticut opened Big Eastplay, all eight teams have either aconference win or loss undertheir belts, with South Floridaholding two losses in conference.All eight teams have at least a.500 record on the season andWest Virginia is just one winaway from bowl eligibility.

1.) West Virginia (5-1, 1-0) —After beating down SouthFlorida, 20-6, Thursday night, theMountaineers are primed toreach bowl eligibility and grabtheir second Big East win whenSyracuse comes to Morgantownthis weekend.

Against the Bulls, quarter-back Geno Smith did the major-ity of the work, completing 24of 31 passes for 219 yards andtwo touchdowns. Receiver BradStarks pulled in the team’s firsttouchdown and running backNoel Devine, who ran 13 timesfor just 29 yards, caught the other.

Cornerback Keith Tandyearned Big East DefensivePlayer of the Week honors with10 tackles, a forced fumble andan interception as WVU limitedUSF to 209 yards of total offense.

The Mountaineers rankfourth nationally in rushingdefense (83.2 yards per game)

WVU leads conference charge with season in full swing

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THE DAILY TARGUMCincinnati senior wide receiver Armon Binns pulled in eight catches for 175 yards and three touchdowns in the

Bearcats’ 35-27 win over Louisville last weekend, earning Big East Offensive Player of the Week.

In total, nine players stayed onthe field the entire 90 minutes,and in the end they could notmuster enough for an equalizer.

“The guys that are on the fieldjust need to step it up,” said sen-ior captain Yannick Salmon. “Weare obviously fatigued, but wejust got to fight through it.”

Junior Nye Winslow wasavailable, but Donigan wantedto limit the minutes that thePiscataway native saw.However, when junior captainAndrew Cuevas suf fered abloody nose with time waningin the first half and needed tohead off the field, Donigan’shand was forced.

Winslow came on for five min-utes and saw several touches onthe ball while trainers attended toCuevas’ injury and got him aclean jersey.

“It’s us always trying to haveat least one guy on the side to goin, in case somebody goes down,”said Donigan of Winslow’s play-ing time. “[Without Winslow], ifsomebody goes down, then youdon’t have anyone to throw in.”

Goals were at a premium forboth squads heading intoWednesday’s match, with theRed Storm scoreless in theirpast four games and the Knightsonly putting one ball into theback of the net in their previousseven contests.

Rutgers now only owns ninegoals in 13 games and has notscored in three matches.

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can’t find net in another loss

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and fifth in total defense (245.8yards per game).

2.) Pittsburgh (3-3, 1-0) —The Panthers’ offense finallycame alive. It turns out all theyneeded was a trip to the CarrierDome to grease the wheels.

Pitt roughed up Syracuse, 45-14, with first-year quarterbackTino Sunseri breaking out.

Sunseri threw for 266 yardsand four touchdowns on the day,putting up 28 points in the firsthalf alone.

Receiver Jonathan Baldwinhad just one catch, but runningbacks Dion Lewis and RayGraham ran for a combined 133yards on 26 attempts.

To cement its place as a topteam in the Big East, however,Pittsburgh needs a convincingwin over Rutgers at Heinz Fieldthis weekend, where Rutgerswon, 54-34, last time.

Prior to last season’s 24-17 winover Rutgers, Pitt had four straightlosses to the Scarlet Knights.

3.) Cincinnati (3-3, 1-0) —The Bearcats, who lost a stepwith the departure of coach BrianKelly to Notre Dame, got theiroffense back on stride in a 35-27win over Louisville.

Senior wide receiver ArmonBinns earned Big EastOffensive Player of the Weekhonors with eight catches, 175

receiving yards and three touch-downs. Quarterback ZachCollaros threw for five touch-downs and 275 yards and run-ning back Isaiah Pead went for145 yards.

Collaros’ five touchdownsmarked a career-high and he ranks10th nationally in passer rating.

The Bearcats have a premierechance to jump above .500 andgo to 2-0 in the conferencetomorrow night on ESPN whenthey host South Florida atNippert Stadium.

4.) Rutgers (4-2, 1-0) — TheScarlet Knights have a majordemerit in the Tulane loss, buthave yet to lose in conference play.

If Rutgers can focus its ener-gies on Pittsburgh this week-end, the Knights could jumpinto sole possession of secondplace in the conference goinginto a bye week.

Rutgers, which has twostraight fourth-quarter come-backs, will need to get on theboard earlier against an offenselike Pittsburgh, which is unlikelyto let up late in the game.

5.) Syracuse (4-2, 1-1) — TheOrange are on their way back toreality after an ugly showingagainst Pittsburgh. After startingoff 4-1 with a big win against USF,Syracuse put up little fightagainst Pitt.

The Orange now take an eight-game losing streak against WestVirginia to Morgantown wherethey may drop within a game of.500 and enter the bottom seg-ment of the conference standings.

6.) Connecticut (3-3, 0-1) —The Huskies had a bye weekafter a loss to Rutgers and haveyet another Big East road gamethis week at Louisville.

Running back JordanTodman, who has at least 100yards in each of the five gameshe’s played, faces off against apoor rush defense.

7.) Louisville (3-3, 0-1) — TheCardinals’ offense might be ableto contend with Connecticut’sdefense, but it will be a tall taskfor a Louisville defense thatranks sixth in the conference.

8.) South Florida (3-3, 0-2) —The Bulls need B.J. Daniels torebound from two terriblegames. In his last two outings,the quarterback is 29-for-59 for233 yards with zero touchdownsand five interceptions.

But whether the team hasnine goals or 90, the only numberthat matters is the glaring zero,as in the number of conferencewins this year.

“I don’t think anybodyexpected it to be this tough,”Salmon said about the team’ssearch for a Big East win. “Weknew there was going to be anadjusting period with the newcoaching staff, but I think we allcame into this season expectinga lot more wins.”

The best chance for theKnights all game long came justtwo minutes into the contestwhen junior Bryant Knibbs’turnaround shot from 25 yardsout beat St. John’s goalkeeperRafael Diaz.

But the shot could not beatthe crossbar as it rattled off thewoodwork and out of harm’s way.

“We are just struggling to findthe back of the net,” Knibbs said.“Hitting the crossbar evenmakes it that much worsebecause it’s so close.”

The two teams combined forjust two shots on net in the firststanza, with both goalkeepersrecording one save apiece.

Knibbs found the post again inthe second half, when McNicollworked space inside the 18-yardbox and found the Pine Bush,N.Y., native open. Knibbs let off arocket, but once again it glancedoff the crossbar and out of play.

In the end it was the same oldstory for Rutgers — hard workyielding no results.

“We knew it was going to betough. We just didn’t think we’dstruggle this bad,” Knibbs said.“We’re putting up good efforts.We just have to find results now.”

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BY STEVEN MILLERSPORTS EDITOR

The absence of junior EricLeGrand due to a spinal cordinjury not only affects theRutgers football team’s mentali-ty as it copes with his condition,but it also creates a void on thedefensive line.

LeGrand rotated at theScarlet Knights’ defensive tack-le spots with starters ScottVallone and Charlie Noonan,but in his stead redshirt fresh-man Michael Larrow shouldsee an increased role.

“He’s been working with thetwos all year, he just hasn’t real-ly gotten into the rotation,” saidfifth-year senior captainNoonan. “He’s going to beready. Me and Scott stay prettyclose to him and keep him incheck assignment-wise to makesure he knows the defense.”

Larrow joined the Knights asa defensive end, but transitionedinside to tackle, where he madea tackle in his only appearanceagainst Norfolk State.

At 6-foot-4 and 252 pounds,Larrow does not have the proto-typical build of a defensive tack-le, but Noonan does not believeLarrow’s size is an issue.

“Mike’s very gifted genetical-ly,” Noonan said. “Anytime youhave long arms like that, it’s anadvantage. The length of his armsis very long and he’s a strongplayer. When he gets his tech-nique down, he’s hard to block.”

The Union High Schoolproduct will be thrown right

PRACTICE NOTEBOOK LARROW SET TO SEE MORE TIME

CAMERON STROUDSophomore wideout Mohamed Sanu had seven carries for 33 yards and

six catches for 50 yards last weekend against Army.

BY VINNIE MANCUSOCONTRIBUTING WRITER

As its fall season play comesto an end, the Rutgers tennis

t e a mn o wl o o k sforwardt otoday’s

ITA Regional Championships. The Scarlet Knights have

three players in juniors JenniferHolzberg and Mar yanaMilchutskey, as well as seniorAmy Zhang, who qualified forthe prestigious tournament.With the major event come newchallenges — most significant-ly the indoor format thatRutgers rarely saw throughoutthe season.

To prepare for this new obsta-cle, the Knights made a stopbefore regionals at their firstindoor scrimmage of the seasonat Columbia.

Although Rutgers won onlytwo out of the five matchesplayed, head coach Ben Buccasaw the tournament as animportant stepping stone on theway to regionals.

“The Columbia match wasvery informal. It was more toget us into hard, competitiveplay than anything else,” Buccasaid. “It did two things: It pre-pared us for the strong indoorplay we are going to see inregionals, as well as the verychallenging match againstColumbia we will have duringthe team portion of our season.”

As for the actual tournament,Bucca is completely confident inhis players’ abilities both to playthe game and overcome thechange in surroundings.

“We are going in with highexpectations and a clear visionon winning the tournament,”Bucca said. “We have alreadycompeted against the best teamsin our region and done excep-tionally well, and we know weare more than capable in bothsingles and doubles.”

The three girls who quali-fied for postseason play sharetheir coach’s enthusiasm andconfidence in their ability totake the tournament home. No stranger to playing in thepostseason, Zhang is confidentin both her own and her team-mates’ capability to win a championship.

“This will be my fourth yearand I’m happy to be going inwith Jen and Maryana — weplay well together,” Zhangsaid. “The biggest pressure isbeing indoors, which will makeit a lot faster, but tennis-wise Iam prepared.”

Zhang and Holzberg part-ner to form one of the top-ranked doubles teams in thetournament. Holzberg hashigh hopes with her partnerand in the singles competition.

“I really want to play well. Iwant to beat good teams in dou-bles and good players in sin-gles,” Holzberg said. “It’s toughto make it into regionals andjust to qualify is good, and nowI’m ready to play.”

Starting today, Holzberg andher teammates get the chance toshow just how ready they are.

RU sendsthree repsto Champs

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BY TYLER BARTO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

NEW YORK — The Big Eastheld its annual media day yester-

day atMadisonS q u a r eG a r d e na n d

announced its preseason awards. Coaches tabbed Pittsburgh

as the preseason favorite to winthe league outright. Pantherguard Ashton Gibbs also earnedpreseason All-Big East firstteam honors.

Guards Kemba Walker ofConnecticut, Jeremy Hazell ofSeton Hall and Corey Fisher ofVillanova, as well as forwardKevin Jones of West Virginiaround out the conference’s pre-season first-team honorees.

Georgetown guard AustinFreeman, who averaged 16.5points and 3.5 rebounds pergame during the 2009-10 season,earned preseason Player of theYear honors.

The Daily Targum provides apreview of the Big East’s topfour teams, according to thecoaches’ poll:

1.) Pittsburgh (12 first-placevotes) — Head coach JamieDixon’s Panthers were a nearlyunanimous selection to win theleague. Pitt features Seton HallPrep product and leading scorerGibbs, versatile guard BradWanamaker and big man GaryMcGhee, to go with an alreadyloaded roster.

“Having a target on our back— I think it’s going to make useven better, make us work hard-er,” McGhee said. “We’re goingto get everybody’s best shotevery night. Expectations are

Tourney regulars make up Big East’s top four

COURTESY OF KYLE FRANKO

Villanova head coach Jay Wright’s squad earned the Big East’s No. 2

preseason ranking with seniors Corey Fisher and Corey Stokes.

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into the fire against one of theBig East’s most explosiveoffenses, featuring a big offen-sive line and a pair of strongtailbacks in Ray Graham andDion Lewis.

“They have two goodbacks,” Noonan said. “Theycome in at 100 percent whenthey come in and they’re dif fer-ent backs too. They can do it alltoo — they can catch the ballout of the backfield.”

THE KNIGHTS WILL WEARstickers on their helmets inhonor of LeGrand.

“We have a sticker across thefront of our helmets. It says,‘Believe,’” said head coach GregSchiano. “When they look at eachother, they’ll see it.”

Schiano offered no updateson the status of LeGrand, whoremains at HackensackMedical Center.

SOPHOMORE WIDEOUTMohamed Sanu remains aninjury concern as the practiceweek winds down as a result ofaccumulated reps and hitsthroughout the season.

“We’re going to see,” Schianosaid. “Hopefully he’ll be able togo. He’s got a foot.”

Freshman wideout JeremyDeering could run the Wildcatpackage in place of Sanu — a rolehe had in a limited capacityagainst Tulane.

ALTHOUGH PITT ISwithout defensive end GregRomeus, who led the team with

eight sacks last season, thePanthers still pose a pass-rushing threat.

Jabaal Sheard, BrandonLindsey and Chas Alecxihcombine for 14 sacks, and the Knights’ of fensive lineallowed 26 through its first six games.

Schiano said tinkering willcontinue along the line.

“We’re moving piecesaround that are there, trying todo some dif ferent things tohelp them schematically,”Schiano said. “That will playout that way.”

ALTHOUGH LASTweekend’s game was away fromRutgers Stadium, this weekend’smatchup will mark freshmanquarterback Chas Dodd’s firstroad start.

Schiano does not expectthe new setting to af fect hissignal caller.

“I just think of him as a guywho loves playing,” Schianosaid. “I think he’ll look at a roadgame as a fun opportunity tohave everybody against you.”

— Sam Hellman contributed to this report

higher. Everybody’s looking for-ward to finishing No. 1.”

The real issue for Dixon willbe translating success in theNCAA Tournament. ThePanthers lost to No. 6-seedXavier in the second round of thetournament last season.

2.) Villanova (1) — Despitethe loss of senior All-AmericanScottie Reynolds, head coachJay Wright’s Wildcats still ownone of the Big East’s most versatile rosters.

Fisher, a St. Patrick’s (N.J.)product, headlines ’Nova’sreturnees, which include class-mates Corey Stokes andAntonio Pena.

“Just having freshmenbecome sophomores and juniorsbecome seniors — it helps a lot,”Pena said. “Just going againstother people in this conference isa great experience.”

The Wildcats also boast one ofthe strongest sophomore classesin the country, highlighted by bigman Mouphtaou Yarou andguard Maalik Wayns.

3.) Syracuse (2) — Anotheryear, another season of highexpectations for 34-year headcoach Jim Boeheim.

Despite losing the talentedtrio of Wesley Johnson, ArinzeOnuaku and Andy Rautins to theNBA Draft, the cupboard is farfrom bare for the Orange.

Forward Kris Joseph was afashionable pick for the confer-ence’s preseason second teamand point guards ScoopJardine and Brandon Trichegive the Orange a dynamicof fensive attack.

“We don’t have a record oflosing,” said senior forward RickJackson, a Philadelphia native.

“We have a chance of winning[the NCAA Tournament] everyyear. We’re definitely trying toget there, but we have to take itone step — one game at a time.We’ve got to be consistent in theBig East — the hardest league inthe nation.”

4.) Georgetown — Headcoach John Thompson IIIreturns his most experiencedteam since 2006-07, which fea-tured future NBA pros Jef fGreen and Roy Hibbert.

Thompson’s Princeton offenserevolves around the play ofFreeman and senior point guardChris Wright. The play of the tal-ented backcourt duo will largelydetermine the fate of the Hoyas,

who lost all-purpose center GregMonroe to the NBA Draft.

Replacing Monroe’s presencein the post falls on experiencedsenior forward Julian Vaughn.

“Julian had a very good sum-mer and you can see his confi-dence is really growing,”Wright said. “He’s making verygood decisions when he getsthe ball, so that’s somethingwe’re really going to need. It’sgoing to be an important part ofour offense.”

The Hoyas have made earlyexits in back-to-back NCAATournaments, falling in the firstround last year to No. 14-seedOhio and succumbing to aStephen Curry-led Davidson inthe second round in 2008.

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BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZCORRESPONDENT

Replacing players within a program fromseason to season is difficult enough, but

attempting to com-pensate for a team’sheart and soul is

nearly impossible. After Sunday’s game against Bucknell, the

reality will begin to set in for the Rutgers fieldhockey team.

The Scarlet Knights take the field thisweekend for their final two home games ofthe 2010 season, and playing for the last timein front of their home crowd are senior co-captains Jenna Bull and Heather Garces.

“They’ve been fantastic,” said head coachLiz Tchou. “I’m going to miss them so much,but they’ve put themselves in a position tomake the Big East tournament, so we’ve justgot to win these two games this weekend,really look to do well, then go after [UConn].”

Both Garces and Bull entered the seasonon two different paths.

Bull returned looking to build on herprevious season’s second-team All-BigEast selection, while Garces was contentwith simply being on the field after aninjury-marred offseason.

Both returned this year for the Knightsand both continue to provide the steadyingforce the team lacked at the beginning of theseason. While continuing to recover from off-season shin surgery, Garces came into the

year not knowing what to expect and con-tributed in a mainly limited role throughoutthis season.

Still, the weekend bears an immensely sig-nificant meaning for the midfielder.

“I’ve been through a lot of ups anddowns here and [Sunday against Bucknell]is going to be my last game with my bestfriend,” Garces said of Bull. “I’m just goingto enjoy it and work my hardest and try toget two wins into the weekend to end off ona good note.”

Prior to the season, if someone predictedTchou’s team would be in the position it is innow, they might have turned heads.

The team kicked off the 2010 campaignwith 12 freshmen and sophomores, all ofwhich have seen the field in some capacitythis season for the Knights.

Add that inexperience with a two-winseason a year earlier and suddenly expecta-tions begin to diminish and that showed inthe preseason rankings. The conference’spreseason coaches’ poll selected theKnights to finish second to last in the BigEast without accounting for the leadershipprovided by the pair of senior captains.

The team found its way during the lat-ter half of the season, boasting a 5-3record over its past eight contests after aforgettable 1-7 start.

With all the odds continually piled againstthe Knights, and in the midst of all the chaosCAMERON STROUD

Senior co-captain Jenna Bull tallied a goal and two assists this season for the Knights, as

the team seeks its first Big East tournament berth since 2003. SEE DUO ON PAGE 13

Coaches’ polladds fuel tounderdogs’ fire

BY STEVEN MILLERSPORTS EDITOR

NEW YORK — The Rutgers men’s bas-ketball team is disappointed with its ranking in the Big East preseason coaches’ poll.

The Scarlet Knights were picked to finish15th out of 16 teamsin the country’s most

demanding conference — one spot abovewhere they wanted to be placed.

“It’s just more locker room material forus,” said senior captain Jonathan Mitchell.“We wanted to be picked 16th today. It’s justmore fuel, more motivation.”

The Knights heard criticism long beforethe Big East released its annual rankings.

After a 15-17 campaign with five confer-ence wins, the Knights had an offseason fullof turmoil that saw the team’s leading scorerMike Rosario transfer.

Rutgers was already written of f countless times.

Mitchell, the team’s leading returning scor-er, averaged 11.8 points per game last season.

Austin Johnson is a 6-foot-8 forward thatwill start at center.

Head coach Mike Rice’s 2011 recruitingclass is already ranked No. 6 in the nation byRivals.com, so why play this year?

Chances are the Knights already saweach of these statements somewhere.

And chances are Rice already read thesestories to his team before sticking them to apunching bag the team passes as it makes itsway from the locker room to the court.

“The quotes are just nasty, mean thingsfrom you and your colleagues in themedia,” Rice said. “It’s something that Iwant our guys to prove wrong. I want themto have chips on their shoulders. Theyhear it, whether it’s a lack of talent or a lackof depth.

BY A.J. JANKOWSKIASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

In a game between two strugglingoffenses, the Rutgers men’s soccer team

knew its Big Eastgame yesterdayagainst St. John’scould come downto just one play.

Unfor tunate lyfor the Scarlet Knights, the Red Storm madethe most of a singular play — a free kick inthe 67th minute on a questionable call — tosend Rutgers to its eighth-straight loss in a1-0 decision.

“I’m very upset with the call. I know I’mgoing to sound like a poor loser, but I’m veryupset,” said head coach Dan Donigan. “[St.John’s] gave us everything we could handletonight, but to lose it in that fashion is verydifficult to swallow.”

The Red Storm (7-5-2, 1-3-2) tallied theonly goal of the game when Pablo BattutoPunyed nailed the free kick from 22 yardsout. The junior from Miami struck the ballwith his left foot and sent it far post, bendingpast the outstretched hand of junior goal-keeper Adam Klink.

“Punyed is a great player,” Donigan said.“It was a great restart and a great goal — takenothing away from that. I wish we had an

opportunity like that that would have gonefor us.”

The last time the Knights (3-9-1, 0-6-0)lost eight in a row was in 1972, when theteam opened the season with nine straightlosses under then-coach J. William Maytas.

The Knights’ starting lineup — includ-ing freshman midfielder BrennanMcNicoll, who played with a cast on hisright wrist — knew it had a long nightforthcoming with injuries depleting theroster. Freshman Todd Webb served asthe only player at 100 percent on theRutgers bench.

NICHOLAS BRASOWSKI / SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Junior midfielder Bryant Knibbs had the Scarlet Knights’ best scoring chance of the game just two minutes into the contest, when he rattled the

crossbar from 25 yards out. He also hit the post in the second half, but Rutgers could not find the net in its 1-0 loss to St. John’s.

Free kick goal keeps RU winless in Big East

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Senior duo propels Knightspast preseason expectations