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science, said Joan Carbone, execu-tive director of Residence Life.

“[The junior suites are] twodouble-rooms that are connectedby a bathroom,” Carbone said.“The goal of the facility is to pro-vide convenience in terms of thejunior suites, but the building itselfis built in a way that provides a lotof support systems for programsand studying.”

The program structure willfocus on a yearly overarchingtheme, the first being the recentGulf Coast spill, in which first-yearstudents from the three schoolsand general upper-class studentswill collaborate on monthly pro-

grams relating to the theme,Carbone said.

“There will also be a 24-hourcomputer lab on the main floor ofone of the buildings that will beopen to all students, not just thosewho live in the building,” she said.

Residence Hall AssociationPresident Ryan Harrington said theprogram should enable first-yearstudents to learn something out-side of the classroom and gain anew perspective.

“[The program] gives students anopportunity to look at things outsideof the classroom, especially if it’s

“It’s more of a communityevent, and we’re very happy that asa nonprofit we can offer this to thecommunity,” Stefanek said.

One of the main focuses of theevening was the annual chili cook-off, also organized by the CityMarket, where six downtownrestaurants — Harvest MoonBrewery, The Frog and The Peach,Makeda, Glass Woods Tavern,Ginger ‘N Olive and Hansel ‘nGriddle — competed for thechance to win a trophy and brag-ging rights for 2011.

The winner of the competi-tion was Glass Woods Tavern,with Hansel ‘n Griddle snaggingsecond place.

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Although Rutgers University StudentAssembly President Yousef Saleh commendedthe assembly’s unity during his State of theAssembly address, an internal schism over thedistribution of funding created a divisionamong members.

Members of RUSA voiced their frustrationsand issues Thursday night with the RUSAAllocations Board, with many saying they areangered by their role in the selection processfor special event funding.

RUSA President Yousef Saleh said the toneof the meeting flattened with members display-ing their anger, having to repeatedly take con-trol and at one point yell at a member for“being rude.”

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A new model of University hous-ing on Busch campus will createanother living option for incomingSchool of Arts and Sciences,Ernest Mario School of Pharmacyand School of Engineering first-year students as well as generalupper-class students.

The new residence halls, whichare expected to open in fall 2011,will feature a new style of livingunit called “junior suites,” and willalso center around a programstructure that encourages studentsto explore current events through

City rings in holidaysat yearly tree lighting

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The holiday season in NewBrunswick lit up with the 18thannual tree lighting ceremonyFriday evening at MonumentSquare at the corner of LivingstonAvenue and George Street.

About 1,000 residents of allages attend the ceremony eachyear to watch local performanc-es, eat holiday favorites andexperience the lighting of theChristmas tree in the middle ofthe square, said Pam Stefanek,executive director of the NewBrunswick City Market, whichcoordinates social and culturalactivities around the city such asthe ceremony.

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Model UN, Debate Union face off on environmental policy BY RASHMEE KUMAR

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The Rutgers UniversityAssociation of InternationalRelations’ Model UnitedNations bested RutgersUniversity Debate Union in adebate on green energy alter-natives on Nov. 29 in theGraduate Student Lounge ofthe Rutgers Student Center.

The win was especially significant for delegates of theModel UN, who had to adoptRUDU’s style of debating, said Shariq Ahmad, Model UN president.

“It put us out of our comfortzone and made us debate using adif ferent style against an extremely competent opponentwho is nationally ranked and hasrecently been getting a lot ofattention,” said Ahmad, a Schoolof Arts and Sciences senior.

The debate, which was spon-sored by the Federal Republicof Germany’s TransatlanticClimate Bridge program, fea-tured discussion on carbonemissions and renewable ener-gies, Ahmad said.

A panel of professors acted asjudges, scoring each team based onthe strength of their argument andpersuasive skills, their speaking andpresentation and their knowledge ofpolicy and issues, he said.

The final round pittedAhmad, School of Arts andSciences first-year studentAniket Kesari and School of Artsand Sciences senior AakrutiVakharia against School of Artsand Sciences seniors DavidReiss and Kyle Bomeisl, andSchool of Engineering sopho-more Chris Bergman.

“The final ended up beingextremely close, but RU AIR pulledaway with the win by

stating more on policy,” Ahmad said.

RUDU Vice President ofPublic Relations Krishna Kavisaid it was the Model UN’sknowledge of facts and figuresthat put them over the top.

“In Model UN debates, they’reused to having specific numbersand details,” said Kavi, a School ofArts and Sciences junior. “DebateUnion didn’t use all of those argu-ments. Instead, they used generalfacts and underlying philosophies,so they lost by a small margin.”

To prepare for the debate,members of Model UN researchedindependently and then cametogether to coordinate speechesand arguments, Kesari said.

“It was really awesome [to win],”he said. “We did a lot of preparationa couple days before, so it was real-ly rewarding to get the win.”

The Model UN team recentlyvisited Columbia University,

Georgetown University and theUniversity of Pennsylvania toparticipate in competitions,Kesari said.

“We are 100 percent intoeverything. We do our researchand participate while we’re there,”he said. “In general, we make surethat Rutgers is known as a veryprofessional, friendly school sothat other schools know whatRutgers is really about.”

Ahmad said while the ModelUN would like to impact thecampus community more, theirgreatest contribution is creat-ing a positive image outside ofthe University.

“When [other teams] interactwith Rutgers students who areequally as intelligent as them andwho have been consistently beatingthem in nationwide competitions,they go back to their elite schoolswith a certain amount of respect forRutgers and a changed perception

from that of the usual state schoolwith a big-time sports program andlots of parties,” he said.

Ahmad said the award symbol-izes a sense of pride for the entireModel UN team.

“For the Model UN as awhole … we share in eachother’s victories, and also itgives us a reputation outside ofRutgers that we’re a legitimateschool that is competing at thecollegiate level,” he said. “It basi-cally represents us as hardwork-ing people that are really pas-sionate about what we do.”

The award was only given toschools that are recognized for hav-ing the highest number of award-winning delegates, Ahmad said.

“It is a huge honor for anyschool and marks the beginning ofa new era for the Rutgers ModelUN program, where we will bewell-respected around the nationfor years to come,” he said.

A multidisciplinary team of researchers receiveda $300,000, 18-month grant from the Robert WoodJohnson Foundation to design a nursing leadershipprogram for nurse managers to improve patientcare, according to a Rutgers-Newark News Centerpress release.

“Nurses represent the single largest group ofhealth professionals delivering hospital care, but ourknowledge of their contributions to ensuring that careis safe … patient-centered, efficient and equitable is

woefully inadequate,” said Mary Naylor, Robert WoodJohnson Foundation Interdisciplinary Nursing QualityResearch Initiative director, in the release.

The team, headed by Linda Flynn, associate deanfor graduate education at Rutgers College of Nursingand Joel Cantor, director of the Center for State HealthPolicy at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policyand Aging Research at the University, will test the newNurse Manager in Action Program with 40 nurse man-agers in 20 hospitals, according to the release.

The program will teach nurse managers a vari-ety of leadership skills through five monthly interactive workshops.

The Center for State Health Policy at theUniversity will share the study’s policy implicationsand promote its replication in other hospitals, accord-ing to the website.

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rity is higher than it has everbeen before,” Finston said.

Stefanek said at a few yearsold, the competition is relativelynew, and it was important to linkit to a local cause.

“We connect it to Elijah’sPromise to make it more cause-related and community-connect-ed,” she said.

Mages was glad his donationwent to the soup kitchen.

“It makes all the chili taste 100percent better,” he said.

Aside from the cook-off, therewas also an array of local per-formers — such as the NewBrunswick Public School bands,traditional Dutch dancers, up-and-coming singers and a showfrom the Rutgers Juggling Club.

“We wanted to mix it up,”Stefanek said.

Erie Beemsterboer, a memberof the Van Wickle Dutch Dancers— a group affiliated with theDutch-founded First ReformedChurch in New Brunswick —said the dancers, wearing tradi-tional garb, performed two tradi-tional Dutch dances called SkotseFjouwer and Ijswals.

Typically, these dances areperformed indoors with woodenshoes, but that is too dangerouson an outdoor stage, she said.

“Last year, we all slipped,”Beemsterboer said.

Beemsterboer, who moved toNew Brunswick from theNetherlands nine years ago, lovesthe mix of atmospheres the cityoffers its residents.

“It has big-city things, butyou don’t feel lost in the crowd,”she said.

Victor Lin, president of theRutgers Juggling Club, per-formed his Chinese yo-yo act forthe crowd.

“This is one of our annualevents. We always look forwardto it,” said Lin, a School of Artsand Sciences senior.

In addition to their perform-ance, which also featured con-tact balls, clubs and otherprops, the club members wentinto the crowd and taught thekids basic juggling skills.

“It’s definitely a rewardingprocess,” Lin said.

One of the final acts was up-and-coming R&B singer Va’da,who was born and raised inNew Brunswick.

She had attended the cere-mony in the past as a resident,but this was her first time performing.

“I want people to feel good,and it’s cold out so I hope [myperformance] helps warm peo-ple up,” Va’da said.

She said she had beensinging all her life, and nowshe has two singles, “All” and“Private Party,” on the moviesoundtrack for “Barbershop 2.”

Va’da joined Mayor JimCahill, Santa Claus and Mrs.Claus in lighting the tree at theend of the evening.

Cahill said the lighting of thetree is a special part of the cere-mony for the community.

“My favorite part is the treelighting and watching the peo-ple’s eyes light up as bright as thetree lights,” he said.

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Daniel Mages, assistant housemanager of the George StreetPlayhouse, was working when hesaw the competition and decidedto be a taster.

One of his favorites wasHarvest Moon’s.

“I just like it. It’s very flavor-ful,” he said. “And you can addheat or not, which is great.”

Joe Erdely, a line chef at TheFrog and The Peach, helpedmake the restaurant’s contribu-tion — a smoked-pork chili withhomegrown spices and ingredi-ents. He said the tasters seemedto enjoy their creation.

“We made everything fromscratch,” Erdely said. “It tookfour days to make.”

But the cook-off was not just acompetition — it was also achance to help alleviate hunger.

Tasters donated $1 toreceive a tasting kit, sample allsix chilis and vote for theirfavorite. All proceeds went tolocal soup kitchen Elijah’sPromise. The cook-of f last yearraised around $300 for the organization.

Lisanne Finston, executivedirector of Elijah’s Promise, saidthe cook-off is a great opportu-nity for residents to eat deli-cious chili, enjoy the tree light-ing and support a local cause.

This year marks the mostsevere incident of hunger in thecountry, and the soup kitchenserves about 150-200 meals ateach meal, she said. Elijah’sPromise served 110,000 mealslast year alone.

“The need right now for peo-ple experiencing … food insecu-

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“[New Brunswick]has big-city

things, but you don’t feel lost in the crowd.”

ERIE BEEMSTERBOERVan Wickle Dutch Dancer

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LIGHTING UP NEW BRUNSWICK

About 1,000 residents of allages crowd Monument Squarein Downtown New BrunswickFriday in honor of the annualtree lighting ceremony. Alongwith the lighting of the townChristmas tree, the ceremonyfeatured several performancesas well as a chili cook-offbetween six local restaurants,with Glass Woods Tavern tak-ing home this year’s trophy. The cook-off will also benefit Elijah’s Promise soup kitchen.


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of the selection of AllocationsBoard members, with many RUSAmembers unaware about how theyobtain their positions.

Both outgoing members of theAllocations Board and advisersselect members, said RUSAFaculty Adviser Kerri Wilson.Members are not allowed to par-take in any decision dealing witha group they are affiliated with.

“It is selected to keep thepolitical piece out of funding forstudent organizations,” saidWilson, a past Allocations advis-er. “We are very careful to makesure that the representatives onthe board who may have an affili-ation with a student organizationremove themselves.”

Ahmad reassured RUSAmembers on this policy notingthat he took no part in theAllocations Board’s decision inspring to fund the PakistaniStudent Association, a group hebelongs to.

“By law, we are required to beviewpoint-neutral when we areusing public funds,” he said. “Inthe event that any kind of ques-tion comes up about a studentorganization I am part of in theAllocations Board, I step out.”

Saleh also said the AllocationsBoard and its members areapproved by RUSA every year,and the RUSA treasurer continu-ally checks on its work to see ifanything wrong takes place.

Another issue RUSA membersvoiced during the meeting dealtwith the selection process for spe-cial event funding, which InternalAffairs Chair John Aspray said isthe source for most of the angerfrom his colleagues.

“A lot of the criticism is com-ing from a distrust in the fundingand selection process and the

lack of democratic oversight,”said Aspray, a School of Arts andSciences senior. “It’s not aboutthe Allocations Board but a dis-trust in the process, which weshould open up to discussion.”

There are certain require-ments a student group needs tomeet in order to apply for spe-cial event funding, such as anestimated attendance of morethan 250 people and at leastfive co-sponsorships fromother student organization,Ahmad said.

If the group meets these tworequirements, they qualify forfunding from RUSA Allocations,who will then use an unbiasedperspective to select four who willreceive funds, he said.

“We look at the mission ofthe student organization, and welook at the special event pro-gram they are trying to do,”Ahmad said. “We determinewhich ones will benefit the mostfor students as well as con-tribute to the intellectual growthof the University.”

With a $90,000 budget forspecial event funding, Ahmadsaid the Allocations Board

chose to disperse $50,000 dur-ing the fall semester and$40,000 for the spring.

Although the amount of fund-ing for a student organization var-ied in the past, a limit of $10,000for each of the four groups wasset to make things fair in the fund-ing process.

“That was the number that wecame up with,” he said. “So wethought it would be enough to atleast cover room rental, food andthe necessities of a program.”

But many members said thisselection process happensbehind closed doors and feelthey do not have any influencein the final outcome. Saleh saidthe reason it is held in this man-ner is because of a cap sheetused and entrusted to theAllocations Board.

“If someone from the publicsees the cap sheet, which is themaximum amount a certain lineitem can be funded, they can putit towards another groups advan-tage,” he said.

RUSA members have theopportunity to see presentationsby student groups applying forspecial event funding, Saleh said.

“People are allowed to come inand view how student organiza-tions present to us,” Ahmad said.“The only part that is actuallyclosed to the public is when weare deciding how much fundingthey get.”

RUSA members said althoughthese meetings take place everytwo weeks, they were unawarebecause of a lack of advertising.But Ahmad said this was far fromthe truth.

“We have Daily Targum ads,we advertise on Facebook and iteven went out on the studentListserv multiple times and was

listed on our website as well,” hesaid. “So I don’t know how muchmore we can [advertise].”

After more than 40 minutes ofdebate, Ahmad reminded themembers of RUSA that if they areable to learn about the process ofRUSA Allocations if they desire to.

“You have the opportunity tolearn how RUSA allocationsworks,” he said. “It is outlined in ourguidelines and your constitution.”

Although certain memberschose to display their displeasurewith the Allocations Board atThursday’s meeting, others pro-posed solutions to the problem.

Ross Kleiman, an EngineeringGoverning Council representa-tive, said a source of the problemis an opaque view of the groupswho are seeking special eventfunding, suggesting a PowerPointpresentation to show membersthe details of each group.

“It would be beneficial foreverybody to see what theseorganizations are about and whatwe are actually funding,” he said.“I think it is important for us tosee what we are voting on.”

When RUSA debated on spe-cial event funding earlier thissemester, there were few ques-tions about the RUSA Allocationsprocess, said Morgan Sills, RUSApublic relations committee mem-ber. After the meeting’s debate,she felt it could have benefits touse the same method to debatethe next time special event fund-ing comes up.

“Maybe this should be theprocess we use every time a spe-cial event comes around,” saidSills, a School of Arts andSciences junior. “Because thereare many more questions comingup now than at the beginning ofthe semester.”

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something they might be interest-ed in and maybe wouldn’t have hadan opportunity to explore as a first-year student,” said Harrington, aSchool of Environmental andBiological Sciences junior.

The program and the juniorsuites will create opportunitiesfor pharmacy, engineering,School of Arts and Sciences first-year students and upper-classstudents to interact with eachother, Harrington said.

“The way that traditional first-year halls are set up is that thereare about 30 units on a floor, soabout 60 people live there, andthere’s usually only two bath-rooms, and everyone shares thosebathrooms. It’s a really nicechange,” he said.

Pharmacy Governing CouncilPresident Andrew Zullo said hesupports the new housing and amajority of pharmacy school stu-dents appear to be in favor of it.

“The profession of pharmacyis constantly evolving, and I feelthat the new housing is an oppor-tunity for pharmacy students tolearn how their professional andextensive knowledge of healthcare can benefit others,” saidZullo, a fifth-year Ernest MarioSchool of Pharmacy student.

Engineering GoverningCouncil President David Parksaid he believes the theme willcomplement the classroom expe-riences of engineering students.

“It is especially exciting to seesuch an initiative to encourage mul-tidisciplinary teamwork becausethe Engineering GoverningCouncil is implementing severalprojects and policies that revolvearound the same theme,” said Park,a School of Engineering senior.

HALL: Committee to make

final plans at end of semester


The new residence halls on Busch campus are scheduled to open at the start of the next academic year and will feature “junior suites,” wheretwo double-rooms are connected by a bathroom. The hall will also feature a new program where residents will explore current events in science.


Saleh, a School of Arts andSciences senior. “We give themour stamp of approval at the end ofevery year, and we say that thesepeople will make the right deci-sions regarding these events.”

RUSA Allocations providesmoney to certain student organi-zations every year for specialevents, basing it on educationaland social benefits, Saleh said.

But Anthony Esposito, an off-campus representative forRUSA, said the only role RUSAmembers have is to give theirapproval after the selectionprocess is finished, which hefinds problematic.

“The thing is we don’t haveany reason to approve thesegroups,” said Esposito, a Schoolof Engineering senior. “Wedon’t have any solid criteria tolook at to know we shouldapprove the group over theother ones you denied.”

RUSA Allocations ViceChairperson Zain Ahmad saidalthough nine out of the 12 stu-dent organizations who appliedfor spring semester funding weredenied, they are able to return ata later date to obtain the helpthey need for the event.

“It’s not like we are denyingthem the possibility of hostingthat event,” said Ahmad, a Schoolof Arts and Sciences junior. “Dueto the limit for special eventmoney, we have limitedresources, and we can’t fund allthe student organizations.”

An issue, which came uprepeatedly, dealt with the integrity

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“It would be beneficial

for everybody to see what

these organizations are about.”ROSS KLEIMAN

Engineering Governing CouncilRepresentative

Zaid Abuhouran, School ofEnvironmental and BiologicalSciences governing council presi-dent, said while he thinks the pro-gram would create a collaborativeatmosphere for students, itexcludes School ofEnvironmental and BiologicalSciences first-year students.

“Residence Life is trying tostrive towards equity in housingso that everyone can have anequal shot in living somewhere.[The new housing] is goingagainst what they’re trying to doby giving special interest housingto some students,” saidAbuhouran, a School ofEnvironmental and BiologicalSciences junior.

Carbone said Residence Lifedoes provide a preference forfirst-year School ofEnvironmental and BiologicalSciences students.

“School of Environmental andBiological Sciences students areplaced [on Cook campus] eventhough there may be some[School of Arts and Sciences] stu-dents who may want to live onCook campus,” she said. “We pro-vide that same preference forfirst-year [School ofEnvironmental and BiologicalSciences] students that we pro-vide for the others.”

She also said Residence Lifeoffers many special interest andlearning communities around thefour campuses including smallones like the Weather Watchers, aSchool of Environmental andBiological Sciences program, andlarge ones like the DouglassResidential College.

“There’s also a lot of program-ming space in this [new Busch cam-pus housing], and I’m sure we willoffer programs that will be available

to all students who are interested inscience,” Carbone said.

The idea for the new designat-ed housing came from a commit-tee composed of Vice Presidentfor Student Affairs Gregory S.Blimling and representatives fromthe School of Arts and Sciences,Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy,the School of Engineering andResidence Life, Carbone said.

“An agreement was madeamong the three schools,” Carbonesaid. “They decided as a groupwhat would be a fair breakdown ofthe percentages of the students.”

Carbone said most of the planswould be finalized in the commit-tee meeting next week.

“Certainly by the end of thesemester, the University canexpect a final decision because bythat point, we have to startrecruiting for the upper-class stu-dents and so on,” she said.

As part of the selectionprocess, upper-class studentsinterested in living in the new res-idence halls will go through anapplication process and bescreened for discipline, she said.

Harrington said the selec-tion process is not supposed tobe as vigorous as becoming aresidence assistant and is doneto encourage upper-class stu-dents to become mentors forfirst-year students.

Zullo said he is pleased theUniversity has responded to stu-dent demands for this type ofhousing on Busch campus.

“The Engineering andPharmacy schools have workedfor a very long time to secure anopportunity for a learning-basedcommunity such as this,” Zullosaid. “I really appreciate that theUniversity has embraced thepotential value of such a program.”

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U. experts say Four Loko remains harmful despite caffeine removalBY JOHN ZADROGA

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

For many college students,caffeine fuels the weekday andalcohol fuels the weekend, but anew combination of the two sub-stances is linked to deadly situa-tions on American campuses.

Phusion Projects, LLC —maker of alcoholic energy drinkFour Loko — announced onNov. 16 that due to negativepublicity surrounding its prod-uct, stimulant additives wouldbe removed from the formula.

Still, Phusion Projects co-founder Chris Hunter feels thecompany is facing an unfairlevel of criticism.

“If it were unsafe, populardrinks like rum and colas orIrish coffees that have beenconsumed safely and responsi-bly for years would face thesame scrutiny that our productshave recently faced,” Huntersaid in an address to the publicregarding the decision.

But many professionals stillquestion the safety of PhusionProjects’ product.

When consulted about thecombination of caffeine and alco-hol in one 24.5 oz. can, Universitynutritionist and registered dietitianPeggy Policastro explained theconcoction’s effects on the body.

“The natural response ofthe body to alcohol is sleepi-ness and fatigue,” she said.“When a stimulant such as caf-feine is added, this response isblocked, allowing for the con-sumer to engage in riskierbehavior for longer.”

For many students, thetaste of Four Loko is moreappealing than that of otherbeverages, Policastro said.

“The beverage is flavored,unlike beer, which has a verydistinct taste of its own,”

she said. “For students who

University nutrition experts say Four Loko will still produce negative effects despite the company’s proposal to remove caffeine. Experts saythe drink will probably still be favorable to students because of the taste and a small amount is enough to affect brain proteins.

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generally dislike beerfor its taste, Four Loko may be

a popular alternative for its rel-ative palatability.”

Regardless of the taste, thealcohol content of Four Lokoposes a threat to consumers’brain chemistry, said AndrePietrzykowski, a University assis-tant professor of animal science.

“Even a small amount of alco-hol, roughly equivalent to oneor two glasses of wine is enoughto af fect the proteins of thebrain,” said Pietrzykowski, whohas studied alcohol metabolismin humans. “My fear regardingFour Loko is the fact that oneserving contains the amount ofalcohol roughly equivalent to anentire bottle of wine, [which] isway too much for one person todrink in one sitting.”

University professor of nutri-tional sciences MalcolmWatford said Four Loko canhave lasting negative effects on

the body, including the increaseof a person’s risk for gout, impo-tence or liver diseases.

This is because the alcoholabsorptions causes the liver torelease acetylaldehyde, a verypotent toxin, Watford said duringan “Advanced Nutrition” lecture.

“The liver can metabolizeabout a half ounce of alcoholper hour, and there is nothingthe individual can do to changehis or her rate of alcoholabsorption,” he said. “FourLoko contains about 80 gramsof alcohol. There is nothingredeeming about the drink.”

Other ingredients in the drinkdo not play as active a role as caf-feine and alcohol, Watford said.

“The additive taurine has nofunction in the drink to myknowledge,” he said. “It is anamino acid, which was onceextracted from the stomach bileof bulls, hence the name of thepopular energy drink Red Bull.”

According to a Phusion Projectspress release, the company makesconsumer safety a priority.

“[Phusion Projects] has a his-tory of being as cooperative as wepossibly can to ensure that ourproducts are consumed safely,responsibly and only by of-ageadults,” according to the release.

But students on campus main-tain that the drink, even with theremoval of alcohol, poses a threatto peoples’ wellbeing.

“I don’t think removing thecaffeine will eliminate abuse ofthe drink,” said Taisia Robinson,a School of Arts and Sciencessophomore. “People are alreadybeginning to mix it with Red Bullanyway to get the same effect.”

Robinson, who attends par-ties at the University on a week-ly basis, said she once had toassist a woman at an event who,after just a few sips of FourLoko, was too inebriated to puton her own shoes.

For some, such drunkennessis part of the appeal, she said.

“The problem with FourLoko is that you don’t knowhow it will af fect you until youtry it once, but I guess that’spart of the fun for some people,too,” Robinson said. “Most peo-ple drink it because they don’tlike the taste of beer and play-ing drinking games with hardliquor would be too much.”

Despite the side ef fects,there is no federal ban on theproduct. The removal of thestimulant additives seems toof fer a shor t-term fix, butPhusion Projects is takingmeasures to ensure due consumer education for its product.

According to the company’swebsite, “Everyone should worktogether, to ensure that [PhusionProjects’] products and all alco-holic beverages, are consumedsafely and responsibly.”

lizers being the most com-mon. Eighty percent have aserious concurrent medicalcondition, 50 percent engagein substance abuse duringtheir lifetime, and 33 percentsuffer from alcohol abuse.

The main point is that aline has to be drawn in themind of the clinician

between the efficacy or internal validity of a treat-ment — the results achieved in a controlled, labo-ratory setting — and the treatment’s effectivenessor external validity — its impact in the real world.This does not necessarily mean depriving patientsof medications that their physicians believe to bebeneficial, and indeed, antipsychotics such asRisperdal are often used with varying levels ofsuccess in schizophrenic patients who fall outsideof the criteria of the various clinical studies. Infact, some psychiatrists have taken this to theextreme by prescribing antipsychotics to 18-month-olds. However, it does mean that cliniciansneed to be extra vigilant in terms of monitoring forlack of benefits of the treatment as well as for unin-

tended side effects, the latter ofwhich should be immediatelyreported to MedWatch, the FDA’sadverse effect reporting program.

To carry out studies of everymedication in every patient sub-population would be cost-and time-prohibitive, draining preciousresources from the scientific com-munity and delaying potentiallybeneficial treatments from reach-ing the hands of those who need it.

It is therefore up to health care professionals andpatients to help fill in the knowledge gaps aftermedications reach the real world. The federalcomparative ef fectiveness research initiativeshould also help in this regard by directing a sig-nificant portion of its allocations to the comparisonof real-world interventions in real-world settings.

The statistical analyses and results of studies —and more specifically, the way they are presented— often distort the utility of the data. To illustratethis point, let’s look at the previously mentionedJUPITER trial, which was published in late 2008 inthe New England Journal of Medicine.

This landmark study, conducted in 18,000healthy patients, found that for those with normalcholesterol levels but an elevated level of an inflam-mation marker called C-reactive protein, takingCrestor — a statin that is in the same class asLipitor — reduced the incidence of heart attacksand strokes by 55 and 48 percent, respectively,

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tions for sale and distribu-tion in this country, one ofthe crucial pieces of infor-mation the Food and DrugAdministration relies on areclinical trials. These studies— most of which try to leavea lasting memory through jazzy names such asJUPITER, IMPRESS and TRIUMPH, to name a few— aim to compare the benefits and risks of the drugunder investigation against either a sugar pill oranother relevant therapeutic agent that is already onthe market. While many of the trials performedmeet the criteria for informed consent of study sub-jects and unbiased collecting of data, some of theother design features of these studies — such as thecharacteristics of the enrolled patients — limit theirapplicability to patients in the real world. The samecan be said of some of the statistical analyses and thepresentation of the results.

The types of patients included in and excludedfrom many clinical trials pose the first big hurdle inthe widespread applicability of theresults. One of the key goals of thesestudies is to determine the effects ofthe therapy being investigated —those that can be attributed to thetherapy alone. Therefore, to reducethe likelihood of confounding factorsplaying a role in the study results,investigators often choose to narrowdown the enrolled patient pool.

For instance, a typical trial pub-lished earlier this year involvingRisperdal, an antipsychotic medication, includedpatients who were between 18 and 65 years of age, hadlocal residence with at least one family member andtook their medications at least 80 percent of the time,among other requirements. In addition, the trial explic-itly excluded patients who were taking antidepressantsor mood stabilizers at any time over the previous fourweeks, had a history of chronic medical or neurologicalcondition, were past or current drug or alcohol abusersor were pregnant or planning to become pregnant.

While the above requirements help ensure a verycontrolled study environment and enhance the likeli-hood that any results seen in the group given Risperdalwere likely due to this particular medication and notother factors, consider how much generalizability thisstudy has for the typical patient suffering from schizo-phrenia. First, real-world adherence to antipsychoticmedications is as low as 20 percent, a substantialdecrease from the 80 percent requirement used in thestudy. In addition, among schizophrenic patients, 43percent take another medication in addition to theirantipsychotic drug — antidepressants and mood stabi-

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“The statisticalanalyses and results

of studies ... oftendistort the utility

of the data.”

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Christie agrees and has decided to give New Jersey Network moretime to negotiate a deal with the state. Christie’s original plan was toallow NJN to end its 41-year run on Jan. 1, when the $11 million sub-sidy the network receives was set to run out. However, he changedhis mind and decided to extend the deadline, allowing NJN to aireven after its original funding ends. This will give NJN a betteropportunity to convince the state it deserves continued funding.

Sure, slashing NJN’s subsidy would save the state $11 million, butwhat would that money be used for if not the state’s PBS network? Inall likelihood it will be wasted on something far less important. Also,think of the number of people who will lose their jobs if NJN goes offthe air. Such a large number of newly unemployed people could do asignificant amount of damage to the state’s economy, despite the $11million the state would save by cutting the subsidy.

NJN provides the state with an important service — free televisionbroadcasts. While that may not seem like much, consider the nature of theprogramming NJN airs. First off, NJN runs large blocks of educational chil-dren’s televisions shows, more than most other channels. If the state allowsNJN to go under, New Jersey’s children wouldn’t be able to tap into theseprograms. It doesn’t just educate children though, they also broadcast thetype of unbiased news programs that most cable channels wouldn’t darerun. Since NJN doesn’t have to worry too much about how their programsdo in terms of ratings, they can air intellectually stimulating shows aboutarts and culture. How many cable channels broadcast poetry readings andinterviews with up-and-coming painters? Where else but NJN can one findin-depth, multi-installment documentaries about often overlooked foreigncultures and the most obscure bits of world history? Most cable channelsrely on dumbed down sitcoms and obviously biased newscasters to guar-antee viewers. NJN, on the other hand, is free to do what it wants — andwhat it wants to do is provide smart, truthful programming for free.

Of course, NJN can only continue providing New Jersey with greattelevision if the state continues to subsidize it. Losing NJN is notworth saving $11 million dollars. Christie realizes this and hopefullythe rest of the state will see it his way. The state government shouldlook elsewhere for possible budget cuts. In an era when televisiondoes little more than rot brains, NJN should be sacred.

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Free birth control will benefit all

Value NJN overbudget cuts

A s part of the health care reform bill, a panel of experts hasbeen assembled to discuss and decide which medical servicesshould be extended to women for free. Among the issues the

panel is currently addressing is whether the government should offerwomen free birth control, which, of course, they should.

From a purely numerical perspective, free birth control should be a no-brainer. Government-funded birth control could save millions of taxpayerdollars — more specifically, it saves taxpayers $4 for everyone $1 spent —by preventing pregnancies and, by extension, abortions — both of whichcost taxpayers loads of money every year. A report from the CongressionalBudget Office stated that free birth control for Medicaid patients would save$700 million over the span of a decade. In a time of drastic financial crisis,such money-saving measures are absolutely necessary. No one shouldobject to measures that cut hundreds of millions of dollars from the budget.

Free birth control is not just great for taxpayers — it’s also incrediblybeneficial to the women who receive it. From a financial perspective, birthcontrol can be pretty expensive. The average American is in as much of abudget crisis as the government, so money-saving measures are neces-sary for them as well. Some women have been forced by the uninvitingfinancial climate to forgo birth control in favor of paying for necessitieslike food and rent. If the panel decides to offer free birth control, thesewomen wouldn’t be forced to make the same tough financial decisionsmany of them have had to make recently.

It isn’t all about the numbers, though. It’s also about quality of life, andfree birth control could do wonders for the women who receive it. Itwould make it easier for them to plan their families the way they want to.The decreased risk of unwanted pregnancy means a decreased risk ofpersonal and fiscal crises for these women. Contraception should be asaccessible as possible for every woman, even those who have a difficulttime affording it. Women shouldn’t be financially blocked from havingcontrol over their bodies and their lives.

Both the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists andPlanned Parenthood have lent their support to the campaign for free birthcontrol — and so have three-quarters of the 1,150 American voters surveyedby Planned Parenthood. Free birth control isn’t only beneficial for everyonebut widely desired as well. The assembled panel should take note of the factsand realize that women are entitled to free birth control.

Doctor’sOrders

BO WANG

SEE WANG ON PAGE 9

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Work for diversity,not divisiveness

T he most common wordused to describe theUniversity is “diversity.”

Our administrators, faculty and stu-dents frequently point to the diversebackgrounds of the student body asa measure of the University’sstrength and equity. The diversity ofour school, they contend, is unbe-lievable. But of what worth is diver-sity when there is no unity?

Recently there has been anincrease in tensions in the Jewish,Arab and Muslim communities oncampus due to disagreementsover speakers and events. Whatthese tensions show is a necessityof the various diverse communi-ties of the University to learn howto respectfully disagree withoutwords being thrown at each other.

Diversity is not divisive.Diversity is a wealth of differentideas, cultures, backgrounds andpeople that come together. If wecannot exist together in spite of ourdifferences, then we are trapped inthe lines we draw in the sand.

The organization that myfriends and I started is calledRutgers Shalom/Salaam. It is anorganization that aims to bridge thegap between Jews and Arabs oncampus and elsewhere, throughcommunity service, culturalexchange and mutual respect.

WILLIAM EASTMAN

Letter

compared to taking a sugar pill.These results seem quiteimpressive, so impressive in factthat the study was stopped threeyears early so that patients in theplacebo group could start takingCrestor and get the associatedbenefits.

Dr. Steven Nissen of theCleveland Clinic, now more widelyknown for his work in exposingthe cardiovascular side effects ofAvandia, summed up the view ofthe study proponents: “If some-body comes into my office andmeets the [cholesterol and C-reac-tive protein] criteria am I going todeny them a drug that reducestheir chance of a heart attack orstroke by 40 or 50 percent?”

However, just like a distinc-tion had to be made betweenefficacy and effectiveness whenit came to the criteria of thestudy design, a distinction has tobe made here between relativeand absolute differences. That55 percent reduction in rate ofheart attacks was a relative rateand reflected an absolutedecrease in incidence from 0.37percent to 0.17 percent.

This 0.2 percent reductiontranslates to 500 patients beingput on Crestor for a year — ata cost of $638,000 and clinicalexposure to such side ef fectrisks as severe-to-fatal muscle

WANGcontinued from page 8

It is an organization inspired byfriendships that defy the bordersthat nationalism, ethnicity, religionor anything else has the potentialto create. Our friendships createdthis organization, and we want touse this organization to inspirefriendships between people whomight not ever otherwise meet.We are aware that we are all differ-ent, but we choose to focus on thecommonalities of our people andthe commonalities of all people as away to work toward unity.

We would like to make an openinvitation to anyone in theUniversity community, regardlessof background or belief, who wish-es to work toward unity in thisdiverse university. We invite you tothe Rutgers Shalom/Salaam FamilyDinner, a multicultural interfaithdinner where all are welcome tobreak bread and build bridges.

The dinner will be Friday at7 p.m. in Room 411 of theRutgers Student Center on theCollege Avenue campus. All arewelcome to enjoy delicious andfree kosher/Halal food. In lieuof an entrance fee, please bringsome form of donation —whether cash or canned — toElijah’s Promise soup kitchen.

William Eastman is the co-pres-ident of Rutgers Shalom/Salaamand a School of Arts and Sciencesjunior majoring in political scienceand history.

damage, kidney damage anddevelopment of diabetes — toavoid one hear t attack. Forsome patients, the benefitsmay outweigh the risks, espe-cially if they have other riskfactors that put them atincreased risk of suf fering aheart attack, such as a familyhistory of heart disease. But ablanket use of Crestor foreveryone with normal choles-terol and elevated levels of theinflammation marker?

Ironically, the side ef fectnumbers are much more oftenexpressed in absolute terms,especially if the drug companiesare sponsoring the trials. Thismakes sense for the bottom line:If a drug causes a 2 percent inci-dence of a particular side effectversus 1 percent for a sugar pill,a “1 percent increased risk” obvi-ously sounds more benign thana “100 percent increased risk.”

The goal of medicine is togive the right treatment to theright patient at the right doseat the right time.Understanding the limitationsof drug trials, both in theirdesign and their data report-ing, can increase the likelihoodof meeting this objective.

Bo Wang is an Ernest MarioSchool of Pharmacy sixth-year stu-dent and former president of thePharmacy Governing Council. Hiscolumn, “Doctor’s Orders,” runson alternate Mondays.

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“We just didn’t capitalize,”said quarterback Chas Dodd,who threw for two touchdownsand finished his freshman sea-son with 1,637 passing yardsand 11 touchdowns. “They gaveus plenty of opportunities. Wejust came out there kind of lolly-gagging and didn’t do what wehad to do.”

Defensively, Rutgers surren-dered an abysmal 523 yards tothe Mountaineers, including 352through the air behind quarter-back Geno Smith, but still man-aged to stay in the game by forc-ing turnovers.

West Virginia fumbled fourtimes in the red zone and lostthree of them, but the Knightsdid not score any points off the

three turnovers.S o p h o m o r e

receiver TavonAustin plunged inthe dagger forWVU (9-3, 5-2),which after thelast-second hero-ics of Connecticutkicker DaveTeggart, is on itsway to theChamps SportsBowl instead of a

BCS bid. Austin, who compiled 167

total yards, broke a 46-yard runout of the backfield in thefourth quarter to put Rutgersbehind 28-7.

“[Austin and senior receiverJock Sanders] were extremelytalented,” said sophomore cor-nerback Marcus Cooper, whostarted for the injured BrandonBing. “You see them on tape, andit’s one thing, but they both haveso much speed and ability.”

The struggling offensive line,despite switching in redshirtfreshman Andre Civil for sopho-more Devon Watkis at right tack-le, surrendered another sixsacks, dropping to an FBS-worst61 sacks.

“I think it’s just a matter ofcorrecting our mistakes,” Doddsaid on the sacks. “We have beenall season, and we’re just going tokeep gradually improving andgetting better at it.”

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when it allowed 68 in total andtwice finished top two in the nation.

“I think he’s the finestteacher I’ve been around at theposition,” Schiano said. “This isthe same coach who had No. 1in sacks allowed and No. 2 insacks allowed not too long ago.I don’t think he forgets how tocoach. Maybe we had a littlegap in guys that are ready to play at the level we expect.”

Flood’s offensive coordinatingpartner, Kirk Ciarrocca?

His future is not as certain.Like Savage and Flood, he willsit down with Schiano, who isleading a massive evaluation ofthe Rutgers program in thetime when he would have pre-pared for a bowl game overeach of the past five years.

But there was no endorse-ment for the offensive play callerand quarterbacks coach who wasonce credited with developingDelaware’s Joe Flacco into anNFL quarterback.

It is too early in the evaluationprocess to look at the play callingas a whole, Schiano said, butthere were times during the sea-son when he questionedCiarrocca’s calls.

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JEFFREY LAZARO / SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Rutgers head football coach Greg Schiano will meet with Rutgers players and coaches in the daysafter the season ended in West Virginia to address the future of the program, which he is evaluating.

the outsider, but for the Knightsand their 17 seniors, who playedtheir final college football gameSaturday, the loss was devastating.

“It’s upsetting,” said seniordefensive end Alex Silvestro, whomade six tackles, a sack andblocked a field goal. “This isn’tthe way you want to go out with adefensive performance like that.I did a good job of avoiding[thinking about my last game]until the second-to-last play whenthey took me out. Then it kind ofhit me hard. It’s pretty upsetting.I’m definitelygoing to miss it.”

Not going to abowl game for thefirst time since2004, head coachGreg Schiano’sattention shifts torecruiting andpotential staffrestructuring withthe first series ofofficial visits begin-ning next weekend.

For the returning membersof the Knights, the attentionshifts to two things — examsand the offseason.

“We can be really dangerous,”said sophomore receiver MarkHarrison on the improvementsthat can be made to the offense.“We have a lot of great receiversand weapons here that have a lotof great potential, and it’s all abouthow hard we work in the offsea-son and how dedicated we are tothe program, and we have to comeout next year and go harder.”

Yet again hanging on just longenough to provide some hope tothe fans and snatch it back in oneswoop, the Knights had the ball,trailing just 14-7 coming out ofthe gates at halftime against No.23 West Virginia.

But the Rutgers drive floun-dered at midfield, and theMountaineers broke the gameopen with a flurry of second-halfscores on the ground.

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“We just came outthere kind of

lollygagging anddidn’t do what we had to do.”

CHAS DODDFreshman Quarterback


Rutgers freshman quarterback Chas Dodd, top, tossed a pair of touchdowns Saturday in West Virginia,while Mountaineers signal caller Geno Smith, bottom, threw for 352 passing yards and ran for 44 more.


“When I ask Kirk Ciarroccathat question, he always has areason why he called the plays,”Schiano said. “Whether I agreewith them all the time — that’shuman nature, no two peopleare going to agree on how tocall plays.”

Schiano admitted Ciarroccawas limited by the play of theoffensive line, but he all but saidFlood will return a seventh sea-son in Piscataway.

So Savage and Ciarrocca’sfutures remain up in the air,with Schiano refusing to put atimetable on any potentialchanges. If Savage leaves, itwill be his own decision,although Schiano will have asay in where he lands.Ciarrocca is not as lucky.

While Ciarrocca had a hand inthe painfully inconsistent,unidentifiable Rutgers offense,Savage was limited to the role ofan observer.

Both may have that same jobnext season.

“It was very dif ficult. Youwant to go out and play,”Savage said. “It is what it is. It’scollege football and coach[Schiano] feels that [Dodd]gives them the best chance towin and I’m a team player. Ihave to help out my teammates.That’s what my biggest goalwas — whatever I could do tocontribute to the team, that’swhat I was going to do.”

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T he Rutgers men’s bas-ketball team contin-ued its community

outreach by participating inthe “Ticket to ReadingRewards” program.

The program offers middleschool students rewards for reading books outside of school.

Head coach Mike Rice,Director of PlayerDevelopment Eric Murdock,seniors Mike Coburn andJonathan Mitchell, as well assophomore Austin Carrollspoke to kids at the Soehl andMcManus schools.

AUBURN SURPASSEDOregon for the No. 1 spot inthe Bowl ChampionshipSeries rankings after beatingSouth Carolina, 56-17, for theSEC title.

Oregon finished undefeatedwith a 37-20 victory againstOregon State.

Texas Christian also fin-ished the regular season with-out a loss, but Auburn andOregon will move on to theBCS title.

The Horned Frogs will jointhe Big East beginning with the2012 season as the conference’sninth member for football.

FORMER PHILADELPHIAPhillies rightfielder JaysonWerth signed with theWashington Nationals for aseven-year, $126 million contract.

The loss of Werth in rightfield gives an opportunity forprospect Domonic Brown, whoplayed sporadically last seasonfor the Phillies.

Werth split time in right fieldwhen the Phillies won theWorld Series in 2008 but earneda full-time role over the nexttwo seasons.

Werth signed the thirdlargest contract for an outfield-er, behind only Manny Ramirezand Alfonso Soriano.

NEW YORK YANKEESshortstop Derek Jeter signed athree-year, $51 million contractwith the club with a fourth-yearplayer option for $8 million.

Jeter received of fers fromat least four teams but did notconsider them, according to a source.

Jeter hit .270 last year with10 homers, 67 RBI and a .340OBP, one of his worst statistical seasons with theBronx Bombers.

THE SAN DIEGO PADREStraded first baseman AdrianGonzalez to the Boston Red Soxfor prospects Casey Kelly,Anthony Rizzo, RaymondFuentes and a player to benamed later.

After a perceived setbackwhen the extension windowclosed because the Red Soxcould not agree to terms withGonzalez, the trade did gothrough. The sides may haveagreed to terms for a newcontract, but it is not expect-ed to be signed or announceduntil 2011.

Quiet RU offense takes half to adjustBY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ

CORRESPONDENT

For the fans of both squadswho came out to the Louis BrownAthletic Center expecting their

teams toshoot thelights out,they didnot gett h e i r

money’s worth in the first half.Both the Rutgers women’s

basketball team and CentralConnecticut State were as cold asthe December afternoon yester-day, with each team shootingunder 40 percent in the first half.

The Blue Devils came awayempty on their first seven posses-sions of the game –– a stretchthat included four missed shotsand three turnovers –– eventual-ly finishing 0-for-7 from beyondthe arc in the period.

While the Blue Devils hadtheir struggles, the ScarletKnights’ offense also displayed aminor case of anemia, as CoachC. Vivian Stringer’s squad built a14-point advantage heading intothe locker room despite poorshooting from its opponent.

If not for sophomore guardNikki Speed, who led theKnights in the first half with 10points of f 3-for-7 shooting, andsophomore guard EricaWheeler, who scored sevenpoints, the Knights may haveflashed back to their narrowvictory last season over theBlue Devils.

The Knights heated up in thesecond half to the delight of theRutgers faithful, and thanks to a16-for-24 showing in the period,the team finished the gameshooting 52 percent.

CENTRAL CONNECTICUTState does not provide the samelevel of competition as Temple,but after a cry for an improveddefensive effort from her team,Stringer watched as her squadput the pressure on the BlueDevils all afternoon.

The Knights came away withseven steals in the contest andpressured the Blue Devils into 16turnovers in the game.

“The way a Scarlet Knightplays, it star ts with defense

CAMERON STROUD / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Junior guard Nikki Speed scored a career high 17 points on 5-for-10 shooting yesterday atthe Louis Brown Athletic Center, where the Knights beat Central Connecticut State, 73-32.

C. Vivian Stringer made sureher team was well preparedthis time around.

“You really think I was goingto sit back and say, ‘Well, herecomes Central Connecticut andwe’re not going to worry aboutthem — we’re just going to waituntil Georgetown comes?’”Stringer said. “Are you kiddingme? No, I’ve been fired up, Ihave really been on edge.”

The Knights trailed by asmany as seven and escaped withjust a nine-point victory the lasttime the two teams faced, butthis time around Stringer’sdefense absolutely smotheredthe Blue Devils.

CCS registered just 16 pointsin both halves and finished thegame shooting a meager 21.8percent from the field.

After Temple got open looksall game against Stringer’sdefense its last time out, theteam went back to work in itsreturn to Piscataway.

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first,” Stringer said. “We doknow that defense wins champi-onships. We might shoot 38 per-cent, we might score 52 points,but we won more often than notbecause of that.”

Stringer’s defense held theopposition to just 32 points for thegame, marking the fewest pointsallowed since Feb. 11, 2009, whenthe Knights allowed just 25 pointsto Farmingdale State.

THE KNIGHTS WATCHEDTemple light it up from beyondthe arc their last time out, but

saw a complete reversal of for-tune yesterday from a 3-pointrange against their opponent.

Central Connecticut Stateshot a combined 2-for-27 from3-point land, a far cr y fromTemple’s 10-for-24 shootingclip — the most 3-pointersscored against the Knights this season.

“All of us guards, coachStringer talked about Templethe entire time this week formaking the most threes any-body has made on us this year,”Speed said. “I think everyone

had a chip on their shoulder.We’re not trying to make threeson us and drive past us — weknow we have help, so it’s trust-ing each other as well.”

THE NORTHEASTConference once again took itslumps from a Rutgers squad, asthe Knights improved to 2-0against the Blue Devils and 20-0overall against members of theconference. Atop the list is in-state rival Monmouth, whichRutgers is a perfect 6-0 against all-time.

“Last year’s close game,[Stringer] talked about that maybetwice,” Speed said. “The biggestthing with her was the Templegame. She’s not going to let us livethat down. Our defense in the lastsecond … she stressed that a lotthis week I guessyou could say.

“It was a goodjob on our part justto stay together,keep talking toeach other andknow we have to buckle down on defense.”

Speed record-ed her best careergame, as theM a r l b o r o u g h(Calif.) Schoolproduct finished the game with acareer-high 17 points off 5-for-10shooting to go with four assists.

The guard knocked down herfinal bucket from the field at the8:45 mark from beyond the arc,improving her stat line to 3-for-4from 3-point range.

Stringer subbed Speed outof the game almost a minutelater and the point guardjogged of f the cour t to the

Rutgers (5-3) bench to the tuneof thunderous applause.

Speed was not alone on theoffensive side, as three otherplayers for the Knights alsoscored in double figures —Khadijah Rushdan (14),

Monique Oliver(10) and AprilSykes (18).

Sykes caughtfire in the secondhalf, scoring 12points to go alongwith two assists andthree rebounds.

The Starkville,Miss., native wasjust two points shyof tying her career-high, but the play ofRushdan and Speed

was what allowed her to thrive. “I can’t take all the credit. Nikki

and Khadijah, they do a great jobof getting me the ball,” Sykes said.“I think I’m more relaxed, I’mmore confident and I’m not wor-ried about a lot — I’m just goingout there and playing ball.”

For both teams, the first halfdid not yield much scoring.

The Blue Devils (5-1) put just16 points on the board while

Rutgers shot a lowly 38.5 percentfrom the field, giving Stringerand Co. just a 14-point lead head-ing into the locker room at half.

Credit the Rutgers defense, asthe squad forced CentralConnecticut into 10 turnovers inthe period and held the NEC oppo-nent to a 30 percent shooting clipfrom the field.

The Knights came away withfive of their seven total steals, withtwo belonging to sophomoreguard Erica Wheeler, who alsoscored seven points off the bench.

Central Connecticut’s KerrianneDugan led all scorers in the half with12 points and went on to finish witha game-high 19 points.

Stringer highlighted defenseas a focal point after the team’sloss to Temple earlier in theweek, and even though theKnights did play a lower-caliberopponent, improvements on thedefensive side were evident.

“Today we played gooddefense,” Stringer said. “What Ilike to see is, I’d like to come inhere each time and say, ‘We playedgood defense.’ As I said to theteam, more often than not, whenwe play good defense, we’re goingto win.”

“I’d like to come inhere each time andsay, ‘We played good

defense.’ ... Moreoften than not ...

we’re going to win.”C. VIVIAN STRINGER

Head Coach

SPORTSP A G E 1 6 D E C E M B E R 6 , 2 0 1 0

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BY STEVEN MILLERSPORTS EDITOR

As the Rutgers football team’s season spi-raled out of control, as the offensive linestruggled, play calls were questionable and

Tom Savage sat onthe bench, there was

plenty of speculation as to what types ofchanges the offseason would bring.

Head coach Greg Schiano addressedthem yesterday, but few things werecleared up.

Savage? This much is certain: Like every play-

er, the sophomore quarterback will meetwith Schiano this week and both admit they will address his future with the program.

“I’m sure we’re going to talk and dis-cuss what the future might hold,” the 6-foot-5, 226-pounder said. “He’s the coachso we just have to find out what my plansare and I’m going to talk with my familyand sit down with them and discuss from there.”

Schiano still wants his most high-pro-file recruit to remain with the ScarletKnights, even after freshman Chas Doddovertook him as the starter for the finaleight games.

“Is he in or is he out? I can’t answer thatfor you, only Tom can answer that for you,”Schiano said. “The thing that he knows andthe thing that every person in our programknows is that you have to compete atRutgers — that’s what we’re built on. Tomwill have an opportunity this spring if hedecides to stay.

“I hope he stays, I want him to stay,everybody in our program wants him to stay.But at the end of the day, it’s Tom’s decision,as it was his decision to come here. TomSavage, I hope, will be part of Rutgers foot-ball and come back and compete.”

Co-offensive coordinator Kyle Flood?He received a similar endorsement, even

after his offensive line allowed a national-worst61 sacks. The Knights line allowed 40 sacks lastyear — a sharp increase from a five-year stretch

Sophomore quarterback Tom Savage will meet with head coach Greg Schiano in the coming days to discuss his future withthe Rutgers football team and did not rule out the possibility of transferring after he last started Oct. 2 in a loss to Tulane.

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‘IS HE IN OR IS HE OUT?’

WVU defeatbrings RU’sseason to end

BY SAM HELLMANCORRESPONDENT

MORGANTOWN, W.VA. — For theRutgers football team, it was the samestory, the same result and the same dead

feeling inside theScarlet Knights’locker room.

But this time,there could be no promises of improvement,of getting better or of winning a next one.Because when the clock ran out at MilanPuskar Stadium with West Virginia ahead, 35-14, Rutgers’ season mercifully came to an end.

The difference between five and six con-secutive losses may seem inconsequential to

Knights leadfrom outset inrout at RAC

BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZCORRESPONDENT

The closest the Rutgers women’s bas-ketball team was to finding itself in a gamewith Central Connecticut State may have

been at tipof f,when both squadswere tied at zero.

Junior NikkiSpeed sank a 3-pointer a little over a

minute later for the game’s first bucket, andthe Scarlet Knights never looked back fromthere, coasting to a 73-32 victory.

After a narrow victor y against the Blue Devils a season ago, head coach CAMERON STROUD / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Junior forward April Sykes led Rutgers with 18 points on 8-of-13 shooting, finishing twopoints shy of her career high 20 points, which came last season against Farmingdale St. SEE SEASON ON PAGE 13SEE ROUT ON PAGE 15

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