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Rutgers University athletic
director Julie Hermann (left)
was fired along with head
football coach Kyle Flood
(right) on Sunday.

What to expect from fired athletic chiefs successor

JERRY CARINO @NJHOOPSHAVEN

The colossal failure of Julie Hermanns tenure as

Rutgers athletic director can be summarized in one
anecdote, part of which is public knowledge and part
of which is not.
As everyone knows, in May of 2014, Hermann
who on Sunday was fired along with head football
coach Kyle Flood left a voicemail for Eric LeGrand
saying Rutgers was reneging on its offer to make him
the keynote speaker at the upcoming commencement.
Former New Jersey Gov. Thomas H. Kean was getting the nod instead.

(University) President (Robert) Barchi decided to

go in a different direction because of political reasons, the paralyzed Scarlet Knights football player
reported Hermann as saying.
The next part has been chewed over many times
within Rutgers administrative circles: Upon reading
about the voicemail, Barchis head exploded. His offices instructions to Hermann had been simple: Explain to LeGrand that he still would be a speaker, just
not the speaker.
That the wrong message was communicated and,

Big changes at Rutgers

More on Hermann, Flood firings. Page 1D
Whom should university hire as coach? Page 7D
Five things to know about new athletic director Pat Hobbs.
Page 7D

See RUTGERS, Page 5A

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NICQUEL TERRY @NTERRYAPP

Shore leaders, experts weigh

in on poll finding that half in
U.S. feel its a big problem

Daniel Harris never thought he would still be discussing

racism in 2015.
The 64-year-old community activist and church leader
said he figured his days of marching and fighting for equality would be long gone. However, with black men still dying
after encounters with white police officers and black students protesting racism on college campuses, there is ample evidence that the nation is still divided along racial lines,
Harris said.
Yes, we still live in a racist society, said Harris of Asbury Park. You need another two or three generations to
make a change.
New findings in a poll released by CNN and the Kaiser
Family Foundation show that 49 percent of Americans believe racism is a big problem. That figure is up from 2011,
when just over 25 percent described racism that way. In
1995, 41 percent of Americans called racism a major concern.
The survey follows a series of high-profile deaths of unarmed black males in Staten Island; Baltimore; Ferguson,
Missouri; and other locales, during encounters with law enforcement episodes sometimes caught on cellphone
videos. In recent weeks, black college students have held
protests across the country to redress grievances that have
included feelings of alienation, threats and their schools
See RACISM, Page 5A

After visiting space, one mans new mission See 8 great Cyber
JERRY CARINO CARINOS CORNER
No, Greg Olsen did not see any aliens
during his 10 days in outer space. He gets
that question a lot as he speaks about life
aboard the International Space Station.
I always take that seriously I never dismiss it, Olsen said. I did go looking out the window and thought Id maybe see something strange, but I didnt
other than a few pieces of space dust.
Olsen appreciates the curiosity. Its what drove the
Princeton resident, back in 2005, to become the third
private citizen to orbit the Earth on the space station.
His mission now is to interest more kids in science and
math. The next stop is Brookdale Community College
on Thursday.
I look at my time in space as a vehicle to motivate
other kids, not necessarily to go into space but to reach

out for their dreams, Olsen said. The easiest thing in

the world is to sit back and say, Im not good enough.
Complacency has hampered our search of the final
frontier. You can blame the economy, or lagging U.S.
educational trends in science or math, but it comes
down to collective will. Do we want to be the America
of Neil Armstrong, or are we satisfied with discovering the coolest app for our phone?
When we had the space program pushing the envelope, we had kids motivated and excited over it, said
Kevin Gallagher, whose Red Bank-based group STAR
Astronomy connected Olsen with Brookdale. Now
weve got to create other ways to interest kids. Were in
danger of losing our best and brightest people to business or finance.
Thats why Olsen tours the schools, gladly answering questions about how he went to the bathroom or
See CARINO, Page 4A

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So you didnt feel like braving the shopping crowds

on Thanksgiving or Black Friday?
You might have made the right choice. Cyber Monday is here. Why brave the masses when you can (secretly) shop online at the office? Or, if youre lucky
and have the day off, you can knock out all of your
shopping on the couch.
This year, almost half of holiday shopping will be
done online, and the average consumer said 46 percent of his or her shopping will be conducted online,
up from 44 percent last year according to the National
Retail Federation.
See CYBER MONDAY, Page 4A

Sports

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Fallen Giants,
rising Jets

Watering holes
for wintertime

The Giants loss to Washington ties the teams atop the NFC
East; the Jets Fitzpatrick helps rout Miami. Page 1D

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Find the six best bars for the season. Page 1C

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High security in Paris

SINCE 1879

France takes precautions as the city prepares to host a summit

of 150 world leaders two weeks after terror attacks. Page 1B