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The Rutgers women’s basketball team defeated Syracuse, 54-47, yesterday at the Louis Brown Athletic Center and in doing so, swept the season series against the Orange.

Council takes on engineering students’ issues

BY KRISTINE ROSETTE ENERIO UNIVERSITY EDITOR

With the start of a new semester, the Engineering G o v e r n i n g Council is both beginning and continuing initiatives to address various concerns of the engineering student body.

Through the Engineering Affairs Committee, the council is working to expand study abroad opportunities for engineering students, who find it difficult to do so without sacrificing graduating on time, said David Park, council president.

The council originally thought there was a lack of study abroad options for engineers, said William Pan, Engineering Affairs co-chair.

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The Engineering Governing Council plans to increase study abroad opportunities and interdisciplinary projects for engineering students. They are scheduled to hold a meeting tonight at 8:10 p.m. in the Busch Campus Center.

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Professor links gender, race with mental health issues

BY ANDREW SMITH STAFF WRITER

Students and staff engaged in interdisciplinary discussion about health, race, gender and women’s roles Thursday as part of the Institute for Research on Women’s (IRW) Distinguished Lecture Series.

The lecture, “Race, Gender, and WellBeing: The Paradox of Women’s Mental Health,” was fourth in the six-lecture series and featured Associate Sociology Professor Sarah Rosenfield, IRW Director Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel said.

As in previous years, the IRW built the Distinguished Lecture Series around a

central theme, “The Art and Science of Happiness,” a topic Rosenfield’s lecture covered appropriately, Mar tinez-San Miguel said.

Part of the lecture focused on why black women generally are happier and have fewer mental health issues than women of other ethnicities through the lens of sociology, Rosenfield said.

“I think one of the main concerns is tr ying to figure out which groups are the best off in mental health, which groups have the highest wellbeing and which groups have the worst and what conditions are best for people in terms of their mental health,” she said.

STREB performance takes flight downtown

BY LAURA TRANSUE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

STREB, a traveling dance company, combined human body movement with formal dance techniques last Friday to create an acrobatic dance routine at the State Theatre.

The show — called BRAVE — incorporated dance moves, gymnastics and extreme sports elements to put on a performance that was more than a dance recital, said Mark Jones, State Theatre president and CEO. “This is a wonderfully fresh and innovative movement to see in our community,” he said.

Jones said he credits the intensity of a STREB performance to its creator, Elizabeth Streb, whose performances symbolize the beginning of a new movement altogether.

“Elizabeth Streb is a movement pioneer,” he said. “I would-

n’t call it dance, I would call it movement.”

Streb, the company’s founder, said the key to a good dance show is to explore human movement before formal dance techniques.

“We explode our muscles and our muscles drag the skeleton,” she said.

After training for years as a technical dancer, Streb said she has now created her own dance technique, which she calls Pop Action.

“Rather than a skeletal-based system like ballet … I believe that action is abrupt and episodic rather than durational and smooth transitionally,” she said.

“Transitions with action cannot be smooth the way they are with music.”

Streb said her choreography was about tr ying to alter the audience’s point of view, by

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Rosenfield concluded that black women experience greater mental health and happiness because of a balance of self-salience and self-esteem that is unmatched by a majority of white women.

Much of Rosenfield’s lecture dealt with the issue of self-salience, or the importance of the self as opposed to the importance of the group, and how dif ferences in culture breed the dif ferent levels of mental health and happiness among racial groups.

IRW aimed to appeal to students and staff outside of the social sciences with the theme, Mar tinez-San Miguel said. By of fering an interdisciplinar y look at

women’s issues, the IRW hopes to draw larger, more diverse crowds to its lecture series, she said.

“We realize that we are very good at attracting people from the social sciences and the humanities, but there’s a whole part of the University that isn’t participating fully in our events,” said Martinez San Miguel, noting that the IRW wants to appeal to those studying the sciences.

Event attendees agreed with Rosenfield and expressed interest in applying the lessons learned to help more women have the opportunity to experience a stable,

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Executive Dean Bob Goodman will be a guest at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences Governing Council meeting. He will be open to answer questions and address concerns of the SEBS community. Meetings are open to the public so come with your questions. The meeting will take place at 8 p.m. in the Cook Campus Center in Room 202.

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Ananya Roy, a leading scholar in comparative urban studies and international development, will present a lecture titled, “The Urban Centur y: Ecologies and Epistemologies of Dwelling in the Global South.” In this talk, she will present an analysis of global urbanism, paying particular attention to cities of the global south. Roy is a professor of city and regional planning at the University of California-Berkeley. The lecture will take place at the Alexander Library in the fourth floor lecture hall at 4:30 p.m. It will be followed by a reception.

Spike Lee is a notable writer, director, producer, actor and author who revolutionized both the landscape of independent cinema and the role of black talent in film. Widely regarded as a premiere African-American filmmaker, Lee is a forerunner in the “do it yourself” school of filmmaking. He will speak at 8 p.m. in the Livingston Student Center Multipurpose Room. Writers House and Rutgers University Programming Association sponsor the event. It is free and open to the public. For more information please contact Rhea Ramey at 732-932-7380 or rhea.ramey@rutgers.edu.

Those interested in taking part in a research project are welcome to attend the Spring Undergraduate Research Mixer from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Cook Campus Center Multipurpose Room. The Undergraduate Research Mixer provides an opportunity for undergraduate students to be introduced to research programs and specific research projects. Some of these programs require research assistants and are sometimes paid positions. Undergraduates can be recruited for independent research projects or senior honors program for the spring or fall semesters. Please confirm attendance by emailing joanba@echo.rutgers.edu.

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An executive dean’s lecture featuring Susan Solomon titled, “A World of Change: Climate Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow,” will take place at 6:30 p.m. at the Cook Campus Center Multipurpose Room. Solomon, a senior scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is an internationally recognized leader in atmospheric science, particularly for her insights on explaining the cause of the Antarctic ozone “hole.”

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BY YASHMIN PATEL CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Many works of 17th century poet John Milton can be accessed for public viewing at the “John Milton and the Culture of Print” exhibition in Alexander Librar y on the College Avenue campus.

The opening celebration of the exhibit last Thursday featured Princeton University English Professor Nigel Smith.

His deliverance of the Louis Faugeres Bishop III lecture discussed Milton’s philosophic freedom and how the world could be improved with books.

Smith said although Milton was a 17th centur y writer, his ideas about freedom of the press and circulation of information are still relevant to modern issues.

“We’re still living in a time that’s continuous with the values of his own time and he’s got a way of writing about freedom that seems to evade the whole of history,” he said.

Smith’s lecture over viewed Milton’s works as influential to the society he lived in and how his works continue to challenge people today.

“If you have a set of beliefs, Milton will challenge them, because he [thought] that all views have to be challenged in order for them to be tested,” Smith said. “That’s at the heart of his theory of contradiction and the making of truth.”

Thomas Fulton, an associate professor at the English Department and exhibit curator, felt Smith was an exceptional and appropriate speaker to inaugurate the librar y’s exhibition of Milton.

“He has, perhaps more than any other scholar in the field, changed the way the academic world and the general public understands print culture in the 17th centur y,” Fulton said.

The exhibition will allow the University community and general public to access manuscripts, books and other artifacts belonging to Milton, he said. Students will have access

to first editions by Milton on digital display.

“It’s an exhibit about the many dif ferent forms writing took in the 17th century and Milton’s relationship to those in the various tumultuous moments in the historical change the 17th century underwent,” Fulton said.

The exhibition examined Milton as a historical figure with a large collection of his works, according to the University Libraries’ website.

“This exhibition of Milton’s writing represents the key

“[Milton thought] that all views have to be challenged in order for them to be tested.”

NIGEL SMITH Princeton University Professor of English

moments in his long career in relation to the changing world of print and other forms of written expression,” according to a “John Milton and the Cultures of Print” catalog written

by Fulton.

The idea of having a John Milton exhibition was planned for years and it finally came to fruition this semester, Fulton said.

“We have one of the greatest collections of Milton’s works of any public American academic institution,” he said.

Some students familiar with Milton’s works expressed their feelings of admiration towards his writings and ideas.

“He’s complex and somewhat confusing,” said Nicholas Manco, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “It’s challenging to wrap your head around his work.”

Smith expressed similar sentiments and said Milton pushed individuals to think beyond the societal norms of literature and politics.

“Milton wants more, Milton wants to make you think,” he said. “You can be delighted by Milton but you’re also going to be worked on. Milton challenges people.”

Milton’s work found its way into the foundation of the United States, Fulton said.

President Thomas Jef ferson read his literature, so parts of the Declaration of Independence echo Milton’s political theories.

“He is such a foundational thinker in Republican thought and in many ways that’s just talking about his philosophical influence,” he said. “In terms of history and poetry he’s extraordinary, mostly for his epic masterpiece ‘Paradise Lost.’”

Ann Coiro, associate professor of the English department, encouraged all undergraduate students to read Milton’s works, especially “Paradise Lost,” since it can be an exciting interactive experience.

Readers find themselves arguing dif ferent aspects of the stor y with others.

“The poem presents all kinds of dif ferent positions and you have to argue it through and decide for yourself which position [it is],” Coiro said.

“John Milton and the Cultures of Print” will be on display until May 31 at the University Archives Galleries and in the University Special Collections in Alexander Library.

“This lecture marks the 26th Annual Louis Faugeres Bishop III lecture and it’s a memorial to the son of Louis Faugeres Bishop Jr.,” said Head of Special Collections and University Archives Ronald Becker.

These lectures feature diverse topics on book and manuscript collecting, printing history and the use of rare books and manuscripts, according to the University Libraries’ website.

The New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities, provided a grant that made the exhibition possible, according to the catalog.

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COUNCIL: Committee BUSINESS PROFESSOR TAKES INTERIM DEAN POSITION Chancellor Steven Diner appointed Glenn Shafer as interim dean of the Rutgers Business School to replace Michael Cooper, who ser ved as dean for three and a half years.

“President [Richard L] McCormick and I are deeply grateful for Glenn’s willingness to assume the leadership of RBS during this interim period,” Diner said in a University press release.

Shafer, a Board of Governors professor and the director of the business doctoral program, became a part of the University faculty in 1992. He taught a variety of courses in accounting, finance, probability and information systems.

He now teaches stochastic processes and game theory in the school’s doctoral program.

In honor of his work developing new approaches to the use of probability, Shafer in 2009 received an honorar y doctorate in economics from the University of Economics, Prague. He was also awarded in 2004 the Gorenstein Award for Research and Ser vice at the University and in 2001, he was a Fulbright Fellow in Berlin, Germany.

Shafer has also written many articles and six books.

He ser ves on the advisor y boards of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning and the International Journal of Intelligent Systems. He also ser ves on the editorial boards of Statistical Science and the Electronic Journal for Histor y of Probability and Statistics.

Shafer was a professor at the University of Kansas from 1976 to 1992 and at Princeton University, his alma mater, from 1973 to 1976, before joining the University.

— Mary Diduch

ISSUES: Lecture series to feature new topic next year continued from front productive and ultimately, healthier mental life.

Renee Hooker, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, said Rosenfield’s work would be useful in helping out friends.

“I think [her work] can actually help you if you have friends that have depression,” Hooker said.

“You can maybe help them figure out why they might feel that way, especially based on their race, background or gender.”

Despite positive responses to the lecture and its place in the

series, next year’s lecture, “The Generations: Re-imaging Intellectual Communities,” will take a different perspective on women’s issues, Martinez-San Miguel said.

“We have a different topic, and the idea there is to attract people who want to talk about their intellectual trajector y and how gender plays a role into the formation of schools of thought in dif ferent disciplines,” she said.

With two more events scheduled for this academic year, the IRW looks for ward to attracting attendees to their Distinguished Lecture Series for the upcoming year, Martinez-San Miguel said.

considers working with PALS continued from front “Turns out it was just a lack of organization and publicity,” he said. “So what we’re hoping to do is on [School of] Engineering Open House, which is the same day as Rutgers Day, we’re thinking of having a table to display all the different study abroad opportunities for engineers.”

But other than raising awareness, the committee is looking to create connections with colleges in English-speaking countries by researching the curriculums of schools like University College of London and the Queensland University in Australia, Pan said.

“The Study Abroad Department has also expressed interest in helping us along with that. They’ve brought along a few people to talk to us about opportunities,” Pan said.

“There’s this group of South American universities that do this sort of thing.”

Research toward the project began at the star t of last semester when the council sur veyed the level of interest among undergraduate engineers, he said. Almost all students sur veyed expressed interest in studying abroad and of fered a variety of places they wanted to go.

“I’m really happy this is happening,” Pan said. “A couple of the people on my committee have decided to study abroad partly because of this effort.”

In addition to opening international opportunities for students, the ad-hoc Research Affairs Committee is in the process of setting up ways for students of different concentrations to work together, Park said.

“The purpose is to give students from a bunch of different engineering backgrounds a project,” said Diana Strober,

FLIGHT: STREB plans 2012 Summer Olympic performance continued from front having her dancers run up and down walls instead of along the floor or having them watch a small dancing robot, developed in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab. The show is comprised of a series of five to eight-minute episodes that explore the interplay of dif ferent forces and rhythms involving pieces of machiner y, Streb said. During Friday night’s per formance, dancers interacted with rotating floors, walls, boxes, a swinging high beam and cinderblocks.

“I believe humans can fly,” she said. “But to do that, you can’t camouflage the ef fect of gravity, so we do a lot of impact wherever our flight fails.”

To emphasize this, the walls and floors of the stage are equipped with microphones that amplify the sound of the dancers’ falls, Streb said.

Despite the risk involved in every show, no one has experienced serious injury in more than five years, said Fabio Tavares da Silva, STREB associate artistic director.

“It becomes a lifestyle,” da Silva said. “You give all you got.

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There are seven dif ferent engineering disciplines, such as environmental, biomedical and electrical, she said. The committee’s goal is to fully implement the student interdepartmental project by the end of the semester.

A total of about 30 students, who represent five dif ferent engineering concentrations, were interested in taking part of the project, but the committee is now working on engaging professors as well, Strober said.

“Any student is welcome to join our standing and ad-hoc committees.”

DAVID PARK Engineering Governing Council President

“We’re looking for professors to kind of step up and be mentors for the different projects.

That’s where we’re kind of stuck at right now, just trying to find professors who are generally interested in helping out the students,” she said.

After finding mentors, the council will implement a timeline for when the project should be done and will also look into how participants can earn credit or recognition, Strober said. These ef for ts ser ve as a testing ground for a potential formal program.

“Interdisciplinar y work will become more and more important in the future,” she said.

“We feel like if we can kind of do this among Rutgers students, they will be prepared in the future, either in graduate school or in the industr y.”

You train, you work hard, you get injured, you recover, you learn more about yourself.”

Da Silva, who also dances in some of the performances, said being a part of STREB is about breaking rules and reaching for the impossible.

“The idea is that we keep flirting with danger in a masterful way, always respecting what is dangerous and what can hurt you, to have that healthy fear,” da Silva said.

He said one of the biggest challenges of performing with

“We are the athletes, and we need that partnership between a live, present audience cheering for us.”

FABIO TAVARES DA SILVA STREB Associate Artistic Director

STREB is learning how to deal with failure when you are on stage.

“It takes a lot of courage for us to be able to do this. … It’s about standing strong [and] keeping your head up,” he said.

“Even if you fall, and when you fall, you get up and keep going … with a smile on [your] face.”

The audience both gasped and cheered as the dancers

Engineering students have also expressed communication difficulties and language barriers with their instructors, an issue the council hopes to address through a possible teaching improvement program, Park said.

“A lot of engineering graduate students are foreign students.

They become [teaching assistants] and are required to teach for a year,” he said. “They’re extremely brilliant but English isn’t necessarily the strongest skill they have.”

Rather than approaching just TAs, Park said the council is looking for a collaborative effort between both graduate and undergraduate students.

“We still have to research if we can implement this because we don’t know much about it. We’re not 100 percent sure even if the plan is possible,” said Marvin Germar, Academic Affairs chair.

“I hear there are already a few students who have been trying to do something about it.”

Although nothing is set in stone, the committee is considering some involvement with the University’s Program in American Language Studies program, which teaches English to non-native speakers for academic, professional, business and social purposes, he said.

Regardless, Germar said this concern is common among the engineering student body and so he wanted to improve the situation.

“Even if it helps slightly I’m sure a lot of people would be happy about it,” he said. “The challenge is whether it is feasible or not.”

To discuss these initiatives and other plans for the upcoming semester, the Engineering Governing Council is scheduled to meet tonight at 8:10 p.m. in the Busch Campus Center room 116 ABC. “One thing we value is building new leaders. Any student is welcome to join our standing and ad-hoc committees,” Park said.

crashed into the walls, flew through the air and dived from scaffolding, he said.

“Ever yone is going to be sitting in rapt attention,” Jones said. “They will be cheering on the dancers for being so heroic. It is not called BRAVE for nothing.”

Da Silva said the performance also relies heavily on support from the audience.

“We are the athletes, and we need that partnership between a live, present audience cheering for us,” he said.

During the per formance, the audience was invited to make noise, take pictures and post Twitter updates about the show.

Among other projects STREB is working on is the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, she said.

“My project is tr ying to quer y what action can do expressively in creating a spectacle or a physical event that moves people in the same way that reading a great novel does or listening to a concer to does,” she said. “It’s an event that attempts to skip the brain and go right to the gut.”

Jones said this was an event everyone could enjoy.

“It doesn’t take a sophisticated background to enjoy movement,” he said. “It is something that ever ybody does … no matter your age, you can still appreciate it.”

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WILLINGBORO MAN TO FACE MURDER CHARGES WILLINGBORO, N.J. — Murder charges have been filed against a southern New Jersey man accused of fatally shooting his father during a dispute inside their Burlington County home.

Christopher Hunter, 23, of Willingboro was being held Sunday in the county jail on $250,000 bail. It was not immediately known if he had retained a lawyer.

County Prosecutor Robert Bernardi said the shooting occurred around 10:45 p.m. Saturday. Police went to the home after the victim’s wife — who is also the suspect’s mother — reported the incident.

Bernardi said Hunter and his 53-year-old father, Roderick, were arguing when Hunter used a .38 caliber handgun to shoot him multiple times. But Bernardi declined to provide further details, citing the ongoing investigation.

Roderick Hunter was pronounced dead at the scene.

— The Associated Press

POLICE SEARCH FOR FRATERNITY SHOOTERS YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Police say they’re searching for two suspects in a shooting at an Ohio fraternity house that killed one student and injured 11 people, including six students, just north of the Youngstown State University campus.

Youngstown police Chief Jimmy Hughes says the suspected gunmen were involved in a dispute at a party before the shooting early Sunday. He says the pair left, then returned and began firing outside the house, which was crowded with 50 or more people, some as young as 17.

He says investigators are trying to identify the shooters based on eyewitness accounts.

A spokeswoman for the nearby St. Elizabeth Health Center says eight of the 11 who were injured were treated and released by afternoon. She says she can’t release the conditions of the other three.

— The Associated Press

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An anti-government protester chants and gestures in front of soldiers guarding the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square yesterday in Cairo.

Thousands of demonstrators continue to occupy the square, demanding the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak.

Egyptian protesters refuse concessions THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO — Egypt’s vice president reached out to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood and other opposition groups Sunday as part of a new offer of sweeping concessions including press freedom and an eventual end to hated emergency laws that have been in place for decades, the latest attempt to try to calm an anti-government upheaval.

But the youthful protesters filling Cairo’s main square said they were not represented and were united in rejecting any form of negotiations until President Hosni Mubarak steps down, raising questions about whether a rift might be developing that could undermine their campaign.

The protesters, skeptical the government will keep any promises to reform, said they will maintain their pressure.

Egypt’s opposition has long been hampered by a lack of cohesiveness and Sunday’s talks could be a sign the government is trying to divide and conquer as it tries to placate protesters without giving in to their chief demand for Mubarak to go now.

Khaled Abdul-Hamid, one leader of a new coalition representing at least five youth movements that organized the 13-dayold protests, said his coalition did not attend the meeting with Vice President Omar Suleiman, who is leading the government’s management of the crisis.

“None of those who attended represent us,” Abdul-Hamid told The Associated Press. “We are not and will not hold negotiations with Suleiman until the ouster of Mubarak,” he added. “We are determined to press on until our No. 1 demand is met. ... The regime is retreating. It is making more concessions every day.”

The Brotherhood and another group that attended the talks both said afterward that this was only a first step in a dialogue which has yet to meet their central demand for Mubarak’s immediate ouster, showing the two sides had not reached a consensus.

“I think Mubarak will have to stop being stubborn by the end of this week because the country cannot take more million-strong protests,” said Brotherhood representative Essam el-Erian.

Suleiman’s invitation to the Muslim Brotherhood to partici-

pate in the meeting was the latest The Brotherhood made a surin a series of concessions that prisingly strong showing in elecwould have been unimaginable tions in 2005, winning 20 percent just a month ago in this tightly of parliament’s seats. However, controlled country. thousands of its members were Since protests began on Jan. arrested in crackdowns over the 25, Mubarak has pledged publicly past decade and it failed to win a for the first time that he will not single seat in elections held late seek re-election. The government last year. The vote was heavily promised his son Gamal, who had marred by fraud that allowed the widely been expected to succeed ruling National Democratic Party him, would also not stand. to win all but a small number of Mubarak appointed a vice presi- the chamber’s 518 seats. dent for the first time since he The Brotherhood entered the took office three decades ago. He talks without a single lawmaker in sacked his Cabinet, named a new parliament and without any parliaone and promised reforms. And mentary representation, it leaves on Saturday, the top leaders of the the group with a legitimate cover ruling party, including Gamal that allows its representatives to Mubarak, were purged. freely interact with the population Suleiman, who the protesters without running the risk of police consider tainted because he was intimidation or worse. chosen by Mubarak, said The Brotherhood did not Sunday he did not want to seek organize or lead the protests curthe presidency. rently under way and only publicly Suleiman and Mubarak have threw its support behind them a both blamed the Islamic funda- few days into the movement. It m e n t a l i s t only ordered its Brotherhood for supporters to take fomenting the “We are determined part when it unrest and sensed that the to press on until Mubarak is known protesters, mostly to have little toleryoung men and our No. 1 ance for Islamist women using demand is met.” groups.

The social networks on Brotherhood, the the Internet to KHALED ABDUL-HAMID country’s largest mobilize, were Egyptian Youth Organizer opposition group, able to sustain aims to create an their momentum.

Islamic state in However, the Egypt. But it insists it would not Brotherhood’s followers appear force women to cover up in public to be growing in Tahrir Square. in line with Islam’s teachings and If the Brotherhood wins legitiwould not rescind Egypt’s 1979 macy out of this revolution and peace treaty with Israel. nothing else, it would be enough A key concern of the United of a prize.

States and its ally Israel, watching Some prominent figures the events of the past 13 days from Egypt’s elite have suggestunfold in Egypt, is that the ed that there is a deliberate Brotherhood will emerge as the attempt by the regime to cling dominant political force in a post- to power by of fering just Mubarak Egypt. enough to satisfy some estabOpening talks with the lished opposition groups like Brotherhood is a tacit recognition the Brotherhood and splinter by the regime of its key role in the protest movement. the ongoing protests as well as Abouel Ela Madi, extheir wide popular base.

Brotherhood member, said the Of all the opposition groups regime hopes to attract the group that met with Suleiman, the away from the other protesters.

Brotherhood stands to gain the “If the regime manages to most. There have been no known influence the Brotherhood, it will discussions between the group have a shattering effect. A bulk of and the regime at this level since the protesters belong to the Mubarak took power in 1981.

Brotherhood and thus their talks The Brotherhood has been out- might play a negative role in foillawed since 1954 and denied legiti- ing the completion of the revolumacy, only allowed to contest parlia- tion,” he said. mentary elections by fielding candi“I hope they don’t make dates as independents. this mistake.”

Suleiman offered a series of new concessions, saying the government would no longer hamper freedom of press and won’t interfere with text messaging and Internet.

He also proposed setting up a committee of judiciary and political figures to study proposed constitutional reforms that would allow more candidates to run for president and impose term limits on the presidency, the state news agency reported. The committee was given until the first week of March to finish the tasks.

The offer included a pledge not to harass those participating in anti-government protests, which have drawn hundreds of thousands at the biggest rallies.

One of the biggest fears of protesters is that if Mubarak or his close confidant Suleiman remain in power, they will exact revenge for the humiliating demonstrations by rounding up protesters and torturing them. Many protesters have reported seeing undercover security forces in the crowds every day, photographing the demonstrators with cell phone cameras.

Suleiman’s offer to eventually lift emergency laws with a major caveat — when security permits — would fulfill a longtime demand by the opposition.

The laws were imposed by Mubarak when he took office in 1981 and they have been in force ever since. They give police far-reaching powers for detention and suppression of civil and human rights.

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry hailed the talks with opposition groups and the promise to remove the emergency law as “frankly quite extraordinar y.”

Kerry called on Mubarak to lay out a timetable for transition and new elections.

“He must step aside gracefully, and begin the process of transition to a caretaker government.

I believe that is happening right now,” Kerry told NBC’s Meet the Press. “What’s needed now is a clarity in this process.”

Mubarak is insisting he cannot stand down now or it would only deepen the chaos in his country.

The United States shifted signals and gave key backing to the regime’s gradual changes on Saturday, warning of the dangers if Mubarak goes too quickly.

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New LGBT reality show picks cast THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAMMONTON, N.J. — Can’t think of anything more flamboyant than the cast of “Jersey Shore” or Atlantic City’s annual Miss’d America pageant? Put your hands together.

“I’m like a combination of Snooki and The Situation,” Ya-Ya Delight, a transsexual from Deptford Township, Gloucester County, said while on the dance floor of the popular gay nightspot Club In Or Out on Saturday night. “I smash it up in the club and get all the guys.”

The tall 25-year-old — with shoulders broad enough for the NFL and a low-cut black evening gown with hot-pink trim worthy of “Project Runway” — was one of dozens of members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community who flocked to this tiny farming community Saturday night for an open casting call for a prospective reality show.

The show, currently dubbed “Under the Boardwalk,” plans to focus on a group of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people living in a beach house in Atlantic City for a summer.

“We’re not looking to create a gay version of the ‘Jersey Shore’ or to find ‘the gay Snooki.’ And in no way will this be anything that has a negative effect on the LGBT community. We’re hoping for anything compelling because you never know what’s going to walk through the door,” said Los Angeles resident Kate Siegel, the show’s creator and a straight 22year-old English major at Princeton University.

“But if we do find ‘the gay Snooki,’ of course we’d be thrilled,” interjected her mother, co-producer and TV veteran Kim Friedman. “We want this to be a fun, crazy show.

But these are people’s children.

They could be your family or your neighbor’s family. We want to tell their stories.”

However, many of the people who answered the casting call had one thing on their mind — “Which Jersey Shore cast member am I?” “I’m like a mix between Ronnie and JWoww,” said Jose Corrigan, a hulking gay 26-year-old from Deptford. “I’ve got Ronnie’s body and JWoww’s personality.”

Corrigan is an aspiring fashion designer who attended the casting call with Ya-Ya Delight, a parttime drag performer, because they work the same day job — waiting tables at Red Lobster.

“It’s about time someone is doing a show like this, but I think a better name for it would be ‘Jersey Fruit,’” Corrigan joked.

Von Allena only needed to hear a one-sentence radio promo to know that he would be making the trip up from Washington, D.C., for the casting call.

“It asked: ‘Are you the gay Snooki?’ And I was like: ‘Hell yes I am!’” said Allena, a 22-year-old Bergen County native, while glaring into a full-length mirror he brought with him and spraying a cloud of hairspray on his already-quaffed hair. “I’m just going to be myself. But I’m going to take a shot of Bacardi before I go in. It was only $3.17, so it was a bargain. And we’re listening to Beyoncé because she’s really my inspiration.”

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CENTRAL NJ SEX OFFENDER RECEIVES 25-YEAR SENTENCE TOMS RIVER, N.J. — A central New Jersey man who admitted sexually assaulting eight young girls has been sentenced to 25 years in a state prison for sex offenders.

Nineteen-year-old Cirilo Cholula Maranchel of Lakewood was a juvenile when the assaults occurred during a six-month period in 2009. But as

part of his plea bargain with Ocean County prosecutors, he agreed to be prosecuted as an adult.

Maranchel pleaded guilty last July to six counts of aggravated sexual assault and two counts of sexual assault. He must ser ve 85 percent of his sentence before becoming eligible for parole.

Prosecutors say Maranchel knew all his victims, who ranged in age from 4 to 9. He will ser ve his term at the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center in Avenel.

— The Associated Press

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Wall Street needs stricter regulations W

all Street is known for big bonuses — the kind of bonuses that let investment bankers make more in a day than many people make in a year. But the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is looking to combat that a little. Regulators have proposed a rule that, if approved, will force financial firms like Bank of America and Goldman Sachs to defer at least half of bonuses for top executives for three years. The FDIC hopes that, by making these institutions defer payment over longer periods of time, it will force them to more closely analyze their executives’ long-term performances, thereby deterring them from making impulsive, high-risk trades or investments.

While the FDIC’s intentions are noble, there are some flaws in this plan that need to be patched up if they want it to work successfully.

While the rule would tell these financial institutions to defer bonuses, there does not seem to be a plan for enforcing this instruction — at least, if there is a plan, it is not public. Such a plan is crucial to the success of the FDIC’s rule. After all the U.S. economy has gone through because of Wall Street’s practices, can the country really trust them to do the right thing, even when told to by the FDIC? It seems, then, the rule as it is proposed is not strict enough. There needs to be more regulations put into place — along with a system of enforcement — to ensure the bonuses will, in fact, be deferred.

Also, Wall Street culture as it is encourages quick, high-risk, almost impulsive trades. There is little to no emphasis on long-term success in these financial institutions. Instead, all of their transactions are rooted in the immediate. What the FDIC is trying to do, then, is drastically change Wall Street culture. This is an incredibly difficult step to take. Certainly, if the FDIC is successful in this endeavor, the U.S. economy could greatly benefit from an attitude change in these institutions. But, as stated above, for such a drastic change to take place, the FDIC is going to need to do more.

We applaud the FDIC’s attempts, but this has to be only the first step. If the FDIC wants to reform Wall Street, a lot needs to be done.

Merely putting this rule into practice is not going to make much of a dent. What Wall Street needs are more rules, more regulations and far more scrutiny.

Fix budget before paying for cable D

uring his time in office, former Gov. Jon Corzine created a law that aimed to help the disabled and the elderly pay for their climbing cable bills. The fund established by the law collected $9.2 million, but none of that went where it was supposed to go.

Instead, Gov. Chris Christie used all of it to close gaps in the state’s budget. While many of Christie’s critics are crying foul over what they see as a gross misappropriation of funds, Christie really made the right decision in this situation. Sometimes, there are more important things than television.

Cable is a luxury — not a necessity by any stretch of the imagination. But fixing the state’s budget problems is clearly a necessity.

There are plenty of better ways to use this money, and Christie must have recognized that. It could, for example, be put into New Jersey’s public school system. Or it could be used to fund important services, such as police and fire departments. Or it could be used to improve New Jersey’s infrastructure. The list truly goes on and on.

Assemblyman Joseph Malone, R-Burlington, stated that “having cable TV is like having a lifeline for many people.” It is true that cable television can provide people with access to news about the outside world, but there are plenty of other ways for people to keep in touch with what is going on around them. For example, some Internet packages or newspaper subscriptions can be less expensive than some cable packages. So, then, there are other lifelines for these people to grab onto besides cable television.

Sen. Joseph Vitale, D-Middlesex, also disapproved of Christie’s actions, stating, “The administration can find money for projects they like, like vouchers and charter schools. Why not for seniors or disabled people to minimize the cost of watching TV?” What Vitale does not seem to realize is that the administration is doing what it has to, given these dire economic times. That is, Christie is choosing to fund the most important projects, the ones that really need money so that the state can continue to grow and recover. Quite frankly, cable television is not necessary to the state’s continued wellbeing.

This is neither an example of Christie’s supposed disregard for the poor nor is it an example of Christie placing his interests above the interests of the citizens. Rather, this is Christie making a tough decision that needed to be made for the good of the entire state. It would be great if the government could afford to let this money go to its intended purpose. But that just is not something that can happen at this moment.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “Milton wants more, Milton wants to make you think.”

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here is a ubiquitous functions similarly to comclaim that current munism in that Salvador events in Egypt will Allende’s Marxist rule in ultimately result in a tyranChile should not be unfairly nical Islamic regime similar compared to the Khmer to the Islamic Republic of Rouge in Cambodia.

Iran following the 1979 There are numerous difBILAL AHMED Iranian Revolution. There is ferences between the certainly a similarity Muslim Brotherhood and between the political unrest in the two nations. the religious movements which fuel the Islamic However, caution must be taken in directly comparRepublic of Iran, most notably in the Sunni/Sh’ia ing the Iranian and Egyptian revolutions. schism which allows revolutionary leaders to exert It is true that the 1979 Iranian Revolution was not charismatic authority in Sh’ia Islam because of the initially an “Islamic Revolution.” The revolution massive importance of informal clergy in that sect. began as a unified project by several political forces The Muslim Brotherhood has also taken significant in Iran — secular forces, the white and blue-collar departures from its more militant wings in recent Iranian classes, religious forces and the old busiyears and is itself an extremely complicated political ness/artisan classes collectively known as “the movement, which should not be dismissed as bazaar class.” Ayatollah Khomeini clearly headed “Islamist.” Additionally, it is far too early to specuthe 1979 revolution, and the bazaar class used its late as to whether the Muslim Brotherhood will ultisignificant financial influence to fund the religious mately govern Egypt — though it will undoubtedly aspects of the movement. After the regime of exert much greater influence.

Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi colWhen discussing the Middle lapsed, an internal crisis emerged.

East, we must also remember the “The world This crisis was among the revolumost crucial and vital difference tionary movement and led to the between Egypt and Iran — oil. Iran must take care rise of the Islamic Republic of Iran during the 1970s was a strengthnot to panic over through the religious forces. ened global oil giant and could There is no significant reason to pursue more radical unlikely situations.” therefore believe this scenario will occur in stances, as economic interactions Egypt. Iran had a long history of with Iran were unavoidable. In conusing Islam as a political force trast, Egypt is much more subject to beginning with the 1891 Tobacco Revolt, which the international economic community, depending established the Sh’ia religious class as an anti-coloon continued stability to maintain the safety of the nialist force. Egypt, in contrast, has a strong history Suez Canal, crucial tourism industries and foreign of secular Arab nationalism, as seen most promiassistance from countries such as the United States. nently in the reign of Gamal Abdul Nasser, and This dependence on the international economic sysrecent protests are extremely indicative of the relitem prevents Egypt from pursuing policies such as gious and cultural diversity observed in Egypt. an Islamist takeover, as it would quickly lead to a This is not to argue that Iran does not have seccollapse of the Egyptian economy, which has ularist forces. However, the use of Islam as a form already been damaged by decades of financial misof political organization is much more pronounced management. Egypt simply does not have the conin Iran than in Egypt. Egypt’s labor movement has venience of oil to pursue radical ideologies and is been overwhelmingly funding and organizing the limited in its political options as a result. recent events there. The labor coalitions, seen most Finally, we must combat the illusion that the predominantly through the April 6 movement of Egyptian people desire an Islamist takeover. A young labor activists, are arguably the most domirecent Pew poll stated that only 18 percent of nant force in the Egyptian uprising.

Egyptians favored religious fundamentalists over Most fears concerning an Islamist takeover of modernizers, and that nearly 60 percent preferred Egypt revolve around the Muslim Brotherhood democracy in almost all situations. While it is true itself, which is the most organized political opposithat reactionary governments and their takeovers tion movement to current President Hosni do not always occur on a logical basis, the world Mubarak’s National Democratic Party. While conmust take care not to panic over unlikely situations. cerns regarding it are warranted, they are heavily affected by American perception of the Taliban’s Bilal Ahmed is a School of Arts and Sciences junrule over parts of Afghanistan during the 1990s. One ior majoring in Middle Eastern studies with a minor must be cautious in comparing one political movein political science. His column, “Gods Go Begging,” ment tied to Islam to another. Islam as an ideology runs on alternate Mondays.

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BAKA deserves apology for defamatory accusations Letter BAKA: STUDENTS UNITED FOR MIDDLE EASTERN JUSTICE

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e are University students of diverse ethnic, gender, sexual orientation, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds, united in our support for human rights, social justice, anti-racist principles and peace. We stand unequivocally opposed to the slanderous attacks against BAKA: Students United for Middle Eastern Justice for recent Palestine solidarity event programming.

On Jan. 29 American Muslims for Palestine, the International Jewish AntiZionist Network and the Middle East Children’s Alliance brought their national tour, “Never Again for Anyone,” to the University. The event featured two Jewish survivors of the Holocaust and a Palestinian sur vivor of the Deir Yassin massacre of 1948. The event’s purpose was to recognize the universality of human suffering and support a collective call to action against all injustices, par ticularly the ongoing ethnic cleansing of the

Palestinian people. American Muslims for Palestine paid for and organized the event.

BAKA, along with numerous campus organizations, endorsed the event.

The event came under attack the week of its occurrence. A series of defamator y letters accused BAKA of anti-Semitism.

On Jan. 26, another campus-affiliated chaplain distributed antiBAKA literature at the Student Involvement Fair. On Jan. 27, Eric Kaplan dominated an open forum at a Rutgers University Student Assembly meeting to accuse BAKA of anti-Semitism.

On Jan. 28, Rutgers Hillel, the Jewish Federation of Middlesex County and a local synagogue issued alerts distorting the event’s purpose and urging a “counter-protest” and walkout.

The message identifies The Daily Targum columnist Aaron Marcus as the organizer, along with endorsements from Rutgers Hillel President Sarah Morrison and Rutgers Hillel Executive Director Andrew Getraer.

On the night of the event, organizers decided to charge a $5 entrance fee for ever yone except student volunteers and members of endorsing organizations. BAKA was not consulted about this price change

because it was not their event.

Contrar y to slanderous accounts, no one was turned away provided s/he paid the $5 fee. A University-issued statement issued confirms this.

The action aler ts misinformed the protesters, creating a climate of hostility. Many were unaware that two Holocaust sur vivors were speaking. They reacted to the fee change by crowding the

“‘Never Again for Anyone’ is a call to end current injustices by reflecting on past tragedies.” hallway of the Douglass Campus Center, reacting physically by pushing and shoving volunteers and attendees.

Protesters hurled crude profanity, racist, homophobic and sexist slurs at volunteers and attendees. Female Muslim volunteers were targeted for harassment. They were called “suicide bombers,” “bitches” and “towelheads.” A Jewish volunteer was called a “traitor.” A

gay-identified volunteer was humiliated for his perceived sexuality. An Asian-American attendee was singled out for his ethnicity and numerous students were called “terrorists.”

The program was delayed because of security concerns, and many prospective attendees could not attend.

Following the event, several students were cyber-bullied via e-mail or Facebook with accusations of Nazi sympathies, antiSemitism and an explicit wish of violence. We thank the Rutgers University Police Department for their excellent ser vice. Had it not been for police presence, the violence could have escalated.

Despite experiencing many forms of slander, BAKA has never defamed any student organization or individual. The protesters’ actions terrorized many students and they no longer feel safe on campus. In order to restore our good names as individuals and organizations, we demand a formal public apology from these groups for defaming BAKA, inciting an angr y crowd and causing emotional and physical trauma for event participants.

As student groups committed to diversity of thought and

expression, we can no longer allow for one voice to slander, abuse and dominate discourse on Israel/Palestine at the University. “Never Again for Anyone” is a call to end current injustices by reflecting on past tragedies. This premise makes it more troubling to stomach the reaction outlined above. In the wake of recent tragedies such as University student Tyler Clementi’s suicide, we ask that the University remember its duty to ensure safety, security and the right to free expression for all students, especially students of color and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender-identified students.

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he Rutgers football team hopes to make another NFL addition, as former Scarlet Knights safety Joe Lefeged was invited to the 2011 NFL scouting combine, which takes place on Feb. 23 to March 1 in Indianapolis.

The three-year starting safety and two-year starting kick returner holds the school’s single season kickoff return record with 984 yards on 38 kickoff returns in his 2010 season. He also finished second on the squad with 84 total tackles and six pass breakups.

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New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady the Most Valuable Player for the 2010 season, leaving no room for argument. Brady received all 50 votes in the Associated Press poll, the first time in history a unanimous decision was reached.

Brady’s Patriots finished the season with the best record in the league, 14-2, primarily on the arm of Brady. The quarterback had 355 straight passes without an interception, and finished with 36 throwing touchdowns and only four picks.

The closest the AP poll has ever come to a unanimous decision was in 2007, Brady’s first MVP, in which he received 49 votes.

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comeback, but Peter Forsberg is returning to the NHL. The onetime league MVP signed a contract to return to one of his former teams, the Colorado Avalanche. Details of the contract have not been released, but the winger already joined the team as it traveled to Phoenix.

The 37-year-old helped the Avalanche win the Stanley Cup in 1996 and 2001 and notched 106 points in 2003, the year he was named MVP. In his career spanning with Colorado, Philadelphia and Nashville, Forsberg has 249 goals to go along with 636 assists.

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Michigan State basketball continued yesterday as the Spartans fell at No. 18 Wisconsin by a score of 82-56.

Michigan State entered the year as a favorite to win the Big Ten, but with the loss to the Badgers, the Spartans now fall to a mere 5-6 in the conference.

Kalin Lucas led the squad in the losing effort with 20 points, as the team could not rebound from a shocking 20-point loss to lastplace Iowa in its previous contest.

Wisconsin upped its Big Ten record to 7-3 with the win.

The Knights once again got tremendous production out of their freshmen, as the team of first-years Vanessa Petrini and Stefania Balasa won a close doubles match, 8-7.

Petrini also extended her undefeated streak, as she picked up her third consecutive singles victory 61,6-2, while Balasa won her second straight match 6-3, 6-0.

The veterans also kept pace with the newcomers, as the team of senior captain Amy Zhang and junior Jennifer Holzberg dropped Army’s top doubles team, 8-4.

Zhang improved her singles record in the No. 1 spot to 2-1 by defeating Annie Houghton of Army in straight sets 6-3, 6-4.

“We were really prepared to play.

We have an experienced lineup, and they had a lineup of younger players and that was probably the difference in the shut out,” Bucca said.

Holzberg had a tougher time with her singles opponent Jessica Ahn in the No. 2 slot, as the contest three sets to decide the winner.

Holzberg took the first set 6-2, Ahn the second 6-4, but ultimately

Holzberg prevailed, 10-4, in the pivotal third set.

The Knights were victorious in the No. 2 doubles slot as juniors Morgan Ivey and Leonora Slatnick won their match, 8-4. Ivey also contributed with a singles win in a hard fought battle, where she lost her opening set but rallied back to win the last two 6-2, 12-10. Junior Maryana Milchutskey notched a win in the No. 4 singles slot defeating her opponent 6-4, 6-4 to keep the Knights unbeaten.

The Knights return to action this Friday in their first home match of the season against in-state rival Fairleigh Dickinson. The match will take place 30 minutes from the Rutgers campus at the Atlantic Club in Manasquan, N.J., after the Busch Tennis Bubble collapsed last month due to the winter weather. The Knights will only hold one practice at the Atlantic Club before facing FDU and will be without the homecourt advantage that they have always enjoyed.

“It’s not something to complain about, and we don’t think about it all that much,” Bucca said. “But it is disappointing because we have had such a strong winning record at home over the past few years. We usually get a great number of fans and they’re always very loud.”

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Junior Jennifer Holzberg went three sets with Jessica Ahn and came away with a 6-4, 4-6, 10-4 victory.

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Rebounding woes continue at home

BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ CORRESPONDENT

The Rutgers women’s basketball team entered the Louis Brown Athletic Center yesterday with a negative reboundKNIGHT ing marNOTEBOOK gin of 0.4 during its three-game losing streak. That trend continued for head coach C. Vivian Stringer and Co. in the team’s 54-47 win against Big Eastrival Syracuse, as the Knights lost the battle on the glass, 41-28.

“I don’t know what to expect,” Stringer said. “We’ve really spent a lot of time working on zone rebounding, but for whatever reason, we keep getting pushed under the boards. Rebounding has to be a desire, something you want to do. Not something coach told us … we need to do.”

Stringer highlighted the team’s height deficiency as a key concern in the early goings of the season, and in the team’s past four games, a lack of height proved problematic for the Knights.

While Syracuse did enter the contest as the top rebounding team in the nation, Rutgers has out-rebounded its opponent in only nine of its 22 contests this season and overall holds a negative-1 rebounding margin for the season.

The last time a Stringer team finished a season with a negative rebounding margin was during the 2001-2002 season.

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Simmons got the starting nod over junior forward April Sykes in the team’s victor y Sunday afternoon at the RAC — the first of her career. Simmons came into the contest averaging 16.9 minutes per game, a team-high among non-starters. The rookie struggled in the game though,

going 1-for-3 from the field and turning the ball over twice in 13 minutes of action.

Sykes, who failed to register a single point last game against St. John’s, rode the bench to start the contest in order to see the game and settle in, according to Stringer.

“She just needed to observe [and] just relax,” the Hall of Fame head coach said. “She’s been an outstanding shooter, but she just needs to see that zone because it’s on you quick.”

Despite finishing the contest with eight points on 2-of-10 shooting, Sykes still remained positive following the victory.

“I think it’s all about just staying in the moment,” the Starkville, Miss., native said. “I think I was still lackadaisical since the last game against St. John’s, and I have been struggling with my shot since Louisville, but it was just [about] doing other things to help my team.”

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Head coach C. Vivian Stringer, top, saw her team lose the battle on the boards for the 13th time this year, while junior forward April Sykes came off the bench after not scoring against St. John’s.

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suffered yet another blow to their roster during this week of practice.

Junior forward Julie Paunovic sprained the medial collateral ligament in her right knee and will be out indefinitely.

The Australia native spent half the season courtside for the Knights due to NCAA transfer rules after her arrival from Casper College (Wyo.) in the offseason.

Paunovic saw the court seven times since her first appearance on Dec. 30 at No. 4 Tennessee and was set to make big contributions for the team down the stretch, according to Stringer.

“Losing Julie comes at a difficult time, especially with the other injuries we have been dealing with this season,” Stringer said. “We were counting on her to help with our depth and 3-point shooting. This is definitely a tough blow.”

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Junior guard Khadijah Rushdan scored 14 points and led Rutgers with nine assists to help avoid a four-game losing skid.

And with a tough stretch looming, this win was pivotal.

“I tell you what, it’s good that we did snap the losing streak,” Stringer said. “You know what those games are that are coming up? Can you imagine had we not won, and then we’ve got Pittsburgh and [No. 8] Notre Dame, [No. 13] DePaul. Are you kidding me?

We’re just getting into the tough part of our schedule.”

Syracuse (16-6, 4-5) held onto the lead in the second half until about eight minutes remained in play, but after Rushdan hooked up with Monique Oliver down low, the sophomore center came alive.

The Knights snagged their first lead of the second half, and the Las Vegas native, who also had four blocks in the contest, went on to score in four of the team’s next five possessions and finished with a teamhigh 15 points.

“I thought that the post-people stepped up and started knocking those shots down,” Stringer said.

“They had to.”

But if not for the craftiness of Rushdan, Oliver may not have thrived down low.

The Wilmington, Del., native snapped out of the offensive lull she suffered during the Knights’ losing streak and finished the game with 14 points and nine assists –– three to Oliver in the second half –– to match the total amount of assists for the Orange in the game “I credit my teammates a lot for being there for me and just keeping me positive and just

“I love [Wheeler].

She has a lot of energy ... and I’m proud of her.”

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telling me to continue to shoot and drive,” Rushdan said.

The Knights and Orange both had their own cases of offensive success and woes in the first half, as Syracuse entered the locker room with a 25-24 halftime lead.

The Orange capitalized on a six minute Rutgers scoring drought to tie the game at 16 with just under five minutes to play, as Iasia Hemingway and Kayla Alexander notched seven and five points, respectively.

Rutgers kicked off the game with a 12-4 run — a stretch that saw an anemic Syracuse offensive struggle to score. The Orange went 1-for-12 from the field in the game’s first nine minutes, making their second field goal of the game with just less than 10 minutes to play.

Made baskets were hard to come by for both teams in the half, as the Knights and Orange shot a modest 35.7 and 23.3 percent from the field, respectively.

But as everyone else struggled, Wheeler opened the game on fire.

The Miami native shot the lights of the RAC out in the first half, going 4-for-6 from the field and ending the period with 10 points.

Wheeler finished the game with 13 points after logging all 40 minutes of action.

“I love that kid,” Rushdan said. “She has a lot of energy. All the time, regardless of whether she’s knocking shots down or not, she plays with so much energy and it’s even that much better when she is knocking shots. I can definitely appreciate the effort she put forth and I’m proud of her.”

The Knights get one day off before battling Pittsburgh on Tuesday night in the RAC, as they look to get back to their winning ways in conference play.

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Irish reach bonus early as fouls plague Knights the fourth time, they came out on the losing end.

With the exception of a near-upset against then-No. 2 Pittsburgh, each game featured a second half markedly different from the first.

In contests against Villanova, Connecticut, Pitt and Notre Dame, the Knights trailed by a combined four points at the half.

In the second period, that number increases to 36, as Rutgers averages a 10-point deficit against those premier opponents.

“We talk about inexperienced winners,” Rice said.

“They have fight. They’re improving in our formula, whether it’s of fensively or defensively. The intensity, the aggressiveness — ever ything is there.

“Maybe we just have to play with more purpose on the defensive side. Maybe when we do have wide-open shots, we have to shoot a little bit better percentage.”

BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Dane Miller’s missed jumper with just over 13 minutes remaining yesterday signaled the beginning of the end.

But it was not KNIGHT t h e NOTEBOOK missed shot as much as the reaching foul on the sophomore wing’s attempt at a rebound that did the Scarlet Knights in against Notre Dame.

The call sent Irish guard Carleton Scott to the free throw line, where he made both of his shots on Notre Dame’s first attempt with the double bonus.

“They did a great job of attacking us, getting to the line and knocking down free throws,” said senior for ward Jonathan Mitchell.

Playing catch-up at the Joyce Center yesterday, Rutgers had no margin for error.

For the final 16 minutes of action, any foul sent Notre Dame to the line, where it made the Knights’ pay for their indiscretions in a 76-69 Irish win.

Twenty-three of Notre Dame’s 29 second-half points came from the charity stripe, and it entered the bonus with a 3point play courtesy of a Robert Lumpkins foul.

The senior for ward raced back on defense, attempting to block Scott Mar tin’s easy layup oppor tunity, but he fouled the senior for a 3point play.

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Sophomore wing Dane Miller sent No. 8 Notre Dame into the double bonus after recording a foul on Irish guard Carleton Scott with a little over 13 minutes remaining in regulation.

“For the last two weeks, we have [made adjustments], whether it’s running for fouls in practice and scrimmages or doing drills,” said head coach Mike Rice. “We’re going to pressure the basketball, but you have to do it with your feet, not your hands.”

The Irish iced the game at the foul line, where Ben

Hansbrough made six shots in the final 30 seconds. The most disheartening foul came with the Irish inbounding the ball with six seconds remaining on the shot clock.

Hansbrough received the inbounds pass with a 3-point lead, took a foul from senior guard James Beatty and

knocked down both attempts to put it out of reach.

The Knights did not reach the bonus until there was 2:23 remaining.

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IRISH: Halftime deficit only four behind Miller’s nine continued from back

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Senior forward Jonathan Mitchell scored a season-high 24 points Sunday in South Bend, Ind., but it was not enough as the Knights dropped their fourth straight Big East matchup.

“I feel like the last few games we’ve been in the penalty before the first media timeout,” said senior forward Jonathan Mitchell, who notched a season-high 24 points and seven rebounds against the Irish. “We’ve got to do a better job of keeping our hands off of them because I think we’re starting to maybe get a rep around the league that, ‘These guys reach in a lot. They like to foul with their hands.’”

Rutgers made it a one-score game midway through the second half on a pair of 3-pointers from Mitchell and freshman guard Austin Carroll, but Hansbrough again answered with a field goal to stretch the Notre Dame advantage to five.

The Irish pushed their lead to 49-41 minutes earlier, after a missed field goal by sophomore wing Dane Miller and a subsequent frustration foul — Rutgers’ 10th team foul in less than seven minutes.

The Knights sent Notre Dame to the free throw line for good less than five minutes into the second half after committing their seventh team foul.

“It’s very difficult [to come back with foul trouble] and we almost did it,” Rice said. “It could have went either way. But again [Notre Dame] just dropped their head and it seemed whenever they dropped their head, they got a foul called.”

Senior guard Mike Coburn earned an uncontested 3-point shot early in the half, but instead of Rutgers taking its first lead, the team went down five after his

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just got to the foul line one too many times.

The conference’s fourth-leading scorer totaled 25 points for the Irish, while shooting just 6of-15 from the field. He made two of his eight 3-point attempts, and found his points at the line, where he shot 11-for-13.

“He just took the ball and manhandled us,” Rice said. “They set good screens and he uses them well, shoulder to shoulder.

He does everything textbook.

But we didn’t lose him, he just drove into us.”

miss resulted in a Notre Dame basket and free throw.

But Rutgers went into halftime in South Bend trailing the Irish by just four at 37-33, with Miller serving as the catalyst.

The Rochester, N.Y., native put up 10 shots in 15 minutes of action en route to nine points in the first stanza.

The Knights shrunk their deficit to just two with 1:42 to go in the first half, when Mitchell nailed an open 3-pointer from the left sideline.

Mitchell shot an efficient 3for-4 from the field with eight points in the first period of play.

“Other guys were tr ying to get involved,” Mitchell said.

“Dane [Miller] had a pretty good first half and in the second half he was a little quiet.

We just have to get ever ybody to stay aggressive.”

Highlighted by a Miller layup off a feed from Coburn, the Knights went on a 7-0 run after Notre Dame pushed its lead to double digits for the first time in the opening period.

But moments later, senior forward Robert Lumpkins lost Scott on an inbounds play and Scott responded with an open 3-pointer for the Irish.

Notre Dame shot just under 52 percent from the field in the first half and capitalized with nine points off of only five Rutgers turnovers.

Hansbrough led all scorers with 10 first-half points despite shooting just 2-for-7 from beyond the arc.

“It’s a little frustrating because it’s a game we might just steal on the road, but at the same time we’re getting so much better,” Mitchell said. “We’ve come so far this season and we can’t just give up and can’t quit. We just have to keep fighting.”

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Skid hits four as RU falters late at Irish

Defense keys season sweep over Orange

BY TYLER BARTO

BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ

ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

CORRESPONDENT

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — No. 8 Notre Dame did not offer the Rutgers men’s basketball team its most physically imposing opponent yesterday at the Center, MEN’S BASKETBALL Joyce where Notre Dame RUTGERS 69 head coach Mike NOTRE DAME 76 Brey frequented smaller lineups and seldom used three members of his bench.

But the Fighting Irish played big when it mattered most in the Scarlet Knights’ 76-69 loss, the team’s fourth in a row in the Big East and third by single digits.

“We have to play with a little more purpose on the defensive side,” said head coach Mike Rice. “And maybe when we do have wide-open shots we have to shoot a little better percentage. You’re going face a ranked team it seems night in and night out. You’re going to have to make your open shots and we didn’t do that [Sunday].”

The Knights (12-11, 3-8) found themselves down by just three points with 29.9 seconds left, when Notre Dame called a timeout with six seconds remaining on its shot clock.

But senior guard James Beatty was called for a foul — the game’s recurring theme — and Irish guard Ben Hansbrough sunk both of his free throws.

Minutes earlier, Rutgers forced Notre Dame (19-4, 8-3) forward Carleton Scott into an errant shot at the free throw line with three minutes to go, trailing just 64-58.

But emblematic of Rutgers’ season, Scott followed up his own miss with an emphatic dunk, sending the Irish crowd into a frenzy.

The backbone of the Rutgers women’s basketball team was always defense.

The Scarlet Knights reiterated that yesterday at the Louis Brown Athletic Center against Big EastWOMEN’S BASKETBALL rival Syracuse, holdSYRACUSE 47 ing the Orange to a 29.2 field goal perRUTGERS 54 centage and forcing 19 turnovers en route to a much needed 54-47 victory.

And despite another sketchy offensive performance by Rutgers, it proved that its backbone could keep it in any game.

“It was interesting because I gave the team a choice of what defense they wanted to play, and they chose to play a [2-3] zone [instead of manto-man],” said head coach C. Vivian Stringer. “I did think that in order to pick the tempo up and to play to a point where we recognized who we are, we needed to go into that 55.”

The Knights (13-9, 6-3) went into that 55press, and forced six consecutive turnovers from 3:30 onward and eventually pulled away from the Orange, who ended the contest with 19 turnovers.

After Syracuse’s Alexander Kayla converted on both free throw attempts with 38 seconds left, the Knights held onto a threepoint lead and brought the ball up the court.

After running the shot clock down 10 seconds, junior guard Khadijah Rushdan handed the ball off to sophomore guard Erica Wheeler at the top of the key and the Miami native delivered a 3-point dagger to give the Knights a 50-44 lead with eight seconds left, sealing a victory.

With the win, Rutgers snapped its threegame losing skid and improved to six conference wins, while also completing the season sweep of the Orange.

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Sophomore center Monique Oliver (44) shot 7-of-15 from the field and led the Knights with 15 points in the team’s 54-47 victory over Syracuse on Sunday afternoon.

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Knights honor LeGrand in shutout win over Army

BY MATT CANVISSER CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Rutgers tennis is not only on a winning streak, but a shutout streak as well after defeating Army on TENNIS Saturday, 7-0, at the RUTGERS 7 Lichtenberg Tennis ARMY 0 Center. The shutout is the team’s second in three days after it held Lehigh winless last Thursday in Bethlehem, Pa. The Scarlet Knights (2-1) handed previously undefeated Army its first loss of the season.

The team dedicated the victory to Rutgers football player Eric LeGrand, who suffered a spinal cord injury against Army in October.

“The team thought it was a small way to help out with [Eric’s] motivation. He’s been on our mind all year, and we want him to know that all of the Rutgers athletes are thinking about him,” said head coach Ben Bucca. “We raised some money for him at our Tennis Party fundraiser and this was a continuation of that good will.”

Army tested Rutgers early on the road, a stark contrast from the Knights’ dominating performance against Lehigh. The match was more reminiscent of the Knights’ opener against Princeton because of the closely contested matches, the only difference being that in this match Rutgers came out victorious on all occasions.

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Senior captain Amy Zhang won her singles match against Army’s Annie Houghton by a 6-3, 6-4 score from the No. 1 singles spot as the Knights cruised to a 7-0 victory. Zhang also won her doubles match with junior Jennifer Holzberg, 8-4.