The Daily Targum 2010-02-12

THE DAILY TARGUM

Volume 141, Number 85

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The Rutgers men’s basketball team hosts Georgetown Sunday afternoon, seeking redemption after a 25-point loss last month in Washington, D.C.

Christie freezes state spending to balance budget

BY ARIEL NAGI ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

allow buses to run every 12 minutes, Molenaar said.

This change in transportation would bring on three additional buses to the current quota of two busses running on three separate routes, he said.

The total funds for enhancing bus service on the weekends are estimated to be about $256,000, Molenaar said.

To help pay for the proposed plan, the University would increase the existing

With the state budget getting smaller and the unemployment rate still rising, Gov. Chris Christie stood before members of the legislature yesterday at the Trenton Statehouse to deliver a speech citing his plans to balance the budget.

Christie signed an executive order freezing the necessar y state spending to balance the budget before he delivered his address. Plans include freezing spending of unspent technical balances across various state programs, including unspent funds to upgrade energy systems in state facilities and several long-term projects.

He also plans to withhold school aid.

“New Jersey is in a state of financial crisis. Our state’s budget has been left in a shambles and requires immediate action to achieve balance,” Christie said.

“Today, the days of Alice in Wonderland budgeting in Trenton end.”

The fiscal year 2010 budget has a $2 billion gap, he said.

The budget originally projected 5.1 percent growth in sales tax revenue and flat growth in corporate business tax revenues, but instead, sales tax revenue is down 5.5 percent, corporate business tax is down 8 percent, and the unemployment rate is more than 10 percent, Christie said.

“The facts are that revenues are coming in $1.2 billion below what was projected last year, and [more than] $800 million in additional spending was done by the previous administration on their way out the door,” he said.

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Students push through crowds to get on a campus bus. Parking and Transportation Services Director Jack Molenaar looks to possibly expand the bus system due to student complaints about overcrowding and long wait times.

U. considers bus system expansion

BY RINAL SHAH CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Hoping to address student concerns about the transportation system, the University plans to make some changes to the campus transit system, but these changes will come with a cost.

The University may soon add extra buses to the B, LX, REXL and REXB routes, said Jack Molenaar, director of Parking and Transportation Services.

These are the routes that have received the highest number of complaints, and adding extra buses will help cut down on the amount of time students spend waiting for a bus on these routes, Molenaar said.

The estimated total for adjusting these four routes would cost about a quarter of a million dollars, he said.

“We are trying to keep the cost as low as possible,” he said.

The University is also considering adding buses to weekend routes to

Group raises awareness about deported veterans

BY CATHERINE CARRERA STAFF WRITER

After serving America in the United States military, 46-year-old veteran Hector Lopez was deported to Mexico.

Lopez was arrested in 2003 for possession of marijuana, and on Dec. 20, 2006, he was sent back to his home country.

“When I got into trouble with the law, I served my time in prison, and when I was about to go home, they told me I was being deported,” said Lopez, during

a phone interview from Mexico. “How can I be deported if I’m an American and have served my country?”

Lopez, whose parents brought him to America when he was a young boy, is an honorary discharged veteran and a national of the United States. He said his entire family lives in America, and he considers himself a foreigner in Mexico.

Now, he is the advocate for Banished Veterans, an organization that helps other veterans who are deported to Mexico.

Overall, Lopez said he just wants the opportunity to live in the land he helped protect.

“I’m not going to retaliate against the American government for deporting me. I just want to go home,” he said.

Lopez’s case is not unique. A majority of deported veterans were convicted of drug possession, said William Brown, a student veteran.

“Drug and alcohol problems are understandable, because many veterans who come back after serving have issues with post-traumatic stress dis-

order and transitioning back to a normal life,” said Brown, a RutgersCamden senior. “So they may use drugs for self-medication.”

This disregard for veterans’ wellbeing undermines America, he said.

“You have men here that have ser ved for our countr y and have fought for the freedoms all Americans deserve,” Brown said.

He believes veterans should still be respected as veterans, even if

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City looks to speed up NJ rail line project

BY CATHERINE CARRERA STAFF WRITER

In this time of economic hardship, one proposal to help reduce pollution and traffic while creating millions of jobs could aid to solve problems in New Jersey.

New Brunswick Mayor Jim Cahill and representatives of the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group met in front of New Br unswick Station Tuesday morning to explain what a new, high-speed rail system will do for New Jersey and the countr y.

“If we’re going to spend money, why not spend it on the creation of jobs, becoming less

oil-dependent and a sustainable future for the state of New Jersey and for the United States?” Cahill said. “The severe cost of not doing this project is the severe cost of paying for environmental concerns.”

President Barack Obama last month granted New Jersey $38.5 million in high-speed rail funds — an amount that is part of $8 billion in funding allocated for planning and building high-speed rail systems in 31 states under the American Recover y and Reinvestment Act, according to an NJPIRG press release.

METRO Find out what one non-denominational outreach ministry is doing to involve more youth in religion.

OPINIONS Winter Olympics are just around the corner — which of America’s athletes received a dart?

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discuss the benefits of a high-speed rail line Tuesday in front of the New Brunswick Train Station.

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CORRECTIONS In Tuesday’s issue, the University story incorrectly states that Shockwave performed on Friday. They performed Saturday during the competition.

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New bandwidth policy incites criticism among students

BY JOHN S. CLYDE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Students called on the University to speed up its response to slow Internet service by reversing a new bandwidth policy Monday at the SEBS/Cook Council meeting.

The new policy allows students unlimited downloading and uploading, while the old policy limited students to downloading four gigabits and uploading two Gb over a sevenday sliding window.

About 1,200 students joined a Facebook group “Rutgers Students for Faster Internet,” opposing the new policy. “[The new policy is] like dialup speed, whereas before it was like cable Internet speed,” said Council Parliamentarian Daniel

Clark, a Cook College senior. “It was fast, especially getting stuff from within the University, but even outside the University you could [download] in a snap.”

The Office of Information Technology is aware that there is not enough bandwidth, but bandwidth comes with a cost, said Director of Information Technology Frank Reda.

“Our Vice President Donald Smith is actually speaking with the University administration to see what we can do to improve the situation,” Reda said. “I don’t think the issue is the speed limit per se — the issue is not having enough bandwidth.”

The previous limits interfered with some students’ academics, he said.

“The real issue that we were running into with the quotas on

SEBS/ Cook Council the amount of downloads, was that people were kicked off the network for seven days and were unable to do … research related to their coursework,” Reda said.

Less than 5 percent of the population was using the majority of the bandwidth, and the same people were constantly losing access, he said. Now the system is equitable.

“It looks like the solution has slowed the Internet for everyone,” said Council President David Sorkin, a Cook College senior.

Many of the students who were losing Internet access were

using it for inappropriate reasons, he said.

But Reda said now everyone has equal access.

“We had a ver y small percentage of people who had ver y fast access to the Internet and abused it on a regular basis to the detriment of the students tr ying to use it in a fair and equitable way,” Reda said.

The University tested the system on Rutgers-Camden campus, and Reda said the students were happy with the change because it allowed them to download Netflix movies.

But the change was not as well received on the New Brunswick campuses.

“A friend of mine was downloading [materials from The College of New Jersey library] for class … and the amount of

time it took him to download it, he could have easily driven down to TCNJ, picked it up and driven back before it downloaded,” Clark said.

Reda said the Internet is slower the first week of new semesters because volume is higher but acknowledged that something needs to be done.

“It’s not adequate, obviously, otherwise we wouldn’t be having this conversation,” he said.

Sorkin said the council continues to press the issue to administrators.

“The first step was to bring in Frank Reda,” Sorkin said.

“I’d rather have heard him say something along the lines of ‘We’ll fix it,’ but since he didn’t we can move for ward [by polling students and speaking with Smith].”

NEW DEAN BRINGS RESEARCH EXPERIENCE TO NURSING PROGRAM After decades of breaking ground on the AIDS front, Bill Holzemer changed his focus to urbanizing health centers as the new dean of Rutgers College of Nursing.

Holzemer, a University of California alumnus and acclaimed scholar, spent the better half of the 1970s battling the first outbreaks of the deadly disease, according to a University press release.

He said his experience with the crisis shaped his newfound vision for nursing education and cultivated his interest in developing a clinical research program.

“I think HIV is the place where we saw the empowerment of people affected by illness,” Holzemer said in the

release. “It taught us that sometimes the patient knows more about his condition than the provider.”

Holzemer, a former associate dean for international programs and director of the International Center for HIV/AIDS Research at the School of Nursing at University of California-San Francisco, spent his first few months at the University developing a plan for an urban health institute within the College of Nursing, according to the release.

His intention is to promote intimate relations with nearby communities and provide a place for undergraduates to complete service learning projects, according to the release.

Karen D’Alonzo, an assistant nursing professor at the University, began focusing her efforts on the Family Health Center of St. Peter’s University Hospital in New Brunswick where 13 Latina women are training to promote women’s health among other Latinas, according to the release.

“What we want is for students to become engaged in the issues facing urban communities, particularly underserved minority communities,” D’Alonzo said, according to the release. “We want them to get out in the community and see first-hand the kinds of problems people have and kinds of barriers people are facing in getting health care.”

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U NIVERSITY VETERANS: Group assists U. military students continued from front they have a r un-in with the law.

Bryan Adams, president of Veterans for Education, an oncampus student-veteran organization, said all criminals, veterans or not, should be subject to the same punishment.

“Like every other American citizen, if [veterans] get into legal trouble, they should serve the time in jail,” said Adams, a Camden College of Arts and Sciences sophomore.

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T H E DA I LY TA R G U M Veterans for Education attempts to spread the word about deported veterans, he said. The organization will try to raise the issue in the meetings they have with the Senate Military Affairs Committee and the on-campus Veterans Affairs Committee.

“A lot of veterans have been through something that a normal college student hasn’t. It can be an over whelming process,” Adams said.

Because of that difficult transition, Veterans for Education, which Brown helped start about a year and a half ago, brings veterans who share common interests and can relate to each other together.

“We started getting together to discuss the things that the university was lacking as far as transitional programs,” he said.

With the help of Veterans for Education, Lopez sent his message out to people via Facebook.

Susan Schurman, chair of the New Brunswick campus Veterans Affairs Committee, said she has never heard of the issue of deported veterans.

“I would say that this university has gone to great lengths to consolidate all the services that we provide and make them available to veterans,” Schurman said.

“We make sure the campus is welcoming and a place where veterans would like to study.”

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Gov. Chris Christie, pictured above on election night, considers freezing spending in a variety of areas including transportation services, pension plans, school aid and construction projects.

BUDGET: Christie plans to withhold surplus school aid continued from front Christie said some of the freezing will result in delayed or terminated projects, and some services will be reduced.

“Not ever ything is painless,” he said. “But in total, we can reduce spending by [more than] $550 million this year by lapsing these unspent balances — by not spending these funds and applying them now towards our multibillion-dollar budget gap.”

For example, InvestNJ, a program that aims to create more jobs, has a large unspent balance and a failed record in actually creating new jobs, Christie said. If the program is cut, it can save taxpayers $50 million, he said.

“Instead, I believe we should create, without significant public expense, a one-stop shop to clear away obstacles and speed the path to job creation — the New Jersey partnership for action,” he said.

Christie said freezing some long-term projects that can afford delay like capital improvements to state buildings, correctional facilities and state parks, can save approximately $70 million this year.

But the biggest programs that need to be cut and will save the state a lot of money are those New Jersey takes the most pride in and have the most merit, Christie said. This includes more than $1 billion in reductions and reforms to programs such as New Jersey transit, pension systems and school aid.

“The state cannot continue to subsidize NJ Transit to the extent it does, so I am cutting that subsidy,” he said. “The state cannot this year spend another $100 million contributing to a pension system that is desperately in need of reform.”

The total unfunded pension and medical benefit costs are $90 billion, Christie said.

The state would have to pay $7 billion a year to make them current.

“We don’t have that money — you know it and I know it,” he said.

Christie also plans to hold $475 million in school aid.

Christie said previous administrations underestimated New Jersey’s budget gap, setting aside some $230 million in school aid but not offering a legislative solution to achieve the number.

“School aid is a large proportion of New Jersey’s budget — especially of the amount which has not yet been spent in fiscal year 2010,” Christie said. “So we cannot put our budget in balance without putting some school aid in reserve.”

But Christie said the solution would assure ever y school district has the resources it needs. He plans to reduce aid so no district will have aid withheld in an amount greater than its surpluses.

“Our solution does not take one penny from an approved school instructional budget — not one dime out of the classroom, not one textbook left unbought, not one teacher laid off, not one child’s education compromised for one minute,” he said.

Christie said while some may view cutting across the board as fair, it would not be fair to some districts that rely heavily on state aid.

“I know this solution will not be popular. More than 500 school districts will be affected, and more than 100 districts will lose all state aid for the remainder of the year,” he said.

Rutgers University Democrats President Alex Holodak said while the idea is not the best, if it works, he agrees with the governor.

But he hopes Christie does not freeze student aid for public universities.

“It’s really important to put an emphasis on education, especially on the college level,” said Holodak, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “In the state that we’re in, I don’t think we can really afford to hold off on those things [like student aid].”

Rutgers University College Republicans member Benjamin DeMarzo said freezing certain programs and limiting spending is a responsible decision that could help the state.

“The state just doesn’t have the money to make a lot of these payments. It’s the fiscally responsible thing to do,” said DeMarzo, a Rutgers College senior.

Christie told his audience that next year is likely to face similar obstacles in terms of the state budget and spending.

“The challenge next year will be even greater. The cuts likely will be even deeper. The reforms will, of necessity, be even more dramatic,” he said. “But let us not make that problem even worse.

Let us begin the process of reform today.”

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Painless, University considers outreach to combat suicide free testing raises HIV awareness

BY MELISSA SORIANO CONTRIBUTING WRITER

BY JENNIFER LILONSKY CONTRIBUTING WRITER

About 30 students appeared at the Health Outreach, Promotion and Education office Monday to receive a confidential and free rapid-result HIV test that gives results in 20 minutes.

The HOPE free testing clinic — sponsored by the University’s Student Life Multicultural Student Involvement and Health Services at the HOPE office at 8 Lafayette St. in New Brunswick — was held in honor of the 10th annual National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, said Cheryl Wilson, associate director of Multicultural Student Involvement.

In the United States, blacks are most affected by the HIV epidemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“Blacks comprise 12 percent of the U.S. population, but nearly half of the estimated 1 million people living with HIV and almost half of new HIV infections annually,” said Dr. Kevin Fenton, director of CDC’s National Center for HIV/AIDS in a statement.

Wilson organized the event as part of a larger program, the HIV/AIDS Awareness Series, which will continue throughout the year.

She decided to take action after she read a report that the AIDS epidemic in America is more serious than previously believed.

“Everyone, not just students, should know his or her status,” Wilson said. “Individuals who are or who have ever been sexually active should get tested.”

While not all students are worried about contracting HIV/AIDS, it was a frightening reality for one University student who said she was recently sexually assaulted on campus.

The student, who wished to remain anonymous, was one of the 30 students who received the test.

“It’s a lot quicker here than it is at health services,” she said.

The anonymous student explained how HIV testing at the HOPE office takes away a lot of the anxiety associated with waiting for test results.

“It could be a traumatic experience but here it’s nice and not as nerve-wracking,” she said.

The health centers use blood testing for HIV/AIDS and take longer to receive results than the fast and painless oral swabbing performed Monday at the event, according to a University Health Services pamphlet.

Liz Amaya-Fernandez, a health education specialist at the University, said testing is important because HIV/AIDS can be managed with proper treatment.

“The earlier you know, the better you can take care of it,” she said.

Fernandez also advocates testing for individuals who have never had sex but have engaged in “risky” behavior like the use of alcohol or drugs, which have the ability to affect a person’s memor y.

There will be another free rapid-result testing event on March 10 in commemoration of National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that at least 1,350 college students commit suicide each year.

Student affairs professionals participated in a dialogue Monday to talk about how community-based approaches can help identify and prevent suicide.

Attendees from University Residence Life, Student Life and various Deans of Higher Education packed the Busch Campus Center for “A Community Approach to Suicide Prevention in Higher Education.”

“We want students to know we are here to assist them, not scare them or get them in trouble, and that we really care,” said Dean of Students Timothy L. Grimm.

Keynote speaker Alan Siegel, chief of mental health at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Medical, proposed a variety of visits to make mental health care more accessible to students. These include

walk-in, mor ning clinic and 24/7 on-call and face-toface visits.

Director of Counseling and Psychological Services at George Mason University Jeffrey W. Pollard said the Virginia Tech. tragedies brought suicide issues on college campuses to light.

“Virginia Tech was a big wake up call. … The awareness level is now ver y different for us,” Pollard said.

Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the Rutgers School of Law at Newark Ronald K. Chen said he wanted to give a voice to this silent issue.

After going over school repor ts, he discovered many higher education schools go for th with involuntar y withdrawals of students who attempt suicide, instead of dealing with the issue and reaching out to the students — which is in violation of student rights.

Chen said he wants to assist in ensuring the safety of students not only at the University, but also at other schools. He said campus suicide should first be treated in relation to

behavior, not as mental illness or diagnosis.

“Don’t blame illness,” Chen said. “Student suicide should be taken as an issue surrounding behavior.”

Chen appointed Patrick G. Love, associate vice president for Student Affairs, to organize this campus suicide prevention conference and bring various student af fairs professionals together to find a better solution for campus suicides.

One audience member asked what role anti-depressants play in the attempt to prevent suicide.

Love said they would first recommend counseling and then work from there.

Grimm said it is more difficult to reach out to commuters than to campus residents.

There are more resources for those who feel hopeless, helpless and a need of hurting others on campus, he said. It is easier to identify who needs help because of resident assistants and other students in the residence halls who could notice behavioral differences.

School of Arts and Sciences sophomore Gabriella Santaliz agrees with Grimm.

“I can notice if one of my roommates has a problem,” she said. “If one of us ever has a problem we can speak to each other about it or even to the RA. It’s nice to know that people like the school deans are trying to let students know that there’s no reason to have fear.”

At the University, the National Alliance for Mental Illness student group helps troubled students. There are only two active chapters in New Jersey.

Dr. Jill Richards, director of Counseling and Psychological Services, plans on changing that.

Richards is looking to start the first chapter of an Active Minds group at the University. She proposes that more list serves be created for help and to establish a divide between mental health staff and student affairs.

“Why were these students who attempted suicide expelled?”

Richards asked. “Why didn’t the school help them? We want to make sure that the students at this school know [help is available].”

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The C. S. Lewis Society at Rutgers will discuss “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer” from 5 to 7 p.m. at Canterbur y House at 5 Mine St. of f the College Avenue campus. People of all backgrounds are welcome. For more information, contact Chaplain Gregor y Bezilla at bezilla@rci.r utgers.edu.

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Student teams of three to five people are invited to compete in the Residence Hall Association’s 3 vs. 3 soccer tournament from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Sonny Werblin Recreation Center on Busch campus. For more information about registration, contact reshalls@rci.rutgers.edu.

Donate a meal swipe at any University dining hall from now until March 1 and help sick and injured children receive medical care. The RUSA sponsored meal swipe donation program will help raise money for the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, a nonprofit non-political organization dedicated to providing free medical care for children from all over the Middle East who cannot receive care locally.

Come join Bringing Rutgers Around In Neuroscience for a viewing of the film “A Beautiful Mind” — a true stor y on the life of John Nash, a math genius and game theorist af flicted with schizophrenia. The movie details Nash’s struggle and eventual triumph over his disease, as he goes on to win the Nobel Prize. The movie will begin at 9 p.m. in Center Hall in the Busch Campus Center. Free pizza will be provided!

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Lona Valmoro, a Rutgers College alumna and special assistant to Secretar y of State Hillar y Clinton, will be discussing her experiences as a top aide in the Senate and Department of State, as well as her professional journey from the University to the capital. The lecture will take place at 5 p.m. in the Eagleton Institute of Politics on Douglass campus. To hear her speak, RSVP to (732)-932-9384 x331 or online at http://www.eagleton.rutgers.edu/ rsvp-valmoro.php Fat Tuesday comes twice this year! Enjoy another day of feasting with Student Life at 7:30 p.m. in the Livingston Student Center. Experience Mardi Gras from a new perspective. Get a taste of this international celebration with Greek, Italian, Turkish, French, Egyptian and other Mediterranean cultures. Enjoy free food, music, masks and guest performances. Supplies limited.

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The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum on the College Avenue campus is presenting its fourth annual “Celebration of Stor ytelling” for preschool audiences.

Starting at 10 a.m., the Maia String Quartet will tell stories and perform classical music. The celebration will continue the next morning at 10 a.m. with a storytelling performance by nationally acclaimed storyteller Beth Horner, who will then hold a teacher workshop from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Early registration for this free event is recommended.

Anyone interested should call 732-932-7237 ext. 615 to reserve a space in any of the programs.

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“Crossroads: Migration, Language and Literature in Africa” is a conference designed to foster transdisciplinary understanding of the complex interplay between language, literature and migration, and of the varied patterns of language and literary movement, formation and practice arising from contemporary and historical migration within and to Africa. The conference begins at 6:30 p.m. and will end Saturday, Feb. 27 at 12 p.m. in the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus. Contact Renee DeLancey at rdelance@rci.rutgers.edu or 732-445-6638 for more information.

Need a tune up? Want to de-stress, relax and explore culture? “Sacred Sounds” is back! Come join the Rutgers Bhakti Club for an electrifying evening of musical meditations, exotic drumming and dance all with world-famous kirtan bands As Kindred Spirits and Mayapuris. “Sacred Sounds” will begin at 8:30 p.m. in the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus. If there is one Bhakti gathering to attend all semester, this is the one!

RSVP at www.bhakticlub.org.

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BUS: Transportation fee to U. CONSIDERS SWITCH TO G-MAIL SERVICE The University is seriously considering switching its e-mail service to a Gmail-based system, said Director of Information Technology Frank Reda Monday at a SEBS/Cook Council meeting.

“We are looking into Gmail as a possibility for incoming classes,” Reda said. “We will probably look into it as an option for students who are already enrolled in the University.”

By converting to Gmail, the University would receive additional e-mail storage capacity than on their EDEN accounts and other technical capabilities.

“Gmail is pretty advanced,” Reda said. “It’s more advanced than what we have to offer you at the Office of Information Technology. We’d like to see that happen.”

Students frequently ask OIT to drop EDEN from the end of their e-mail account and, as the

RAIL: High-speed train to reduce carbon emissions in NJ continued from front Rebecca Alper, program associate at NJPIRG, said the high-speed rail network system would put people to work and cut energy consumption.

“Just the task of building out the high-speed rail system is estimated to create 1.6 million construction jobs,” she said. “It will cur ve traffic congestion, reducing car travel by 29 million car trips and air travel by half a million flights.”

The system will help the environment as well, as less people will drive vehicles, Alper said.

“A complete, high-speed rail network will reduce global warming pollution by six billion pounds,” she said. “That’s the equivalent of taking nearly half a million cars off the road.”

Cahill also saw the benefits to the environment.

“The better we make mass transit, the more people are like-

University looks into switching to Gmail, they are looking into that as well, Reda said.

“Essentially what will happen is there will be a domain that will be assigned to Gmail … something like username@gmail.rutgers.edu or something along those lines, but you don’t have to use that as your public address,” he said.

Students could have an alias name like username@rutgers.edu and have that alias automatically for ward to their same username@gmail.rutgers.edu.

“I can’t tell you for sure [the switch to Gmail] is going to happen. It’s another one of the things that [the University] is looking into,” Reda said. “I think it’s a good possibility that we’ll see something happen.”

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ly to use it. The more people use it, the more they’re out of their cars,” he said.

School of Arts and Sciences senior Katie Hubschmitt brought up another problem the new rail system may help solve — traffic.

“I think the high-speed rail system is such an awesome idea, because you can get to places so much quicker,” she said. “Instead of using our cars, we can get out of all the congestion we always have in New Jersey.”

The largest sector of New Jersey’s carbon footprint is due to transportation, so a reduction in congestion is essential to cleaner air, said New Jersey Future Policy Analyst Jay Corbalis.

“Nowhere in the United States would an integrated high speed rail network be more beneficial than in the Northeast,” said Pamela Yuen, a representative for Congressman Frank Pallone, D-6.

With the development and renovations, transportation to and from the Northeast Corridor will get better, Cahill said.

“Compared to the rest of the state and county, we continue to lead here in the city of New Brunswick, which shows that smart growth … makes this not only a destination for people to want to work and to have recreation opportunities but also a place to live,” he said.

It will take some time to complete the development of the new rail system, Alper said.

“We have to remember that it took decades of investment just to build the interstate highway system,” she said.

“Likewise, we need our leaders to commit at the state, local and federal levels … in order to complete the high speed rail system.”

The funds coming from the Obama administration for the new system will also help the transit system New Jersey already has.

“The high-speed rail funds will go to both developing these high-speed bullet trains as well as bringing old infrastructure in slower routes up to speed,” Alper said.

increase by $8.50 on term bill continued from front transportation fee included in the students’ tuition, he said.

Full-time students at the University currently pay $127.50 per year for transportation and parttime students pay $63.75. If the transportation improvement plans pass, full-time students will pay $136 per year and part-time students will pay $72.25, Molenaar said.

“The additional fee students would be paying would be around $8.50 per year for enhanced bus service on weekends,” he said.

Though the added buses sound like a plan that can be brought into action immediately, it is not that easy, Molenaar said.

Because the funds needed to complete the changes — with half of the money coming from the state and the other from the University’s budget — the process of obtaining the total funds can be tough, he said.

Molenaar also worries the increase in the transportation fee will cause students to disapprove of the transportation adjustment plan.

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“Paying an additional fee of $8.50 a year is really reasonable, especially if this means it would be easier to get a bus at a more convenient time,” said School of Arts and Sciences sophomore Casey Fecanin.

School of Environmental and Biological Sciences sophomore Jessica Webster believes more buses would be especially helpful for students trying to get to Busch campus and home football games.

School of Environmental and Biological Sciences sophomore Selina Ruzi said the extra buses will help students ensure traveling from campus to campus get to class on time.

“Increasing buses would be really helpful for students because many of my friends have been late or missed class due to inconvenient bus timings,” Ruzi said.

The proposed changes in the transportation system are in the beginning stages of development, and no definite decisions have been made regarding the bus additions, Molenaar said.

Administrators will meet on Feb. 25 to further discuss the potential transportation changes, he said.

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‘Thomas’ works to satisfy ‘Sweet’ cravings

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will always find something that she likes,” he said.

Schnur said the Princeton locaWith Valentine’s Day quickly tion, which started out as a chocoapproaching, the Thomas Sweet late store and began selling ice ice cream and chocolate shop is cream six months later, acts as working full force to have choco- the Thomas Sweet headquarters. lates and gifts ready to go.

The different locations all use the Located at 55 Easton Ave., the same recipes and ingredients but New Brunswick are made and sold branch opened in independently.

1983 following the “The ice cream “There are a million opening of the origis made here, the types of chocolates fudge is made inal Thomas Sweet in Princeton in here, and we mix and gifts, and I 1979. The Easton the flavors and Avenue location know I will always make the yogurt began business in here,’’ he said. find something the current ice Schnur said cream shop and about half of all their that she likes. ” expanded in 1995, business comes KEVIN CAMPANALE said owner from students.

School of Arts and Sciences Michael Schnur.

“Whenever my sophomore “We get a lot family comes to of customers for visit me at school, all holidays, but we always get ice this is the busiest week of the cream at Thomas Sweet. We have year,” Schnur said. “People, been going there since I was a litespecially students, wait until tle kid. It’s a tradition,” said the last minute, and ever yone School of Arts and Sciences firstcomes in around the 12th, 13th year student Sarah Korostoff. and 14th.”

Many alumni call and order School of Arts and Sciences chocolates and gifts to be sophomore Kevin Campanale mailed to them, Schnur said. He said he buys his girlfriend’s recently mailed chocolates to Valentine’s Day present there an alumnus who now lives in every year.

South Carolina.

“There are a million types of Schnur co-owns the store chocolates and gifts, and I know I with his wife Jennifer, and they CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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Owner Michael Schnur prepares chocolate-covered strawberries for the influx of customers that will arrive at the ice cream and chocolate shop this weekend. are both alumni. They bought the store after they graduated, and they employ more than 20 students.

“Lots of alumni come in for ice cream and chocolate, and I

can usually tell when a football or basketball game is going on just by people’s shir ts,” Schnur said.

He said the shop is involved in the University community, and

they make different chocolates for sororities and fraternities.

“Everything is homemade and fresh,” Schnur said. “We try to create a homey environment and maintain reasonable prices.”

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Urban church congregation pops, locks to inspire

BY GREG FLYNN CORRESPONDENT

With a bouncy, updated version of the gospel song “Wade in the Water,” the Church N the Hood ministry had the Unity Fellowship Church New Brunswick congregation clapping, popping and locking Saturday night at a special service.

Church N the Hood, a nondenominational outreach ministry rooted in inclusive, streetwise and liberated Christian theology, aims to inspire people to have their own personal relationship with God, Pastor Rev. LaDana Clark said.

“The hood stands for urban America because that’s where I’m from. Our doors, hearts and spirits are open to people from all walks of life,” Clark said.

Church N the Hood started in Atlanta in 1994 in Techwood Homes,

a public housing development, when Clark came to a realization.

“The Lord brought it to my attention that there was a spiritual deficit in our young people,” she said. “They were going to church, but they weren’t really getting it in a way that they accepted.”

Clark said she knew it was not going to be easy to motivate spirituality in youths but was confident in her knowledge of music.

“I knew that I had to accept it because something inside of me was like fire shut up in my bones,” she said.

Since then, Clark has gone to court to support single mothers, toured prisons preaching and helped whomever whenever she can.

“I’m just a one-on-one outreach pastor,” she said. “I get in my car with a phone call at one

o’clock in the morning, go see about somebody’s kid or go down to the police station.”

Clark said she knew her music industry and radio broadcasting experience would allow her to connect with young people.

“I used to bring Run-DMC, Salt-n-Pepa and Heavy D and the Boyz up on stage,” she said. “I was familiar with hip hop culture.

God told me to take the music and wrap it in a message.”

The service sets up a unique tone and delivers a dif ferent kind of message than young people may be used to hearing, Clark said.

“A lot of times we try to put people in our boxes and when they don’t fit we get upset,” Clark said. “Faith is something that should not be legislated or regulated in somebody’s mind.”

Clark preached about changing the world by taking positive steps.

“We can stop the violence. We can stop the madness. We can stop our kids dying in the street.

We can do that but we got to mix it with what we get in here and what we go to college and get,” she said.

Laticia Lewis performed “The Greatest Love of All” by Whitney Houston and a number of songs she wrote for keyboards, vocals and violins.

Lewis, a University alumna who is now a music teacher in Hackensack, N.J., said Church N the Hood provides young people with positive role models.

“It definitely offers inspiration,” she said. “A kid may want to learn to play an instrument or sing, and this allows them to perform in front of large groups of people.”

Alex Kemoki, a Somerset resident and Middlesex County College student, performed a dance during the service.

Kemoki said the program helped him and allowed him to connect with young people in the area.

“It helped me realize how to love myself and love others,” he said.

Clark hopes to increase involvement from the neighboring University and college community in the coming year.

Church N the Hood holds service every first Saturday of the month at 6 p.m. at Unity Fellowship Church New Brunswick at 1250 Marigold St. in North Brunswick.

Another service takes place every second Saturday at 6 p.m. at United Church of Christ Congregational at 220 West 7th St. in Plainfield, N.J.

Center to host Valentine gala for LGBTIQ community

BY GLEN GABRIEL CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Love will be in the air a little early this Saturday when The Pride Center of New Jersey hosts its eighth annual Valentine’s Day Gala from 7 p.m. to midnight at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Somerset.

Bob Weiss, event co-chair and member of the center’s board of trustees, helped organize the gala for the first time this year.

While the evening will be a good time for all who attend, there is also a deeper message at hand, Weiss said.

The center aims to reach out to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and questioning community in the state. The center’s mission is to increase public acceptance and champion social change for the LGBTIQ community through education and outreach, according to its Web site.

When the doors open, light hors d’oeuvres and beverages will be served and a cash bar will be available, according to the center’s Web site. The Crowne Plaza Hotel will also cater a full-dinner buffet and desserts.

Once all of the dining has finished, the party will begin, Weiss

said. There will be door prizes and a 50/50 raffle all attendees will enter.

Alongside these other giveaways, a high charity auction featuring an overnight package for two to the Empress Hotel in Asbury, N.J., tickets to shows at the Paper Mill Playhouse and other selections to bid on, will take place, Weiss said.

The dance floor will be another attraction, whether attendees are on it with a valentine, a friend or solo.

Local disc jockey from North Brunswick Katie Didriksen — also known as KDK Muzik — will control the sounds heard on the floor.

“I’m generally pop/dance … though I have it all,” she said of the music she plans to play. “I probably carry about 1,200 songs on my computer as well as 500 CDs with me.”

This Valentine’s Day Gala is not the only event the organization has to offer.

“If you look at the calendar, we probably run about 20 regular programs during the month, so there’s something for everyone,” Weiss said.

Events like this offer an opportunity for both members and nonmembers of the LGBTIQ community at the University to have fun and expand their social viewpoints

by meeting more people they can connect with, Weiss said.

He said last February’s event was a success. “[Last year’s event] was a sophisticated, elegant affair, a beautiful dinner dance,” Weiss said.

Though upset the center did not contact her group, Krista Pecoraro, co-president of Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian and Allies of Rutgers University, supports the center’s mission.

“Any publicity, as long as it’s in a good light, is good for the LGBT community at Rutgers,” said Pecoraro, a School of Arts and Sciences junior.

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ith the lighting of the Olympic Cauldron in Vancouver tonight, the Olympic spirit must be getting through to people. Every discipline from skiing to curling has its following, and since students around campus do not seem as interested as they should be, we have decided to throw in our opinion.

The injury that Lindsey Vonn incurred in weeks previous to the Olympics may have gotten her fans down, but at “80 percent [Lindsey Vonn] can still spank [the competition]”, as Picabo Street, 1998 superG gold medalist skier, said to The Associated Press. Vonn, the two-time reigning overall World Cup champion, despite her injuries, may have after all a chance to win some gold for the United States. Vonn mentioned a wrist injury from earlier this year, and while her current shin injury may cause her much more serious pain, experts have said that she can ski right through it. “It’s just pain. You just ski right through it,” said Ted Ligety, the slalom gold medalist four years ago. And while Vonn still has not announced when she will — if at all — begin these Olympic games, we would like to give her a laurel for persistence and determination to compete. *

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Another Team USA competitor is world champion snowboarder Shaun White, but his time in Vancouver might be much easier going.

The 23-year-old has already conquered most of the half-pipes in various competitions around the world and has become the face of Vancouver 2010’s extreme sports disciplines. The “flying tomato” — whose hair seems to have been last trimmed in the late ’90s — must get off his high horse. Despite his gold medal in Turin 2006 and his plethora of other medals from the many World Championships in which he participated, White should learn not to take it all for granted.

His 2006 view on things has certainly changed from a 19-year-old with the hopes of winning his first Olympic medal into a larger than life, commercially funded snowboarder. In the Feb. 22 issue of ESPN The Magazine, White talks of the idea of being lonely at the top. He also spoke about the “guy that’s propelled pipe progression forward,” according to the ESPN Web site. And for his unrestricted ego and hair that many a red head would have cut a long time ago, The Daily Targum gives Shaun White a dart. “The flying tomato” should learn to walk with us mortals for a bit. *

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A North Carolina school secretary was fired in 2008 for speaking Spanish, which is in violation of the school’s no-Spanish policy.

According to UPI, Ana Ligia Mateo sued the school district soon after, but the case was just recently referred to the U.S. Justice Department.

Interestingly enough, about 16 percent of the students at the school are Hispanic. And despite this, Suzanne Gimenez, the principal of the school, ordered Mateo to stop speaking Spanish to Hispanic parents who did not speak English. Mateo was then told that she would have to agree to the no-Spanish rule in writing in order to keep her job. The absurdity of this case has no limits. What other way would the school have of communicating with parents or even children? After all, Mateo, hired as a “bilingual secretary,” was one of the only ways to communicate with the parents. Of course, English should be taught in public schools and other languages should be kept at home — to perpetuate the education in English — but a method of communication with parents remains of the greatest importance, if only in administrative topics. Due to a lack of common sense on the principal’s part, The Daily Targum gives her a dart. *

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We all have morning classes; some have them earlier than others.

And sleep is of course always a problem, or at least we make it one.

Fifty million Americans are not getting enough sleep and college students have a fair share of that, according to CBS News. So now, as many times of recent, a gadget comes to the rescue. One of the solutions is the Zeo Personal Sleep Coach. With the exception of the fact that its users need to wear silly looking headbands, it is quite the useful toy. It tracks sleep patterns using an electrode that is within the headband. In addition to this gadget there are cheaper alternatives, such as the large number of Apps for iPhone or iPod Touch. These adaptive programs give personal feedback on sleep and alarms and proportionately sets an alarm. It also comes with a few other things that could be worth it, including ambient music and games that assess that night’s sleep and help wake up the user. Any or all of these things would be extremely useful to students ranging from high school to graduate school. If only we all had iPhones, we could be much more proficient in going to our early classes, or even deter us from skipping class after a catnap. And for that ingenious way of waking up to go to classes — whether loved or hated — The Daily Targum gives sleep gadgets a big laurel.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “There are a million types of chocolate and gifts, and I know I will always find something that she likes.”

Kevin Campanale, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, on the selection of gifts that Thomas Sweet offers during Valentine’s Day STORY IN METRO

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ay and lesbian paragon of the modern Americans have Conservative. After serving been prohibited two terms as governor of from serving openly in the California, Reagan worked U.S. armed forces for more diligently against the pasthan 16 years by sage of Proposition 6, a 1978 Department of Defense state ballot initiative which Directive 1304.26, popularly would have made it legal for JOSH BAKER school districts to fire teachknown as the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. Issued by ers known to be gay or lesformer President Bill Clinton’s administration, it bian, as well as those who dared to publicly proclaim reads, in part, “Sexual orientation will not be a bar to support for homosexual lifestyles. If the California service unless manifested by homosexual conduct. voters of more than 30 years ago could recognize The military will discharge members who engage in the inherent injustice of such a discriminatory polihomosexual conduct, which is defined as a homocy, why can’t the Washington bureaucracy do so sexual act, a statement that the member is homotoday? It is tragicomically ironic that a measure so sexual or bisexual, or a marriage or attempted marobsolete as “don’t ask, don’t tell” endures even as riage to someone of the same gender.” While the three openly gay Americans hold seats in the U.S. directive, which prohibited the longstanding pracHouse of Representatives. tice of conducting official investigations against Nevertheless, proponents of “don’t ask, don’t enlistees suspected of being gay or lesbian, was tell” continue to maintain that allowing gays and arguably an improvement over previlesbians to ser ve openly in the ous policies regarding homosexualiarmed forces would dampen “... [There] is the ty in the military, it upheld and furmorale and diminish unit cohesion, ther legitimized the practice of stigweakening the militar y’s abilidistinct possibility thus matizing and discharging such indity to carr y out its objectives. viduals purely on the basis of their Militar y ef fectiveness, they conthat ‘don’t ask, sexual orientation. More than 13,000 is more important than perdon’t tell’ actually tend, gay and lesbian members of the ceived equity. However, according armed forces have been undeserveddecreases military to a repor t by the American ly dismissed under “don’t ask, don’t Psychological Association’s Joint effectiveness ...” tell” since it was instituted in 1993, Divisional Task Force on Sexual including 498 last year alone.

Orientation and Militar y Ser vice, As unreasonable and inequitable these claims are completely as the directive was when it was first put into effect unfounded: “Empirical evidence fails to show that nearly two decades ago, it seems exponentially sexual orientation is germane to any aspect of milmore so today, particularly in light of the degree of itar y ef fectiveness including unit cohesion, public acceptance members of the gay community morale, recruitment and retention.” The fact the have since come to enjoy with regard to practically armed forces of many other countries — includevery aspect of civic life — with the notable exceping those of Israel and 20 of the 26 North Atlantic tions of the rights to civil marriage and joint adopTreaty Organization member states — allow gays tion. In any civilian line of work, a policy similar to and lesbians to ser ve openly without suffering “don’t ask, don’t tell” would surely be viewed as from any demonstrable loss of effectiveness is a absurd, impractical and, indeed, un-American in the case in point. The APA has also shown that the highest degree. I contend that it is no more justifi“U.S. militar y is capable of integrating members able to terminate soldiers because of their sexual of groups historically excluded from its ranks, as orientation than it would be to do the same to police demonstrated by its success in reducing both officers, software engineers, professional athletes, racial and gender discrimination.” district attorneys or doctors.

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Big government requires correct application George H.W. Bush. I’ve never read or heard of the “debt scares” of the early ’90s, so I have to JOHN RYAN assume the author’s analysis is he recent attacks on incorrect. Also, most of the curPresident Barack Obama rent federal deficit is due to and big government that President George W. Bush’s tax have been expressed in recent cuts, which were aggravated by editorials featured in The Daily increased military spending — Targum are standard fare for and not due to Obama. Thus, it is small-government advocates. clearly not a failure of “liberal Unfortunately, the ubiquity of the ideas,” but rather a failure of neoarguments does not save them conservative economic ideology. from flaws in logic and manipulaIn terms of the anti-big govtion of facts. ernment bias, one need only look In “A case against big governaround the world to see that ment,” featured in the Targum countries that can be considered Monday, the idea that Obama is big-government “welfare states” “ultra-liberal” is laughable. He is are among the best nations in a free-market capitalist, a which to live. The top ten counDemocrat who is slightly liberal tries ranked by Human in his social ideas and basically Development Index are all “welconservative on foreign issues. fare states,” in that they have Painting Obama as a dreaded “Lvery high tax rates but also proword” is disingenuous. vide important services to all citiThe author also states that the zens. Also, the arguments margovernment, when it involves shaled against welfare states are itself in the marlargely false. ketplace, is inherAnother freently a negative quent Targum “Big government force. This is a editorial author is not the evil it is asser ts that the broad statement that does not take welfare state being portrayed into account that makes citizens as by others.” there are levels of dependent on the involvement. The government, free market is cerwhich has been tainly an efficient tool, but it must proven untrue in academic be kept in check by the governstudies. Also, there is no correment. It’s ironic that the author lation between welfare expendisays that we are lucky that a ture and lower economic President Ronald Reagan follows growth. Simply put, while welevery President Jimmy Carter, fare states do have higher probecause one may only look at the gressive tax rates, they also procurrent economic crisis to see vide a wealth of ser vices that that the Reaganomics of dereguprovide all citizens with a lation are flawed and there is a greater standard of living. place for the government as a In short, big government is regulator in the marketplace, not the evil it is being portrayed keeping competition high and as by others. With correct impleprices low. mentation — for examples, see Moving from the author’s all of Scandinavia and most of naïve support for unproven ecoEurope — a big-government nomic theory, there is his asserwelfare state can provide a fairer tion that the federal deficit is standard of living for the entire “staggering.” Now, $12 trillion is, country, while also giving a proto any mind, a lot of money. But it gressive but fair tax system. must be taken in context, and the The preamble to the U.S. context of the American econoConstitution assigns the governmy is a very large one. As Paul ment the task of “promoting the Krugman, the 2008 Nobel Prize general welfare.” It’s time for the winner in economics, has repeatUnited States to really heed edly stressed recently, the nationthose words. al annual debt burden will be about $700 billion. In percentage John Ryan is a School of Arts terms, this is about the same and Sciences sophomore majoring debt burden the United States in political science and journalism faced in the years of President and media studies.

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BAKER continued from page 10 actually decreases militar y effectiveness, thereby jeopardizing the satisfaction of the ver y goal it was created to meet. Let us first consider the 2002 discharge of nine gay militar y linguists from the Defense Language Institute, six of whom specialized in Arabic. At a time when the armed forces have far fewer Arabic specialists than they require, it is plain to see that “don’t ask, don’t tell” can actually diminish militar y effectiveness by mandating the dismissal of many whose abilities and talents are desperately needed. Secondly, because the directive requires that gays and lesbians in the militar y keep their identity secret, these individuals are likely to face much higher levels of stress and anxiety than their heterosexual counterparts, thus interfering

with their ability to perform ef fectively in combat. Rob Smith, a gay veteran of the U.S. Army, said we must listen to those “… who sur vived ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ so that we can hear more personal stories about what it is like to live under the rule, the mental anguish that it causes, and the lack of trust between enlisted soldiers that it continues to foster.” This past month, during his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama stated, “… this year, I will work with Congress and our militar y to finally repeal the law that denies gay Americans the right to ser ve the countr y they love because of who they are. It’s the right thing to do.” I sincerely hope that the president succeeds in doing so. As we have seen, nullifying “don’t ask, don’t tell” is imperative for both moral and practical reasons.

Josh Baker is a Rutgers College senior majoring in sociology.

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Senior captain targets Big East championship

BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Potential is a word often thrown WOMEN’S TRACK around in the NYRR SATURDAY NIGHT realm of AT THE ARMORY, college SATURDAY, 6 P.M. athletics, and head women’s track and field coach James Robinson is aware of that among his athletes.

The potential to be great is colossal, however, Robinson is also well aware of the fact that having potential does not earn conference and national titles — it’s as simple as that.

Following a rough spell of injuries over the course of the last winter track season, the potential to succeed always existed but failed to be discovered by his athletes.

This time around, the Scarlet Knights have everything going for them: momentum, health and a new-born comradery. Sprinkle a pinch of confidence on top of that stemming from a win in this year’s Metropolitan Championships, and it would seem that potential is a word his team may soon be able to scrap.

“I think they [the team] realizes how good they can become in the future, [but] thinking it is one thing, believing it is another,” Robinson said. “They can see it.

They can see the potential, but at some point you’ve got to stop talking about potential and start talking about what you are.”

What they are is in large part thanks to the performances of a number of athletes this year, but perhaps one of the most significant contributors this season is senior captain Michelle Gomes. Gomes ran the 60- and 200-meter events with much success this season — earning ECAC and Big East Conference Championship qualifiers in each of the two events.

Alongside these feats, the senior also wrote her name in the Rutgers record books, running a time of 40.51 seconds in the 300-meter event and 7.56 seconds in the 60meter event — both times are good for second all-time in school history.

But much of this success came close to never even happening.

Gomes attended University High School in Orlando, Fla., and started running track back in the seventh grade. She did not become serious with the sport until she moved along through high school, deciding by the end of her high school career to attend Delaware.

“I never even thought of Rutgers in my initial recruit trips,” Gomes said. “After I had run for Delaware for a year, Rutgers caught my eye.”

Since her arrival as a Knight, catching the eyes of the Rutgers faithful is what Gomes has done, with three straight years of being a Big East Championship competitor.

But being a qualifier is not enough to quench the intensity of Gomes’s competition. She wants a championship.

Like her coach and the rest of her team, she is confident that this is the year where all her potential is thrown out the window, and getting blown back with the wind is conference and national success. “[Winning a championship] would mean that I’ve made it, that all my hard work, dedication and discipline through the years have finally paid off and come together,” Gomes said. “To be recognized as the best is what I strive for and nothing less.”

The next challenge for this team comes this weekend at the New York Armory when the team sends 18 athletes to New York to compete among a nine-team field.

This is the last leg of competitions before the Big East Championships in two weeks, and even though Gomes will not compete this weekend, she plans on improving herself as well as her team.

“I try to encourage the girls to build that confidence and empower them to not just go out there and show potential, [but to] do it,” said the captain.

As for herself, Gomes plans to run time trials to maintain her competitiveness, which, as she acknowledges, won’t be very difficult.

“A meet is perfect because I’m very competitive, but I’m one of those athletes who is very competitive with myself,” she said.

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Schiano’s loyalty appeals to incoming freshmen

BY SAM HELLMAN ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

EAST STROUDSBURG, Pa. — The smiles on a pair of high school FOOTBALL senior linebackers’ faces on National Signing Day stood for more than any signature or verbal commitment could possibly mean.

Neither Sam Bergen of East Stroudsburg, Pa., nor David Milewski of Sayreville, were highly recruited throughout their high school careers, totaling three scholarship offers between them. Both were risky pickups.

But head football coach Greg Schiano took chances on the pair of them and both are determined to prove him right.

“It feels great. It’s a special day and I’ve been looking forward to this for a long time,” Bergen said after inking his name last week on his National Letter of Intent. “I’m really excited. I’m ready to go down there right now and start working out. Especially with everything I’ve gone through the last couple of years, I’ve finally made it and it’s a special moment.”

For Bergen, the last two years of his life involved struggle after struggle, draining him emotionally and physically, demanding more than he could give.

When Bergen received his Rutgers scholarship offer, he already had one surgically repaired knee after tearing his ACL in the second game of his junior season.

Then, less than a month after his verbal commitment, he tore a ligament in his other knee, prematurely ending another season and leading to serious questions of his future.

“After that happened, I just didn’t know how to feel,” Bergen

said. “Going through the recruiting process, tearing your ACL, for most kids, is a death wish, but Rutgers stuck with me and I just feel great about that. I didn’t think Coach Schiano would still want me.”

He did.

Schiano informed Bergen and his family almost immediately after the injury that that 6-foot, 215-pound linebacker’s scholarship offer still stood.

He would always be welcome in Piscataway.

“I’ll tell you, nobody’s bigger fans of Coach Schiano than we are,” said Bergen’s father Bill.

“When that happened, this whole community fell in love with Rutgers. Immediately, he told me with no waiver ‘Sam’s our guy, that’s not changing.’ And that tells you a lot about their program. You can trust them.”

Milewski’s stor y is a different one.

He didn’t suffer any major injuries through his high school career, but Division I teams did not show any interest in him.

Connecticut gave Milewski a look, but did not offer him a scholarship and his only other offer came from Monmouth.

But Schiano saw something in the two-sport athlete that scored 16 points and pulled in 13 rebounds in Sayreville War Memorial High School’s recent victory over Colonia.

“He’s really a good looking player,” Schiano said. “We haven’t had those tall, rangy linebackers in the past, but he’s one of them. He’s a guy that could come in here and be an ef fective linebacker and hopefully in the early par t of his career.”

Milewski wasn’t about to let the scholarship offer go to waste,

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David Milewski signs his National Letter of Intent to join the Rutgers football team during a ceremony last week at Sayreville High School. The Knights were the only Division I team to offer him a scholarship.

verbally committing early on in the process.

“It’s such a relief just to be over with it because now I’m ready to start working,” said Milewski moments after signing his National Letter of Intent. “I’m just excited because now I can use the facilities and stuff and actually get to meet the coaches on a personal level and start learning the system.”

Milewski also found himself drawn to the Scarlet Knights because of the academics.

Before he even knew he’d have the chance to play on a football scholarship, Milewski knew he wanted to go undecided during his freshman year to choose between business, mathematics and other interests.

“I think it’s kind of hard to ask a 17-year-old what he

wants to do the rest of his life,” he said.

Bergen and Milewski met at RU during their official visits to the school and already get along well, Milewski said.

“I met him on my official visit and he seemed like a good guy,” he said. “I’m excited to bond with him and the other guys and play with them. It’s definitely an exciting time in my life.”

Snow forces Rutgers into travel-filled weekend

BY TYLER DONOHUE STAFF WRITER

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Senior captain Katherine Arlak and the Rutgers tennis team rescheduled Wednesday’s match against Lehigh because of snow.

The Rutgers tennis team will log some miles over the next few days, as TENNIS t h e Scarlet RUTGERS AT Knights LEHIGH, (1-1, 0-1) TODAY, 1:30 P.M. travel to b o t h Lehigh and Maryland in search of wins.

The team saw the early stages of its season ravaged by snowstorms. The Knights saw last weekend’s match-up against Georgetown postponed until Feb. 25. The Knights were initially slated to face Lehigh in Bethlehem, Pa., Wednesday, but due to inclement weather the match once again got pushed back.

RU will finally square of f with the Mountain Hawks this afternoon in a 1:30 match. It will be the first contest for the Knights since their home drubbing of Farleigh Dickinson eight days ago.

Assistant coach Alex Arlak views the match as a great opportunity for the Knights.

“It’s extremely impor tant that the team continues to get better and gain experience,” Arlak said. “A strong win against Lehigh can help with the girls’ confidence.”

Today’s contest certainly seems to favor Rutgers. Lehigh is coming off a 13-day lull, with each of its previous two matches being postponed as well. The Hawks last competed on Jan. 31, when Farleigh Dickinson, whom the Knights just swept themselves, swept them away 7-0.

When the two teams last faced each other on Feb. 5, 2009, RU

“We should be working on ... doing things better technically because the next match will probably be tougher.”

ALEX ARLAK Assistant Coach

shut out Lehigh. Despite the fact that the Knights are considered a heavy favorite to win today, senior captain Katherine Arlak said the team isn’t letting its guard down.

“It’s important for us to focus and pick up a win,” Katherine Arlak said. “We can’t take this match for granted. It’s an opportunity to improve and we need to take advantage of it.”

Katherine’s big sister and coach said the Knights cannot

assume anything, especially this early in the spring.

“You can never underestimate your opponent,” Alex Arlak said. “We should be working on making better swings and doing things better technically because the next match will probably be tougher.”

That match comes on Sunday, when RU journeys to College Park, Md., to take on the Terrapins. Maryland, another team with a vanquished schedule from snow, lost its first and only match of the season — suffering a 6-1 home defeat to Long Beach State.

The only ACC opponent on the Knights’ schedule is likely to present more of a challenge than Lehigh. Should RU play well enough to win both matches this weekend, the Knights will have momentum on their side with three consecutive wins this month.

Playing in her fourth year as member of the Knights, Katherine Arlak knows how important it is for her team to get on a roll this weekend.

“Our opening loss to Syracuse was an eye opener and we’ve really put in the extra work over the past couple weeks,” she said.

“We’ve really concentrated on getting better and it’s beginning to pay off. Hopefully we’ll see that in our next matches.”

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Mitchell wins at near-empty RAC

BY SAM HELLMAN ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

All of 67 fans showed up for the tipoff of associate head KNIGHT c o a c h NOTEBOOK Carlene Mitchell’s second opportunity to lead the Rutgers women’s basketball team in the last two seasons.

The first opportunity came last season against Farmingdale State when head coach C. Vivian Stringer opted to give her a chance. But Wednesday night against Seton Hall, Mitchell called the game because RU suspended Stringer for one game after violat-

ing NCAA policy dealing with male practice player availability.

The lack of Stringer’s presence on the bench, however, didn’t seem to bother the Scarlet Knights as they made it two straight with a 54-44 win over the Pirates.

“It was definitely unique,” said Mitchell on the strangeness of the game. “For nine years, I’ve been walking out behind coach Stringer and the fans are chanting her name and you realize that you’re playing for a Hall of Fame coach.

“I think that was the most unique thing for me, not to hear the chant of ‘CVS’ or the clapping for her walking out.”

The official statement by Athletic Director Tim Pernetti did not come out until the day

before the game, but Mitchell said that she and the team knew about the upcoming suspension for more than a month.

“I’d known personally for a while that I was going to be put in this position so I had several weeks to get ready mentally for it and the team has as well,” she said.

It felt weird for the players too.

But they got used to it and, if anything, it led to a calmer team huddle.

“It was great to just look over at her and have her calm me down when I feel myself get anxious,” said sophomore forward Chelsey Lee, who scored 12 points and pulled down a careerhigh 13 boards. “[Mitchell] helped me calm down a lot so that was great.”

Amidst the minimal attendance and a full-on blizzard swirling around the Louis Brown Athletic Center a strange situation arose for the Knights.

But Mitchell said she knew what to expect at the game and the situation did not bother the team, coming out from the locker room with even more energy and smiles than usual.

RU felt lucky just to have the game, but the Seton Hall team, and the officials made it to New Brunswick before the storm, allowing the Big East to keep the game on the schedule.

AFTER

ANDREW HOWARD/ PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Assistant coach Carlene Mitchell, left, earned the victory while leading the Knights during C. Vivian Stringer’s one-game suspension.

THE AWKWARDNESS

of playing in front of just 67 fans at home — an official attendance of 101, with a meager 67 fans sitting in their seats at tipoff — the Knights hit the road for two games.

Before heading to West Virginia Tuesday, RU takes a short trip south to Villanova tomorrow to take on head coach Harry Perretta and the Wildcats (12-11, 1-9).

Villanova sports wins over Temple, George Washington and Syracuse — all teams the Scarlet Knights lost to.

Senior guard Maria Getty leads ’Nova with 11.4 points per game.

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HALL: Knights plunder points in paint against SHU continued from back rebounder this season proved again to be a force on the glass, setting a new career-high in boards.

The quicker Lee got the start over senior center Rashidat Junaid, and the move paid off for the Knights who outscored Seton Hall 34-18 in the paint.

RU head coach C. Vivian Stringer remained absent from the court, due to her suspension from Wednesday’s game for a violation of an NCAA policy that deals with male practice players.

Associate head coach Carlene Mitchell took over in Stringer’s stead, guiding the Knights to victory for the first time since she

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coached the team last year against Farmingdale State. “[Coach Stringer] really helped me before the game, she sent a text and said ‘Carlene you’re going to do great, you’re prepared and the team will be superb, go get ’em,’” Mitchell said. “Just getting that from her gave me a lot of confidence going into the game and helped settle the nerves.”

RU had little trouble moving the ball through the Pirates defense despite the absence of its coach, finishing with 16 assists in the game to go along with 13 turnovers — only the second time this year the Knights finished with a positive assist-toturnover ratio.

“I think we did a good job of swinging the ball and getting into an offensive flow, but we can’t go on scoring droughts,” Ray said. “That’s going to kill us in the long run.”

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TUNE-UP: No. 8 Hoyas next on Scarlet Knights’ radar continued from back Rosario finished with 25 points and junior for ward Jonathan Mitchell added 14 for RU (12-12, 2-9).

But the Knights must have missed the scouting report on Caldwell’s Malcolm Austin. The sophomore guard scored 29 points on 12-of-25 shooting. Yet head coach Fred Hill Jr. blamed most of that on his team’s defense.

“The kid Austin had a hell of a night. He was feeling it, but as good as he was offensively, I can’t sit here and honestly say we defended him,” Hill said. “It’s a win and that was what the ultimate goal was.”

Caldwell (3-19, 2-11 CACC) outrebounded the Knights 40-37 and forced 16 RU turnovers, coming as close as two in the second half and never trailing by more than 13. Cougars center Peter Diffley had 13 points and 10 rebounds in 40 minutes.

Diffley is hardly Greg Monroe or Julian Vaughn [Georgetown], but somehow those numbers still didn’t concern Hill.

“I can’t look at this and say there is anything bothersome,” Hill said. “It’s the mentality [with which] we approached this game. You can look at any statistic you want and it’s irrelevant to me. It’s the mentality which is the challenge and we didn’t step up and meet that challenge.”

Eventually, the Knights opened up a little bit of breathing room behind threes by Rosario and Mitchell midway through the second half.

“No, no,” said Rosario when asked if he felt like they could lose the game. “I didn’t feel like we were going to lose because I was going to take over. It’s just that simple.”

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Junior forward Jonathan Mitchell scored 14 points Tuesday against Caldwell. He led the team with 21 points last month at Georgetown.

KNIGHT NOTES: Freshman center Brian Okam missed Tuesday night’s game with a strained left knee and is day-to-day.

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Sunday for a Valentines Day matinee (4 p.m., SNY) against No. 8 Georgetown at the RAC. This is the second meeting between the Knights and Hoyas.

Georgetown (18-5, 8-4) won the first meeting 88-63 at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. Monroe had 21 points and 14 rebounds as the Hoyas led by

as many as 33 in the second half. Mitchell led the Knights with 21 points.

Four players for Georgetown are averaging in double figures, led by Austin Freeman’s 16.8 points per game. Monroe (15.4 ppg) and guards Chris Wright (14.6 ppg) and Jason Clark (10.9 ppg) also average in double figures.

Rosario’s 16.7 points per game lead the Knights.

RU also plays DePaul and Seton Hall twice as part of the Big East’s unbalanced schedule.

“He is a kid that wasn’t the most highly recruited, but he comes in with a tremendous D.C. next on tap for Rutgers upside,” Goodale said. “We knew that he would be able to continued from back win, we just thought it would the class that also boasted state take him a little bit longer. He champions Trevor Melde, Joe handles pressure, and you can’t Langel and Jesse Boyden. The teach that.” class accounts for half of the RU This year, the Knights got the starting lineup, even with best of both worlds.

Winston redshirting.

The program reached out and “The main reason we came in nabbed recruits from as far as and recruited these guys was Georgia-state champion Sam because we felt that they could Kuntz. At the same time, the come in and win at a national Knights also brought in the best level right away,” Goodale said. of New Jersey in two-time state “These are kids that came with champion, Vincent Dellefave. great credentials so it’s no surGoodale emphasizes that inprise they are doing this well.” state wrestlers are still the main The third-year focus of recruitcoach even took a ment, but they “It will be our shot on a wrestler now have the abiliwho did not have ty to branch out balanced lineup great credentials, and lure in athagainst their and that risk has letes from nearby paid dividends. states. four horses.”

Overshadowed by “Right now we all of these highly are at the point SCOTT GOODALE sought-after where we are tryHead Coach wrestlers was liting to get the best tle-known Greg kids in the counZannetti from Edison. tr y, not just in New Jersey,” No other college wrestling Goodale said. “We feel we have program contacted Zannetti, but landed the best kids in this state now in his sophomore season the past three years. the J.P. Stevens product finds “Surrounding New Jersey will himself in the starting lineup always be our focal point, but we and holds victories over oppoare always going to go for the nents from No. 1 Iowa and thennumber one guys in the country.

No. 24 Pittsburgh.

The bar can’t be set any higher “Rutgers was always one of than it is right now.” my top choices, and since they Goodale and the No. 23 were the only school that Knights head to Washington D.C. approached me, I knew I would for a weekend of back-to-back tilts come here,” he said. against Liberty and American.

Zannetti is 13-5 this season in “Liberty has some hard-nosed dual matches while in the startguys, and it is going to be a chaling lineup at 165-pounds and is 3lenge,” he said. “American does1 against conference opponents. n’t have the balance we do, but His early success on the mat they have four heavy hitters. comes as a surprise to Goodale, They have the chance to have who may have found a diamondfour All-Americans. So, it will be in-the-rough just 10 minutes our balanced lineup against their north on Route 27. four horses.”

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he No. 23 Rutgers wrestling team announced that they have rescheduled their match against No. 7 Lehigh. The match was canceled on Feb. 6 due to the recent snowstorm and it is set to take place on Saturday, Feb. 20 instead.

As a result, their home match against Bloomsburg set for that same day is canceled and will not be rescheduled.

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lacrosse team rounds out their exhibition schedule this weekend when they take on Hofstra.

The game will begin at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 13 on the Turf Field located on Busch campus.

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football players Anthony Davis and Devin McCourty received invitations to the 2010 NFL Scouting Combine from Feb. 24 to March 2 in Indianapolis. The mark makes it four consecutive years that a Rutgers player received an invitation.

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head basketball coach Jim Calhoun is set to return to the bench on Thursday after missing seven games over three weeks due to medical reasons.

One year after being a No. 1 seed and attaining a Final Four berth, the Huskies are in danger of missing the NCAA Tournament despite an earlier season upset over then topranked Texas.

UConn is 3-4 during Calhoun’s absence.

THE NEW YORK GIANTS parted ways with middle linebacker Antonio Pierce after five seasons, the team announced yesterday.

The Giants considered Pierce an off-the-field problem after his inclusion in the November 2008 incident involving former Giant Plaxico Burress. He drove the wide receiver to the hospital after he accidentally shot himself in the leg in a New York City nightclub.

The three–time captain led the team in tackles three times and received a Pro Bowl invitation in 2006.

KOBE BRYANT AND ALLEN Iverson dropped out of Sunday’s NBA All Star Game and yesterday their replacements were named.

Hometown Dallas Maverick Jason Kidd will replace Iverson and New York Knicks forward David Lee will play instead of Bryant. The Laker is still scheduled to fly to Dallas and take part in the All Star Game festivities.

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Brewers announced plans this week to erect a statue of Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig. Selig is responsible for moving the club to Milwaukee in 1970.

Unveiling of the statue is set to take place on Aug. 24.

After a stretch of three meets in seven days and a trip to Pittsburgh that became an odyssey GYMNASTICS due to snow, the Rutgers gymnastics team finally has a chance to recharge its batteries and prepare for tomorrow’s home quad-meet.

Tomorrow marks the third straight quad-meet for the Scarlet Knights. However, the level of competition is not at the level of their previous meets. RU faces Cortland, Brockport and Ursinus, three schools that the Knights are expected to beat, and one team they already beat.

Last time out at Pittsburgh, the Knights finished with a 189, a score that is on par with the team’s performances this year and a score that boosted RU over Brockport in the quad-meet.

However, head coach Chrystal Chollet-Norton felt somewhat disappointed because she knew her team could do better.

“We scored a 189 and we are disappointed because we have such high standards now,” Chollet-Norton said. “We had four points of mistakes so I think we can be a 192-193 team.”

Other than Brockport, which regularly scores in the mid-to high 180’s, no team in the field should be able to compete with the Knights, even if they replicate their score from Pittsburgh, Chollet-Norton said.

“This is going to be a slightly easier meet,” Chollet-Norton said. “Brockpor t is pretty tough though.”

While the team is not looking past this meet, Chollet-Norton is maintaining a focus on getting her team to nationals. After sending five athletes to nationals last year, Chollet-Norton said her team now possesses an understanding of the high level of performance required.

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Emma-Rose Trentacosti posted 9.200 on the bars and 9.400 on the balance beam in the Knights’ last quad-meet involving Brockport. RU also hosts Cortland and Ursinus this weekend at the Livingston Gym.

what it takes now,” CholletNorton said. “All the girls realize that we deser ve to be at nationals as a team.”

One of the keys to the team’s aspirations for nationals is the ability for the team to stay fresh and healthy. Last season, the Knights suffered from several injuries and lacked the depth to

make up for it. This year, a new focus on keeping athletes healthy and an influx of young talent allowed the team to thrive.

“We have preached staying healthy all year because we are trying to peak at the right time,” Chollet-Norton said. “We also have great depth now so we can rotate girls to keep them fresh.”

As of right now, the Knights are healthy and improving as the season goes on. If this trend continues, CholletNor ton said that her team should have ever y opportunity to go to nationals.

“We are on pace right now,” Chollet-Norton said. “Hopefully we can keep it up.”

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Caldwell no tune-up for Georgetown

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BY KYLE FRANKO If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it does it make a sound?

The Rutgers women’s basketball team can attest to that WOMEN’S BASKETBALL adage after Wednesday’s game SETON HALL 44 against Seton Hall, RUTGERS 54 when the Scarlet Knights chopped down the Pirates 54-44 in front of a snow-hampered crowd of 67 at tip-off.

Senior guard Brittany Ray continued her return to form, scoring a game-high 19 points for the Knights.

Ray’s first shot — a three-pointer in the first half — put her in the record books as the 29th Scarlet Knight to score 1,000 career points. The guard, stuck in a scoring slump since the game against UConn, finally put the milestone behind her.

“It was a great feeling,” Ray said. “I was just glad the first one went in. It just took everything off of me. I’m past it now. I haven’t done anything different with my shooting. My teammates keep encouraging me and telling me to shoot so that’s what I’m going to do.”

Ray got some help from sophomore forward Chelsey Lee, who finished with 12 points and 13 rebounds for her third doubledouble this season. The Knights’ leading

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Mike Rosario on Tuesday night had a complaint.

“I don’t understand why Caldwell was on our schedule in the MEN’S BASKETBALL middle of our season anyway. I don’t GEORGETOWN AT know who put that RUTGERS, together,” the sophSUNDAY, 4 P.M., SNY omore guard said after the Rutgers men’s basketball team scraped by the Division II school 70-62. “We just have to come back in and get focused on our Big East schedule [vs. Georgetown Sunday] and take it from there.”

Just a gaze at the Louis Brown Athletic Center scoreboard told the whole story.

The Scarlet Knights won, but it took far too long to dispatch the Cougars. RU held a six-point lead at intermission and never truly secured a game it should have won by 30.

“Every team that — honest — that’s not on your level and teams you’re expected to beat, you play down to their level of play,” Rosario said. “That affects your team play as far as you being a Division I school, and that’s what happened tonight to Rutgers University. We didn’t go out there and play as hard as we do from the start to the end.”

Sophomore guard Mike Rosario (3) scored 25 points in Rutgers’ 70-62 victory Tuesday night over Division II Caldwell. The Knights host Georgetown Sunday at the RAC.

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RUTGERS FOOTBALL ANNOUNCES SCHEDULE The Rutgers football team unveiled its regular season schedule on Wednesday, and the Scarlet Knights enjoy seven home games for the second consecutive season.

The annual Scarlet-White spring game on April 24 is the first chance to get a sneak peek at head coach Greg Schiano’s team, which is coming off a fourth straight Bowl victory.

The inaugural football game at the New Meadowlands Stadium is a home-away-from-home contest pitting the Knights against Army. The Black Knights host Rutgers the following season at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx.

The Scarlet Knights welcome Big East foes Connecticut, Louisville and Syracuse to the upgraded Rutgers Stadium for the first time and travel to Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, South Florida and West Virginia in conference play.

Games against Connecticut, South Florida and Louisville will all shine the national spotlight on weeknight prime time television.

The battle against the Mountaineers caps the regular season for the third time in the past five years as RU seeks to end a 15-year draught against West Virginia.

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After no other school pursued him, sophomore Greg Zannetti, top, broke into the RU lineup at 165-pounds.

The Edison native was part of last season’s recruiting class, ranked third in the nation by W.I.N. magazine.

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Before Rutgers head wrestling coach Scott Goodale arrived on the Banks, inWRESTLING state high school RUTGERS AT wrestling LIBERTY, talents TODAY, 7 P.M. w e r e siphoned off throughout the country to other powerhouse programs.

The State University of New Jersey could not reel in the top grapplers in the Garden State and watched them defect to schools such as Penn State, Virginia and even rival Rider.

But with Goodale came change.

The Scarlet Knights’ recruiting class ranked third in the nation and comprised of solely New Jersey high school wrestlers.

“When we first heard that we were getting the third best recruiting class in the countr y, we

knew that this was a huge step in the right direction,” said senior Lamar Brown.

“We went from being a Grade C program to a Grade A, and a lot of that is because of coach Goodale and his staff. These kids came in and we knew that they could make a difference in the program. These kids are the real deal.”

Second overall recruit in the nation, Scott Winston, highlighted

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OPPONENT Norfolk State @ Florida International North Carolina Tulane Connecticut (ESPN, 7:30) Army* @ Pittsburgh @ South Florida (ESPN2, 7:00) Syracuse @ Cincinnati Louisville (ABC Network) @ W. Virginia (ABC Network)

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