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The Rutgers men’s lacrosse team beat Wagner 24-4 Saturday in its season opener. It was the only RU team to win its game this weekend.
U. drafts possible mail server switch to Google accounts BY DENNIS COMELLA CONTRIBUTING WRITER
With thousands of students and professors using University e-mail accounts, having a well-functioning system is impor tant for both personal and academic reasons. But for many, the University’s current e-mail system is simply not cutting it. The Office of Information Technology is considering a switch to Google’s Gmail ser vice, which will increase storage capacity and add other technical capabilities to the University e-mail system, said Frank Reda, director of Information Technology at a recent Douglass Governing Council meeting. “We are looking into Gmail as a possibility for incoming classes,” Reda said at the meeting. “We will probably look into it as an option for students who are already enrolled in the University.” Reda said a switch to Gmail would provide students and University affiliates with significant upgrades to the current e-mail service. “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.” One of the biggest complaints students and faculty members have with the current system is with e-mailing attachments. “I’ve had issues with the fact that Eden has smaller file attachment size,” said Laura Megehee, a Douglass College junior. “Not being able to e-mail
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The parking spot, above, on Hamilton Street where University student Sarah Brown’s car was towed last month requires a placard and matching permit number in order for a car to be legally parked. A new bill by the state will clarify some handicap parking issues.
Bill to mend handicap parking BY DEVIN SIKORSKI CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The towing of University student Sarah Brown’s car from a residential handicap parking zone here last month ignited the introduction of a new transpor tation bill Thursday, which looks to bring clarity and protection for handicapped drivers in New Jersey. Assembly members Joan Quigley, of Hudson County, and John Wisniewski, of Middlesex County,
released the bill and have teamed up to tackle the issue of unclear residential parking zone regulations throughout the state. “I cannot think of any legitimate reason to tow a handicapped person’s car when it’s parked in a handicapped spot,” Wisniewski said. “But at least with this bill, we’re working to stop it from happening again.” Quigley, a University alumna, said the bill is the foundation that will stop a situation like Brown’s from happening in the future.
“I think bringing this issue to the attention of the people is needed,” she said. “It’s the first step in a very long process.” The bill will bring three changes to the residential parking zone ordinance: a requirement that towing companies with a contract with the city be open at all times so handicapped drivers can have access to their vehicles, and a restriction on towing any vehicle displaying a state-issued handicap placard from a residential parking zone, Quigley said.
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INDEX UNIVERSITY Two student groups are rocking out to break a world record for the third time on campus.
OPINIONS Pennsylvania high school spies on its students using remotely activated webcams.
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Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy sophomore Efe Ighodfaro prints papers at the Library of Science and Medicine on Busch campus. The printing allowance for pharmacy students increased to $45.
New printing limits prescribe pharmacy students more pages BY RINAL SHAH CORRESPONDENT
The University last month increased the amount of money students in the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy receive for printing per semester. “The rate increased from $30 a year to $45 a year, because it was a fair amount and was academically needed for pharmacy students,” said Joe Sanders, director of University Campus Computing Services. The increase affects only the second, third and fourth-year students in the six-year pharmacy program, Sanders said.
This is the third year the Information Technology Department has attempted to tackle this problem, he said. “The first year we started evaluating this issue, it was the fall of 2007, and we realized that after monitoring all students in separate schools, the School of Pharmacy students were printing more than the other schools,” Sanders said. Pharmacy students were granted $60 a year in fall 2007 for printing, half of which was funded directly from the School of Pharmacy’s budget,
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Ice Knights skate past defeat, debut at nationals BY JOE MALONEY CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Rutgers Ice Knights lost the Northeast Collegiate Hockey League Championship away game against Binghamton University 4-0 this weekend, but they did make it to next week’s Division I National Championships. The team was unable to score Sunday against the Bearcats’ defense. “We dominated most of the game and really felt that we played well enough to win,” said Knights’ defenseman T.J. Fiorillo, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore. “We just could not solve Binghamton’s
goaltender, who absolutely stood on his head. We can only build upon this season and will work that much harder to ensure that the trophy is ours next season.” For the first time in its history, the Knights made it to the Division I national tournament to be held at Robert Morris University in Illinois. “It’s hard to describe what our first nationals berth really means,” said Captain Gil Schaffer, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, on the achievement. “There have been so many great people and players that
have worked very hard to help Rutgers hockey get to where it is now. I’m so proud of this group and what we have accomplished so far.” Schaffer said that by reaching nationals, the team accomplished one of its goals for the season. He feels the team is on target for where they want to be at this point in the year. The Knights, ranked 38th nationally, face off against No. 1 Lindenwood, in Bensenville, Ill., after completing the regular season and NECHL playoffs. “We have plenty of work to do, but Rutgers has arrived at the national scene and now comes the fun part,” Schaffer said.
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The team is eager to make the trip to Bensenville, Fiorello said. For the first time in history, the University’s club hockey team travels to D-I nationals. The Knights’ coach Andy Gojdycz, former captain and AllAmerican, said he is impressed with his team’s play over the season and is determined to make an impression on the national level.
“The season is ending up where we want to be,” he said. “We will be trying to gel the next couple of weeks to prepare for nationals, but up to now I am pretty satisfied with the play of our team.” The Knights are scheduled to play March 6 in the first round of the tournament at 4 p.m. at the Ice Arena in Bensenville.
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Despite losing the league championship game, the Rutgers Ice Knights, a men’s club hockey team, look forward to competing in the Division I national tournament. Team captain Gil Schaffer, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, said the team already met a season goal by reaching the national level.
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coming up and going down, so signs are being changed all the he said. fight city in court over towing time,” Despite this detail in the bill, those closest to Brown are happy continued from front something is being done. Robert Brown, Sarah’s father It also includes a provision that residential parking zones and a retired police officer from clearly state that spaces are for Old Bridge, said it was a big first residents only, the lack of which step in the right direction. “I’m extremely happy — and I confused Brown. There is one specific part of the think my daughter is too — that bill that could cause confusion, Ms. Quigley and Mr. Wisniewski have come together Quigley said. to bring clarity to “Any new this issue,” he said. signs that are “The thing “Plus, with Quigley erected [if the bill passes] will have to keep in mind ... and Wisniewski both being Rutgers to be in conformiis that ... signs are graduates, it seems ty with the bill,” that the Rutgers she said. being changed community has “However, we all the time.” come together to cannot require fight this issue.” municipalities to BILL BRAY Brown, who now change their City Spokesman works as an attorexisting signs.” ney, is set to fight The addition of a new sign, with the combina- his daughter’s towing expenses tion of the old, unclear signs, and traffic ticket in court on Mar. could cause further confusion 22 and is determined to bring it to among handicapped drivers who federal court in Trenton. “[The city of New Brunswick] are new to the city. City Spokesman Bill Bray said left my daughter on the side of the old signs are not as perma- the road,” Brown said. “Now, we’re going to make a federal nent as people think. “The thing to keep in mind case of something [the city] here is that these slots are always did wrong.”
SERVER: Switch to Gmail will increase attachment size continued from front attachments to professors gets frustrating.” Benjamin Travers, a part-time lecturer, who uses e-mail to organize his class assignments while working on a busy schedule, has also had problems sending attachments over University e-mail. Travers also said when the University e-mail system fails, it makes it hard to get assignments from students. “If Eden fails, I find myself spending extra time chasing students down to get assignments,” he said. “Plus the fact that Eden fails
makes it hard for me to filter the truth from the excuse when I don’t get an assignment.” To solve the problem, Travers asks his students to submit an alternate e-mail address to avoid issues with University e-mail. “No one ever uses Sakai when I ask, and Eden e-mail always fails with attachments,” he said. “An alternate e-mail address has been a great solution.” A switch to Google’s Gmail ser vice would expand the attachment size limit to 25 megabytes, up from the current limit of 10 megabytes, according to University and Gmail Web sites. Problems have also been reported with the University email’s storage capacity.
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Rutgers College senior David Madura performed Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” as well as his own original song “Allison” at the Off Campus Student Association’s talent show last night in the Raritan River Lounge in the Student Activity Center on the College Avenue campus.
Melissa Mendoza, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, said in one of her classes, students were unable to submit an assignment to a professor whose e-mail had reached its storage limit. “I felt bad for the students who had problems with sending emails on time because making deadlines is especially important for a journalism class assignment,” she said. “Luckily, it did not happen to me.” Gmail of fers more than seven gigabytes of storage space, compared to the 270 MB with the current University email system, according to University and Gmail Web sites. Students have mixed feelings on the potential switch to Gmail.
Lauren Mendelsohn, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences first-year student, said she has not had issues with University e-mail and does not see the need for the switch. “Unless there’s a major need, I don’t think it’s a big deal,” she said. The switch to Gmail would also require learning a new system, Mendelsohn said. “I think Gmail is a little more confusing, especially now that people have gotten used to the Eden mail,” she said. Megehee however said the switch would not be a bad idea, since she has fewer issues with Gmail than Eden. “It’s not a bad idea,” she
said. “Maybe it’s not the best idea, but I don’t know what the best idea would be. It probably won’t be worse than it is now.” Travers said if the University does decide to switch, he would no longer need students’ alternate e-mail addresses. “I have always wanted to use [the University e-mail system], but I don’t trust it,” he said. “I don’t like Gmail, but anything is better than Eden.” Although the switch to Gmail is by no means definite, Reda said the University is looking into the change. “I think it’s a good possibility that we’ll see something happen,” he said.
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CALENDAR U. to strike chord in world record books BY GLEN GABRIEL
FEBRUARY Interested in writing, editing or simply getting involved in a college newspaper? Come out to The Daily Targum writers’ meeting at 9:30 pm on the fourth floor of the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus.
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“ C r o s s r o a d s : 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 literar y movement, formation and practice arising from contemporar y and historical migration within and to Africa. The conference begins at 6:30 p.m. and ends 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.
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Need a tune up? Want to destress, relax and explore culture? Come join the Rutgers Bhakti Club for “Sacred Sounds,” 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. RSVP at www.bhakticlub.org.
MARCH How do you fondue? Find out at 7:30 p.m. at The Cove in the Busch Campus Center. Test your taste buds this season with Fresh Frites and their tantalizing sauces and dips. Learn some of the dos and don’ts of fondue in this fun and educational program. Dip your favorite treat in chocolate, cheese or even caramel sauces. Supplies limited.
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The Zimmerli Student Advisory Board and The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is hosting Dance Within The Ar t. This unique event allows the public to experience how dance responds directly to art in the museum. Meagan Woods & Company will become part of the art through movement and sound. Preceding her per formance, there will be a Whirling Dervish with a spectacular continuous meditation spinning performance. Admission is free to students, staff and faculty and $3 for general public. Expand your horizons! Take a trip to the East with this celebration of Asian cultures and traditions at 7:30 p.m. in the Livingston Student Center. Spend your evening with exciting performances and cuisine from Rutgers’ own student groups and local vendors representing Japan, China, the Philippines, India and other Asian countries. Supplies limited.
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“Where’s Waldo?,” the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and air guitar do not normally have much in common, but next month, the three may all be elements of Guinness World Records broken at the University. The Rutgers University Programming Association and Rutgers University Dance Marathon, who are cooperating in planning the event, expect more than 2,000 students to convene at the Louis Brown Athletic Center on March 5 to have the largest ensemble air guitar performance in the world. The goal of the event is to ingrain a sense of community among students, said Nathan Weiss, Dance Marathon assistant director of recruitment. This will be Dance Marathon’s first year planning and staging the event. “It’s something fun, like dressing up as a Ninja Turtle, or dressing up as Where’s Waldo, or doing an air guitar, they’re all fun events that people are going
to want to go to and that a lot of people can participate in,” said Christina Burke, director of recruitment for Dance Marathon. To break the world record, the University must get at least 1,400 students to participate in the event at once. All participants must make four distinct air guitar moves in order to break the official record, said Weiss, a School of Ar ts and Sciences sophomore. One goal RUPA and Dance Marathon have for the event is doubling the number of participants from last year, and both groups hope that if everything goes right, the RAC will be filled to capacity, Burke said. “With the added participation of Dance Marathon, it’s a whole new group of new people that we’re going to be reaching ourselves, we have about 1,000 new students we can reach and encourage to go,” said Burke, a Rutgers College senior. Increased participation will have a positive effect on the University as a whole, Weiss said. “If we get more … people to go out to these good events,
and we get people to come out to these good causes, it really breeds the kind of Rutgers community that is dif ferent from the stereotypical Rutgers community of going out on a Friday night and going out to a [fraternity] to do inappropriate things,” he said. The doors of the RAC are scheduled to open at 7 p.m. on March 5, and attendees must pay a $5 fee to participate, Weiss said. Money will be donated to the ar t and music programs in the New Brunswick School District. For those who may not know exactly how to strum an air guitar, Lance “The Shred” Kasten, a U.S. Air Guitar Champion Finalist, will give a lesson to all attendees during the event, Burke said. The record attempt will begin at 8 p.m., but there is a perk for the first 2,000 students who arrive — a free commemorative T-shirt. Students are also encouraged to arrive early, as space in the RAC will be limited. While such attire is not mandator y, event sponsors
encourage those planning to attend to dress in concert attire as there will be a costume contest and prizes will go to those with the best rock star outfits. The evening’s main event will be the world-record tr y, but other attractions will be offered. The N Result will be performing live alongside DJ Work from Hurricane Productions. “Say you’re in your room and you’re just rocking out — it’s going to be more fun when you’re doing it with a lot of other people,” said Risha Katatiwala, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. More than 1,000 students broke a record last year when they dressed up as Waldo, and the same occurred in 2008 when more than 750 students dressed up as the Ninja Turtles. The event is about more than students getting together to play air guitar, Weiss said. It represents dif ferent organizations, like RUPA and Dance Marathon, uniting to bring students from all campuses together.
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RESEARCHER TO DISCUSS INTERNET EFFECTS ON INFORMATION SEARCH Chirag Shah, a doctoral candidate at the University of North Carolina, will share his views with the University on Thursday about the way online social networks are influencing the way people seek and share information today. Shah argues that searching the Internet for information is much more involved than it appears to be, according to the School of Communication and Information Web site. “Online information seeking could go beyond expressing an information need with a few keywords, getting ‘relevant’ results based on some hidden criteria and having a single session or user involved in the process,” said Shah in a statement. To fortify his argument, Shah will present many interesting situations where people are required to search for information beyond keywords and must use multiple sessions or people, according to the Web site. Shah will also discuss how Web sites like Yahoo! Answers and Youtube are also playing an important role in society’s democratic processes. “A number of examples from various fields, such as social and political science, journalism and health care, will be given,” said Shah in a statement. The seminar is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. to noon in Room 323 of the School of Communication and Information building on the College Avenue campus. — Kristine Rosette Enerio
Senator to stay in office despite cancer THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PATERSON, N.J. — Sen. Frank Lautenberg, at 86 the nation’s second oldest U.S. senator, has curable lymphoma of the stomach, his office said Friday. Doctors for the Democrat found B-cell lymphoma that will require treatment over the next few months, spokesman Caley Gray said in a news release. He will not be resigning, Gray said. Independent doctors agree that Lautenberg’s type of lymphoma is usually treatable. Lautenberg will undergo six to eight chemotherapy treatments and should make a “full and complete recovery,” said Dr. James Holland of New York City’s Mount Sinai Medical Center. Lautenberg was taken to the hospital Monday after his office said he fell. The office said Tuesday the senator was treated for a bleeding ulcer, and Gray said Friday the lymphoma was found in the ulcer. Lautenberg is expected to return to work at the Senate between treatments, Holland said. “I wouldn’t be too surprised to soon hear how he’s once again outpacing younger aides as they walk through U.S. Capitol building,” said state Assembly Speaker Sheila Y. Oliver, a Democrat. Lautenberg told The StarLedger of Newark late Friday that he underwent his first chemotherapy treatment earlier in the day and was “feeling very good.” Lautenberg said he intends to return to Washington to complete his term. “My contract goes to 2014,” he said. A resignation could hurt the Democratic Party. Under New Jersey law, Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican, would be able to appoint a replacement if a senator left office. After Christie was elected governor in November, some
Democratic state lawmakers moved to change the way Senate vacancies are filled so the governor would have to name a replacement from the party of the departing senator. They did not adopt the change. If there is a vacancy, the governor could name a replacement of his choice, call for a special election or leave the seat open until the next regular general election. In the state’s political circles Friday, there wasn’t open talk of a Lautenberg resignation. Politicians of both parties wished him a quick recovery. “I’m encouraged by the positive statements of his doctors, and I am confident that Frank will be back in the Senate fighting for New Jersey soon,” said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, also a Democrat, called Lautenberg “New Jersey tough.” “My thoughts and prayers are with Sen. Lautenberg,” he said, “and I look forward to fighting for New Jersey families together with him for years to come.” Assemblyman Jay Webber, chairman of New Jersey’s Republican State Committee, said it’s “inappropriate” to talk about filling the seat should Lautenberg be unable to finish his term. Patrick Murray, a Monmouth University political scientist, said a Lautenberg resignation would mean that New Jersey would have its first Republican senator since Nicholas F. Brady served for eight months after being appointed to fill a vacancy. Lautenberg replaced him. The state hasn’t elected a Republican U.S. senator since 1976. “Three of the four elected statewide offices in New Jersey would be held by Republicans, which would be an oddity,” said Murray, who doesn’t think Lautenberg would resign unless he had to.
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HEALTH CARE PROPOSAL AIMS TO EXTEND COVERAGE TO 31 MILLION President Barack Obama unveiled a $950 billion health care reform plan yesterday, unifying versions of the bills passed last year in the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. The President’s proposal, based predominantly on the Senate bill passed last December, aims to extend health care coverage to 31 million uninsured Americans, according to a New York Times article. The White House said the plan helps reduce the national deficit by $100 billion over the next 10 years and by $1 trillion over the next 20 years by cutting spending and reining in waste and fraud, according to the article. In addition to expanding health care coverage, the bill also provides what the White House described as
“common sense rules of the road” for health care insurers. These rules include prohibiting the practice of discriminating against people with pre-existing conditions, according to the article. The President’s proposal also includes measures to offer states more money to pay for Medicaid and help close the “donut hole” in the Medicare prescription drug program. The White House health care announcement comes days before a televised health care summit between Obama and Congressional Democrats and Republicans on Thursday, according to the article. “We view this as the opening bid for the health meeting,” said Dan Pfeiffer, Obama’s communications
director, in the article. “We took our best shot at bridging the differences.” But Republican leaders criticized the president’s proposal. “The president has crippled the credibility of this week’s summit by proposing the same massive government takeover of health care based on a partisan bill the American people have already rejected,” said Congressman John Boehner, R-Ohio, in the article. Obama’s health care measures have not seen the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, which determines the cost of legislation and its effect on the federal budget, according to the article. — Chris Zawistowski
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PAGES: U. adds extra $15 only after using first $30 continued from front he said. But this experiment was called off after the first year, because it became apparent that an extra $30 was more than the students needed. The following year, the amount of printing money the School of Pharmacy students received was reset to $30 a year, Sanders said. Not long ago, Sanders worked with Bo Wang, president of the Pharmacy Governing Council, who originally addressed pharmacy student’s issues. Wang was concerned because professors were cutting back by putting six slides on a page, hindering students’ ability to read the text and causing them to stop printing all together, Sanders said. Students within the school have varied opinions about the recent change made to their printing abilities. “The pharmacy curriculum, especially in its professional years, requires a lot of printing, so the increase in printing definitely allows us to keep the change in our pockets,” said Jeanne Park, a School of Pharmacy sophomore. She said she was not sure if the change was fair to other students. “If other schools could justify that their amount of printing over exceeded the amount expected, a legitimate case could be made,” Park said. This plan called for reducing the previous $60 a year to $45, because it proved to be the appropriate amount, Sanders said.
“Because this situation was deemed an academic need, it is to be taken for the University’s funds,” he said. The added $15 only affects students in the professional years of their education and is only added to their account after the $30 has been used completely, Sanders said. This way the money is not given to the student unless there is a need for it. “Personally I don’t think it’s fair to students in other schools because there are other majors that are just as difficult that need the same printing privileges,” said Sushma Maddula, a School of Pharmacy sophomore. Sanders worked closely with Dean Christopher Molloy and Associate Dean Donald K. Woodward to devise a solution that would supply an adequate amount of printing funds to the intensive printing demand required of pharmacy students. “I think it’s unfair to students who are science majors but are not in the pharmacy school … being a biology major requires an extensive amount of printing as well,” said Esther Novik, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore. “I even ran out of money last semester.” Pharmacy students tend to print more than the average student, Sanders said. “They use textbooks less frequently and use articles more because of the constant change in information,” he said. Sanders said the increased funding for printing is based on statistics collected by the University’s Campus Computing Ser vices, yielding a higher demand for more money within the School of Pharmacy.
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rivacy has long been a major concern for American citizens, and when one’s child is involved in the situation, the matter becomes of upmost importance and rightly so. While warrants issued by a judge or other judicial figure are needed prior to bugging one’s house, phone or anything else that imposes on personal freedoms, one school seems to operate under a heightened version of former President George W. Bush’s Patriot Act. According to the Associated Press, a high school located in a Philadelphia suburb was accused of secretly switching on the webcams on their students’ laptops. And while the school district claims that the cameras were used only to check up on the loaned-out laptops, Harrington High School student Blake Robbins and his parents filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the school’s board of directors and its superintendent. Apart from the fact that this objectionable invasion of privacy is a lunacy, the school must have had other ways of verifying their laptops’ safety. Rather than spying on students and their families, there must have been a path around direct visual surveillance under the school’s discretion. In fact, if the computer had been intercepted and the camera had been activated, why did the school not stop at the location of the laptop rather than using the opportunity to watch an uncensored version of “The Truman Show?” In the case of Robbins, the school tapped into his computer while it was inside the family’s Penn Valley home. His parents filed the suit, which alleges the school district illegally violated wiretap laws and the student’s right to privacy. Following the school’s intrusion, Blake was reprimanded because Vice Principal Lindy Masko mistook a piece of candy in the picture for a pill, which immediately brought on the thought of Robbins selling drugs. Surely, why wouldn’t a high school student be selling drugs from his home while his parents were with him? Despite the school’s claims that laptops were their property to be monitored if a violation occurred, a webcam goes far deeper than any other tracking device ever could. Robbins should have never gotten in trouble for something done outside of school in the first place, and a hidden camera should be the last method of finding out even if he was selling drugs. An individual’s privacy remains an integral part of his civil rights and liberties, and a school district cannot have the right to intrude on a right protected by the Fourth Amendment. Even the much disputed Patriot Act, parts of which have already expired, no longer gives the federal government the right to intercept “wire, oral and electronic communications.” If the school had doubts about Robbins’ actions, why was he not taken over to the police in order to be properly questioned? Perhaps that would not have been a great idea as the school would have been in even deeper trouble, but the fact remains: Did the school simply care for its beloved laptops, or did it aim to help a so-called drug-dealer get out of his habits, albeit using illegal technology? In addition to any wiretap laws that may have, or surely have, been broken, there is a whole list of rules regarding the photography of minors and adults alike. A webcam is a visual and thus more invasive way of capturing a “crook.” Therefore, laws regarding visual equipment, if not yet regulated, should be taken care of with a higher degree of concern. In Blake’s case, the webcam captured him in his the privacy of his home, and regardless of why it was turned on, it could have shot anything. This case could have been much more than a privacy invasion suit; it could have involved uncensored exposure of anything to which the school or outside world should not access. And even if the vice principal, or whoever else stood in on this invasion of privacy in the most extreme of ways, had been looking for a misplacement of the laptop, why reprimand the student for a piece of candy? The argument returns to the fact that an accidental stumbling upon a “crime” does not necessarily reserve the right for the school to do anything about it. If the student had not been doing anything illegal, or the crime for which he was suspected in the first place, then there should be no concern on part of the school to investigate a supposed drug deal, as ridiculous as it sounds. Probable cause is necessary for any sort of authority to make an arrest, but in this case, the school, using illegal methods, or hidden at least, moved to apprehend a high school student in a false report of drugs. The crime lies, in all obviousness, on part of the vice principal for the fact that she went on to “check up” on the student and on part of the district’s decision to even decide to monitor students in the first place. What is the point? Should one with no authority in society be allowed to visually tap into a family’s living room or even a child’s room, because of an alleged misplacement of school equipment? This also begs the question of how much control a school may have on students’ behavior outside of school. Granted a school is responsible for a child’s moral and physical safety, but as technologies progress, laws must be extended to protect even the smallest units of society from their barely superior figures. Surely a voyeur camera would be fun for administration to watch, but civil rights remain the most integral part of an individual’s life and existence in the public.
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recent debate right here want to hate Glenn within the pages of The Beck. I really do. From Daily Targum over the Tea his arrogant, pedagogiParty movement. If you read cal, almost condescending beyond some of the more style of speaking to the way inflated rhetoric — not to he presents his ideas on a mention entirely irrelevant chalkboard (what are we developing world examples fourth graders?) to suggest ERIC KNECHT — you will see that the mudthat he is “teaching” us all a slinging over Tea Party philesson and attendance in his losophy lends itself to the most classic of debates, 5 p.m. lecture is mandatory. And if his easy-to-hate one which Beck underscored in his speech. How character is not painful enough, the actual merit — should Americans conceptualize the proper role of or perhaps lack thereof — of the ideas he scribbles their government? in chalk daily only seal the deal. In the Feb. 8 Targum editorial, “Liberal ideals fail In short, and I would risk being censored if I to explain,” the author summarized the Tea Party continued, I have never understood Beck’s appeal. movement as advocating a small government focused Yet, by some twist of fate I found myself watching on national security and enforcing property rights. his keynote address at the Conservative Political Moreover, the author argued that Tea Party advocates Action Conference this past Saturday and being oppose “excessive spending, entitlement programs engrossed by it. The last thing I wanted to do was and an invasion of personal properties.” It is a simple, give Beck the benefit of my viewership, but hell, I elegant and rational approach to government. could not turn away. It is not that I personally The column in the Targum yesterday, “Strong agreed with his views (I can’t say I did), but the not small government,” disagreed. In the article, the speech captured a moment in time masterfully, and columnist took issue with the seemingly foolish conI would urge anyone who has not yet seen it to ception of small government as presented in check it out. “Liberal ideals” and gave the classic liberal retort to For the Tea Party, which is usually described by the Tea Party ideology. The columcommentators — including our own asked Tea Party enthusiasts to Daily Targum columnists — as “... you will see that nist explain why it is “not justified to allow “amorphous” and “leaderless,” Beck the mudslinging citizens who lack property and live in crystallized much of the dissent that poverty the same kind of opportunihas been floating around libertarian over Tea Party ties through federally funded procircles and localized Tea Parties for grams that allow the poor to gain job months. More simply put, Beck’s philosophy lends skills, purchase food and send their speech brought the current disconitself to the most children to decent educational and tent with government down to its facilities?” core. On his vision of capitalism, he classic of debates.” health The problem here is simple yet called for “less Marx and a lot more frustrating: As long as the columnist Madison,” described progressivism is posing that question to a libertarian or conseras the cancer eating away at America, equated his vative, he will never get the answer he is looking personal battle overcoming alcoholism with the for. At the Targum, as in Congress and as in type of rugged self-individualism our country needs America right now, we are presented with perfect in order to thrive again and derided the Republican gridlock. The reason for this impasse — and the party for overspending. reason there cannot be a clear “winner”— is it is Far from reading talking points off his palm, not truly a debate. If you read closely, the two Beck’s anecdotes and references to American histoauthors are not clashing on specific ideas or prory held weight insofar as they represented the opinposals; they are actually advocating two fundaions of a large portion of our country, a healthy mentally different philosophies that cannot easily minority of Americans who justify their divergent be reconciled. views with an equally valid though very different For Beck, the “Liberal ideas” author and anyone conception of American political tradition. The else who feels inclined to support some variant of speech made it perfectly clear: The extreme partithe Tea Party, the idea of government is necessarisanship in Washington is only a microcosm of the ly limited. Although yesterday’s columnist is larger debate, represented by the Tea Party moveunlikely to concede this much, there are some comment, over what the true role of American governpelling reasons to take this view of government ment is as we move into the 21st century. I do not mean to present any theorizing, David SEE KNECHT ON PAGE 11 Brooks-esque commentary, but take a look at the
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he author of yesterday’s column in The Daily Targum, “Strong not small government,” threw some rather course barbs at advocates of small government. In his article, the author “pointed out that the rights to life, liberty and property that members of the Tea Party cherish require a competent, well-funded and strong government for their enforcement. Therefore, the Tea Party’s generalized demonization of a strong government was misguided.” I have this to say: False. Individual vigilance is the only way to maintain liberty. Anyone who thinks that they reser ve more rights than the ones they are willing to look out for themselves is drinking some bad KoolAid. When the chips are down the government will not be looking out for your pithy “individual liberties.” The government, by its nature, must restrict the freedom of individuals to operate. Who do you think spent all of the tax dollars on the military? Not people in the Tea Party, not even whiny liberals or oafish neo-cons. The Government does. The Government — with a capital “G” — does this because it subsumes the ideology of whoever is in power and substitutes it for its own purposes, which are paradoxically both the expansion and concentration of power.
KNECHT continued from page 10 seriously — that is, without explaining it away with references to rebel secessionists. I am inclined to believe that the over whelming majority of Tea Par ty advocates are not crazed anarchists reaching for their shotgun while reciting verses from Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue.” In short, this is the por tion of America that believes in order to be both “American” and continue to prosper, we must stick to the principles we founded our country on more than 200 years ago. This is what made us unique, brought us prosperity and fueled us to where we are today. For conservatives, the liberal notion that government’s obligation to protect private property is comparable to its mandate to keep the worst off in society afloat is simply foolish. This naïve vision of government — as argued by yesterday’s columnist — only builds dependent citizens, stymies productivity and makes everyone worse off in the long run. The other conception of government in America, represented yesterday by the columnist’s ar ticle on the Tea Par ty, invoked frequently by our president and based on a ver y different tradition, utilizes an entirely alternative point of
On the other hand, it’s never really been my style to complain too hard about the American Government, as it’s pretty much the most well-oiled piece of political machinery since the dawn of time. The only flaws inherent in the practical application of governance are the ones that no organized power structure is going to work around. But at the end of the day, you can’t really say that many bad things about the Tea Party. It’s just a bunch of middle and working class Americans who have a real straight-forward — or you might prefer “unsophisticated” — view about problem solving: Let’s give the government less money, since all it seems to spend it on are stupid things such as military black ops research and pork-barrel earmarks. Maybe then the government will be forced to actually meet the needs of the American populace. It’s basically the philosophy upon which the country was founded to begin with, and with all of the nonsense that passes for politics these days, how can you argue with historical precedent? Truth: Society will always be better off if there is a group of people — no matter how crazy — that constantly question the actions of the federal government, whether deserved or not. Michael Stuzynski is a Rutgers College class of 2009 alumnus. He is the former opinions editor at The Daily Targum and is currently attending law school in Colorado.
depar ture for its arguments. This view of government rejects the protection of private property as the logical stopping point for governmental obligation. More specifically, for liberals such as this author, the way in which we view government and society today cannot be explained by how we initially established our country. At least as early as the post-civil war period, the federal government had very real responsibilities in taking a more proactive role, first to make sure blacks were able to gain citizenship in a nominal sense and subsequently 100 years later, to ensure that blacks could gain citizenship in a more meaningful sense. It is true — you cannot do well to justify many of the government’s current powers and programs if you base them on the intent of the Framers as liber tarians would have you tr y. But should this be a necessar y condition? If you can win agreements on this most basic question, you have solved the impasse. Until then, Targum columnists, Keith Olbermann, Glenn Beck and anyone else who wishes to yell at the other side for their view on the gover nment’s role will not get ver y far. Eric Knecht is a Rutgers College senior majoring in economics and history. His column, “Unfair and Unbalanced,” runs on alternate Tuesdays.
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RU shut out the Seahawks (0-1) in the second half while first victory as Scarlet Knight scoring 12 more goals of its own. Senior Billy Olin and continued from back freshman Joseph Donnelly combined in net for the secondthe Big East’s inaugural half clean sheet. Offensive Player of the Week — “He was the guy going into followed shortly with the first of today,” said Stagnitta, of going his three tallies and the Knights with Butler over Olin, last seanever trailed again. son’s star ting goalkeeper. “It It was 7-2 by was good to get the end of the him in a real first quarter and “It was good to get game situation 12-4 at halftime. and I thought [goalie Rudy Butler] this was a good “This was our first game and experience for in a real game it’s a day trip on him. He clears the road and that situation ... this was the ball well and can be a chala good experience is athletic.” lenge,” Stagnitta Olin and said. “I think it Donnelly were for him.” showed a lot of rarely tested in the maturity and JIM STAGNITTA second half, progress for our Stagnitta said. The Head Coach team that we Knights controlled went out there most of the possesand our quality of play never sion against their Metro Atlantic waivered. That was the big Athletic Conference opponent. thing, our quality of play was Colin O’Rourke had two never jeopardized by goals and an assist to the score.” lead Wagner. Senior midfielder Justin Salvatore Car faro, Duncan Pennington, the team’s only Clancy, Jonathan Lef fer ts, Preseason All-Big East selecGreg Teatom and Nick Zerrillo tion, finished with a goal and all scored for the first time in a an assist. Knights uniform. Freshman goalie Rudy The Knights retur n to Butler earned his first career action Saturday when they win for the Knights (1-0), host No. 14 Mar yland making three saves in Baltimore-County on the RU 30 minutes. Tur f Field.
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Michael Phelps announced Monday in Vancouver that the 2012 Summer Games in London would be his final time competing in the Olympics. Phelps, coming off a historic eight gold medals at the 2008 Games in Beijing, always planned to stop swimming past the age of 30. Phelps’ overall 14 gold medals are far and away the most for an American summer Olympian in history. He plans on competing in five or six events, including three relays.
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Walk-off homer seals weekend sweep at ‘the U’ BY ALEX JANKOWSKI ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
Although the record won’t show it, the Rutgers baseball team took a lot of positives out of its weekBASEBALL e n d 7 series RUTGERS against 9 No. 12 MIAMI Miami. The Scarlet Knights lost all three games in the season-opening series, but the games got closer as the weekend wore on. The Hurricanes dominated on Friday night, by a 12-1 score. Then RU came back on Saturday, from a 10-3 deficit late, to fall by a 10-8 tally. The final game of the series on Sunday saw RU take a 7-5 lead into the bottom of the ninth, but a walk-off home run sent the Knights packing after a 9-7 loss and with no notches in the “W” column. “Overall, I would view this trip as a successful weekend,” said sophomore outfielder Ryan Kapp. “We gave the No. 12 team in the country a run for their money in their own backyard. We played more as a team as the games rolled on and everyone started to play better.” It was Kapp’s go-ahead double in the top of the ninth frame that scored two runners and gave RU (0-3) a 7-5 lead heading into the bottom of the inning. The Toms River native came in as a pinch hitter to face Miami’s closer, David Gutierrez, who just entered the game. Kapp promptly doubled down the left-
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Sophomore outfielder Ryan Kapp’s double in the ninth inning put RU ahead 7-5 against No. 12 Miami. His first career hit last year was an RBI-triple, also in the season-opener against the Hurricanes. field line on a 2-0 pitch to give the Knights the lead. “After his first two pitches missed I was sitting on a fastball all the way,” he said. “That’s what he threw and I was able to knock it through for the hit.”
The bottom of the inning turned disastrous for RU and sophomore closer Charlie Law. After a strikeout, Miami got the rally started with a one-out single by junior outfielder Chris Pelaez, who advanced to third after a wild
pitch and a sacrifice fly. A walk then put runners on the corners with two outs. Law appeared to be out of the inning when he forced outfielder Nathan Melendres to hit a grounder to third base, but sopho-
more third baseman Russ Hopkins mishandled the ball, allowing a run to score and the game to continue. “[The error] didn’t rattle me as much as I thought it would,” Law said. “I brushed it off and just went back to focusing on getting the last out.” However, the last out never came. Hurricane freshman Zeke DeVoss launched a three-run walk-off home run on the next atbat to propel Miami to a 3-0 weekend sweep. “I was one pitch away, and it wasn’t that bad of a pitch,” Law said. “It was outside like I wanted, just not as down as I would have liked. He got it up a bit and there was a little bit of a breeze that didn’t hurt it either.” Offensively, RU woke up for the last two games after only mustering three hits in the first match. The Knights were led by junior designated hitter Pat Biserta, who hit a home run in each of the last two games. “I felt pretty locked in all weekend,” he said. “I wasn’t expecting too much heading into the games, but the pitchers made a couple of mistakes and I was able to capitalize.” Biserta believes that the Knights are going to surprise some teams now that they have shaken the rust off. “Miami got on us on Friday because it was our first game down there,” he said. “All around people showed flashes of how good we can be. We are going to be hard to beat and Miami saw that on Sunday.”
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RIVALRY: Rutgers can play role of spoiler to Pirates continued from back Much like Miller, junior forward Jonathan Mitchell is getting his first taste of the rivalr y. But N’Diaye said the Florida transfer won’t have any problem adjusting to the passion of the game. “[Mitchell] saw it last year from the bench and he kind of has a feel,” N’Diaye said. “They told me about it my first time and I still didn’t realize it until I got into the game and went ‘oh snap.’” Mitchell chose Rutgers over Seton Hall when he made his final decision to transfer. “I know it’s an in-state rivalry where two teams are competing for bragging rights,” Mitchell said. “When I was transferring, it was between Rutgers and Seton Hall so I know how [Seton Hall coach Bobby] Gonzalez feels and how [Rutgers coach Fred] Hill feels so it should be a great atmosphere.” Hill also knows a little bit about the rivalry, having spent time as an assistant coach at Seton Hall. That is without even mentioning the feud he’s had with Gonzalez since both took over their respective programs threeplus years ago. “Certainly when you play a rivalr y game, to me, it’s much bigger for the fans,” Hill said. “As the programs progress it
takes on even more significance for the fans. They call it the Turnpike War or whatever — we’re 25 miles away, I’ve coached at both schools, but our focus is just next practice, next game.” The last time the teams met in Newark, Seton Hall won a 7067 decision. Then-freshman guard Mike Rosario had 25 points for RU while Jeremy Hazell’s 35 led the Pirates. Hazell is the focal point of the Seton Hall attack. The junior guard averages 21.4 points per game and has unlimited range, Hill said. Rosario leads RU with 16.1 points per game. If the rivalr y needed any more spice, the Knights have a chance to make sure Seton Hall doesn’t get an NCAA Tour nament bid with the Pirates likely needing to win out. And if RU, who had won five of six before losing to Connecticut, can win there could be more to the season than just a trip to the Big East Tournament at Madison Square Garden. “It would be a step closer to the success we wanted,” N’Diaye said about the team possibly receiving a berth to the NIT or CBI tournaments. “In a way, you kind of feel like you’re being rewarded now. We have a chance to step it up more than we did the last year. … Any tournament you can get into is big for us. It’s big for anyone to realize how big it is for us to just have a shot.”
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Center Hamady N’Diaye is 16 blocked shots away from tying the school’s all-time record of 355 blocks. N’Diaye is the lone senior on the Knights, responsible for preparing his team for the Seton Hall rivalry.
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Big East Champs highlight weekend of despair BILL DOMKE’S T HE GOOD, Remember when you had fitness testing in middle school, and the gym teachers made you run a mile? Remember — to those of you who didn’t walk — even after starting with a little bit of energy you were pretty gassed for the last quarter of that mile? If you can remember how it felt to have energy and then succumb to feelings of deflation and lethargy later on, then congratulations. You can relate to the greater par t of the Rutgers Athletic Depar tment this weekend. While the vast majority of Rutgers athletics were enjoying the high life of success, fate turned out to be a cruel friend, showing that it can tear something down just as quickly as it can build it up.
THE GOOD Enduring is endearing — Of course, the one team that is not af fected by a mile r un metaphor is the men’s track team. Sophomore high jumper Adam Bergo did not have the element of surprise on his side but proved that he never really
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needed it to defend his Big East Champion title with a 7plus-foot NCAA-qualifying leap that helped lead the Scarlet Knights to a sixth place finish overall in the Big East Championships. Finishing two spots ahead of its placing from last year, the only choice this team has is to keep r unning. After NCAAs, the outdoor season isn’t that far down the road. Desecration — Or maybe sheer oblivion? Whatever you may choose, the men’s lacrosse team had its way with Wagner similar to how Keanu Reeves had his way with Dennis Hopper in “Speed.” In their 24-4 stomping of the Seahawks, 14 Knights scored, six scored multiple goals and sophomore attack Kevin Hover recorded four by himself. The 20-point victor y is the largest win since ’94 when RU won by the same margin against St. John’s. In the simplest sense, the Rutgers lacrosse squad made Wagner look like a high school
UGLY team on the field. Nice way to start the season. Miracle — Everybody in the country got something great out of the Olympic hockey match between U.S.A. and Canada. The majority of the population reveled in the major upset that the US was able to pull off, and every New Jersey Devil hater got the pleasure of watching Martin Brodeur lose.
THE BAD Not-so-sweet 16 — In its final match of the season, the wrestling team saw its 15-game unbeaten streak snapped to end the season in a 28-3 loss. What keeps this from The Ugly? It wasn’t a no-name team that toppled the Knights, but No. 7 Lehigh — a well-established program that had more than 1,000 fans to cheer on the Mountain Hawks at home. And while the final score may not show it, individual matches were much closer. Are we home yet? — You have to feel for the tennis team. Facing its third and fourth consecutive away games was tough, but it was even worse for the Knights to go
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Freshman guard Erica Wheeler and the Rutgers women’s basketball team turned the ball over 25 times in its 76-45 loss to Syracuse. and lose them in the fashion in which they did. Yes, Amy Zhang won all but one match this weekend, but when nobody else can win a single match by themselves against Binghamton, or only two others can put something together against Cornell, a long iPod playlist and a bus ride home for an upcoming home match — the first time in two weeks — is quite inviting.
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Senior Lamar Brown, right, and the No. 22 Rutgers wrestling team fell 28-3 at No. 7 Lehigh in the team’s final dual-match of the season, snapping a 15-match unbeaten streak.
Brooms — The three-strikes rule never rang so true. The baseball team opened up its season in sunny Florida against No. 12 Miami. The first game, the Knights were slain to the tune of a 12-1 blowout. Putting something together, a second loss at 10-8 showed that after dusting of f the gloves, Rutgers could still stay close with a top-15 team. Then the last night in the series finale, the Knights found themselves in control of their own destiny. One out away from avoiding a sweep and ahead by one, RU gave up a Miami three-r un homer that ended the game and completed the sweep that sent the
Knights home 0-3 to star t the season. Reality check — The Rutgers community’s excitement about the surging men’s basketball team brought fans out to the Louis Brown Athletic Center Saturday in sellout fashion. Connecticut was in town, with head coach Jim Calhoun back at the wheel and fresh of f a win against then-No. 3 Villanova. Rutgers recently upset a top-10 opponent, and beat two fellow conference bottom-dwellers. A packed RAC was thirsting for another win. But Calhoun was used to playing the spirit-breaker, and had his Huskies do unspeakable things to a Knights basketball team that seemed unable to keep up after halftime was over. A “must win” — This was head coach C. Vivian Stringer’s description of Sunday afternoon’s scheduled game against Syracuse. After ever ything was said and done, Rutgers had a 31point loss on its hands. Senior guard Brittany Ray was the only Knight to score in double figures.
RU sees strong performances despite 11th place finish BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Although the Rutgers women’s track team took a step in the right direction this past weekend, it WOMEN’S TRACK failed to ccomRUTGERS 27.00 aplish its ELEVENTH PLACE ultimate goal. The heavily talented Big East saw the Scarlet Knights rounding out the bottom of the conference championships the last few seasons, making RU’s goal this season to finish within the top nine. But Cincinnati’s 35 point showing left the Knights eight points short of ninth place as the team finished 11th overall with 27 points. Nevertheless, the 11th-place finish is a three-spot jump from
the last winter track season, which provided enough satisfaction for head coach James Robinson to give his team an appropriate grade. “It was solid, I give it a B,” said Robinson. “We left a couple things on the table as far as points, so that’s how I’d characterize it.” As expected, perennial powerhouses Villanova, Louisville and Connecticut rounded out the top three with scores of 115, 107 and 85, respectively. Even though a team championship stood a towering 88 points above the Knights, individual Knight champions were nearly crowned. The team watched as juniors Nwamaka Okobi and Latoshia Bost earned runner-up honors in their respective events. Bost ran her way into the RU record books, finishing second in
the 500-meter event with a time of 1:12.43. Okobi also jumped a personal-best 12.28 meters in the triple jump event, giving her the second-place slot.
“I think the younger generation really did a good job, and I think the seniors ... did a good job of leading them.” JAMES ROBINSON Head Coach
Seniors Michelle Gomes and Natalie Clickett, the two athletes who led the Knights all indoor season, could not break through their tough fields of competition.
Gomes finished in eighth place in the 200-meter event in 24.37 seconds Saturday, but ran .18 seconds faster in the preliminary round, a new school record. Clickett also finished in seventh place with a hurl of 14.58 meters in the shot put. The two senior captains came into the championships with much higher aspirations, and although they did not turn in an individual championship, they led their young team as they did all season. With only 21 RU athletes qualifying for this year’s conference championship, winning never seemed a reachable goal, but improving is always necessary in Robinson’s eyes. He feels the team remains on track to one day be able to obtain conference success, due mainly in part to the groundwork laid by the team’s upperclassmen.
“I think the younger generation really did a good job, and I think the seniors and upperclassmen did a good job of leading them,” said a satisfied Robinson. “You always want to get better from year to year, and I think the results show that.” With five more Eastern College Athletic Conference qualifiers snagged over the weekend, the team now looks ahead to how they plan on running past the competition in the ECAC Championships. Robinson once again set a more reasonable goal for his upand-coming team for the championships in two weeks. “That’s our goal, [to finish in] the top-15 at the ECAC Championships. I think these accomplishments set us up for that really well,” Robinson said.
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Junior Amy Zhang was the only member of the Rutgers tennis team to earn a point this weekend in the loss to Binghamton.
Weekend road trip snaps winning streak BY TYLER DONOHUE STAFF WRITER
The Rutgers tennis team appeared to be in cruise control while winning each of its first three Februar y matches in impresTENNIS s i v e RUTGERS 2 fashion. But this CORNELL 5 weekend, the team ran into a roadblock. The Scarlet Knights (3-3, 0-1) headed north for a pair of matches in Ithaca, N.Y., where they double-faulted by falling on Saturday to Binghamton 6-1 and sunday to Cornell 5-2. The losses brought an abrupt end to the momentum RU had generated during its recent win streak. Assistant coach Alex Arlak said the team failed to bring its “A” game and it paid the price. “Our play was not as sharp as it needs to be and we certainly have things to improve on. The other teams were better prepared,” Arlak said. “These losses were tough but it’s important not to lose focus and continue moving forward.” These struggles come as a bit of a surprise considering how well the team played leading up to the matches. Just like last weekend, the Knights hit the road for two non-conference contests. But unlike last week, when RU picked up victories at Lehigh and Mar yland, the team returned home empty-handed. Junior Amy Zhang was the only member of the team to pick up a point during the loss to Binghamton, which featured numerous lopsided RU defeats in singles play. Even Zhang was shut out 6-0 in her second set, before rallying to win the third in a tiebreaker. Her win spared the Knights their second shutout loss of the spring. Things did not get much better for RU the next day versus
Cornell. Despite getting wins from sophomore Mar yana Milchutskey and senior Katherine Arlak, the Knights were outplayed by the Big Red and sent back to New Jersey on a two-game slide. Katherine Arlak, one of the team’s captains, knows her team has work to do if it wants to overcome recent setbacks. “It was a bad weekend for all of us and every single one of us can play better,” she said. “We expected to win both of these matches but that didn’t happen and we have to move on.” Sophomore Jen Holzberg said the most frustrating part of the weekend was the team’s failure to build on previous wins. “After beating an opponent like Mar yland, we wanted to prove that it wasn’t a fluke and that we are a very good team,” Holzberg said. “Things didn’t work out for us though and it’s disappointing. We’re still trying to find our groove.” RU’s performance this season has been a Jekyll and Hyde act thus far. The team stumbled out of the gate when Big East rival Syracuse swept the Knights in the opener. Three straight wins followed the disappointing start and RU seemed to be on the right track. Then came this weekend’s disheartening performances. The losses may have taken some of the wind out of the Knights’ sails but the team remains positive in their ability to rebound quickly. Conference foe Georgetown comes to town this Thursday so it is imperative that RU makes adjustments soon. “The weekend’s matches are in the past and we need to look forward to Georgetown now,” Holzberg said. “It’s a Big East matchup which makes it so important. We’re still a little shaky but we’ve got the opportunity to pull together and get better.”
The final team scores flickered across the Armory scoreboards Sunday at the Big East Championships, with a tally of 68 next to MEN’S TRACK Rutgers the RUTGERS 68.00 at scorer’s SIXTH PLACE table. The count was 32 points less than originally expected. Despite marked improvement from last year’s championships in the Bronx, in which the Rutgers men’s track and field team captured eighth place and scored only 46.50 points, the Scarlet Knights left more to be desired. “Our point total should have been significantly higher,” said fifth-year senior Steve Swern, who finished third in the 500meter dash. “The goal was to score in the 100s, but we ended up with 68.” P e r e n n i a l - p o w e r Connecticut saw its efforts at a three-peat as the Big East champs snapped and settled for fifth place, as an upstart Notre Dame squad dominated the championships with 146.50 total points. Georgetown (104 points) and Louisville (93) rounded out the top three. “The goal [at the Big East Championships] is to score the most points possible,” said head track and field coach Mike Mulqueen at RU’s spring media day. The Knights, climbing to a sixth place team finish this year, were once again driven by sophomore Adam Bergo, who defended his Big East title in the high jump.
“It was definitely dif ficult because of the tough competition,” the Plainfield, N.J., native said. “You just have to tell yourself that you’ve done this already.” Although Bergo’s success offered the sophomore ample time for congratulation, a better team performance would have provided a more lighthearted return to the Banks. “It wasn’t what we expected,” Bergo said. “It was disappointing getting sixth when we wanted to finish top three or even win. The points do not reflect how good of a team this is. It was a difficult day.”
“This is the third year in a row we blew the relay, so that’s a letdown. It feels pretty awful.” STEVE SWERN Senior Runner
The men’s heptathlon was especially heartbreaking. Sophomore Ameer Wright, despite finishing first or second in four of the six events, did not medal after a foul in the shot put cost him an opportunity to put the Knights on the scoreboard. Teammate Mike Baird eventually earned a four thplace showing. The two-day event featured six RU finishes in the top three and two individual first-place victories, the other of which came from junior Aaron Younger, who won the 500-meter dash with a school-record time of 1:01:44.
The 2010 indoor campaign catapulted Younger, a facility recordholder at an earlier Navy meet, into the national limelight. “Aaron really showed what he can do in the 500,” teammate Bergo said. “He is really on top of his game right now.” Seniors Nii-Amon Robertson and Kyle Grady rounded out RU’s top-three finishers. Robertson took second place in the 200meter dash with a personal-best time of 21.44 seconds. Grady, unbeaten in the Knights’ previous meets, surrendered his hot streak in the 60-meter hurdles with a thirdplace finish, clocking in at 8.00 seconds. The younger Knights rose to the occasion over the weekend, as freshman Chris Wyckoff registered RU’s first points of the championships in the pole vault. Fellow freshman Toddrick Darden posted a score of 49.06 seconds in the 400meter dash, good for sixth in a competitive field. The men’s 4x400-meter relay team, comprised of Darden, Younger, Swern and Rober tson, took home second place in the finals, a disappointing result. “This is the third year in a row we blew the relay, so that’s a letdown,” Swern said. “It feels pretty awful.” Sophomore Monroe Kearns, who showed flashes of potential throughout the 2010 indoor season, registered an eighth place finish out of a possible nine in the 800-meter run. The IC4A Championships, which loom for the Knights in a week’s time, give the team a chance to salvage opportunities lost, including the 32 that were left at the scorer’s table.
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It has been almost 20 years since the Rutgers men’s lacrosse team had an offensive display like the one Sunday against Wagner College. MEN’S LACROSSE It was also the perfect opening to RUTGERS 24 the 2010 season. WAGNER 4 Four teen players scored in a 24goal bar rage as the Scarlet Knights cr uised to an easy 24-4 victor y over the Seahawks. “We’ve been able to get shots and oppor tunities this entire preseason,” said head coach Jim Stagnitta, whose team also outshot Wagner 55-17. “The one thing we talked about is being more consistent with that. We got of fense from different players today and that is something we look for. We have guys that can put the ball in the cage and we want to continue to get of fense from dif ferent places.” The 24 goals were the most scored by RU since a 26-7 victor y over Farleigh Dickinson in 1990, and the 20-goal margin of victor y was the highest since a 1994 win over St. John’s. The Knights wasted little time getting on the board. Junior Chris Mattes won the opening face-of f and 33 seconds later Kor y Kelly had RU out in front. Kelly, a junior attack and the team’s top returning scorer, finished with three goals on the after noon. Sophomore attack Kevin Hover led the Knights with four. Hover’s first goal drew RU even after Wagner had taken a surprise 2-1 lead. Senior captain Gerhard Buehning — named
Dane Miller has not been formally introduced to the Rutgers-Seton Hall rivalry yet. But he still knows what it’s all about. “Anytime we MEN’S BASKETBALL play each other, it’s like a fight,” said RUTGERS AT the freshman forSETON HALL, ward who earned TONIGHT, 7 P.M., SNY the Big East’s Rookie of the Week award for the third consecutive time. “Whoever wins gets bragging rights.” The series dubbed “The Turnpike War” lives up to its reputation as a fight. The last six meetings were determined by five points or less, with Seton Hall leading the all-time series 31-24. The Scarlet Knights (14-13, 4-10) and Pirates (15-10, 6-8) meet tonight at the Prudential Center in Newark. Hamady N’Diaye is one player that knows all about the rivalr y’s intensity. The senior center recalled the first time he stepped on the cour t against the Pirates and former Rutgers point guard Marquis Webb explained to him what it was all about. “The game hadn’t even started yet and I already knew,” N’Diaye recalled the first time he took part in the rivalr y. “There’s the crowd and once you get to the arena you realize this is the real deal.” N’Diaye, who is 16 blocked shots away from tying Roy Hinson’s school-high 355, is now the savvy veteran responsible for explaining to the younger players the rivalr y. “The intensity of the game is going to show what kind of intensity the younger guys need to bring,” N’Diaye said.
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Freshman forward Dane Miller scored 11 points against Connecticut Saturday and leads all Big East rookies in conference scoring with 12.5 points per game.
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Knights’ bats ice cold in opening Arizona State Tourney BY SAM HELLMAN CORRESPONDENT
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Iowa touched up ace hurler Nicole Lindley for three earned runs in five innings in the team’s opener, before No. 5 Arizona State scored six runs in two innings against the senior.
If the first tournament of the season is a thermometer for taking a team’s temperature, then consider the Arizona State Tournament over the weekend a frigid start for the Rutgers SOFTBALL softball team. RUTGERS 0 The odds were ARIZONA ST. 14 against the Scarlet Knights in the fourgame series, facing three teams with games already under their belts, but the bottom line is that they lost all four games by a total score of 50-1. “It was a really tough test for us because we’re a young team,” said head coach Jay Nelson. “If we played this tournament in the middle of the year, it wouldn’t have been this tough. We were just a step late and a swing late on everything.” The team’s temperature started to fall immediately in the first game against Iowa. The Hawkeyes gave senior starting pitcher Nicole Lindley a rough five innings, getting seven hits and three earned runs off the team’s ace. Iowa went on to win 7-0, giving up just two hits against RU, one by sophomore Brittney Lindley and the other by junior Mandy Craig. The Knights lost to Texas State 6-1 and to Illinois State 4-0, but the lowlight of the weekend came in a pair of games against No. 5 Arizona State. That is when things got ugly. The Sun Devils rocked RU pitcher Holly Johnson for 11 hits and eight earned runs in just 3 2/3 innings. Sophomore Noelle Sisco
entered in relief, but gave up three runs in less than an inning. “Arizona State is one of the top teams in the country and we’re a very young team,” Nelson said. “We only have one senior and we’re looking for leadership. Nicole is a great leader, but teams usually have three or four.” The Knights lost the first ASU game 190 and did not fare much better in the second appearance, losing 14-0 behind another tough outing for Lindley, who gave up six runs in two innings on five walks and three hits. “Nicole was upset after her last game,” Nelson said. “I thought she got squeezed really badly and one batter stuck her elbow into a pitch. She wasn’t pitching well at first, but then it was kind of a snowball effect. Later in the season, she would have played better.” Throughout the entire weekend, RU scored just one run, compiled 11 total bases and did not have a single extra-base hit. The lone RBI came from freshman second baseman Jennifer Harabedian, who is 1-for-13 on the season. “After five games we are hitting .100 as a team and that’s atrocious,” Nelson said. But he added that he saw small rays of light during the rough weekend. Freshman catcher Kaci Madden threw out three attempted base-stealers and Sisco pitched a perfect inning against Arizona State in the final game of the weekend. “I was proud that they didn’t stop,” Nelson said. “Even when we were down by 10 runs, they just kept playing. They looked to do the little things. They tried to just win one inning and then win the next inning.”