The Daily Targum 2010-02-25

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‘Robin Hood’ intiative swipes to final close

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BONNIE CHAN

SmartTalk Connected Conversations presents author of the New York Times bestseller “Eat, Pray, Love” Liz Gilbert Tuesday night at the State Theatre in New Brunswick. Gilbert spoke about the story behind her famous novel.

With more than 199 meal swipes donated to Elijah’s Promise Soup Kitchen since Feb. 1, this Sunday Operation Robin Hood is officially coming to a close after taking an unexpected path to realization.

Elijah’s Promise will receive the total dollar amount collected, said Charles Sams, executive director of Dining Services via e-mail correspondence. Each guest swipe is worth $3.30.

The program began last December when University alumnus Charlie Kratovil attempted to combat hunger in New Brunswick with unused meal swipes by soliciting University students to donate a take-out meal to local soup kitchen Elijah’s Promise.

After administrators found this initiative defied University policy, Dining Services removed the ability to swipe for two meals during takeout, angering many students and halting Kratovil’s initiative.

After negotiation, the University allowed Operation Robin Hood to have Elijah’s Promise receive donations from guest swipes, which are accounted for financially in students’ meal plans. Take-out meals are not.

Kratovil said overall, the program — through which students on all campuses had the option of donating one of their 10 guest swipes to the charity — was successful.

“We had three weeks where we collected 199 donations, and this week alone I think we surpassed

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Student-run networking site clicks with U. community

BY DEVIN SIKORSKI CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Whether you are riding the LX bus to class or buying coffee at Au Bon Pain, a new Web site proves that wherever you are on campus, there is no place to hide.

The social networking site ISawYouRutgers.com quickly became a hit among students since its launch on Jan. 23, boasting more than 5,000 comments.

Students are able to comment on various topics, from notifying the student body of a lost item to showing their affection to another student.

The idea for the site came from Har vard University senior Tej Toor, who created the Web site as a final project for her “Introduction to Computer Science” class.

A column in a Washington D.C. newspaper that had a section entitled “I Saw You D.C.” inspired Toor.

“I thought it would be a fun project and never thought about expanding it,” she said.

“But, I didn’t expect it to take off like it did.”

Her Web site, ISawYouHar vard.com, proved to be a success, but Toor was interested in seeing how the Web site would fit on other campuses.

“I was really interested in seeing how the Web site fared at a bigger school than Harvard,” she said.

After reading about Toor’s site through a Har vard newspaper, School of Arts and

Sciences senior Jing You was able to satisfy Toor’s curiosity.

“I just read a lot of different newspapers everyday, because it pays off to get as much information as possible,” You said.

She contacted Toor at Harvard, and they quickly got started on setting up a site for the University.

Yet You said promoting the site was the hardest part of the process.

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Business school to transform campus image

INDEX UNIVERSITY The Study Abroad Summer Fair gives students a chance to explore exotic places overseas while volunteering for several causes.

CATHERINE CARRERA CORRESPONDENT

Much like the rest of the New Brunswick/Piscataway campuses, Livingston campus will soon have an identity of its own as the campus for business and professional studies.

Administrators are planning for a Rutgers Business School building on Livingston campus, which will be created as part of University President Richard L. McCormick’s vision for the transformation of the campus, said Antonio Calcado, vice president of Facilities and Capital Planning.

Rutgers Business School will still exist at both Rutgers-New Brunswick and Rutgers-Newark, but now there will be a building on Livingston campus to represent it, Calcado said.

“What’s happening is that the business program in New Brunswick [and] Piscataway is being expanded,” he said. “We already have a building that partially serves the business school, which is the Janice Levin building [on Livingston campus].”

Andrew Roco, a Rutgers Business School senior, transferred from the University to RutgersNewark when he was a junior in fall 2008.

“It’s about time the Rutgers Business School put up a new building for the business school [on] Livingston,” he said.

He said the facilities in New Brunswick did not match up to what the Newark facilities offer.

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Some students complain about the lack of variety of vegetarian and vegan options at the University’s dining halls, such as at Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus, above.

Vegetarians vie for more options

BY REENA DIAMANTE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

When walking into the University’s dining halls, one cannot help but notice the boards sprinkled with napkins offering suggestions for improvement.

One topic of concern for University students is the lack of diverse vegetarian and vegan options.

School of Arts and Sciences junior Gwen Prowse, a vegan, said while there are vegan options at the dining halls, the University could do better.

“Dining halls have hot vegan options, but not all of them are necessarily high in protein, which is really important in maintaining a healthy vegan diet,” she said. “They usually have some kind of vegan dessert and tofu. That’s always afterthought, so there is not a lot of dessert options. It would be nice to see that.”

Peggy Policastro, nutritionist for Dining Services, believes the dining halls provide enough vegetarian and vegan options.

“Looking at the menu, the percentage of vegetarian options is

great,” she said. “Vegetarian foods are dispersed throughout the dining hall.”

Sneha Shah, a vegetarian, said for the most part, Dining Services is doing a good job. But she too would like to see several changes to the quality of the food and options available on slower days.

“The weekends are pretty bad.

They don’t have many options for vegetarians,” said Shah, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “On the weekdays though, I can see

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Students glance overseas at study abroad fair

BY KENDALL LAPARO CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Students took refuge from the Tuesday rain to explore sunnier summer plans at the Study Abroad Summer Fair.

The fair, held in the Multipurpose Room of the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus, showcased the University’s 24 summer study abroad programs, which run in 15 different countries.

“We would like to get the word out,” said Lauren Randolph, the associate director of the University Study Abroad office.

“It’s a great experience. There’s such a wide variety to choose from, from child welfare in Romania to art history in Paris.”

Students with artistic inclinations could learn about the art history programs in Rome and Paris, while students with a scientific background and a love of food could peruse the food development program in Poland and the new two-week cheese and wine tour in France.

While some programs focused solely on education, many centered upon service in the global community.

Dean of Study Abroad Stephen Reinert expressed pride in the International Ser vice Learning programs, which sends University students

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Students explore various foreign programs in the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus Tuesday at the Study Abroad Summer Fair. There are 24 programs in 15 different countries.

to learn about and tackle foreign social concerns.

“Study abroad should be connected with volunteerism,” Reinert said. “The idea is that students study a subject, then go see it and immerse themselves in it.”

The “Community Health” project in Oaxaca, Mexico, a new ISL program, reaches globally while keeping a local focus as well.

University Professor Peter Guarnaccia, the program director, said she hopes the project will provide students with a greater understanding of Oaxacan immigrants living in New Brunswick.

“Most of the Mexican immigrants in New Brunswick are Oaxacan,” said Guarnaccia, a professor in the department of human ecology.

Students who enroll in the program learn about health concerns in Mexican communities and complete community ser vice projects while also improving their medical Spanish.

The “Law, Justice and Rights” ISL program in Bolivia immerses students in the Bolivian legal system and educates them on human rights in Latin America.

“We built a community center, worked with orphans and worked

with women’s groups,” said program director Daniel Goldstein, a professor of anthropology and director for the Center of Latin American Studies. “You should consider doing this if you’re someone who likes to change lives and have your life changed in the process.”

Reinert spoke to students about the expense of studying abroad, emphasizing that some semesterlong overseas programs cost the equivalent of a semester at home.

“We understand that cost is a concern, but we’ve worked very hard to lower costs,” he said.

More than 300 students dropped by to see what University

Study Abroad had to offer, and many left inspired to apply.

“I was surprised to see how many countries there were, but also excited,” said School of Arts and Sciences junior Renee Janolo. “It’s going to be hard to choose one.”

Randolph said she consistently receives overwhelmingly positive feedback from students returning from studying abroad.

“It’s a life changing experience — that is the No. 1 reaction from students coming back,” she said.

Many students from previous summer abroad trips attended the fair talk about their experiences with the programs.

Julie Britton, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, observed monkey behavior in Kenya for her research project with the Primatology, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Field School last summer and plans to return this summer.

“It’s really interesting,” Britton said. “You see giraffes. You see elephants. You see baboons running on the side of the road.”

Rutgers Business School junior Ji Ming Zhang, a veteran of the summer program in China, also strongly encouraged students to study abroad.

“When I went, I almost thought of it as a vacation,” Zhang said. “But it was actually more a growing experience.”

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their swipes should go.

He said it is possible students extends meal program deadline may have donated to a charity they did not wish to donate to, although both earned the right to continued from front receive donations. that,” Kratovil said.

“It’s probably harder for But he said many students [students] with competition may not have even known between the two organizations about the possibility in the … because both are valid causfirst place. es,” Kleiman said. “It certainly “A lot of people just forget. It would be nice to have them sepis so much easier to just go arately, but unfortunately the online to spread awareness, but ways things played out, that was sometimes we have just got to not a possibility.” print some fliers and do it the Kratovil said meal swipe donaold-fashioned way,” said tions should not be restricted to Kratovil while handing out one charity per semester. informational fliers to students “I think that’s insufficient,” he entering Brower Commons on said. “There’s no harm in giving the College Avenue campus. people options of places to give.”

Yet Elijah’s Promise is not He said since the University the only organization students has the capability to tally donacan donate guest meal tions for more than one charity at swipes to. a time, then multiple charities The Rutgers should be availU n i v e r s i t y for students “There’s no harm able Student Assembly to choose where last semester their guest swipes in giving people selected the go. places to give.”

P a l e s t i n e Kratovil also Children’s Relief said the four-week CHARLIE KRATOVIL Fund, among sevspan is too short.

Operation Robin Hood leader eral other chariHe hopes the ties and heated University considcontroversy, to be the organizaers extending both programs. tion to receive meal swipe donaMost swipe periods have been tions during the fall. at the discretion of the requestRUSA Chairman of the ing student group, and the averUniversity Af fairs Committee age has been four weeks due to Ross Kleiman, said PCRF and limited resources, Sams said.

Operation Robin Hood ran con“It is difficult for them to currently because PCRF was suppor t the program for an delayed from the fall due indefinite timeframe,” he said. to controversy.

“These are semester-sensitive Operation Robin Hood also selections of RUSA, so by the saw its own delays due time an organization is selected to negotiations with and background material supthe University. plied [charitable recipient “When [Operation Robin name and address], much more Hood] occur red, the meal than a four-week continuous swipe program for Elijah’s period is gone.”

Promise was tr ying to get the While Kratovil will see Elijah’s most benefit … for both Promise benefit from the Elijah’s Promise and the University’s donations to fight University, so in order to do hunger, his second concern of wastthat the process [had] to be ed meals will also be addressed. expedited as much as possiDuring December’s controble,” Kleiman said. versy, many students expressed Kratovil said having two donaconfusion over how their meal tion programs at the same time plans actually work and outrage could confuse students, as they that they may not be getting their may not have specified where money’s worth.

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University alumnus Charlie Kratovil piles up meals last semester to donate to Elijah’s Promise Soup Kitchen in New Brunswick.

“As a student, I feel that the meal plans come off as confusing, but also as somebody who has talked to Charles Sams at length about the issue and has seen all the financial documents … [the plans] are set up so that people pay for what they use on average,” Kleiman said. “The confusion arises over how students use them.”

Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs Delia Pitts is heading an advisory committee consisting of seven students and seven administrative members to investigate meal plans with the possibility of submitting a proposal by the end of the semester to Vice President for Student Affairs Gregory S. Blimling.

“Our purpose is really to examine our current dining ser vices program and to give him suggestions about whether ... there are any changes we

might recommend to him,” Pitts said.

The committee met for the first time last Friday and does not have any proposals yet, she said.

“There is obviously a need to make a ver y detailed financial analysis of the dining ser vices program and any impact the changes might make,” Pitts said.

The analysis — if conducted — would be carried out the following year, and if there were to be any changes, they would not occur until the fall of 2011, she said.

The University’s Dining Services are among the most economically sound around the country, Pitts said. It is the third largest university dining operation in the nation, serving more than 4.5 million meals on the New Brunswick/Piscataway, Camden and Newark campuses annually.

that they actually tr y really hard.”

The choice of food in the dining halls is based on year-round surveys and comments made by University students, Policastro said.

She said Dining Ser vices interacts with students through the napkin boards at each dining hall. The napkins contain suggestions, comments and complaints of University students.

Other ways include SatisTrack, which is a survey conducted every semester.

Students also have the option of e-mailing Dining Services.

“Our menu is consumer-driven,” she said. “The consumers are the students. The menu is based on requests. If we see requests more often than others, then we will make the changes.”

Policastro said in order for requests to be met effectively, students need to provide very specific questions and requests.

“Sometimes requests can be very vague,” she said. “For example, someone says, ‘We want more vegetarian options.’ Well, what does that mean exactly? We need to know what specific items someone is looking for.”

While Prowse thinks there can be more improvements, she appreciates the efforts of Dining Services to offer options for vegans.

“Dining Services has been good on vegan needs,” she said. “They do try pretty hard to make something that is available for us to eat.”

IMAGE: Livingston to be professional studies campus continued from front “Currently, the Rutgers Business School [in] New Brunswick is ranked higher than the Rutgers Business School [in] Newark, yet Newark has better facilities, better access to the city and uses some of the same professors from New Brunswick campus,” Roco said. “So new facilities can only help.”

School of Arts and Sciences junior Michelle Narvaez does not feel Livingston needs a new building for the business school.

“If they’re going to create a new building, I would like to see it somewhere else other than Livingston ...,” said Narvaez, an economics major. “There is already a business school on Livingston campus, so why the need to build this one?”

Calcado said the new Rutgers Business School building would not be the only new addition to the Livingston campus.

Similar to the way the College Avenue campus focuses on the humanities and Busch campus is for the sciences, Livingston would be the business and professional studies campus, he said.

“We’re looking at Rutgers Business School, the School of Management and Labor Relations, the Graduate School of Education, the School of Social Work and our Continuing Education and Outreach Programs to all be based out of Livingston, creating the anchor for the president’s vision,” Calcado said.

Roco said he thinks Livingston campus would be a good home for the business school.

“Livingston campus has the space,” he said. “I can only hope they make the building a little more aesthetically pleasing compared to the current buildings.”

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Attorney Lance Cassak explains the negative effects of subprime lending Tuesday at the annual Evangelides Lecture and Forum.

FDIC worker speaks at annual lecture

BY REENA DIAMANTE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Lance Cassak, an attorney at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, spent Tuesday night at the Eagleton Institute of Politics discussing subprime lending and its effects on the economy.

Cassak spoke as a part of Eagleton’s Evangelides Lecture and Forum, which is held annually in honor of the University’s first employee counsel Alice Sofis Evangelides.

In his lecture, as a member of the FDIC and a former member of the Treasur y Department, Cassak argued that the significant intensification of subprime lending in the recent past led the economy into dire conditions.

During the early 2000s, banks loaned money to riskier borrowers — individuals who commit several delinquencies and are more likely to commit foreclosure, repossession and bankruptcy, he said.

Despite the negative characteristics of possible borrowers, banks still lent money through very non-traditional types of loan products, Cassak said.

Because interest rates on these loans were very low, it encouraged people to refinance their houses and as a result inflate the value of them.

“Appreciation of housing prices from 1997 to 2006 rose 124 percent. It drove down the lending standard,” Cassak said.

Shadow banking systems took place, he said. Non-regulated entities performed tasks that banks did. These entities included mortgage brokers and investment brokers.

Essentially, they lent out money to those who could not necessarily pay it back, Cassak said.

The growing outbursts of subprime lending initially generated great profit for borrowers and lenders, he said. It allowed an expansion of credit opportunities and a growth in homeownership.

“The flow of transformation was opaque,” Cassak said.

“People did not know who owned everything and didn’t know who owed what to whom.”

This prosperity changed when the value of property dropped significantly, he said.

Borrowers needed to pay back an even larger dent, and lenders lost all the money they invested.

Cassak said the problem was that people did not truly understand the entire process.

“Nobody understood the products. The only thing people knew was that everybody was

getting wealthy,” Cassak said.

“Many loans that should not have been made were made.

Investments crashed.”

He said better, earlier regulation of system could have prevented excessive subprime lending.

“It is difficult to enforce action to banks for their risky activities when they are making twice as much profit as they did before,” Cassak said.

He argued it is much easier to go after and change events when the situation becomes detrimental.

“Real misconduct does not happen during bad times,” Cassak said. “Real misconduct is revealed during bad times, but happens during the good.”

He also addressed the needs and concerns of enforcement counsels in establishing regulations that will not allow such an issue to take place again.

“Regulatory response is too focused on real results and not future risks,” Cassak said.

Cassak reminded the audience that he voiced his own opinions and not the collective voice of the two federal institutions he has worked for.

University political science Professor Milton Heumann said Cassak was a suitable candidate to speak at the lecture, considering he knew and worked with Evangelides.

Cassak could offer first-hand recounts of Evagelides’ strong devotion to public law, Heumann said.

Aside from their close relationship, his knowledge on a wide array of subjects made him a valuable lecturer, Heumann said.

“He has enormous experience in the private sector and public sector,” he said. “He has knowledge of academic literature, enforcement literature and legal literature. He is exceptional and well informed about many aspects of political science, and he is a scholar.”

John Ryan, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, felt Cassak’s lecture was ver y informative and had some concerns of his own.

“What I am still worried about is the problem of alternative and risky lending coming back every 10 years or so,” Ryan said. “We need regulation that understands what happened and is going to [stop] it from ever occurring again.”

Ultimately, Cassak left his audience something to think about.

“How much will be told to counsel restraint during prosperous times?” he said.

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U. exposes future construction plans

BY GREG FLYNN CORRESPONDENT

With the College Avenue Greening Project pushed back, some University students are curious about the status of other projects on campus.

Vice President of Student Affairs Gregory S. Blimling discussed campus construction and budgetary constrictions Tuesday night at the Busch Campus Council meeting.

The overall University budget is about $2 billion a year, of which the state contributes roughly $300 million a year, Blimling said.

State aid has gone down progressively over time, and since the University cannot constantly raise tuition, it has increased the number of students attending, he said.

“About 14,400 undergraduate and graduate students live in 144 buildings on the five campuses at the University,” Blimling said. “We set aside about [5,000] to 6,000 rooms for first-year and transfer students and about 8,000 rooms for continuing students.”

The continuing housing shortage occurs because 10,000 students are trying to sign into 8,000 rooms, he said.

“We are about 2,000 beds short,” Blimling said.

“On Busch campus, we are building a new residence hall [and] a 500bed residence hall primarily for students in engineering, biological sciences and other sciencebased majors.”

The University will break ground on the project sometime in March, and the hall will open in the fall of 2011, he said.

Three separate residence halls, which will house 1,500 students, are being built on Livingston campus, Blimling said.

Rutgers University Student Assembly Vice Chair Yousef Saleh, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, asked if there was truth in the rumor that some of the apartments on Livingston would be coed.

“That is a rumor. There are no coed rooms that we have

Busch Campus Council planned anytime in the future,” Blimling said.

He also discussed plans for the Greening Project.

The University shelved the project due to budgetar y concerns, mainly because it did not want to pile up more debt at this time, Blimling said.

He said as soon as the University’s financial health improves, University President Richard L. McCormick would revitalize the plans, as it is one of his signature initiatives.

The other projects, like the Livingston campus residence halls, will continue because they are independently financed, Blimling said.

“All of the other projects have an independent source of financing,” he said. “They’re funded outside of the general fee.

Residence halls, for example, are funded by the residents who live there.”

Blimling said the University does not have an overarching plan, but he detailed a series of recent projects completed or unfolding on Busch campus.

For example, the University will be knocking out a few walls at the Busch Dining Hall to create new dining oppor tunities by 2011.

Some council members are concerned that the governor’s midyear budget cuts will affect some of the resources and activities on campus.

Council Treasurer Sai Rapole, a School of Engineering senior, asked if Gov. Chris Christie’s midyear cut would affect senior days. Blimling said it would not.

“The University has a lot of dif ferent pockets,” he said.

“The best way to think about this are student fees, and University fees are kept separate. Senior days are funded with money from student fees.”

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“People don’t understand how hard it is to promote at Rutgers,” she said. “My roommate and I put up flyers for the Web site at ever y bus stop on College [Avenue campus], and they were gone in a day. A process that took more than 4 hours to finish brought in nothing.”

You decided to present her idea about the site to one of her classes this semester, and it caught the attention of School of Arts and Sciences junior Marc Cortez.

Cortez was highly interested in You’s site and wanted to help.

“I’ve always been thinking of new ideas, but I’ve never had the time or another person to help out with them,” Cortez said. “I really liked Jing’s idea and approached her about it after class.”

Cortez quickly came up with the idea to promote ISawYouRutgers.com through Facebook by creating an event that invited all of his University friends to the site.

After the Facebook event, the site began getting about 200 postings per day, You said.

Before Cortez, it was a oneperson operation that quickly became too large, she said.

Daniel Nurse, a School of Engineering senior, was also critical in promoting the site.

“I can’t express how important both Dan and Marc have been to promoting this Web site,” You said.

Some students wonder whether there is a monitoring system to prevent students from harassing one another through the Web site.

Christian Kloberdanz, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, does not like the anonymous factor.

“I just don’t like the idea that if someone is harassing me over the Web site, I couldn’t do anything because I have no idea who they are,” he said.

Both Toor and You acknowledge the fact that the site was not set up so students could harass one another.

“I don’t want it to be a Web site that hurts people in any way,” Toor said.

To try to resolve the issue, Toor recently added a new feature to the site that allows a student to flag a post that is harmful in any way to another student.

“Once they flag the post, we are able to see what the comment says and remove it from the Web site,” she said.

You looks to develop the site so that instead of commenting on another person’s looks, students are able to promote various events and other school-related topics.

“Hopefully, we’ll have a site that is able to spread useful events to the student body, as well as promote social activities,” she said.

You, Cortez and Nurse are determined to make ISawYouRutgers.com a big success in the student community.

“By making new logos and new layouts for Rutgers specifically, we want to develop it more so we can really connect the Rutgers community,” Cortez said.

Conor Lynch, a School of Business first-year student, said he likes the site because it provides an opportunity to connect with other students at a very large school.

“There are more than 25,000 kids that go to Rutgers. You might see someone and never get a chance to see them again,” Lynch said. “This site gives you a chance to reach out to a person you are interested in.”

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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 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 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.

A Dance Marathon blood drive will take place in the MultiPurpose Room of the Rutgers Student Center on College Avenue campus from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dance Marathon’s Pep Rally will also take place at the College Avenue Gym from 9 to 11 p.m., where the emcees, guest DJ and winner of Spirit Week will be announced.

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The meeting will take place from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. We will be holding a weekly photographers meeting to discuss important housekeeping business, assign events and facilitate several workshopping activities. Pizza will be served.

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The Zimmerli Student Advisory Board and The Center for Middle Eastern Studies are hosting Dance Within The Art. This event begins at 7 p.m. and will allow 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 performance, 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.

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re we the dumbest generation in history? Surely we are not the most uninformed or the least capable of getting information with the click of a mouse. But may we be actually lagging behind our ancestors when it comes to general knowledge and depth of education? “The intellectual future of the United States looks dim,” said Mark Bauerlein, an English professor at Emory University and author of the book, “The Dumbest Generation.” The reality is different though, as today’s generation is highly responsible for some of the greatest breakthroughs in medicine, physics and social sciences, and perhaps the bad rap comes from those troubles older generations left for us.

Bauerlein brings up several points that perhaps dumb down the general image of our generation. He talks of a general decrease in knowledge and mentions a Narcissistic Personality Inventory average rising 30 percent since 1982. But with the development of technology and increased flow of information, we are much further ahead of our grandparents.

The constantly updated Facebook pages and Twitter accounts, as much as they are criticized by even current members of our generation, do not doom humanity. Bad spelling from the many Web-tangled members of our society does not represent the whole of Internet users. And those who get that rush of adrenaline from getting “first post” on a Web site certainly mean no harm to the intelligence of an entire generation. In fact, the intelligence of one generation cannot be based on those who stand out as the worst examples of it.

The fact that Bauerlein labels today’s generation as “dumb” simply does not prove true as times move on and a valid comparison between old and young can no longer be made. But as long as the author of “The Dumbest Generation” attempts to make factual and slightly opinionated comparisons, so will we.

New technologies allow today’s generation to easily multitask, get information about anything and simply adapt to a fast-paced world more efficiently. And while the development of new technology does not warrant an intelligent population, it does provide the means for a faster-progressing society. In the time of wired phones, 50 years ago, one would not have been able to call for help from the middle of a desert. And in that era, one would not have been able to receive the news necessary to write an editorial as quickly as it is possible to do today. In some ways Bauerlein sounds like a pretentious hipster longing for the 1920s. Yes, “the good old days” serves it purpose, if only to provide nostalgia for those aging members of society who never escaped the past.

Surely, the greater majority of past generations did know more about their history, literature and other general knowledge “Jeopardy!” questions, but with time comes the introduction of more and more material that is considered general knowledge. Especially with the exponential development of technologies that surround us at home, work and everywhere else, one must nowadays know much more than was required in the past. The speed that it comes at is also a factor.

Therefore, the fact that Bauerlein claims new generations refrain from immersing themselves in Shakespeare or any other classical work proves nothing in this ever-developing world. If a student is still interested in James Joyce or T.S. Eliot, he has the opportunity to pursue an education in that sphere, but to blame an entire generation for disregarding the importance of “Ulysses” in our cultural world would be unfair. Students have their hands full with chemistry and physics books, trying to determine the origin and age of the Universe. “[In] my limited experience as a teacher, I’ve noticed in the last 10 years that students are no less intelligent, no less ambitious, but there are two big differences: reading habits have slipped, along with general knowledge. You can quote me on this: ‘You guys don’t know anything,’” Bauerlein said.

He does have a point. Students’ reading habits have suffered and their time spent on the Internet has increased. But the introduction of the Internet, something non-existent at the time of the much-romanticized Flower Children, has also served as a method of information exchange. The fact that people have unlimited access to it and can revise their personal pages at their own discretions only promotes the Internet as one of the only mediums where comprehensive censorship is still something of the future. It is, after all, the new frontier for ideas and information that users can exchange unlimitedly.

In all fairness, an aging member of society will always look nostalgically at the past, and quite incorrectly, romanticize the times that were. A fair perspective will therefore not be reached. We will always talk of the “times that were” in a way that glorifies the past, but the truth is that we romanticize about even the most average events if they are meaningful to us.

We cannot take a step back only to seem more in touch with our history. With time moves the generation and we have done just that. As students, we are exposed to the latest and newest in education and international events, and the claim that present generations seem less knowledgeable than those in the past is simply false. Should we not be measured by the brightest of a group rather than the worst?

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goes for the U.N. I believe n recent times, Iran has ever y countr y currently been all over the news without nuclear power networks because they wants it. It can change the are adamant about becomlandscape of any country ing a nuclear power. They from that of farming to an claim to be enriching only industrialized nation capaenough uranium to use in ble of producing at a compower plants. But the probNEIL P. KYPERS petitive level with the world. lem remains that a state Since the acquisition of such as Iran, as much as any this technology is so heavily frowned upon, it is no surother nation, needs to approach this process very prise that a country like Iran is facing such a backlash. carefully. Any country with near-nuclear capabilities India is one country that has developed nuclear should immediately spark a red flag in the internatechnologies and also faced resistance from the tional community, as it could result in a catastrophglobal community while they were developing ic event. Yet, according to the Nuclear Nonthem. They are currently in possession of nuclear Proliferation Act, the United Nations only recogreactors and nuclear weapons, but not ICBMs. The nizes five countries as possessing nuclear weapons resistance came from the U.N. and, specifically, the — the United States, China, Russia, France and the U.N. Security Council. It does make sense that United Kingdom. those with power want to keep it from those withBecoming a nuclear power in the world is a diffiout. Yet India persisted, and now there is little the cult process. For countries like Russia and the global community can do about it. No country wants United States, there was no resistance, because they to start a war with India because of their nuclear were the forerunners in the development of nuclear capabilities — it would only cause destruction and arms and nuclear power. Unfortunately, there is no force someone to use their weapons way to know if a country is enriching first. This mutual assurance destrucuranium in order to power a nuclear “... this technology tion between the countries is what reactor or to become the deadly fuel keeps the global community away in an Intercontinental Ballistic is so heavily from a nuclear imbalance.

Missile. At what point does the interIran has learned from India’s national community come together frowned upon, example. They know that once they and say enough is enough? Nuclear it is no surprise... have the uranium, if they do not technology is a classic duality of good already, it can effectively prove their and evil. It offers great potential to Iran is facing presence in world politics. Iran is provide energy and a higher standard such a backlash.” only doing what they see as necesof living to those who have access to sary to ensure their country can it while also having a great potential keep up with the world powers, if for world conflicts. only technologically. Their end goal may be the betThese five countries are also the permanent terment of their society and their people’s lives. members of the U.N. Security Council, emerging There is great potential for civil rights and democafter World War II. How can we trust these counracy in Iran, and what restricts it is poverty and tries more than any other country to be responsible squalor. It crushes the collective soul and keeps with the power they wield? The United States is conpeople from caring about the changes that need to stantly at odds with Russia and China. The Cold War be made for their community. lasted about 50 years, but it could be argued that it Currently, the United States is involved in the is still winding down. During the 2008 Summer Middle East, and it would make sense that any counOlympics, Russia broke a global precedent by invadtry developing nuclear capabilities in that area, espeing Georgia, even as both countries had delegates cially one with issues with our country, would pose a competing in Beijing. threat to our troops, allies and, potentially, our I think it is clear that Russia wanted to flex its nation. Yet the world continues to turn, and I have muscles and show the world it is still a global power. lived 21 years without facing any nuclear fallout. I Unfortunately, it is this arrogant attitude that perwould go as far as to say that this international balpetuated the Cold War and keeps nuclear destrucance has helped my country, and perhaps me, to tion a distinct possibility. It is unfair to single out any remain in a world of competition and progress amid state for trying to bring advanced technology to a mutually assured destruction. Perhaps Iran is just their people. To assume on the United States’ part looking for their niche in the global community. that Iran cannot be trusted with this power is hypocritical, seeing as we are the only country to use an Neil P. Kypers is editor-in-chief of The Daily atomic bomb — twice. Regardless of whether it was Targum and a School of Arts and Sciences junior necessary does not make us the judges of who can majoring in political science. and cannot have access to this power. The same

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Today's birthday (2/25/10). Shift your attention toward creativity this year and you can't go wrong. Your powers of perception steer you to the right possibilities, guided by that creative energy.

You could become obsessive about personal relationships. Drop the pressure for best results. To get the advantage, check the day's rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 7 — You have the power to create whatever you want today. Infuse your actions with excitement. Leave correspondence for another day.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is an 8 — Extend your love to others through the tender expression of your feelings. There's no need for flamboyance, but gifts are always welcome.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) — Today is a 7 — You wake up with an idea that could change the balance or intensity of love in your life. Whatever you do, the outcome feels just right.

Cancer (June 22-July 22) — Today is a 6 — Join a female associate to move your agenda forward. You need visible, satisfying results by day's end.

That's all.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 7 — Accept your role as social butterfly, even if you feel cramped or agitated inside.

Once you hit the stage, you relax and begin to enjoy the spotlight.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is an 8 — There's a lot happening inside your head today. Don't expect other people to know that. You can maintain the secret or share with a special someone.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 6 — You probably can't get romance off your mind today. So, plan for the weekend and then refocus on work.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 7 — This is a good day for filing and organizing.

You have a pile of stuff that could be put away (or thrown away). Only you can make these decisions. Don't leave it for the cleaning crew.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is an 8 — Creative efforts shift toward personal relationships. Stifle any tendency to criticize. Instead, talk about how each person's contribution enhances the whole.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is an 8 — You edge closer to a major goal. Your thoughts take you in multiple directions, so your actions need to focus on the logic of your priorities.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is an 8 — The efforts you've put in over the last few days pay off now. You're far more comfortable in your role, and others support you.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is an 8 — Find your groove and stay there all day. Everyone contributes to make today memorable. And you thought it was all about work! Silly you.

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Senior attack Meghan Flanagan scored two goals and two assists against Temple, a year after recording seven assists against the Owls.

WIN: Defense critical in 10-point victory over Temple continued from back “It’s all about having a great defense in front of you,” Kalata said. “They were making the shots real easy for me to get. When the talent is in front of me, there’s really nothing for me to do.”

Temple’s defense, on the other hand, broke under pressure. Goalkeeper Jessica Colucci, who surrendered 16 goals to RU last season and 13 yesterday, only managed six saves as the Owls had no answer for the swarming Knights.

Anderson sliced through the Owls’ defense in the first half, running two-thirds of the field with the ball to score unassisted on a dominant rush to the top of the crease.

“I thought we came out really, really hard for the first game of the year,” said head coach Laura Brand-Sias. “We were a little bit rusty when the game first started but the girls definitely picked it up.”

RU’s ability to spread the ball around only intensified as the game wore on. The Scarlet Knights out-shot the Owls 28-23, and when the shots began to find the back of the goal in the second half, it was curtains for Temple.

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With Temple behind them, RU prepares to take on two ranked opponents in a row in No. 20 Cornell and No. 9 Princeton.

After a heartbreaking loss last year in a four-overtime battle against Cornell, the Knights get another shot at toppling the Big Red Saturday at home.

“This was a good competitive, physical game — definitely something we needed to help prepare ourselves,” Brand-Sias said.

“Cornell is a team we’ve only beaten once in the history of the program but we’re looking to add to that on Saturday.”

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Big East home opener offers break from road

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respectively. Should the Knights lose, they would drop to 0-2 in conference play. The Hoyas fall into a 0Big East play resumes today for 3 hole in the Big East with a loss. the Rutgers tennis team when RU knows the danger of early Georgetown pays a visit to conference struggles.

Piscataway. The Scarlet Knights (3“Starting out 0-2 in the Big 3, 0-1) East would definitely damage our TENNIS look to morale,” Arlak said. “This match halt a is very important for us.

GEORGETOWN AT t w o - Georgetown is a very competitive RUTGERS, m a t c h team so we’re really going to have TODAY, 11:30 A.M. l o s i n g to take it to them.” streak Getting in the Big East win and pick up their first conference vic- column, though, is just as importory of the spring. tant as avoiding another loss.

The Knights haven’t faced a “Getting our first Big East win Big East opponent since a season- is really important, especially opening 7-0 loss at Syracuse. coming off last weekend’s losses,” Senior captain Caitlin Baker views said junior team ace Amy Zhang. today’s match with the Hoyas (1-2, “It’s time for us to begin playing 0-2) as a prime opportunity to start our best tennis and we need to fresh within the conference. start against Georgetown.”

“It’s our Big East home openZhang said the Knights are er so it’s very important that we their own worst enemies at times. play well,” Baker If the team wants said. “None of us to reach its goal of are thinking about “I’m really glad 16 wins, it needs the Syracuse to limit self-inflictwe’re playing match anymore, ed mistakes. so in our minds “A lot of the at our bubble. ... this is a chance to problems we’ve You feel begin again in had are with conference play.” unforced errors,” more comfortable she said. “We’ve RU is four days removed from a at home. ” got to cut down on weekend of frusthose. If we can it AMY ZHANG tration.

The will help a lot.”

Junior Team Ace Knights dropped The Knights’ two matches on 11:30 a.m. match the road against with the Hoyas is Binghamton and Cornell and fell the first at the friendly confines of back to .500. Prior to the losses, the RU Tennis Complex since 21 the team was riding high with days ago when they hosted three consecutive victories.

Farleigh Dickinson. After four The pressure is on the Knights consecutive road contests, the to pick themselves up after the Knights are happy to be home. deflating losses. Assistant coach “I’m really glad we’re playing at Alex Arlak said the squad focused our bubble,” Zhang said. “It’s nice on handling the stress of a very to not have to travel and you feel critical matchup. more comfortable at home. I hope “During practice they’re doing we can use that to our advantage.” great, but during match play the The Knights obliterated pressure on our players has been a Georgetown in 2009, winning 7-0 factor,” Arlak said. “We’ve now in Washington, D.C. They take on started using more pressure situa- a much-improved Hoyas team tions as preparation so each girl has today with conference bragging to overcome a tough situation, just rights on the line. like they would in a real match.”

“We’re looking to be one of the Georgetown comes in desperate top seeds during the Big East tourfor a Big East victory. The Hoyas’ nament,” Arlak said. “The only way last two matches were 4-3 defeats at to do that is to pick up wins. We can West Virginia and Pittsburgh, start against Georgetown.”

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Senior pitcher Casey Gaynor starts his second game of the year Friday against Iowa in the Big East-Big Ten Challenge.

Big Ten opponents next on tap for RU

BY ALEX JANKOWSKI ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

The Rutgers baseball team flew into Coral Gables, Fla., last weekend to battle with No. 12 Miami.

BASEBALL T h e Scarlet RUTGERS VS. Knights IOWA, had not TOMORROW, 10 A.M. p r a c t i c e d outdoors in over two weeks and it showed.

RU dropped all three games and came home winless.

“We were at a disadvantage in that we hadn’t practiced outdoors in two weeks and they were more prepared in that regard,” said head coach Fred Hill Sr., who is in his 27th year leading the Knights. “We got to see what some of our guys could do and we got quite a bit better as the games went on.”

With three games under their belts and the cobwebs shaken off, the Knights (0-3) head back to the Sunshine State this weekend to participate in the Big East-Big Ten Challenge.

RU is slated to take on Iowa, Nor thwester n and Purdue on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, respectively.

The Big Ten opponents all come to Clearwater, Fla., in the same fashion as RU, from Northern states where the weather is less than favorable.

“These teams are in the same boat as we are because of the bad weather,” Hill said.

“Other than that I don’t know too much about the teams we are facing. We didn’t par take in the [Big East-Big Ten Challenge] last year also so there is a bit of an unknown for us.”

Iowa heads into the weekend with a record of 1-1 after beating Illinois State, but falling to Austin Peay. The Wildcats of Northwestern still search for their first win of the

year, entering the Big East-Big Ten affair with a 0-4 record.

The first game of the year for Purdue won’t come until this Friday when they kick off the weekend against Villanova.

Junior Pat Biserta led the Knights offensively against the Hurricanes, going 4-for-12 with four RBI and two home runs.

The outfielder knows that the team is better than their record suggests.

“We are not where we need to be yet but we are getting there,” he said. “We just needed to make a couple more plays and we would have knocked off the No. 12 team in the countr y.”

RU’s normal big bats are still looking to find their strokes as junior sluggers Michael Lang and Jaren Matthews went a combined 3for-33 against “the U.” Hill attributes that stat merely to lack of exposure to the outdoors in the young season.

“It’s tough getting used to live pitching and the hitting will come as we continue to play,” Hill said. “I also think that the pitchers from Miami pitched ver y well.”

On the flip side, the RU pitching staff looks to find its rhythm after giving up a total of 31 runs to the Hurricanes.

Senior ace Casey Gaynor, lefty Dennis Hill and sophomore Willie Beard started the three games against Miami and are slated to start this weekend in Clear water.

All three gave up at least four runs in their season debuts, but Hill is comfortable with the performances they put forth.

“For their first times pitching in games, outside of intersquad games, I thought they pitched well,” he said. “Beard gave up two home runs, but they were both solo home runs and I don’t think he pitched bad. Like the rest of our team, they improved as the week went on.”

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much potential but you can’t go anywhere with potential. I believe that we can get it done, but we can’t keep talking about it we’ve got to do it.”

A deep three-pointer from freshman guard Erica Wheeler gave the Knights a 36-35 advantage with just under 11 minutes to play — the first time RU led the game in 20 minutes. The Red Storm quickly took their lead back as RU could not convert on back-to-back possessions.

From that point on the game devolved into an oldfashioned shootout.

Neither the Knights nor St. John’s were able to hold the lead for more than a minute as the teams traded buckets down the stretch — then guard Kelly McManmon made her mark. Whenever the Knights were able to knot the game in the second half, Red Storm guard McManmon was there to answer with a three-point shot.

McManmon finished with 12 points — nine in the second half — to help push the dagger into the Knights’ armor. St. John’s stormed ahead to a 49-42 lead with six minutes to play, and RU found itself unable to recover.

Combined, RU had more fouls and turnovers in the first half than it did points. The Knights turned the ball over 12 times and racked up 10 team fouls, but managed to score only 21 points.

Luckily for the Knights, the Red Storm struggled from the charity stripe, hitting only four of their 10 free throw opportunities to keep the game within four points.

But in the end, while the effort had returned, the wins didn’t.

Another crucial game slipped narrowly through the Knights’ fingers.

“Effort doesn’t win games,” Lee said. “Numbers do.”

With senior guard Brittany Ray on the bench for more than 12 minutes in the first half with two fouls, t h e Rutgers KNIGHT women’s NOTEBOOK basketball team was forced to compensate for offense.

The Scarlet Knights looked inside, as 20 of their first 25 points came in the paint.

Throughout the first half, the offense was visibly out-of-sync, relying on pick-and-rolls to find open creases and lanes. The St. John’s defense routinely provided help down low, causing offensive fouls and post turnovers.

Sophomore Khadijah Rushdan, RU’s most dangerous scorer on the floor without Ray, collapsed the lane looking to convert putbacks and layups to the tune of 10 first half points. Illtimed inside passes plagued the guard, as she committed four giveaways in the period.

Yet, the Knights’ frontcourt did not experience the same amount of success.

With St. John’s playing both man-to-man and a 2-3 zone, sophomore for wards Chelsey Lee and Myia McCurdy were the recipients of many post-up oppor tunities.

Lee struggled from the field early and turned the ball over, a recurring theme for the Knights throughout the game and season.

“I just needed to finish,” Lee said. “I was dwelling on the last play, missing a pass, dropping a pass.”

McCurdy, on the other hand, rode her high-percentage shots for three first-half field goals.

The senior for ward occupied three mid-race splits prior to the crash.

Earlier in Olympic competition, Vonn captured gold in the downhill event and bronze in the super-G.

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he U.S. men’s hockey team defeated Switzerland 2-0 yesterday to advance to the semifinals of the medal round. New Jersey Devil winger Zach Parise scored both goals in the third period, the second of which came against an empty net, to propel Team USA to victor y. Goaltender R yan Miller, of the NHL’s Buf falo Sabres, tallied 19 saves.

The Americans take on the winner of the Czech RepublicFinland match-up in the semifinals later in the week.

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Lindsey Vonn crashed yesterday during the women’s giant slalom, injuring her right pinkie and preventing her from adding to her medal collection.

Snow and fog made the course increasingly difficult, resulting in Vonn’s crash around a right turn in the middle section of the course. Vonn held the fastest time in the

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captain Derek Jeter said he would not allow his contract negotiation to become a distraction yesterday before the team’s first full-squad practice.

The shor tstop, in his final year of a ten-year, $189 million deal, had agent Casey Close reach out to Yankee ownership during the of f-season regarding a new contract.

However, team policy does not permit contract discussion until the end of the 2010 season.

After 15 seasons with the Bronx Bombers, Jeter is the team’s all-time hits leader.

THE NEW YORK JETS signed kicker Nick Folk Tuesday to a one-year deal. The former Dallas Cowboy struggled mightily last season, converting just 18 of 28 field goal opportunities after a Pro Bowl selection in 2007 as a rookie.

The signing stems from Jets kicker Jay Feely, a free agent, reportedly looking for a lucrative deal similar to the four-year, $16 million deal recently inked

by Oakland Raider Sebastian Janikowski, Folk reportedly had a tr yout planned with the New York Giants prior to signing with the Jets.

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Though she scored nine points and grabbed nine rebounds, sophomore forward Chelsey Lee, left, shot only 4-for-10 from the floor. The Scarlet Knights shot 23-for-64 as a team. the middle of the Red Storm zone and took several midrange jump shots.

Senior center Rashidat Junaid was a non-factor, picking up two personal fouls in a span of three minutes, one after receiving a post pass from Rushdan.

LACKLUSTER ST. JOHN’S free throw shooting aided the Knights in a back-and-forth affair.

The Johnnies came out aggressively, attacking the paint

and converting on second-chance opportunities, which led to several trips to the charity stripe.

Although RU operated on defense in the double-bonus for a sizable portion of the first half, the Red Storm converted only 40 percent of their free throws during the time-span, contributing to four lead changes and five occasions with a tie score.

A four-point halftime deficit for the RU could have potentially ballooned to double digits if not for

St. John’s many missed opportunities at the free throw line.

The Knights, on the other hand, shot only one first-half free throw, which they missed.

The Johnnies finished the contest a mediocre 15-31 from the line, while the Knights made only seven total trips.

“We got seven foul shots, [St. John’s] had 31,” said head coach C. Vivian Stringer, who was called for a technical foul during the second half. “We’re playing bad, just bad.”

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Stringer: I will not coach in WNIT In-state rival cuts track and field programs

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A crystal ball can not predict where the Rutgers women’s basketball team is going to end up this postseason.

But after last WOMEN’S BASKETBALL night’s 60-52 loss to No. 18 St. John’s, ST. JOHN’S 60 head coach C. Stringer RUTGERS 52 Vivian knows one place the Scarlet Knights will not be headed — the Women’s National Invitation Tournament.

“People have asked me if we’re going to the NIT. I don’t know anything about the NIT and I can guarantee you I won’t be coaching a team that goes to the NIT,” Stringer said. “If we don’t go to the NCAAs then we aren’t going [to the postseason], because I’m not going to the NIT. “It’s second in my opinion and I never will accept it — I never have accepted it. Don’t even ask me that question, ever. … I’d rather leave the country because I can’t even be here in March.”

While the intensity that was absent in the team’s previous game to Syracuse returned, the Scarlet Knights could not overcome the usual culprits — missed looks and turnovers.

Rutgers shot 23-of-64 from the floor in the game and turned the ball over 18 times, leading to 19 points from the Red Storm.

“We could have won this game. That’s the name of what our whole [season] has been,” Stringer said. “We coulda’, woulda’, mighta’, shoulda’.”

Sophomore guard Khadijah Rushdan shouldered the brunt of the load on offense with 14 points and added 10 rebounds for her second double-double this season.

Chelsey Lee recorded nine points and nine rebounds, but the sophomore forward’s efforts were overshadowed by what could have been. Lee went only 4-of-10 from the floor and missed numerous opportunities in the paint.

After the game, a disappointed Rushdan stared at the box score and at another game that got away. She remained adamant though about RU’s potential to win if they can put the pieces together this late in the year.

“We can beat anybody. We can beat anybody we want to,” Rushdan said. “This team has so

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After the Scarlet Knights’ 60-52 loss at the hands of No. 18 St. John’s yesterday, head coach C. Vivian Stringer said she would not accept a bid to the WNIT if offered.

Knights roll over Temple in double-digit win

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Freshman goalie Lily Kalata recorded 12 saves and, for the first time since 2007, held an RU opponent to just three goals.

While Meghan Flanagan would not come right out and say it, one has to wonder if she has it in for Temple.

L a s t WOMEN’S LACROSSE year, it was the TEMPLE 3 senior RUTGERS 13 a t t a c k ’ s recordtying seven assists that did the Owls in. This year, she mixed in a little scoring of her own.

Flanagan notched two goals and added two assists to help the Rutgers women’s lacrosse team steamroll the Owls 13-3 yesterday in the team’s season opener. “[The games] were both season openers and we just try and bring a lot of energy to start the season off on a good note,” Flanagan said.

“Temple just seems to be the victim of the season opener and we definitely bring out a lot of our weapons early. It was good that we put everything together and hopefully we can bring that to the rest of the year.”

Senior attack Brooke Cantwell added a pair of goals and assists of her own, while junior midfielder

Marlena Welsh grabbed a hat trick.

In total, the Scarlet Knights saw seven different players score, including newcomers Brittany Davis and Stephanie Anderson.

Yet one player that had the team cheering was nowhere near the offensive zone.

In her first career game with RU, freshman goalkeeper Lily Kalata shone, posting 12 saves. Kalata did not allow a single goal in the second half and drew an excited ovation from the Knights’ bench on a spectacular sliding save in the final minutes to rob the Owls of a goal.

“I’ve got some good fans,” she said of her team’s reaction to the save. “But when it comes to it you just have to throw your whole body into it.”

Kalata and her teammates combined to do something that no RU team accomplished since the 2007 season — hold an opponent to three goals or fewer.

While Temple had eight free position opportunities, the Knights did not allow them to convert on any of them. After the game, Kalata heaped the credit onto her defense.

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Almost 30 minutes after Seton Hall announced its decision to cut men’s and women’s indoor and outdoor track and TRACK AND FIELD field, Rutgers head women’s coach James Robinson heard the news.

Then he questioned it.

“Seton Hall? The University? In South Orange?” Robinson asked, only to learn yes, it was true. “They’re going to cut men’s and women’s track? In this July? 2010?”

Also true.

“That’s bombshell news,” Robinson said.

The Hall called the move “a strategic restructuring,” meant to provide more financial stability and maintain athletic competitiveness.

Effective July 1, the track and field teams are the victims.

“This was a difficult choice to make, given the histor y of our track and field programs, but it was a necessar y one made in the best interests of Seton Hall Athletics on the whole,” SHU athletic director Joseph Quinlan said in a press release.

“It is not viable for us to continue to support the number of sports we do at the current level. With this decision, we will reallocate resources to strengthen the University’s ongoing sports programs.”

The decision is not foreign territory for New Jersey’s pair of Big East schools.

At the conclusion of the 2006-07 school year, the Scarlet Knights eliminated six varsity sports: men’s heavyweight crew, men’s lightweight crew, men’s swimming and diving, men’s tennis and both men’s and women’s fencing.

A majority of the cuts were made to men’s programs in order to comply with Title IX guidelines, and Seton Hall took that into account as well.

After eliminating the track teams, SHU will add women’s golf.

“Any time you take away opportunities for New Jersey state, Garden State, athletes to go to school and get an athletic scholarship, that’s a bad thing anytime it happens,” Robinson said. “And for the loss for the Big East Conference, I don’t see any positives in this at all. It’s bad for the sport of track and field.”

When RU cut its six programs, thenathletic director Robert E. Mulcahy estimated it would save $2 million of the department’s budget.

Seton Hall based its decision on an assessment of the costs of operation for each program — it provided over $1 million per year to the track and field teams.

Par t of that funding will be reallocated to the remaining programs, but scholarship commitments to the 24 af fected track and field athletes will be honored.

Four of those athletes, just days ago, earned Big East Championships. Two men earned individual titles and both the men’s and women’s 4x400-meter relay won their races.

“It’s shocking that they would cut track and field — it’s one of their most successful spor ts,” Robinson said. “They have a long histor y, for both men’s and women’s. They don’t have any bigger spor ts that I can think of, other than basketball.

“I’m astonished — totally astonished — that they would cut those spor ts. It’s crazy. They have such a rich histor y, a long histor y, par ticularly the stretch and relays — the 4x400 relay is one of the best at any level. So hearing that, I kept questioning and I apologize, but it’s unbelievable.”