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Athletic subsidies soar 67 percent By Erin Petenko and Vaishali Gauba Staff Writers
Rutgers is preparing its Athletics Depar tment for the Big Ten with a 68 percent increase in subsidies, according to an ar ticle in the Asbur y Park Press. USA Today Spor ts, in conjunction with Indiana University’s National Spor ts Journalism Center, obtained a repor t filed to the NCAA last year about the state of Rutgers’ athletic finances. They found the University spent nearly $47 million in 2013 on athletics to compensate for a budget shor tfall, compared to $27.9 million in 2012, according to the ar ticle. The subsidy is the greatest amount any Division I university has spent on athletics in a single season since USA Today has begun examining spending and revenue data. Janine Purcaro, the chief financial of ficer for Rutgers Intercollegiate Athletics, told The Daily Targum the subsidy amount was $37.1 million, excluding $9.9 million in student fees. The subsidy for the last financial year was $18.4 million, without student tuition.
Purcaro said the majority of the increase was related to the department’s change from the Big East to the Big Ten conference, termination of the Nelligan sport marketing agreement and payment of settlements to former basketball coach Mike Rice and former athletic director Tim Pernetti. According to the ar ticle, the University paid a $475,000 severance package for Rice and a $1.2 million settlement for Pernetti. “The increase was related to a one-time investment, so we anticipated it,” Purcaro said. “The investments were strategic business decisions. They were done so we are in a position of self-sufficiency going for ward.” The subsidy includes $12,601 in government suppor t, according to the ar ticle. Overall, Rutgers funded 59.5 percent of the Athletic Depar tment’s budget, according to the ar ticle, a 15.8 percent spike from last year. While the amount taken from the student fee increased 3.8 percent, the main change was in direct subsidies, which more than doubled from 2012. Meanwhile, generated revenue dropped 11 percent, with a $1.26 million decrease in
ticket sales and $2.8 million decrease in contributions, according to the ar ticle. Rutgers expects a $200 million windfall in revenue from joining the Big Ten, according to the repor t, compelling par t of the spending. In the ar ticle, University President Rober t L. Barchi said the Athletics Depar tment should be financially independent within the next six years. “I think it is still a reasonable goal,” Purcaro said in the ar ticle. “All these financial results were known when president [Barchi] issued his statement following the settlement with the American Athletic Conference. Honestly the release of the NCAA repor t really doesn’t have any ef fect on this overall plan.” According to an ar ticle in The Daily Targum, the University recently signed an $11.5 million deal with its former conference, the AAC, to get out of its contract. The Big Ten distributes $25 million to each of its member schools per year, according to the ar ticle. Rutgers received $9.5 million from the NCAA last season.
Gloria Steinem talks women in media
Dawn J. Fraser, humorist and national speaker, speaks at Mark Conference 2013. SHAWN SMITH / CORRESPONDENT / FEBRUARY 2013
Mark conference steps into second year at U. By Connie Capone Staff Writer
Actress Laverne Cox, PostSecret Project creator Frank Warren and two 8-year-old creators of a fashion movement have left their mark on the world. They are on their path to encourage students at Rutgers to create their mark through the second annual Mark Leadership Conference this Saturday at the Livingston Student Center. Robyn Ginese, associate director for Student Life Leadership and Training, which is hosting the conference, said the conference is a unique experience cre-
ated to give students an exposure dif ferent than the traditional oppor tunities they get on campus. “It’s all about how students can start making their mark on the world now — that you don’t have to wait until you’re a post-graduate entrepreneur to do it,” she said. “So it’s empowering to have [students] start as soon as they can and follow their passions.” Ginese said all of the speakers this year would be different from last year. This includes Cox, a transgender advocate and actress on the Netflix series, “Orange is the New Black.” See CONFERENCE on Page 5
Rutgers GlobeMed wins meal charity program By Sabrina Szteinbaum Associate News Editor
Gloria Steinem, feminist activist, writer and journalist lectures for “Media: More than Reality” at the Livingston Student Center. DENNIS ZURAW / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
By Erin Petenko Associate News Editor
Rather than listening to her words, Gloria Steinem asked her audience last night to turn the event into a town hall meeting. “Hierarchy came with patriarchy, and neither of them work anymore,” she said. Steinem, writer, editor and feminist activist, spoke about the media’s representation of women at the Livingston Student Center for “Media: More than Reality,” part of the Susan and Michael Angelides J. Lecture Series.
Steinem is the founder of Ms. magazine and ser ved as an editor for 15 years. In 2013, she was chosen as the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her work. Technology has enabled humanity to make progress at an unprecedented rate, she said. But it also has the power to repress dif ferent races, classes, genders and religions. Although the people in the room could find an article or a blog or tweet about the event, she said, it would not be the same as attending and hearing what she had to say.
“Media is not reality,” she said. “Reality is reality.” For most of humanity’s histor y, people have not relied on technology for communication, she said. There was no separation between meaning and message. Now, most people cannot join the campfire of communication, she said. Society gathers information from media outlets, which focus on violence and hatred. “If you added up all the deaths from Iraq and modern wars, it would still be less than the See STEINEM on Page 5
A sexual and reproductive health program fund for women in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, is Rutgers GlobeMed’s idea for allocation of the funds from Rutgers University Student Assembly’s Meal Swipe for Charity program, which they won last night. RUSA runs this program to give student organizations the ability to receive donated meal swipes from Rutgers students to be allocated to charities of their choosing, according to their website. GlobeMed was one of three groups who presented at last night’s RUSA meeting. The groups aimed to persuade the student government to give them the opportunity to participate in the program. Pavel Sokolov, president of RUSA, said instead of giving the value of a
guest swipe to a friend, students could donate their swipes to charity. RUSA gives one organization this opportunity every semester, said Sokolov, a Rutgers Business School senior. GlobeMed has 40 dedicated staff members, said Madison Little, director of finances for Rutgers GlobeMed. They will use the opportunity to dedicate each staff member, who plans to commit one hour per week to collecting meal swipes in dining halls. Representatives from Rutgers University Habitat for Humanity also presented for this opportunity. President Punit Arora said poverty and homelessness are not just foreign issues, and Habitat for Humanity can give families a hand up, not a hand out. Currently, the organization is working to build a house for a
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Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy hosts the “Women’s Leadership Conference” at 9 a.m. at 33 Livingston Ave. on the College Avenue campus. The conference is open to all graduate students. University Career Services presents “Business, Arts and Communications Industry Career & Internship Fair” at 10 a.m. at the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus. This event is free and only open to Rutgers-New Brunswick students and alumni from all majors. Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy hosts the “Women’s Leadership Conference: Lean In and Reach Out” at 9 a.m. at 33 Livingston Ave. on the College Avenue campus. Admission is free for everyone. Rutgers Recreation hosts “RU STRONG 2014 PRELIMS” at 2 p.m. at the College Avenue Gym. Admission is free for spectators.
Saturday, March 1
The Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center and the Rutgers University Program in Cinema Studies present the film screening of “In the Land of the Head Hunters” at 7 p.m. at Voorhees Hall on the College Avenue campus. Tickets are $10 for general admission and $9 for students and seniors. The Rutgers Gardens hosts “Gardens Walk - What’s in Bloom” at 2 p.m. at the Holly House on Cook campus. Admission is free for ever yone.
Monday, March 3
Kite+Key, the Rutgers Tech Store and OIT present “Computer Repair Event” at 1 p.m. at the Busch Campus Center. The event is free for ever yone.
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The Rutgers German Club presents “Karneval!” at 4 p.m. at the Rutgers Student Activities Center on the College Avenue campus. Admission is free for everyone. The Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences hosts “Global Policy Change: shaping international action for the environment” at 3:45 p.m. at the Marine Sciences Building on Cook campus. Admission is free for everyone.
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The Center for Teaching advancement and Assessment Research and the TA Project present “Using Media with PowerPoint Presentations” workshop at 9:45 a.m. at the Center for Teaching Advancement & Assessment Research on the College Avenue campus. Admission is free for everyone. RHS Health Outreach, Promotion & Education (H.O.P.E.) presents the film screening and discussion of “After Tiller” at 7 p.m. at the Douglass Campus Center. Admission is free for everyone.
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Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy hosts “Latino Cultural Spatial Values Reshaping America’s Suburbs” lecture at 12 p.m. at Civic Sqaure on the College Avenue campus. Admission is free for everyone.
Tuesday, March 6
The Institute for Research on Women hosts “Zakia Salime Lecture” at 4 p.m. at the Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building on Douglass Campus. Admission is free for everyone.
METRO CALENDAR Saturday, March 1
The New Brunswick Jazz Project presents a film screening of “The Girls in the Band” at 6:30 p.m. at 108 Church St, as well as a performance by Emily Asher’s Endangered Species. Admission is free for everyone.
Sunday, March 2
The First Reformed Church of New Brunswick presents “Jazzin’ For Funds!” at 4 p.m. at the George Street Ale House located at 378 George St. Tickets are $35.
Tuesday, March 4
The NJ State Theatre presents “Zappa plays Zappa” at 8 p.m. at 15 Livingston Ave. Ticket prices range from $35 to $55.
Friday, March 7
The NJ State Theatre presents “Rock of Ages” at 8 p.m. with additional showings Saturday at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. at 15 Livingston Ave. Ticket prices range from $35 to $75.
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Research exhibits orangutans’ eating habits
Erin R. Vogel from the Department of Anthropology speaks at the Food Sciences Building on Cook campus. LOUIS CABRERA
By Carley Ens Contributing Writer
Erin R. Vogel and her colleagues took to the Borneo rainforests of Southeast Asia in 2003 to explore how ecology and diet af fected the energy states of a species of orangutans. Vogel, assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, led a nutritional science seminar about orangutan nutri-
tion and energetics yesterday in the Food Sciences Building on Cook Campus. Vogel has been conducting research on orangutans in Indonesia with the Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology for the past several decades. Vogel said primate behavior psychologists, including herself, focus their research on how primates utilize food to survive, particularly in environments where a
fluctuation in food availability is often seen. “I am very interested in food because it can influence all aspects of life,” Vogel said. “Food can be the difference between life and death. It can influence history, it can have dramatic effects on social behavior and it also has an effect on the types of morphologies we observe.” Vogel said she studied birds as an undergraduate student, and by chance her advisor invited her to do a study on primates. “After that, I kind of just fell in love with it,” she said. Vogel said she actively promotes biodiversity and sustainable management with an interest in exploring how ecology and diet affect energy states and reproduction. Her primary research goals are to determine what has led to changes in primate behavior and to bridge the fields of behavioral science, psychology and physiology in order to understand diet selection, she said. “Obviously, we can’t just go and ask the orangutans what they prefer to eat,” Vogel said. Vogel’s research in Borneo involved the observation of orangutans’ food preferences and comparing those choices to food availability as well as physiological and behavioral effects, she said. The researchers concluded after 30,000 hours of focal data collection from 2003-2010 that the orangutans are less efficient foragers and have less energy storage at times when fruit is scarce, Vogel said. Orangutans only have natural habitats in Indonesia and
Malaysia, she said. They are mostly frugivorous animals: Meaning they prefer fruit, but may also feed on leaves, insects and meat. She said the Borneo rainforest is considered to be a ver y challenging environment for frugivores because of its unpredictable and usually scarce supply of fruit. “Long periods of fruit unavailability can last from two to eight years,” Vogel said. “Primates have evolved behavioral, morphological and physiological mechanisms to cope with more challenging food choices.” During low fruiting periods, the orangutans spend less time traveling between patches, staying in one place and eating for longer periods of time until nothing is left. Vogel said the orangutans also compensate for fruit scarcity by falling back on less preferable food options such as leaves, flowers and bark. “These food items are available year round and tend to be of low nutritional quality,” Vogel said. “It is not surprising that they prefer to feed on fruit, because if we look at the total energy gain per patch, we find that they are selecting food that has the highest energy gains.” Vogel’s third research goal is to study how primate behavior can inform us about human processes and vice versa. Paul Breslin, professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, sees a possible correlation between the food-gathering strategies of orangutans and the eating habits of humans, he said.
“All animals forage unless we are anchored to a rock,” Breslin said. “We [humans] forage in urban environments, too, including restaurants, supermarkets and bodegas. Fluctuating fruit availability is part of the world in which orangutans must forage.” Vogel and her colleagues used standard protein requirements for humans in order to estimate whether the apes were getting enough protein from their diet, she said. “In terms of protein, we see a slight decrease in percentage of energy coming from [the orangutan’s] diet when fruit is scarce,” she said. Fruit also provides the orangutans more calories and a higher percentage of lipids. Vogel said ver y few studies have actually focused on energetics, and how it relates to frugivorous primate population density. “I think the fact that [orangutans] are able to use a variety of methods to cope with this fruit scarcity is amazing,” Vogel said. “All of these different areas suggest really unique adaptations for coping with it.” Sarah Hassanien, a graduate student, came to the seminar as a requirement for her school and found Vogel’s studies both interesting and relevant to her own research in biochemistry. “I am personally interested in comparing low and high fruit seasons to humans,” Hassanien said. “The animal sciences, exercise sciences — every science seems to be connected under one giant umbrella.”
U. Circle K chapter aims to build world leaders By Sabrina Szteinbaum Associate News Editor
When Saad Shamshair was a first-year student, he accompanied his brother to a meeting of Circle K International’s Rutgers chapter. The School of Arts and Sciences junior is now the president of the organization. Currently in its 42nd year at the University, Circle K stands on the tenets of leadership, fellowship and service, Shamshair said. In the fall, the club held a dodgeball tournament and a benefit concert with the help of Rutgers a cappella groups. The service club is an extension of its high school counterpart, Key Club, he said. The club began as a Kiwanis club service project to provide an opportunity for capable young men to get a college education by assisting them financially, according to Circle K’s website. Today, Circle K is the largest collegiate ser vice organization and has over 12,600 students in 17 nations, according to the website. One of their largest initiatives is The Eliminate Project — a joint
force between Kiwanis International and UNICEF — to eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus, he said. It costs $1.80 to give tetanus vaccines to mothers and their children, he said. Though there is not enough funding to send students to other countries to volunteer, their fundraising efforts still go a long way. Shamshair said tomorrow night is “Dance to Eliminate,” an annual event which raises money for the project. The event normally raises over $1,000, with its most successful run bringing in $1,400. The event brings Rutgers dance groups to perform at the Livingston Student Center, and has won multiple awards from the New Jersey District of Circle K, as well as Circle K International, he said. Circle K also partners with the Christ Food Pantr y, Shamshair said. They are tr ying to expand to volunteer at other pantries around New Brunswick. The leadership of Circle K mimics state legislature, Shamshair said. There is a board, which
Circle K International is the largest collegiate service organization with 12,600 students in 17 nations across the world. COURTESY OF SAAD SHAMSHAIR oversees the 14 Circle K clubs in New Jersey. The governor of the district — Shivam Patel — is from Rutgers, along with five of the 13 district board members. He said we should be proud that we have the most representation on the district board. “We build the best leaders,” Shamshair said.
Shamshair said it is exciting to see people who care about the world do great things. “Everyone here is very passionate about what they do, and they’re all here for the greater good. … They’re not padding their resume,” he said. “People are extremely committed to this organization.” Patel, a School of Ar ts and Sciences junior, said he used
Key Club as a stepping stone for getting involved in Circle K. He said the club seemed like a good way to give back to a world and to express his desire to help others. The club has raised over $6,000 in the past year for The Eliminate Project, and he said they hope to continue this success.
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“In addition, we have eight [Ignite Rutgers Speakers] who have been trained to do professional speaking, who will discuss how they’re making their marks — whether that’s through community ser vice or overcoming their own identity issues, tragedies within their families and things like that,” she said. Other conference attendees include a man who overcame Tourette’s syndrome and a Rutgers alumnus who was in a car accident with a reckless driver, Ginese said. “Post Secret creator Frank Warren is coming, who made his mark within the mental health world,” she said. “He’s really hitting this concept that it’s so prevalent in our society these days so it’s impor tant to bring light to it and bring awareness to it.” Ginese said they picked speakers representing dif ferent industries to promote the idea that there isn’t only one way to make your mark. “We also have a few surprise elements planned — there’s going to be a balloon pit, an impromptu dance par ty — dif ferent things right in the middle of the conference. So it’ll definitely be a dif ferent and unique experience from one year to the next,” she said. Joshua Naehr, a School of Ar ts and Sciences sophomore, said he is one of two captains of Promotions and Outreach for Student Life Leadership and Training. “We work all of the social media sites, tabling events, going to classes to speak as well as any other sor t of promotional event,” he said.
Naehr said he has worked on building the culture of the Mark Conference on their social media sites and well as tabling for “Mark Mondays.” “My favorite has been working on our Mark Stor y Project campaign where I got to interview people like [Rutgers head football coach Kyle] Flood, professors like Steve Miller and past [and] present ignite speakers,” he said. Naehr said he was inspired to get involved after he saw a lecture by Seth Godin last year, and it changed his perspective on himself and the upcoming work force. “I was so impacted that I talked to a friend of mine who was working the event, and he told me to check out the Mark Conference,” he said. “So I read up on it, contacted them and fell in love with the entire cause. It is truly something that allows for so much creative expression.” Angelie Patel, a School of Ar ts and Sciences sophomore, said she attended the conference last year because one of her friends was an Ignite speaker. “After I had seen what great speakers there were and how passionate ever yone was about being strong leaders, I knew I had to come back,” she said. Patel said her division handles par tnerships, sponsorships and works closely with volunteers and team members. She said they’ve been planning the conference since May. “I think sometimes the word leadership can get [mis]construed,” she said. “We don’t want people to think that they have to be the president of an organization to be able to make a dif ference. Leadership means being the unique influence you want to be.”
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number of women who died [from gendered violence],” she said. Women are underrepresented in the newsroom and in movie roles, both as actors and directors, she said. Of 150 print publications covering sports, 90 percent of editors are white males. Women make up a large percentage of game players but a tiny minority of game developers, she said. The Internet also has become a place for misogyny — female usernames are more likely to be bullied than males. Pornography is replacing normal sex education as the main form of learning among teenagers, she said.
In response to a question about gender violence, Steinem said the single greatest indicator of whether a countr y is violent against itself or against its army is violence against women.
“Media is not reality. Reality is reality.” gloria steinem Feminist Activist
“That’s what sets that pattern and normalizes that pattern,” she said. Alison Bernstein, director of the Institute for Women’s Leadership, said Steinem encompasses all the positive values of a feminist, an activist for the rights of
everyone and a dedication to helping all women and girls. Anyone who says feminists have no sense of humor has not heard of Steinem, she said. “She is widely quoted. She even has a fridge magnet that says, ‘the truth will set you free. But first it will piss you off,’” she said. The Institute for Women’s Leadership Consor tium sponsored the event. Lisa Hetfield, associate director for the IWL, said the Angelides endowment allows them to invite one distinguished female leader ever y year. Bernstein is a personal friend of Steinem’s and invited her to speak after she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in November, Hetfield said. “For many of us, she represented a transformation,” she said. “She changed how we thought about ourselves and our world. She taught us to raise our voices and understand what equality would look like.”
From left to right: Richard Edwards, executive vice president of Academic Affairs, Francis Barchi, assistant professor in the School of Social Work and Rutgers President Robert L. Barchi attended yesterday’s Susan and Michael Angelides J. Lecture Series featuring Gloria Steinem, a writer and feminist activist, at the Livingston Student Center. DENNIS ZURAW / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
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Madison Little, director of finances for Rutgers GlobelMed, presents at the Rutgers Univeristy Student Assembly meeting. GlobeMed won the opportunity for RUSA’s Meal Swipe for Charity Program against two other student organizations. TIAN LI / ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR
local family 10 minutes from the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus, said Arora, a School of Ar ts and Sciences senior. Kathleen McGlynn, fundraising chair of Habitat for Humanity, said the families pay for building supplies and nothing else. They have 30 years to pay back the money for the supplies, which totals to $300 per month, and no interest exists on this loan. McGlynn, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said children are five times more likely to graduate from high school if they have a home. They are also more likely to attend college and earn a degree. Arora said with the opportunity to participate in the program, Rutgers Habitat for Humanity volunteers would be collecting meal swipes during lunch and dinner hours ever y day they can.
Student-Organized Rutgers Against Hunger was the last to present, and President Anna Molinski said the organization is addressing the complex issue of hunger through education, outreach and activism. If granted the opportunity to participate, Molinski, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences senior, said SORAH would attempt to provide 80,000 pounds of food to people suffering from hunger in the local community. At the meeting, the members also covered issues like supporting a smoke-free campus, a resolution to honor Arthur Casciato, director of the Office of External Fellowships. Other discussions involved supporting college textbook reform and a bill for RUSA endorsement for Rutgers United Students Against Sweatshops. This is an abbreviated version of the story. Read the full story online at www.dailytargum.com.
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Poor winter road conditions pose safety hazard Hate potholes? Well, unless you and your elected officials are ready to cough up billions more for better roads and proper preventive maintenance, buckle up, ‘cause it’s going to be a bumpy ride. “What people have to understand is you can’t have a pothole without first having a crack in the pavement surface,” says engineer Larry Galehouse, director of the National Center for Pavement Preservation, a quasi-government entity affiliated with Michigan State University. “Agencies have been cash-strapped for a number of years, and now it’s all coming home to roost.” And despite all the advances in patching materials and equipment in recent years, engineers say that until someone ponies up, it’s going to remain a case of patch as patch can. “If you’ve got a pavement in poor condition that’s got a lot of alligator cracking ... where water is getting into the pavement and freezing and thawing, it’s going to break up the structure,” says Kevin J. Haas, a traffic investigations engineer with the Oregon Department of Transportation in Salem. “It’s just the law of sciences and physics and thermodynamics and whatever other laws you want to throw in there.” This winter, the law is coming down hard on Americans. In New York City, road crews have patched a record 136,476 potholes since Jan. 1. The Department of Transportation had
filled just fewer than 57,000 by this same time in 2013. New Englanders, famous for their meteorological stoicism, are reeling from what Boston Public Works Commissioner Mike Dennehy calls a “pothole eruption.” “We filled our 6,000th pothole this morning since Jan. 1,” Dennehy said Tuesday. Last year’s comparable figure was about 1,600. The pace was even too much for the city’s vaunted “Potzilla” — a massive truck that keeps the fill material hot en route to worksites. An electrical failure
tons of patching material in the five counties around the City of Brotherly Love, says Blaum. “It’s been a relentless winter season,” he says. “It’s the recipe for potholes,” agrees Dennehy. “It’s just freezethaw-moisture, freeze-thaw-moisture, freeze-thaw-moisture.” The Federal Highway Administration defines a pothole as “Localized distress in an asphalt-surfaced pavement resulting from the breakup of the asphalt surface and possibly the asphalt base course.” Climate and traffic combine to remove
In its report card on the nation’s infrastructure last year, the American Society of Civil Engineers gave America’s roads a D. In a recent post on the group’s blog, contributor Becky Moylan quipped that “pothole-dodging could be an Olympic sport.” But it’s no laughing matter. ASCE estimates it would take an investment of $3.6 trillion by 2020 to ensure the safety of highways, bridges, the power grid and other public resources. American motorists are already paying the price: TRIP, a nonprofit organization that re-
“What people have to understand is you can’t have a pothole without first having a crack in the pavement surface.” LARRY Galehouse Director of the National Center for Pavement Preservation
last weekend caused the heating core and hydraulic augers to quit, forcing workers to shovel up to two tons of dried asphalt from the machine’s bowels before the beast could hit the roads again, Dennehy says. In Philadelphia, they’re not even attempting to keep count. “We’re just tr ying to keep up as best we can,” says Gene Blaum, a spokesman for the Pennsylvania Depar tment of Transpor tation. Since Dec. 1, PennDOT workers have applied more than 2,000
pieces of asphalt, leaving potholes — and localized distress for drivers. Normally, major pothole trouble comes in late February or early March. But this season’s “polar vortex” meant cities from the upper Midwest to the Deep South have been repeatedly pummeled by ice and snow since January — and produced an early crater crop. Still, that wouldn’t be as big a problem had the nation invested more up front, Galehouse and others say.
searches surface transportation issues, released a report last year estimating that “unacceptably rough” roads cost the average urban driver $377 a year in repairs — or a total of $80 billion nationwide. Is anyone doing roads right? In an interview with the Guardian newspaper about the state of Great Britain’s roads, David Weeks, director of that nation’s Asphalt Industry Alliance, even gave props to the ancient rival across the Channel. “This sort of thing doesn’t happen in
Scandinavia or France, where they mend the roads properly,” he said. Mats Wendel of the Swedish Transport Administration thinks America could learn something from his country, which he believes has stricter rules on asphalt composition and road construction than the U.S. to account for the wet and cold. He says additives such as cement and lime are compulsory in the top layer of asphalt on Swedish roads, and that there are even stricter limits on air bubbles within the asphalt. “We take the frost in the ground into consideration when we construct our roads, and they don’t really do that in the U.S.,” he says. But he says Sweden has also borrowed a page from road builders in Arizona and California, who use rubber in the mix to avoid cracks. “Some U.S. states use it to a great extent,” Wendel says. “But not on the East Coast.” In fairness, Thomas Bennert, a research professor at Rutgers University’s Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation, says it’s hard to compare Stockholm with New York. “You can go to parts of Scandinavia where I’m sure they don’t have to really do anything, because the roads are not really traveled as heavily,” he says. “You do need that pounding of the traffic to really hit it.” — The Associated Press
Airport sees flaws in communication after shooting LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles International Airport police dispatcher who received a call seconds after a gunman opened fire last year didn’t know where to send officers because no one was on the line and the airport communications system didn’t identify that the call was from a security checkpoint emergency phone, two officials told The Associated Press. A screening supervisor in the sprawling airport’s Terminal 3 picked up the phone but fled before responding to a dispatcher’s questions because the gunman was approaching with a high-powered rifle and spraying bullets, according to two officials briefed on preliminary findings of a review of the emergency response. They spoke only on condition of anonymity because the final report won’t be released until next month. One of the of ficials likened the situation to a 911 call but police not knowing what address to go to. Airpor t dispatchers knew something was wrong but didn’t know where to send help because the system didn’t identify locations of its emergency phones. After asking questions and receiving no answers, the dispatcher hung up. An airline contractor working in the terminal called dispatch directly from
his cellphone, and officers were dispatched 90 seconds after the shooting started. Douglas Laird, a former security director for Northwest Airlines who owns an aviation security consulting business, was surprised to learn of the issue with the emergency phone. Most systems he’s seen indicate the origin of a call. If “dispatch doesn’t know where the call is coming from, that shows there’s a serious flaw, obviously,” said Laird, who has conducted security surveys at about 100 airports around the world. He was not involved in the review of the LA airport shooting. Of ficials with Los Angeles World Airpor t, the agency that runs LAX, declined to comment on any aspects of the review until the repor t is issued next month. The review also found broken “panic buttons.” Those devices are supposed to automatically call for help and activate a camera giving airport police a view of the area reporting trouble. Two of the dozen or so buttons in Terminal 3 weren’t working and several others around the airport were defective. Though TSA officers told airport officials that an officer hit the panic button at the time of the shooting, there’s no evi-
dence — video or electronic — it happened. Later testing revealed that another terminal’s entire system of buttons was down and airport police beefed up patrols until it was fixed, one of the officials said. The phone and panic button problems are the latest issues to emerge from the review of the emergency response to the Nov. 1 incident. The AP previously reported that the only two armed officers on duty in Terminal 3 were out of position when the shooting began and that medical help wasn’t quickly provided to the Transportation Security Administration officer who was the only fatality. J. David Cox Sr., national president of the American Federation of Government Employees representing 45,000 TSA employees, said today that TSA officers count on security equipment to work in an emergency and reports of such “widespread equipment defects and security gaps at LAX are deeply troubling.” He added: “Preventable issues like this cannot and must not be tolerated.” California state Assemblyman Freddie Rodriguez, D-Pomona, will hold a hearing today to review the LAX shooting. “I was shocked to hear that they have these systems in place, and they’re not functioning,”
Rodriguez said. “Why is it, and who’s responsible for it? It shouldn’t take these emergencies to find these problems are occurring.” The attack killed TSA Officer Gerardo Hernandez, the first on-duty fatality in the agency’s history, and injured two other TSA officers and a passenger. Paul Ciancia, 24, who’d moved from Pennsville, N.J., to Los Angeles two years prior, is accused of targeting TSA officers. He has pleaded not guilty to 11 federal charges, including murder of a federal officer. The broad review of the emergency response included interviews with airport staff, law enforcement and first responders, reviews of camera footage, dispatch logs and 911 calls. While it found that the response was swift, the investigation conducted by airport staff and an outside contractor identified a number of problems. Among them: — Anyone calling 911 at the airport is routed to the California Highway Patrol or Los Angeles Police Department, not airport police dispatchers. — The airport has no system allowing for simultaneous emergency announcements throughout the complex. — Most cameras in the terminal provided fixed and often limited views of areas or weren’t located at key spots such as curbs,
making it difficult for investigators to learn how and where the gunman arrived at the airport. Earlier AP reporting revealed that the two armed officers assigned to the area of the shooting weren’t in Terminal 3 at the time. Both were on breaks and had yet to notify dispatchers, as required, so neither was in position to call in the shooting. Once dispatchers put out the call for help 90 seconds later, it took nearly two more minutes before armed officers arrived. Ciancia was shot and taken into custody near gate 35, deep inside the terminal, soon afterward. The AP also found that it took 33 minutes for Hernandez to be wheeled out of the terminal to waiting medical personnel. He was pronounced dead at the hospital after surgeons worked on him for an hour. A coroner’s news release later said he likely was dead within two to five minutes after being shot multiple times. In response to the shooting, the Los Angeles Fire Department already has announced it will train more tactical paramedics who can more quickly enter dangerous areas. Los Angeles police are training their officers on how to use combat-style trauma kits. — The Associated Press
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GOLF GLORY Top: Nick Farr-Jones tees off during the second round of the New Zealand Open at The Hills Golf Club on Feb. 28 in Queenstown, New Zealand.
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IN BRIEF TRENTON, N.J. — Gov. Chris Christie has nominated a former state education commissioner to return to his former post. Christie announced yesterday that he has selected David Hespe to run the state’s Education Depar tment. Hespe held the same job under Gov. Christie Whitman from 1999 to 2001 and later returned to the depar tment under Christie as chief of staf f. Hespe is currently the president of Burlington County College. The job opened when Christopher Cerf announced he was leaving the Education Department effective today to work for an educational technology company. If he is confirmed by the state Senate, Hespe will run a
depar tment that is instituting more rigorous teacher evaluations and changing its standardized tests for students. TOTOWA, N.J. — Nearly three-dozen people have been arrested or charged in what authorities say is an international car theft ring that committed carjacking in New York and New Jersey. Acting New Jersey Attorney General John Hof fman says more than 160 vehicles were recovered in the 10-month investigation. He says those arrested range from people who committed carjackings to others who paid them $4,000 to $8,000 each for the cars to those who oversaw the operation. They’re charged with crimes including carjacking, racketeering and money laundering.
Many of the cars were stolen in nor thern New Jersey and were luxur y SUVs made by makers such as Land Rover, BMW and Mercedes Benz. Most of the cars were headed to West Africa. Twenty-six people have been arrested, and six more are being sought. NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — A New Jersey police officer has been sentenced to three years in prison for taking a joyride in a sports car then crashing into a pole and killing a fellow officer. Keith Buckley of the North Brunswick Police Department was sentenced yesterday in state Superior Court in New Brunswick. Fellow of ficer Christopher Zerby was killed in the 2008
crash. Zerby’s family, including his 88 year-old mother and his widow, with whom he had two sons, spoke at the sentencing. Buckley pleaded guilty last year to of ficial misconduct. As par t of the deal, he must resign from the police force, give up his right to hold a public job and may give up his police pension, according to The Star-Ledger of Newark. He has been suspended without pay since 2008. TRENTON, N.J. — Legislation that would have given Gov. Chris Christie the power to raise salaries for his cabinet, increased judges’ pay and tweaked the public employee pension law to benefit a few elected officials is on hold indefinitely. The Senate Budget Committee canceled a session
yesterday to consider the proposal. The Assembly Budget Committee’s pulled it from the agenda Monday. Legislative leaders had planned to fast-track the bill and send it to Christie this week. But it stalled after The Associated Press published a stor y detailing the proposal. Assembly co-sponsor Michael Patrick Carroll tells AP he believes judges and cabinet of ficers deser ve raises, though approving pay hikes for professionals who earn six-figure salaries is politically unpopular. The Republican says the bill may be revived, but a number of his colleagues remain opposed. — The Associated Press
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TERRIFIC TOURNAMENT Last Friday, medical students held a charity hockey tournament to raise money for patients of pediatric cancer. They raised almost $15,000 for the Sean Hanna Foundation, founded by a Robert Wood Johnson Medical School alumnus in memory of his brother, who passed away from cancer at 20 years old. The organization raises funds for cancer research efforts and also supports pediatric cancer patients and their families. We laurel the efforts of these medical students and alumni to come together for such a worthy cause.
Jurisdiction friction Over the last few years, the New Brunswick and Rutgers police departments have had some issues with jurisdiction that led to redrawn maps between the two to set clearer boundaries for where the RUPD had the authority to patrol. Both departments should be communicating more with each other and with us, especially in light of all the serious crimes happening around the area. The police departments get this dart for not making this information publicly accessible.
WE LIKE BIKES New Brunswick is planning to construct bike lanes across the Rutgers campus and around the city, and we’re excited to make use of them. In addition to these bike lanes, the University is also planning to improve on its bicycle-renting programs and install more bike racks to encourage use. We laurel these efforts to make it safer and easier to ride bikes around the area, especially on a campus as large as Rutgers.
FRESH GROCER FAILURE We were already so upset when the Fresh Grocer announced it would no longer be open 24 hours, but now they’ve announced that they might actually be leaving New Brunswick for good. Apparently, they are $775,000 behind on rent, which for a business that size is just irresponsible. This dart goes to the Fresh Grocer for their apparent failure — we were really reliant on them, and there are very few quality grocery stores that are within a safe walking distance for those of us who live on campus.
RESPECTABLE RETIREMENT Fred Hill recently announced his retirement after a 30-year career as the most successful head coach of the baseball team in Rutgers history. Hill was a passionate, dedicated coach and led the team to win more than 1,000 games and 12 conference championships. We laurel Hill’s exceptional career with the Scarlet Knights and hope that the team continues to excel under new leadership.
SUPERFLUOUS SUBSIDIES We we were recently assured that the athletic department would be moving toward complete financial independence as we transition into the Big Ten conference. But apparently, the department received almost $47 million from the University — $9.9 million of which came from student fees. We dart the department for continuing to use so much of our money, despite Athletic Director Julie Hermann’s promises to “do more with less.”
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Capital punishment necessary in US justice system COMMENTARY MICHAEL DENIS
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ecently, there has been a building discussion on the use of capital punishment in the U.S. Back in Januar y, my home state of Ohio executed Dennis McGuire who was convicted of the rape and murder of a pregnant woman back in 1989. The controversy arose after the state used a new cocktail of drugs to execute McGuire, who died 25 minutes following the injection — during which witnesses claimed he visibly struggled and gasped for air before expiring. His lawyers and his family have planned a federal lawsuit, claiming the procedure constituted cruel and unusual punishment. Overall, 18 states currently ban the death penalty. Opponents claim that the death penalty is a cruel and unusual form of punishment that comes at a tremendous cost to taxpayers and is already banned in most civilized countries. Supporters claim that the death penalty is a necessar y evil to administer justice for the most heinous criminals. Additionally, some opponents claim there are better ways to punish criminals for horrendous crimes. I want say that I fully support the use of capital punishment. In McGuire’s case, I take issue with the fact it took so long to execute him, but I don’t take
issue with the decision to execute him. In McGuire’s case, he should have been executed quicker the traditional drug cocktail. His victim’s family noted that his suffering paled in comparison to the suffering he inflicted when he decided to rape and murder. Personally, I disagree with the decisions by some states to ban the death penalty. I believe it is a necessar y function for states looking to unequivocally punish convicts for the most heinous
a friend assaulted, tortured and killed two female college students. Cooey was executed while his friend received life in prison because he was a minor at the time of the crime. The point is these crimes were brutal and downright despicable. These criminals sealed their fate when they committed these horrendous acts. Execution was warranted in these cases. In Sunday’s Cleveland Plain Dealer, two Ohio state representatives participated in a side-by-side debate over the use
“ I disagree with the notion that utilizing the death penalty makes our country look uncivilized: a true civilized society is essentially a utopian society with no crime whatsoever.” crimes. I see the point where some states would prefer that criminals spend the rest of their lives in prison to essentially think about the crime and rot in their cell. However, I disagree with the notion that utilizing the death penalty makes our countr y look uncivilized: A true civilized society is essentially a utopian society with no crime whatsoever. If a crime is so heinous, I think execution is warranted. Take some other examples of criminal executions in Ohio. In 1989, Jeffrey Lundgren systematically mass murdered a family that was part of his fanatical religious cult. He was executed. In 1986, Richard Cooey and
of the death penalty in the state. Each repeated the same talking points in support of their positions. Yet, I was struck by the response by of Rep. Jim Buchy, R-84. He wrote, “People like me are frequently criticized for being unashamedly pro-life, while at the same time supporting capital punishment. I simply believe that life is a precious thing, and therefore taking the life of someone else should be met with equal retribution.” Quite frankly, Buchy deser ves criticism because his position is hypocritical. He could at least be consistent in his beliefs. Meanwhile, Rep. Nickie Antonio, D-13, cited statistics that states with the death penalty had lower
crime rates than those that did. Quite frankly, her citation is a silly statistic because violent criminals aren’t necessarily lawyers, and not thinking of what the punishment is when they commit the crime — they just do it. I believe states should open debate on what methods of execution they prefer, if they of fer capital punishment. But, capital punishment should be enforced better, so cases with unclear evidence don’t result with the death of innocent men. Opponents of the death penalty are right when they claim that there is nothing humane about capital punishment. Capital punishment is not supposed to be humane, it is supposed to be reser ved to punish the most egregious criminals and crimes. During the 2012 presidential campaign, Gov. Rick Perr y, R, boasted about how many executions he approved. Proud? Really? No state should take pride in executing inmates. There is nothing to be proud of. It is not a particularly nice thought that most states in our nation still must utilize the death penalty. It is necessar y for criminals who deser ve a punishment that fits their crime, particularly the most heinous. McGuire deser ved his punishment, but the circumstances of his execution do deser ve discussion. Michael Denis is a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore majoring in political science with minors in history and public policy.
Corrupt corporations should be critically analyzed COMMENTARY KAITLIN D’AGOSTINO
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mericans everywhere both marveled and broke out in anger over Coca-Cola’s Super Bowl commercial this year and its broad support for our country’s ethnic and linguistic diversity. Some were incredibly glad to see the United States portrayed in the media as multicultural and multilingual, while others were shocked and appalled at this image of the U.S. speaking languages other than English, and showcasing people other than the white population. While there is great importance in making all ethnicities and linguistic communities in the U.S. known and highlighted in positive ways, there is also an issue with the maker of this commercial, Coca-Cola. Like ever ything in this world, Coca-Cola’s motives must be questioned. The truth is that even though the general public sees an image of Coca-Cola promoting diversity, there are certainly and most obviously motives as to why Coca-Cola would pull such a stunt that are not positive, but for profit. On the surface, we see Coca-Cola promoting diversity. When diving deeper into the depths of Coca-Cola’s marketing perspectives,
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the logic is to grab the perspective of the people in order to hide certain flaws of the company. First and foremost, Coca-Cola is a multinational company focused on its profits and in order to be a company that gains so much revenue, corruption on gruesome levels must be present. Marketing stunts like the commercial for this year’s Super Bowl are nearly tradition for the company to cover their controversial discourse to gain money, power and support causes
and cheered such action, but with further analysis in years to come, many environmental activists took a step back and recognized the grand corruption encompassed by this seemingly positive marketing campaign by Coca-Cola, only to take a stronger chokehold on the market and the citizens of Hungary. This is only one case of Coca-Cola’s long list of human rights violations. An important point in this discussion of Coca-Cola’s wrongdoings goes back to nine
“Coca-Cola is a multinational company focused on its profits and in order to be a company that gains so much revenue, corruption on gruesome levels must be present.” that are hateful and anything but supporting equality and diversity. For example, in the early 1990s, according to the book “Wild Capitalism” by Krista Harper, Coca-Cola participated in environmental and radical action camps not to promote environmentalism or radicalism, but to promote propaganda against its competitors making Coca-Cola look much like a radical savior while they were only in it to promote their hyper-capitalist approach to the market and monopolize. At the time, post-Soviet Hungary rejoiced
years ago at Rutgers University. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, a campaign titled “Killer Coke” was up and running at the University to boycott all Coca-Cola products on the basis that Coca-Cola was terrorizing several thousand Coca-Cola workers in Columbia, murdering eight workers. The company remained unobservant, but the news got out and it became time for Coca-Cola to take responsibility for their malicious actions. Because of such enormous corruption, Rutgers University took action to switch
to PepsiCo, a different beverage company, although it is also corrupt in nature. Coca-Cola has also been reported to have supported the 2014 Sochi Olympics in Russia, ignorant of the violations against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people that the country has made, use of dangerous pesticides which lead the Indian state of Kerala to banning its products in 2006 for concern of public health for their citizens, excessive water use depleting countries all around the world of their water supply, bribery, support of the South African and Palestinian apartheids and racial discrimination within its company. All in all, there are several allegations of severe human rights violations by Coca-Cola. The commercial displaying diversity should be incredibly reassessed by all. What we see on the television and in the media needs critical analysis. Coca-Cola is one of many beverage companies in the world capitalizing on political issues in order to gain profit. Their motives, as many other giant corporations aim, are to take over the market and make money. Their goals are far from promoting diversity, and this should be seen but and recognized. Kaitlin D’Agostino is a class of 2012 University alumna.
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DIVERSIONS Nancy Black
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Today’s Birthday (02/28/14). Focus, persistence and determined action wins this year. Creativity percolates through August, sparking a career leap. Manage a busy schedule with organized structures, streamlined routines, and communication. Strengthen partnerships. Harvest delicious romance over summer and autumn. Balance physical, spiritual and emotional health. Include time for play, rest and happiness. Grow your love. 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 — It’s easier to advance with Mercury direct. There’s brilliance in the chaos with both Sun and Moon in Pisces. Journal your emotions onto a hidden page. Pay attention to dreams and intuition. Taurus ( April 20-May 20) — Today is a 7 — Practical methods work best. It’s easier to get what you want with Mercury direct. Barriers in communication, with equipment and transportation dissolve. Step up a level. Maintain objectivity. Talk about what you love with friends today and tomorrow. Gemini ( May 21-June 20) — Today is an 8 — Big expenditures are not required. Creative efforts take a leap forward, with Mercury direct. Career matters most now. Study recent developments. Set inspiring goals, and remain committed to your own health. Take time for exercise and rest. Cancer ( June 21-July 22) — Today is a 7 — Get lost in introspection and studies with the Sun and New Moon in Pisces. Your imagination’s especially fertile. Travel to a new culture with Mercury direct. Transportation and communication flow again. Discover something. Leo ( July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is an 8 — Take time for peaceful reflection, with a new direction in the road ahead. A dream emerges in the process. Things work better with Mercury direct. Handle financial matters, sign contracts, and invest in high quality. Virgo ( Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 9 — Let your sensitive side play freely. Ask someone else to handle your chores, please. Catch up on correspondence, and let your network know how much they mean to you. Communication and travels flow with renewed ease.
Libra ( Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 7 — Today and tomorrow issues of service, health and well being have your attention. The workload’s getting intense. Equipment works better now that Mercury’s direct. Take time for rest, good food and exercise. Scorpio ( Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 6 — Delegate your responsibilities, and play with folks you love and admire today and tomorrow. Travel flows with renewed ease, now that Mercury’s direct. Explore the emotional undercurrent of a creative project with the Sun and New Moon in Pisces. Sagittarius ( Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 7 — Sensitive words come easily at home, with both Sun and Moon in Pisces. Take time to pay attention and participate. Clean up a mess. Communications flow with new power, now that Mercury’s direct. Take advantage. Share food. Capricorn ( Dec 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 9 — Talk about your dreams with both the Sun and New Moon in Pisces. Inspiration and imagination swirl today and tomorrow, and a new seed gets planted. Reveal a secret. Entertain yourself with words rather than action. Aquarius ( Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 9 — Let your creative light shine, and illuminate your income higher. Work’s fun, with money both coming and going. Everything works better with Mercury direct. Tune your domestic environment to lower costs by conserving energy. Pisces ( Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 6 -- You’re the star, with both Sun and New Moon in your sign. Your strength and confidence get a boost. Push to realize a dream, and leap ahead. Your message travels easily, now that Mercury’s direct. Launch your next phase.
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Sykes exposed Rutgers’ defense, making go-ahead layup with 42 seconds left
Scaife has become better perimeter defender since first meeting with Huskies
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If Rutgers fails to play a complete game, USF might end its UCF exposed Rutgers’ defensive losing streak at the Louis Brown deficiencies as guard Isaiah Sykes Athletic Center. In their last two games, the made a go-ahead layup with 42 secKnights played inconsistently in onds remaining. Junior wing Craig Brown the final minutes against UCF guarded Sykes on the perimeter. and the opening minutes Feb. 20 Sykes shifted past him, as Rut- against Memphis. Once 8:19 remained in the gers barely contested him for the first half against the Tigers, Rutopen layup. Rutgers still finds difficulty gers outscored Memphis, 48-42. Unfortunately for the Knights, with what UCF improved on. Memphis took “It’s nice to a 22-11 lead bebe in a tight fore then. game and fi“When you’re up 15, But in the loss nally win one,” to UCF, it is a bad UCF head you should win, but sign for Rutgers coach Donnie you’ve got to play that its collapse Jones told the 40 minutes and got another lowly AP. “We’re AAC team to play learning how we played about 36.” the brand of basmuch toughketball it wants. ness you need eddie jordan “We’ve had a to win in this Head Coach lot of late-game league, how slip ups this to get some season and this stops defenwas a great way sively to finish games and not just hang around. to show our fans that we’ve had enough and learned from our We did that tonight.” USF gives Rutgers a chance to mistakes,” UCF for ward Tristan break its four-game skid, as the Bulls Spurlock told the AP. “This failed to win their last five. Their is the way we’re supposed to last regulation victory was Jan. 28 play basketball.” against SMU. For updates on the Rutgers During that losing streak, UConn beat USF, 80-43, Feb. 12 men’s basketball team, follow Josh in Hartford, Conn., but the Bulls Bakan on Twitter @JoshBakan. improved, only losing to the Hus- For general Rutgers sports updates, follow @TargumSports. kies on Wednesday, 61-56.
continued from back UConn exploded into an 18-6 lead in less than five minutes, finishing with 20 fast-break points,
despite the fact Rutgers turned the ball over just 10 times. Huskies guard Bria Hartley finished with six 3-pointers from the perimeter, while likely AP Player of the Year in 6-foot-4 forward Breanna Stewart was a mismatch all over the floor for Rutgers en route to 23 points and nine rebounds. But Rutgers has seen fundamental progress since. Freshman guard Tyler Scaife, known for her quickness and versa-
Sophomore forward Ariel Butts had her best game of the year with 8 points and eight boards Wednesday against Temple. TIANFANG YU / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
tile offensive game, has lately been more conscious defensively. Staying low and shuffling her feet is stiffening the top of Rutgers’ 2-3 zone, where Scaife is responsible for staying in front of guards at the perimeter. The Knights also have more depth in the paint. With sophomore forward Rachel Hollivay producing inconsistently, Stringer shuffled her lineup Wednesday and gave sophomore Ariel Butts a start in the paint. The Columbus, Ga., native provided a spark with season highs of 8 points and eight rebounds in only 20 minutes. “She did a great job. She’s been working really hard in practice, and so I think what she’s doing in practice is being displayed in the games,” said junior wing Betnijah Laney. “It was really good to see that we’re versatile in the post, so we have three different body types, three different styles of play. It was good to be able to have someone else in there that can also get it done.” With just two games left before the AAC Tournament, finding as much versatility up and down the lineup as possible is most important to Stringer. A win against the undefeated Huskies is farfetched, but the Knights still have a chance to make a statement. “That’s important, that’s encouraging because then the players do not have to feel that they have to stay in there too long to the point where they start messing up,” Stringer said. “... At the championship levels, when you’re playing back-to-back games, and then traveling the distances that we are, if you have five people — I don’t care how good they are — they’re not going to be able to sustain.”
MISTAKES Nardella’s injury against Virginia exposed the flaws Rutgers possesses continued from back Saturday — one of the many mistakes head coach Brian Brecht believed to be costly. “We were 15-of-22 clearing the ball. So seven times we had possession off of a save or off a groundball that we came up with in the defensive end, and seven times we failed to clear it to have an offensive possession,” Brecht said. “… So 13 out of [Virginia’s] 19 goals were failed clears, turning the ball over and then at the end of quarters in dead ball situations. I’m not saying if we didn’t do that then all of a sudden we win, 12-6, but they did a good job of making us pay for our mistakes.” Junior faceoff specialist Joe Nardella’s injury late in the first half may have exposed the flaws the Knights’ possess without the preseason All-Big East player on the field. In Nardella’s absence, Rutgers was out ground-balled, 27-12, and outshot, 27-10, in the second half, failing to register a shot on target during the third quarter. With or without Nardella tomorrow, the Knights must limit the amount of self-inflicted mistakes if they are to win on the road against Stony Brook in New York. The Seawolves (1-2) like to have long possessions, control the tempo and supply their Canadian left-handed attacker Brody Eastwood — who is tied with Rutgers senior attacker Scott Klimchak for
Senior defender Andrew Parrilla and Rutgers’ defense will look to rebound after conceding 19 goals against No. 4 Virginia in its loss last Saturday. The Knights conceded just five goals in each of their first two games. TIAN LI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / APRIL 2013 second in the nation in goals per game — as often as possible. Rutgers lost, 9-8, following three overtime periods to Stony Brook last year at the RU Turf Complex. With a chance to enact some revenge, Brecht is confident the Knights will have no problems finding motivation. “Ever yone knows we dropped a three overtime one-goal game against them at home last year, so we can remind them,” Brecht
said. “But as a coach, you don’t forget and as a player you don’t forget.” While the Knights enter the matchup coming off a tough road loss against Virginia, Klimchak — the reigning Big East Offensive Player of the Week — feels there are positives to build on. “It was a tough loss but at halftime we were only down 9-8,” Klimchak said. “… We were leading the entire half basically, until the last 30 seconds or so when
they got a cheap one at the end of the half, but it just shows we can play with anybody.” Though the Knights’ attack has faced little adversity in their first three games, the defense is starting to show cracks. Against the Cavaliers, Rutgers conceded 19 goals after holding Manhattan and Wagner to five goals each in its previous two games. The Knights’ goals conceded were the most since a 20-13 loss to St. John’s on Mar. 16 last year.
Despite the poor showing against Virginia, sophomore goalkeeper Kris Alleyne — who earned recognition on the Big East Weekly Honor Roll this week — believes the defense will not be discouraged. “I have all the confidence in the world in our defense and our defensive midfielders,” Alleyne said. “I just know after a hard week of practice following a tough game on the road, we’ll bounce back.”
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February 28, 2014 TENNIS RUTGERS-CORNELL, TOMORROW, NOON
Knights desire marquee win against Ivy League opponent By Nick Jannarone Contributing Writer
With a tough matchup against Cornell on the horizon, the Rutgers tennis team (4-3, 1-1) will try to make some adjustments this week in practice to prepare for tomorrow’s match in Ithaca, N.Y. “We’ve spent a lot of time focusing on the things that we struggled with last weekend,” said junior Lindsay Balsamo. “This is definitely a match we would like to win.” A 4-3 start to the season is something head coach Ben Bucca is proud of. He feels the Scarlet Knights have played better than their record shows. “Even though we only split our matches this past weekend, we played extremely well,” Bucca said. “Throughout the season we’ve played with positive spirits, and it has helped us play well.” Cornell has a 2-2 record, but they have not played a match since Feb. 8. This may benefit the Knights, who have played five matches during that time. Regardless of Rutgers’ record, Bucca knows better than to dismiss an Ivy League school as mediocre. “Cornell, like all the Ivy League teams, is always strong,” Bucca said. “They’ll definitely be a test for us to see how improved we’ve gotten over the last few weeks.” A nearly four-hour trip for Rutgers will put an end to its six-match road trip that began back on Feb. 9 against Penn. The Knights are 2-3 thus far on their stretch of road matches, with a win last Saturday
Junior Lindsay Balsamo said the Knights need to focus on improving issues they struggled with last weekend, where they went 1-1. Balsamo is 2-1 on the season in singles competition. TIAN LI / ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR / APRIL 2013 bringing them back to .500 in away contests. “Although this match is important for us to continue our winning ways, I would definitely not say it is a ‘must-win,’” Bucca said. “We just have to focus on what we do, and if we play better in our doubles matches and limit the unforced errors, then we’ll be in prime position to win.”
If the Knights can pull out a victory on Saturday, it would mark their first win against an Ivy League team this season. Two home matches against Binghamton and Delaware loom, and having a 5-3 record going into those contests would be reassuring for Rutgers. With team morale high, it appears as if the Knights are poised to begin a winning streak.
Senior co-captain Vanessa Petrini has been ver y pleased with how much enthusiasm the team has played with and how successful they have been, but she is not satisfied with that alone. “We need to keep winning and grab the momentum in our favor for when we go down to New Orleans for spring break, and for
the remainder of the season,” Petrini said. With some strong performances from top to bottom and fortunate bounces, the Knights could be well on their way to a successful stretch of matches. For updates on the Rutgers tennis team, follow @TargumSports on Twitter.
WOMEN’S GOLF KNIGHTS COMPETE IN KIAWAH SPRING INVITATIONAL STARTING SUNDAY
Rutgers looks to overcome youth in spring invite By Ryan Moran Contributing Writer
Starting March 2, the Rutgers women’s golf team will look to right the ship in the Kiawah Spring Invitational. This comes after a poor start of the second half of its season at the Michigan State Central District Invitational. The Scarlet Knights finished in last place among 13 teams. In total, they finished 97 shots over par.
“What most hurt us last week was that we had not played a round of golf on grass in several months,” said head coach Maura Ballard. “So, our first two rounds, we were shaking off the rust. Our touch and feel around the greens was much improved by the third round of the tournament.” Although it was not an ideal performance for Rutgers, there were a few bright spots. Freshman Taylor Clark and sophomore Samantha Moyal put
on the best performances for Rutgers, posting scores of 14 and 21 over par, respectively. Moyal is one of the six sophomores on the team. “I think all of us sophomores are leaders in our own way. Yes, I do see myself as a leader,” Moyal said. “However, I think that a huge part of being a leader involves listening and respecting other people’s opinions and inputs.” For Clark, it was the best performance of her young collegiate
Freshman Taylor Clark paced the Knights at the Central District Invitational, carding a 230 to finish 59th out of 80 participants. THE DAILY TARGUM / FILE PHOTO / OCTOBER 2013
career, posting a combined score of 230 over the three rounds. Ballard thinks it is only the beginning for her. “I think Taylor Clark is just scratching the surface on what she is capable of accomplishing during her collegiate career,” Ballard said. “She is very focused and very dedicated to improving her game.” The performance stood out for Clark as a means to improve. “Every time that I play golf, I try to play with a one-shot mindset in order to properly manage the conditions and situations that arise during a round,” Clark said. “I feel that I played well under the course conditions, but I also look forward to use the experience that I have gained at this tournament to continue to improve my golf game.” Rutgers has a young golf team, fielding six sophomores and two freshmen. The youth on the roster will be a factor, according to Ballard. “I think it is definitely a factor how a young team performs compared to a veteran team. … By the time our athletes are juniors and seniors they have grown immensely in confidence and maturity,” Ballard said. “That makes them much better competitors. My players know they’re young and it’s early in their careers. I believe that keeps them
focused knowing every year it will get a little easier for them.” Moyal spoke on her personal approach to tournaments. “For every round I like to stay in the moment, which means hitting one shot at a time and not having any preconceived notions of what the outcome will be,” she said. “I know I’m capable of shooting low like I did in my last round at the Michigan State tournament in Florida.” Rutgers comes into the Kiawah Spring Invitational looking to build on its third-round success from the last tournament. Golfing for Rutgers will be the same five as last time: Clark, Moyal, sophomore Jackie Mullens, sophomore Gabrielle Sacheli and freshman Maddy Gedeon. Some of the things Ballard said the team is looking to improve upon from the past tournament are its short game, chipping and putting. “A few keys for us to perform better are to continue to focus on the present moment, stay confident and do the best you can on the shot at hand,” Ballard said. “My goals for the upcoming tournament are for each of us to be patient and continue to hone our skills. I am looking for improvement each time we play.” For updates on the Rutgers women’s golf team, follow @TargumSports on Twitter.
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February 28, 2014 GYMNASTICS
WOMEN’S LACROSSE DELAWARE-RUTGERS, TOMORROW, 1 P.M.
RU stresses intensity at Delaware By Conor Nordland Staff Writer
Senior Alexis Gunzelman looks to improve upon her career-high all-around score last Saturday in the Rutgers quad meet. EDWIN GANO / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / FEBRUARY 2014
Senior, Rutgers aim for consistent meet By Justin Lesko Contributing Writer
Senior Alexis Gunzelman has had quite the up-and-down performances in the Rutgers gymnastics team’s past three meets. She earned a career-high allaround score of 39.35 on Feb. 9 at George Washington, then broke it last Saturday with a 39.4 in a quad meet at home. In between, she had a performance she would rather forget. Not only was her score of 38.025 well below her previous season low, but it was also her worst performance in 17 meets, dating back to May 2012. “After my performance last week, I knew I had to go into the gym confident and I think I really got it back,” Gunzelman said. The Knights have been similarly inconsistent as a team since they started out with three team scores around 195 in their first three meets. In the next two meets, they followed with scores below 193.5 but seem to be progressing with a 194.575 in their meet last weekend with No. 18 Penn State, Temple and Ursinius. “I think it’s about remembering what we did in those first three meets and what we need to figure out,” Gunzelman said. “I think a lot of it was that we did not have anything else to focus on except gymnastics.” The team’s first three meets occurred when class was not in session during winter break. “We are integrating both school and outside studies and stuff like that,” Gunzelman said. “We have to be able to balance that and I think some days we come into practice and we’re tired, but we need to be able to work through those and that’s what we’re figuring out.”
Following Wednesday’s 11-4 loss at Princeton, the Rutgers women’s lacrosse team is going back to the drawing board. In a game the 18th-ranked Tigers (1-1) completely dominated, the Scarlet Knights (2-1) realize that changes need to be made if it wishes to get back to its winning ways. “We need to turn the page on a lot of things after [Wednesday’s] loss, it was a poor effort all around,” said head coach Laura Brand-Sias. The competition does not get any easier for the Knights. Their next opponent, Delaware, was 10-6 last year but have started the new season slow at 1-2. Brand-Sias got her team together for a long meeting Wednesday morning following the loss to Princeton. The purpose was to remind everyone of the goals they set out for themselves at the start of the year and to remain focused after a tough loss. Her players seemed to get the message. “Staying positive from start to finish is really important for us,” said senior midfielder Amanda Trendell. Relying on the game plan set out for them is important but bringing
the proper effort is critical for Rutgers, which Brand-Sias reiterated. “Overall, our intensity and competitiveness needs to be better,” Brand-Sias said. “We have to bring it for the full 60 minutes.” Delaware, much like Princeton, will pose a tough test for the Knights. The Blue Hens have a high-powered offense with five key starters from last year’s unit.
“Overall, our intensity and competitiveness needs to be better. We have to bring it for the full 60 minutes.” LAURA BRAND-SIAS Head Coach
Attacker Kara Dattellas leads the Blue Hens with eight points so far into the season. The Knights’ defense will need a big turnaround from Wednesday’s loss, where they allowed a season-high 11 goals. The same could be said for the offense, which scored only 16 goals so far this year. While Brand-Sias knows her team does not lack talent, she ac-
knowledges that there are other important facets of the game that the Knights need to get better at. “We really need to work on our mental toughness going forward,” Brand-Sias said. Brand-Sias also mentioned that changes might be made to the starting lineup as practice goes on throughout the week. Tweaking the starting units may prove to be a beneficial change for Rutgers. “Our number one thing is putting together the best unit that wants to win,” Brand-Sias said. The team as a whole realizes its game needs to get better if it wishes to improve to 3-1 on the season. Collecting wins in the non-conference portion of the schedule is essential for the Knights once they start conference play in the competitive Big East. Delaware provides Rutgers the perfect opportunity to rebound while the season is still young. The Knights need more intensity, according to Brand-Sias, who stresses the team expects more from themselves. “We need to bring our competitive fire to the field on Saturday,” Trendell said. For updates on the Rutgers women’s lacrosse team, follow @ TargumSports on Twitter.
MEN’S GOLF COLLETON RIVER INTERCOLLEGIATE STARTS SUNDAY Penn State was the second ranked team Rutgers faced this year. It defeated No. 22 Ohio State early in the season. “Any time you get one of those top-25 programs it’s obviously a chance to step up and show how good you are,” said head coach Louis Levine. “Mostly I think we did a good job [against Penn State].” If the Knights hope to accomplish their team goal of qualifying for the NCAA Regionals, they have to start figuring it out now with only four meets remaining. They begin with a dual-meet at Cornell tomorrow. Rutgers’ current regional qualifying score of 194.615 puts them 30th in the nation. If the season ended today, they would fall outside of the top 18 teams that automatically qualify for the NCAA Tournament. They would be one of six teams in the Northeast Regionals at Penn State’s campus fighting for two tickets to the gymnastics championship in Birmingham, Ala. The Knights have faced injuries like this, beginning with an injury to freshman April Baker in the second meet of the season at Kent State. Junior Luisa Leal — arguably one of the team’s top two gymnasts — and bars specialist Emma Hoffman were both injured at Texas Women’s University on Feb. 1. Hoffman performed for the first time since the injury last weekend, and Levine hinted that another gymnast might be coming back soon, although he did not specify whom. “It felt really great definitely to get out of practice and show what I can do for the team,” Hoffman said. “Just to get back out there and contribute.” For updates on the Rutgers gymnastics team, follow @TargumSports on Twitter.
Knights seek tourney improvement By Daniel LoGiudice Contributing Writer
Coming off a disappointing performance at the Cal State Fullerton Folino Invitational, the Rutgers men’s golf team looks to return to its winning ways at the Colleton River Intercollegiate in South Carolina this Sunday and Monday. The Scarlet Knights hope to replicate and possibly surpass their successes from the fall season. The Knights finished seventh Feb. 18 at Cal State Fullerton –– disappointing after impressive wins during both the Lehigh and Hartford Invitationals last fall. “Last week we were down in the leaderboard and we don’t like being there, it doesn’t taste good,” said head coach Rob Shutte. “It will be good to get that taste out of our mouths and get back out on the course in South Carolina.” The Rutgers are sending five players to this weekend’s tournament: seniors Jonathan Renza and Doug Walters, junior Jacob Stockl, sophomore Jonathan Chang and freshman Michael Howe. While the Knights are a relatively young team, Shutte believes Rutgers is prepared. “Even though we’re young, our freshmen and sophomores have played a lot of tournaments and we have poise and experience,” Shutte said. “I like to think we’re more mature than the other teams out there.” To prepare for the tournament, Shutte had the golfers practice shots based on a simulation of the course they will encounter in South Carolina.
Sophomore Jonathan Chang is one of the five golfers going to the Colleton River Intercollegiate on Sunday for Rutgers. THE DAILY TARGUM / FILE PHOTO / SEPTEMBER 2012
This is a way to familiarize the golfers with the course before setting foot on the links. “We know what to expect,” Renza said. “It’s like we already played the course without going down there yet.” On top of simulating the course, the Knights value the importance of repetition to prepare. “We’re trying to get as many reps during practice rounds so we’re not lost,” Chang said. To win the tournament, Rutgers is hoping for exceptional performances from all its golfers. There is no single player that is relied upon to carry the team. “In order for us to compete, we need all five guys to play well, and they’re all pretty equal in terms of ability,” Shutte said. “Anyone who plays for Rutgers is expected to win.” Though traditionally viewed as an individual sport, for the Knights, golf is a team effort. The players liken themselves as equals, and teamwork during practice is what gives the Knights
the best chance of winning this weekend. “We’re starting to look like an actual team,” Chang said. “We’re starting to push ourselves to be better and not necessarily being mean to each other, but keeping everyone accountable.” It is apparent that the golfers value the team’s success over its own and that gives them the best chance to succeed this weekend. When it would be so easy to ignore the team and focus on one’s own game, the Knights value teamwork, which makes everyone better. This is what makes Rutgers capable of winning this weekend and other future tournaments. Above all, the Knights are confident in their abilities. Rutgers feel it has a great chance of bouncing back from its poor performance last week and are ready to compete this weekend. “We wouldn’t be out there if we didn’t think we could win,” Renza said.
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Time dwindles for Rutgers to get on track By Josh Bakan Correspondent
The Rutgers men’s basketball team’s loss against Central Florida on Wednesday put the Scarlet Knights in a bad spot. Rutgers’ (10-18, 4-11) goal is to finish sixth in the AAC, which gives it a first-round bye in the conference tournament. That is Houston’s (13-14, 5-9) to take with an easier schedule than the Knights for the rest of the regular season. The Knights next host South Florida (1216, 3-12) tomorrow, but it gets more difficult from there. Now in a four-game losing streak, Rutgers closes the regular season against UConn (22-6, 10-5) and No. 11 Cincinnati (24-4, 13-2). Houston, meanwhile, hosts No. 21 Memphis (21-6, 10-4) and then faces Temple (7-19, 2-12), South Florida and UCF (11-15, 3-12). Rutgers must find a way to beat any of the top-five AAC teams. While a few of the Knights’ matches against these foes were competitive, Rutgers is still 0-8 against those opponents this year. Other than that, Rutgers is 4-3 against the AAC’s bottom half. UCF contributed that third loss by overcoming a 54-39 deficit with 9:30 left in the game. So no matter the opponent and Rutgers’ lead, the Knights’ ability to close out a game is never a guarantee. “When you’re up 15, you should win, but you’ve got to play 40 minutes and we played about 36,” head coach Eddie Jordan told The Associated Press. “We couldn’t come up with the need baskets in those last four minutes and they did.” Head coach Eddie Jordan said the Knights’ loss Wednesday at UCF stemmed from an inability to play for a complete 40 minutes. RU has only three games left to push for the AAC’s sixth seed, starting tomorrow against USF. DENNIS ZURAW / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL NO. 24 RUTGERS-NO. 1 CONNECTICUT, TOMORROW, 4 P.M.
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New-look RU gets chance to avenge humiliating loss By Greg Johnson
swered the call,” Stringer said postgame. “We played them a little differently than we played them the first time. We recognized that they were attacking us a lot, so we went to the zones, which was helpful.” Tomorrow the Knights (21-6, 12-4) must make their biggest adjustments to date in a rematch with the defending national champions in Storrs, Conn. Back on Jan. 19 at the Louis Brown Athletic Center, No. 1 UConn (29-0, 16-0) handed Rutgers a 30-point humiliation — its worst of the season and one of only two double-digit losses. For as much prowess as the Knights tend to show offensively on fast breaks, the Huskies exposed flaws Rutgers had getting back defensively in transition.
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In a season where 14 of the Rutgers women’s basketball team’s first 20 wins came by double digits, a more hard-fought 21st victory gave head coach C. Vivian Stringer a sense of how far the Scarlet Knights have come. Although No. 24 Rutgers led wire-to-wire Wednesday night, on several occasions it had to fend off a pesky Temple (12-15, 6-10) team that refused to relent. The Knights held an 11-point advantage early in the first half, but entered halftime only up three. They led by as many as nine in the second half, and then saw their lead shrink back to three. No matter what angle the Owls tried to expose Rutgers defensively, the Knights kept responding. “It was good that they challenged us, but most importantly, it was good that we an-
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UConn forward Breanna Stewart tallied 23 points Jan. 19 against RU at the RAC. DENNIS ZURAW / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
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Drenched in sweat following a team workout inside the Hale Center, senior defender Andrew Parrilla reported to the Rutgers men’s lacrosse team’s coaching lounge to look over film from its last game. Aside from the lack of communication and missed defensive rotations brought to Parrilla’s attention by assistant coach Craig McDonald during the session, one glaring statistic stood out among the rest. The Scarlet Knights (2-1) had seven failed clearances against No. 4 Virginia last
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