The Daily Targum 2010-03-05

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The Rutgers men’s basketball team fell to Seton Hall 85-74 last night at the Louis Brown Athletic Center. It was the second loss to The Hall in as many weeks for the Knights.

Program swipes in support for Elijah’s Promise

Fulbrights offer rare opportunity

BY COLLEEN ROACHE CORRESPONDENT

BY MELISSA SORIANO

Operation Robin Hood, University alumnus Charlie Kratovil’s initiative to assist the hungry in New Brunswick, came to a close this Sunday after raising nearly $2,500 in donations for Elijah’s Promise.

“We’re very glad that [Kratovil] has joined the University’s longstanding efforts to support Elijah’s Promise,” Vice President for Student Affairs Gregory S. Blimling said. “For many years, the University has donated food, and it also has set up charitable programs. … We’re glad that they’ve supported the University’s efforts and are also now supporting that effort.”

The campaign collected a total of 743 meals throughout last month, University Spokesman E.J. Miranda said.

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reach $10 million to finish construction, Carlebach said.

Even with the immense renovations and extension, the house is expected to open this year.

“We are negotiating with banks to receive some of the additional money because we, like most others, have learned that with this economy, fundraising is not the most conducive plan,” he said.

The new center will allow more space in the Jewish students’ student center, but not

Nineteen students at the University have the potential to pursue a life-changing experience abroad.

Of the 35 candidates at the University who applied for a Fulbright Fellowship this year, 19 students were selected as finalists, said Arthur Casciato, director of Distinguished Fellowships and Postgraduate Guidance.

Casciato is the main man responsible for searching for potential Fulbright participants and encouraging them to apply.

“It’s a wonderful opportunity and a lifechanging experience,” he said.

Fulbright grants, funded by the U.S. Department of State, are designed to give graduating seniors, recent graduates and graduate students opportunities for personal development and international experience, Casciato said.

If awarded a Fulbright grant, candidates can travel to one of more than 130 host countries to do independent research, field work, university coursework, business internships, special projects in the social or life sciences or teach English as a foreign language, he said.

To determine which students would be excellent candidates for a fellowship, Casciato’s first step is reaching out and convincing potentials to apply.

The amount of applicants has grown from eight students in his first year to 35 this year, he said.

“The trick is to keep the level of support up,” Casciato said. “They have to be

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Operation Robin Hood, an initiative headed by University Alumnus Charlie Kratovil, came to a close this Sunday after raising nearly $2,500 in donations through student meal swipes.

Chabad House expands center’s aspirations RINAL SHAH CORRESPONDENT

MARY CONLON

The Chabad House on the College Avenue campus is undergoing expansion and expects the project to be completed this year.

Obama grants more student possibilities

BY ARIEL NAGI NEWS EDITOR

As more and more students prepare to walk across their high school graduation stage, President Barack Obama is working to make sure they get the chance to march at a college graduation as well, through the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act. Melody Barnes, Obama’s domestic policy adviser and director of the Domestic Policy Council, and Secretar y of Education Arne Duncan on Tuesday held an open-for-questions session about the act.

Duncan said the act is important because it gives more students the opportunity to not only be able to get into college and afford it, but for them to actually be able to finish and graduate with less debt.

“This is a once-in-a-lifetime oppor tunity to dramatically increase money, put billions of dollars behind college students

who are working hard, almost $10 billion for childhood education, and to do without going back to taxpayers for a dime,” he said.

The act, which already passed the House of Representatives, is awaiting action from the Senate, Duncan said.

The act would make sure the maximum Pell Grant, which has doubled since the Obama Administration took office last year, is secure. It’s amount pays with inflation, Barnes said.

“That is a critical bill,” she said. “One of the things that it does in the front end is it makes sure that we educate our youngest citizens, [and] that we’re educating small children.

But on the other end of the spectrum, it makes sure that we are doing the best for students who want to go to college — to a fouryear or a two-year institution.”

It would also introduce an access and completion fund,

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The Chabad House has been in New Brunswick since 1978, when it started as a small organization on the first floor of the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus.

But even with the construction of a center adjacent to the student center, which was bought years ago, the organization has received so many interested members that they are in need of another expansion.

Chabad has raised $4 to $5 million to date and hopes to

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Veteran students activate social service group

BY COLLEEN ROACHE CORRESPONDENT

For incoming students at the University, making new friends, navigating administrative offices and getting involved in campus organizations can be tough. For a student returning from the military, it can be even tougher.

One new organization, tentatively named Rutgers University Ser vices, Education and Resources for Veteran Students, is trying to make life for student veterans a little easier.

“The University College Community has done a lot for veterans,” said Tana Loy, a founding member of the group. “But we just feel like there needed to be more of a social group and … a service group as well.”

Loy and three other University student veterans — School of Environmental and Biological Sciences first-year student Alex Leniw, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences junior Kevin Parks and School of Arts and Sciences junior Drew Daddio — got together to organize a group to assist other student veterans and military families.

“The University strongly supports student veterans and welcomes the opportunity to have an active and engaged student veterans’ group on the campus,” Vice President for Student Affairs

Gregory S. Blimling said. “RutgersCamden and Rutgers-Newark have very active and engaged student groups, and I’m very pleased that this new group is coming forward with a proposal to create a similar kind of organization here at Rutgers-New Brunswick.”

Among the group’s goals is making social networking among veterans easier, helping students navigate veteran-specific benefits, such as those outlined in the GI Bill, and assisting veterans with their transition to life at college, said Loy, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student. It also plans to hold fundraisers to support veterans and their families.

Loy — who served in the United States Army for more than three years — got the idea for the group when she attended a recent luncheon where she met student veterans from the Newark and Camden campuses who talked about their groups. Loy felt there also needed to be a support group in New Brunswick, the site of the largest population of student veterans.

Since then, Loy has found new members through Sakai, Facebook and even just walking around campus. The UCC has also helped her get the word out through e-mails.

Of the estimated 200 students who receive veterans’ benefits, 10 percent have responded.

“There are a lot of people that just didn’t know where to go,” Loy

said. “They didn’t know who to contact. I’ve adjusted to civilian life … I’ll find out what I need to find out, [but] I know other people have problems with getting their GI Bill done on time.”

When 10-year Coast Guard veteran Alex Leniw heard about Loy’s idea he was eager to get involved.

Like Loy, Leniw, 29, said he was able to determine how to

“There’s more military veteran students here than there are in Camden or in Newark.”

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get in contact with the right people on campus, but he said things might be tougher for younger people.

“I felt that I pretty much had to figure everything out on my own,” he said. “It was pretty much all on me. The resources were all in place, but it was just a matter of finding them.”

Leniw said making the transition to civilian life smoother for returning veterans is a major goal for the group.

The University already has a lot of resources in place — like counseling services — which is something Leniw said makes the community here special, but the organization will be sure to make them more easily accessible to its members.

Loy said sometimes the best help comes from a peer.

“We need to have a really good social aspect to it too, and that way, if there’s a guy who’s really struggling and then there’s another guy who went through the same thing, they can talk about it [among] themselves as well,” she said.

William Dennis Brown Jr., state director for the Student Veterans of America, founded the organization on the Camden campus two years ago and is pleased to see the new organization start up here.

“I’m really, really happy that this new group is on campus,” Brown, a Rutgers-Camden senior, said. “Now we have a veterans’ and military student group on all three campuses at Rutgers. I think that’s an investment … There’s more military veteran students here than there are in Camden or in Newark.”

Brown said the population of those severely afflicted by their ser vice in the militar y is not great, but services need to be in place nonetheless.

Brown served in more than 200 missions as a combat veteran Navy Seal in Iraq, and has advo-

cated for veterans by meeting with government officials and University administration, helping to write legislation that supports student veterans.

He initially went into the military to serve his country and receive militar y benefits but chose to return after Sept. 11.

When he came to campus, Brown felt most students could not relate to his experiences. “[A friend and I] started talking about how sometimes we kind of felt isolated on campus because the majority of our classmates were younger than us and they didn’t know about the militar y experience,” Brown said.

“They weren’t [returning] from a war zone, which we were. We had a different perspective on a lot of things than our classmates.”

Brown, who hopes to go to law school on the Camden campus after graduation, commended the University on its assistance for veterans on campus.

“Once the intellectual leadership at Rutgers realized that there was a way that Rutgers could improve and help military veteran students, they took real steps to make that happen,” Brown said.

Regardless of whether they have served in the military, students can reach out to the community of student veterans through the Facebook group, Rutgers-New Brunswick Student Veterans.

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A University maintenance employee repairs the stairway Wednesday leading to Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus. Students complained about the steps, which were damaged for months.

house, a new quiet lounge and a new student lounge with pool tables, Carlebach said. hold at least 750 students “The biggest benefit out of this construction is the expancontinued from front sion of the main hall where only will it be expanded, the Shabbat dinners are held,” said existing student center and resiRutgers Business School senior dence hall will also be renovated, and former Chabad President Uri said Executive Director and Kapilovich. “Many Jewish stuFounding Rabbi Yosef Carlebach. dents love coming to Chabad on “The building is at capacity, so Friday nights to welcome in the the extension was needed in Shabbat, and I think that the order to accommodate to the stuexpansion would be able to cater dents’ comfort,” he said. to all those students.”

The building’s residence halls He is pleased construction were at capacity will be done soon. within two years, “The new con“It is wonderful and more than struction is pro1,000 meals per gressing ver y that the Jewish day were being quickly and is deficommunity is made, causing the nitely going to be small space to be for the growing at Rutgers.” worthwhile an inconvenience, Jewish community URI KAPILOVICH Carlebach said. of Rutgers Rutgers Business School “It was time to U n i v e r s i t y, ” senior grow again,” he Kapilovich said. said.

When the renoThe house’s vations are comtotal square footage will plete, the Chabad House will be increase from 35,000 to 85,000, the largest Jewish residence hall Carlebach said. in the world at a public university, Alumni and community memhe said. bers who have always supported “It is wonderful that the the organization, like Les Jewish community is growing at Turchin, the man responsible for Rutgers and that the Chabad giving money to the Chabad House is expanding in order to House when it first started, are facilitate the needs to accommofunding the expansion, he said. date the future Jewish students,” There is a women’s resisaid School of Arts and Sciences dence hall already in the house. sophomore Shani Mendelsohn.

But after the renovations, a “The organization immediatemen’s residence hall will be ly exploded with the amount of added, along with a dining facilactivities available, causing a ity with a capacity of 750 stutremendous increase in memdents, an international coffeebers,” he said.

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Professor puts energy into alternative fuel

BY VAIBHAVI SHAH CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Livingston campus’ solar farm is not the only green initiative growing on campus.

Monica Mazurek, a University chemist and professor, is designing a hydrogengenerating facility that will be linked to the farm.

Funded by the University’s Academic Excellence Fund for 2009, this would be the first illustration of using green hydrogen curated by solar voltaic energy collections, a completely pollution-free process, Mazurek said.

Energy transformed by the grid would be conver ted to hydrogen gas and connected to a refueling system that is used to power the next generation of hydrogen-fueled vehicles, she said.

By building such a facility, the University could have great economic benefits, Mazurek said. Major car companies will loan out test vehicles to any organization that has a hydrogen-refueling facility.

The University can make use of such an opportunity to move ahead in shifting from petroleum fossil fuels to renewable fuels, she said. Without renewable fuels and a transportation system or vehicles to use them, the state faces a dismal economic future, Mazurek said.

“New Jersey is a transpor tation state, we are a transpor tation corridor, so our economy is linked to transpor tation,” she said.

The countr y is faced with the conundr um of having hydrogen-fueled vehicles, but not having any refueling facilities, Mazurek said.

“It’s like the chicken and the egg, both of these have to develop at the same time, and that’s what happened 100 years ago,” she said. “We can’t expect alternative fuels to be widely used unless we can get this infrastructure constructed, which is what we’re tr ying to design here at Rutgers.”

Though switching to alternative fuels is more environmentally friendly and cost ef ficient, businesses are reluctant to adopt such practices because it can be a disr uptive technology, Mazurek said.

“If we are improving air quality, that’s even better. If we’re helping businesses become more sustainable then that’s excellent,” she said. “If we are bringing in businesses because our energy prices and transpor tation infrastructure is state of the ar t, that will accommodate alternative fuel vehicles, that’s where we should be heading.”

Mazurek also suggested changes that could be made to the University bus system.

The 44 buses travel more than one million miles annually, generating an abundance of diesel particulate matter, she said. The University could ask Academy buses, the company from which it leases its buses, to buy E-buses, which are fueled by hydrogen.

This would be cost-efficient and also improve the air quality on campus, Mazurek said.

“If I were to put my air quality monitors out there, I’m sure

we would find that we’re not meeting air quality standards,” she said. “Students stand right where the exhaust af fluence would be.”

Waiting for governments to come to some accord regarding air pollution and alternative fuels may not be the long-run successful strategy, Mazurek said. Instead, grassroots organizations would ultimately make the difference.

One example is implementing the 2-percent solution, which suggests overall emissions can be reduced by 80 percent by 2050 if every individual could cut their carbon emissions by 2 percent every year, she said.

“Sustainability can begin at the individual level,” Mazurek said.

Mazurek dedicated the last 30 years to studying pollute particles in urban atmospheres and developing technology to apportion such matter based on molecular markers, colored coating being the molecular marker.

She describes pollute particles as M&Ms in the atmosphere. The colors are figuratively washed of f, quantified and named.

In her research, she observed more than 100 different compounds in the atmosphere of metropolitan New York.

Her findings pinpointed three major sources of pollute par ticles: motor vehicle exhaust, commercial cooking and residential heating, the latter two being unregulated.

For example, in restaurants, foods fried in deep fat such as French fries, chicken nuggets and donuts, release oily fumes into the atmosphere that people breathe daily, Mazurek said.

“We can say that people not only eat cholesterol but we can also breathe it in as particulate material,” she said.

Mazurek is concerned with carbon-containing material in the atmosphere that leads to poor air quality and ill health effects such as childhood asthma and cardiovascular problems in adults.

Urban areas are particularly important places to study since so many people live in such short distance from major transportation corridors, she said.

Childhood asthma, cardiovascular disease and lung cancer is more evident in urban populations and those that live close to transportation networks.

“Our state is basically used as a dumping ground for vehicle transportation, on-road and offroad,” Mazurek said. “The citizens of this state, especially those living in highly-trafficked areas, are breathing high levels of particulate matter.”

A third of her research involves alternative fuels and transportation infrastructure studies.

Some students feel air cleanliness is an important issue that has not been properly addressed.

“University students should care about these issues since it af fects their health,” said Samantha Mitchell, a School of Ar ts and Sciences first-year student.

On the other hand, students acknowledge there is an apathetic attitude that exists among young adults.

“We are lazy and don’t see the immediate consequences,” said Yvonne Cha, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student.

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School of Arts and Sciences first-year student Kylyn Everson models as part of last night’s Care for Haiti fashion show hosted by Rutgers Care in the Busch Campus Center Multipurpose Room.

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PROGRAM: Students donate in form of guest swipe continued from front During the campaign, students donated meals in the form of guest swipes, each of which is worth $3.30 at the University’s four dining halls.

Most of the donations came during the last week, when volunteers stationed at the dining halls handed out flyers to students and told them about the campaign, Kratovil said. More than a quarter of all donations came on the initiative’s last day, during which Kratovil distributed flyers at Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus.

“When people knew [they could donate], they gave big time,” he said.

The campaign provided an opportunity to do two things at once: Donate to those without food in New Brunswick and make use of meal swipes they paid for, but may not utilize during the course of the semester, Kratovil said.

“That’s what this is really all about — bringing Rutgers and

FULBRIGHTS: U. reaches out to diverse students continued from front good applicants and be competitive in this daunting competition.”

To help him provide support, he assembled a staff of 25 Fulbright advisers last year that would each work one-on-one with student applicants.

Because this was the team’s second year as Fulbright advisers, Casciato believes they did better at their job, and in turn so did the students.

The process of applying for a Fulbright fellowship starts in September, he said. Selection is made on the basis of the applicant’s academic record, language preparation, commitment, as well as personal qualifications.

To find a high-quality candidate for a Fulbright fellowship, Casciato looks through the database, usually searching through students who have studied abroad and students who have high grade point averages.

School of Arts and Sciences junior Vanessa Salazar, who studied abroad in Greece, said although she did not know an opportunity like the Fulbright fellowship existed, she would love another chance to study in another country again.

“The experience is indescribable,” Salazar said.

Casciato said he would like to make students more aware of these opportunities.

Once a potential candidate is aware of the opportunities the Fulbright fellowship opens, the offer sells itself. The program reaches out to many different fields of study, he said.

One of this year’s finalists, Andrew Bellisari, first heard and became interested in the fellowship in high school.

Bellisari, a Rutgers College senior, received an e-mail from the program last April, which explained that his 4.0 GPA qualified him to be a possible candidate if he continued to maintain his academic record.

the student community closer to the New Brunswick community,” he said. “There’s a divide between those two groups and there doesn’t have to be. In fact, there’s an immense amount of potential if that divide can be taken down.”

Kratovil said it is important not only to have students help resolve the problems in the city of New Brunswick but also to have residents from outside the University community deal with problems that may occur here.

“It was very moving to see so many people give up one of their precious guest swipes to the New Brunswick community,” he said.

“It’s something I’ve always wanted to do.”

Overall, Kratovil expressed gratitude to all those who made the drive possible.

“I’m very thankful … to all the people that gave, and I’m especially grateful for everybody that volunteered their time to hand out flyers at the dining hall.”

Though he did not speak of specific plans for the future, Kratovil said he and other volunteers would continue to formulate new ways to contribute to the New Brunswick community.

After studying abroad in Paris for a year, Bellisari was put in touch with Casciato, who sketched out the process and gave him material from the Fulbright program to look over.

His experience abroad led him to decide to research in France, he said.

“My ultimate objective is to study for a doctorate in history and enter academia,” Bellisari said. “In that regard, I found the research option the most appealing since I knew it would take me further toward the direction I wanted to go in.”

University Spanish and Portuguese Professor Thomas Stephens was assigned as Bellisari’s Fulbright adviser and worked with him to improve his applications by proofreading and recommending changes to his personal statement and proposal of study.

“Professor Stephens was an enthusiastic adviser who cared greatly about getting me a Fulbright,” Bellisari said.

“Throughout the entire process, Professor Stephens was extremely supportive and was there for me during the most important steps of the application.”

He said Stephens’ advice made his application sharper and more competitive.

The University had five Fulbright fellowship winners last year, four of which studied in Taiwan, Indonesia, Colombia and Italy as English assistants, Casciato said.

He said schools with the most candidates usually have the most accepted. He predicts that because of good support, guidance and a high number of applicants, the University will have the most winners this year.

Candidates find out by the end of March if they have received a Fulbright grant, Casciato said.

“I’m confident that the Fulbright program will continue to expand my horizons in many ways,” Bellisari said. “But I have to say, it was Rutgers that gave me the chance to expand them in the first place.”

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OBAMA: New program to save about $87 billion continued from front which not only works to get a student into college, but ensures they can complete it with the help of financial aid, she said.

“We want to make sure that students who start college are able to complete their college education, so we provide support and incentives to institutions to make sure that that happens,” Barnes said.

It would also expand the lowcost Perkins Loan program, she said. While most student loans have an interest rate of 10 percent or more, the Perkins Loan offers student loans that cost about 5 percent.

Switching from a subsidizedlending program to a direct-lending program would pay for the program, Barnes said. “[Direct lending] is more efficient, and it saves taxpayers money because we are no longer providing subsidies to do what the government can do more efficiently and more effectively,” she said.

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School is out until March 21 for spring break!

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Students considering living in of f-campus housing can learn their rights as a tenant at “Tenants’ Rights in New Jersey,” scheduled to be held from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in Room 410 of the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus. A guest speaker from the Housing Coalition of Central NJ will discuss topics regarding tenants, landlords, leases, security deposits and other issues regarding living off-campus. Visit ruof fcampus.rutgers.edu for more information.

The exhibit, “Perspectives Through the Lens: Soviet Ar t Photography in the 1970s-80s,” ends today in the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum on the College Avenue campus. This collection presents a selection of more than 60 photographs from the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Soviet Nonconformist Art by Francisco Infante, Vladimir Kupriyanov, Boris Mikhailov and Aleksandr Slyusarev, four major Soviet artists working with photography in 1970s and 1980s.

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The program has the potential to save $87 billion, Barnes said.

“We think that this is a smart use of the money, a great investment for the money and something that we can do to help all of our students and make sure that we meet the president’s goal by

“I don’t think anybody can really afford college — I think you just learn how to finance college.”

JON LEFFERTS School of Arts and Sciences first-year student

the highest proportion of graduates by the year 2020,” she said.

Duncan said if students are having family issues, they could talk to their financial aid counselors, because they have the power increase their financial aid packages depending on the circumstances.

“The time to go to college has never been so important, it’s never been so expensive and all of you know our families have not been in this kind of financial [instability] in a long time,” he said.

Some students agree with the act, arguing college has become ridiculously expensive.

“I don’t think anybody can really afford college — I think you just learn how to finance college,” said School of Arts and Sciences first-year student Jon Lefferts.

School of Arts and Sciences sophomore Mike Stagnitta said as an out-of-state student, paying for college has become a difficult task for his family.

“I’m on an athletic scholarship, and I’m still paying a lot,” he said.

Stagnitta said if this bill will help make college more accessible to students, he supports the president’s vision.

The Rutgers University Student Assembly will be introducing a resolution to encourage students and the University to support the SAFRA bill at their next meeting.

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SHOOTING AT PENTAGON WOUNDS TWO POLICE OFFICERS WASHINGTON — A gunman coolly drew a weapon from his pocket and opened fire at the teeming subway entrance to the Pentagon complex Thursday evening, wounding two police officers before being shot and critically wounded, officials said.

Authorities said all three were taken to a hospital. Richard Keevill, chief of Pentagon police, said the two officers suffered grazing wounds that were not life-threatening.

The suspect, believed to be a U.S. citizen, walked up to a security checkpoint at the Pentagon in an apparent attempt to get inside the Defense Department headquarters, at about 6:40 p.m. “He just reached in his pocket, pulled out a gun and started shooting,” Keevill said. “He walked up very cool. He had no real emotion on his face.”

The Pentagon officers returned fire with semiautomatic weapons.

Of the suspect, the chief said, “His injury is pretty critical.”

The rush-hour assault happened outside a massively fortified building that nevertheless is near busy crowds of transit riders.

The subway station is immediately adjacent to the Pentagon building. Since a redesign following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the Pentagon, riders can no longer disembark directly into the building. Riders take a long escalator ride to the surface from the underground station, then pass through a security check outside the doors of the building, where further security awaits.

In the immediate aftermath, all Pentagon entrances were secured, then all were reopened except one from the subway, said Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman.

A Pentagon official working late in the building said people inside first heard of the shooting on television. They were later told the building was locked down and to stay in place. The huge five-sided building is crisscrossed by 10 main corridors.

Then at around 7:30 p.m., they heard an announcement on the public address system that they could leave through Corridor 3 — one widely used to get access to one of the parking lots.

— The Associated Press

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Haitian family shakes after second earthquake THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN BERNARDO, Chile — The Desarmes family left their native Haiti two weeks after the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake, joining the eldest son in Chile for what seemed a refuge from the fear and chaos of Port-au-Prince.

Their sense of security lasted barely a month. It was shattered at 3:43 a.m. Saturday when one of the most powerful quakes on record shook a swath of Chile.

All the Desarmes’ immediate family survived both quakes. But twice cursed, the family now sleeps in the garden of a home that the eldest son, Pierre Desarmes, found for them just south of the Chilean capital of Santiago. They fear yet another temblor will strike.

“I left my country and came here because of an earthquake,” Seraphin Philomene, a 21-yearold student and cousin of Desarmes, said Wednesday. “And here, the same thing!”

“My God, I left my country and I didn’t die, but I’m going to die here!”

Pierre Desarmes, 34, managed to get his family out of Haiti thanks to personal contacts at the Chilean Embassy in Port-auPrince and the Chilean armed forces. Nine members of his family — his parents, two brothers and their families, and three cousins — arrived in Santiago on a Chilean air force plane Jan. 23.

Desarmes, the lead singer of a popular Haitian reggaeton band in Chile, still gets choked

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After suffering from the devastating effects of Haiti’s Jan. 12 earthquake, the Desarmes family fled to Chile, only to expierience a second, record-breaking earthquake one month later. up when he recalls seeing his family for the first time stepping off the plane.

“I saw them but I didn’t believe it. I said, ‘My God, they’re here.’

It was a very difficult moment,” he said, speaking in French in the garden of the house the family now calls home.

“Each time I think about it, I get sad, because I realize I was able to do this because I was here.

But there are so many people who

are there and I don’t know what’s going to happen to them.”

His relatives had to leave Haiti with only hours’ notice, receiving instructions on where to go via cell phone text messages from a relative in the United States who was in contact with Desarmes in Santiago. Philomene didn’t even have time to pack, dashing to the Chilean Embassy when she received word the family had been cleared to fly out.

Gay couples tie the knot in Mexico THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MEXICO CITY — Throngs of Mexico City gay and lesbian couples registered for marriage licenses yesterday, the day Latin America’s first gay-marriage law took effect.

The first gay weddings will take place within a week to 10 days, after the paperwork is processed.

Mexico City’s legislature approved the first law explicitly giving gay marriages the same status as heterosexual ones in December. The change will allow same-sex couples to adopt children, apply for bank loans together, inherit wealth and be included in the insurance policies of their spouse, rights they were denied under civil unions allowed in the city.

“This is great, it is a feeling of relief, of celebration, everything,” said Daniel Ramos, 20, a medical student planning to marry his boyfriend, Temistocles Villanueva, on March 12.

“For Latin America, this is not only a precedent, but an example to follow,” he added.

For now the law applies only to residents of Mexico City, though a marriage performed in one Mexican state must be recognized in the rest of the country.

While activists are trying to get the law extended to the rest of Mexico’s 31 states, conservatives say they will seek to pass a constitutional reform so that other states won’t have to recognize

marriages that do not conform to their laws.

For the time being, it appears easy to circumvent the residency requirement, because the city accepts a phone or utility bill as proof of address — often even if the bill is in someone else’s name.

Activist Jaime Cobian showed up Thursday with a sheaf of required documents — birth certificates, official IDs and residen-

“For Latin America, this is not only a precedent, but an example to follow.”

DANIEL RAMOS cy documents — in a bid to get marriage licenses for 16 gay and lesbian couples in states where no such law exists.

“What we still have to do is take this battle to all the states in the country,” Cobian said.

An Argentine couple participated in Latin America’s first gay wedding in December. But interpretations var y on whether Argentine law allows same-sex unions, and the question is now before that countr y’s supreme court.

Argentina’s constitution is silent on whether marriage must be between a man and a woman, effectively leaving the matter to

provincial officials, who approved the wedding. A law specifically legalizing gay marriage has stalled in Argentina’s Congress since October.

The Mexico City law is being challenged by the federal government in Mexico’s Supreme Court on constitutional grounds, but remains in effect while the appeal is heard. The Roman Catholic Church has hotly criticized the new law, which allows same-sex couples to adopt children — something several couples said they were thinking of doing.

David Razu, the Mexico City legislator who proposed the law, said he is confident the Supreme Court will uphold the law.

“There is always a wave of reaction to these kinds of measures, but we are prepared to face it,” said Razu, a member of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party.

Gay couples entered the sprawling city government building and submitted their documents to the clerks amid hundreds of heterosexual couples doing the same thing.

Patria Jimenez, 54, waved a multicolor gay pride flag outside the building, shouting: “Freedom!

At last, we have freedom!”

But she said she must overcome other, more personal obstacles before she can register for her own marriage license: “I still have not convinced my companion. I don’t know if she will say ‘yes.’”

Saturday’s earthquake has made a difficult transition even more traumatic.

“When the aftershocks come, they refuse to stay in the house,” Desarmes said, sipping a Coke at a table in the garden, his relatives sitting nearby.

“I have to talk to them all day long telling them: ‘There are no problems, it’s a country that’s prepared for earthquakes, it’ll pass, it’s not so bad.’ But they don’t hear

me. Psychologically for them, they’re still really affected by it.”

Desarmes’ brother, Stanley Desarmes, 32, is deeply unsettled. The father of a 2-year-old girl, Nelia, who plays in the yard, he worries for his family’s safety and is thinking about uprooting them again to move somewhere with less danger of earthquakes.

“I don’t know what I can do, but staying isn’t possible,” he said. “I could die and I could lose my family. I have to leave. I don’t know where, I don’t know how. But I don’t want to die with my family here.”

Philomene, his cousin, plans to stay, hoping to bring the rest of her family to Chile. Her mother, father, two sisters and a brother are still in Cap-Haitien, a town in northern Haiti about 90 miles from the capital.

“I’ve had no news from them,” she said, choking up.

Reached late Wednesday, Philomene’s father, Luigene Philomene, was elated at the news that his daughter was safe. He said he hadn’t heard from her since before Chile’s earthquake and had been trying to reach relatives in Port-au-Prince for an update.

The elder Philomene said when he heard that his daughter had been in the Chile earthquake he thought of a Haitian saying that loosely translates as “we saved her from the river and she ended up in the sea.” Now he feels she has divine protection and the 43-year-old said he would eagerly join his daughter in South America if he could.

CLINTON PUSHES FOR HONDURAN ACCEPTANCE SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday the Obama administration will resume aid to Honduras that was suspended after a coup last year and urged Latin American nations to recognize the new Honduran government.

Clinton said the Honduran government that took office in January was democratically elected, was reconciling the population split by last June’s coup and deserved normal relations with countries that cut ties after the ouster of the former president.

“We think that Honduras has taken important and necessary steps that deserve the recognition and the normalization of relations,” she told a news conference on the sidelines of a meeting of regional officials in Costa Rica.

Clinton praised steps taken by new Honduran President Porfirio Lobo, whose election in November began the resolution of the political crisis caused by the ouster of his predecessor, Manuel Zelaya. Zelaya, a leftist populist, was toppled while pushing a constitutional amendment that would have allowed him to run for re-election.

Clinton said she had notified Congress that more than $31 million in U.S. assistance suspended after the coup would be restored. She also said it was time for Honduras to be readmitted to the Organization of American States.

Clinton will attend a meeting of Central American leaders, including Lobo, in Guatemala on Friday at which Honduras will the main topic. Clinton has been making the case for Honduras at each stop on her current six-nation tour of Latin America.

Some countries she has visited — notably Argentina and Brazil — are balking at restoring ties with Honduras. They wanted Zelaya restored to power and believe recognition would reward the coup leaders who ran an interim government until January.

Clinton said she disagreed with such delays.

“I don’t know what they are waiting for, but that is their right to wait,” she said. “We believe that President Lobo and his administration have taken the steps necessary to restore democracy.”

“We share the condemnation of the coup that occurred, but we think it is time to move forward and ensure that such disruptions of democracy do not and cannot happen in the future.”

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Explosions disrupt upcoming Iraqi vote THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

troops to remain in place as a protective force through the BAGHDAD — A string of dead- end of next year.

“We’ve seen nothing that ly blasts shattered an early round of voting in Iraq yesterday, killing would divert us from the track 17 people and highlighting the we’re on,” one of the officials said.

About 19 million of Iraq’s fragile nature of the country’s security gains ahead of crucial par- estimated 28 million people are eligible to vote in the elections, liamentary elections this Sunday.

Iraq security forces were out and Iraqi expatriates can cast in full force, trying to protect ballots in 16 countries around early voters in an election that the world.

In the first attack, a Katyusha will determine who will lead the country through the crucial peri- rocket killed seven people in the od of the U.S. troop drawdown Hurriyah neighborhood about and help decide whether the 500 yards (meters) from a closed country can overcome its deep polling station, police said.

The second attack hit the sectarian divisions.

But three explosions — a upscale Mansour neighborhood, rocket attack and two suicide where a suicide bomber detonatbombings — showed the ability ed an explosive vest near a group of insurgents to carry out bloody of soldiers lining up at a polling attacks. They have promised to station, killing six and wounding 18, police said. disrupt the voting with violence.

The blast left a small crater in “Terrorists wanted to hamper the elections, thus they started to the middle of the street, and blow themselves up in the debris from the explosion splatstreets,” said Deputy Interior tered around the crater. Pools of Minister Ayden Khalid Qader, blood and burnt human flesh litresponsible for election-related tered the ground along with broken glass, rubble from buildings security across the country.

Yesterday’s voting was for those and the remnants of shops signs.

In the third blast, another suiwho might not be able to get to the polls Sunday. The vast majority of cide bomber blew himself up early voters were the Iraqi police near policemen waiting to vote in and military who will be working the Bab al-Muadham neighborelection day — when the rest of the hood in central Baghdad, killing country votes — to enforce securi- four people and wounding 14 othty. Others voting included ers, according to police and hosdetainees, hospital patients and pital officials.

All the officials medical workers. spoke on condiA spokesman “Terrorists wanted tion of anonymity for the Independent because they High Electoral to hamper the were not authorCommission, elections, thus they ized to speak to Muhammad Althe media.

Amjad, said about started to blow Sunday’s elec800,000 people tions are only were eligible to vote themselves up Iraq’s second for a Thursday, although in the streets.” full parliamentary he had no figures term since the on how many actuAYDEN KHALID QADER 2003 U.S.-led invaally cast ballots.

Deputy Interior Minister sion ousted Many of the Saddam Hussein, blast victims were believed to be security person- leading to the eventual creation of nel, targeted by suicide bombers the Shiite-dominated government who hit police and soldiers lined in power today, headed by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. up to vote.

At a high school in Baghdad’s Convoys of army trucks and minibuses ferried soldiers and Karradah neighborhood, police security personnel to and from and militar y officers crowded polling stations. Many stores were into the building to cast their balshuttered, and normally crowded lots, displaying the now-iconic streets were nearly empty, as peo- purple ink — used to prevent ple stayed home on a holiday people from voting twice — on their fingers. declared by the government.

Many expressed frustration at In Washington, senior administration officials said a the government and a desire for number of potential attacks change. That was echoed in the were headed of f by security northern city of Mosul, where forces on the perimeter of Mohammed Ali Hassan said he polling places yesterday. The voted for the list headed by (forofficials, who spoke on condi- mer premier Ayad) Allawi, “... tion of anonymity to discuss because I hope for change, and White House assessments of the people on the list are capable the voting, would not elaborate of change.”

In the Christian town of Qara on attacks that were prevented.

They also said that so much Qosh in the northern Ninevah was at stake in the election that province, a line of blue-uniformed the administration “would not be Iraqi police officers snaked out surprised to see violence” in the the door of a middle school by remaining days leading up to the midmorning, waiting to vote. To election, on voting day or in the ensure security throughout the period during which a new gov- day, police officers voted in the morning and then switched ernment is being formed.

The officials also predicted it places with military officers to let would be a matter of months them get to the polls.

Iraqi policeman Haytham before a new government is formed, but that would not Amer, 25, whipped through the affect long-standing U.S. plans balloting in about six minutes, to withdraw all combat forces by having already decided for the end of August. There cur- whom he would vote before he rently are less than 100,000 U.S. disappeared behind the privacy troops in Iraq. After the combat of the cardboard walls of the votpullout, the plan calls for 50,000 ing booths.

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Weekly update: laurels and darts

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wo instances at John F. Kennedy International Airport proved that a 7-year-old could do the job of a 40-somethingyear-old air traffic controller. The usual man for the job, otherwise known as “Dad” to the kid, brought his son in to work and let him direct flights taking-off and landing. For a daring and yet highly successful first-day at the job, the boy receives a laurel, while the Federal Aviation Administration gets a dar t for overreacting to the point of suspending the father. *

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Recent investigations uncovered significant misuse of funds collected by the Bob Geldof’s Live Aid of 1985. The allegations are that millions were siphoned off to arm anti-government rebels — including current Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. For the abuse of charity and use for militarist causes, we give a d ar t to those responsible. *

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QUOTE OF THE DAY “I haven’t [booked a trip] anywhere ... I don’t plan on going anywhere for Spring Break, I plan on playing.”

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Defensive backs drills he NFL scouting test how player’s open up combine has come their hips and drop their and gone, and a pro shoulder when they have to day that will be a bigger turn and run with wide event than Rutgers has ever receivers culminating with seen awaits. how they react to, locate Personally, I’m one of and catch the football. those that think the MATT SUGAM Since Davis is the reason combine and pro days Rutgers pro day will be a are overemphasized. spectacle like it’s never seen before — he’s projectThe broad and high jump show lower body ed as a top ten pick by most draft experts and top power explosiveness. The three-cone drill and five by some — I’ll start with him. the shuttle drill show agility and quickness Davis has all the god-given talent in the along with burst, explosiveness and acceleraworld. At 6-foot-5, 323 pounds, the Piscataway tion. The bench press is a strength and native is an unbelievable athlete for his size. endurance test.

While Davis is not as much of a freak of a physI get it. ical specimen as Mar yland’s Bruce Campbell, Then there’s the 40. The main event. he’s a much better overall tackle. He’s an excepPlayers start off in a three-point stance when tional pass blocker, which is key in a league that only offensive and defensive linemen and tight has become pass driven. ends get in that position on the field. For the big Davis has the potential to be a top-notch left fellas in the trenches, it’s more the first 10 yards tackle on a team for the next decade. Davis didthat matter for power and explosion and the next n’t even reach his full potential during his three 30 don’t mean much. For the skill positions, the years on the banks. While he first 10 show explosion and quickplayed well in his three years, he ness. The next 30 show endurance.

The fact that the combine looks “Davis has known could have done better and that’s on him. He just did not seem to more like the shooting of an Under he was on a path have that inner drive that pushes Armour commercial than a football practice let alone game doesn’t stop to the NFL since his most players, especially those without the natural abilities that me from watching. I just don’t high school days.” Davis has. weigh into it all that much and think With that goes his lack of discitoo many general managers and pline. Along with wide receiver coaches do too much.

Kenny Britt, Davis received a suspension in 2008 Sure there are guys like Chris Johnson who for the Morgan State game for violating team poliran a combine record 4.24 in 2008. The time cy. This season, he didn’t start against Army rewarded the East Carolina product with a first because he was late to a team function. The left round pick to the Titans rather than going in the tackle will be asked about these issues when he second or third round. And it has been a good pick interviews with teams, and as long as he tells the as Johnson had 2,509 yards from scrimmage last truth, they’ll likely be overlooked. season (Keep in mind Hall of Fame running back Davis’s weight issue however is tough to overEmmitt Smith ran a 4.7, as did Hall of Fame wide look. He came in overweight as a freshman, which receiver Jerry Rice). isn’t a big deal, but to do so as a junior is unacceptBut with the good also comes the bad. Just ask a able and a red flag. It shows a lack of discipline.

Jets fan about linebacker Vernon Gholston.

As an All-American and a top prospect that was, Gholston tore up the combine the same year as and still, is the top recruit Schiano’s ever had at Johnson, which boosted him to the No. 6 pick. Now Rutgers, Davis has known he was on a path to the he’s a season away from going down as one of the NFL since his high school days. He’s always been biggest busts ever. that good. So maybe he’s been cruising along, just The position drills at least have their benefits getting by while he can, and waiting to turn it on to me. I’ll just go over what the offensive linemen once he gets to the NFL. Or maybe he’ll be conand defensive back drills test, since those are the tent with the fat paycheck he’ll get as a top-10 pick. positions of the top two draft picks for Rutgers.

Davis could be a stud left tackle or a solid There’s junior left tackle Anthony Davis — the guard. We’ll just have to wait and see. reason there will be a circus at pro day this year Then there’s McCourty who I’m extremely — and senior cornerback Devin McCourty. high on.

The o-line drills show how a player’s footwork is and how well they open up and drop their hips, SEE SUGAM ON PAGE 11 bend their knees and balance.

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Stand for human rights, tell Nike to just pay it Letter NICK WEST

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ike, Inc., a sportswear giant with much of the American retail market cornered, has annual revenue of around $18 billion. Why is it, then, that they are having so much trouble paying the $2.2 million in severance owed to laid-of f factor y workers in Honduras?

On Jan. 19, 2009, two Nike factories, Hugger de Honduras and Vision Tex, were closed, with severance agreements between the workers’ unions and factory owners signed after the factory closures. It is 2010 and still no severance has been paid, and when hounded over their exploitation of workers, Nike released a statement that they are “deeply concerned,” but cannot assume any responsibility for the actions of their “subcontrac-

tors.” Subcontractors, in this case, are proxies used by Nike to distance themselves from taking responsibility for the way their factory workers are treated.

Blaming human rights abuses on “subcontractors” is how Nike argues that it is not in violation of the code of conduct it is contractually obligated to follow. This excuse does not remove Nike from the their responsibility to the Honduran workers manufacturing their college apparel. In November

2009, Nike stated, “efforts to remediate this case are not yet concluded.” Workers are still waiting as of February 2010 for the $2.2 million owed to them. Without this, they will continue to be unable to support their families.

It is time for more pressure to be placed on Nike, and here at our University, the Rutgers chapter of United Students Against Sweatshops will be organizing an event outside of Brower Commons on College Avenue

campus Thursday March 4 starting at 11 a.m. This event’s goal is to raise student awareness to Nike’s human rights abuses and to get involved in pressuring Nike to correct their breach of the code of conduct set forth in their contract with the University. There will be games, prizes and information for anyone who wants to get involved. Tell Nike to Just Pay It. Nick West is a School of Arts and Sciences junior.

Conservative theory: Provide stable economic climate Letter NOAH GLYN

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n Wednesday’s letter, “Tea Party’s idea of government wrong,” the author concludes with an impassioned statement, “I would hope that they change the laws so they are just a little more kind and just a little more fair.” After I finished chanting “Yes we can!” multiple times, I started thinking about the idea of fairness and kindness. These two words are so often thrown around in our political discourse that their tr ue implications have been lost. During a debate with then-Sen. Hillar y Clinton, presidential candidate Barack Obama told the world he wanted to raise the capital gains tax out of a sense of fairness, even though most economists believe that lowering the capital

gains tax increases tax revenue. Moments like these, along with Wednesday’s op-ed piece, loudly represents progressives’ mentalities. Because progressives see political debates in terms of kindness and fairness, they have no problem saying sentences like, “Those that subscribe to the Tea Party platform reveal a purposeful callousness toward their fellow humans.” Wow. People who believe in limited government are not only callous toward humanity, but we are doing it purposefully! This is nonsense, of course. A person who holds a different opinion is not necessarily a monster. A person whose worldview leans toward “libertarian” is not an idiot.

Fairness is, at its ver y core, a subjective word. I will give an example. Progressives are often in favor of the estate tax. When

Campus council here to help students Letter SHAIVAL SHAH & DANIEL HERBERT

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usch Campus Council is a name that students come across, but rarely consider. Who are they? What do they do? The answers can be a little surprising.

The council advocates on behalf of the student body for anything from academic needs to cosponsoring student groups. In fact, the council has distributed approximately $4,000 to student organizations this year alone, and they remain a vital option for funding when money from Rutgers University Student Assembly allocations falls a little short.

The council’s biggest success this year was its participation in “What’s On Your Mind Month.” By analyzing more than 600 surveys and presenting the findings to University President Richard L. McCormick and his cabinet, they have been instrumental in the longer library hours at the Library of Science and Medicine on Busch campus, the extension of dining hall takeout to include Sunday night and increased maintenance patrols in facilities. The council is also in talks with the Office of Information Technology and Rutgers University Student Life on the possibility of a computer and print center at the Busch Campus Center.

These open public meetings have hosted the likes of Department of Transportation Services Director Jack Molenaar, Executive Director of Residence Life Joan Carbone, and Vice President for Student Affairs Gregory S. Blimling.

In the financial climate we are in, it is tough to do more with the limited budget the University has.

So the council strives to continuously work with the University to find smaller, cost-effective solutions that make the biggest difference in our learning environment.

Continuing with the success of “What’s On Your Mind Month,” the council is working on a “It’s Your Campus” campaign in an effort to continue hearing and addressing the concerns of the student body. Student representatives can then better serve Busch campus by working on new or continuing concerns.

At the end of month, the council will conduct a Safety Walk to highlight areas on campus that may need safety improvements.

Prior to finals, the council will host a “Stress Breaker” session where students can get coffee and refreshments, study and talk to tutors from various departments.

Students can send their questions and comments to the council at buschcc@eden.rutgers.edu, or they can attend the next meeting on Tuesday at 8:15 p.m. in room 120ABC of the Busch Campus Center, or every second Tuesday thereafter. Any member of the public is allowed to speak on any topic at these meetings. Additionally, there are representative seats still vacant, and any student can run for one.

Shaival Shah is the Busch Campus Council president and a Rutgers College senior. Daniel Herbert is the Class of 2011 representative and the chair of the Public Relations Committee. Daniel is also a RUSA representative and School of Arts and Sciences junior.

someone beyond a cer tain wealth threshold dies, the government taxes his or her estate.

That may seem fair, because it is a progressive tax that is supposed to hit wealthier people dispropor tionately. In reality,

“Conservatives believe that the free market does not lend itself to monopolies ...” the tax punishes people who wisely save their money. This tax hur ts people who invest their money rather than spending it all. This tax is actually quite unfair because it rewards and encourages reckless spending, and it punishes and discourages frugal lifestyles.

SUGAM continued from page 10 He worked his way from a third or fourth round draft pick if he were lucky, to a potential first rounder in a season. Kind of like how he worked his way to a leader and star of the defense during his time as a Scarlet Knight At the combine McCour ty was one of the top per formers for his position at the 40-yard dash, three-cone drill and 20yard shuttle where he clocked times of 4.48, 6.70 and 4.07, respectively. These times were crucial for McCour ty, as his speed when left out on an island with a wide receiver has been in question. He was also one of the top players in the broad jump with a 10-feet, 6-inches.

Fairness is more than subjective — it is also misleading.

Politicians claim to help the poor through certain policies. Often times, these very policies do the exact opposite of their stated goals. Take the minimum wage for example. Politicians implemented this policy for people who are low-skilled and undereducated. The stated purpose of this policy seems very fair. But the minimum wage actually hurts those low-skilled workers, because it stipulates that a business cannot hire someone who contributes fewer than that wage level. In fact, research has shown that a 10 percent increase in the minimum wage increases teen unemployment by 1 to 3 percent.

I would argue that these policies are not just unfair, but they hurt the competitive spirit of American entrepreneurship.

That sense of entrepreneurship

has brought more people out of poverty and into prosperity than any government program ever could. I believe that the best way government can help a poor person is to provide a stable economic climate for them to find a job. Conservatives believe that the free market does not lend itself to monopolies, because if a company is providing poor service then a different business can provide better ser vice.

Conservatives also believe that the government is needed to provide certain goods and services, but that does not give it the right to provide others. I am sorry, but I do not believe that this makes me a bad person, nor do I think that my rant reveals a “purposeful callousness” toward my fellow humans.

Numbers like these should make McCour ty a lock for the first round given what he did on the football field this past year. He proved he’s a football player. What I mean by this is that he can do so much for a team.

Along with being the leader of the secondar y, McCourty was a special team’s gem. He returned a kick for 98-yards this past season, blocked seven kicks in his career and is good at covering kicks.

In a league of 53-man rosters, the more you can do for your team the better, making you more valuable. Such aspects of McCour ty’s game intrigues a lot of general managers and head coaches.

At 5-foot-11, 193-pounds, McCour ty is an average size corner that may have trouble with taller and more physical wide receivers. And like his

twin brother Jason, he doesn’t have great ball skills. While he doesn’t get a lot of interceptions, he breaks up a lot of passes.

Above all I think he’s got that inner drive.

McCourty could make it as a nickelback as rookie while contributing on special teams.

So regardless of what I think of the combine and pro days, they matter for a lot for players.

They gain a lot of money for some, and lose a lot for others.

It has made McCourty a lot more money and can still do the same for Davis. As for the other Rutgers players participating, a better draft position or a shot to make a team as a free agent is what’s at stake.

Noah Glyn is a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore majoring in economy and history.

Matt Sugam is a School of Arts and Sciences junior majoring in journalism and media studies and sociology.

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Today's birthday (3/5/10). Expect creative ideas to emerge from dreams and imagination over the coming year. You handle most responsibilities with greater grace because you understand the logic behind your actions. Creative writing or artistic projects reveal your inner beliefs and aspirations. 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 — Group activities inspire you and a partner. Your efforts go in a creative direction, while your partner keeps the project within bounds.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 6 — Use both creativity and logic to fuel household activities. Logic tells you to reset the thermostat. Turn down the emotional volume to get more accomplished.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) — Today is a 7 — Creative ideas pop up in every area you look at.

The changes you need are easily made. Love grows when you incorporate exotic elements.

Cancer (June 22-July 22) — Today is a 6 — Education pays off now. Choose a seminar or class that allows lots of creative input. Then, work hard to get the most out of it.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is an 8 — Work closely with a partner or other associate to brainstorm ideas for any writing project. The two of you share similar views concerning hidden significance.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is an 8 — Use your creative skills to complete your own work and aid others in finishing theirs. That way, you can cheerfully go home on time.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 7 — Use your imagination to devise new methodology. Logic is only one part of the formula. Feelings impact the bottom line.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is an 8 — Whether you know it or not, you've been hatching a plan for home improvement. Import decorative tile or accents to add fresh color.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 5 — Today you see how to bring less conscious concepts into reality. Others need to understand your logic. Make sure they also grasp the mood.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 6 — Use your imagination to dream up a plan of action. Others will contribute happily if they see your willingness to roll up your sleeves.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 5 — An older person bases logic on tradition and the historical record. Take that information and mold it into a unique story in order to increase profits.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 7 — Use your creative methods to finish a project before quitting time. Drag out the thesaurus to be sure you've chosen the right words.

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Freshman Jennifer Zito averages 9.328 on the bars and 9.397 on the beam, an area she believes the team must improve.

Cornell next step in quest for Nationals

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Norton’s team sees a clear path to victor y. The team recognizes that it is on the same level and The Rutgers gymnastics team ever yone just needs to perform continues a stretch of difficult up to their ability. meets on Saturday when it travels “They are a good team that to Ithaca, N.Y., to face Cornell. is in the hunt for Nationals, so Following a razor-thin second- it’s going to be a tough meet,” place finish to Bridgeport in a said junior Kiah Banfield. “We h o m e just need to stay focused and GYMANSTICS q u a d - do our jobs.” meet, After a disappointing perRUTGERS AT the level formance on beam at the last CORNELL UNIVERSITY, of com- meet, it became a point of SATURDAY, 1 P.M. petition emphasis for the entire team. does not Despite per forming well on get any easier. Cornell, like vault last meet, achieving a Bridgeport, is in the hunt to go to 9.325, freshman Jenna Zito recUSA Nationals. ognizes that ever yone on beam Going to Nationals was head must improve. coach Chr ystal “We have to Chollet-Nor ton’s work on beam,” goal since the Zito said. “We “We haven’t been beginning of the need to not just to Naionals as a s e a s o n . make the rouPerforming well tines but make team in two against teams that them perfectly.” years so we need will be at Nationals Following a is an important comparably weak to continue to step in proving to per formance on other teams that vault earlier in show we belong.” her squad is at the the year, CholletCHRYSTAL CHOLLET-NORTON Nor ton put her same level.

Head Coach “[Cornell is] team in pressure going to USA situations by simNationals,” ulating meets to Chollet-Norton said. “We want to promote improvement. She show that we belong.” decided to enact the same stratAfter not being to Nationals egy this week to alleviate her for several years, the Knights team’s beam struggles. have more to prove than perenni“We are going to keep putting al powers. Chollet-Norton wants them in pressure situations in this season to be a chance for her practice,” Chollet-Norton said. team to reintroduce itself as a “We need to prove that we can national contender. stay on the beam.”

“We haven’t been to Nationals If the Knights shore up their as a team in two years so we need weakness, Chollet-Norton to continue to show we belong,” believes that her squad is a team Chollet-Norton said. to be reckoned with.

While Cornell is a team that “If we can finally hit on everyrepresents a distinct challenge thing, we could be a 192, 193 for the Knights, Chollet- team,” Chollet-Norton said.

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Vindication on line as Hawks visit Yurcak

BY KYLE FRANKO CORRESPONDENT

Just the mention of last season’s loss to St. Joseph’s makes anybody on the Rutgers men’s lacrosse MEN’S LACROSSE t e a m cringe.

ST. JOSEPH’S AT “Our RUTGERS, theor y SATURDAY, 1 P.M. t h i s year is one game at a time and we’re moving on to the next one,” said junior defender Brian Shemesh. “2-1 sounds a lot better than 1-2 and St. Joe’s got the best of us last year.

Ever ybody on this team wants them. It’s a real impor tant game, not only for our record and postseason hopes, but for our pride.”

The Hawks flustered the Scarlet Knights last season in Philadelphia to the tune of a 107 victor y — a result that proved to be a critical early season blow to an RU team that never found any rhythm.

“We just need to execute and be patient [against St. Joe’s zone],” said head coach Jim Stagnitta. “It’s important that we get out to a lead early against a team like that and not let them gain any momentum or confidence.”

The Knights come of f a 6-5 loss to No. 19 Mar yland Baltimore-County, but it was game that was there for the taking.

Stagnitta doesn’t want to talk about confidence builders.

“That’s what ever ybody asks, ‘Was this a confidence builder for your team?” he said.

“Our guys felt like they were going to come in and win that game. We except to play with that caliber of team on a daily basis.”

If there was anything to take away from the loss to UMBC it

was the play of a young defensive unit that held one of the nation’s most potent attacks to six goals.

Shemesh is the veteran of the group, having switched to defense this time last season after beginning the year at midfield.

In fact, the move came after the dismal effort against St. Joe’s last year.

“My whole life I’ve been playing [midfield] and it just wasn’t working for me at the college level,” Shemesh said. “Once I made the switch it kind of clicked and I’ve been able to take a leadership role.”

Shemesh is joined in the starting lineup by sophomores Jacob Fradkin and Andrew D’Agostino.

They are all part of a group that protects freshman goalkeeper Rudy Butler.

“Last year we moved Shemesh to defense and had to start Jacob as a freshman,” Stagnitta said. “If you look at Jacob now, he’s our best cover guy and Brian’s our best leader. This is as good of a team defensive group that we’ve had in a while.”

Some of that was on display last weekend against the Retrievers.

“Our defense was terrific [against UMBC],” Stagnitta said. [UMBC head coach] Don Zimmerman is one of the best of fensive coaches in the countr y and he tried ever ything they had and mixed it up all day. People say don’t go X’s and O’s with him and we were able to contain ever ything they did.”

But the offense still needs to pick up the slack against the Hawks (0-4), who come into the game on the heels of a 19-5 loss to Drexel.

Sophomore Mike Begg leads St. Joe’s with four goals on the year. RU (1-1) is led by senior attack Gerhard Buehning, also with four.

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Sophomore defender Andrew D’Agostino, above (39), and junior Brian Shemesh, below (27), protect freshman goalkeeper Rudy Butler in the Knights’ defense, which surrendered 6 goals to UMBC.

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by herself against Rutgers in their matchup against USF, the Knights still prevailed.

But past victories aside, preparation for the weekend doesn’t change a bit.

“We look at it as just another game, because on any given night anything can happen,” Rushdan said. “We have to prepare the same way we would for any other game, not any less because we’ve already beat them.”

Though the team found itself mired in a three-game losing skid nearing the end of the season, RU rebounded, winning its last two, including an emphatic 72-52 victory over Louisville on Senior Night.

The victor y over the Cardinals also served as a mini coming-out party for the Knights’ underclassmen, with Rushdan scoring 16 points, freshman Monique Oliver adding 12 and sophomores Nikki Speed and Chelsey Lee contributing valuable minutes. The win gave the Knights some much-needed momentum as they enter March.

“Like coach Stringer said, March is a time of champions when players who play make plays,” said senior guard Brittany Ray. “We want to be one of the last teams standing out of 64. I don’t really worry about [bracketology], I just know that if we continue to win then we’ll get there.”

The Big East honored Ray, the team’s leading scorer with 14.7 points per game, yesterday by naming her to the AllConference Second Team after scoring in double-digits 24 times this year out of 30 games that included some of the top competition in the country.

The Knights boast one of the highest RPI and strength of schedule in the countr y, and played four teams ranked in the top five this season in Connecticut, Stanford, Notre Dame and Tennessee — something that should help their chances come selection night.

“I think people should realize though that this team doesn’t run away from any competition,” Stringer said. “There’s a lot of people that would be happy to get all these W’s … but I think that’s demonstrated with our strength of schedule and with our RPI. So if that is what counts, which is what they have always said, then guess what, we’re probably [in the NCAA Tournament]. But when we were seated No. 1 or when we were just glad to get in, I’ve never taken it for granted.”

Speed said she heard talk of the Knights missing the NCAA’s all year long, but said the team only used it to push itself harder.

“There’s games that we lost in the beginning of the season where we’ve been told we’re not going to the Tournament,” Speed said.

“And that’s coach Stringer’s way of motivating us. I remember her coming back on the plane telling us ‘Go ahead, schedule your trips to California, Mexico wherever because we’re not going to the Tournament.’ And that motivated us when we got back here at the [Louis Brown Athletic Center], we were all in here shooting.”

But while she is traveling to Connecticut today, Speed said she isn’t planning to go on vacation anytime soon. There’s still work left to do first.

“I haven’t [booked a trip] anywhere,” Speed said. “I don’t plan on going anywhere for spring break, I plan on playing.”

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Big East seeding in limbo as season nears its close

BY MATTHEW STEIN SENIOR WRITER

JEN KONG

Sophomore forward Dane Miller gets his first taste of the Big East Tournament next week after this weekend’s game at Pittsburgh.

One game remains between every Big East team and the allimportant conference tournament and not o n e m a t c h u p KNIGHT is set NOTEBOOK in stone.

It’s the Big East. It wouldn’t be right any other way.

Just as wide open as it has ever been, the seeding for the self-proclaimed toughest conference in America will submit anywhere from seven to nine teams into the NCAA Tournament. But the Big East Tournament comes first, serving as a litmus test for the conference’s many bubble teams.

Rutgers is not a bubble team, but the men’s basketball program has dreams of its own at Madison Square Garden.

“We still have games to go, from Pittsburgh to the Big East Tournament,” said senior center Hamady N’Diaye. “I remember [last time we played at Pitt] and great things happened. We hope to get another one on Saturday.”

Not only will the Scarlet Knights learn their opponent and seed after Saturday’s 4:30 p.m. tip at No. 17 Pittsburgh, but they have a legitimate chance to burst Pittsburgh’s double-bye hopes. RU stunned the then-13th-ranked Panthers by 13 points two seasons ago at the Peterson Events Center.

The Knights sit in 13th place after last night’s 85-74 defeat to Seton Hall, which could be RU’s

opening game on Tuesday. The Knights hold the tiebreaker over St. John’s — sitting in 14th place — thanks to a head-to-head victory Feb. 2 in Piscataway.

But seeds nine through 12 are a muddled mess. Connecticut and Cincinnati are 7-10 while Seton Hall and South Florida sit one better at 8-9.

“Now we’re trying to focus on Providence, because we’re really trying to get to .500 in the conference, and we’ve never done that

“ [Last time we played at Pitt] ... great things happened. We hope to get another one on Saturday.”

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“Hopefully we’ll be able to steal one in Pittsburgh, and if not, then take one in the Big East Tournament,” said Rutgers head coach Fred Hill Jr. “That will be like another senior night for [Hamady]. I don’t know the last time we won a Big East Tournament game.”

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half featuring 0-of-8 shooting and spotty decision-making — though he was credited with just one turnover — guard Mike Rosario reached a milestone just minutes into the second period.

The Jersey City native became just the second sophomore in Rutgers history to surpass the 1,000-point milestone in his career.

Rosario turned it on in the second half to the tune of 4-of-8 shooting and finished as the team’s leading scorer with 17 points.

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THE before,” said Pirates head coach Bobby Gonzalez. “We’d like to find a way to win because then we’re going into The Garden with a two-game win streak. It’s nice to go to the Big East Tournament with a little momentum if you can do that.”

With one weekend to go, the Knights could find themselves matched up with any of those four programs in four days. RU is a combined 0-5 against those teams, however: The closest defeat came by six points at Seton Hall.

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games between Rutgers and Seton Hall came to an end with Thursday’s 11-point decision.

The last seven games between the two squads all finished with a six-point difference or less, or in overtime. Seton Hall had the lead as high as 11 with just over a minute to play and grinded out the free throw game to hold onto its second win over Rutgers in as many weeks.

“With ever ything that was going on tonight, we laid it all out on the line for 40 minutes,” N’Diaye said. “My last one was the most intense.”

SENDOFF: Tensions

The game also didn’t lack intensity.

Things boiled over when Seton Hall’s Jeff Robinson was called for an intentional foul after pushing continued from back N’Diaye as the two ran down the Seton Hall (17-11, 8-9) pulled court with 12:59 remaining. The away on a 7-0 run to up its lead ensuing scuffle resulted in a techto 11 with just less than two min- nical foul on N’Diaye and two free utes remaining. It also made throws for both teams. free throws down the stretch “This always happens between when the Knights were forced to us and Seton Hall,” N’Diaye said. extend the game. The Pirates “It’s like a basketball war and we conver ted 15-of-29 from the just go at it. It’s physical and it’s a charity stripe. rivalry game. I just wish I would “It’s important for us to get to have kept my composure more.” .500 in the After the final league,” said whistle, two RU Seton Hall head assistants and “It was just in coach Bobby G o n z a l e z my veins to get Gonzalez when exchanged words. asked about his Hill said he didthis one for H. team’s NCAA n’t see the incident Tournament There’s nothing happen, while chances. “We are Gonzalez chalked you can do and focused on the it up to the intensiProvidence game ty of the rivalry. life goes on.”

[Saturday] and if “It’s a rivalry,” MIKE ROSARIO we can win we go he said. “We came to [Madison Sophomore Guard out on top — plain Square] Garden and simple.” with a two-game Sophomore win streak its nice because you guard Mike Rosario led the want to have a few wins in a row Knights with 17 points, 16 of going into the Big which came in the second half.

East Tournament.”

Junior forward Jonathan Jeff Robinson finished with 16 Mitchell finished with 13 points and points and 14 rebounds for the 13 rebounds. Miller also scored in Pirates while Keon Lawrence double figures with 11 points. With chipped in 11. his five blocks, N’Diaye is four shy “I thought the difference was of breaking Roy Hinson’s schoolvery simple,” said Rutgers head record of 355 set from 1979-83. coach Fred Hill Jr. whose team “It was just in my veins to get was outrebounded 56-41. “They this one for H,” Rosario said. out-rebounded us and that’s “There’s nothing you can do and something that we’ve been bet- life goes on. I thought my teamter at and tonight we just didn’t mates held their composure and have it on the glass.” we all played hard tonight.”

rise in physical game at RAC

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Center Hamady N’Diaye scored 12 points in an emotional night, even storming at Seton Hall’s Jeff Robinson, earning a technical foul and starting a tussle on the court.

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second in the tour nament, behind Lehigh’s Zach Rey and in front of Navy’s Scott Steele.

In the sport of wrestling, But seeding means nothing momentum has the ability to when it comes to these carry an athlete all the way to the three heavy-hitters.

NCAA Wrestling Championships.

Not one owns a victory over Just ask the Rutgers wrestling each of the two other nationally t e a m ’ s ranked grapplers.

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Russo lost to Rey twice this Russo. season and Rey fell to Steele.

RUTGERS AT T h e After Steele defeated Rey, the EIWA TOURNAMENT, j u n i o r Midshipmen traveled to New SATURDAY h e a v y - Br unswick one week later, w e i g h t where Russo promptly dropped vaulted himself into the national Steele in late Januar y by a tournament after placing fourth 7-6 score. in the Eastern Intercollegiate Broken down into plain Wrestling Association confer- English, Russo must beat Rey ence tournament or Steele — last year — an probably both — event he entered in order to “For some guys, seeded seventh. become an “Last year I EIWA champion. it’s all about wasn’t even plan“The three getting hot at the ning on making it [wrestlers] are all to Nationals,” right time ... it’s a so close and so Russo said. “That good, it’s about momentum thing.” [Russo] believing was when I realized that I was on a that he can win,” SCOTT GOODALE better level than I Goodale said. “If Head Coach thought I was durhe believes it, he ing the season.” can win.”

Russo went on The histor y to win two matches at the between Russo and Rey traces national tournament and he back to high school, when the looks to make his return to the two faced each other often.

NCAAs this year after he hits Russo wrestled for Lenape the mat this weekend in Valley High School and Rey, the EIWA tournament in taking time out from blocking Bethlehem, Pa. for current Knights’ running Only this year he won’t be tak- back Joe Mar tinek, wrestled ing anyone by surprise. for Hopatcong.

“We are in a spot now where If the key to defeating the he has a bull’s-eye on his back,” Irish giant from Lehigh is consaid head coach Scott Goodale. fidence, then Russo has the “He is one of the favorites. He right attitude. had a good end of the year last “I am capable of winning,” he season and that set him up for said. “I have beaten everyone in this year.” this conference, besides [Rey], The Netcong, N.J., native but I know that I am capable of enters this weekend seeded beating him.”

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basketball player Austin Freeman announced Thursday that he has diabetes.

The 20-year-old leading scorer for the Hoyas missed Monday’s loss to West Virginia with what was an expected stomach virus.

Freeman practiced Wednesday and does not expect his career to be effected.

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he Rutgers women’s soccer team announced its spring schedule Thursday, which includes two Women’s Professional Soccer league opponents.

The Scarlet Knights open with the Philadelphia Independence and then take on defending champions Sky Blue FC — former RU goalkeeper Erin Guthrie’s team.

The Knights also face Big East foes Connecticut and Providence along with Philadelphia schools Drexel and LaSalle.

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action pitted the Philadelphia Phillies against the New York Yankees in a rematch of the last season’s Fall Classic.

Roy Halladay made his Phillies debut while CC Sabathia took the mound for the defending World Champions.

Halladay struck out three in two hitless, scoreless innings in Clear water, Fla., Sabathia allowed two hits and two walks.

The Phillies won the matchup 3-2 in the bottom of the ninth.

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basketball player Brittney Griner punched a Texas Tech player in the face during Wednesday night’s game.

Griner is a 6-foot-8 freshman and scored 21 points before the punch and subsequent ejection.

The league did not act on a long-term punishment yet.

THE SAN DIEGO CHARGERS placed high tender on running back Darren Sproles after it initially appeared as if he was headed for free agency.

If a team offers Sproles a contract, the Chargers have one week to match the offer. If not, the team receives first and thirdround draft picks from the team that signs him.

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PITCHING PHENOM

Aroldis Chapman will make his exhibition game debut for the Cincinnati Reds Monday against the Kansas City Royals.

The hard-throwing 22-yearold signed a six-year contract with the Reds in January after defecting from his homeland last summer.

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Junior heavyweight D.J. Russo, right, finished fourth in the EIWA Tournament last season and enters this weekend’s tournament prepared for tight matches with Lehigh’s Zach Rey and Navy’s Scott Steele.

The entire Knights’ starting wrestler is. For us, it’s a and far between, and often it was lineup competes this weekend momentum thing.” only one wrestler representing with the chance to punch its Momentum is a factor that RU. The tides shifted on the tickets to the national tourna- Russo can attest to, having Banks, and the Knights now look ment in Omaha, Neb. Some upset a handful of wrestlers last to take advantage of their confergrapplers are in a better posi- year on his way to a national ence tournament this weekend to tion than others, but once a tournament berth. catapult a handful of wrestlers wrestler gets on a roll, they are “If you knock off someone you onto the national stage. capable of anything. aren’t supposed to beat at EIWA’s “Am I looking for one guy to “For some guys, it’s all it definitely carries over to the break through? No, I’m looking about getting hot at the right national tournament, especially if for a couple of guys,” Goodale time and having it car r y it was someone who is ranked said. “Our whole lineup has a through,” Goodale said. “In high,” he said. great opportunity to break other cases it’s about sur vival.

In prior years, trips to the through and earn a trip to the It all depends on who the national tournament were few national tournament.”

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SOLEMN SENDOFF Senior Night effort not enough to overcome rival Hall as Scarlet Knights fall 85-74 in hot-tempered affair at RAC

BY KYLE FRANKO CORRESPONDENT

You can forgive Hamady N’Diaye if he was a little more emotional than usual after last MEN’S BASKETBALL night’s loss.

T h e Rutgers men’s basketball team’s lone senior played his part, energizing the crowd at the Louis Brown Athletic Center, but the Scarlet Knights were unable to overcome Seton Hall, falling 85-74.

“We would have loved to win,” said N’Diaye who finished with 12 points and five blocks. “All the other guys wanted it as much as I did. We were hoping to get out of here with a win on Senior Night and they are as disappointed as I am. They played their [hearts out] and I can’t blame them. You win some and you lose some.”

As tough as the defeat is for N’Diaye to stomach it’s even tougher for the Scarlet Knights as they dropped their fourth straight to their in-state rivals.

The blue-clad Seton Hall student section in the upper tier of the RAC chanted “We own Jersey,” as the Pirates closed the game out from the free throw line.

Herb Pope led a determined Seton Hall effort with 22 points and 18 rebounds and Jeremy Hazell finished with 19 points.

Hazell came to life in the second half, scoring 17 after intermission. He scored seven of the 10 Pirate points that helped them build a nine-point lead with 9:18 remaining.

The Knights (15-15, 5-12) climbed back to within 67-62 at the 4:19 mark when freshman forward Dane Miller converted a layup, but they wouldn’t get any closer.

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Senior center Hamady N’Diaye finished with 12 points and five blocks in his final game at the Louis Brown Athletic Center. The performance puts N’Diaye four blocked shots shy of tying Roy Hinson’s school record of 355. The Dakar, Senegal, native’s parents were on hand for the contest.

NCAA hopes ride on tourney success

BY STEVEN WILLIAMSON SENIOR WRITER

KIRSTEN NUBER

Sophomore guard Khadijah Rushdan earned Big East Honor Roll distinctions after posting 16 points Tuesday against Louisville.

Khadijah Rushdan knows the time to win is now.

The future for the Rutgers women’s WOMEN’S BASKETBALL basketball team is RUTGERS AT still up in BIG EAST TOURNEY, the air SATURDAY, 8 P.M. heading into the Big East Tournament this weekend and the margin for error is absolutely zero.

The equation is simple — win and the Scarlet Knights’ NCAA hopes remain intact. Lose, and it’s all but over.

At this point in the season, nothing can be taken for granted.

“You’ve got 40 minutes,” Rushdan said. “That’s all you’re guaranteed is 40 minutes. You can’t go back and say ‘Oh, I’ll go back and do that next game.’”

The feeling of uncertainty that surrounds the Knights’ postseason odds is a completely new animal in itself. In past seasons, RU was an automatic lock for the NCAA’s — the only argument was over how high of a seed the Knights could lock up.

Entering the Big East Tournament with a 17-13 record, the sixth-seeded Knights are slated to face the winner of tonight’s matchup between of No. 11-seed South Florida and No. 14-seed Cincinnati. RU beat both the Bulls and the Bearcats in conference play earlier this season.

NCAA-bracketologists crossexamined the Knights’ plight left and right and the latest predictions have the team sitting in the Big Dance as a No. 11 seed.

But RU head coach C. Vivian Stringer, a perennial contender in the NCAA’s during her 39-year career, said she pays little heed to the prognosticators.

“I’ve tried to use my energy on things that I can affect,” Stringer said. “I don’t care what anybody thinks, it doesn’t really matter.

As long as I have the support of my team, my coaching staff and my athletic director, it doesn’t really matter.

“So honestly if they drop us out, wow. Because first of all I don’t like being put in the position where I have to say ‘please sir.’

I’m not going to ask you anything.

You can bet your last dime, because I have too much pride.

I’m going to come in [to the Big East Tournament] and we will deal with whatever happens.”

Whatever does happen, RU has two things on its side heading up to Hartford — history and confidence.

The Knights overpowered Cincinnati, holding the Bearcats to only 33 points. And while Bulls center Jessica Lawson scored 33 points

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