The Daily Targum 2010-03-11

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GEORGE STREET TRUCK CRASH DELAYS UNIVERSITY OPERATIONS A crashed delivery truck in front of the River Dorms on the College Avenue campus yesterday caused the replacement of a utility pole, the re-routing of University buses for the majority of the day and the delayed delivery of The Daily Targum to the entire University.

The accident occurred at about 7 a.m. when the driver of the Targum’s delivery truck, from First Call delivery service, en route to the back of the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus swerved to avoid a car that abruptly stopped when deciding to turn onto Route 18, said George Mooney, president at First Call.

This caused the truck, whose cab was crushed after the hit, to jump the curb and crash into a utility pole, Mooney said.

The driver, Greg Franco, was slightly injured and taken to the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, he said.

PSE&G workers were finished replacing the broken pole at about 11:15 a.m. while the New Br unswick Police Depar tment was on scene to keep the road closed to traf fic.

The crash affected the bus stop at the Student Activities Center on the College Avenue campus. The stop closed temporarily, and buses were re-routed.

Jack Molenaar, University director of Transportation Services, said at 7:52 a.m., the DOTS announced the bus route changes on their Twitter page and on the bus stops’ NextBus screens.

At about 1:45 p.m., the buses returned to their normal routes, he said.

Drivers typically arrive between 7 and 7:30 a.m. to deliver the paper to all the University’s campues,

Census counts on U. to keep services alive

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Mooney said. Distribution to the about 120 drop-off points occurs between 7:45 and 8:00 a.m.

“The only time we never delivered the paper … was when we got down here [about 2 years ago] and it was flooded, and classes were cancelled,” he said. “We’ve never missed a delivery.”

First Call called for another truck to deliver the papers in the mid-afternoon, and

at about 1 p.m. the Targum became available on campus.

Officials from Rutgers University Police Department said the NBPD responded to the crash because it happened on a city street.

The NBPD is still investigating the crash as of press time.

— Mary Diduch

At a large university, students can sometimes feel like just a number, but this year, there is one way to make sure everyone counts.

Colleges and communities across the nation will be participating in the census this year, a count of all people living in the United States required by the Constitution every decade.

Federal funding for transpor tation, health care, education and other ser vices available to residents in an area are all contingent upon population data, New York Regional Census Center Media Specialist Yolanda Finley said. The census also determines the number of congressmen each district receives.

“It is as important that college students participate in the census as it is for anyone else,” Finley said. “We all use the services, and we all need representation in Congress.”

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General Impression of Gov. Chris Christie

45% — Favorable 26% — Unfavorable 26% — No opinion 3% — Don’t know *Survey out of 881 asked NJ registered voters GRAPHIC BY TAYLERE PETERSON/ DESIGN EDITOR

A telephone poll conducted by the Eagleton Institute of Politics shows that a large portion of the state’s voters favor Gov. Chris Christie.

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New York City’s Symphony Space will be filled with the sounds of classical and jazz clarinet and saxophone tomorrow night as the University’s Jazz Ensemble and Symphony Orchestra team up with legendar y Cuban musician Paquito D’Rivera.

The performance, entitled “Paquito D’Rivera: Reflections of a Man Facing South,” will feature nine-time Grammy winner D’Rivera’s classical and jazz interpretations of Spanish, South American, Afro-Cuban and AfroCaribbean music with the backing of the University ensembles.

The premiere of the piece “Reflections of a Man Facing South” will headline the concer t. Composed by jazz ensemble Director Conrad Her wig, it will feature both ensembles on stage and solos from both Her wig and D’Rivera.

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Christie secures satisfactory ratings

BY MARY DIDUCH MANAGING EDITOR

Just shy of two months after his inauguration as New Jersey’s 55th governor, Gov. Chris Christie is winning over a large chunk of the state’s voters.

In a recent telephone poll conducted by the University’s Eagleton Institute of Politics, about 45 percent of the 953 randomly selected adults view the new governor favorably. About 26 percent view him unfavorably, and another 26 percent have no opinion.

“I think the key thing is that Christie really has gotten a good running start in terms of the voters feeling favorable towards him, while a little more than a quarter have no opinion at all,” said David Redlawsk, political science professor and Rutgers-Eagleton Poll director.

He said this is impressive given the state’s fiscal climate. “[Christie]’s been really visible in saying, ‘I’m going to do something about the mess in New Jersey,’” said Redlawsk, adding that this general rhetoric appeals to many voters.

Some of this positivity could also be due to the honeymoon period new political figures receive when they enter of fice, but Redlawsk said the results show that those voters who did not support Christie during the election still do not support him.

It does not appear that the state is generally shifted toward a more conservative ideology either, he said.

“But independents right now like him, and I think it’s mainly because of

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Jazz legend harmonizes with student musicians

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“It is a really exciting marriage of jazz and classical — the South American and the Afro-Cuban motif,” Her wig said.

D’Rivera agreed that the piece will be a special experience for all members of the audience.

“With the strings and the big band, it is going to be amazing,” he said.

D’Rivera said he was impressed with the musicians in both ensembles during the rehearsals and is excited for the concert, when he will play with both classical and jazz ensembles in the same night for the first time.

“Young people always have something to offer with their enthusiasm for the music and their love for what they do,” he said.

Jazz and classical musicians can learn a lot from each other by working together, D’Rivera said.

“For too long, there has been a barrier between classical music and jazz music,”

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Musician Paquito D’Rivera, the University Jazz Ensemble and the Rutgers Symphony Orchestra rehearse Monday at the Nicholas Music Center on Douglass campus to prepare for an upcoming concert in New York.

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Director conducts transportation forum at meeting

BY GREG FLYNN CORRESPONDENT

Department of Transportation Services Director Jack Molenaar made a stop at the Pharmacy Governing Council Tuesday night to discuss proposed system improvements and pick up complaints and suggestions.

Molenaar detailed the series of estimated improvements he will present at tonight’s Rutgers University Student Assembly meeting before answering questions.

Improving weekend ser vice could cost more than $250,000 to increase bus frequency to ever y 12 minutes from 18 minutes, he said.

Er nest Mario School of Pharmacy junior Nwamaka

Okobi asked why students are only allowed to purchase one parking permit for a specific campus.

Molenaar explained that limiting parking to one campus reduced traffic in the area and avoided the constr uction of new parking.

“If everyone could park on every campus, everyone would drive to every class,” he said. “I would then have to have a spot for what they were in and where they were going to. I’d have to build more parking.”

Since DOTS instituted the one-campus parking permit policy back in 2005, Molenaar said he would never allow parking on multiple campuses.

Traffic studies in 2004 and 2008 showed that traf fic on

Pharmacy Governing Council College Avenue at rush hour was reduced by 30 percent, he said. The University spends $7 million on buses, and allowing unnecessar y contribution to traffic gets in the way of that amount, Molenaar said.

He also said funding for new parking spaces would come from increased transportation fees on students’ term bills.

“Keep in mind if I built more parking decks, you would have to pay,” Molenaar said. “This year, the cost of the Busch, Livingston and Cook permits are cheaper than they were last year. I

dropped it by $20, and I raised the deck permit.”

The deck permit increased because decks cost more to build, he said.

School of Pharmacy first-year student Brian Thomas proposed increasing the frequency of buses just during the mornings on weekends.

Molenaar said DOTS would look into the suggestion.

“It would [cost] a lot less obviously,” he said.

Thomas also asked if the REXB could stop at the Busch Campus center. He said REXB ser vice is often infrequent in the morning, and the stops are distant from cer tain spots on campus.

“I started taking the A to College Avenue and then [I’d]

get on the F, but then it’s almost like why even have the REXB running,” Thomas said.

Molenaar said the REXB and REXL are set up for traveling between classes on campuses and that purpose alone.

School of Pharmacy graduate student Jonathan Cicci noted potholes popping up on campus due to the heavy storm season.

“The Allison [Road] parking lot in particular has potholes larger than my car,” he said.

In reply, Molenaar directed Cicci to the DOTS Web site, where there is an e-mail address to send queries about lot maintenance.

“Anytime you see something, you should always send an e-mail to us,” he said.

UNIVERSITY TO REMEMBER LONG-TIME PHYSICS PROFESSOR The Department of Physics and Astronomy will hold a memorial service Friday at 3 p.m. in the Physics Lecture Hall on Busch campus to remember the life of physics Professor George Horton.

Colleagues, family members and friends of Horton will present tributes at the service.

A reception will follow at 5 p.m. in the thirdfloor lounge of the Serin Physics Building on Busch campus.

Horton, who passed away in November, spent 50 years teaching physics and advocating for employee health and welfare at the University.

During his time at the University, Horton established the health maintenance organization Rutgers Community Health Plan, according to a University Media Relations press release.

Aside from a few establishments in California, health maintenance organizations were mostly unheard of in the nation, said Peter Lindenfeld, emeritus professor of physics and event organizer in a statement.

Horton also founded the Physics Learning Center, which eventually became the Math and Science Learning Center, a facility that serves University as well kindergarten through high school students.

Beside education, Horton strived to restructure faculty salaries and laid the foundation for sabbatical program and the Professor II rank that recognizes outstanding faculty members.

David Maiullo, a physics support specialist, was a former undergraduate student of Horton’s and worked as a demonstrator for him later on.

“He felt people should understand physics, not be scared of it,” Maiullo said in the release. “He portrayed physics as a living, breathing thing — a field moving for ward.”

— Kristine Rosette Enerio

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CENSUS: Bureau will begin collecting data in April continued from front Students who spend the majority of their time at the University are considered residents of New Brunswick and must fill out the census form considering their statuses here, not in their hometowns.

Students who live in on-campus housing facilities will have a member of the University’s faculty come around to collect data using the Individual Census Repor t, an abridged version of the original census form, Finley said.

Students who live independently, whether in off-campus

RATINGS: Twenty-seven percent feel state will improve continued from front how he’s addressing things,” Redlawsk said.

The main concern Christie will address in his budget address Tuesday is closing the state’s 40 percent budget deficit of $11 billion, he said.

Christie has already said he is committed to not raising taxes, so the only possible course of action is to make deep cuts, Redlawsk said.

“There are very few — if any — places that are going to be safe from cutting,” he said.

But ironically, not many voters support a tax cut in these times.

According to the poll, most voters agree that taxes for residents making more than $400,000 annually should not be cut, despite Christie’s support for allowing the surcharge imposed on high earners to expire. Even voters making more than $150,000 per year oppose the tax cut. Only 35 percent support the cut, and 64 percent oppose it.

“Across the board, people don’t support [cutting taxes], but I don’t think by itself it’s driving opinion on Christie per se,” Redlawsk said.

Despite this initially high favorability rate, voters are skeptical about Christie’s ability to implement sweeping change.

“New Jersey voters have seen governor after governor shape things up, and most of the time,

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houses or apartments, will move the community for ward receive census forms in the mail during the decade.” this month, she said. Data will be The Public Relations Student gathered during Society of April and May. America has Participation in tnered with “It’s a great way to par the census gives the U.S. Census students an opporbe a part of this … Bureau to protunity to engage mote par ticipaeffort ... to produce tion in — and civically, in a manner similar to votawareness of — some great data.” ing in an election, the census, YOLANDA FINLEY Finley said.

Finley said. The New York Regional Census “[It] is equally Census Bureau Media Specialist important to paris the sponsor of ticipate in the this year’s process that deterB a t e m a n mines what kind of funding is Competition, a nationwide pubaccessible to you while you’re lic relations contest. living on a college campus,” she Associate Director of said. “It’s a great way to be a part Residence Life Michael Tolbert of this … effort that’s going to said he has experienced no produce some great data to problems with the collection of their impression has been nothing has [improved],” Redlawsk said.

“Of course they are skeptical.”

Forty-two percent feel the state will remain the same, while 27 percent think Christie will make improvements, according to the poll. Eighteen percent of voters think the state will decline.

“Many people do think he’s got somewhat of a chance to make sweeping changes, but there isn’t an overwhelming sense that he’s going to do it,” Redlawsk said.

According to the poll, younger voters are less inclined to believe Christie will improve the state for the better. Twenty-nine percent of registered voters under 30 think the future will be worse, while only 14 percent think it will get better for New Jersey.

Saif Mohamed, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, said he is not confident Christie will keep his campaign promises.

“I don’t think [taxes] would be cut,” said Mohamed, believing Christie could end up raising taxes or not cutting them at all.

Meanwhile, 31 percent of voters over 65 feel New Jersey’s future will be better, while only 9 percent think it will worsen, according to the poll.

“The numbers specifically show that younger voters are somewhat less positive toward him,” Redlawsk said. “As the age of the voter goes up, support goes up. It’s clear that his support is stronger among older voters.”

He said this could be because young people typically vote more democratic and not necessarily because of Christie’s conservative stance on social issues,

T H E DA I LY TA R G U M census data in the past and expects there to be no problems this year.

Organization for this year’s data collection is still in its planning stages, he said.

School of Environmental and Biological Sciences first-year student John Provinsal lives in a house about 15 minutes off campus and will be required to complete the original 2010 census questionnaire. Though he said returning the census would be much easier if he could simply hand it to someone instead of mailing it, Provinsal intends to participate in the census.

“I’ll make the effort to do it,” he said.

For more information about the 2010 census, visit 2010.census.gov.

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A recent poll shows that most of New Jersey’s young voters do not believe Gov. Chris Christie will improve the state. which has not dominated his administration yet.

“The social issues haven’t really come to the front at this stage of the game,” Redlawsk said.

But some University students are concerned with the finances of the state more than anything, citing public school funding as a major area to watch.

Sara Jamshidi, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences junior and a Democrat, is against Christie.

“He cut funding for public education when it’s already ridiculous for students to pay for school,” she said. “Don’t we already pay enough?”

She also did not agree with his decision to cut millions from NJ

Transit funding, which could potentially lead to an increase in ticket prices.

“I feel like there could’ve been something he could’ve done,” Jamshidi said.

She thinks Christie and his cuts will not help out the state’s budget in the long run.

“I think it’s going to get so expensive to live here, that everyone’s going to move out,” Jamshidi said.

Redlawsk said Christie’s main test of support would be when it comes time to implement specific courses of action.

“But right now, he’s mostly talking big picture and many people are finding that quite refreshing,” Redlawsk said.

JAZZ: U. musicians hope concert sparks more regonition continued from front he said. “Music is music and that is it … I am very happy to do this with two types of music at once.”

Though playing with D’Rivera is an honor in itself, the fact that the University Jazz Ensemble and Symphony Orchestra are the only college music groups the famed Symphony Space scheduled as part of their subscription series this year is even more impressive, Herwig said.

Kynan Johns, conductor of the University symphony ensemble, said playing such a unique, style-fusing show will help fill a void that is lacking in the New York music scene and help develop a new audience for future performances.

“We are actually making New York’s people interested in seeing us — and that will help make them interested in the whole school and everything going on here,” Johns said. “We hope to make this a regular thing showcasing the school and that will hopefully bring in more interest.”

Her wig, who has performed with D’Rivera, said it is a blessing for the University to play with the musician.

“It’s a dream come true for us,” he said.

As part of the Mason Gross School of the Arts “Rutgers in New York” series, the concert provides an opportunity to perform with some of the world’s best artists and musicians in the city, something Herwig said has a profound effect on aspiring musicians and unlocks their potential.

Johns hopes his orchestra will learn from D’Rivera’s professionalism and technique and maybe absorb some new rhythmic skills.

“I think it is important that the young musicians today … learn that versatility, because you have to be diverse in so many styles these days, and that’s a technique they are going to develop here,” Johns said.

During his career, D’Rivera has released more than 30 solo albums, including 2007’s “Funk Tango,” which won a Grammy for Best Latin Jazz Album. He has also played with some of the most prestigious orchestras in the world from London Symphony to Warsaw Philharmonic and stands as the only artist ever to win Grammys in both Latin Jazz and classical categories.

“It’s an incredible feeling when you get someone as famous as Paquito playing right in front of you and being able to hear the things he is famous for being played a few feet in front of your face,” said Will Macirowski, a bassist with the Jazz Ensemble and Mason Gross School of the Arts junior.

The concert will begin at 8 p.m. tomorrow evening at the Symphony Space at 2537 Broadway and 95th Street New York, NY. Discounted tickets are available for $25 through the Mason Gross School of the Ar ts ticket of fice on the Douglass campus. Call the ticket office at (732)-932-7511 for more information.

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Alumnus bleeds modern themes into classic novel

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choices that we as an audience have a bias toward. Parks was able to have audience members Throughout his life, Eric confront their own biases.”

Ruf fin has been an actor, Ruf fin said he accepted the dancer and singer, but the 29- role because he likes working year-old Mason Gross School of with talented students at the Arts alumnus has returned the University. to the University with hopes of “It was incredibly exciting in impacting audiences in a new terms of acting, set design, cosrole — director of “In the tume design and lighting,” he Blood,” the Rutgers Theater said. “Across the board, so many Company’s latest production. elements came together at Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks [their] best.” wrote “In the Blood,” a modernStill, the best part of the play is day portrayal of Nathaniel the cast, Ruffin said.

Hawthorne’s One cast mem“Scarlet Letter” ber he highlighted “The play is letting was actress Allison and its protagonist, Hester a Mason us see the frontier Siko, Pr ynne, said Gross senior who Laurie Granieri, played of an America that has director of Public Kathleen Stabler is multiethnic Relations for since 2002 on “Law Mason Gross. & Order: Special and multiracial.”

“Hester of ‘In Victims Unit.”

ERIC RUFFIN the Blood’ is alterSiko said nately tormented Play Director Ruffin is a great and ostracized by director and a preacher who enjoyed working has fathered one of her children, with a Mason Gross graduate a hardening welfare worker and but understood how people an indifferent doctor, among oth- could feel uncomfortable with ers, in a murky underworld punc- the stor y. Still, she said Ruffin tuated by drug, sex, and vio- wanted to go after the truth and lence,” Granieri said. create characters that could The theater department at represent actual people. the University approached “We wanted to give them fullRuffin and asked him to direct rounded sides,” she said. “The the play, which opened Friday, character I play is a prostitute.

Ruffin said.

She was not just a hustler — she What attracted Ruffin to the has a vulnerable side that Ruffin script was Parks’ portrayal of instilled upon us.” females in both negative and posSiko appreciates Ruffin’s dediitive lights. A woman could be cation to his work. seen as a prostitute at one point “Ruf fin has the passion to and a saint at another. not just put on a play, but put “Parks was not demonizing on a piece of theater that can women, but she turned the main af fect the community,” she character into a tragic hero in the said. “Having a director that Greek stor y sense,” he said. was so passionate and so “What attracted me to it is the involved with tr ying to get specific exploration of a black ever ybody to see it was an woman. Hester was making inspiring energy to have.”

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Hester, played by Dianna Jones, talks to her youngest son Baby, played by David Pegram, in the Rutgers Theater Company’s production of “In the Blood.”

Ruffin said making the play more appealing to a younger audience was a challenge.

“I need to conceptualize the story to a university audience between the ages of 17 to 30 in a way they are willing to receive it,” he said.

A director must determine what a playwright is trying to say and find the right way to present that stor y to a certain demographic, Ruffin said. After reading the play and analyzing it, he was able to come up with something suitable for the stage.

The characters in the play are of different races and ethnicities

and represent different institutions and organizations, he said.

There are ties to the church, capitalism and the government in terms of welfare systems.

With his role as the director, Ruffin wants audience members to look within their own constructed views of other people and see realities of society reflected in the play.

“Identities are so fluid in the 21st centur y,” he said. “The play is letting us see the frontier of an America that is multiethnic and multiracial.”

But some themes of “In the Blood” did not resonate well with

a few members of the audience.

Viewers have walked out of the production because it was too provocative for them, Ruffin said.

“There have been generations of people who have [pushed] the envelope of what can and cannot be said on television, radio and film,” he said. “I’ve made choices that push people to rethink their own existences. We want to see ourselves affirmed racially and ethnically on stage, so we can learn about ourselves.”

Production for “In the Blood” will end this Saturday at the Philip J. Levin Theater on Douglass campus.

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Professor governs honorific society Professor Paul Falkowski joins the 12-member governing council of the NAS

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The National Academy of Sciences recently elected University Professor Paul Falkowski to its governing council, whose 12 members and five officers lead the academy.

The academy is a body of about 2,100 members and about 400 foreign associates, of whom nearly 200 have won Nobel Prizes, according to the NAS Web site.

“It is an honor to be able to serve the nation,” Falkowski said.

“The more academy members we can have [from the University], the better [the quality of] the scientific community in this University going forward.”

Falkowski is the director of the Rutgers University Energy Institute and par t of the Depar tment of Geological Sciences and Marine and Coastal Sciences in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. His NAS election was announced March 1 on the Web site.

Kay Bidle, a University colleague and former postdoctoral student of Falkowski, expressed the importance and gravity of the nomination and election into the NAS governing council.

“First of all, being elected to the National Academy of Sciences, that in itself is really a groundbreaking achievement,” he said. “It is something that we all strive for, and it is

the ultimate honor as a scientist. We are all super, super proud of him. It’s inspirational.”

For his three-year term, Falkowski looks to focus on advising the federal government on science and education and improve science education across the nation. He also wants to help provide more direct scientific information to the public through NAS so

“I want to do what I can to sustain the public’s faith in science as one of the most credible aspects of our lives.”

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people are better informed and therefore can make better decisions.

He also aims to be an advocate for science as well as an advocate for the public among scientists, according to a University Media Relations press release.

“I want to do what I can to sustain the public’s faith in science as one of the most credible aspects of our lives,” said Falkowski in the release. “We’re citizens, as well as scientists.”

Francisco Werner, professor and director of the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, explained Falkowski’s achievements over the years.

“In addition to his membership in the National Academy of Sciences, he is a recipient of the Huntsman Medal, the [G. Evelyn] Hutchinson Award, the Vernadsky Medal and is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Academy of Microbiology and the European Geosciences Union,” he said via e-mail correspondence.

Falkowski’s nomination and election to the NAS’s governing council is a high honor recognizing his contribution to science and NAS, Werner said.

Falkowski said the University could extend its reputation greatly by having more professors elected to NAS. “If you want to build this University’s reputation in a national or international setting in the sciences strongly in the next 20 to 25 years, we need to increase the membership to, say, 30 NAS members,” he said. “That would be a fantastic achievement.”

NAS is an honorar y society made up of distinguished scientists across the nation whose main purpose is to advise the cur rent gover ning body of the nation on all science and technological issues of today.

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DAILY TARGUM HOLDS ‘BEST OF SHOW’ TITLE The Daily Targum was awarded the “Best of Show” award for four-year college daily publications at last month’s 26th Annual Associated Collegiate Press National Journalism Convention in Phoenix.

The award — the Targum’s second in a row — is in reference to the paper’s 2009 New Jersey Gubernatorial Election Issue.

Editor-in-Chief Neil P. Kypers is pleased the publication continues to uphold the standards and traditions of previous editorial boards.

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ormer Vice President Dick Cheney may not be in the news as much as he used to be, but his daughter has been making headlines as of late. Despite the fact that no one actually wants to give Liz Cheney coverage, an article in The New York Times speaks of the “Al Qaeda 7.” One of the sharpest critics of current American policy is a group called Keep America Safe, partly led by Liz Cheney. They have recently questioned nine top political appointees at the Justice Department for previously working as advocates for enemy combatants held at Guantanamo Bay. These slanderous claims only reinforce the illogical attacks President Barack Obama’s administration has experienced recently. Partisanship is one thing, but attacking those who were merely doing their jobs is a crime of its own.

Keep America Safe misses out on the fact that only a fraction of the detainees at Gitmo, most of whom were not given due process rights, were accused of Al Qaeda involvement. The theory then that current Justice Department attorneys are improperly placed into their positions is false. The lawyers simply saw an opportunity to challenge policies they viewed as unconstitutional power grabs. In essence, it was a disagreement between former President George W. Bush’s policy of not allowing supposed terrorists rights and the current Justice Department members’ struggle to uphold human rights. Their duty was simply to secure due process rights for detainees.

It is typical for such right-wing partisans to attack current Justice Department appointees, but personal attacks on individuals who took it upon themselves to defend human rights only furthers the insanity behind some people’s methods. One of those people, Andrew McCarthy, a member of the National Review, has been a strong supporter of these slanderous claims, asking, “How is it patriotic to go out of your way to help America’s enemies in wartime?” His methods of accusing Justice Department officials of working against the state only remind us of McCarthyism, a name comparison all too tempting. In fact, the name Keep America Safe fits perfectly with the illogical, partydriven attacks it only serves to perpetuate, with the notion of crazy Republicans mulling over a loss of power.

It seemed like the right time for right-wingers to attack Obama’s choices, but the question does not reach beyond partisanship. The lawyers who were slanderously accused of defending terrorists were only doing the job that no one else wanted — defending human rights in the midst of an overbearing government. Suffering from the loss of executive power, Republicans could only attack those who did them wrong in the past.

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ith the range of educational differences across the nation, someone needed to step up and act in favor of the students for once. The No Child Left Behind Act in no way helped children learn by automatically moving them up a grade, and the differences in state educational systems only distanced kids from their compatriots. According to The New York Times, a panel of governors and state school superintendents proposed on Wednesday a much-needed uniform set of academic standards. They laid out what their expectations were of children across the nation in the main areas of study — math, English and the sciences. This new proposal will not only transform the American educational system. It has the ability to put us on par with international standards — ones on which we are far behind.

The problem is that from state to state, academic requirements are different. For example, a second grader in the New York educational system could be doing more advanced math than a second grader in Florida. These differences range across grades also. From kindergarten through senior year of high school, students’ knowledge varies by location. With a more uniform system of educational standards, we would begin to make opportunities equal for everybody. We should not slum to lower standards — we should look at the places where students excel and use them as models.

In some places around the countr y, students are able to graduate without the basic knowledge of speaking English. How could anyone graduate from high school without knowing the language primarily spoken in this nation? People who do not hold the basic requirements to graduate should not be able to, and this newly proposed set of standards would decrease the chance of something like that happening. Under the No Child Left Behind Act, students slipped through the cracks, uncertain of whether they actually learned anything in the grade from which they were just promoted.

But under a reformed, universal set of standards, each educational system would have to measure up to the level set by a greater power. This would also result in greater opportunities for more high school graduates as they either enter the work force or apply for college.

After all, everyone should know who Henry David Thoreau was and how to write a simple essay, but this is not the case as of right now.

If we hope to be the best — as we claim to be — education is one sphere that needs vast improvement, and the need for nationwide standards is certain.

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has been no change or quest has dawned on me tion of change in link that recently that the creputs his or her profile with ators of Facebook are yours. This causes anxiety out to ruin people’s lives. I and insecurity about how am not talking about pictures your significant other really from wild weekends of doing feels about the relationship. shots and peeing in the Since when did putting streets ruining careers or MEGAN DIGUILIO an announcement on a college acceptances, or the social networking site deterfact that there are probably mine whether a relationship was valid? The sad support groups for Farmville addicts. The real lifetruth is we are all guilty of using Facebook as the ruining factor that Facebook has provided the world determining factor about relationships. If a guy or with is the pressure-building relationship status. girl was talking you up, and you later went to add Nothing puts more unnecessary stress on a new them on Facebook and saw they had a significant couple then that stupid pink heart plaguing every other, you would back off. Worse, if there is no relafriend’s news feed. Back in the day, a guy would simtionship status (that’s right players, we know all ply ask a girl to dinner and a movie. If it happened a about the it “doesn’t say single or not, we just don’t few times, and a month in you decided you have not post any relationship status” trick), and you later bugged the crap out of each other yet, you may find out that the person you like was in a relationmake things official. In the retro era, guys would ship, you would be mad that they did not have it on “pin” their girlfriends. Girls sported their their profile to begin with. All these issues posed by boyfriend’s varsity jackets, and guys would carry that stupid little pink heart. their lady’s books to class for them. These simple litNow, we have the break-up side of things. tle things just showed “the world” you were togethAnyone who has been in a relationer. Flash forward to present day, and ship that has ended during the blow the whole world knows in an instant “... and then the up of Facebook will agree that there that you are now in a relationship, many dimensions and layers to a you have ended a relationship or question you have are Facebook break-up. First of all, as if a things are complicated — all because broken heart was not bad enough, of an Internet profile edit. been avoiding now you have the awkward, who is Now, some of you may be wonall along, “How going to change their status back to dering what the big deal is. It is just a single first. No matter who it is, the little pink heart, and no one really about making it pit in your stomach remains just the truly cares who you are dating and Facebook official?” same if you are the “dumpee.” what is going on in your romantic Secondly, there is dealing with how life. To those of you I say, you are you treat the “ex.” There is a obviously single and living it up with Facebook stalker in every one of us, and the severino relationship prospects, or have been happily in a ty of how creepy you are comes with poking and Facebook-official relationship for quite some time prying from an ex. Some of us have to delete the ex now with no sign of it ending just yet. Take it from from our friends because you do not want to see picsomeone who in the past six months of her life has tures of them enjoying their single life, or worse been through the trials and tribulations Facebook with their new significant other. Yet another reason has to offer a person — that stupid pink heart causwhy the pink heart is out to ruin lives. If you have es more problems than it is worth. decided you want to try to stay civil, or just be a Let us first look at relationships that are fresh and creeper and check out their profile everyday, you new, and what Facebook has the potential to do to stay friends with the ex. The day you see his or her them. OK. You are single and ready to mingle. You name next to a pink heart with someone else’s is have prospective mates, and you are enjoying the lot like the world crashing down upon you — if you do of them. You get closer with one of them, which not have someone yourself. leads to dating, and then the question you have been People put way too much pressure on relationavoiding all along, “How about making it Facebook ships as it is. There really is no need for social netofficial?” Doubts about whether you are ready speed working sites to cause unnecessary anxiety. This is through your head as you uncomfortably try to figthe equivalent to the MySpace Top 8 uproar. If you ure out what to say. After all, this is Facebook, so this get moved, then it obviously means the friend is question means BIG commitment. You can also have upset with you. People switch to “it’s complicated” this scenario: You are with a person, happy as clams, just to show their boy or girlfriend that they are mad, but they are not bringing up making your relationship Facebook official. They refer to you as their sigSEE DIGUILIO ON PAGE 11 nificant other in front of friends and family, but there

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n May of last year, while in her seventh month of pregnancy, an unnamed 17-year-old Utah girl made a desperate and dangerous decision.

After having been told by her boyfriend at the time that he would break up with her if she did not have an abortion, the girl offered to pay a man named Aaron Harrison $150 to physically assault her in hopes that she would miscarr y her fetus. Harrison accepted the girl’s proposal, reportedly taking her to the basement of his parents’ house and brutally kicking her in the stomach over and over again. In the end, his attempts to terminate the pregnancy failed — the fetus sur vived the beating and was put up for adoption after being born in August.

To answer the obvious question readers must be pondering, the girl likely took such drastic action — rather than simply going to an abortion clinic and having a legally-sanctioned procedure — because she was attempting to hide the pregnancy from her family. Since Utah law requires parental consent for minors to obtain abortions and also prohibits the practice after the 20th week of pregnancy (except in a few very extreme circumstances, such as if the mother’s life or health is threatened or the baby is expected to be born with extreme defects), she could see no alternative course of action available.

According to CBS News, Harrison later pleaded guilty to second-degree felony attempted murder. But last October, “District Judge A. L ynn Payne instead sentenced him under Utah’s antiabor tion statute, saying a charge of third-degree ‘attempted killing of an

unborn child’ bethomicide of an ter fit the facts of unborn child.” the case.” He is Having already currently ser ving passed both up to five years in Houses of the prison. The girl, R epubl i c a n-c onon the other hand, trolled Utah State pleaded no conLegislature by JOSH BAKER test to a secondwide margins (59degree felony 12 in the U.S. count of criminal solicitation to commit House of Represenatives and 24-4 in the murder in June and was initially ordered U.S. Senate), the bill awaits the signature

by Juvenile Court Judge Larr y Steele to or veto of Republican Gov. Gary Herbert. be placed in the custody of the Utah If he does nothing, on March 8 it will Juvenile Justice Ser vices until she automatically become law. The language turned 21. Judge Steele later altered his of the bill reads, in part, that “a person decision and ordered her release, ruling commits criminal homicide if [he or she] that “a woman who solicits intentionally, knowingly, or seeks to have another with criminal “And how is Utah recklessly, cause an abortion of her negligence or acting with a own unborn child cannot supposed to know mental state other wise be criminally liable.” The specified … causes the when a pregnant girl is currently seeking death of another human custody of her child. being, including an woman has had After hearing about this unborn child at any stage regrettable incident, Rep. of its development.” a miscarriage?”

Carl Wimmer, R-Utah, was As it stands, this bill — like myself — “absolutepresents a plethora of ly outraged.” However, unlike your trusty practical problems. The language defincolumnist, Wimmer was outraged not by ing what constitutes criminal homicide the fact that his state’s stringent abortion is far too vague, specifically with regard laws had driven a desperate, underage to the terms “recklessly” and “criminal girl to risk personal injury and death to negligence.” If these terms are underconceal her pregnancy from her family, stood liberally, a woman could face but by the fact that she was not ultimate- prosecution if a miscarriage results ly found guilty of any crime. Driven by his from any act that is arguably reckless outrage, Wimmer introduced House Bill or negligent, such as failing to wear a 12, which would “remove prohibitions seat belt, walking on ice, staying with against prosecution of a woman for killing an abusive par tner or drinking a few too an unborn child or committing criminal many glasses of wine. Fur ther, nearly

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Each year, RHA also organizes several educational, leadership, ser vice and social programming opportunities for residential students.

As an organization, RHA works to continuously improve the campus life of residents by writing proposals that address student concerns and by anticipating actions, which can and will enhance the on-campus living experience. This year, RHA sponsored a Housing Lotter y Town Hall where residents could voice their opinions on how the University could change the lotter y process.

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DIGUILIO continued from page 10 instead of just communicating in person. Hell, I have a friend who would break up with her boyfriend on Facebook every time they fought just to make a statement to him. It is so dumb.

20 percent of all pregnancies naturally end in miscarriage, meaning that women may face prosecution for something over which they had no control.

There is also the issue of actually enforcing the law. Writing for TheStranger.com, Dan Savage obser ves: “If ever y miscarriage is a potential homicide, how does Utah avoid launching a criminal investigation ever y time a woman has a miscarriage? … And how is Utah supposed to know when a pregnant woman has had a miscarriage? You’re going to have to create some sor t of pregnancy registr y to keep track of all those fetuses, Utah.

Perhaps you could star t issuing ‘conception cer tificates’ to women who get pregnant? And then, if there isn’t a baby within nine months of the issuance of a conception cer tificate, the woman could be hauled in for questioning and … indicted for criminal homicide, if it’s determined that she intentionally or accidentally induced a miscarriage.”

At the end of the day, House Bill 12 is a poorly thought out, highly impractical piece of legislation created exclusively to deal with an incredibly rare occurrence. It will do nothing to reduce the number of abor tions per formed in Utah each year, but will potentially criminalize per fectly innocent behavior.

As such, this bill, and those like it in other states, should be rejected as impractical and unjust.

Josh Baker is a Rutgers College senior majoring in sociology. He welcomes feedback at jbake74@eden.rutgers.edu.

So, I end with this. Facebook is not a way to validate your relationship. Just because you post cutesy albums of “Photobooth Fun,” and finally make the commitment to the pink heart does not mean your relationship is any more real than it was before that. It is how you treat it in reality, not just in cyberspace that counts. So, maybe we should consider going back to the

days of varsity jackets and carrying books, because honestly it’s those little things that show you care more.

Megan DiGuilio is a School of Arts and Sciences junior majoring in journalism and media studies. She is the former opinions editor of The Daily Targum. Her column “Dirty Pop” runs on alternate Thursdays.

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Sophomore guard Nikki Speed earned the trust of head coach C. Vivian Stringer, playing critical minutes down the stretch.

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“She’s doing a wonderful job, and I watched her do incredible things and said ‘Wow,’” Stringer said. “First of all the way she played in the [Louisville] game makes me feel real good and the lights went on.”

could watch the plays unfold **** from a different perspective. And Looking back, Stringer’s words she waited for that elusive light to the day before her team left for the switch on.

Big East Tournament in Hartford, “Part of being a point guard is Conn., seem eerily prophetic. understanding your personnel,” “I’ll tell you what,” Stringer Stringer said. “If you have stone said. “If Nikki is doing what hands, you have to deliver the everybody else is seeing, we’re ball in a certain way. I think it going to be pretty doggone began to click, maybe, by Nikki tough. … I think the future for not playing the point. the Scarlet Knights looks bright, “You don’t have to have your based upon what I’ve seen just hands on the ball. You can now and the feeling [that people orchestrate how you want things are settling in].” to go if you see two or three passFaith in her guard high, es ahead of time. Nikki will tend Stringer played Speed the entire to think that she has to be the 40 minutes in the one to make the Knights’ first game play. … It’s like against Cincinnati, being a conductor. “[Nikki Speed is] a 70-44 rout of You can conduct doing a wonderful the Bearcats. even without S p e e d touching.

You job, and I appeared as confihave to see it and dent on the hardfeel it.” watched her do **** wood as she has incredible things Speed’s bumpy all year distributlearning curve is ing the ball from and said ‘Wow.’” not unlike her both guard positeam’s season. tions. Though she C. VIVIAN STRINGER Flashes of shot only 1-of-9 Head Coach brilliance and from the floor, ability are folStringer said lowed with disappointing Speed looked loose and relaxed defeat and the notion that one on the court. play or errant pass could have One night later in overtime, changed an entire game. She no one looked relaxed against delivered a shining per formNo. 12 Georgetown. ance early in the season — 13 Beside herself after a quick points, five rebounds, three Wheeler turnover, Stringer reinassists and three steals against serted Speed with RU down Southern California — only to three late in extra time. Speed tail off again. took the inbounds pass, picked “All of us can feel the roller up a screen and — from two feet coaster [of the season]. Whether beyond the men’s three-point or not we want to, we feel it,” line — drained the basket to tie Speed said. “[Winning is] excitthe game with 2.2 seconds left on ing. We love being on the peak. the clock.

But once we go down, every“I’ll say it’s the biggest [shot body goes down — our mentaliI’ve ever made],” Speed said. “I ty, our confidence, everything wasn’t even really thinking about goes down.” it. All of us kept saying ‘We’re not But instead of abandoning her going home.’” guard, Stringer increased When the final buzzer soundSpeed’s minutes as the season ed and the Knights converged came to a close. In the Knights’ on the court, a stoic-looking final regular season games Speed glanced up at the scoreagainst Providence and Louisville board before joining her team— crucial games that likely mates to celebrate. decided their NCAA Tournament It glowed 63-56, with RU comfate — Speed played 32 and 37 ing out on top. minutes, respectively, delivering “Thank you,” she mouthed in each contest. silently.

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Head men’s basketball coach Fred Hill Jr. led the Knights to five wins in conference play this year, a high for his four-year career. the end result was still just five Big East wins.

After four years, Hill sits 30 coach while decision day looms games under .500 and is the proud owner of just 13 confercontinued from back ence victories. Off the court, being my coach next year, for my troubles keeping players in scarsenior year, and that’s the only let were exacerbated by sophothing that matters.” more Gregor y Echenique’s Senior center Hamady departure in December.

N’Diaye did the same, and if any“I look at all the positives and one can attest to Hill’s credentials all the steps that we’ve taken,” Hill as a head coach, it is N’Diaye. said. “I really don’t want to talk Hill’s first recruit and the lone about losing players, but when you player to stick with him throughhave an injury and you have to out the four years, N’Diaye withrevamp and go through changes, stood changes in the culture and what I look at is what an unbelievwitnessed the development Hill able job these guys have done and implemented on the program. shown where they are headed.”

“We never think about it, To make such an incredible either individually or as a team,” resolution it really comes down N’Diaye said at Monday’s practo the product on the court. tice. “That’s one of those things Did Hill change the culture we moved past a long time ago. within the program? Yes. Did he When we lost those eight games sign better recruits? Absolutely. and the rumors Has the quality of were all over the play and continu“Pernetti will do place, we heard all ity between his types of things increased? what he feels is best players about coach Hill.

Sure, but that realThe one thing I for the future, and ly only took hold told my teamseason. it’s very, very hard thisThere mates was that we are are trying to finish to make the call one recruiters abound this season. We across the counway or the other.” tr y. That’s really don’t know what’s going to happen all Hill was when tomorrow or the Mulcahy snatched next day, but we have to finish him from Villanova, and that’s this. This is not his last opportureally all he still was when nity, at all, as a coach.

Mulcahy gave him that ill“That’s what this year was realadvised extension. ly all about, when you think about Hill should be lauded for the it. We did all of this for next year.” changes he made, but that does That’s all fine and well, but not mean he is the right coach to Mitchell is right. Ultimately, the take the Knights even further. players have no say. Pernetti will With a more renowned basketdo what he feels is best for the ball coach at the helm, the future, and it is very, very hard to National Invitational Tournament make the call one way or the other. and NCAA Tournament are well Hill has not done enough to within reach with the talent level fully justify maintaining his job, Hill already amassed. but he also has not done enough Hill just may not be the right to not maintain his job. man to do it — but he also may Hill is caught smack-dab in the very well be. It is a nearly imposmiddle of right and wrong, of good sible call to make, and Pernetti enough and not good enough. His has no one’s envy. five-win conference season and If Pernetti decides to relieve one-point loss in the Big East Hill of his duties, there better be a Tournament were the best results very good candidate waiting in the in four years, but they were also wings. Another job search like the the best results in four years. one that brought Pernetti to power See the conundrum? in the first place would be nothing Improvement is great, but it has short of disastrous for an alreadyonly been so much. struggling basketball program.

Hill beams when talking about how the Knights are the first Matthew Stein accepts all comteam in Big East history to start ments and criticisms at stein0-8 and finish with five wins, yet ma@eden.rutgers.edu.

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Hits aplenty in home-opening victory

BY ALEX JANKOWSKI ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

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he Rutgers women’s basketball team will find out its seed and opponent in the NCAA tournament on Selection Monday, having almost assuredly solidified a spot in the field of 65.

The Scarlet Knights (19-14, 97) advanced to the semifinals of the Big East tournament last Monday before falling 56-49 to West Virginia.

RU played its way into the Sweet 16 last season before losing to Purdue 67-61 in Oklahoma City.

Consistent scoring and solid pitching paced the Rutgers baseball team yesterday to the tune of a 10-1 BASEBALL victor y 1 o v e r NJIT NJIT in 10 its home RUTGERS opener at Bainton Field.

In his first start this season, senior pitcher Kyle Bradley (1-0) struck out five Highlanders in five solid innings. The right-hander yielded only two hits and one earned run to give the Scarlet

Knights their second victory of the year.

“My location was on and my pitches were pretty hard to hit today,” Bradley said. “When I’m off, it’s easy to give up hits. As long as I’m throwing strikes I’m fine.”

Although the temperature continued to drop under the overcast sky, the RU bats stayed hot all game long, amassing 12 hits and scoring in three of the first four innings to build a substantial 6-1 lead.

“It’s always great [as a pitcher] to have a lot of runs,” Bradley said. “The offense did a great job today scoring runs and it makes it a lot easier to pitch.”

RU did the most damage in the fourth inning, scoring three runs.

Two of the three scores came courtesy of an opposite field home run blast from designated hitter Brandon Boykin. Not known for his power, the junior took a pitch from NJIT starter Austin McAuliffe (1-1) over the right field fence, scoring himself and senior shortstop Dan Betteridge.

“I just saw a pitcher who was struggling,” said Boykin of the home run. “I knew he was coming with a fastball so I was just sitting on it and drove it out.”

Yesterday’s game was only the first of two games the Knights play at home in their first 24 games of

The Rutgers women’s tennis team defeated Villanova yesterday 7-0 in a Big East matchup.

The victory improves the Knights’ record to 6-3 and 2-1 in the Big East. Coach Ben Bucca’s team remains perfect at home this season with a 4-0 record.

The Rutgers softball team enjoys seven games in a week’s span, including the Oklahoma State Mizuno Classic in Oklahoma City.

The Knights face Wisconsin, Prairie View A&M and Oklahoma State, the host team, during the three-day tournament.

Coach Jay Nelson’s team will continue its Midwest trip when it travels to face Wichita State and Missouri State over the next four days.

The Georgetown men’s basketball team trounced South Florida 69-49 yesterday during the second round of the Big East tournament. The Hoyas were paced by Big East firstteam center Greg Monroe and swingman Jason Clark, who each scored 16 points.

In the second game of the day, Marquette narrowly edged out St. John’s 57-55. Marquette standout Lazar Hayward picked the pocket of Red Storm standout D.J. Kennedy to ensure the victory.

Georgetown will face No. 1 seed Syracuse while Marquette will take on No. 4 seed Villanova tomorrow.

Free agent cornerback/safety Marlin Jackson signed with the Philadelphia Eagles yesterday.

The former Indianapolis Colt signed a two-year deal while the amount of the deal was undisclosed, a league source said.

The 26 year-old has four interceptions on his young career, but tore the ACL in both of his knees the past two seasons.

The Oregon Ducks football team continues to experience trouble with the legal system, as star quarterback Jeremiah Masoli and talented running back LaMichael James recently faced court decisions.

Masoli will be charged in a theft at a campus fraternity house in January. James is scheduled to appear in court Friday to plead guilty on domestic violence charges.

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Freshman reliever Jerry Elsing pitched two innings in yesterday’s 10-1 victory over NJIT at Bainton Field.

The right-hander did not allow any hits and struck out three before the game was called due to darkness.

the season. Head coach Fred Hill Sr. knows that winning the ones in Piscataway is crucial to building momentum for the road.

“Well every win is important, but it’s good to go out and get the first one at home,” he said. “You always feel a little bit more comfortable playing on your own field.”

The Knights got on the board first in the second inning when third baseman Russ Hopkins drove the ball to deep right field for a double. A throwing error on the play moved the sophomore to third and 90-feet from home.

The next batter up, Betteride, hit a sacrifice fly to right field, plating Hopkins to put RU ahead 1-0.

The lead was short lived, however, when the Highlanders put runners on second and third with no outs. Bradley forced a double play, but centerfielder Matt Petrone reached home to pull NJIT even.

“Obviously 1-8 is not a great start but we are very happy with the way we came out and played today,” said junior outfielder Michael Lang.

“Hopefully we can keep this momentum going into the weekend and into our Spring Break.”

The one aspect of the game where RU struggled was walking Highlander batters. The Knights’ pitching staff issued a total of eight free passes to first base, giving NJIT (2-4) base runners, despite only two hits in the game.

“We do got to clean it up a bit so we aren’t walking everybody,” Hill said. “I thought our pitchers did well, they haven’t been out a lot this year. We are going to need them down the road.”

Freshman Jerry Elsing came into the game to relieve Bradley in the sixth inning and pitched two innings of no-hit baseball. Officials called the game due to darkness midway through the eighth inning.

Spring Break is a busy time for RU (2-8), which plays a total of eight games between today and Monday, March 22, starting tomorrow against Florida International.

After three games against the Panthers, the Knights play two games against Florida Atlantic before leaving the Sunshine State to head up to Norfolk, Va., to do battle with Old Dominion. “[Fatigue] won’t be a factor for us,” Boykin said. “We are used to playing a lot of games.

We are just going to go out there and try to win some ball games.”

Saunders’ career nears end in Champs at RU

BY KEVIN O’ROURKE STAFF WRITER

Erin Saunders worked the better part of five months for this weekend.

Come Friday at the Zone Diving Championships, the Rutgers diving team’s senior co-captain is well aware of what’s at stake.

Past glories and regular season wins and losses can be erased — everyone is 0-0.

As a result, one couldn’t blame Saunders for feeling the pressure that accompanies competing on the national collegiate level for the final time. But while Saunders is facing the realization of the end of her career on the Banks, she is doing her best to enjoy the ride.

“I think I’m a lot better mentally than I was going into Big East,” said Saunders, who nabbed a pair of seventh-place finishes to pace the Scarlet Knights in the conference championship. “I feel like a new person, which is exciting.

This is a meet that I’ve been train-

ing for, for four years, so it’s good The Pennsylvania native made to know that I’m in the right a strong showing last year, placmindset. I think that just makes ing ninth in the three-meter dive all the difference in the world — and 11th in the one-meter. being in the right mindset.”

“There’s a lot of parity,” said It also does not hurt to know that diving coach Fred Woodruff. she seems to be “Any number of peaking at the right girls can do well time after an up and “It seems like she this weekend. It down season. really just just walked in “I’m just a little depends who’s in bit more confident the zone. There’s as a freshman. in myself,” a lot of good athI’m definitely Saunders said. letes and it basi“Everything seems cally just depends going to miss to be clicking a liton who’s got it tle bit better than it [Erin Saunders.]” that day.” was before. This is Junior Jen FRED WOODRUFF the most excited Betz and freshI’ve been for a meet man Katie Diving Coach all year.”

Kearney did not Saunders dived qualify for the in the event each of the last three championship, but Woodruf f seasons, but will do so for the first said that each could benefit from time in an expanded field. watching the process.

Mar yland and Virginia were Kearney continued to practice added to RU’s region, supplying with Saunders, while Betz took even more competition to an some time off to heal from injuries already stellar field. that plagued her all season.

Regardless of the outcome, Saunders will be missed — both in and out of the pool.

“It’s bittersweet,” Woodruff said. “It’s cool to see how far she’s come and see where we are at, at this point. It’s definitely fun to watch her but it is kind of a bummer. It was a pretty fast four years.

It seems like she just walked in as a freshman. I’m definitely going to miss the girl — that’s for sure.”

Before Saunders walks out, though, she has one more chance to leave her mark. And the fact that it comes at her home pool lends an added sense of determination.

“I love knowing that my last meet is going to be in front of my home crowd,” Saunders said.

“The swimmers are [coming to] watch [and] I don’t live far from here so I have a bunch of family from home coming up to watch.

Having the meet being at Rutgers on my home boards definitely adds to my excitement. It makes it just a little bit more special.”

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Senior center Hamady N’Diaye, left, saw his career with the Rutgers men’s basketball team come to an end seconds after sophomore guard Mike Rosario, right, tied the game with an acrobatic 3-pointer. While N’Diaye pursues an NBA career, Rosario shot down the idea of leaving Rutgers early and looks to take N’Diaye’s place as team leader.

N’Diaye era ends while Rosario promises leadership

BY KYLE FRANKO CORRESPONDENT

NEW YORK — When the Rutgers men’s basketball team’s season mercifully came to an end Tuesday MEN’S BASKETBALL night, the questions started immediately.

Will Fred Hill Jr. be back next season? Will Mike Rosario? Was this a step in the right direction?

The Scarlet Knights finished the season 15-17 and 5-13 in the Big East. It was the most wins for Hill during his four years as head coach. But during his tenure, Hill’s record is 47-77 and 13-57 in the conference.

Rosario threw his support behind Hill shortly after RU’s 69-68 loss to Cincinnati in the first round of the Big East Tournament.

“He’s a great guy on and off the court,” Rosario said. “He was in a tough situation this year, trying to get the program where it needed to go, and I thought that guy did a great job of keeping us together and telling us to push ourselves.”

If athletic director Tim Pernetti was going to replace Hill, a decision would most likely come by April 5 or the University would owe Hill an additional $100,000 on top of the reported $1.8 million buyout.

As for Rosario, the charismatic and unpredictable sophomore guard said he expects to still be in a Rutgers uniform next season.

“The NBA’s not going anywhere,” Rosario said. “I have to be a leader now. I’ve always been a leader but now without [Hamady N’Diaye] it’s like crazy. I’m like the head of this team now and as you can see we got a lot better as we continued to win games at a

certain stretch. We got better as a team and I’m looking forward to next year.”

N’Diaye, the lone senior, is the only player not expected to return next year. The Senegalese 7-footer compiled the best season of his career, averaging 9.4 points, 7.1 rebounds and 4.5 blocks per game.

He broke Roy Hinson’s school record for blocks in a career and a season after recording five rejections against Cincinnati. N’Diaye finished his career with 358 blocks.

“I gave all I had in four years,” said N’Diaye, who won the Big East’s Defensive Player of the Year award. “I told the guys that and it’s

time for them to pick it up. It took a lot of time to get this to the way it is now but it’s not done yet.”

The 2009-10 season got off to a 9-3 start, but things took a turn for the worst after sophomore forward Gregory Echenique was ruled out for the season with a detached retina in mid-December.

DAN BRACAGLIA/ SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Senior center Hamady N’Diaye embraces Cincinnati’s Ibrahima Thomas, N’Diaye’s best friend from Senegal whose shot he blocked en route to setting the all-time and single-season Rutgers records.

Just weeks later, Echenique announced his intent to transfer.

The program nearly selfdestructed as the Scarlet Knights were embarrassed at West Virginia and Providence and then at home by Syracuse and Villanova.

A 0-8 start to Big East play had message boards, former players and media outlets calling for Hill’s job.

But things started to turn around at the end of Januar y.

An upset over Notre Dame started a stretch where RU won five of six games, including a 71-68 victor y over then-No. 7 Georgetown at the Louis Brown Athletic Center.

The success didn’t last as the Knights dropped five of its last six, ending the regular season with an 83-54 loss at Pittsburgh before falling in the opening round of the Big East Tournament.

Rosario led RU in scoring with 16.7 points per game. Junior forward Jonathan Mitchell, who was eligible this season after transferring from Florida, had a solid campaign averaging 11.8 points and 6.1 rebounds.

Freshman for ward Dane Miller averaged 11.9 points per game in conference play and was a unanimous All-Rookie Team selection.

“These guys have a great heart. They have great chemistr y. They work extremely hard,” Hill said. “I told them in the locker room how proud I was of them going through a tough stretch. They never took a day off. They kept coming every day and working extremely hard. They really like each other, and I think it showed. And, you know, once in a while, you come up a little bit short.”

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Targum’s senior writer Matthew Stein chats with the former Knights cornerback about the NFL Combine, feedback from pro scouts, training in Florida and his draft stock...

Matthew Stein: What were your feelings on the overall experience of the NFL Combine?

Devin McCourty: It was a hectic experience, just waking up early and doing a lot of things every day, but I enjoyed it. I got to meet a lot of the nation’s best players, and going up there and working out with them. I had fun.

MS: I know they do really extensive injury testing, how much did they press you about your eye?

DM: They didn’t really go into that just because I had seen some doctors that checked my eye. I did a vision test and everything was great, so I just went out there and performed after that.

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The No. 20 Rutgers women’s lacrosse team scored only one goal in WOMEN’S LACROSSE the first ST. JOSEPH’S 6 16 minutes of RUTGERS 17 y e s t e r day’s game against Saint Joseph’s.

After that, all bets were off.

The Scarlet Knights scored in droves, flattening the Hawks 17-6 and making program histor y with a per fect 5-0 star t to the season.

“I feel like coming out of last game it was really important to play the way we did today,” said senior midfielder and co-captain Faith Richards. “We only won by one goal last game and we knew we could have done better, so coming out today was really important. Our confidence was high before this game, but it’s definitely higher now.”

Six different Knights scored, including midfielders Stephanie Anderson and Marlena Welsh, who finished with four goals apiece. Senior attack Brooke Cantwell added three goals and three assists while sophomore midfielder Annie McGinley also picked up a hat trick.

Anderson’s four goals mark the most in a single game on her young career. The midfielder, whose eight goals on the season are tied for fourth-best on the team, wasted no time settling into the Knights’ offense.

“Everyone’s always pushing me, telling me what to work on,” Anderson said. “They’re so supportive. Even if I make a mistake they’re right there. Being a freshman on the field it’s hard to come in and play … it’s very intimidating. So having a team that supports you 100 percent is really helpful.”

While the team has seen its fair share of shootouts so far this season — with back-to-back 12-11 victories coming in its previous two games — the Knights’ defense locked down against the Hawks.

Though Saint Joseph’s had its fair share of possession time in the offensive zone, there always seemed to be someone in a Knights jersey waiting for them.

“We were talking better than our last game and we were cutting off the adjacent passes, which is something we were working on this week in practice,” Richards said. “It definitely wasn’t our best defense. I think we can still do better.”

Freshman goalkeeper Lily Kalata played just over 51 minutes

of the contest, posting seven saves, but was swapped out late in the second half for classmate Aimee Chotikul. The game marked the first time Chotikul saw action in cage this season.

During its five-game winning streak RU has blown out teams such as Temple and Saint Joseph’s, edged Cornell and come from behind to upset Princeton.

Regardless of the situation and score, the team does not count itself out of any contest, said head coach Laura Brand-Sias.

“I think it says a lot about the team,” Brand-Sias said. “I know they’re not going to stop fighting no matter what circumstance we’re in and that’s something you always want to see as a coach.

Even if things aren’t going our way, I know that they’re going to keep fighting.”

With the win, the Knights continue their streak of perfection against the Hawks with a stellar 14-0 record.

Then, of course, comes RU’s 50 season mark.

Never one to talk much about records and rankings, even Brand-Sias could not help but smile as her Knights now have their own place in the histor y books.

“I’ll take it,” she laughed. “I’ll take it, that’s all I can say.”

MS: You had the second-fastest 40-yard dash time of any defensive back.

DM: At first, unofficially, I was the fastest cornerback.

MS: Yeah, you ran a really incredible 40 and then they bumped it up some.

DM: But I’m not worried about it. Some teams said they got me in the 4.3s and I’m happy with that.

MS: Did you get to get out at all in Indianapolis or was it just like sleep, go to work, sleep, go to work?

DM: At night we had meetings with teams, so once we did that you didn’t even want to go out. I went to sleep.

MS: What have you been hearing from different teams?

DM: You just talk to different teams and they get to know you. They see what you know about football and that’s really it. It’s hard to get a feel for where you are going to go or anything like that. I’ve just been enjoying the process.

MS: A lot of teams approach you?

DM: I’ve talked to a good amount of teams.

Between the Senior Bowl and then the Combine, I’ve probably talked to almost every team.

MS: Where did you train? How was that?

DM: In Naples, Fla., at Ignition. It was fun. I was training out there with Mardy Gilyard, Dorin Dickerson, Prince Miller from Georgia, Corey Peters and some others. There were a lot of guys, but we trained hard and had fun.

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Former Knights and current NFL players Courtney Greene, left, and Pro Bowler Ray Rice were two of the many former Rutgers players present yesterday for the Pro Day at the RU Practice Bubble.

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MS: You’ve moved all the way up to the third best cornerback available on some boards. How do you stay out of the trap of letting it get to your head, and keep your eyes on the prize?

DM: A lot of that stuff, to me … I just look at it as like “Wow,” but that’s not my focus. My focus right now is every time I get in front of a defensive backs coach or a scout to impress them. I’m going to keep working hard to try to impress people.

MS; So you aren’t worried about guaranteed money at all?

DM: No, I’m not thinking about any of that. Draft day, I’ll just be at home with my family and praying.

lingering right hamstring injury, but is expected to participate in individual workouts prior to the draft.

Cornerback Devin McCourty, also a projected first round pick after an impressive performance at the NFL Combine, only worked in positional drills.

“A big reason why I came out today was just to have one more time with these seniors that came in 2005 and 2006 and playing again on this field, I wouldn’t miss the opportunity,” he said. “[The Combine] was great. It was a long four days of waking up early, but when we got out there Tuesday, it was almost like a

group of guys trying to work together and impress the scouts.”

The biggest surprises of the day came at the linebacker position, where both Damaso Munoz and Ryan D’Imperio made themselves notewor thy for different reasons.

Munoz, a three-year starter at linebacker, worked as both a linebacker and safety at Pro Day and said he’d like to play either one at the next level.

He ran an official 4.48 40-yard dash — showing he has the speed to move to safety.

“I’ve been getting good feedback [from the scouts]. They say I move well,” Munoz said. “I can play a little safety. I’m versatile, and if a team wants to work me out as a safety, that’s fine.”

D’Imperio received a surprise while stretching at the start of the

day when scouts asked him to work at fullback.

“I’m back to my high school days,” D’Imperio said. “I felt like it went well.”

Senior wide receiver Tim Brown, whose agent is the highprofile Drew Rosenhaus, participated in every drill, but was not pleased that he ran a 4.44 40-yard dash, citing an ankle injury.

Brown injured his ankle during his senior season in a loss to Syracuse and said it is only about 80 percent right now. He plans to work out again in Miami before the draft once his leg heals. “[My ankle] feels all right, but I can do better, I know,” Brown said. “My play on the field shows a lot and when you see me in person, I’m a great guy to be around. My off-the-field issues are zero.”

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Sophomore taps into potential at Tourney

BY STEVEN WILLIAMSON SENIOR WRITER

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Fred Hill Jr., left, faced the media after his team’s 69-68 loss in the first round of the Big East Tournament.

The end of the season ushers in an uncertain period for the fourth-year head coach on the hot seat.

Hill’s judgement day approaching

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red Hill Jr. reclined in a Louis Brown Athletic Center media chair Monday, fielding questions after the Rutgers men’s basketball team’s final practice before losing to Cincinnati in the first round of the Big East Tournament.

The inquiries inevitably shifted to Hill’s job security. He took it all in stride, but a sly, what-can-I-do smile crept over his face as the sensitive subject came up.

With good reason — it is a very difficult matter to dissect.

“I’ve never once, for one second, ever thought [about my job security],” Hill said. “I am the coach at Rutgers and I will be the coach at Rutgers. I think we’ve done a terrif-

Mind of Stein MATTHEW STEIN ic job. I’ve never thought for one second about any game meaning anything more than it’s the next game. I’ve never considered not being the coach at Rutgers.”

Hill and athletic director Tim Pernetti will meet behind closed doors in the coming days “to discuss program goals and needs,” just as Hill did with predecessor

Robert E. Mulcahy. Pernetti, who was unavailable for comment following Tuesday’s game, has said he will wait until the end of the year before giving the program a full evaluation, just as he would with any other sport.

The players, for their part, threw unwavering support behind their embattled leader.

“It’s definitely going to come up, but I’m not the person that makes that decision or has a say in the matter,” said junior for ward Jonathan Mitchell, whose thoughts were echoed by sophomore guard Mike Rosario — Hill’s biggest recruit. “My thought is coach Hill

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It all came down to a practice drill.

Sophomore guard Nikki Speed saw a gap in the defenders WOMEN’S BASKETBALL a n d , instead of pulling up shor t or forcing a pass, she attacked.

And, just like that, Rutgers head women’s basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer saw the light bulb go on in Speed’s head.

“She told me today, ‘Attack the gaps,’ and as many times as she’s told me that before I don’t think she ever said I got it until today,” Speed said with a grin. “So our relationship goes back and forth.”

Stringer always says she expects the most from her guards, and one look at her past rosters leaves nothing to question. And when three of the guards on the Scarlet Knights in the past decade were standouts — Cappie Pondexter, Essence Carson and Matee Ajavon — the bar is set that much higher.

Never one to mince words, Stringer is always crystal clear with her players. When the former McDonald’s All-American did not live up to her billing as a freshman — averaging 1.9 points per game and 41 turnovers versus 34 assists — Stringer let her know.

But the untapped potential of Speed was always there, Stringer said. It was just a matter of getting through.

“I see it every day now, even in practice,” Stringer said days after RU beat Louisville behind Speed’s seven-point, six-rebound and sixassist performance. “I watched her in the game and I said, ‘Wow. Wow, I’m glad I wasn’t wrong.’”

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Brown and Rinaldi both finished one spot away from an automatic bid at the EIWA tournament this past weekend, making them two of the firsts to receive wild card bids.

For Melde and Ashnault, the road to Omaha was less clear. Melde finished sixth at the EIWA tournament while Ashnault failed to reach the second day of wrestling in Bethlehem.

“I have spoken to both of them and they are excited,” Goodale said. “Neither had a great tournament but they wrestled hard in November and December, and they were rewarded for it.”

Both Rinaldi and Brown face off against opponents from schools located in California while Langel, Cocozzo and Russo square off in the first round against grapplers from Oklahoma.

“I think we are going to sneak up on some people,” Goodale said. “If we get matchups against schools from the Midwest and the West coast — schools who might not know us — we can surprise a few teams.”

—Alex Jankowski

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NFL Knights represented at RU’s Pro Day

RECORD SEVEN HEADED TO NCAAS The number of Rutgers wrestlers heading to the NCAA Championships in Omaha, WRESTLING Neb., got a little bit bigger yesterday. In fact, it got historically bigger.

After juniors D.J. Russo and Daryl Cocozzo and redshirt freshman Joe Langel punched their tickets via automatic bids this past weekend, four more Scarlet Knights heard their names called last night when the NCAA picked the at-large bids.

Redshirt freshman Dan Rinaldi, senior Lamar Brown, sopohmore Trevor Melde and junior Billy Ashnault round out the seven Knights who represent the RU in two weeks in Nebraska — the most wrestlers the University sent to nationals since 1960, when eight were sent.

“I was happy that the committee awarded our wrestlers by looking at the entire year,” said head coach Scott Goodale. “Our guys wrestled hard all year long so even though some didn’t do great [at the EIWA tournament], they still deserved the chance.”

Those eyes were not always open.

Speed thought she knew what her commitment to the Knights entailed as a freshman, but was about to meet the Stringer that showed up at game time and practice — the Stringer that accepted no excuses and never settled.

“She’s a completely different person off the court,” Speed said.

“When I came here people told me ‘Okay, she’s pretty strict on the court, you’re not going to understand.’ And I was like, ‘Okay, I’m used to that, I’ve been yelled at.’”

Ultimately, Speed was not prepared, looking skittish on the court and sullen on the bench. More times than not, she would be seen leaving the court with her head down, looking at the floor.

Midway through the season, Speed said she learned to stop taking the things Stringer told her personally and that it was the meaning of the message that was most important.

“Nikki has been doing really well,” said senior guard Brittany Ray. “Her freshman year, she would get yelled at and totally shut down. But this year, in the past few weeks, she’s been a little bit more resilient. … She’ll transfer the information that Coach Stringer gives her.

“I think she’s doing a great job and if she just continues to trust Coach Stringer and trust the program she’s going to be a great player.”

The information in question is essentially the key to the Knights’ offense.

Stringer worked to make her understand. She played Speed at the point. She played Speed at shooting guard so the youngster

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Scouts clocked Tim Brown at a 4.44 time in the 40-yard dash, a letdown for the 5-foot-6, 151-pound wideout nursing an ankle injury.

The Rutgers football team’s practice bubble gave new meaning to the term Pro Day with former Scarlet Knights littered across the sidelines to supFOOTBALL port the 18 former players who work out in front of NFL scouts.

Pro Bowl running back Ray Rice highlighted the guest list, but Cincinnati Bengal Brian Leonard, Jacksonville Jaguar safety Courtney Greene, Tennessee Titan cornerback Jason McCourty, New York Jet linebacker Jamaal Westerman and Chicago Bear linebacker Kevin Malast also came out for the event.

“They know how to play football,” Westerman said of the defensive players vying for NFL jobs. “I don’t think I have to tell them much. These guys all go out there and work hard and whenever you get an opportunity, no matter which team or if you get drafted or you don’t, just do what you do.

“If you get drafted, that’s great. If you don’t get drafted, you need to make the best of whatever opportunity you get.”

Projected first round left tackle Anthony Davis did not attend Pro Day because of a

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