The Daily Targum 2010-04-02

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The Rutgers baseball team won its seventh-straight game in walkoff fashion over Big East rival Pittsburgh. The teams meet twice more this weekend to finish the series.

RUSA constitution takes step forward

BY DEVIN SIKORSKI CORRESPONDENT

In an effort to incorporate a more unified student voice, the Rutgers University Student Assembly approved the guidelines last night for their upcoming referendum.

RUSA members voted 41 to 26 in an online vote last week approving the constitution to go to referendum. The new constitution opens up positions in RUSA to the student body and unifies five campus councils into one student government.

Ashley Brower, the corresponding secretary for RUSA, said at last night’s meeting in the Student Activities Center on the College Avenue campus that the constitution is a good start

toward a more unified student government.

“I think it’s a step in the right direction,” Brower said. “It will make student government more efficient and a lot more productive in the long run.”

Although the constitution opens up RUSA to the student body, there are certain requirements for higher-up positions, she said.

“We have a requirement that you had to have served [in RUSA] for one year for chair and vicechair,” Brower said. “But, I think opening it up made it better and just more transparent in general.”

RUSA Chair Werner Born said they aim to have the referendum passed before the end of the semester.

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CRAFTY AFFAIRS

Chicago Hair Cutters stylist Lorena Vasquez styles city resident Marco Galindo’s hair. The business has been a part of the local area for 35 years. Mayor Jim Cahill hopes to continue expanding small businesses like these if re-elected.

Local business aid tops Cahill’s agenda

BY COLLEEN ROACHE CORRESPONDENT

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Visitors explore various handmade arts and crafts on sale at “The Rutgers Craftivists!” showcase yesterday in Trayes Hall located in the Douglass Campus Center.

When Greg Ritter, owner of George Street Camera and Framing Company, first opened up his business in New Brunswick 31 years ago when the city was less than picture perfect.

“People wouldn’t come here in the daylight, let alone ... the nighttime in the ’70s and the ’80s,” Ritter said.

Covered with boards and surrounded by fences, buildings in the city created an environment that resembled low-income, high-crime areas like Camden, Plainfield and Newark.

So what has changed between then and now?

Though he said there were several factors that contributed to the city’s progress, one specific name came to mind — Mayor Jim Cahill.

The mayor’s initiatives transformed the city into a diverse hub for business and entertainment, Ritter said.

“If you look at the community now and look at the past and look at any city in New Jersey, you won’t find a better built city right now,” he said. “This town, I think, is unique. I think that Jim Cahill actually has done an excellent job if you compare it.”

As the mayor gets ready to kick off a campaign for another term in office, there are many challenges, but he said he is prepared to take them on.

Cahill knows he faces decreased funding from the state due to budget cuts he calls “dramatic,” but said he is working to create a plan that will continue to provide sufficient programs and services for residents while staying within the city’s means.

“The idea is to tr y and keep everything in,” Cahill said. “[Our priority] is to, first and foremost, keep our city streets safe, from both a law enforcement and fire safety perspective. That’s always the most important function of government.”

Creating more opportunities for small businesses and entrepreneurs in the city is also a major goal, Cahill said. Yet Gov. Chris Christie’s proposal to suspend revenue sharing in

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Students bid for right price at annual game show

BY JESSICA URIE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

University students were asked to “Come on down!” Wednesday night, as the Cook/Douglass Recreation Center played host to the Recreation Activities Crew’s annual “The Price is Right” game show.

The program is one of the more popular events for the Recreation Activities Crew, and one that the group looks for ward to ever y year, said University College senior Ray Kim, an event organizer.

“Every year, it’s usually a hit,” Kim said. “People tend to enjoy it, and we like to serve the Rutgers community, so when we see Rutgers students enjoying themselves, it makes us want to do it again.”

The crew started planning the “The Price is Right” program in early Februar y, constructing replicas of some of the more popular games on the show, including “Pathfinder,” “Ten Chances” and of course, the famous wheel, he said.

As students entered the gym, representatives put their names into a bowl and gave them name tags.

When the show started, contestants’

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Participants raise their hands to be selected as contestants Wednesday night at the annual “The Price is Right” game in the Cook/Douglass Recreation Center.

representatives drew their names out of the bowl five at a time for the first round of bidding.

Just like the show, prizes ranged from household objects like a toaster to a drawstring bag from Hooters.

The five contestants then guessed the price of the prizes, trying to get the closest without going over. The audience was eager to lend a hand.

“I think the audience was really enthusiastic,” said School of Environmental and Biological

Sciences sophomore Jack Gramlich.

“Everyone was screaming and cheering all the competitors on.”

The competitor who guessed closest to the retail price of the object moved on to the pricing games based on the real show, which ranged in style and difficulty.

Gramlich, who won the fourth round by guessing the price of a box of Cookie Crisps, added AMC movie tickets to his prize winnings by playing “Punch Out.” Other contestants had to rearrange the digits in prices, rank objects according to their prices and golf in games like “Hole in One” and “Bonkers.”

After four rounds of bidding and pricing games, the students competed for the right to play in the “Showcase Showdown” by spinning the wheel.

The two students who on two spins got closest to $1 moved on to the final competition of the night.

During the “Showcase Showdown,” students were presented with two prize packs to bid on, the first including a set of University gear and video camera and the second

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INDEX UNIVERSITY Award-winning author Kiran Desai reads passages from one of her famous books.

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Author captures audience with cross-cultural tale

BY LIV REN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Indian author Kiran Desai walked on stage Wednesday night with a book in her hand, a wealth of experience and knowledge to share.

Desai read an excerpt from her award-winning novel “The Inheritance of Loss” to a large crowd of more than 100 University students in the Multipurpose Room of the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus.

The book touches on some of her own experiences as an Indian immigrant, but mainly aims to explore the effects of globalization and assimilation on various cultures.

As the youngest winner of the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle award, Desai was a fitting choice to speak, said Carolyn Williams, director of the Writers at Rutgers Reading Series.

“I wanted to have an excellent author who could read about South Asian authors and themes,” said Williams, an English professor.

Desai came to speak as part of the series, which began in 1990 as a way to allow University students and faculty to experience first-rate authors of various

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Award-winning author Kiran Desai signs a copy of her novel “The Inheritance of Loss” after reading select excerpts for an audience Wednesday night at the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus.

backgrounds, according to the series’ Web site.

English professor Rebecca Walkowitz introduced Desai and shared the author’s background with the audience.

Desai, 39, was born in New Delhi, India, and migrated to England and then the United States after the age of 14, Walkowitz said.

Walkowitz also highlighted themes in “The Inheritance of Loss,” such as the characters’

tied and torn narratives between India and the United States and the effect of Western culture on the modern ethnic identity.

Upon taking the stage, Desai attempted to connect with the audience by mentioning that she lives in both India and America.

Desai said she was relieved to know the event was a reading, considering her agent told her the night before that she was at the University to give an academic talk.

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That discovery, and being in the presence of what she said was a friendly department, made her feel luxurious.

Desai read an excerpt from the part in her novel that takes place in New York. The selected excerpt encapsulates her cultural influences in the narrative of the migrant worker, Biju, she said. “[Biju’s experiences] captured my view of the city … with the third world meeting in the kitchens of the Western world,” Desai said.

The listeners in the audience sat silently with attention that was only punctuated with laughter when Desai read a funny passage.

Following the reading was a short question-and-answer period.

While mostly enthusiastic and seasoned fans asked Desai questions, the event also drew an audience of those unfamiliar with the author and her works.

Some students said attending the Writers at Rutgers Reading Series gave them the oppor tunity to discover something new.

“I’d never read her works before, but the reading made me want to buy her book,” said Nora Tofighbakhsh, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student. “I enjoyed the excerpt from her novel, and that’s what pushed me to buy her book tonight.”

Along with other audience members, Tofighbakhsh waited in line for Desai to sign her book at the end of the event.

Overall, Williams felt the event was a success.

“There were hundreds of people here and … a great atmosphere,” she said.

The Department of English Class of 1964 and the Office of Undergraduate Education sponsored the event.

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PRICE: Contestants get chance to receive raffle prizes continued from front featuring a bag of popcorn, Pepsi and flat-screen television.

Even students who did not appear on the show did not walk home empty-handed. Prizes that the contestants were not able to win were raffled off to the audience at the end.

School of Environmental and Biological Sciences junior

Christina Speciale said she comes to “The Price is Right” program ever y year and loves the oppor tunity to get free prizes. She also is a fan of the television show.

“I watched it when I was home from school,” she said.

Tanya Clarke, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, said she was very impressed with the quality of prizes at the event.

“They had a lot of great prizes,” she said. “I’m glad that Rutgers can have events like this.”

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Some New Brunswick residents believe Cahill has been doing a good job revitalizing the community, while others believe he does not support the city’s Latino residents.

AGENDA: Cahill hopes to create business-friendly city continued from front Urban Enterprise Zones could have an impact on that sector of the city’s economy, he said.

“I’m hopeful that the legislature will see that if we’re really tr ying to create a businessfriendly climate in the state of New Jersey, the elimination of Urban Enterprise Zones and the incentives they give for job creation is a giant step in the wrong direction,” Cahill said.

For Cahill, who is up for his 20th year as mayor of New Brunswick, no item is singularly important, as all aspects of the city require equal attention.

“What we’ve been able to accomplish as a community over the last 20 years is the ability to move so many things all in a positive direction,” he said.

Still, there are always ways to improve in the future, Cahill said.

“Even in areas where we’ve made a significant amount of progress, that doesn’t mean that we don’t continue to push the envelope,” he said. “Ever y

day, we give it our absolute ver y best effort, and that is what we’re going to look to continue to do in all areas across the board.”

But Eugenio Rodriguez, owner of Brunswick Communication, said the city’s administration could be doing some things better.

Though he’s never met the mayor, Rodriguez said he knows

“We’ve got to roll up our sleeves and say we want a better tomorrow.”

GREG RITTER New Brunswick resident

Cahill does not care about the Latino community in New Brunswick just by looking around the neighborhoods near his business on the corner of Suydam Street and Remsen Avenue.

“We are like a remote town in the Dominican Republic,” he said.

“The city’s making a living off the poor Hispanic community.”

Rodriguez, who has owned his business for 12 years, said he observed no changes in the area since he opened the store.

He said the city should establish free, accessible educational centers to help residents learn to speak English.

Overall, the Latino community’s voices are not heard, because its members are not going out to the polls, Rodriguez said.

“Who’s voting for [Cahill]?” he said.

Cahill said he appreciates and welcomes the contributions of immigrants in the city, who he said contribute as employees, shoppers and taxpayers here.

“We provide ser vices in the City of New Brunswick, regardless of someone’s countr y of origin,” he said. “If you’re a resident of the city, you’re entitled to the ser vices that we provide.”

Yet Ritter said, though Cahill contributed much to New Brunswick, it is, ultimately, up to the people to improve the city.

“All of us have to pick ourselves up and we’ve got to roll up our sleeves and say we want a better tomorrow,” he said. “We have to create a better tomorrow.”

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University student Jack Gramlich gets called to “come down” as a contestant at Wednesday’s “The Price is Right” game.

RUSA: Document updates

brings in the University’s unheard students.

“Student government in generoutdated government system al should be more about the students and getting the student’s continued from front voice. It opens up windows and makes sure more people can be “Our hope is that it shouldn’t involved in student government,” take more than a week or two to Firmin said. “We can finally get a get the required votes,” Born said. more unified student body.”

RUSA will need 2 percent of the John Aspray, RUSA student body to vote beginning Legislative Affairs Committee April 5 for the referendum. This chair, said the old system RUSA means at least 521 students will functions under is outdated. He need to vote before the constitusaid it is time for a new constitution can be put into effect. tion, allowing RUSA to represent RUSA Chair of the Internal the University as a whole.

Affairs Committee Josh Slavin, “When you’re dealing with the author of the constitution, issues that are facing Rutgers as a said he is trying to bring a numwhole, and while you need a ber of seemingly separate camCollege Avenue advocate, not pus councils into a single, everything is about the College stronger government.

Avenue campus,” Aspray said.

“There used to be this discon“When Gov. nect between the Christie is slashing campus councils “[The constitution] the budget, it’s and RUSA,” he all about said. “We’re trying opens up windows not College Avenue, it’s to eliminate that about Rutgers.” by making student and makes sure RUSA also government one, more people can approved two sepafull structure.” rate resolutions, The new conbe involved.” one calling for an stitution is also an SAM FIRMIN increased awareupdate of a someRHA President ness of textbook what outdated prices and the governing sysrestoration and tem, Slavin said. increase of federal funding for “This is a streamlining of stuTeach for America. dent government,” he said. “We’re There was also discussion taking a lot of redundancy and about improving the student govduplication of efforts that existed ernment Web site, as well as findin the old system and consolidating ways to promote events in the ing into a streamlining structure.” upcoming month.

RUSA Vice Chair Yousef But the highlight of the meetSaleh said the constitution has ing was the approval of the referbeen needed for quite some time. endum, which puts the status of “I’ve actually been fighting RUSA’s new constitution into the for this to happen for almost hands of the students. two years now … and I recomBrower, a School of mended that we have external Environmental and Biological elections for RUSA,” Saleh Sciences senior, said if the new said. “I said it would spread constitution is put in place, stuthe name of RUSA and just dents would not be left in the dark make sense that the leader of on how to join RUSA. the student body is elected by “I think it’s much more direct. I the students and not by an get all these e-mails from students internal election.” saying, ‘How do I get involved?’

Residence Hall Association Because it’s a winding path to get President Sam Firmin said he is involved,” she said. “The new conoverwhelmingly pleased with the stitution provides this path.” new constitution because it

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Week in review: laurels and darts

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io de Janeiro plans a 345-foot manmade waterfall in preparation for the 2016 Olympics. Visitors and attendees of the Games could witness the water y view as they fly into Brazil.

The Solar City Tower would poke through the cloud as if to mimic the Olympic spirit. This possible landmark would consist of a solar power plant and will be located on a small island. For their ingenuity, the organizers and architects of this project receive a laurel. *

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James Bond fan Colin Furze, plumber by day, was arrested for having installed a flamethrower on the back of his moped. His reason was that he was sick of drivers cutting him off on the road. He is now held on suspicion of possessing a firearm. Perhaps if this was an Ian Fleming novel, Furze might deser ve a laurel — otherwise he receives a dart for an extreme case of road rage. *

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A 1929 Austin car started after 50 years of languishing in its owner’s garage in England. The Austin 12/4 was discovered by its owner Roger Bulled. He turned the starter handle to hear it turn over as if the classic English car had been driven ever y day since 1961. Maybe Toyota and General Motors could learn a few lessons from their predecessors. We give a laurel to this Austin along with the long line of quality-made automobiles from back in the day. *

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According to Ananova, the British intelligence, MI5, has decided to lay off ageing agents, or those not savvy enough to work with computers or newest technologies. The “Sean Conner y” generation may not know how to use Facebook or Twitter, but this move is unwarranted. If the agents themselves are doing their jobs, then no number of technologies should be reasons for their early retirements. A dart goes to the MI5 for this move. *

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President Barack Obama’s administration is finally addressing gasoline consumption and greenhouse-gas emissions. The new rules regarding car-mileages will increase the price of a new car by nearly $1,000 by 2016, according to government estimates.

The goal of these rules is to accelerate the transition that Congress required two and a half years ago — new car averages of 35.5 miles per gallon instead of 26.4 mpg right now. The Environmental Protection Agency claimed this move would conser ve 1.8 billion barrels of oil in the lifetime of new cars. Perhaps in opposition with Obama’s decision to lift the ban on of fshore drilling, we give his administration a laurel for this environmentally conscious plan. *

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The Daily Targum published an adulter y article yesterday explaining the science behind adulter y. The research done by the Department of Anthropology proved that adulter y has roots in the psychology and biology of a person. While we do not endorse cheating, the “cheating” gene vasopressin now provides men and women with an excuse for their infidelities. The “blame it on the gene, honey” then receives a laurel for perhaps giving some of us a second chance. *

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Former Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin has long claimed to be a fiscally conser vative politician, fighting Democrats’ health overhaul on the grounds that we could not afford it. Now, in a Washington Independent report, Palin is noted to have left Alaska with the highest state debt burden in the nation. The debt-to-GDP ratio had reached 70 percent in the summer of 2009 following her resignation. We, undoubtedly, without taking a side, give Palin a dart. *

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The 12th annual Rutgers University Dance Marathon once again proved that students, as poor as we are, can still come together and break records while raising money for kids in need.

The state’s most successful student-run fundraiser raked in about $378,000 — more than they have ever achieved. We would like to laurel the 714 registered dancers for standing on their feet for 32 hours straight — for the kids.

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he current economic that the “war against marijuacrisis in New Jersey na” has been an utter disashas left politicians ter, and at a rate of about $10 and economists scrambling billion a year, has achieved ROBERT PAVLESZEK for a viable solution to allevino success. ate some of the economic Government data sugdistress left behind by the spend-happy former Gov. gests that marijuana stands as a $36 billion-a-year Jon S. Corzine, who ran up a $12 billion deficit with cash crop in the United States — that is, $36 billion lavish spending habits and mediocre economic that is unregulated and completely untaxed. Milton reform. Unfortunately, as we have seen in the past Friedman, a former economist and statistician, promonth, these “viable” solutions that Gov. Chris jected government revenue from anywhere Christie has posed, aim to shift the consequence of between $14 and $40 billion a year, just from the Corzine’s foolish spending habits onto the lives of taxation and regulation of the substance alone. For tax-paying N.J. residents, ultimately forcing them to one Californian county, cannabis culture remains bear all consequences and accept the proposed tax as two-thirds of the local economy, with crops estiincreases, adjusted pensions, proposed 25 percent mated at $1 billion. CNBC reports suggest that jump in NJ Transit fares and massive cuts in finanwith an organized system of legalization, we would cial aid and higher education funding. All of these save $7.78 billion a year in law enforcement costs changes just mentioned share a few things in comagainst the drug alone — nearly $8 billion that mon: They will undoubtedly help bridge the deficit could be used to fight the deficits. That number gap in New Jersey, they all are negative changes does not include the massive amount of money the that add no positive outcomes for the N.J. resident state and federal system would save for not having and, perhaps the most important, they are all to fund the imprisonment of criminals with marientirely unnecessary. juana-related offenses.

Imagine a troubling economy Across the board, New Jersey is “I think it goes whose financial woes could be solved facing massive deficits — deficits with an unlimited abundant natural that if not addressed correctly, could without saying, resource. A resource whose exploitaspin into a state of disaster — a posithat the ‘war against tion that California is extremely tion carries little consequence medically, extreme upside economically with. After a 40-year war marijuana’ has been familiar and whose expense requires little — against the drug, and billions of tax if any — government spending. This an utter disaster ...” dollars down the drain, California is resource, a commodity that has surfinally adopting the notion to cash in vived through recent economic on one of the most profitable recessions around, has evolved and blossomed resources in the world, instead of trying to win a despite the war against it, is known as marijuana — war they cannot win. Marijuana has blossomed into the most profitable cash crop in the world. a lifestyle whose business is perhaps the most conHidden in the shadows of recent political debate sistent business known in modern day. and controversy lies California’s movement in the Despite the troubling economy, people continue legalization of marijuana to fix their troubling econconsuming cannabis, making marijuana one of the omy. While Christie’s budget proposal seems to most stable commodities known. With marijuana affect everyone besides the people earning more serving as a bigger cash crop than wheat and corn than $400,000, it becomes evident that he needs to combined, it seems plausible to assume that reguspend less time developing lackluster reforms that lating and legalizing marijuana could cause a spark affect the majority of the people in New Jersey — in the economy, on both the state and federal levels. the people earning under $400,000 — and spend California’s November ballot will be the story that more time looking at the true ingenious of surrounds news headlines across the country — California’s motive and direction going into the and maybe then, Christie will put his conservatism state’s November’s ballot. This economic wisdom aside and cash in on the marijuana business as a can be attributed to the sheer numbers, which source of revenue for the state. This idea seems undoubtedly favor the legalization of marijuana. more rational than cutting the resources New California made $11 million in 2009 of revenue Jersey needs most. Let’s hope that sometime in the off taxed medicinal marijuana, while the Drug next four years — because a second term for Enforcement Administration — let’s not forget, the Christie does not look too promising — Christie will DEA is paid for with our federal tax dollars — spent come to terms with the fact that money does grow $10 billion on the war against the substance, a subon trees. stance with no ties to physical dependence or addicRobert Pavleszek is a School of Arts and Sciences tion and certainly no reported cases of death caused junior majoring in political science. by smoking the plant. I think it goes without saying

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Internally, you find ways to adapt feelings to logic to produce more satisfying results in every arena. Six months of diligent work pays off very nicely. To get the advantage, check the day's rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

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Take the message to heart and share it with others.

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Cancer (June 22-July 22) — Today is a 6 — Others would love to tell you what to do today.

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Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 2 — Today is a 7 — As long as you maintain emotional calm, everything will run smoothly. Even the biggest challenges can be handled through gentle persuasion.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is an 8 — You find yourself off balance. One person pushes you to try something outrageous.

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Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 6 — You stand on your principles today. Resist pressure from someone close to you that would compromise an ideal. Think it through.

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he Rutgers softball team lost the first game of its three-game set with Notre Dame yesterday 8-0.

Knights senior pitcher Nicole Lindley handled the Big East’s best offense early, but a six-run sixth inning secured the Irish the victory.

Rutgers (12-16, 0-1) get a shot at revenge Saturday in a double-header with Notre Dame (25-6, 4-0).

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Director Tim Pernetti announced the hiring yesterday of former Scarlet Knights wide receiver Shawn Tucker.

Tucker, a 2006 Rutgers graduate, will take the role of assistant athletic director for student-athlete development. The position aims at fortifying student-athletes in areas such as career choice, leadership and civic involvement.

“Our Life Skills program will further help our mission of creating an environment of excellence for student-athletes to earn degrees, win championships and to graduate armed with the knowledge and contacts to achieve their dreams in all phases of life,” Pernetti said in a statement.

The hiring is effective April 5.

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Phillies thought they had their starting rotation shored up, but a recent bout of injuries cast doubt on the depth of the backto-back National League Champions’ arms.

Joe Blanton, the Phillies’ designated third starter, closer Brad Lidge and relief pitcher J.C. Romero will all start the season on the 15-day disabled list.

Lidge and Romero are both recovering from off-season surgeries while Blanton looks to rest an oblique strain suffered Wednesday. Fireballer Ryan Madson will assume the closing duties for the Phillies during Lidge’s absence.

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nose tackle Shaun Rogers hid a .45-caliber handgun yesterday in his carry-on luggage before boarding an airplane.

Airport security stopped Rogers at a checkpoint at Hopkins International Airport in Cleveland after officials spotted the gun in his luggage, and shortly thereafter was arrested

by Ohio police.

The crime is identified as third-degree felony and poses a maximum sentence of five years in prison.

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quarterback Matt Sanchez continues to recover from offseason patella tendon surgery.

“I’ll absolutely be 100-percent by training camp,” Sanchez said.

“It’s a great feeling to have a winning record,” said Gerhard Buehning whose 12 goals are good for second on the team. “I think we’ve always had the potential to and it’s good that it’s finally happening for us, especially me being a senior. We just have to keep it going. We can’t let up.”

The Knights face St. John’s Saturday in their Big East homeopener. The Red Storm (3-5, 0-1) are coming off a 13-11 loss against Penn State, a team Rutgers beat earlier in the season.

But Rutgers head coach Jim Stagnitta knows his team cannot

overlook a Johnnies side that has faced four ranked opponents this season.

“We can’t look past anyone,” Stagnitta said. “I don’t know how anyone could get anywhere by looking past St. John’s. Honestly, we’re not good enough [to look past St. John’s] nor is it the right approach and we have to play well Saturday to win.”

Knowing ever y victor y is important for the résumé, Porter echoed his coach.

“We played a ranked team last week and that made it a lot easier for us to get excited and get pumped up for it,” said the 6-foot4, 215-pound midfielder. “Going into St. John’s, which can be seen as a lesser team, we have to play to the caliber we did against

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starting lineup last week against Notre Dame and made 11 saves in the Knights’ 10-8 victory.

SENIOR ADAM GOLDBERG KNIGHT NOTES: Through the first seven games of the season, the Scarlet Knights improved their scoring margin by six goals.

Last season they averaged 7.79 goals per game while allowing 9.36. This year they are scoring 11.29 goals per game and giving up just 6.86.

STAGNITTA

SAID

SENIOR

Billy Olin will start in goal again Saturday. Olin made the majority of the starts last season, but lost out to freshman Rudy Butler in preseason. The Horseheads, N.Y., native returned to the

missed the first three days of practice this week to observe the Jewish Passover Holiday.

Goldberg’s been a pleasant surprise this season, chipping in seven goals including two against the Fighting Irish. He will play Saturday.

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AGAINST

ST.

John’s was originally scheduled to be played at Yurcak Field but will take place at the RU Turf Field instead. Rutgers will not play at Yurcak until its April 18 game with Syracuse.

Opening face-off is scheduled for 3 p.m.

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WALKOFF: Freshman makes first conference start continued from back “I was just looking for a pitch to hit,” Hopkins said. “He fell behind in the count so I knew I’d see a pitch I could hit. It’s a great day to be a Scarlet Knight.”

Pinch hitter Ryan Kapp followed with an RBI single of his own and designated hitter Brandon Boykin grounded out to bring leadoff hitter Lang to the plate.

“That’s the third time we have done that,” said head coach Fred Hill Sr. of the comeback. “I know our guys believed that they could do it which is the first step in trying to do something like that. I think you have to believe that you can do something like that or you will never do it.”

Before scoring five runs to close out the game, the Knights struggled the whole time against starting pitcher Corey Baker, getting pitches to hit at but not doing much with them, hitting a plethora of ground balls and fly outs in foul territory.

All of that changed against Black and Leonardi.

The two Panthers struggled to find the strike zone and the Rutgers bats stayed patient, drawing walks and long at-bats to help chip away at the early deficit.

“After falling behind the way we did we knew that we had to take some strikes and chip away,” Lang said. “Coach just told us not to swing at anything in the dirt or too far out of the zone. It helped us to stay composed and keep doing what we were doing.”

Freshman reliever Rob Smorol (2-0) earned his second

win of the season after pitching 2 1/3 innings and only surrendering one hit.

Fellow freshman Jerry Elsing got the nod from coach Hill to start his first Big East game on the mound and responded with five innings, giving up five earned runs and two walks in the no decision.

“It was a great experience for me,” Elsing said. “I got a lot of learning experience from this even though the ball got hit around a couple of times. I was pretty happy with the fact that I was able to keep my pitch count low.”

The Montville, N.J., native faced his biggest adversary in Pitt’s Chester. The first baseman accounted for four of the five runs surrendered by Elsing via a pair of two-run home runs.

“I left him a couple of hangers that should have been lower,” Elsing said. “They are a great hitting team. I just made a couple of mistakes and they capitalized on them.”

Leonardi (0-2) earned the loss for Pittsburgh after only getting one of the two outs he was sent in to obtain. Neither of the final two runs was earned, with an error credited to Baker.

The Knights now remain at the top of the table in the Big East standings with an unblemished 4-0 record.

The two teams get right back at it today with a matinee game at Bainton Field and Saturday finishes out the threegame series.

“That comeback was just unreal,” Elsing said. “It’s a great experience for the future with younger kids coming up in the next few years to tell them this example about why you should never give up.”

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Rally comes later than expected

BY JASON BROGNA CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Rutgers baseball team stay atop the early Big East standings in dramatic fashion KNIGHT with its NOTEBOOK comeback win on Thursday against 24th-ranked Pittsburgh. In just its second Big East series of the season, the Scarlet Knights rallied in the bottom of the ninth inning, scoring five straight runs to walk off with the win over the Panthers at Bainton Field on what was a beautiful afternoon.

The Knights fell behind in the second inning and stayed that way throughout most of the game. The Panthers appeared to be on their way to an important win until the Knights began to show life toward the end of the game.

Going into the bottom of the eighth, down 8-4, the Knights took advantage of teetering control by the otherwise effective Pittsburgh starting pitcher Corey Baker. After loading the bases with no outs, junior designated hitter Brandon Boykin struck out looking. The Knights then turned to the top of the order to get the job done, but junior outfielders Michael Lang and Pat Biserta followed with consecutive outs, leaving three runners stranded.

“The bottom of the eighth blew a lot of steam out of us,” Biserta said.

ANDREW HOWARD/ SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

With the bases loaded in the eighth inning, junior Pat Biserta and the Knights failed to bring home any base runners.

BOTH

TEAMS

RODE

HOT

streaks into the game yesterday, but the Knights put the Panthers’ streak to an abrupt end. Pitt was one out away from earning their school-record 12th straight victor y.

Meanwhile the Knights have a streak of their own, winning their seventh straight game — and 12 of their last 14 — and staying undefeated in Big East play at 4-0.

The Panthers were of f to their best start in eight years at

18-4, but much of this was attributed to their weak nonconference schedule.

“They didn’t start off with a lot of competition,” Biserta said.

The Panthers began the season against teams such as Wof ford, Fordham and Temple, unlike the Knights who were tossed into the ring against the likes of No. 15 Miami and No. 3 Georgia Tech.

Rutgers now leads the all-time series against Pitt 25-8.

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Knights feed off competition

BY TYLER BARTO STAFF WRITER

ISIAH STEWART

Junior midfielder Jennifer Schmitt scored four goals against UConn last season in the Knights’ 11-6 road victory.

Elusive Big East win on line at Turf Field

BY STEVEN WILLIAMSON SENIOR WRITER

The Rutgers women’s lacrosse team started its regular season off with five straight wins.

The WOMEN’S LACROSSE s a m e cannot CONNECTICUT AT be said RUTGERS, for the SATURDAY, 12 P.M. Scarlet Knights’ conference season, which, after last weekend’s loss to No. 7 Syracuse, stands with a 0-2 record.

But the Knights get their next shot at putting one in the win column tomorrow when the team hosts Connecticut at the RU Turf Field in their Big East home opener.

The key for Rutgers is to revert to its style of play from the start of the season, said senior defender and co-captain Emily Penn.

“The challenge is to go back to the way we were playing at the beginning of the season, more like a unit,” Penn said. “In the past three, four, five games we’ve gone back to our old ways.”

Rutgers’ first home game since its 17-5 shellacking of St. Joseph’s on March 10 may be just what the doctor ordered to turn around their Big East slate.

The fact that the Knights are playing Connecticut does not hurt either.

Rutgers holds a 10-2 all-time series advantage against the Huskies, including a gritty performance last season that saw the Knights emerge with an 11-6 victory.

In the freezing rain, Rutgers withstood a six-goal Connecticut barrage in the first half and held the Huskies scoreless after halftime.

Then-sophomore midfielder Jennifer Schmitt scored a quartet of goals to help power the Knights to the win.

For the Knights, whose offensive numbers are up across the board, Saturday’s game marks the 10th on the season.

At this time last year, the Knights (6-3, 0-2) averaged only 7.8 goals per game — this season Rutgers’ average is up to 10.8 goals per game through its first nine. Rutgers averaged 8.7 goals against those same nine opponents in 2009.

Freshman goalkeeper Lily Kalata continues to lead the charge in the cage for the Knights. Kalata started all nine games this season and averages 11.2 saves per contest this year along with a 9.32 goals against average. Her skills will be put to the test tomorrow against the UConn squad that is averaging 13.3 goals per game.

This weekend’s tilt marks the first Big East game for the Huskies (7-2).

For the Rutgers men’s track and field team, the sharks are lurking.

Led by MEN’S TRACK a determined group of seniors, the Scarlet Knights got off to an encouraging start to the 2010 outdoor season last weekend at the Asics Winthrop Invitational — an effort attributed to a certain aggressive mentality.

“There’s a few guys like that,” said fifth-year senior Steve Swern, who won the 400-meter hurdles last weekend in Rock Hill, S.C. “Between me, Kyle [Grady], Aaron Younger, Bruce [Owens] [and] NiiAmon [Robertson], we have a few ‘sharks,’ as I like to call them.”

Rutgers’ predatory tendencies are on display today when they compete at the Colonial Relays at William and Mary. The Scarlet Knights enter Williamsburg, Va., having qualified six athletes for the NCAAs after winning six individual events at Winthrop — a feat that may not have happened in the past.

BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ STAFF WRITER

One of the biggest regular season challenges facing the Rutgers women’s track and field team this outdoor WOMEN’S TRACK season came last weekend in a trip to Raleigh. The Scarlet Knights weathered the storm and ended the weekend by maintaining the consistency they showed since the beginning of the indoor season.

Although only three of the team’s 17 competing athletes placed in their respective events –– senior Michelle Gomes and juniors Latoshia Bost and Natalie Clickett –– the experience gained from competing in one of the nation’s largest meets will surely pay dividends later down the road.

“We’ve got to continue working hard and continue to improve week by week,” said head coach James Robinson.

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“We’re going to bring quite a few guys, yeah,” Swern said. “We brought a lot of guys [last] weekend and we’re trying to bring even more [next] weekend.”

The Knights finished seventh overall at last year’s Relays, led by the 4x400-meter relay’s secondplace finish. Owens and sophomore Monroe Kearns helped make up the unit. Owens completed a workmanlike meet in 2009 with a fourth-place finish in the 400-meter dash, as well as an eighth-place time in the 200meter. Kearns finished fourth overall in the 800-meter run.

“We’ve been working hard as always,” Owens said. “We were so used to the rain this week since the [RU practice] bubble’s been down and I think it’s made us tougher as a team. This weekend … is high 70s and all sunny so we’re looking forward to that.”

For Swern, although the 2010 outdoor season is still young, a sense of urgency already set in with some of the team’s veterans.

“A lot of it has to do with the fact that we all know this is our last shot,” he said. “This is it. We blew it indoors, but this is it.”

Consistency key in Princeton meet

ROLE: Laryea attempts

Edmond Laryea credits strength and conditioning coach Jay Butler for transforming him into the 6-foot-1, 220-pound fullback he is now.

“This year we have more and more of them,” said Swern of his reliable teammates, “as opposed to previous years, when we only had two or three people that we could rely on winning or coming in second.”

Chief among the competitors this weekend are senior sprinters Owens and Robertson, whom head coach Mike Mulqueen held from their usual races last week in favor of time off. The seniors finished second and third in the 200-meter dash, respectively, two weeks ago at South Florida.

“This weekend will be the first time we really run a 4x100-meter relay,” said associate head coach Kevin Kelly. “But I think it will be good to kind of get everybody together and see where we’re at.”

Not to go unnoticed are the impressive showings from high jumper Adam Bergo — who is unbeaten in the event this season — and sophomore James Plummer, who dominated the discus throw during the season’s first two meets.

The Colonial Relays of fer an oppor tunity to bring a substantial amount of the Rutgers track program, even more so than at Winthrop.

“The most respect goes out to the training staff and the strength and conditioning staff like JB [Jay Butler] and his crew because the way they developed my body, I’ve been more durable and I’ve been able to make more plays,” Laryea said. “There’ll be times where I go in and smash for 10 plays straight and I get out and I’ll still be good because they’ve really gotten me in that position where I have to be.”

And as far as comparing Laryea to Leonard, his thoughts are simple.

Don’t.

“For the most part, I try not to put my name and Brian Leonard’s name in the same sentence, but little by little I’m trying to do stuff so guys kind of forget about those guys and I put myself in that position,” he said.

“A lot of respect goes out to Brian because what he did was pretty much amazing.”

This weekend, the Knights make the short hike to meet with in-state rival Princeton and take part in the Sam Howell Invitational, hosted by the school.

The 17-team field is highlighted by Ivy League schools Harvard and Yale and Big East rival Seton Hall.

Hoping to continue her early season tear, is the team’s captain — Gomes.

She finished third in the 200meter event with a 23.98-second performance last week and second in the 100-meter event with an 11.79second mark. More impressively, each mark came in fields that sported 100-plus runners and each time earned Gomes Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference qualifiers.

Other Knights also posted impressive marks last weekend and look to continue progressing this weekend.

Clickett, who has the Big East and ECAC Championships in sight, also continues to be the epitome of consistency for her team.

With over 60 throwers facing off against Clickett in the discus as well as the shot put events, she still placed third and fourth in the two events with throws of 46.87 meters and 14.29 meters, respectively.

Both throws garnered Big East and ECAC qualifying distances.

Although this week’s trip to Princeton marks only the third meet of the outdoor season for the Knights, the time to get rolling is now.

A month from today the team wraps up its 2010 Big East Championship effort, and Clickett knows that momentum must begin trickling down to the entire team.

“The key to this week is to keep moving forward,” the junior thrower said. “We are now in April and its time for everyone to start stepping up because championships are in a month.”

Competition begins today at Princeton’s Weaver Stadium and runs into Saturday evening, finishing with the distance running events.

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Complete 180 starts RU on winning track

Junior’s hustle earns walkoff against Pitt

BY KYLE FRANKO

BY ALEX JANKOWSKI

CORRESPONDENT

ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

At this time last year, it was tough to be part of the Rutgers men’s lacrosse team.

The Scarlet Knights opened their season 1-5 and everything MEN’S LACROSSE that possibly could have gone wrong ST. JOHN’S AT did. The end result RUTGERS, was a 4-11 camTOMORROW, 3 P.M. paign that left many around the program scratching their heads.

But fast-for ward to this season and Rutgers did an about-face. It’s off to a 5-2 start and is coming off a résumé-building win at Notre Dame.

“When we star ted 1-5 last year [head football coach Greg] Schiano came and spoke to us and was telling us to keep our heads up,” said senior midfielder Brendan Por ter. “But it’s really hard to stay positive and keep your head up when you’re 1-5. This year we won the game we were supposed to win — you can’t win them all but I believe we should be undefeated right now with the games we’ve played — and looking toward our schedule coming up it’s impor tant to get quality wins.”

Por ter is referring to losses against Mar yland-Baltimore County and Army, two games where the Knights dominated statistically, but came up shor t on the scoreboard.

Still, not many players are complaining about the positive star t. Not after getting behind the eight ball in years past.

Michael Lang just put his head down and ran.

The junior outfielder just watched his team rally back from BASEBALL down 8-2 to come PITTSBURGH 8 within one run against No. 24 RUTGERS 9 Pittsburgh in the Rutgers baseball team’s Big East home opener. Lang stepped into the box in the bottom of the ninth with runners on second and third and the game on his aluminum bat. After hitting a weak grounder to the shortstop, Lang hustled his way down the first-base line at Bainton Field and extended his team’s winning streak to seven games.

The throw from Panther shortstop Danny Lopez went high, causing first baseman David Chester to come off the bag, making Lang safe while both runs came around to score. The game ended on that play, the Scarlet Knights winning 9-8.

“The game wasn’t over. You’ve got to keep hustling no matter what,” an exhausted Lang said moments after the play. “I just wanted the opportunity to get up in that spot. I wanted to get up really bad.”

The ninth-inning dramatics started when Rutgers (13-10, 4-0) loaded the bases courtesy of a single from freshman Steve Nyisztor and two walks issued by Pitt reliever Ray Black. The Panthers (18-5, 3-1) replaced Black with J.R. Leonardi and third baseman Russ Hopkins greeted him with a single down the left-field line, scoring two runs.

Hopkins was perfect from the plate all game, going 4-for-4 with four RBI, none bigger than the two in the final frame that sparked the rally.

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ISIAH STEWART

Junior outfielder Michael Lang kept the Knights’ winning streak alive with his infield hit in the bottom of the ninth inning in the 9-8, come-from-behind victory over No. 24 Pitt.

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Senior avoids comparisons in taking over fullback role

BY SAM HELLMAN CORRESPONDENT

Fullback Jack Corcoran came into the toughest possible situation for a kid his age.

Being the first guy to replace a Rutgers football legend at a physically FOOTBALL demanding position rarely in the spotlight is as tough as replacing Peyton Manning with the Colts or Derek Jeter with the Yankees.

But the three-year starter kept his head down, made plays and left the program this year with a shot at the NFL. Now it’s Edmond Laryea’s turn to fill a former starter’s shoes. And to the senior from Staten Island, if the shoe fits, wear it.

“Fullback is a position about attitude so when it comes down to it, you just have to be physical,” said Laryea, who holds an experience and age advantage over redshirt freshman competitor Robert Joseph. “You have to be able to put your nose in there.

And then after that, the coaches are going to give you reps.”

During Corcoran’s three years on the Banks, the Scarlet Knights’ offense put less and less emphasis on the fullback’s role in the offense. His junior year was his most active, touching the ball 22 times and scoring twice, but as a senior, he only got five touches.

Laryea, well aware of the fact as he sat on the sidelines as the third-string fullback behind Corcoran and departed Andres Morales, is not concerned with his role, he said.

He wants to earn his touches.

“Honestly right now, whatever opportunities

coach Schiano and the offensive coordinators [Kirk Ciarrocca and Kyle Flood] give me, I’m going to make the best out of it,” Laryea said. “If they need me to run, I’ll run for them. If they need me to catch, I’ll catch for them. If they need me to block, I’ll block for them. I’m ready to do what it takes.”

Laryea represents a different type of fullback than either Leonard or Corcoran. He came to the Knights in 2006 after they gave him his only Division I scholarship offer. And unlike Leonard or Corcoran, Laryea got his start as a linebacker.

A grueling knee injury in 2007 and a position change later, he is back on the offensive side of the ball.

“You have to be able to bring it at the end of the day,” Laryea said on bringing a linebacker mentality to the position. “You have to be a physical guy and then you have to be able to get the job done.”

In his fifth year at Rutgers, Laryea credits two primary people with getting him in the position to win a starting job at fullback — Corcoran and strength and conditioning coach Jay Butler.

“Me and Jack came in at the same time,” he said. “Jack played a lot of football around here and he’d been a starter for us for a long time so I talk to him. A lot of respect goes out to Jack and I really appreciate the help that he gave me.”

Laryea came to Piscataway as a 5-foot-11, 198-pound kid, but he morphed his body after Butler got a hold of him. Now 6-foot-1 and 220 pounds, his hulking biceps and increased speed represent the quintessence of the Butler workout program.

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SAM HELLMAN

Senior fullback Edmond Laryea is in competition with redshirt freshman Robert Joseph for the starting spot after the departure of three-year starter Jack Corcoran.