The Daily Targum 2010-04-05

THE DAILY TARGUM

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The Rutgers baseball team lost the last game of its three-game series with No. 24 Pitt Saturday after taking each of the first two contests.

Students, city revisit advisory committee

BY NEIL P. KYPERS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

As the semester draws to a close, student members picked for the New Brunswick Student Advisory Committee have yet to convene for the first time.

The committee, a joint effort between city officials, residents, University administrators and offcampus students, was proposed to Werner Born, the chair of the Rutgers University Student Association, over the previous summer but has since been discussed one time.

“A little late into the year, when it was getting closer to elections and voting time, obviously there was a lot of student involvement with Empower Our Neighborhoods and the ward campaign. That is when [Mayor Jim Cahill] came up with this and approached us,” said Born, a School of Engineering senior.

The committee, which is based off one from previous years, intends to connect the University with the city by creating a forum where each community could address issues.

One selected committee member, John Aspray, hopes to find solutions to poorly lit streets and a lack of sufficient trash receptacles around residential areas.

Born said the student committee members names were submitted to University President Richard L. McCormick who sent them to the mayor in early November.

City Spokesman Bill Bray disagreed. He said the reason action was not taken last semester was because the names were received close to the fall semester final exam period.

“At [the end of the semester], nothing was going to happen because students would be going away on

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Issues facing off-campus students, like lack of sufficient trash recepticals, hope to be tackled by bringing together elements of the University and city communities with the New Brunswick Student Advisory Committee.

Press secretaries give their spin on media accuracy

U. cuts back Rutgers Day 2010 costs

BY JEFF PRENTKY STAFF WRITER

BY REENA DIAMANTE STAFF WRITER

With 100 new programs, involvement of all University campuses and the state of the economy, the potential high costs of Rutgers Day is a cause for concern. The Office of Community Affairs is working to save money and keep expenses as low as possible.

“Rutgers Day is a great outreach day. It is a showcase of all the talents at the University,” said Linda Bassett, senior director of community affairs. “The economy is making us very conscious of every penny we spend.”

The Office of Community Affairs raised $100,000 last year from its sponsors. Costs last year were roughly $415,000 in total, Bassett said.

It is still too early to determine the costs for Rutgers Day 2010 because program providers did not finish their final expenses.

As an estimate, expenses will be roughly the same as last year’s, she said.

A large portion of the money goes toward necessities, Bassett said. The office pays for tents for each program, golf carts in order to transport from program to program and public safety services such as emergency care services and medical services.

The office found numerous ways to reduce the overall price of Rutgers Day, she said. One source they are using to save money is in the printing of the Rutgers Day booklets and programs.

“We are using The Daily Targum’s printer [Evergreen Printing]. That saves us $20,000,” Bassett said.

She said the Office of Community Affairs is thankful that the county will provide Rutgers Day with mobile stages. The portable stages save the cost and time of having to construct a stage.

The office is also spending less money on advertising and repurposing signages, Bassett said. Rutgers Day advertisements are posted on train station platforms, fliers

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Professor David Greenburg, left, former press secretaries Dana Penno and Mike McCurry discuss issues with today’s media Thursday in Hickman Hall on Douglass campus.

Former White House press secretaries Dana Perino and Mike McCurry thought their jobs of answering questions ended years ago.

But they dusted off their skills at a question-and-answer session Thursday night at the Eagleton Institute of Politics’ lecture series “It’s All Politics” in Hickman Hall on Douglass campus.

Both Perino and McCurr y answered questions on topics such as job responsibilities, their time alone

with presidents and the role of contemporary journalists in front an audience of more than 300 people.

In line with the evening’s theme, Associate Professor in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies David Greenburg, who moderated the session, raised the complex issue of correcting false notions or spin that gets into the public and goes against the White House administration’s interest.

Technological advancements have changed the way people get their

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Global panel talks sex education

BY GLEN GABRIEL STAFF WRITER

Members of the Rutgers ONE Campaign Chapter along with Americans for Informed Democracy and Advocates for Youth worked together Thursday night to host an information panel on international sexual education.

Pritti Gautam, of the Americans for Informed Democracy, said now is the best time to spread the message on family planning and sexual health.

“Before [President Barack] Obama came into presidency, it was really a hard time for us because the [former President George W.] Bush administration was so conser vative,” Gautam said. “Now is the prime time to make a difference with Obama in office.”

But another problem with the current struggle to spread information lies in the lack of care, Gautam said. Students often think if their major does not specifically coincide with

sexual issues, then there is no need to spread the word.

The lack of sexual education, while devastating to this generation, can also have negative effects on the next generation as teen pregnancy climbs along with infantile death rates, according to an Advocates For Youth press release.

Mimi Melles, of Advocates For Youth, argued that access to birth control is important.

“If a woman gets pregnant at the age of 14 then her life is destined to have no education, to not be able to provide for her family and possibly her child not have access to education,” Melles said.

Gautam and Melles both agreed that their time spent going around to various colleges in the United States opened their eyes to just how much sexual education reform is needed.

Student activists Anna-Kaye Rowe, of Jamaica, and James Igomu Ngbede, of Nigeria,

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INDEX OPINIONS The U.S. Postal Service’s decision to cut back delivery does little for snail mail services.

SCIENCE In our new research section, University professors study how memory works in the mind using mice.

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Program speaker Mimi Ogbazghi Melles raises concerns about the lack of global sex education programs Thursday at the Busch Campus Center.

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CAWP hits stride with $345K grant

ACTING OUT

BY ARIEL NAGI AND PARITA SHAH STAFF WRITERS

MARIELLE BALISALISA

The Rutgers Theater Company’s Sarah Sirota and Rowan Meyer perform in “Speech & Debate,” a musical comedy about scandal, sex and the teenage angst of high school.

Women around the country are getting ready to run toward a new political opportunity.

The Center for American Women in Politics is working to motivate women across the nation to become involved in the political spectrum through its program, “Ready to Run.” The W.K. Kellogg Foundation, which provides grants that directly or indirectly support the needs of children around the world, is taking part in this initiative by awarding CAWP a two-year $345,069 grant to support the program.

“The goal of this program is to encourage women either now or in near future to make the run for office, whether it is state legislative office or higher,” CAWP Director Debbie Walsh said.

CAWP, a division of the Eagleton Institute of Politics, will expand the “Ready to Run” program by providing opportunities for women in three other states: Michigan, Mississippi and New Mexico, Walsh said. The program trains women how to become involved in politics and prepares them for careers in government.

The “Ready to Run” mission is to spread knowledge and opportunities for women in relation to politics and government, she said. It also aims to

expand opportunities for women of color to become involved in politics.

Walsh said the program mobilizes women to run for various positions in office, as women are often discouraged to run for office because of gender disparities in government.

“Women … don’t often get the encouragement to run for elec-

“This is a great way to start preparing women to ... compete with men on the political and governmental level.”

DARSHINI SHAH School of Environmental and Biological Sciences senior

tive office,” she said. “This program will give women basic tools that are needed to run for office.”

As of 2010, there are 34 women in New Jersey’s state legislature, which accounts for 28.3 percent of the state’s 120 available seats, according to the CAWP Web site.

Nationally, women hold 24.4 percent of all state legislature seats.

“Ready to Run” has been a part of New Jersey since 1998, and includes statewide programs in Alabama, Hawaii, Iowa, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania,

according to a University Media Relations press release.

When the program began in New Jersey, the state ranked 39th of the 50 states for the proportion of women serving in its legislature. Now, the state is ranked 14th, according to the release.

Through the program, many women will also gain the opportunity to meet other appointed leaders, campaign consultants and party officials, Walsh said.

“This program is for women at any age, mostly the women who have launched some kind of a career,” Walsh said.

School of Arts and Sciences sophomore Ruchita Jogani said the program is an important initiative to create more opportunities for women to become involved in politics.

“Since this opportunity is open, we women should not keep ourselves narrowed and doubt our abilities,” Jogani said. “Every woman should think about being a part of this program now or at least in near future.”

School of Environmental and Biological Sciences senior Darshini Shah said it is time for women to be viewed as equal to men in politics and government.

“This program is great, and it will make women speak up for themselves,” Shah said. “I feel this is a great way to start preparing women to stand up and compete with men on the political and governmental level.”

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COMMITTEE: City says budget affects initiative continued from front winter break,” Bray said.

“Obviously, spring semester has started and … [the budget] has been occupying top city officials’ time.”

Because the city will be losing more than $10 million due to cuts in state aid, efforts to convene this committee have not been made, he said.

“We have not revisited the student advisory board issue [due to the budget], but we are very hopeful to have our budget [finished] shortly, and we can get back to finally putting together these groups of people and launch this initiative before the end of the semester,” Bray said.

Born said he is bothered that the city decided a meeting was not necessary at the end of the fall semester and did not approach the students to ask if they could meet.

“No dialogue was made, and as far as the [city’s budget] as opposed to other issues, I suppose that is their decision. But certainly they should have made some kind of comment,” Born said. “If they meet now, they can get things going.”

Members of the committee and student government questioned Born for updates on the situation to which he has none,

he said. A few of the potential students for the committee are seniors and will graduate before attending a meeting.

Matt Cordeiro, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said because some of the members of the council are outspoken against the city, they may be moving slowly and waiting for them to graduate.

“I can’t believe that the city, [in] over three months, couldn’t find an hour to meet with these people,” Cordiero said.

Aspray, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, believes the city was misleading the students by claiming the budget and finals were occupying so much time.

“Really, [I think] this was introduced as a way to show the city was concerned about students in order to detract from the student turnout for the ward issue,” said Aspray, chair of the Legislative Affairs committee in RUSA. “Once the ward issue lost by 81 votes, suddenly the need to build that political support vanished.”

Aspray said many students have concerns in relation to the city. The committee is a solution to make sure all the constituents are represented.

“I think it’s a disgrace that they have not [followed through] with the committee,” he said. “I would [like] if the committee met in April.”

Bray said it is absurd for all the students who are concerned

U NIVERSITY about the lack of a meeting to say the city is avoiding the committee.

“We are going to have the committee, it’s going to be formed, and we hope it’s around for quite some time,” he said.

“One of the reasons New Brunswick has been so successful is because when the mayor says he is going to do something, he is going to do it.”

Bray said the turnover rate of the University does not correspond with the timeframe of the city so something will happen, it may just not be as quickly as students would like.

The committee is composed of five off-campus students who RUSA selected. School of Engineering junior Amit Sinha, Rutgers College senior Michael Shanahan, Mason Gross School of the Arts senior David Regner, John White, a School of Arts and Sciences senior and Aspray, were the selected student members of the committee.

The committee would also have a representative from the Rutgers University Police Department, Residence Life, Housing and one University administrator selected by McCormick. This would constitute half of the 16-member committee.

The other eight members would be composed of two city residents, a representative for the mayor, a New Brunswick Police Department representative, a representative from the Department of Policy, Community and Economic

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The proposed committee hopes to unite city resources to address common community concerns, such as litter on streets.

Development and three city representatives, who would bring advice and input from the City Council.

Bray said all the City Council meetings and budget hearings are open to the public.

If students want to get their opinion out there, they are welcome to come.

“I would disagree with that because I think the whole point of creating this committee was to create an approachable method for students to get their ideas across,” Born said. “Well you always have [the old system] which the city and us decided [did not work for students].”

ISSUES: Panel says teen pregnancy continues to rise continued from front both spoke of experiences they had with international family planning issues.

“We find that young people are getting involved in sexual activities much earlier with men at 13 and girls starting around 15,” Rowe said. “This has all led to very high teen pregnancy rates which lead to people dropping out of school at very young ages.”

Many people who already have information on sexual protection and rights tend to think everyone has the same knowledge as them, Row said. Though many do not know how to gain access to various types of birth control or even what they are.

In countries like Jamaica and Nigeria, the problem lies in the fact that cultural trends do not encourage parents talking to their children about sex, Ngbede said.

The evening also featured a short film with interviews from youths in Ethiopia, Jamaica and Nigera that illustrated the level of sexual education in the three countries and around the world.

The teenagers in the film spoke on the issues their friends, family and themselves face in countries where sexual education is almost non-existent. They mentioned that most sexual information they have comes solely from their peers.

The youths in the film expressed the outrage and anger they had about not having access to a lot of information and not being able to speak to their parents about sexual issues.

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Mice research scratches surface of human memory

BY RINAL SHAH CORRESPONDENT

In hopes of enhancing the working memory of human beings, the University’s Department of Psychology is looking toward their experiments with mice to reveal some possible clues.

Working memory can be defined as a short-term memory system used to complete a task, such as remembering a phone number or something else not meant for long-term memory storage, said Louis Matzel, a professor of psychology.

“There is a lot of evidence in human literature that suggests that the working memory system in humans is correlated with one’s performance on an IQ test,” Matzel said. “Or in other words, working memory determines one’s intelligence.”

The training and experimentation of the mice began a couple of years ago, but the findings were published just last year, he said.

Kenneth Light, a post-doctoral associate at the University, worked closely with Matzel during his research and wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on the experiments conducted on mice and their memory.

“We began this experiment because we knew there was a relationship between working memory and mice,” Light said.

Focusing on the selective attention aspect of memory, they trained the mice using different mazes as a distraction, he said.

“We tried to manipulate the mice’s working memory tasks, training them for three weeks which is equivalent to a couple years of our lives,” Matzel said.

Stefan Kolata, a former graduate student who worked closely with Light and Matzel, said selective

“[We] found that the trained mice were more intelligent than their controls.”

KENNETH LIGHT Post-doctoral associate

attention training shows improvements in both smart and slow mice. “[It gives] a positive message in that memory is not necessarily immutable with proper brain activities,” Kolata said.

Training the subjects began when they were at the age equivalent of a college student, he said.

“We found that this was the period that will improve learning. However, there is a greater effect if you start testing the mice in their prepubescent stage,” Matzel said.

If the testing is maintained and continued throughout the mice’s lives, it is proven that they perform better on intelligence tests, he said.

Matzel and his colleagues worked with about 60 young adult, genetically heterogeneous mice and set up mazes to put the mice through.

The team created a sequence of exercises designed to challenge and improve the mice’s ability to retain and then put their spatial information to use.

In one such exercise, experimenters would let a mouse run through a certain maze, with food as the reward, until the mouse has the route down to memory, Matzel said.

Experiments would then teach the same mouse to run through a second maze.

After ward, the researchers would start the mouse through the first maze, stop him in the middle of the route and place him within the second maze, he said.

“This procedure is known to tax working memory and was found within this experiment to promote an improvement in that skill,” Matzel said.

Researchers found that the procedure enhanced the mice’s working memory and noticed an improved performance on a broad ray of learning tasks.

“After the mice that went through the training, we conducted the experiment on mice who didn’t

have any training and found that the trained mice were more intelligent than their controls,” Light said.

This finding will allow the psychology department to continue its research on the ability that humans have to possibly onset or reverse cognitive aging, Matzel said.

“The data from the mice shows if we remain repetitive

with our experiments, there is a greater chance of enhancing memory,” he said.

Overall, the department is most interested in the genetic basis for these kinds of effects on animals and humans.

“Variations in working memory causes variation in working tasks,” Matzel said.

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The research focuses on the selective attention aspect of memory by using different mazes as a distraction for the mice.

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MEDIA: Speakers argue economy affects news budget continued from front information and the blogosphere has also altered the way the nation converses, said McCurry, former White House press secretary for former President George W. Bush.

“Things move so quickly and information is splattered across the Web, and much of if is very often inaccurate,” he said.

McCurry, said one problem is modern news organizations and journalistic enterprises compete on the basis of speed.

“I think that’s cheating us, and I don’t think it’s what we as consumers would pay for if we had an alternative, which is the most reliable, thorough, substantive source of information,” he said.

McCurry said journalism as a business must develop a new economic model that allows important information to get to the American people in a format they can use.

With the downturn of the economy and constriction of news budgets, the cheaper alternative for the news industry is to have two people argue in front of a television camera, he said.

“The harder thing is to send reporters with cameras and crews out into the real world and gather facts and information and put it together in a report,” McCurry said.

On the other hand, Perino, former White House press secretary for former President Bill Clinton, said seeking the correct information also falls on the lap of the individual and not just the industry.

“I think that we need to stop thinking that it’s somebody else’s responsibility to tell us what the truth is,” she said. “It’s our responsibility to read as much as we can, as much variety as we can, and then you can decide.”

Despite their criticisms, the speakers acknowledged that many journalists are under tremendous pressure to write several stories per day on top of creating podcasts and developing new stories for the following day.

Many journalists also lack experience due to their fast rise in the new media era, Perino said. In fact, some journalists are hired right out of their internships.

“I think we are paying the price for that, and I think it’s ver y troubling,” McCurr y said.

“A lot of the great legends of political journalism are dying off. They did set a tone, and they ser ved as kind of a govern-

U NIVERSITY ing mechanism on a lot of the younger hot-head reporters.”

Most reporters are faced with the option of selling out or having no job, Perino said.

“They’re calling us thinking that maybe now they want to do [public relations],” she said.

“They don’t want to do PR. They

“If you get information that you know is wrong, you can’t pass it on to the American people.”

MIKE MCCURRY Former White House Press Secretary for President George W. Bush

want to be reporters, but no one wants to pay for it anymore.”

Many people have the misconception that press secretaries are fed information that they spin and then give out to the public, McCurry said.

“It’s not that at all. In fact, I’d liken the job much more to being like a reporter, with unlimited access to your sources and information,” he said.

T H E DA I LY TA R G U M What people see everyday is a press secretary defending the president, Perino said. What they do not know is that one of the most important responsibilities of a press secretary is to protect the freedoms of free press.

In regards to gathering information and understanding the issues to prepare for the public briefing, both speakers stressed the importance of sitting and listening to debates and spending time with the president.

“I much preferred to be a fly on the wall, to be at all the meetings and watch the various actors,” McCurry said.

The speakers repeatedly stated there were rarely any incidents where they felt they could not in good conscience go and say what they were supposed to.

The first thing involved in preparing to go into the public for a briefing is a fair amount of humility, McCurry said.

“You have to walk out everyday and remind yourself that no one gives a rat’s ass what your opinion is,” he said. “They want to know what the president thinks.”

The press secretary is supposed to interpret the president’s thoughts and explain them to the American people, Perino said.

“There were plenty of times when you may not think you’ve

gotten the best intelligence.

There were plenty of times when your intelligence ends up being wrong,” McCurr y said. “If you get information that you know is wrong, you can’t pass it on to the American people.

That’s just not allowed.”

If the press secretary is not 100 percent sure of a piece of information, it would be dangerous to say otherwise, he said.

Overall, Ruth Mandel, director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics, found the talk very informative.

“Two very experienced and thoughtful people spent time answering — not in a glib way, but in a real way — some very thoughtful questions,” Mandel said.

She said the event was an example of bringing students in contact with people who practice the subject they learn about in school.

Marsha Barrett, a fifth-year doctoral student in the Department of History, thought it was interesting to get a behind the scenes perspective on things people see on the news.

“I think it encouraged students to pay more attention to the news and also to try to interpret it themselves, which is something they were advocating,” she said. “It might get people more interested in politics if they’re caught up in the spin and they get sick of it.”

COSTS: Old Queen’s to be open for free public tours continued from front and bookmarks. They also reused last year’s billboards by changing the dates.

There are new sponsors who serve as a source of money, including Barnes & Noble, Saint Peter’s University Hospital, PSEG, Johnson & Johnson and Robert Wood Johnson Hospital, Bassett said.

Many program providers take the need to save money into account. Some, like Delia Pitts, assistant vice president for Student Affairs, and the employees of the Old Queen’s Building on the College Avenue campus, are working with what they have to save money.

For example, Old Queen’s will be open to the public on Rutgers Day. Employees, including the president and vice presidents of the University, decided it would be logical to have people walk through the building, providing a program does not involve any costs, Pitts said.

“They can get a sense of what it was like back then in the 1800’s and how students and the faculty at that time lived,” Pitts said.

Many University students understand why there is a concern for costs.

School of Arts and Sciences sophomore Mark Libatique said he is glad the University is doing what it can to save as much money as possible.

“I think it’s always better to be practical and save money,” Libatique said. “I’m glad that the University is aware about the money they are spending and aren’t wasting it. Some things that people spend are not needed, and we could use that money toward something better.”

Other University students are hopeful that Rutgers Day will still effectively reach out to the community, such as School of Arts and Sciences sophomore Frances Perez.

“I know that Rutgers Day is wonderful for many New Jersey families,” Perez said. “I think the people that make the programs can be really creative and still find ways to make Rutgers Day just as enjoyable as before, even if it means not having as much money.”

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either rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor hail may stop the Postal Service, but perhaps the economy? Mail may soon be a day — or two — slower. The U.S. Postal Service announced, paradoxically via e-mail, that it plans to cut Saturday mail delivery, a move that may further delay its delivery of snail mail. Yet as much as we have been accustomed to instant messengers that barely cost us a second or two, the Postal Service would do wrong by further pulling out of a sector that before e-mail was long ruled by it and only it.

In addition to the agony of waiting another two days to receive our mail, there is another detriment to the loss of Saturday mail. We, as college students, are certainly busy on weekdays — classes, sports or student-run newspapers. Therefore, if it were only possible to pick up mail on those days, our schedules would only be more packed. It seems then that Saturdays are our only partially free days.

If to not selfishly focus on our petty student problems, there still are those who solely rely on the mail. While perhaps in another 50 years, everyone in society may be completely able to use e-mail, there are still older generations now that cannot. Mail is therefore their only opportunity, and logically so, to keep up with everything from bills to postcards.

Another day lost then would only put these people at a disadvantage.

We also disagree with the weak financial explanations behind USPS’s reasoning. The Postal Regulatory Commission has estimated that this move would save a measly $1.9 billion. According to Newsweek though, the agency is projected to lose nearly $23 billion a year for the next decade. The projected savings then are simply several grains of sand in a pit of ongoing losses.

This move then is fundamentally and fiscally wrong, or unplanned to say the least. With the ever-proliferating e-mail system and instant electronic methods of communication, USPS should focus on improving its ways, rather than slowing them. And while perhaps we may be romanticizing of postcards from Paris or letters from our friends in the Far East reaching us sooner, the detriments of cutting Saturday mail delivery are more than obvious. When one of the oldest government agencies goes under, or at least cuts services, in such a way, there is no hope for any strong government division. It may be a dreary picture for the Postal Service as of now, but if neither rain, nor snow stops the mail on weekdays, why should it stop it on Saturdays?

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ome companies, along with their CEOs, believe the worst of the economic recession is behind us. But others, such as Dish Network founder and CEO Charles Ergen, have taken necessary and exemplary steps of lowering their salaries. According to the Wall Street Journal, Ergen took the harshest pay drop of all others in his sphere when he drew a $623,100 salary, a number 92.5 percent lower than his 2008 total compensation. We can only agree with this move as it reflects a decision that should be mimicked rather than, perhaps snickered at, by other leading company CEOs. While $623,100 is not a small number by any means, consider the median value of salaries, bonuses, long-term incentives and grant of stock and stock options for other chief executives: $6.95 million. In a pack of bosses whose companies have mainly been in loss over the last two years, these salaries do not reflect the states of their businesses. If a company is in a decrepit state, as are a good part of once-bailed out businesses, their CEO salaries should be the first to go. The sad truth is that chief executives are not so much concerned with their workers’ salaries as much as they are concerned with their own. According to the Journal, the average CEO only cut their salary by 0.9 percent.

To get a clearer look at those who have retained their well-padded salaries, we need only to look at the top executives — some of which received chunks of President Barack Obama’s $700 billion TARP. Bank of New York Mellon executive Robert P. Kelly’s salary is $13.6 million per year, while Goldman Sachs Lloyd Blankfein hung onto $42.9 million in 2008, prior to the bailouts. These people simply do not have the humility required to take a cut for the fiscal and moral health of those lower on the ladder.

It is natural to see such high public figures grab on to their money and hold tightly. Perhaps we even have gotten used to it. But there are still those who put their company and employees first. We may argue that Ergen cut his salary because he has gotten his pockets full enough, and now it is time to take down such virtual monopolies like DirectTV and Comcast, but there is another factor. While other chief executives give their shareholders a fairly poor buck for their money, Ergen has put his company and employees first, rather than stuffing a few extra dollars into his own wallet.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “I think that we need to stop thinking that it’s somebody else’s responsibility to tell us what the truth is.”

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people to draw the line ow much is too between the acceptable and much? This is an unacceptable does not always inquiry we reserve lead to something as harmless for only a few key decisions, as an overly ambitious petition. like the number of credits to We are constantly relaxpile on for a semester. It rarely ing the boundaries between comes to mind in the midst of the appropriate and uncouth ordering fast food, during a LARISSA KLEIN to allow greater exposure of lengthy rant about your cleavage and more justificahatred for your boss or when tions for infidelity to be accepted as part of our letting loose to celebrate a milestone birthday. But it mainstream values. By extending this line so far and seems as if not asking this question of ourselves often so fast, it becomes much more difficult to pinpoint enough has rendered us all poor judges of that crucial exactly when it gets crossed. line between the appropriate and the inappropriate.

With the uproar that surrounded video games like I will admit, of course, that I suffer the same Grand Theft Auto, one might expect that the gaming delusions as everyone. It is undoubtedly difficult to world would not dare venture beyond car theft, prosurge yourself to stop and reflect on the propriety of titution and shootouts with the police. Yet, we face a your behavior or the impact of your decisions. But, completely new level of impropriety with the growing at the same time, I find myself unable to resist the popularity of Japanese hentai games. While not availneed to laugh or criticize when I recognize the fatal able for Xbox, PlayStation or Wii — at least, not yet — flaw in others. Take for instance, the International hentai games like “RapeLay” often share the primary Pole Dancing Fitness Association. objective of rape. Once sold in Japan, the games The association petitioned the International became digitized and widely available Olympics Committee to recognize for download across the Internet. pole dancing as a sport and consider “... it seems as If you can justify sickening levels it as a new event for the 2012 Games. of gore in shoot ’em up video games Certainly, it is necessary to have if the use of all on the basis that it serves as a stress dreams, but have we lost the ability self-imposed checks reducer and an alternative to physical to gauge realistic aspirations from violence, I suppose the same might hopeless notions? and balances be said about Japanese hentai games It is true that the taboos associated — I certainly would not agree with it. with pole dancing are slowly slipping is dissolving.”

But if we are seriously discussing the away. Wendy Traskos, co-founder of emotional benefits of mass-marketing the U.S. Pole Dance Federation, sees digital, recreational rape, then where is the line, and an achievement in the fact that pole dancing is no have we crossed it already? longer simply the mark of a stripper and that it is now In one case it is sad, and in the other it is sickena being taught in gyms throughout the United States. ing, but it seems as if the use of all self-imposed Yet, it would require a huge leap to accept this lesschecks and balances is dissolving. While it is not ening stigma as a sign that pole dancing is ready to wrong to value those who push the envelope, take its rightful place among the most competitive expression and creativity might benefit from some sports with the greatest athletes in the world. well-established internal boundaries. Just because Not to discount the strength that it may require Japan has not yet outlawed virtual rape, somebody to perform as a pole dancer, but let me remind you along the line of design, production or retail should that pole dancing is not the only sport or sport-like have recognized it was simply going too far. activity which does not have a place within the Of course, pole dancing in no way compares with Olympics. Baseball, bowling, ballroom dancing, virtual rape. Yet in each case, we see the blurring roller sports, surfing and water skiing are simply a lines between the innovative and the absurd. Call few sports excluded from the Games. me crazy or too much of a conventionalist, but this Pole dancing is at the end of a long line of other lack of realistic limits makes me squirm. My brothsports hoping to someday be considered for the honor er, on the other hand, did not take an issue with the of Olympic recognition — and chess has been waiting attempt to have pole dancing named as an Olympic quite some time. In an interview with MSNBC, event. In fact, he did not even seem to find it as comFinnish pole dancing teacher, Iina Laatikainen likened ical as I did. His greatest concern was whether it pole dancing to “what skateboarding used to be for would be deemed a summer or winter sport. men back in the day.” Unfortunately for Laatikainen, even skateboarding has yet to be accepted as an Larissa Klein is a School of Ar ts and Sciences Olympic event, and it is possible it never will. junior majoring in English and ar t history. Her Maybe it would be wrong to discredit the column “Definition of Insanity” runs on International Pole Dancing Fitness Association for alternate Mondays. dreaming too big. But this growing inability among

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he RENMEN Orphanage and school in La Plaine du Cul de Sac, near Port of Prince, Haiti, is in trouble. After the massive earthquake, the orphanage, which currently houses 63 children, is in need of supplies and someone to fix the structural damage that has occurred.

My team members Renna Patel, Babette Hammerling, Dr. Julie Fagan and myself, from our “Ethics in Science” class are currently working together with Father Michal in Haiti, and Yanick Goutier, public relations officer of the RENMEN Foundation in Florida, a 501(c)3, to try and help the RENMEN orphanage and school. We began by contacting manufactures and distributors for the large ticket items they requested including a generator, washing machines, mattresses and mosquito netting for the beds, refrigerators and freezers. Fagan has arranged for Royal Caribbean to ship these items, if donated, from Florida to Haiti. Royal Caribbean has already donated more than $1 million in relief funds to Haiti.

Just recently, Fagan came up with the idea of connecting us directly with the children of RENMEN. We wrote pen pal letters, which were translated into French

by Helene Planquette a post-doctoral student at the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences on Cook campus, and attached pens to folders with our University logo that were generously donated by the Co-op Bookstore on Douglass campus and the University. Our pen pal packages were mailed to Florida where a contact of the professors will deliver them to the orphanage and school when she travels to Haiti this week.

We introduced ourselves, discussed the University and told them to follow their dreams and overcome the challenges life throws their way. I believe that the hardest part of accomplishing a goal is gaining the ability to think that you can actually do it. It is our hope that some of the children will be inspired by our letters and write back to us, and who knows, maybe someday come to America to attend college.

This is obviously a very difficult time for the citizens of Haiti.

The media has been pulling back coverage of the disaster. This gives us — the viewers and readers — a feeling that Haiti is improving. However, Haitians are still very much suffering.

On Wednesday April 7, Renna, Babette and I will be at an information table at the Cook Campus Center from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. If you have any questions, please feel free to stop by and hopefully we can answer them. If you cannot stop by and still have questions, please feel free to visit RENMEN’s Web site: http://www.renmenhaiti.org. RENMEN is an active distribution location for the community of La Plaine and when they receive donations, they are shared with the other orphanages in the area and the families of the surrounding communities. Any donations are welcome, and your help is greatly appreciated.

Denise Currier is RENMEN Orphanage.

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he column “Liberal bias among students justified,” in The Daily Targum Wednesday creates a misguided view of Conservatives both on and off campus. While claiming that Conser vatives see issues in black and white, the author fails to notice the wide spectrum of political affiliations among students at universities. By labeling someone “conservative” one dismisses groups who are exclusively economically conser vative or socially conservative and fails to look past the stereotypes, which the author describes.

The author raves that Liberals are “inquisitive, open-minded and logical.” Though, in many respects, it is closed-minded to say that students who affiliate with Conservatives do not have these qualities. Interestingly enough, many personal friends and even individuals on a grand scale chose to vote liberally, or as a Democrat, in this past 2008 election because it

was socially acceptable and economy, where they will be reinforced. Let’s face it: President heavily taxed. Furthermore, Barack Obama was the “cool candi- there is little doubt that the econdate.” How does this show liberal omy needed government intercollege students are being inquisi- vention in the recent recession, tive? On the other hand, and quite but economically conser vative hypocritically, are they not merely people cannot help but worry the playing a grandiose game of follow appropriateness of the spending the leader? Perhaps people who and the quantity of it. Most imporhave an affiliation toward conser- tantly, these Conservatives worry vatism actually use logic and gen- about the long-term effect of eral judgment to taxes on both our think ahead and and the “... there are many generation see the ramificagenerations to tions of liberal ecocome. It is easy to people who nomic policy. label Liberals identify themselves open-minded and Although the author does not It is as conservatives ...” dynamic. choose to discuss important to also health care and see the wrongful recent economics we can look no label of the Conservative as the further than the 3.8 percent tax “bad guy,” when in reality he is on investments for those who incorporating both rational make more than $250,000 per and for ward thinking into year. Obama, while trying to stim- his thoughts. ulate the economy via a series of Furthermore, there are many acts including the Recovery and people who identify themselves Reinvestment Act, will hypocriti- as Conser vatives via the ecocally be minimizing the amount nomic viewpoint — and even the that individuals invest, since they religious aspect — which, in realwould prefer to put their dollars ity, tend to be more liberal on into tax-sheltered annuities as social issues due to the generaopposed to into the American tion in which they grew up.

Same-sex couples are no longer looked down upon in all religious sects, and there has been a great deal of progressive attitude toward general social policy within the conservative groups.

This is just one of the many examples of how hard it is to define someone as a Conser vative. Just because someone shares an economicconservative viewpoint does not mean he feels the same way toward social policy and vice versa.

I understand that Wednesday’s column tries to appeal liberalism to the college student and not to the general public but it is incorrect to say that today’s conservatism asks you to surrender both your brain and heart. Before one says that liberal thought is justified, one should consider the influence our biased society has and then more importantly, clearly identify the lines between Liberals, moderates and Conservatives before criticizing.

Lana Voskoboynik is a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore majoring in public health.

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Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 8 — Group interactions prove profitable when you state your feelings early and then sit back and listen. Body language speaks volumes. Pay attention.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 6 — You find yourself in the comfort zone today.

Advertisements suggest clever ways to turn ideas into cash.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) — Today is a 6 — The stars align for people you haven't seen for a long time. Share their joy, and bring a memento home with you.

Leave them with your blessings.

Cancer (June 22-July 22) — Today is a 6 — A close friend or partner does exactly the right thing to make you comfortable. Accept help today and be thankful. Gather strength and recuperate.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 7 — A personal relationship benefits from an active imagination. This is no time to depend on practical measures.

Instead, make an extravagant speech or gesture.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is an 8 — Magic happens. You're surprised by how willingly everyone comes together to create what you need. Success blossoms.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is an 8 — Pull out all the stops to inject glamour into an otherwise dull experience.

Bring souvenirs and memories for the scrapbook at home.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 6 — Somebody is a bit depressed today. You can help by suggesting a variety of activities to get out of the house and do something physical.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is an 8 — Think carefully before pulling out your wallet.

The money's there, but is this really how you want to spend it?

Reconsider your priorities.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is an 8 — Take a break from stress. Walking outdoors could really hit the spot. So would a relaxed meal shared with interesting company.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is an 8 — Use all of your powers to make yourself look like the person you most want to be. Appearance matters today. Dress for success.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 6 — Get up early if you have to in order to meditate in solitude. You need the balance this brings, as today is filled with interesting people and possibilities.

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Senior’s complete game shuts down Pittsburgh

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Behind a stellar performance from senior pitcher Casey Gaynor, the Rutgers baseball team defeated No. 24 Pittsburgh 6-1 on KNIGHT Friday to NOTEBOOK ensure two wins in the three-game series.

“Outstanding. That’s the only way you can say it,” said head coach Fred Hill Sr. of his senior’s performance. “This is by far the best he has pitched all season for us. He came out and went right after them and did a great job all day.”

Fans flocked to Piscataway on the beautiful day, filling the bleachers, lining the fence on the third base side and spreading out on the hill just over the left field fence to watch the Scarlet Knights’ ace give up no earned r uns and eight hits in his first complete game of the year — his fifth all-time.

“The game plan coming in was really to hit my corners and just keep them of f balance,” Gaynor said. “Going in I wanted to get ahead of the batters and keep my pitch count low. I was able to get outs and my defenders were awesome behind me.”

Offensively the Knights stayed aggressive on the base path all game long, causing three Panther errors and manufacturing runs in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings.

Rutgers chased Pittsburgh starter Matt Iannazzo (4-1) in the seventh inning when it put runners on first and second with just one out. Pitt reliever Jeff Kelly replaced the southpaw and freshman Steve Nyisztor greeted him with an opposite-field single to right, bringing home junior outfielder Michael Lang and advancing sophomore right fielder Ryan Kapp to third.

After an intentional walk to junior Jaren Matthews, senior catcher Jayson Hernandez hit a sacrifice fly ball to extend the lead to 5-1.

“We’ve got a lot of guys that can run,” said Hernandez, who finished the day with two RBI. “There are about six of nine guys in our lineup that can run at anytime. That’s part of our game and it gives our hitters an opportunity to pick up a run or two.”

Gaynor (3-3) finished the day throwing just under 100 pitches (98) and only issuing one walk. The right-hander was efficient on the mound, throwing almost 70 percent of his pitches for strikes and calming a ferocious middle batting order that tagged the Knights for eight runs Thursday in the first game of the series.

“He just pounded his spots all day,” said Hernandez, who called the game from behind home plate. “We’ve been getting in trouble as of late when we leave the ball up.

Casey lived down. He lived below the knees and he pitched great.” during the Rutgers softball team’s first game of scheduled doubleheader against Notre Dame but eventually resulted in an 8-0 loss.

Junior Jen Meinhiet went 2-for-3 in the losing effort while sophomore Lindsay Curran ended her day 1for-1. The teams did not play the second game due to inclement weather and the match will not be made up.

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n the team’s home-opening Big East matchup, the Rutgers men’s lacrosse team fell just short to St. Johns in an 1110 thriller. The Scarlet Knights clung onto a 9-7 lead moving into the fourth quarter, but could not hold on for the victory. Senior midfielder Gerhard Buehning scored a team-high four goals in the loss while also tallying an assist.

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track and field team posted a season-high three event victories at the Sam Howell Invitational over the weekend in Princeton. Junior Nwamaka Okobi won the triple jump with a 12.28-meter leap, while sophomore Alex Kelly took the javelin event with 43.39-meter launch. Rounding out the pack of victors was junior Natalie Clickett, who earned her first win in the discus this outdoor season with a throw of 46.60 meters.

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Basketball Hall of Fame carved out a spot Sunday for legendary high school coach Bob Hurley Sr. Hurley, a lifelong Jersey City resident, coached St. Anthony for 38 years, won 984 games, 24 state championships, nine Tournament of Champions titles and three mythical National Championships, voted on by USA Today.

Former Utah Jazz forward Karl Malone, Chicago Bulls forward Scottie Pippen, Boston Celtics guard Dennis Johnson and WNBA star Cynthia CooperDyke are also in the class.

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tonight in the National Championship game in Indianapolis at 9:21 p.m.

THE PHILADELPHIA EAGLES traded franchise quarterback Donovan McNabb to the Washington Redskins for the 37th overall pick in April’s NFL Draft and a third or fourth round pick next year.

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Senior ace Casey Gaynor pitched his fifth career complete game Friday against the Panthers, giving up no earned runs.

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series, senior outfielder Jarred Jimenez gave up his body for the ball.

Once in the first inning on Thursday and again on Saturday, the Monroe Township, N.J., native launched himself toward the ball and robbed Pittsburgh of extra base hits.

“I feel good out there,” Jimenez said. “I like playing center. Center is probably one of my best positions. I feel comfortable out there.”

Jimenez started 18 of the Knights’ first 24 games and appeared in 21 games so far.

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the big screen to umpire for collegiate baseball, Michael Cera can do it all — well, almost.

Calling Thursday’s game from behind home plate was umpire Michael Cerra. The umpire did not share similarities with any of the actor’s characters, despite the nomenclatures.

start,” said Jimenez. “We were able to get on their starter pretty fast, but he settled down after that.”

The Panthers got one back quickly in the third inning and plated two more in the fifth inning on a single from first baseman David Chester and a wild pitch from reliever Willie Beard.

After their offensive display in the first two innings, Rutgers found it difficult to generate much more of fense as Pitt star ter Nathan Hood and reliever J.R. Leonardi settled in and shut down the potent attack.

“That’s baseball. We just couldn’t get any hits,” said Matthews.

Leonardi (1-2) got the win for Pitt while Gebler (0-1) suffered his first loss of the year.

Pittsburgh went ahead in the top of the seventh, but the Knights quickly regained the lead in the bottom of the frame when Boykin hit his second homerun of the season into the opposite field and Nyisztor legged out an infield single.

But the Panthers found a way to tie it in the eighth and ultimately won it in the top of the ninth inning.

“We had some momentum rolling from the weekend and we just wanted to keep that going,” said Matthews. “We played well the past few days, unfortunately, today we just let one slip.”

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W RIGHT

IMPRESSES AT WIDEOUT

BY SAM HELLMAN CORRESPONDENT

Someone is going to have to replace Tim Brown at wide receiver. That much is sure for the Rutgers football team.

Sophomore Tim Wright might not look the part of Brown, standing nine inches taller than the former speedster at 6-foot-4, but if he continues what he’s done during the team’s first five spring practices, he will go a long way in replacing him.

“I think just all of the hard work in the off-season paid off and it’s really showing out on the field for me,” Wright said. “I just pushed myself in the off-season as hard as I could. I tried to be a leader and the Sunday workouts in the [practice] bubble and the extra throwing and all that stuff is just paying off right now.”

The wide receivers were a major concern going into last spring and this year the group is far from solid. With the team’s leading receiver gone and second leading receiver — Mohamed Sanu — still only a sophomore, plenty of in-season reps can be won with impressive spring and summer performances.

“I had to do it because I felt I needed to step up,” Wright said. “I had the redshirt season the first

year when I was here and then last season, I had the role playing my limited role that I had to do. And I felt this year I just had to turn it up and do whatever I can to get on the field and impress the coaches.”

Head coach Greg Schiano singled out Wright and redshirt freshman Quron Pratt as being impressive early at wideout.

Wright, from Wall Township, N.J., earned a spot on the two-deep last season, but came in only as a blocker and did not catch a pass.

Pratt, from Palmyra, N.J., made a catch against Texas Southern, but shut down after that with a nagging ankle injury.

Both appear to have fallen under the charismatic P.J. Fleck’s spell. The wide receivers coach played a key role in Wright’s strong start to spring, the wideout said.

“Since the new wide receivers coach, Coach Fleck, came in, he’d been showing us little things we needed to watch and ways to break it down so it can be easier on us,” Wright said. “Be more sudden. Be more patient. Just slow the game down and let it be like classical music and let it all flow.”

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Marcus Witherspoon left the team last week and will not return, Schiano said Friday after practice.

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Witherspoon missed both of last week’s practices due to “personal issues” and will likely not return to football.

“It’s unfortunate,” Schiano said.

“I don’t think Marcus is going to be able to stick around with us. I’ll leave it at that. He’s had some personal things. He’s going to finish the semester and then figure out where he is going to land. It’s not going to be football again — just living a non-football life.”

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to pile up for the Scarlet Knights as the sun shone down on Friday’s practice.

Incoming freshmen Chas Dodd, J.T. Tartacoff and Sam Bergen all made return visits with Passaic High School left tackle Jorge Vicioso coming to Piscataway for a practice for the first time since his signing.

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the first time the Knights truly missed Andrew DePaola on the field. Without DePaola, a valued long-snapper and special teams keystone, redshirt freshmen Paul Carrezola and Robert Jones are in a battle for the starting job, but both struggled at the last practice. “[Friday] was the first day we had a problem with it,” Schiano said. “We did a good job on days one through four. I don’t know.

We put a little strain on them.

Maybe I put a little strain on

Sophomore sets Rutgers record in win

SAM HELLMAN

Sophomore Tim Wright, right, is one of two wideouts Greg Schiano pinpointed as making impressive strides since last season.

them mentally and it kind of got to them. That was the purpose so we’ll see if they can rebound.”

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East Stroudsburg, Pa., cornerback Kyshoen Jarrett came to his

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second practice, but has yet to receive a scholarship offer. Other big name visitors included Neptune, N.J., running back Charles Davis, Bronx defensive tackle Al Page and Sicklerville, N.J., athlete Damiere Byrd.

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Coming into Saturday’s game, Connecticut’s women’s lacrosse team was second in the nation KNIGHT in draw NOTEBOOK controls won.

Someone forgot to tell Ali Steinberg.

The sophomore midfielder secured 10 draw controls on the afternoon in the Scarlet Knights’ 15-10 victory, setting a new single-game record.

“I came from an injury so I’m just trying to do what I can on the field,” she said. “I guess that was just draws today.”

Former Knight Jaime Whitlock set the previous record of eight in 1998.

And for a team that was salivating for a conference win after tough losses to Loyola and Syracuse, Steinberg’s performance could not come at a better time.

“Once we had the ball and had possession, I knew the offense was going to do something,” said senior attack Brooke Cantwell.

“But getting the ball was key.”

Doing so against an opponent who is known to take control for the majority of time on the field makes the feat even more impressive.

And in a game where the “if you had the ball you would score” mentality ran rampant, maintaining possession became one of the most important tasks.

Head coach Laura Brand-Sias agreed, attributing a scoring

Sophomore midfielder Ali Steinberg’s 10 draw controls Saturday broke the 12-year record of eight in a single game. drought late in the first half to a they had to do something aside lack of Rutgers draws at midfield. from the possession game to pull “It comes to the draw control. ahead again.

In the beginning of the game we Enter freshman goalkeeper were controlling the draw, we Lily Kalata. were getting the majority of the While UConn found a way to draws,” she said. “At halftime we score five more in the second made some adjustments and half, do not let the numbers started to get the draw pretty fool you. The amount of saves consistently and I think that Kalata made jumped from made the difference.” two in the first half to seven in the second to deny WHEN THE KNIGHTS TOOK the Huskies. the field in the second half after “[I kept telling myself] ‘Just letting the Huskies make a 5-0 keep getting them,’” she said. run late in the first, they knew “‘Just keep getting it out of there.’”

challenge to get the next goal or get the next draw control. I think we did a better job of that in the second half.”

Senior attack and co-captain Brooke Cantwell scored three goals and added a career-high three assists in the game, while sophomore attack Annie McGinley contributed two goals and two assists. Junior attack Kristen Anderson added a hat trick for the Knights, who cracked the 15-goal plateau for the second time this year.

“We moved the ball much faster today. Usually, we seemed to find ourselves taking our time but today we had an urge to move the ball,” McGinley said. “Also I felt like our communication was 30 times better today … the movement and our talking definitely increased.”

McGinley delivered arguably her best performance of the season, scoring twice after halftime to help seal the game.

The sophomore rifled a bullet through traffic with 20 minutes to play in the second half that blew past the goalkeeper into the back of the cage.

But McGinley impressed with her passing as much as her deadly shooting accuracy.

Her assists were textbook.

In the first half, the attack drew the attention of the defense, freeing Cantwell on the far side of the cage. McGinley flicked the ball in front of the crease to the wide open Cantwell, who

buried it for her second goal of the game.

Though the score fluctuated throughout the game, McGinley said her confidence in her team never wavered.

“It was annoying because I was confident,” she said. “I knew after it was 5-5 at half that we were going to end up winning this game but we can’t keep letting down like we do.

But this year we’ve done a really good job whether we’re down or it’s tied saying, ‘Okay we need to get back.’”

Rutgers (7-3, 1-2) routed UConn 17-9 in draw controls, thanks in large part to sophomore midfielder Ali Steinberg whose 10 controls in the match broke the previous Rutgers single-game record of eight.

Freshman goalkeeper Lily Kalata finished with nine saves — several of them acrobatic — with seven coming in the second half.

The hard-fought win over the Huskies (7-3, 0-1) is not just another tick in the win column for the Knights, it represents something much more important — the team’s first Big East victor y.

After dropping two road matches to start the conference season, Rutgers is finally on the board in the Big East and, with five more conference games looming, the win could not have come at a better time.

“We knew that we had to win this game or else we were putting our fate of the Big East Tournament in other teams’ hands,” Cantwell said. “We didn’t want that — it happened last year and it didn’t end well. So we knew we had to come in and win this game.”

together. We only had a few practices where they practiced handoffs. Handoffs in the 4x100 and 4x200 are crucial, so I thought that they did pretty well.”

Sophomore James Plummer continued his impressive string of victories in the discus, winning the event with an IC4A throw of

which he finished fourth while clocking in at 21.83 seconds.

Sophomore Kevin Bostick recorded an effort of 14.51 meters in the triple jump, good for an IC4A qualifying mark and a third place finish.

Freshman Chris Wyckoff placed a surprising second in the

pole vault with a Big East-qualifying effort of 4.65 meters. The freshman finished third last weekend in Rock Hill, S.C., after vaulting 4.85 meters.

The Knights continue the 2010 outdoor season in-state Saturday at the Princeton 4Way Invite.

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56.20 meters. Plummer is unbeaten in the discus in all three team meets this season.

Fellow sophomore Adam Bergo finished second in the high jump, while Grady took third in the 110-meter hurdles in 14.20 seconds. Grady also competed in the 200-meter dash, in

tallies six points in RU victory

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Loss dampens series win over No. 24 Panthers

BY A.J. JANKOWSKI ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

WINIRIS DE MOYA

Junior designated hitter Brandon Boykin’s two-RBI single in the second inning provided a 3-0 lead over Pitt. The Panthers stormed back and took the game to prevent the Knights from earning the series sweep.

In a game that went back and for th Saturday afternoon, the Rutgers BASEBALL baseball PITTSBURGH 6 t e a m f o u n d RUTGERS 5 itself on the wrong side of a 6-5 final score to No. 24 Pittsburgh.

The loss not only snapped the Scarlet Knights’ winning streak of eight games, but also kept them from sweeping the threegame series from the Panthers (19-6, 4-2) at Bainton Field.

The Knights (14-11, 5-1) entered the ninth inning in a tie game, but saw a pair of fielding gaffes end their hopes of a sweep.

“It wasn’t one of our better days. I think we made a ton of mental mistakes,” said head coach Fred Hill Sr. “But that’s going to happen. That’s part of the game.”

With a runner on first and nobody out, freshman closer Tyler Gebler induced a ground ball up the middle that could have easily been a double play.

Instead, senior shor tstop Dan Betteridge mishandled the ball and both runners were safe.

One out later, Gebler forced another weak grounder, this time to second baseman Steve Nyisztor. The freshman scooped it up and fired over to Betteridge who in turn hurled the ball right back to first to potentially end the inning. However, sure-handed first baseman Jaren Matthews mishandled the ball and it squirted by him, allowing Pittsburgh to score a run on the error.

Relays debut with wins in Williamsburg meet

BY TYLER BARTO STAFF WRITER

Throughout the week, Rutgers track and field associate head coach Kevin Kelly preached about the return MEN’S TRACK of his trio of sprinters, as well as the advent of the team’s relays in Williamsburg, Va. Kelly was on point, as the Scarlet Knights won the 45th annual Colonial Relays last weekend, scoring 128 team points.

William and Mar y, the host team, finished a distant second with 97.

Rutgers capped off the meet at Zable Stadium with four firstplace finishes and 12 finishes in the top three.

“This weekend is the first time we really run a 4x100-meter relay,” said Kelly, whose athletes broke a number of school records. “We left a couple guys at home last weekend, some of our top guys like Aaron Younger, Bruce Owens and Nii-Amon Robertson.”

The move to rest some of the more prominent members of the team paid off, as junior Younger and senior Robertson finished one and two in the 400-meter dash, respectively, while teammate senior Steve Swern captured third in

the event. All three achieved IC4A qualifying times with their efforts. “[Sitting out last weekend] gave me time to train through the weekend,” said Younger, the 2010 Big East indoor champion in the 500-meter. “I had to sit out a little bit after IC4A [Indoor Championships]. I tweaked my knee a little bit, so holding me back from [the Winthrop Invitational] gave me that week back.”

Owens, meanwhile, placed second in the 200-meter dash in 21.64 seconds, an IC4A qualifier.

The senior also anchored the hyped 4x100-meter relay that took first place with an IC4A time of 41. 14 seconds. “[Head coach Mike Mulqueen] always … holds off on the relays until the third or fourth outdoor meet, somewhere right before the Penn Relays,” Owen said. “He wants us to focus on our individual races first to get that out of the way for the Big East and IC4A’s.”

The 4x200-meter relay fared just as well, as the combination of Owens, senior Robertson, senior Kyle Grady and sophomore Steve Werner crossed the finish line first in 1:24.78.

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“It’s just one of those weird things that happens,” Matthews said. “All I can do is forget about it and make the play the next time.”

These two errors in the ninth were uncharacteristic of how Rutgers played the entire weekend. They committed three errors in the loss on Saturday, but only one combined in the first two games of the series. “[Pittsburgh] is a pretty good team. They are going to be up in the top half of the conference,” Hill said. “If you play ever y series and you go 2-1, you are going to do pretty good. There is nothing to be discouraged about.”

The game could not have star ted better for the Knights with leadoff batter Michael Lang hitting his fifth home run of the season just over the left field fence.

Rutgers appeared to put two more on the board in the next frame when senior outfielder Jarred Jimenez belted a pitch toward the same area as Lang’s long ball. However, the ball hit the top of the fence and bounced back into play. The double left Jimenez a fraction of an inch away from his third home run of the season, but put r unners on second and third with nobody out.

Three batters later, designated hitter Brandon Boykin hit a liner up the middle to score Jimenez and catcher Jayson Hernandez, and just like that the Knights had a 3-0 lead.

“After winning the first two games, we definitely wanted to come out and get off to a quick

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Late scoring surge downs Connecticut

BY STEVEN WILLIAMSON SENIOR WRITER

EMILY BORSETTI

Sophomore attack Annie McGinley scored twice and added a pair of assists, helping the Scarlet Knights to their first Big East victory.

If you can say one thing about the Rutgers women’s lacrosse team, it certainly knows how to make a WOMEN’S LACROSSE g a m e CONNECTICUT 10 exciting.

T h e RUTGERS 15 S c a r l e t Knights stormed out of the gate with five straight goals against Connecticut Saturday, only to see the Huskies go on a 5-0 run of their own. But when UConn took its first and only lead in the second half, the Knights unleashed a 9-3 scoring run to close out game and drop the Huskies 15-10. “[At halftime] we just talked about our attitude and how goals are going to be scored,” said Rutgers head coach Laura Brand-Sias. “There’s ver y few games that are going to end up 10-0, 3-0 or anything like that so we needed to respond better to those things and accept it as a

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