The Daily Targum 2010-04-08

THE DAILY TARGUM

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With their fifth Biennial underway, The Whitney Museum gives young and up-and-coming artists an opportunity to showcase the fruits of their vast skill and imagination.

Three-car crash causes delays on George Street

BY COLLEEN ROACHE ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

RAMON DOMPOR/ ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

No one was injured in yesterday’s three-car collision in front of the Student Activities Center on the College Avenue campus, where a pickup truck crashed into a parked Ford Taurus, which then landed on top of a parked Honda Civic.

Shattered glass and a downed speed limit sign covered the sidewalk after a pickup truck caused an accident involving three vehicles early yesterday near the Student Activities Center on the College Avenue campus.

According to witness accounts, the driver of a pickup truck from Pieros Construction in Somer ville, N.J., was unable to stop the vehicle and ran into a parked Ford Taurus owned by Kean University first-year student Matthew Horner. The impact sent the Taurus flying, and it then landed on top of a Honda Civic, owned by University student Chris Del Corral, which was parked on the opposite side of the street. No one was injured.

Del Corral, an Ernesto Mario School of Pharmacy first-year student, was not sure of exactly how the situation played out. But he made speculations about the accident, which resulted in police towing the vehicles.

“Apparently, the truck hit [Horner’s car], which was apparently down the road,” he said. “The truck driver said the brakes weren’t working.”

SEE CRASH ON PAGE 4

Council meets resistance on litter clean-up initiative

BY DEVIN SIKORSKI ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

The New Brunswick City Council’s attempt to keep the city “green” met heated opposition from the public last night, arguing that the ordinance was unjust for city residents.

The council passed an ordinance last night that would raise fines for landlords and tenants who have litter on their property. The ordinance raises the fines for the offense from a steady $65 fine to increasing amounts for each offense thereafter.

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The fines range from $100 for the second offense to $500 for the fourth offense.

Council President Elizabeth Garlatti said she hopes the increased fines would stop people from littering and make the city cleaner.

The public was not about to let this ordinance pass unchallenged, with Garlatti interrupting many times to bring order.

Michael Schaeffer, a city resident in the fifth ward, said he never sees an end to the amount of litter on his property.

SEE LITTER ON PAGE 4

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University President Richard L. McCormick snips the red ribbon yesterday at the grand opening of the Livingston Student Center. The center includes the new Rutgers Zone lounge.

The first candidate for dean of Douglass campus discusses her vision for the campus.

Facility opens new identity at U.

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Students share their opinions on this year’s five-band Rutgersfest lineup.

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Rutgers Business School junior Raah Grover ties a turban on School of Arts and Sciences sophomore Abe Stanway yesterday as part of Sikh Awareness Day.

The petals from the cherry blossoms across campus draped Livingston yesterday afternoon as University President Richard L. McCormick cut the red ribbon to officially unveil the new student center.

Also present were Sen. Bob Smith, D-17, Piscataway Mayor Brian C. Wahler, Vice President for Student Affairs Gregory S. Blimling, Livingston College senior Victoria Rowlands and Executive Director of Student Life Elizabeth O’Connell-Ganges.

“There has yet to be an institution on campus with as

many spaces to utilize,” O’Connell-Ganges said. “We’re having an open house to showcase all the new technology.”

The grand opening celebration highlighted the new facilities and technology now available.

One aspect O’ConnellGanges spoke of was the high-tech collaborative learning center, where students can connect their laptops to computer-projection systems at each workstation to do group work.

Jason Goldstein, board member of the Rutgers University Alumni Association, played an active role in getting the expansion in the student center.

“I spent years with undergraduates and graduates to see this moment,” he said. “I can sense the dedication of all the people over the years who helped to put this together.”

While eating at Sbarro and Dunkin’ Donuts, members of the community can bask in the light beneath a high-ceiling sunroom with three large-screen televisions playing news and entertainment programming.

Of the many new features in the center, the Rutgers Zone, which will open officially on Monday, stands out as an ultra-modern lounge.

SEE FACILITY ON PAGE 6

Undergraduate students with 45 or greater degree credits can register for Fall 2010 classes tonight from 10:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m.

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Candidate envisions stronger feminist education

BY HENNA KATHIYA CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Of the three candidates vying for the title of the next Douglass campus dean, the first to give a vision talk — a speech on her ideas for the future of the campus — spoke Tuesday afternoon at the Mabel Smith Douglass Library.

Harriet Davidson, an associate professor of English and women’s and gender studies, has been ser ving as interim dean of Douglass Residential College during the search for a new dean.

Her speech, entitled “Making Up People, or Why Feminist Education Matters,” was based on philosopher Ian Hacking’s theory about knowledge and power, and focused on the science behind feminist theory and the value of the subject.

“Social sciences are the fields in which human behavior is studied by people caught up in the very society and culture studying the human behavior, so you have that looping effect,” Davidson said. “Education is where culture, policies and all other methodologies shape a student. We want to shape that student into a liberal arts citizen.”

She also discussed several other important facets of feminist education, otherwise known as feminist pedagogies.

“Feminist pedagogy has extended what we know, how we can know and it also changes the way we know what we know,” she said.

Davidson also emphasized the importance of women’s colleges in today’s society.

“Gender is the issue of the 21st centur y,” she said.

“Although trends recently for women’s colleges have become less strict and allowed men into their institutions, the concept of a women-centered college is extremely important.”

Douglass presents the best of both worlds, Davidson said. The college serves as a large coed research facility, a small women’s college and a leader in womencentered education, she said.

If selected, Davidson wants to focus on the concept of improving feminist education in order to turn out stronger and more confident women in society.

“I think the woman leader is the kind of person that is in the process of being ‘made up’ in Hacking’s sense,” she said.

“Certainly, there have been women leaders throughout history, but not enough to make a large impact on society. Women exercise leadership, particularly in the household, but it was never called leadership.”

Davidson emphasized the significance of building strong values in women and stressed the importance of using gendered education to create a successful woman.

“I want to encourage peer leadership, the concept of living learning — learning outside of the classroom,” she said. “These types of effective programs implemented in institutions and colleges can help women become more confident.”

Davidson closed her speech by making one point stand out above the rest — that feminist

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Interim Dean of Douglass Residential College Harriet Davidson shares her potential plans should she be chosen as dean. She emphasized the importance of women’s college in today’s society. education can make a big difference in the world.

“Feminist theory is that education matters, which creates matters as opposed to mind,” she said.

“We change the way the body works and functions. Feminist education makes diversity a different matter. In these ways, feminist education can change people, space and the world.”

Cook Campus Dean Rick Ludescher found the speech very informative and educational.

“I enjoyed the speech, … because I am not familiar with feminist theory,” he said. “I really learned something. Also, the concept behind how you make a woman leader is something I found to be very insightful.”

Dean Barbara Balliet, an associate dean at Douglass, thought

the speech was very eloquent and looks forward to the two other speeches to come.

“We just heard the first of three wonderful candidates we have coming to be dean of Douglass,” she said. “People should come out and hear all the great things that are going on and all the great ideas that people have for the future of Douglass.”

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LITTER: Public urges city to implement more trash cans continued from front “As soon as I clean up the front of my house, the garbage is back.

I think just enforcing the old laws would be of help,” he said.

Schaeffer added that the people who actually commit the crime of littering are not the people who take the fine.

“If it becomes a problem for the homeowners, the fine doesn’t go to the people who are actually committing the offense,” he said.

“We still have to clean it up whether they get a fine or not.”

Mike Mahoney, chief housing inspector for the city, said there is no other way to stop the littering problem besides issuing tickets to landowners and not the person actually committing the crime.

“We are issuing tickets to the landlord, that’s all we can do. We can’t issue tickets to the tenants and we can’t catch the people who litter,” he said. “Every homeowner is responsible for maintaining their grounds, basically 24/7.”

Still, the public was not happy with Mahoney’s comments.

Kathleen Feeney, a city resident in the second ward, said Mahoney’s workforce and other public departments should be able to catch the people who commit this offense.

“Yes we can. We have police officers on the street. We have city workers out there. It is people like me — city citizens — that stop someone I see littering,” she said. “I think that it’s asking too much of the homeowner and the citizen to catch people littering.”

Feeney said because the litter situation in New Brunswick is so bad, she had to start organizing her own community cleanups.

“We go out and clean up city blocks,” she said. “Every neighbor knows that I’m the ‘litter lady.’

It has become very burdensome.”

During Feeney’s discussion with the council, David Harris, a Livingston Avenue resident, said she was framing the problem as the “immigrants’ fault.”

Feeney responded by saying many of the people she encountered were immigrants, and she does not discriminate because of that. But she still feels knowledge is needed.

“There is a tremendous amount of education that needs to be done, plus enforcement,” she said. “The burdensome task for the homeowner to pick up their litter needs to stop.”

Donna Caputo, the New Brunswick Recycling Coordinator, reminded the public to call city maintenance if there is a problem

“Do we want [the police] to [chase] people for dropping a potato chip bag on the ground?

The answer is no.”

DAVID HARRIS New Brunswick resident

and that the city is trying to make the city green by controlling litter.

“Many of you have seen the advertising we have done around the city,” she said. “These signs are posted all around the city … and we are going to be seeing them more and more. We’re trying to teach these people not to litter … and working to raise awareness [with these signs].”

Harris, who supported the increase in fines, echoed the words of Mahoney, saying it is the homeowner’s responsibility to remove litter.

“The simple point is part of the luxur y of owning the property is taking care of it,” he said. “I guess at some point there is going to be a proposal

for God to come down and remove the snow.”

Harris added enforcement officials are too busy with more serious crime in the city, like controlling drugs and stopping gang violence.

“Do we want [the police] to go chasing people for dropping a potato chip bag on the ground?

The answer is no,” he said.

“Saying that the police department should run around chasing people who drop the potato chip bag is just ridiculous.”

Harris proposed a different solution for the litter problem by implementing cans throughout the city like he does in front of his property, which he said proves to be successful.

“What we’re finding on garbage day is that [the cans] are heavy with litter because people are using them,” he said. “So the point is, if we want to be proud owners of a property, then we have to take the bitter of the sweet.”

The public agreed, saying if there were more garbage cans around the city, then maybe the litter problem would be solved.

Ben Major, a resident in the fifth ward, said another part of the problem is that many residents do not tie their trash bags. He said when the trash is collected the litter is dispersed in all directions.

“I’ve cleaned up my yard before the evening trash is picked up, and I wake up to more litter,” he said. “Has there been any sort of consideration for inspectors to go around and see if the trash bags are tied properly?”

Despite the complaints of the public, Harris reminded his fellow residents that the garbage cans do work, and it is still the homeowners’ responsibility to keep their property clean.

“We are living examples on our properties [with] three large containers. You will find that the [majority] of people use the containers if they are available,” he said. “And this is at no cost to the city, just pride in our property.”

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DEMOCRATS ARGUE CHRISTIE’S BUDGET PLAN WILL RAISE TAXES Assembly Democrats yesterday said despite Gov. Chris Christie’s promise to veto all tax increases, his proposed budget could result in higher tax bills for many N.J. residents, hitting seniors and the middle class the hardest.

“This budget is — in Gov. Christie’s very own words — an assault on the middle class,” said Assembly Budget Committee Chairman Louis Greenwald in an article in The Star-Ledger. “The governor needs to get off the rhetoric. Those are tax increases.”

Democrats cited a number of provisions, including a tax credit reduction on the poor, increased hospital taxes and elimination of business tax credits.

Treasurer Andrew Sidamon-Eristoff said the Democrats would have to agree to disagree. “They’re just not tax increases,” he said in the article.

Sidamon-Eristoff said plans by Democrats to increase taxes on high-income earners would hurt the state as it tries to pull itself out of the recession.

“To do so would break faith with the people of New Jersey — already the highest taxed in the nation — and undermine New Jersey’s economic competitiveness and job creation at a particularly vulnerable stage in the economic cycle,” he said.

According to the article, lawmakers said cutting more than $1.26 billion in aid to towns and school districts would prompt higher property taxes even as towns and schools propose layoffs and other spending cuts.

But Republicans said towns have ways to deal with the cuts.

“The Chicken Little scenarios that have been trotted out … stretch reality,” Assemblyman Jay Webber said in the article.

“We’re going to get through this crisis together, not holding everyone harmless.”

— Ariel Nagi

CRASH: Police continue to investigate cause of collision continued from front Horner, who was visiting his girlfriend Stephanie Furman in Frelinghuysen Hall on the College Avenue campus, was shocked to see the damage to his vehicle, which rendered it unworkable.

After hearing the commotion the crash caused, he checked outside, like many in the surrounding residence halls, to see what was going on.

But he did not expect to see his car involved.

“Basically, I was chilling upstairs in Stephanie’s room.

Then I looked out the window, and my car was way down the street on top of another car,” he said.

The crash surprised Furman as well, but she was also glad no one was hurt in the accident.

“We were inside and we heard the biggest crash ever,” said Furman, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences first-year student.

“None of us were in our cars, which is good.”

Police directed traffic, which was slowed due to the accident, until the scene was cleared.

This is the second accident to take place in the area within the last month, following a crashed delivery truck on March 9 in front of the River Dorms.

The driver from Pieros Construction and the passenger traveling in the vehicle refused to comment.

The New Brunswick Police Department is investigating the cause of the accident, Sgt. David Martella said.

Pieros Construction could not be reached for comment.

— Sam Hellman contributed to this article

RAMON DOMPOR/ ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

The cause of the crash in front of the Student Activities Center on the College Avenue Campus yesterday is still under investigation.

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The Cultural Collisions Multicultural Show attracts a crowd Tuesday night to Trayes Hall in the Douglass Campus Center with its wide assortment of University performers.

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Finale unveils top three short films

BY JEFF PRENTKY

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After only seven days of filming and editing, School of Arts and Sciences seniors Lauren Foster and Stephen Beeston took home the Best Picture award Tuesday night at the red carpet finale for the Campus MovieFest.

Chosen out of 16 five-minute films, “The Harvest” — written, directed and edited by Foster and Beeston — premiered to more than 200 people in the Cook Campus Center Multipurpose Room, where a variety of prizes were awarded to the filmmakers as well as to the audience. “[The film] chronicles the lives of five people as they basically come together to share a single moment,” said Foster, who also acted in the film. “It’s the idea that in life, nothing is perfect, not even one whole day is perfect. But a moment can be, and so it tries to put that on display.”

Campus MovieFest, the world’s largest student film festival, came to the University for the first time last month and provided student teams with an Apple laptop, a Panasonic HD camcorder and 24-hour tech support — everything needed to create and edit a film of their choice.

Out of a total 130 film submissions, “The Harvest” and two other films were awarded the main three categories of Best Comedy, Best Drama and Best Picture.

Beeston, who played a small role in the film, said one of the biggest challenges his team faced was actors dropping out at the last minute.

They also had to film over two days while working with inclement weather, he said. “[Losing an actor was inconvenient] because so much of it is outside and [a] wall of pictures needed to be constructed in the

rain [as a prop]. It was disastrous,” Foster said.

The Best Comedy award went to “Good Money,” which chronicled a day in the life of two moms from New York City who smoked during their lazy exercise routines, spoke with accents and puckered red lips and hated their husbands.

“We just got together and started writing down funny conversations that we could have with each other that would be about making good money,” said Elena Callahan, a co-creator of the film and a Douglass College alumna.

“Then we just kind of went into the park and improvised.”

Pilar Timpane, the fellow cocreator of the film and also a Douglass College alumna, said the characters try stay young by undergoing a lot of plastic surgery. They also take vacations every weekend and spend a lot of money.

“We just enjoy talking about our things because we don’t really have a fullness in our lives,” said Timpane, role-playing as one of the characters.

Lizette Gesuden, a member of the Firehouse production team responsible for “Good Money” and three other films, said the festival was a lot of fun.

“We’re really blessed,” Gesuden said. “Our team did really well and we’re all really excited.”

The Best Drama award went to the film “Dim,” which told the story of a house burglar who became the victim of the malicious, vengeful blind tenant he tried to rob.

Aside from the three main categories, the film “Whisper” won the Golden Mobile award for most uniquely portraying and incorporating a mobile phone into their film.

At the end of the night, the audience voted via text message

for their favorite film in the AT&T Wild Card category.

The winner of the Wild Card along with the winners of the three main categories will move on to the Northern Regional Grand Finale on May 1 at the School of Visual Arts Theatre in New York City.

The International Grand Finale will be held at the Wynn in Las Vegas in June, according to the Campus MovieFest Web site.

Winners received an Elgato eyeTV hybrid, an iPod shuffle — or iPod Nano for the winners of Best Picture — and a copy of Final Cut Studio. Audience members were also entered into a raffle and won prizes such as Final Cut Studio and an iPod shuffle.

Campus MovieFest is also on AT&T’s Cellular Video Network, where 80 million people can watch select University films, said Mike Pullano, a member of the Campus MovieFest team.

Marie Pace, a member of the Rutgers University Programming Association and a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, co-hosted the evening alongside Pullano.

“I think that for the first time doing this that we had a really good turnout,” said Vice President of the Media and Films Committee for RUPA Sera Bayruns, a School of Arts and Sciences junior.

Because of the high volume of submissions, Campus MovieFest representatives narrowed down the selection for the judges, which consisted mostly of RUPA members, watched the best 25 films and then picked the top 16.

“I think it’s a really good opportunity for students to express their creativity and get challenged,” Gesuden said. “We don’t have a film department at the University, so any opportunity for people who are interested in making films is a good one.”

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FACILITY: New center includes 330-seat lecture hall continued from front “Student Life and the Livingston Campus Council had a lot of input as to the games and what students would like out of this room,” said Adam Helgeson, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student.

“Virtual put-put has to be tried — it’s so unique, such a perceptual experience.”

The Rutgers Zone will also be a hub for signature sundaes and rush events for fraternities and sororities, he said.

“Hopefully, lots of people will hold their events here,” Helgeson said. “It’s such a cool hangout place. Once they’re done with class on Livingston campus, students can come here to play pool or just sit at the bar for a soda or two.”

The Rutgers Zone will also remove the pressures associated with drinking or dressing up at bars or clubs, he said.

The Rutgers Zone is outfitted with its own Scarlet Knight statue, complete with its signature scarlet cloak. Skee ball, basketball, baseball and football games, air hockey, billiards, pinball and a comfortable lounge area complete the room, which faces a bar with five large-screen televisions.

A jukebox nearby played oldies, like Simon and Garfunkle’s “Mrs. Robinson” and The Eagles’ “Hotel California.”

“We arranged with a third party company to license all the music to really provide the best atmosphere for our students to hang out in,” Helgeson said.

The multipurpose aspect of the Rutgers Zone and state of the art audio-visual equipment will be of great use, Director of Student Centers and Programs Kathr yn Kuhnert said.

“We’re all cer tainly excited for the new open-floor plan, flexibility of space and the new technology,” she said. “We have multipurpose and state of the ar t audio-visual equipment that we’ll be sure to utilize to the fullest extent.”

Livingston Hall, in which the guest speakers gave their speeches, seats 330 and has several large projection screens and an audio-video station, from which a multitude of lighting environments can be controlled.

“Really, this is a spectacular center that students, faculty, staff, alumni and members of the community can utilize for daily events,” O’ConnellGanges said. “It offers multiple functionalities and oppor tunities for student and faculty connections with a bold arrangement of events.”

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WATCHDOGS SAY PRIVATIZATION COULD CUT 2,000 JOBS

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The new Livingston Student Center includes a game room, a jukebox that plays classic music and technology such as brand new flat-screen televisions.

Government watchdogs weary of privatization yesterday expressed criticism of Gov. Chris Christie’s plans to assign government functions — like public parking and information technology services — to private contractors, according to an article on nj.com.

Such action would lead to the loss of up to 2,000 state government jobs but would save the state $50 million, according to the article.

Inspector General Mary Jane Cooper said privatization can be effective but generally works best if it has existed as an initial part of the system.

“I believe that privatization can work,” Cooper said. “But where it works, the project has been carefully set up from the beginning.”

The New Jersey Privatization Task Force, a branch of the Christie administration working to save money with this agenda, met for the first time yesterday to discuss the plans.

— Colleen Roache

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Busch Campus Council

The Busch Campus Council continued its practice of allocating funds to student organizations and dealing with campus The council also helped bring concerns Tuesday night at the a printing center to Busch Busch Campus Center, in the Campus Center this semester, midst of one of its last meetings Doshi said. this semester.

“We’re getting a new dishCouncil Parliamentarian washer at the dining hall because Jonathan Nycz, a School of of our ‘What’s On Your Mind Engineering junior, reviewed the Month’ survey and event where council’s accomplishments this people complained about cups in semester on a bittersweet note. the dining halls,” she said.

He said if the new Rutgers Facilities recently fixed a perUniversity Student Assembly consistent puddle in front of the dinstitution is passed during its ing hall on campus because of a upcoming referendum, the counresolution the council passed earcil would likely not exist next year. lier in the semester, Doshi said.

“The purpose of Busch The council plans to hold a Campus Council is to handle matstress-relief event, Nycz said. ters on Busch campus versus “We’re tr ying to get study RUSA, which handles Universityspace, where we have some wide issues,” Nycz said. “I think food, coffee, just a place to that something like the stress relax,” he said. breaker event is important for The council plans to hold the Busch campus and isn’t someevent on May 2 from 12 to 4 p.m. thing that would really be tackled at The Cove in the Busch

by RUSA.” Campus Center, Doshi said.

The last official meeting of the The council has distributed council this semester will be held about $4,700 of on April 13 at 8:15 its $5,000 in allop.m. at the Busch “We’ve sent cations to date, Campus Center in she said. The Room 120. representatives council funds stuC o u n c i l to every event that dent organizaPresident Shaival and organiShah, a Rutgers we co-sponsored.” tions, zations boost College senior, awareness of the detailed the counJONATHAN NYCZ council in return. cil’s allocations Council Parliamentarian “We’ve sent this semester and representatives to its resolutions ever y event that we co-sponabout potholes, puddles and sored,” he said. dirty bathrooms.

At the meeting Tuesday, the The council is still working on council approved resolutions allofilling out a resolution to send cating $525 for the Rutgers University Facilities and Engineers Without Border’s Golf Maintenance regarding areas on Outing event and $300 for the campus that tend to bloom pudBiomedical Engineering dles during rainy days, Shah said.

Society’s semi-annual barbecue.

The puddles are an inconvenAccording to a resolution, ience to students, he said.

EWB’s golf outing on April 23 “It becomes a safety issue, aims to raise awareness about because it’s hard for students to the organization and the worldcross campus,” Shah said. “If wide water crisis. The event is Facilities can somehow fix the open to students, family and infrastructure of the sidewalks so friends of the University commuthat even during rain it’s still tranity for a fee which entitles purversable, students wouldn’t have chasers to lunch, giveaways, to stretch their legs, jump over or range balls and golf carts, the walk around puddles.” resolution said.

The council also sent School of Engineering junior Facilities a resolution about poor David Pal, EWB’s finance chair, restroom conditions on campus, said the event would cost $50 for he said. students and $75 for non-stuStill, Shah acknowledged that dents. Pal said to get a similar students do contribute to the golf experience elsewhere, a permess in many campus bathrooms. son would have to shell out $150.

Council Corresponding Pal said money raised by the Secretary Krina Doshi, a School event would be used to fund travof Engineering junior, said the el and supplies for EWB’s intercouncil requested increased national projects. maintenance during rush hours.

CULTURAL PRESERVATION PROGRAM TO HOLD INAUGURAL CONFERENCE National Endowment Chair James Leach will deliver a keynote address to inaugurate the Cultural and Heritage Preservation Program.

“Cultural Heritage Now: Prospects, Directions, Futures/A Public Conversation,” which marks the beginning of the Rutgers Cultural Heritage and Preservation Program of the Rutgers Department of Art History, is scheduled for April 10 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Alexander Library on the College Avenue campus.

Leach is scheduled to speak at 1 p.m.

The conference is designed to start a conversation on the obstacles of cultural heritage preservation as well as explore the future of the field, according to a University Media Relations press release.

The Penn Cultural Heritage Foundation is co-sponsoring the conference, and the School of Arts and Sciences and the New Jersey Council for the Humanities are also providing support.

— Mary Diduch

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From beginners to seasoned experts, all are welcome to a free yoga class hosted by the Rutgers Bhakti Club from 8:30 to 10 p.m. in the Busch Campus Center Multipurpose room.

Yogi Charu, who trained in the Himalayan peaks and traveled the world teaching yoga, will teach the class. For more information visit and RSVP at www.bhakticlub.org/pureyoga.

Come watch the V-Day 2010 benefit production of Eve Ensler’s award-winning play, “The Vagina Monologues.”

Doors open at 7:30 p.m. and production begins at 8:30 p.m. in the Student Activities Center on the College Avenue Campus. Get there early to buy your tickets because seating is limited. Tickets are $5 for University students and $7 for general admission. Donations are welcome and T-shirts will be sold. The event is sponsored by the Department of Sexual Assault Services. Proceeds benefit V-Day’s 2010 Spotlight Campaign and Sexual Assault Service and Crime Victim Assistance’s Victim Emergency Fund.

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Teams of six are invited to join RU CARE for their indoor soccer tournament, CARE cup. Registration starts at 5:30 p.m. in the Cook Recreation Center. Winner of the tournament will receive a trophy and a cash prize. All proceeds will benefit Deborah Heart and Lung Center, which helps people living in poverty all over the nation get life saving surgeries.

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The search committee for the next Dean of Douglass campus has narrowed the field to three candidates. Each of the three candidates will be presenting a vision talk from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in the Mabel Smith Douglass Library. Candidate Claire Bond Potter will be the third and last to speak.

Everyone is welcome to attend.

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JEFF CARUANA SAS JUNIOR “Brand New has been around for a while. They’re good.

Just because they’re not a new pop artist, it doesn’t take away from their credibility.”

“I didn’t even know about anyone on the lineup until I looked into it after seeing the list. So to me, it’s all brand new.”

FELIX ORTIZ CRUZ SAS FIRST-YEAR STUDENT “I’m excited about Brand New. I’ve heard some of their stuff.

I like Talib Kweli. It should be a pretty fun, chill concert.”

EJ NICOLAS — SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES JUNIOR LORI CINAR SAS FIRST-YEAR STUDENT “When I heard Brand New [was coming], I was not excited, because I don’t listen to them, and when I read the list of everybody else, I had no idea who they were. I heard Kid Cudi was a possibility, and I was really excited about that.”

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The number of different food venders scheduled to be at this year’s carnival

The number of carnival attractions available this year at the Yellow Lot on Livingston campus

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The number of performers, which includes Brand New, J. Cole, Talib Kwali, P.O.S. and Reality Addiction

SAS SOPHOMORE “I think it’s okay, but it could be better. I think [RUPA] could have done some kind of survey of the [University] students to try and get what we want to hear. ”

KANDON BURTON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE SENIOR “It could be better. Talib Kwali is a good artist, [but] there are a lot of good artists out there today that everyone listens to.

It seems like [RUPA] just scraped someone up from the bottom of the barrel.”

ONLINE RESPONSE I just go to have fun — 10%

I don’t know who is playing I want — 22% to see Brand New — 16% We need more I am timely artists not going — 27% — 19%

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Tent State campers: Please stay at home

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ent State University is back and they are as hip as ever. One of the more spectacular events to take place at the University once again camps out for more state funding. It kicks off on Rutgers Day, yet we believe that not even the high-profile opening day can slow the recent funding cutbacks. Hundreds of student activists spend night and day outside and ultimately accomplish nothing — except perhaps some foul-smelling artistic performances.

The predictions are once again grim, if not only for the overall ineptitude of the event, but also for the failure to properly publicize it. In a well-informed college community, all would know that the close to 200 students camp out on Voorhees Mall on the College Avenue campus in protest of ever-rising tuitions and corresponding loans. The tents apparently symbolize the direness of our situation after graduating college and having to pay off tens of thousands of dollars in loans. In this case, perhaps the organizers’ point rings true, but a large part of the student body knows very little of it.

Most people will walk down in the heavy darkness of the pathway between Murray Hall and Van Dyck on the College Avenue campus come April 24 and will only see and hear the sounds of “a bunch of kids having fun.” The cause is therefore lost. Those who want to join their friends in spending a couple of nights in a blistering hot, sweaty tent, they need only pay $5. But their goal is to escape the busy college student’s life if only for a day or two and hear some “cool” music and poetry perhaps. The irony is that this urban “getaway” is filled with the hundreds of others who do the same thing at the same place, for the same reason — surely not supporting the cause.

Politicians have come down to New Brunswick in — at most — awe at students’ abilities to spend time with their buddies. What a surprise?

Those officials, though, do nothing more than show their faces in order to reinstate our trust in them — for the little that they do.

Tent State’s intentions are natural and make sense, as no one wants to see themselves in debt after college. But the cause is executed falsely. The promotion of the event was a mere art stand, or two, in front of Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus, where passersby could express their artistic personas. There is nothing wrong with that, except for the fact that art is very indirectly linked to the supposed Tent State cause. The same goes for the performances on Voorhees Mall as well. The several “artists,” clad in Velvet Underground or tie-dye shirts, hardly help students in their efforts to halt tuition hikes. Their crude attempts to put on a show entertain their friends and random strangers, but do nothing more than that.

The idea is far-fetched. A handful of hipsters cannot change matters as foreign to them as economic policies and state budgets. Go camp out for a few days, do not shower, but don’t think you have changed a fiscal trend that has been going on for years.

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t is no secret that Twitter, Facebook and several other third-party Web sites monitor and store personal information. But now, this information is being put to use — at least to benefit those who use the Internet as an arena to expulse their complaints and pointless arguments. Twitter, for example, plans to compile users’ “tweeted” complaints about the companies they work for in order to create an opportunity for Internet providers or carmakers to improve their services.

While we see the benefits of such a service, this will only lead millions of Internet whiners and nitpickers to unite on one Web site and complain, with no resolutions in sight.

The Internet is already a cesspool of useless user commentary, with forums spanning from Best Buy product review Web sites to Facebook and isawyourutgers.com. These places are packed with unimportant comments posted by teens who are angry with their parents or people who want to tell the world about why their job sucks. We simply complain about everything. Giving these people an open forum, then, is an obvious mistake.

There are those relevant and useful complaints that hit the nail on the head when it comes to product reviews, but those would be buried under the massive amounts of garbage that will further pollute Twitter and Facebook. The sheer number of status updates announcing, “Dinner time!” or “I love my friends!” already overwhelm us — we don’t think we can take any more than that.

People are dissatisfied — this is true. We cannot all be happy with everything every single moment of the day, and some people believe that the Internet is the place for those thoughts and comments that would be better suited for a diary. In essence, we do not want to see a supposedly private world view posted on a blog designed for everyone to see. It’s simple — leave your stupid comments in your pocket.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “Feminist pedagogy has extended what we know, how we can know and it also changes the way we know what we know.”

Harriet Davidson, interim dean of Douglass Residential College, on feminist education STORY IN UNIVERSITY

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With Christie’s budget alk down State announcement, the union Street in has repeatedly told the peoTrenton, and you ple of New Jersey that teachwill see lobbyists and union ers will be cut and education members quivering in their will falter. This is a comboots. It might last four pletely absurd gesture. How years or it might last eight, little do public school teachbut this is a sight that is a AARON MARCUS ers in New Jersey care about rarity in New Jersey, and it the education of their studoes not come a moment dents? NJEA is threatening to fire teachers based too soon. Gov. Chris Christie has finally taken a on seniority and refuse to acknowledge that merit sledgehammer to the state’s budget and the almost based pay works. They are against school vouchers $11 billion deficit New Jersey has incurred for more and charter schools, yet these are the people eduthan the past eight years. His proposed budget, cating the youth of our state. which is tragic for those drunk under the impresIf the NJEA is looking to save jobs, why do not sion that government works as a philanthropist they? The over 800,000-member union can waive organization takes aim directly at the bully of State their $730 annual “voluntarily” fees for mandated Street — The New Jersey Education Association. memberships and save teachers from paying Former Gov. John S. Corzine promised $609 miltoward their own health insurance. Why won’t the lion of federal stimulus money to fund school disNJEA open up their record books and show the peotricts throughout New Jersey without any considerple of New Jersey how and where they spend their ation that the money might not be there in the money? Do students learn better when transparenfuture. When the Democrats signed into law the cy is absent from their educators, or American Recover y and how about when their teachers chasReinvestment Act of 2009, “Christie has put tise policies, like the freedom to Conservatives, libertarians, moderchoose your school? ates and even a few Democrats the ball in the The University is in a similar situunderstood that stimulus money courts of unions, ation — will the University choose would offer immediate relief and education as its No. 1 priority? Or will then disappear. New Jersey is now saying the state they promote a policy that enhances facing that crisis; Democrats have the paychecks of the Union of been irresponsible with both federal has no money ...”

Rutgers Administrators-American and state tax dollars for years. For Federation of Teachers and deliver some moronic reason, it has been more unnecessary changes to a school already in deemed that spending on school districts can only fiscal disrepair. The University does not have to go up and never down. As if unmerited pensions and raise tuition or fees, as long as they cut spending sweetheart Cadillac insurance plans, paid for by taxwhere it is necessary and live within their means. payers enhances the education of students.

Christie is now forcing lawmakers, school disChristie, depicted as the big bad wolf by the tricts and universities to practice personal responsiNJEA has now proposed an $820 million cut in bility and accountability. For far too long, policypublic school spending and $173 million to highmakers in New Jersey and administrators at our er education, including a 15 percent reduction in University figured they can give students and resiUniversity aid. This cut is not an attack on edudents all the services they wanted, but failed to tell cation. Rather, it is a message from the governor the people that it would come with a steep price and telling the teachers union and the University to an empty wallet. Christie is not only cutting spendlive within their means and conduct some sort of ing, but empowering all New Jerseyans. When was personal responsibility and accountability. The the last time a member of the government gave the teachers union has a chance to prove to students people options? Christie has put the ball in the and parents that they are serious about educacourts of unions, saying the state has no money, we tion. Under Christie’s proposed budget, not one are broke, I am sorry but these are the sacrifices teaching job needs to be cut as long as NJEA you are going to have to make, so please put your reopens contracts, stops pay increases — espemoney where your mouth is. cially for underperforming “educators” — and Finally, New Jersey government is allowing decihave union members contribute 1.5 percent of sions to be made at the local level. For the University their salar y to their own health insurance. In and the NJEA, that decision will determine how other words, NJEA members would be forced to pay on average $750 of their paycheck into their SEE MARCUS ON PAGE 11 insurance plan.

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Teach for America needs support now more than ever Letter BEN WEST

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s the campus campaign coordinator for Teach For America here at the University, I am especially excited that several hundred Scarlet Knights applied to the program.

That’s why I am troubled by a new federal budget proposal that would dim future admissions prospects for college seniors and derail the organization’s long-term goal of ending educational inequality. As a result, I felt compelled to respond to Tuesday’s column in The Daily Targum, “Cuts to TFA not significant.”

Due to its strong track record of providing high-quality teachers and

Therapy utilizes musical aid Letter ANTHONY BURDO

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e place our elderly loved ones in nursing homes with the expectation that the staff will meet all their needs and offer the best quality of care we think we are paying for. The fact is that these facilities often fail to cater to more than patients’ dietary needs, medications and basic activities of daily life. When each day presents the same predictable routine and lacks the excitement we pursue in our youth, this is the point when we truly stop living.

Four University students in Professor Julie Fagan’s “Ethics in Science” course are bringing new life to a local nursing home, Rose Mountain Care Center, through a collaborative effort with fellow students and the local community. Joe Jang, Katie Doyle, Richard Chien and I hope to jumpstart a widespread movement for students and musicians to give back to their communities through an initiative we call The Entertainment Therapy Project.

It is not necessarily a new idea, but it is one that has consistently shown to clinically enhance quality of life for the elderly and alleviate agitation, anxiety, depression and sensomotor symptoms of neurodegenerative diseases. Our group is comprised of students, each with unique talents, who aspire to take music therapy to the next level.

Currently we are recruiting musicians from the University and surrounding community to provide tasteful and stimulating entertainment for the residents of Rose Mountain Care Center.

We have been invited to start the project as soon as next Tuesday.

Under the super vision of Professor Fagan, we will be contributing our time and talents in and outside the classroom, and The Entertainment Therapy Project promises to shed new light on music therapy as a supplement to clinical care with the mission of getting students and musicians involved in their communities. Those interested in taking part of the effort can e-mail aburdo@eden.rutgers.edu.

Anthony Burdo is a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences senior majoring in biological sciences and minoring in music.

leaders, Teach For America has received federal funding for the past 10 years. Teach For America requested $50 million this year from U.S. Congress to meet demands among college students and communities. Under a new proposal currently before Congress, Teach For America’s federal funding for 2011 to 2012 would be eliminated.

Without federal funding, Teach For America would be unable to hire more than 1,350 teachers who would reach 86,000 students in the 2011 to 2012 school year.

In his column, the author suggests that Teach For America corps members leave education and abandon the battlefront of educational inequity when their two-year commitment ends. It is critical to look at the actual data.

Contrary to the columnist’s claim, nearly two-thirds of Teach For America’s 17,000 alumni still work full-time in the field of education

MARCUS continued from page 10 much they value education. For school boards, they will decide if cuts in state spending should result in higher property taxes or standing up to the teacher’s union. Christie has promised to

— long after the end of their twoyear commitment — even though less than 10 percent had been considering a career in teaching when they entered the corps.

The proposed federal funding cuts come at a time when our

nation’s public schools need reform more than ever. More than 14 million children living in low-income communities are performing below grade level on standardized tests and are falling further behind their more affluent peers each year.

With an annual $50 million appropriation from Congress, Teach For America would be able to double in size over the next five years. At this scale, the organization would be able to provide nearly 17,000 corps member positions each year and reach more than one million underserved students in nearly all 50 states.

Teach For America will have more than 50,000 alumni by 2016, who will create a powerful leadership force for meaningful and bold education reform.

As University students, we can make our voices heard to Congress on one of today’s most urgent civil rights issues — education. If Congress fully funds Teach For America, more children will be equipped with the high-quality educational opportunities they deserve.

I hope you will join me in a grassroots campaign to call and e-mail Sens. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., and Robert Menendez, D-N.J. You can also help by texting “TFA” to 30644 to contact our state senators about the importance of maintaining federal funding for Teach For America.

not sign one piece of legislation that raises taxes on the people of New Jersey and our businesses.

Making New Jersey not only more affordable but producing a better business climate in order to produce real, private sector jobs that are not tied down to the government and taxpayer dollars.

Ultimately, New Jersey has a governor that is standing up to

Goliath. The leaders of these public unions need to understand one thing and one thing only: They do not work for some super visor, state legislator or executive bureaucrat, these public union members work for the people of New Jersey. They are nothing without us, and we are done with their bullying.

The people of New Jersey

elected Chris Christie to show these people that they cannot hide in the dark anymore, you’re boss is here and this time we mean business.

“... Teach For America would be able to double in size over the next five years.”

Ben West is the Rutgers University Campus Campaign Coordinator for Teach For America. He is a Rutgers College senior majoring in political science.

Aaron Marcus is a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore majoring in political science and history. His column “Marcus my words” runs alternate Thursdays.

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Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 7 — Although money isn't the real issue, that may be how you've been keeping track of who loves whom more. A better way is to see who can be most creative in expressing their caring.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 6 — You may want to run away from home, but you need to focus on household matters. Handle practical issues early, then escape to a movie.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) — Today is a 6 — Although you want to get your ideas out, now's the time to carefully consider all the ramifications and modify your message.

Cancer (June 22-July 22) — Today is a 5 — Everyone digs in, entrenched and stubborn. This would be a good day to pursue personal matters and save your energy for later. It will work out.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 6 — Today is all about appearances. Hair and accessories matter. Achieve a unique look using materials already in your possession. You find yourself on stage.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 5 — Your desire for independence takes you out of your normal work routine. You don't have to leave the country.

Just let your imagination wander.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 6 — The challenge now is to love what you're doing for as long as you're doing it, and to let go as soon as it's finished. Release any negativity.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 7 — Use your talents to resolve disagreements about the basics. Be prepared to restate your arguments for the sake of clarity.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 6 — The only way to get anywhere today is through team effort. Focus on the most practical means you can find. Then, throw yourself fully into it.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 6 — To get the most out of a relaxing time, display enthusiasm for someone else's suggestion. Spend money judiciously, but don't pinch pennies.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 5 — Keep the home fires burning today. You need space to pursue independent action. Ask someone else to manage plans for this evening.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 5 — Consider ways to keep everyone focused. Creative minds (including yours) have a way of wandering off.

Reiterate the purpose.

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SEASON: Big East play continues with series at Irish continued from back to third to end the threat and the inning.

Strikeouts plagued Rutgers all game long with every starter in the batting order striking out at least once, good for 11 times total. Reliever Zach Epstein led the Lions in the strikeout department, sending five Knights back to the dugout empty handed.

After giving up the seventhinning long ball, Lillis suffered the loss (0-1) while Eric Williams (20) earned the win for Columbia.

After playing Ivy League schools Princeton and Columbia, it’s back to the Big East grind for the Knights. Notre Dame waits in South Bend, Ind., for a three-game series starting Friday with Rutgers.

The Fighting Irish (10-17, 1-5) are off to a rough start in conference play after South Florida swept them in Tampa and Georgetown took two of three from ND in Maryland.

For the Knights, outfielder Michael Lang — who sat out the loss against Columbia with a sore hamstring — knows that getting off on the right foot is key to any conference series.

“Winning the first game is always a big factor,” the Dumont, N.J., native said. “Our pitching just has to keep doing what

they’re doing and our hitters need to keep swinging well. We have a great team chemistry right now and we are looking good.”

As someone who has been around his fair share of Big East matchups, head coach Fred Hill Sr. echoes the statements of his leadoff hitter that a good start is crucial.

“Well I think the key to the Notre Dame series is getting off to a good start in each of the games,” said Hill, in his 27th season with the Knights. “Instead of trying to come from behind, if we can go out and jump ahead that always makes things more comfortable.”

This is the first conference series at home for the Irish and the second on the road for Rutgers. In their first Big East series away from home, the Knights cruised to a three-win sweep over Georgetown, a team that won its series against Notre Dame. Whether home or away, the Knights like their chances in Big East matchups.

“No, we are used to [playing away],” Lang said. “That’s why we start our season down South for the first four weeks of the season. We get used to this and used to traveling.”

For Matthews, the only difference between home and away games is where he sleeps at night.

“We keep the same mentality we have always had,” the Teaneck, N.J., native said. “The only thing that changes is that we are in a hotel.”

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Duo creates long-lost chemistry

BY TYLER BARTO STAFF WRITER

In Rock Hill, S.C., two weeks ago, Rutgers men’s track and field jumpers Adam Bergo and K e v i n MEN’S TRACK Bostick finished one and two in both the high and triple jumps, respectively. Last week in Williamsburg, Va., Bergo placed second in the high jump while Bostick took third in the triple jump.

For the Scarlet Knights, success in the jumps unit relies heavily on the talented duo. Their relationship though, predates their time at Rutgers by more than a decade.

Bergo and Bostick, two of the most skilled jumpers in the Big East, attended the same elementary school in Englewood, N.J. They just did not know it at the time.

“I didn’t really know about [Bergo] until I came here,” said Bostick, a former football and track standout at Bergen Catholic. “He was like, ‘Oh, I went to Lincoln Elementary School as well.’ He was telling me about some of the teachers and I was like, ‘I remember that teacher.’”

As fate would have it, upon their arrival at Rutgers, Bergo and Bostick lived one floor apart during their freshman year. Since then, the pair developed a noticeable chemistry and competitive nature, propelling them to Big East stature.

“I think it’s great,” said associate head coach Kevin Kelly of the duo’s relationship. “They’re roommates and they’re the same year. They competed against each other in high school and now

they’re teammates. So it’s kind of fun and I think they enjoy it and kind of thrive off of one another.”

Bergo and Bostick complement each other perfectly.

Bergo, a Westfield High School product, is slighter of build, enabling him to uncoil his way to back-to-back Big East indoor titles in the high jump.

Bostick, built and powerful, uses his frame to achieve maximum distance in the triple jump.

It took less than a full indoor season for a then-freshman Bergo to establish himself as a legitimate Big East contender, winning his first conference crown with a meet-best jump of 2.20 meters.

Bostick, on the other hand, is just starting to show his potential after winning the triple jump at the Asics Winthrop Invitational with an effort of 15.05 meters.

“I’m sure [Bostick’s] goal is to be the Big East champion in the triple jump,” Bergo said. “We don’t really ever talk about the Big East Championships and whether that motivates him … but my competitiveness would want me to go out there and do just as well, if not better than the next person.”

Their marked differences extend past the track and field circuit, as Bergo displays a chatty, personable nature while Bostick maintains a reserved persona. And they would not have it any other way.

Bergo and Bostick are inextricably linked to each other. Their names come one after another on the Knights’ roster, they practice daily together and have an apartment with each other next year. The pair also boasts arguably the most

competitive and deep units on team — especially with the signing of sought-after recruit Corey Crawford for the 2010-2011 campaign.

“Adam and Bostick, they’re like best friends,” senior teammate Bruce Owens said. “I think they try to outdo each other just to get better. And Bergo, he’s been doing this since he came and stepped foot at Rutgers. Bostick is just doing excellent right now. I think he’s feeding off of Bergo’s success … exactly what we need at the Big East, come conference championships time.”

For Bergo and Bostick, practice is their sanctuary. Whereas other dynamic duos may exchange verbal jabs and friendly bets, the two kids from Englewood are as composed and deliberate as ever, an aspect of their relationship Kelly finds surprising.

“It’s funny, not so much,” said Kelly of possible “war of words” between the two at the Rutgers’ practice bubble. “They just kind of let their performances speak for themselves. I think there’s … some jabs in there but not to the extent of guys that I’ve had in the past.”

Bergo and Bostick have their sights set on Big East recognition, on ridding the ghosts from a disappointing team finish from the 2010 indoor season and on being the faces of the Knights’ track and field program for years to come.

They are now a far cry from the two first graders at Lincoln Elementary that did not even know each other. Soon though, a lot of people will become acquainted to Adam Bergo and Kevin Bostick.

Consider this a proper introduction.

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Junior trades aces for races

BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ STAFF WRITER

It takes a special breed of athlete to switch focus from a spor t they played their entire life to WOMEN’S TRACK another in a matter of two years.

Junior Latoshia Bost of the Rutgers women’s track team belongs to that breed.

After enjoying success as a tennis standout since she was nine years old and passing up scholarship offers from Maryland, Towson and George Mason, Bost decided to try her athletic abilities in a different arena her sophomore year of high school.

Since then, her track skills took off.

“I started actually enjoying track more than tennis,” said Bost. “It really was a toss-up, I could have gone with tennis or track, but I started to actually become more serious with track.”

Initially, Bost sought to attend James Madison to run track, but settled for Maryland-Baltimore County due to the lack of scholarship funding at other schools, including JMU. Coming out of high school the junior admits to not being the fastest she could have, but much of that was due to her lifelong marriage to the game of tennis.

Upon arriving at UMBC, Bost quickly hit the ground running.

As a freshman, she won the 500-meter in the American East Conference championships, earning herself conference Rookie of the Year accolades.

But soon after, Bost made her way north to the Banks to begin a new campaign at Rutgers.

“I felt like I was a big fish in a little sea,” said Bost. “[UMBC] is a small-time school and the track program wasn’t the greatest. I wasn’t being challenged enough I didn’t think.”

However, the main reason for the transfer was the scholarship disputes Bost admitted to having with the new head coach that took over at UMBC after her freshman season.

“He didn’t want to give me a full ride,” said Bost. “I won Rookie of the Year, broke their school record coming in, and won the 500-meter dash title there, and he didn’t want to up my scholarship. So I said ‘okay I’m going to leave.’”

Though she did suffer a stress fracture in her left leg after her freshman outdoor season, Bost wasted no time in making a good first impression her new team’s head coach. “[She’s] a very competitive person,” said head coach James Robinson. “She brings a real toughness to the team that we need for everybody to catch a hold of.”

This past indoor season, the junior added to her trophy case by finishing runner-up in the Big East Championships while also capturing a third place spot at the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships –– both impressive marks based on the level of competition in each conference.

As an upperclassman, Bost relishes the leadership role and always pushes to get the best out of her teammates. From her early years with a racket in hand to her time now on the track, the junior always possessed intense competitiveness.

“Even when I was younger, in all sports and all facets of life, I

liked to push people,” Bost said of her leadership. “At the end of the day when we go to Big East and compete and I see the name on the paper it doesn’t just say ‘Latoshia Bost placed this,’ it says ‘Rutgers.’”

But like most collegiate runners, reaching the NCAA plateau is always a main goal. With just two outdoor seasons left in her career, Bost is aware that not much time remains for her to receive national recognition.

Her head coach is in the same boat.

“I’d like to see her qualify for nationals in the 400 meters or 800 meters,” said Robinson.

“Her and I are both on the same page with how we want to accomplish it and in what events so right now we need to go about training harder and getting to that point.”

As the season progresses, Bost continues to stay motivated, whether it is through her worthy competition on the track or her immense course load in the classroom.

She continues her studies to complete her major in biology, and aspires to attend medical school to become a pediatric cardiologist following her time as a Scarlet Knight — targeting schools like Johns Hopkins and Georgetown.

Nevertheless, for the second to last time in her athletic career, Bost can zone in on success for herself and her team before hanging up the track shoes for good at the end of next season.

“When I see track winding down it’s definitely sad,” said Bost. “But it’s definitely bitter sweet; I think when it finally ends its going to hit me.”

JEN KONG

Freshman midfielder Stephanie Anderson finished last night’s game against Monmouth with a pair of goals and two assists.

VICTORY: Knights finish perfect in Garden State games continued from back just in practice,” said head coach Laura Brand-Sias. “So it’s games like this where they’re getting that time and a little bit of experience to take it to the next step and play in bigger games. We need that down the stretch in the Big East.”

But the runaway victory did not come without a price.

The Knights suffered a scare in the first half when sophomore attack Annie McGinley fell behind the cage and remained down for several minutes.

A trainer helped McGinley, favoring her left leg, off the field and carted her back to the

Knights’ bench. The sophomore would not return in the game.

“It’s wait and see,” BrandSias said. “We don’t know what happened, but we’ll just hope for the best.”

With Monmouth behind them, the Knights are set to embark on their final five-game stretch of the season — all Big East contests.

But if Rutgers ever needed a tune up before delving back into conference play, yesterday’s game certainly did the trick.

By roughing up the Hawks, the Knights secured victories over both their intrastate opponents this season, the other being thenNo. 9 Princeton, putting Rutgers perfect in Garden State play.

“It’s a nice feeling,” Kristen Anderson said with a laugh. “I guess we’re the top dogs of New Jersey.”

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SPRING PRACTICE NOTEBOOK

L EFEGED

FILLS

MCCOURTY ’S

BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

F

ormer Rutgers men’s basketball center Hamady N’diaye began play in the Por tsmouth (Va.) Invitational last night, which invites the best seniors from college basketball to par ticipate in a four-day tournament in front of NBA scouts.

N’diaye, playing for the Tidewater Sealants, is one of 64 centers from across the countr y to participate in the tournament. Other members of the Sealants include former UNC for ward Marcus Ginyard, former Nor thern Iowa for ward Adam Koch and former Arizona guard Nic Wise.

Former Scarlet Knights guard and current Philadelphia 76ers coach Eddie Jordan also competed in the event as a senior.

F ORMER

M IAMI

Dolphins outside linebacker Jason Taylor visited the New York Jets yesterday and is adamant about getting a contract completed within the near future.

No deal with Taylor was finalized as of yesterday — the 13-year NFL veteran is also drawing interest from the New England Patriots, as well as the Dolphins.

Taylor’s agent, Gar y Wichard, received a call earlier in the week from Jets head coach Rex Ryan informing him that the Jets wanted to work out a deal with the Akron product.

T HE

Joe Lefeged retur ned a kick 91 yards for a touchdown last season. He also blocked two kicks and made 44 tackles as a special teams and defensive giant.

They are not bad numbers.

They just are not the best, considering the senior safety played on the Rutgers football team with Devin McCourty.

McCour ty’s touchdown return was for 98 yards. He blocked three kicks, not two.

He also finished second on the team with 80 tackles and played over 100 downs against Connecticut.

This year, Lefeged is the lone return man with a touchdown to his name, the player with the knack for getting to the football as it hits the kicker’s foot and the unchallenged leader of the Scarlet Knights’ secondar y.

“That’s the goal,” Lefeged said, when asked if he could step into McCourty’s special teams’ role. “Devin was probably one of the best special teams players in the countr y last year, so that’s what I’m striving for — to be the best I can be.”

Sophomore safety Duron Harmon, competing for playing time at safety behind Lefeged and sophomore Khaseem Greene, already benefited from McCourty.

ROLE

Against South Florida, when McCourty forced Bulls’ punt returner Faron Hornes to fumble, Harmon was there to scoop the ball up.

That was on the field, but the Magnolia, Del., native said Lefeged helps him both on and off of it.

“Joe has been my big brother and ever y time I have a question, he’ll be right there with an answer,” Harmon said.

“It’s not even about football sometimes. If I just need advice or just need somebody to talk to, he’s always there for me to talk. Having someone like him is really a big help.”

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OFFENSIVE LINEMAN

sat out while another continued his return.

Senior center Howard Barbieri was fully dressed at practice, but did not participate in any drills. Redshirt freshman David Osei played some center in his absence, but head coach Greg Schiano said he exhaled when he learned Barbieri will be all right.

“He’s done for the spring, but he’s going to be OK — he doesn’t need surger y,” Schiano said.

True freshman guard Betim Bujari, who enrolled early this semester, participated in his fifth practice after he was held out for fear of complications from a broken nose.

The Secaucus, N.J., native said since arriving at Rutgers in Januar y his focus is entirely

SAM HELLMAN

Senior safety Joe Lefeged, who credits Devin McCourty with helping him become a leader, looks to continue his special teams success.

on football, even though Schiano encourages early enrollees to attend prom and walk in graduation.

“I just cleared high school out of my mind and concentrated on what I need to do here,” Bujari said. “Prom is actually coming up and I hadn’t thought about that — now I need to find a date.”

On an offensive line that Schiano said has yet to impress, Bujari shows talent.

M ILLEDGEVILLE ,

Ga., police department handed over their investigation repor ts on Pittsburgh Steelers quar terback Ben Roethlisberger Tuesday evening to local district attorney Fred Bright.

Bright acknowledged he received the police reports and witness statements regarding Roethlisberger and his alleged assault on a 20-year-old woman at a Georgia club. He would not comment until reviewing the reports in their entirety.

Ed Garland, Roethlisberger’s lawyer, hired his own team to investigate the claims and dispute the report, although no charges were filed to date.

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OHIO

STATE

basketball for ward Evan Turner will forego his senior season and enter the 2010 NBA draft, he announced yesterday at an OSU press conference.

Turner, the AP Player of the Year, propelled the Buckeyes to the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16 before falling to Tennessee. He is widely considered a top-five selection in the upcoming draft.

Turner, who led OSU to the Big Ten’s regular-season and conference tournament titles, averaged 20.3 points, 9.2 rebounds and 5.9 assists per game during the 2009-10 season.

“He’s got a chance,” Schiano said. “He’s a raw guy, meaning he’s ver y strong, ver y talented. He just needs to learn the system, learn the technique we use.”

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THE KNIGHTS

STEVEN MILLER/ SPORTS EDITOR

Darrell Givens (3) practiced at safety for the first time yesterday, after spending the first six spring practices at cornerback. Givens was one of three highly-touted redshirt freshmen cornerbacks.

FRESHMAN

Darrell Givens moved from cornerback to safety, breaking up the group of three highly touted cornerbacks that redshirted in their first season at Rutgers.

“It’s just another example of tinkering to get the best people in position [to make plays],” Schiano said.

After moving from wideout to cornerback one practice ago, sophomore Marcus Cooper impressed his coach.

“I’ll tell you what, he has a knack,” Schiano said. “In the one-on-ones I liked watching him. He has to learn the position, which will take all spring, but he has some naturally ability.”

HAVE THEIR

first scrimmage of the spring Saturday at Rutgers Stadium.

Yet to make any major depth chart moves, Schiano said scrimmage performances carry more weight.

“It’s the closest thing you have to getting out there [in a game setting],” Schiano said.

“There’s something dif ferent.

What I like now is we have this facility, [the RU Tur f Field], so when we set foot in that stadium, it’s something special. Whether it’s a game or a scrimmage, you can tell the energy is a little dif ferent.”

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T HE DAILY TARGUM’S

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S TEVE NYISZTOR

Targum Associate Sports Editor A.J. Jankowski chats with the freshman second baseman about his name, his ink and his head coach’s inability to operapte technology ...

A.J. Jankowski: Is there any significance to wearing the number 41?

Steve Nyisztor: My number all through high school baseball and basketball was 14. But when I got here [senior pitcher] Dennis Hill had 14, so I figured this was as close as I could get.

AJ: Going back to your high school days, was there ever a first day of school where a teacher could pronounce your last name correctly?

SN: [laughs] No. Not at all.

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AJ: What were some of the pronunciations you got?

SN: I get “Nister” a lot. Most of the time they wouldn’t even attempt it.

AJ: If you weren’t playing baseball, what sport would you be playing?

SN: Basketball definitely.

Sophomore third baseman Brittney Lindley drove in the only two runs for the Scarlet Knights in yesterday’s double-header sweep at the hands of Hofstra. Lindley hit a solo home run and had an RBI single.

Bats caught napping in home opener

BY SAM HELLMAN CORRESPONDENT

AJ: Were you always playing center because of your height?

SN: I was usually shooting guard. I could shoot the ball pretty good. I basically grew up playing as much basketball as I did baseball, so this year was really the first year I missed out on it. During the winter we were practicing a lot so I didn’t get to play and I really missed it.

AJ: Were you happy with Duke winning the national tournament?

SN: No I was actually really mad.

[Sports information director] Doug Drabik: What?! C’mon Nyisztor.

SN: I hate Duke. I’m a fan of college basketball and anybody but Duke. I was really pulling for Butler there.

AJ: Growing up in Toms River with all of the baseball history there, were you forced to play baseball?

SN: Actually when I was younger I really didn’t even want to play. My mom forced me to play T-ball, so I think I owe a lot to her.

AJ: Who’s your baseball team?

SN: Yankees. I loved watching the playoffs [last year], it was great that they won.

Playing on its home turf for the first time this season did not prove to be enough to wake up t h e SOFTBALL Rutgers HOFSTRA 2 softball team’s RUTGERS 1 b a t s w i t h eight total hits in a double-header sweep by Hofstra at the RU Softball Complex.

Starting Hofstra pitchers Olivia Galati and Erin Wade held the Scarlet Knights to one run apiece in each of the two games with Rutgers losing 4-1 in the first game and 2-1 in the second.

“We’re not hitting,” said head coach Jay Nelson. “It’s kind of about our timing and how we’re always out on our front foot.

We’re going to work on staying back. It was really evident with

the second pitcher because she threw a lot of change-ups and you could see all of our hitters [out in front].”

Senior ace Nicole Lindley went the distance in game two, but allowed 10 runners to reach base and gave up two earned runs on 111 pitches. The first of Nicole Lindley’s two earned runs came on a hit by pitch with the bases loaded, though Nelson argued the call saying the batter leaned into the strike zone.

The second run came on a solo blast to deep left center and it proved to be the difference.

“When you get into games like this, it’s one or two mistakes that can cost you the game,” Nelson said.

Nelson argued three calls during the double-header that could have gone either way.

“The close calls were a little frustrating, but as a pitching staff we know what we have to do,”

AJ: Xbox 360 or Playstation 3?

SN: Xbox 360.

AJ: Favorite game?

SN: Call of Duty.

AJ: So far what has been your best memory at Rutgers unrelated to baseball?

SN: Probably a lot of the new people that I’ve met. It’s really been the first time since I went to middle school that I’ve met this many new people. Outside of baseball, there are a lot of people in my dorm that I became friends with. It’s nice.

AJ: I see you’ve got some inkage going on over there, what are your tattoos?

SN: I’ve got praying hands that say “Faith” on my forearm.

I’ve got “Live for the moment…” and then I have my initials and then I have “Pride” written down my ribs.

AJ: Which one hurt the most?

SN: The ribs definitely.

AJ: Say you are playing in Major League Baseball, what ballpark do you want to play in the most?

SN: I’d probably want to play for the Mets in their new stadium. I’m a Yankee fan but growing up my Little League team was always the Mets so I’ve kind of always stuck with that and I like their new stadium.

AJ: Alright last one, what are the chances that [head coach] Fred Hill Sr. gets a cell phone?

SN: [laughs] Five percent and if he gets one he won’t know how to use it.

SAM HELLMAN

Freshman pitcher Abbey Houston relieved sophomore Holly Johnson in Rutgers’ first game yesterday, surrendering no runs in 3 2/3 innings.

Nicole Lindley said. “We need to bear down.”

Sophomore third baseman Brittney Lindley provided the lone RBI in the second game.

After a sacrifice bunt got pinch runner Lindsey Curran to second base, Brittney Lindley grounded the ball up the middle to cut the game to a one-run lead for Hofstra.

Brittney Lindley also knocked in the only RBI in the first game with a solo home run to deep center in the bottom of the first.

“My eyes lit up and I just hit it hard and it went out,” Brittney Lindley said.

Hofstra already led 3-0 at the time after a rough first inning and overall rough outing for sophomore Holly Johnson.

“In the first game, Holly didn’t have it,” Nelson said.

Nelson pulled Johnson in the four th inning after she gave up four runs on seven hits and opted to give freshman Abbey Houston a chance to finish out the game. Houston, pitching in her first ever game at the RU Softball Complex, excelled in 3 2/3 innings — not allowing a run.

“I was really happy for her,” said Nicole Lindley. “We set these goals for our pitching staff of what we want to do the rest of the year and I feel like she really took it to heart.”

The sweep by Hofstra (24-6) marked the first home stand for Rutgers after opening the year with 27 consecutive games on the road — the longest stretch in school history.

The Knights (12-19, 0-2) return home this weekend for a three game, in-conference series with Connecticut before hosting both Louisville and Army next week in double-headers.

“Obviously the outcome wasn’t favorable, but I think that we played on our field and we have two days to practice and fix the things we need to fix and we take on UConn this weekend,” said Nicole Lindley.

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OUT WITH THE OLD, IN WITH THE NEW SANU, MOHAMED: 6-FOOT-2, 215 POUNDS 51 CATCHES, 639 YARDS, 3 TOUCHDOWNS 62 CARRIES, 356 YARDS, 5 TOUCHDOWNS

MOHAMED SANU

BROWN, TIM: 5-FOOT-6, 151 POUNDS 55 CATCHES, 1,150 YARDS, 9 TOUCHDOWNS 40-YARD DASH: 4.44 VERTICAL JUMP: 28 INCHES

BY SAM HELLMAN

difference in the school’s first bowl win in history.

He did nothing but make plays as a Fighting the odds is nothing new for sophomore and junior and never suffered former Rutgers football wide receiver a serious injury.

Tim Brown.

The only time Brown actually endured As a 5-foot-7 wide receiver weighing in an injury came as a senior, but that was at just 151 pounds, Brown was even too not a result of his play as much as it was small to be considered a legitimate player a strange accident. at the college level.

Against Syracuse in the 10th game All he did, however, was smash of the year, left tackle Anthony Davis Rutgers receiving records and start fell on Brown during a running play ever y game of his senior and injured his ankle. year — totaling 1,150 Brown fought through receiving yards and the injur y and pulled in “Once you pop nine touchdowns.

11 balls for 223 yards on the tape and see and two touchdowns in In the NFL, playing that small is nearly the three games how much I love unheard of, but Brown that followed. would not have it any “I think Tim has the game, my play other way. proven that he’s a big on the field “Like I told ever yplay receiver,” said head body back home, I like it coach Greg Schiano. “I shows a lot.” like this,” Brown said think the thing that a lot after working out at of people wanted to see TIM BROWN Rutgers’ Pro Day. “I like was could he take the Wide Receiver it the hard way. That’s pounding of being an how I’ve always wanted ever y-down guy. I think it. I like to be uncertain so when I get he’s proven that. out there I can show ever ybody I can “I don’t look at the stats that much, do it.” but his yardage and total catches [made Brown’s speed or athleticism is not for] a great average and he played a lot a concern at the next level, but of plays. Someone will take a chance on getting up from hit after hit at his him with the speed he has.” size is unlikely. But ask Brown The ankle did not hold up quite as well and all you have to do is look at in the months to come. what he did with the Brown spent most of his post-bowl Scarlet Knights. game time rehabbing instead of actually “Once you pop on the tape training for the Pro Day and, as a result, and see how much I love the struggled without a chance to properly game, my play on the field work out or heal up. shows a lot,” Brown said.

He ran a 4.44 40-yard dash, but “And then vowed that he would improve upon that when you when he worked out privately in Florida see me in after he recovered. person, I’m “Not at all,” Brown said on if he was a great guy satisfied with the way he ran. “I ran to be alright, but I know I can do better once my ankle gets healed.”

Brown is considered a late-round to undrafted receiver according to most reputable scouts, but his hiring of agent Drew Rosenhaus may be a sign in his favor.

Rosenhaus is known as an agent who only works with the best — representing NFL stars like Terrell Owens, Chad Ochocinco, Kellen Winslow Jr., Frank Gore and Lance Briggs.

“He’s a great guy,” Brown said.

“He’s funny. He’s a great guy to be around. It’s a great thing for me. He’s a big help for me. I know he’s going to do his job and I just have to do my job.

Some of his clients are my friends. around.

They tell me great things about him, Off the field and he’s been watching me for a issues are, I long time.” mean, zero.

The two names that mean the most I’m just waitto Brown are Santana Moss and ing until that DeSean Jackson. day comes.”

Neither Moss nor Jackson stands Brown proved above 5-foot-10 as wide receivers, but to be injury-resistant both have impressive careers as speedy, during his four years at slot players.

Rutgers. As a true “They are great players in the NFL, freshman, he cracked but I’m going to be myself,” Brown the depth chart at the end of said. “I’m going to do my thing and the season and his two touchwe’ll see when I get to the down grabs in the Texas Bowl made the next level.”

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RAMON DOMPOR/ ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Sophomore Mohamed Sanu is the lone returning wideout with significant experience under his belt after establishing himself last season as an option behind Tim Brown.

BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

When it comes to spring practice, Mohamed Sanu is not a rookie.

Unlike 28 of the other 29 members of last year’s recruiting class, the sophomore enrolled early and participated in the Rutgers football team’s spring practices last year.

But during the 15-practice season, the Scarlet Knights’ No. 1 wideout worked out at the position that he first tried with two practices remaining last spring.

Sanu joined the Knights as a hard-hitting safety from South Brunswick. He earned the praise of head coach Greg Schiano at the position before a lack of depth at receiver forced his move to the offensive side of the ball.

After the switch, the Most Valuable Player of the St. Petersburg Bowl never looked back — until now, when a year of experience at wideout provides the foundation for Sanu to develop even more.

“I had to study a lot last year, during the spring and summer, looking at game tape in a new position for me,” Sanu said.

“Now, I have a year under my belt and I know what I’m doing. I know all the fundamentals that need to develop in my game, so I know what I need to do.”

Sanu learned the fundamentals and put them together for 51 receptions, 639 yards and three receiving touchdowns in his rookie campaign.

Now comes the challenge: perfect those fundamentals as the only established player at a position full of uncertainty. Only four other wideouts claim receptions, combining for 13 catches, 174 yards and one score.

But of those four players, three are sophomores. The position is young, talented and begging for someone to step up like Sanu did a year ago.

“It’s exciting, because we know we have a lot to grow, but you just have to study a lot and make sure you have that playbook,” the 6-foot-2, 215-pounder said. “We have a ton of guys — freshmen coming in and a bunch of guys here. We just want to see everybody evolving their game, getting better each play and moving along.”

Of the 13 wideouts, 11 are sophomores or redshirt freshmen. In the summer, six

true freshmen will join, including 6-foot-6 Brandon Coleman — an Under Armour All-American with the potential to replicate Sanu’s quick impact.

Still, Sanu is the undoubted leader of the group — following a pair of Rutgers’ record-setters in Tennessee Titan Kenny Britt and NFL-hopeful Tim Brown in that role.

“I don’t feel like that, I just see it as an opportunity to help the team out,” Sanu said. “We have a couple guys around me and we can bring them all along so we, as a group, are all at that top level.”

For this group, speed and talent are not the issues — putting it all together is.

“We’re not where we need to be, especially with the details and route running,” Schiano said early in the spring season. “I think [the competition is] going to be all through camp — there are a lot of good players there and we’re bringing some more in.”

In a competition with so much youth, it is only fitting that new wide receivers coach P.J. Fleck will not turn 30 until five days before the regular season finale at West Virginia.

“I love Coach Fleck — that guy’s the man,” Sanu said. “He’s real energetic. It’s not that he’s young, he just knows a lot about the game.

He’s been there, done that. He knows what happens and how to prepare for every situation.”

Although Sanu is the most experienced of the Knights’ wideouts, he is still learning. But the youth movement, which works closely with a certain sophomore quarterback named Tom Savage, is reason for excitement.

“Savage is a great player, Mohamed’s a [sophomore] and this connection we all have is going to be good for the future,” said sophomore Mark Harrison, who caught a touchdown pass at Connecticut last season. “We definitely feel like we have something going there.”

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Onslaught of goals leads to comfortable victory

BY STEVEN WILLIAMSON SENIOR WRITER

By the second half of the Rutgers women’s lacrosse team’s slaughtering of Monmouth last night, the WOMEN’S LACROSSE idea that MONMOUTH 6 Scarlet Knights RUTGERS 18 w e r e going to win was not up in the air.

The one thing that was airborne, however, was midfielder Mary Cryan.

The senior soared in front of the cage in the second half, scoring a pair of dazzling back-to-back midair goals as Rutgers downed the Hawks 18-6 at the RU Turf Field.

For the midfielder, who does not tower in stature, the approach is simple.

“I have no idea how I [get up so high], I just jump,” Cryan said.

“They call me ‘Flyin’ Cryan’ … I’ve got ups.”

With senior attack Meghan Flanagan lurking behind the net, Cryan took a quick cut and leapt, catching the ball mid-jump and rocketing it past the frozen Monmouth goalkeeper before hitting the ground. A minute later, the midfielder replicated the feat, but she was not the only Knight on fire.

Ten different players scored for Rutgers (8-3), eight with two goals apiece to help produce the team’s season-high 18 goals.

But it was the Anderson sisters who did the majority of the damage on offense for the Knights.

Junior attack Kristen Anderson scored two goals and added three assists, while freshman midfielder Stephanie Anderson added two goals and two assists of her own.

“We’ve been working hard on offense and today was a game where we had to come in, play our game completely and just play great and execute on everything because we’re going to have to execute later on [in the season],” Kristen Anderson said. “We’ve got some hard games coming up.”

Executing did not seem to be a problem.

Rutgers dominated Monmouth (5-8) in nearly every statistical category, outshooting the Hawks 31-11 and holding a commanding 20-6 advantage in draw controls. The romp over the Hawks marked the second-straight game Rutgers has scored at least 15 goals.

With the win, Rutgers moves to a perfect 8-0 all time against the Hawks.

With the lead well in hand, the Knights rotated in both of their backup goalkeepers in freshman Aimee Chotikul and sophomore transfer Michelle Zaffuto, marking the first time Zaffuto saw action this season.

Rutgers also mixed in a healthy handful of its bench, including junior Katherine Marino, who scored her first goal this season, and sophomore Danielle Mascera, who recorded her first point as a Knight with a second half assist. “[The bench players are] practicing hard every day, and they’re really close to getting on the field and it’s hard for them to get that experience

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Junior attack Kristen Anderson tallied two goals and three assists in the Knights’ 18-6 victory over Monmouth. Anderson’s two scores made her one of eight Rutgers players to earn more than one goal.

JUDGEMENT DAY LOOMS FOR HILL JR.

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Senior pitcher Kyle Bradley lasted only 2 1/3 innings in yesterday’s 12-11 loss to Columbia. The starter gave up five earned runs as the Knights fell to the Lions for the second straight season.

Lions best Knights for second season

BY A.J. JANKOWSKI ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

For the second-straight season the Rutgers baseball team fell victim to Ivy League foe Columbia.

The Lions BASEBALL defeated RUTGERS 11 the Scarlet Knights in COLUMBIA 12 a 12-11 shootout yesterday at Robertson Field in New York City after the 9-1 drubbing they inflicted on the Big East squad last season at Bainton Field.

This time around the Knights (15-12, 5-1) could not keep the Lions (12-12) from crossing the plate as starting senior pitcher Kyle Bradley lasted only 2 1/3 innings while giving up five earned runs on five hits. Sophomore reliever Willie Beard did not fair much better, going 1 1/3 innings and giving up six hits that lead to four earned runs.

The game went back and forth with each team putting runs on the board inning after inning. Rutgers pulled ahead 11-10 in the top of the seventh inning off of a pinch-hit

two-run home run from senior catcher Jayson Hernandez.

Senior reliever Kevin Lillis entered the game in the bottom of the frame to attempt to quiet the Lions and preserve the lead. But Columbia roared back to take the advantage, courtesy of a two-run home run of its own from junior Alex Ferrera.

The Knights threatened in the eighth by rallying with two outs to load the bases, but third baseman D.J. Anderson grounded out

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Fred Hill Jr. emerged from a owed over the remaining three meeting with Athletic Director years of his deal.

Tim Pernetti, just three weeks Hill’s decision to return to ago, still Bainton Field may be the out MEN’S BASKETBALL t h e Pernetti needs to dismiss him. men’s basketball head coach.

During his tenure Hill is just That may change within the 47-77 overall and 13-57 in the Big next 48 hours.

East. That overall mark is the Pernetti met with University third worst in program history. attorneys to determine if Hill can He won five league games this be terminated for a breach of con- season, the most during his four tract under a behavioral clause, years in charge. according to Gannet New Jersey.

Rumors have also swirled surThis all stems from an April 1 rounding several of Hill’s players. incident that occurred after the Multiple media outlets reported Rutgers baseball team beat Tuesday that sophomore star Pittsburgh 9-8 at guard Mike Rosario is Bainton Field. mulling a transfer.

Hill got into a verGannett New Jersey bal altercation with reported Rosario and Pittsburgh head his family were at the coach Joe Jordano — Louis Brown Athletic in which he may have Center yesterday to used profanity — meet with Pernetti but prompting Per netti that no release had to release a statebeen granted and any FRED HILL JR. ment Tuesday that release would need said Hill was under investiga- Pernetti’s approval. tion by the athletic depar tRosario’s high school coach at ment, which did not make fur- St. Anthony, Bob Hurley Sr., told ther comment yesterday.

The Daily Targum that he plans on Gannett New Jersey reported meeting with Rosario either Sunday that Pernetti asked Hill to stay or Monday when he returns from a away for the remainder of the coaching clinic in Dublin. series, but Hill showed up any“Sometimes I just think this is way and parked in his car behind what losing does,” Hurley said. the outfield fence, where Pernetti “They’re still not winning and spotted him. when you’re always playing and A source close to the program you’re not winning then you’re told Gannett New Jersey that Hill not happy — and you shouldn’t would be fired by the end of the be. I need to talk to him and see week. If Hill were fired for a where things are.” breach of contract, the University would be off the hook — Kyle Franko for the $1.8 million that he is and Steven Miller