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U. graduate students protest position cuts Erin Petenko Associate News Editor
Rosemary Ndubuizu said she is facing a difficult situation. She has been offered only a fellowship for the upcoming semester — which not enough to cover her cost of living. Now Ndubuizu, a graduate in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, has to find a job or another source of funding to support her fourth year of study, despite originally being promised funding for her education. Ndubuizu is a member of the Rutgers Graduate Organizing Commit-
tee, which created a petition against Richard Falk, acting executive dean of School of Arts and Science, to oppose Rutgers cutting teaching assistant positions in favor of fellowships, which pay much lower wages and offer fewer health benefits. “I’ve applied to as many external fellowships as possible, but I’m not able to deal with thousands of other graduate students who will not be able to pay for their education,” she said. Their petition has garnered more than 500 signatures, and they plan See CUTS on Page 4
The Cook Café in the Cook Campus Center has devised a policy to no longer accept meal swipes after 6 p.m. TIANFANG YU / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Students fight meal policy change Sabrina Restivo Correspondent
Stina Soderling, a graduate student, is against the cutting of teaching assistant positions. DAPHNE ALVA / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
The Cook Café devised a meal swipe policy this semester to counter the 4,500 students moving through the Cook Campus Center each week at dinner time. But angr y students have responded with a resolution and a petition to demand a reversal of the policy, which they say costs students money and convenience. According to the petition, titled “Revise the Meal Swipe Pol-
icy at the Cook Campus Center,” the Café no longer accepts meal swipes after 6 p.m. The decision may af fect the eating habits and lifestyles of students, par ticularly those who live on Cook campus. Cour tney Buchanan, treasurer of the Douglass Governing Council, authored a resolution opposed to the new policy. “Students would like to get their meal at the Cook Café after their night classes,” said Buchanan, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore. “Others often attend regu-
Rutgers to begin search for University mascot Alex Grillo Contributing Writer
Rutgers University has a new helmet to fill. In 1955, the Scarlet Knight became Rutgers mascot. Today, after nearly 60 years, the mascot continues to be a symbol of pride and the face of Rutgers Athletics. Incoming or current first-year students and sophomores have the opportunity this Sunday to become the next Scarlet Knight mascot. Anthony Weigand, Scarlet Knight mascot coach and social media coordinator of Rutgers Athletics, said students brimming with creativity and enthusiasm are encouraged to come to fight for the right to suit up alongside four other current mascots. In individual half-hour auditions, students will perform tasks such as flag running and reacting to potential game scenarios. Weigand is looking for students who can be a mascot for at least two years so they can get the most of their experience. “Their time commitment and availability plays into it,” Weigand said. “We average roughly 200 events a year.” The mascot attends University events, like those planned by Rut-
gers Recreation and the Rutgers University Programming Association. They also go to weddings, kids’ birthdays and other private events. They also make YouTube videos on the Scarlet Knight’s channel, which calls for the creativity sought after in tryouts. New Knights will energize fans at football, basketball, lacrosse and other sports games. Here, the mascots amp up attendees while traversing the sidelines, bleachers, parking lot and the field. Weigand, who personally donned the Scarlet Knight suit for two years, said the most rewarding part of the duty is the sense of school pride exclusively unique to the position. Mascots get to see behind-the-scenes at sports games and travel across the country to herald Rutgers spirit. The addition of Rutgers University to the Big Ten developed the demand for more events, Weigand said. These events demand more Scarlet Knights. This change is not overwhelming — it will be met with extended arms. Students should arrive for tryouts in sneakers and gym shorts. Interested students should email therutgersscarletknight@gmail.com, to confirm attendance, ask questions and receive a form to be filled prior to tryouts.
lar evening meetings at the Cook Café and also want to get their meal there.” During the semester, the organization reported several complaints concerning the policy change. The Constituent Outreach Committee has a series of suggestion boxes where students in the Douglass Residential College can give their input on campus life. After wards, Buchanan began circulating a petition to collect See CHANGE on Page 5
Forum looks at education from global perspective Julian Khan Contributing Writer
She said the most money that the board has allocated in one year was about $1.5 million, with the annual budget usually being somewhere between $1 million and $1.5 million. When Moon, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, got involved with RUSA allocations a few years ago, she said there were about 350 student organizations to allocate money to. The fact that the number has gone up to 400 shows that students have taken the initiative to start
Richard De Lisi believes room for globalization exists in all subject matters, suggesting that mathematics and science teachers stress to students the discoveries made possible by outside nations. “One and one is two anywhere. But can you talk about the mathematicians from other countries? Can you talk about the work scientists have done all around the world, going all the way back to Ancient Egypt? Explain to children that it’s always been a global world,” said De Lisi, dean at the Graduate School of Education. U.N. Project Manager William Yotive and Director Alrick Brown agreed with De Lisi as they spoke yesterday at “Teaching the World Forum” at the Cook Campus Center Multipurpose Room. The Rutgers Graduate School of Education sponsored the event.
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Shane Patel, a School of Engineering junior, presented a resolution for fossil fuel divestment yesterday at the Rutgers University Assembly Meeting. TIANFANG YU / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
RUSA board talks budget allocations, climate change Sabrina Szteinbaum Associate News Editor
BUDGET ALLOCATION
The 2014 to 2015 budget for student organizations was passed at last night’s Rutgers University Student Assembly meeting. Rachel Moon, allocations chair for RUSA, said the RUSA Allocations Board is the par t of RUSA that distributes student fees to the estimated 400 students organizations on campus.
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The Office of Summer and Winter Sessions presents “Summer Session Polaroid at Rutgers Day!” at 10 a.m. at Bishop House on the College Avenue campus.
Monday, April 28
Mason Gross School of the Arts presents “Brash Bash” at 7:30 p.m. at the Robert E. Mortensen Hall on Douglass campus. Douglass Residential College hosts “Douglass Global Village Open House Women and Creativity; Human Rights; and Environmental Houses” at 7:15 p.m. at the Douglass Campus Center.
Wednesday, April 30
Rutgers Department of Transportation Services hosts “Pop-Up DOTS” at 1 p.m. at the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus. There will be free basic bicycle repair demos & air, prizes and much more.
Thursday, May 1
Rutgers Center for Global Education “Study Abroad 101: Plan Your Best Semester, Today!” at 8 p.m. at the T. Alexander Pond Science and Engineering Resource Center on Busch campus.
Friday, May 2
Rutgers Gardens hosts “Rutgers Gardens Farmers Market” at 11 a.m. at Hort Farm No. 1-Office Building on Cook campus.
METRO CALENDAR Saturday, April 26
The Stress Factory Comedy Club presents the stand up of “Steve-O” with showings at 7:30 and 9:45 p.m. at The Stress Factory. You must be 16 and older to attend the show, and there is a two-item minimum for each person. Tickets are $30.
Sunday, April 27
The N.J. State Theatre presents “The Wizard of OZ with the NJSO” at 3 p.m. at 15 Livingston Ave. Ticket prices range from $20 to $88.
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Professor examines gender, sexuality in digital culture Kelsey Weidmann
vides a description and answers basic questions such as height and weight. Ashley Madison has many While sitting in a bar, Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui noticed a man was more gender options, he said. The user can list as a man seeking a typing on his phone animatedly. After a while, the man got up woman, a woman seeking a man, a and walked over to another man man seeking a man, a woman seekin the bar. Sifuentes-Jáuregui real- ing a woman and others. It also ized it was the man that first had asks about the user’s sexual limits because it caters to married people. been texting. Christian Mingle only offers The days of walking around looking at people’s bodies, mak- the options of a man seeking a ing eye contact and starting woman or a woman seeking a conversations are gone, Sifuen- man, making it much more restrictive. Sifuentes-Jáuregui tes-Jáuregui said. said it also asks For the sec“The real body has the user ond annual disappeared. Body parts where goes to church, Tyler Clementi are presented not as smoking and Center Humanities Lecture, something real, but rather drinking habits if he or she Sifuentes-Jáureas a promise of what’s and wants children. gui, an associto come.” Each website ate professor of makes an asAmerican Studsumption about ies and ComparBEN SIFUENTES-JÁUREgui what type of reative Literature, Co-Director of the Rutgers lationship is perspoke yesterClimate Institute mitted, he said. day in a talk ti“The user tled “The Scandal of the Disappearing Body: will find him or herself in a posiCyber Identity and Culture” at tion to decide how they fit in the Alexander Library on the College options given,” he said. Sifuentes-Jáuregui played a Avenue campus. Throughout history, sex has parody of a Christian Mingle adbeen associated with three differ- vertisement starring two men who ent definitions: reproduction, inti- met on the site. The men both macy and pleasure, Sifuentes-Jáu- loved pleated pants and dancing in regui said. Different eras have the kitchen. They found each othemphasized different definitions. er because one accidently clicked In the mid-to late 1800s, the focus “man seeking a woman” during was intimacy. Society switched to the signup. He said the parody shines a pleasure in the 1920s. “I had begun thinking about light on the clichés of the original cyberspace as it pertains to sexual- advertisements, he said. The lesson is to game the system. ity,” Sifuentes-Jáuregui said. Nothing is what it seems, and He speculated about what happens to the body when meeting one can take the system and adjust it to their liking — this is what someone online. In cyberspace, he often comes makes cyberspace so fun and so across two websites: Christian risky, he said. “I have begun to imagine what Mingle and Ashley Madison. Each of the websites has a sig- it means to ‘own’ a body in the dignup process where a person pro- ital era,” he said. Contributing Writer
Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui, an associate professor at Rutgers, spoke yesterday at Alexander Library in a talk entitled “The Scandal of the Disappearing Body: Cyber Identity and Culture.” YINGJIE HU When people think about sex, they picture a physical body, he said. So he posed the question: What happens to the body when meeting someone online? “What called my attention was grasping how we experience the body in cyberspace,” he said. “Now I have to think about existence without a body to anchor it. This is what I call the scandal of the disappearing body.” Sifuentes-Jáuregui explored the radical misalignment between how a person represents themselves online and who they really are. He then showed another clip from the movie “Closer,” when two men visit a sex site and one of them pretends to be a woman. The
one man calls himself Anna and the other is Larry. The two have a suggestive conversation and decide to meet in person. Sifuentes-Jáuregui points out that Larry does not ask Anna if she is real, as in whether she has a body. Also, when the man describes Anna, it becomes a fantasy about how some men desire women as objects without a real body. “The real body has disappeared. Body parts are presented not as something real, but rather as a promise of what’s to come,” Sifuentes-Jáuregui said. He argues the online body must be more interesting than the real thing. The online profile represents the pleasure of description and
the risk of possibly encountering something disappointing, Sifuentes-Jáuregui said. Eric Becker, a recent Rutgers graduate, was curious to hear what his former professor had to say, because he knew Sifuentes-Jáuregui would give a good, honest insight into this relevant issue. “I feel it is a very current issue [and] is something our generation can definitely relate to,” Becker said. Christine Reilly, a School and Arts of Sciences junior, said she was going into the lecture with an open mind. “[Sifuentes-Jáuregui] always has something interesting to say as far as sexuality issues and subjects in the contemporary world,” Reilly said.
SPRING INTO CULTURE Steve Elkington, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, rides HANDS-FREE WATERMELON Bishop George Ahr High a mechanical bull at the Arab Cultural Club’s 6th annual “American Street Fest” held yesterday at the Mettler-Tinsley-Bishop courtyard on the College Avenue campus.
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School senior Julia Abboud competes in a hands-free watermelon eating contest at the Arab Cultural Club’s annual “American Street Fest.” DAPHNE ALVA / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
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to bring the number even higher, Ndubuizu said. Falk, the target of the petition, defended his position as a necessary response to budget cuts and extended student studies. “Lately, students have been taking a long time to finish their degrees, sometimes up to eight years,” Falk said. “We wanted to do something.” TAs earn a stipend of about $26,000 in addition to the University paying their tuition, he said. Fellows earn only $11,000, but have no teaching duties to complete with their studies. With more time to focus, they would be able to finish their degrees faster, he said. Stina Soderling, also a graduate student in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, said students would now have to waste time looking for additional jobs and sponsoring to stay in school rather than finish their dissertations. Soderling does research on queer rural communities, which requires her to spend several months of the year in Tennessee. She is concerned that Rutgers expects students to finish their degree in too short a time, considering the extensive research they need to do. “Even before, many were not
funded for their entire time,” she said. “They would come in with three to five years of funding, while even in a timely manner, it could take six or seven years.” She suggested the University guarantee funding for the student’s first six years at the outset. Falk said he would like to pay students more, particularly since Rutgers is a major university that competes for the best graduate students. The University could prioritize certain students, such as the ones who were promised a TA position for several years. They would also give preference to students with families because TA positions offer full family health benefits, unlike fellowships. “The graduate director of the English Department offered 16 students, who had been promised a TA position, a choice between TA and a fellowship,” he said. “Thirteen of them chose the fellowship.” But Soderling said other graduate students end up needing more funding and often have to work as part-time lecturers to make up the extra cost. They do nearly as much teaching, but get none of the benefits, she said. Soderling has accepted a teaching position at another university to make up the difference in cost. As an aspiring teacher and profes-
Richard Falk, acting executive dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, believes the cuts were a necessary response to extended student studies. COURTESY OF NICK ROMANENKO sor, she hopes to get more teaching experience than Rutgers is offering her. She would rather see fewer students being offered TA positions than more students being offered small amounts of funding, or even admitting fewer students altogether. “Part of the problem is Rutgers is not good at telling [undergraduate] students about the cost,” she said. “I’m not sure Rutgers will have fewer applicants, simply because they’re not telling the truth.” Falk said John Hopkins University attempted to limit the number of graduate students and faced a backlash from students for doing so.
Rutgers professors want more graduate students to assist with research, and graduate students want more cohorts for collaboration, he said. All seemed to agree the ultimate problem is a lack of funding, but they disagreed about the specifics. Ndubuizu said costs like the medical school merger and the move to the Big Ten has left Rutgers with little money for academics. Falk is just one person in the Rutgers bureaucracy, she said. Ultimately, the responsibility is on Rutgers President Robert L. Barchi and Gov. Chris Christie. But she said administrators such as Falk serve as flashpoints
for University policy, especially because of their high pay. “I probably make less than 10 percent of what he’s doing,” she said. According to MyCentralJersey. com, Falk makes a base salary of $245,862. Falk said while he understands graduate students and other University members may have concerns, many of them do not have the appropriate information to make an informed opinion. “It’s a complicated issue, and I would like to do more,” he said. He plans to meet with the GOC on May 20.
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Speakers discussed the need for an increased global perspective in education, and shared their own projects, which are designed to bring multiculturalist teachings into the classroom to a diverse body of nearly 150 spectators. An increased need for “global competence” or a body of knowledge about world regions, cultures and issues was stressed. “The world is interconnected, and our students are going to need these [globalization] skills to be successful in the global market,” said Mary Curran, Graduate School of Education associate dean for local-global partnerships. Brown, a filmmaker and Rutgers graduate, whom Curran described as a “model for global competence,” spoke of his time in the Peace Corps, his life as a Jamaican immigrant and his globally aware filmmaking as a paradigm of globalization. “Globalization and the principles that underline global competency are my life’s journey,” Brown said. “Being culturally and globally aware
— I think that’s a part of being a mature human being here in 2014.” Yotive spoke of the potential the U.N. has in spreading globalization, citing it as a prime example of connectedness between nations in today’s world. The event also featured talks by Rutgers faculty such as Cheryl McLean, assistant professor in the Rutgers education Graduate School of Education, who believes taking a more global stance entails challenging Western positions of power, raising consciousness and providing opportunities for practical, real-world application and reflection. Among the speakers were professors from other universities, such as Laura Fattal, an assistant professor from William Paterson University, who discussed her project commemorating the anniversary of a deadly factory fire in Bangladesh. “An educated imagination is the key to equity and intercultural understanding,” Fattal quoted. Christelle Palpacuer-Lee, Rutgers Graduate School of Education professor, emphasized the connections between art history and cul-
tural history as well as the role of teachers as intercultural mediators. Jessica Hunsdon and Jessie Curtis, both part-time Rutgers lecturers, also spoke of their efforts to increase cross-cultural understanding through “conversation cafes” on George Street, in which English-speaking Rutgers students are paired in discussions with commu-
nity members looking to improve their English. The event encompassed both efforts made by staff at the University and high school level with Lucy Lee, a Livingston High School teacher, talking about how she took her students on a trip to China to develop their language skills and cultural understanding.
Lucy Lee, a Livingston High School teacher, spoke yesterday at “Teaching the World Forum” held at the Cook Campus Center. EDWIN GANO / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
CHANGE
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After collecting 200 signatures, council plans to bring issue to Dining Services’ attention
Patel says 97 percent of climate scientists agree most global warming is caused by human activity
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testimonials and demonstrate the negative impact of this policy change. “The petition gathered testimonials and showed the administration concrete numbers of students that have been impacted by this policy change,” she said. Once the petition collects 200 signatures, the council plans to bring the problem to the attention of the Rutgers Dining Ser vices administration and the Cook Campus Center management. The petition has more than 166 signatures and is growing. Buchanan also discussed concrete consequences of the meal swipe policy, which primarily involves students who frequent the Cook Campus Center. The Cook Café provides students convenient food services they can easily adapt to their fast-paced lifestyles, she said. The policy also forces them to decide between having a quick meal at the James Neilson Dining Hall and one of the campus centers. “ The Cook Café in the Cook Campus Center of fers students a healthy location to purchase food when they do not have the ability to eat a sit-down meal at the nearby Neilson Dining Hall,” she said. Most Rutgers campus centers of fer pre-made sandwiches and salads that are healthier and better quality than other food options, she said. The issue af fects the entire Rutgers community, she said. She urged other student governing councils to consider passing resolutions in solidarity to Cook
campus’ situation. Peter Canavan, president of the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences Governing Council, justified the policy change as a response to the excessive number of students gathering at the Cook Café for dinner. The policy would give more business to Neilson Dining Hall and remove the excessive demand on Cook Café, he said via email. Canavan, a SEBS senior, also outlined the options left for students who wish to have their meal on Cook Campus. “I think students will have to either use Neilson Dining Hall more, order out or cook more. Unfor tunately, with rumors of The Fresh Grocer closing, most students on Cook do not have access to food stores unless they have a car,” he said. Nick Emanuel, assistant director of cash operations for Dining Ser vices, said the unavailability of space in the Cook Café justified the change of policy, although the adminstration would be open to suggestions. The Cook Café has a limited space for food, he said. The University’s few resources cannot properly ser ve the vast number of customers Monday through Friday until 6 p.m. Although the most logical option would be to expand and innovate the Cook Café, it is the most expensive alternative, and would cost the school an estimated $1 million. “The curious aspect of this policy change was the rising number of meal swipes transactions this year,” he said. “Therefore, despite having cut back meal swipes usage, the business has increased.”
Chelsea Grau, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, said students are coming into schools with 50 percent of its population speaking a different language. “We’re now in a society where we can’t teach to homogeneous classrooms, because the make of the country is heterogeneous,” she said.
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their own clubs. Students involved in organizations on campus are supposed to draft their budget with the president, treasurer and faculty advisor of their organization. They are asked to apply for up to four programs, and RUSA Allocations Board guarantees giving the organization money for up to two programs. If an organization’s members feel they have not received enough funding for their events, student representatives can attend an appeals meeting — held weekly throughout the semester — to explain what the program is, how it correlates to the mission of their organization and why they need more money. Organizations also receive overhead funding, which Moon said they can use for general necessities like advertising, meetings, pens, website maintenance fees and storage fees. Moon, along with the team of 10 Allocations Board members, have to stay neutral in deciding on how to allocate money to different student organizations. They do not fund programs based on how good they think the program will be or if they agree with the mission of the organization. Instead, the committee looks at the size of the program and where and when it is going to be held.
FOSSIL FUEL DIVESTMENT
After the budget was passed, Shane Patel, a School of Engineering junior, presented a resolution for RUSA to favor the divestment of the Rutgers endowment from the 200 corporations with the largest carbon
dioxide reser ves that RUSA passed by unanimous consent. Rutgers has a University endowment, which is a fund comprised of charitable donations to the University, according to the bill. This endowment is invested in a variety of holdings, some of which is indirectly invested in mutual funds. Patel said 97 percent of climate scientists agree that the global warming trends of the last 100 years are due to human activity. Ever yone and ever ything will be af fected by climate change, he said. It is expected to cause more human suf fering
“I see it as an opportunity for Rutgers and not a bunch of angry kids demanding something.” SHANE PATEL School of Engineering Junior
than any other factor during our lifetimes. The fossil fuel industry, through lobbying government officials, has succeeded in making climate change a backburner issue, he said. The industry has a lot of wealth, and therefore, a disproportionate amount of power. According to the bill authored by School of Arts and Sciences junior Michael Endicott, Rutgers is the state university of New Jersey, and therefore responsible for improving the livelihoods of the state’s citizens. Rutgers can do this by suppor ting the divestment, Patel said.
Divestment involves pulling the money from any of the 200 corporations that Rutgers has given money to, and reinvesting it in environmentally friendly industries that will help create a more livable future. “This is about us having a planet to live on,” he said. “That sounds dramatic and that’s because it is.” Patel said the bill should have just about no financial impact at Rutgers. It will not help or hurt Rutgers’ endowment portfolio. He said the bill will help people realize how big of an issue climate change actually is. “I see it as an opportunity for Rutgers and not a bunch of angr y kids demanding something,” Patel said.
COMMMENCEMENT SPEAKER
Luke Svasti, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, presented a resolution he authored to support greater transparency and student involvement in the process of selecting a commencement speaker. RUSA passed the resolution. The resolution, which did not offer a clear course of action, said a commencement speaker is a highly important role, representative of the graduating class as a whole. The resolution stated that currently, the process and discussion of selecting a commencement speaker is kept from the public and involves limited student input. The resolution said the goal of any higher education institute should be to prioritize and respect the wishes of the students. The point of the resolution is to point out a blatant and obvious problem. “The resolution sends a message that we are resolved as a body to treat this, acknowledge this as a problem. … Even if we don’t have a solution,” Svasti said.
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OPEN WOUNDS A boy looks at a mural commemorating the 1915 Armenian Genocide on Hollywood Boulevard near a rally on the 99th anniversary of the event, calling for recognition and reparations yesterday in Los Angeles, California. GETTY IMAGES
Company stopped from accepting abortion waste PORTLAND, Ore. — County commissioners gave final approval yesterday to an order to stop an incinerator in Oregon from receiving medical waste until procedures are in place to ensure no fetal tissue is burned to generate power. While taking the action, Marion County commissioners Sam Brentano and Janet Carlson said they were horrified to learn that the Marion County Resource Recover y Facility in rural Brooks might be burning abortion waste to generate electricity. Both strongly oppose abortion rights. “We’re going to get the bottom of it,” Carlson said. “I want to know who knew, when they knew, how long they had known this was going on.” Brentano, however, noted that the county ordinance that sets the parameters for what can be accepted at the waste-to-energy plant allows for all human tissue. “No rule or law has been broken, but there’s an ethical standard that’s been broken,” he said. The decision came about a month after reporters in the United Kingdom discovered that health authorities there used fetal remains to generate power at medical facilities. The Department of Health quickly banned the practice. The Oregon facility is a partnership between the county and Covanta, a New Jersey-based firm that operates energy-from-waste power generation plants. The Marion County plant processes 550 tons of municipal solid waste a day, with only a small portion coming from medical sources. It
sells the power to Portland General Electric. Jill Stueck, a Covanta spokeswoman, said the company is cooperating with the suspension, and it does not seek out the waste that mortified commissioners. “No one is saying bring us fetal tissue,” Stueck said. Some of the fetal material came from the Canadian province of British Columbia, where regional health authorities have a contract with waste management firm Stericycle and send biomedical waste, such as fetal tissue, cancerous tissue and amputated limbs to the Oregon facility, said Kristy Anderson, a spokeswoman with the British Columbia Health Ministry. Stericycle, based in Lake Forest, Ill., has been criticized by anti-abortion groups for years because it disposes of aborted fetuses collected from family planning clinics. Company officials did not return phone calls seeking comment. Jeff Bickford, environmental ser vices division manager in Marion County, said the facility there has been taking material from British Columbia for five to seven years. He said clinical waste providers such as Stericycle bring in medical waste ranging from syringes and body parts to laborator y cultures and bodily fluids after hospitals and clinics place it into red bags and sealed containers. “So if someone loses an arm, loses a finger?” Carlson asked at the meeting. “That should go in and be burned,” Brentano replied. “As gross as that is.” — The Associated Press
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Mount Everest is shown at approximately 8,850 meters (29,035 feet) on May 18, 2003 in Nepal. GETTY IMAGES
Officials negotiate after avalanche KATMANDU, Nepal — With the Mount Everest climbing season increasingly in doubt, Nepalese tourism officials traveled to base camp yesterday to negotiate with Sherpas who want to walk off the job after an avalanche killed 16 of the mountain guides. Today’s avalanche — the worst ever recorded on Everest — has exposed an undercurrent of resentment by Sherpas over their pay, treatment and benefits. “The main objective of this trip is to attempt to avert the shutdown of the mountaineering season and convince the Sherpas not to cancel their climb,” said Keshav Pandey of the Trekking Agencies Association of Nepal, which was taking part in the meeting.
The negotiations will likely be tricky, however, because the Sherpas have no single leader and the motivations for their walkout range from honoring the dead to holding out for more substantial benefits. While it was unclear just how many of the 400 or so Sherpas on the mountain had joined the walkout, at least three major expedition companies have already canceled their climbs. Most attempts to reach Everest’s summit are made in mid-May, when a brief window normally offers better weather. Without the help of the Sherpas, the tiny Himalayan community that has become famous for its high-altitude skills and endurance, it would be nearly impossible for climbers to
scale Everest. Many climbers will have to forfeit most or all of the money they have spent to go up the mountain — $75,000 or more. Sherpas are key guides and also haul tons of gear up the mountain. Dave Hahn, who has scaled Everest more than a dozen times, said on Rainier Mountaineering’s website that he met with other climbing team leaders and guides before deciding to halt the climb. “Those meetings convinced us that the right course was to give up on Mount Everest for spring 2014,” Hahn wrote from base camp, adding that the risks outweighed the possibility of success. — The Associated Press
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U. group strives for safety of stray animals Lidia De Los Santos
$30 and $50 before it could be vaccinated or medicated, Goldblatt said. Kelly Skovron, a member of Stray cats are a growing population in New Brunswick that the executive board of Sammy’s not many are aware of. An or- Hope, said the stray cat populaganization at Rutgers aims to tion is out of control. Skovron, a School of Arts and raise awareness for stray animals and calls on animal lovers Sciences sophomore, said TNR to contribute to their cause by is the most humane way to control the population without havdoing the same. Sammy’s Hope at Rutgers is ing euthanization. Skovron stumbled upon the a branch of the larger nonprofit organization Edison Animal club last semester when she Shelter in Edison, New Jersey. was looking for an organizaSammy’s Hope is named af- tion to get involved with. Havter a pit bull-boxer mix at the ing a dog of her own helped shelter, Samson, who exhibited her choose an organization all of the qualities of “misun- that promoted animal welfare, derstood dogs,” according to she said. The goal is to fundraise and their website. The initial goal was to bring host events, and Sammy’s Hope hope to Sammy’s future, which is currently having a donation was soon extended to include oth- drive in the Livingston Student Center. Skovron said people er homeless animals. Gina Sesta, a School of Arts can donate items to the shelter like blanand Sciences kets, food and senior, volunpaper towels. teered at the To get Edison shelter “There was so much hands-on exa few years ago organization and planning perience, the and thought of to bring Sam- last semester, but with our members my’s Hope events and volunteering, it Sammy’s Hope carto campus. is starting to kick up now.” organize pools on a “Ever yweekly basis one misses so club memtheir pets back LINDSAY GOLDBLATT bers can volhome, so I School of Arts and Sciences Sophomore unteer at the knew it would Edison shelter, be something she said. people would be “I know a lot of people have a interested in,” she said. “And all of these animals at the shelter real- soft spot for animals, so I hope ly need care — they’re helpless. [Sammy’s Hope] will become The goal is to combine those two one of the bigger animal organithings and make people aware zations on campus,” Sesta said. “Hopefully it can bring bigger that they can help.” Lindsay Goldblatt, a School events and charity walks and of Ar ts and Sciences sopho- maybe we can bring some anmore, lived across the hall from imals here because ever yone Sesta when the pair realized would love that.” Through social media, the they shared a passion for aniorganization was able to get 110 mal welfare. “There was so much organiza- people on board with their mistion and planning last semester, sion to help fundraise and work but with our events and volunteer- toward animal welfare. The club does not make its ing, it is starting to kick up now,” members commit to a cer tain Goldblatt said. The group has two missions: amount of time, Sesta said. If fundraising for the shelter and fo- a member can volunteer one cusing on “Trap-Neuter-Release,” week and is unavailable for the next two, it is not a problem. she said. Sammy’s Hope has held two TNR is a process in which the organization traps feral cats and bake sales, a Valentine’s Day sends them to a veterinarian to candy sale and plans to collabobe neutered or spayed, receive rate with 16 Handles for a fundvaccinations and other neces- raiser in May, Skovron said. The organization has been sary treatments, Goldblatt said. After being treated, the cats are able to fundraise close to $900 released. The TNR process con- so far with $500 accumulated trols the stray cat population and from the website gofundme. keeps them from spreading dis- com, Goldblatt said. “Personally, even if I ease to one another. Depending on the prob- can help one cat this year, lems a cat comes with, treat- it still makes a dif ference,” ment would average between Goldblatt said. Contributing Writer
SINGING WITH STRINGS Max Rauch, a member of the band Lake Effect, sings and plays guitar at a performance held yesterday at Voorhees Mall on the College Avenue campus.
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ANACHRONIST FACELIFT Rutgers plans to push the College Avenue campus into the 21st century by giving it a facelift — who knows if we will even be able to recognize today’s campus in 2016. Among the campus’s new construction projects is the renovation of Bishop Quad, where its historic archways will be replaced with more modern-looking glass structures. Many community members are not happy with this decision and have created a petition to stop this project. As the nation’s eighth-oldest institution of higher education, Rutgers needs to maintain its historic feel — so this dart goes out to the University.
FEMINIST FIGHTERS Women Organizing Against Harassment held their annual Take Back the Night march this week from Douglass campus to College Avenue. The march is held to bring attention to the issues of street harassment and rape culture that blames women for acts of violence against them. We laurel students involved in WOAH and other participants of the march for continuing to raise awareness about sexual and gender-based violence.
STINGY STATE SUPPORT Rutgers’ budget is getting larger to accommodate all the recent improvements, but this means we’re probably going to be shelling out even more money in tuition and student fees next year. The proposed budget will be finalized and approved in July, but as usual, Rutgers is getting the short end of the stick when it comes to getting state funding. We dart the state government for not making more of an effort to work with Rutgers to provide us with much needed funding to keep costs affordable for us.
WASTE WATCHERS In a timely move, considering we just celebrated Earth Day, the Neilson Dining Hall eliminated food trays at the beginning of this week. The purpose is to discourage students from loading up trays with more food on their plates than they’re going to eat, which is one of the reasons so much food is wasted in the dining hall every day. We laurel this effort to create a healthier environment, and hopefully this will encourage us all to realize how much waste we can eliminate.
DISGRUNTLED GRADUATES One of the cuts Rutgers is making in its budget to accommodate for growing expenses is graduate funding. The University plans to change Teaching Assistant and Graduate Assistant positions into fellowships, which also means a significant decrease in salary — and many students are protesting the change. While this fellowship position will allow graduate students time to focus on their coursework, it still gets a dart because being a TA is extremely important for students who need to earn a living.
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Commentary shows problem with education discourse COMMENTARY LEO KOZACHKOV
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hen I wrote my commentary about liberal arts math education for The Daily Targum last week, I didn’t really expect it to get much attention — which is why I was overjoyed to find that Kellen Myers, a math Ph.D candidate at Rutgers, had taken time to write a nice, long post of his own in response. My joy quickly faded, as nowhere in Myers’ retort did he actually address the issue at hand — namely, what kind of math should be taught to mathematically uninterested liberal arts majors. Let’s look at his three central claims, then go on to talk about the real issue. His first claim: “The author (referring to me) seems to believe that he has dismantled [Math 103] as a hodgepodge of meaningless, pedantic, uninteresting topics. …” Not at all. Here is a direct quote from my original post: “I’m not saying these topics aren’t interesting — of course they are.” I don’t think I could have been clearer. Myers (perhaps intentionally) ignored this part of my post, built a straw man of my
argument, and then happily spent five paragraphs tearing it down. The discussion, to be clear, is not about whether the topics of Math 103 are interesting or relevant — the problem is how to get the essence of mathematics across to non-mathematicians. My contention was (and still is) that Euclid’s Elements does an incredible job of showing what math is about, rather than what math can be applied to — a better job than Math 103 is doing, for sure.
condescending request to “leave such determinations to the mathematicians.” I also thank Myers for informing me that “there is certainly more to math than just Euclid’s elements.” He’s apparently ignorant of the kinds of math used in physics (my field of study), which includes (but is not limited to) calculus, real and complex analysis, linear algebra, ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations, group theory and differential geometry.
“Yes, Euclid teaches math — but more importantly he teaches reason. He shows that you can start from first principles and derive almost 500 True propositions.” The second point he makes is that debates concerning the essence of mathematics should be left to the mathematicians. Well, if everyone were intellectually confined to his or her own narrow area of expertise, the Earth would be a very sad and pallid place. Furthermore, being a graduate student does not automatically place someone over the rest of us when speaking about mathematics. So I decline Myers’
Who exactly does Rutgers prepare and for what? Do math educators seriously believe that people are thinking about the mathematics of social choice theory when casting a ballot — deep and fertile as the subject may be? Is the goal to let students “do” math or is it just to convince them how useful and ‘widely applicable’ math is? So in closing, despite Myers’ confused (yet passionate) defense of applied math-
ematics, the question remains standing: What math is appropriate to teach liberal arts majors and why? I still believe Euclid’s Elements is the right choice. Why? Let’s consult ol’ Abraham Lincoln, and see what he had to say: “You never can make a lawyer if you do not understand what ‘demonstrate’ means; and I left my situation in Springfield, went home to my father’s house, and stayed there till I could give any proposition in the six books of Euclid at sight.” This is right on the money, Abe. Yes, Euclid teaches math — but more importantly, he teaches reason. He shows that you can start from first principles and derive almost 500 True propositions. Using nothing but that gelatinous, pulsating organ under your forehead, you can find Truth in this world. And if your demonstration is airtight, the jur y will always vote in your favor. That is the meaning of “truth with a capital T” — a meaning which, unfortunately, Myers seems unwilling to grasp. Leo Kozachkov is a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore majoring in physics. He is a staf f writer for Applied Sentience, a Rutgers humanist blog.
Producing smart guns will not replace smart people COMMENTARY SABRI RAFI
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n order to help mitigate the never-ending debate of gun control, manufactures have created the seemingly efficient way to keep firearms in the hands of their rightful owners. By installing a specialized chip inside of the gun that will only activate the weapon when the owner is in proximity, it figures to reduce the number of violent altercations that occur, including suicides and accidental shootings. The chip communicates with a certain type of watch that the user must have on to give the signal that it is okay to fire the gun. In essence, all this new technology really does is put an Elmo Band-Aid on an already-leaky faucet. Let’s start with the facts. The Second Amendment of the United States gives the citizens the right to bear arms. There is no question of the semantics or intentions of founders decreeing the amendment to be only used during a wartime scenario. Even if this case was legitimate, the traditional American beliefs about firearms have been re-enforced through decades of ideological resilience to change their paternal practices. Want to remove all guns from existence? You must first undergo a constitutional amendment that revokes this sacrilegious right. In this day and age, such a change would be unheard of, and it would be an unrealistic measure to pursue.
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The main issues with this new technology that leave a myriad of doubts in my mind are how this manages to reduce the accessibility of weapons to those who intend to use it for wrongful purposes. I may be wrong, but criminals generally do not tend to use the most legal means when obtaining their firearm of choice. Those who would be willing enough to circumvent the law would find practically no change in their methods of acquiring such weapons. Pro-gun advocates would argue that by having this watch-activated mechanism, it
cur that would be akin to Newtown and other horrific events. Measures such as re-instating the Federal Assault Weapons Ban could be part of the solution to this complex dilemma. But it may prove to be more efficient to resort to a system where specific requirements of gun control are decided at a state level — most of which would include more comprehensive background checks to prevent those with unstable medical health concerns or other concerning backgrounds from accessing dangerous firearms. Keeping
“We must simply acknowledge that guns have and will continue to be apart of our current American tradition, and there must be a pragmatic balance that exists between the use of firearms and our safety.” would put individuals in harm’s way if an emergency situation presented itself and the watch was not present on the owner — which in all seriousness is a very realistic and legitimate concern to have. Nonetheless, I would strongly advocate that for those who feel in their particular family situation, a smart gun would be necessary to reduce accidental/suicide-related violence, it would be a decent piece of technology to have. Having said this, I would be in favor of reforms on gun control to prevent further mass shootings that could oc-
a well-documented registration informational center of those with firearms and instituting gun-free zones across certain areas may be part of the solution, but again, this should be decided at a state level. I believe it is harder for citizens of New Jersey to see the necessity of having guns because of the culture that we have grown accustomed to, where the use of firearms is not as glorified necessary. This is not the case is several states throughout America however, and to neglect the weight that it carries within those states would be self-
ish and closed-minded. Common statistics that are always thrown in my direction are about how the United States gun violence rates are considerably higher than that of Europe, specifically that of England. But delving deeper into those statistics, you can see instead that while England does not have a gun violence problem because of its gun control laws, it does indeed have a knife violence problem. While I’m sure that a gun violence epidemic is considered much worse because of the ability of guns to cause mass casualties, it once again strengths the fact that the crime will always be apparent. That does not mean we simply let crime run rampant without trying our best to regulate it for the safety of our society. It is true that if there were no guns in existence, there would be no such thing as gun violence. The same can be said about water and drowning, however. Of course we will need water, and again, until a constitutional amendment is made, looks like we will be living with guns too. We must simply acknowledge that guns have and will continue to be apart of our current American tradition, and there must be a pragmatic balance that exists between the use of firearms and our safety. We should not hesitate to impede on that right, however, if it proposes a safety to the general wellbeing of society, just as we would for any other right in the Constitution. Sabri Rafi is a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore.
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“I think students will have to either use Neilson Dining Hall more, order out or cook more. Unfortunately with rumors of The Fresh Grocer closing, most students on Cook do not have access to food stores unless they have a car.”
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- Peter Canavan, president of the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, on increasingly limited options for students to have a meal on Cook Campus. See story on FRONT.
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Today’s Birthday (04/25/14). Saturn blesses your career and finances this year (becoming obvious after 5/20). Keep organized to minimize risk. Review and revise plans and budgets. Study, travel and explore this spring. Communication opens doors and strengthens partnerships. Get creative after August to increase comfort, fun and efficiency at home. October revelations lead to new opportunities. Take a spiritual or philosophical view. Play together, and share passion. To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging. Aries ( March 21-April 19) — Today is a 6 — You’re rewarded for sticking to the rules. Work benefits from structure. The money’s available. Focus attention on home and family, and talk your plans over with a trusted coach. Rely on an experienced player. Hold yourself to high standards. Follow your heart. Taurus ( April 20-May 20) — Today is a 6 — Creative work leads to unexpected benefits. Rely on a friend’s experience, and learn from their mistakes. Ask tough questions. Make peace with what’s so. You can get what’s needed. Find beauty in your own back yard. Add to it by tending your garden. Invite someone over. Gemini ( May 21-June 20) — Today is a 6 — Set long-range goals. Work you really like pays the best. Friends offer good advice. Evaluate the potential carefully. Disciplined efforts at home and work bear fruit. Seek harmony and express love, through both actions and words. Get organized, and involve your network. Cancer ( June 21-July 22) — Today is a 6 — Relaxation helps you deal with workplace complications. Don’t worry about the money (or spend extravagantly, but a little treat is fine). Study options, and send out for whatever you need. You’re extra attractive. A romantic adventure tempts. Get delivery service and work from home. Leo ( July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 6 — Disciplined efforts achieve your goals. Follow your schedule and take care with details. There’s no magic involved. Your partner provides needed resources. Quality old is better than cheap new. Payback brings lovely rewards. Good news comes from far away. Share a celebratory meal. Virgo ( Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 6 — Share a pleasant surprise with a partner. It’s better with expert assistance, focused efforts and coordination. A friend helps you keep your word for a beneficial outcome. Push your own boundaries. Romance enters the picture unbidden. Sing out, at least in the shower.
Libra ( Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 6 — There’s money coming in, yet your frugality impresses someone important. Your reputation precedes you. Make time available to consider a collaboration. Handle basic needs first, then go for the prize. Poll your friends and relations, and get a partner involved. It could get harmonious. Scorpio ( Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 5 — Creative planning resolves a practical issue. Family and fun take priority. It’s a good time to ask for money. Do more than requested. An older person shows you how. Practice your technique. Do what you did before that worked. Rely on an old friend. Sagittarius ( Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 6 — Money talks (or at least whispers). A secret tip leads to profits. Offer encouragement, and emphasize the fun side. Your fame travels far and wide, and you can get what you need. Words get farther than actions now. Handle basic practicalities first. Capricorn ( Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 6 — You’re making a good impression. Adapt the rules for workability. A female brings beauty into your home. Keep your promises, and do the shopping. Friends help find the best deal. Provide well for your family and replenish your reserves. Make a decision you can live with. Aquarius ( Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 5 — There’s plenty of work, and others count on you. Invest in something that makes the job easier. Update your appearance with a new cut or style. Let friends know what you need, and replenish supplies. Someone in your network has a solution. Share your love and appreciation. Pisces ( Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 6 — Love gives you strength and inspiration. Creative efforts bear fruit, and a lucky break opens new doors. Accept a challenge if it pays well. Invest in your business to ensure you have needed supplies. Satisfy an obligation to your associates. A partner appreciates your efforts.
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fate Last three meetings between Temple, RU were all decided by one goal continued from back
The Owls play a similar style as the Knights that includes strong de“We’ve all been in this position fense and patient offensive attacks. Temple averages 9.27 goals per before with the season coming down to the last game,” said senior attack- game, due in large part to attacker er Katrina Martinelli. “Everyone Jaymie Tabor and midfielder Nicole has to realize that what you do af- Tiernan. Tabor is averaging 2.38 fects the whole team and when one goals per game, which ranks fourth person hangs their head after a bad in the Big East. Her skills, along with Templay, everyone hangs their head.” Maintaining a level head has ple’s overall speed, are areas that been a top priority, according to the Knights are focused on shutting down. the players. “They’re faster than us in tranIn previous games, the Knights have been discouraged when the sition, so we’re trying to adjust and prepare our ride opposing team to avoid giving takes momen“Everything is on the line up any fast break tum. Sticking Brandwith the game for Friday, so if they don’t goals,” Sias said. plan set for have their own intrinsic How effectivethem will be a ly Rutgers starts key factor in tomotivation there’s not tonight will factor night’s contest. much we can do.” into the outcome. Temple is in In past games a similar situaLaura Brand-SIAS when the Knights tion with RutHead Coach have started gers as both are out slowly, they fighting for the have seemingly last playoff spot. In both teams’ last three match- abandoned their game plan and ups over the past three seasons, each allowed their opponent to jump on them early. game has been decided by one goal. Brand-Sias has attempted to mo“We always have a tough game against Temple,” said senior defend- tivate her team as much as she can er Chelsea Intrabartola. “We are pret- for the season finale, but she has ty evenly matched, so it will be big for stated that ultimately the game will us to play a complete game and really come down to her players. “It’s not any other game,” Brandleave it all on the field Friday.” The Knights have focused on Sias said. “Everything is on the the defensive details this week line for Friday, so if they don’t have their own intrinsic motivation there in practice. “We’re trying to fine-tune things is not much [the coaching staff] on the defensive end with our com- can do. Everybody knows what the munication and crashing the ball situation is and Temple is going to when it’s received on the inside of come out firing, and we are ready our defense,” said head coach Lau- for a battle.” ra Brand-Sias. “Our draw control For updates on the Rutgers needs work also, it was a huge factor in the Louisville game and it needs women’s lacrosse team, follow @TargumSports on Twitter. to improve against Temple.”
Senior attacker Katrina Martinelli said Rutgers must maintain its composure, and that one player’s actions can affect the whole team. EDWIN GANO / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Sophomore shortstop Melanie Slowinski went 2-for-3 with a three-run home run against St. John’s. RU is averaging 8.25 runs in its last four games. DENNIS ZURAW / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
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Rutgers averaged 8.25 runs per game, scored in double figures in past four games continued from back their feet on the doormat of the AAC and continue to propel themselves up the standings. Rutgers seems to be clicking on all cylinders at the right time. With the 13-3 mercy win over St. John’s in five innings Wednesday, the Knights have now won three of their last four. Throughout those past four games, Rutgers has averaged 8.25 runs per game and struck double-digits twice, putting up 14 in Game 2 against Memphis and then 13 against St. John’s. Sophomore shortstop Melanie Slowinski, who was 2-for-3 with a three-run home run, thinks that the lineup’s recent production is promising as the season winds down.
“It’s good to build our confidence,” Slowinski said. “Winning that much is just great for our offense and it builds our confidence for [teams like] Houston and for the conference and everything like that. It’s a huge plus.” Rutgers enters the series leading the conference with a team batting average of .306. That number, with the recent offensive firepower that the Knights have displayed, could foreshadow three long games for the Huskies. Collectively, UConn pitchers boast a 5.45 team ERA along with 153 strikeouts to 142 walks in 266 total innings of work. In the box, the Huskies do not pose much of a threat on paper, either. As a team, UConn is last in the AAC with a .243 batting average and .307 onbase percentage. Those conference-low numbers could mean some more dominant performances from Rutgers pitchers Alyssa Landrith and Shayla Sweeney. Sweeney (7-8) is coming off of her second consecutive solid
start. In her past two starts in the circle, Sweeney has gone nine innings, striking out five and surrendering two earned runs on six hits. With the constant success from the pitching, the hitting and the defense, senior right fielder Loren Williams stressed what a sweep would mean for the Knights. “I think it’s really important. I mean, wins are always good, but I think it gives us just a lot of momentum going into this weekend,” Williams said. “Hopefully we’ll be able to keep that momentum going through the last game and actually get the sweep.” Slowinski described the recipe for it as simply a continuation of what they have been doing on the diamond. “It would help us greatly to get a sweep,” Slowinski said. “We need to come and just do work, basically, and just keep working in practice.” For updates on Rutgers softball team, @TargumSports on Twitter.
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April 25, 2014 MEN’S GOLF AAC CHAMPIONSHIP BEGINS SUNDAY
Knights seek first victory of season at AAC Championship Daniel LoGiudice Staff Writer
With the spring season coming to an end, the Rutgers men’s golf team looks to earn its first tournament win this weekend. The Scarlet Knights will compete in the three-round AAC Championship Sunday through Tuesday at the Hammock Beach Ocean Course in Palm Harbor, Fla. Head coach Rob Shutte is still undecided on whom he will bring
to the tournament, but hinted that seniors Jonathan Renza and Doug Walters and sophomore Jonathan Chang will be there. The final two rotation spots will most likely be underclassmen. The course is notorious for its numerous trees and water surrounding the fairways. Renza has experience playing there at the 2011 Big East Tournament. “It’s not a typical Florida course, there are a lot of trees and you have to focus on hitting
the fairways,” Renza said. “You have to take the smart shot every hole.” Rutgers will face some stiff competition. The AAC is the second-ranked golf conference in the nation and has two teams, Houston and Central Florida, in the top 10. Despite the high level of talent, Shutte believes his team can compete with the best. “We have an unbelievable conference and going in, nobody ex-
pects much from us,” Shutte said. “I think the rankings can be misleading and I think if we play how we are capable of, we’re going to surprise a lot of people.” The Knights are coming off a strong performance at the Rutherford Intercollegiate where they tied for third. Chang and Renza both finished in the top-five with respective scores of 211 (68-7271) and 214 (69-66-79). Shutte believes the momentum from last weekend makes
Head coach Rob Shutte said senior Doug Walters looked great in practice and is likely to be in RU’s rotation this weekend at the AAC Championship after recovering from a dislocated shoulder. THE DAILY TARGUM / FILE PHOTO / SEPTEMBER 2012
his golfers confident in their abilities and can aid them in a strong performance. “Renza’s and Chang’s confidence should be at an all-time high,” Shutte said. “We’re as good as we’ve been all year.” The return of Walters from a dislocated shoulder is welcomed. The senior should add more experience to the roster, something that has been missing the past few tournaments. “A couple of days ago I would have been a little nervous about Doug, but he looked great in practice,” Shutte said. “I’m happy to have him back.” Despite the return of Walters, Rutgers will still depend on underclassmen to put up strong performances. For a team that has consistently brought numerous freshmen to tournaments, this comes as no surprise. Heightened stakes of conference play aside, Shutte feels his underclassmen are up to the task. “They certainly have experience from playing a lot this season,” Shutte said. “I don’t think they’ll be affected by the pressure any more than a junior or senior would.” With the season on the line, the Knights do not seem very perturbed. The mood around practice is relaxed and the golfers do not seem to mind the added pressure. “I’m trying not to put too much pressure on myself and I’m excited to play,” Chang said. “Bottom line, it comes down to winning and we know that we’re not too far off.” For updates on the Rutgers men’s golf team, follow @TargumSports on Twitter.
LOSS Against Wagner, RU pitchers combined to forfeit 10 earned runs on 20 hits continued from back former head coach Fred Hill’s way of fundamentally-sound baseball is still alive. It is a way of baseball that is exactly how head coach Joe Litterio wants it, even if it means not winning by large margins. “We are playing this type of baseball — which is not a bad thing — where we are not blowing anyone out like we did offensively early on,” Litterio said. “It’s just a matter of keeping it close and being backed by some good pitching.” In the loss against Wagner, Rutgers did not benefit from its pitchers’ performances. The Knights allowed 10 runs on 20 hits. While three of the five pitchers for Rutgers in the game against the Seahawks were true freshmen, who Litterio ultimately used to gain valuable experience moving forward and preser ve the staf f for this weekend’s series, there can be no excuse for a veteran lineup. Timely hitting was not on display against Wagner. Junior outfielder Joe D’Annunzio
said the Knights missed a few chances of fensively. “We swung it pretty well — we had 13 hits and 7 runs,” D’Annunzio said. “But, we had other oppor tunities where we could have put some across to give our pitching staf f a little bit more of a lead and a little more cushion, but we didn’t do that.” It is hard to ask for much more than 13 hits and seven runs from the Knights’ hitters, but Litterio expects the most from Rutgers, as the goal is to win ever y time they step on the diamond. But that is the expectation the skipper set and the midweek games offer an opportunity to increase a chance to attain those expectations going against the No. 1 team in the AAC. “[These midweek games] give me a chance to play a couple different ways,” Litterio said. “We want to win and we are looking to win.” For updates on the Rutgers baseball team, follow Tyler Karalewich on Twitter @TylerKaralewich. For general Rutgers sports updates, follow @TargumSports.
Junior outfielder Joe D’Annunzio said that Rutgers failed to convert on opportunities late in the game against Wagner and did not support the pitching staff. TIAN LI / ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR
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April 25, 2014 KNIGHT NOTEBOOK THOMAS SAYS TEAMMATES WERE SPLIT 50-50 ON WELCOMING HIS RETURN
Sophomore cornerback Ian Thomas, left, spoke to the media yesterday for the first time since he quit the team Oct. 15. Thomas unexpectedly rejoined the Knights on a conditional basis Jan. 16, but controversy still lingers surrounding his motives for originally leaving the team and then coming back. NOAH WHITTENBURG
Thomas offers little insight into his surprising return to RU Greg Johnson
from the third-year sophomore, who received no further questioning on off-the-field issues. A Media members waited all Rutgers Athletic Communications spring to hear from him, but official requested reporters stick when the time finally came, a to football questions or the interstandoffish Ian Thomas left more view would end. Flood said players have “welquestions than answers regarding his return to the Rutgers foot- comed him back as part of the family,” but gave no promises that ball team. The sophomore cornerback, Thomas’ conditional basis terms who left the program Oct. 15 to would be lifted. “All that stuff gets decided pursue what head coach Kyle Flood called a baseball career at after spring,” Flood said. “We’ll another school, rejoined the team have a checkout procedure as a team Monday and Tuesday Jan. 16 on a conditional basis. following the Thomas spring game told nj.com in “I understand things before the November he coaches go left because of happen in life. You have on the road homesickness decisions you have to recruiting from Baltifull-time. more, though make. ... I have no We’ll sort he continued problems with that.” through all to take classthose things.” es at Rutgers kevin snyder Thomas after Flood Senior Linebacker said teamgranted his mates extransfer. But pressed a the head coach insisted baseball came up in dis- “50/50” split on accepting him cussions with Thomas and his fa- back into the program. Junior linebacker Kevin Snyther before his departure. Speaking publicly yesterday der admitted the Knights’ pressfor the first time since leaving ing need for help in the secondary the team, Thomas gave little in- — Thomas was one of Rutgers’ sight on the controversy, saying better cover corners through six he and Flood have not talked out games last year, recording an interception — might have made it their differences. But the bigger question re- a little easier on some, but said he mained: Why did he decide to thought little of it. “I took him back open come back? “I felt like it was the right thing arms,” Snyder said. “I underto do,” Thomas said after the Scar- stand things happen in life. let Knights’ concluded their final You have decisions you have spring practice before tomorrow’s to make, and obviously he thought he made the wrong deannual Scarlet-White game. That was just one of a series cision and he came back. I have of brief, uninformative responses no problems with that, and I Sports Editor
haven’t seen anybody else have any problems.” Thomas was listed as a backup corner in Rutgers’ pre-spring depth chart, though the natural ball skills he showed last year as an opening-day starter would seem to give him an edge in regaining one of the spots. Like other Knights, the 6-foot1, 200-pounder has noticed a distinct change in the way new defensive coordinator Joe Rossi is operating the unit. “Intensity, guys buying into the system and believing what Rossi is coaching,” Thomas said are differences from last year. “Intensity level is definitely up there for me. He’s a rowdy type of guy and he really loves his guys that play for him, and he wants to get the most out of them.” Thomas has shown a penchant for being physical with receivers this spring, yet he insists it wasn’t a point of emphasis to win back trust. “Being physical has always been one of my weaknesses, back in high school and college, and I knew that,” Thomas said. “I’ve been working on it, but I cover people for a living.” *** Junior Jamil Pollard, who was thought to have a career-ending injury last September, also spoke for the first time this spring. Flood announced yesterday that the 6-foot-3, 280-pound defensive tackle will switch to of fensive guard in an ef for t to build more depth on the of fensive line. Pollard said he asked Flood for the move two weeks ago to get a feel for taking on
Redshirt freshman quarterback Chris Laviano said he feels ready to put together a successful spring game tomorrow. NOAH WHITTENBURG
pass blocks before August training camp. The West Deptford, N.J., native says he is in a “better place” after talking over a return to football with peers. “I’ve never been so happy in my life. I missed these guys, I missed this team,” Pollard said. “I feel like football’s been renewed in my body, my mind — everything. It feels so great to be back.” *** Tomorrow’s spring game marks the last chance for redshirt freshman Chris Laviano to make an impression in Rutgers’ quarterback competition before training camp. The former 3-star recruit, who felt he “didn’t know anything”
about the offense coming in, received first-team reps for the first time this spring. It has shown in the form of inconsistencies making sharp reads in practice. But Laviano, viewed as arguably the biggest threat to senior Gary Nova from a talent standpoint, said he is beginning to develop a firm grasp of offensive coordinator Ralph Friedgen’s playbook. “Toward the end I think I’m finally being able to play my game and just put everything together,” Laviano said. “I’m comfortable out there and just making good decisions and just playing.” For updates on the Rutgers football team, follow Greg Johnson on Twitter @GregJohnsonRU. For general Rutgers sports updates, follow @TargumSports.
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Quote of the Day “Everything is on the line for Friday, so if they don’t have their own instrinsic motivation there is not much [the coaching staff] can do.” — Rutgers head women’s lacrosse Laura Brand-Sias on tonight’s pivotal matchup
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Rutgers faces top AAC team following loss Tyler Karalewich Associate Sports Editor
Senior defender Chelsea Intrabartola said the team will need to be sharp for the entire game against Temple if the Knights have any hope of topping the evenly-matched Owls tonight at High Point Solutions Stadium. TIANFANG YU / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Playoff fate hinges on outcome Conor Nordland
There are a number of possibilities to decide what team will claim the fourth and final seed for the Big East Tournament. For the Knights, even if they defeat Temple tonight, they will need help to make their way into the playoffs. Villanova (8-7, 3-3) is also vying for the final playoff spot, and it faces Connecticut tomorrow. If UConn defeats the Wildcats, then Rutgers would clinch the four seed based on an advantage in goal differential. This is the de-
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The whole season for the Rutgers women’s lacrosse team will be on the line tonight at High Point Solutions Stadium. After an up-and-down season that has resulted in an 8-8 overall record and a 2-4 record in the Big East, the Scarlet Knights’ postseason fate will be decided in their regular-season finale against Temple (6-9, 3-3).
ciding factor in the occurrence of a three-way tie with Temple after Saturday’s contest. Even with the stakes high tonight, the Knights are focusing on what they can control despite all the implications around them. They have been in this spot in the standings before, but have ended on the wrong side of the playoff picture in previous seasons.
Midweek games are supposed to provide easier challenges than the weekend series. With matchups against lower-caliber, out-of-conference teams, the meetings in the middle of the week also of fer an oppor tunity to rest some significant members of the pitching staf f and mix up the lineups. Most importantly, the midweek games can provide momentum entering the conference weekend series. For this weekend, the Rutgers baseball team can use all the momentum it can muster as it faces the AAC top team in Central Florida (25-16, 12-3). The Scarlet Knights have some confidence despite a minor setback coming in the form of Wednesday’s 10-7 loss against Wagner. Including the loss to the Seahawks, Rutgers (19-19, 6-5) has won eight out of its last 11 games. That sort of winning trend alleviates the pressure going into a vital series against UCF, said junior catcher Mike Zavalla. “Obviously, we are rolling right now,” Favalla said after Tuesday’s win against Rider. “We have a big weekend series coming up, and we have to stay focused. We have to keep winning and keep playing hard.” But the Knights are not exactly blowing anyone away with the type of baseball they are playing. Eight out of their last 10 wins have been by four or fewer runs, proving that their bullpen and pitching staff have kept it close, their offensive output has been timely and See LOSS on Page 14
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RU seeks sweep to maintain title hopes Garrett Stepien
The Scarlet Knights (22-16, 5-7) — while it would take a near miracle to catch Central Florida (33-15, 9-3) at the top of the conference standings — are still mathematically alive to win the AAC regular season title. “It’s still mathematically possible for us to win the conference. If we win all six games and the losses fall the right way, we can win the conference and we can get the number
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Jay Nelson has been clear with what he wants to see game in and game out from his team. The eighth-year Rutgers head softball coach has continuously talked about how he wants to see improvement as the season progresses.
one seed,” Nelson said. “As long as we’re still mathematically in it, that’s what we’re looking to do. That’s our goal.” With Connecticut (12-31, 3-11) coming to the RU Softball Complex for a threegame series starting tomorrow at noon, the Knights have a legitimate chance to wipe See HOPES on Page 13
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Head coach Joe Litterio said winning games by slim edges is not a bad thing. TIAN LI / ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR
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