The Daily Targum 2010-04-30

THE DAILY TARGUM

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Senior attack Brooke Cantwell, leader in every major offensive statistical category, and the Knights fight for a postseason berth this weekend with a pair of games.

McCormick joins 16 college presidents to object budget

BY GREG FLYNN CORRESPONDENT

University President Richard L. McCormick was one of 17 public college and university presidents who headed to Trenton yesterday to object to funding cuts and caps on tuition hikes.

In his opening remarks at a hearing in front of the state Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee in the state house annex, McCormick said the state’s continual reduction in aid to higher education hinders the public colleges and universities, which contribute to the economy of the state.

“The results will be more of what we have seen in recent years, fewer courses for our students, lost opportunities to recruit faculty for our programs in areas where our economy has needs and more deferred maintenance for our many older facilities,” McCormick said.

Gov. Chris Christie’s proposed $173 million budget cut to higher education will maintain the trend, he said.

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University President Richard L. McCormick and 16 other college presidents oppose the proposed budget yesterday in Trenton.

McCormick also discusses the possible merger with Thomas Edison State College, which the college is against.

Honors dean to relocate in July

BY ALEKSI TZATZEV OPINIONS EDITOR

After four years as head of the School of Arts and Sciences Honors Program, Dean Sarolta Takács decided to move on to helping another institution of higher learning.

Takács will become the executive dean of The Sage College of Albany, leaving her position to the current College Avenue campus Dean Matt Matsuda.

“I was offered a position that allows me to be in charge of practically everything,” Takács said. “I was thinking, ‘What else can I learn?’ because I love what I do and I like being an administrator, so when this opportunity came along, I realized I could learn more things [and] be involved differently.”

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Takács took the position at the University in 2006 after teaching at Har vard University.

During her time here, Takács facilitated the merger of the four colleges into the School of Arts and Sciences, establishing the school’s honors program.

“The exciting thing, in a sense, was to recruit students for a program that they had never heard of, and at that point had not existed,” she said. “What I had to do was have the faculty decide on the current academic requirements, and I had to build the whole administrative structure for it.”

The bests part of her career at the University were the students and giving them the opportunity to get involved in an array of fields outside the classroom and beyond, Takács said.

“It’s a state university, yet here you have the feel of a small college,” she said. “The students are unbelievably energetic, interesting, engaged, opinionated, and I wanted to get them involved in cocurricular activities and ever ything that, I think, is part of higher education, ever ything I believe will make them engaged citizens.”

Takács, whose area of expertise is classics, said all her research work on the Roman Empire actually deals with periods of transition.

She said these periods give great opportunity, so transitioning Matsuda to dean of the honors program will be a smooth.

“I really think the program is in a very good shape, it has a strong foundation, and he has always thought of

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MULTIMEDIA Students explore Middle Eastern culture yesterday at the Arab Street Festival. See the website for footage.

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The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey may no longer exist as a separate entity, after a previously proposed plan resurfaced this week to dismantle the university.

The plan, first proposed in 2003, would split UMDNJ into three segments, with Rutgers University, the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rowan University taking over the school system, according to an nj.com article.

University President Richard L. McCormick and NJIT President Robert Altenkirch held private discussions this week about the re-emerged proposal.

“We didn’t have a heavy-duty game plan,” McCormick said in the article. “It’s just been a very general discussion. I imagine these conversations will continue.”

UMDNJ issued a statement to show their opposition for the proposal, saying they were not asked to participate in the discussions.

“There is no value in any plans to dismantle the university,” according to a statement released by UMDNJ in the article. “As an academic medical center, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey brings enormous strength and unique value to the residents of New Jersey.”

Sen. Ron Rice, D-Essex, is completely opposed to the move to break apart UMDNJ, saying it is a power grab by the University.

“Rutgers has always been orchestrating to become the monster institution of the state,” he said in the article. “If anything, the president of Rutgers should be worried about his budget and the football field and all the other things he’s wasting money on.”

— Devin Sikorski

Student vote turnout reaches thousands at RUSA election

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About 100 students watch as the International Space Station passes over the University yesterday on the Engineering Lawn on Busch campus. The ISS is the second largest object orbiting the earth, next to the moon.

A record number of students voted in the Rutgers University Student Assembly elections Tuesday, providing a new future for student government at the University.

The voter turnout for the RUSA elections this year was nearly 2,200, which equals around 10 percent of the student body.

RUSA Elections Committee Chair Ben West said he was amazed by the turnout, but it did not come without strong efforts by everyone involved.

“It took a lot of hard work to make the RUSA elections so successful,” said West, a Rutgers College senior. “I think all of our efforts and really strong campaigning of each of the candidates led to the highest turn out of any RUSA elections.”

He said it took long days and nights to make sure the voter turnout was successful, including tabling throughout Election Day. “On [Livingston campus] alone, in the course of three or four hours we were able to get 80 additional voters at the Livingston Student Center,” he said.

West also said some of the votes came from students studying abroad, which exemplifies the outreach they were trying to accomplish through the week of campaigning.

“I saw that we were getting voters from China, Japan, France and Italy,” he said. “So, I think we were really able to create a buzz about this in the Rutgers community for people who aren’t even here right now.”

RUSA Chair Werner Born said the voter turnout showed how RUSA needed the input of the University student body.

“Certainly, to get over 2,000 votes is awesome and to just be able to have a direct election is a great step for RUSA in general,” said Born, a School of Engineering senior. “One of the first steps was to increase the amount of people that come out to vote and we definitely did that.”

He said despite only having a short timeframe to obtain votes from the students, the turnout shows that external elections work for student government.

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Community center reopens with student touches

BY LIV REN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Balloons, music and ice cream greeted the crowd of Silvers Apartment residents on Busch campus Wednesday evening as they celebrated the grand re-opening of the Silvers Community Center.

The two-year renovation project allowed University students to get involved in planning, designing and decorating the building to meet their academic, social and aesthetic needs.

Before any plans to redesign, students living in the apartments did not feel a sense of communal belonging because of the architectural design of the apartment buildings, said Nathanael Okpych, Silvers Hall director.

With eight separate buildings spread over four acres of land and a total of 20 separate stairwells that each had their own swipe card access, the setup made it difficult for students to meet and interact with one another.

This feeling of isolation and dissatisfaction with the programs offered further prevented residents from attending activities held in the residence hall, said Jeffrey Broggi, assistant director of Residence Life on Busch campus.

“There needed to be a better use of community space,” Broggi said. “Before, there was little

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The Silvers Community Center on Busch campus reopened Wednesday night concluding its two-year renovation process. Administrators gave students the freedom to redecorate the facility. involvement in the [Silvers Apartments] community, but student involvement changed when we gave them a space that met their needs.”

The Silvers Residence Hall Association first recognized the problem in 2008 and decided to initiate reform by engaging in door-to-door polling, paper questionnaires and conversations with students during events that focused on the students’ needs and input, Okpych said.

The general consensus was the community center had an unattractive appearance, the recreational

equipment was a poor use of space and many residents said they wanted a community center that could be utilized as an appealing area mostly for studying, he said.

“The RHA demonstrated … that the size of the programming space was insufficient because at some programs, residents stood on lines leading outside of the center because there was not enough sitting and standing room inside,” Okpych said.

To improve this situation, the Silvers RHA needed to address the top administrators of Residence Life, Housing and

Facilities Business and Administration in order to advocate on behalf of the interests of the Silvers residents. “[Three executive members of Silvers RHA] made a PowerPoint presentation about the problems of space and appearance in the community center, the need for a solution, and residents’ expressed interest in this matter, creating a well-planned argument for the construction of a new community center,” Okpych said.

Though the budget could not provide for constructing a new community center, the executive direc-

tors agreed to provide support and funding to improve the existing community center, he said.

The new design maximized the space by removing the bulky, old furniture and equipment and created a comfortable atmosphere geared toward studying with new furniture and a flatscreen television, Okpych said.

The Silvers RHA also requested to redecorate the space themselves, Okpych said. This process allowed for more student involvement.

Their efforts produced a community space that infused the University’s history with handframed black-and-white photographs of important University events on the walls.

The future of the community center does not end with this renovation though. Okpych said the residents and the Silvers RHA hope to implement more plans in the future.

“The ultimate plan is to construct a larger community center to accommodate the 620 [Silvers Apartments] residents with a coffeehouse like those on Livingston,” he said.

These changes did not go unnoticed as the residents took in their new community space.

“Now it looks more like a place for the community,” said Celeste Morrison, a School of Engineering junior. “There are decorations. It doesn’t look like a jailhouse like before, and it’s just nicer.”

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“We only had a 24-hour voting period, but I think having a direct election is largely the reason we saw such a huge increase with people voting,” he said. “I think it is going to be a trend that continues.”

Yousef Saleh, the new president as of last night and previous vice chair of RUSA, said it was by far the largest election RUSA ever had. But he wishes more voters could have come out to support his candidacy.

“Events that happened throughout the week didn’t allow me to promote myself as much as I wanted to, but I am glad we were able to get a large portion of the student body,” said Saleh, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “I hope that next year’s RUSA election is even more competitive than this one.”

John Aspray, who lost in his run for president on the Rutgers United ticket, agreed with Saleh that the voter turnout could have been larger.

“It was almost 10 percent, but I think we can do better,” said Aspray, a School of Arts and Sciences junior.

“It is a good start though.”

He also said the voter turnout was in part because of the external elections but also a result of the hard work that his Rutgers United ticket put into the campaign.

“We called people reminding them to vote and we followed through with it,” he said. “We ran it like a serious election.”

Although the external elections proved to be successful in voter turnout, the end results did not turn out well for two of the RUSA candidates.

West said School of Environmental and Biological Sciences sophomore Sam Firmin and School of Engineering sophomore Ross Kleiman, who ran on the same ticket, were expelled from the election after the Appeals Committee concluded yesterday they broke certain election guidelines.

Aspray said there are three rules a candidate cannot break, and both Firmin and Kleiman broke two of these rules.

“Ross Kleiman was expelled for asking for votes in his dorm on Election Day and thought he wouldn’t get caught for it. He knowingly and deliberately broke the rules,” he said. “I wish that wouldn’t have been the case, but that’s what he did.”

Firmin also broke a rule stating no candidate could go into dormitories and post flyers, Aspray said.

West said although the two candidates lost in the election, they still could have been part of RUSA if they did not break the rules.

“It’s just that if they hadn’t broken the rules, they would have at least had an ex-officio position,” West said. “They made the decision to break some rules and with those kind of decisions, there comes consequences that you have to live with.”

RUSA Appeals Committee CoChair Josh Slavin said it was a tough decision, but they ultimately had to expel both Firmin and Kleiman for their actions.

“We weren’t happy to do it but because of multiple infractions, the Appeals Committee had to remove them from the elections,” said Slavin, a Livingston College senior. “But we still want them to be a part of student government and come back as soon as they can. It’s a learning experience.”

Senate Budget Committee Chairman Paul Sarlo, DBergen, asked about a recent repor t concer ning ongoing conversations between McCormick and New Jersey Institute of Technology President Rober t Altenkirch about plans — proposed and shelved in 2003 — to divide the University of Medicine and Dentistr y of New Jersey among the University, NJIT and Rowan University.

“The conversations in progress have been ongoing for eight years,” McCormick said.

Senator M. Teresa Ruiz, DEssex, said she found the repor t alarming, as the conversations transpired with little input from the relevant communities.

“Any conversation moving forward should have everyone at the table to secure the benefit of the residents of the city of Newark,” Ruiz said.

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UMDNJ provides a vital Afghanistan comprise the stuser vice to the community and dent body, he said. has a responsibility to the area, “We’re specialists in what we she said. do, and we do it very well,” he “If anything were ever to said. “They have a policy apparadevelop in terms of an action tus designed for the application of plan it would necessarily their message. We have a very involve all the stakeholders and different mission.” above all the state’s elected The University is reviewing officials,” McCormick said. the merger with due diligence, Thomas Edison State College McCormick said.

President George But Pr uitt A. Pruitt made his opposiexpressed discontion to the “Your guess is tent with the promerger clear. as good as mine posed budget’s “We have merger of the already done our as to where College and the due diligence and [the budget] University. Pruitt reached our decicommended the sion,” he said. is going to go.”

University but said Asked about the institutions Christie’s 4 perNANCY S. WINTERBAUER have different miscent cap on Vice President for sions that seem tuition hikes, University Budgeting incompatible.

McCormick said Unlike the the University University, the College concen- does not favor caps and if caps trates on older, nontraditional are not imposed, the University students by utilizing online will make sure a percent tuition courses and distance learning increase does not climb into and developed programs with double digits. each branch of the armed In an interview prior to the forces and the Department of hearing, Vice President for Homeland Security, Pruitt said. University Budgeting Nancy S. Attendees in New Jersey and Winterbauer said a 9 percent

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increase would cover the $46.6 million cut but would not provide for $30 million in unfunded mandates and rising costs.

“It’s never our intention to just plug that hole with tuition,” she said.

In former Gov. Jon S. Corzine’s proposed fiscal year 2007 budget, the University faced a $99.8 million reduction in state aid. The state budget adopted in July 2006 restored $33.7 million.

McCormick said the $99.8 million number from 2007 included the state’s nonfunding of a significant number of our fringe benefits.

“All of the new dollars required to fund the fringes which the state always does had been removed,” he said. “That’s the part that they restored.”

It is unclear if the University will see some form of restoration when the state budget is adopted in July, Winterbauer said “The times are ver y dif ficult. The governor has taken a hard stance,” she said. “Your guess is as good as mine as to where it’s going to go. We’re hoping that there will be some kind of restoration.”

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DEAN: Matsuda hopes to keep department traditional continued from front the program as something organic — something that changes as the student body and higher education changes,” Takács said. “I would tell him, ‘Imagine. Don’t be bound by anything. Enjoy the students and you have a great staff.’”

Matsuda, the man poised to step into the dean of honors position July 1, said he feels comfortable taking over, considering his relationship to the rest of the department.

“I am very optimistic about it,” he said. “After Dean Takács set up a meeting with the rest of the deans, one thing I did not have to do was go around the table and introduce myself because I know all of them already and have worked with them.”

Matsuda’s vision for the honors program is adapting to a changing student body and community. But since the foundation of the program is strong, there is no reason to change much, he said.

“We don’t change it if it’s working, but it is up to us to adapt to a changing world,” he said. “We have a certain ethos of outreach.”

His idea of the program includes a sort of engagement in the academic opportunities that the University provides and requires of the students.

“Honors is about being engaged, not sitting in the back of the classroom — honors should introduce students to worlds that they didn’t know,” he said. “It’s the business of doing good.”

“Honors is about being engaged, not sitting in the back of the classroom.”

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School of Arts and Sciences junior Jess Cain believes the change might bring about a different focus in colloquium, but the rest will be fine.

Cain, who has worked with Takács in the honors program and has also run several “Coffeehouse” events with her help, highly regards Takács’ accomplishments and relations with the rest of the staff.

“She is the single most enthusiastic person around. She made

me really want to do more with the program,” Cain said.

Dean Julio Nazario, coordinator of the Honors Colloquia, said the transition had not affected the honors program negatively, with opportunities such as next semester’s Assistant Facilitators opening up. The program allows students to teach certain sections of colloquium alongside a professor.

“I think she has been an outstanding leader of the program.

She has been able to get all of us working together, she recognized each of our strengths, she provided a vision for the program, she was ver y good with students, and I am sad that she is leaving,” Nazario said.

“Matsuda has a strong commitment to the program.”

Takács leaves the University with a lasting impression of what an honors program should be.

“Feel free to be yourself. My advice would be to — it may sound silly — just dream and you don’t have to be me, there’s no point,” said Takács, as advice to Matsuda. “The point is to be someone else, and that’s the beauty to it — there is certain creativity and everyone is sort of different, and perhaps that gives the strength to the program.”

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ENGINEERING STUDENTS TO ROW FOR FIRST PLACE IN CALIFORNIA Students from the School of Engineering will participate in the 23rd annual American Society of Civil Engineers National Concrete Canoe Competition this June at the California Polytechnic State University.

This is the second time the University will make an appearance at the event, following a 1994 trip to the competition, team co-captain James McCarten said.

The team came in first place at the Metropolitan Regional Competition hosted by Fairleigh Dickinson University last weekend, where they faced off against teams from Stevens Institute of Technology, City College of New York and the Cooper Union, among other national and international schools, said McCarten, a School of Engineering senior.

“The reason why this is such a big achievement is because we really upped our level of workmanship,” he said.

Teams competing in the national competition will vie for the opportunity to win scholarship money for their school’s engineering program, according to the ASCE website. A total of $9,000 is available.

To be eligible for competition, teams must build a concrete canoe, on which they must give an oral presentation and participate in five races, McCarten said. Judges based their decisions on design principles, a design report, presentation and canoe performance during the races.

Though most outside of the engineering field know nothing about the competition, McCarten said, the win means a lot to the members of the team, their parents and engineering professors at the University.

“It was amazing. It was like the Super Bowl,” he said.

The results of this year’s competition are an improvement from last year, when the team’s canoe broke en route to the event, just one of a few obstacles for its members.

“Last year, we didn’t really know how to make a canoe, because there was no team before us in 2008,” McCarten said. “This year, we came back in and we were determined. We really wanted to make this thing work.”

— Colleen Roache

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Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum on the College Avenue campus is offering advanced and beginning artists an opportunity to draw both from live model and the museum’s vast collections, overseen by master artists Elizabeth Hutchinson or Margaret Owen. While the museum will provide drawing boards, live models at select sessions and professional instruction, participants must bring their own drawing pads, portable easels and other materials suggested by the instructor. The session with take place from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. and the fee is $100 per session. For more information visit http://zamweb.rutgers.edu Join Bruce Crawford, manager at the Rutgers Gardens, for a presentation on the many types of small trees available for New Jersey Gardens and some guidelines on how these plants can be used. A walk through the Gardens will follow the indoor presentation, allowing you to see many of the specimens from the talk. Please dress for the weather. The workshop will be from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Rutgers Gardens on Cook campus. There is a fee of $47.50. For more information visit http://rutgersgardens.rutgers.edu/classes.html.

The University’s only award-winning female a cappella group ShockWave is holding its final concert of the year featuring guest group 8 to the Bar from Drexel University. The performance begins at 8 p.m. in Room 211 in Van Dyck Hall on the College Avenue campus. Tickets are $5 for students and $8 general admission and will be sold at the door. Come hear some favorite songs plus new surprises.

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Co-ed a cappella group Deep Treble will be closing its 12th year at the University with YouTube sensation Miranda Sings. The doors for the “Miranda Sings Gets Into Deep Treble” concert will open at 4:30 p.m. in Room 138 of Hickman Hall on Douglass campus. The concert will feature both the 20-person strong group and a range of popular songs originally done by artists like Amy Winehouse, Rihanna, Counting Crows and The Veronicas. Tickets are $7 for University students and $12 for the general public.

Find out more information about the event on their website at www.rudeeptreble.com.

Please join Rutgers Liberty in North Korea when the doors open at 7 p.m. in the Multipurpose Room of the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus. The “Sounds of Liberty” Benefit Concert will be a night filled with song, dance and food featuring, Neah, The Fool and His Heart, RDT and more. Please join and support Rutgers LINK in their effort to raise $2,500 to relocate a North Korean refugee as part of the 100 Campaign. Tickets are on sale now for $7 in advance and $10 at door. All proceeds go toward the campaign. Come pick up your ticket at the Busch Dining Hall April 29 from 5 to 7pm.

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Week in review: laurels and darts

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ost people probably know about the oil rig disaster that is spilling oil into the Gulf of Mexico. This spill is going to negatively affect the Louisiana ecosystem and economy. Our atmosphere is also at risk because officials are contemplating igniting the spill in order to slow or stop the spread, according to an Agence France Presse article. This is a difficult situation to find anything positive, but ingenuity may save the day.

According to the article, engineers are constructing a dome that will trap the leaking oil and pump it to the surface. A laurel goes to outside-the-box thinking that could greatly aid in the containment and clean-up efforts. *

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A long-standing rule that kept women from serving alongside men on submarines has discretely passed out of existence.

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said in February that the ban would be lifted unless Congress objected, according to an Associated Press article. The deadline for Congress to object passed at midnight. For an institution that has reluctantly changed to be more accepting, it is only proper that the Navy receives a laurel. *

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The Senate Judiciar y Committee took unprecedented steps to get the Supreme Cour t onto television, according to the Associated Press. In a 13-6 vote yesterday, three separate bills were sent to the full Senate on court television coverage. There is no precedent set that clearly shows if Congress has the power to order the televising of proceedings, but the Supreme Court should be protected from television. Broadcasting to all of America does get important information to the public but also makes the Supreme Court a public spectacle. Decisions of constitutionality should be treated with respect. A dar t goes to the Senate Judiciar y Committee for tr ying to impede upon one of our constitutionally separate branches of government. *

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Motorists in Philadelphia will soon have to fend for themselves in the event of a fender bender. If the vehicles can safely be driven away and no one is hurt, a report can be filed over the phone and the parties involved will just exchange information. In a CBS-3 stor y, Lt. Frank Vanore said the move is an attempt to free officers from responding to the nearly 70,000 auto accidents each year. Although the general rule is to call the police in any situation, the response time can be painfully slow and most motorists would probably prefer handling the situation over the phone. To the Philadelphia Police, a laurel, for making a logical move to ensure officers are where they are needed and not arbitrating a fender bender. *

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The Rutgers University Student Assembly held its first open, public election for student government on Tuesday, but the number of people running was discouraging. Most people who ran were part of the Rutgers United ticket, and it seems the newly elected student government is made up of people who ran under the same platform.

What this means for the body is yet to be seen. This was made possible because write-in votes were not allowed, thus forcing anyone who voted to choose a member of the Rutgers United ticket for virtually every position, or not vote at all. Political posturing is the name of the game, and it is clear Rutgers United figured out the secret to this election. So, a dart to the RUSA Elections Committee for not allowing an open voting system like a true democratic election would have. *

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House Republican Leader John Boehner said yesterday that immigration reform legislation has no chance of passing, according to a Fox News article. “We’ve gone through a ver y tough year and I’ve been working Congress pretty hard, so I know there may not be an appetite immediately to dive into another controversial issue,” President Barack Obama said in the article. Legislation is the responsibility of Congress. To not have an “appetite” to do your job is no different from most people on the planet. People who do not do their jobs generally get fired, but Congress seems to wear down and not deal with important issues facing the countr y. Congress deser ves a dar t because when states are making radical moves in the field of immigration, those elected to represent at the federal level choose to bur y their heads rather than be faced with making an unpopular decision.

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End of the road Damn it.

To Hernandez and Barto: I hate goodbye columns.

You’re the most fiery and For starters, they’re stupid athletic people that I know. because no one actually Hernandez, feel free to call wants to read them. Even I me if you need pointers probably won’t read this about your next beat. once it hits print, but I have To Stein, Sam and KJ been here for four years so I Philly: You took me under STEVEN WILLIAMSON have some stupid sense of your wing when I was the entitlement. Plus, Aleksi Best ****ing Phillies Fan needs a column.

Ever and handed me the track beat. From Steining The other reason is that it actually means that I to Snooking to the Great War, it was like sitting on have to say goodbye. And I hate that. an atomic bomb waiting to go off. I’ll always fondly When I signed up for on-campus housing freshremember our weekly bonfires during those stressman year, I did not know that it would entail me livful nights. Keep in touch. Uts a dine deak. ing in an uncomfortable chair at The Daily Targum To Athletics Communications: Thanks for putwith 10-15 roommates that changed ever y ting up with me over the past two years. Hasim, February. People came and went over the past four you’re a legend in the history of Rutgers women’s years, but I was just here. lacrosse SIDs. Don’t tell Dustin I told you that.

It was hell. I worked horrible hours. I was stressed.

To Alex “Prime Time” Restrepo: Geaux Tigers.

I never went out, rarely went to parties and I lost Keep chopping. weight. I can’t even remember the amount of times To the coaches and athletes I’ve had the privithat I vented some variation of how much I hated lege of interviewing over the past two years: You working and couldn’t take it anymore. guys were the best. Covering But I’m still here. And I don’t want Rutgers sports was hands down my “I told myself that favorite experience here. I’ve never to say goodbye.

It’s sort of like what Morgan regretted a second of it.

I wasn’t going Freeman says in “The Shawshank To Greg, E.J. and the University to write some Redemption.” “These walls are funny.

Media Relations staff: I’m sorry that I First you hate ’em, then you get used defected over to the sports section, but stupid, sappy to ’em. Enough time passes, you get I really do miss calling you all up and so you depend on them.” goodbye column.” harassing you on a daily basis. You’re As many chances as I’ve had to all first rate. Thank you so much for leave over the past few years, I never the unending respect and patience that did. Deep down, under all the frustration and the you showed myself and the staff when we deserved it insomnia, I never really wanted to. I love this place — and more importantly when we did not. too much. There, I said it.

To Ray, Jason and Vinny: It’s been a great year.

It’s one of the grand ironies of the universe I supYou all were the best trio of roommates I could have pose. I never expected to be upset when I retired possibly asked for. Sorry about playing Prince too but I am. I have one day left at Targum, something loudly. We rocked Cthulu so badly this semester — I never could have even envisioned four years ago next up, Lampshade Man. when I arrived here. I’m dreading the moment As for the 142nd Editorial Board, thank you for when I step out of those doors for good. reminding me just how much fun this newspaper can I have made some great friends, a handful of enebe. The energy that you rascals bring every day makes mies and met a bunch of people that simply made the office a great place to be in. For all the years that my life better in one facet or another. There’s been Targum took off of my life, you all definitely helped add blood (I fell playing Wiffleball last week), sweat (the some of them back. Don’t stop having a good time. And air conditioner barely worked) and tears. watch out for the haters. They’re going to be there, but It’s been a great run. you’re better than them and I think you know that.

So let’s do this: I told myself I wasn’t going to work here for To Mr. Miller, Mr. J and Bill: I appreciate anyone more than a year. Then I told myself that I wasn’t who lets me write a near 50-inch story about a point going to write some stupid, sappy goodbye column. guard then actually runs it. Or that lets me run four Congratulations Targum, you get the last laugh. lacrosse stories in a week. The South Jersey continI guess, in the end, you always did. gent was well represented, and I enjoyed joking Steven Williamson is a Rutgers College senior majoraround with you all for the semester. Though I think ing in journalism and political science. Send your hate we all know who really deserved the Targum mail to swilliamson@dailytargum.com while you can, Freshman of the Year award. because the e-mail address won’t be there too much longer.

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SKID: Rutgers faces Hoyas,

HOPES: Attack breaks

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30-goal plateau for third year

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still have a chance to play spoiler against a Georgetown team in the thick of the NCAA Tournament hunt.

The Hoyas (7-5, 3-1), ranked 14th in the nation, are coming off a pair of close losses to Loyola (Md.) and Massachusetts and probably need to win their two remaining games against Rutgers and Villanova to get an at-large bid.

Only 16 teams make the NCAA Tournament.

“We have two games left, and I was just thinking the other day that we’ve never beat Georgetown since I’ve been here,” said senior midfielder Justin Pennington.

“They are ranked in the top-20 and we’ve changed some things up offensively to try and open some space and hopefully we can get some momentum going.”

Pennington leads the Scarlet Knights with 22 goals and 13 assists.

Senior Gerhard Buehning sits just behind Pennington with 21 goals.

Georgetown is led by Andrew Brancaccio and Travis Comeau with 22 and 21 goals, respectively. Craig Dowd is the Hoyas’ leading point man with 38 (10 goals, 28 assists).

“They are a lot like us in some way,” Stagnitta said. “They might

For head coach Laura BrandSias, Cantwell’s success on the field was no surprise.

“She’s been a factor since she got here as a freshman,” BrandSias said. “She hasn’t always been a go-to player but definitely the last two years she’s been the go-to player. Brooke was someone we didn’t have to force into that role.

She really filled that role naturally and wanted to have the ball on her stick at critical times.”

Fittingly, the senior saved her best season for last.

Off the field, Cantwell was selected as a co-captain prior to the start of the year. On the field, the attack has strung together a career-high 37 goals and tied her career mark of 13 assists, all with two regular season games to play.

Cantwell recorded a teamhigh eight hat tricks this year, but her latest round of heroics were possibly her biggest to date.

With the Knights’ Big East Tournament hopes on the line against then-No. 12 Notre Dame, the attack found space in overtime, drilling the game-winning shot to take the fight out of the Irish.

“I’m definitely not the person to feel pressure at all. I don’t

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Senior midfielder Gerhard Buehning is second on the team with 21 goals entering the Knights’ final weekend of play. be more polished lacrosse players but they are strong and athletic.

They are pretty consistent year in and year out. They aren’t going to be fancy and they are just going to try and over power you.”

Following Saturday’s game in the nation’s capital, Rutgers travels to Providence to conclude its season. The Friars (0-12, 0-4) are in the Big East basement and yet to win a game this season.

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know why. It’s just my demeanor,” Cantwell said. “I don’t feel pressure because I know I’m capable of doing it. It’s just a matter of getting it done.

And my teammates surrounding me, if I don’t have a shot I have the confidence that they can get it done.”

With Louisville and Cincinnati on tap this weekend, the Knights need to seal both victories and hope for a Notre Dame loss to Connecticut to earn a berth to the Big East Tournament.

Potentially, the two games could also mark the final times the senior steps onto Yurcak Field in a scarlet and white uniform.

“It’s definitely a little bittersweet, but I just want to go out on a good note,” Cantwell said.

“These two games are just as important as any other game, especially for the Big East. We talk about how UConn has to beat Notre Dame, but we have to win these games too. They’re just as important and [Louisville and Cincinnati] very good teams.”

Cantwell could go on one of her trademark scoring surges this weekend. She could not score at all.

To the senior, it does not matter, as long as Rutgers comes out on top.

Because this weekend, two — the number of potential victories for the Knights — is the only number Cantwell cares about.

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Big East caps off bounce-back season

BY TYLER BARTO STAFF WRITER

The Rutgers men’s track and field team begins competition in the muchMEN’S TRACK anticipated 2010 Big East Championships today on Cincinnati’s campus.

The next two days provide tangible evidence of how far the team came from the indoor campaign, in which the Scarlet Knights finished a disappointing sixth place, 78.5 points behind first place Notre Dame.

This time around, the team expects different results.

Several marquee names were notably absent during the conference championships during the winter, including senior sprinter Bruce Owens, who was forced to sit out the indoor season with exhausted eligibility.

The indoor championships leave out several field events, including the discus and javelin — two areas of strength for the Knights.

Sophomore James Plummer, who dominated the discus en route to a first-place finish at the Penn Relays last week and provided a much-needed boost this season, is back. Senior Jeremy Pennino and junior Chris Bradley also return to the fold in the javelin heats.

Whereas the indoor season provided mixed results as to the fate of the Knights at the Big East Championships, the outdoor campaign left no doubt that Rutgers is battle-tested for a tough conference challenge.

The Knights proved their national mettle last weekend at the Penn Relays, in which the team registered numerous top-five showings against several national track and field powerhouses.

Plummer set a facility-record in the discus in the team’s first outdoor competition at South Florida, setting the tone for a dominant 2010 outdoor season.

After posting an impressive six individual victories in the season’s second meet, the Knights captured their first scoring meet victory at the 45th Annual Colonial Relays at William & Mary.

The eye-opening performance in Williamsburg, Va., prompted the signing of highly-touted high school recruit Corey Crawford, who takes to the bars as a high jumper next season alongside

ADAM BERGO sophomore phenom Adam Bergo.

With two more national competitions under their belt in the Sun Angel Track Classic at Arizona State and the Penn Relays, the Knights would do well to put the finishing touches on an impressive season with a first-place finish at the Big East Championships.

For many Knights, this team is by and large the deepest and most talented team of which they were a part.

“It’s just the whole team overall,” said junior sprinter Aaron Younger, who ran to a 46.81-second split in the 4x400-meter IC4A relay last weekend at Penn. “We have a little swagger when we go to meets because we’re not going for individual events, per se. I think this is the best I’ve seen.”

Last year’s Knights, regarded as a year away in terms of production, finished fifth overall with 75.50 points at the 2009 Big East Championships at Villanova.

Owens and Pennino took first in the 200-meter dash and javelin, respectively, while Bergo and Kyle Grady finished runners-up in their respective events.

This time, however, the Knights have the formula to make a considerable dent at Cincinnati’s Gettler Stadium.

“We’re so good all around,” Owens said. “We’re good at throws, in the jumps, and the sprints and distance. I think all around this is the best team that I’ve been on in my four years here.”

The only missing ingredients are big-time results against the Big East’s best, certainly a tough task.

Notre Dame’s duo of brothers Kevin and Matt Schipper provide a particularly burdening assignment for the likes of Rutgers jumpers Bergo and sophomore Kevin Bostick.

Owens and the host of talented Knight sprinters face a challenge from Georgetown and Seton Hall, foes Rutgers knows very well from the entire outdoor season.

Rutgers, however, is in a precarious situation.

Once left out of the conversation of legitimacy in Big East competition, the Knights now find themselves in an identity crisis between being a talented-butflawed upstart to a prepared-forpower program.

It is safe to say that the rest of the Big East is taking notice.

“As much as we may look at other schools. Other schools are looking at us just the same,” Younger said.

Knights focus heading to Cincy

BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ STAFF WRITER

A two-day, 11-hour bus trip leaves plenty of time for reflection.

For the Rutgers women’s track team, this year showed significant improvement compared to past WOMEN’S TRACK seasons, but for the past two days — aside from minimal practice —head coach James Robinson’s squad has done nothing but think about the Big East Championships.

According to Robinson, that’s where it all starts.

“It starts first with your mind,” said Robinson on being successful.

“You build a winner in your mind before walking out on the field.”

Junior Natalie Clickett continues to mentally prepare for the weekend after thinking long and hard for the past two days.

“The Big East is really nerve wracking because when you’re on a bus for 11 hours all you do is focus on what do you have to do and what is going to happen,” Clickett said. “You have time to really think and reflect on the season and to really look at what you want to achieve on the weekend.”

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Assistant coach Alex Arlak is confident that the Knights are on the upswing.

“From here we should only continue to get better,” Arlak

Robinson is hopeful his team can finish within the top-10 of a tough conference field this weekend but has the team’s 17 athletes focused on grabbing the eighthplace slot.

Individuals such as senior Michelle Gomes, competing in the 100 and 200-meter sprints and junior Latashia Bost, taking part in the 500-meter event, look to anchor the team on the track.

Clickett, sophomore Alex Kelly and junior Jessica Bandy look to snag points for the squad in the throwing events while junior Nwamaka Okobi looks to make noise in the long and triple jump events.

As acknowledged by Robinson earlier in the year, the team must come together on the same day to be successful, and Clickett is willing to give it her all to score points for her team.

In a sport that stresses individuality, the Union, Pa., native and former Big East champion in discus has an individual championship in the back of her mind and her team’s success in the front.

“I’m here to do whatever I can to get points for this team and for

us to do well as a team, rather than what my individual outcome can be,” the junior said.

The 4x100 and 4x200 relay teams set school records in Philadelphia last weekend and aim to have more success this weekend.

Leading each relay is Gomes, who takes on a four-event load this weekend in Cincinnati and is confident in her team’s current mental state.

“I think if not all of us most of us have our heads in the game,” the captain said. “This is what we waited the whole season for.”

Rutgers kicks off competition Saturday but will be in Cincinnati through Sunday taking part in events.

Whether the Knights were physically prepared was not the question heading to Ohio, the only doubts arose in the team’s mental preparedness. Under the tutelage of team leaders such as Gomes and Clickett, Robinson is ready for his team to get the ball rolling Saturday.

“The ball’s in their court now,” said Robinson. “They’ve got to come in and be aggressive and take nothing off the track with them — leave everything on the track.”

said. “There are a lot of remaining players that will return to the lineup. They need to keep working during the offseason in order to improve. The two freshman we have coming in will also have to contribute pretty quickly and replace the graduating seniors.”

Departing seniors Katherine Arlak, Christine Tran and Caitlin Baker will be missed. But Katherine Arlak, a team captain,

knows she is leaving the Knights in good hands.

“I think the underclassmen are definitely looking toward next season now,” Katherine Arlak said. “They work hard and know what it takes to win matches. We definitely had our ups and downs this year. We started out rocky but in the end we finished strong.

Every year this program is getting better and better so I think this was another positive step.”

SAM HELLMAN

Senior defensive tackle Charlie Noonan recorded 20 tackles, including two for a loss, in starting 12 games for the Scarlet Knights.

Senior fights through pain in spring practice

BY SAM HELLMAN CORRESPONDENT

The Frank R. Burns Award goes out annually to the Rutgers football player that displays the most menFOOTBALL tal and physical toughness during the spring practice campaign.

Former safety Zaire Kitchen won it two years ago after returning from ACL surgery and linebacker Jim Dumont won it last year after playing with a club on his arm.

Listen to the way head football coach Greg Schiano describes Charlie Noonan and there’s no question why the defensive tackle earned the award for 2010.

“That award is one of toughness, inspiration and those kinds of things,” Schiano said during his spring practice wrap-up press conference. “There’s none better on our football team than Charlie.

Charlie is our tough guy.”

Noonan had the choice to shut down for the spring because he needed to get surger y, but instead opted to play hurt throughout the spring. Noonan had his operation after the team’s 14th spring practice and missed the spring game, but played as a first-team defensive tackle for the majority of the spring.

Though inactive for the Scarlet-White game, the Philadelphia native received his award, alongside other award winners Tim Wright and Khaseem Greene, at halftime from Athletic Director Tim Pernetti.

“He wanted to work with Coach [Randy] Melvin — his new [defensive] line coach,” Schiano said. “Any new techniques, he wanted to make sure he could master them or at least have a really good handle on them so he could perfect them this summer before the season starts.

“He gutted it out throughout the spring so he could do that and we wanted to make sure that the recovery would get him back in time for the summer program because he is so important in the leadership of this football team.”

Melvin coached the Scarlet Knights’ defensive line from 2002-04, but left to work with both Temple and in the NFL with the Cleveland Browns.

He returned to Rutgers in the offseason and Noonan did not want to miss a beat with his new coach.

“You’re never fully satisfied, but I think there’s something cooking here,” Noonan said. “I think we approached every practice the right way. Coach Melvin is great. He’s been unbelievable.

He demands perfection and that’s really the way you want to go.”

Schiano said Noonan had his procedure done on an injury that was “not major,” and he should be ready to play by the start of training camp in August.

Noonan and his hard-hat attitude quickly won him a starting job on the defensive line last spring after Alex Silvestro moved from defensive tackle to end and Pete Tverdov graduated. He started 12 games for Rutgers last season, despite Eric LeGrand’s strong push for playing time, and made 20 total tackles.

The outlook for training camp this season is similar to last season with Noonan starting alongside sophomore Scott Vallone and LeGrand, now a junior, making a serious push for more playing time in the rotation after an impressive spring.

“We’re pretty deep there with me, Eric and Vallone,” Noonan said. “We’re all pretty deep there.

It’s a good rotation we have. It’s the kind of depth that makes everyone work harder to earn reps instead of having them given to you. It’s great for the team.”

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APRIL 30, 2010

Last two games bring chance to snap losing skid

Senior excels with playoff hopes on line

BY KYLE FRANKO

BY STEVEN WILLIAMSON

CORRESPONDENT

SENIOR WRITER

Before the Rutgers men’s lacrosse team takes the field Saturday against Georgetown, the calendar will change from April to May. That is a good thing for the Scarlet Knights.

Rutgers went MEN’S LACROSSE winless in April, watching as a 5-2 RUTGERS AT start evaporated GEORGETOWN, along with hopes of SATURDAY, 6 P.M. postseason play.

“We are so damn close,” said head coach Jim Stagnitta. “It’s a two-way street in that regard because I feel good about the steps we’ve made in a year. I think the quality of play and the level of confidence are better and that shows in the way we are able to come out and hold our own against a high-level of competition without smoke and mirrors is a real positive.”

But Stagnitta also realizes that his team fell short of the goals it set at the beginning of the season.

“You have to realize that we’re a couple goals here, a couple saves there and couple less turnovers here from being 9-3 or 10-2,” Stagnitta said. “If you’ve watched us you realize how close it is, and I think you have to watch us to see it, but that’s where the frustration comes in, particularly for this group because they continue to stay focused and continue to work hard.

“There’s been no quit. You don’t look out there and say, ‘Oh my god, these guys aren’t playing hard, they aren’t trying because it doesn’t mean anything to them.’ That’s not the case. I think we’ve made a huge jump, but there is also that could’ve been, should’ve been part of it too.”

Instead, the Knights come into Saturday afternoon’s Big East contest 5-7 (1-3), but

Brooke Cantwell doesn’t like to talk about numbers.

So don’t ask the senior co-captain about her 127 goals, good for WOMEN’S LACROSSE fourth all time in Rutgers history. Or LOUISVILLE AT her 132 career draw RUTGERS, controls, the third TODAY, 3 P.M. most for a Scarlet Knight. Or the fact that she’s tied for fifth in all-time points with 171.

The only number that the attack is focusing on right now is 12 — the amount of victories the No. 19 Rutgers women’s lacrosse team can end its regular season with.

With two games left to play this weekend, Cantwell simply wants to win, numbers be damned.

“It’s always nice to be remembered like that, but we’re winning this season and that’s what counts,” the senior said. “Just to help my teammates is better than the name and the record books, though it’s obviously nice.”

The attack made an impact from the moment she put on a Rutgers uniform four years ago.

The highly-touted Moorestown, N.J., native started all 17 games her freshman year, and she started every single game since. The attack scored 22 goals and added 12 assists her freshman year, and her 34 points were third best on the team.

“I didn’t really think about anything like [records],” Cantwell said. “I didn’t even imagine starting my freshman year.”

With one year under her belt, the attack continued to flourish, posting back-to-back 30 goal seasons. Cantwell scored 36 goals her sophomore campaign and added 32 her junior season — both squad bests.

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EMILY BORSETTI / FILE PHOTO

Senior attack Brooke Cantwell led the Knights in scoring each of the last three seasons and has a career-high 37 goals this year with two games remaining for the Scarlet Knights.

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Program continues rise with consistent 2010 showing

BY TYLER DONOHUE CORRESPONDENT

A step in the right direction. That’s the best way to describe the Rutgers tennis team’s 2010 season. Anchored by a young core of players, the TENNIS Scarlet Knights remained consistent throughout the spring.

Rutgers wrapped up its season last Friday in South Bend, Ind., home of the Big East Tournament. A 4-0 drubbing at the hands of No. 24 South Florida put an end to any hopes of a coveted conference championship.

Overall, the Knights finished the year with a respectable 8-4 record in Big East play, while going 14-8 overall. Despite opening the 2010 campaign in embarrassing fashion with a 7-0 shutout loss at Syracuse, Rutgers quickly sharpened its game. Once March rolled around, the Knights were on fire and reeled off a run of eight wins in 10 matches.

Junior Amy Zhang lived up to her billing as team ace by compiling a sterling record of 17-5 in the Rutgers’ No. 1 singles slot. The Texan is pleased about her team’s gradual improvement.

“We came a long way from our first match at Syracuse, when we were taken by surprise,” Zhang said. “When we saw Syracuse playing again at the Big East Tournament, it was obvious how much we had improved over the year.

“It’s a bit disappointing because we went further last year but it’s just the way things are. We had a tougher road in the tournament this year. We played hard and that’s all you can do.”

The doubles tandem of Zhang and sophomore Jen Holzberg was the highlight of Rutgers’

season. The pair was nationally ranked for the majority of the spring and wound up 15-4.

Both will be back in 2011 and Zhang plans on spending plenty of time between now and then strengthening her play in doubles.

“I’m honestly really excited about next year,” Zhang said. “A few of us plan on playing tournaments this summer on our own in order to keep improving. Personally, I want to focus on getting better in doubles because Jen and I have a chance to be one of the nation’s higher ranked teams.”

Zhang, Holzberg and a plethora of talented juniors will be counted on next season to help take the Knights to a new level.

Rutgers head coach Ben Bucca considers his team to be among the best in the Big East and many times they play like it. But the Knights never beat a nationally ranked opponent in program history. If Rutgers aims to prove it’s a force to be reckoned with in the conference, it must finally take down an elite program.

“We are always right there when it comes to matches against highly ranked teams,” Holzberg said. “But we haven’t actually beaten any of those top teams yet. Our recruiting is getting a lot better and we practice harder than ever before. I think we are dedicated to finally picking up a win against one of these great teams and I know we can do it.”

Next year could be a big season for the burgeoning program. Rutgers welcomes in two heralded freshman recruits who will be expected to step in and play immediately. East Brunswick’s Stefania Balasa and Stamford, Conn., native Vanessa Petrini bring impressive résumés to the Banks. Both are among the

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BRYAN BEZERRA

Junior Amy Zhang finished the spring season with a 17-5 record as the Knights’ No. 1 singles player, leading the team to a 14-8 record with a second-round Big East Tournament exit.