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Vigil pays tribute to thousands killed on Gaza Strip BY AMY ROWE CORRESPONDENT

A vigil commemorating the second anniversary of the Gaza massacres in which 1,400 lives were lost was held last night on the steps of Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus. A crowd of 54 people stopped to listen to speakers from organizations including BAKA: Students United for Middle Eastern Justice, Journalists for Human Rights and Psi Sigma Phi men’s multi-cultural fraternity. “We want to spread awareness about Palestine and the br utal, criminal siege that killed hundreds of nonviolent civilians in Gaza,” said Hoda Mitwally, BAKA public relations of ficer. “The injustice continues today, and it must stop.” BAKA ran and co-sponsored the event along with the Arab Cultural Club and the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund. Members of BAKA wore traditional Arab keffiyeh scarves to symbolize the solidarity of

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Students light candles and share a moment of silence on the steps of Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus last night to remember the lives lost during the Gaza massacres. Several attendees wore traditional scarves to symbolize solidarity for Palestine.

McCormick backs potential union between UMDNJ, U. BY MAXWELL BARNA CORRESPONDENT

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The proposed merger would establish an official tie between Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and the University, which Gov. Chris Christie feels would help benefit in-state higher education.

Gov. Chris Christie released a report last month to announce his support of a merger between the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, School of Public Health and the University. University President Richard L. McCormick praised the report, stating it was a step in the right direction for not only University students, but also for students at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. “I’m fairly optimistic that this report could be a turning point for higher education in New Jersey,” McCormick said. “I’m referring to the whole report, not just the portion on Rutgers and UMDNJ.”

Backing both the report and the Christie administration, which many feel has not been supportive of higher education in N.J., McCormick said the governor’s response to the report was not surprising. “Gov. Christie has said many times that when the revenues are available, he will look into investing more in higher education,” McCormick said. Christie interacted with several community groups — including administrators, students, parents and stakeholders — to help mold his vision toward education in New Jersey, said Sean Conner, Christie’s deputy press secretary. “As part of the task force report, there was a recommendation to create an advisory

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RUSA committees brainstorm semester plans BY REENA DIAMANTE CORRESPONDENT

Committees of the Rutgers University Student Assembly convened last night at the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus to discuss their prospective projects and goals for the semester. The University Affairs committee, which focuses on reforming policies that affect students on campus, and its subcommittee on privacy talked about several of its initiatives. Most of the focus was on privacy, parking and tenant and environmental concerns. RUSA will pick up where it left off and fulfill unfinished tasks from last semester, said RUSA President Yousef Saleh. “Any other further things we need to be done that come up, we will address them at our meetings,” said Saleh, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “Sometimes things come up on us and we get to react and help our administration in taking the pulse of the student body.” The privacy committee is researching University policies on privacy and is also using policies of other entities,

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At last night’s meeting, commitees of the Rutgers University Student Assembly discuss on-campus issues, like decreased parking spaces on Livingston campus.

such as Facebook and Twitter, for guidance, said Daniel Herbert, Busch senator for 2011. “We’re concerned with not just policy, but practice and where the practice deviates from policy,” said Herbert, a School of Arts and Sciences senior.

The privacy committee conducts research regarding residential, online and student worker privacy, Herbert said. The committee hopes that by the assembly’s second general body meeting of the semester they present an in-depth report of their findings.

“Once we have those results in hand we will be able to start phase two, where we actually look at what policies we have, how to change them and [whether] we have the power to publicize, so ever ything we do this semester is dependent on what we find out in the next couple of weeks,” Herbert said. One of the biggest concerns for the University Affairs committee is the parking on the Livingston campus, said Kristen Clarke, University Affairs chair. Construction of new facilities on Livingston campus left students with not only decreased parking spaces, but safety concerns as well, which stemmed from the removal of some parking closer to the main campus. “Students are walking on a side of the road in the dark with no lights,” said Clarke, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “It’s just really dangerous. Our advisor works at Student Life, and she’s gotten a lot of e-mails concerned about the situation.” The University Affairs committee is tr ying to reach out to Jack

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Semester-long film festival, contest return to U. BY SONJA TYSIAK CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Students seeking refuge from the woes of wintry weather can look forward to tonight’s New Jersey Film Festival for entertainment and an escape from the harsh outdoors. The festival, held at the University each semester, is a celebration of motion picture films, independent films and the bridging of cultures via documentaries, dramas, animation and international movies. “These films are the meat and potatoes of the film industry,” said Albert Nigrin, executive director and curator of the Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center. Of the hundreds of films moviemakers submitted, a group of panelists selected about 50 to be displayed at the festival, which will run tonight through April 17 in the Ruth

M. Adams Building on Douglass campus and Voorhees Hall on the College Avenue campus. “We love being the first ones to show films, sort of like trendsetters,” Nigrin said. “Many of these films do go onto TV and also other film festivals like the one in New York.” Many screenings offer students the opportunity to meet with directors, actors, screenwriters and other members of the production crew. “Living for 32,” a film about Virginia Tech massacre survivor Colin Goddard, premieres next Saturday. Director Kevin Breslin and producer Maria Cuomo Cole will make an appearance to talk about the movie. Some films shown at the festival, such as “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” go on to amass popularity later. The N.J. Film Festival this semester will feature four films

with connections to the University, including “The Red Machine,” which stars alumnus Donal Thoms-Cappello, and two short films made by alumni — “Our Beautiful Mountain” produced by Brian McElroy and Andrew Johnson’s “Things That Can Kill You.” Johnson said he has never been active with the festival before, but he is excited his film — which he said took one month of pre-production, 10 days to shoot and more than three months to edit — was chosen. “[The film] is a satire of some of the innovations in communication technology that have occurred in my lifetime — social media, fear-based news, smart phones and the act of using them at the wrong times,” he said. “Atlantic Crossing,” directed by Dena Seidel, director of Digital Storytelling at the University, follows a group of scientists on their

journey to collect data on climate change in the ocean. “This is a good dramatic story following people up against tough challenges, who are taking big risks,” Seidel said. Her film crew consisted of University alumni working many late nights editing more than a hundred hours of film, which they eventually narrowed down to an 83-minute feature. “Working on this film was a massive commitment, but one that was incredibly rewarding. I went on shoots day and night, one time even overnight,” said University alumnus Stephen Beeston. “However, there’s nothing more rewarding [for the scientists and the filmmakers] than the sound of the audience’s applause as the credits roll.” Filmmakers whose works appear in the festival will have a chance to win prizes that total more than $5,000. Artists can win awards

in various categories, such as best documentary and best short. Nigrin, who founded the Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center, said its roots at the University go back nearly 30 years. “I got money back in 1982 from one of the deans to start the Rutgers Film Co-op, my baby,” he said. Nigrin expressed pride in the organization’s growth over the past three decades and said he is excited about showing off the primar y screening room in Voorhees Hall, which features stadium seating as well as high-definition projection and sound systems. Given the number of entertaining and educational films that will be displayed at the festival, Nigrin is optimistic about how audiences will receive it. “It is sure to be a success,” he said.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR RECEIVES $2.5M GRANT TO STUDY DEPRESSION The National Institute of Mental Health awarded Jami Young, assistant professor at the Graduate School of Professional and Applied Psychology, a $2.5 million grant to screen and treat depression in teens. The five-year grant will be used to research how Interpersonal Psychotherapy Adolescent Skills Training — a time-limited treatment that focuses on a

person’s interactions with others — can prevent depression in youth, according to a Rutgers Focus article. “The premise is that depression occurs within a context of interpersonal relationships. Drawing on this, our program provides basic communication and problem-solving skills that teenagers can apply in all areas of their lives,” said Young, who joined the University in 2008, in the article.

The study will observe this treatment on 200 adolescents from the Perth Amboy School District and compare it to conventional school counseling. Young hopes the results will show that her model enhances the work of school counselors. “Our prior studies suggest our program is really beneficial, specifically six months to a year after the program,” Young said in the article. — Mary Diduch

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U NIVERSITY UNION: Merger could further University research continued from front committee to advise the administration on if, how and what a merger would look like,” Conner said. “The governor, by executive order, created that task force and will soon name individuals to it.” Another aspect of the report McCormick noted was the state’s responsibility to allocate federal funding toward higher education. “The state has way underinvested in higher education,” McCormick said. “The report is ver y good on the need for improved state investment in the colleges and universities. That’s one of its strongest points.” But Conner said Christie has always kept New Jersey’s higher education a priority. “The governor has consistently been committed to insuring that higher education, once the fiscal situation in the state improves, receives more money,” he said.

T H E DA I LY TA R G U M McCormick agreed with the task force’s reasoning. He said it thoroughly represented University students’ needs. “Rutgers is a far more distinguished institution than UMDNJ, and there are tremendous advantages of combining [the schools] with Rutgers,” he said. “Almost all of the greatest research schools [in the nation], all of the great public universities, have medical schools.” UMDNJ declined to comment. Rahul Gulati, a School of Arts and Sciences junior and prospective Rober t Wood Johnson School of Medicine applicant, said the merger would be a good move on the part of the University and that it will benefit many students. “The number of applicants that medical schools usually accept is relatively small compared to the number of people who actually apply, so I feel like if you’re giving Rutgers students an edge, it’s going to benefit anyone at Rutgers interested in becoming a doctor,” he said.

Gulati said the merger could also provide financial support for New Jersey students who are concerned about medical school tuition. “Financially, it helps out those Rutgers students who would prefer to stay in-state in order to benefit from less expensive tuition,” he said. Other issues discussed in the report include tuition increases, student debt, financial aid, undergraduate education programs and the state’s responsibility to provide its institutions with yearly capital support. Should the merger come to action, the University will have a great oppor tunity to expand its research facilities, McCormick said. “There is no question that going forward this is one of the biggest opportunities in the whole history of Rutgers,” he said. “The opportunities are really infinite. Bringing the medical school and the School of Public Health into Rutgers will turn Rutgers into a complete public research university.”

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The Rutgers University Student Assembly privacy committee hopes to utilize policies of social media sites as a guide for reform.

PLANS: RUSA to help set up water bottle refill stations continued from front Molenaar, director of Transpor tation Ser vices, to find a possible solution. But Clarke said it might be out of his hands. “I don’t think it’s his issue anymore,” she said. “He’s not the one that shuts down the parking lots.” The University Af fairs committee is also star ting a tenants’ rights campaign, Clarke said. The committee wants to proliferate a sur vey to students who live of f campus in the New Br unswick and Piscataway area that inquires about their relationship with their proper ty owners. “It’s pretty much students answering questions about their landlords and telling us what their landlord does and if they like the landlord,” Clarke said. “Hopefully we’re going to compile this together and turn it into actual information that we can post to a website.” When landlords commit illegal activities, many

students, unaware of their rights, do not take action against them, Clarke said. By creating an online presence, the University Af fairs committee hopes students turn to the website and check comments about the proper ty and the landlord before making serious decisions. “Landlords right now are kind of ripping students of f because we’re naïve, we’re young,” Clarke said. “No one’s ever really signed a lease before, so they think they can get away with ever ything.” The University Affairs committee is also working together with on-campus organization Take Back the Tap, Clarke said. Instead of selling bottled water on campus, the initiative involves installing water fill stations, where people can fill water bottles. “It’s just really environmentally friendly. It’s a lot cheaper for students, so we’re working on it,” Clarke said. “Hopefully, the first fill stations will be installed before Spring Break, but that’s not of ficial at all. We’re waiting for money transfers to go through and the go ahead from facilities.”

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BAKA member and School of Arts and Sciences junior Murtaza Husain speaks on the violence civilians experienced during the Gaza massacres. The vigil commemorated more than 1,000 lives lost.

VIGIL: Movies, poems help spread message of peace continued from front Palestinians, said Mike Dunican, BAKA treasurer and a School of Arts and Sciences senior. In his speech, BAKA member Murtaza Husain gave attendees an idea of the brutality that occurred in Gaza. “Israel’s campaign in Gaza included burning people down to the bone with white phosphorous,” said Husain, a School of Ar ts and Sciences junior. “It also left permanent emotional scars. Most children in the area have post-traumatic stress disorder, with 30 percent suf fering from involuntar y urination.” Other speakers read poems including “A State of Siege” by Mahmoud Dar wish and “The Cof fin Maker Speaks” by Lisa Suhair Majaj, which attested to the ever yday lives of civilians in Gaza. Talissa Patrick, president of Journalists for Human Rights, said she hopes students will take action and promote social justice for all.

“I truly and honestly believe that all humans are inherently good,” said Patrick, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “Knowing what we know about Gaza, we must take action and be a force to be reckoned with.” While the speakers took turns spreading awareness about the massacre, the names of 350 children killed appeared on a projection screen. “The experience of seeing the names is very emotional,” said Renee Coppola, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student. “It shows that these were people, each had their own life and story. They aren’t just numbers.” Following the speeches were a candle lighting ceremony and a moment of silence. The names of children lost in the massacres — each represented by a lit candle — were also read aloud. “One death is a tragedy but 1,000 deaths is a statistic,” said Banan Abdelrahman, a member of BAKA and a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore. “I hope people will realize these are victims who should not be thought of as statistics.” School of Arts and Sciences first-year student Amal Ahmad

was surprised to see a vigil for the massacres on the Gaza Strip at the University. “I’m Palestinian and I have family living in Palestine, so it means a lot to know they’re holding this,” Ahmad said. “I wouldn’t have expected to see this at Rutgers, but I think it’s great.” After a moment of silence for the lives lost in Gaza, BAKA aired a video of Roger Waters’ cover of the protest song “We Shall Overcome,” which he recorded specifically for Gaza freedom. “Gaza is just one example in a sea of injustices and trespasses on human integrity,” Husain said. “I hope those that attended can see connections between the atrocities in Gaza and others in the world.” Mitwally, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, said she hopes the vigil’s awareness will turn into activism. “We’re not policymakers,” Mitwally said. “We want to spread awareness and create a sense of activism within the student body. The knowledge of issues and those lost will hopefully turn into concrete results.”

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CALENDAR Facility conditions distract Mason Gross students JANUARY Explore the adventurous American spirit in Charles Ives’ Concord Sonata along with works by Louis Moreau Gottschalk and George Gershwin at a special concert at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum on the College Avenue campus. “Concord Sonata: The Music of Charles Ives” is a lecture and recital that will have musical demonstrations to enhance the listening experience of the rich and complex sonata. The performance will run from 3 to 4 p.m., and tickets are $15 for the general public, $10 for museum members and $5 for students with valid IDs. Tickets will only be sold on the day of the concert on a first-come, first-ser ve basis, starting at 12:30 p.m. Contact the museum at (732) 932-7237 for more information.

“Atlantic Crossing: A Robot’s Daring Mission” will be screened at 7 p.m. in Voorhees Hall Room 105 on the College Avenue campus as part of the New Jersey Film Festival. Scott Glenn, the lead scientist on the mission, and Dena Seidel, director of the film, will be at the screening for a question and answer session. The feature film is a documentary about a group of University oceanographers and undergraduates who attempt to navigate an 8-foot autonomous underwater robot across the rough and dangerous Atlantic Ocean. This film captures the day-to-day challenges and emotional highs and lows of the historic scientific mission.

Join the Rutgers Graduate School of Education Student Affairs Committee in learning about a successful student-teaching experience from the shared memories and advice of the fall 2010 StudentTeaching Interns. This meetand-greet is an opportunity to connect with faculty, students and other GSE program cohorts. This free event is scheduled to run from 7:45 to 10 p.m. in the Multipurpose Room of the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus.

The Department of Genetics will host a lecture presented by Dr. Karen Schindler from the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Biology on protein kinases and phosphatases that control chromosome dynamics during meiosis in oocytes from 12 to 1 p.m. in the Human Genetics InstituteAuditorium in the Life Sciences Building on Busch campus. This is the first of the Monday seminars presented by the Genetics Department that will occur throughout Januar y and Februar y. Visit genetics.rutgers.edu for more information. To have your event featured on www.dailytargum.com, send University calendar items to university@dailytargum.com.

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Kristen Adele, a Mason Gross graduate student, said earlier in the week she smelled sewage in Jameson Theater on Douglass campus. “Just Monday, I was having dance rehearsal on the theater side and the smell was horrible,” she said. “It’s disgusting.” Despite the efforts of the University’s Facilities Operations and Services, Adele is one of many students who have complained over the classrooms and facilities in the Mason Gross School of Arts, which have suffered because of budget cuts. There are continual frustrations with cleanliness, repairs and temperature in the classrooms, as well as in rehearsal spaces such as Jameson Theater and Little Theater on Douglass campus, said Carol Thompson, general manager of the Rutgers Theater Company. “There have certainly been challenges for both Mason Gross and the University’s utilities, maintenance and custodial departments,” said Thompson, depar tment administrator of the company. “We’ve all been affected by the budget cuts, but the University as a whole has decided some basic ser vices need to be cut in order to protect curriculum.” Mason Gross graduate student Craig Dolezel said the basement in the Jameson Theater frequently backs up with raw sewage, and holes in the basement wall draft the odor into the ground floor rehearsal space. After they found out raw sewage in the basement was the source of the odor, some actors refused to rehearse or train in Jameson Theater for about three weeks last semester, Adele said. Mason Gross senior Breanna Foister said the Jameson Theater’s frequent floods have caused shows to be cancelled in the past, shor tchanging students’ work. “And it’s unfor tunate for the audience members as well because the quality of work deser ves to be seen and recognized, but I wouldn’t want to make the trek to Jameson given the conditions of the space [if I was an audience member],” she said. Tim Giles, a Mason Gross senior, noticed lights that do not work in some of the classrooms where actors rehearse and have classes, and the lack of appropriate flooring increases the risk of injuries since actors do a lot of physical performances. “Mason Gross has one of the most prestigious theater arts

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Little Theater on Douglass Campus is one of several Mason Gross School of the Arts facilities some students are complaining about. Budget cuts have forced the school to downsize custodial staff.

programs in the countr y, but a stage house, but after [the some of the facilities and class- economic crash of] 1929, that rooms need to be kept in better original design had to be modicondition and be more conducive fied so it now has an audience to students,” he said. chamber and a stage was insertBudget cuts have af fected ed in front,” Thompson said. the number of maintenance and “So the building has always custodial staff, Thompson said. been a little quirky because the Because Mason Gross students design is incomplete.” depend on and actively incorpoFoister said when it rains, rate the classroom setting into buckets are placed throughout their performances and train- Little Theater due to leaks, ing, it can be challenging to which is also true for rehearsal maintain them. spaces in Walters The cleanliHall on Douglass ness of the floors campus. “The budget cuts is a resurfacing But Thompson issue for some are understandable, said there have students whose also been many but it leaves us training program repairs done at involves laying on in a bit of a bind.” the theater. the floor for voice “Facilities and BREANNA FOISTER exercises, breathmaintenance did a Mason Gross Senior ing techniques great job with the and posture. new interior paint, “We do a lot of the new shutters physical work like being bare- and they also replaced some of foot on the floor or doing deep the old soffits,” Thompson said. breathing exercises [lying on Still, some students comthe floor], so it’s really impera- plain that the indoor temperative the spaces be clean and ture adjustments are a problem available for that type of use,” as well. Foister said. Mason Gross sophomore Little Theater was built Adam Austerlitz said the pracaround the 1920s and Thompson tice rooms at the Marr yott said it is one of the most beloved Music Building on Douglass buildings in Mason Gross. campus have no air conditionHowever, it is no longer used for ing, which can adversely affect public performances due to his performance as a double issues with the roof, so it remains bass player. a frequent rehearsal space. “When you’re practicing and “The original plan was to you start to sweat, especially if have an audience chamber and you’re a string player like me, it

affects your fingers, thus your performance,” he said. “There are also times during the summer when the rooms get unbearably hot.” A series of thefts also had many students and faculty concerned, and the Dean’s office has worked hard to increase building security by installing cameras and requiring slash cards to gain access to buildings, Thompson said. But Thompson believes there also needs to be a collective effort within the Mason Gross community to look after the facilities. “There have been some cases of theft and one of the reasons is that some of the doors are propped open or unhinged,” she said. “It’s up to the students and the people who are in the room to keep an eye on all open doors, or perhaps lock them in order to prevent any misdemeanors.” As representatives for their respective classes, Foister and Dolezel attend monthly meetings with Head of Design and Production Michael Miller and other class representatives where the issues of sanitation, temperature and maintenance are recurring topics. “The budget cuts are understandable, but it leaves us in a bit of a bind,” Foister said. “Most of us are from out-of-state and we’re paying high tuition rates and it’s unfortunate we have no choice but to work in these spaces.”

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Dirty sewage, water leakage and unclean floors are hindering students from practicing and performing in Mason Gross School of the Arts buildings such as the Little Theater on Douglass campus, above. Students also noted temperature issues and faulty lighting.

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here’s hyperbole, and then there’s plain absurdity. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn. planted his feet firmly in the latter categor y when he compared GOP assaults on health care reform to Nazi propaganda. He even went so far as to use the Holocaust as an example of what happens when people spout these sorts of lies. Cohen is obviously passionate about health care reform, and no one can blame him for that. Regardless of his passion, though, it looks like he needs to step back and gain some perspective on things. Republican opposition to health care reform is a far cr y from Nazi propaganda, even if one takes into account the heated rhetoric with which those Republicans are arguing against the bill. For making a baseless comparison — and lacking the common sense to reevaluate that comparison — Cohen receives a dart. *

In response to the shootings in Tucson, Arizona, President Barack Obama stated that “We should do ever ything we can to make sure this countr y lives up to our children’s expectations.” Who would have thought that a child would be the first one to heed Obama’s call? Isaac Saldana, a nine-year-old boy from Tucson, was so distraught by the shooting that he took it upon himself to sell some of his toys to raise money for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz. Although Saldana only raised a total of $2.85, it is truly the thought that counts in this scenario. American adults should follow Saldana’s example — not exactly by raising money for Giffords, but by learning to feel genuinely compassionate toward their fellow human beings and acting on that compassion. Saldana receives a laurel for effectively showing up a large portion of the American population. *

As college students and journalists, The Daily Targum staff members are particularly fond of caffeinated beverages — but 31 ounces of coffee in a single ser ving seems like overkill. Starbucks does not seem to agree, seeing as they have unveiled their newest size, the Trenta. The Trenta will only be available for cold drinks. Even still — do people really want that much Frappucino at once? Truth be told, Starbuck’s new size is downright gluttonous. Americans tend to have problems when it comes to portion control, and this is not helping. For upping the ante in a totally unnecessar y way, Starbucks receives a dart. Instead of tr ying to sell coffee in larger quantities, they should put more energy into selling coffee with better quality. *

These days, it seems like the University is receiving recommendations from ever yone. First, it was the NJ Higher Education Task Force report. Now, it’s an audit by the State Comptroller. According to the audit, the University does not publicly advertise its contracts. Instead, the University chooses which companies it will do business with from a small list of preferred vendors. State Comptroller Matthew Boxer said that “When public tax dollars are being spent, there is an obligation to avoid unfair favoritism,” and we wholeheartedly agree. The University should be grounding its contract decisions in far more objective criteria than it currently is. Boxer receives a laurel for this audit. The public deser ves to be aware of how the University operates and how it spends money, especially when there is room for improvement. *

As ever yone has surely noticed by now, 3-D is the new trend in visual entertainment. While movie-goers have been gradually more and more inundated with 3-D films since the release of Avatar, television and video game companies have been looking to cash in on the craze as well. But there is a catch. The American Optometric Association estimates that as many as one in four Americans have suffered from dizziness and nausea, among other inflictions, as a result of viewing 3-D entertainment. It is bad enough that so many people spend their days consuming brainless television programming. The last thing they need is for that brainless television to start damaging their physical health as well as their mental wellbeing. For being both a cheap gimmick and a health hazard, 3-D television receives a dart. At any rate, do we really want Avatar to become the new standard for cinema?

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There is one option for took my first official these people. You must visit to Hur tado become the problem and Health Center on the the antithesis at the same College Avenue campus time. Let me explain yesterday in all my four because it is the “if you years at the University. I can’t beat them, join them” have visited University philosophy with a twist. health care facilities ver y NEIL P. KYPERS Basically, my roommates infrequently; I could count are messy slobs because them on my hand I am they act as if no one else lives with them. They sure. Yet this trip was reminiscent of one of my are even audacious enough to complain about childhood tales, the one where the mouse takes the mess when it is the result of their actions and the thorn from the paw of a lion. I happen to be how much they like the cleanliness when their the lion in this stor y. The mouse was a ver y nice contribution to cleaning was logging into World nurse who dug the piece of glass from my foot. of Warcraft. To combat this, I realized I have to The ver y small piece of glass lodged in my foot act as if I am the only person who lives there and for the past four days caused me great discomam cleaning up my own mess. All those dishes in fort and sometimes pain. There is nothing more the sink; I eat a lot of food. Pans left on the stove frustrating than having to go to a doctor and with Pasta Sides remains in them while the burnwaste their time and tools on something that er is on; I was getting forgetful and sloppy. Cups, could have easily been prevented. I would like to ash and anything else that can get collected on a say that ever y person at Hurtado who helped me college coffee table is again all my mess. This was wonderful and that they do a fantastic job. makes the miserable event of cleaning up after These anecdotes are to ser ve as a cautionar y people not less painful, but acceptable. tale and maybe advice to those in a similar posiSomeone has to do what othtion. Many days before I stepped ers are not willing to. There must on the glass, someone had broken “My roommates be someone who is willing to take a glass in my apartment. I only responsibility even if it is a knew this because I found a large are messy slobs shared residence. I cannot conpiece of it in the sink — this because they act done becoming a parent who is should give you a good idea of scolding their roommates how well it was cleaned up. Now, I as if no one else because they again left their am the only person who bothers clothes on the bathroom floor or to sweep and clean the floor on lives with them.” spilled soda and did not bother to any sor t of basis, probably clean it up. That was their parbecause I am the only person I ents’ job, and if someone missed the impor tant trust to do it well. Unfortunately, I believe this is lessons of cour tesy and consideration — and the reason for the glass in my foot. Had I left the basic household rules — I won’t succeed in getmess untouched the glass may have remained ting the message through. You can’t teach an stationar y in its dark corner of the kitchen for old dog new tricks. You can, however, follow millennia. Instead I swept and pulled it onto the that old dog around and when he makes a mess floor so I could step on it. on the carpet accept that he does not know any There is nothing more annoying than walking better and clean it up. around one’s residence barefoot and picking up It is a lesson in tenacity — perhaps one of the dirt, rocks, hair and glass with their feet — it is most valuable ones I have learned. I know there something that just should not happen. It is are many out there who must suf fer in this type impossible to keep a floor clean I have learned of environment. Yet, it is better than the alterthough. Ultimately, by tr ying to be tidy I hurt native, as I have lived in that as well. Trash in myself — ironic. While my roommates, one who ever y room, on the floor, television and table. usually sports a room so full of clothes and Be strong my colleagues of clean. Do not give garbage there are clearly defined stepping into the disorder that is so easy to accept — places, remains untouched by such maladies. combat entropy at ever y turn. Just watch out Not only are they untouched, but they are insufor glass. lated from the frustration one feels who wants to live in an environment with some semblance of Neil P. Kypers is a School of Ar ts and Sciences cleanliness. This goes out to all of the people who senior majoring in political science. He is the are not clean freaks but live in less than clean editor-in-chief of The Daily Targum. environments. You will never win.

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sparks 11-0 run against Bulls continued from back Beatty answered with a spot-up 3pointer from straight on. Coburn added a conversion of his own from 3-point land moments later, and the Knights found themselves with a 50-46 lead with 7:46 to play. Beatty opened the second stanza on a tear from beyond the arc, with 3-pointers on three straight possessions after making just one shot over the first half’s entirety. Combined with an authoritative drive and dunk from Miller, the 6-foot-2 guard led Rutgers on an 11-0 run and a 36-30 advantage to the dismay of South Florida head coach Stan Heath. “[Beatty] really turned it up and ignited the fire for us to build and move forward and get the win,” Coburn said. The Bulls continued the recent trend of Big East opponents asserting their will to begin the second half against the Knights, scoring five straight points to take a 30-25 lead. Rice called a timeout immediately following a converted 3pointer from USF’s Shaun Noriega less than a minute into the second period of play. “At times in the second half, we struggled to score,” said Beatty, who scored 20 points in 35 minutes of action. “In the first half we played so hard, and in the second half we always let it get out of our hands. Tonight we made plays.” Rutgers took a 25-22 lead on its final possession of the half off of a Coburn 3-pointer, but USF’s Hugh Robertson answered with a 3-pointer of his own before the halftime buzzer. The Bulls shot only 31.8 percent from the field in the first half, but nailed four baskets

THROWDOWN: All points crucial in tight matchup continued from back in the 157-pound weight class. “I know [Dong] is someone that likes to go out there and be excited, but I just have to wrestle at my pace and slow things down.” In a match that could easily see both sides take five bouts apiece, bonus points would decide the outcome. A regular decision earns three points for the team score while a major decision — a decision with a margin of victor y greater than eight points — yields four points for the team. If a wrestler wins his match by more than 15 points, the team gets five points and the team can win six points if there is either a pin or a forfeit. Bonus points were the deciding factor on Nov. 27, when the Knights upset Missouri, 19-16. “[Bonus points] are not something we tend to talk about,” said senior Alex Caruso. “Ever yone just takes it one match at a time and if there are bonus points out there to get, then everyone is going to do what it takes to get them.” However, Rutgers was not the only team in recent histor y to take advantage of bonus points, as they were the clincher on Jan. 8 when Virginia Tech knocked of f then-No. 2 Oklahoma State by an 18-16 score at the National Duals.

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Senior forward Jonathan Mitchell tied for a game-high 20 points at the Louis Brown Athletic Center, where he carried the Scarlet Knights’ scoring load in the first half en route to a 71-62 victory over South Florida.

from downtown during the first 20 minutes. Senior forward Jonathan Mitchell carried the Knights offensively during the middle stages of the first half, converting two free throws and a contested 3-pointer that brought the crowd to its feet. The 6-foot-8 senior, along with Coburn, were the only Knights to register more than one field goal in the first stanza. Mitchell finished the contest with 20 points,

while Coburn added 13 points off the bench. The Bulls’ Augustus Gilchrist capitalized on the Knights’ scoring drought with an alley-oop that gave South Florida its first lead at 14-13 with 7:51 remaining in the first half. Rice called a timeout following the play and inserted seldomused guard Charlie Rigoglioso, but the damage had been done — the Knights relinquished an early 13-8 advantage.

But the fan support, largely an unknown commodity, provided a key difference from past letdowns at the RAC. “It was unbelievable,” Rice said of the crowd. “What comes first? It’s the chicken or the egg type thing. I know if we win that we’re going to get the fans. God, did they really help us win a ballgame today. They had the energy, they had the passion. They made it fun.”

The Hokies also took down ranked opponents in Wisconsin and Central Michigan at the Duals before falling to No. 1 Cornell. But past triumphs on both sides matter naught when the two clash in front of what should be a raucous crowd. “That’s just part of the storyline. They are confident,” Goodale said. “Part of the reason they are excited is because they know we are going to put some people in

the stands. They probably don’t get that everyday in Blacksburg.” The Rutgers’ crowd could help bring the best out of some Knights who may not be favored in their matchup. “Every weight class has a job to do,” Goodale said. “Where we are outmanned, we need to wrestle hard. We have to keep ourselves in the match. People say it’s not a team sport, but it’s going to take a total team effort to win.”

And if Rutgers is able to hold its own and win the toss-up matches, the Knights would certainly be on track to enter the top 10 in the coaches’ poll — just another plaque on the wall of a program on the rise. “We definitely have the talent and the wrestlers [to be a top-10 team],” said Caruso, who spent his first four years at perennial powerhouse Lehigh. “[Tonight] is all about being focused and having the intensity to get the job done.”

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After spending four years with Lehigh, fifth-year senior Alex Caruso returned to New Jersey to wrestle with Rutgers and boasts a 23-7 record to go along with his No. 18 ranking at 174 pounds.

It took 18 games into his career with the Rutgers men’s basketball team for Mike Poole to earn his first MEN’S BASKETBALL start. It took just RUTGERS AT o n e SETON HALL, game to equal TOMORROW, NOON the total number of losses from his senior season at St. Benedict’s Prep. The freshman guard started last night against South Florida, finishing with five points and three rebounds in a 71-62 win at the Louis Brown Athletic Center. Now, into the heart of the Big East schedule with a rivalry matchup against Seton Hall (8-11, 25) tomorrow, Poole is only interested in a return to his winning ways. “Winning the game is the hardest thing to do in basketball right now,” the 6-foot-5, 190-pounder said. “Everything else in life seems easier than winning the game. In Big East basketball, to win a game is so difficult. You have to limit every mistake. You have to be the toughest team.” That holds even more true entering tomorrow’s afternoon tipoff in Newark. New Jersey’s two Big East programs followed the same trajectory over the past few years, and each brought in new coaches this year with Mike Rice and Kevin Willard. Each is attempting to grab a stranglehold on the hotbed for college recruiting — something Poole saw firsthand at one of the nation’s top high school programs. While teammate Gilvydas Biruta committed to Rutgers (11-7, 2-4) during his junior year, Poole did not make a decision until May after Rice took over the program. “I figured I would be somewhere in these Big Six conferences, but I didn’t think 20 minutes a game as a freshman,” Poole said. “I didn’t know I’d be this important to a team as a freshman. That’s just shocking, but I guess hard work pays off.” The season has not been without setbacks for the Rosedale, N.Y., native. He had a simple response when asked how to avoid freshman mistakes. “You can’t,” he said. “When you step on the court, they’re going to be like, ‘That’s the freshman, that’s the freshman — pressure him,’ and I know that. You’re going to make mistakes because that’s life, but to limit them, you just have to be confident. That’s how I feel when I step on the court, like I’m the best player out there.” With that mindset, Poole averages 6.9 points and 3.7 rebounds per game. But it means nothing to Poole without the results, and the next opportunity — and one of the most coveted ones — comes tomorrow at the Prudential Center. The guard who knows a little something about big-time New Jersey basketball wants to get back to his winning ways. “I remember in high school, we prepared the whole season to play St. Patrick because that was our rival,” Poole said. “We want to beat them — twice. You want to be better than your rivals. That’s why you play basketball.”

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utgers football seniors Jonathan Freeny and Antonio Lower y will participate in the Eastham Energy College All-Star Game on Jan. 23 in Tempe, Ariz. The inaugural All-Star game will be played at Sun Devil Stadium. Lower y led the Scarlet Knights with 108 tackles last season as a starting linebacker and finished with 189 tackles over his career. Freeny recorded 93 tackles for his career and led the team with 9.5 sacks in his junior season as part of the defensive line rotation. He finished with just half a sack last year in his only season as a starter.

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Junior guard Khadijah Rushdan is the leading scorer for the Knights this season, averaging 14.0 points per contest. The Wilmington, Del., native is left to shoulder much of the load in the backcourt in the absence of junior guard Nikki Speed, who is out indefinitely with an ankle injury.

Knights hobble into conference matchup BY SAM HELLMAN CORRESPONDENT

The way head coach C. Vivian Stringer sees it, she’s stealing time. With the roster stretched thin as it is and with the loss of junior guard Nikki Speed to an ankle injur y WOMENS BASKETBALL for an undeterPROVIDENCE AT mined RUTGERS period of SATURDAY, 2:00 P.M. time, the Rutgers women’s basketball team needs to overcome its fatigue to maintain one of the top spots in the Big East standings, Stringer said. “We have to somehow be able to steal time until we can get Nikki [back],” Stringer said. “And even when we get Nikki, we still need to be very diplomatic. We need to steal some time. We need to steal minutes and opportunities in a game. I’ve got to do a

better job of making sure the kids are rested.” The Scarlet Knights (11-6, 4-0) remain tied for first place in Big East play with Connecticut and DePaul after road wins over both Syracuse and Cincinnati and took every second of their seven-day lag between games to heal up and prepare for what’s on the horizon. “We’re making it by a thread, and I do think that I am perfectly pleased [because] we’ve been trying,” Stringer said. “We’ve been doing better. I think that everybody has stepped up.” With Speed out, Stringer moved sophomore Erica Wheeler into the starting lineup, but the biggest adjustment was for freshman Daisha Simmons, who goes from a 10-minute per game guard to the first player off the bench. “I think she’s happy, and I think that the more she plays, the more confident she is going to become and the more confident

we are going to be,” Stringer said of Simmons, who upped her average to three points and 17 minutes per game. “I just have to really spend time and tell her from my eyes what’s going on.” The first task on tap for Rutgers, which returns to the Louis Brown Athletic Center tomorrow at 2 p.m. after two weeks away, is Providence. The Friars (9-8, 2-3) come off a road win against Villanova and have four wins in their last six appearances. Guards Symone Roberts and Mi-Khida Hankins, the only players averaging double-digits in scoring for Providence, present a threat on the perimeter. “Their guard-play is definitely tough,” said junior guard Khadijah Rushdan. “They don’t play a big [starting] five, so we need our post players to be able to play against their perimeter players to be successful.”

Providence is not the primary challenge in Rutgers’ crosshairs, however, as the ever-dominant Connecticut Huskies are next for the Knights. Rutgers is the last Big East team to take down the Huskies, but that win came more than three years ago. Rushdan, who is the team’s co-leader in scoring with 14 points per game, said that the best way to stay prepared before Connecticut is to focus on Providence first. “It is definitely important to focus on Providence,” she said. “We can’t get lackadaisical just because big, bad Connecticut is coming. We have been winning the last few games because we keep coming out stronger. It is important that we play even better than we’ve been playing, and we can’t look past Providence because that’s how you lose.”

Qualifications on table as RU travels to Navy BY LIZ SWERN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Competition heats up this weekend for the Rutgers men’s track and field team as it heads down to Annapolis, Md., for a quad-meet at Navy’s Wesley A. Brown MEN’S TRACK F i e l d House. RUTGERS AT The NAVY Scarlet SATURDAY Knights will compete against three regional programs in Rhode Island, Temple and the host Midshipmen. “This week is for real,” said senior Aaron Younger. “This is the first week a lot of the guys are going to run their main events.” Going into the meet many members of the team set goals for each of their races in hopes of ultimately qualifying for the

Big East Championships and to attain a qualifying time for IC4A championship meets later the IC4A. in the season. Freshmen on the team contin“I’d like to run a very good ue to look to these early meets to time in the 500 [meter],” get comfortable competing at the Younger said. “I don’t really want college level. to set a number on it, but I know “My goal is to run a 62-second after last week I can 500 [meter],” said run a fast time if I get freshman Corey out strong and push Caidenhead. “I also the pace.” want to do well in the Big East qualifying 4x400 [relay] to gain standards allow for more experience and competitors to qualify get used to competing in the 500-meter run with tough opponents.” with times in the 400Caidenhead also meter dash but the secured a Big East AARON IC4A qualifying stanqualifying time of YOUNGER dards do not. 1:05.04 in the 500-meter Younger qualified run at the Metropolitan for the Big East with his time of Coaches Invitational. 48.37 seconds in the 400-meter Off the track, the Knights are dash two weeks ago at the seeking goals in the field events Metropolitan Coaches as well. Freshman jumper Devin Invitational in New York City, Jones has set lofty goals for himbut has yet to run the 500-meter self in the upcoming

meet, as well as those in the coming weeks. “I know this meet isn’t that big, but I’m a competitor,” Jones said. “Every meet I come out trying to break a goal or a record.” Jones is quickly approaching the school’s indoor record in the triple jump of 50 feet 7 inches. At the New York Army Invitational, he won the triple jump with a leap of 15.21 meters, just shy of 50 feet. “For this meet I want to go 50plus feet in the triple jump,” Jones said. Big East Championships are at the end of Februar y, with IC4As following two weeks later in March. “I’m looking for ward to this weekend,” Younger said. “I’m hoping that after this meet we can start to look like the championship caliber team we know we can be.”

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its offensive coordinating vacancy yesterday with the addition of Steve Kragthorpe, who will replace former offensive coordinator Gary Crowton after he left the team earlier this week to take a job at Maryland. Kragthorpe, a former head coach at Louisville and Tulsa, also worked in the NFL with the Buffalo Bills as a quarterbacks coach and looks to improve upon the Tigers’ 86thranked offense.

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back Cedric Everson was convicted of a misdemeanor assault yesterday stemming from a 2007 sexual encounter with a female athlete who said she passed out and did not give consent. Everson originally faced a possible 25 years in prison, but now will face no more than 30 days behind bars following his sentencing on Feb. 25.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS quarterback Tom Brady underwent surgery on his right foot and will not participate in the Pro Bowl on Jan. 30 in Hawaii. Brady played a majority of the season with a stress fracture. Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Matt Cassel will replace Brady in the Pro Bowl.

THE NEW YORK YANKEES agreed to a one-year, $2 million-contract with 33-year-old outfielder Andruw Jones on Thursday. Entering into his 15th season, Jones once won 10 straight Gold Gloves and played in 75 postseason games. Jones finished his last season with the Chicago White Sox with 19 home runs and 48 RBIs.

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Metrodome may take five to six months to repair after a snowstorm caused it to collapse last month. A six-month construction will interfere with the Minnesota Vikings preseason play. Possible replacements for the Vikings exhibition games include TCF Bank Stadium at the University of Minnesota, where the Vikings played their final home game of the 2010 season.

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THROWDOWN Total of 12 ranked wrestlers hit mat as No. 3 Virginia Tech clashes with No. 14 Rutgers in biggest matchup in RU wrestling history at RAC

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125 No. 13 Jarrod Garnett, (20-5)

Matt Fusco, (16-9)

133 No. 8 Devin Carter, (22-5)

Mike DeMarco, (16-9)

141 No. 13 Chris Diaz, (22-5)

Trevor Melde, (21-8)

149 No. 8 Brian Stephens, (21-6)

No. 4 Mario Mason, (20-3)

157 No. 8 Jesse Dong, (21-3)

No. 17 Daryl Cocozzo, (20-5)

Key Bout 165 No. 15 Peter Yates, (20-5)

No. 7 Scott Winston, (14-2)

All of the matches are key for both teams, but none bigger than the 165-pound bout. The biggest recruit in team history, Winston faces off against fellow sophomore Peter Yates in a battle of two top-15 grapplers. JEFFREY LAZARO / SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Sophomore Scott Winston only dropped two bouts thus far coupled with 14 victories in his first season back from redshirting. The former Jackson Memorial standout never lost a match in his high school career.

BY A.J. JANKOWSKI ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

Five times the Rutgers wrestling team competed at the Louis Brown Athletic Center and five times it came away victorious. But the No. 14 Scarlet Knights will put that perfect record on the line at the RAC tonight when No. 3 Virginia Tech marches into Piscataway. “There’s been a lot of hype about our team this year. It’s going to be a big match,” said senior Daryl Cocozzo. “Everybody’s got to

wrestle their match. Everybody has to take that next step.” The Hokies (13-3) mark the toughest challenge for head coach Scott Goodale’s squad since Nov. 21, when the Knights (16-1) faced Penn State — the No. 2 team in the country. Rutgers fell to the Nittany Lions, 22-10, but have not lost since, winning 12 in a row. Virginia Tech will certainly test that streak. “What we need to do tomorrow is to wrestle hard for seven minutes,” Goodale said. “The one thing that stands out from watch-

ing them is they are ver y athletic in ever y situation. They are mat rats. So if we get them in a hold, we have to be able to keep it.” The clash of the two up-andcoming programs features 12 grapplers ranked in the top 20 of their respective weight classes and three bouts will pit one ranked wrestler against another. “It’s a big match, but I like to approach ever y match the same,” said No. 17 Cocozzo, who will face off against No. 8 Jesse Dong

174 Matt Epperly, (10-8)

No. 18 Alex Caruso, (23-7)

184 No. 19 Tommy Spellman, (12-7)

Dan Rinaldi, (15-5)

197 Chris Penny, (9-16)

Mike Wagner, (10-11)

HVY No. 4 DJ Russo, (18-3)

David Marone, (12-6)

Tonight — 7:00 p.m. — Louis Brown Athletic Center No. 14 Rutgers vs No. 3 Virginia Tech Free student admission — Free Rutgers bag to first 250

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Second-half scoring carries RU to win BY TYLER BARTO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

The Rutgers men’s basketball team came into the season knowing it would MEN’S BASKETBALL be a struggle to SOUTH FLORIDA 62 m a i n t a i n RUTGERS 71 of fensive consistency in the rugged Big East conference. But luckily for the Scarlet Knights, their offense worked in their favor against South Florida in the second half last night, when Rutgers shot 55.6 percent from the field in a 71-62 victory at the Louis Brown Athletic Center. “I thought we made some adjustments [after the first half],” said head coach Mike Rice, whose team shot just 34.8 percent from the field in the first 20 minutes. “We went to dribble handoffs, we went to more slips. I thought our purpose in our offense was so much better in the second half.”

Senior point guard James Beatty found fellow senior Mike Coburn underneath the net with four minutes to go, and the senior shooting guard made good on the pass, giving the Knights a nine-point lead — their largest since the initial stages of the first half. Sophomore wing Dane Miller converted on a field goal attempt on the next Rutgers (11-7, 2-4) possession to stretch its advantage to 61-50 — the Knights’ first doubledigit cushion. “We’ve been here, we’ve been through the ropes, and we know what it takes for us to be aggressive and get good scoring,” said Coburn, who started the game on the bench for the first time this season. Rutgers and South Florida (7-13, 1-6) traded baskets on a handful of possessions midway through the second half. The Bulls continued to maintain a one-score cushion until

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Senior point guard James Beatty tied for a team-high 20 points in last night’s 71-62 win over South Florida, going 4-for-8 from 3-point range to help Rutgers establish its lead in the second half.