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The day after adding a heralded 24-player recruiting class, Rutgers head football coach Greg Schiano announced the hiring of tight ends coach Brian Angelichio.
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New LED lights decrease city’s carbon footprint
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Some South Plainfield residents may have witnessed a gradual integration of solar panels to the central New Jersey utility poles in the past two years because of an expanding solar program. PSE&G partnered with clean energy company Petra Solar to create the program and last week, opened a new network operations center in South Plainfield, said Mary Grikas, vice president of Communications at Petra Solar. The new center will allow for the direct monitoring and management of panels around the world. “We developed [the center] and the SunWave Energy Por tal software to help monitor and control the entire system and support utilities,” she said. “Utilities companies are tr ying to control and manage the energy coming into the grid to keep the grid stable.” Grikas said Petra Solar’s technologies provide an innovative model for integration with the grid because they allow companies to monitor and control the voltage levels of individual panels. Each panel also comes with a micro conver ter that allows energy to connect directly to the grid, she said. “The trend is for utilities to deploy renewable products that don’t deteriorate the integrity of the grid,” she said. “With solar energy, voltage levels go up and down [due to the weather and sun], and this is hard on the grid.” This model also fits into New Jersey’s broader energy master plan, said Clinton Andrews, director of the Urban Planning program at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. “The New Jersey energy master plan emphasizes three things — environmental improvements such as reducing greenhouse gases, economic progress [which means ensuring
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New Br unswick is taking strides to reduce its electricity bill and carbon footprint with the installation of single-headed LED light fixtures along George Street. The fixtures, which line the road from New Street to Church Street, are par t of the George Street Reconstruction Project, said city spokesman Bill Bray. The LED lampposts bur n 100 watts of electricity and replaced double-headed mercur y vapor light fixtures that burned 350 watts, reducing the city’s electrical use for street lighting by 43 percent, Bray said. “Besides saving tax payer money, we’re doing our par t to save the planet and combat climate change,” he said. New Br unswick spends $900,000 on street lighting each year, Bray said. Out of the 47 LED fixtures on George Street, each
New energy-efficient LED streetlights will save the city of New Brunswick $216,000 over their 12-year life span and reduce the city’s electrical use by 43 percent.
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BUDGET CUTS LIMIT 2011 RUTGERSFEST PERFORMERS Due to budget cuts, the Rutgers University Programming Association chose only two per formers — rapper Pitbull and electro-pop duo 3OH!3 — instead of the usual three for this year’s Rutgersfest. “We get a budget that depends on the school and from that budget we work on concer t ideas with our middle manager agent, then we pick ar tists that will best suit the University and its population,” said RUPA Rutgersfest committee member Elise Powers. The budget was an issue when determining the ar tists and eliminating choices for ar tists,
said Powers, a School of Ar ts and Sciences sophomore. Since the University has such a diverse population, RUPA tries to get it all in one shot and book artists that will not cater to one genre but the whole community, said Mariah Presbery, a RUPA Rutgersfest committee member. “We tr y to give students the best experience they can get, and get an artist that will satisfy the majority of the population on our budget of around $95,000,” said Presber y, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore. The festival will take place on April 15 this year, but not on its usual campus.
Due to construction on Livingston, Rutgersfest this year will be moved to Busch campus, Presber y said. The more than 200 people in attendance received more than a Michael Jackson tribute at RUPA’s King of Pop event last night, as they were among the first to know the identity of the per formers. Musical acts Chaos Theory, RU Breaks and I.O.U. and a Jackson impersonator performed at the tribute event at the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus. —Anastasia Millicker
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Female physicist earns praise for advocacy BY ELIZABETH ZWIRZ CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Physics Professor Emerita Noemie Benczer Koller contributed more than five decades of professional work to the physics community, but she also spent her professional life advocating for the rights of her fellow scientists. Recommended by her peers, Koller was nominated for the 2010 Nicholson Medal for Human Outreach, an annual award recognizing the humanitarian aspect of physics and physicists. “Noemie has given up many hours of her professional life to making a difference for scientists who are persecuted around the world and unable to pursue their science,” said University physics Professor Jolie Cizewski, who nominated Noemie. At a time when the student body and faculty were entirely male, Koller began working at the
University in 1960 and was the first woman hired at Rutgers College and its physics department. “I knew it was a men’s college, but I didn’t realize the faculty was all men. I was very naïve at the time,” Koller said. Women who did work at the University usually worked at Douglass College, she said. “The physics department was kind and normal,” she said. “I never realized it was a special situation. The department was very friendly and I wasn’t worried about it.” But Koller star ted to get involved with gender issues when she became the first female faculty member to receive tenure at the University. The first project she pursued ensured that women in physics were given the same oppor tunities as men. She and her team analyzed the income of the
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Ananya Roy, a leading scholar in comparative urban studies and international development, will present a lecture entitled, “The Urban Centur y: Ecologies and Epistemologies of Dwelling in the Global South.” In this talk, she will present an analysis of global urbanism, paying particular attention to cities of the global south. Roy is a professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California-Berkeley. The lecture will take place at the Alexander Library in the fourth floor lecture hall at 4:30 p.m. It will be followed by a reception.
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Spike Lee is a notable writer, director, producer, actor and author who revolutionized both the landscape of independent cinema and the role of black talent in film. Widely regarded as a premiere African-American filmmaker, Lee is a forerunner in the “do it yourself” school of filmmaking. He will speak at 8 p.m. in the Livingston Student Center Multipurpose Room. Writers House and Rutgers University Programming Association will sponsor the event. It is free and open to the public. For more information please contact Rhea Ramey at 732-932-7380 or rhea.ramey@rutgers.edu. Those interested on taking part in a research project are welcome to attend the Spring Undergraduate Research Mixer from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Cook Campus Center Multipurpose Room. The Undergraduate Research Mixer provides an oppor tunity for undergraduate students to discover research programs and specific research projects. Some of these programs require research assistants and are sometimes paid positions. Undergraduates can be recruited for independent research projects or senior honors programs for the spring or fall semesters. Please confirm attendance by emailing joanba@echo.rutgers.edu.
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Rutgers Night Live cast members Bryton McGrath, Daniel Conroy and Kelsey Flanigan act in an original scene last semester. The sketch comedy group is scheduled to entertain again this Friday and Saturday night in the Cabaret Theatre on Douglass campus.
Comedy group to perform second installment Students to showcase original sketches, digital shorts inspired by NBC’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ BY HEATHER TEDESCO
Nero, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, never expected the show to be as popuRutgers Night Live (RNL), lar as it is. an original sketch comedy “This is something I’ve been show in the spirit of NBC’s dreaming about since high “Saturday Night Live,” aims to school, and there’s no doubt in enter tain University students my mind that this will be a show with topical sketches and digi- to remember,” he said. tal shorts Friday and Saturday RNL’s first performances feanight at the Cabaret Theatre on tured the musical talent of Douglass campus. University singing group Deep “We’ve been working really Treble as well as the comedy of hard over a shor t period of its host, School of Ar ts and time,” said Ryan Tomczyk, an Sciences junior Boris Van Der RNL actor and School of Arts Ree, Nero said. and Sciences sophomore. “It’s Some roles from the first going to be a faninstallment will tastic show and be reprised this “This is something weekend, while you’ll be sorr y if you miss it.” I’ve been dreaming new actors and The RNL cast writers are about since consists of memalso on board, bers from the he said. high school ... University’s Plans for improvisational This will be a show another installcomedy troupes A ment of RNL to remember.” for Ef for t and that would open No Diving, as in April are in DOMINICK NERO well as cast the works, and School of Arts members from the Nero said the and Sciences Sophomore College Avenue cast looks forPlayers’ Comic ward to producRelief, Tomczyk said. ing additional performances of The show will feature a news RNL during the next school year segment called The Medium and beyond. News Minute, written and perNero said his dream formed by staff of the is for the show to University’s satirical newspaper, become a legacy within the The Medium, said John Bender, University’s community. the show’s host. “Rutgers Night Live is not “It’s the Batman utility belt the kind of show you can find at of sketch comedy,” said any other university,” Nero said. Bender, a School of Arts and The Cabaret Theatre, which Sciences senior. is dedicated to putting on stuLords of Liechtenstein, dent-run theatre productions, made up of School of Arts and has already sold out the RNL Sciences senior Dan 8:30 p.m. Friday performance, Rauchwerk and his younger but tickets are still available for brother Noah Rauchwerk, is the 8:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. the night’s musical guest. The Saturday per formances, brothers, who describe their he said. music as alternative, will perTickets for the performancform four songs at RNL. es are $5 for general admission This performance marks the and $3 with a University issued second installment of the come- identification card, Nero said. dy series, because the first two Because of the response to the sold-out shows in November November per formances, he indicated demand for more suggested reser vations be sent appearances, said Dominick via e-mail to cabtheNero, the show’s creator. atre@gmail.com. CONTRIBUTING WRITER
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School of Arts and Sciences sophomore Stephen Hilger performs in front of a sold-out show. This semester’s performance will feature the Lords of Liechtenstein as the musical guest.
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School of Arts and Sciences First-year students Bianca Rivera and Jacquelyn Cotton, right, topple a game of Jenga at last night’s Class of 2014 First Semester Survival Party in the Student Activities Center on the College Avenue Campus. The Rutgers University Programming Association sponsored the event.
PANELS: NJ legislation calls to increase solar power continued from front affordable energy] and energy security,” said Andrews, the University’s solar decathlon team advisor. Because New Jersey does not have any natural energy resources, it is a challenge to find companies that fit these three objectives, he said. In that way, Petra Solar has come up with a superior solution. By providing additional benefits and functionalities to utilities and distribution systems, Petra Solar of fers more than just providing a mass of power, said Frank Felder, director of the University’s Center for Energy, Economics and Environmental Policy at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. “There may be additional costs, but there may be additional benefits,” he said. Andrews said he believes integrating the wires with the grid might prove useful as the economy becomes more electricity-dependent. “In a lot of cases, we are switching toward electricity from other fuels like natural gas and oil,” he said. “You can’t move electricity without wires. The grid is going to stick around.” But the distributed nature of the solar system requires a lot
of monitoring, Andrews said. “We’re tr ying to figure out how well a pole-top strategy is working,” he said. “No one has ever done it before, so there is need for extra monitoring.” The solar company’s technologies provide flexibility and control to other utility companies, Andrews said. “The Petra Solar model can be one element of many things operating in parallel, such as pole-top panels, solar farms like the one on Livingston campus and rooftop panels,” he said. By providing distributed solar energy from panels spread out over the state on existing utility poles, Petra Solar does not have to spend money purchasing land for solar farms, building and staffing a power plant or setting up new electricity wires, Grikas said. Felder said New Jersey also has an aggressive solar program. “New Jersey has a legislative mandate to increase solar power between now and 2025,” he said. “[The mandate states] that over time, 20 percent of the energy purchased by utilities must be from renewable sources and about 2 percent should be solar.” Felder said New Jersey has a wide range of solar initiatives from small-scale individual panels to solar farms. “I think over time we will see which work the best, and it may be a combination,” he said.
PRAISE: Koller mentors students through Project SUPER continued from front analyzed the income of the employed University faculty and discovered that women were grossly underpaid. Koller said despite the worthiness of her cause, her standing at the college was a main component of her research. “I had tenure at this time. Without this, you don’t do anything,” she said. Other than her research, Koller also worked with the Forum on International Physics, a gathering of physicists interested in international affairs and spreading physics to places where there are no books or teachers. The for um instituted programs where they can exchange students and faculty members, a par tnership developed between dif ferent groups in Europe and America, she said. “We didn’t have enough people in the group to do what we wanted to do and Europe didn’t either, so we collaborated,” Koller said. Cizewski, who has known and worked with Koller for more than 20 years, said Koller works on the behalf of scientists who are unable to do the work in their home countries or have trouble coming to give presentations in the United States.
one will save the city $32 per month, which totals $18,000 saved per year. “The lamps are projected to last 12 years before the LED component needs to be replaced,” Bray said. “You’d usually bur n three sets of light bulbs in that time. Over their 12 year lifetime, the lights will save $216,000.” LED street lights will eliminate emissions equivalent to 40,420 pounds of carbon dioxide, he said. “It’s like taking 20 tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually out of the atmosphere,” Bray said. The lights are par t of a pilot program the city has in collaboration with PSE&G, which is funded by a $100,000 grant from Middlesex County, Bray said. Each single-headed light is focused to shine on cer tain areas of the street, which amounts to less light pollution, he said. “PSE&G is working with the city to see how ef fective the lights are,” Bray said. “We’re ver y thankful for these lights. They’re not usually a standard fixture available for streets and roadways. They’re cuttingedge stuf f.” For now, New Br unswick is replacing any bur nt out mercur y vapor lamps with induction lamps from PSE&G, Bray said. Induction lamps, which PSE&G began installing in New Jersey municipalities, are brighter, last four times longer and cost less to operate than the existing model, said Koller is also one of the leading experimental nuclear physicists around the world and has made a dif ference to many scientists, she said. “She has absolutely been an inspiration, to me in par ticular,” she said. To write a suppor ting letter for her nomination, Cizewski also contacted Stanford University Professor Herman Winick, a long-time friend of Koller.
“I do physics because I like it and I help students, because I like them. It’s all a joyride.” NOEMIE KOLLER Physics Professor Emerita
In his recommendation letter, Winick said Koller worked on human rights for scientists, noting her work with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical Society and Committee on Inter national Freedom of Scientists. “This prize is a welldeser ved recognition for the outstanding outreach work that Noemie has done during her long career in areas such as gender issues, human rights and inter national
Nicole Swan, a business analyst for PSE&G. “This program is a win-win for the communities we ser ve,” said Ralph LaRossa, PSE&G’s president and chief operating of ficers in a press release. “It brings a new green source of lighting to our neighborhoods as it provides some relief to municipal budgets.” Bray said the city received no complaints about the lights thus far. “They’ve been up for several months now and we haven’t received any complaints,” he said. “For most people, they don’t realize what they are walking by.” One employee at Har vest Moon Brewer y, located at 392 George St., complained about the lights, more specifically about their absence in front of the restaurant. “They re-paved and put lights on the entire street except for this one block,” Dario Galati said, general manager at the brewery. “We have to wait until May to get them, but they still closed our block during construction.” The road between Church Street and Albany Street would be paved and lined with LED lights after the construction’s break for the school year, Bray said. As long as LED technology evolves rapidly enough, the city will be able to af ford installing the lights on other streets, he said. “Stores like Home Depot have a growing offering of LED lights,” Bray said. “You can buy them for your home and get the same type of energy savings through their use.” The entire George Street Reconstruction Project, the only reconstruction on the street since 1984, will take less than two and a half years, he said. physics,” he said in the letter. In terms of physics, Koller became involved with student mentoring in the labs through Project SUPER, Science for Undergraduates: A Program for the Excellence in Research. Project SUPER, which is a par t of the Douglass Project for Rutgers Women in Math, Science and Engineering, is an enrichment program that provides programming and oppor tunities for undergraduate women pursuing the sciences, Cizewski said. Even though she is now retired, Koller continues basic research with her students, who she said are happy to still have her. “I never noticed it while I was working with the students,” she said. “It’s always many years later when you meet them again somewhere. They’ll tell you that you were an inspiration and gave them so much confidence.” Koller said it is both her love of her students and her love of physics that keep her going ever y day, despite obstacles in her way. “It’s not a program, it’s the way I am. This is not something I wake up in the morning and say, ‘What do I have planned for today?’” she said. “I do physics because I like it and I help students because I like them. It’s all a joyride.”
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“For a majority of Detroiters, it is a black and white thing. Politics are racial,” After witnessing firsthand Rodney said. how people become disenRodney learned the majority gaged from political corr up- of black residents only believe tion, Detroit natives Andrew an individual of color will be able Rodney and Daniel Falconer to effectively represent them. brought the stor y of their On the local level, racially hometown’s str uggle to factionalized voting increased the screen. Detroit’s hardships by giving Their film “Deforce,” which city of ficeholders almost will be shown during the New unchecked political power, he Jersey Film Festival at said. Voorhees Hall on the College “From the first AfricanAvenue campus Saturday at 7 American mayor, to the last p.m., focuses on America’s mayor, Coleman Young, who urban plight. was forced from office in 2008 “While Detroit’s problems following a perjur y conviction, grab a lot of headlines, we saw Detroiters have suffered subno attempts from visual media stantially from this par tisanto deliver an informative, acces- ship,” he said. sible histor y, so we decided to Falconer and Rodney found make an effort,” Rodney said. many of the politician’s plans After graduating college, included a short-term benefit Rodney worked for Detroit for the majority causing a longForming, Inc. as a utility man on term detriment for all the Eight Mile Road with many city’s residents. “Detroiters.” Initially unexposed “The school system carries to the deep city problems, he a multi-year debt burden of saw two coworkover $1.47 bilers murdered lion,” Rodney due to drugsaid. “Ever y “For a majority related incidents. month, we hear of Detroiters, “The media about new develonly tells the opments in it is a black symptoms, not cases of people and white thing. where they come being caught for from,” he said. improper relaPolitics are racial. ” “We want to tionships. show the roots to The public ANDREW RODNEY more ef fectively school sys“Deforce” Producer fight them.” tem graduates Rodney, a selfjust about a proclaimed Detroit advocate, quarter of children that start saw how important it was to there while acquiring some of spread the word, not only about the worst scores in Detroit’s problems, but the dete- the countr y.” rioration of America’s cities. “Deforce” takes a new perTo make the film, Rodney spective on a maligned city and called Falconer, one of his close delves into the largely untold high school friends, to direct it. how and why of these prob“Once he approached me lems, said Albert Nigrin, execuwith the idea, we both poured tive director and curator ourselves into the research and of the Rutgers Film Co-op/ development,” Falconer said. New Jersey Media “Once it became clear that our Arts Center. narrative was vital, we knew “Looking beyond overthat we’d have to see it through repor ted factors like the to completion.” decline of the American auto Rodney and Falconer found industr y, Falconer explores the the financial problems, such as systemic divisions at the core urban residents’ per capita of of Detroit’s crisis,” he said. $15,000 a year, not the only Nigrin believes the film hits issues plaguing the city. For the roots of political corruption instance, in 2009, Detroit expe- to expose what really brought rienced four to six shootings this city to its knees. a day. Newark and Detroit share “[Detriot’s] former mayor about as much as any two was just indicted for organized places could, Falconer said. criminal activities,” Rodney The conditions revealed are said. “The school system is true far beyond them. under an Emergency Financial “Rutgers students should Manager as it carries a debt see ‘Deforce’ to consider that load of well over $1 billion. maybe ever y city has them These are some headline grab- because the deck has been bers, but they are all just symp- stacked against certain people, toms of extremely deep- rather than because they just seated problems.” don’t know how to govern Falconer and Rodney said themselves, as we’re so often Detroit’s problems began in the encouraged to believe,” ’60s with former President he said. Richard Nixon’s “War on Nigrin said the conditions Drugs,” which made it more revealed and the histor y likely for a black child in explored is, at once, specific to Detroit to be imprisoned than Detroit and universally shared to graduate from school and led with nearly all of to violent crimes and America’s poorest, forgotten racial politics. urban centers. CONTRIBUTING WRITER
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NJ SUPREME COURT DISMISSES RACIST CHARGES AGAINST JUDGE The New Jersey State Supreme Court dismissed a charge Monday against a New Jersey Superior Court judge accused of making an antiSemitic comment to an attorney. Judge William L’E Wertheimer, supposedly made the comment toward Jewish attorney William L. Gold two years ago, according to an nj.com article. The exchange occurred in an Elizabeth courtroom when Wertheimer pulled Gold and another attorney aside to discuss the court’s upcoming trial schedule. Gold said when he and the other attorney, who is also Jewish, asked Wertheimer to leave court early to attend a Passover Sedar, the judge responded by asking both attorneys if trial should end early so they could attend a “Bund Meeting.” The German-American Bund was a Nazi organization in America that held Anti-Semitic demonstrations, according to the article. Following the incident, Gold filed a complaint to the Advisor y Committee on Judicial Conduct (ACJC) – a nine-member body made up of retired judges, members of the State Bar Association and the general public, asking for Wertheimer’s apology, according to the complaint. But the judge said his comment was directed neither toward Gold nor the other attorney. The ACJC charged Wertheimer in August 2009 with violating the Code of Judicial Conduct, according to the article. But State Court Chief Justice Stuart Rabner dismissed the complaint altogether two days ago, following the ACJC’s recent report requesting such action, Wertheimer’s attorney Marc Wolin said in the article. Gold said he was disappointed by the decision and believes it sends the wrong message. “I was pretty offended that at any level an anti-Semitic comment would be accepted by the court,” Gold said in the article. “He (Wertheimer) admitted he said it.” — Ankita Panda
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Dance studio reopens doors to new facility BY ANDREA GOYMA CORRESPONDENT
Scarlet Mambo Studio, a Highland Park school of dance, re-opened its doors at a location 10 times larger than its predecessor. Dany Joshua, director of Scarlet Mambo, said the old location was too small to accommodate the volume of students registering for classes. “This new space is bigger — while the old location was about 300 square feet this one is about 3,000 square feet,” he said. Lurdys Rodriguez, a class participant, said even though the previous studio was nice, it was too small to hold lessons and warm-ups. “Because [the old facility] was a gym, we needed to leave at a cer tain time so sometimes we didn’t have time to grasp cer tain techniques or a lesson wasn’t completed — we had to wrap things up rather quickly,” Rodriguez said. At the new location, Joshua can teach his students how to dance and allow them more space to warm up, all with the addition of bigger windows and mirrors, she said. Joshua said the new location has the feel of an old urbanstyle factor y. “[The new studio] has a spacey, vintage industrial feel to it. You don’t feel like you’re in Highland Park, you feel like you’re in an old industrial building in New York City,” he said. “It has big windows and there’s a lot of light coming in.”
Camila Sanchez, a Scarlet Mambo dance instr uctor, said the new building is spacious and has beautiful hardwood floors. “We now have the flexibility to of fer more time to our students, which was the main goal,” she said. Scarlet Mambo is a dance studio and company that formed in November 2006 and focuses on Latin dancing, specifically the Salsa and the Cha-cha-cha, Joshua said. The company hosts events at the Perlé Night Club and Lounge in New Brunswick called “Salsa Thursdays,” but only those over the age of 21 may attend, as alcohol is served, Joshua said. “[Our events at Perlé] can limit the number of people who want to learn to dance Salsa and who want to practice their moves and skills because of the age requirement,” he said. Because the studio does not have that age restriction, its events are open to all ages, he said. Scarlet Mambo plans to host an open house event where the company will offer free sample classes, a dance social and live performances. “Some of the international dance instructors from around the world who come and perform with us at Perlé will also be performing at the open house,” Joshua said. Rodriguez said she and her dance group will attend the open house and look forward to it. “We’ve already been talking about what we’re going to do and who we’re going to
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Scarlet Mambo Dance Studio hopes to accommodate more students who register for classes with its new location. invite. We’re like a family over there,” she said. Sanchez said she enjoys teaching something of value to people who really want to learn and like having fun doing it. “I look for ward to seeing the students,” she said. “We have many regulars and they are great people. It’s not the typical teacher-student classroom setting.” She also said she enjoys the friendships that develop in the studio and help pupils bond with their instructors. “Our students eventually become people we grow to care about,” she said. “It’s like one big family.” Rodriguez enjoys learning from Joshua and considers
him to be a compassionate instructor. “[Joshua] is very caring and he will teach you until you get it,” she said. “He doesn’t leave the studio until you get it. And if he knows that you’re having trouble he’ll do it again the following time we meet.” She also said Joshua is a unique instr uctor in that he gives his students a histor y and background on the types of dances he teaches. He also e-mails his students ar ticles about dances from around the world. A University alumnus, Joshua started dancing in the University’s recreation program before taking classes in New York City. He has taught dance for about five years, during one of which he has worked at Scarlet Mambo.
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Highland Park dance studio, Scarlet Mambo, relocated from an old gym in Highland Park to a new building in New Brunswick that has 10 times more interior space, including bigger windows and mirrors.
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ften, American politicians posit the United States as the foremost champion of liberty and democracy in the world, despite the nation’s conduct demonstrating other wise. That’s why it’s great when America really lives up to the reputation it has created for itself. As the Egyptian people are fighting for their rights in the Middle East, President Barack Obama expressed his support for them — albeit with the level of reser ve one would expect from him. Still, we are glad to hear that Obama has called for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to respect and foster the “rights and aspirations of the Egyptian people.” If America wants to continue calling itself the hero of democracy ever ywhere, then the nation needs to support the Egyptian people in their struggle. For doing just that, Obama receives a laurel. *
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While we have supported some of Gov. Chris Christie’s reforms and budget cuts in the past, we have to call into question his decision to veto a bill that would have expanded New Jersey’s Medicaid program so more women would have access to family planning ser vices. Christie claims he vetoed the bill because it would have been “financially irresponsible.” But, as Assemblywoman Linda Stender, D-Union, points out, “On one hand, he says he’s not opposed to birth control, but yet he shows up at a rally last week and joins a group speaking against women being trusted to make their own decisions about their reproductive health care.” It seems Christie has put his own personal morals before the well being of the people this time. For caring more about his pro-life crusade than the needs — and rights — of New Jersey women, Christie receives a dart. *
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Who would have ever thought that former President George W. Bush would be warning the countr y about what seems like a rapid descent into nativism and xenophobia? Despite how shocking and unrealistic it may sound to some, Bush has done exactly that in a recent inter view. Bush expressed his belief that a “rational immigration policy” would pass in America at some point in the future, but that it would take some time because of the increasing prevalence of nativistic tendencies in citizens and politicians. Hopefully, people will recognize that Bush is speaking the truth in this instance and that the American people need to fix their ways as soon as possible. Perhaps his willingness to publicly call out this growing nativism will speed up the process of passing the aforementioned immigration policy. Bush receives a laurel for saying what needs to be said. *
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Ever ybody knows that smoking is bad for you, but there comes a point when a democratic government needs to recognize that its people have the right to cultivate whatever habits — good or bad — they so desire. The New York City Council has effectively banned smoking in all city parks, beaches and pedestrian plazas. In wide-open public spaces, adults should have the right to spark up cigarettes. They are, after all, completely legal. As Daniel Feldman, a John Jay College public management professor, said, “There’s a lot of air out here, not that much cigarette smoke.” If the city council approved the ban as a means of urging smokers to quit — that is really none of their business. For overstepping its boundaries, the New York City Council receives a dart. At this rate, who knows when they will decide to ban tobacco altogether? *
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Gay marriage opponents constantly point to the supposed fact that children need a mother and a father to become successful members of society. Zack Wahls, an engineering student at the University of Iowa, is a living counterexample of such ridiculous notions, and we applaud his decision to speak in the Iowa House of Representatives against a resolution which seeks to end civil unions in the state. Wahls is an impressive individual for sure. He is a small business owner and an Eagle Scout, and he scored in the 99th percentile on the ACT. Although the resolution unfortunately passed, despite Wahls’ best efforts to the contrar y, he remains an excellent example of the fact that criticisms against same-sex marriage tend to be absolutely baseless. Wahls receives a laurel for putting up a good fight — it is a shame the Iowa House of Representatives was too foolish to comprehend what he said.
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made man such that he od does not view “became a living soul” unborn babies as (Genesis 2:7). Man did alive. Never in the not become living souls. Bible does he say he does, Consider also that modand at times, he even says EDWARD REEP er n science has shown he does not. God’s word is that identical twins are logical, clear and speaks formed from the splitting of one ovum at a point for itself. As most of the Christian mainstream is after conception. Knowing this reality, it is wrong about what happens to people after death, almost impossible to believe that the ovum is it is also wrong about what happens to people itself alive. A soul cannot split in half and one before life. There is nothing morally incorrect soul cannot simultaneously be two souls. The about abortion in and of itself, and Christians ensoulment of bodies — the process by which have no divine grounds to oppose it. Let us look they truly become alive — does not necessarily at indisputable scripture that proves terminating occur with the physical formation of those bodthe unborn is not murder. Just a note — I am ies. In a resurrection process described in using the King James Bible for the purposes of Ezekiel 37:6, God says, “And I will lay sinews this argument. upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and First, see Job 3:16. Satan tormented Job, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and in his self-pity, he wishes that “as an hidden ye shall live.” Adam likewise was formed but not untimely birth I had not been; as infants which made alive until God “breathed into his nostrils never saw light.” Here, he states his desire to the breath of life” and then “became a living have died in a miscarriage before leaving the soul” (Genesis 2:7). womb. He also states the conseThe truth is evident. Christians quence of this miscarriage would need to stop blindly listening to be that he “had not been.” This “There is nothing clergymen and start reading the can only mean he would never morally incorrect Bible — with a concordance at have existed — i.e. he would hand. A small handful of ambigunever have been alive in the first about abortion ous scriptures taken out of context place. In this verse, God is making in and of itself.” are used to justify the belief that abundantly clear that no “murder” abortion is murder. Just because a would occur in an abortion, merepriest or pastor says something ly the quenching of a possibility. does not mean it is true. Powerful evidence is also found in the book of So much strife has been caused by the false Ecclesiastes in which King Solomon states, “I belief that the unborn are alive. Living people, praised the dead which are already dead more like abor tionist George Tiller have been murthan the living which are yet alive. Yea, better is dered over misconceptions that can easily be he than both they, which hath not yet been, who cleared up in 10 minutes. God’s word clearly hath not seen the evil work that is done under the shows that people are only alive in His eyes sun” (Ecclesiastes 4:2-3). Here, he makes a disfrom the moment they are bor n until the tinction between the living and those “which hath moment they die. There are no souls lurking in not yet been.” Since we know from Job that one a woman’s uterus. does not exist until he is born, this means that Christianity is a joyous truth, but many mainGod does not consider the unborn living. In fact, stream churches have for hundreds of years disthe unborn are closer to the dead because they torted it. Christians should no longer stand for “hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing” falsehoods. Abortion is not murder. Whether it is (Ecclesiastes 6:5). The dead also “know not any advisable in ever y circumstance is another matthing” (Ecclesiastes 9:5). The unborn experience ter. It definitely has a place in a humane and yes, the same oblivion as the dead, which makes even a religious society. sense since they do not yet exist in the same way that the dead no longer exist — unless resurrectEd Reep is a School of Arts and Sciences ed, a process frequently compared to birth. sophomore majoring in pre-business with a minor Consider also that the Bible defines a person in economics. as a distinct entity. In the Book of Genesis, God
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University must better address student needs Letter AJAY KUMAR
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n a remarkably callous act of selfishness, the University — or perhaps more specifically the Department of Transportation Services (DOTS) and Director Jack Molenaar — decided in a stroke of brilliance to, without warning, shut down all campus buses in the middle of Tuesday night including the Knight Mover, effectively stranding dozens of students all across the four campuses without transportation. The Rutgers University Democrats and I had just finished our meeting and found
ourselves stranded on the College Avenue campus at midnight, having been thrown out of the Rutgers Student Center into the freezing rain with no transport. This is a situation dozens of students similarly found themselves in. Were we given fair warning that all bus services, including the Knight Mover, would be shut down? Not an iota. Was DOTS concerned by the fact that it had just stranded dozens of students in the freezing rain with no shelter or transport? Not one bit. So I must question what exactly was going through the mind of the people who made this decision. Perhaps they thought that
students should hitchhike their way back home. That is ultimately what I ended up doing. A student I didn’t even know was kind enough to give me a ride in his car back to my residence hall. Maybe he deser ves my tuition money more than the University. And certainly the Rutgers University Police Department and the New Brunswick Police Department deser ve no greater credit. A police car rolled down the street slowly. The officers looked at every one of us standing there in dangerous weather conditions and coldly ignored our attempts to talk to them or request assistance. My suggestion to the
DOTS is to turn the RUPD into a taxi service. It’s not like they have anything more productive to do. Molenaar is always saying he understands what University students want. My suggestion to Molenaar is to go out to the College Avenue campus or some other campus in the middle of the night, stand outside in the cold and rain for several hours and then manage to get home without using his car or the University buses. Then he can claim he understands. The University believes it can treat its students however it pleases and that we will just put up with it. Well, so far they have not
been wrong, but maybe some of the students who were injured last night when they fell on the ice — and there were some — should consider their options, because it seems to me that large institutions like the University simply do not care what happens to their students unless they suf fer legal or financial consequences. But let’s not end this on a bad note, so I would like to give credit to all the students who helped each other and came together in that difficult time. It’s more than I can say about the University. Ajay Kumar is a School of Arts and Sciences junior.
US should support Egypt’s democractic revolution Letter TABISH TALIB
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he revolution in Egypt has me glued to my digital screens. I have constantly been watching the AlJazeera English live stream online, waiting to be updated as U.S. news channels’ coverage has been lacking. What I notice more on AlJazeera is a local coverage of the Egyptian people and their struggle for freedom. American coverage has predictably been U.S.centric, asking how the outcomes could affect United States
relations with the Middle East and how this could affect Israel, our main ally in the region. While this may be pragmatic, it diminishes the struggle the Egyptian people expressed on the streets of Cairo, Alexandria and Suez. Media pundits have been discussing President Barack Obama’s administration’s decision not to support Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, an ally of more than 30 years, and thus have shown support of the protesters. Israel fears losing an ally in Mubarak and the void his expulsion would leave behind. Yes, it is not known who will lead
Egypt next, but that is the cost of democracy. If we truly stand for the principle rather than democracy as meaningless rhetoric to spout out when one needs to justify foreign policy choices, then we should support the revolution and not fear it. The despicable hypocrisy in U.S. foreign policy in supporting democracy while propping up friendly dictators has to cease. I applaud the Obama administration for treading the fine line between pragmatism and silent support of the Egyptian people. There is cleverness in not supporting the revolution out loud, as some would interpret it as
U.S. involvement. I, however, deplore the pundits for trivializing a democratic revolution. How can we promote democracies in Iraq and Afghanistan and stand against them in the rest of the world? People have taken inspiration throughout the Middle East after the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt. Protests have broken out in Morocco and Yemen. King Abdullah II of Jordan has dissolved his parliament and ordered to implement changes, though this may only be super ficial. China has blocked Internet searches on Egypt for fear of revolution.
While I was thinking about the struggles of the Egyptian people and eagerly anticipating their success — in contrast to the pundits at MSNBC and Fox News — I remembered the powerful words of Bob Dylan, “There’s a battle outside and it’s raging. It’ll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls, for the times they are a-changing.” The revolution is happening now. To oppose it would be futile and irresponsible. Tabish Talib is School of Arts and Sciences junior majoring in journalism and media studies and political science.
Divorce economic policy from state’s control Letter JIMMY WINTERS
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hen the government is given the power — or gives itself the power — to influence the economy in any way, it can only act to serve special interests. It is incapable of promoting production and efficiency better than the individuals in the marketplace. Therefore, a rigid separation between economics and state must be instituted at the highest level of law. A completely unregulated market leads to the most desirable outcomes because the people in the market — which, in a developed country, is everyone — act to bring about their own desires, which only they can truly know. In a clean, capitalist economy — which is nothing like the squalid, leashed economy of the United States — production is rewarded by those who benefit from it through proportional compensation. Because of decades of implementing irrational, counterproductive legislation, the United States’ economy has become, at best, a mix between capitalist and socialist. Proponents of a welfare state, which cannibalizes the producers for the sake of the unable, nonproducing leeches, wish to substitute their judgment as state planners for the judgment and free will of others, yet they ignore the inexorable conclusion of statism — universal poverty and death. Look to Soviet Russia and it is clear this claim is much more substantial than speculative. Today, “progressives” are besotted with demonizing big
corporations as greedy and profitmotivated. Businesses should instead be extolled for exactly that reason. This is quite obvious, but certainly a topic for a different type of discussion. One of the aspects of big business that progressives bemoan is the immense donation to politicians, which severely distor t the democratic process because they incentivize economic legislation that favors one industry or company over another. While the resounding opposition to corporate meddling in politics may be fair, the idea that new legislation should forbid this is a shortsighted and superficial solution to a secondary problem. To fully address this seemingly serious conflict, one must look to the primary, systemic flaw that dwarfs any effects of corporate maligning in government — politicians, and aggregately the federal government, have an unmatched power to drastically alter the mechanisms of the American economy. The rational, evident and necessary solution to this structural problem that is undermining the entire economy — through shortages, price distortions, inequitable taxation, unemployment and subsides, all of which stem from the power of political pull — is a complete separation of state and economics. That is — just as with the separation of church and state — the comprehensive removal of all the government’s power to rule and distort what should be free, volitional economic transactions. Undoubtedly, many will cr y foul over the mere suggestion of this necessar y separation,
probably while vilifying the “misbehavior” of Wall Street and simultaneously demanding further regulation of the financial markets, since they believe Wall Street investors caused the financial crisis and subsequent recession. If one looks toward the fundamental roots of both Wall Street “malfeasance” and the exacerbated business downturn with a resolutely unbiased perception, one will come to the unavoidable conclusion that the government’s intrusion — into a supposedly free economy — caused all the hardship.
“The government must be completely stripped of its power to control our economy.” It is widely accepted — and therefore, I will not spend energy proving — that mainly two factors or events led to the current state of the economy: the rapid decline of the housing market, colloquially described as a burst asset bubble and the subsequent failure of Lehman Brothers, Inc. The beginnings of this recession — ignoring the systemic flaws building up since before the Civil War — took place in 2000 when the housing market experienced an unusual explosion in home valuations. In 2006, aggregate home values peaked at about 160 percent their trend value and fell appropriately and precipitously back to around trend values within two years. As home values started to fall, some
homeowners went into foreclosure, as their mortgage debt exceeded the value of their property, which caused the value of their neighbors’ houses to fall even more, which started an inescapable propagation — and thus the hollow supports of the over weight housing market crumbled. What was the precursor of this enormous asset bubble? The Federal Reserves — which has the legal authority to twist the value of individuals’ money, and thus property, at its whim — persistent maintenance of an unnaturally low interest rate. Cheap mortgages and everrising property values made real estate investment very attractive. To compound this systemic, predestined failure, investment banks created a new investment product called collateralized debt obligations or CDOs that lumped together these mor tgages and sold them in pieces to investors. When the housing market — the derivative of these CDOs — collapsed, the subsequent collapse of the financial system was merely a predetermined conclusion. Why did the investment firms create CDOs in the first place? Essentially, the federal government had laid layer upon layer of stifling regulation over the financial sector, which inevitably led investment firms to create dangerously risky products that could fit through the tortuous loopholes, in the search for more competitive options for their customers. Not only did the synergy of irresponsible monetar y policy and protectionist regulation lead this country into its recession, but it also has failed to stimulate the economy even two points’
worth of unemployment. The stimulatory ability of fiscal policy that Keynesians swear by simply does not exist. Moreover, while stealing individuals’ compensation for their labor, the federal government made an unforgivable and irredeemable promise to steal more and more of it to pay off the debt it accumulated to fail at “rescuing” the American economy — which needed rescuing only because of the government’s economic disruptions. The manifestations of the government’s economic policy of intrusion and distortion go on and include the primary reasons for the intensity and duration of the Great Depression, but it is impossible to be exhaustive in examples, and frankly, the paradigm of governmental control and coercion is self-evidently evil and market-defeating. It is based in the belief that consumers need protection from Goliath corporations, when reality really shows the need for a complete absence of regulation so that all trades can occur only through the volition of both parties. The essence of governmental influence on private, economic decisions — force — is contradictor y to its goal, and more importantly, it violates the individual rights guaranteed in our Constitution. Aggregately, the right to act on our own judgment in a way that best serves our own self-interest. In order to preserve what’s left of those rights and of a productive, innovative future, the government must be completely stripped of its power to control our economy. Jimmy Winters is a School of Engineering junior majoring in biomedical engineering.
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ew York Yankees starting pitcher Andy Pettite is set to announce his retirement from baseball. The 38-year-old has been wrestling with talks of retirement for several seasons, which became more serious after the 2010 season ended in disappointment against the Texas Rangers. Pettite, a three-time All-Star, accumulated a 240-138 record in 13 seasons with New York and three with the Houston Astros. He also holds the record for most postseason games won as a pitcher with 19 games. Pettitte’s retirement leaves the Yankees with a shallow pitching rotation with C.C. Sabathia, Phil Hughes and A.J. Burnett as the only experienced returning starters.
THE NEW YORK KNICKS were fined $200,000 by the NBA for holding illegal workouts with college prospects. The workouts started in 2007 and continued up until the most recent draft. Knicks general manager Donnie Walsh denied any knowledge that the workouts took place. The league also fined Knicks scout Rodney Heard $20,000 for organizing and overseeing the workouts.
THE ATLANTA FALCONS signed a three-year contract extension with head coach Mike Smith. Smith has posted three winning seasons in as many years with the team and brought the team to the playoffs twice. Although the team did not disclose exact details, Smith’s new deal is expected to add a substantial pay raise to the coach’s original four-year, $2.2 million contract. The Falcons had the NFC’s best record this season at 13-3, but lost to the Green Bay Packers in the divisional playoff round.
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Bengals hired AFL veteran Jay Gruden as their new offensive coordinator after firing Bob Bratkowski on Monday. Gruden, the younger brother of former NFL coach Jon Gruden, played quarterback for Louisville for four years before moving on to playing and coaching in the Arena Football League for 18 seasons. Cincinnati is hopeful about the aggressive, attacking style Gruden hopes to bring to the offense after a disappointing 412 season in 2010 and the request for a trade from quarterback Carson Palmer.
BOB GRIESE, A MEMBER of both the NFL and College Football Hall of Fame, retired from broadcasting after 29 years — the last 24 of which were on major networks, ESPN and ABC. The two-time All-American spent his professional football years with the Miami Dolphins, where he won two Super Bowls and was a part of Miami’s 1972 undefeated season. Griese also went to six Pro Bowls.
For the third time this off“From competing against season, the Rutgers football Rutgers and Coach Schiano t e a m for the previous five years, I FOOTBALL p i c k e d have a tremendous amount up a deposed former of respect for the tradition he Pittsburgh assistant. has built at Rutgers,” Head coach Greg Schiano Angelichio said. “I am excithired Brian Angelichio to ed to contribute to the proser ve as the team’s tight gram and help win a Big East ends coach. He will join for- championship.” mer Pitt coaches Frank The hiring creates odd Cignetti and numbers on the Jef f Hafley Rutgers staff, which in Piscataway. still requires that some “Brian is a things be cleared up. great fit for our After coaching football family,” defensive backs at Schiano said in a Pitt, Hafley’s role press release. “He with Rutgers is not has a bright yet defined. Co-defenof fensive mind sive coordinator Ed BRIAN and has demonPinkham held the strated an excelrole last year and is ANGELICHIO lent ability still listed on the to recr uit and develop coaching roster. players, something Angelichio replaces Phil that is a staple of Galiano as tight ends coach, our program.” but Galiano remains on Schiano saw Angelichio’s Rutgers’ staff, with his role ability to work with tight now undefined. Galiano ends firsthand the past five rejoined Schiano last season years against Pitt, especially after spending the previously the past two seasons. three years as Panthers’ tight ends Dorin defensive coordinator and Dickerson and Mike Cr uz linebackers coach at combined for 56 yards and Florida International. three touchdowns in two Pitt wins. — Steven Miller
RUTGERS: Shuler one of two All-Americans on RU continued from back both have an opportunity to make an immediate impression in Piscataway. “We can have a great impact,” said Shuler, the nation’s No. 127 recruit. “Savon Huggins has to compete for the spot, but we’re all anticipating he’ll start. He’s a great running back and that’s a wide receiver’s best friend, because everyone needs to be the box and I can go over top of coverages, hopefully. We can make big plays there.”
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Head coach Greg Schiano brought three new coaches onto his staff this season after Dave Wannstedt resigned at Pitt.
Although Shuler is not one out, lifting weights, getting of the five early enrollees in the ready and learning the plays,” 24-player class, he he said. “We have a plans on spending as new offensive coordimuch time as possible nator [Frank Cignetti] this spring at the and I can’t wait to learn Hale Center. from him because he’s After signing their really sharp.” National Letters of So is Shuler, which Intent on Wednesday, is part of what made Shuler and the other him such a coveted commits are now able recruit who took offito workout with the cial visits to MILES team and sit in on meetNor thwestern and ings — something that Stanford and heard SHULER will be useful as Shuler from Notre Dame until learns to play receiver. the very end. “I’ll be at Rutgers almost Colleges across the country ever y weekend now, working saw that in the 5-foot-10,
185-pounder, and he sees it in his fellow future Knights. “Besides the talent part, this class is full of character and that’s a big thing,” Shuler said. “When we come in next year, we’re coming in together and we’ll be really good.” First, Shuler has to make his speed translate to his new position. But he already has all the intangibles Rutgers looks for. “We love Miles and we love how much he loves Rutgers,” Schiano said. “He has always been a Rutgers guy. We can’t wait to get him here on campus and really get him started.”
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There’s still a lot of basketball left and a lot of games to be won.” The road does not get any struggle against Johnnies in N.Y. easier for the Knights, who face four ranked teams in their continued from back next five games. Mike Coburn combined for The first of those contests 53 points. comes on Sunday, when “We’re defending. We have Rutgers (12-10, 3-7) travels to our moments on offense, but for South Bend, Ind., to do battle the most part it’s not an offenwith No. 8 Notre Dame (18-4, sive juggernaut,” Rice said. 7-3). “The difference has been [the Head coach Mike Brey’s opponent] is getting to the free team thrives on a balanced halfthrow line more. You can do a court offense — one that feastudy on whoever makes more tures five players that average free throws … they’re going to at least 9.2 points per game. win the most percentage of And the Irish are 9-2 when games. I don’t senior guard Ben know what it is, Hansbrough, the but it’s just the younger brother “There’s still way it is.” of former Nor th a lot of basketball C a r o l i n a Beatty and Coburn comgreat T yler left and a bined for just two Hansbrough, points in leads the team lot of games Wednesday’s loss in scoring. to be won.” in Queens, N.Y., Notre Dame is and the Jan. 20 third in the Big JONATHAN MITCHELL victor y over the East in 3-point Senior Forward Bulls was the last field goal percenttime both scored age with a 38 perin double figures. cent clip from beyond the arc, And after posting a doubleaiding the Irish in a plus-10 double in the Knights’ 66-60 scoring margin. win over Seton Hall, freshman The Knights match up well center Gilvydas Biruta has just with the Irish in terms of size — eight points and eight boards Brey’s rotation has no player in the past three contests. over 6-foot-9 — but Notre Dame The result is a heavier offenwill be ready and willing to outsive burden on Mitchell, who slow Rutgers in its halfscored at least 12 points in court sets. seven of Rutgers’ last Wins and losses aside, the eight games. Knights must continue to show a The former Florida transfer consistent edge in order to pull has been a model of consistenout close contests, Rice said. cy in his second season with The methodical pace in Rutgers and now finds himself South Bend promises to proin the unenviable position of vide more of the same. tr ying to right the Knights’ psy“Now it’s on them. There’s che after another tr ying defeat. got to be more of an urgency,” “Coach Rice has done everyRice said. “And I’m placing that thing he can to bring it out of us,” solely on our seniors. And again Mitchell said. “It just all comes on they’re playing really hard for to us now. The season is not over me in games. There’s got to by any stretch of the imagination. be more.”
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Head coach Mike Rice inherited a Rutgers program that entered the 2010-11 season with a lack of depth at the guard positions and no original members of the Knights’ 2008 recruiting class.
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Junior Maryana Milchutskey won her singles match yesterday at Lehigh in straight sets, 6-0, 6-0, in a sweep for the Scarlet Knights. Milchutskey also partnered with classmate Morgan Ivey to claim a victory in doubles play at the Bethlehem, Pa., campus.
Knights claim first victory with shutout over Lehigh BY MATT CANVISSER CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Rutgers tennis team earned its first win of the season yesterTENNIS d a y , RUTGERS 7 when it LEHIGH 0 shut out Lehigh, 7-0, in Bethlehem, Pa. It was the second time in as many seasons that Rutgers shut out Lehigh at the Lewis Tennis Center. “Our confidence was really high today going in to Lehigh,” said junior Jennifer Holzberg. “It felt good to know we could beat them, and then to go
SKID: Trio battles spotty play with No. 25 ‘Cuse on tap continued from back next game, coming out scoreless in the Knights’ most recent loss against St. John’s. Sophomore center Monique Oliver led the team with 22 points against the Johnnies, but scored just 20 points in the two earlier contests. And junior guard Khadijah Rushdan, the team’s second leading scorer, is averaging just 4.6 points per game during the losing streak while going a combined 4-for-25 from the field. But amid the recent struggles, Stringer can still find plenty of positives from the first time the Knights and Orange met. While that game resulted in the team’s most balanced offensive attack of the season, the defense was a key cog in the winning effort. Rutgers forced 20 turnovers in the contest and held Syracuse to a 34.8 shooting percentage for the game, playing the defense on which Stringer’s teams have made a living. It was not a per fect win by any means –– the Knights were still outrebounded, 47-34, and
out and do it in such a convincing way.” The Scarlet Knights (1-1) worked on doubles in practice this past week after failing to register a doubles victor y in their opening day loss to Princeton. The work seemed to pay off in their second match of the season, as they did not suffer a doubles loss to Lehigh. The Knights’ top team of Holzberg and senior captain Amy Zhang won its match, 8-2, as did the team of juniors Morgan Ivey and Mar yana Milchutskey. Freshmen Vanessa Petrini and Stefania Balasa completed the sweep by winning their match, 8-1.
“We came out strong and played really aggressively in doubles,” Holzberg said. “We worked a lot on doubles in practice. We focused on constructing points and what to do when games get really close.” The singles results yielded more of the same, as Lehigh failed to win a single set against Rutgers. Milchutskey attributes the Knights’ success to their training and overall fitness. “It’s tough playing a doubles match and singles match back to back,” Milchutskey said. “But we lift ever y morning and do sprints after ever y practice so we have that edge
over our opponents all the time.” Zhang, the team’s reigning two-time MVP, struggled in her singles match winning, 6-2, 6-1. Holzberg faced a tight contest at first, but finished strong with her match going 7-6, 6-0. Milchutskey had no problem at all, winning, 60, 6-0. “I went out with confidence, made very few errors and played smart tennis. I think that showed in my scores at the end,” Milchutskey said. The younger half of the Knights lineup had just as much success as the veterans against the Mountain Hawks. Petrini notched the second victor y of
her career, 6-2, 6-4, in just her second collegiate match while her fellow freshman Balasa also won by a count of 6-1, 6-0. Sophomore Michelle Green rounded out the Rutgers victor y with a 6-1, 6-1 win. The Knights will now be tested with their first quick turnaround of the season. They may have received a confidence boost from Lehigh, but on Saturday the team heads to West Point, N.Y. “Army is a tougher team,” Milchutskey said. “We need to come out with the same attitude and confidence against them that we showed against Lehigh.”
still gave up 23 points to sophomore guard Elashier Hall –– but the win was still one of the most well-rounded per formances this year that Stringer saw from her team. And with that kind of performance lacking during the team’s losing skid, tapping into that win could provide the spark needed to get back on track. The Orange enter the contest fresh off a 71-48 blowout at the hands of Notre Dame, but with a win could tie Rutgers in the Big East standings. Game action kicks of f Sunday at noon at the Louis Brown Athletic Center.
K NIGHT N OTES : Oliver leads the team in scoring in Big East play this season, averaging 17.3 points per contest to go along with 7.1 rebounds per game.
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Junior forward April Sykes, the Scarlet Knights’ leading scorer this season, struggled in her last outing, going 0-for-12 from the field and finishing the game with zero points.
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LONG BRANCH, N.J. — Miles Shuler never lined up in the slot during his high school career. He FOOTBALL never used his blazing speed to go deep past the secondary. The U.S. Army All-American played quarterback and runs track at Long Branch High School, so when he debuts with the Rutgers football team, it will only be his second time playing wide receiver. But that does not matter to head coach Greg Schiano, who believes the recentlysigned 2011 commitment has the speed and football IQ that will translate. “When you watch him play, he is not only fast in track but he plays with football speed and that doesn’t always transcend,” Schiano said. “Miles is a football player that also runs track, which is what we need.” The speed with which Schiano’s recruiting class came together following Shuler’s December commitment was as impressive as the receiver’s speed on his 22-yard touchdown reception in the Army All-American Bowl. After pledging his future to Piscataway, Shuler took it upon himself to continue recruiting many of the other top prospects Rutgers landed in arguably its best class in program history. “I’ve been recruiting, trying my hardest and it paid off in the end,” Shuler said. “I wanted to start a trend committing there, because Rutgers never had the top New Jersey players stay, and I wanted to start that. We’re solidifying the class.” The biggest recruit Shuler helped attract to Rutgers was four-star running back Savon Huggins, a Jackson, N.J., native who is close friends with Shuler. Both played in All-American games and are among Rivals.com’s top 150 recruits. And
Rutgers head men’s basketball coach Mike Rice entered the season knowing that his Scarlet Knights would be a work in progress. MEN’S BASKETBALL But after We d n e s d a y ’ s RUTGERS AT hear tbreaking 58NOTRE DAME 56 loss to St. John’s SUNDAY, 12 P.M. at Carnesecca Arena, Rice has to prove to the Knights that the progress is worth the work. “Everybody plays hard. If you’re going to be good, you’re going to play hard in this league,” Rice said. “It’s the teams who can play hard with that purpose and not foul and still have that same intensity and that edge [that succeed].” Rutgers has now lost three straight conference games — two by a combined five points — after besting South Florida and Seton Hall consecutively to earn a 3-4 record in Big East play. But despite entering the season without former leading scorer Mike Rosario and fellow Class of 2008 teammate Gregor y Echenique, the Knights still have the ability to put the ball in the basket. Senior forward Jonathan Mitchell compiled six games with at least 20 points, capped off by 21 and five rebounds Wednesday against the Johnnies. Senior point guard James Beatty has two 20-point outbursts of his own, while sophomore wing Dane Miller contributed double figures in 12 games. But the Knights’ go-to players offensively have yet to put it all together throughout the course of a game — with the exception of Rutgers’ win over USF, in which Mitchell, Beatty and senior guard
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Senior forward Jonathan Mitchell took on a leadership role in his second season with the Knights, who have dropped back-to-back contests by a combined five points.
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Knights seek balanced attack amid three-game skid BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ CORRESPONDENT
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Sophomore center Monique Oliver leads the Scarlet Knights this season with 17.3 points per game in Big East play. The Las Vegas native looks to continue that trend Sunday against Syracuse, as she scored 27 points en route to a win in the teams’ first meeting.
Three games, three different identities and three instances of the same outcome. This is the story of the Rutgers women’s basketball team over the past three contests, a stretch in WOMEN’S BASKETBALL which the team has struggled to click SYRACUSE AT on all phases. RUTGERS But with No. 25 SUNDAY, 12 P.M. Syracuse (16-4, 4-4) paying a visit to Piscataway this weekend, the Scarlet Knights have the per fect oppor tunity to break out of their shell –– just like they did the first time the two teams met up this season. Four Knights scored in double figures when Rutgers (12-9, 5-3) defeated the Orange, 78-67, on Jan. 11 in Syracuse. Head coach C. Vivian Stringer’s team had an identity then, and having just lost junior guard Nikki Speed to a foot injur y, the backcourt did not yet feel the ebbs of the ever-flowing season. But after losing to No. 2 Connecticut, 63-44, to kick off the team’s three-game skid –– a game when the backcourt and frontcourt were in complete disarray –– the inconsistencies built up. Junior for ward April Sykes scored 20 points in consecutive games against UConn and Louisville, but fizzled out the
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