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Founder shares stories behind PostSecret project

BY AMY ROWE ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

The “most trusted stranger in America” visited Busch Campus Center last night to share his own secrets and hear some new ones.

Frank Warren, the founder and curator of the PostSecret project — a website that shares anonymous secrets sent to his home — was the closing speaker for this year’s “Sex, Love & Dating” conference.

“I think we all have secrets and we keep them in a box,” Warren said. “Every day, we decide to bury the box or open it and share secrets like gifts.”

Warren started asking people to write their secrets on postcards on the streets of Washington, D.C., in November 2004 as part of an art project, he said.

“I didn’t tell my neighbors or my friends,” he said. “I told my wife. She didn’t get it, but she supported me.”

Warren said when he told his father about the project, he called him voyeuristic.

“Maybe there’s some truth to that,” he said. “But it didn’t take me long to realize my crazy idea wasn’t so crazy.”

On average, Warren receives 1,000 secrets each week sent to his Germantown, Md., home. He began scanning the homemade postcards he received and posted them to the website.

“When [the website] went viral, I realized I tapped into something full of mystery and wonder,” he said.

Warren spoke at length about the responses he hears from people, especially

those who tell him of the sense of community they feel when somebody else shares a secret they also keep.

“Secrets unite people and build a hidden community,” he said. “There’s so much commonality between secrets you couldn’t see otherwise.”

Warren said that reading so many secrets also helps him cope with his own.

“I was struggling with secrets in my life,” he said. “The courage of these people sharing their secrets with me made me look at what I kept buried.”

The PostSecret founder said he is ver y optimistic for the future of the Internet and hopes others will act on their ideas to start online conversations, pointing to Ifoundyourcamera.net as an example.

“PostSecret is one simple, crazy idea,” he said. “There are 10,000 ideas as good as PostSecret or better. These ideas need people to believe in them to make them better.”

Warren, who updates the website with new secrets every Sunday and published five books filled with secrets, has seen more than 500,000 secrets from all over the world since beginning the project.

“The most common secret I get is, ‘I pee in the shower,’ which I can relate to,” he said.

As part of his speech, Warren showed some secrets his publishers said could not be included in his books, for reasons from obscenity to copyright violations.

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Frank Warren, creator and curator of the PostSecret project, talks about his personal reasons for starting the website last night in the Busch Campus Center.

New Jersey workers practice caution with finances

BY KRISTINE CHOI CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Employees re-entering the job market are equipped not only with their past work experiences but also with a better knowledge of savings and finances.

Unemployed New Jersey residents have become wiser by taking on a savings state of

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mind and applying it to their newly attained jobs, said James Kinney, a certified financial planner at Financial Pathways in Bridgewater, N.J. “I believe people have learned that high levels of personal debt can be very dangerous,” he said. “Statistics show that Americans are using more of their earnings today to save and pay down debts.”

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size of an aircraft hanger doesn’t make it a good idea,” he said.

Thomas Duf fy, president of Jersey Shore Financial Advisors in Middletown, said he is not sure if all workers have begun to apply these lessons, only that he is hopeful.

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Study shows effectiveness of alcoholism assessment tool

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Sudden unemployment and high debt levels, especially among the unprepared, can be stressful and disastrous, but people can avoid these disasters by taking responsibility of their financial decisions, Kinney said.

“I hope people learned that just because someone is willing and reckless enough to lend you enough money to buy a house the

Although the Rutgers Alcohol Problem Index (RAPI) has been used as a tool for assessing alcohol abuse or addiction among teens, a recent study showed its effectiveness in predicting long-term alcohol abuse.

The study, published Tuesday in the jour nal “Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research,” sampled 597 Finnish twins of both genders and used RAPI as a way to assess problems like alcohol abuse and dependence at age 18 and again at age 25.

Results confirmed a number of intuitions about early drinking, such as those who have palpable drinking problems in their youth often remain alcoholics into adulthood, said Helene White, a University professor of sociology at the Center of Alcohol Studies.

“The study is a pretty strong finding — especially since they picked twins, so they controlled for a lot of environmental factors,” said White, one of RAPI’s creators. “What the study is basically showing is that problem drinking among adolescents is a fairly stable behavior.”

Findings show that among those diagnosed with alcoholism at the age of 25, there was a 74 percent probability their RAPI scores as 18 year olds was higher than average, he said.

White said the real power of the study came in determining the value of RAPI as a diagnostic tool.

“If you’re going to diagnose someone with a problem, you want something that’s been clinically proven to be a good diagnostic instr ument. When we published the RAPI, we weren’t claiming that it was,” White said. “Now I see this paper says that it has good predictive validity over time, so that’s impor tant.”

While the study offers a new dimension to the RAPI as a clinical tool, White said the findings were not surprising, despite the study being the first of its kind.

“The clinical sample [we used] actually had the DSM-III, [a manual that provides standard criteria for classifying mental disorders], diagnosis for their adolescents and they also had the RAPI and it correlated at a

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Conference shows four aspects of medical career

BY KRISTINE CHOI CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The University’s American Medical Student Association (AMSA) hosted its third annual Pre-Medical Conference at the Livingston Student Center, receiving its highest attendance rate since the conference’s formation.

The theme of the conference, “Art of Medicine: Master y.

Individuality.

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Morality.,” was designed to promote the balance of qualities one must have to pursue a career in health, said Akanksha Karwar, co-director of the AMSA PreMedical Conference.

“The conference is about mastering the set of skills you need to achieve your dream, choosing your own path to achieve your dream, keeping in touch with your human self and always knowing what’s right and wrong,” said Karwar, a School of Arts and Sciences senior.

Throughout the day, students were able to attend workshops providing information on Healthcare, Medical Ethics, Humanism in Medicine and a variety of other subjects including a lecture by Dr. Richard Heinzl, the founder of Doctors Without Borders Canada.

Heinzl spoke about his experiences abroad with Doctors Without Borders including his travels to remote Cambodia, which would not have been possible without the opportunities presented at the medical school in McMaster University in Hamilton.

“This connection that I had to Doctors Without Borders wouldn’t have happened if I didn’t have that educational chance to have that elective — to get out there in the world — to travel,” Heinzl said.

With the support of his professors, Heinzl was able to go beyond the conventional path of medicine by taking an elective in Uganda during his first year of medical school.

He said travel is essential to understanding how the world is changing and is beneficial to ever yone. “[Even] if you can’t travel — travel here,” he said. “Go off the beaten track. Go to a different part of town, go and talk to somebody who’s from

far away, try to connect yourself to something more international.”

Henzl encouraged audience members to take risks and tr y unconventional methods to create their own personalized career paths.

“You might not do the thing everybody expects you to do or you might not do the thing most familiar to you,” he said. “But maybe if you do that, maybe if you blazed your own trail, you could- wind up doing something that you love.”

Nicole Heath, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, came to Heinzl’s speech with an interest in the Doctors Without Borders initiative.

“I thought his speech was very informative,” Heath said. “His stories were really fun and it was just interesting to hear about it.”

Among the medical workshops was a class called Street Medicine, which focused on delivering health care services to those living on streets and abandoned homes.

“I thought it was really cool that they had a team of nurses, doctors and volunteers that go around from homeless camp to homeless camp tr ying to help get the people back into society from where they fell,” said Sinan Khor, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore.

Kevin Santos, a School of Ar ts and Sciences junior, said this was his second time coming to an AMSA convention and felt that the activities were really informative.

“The workshop was cool,” he said. “It was just really good quality speaking and I think we learned a lot.”

Karwar said the conference, which took over ten months to plan and organize, was a success for AMSA. “I think it’s phenomenal,” she said. “This conference has been happening for three years and this year we’ve had the most tur n out of all the three years.”

Karwar hopes the future of AMSA will continue to grow and incorporate more fields of medicine into its organization.

“I want AMSA to work with all professions, not just medicine, because it’s important that all these professions work together,” she said.

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Patrick McGee, a certified HIV/AIDS regional trainer, speaks at the Third Annual Pre-Medical Conference on Livingston campus.

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Senior citizens learn tactile exercises with everyday objects from the Rutgers Activities Crew and students in the exercise science program at Rutgers Senior Day at the Cook/Douglass Recreation Center.

Students teach elderly ways to stay fit

BY TABISH TALIB CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Scores of senior citizens exercised Friday night at the Cook/Douglass Recreation Center on Rutgers Senior Day, the last event of “RU Has Heart” week.

Different teaching stations helped seniors understand the importance of staying active and gave tips on how to perform physical exercises with regular household objects such as brooms and rubber bands, said Susan Kaplowitz, director for the Center for Exercise and Aging.

“Hopefully, when [the seniors] go back to their centers they will go into exercise classes and do the exercises,” said Kaplowitz, an assistant instructor at the Department of Exercise Science and Sports Studies. “We’re trying to encourage exercise for the senior citizens.”

In a joint venture, the Recreation Activities Crew (RAC) and students in the exercise science program sought to promote integrating physical activity to seniors from six different centers located in Perth Amboy, Piscataway, South River, New Brunswick, South Brunswick and East Brunswick, said Paul Fischbach, associate director of Recreation.

The RAC and volunteers set up casual games such as Zumba, poker, arts and crafts, swimming, Nintendo Wii and mini-putting.

Lydia Mazzeo, from the North Brunswick Senior Center, expressed the enjoyment of being in the company of University

students and participating in the activities. She was eager to dance Zumba and had fun at the arts and crafts station where she made a picture frame.

“I had a very nice girl talk to me, very helpful, very polite and very friendly,” Mazzeo said. “I feel welcome.”

Senior Day of fered dual oppor tunities for the seniors exercising and students gaining hands-on experiences educating others in health and fitness.

“The things I have taught in my class are only really appreciated when you work with this population,” Kaplowitz said.

More than 50 students, some enrolled in Kaplowitz’s exercise and aging course, helped seniors with fitness assessments and tactile exercises, she said.

“It gives [them] the opportunity to interact with students and do something different than the norm.”

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Katie Egan, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, said it is important for students to interact with people in different age groups.

“We’re kind of in our own little world and dealing with kids

our age, and the senior citizens are still a par t of the community, so [students] should be involved with our elders,” Egan said.

Michael Galley, RAC president said Senior Day was a great opportunity to help students get involved and leave a local impression.

“We wondered what else can we do? How else can we impact the community? And we thought Senior Citizen Day would be a great idea,” said Galley, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences junior. “It gives [them] the opportunity to interact with students and do something different than the norm.”

Senior Day was part of the third annual “RU Has Heart” week, in which RAC members teach about heart health and exercise to the local community, Fischbach said.

Other events included a blood drive for the “Eric LeGrand Believe Fund” and a “Food for Feud” event in which contestants paid $20 to play a family feud inspired game with proceeds going to the Middlesex County Food Bank, he said.

Due to the high level of turnout, Fischbach said he was pleased to add it as a new initiative of “RU Has Heart” week and may make Senior Day an annual event.

“I think this is a start to bringing in a community of people that can enjoy a college setting and enjoy interacting with college students,” he said.

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Texas House looks to legalize guns on campus

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Boniface Mwangi, an award winning Kenyan photojournalist, makes an appearance Thursday at his photo exhibit that shows the post-election violence in Kenya at the Paul Robeson Cultural Center on Busch campus. The exhibit opened last Monday and will run until Feb. 28.

STUDY: University offers intervention plans for students continued from front 0.7, which is a ver y high correlation,” White said. “We knew it was measuring something ver y similar to more standardized diagnostic measures.”

Ryan Holland, a School of Ar ts and Sciences sophomore, said the fact that adolescents with drinking problems tend to become adults with drinking problems is understandable, but having a quality measure of what constitutes alcoholism is remarkable.

“If you show signs of alcoholic tendencies or patterns

WORKERS: Financial experts encourage frugal living continued from front “[Workers] are paralyzed with fear — fear about continued employment, fear of continued economic turbulence and fear of stock market volatility,” he said.

“All these issues appear as storm clouds to the financially undereducated worker.”

Workers should recognize the importance of minimizing one’s debt and adjust to the idea of living below one’s means, Kinney said.

“Instead of spending all of your paycheck, use a portion to build an emergency reser ve fund,” he said. “Never put yourself in a position that missing a few paychecks will cause financial ruin.”

People returning to the workforce should also apply the lessons they learned while unemployed to their daily life, Kinney said.

“Keep up the frugal lifestyle a while longer,” he said. “Pay down any debt you incurred as aggressively as possible.

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that could statistically reveal you will become an alcoholic, I think it makes sense that at least a significant percentage of those people will become alcoholics,” Holland said.

Lisa Latiman, director of the Alcohol and Other Drug Assistance Program, said the RAPI provides an ef fective measure of drinking problems and offers benefits as a supplement to already well-established counseling measures.

“There are actually a number of inter ventions a student can engage in,” Laitman said.

“We looked at an inter vention called the BASICS, which is a brief-inter vention model, and it’s a method that is used to help young adults reduce their alcohol use and the negative

consequences associated [with it].”

White said another advantage of the RAPI is it can be administered to a large number of individuals over a relatively short period of time, while traditional diagnostic measures rely on one-to-one, inter viewbased measure.

As it stands, the RAPI will need to undergo further scrutiny before any conclusions can be made about its effectiveness as a diagnostic tool, but any evidence toward this end is useful, Laitman said.

“Every article that supports the same idea gives it more support and gives more credibility to the issue itself,” she said. “You know, one study is good, but obviously several are a lot better.”

start contributing to your company 401k or retirement plan.”

Edison resident Jennifer Aguilar felt the economic crisis made practical matters such as money management and financial planning a more prominent role in her life.

“I feel like there are a lot of good lessons that came with the recession,” Aguilar said. “For me, saving money has become more of a priority.”

career path and can be ver y expensive, said David Bills, University Career Ser vices assistant director.

For recent graduates and graduating seniors, it is especially impor tant to consider what is their best option, Bills said.

“Don’t run to graduate school to hide from the job market,” he said. “Students are getting jobs but they have to work ver y hard at it.”

David Garcia, a New Brunswick resident who was employed after two years without a job, said people become discouraged with the job deficit because their ef for ts seem futile.

“I know I couldn’t get through the past two years without the support of my family,” he said.

But Garcia said the most important lesson learned from the economic crisis is having the right support group.

“It’s extremely helpful to know there is someone there for you — whether it’s your spouse, best friend or whoever it may be,” he said. “Someone who will be there when times are hard and say ‘It’s going to get better.’”

“Students are getting jobs but they have to work very hard at it.”

DAVID BILLS University Career Services Assistant Director

Unemployment also created an opportunity for people to explore other career and school options, Aguilar said.

Going to graduate school is not always the best option if someone is unsure of their

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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas is opinion on this issue, preparing to give college sturead the editorial dents and professors the right to on PAGE 8. carry guns on campus, adding momentum to a national camCapitol visitors for guns, knives paign to open this part of society and other contraband. to firearms.

Guns on campus bills have More than half the members of been rejected in 23 states since the Texas House have signed on 2007, but gun control activists as co-authors of a measure directacknowledge it will be difficult to ing universities to allow concealed stop the Texas bill from passing handguns. The Senate passed a this year. “Things do look bleak,” similar bill in 2009 and is expected said Colin Goddard, assistant to do so again. Republican Gov. director of federal legislation for Rick Perry, who sometimes packs the Brady Campaign Against a pistol when he jogs, has said he’s Gun Violence, who was in Austin in favor of the idea. recently to lobby against the Texas has become a prime Texas bills. battleground for the issue Goddard was a student at because of its gun culture and Virginia Tech when he was shot its size, with 38 public universifour times in his French class. ties and more than 500,000 stuStudent Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 dents. It would become the secpeople, including 10 in Goddard’s ond state, following Utah, to classroom, before shooting himpass such a broad-based law. self. Goddard dismisses the idea Colorado gives colleges the that another student with a gun option and several have could have stopped the killer. allowed handguns.

“People tell me that if they Supporters of the legislation would have been there, they argue that gun violence on camwould have shot that guy. That puses, such as the mass shootoffends me,” Goddard said. ings at Virginia Tech in 2007 and “People want to be the hero, I Northern Illinois in 2008, show understand that. They play video that the best defense against a games and they think they undergunman is students who can stand the reality. It’s nothing like shoot back. that.”

“It’s strictly a But Derek matter of selfTitus, a senior at defense,” said “If I ... knew Texas A&M who Sen. Jeff the person next has a state Wentworth, R-San license to carry a Antonio. “I don’t to me had [a gun], concealed handever want to see I don’t know gun, said somerepeated on a one with a gun Texas college how comfortable that day could campus what haphave improved pened at Virginia I would feel.” the chances Tech, where some FRANKIE SHULKIN of survival. deranged, suicidal University of Texas “Gun-free madman goes into First-Year Law Student zones are shooting a building and is galleries for the able to pick off mass murderers,” totally defenseless Titus said. “We do not feel that we kids like sitting ducks.” must rely on the police or security Until the Virginia Tech inciforces to defend our lives.” dent, the worst college shooting Texas enacted its concealed in U.S. history occurred at the handgun law in 1995, allowing University of Texas, when people 21 or older to carr y sniper Charles Whitman went to weapons if they pass a training the top of the administration course and a background check. tower in 1966 and killed 16 peoThe state had 461,724 license ple and wounded dozens. Last holders as of Dec. 31, according September, a University of to the state Department of Texas student fired several Public Safety. shots from an assault rifle Businesses, schools and before killing himself. churches can set rules banning Similar firearms measures guns on their premises. On colhave been proposed in about a lege campuses, guns are prohibdozen other states, but all face ited in buildings, dorms and cerstrong opposition, especially tain grounds around them. from college leaders. In Opponents of campus gun Oklahoma, all 25 public college rights say students and faculty and university presidents would live in fear of their classdeclared their opposition to a mates and colleagues, not knowconcealed carry proposal. ing who might pull a gun over a “There is no scenario where poor grade, a broken romance or allowing concealed weapons on a drunken fraternity argument. college campuses will do anyFrankie Shulkin, a first-year thing other than create a more law student at the University of dangerous environment for stuTexas, said he doesn’t think he’d dents, faculty, staf f and visifeel safer if other students in his tors,” Oklahoma Chancellor of classes had guns.

Higher Education Glen Johnson “If I was taking an exam and said in January. knew the person next to me had University of Texas one, I don’t know how comfortPresident William Powers has able I would feel,” Shulkin said. “I opposed concealed handguns am in favor of guns rights and on campus, saying the mix of your typical conservative guy, but students, guns and campus parthe classroom thing bugs me.” ties is too volatile.

Wentworth said he heard the Guns occupy a special place “blood on the streets” warnings in Texas culture. Politicians when Texas first passed the conoften tout owning a gun as cealed handgun law. “They said essential to being Texan. we’d have shootouts at every Concealed handgun license intersection,” he said. “None of holders are allowed to skip the that has happened. metal detectors that scan

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Rutgers University Programming Association will host a free yo-yo workshop from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Rutgers Student Center atrium. Students will learn such tricks as “Around the World” and “Walk the Dog” with a yo-yo expert. RUPA will provide yo-yos while supplies last. Visit getinvolved.r utgers.edu/programs-and-events for more information.

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Chi Upsilon Sigma, Lambda Sigma Upsilon, Pi Delta Psi and the Optic Orthodox Fellowship have teamed up to sponsor a blood drive, “Save a Life, Donate Blood.” It will take place in the Rutgers Student Center Multipurpose Room from noon to 6 p.m. due to the emergency blood shortage. All donors will receive a free T-shirt and snacks. For more info, please email Jared at JTamasco@nybloodcenter.org.

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Rutgers University Programming Association will host its second annual “Rutgers on the Runway” fashion show debuting new RU apparel. Fifteen name brands such as Tommy Hilfiger, Victoria’s Secret, Polo and Under Armour will début its finest seasonal wear. The event will begin at 8 p.m. at Livingston Student Center in Livingston Hall.

The Nutrition Club will host a student-networking event and dinner from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Douglass Lounge of the Douglass Campus Center.

Dinner will also be served. Seniors and juniors will be giving advice to first year students and sophomores about their experiences at the University, ways to get involved and tips on classes. Interested seniors and juniors must respond via Facebook or Rutgersnutritionclub@yahoo.com.

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Kurt Schock, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice at Rutgers–Newark, will present a lecture entitled, “Civil Resistance and the Struggle for Land: Experiences in India and Brazil.” His research seeks to understand how civil resistance movements challenge state domination and economic exploitation. He is the author of “Unarmed Insurrections: People Power Movements in Nondemocracies.” The lecture will take place at the Alexander Library on the College Avenue campus in the 4th floor Teleconference Lecture Hall at 4:30 p.m.

It will be followed by a reception.

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Rosalie Winard, an award-winning photographer will present an artist talk entitled, “A Spectacle of Wings.” Her presentation will include photographs from her award-winning book, “Wild Birds of the American Wetlands,” as well as photos from her personal archives. Winard’s photographs have been published in Audubon, ArtForum, Time and The New York Times. Her work is also in the collections of the Librar y of Congress, The New York Historical Society, Nelson Mandela, Temple Grandin and others. The exhibition and talk will take place at 2 p.m. in the Zimmerli Art Museum on the College Avenue campus.

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Creator of PostSecret Frank Warren shares a few responses he receives from people all over the world through his website. Warren said he uses others’ secrets to help cope with his own.

FOUNDER: Students openly share secrets at event continued from front “With each book, I try to convey a different story,” he said. “I include one of my own secrets in every one.”

He also provided audience members with postcards to write down their secrets and share them.

One student shared that when he was walking past his grandmother’s room at his house, the door was ajar and he could see her topless.

Another said his father passed away because of a drug addiction and that he does not want to be like him.

One student told Warren that reading PostSecret convinced

him not to take his life, and thanked him.

Warren, who experienced the loss of a friend to suicide, said he was inspired to take part in a suicide prevention program.

“The most effective way to help someone thinking about hurting themselves is to be direct, ask them how they’re feeling,” he said. “Attack the means, make sure there are no loaded firearms or strong medications around them.”

Danielle Pace, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, said sharing her secret in front of an audience was ultimately inspiring.

“It was hard, but it felt good,” she said. “I’ve had two people I’ve never met before and may never see again come up to me and tell me it’ll be okay. It’s inspiring to see such random acts of kindness.”

Pace said she has been waiting to hear Warren talk for a few years.

“I love him, he’s an inspiration of mine,” Pace said. “I check PostSecret ever y Sunday, and when I heard he was speaking, I knew I had to come.”

Lianne Ng, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said the talk helped her cope with her relationship issues.

“I really like his speech,” she said. “I was going through a hard time, and I wasn’t sure who was speaking until recently, but coming here helped me.”

School of Ar ts and Sciences sophomore Kunal Patel said she was ver y moved by Warren’s speech.

“I’ve been wanting to see him for a while,” Patel said. “[His speech] was one of the greatest things I’ve heard.”

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Hospital event celebrates black history

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JESS FASANO

Singer Glen Burtnik and friends performed at 15 Livingston Ave last Saturday to commemorate the legacy of The Beatle’s John Lennon at the “John Lennon-70th Birthday Celebration.”

With Black Histor y Month in full swing, Saint Peter’s University Hospital hosted an African-American cultural presentation last Friday at the Sister Marie de Pazzi Conference Center to give the public an over view on the histor y of black Americans.

The presentation featured speakers who discussed the impact of black Americans in a broad range of fields in America, said Ronald Rak, the president and chief executive of ficer of the Saint Peter’s Healthcare System.

“What we should celebrate is not Negro history, but the Negro in history,” said Rak, who quoted Carter Woodson, an AfricanAmerican activist. “We should be proud of that history as we share it with you today.”

Some speakers opened their presentation with a game of Guess Who, where they projected a famous AfricanAmerican figure on an overhead projector and gave audience members the opportunity to guess his or her identity.

Among the people discussed at the event were actor Sidney Poitier, dancer Ar thur Mitchell, Oprah and President Barack Obama.

Speakers at the event hailed from different departments at Saint Peter’s University Hospital and shared their personal backgrounds as well as the stories of other well-known black Americans.

“I want to say thank you to the committee who truly recognizes the need to celebrate this month in the good faith and beliefs we all practice,” said Jay Jimenez, the vice president of Government Af fairs at the Saint Peter’s Healthcare System.

Rak said Black Histor y Month symbolizes more to him than African-American accomplishments, but also the hardships black people have faced in histor y.

“I realized then just how much worse it was for the black American immigrant because they were not coming here to escape prosecution [as many white ancestors were] but to be forced in it,” he said.

Rak said he was pleased with how the event promoted respect toward black people, but realizes prejudice still exists.

“We have obviously come a long way, and a lot of the individuals alluded to here today have proved that,” he said.

“But we still look for ward to that day when we can live in a

world where there is no prejudice at all.”

In between speeches, a trio of musicians performed songs like “I Need You to Sur vive” by African-American, Grammy award-winning gospel singer Hezekiah Walker.

Numerous pieces of artwork from the African Diaspora movement lined the perimeter of the Conference Center, while traditional African garment and literature were displayed on tables inside the center.

Following the conclusion of all speeches, the crowd ate refreshments and interacted with some of the speakers, which Jimenez said is a perfect way to end the event.

“These types of programs allow us to continue to celebrate our community of brothers and sisters,” Jimenez said.

“It is impor tant to realize that and I’m glad we did that here today.”

Rak said he wishes the event will motivate more respect toward African-American culture in the future and help people realize their influence over the world.

“We honor and cherish the rich histor y that has been put on display today and…I am ver y happy to share in that respect and admiration,” he said.

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Agricultural museum loses state funding, closes to public

BY LIZ ZWIRZ CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The New Jersey Museum of Agriculture, a 26-year-old establishment on Cook campus, closed to the public last weekend after Gov. Chris Christie’s latest budget cuts and after 55 years its space will be returned to the University.

Cooper Morris, head of the museum’s board, said Christie’s last budget cut sucked the museum’s funding dr y.

The N.J. government appropriated $300,000 of funding to the museum each year, but last year, the funding was cut to $90,000, Morris said. This year, no funding is being supplied.

In order to attract more funding, the museum sold several hundred items at an auction last fall in Lancaster County, Pa., but did not receive suf ficient funding to stay afloat, Morris said.

FIREFIGHTERS EXTINGUISH MULCH BLAZE IN SOUTH BRUNSWICK About 80 firefighters from several depar tments in Middlesex County and two other county fire depar tments battled a mulch fire Saturday morning in South Brunswick near Route 130 and Broadway Road.

The blaze began around 5:30 a.m. and quickly spread to more than one acre of land, said South Brunswick Police Sgt. Jim Ryan in a mycentraljersey.com article.

The fire burned for several hours before it was extinguished Saturday afternoon with flames repor tedly shooting as high as 30 feet into the air.

Although the source of the fire was apparently traced to a local business on Broadway Road, the cause remains under investigation but is not considered suspicious.

Firefighters’ efforts were hampered in part by the 60 mph wind gusts, according to the article.

The fire was among many New Jersey wildfires that happened Saturday involving woods, fields or marshes, said Forest Fires Ser vice’s division warden Berth Plante in the article.

“A number of fires, but nothing really bad happened,” Plante said in the article, adding there were no injuries or physical property damage.

The fires were attributed to winds up to 60 mph reported by the Forest Fire Service’s fire lookout tower, snow-cover melting and open space areas drying out, according to the fire service’s report.

“It’s dr ying out rapidly from the south to the north,” Plante said in the article. “Any snow you had hanging around blew [away] pretty fast.”

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“We have started the closing process but are keeping the door ‘cracked open’ in the event funding does come forward. However, that is extremely unlikely,” Morris said.

Morris predicts it will take the museum $100,000 to keep it running.

Museum staff have been preparing for its official closing since Feb. 14, Morris said.

“As part of the closing process, two full-time employees will lose their employment, several part-time employees will also,” Morris said.

The 30,000 square-foot facility, which displayed farm equipment, household implements and trade tools, will be returned to the University who owned it from 1929 to 1984.

Morris is not sure where all its artifacts will go.

“For items that are owned free and clear by the museum, the tr ustees will have to

decide,” he said. “[There are] several options — give items to other museums or sell them at an auction.”

“I also think it is a lost opportunity for schools who want to take their students somewhere fun and educational.”

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Morris believes the museum’s shutdown will leave a large void in the public, who will no longer be able to see its ar tifacts and experience programs such as the farm chores tour, “Dear Dair y Diar y” and Lenape Indians.

“Undoubtedly those in the public who have visited the Museum will be upset,” he said. “Additionally those segments of the population who appreciate a diversity of cultural options and care for histor y will see the closing as a great loss.”

School of Arts and Sciences junior Jordan Kaplan agreed with Morris and disapproved of Christie’s budget cut.

“Although I understand the budget constraints of New Jersey in recent years, Christie in my mind has his priorities out of place,” he said.

Kaplan said the museum’s closing would af fect children the most.

“Cutting funding that goes to educational programs such as the New Jersey Agricultural Museum may not seem like a big deal, but to the children who now have the oppor tunity to visually learn about New Jersey,

[this budget cut] takes away from their overall educational value,” he said.

Alexis Mariolis, a School of Ar ts and Sciences sophomore, said Christie’s decision to cut the museum’s funding loose is premature and poorly thought out.

“I think there are other things that can be eliminated or cut out of the budget,” she said.

“By cutting [the museum], people are definitely losing out on a learning experience and seeing old pictures and equipment that they wouldn’t normally get a chance to see.”

Mariolis said she thinks teachers must find a new way to teach students about N.J. histor y because the museum used to be one of the best ways.

“I also think it is a lost oppor tunity for schools who want to take their students somewhere fun and educational,” she said.

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Establish legal limit for THC-blood level

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f people are allowed to drive after drinking — provided their bloodalcohol level is under the legal limit — then why shouldn’t people be allowed to drive after smoking marijuana? That seems to be the question raised by a bill in the Colorado state legislature, which would set a legal limit of under five nanograms per milimeter of THC in a person’s bloodstream. As long as a driver’s THC-blood level is under five nanograms, he would legally be allowed to drive. While some are in support of the current zero-tolerance policy, we agree with the idea of establishing a legal limit. If used responsibly, marijuana does not significantly impair a person’s ability to drive. A 2004 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration study shows that marijuana, if used responsibly, does not significantly impair a person’s ability to drive.

Placing a legal limit on THC-blood level may help remove the stigma some Americans have about pot. By treating marijuana in a similar manner to the way alcohol is treated, this bill may help to normalize pot usage to the extent that people may being considering the actual effects of marijuana, rather than dismissing it as illegal and therefore, highly dangerous. Like any mind-altering substance, marijuana can be dangerous — but if alcohol is legal, then there is no reason marijuana should not be as well. As long as pot is regulated in the same way alcohol is regulated, responsible adults should be able to enjoy it. This bill has the potential to expose this truth to people who have never taken the time to really consider the facts. This bill also opens the door for medical marijuana users to drive after using what is, in this case, medication. It is not fair to prevent them from driving because of outdated laws.

The Cannabis Therapy Institute has objected to the bill, stating that “chronic cannabis users, such as medical-marijuana patients, normally average a much higher THC concentration in their bloodstream than 5 ng/mL … and this does not necessarily cause impairment.” That may be the case, but the Cannabis Therapy Institute is approaching the bill from the wrong angle. Rather than complain that cannabis users can often drive with higher THC levels in their blood, they need to recognize that — even though this bill is not perfect — it is a step in the right direction. This is the first time a state has decided to tackle the issue of driving high, so it is expected the bill will have some flaws. But what is important here is that Colorado has recognized that regulation is far more productive than outright condemnation.

Guns add dangers to college campuses S

tereotypically speaking, Texans love their guns. Perhaps the Texas House of Representatives loves guns too much — more than half of the members have co-authored a measure, which would essentially force universities to allow students and professors to carry concealed handguns on campus. There is a sort of “fight fire with fire” mentality behind the bill, as Sen. Jeff Wentworth, R-San Antonio, expressed when said, “It’s strictly a matter of self-defense …

I don’t ever want to see repeated on a Texas college campus what happened at Virginia Tech, where some deranged, suicidal madman goes into a building and is able to pick off totally defenseless kids like sitting ducks.” We understand that the Texas House wants to avoid such a tragedy, but they have to realize that the cons definitely outweigh the pros in this scenario. College students are not exactly the ideal candidates for wielding concealed firearms.

For most students, college is a turbulent time. For many of them, it is the first time they have been away from home and on their own for an extended period of time. What usually follows is some pretty ridiculous debauchery. The average University student has probably been in a number of situations where they have witnessed — or maybe even taken part in — a brawl between intoxicated students for seemingly no reason. Now consider how differently that situation may play out if one or more of the people involved were carrying a handgun. It is not hard to imagine a student making a serious mistake while overcome by alcohol and passion. A good way to avoid such an awful possibility is to not allow students to carry concealed weaponry.

Also, more armed students means more people capable of going on the sort of rampage that occurred at Virginia Tech. So while the bill may have been proposed as a means of combating school shootings, it may actually end up contributing to them in the end. Glen Johnson, Chancellor of the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education, said it best: “There is no scenario where allowing concealed weapons on college campuses will do anything other than create a more dangerous environment for students, faculty, staff and visitors.” If Texas really wants to promote the safety of their students, they should take a different route. For example, they could require that schools hire more armed security personnel — these are the only sorts of people who should be carrying guns on university campuses. Texas lawmakers need to remember that violence is never the answer.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “I think this is a start to bringing in a community of people that can enjoy a college setting and enjoy interacting with college students.”

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Iraq may slip into dictatorship Gods Go M Begging

determined that the majoriuch of the Middle ty of Iraqis are not satisfied East is in the with their state, and many midst of landcite national security as mark revolutionar y movetheir primar y concern. ments, which have been misThese security concerns are characterized in many news precisely why Iraqi political media outlets. The subtle protests have centered on use of the word “anti-govBILAL AHMED the state’s inefficiency and ernment” rather than “procorruption rather than demdemocracy” in reference to ocratic concerns. There are many commentators the protestors has led to the widespread notion that who will argue that Iraq’s protests have not conanarchy is descending on the Arab world. It is easy fronted democracy issues because Iraq is a functo be afraid of this narrative, as it states that chaos tional democratic state. But this ignores the fact would allow for an explosion of reactionary Islamist that state corruption and inability to provide social thought, which would rapidly replace the decaying services are democracy issues. They impede on a political order. However, as I have argued in a previstate’s ability to provide for its people, which is ous article, this belief is unwarranted in many Arab inherently the purpose of a democracy. states. Frustration with autocracy rather than reliAdditionally, many Iraqis have become disillugious fervor has been the inspiration for this politisioned with their country simply because of its cal unrest, which, within 18 months, will radically bloody history, which greatly stifles demands for change much of the Middle East. fundamental changes to the Iraqi political process.

Despite this overall trend toward secular democIt is entirely understandable that a state which has racy, there remains a large Arab state, which seems suf fered through ruthless dictatorship, three poised for secular dictatorship instead. This is an major wars, debilitating sanctions and civil conflict Arab state that faces large problems from religious in the past three decades would be more conterrorism — it killed at least 4,043 of its people in cerned with public safety rather 2010 and 387 last month. This is also than democratic aspirations. This an Arab state that faces massive “Iraq’s security is not to imply that all Iraqis feel shortages of basic social services this way, but it must be noted that such as electricity, putting it in a situation has led dictatorships are justified by similar situation as other desperate to popular concerns most the majority’s safety rather than Arab states such as Yemen. And this happens to be the only state worldabout public safety.” unanimous consent.

The only factor preventing wide that, despite massive American Iraq’s fragile parliament from colassistance, was unable to assemble a lapsing into strongman rule is the imposing prescoalition parliamentary government until about nine ence of American troops, which have adopted months after national elections. Naturally, we are more intelligent counter-insurgency strategies discussing Iraq. since the ascent of Secretary of Defense Robert M. There has been an unconscious consensus among Gates and have therefore become integral in prenews commentators and analysts to either avoid disventing existing violence from augmenting to cussing Iraq or focus on its positive attributes. uncontrollable levels. The impending Dec. 31, However, it would be irresponsible to ignore its grad2011 withdrawal will be essential in tracking the ual descent into strongman rule. The Iraqi governlength of time until Iraq’s next democratic colment still relies massively on American assistance to lapse, which I predict will occur within 18 months enforce security outside of its main areas of control in of the American withdrawal in a gradual fashion Baghdad. And where it has direct oversight it is overseen before in Vietnam. Strongman rule will be whelmed by continued terrorist attacks by factions essential in preventing Islamist aspirations in Iraq, including al-Qaida. It is true that violence has which unlike many other Arab states are quite real dropped by a large percentage since the most intense and capitalize greatly on national chaos. It is rather months of the Iraqi civil war, but attacks are still poetic that a decade after Sept. 11, a democratic bloody and numerous enough that Iraq can be concollapse will occur in the only Arab state where sidered at continuous conflict. I consider it lazy mathAmerican interference was physically applied, ematics to pretend that a state is a peaceful, self-susrather than other states where it was distant. taining democracy simply because it suffered 4,043 deaths in 2010 rather than 27,850 in 2006.

Bilal Ahmed is a School of Arts and Sciences Iraq’s security situation has led to popular conjunior majoring in Middle Eastern studies. His cerns about public safety, which precisely lubricate column, “Gods Go Begging,” runs on alternate Mondays. the rise of a dictator. Recent Pew polls have

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Use natural resources in moderation to help planet Letter JELAN COLEY

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t is absolutely impossible to deny that our planet’s ecosystems are being threatened by the global harvesting of natural resources. There have been movies made and countless statistics published in suppor t of the existence of this energy crisis. The natural world as we know it is governed by the transformation of energy. We use energy to heat and cool our homes, to run our vehicles, to light our buildings and to r un factories that create products we have the luxur y of purchasing. The root of this energy crisis is the usage of natural resources such as coal, petroleum, oil and timber to meet our energy demands faster than these resources can be replaced by nature. Also, humans’ use of such resources increases the greenhouse ef fect on the Ear th, heating the atmosphere and disr upting ecosystems that have been around for

years before our existence.

Obviously, if this situation continues on a steady pace — even without an increase in resource use because of the demand of an ever-increasing world population — the Ear th’s resources will be on track to an inevitable total depletion. Many countries, such as the United States and China, which have enough capital to begin switching to an alternative and renewable energy solution, have been taking initiative to find ways to conver t our main energy sources to renewable ones. The main sources that cannot be depleted in the foreseeable future are geothermal energy, solar energy, wave energy and wind energy. The problem is we are still dependent on nonrenewable energy sources.

This is a global problem. The United States attempts to be the biggest and best nation in the world, which also makes us the largest contributors to the possible end of the world. That may sound pretty drastic. But given the fact that, according to the World Bank’s World Development Indicators in 2007,

the United States used seven times more energy — measured in oil equivalent per capita — in 2007 (7,759kg) than China (1,484kg), the most populated nation in the world, it becomes a little less hard to believe. Even India, the second most populated location in the world, has energy use data that pales in comparison to the United

“This is our one and only planet and we share it with many more species.”

States, with a meager 529 kg. The problem lies with the fact that our nation, the biggest user of energy in the world, gets most of its energy and resources from non-renewable energy sources which are becoming scarcer and creating quantifiable harmful side effects on the planet. The nation’s economy is reliant upon fossil fuels and coal because their usages

have been historically ingrained in our society and in the inventions of today. To reinvent and renovate existing inventions to be more energy efficient has been put on the nation’s moral agenda, but the way to spark a bigger initiative is to get the nation’s people involved. More people need to voice their opinions about being more energy efficient to influence lawmakers and our federal government.

What the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group’s (NJPIRG) Energy Ser vice Corps (ESC) is tr ying to accomplish can help do just that. By spreading awareness to University students and the surrounding New Br unswick community, they are helping to create that spark. They have thus far educated hundreds of K-12 students in the New Br unswick community about the energy issues facing the world today and informed them of what they can do as individuals and with their families to help save the planet. Reaching out to the younger generations is one of — if not the best — ways of spreading awareness

and bringing about a change that will persevere after older generations move on. ESC also has a program to help save people of the New Brunswick community up to 30 percent on their energy bills through free w e a t h e r i z a t i o n s .

Weatherizations include tactics like sealing up cracks in windows and helping households be more energy ef ficient through actions as simple as changing incandescent light bulbs to compact fluorescent lamps. NJPIRG is made of volunteers and interns who believe promoting energy efficiency is worth the stigma they received from the University community because of the fall referendum. This is our one and only planet and we share it with many more species. We are not separate from our environment. Instead, we are a part of it as much as other organisms, so it is up to all of us to use energy and resources in moderation and to share the planet the way nature intended.

Jelan Coley is a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student.

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Presence on offensive glass keeps RU in game at ’Cuse

BY A.J. JANKOWSKI CORRESPONDENT

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Going up against the vaunted 2-3 zone of No. 17 Syracuse, the Rutgers m e n ’ s basketball team KNIGHT knew that NOTEBOOK a n y chance of leaving the Carrier Dome with a victor y meant crashing the boards on the offensive glass.

And in the game’s early going, that is exactly what the Scarlet Knights did.

The Knights gathered six offensive rebounds in the first six minutes of play in their 8480 overtime loss and finished with 15 total offensive boards.

“In the first half especially, we did a good job getting second and third opportunities,” said head coach Mike Rice. “So it’s just with our lack of physicality and depth … we’re just going to keep swinging.”

Freshman for ward Gilvydas Bir uta and sophomore wing Dane Miller led the way for Rutgers on the glass, with each grabbing four of fensive and four defensive rebounds.

“It’s tough to match up on the defensive glass [against Syracuse],” Biruta said. “But on offensive [end] it has its advantages because they can’t really box you out [in the zone].”

Senior for ward Jonathan Mitchell finished just behind the duo with seven total rebounds.

But the three did not receive much help, as the rest of the team combined for just eight rebounds.

“I ask [my guards] to do ever ything, but they got one defensive rebound,” Rice said.

“So if you want to win, Mike

Coburn and James Beatty, you rebound. And it’s as simple as that.”

WHILE RICE

WANTS TO SEE

his guards rebounding figures increase, one statistic he would like to see diminish is the amount of times the opposing team gets to the free throw line.

Rutgers committed a total of 30 fouls, resulting in 47 free throw attempts for Syracuse.

The Orange turned that into 34 points from the charity stripe.

The Knights only earned 14 trips to the free throw line, conver ting on nine for a 64 percent clip.

The gap between the amounts of free throws for both teams can largely be attributed to the dif ference in defensive styles. But Rice remained skeptical that that was the only factor.

“It’s going to be a disparity because of our formula,” Rice said. “But that one does seem awful high. But again, it’s Big East referees and they are supposedly the best in the country.”

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Preseason Freshman of the Year, Fab Melo, is officially in Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim’s doghouse.

The highly touted center saw his playing time diminish as the season progressed, going from a starter to a minor bench role.

Against Rutgers, Melo saw the court for a mere four seconds of game time. In those four seconds midway through the first half, the center hacked Biruta, who made the bucket and the subsequent free throw for a 3point play.

Boeheim sent Melo to the bench for good immediately after.

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Freshman forward Gilvydas Biruta contributed 12 points and eight rebounds before fouling out in the overtime period against the Orange, whose size proved to be too much in the loss.

ORANGE: Beatty’s effort rims out to force extra period continued from back

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Head coach Mike Rice earned a technical foul after a shot by senior forward Robert Lumpkins in the second half. The ensuing foul shots put the Orange up by six before Rutgers came back.

cautious. I didn’t want to pick up a cheap one early [in overtime].

The ball didn’t go our way, and we just have to try to get better.”

Rutgers had another opportunity to knock off a ranked opponent in the game’s final moments, when Coburn brought the ball past half-court and called timeout with 7.5 seconds left and the contest tied at 70.

Coburn took the inbounds following the Knights’ deliberation and initially looked for Mitchell, who slipped his screen in the middle of the floor into the paint.

But Jackson and the Orange’s interior collapsed on Mitchell, leaving Coburn to explore other options, passing the ball to backcourt mate Beatty to the right of the 3-point arc with the clock winding down.

Sophomore wing Dane Miller waited in the right corner for a Beatty feed, but the 6-foot-2 guard released a deep 3-pointer that nearly rattled in as time expired, leaving the crowd of more than 28,000 with silent relief.

“We wanted two high ball screens at Dane running short corner,” said head coach Mike Rice, who picked up a technical foul earlier in the contest. “J.B. felt he had it — I wanted a shot.

In hindsight, I liked that he was stepping up, but he had a wideopen guy in the corner. But again, it’s neither here nor there.

We wanted two ball screens.

They took away the slip guy in

the middle and that kind of left J.B. and Dane wide open.”

Syracuse took a one-point lead with 34 seconds left in regulation after Jackson made one of two free throws following a Mitchell foul in the paint.

But following Rice’s timeout on the next possession, Coburn pump-faked a shot from beyond the arc and an Orange defender bit, jumping in the air and fouling the Mt. Vernon, N.Y., native.

Referees called the foul on the floor instead of in the act of shooting, so Coburn went to the freethrow line for two shots and calmly knocked both down to give Rutgers a 70-69 lead. “[Coburn] is a 5-foot-11 kid, but he has the heart of a 6-foot-8 power forward,” Rice said. “He just had such a toughness. We threw it to Gilvydas, who just made simple plays. It’s hard to attack Syracuse in the paint, but these guys did it very, very well — enough to win a game.”

The Knights went up by two points with less than two minutes to go, when Miller found a hole in the Syracuse zone en route to a rebound and putback, earning a foul shot in the process.

But Biruta picked up an overthe-back foul on Miller’s miss, sending ’Cuse freshman C.J. Fair to the charity stripe, where he evened the score at 68.

“I see the fight, I see the heart and the toughness everyday with the mentality of this team,” Rice said. “The building’s going nuts and you can’t hear yourself think. They had such poise and calmness about them in their attack. We’re going to win games down the stretch because we’re a better team now.

And we’re improving.”

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Knights post one of season’s best scores

BY JOSH GLATT CORRESPONDENT

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Sophomore Danielle D’Elia finished second among Knights in the floor exercise with a 9.825, which placed her fifth in the field.

The Rutgers gymnastics team had a successful weekend, finishing with its second highest GYMNASTICS score of RUTGERS 192.975 the season in a THIRD PLACE q u a d meet at Mar yland, but placing third.

The Scarlet Knights finished with a score of 192.975 — just behind the winner, No.18 Penn State, and host Mar yland.

With only three meets left before the East Atlantic Gymnastics League (EAGL) championship, head coach Chr ystal Chollet-Nor ton realizes that ever y meet is essential to her team’s confidence.

“We know who our top eight are, so we get to focus on working with them,” Chollet-Norton said. “We don’t want to be the team that is in last place at EAGLs — we want to be on roll and show what we can do.”

The Knights were unexpectedly without sophomore all-arounder Jenna Zito due to foot pain during warm-ups. Unlike in previous years, when the Knights did not possess the depth required to make up for an injury, the team now has enough top-level athletes to step in for any injury.

“Even though we didn’t have Jenna we have the athletes where there isn’t a big drop off with the replacement,” CholletNorton said.

To add more versatility to the talented roster, CholletNorton is working with specialists in hopes of having the team ready to compete in other events at a high level. A team leader and bar specialist, senior

JENNA ZITO Leigh Heinbaugh is prepared to potentially work on vault.

“I am hoping to get Leigh on vault at the next home meet,” Chollet-Nor ton said. “She has looked good in practice, and she could help us there.”

With the added depth and talent, Rutgers no longer needs to have a perfect meet to compete with top competition.

The Knights suffered several uncharacteristic mistakes during the meet but still managed

to put together a strong performance overall.

“We had a couple of out of bounds on floor that we normally don’t have and we didn’t have our best bar set,” CholletNorton said. “The program has been on a steady climb with the sophomores and freshmen we brought in. Now we have a team that is good enough that we don’t have the pressure on a few girls to be perfect.”

While it is a confidencebooster knowing that the team is talented enough to compete with the top schools in the countr y, it is fr ustrating for Chollet-Norton to know that a few atypical mistakes meant taking third place.

“We are as strong as Penn State and Mar yland on floor, and we just didn’t have a per fect meet,” Chollet Nor ton said.

With the Knights competing at home the next two meets, they have a golden opportunity to perfect their fundamentals prior to the postseason.

“We have two meets to get our confidence to an even higher level,” Chollet-Norton said.

“The girls are excited to prove that this is our house.”

The Knights compete on Saturday at home against Bridgeport and Ursinus in the Scarlet Knights alumni meet.

YEAR: Knights neutralize

side, with ever y match decided in straight sets. Holzberg was Buffalo’s doubles strategy in win the only member of the team to have trouble after Petrova forced an extra game in their continued from back first set.

But Holzberg overcame the this year,” said junior Jennifer slight hurdle to win, 7-5, 6-3.

Holzberg. “Ever yone is fightZhang, Ivey, and junior ing to win their matches and Mar yana Milchutskey all nobody wants to give up at all.” emerged from their matches Rutgers started off strong relatively unscathed to clinch against Buf falo, earning the the overall match for Rutgers pivotal doubles point, which by a 5-0 score. was the deciding factor that Petrini and Balasa added cost it the Columbia match. wins to the Knights’ strong The Bulls used an interesting per formance to give the sqaud strategy to tr y and gain an the sweep and extend their advantage in doubles by using personal winning streaks. teams consisting of one top Petrini won six straight matchplayer and one loweres to open her Rutgers career, ranked player. while Balasa sits at five conThe tactic worked at first, as secutive wins after suf fering Buf falo’s Adi Petrova and her only loss in Shelby Bates, the the season openteam’s respective “We worked er at Princeton.

No. 2 and No. 4 “It is ver y singles players, a lot on doubles impor tant to grabbed an 8-6 in practice this past have a strong victor y over the lineup from No. Knights’ freshweek and we’re 1 to No. 6 in sinmen, Stefania gles,” Holzberg Balasa and trying to become said. “[Petrini Vanessa Petrini more aggressive.” and Balasa] are — No. 5 and strong competi6, respectively.

JENNA HOLZBERG tors that add Rutgers’ top Junior great depth to team, Holzberg the lineup and and senior capare showing how well they tain Amy Zhang, then defeated can play.” a team comprised of Buffalo’s That depth will be called No. 1 and No. 6 competitors, 9upon again next weekend 7, in a close contest. when Rutgers faces its first Big Despite the unusual lineups, East competition of the season.

Rutgers still came away with The Knights travel to the victor y, as juniors Morgan Kentucky to square of f against Ivey and Leonora Slatnick conference foe Louisville on added an 8-4 win in the decisive Saturday after noon in what third match. promises to be a hard“The doubles point is ver y fought match. important to win matches and “We want to play with the start off strong, so we are all same confidence and strength focusing on doubles a lot,” that we have been playing with Holzberg said. “We worked a against the non-conference lot on doubles in practice this teams,” Holzberg said. “We are past week and we’re tr ying to anticipating a tough match verbecome more aggressive at the sus Louisville, but if we play net to win points faster.” the way we have been it will be The Knights were once a good turnout.” again dominant on the singles

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Junior guard Khadijah Rushdan exploded offensively in the second half of the Knights’ 76-55 win at No. 22 Marquette, scoring 13 points in the period to end play with a game-high 20 points.

UPSET: RU’s zone quiets Golden Eagles’ go-to scorers continued from back registering a forgettable 5-for21 shooting clip.

The duo entered the contest averaging nearly 30 combined points per game, but the pair could not do enough to dig its team out of an early hole against the Knights’ 2-3 zone.

The Golden Eagles were down by as many as 25 points in the first half and that deficit continued for the rest of the game, as a balanced Knights scoring attack proved to be too much for the home squad to handle.

Aside from its previous game against DePaul that almost ended in upset fashion, Rutgers struggled recently to maintain consistency offensively, relying

on different players to emerge each night to get the job done.

But that changed against the Golden Eagles, as the entire starting lineup did the job in Milwaukee, Wis. Junior guard Khadijah Rushdan followed up her 13-point performance against No. 11 DePaul with a 20-point showing at the Al McGuire Center to lead all scorers. The scoring burst was the largest this season for the Wilmington, Del., native and marked the second time this season she led the Knights offensively in Big East play.

Sophomore guard Erica Wheeler and junior for ward April Sykes, who both had mirroring statlines to finish the game 4-for-11 from the field, adding 12 points apiece, followed Rushdan.

Post play did not slouch one bit either, as sophomore center Monique Oliver and junior

forward Chelsey Lee tallied efficient 11-point and 13-point efforts, respectively.

With the win, the Knights return to the Banks with a 1-2 record after their three-game Midwest road trip, during which they played three ranked opponents.

Although the victory only marked the team’s second victory over a ranked opponent this season, it was a huge step for a team that struggled to win games on the road.

With the win, the Knights improved to just 3-9 in games away from Piscataway, but after completely dominating one of the conference’s top squads on its own turf, Rutgers made some noise in the Big East and just in the nick of time.

Stringer’s squad next plays host to a pair of conference opponents this week in South Florida and West Virginia before capping the regular season with a trip to South Orange to battle intrastate foe Seton Hall.

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Fouls cost RU in OT loss to No. 17 Orange

BY TYLER BARTO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

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Senior guard Mike Coburn was able to penetrate the Syracuse 2-3 zone at will on Saturday at the Carrier Dome, where the 6-foot guard managed team-highs in both points and assists with 18 and six, respectively.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Freshman for ward Gilvydas Biruta and senior point guard MEN’S BASKETBALL James Beatty could only watch the final 45 seconds of RUTGERS 80 SYRACUSE 84 OT over time against No. 17 Syracuse from the bench after fouling out of Saturday’s contest at the Carrier Dome.

The feeling was not any easier for the rest of the Scarlet Knights, who fell, 84-80, to the Orange in the extra period after controlling their destiny in the waning moments of the second half.

“We’re disappointed with the outcome, obviously,” said senior guard Mike Coburn, who led the Knights (13-13, 4-10) with 18 points on 7-for-12 shooting. “Every time you go out there, you try to get a win. We didn’t win [Saturday], so we’re disappointed in that regard. We have to keep working.”

After going toe-to-toe with the Syracuse (22-6, 9-6) frontcourt for 40 minutes, Biruta entered overtime with four fouls. The 6-foot8 freshman picked up his final foul with less than four minutes to go in overtime, when ’Cuse wing Kris Joseph found teammate Rick Jackson uncontested in the paint.

Biruta’s absence left the Knights with a smaller frontcourt and gave the Orange — one of the Big East’s more physically imposing lineups — a sizeable advantage.

“Both [Jackson and Biruta] did damage on the interior,” said senior forward Jonathan Mitchell, who shot only 6-for-17 from the field against the Orange’s 2-3 zone. “I know I had four [fouls], so I was definitely trying to be

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Rutgers caps trip with upset in Milwaukee

BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

Just about ever ything that could go right for the Rutgers women’s basketball team did on Saturday, when it took on No. 22 Marquette.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Behind five RUTGERS 76 scorers in doubledigits, strong MARQUETTE 55 rebounding and stellar defense, the Scarlet Knights buried the Golden Eagles, 76-55, and in the process snapped their twogame losing skid.

The only time the Knights (15-11, 8-5) were down on the scoreboard was just 1:11 into the game, when Marquette guard Angel Robinson hit a jumper to give her team a 2-0 lead.

After that, it was smooth sailing for Rutgers, as head coach C. Vivian Stringer watched her defense completely stifle its opponent.

The Knights held Marquette to just 27.7 percent shooting from the field in the game and allowed a meager 14 points to the Golden Eagles (20-6, 8-5) after one half of play.

The backcour t of Robinson and Tatiyana McMorris –– Marquette’s leading scorers this season — combined for a lowly 17 points in the contest while

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Junior Morgan Ivey won her No. 3 singles match in straight sets against Buffalo’s Tammy Markovic, 6-4, 6-3. The Mt. Pleasant, S.C., native also paired with classmate Leonora Slatnick in No. 2 doubles action to take her match, 8-4.

Knights shut out fourth opponent of year

BY MATT CANVISSER STAFF WRITER

After having nearly a week to dwell on a tough loss at Columbia, the Rutgers tennis team returned to a TENNIS familiar place: the BUFFALO 0 win column. The RUTGERS 7 Scarlet Knights defeated Buf falo,

7-0, on Friday in their second match at the Atlantic Club in Manasquan, N.J. “We played extremely competitive doubles and finished with very strong singles,” said head coach Ben Bucca. “This was a good win over a strong, well-coached Buffalo team that finished higher than us in the [Intercollegiate Tennis Association] rankings last year.”

Shutouts seem to be the only way the Knights (4-2) know how to win, as each of

their four wins came in the form of a sweep. Rutgers went on a streak of three consecutive shutout victories earlier in the month against Fairleigh Dickinson, Army and Lehigh, and the Knights could be poised to start a run like that once again.

“We were not expecting to sweep Buffalo, but we are just a determined team

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