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The Rutgers women’s basketball team completed a 12-win season on the Banks with a win Saturday afternoon, capping the program’s best home record since the 2007-08 season.

Activists, FLA president discuss worker concerns BY KRISTINE CHOI CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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N.J. union supporters crowd the New Jersey State House steps Saturday to support Wisconsin’s unionized workers protesting against Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s decision to cut collective bargaining.

Union workers rally in Trenton BY JOSHUA ROSENAU STAFF WRITER

A windy, rainy Saturday was not enough to keep thousands of union boosters from the New Jersey State House steps in Trenton where they assembled in solidarity with Wisconsin’s embattled workers. “Collective bargaining is a human right, a moral right, an ethical right and an American right,” said Stephanie Bloomingdale, secretary-treasurer of the Wisconsin State American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) in her address to the crowd. Bloomingdale’s attendance at the event linked New Jersey’s unionized workers with those in Wisconsin, where Republican Gov. Scott Walker has pledged to abolish the rights of collective bargaining for some union organizations. The New Jersey State AFL-CIO sponsored the event, which hosted

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speakers from several local and national labor organizations. “This is about collective bargaining, and ever ybody realizes it,” said James Heekey, a member of the Communications Workers of America, who drove from Mar yland to attend the rally. “We’re against bypassing the bargaining process, and we’re further against nullifying the right to bargain.” Pressure for unions to make concessions, including concessions to the process of collective bargaining, mounted as state governments fight to stay financially solvent, said Lorraine LittleVascallo, a tea party advocate. “I am sick and tired of fiscal irresponsibility,” said Little-Vascallo, a former teacher in Camden, N.J. “We’ve got to get our fiscal house in order.” Little-Vascallo came to the rally fully clad in dollar-bill-print clothing, complete with a dollar-bill tiara and a homemade sign that read, “Union Crybabies.”

“This is all about the widening disparity between the haves and the have nots,” said New Jersey State Assemblyman John F. McKeon of West Orange. “We can’t just balance the budget on the backs of regular people.” McKeon supports the Millionaires Tax, which would raise taxes on households earning more than $1 million a year. If enacted, the law would affect about 14,000 N.J. residents and generate almost $700 million in state revenue, McKeon said. Unionized teachers, who Gov. Chris Christie has expressed as targets of the cuts, were also present in the crowd. “Does a sixth-grade teacher need to be told she is greedy?” said Vice President of the National Education Association Lilly Eskelson in a speech. “You know we just finished a study, and you would be shocked to learn how

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As a response to student concerns, the University’s administration held a meeting Friday afternoon with Fair Labor Association (FLA) President and CEO Auret van Heerden to analyze workers’ rights. Rutgers University Students Against Sweatshops (RUSAS) began a campaign last fall urging the University to become independent from the FLA due to matters regarding the organization’s role in protecting the rights of workers. “We’ve been constantly pressuring President Richard L. McCormick and the University to disaffiliate from the FLA,” said Zachar y Lerner, president of RUSAS. “Numerous times we’ve gone to President McCormick’s office, numerous times hand delivered the letters and done protests.”

One of the main concerns presented during the meeting in Winants Hall on the College Avenue campus was the case of Russell Athletic and the unjust treatment of workers, said Lerner, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. Although the FLA released a report of the situation completed by one of their investigators, the FLA failed to respond to the circumstances in an appropriate manner, he said. “It wasn’t until the FLA received pressure from NGOs and student groups that people started focusing on it,” Lerner said. “Despite all the evidence against Russell Athletic, the FLA only suspended them instead of kicking them out.” Members of RUSAS used charts and graphs to show statistics and compare findings from the

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RUSAS members meet with Fair Labor Association CEO Auret van Heerden Friday to talk about issues regarding the treatment of sweatshop workers.

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University a capella group OrphanSporks mixes up its sound Saturday at the SporksOrphan concert in Van Dyck Hall on the College Avenue campus where the male and female solos were switched.

For students who plan to attend graduate school, the College Board revised the GRE exam into a four-hour-long test that will come into effect this summer. Students hoping to enroll in graduate and business schools next fall will have the option of taking the old GRE now. But those applying after July 31 must take the new GRE, said Lee Weiss, the director of graduate programs at Kaplan Inc. Weiss said the new GRE will be four hours long and more difficult, complex and challenging. “This is the biggest change in the history of the GRE,” Weiss said. Weiss believes people might be happier with the new GRE because the vocabular y for the verbal section will be tested in context and students can use an onscreen calculator for math.

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Mock trial team advances to regional competition BY TABISH TALIB CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Rutgers University Mock Trial team won the American Mock Trial Association’s Regional Tournament a week ago at Drexel University, setting them up for the Open Round Tournament during spring break in Washington, D.C. This year’s mock court case was about a child who died by allegedly swallowing beads from a toy set, said Adam Weaver, the president of the team. The competing teams alternate in defending or prosecuting the toy manufacturer and also play the witnesses involved. “It was really fascinating to go up against teams from Georgetown University and Swar thmore University, which have really experienced mock trial programs,” said Jennifer Przybylski, a new team member who enjoyed her first regional competition. Similar to television shows about cour t cases, the competition becomes dramatic, specifically her teammate Travis Nunziato’s witness performance as the deceased child’s father, said Przybylski, a School of Ar ts and Sciences junior. “[It] ends up really entertaining and surprisingly emotional,” she said. Nunziato, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, was recognized with an Outstanding Witness Award at the competition, Przybylski said. By making the witness parent the father instead of the mother, whom many see as a more emotionally distraught figure, Nunziato said the University’s mock trial team thwarted expectations.

“It was a curveball to be a male witness,” he said. “We tried it and it ended up throwing the other teams off, so there was strategy involved.” The team, created five years ago and whose founding members graduated last spring, was not projected to perform well in the tournament, said Weaver, a School of Ar ts and Sciences senior. At first, the year was dedicated to rebuilding because there were many sophomores. “We’re a fairly new program and we were hanging with Princeton and Yale, it felt great,” he said. Team coach Craig Aronow said he is proud of the team’s performance despite the number of newcomers and the team’s fluctuating fall performance. “The entire team put together an amazing set of trials at the regional tournament,” said Aronow, attorney of New Brunswick law firm Rebenack, Aronow, Mascolo and Miller, LLP. Nunziato said he joined the mock trial team because it of fered friendships, exciting teamwork and acting opportunities. He enjoyed getting ready for his appearances as a witness. “It’s a lot of acting,” he said. “In order to get prepared, sometimes I watch a sad movie the night before.” Many students on the team take part in mock trial to prepare themselves for what civil cases are like in law school, while others, who are pre-medicine students enjoy the challenges, Weaver said. “Some people just like the drama, they like being witnesses as doctors and they love it,” he said. “It helps us out because they know the terminology better than us.”

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Travis Nunziato, a School of Arts and Sciences Junior, acts as a deceased child’s father on the stand in the American Mock Trial Association’s Regional Tournament. He received an Outstanding Witness Award.

People who are unfamiliar with mock trials fall in love with them for a combination of the academic value and drama, Weaver said. He encourages those who want to pursue law to come watch the mock trials. Those who join the team do so because they realize it has a lot to

offer them, regardless of what field they intend to pursue, Aronow said. “One of the reasons mock trial appeals to a wide range of people is because it is an intense program for analytical thinking and public speaking,

which is useful in any field,” he said. After the Open Round Tournament in Washington, D.C., five winning teams will move on to the National Championship Tournament in Des Moines, Iowa.

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continued from front “The new GRE allows students to skip back and forth and edit answers, measures skills critical to graduate schools and provides a scoring system with a scale of 130 to 170,” he said. Weiss said the biggest tradeoff between the old and new GRE is whether participants should take the test before or after July 31. Students planning to apply to graduate school for the upcoming year must take the old GRE now as the results for the new GRE test will take three months to come out, passing the graduate school application deadline, he said. New GRE results will be postponed after the first set of students take it in order for the College Board to provide for a basic statistical analysis of the new test, according to the College “There is no Board webpoint in being site. “I’m taking able to skip the current back and forth GRE but considering I’m because that’s in no rush, I not going to will retake the make your test after Aug. 1 since rumor answer correct” has it that it’s JULIA TELFER more user School of Arts friendly,” said and Sciences Junior Tara Connor, a University graduate student. In the Verbal Reasoning and Quantitative Reasoning sections, questions will be based on real-life scenarios and will test reaction to such situations, according to the College Board website. An answer will reflect thinking skills and see if it matches the requirements of top graduate schools in the nation. “The new GRE will not benefit me,” said Adrienne Rosa, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “It’s not worth taking because scores come out too late [and] I also want to avoid deadlines and the added difficulty.” Julia Telfer, a School of Ar ts and Sciences junior, agreed with Rosa and said she is determined to take the current GRE because she feels it is easier. “Yes, the new GRE has its advantages, but there is no point in being able to skip back and forth because that’s not going to make your answer correct,” Telfer said. “Also, a normal person’s attention span is not four hours long.” Weiss said he is optimistic the new GRE will benefit students in the long r un and remains confident more students will accept it as time goes on. “The new GRE has its tradeoffs but overall it is an improved revision,” he said. “It is more difficult but it is to the student’s benefit to accept it and study well for it.”

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Students gather at the Oxfam Remembers Katrina Masquerade Ball Friday in the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus for a night of dancing and food in the theme of Mardi Gras to remember the 5th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

RALLY: About 40 unionized U. staff members attend protest continued from front few millionaires work at our public schools.” Regina Morin, a modern languages professor at The College of New Jersey and Angela Bodino, an English professor at Raritan Valley Community College, said they felt attacked financially and professionally. “Christie says we have all this money,” Morin said. “I worked fulltime to pay for college and grad school. My husband has been [unemployed] for two years.” In an effort to advance her career, Morin enrolled in a graduate program at the University, but she fears the incentives for continuing her education may be removed.

“We don’t make a profit,” she said. “The state asks us to measure learning as though we were building a car, but they don’t know the dif ference between changing lives and making money.” A contingent of about 40 unionized members of the University’s faculty and staff also attended the event. New Jersey State AFL-CIO President Charles Wowkanech held a press conference at the union’s headquarters after the rally. The organization is among the largest unions in the state, with more than 1,000 local unions and 1 million members under its auspices, according to its website. Although the N.J. AFL-CIO is not an expressed target of cuts to the same extent as the New Jersey Education Association,

Wowkanech stressed that the AFL-CIO and the NJEA are together on the issue of protecting collective bargaining. “I think our position is very clear,” he said. “We are united.” Wowkanech also voiced his position in favor of the proposed Millionaire’s Tax. “We’ve been supporting it and it has passed in the legislature,” he said. “But the governor roundly vetoed it.” Adrienne Eaton, professor of labor studies and employment relations and president of Rutgers American Association of University ProfessorsAmerican Federation of Teachers, studied collective bargaining over the last 30 years, she said. “Collective bargaining is a democratic institution,” she said. “It is incredibly flexible.”

There have been incidents in the past where unions successfully conceded gains within the bargaining process, Eaton said. “During the 1980s, [United Auto Workers members] made concessions that kept that industry viable for the next 20 years,” she said. Eaton also said there were successful concessions by private sector unions at KaiserPermanente, a non-profit health care provider that employs more than 100,000 unionized workers. The battle over unions is coming after a worldwide economic meltdown that caused heavy financial losses for state governments, she said. “There is nothing in a union bid that created the financial crisis,” Eaton said. “It is a kind of amazing thing that unions are getting blamed.”

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Protestors carry signs outside the New Jersey State House Saturday to show their solidarity for Wisconsin unionized workers facing a cut from their bargaining rights. The New Jersey State AFL-CIO president held a press conference at union headquarters after the rally.

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Students listen to participants take the stage at last Thursday’s open mic night at the Red Lion Café in the basement of the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus. The event, sponsored in part by Rutgers Health Services, featured poetry, dance, karaoke, stand-up comedy and free food.

CONCERNS: Members anticipate U. to license report continued from front FLA annual reports and thirdparties reports. “It is disturbingly superficial the way the FLA reports are given,” said Molly Magier, organizing director of RUSAS. “Even in the few cases that the FLA found freedom of association, the remediation percentage was less than 10 percent.” Magier, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, said the discrepancies in the reports show the FLA and its procedures’ failure to fix one of the biggest problems workers are facing. In response, van Heerden claimed that contrasting FLA and the methodology it implements on workers was an irrelevant comparison. “The reason why freedom of association percentage in third party complaints are higher is because most of the third party complaints are about freedom of association,” van Heerden said. “The graphs taken from our general auditing data are recording violations of freedom of association.” RUSAS members questioned the situation further by appealing to study findings in 2008, which show the factor y remediation rates being lower than 10 percent. “If [the FLA] has lower than 10 percent in one year for finding freedom of association, there’s got to be a problem there,” Lerner said. The meeting adjourned at 4 p.m. and van Heerden was unable to comment further on the issues discussed. “I think it was definitely a great meeting because we were able to show why the FLA is not doing a good job at what it’s supposed to do,” Lerner said. He said the situation indicated a conflict of interest.

“It’s hard to see how anyone can do a good job monitoring factories when they are being paid by those exact same brands to go monitor it,” Lerner said. Lerner used the Russell Athletic case as an example of the inefficiency found in the FLA measures. “They were trying to say they did a good job, which is just not true,” he said. “They basically defended Russell Athletic until more than 50 universities had severed their contracts with Russell Athletic, including the University.” Lerner felt the meeting with van Heerden was successful in promoting RUSAS’ fight against the unjust treatment of workers. Marina Sazhin, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, felt the urgency of taking initiative to remove FLA from the University. “I feel like if someone is genuinely interested then things like this are worth it to come out and spend two hours on a Friday and listen,” she said. “It’s someone’s job, it’s someone’s health.” As an active member of RUSAS for the past two years, Sazhin felt the organization did a great job presenting their arguments against van Heerden. “At certain points he was

taken aback by all the information we had,” she said. “So I think that’s pretty successful.” Kim Manning, vice president of University Relations, said the meeting was a good opportunity for the students to share their concerns and speak directly with FLA leadership. “Our students are very concerned and very committed to these things,” she said. “I think the FLA leadership is also committed to some of the same concerns so I think it was a good opportunity for open dialogue.” Richard Garzon, a RUSAS member, said the meeting was an example of RUSAS taking strides toward progress. “I think it went as well as we could have hoped for it to go,” said Garzon, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “We got the main cases and discussions that we wanted to get out.” RUSAS members anticipate the University licensing committee’s upcoming report. “Hopefully the licensing committee will choose to get rid of the FLA here as soon as possible,” Lerner said. “A lot of universities are all trying to get rid of the FLA right now and this is outrageous that we still belong to them.”

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Members of RUSAS display their concerns for sweatshop workers Friday at a University administration’s meeting.

BENGHAZI, LIBYA — Politicians in the rebel stronghold of Benghazi said Sunday they are setting up a council to run day-today affairs in the eastern half of the country under their control, the first attempt to create a leadership body that could eventually form an alternative to Moammar Gadhafi’s regime. A day after a high-ranking minister who defected from the government said he was setting up a provisional government, a prominent human rights lawyer, Abdel-Hafidh Ghoga, held a news conference in Benghazi to shoot down the claim. Instead, he said politicians in the east were establishing a transitional council to manage daily life in the rebel-controlled areas until Gadhafi falls. The confusion began late Saturday night when former Justice Minister Mustafa AbdelJalil, who quit his post to protest the “excessive use of force” against unarmed demonstrators, announced he would head a provisional government from the rebel-held east and called for elections in just three months. His announcement seemed to provide exactly the kind of emerging opposition leadership that many both inside and outside Libya are looking for. But Ghoga said there was no provisional government, and announced that representatives of the city councils of all rebel-held cities were setting up a transitional council. He said he was the spokesman for the new council, but he would not identify any other members or give further details. The contradictory statements were the first signs of a struggle to set up an alternative leadership to Gadhafi, who is rapidly losing his grip on large swaths of the oil-rich nation and facing new international sanctions and the defection of many diplomats and ministers within his own government. The east, which shook off his control almost two weeks ago, is struggling to build up new ruling institutions to manage its affairs. At the same time, the rest of the world has been looking on eagerly for the rise of some kind of alternative to Gadhafi, whose indiscriminate use of violence against his own citizens has driven off even his closest international friends. American senators opposed to the Obama administration’s cautious approach to Libya immediately called for the recognition of a provisional government and military assistance to it. “I would provide them with arms,” bluntly stated Sen. Joe Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut appearing on CNN’s “Face the Nation” with President Barack Obama’s onetime Republican challenger Sen. John McCain. In the corridors of the Benghazi courthouse, where much of the business of governing the rebel territories is unfolding, the former justice minister’s announcement of a provisional government was greeted by many politicians with surprise and bafflement. Ghoga told reporters that even if there were a provisional government, it would certainly not be headed by Abdel-Jalil — who only

heads the local city council in the town of Beyda, some 130 miles (200 kilometers) away. Instead, Ghoga said representatives of rebel-held cities in the east are setting up the Libyan National Transitional Council. But the council has not yet been formed and he did not announce any of the members, except for himself as the spokesman. Ghoga was imprisoned just before Libya’s revolt began on Feb. 15. As to the U.S. Senators’ offer of militar y help, Ghoga said no thanks. “We are against any foreign intervention or military intervention in our internal affairs,” Ghoga said. “This revolution will be completed by our people with the liberation of the rest of Libyan territory controlled by Gadhafi’s forces.” He said the council was not in touch with the rest of the world or planning military strategy, but just tr ying to coordinate the rebel cities and administrate daily life. “There has been no communication between the council with any outside government. After forming the full details of the council, it will decide which government [to talk to] and the nature of the contact.” He said military commanders who defected to the rebel side continued to meet over how to hasten the fall of Gadhafi’s regime. Already two key cities close to the capital Tripoli are in the hands of rebels — Zawiya and Misrata. Gogha also confirmed reports that bands of volunteers had independently traveled west to fight the regime. “We have military institutions that support the popular revolution and we believe they will achieve the liberation of Libya,” he said. “We bet on this happening in the coming days.” He dismissed Abdel-Jalil’s call on the Arabic news channel Al-Jazeera for elections in just three months. “It’s premature to talk about elections because we have a capital under siege,” he said. “We are managing a country.” Ghoga pointed out that for years, Libya had no institutions, political or otherwise and that in the last 10 days, the rebels had not only managed to keep their towns from falling apart, but had organized local councils. “This is in defiance of Gadhafi’s claim that chaos will happen in Libya,” he said. Under Gadhafi’s theor y of permanent revolution, few lasting institutions were created and instead the country was left in a perpetual state of flux with seemingly arbitrary decisions regularly changing major aspects of daily life. One local saying goes: “Gadhafi’s dreams and then he implements.” Gadhafi has claimed that without his rule, the country will disintegrate into squabbling tribes and Islamist emirates — something the rebels have been keen to dispute. While the towns of the east have remained calm and most basic services continued for now, building a new national or regional government is shaping up to be a tough challenge.

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A CTING DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER FOR S OCIAL J USTICE E DUCATION AND L ESBIAN, GAY, B ISEXUAL AND T RANSGENDER COMMUNITIES ON L IVINGSTON CAMPUS In her position, Jenny Kurtz works to provide educational, social and leadership development programs and activities for LGBT students, allies and staff/faculty on campus. Kurtz speaks with Editor-in-Chief Mary Diduch about living in New Jersey, stereotypes and reality TV.

Mary Diduch: Where did you go to college? What programs were you a part of? Jenny Kurtz: I went to UMass Amherst for undergrad, and I was a women’s and gender studies major and psychology minor. I was also an RA for three years and I worked at the Everywoman’s Center to help with violence prevention and training. I got really interested in social justice issues and sexuality so I tried to get involved in as many programs dealing with that. MD: What do you like to do now in your spare time? JK: I like to spend time with my partner and friends. I like to read, do yoga, go for walks, travel and go to bed and breakfasts. I’m still getting to learn about New Jersey. MD: You’re not originally from here?” JK: I am originally from Pennsylvania, but I lived in Massachusetts for 13 years. MD: What do you think of New Jersey? JK: There’s a lot more driving here. Massachusetts is a lot more walkable. I think New Jersey has a lot to offer but in Massachusetts, I knew the places I was interested in and I knew the places I wasn’t interested in. New Jersey is a new place that I need to continue to explore, and it’s exciting because there are a lot of places and little pretty towns that I’ve hadn’t had the chance to check out and I’m excited to learn more about it. MD: Do you think New Jerseyans are anything like what’s on “Jersey Shore?” JK: No. But I will say although I don’t watch “Jersey Shore,” one of the things I do like to do is watch reality TV. MD: Like what? JK: “A Shot of Love With Tila Tequila,” “The Bachelor” or “Project Runway” … I like to watch all those shows and see how they deconstruct race, sexuality and gender.

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New Brunswick residents will have the opportunity to visit Buccleuch Mansion, the city’s oldest house, this June when it reopens to the public. The mansion and the surrounding area along the Raritan River used to serve as a seaport for shipping goods to the New York area in the 1800s, said Judy Gennaro, curator at the Buccleuch Mansion Museum. Bucceluch Mansion was built in the 1700s — perhaps the largest building in its time period, she said. “A wealthy Englishman, Anthony White, built the mansion for his wife, Elizabeth Morris, in 1739,” Gennaro said. George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Tadeusz Kociuszko, Horatio Gates and John Hancock would frequent the mansion, according to Rootsweb.ancestr y.com. White originally called the mansion the White House Farm, but one of its later inhabitants, Warren Scott, renamed it to Buccleuch Mansion after his Scottish ancestors, Gennaro said. Scott handed the mansion over to the city under the condition that it would remain named Buccleuch. “If this was not done, the mansion [would have been] returned

to the family of the last owners,” she said. New Brunswick received the property in 1911 and opened it up as a museum in 1915, according to Rootsweb.ancestry.com. Since then, the Jersey Blue Daughters of the American Revolution, a group that started in 1890, took care of the mansion’s interior. Individual donations provide for the mansion museum’s maintenance, Gennaro said. “The museum is completely run on donations [from] visitors, some [of whom] have donated large

amounts of money,” Gennaro said. “The city has done a nice job with the park, but the mansion needs help. The city doesn’t even come to clean the gutters.” Although restorations have been made, the mansion’s history can be seen through its musket embeddings in the hard wooden floors and through the carved initials of the soldiers that stayed in the home during the Revolutionary War, she said. “The paint in one of the rooms has been found to be the original paint from the mansion’s initial building,” Gennaro said. “The

bright blue walls were an indication of one’s wealth.” The home features oil-on-paper wallpaper called Les Monuments de Paris that was shipped from Paris in 1815 and placed on the walls of the entranceway of the mansion in 1819, she said. “The Metropolitan Museum of Art [in New York City] took photographs of the wallpaper, so they could replicate it in one of their exhibits,” Gennaro said. Countless artifacts, like firing buckets, cover the multiple rooms found throughout the home.

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The Buccleuch Mansion on 321 Easton Ave. is the city’s oldest house and is used as a museum managed by the Jersey Blue Daughters of the American Revolution.

“[The fire buckets] are made of leather and were required in homes to put out fires and were usually filled with sand or water,” she said. Amber Cruse, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, wishes the city better advertised the mansion to the general public. “I feel like [University students] would be interested going in with knowledge that George Washington was once there,” she said. “Some students are really interested in stuff like that. It’s something nice to do in the day time with friends.” Kelly Myers, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said she intends to visit the mansion because of its historical past. “It’s amazing that we live so close to [a mansion] like that,” she said. “It’s cool to know [people like George Washington] went to the same areas that I do now years ago. Hearing that makes me want to visit the museum.” Students from nearby schools often frequent the mansion’s museum for class trips, Gennaro said. “Last year the museum had about 300 visitors,” she said. “Some school children come from Lincoln [Elementar y School] in New Brunswick.” The Buccleuch Mansion is open to the public from June through October, Gennaro said. Private parties may visit by appointment in the winter.

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CALENDAR FEBRUARY Friends’ Book Club will discuss their Book of the Month “Let the Great World Spin” by Colum McCann 1:30 p.m. in the Carl T. Valenti Community Room of the New Brunswick Free Public Library. The event is free and open to everyone with the only requirement being that attendees have read the book and are willing to discuss. For more information, please visit nbfpl.org.

MARCH Rutgers-Camden will host Alina Fernandez, the daughter of Fidel Castro, as par t of Women’s History Month. Fernandez will discuss her book, “Castro’s Daughter: An Exile’s Memory of Cuba,” her father and Cuba’s political climate. The lecture will take place at 7 p.m. in the Multi-Purpose Room of the Rutgers-Camden Campus Center, located on Third Street, between Cooper Street and the Benjamin Franklin Bridge. All members of the public are welcome to attend. For more information, please contact Cathy Donovan at (856) 225-6627 or catkarm@camden.rutgers.edu.

Comedian Ron “Tater Salad” White will perform at 8 p.m. in the State Theatre on 15 Livingston Ave. White is best known for his cigar-smoking, scotch-drinking funnyman impression. Tickets for White’s show range from $35 to $59. Groups of 12 and over may purchase discount tickets ranging from $32 to $56. To buy tickets online, please visit www.statetheatrenj.org/ron_w hite or drop by the State Theatre box office.

In honor of Dr. Seuss’ birthday, the New Brunswick Free Public Librar y will hold a book fair where they will collect old and new books for toddlers aged 2 to 4 and donate them to par ticipants of the Parent-Child Home Program, which encourages students to read at their age level. Members of the public who wish to donate books must do so before March 2. For more information on the book fair, please contact Sara Spatz at (732) 247-3727 ext. 13 or at sspatz@uwcj.org.

The New Brunswick Free Public Library is hosting “Kids at Saint Patrick’s Craft” where everyone is invited to participate in arts and crafts decorations for St. Patrick’s Day. The event is from 4 to 5 p.m. at the Carl T. Valenti Community Room. For more information, please contact the Children’s Room at (732) 7455108 ext. 15 or e-mail Ms. Sara at swarrick@lmxac.org.

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n an effort to raise awareness about local food sources, the Bowdoin College Democrats (BCD) teamed up with Bowdoin College Dining Ser vice to bring the students “Meatless Mondays.” Every Monday all of the Bowdoin dining halls served entirely vegetarian menus in an effort to promote eating locally grown food. While some students were all for the enforced vegetarianism, others were pretty upset — with good reason. While we applaud the initiative to encourage Bowdoin students to eat locally, we disagree entirely with its execution. Forcing people to participate in a cause is never the best way to get them to adopt that cause as their own. If anything, it will just make people reject the cause even more. It is rather unfair of a college’s dining service to force a meatless menu on every student at the college, especially when a group that many students may disagree with sponsors that menu. If the BCD and Dining Services wanted to put the “Meatless Monday” plan into action, they should have designated only one dining hall as entirely meatless for the day, leaving other dining halls open to students who may not want to participate in the program. Instead, all the dining halls went vegetarian for the night, leaving students with no choice but to support the “Meet What You Eat” initiative. Students pay for their meal plans. Dining services at any college should provide students with as many menu options as possible to accommodate all types of diets. No one group should have a monopoly over what every student eats, even if it is for a good cause. The fact of the matter is, people keep their own personal diets, and they pay good money for meal plans, so those meal plans should allow them to eat according to their diets. Sam Landis, a senior at Bowdoin, was one of the dissenting voices. In an e-mail, he wrote that his “objection to ‘Meatless Monday’ was not so much about the lack of meat or the encouragement of environmental conscientiousness (which we support) but the shallow and inconsiderate manner in which it was carried out,” and we whole-heartedly agree. There are much better ways to raise awareness about eating locally than to impose a vegetarian diet on students, regardless of their wills or dietary concerns. Next time, Bowdoin should give the students a choice — they have every right to refuse vegetarianism or the “Meet What You Eat” program, if they choose to do so.

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hough it sounds like a joke, Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-NY, and New York City councilwoman Julissa Ferreras were being painfully serious when they suggested the city sell the Queens statue, the “Triumph of Civic Virtue,” on Craigslist because the statue is sexist. The statue in question depicts a man, representing virtue, stepping on two women’s vanquished bodies, representing vice and corruption. On a simplistic level, the statue may be misconstrued as sexist — but that is only if the viewer completely ignores the symbolism and the historical context of the statue. To levy the charge of sexism against a piece of art with a relatively clear, non-sexist symbolic message is asinine on the part of both Weiner and Ferreras. Clearly, neither of them ever took an art history class. The statue is more than 100 years old and crafted in an obvious Greco-Roman style. As such, it follows that a man is used to represent virtue and two women — sirens, to be specific — are used to represent vice and corruption. By today’s standards, the statue may seem sexist, but Weiner and Ferreras have to remember this statue was not crafted according to today’s standards. In fact, it was made by somebody who had no idea what today’s standards would be. Weiner and Ferreras have to consider the historical context of the piece before they start slinging such baseless accusations. They also have to remember that the major point of the piece is the symbolism of virtue’s triumph. Instead, both of these politicians are getting bogged down by the peripheral minutiae, rather than addressing the main points of the issue. Coincidentally, this seems to be a problem all politicians have whenever they attempt to address any sort of issue, but that’s a topic for another day. When it comes to the arts, the United States — considering its status as a developed country — has not always been the most supportive. This is yet another instance of this chronic lack of support for the arts. Perhaps if the governing bodies of this country took a little more interest in arts and culture, politicians such as Weiner and Ferreras would not be making mountains out of molehills when it comes to perceived immorality in art objects. And, if Queens really must sell the piece, they should at least give the statue the respect it deserves and sell it to a respectable collector or museum. Hawking the statue on Craigslist would be an insult to the piece, the artist and the entire population of Queens.

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‘Needle-phobia’ spurs progress Doctor’s I Orders

including redness, itchiness still remember one parand increased local fat tisticular doctor’s appointsue. In addition, they can be ment many years back extremely inconvenient to when I was 6 years old. I had administer, especially in arrived in the United States social settings where there several weeks prior and is little room for privacy. needed to get a round of vacEven the prospect of cinations done before beginBO WANG infrequent injections can ning elementary school. My have a major impact on our clinical decision-making. parents assured me that the whole process would be In a Consumer Reports survey that looked at the varquick and painless, but I was in no mood that day to ious reasons why people chose not to get a flu shot, get jabbed with a needle. In fact, just the sight of it 27 percent cited their dislike of getting shots. While was enough to make me start tearing up and protestthis reason ranked below the 45 percent of responing. Nowadays, the anticipation of getting my blood dents who cited the belief that they do not get sick, it drawn at my doctor’s office no longer provokes the still serves as a significant threat to the public health. same response, but at the same time, it is still not Several years back, the company MedImmune something I look forward to. came out with a nasal spray formulation of the flu vacMy experience is probably one that most people cine called FluMist. While this formulation was shown can relate to. I know few people who are not afraid to be effective in clinical trials, it contained live influenof needles. In fact, more than 1 in 10 in this country za virus compared with the killed influenza virus in the — children and adults alike — suffer from a medical injection formulation. As a result, certain groups, includcondition called trypanophobia or needle phobia. ing children under 2 years of age, adults 50 years of age For these individuals, the fear goes beyond discomand above and individuals with weakfort being around needles, and they ened immune systems could not use often end up avoiding necessary “Besides being FluMist. Still, it provides a viable altermedical treatments as a result. native to a good number of individuals Still, for the vast number of needlephysically painful, who are turning down the flu vaccine haters among us who do not suffer repeated injections simply due to the needle factor. from this extreme condition, there is alas, for all of the progress always the yearning of a day when we increase the chances thatButscience has made in recent can get our vaccinations sans prickdecades to move away from injection ing. The prospect of taking a pill to of infection.” formulations, they have still not been keep a chronic condition such as diaable to find the Holy Grail — oral betes under control often seems like a insulin. The hunt for oral insulin has been on ever dream deferred, with hypes and promises followed by since Frederick Banting isolated the substance in the disappointments in clinical studies. But the drug comearly 1920s and injected it into his first diabetic panies have continued to pour a significant amount of patients. For many, this miracle drug instantly turned investment dollars toward the search for more accepta death sentence into a manageable condition. Yet able ways to deliver certain medications into the body. the multiple daily injections of insulin required to As a result, we have seen an impressive number of keep one’s blood sugar level under control was highalternative administrations become available in recent ly burdensome for the patient, resulting in significant years for an array of purposes. While these alternate rates of non-adherence to the medication regimen. routes of therapy do not all provide a superior clinical While a quick glance at the pipelines shows that outcome compared to the standard injections, they do any successful oral insulin candidate is still several show the potential of medical research and developyears away from being approved and marketed, there ment as well as the guiding force that the widespread is reason to be optimistic. A handful of companies are fear of needles has in this area. conducting early phase clinical trials of insulin in oral When we take a medication by mouth it does not forms, and despite the many failures that will surely instantly reach our bloodstream. Instead, the drug result, we are solidly moving in the right direction. first has to go through the stomach, get absorbed by So as we can see, it is not simply the drug molethe small intestines and pass through the liver. Drugs cule itself that makes the difference in treating a disthat do not reach the bloodstream fail to successfully ease but also how it is delivered into the body. pass through at least one of these three roadblocks. Without an effective and acceptable form of the latter, In order to get the proper amount of medication the former cannot achieve its full potential in patients. to where it is needed in our body, we have to bypass these three initial steps by delivering the drug via Bo Wang is a graduate student at the Ernest Mario alternate routes. Besides being physically painful, School of Pharmacy. His column, “Doctor’s Orders,” repeated injections increase the chances of infection runs on alternate Mondays. as well as cause side effects at the site of injection,

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UMBC: Veteran attackman leads RU offense with hat trick continued from back “Those were just opportunities I was given. The first one put us ahead and then the second one was just to keep us rolling,” Hover said of his showing. “Overall, it was a real well balanced performance offensively.” Stagnitta knows that without the efforts of his oldest member of the squad’s attack, overcoming UMBC would not have been easy. “Kevin had a big day for us,” Stagnitta said. “I think he made some great decisions [and] scored a couple big goals. He is the oldest guy out there on the attack and on a day like today he really held us together down there.” Hover received suppor t from multi-goal ef for ts from redshir t freshman attackman Anthony Terranova, as well as junior midfielders Will Mangan and Mike Diehl. Mangan’s goal early in the second quarter sparked a threegoal run for the Knights, highlighted by Terranova finding the back of the net for the first time in his college career. “Our offense really stepped up out there,” Hover said. “People took opportunities and we had people scoring the first goals of their careers.” The Retrievers (1-1) did not make it easy for Rutgers, as threetime American East Coach of the Year Don Zimmerman had his UMBC team as precise and physical as always. The Retrievers’ offense took notice in the first minutes of the game, when the UMBC held the ball far longer than Rutgers. The Knights responded by not surrendering in the quarter. “They’re usually a very slick kind of team. Coach Zimmerman always has an answer for whatever you throw his way,” Stagnitta said. “[UMBC] really struggled early on against our guys and I think that really set the tone. They continued to be dangerous, but we were able to answer all of their runs.” The Knights now look toward overcoming their next obstacle, which lies in Philadelphia on Saturday against St. Joe’s.

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Junior attackman Kevin Hover led the Scarlet Knights’ offensive attack against Maryland-Baltimore County with a hat trick Saturday, when three other Rutgers players posted multi-goal efforts in a 12-7 victory.

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Senior Day struggles result in disappointing loss BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

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Senior forward Jonathan Mitchell shot 2-for-11 from the field yesterday en route to an eight-point performance on Senior Day, when he and classmate James Beatty struggled offensively.

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Senior guard James Beatty missed his five field goal attempts against West Virginia yesterday at the RAC.

West Virginia’s (18-10, 9-7) physically imposing lineup earned an eight-point cushion with less than seven minutes to go after three consecutive offensive boards. The Mountaineers’ Casey Mitchell finished off the third attempt with an ill timed 3pointer, forcing Rice into a timeout down, 50-42. The Knights (13-15, 4-12) suffered a minus-15 rebounding margin against the Mountaineers — the largest gap on the boards this season in the Big East. “It’s all about depth and talent in this league,” Rice said. “Kevin Jones and Flowers bring it, and they’re a little undermanned at times. Those guys are two Big East types of athletes.” Jones and Flowers both registered double-doubles against the Rutgers frontcour t and contributed a combined 21 of West Virginia’s 46 boards in the contest. While senior guard Mike Coburn posted a season-high 20 points on 50 percent shooting from the field, no other Knight managed more than 11 points in the loss.

got to meet each other. It was a little emotional, but once the ball is thrown up those things go out the window.” The seniors will remember their defining moment in upsetting Villanova, but Coburn and Co.’s careers in Piscataway ended with their 32nd home loss. There were rarely enough fouls to give, open shots to knock down or points to deliver a hardfought win. “I got some open looks, I just would’ve liked for one or two of them to drop,” said Beatty, who shot 0-for-5 from the field. “We were there.”

With less than a minute left, point guard James Beatty walked to the Rutgers men’s basketball team’s bench to a standing KNIGHT ovation NOTEBOOK and the student section chanting his name. It was the type of sendoff seniors dream of. Except the guard fouled out, the Scarlet Knights trailed and Senior Day at the Louis Brown Athletic Center ended with a 65-54 West WHILE WEST Virginia victory. Virginia accounted “I just wanted to “I don’t know for 21 of its 65 play,” Beatty said. from 3-point “It’s frustrating comif we were pressing points range, Rutgers ing so close and struggled to knock then you don’t comtoo much and down any of its plete the game.” wanted to make deep shots. The final home The Knights game ended in that big play for shot 1-for-13 from similar fashion for the team that bad.” beyond the arc, Mike Coburn and with the lone Jonathan Mitchell, JONATHAN MITCHELL make coming who made their Senior Forward from Coburn less way to the than five minutes bench with 21 secinto the contest. onds left. “For the second game in a row They received their cheers and sendoff, but Mitchell is more likely now, we weren’t stepping up and to remember missed open shots knocking down some shots,” Rice down the stretch, and Coburn will said. “Shooting 1-for-13 is certainrecall a season-high 20 points just ly not going to get it done shooting threes.” not being good enough. “I don’t know if we were pressWEST VIRGINIA HEAD ing too much and wanted to make that big play for the team that coach Bob Huggins raised some bad, but the shots didn’t go in for eyebrows with his dress at tipoff, us,” Mitchell said. “You’re going as he ditched his typical tracksuit to have nights like that and in favor of a traditional suit. But the second half brought tonight was one of them.” The trio’s era at the RAC Huggins back to his typical attire, ended like countless others — as he changed at halftime and donned his black WVU tracksuit in disappointment. A ceremony preceded the loss, from the sideline. “It wasn’t anything [superstias family members escorted Beatty, Coburn, Mitchell and senior team tious],” Huggins said. “I just felt managers to head coach Mike Rice better dressed like this. I’m a basand Athletic Director Tim Pernetti ketball coach, and we don’t wear suits any other time. I wore the suit at midcourt. “It was nice,” Mitchell said. to try and change the karma a little “All of our families were here and bit. I’m not a businessman.” Fellow seniors James Beatty and Jonathan Mitchell combined to shoot 2-for-16 from the field, including a 0-for-7 mark from beyond the 3-point arc for the game. The pair of senior perimeter threats had opportunities in the waning moments to either tie the Mountaineers or bring Knights within one possession, but shots did not fall for the second straight game.

MIKE COBURN “Shots didn’t go in — that happens,” said Beatty, who fouled out the contest with less than a minute to go. “It just happened to cost us the game.” Coburn gave Rutgers its first lead since the first half with a driving floater at the 15minute mark, but the formidable Deniz Kilicli quickly tied the contest at 33 with an authoritative dunk on the next possession. The Knights contained the 6-foot-9, 270-pounder from

Turkey as well as Mountaineer point guard Joe Mazzulla, but West Virginia earned an 18-6 advantage in secondchance points. “I thought we did a pretty good job [on Mazzulla],” Coburn said. “He makes some drives. He’s a tough kid and he really likes to drive, but I thought we did a pretty good job at walling him off and keeping him out of the paint.” Rutgers started the game on a 13-8 run, capped off by an Austin Johnson layup on a feed in transition from Miller, but the lack of scoring threats caught up with the Knights over time. Mitchell made the most out of a 10-game stretch earlier in the conference season, in which he posted seven contests with at least 20 points, but the lack of a go-to scorer against West Virginia proved to be the Knights’ downfall. While Coburn put together his second game out of three with at least 18 points, Rutgers could not sustain a consistent offensive attack in its final game in front of a home crowd. “We don’t have, per say, a goto player,” Rice said. “It’s tough in this league when ever ybody definitely has one, maybe two or three go-to guys. You know you’re confident you’re going to find a great shot.”

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Record-setting showing honors Chollet-Norton BY JOSH GLATT CORRESPONDENT

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Freshman Luisa Leal-Restrepo broke a long-standing Rutgers gymnastics record in the all-around, taking first place in the bars, balance beam and floor exercise en route to a score of 39.375.

Regardless of the outcome, year in and year out the alumni meet is GYMNASTICS a time RUTGERS 194.150 for both cur rent FIRST PLACE a n d p a s t Rutgers gymnasts to celebrate. There was even more reason to rejoice this year than usual. The Rutgers gymnastics team posted the third highest score in school histor y en route to a decisive victor y over Ursinus and Bridgeport. The Scarlet Knights’ score of 194.150 left little drama in defeating second-place team Bridgeport’s 191.850. Head coach Chr ystal Chollet-Nor ton was overwhelmed with emotion following her team’s per formance and the reception she received from the alumni at the event. While the meet itself is traditionally to honor alumni, this year’s meet focused on honoring Chollet-Norton, who plans to retire at the end of the season. “This was a team effort, not one person carried us. It was an outstanding meet.” CholletNorton said. “It was an emotional experience and it was nice to have so many of the kids I coached back here.” After such a strong showing, Chollet-Norton still finds aspects of her team’s performance she knows it can improve upon. “Firstly, we didn’t even have Jenna [Zito], which was a big loss for us,” Chollet-Nor ton said. “We weren’t ver y sharp on vaulting. I always tell the

girls that we should be a 194195 team, so we always have things we can improve on.” In addition to the historic team per formance, freshman Luisa Leal-Restrepo etched her name in the record books with her all-around performance. Leal-Restrepo captured victories on the bars, balance beam and floor exercise en route to a school record score of 39.375. The previous school record of 39.300 was the high mark for more than a decade. “I know what I can do and I knew I could do this well, but I know I can do even better,” Leal-Restrepo said. “I’m working hard to get better but this was a pretty good meet.” The Knights struggled this season to perform well in all four events. Most notably, the Knights had issues staying on beam, but after several solid per formances, it all came together. The team finished with a 48.000 on balance beam, beating its previous season best. Beam specialist and senior Leigh Heinbaugh was proud of her teammates for being able to finally deliver a performance they know they are capable of. “We did a great job today,” Heinbaugh said. “I’m just so excited with how we performed. It was a team ef for t and I’m proud of the whole team.” The meet marked the third of four home meets this year for the Knights. Rutgers closes out its home schedule with a Senior Day meet next Saturday against Cornell, Southern Connecticut State, West Chester and Yale. The meet represents CholletNorton’s final home meet of her career.

Win over WVU preserves nearly unblemished RAC record BY SAM HELLMAN CORRESPONDENT

With a new floor installed before the start of the season, the Rutgers women’s basketball team statKNIGHT ed early NOTEBOOK and often that this year was about using the homecourt advantage offered by the Louis Brown Athletic Center. In front of 3,858 people at the RAC on Saturday, the Scarlet Knights took the final step in asserting their home dominance, defeating No. 19 West Virginia to conclude the home slate at 12-1. The lone loss came a month ago against Connecticut, which clinched yet another Big East regular season title Saturday and has not lost a conference game since 2008. “I think it would be better if we would have [won it] against UConn also, but hey, they’re the best in the country” said junior forward April Sykes, who finished with 18 points. “I think it’s great just showing our character and how we’ve grown throughout the year. Every time we’re home and we get down, I think it’s easier when we’re home to come back than on the road.” The last time Rutgers had just one home loss in a season came in 2007-08, when the team went

to the Elite Eight in the NCAA Tournament. “I think it’s great,” Sykes said. “The fans come to the games to see us win, not lose.”

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tournaments, the weekend cleared up a lot of questions. The victory over a ranked opponent likely secured the Knights a spot in the NCAA Tournament and

“I’m not trying to get in the top 20. Just keep us right where we are — oblivious and nobody knows our name.”

Just keep us right where we are — oblivious and nobody knows our name. We’ve done very well [while] anonymous. We just need to keep working.” To achieve a double-bye, Rutgers has to beat Seton Hall tonight and Louisville has to lose at Providence. Other wise, the team receives a first-round bye and begins tournament play on Friday at the XL Center.

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Simmons started over sophomore center Monique Oliver against West Virginia in what Stringer said was an attempt to “open the game up.” Starting Simmons instead of Oliver allowed her and sophomore guard Erica Wheeler to take more drives to the basket. Simmons, a Jersey City native, logged 25 minutes and scored five points in her second career start.

gave the team a chance at a double-bye in the Big East Tournament next week in Hartford, Conn. Charlie Creme, ESPN women’s basketball bracketology expert, said on his Twitter that Rutgers is in the field after the win and he expects 10 teams from the conference to qualify. “I don’t need any [top 25] votes,” said head coach C. Vivian Stringer on the road ahead. “I’m not trying to get in the top 20.

against Seton Hall marks the final regular season game for Rutgers. The Pirates (8-20, 1-14) are tied with Cincinnati for last place in the Big East but offer an interesting coaching matchup in Anne Donovan. Donovan spent last year as head coach of the New York Liberty before replacing Phyllis Mangina as the head of Seton Hall. Donovan and Stringer have experience coaching together at the Olympic level.

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Freshman guard Daisha Simmons made her second career start Saturday, when she scored five points in 25 minutes.

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he Rutgers baseball team capped a threegame sweep of Michigan over the weekend with a 5-2 victory on Saturday afternoon in Port St. Lucie, Fla. The Scarlet Knights (4-2) exploded from the plate in the series, as head coach Fred Hill’s team crossed 22 runs in the three victories. The starting rotation also proved its wor th in the sweep, as sophomores Tyler Gebler and Rob Smorol and junior Nathanial Roe earned their first wins of the season. All three went at least six innings in their respective outings, with none of the three allowing more than two earned runs. For full coverage, see tomorrow’s edition of The Daily Targum –– Rutgers’ student newspaper.

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lacrosse team bested Cornell, 11-7, on Saturday, with senior midfielder Marlena Welsh leading the way with four goals at Cornell’s Schoellkopf Field. The win gives the Scarlet Knights two consecutive victories over their Ivy League foe, after they defeated the Big Red, 8-6, a season ago. Sophomore goalkeeper Lily Kalata earned her second straight victory in the cage with a seven-save performance. For full coverage, see tomorrow’s edition of The Daily Targum –– Rutgers’ student newspaper.

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basketball ranks experienced another weekend of upheaval as four teams in the AP top 10 fell on Saturday another lost yesterday. Then-No. 1 Duke lost by four points to host Virginia Tech, who likely stamped its ticket to the Big Dance with the victor y over the Blue Devils. Phenom Jimmer Fredette dropped 25 points as then-No. 7 BYU defeated then-No. 6 San Diego State for the second time this season, with the rematch coming in San Diego. And then-No. 5 Texas suffered a letdown at Colorado, where the Longhorns held a 22-point lead in the first half. Then-No. 4 Pittsburgh lost in overtime yesterday to Big East foe Louisville at the KFC Yum! Center, where Cardinals head coach Rick Pitino donned his signature white suit.

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES second baseman Chase Utley, 32, will sit out the next few days of spring training while dealing with patella tendinitis in his right knee. After taking an MRI on Saturday, Utley said he still experiences pain in his knee while making explosive movements. The Phillies do not have a definite timetable for Utley’s return to the team’s lineup in spring training.

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Junior third baseman Brittney Lindley took charge of the Scarlet Knights’ bats in Corpus Christi, Texas, this weekend, scoring five runs and driving in seven more while hitting .727 in the three-day, five-game Holiday Inn Emerald Beach Islander Classic.

Rutgers takes three of five in Texas BY SAM HELLMAN CORRESPONDENT

The Rutgers softball team did not just win its first game of the season SOFTBALL l a s t RUTGERS 9 weekbut TEXAS SOUTHERN 1 end, its first three. The Scarlet Knights dropped Texas Southern twice in the Holiday Inn Emerald Beach Islander Classic in Corpus Christi, Texas, but a 4-3 win over Arkansas upon their arrival marks a significant step for the program. “It definitely took the weight off of our shoulders,” junior third baseman Brittney Lindley said. “We finally played how we know we can play. We know what we need to do to keep winning, it’s just about doing it. That win gave us a lot of confidence. This year we can play with the big dogs.” The Razorbacks, out of the Southeastern Conference, entered

the weekend with momentum after a victory over UCLA while the Bruins were the No. 1 team in the country. It took the Scarlet Knights (3-6) nine innings before a sacrifice fly and throwing error plated sophomore catcher Kaci Madden for a walk-off win. “That’s a good win for the program,” head coach Jay Nelson said. “Arkansas is a team that made a lot of noise before this tournament. Our pitchers stepped up for us there.” Sophomore pitcher Abbey Houston was the driving force behind the win, pitching 4.2 no-hit innings and striking out four batters. Totaling 17.2 innings pitched, nine earned runs and 16 strikeouts, Houston’s weekend marked significant improvement after a rough start to her season. She gave up 18 runs in her first 10 innings of action, but dropped her ERA to 6.71 after the team’s second tournament. “Our pitching is improving,”

Nelson said. “The staff is coming along the way we expected them to. They need to build on this and take it to the next step.” Through the rest of the Holiday Inn Tournament, Rutgers stomped Texas Southern twice, but lost, 5-2, in its rematch against Arkansas and lost, 4-3, to host Texas A&M Corpus Christi. The Knights finished in third place overall. “I think the team got a little nervous,” Lindley said on the loss to Corpus Christi. “We didn’t attack. We needed to swing at good pitches and not be so tentative.” Rutgers beat Texas Southern, 12-7, and 9-1 in its two games, with Lindley and sophomore shortstop Ashley Bragg doing the most damage with their bats. Lindley continued a torrid star t to the season. Hitting another home run to tie for four th place in the school record books for all-time homers, Lindley hit .727 in

Texas with seven RBI and five runs in five games. “I’m seeing it well, but honestly I’ve seen the ball better,” Lindley said. “I feel like I was taking a lot of guess-swings and I just got lucky.” Bragg supplemented Lindley’s bat in the final day of action, driving in three of Rutgers’ 11 runs on the day. “It felt great for ever yone to be on the same page,” she said. “Personally, I had such a slow start this season that I needed a game like that. It’s a learning experience ever y game, but I was really swinging it well [against Texas Southern].”

KNIGHT NOTE: Freshman pitcher Megan Williams made her college debut in Texas after illness kept her out of action to start the season. Williams, from Richmond, Va., picked up her first career win against Texas Southern.

Knights bolster strong reputation in relay BY LIZ SWERN STAFF WRITER

The Rutgers men’s track and field team has a tradition of doing well in the MEN’S TRACK 4x400meter relay each year. The 2011 season is not any different for the Scarlet Knights. At the Big East Indoor Championships last weekend in Akron, Ohio, the Knights took home the Big East Championship in the relay with a time of 3:13.08. The team kept the Big East meet in mind all season, building the relay to be the best it could be. “It’s been fun to be on the 4x400 because it’s such a big event,” said junior sprinter and relay-runner Steve Werner. “The outcome normally determines which sprint team is the strongest in the Big East conference.”

Though the order of the relay training with the distance team, can change, Werner usually runs the Bergenfield, N.J., native in the leadoff spot each meet. moved down to train with the Junior Kevin Brown takes the sprinters for the relay. baton from him to run second, “Corey’s the new guy,” graduwith freshman Corey Caidenhead ate assistant and head springs running third. coach Ryan Westman Senior Aaron said. “Steve, Kevin and Younger is the anchor Aaron have all trained leg for most meets, together before. So and was a member of Corey really stepped up the school recordto put all the pieces holding 4x400-meter together to help us win relay from last season. Big East.” The relay competed The relay lowered last spring at the its time ever y week NCAA Championships and has high hopes to AARON in Eugene, Ore. keep decreasing that YOUNGER “I came to this time and per form school because of the even better throughguys on the team,” Caidenhead out the rest of the winter and said. “But mostly I came here spring season. because I hoped to one day be “Coming into this program, I on the Rutgers 4x400 team.” understood our 4x400 was good Caidenhead is the only fresh- enough to make it to nationals,” man on the relay team. Originally Caidenhead said. “So now we

have to run our best to get there again.” The next meet is IC4A Championships and is the Knights’ next chance to prove how much their relay progressed. “I think the most important thing is making the finals and posting our fastest time of the year,” Werner said. To achieve that goal, the team knows it still has a few key elements to work on, including technique and form. “We have to work on our baton exchanges, getting out fast and our form in the last 100 meters,” Caidenhead said. “When we work on that, we will look good to compete against anyone.” Westman continues to have faith in the relay each week during practice. “These guys are harsh competitors,” Westman said. “They can get it done.”

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RU relies on experience to rally past No. 19 WVU BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

The Rutgers women’s basketball team is no stranger to starting games off slowly. The Scarlet Knights are also quite familiar with digging themselves into too deep holes and WOMEN’S BASKETBALL more often than coming up WEST VIRGINIA 58 not, shor t in those RUTGERS 67 uphill climbs. But over the past two contests, head coach C. Vivian Stringer and Co. showed a knack for winning tight ball games, this time by pulling away from No. 19 West Virginia late to win, 67-58, in Piscataway. “I think that our team epitomizes the ultimate team because I said earlier [this season], this was not a good team,” said Stringer, whose team finished 12-1 at home this season with the victor y. “It was a long time coming, but I think that we’ve gotten to the point where I felt better, [and] I think the team feels better in terms of our being able to control our own destiny. You ask was it bad getting down? Well now we know that we can still fight back.” Sophomore guard Erica Wheeler, who notched a career high 22 points, scored her final two points of the game with eight seconds to go, putting the stamp on the team’s third-straight victor y after the Knights trailed the Mountaineers (21-8, 78) by as many as 11 points. And once again, junior for ward Chelsey Lee had her hand in deciding the Knights’ (17-11, 10-5) fate, sparking the team’s string of 11 unanswered points in the final minute with a 3-point play. The play brought the fans at the Louis Brown Athletic Center to their feet and sent Lee into a frenzy for the second straight contest. “Coach just called the play for the post, and we were mainly just tr ying to get the ball into the post and get the foul,” Wheeler said. “We weren’t really looking

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Junior forward April Sykes, the Knights’ leading scorer, came out firing in Rutgers’ 67-58 victory over West Virginia on Saturday, scoring 13 points in the first half. The Starkville, Miss., native went on to finish second on the team in scoring with 18 points.

Rutgers drops eight of nine in same style

Seven Knights find net in win over UMBC

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The Rutgers men’s basketball team revisited a similar stor yline yesterday West MEN’S BASKETBALL against Virginia at the Brown WEST VIRGINIA 54 Louis RUTGERS 65 Athletic Center, one that played out much like others it saw before. The Scarlet Knights trailed by a possession at halftime and even took a brief lead after intermission, but the Mountaineers’ frontcourt owned the offensive glass en route to a 65-54 road win in front of nearly 8,000 fans at the RAC. “They’re tremendous athletes,” head coach Mike Rice said of the Mountaineers, who dealt the Knights their eighth Big East loss in nine games. “[John] Flowers and [Kevin] Jones are tremendous athletes. I thought we did a good job of meeting them and coach [Jimmy] Martelli on the scouting report. Whether it was fatigue or not being locked in, we let them drive us into the hoop [in the second half].”

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Senior guard Mike Coburn posted a season-high 20 points on 8-for-16 shooting from the field in the Knights’ loss yesterday to visiting West Virginia.

The Rutgers men’s lacrosse team’s 12-5 win on Saturday against the UMBC Retrievers can be viewed as another dominant showing in the early season. MEN’S LACROSSE But head coach RUTGERS 12 Jim Stagnitta sees the victory as just UMBC 5 another obstacle overcome for a team that looks to build from the past. “It’s always nice to take a team on the road against a team that historically has been a strong team,” Stagnitta said. “What I saw was we took a bus ride down and we showed up focused and ready to play. It’s certainly for this group another big step. It’s another hurdle, another test this season that they were able to overcome.” Not only did the Scarlet Knights (3-0) prevail over their latest obstacle, but they crashed through it with seven different members of the squad scoring and four with multiple goal efforts. Junior Kevin Hover led the offensive attack and ended the game with a hat trick. Two of Hover’s goals came after UMBC scored and restored the Knights’ advantage.

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