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Poll results say budget cuts face less disapproval

Asian groups to seek RUSA aid for initiatives

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Showing renewed interest in making Asian Studies a part of the University’s curriculum, the University Asian-American Student Leadership Cabinet and the Asian Student Council (ASC) will appeal to the Rutgers University Student Assembly (RUSA) for help tonight at their general body meeting. The ASC first requested an Asian Studies major and minor through the School of Arts and Sciences two years ago, said RUSA Vice President Matt Cordeiro. “The University agreed to start the program but did not make any actions toward following through with their actions,” Cordeiro said. “They pretty much sat on their hands for the past two years.” Since then the ASC has petitioned and received hundreds of signatures to create the major but has not yet received attention from University, said Cordeiro, a School of Arts and Sciences junior.

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An Eagleton Institute of Politics poll released last Thursday suggests that New Jersey residents may be less likely than last year to oppose budget cuts in certain programs following Gov. Chris Christie’s budget address. New Jersey voters are eight points less likely to argue against budget cuts, 10 points less likely to favor environmental protection programs and 12 points less likely to oppose budget cuts applying to colleges and universities than they were after Christie’s budget address last year, according to a press release from the Governor’s Office. Poll Director David Redlawsk said the results are an interesting situation. “Christie has spent the last year talking about [budget] cuts that need to made and of course he made cuts last year,” said Redlawsk, also a University political science professor. “What we’re finding is that the public as

After a year’s effort of fixing the budget deficit, a recent poll shows that New Jerseyans are warming up to Gov. Chris Christie’s cuts.

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County works to reorganize districts BY MONIQUE RICE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

In an ongoing effort from last August, Middlesex County of ficials plan to scrap 27 of the county’s departments in order to reevaluate concerns from a managerial standpoint. Middlesex County operates under a structure of 32 departments, each with a range of responsibilities, said John Pulomena, Middlesex County administrator. The reorganization of the county’s government will

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reduce the number of departments like housing, human ser vices and consumer affairs down to five. “With so many depar tments, redundancies start to build over time,” he said. “Our focus is to look at and identify improvements from a functionality standpoint to make sure we use the technology available to us.” The county set up a transition team to help with the reorganization of the government, Pulomena said. Members of the team, including Budget Director Al Kuchinskas, Director of

Personnel Dennis Cerami and Chief Information Officer Khalid Anjum will analyze and report on ever y aspect of the county government’s reorganization. “We want to realign ourselves to reduce structures and align programs and ser vices more appropriately so there is a greater interdependency of work functions,” he said. James Polos, a county freeholder for 14 years, believes that instead of reorganizing the county

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NJ voters respond to new gender-neutral housing BY AMY ROWE ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Many adults in the United States disapprove of the gender-neutral housing option for students living on college campuses, according to a survey conducted by Rasmussen Reports based in Asbury Park, N.J. The option, which the University announced would be available next semester in three different residence halls, allows male and female students to room together and share co-ed bathrooms. Of the 1,000 adults polled across the nation, 71 percent think men and women should not have the option, while 24 percent agree with the arrangement, according to the survey. Adults also agree parental approval should be required if students under the age of 21 want to live with a member of the opposite sex, with 67 percent in favor of asking for permission. The sur vey results differed among adults less than 30 years old, of which 45 percent said they believe men and women should share a room.

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Opinions on the University’s gender-neutral housing option

71 PERCENT of adults polled think men and women should not be able to room together

67 PERCENT of those polled think parental permission is needed for students interested in the option who are younger than 21 years old 45 PERCENT of adults under 30 years old are fine with the gender-neutral housing option

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Spoken word artist Pandora Scooter performs “Outwordly Fabulous,” a piece that touches upon bullying and homophobia.

Alumna tackles bullying with one-woman act BY CHASE BRUSH CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Award-winning spoken word artist and University alumna Pandora Scooter’s new piece “Outwordly Fabulous” will address the issues of bullying and homophobia using spoken word and slam poetry at Crossroads Theater in New Brunswick. Scooter said her one-woman show tonight and Friday night will use monologue, storytelling and spoken word to explore different aspects of bullying and raise awareness about its negative repercussions on youth and society.

“One of the focuses of my work as an artist has always been to raise people’s levels of compassion,” Scooter said. Cedric Hill, producer and director of “Outwordly Fabulous,” said the 90-minute show avoids stigmatizing any specific group. “We’re not separated by who we sleep with or what we look like or where we’re from,” he said. As an actress, director and writer with more than 20 years of professional theater experience, Scooter said she worked with teens across the nation

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Panel emphasizes love for law BY RIDA AHMED CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Five attorneys at the 24th Annual Careers in Law Panel said when it comes to jobs one must always concentrate on their passions to be happy. Sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Undergraduate Education, the event featured panelists who spoke to students interested in law about their experiences Tuesday night at the Eagleton Institute of Politics on Douglass campus. “Someday, I would love to see all of you on this panel,” said Daniel Greenberg, panelist and special counsel at Schulte Roth and Zabel LLP, New York. “The most important thing you could eventually say is how much you love the work you do.” Greenberg joined lawyers Andrea Kamage, Thomas Pinder, Ed Rebenack and Heidi Currier to speak about their respective areas of practice and offer advice to students. “The most important thing is to learn your trade, not how much money you make or who you work for,” said Rebenack, partner in Rebenack, Aronow, Mascolo and Miller, LLP, New Brunswick. “Grab the opportunities where you can learn your trade and experience how to be a professional attorney.” Pinder, a counsel in the legal division, enforcement section of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., Washington, D.C., said to never decide whether or not to be lawyer only after just one related work experience. “Your first job is going to be horrible. You will be overworked and underpaid,” he said. “But eventually it gets better.”

All five panelists repeatedly stressed a law degree could lead students into any field. “You can be anything you want with a law degree,” said Currier, a judge in the Civil Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey in Middlesex County. “It is a very versatile degree to have.” While discussing pro bono programs, Greenberg said lawyers face a dichotomy between being human beings and professionals. “Law school teaches you to take either side of the case,” he said. “But I want to urge you to hold on to your values and to keep them intact, for those who are powerless and voiceless.” Rebenack explained the interesting aspects of civil trial, litigation and personal injury cases. “It is a fascinating area of practice, where a lot of organized crime from New York filters down to New Jersey,” he said. But Kamage, senior patent counsel in the pharmaceutical sector for Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, said an up-and-coming field that is becoming more popular is in-house patent law. “Patent Law is a very competitive field and a lot of students are looking to get into it,” she said. “It has a better schedule than law firms.” Rebenack said he initially saw himself as a corporate commercial lawyer at a big prestigious firm. “Large firms are a great way to start, but it could get ver y bureaucratic,” he said. “So personally for me, I prefer small firms at this stage of my life.” Milton Heumann, University professor of political science, said the panel was helpful to the student body in many ways. “I hope to provide our students with information about

alternate legal careers,” he said. “In having the par ticipants reflect on their career choices, their choice of law schools, the paths of their careers, I think students are given invaluable insights into their own future options.” The panelists attended a variety of law schools, Heumann said. They attended some local New Jersey schools, some average law schools outside the state and some ver y prestigious law schools around the country. “[Their] experiences graduating from these schools is enlightening and encouraging to our students,” he said. Heumann said the event was a great platform for students to network with professionals. “Invariably students follow up with one or more panelists when they start to reflect more seriously on their career choices,” he said. Stephanie Murray, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, said she found this group of panelists more inspiring than past ones. “It gave me much more insight than last time. The panelists were a lot more diverse and had different viewpoints of what they do,” she said. “It was eye-opening to see the different paths one can take with a degree in law.” Some University students who attended the event, like Genna Kim, a School of Arts and Science junior, are thinking about going to law school after graduation. “When Mr. Heumann invited me to come out and see what actual professionals have to say, I thought it would be a great opportunity to just get a glimpse of what my future could be like,” Kim said.

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Andrea Kamage, senior patent counsel in the pharmaceutical sector for Johnson & Johnson, speaks about how in-house patent law is a popular up-and-coming field Tuesday night on Douglass campus.

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Dean of Douglass Residential College Jacquelyn Litt speaks about the creation of new capstone programs on Douglass campus.

Governing council explains initiatives BY KEVIN DAHAGHI CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Douglass Governing Council (DGC) considered creating student committees to encourage Douglass Residential College (DRC) upper-class students’ involvement yesterday among resolutions presented at their general meeting. Dean of DRC Jacquelyn Litt said the initiatives for next year would help involve juniors and seniors in the DRC experience. “We feel that our first-year and second-year curriculums are good in the college,” Litt said. “We’re trying to envision an experience for upper-class students.” Taking a step toward that goal, the council discussed creating a sustainability program for food and water-based projects on Douglass campus as well as a capstone program. Litt said the capstone program will focus on work and the future of the global economy, which will be available to DRC juniors and seniors as they prepare for the job market after graduation. Also, new living-learning communities will be added to Douglass campus, including one in the Henderson Apartments on Douglass campus based on nutrition, Litt said. “There are themes that anyone in the world should understand,” Litt said. “We can’t be successful without students.” Oppor tunities for student involvement are more common for first-year students than upperclassmen, so the council will create committees to work on these initiatives, which in itself promotes student involvement, she said. Litt said one committee will be responsible for deciding which book DRC first-year students will read for their women’s leadership course. DGC Internal Vice President Kyrie Graziosi said the purpose of these committees is to enhance the student voice in Douglass campus programs.

Douglass Governing Council “DRC has administrative committees, but not student committees,” said Graziosi, a School of Arts and Science junior. The student committees will be comprised of two members, but the DGC will decide whether those members will be from the council or DRC students, Litt said. First-year DRC student Michelle Gonzalez appreciated Litt’s initiatives, plans and ideas for student committees. “I’m involved now as a DRC woman and hope to get more involved throughout my four years of being in college,” Gonzalez said. “Starting up these programs and committees will allow me to continue my involvement further.” Graziosi said the goal of the initiatives is to increase student participation and input on Douglass campus. “As you get older, you don’t have as many resources,” Graziosi said. The Council also passed a resolution to vote on whether it should join the United States Student Association (USSA), a national student-led organization that aims to amplify student voice at local, state and national levels. But DGC Class Rep. Valerie Weiss was not in favor of the move, arguing that the council is capable of lobbying for itself and there was no need for USSA. Joining the USSA would require DGC to pay a membership fee, funded by student fees throughout the academic year, Graziosi said. The decision to join USSA will be decided at a Rutgers University Student Assembly meeting today. “I don’t believe it’s something we should allocate funds for,” said Weiss, a School of Arts and Science junior. “It is not beneficial at the current time.”

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DISTRICTS: Leaders shift to sole use of technology continued from front government, officials should have pursued a zero-base budget, which determines what services the county wishes to provide. “Personally I’ve been calling for a zero-base budget procedure asking colleagues to revise what the real needs are of the county government and what services we need to provide our residents to determine a true number,” he said. Polos, a former mayor of Highland Park, is afraid the new structure of government will take power away from freeholders and establish one Middlesex County executive. “What I oppose is the effort that has been underway for two years to provide more power and autonomy to the county administrator and removing the decision-making for day-to-day operations from the freeholder board,” he said. In response to Polo’s statement, freeholder Christopher Rafano said freeholders would

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continue to keep their old powers Pulomena does not think in a continually democratic coun- the reorganization is downsizty government. ing the government but “The freeholders r un believes it is instead a move Middlesex County government toward efficiency. and anything contrar y to that “The purpose behind [the reorshould not be believed,” ganization] is not to downsize — it Rafano said. is to make the government more He also said the reorganiza- efficient,” he said. “Our view is [to] tion would allow the county make sure we are doing that in the administrator to most efficient way properly evaluate possible. We have “The purpose the county’s the responsibility problems more of doing business ... is not and act upon at the lowest possithem accordingly. ble cost.” to downsize — “We’ve always Some changes it is to make had a county are already in a d m i n i s t r a t o r, ” effect, Pulomena the government Rafano said. “What said. There is a more efficient.” we are trying to do shift from a mixis improve efficienture of paperwork JOHN PULOMENA cies at the manageand technology to Middlesex County rial level and the sole use of Administrator drive those down technology. through the entire “Some things operation.” that we are doing Middlesex County’s reor- right now from a human resource ganization is set to take place standpoint are putting in new by the end of this year, applications that automate techPulomena said. nology,” he said. “Any information “Our goal is to reduce the that we need to provide the state work force,” he said. “When we with will be done electronically.” identify improvements we will This shift will eliminate the be able to do more with less.” heavy paper use by the county’s

T H E DA I LY TA R G U M government and the manualintensive processes that are used to serve the public, Pulomena said. It will also save on costs for paper and hiring support staff. “The second thing we’ve done is input a new process for agenda and public meetings. It is now a system that is fully automated,” he said. Polos, a resident of Highland Park, proposed that the county should create an independent budget advisory task force. “Members would include students from the Rutgers MBA program, Eagleton [Institute of Politics] as well as finance experts from large corporations in Middlesex County such as Johnson & Johnson and Verizon,” he said. Although he suppor ts the idea of the budget advisor y task force, Polos is concerned that other freeholders do not agree with him. “I do not understand why [my fellow freeholders] fight those ideas each year. It is wrong and hurting the taxpayers of the county,” he said. “I think that’s a serious mistake. We should take advantage of the expertise in the county.”

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Although gender-neutral housing options have been available at other universities and colleges across the nation, a majority of adult voters are still against co-ed living in residence halls, like Demarest Hall on the College Avenue campus.

HOUSING: University opinions vary on co-ed housing continued from front Opposition to the genderneutral housing option was more prevalent among females than males, including those under 30 and the elder adults polled, said Debra Falk, director of communications at Rasmussen Reports, via e-mail correspondence. University students’ opinions seem to reflect the sur vey’s results among adults under 30 years old. Dhanya James, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, was not surprised that adults disagree with the gender-neutral housing option. “I don’t agree with it either,” she said. “I think it’s kind of a crutch for people. A gay student might decide to room with a girl friend of his, but it takes away from the experience of meeting new people.” James also thought first-year students who are in a relationship coming to the University might elect to live with each

other, but this could r un with a member of the opposite into problems. sex comes down to “I feel like people who are in personal preference. relationships from high school “For me personally, I’m conwill also take advantage of it,” ser vative— I prefer my privashe said. “God forbid it doesn’t cy,” she said. “I really work out, then what happens? didn’t like it when my roomEver yone comes to college to mate would have her boyfriend meet new people but this option over all the time. But if prevents that.” people want to do it, I don’t see Jack Laniado, a School a problem with it.” of Ar ts and The genderSciences junior, neutral housing “It’s a good idea agreed that option has already couples that been in place at because it gives choose to live other colleges, but you more of an together might the sur vey results end up fighting. most opportunity to learn suggest “It’s going to adults were previcause probously ignorant to live with the lems,” he said. about the option. opposite sex.” “Couples who Of those polled, think it’s cool only 26 percent say JUSTINA SIGLE to room togeththey followed the School of Arts and er will do so news stories at Sciences Junior and they’ll start least somewhat fighting and closely about the realize they messed up. option at the University. I think gay students should School of Arts and Sciences have special interest housing junior Chris Mischaikow, who where they room with other transferred to the University gay students.” from the California Institute of School of Ar ts and Sciences Technology, said the genderjunior Jennifer Carroll thought neutral housing option worked that choosing to live at his old school.

“Men and women shared rooms there and it pretty much worked out,” he said. “One thing I noticed was that administrators took normal roommate drama and blamed it on the fact that it was a boy-girl situation.” Justina Sigle, a School of Ar ts and Sciences junior, thinks the chance to live with a member of the opposite sex could be beneficial for the future. “It’s a good idea because it gives you more of an oppor tunity to learn to live with the opposite sex,” she said. “It’s only a one-year contract — you aren’t stuck together for four years if something doesn’t work out.” Sami Jitan, a School of Ar ts and Sciences senior, thinks the gender-neutral housing option is a positive step for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning community on campus. “It’s a great win for the community or anyone discriminated against because of gender,” he said. “Gender is a social construct that needs to be re-evaluated in our time.”

GROUPS: Petition for Asian Studies reaches 1,700 continued from front ASC President Jimmy Cho said the initiative to bring Asian Studies must be addressed by this spring so the program may be an option by the fall. “We feel that as 24 percent of the student population affiliates themselves as Asian, it would be essential to have representation of our culture,” said Cho, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. Head Coordinator of the Asian-American Student Leadership Cabinet Andrew Casal created a petition two weeks ago to show administrators the renewed interest in the program. So far, he has more than 1,700 signatures. “One-third to one-half of the signatures are Rutgers students, but most signatures were gained during the East Coast Asian Studies Organization Day where New Jersey students throughout the state supported our ef forts,” said Casal, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. The petition is acting as a medium where students can interact and sign the petition through a Google document and has created a solid support system online, Casal said. “The reason we are bringing it to RUSA is we want to expand our support system beyond the Asian community,” he said. “Currently, most of the signatures were from the conference but with RUSA we can not only get further support but broaden our horizons.” Members of the cabinet has also contacted administration and is scheduled to meet with School of Arts and Sciences Executive Dean Douglas Greenberg within the next two weeks to discuss the approval of the discipline, Casal said. “The University is supposed to hold a cluster hire where 15 faculty members are supposed to be hired, but administration has not responded back to the AsianAmerican Leadership board,” Casal said. The last recognition the board received was for the Human Dignity Award last spring for their efforts with the Asian Leadership Conference, he said. Since then, they have not received any attention in their effort to approve Asian Studies. “We, as students, need to keep pushing the University in order to achieve our goal,” Casal said. “Whether it be financial reasons or order of agenda, the University has yet to act upon its initial suppor t two years ago.” The original proposal was made with cabinet in 2008, but at that time the board consisted of seniors, Casal said. Once they graduated, no one carried through with their efforts. “The University isn’t solely to blame,” he said. “With the exchange of leadership board and lack of action of our part, ef for ts made by the older board were futile. So with the current support of the student body, we hope to have Asian Studies as a major and minor by the fall.” RUSA will be discussing the proposal for an Asian Studies option as well as the groups for the meal sign-away program during their meeting tonight at the Student Activities Center on the College Avenue campus.

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Cricket club works to win tournament BY TABISH TALIB CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Falling short of reaching the semifinal round of the National Cricket Tournament last year did not stop the Rutgers Cricket Club’s determination to win the next. With a stronger unit this year, team members expect to place first in the 32-team tournament next week in Florida, team captain Nisarg Chokshi said. “We’re really expecting to go to the finals and take the trophy,” said Chokshi, a School of Engineering sophomore. “We’ve worked much harder, and we’re more serious this year.” The 32 teams are split up into four groups of eight and the top team in each group qualifies to the semifinals, said Chokshi, an all-rounder on the team. Throughout the year, the team does not play many games but individuals do play in private leagues in the fall, Chokshi said. The club practices in indoor cricket nets because of a lack of a cricket ground nearby and the cold weather, said Hardik Jogani, club president. “We haven’t played too many matches, but we have a good bond within our team,” said Jogani, a School of Engineering junior. Jogani, a batsman on the team, said he expects the team to perform better, especially in fielding. “In last year’s tournament, our fielding was bad and even lost a match because of it, but we’ve improved it,” he said, “Our ground fielding still needs to improve but our catching is good.” The team that took last year’s tournament was York University in Toronto, which Jogani said is a good team all around in their batting, bowling and fielding. “I’m expecting them to be in the final again — and us, of course,” he said. York is ranked four th nationally and is one of the stronger teams in the Nor theast, Jogani said.

Other favorites in the competition include University of Nor th Carolina, Auburn University and University of Southern California. Mital Patel, a RutgersNewark first-year student, said although he is a new addition to the team, he brings experience as a player on the United States Under-19 national team. Patel, who played in the grounds in Florida in the international tournament a few months ago, when his Under-19 team won, said he likes the pace attack the team plays, especially for the AstroTurf tracks. “The other pitches are slow, but we have adequate spin bowling for that as well,” he said. Patel, an all-rounder, said he has concentrated on his bowling mostly. “At the Under-19 tournament, I took a good amount of wickets, but I took every chance I got to bat,” he said. Patel said the team could perform really well, especially if key players do well. “Nisarg Chokshi, our captain, is a strong player and if he clicks then we are going to do well,” he said. “If I get to bat in the 20-overs that would be good too.” Jogani said he hopes the club team will transform cricket into an of ficial University spor ts team within the next 10 years and mentioned the historical cricket matches that took place in the United States. “The first international cricket match took place between the United States and Canada,” he said. “President Abraham Lincoln at the time went to watch it.” Jogani said cricket could be revived in the next 15 or 20 years because of the newer Twenty20 match format, a shorter format that takes only three hours to play instead of the oneday or five-day games. “People are starting cricket little leagues,” he said. “I think that is important to get more people involved at the grassroots level.”

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STUDY SHOWS INDIAN STUDENTS LEAVE COUNTRY, RETURN TO INDIA India may be able to recruit from more than 100,000 Indians studying in America in order to meet its goal of hiring one million new college and university faculty members, according to a new study released by the University, Pennsylvania State University and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. The study showed only 8 percent of Indian graduate students — out of 1,000 —wanted to remain in the United States, according to a University Media Relations press release “We expected that more students would lean heavily toward remaining in the United States,” said Dean of the Rutgers’ School of Management and Labor Relations David Finegold in the release. “But our results suggest many young academics would be interested in pursuing a faculty career in India.” Political corruption, red tape and lack of research opportunities are some of the significant deterring factors for those who do not want to return, according to the release. The study showed four areas respondents focused on in the discussion of returning to India — quality of life, career, hurdles and giving back, according to the release. The Indian government hopes to implement some policy changes to attract faculty to satisfy its goal of 20 percent of young people by 2020 having access to higher education. — Neil P. Kypers

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ALUMNA: Scooter’s act gains popularity after touring continued from front on self-acceptance, inclusion and self-love. “My dedication has been to live theater because I believe in the power of human contact,” Scooter said. Drawing on her experiences as a young child growing up in Washington, D.C., and experiences of those she worked with, the play will address how bullying starts, its results and stories of triumph and personal accomplishment. As a child, Scooter said she was called ugly and stupid in school, witnessing first-hand the detrimental effects bullying can have on young people. “As I got older, I learned that if you looked a certain way you could get away with not being bullied,” she said. “That didn’t seem fair.” Scooter’s 11-year-old daughter is reaching the age where bullying and teasing are common behaviors in schools. When her daughter became aware of the effects of bullying, Scooter, a lesbian single mom, said she was compelled to reach out to young individuals and help them understand how much power they have to make their world a better place. Elizabeth Salerno, a licensed social worker, said everyone is bullied at some point and in some format. “For whatever reason, bullying tries to exert power over someone else and the result is incredibly painful for the recipient,” she said. Salerno and Scooter met when they joined the Rutgers School of Social Work during the weeks surrounding the death of Tyler Clementi. “We were all so outraged that so many young people like Tyler who had so many prospects ahead of them were taking their own lives,”

said Salerno, who served for six and a half years as a counselor at the Hetrick-Martin Institute in New York City providing individual and group counseling for young people. Their frustration stemmed from a lack of resources and means to reach out to individuals like Clementi, Salerno said. “There has to be a place where a young person can go to feel safe and accepted regardless of who they are,” Salerno said. During the summer of 2010, Scooter began writing the piece. Because of these events, she said her work and show has transformed from a personal and private cause into a very public campaign. Scooter previously toured different parts of the country promoting past productions but received inquiries to perform her new show in regions throughout the Midwest and South after its premiere in New Brunswick, she said. “We’re excited to take the core message of compassion and inclusivity to the greater population of our country,” she said. Scooter and Hill said they believe live theater is the ideal way to send this message. “[People have always] recorded and communicated their history and lives by telling stories,” Hill said. “Theater is one of the best ways to get information out, to convey feeling and emotion.” Rhyme, rhythm and heightened language are used regularly as Scooter promotes activism through the stories of 12 different individuals, Hill said. “Without stories and without history we’re destined to repeat ourselves,” Hill said. Scooter said the first step in eliminating bullying and homophobia is to address the issues with compassion and awareness. “I strongly believe that compassion and inclusivity will eradicate hate and fear in our society, and make our society a more peaceful place to live for everyone,” she said.

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of NJ residents polled of polled voters oppose cuts to colleges disapprove of aid cuts and universities to education

RESULTS: Half of polled voters still support education continued from front a whole is … recognizing or believing there is a need for budget cuts.” Twenty-nine percent of respondents oppose any cuts in environmental programs, only 23 percent say no cuts should be made to municipal aid, and 37 percent oppose any cuts to colleges and universities — a drop from last year’s poll when nearly half said higher education should have no cuts at all. Redlawsk said Christie talked about shared sacrifice and budget cuts, and people are paying attention to this in ways they would not otherwise have done before he came into office. “I think what happens is that there has been now a year of constant drumbeat that the budget is broken and that it has to be fixed,” he said. “It’s important to fix it, and fixing it requires sacrifice.” But 50 percent of New Jersey residents are still most supportive of education, saying there should be no state aid cuts to schools at all, according to the poll. Even so, this new number is a decrease compared to last year’s 57 percent. Support for programs to help low-income residents also decreased 9 percent from last year, with only 42 percent of residents remaining in favor, according to the poll.

“What we tried to understand was what [voters are] willing to cut and what they’re less willing to cut, and we continue to see voters supporting schools [and] programs for the poor,” he said. “They’re much more willing to see cuts in other areas like environmental programs and public transit.” University political science Professor Richard Lau said the popularity of specific programs might influence whether people support cuts. “When you mention a specific program, it’s always the popularity or the lack thereof of that program or the beneficiaries from that program that people care about,” he said. Despite greater support for specific budget cuts, New Jersey residents were split regarding their reaction to Christie’s budget, with 45 percent pleased and 48 percent displeased, according to the poll. Lau said the difference lies in what questions are asked, with Christie-related topics bringing up a certain set of thoughts related to Christie as governor. “When we ask about specific programs and cutting, people think differently, and they think about what they know or what they think they know about those programs,” Lau said. “That’s why you can see some differences in opinion.” When people are asked whether they are pleased or displeased with the budget, respondents’ answers depend largely on whether they like Christie, he said.

45 PERCENT of polled voters are pleased with Christie's budget According to another poll released Tuesday, voters are nearly evenly split over their favorability of Christie post-budget address. Forty-six percent have a favorable impression, and 44 percent who do not. The governor’s ratings have stayed around the same general range over the past year no matter what actions he takes, Redlawsk said. “He’s got people who really like him no matter what and people who really hate him no matter what, and neither of those groups are going to change their opinion too much,” he said. High earners who make more than $150,000 per year are also more likely to support a luxury tax than those making under $50,000 per year by a 17-point margin, 81 percent to 64 percent, according to the poll. “So much of the focus has been on cutting the budget, which hurts primarily people of lower income levels, so New Jersey residents over whelmingly believe that ver y high-income people should be subject to an additional tax surcharge to help close the budget gap,” he said. School of Arts and Sciences senior Dan Herbert said support for budget cuts could be related to whether the cuts affect people personally. “When people asked about specific things, they think, ‘Oh, that doesn’t really affect me as much, so I don’t care if that budget goes away,’” he said. “So everyone is fighting for their piece of the pie, and they’re ignoring everyone else’s slice.”

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Wis. Republicans slash collective bargainning THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Senate succeeded in voting yesterday to strip nearly all collective bargaining rights from public workers, after Republicans outmaneuvered the chamber’s missing Democrats and approved an explosive proposal that has rocked the state and unions nationwide. “You are cowards!” spectators in the Senate galler y screamed as lawmakers voted. Within hours, a crowd of a few hundred protesters inside the Capitol had grown to an estimated 7,000, more than had been in the building at any point during weeks of protests. “The whole world is watching!” they shouted as they pressed up against the heavily guarded entrance to the Senate chamber. All 14 Senate Democrats fled to Illinois nearly three weeks ago, preventing the chamber from having enough members present to consider Gov. Scott Walker’s “budgetrepair bill” — a proposal introduced to plug a $137 million budget shortfall. The Senate requires a quorum to take up any measure that spends money. But Republicans on Yesterday took all the spending measures out of Walker’s proposal and a special committee of lawmakers from both the Senate and Assembly approved the revised bill a short time later. The unexpected yet surpris-

ingly simple procedural move ended a stalemate that had threatened to drag on indefinitely. Until Yesterday’s stunning vote, it appeared the standoff would persist until Democrats returned to Madison from their self-imposed exile. “In 30 minutes, 18 state senators undid 50 years of civil rights in Wisconsin. Their disrespect for the people of Wisconsin and their rights is an outrage that will never be forgotten,” said Democratic Senate Minority Leader Mark Miller. “Tonight, 18 Senate Republicans conspired to take government away from the people.” The state Assembly previously approved the original proposal and was set to consider the new measure on Thursday. Miller said in an inter view with The Associated Press there is nothing Democrats can do now to stop the bill: “It’s a done deal.” The lone Democrat on the special committee, Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca, shouted during the meeting that it was a violation of the state’s open meetings law. The Senate’s chief clerk said hours later the meeting was properly held. The Senate convened within minutes of the committee meeting and passed the measure 18-1 without discussion or debate. Republican Sen. Dale Schultz cast the lone no vote. “The jig is now up,” Barca said. “The fraud on the people of Wisconsin is now clear.”

Walker had repeatedly argued that collective bargaining was a budget issue, because his proposed changes would give local governments the flexibility to confront budget cuts needed to close the state’s $3.6 billion deficit. He has said that without the changes, he may have needed to lay of f 1,500 state workers and make other cuts to balance the budget. Walker said last night that Democrats had three weeks to

“Just because the Senate Democrats won’t do their [job], doesn’t mean we won’t do ours.” SCOTT FITZGERALD Wis. Senate Majority Leader

debate the bill and were offered repeated opportunities to come back, but refused. “I applaud the Legislature’s action today to stand up to the status quo and take a step in the right direction to balance the budget and reform government,” Walker said in the statement. The measure approved yesterday forbids most government workers from collectively bargaining for wage increases beyond the rate of inflation. It also requires public workers to pay more toward their pensions and double their health insur-

ance contribution, a combination equivalent to an 8 percent pay cut for the average worker. Police and firefighters are exempt. Walker’s proposal touched off a national debate over union rights for public employees and its implementation would be a key victor y for Republicans, many of whom have targeted public employee unions amid ef for ts to slash government spending. Similar collective bargaining restrictions are making their way through Ohio’s Legislature, while several other states are debating measures to curb the power of unions in smaller doses. Tens of thousands of demonstrators have converged on Wisconsin’s capital city for three weeks of protests, some of which prompted school districts to cancel classes due to teacher absences. Within hours of last night’s vote, protesters had seized the Capitol’s lower floors, creating an ear-splitting free-for-all of pounding dr ums, horns and whistles. Police all but gave up guarding the building entrances. But Wisconsin teachers unions urged their members to go to work on Thursday rather than join in the re-energized demonstrations. Yesterday’s drama unfolded less than four hours after Walker met with GOP senators in a closed-door meeting. He emerged from the meeting saying senators were “firm” in their support of the bill.

For weeks, Democrats had offered concessions on issues other than the bargaining rights and they spent much of yesterday again calling on Walker and Republicans to compromise. Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said earlier that Republicans had been discussing concessions offered by Walker, including allowing public workers to bargain over their salaries without a wage limit. Several GOP senators facing recall efforts had also publicly called for a compromise. “The people of Wisconsin elected us to come to Madison and do a job,” Fitzgerald said in a statement after the vote. “Just because the Senate Democrats won’t do theirs, doesn’t mean we won’t do ours.” Union leaders weren’t happy with Walker’s offer, and were furious at the Senate’s move to push the measure forward with a quick vote. Phil Neuenfeldt, president of the Wisconsin state AFL-CIO, said after Yesterday’s vote that Republicans exercised a “nuclear option.” “Scott Walker and the Republicans’ ideological war on the middle class and working families is now indisputable,” Neuenfeldt said. While talks had been going on sporadically behind the scenes, Republicans in the Senate also had publicly tried to ratchet up pressure on Democrats to return. They had agreed earlier Yesterday to start fining Democrats $100 for each day legislative session day they miss.

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City celebrates $1M Unity Square grant BY ANASTASIA MILLICKER CORRESPONDENT

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The Henry Guest House, located on the corner of Livingston Avenue and New Street, dates back to 1760 when tanner Henry Guest built it. Since its establishment, it serves as a meeting house.

House reflects revolutionary times BY SAMIRA FARID CONTRIBUTING WRITER

City residents who are interested in New Brunswick’s histor y have the chance to visit the Henr y Guest House, a colonial building that was home to many 18th-centur y revolutionaries’ meetings. The Guest House was established in 1760 on the corner of Livingston Avenue and New Street — formerly Carroll Place — in New Brunswick, said Hsienmin Chen, the principle librarian at the New Brunswick Free Public Library. In 1817, the two and a half acre building was advertised as one of the best stone houses in New Jersey. Henr y Guest, a New Brunswick tanner and associate of John Adams and Thomas Paine, established the house in the late 1700s and was the first to live in it, Chen said. “His profession was ver y important because it consisted of cowhides and deer hides being turned into leather,” Chen said. “In 1755, Guest bought a piece of property where New Street and Livingston Avenue are now.” Guest built the sandstone house with two-foot thick stonewalls, said Bob Belvin, director of the New Brunswick Free Public Librar y. He then extended his operation down to a brook that was behind the house. Belvin said Guest’s construction of the house ensures that it is very sturdy and can withstand severe weather. “‘If the [house’s] descendants would only keep a roof on it, the

house would stand ’till Gabriel blew his trumpet,’” said Belvin, who quoted Henry Guest in an email correspondence. Despite the relatively strong condition the house is in, over the years the roof and other parts of the building have slightly deteriorated, Belvin said. The City of New Brunswick and the New Jersey Historic Trust in 1992 funded a major exterior renovation. After the city renovated the Guest House in the early 1990s, it

“With its unique architecture, [the Guest House] deserves to be more than just a meeting room.” ROWENA YU School of Environmental and Biological Sciences Junior

handed the building over to the New Brunswick Free Public Library, Chen said. The Guest House, which has no staff members of its own, is now commonly used to hold meetings in the spring and fall if the library itself cannot accommodate all groups. “Very few organizations like to hold meetings during the winter, and in the summer we have almost no appointments for any meetings since organizations usually don’t meet at that time,” she said. The library is renovating the Guest House today with the hope

of making it more handicapped accessible, Belvin said. “We’re putting an addition to the back of the house to enhance better restroom facilities, wheelchair lifts and [to] overall improve the accessibility of the house,” he said. There are two small museum rooms in the upper level of the Guest House, Belvin said. One serves as an exhibit for the Grand Army of the Republic. “In the 1920s, as veterans who served in the Civil War got older, they donated all their memorabilia to the Henry Guest House,” Belvin said. In the other room, there is another exhibit that consists of materials founded in the canal that had been bridged out, he said. All anchors and the boats’ hardware found had an important history. After visiting the Guest House, University students, Anna Jarszak and Rowena Yu said they wish more students were aware of the building’s historical significance and architectural beauty. “The Henry Guest House is … such an important part of Rutgers,” said Jarszak, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “I have visited the exhibits and it was definitely worth my time.” Yu, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences junior, agreed with Jarszak and said the house should serve a larger role in New Brunswick today. “With its unique architecture, [the Guest House] deserves to be more than just a meeting room,” she said.

Plans for new community programming were unveiled yesterday morning at the future site of the new community center on Remsen Avenue. The Neighborhood Revitalization Tax Credit Program (NRTCP), hosted by New Brunswick’s Unity Square, celebrated its partnership with Johnson & Johnson as the company contributed $1 million toward the revitalization of Unity Square. The Sacred Hear t Church and Catholic Diocese of Metuchen started Unity Square Partnership in 2004 with the intention of revitalizing the 37square block neighborhood with boundaries from Livingston to Commercial Avenues and Sanford to Welton Streets, said Lorena Gaibor, director of the Unity Square program. “Our mission is to work with residents with what is now known as the Unity Square neighborhood in a grassroots, bottom-up approach,” Gaibor said. “[We’re] working to rebuild this neighborhood into a healthier and vibrant place to live, work and raise families.” New Brunswick residents devised a plan to revitalize the area, which includes job training, economic development, crime prevention, community gardening, youth and adult programming and affordable housing, she said. Among these developments, Unity Square will offer jobs to the community and opportunities to expand and flourish, Gaibor said. With a new labor organization, the partnership is providing a forklift operation training program that includes job placement, she said. There are also three initiatives in par tnership with Elijah’s Promise soup kitchen, including scholarships for its culinar y arts training program, Gaibor said. “We will be able to of fer three more scholarships per year for the next two years,” she said. “We are starting a collaborative entrepreneurial and educational program where we will develop a healthy food product line from our local gardens and farms and sell to residents and perhaps larger markets.” Unity Square is also developing an incubation kitchen to be housed on the first floor of the community center on Remsen Avenue, where residents can sell food they grow and prepare to other residents in a safe, health certified space, Gaibor said. “We are planning on breaking ground by next spring, but before that we are waiting for the city to approve the proposals,” Gaibor said. “We are also planning to keep the historical integrity of the firehouse while renovating.” With Middlesex Community College, Unity Square Partnership will continue to support the EMPOWER program for high school students by offering

five $3,000 scholarships to high school students to attend the college of their choice. St. John’s Clinic will also receive funding that will be able to serve 250 registered community patients, as well as 1,000 visits from the general community, Gaibor said. New Br unswick mayor James Cahill said the city has recognized par tnerships as effective and efficient ways to get things done in a culturally, socially and economically diverse community. “Over the years we have transformed our city through par tnerships, building new homes, creating new jobs, providing new ser vices and improving the lives of countless residents within our community,” he said. Cahill said the $1 million donation from Johnson & Johnson is not what made the day special. “It is the fact that Unity Square has already assessed the community’s needs, developed a strategy and reached out to the city to implement a plan that will put this money to work to help people of this neighborhood even before the check has cleared,” he said. Johnson & Johnson particularly chose Unity Square because it is the only program in New Brunswick that would offer a tax credit from the NRTCP, said Bonnie Petrauskas, director of Corporate Contributions & Community Relations at the company. “This is the first time Johnson & Johnson has participated in the NRTCP, and it was also about connections within our own organization’s departments,” she said. Most of the money is not going toward the renovations, but the programs, Gaibor said. “The Depar tment of Community Affairs, approves a neighborhood revitalization project such as ours,” Gaibor said. “We had to apply for approval as a program and luckily ... we met the guidelines within NRTCP including economic development and community growth initiatives.” Commissioner of the Department of Community Affairs Laurie Grifa saw the collaboration between corporations and the public as an ideal demonstration of the NRTCP. “Public and private partnership are often just words on a page where there’s really no translation into action, but this program is the foundational building block of what is actively going on in Union Square today,” Grifa said. Grifa, a University alumna, was pleased with the renovations the city made, especially with the Remsen Avenue quarter. “Ever yone wants to live in safe and decent places, they want to hold their heads up with dignity,” she said. “Some people need more help than others, and with this program and the relationship between significant corporate par tners in New Brunswick and the leadership, all this can happen.”

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High school to model ‘Iron Chef’ contest

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Josh Rocklund (above) teaches art to students aged nine to 14 as part of an art class which began yesterday by the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum. Students in the drawing class learn a range of techniques, including pencil and charcoal, and genres like still-life and portraiture.

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Piscataway High School students will see whose cuisine reigns supreme on March 11 at its fourth “Iron Chef” inspired competition. Teams of five or six students will cook with food and ingredients provided from Sodexo Food Ser vices, the school district’s food supplier, said Lori HandalyKaye, public information officer and program coordinator for Piscataway schools. The students worked under the direction of chefs from Sodexo, who donated all of the food, their availability and decorations for the event, Handaly-Kaye said. “It is an opportunity for the students to learn from chefs,” she said. Preparation for the competition began in mid-January, when students met with the chefs as teams , Handaly-Kaye said. “I’m most excited to see the kids’ reactions when the food is done,” said Bryan Bini, a Sodexo Food Services chef. “All the students who get a medal feel accomplished.” Several of the student contestants from last year’s competition returned with the hope of being awarded along with their new team members. “This year I definitely want to win, I’m so committed,” said Laura Taylor, a high school junior. Although some of the students involved are culinary students, others are just interested in cooking, Handaly-Kaye said. The event is open to everyone.

Guests who pay the $5 admission fee are able to taste everything after the competition. Team Asia will provide spring rolls, chicken beef sauté and Singapore street fries, served with bubble tea, she said. Handaly-Kaye said Team Mardi Gras will work on jambalaya and a banana foster type dessert. Team Jamaica will ser ve favorites such as jerk chicken and dumplings, she said. “I help make the booths look like the area they are representing,” said Bini, a chef for Team Jamaica. “Team Jamaica has palm trees and flags to bring it to life.” Team Italy plans to make vegetable lasagna and original cannolis, Handaly-Kaye said. “I’m on Team Italy and for our decorations we’ll have pillars, a gondola and the look of someone rowing down a river,” Taylor said. Team Jersey Shore will concoct cheese steaks and snow cones with a boardwalk theme, Handaly-Kaye said. Five judges of district parents, Board of Education members and potentially Piscataway High School’s principal will finalize the results. “Students will be scored on menu, taste, decorations and presentation,” Handaly-Kaye said. Taylor expects the event to be better than last year’s because it looks and feels like an actual television show. “I can’t wait to see what everyone brings forward, so much excitement and creativity,” she said.

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In celebration of the Alfa Art Galler y’s third anniversar y, the galler y will present an exhibition titled “Abstract Reality” at its location on 108 Church St. in New Brunswick. The exhibition will present numerous works of abstract art and will feature paintings by Piscataway resident Jimmy Leslie, New Brunswick residents John Hawaka and Marsha Goldberg and others. The galler y will hold an opening reception at 7 p.m. The exhibition will run for two weeks. For more information about the exhibition galler y, please contact the galler y at (732)-296-6720 or write an email to info@alfaart.com.

In honor of Saint Patrick’s Day, the Barron Arts Center presents “An Irish Afternoon.” Anyone who attends will have the chance to eat a traditional Irish dinner, including corned beef and cabbage dinner. The event will be from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Trinity Church Hall on 650 Rahway Ave. in Woodbridge, N.J. All members of the public are welcome to attend. Tickets cost $12 for adults and $6 for children under the age of 10. To purchase a ticket, please visit the Barron Arts Center or the Woodbridge Chamber of Commerce at 4320 Ridgewood Center Dr. For more information, call (732)-634-0413.

Gov. Chris Christie will be present at a Woodbridge Town Hall meeting to discuss New Jersey’s issues in an open forum open to all members of the public. The meeting will be from 8:45 to 9:45 a.m. at the Woodbridge Community Center on 600 Main St. in Woodbridge, N.J. All seats are given on a first-come, first-serve basis. Anybody who wishes to guarantee attendance may RSVP by calling (732)-634-4500 for more information.

Middlesex County is sponsoring a Composting Workshop where residents will learn how to reduce waste and create their own fertilizer from kitchen scraps. The workshop will be held for two hours at the Rutgers Cooperative Research and Extension EARTH Center at the Davidson Mill Pond Park, 42 Riva Avenue, South Brunswick, N.J. Pre-registration is required and the cost of the workshop is free. This is the 10th year of workshops offered by Middlesex County Division of Solid Waste Management in conjunction with the Rutgers Cooperative Research & Extension Service. Attendees may also pick up pre-purchased compost bins with Geobin Composter available for $20, Earth Machine compost for $40 and $50 for Wriggly Wranch Vermicompost bin and Soil Saver. For more information please call the Division of Solid Waste Management at (732)-745-4170 or email solidwaste@co.middlesex.nj.us.

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Elijah’s Promise will present the ServSafe Class and Test where participants will review ServSafe test material with a certified instructor. The cost of the class and test will cost $95 and will include test booklet and test page, a copy of the current ServSafe booklet, submission of test for grading and certificate from the Restaurant Association. Pre-registration is required and will take place at 211 Livingston Avenue in New Brunswick. For more information please contact Elijah’s Promise at rreiss@elijahspromise.net or call (732)-545-9002 ext.112.

Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission and the Folklife Program for New Jersey will present Pysanky Traditional Ukrainian Egg Decorating Workshop with Master Artist Olga Kobryn at the East Jersey Olde Towne Village at 1050 River Road in Piscataway. There will be two sessions: one from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. and pre-registration is required with a $15 fee for materials and a phone registration application at (732)-745-4489. Checks should be made out to the County of Middlesex/Cultural & Heritage or it may be hand-delievered to the commission’s office at 703 Jersey Avenue in New Brunswick. For more information please call at (732)-745-4489.

Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission and the Folklife Program for New Jersey will present the Palaspas: Traditional Filipino Palm Weaving Workshop with Samahan Cultural Heritage, Eastern Seaboard, Inc. at East Jersey Olde Towne Village at 1050 River Road in Piscataway. The workshop is offered free of charge but advance registration is required. Attendees will learn how to create special folk craft during the Palm Weaving Workshop. To register please contact the Commission at (732)-745-4489 or 711 via the New Jersey Relay Service. To have your event featured on www.dailytargum.com, send Metro calendar items to metro@dailytargum.com.

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“It shows what students are willing to watch these days. When students watch these shows, they are watching it with the intention of laughing at them, not with them because of the extreme measures they go to. I mean GTL — gym, tan, laundry — it’s the extent at which they drink and the measures they go to, it’s funny.”

“[Snooki] is the hot thing right now. I don’t personally plan on seeing her because I don’t think it would be worth going, but it’s awesome to have someone that hot come to the University.”

SAM HERNANDEZ RUTGERS BUSINESS SCHOOL SOPHOMORE

“It’s funny. Students, instead of focusing on the news, watch these reality shows. It’s like, some of us are entering the [real] world in less than a year, but it shows what students’ intentions are. It’s just funny.”

CONNOR MONTFERRAT — SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES SOPHOMORE

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ONLINE RESPONSE Who is Snooki? —12% It doesn’t matter to me, I’m not going anyway. —17%

I don’t want her to come here —23%

I’m ready! Bring on the fake tan and poof I think they should —21% have selected a different entertainer —28%

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Week in review: laurels and darts

aise your hand if you have ever had a friend on Facebook who seems to constantly post new photos to their profile. According to a study conducted by researcher Michael Stefanone of the University of Buffalo, some women may be inundating your feed with new profiles in order to boost their selfesteem. Steafnone sur veyed 311 college-age people and found that the women sur veyed tended to base their self-worth on their appearances and post more pictures on Facebook. While we’re happy to see people boosting their self-esteem, we are pretty upset that we live in a society which, in the words of the study, “offers significantly more appearance-based rewards and penalties to women than men.” Since American culture drives women to seek approval from others based solely on how they look, we have no choice but to give the culture a dart. *

Anyone who experienced last year’s Rutgersfest can attest that things got more than a little out of hand. Rutgersfest is meant to be a day of all-out fun but that does not mean that people have to become dangerously disorderly. Thankfully, the Rutgers University Programming Association (RUPA) is looking to preemptively counteract the excessive drinking, which often leads to inappropriate behavior through the “Responsible Drinking Campaign.” RUPA has also patterned with Health Outreach Promotion Education (HOPE) in order to tackle alcohol-related incidents at this year’s Rutgersfest before they even occur. While it remains to be seen whether this campaign will even make a dent in the normally wild behavior that comes along with Rutgersfest, we give RUPA and HOPE laurels for tr ying to ensure that April 15 will be a fun but safe day for ever yone. *

People often crack jokes regarding the special treatment college athletes receive from their schools, a favor target being the supposedly easy classes these athletes get to take. It looks like Stanford University is lending credence to these jokes, however, now that the “courses of interest” list has been accidentally exposed to the public. This list was secretly circulated to student athletes and contained the names of “easy A” classes meant to give the athletes a break from school, so they could focus solely on their spor ts. This sor t of preferentially treatment is upsetting to see. Colleges should treat their students equally, no matter what these students do for the school. Plus, this list makes college athletes look bad and fuels the jokes made about them. For unfairly providing college athletes with lighter workloads, Stanford gets a dar t. *

Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., is afraid of Muslim radicals in the United States, and he has scheduled hearings on the topic. Though King claims that these hearings are not discriminator y, we have to disagree. Thankfully, so do the hundreds of Muslim-Americans who came together to protest the hearings. Characterizing all Muslims as possible terrorists is dangerous, as it perpetuates — and, in the eyes of man, justifies — the sort of hateful conduct many Americans have engaged in toward Muslims since 9/11. For standing up to the injustice that is King’s hearings, we give these protestors laurels. We cannot allow oppression to ever happen on American soil and taking it to the streets to fight that oppression is the best way to combat it. *

American governments, at both the state and federal levels, have never been ver y good to the artists of this nation. Things only get worse for American artists when budget crises hit — see, for example, Bruce Dethlefsen, the poet laureate of Wisconsin, whose $2,000 stipend is set to be cut entirely by Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal. As Dethlefsen himself said, “In good times arts are magical, and in tough times, they are essential.” Unfortunately, the government never seems to think so, and America’s artists — and American culture as a whole — often have to suffer. For cutting the poet laureate from the budget and thereby sending the message that artists are essentially unimportant in the eyes of the government, Walker gets a dart.

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Peace Corps jobs, the unpaid hen most of us internships, Teach for entered high America, AmeriCorps and so school at age 14 on. In the 19th century, it’s or 15, we were told that what sons of lords did when those years would be the they traveled Europe for two best and most formative years before settling down to years of our lives and that we a short-lived life of writing should never — and I mean PATRICK DANNER poetry. Today it either comes never — take them for grantwith the pretense of being ed. And for most of us, those for some greater purpose — backpacking through four years were spent with really only one purpose in Europe is no longer about drinking but about “findmind: to get to the next four years we’re in now. ing ourselves” — or with so much guilt that we actuAdolescence has come to be defined essentially as ally do something worthwhile. We teach math to 9the ages ranging from the beginning of high school year-olds in Oakland, Calif. — even though we got to a time that’s rapidly approaching for many — our D’s in calculus — or maybe we move to Tuscany and grand exit from this University. And according to that work on organic farms because, we mean it this time, definition, once a few thousand of my colleagues and we’re going to start eating organic. I leave here, we are — for better or worse — adults. Point is we’ve become more self-obsessed than I understand that I am supposed to be an adult now. ever and mainly because we have no choice. We’re I’ve taken the loans, gotten the jobs, learned how to taking our complete inability to find jobs and clamorbalance a checkbook and balanced the heck out of it ing to “experience” as much as we can during these for about three months — but an adult? But I don’t awkward and elastic years. Maybe it’s because subknow what I want to do with my life. consciously we think that this will Every day in this newspaper, make us qualified for something else, Career Services inundates us with “My luckier readers something better. Maybe we just opportunities to find ourselves — want to live life before we settle into because it’s never to late — and to figwill inevitably what many of us refer to as our real ure out what makes us tick. You waitfind themselves lives, and most of us won’t do that ed tables at Red Lobster for six years, until 30. In fact, many of us are going you say? Well then, my boy, you’re a tapping into their to hit financial rock bottom and stay people person. With your bachelor’s degree in English, you will certainly parents’ resources.” there for quite some time, trying to figure out what we want, who we are grow to love your job in customer and answers to questions that any services at the Philadelphia Zoo. Or fair existentialist will tell us we can’t find. perhaps you were a secretary at your mom’s office? What remains unseen, however, is how much this Well, indeed those are organizational skills. Welcome indefinite adolescence our generation refuses to give to your underpaid assistant position at I.B.M. up will extend our current economic quagmire. My And no, I’m not trying to be glib. Well, I am, but I luckier readers will inevitably find themselves tapdon’t mean it. I promise. It’s just that, with the job ping into their parents’ resources. The unluckier will market we’re graduating into, and the years spent be filling out Starbucks or Jimmy John’s applications competing until we’re overqualified for a vast majoren masse. Either way, what we’ll find is the older popity of those jobs, we’ve taken the question we’ve ulation staying in their jobs longer. And the younger been asked by counselors, advisers and career serv— knowing that nothing is out there — will spend ices — “What makes you happy?” — and run with it. more time bouncing from internship to internship or And when your best financial prospect is moving try to discover inner-peace on a lobster ship off the home and freelance copy editing from Mom’s coast of Maine, waiting to hear about the teaching kitchen table, a lot of things are thrown into perposition that opened up at their old high school, as spective. The population of hyper-qualified overhorrifying as that may seem. achieving upper-middle-class college students who But on a lighter note, I guess that tells us at least one will be competing with properly-qualified and slightthing good. Our parents and teachers have been wrong ly-older post-yuppies for that entry-level position into twice: It wasn’t high school or college that has proven to whatever magazine, museum or business we want to be our most formative years, but it’s these next four work for has fallen back on that question hard — after college, the most frightening four. So let’s never — what makes us happy? And for the most part, the and I mean never — take them for granted. answers I’ve seen and come up with myself lead to one conclusion: We want indefinite gap years. Patrick Danner is a School of Arts and Sciences senior Gap years are what most of us will be taking or majoring in English with a minor in Italian studies. are, ironically enough, applying for. They’re the Due to space limitations, submissions cannot exceed 750 words. If a commentary exceeds 750 words, it will not be considered for publication. 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Educate yourself on facts about circumcision Letter IMRAAN JAN

ale circumcision is a controversial topic in that there is no legal or scientific clarity revealing the absolute benefits and drawbacks of male circumcision. It is an Abrahamic tradition practiced for centuries due to religion and culture. The letter published in yesterday’s The Daily Targum titled, “Circumcision, genital mutilation must end,” was so preposterous I felt compelled to respond. The author says, “The act of circumcision for religious purposes is a ver y thinly veiled excuse to mutilate a baby’s genitals,” as if Muslims

and Jews have ulterior motives for circumcision. The author used the word mutilate to describe circumcision when all the procedure does is remove foreskin. Should we call tummy tucks mutilation as well? The author only lists the downsides of circumcision while completely ignoring the benefits. Numerous scientific ar ticles cite the positives of circumcision, including how it reduced the rate of HIV infection among heterosexual men in South Africa by 60 percent. Interestingly enough, three separate studies halted their research on circumcision because circumcision has been so effective at preventing HIV that it would be unethical to continue. Not ignoring the

downsides, it is possible that ver y few babies lost their lives due to circumcision, but out of how many millions of successful circumcision procedures? I

“No parent should be forced to have their child circumcised or uncircumcised.” question because it has been tested for centuries as a safe procedure, and complications are probably due to a surgeon’s error rather than the danger circumcision imposes.

The author is convinced that circumcision is a great injustice, but what circumcised male cried injustice? I have never read or heard a single comment about the injustice or remorse of circumcision, so if the men are happy with themselves, why bother mentioning it? As far as human rights are concerned, it is up to the parents to decide whether or not their child should be circumcised. They should be completely aware of any drawbacks or complications due to the surger y and asked to sign a form stating their intent for circumcision. Other than that, no one and no government has any right to inter fere with a religious practice that has been proven to be safe for centuries.

No parent should be forced to have their child circumcised or uncircumcised. The author argues that anyone who thinks that circumcision should continue is disgraceful to our species. Completely ignoring the benefits and oversimplifying a complex issue is, in the words of the author, a “thinly veiled excuse” to bash religion and its practices rather than taking a bipartisan approach to this controversial topic. The only one that is disgraceful to our species is the one who is ignorant by choice. Imraan Jan is a School of Arts and Sciences junior majoring in biological sciences with a minor in Middle Eastern studies.

Society must consider itself in technology talks Letter AMY ZHANG, DAVID LAM & ALLAN WU

echnology itself cannot be defined in 140 characters or even 750 words. So I’ll give it a college try — technology is the development of any digital or physical tool made by humans to make life and work easier. It pertains to entertainment, medicine creation, the Internet, mass transportation and countless other areas of life. We should appreciate the times we live in because we are starting to embrace and utilize technology that we never could have imagined in elementary school. Needless to say, I’m a huge fan. When I read halfway down Monday’s editorial “Consider drawbacks of technology,” I was so taken aback and disturbed by the claims that it pretty much put me in caffeine rage. The arguments made, such as “people who rely on GPS devices ... take the brainless

route”, “self-driving cars ... could be deployed in combat” and “progress often makes us lazy,” are in many ways, shallow, untenable and, overall, ignorant of the bigger picture. First of all, the concept of establishing GPS itself required engineering, programming and the foundation of thinking. Looking up directions does not take a lot of brainpower. If I’m going to an inter view, I would like extra time to think about questions on the inter view instead of stressing over how to get there. It’s a matter of using our scarce resource of time more efficiently so instead of thinking less, we are now thinking the same amount and about things that actually matter to us. Keep in mind that in terms of automobile safety, there have been lots of key technological developments to keep drivers safe and damage minimal. To list a few, these include the rudimentary airbag, seat belt and rear bumper that is missing on every other car on campus. Then came along all the advanced,

computer-based systems such as cell phone apps that disable the car when the user is texting while driving, electronic stability control to keep cars from losing control in any climate and programs that can detect when the driver is falling asleep and slow the car down.

“So the real question is, when will our society start looking in the mirror?” Perhaps a new system will prevent cars from crashing by using repelling magnets. Progress — which the editorial claims leads to laziness — could actually lead to new ways to use technology to enhance safety we haven’t thought of yet. If progress is laziness, then why do workers labor evenings and weekends, working on

programs for free to give out to the world? How do you explain the Open Source cyberspace, where scientific calculators are available for homework? Progress could keep drivers from deploying cars into combat and keep drunk drivers from crashing into others. So there cannot be a discussion of technology contributing to more automobile harm without understanding that there are no limits to enhancing safety by technological advancements. There are many discussions about the downsides of technology that we cannot have until we look at ourselves in the mirror. Technology is not necessarily a double-edged sword in ever y instance. Henr y Ford didn’t build a car to crash it into pedestrians for fun. In its first weeks, the Internet was not the cause for murders. Now ever y month you may hear about Craigslist postings leading to murder and robber y. Many of us still remember the suicides of Tyler Clementi and many others around the nation

caused by cyber-bullying and abuse of social media. Moreover, there are many news ar ticles that herald developments in drone weaponr y — robotic, pilot-less fighter jets. Sadly, there is no simple, easy solution to addressing these emerging issues. Education helps, but it seems with our priorities in this backward society, ver y little people are interested in what’s going on and are unaware of the big picture. It is understandable to be hesitant and war y in our technology era, if humanity cannot keep up. Technology can, and has, caused pain. So the real question is, when will our society start looking in the mirror? Amy Zhang is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in computer science with minors in mathematics and economics. David Lam is a School of Engineering junior majoring in bioenvironmental engineering. Allan Wu is a Livingston College senior majoring in biological sciences with a minor in physics.

Take pride in being Palestinian at University Letter SAMI JITAN

write this not as a representative of BAKA: Students United for Middle Eastern Justice but as a 5th year University undergraduate student of Palestinian heritage, Muslim faith and in solidarity with the human struggle. As par t of the first ever Palestine Awareness Week on Feb. 28, March 1 and March 2, respectively, BAKA screened “Occupation 101,” hosted renowned writer Max Blumenthal and then brought a mock 16-foot high apar theid wall to Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus so it could be signed by University student activists. Apar t from BAKA’s events, the University’s chapter of the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies had their own events in appreciation of Palestinian culture. In short, this has been one of the most enjoyable

weeks — and as an organizer, also one of the most stressful — of my college career. But I do not feel the pain anymore. We are all likely to incur some uncomfortable backlash when we speak truth to power. In the face of the hateful, racist and traumatic verbal attacks some of BAKA’s members encountered last week, I would like to thank the Dean of Students for the College Avenue campus Timothy Grimm, the Student Activities Center, members of the administration, the student centers and the Of fice of Student Involvement for giving their students the opportunity to spread Palestine awareness. Last week’s events provided an accurate look into the socalled “conflict” in IsraelPalestine. In my educated opinion, a more precise explanation for the situation, rather than simply the word “conflict,” is that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have for the last 62 years implemented an illegal militar y occupation of Palestinian land

based on a fundamentally flawed and racist principle: that non-Jewish Arabs are an innately violent threat to the existence of a Jewish state, thereby giving the Israeli government the right to collectively punish Muslim, Christian, Dr uze and atheist Palestinians alike, as well as dissenting Jews, for their beliefs and born identities. It should

“If Palestine is occupied then the whole world is occupied.” not be forgotten that even Palestinians living within the Israeli borders determined in 1948 are discriminated against through Jewish-only proper ty laws, de facto employment oppor tunities, segregated school systems and the inability to sound an effective political voice in the Knesset, the legislative branch of the Israeli

government. So I ask the reader, where is the “conflict?” If the state of Israel is this unjust, shouldn’t ever yone with a conscience be non-violently opposing the IDF, like the villagers in Budr us, Bil’in and East Jerusalem constantly are? I do not intend to outline the entire issue here. What I do want is to express my utmost gratitude to this University for the opportunity to exercise my freedom of speech, and for BAKA’s outstanding supporters, too, for making their voices heard. I have never been prouder to be a Palestinian in all my life than during the past year on this campus. My friends and allies have helped uphold truth, strength and dignity. One day the refugees in the occupied territories and diaspora will make their Aliyah. One day soon Afghans, Iraqis, queers, blacks, women, the poor, disabled and forgotten will rejoice together with the Palestinians. If there is anything that the revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya have taught us is that there

is no silencing those who have been oppressed! We, the disgruntled masses, will continue to cry out until every last drop of salt water, sweat, tears and blood have dropped. And until that day comes when we quell oppression in all of its forms — whether it is homophobia, misogyny or racism — I will keep my fist clenched in solidarity, interwoven with my lover’s hand and fingers. With this weekend being the sentencing of the University of California Irvine 11 — the 11 students unjustly arrested for protesting Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren by disrupting his speech — the call for solidarity could not come any sooner. If Palestine is occupied then the whole world is occupied. But for now, until that occupation ends and until Palestine is free I am happy to call the University my home. Sami Jitan is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in anthropology. He is the events coordinator for BAKA: Students United for Middle Eastern Justice.

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FOUL: Brownlee possesses ball after Biruta faces contact continued from back Brownlee secured the loose ball after a second ticked off the clock, but appeared to take three steps in celebration before stepping out bounds and throwing the ball into the stands. Senior guard Mike Coburn was steps away from Brownlee during the series of events and just steps further from St. John’s head coach Steve Lavin, who began walking to midcourt to exchange postgame handshakes with Rice. “Yeah, I did,” said Coburn on trying to get the referees’ attention about the infraction. “But the refs’ job is to clear the court after the game is over, and that’s exactly what they did. It happens.” Rice confronted the of ficiating crew, led by longtime Big East referee Tim Higgins, following the final buzzer, which sent St. John’s into a quar ter final matchup today with No. 11 Syracuse. But the first-year Big East head coach received no explanation for the silent whistles over the course of four separate incidents that occurred within seconds of one another. “I was a lunatic, to be honest with you,” Rice said. “I lost some self-control, I admit it. It was a judgment call. It is what it is. Sure they’re going to admit it was a mistake because it’s right there on YouTube now.” Biruta claimed he was fouled on the play, which resulted in the 6-foot-8 forward falling on the hardwood, and senior forward

Jonathan Mitchell thought he was pushed underneath on a dead-ball rebound attempt. But no protest could reclaim the 1.7 seconds the Knights lost when Brownlee appeared to make contact with the sideline. And no objection could give Mitchell the wide-open position he held in the corner if he received Biruta’s tip cleanly. “It was chaos,” Mitchell said. “It sucks not to get a shot off — that’s what I think hurts the most. Clearly if Gilvydas gets that pass off, I had a good look at the basket and you never know what could have happened.” The loss resulted in two defeats to the Johnnies by a combined four points this season — the Knights lost on a last-second layup at Carnesecca Arena on Feb. 2 — and an abrupt end for three seniors. Some players, like sophomore wing Dane Miller, plan to take a week off before beginning workouts with Mitchell to prepare for another grueling Big East season. Others, like Biruta, will mentally unwind before beginning preparations during the summer with the Lithuanian National Team. But no matter what measures the returning Knights take, chances are a resolution from the Big East conference will not soften the blow suffered over a mere 4.5 seconds. “There was a mistake made, there’s no question,” Rice said. “I made several mistakes, my players made several mistakes, I’m sure my staff … made several mistakes. It’s just the way it is. We have the greatest officials in America.”

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Senior forward Jonathan Mitchell found himself uncovered on the Knights’ final possession with four seconds remaining, but could not get the ball for a final shot in his last game with Rutgers.

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game. We weren’t going to allow them to do that.” But Coburn buried his free throws and St. John’s guard Dwight Hardy dropped the ensuing inbounds pass out of bounds. Rutgers could not capitalize on their possession down by one, though. “I didn’t say it was ironic right there, but I’m sure after a couple cold ones I might go, ‘See, I told you guys so,’” Rice said of the decision to foul.

Officials signaled an out of bounds on Mitchell and gave St. John’s the ball. “The judgment calls, I have to believe that they are right,” Rice said. The Scarlet Knights were also justified in calling for a foul when senior guard Mike Coburn drove RICE’S FINAL to the basket trailINBOUND play ing by one with 13 called for a pass to seconds left to “When it’s do Biruta that would draw contact. or die and it’s your find either Mitchell “We ran an senior guard inbounds play for senior season, you or James Beatty for a me to get a handoff and attack the always want to help 3-pointer. Each knocked rim. I thought I your team and down clutch longdid a pretty good range shots job of drawing make plays.” throughout the contact,” Coburn season, and Beatty said. “The refs JAMES BEATTY found his stroke at made calls and Senior Point Guard the beginning of you can’t really the second half to blame anything on cut into St. John’s four-point lead. them. He didn’t call a foul and Beatty hit a trio of 3-pointers that’s that.” to score Rutgers’ first nine points ST. JOHN’S nearly gave of the second half. Rutgers the game in the final sec“When it’s do or die and it’s your onds with a decision Rice critisenior season, you always want to cized for not making against help your team and make plays,” Seton Hall. Beatty said. “You want to put it Johnnies’ head coach Steve upon yourself to get the job done.” Lavin had Malik Boothe foul THE ST. JOHN’S Coburn with 15 seconds left and frontcourt gave the Red Storm a a three-point Red Storm advanmajor advantage in the paint, where tage to avoid a game-tying three. they outscored Rutgers, 34-26. “We played Rutgers earlier on Justin Burrell and Sean Evans our home floor this year and we each come off the bench for the didn’t foul,” Lavin said. “With 30 Johnnies at 6-foot-8 apiece, while seconds to go, we tried to get one starters Brownlee and Dwayne stop and they buried a three on Polee are each 6-foot-7. us with eight seconds to go in the

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Senior point guard James Beatty hit a trio of 3-pointers — the first nine Rutgers points — after halftime, bringing the Knights within two points before St. John’s called a timeout.

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Rutgers head wrestling coach Scott Goodale led his team to a 71-20-1 dual meet record in his first four seasons since leaving Jackson Memorial High School.

COACH: Goodale’s legacy at Jackson evident by successor continued from back knows he made the right choice in leaving the town where he grew up, wrestled, coached and built a pillar of success. “You go out to Pittsburgh and football is king. You go down to Florida and football is king. I wanted to make wrestling king in [Jackson],” he said. “And that’s what was tough to leave. I think that’s kind of my personality, I knew [Rutgers] was dead in the water, and I just wanted the challenge.”

*** To see the legacy left by Goodale on the Jackson wrestling scene, look no further than the man who took over when he left for the Banks. Doug Withstandley, the new head coach of Jackson Memorial, wrestled for the Jaguars while Goodale was an assistant from 1998-2000 under Al Aires. Aires retired during Withstandley’s senior season and handed the program over to Goodale. “[Goodale] ran a lot of the practices and everyone knew that Mr. Aires was just sort of grooming Scott to take over the program,” Withstandley said. “My senior year, that’s what we did.” It was that year — Goodale’s first as a coach and Withstandley’s final as a wrestler — when the two solidified a bond that continues to this day. The moment occurred at the state tournament with Withstandley in the finals. “He lost his father at an early age in an automobile accident,” Goodale said. “He was under so much pressure. I remember taking him out to breakfast that morning and talking to him. I told him, ‘You lost your father. You’ve had so much adversity in your life and you turned out to be such a great kid. This is just another wrestling match. Win or lose, the sun is coming up the next day.’” As the match drew closer, Withstandley recalled the look of excitement in Goodale’s face

before he took to the mat. It was a look that Withstandley never forgot — a delight that transcended the usual connection between athlete and coach. “His energy and his excitement just for one of his wrestlers being in the state finals was amazing,” said Withstandley, who returned to Jackson to become an assistant under Goodale. “Right then and there, I realized the effect that a coach can have on an athlete. One of Scott’s biggest attributes as a coach is to get the best out of every athlete.” Withstandley was the first state champion under Goodale, but not the last. That came in Goodale’s final year with Jackson, where Scott Winston began one of the greatest high school careers in New Jersey wrestling history. After moving from Edison his freshman year of high school, Winston quickly got to know Goodale, and the two took an immediate interest in one another. “He was really positive,” Winston said. “He knew a lot about everybody that I had either competed against or was going to be a teammate with. I was just very shocked and surprised that somebody knew that much about everything.” Goodale left for Rutgers before Winston’s senior season, leaving Withstandley in charge of the program and responsible for ensuring Winston finished his high school career undefeated. The head job may have come sooner than Withstandley predicted, but he had plenty of guidance from his former coach and mentor. “We had one year together before [Goodale] took the job at Rutgers,” he said. “In that one year, I learned at least three-quarters of what I know now as a coach. Scott has been very influential in my coaching career.” Upon graduation, Winston could have gone to any school in the country. But only one program had the coach that he wanted to compete for — even if many thought that coach could not deliver at the next level. “I knew what [Goodale] was capable of, and I knew that at the time [Rutgers] wasn’t a great team, but there was a chance for it to be

what it is today and even more,” Winston said. “They say he’s a high school coach and they say he’s this and that, but I don’t know, he’s winning at this level and he won at the last level, so I just wanted to be around a winner.”

*** Before he was even offered the head coaching job at Rutgers, Goodale had a vision. Scribbled on a napkin while having drinks with his wife, the vision outlined a five-point plan to rejuvenate a Scarlet Knights program stuck in the doldrums of a state brimming with wrestling talent. “I was contacted by somebody who is pretty important in New Jersey wrestling and he asked me, ‘How can we make Rutgers better?’” Goodale said. “And off the top of my head, I started run-

“Scott, given the opportunity to sit down in front of anyone, is able to sell you on anything.” STEVE RIVERA Owner, Elite Wrestling

ning through some ideas in areas where I think they needed help.” Recruitment. Scholarships. Academic support. Wrestling camps. Coaching staff. The plan outlined everything needed to make a program successful, and it was a plan that Goodale believed in. “The hardest part was everything that goes with building a program. And all of that was in that five-point plan,” Goodale said. “As far as the wrestling part goes, that was easy. Wrestling is wrestling is wrestling. If you can teach Doug Withstandley and Scott Winston how to wrestle, you can teach anybody.” But more important than having a plan he believed in, New Jersey wrestlers needed to believe in Goodale. Steve Rivera owns Elite Wrestling in Jackson and trained

some of the state’s top wrestling talent for more than 15 years after winning a 1992 NCAA Championship. With contacts and connections throughout the state, Rivera served as one of the driving forces behind Goodale taking over for longtime Rutgers coach John Sacchi. “Everybody knew that Sacchi was retiring,” Rivera said. “Let’s be honest, if anybody could [turn around Rutgers], it would be Goodale. It was something New Jersey needed. It was almost like everybody sort of pushed him in there together.” Rivera’s relationship with Goodale goes back to the early ’80s, when both were big-name wrestlers in New Jersey. The two developed a more personal relationship when Goodale coached at Jackson, convincing Rivera he was the right man for the job at Rutgers. “Scott, given the opportunity to sit down in front of anyone, is able to sell you on anything,” Rivera said. “His passion is pretty obvious, and his track record is hard to argue with. If you’re trying to get something done, I think he’s proven that he could do it. It’s just a matter of how fast.” With the backing of a reputable figure in New Jersey wrestling, Goodale offered up his five-point plan and was rewarded with an opportunity to put it into action.

*** It was four years and 70 victories since the loss to Maryland, but Goodale found himself looking at the scoreboard with similar dread. Much to the chagrin of 5,011 fans inside the Louis Brown Athletic Center, the score dictated another Rutgers loss. This time it was a 21-9 defeat at the hands of conference-foe Lehigh. Unlike the loss to Maryland, Goodale did not fear a mutiny from his wrestlers. This was his vision in action. It was a great night for New Jersey wrestling and no matter the outcome, there was no arguing the fact that the program took a giant leap forward that night. “That week, I knew all that hype was going to drain our guys,” Goodale said. “But we had 5,000 people. Nobody has better attendance — other than

Iowa — than 5,000 people at a college wrestling match. It just doesn’t happen.” The attendance figure did not ease the pain. Although it was only the team’s second loss of the season, it still ate away at Goodale. But he took solace in the unwavering support from the family and friends that supported his vision since Day 1 and reminded him why he took up the challenge in the first place. “The personal life is ver y important. You’ve got to be able to separate the two, and the first couple of years, I had a tough time doing that,” Goodale said. “Even now, like after Lehigh, I have a tough time doing that. But I walk out of the locker room and I see my daughter and it’s all good. Because that’s really what’s important and I’ll never ever lose sight of that.” With the loss in the rearview mirror, Goodale and his squad shift their focus to what can be a monumental NCAA Tournament. It stands as a chance for the Knights to prove their ground — for the team to justify its No. 9 ranking and for Goodale to show he belongs at this level. “To think it can happen overnight is unfair, but you’re seeing the progress,” Rivera said. “I think that Scott has a great chance this year to really shut the naysayers up. There are just so many guys [on the roster] there that are capable of getting this done.” No matter what criticisms come his way, Goodale remains committed to the vision he drew up well before arriving at Rutgers and his undying resolve to mold his athletes into great wrestlers and even better men. “I want guys coming here to know that I’m going to have your back on and off the mat,” he said. “Am I going to get mad at you? Absolutely. Am I going to push you? Are you going to not like me at times? Yeah. It’s all for the good, and at the end of the day, it’s all about getting a degree, being a good person and knowing that our relationship will last forever.”

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Senior diver Jen Betz enters potentially her final tournament with the Knights tomorrow, when Rutgers travels to Annapolis, Md., for the NCAA Zone A Diving Championships.

Captain prepares for NCAA meet BY MATT CANVISSER STAFF WRITER

The Rutgers diving team heads into the pool for perhaps the final time this DIVING weekend at RUTGERS AT t h e NCAA ZONE CHAMPS NCAA TOMORROW Zone A Diving Championships at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. The Zone Championships are regional postseason competitions where divers with the best scores can advance to the NCAA Championships in Austin, Texas, later this month. “It’s definitely exciting to be able to go to the Zone Championships again as a senior,” said captain Jen Betz. “It’s a big meet and it will be a good way for me to end my career.” Betz is the Scarlet Knights’ lone senior and embraced the leadership role on a young team all season long. While the Rutgers community undoubtedly wants to see her succeed at the Championships, the meet will be bittersweet for everyone involved with the program, including Betz herself. “I think I’ll be dealing with a lot of emotions,” Betz said. “It will definitely be sad knowing this

could be my last meet, but I’m so happy with the way things have gone this season. My goal is to just go out and have fun.” Betz paced the Knights in diving throughout her senior campaign and leads them into the Zone Championships after garnering a bronze medal in the three-meter dive at the Big East Championships. Betz was ranked fourth after preliminaries, but posted a score of 316.40 to take third in the conference. “I was definitely happy with my finish in the three-meter at Big East,” Betz said. “Placing third definitely gave me confidence going into Zones, but this is a whole new meet and anything can happen.” The Knights lose Betz next season, but still have a bright future with their promising young crop of divers, including freshmen Nicole Scott and Valentina Gordon and sophomore Katie Kearney. Kearney placed sixth at the Big East Championships in the one-meter dive, while Scott had an outstanding freshman year in all major diving events. “I am really excited for the opportunity to compete at Zones this year,” Scott said. “My goal was to make Zones on platform this year and I was very happy to

qualify for the springboard events as well.” The pressure of postseason tournaments may not faze a seasoned veteran like Betz, but it can get into the heads of some younger divers. It is important for the rookies to maintain their composure and retain their mental toughness to ensure they dive to the best of their ability. “I was really nervous for my first Big East Championship, but I worked through it and learned that I need to relax and just focus on the dives one at a time,” Scott said. “Hopefully I can bring this attitude to Zones so that I can dive consistently.” The Knights practiced for about a month leading up to tomorrow, when the Zone Championships begin. The team decided not to alter its training techniques after the Big East Championships in order to keep up the level of consistency and success it enjoyed all season. “It was hard to come back from Big East and maintain the focus for another whole month of training without competition, but I think as a team we did a great job of getting back into the training mode,” Betz said. “After a few great weeks of training, I think we are all ready to get back on the boards to compete.”

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Trip to Louisiana affords Knights chance to play outdoors BY MATT CANVISSER STAFF WRITER

New Orleans is a city known for its excitement and party atmosTENNIS phere, but the RUTGERS AT Rutgers NEW ORLEANS, tennis SUNDAY, 11 A.M. t e a m will have an all-business attitude in its annual spring break trip. “Our primar y purpose down there is tennis, but I’m sure we’ll enjoy ourselves,” said head coach Ben Bucca. “New Orleans is a great city. It should be a fun time for the girls and they should play some great tennis.” The Scarlet Knights (5-4, 0-2) travel to a warm weather locale each spring break to get a taste of outdoor tennis. They fundraise throughout the year to pay for the trip, which in past years was to destinations like Florida and South Carolina. “Ever y year we host a tennis party [to fundraise] at the East Brunswick Racquet Club,” said senior captain Amy Zhang. “The whole team plays tennis with participants. We have food and homemade desser ts and we raffle off prizes. It’s a nice experience and good way to raise money.” Rutgers faces of f against New Orleans, Southeaster n Louisiana and Xavier University of Louisiana on its

trip. The Knights play all three matches in a span of just four days. “The trip is always very physically demanding and this year we know very little about the opposition,” Bucca said. “We have no histor y playing against these teams, and in tennis there isn’t much opportunity to scout them on film.” Working in the Knights’ favor is their 5-2 non-conference record, including four shutout victories. But that success has not carried over into conference play, where the Knights dropped their first two matches, including a 5-2 loss last Sunday to Marquette. “It was a hear tbreaking loss,” Bucca said. “Clearly, we have been competing with the upper echelon of teams in the Big East, but we know we belong at this level. As long as we keep fighting, we’ll start to win some matches.” Rutgers struggled in doubles play all season and dropped the doubles point in each of their four losses. But the Knights remained solid in singles throughout the doubles inconsistency and received strong play all the way down the lineup. Freshmen Stefania Balasa and Vanessa Petrini lead the Knights with identical 8-1 records in the No. 5 and No. 6 slots, while junior Jennifer Holzberg’s close loss to Marquette snapped a seven-

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No. 1 singles player Amy Zhang won her match against Marquette last weekend after losing her previous two matches in a rough start to her senior season. match win streak. Zhang strug- her career,” Bucca said. “It was their first time this year playgled at times this season in the an outstanding match. She was ing outdoors. No. 1 position, but rebounded moving well and hitting the ball “These teams have already nicely with a hard-fought win with excellent pace.” been playing outside,” Bucca against the Golden Eagles. The New Orleans trip is not said. “Outdoor tennis is a much “[Amy] played some of the only a chance for the Knights different game, but we’ll be up to best tennis I’ve seen her play in to have a vacation, but it is also the task.”

RU faces final tri-meet prior to postseason action BY JOSH GLATT CORRESPONDENT

With the postseason approaching, the Rutgers gymnastics team has one last opportunity to GYMNASTICS boost its season RUTGERS AT average. TRI-MEET T h e TOMORROW, 7 P.M. Scarlet Knights travel to Maryland tomorrow to compete in a tri-meet against Towson and Yale in their season finale. Following two consecutive per formances when the team posted season-high scores, the Knights are tasked with improving upon their success. Head coach Chr ystal Chollet-Nor ton believes her team is talented enough to

even improve upon its recent score of 194.350 — the third highest in school histor y. “We want to maintain, but I think we can be a few tenths higher on beam and I think we can be sharper on vault,” Chollet-Norton said. “We could tr y to stick our landings on floor a bit more. I truly believe we can be a high 194, 195 team.” While the Knights avoided big mistakes like falls on beam, the focus shifted to small alterations that can improve their scores by small fractions. In a spor t that regards a one- or two-point victor y as a decent margin, fractions of points can make all the dif ference. “We had some wobbles on beam that we can do without and some mistakes on beam that we need to fix,” said freshman Alexis Gunzelman.

“We can t keep giving away fractions of points because they all add up.” One of the keys to the recent success is the steady

“We want to maintain, but I think we can be a few tenths higher on beam and ... sharper on vault.” CHRYSTAL CHOLLET-NORTON Head Coach

development of the strong freshman class of Gunzelman, Luisa Leal-Restrepo and Alyssa Straub. As the season winds down, the freshman class

worked to attain a prominent role on the team. “I have become a much more consistent gymnast over the season,” Gunzelman said. “I have just developed more confidence and know what I can do in competition.” While her team did not suffer any significant injuries in a sport as physically taxing as gymnastics, it is important for a coach to maintain a concern for health at all times. With the Eastern Atlantic Gymnastics League Championships coming up, Chollet-Norton has made sure her team does not suffer any late injuries. “We have to keep ever yone fresh and healthy,” CholletNorton said. “I’m giving [LealRestrepo] off on Monday. We are going to take it a bit lighter on ever yone.”

Sophomore Jenna Zito recently returned from a foot injur y after missing two meets. She retur ned at the home finale and repor ted no ill ef fects after ward. She is aware of how important it is to stay healthy at the end of the season. “I think we need to keep our energy up and stay confident in our skills,” Zito said. While remaining healthy is impor tant, maintaining sharp skills is essential, as well. Senior Leigh Heinbaugh knows that her team will keep working hard even as the season begins to wind down. “This is a great team to be on. Ever yone works hard and no one needs to be pushed,” Heinbaugh said. “We just need to keep getting better and better.”

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Team cautions against complacency at PSU BY VINNIE MANCUSO STAFF WRITER

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Junior midfielder Ali Steinberg scored four goals for the second game in a row against the host Hawks in Philadelphia, where the Knights prevailed, 12-4, for their fourth win in five games.

Nine second-half goals propel RU BY JOSH BAKAN STAFF WRITER

The defense of the Rutgers women’s lacrosse team always strives to keep the score in sinWOMEN’S LACROSSE gle-digits. In a RUTGERS 12 1 2 - 4 ST. JOSEPH’S 4 win yesterday against St. Joseph’s in Philadelphia, the Scarlet Knights accomplished the goal for the fourth consecutive game. Four goals allowed is a season-best for the Knights (4-1), who last allowed that few goals in its 2010 season opener. “We worked them hard on the defensive end because we know that they can’t handle pressure that well,” said senior defender Mary Moran. “We didn’t let them wait on the eight [meter arc] and let them control the game.” The defense also had momentum on its side coming off a 13-5 win on Saturday against Delaware. “We try to carry the positive momentum from each game into the next,” Moran said. “We did a lot right against Delaware on

defense and that carried on into [yesterday’s game].” The Hawks’ (2-3) only offensive momentum came when junior Jen Peters scored two goals within two minutes to make the Knights’ lead 7-3 with eight minutes remaining. But Rutgers was successful in getting the ball in the back of the net, making 80 percent of its shots. Junior midfielder Ali Steinberg tallied four goals for the second consecutive game with a career-high performance. “She was doing a good job of finding open cuts and receiving the ball and realizing that she only had one person deep when she was receiving the ball in motion,” said head coach Laura Brand. The Suffern High School (N.Y.) product’s two goals came in the first two minutes of the second half. In that time, Rutgers scored three goals to move ahead, 6-1. “We talked at halftime about not getting caught up in St. Joe’s style of play — the defense where they force you to pass inside, and we were playing right into there,” Brand said. Those first three goals spawned a nine-goal second

half, a season-high for the Knights in a period. Rutgers also attained another season record by giving up one goal in the first half to enter intermission with a 3-1 lead. “They were doing a good job playing team defense and sliding well and forcing them to take well-angled shots,” Brand said. “We were keeping them out and not even allowing them the opportunity to shoot.” Rutgers also played its entire roster for the first time all season. Contributions off the bench included freshman Sarah Mahon’s first career goal. “Everyone came out on the bench ready to go and they worked hard on both ends,” Moran said. “Attackers that were in moved the ball, so there’s not anyone that stood out. It’s just good to know that we have so much.” The Hawks entered yesterday’s action with two other substantial losses under their belts, suffering double-digit losses to Drexel and Lehigh. Rutgers returns to Piscataway with a two-game winning streak to face Hofstra on Saturday at the RU Turf Field.

The Rutgers men’s lacrosse team started the season with four straight wins, but it knows that a team’s MEN’S LACROSSE record does not RUTGERS AT automatPENN STATE ically SATURDAY, 3 P.M. define the caliber of the team itself. So when the Scarlet Knights travel to University Park to face Penn State on Saturday, they will not take the 1-3 Nittany Lions lightly. “It’s going to be a tough game, we all know that,” said redshirt freshman Scott Klimchak. “They have a lot of respect for lacrosse at Penn State. Their record might not show it, but they’re a real good team.” Penn State holds three losses on the year, but all three were against ranked opponents and all three were close. The defeats include staying within four of last year’s NCAA Tournament runner-up, No. 3 Notre Dame, and a triple overtime marathon that ended in a 6-5 defeat against No. 12 Ohio State. “In terms of Penn State, they have a really talented attack and they play great team defense,” said senior captain Brian Shemesh. “So it’s really important we stick to our gameplan, and we continue what we’ve been doing.” Klimchak, who spearheads the of fense, knows a win at Penn State would be imperative not only to the Knights’ win

streak but also going into a matchup on Tuesday against 1-1 Jacksonville. “We’re all real excited to start the year off 4-0, but 5-0 sounds a lot better,” Klimchak said. “We got Jacksonville after Penn State, so we have a real good chance of doing well.” But of all people, veteran Shemesh knows how quickly the Knights’ fortunes can change. The memory of a six-game losing skid late in the season last year still sticks in his mind. “It’s great to have four wins under our belt, but we tr y and keep in mind how quickly things could turn around,” the four-year starter said. “Last year we hit that pretty serious losing streak in the second half of the season. Our focus is one game at a time, and we don’t want to get too high on the wins that we’ve had.” But all streaks aside — winning or losing — the Knights feel no added pressure going into Saturday’s matchup, provided they stay the course as always. “There is no added pressure at all,” Klimchak said. “We just need to prepare like we’ve been preparing and I think we’ll be fine.” Shemesh especially feels no pressure, as he expected the streak the Knights are on from the beginning. “I don’t think winning four straight adds anything to our gameplan,” he said. “Winning four games doesn’t mean we have accomplished anything that we haven’t expected to do. We expected be 4-0. The past is the past, and we’re moving on to the next one.”

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Senior captain Brian Shemesh remembers the Knights’ six-game losing skid last season, when Rutgers started strong.

Knights earn .500 record, ready for Fla. tournament BY SAM HELLMAN CORRESPONDENT

There’s a different mood floating around the Rutgers softball team’s locker room — a good mood. Instead of going into spring break with a sense of desperation, the Scarlet Knights have a bold confidence SOFTBALL about them, RUTGERS VS. and a lot BUFFALO o f TOMORROW 9 A.M. momentum. “You can definitely feel it in the locker room,” said senior first baseman Mandy Craig. “Everyone’s confidence is pretty high. We’re facing some tough competition on spring break, but we’re feeling good about it.” Rutgers (7-7) is at .500 through 14 games for the first time in nearly a decade. The

Knights have five wins in their last six games and average nine runs per game during that time. For the three seniors under head coach Jay Nelson, this is uncharted territory. “We haven’t been this good at the beginning of the season since way before I was here,” said senior left fielder Mickenzie Alden. “I feel like there was a different kind of excitement when I was a freshman and sophomore. Back then, I was just excited to be in college and get in games. Now it’s like we’ve invested so much time in our passion. Finally, we’re seeing it pay off.” When Craig, Alden and fellow senior Jen Meinheit were freshmen, it was a very different Rutgers softball team. The transition began last season when a win on the final day snuck the team into its first Big East Tournament under Nelson. With the entire of fense returning to start this season,

there was no excuse but to put up runs. It was Craig’s turn for an offensive outburst last weekend after juniors Brittney Lindley and Mikelyn Messina got the lineup started the weekend before.

MICKENZIE ALDEN In front of her family, Craig belted a pair of home runs, recorded 10 RBI and went 10-for-15 at the plate. “I was pretty excited about it, obviously, but it’s not like I was the only one that hit well this week,” Craig said. “It’s a team award.

Everyone on the team put up some big numbers. I’m more excited about being at .500 right now.” If Big East Player of the Week is a team award like Craig said, a lot of the credit goes to her two senior teammates. Meinheit, who bats primarily in the leadoff position, was the beneficiary of four of Craig’s 10 RBI. Starting all 14 games this season, the slap-hitting centerfielder is second behind Lindley with 13 runs and fifth in hitting with a .302 batting average. “The whole atmosphere of our team has been lifted,” Meinheit said. “We have everything going our way right now. The pitchers are doing so well and we’re hitting as a team.” Alden is off to the slowest start of the senior triumvirate, but slow is relative in this case. Starting every game as a team captain, Alden’s batting average is up 92 points from last season.

“Whether you’re a part of the group that’s crushing the ball, or you’re on-base scoring from it, it’s really exciting,” Alden said. “Last year, runs were hard to come by. There’s no way around that. But to see the difference that this year of experience made, it just makes me proud to be a part of it.” Rutgers faces its true barometer over the next week-and-ahalf during spring break. The Knights have their penultimate and final preseason tournaments on-tap in Boca Raton, Fla. and Tampa, Fla. “We’re finally all doing well at the same time,” Alden said. “Last year, we weren’t scoring many runs because people were peaking at different times. It’s nice to see everybody coming together and doing it at the same time. But Florida is a different story. It will be tough, but we’re confident, more confident than we’ve ever been.”

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Pro Day lacks first-round talent BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

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Junior infielder Russ Hopkins entered yesterday hitting just .098, but hit two doubles and earned two RBI in the Knights’ win.

Knights regain winning ways with home victory makes it a whole lot easier, that’s for sure.” From the top to the bottom of the lineup, each player made It took a little longer than some sort of contribution to usual, but thanks to a seven-run generate offense. NJIT also had sixth inning yesterday at its part in giving the Knights Bainton BASEBALL runs, as the Highlanders made Field, NJIT 3 t h e four errors in the cold and windy Piscataway conditions. RUTGERS 13 Rutgers The weather had no effect on baseball junior infielder Russ Hopkins, t e a m who entered the matchup hitpulled away from visiting NJIT ting just .098 — well below his to earn a 13-3 victory. career average. The win brings the Scarlet The Piscataway native broke Knights back to .500 and snaps out of his recent struggles with the team’s three-game losing two doubles down the left field skid just in time for the its loomline, giving the 6-foot-6 slugger ing eight-game road stretch. two RBI for the game. “We’re starting our week “Most importantly, we got now,” said head coach Fred Hill. the ‘W’ today,” Hopkins said. “It “Your confidence level always was ver y cold, goes back up and it was good to when you win, and now hopefully “It’s big to win all bring ourselves back to .500 we’ll play well the midweek games going into spring against Liberty this upcom[on Friday].” because midweek break ing weekend.” With the For three Knights (5-5) games give you innings, the ahead, 6-3, sophmomentum for Highlanders hung omore Pat around with the Sweeney, who the weekend.” Knights and came filled in for felwithin two runs of low classmate WILLIE BEARD the lead after a Steve Nyisztor at Junior Righthander two-run homer by shor tstop, Matt Weckerle in kicked of f the the top half of the third inning bottom of the sixth with a line cut the score to 5-3. drive up the middle. But junior righthander Freshman Brian O’Grady folWillie Beard got back to his lowed with a base hit to the game the next inning and did right side, barely squeaking it not allow a run for the rest of by the second baseman on a hitthe contest. and-run, which put runners on The win gave Beard his first of the corners for the Knights. the season and got the Knights And after a walk by sophoback on track heading into their more Steven Zavala, senior pivotal spring break road trip. right fielder Michael Lang “It’s big to win all the midstepped to the plate, got week games because midweek plunked in the arm and earned games give you momentum for an RBI to increase the Rutgers the weekend,” said Beard, who lead by one. struck out seven in as many A sacrifice fly, walk and pair innings. “We’ll take this win, of hits later, the Knights found head into this weekend and see if themselves up by double we can’t take ever y midweek digits — a familiar position for game from there.” Hill’s squad when playing the Rutgers heads to Greenwich, Highlanders (2-4). N.C., on Friday to take on “We got some key hits and it Liberty –– one of four teams on was good to get started the way the Knights’ schedule during we started,” Hill said. “When spring break. ever yone’s contributing, it

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It lacked the marquee draft prospects of recent history, but yesterday the Rutgers football team’s FOOTBALL annual Pro Day still brought countless NFL scouts to Piscataway. And the player that figures to drum up the most interest was the one who did the least. Safety Joe Lefeged limited his workout to positional drills only after a strong NFL Combine showing solidified his standing as a legitimate prospect. “I think he can definitely be an effective player in that league,” said head coach Greg Schiano. “The thing that always impressed me was as he became the starting safety as a sophomore, we kept putting him down as a nickel back because he’s such a good blitzer and such a good underneath player. That’s valuable.” Lefeged ran a 4.43 40-yard dash at the Combine and cited the week in Indianapolis as a positive warm-up for yesterday’s meeting with NFL scouts. “It’s been a lot of fun — a lot of hard work, but a lot of fun,” Lefeged said. “It’s the first time really being on your own. Nobody’s there to tell you that you have to be here. You don’t have to go to workouts. That’s when you see if you really love the game or not.” Beyond Lefeged, defensive ends Jonathan Freeny and Alex Silvestro are also intriguing prospects, although their future may not remain at end. Both worked out as linebackers, as well, and have no preference to where they play.

“Every coach I’ve had has said the more you can do, the more valuable you are,” said Silvestro, who is up to 267 pounds. “Anything they want me to do, I’ll try it. If they want me to play offense, I’ll do that.” The Paulsboro High School (N.J.) product has a strong senior season to build on, as he led the Scarlet Knights with 5.5 sacks. Freeny held that distinction the year before, but his production dropped from nine sacks to half a sack last season. Still, he has the athleticism that could grab attention. Freeny’s 40-yard dash time was second highest on the day at 4.69, as was his 37.5-foot vertical jump. “I felt pretty good,” Freeny said. “My drills felt crisp and better than it usually did when I was training. It’s good that I peaked at the right time.” No drill drew more attention than cornerback Brandon Bing’s 40-yard dash. As the high school track star readied himself for the pre-Draft workout’s signature drill, teammates moved closer to the finish line to see his speed. Bing clocked in with a 4.33 and also posted the highest vertical jump at 38.5 feet. “I didn’t run a full 40 too much [during training],” Bing said. “I had that hamstring problem at the end of the season. I believe I ran a 4.3 flat once. I only ran a full 40 one time.” Countless former Knights looked on, including NFL players Courtney Greene, Brian Leonard, Devin and Jason McCourty, Tiquan Underwood and Jamaal Westerman.

But they did not just return for Pro Day at the Bubble. Many of them spend their offseasons in Piscataway, training at the Hale Center. “When I was at the University of Miami in 2000, you’d see all the NFL guys come back to train. It’s a great place, but it’s also South Florida weather,” Schiano said. “For them to come back to Piscataway to train in the of fseason, I think that says a lot about [strength and conditioning coach] Jay Butler and his staf f.” Freeny cited Westerman as a teammate he turned to for advice leading up to his Pro Day workout. Westerman signed with the New York Jets as an undrafted free agent, and although the NFL’s collective bargaining agreement complicates that process, the former Rutgers defensive end serves as an example to his former teammates. “I think the weird thing about the draft is it only takes one team to make someone a prospect,” Schiano said. “We don’t have a large number of seniors, but I think there are some guys here that are going to make people’s ball clubs. Really what they need is a chance.”

KNIGHT NOTE: Senior running back Joe Martinek was in a walking boot and crutches — a result of what Schiano called “a little fix-it job” on his ankle. “He’s going to be fine,” Schiano said. Paralyzed defensive tackle Eric LeGrand also looked on from the Bubble.

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St. Anthony senior and Rutgers commit Myles Mack scored 19 points last night in the Friars’ 62-45 victory over rival St. Patrick at the Louis Brown Athletic Center.

RU COMMIT HEADLINES NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP Myles Mack got a taste of big-time basketball at the Louis BOYS’ BASKETBALL B r o w n Athletic Center last night, and he rose to the occasion. The Class of 2011 Rutgers commit led his St. Anthony squad to a 62-45 victor y over St. Patrick in a New Jersey state playoff game that doubled as the mythical high school national championship.

With Rutgers head men’s basketball coach Mike Rice looking on, Mack scored 19 points and had six steals to give the Friars their third national title. Kentucky head coach John Calipari was also on hand in Piscataway to watch prized commit Michael Gilchrist lead his St. Patrick squad in the battle of unbeatens. Gilchrist, the nation’s third-

ranked recruit, and the Celtics broke out to an early lead and had a one-point advantage entering the fourth quarter, when St. Anthony took over. Mack scored four points in the final stanza, when his squad outscored St. Patrick, 23-5, to take the lead. With 43 seconds remaining, Mack went to the bench with the win in hand. — Staff Report

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Head coach jumps from HS to RU Goodale rebuilds Rutgers after leaving Jackson home BY A.J. JANKOWSKI CORRESPONDENT

Standing in a gymnasium in College Park, Md., Scott Goodale looked at the scoreboard and sighed. It WRESTLING told him his Rutgers wrestling team was on the losing end of a 34-9 score and his Scarlet Knights were 0-3 in his first year as their head coach. Many, including some on Goodale’s own roster, began to question whether the coach who excelled at Jackson Memorial High School (N.J.) had what it took to coach in college. “There were probably some guys on the roster the first day I got here on Aug. 1, 2007, that felt I was just a high school coach,” Goodale said. “And then we started 0-3. So then they really didn’t start believing in us.” Gone were the days of dominating opponents with ease when he coached for seven years at Jackson. Gone were the four state champions, the seventeam district champions and the consistent topfive rankings. But two things that never left Goodale’s side were SCOTT his determiGOODALE nation to get the most out of his athletes and his vision for New Jersey wrestling. While concerns about his ability to coach at the next level remained, Goodale knew the key to success laid in his relationship with the wrestlers, not with pleasing those who doubted him. “At first, I was a little threatened by [the doubters]. Maybe they are right,” Goodale said. “But in reality, it’s a compliment. We try not to run it as a business. I don’t want to be a CEO. I want to be a wrestling coach. I want to care about everything that is going on in our guys’ lives. There are 30 guys on the roster, and they are all part of this family and that’s how I treat them.” Since that loss to the Terrapins four years ago, the Knights put together a 71-17-1 dual-meet record under Goodale. They set off for Philadelphia next week for the NCAA Tournament with eight representatives and a legitimate chance to bring the first AllAmerican to Rutgers since 2002. In a time when wrestling programs are being cut across the countr y, the Knights attracted more than 5,000 fans for a dual this season and rank among the nation’s best in attendance figures. The team now brings in revenue to the school as it proves Goodale is right to believe that in the face of adversity, New Jersey wrestling fans will not quit. And even though there were some growing pains, Goodale

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65-63 Mike Rice saw his team suffer a controversial loss to St. John’s in the second round of his first Big East Tournament as a head coach. JEFFREY LAZARO / ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

SCORING LEADER: D. HARDY, 17 RU SCORING LEADER: J. BEATTY, 15 REBOUNDING LEADER: S. EVANS, 9

FAIR OR FOUL Knights fall in Round 2 of Big East Tournament to No. 17 St. John’s after questionable officiating closes game BY TYLER BARTO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

NEW YORK — There were many images Rutgers head men’s basketball coach Mike Rice could conjure from the waning moments of the Scarlet Knights’ battle with No. 17 St. John’s yesterday, but the one that most deeply endured came from the screen of an iPhone. Moments after the Knights dropped a controversial 65-63 decision to the Red Storm, Rice

replayed the YouTube highlight and reaffirmed his notion that Rutgers should have had at least one more possession at Madison Square Garden. After freshman for ward Gilvydas Birtua could not handle a halfcourt heave, St. John’s forward Justin Brownlee traveled and stepped out of bounds with 1.7 seconds remaining. “It was a mistake,” Rice said. “It’s got to be a mistake — I just watched it on YouTube. It’s just

three great of ficials — I’ve had them all throughout the year — with impeccable reputations. It’s unfor tunate.” Big East Commissioner John Marinatto issued a statement moments after the Knights’ (15-16) loss acknowledging that “two separate officiating errors occurred at the conclusion,” but that “neither error is reviewable or correctable under NCAA playing rules.” While several moments down the stretch of the second round

contest invoked controversy, the final objection occurred when senior for ward Robert Lumpkins lobbed an inbound pass to center court with just four seconds remaining and the Knights trailing by two. Biruta initially received the lob, but a pair of St. John’s (2210) defenders forced the ball loose, which resulted Brownlee gaining possession.

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Final minute raises questions on multiple no-calls BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

NEW YORK — The Big East issued a hardly-satisfying statement for the Rutgers men’s basKNIGHT k e t b a l l NOTEBOOK t e a m , admitting to a pair of incorrect calls in the final seconds. But countless other plays could have ended yesterday’s 65-63 second round Big East Tournament loss to St. John’s differently, as well, beginning with the heave. Freshman for ward Gilvydas Bir uta leapt for a halfcour t inbound pass on the game’s final play, only to fumble the ball under pressure from Red Storm defenders.

Before head coach Mike Rice saw Justin Brownlee’s travel out of bounds on YouTube, he screamed at the officials for a foul on Biruta. Senior for ward Jonathan Mitchell saw the same thing. “I thought he did,” Mitchell said. “Two guys jumped with him, and he was in the middle of it. I didn’t think we were playing football today. I think he got fouled.” Mitchell also called for a foul with seven seconds remaining, when he thought he earned a whistle for being pushed in the back. As he jumped for a rebound on Brownlee’s front-end miss of a oneand-one, Mitchell knocked the ball out of bounds as he felt pressure from his back.

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Senior guard Mike Coburn drove to the basket in the final minute attempting to draw contact, but did not receive a foul call.