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Bill eases penalty for young ‘sexters’ BY AMY ROWE ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

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Kusakabe Taro, a samurai from Fukui, Japan was one of the first Japanese students to attend Rutgers College in 1867.

What starts as a flirtatious sending of a nude photo could end in prosecution of young “sexters” as child pornographers in New Jersey, but Assemblywoman Pamela Lampitt, DCamden, is trying to change that. “Younger generations are ones filled with people more comfortable with their sexuality and that’s okay,” Lampitt said. “However, we need to create guidelines and limitations.” Her bill, which would place firsttime juvenile senders and receivers of explicit photos on computers or cellphones into an educational program instead of prosecution, awaits a Senate hearing after its 78-0 approval last week in the state Assembly. The bill only applies to the transmission of photographs of other juve-

niles, not verbal text messages considered harassment, said Laura Cohen, a clinical professor at Rutgers School of Law-Newark. “The kid can’t have any prior convictions for any offense involving sexual behavior,” Cohen said. “They must be unaware at the time of transmission that it was a criminal offense.” Lampitt said the juvenile courts will customize the diversionary educational program for each person, but it might include attending a class or writing an essay. “Kids make mistakes,” she said. “If they’re prosecuted then they are labeled as a sex offender and they have other restrictions placed upon them. They can’t move out of state and they must self-disclose this information on job and college applications.” Because minors might make the impulsive decision to send a nude pho-

tograph, education is better suited for them as it can impact them throughout life, Lampitt said. “We should allow them this opportunity to fully understand the educational process,” she said. The current law considers sexting a second-degree criminal offense, which could result in about 10 years in prison despite the age of the person convicted, said Assemblyman Jon Bramnick, R-Union. “If you take a 16-year-old high school student who sends a photograph to a boyfriend, that’s still considered a second-degree felony,” he said. “Not to have an alternative to what could potentially have catastrophic consequences would be unreasonable.” Bramnick said the law should evolve as technology does.

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U., city hold old ties with Japan BY MARY DIDUCH EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

The University and city of New Brunswick have a strong connection with Japan, suffering the catastrophic effects of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, dating back to the 1860s. One of the first Japanese nationals to graduate from an American college graduated from the Rutgers College in 1870, and New Brunswick has two of its four sister cities in Japan. Kusakabe Taro, a samurai from Fukui, Japan, entered Rutgers College in 1867 as a sophomore, and became the

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first Japanese student in America to be accepted to Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest academic honor society. He was also No. 1 of the class of 1870, said Fernanda Perrone, curator of the University Libraries’ William Elliot Griffis Collection. Taro, who was chosen to attend Rutgers College due to his noble background and intelligence, studied primarily science and mathematics to bring back new technology to Japan, she said. But he also studied other required subjects like English and philosophy.

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Break dancers from around the nation showcased their moves last night at “RUthless Universities” Collegiate B-Boy Compeition, hosted by RU Breaks, the University’s b-boy organization.

The Rutgers University Student Assembly (RUSA) voted to award three organizations on campus the ability to participate in the meal sign-away program for the spring and upcoming fall semester at its last meeting before break. “Every year we have the great honor of giving a meal sign-away program to three deserving organizations, one for this semester and two for next semester,” said RUSA President Yousef Saleh. This semester Peer Awareness, Compassion, and Tolerance for Autism (PACT) won the vote to table and fundraise for their Asperger’s syndrome program in conjunction with the Douglass Developmental Disabilities Center. “PACT for Autism is a student-run organization that spreads awareness and tolerance for those on the autism spectrum,” said PACT President Tal Grebel. “Autism is a social

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Volunteers lend hands to weatherize local buildings BY MONIQUE RICE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Instead of catching up on sleep or vacationing, students in the University’s chapter of New Jersey Public Interest Research Group (NJPIRG) and Americorps volunteers spent their time on an alternative Spring Break. In a joint project, the volunteers worked on three buildings in need of weatherizing. Volunteers added caulking and weather strips around windows and door ways on the Lutheran Church of the Reformation in West Long Branch, the Reformed Church of Highland Park and the YMCA in Newark, N.J. “The caulking and weather strips will help prevent cool air from escaping in the summer and hot air from escaping in the winter,” said Carl Johnson, the campus organizer for NJPIRG’s Energy Ser vice Corps. “This will help in reducing energy costs.” In addition to the weatherizing, the volunteers held multiple workshops to inform members of the communities about ways to save energy in their homes, Johnson said. “It was a great experience to connect to the community and to educate adults as well as kids,” said Stefany Farino, a School of Ar ts and Sciences first-year student and NJPIRG intern. The volunteers informed community members about the best ways to use energy and the practical tools they can take back to their homes to be more energy ef ficient, Johnson said. John Connelly, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, participated in the alternative Spring Break for the first time. “It was a great experience,” he said. “I met really cool NJPIRG members from all over the state.” Students woke up early in the morning to get to work on their projects.

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NJPIRG members of the University’s chapter worked with Americorps volunteers over last week’s Spring Break to renovate local buildings like the Reformed Church of Highland Park. Volunteers added caulking and weather strips to help prevent damage in various weather situations.

“Usually the day star ted around 7 or 9 a.m.,” Connelly said. “We would have a late breakfast and then go to the location where we would weatherize the buildings.” Students from RutgersNewark, Monmouth University and Stockton College joined University students on March 14 and worked alongside them on the Reformed Church of Highland Park project, Johnson said. Before the church was picked as a site for the alternative Spring Break, it was in need of insulation in the attic, he said.

“It was a perfect opportunity because they were in need of insulating before we even contacted them,” Johnson said. “It was really dusty and dirty up there but the volunteers stuck it out.” The volunteers installed 400 square feet of fiberglass in the attic of the church to insulate it, he said. “It was a lot of fun because we had the chance to do active work and weatherize the buildings,” Farino said. “We got our hands dirty and reached out to people.” The Energy Ser vice Corps holds an alternative Spring Break each year.

In past years they did several smaller weatherizations of houses or apar tment units, Johnson said. “We’ll usually go on a trip [to schools with] fifth through 12th grades. We’ll teach children about energy use and global warming,” he said. “We do a trip annually but it doesn’t always entail these specific activities.” NJPIRG is an organization with a focus on assisting citizens of New Jersey with their health and wellbeing, according to its website. The organization consists of

researchers, advocates, organizers and students from across the state Americorps is a national organization in which members engage in ser vice to address the health and wellness of members in their community, according to its website. More than 70,000 Americorps members engage in ser vice to national educational, environmental, public safety and human needs. “This was my first time doing the alternative Spring Break and I will definitely do it again,” Connelly said.

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AUTHORITIES UPDATE STATUSES ON VARIOUS JAPANESE ISSUES CAUSED BY DISASTERS Taiwanese officials said radiation has been detected on fava beans imported from Japan, although the amount is too small to harm human health. This is the first case of radiation found on Japanese imports amid the nuclear crisis. The government halted sales of spinach from one area and raw milk from another near the Fukushima complex after tests showed iodine radiation exceeding safety limits. Officials advised the village of Iitate near the plant not to drink tap water because of elevated iodine levels, but stressed that the amounts pose no health threat. Tokyo’s tap water, found to have iodine, had cesium added. Japanese nuclear safety official Kazuma Yokota said the government was caught off-guard by the disaster and only belatedly realized the need to give potassium iodide to those living within 12 miles (20 kilometers) of the Fukushima plant. The pills help reduce the chances of thyroid cancer, one of the diseases that may develop from radiation exposure. Yokota said the March 14 explosion at the plant’s Unit 3 reactor should have triggered the distribution but the order did not come until two days later. An unexpected rise in pressure inside the tsunamicrippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant’s leaking Unit 3 reactor forces operators to consider relieving pressure by releasing radioactive steam. The same tactic produced explosions in the early days of the crisis. The plan is suspended later Sunday after the plant’s operator said the reactor had stabilized. The option is still possible if pressure rises anew. Reactor Units 5 and 6 at the power plant were brought under control after days of pumping water into their fuel storage pools cooled temperatures to acceptable levels. Progress also was reported in reconnecting those units and two others to the electrical grid. The government said the entire Fukushima Dai-ichi complex would be scrapped once the emergency is resolved. Police said 8,450 people have died and 12,931 are missing from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The death toll has been steadily rising as searchers find bodies from the 9.0-magnitude quake and tsunami. An 80-year-old woman and her teenage grandson were rescued in northeastern Japan when the youth pulled himself out of their flattened two-stor y house nine days after the earthquake and tsunami. Both were conscious but weak, having survived on the food they had in their refrigerator. — The Associated Press

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Willow Grove Cemetary on Livingston Avenue is home to one of the oldest special Japanese sections in the country. Kusukabe Taro was buried there after he died of tuberculosis weeks before graduation.

JAPAN: University awards degree to Taro posthumously continued from front “He had these really hard courses, but he was still No. 1,” Perrone said. But Taro was not the first Japanese student on campus. The University was tied to the Rutgers Grammar School, now the Rutgers Preparatory School, which at the time was in Alexander Johnston Hall on the College Avenue campus, she said. There were many Japanese students who attended the grammar school, rather than the college, for their English was not good enough. “The people that were sent here at that time were the top scholars, so they were from different places … The purpose for them to come here was to realize they were really behind the rest of the world economically, technologically, etc.,” said Nobuko Hori, a University alumna who graduated in 2010 with a degree in East Asian studies, concentrating in Japanese studies. The Japanese students made an impression on the Rutgers College men at the time, and it was an enriching experience connecting with them, Perrone said. “I think [the Japanese students] were more considered to be exotic,” she said. Japan had been closed to the West for many years, and the United States wanted to open trade with Japan. When the ruling feudal lords decided to send students to study in the West, they chose Rutgers College because of its strong ties with the Dutch Reformed Church, which founded Rutgers College and had missionaries in Japan, Perrone said. “Even though the seminary was separate from the college, there was still a strong connection,” she said. And the connection continued even after Taro’s death on April 13, 1870. Taro died of tuberculosis at the age of 25, a few weeks before graduation, and his degree was awarded posthumously. Rutgers College closed school for his funeral, which was held in the Second Reformed Church, and he was buried in the Willow Grove Cemetery on Livingston Avenue in a special Japanese section — one of the oldest in the nation, said Jane Tublin, director of International Programs for the City of New Brunswick and Sister Cities International. After his death, Taro’s tutor, William Elliot Griffis, whose collection of documents can be found in the Alexander Library on the College Avenue campus, became one of the West’s foremost experts on Japan.

Griffis, who also helped to found The Daily Targum and the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, established a science school in Fukui and taught Japanese students there and in Tokyo for four years. He penned many textbooks and documents detailing Japanese life and culture to the Englishspeaking world. When Griffis died in 1928, his family donated his documents to the University. After Griffis’ death, though, the relations with Japan persevered. Japanese students did flock to the Hub City, but this tapered in the first half of the 20th century with the world wars and establishment of Japanese institutions of higher education. “It is true that for awhile, there really wasn’t a lot of back and forth between the United States and Japan … because the relationship between Japan and the United States has been mixed,” Hori said. But because of these exchanges, however infrequent, between the cities, New Brunswick became a sister city with Fukui in 1982. The relationship mainly benefits University and Japanese students through an exchange program, Tublin said. “Part of this focus is on students because it was a student who first came here,” she said. Hori studied in Kyoto in the spring of 2009. “I think both of those ties — the Rutgers and the sister cities ties — has made Rutgers and New Brunswick very receptive to Japanese students studying here,” she said. Hori said the University’s prestige overseas has kept Japanese students interested in attending a top public state college, while the University is also proud of its long history with the nation and wants to maintain it. “I feel really fortunate that Rutgers does have the strong Japanese connection. That was really impor tant to me and something I continue to be involved in,” said Hori, who was involved in Japanese organizations on campus. But Fukui was not the first sister city for New Brunswick — in 1960, New Brunswick joined with Tsuruoka, Japan, Tublin said. The city first made contact with Tsuruoka in 1869, when Saburo Takagi, who was from a small town in northwest Japan, went to Rutgers Grammar School to help other students. He later became one of the first members of the Japanese consulate, she said. After several more exchanges between the cities, the Rotary International organizations of both cities signed the agreement on June 10, 1960, Tublin said.

Tublin said the purpose of these relationships is to learn about similar cities in different parts of the world, build relations and provide educational opportunities. The New Brunswick Sister Cities Association raises funds from the community ever y three to four years to send a small group of cities to Japan, Tublin said. But the other goal of Sister Cities is to help each other out in dire circumstances. Both Fukui and Tsuruoka were not destroyed or majorly impacted by the recent disasters in Japan. Fukui received no damage, and Tsur uoka had shaking and some waves, Tublin said. Tsuruoka has gas, electricity and food, but they are experiencing rolling blackouts like much of the country to preserve energy, Tublin said. Hori, who also volunteers with Sister Cities, said fortunately, her family and friends in Japan are safe. “I don’t personally know anybody that’s been affected, but it is really emotional to be witnessing right now,” Hori said. She said the Japanese are known to be strong and have a tendency to persevere. “But still, especially with all the problems with the nuclear power plant, it is really scary because not many people know what the dangers are,” Hori said. One of the lessons she takes from her studies at the University is how Americans and the Japanese see society differently — the former has a more individualisticview, and the latter, a more communal view. The Japanese see themselves as connected together and part of a whole greater than themselves, thus they often rely on one another for support, Hori said. She said this is lending to the way the countr y is facing the crisis. “People who are far away and safe are still very concerned, and people who are closer are pitching in to help,” Hori said. “But it is reassuring how so many people from so many countries have stepped up and stepped in.”

To help the citizens of Japan with the relief effort, the New Brunswick Sister Cities Association (NBSCA) and Mayor James Cahill established a donation fund. Masaki Enomoto, the mayor of New Brunswick sister city Tsuruoka, Japan, will be asked to select the charity he believes will best help families of earthquake and tsunami victims, said Jane Tublin, NBSCA director. “The NBSCA and Mayor Cahill support is to raise funds to help the citizens of Japan in this horrific catastrophe,” Tublin said. The citizens of Tsuruoka collected $15,000 after the 9/11 attacks, and their sister city leaders brought it to New Brunswick. They asked Cahill to choose a charity to receive the donation, she said. “They had raised funds knowing New Brunswick wasn’t hit directly by these attacks,” Tublin said. Cahill selected the National League of Cities, “Always Remember 9/11” fund to receive the donation, as the NBSCA is a city-to-city organization and the fund helps the education of children of 9/11 victims, she said. To donate to this charity, please send a check made payable to the New Brunswick Sister Cities Association, Inc.: Jane L. Tublin 25 Kirkpatrick St., Civic Square, 2nd Floor P.O. Box 269 New Brunswick, N.J. 08903 Sister Cities is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit, taxexempt community volunteer’s membership organization whose purpose is to promote lasting global friendships through a variety of international programs. For more information, contact Tublin at (732)-745-5174. — Mary Diduch

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Tsuruoka and Fukui are two of New Brunswick’s four sister cities. Both received no damage from March 11th’s earthquake.

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Professor earns spot on law panel CRANFORD MAN FACES CHARGES FOR MURDERING GIRLFRIEND William Parisio of Cranford, N.J., appeared at Superior Court in Elizabeth Friday morning after he was arrested Monday for killing his 22-year-old girlfriend Pamela Schmidt. The Cranford Police Department found Schmidt, a University student, in a basement Sunday afternoon and was pronounced dead later at the scene, said Union County Prosecutor Theodore Romankow in a statement. An autopsy by the county medical examiner ruled her death a homicide and determined Schmidt, of Warren Township, N.J., suffered traumatic injuries, according to the statement. She was expected to graduate in May with degrees in psychology and labor studies as well as a minor in human resource management, according to her LinkedIn profile. Parisio, 22, faces first-degree homicide charges and his bail remains at $400,000, according to an nj.com article. If released, he is forbidden to make contact with Schmidt’s family. He was allegedly struggling with an addiction to “bath salts,” powders sold legally in convenience stores across the nation that act as powerful stimulants like methamphetamines. Romankow said his office is investigating if the substance played a role in murder, according to an nj.com article. “We’ve had a buccal swab,” he said in the article. “We’re conducting scientific tests to try to determine what, if anything, was in his system.” — Kristine Rosette Enerio

SWIPES: Seeing Eye sets annual fundraising goal to $5K continued from front disability, not an intelligence factor. It impacts one in 110 people and needs awareness.” Funds from tabling and the meal sign-away program will go toward a training program for people with Asperger’s syndrome to become acclimated with the University community, said Grebel, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “To add an additional member to the Douglass Developmental Center program would take about $2,500, but our goal is to raise a minimum of $1,000,” she said. “These students deserve a chance to have the college experience.” PACT has already spoken with professors from the psychology department and greek life to co-sponsor their efforts to raise awareness, Grebel said. The University’s Foundation for International Medical Relief of Children and the Seeing Eye Puppy Raising Club also received RUSA’s vote for the meal swipe sign-away program for the fall semester. The Seeing Eye Puppy Raising Club helps keep blind individuals from age 16 to senior citizens motivated by providing a sense of independence, said Treasurer of the Seeing Eye Puppy Raising Club Danielle Weitzman. “Seeing Eye does not receive any financial support from state and creates a direct impact for individuals to see in new ways,” said Weitzman, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. The Seeing Eye division at the University has an annual fundraising goal of $5,000, which would support a class of 24 people to attend a one-month training program in Morristown, N.J., including care for the puppies and housing for those in the program, she said. “With the funding, the University’s club will be one of the few in the nation that will have the financial funding to bring to the Seeing Eye,” Weitzman said. “We have a large active body with 150 members

and have more than enough manpower to man the tables.” The Foundation for International Medical Relief of Children, FIMRC, is a nonprofit organization with the vision to provide medical relief to children that are uninsured, said FIMRC President Wael Kanj. “Founded back in 2007, the organization has been expanding horizons for a Salvadoran youth group to benefit from adolescent health, academic and social challenges in the community with the major goal of 100 percent of the students to go onto higher education,” said Kanj, a School of Engineering senior. FIMRC has the monetary goal of raising $7,500 to $9,000 with donations not only going toward medications for the children in El Salvador and Uganda but also providing them an opportunity to get an education, he said. “With our support we really want to help out with this organization and provide better oppor tunities for these children,” Kanj said. RUSA also passed the resolution at that meeting to join the United States Student Association (USSA) making it one of the largest universities in New Jersey to join the union, said Saleh, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. Saleh said the USSA is a great opportunity for RUSA in regards to gaining state and national representation, but the issue has been cost. “The Professor’s Union gave us $2,000, and now it will only cost $2,000 for us to join compared to the original $7,000 yearly membership rate,” Saleh said. RUSA will pay the prorated rate of $2,100, which will cover the participation period beginning March 10 until October 1, 2011, said RUSA Vice President Matt Cordeiro. “USSA is the nation’s largest student organization, and Rutgers is one of the largest schools in the nation yet we have no national representation with the USSA,” said Cordeiro, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “With the vote, we will gain representation on a national level.”

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Rutgers School of LawCamden Professor, Dennis Patterson, has been appointed to serve on the Law Panel for United Kingdom’s upcoming Research Excellence Framework. Being named for the prestigious panel is honorable, but distressing work, said Patterson, a Board of Governors professor of Law. “It is an honor, but once that feeling fades away, you realize how much work it is,” he said. “But it is important work and so I have agreed to do it.” Research Excellence Framework, to which the panelists have been appointed, is a new system for evaluating the quality of research in United Kingdom’s Higher Education Institutions, said Kim Hackett, a higher education policy adviser at Research Excellence Framework. “The Higher Education Funding Council for England, one of REF’s four funding bodies, distributes public money for teaching and research to universities and colleges in England,” Hackett said. “In doing so, it aims to promote high quality education and research, within a financially healthy sector.” Patterson, who holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and a J.D. from the University of Buffalo, has been working in the United Kingdom for some time. “Research Excellence Framework appoints top people in the field whose job is to evaluate UK scholarships of legal academics,” said Patterson, who has been awarded Senior Research grants from the Fulbright Commission, Humboldt Stiftung, and the American Council of Learned Societies. “I have taught at

University College London, and due to that my works in legal theories is recognized.” Panel members are appointed through a nominations process, whereby academic associations and other bodies with an interest in research are invited to submit nominations, Hackett said. “The members are appointed after taking advice from the subpanel chair in each case, and in discussion with the main panel chairs, who are representatives from the four funding bodies,” said Hackett.

“Writing is one of the most interesting aspects of being an academic.” DENNIS PATTERSON Rutgers School of Law-Camden Professor

Interested institutions make submissions to 36 units of assessments, Hackett said. “The submissions will be assessed by an expert sub-panel for each UOA, working under the leadership and guidance of four main panels to ensure common procedures and consistent application,” she said. The universities of United Kingdom, including Great Britain, Scotland, and Wales are funded on the quality of scholarships the faculty produces, said Patterson. “The scholarships then, have to be evaluated by exper ts in the field and that’s where they asked me to come in,” he said. All members are chosen to serve on REF panels because of

their expertise, taking due account of equalities in consideration, Hackett said. The panel consists of about a dozen people and will require extensive hours of work, Patterson said. “I have to travel to London thrice a year for the next three years. The work will take about a hundred hours of a calendar year.” The first task of the expert panels in 2011 is to develop the criteria for assessment for 2014, Hackett said. “The council will use the results of the 2014 REF to allocate funding for research to Higher Education Institutions, from 2015 onwards,” she said. “We currently allocate £2 billion per year for research.” Kimberly Ferzan, professor & Associate dean for Academic Affairs at Rutgers School of LawCamden, said Patterson is an excellent professor of great capabilities. “It must be an honor for both Dennis Patterson and Research Excellence Framework to be working together,” Ferzan said. Patterson is the author of numerous books and articles in both commercial law and legal philosophy. “I like reading and writing books. I enjoy the process,” Patterson said. “Writing is one of the most interesting aspects of being an academic.” Patterson has been teaching at Rutgers for the past 20 years and has been a visiting professor at the universities of Berlin, Vienna, Texas and Georgetown, he said. “What I mainly enjoy is teaching,” he said. “But when I get some free personal time, I look forward to improve my Italian.” Patterson is currently on leave to teach at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy for 5 years.

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“If historically transmitting a photograph of someone under the age of 18 was a second-degree felony, it was before the concept of sexting was in the minds of legislators,” he said. If someone is of fered the diversionar y educational program and rejects it, he or she could still be prosecuted under the law, along with those more than 18 years old who transmit nude photos of a minor, Cohen said. “It’s really meant to get at kids engaging in what has become common behavior,” she said. “You only get one chance to learn why it’s not okay and if you do it more than once, you’re going to be prosecuted.” Lampitt thinks teenagers need to understand the dynamics of fast and evolving technology and sharing nude photos. “I don’t think it’s new to people to take nude photos of one another,” she said. “With a negative, you can rip it up or throw it away. With sexting, digital is forever. It’s always out there — delete doesn’t delete because someone can recall it fast and furious.” Bramnick said teenagers should be aware of the consequences of sexting. “A young person can be marked for life and go to jail, the bill is not law yet,” he said. “It’s important that other states do this as well because we don’t want kids in prison for doing something stupid or senseless just because the laws haven’t caught up with technology.” The Assembly showed strong bipartisan support of the bill last week, which Lampitt said does not happen often. “I think people thought it was a good bill,” Lampitt said. “You can look at the latent issues that concern the people of New Jersey and make a positive impact.” Bramnick said there was so much support because it is clear that prosecuting a first-time younger person as a sex offender is unreasonable. “It’s ver y difficult to argue why there shouldn’t be an alternative sentence or option for a judge dealing with a 15year-old who sexted a photograph,” he said. Cohen said the educational program would help teenagers realize they are overstepping boundaries. “When teenagers engage in this kind of behaviors, they’re not thinking of the impact of the image’s transmission on the person in the photo,” she said. “If it teaches them why it oversteps boundaries and how it is harmful to other people, it will probably be more effective than prosecuting them.”

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City bans out-of-town taxi pickups in New Brunswick BY RYAN FLOOD STAFF WRITER

The city council passed a new legislation on March 2 prohibiting out-of-town taxis from picking up riders within New Brunswick. Previously, taxis not registered with New Brunswick could pick up within the city as long as their ultimate destination was outside of the city, said Bill Bray, city spokesman. But police officers had a difficult time enforcing these old standards, Bray said. Some cabs picked up in New Brunswick and said they were going to drop off outside the city, but instead did just the opposite. With the new ordinance to set later this month, Bray said he hopes New Brunswick police officers can enforce higher safety standards more easily. “This will preser ve public safety,” Bray said. “The cabs will need criteria, a standard.” There have been instances where uninsured drivers from companies like Amigo Cabs or companies outside New Brunswick have gotten into accidents, he said. Also, suburban towns like East Brunswick do not need taxis, but provide licenses to cabs that do business in New Brunswick anyway, Bray said.

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New Brunswick officials passed a law early this month prohibiting taxis not registered with the city from picking up customers in New Brunswick, but they can still drop customers off in the city.

“A lot of surrounding towns don’t need taxis, they just use the taxi licenses for revenue,” he said. Although such suburbs lend permits out to cabs, they do not look at taxi vehicles and they have no system of registering complaints from customers, Bray said. “[New Brunswick] has a much higher standard because we need to,” he said. Out-of-town cabs have concerned city lawmakers and other

cab drivers alike, Bray said. In early 2009 taxi drivers from several New Brunswick-based companies protested outside companies. In addition to these safety hazards, managers at New Brunswick taxi companies said they were losing huge amounts of profit to out-of-town companies. “So far we’ve lost a lot of business,” said Joe Al-Adan, manager for All Brunswick Taxi. Out-of-town taxis operate under private license plate numbers and it costs them less, Al-

Adan said. All Brunswick Taxi pays $8,000 per year in insurance while others only pay $400. “When we pick up in New Brunswick and drive a customer to Highland Park, we leave and come back to New Brunswick before picking up someone new,” Al-Adan said. “We respect other town’s regulations, but [unregistered taxi companies] do not respect ours.” With this new law in effect, outof-town cars would be able to pick up outside of New Brunswick and drop off in the city, but before they

can pick up a new customer, they have to leave New Brunswick, Bray said. New Brunswick has five licensed taxi companies — Victory Taxi Association, All Brunswick Taxi Inc., Yellow Cab Co., Metro Taxi and All Around America Taxi, Bray said. Between these five companies, there are 43 licenses. Once bought as a whole, these 43 licenses become privately owned, he said. The owners are free to trade and sell licenses as long as the purchaser is qualified — it is similar to the way a liquor license works. In a town where there is higher demand for a license, the cost of that license will increase, Bray said. The city is creating two new licenses to be bid on soon. Each license can be shared between taxi drivers, he said. This would mean that a cab could run 24 hours a day using different drivers. George Moukrzar, manager of Victory Taxi Association, said the licenses are not cheap. His company paid $90,000 for each license and owns 15 at the moment. Moukrzar said while local companies do not know if this legislation will bring them their desired change, they remain optimistic. “Until now we haven’t seen anything yet,” said Moukrzar. “We hope it makes things safer.”

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Pet owners spread animal justice through conference BY LAURA TRANSUE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Animal welfare advocates and their four-legged friends discussed ways to improve animal welfare in New Jersey and throughout the country during the annual Animal Welfare Federation of New Jersey (AWFNJ) conference last weekend at the Busch Campus Center. Attendees of this year’s conference learned how to expand marketing for their shelter, improve customer service, increase adoption, understand animal behavior and administer animal first aid, board member Anne Trinkle said. “It is a training opportunity for people who work shelters so we have speakers who come from national agencies and all areas of expertise to help educate our shelter personnel,” she said. AWFNJ is a statewide coalition of animal shelters, welfare centers and animal rescue organizations, Trinkle said. “Our mission is to unite the animal advocates in New Jersey into a unified voice, so we will have greater strength when striving to raise the level of care for New

Jersey animals,” AWFNJ President Niki Dawson said. Joe Maringo, director of Southwest Pennsylvania Retriever Rescue Organization, has attended for 12 years and volunteers at the conference. “I come here to further my education, and besides the training and learning things you may not have had access to before, this is an opportunity to network,” Maringo said. “We all need to learn from each other.” Maringo said local opportunity for animal welfare workers to continue their training is rare but vital to improving animal care. “They are getting to more training opportunities, but there are not a lot besides this conference and some run the Humane Society of the United States,” he said. “That is why I come to New Jersey every year.” Director Bill Bruce of Animal and Bylaw Services for the City of Calgary in Alberta, Canada, traveled to lead a workshop on Calgary’s successful animal service model. Bruce said his workshop focused on working cooperatively with all their stakeholders, espe-

cially the public, which helped Calgary animal services to move from a model that focused on animal control to one that emphasized responsible pet ownership. “People think you can’t change culture but you can,” Bruce said. “It may take 10 years, but the change is there.” Dawson said the conference is also an opportunity for New Jersey animal welfare groups to discuss problems particular to New Jersey, including the state’s large stray cat population. “There is not a high value placed on a cat’s life in New Jersey, so state shelters are finding themselves overwhelmed with these animals,” Dawson said. Dawson said curtaining the reproductive rate of these animals is also a concern. “We do have low-cost spay and neuter, but it’s not generally accessible to people,” she said. “There are not enough resources to provide high-volume, low-cost, highquality spay-neuter programs.” New Jersey also has a pit bull problem with more than 85 percent of the stray dog population of a pit bull breed, Dawson said.

“These are breeds that are hard to place because the average family has the misconception that they are not good family pets,” Dawson said. “Instead families seeking dogs are importing dogs from southern states where spay-neuter programs have not been successful, so New Jersey dogs are sitting unwanted in shelters.” The conference also acknowledged the issue of farm animal protection in the United States with Farm Sanctuary President and Co-founder Gene Baur as a keynote speaker. Trinkle said Baur’s work with farm animal protection is considered more difficult than working on behalf of domestic animals because farm animals are food in this country. “People are not interested in where their steak or hamburger came from,” Trinkle said. “If they could see the horrific conditions these animals live in, how they are killed, how violent it is, they might think twice.” Dawson said that although AWFNJ focuses primarily on domestic animals, they were excited to have Baur speak at their conference.

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“We have member organizations and partners that focus on legislative issues, farm animals, factory farm conditions, and we’re trying to incorporate all New Jersey animals and wildlife rehabilitators,” she said. Baur’s emphasis on compassion and the human animal bond is important to all animal welfare work and helps create a better world, Trinkle said. AWFNJ also presented the 2011 Scott McVay Unity Award to Captain Richard Yocum of the New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for his efforts to bring together animal protection agencies. “It is all about the animals,” Yocum said. “It is not about you or me — it’s all about them.” Dawson hopes to find ways to make the conference accessible to University students in the future. “We keep trying to think of ways to include Rutgers students, but the timing has been poor because the only time we can come is usually during spring break,” Dawson said. “Hopefully, if we continue coming, we can get students involved.”

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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 Rd. in Piscataway. There will be two sessions from 10 a.m. to noon and 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. with preregistration 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 and Heritage or it may be hand-delivered to the commission’s office at 703 Jersey Ave. in New Brunswick. For more information, call (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 Rd. in Piscataway. The workshop is offered free of charge but advanced 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.

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Egyptian citizens vote yes for constitution changes THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO — Egyptian voters overwhelmingly approved changes in the constitution, opening the way for parliamentary and presidential elections within months, according to final results announced yesterday from a landmark referendum. Opponents fear the swift timetable could boost the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood and members of the former ruling party. The Brotherhood had campaigned heavily for a “yes” vote in the referendum. Critics say that since it and the former ruling party are the best organized political forces in the country, they stand to gain the most in an early election — which will bring in Egypt’s first democratically elected government to replace the regime of ousted President Hosni Mubarak. The results are likely to open a frenzied campaign season, with liberal pro-democracy forces scrambling to put together political parties to contest the upcoming races.

Shady Ghazali, one of the organizers of the protests that forced Mubarak out after 18 days, said the youth coalition that led the demonstrations is discussing putting forward a national list of candidates for the parliamentary elections under its name. The parliamentary and presidential elections are key because the next legislature and government are to lead the process of wider change, including likely drawing up a new constitution. Many of those who led the wave of popular protests that Mubarak on Feb. 11 want a radically new document that would break the total hold that the presidency held over government during Mubarak’s rule. They worry that the Brotherhood or former ruling party could dominate the process. In an interview with daily ElShorouk, a top member of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces said that the council will issue “a constitutional declaration” right after the announcement of the final vote to lay down next steps, with approval leading

to a timetable for parliament and presidential elections. Elections commission chief Ahmed Attiya said 41 percent of 45 million eligible voters cast ballots in Saturday’s referendum. More than 14 million — 77.2 percent — voted in favor, with around 4 million — 22.8 percent — opposed. Millions of Egyptians waited for hours Saturday to cast their first free ballots in half a century on the package of constitutional changes. The first test of Egypt’s transition to democracy also offered ominous hints of widening sectarian division. The Muslim Brotherhood drew many to the polls in a massive, last-minute effort. Among those most fearful of the Brotherhood’s rising power were Egypt’s estimated 8 million Coptic Christians, whose leaders rallied the faithful to vote “no.” Reform campaigner Mohamed ElBaradei and a group of his supporters were pelted with rocks, bottles and cans outside a polling center at Cairo’s Mokattam

district in an attack he blamed on followers of the old regime. The day was otherwise almost entirely peaceful. Hundreds of Egyptians formed lines outside polling centers before they opened. They snaked along the streets in Cairo and other cities, with men and women standing in separate lines as is customar y in the conser vative and mainly Muslim nation. Saturday’s vote was by far the freest since the military seized power in a 1952 coup, toppling the monarchy and ending decades of a multiparty system that functioned while Britain was Egypt’s colonial master. Only men with military backgrounds have ruled Egypt since. While Mubarak’s overthrow has left Egyptians euphoric about their newfound freedoms, many are also worried about the social tensions and instability that could spiral in the wake of the autocratic leader’s departure. Christian-Muslim clashes this month left at least 13 killed

and more than 100 wounded in the worst sectarian clashes in years. On Jan. 1, a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a church in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, killing at least 22 worshippers and wounding scores. A few days later, a policeman shot dead an elderly Christian man on a train. The Brotherhood, which has strongly campaigned for the adoption of the changes, advocates the installment of an Islamic government in Egypt. The ambivalence of its position on what role women and minority Christians play under their hoped-for Islamic government — like whether they could run for president or be judges — worry large segments of society. The military, in a bid to get the vote out, has decreed that they would be allowed to cast ballots at any polling center in the country with their national ID cards the only required proof of identity. They were required to dip their index finger in ink after voting to prevent multiple balloting.

MARK OF A VOTER NATO APPROVES PLAN FOR ARMS EMBARGO ON LIBYA BRUSSELS — NATO’s top decision-making body approved yesterday a military plan to implement the U.N. arms embargo on Libya, but failed to agree on a plan for the alliance to enforce the no-fly zone over the North African country. Diplomats said Turkey’s opposition to any NATO intervention in Libya stalled the approval of plans to launch aerial patrols over Libya to prevent the government air force from attacking civilian targets, which were drawn up by NATO’s military staff. Both actions will require a separate “execute directive” by The North Atlantic Council, which requires the consensus of all 28 alliance members. Diplomats said this could be issued on Tuesday at the earliest. NATO members France, Britain and the United States have been carrying out strikes on Libyan targets since Saturday. But they have acted as individual nations rather than members of the alliance. GETTY IMAGES

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Condemn O’Keefe’s questionable tactics S

hould the University be proud of alumnus James O’Keefe, the Conservative activist who successfully exposed the seemingly worst aspects of Planned Parenthood, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and, most recently, National Public Radio (NPR)? The short answer is no. The long answer is that, while some hail O’Keefe as a righteous warrior for truth, his journalistic sting operations often amount to nothing more than entrapment and quotes taken out of context. It’s clear O’Keefe is pushing a conservative agenda. His goal is not to expose corruption in public organizations. Rather, it is to make organizations he doesn’t approve of look bad. One has to wonder why O’Keefe engages in these hidden camera operations — often employing actors and fabricated scenarios — in order to get the information he is after. If O’Keefe were an investigative journalist, he would get the information without resorting to constructed events. One also has to wonder why O’Keefe only targets organizations Conservatives have traditionally been opposed to for their perceived liberal political leanings. O’Keefe obviously isn’t invested in exposing corruption where it may exist — he only wants to bring to light the dirty side of liberal-approved organizations. He makes no show of even hiding this fact. It is especially telling that O’Keefe refused to be videotaped when he gave a speech on March 17 to a tea party group in Keyport, N.J. As a master of manipulated videos, he’s privy to the kind of magic anyone can work with editing software. Maybe he did not want to be caught on tape so no one could pull the same tricks on him as he pulls on others. Of course, that’s speculation, but as a fan of video exposés, shouldn’t O’Keefe have no problem with being taped? It is truly a shame O’Keefe’s questionable videos wield such power. Certainly, the video he released of former NPR fundraiser Ron Schiller has something to do with the House’s decision to ban NPR from receiving federal funds. Because of O’Keefe’s irresponsible agenda-pushing, one of the more unbiased news sources in the United States has to suffer. As much as O’Keefe constantly asserts that his videos show the truth, we’d like to see him use more legitimate methods. If he did so, the world could truly see whether the dirt O’Keefe digs up is real, or every bit as fake as his pimp costume.

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hen Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, he did so on the wildly popular promise that he would bring the United States “change we can believe in.” It is especially eerie to note that, on March 19, Obama announced his decision to send American military forces to intervene in Libya — former President George W. Bush announced his decision to send military forces to Afghanistan exactly eight years earlier. In an ideal world, a military intervention in Libya would be a great idea. Muammar Gaddafi’s violent attacks on Libyan protestors are unacceptable and his reign needs to end. Unfortunately, we do not live in an ideal world. The United States is facing serious problems within its own borders — problems that our president needs to address before he starts expending more money and manpower in yet another war-torn nation. The fact of the matter is that getting our nation’s military tangled up in the Libyan revolution could have some seriously terrible repercussions for the United States, and this country just cannot afford such repercussions at this time. Look at what happened once the United States mounted attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan under Bush. The nation ended up spending trillions of dollars, losing thousands of lives, and we are still tied up in both of those nations. Getting involved in Libya means our nation could be in for more of the same. Given the United States’ current economic and political climate, Libya is just not something we can put too many resources in at this moment. Obama claims that “we will not deploy any U.S. troops on the ground,” but how can we know that for sure? That may not be his plan as of now, but there are no guarantees that it will not come to that. Surely, Bush was not planning on staying in Iraq and Afghanistan for as long as our nation has. Wars often do not go as they are initially planned — that is, if it is possible for them to ever go as planned. It is virtually impossible for anyone to foresee all of the consequences of military intervention. We applaud Obama’s desire to help the Libyan people in their struggle. The United States should do all that it can to support the overthrow of Gaddafi. That being said, sending the military in is not a smart idea right now. Aren’t there other ways for Obama to aid the people of Libya without potentially damaging our country? At this point, the United States has had about all it can take.

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2006 — tossed No. 9-seed he advent of March Villanova from the field, brings with it many stamping a sudden end to the different sensations, Wildcats’ rollercoaster seabut none is more prevalent at son, in which they finished 5this moment than an incur11 over their final 16 games. able case of madness. Only three Big East teams Just four days into the TYLER BARTO remain after the conference Men’s NCAA Tournament, earned a Tournament-high 11 this year’s field could quite bids in 2011 after UConn bounced upstart Cincinnati possibly be the most maddening of all. Consider the in the second round and Pitino bowed out to storylines: the nation’s top player over the course of Morehead. One of them — Syracuse — lost six of the season’s first few months was a Mormon — eight conference games during one stretch and anothBrigham Young’s Jimmer Fredette — before er — Notre Dame — received nothing more than a Connecticut’s Kemba Walker overtook him with five modest endorsement at Big East Media Day, fielding a days of brilliance at the Big East Tournament, folteam scattered with transfers and four-year players. lowed up with consecutive wins in Washington, D.C. Which brings us to the boys from Storrs, Conn., The only explanations for the Rice High School who received a predicted 10th-place finish during (N.Y.) product’s brilliance: simply Kemba being Kemba. the preseason at Madison Square Garden. While Then there are the NCAA Tournament’s upsets. Walker has been nothing short of miraculous during Overshadowed by basketball bluebloods Kentucky a transcendent junior — and likely final — season, and Louisville, Morehead State took down the in-state the Huskies’ corps of five freshmen each evolved Cardinals and head coach Rick Pitino in the first along with sophomore big man Alex round — the Tournament’s “firstOriakhi. While “diaper dandies” four” round does not come close to “Just four days Shabazz Napier and Jeremy Lamb qualifying as a round itself. Anyone might not be household names to who tabbed Morehead and Newarkinto the Men’s the new viewing populace during native Kenneth Faried — the NCAA’s all-time leading rebounder — in the NCAA Tournament, March Madness, the pair will take the reins of the program once intrastate matchup deserves 10 this year’s field Walker opts for the NBA Draft. And points instead of the requisite one for first-round games in online bracket could ... be the most lost in the Huskies’ run to the final 16 teams is head coach Jim Calhoun, challenges. And if onlookers’ office maddening of all.” mired in a recruiting scandal which pool selections were not scrambled involved assistant coaches’ improper enough by Louisville’s abrupt deparphone calls to high school recruits. ture from the Tournament, No. 8 Droves of reporters surrounded the embattled seed and Cinderella-no-more Butler certainly added Calhoun — third among active coaches in wins — at to the craziness. Led by youthful head coach Brad Big East Media Day, where Calhoun defiantly statStevens and senior Matt Howard, the Bulldogs — ed, “If I can’t be the underdog, I’ll make myself the who were a half-court heave away from upending underdog — somehow or other.” While media presDuke for the national championship last year — upset ent during Calhoun’s press conference might have No. 1 seed and Big East stalwart Pittsburgh in the linked Calhoun’s rant to an early case of insanity for most bizarre of fashions. An awkward foul committed his age, the two-time national championship-winby Butler’s Shelvin Mack sent the Panthers’ Gilbert ning head coach saved his best madness for March. Brown to the free throw line on Saturday with less Last but certainly not least, the quartet of cable than two seconds left and Pittsburgh trailing by one. channels — CBS, TNT, TBS and TruTV — allowed But in true March Madness fashion, Butler viewers the opportunity to watch every single game advanced to the Sweet 16 on the heels of a foul comlive during the Tournament. mitted with 1.3 seconds remaining in Washington, That means witnessing former “Round Mound of D.C., where Pittsburgh’s season ended prematurely Rebound” and television analyst Charles Barkley at once again. If Pitt head coach Jamie Dixon did not his finest, although his definition of “winning” after second-guess his team’s brief appearances come a late night of indulgence might be completely difMarch before the team lost to last year’s runnersferent than the general viewing public’s. up, he most certainly does now. The rest of the Big East — largely considered the nation’s top conferTyler Bar to is the associate spor ts editor and a ence — did not fair much better in the opening School of Ar ts and Sciences sophomore majoring rounds of the NCAA Tournament. in journalism and media studies with a minor Trendy upset pick George Mason — a Final Four in Spanish. participant out of the Colonial Athletic Association in

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Circumcision undermines child’s human rights Letter RYAN HOLLAND

he letter “Educate yourself on facts about circumcision,” published on Thursday, March 10, brought up some novel points that I believe deser ve consideration. The argument was made that circumcision should not be considered “mutilation.” Considering that I might have been overreacting, I looked up the definition of “genital mutilation.” Various dictionaries I used list the term as the act of cutting all or some of the genital organs. I don’t see how you can not use the term “mutilation” to describe circumcision.

The fact that there are possibly some benefits to this surgical procedure does not justify the act. First of all, I found studies that show that there is no impact on HIV infections based on circumcision. Another study even showed that men who were circumcised often spread the disease more often to their sexual par tners then those with their foreskin intact. It is evident that the existence of benefits has not been proven indisputably. However, I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt and will assume that there are some positives associated with circumcision. Although there might be some benefits, no one disputes that circumcision is an unnecessar y

procedure. Elective surger y — especially ones dealing with the genitals — should not be done without consent from the child. It is inexcusable to put a

“I don’t see how you can not use the term ‘mutilation’ to describe circumcision.” child through a painful ordeal that causes permanent negative changes even if there could be potential benefits.

It is demeaning to say that no circumcised man has ever cried injustice. A simple Google search will bring up many results of remorseful men who were circumcised. A parent should not have any say when it comes to human rights issues. It doesn’t matter if the practice is safe or not. Every parent should be forced to have an uncircumcised child. If the child wants to, they have every right to make the decision to have a circumcision. However, it is not the responsibility of the parents to decide whether or not a baby’s genitals should be left the way they are or not. This concept should apply to all elective genital surgeries. The author feels that my ar ticle was meant to bash

religion. In a way, he is correct. I am not tolerant of others who think their beliefs in the supernatural allow them to harm others. I am not oversimplifying the topic because the issue is already a ver y simple one. No one would believe that a baby’s genitals should be surgically altered unless they were told it is what God wants them to do. This is a perfect example of how religion poisons us. As humans, we should be able to make a general and unalterable statement that we believe a child’s genitals should not be touched. Period. Ryan Holland is a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore majoring in cell biology and neuroscience.

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Junior guard Khadijah Rushdan finished second on the team in scoring last night with a 16-point effort against Louisiana Tech.

VICTORY: Three scorers

“[Rutgers’] level of intensity never changed, the physicality manage double-digit outbursts of the game never changed,” said La. Tech head coach Teresa Weatherspoon. “That’s continued from back their style of play.” The teams traded baskets But unlike other Rutgers early in the first half, but after victories this season, the scorthe Lady Techsters tied the ing burden did not fall on the game at 14 eight minutes into shoulders of a single player. the action, Rutgers scored nine The Knights finished reguunanswered points to regain lation with three double-digit the lead. scorers — a stark contrast The Knights never looked from the loss to UConn more back from there, eventually than a week ago, when sophobuilding their lead to double more guard Erica Wheeler digits behind a big-time ended play as the lone doubleef for t from Sykes and Lee’s digit scorer. early dominance. Penetrating the Lee recorded La. Tech frontthe first three “[Rutgers’] level court proved to be blocks for of intensity a main point of Rutgers in the Stringer’s gamenever changed, the first half, setting plan entering the the tone early en physicality ... never route to a strong contest, as the Knights pounded defense effort. changed. That’s the ball inside to The Lady junior for ward Techsters suctheir style.” Chelsey Lee and cumbed to the TERESA WEATHERSPOON penetrated early patented Rutgers Louisiana Tech Head Coach and often to finish 55-press and finthe game with 40 ished the game points in the paint. with 10 Rushdan slashed through the turnovers to go with a 27 perlane at will in the second half, cent shooting clip. earning six of her 16 points on The win completed an virtually uncontested layups. unblemished opening-round The Wilmington, Del., record for Big East teams in native also pulled down 10 the Tournament, but the boards to earn her fifth Knights’ next opponent will not double-double this season, falter as easily. doing her part in a balanced On tap for the Knights is the rebounding effort. No. 2 team in the region, Thanks to a team-high 11 Texas A&M, which dominated boards by Lee, who scored as Rutgers earlier this season many points to earn a doubleby 29 points at Madison double, and another six Square Garden. rebounds by Sykes, the But with one bad memor y Knights outrebounded La. checked off the list with yesterTech, 44-34, capitalizing on a day’s victor y, one against the slight height advantage to Aggies tomorrow night could hand the Lady Techsters an pave the way for another early exit. under-the-radar NCAA run.

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Junior Khaseem Greene will move from safety to linebacker — a position he played during his high school career at Elizabeth.

CHANGES: Defensive adjustments create new look continued from back Brian Angelichio coaching tight ends, Schiano will return to more of a hands-on role in coaching the defense. “I think we need to be better on defense, so hopefully I can lend some expertise there,” said Schiano, who served as defensive coordinator at times throughout his tenure. “[Defensive coordinator Bob] Fraser and I have spent a lot of years and a lot of time together defensively, so we are very comfortable with one another.” The two will oversee entirely new secondary and linebacker

units, with last year’s starting middle linebacker, Steve Beauharnais, moving back to the strongside. The junior broke through at strongside as a freshman, and the move allows sophomore Ka’Lial Glaud to take over responsibilities in the middle. The defensive line only returns starting defensive tackle Scott Vallone, with early enrollees Djwany Mera and Kenneth Kirksey searching to find roles. “Defensively, finally we are going to get to the point where we have our entire defense in,” Schiano said. “Finally, I think the last couple pieces are going to be put into place which will give us the flexibility to do a lot of things.”

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Senior Manny Abreu will line up at defensive end this spring after starting last season at strongside linebacker.

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he Rutgers women’s lacrosse team defeated Big East foe Connecticut, 10-9, on Saturday afternoon in Storrs, Conn., on a last-minute goal from junior midfielder Ali Steinberg. Steinberg scored with just six seconds remaining in the conference opener and pushed the Knights (6-2, 1-0) to four games above .500 under head coach Laura Brand. Senior attack Kristen Anderson scored the game’s first two goals for Rutgers and junior attack Lindsey Watts added two tallies of her own to close the first half. For more coverage, see tomorrow’s edition.

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gymnastics team registered its best finish at the EAGL Championships in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, when the Knights posted a score of 193.625 in the eight-team field. The Knights finished fifth overall at George Washington, besting the team’s sixth-place finish and score of 192.600 at the 2007 EAGL Championships. Freshman Luisa RealRestrepo led the Knights with a score of 9.850 on the vaults, good for fifth place. Rutgers tied its season-high in the event with a team score of 48.825. For more coverage, see tomorrow’s edition.

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team dropped a 6-0 decision to host East Carolina yesterday in Greenville, N.C., where the Knights closed their eightgame Spring Break road trip. The Knights fell, 6-3, to the Pirates on Saturday, when starting pitcher Rob Smorol suf fered his third loss of the season. Senior right fielder Michael Lang registered the Knights’ first run when he singled to left field to score Brian O’Grady in the third inning, bringing Rutgers within 4-1 of East Carolina. For more coverage, see tomorrow’s edition.

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team lost, 10-2, to No. 20 Oklahoma State yesterday at the USF Softball Series in Clearwater, Fla. Senior Mickenzie Alden led the Scarlet Knights (10-15) by going 2-for-2 from the plate while scoring a run and registering a walk. Sophomore Abbey Houston took the loss for Rutgers after hurling only 1 1/3 innings and allowing four runs on two hits. Alden and teammate Mikelyn Messina aided the Knights in the scoring department in the four th inning, when a fielder’s choice got Rutgers within two runs of its Big 12 opponent. For more coverage, see tomorrow’s edition.

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Fourth-seeded senior heavyweight DJ Russo lost to a pair of unranked wrestlers who became All-Americans in Philadelphia, with a first-round loss to Arizona State’s Levi Jones and an overtime wrestleback bout with Indiana’s Ricarda Alcala.

OVER: Riding time gives Hatchett edge over Winston continued from back score with a pair of escapes and kept Winston’s offensive attack at bay. “He’s just a ver y good defensive wrestler,” Winston said of Hatchett. “The longer I let the match go, the more it started to turn into the kind of match that he wanted.” The two entered sudden victor y overtime and after nothing could be resolved after one minute, Winston and Hatchett began the 30-second tiebreaks. Hatchett successfully rode out Winston and the EIWA champ was unable to do the same. The final score read, 3-2, in favor of Hatchett. “It’s not a good matchup for Scottie,” Goodale said. “It comes down to one takedown

in our best position and we weren’t able to get it. We had three minutes to get it and weren’t able to get it. You have to find a way at this level, that’s all I can say.” Mason also began Friday in the quar ter finals of the 149pound bracket as the seventh seed and faced second-seeded Frank Molinaro of Penn State. The two split a pair of bouts during the regular season and met this time with a trip to the semifinals on the line. Molinaro entered the third period with a 3-0 lead, but Mason cut that deficit to one when he converted on a takedown. A Molinaro escape sealed the deal on a 4-2 decision as Mason fell to the wrestlebacks. “It’s about putting together two or three moves together at a time and not just getting one score, but multiple scores,” Goodale said. “We’re just struggling with that right now and it’s upsetting.”

In the consolation bracket, Mason met Nor thwestern’s Andrew Nadhir for the right to be named an All-American. While both wrestlers looked to be the aggressor early on, Nadhir scored the first period’s lone takedown. The Wildcat controlled the match the rest of the way and Mason fell, 7-3. “I just need to get better,” Mason said. “I need to get better at wrestling in ever y position. This will make me hungrier. I never want it to happen to me again.” The sun does not set on the All-American dreams of Mason and Winston, as both have two more years to reach the final eight. But senior DJ Russo cannot avenge a disappointing finish to the season. Russo entered the weekend as the fourth seed in the heavyweight bracket, but quickly dug himself a hole with a 5-2 loss to

unranked Levi Cooper of Arizona State. The Netcong, N.J., native fought his way back in the consolation bracket but ran into a tough opponent in Indiana’s Ricardo Alcala. The Hoosier held a twopoint lead late in the third period, but two stall points on Alcala breathed new life for Russo with an overtime period on the way. But in the sudden victor y period, Alcala scored another takedown and came away with the 9-7 decision, ending Russo’s collegiate career. The Knights’ season ended hours later and all that remains are question marks. “Did [Russo] do everything in his power? Does he feel like he put his best foot forward? If he feels like that, then we can live with it,” Goodale said. “He had a good career for us. He’s part of the foundation and laid the road for other guys, but he’s disappointed. We all are.”

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PHILADELPHIA — Although seven Rutgers wrestlers advanced to the second day of the NCAA Championships, things fell a p a r t quickly Friday at KNIGHT the Wells NOTEBOOK F a r g o Center. Sophomore Joe Langel won two bouts before falling in the consolation bracket to Virginia’s Matthew Snyder to end his season. Senior Darryl Cocozzo also won a pair of matches, but the 10th-seeded 157-pounder lost to Johnny Greisheimer — a sophomore at Edinboro, where Cocozzo wrestled before joining the Scarlet Knights. Sophomore Dan Rinaldi lost in the consolation bracket after falling to Lehigh’s second-seeded Robert Hamlin for the third time this season. Rinaldi wrestled the national runner-up close, but fell in a 3-2 decision. “You can’t put the guy in any better spot — tied at one, in on a single leg late in the match,” head coach Scott Goodale said of Rinaldi. “You can’t relax. I don’t know if it’s immaturity or not believing. I look at that match, and I think it’s a feeling of not believing you can win there. The kid’s got his number, but you can’t be in a better spot.” In addition to Cocozzo and heavyweight DJ Russo, senior Alex Caruso saw his career end in Philadelphia. The Lehigh transfer lost two bouts but advanced one round due to a forfeit by Lehigh’s No. 11 seed Austin Meys in the consolation bracket. Meys beat Caruso in a February dual meet but also forfeited in the EIWA Tournament.

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wrestlers won national titles wrestling for Michigan, Nebraska and Lehigh.

Blair Academy product Kellen Russell won the 141-pound title for Michigan, Nebraska’s Jordan Burroughs won his second national title and first at 165 pounds, while Hopatcong product Zach Rey won the heavyweight title for Lehigh. Burroughs previously won a title at 157 pounds but moved up a weight class and dominated the competition, including Rutgers sophomore Scott Winston. “New Jersey wrestlers are always the laugh in the Midwest, saying New Jersey is the greatest wrestling state in the nation, but we turn out champions year after year,” Burroughs said. The Winslow Township product hinted former Rutgers football commit Andrew Campolattano could join the Cornhuskers. The Bound Brook senior won four state titles, is the top-ranked wrestler at 215 pounds and decommitted from the Rutgers football team to pursue wrestling.

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Joe Langel, above, won his first-round bout with a 6-2 decision over Michael Martinez of Wyoming. Arizona State’s Anthony Robles won the same 125-pound weight class despite having only one leg.

PENN STATE WON THE national team title and had three representatives in the championship bouts, but Arizona State was the only team with two champions. Coaches voted Anthony Robles as the Tournament’s Most Outstanding Wrestler after he capped an undefeated season with a 125-pound title. Robles became a fan favorite for his success despite being born without a right leg, but teammate Bubba Jenkins provided an equally intriguing story. Penn State head coach Cael Sanderson, who won four national titles and an Olympic gold medal, told Jenkins to transfer from PSU, and the Sun Devil pinned Nittany Lion freshman David Taylor in the championship bout at 157 pounds. “Not towards David. Definitely towards Cael,” Jenkins said when asked if it was personal. “He didn’t think I was good enough or the right kid to win it … and he got rid of me. One man’s trash is a whole country’s treasure.”

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Junior season, family signal improvement for Sykes BY SAM HELLMAN CORRESPONDENT

BOSSIER CITY, La. — Before the women’s basketball season WOMEN’S BASKETBALL tipped off, April Sykes changed her number. And her numbers star ted to change. Mired in mediocrity through her freshman and sophomore seasons, the former No. 1 recruit in the country and her Hall of Fame head coach were running out of answers when Rutgers needed her most. Sykes’ new number, No. 24, is more than a number to the Starkville, Miss., native. It represents her father, Michael Sykes, who passed away 19 years ago. She wore the number in high school, when she averaged 25 points and 10 rebounds per game as a McDonald’s All-American. Fittingly, Sykes finished two points off of her father’s number with 22 last night in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. “Twenty-four is not just a number,” said Sykes, who added six boards and two steals to go along with her 56 percent shooting clip. “It’s the way I keep my father close to me. I didn’t get a chance to get

to know him because he passed when I was two years old, but everybody says I’m the spitting image of him. He was a great basketball player. At the end of the day, he’s watching me somewhere and right now he’s proud.” Sykes has a slew of strong performances in her junior season, averaging a team-high 13.6 points per game, but none were as important as last night’s win over Louisiana Tech. Playing what was supposed to be a neutral game less than 25 minutes from Louisiana Tech’s campus, Sykes single-handedly leveled the playing-field. Maybe because it didn’t feel like a road game to her. For the fourth time in her college life, Sykes’ family was there to cheer her on. Her mother, grandmother, siblings and cousins were all in attendance. For the first time since high school, her family saw her come out victorious. “This was great for my grandmother because she’s my heart,” Sykes said. “She’s always excited, whether I’m doing well or not. She’s always in my corner. My whole family has seen me struggle for a long time and to see me be myself again must mean the world to them.”

The Sykes equation appeared unsolvable two years after her arrival at Rutgers. Her four previous games in the NCAA Tournament epitomized two seasons of not sniffing her potential. Sykes went scoreless in three of her first four tournament games. She averaged just one point and one rebound per game before yesterday in NCAA Tournament games. “It was good to build her confidence and I think that she knows to just stay in the flow and other people will find her, as well,” said head coach C. Vivian Stringer. “But you know that Texas A&M is not going to let that happen.” Sykes made up for four poor NCAA performances in her fifth game yesterday and she hopes to erase another bad memory tomorrow against No. 2-seed Texas A&M. In an embarrassing 79-50 loss to the Aggies at Madison Square Garden in December, Sykes was just 4-of-13 for 10 points from the floor in 24 minutes and turned the ball over five times. “They embarrassed us on national television,” Sykes said. “There’s no way around it. I think it’s very important that we get going early because we didn’t last time and look what happened.”

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Forward April Sykes defends Louisiana Tech’s Brietta Thomas. Sykes led the Scarlet Knights with 33 minutes played.

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Knights return from New Orleans with Spring Break sweep BY MATT CANVISSER STAFF WRITER

The Rutgers tennis team beat up the Louisiana bayou last week, as it went undefeated on TENNIS i t s RUTGERS 7 Spring reak XAVIER (LA.) 0 B trip to N e w Orleans. Rutgers swept New Orleans and Xavier (La.), 5-0, and, 7-0, respectively, and easily handled Southeast Louisiana, 6-1. “We came in really focused,” said junior Leonora Slatnick. “We decided one of our goals for the season was to sweep the Spring Break matches, and we went and got it done.” The Scarlet Knights (8-4, 02) shut down their opponents with smothering power in singles competition. The Knights only dropped one singles match on the entire trip, while senior captain Amy Zhang and juniors Jennifer Holzberg and Mar yana Milchutskey won their singles matches in all three contests. “Both New Orleans and Xavier were dealing with injuries and couldn’t field a full lineup,” said head coach Ben Bucca. “But

I don’t think it would have mattered — we were playing some really strong tennis.” The real bright spot for Rutgers was winning ever y doubles match on the trip after struggling in that aspect of the game of late. Bucca hinted before the trip that lineup changes could occur in doubles, and he ultimately chose to shake up the depth chart. “It worked out very well, especially with [Slatnick and freshman Stefania Balasa],” Bucca said. “They played strong doubles and have the potential to make a great run.” The new No. 2 team of Slatnick and Balasa won matches against New Orleans and Southeast Louisiana, 8-3, and, 8-4, respectively. It remains to be seen if Bucca sticks with the new partnership, but the feeling on the team is that it may not be the final lineup adjustment. “Stef and I played pretty well together considering we hadn’t practiced together at all this year,” Slatnick said. “We will probably continue mixing up doubles teams until [the Big East Tournament], but hopefully by then we have a set doubles lineup.” Rutgers also had to make the adjustment to playing its

first outdoor tennis of the season. The change is usually difficult on teams as they move from the conditions of indoor facilities into the elements, but the Knights’ transition began seamlessly. “Dealing with the sun and wind is so much different,” Bucca said. “It usually takes a few days to feel comfortable playing outdoors and I was expecting the team to struggle a bit at first, but they really didn’t.” Rutgers returns to action in the Big East this weekend after finishing up its non-conference schedule on the trip. The Knights travel to St. John’s on Friday afternoon to continue the hunt for their first Big East victory. “We have done well against St. John’s in the past so hopefully we can keep it going,” Slatnick said. “They definitely won’t give the match to us, so we need to come ready to play and take the win.” The Knights then return home on Sunday to face Syracuse at the RU Tennis Complex, the team’s first match on campus this season after playing at the Atlantic Club in Manasquan, N.J., during the winter. “We’re expecting a tough match against Syracuse and I know we’re ready,” Bucca said. “We just hope all of our fans and friends come out to support us.”

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Junior Leonora Slatnick teamed up with a new doubles partner in freshman Stefania Balasa and won each of her two matches.

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Sophomore midfielder Duncan Clancy, left, scored with eight seconds remaining in the first half Saturday, when the Knights went on a 3-0 run to cut into Army’s lead. Junior defender Andrew D’Agostino led Rutgers with four caused turnovers, but an improved defensive effort could not overcome an early 9-1 deficit.

Sloppy effort dooms Rutgers against physical Army BY VINNIE MANCUSO STAFF WRITER

The Rutgers men’s lacrosse team looked to end spring break with a MEN’S LACROSSE winning ARMY 12 r e c o r d it RUTGERS 4 when w e l comed No. 10 Army on Saturday to the RU Turf Field. But the Scarlet Knights struggled with the Black Knights’ physical offense from the first seconds of the matchup and Rutgers fell, 12-4. “We’re an athletic and talented team, but we just have to do the little things right. We shoot ourselves in the foot a lot,” said head

coach Jim Stagnitta. “There’s three parts to the game, and that’s finishing plays, winning face-offs and taking care of the ball. We did a better job of it in the second half and all that, but overall it was just a sloppy, sloppy game for us.” Team goal leader Scott Klimchak scored the only goal for either side in the third period, bringing the score to 9-4 entering the final quarter. But Rutgers’ (5-2) good fortune did not last. Army notched three unanswered goals in the fourth, eventually leading to a sizeable defeat for the Knights. The Knights, who appeared stagnant in the first half, showed signs of life at the beginning of the third period. Stagnitta’s decision

to replace sophomore goalie Rudy Butler with classmate Joseph Donnelly appeared to improve the defensive play, as Donnelly notched two spectacular saves in the third period. And with the help of junior Andrew D’Agostino’s four caused turnovers, the Rutgers defense managed to keep the explosive Black Knights (5-2) scoreless throughout the third. “[At the half] I told them, ‘We got a game to play,’” Stagnitta said. “There is 30 minutes left and we got to chip away. We have to start playing with the intensity and excitement that I know we’re capable of.” Junior Nick Zerrillo finally put Army’s 7-0 run to rest by scoring later in the second.

Team points leader Duncan Clancy followed up with a goal of his own to bring the Army lead to six entering the half. A goal from Army late in the first period gave it a 2-1 lead entering a disastrous second period, which started off much like the first for Rutgers. Army midfielder Derek Sipperly slipped past the Rutgers defense for the second time in as many periods to score within the first 10 seconds. The Army offense scored at will following the tally. The Black Knights rifled seven straight goals past Butler, including an unassisted laser from nearly midfield by Army attackman Garrett Thul. Winning the opening face-off of the contest, Sipperly streaked past

the Rutgers defense and found the back of the net within 10 seconds of the opening whistle. “I don’t think that goal didn’t set the tone, but it was indicative of the rest of the game,” Stagnitta said. “We didn’t win enough face-offs to possess the ball, to have opportunities. That was mostly [Army].” After Army’s quick strike, the Knights quickly tied it up with a goal minutes later from junior midfielder Mike Diehl, proving to be the last sign of productivity from the Rutgers offense for quite some time. The Knights did not get the statement victory they were looking for, but welcome Notre Dame on Saturday in the first Big East matchup of the season.

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MARCH 21, 2011

Knights erase bad memories with victory in first round BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

JEFFREY LAZARO / ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Coach Greg Schiano plans to increase his involvement with coaching the defense.

BOSSIER CITY, La. — An early ousting at the hands of Iowa in the first round of last year’s NCAA WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Tournament is something most LA TECH 51 members of the RUTGERS 76 Rutgers women’s basketball team can quickly recall. The Scarlet Knights (20-12) took the first steps in erasing that memory yesterday with a 76-51 win over Louisiana Tech (24-8) in this year’s edition of the NCAA Tournament, earning the program’s sixth opening round victory in the past seven years. “It’s definitely a great feeling to get here and get that first win,” said junior guard Khadijah Rushdan. “To come out and lose in that first round [last year], we

were definitely focused on staying within our element.” With junior for ward April Sykes leading the way, the Knights never left any doubt they would return to their winning ways in the team’s NCAA opener. As her family looked on with the rest of the scarlet faithful at the Centur yTel Center, the Starkville, Miss., native scored a game-high 22 points — her sixth 20point effort this season. Not far removed from a meager ninepoint showing in a loss to Connecticut in the Big East Tournament, Sykes made sure to be the playmaker she became this year under head coach C. Vivian Stringer. “We try to go to her first,” Stringer said. “She’s got to be a scorer for us. The distribution that Khadijah gave her really allowed for her to get comfortable. That’s major for us.”

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Junior forward April Sykes led the Knights in scoring last night with 22 points.

Spring practices feature position changes for RU BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

Three of fseason coaching changes made it clear Greg Schiano was unhappy with how often Jeremy Deering ran the ball out of the Wildcat FOOTBALL last season. But a number of surprising position changes, including Deering moving from wideout to running back, revealed he still wants the sophomore playmaker carr ying the ball. “I just don’t know how it is all going to shake out quite yet,” Schiano said. “We know Jeremy Deering is a legitimate wide receiver, so the ability to … motion him out and have him as a wide receiver and then have Joe Martinek left in the backfield … I think it will give the offense a little bit different look.” In his spring practice kickof f press conference, Schiano mentioned AllAmerican running back commit Savon Huggins, and his impending arrival undoubtedly played a role in the changes. Deering moves to running back, but senior Joe Martinek will prepare as a fullback — he is out for the spring after shoulder and ankle surgeries — and sophomore Jordan Thomas is in the secondar y, where there are more changes. “I felt as I watched and I evaluated us as a defensive football team, we built this program — especially defensively — on speed. I didn’t see that speed as I watched our video,” Schiano said. “Jordan is legitimately one of the fastest guys on the team, if not the fastest. Jordan sees himself as a cornerback.” Other changes came from shifting previous defensive starters down a level. Khaseem Greene moves from safety to linebacker for his junior season, and Manny Abreu moves from linebacker to defensive end. The cornerback unit will have an entirely new look with the loss of both starters — Brandon Bing to graduation and David Rowe to safety. Junior Duron Harmon and redshir t freshmen Rashad Knight, Lorenzo Waters and Jawaun Wynn join Rowe at safety under new secondar y coach Jeff Hafley. With new offensive coordinator Frank Cignetti implementing a new of fense and fellow former Pittsburgh assistant

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RAMON DOMPOR / SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Eighth-seeded sophomore Scott Winston fell short of All-American status at the NCAA Championships with his second loss of the season to Lehigh’s Brandon Hatchett. The wrestleback bout went to a tiebreaker, where Hatchett outrode Winston for a 3-2 win.

ROLLED OVER Seeded Rutgers wrestlers fall short of All-American status with upset losses in NCAA Championships BY A.J. JANKOWSKI CORRESPONDENT

PHILADELPHIA — It was meant to be an exclamation point on a banner year, but instead the Rutgers wrestling team’s season ended at the NCAA WRESTLING Championships RUTGERS 21.5 with one major question mark. 27TH PLACE How did a team poised to make a serious run at a top-10 spot fail to come away with an All-American? “I thought we were in a good spot to have All-Americans,” said head coach Scott Goodale, whose team finished 27th

overall. “We lost a lot of overtime matches. The [talent] levels are all even and it’s finding a way to win. We were on the wrong end of a lot of matches [Friday].” The Scarlet Knights entered the Round of 12 on Friday with two wrestlers just one win away from becoming the first AllAmericans on the Banks since 2002. But after sophomores Mario Mason and Scott Winston won each of their two bouts on Day 1 at the Wells Fargo Center, both dropped a pair of decisions the next day to fall just short of reaching the podium. “That’s the biggest letdown that I have had in my wrestling career,” Winston said. “Being an All-American has been a goal of mine since I was a little boy. I feel like I

put all of the hard work necessar y into it, but I just let the opportunity slip away.” Winston worked his way into the quarterfinals of the 165-pound bracket to start Day 2, but ran into a daunting task in topseeded Jordan Burroughs of Nebraska. Burroughs breezed through Winston with a 23-8 technical fall on his way to a second national championship. The loss sent Winston to the wrestlebacks, where he met a familiar foe in Lehigh’s Brandon Hatchett. Winston got off to a great start, scoring a takedown on the mat’s edge one minute into the contest. But Hatchett tied the

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