The Daily Targum 2011-03-22

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The Rutgers women’s basketball team takes on No. 2-seed Texas A&M tonight in the second round of the NCAA Tournament in Shreveport, La.

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NJ students unite against tuition cuts BY ANASTASIA MILLICKER CORRESPONDENT

in abject poverty. Their houses had dirt floors and lacked many of the aspects Americans take for granted. What startled him the most was the repetitive sight of women and girls traveling miles for clean water every day. In the developing world, women spend three to

Members of the Rutgers University Student Assembly (RUSA) collaborated with other public four-year Universities throughout the state to form the New Jersey United Students (NJUS) organization to combat the New Jersey higher education system-funding crisis. NJUS was created to make a stronger voice for past, present and future students of New Jersey and adjust the higher education system of New Jersey, said NJUS co-chair Daniela Jorge. “New Jersey does not have a set school system for public university funding,” said Jorge, a William Patterson University senior. “They could decide to transfer money from Rutgers to Montclair, and we want to change that.” RUSA established NJUS last fall when they conducted outreach for in-state, four-year public universities. Nine of the 11 universities attended a

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Peter Thum, founder of Ethos Water, explains how a visit to a small town in South Africa inspired him to start his bottled water company last night in Trayes Hall of the Douglass Campus Center.

Ethos Water founder spills success secrets BY MARY DIDUCH EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

His mission was simple — to help children get clean water. But for founder of Ethos Water Peter Thum, establishing his socially conscious business proved harder than expected.

Thum, who spoke last night in Trayes Hall at the Douglass Campus Center, said the idea for the bottled water brand, which donates a portion of its proceeds to aiding the world’s water crisis, hit him in 2001, when a business project brought him to a developing town in South Africa. In the small town he was visiting, Thum saw for the first time people living

Sheriff’s office faces more charges BY ANDREW SMITH STAFF WRITER

In an alleged case of corruption against former Middlesex County Sheriff Joseph Spicuzzo, one of his officers, Paul Lucarelli, is implicated a week after Spicuzzo’s surrender in the scandal. Spicuzzo, who surrendered to police on March 7, faces allegations of second-degree patterns of official misconduct and seconddegree bribery for accepting a minimum total of $50,000, he said.

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The specific charges against Lucarelli, a South River resident, include conspiracy to commit official misconduct and briber y, said Peter Aseltine, spokesman for New Jersey’s Attorney General’s office. As sherif f, Spicuzzo was responsible for appointing officers within the sheriff’s office since these positions are not civil ser vice duties, Aseltine said. He allegedly accepted individual bribes of up to $25,000 for those appointments.

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“In connection with one of the bribes that Sheriff Spicuzzo allegedly accepted from someone seeking to be hired as a sheriff’s investigator, Lucarelli acted as the middle-man,” Aseltine said. “He went to this individual, received the cash and allegedly delivered that to Sheriff Spicuzzo in his county office.” Although he has yet to be indicted, if the charges against Spicuzzo go through, corruption

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Researchers improve search for better device materials BY MITAL GAJJAR CONTRIBUTING WRITER

University researchers collaborated with University of Maryland Professor Manfred Wuttig to discover more efficient manufacturing methods for highfunctioning devices including sensors, security systems and medical equipment. Armen Khachaturyan, a professor in the Department of Ceramic and Materials Engineering and postdoctoral associate Weifeng Rao teamed with Wuttig to find new ways of searching for super-responsive materials that have the potential of being used in high-performance devices. “This type of nanostructured materials system with excellent mechanical properties named ‘dispersion hardened alloys’ have been used in numerous conventional applications for a long time,” Rao said. “However, as we demonstrated in our study, under certain conditions they become advanced functional materials whose properties far exceed the properties of those currently available.”

Khachatur yan, Rao and Wuttig expected that the nanostructured materials systems can form a new class of advanced functional materials and can be used in some high-performance devices with superior properties. “By supreme properties, the new alloys can solve the common problems of the traditional materials at the same time,” Khachaturyan said. He explained the major limitations posed by applications from traditional functional materials could only receive small responses, such as shape change or voltage, to applying a force like mechanical or electrical and magnetic fields force. “The second problem is after the force is removed, the material may not return to its original state, and the third problem is there is energy loss during cycles of applying and removing force,” Khachaturyan said. The supreme properties actually refer to a combination of large field-induced

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School of Arts and Sciences junior Zaim Salimum helps himself to chocolate fondue and other treats last night at the Rutgers University Programming Association’s “Candyland” event.


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