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Sophomore reliever Rob Corsi pitched his way out of a jam yesterday to preserve the Knights’ lead against Louisville in the final game of the series.

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Dancers of Team Technique perform last night for students who attended “Dim Sum Night,” an event hosted by the Rutgers Cantonese Club at the Livingston Student Center. Proceeds from the evening will be donated to Action Against Hunger, an organization devoted to ending world hunger.

University President Richard L. McCormick introduced the new vice president for public af fairs to the University Senate at its meeting Friday in the Multipurpose Room at the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus. Pete McDonough Jr. ser ved as the director of communications during the Gov. Chris Christie-Todd Whitman administration and is a founding par tner of the Princeton Public Af fairs Group, McCormick said. McCormick said McDonough’s 30 years of experience in state and federal government will help him best represent the University among legislators. “We’re fortunate to have recruited him,” he said. McDonough, who succeeded Jeannine LaRue after her four years as vice president for public af fairs, said he hopes to secure funding from policymakers in representing the University. “I want to increase awareness of Rutgers University’s presence with policy makers to enhance the likelihood of a

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RUPA adds third act to Rutgersfest BY MARY DIDUCH EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

For University students questioning why this year’s Rutgersfest had only two performers when the Rutgers University Programming Association (RUPA) announced the line up last month, don’t worry — there is a third. RUPA added YelaWolf, a rapper from Alabama signed under Eminem’s Shady Records label, two weeks ago, said Jessica Bruno, RUPA vice president of

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concerts and coffeehouses. Before the addition, only rapper Pitbull and electronic artist 3OH!3 were slated to perform. The decision to add a third act was never out of the question completely, said Bruno, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. The committee discovered YelaWolf and wanted to allocate more money to the concert to have him perform. “We were actually looking through the budget and at the fact that Rutgersfest needed a little more umph,” she said.

The committee also felt YelaWolf would appeal to both a different group of hip-hop lovers as well as the general University audience, Bruno said. “I think he added to the lineup we already had,” said Elise Powers, incoming RUPA vice president of concerts and coffeehouses. While some students may not know who YelaWolf is, part of RUPA’s goal with Rutgersfest is to showcase emerging artists, Bruno said.

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Programmers stay up late for first hackathon BY KRISTINE CHOI STAFF WRITER

College hackers from around the countr y flooded the Hill Center on Busch campus on Saturday for the University’s first annual HackRU hackathon. HackRU is a 24-hour programming event that invites programmers from all over to congregate, create applications and compete for prizes, said Sameen Jalal, event coordinator of HackRU. “It is the largest event of the year hosted by the Undergraduate Student Alliance of Computer Scientists (USACS),” said Jalal, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore. The winning team of the competition, comprised of computer science majors Paul Meskers, Welf Ludwig and Yifu Huang, presented a music hack application called “.Medley” where users can log in to create playlists and share them with different media platforms.

“It’s really exciting,” said Ludwig, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “We never expected it. I don’t think any of us went in thinking we were going to win.” Meskers, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, agreed and enjoyed seeing their idea come to life. “We just kind of wanted to go in and see what we could make,” he said. “It was cool as we were seeing it actually start to take shape. And once it was something useable and we started to play with it, it was genuinely fun to use — and I want to use it.” HackRU’s sponsors, such as Google, Yahoo, StackOverflow and General Sentiment, held presentations of their application programming interfaces that would be available to the programmers when creating their applications. Participants had 24 hours to use the tools to create something that has not been created before, Jalal said. “The things we’re looking for in the contest are creativity, how unique

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Kathleen Sebelius, Health and Human Services secretary, led a conference call to show how young adults can take advantage of the health care act.

National youth identify benefits of health care BY RYAN FLOOD STAFF WRITER

National youth groups discussed the benefits of the Affordable Care Act for young people during a conference call Friday with Health and Human Ser vices secretar y Kathleen Sebelius. Groups like Campus Progress, Student PIRG and Young Invincibles all participated in the conference, which included student speakers from the Young Invincibles and Student PIRG. “Americans in their 20s are almost twice as likely to go without health insurance as older adults,” Sebelius said. “One of the

groups that benefits most from the law is young Americans.” Sebelius said the Af fordable Care Act allows young people to pursue career paths without worr ying about getting a job that provides health insurance. “Under the af fordable health care act, ever y young adult can stay on their parents’ plan until 26 as long as their insurance qualifies,” she said. Emily Schlicting, a senior at the University of Nebraska who is diagnosed with Gaucher’s disease, believes the act helps with her medical insurance.

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MARCH 28, 2011 AUTHOR TONI MORRISON TO VISIT RUTGERSNEWARK CAMPUS Toni Morrison, acclaimed author of “Beloved” and winner of both the Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, will read and openly discuss her works April 26 at a free public program at RutgersNewark from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in the Paul Robeson Campus Center Multipurpose Room. Her appearance is part of the “Writers at Newark Reading Series,” which invites writers of fiction, nonfiction and poetry to campus throughout the year, according to a University media relations press release. Jayne Anne Phillips, director of the master of fine arts program said Morrison’s visit is an honor for the series, RutgersNewark and Newark itself. “Her work addresses … the diverse complexities of history, race and gender and illustrates the transformational power of voice and literature,” Phillips said in the release. The free talk is co-sponsored by the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at Rutgers-Newark and the Rutgers Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and Modern Experience. Morrison will also be the keynote speaker at the University’s commencement on May 15 in the Rutgers Stadium on Busch campus. — Amy Rowe

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NJPIRG celebrates health care reform bill BY BRETT SIEGEL CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Following the one-year anniversary of President Barack Obama’s health care initiative, students discussed the bill’s effects on their lives Friday at Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus. Hosted by the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group (NJPIRG), University faculty and students noted aspects of the bill that will directly affect graduating seniors who will be able to remain on their parents’ health care insurance until the age of 26. “Graduates from Rutgers and other N.J. colleges will be able to save an average of $1,400 by remaining on their family’s health insurance plan,” said Spencer Klein, a member of NJPIRG. With the bill’s passing, students will no longer have to look for inefficient and costly health care insurances, said Klein, a School of Ar ts and Sciences sophomore. “Before this bill was passed, when young adults left school, they would have to find and pay for their own health insurance that was usually not as complete but cost much more than their previous one,” Klein said. University deans like Richard Ludescher were present to express their support of the new

health care bill and its pertinence that price can reach $100,000 and to students. that is not even on the high end,” “When you leave college and Matsuda said. are trying to figure out what you Because of his injury, Matsuda want to do, whether it is a com- learned that health insurance is a munity organizer, teacher or engi- necessity and without it, one will neer, you are going to be glad you not have the money needed to have health care,” said pay for expensive hospital bills. Ludescher, Cook campus dean. “If you do not have health He said the insurance, do bill would give you think you students the have the funds “This is going oppor tunity to necessar y to to prevent a lot pursue their pay for such a dream jobs bill? No matter of lost opportunities without having what your polito worr y about tics are, you do that recently health care want to be graduated individuals not af fordability. without health “By being care,” he said. faced in the past.” able to stay on N J P I R G MATT CORDEIRO your parents’ members handVice President of RUSA health care, you ed out pamcan take your phlets that time starting highlighted the your own business or traveling,” benefits of the health care proLudescher said. “People can now gram and their direct relation take risks that eventually lead to a to students, especially graduatbetter life and make more contri- ing seniors. butions to the society they live in.” “With the new health care College Avenue campus Dean law, young people finally have Matt Matsuda, used personal real options and it is critical that experience to illustrate the finan- they get educated about them,” cial implications of not having said Matt Cordeiro, vice presihealth care. dent of Rutgers University “I was injured last year and a Student Assembly. one night stay at the hospital with Cordeiro, a School of Arts and treatment came out to be $16,000. Sciences junior said University If you are seriously injured and students would have the opportuhave to stay for a week or more nity to choose desirable jobs now

they don’t have to worry about finding health insurance. “Graduating seniors will no longer have to work at lame or undesired jobs simply because they offer health insurance,” he said. “This is going to prevent a lot of lost opportunities that recently graduated individuals faced in the past.” Some members of the audience, like 26-year-old New Brunswick resident Katr yn Fraher, wishes the bill had passed years ago. “When I left college I had to find a job immediately that provided health insurance because mine was suddenly stripped from me,” she said. “I am glad that this is no longer the case and people will now have much more opportunities to do what they really want to.” Both Cordeiro and Klein voiced their support of the bill because they believe it was an improvement for college students struggling to find jobs that offered health care insurance. “The enormous costs and uncertainty that students once faced as a result of being unfairly dropped off their insurance at graduation are now a thing of the past,” Klein said. “For people as vulnerable as recently graduated students, that is a very important aspect that can help them shape their futures.”

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News Editor Kristine Rosette Enerio chatted with University President Richard L. McCormick about his family life, outside hobbies and favorite part about being the head of a state institution. Kristine Rosette Enerio: What do you like to do outside of being the president of Rutgers? Richard L. McCormick: My wife Joan and I have a little baby. We recently adopted a little baby girl, she’s 14 months old, so she takes a lot of our time. I have two older children who are 26 and 22. So now I have a little baby too. She’s just on the verge of walking and not quite talking either. I like to get exercise most days to stay in shape. I have some exercise equipment in the basement of my house. I’m a pretty big reader. Right now, I’m reading a very long biography of Franklin Roosevelt. It’s a very good book. I read history, I read fiction, I read current affairs. KRE: Is there a part of the job that you really like? RLM: Yes, the most important part of the job is the one I liked the most. It’s representing Rutgers to all kinds of different groups and constituents. This is the time of year, the budget is up for review in Trenton and I will be testifying there, talking with alumni, talking with donors. The job of representing the University before a very wide range of constituencies is the best part of the job. KRE: Where’s your favorite place on campus? RLM: I mean I like this part of campus, [Old Queens]. I like all parts of Rutgers and I know the Rutgers campus pretty well. I think it’s especially beautiful right here. KRE: Have you ever eaten at the grease trucks? RLM: Sure I have. Not very often recently but over the years. KRE: What is your favorite fat sandwich? RLM: No, a lot of the sandwiches today include the French fries in the sandwich. To me, that’s yucky. I might want a French fry on the side or even two. But to have the potatoes in the sandwich with meat … to me, that’s really yucky.

“Upon graduation, [I] was not only going to be sick for the rest of my life, but probably kicked off my parents’ insurance and therefore denied access to the health care that made it possible for me to get out of bed and go to class,” she said. The act allowed Schlicting to not worr y about getting a job solely based on insurance, rather the act has given the opportunity to pursue whatever job she wants. “With [the act], if I don’t get insurance from my job, I will be able to af ford coverage, where the risk gets spread across a larger group of people making it so that insurance is more af fordable and accessible for people without employer-based insurance,” she said. Schlicting said the new bill would not only af fect her own situation, but the situations of many other Americans.

AFFAIRS: McDonough aims to change U. reputation continued from front par tnership with the regulator y committee and sources of funding,” he said. McDonough said he has gauged policymakers’ views of the University and hopes to improve them. “The view of Rutgers has been scarily neutral,” he said. “People think Rutgers shows up when they need money and is an unreliable par tner. I want to work on changing that impression.” The new vice president of public af fairs, who has taught a graduate seminar on American politics at the Eagleton Institute of Politics for 10 years, said although he has mostly been in meetings for his first month on the job, he is enjoying it. “I love it,” he said. “I’ve been teaching here since 2001, so I think I understand the culture well. The Kean [University] Commission [on Higher Education] Task Force report lays out opportunities for the University, so this is a good time to be around.” McDonough said the University is in good shape in terms of the state budget, as

T H E DA I LY TA R G U M “When the Af fordable Care Act passed, a huge burden was lifted from my shoulders,” she said. “The depending coverage clause … gives me a lot more security in terms of when I do get sick, because I will get sick again, that health care will be there.” Sebelius said millions of Americans would begin to feel the benefits of this act beginning with upcoming graduates. “We think about 1.2 million graduates will be able to take advantage of this law,” Sebelius said. The new act will make health care universal similar to the way everyone must have car insurance, she said. “It’s kind of akin to car insurance. We say people have to have car insurance to drive a car on the road because we don’t know when an accident can occur or somebody might hit you,” Sebelius said. With health care, the ser vices will be delivered if someone has an accident or if someone is suddenly diagnosed whether or not they have insurance, she said.

“It’s a way to protect against that risk and have ever ybody par ticipate in the pool,” Sebelius said. School of Arts and Sciences sophomore Matt Jorgensen said the act will benefit students but is worried about the effects it will have on their parents. “I like the Affordable Care Act, but I think it puts more pressure on the parents,” Jorgensen said. “It’s a good thing because it provides security.” School of Environmental and Biological Sciences senior Mia Lombardo suppor ted the act because it will become illegal to drop people because of pre-existing conditions. “It’s a problem with older people. If they tr y to switch plans, they get dropped,” Lombardo said. The plan will allow students more flexibility when they graduate and take pressure off them for finding a job right away, said School of Arts and Sciences senior Zack Nickerson. “The new plan is helpful to students, especially because of the cur rent job climate,” he said.

funding for higher education stayed flat instead of dropping. “It’s a good sign for us,” he said. He also discussed the proposed merger of the University with the University of Medicine and Dentistr y of New Jersey, which would present challenges for keeping the Medical Center of Newark operating. McCormick said the University is still waiting for Christie’s of fice to appoint someone who would deal with putting the plans in motion to merge the medical school. Students at the Senate meeting showed concern for higher education funding and invited McDonough and McCormick along with other University administrators to attend “How to Take Class Action” on April 13 to reconsider funding for higher education. Students also asked McDonough if his of fice could arrange meetings with legislators and students to discuss funding for higher education. “There is not a lot of room to move in this budget,” he said. “It’s good for you to meet with legislators because the more engaged people get, the more they will take your requests into consideration.” McCormick also discussed upcoming University events, inviting senators to attend University commencement.

“The new commencement will be in Rutgers Stadium,” he said. “The whole ceremony will be one hour flat. It won’t be punctuated by the long reading of names. It will be brief, celebrator y and upbeat.” The Academic Standards, Regulations and Admissions Committee (ASRAC) repor ted an inability to analyze the ef fects of lengthening the add/drop period for class registration by one day at the meeting. “A group of former senators asked to extend the add/drop so it would be eight days to drop and nine to add, so we agreed to have a trial for the 2010-2011 academic year,” said Mar tha Cotter, ASRAC cochair. “We’re approaching the end, but there is not sufficient data to see effects of the trial.” Cotter said this is because the fall 2010 semester did not provide a good trial because Rosh Hashanah fell during the period. “There is no time for a thorough analysis,” she said. “It’s not a hot button issue of great immediate concern, so we want to extend the trial period for another year.” ASRAC promised this Senateapproved measure would be absolved next year if they do not have sufficient information after this trial period.

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RUPA: Committee collects information on potential artists continued from front Bruno said when Kanye West performed at the University years ago, he was not as famous as he is today. She and the rest of the RUPA committee believe YelaWolf is going to rise in fame as well. YelaWolf’s mixtape, “Trunk Muzik 0-60,” was his first project with a major label and was released last November under Ghet-O-Vision Entertainment and Interscope Records. “Radioactive,” his first full-length studio album, is scheduled to be released this summer. The rapper also recently graced the cover of XXL magazine and sold out a concert this March at New York City’s Highland Ballroom. Aside from the emergingartist quality, RUPA considered other factors when selecting and booking Rutgersfest artists — a difficult process that takes three to four months, Bruno said. “It’s a huge undertaking,” said Matthew Johnson, RUPA vice president of public relations and marketing. The committee conducts extensive research when picking an artist, Bruno said. They look at what artists are popular among students and check how well they interact at other college concerts, if they behave appropriately during shows, if they draw a large crowd and if they have a good reputation.

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“Reputation’s a big deal because we’re representing Rutgers University,” said Johnson, a Rutgers Business School senior. Difficulties arise also because many artists do not want to play at colleges, some are not available on the day of Rutgersfest or they are too expensive to book, Johnson said, adding that the pricing for the artists RUPA booked this year is confidential. If RUPA were to book a very famous artist, like Lady Gaga, RUPA would have to charge admission and only have that one performer, Bruno said. She said this would not be ideal at a place like the University, where the students have a variety of musical tastes. The decision to have a mostly hip-hop lineup this year, with no rock artist, was to appeal to a different group of students than last year, where the headlining act was rock band Brand New, Bruno said. “For a student that would come in for four years, and go to four different Rutgersfests, they would expect to get four different types of acts,” Johnson said. Bruno said RUPA tries to appeal to a variety of tastes, but there is no way for the committee to please everyone. Powers said RUPA did try to appeal to the University’s rock audience with some of its other shows peppered throughout the year, like with September’s Reel Big Fish and February’s Circa Survive concert. “The fact of the matter is not everyone listens to rock. Not ever yone listens to hip-hop,” Bruno said. “It’s a catch-22.”

stereotype by allowing more communication between programmers. “You know, sitting in front of gives food, drinks to ‘hackers’ the computer, just programming — that stereotype is actucontinued from front ally kind of true,” he said. “So application is, if the judges are it’s kind of annoying.” going to use the applications One of the goals of USACS is themselves and the last one is to be able to provide an open dissheer awesomeness,” he said. course within the computer sciAlthough the event was proence department. moted as a programming com“There are communication petition, Jalal believes HackRU gaps between students and facof fers more than just prizes ulty,” he said. “That’s what our and titles. club is supposed to bridge. So “It’s less contest and more we’ve been tr ying our best in learning,” he said. doing that.” The idea for HackRU was The best way to accomplish formed after members of USACS that goal is to interact with other competed in several depar tments hackathons held at that are trying “It was a great other institutions, to do the same Jalal said. experience to play thing, Jalal said. “We actually got “We have around with third place in people from all HackNY,” he said. over the place technology, so “So from there we — Princeton, went to four other it was really cool.” Brown, MIT, hackathons and this ever ywhere,” YIFU HUANG event is the mash up he said. “It’s a School of Arts and of all the best parts of great way to Sciences Junior the four hackathons meet other we went to.” people, talk to Their winning idea from other people, network and HackNY was a chatrouletteform teams.” inspired chat that allowed Ryan Schwartz, a School of users to text and play games Arts and Sciences junior, was with random people via cellone of many computer science phone, he said. majors who came out to support The HackRU competition was the event. open to anyone who would like to “I was talking with one of the participate, Jalal said. organizers and he was saying it “We have graduate students, was more of a learning opportuwe have undergraduate students, nity where you get to talk and we even have high school stuinteract with these companies dents,” he said. and see what they’ve created,” Because it was a 24-hour event, Schwartz said. “So that was what it was common to see participants drew me here.” carrying food and pillows into Huang, a member from team their respective workspaces. “.Medley,” agreed the event “People stay up the entire provided a great way to learn time,” he said. “We have a few new skills. hundred bottles of Monster, 5“It was definitely fun,” said hour energy drinks — people are Huang, a School of Arts and fed the entire 24 hours.” Sciences junior. “It was a great Jalal hopes HackRU will be able experience to play around with to dispel the computer science technology, so it was really cool.”

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Group raises money for water crisis in South American countries BY KEVIN DAHAGHI CONTRIBUTING WRITER

University students sipped “dirty water” tea and were entertained by student performances geared to combat the global water crisis in developing countries during the Liquid Water International’s coffeehouse and open mic night. “Our goal is to raise awareness about the global water crisis and raise money to dig wells,” said President of Liquid Water Regina Guazzo about the event which took place Friday in the Douglass Campus Center. “We’re focusing now on Haiti and El Salvador.” In response to the earthquake in Haiti, Liquid Water has been raising donations to restore the damaged water supply, said Guazzo, a School of Engineering sophomore. Liquid Water International is a nonprofit, humanitarian organization that works with other clean water organizations to dig wells in developing countries, she said. “They have a global mission, which means they want to serve

on a global scale but also on a local level,” she said. “That’s why we serve in the New Brunswick community as well as raise money for wells around the world” Eight hundred and 84 million people worldwide — roughly oneeighth of the world’s population — do not have access to safe water, and 1.8 million children worldwide die annually as a result of diseases caused by unclean water, amounting to about 5,000 deaths a day, Guazzo said. Contaminated drinking water also allows for intestinal worms to enter the drinking water, which affects 10 percent of the population of developing countries, she said. “Intestinal parasitic infections can lead to malnutrition, anemia and stunted growth,” she said. “And a lot of times you get intestinal worms from bad drinking water.” Providing water and hygiene education reduces the amount of worldwide annual deaths caused by diarrhoeal diseases an average of 65 percent, Guazzo said. “Once they have clean water, it is easier for them to have

proper sanitation and the health care system can be developed more. Then they are healthy and able to go to school, they get a job and build up the economy of the countr y,” she said. “It all starts with water.”

“Students have different passions, so it really helps to bring all the diversity of Rutgers together to help form this.” REGINA GUAZZO Liquid Water President

Eric Struble, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences senior, commented on the effects of limited clean water supply on gender in developing countries. “It’s the cultural setup where women have to go out and find the water for the family each day,” Struble said. “If the women don’t, then the family will be without water.”

The idea for holding a coffeehouse and open mic night was to educate and reach out to students while providing an inviting atmosphere, Guazzo said. “We figured it was a good, lowkey type of event where people just come, relax with friends, have free food and enjoy good music,” she said. School of Arts and Sciences graduate student Rakhi Kothiyal supported Liquid Water and appreciated the relaxing feel of the event. “Clean water is a very basic need that most of people around the world don’t have,” she said. “It is a good event with all the music and food for us.” Guazzo said the organization is positively embracing the University’s large student population and resources. “Students have dif ferent passions, so it really helps to bring all the diversity of Rutgers together to help form this,” she said. “With this coffeehouse, we have people who are musicians per forming, and we have people who are creative designing posters, it’s a

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good way to bring ever yone’s skills together.” General member Naomi Washington-Roque joined the organization after searching for a humanitarian organization working to solve an important issue. “Of course the water crisis is one of the biggest issues of our time,” said Washington-Roque, a School of Ar ts and Sciences sophomore. “This is one of the events that I think it going to jumpstar t us and all of the money raised goes directly to the cause, it’s great.” Liquid Water International is also running a fundraiser selling “dirty water,” tea created to symbolize the unsanitar y water conditions in developing countries, to raise money for building wells in developing countries, Guazzo said. “The ‘dirty water’ challenge is where you take one of the ‘dirty water’ bottles and make a commitment to drink only water for about three weeks,” she said. “Save the money that you would have spent on drinks to fill the bottle with the money and donate the money to Liquid Water.”

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Attendees gather in the Douglass Campus Center to watch student perfomers and taste “dirty water” Friday at Liquid Water International coffeehouse and open mic night. The event, aimed to promote awareness of the global water crisis, provided bottles of “dirty water,” a tea created to symbolize unsanitary water conditions.

ANTHROPOLOGY PROFESSOR CREATES CLASS ON GENOCIDE IN WAR-TORN REGIONS Rutgers-Newark introduced a class that will focus solely on genocide in war-torn regions. The class, which was created by RutgersNewark Anthropology Professor Alex Hinton, analyzes the study of genocide from an activist and scholarly viewpoint, according to a Rutgers FOCUS article. Hinton said he was inspired to start his class, “Genocide Prevention,” after visiting Cambodia while he was a graduate student in the 1990s. In Cambodia, he saw the impact of the Khmer Rouge’s genocide campaign. “I made a commitment not just to conduct scholarly research into the origins and effects of such violence, but to seek ways to prevent it,” Hinton said in the article. Because activists and genocide scholars make groundbreaking discoveries in their own fields but do not actually have much interaction with each other, Hinton said he wants students to connect both fields together. To discuss the impact of genocide, Hinton invited speakers like Fred Schwartz, founder and president of the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation. Schwar tz came last month to discuss measures like diplomacy, international legal mechanisms and human rights initiatives that he believes could curb the damage caused by genocide. “We’d like to think of it as aberrant behavior,” Schwar tz said in the ar ticle. “But

it occurs in ever y corner of the world, in ever y kind of people. It is something human beings do. It is a disease essentially without a cure.” Two students, Yannek Smith and Jade Antoinette Adebo, said they appreciated the class’ objective and believe the topic of genocide is one all University students should be more aware of. “In my family, there is a deep awareness and knowledge of genocide,” Adebo, a Rutgers-Newark junior whose mother hails from a war-torn region in Cambodia and whose father hails form a war-torn region in Nigeria, said in the article. Smith, a Rutgers-Newark senior who ser ves as a student associate at the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, agreed with Adebo and said the class helps address the genocide from various perspectives. “It’s an issue you have to look at ver y soberly,” Smith said in the ar ticle. “How can we minimize the damage? How can we prevent it?” After presenting in front of Hilton’s class, Schwar tz said he was impressed with the idea of a genocide-centered class and wishes more schools will embrace it in the future. — Ankita Panda

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The Student Volunteer Council will hold a blood drive from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Rutgers Student Center Multipurpose Room. Participants will donate blood through New Jersey Blood Services. For more information contact the Student Volunteer Council at svc@echo.rutgers.edu.

The SPIN Program will host a Speed Networking event at 6 p.m. in the Cook Campus Center. Interested students will attend a brief networking boot camp before joining University alumni and other industry professionals in a friendly round of speed networking. The purpose of the event is to give students the opportunity to polish social skills and build new relationships by interacting with employers and alumni willing to offer career advice and insight. Interested people must contact the SPIN office at (732)-932-3000 ext. 522 or email Kristen Lester at lester@aesop.rutgers.edu.

Rutgers University Programming Association will be hosting “Inside the Nicole ‘Snooki’ Polizzi Studio” with two shows in the Livingston Hall at the Livingston Student Center starring “Jersey Shore” star Snooki with her comedian side-kick Adam Ace. Doors for the first show open at 7 p.m. and the show starts at 8 p.m., while the second show starts at 10 p.m. with wristbands required for entry. University students get a wristband between 4 and 7 p.m. at the Livingston Student Center. Students must bring their RUID. Seats are available for non-University students and will be admitted on a first-come, first-ser ve basis. Wristbands will be distributed in the order of the show times, with the 8 p.m. wristbands being handed out first. For more information, visit getinvolved.rutgers.edu.

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RU Wanawake, a student organization that unites college women for the interests of Africa, will host its 2nd Annual “Honoring the African Woman” banquet at 7:30 p.m. in the Douglass Lounge of the Douglass Campus Center. The club will be presenting awards to three women who improved Africa through philanthropic work and dedication. Entertainment of the night includes a performance by R&B singer Rotimi. The event is free. For more information, visit the organization’s Facebook page or email ruwanawake@yahoo.com.

Rutgers University Dance Marathon, to support the Embrace Kids Foundation, will take place in the College Avenue Gym this weekend. Dance marathon is a 32-hour student-run event to raise money for the Embrace Kids Foundation, a non-profit organization that aids the non-medical needs of the children with cancer and blood disorders. Dance Marathon is now closed to dancer registration but applications are still available for alumni dancers, set up and clean up crew and fundraisers. For more information, please visit marathon.rutgers.edu/home.

Off-Campus Students’ Association will hold a car maintenance workshop and meeting starting at 8 p.m. in Room 407 of the Rutgers Student Center. Participants will learn how to change a tire and more car tips. For more information, visit getinvolved.rutgers.edu.

Rutgers University Programming Association will hold a trip to see “American Idiot” on Broadway with discounted student tickets. The bus departs from the Rutgers Student Center at noon and will return at 9 p.m. after the show. Ticket cost includes the discounted student tickets and travel expenses, and costs $35 for students and $45 for faculty, staff, alumni and guests. Tickets are on sale from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Student Activities Center. For more information, visit getinvolved.rutgers.edu.

Ginormous Games featuring Hot Air Balloon Rides will take place at the Douglass Woodlawn from 5 to 8 p.m. depending on the weather. Crafts and games will be available while in line. Space and time is limited so rides will be given on a first-come, first-served basis. Rain date is slated for Monday, April 25. For more information visit getinvolved.rutgers.edu.

Rutgers University Programming Association will host Rutgersfest beginning at 1 p.m. at Yurcak Field on Busch campus located at Frelinghuysen Road and Scarlet Knight Way, off of the traffic circle. Inflatable games/rides, free photo booths and a free musical performance are all part of the day’s activities. Musical guests include The Battle of the Bands winner, Yelawolf, 3Oh!3 and Pitbull. For more information, visit getinvolved.rutgers.edu.

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Libyan rebels close in on regime stronghold THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RAS LANOUF, Libya — International air raids targeted Moammar Gadhafi’s hometown of Sirte for the first time Sunday night as rebels quickly closed in on the regime stronghold, a formidable obstacle that must be overcome for government opponents to reach the capital Tripoli. A heavy bombardment of Tripoli also began after nightfall, with at least nine loud explosions and antiaircraft fire heard, an Associated Press reporter in the city said. Earlier in the day, rebels regained two key oil complexes along the coastal highway that runs from the opposition-held eastern half of the countr y toward Sirte and beyond that, to the capital. Moving quickly westward, the advance retraced their steps in the first rebel march toward the capital. But this time, the world’s most powerful air forces have eased the way by pounding Gadhafi’s militar y assets for the past week. Sirte is strategically located about halfway between the rebelheld east and the Gadhafi-controlled west along the Mediterranean coast. It is a bastion of support for Gadhafi that will be difficult for the rebels to overrun and the entrances to the city have reportedly been mined. If the rebels could somehow overcome

Sirte, momentum for a march on the capital would skyrocket. An AP reporter at the front said the latest rebel advance during the day reached as far west as the oil port of Ras Lanouf, about 130 miles (210 kilometers) east of Sirte. After nightfall, Libyan state television confirmed air raids on Sirte and Tripoli. Foreign journalists who were taken by the regime to Sirte a few hours before the bombings began reported hearing at least six loud explosions and warplanes flying overheard. They were driven around the city and said it was swarming with soldiers on patrol and armed civilians, many of them wearing green bandanas that signaled their support for Gadhafi. In the contested city of Misrata in western Libya, residents reported fighting between rebels and Gadhafi loyalists who fired from tanks on residential areas. Misrata is one of two cities in western Libya that have risen against the regime and suffered brutal crackdowns. It is located between Tripoli and Sirte on the coastal road. In Washington, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he could not offer a timetable for how long the Libya operation could last, as the Obama administration tried to bolster its case for bringing the United States into another war in the Muslim world.

The U.N. Security Council authorized the operation to protect Libyan civilians after Gadhafi launched attacks against anti-government protesters who demanded that he step down after nearly 42 years in power. The airstrikes have crippled Gadhafi’s forces, allowing rebels to advance less than two weeks after they had seemed at the brink of defeat. Now that the rebels have regained control of two key oil ports, they are making tentative plans to exploit Libya’s most valuable natural resource. But production is at a trickle, the foreign oil workers and their vital expertise have fled the country, and even talk of a marketing deal with Qatar seems murky at best. “As they move round the coast, of course, the rebels will increasingly control the exit points of Libya’s oil,” British Defense Secretary Liam Fox told the BBC. “That will produce a very dynamic and a very different equilibrium inside Libya. How that will play out in terms of public opinion and the Gadhafi regime remains to be seen.” The coastal complexes at Ras Lanouf and Brega were responsible for a large chunk of Libya’s 1.5 million barrels of daily exports, which have all but stopped since the uprising that began Feb. 15 and was inspired by the toppling of governments in Tunisia and Egypt.

On the eastern approach of Ras Lanouf, airstrikes hit three empty tank transporters and left two buildings that appeared to be sleeping quarters pockmarked with shrapnel. Like the oil port of Brega and the city of Ajdabiya before it, Gadhafi’s troops appear to have left in a hurry, abandoning ammunition and disappearing without a fight. “There was no resistance. Gadhafi’s forces just melted away,” said Suleiman Ibrahim, a 31-year-old volunteer, sitting in the back of a pickup truck on the road between the two towns. “This couldn’t have happened without NATO. They gave us big support.” The agreement with the tiny Gulf nation of Qatar could allow the rebels to exploit Libya’s vast oil reserves — most of which are in the eastern territory they control. With no ships coming or going, Libya’s tanks are full to the brim. Until they are emptied, there’s nowhere to store any oil that is pumped from the ground. Qatar, which has conducted at least one sortie over Libya, is the only Arab country known to have actively joined with the international force. “We trust them, so basically they are the ones who are going to market our oil for us,” Ali Tarhouni, the rebel finance official, told The Associated Press on

Friday. “For Qatar there’s no words to describe what they’ve done for the Libyan cause.” Officials at Qatar’s ministry of energy and industry could not be reached for comment. Executives with the Arabian Gulf Oil Co., the National Oil Co. subsidiary in the east that broke free from its parent company, also could not be reached. Repeated calls to Libya’s oil minister went unanswered. Eastern oil officials said more than a week ago they were still producing about 100,000 barrels per day from two key fields. But it was unclear whether such levels were sustainable given the security problems across the country and the exodus of foreign workers from the vital sector. The Paris-based International Energy Agency said recently it believed that Libyan oil production had “slowed to a trickle” while exports had “ground to a halt.” The IEA said it believed it could take months for Libyan oil to reappear on the world market. Gates said the international action appeared to be a success, with the no-fly zone in place and sustainable with “a lot less effort than it took to set it up.” He said the Pentagon was planning how to draw down resources that will be assigned to European and other countries pledging to take on a larger role.

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Free gun giveaway makes no sense W

hile the old adage may be that sex sells, violence is a pretty close second in terms of marketing power — and it seems that the Radio Shack in Hamilton, Mont., knows that. As part of their newest promotion, they are giving away free guns to any customer who buys Dish Network. Yes, you read that right — free guns. If it sounds absolutely ridiculous, that’s because it is. Sure, the slogan “Protect yourself with the Dish Network” sounds kind of catchy, in an oddly militaristic way, but how exactly does this promotion make sense? What does Dish Network have to do with guns? To take it a step further, what is Radio Shack doing trafficking in the business of firearms? Aren’t they an electronics store? Perhaps even more disturbing than the giveaway itself is the fact that it has been incredibly successful. According to Steve Strand, the proprietor of the store, the free guns promotion has tripled his business. Maybe we are just hopelessly out of touch with modern society or maybe our status as college students from New Jersey is preventing us from understanding why people in Montana seem to love guns so much. Whatever the case, we are having a really hard time grasping the logic behind this promotion and its success. Even though customers have to undergo background checks before claiming their free weapon, we still think this is a wildly irresponsible promotion. Let’s say a local clothing store decides to run a promotion wherein you can buy a shirt and get a free pack of cigarettes. The hypothetical clothing store would probably come under a lot of fire for that sort of thing. And yet, cigarettes can only kill one person — the user. On the other hand, guns can kill other people — a lot of other people — and Radio Shack’s giveaway seems to be just fine with the people of Hamilton. It just doesn’t make sense. Think about it. All in all, we just don’t think it is a very responsible course of action to give away something as dangerous as a gun as part of a Dish Network promotion. Has violence become that normalized in the United States? If that’s the case, we are living in a pretty sad time. But, hey, on the bright side, at least the Radio Shack is allowing customers who don’t want the gun to opt for a $50 gift certificate to Pizza Hut. If we were in the market for satellite television, we would definitely pick pizza over weaponry.

Criticize ‘Friday,’ not Rebecca Black T

he latest ironic craze to sweep the nation is, undoubtedly, Rebecca Black’s “Friday.” The song has shown up everywhere — all across the Internet, on television and probably at every party you went to this weekend. Black’s song is pretty much the epitome of bad pop music, using all of the worst tropes of America’s somewhat vapid Top 40 tunes. It would be a brilliant parody of the state of popular music today, if it weren’t for the fact that it is a serious song. But here’s the thing — even though Black has rocketed to fame as the butt of everyone’s jokes, the fact remains that she’s been thrust into the national spotlight. She is a household name. Whether you’re buying her song off iTunes ironically, she is still making money off it — and lots of money at that. But you may feel bad about all the vitriol you’ve thrown her way when you find out what she is doing with that money. According to an interview with Us magazine, Black is donating the proceeds of “Friday” to both relief efforts in Japan and her school, El Rancho Charter. This is a perfect example of separating the art from the artist — that is, if you are willing to consider “Friday” art in the first place, which many people probably aren’t. Terminology aside, we cannot, or at least should not, be attacking Black personally. Sure, her song is unequivocally awful, but we have to keep in mind that she is a 13-year-old girl. If anything, it would be wrong to expect better from her than what she has given us. Black appeared on “Good Morning America” to talk about some of the cyber-bullying she has endured in the wake of “Friday” going viral. It’s sad that people — many of them grown adults — have been saying some pretty mean things about Black, especially considering how good a person she is proving herself to be. She’s not a rich, fameobsessed brat. She’s just a girl with a dream. While we definitely do not want to see Black stick around for much longer — the joke’s old, and anyway you slice it, she still isn’t a very talented singer — we give her credit for being a pretty mature 13-yearold. Not many people in her shoes would be donating their money to charity. The lesson that people can hopefully take from all of this is that, no matter how bad her song is, it is almost always inappropriate to launch ad hominem attacks on a 13-year-old girl. So let’s all take a step back, calm down and quit giving Black such a hard time. Hate on her song if you must — just don’t hate on her.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “You know, sitting in front of the computer, just programming — that stereotype is actually kind of true. So it’s kind of annoying.” Sameen Jalal, event coordinator of HackRU, on computer science stereotypes STORY IN FRONT

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Separate Libya from Iraq A

prevent this eventuality s the United States and ally the United States becomes deeper with freedom and democrainvolved in its third cy in the Middle East, war in a Muslim state, comwhich is a similar justificaparisons with the war in tion to that which motivatIraq are inevitably made. ed direct action in the war Before any discussion of BILAL AHMED in Iraq. Iraq is a continuing the two conflicts is made, it militar y campaign, which is important to note that difhas roots in an attitude of self-admiring support ferences between the wars in Libya and Iraq for democracy that both predated and sur vived undeniably dif ferentiate the two conflicts. the revelation that Saddam Hussein did not purPresident Barack Obama continued his foreign sue weapons of mass destruction. This support policy trend of limiting U.S. combat involvement was meant to portray that the United States was in Libya, while former President George W. Bush allied with pro-democratic movements in the over whelmingly devoted large numbers of troops Middle East, though they were certainly less to over throwing Saddam Hussein in Iraq — noticeable until a Tunisian man resolved to set though sustainability concerns limited the numhimself ablaze. Libya is therefore another ber of soldiers he committed as well. attempt to place the United States in a favorable There has been some international support light in the Middle East by offering itself as the for inter vention in Libya, although these resoluvanguard of regional democracy and will have tions have advocated for a much narrower range similarly complex problems later when these of militar y options than explored in Libya. Even attempts run against American interests of mainthe Arab League vote has been regretted subtaining stability and the export of stantially by those who voted for oil from the region. it. Libya has been over whelmingly “Libya is ... another However, the most striking difportrayed as a humanitarian conference between Iraq and Libya is flict that will protect the lives of attempt to place that Bush at least attempted to civilians, while Iraq was sold to the United States maintain a semblance of democrathe international community as a cy by lubricating the months leadsecurity action against the prolifin a favorable light ing up to the beginning of the coneration of weapons of mass destr uction primarily and a in the Middle East.” flict with a public relations campaign concerning the necessity of humanitarian action secondly. the conflict. Obama, surprisingly The bombing of Libya is someenough, has begun the Libyan campaign with litwhat similar to the NATO assault on Serbia, tle consultation from elected representatives, which saw the international community inter venworr ying, as there is a weak withdrawal strategy ing to stop the destructive trend of regional polifrom Libya similar to that of Iraq where thoutics. It is worr ying that despite successes in the sands of troops are still stationed. Let us not forSlavic states, the United Nations is still skeptical get that Iraq was supposed to be a conflict conabout the capacity of ethnic tensions to ease in cluded in a matter of months, not years. It seems the region and these developments may be replireasonable to believe that Libya, while we are cated in Libya. still stationed in Iraq, may become Obama’s Iraq. Obama sought to differentiate himself from The gap of histor y is so minuscule between the his Republican peers by committing troops to two conflicts that it would be inexcusable if this Libya while confronting real concerns in the were the case. state. However, the basis for this commission is almost identical to that of Iraq. It became Bilal Ahmed is a School of Arts and Sciences increasingly clear that a victor y for Muammar junior majoring in Middle Eastern studies and Gaddafi would set a powerful precedent in the minoring in political science and African Middle Arab world that autocratic oppression of rebelEastern and South Asian languages and literalious movements would lead to an end of political tures. His column, “Gods Go Begging,” runs on movements against the dictators in question. alternate Mondays. American inter vention in Libya would therefore

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NFL fans deserve a resolution to labor dispute Letter MICHAEL KORYBSKI

ver y time I go to a sports news web page looking for real news on the current National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) labor dispute, I usually end up emptyhanded. What I do come across is article after article of players taking the opportunity to get cheap shots in on the owners. This is petty and it must stop if they ever hope to get a labor deal done. Recently, NFL running back Adrian Peterson likened the

NFL to “modern-day slaver y.” Not only is he trivializing a horrific practice that still goes on to this day, he is also showing how truly out of touch with reality he, along with several other players who echoed his statements, really are. Peterson continued his argument by stating that the NFL is robbing the players, and the owners make too much off the players as it is. I cannot understand why someone who is set to make $10 million next year feels this is an appropriate statement. These issues are not isolated with the players, though. The NFLPA, a professional organization complete with a

public relations staf f, asked the top college prospects to not attend the 2011 NFL Draft in April. The NFL Draft is an

“The fans care about having football in 2011. That is the only right thing to do.” annual event where teams take turns selecting eligible college athletes to play for their team. It is the culmination of a lifetime of hard work for players

and their families. The NFL usually invites the top few prospects to the draft with their families as a way to welcome them into the league. It is petty and pointless to withhold college players who are not involved with this labor dispute from this event. Having them boycott will not hur t the NFL or sway public opinion toward the NFLPA. This will only hur t the athletes and their families who worked hard and sacrificed so much to get to this point. It’s like telling a college student and their family to not attend graduation. Both sides need to realize that fans really do not care

ver y much which side wins and which side loses. The fans care about having football in 2011. That is the only right thing to do. Insulting the other side and saying outrageous statements only divides the two sides more when they should be working on a deal together. The fans have a hard time sympathizing with billionaire owners and millionaire players. Both sides need to remember who gives them the $9 billion ever y year that they cannot agree on and get a deal done for us, not them. Michael Korybski is a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore.

Combine NJIT, Rutgers-Newark, UMDNJ Letter DAVENDRA GOSWAMI

am writing on behalf of the students of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). Since my arrival as a student three years ago, I witnessed NJIT disable the rights of individual students, professors and employees to speak out against the university and solve their problems internally. NJIT possesses many institutional problems, which the current president, Robert Altenkirch, and members of the administration choose to ignore. First and foremost, I would like to state that the information and opinions herein reflect the sentiments of not only me, but also my friends, classmates and professors who have guided my studies at this university. I encourage the governor’s office to conduct inter views of faculty, students and employees from all departments of NJIT to truly gain an objective understanding of the problems that plague this potentially great institute. The administration of NJIT has proven insufficient in dealing with the problems themselves. Multiple faculty members and students have raised issues that were continually dismissed. I am asking the governor’s office to investigate these matters and solve the problems for the welfare of NJIT’s academic community. I would first like to consider the three administrative offices — bursar’s, registrar’s and financial aid — that our institute’s students must deal with on a per-semester basis. NJIT has difficulty managing these

of fices due to the overburdened class sizes and the resources they have to meet the students’ needs. The bursar’s office is incapable of handling its duties, leaving students frustrated and waiting in long lines. The financial aid office cannot provide their students proper guidance when filling out important documents. There is also a long process of applying for financial aid each semester, sometimes resulting in late charges brought up by the bursar’s office. The university continuously chooses to ignore these problems rather then fix them. A good source of information is Dean Charles Brooks, who has addressed many of the problems to the higher administration of this university but is overshadowed continuously by those in higher positions. The admissions office cannot keep up with the number of applications received, and some students must suffer great headaches to receive a final answer. The registrar’s office gives transfer students a very hard time transferring credits and the process is long and hectic. NJIT continuously does not have an efficient merit system to run their university according to their students’ concerns. Fur thermore, financial aid fully met the need of only 9.3 percent of students at NJIT, according to U.S. News & World Report. In parallel to this dismaying statistic, the university has robbed the students endlessly by not properly giving back what they are supposed to by law. For example, last semester I was charged a $325 health insurance fee. I filled out the waiver

form as I have my own insurance from my family, but the charge remained on my bill. When I showed this charge to the bursar’s office and brought a copy of my insurance card, the university claimed it could not do anything and never refunded my money. I am not the only one who has experienced these problems — many of this institute’s students who have no choice but to finish their diplomas without standing up for their rights.

“I witnessed NJIT disable the rights of individual students, professors and employees.” NJIT is running their academic institution as a disgraceful business, using models that fit the Caribbean medical schools and are not in compliance with American university standards. By accepting great amounts of students and lacking the resources to fulfill their quotas, NJIT’s graduation rate is a low 16 percent within four years and 55 percent within six years. This number displeases many of the students, resulting in a high transfer rate of 80 percent. Additionally, the mathematics requirements within the institution are disgraceful. Many students fail Calculus I and Calculus II and have to take the same class again. I do not know the individual statistics, but the governor’s office should look at how many times students repeat certain classes, often preventing

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new students from registering for these classes. NJIT is thinking about starting a medical school because of the excess money the institute has accumulated by ripping off students. In student orientations, they have addressed that they are in the process of creating an American-based medical school. This is false recruitment based on the overview of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), as NJIT did not even apply for a license to start a medical school and cannot until it reaches one of the approval steps, which has not yet happened. Once this problem was directly addressed, NJIT did not admit fault, but instead said I was creating the problem in my head. Interview the students surrounding the biology department at NJIT and you will hear this again. This false recruitment can mean serious consequences for our institute if investigated by LCME and problems for the state of New Jersey in extending medical education to our state’s already short supply of doctors. Even before expanding and starting a medical school to fulfill the short quota of doctors in the United States, NJIT needs to fix their biology depar tment. NJIT biology students are disadvantaged by cross registration with Rutgers-Newark, as the systems of the universities are separate but the departments are combined. Most of NJIT’s biology requirements are completed at Rutgers-Newark, but NJIT biology students always get the run around when registering for these classes because they are second to Rutgers-Newark students. Karen Roach, the

academic coordinator for biology at NJIT, is also known among the students to favor some over others when it comes to course selection and other issues. NJIT has done nothing to solve this issue, and interviews among the biology students at NJIT will confirm that Roach has not been reprimanded. These problems do not only affect the great students of our institute, but also many of the professors. In my concluding thoughts, it is my belief that with further research, it would be in the best interest of NJIT, Rutgers-Newark and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey to form one institute in the future. The tri-institutional system of registering is a pain for students, and even though the bill has failed previously through former Gov. James McGreevey’s corrupt administration, the governor’s office should look at the longterm cost-efficiency of the state’s budget if this ever happens. Before these institutions can combine, each of them must fix their internal problems. As you can hopefully see, these problems require an outside higher authority in order to bring about resolution. I ask the governor’s office with a full heart and a full mind to make an investigation of these problems that plague and hurt the NJIT community, so that they may potentially be solved for the better welfare of our academic community. I thank you for reading this letter and hearing my university’s problems, which I hope will result in more efficiency. Davendra Goswami is a student at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

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three of the team’s four runs. She also belted her first career after first outing vs. Orange home run on a line drive to leftcenter field. continued from back “We didn’t win, so it’s hard to be truly happy about it,” off the board for the majority of Bragg said of her homer. the game and fanned six batters. “We’ve hit a bit of a rough patch “I think a big part of it was getat this point in the season, but it ting ahead in the zone,” Sisco felt good to get back on the said. “Once I got ahead, I could board and we really responded hit my curveball on the outside to losing that first game so corner and kind of badly. We’re not a take control. As team that should “They kind of knew ever lose that long as we’re ahead of the batwhat [Noelle Sisco] badly to anyone.” ters, we’re in Injuries forced was doing. They attack mode.” a series of But nothing conchanges in the only had to look in outfield that made tained Syracuse’s bats for long. one place and ... she things tough on Sisco was not the Knights. started struggling.” as successful in Senior centerthe third game of fielder and leadoff JAY NELSON the doubleheader hitter Jen Head Coach and she picked up Meinheit injured the loss by giving her ACL last week up four runs in three innings. and may be out for the rest of the “I think, with Noelle, they season, Nelson said. Junior kind of figured her out after Lindsey Curran, the fourth seeing her once through the option in the outfield, has an lineup in [her] second game,” injured hand and can only pinchNelson said. “They kind of run, which forced freshman knew what she was doing. They Loren Williams into the spotlight. only had to look in one place Williams took it in stride and once they caught on, she and put up strong numbers started struggling.” over the weekend. Sophomore shortstop Ashley Transitioning from the Bragg was the only hitter who infield, Williams had her share did not have trouble with ’Cuse’s of struggles in center, but her pair of aces. Bragg reached base speed made up for her strugin four out of her eight weekend gles with two hits and three plate appearances and scored stolen bases.

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Junior Noelle Sisco took one loss in two appearances this weekend at the RU Softball Complex against Syracuse.

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the middle with two outs, allowing a run to score. But sophomore righthander Tyler Gebler could not suppress continued from back the tough Cardinals lineup, allowing nine hits and six earned runs to take his third bump despite having a pitch loss of the season. count over 100. Rutgers once again struggled The inning began with Sweeney to get anything going from the booting a groundball and Smorol plate, earning just making an off-tarseven hits while get throw to second leaving a number base off a bunt to “We’re finally of runners strandthe mound by Drew Haynes. coming together at ed in the loss. Still, with yesterAnother error the right time and day’s win the later in the Knights regained inning tied the it looks like we’re some momentum game at two, endgoing to go on heading into ing Smorol’s day Wednesday’s game and marking the a nice little roll.” against Wagner and first of five runs — more importantscored by the ROB CORSI ly — next weekCardinals en Sophomore Reliever end’s series against route to a 9-2 Seton Hall. Rutgers loss. And based on Corsi’s burst of “It’s frustrating whether you’re excitement after getting out of the out there or you’re watching one of bases-loaded jam, it is easy to see your teammates go through it,” the sophomore is a big reason why. Smorol said of the errors. “There’s “We’re finally coming together nothing you can do about it. We’ll at the right time and it looks like pick it up.” we’re going to go on a nice little roll, A late-game surge also hopefully,” Corsi said. plagued the Knights to start the series, as Louisville registered a KNIGHT NOTE: five-run eighth inning to balloon Sophomore shortstop Steve its lead to 9-1. Nyisztor remained out of the lineup Rutgers brought the game within all three games of the series due in one run in the fourth inning after to illness and is day-to-day heading senior third baseman D.J. into Wednesday’s home matchup Anderson, who recorded five hits against Wagner. in the series, beat a grounder up

chases Smorol from Game 2

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Junior designated hitter Russ Hopkins went 4-for-4 yesterday in the Scarlet Knights’ 4-2 victory over Louisville. The usual first or third baseman raised his average to .234 on the season.

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First-half hole proves too steep for Rutgers gave the Orange a lead, which they defended since there was 20:56 remaining in the first half. When the Rutgers women’s “We haven’t played a team yet lacrosse team played No. 11 that can shoot from so far out and shoot so accurately,” Moran said. “Their style of play is more boy-like WOMEN’S LACROSSE where they shoot from wherever.” SYRACUSE 11 Syracuse tied its greatest lead of the day with 28:38 remaining in the RUTGERS 7 second half, when it took a five-goal advantage at 9-4. Syracuse on Saturday at the RU “We weren’t playing them as Turf Field, it hosted a team that lost tightly as we should have been,” to all five ranked opponents it faced head coach Laura Brand said. in non-conference play. “We played a little bit passive in But that experience was enough the beginning of the game.” to vault the Orange over the Scarlet The Orange built a dominant Knights in an 11-7 win. lead by scoring four consecutive The Knights (6-3, 1-1) made goals in the first half to lead, 8-3, adjustments in the with 2:35 remaining second half to in the period. “We haven’t played score as many “We picked up goals as the the pace of things a team yet that can Orange in the periand played more shoot from so far od, but a four-goal of our style, but at deficit at the half that point, we were out ... accurately. was too much for in a position to Rutgers to overTheir style of play play catch-up and come. it was a little too is more boy-like.” much for us,” One of the adjustments Brand said. MARY MORAN occurred in the Rutgers only Senior Defender cage, where sopholed when it had a 2more Aimee 1 advantage with Chotikul took over for sophomore 24:14 remaining in the first half. Lily Kalata. In her third game of the On both scoring possessions, season, Chotikul gave up only three Rutgers won the draw and posgoals to the potent Syracuse offense sessed the ball for at least two in the second half. minutes, which resulted in two of “She was excellent, absolutely junior Ali Steinberg’s four goals of excellent,” said senior defender the game. Mary Moran. “She wasn’t scared “They were playing really at all. She was very aggressive. man-to-man,” the midfielder She was talking on defense. She said. “They didn’t really play did everything that we wanted the slide, so if you beat your girl her to do.” it was an easy open cage. They Rutgers cut its deficit to three were so concentrated on the when senior attack Kristen other attackers.” Anderson scored her second goal When the Knights scored, of the game with seven minutes left they generally generated sucon a free position shot. cess from their patience to get But following the goal, Syracuse off the perfect shot and not ran down the clock with every poscommit turnovers. session. The Orange tallied another “We tried to possess the ball goal to cement their 11-7 lead. Then and wait for the perfect opportunithey won the draw and ran the ty,” Steinberg said. “When we play clock down the rest of the way. our defense, we want to make The long Syracuse possessure our middies are good to go sions toward the end were differjust in case there is a turnover and ent than its quick possessions that we need to get back.”

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A halftime switch to sophomore goaltender Aimee Chotikul, above, and four goals from Ali Steinberg were not enough for the Knights to knock off No. 11 Syracuse on Saturday at the RU Turf Field. Steinberg’s outburst gave the junior midfielder 17 goals on the season.

JOVELLE ABBEY TAMAYO / SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

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game, defensively in particular,” Stagnitta said. “But today improves after Army defeat we were able to do a good job defensively for a while.” continued from back The defense gave a glimmer of hope when it held the Irish scoreless in the second period. more aggressive. I think we Donnelly made two key saves had some opportunities we cerin the waning seconds of the tainly hesitated on or didn’t quarter to keep Notre Dame’s shoot quickly lead to just two enough, and they goals at 4-2 going were able to get a into the half. “We just have stick on our stick. But a continto stop shooting We just have to ued lack of offenbe more aggressive productivity ourselves in the sive and a little from the Knights more efficient on and four more foot. Sometimes that end.” goals by Notre our youth The other end Dame in the secof the field saw a ond half allowed really shows.” defense that the Irish to cruise struggled mightito the victor y. JIM STAGNITTA ly in Rutgers’ Stagnitta Head Coach loss against hopes to get the Army a week ago offense ready for turn in a valiant effort, highRutgers’ next Big East game lighted by the performance of against St. John’s, which takes goalie Joseph Donnelly. place next weekend at New The sophomore netminder Meadowlands Stadium. notched a career-high seven “We just have to stop shootsaves and scooped up three ing ourselves in the foot,” ground balls in the contest. Stagnitta said. “Sometimes our “I don’t think we executed youth really shows. We’re our particularly well in the Army own worst enemies right now.”

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Sophomore goaltender Joseph Donnelly helped the Scarlet Knights limit Notre Dame’s offense yesterday, when he recorded a career-high seven saves against the Irish.

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pair of games yesterday wrapped up the formation of the Final Four for the NCAA Tournament, with No. 11-seed Virginia Commonwealth and four-seed Kentucky joining Connecticut and Butler in Houston. VCU bested No. 1-seed Kansas, which failed to advance to the Final Four despite earning a top seed for the fourth time in five seasons under head coach Bill Self. Kentucky made it to the program’s first Final Four under head coach John Calipari by outlasting twoseed North Carolina yesterday at the Prudential Center in Newark. Calipari joined Louisville head coach Rick Pitino as the only NCAA coaches to lead three different programs to Final Four appearances. Butler earned its second consecutive berth in the Final Four on Saturday, when it beat No. 2-seed Florida in overtime.

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men’s soccer team earned a draw against international power Argentina on Saturday at New Meadowlands Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., on the heels of a goal in the 59th minute. Eighteen-year-old Juan Agudelo evened the contest at one against the fourth-ranked Argentineans after Esteban Cambiasso put one past U.S. goalkeeper Tim Howard in the 42nd minute. A North Brunswick (N.J.) High School product, Howard registered a diving save five minutes later on a strike by standout striker Lionel Messi.

THE DIVORCE BETWEEN the Chicago Cubs and pitcher Carlos Silva was anything but pretty. Team management decided to part ways with Silva yesterday, releasing the pitcher for being “below team standards,” general manager Jim Hendry said. Silva responded by disputing whether there was a fair competition for a spot in the starting rotation, which gave way for team manager Mike Quade’s profanity-laced rebuttal. “First of all, he’s dead f—— — wrong, OK, about my pitching coach,” Quade said. “And I have no f——— time for that.” BOSTON BRUINS

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Marc Savard admitted to having memor y-loss issues after a March 7 concussion placed the center on the season-ending injured reserved list. The concussion was the second of the season for the Savard, after he sustained his first concussion Jan. 22 against the Colorado Avalanche. Before getting sidelined for the season, the 13-year NHL veteran recorded two goals and eight assists in 25 games for the Bruins.

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Senior captain Amy Zhang won both of her singles matches against St. John’s and Syracuse this weekend and also claimed a pair of victories in doubles play. Head coach Ben Bucca kept Zhang partnered with Jennifer Holzberg, and the pair won both matches.

Knights sweep weekend to pick up Big East wins BY MATT CANVISSER STAFF WRITER

The Rutgers tennis team lifted a significant weight off its shoulder this weekend, when it finally TENNIS locked RUTGERS 6 down B i g ST. JOHN’S 1 E a s t conference wins. The Scarlet Knights started off with two losses in conference play before defeating St. John’s, 6-1, on Friday in Queens, N.Y., and Syracuse, 43, on Sunday at the Atlantic Club in Manasquan, N.J. “These were two wins against ver y good Big East schools, but we’re also a ver y good Big East school and with these wins we have established that we belong,” said head coach Ben Bucca. “It was important to make our statement that we’re among the best of the Big East.” The Knights (11-5, 2-2) were supposed to face Syracuse at the RU Tennis Complex for their first match on the Rutgers campus this season, but the match had to be moved to the Atlantic Club due to weather restrictions.

The temperature needs to be and Louisville earlier in the seaat least 50 degrees Fahrenheit son. The new No. 2 team of junto play Division I tennis out- ior Leonora Slatnick and freshdoors and the forecast for man Vanessa Petrini struggled, Piscataway on Sunday morning but the No. 3 team of junior was at least 10 degrees below Morgan Ivey and freshman the acceptable limit. Stefania Balasa won its matches The Knights’ in both contests. doubles play this “Doubles season has been a went really well “The match was on this weekend,” precise indicator of how the entire [Vanessa Petrini’s] Holzberg said. match turns out, “The lineup and Rutgers won racket and she came changes worked, the doubles point through. She played and I think we’re against both St. all playing better great tennis where with our par tJohn’s and Syracuse. The now.” it mattered most.” nersWhile No. 1 team of senPetrini ior captain Amy struggled in her BEN BUCCA Zhang and junior new doubles Head Coach Jennifer Holzberg position, she was earned a win in the team’s saving each match, giving the Knights grace against Syracuse and an early advantage. picked up the deciding point “Amy and I both play with a with a singles victor y. The high energy level and lately we’ve rookie dropped the first set in just been feeding off each other,” her match, 4-6, before rallying Holzberg said. “We’ve been com- back to win the next two, 6-2, 6ing to the net more recently, 1, to clinch the Rutgers victor y. which helps to make points short“Vanessa was in the pressure er so we can win faster.” moment and showed what a great Bucca used some new line- competitor she is,” Bucca said. “The ups in the No. 2 and No. 3 slots match was on her racket and she after dropping doubles losses came through. She played great tento conference foes Marquette nis where it mattered the most.”

Zhang picked up wins in the No. 1 singles spot in both matches, winning, 6-3, 6-3, against St. John’s and coming from behind to take a tough three-set win over Syracuse. Holzberg solidified the top of the lineup for Rutgers, also picking up wins at the No. 2 spot in both matches with a 6-2, 6-3 victor y over St. John’s and a 6-4, 6-3 win in the close contest with Syracuse. “Alessondra Parra of Syracuse has beaten Jen Holzberg twice in the past, but [Holzberg] is having a fantastic year,” Bucca said. “These performances were consistent — the type of tennis she’s been playing all season.” The Knights return to action tomorrow with a home match against in-state rival Seton Hall. The team is 90 percent certain that the match will take place at the RU Tennis Complex. “We’re ver y excited to be back on campus against Seton Hall,” Holzberg said. “The match is on a weekday, so we don’t know how many fans we’ll get, but we hope to get a lot. It’ll be nice just to be on the courts that we have been practicing on ever y day.”

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Knights steal series finale behind effort from ’pen BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

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Junior righthander Nathaniel Roe earned his second win of the season yesterday with a 7 1/3 inning performance against visiting Louisville.

Entering the day on a five-game losing skid, the Rutgers baseball team just needed to get back to basics. BASEBALL For a program LOUISVILLE 2 that prides itself on pitching and defense, RUTGERS 4 the Scarlet Knights succumbed to lateinning surges in the opening two contests against visiting Louisville, due mainly to defensive blunders coupled with rough pitching performances. But with the trio of junior starter Nathaniel Roe, sophomore reliever Rob Corsi and sophomore closer Jerry Elsing shutting down the Cardinal bats yesterday in the series finale, the Knights held onto a 4-2 victory at Bainton Field — their first victory over Louisville since 2008. “Today Robbie did a good job, but I can’t say enough about what Nate did,” said head coach Fred Hill. “He threw very, very well. He had a couple jams early and he got out of those. That’s big. We’re really pleased with the way the bullpen handled it today.” Roe, who went 7 1/3 innings while allowing just two earned runs, took the mound to start the eighth inning hoping to continue his strong outing against Louisville (15-8, 2-1). But before long the Cardinals loaded up the bases and knocked in a run, sending Roe to the dugout in favor of Corsi. The Oceanport, N.J., native entered the contest as cool as the frigid Piscataway conditions,

forcing Louisville’s slugger Stewart Ijames to pop out into foul territory, then inducing a Ryan Seiz groundout right back to the mound to leave the bases loaded. An excited Corsi sprinted off the field — embraced by the Knights (8-13, 1-2) in front of their dugout — and sent the bench into frenzy. “That was a huge out,” Roe said of Corsi’s performance. “Momentum just kind of swung right our way and we had a lot going into the ninth inning. We feed off that kind of stuff.” The Knights’ bats, which entered the day hitting just .237, put up 12 hits in the contest — four of which belonged to junior Russ Hopkins. One of those hits came in the first inning of play, when the Knights put up three runs to jump on the Cardinals early, something the team could not do in the first two games. “I think today we came out with a little more fire than Friday and Saturday’s game,” Hopkins said. “It’s important to win as many games as you can in the Big East, and I think that’s what kind of helped us.” The Knights took their first lead of the series in the fifth inning of action in Game 2, when freshman catcher Mike Zavala sent a line drive to left to plate senior right fielder Michael Lang. But it was short lived, as the Cardinals rallied in the seventh behind a pair of errors by sophomore shortstop Pat Sweeney. Sophomore southpaw Rob Smorol, who allowed four earned runs off five hits in the loss, started the seventh inning on the

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Eighth straight loss ends series with Syracuse BY SAM HELLMAN CORRESPONDENT

The Rutgers softball team entered its first home series of the season in bad shape. Five SOFTBALL straight losses and SYRACUSE 10 two injuries to key star ters greeted RUTGERS 2 the Scarlet Knights at a chilly RU Softball Complex this weekend against reining Big East champion Syracuse. The Orange only made things worse. The lowlight of the team’s now eightgame losing skid occurred Saturday afternoon in an embarrassing 23-0 blowout. In the worst loss ever under head coach Jay Nelson and first shutout of the season, nothing went right. Freshman pitcher Megan Williams took the brunt of the shellacking in the circle, surrendering 16 earned runs on 18 hits in four innings in her first home game. Offensively, Syracuse (24-5, 3-0) was a walk and a dropped third strike away from a combined perfect game. “I don’t know what happened,” Nelson said. “I think part of it was our pitchers’ inability to locate and throw strikes. That kind of got us back on our heels. They were ahead in the count the whole game and got great pitches to hit.” The Knights (10-18, 0-3) were competitive in the second and third losses of the weekend. They even held a brief lead before losing 10-2 in yesterday’s contest. Junior Noelle Sisco prevented the weekend from getting a lot uglier when she first stepped into the circle in Game 2’s 5-2 loss. Sisco entered with one out in the first inning before closing the door on a second blowout by the Orange. She kept the Orange

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Senior midfielder Kory Kelly scored one of the Scarlet Knights’ three goals yesterday against the nation’s third-ranked Notre Dame. Kelly has five goals on the season after finishing third on the team last year with 19 goals.

RU struggles to solve Notre Dame netminder BY VINNIE MANCUSO STAFF WRITER

The Rutgers men’s lacrosse team’s offense could not seem to find the back of the cage when it MEN’S LACROSSE hosted No. 3 Notre Dame in the first NOTRE DAME 8 Big East game of RUTGERS 3 the season Sunday, but it was not for a lack of effort. The Scarlet Knights tallied 30 shots on

goal in the contest but only notched three goals en route to an 8-3 defeat. “We took a lot of shots and a lot of them actually seemed good,” said redshir t freshman attack Matt Klimchak. “But we are going to have to get a lot more accurate and hopefully those shots will start sinking in the future.” Senior Kor y Kelly and brothers Matt and Scott Klimchak scored the Knights’ (5-3, 0-1) lone goals. Matt Klimchak made his first appearance in five weeks after suffering a partially torn meniscus.

The shooting woes of the Knights escalated in the four th quar ter, when the offense hurled the ball at Notre Dame (60, 1-0) goaltender John Kemp 11 times, but never found the back of the cage. Head coach Jim Stagnitta put the lack of goals on the shoulders of a young, inexperienced offense that is prone to missing opportunities. “I think we’re a little tentative at times. We played hard but I think that were a little hesitant,” Stagnitta said. “We need to be

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