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Freshman Michael Zavala and his brother, sophomore Steve Zavala, led the Rutgers baseball team from the plate over the weekend in the team’s series win against intrastate foe Seton Hall.

Dance Marathon breaks past fundraising record

BY MARY DIDUCH EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

MAYA NACHI

Dance Marathon volunteers hold up numbers on stage at the College Avenue Gym to announce the final amount of money raised for the Embrace Kids Foundation.

Thir teen may be an unlucky number, but not for the members of Rutgers University Dance Marathon.

The 13th annual Dance Marathon, the largest student-run philanthropy in the state, raised $380,351.10, edging out last year’s record of more than $378,000.

About 410 dancers, about 30 less than last year, filled the College Avenue Gym to stay on their feet for 32 hours straight, all to raise awareness and donations for kids with cancer and blood disorders.

Danielle Bechta, director of Community Outreach, said the organizers decided to enforce dancer registration this year, prohibiting anyone who did not raise the required $350 on time from dancing.

They wanted to ensure they enlisted more dedicated dancers, as some in the past would not raise the required amount of money to par ticipate and take the place of a more dedicated participant, Bechta said.

The group also tried to recruit more non-greek, first-time participants, she said.

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Forum encourages stronger Latino voice in politics

Fewer turn out for campus walk than anticipated

BY JOHN MALCHOW

BY ANDREA GOYMA CORRESPONDENT

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Sen. Rober t Menendez, D-N.J., made an appearance Saturday as the keynote speaker at a forum where professors, politicians and students, discussed the need to strengthen Hispanics’ voice in government.

Sponsored by The Depar tment of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, “Latinos in New Jersey: Representation, Leadership and Empowerment” presented ideas about Latino politics and organizing in New Jersey.

“Power is not yielded, nor is it given; it has to be taken,” Menendez said. “Use that power in a way that creates policies, programs and affects the course of events for the better of the people.”

Menendez said the forum, held at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, provides an oppor tunity to discuss ways in which Latinos can empower themselves.

“This new forum gives us the platform to engage on the issues impor tant not only to our community but to all commu-

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Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., talks as the keynote speaker Saturday at a forum on Latino participation in government.

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Filmmaker Irena Salina, right, explains how traveling opened her eyes to the daily threat of water scarcity.

The turnout for the second annual “Walk for Water” was smaller than what the University’s Engineers Without Borders (EWB) expected.

Due to overlapping schedules with other University events on the College Avenue campus like the Open House and Rutgers University Dance Marathon, this year’s walk to provide water sustainability in Guatemala did not have as many participants as members hoped, said Namrata Kulkarni, president of EWB. “We are probably going to have a 5K instead of a walk, so people can walk or run and have it in October when it is not too cold,” she said. “[We may also] advertise it as a practice run for the ‘Big Chill’ and really increase our publicity for it.”

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RUPA SAYS 2,000 STUDENTS ASKED FOR SNOOKI APPEARANCE The University issued a statement on Friday addressing Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi’s comedy performance Thursday at the Livingston Student Center.

The student-run Rutgers University Programming Association (RUPA) invited Polizzi and her comedy act based on student input, according to the statement. Designated student funds are used for programming, not tuition or state funds.

The University does not censor the speakers students choose to invite to campus, according to the statement.

Nearly 2,000 students expressed interest in attending the event and a second show was added. The $32,000 cost for Polizzi’s appearance included the fee for moderator Adam Ace, who was named College Comedian of the Year by the Association for the Promotion of Campus Activities, as well as the booking fee.

RUPA aims to provide cultural, educational, recreational and social events

of interest to the University’s diverse student body. Before selecting a performer, RUPA members brainstorm ideas, analyze trends in campus programming and gauge student input while maintaining an annual programming budget.

Other than Polizzi’s appearance this year, RUPA brought speakers like director Spike Lee and environmental journalist Vanessa Farquharson to campus along with hosting informational programs on autism, how to start a publication and a media and politics discussion, according to the statement.

Polizzi’s comedy show was not promoted as an academic program and as with any comedy show, the content’s value is subjective and students choose to attend according to their interests.

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Cultural group dances to celebrate 20 years

BY ANDREA GOYMA CORRESPONDENT

In honor of 20 years of working to spread Korean cultural awareness through traditional music and dance at the University, the Rutgers Korean Cultural Group (RKCG) performed to a sold-out Nicholas Music Center Saturday night on Douglass campus.

Their 20th Anniversar y Concert featured a performance by special guest Sue Yeon Park, RKCG’s mentor since 1993 and the artistic director of the Korean Traditional Performing Arts Association. “[Park] is not just a performer,” said HaeRim Choi, RKCG president. “Ever since our group was established she’s helped out in every way from establishing the group to all the various performances.”

Park is also the first KoreanAmerican artist to receive in 2008 the National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship, said Choi, a School of Arts and Sciences senior.

Choi and RKCG member Dahae Yoon think of Park as RKCG’s teacher and mother. “[The performers] spent a lot of time [practicing] and I’m so proud of them,” Park said.

“I’m so happy, I feel ver y rich and I think the concert was ver y successful.”

Park was responsible for helping choreograph the dances and for teaching the members how to play the instruments, said Yoon, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore.

RKCG included a total of six performances at the concert, Choi said. “[For the concert] we have a general routine that we perform but we also incorporated a lot of new music,” she said. “[Park] helped us out with arranging the show and which arrangements to perform.”

Yoon said the concert would not be possible without the support of the Rutgers Korean Cultural Group Alumni Association (RKCGAA).

“For our 20th anniversary concert, which is a big deal to us, [RKCGAA] really helped out a lot and even created a committee. It was well prepared in advance,” she said.

The production ranged from Buchae-Chum, one of the most popular traditional folk dances in Korea to Park’s performance of the Buddhist monk dance SeungMu, Choi said.

RKCG and alumni performed together for the concert’s final performance, the Poong-Mul NoRi, a lively percussion dance that originated as a way for farmers to pray to the gods for abundant harvests and to increase productivity, he said.

Yoon said the concert was a proud experience for her after a long year of preparing.

“We star ted preparing for the concer t last year and we began practicing last summer,” Yoon said. “We practice ever y week for either one or two days and sometimes practices last all day.”

Despite the challenges of participating in RKCG with work

PROFESSOR STUDIES EFFECTS OF TRAUMA IN HUMANITARIAN WORKERS Monica Indart, a visiting assistant professor of the University’s Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology (GSAPP), is collaborating with UNICEF Staff Counselor Penelope Curling to research the effect of trauma in humanitarian workers from different cultural backgrounds.

Indart said her study is a result of the increased violence against humanitarian workers living abroad, who as a result, suffer from illnesses such as post-traumatic stress disorder and acute traumatic stress, according to a Rutgers Focus article.

“In the last seven years, humanitarian aid workers have increasingly been ‘soft targets’ in civil conflict and terrorism,” Indart said in the article. “Aid workers used to be seen as offlimits [for violence]. They’re not seen as sacrosanct anymore.”

Humanitarian workers also suffer from psychological problems after dealing with heightened security concerns, restrictions on movement and seeing other people suffer up close.

Both Indart and Curling’s joint research efforts will identify what kinds of disorders humanitarian workers suffer from and whether their respective cultures play any role, according to the article. “[We’re] looking at how people define themselves — by nationality of the passport they hold, race or ethnicity, tribe or clan,” Curling said in the article.

Curling said she and Indart intend to tailor counseling or recommendations to individuals affected differently by culture.

Indart said culture plays a big impact on trauma and humanitarian workers react differently.

“In the United States, the hidden assumption is that the trauma experience is outside the norm,” Indart said in the article. “In developing countries, trauma is part of life.”

As a result of this study, Indart hopes her University classes will learn of the issues abroad.

“The UNICEF study is an example I try to weave in when I talk about different populations,” she said in the article.

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Members of the Rutgers Korean Cultural group perform dances Saturday night in the Nicholas Music Center on Douglass campus as part of their 20th Anniversary Concert. responsibilities, the RKCGAA tries to join and support RKCG as best they can for whatever the group needs, said Joon Yang, RKCGAA president.

“We want undergraduates to enjoy the experience as much as we did,” he said. “It can be hard for us to make some time to practice and get things together for an event but we have many members so if some members can’t do it other members can.”

Every year RKCG participates in the New York Korean Parade, the Boston Parade, the New Jersey Korean Thanksgiving Festival in Bergen County as well as other events in New York and New Jersey, Choi said.

“We don’t only want to promote awareness to the Rutgers community but to the public also,” he said.

Rutgers Korean Students Association cultural chair David Song said he came to support a fellow Korean organization and had a good experience.

“This upcoming Friday, we’re having Project Korea at the State Theater and we’re actually incorporating one of RKCG’s dances in our performances,” said Song, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore. “So we’re going to have a collaboration.”

Jessica Park, 17, from East Brunswick and Jinsil Kim, 17, from Piscataway said they would definitely return for another RKCG concert.

“This is the first time we’ve seen a Korean cultural performance like this because here there aren’t that many chances to see performances like that,” Jessica Park said.

Yang thought the concert was unbelievable and was happy to work with college students.

“To be able to be back here to perform with undergraduate friends is great,” Yang said.

“Luckily we had a great audience tonight so it was a great and fantastic night for us.”

After 20 years, Yang hopes RKCG will continue to grow bigger and stronger in order to continue their legacy of promoting and celebrating the Korean culture to those who are both familiar and unfamiliar to it.

“Some years we have a lot of members where we have huge events and sometimes we get less than usual,” he said. “It’s always gone down and up but the more important thing is that we never stop — it keeps on growing and growing.”

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About 410 dancers along with families who benefit from the Embrace Kids Foundation crowded into the College Avenue Gym to dance their feet off for 32 hours at the 13th annual Dance Marathon, the largest student-run philanthropy in the state. The event raised more than $378,000 for the charity.

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RECORD: Organizations ‘adopt’ kids through foundation continued from front “It’s great that we have so many brand-new people passionate about this cause,” said Bechta, a School of Arts and Sciences senior.

Proceeds will go to the Embrace Kids Foundation, a New Brunswick-based charity that helps the non-medical needs of children with cancer and blood disorders. The foundation helps families with their medical bills and provides other ser vices, like tutoring and emotional support.

“It’s helping the kids now, instead of going toward research,” Bechta said.

Emily Amador, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences first-year student, benefited from the work of the Embrace Kids Foundation first-hand. When she was diagnosed with cancer last year as a senior in high school, the organization helped her family cope with her illness.

For example, the foundation sent a child care specialist to her hospital room ever y day, to ensure she was not bored.

When she came on campus last fall, she decided she had to sign up for Dance Marathon.

“I did not just want to participate in Dance Marathon to

MAN PROPOSES TO GIRLFRIEND AT DANCE MARATHON A diamond ring glittered on the left ring finger of Alyssa Focaraccio, assistant director of Catering Logistics, after her fiancé proposed to her yesterday on the Rutgers University Dance Marathon stage.

Focaraccio said she had no idea her fiancé Ryan Voigt, who graduated from Marist College, was about to propose.

“I thought we were going on stage for a line dance and then he was there,” she said.

While she remembers there were photos and a Death Cab for Cutie song playing in the background, the rest was a blur.

“I was in shock,” said Focaraccio, a School of Arts and Sciences senior.

The two met a year ago yesterday, when they were set up on a blind date.

As for the recordbreaking results of Dance Marathon, Focaraccio was also shocked.

“It’s absolutely incredible. We all worked so hard,” she said. “It shows how much time and effort we put into this.”

— Mary Diduch

gain community ser vice, I wanted to give back and support the charity that helped me and my family out the most,” Amador said.

Many of the involved organizations “adopt” a child that benefits from the Embrace Kids Foundation and interact with them throughout the year.

“I wanted to give back and support the charity that helped me and my family out the most.”

EMILY AMADOR School of Environmental and Biological Sciences First-Year Student

“It’s really wonderful what they’re doing for these kids,” Bechta said.

Carla Volpe expressed her gratitude for the members of Chi Psi frater nity — which raised more than $18,000, the most for a fraternity — for their help with her son Johnny, who was diagnosed in May of 2009 with leukemia.

“The Embrace Kids Foundation helps us emotionally and financially,” Volpe said.

The members of Chi Psi

visit 8-year-old Johnny in the hospital, play games and activities with him and invite him to the Chi Psi lounge on College Avenue for dinners, she said.

“We love them,” Volpe said.

Elysha Padilla, assistant director of Community Outreach, worked with the 25 families in the program year-round.

“It’s definitely been one of the most eye-opening, lifechanging experiences I’ve had,” said Padilla, who was a dancer last year.

Padilla said the children in the organization inspire her.

“Any time I’m having a bad day, I think of the kids. …

When I look at what they go through ever y day, there’s nothing we can’t get through,” Padilla said.

Chelsea Sammons, an Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy graduate student, was dancing for the first time this year — and the first time for her pharmacy honor society, Rho Chi — for her organization’s child, 5-year-old Gabriel.

Rho Chi interacts often with Gabriel, who was diagnosed in 2009 with leukemia. They threw him a bowling bir thday par ty and in a few weeks will host a picnic in his honor.

In the final moments of the marathon, Sammons, who raised $500, said it was a challenge standing for 32 hours straight with no sleep.

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Rutgers Business School sophomore Jehseung Noh and School of Arts and Sciences junior Marcia Lee strut their stuff last night in the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus at “China Nite XVI,” an evening of food and fashion hosted by the Chinese Student Organization.

WALK: EWB uses money to fund group summer trips continued from front EWB is about $25,000 away from their goal to raise money for a summer implementation trip to Guatemala, where they are working to fix and improve the village of Antigua Santa Catarina Ixtahuacan’s nearby water pumping system, said Tamara Adebanjo, community service chair.

EWB donated all the proceeds from last year’s “Walk for Water” to PlayPumps International, a nonprofit organization dedicated to delivering safe water solutions to communities in Africa, but Tamara said this year they wanted to make the walk more personal to the chapter.

“Our Guatemala project was partially implemented during Spring Break and we want to try and finish that, so all our fundraising will go toward our projects,” said Adebanjo, a School of Engineering sophomore.

Adebanjo invited “FLOW: For Love of Water” director and filmmaker Irena Salina as the guest speaker.

Salina discussed how her travels for her film enabled her to get a glimpse of life in villages where water scarcity is a daily threat — like in Rajasthan, India, one of the driest places on earth.

“Imagine that at your age, since the age of 7, the reality of every girl in that village is to walk at least three hours everyday just

to get water,” she said. “I think the reason why our ancestors were so respectful of water is because water is life.”

Salina said it was Adebanjo’s enthusiasm and EWB’s active engagement toward advocating and working toward water sustainability projects roused her to speak at the event.

“All of a sudden, a whole village is able to have water,” she

“I think the reason why our ancestors were so respectful of water is because water is life.”

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said. “I think it’s really amazing all these students are getting together [for the walk] when they could be lounging in bed.”

Adebanjo said she first saw the documentar y when she joined EWB as a first-year student and it had a meaningful impact on her.

“After I saw the movie I went home and I star ted cr ying because I’m from Nigeria and I know what it’s like to fetch water and how much ever y drop of water means to us,” she said. “I figured what better person to come and talk to us.”

Students began the walk at Voorhees Mall and then made their way toward Hamilton Street, through Records Hall and back, Adebanjo said.

Workshops were also set up at Voorhees Mall to interactively teach participants what children and adults in Kenya and Guatemala experience every day due to scarce amounts of water.

EWB member Nadir Williams led a workshop featuring trivia questions about water.

“Ever since I’ve joined EWB I’m a lot more aware of my water consumption and I try to impart that to my roommates,” said Williams, a School of Engineering sophomore. “You don’t understand how vital water is to our whole society with the global water crisis. It’s a human right.”

School of Engineering junior Ramone Barnes came out for the walk in support of Adebanjo and considers the group’s cause to be extremely important.

“Even though we see [the global water crisis] on the TV, it’s not reality to us,” he said. “Knowing that your friend is actually doing something to help these people is a really good cause.”

Kulkarni said even students who are not part of EWB or an engineering major could still volunteer or spread the word.

“Right now we need most help raising money as our projects are entering into the implementation phase,” she said. “We’d like the help of other organizations who do charity fundraising to join in our fundraising and we need help on writing grants.”

nities,” he said. “Hispanics are a growing force with many oppor tunities to harness the power we have.”

Representation was a major theme of the day as presentations that cited recent data showed an under-representation of Latinos in state politics.

Robert Montemayor, director of the Rutgers Latino Information Network, used figures from the Census Bureau to illustrate the Hispanic population in the state.

“I think it’s ver y impressive,” said Evan Taparata, an alumnus from the School of Ar ts and Sciences. “The data he was able to compile — it’s ver y ef fective. People do a lot of talking. It’s good to see numbers.”

Students from nearby universities were attracted to the conference and voiced approval of the program. “[The presentations] were ver y visually stimulating,” said Jessica Aramburo, a Seton Hall University senior. “They spoke on diverse topics and made it easy to understand at a more advanced level.”

Speakers and discussion leaders included Per th Amboy Mayor Wilda Diaz, representatives from the University’s School of Social Work as well as the Eagleton Institute of Politics and directors of the Latino Health Institute and Program on Immigration and Democracy.

Discussion at the event also raised questions of the relationship between fair representation and economic inequality.

The Latino population is 16 percent of the N.J. population — the second-largest demographic in the state, according to the Pew Hispanic Center.

Despite accounting for a significant por tion of the Garden State’s population, Latinos make up approximately 6 to 8 percent of the number of registered voters, he said.

“You need to get involved, that’s the bottom line,” said Montemayor, who is a par t-time lecturer at the

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The faculty cited the lack of institutions as an area for future development.

“New Jersey is the only state with a significant Latino population without a Latino research institute,” said Aldo Lauria Santiago, associate professor and chair of the Depar tment of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies.

Some individuals are hopeful the conference, which encourages leadership networks that have the power to sur vive, will produce more engaged Latino citizens in state.

“It’s a good star t for the younger generation,” said Erika Nava, a Douglass College alumna and representative of the Hispanic Directors Association of New Jersey. “You need to be culturally competent.”

Menendez and other speakers stressed the importance of staying informed.

“We need an impor tant foundation on education,” he said.

Despite the all-day Saturday schedule, tur nout was high and an array of organizations came together to par ticipate.

“One of our goals was to attract many different national origin groups,” said Santiago, the event coordinator. “There is quite a diversity — Mexican groups, Colombian groups, Dominican groups — represented here.”

Faculty and students alike were pleased with the crowd drawn to the forum.

“Its just really nice to see the whole community here together,” said Sandra Feijoo, a School of Ar ts and Sciences senior. “There’s so many organizations involved, but there are not enough [occasions] to get them together.”

Menendez took the opportunity to announce the beginning of the “Latino Leadership Series,” which will be held on college campuses around New Jersey in the coming months.

The next installment will take place May 21 at the University’s Newark campus.

“We can do this,” Menendez said. “It is limited only by the power of our imagination and our willingness to organize, educate and motivate.”

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MIDDLESEX COUNTY COURT HONORS JUDGE FOR 50 YEARS SERVICE TOWARD LAW More than 150 attendees packed the Superior Court Judge Travis Francis’ courtroom to congratulate Carol Dooley on her 50th year of service with the Middlesex County vicinage of the New Jersey judicial system.

Judges, co-workers, family and friends awarded Carol Dooley, the assistant family division manager, with various plaques of honor and gifts during her luncheon Friday, according to a mycentraljersey.com article.

“She is the longest tenured employee in the current judiciary,” Trial Court Administrator Gregory Edwards said in the article. “For some people, it’s a job. To her, it’s a commitment. There’s always a smile on her face, and she’s always willing to extend a helping hand.”

After Dooley completed Woodbridge High School, her father, a sheriff officer, told her about the job opening with the Middlesex County court system and remained with the court system since.

“She is the matriarch of the family division.

Because of her incredible experience and knowledge of the system, she is unflustered by problems and issues that arise,” Judge Deborah Venezia, presiding judge of the family division Superior Court in New Brunswick, said in the article.

Dooley, 68, held several positions since her career start on March 27, 1961 as a file clerk in the civil divisions, including positions in civil and chancery divisions and the family division.

“When I reached 45 years, I thought I’d never reach 50, but when I turned around, 50 is here. It’s a challenging position,” Dooley said in the article. “Family court is very vibrant. Chancery court is interesting. I enjoy working in judiciary. It’s always changing.”

Dooley holds a degree from the University in political science and has taken para-legal courses at Middlesex County College in Edison, according to the article. She also experienced working on environmental cases and labor strikes at National Lead and the Middlesex County Welfare Department in New Brunswick.

Dooley has no immediate plans to retire, despite 50 years of service, according to the article.

“I have a couple of work goals I would like to reach before I retire,” she said in the article. “It’ll be awhile.”

— Anastasia Millicker

Council urges funding to critical services

BY ANDREW SMITH STAFF WRITER

In the wake of an economic downturn, the federal government has yet to finalize a 2011 budget but is considering cuts to several key social services, which was met with disapproval on Wednesday at a Human Services Advisory Council (HSAC) of Middlesex County press conference.

The conference aimed to ask the federal government to decide on a budget for the year and prevent services cut from the disabled, the elderly and the poor, said Bridget Kennedy, director of the Division of Social Work Services for Middlesex County.

The House of Representatives and Senate have reached the middle of the fiscal year without having a definitive budget and are instead relying on the passing of continuing resolutions, she said.

With the House espousing $80 billion worth of cuts and the Senate insisting only $35 million can be trimmed, most of the cuts would come from the discretionar y, non-security budget which includes Pell Grants, senior services, disability services and childcare block grants, Kennedy said.

Consequently, Kennedy said these cuts represent an af front to middle-class families and individuals.

“Primarily, these cuts come from [the discretionary] piece of the federal budget,” Kennedy said. “This represents only 13 percent of the federal budget. So the HSAC said this is really bad because they’re trying to balance the budget on the backs of low and middle-income people.”

HSAC felt motivated to speak out against the federal cuts to people with average or low income, said Blanquita Valenti, a Middlesex County freeholder and the liaison to the HSAC. “We want our congressional leaders to realize if they preserve the money that normally goes to human services, they will help a lot of people,” she said.

“Otherwise, there’s a lot of disabled people who will lose out on a lot of services, and we want to make sure this does not happen.”

HSAC Chairperson Judy Tabert expressed similar desires regarding the budget and stressed the need for finalization.

“We are urging congress to finalize the 2011 budget,” Tabert said. “The passage of the continuing resolutions is hurting services and the most vulnerable people.

We are also asking not to make dramatic cuts, if possible, and to take cuts across the board.”

Because these issues are close to the members of the HSAC, a group aimed to unite different governmental players

toward bringing human services to the most vulnerable sector of the population, many felt inclined to speak out against the cuts, she said. “[The HSAC] is made up of a few groups of people, [such as] consumer advocates who are community members with an interest in human services and advocacy,” Tabert said. “We have consumers themselves, who receive human services in a variety of settings. There are also representatives of provider agencies or nonprofit organizations providing assistance.”

Councils like HSAC are present in every county throughout New Jersey, Tabert said.

Although no outpouring of support was visibly seen from these other councils, she expects to see substantial support for the call to arms against budget cuts on April 8 at the next state meeting.

On top of the increased support that is expected of other advisory councils, Tabert said true change would not be effected without the people’s support.

“Individuals can all get in touch with their representatives in Washington, D.C., and let them know that this is their position — the budget needs to be finalized,” she said. “In this time of economic problems, unemployment and skyrocketing costs of fuel, now is not the time to be making cuts.”

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Church holds benefit to preserve building church said the church is still ver y much alive.

“Around the Revolutionar y War, the denomination of the Music of the 17th and 18th Dutch Reformed Church split centur y’s High Baroque era and the Reformed Church of echoed through the First America was established here Reformed Church of New

by John Henr y Livingston, Brunswick, Saturday night, in who was the president of efforts to raise money for the Queen’s College at the time,” historic preser vation and Berman said. restoration of the church’s The denomination’s organizagrounds and building. tion, as well as the founding of The church, located on the the church on Neilson and corner of Neilson and Bayard Bayard Streets can be traced Streets, featured musical perback to the early Dutch settlers formances by La Fiocca, a clasof the 17th century, whose influsical music ensemble based out ences shaped much of the region of Bucks County, Pa. and other along the Banks of the Raritan, secular and sacred chamber he said. musical performances.

A two-year period during the First organized in 1717, the Revolutionar y War subjected First Reformed Church lost the church and the surroundseveral large par ts of the proping area to abuse by British er ty due to disrepair and faces troops who occupied the town, several str uctural problems where they used the 1767 buildsuch as masonr y walls that are ing as a hospital and later a stano longer stable, leaking roofs ble, Hamilton said. and pieces of shale and trim The building’s walls are comthat have fallen from its posed of brownstone transportsteeple, said Ellen Hamilton, ed up the Raritan River from church elder and member of New York City in the late 17th the Fundraising Committee for century, and the church’s cemethe preser vation project. tery remains the resting place of Also known as the “Town such influential figures as Clock Church,” as it currently T h e o d o r u s houses the city’s Frelinghuysen, of ficial town clock in its “This is also about JH a rad e nc b eor g hb, steeple, the church experithe enounter with Livingston and James Suydam, enced multiple another culture, along with solstr uctural disdiers of the tresses includanother time Revolutionar y ing a 1971 fire, and dealing War, she said. which destroyed Berman said all but two of the with otherness.” not only does the church’s stained church stand as a glass windows, HARTMUT KRAMER-MILLS testament to the Hamilton said.

Pastor of the Congregation of the First Reformed Church state’s and the The New of New Brunswick city of New Jersey Historic Br unswick’s hisTr ust gave a tories — it also $50,000 planrepresents a major part of the ning grant in 2008 to begin University’s histor y and foundplanning for a historic presering in the late 17th centur y. vation project and an additionQueen’s College, which al grant from the state for eventually became Rutgers $487,797 to restore the buildCollege and University, was ing’s steeple and repair the char tered in 1766 through education building’s roof, several years of ef for t by Hamilton said.

Frelinghuysen, the first pastor, The congregation of 200 and Hardenbergh, who ser ved people raised more than 60 both as a pastor for the church percent of the matching funds and as the first president the for the grant but has been college, Berman said. unable to completely pay it “[The church] ser ved for back, Hamilton said. several presidential periods as Har tmut Kramer-Mills, a something like a university pastor of the congregation, church,” Kramer-Mills said. said the church continues to “Commencements would be thrive despite the setbacks, held there and the senior pastor and the benefit concer t and would at the same time be presthe money raised is a reflecident of the church.” tion of that.

The preceding structure was “This is not just about torn down in 1811 and a newer, baroque music,” Kramer-Mills more accommodating building said. “This is also about the was erected in its place, which encounter with another culstill stands at its present location, ture, another time and dealing Hamilton said. with other ness. Those are Kramer-Mills said the church themes our church stands for has become a spiritual home and in the midst of this ever hosts the oldest congregation of diverse community.” the First Reformed Church in the Home of the longest runUnited States, which still remains ning Sunday school in the strong today.

United States, an inter faith “This is a place where people shelter for homeless men durcan have a spiritual home,” he ing the winter and House of said. “There are presidents of Manna, which ser ves meals to Rutgers University buried right needy families, Benjamin here in our backyard.”

Berman, music director for the

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Christ Church New Brunswick will host The Choir of Merton College, Oxford, England under the direction of Benjamin Nicholas during their U.S. tour featuring sacred choral music including works by Purcell, Tallis, Weelkes, Vaughan Williams and Whitacre. The concert will also feature solo organ work by Organ Scholars Natasha TrywhittDrake and Anna Stepler. The performance will begin at 8 p.m. on 5 Paterson St. General admission cost $15 and $5 for children under 12 years old. For more information contact Christ Church at (732) 545-6262 or music@christchurchnewbrunswick.org.

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Alfa Arts Gallery will host a musical performance featuring PAS featuring Hati, PHASTI, Richard Lainhart, Yan Jun and Blithe beginning at 7:30 p.m. at the Alfa Arts at 108 Church St. Admission costs $6 for admission into the art show and live performance. For more information, visit alfaart.org.

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New Brunswick Jazz Project Band featuring trumpeter Lee Hogans, Alex Collins on piano, Tom DiCarlo on bass, Chris Brown on drums, Anthony Ware on sax and Adam Machaskee on trombone will perform at Makeda on 338 George St. The jam session will begin at 9 p.m. and will end around 1:30 a.m. with no coverage charge for the event. For more information, visit nbjp.org.

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. Pre-registration is required with a $15 fee for materials and a phone registration application at (732) 745-4489. Checks should be made out to the County of Middlesex/Cultural & Heritage or it may be hand-delievered to the commission’s office at 703 Jersey Ave. in New Brunswick. For more information please visit njtoday.net.

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Sacred Heart Church will host a Unity Square Cleanup and Children’s Earth Day Celebration promoting the Interfaith Coexistence Project of greater New Brunswick from noon to 6 p.m. at the Sacred Heart Church. The event includes a neighborhood clean up from 12:45 to 2:45 p.m. followed by a symposium and home cooked dinner. Speakers include Donna Caputo, recycling director for the city of New Brunswick and performances by The Rainbow Choir and Raices Cultural Center Ensemble. Participants are encouraged to bring their own plastic cups, utensils and napkins to reduce trash. A suggested donation of $5 is encouraged for the event. For more information contact Lorena Gaibor at (732) 545-0329.

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First Reformed Church will host “Downtown Lunchtime Recitals” featuring Frederick Urrey and Daniel Swenberg at the First Reformed Church. The performance begins promptly at 12:15 p.m. and includes lute solos, works for voice and the orbe and German Lieder. Admission is free.

For more information, visit firstreformedchurch.net.

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Cross Roads Theatre will host “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry beginning April 14 through May 1 with performances at 8 p.m. held Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sunday matinees. Marshall Jones, Crossroads producing artistic director will be directing the performances.

Tickets cost $50 and may be purchased online or at their box office at 7 Livingston Ave. For more, visit crossroadstheatrecompany.org.

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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 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. The workshop is offered free of charge but advance registration is required. Attendees will learn how to create special folk craft during the Palm Weaving Workshop. To register, please contact the commission at (732) 745-4489 or 711 via the New Jersey Relay Service.

Historically Black College and Universities College Fair, Inc. will host a “Knowledge is Power Community Walk.” The walk begins at 8 a.m. and ends at noon in Buccleuch Park.

The event is rain or shine with a minimum of $20 registration fee for individuals. The money raised will go toward funding educational programs to inform students about financial aid, applying to college and providing scholarships.

For more information, visit hbcu-cfnj.com/KIPW.html.

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Group donates cellphones to troops

BY LIZ ZWIRZ CONTRIBUTING WRITER

For soldiers separated by their families abroad with high cellphone bills, Cell Phones for Soldiers encourages people to donate old and new phones in a drop-off box at the Brunswick Memorial Funeral Home in East Brunswick.

The organization headquarters, located in Nor well, Mass., sends donated phones to a recycler, ReCellular, said Brittany Bergquist, the cofounder of Cell Phones for Soldiers. The money raised through this sale of phone parts or refurbished parts is used to buy prepaid international calling cards that soldiers receive on a weekly basis.

“We couldn’t understand why phone calls home were not free for our military while away,” she said. “They give up so much to protect our freedom and liberty that we couldn’t fathom this sort of total disconnect from family while serving our country.”

The soldiers who receive these prepaid calling cards are located all over the world, Bergquist said.

“Currently there is a large need in Afghanistan and other areas of combat but requests are also often received from Germany, Africa, Japan and other areas where troops are stationed,” she said.

The Br unswick Memorial Home on 454 Cranbur y Rd.

decided to get onboard earlier this month, said Brian Kulbacki, the memorial home’s business manager.

“We saw their name around their sponsors’ websites and in other adver tisements and were intrigued,” he said. “We are always looking for new ways to get involved and new ways to reach out to those around us.”

As of now, the memorial home has received 50 to 100 phones, and Kulbacki hopes to send 1,000 more to the organization by Memorial Day. “We acknowledge that it is a ver y aggressive goal, but with the response from the community that we’ve seen already and the interest from media sources, we think we can do it,” he said. “One-thousand cell phones would mean about $30,000 wor th of prepaid minutes for.”

Kulbacki said while the Brunswick Memorial Funeral Home loves to involve itself with unique sponsorships and charitable events all the time, its dedication with this par ticular endeavor shows their faith in the organization.

“I think it’s a fantastic idea,” he said. “We’re not doing it to benefit the funeral home, and really, there is no way that it does.”

The memorial home does not profit from these donations because there is no selling involved, Kulbacki said.

Instead, the employees take

the phones and ship them of f as soon as they have collected enough.

Cell Phones for Soldiers has received 8.3 million cellphones and has raised more than $7 million since 2004, Bergquist said. The organization hopes to deliver 750,000 cellphones in 2011 and for 2012, they want to increase that number to 1 million.

Robbie Bergquist, Brittany Bergquist’s brother who cofounded Cell Phone for Soldiers with her, said he is proud of what his organization has done so far and hopes these cellphone donations will enable soldiers to stay in touch with their families at all times.

“We couldn’t believe that kids weren’t able to talk to their parents ver y often during deployments,” Robbie Bergquist said. “I’m proud of what we’ve done for our guys overseas. It’s impor tant for them to keep in touch with loved ones and get that circle of suppor t.”

Kulbacki said although he has never been deployed in war, he has seen a family friend str uggle with money while fighting overseas just to stay in touch with his family.

“I see the reactions and joy that it brings to his other family members when he gets to call home, or even just chat for two minutes on Facebook,” he said. “Priceless is the only way I would describe it.”

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Recognize necessity of Pell Grants W

e’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: One of the biggest flaws in the contemporary Republican Party is the insistence of most members that any instance of federal funding aiding private citizens is tantamount to robbery of the taxpayers. One of the most recent — and most ludicrous — examples of this is the comment made by Rep. Denny Rehberg, R-Mont., that Pell Grants are a form of welfare. In radio interview with Blog Talk Radio on Friday, Rehberg said that Pell Grants are “turning out to be the welfare of the 21st century.”

We cannot believe that anyone would make such a statement.

Rehberg has obviously forgotten — or perhaps never realized — that investing in the higher education of our nation’s students is an investment in the future of the United States. With rapidly rising tuition costs, many average people struggle with paying for college or graduate school.

This is unfair to these people because the United States promises them opportunities, but they cannot take advantage of many of these opportunities without college degrees. Pell Grants, then, are a way to level the playing field — they are not a way for people to leech off the system. Of course, we disagree with this characterization of welfare as a blanket statement, but it tends to be what Republicans like Rehberg think of welfare, so we’ll level out enough to build our argument on his terms.

If you want to build a strong nation, you need a well-educated workforce.

As things currently stand, the government does not invest nearly enough in higher education. Trying to cut back on Pell Grants or take them away entirely would just make things worse for students. People who get through school and obtain degrees are often people who go on to give back to society. Why would Rehberg want fewer people giving back and making America a better place? Would he rather see more people having to resort to welfare because they cannot get a job, which pays a living wage? We highly doubt that, yet he delivers his comments with a straight face.

People like Rehberg need to realize they cannot cut every single inch of federal spending. Some of it — maybe even most of it — is necessary to make our country a great one. Federal money isn’t dirty money. The sooner the GOP realizes that, the better things will be for all of us.

Do not compare Snooki, Morrison W

hen it was revealed that Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi received $32,000 for “Inside the Nicole ‘Snooki’ Polizzi Studio,” people were livid. The most prominent reason given for the backlash is the fact that Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison is being paid $30,000 for speaking at commencement in May — $2,000 less than the “Jersey Shore” star. On first glance, something seems terribly wrong with this. At an institution of higher learning, a well-respected author should be worth more than a reality show star, shouldn’t she? However, this view does not take into account the entire picture. Once that is laid out, it makes sense that Snooki received more than Morrison.

First off, the booking of Toni Morrison marks the first time the University is paying for a commencement speaker. So, then, if we apply the same logic as the Snooki versus Morrison debate, we would have to say that, in paying Morrison, the University is suggesting that she is worth $30,000 more than every commencement speaker we’ve had in the past.

No one would make that claim, because, quite frankly, it’s absurd. Paying Morrison has nothing to do with the value of past commencement speakers, just as the price of Snooki has nothing to do with the price of Morrison.

Also, people have to keep in mind that when the Rutgers University Programming Association (RUPA) booked Snooki, they were looking to schedule an entertaining event that students would enjoy. It is not as if RUPA was trying to pretend that Snooki’s show would have an educational value. RUPA clearly succeeded in doing what they set out to do, because both of Snooki’s shows sold out. The sad but true fact is that Morrison would never sell out two shows in one night at the University. This, of course, is not the University’s fault — it is merely the social climate. You cannot be mad at anyone for that. In this sense, Snooki is worth her price.

The final point we wish to make is that many people have been throwing about the highly inaccurate statement that the University paid both of them. This is misleading, because it was not the University as a whole that came together and decided how much they were willing to pay for Morrison and Snooki. The money for both speakers came from completely separate funds — Snooki’s funded through student fees and Morrison’s funded through PepsiCo. Not only that, but Snooki did not receive the entirety of the $32,000 — some of it went to her sidekick Adam Ace as well.

In the end, then, the entire issue has been blown completely out of proportion. There’s no sense in comparing Morrison and Snooki’s prices or in being mad at the University for the disparity. If you must direct your anger somewhere, direct it at the cultural climate. We live in a world where more people are willing to watch Snooki prattle on about nonsense than are willing to listen to Morrison deliver a speech.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “There are presidents of Rutgers University buried right here in our backyard.”

Hartmut Kramer-Mills, a pastor at the First Reformed Church of New Brunswick, on the history of the church STORY IN METRO

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Learn to play waiting game Doctor’s H Orders

Regarding the 5,300 aving recently fincharacter personal stateished the medical ment, just be aware that school application while it is an important part and inter view process, I of your application, you wanted to use this column to should not spend too much highlight some of the lessons time fussing over it and wonI learned as I trudged along BO WANG dering whether what you the yearlong path all future write will appeal to the physicians must take before admissions committee. As for how much impact beginning their formal medical education. your personal statement will have on your interThe medical school application process view chances, the admissions director of a top-tier begins with the central primar y application that medical school recently wrote — actually, twityou submit through the American Medical tered — that it will only improve the chances of 2 College Application Ser vice (AMCAS) website. percent of applicants, while not having an effect This primar y application contains your biographon 95 percent and hurting 3 percent. Bottom line: ical information, personal statement, activities Don’t try to sound over-the-top in your personal list and letters of reference. Once submitted, the statement, lest you find yourself sounding disinprimar y application gets sent to all your selected genuous and falling into that bottom 3 percent. medical schools, most of which in turn send you At approximately 80 medical schools, you are school-specific secondar y applications that congiven the option of applying through the early tain more questions and essays, in addition to a decision program, which will allow you to know by hefty fee.

Oct. 1 whether you are accepted at your school of After the secondary applications are submitted choice. Don’t take this route, because your — and wallets emptied — there is nothing to do chances of getting accepted but wait and pray for interview through early decision are not betinvitations to arrive in your inbox. “[The personal ter than through the regular After the inter views, applicants often have to wait approximately a statement] will only process. Furthermore, you are not allowed to apply to any other month before hearing back from improve the chances schools until Oct. 1, which puts you the admissions committees, at the end of the review process though a handful of schools who of 2 percent and decreases your chances of admit on a non-rolling basis wait receiving interview invitations and until March to make their deciof applicants.” acceptances. Simply put, if your sions. For applicants for tunate application qualifies for admission enough to have received multiple through a particular school’s early decision proacceptance offers, May 15 of the year of planned gram, then it will also qualify through the regular matriculation is the commitment deadline, after decision process. which the wait lists start moving.

After submitting your secondary applications, The first thing I cannot stress enough is the expect to receive a heap of bad news first. In other advantage you give yourself by sending in your words, expect several rejections before your first primary application as early as prudently possible interview invitations arrive. Many schools use after the submission period opens at the end of computer screening programs that allow them to May. This allows you to receive the secondary quickly send rejections to applicants several days application sooner from most schools and for your after their secondary was sent. This happened to file to be reviewed before that of many other applime, and I can guarantee that it will be demoralizcants. Since schools have more seats and intering at first and make you question your chances at view slots available earlier in the application cycle, other schools you applied to, especially if the they can afford to be less selective compared to rejections come from schools placed lower on later on in the process when the number of posiyour list. Just remember that interview invitations tions left narrows down. Even at the non-rolling are often extended after lengthy reviews of the schools — I can only think of six off the top of my applicants’ files by members of the admissions head — it is still to your benefit to get your applicommittee, and that this review requires more cation in early, because even though decisions are time than a quantitative computer screening. not made until all applicants are interviewed, these schools still only have a limited number of SEE WANG ON PAGE 11 interview slots.

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WANG continued from page 10 When you receive your interview invitations, they will often give you several dates to choose from. Keep in mind that admissions of fices are often fairly flexible with inter view dates, so don’t hesitate to give them a call to work out an alternative date if none of the given dates work for you. Most of my inter view invitations offered me days in September, but since I was doing an internship in Mar yland at the time, I managed to push all of them to the following month. Tr y not to push them too far into the future for the rolling schools though, or else you will be vying for fewer available seats.

The final major lesson I learned, one that took me many months into the application cycle to fully comprehend, is the interviews themselves are by no means the be-all, end-all of whether you get accepted to a particular medical school. The admissions committees know all too well they cannot evaluate a

candidate based solely on two 30-minute inter views. That would cause them to lose qualified candidates whose only fault was that they were a bit off their game during their interviews.

Your entire application file will contribute to the final decision process, with the interview itself being only one important piece of it. In fact, I got rejected from a school at which I thought I had aced my interview, and accepted at a school at which I completely bombed interview day.

To all the pre-meds out there, all I can say is that the combination of the applications, essays, inter views and agonizing wait time is nothing short of inhumane. Try to keep yourself busy, distracted, whatever. Your life will appear to be in a constant state of limbo throughout the whole process. However, it makes the positive outcomes in the end that much sweeter. After you all get accepted, make sure to go out and celebrate. The hard part is finally over — for now.

Bo Wang is an Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy graduate student. His column, “Doctor’s Orders,” runs on alternate Mondays.

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Snooki harms U.’s reputation Letter ALEX NIKULKIN

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n these uncertain times, it is great to know exactly where the priorities of an institution lie. Our own University, which in its rich history has traditionally made top-notch affordable education its priority, has made it clear that its current top priority is providing top-notch college entertainment. Students entering the University will now know that not only is our school the eighth oldest university in the United States, but it also stands tall as the first university where the iconic Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi of “Jersey Shore” fame spoke. At a sold-out forum, 500 lucky University undergraduates received invaluable advice on dance moves, a demonstration on hair styling and her general wisdom on life, culminating in the mantra “Study hard, but party harder!”

Honestly, this is great and Snooki is right. Who in their right mind would not want to

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spend their four years in college partying instead of studying those hard subjects like science and math? I personally feel that receiving a degree in modern club dancing and binge drinking will pay off in the long run. I mean, it did for our beloved “Jersey Shore” icon and it will for all of our undergraduates — conditional, of course, on the fact that their parents continue to pay their cellphone bills and let them move into the family garage come graduation.

Having established this precedent, the University should move swiftly to assure that all new incoming students receive nothing less than excellence in their University entertainment experience. Within the next months the University should consider using more student money to invite such distinguished speakers as Pamela Anderson, mixed-martial artist Kimbo Slice and the guy from the “ShamWow” TV ads.

Speaker fees might be high, and the University should consider subsidizing these expenses by

diverting funds from the nerds in the physics department. No price is too high to provide quality entertainment in place of obsolete and hard to learn knowledge.

Experts agree, in the economic turmoil that defined the last two years, the only safe investment was and remains a college degree. According to The New York Times, college graduates earn an average of 50 percent more than those with only a high school diploma. But no one ever said anything about the quality of that education, giving the University a possibility to exploit that loophole and give students the right dance moves and hairdos, rather than any real world expertise in sought-after hightech fields. If other schools like Columbia and Princeton even dare to look at us the wrong way on the dance floor, well, you know what they call those losers on the “Jersey Shore.”

Alex Nikulin is a School of Arts and Sciences graduate student majoring in geological sciences.

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Sophomore shortstop Ashley Bragg went 3-for-4 yesterday against UConn and cranked her second home run of the season.

able to contribute to the win like that.”

(11-20, 1-5) dropped scoring in late RU comeback theRutgers first two games of the series to the Huskies (13-15, 3continued from back 2) but feel that momentum is on its side heading into a ninegame homestand. state, junior Mikelyn Messina fol“It’s hard to go through a losing lowed suit with a mirror image streak like that and keep the spirits first-base dive that gave the team up,” Nelson said. “But the one runners on first and second with thing about this team is no outs. that they don’t give up.

The big hit of the Coming home, we have inning occurred three a real chance to turn batters later, when things around and that junior Lindsey Curran starts [tomorrow].” gave Rutgers the lead The Scarlet Knights with a two-run single host Lafayette in a douto right field. Curran bleheader at the RU injured her hand Softball Complex three weeks ago, and tomorrow with the last weekend marked BRITTNEY offense on fire. her first series of Lindley, Bragg, plate appearances LINDLEY Curran and seniors since her return.

Mickenzie Alden and Mandy Craig “It feels so good just to be all homered in the last two games as back,” said Curran, who belted Lindley sets her sights on building a home run and had three hits upon her freshly-set school record. on the weekend. “I had a really “I look forward to keeping hard time not being able to do this going in the future,” Lindley anything and having to watch said. “The rest of the team says I us losing so many times. But better keep going because instead of getting down, I was Bragg’s going to catch me.” patient and it feels good to be

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ormer Rutgers center Darnell Stapleton is coaching the New York Sharks — a professional women’s football team.

Stapleton started for two seasons at Rutgers, and he was a finalist for the Rimington Trophy in 2006, when Rutgers allowed only eight sacks.

Stapleton transferred to Rutgers from Hudson Valley Community College and won a Super Bowl starting for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

The Sharks are a tackle football team in the Women’s Football Alliance, and they won their season opener, 3420, over the Philadelphia Liberty Belles.

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the National Championship, where it will meet Connecticut tonight at Reliant Stadium in Houston.

The Bulldogs beat 11th-seeded Virginia Commonwealth, 7062, on Saturday to become the first team to return to the title game since Florida won consecutive championships in 2006 and 2007.

Connecticut beat John Calipari’s Kentucky squad, 56-55, to return to the National Championship for the first time since 2004, when it won the Big East’s last title.

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the 15-day disabled list just two games into the season.

The Tampa Bay Rays third baseman strained a muscle in his left side, and manager Joe Maddon said the injury could sideline Longoria for a minimum of three weeks.

The All-Star third baseman began the season hitting 0-for-5 with a walk.

The Atlanta Braves similarly placed starter Jair Jurrjens on the 15-day disabled list with a strained right oblique, retroactive to March 25.

AFTER THE NFL enhanced its concussion policy last season, “Madden ‘12” is following suit.

John Madden told The New York Times players who suf fer concussions in this year’s video game will be unable to return in the same game. Commentators Gus Johnson and Cris Collinsworth will also discuss the dangers of concussions when players are hur t in the game.

The iconic game is hosting a fan-vote tournament to determine the cover athlete.

Former Rutgers tailback Ray Rice lost in the first round. New York Giants wideout Hakeem Nicks, New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez and Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick remain in the round of 16.

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Redshirt freshman Scott Klimchak, the Knights’ points leader, notched three goals against St. John’s in a losing effort in the Big City Classic at New Meadowlands Stadium.

getting everyone going real early,” Klimchak said. “But we just didn’t really use the momentum.”

Stagnitta chalked up the loss to missed opportunities, and with good reason. Rutgers’ offense recorded 43 shots on goal against the Red Storm’s 27 shots in total.

“St. John’s took advantage of most ever y opportunity they were given today, and we didn’t,” Stagnitta said. “We played hard and we played with an awful lot of heart, but we just couldn’t complete our chances. At the end of the day, the name of the game is still making your shots.”

The Knights hope to halt their three-game losing skid when they take to the road next week against non-conference opponent Marist.

But the loss at the New Meadowlands in front of the largest crowd the Knights may see all season will stick with many members of the team.

“For a lot of us it was our first time at the New Meadowlands,” Diehl said. “I just wish we could have came out of here with a win.”

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Senior right fielder Michael Lang came up hobbling after a late-game double in Game 2 of the Knights’ series against Seton Hall and did not start in Game 3 as a precaution.

BROTHERS: Zavala clears bases on single, error continued from back because our town was so big. It’s just a real honor to play with my brother. I feel blessed. God is working wonders in our lives.”

The Knights jumped on SHU (12-13, 3-3) star ter Jon Prosinski early at Bainton Field, plating three in the opening inning courtesy of a tworun single by Michael Zavala.

But his older brother would not be outdone.

Facing a full count with the bases loaded in the bottom of the four th, Steve Zavala knocked a liner up the middle that scooted past the center fielder. The ball got far enough away that Zavala touched them all and gave the Knights a lead they would not relinquish.

“I was kind of surprised when [third base coach Darren Fenster] sent me, but I had to scoot up a little bit and get that second wind,” the sophomore outfielder said. “It worked out — four runs right off the bat.”

Strong pitching dominated Saturday’s doubleheader in Piscataway, and for most of the day the Knights found themselves looking at two wins.

But with a one-run lead and one out in the top of the ninth, a mental lapse in the outfield quickly marred their fortunes.

After earning the final out of the eighth inning, sophomore closer Jerr y Elsing stepped to the mound in the ninth and quickly forced a groundball for the inning’s first out. Junior Will Walsh came up next for the Pirates, and with a 2-2

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I T SEEMS THE INJURIES just keep piling up for Rutgers.

After 22 total innings, the Rutgers baseball t e a m KNIGHT picked up NOTEBOOK both a win and a loss against Seton Hall during Saturday’s doubleheader.

The first game saw Rutgers top the Pirates, 4-1, with the second resulting in a 3-2 extra-inning loss. The loss occurred after 13 innings of baseball, totaling three and a half hours.

For the Knights, the loss may be tough to swallow after being only two outs from victor y in the top of the ninth. But head coach Fred Hill ensures that his team will not let the defeat haunt it.

“We’ll bounce back,” Hill said.

“We’re not down. We have a pretty resilient attitude so I think our kids will come back.”

As for team fatigue after playing a total of six hours of baseball in one day, Hill is not worried in the slightest.

“These kids are between 17 and 19 years old,” Hill said. “They should be able to play all day and all night.”

Even though the Knights ended their Saturday doubleheader with a loss, the whole team stayed positive. The Knights remained competitive throughout the day and fought hard until the last out.

“We definitely competed,” said sophomore infielder Pat Sweeney.

“Both games we really fought hard. It was just unfortunate we ended up on the losing side on one of the games.”

Senior right fielder Michael Lang left Game 2 of the series with tightness in his hamstring. Lang came of f the bench Sunday to pinch hit.

“I’m really not sure just yet if he’s OK,” Hill said. “I hope so, but I’m really not sure.”

Sweeney injured his ankle last Wednesday against Wagner and is expected to be out for a few more games. The injur y occurred after Wagner’s Jack Rice slid hard into second, taking Sweeney’s legs out from under him.

“I don’t know if the slide was dirty or not. I really couldn’t tell from my angle,” Sweeney mentioned after the game.

Senior pitcher Sean Campbell suffered an injur y in the same game after he was struck in the head by a ball. On Saturday, the prognosis became clearer.

“He has a concussion,” Hill said. “He’s down for a while. We’re not sure how long but we’re anticipating two to three weeks.”

count the junior sent a routine pop fly to shallow center.

But a miscommunication between senior centerfielder Brandon Boykin, freshman shortstop Nick Favatella and junior second baseman Dan Perrine allowed the ball to drop in, giving Walsh a one-out double.

A walk and a bases-clearing double later, Rutgers faced a one-run deficit and eventually dropped the contest, 3-2, in 13 innings to their in-state rivals.

“It’s ver y difficult and Jerr y got a bad rap, I think. A fly ball should be caught easily,” said

“A fly ball should be caught easily. That’d be two outs and nobody on. There’s no reason ... that ball should drop.”

FRED HILL Head Coach

head coach Fred Hill. “That’d be two outs and nobody on.

There’s no reason in the world that ball should drop. It hurts because it’s a fly ball — it should be caught.”

The Knights tied the game the next half inning with one swing of the bat when junior third baseman Russ Hopkins, who went 5-for-14 in the series, took Joe DiRocco’s first offering over the left center field wall for a solo shot.

The game remained tied for the next four innings thanks to a strong five-inning per formance by sophomore reliever

R UTGERS ’ NEXT GAME WILL take place down the road, as it battles another in-state rival in the Princeton Tigers. The first pitch is scheduled for Tuesday at 3:30 p.m.

Over the past 10 meetings, the Knights are 6-3-1 against their cross-town foes, outscoring the Tigers by a combined 76-35. They will look to win their third in a row against the Ivy League foe.

Last year, the Knights took down the Tigers, 10-2. It will be the 97th time the two teams meet.

Rob Corsi, who str uck out seven in relief of Elsing.

The Shore Regional High School (N.J.) product retired 12 straight before the Pirates smacked a couple of hits in the 13th inning to plate the gamewinning run. “[Corsi] did a phenomenal job,” said sophomore lefthander Rob Smorol, who went 7 2/3 innings without allowing an earned run. “He’s never been stretched out like that this year.

For him to go five strong and give up two hits and one run, he did a spectacular job.”

Before the Knights dropped Game 2, sophomore ace Tyler Gebler put on a show for all in attendance of the series opener at Bainton Field.

The Toms River, N.J., native went the distance for the Knights, allowing just five hits and one earned run in a 4-1 victor y over SHU — his second victor y and complete game of the season.

“The defense I think was the key because I didn’t have a lot of strikeouts,” Gebler said. “They were out there making all the plays so that made the difference I think.”

Just like in the series finale, the Zavala brothers shouldered the load from the plate, making the most of their opportunity to play alongside one another.

While the duo played just one season together at Randolph High School, the pair made up for years of missed oppor tunities over the weekend — all in just three games together in a Rutgers uniform.

“It’s something that we’ll never get to do again,” Steve Zavala said. “We’re taking advantage of it.”

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RU battles conditions at Colonials

BY LIZ SWERN STAFF WRITER

The Rutgers men’s track and field team dealt with unfavorable weather MEN’S TRACK t h i s weekRUTGERS end as it FIFTH PLACE competed at the Colonial Relays in Williamsburg, Va. The Scarlet Knights braved intermittent rain and high winds throughout the meet at William and Mary.

Rutgers placed fifth overall in team points, competing against 36 other programs from schools like Bucknell, George Mason and Monmouth.

“There was a lot of wind and sometimes rain,” said junior sprinter Steve Werner. “So it wasn’t the best running conditions.”

Werner felt the elements while competing in the 100-meter dash as he ran against the wind down the stretch of the track.

“The 100 [meter] didn’t go

as well as I would’ve liked,” Werner said. “But the 400 [meter] was OK.” Werner returned later in the meet to place ninth overall in the 400-meter dash with a time of 49.33 seconds.

“We came back Saturday and ran some good relays,” Werner said. “So that was good.”

Werner, freshmen Karon Purcell and Corey Caidenhead and junior Kevin Brown, placed sixth in the 4x400-meter relay with a time of 3:17.29.

Regular 4x400-relay member Aaron Younger sat out from competition this weekend to heal a groin injur y he sustained a few weeks before at the IC4A Indoor Championships.

The Knights also finished fifth in the 4x800-meter relay.

“I think it has been hard for us guys to break out because we really haven’t seen spring yet,” said senior javelin thrower Jeremy Pennino. “It was still cold and windy in Virginia.”

Pennino and senior teammates

Nick Crosta and Chris Bradley placed third, fifth and sixth, respectively, in the javelin.

Pennino finished with a throw of 205 feet, 6 inches, Crosta threw for 187 feet, 4 inches and Bradley less than a foot behind at 186 feet, 9 inches.

Combined, Pennino, Crosta and Bradley scored 13 points for the Knights. All three throwers qualified for Big East Championships in the event.

“We still struggled to put it all together, preventing us from putting any big throws out there,” Pennino said.

Also in the throwing events, junior James Plummer fought off the weather and won the discus throw with a mark of 190 feet, 7 inches. His throw put him ahead of the secondplace finisher by more than 10 feet.

“I thought he competed well, considering the elements,” Pennino said. “He threw near a lifetime best.”

Plummer also took second in the shot put with a throw of 49 feet, 9 inches. He qualified for the Big East Championships in both events.

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Junior running back De’Antwan Williams’ renewed work ethic impressed head coach Greg Schiano through three practices.

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Senior attack Kristen Anderson scored three goals on Friday, the second of which brought the Knights within a 5-3 margin of the host Fighting Irish, during Rutgers’ loss.

Knights trail from outset in ND rain

BY JOSH BAKAN STAFF WRITER

The rain in South Bend, Ind., m a y h a v e RUTGERS 6 stopped NOTRE DAME 11 partly in the first period of the Rutgers women’s lacrosse team’s game against Notre Dame on Friday, but the Scarlet Knights’ second consecutive loss gave them something else to feel gloomy about.

Notre Dame beat Rutgers, 11-6, never allowing a Knights lead and leaving Rutgers with its second Big East loss to think over on a flight back to New Jersey.

The Fighting Irish took their greatest lead on four consecutive goals to lead, 11-5. Three of those goals occurred within 30 seconds of each other on three Irish draw controls.

“People that weren’t involved in the fight for the possessions were getting caught ball-watching and Notre Dame did a good job of getting the ball out of the pack quickly on the draw,” said head coach Laura Brand. “They were able to fast break on offense because we had so many people WOMEN’S LACROSSE

looking at what was happening on the draw possession.”

Senior midfielder Shawn Lopez finished the game with a goal with 2:43 remaining on the clock for her second score of the game and the season, but at that point, the Irish secured the win.

Notre Dame scored quick goals throughout the game. The Irish came out in the second half with another draw control victory only 52 seconds into the period.

Rutgers (6-4, 1-2) had problems all day with draw controls, giving Notre Dame an 11-8 advantage.

And the disparity resulted in more opportunities for the Irish than the Knights wanted to allow.

“They weren’t scoring off of their settled offense. They were scoring out of the draw,” Brand said. “We weren’t very organized in our defensive transition.”

Notre Dame’s balanced attack was another reason it was able to accumulate goals. Seven different players scored each of the first seven goals to start the game with a 7-3 lead.

“You’re going to have multiple scorers, and we’re allowing them to move the ball quickly from person to person, so it really was just a matter of us being disorganized and not making adjustments quick enough,” Brand said.

Senior Kristen Anderson brought the Knights within a 5-3 deficit in the first half when she scored her second of three goals on a free position shot.

But the Knights dug themselves into too deep a hole early on.

The day started off on a negative note when Notre Dame senior midfielder Kaitlin Keena scored the first Irish goal only eight seconds into the game.

Notre Dame head coach Tracy Coyne coached Brand on Team Canada, so the pair know a lot about each other and run similar programs.

The student beat the teacher last year in a 12-11 Knights overtime win, but this year did not yield the same results for Rutgers.

Now the Knights find themselves with two Big East losses and have to finish conference play nearly perfect to get an at-large bid for their first NCAA Tournament appearance since 1999.

But the Knights’ next game comes against Monmouth, which hosts the Knights tomorrow in an in-state matchup.

If anything, playing the Hawks in their last out-of-conference game might right the ship for the Knights when they head into Big East play for the final five games of the season.

With the Rutgers football team’s move away from the Wildcat and emphasis on a pro-style offense, one would assume Mohamed Sanu has a lighter workload.

Rather than juggling responsibilities as a starting receiver and the top Wildcat quar terback as he did the past two years, he can finally focus on being a wideout.

Then head coach Greg Schiano told the junior to take some punts in practice.

“He’s a ver y good wide receiver, but we’re going to have him punting now too, so that might take some time away,” Schiano said. “I think it will help him, but he only has so many hours to prepare. If he’s only preparing at one position, maybe that will help.”

Sanu insists his dual responsibilities of the past two seasons never overwhelmed him, but admits he can shift his focus to becoming a better wideout now.

The 6-foot-2, 218-pounder enrolled at Rutgers before his freshman season and spent most of spring practice at safety. Necessity at a thin position forced his move to wide receiver, and his role as an offensive weapon continued to expand.

“As long as you put the time in and the attention to detail, it’s fine — it wasn’t that bad,” Sanu said. “But now I can focus on straight receiver and put more time into that. I’m allowed to focus more on receiver and becoming the best receiver I can be under coach [P.J.] Fleck.”

For the first time since his junior season at South Brunswick High School, Sanu is working on the mechanics of punting and speeding up his release, as well.

After two pooch kicks last season, Sanu said serious punting returned naturally.

“Once you get a cumulative amount of reps that you’ve done over the years, it comes second nature,” he said. “It’s just like riding a bike. If you’ve done it before, you should be able to do it on any given day.”

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the Scarlet Knights’ second outdoor practice of the spring, and the quarterbacks felt the impact in the passing game.

“There were some good throws and some duck-flip throws,” Schiano said. “Some of it is the wind.”

But redshir t freshman Brandon Coleman continued to impress and catch anything thrown his way.

“He’s been working his tail off from the day he got here,” Schiano said of the 6-foot-6 wideout. “He’s an incredibly hard worker, incredibly focused, very physically gifted.”

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De’Antwan Williams continued to earn Schiano’s praise in the early going of spring practice.

The Woodbridge, Va., native arrived in Piscataway as a four-star recr uit but failed to earn a regular role with the Knights.

“I thought Rocket ran the ball well [Saturday],” Schiano said. “I think his knowledge is better and I think he’s much better conditioned than he’s ever been. Those are two very important things.”

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“Who’s Who” of Rutgers recruits on Saturday because morning practices during the week prevent most from visiting.

Class of 2011 commits Mike Bimonte, Myles Jackson, Keith Lumpkin, Gar y Nova, Miles Shuler and Dar yl Stephenson were on hand along with some marquee juniors.

Don Bosco defensive end Darius Hamilton — the top player in the state and a Rivals.com five-star recruit — headlined the group.

“There will be some kids that come out to practice in the morning [during the week] and use a college visitation day,” Schiano said.

“When they come, we have them for the full day and do academics, football, ever ything. But not many can do that, so Saturdays are going to be huge for us.”

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APRIL 4, 2011

Lindley snaps record, skid with homer

BY SAM HELLMAN CORRESPONDENT

Most of that damage occurred yesterday in the Knights’ (10-15, 3-3) 9-5 victory over the Pirates in the rubber match of the series, when the duo smacked four hits and registered five RBI. “I played one year with him in high school and that was it,” said freshman catcher Michael Zavala. “Little League and all that growing up, I never played with him

Mired in a 13-game losing streak, Brittney Lindley found no solace in her torrid climb up the Rutgers softball SOFTBALL team’s all-time home run leaderboard.

RUTGERS 13 That changed CONNECTICUT 7 quickly when the junior third baseman broke the alltime record and ended the team’s longest losing streak under head coach Jay Nelson in one swing.

Literally.

Trailing by one run in the seventh inning against Connecticut in Storrs, Conn., Rutgers rallied for nine runs in a 13-7 victory.

Lindley closed the door on the Huskies when she crushed a three-run blast in her second at-bat of the inning.

“It gave us a lot of hope,” Lindley said.

“We were sick of losing, and we’ve been fighting so hard and we finally finished a comeback. It feels so good because we needed that win so badly. The record isn’t nearly as important as getting us back on track.”

Lindley’s home run — the 22nd of her career and second in the three-game series — matches her with Sarah Kalka for the most homers in program history.

“I think I might be more excited than she is about it,” said sophomore shortstop Ashley Bragg, who hit a home run of her own yesterday in a 3-for-4, three-RBI performance. “It’s exciting to be a part of something like that and to be a witness to something so special.”

Ironically, her record-breaking home run was not even Lindley’s most significant hit of the inning.

Leading off the inning with Rutgers trailing 5-4, Lindley dove headfirst into the firstbase bag to beat out an infield single and start the nine-run rally. Playing in her home

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Freshman catcher Michael Zavala went 2-for-5 with a pair of singles and two RBI in the Knights’ 9-5 victory over in-state Seton Hall yesterday at Bainton Field. The Randolph, N.J., native is hitting .340 in 47 at-bats this season, good for second on the team.

Zavala brothers carry RU to series win

BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

Growing up together in Randolph, N.J., Michael and Steve BASEBALL Zavala never had SETON HALL 5 opportunities to play baseball together on RUTGERS 9 the same team.

So when it came time for freshman Michael Zavala to

pick a program to call his home for the next four years, he chose Rutgers to finally get the chance to play with his older brother.

That decision was never more gratifying than in the Rutgers baseball team’s three-game series against Seton Hall over the weekend, when the pair went a combined 8-for-21 and accounted for seven RBI to lead to Scarlet Knights from the plate.

Late rally falls short in one-goal loss at New Meadowlands

BY VINNIE MANCUSO STAFF WRITER

CAMERON STROUD / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Redshirt freshman Matt Klimchak found the back of the net in the fourth quarter against St. John’s to bring the Knights within a goal at New Meadowlands Stadium.

The Rutgers men’s lacrosse team came off the sidelines of the New MEN’S LACROSSE Meadowlands RUTGERS 8 Stadium after a ST. JOHN’S 9 timeout with 35 seconds left in the fourth quarter, down by one goal and looking to even up not only the game against St. John’s, but its Big East record.

But as the ball sailed out of bounds yesterday with less than 30 seconds left, the Scarlet Knights saw their chances at a conference win fly away right along with it with a 9-8 defeat.

“We were getting good looks. I wanted to give the guys an opportunity to get to the cage,” said head coach Jim Stagnitta. “I told them, ‘We’re going to get this one,’ and we just couldn’t make the play.”

The opportunity for the tie occurred when the Knights scored late in the fourth quarter and cut their deficit to only one.

After a long period in which the Knights’ offense hurled the ball at Johnnies’ goalkeeper Jeff Lowman — owner of more than 100 saves on the season — without a goal, redshirt freshman Scott Klimchak finally found the back of the net on an assist from sophomore Duncan Clancy.

Scott’s twin brother, Matt Klimchak, followed the goal minutes later with one of his own to bring Rutgers within a goal.

“We never let up. We always never let up,” said Scott Klimchak. “Throughout the entire game we played as hard as we could, so we really never let up on them.”

St. John’s (3-6, 1-1) made sure the Knights never had an opportunity to capitalize on a letdown.

The best opportunity Rutgers had to overcome its Big East rival occurred early in the third period, when junior Mike Diehl capitalized on an extra-man opportunity to find the back of the cage, tying the game at 6-6.

But the Knights’ hopes deflated as quickly as they materialized, as the Johnnies scored back-to-back goals minutes later to bring the contest to 8-6 at the end of the third frame.

“I thought we were getting really good looks on their defense,” Diehl said. “There were a lot of opportunities and we just didn’t finish them.”

Rutgers suffered its second conference loss despite drawing first blood in the contest. Scott Klimchak found the back of the net seven seconds into the game, but the Knights failed to capitalize on the early momentum.

The Red Storm scored just seconds later to tie it up, 1-1, and never looked back.

“I thought it should have set the tone for the game, scoring within the first few seconds and

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