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The Rutgers baseball team fell to Princeton yesterday, 11-8, at Bainton Field in the Scarlet Knights’ second consecutive loss to a weaker midweek opponent.

Board of Governors hears Kean Task Force report

BY ANASTASIA MILLICKER CORRESPONDENT

The discrepancy between the Kean Task Force on Higher Education and the state support for the University was evident yesterday afternoon during the Board of Governors meeting.

The task force’s report highlighted a two-decade decline in state funding and the financial constraints limiting higher education, said John McGoldrick, chair of the Board of Trustees of the Association of State

Colleges and Universities, at the meeting held in Winants Hall on the College Avenue campus.

He said the report serves as a call to action and the task force believes New Jersey deserves having one the greatest public universities in the country.

“We have great sympathy [for this University],” McGoldrick said. “The state has not supported in the way we have supported you, and you [the University] must have the state support.”

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Administrators listen to a small student audience express their issues about tuition last night at the Open Hearing on the University’s Budget.

Few students attend meeting to offer opinions on budget issues

BY AMY ROWE ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

KEITH FREEMAN / PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

The Board of Governors listen to a report conducted by the Kean Task Force on Higher Education last night in Winants Hall on the College Avenue campus.

A small audience of students voiced their concerns about tuition increases and cuts to student fees last night at the Open Hearing on the University’s budget at the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus.

Besides students from the New Brunswick campus who spoke to administrators and members of the Board of Governors and Trustees, students from Rutgers-Newark and Rutgers-Camden sat in on the hearing via videoconference.

“This is an important occasion where we invite students to speak to members of our board,” University President Richard L. McCormick said.

“We are enormously cognizant that the economic climate is hurting our students, and we’re more committed than ever to help students pay.”

Officers from the Rutgers University Programming Association (RUPA) spoke on how necessary it is to continue student fees.

“[The Rutgers University Programming Association] receives $6 per student per semester, with which we plan 180 events every year,” said Ana Castillo, RUPA president. “I believe in the value of student activities on campus to supplement academics.”

Castillo addressed the University community’s reactions to last week’s RUPA-sponsored comedy show featuring Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi.

“However we’ve been perceived in the last week, we can defend our decisions,” said Castillo, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “We’re hurt by student reactions. I would like the board to understand how important it is to continue fees that make the University experience whole.”

Vice President of Finance for RUPA Jared Levine addressed the negative press his organization has received.

“It is sad how my peers spoke to one StarLedger reporter and that it was picked up with

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Council presents elected committee members

BY JONATHAN SHAO CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The University’s Pharmacy Governing Council (PGC) unveiled the results of its electoral board at last night’s meeting in the Busch Campus Center and conversed about future plans for a Rutgers University Student Assembly (RUSA) collaboration concerning the increased transcript fees.

Andrew Zullo, PGC president, announced the election results for the upcoming semester’s committee board.

“We had a lot of fantastic candidates this year,” said Zullo, an Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy senior.

“Traditionally, we have announced results at the Leadership Retreat but to help everyone plan for their club obligations next year, we will announce them today.”

Students cheered as Joseph Kim, an Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy sophomore, was named PGC president for the upcoming semester.

“There’s a lot I want to be able to accomplish during my upcoming term as president,” Kim said. “I want to focus on enhancing student involvement and on cultivating new student leaders, so that we can increase the number of awards our organizations win.”

Kim also plans to expand the recently established Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy newspaper.

“I was the editor of my school newspaper in high school, so I thought the idea of a pharmacy newspaper was really neat,”

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INDEX UNIVERSITY RU for Troops sent six care packages to soldiers overseas.

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Pharmacy Governing Council members discuss plans to change the Big Brothers, Big Sisters pharmacy mentoring program. The program this year will accept approximately 140 students.

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ORGANIZATIONS TO HOLD EVENTS ON RUTGERS DAY University cultural organizations will host events during this year’s Rutgers Day on April 30 throughout the College Avenue, Busch and Cook/Douglass campuses.

On College Avenue, the Korean Students Association will perform a short skit about Korea’s Robin Hood, Hong Gil Dong and provide visitors with information about Korean traditions.

The Taiwanese American Student Association will have a fish-friendly fishing game, “Go Fish!” where participants will be able to win prizes.

Festival attendees will be able to hear a short selection from Rutgers Asian A cappella on the College Avenue stage. The time of their performance is to be determined.

The Association of Philippine Students will host a table that will allow visitors to enrich themselves in the Filipino traditions and culture.

Visitors to the Armenian Club table will have the opportunity to try authentic Armenian food and receive an Armenian handwriting lesson.

The Japanese Cultural Association will offer attendees anime art lessons by an accomplished anime artist.

On Cook/Douglass, the Latin American Student Organization (LASO) will host a painting seminar using techniques influenced by Spanish and Latin American artists. They will also hand out free LASO balloons.

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Group sends care packages to soldiers overseas

BY KRISTINE CHOI STAFF WRITER

RU for Troops, a student nonprofit organization, is on a mission to help active U.S. soldiers serving overseas and veterans on campus by creating care packages and providing tutoring services for veterans.

Members from the University community have the opportunity to drop by the Veteran Affairs Building on Lafayette Street Wednesdays at 9 p.m., to assist in assembling packages for soldiers deployed overseas.

“As an Army retiree, I can tell you that when you receive care packages from home it is a great morale booster for not only the individual who receives the package but the other men and women in the unit,” said Stephen Abel, director for Veteran Services.

The organization’s founder and University alumnus Adam Elias star ted RU for Troops after his brother joined the U.S. army.

“For the first time, I saw the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from a whole new perspective,” Elias said. “I began to realize that regardless of our political ideologies regarding these wars, these were still our people out there.”

Elias said these soldiers — who are brothers, sisters, parents and

friends — are risking their lives to items when possible, such as footprotect the country. balls, Frisbees, magazines and “[We want] to reinforce what treats, like chocolate or cookies.” felt like diminished support for The organization has our troops and remind them fundraised $130 so far from that they still have people back soliciting donations and has at home that respect and appre- sent six care packages to active ciate ever ything they do for us,” soldiers overseas.

Elias said.

“Anyone can request to send a The care packages contain care package to a soldier overblankets, banseas,” said ners and TConstantinou, a “It is our hope that the School of Arts shirts with the University’s Sciences University community and logo on them, senior. “All we continues to help cards signed by need is the name, University and military recognize the sacrifices rank President address of the Richard L. soldier to personof our country’s McCormick alize and send a selfless soldiers.” and RU for care package.”

Troops as well RU for BEN FALKOWSKI as supplies colTroops’ tutoring RU for Troops President lected from service also plays donations. a role in providAlthough care packages ing a brighter future for veterans, include hygienic items such as Abel said. lip balm, bandages, hand sani“This semester, our club tizer and sun block, the organi- launched a new veteran program zation also tries to incorporate called the Mentoring Tutor fun items, said Vice President Program,” said Gabrielle and care package coordinator Paladino, the program’s coordinaElena Constantinou. tor. “In this program, we tutor vet“We ask for recommendations erans to help them integrate back from soldiers so we can send into the college atmosphere by them items that they really want, creating mentoring relationships such as powdered drink mix, and assisting them in their studfiber, multivitamins, whey protein ies as best we can.” and beef jerky,” she said. “We also The Mentoring Tutor like to include some recreational Program runs every Wednesday

night at the Veteran Affairs Office in New Brunswick by qualified University student volunteers, each of whom have taken a course in a subject they previously excelled in, said Paladino, a School of Arts and Sciences senior.

RU for Troops student volunteer Rosemarie Dizon feels excited and touched that there is an organization on campus that caters to militar y personnel and veterans.

“Both my parents ser ved in the militar y, with my mom ser ving in the U.S. Navy for almost my entire life,” said Dizon, a School of Ar ts and Sciences junior. “I can’t say enough how proud I am of both my parents and others I know for their ser vice.”

Although RU for Troops is relatively small, it aims to continue growing, President Ben Falkowski said.

The organization is excited to see more students come out and help at the Wednesday night events, said Falkowski, a School of Arts and Sciences senior.

Assistance in the collection of supplies is also welcome for building care packages.

“It is our hope that the University community continues to help recognize the sacrifices of our countr y’s selfless soldiers both home and abroad,” he said.

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MEMBERS: PGC plans to protest U. transcript fee continued from front he said. “I really want to get this off the ground.”

New executive board members will attend the PGC Leadership Retreat, which is designed to teach students the skills necessary to serve in their positions, Zullo said.

Priya Amin, vice-president internal of PGC, helped to make changes to the Big Brothers, Big Sisters pharmacy mentoring program.

“Ever y freshman coming into the pharmacy school has traditionally received a peer mentor who would guide them

for the six years they’re here,” she said.

The program received this year about 185 applications and is accepting approximately 140 students, Amin said.

“We wanted to ensure the quality of our mentors remains highlevel, so this year we’re making the application process more selective and beginning to conduct face-to-face interviews for mentor applicants,” she said.

Students will have the ability to opt-out of the mentorship program after their first year, since some students weren’t in regular contact with their mentors, Amin said.

The winner for the PGC University Senator still has to be determined, Zullo said.

Jonathan Cicci, an Ernest

Mario School of Pharmacy senior, raised the issue of the University’s transcript fees.

“Last year there were no fees for transcripts, but now they’re charging us $7 for each one,” he said. “Pharmacy students about to graduate have to apply to multiple fellowships and residencies, so this usually comes out to [more than] $100 just for transcripts.”

PGC plans to protest the new transcript fee with RUSA, Cicci said.

One of the final events for PGC would be a charity poker tournament, Zullo said.

“We’re also hosting our ‘CommUNITY Poker Tournament,’ which will raise funds for the Trevor Foundation,” he said. “Proceeds will go to children with vision problems.”

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John McGoldrick and George Pruitt discuss the future of the University at yesterday’s Board of Governors meeting.

REPORT: McGoldrick

“[University of California] at Berkley, University of Michigan urges colleges to work together … are fine but not as large as us,” said Pruitt, president of Thomas Edison State College. “There’s continued from front nothing wrong with size.”

With the University’s size He said the University needs much larger than other research to be a leading voice in New institutions, he said it should not Jersey, but Mark Hershhorn, model itself off others but rather Board of Governors member, said create its own identity. the University is not economically “[Their] human capital efficient to self-fund itself, partly allowed them to focus their because creative ideas are not resources, and we strongly ask coming out of the state. what we can do,” Pruitt said.

“We could raise $100 million, An essential figure to use is but the state will match $25 milthe resources, as they come and lion and there seems to be a lot of create an effective routing point, those sort of things,” Hershhorn he said. said. “Complementar y and “A lot of that stuff has gone matching, seeing any other on for a long time, and we only opportunity are all reasonable.” have the power of the pen and Higher education is under only saying the right words in siege from state cuts and enviresponse, almost ronments, but it is uniformly, and not solely from “With this report that’s wor th p o l i c y , meanMcGoldrick said. that’s substantial, something ingful,” Pruitt “I think we said. “The next take a very long we currently step is going to t i m e , ” believe that the appropriate McGoldrick said.

“A matter of priorthere’s investment communities.”

The University ities and leaderand reserve.” and Robert Wood ship of the state, Johnson Medical we have a governJOHN MCGOLDRICK School share a ment now who Chair of the Board of Trustees similar research wants to turn that of the Association of State culture, he said. around. With this Colleges and Universities “We can’t hold report that’s subout [on] the instistantial, we curtution and important medical rently believe that there’s investissues,” Pruitt said. “We thought ment and reserve.” it would be great to create Self-identity and obligation another group of people based to suppor t higher education on that topic and we felt that it are aspects of success for the was very important.”

University, said Gerald McGoldrick said people outHar vey, Board of Governor’s side the government realize pubvice chair. lic welfare and benefits are “John [McGoldrick] began important, so college presidents, [the meeting with] our obligatrustees and businesses must tions and who we are and we work together to move forward. should believe it,” Harvey said.

The University is afflicted “Other institutions aren’t trying with too many tasks on the agento be Rutgers, creating comda and too many people to do pelling opportunity for us. We them, McGoldrick said. need to come from the best Pruitt compared the system of minds in our university.” higher education to a carrier George Pruitt, Kean Task under its fleet. He said the carriForce on Higher Education memer is not more important than its ber, said while the task force is fleet, and they must work togethinvested in the future of the er to achieve its goals.

University, some people view that “A mission [statement] is it lost a sense of focus. who you are and what is But he said it might be the basis behind the because the University is University,” Pruitt said. “[And] the largest public research by the best, we mean best pubinstitution and the only one in lic research [institutions].”

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Douglass Governing Council members discuss potential sexism in the University’s alma mater at their meeting last night in Trayes Hall in the Douglass Campus Center.

Council considers two resolutions

BY GABRIELA SLOMICZ CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Douglass Governing Council (DGC) discussed two resolutions at last night’s meeting at Trayes Hall in the Douglass Campus Center — one calling for timelier council meetings and another supporting residence halls Woodbur y and Bunting Cobb’s event “Lengthy Locks.”

DGC’s first resolution argued council meetings should be more time efficient in the future. Following a discussion of the bill, council members voted to table the final decision to a later date.

“The council feels we should have more timely meetings, but [the issue] is complicated,” said Kyrie Graziosi, internal vice president of the DGC and a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “Now we have more time to look into it.”

This resolution proposed to set time limits to each portion of the agenda and was initially passed until the council voted to reconsider the bill. The resolution failed to pass when voted a second time.

DGC’s second resolution called for an increase in suppor t for residence halls Woodbur y and Bunting-Cobb’s “Lengthy Locks” event, where women donate inches of their hair to cancer patients. The bill, which will add more flyers adver tising the event, passed in committee.

In addition, Daniel Comito, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, attended the council meeting to discuss the University’s alma mater.

The alma mater changed over the course of time, with verses added and rewritten throughout the University’s histor y, said Comito, who is writing his senior thesis on the history of the alma mater and the modern movement for revision.

“We discussed issues that were ongoing, which I think is important.”

NICOLE FISHER Douglass Governing Council Representative

“The original resolution for the change came from the [DGC] last year,” Comito said.

“I would like as many opinions as possible.”

Comito suggested a number of possible changes to the song.

Council members like Graziosi discussed the problems they had with the alma mater and said the lyrics were noninclusive and sexist at times.

Graziosi said she wrote a letter to The Daily Targum urging University officials to change the alma mater. Following publication, she received numerous calls from other newspaper outlets

such as Asbury Park Press about the topic.

Graziosi, who was on the council last year and helped write the resolution, said the DGC was not currently working on the issue, but may actively support it next year.

“With the turnover of the eboard and other issues, the council has not continued forward,” Graziosi said. “But the University Senate has taken over the issue.”

Following this week’s DGC meeting, Rep. Adrian Halton, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, said she enjoyed attending the meetings ever y Tuesday because the council always kept her informed of their affairs.

“My favorite part is hearing updates about what’s going to become of Douglass, how Douglass is going to evolve,” Halton said. “There’s going to be new things emerging soon.”

Halton said she liked the parliamentary style of each meeting and the fact that students have a chance to vote on resolutions.

“We usually discuss issues at Douglass and tr y to resolve them by writing resolutions,” Halton said. “We’re a voice for Douglass.”

Rep. Nicole Fisher agreed with Halton and said she believes the council achieved a lot at this week’s meeting.

“We were ver y productive today,” said Fisher, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “We discussed issues that were ongoing, which I think is important.”

DEAN TO TAKE POSITION IN JULY AT RUTGERS-CAMDEN CAMPUS At yesterday’s Board of Governor’s meeting, University President Richard L. McCormick announced the appointment of Kriste Lindenmeyer as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers-Camden.

Lindenmeyer will assume her appointment of the largest academic unit at Rutgers-Camden July 11, according to a University press release.

The Rutgers-Camden Faculty of Arts and Sciences has 3,732 undergraduate students enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences and University College, and 572 students enrolled in The Graduate School, according to the release.

As dean, Lindenmeyer will oversee the academic and administrative operations of the academic unit. She currently serves as a history professor at the University of Mar yland Baltimore County, where she is also chair of the Department of Histor y and an Entrepreneurship Fellow.

In addition to writing the books “The Greatest Generation Grows Up: Childhood in 1930s America” and “‘A Right to Childhood: The U.S. Children’s Bureau and Child Welfare, 19121946,” Lindenmeyer has earned many awards for her research in teaching such as a Fulbright Senior Scholar award.

“Dr. Lindenmeyer is an exceptional administrator and scholar,” McCormick said in the release. “She brings an energetic vision for the role of the humanities and the social sciences, the natural and physical sciences and the health-related professions to all of her work. I am confident that she will help to advance the Rutgers–Camden Faculty of Arts and Sciences to its rightful place as a premier center for education and research in our region and state.”

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Holt pens request to not deport gay couple THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HADDONFIELD, N.J. — U.S. Rep. Rush Holt is pushing the Obama administration to halt deportation proceedings against the same-sex spouses of U.S. citizens.

The Democrat wrote a letter to the federal Department of Homeland Security yesterday to make the request on behalf of a couple that lives in his central New Jersey district. An estimated 36,000 bi-national same-sex couples are in the United States, and all have reason to be worried if deportations are not stopped, the couple’s lawyer says.

The case underscores the ambiguous status of the 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as the union of a heterosexual man and a heterosexual woman. Earlier this year, Attorney General Eric Holder said the government would no longer defend the law in court. But the administration continues to enforce it.

In New Jersey, Princeton University political science graduate student Josh Vandiver was married last year in Connecticut, where same-sex marriage is legal, to Henry Velandia, a citizen of Venezuela and professional salsa dancer.

Velandia’s visitor visa expired, and he said he has not been able to get a green card, or permanent resident status, through an employer. Because the federal government does not recognize the couple’s marriage, Vandiver cannot sponsor Velandia as a heterosexual person could sponsor a spouse.

Now Velandia is facing possible deportation and could be returned to his home country after a hearing May 6.

Some members of Congress want to repeal the law, and many advocates expect a federal court will invalidate it. But neither measure is likely to happen quickly.

“In light of Attorney General Holder’s new guidance, I am asking you to suspend the deportation of all spouses of citizens in a same-sex marriage until a decision is reached on DOMA,” Holt wrote in a letter to Homeland Security Secretar y Janet Napolitano.

“This is the right thing to do for Henr y, Josh and countless others who are being victimized by this discriminator y and unconstitutional law.”

Homeland Security did not immediately comment on Holt’s request.

His plea follows confusion last week over how visas should be handled. The government briefly allowed applications for immigrant benefits for same-sex couples, then reversed course days later after a review of the laws.

Lavi Soloway, attorney for the N.J. couple, says that at any given time, a few hundred couples in similar situations as his clients face deportation proceedings.

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School of Arts and Sciences junior Kristen Clarke voices her concerns about rising costs for New Jersey’s public education.

STUDENTS: RUPA raises 40 percent of funds continued from front the same biased distortion by the whole Associated Press,” said Levine, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “There were no complaints until the Star-Ledger printed their slanted and narrow view which affected this University.”

Levine said 40 percent of the funds RUPA utilizes are raised by the organization itself through efforts like T-shirt sales.

Vice President of Student Affairs Gregory S. Blimling said student fees are not in jeopardy and credited RUPA for the campus’s climate.

“Everyone is impressed with the work you’ve done, it takes an unbelievable amount of time to plan 180 events each year,” he said. “This campus would not be the same without the quality of student life [RUPA provides].”

University Affairs Chair for the Rutgers University Student Assembly Kristen Clarke shared her concerns about rising tuition in state.

“The state used to pay for most of [tuition], now it’s practically nothing,” said Clarke, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “Many students have had to drop out because of the financial burden. Assuming that the University receives the same amount this year, I am requesting no raise for tuition.”

Clarke also asked administrators to consider having three students from each University campus become voting members on the Board of Governors.

“The lack of student input is dishear tening,” she said.

“Students should make active

decisions about things that affect them.”

Joel Salvino, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, asked the board where he would get the money to pay for a tuition increase.

“When you raise my tuition, where is the money coming from?” he asked. “I’m already living in debt. I’m not an ATM machine, and I don’t want to continue being viewed as such.”

To this, no administrators responded and the meeting adjourned.

Clarke said she was disappointed by both the student and board’s response.

“I put the meeting up as my Facebook status,” she said.

“Tuition and fees are really impor tant and the fact that there weren’t more than two students talking about tuition is dishear tening.”

She also thought it was disrespectful the board did not answer Salvino’s inquiry.

“The chair of the committee didn’t even thank him when he sat down,” she said. “They’ll see when 30,000 angr y undergraduates learn of tuition and fee increases.”

University Secretar y Leslie Fehrenbach said it is hard to answer questions like Salvino’s in a big forum.

“With a personal question like that, it is a little bit odd,” she said. “We don’t get our budget until July, so we don’t know what tuition is going to be and can’t comment. It’s an awkward construct.”

Fehrenbach was disappointed more students were not present at the hearing.

“We’re thinking of a better way to organize it,” she said. “We invite students to submit questions and concerns online.”

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David Olesker is widely recognized as one of the top three Israel-advocacy trainers in the world. He will come to speak at Rutgers Hillel on 93 College Ave. at 8 p.m. Olesker’s presentation is designed for pro-Israel students looking to sharpen their communication skills and bring successful Israel advocacy to campus. The American Jewish Committee and Rutgers Hillel sponsor the event.

Lambda Theta Phi Latin Fraternity, Inc. is sponsoring a blood drive in the Busch Campus Center Multipurpose Room from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. All donors will receive a FREE T-shirt and snacks! Save a Life? Donate Blood. For more info, please email Jared at JTamasco@nybloodcenter.org.

April’s “Art after Hours” will take place from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum on the College Avenue campus. It begins with a book signing, celebrating the publication of “Visible Writings,” edited by University faculty members Marija Dalbello and Mary Shaw. The book’s essays originated in a 2006 interdisciplinary conference co-organized by the French department and the museum, with support from the museum’s endowment established by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The evening continues with a poetry reading featuring Sara Bauer and Laurie Granieri from 6 to 7 p.m., a curator-led tour from 7 to 7:20 p.m., and a stand-up comedy showcase with an open mic session cosponsored by the Zimmerli Student Advisory Board and Rutgers University Programming Association.

Enjoy refreshments courtesy of ZSAB and RUPA. The event costs $6 for general admission. It is free to museum members, students and staff with valid RUID and children under 18. For information on performing during the open mic session, please email RUPAcomedymovies@gmail.com.

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Robert Mankoff, cartoon editor for The New Yorker, and Eddy Portnoy, a part time lecturer at the University, will be at “Cartooning Jewish New York” in the Cook Campus Center Multipurpose Room from 7:30 to 9 p.m. The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life is sponsoring the event.

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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.

“Earth-Size Exoplanets and Intelligent Life in the Universe” is the topic of the annual Henry R. and Gladys V. Irons Lecture in Physics and Astronomy from 2 to 3:30 p.m., in the Physics Lecture Hall on Busch Campus. The speaker, Geoffrey Marcy, is a professor of astronomy at the University of California at Berkeley. The Lecture is free and open to the public. For further information, see physics.rutgers.edu/irons.

Ballroom Dance workshops will take place in the College Avenue Gym from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. In the upper gym, attendees will learn dances for weddings, rumba and swing basics. No experience is required. Participants can attend with or without a partner. For experienced dancers, there will be a foxtrot and swing workshop in the main gym.

Register at recreation.rutgers.edu/classes or pay $8 at the door students with RUID and $15 without RUID. There will be a Ballroom Dance Party from 8 to 11:30 p.m. Brian Nash, recreation class instructor and head coach of the Rutgers Ballroom Dance Team, will play music for general ballroom dancing in the main gym of the College Avenue Gym. The event is $5 for students with RUID and $10 without RUID. Proper semi-formal attire is requested. No jeans, T-shirts, sneakers or flip-flops. For more information call (732) 9328204 or email recclass@rci.rutgers.edu.

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Ginormous Games featuring Hot Air Balloon Rides will take place at the Douglass Woodlawn from 5 to 8 p.m.,ww 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 firstcome, first-served basis. Rain date is slated for April 25. For more information visit getinvolved.rutgers.edu.

Rutgers Empowering Disabilities hosts “Disability Awareness Day” at the Rutgers Student Center Multipurpose Room. There will be four guest speakers with different disabilities, including alumnus Jacqueline Jackson and Santina Muha, 2009 Ms. Wheelchair. There will be interactive obstacle courses to ‘experience’ disabilities, music and food. First 30 attendees will get a chance to enter raffle.

Doors open at 6:30 and runs until 10:30 p.m. Proceeds will go to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. For any questions contact rutgers4disability@gmail.com.

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Following a New Brunswick city council meeting on March 16, The Unity Square Partnership began plans to renovate the Remsen Avenue Firehouse on 81 Remsen Ave. The council will hold a meeting tonight at Bayard Street where they will hold a final vote on the construction plans, which include rehabilitating the Fire Museum on the second floor and transforming the first floor into a community center.

The project, funded largely by pharmaceutical company SanofiAventis, includes converting the first floor, which was once a vehicle bay, into a community center where Unity Square offices would be located, said Bill Bray, city spokesperson. An elevator would be added to the second floor to allow handicap access in the building. “[The first floor community center] will give Unity Square a location out of which they can direct their programming, which also will include job skill training to help residents increase their skill sense so they can qualify or obtain employment,” he said.

Funding for the project would be provided through the joint effort of the city and Unity Square Partnership, Bray said.

The city plans to collect a budget of $2 million through borrowing money and issuing bonds.

In addition, Catholic Charities, a group in partnership with Unity Square, will give the city $825,000 in return for a long-term lease for the space, Bray said.

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The Unity Square Partnership will work on rebuilding the New Brunswick Firehouse on 81 Remsen Ave. If city council approves of the construction tonight, residents will see a renovated firehouse museum and a new community center on the first floor.

All of the Unity Square Partnership programs would run out of the community center, said Unity Square Partnership Director Lorena Gaibor.

Programs include empowerment classes and a crime watch awareness session.

Another addition to the firehouse would be an incubation kitchen, Gaibor said. Small business entrepreneurs who work in catering would be able to rent a health-certified space for a nominal fee.

“I think people are really looking forward to having an open space that they can call their own

where they can have programs running out of it,” she said. “It will be kind of a clearing house too for the community to come and access resources that they need.”

The primary sponsor of the firehouse’s ground floor revitalization is Sanofi-Aventis, which would contribute $1 million, said Jack Cox, senior director of Public Affairs and Media Relations at Sanofi-Aventis via email correspondence.

Sanofi-Aventis is involved with the Neighborhood Revitalization Tax Credit Program, which allows for companies to allocate part of their taxes to chosen non-

profit programs that work at the community level, Cox said.

“Our U.S. headquarters is in Somerset County and we were looking to support a program in a neighboring town that would have a long-term, positive and sustainable impact on the community,” he said.

Robert Rawls, director of the New Brunswick Fire Department, said he was pleased with Sanofi-Aventis’ and Catholic Charities’ grants and hopes the firehouse will look more like a museum after the renovation.

“I think it’s nothing but positive for the community in New

Brunswick,” Rawls said. “We think that proving the history of our department is very important, it’s a lot of history and it’s a great history.”

Rawls said he believes the construction would affect not only workers in the fire department, but the city as a whole. “[The Unity Square project is] an opportunity for people in that community, which has usually been known as one of the poorer communities in the city, to improve its standards,” he said.

“The addition of maintaining the firehouse is another factor in itself, a piece of history.”

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Society chooses fun over information I

n an admittedly funny but nonetheless childish move, the National Republican Senatorial Committee released a parody video of President Barack Obama’s bid for re-election in the 2012 race. In the few days since it was posted, the video has garnered more than 688,000 views, with more to come by the time this is published.

Obama’s real campaign launch video, on the other hand, has only racked up 168,000 views as of press time. Some people have been interpreting this as indicative of the number of Obama’s opponents versus the number of his supporters. Others see it as a lack of energy on the part of Obama’s campaign. We, however, see it differently. The number of views the parody video has says more about our entertainment-oriented culture than it does about Obama’s campaign.

Just a few weeks ago, everyone watched as Rebecca Black’s atrocious “Friday” racked up tens of millions of views in a span of days. But that video did not go viral because of how much everyone loved it. Instead, it went viral for the exact opposite reason — people found it hilariously entertaining because of how downright awful it was. This tends to be how many people operate these days. People spend far less time investing themselves in what they sincerely care about on emotional or intellectual levels, instead devoting their time and energy to things which are quick, cheap and mindlessly entertaining. As a culture, we have, in many ways, chosen hilarity over sincerity. The common thought process for a view of the parody video probably went something like this: “Yeah, sure, I like Obama and all, so I probably know what his video is going to be all about. Let me see this joke one. It might be funny.”

Another factor, which we hate to admit, is probably the length of the videos. The parody video is about half the length of the real one, and it is a lot easier to watch because it isn’t supposed to be taken seriously.

It is meant only to impart a few laughs in about a minute, and then the show’s over. This makes it more likely that more people will watch it and that those people will watch it multiple times.

The disparity in video views is not something anyone should really be taking seriously. It most likely says absolutely nothing of substance about what will happen to the Obama campaign in the upcoming race. What it does represent, though, is what we like as a culture. But perhaps a little more sincerity and care about what’s really important wouldn’t hurt.

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een pregnancy is no fun. Unless, of course, you land on a reality show, like what happened to the delightfully dysfunctional girls of MTV’s “16 and Pregnant.” Or, you could end up like Bristol Palin, making $262,500 off her participation in programs raising awareness about teenage pregnancy in 2009. On first glance, Palin’s willingness to parlay her baby into a moneymaking scheme seems sort of weird, especially considering that she’s the daughter of Sarah Palin, one of America’s favorite “family values” icons. But, being mad at Bristol Palin would be misguided, because she merely took advantage of what was offered her.

The real problem here is the system already in place, which allows someone like Palin to make six figures off her teenage pregnancy. We’re talking about both the political climate and the entertainment market.

Palin is part of a political family, and a rather right-wing political family at that. As such, her teenage pregnancy came as a bit of an embarrassment for her abstinence-only, down-home common sense-loving mother. Here Sarah Palin was, traveling across the country as the champion of “traditional family values” — a vague, catch-all term whose flaws would need an editorial of their own to point out — and her unmarried, teenage daughter turns out to be with child. Rather than admit that maybe, just maybe, there was a flaw in the Palin-family ethos, Sarah played the role of supportive mother and Bristol began her own “don’t-be-like-me” campaign. Bristol Palin’s involvement in teenage pregnancy awareness programs seems, from this viewpoint, to be less sincere and more politically motivated.

But it isn’t just the political climate which seems to have given Palin the chance to cash in on having a child out of wedlock — it is also the American public’s love of watching people make mistakes. As the daughter of a vice presidential candidate, Bristol Palin would have ended up as a minor celebrity no matter what. However, her pregnancy landed her in tabloids across the country, and people ate it up. That’s why the “16 and Pregnant” comparison is so salient: Palin, just like MTV, cashed in on what the people want to hear and see. It is as simple as that.

We disagree with Bristol Palin making money off of her child in this way.

For whatever reason, it does not sit well with us. However, Palin cannot really shoulder the blame. Let’s be honest: Most people, faced with the same chance to make money, would take it. Instead of shaming Palin, we should maybe be shaming ourselves. Why did we decide to eat it up?

QUOTE OF THE DAY “I began to realize that regardless of our political ideologies regarding these wars, these were still our people out there.”

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he card read, “Happy spent a phase of our young birthday, son.” It lives learning social norms continued, “And together. We solidified our even though today is a long best friend status one day in way from your childhood fifth grade, when I asked if adventures, the same love he would be my best friend. that hugged and cuddled you He said yes, and we’ve AMIT JANI spent many happy years then is the same love that cares and wants the best for acting like we were still in you now.” elementary school.

This is a message from the birthday card that The next card I received was one of those cards my parents gave me for my 21st birthday. It that are supposed to be funny but really aren’t. It showed the genuine love that was stashed deep was from my other best friend, Mo. He quoted rapwithin their hearts for me. The only problem was per Kanye West toward the middle, “People don’t that while the sentiment was theirs, the words get the flowers while they can still smell them.” He weren’t. “Who cares if Hallmark wrote it or we continued, “So if I could, I would give you a garden did — it’s exactly how we feel about you,” my pareveryday.” This was the kind of person Mo was, ents would say. This was an answer that was all genuine and sentimental is his own wacky way. too familiar to me. Year after year, I would receive I wish I could continue writing about all the wona beautifully adorned card, with a “To our wonderful handwritten cards that I’ve received from derful son,” at the top, a generic message inside my friends and family but that would take up too and a conclusion that read “Love, your parents.” much space. The point is that each card elicits a Perhaps this was a cultural norm memory I had with that person durwith the older members of my faming a particular stage of my life. I “When you receive honestly don’t remember most of ily because my aunts and uncles did the same. the presents I received for my 18th a sincerely written Like my family, we sometimes birthday, but I do remember the tend to forget the value of a sincere card that one of my cousins gave card, tape it birthday card. It seems to have me. It said, “Now you can finally buy to your wall.” become a tradition to buy a glamlottery tickets, here’s one to start orous birthday gift and a bubbly, you off.” Although this was the last music playing card to simply let thought that was going through my someone know who the gift is from. mind, it gave me a good laugh. One of the best A birthday card is much more than that. There’s presents I’ve ever received is taped to the wall in an entire page and a half left intentionally empty for front of me right now. It’s a handmade card that my you to fill up with magical moments you’ve experifriend Neha made for me. It reads, “Happy 21st, enced with the other person. It is an opportunity to future politician.” Surrounding this was a pop-out reminisce about the embarrassing blunders you’ve picture of the Capitol building and a gavel. A miniashared, the happy times in the summer sun and the ture version of the Constitution was glued toward salty tears they gently brushed from your cheeks the top and stickers of the American flag were when you were feeling down. A card is a marker of placed throughout the cover. I cherish this card your existence, a mini-biography that tells a story because it conveys to me that Neha understands about your life from a loved one’s perspective. me as a person.

I turned 21 years old this January, and I’ve The next time you pick out a card, make sure to received a bunch of cards that sang to me, popped include the personal sentiments that you shared out at me and told me how I should party now that with that person. When you receive a sincerely I’m of drinking age. My best friend Hamzah’s card written card, tape it to your wall. You’ll be surprised was no different. It said “Happy birthday, brother” by the emotions it can evoke. A card has the power on the cover. Inside, next to a pair of handcuffs and to rekindle a lost relationship, a kinetic energy that a cartoon police car, was a beige-colored page filled has the ability to uplift spirits and most of all, it tells with his writing. the recipient that you appreciate their presence in It started out, “I can’t believe you’re 21 already! your life.

We’re adults now, but to think about it … we still act like kids, lol.” The fact is, we sometimes still act Amit Jani is a School of Arts and Sciences junior like we did when we were 9 and first met outside majoring in journalism and media studies with a my apartment building. We played baseball togethminor in political science. His column, “The Fourth er, went to Six Flags and snuck into movies. We Estate,” runs on alternate Wednesdays.

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Students deserve answers for Snooki, Morrison Letter NEAL LANG

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aving just transferred to the University, this is my first semester at the State University of New Jersey. I thought the University was a good choice as it is rated pretty high on most ranking lists. Apparently the school does not think that way of itself. With the Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi stor y came some revealing information.

The University actually had to pay for a commencement speaker this year. Is the school not good enough to attract comedians, intellectuals or entrepreneurs without having to pay them? Does the school not have any successful or famous alumni that want to be honored by speaking at their

alma mater’s commencement?

The big stor y this past weekend was that Snooki was paid more than the commencement speaker. The University released a statement explaining that the money spent on Snooki was from student fees. The Rutgers University Programming Association (RUPA) hired her, and there was admittedly no educational purpose to having her. What really bothered me was that a commencement speaker at a good state school was getting paid at all. The fact that Snooki was paid $32,000 dollars for doing nothing bothered me too. I don’t agree with paying celebrities to come to the University, especially if they have nothing insightful to share. I wish my fees were spent more wisely.

But why must the University pay for a commencement

speaker? The school justified having Snooki by saying it was RUPA that hired her. What is their excuse for hiring a commencement speaker? Aside from the waste of money, is the University not good enough to

“The University actually had to pay for a commencement speaker this year.” attract a qualified speaker? Who chooses the speaker? Whoever you are, can you explain why one must be hired? While I’m at it, can someone explain why I have to pay for fees that are used on foolishness? Why don’t I have a choice to not pay these

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fees? Why does a school organization have the power to use $32,000 of student fees on entertainment for a couple of thousand students? I pay a fortune for my education, and when I park in an empty parking lot at 8:30 p.m., I get an $85 ticket. If the school needs ever y penny, then how is there enough of my leftover fees lying around to be spent on hiring Snooki?

I do appreciate having famous or influential people speaking at the University. I’ve gone to hear speakers brought in by the Eagleton Institute, and I’ve heard Spike Lee was at the University to share his insight about the ar t of film and how he became successful.

Maybe I was naïve, but I did not know people were paid to speak to students. I thought they did it for fun, to share their thoughts, to influence the

future of the world. Even if they are paid though, the school should not be spending students’ money on any speaker more than a nominal fee for travel, etc. I’m willing to forgo having these speakers come to the University in exchange for my fees, and I’m sure many other students would agree.

I’m not sure what I’m more upset about — having to pay useless fees or that my new school had to hire a commencement speaker this year.

Either way, I’m sure there is some reason, however weak, why both were done. Can an explanation be given? Can someone in charge take the time to publish an op-ed justifying his decision?

Neal Lang is a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore majoring in political science.

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WIN: Rutgers dominates in

“We went back to the way we started the season,” said head Laura Brand “We didn’t groundballs, caused turnovers coach react to the other opposing team — we played our style. We were continued from back more able to be the team that dif ferent positions than they controlled the tempo on the defensive end.” normally do.”

As a result, the offense took The defensive success partly caused the scoring outburst in advantage of its lengthy time with the ball by scoring five West Long Branch, N.J. “The defense was always uncontested goals in only eight ready today,” Welsh said. “I minutes of action.

“We were in a little bit of a don’t think Monmouth ever realfunk,” Brand ly got the chance said of the to get offense in its two the ball on “We didn’t react previous losses. offense a lot.” to the other “We made some Rutgers creaton ed a 17-9 advanopposing team — changes offense and gave tage in groundball we played our style. people some pickups along with more freedom to a 9-4 advantage in We ... controlled u s e caused turnovers. their skills and “Everyone was the tempo.” their strengths.” really aggressive, LAURA BRAND The Knights especially on the Head Coach will carr y this ball,” said senior momentum into defender Mar y the rest of Big Moran. “People weren’t afraid to pick up doubles East play, which headlines their final five games of and be really aggressive.”

Freshman defender Chelsea the season.

The next two of those games Intrabartola tallied four caused turnovers for a career high. are on the road against and Cincinnati Entering the game, Louisville Intrabartola caused a total of before Rutgers hosts three four turnovers in her games to close the season at Yurcak Field. rookie campaign.

And the Monmouth victor y “She really dominated no matter where she was on the could give the Knights the confield because she had a few fidence they need to lead them [caused turnovers] in the mid- down the stretch.

“It helps us get over the last field and a few on defense,” couple of games,” Brand said.

Moran said.

The defense entered confi- “To know we can have a game dently in the first half, only like this helps us prepare for our next round of games.” allowing two goals.

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Head coach Greg Schiano moved senior Mason Robinson to the secondary, where Schiano works with assistant coach Jeff Hafley.

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est cornerback, is still learning, as well.

“He’s another guy that’s doing limit Robinson’s contributions well,” Schiano said. “He just needs repetitions.” continued from back For Robinson, the biggest That injur y occurred after adjustment occurs in thinking spending training camp at wide like a cornerback.

He spent his entire Rutgers receiver, and while he returned to the backfield last year, injuries career a playmaker with the ball in his hands. And with just limited his role.

The 5-foot-10, 190-pounder two practices with pads and only had one offensive touch — a contact, Robinson has somefour-yard catch — in 12 games, thing to prove.

“Can I hit? We’re going to but did return 19 punts, including find out when we go live,” a touchdown.

Now he is attempting to get Robinson laughed. “I feel confident in myself. If back on the field we’re out there at an entirely I new position.

“I’ll make the most one-on-one, have to get you “You take it of [cornerback]. You on the ground. and run with it it looks because life is play every position Whether ugly or it looks always going to good, I have to have cur veballs,” as a little kid, get you on the Robinson said. so I’ll just make ground.”

“It’s not even Robinson that much of a the most of it.” looked his best in cur veball.

It’s scarlet last seajust catching MASON ROBINSON son at South onto the termiSenior Cornerback Florida, where he nology and scored one of his catching onto the plays. As long as I’m healthy, I two career touchdowns on a feel like whatever I put my punt return.

Surrounded by five USF spemind to I can do it. I’m positive cial teamers, Robinson squirtwherever I go.”

Robinson has a successful ed out of the crowd and out-ran high school career in the sec- ever yone for a 60-yard touchondar y to draw on, but most of down.

Robinson said he does little his nine interceptions came as a safety in his junior and special teams work during spring practice, so his position senior seasons.

Four practices into this spring, switch does not impact his role he is part of a cornerback contin- as a return man.

It only forces the fifth-year gent looking for starters to emerge. Schiano named Brandon senior to reminisce on his Jones and Logan Ryan as the backyard football years.

“I don’t mind,” Robinson said. most impressive.

Most of the young corners “Wherever he’s going to put me, have talent but are prone to I’ll make the most of it. You play mental errors, according to every position as a little kid, so Schiano. But Robinson, the old- I’ll just make the most of it.”

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Outfielder delivers in limited opportunities as freshman

BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

With five errors in an 11-8 loss to Princeton yesterday, there were not m a n y bright KNIGHT spots for NOTEBOOK t h e Rutgers baseball team from the field.

But at the plate, one freshman continues to make the most of limited playing time.

“We come to the field every day, we work hard,” said freshman outfielder Joe D’Annunzio.

“What we’re told is to find a pitch that’s in the zone and today I got lucky that I found my spots.”

D’Annunzio went 3-for-5 hitting in the eight-hole yesterday for head coach Fred Hill, scoring two runs and knocking in two RBIs in the process.

Making just his third start, the Scotch Plains, N.J., native doubled his season hit total in just one game and bumped his batting average up to .352 with the performance.

While the rookie admits there is room to grow, there is no denying his impact when in the lineup.

“Obviously, I’m still making some mistakes and stuff like that and hopefully it’s just going to get better,” D’Annunzio said.

“I just go out there ever y day and keep giving my all and hopefully he keeps putting me in the lineup.”

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injuries that continue to plague the Scarlet Knights, do not expect any apologies from Hill when it comes to the team’s recent defensive struggles.

“We have had some injuries and some guys aren’t playing. But still, you’re on the team — you should be able to play,” Hill said.

Sophomore shortstop Pat Sweeney injured his ankle last week against Wagner after a baserunner slid hard into second, and senior right fielder Michael Lang came up hobbling after a late-game double Saturday against Seton Hall.

Both are expected to return to the lineup today against

CAMERON STROUD / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / FILE PHOTO

Sophomore southpaw Dan O’Neil provided a stabilizing force out of the bullpen, allowing no earned runs through 2 1/3 innings.

LOSS: Beard allows Tigers on board with five-frame start continued from back But Princeton made it clear from the outset that this year would not turn out like the past two and showed no sympathy in handing Rutgers its second consecutive midweek loss to a lowercaliber opponent.

While sophomore lefthander Dan O’Neil, who threw 2 1/3 innings without allowing an earned run, suggested that the team may be able to bring more energy into the games, Hill felt there were no excuses for flat starts.

“There’s no reason to be flat for any game, anytime, anywhere as far as I’m concerned,” Hill said. “The midweek games are extremely important because at the end of the year, if you don’t win your league then your record is what’s going to get you into the NCAA Tournament.”

Junior righthander Willie Beard struggled slightly in his start, going five innings while allowing eight hits and three earned runs, and so too did the bullpen.

The Knights grabbed a threerun lead in the second inning off just one hit, but the Tigers followed with a three-run inning of their own in the third, smacking four hits off the Spotswood, N.J., native.

Hill dipped into the bullpen a few innings later in the sixth, when freshman Joe Esposito took the mound looking to build off a strong outing Sunday against Seton Hall.

But Esposito’s outing was short lived, as two-hits, an error and a run sent the reliever to the dugout in favor of O’Neil.

The Knights made three more errors with O’Neil on the mound, but the St. Mary’s (N.J.) product kept cool and did not allow an earned run.

“It’s par t of the game,” O’Neil said. “You can only just play though it and just keep chopping.”

The Knights face a quick turnaround tomorrow, when they welcome another Ivy League foe in Columbia in their final game of a ninegame homestand.

With losses to Wagner and now Princeton, both of which scored 11 runs, the Knights look to end their midweek losing streak against another weaker opponent.

But make no mistake about it, no matter who the Knights play during the week, an average of four errors in the past two midweek contests will not get the job done.

“You can’t win with five errors. You just can’t do that,” Hill said.

Columbia, but the Knights’ top hitter from a year ago, sophomore shortstop Steve Nyisztor, remains out with an undisclosed illness.

“Nyisztor, I’m not sure just when,” Hill said. “He’s very weak.

He has no strength, really.”

T HE K NIGHTS

WELCOME

Ivy League-foe Columbia to the Banks today to close out a ninegame homestand and will not play another game at Bainton Field until their April 15 series against Cincinnati.

Colombia enters the contest with an 11-11 record and three .400 hitters in its lineup, as the Knights look to gather some momentum heading into their weekend series in Clearwater, Fla., against South Florida.

“Midweek games are ver y impor tant for our record to maybe get an [NCAA] bid if we don’t win the [Big East] Tournament or qualify,” said sophomore reliever Dan O’Neil, who pitched 2 2/3 scoreless innings yesterday. “They’re really important.”

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Freshman outfielder Joe D’Annunzio went 3-for-5 yesterday in just his third start of the season for the Scarlet Knights.

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Junior No. 2 singles player Jennifer Holzberg has a 14-3 record in individual play and is 13-4 in doubles play with Amy Zhang.

Junior’s consistency helps carry Knights

BY MATT CANVISSER CORRESPONDENT

There are a plethora of adjectives that can describe Jennifer Holzberg, but she would only choose TENNIS t w o : aggressive and consistent.

Anyone following the Rutgers tennis team during the 2011 season would be hard pressed to argue with that description of the junior from Easton, Conn.

“I have definitely exceeded my own expectations this year,” Holzberg said. “I feel like I’m playing some of the best tennis since I have been at Rutgers and I have felt very confident in each match that I have played.”

Holzberg occupies the No. 2 slot in the Scarlet Knights’ singles lineup, but is realistically the No. 1-A to senior captain Amy Zhang’s No. 1-B. She boasts a 143 individual record, which is the best on the team in all 17 matches and one win better than former All-Big East competitor Zhang. “[Holzberg] always tries her hardest in matches and in practice, including fitness training and weightlifting,” Zhang said.

“She’s a steady player who always fights on the court.”

Zhang went through a slump in late February, when she lost three singles matches to Columbia, Louisville and Xavier in a nearly two-week span.

Holzberg served as a catalyst for the team during the rough stretch, picking up wins in each of the matches when Zhang fell.

“I am a very positive person on the tennis court, whether I am in a match or at practice,” Holzberg said. “I think that helps everyone around me to remain very positive, as well, and to work as hard as they can.”

Holzberg may have an advantage in the win column over Zhang in singles, but there is no animosity between the two teammates and close friends.

The pair forms Rutgers’ No. 1 doubles squad, and with a 13-4 record, camaraderie is at an alltime high.

“Amy and I have been playing together for almost two years

now so we are very comfortable with each other,” Holzberg said.

“We know exactly how one another plays and are very familiar each other’s style on the court.

We are both highly aggressive at the net and baseline, which allows us to dictate points and execute effectively.”

The entire Knights squad is clicking on all cylinders lately despite a lot of partner-swapping in the No. 2 and No. 3 doubles slots. Rutgers owns five straight wins in the Big East and eight matches overall, during which time Holzberg has seven singles wins and eight doubles victories.

“Our team is playing really well this season and we can continue to do even better in these next few weeks,” Holzberg said.

“We set a goal to be 16-4 this season, and I think we will definitely meet that goal if we continue playing well.”

If the Knights run the table, they have a good shot at the No. 6 seed in the Big East Tournament, as they look to avenge last year’s postseason loss to South Florida. The match still lingers in Holzberg’s mind, as it would with any hypercompetitive athlete.

“It was tough to lose in the second round to South Florida last year, but we played well against them,” Holzberg said.

“Each match was close and we played ver y competitively against such a highly ranked team. This season I really want to prove that we are a team worthy of a national ranking and we can perform really well in the Big East Tournament.”

No matter how the Knights finish the season, Holzberg will be counted on as a major contributor again next year. There is a very good chance that she will compete in the top spot for Rutgers in 2012. If anyone is up to that daunting task, it is Holzberg.

“I’m not sure if I will be playing No. 1 next year, but it is a possibility,” Holzberg said. “I am a ver y competitive person who is willing to do whatever it takes to win, and I think I am prepared to take on that role.”

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SPRING PRACTICE NOTEBOOK

JONES

EMERGES AS LEADER AMONG CORNERBACKS

BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

With plenty of unproven talent, cornerback quickly became a position to watch during the Rutgers football team’s spring practices.

Through the first four practices, head coach Greg Schiano split repetitions evenly among the group, but named junior Brandon Jones the early leader.

“After that, ever ybody is kind of in the same bag — shake them up,” Schiano said.

“Logan [Ryan] is getting bet-

ter. So I think it’s Logan and Juice [Jones] and ever ybody else is kind of in another group. But that could change.

That’s just the way it’s been after four days: really Juice above ever ybody.”

Jones is practicing with the first team opposite classmate Marcus Cooper, who moved last spring from wide receiver to cornerback.

The oldest member of the group — senior Mason Robinson — switched to the secondar y after playing running back and wideout his first four seasons.

Behind them is a group of freshmen and sophomores, leaving Jones as the most experienced cornerback for the Scarlet Knights.

Among that young group, redshir t freshman Gareef Glashen left yesterday’s practice with a hand injur y.

“Ever y year there’s opportunity — ever ybody has an oppor tunity to play,” Jones said. “But I feel like being an older guy and taking on more of a leadership role, I really need to step up for my teammates. This is my opportunity to do that and play.”

The Winslow Township High School product has 19 career tackles, two fumble recoveries and an interception as a backup.

But with an open competition at cornerback and experience on his side, Jones is in a position to finally earn regular snaps on the Knights’ defense.

“This is my third spring, so I know the schemes and I know the defense,” Jones said.

“Some guys are switching positions — David [Rowe] is learning ever ything all over again [at safety]. I have an opportunity to know what I already know and keep repping it over and over and over. This is my third time doing it.”

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Junior cornerback Brandon Jones made 19 tackles in his career as a backup, but is a first-teamer through four spring practices. stepped in, including a stretch of three wins in four games.

The tight end stated on an ESPN radio show that he hopes there is “a chance for a quarterback competition this year.”

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Word on the Street

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utgers junior discus thrower James Plummer earned Big East Men’s Field Athlete of the Week honors after taking first in the event at the Colonial Relays in Williamsburg, Va. Plummer stood out more than any athlete at the event, as his throw of 58.09 meters was 3.47 meters farther than his closest opponent. Plummer’s effort marks his second longest throw of the season and ranks second longest in the region. The longest throw also belongs to Plummer with a mark of 58.81 meters.

Plummer placed second in the shotput at the Colonial Relays with a throw of 15.16 meters.

DALLAS COWBOYS

TIGHT

end Martellus Bennett voiced his opinion that quarterback Tony Romo should have to compete for the job with backup Jon Kitna.

The Cowboys went 1-5 when Romo was the starter before he broke his collarbone against the New York Giants. Dallas won four out of nine games when Kitna

U NITED

striker Wayne Rooney is appealing his two-match suspension for swearing into a television camera following his third goal in a matchup against West Ham. Rooney risks the possibility of further discipline in addition to his two-match ban if his appeal fails. The governing body of England’s Football Association will hear Rooney’s appeal this Wednesday.

The English striker called his sanction “clearly excessive.”

MIAMI HEAT

FORWARD

Lebron James is only two points away from adding his name to another list of NBA greats.

With one shot in the Heat’s matchup tonight against the Milwaukee Bucks, James would reach 2,000 points on the year for the seventh season in his career, a feat only accomplished by seven other players. At 26, he would also be the youngest player to achieve the mark.

Every other player to reach 2,000 points seven times — a list that includes Kareem AbdulJabbar, Wilt Chamberlain and Michael Jordan — is a member of the NBA Hall of Fame.

Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Br yant needs only 85 points to finish the season with 2,000 and join the club, as well.

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inside the Bubble yesterday due to weather, and the passing game benefited.

Walk-on wide receiver Phil Lewis, who broke his arm last spring, made a number of nice catches, and redshir t freshman Brandon Coleman continued to impress.

ANDREW HOWARD

Junior Scott Vallone made 85 tackles, including three sacks, in his first two seasons as a three-technique defensive tackle.

“We probably should have played him [last year],” Schiano said of Coleman. “I had no way of knowing what would happen to Mo [Mohamed Sanu] and that he wouldn’t have gotten better all season. That’s hindsight.

We’re going to play him now.”

Schiano was equally pleased with the man getting them the ball: Chas Dodd.

“Chas threw the ball like Chas,” Schiano said of the sophomore quar terback. “He was hitting receivers all over the place. That was good to see.”

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the three-technique to nose tackle, where Schiano believes he can excel.

“In our defense, if that guy is a dominant player, he can cause a lot of havoc,” he said.

“We felt like we needed to get back to having a dominant player at nose.”

In Vallone’s absence, the Knights still need someone to emerge at three-technique, where sophomore Michael Larrow has some experience.

“We have a lot of guys that have a lot of talent, just not playing at a ver y high level right now. So we’ll see,” Schiano said. “Scott can always go back and play three-technique if we need him to. I hope we don’t need him to.”

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APRIL 6, 2011

RU responds to league losses with big win

Knights suffer setback with five-error loss

BY JOSH BAKAN

ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ

STAFF WRITER

After suffering two Big East losses, a game against nonconference Monmouth was just what the WOMEN’S LACROSSE doctor ordered for Rutgers RUTGERS 19 the women’s lacrosse MONMOUTH 9 team.

And the Scarlet Knights did not disappoint in a 19-9 win over the Hawks yesterday at Kessler Field.

The Knights scored more goals than they had in any game all season and gave up single-digit goals for the first time since a March 19 win over Connecticut.

Rutgers (7-4, 1-2) began Big East play with its UConn victor y, but suffered a slump in its next two games with consecutive losses to Syracuse and Notre Dame.

But in their final out-of-conference game of the year, a win over Monmouth (84) puts the Knights back on track for the final month of the season.

Junior Lindsey Watts capped off the game with four consecutive goals, finishing with five on the day.

The attack’s scoring run ended the Hawks’ streak in the second half, when they scored seven goals — a vast improvement over their two goals in the first half.

But by that point, Rutgers generated too great a lead with success from the entire offense, led by midfielder Marlena Welsh with five goals and attack Katie Marino’s four scores — both career highs for the seniors.

Rutgers entered the game focusing on ball movement, and that concentration proved beneficial with nine assists, including four from junior Danielle Mascera.

“We were moving the ball much faster,” Welsh said. “People were playing

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Junior righthander Willie Beard allowed three just earned runs in five innings of work yesterday against Princeton, but following his departure the Knights made five errors.

Whether it was the late switch of the game’s location from Princeton to Piscataway or the rainy conditions that soaked Bainton Field prior to the BASEBALL game, this year’s between PRINCETON 11 matchup the Rutgers baseRUTGERS 8 ball team and Princeton did not carry out similarly to past meetings.

The Scarlet Knights put up at least 10 runs in each of their past two contests against the Tigers, and entering the day fresh off a series win over Seton Hall, it seemed head coach Fred Hill’s team would begin hitting its usual midseason stride.

But lowly Princeton gave the Knights (1016, 3-3) a taste of their own medicine yesterday afternoon, scoring 11 runs on 20 hits to form another midweek bump in the road for Hill and Co. “What did we make, five errors? You can’t win games making five errors,” Hill said.

“They were all key plays and plays that opened the doors for them. It’s very disturbing because I think we’re better than that.”

After trading leads in the sixth inning and drawing the game even after seven, both squads looked to grab hold of an advantage that could last until the final out.

And when the Tigers (10-13) came to the plate in the top of the eighth they did just that, putting together a four-run rally on two hits and two errors in the field.

When the Rutgers bats went silent in the bottom half of the eighth, the Tigers tacked on one more run in the top of the ninth and reached the 20-hit plateau with a double from Matt Bowman.

With five errors — three by senior third baseman D.J. Anderson — and eight hits, the Knights still managed eight runs in one of their sloppiest defensive performances of the season, and mounted a rally in the ninth to cut the lead to three.

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Robinson draws on childhood experience in secondary

BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

ANDREW HOWARD

Senior cornerback Mason Robinson returned a punt 60 yards for a touchdown last season in a loss against South Florida.

When Mason Robinson began his offseason transition from running back to cornerback, he did not draw on prior FOOTBALL experience with the Rutgers football team or from high school.

The fifth-year senior instead reached back to his earliest, simplest days of football.

“Football is something I’ve been playing since I was a little kid. When you go out and play backyard football, everybody is a receiver, everybody is a cornerback,” Robinson said. “It’s just trying to lock down your guy and make a play on the ball. I have good ball skills, and that just comes from playing backyard football.”

Those ball skills must be part of what head coach Greg Schiano saw when he asked the oft-injured tailback to move to the other side of the ball for his final season.

Robinson’s best season was his first, when he backed up Ray Rice.

The Somerville High School (N.J.) product appeared in 10 games and averaged 5.6 yards per carry with 36 touches. He also returned 14 kickoffs and five punts.

He played a similar role his sophomore season, and only managed one carry in 2009 before going down for the season in the opener with a knee injury.

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