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RUSA ‘passes gavel’ to new executives

BY ANASTASIA MILLICKER ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

The newly elected Rutgers University Student Assembly (RUSA) President Matt Cordeiro, along with the rest of the incoming board, was sworn in at last night’s final RUSA general meeting of the semester in the passing of the gavel ceremony.

Cordeiro, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, promised to execute his presidential responsibilities to the best of his ability before the student body in an oath and concluded his vice presidency with his inaugural speech in the Student Activities Center on the College Avenue campus.

“I am not just excited to work with you all, but I’m ecstatic to work with each and everyone one of you. I would jump around right now, but I honestly can’t,” he said, referring to an ankle injury.

As former RUSA President Yousef Saleh handed the gavel over to Cordeiro, he advised his successor to not take his duties lightly.

Saleh, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, then addressed the RUSA assembly for the final time this semester.

“It’s been a rough year, lots of bumps, internal conflicts solved with the RUSA retreat ... but we weathered through it all,” he said.

“The toughest steel made out of the hottest fire to become even bigger and better than ever.

Represent your people well and continue to do so.”

The RUSA Allocations Board also conducted its budget presentation for the semester, highlighting the past year’s achievements and plans for the upcoming semester.

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Nine student protestors hold a “study-in” on the third floor of the Old Queens building on the College Avenue campus. The students stayed for 34 hours before leaving last night around 8:30 p.m.

U. activists end 34-hour ‘study-in’

BY AMY ROWE ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

After spending 34 hours occupying the third floor of the Old Queens building, yesterday evening the nine University student protestors remaining left the building.

What began as a group of about 20 protestors holding a “study-in” inside the building Wednesday morning turned into nine after some students left to attend prior engagements such as class.

The students refused to leave until University President Richard L. McCormick agreed to make a public statement in support of a tuition freeze along with other demands, but Gregory S. Blimling, vice president for Student Affairs, did not

negotiate or share decisions with the protestors present.

“He’s led us to believe decisions have been made, but he’s not letting us know because this is a [situation] of distress,” said Renee Coppola, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student and one of the protestors. “If there’s an occupation, the demands can’t be met. But at the same time, yesterday he said he could work with us.”

The students came downstairs around 8:30 p.m. last night bringing some news to a crowd of protestors outside the building.

“Tomorrow afternoon, McCormick will issue a statement with a yes or no decision addressing each of our six demands,” said

Jorge Casalins, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore.

But the University issued a statement that said no agreements have been reached.

According to the statement, the students left voluntarily and there were no arrests. The University made no agreements regarding the students’ six demands, and administrators will continue to consider the issues that were raised.

Besides McCormick’s support for the tuition freeze, they also want the funds from the University’s multibillion-dollar campaign “Our Rutgers, Our Future” to go toward students receiving support from the Educational Opportunity Fund, free

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Former RUSA President Yousef Saleh inducts Matthew Cordeiro as his successor last night in the Student Activities Center.

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Campaign spends year encouraging civility on campus

UNIVERSITY A Facebook group lists events on campus where students can eat free food.

OPINIONS Legislators in Oklahoma are pushing to end affirmative action. See if we give them a laurel or dart.

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With Project Civility coming to a close for the semester, Kathleen Hull, co-founder of the campaign, said she would have never imagined the amount of attention it received from both the University and the outside community.

“In light of the tragedy that we had with [Tyler Clementi’s] suicide and the context of that situation which is not clear, a lot of people started attaching the word ‘civility’ or ‘incivility’ to that event and therefore, our project got kind of caught up in that,” said Hull, director of the Byrne Family First-Year Seminars.

Since the beginning of the campaign last September, Hull and Senior Dean of Students Mark Schuster encountered confrontations with the media when some outlets tried to misinterpret their words.

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School of Engineering sophomore Giancarlos Feliz, a member of Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity, Inc., juggles in last night’s “King of Hearts” male pageant in the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus.

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Facebook group lets students find free food

BY NEHA KAPADIA CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Students who are on their last meal swipe or low on money can end their food search through a new Facebook group, “Where the free food at? Rutgers.”

With about 300 members and more people joining ever yday, the group helps students who are hungr y find free food on campus, said Temi Ogunwale, creator of the group via email correspondence.

“I recently paid [more than] $1,000 for a meal plan and used up all my swipes,” said Ogunwale, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “I got annoyed of asking my friends for swipes and sneaking into dining halls.”

Ogunwale said he was left with only one alternative and that was

to make a Facebook page with free food.

After he made the page, he added one friend who added seven of his friends, and the group has been growing since.

University students post dif ferent events on the page daily to get the word out, Ogunwale said. The posts not only help hungr y students find food, but also create publicity for upcoming shows, concerts and dances.

Ogunwale said he is aware people may feel upset about students only going to their events for the food but thinks it will increase attendance.

“Free food is an optimal tool for attracting students to watch shows, spread culture and spread awareness about certain subjects in society,” he said.

“Of fering free food is a great tool to invite the students to events and make them feel comfortable.”

The page is updated daily with posts of links to upcoming events like “Free Food and Concer t! Wednesday April 27, 7 p.m. on the Brower Commons steps!” posted by Kevin Perez, a member of the Central and South American Alliance (CASAA).

Perez, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said he does not mind students coming to his organization’s events for free food because it draws people in.

“People may come in between different parts of our event and learn about the culture while enjoying the music and free food,” he said. “It’s a great way to attract the public.”

Megan Maldonado, vice president of Rutgers University Salsa Club, said she does not see people going to events for the food as a problem because it creates a bigger audience and possibly spreads awareness about the club.

“If people stop by just for the food, they’ll still get to see the salsa team’s performance. You never know who might be interested in salsa,” said Maldonado, a School of Arts and Sciences junior.

Devang Patel, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences junior, said he was the first person Ogunwale added to the Facebook group.

Patel said he thought it would be a brilliant idea, and some of the events on the page looked interesting enough that he would

go to them even if they were not serving free food.

“I haven’t gone to many of the events posted, but the ones I do go to, I planned on going just for the food,” he said. “When I arrived there, some of the events were enjoyable enough to stay for.”

Due to the growing popularity of the New Brunswick campus page, a Newark campus page was created and is receiving similar recognition, Ogunwale said.

Ogunwale said he hopes the momentum will continue and more students will join the page as well as add events.

“The goal of this group is to reach the whole Rutgers community, so we can hear about more events,” he said.

“The more events, the more free food.”

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More than 35 Mason Gross School of the Arts seniors present their art at the “Drawing a Blank” exhibition at the Civic Square Building in New Brunswick as part of their class required for graduation “BFA Thesis Exhibition.” Students’ work range from sculptures, paintings, interactive art pieces and multimedia projects.

Exhibition showcases semester-long works of art

BY ANDREW SMITH STAFF WRITER

The Mason Gross School of the Arts Class of 2011 is showing off student works in a variety of media at its ongoing BFA Thesis Exhibition at the Civic Square Building in downtown New Brunswick.

“Drawing a Blank” features the work of more than 35 students participating in the exhibition as par t of a class required for graduation, “BFA Thesis Exhibition,” said Caetlynn Booth, the course’s teaching assistant.

“The students have really been focusing on putting on their own thesis exhibitions,” she said. “They did ever ything from planning the reception, the publicity and getting ever y component together. They designed and printed the postcard. It was a good chance for the students to get together and put on an exhibition.”

Every element of the exhibition was left to the students, including the name of the event and precisely where their works would be in their respective gallery space, she said.

Given the class features BFA students from a variety of concentrations, works in the exhibition include sculptures, paintings, interactive pieces and multimedia projects.

Among some of the pieces was “The Social Network 1.0,” a cubicle-like structure that contained certain topics on each wall. Attendees could respond to the topics, such as disclosing embarrassing moments, by writing their answers on the wall with a marker.

Another piece, “A False Awakening,” was created so the observer has to open a cabinet to view the multimedia work inside.

Dru Ritger, a Mason Gross School of the Arts senior with a concentration in design, submitted a piece entitled “One

Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty Three Acquired Images,” which features that number of images that make up a larger likeness of a face.

“The work I made for the BFA show is about self-definition in

“It was a good chance for the students to get together and put on an exhibition.”

CAETLYNN BOOTH Teaching Assistant

today’s world of over exposure to imagery,” he said. “My piece is about controlling the visual chaos that surrounds all of us and taking these elements and making them function in a way that works for [the consumer].”

Ritger said he hopes to com-

bine the modern technology of design with centuries-old techniques of painting to evoke a sense of brushstrokes through the placement of his images.

Another student featured in the exhibition was Princess Belton, a Mason Gross School of the Arts senior with a concentration in painting. Her submission was a five-piece work that focused on African-American women and their hair.

“I’ve always had an interest in hair. I wanted to focus on the difference between natural hair and hair that is processed and stylized and designed,” she said.

Belton’s piece pictures four women posed and styled in the same way they would be in a hairstylist’s book.

The four th, however, is not styled or posed to stand in contrast to the other ones.

She said her works could be educational for those unaware of the damage done from chemical products.

“[It] led me to focus on hair education — not to say a black female shouldn’t use the chemicals, but you need to know what’s in the products you’re using,” Belton said.

Both Ritger and Belton said they worked on their pieces for most of the semester, so the exhibition offers them an opportunity to demonstrate the culmination of their time here.

Unlike past BFA Thesis Exhibitions, it was given extra time in the galler y space this year and will be on display through commencement, Booth said.

As part of the two-semester exhibition class, students also learned of issues like transition topics, critiquing and interdisciplinar y studies, she said. They were also given control over curating and installing the “BFA Annual,” an exhibition for all art majors, during their first semester in conjunction with their studies.

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CAMPUS: Student films express views of civility at U. continued from front She said her job during the aftermath of the Tyler Clementi suicide was to defend the University as an institution against negative portrayals in the media.

“We knew the strength of Rutgers and how wonderful it is,” Hull said. “We’re not an uncivil place, and the kind of problems that we have at Rutgers are the same kinds of problems you find all over the country.”

Despite the challenges Hull faced with the media, she said one of the most surprising results of Project Civility was that other colleges contacted the Office of Student Affairs and Undergraduate Education to have similar programs at their school.

“They consider this project — which was really done at a very low budget with a very small group of people — a model,” Hull said.

Other colleges wanted Project Civility because it was student-driven, she said. The offices conducted early focus

groups in which they asked students what kinds of issues they believed were important at the University and worth discussing.

Student filmmakers expressed their views about the University and their Project Civility films are what Hull called some of the strongest products of the school year.

“These experiences that we have, these conversations — they fade away, but we actually have these films,” Hull said. “Those films are something I am very proud of [because of] the thought that went into them and the love that went into them by the students.”

Project Civility’s goal for this year was to engage the whole community in a conversation about vocabulary, Hull said.

“Those of us who are in universities as teachers and as learners — it’s so important for us to learn how to utilize language well and be articulate to not harm other people and to be as clear as we possibly can,” she said.

As for Project Civility completing its objective surrounding language, Hull said the awareness of the project became widespread at the University. “[At] a lot of our events … we had people here, but we didn’t

have huge crowds of people here,” she said. “I felt that the quality of the programming was worthwhile for the people that were there.”

Project Civility’s final showcase for the semester concluded Wednesday night at the Rutgers Student Center Multipurpose Room on the College Avenue campus with a debate exhibition titled “Does Civility Promote Freedom, Democracy and Equality?”

Hull said the debate was one of the various programs throughout the year she needed to think carefully about, especially after the number of media coverage focusing on the campaign.

Two members of the RutgersNewark Debate Team, Carlos Astacio and Elijah Smith, debated in whether civility promotes freedom, democracy and equality.

Guest debater Gabriel Escobar, a political officer in the Foreign Service of the U.S. Department of State, joined them.

Farhan Ali and David Reiss of the Rutgers University Debate Union, gave opposing positions on the matter, while Elizabeth Sloan-Power, assistant professor in the Department of Social Work

at Rutgers-Newark guest debated on their side.

Astacio, a Newark College of Arts and Sciences first-year student, said without civility, people would not be able to move beyond ad hominem attacks and defamatory strikes.

“Despite how persuasive one’s ideas may be, when associated with animosity and aggression, people are more likely to disregard one advocacy because of incivility,” he said. “Reform grounded in persuasion is the better form of reform because there is a mindset shift where people want to comply with one’s demands.”

In opposition, Reiss, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, said people should feel it is acceptable to express offensive views, to make other people angry and to disrespect other people’s opinions because it is necessary for a free society.

“If you like all these freedoms given to you by the founding fathers, then how was this country founded?” said Ali, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “Was it founded by civility or was it founded by actually fighting for your rights or fighting for oppression?”

Hull said Wednesday nights’ debate was an example of people effectively communicating with one another and showing the complexity of debate and the different aspects of an issue “At the end of this debate they were actually able to say to one other, ‘You know what? I’m going to move out of my debate hat, take that off, and I could say there’s two sides to this, and we were both right’ — and I think they were both right,” she said.

Schuster said he was committed to making sure the RutgersNewark Debate Team was a part of the event.

Although Schuster saw the different styles of debate and mixing faculty between the two teams caused pushback, he said it was better than he expected and saw it as an act of civility, a discourse he would like to see proliferate throughout the community.

“I’m also hoping that the media and the University start focusing on provocative dialectics that are academic and spirited instead of focusing on the negatives and the violence and the hatred to talk through these issues,” he said.

RUSA: New board hopes

total of $1,394,763.43 for the past year.”

For the upcoming fall semester, $445,728.51 was allocated, but the appeals process has not taken place yet, nor have special events been accounted for, so the number is subject to change, said Ahmad, a School of Arts and Sciences junior who was the former allocations vice chair.

Other than Ahmad, the RUSA general assembly approved the new allocations board consisting of Vice Chair Tyler Seville, Treasurer James Joseph, External Secretar y Emmi Morse, Internal Secretar y Anne Ceconi, Auditor Matthew Ruffe, Public Relations Chair Pranali Shingala, RUSA Ambassador Meet Shah and Logistics Chair Zain Haq. The meeting concluded with the election of the internal board of RUSA, which the general body voted on. All positions ran unopposed with the exception of the Internal Affairs Chair, where candidates Pavel Sokolov and Ross Kleiman competed.

Aamir Lalani was elected as parliamentarian, Joseph Cashin as correspondent, Samuel Berman as recording secretar y, Lead School of Ar ts and Sciences Senator John Connelly, University Af fairs Chair Kristen Clarke, Shaban Hani as Public Relations Chair, Jill Weiss as Academic Affairs, Legislative Af fairs Chair Richard Garzon and Internal Affairs Chair Pavel Sokolov.

Josh David was also elected to the University Senate.

Weiss, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, said she is willing to work with the “Rutgers Nine” — the nine protesters who sat in protest for 34 hours at the Old Queens building — to eliminate the $7 transcript fee and improve the academic chair committee.

Rebecca Pero, former RUSA recording secretar y, said this year was her last year on RUSA and that her experience was unforgettable.

“I mean it was hard at times, in all honesty it was incredible,” she said. “Overall, I would encourage more students to get involved.”

to educate on allocations continued from front One of the initiatives taken by allocations board was to become more technology friendly by using Google tools, said Janaki Shah, former RUSA Allocations Board chair. They want to have open Google documents as well as hold virtual office hours.

They also hope to create how-to videos about budgeting and appealing for money, and start an open Google events calendar in order to foster more open communication and transparency in the near future, said Shah, a School of Ar ts and Sciences junior.

“This fall semester, the board allocated $691,435.44 spent on activities, special events and appeals,” said Zain Ahmad, who will ser ve as the new allocations chair.

“This spring semester, we spent $703,327.99 on student programming, special events and appeals, spending a

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Foundation honors accomplished students

to meet with U. administrators continued from front transcripts for the first 10 requested, three student voting seats on the Board of Governors and the University’s disaffiliation from the Fair Labor Association.

“If [McCormick] gives us something we don’t want tomorrow, we need to do our part to make it known,” said Molly Magier, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, to the crowd of protestors welcoming her outside.

The students who occupied Old Queens had other reasons for coming downstairs.

“It was 86 degrees up there.

We had some tiny fans, but it was really frustrating,” Casalins said. “Some of us were star ving, others had hunger problems due to diet issues and mild to severe headaches.”

The University said Dining Ser vices fed the students throughout their occupation. But Coppola, who observes a vegan diet, said she would not eat what they provided.

“On Wednesday at 11 a.m., they ordered pizza but I can’t eat that,” she said. “They wouldn’t let people bring food up to us. In the morning I was really tired because I didn’t have enough food in my body. Then Dining Services brought us food at 2:30 p.m. [Thursday].”

Nicole Buffington, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, said she was happy the administrators listened to the students protesting.

“It’s a step in the right direction with [the administrators’] agreement,” she said. “It’s a step for ward in transparency at the University, and it shows that students can get things done here. I think there was a lot of media pressure.”

Aside from updating those outside about their reason for leaving, the students also announced a meeting they

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School of Arts and Sciences junior Richard Garzon speaks at the press conference. He left the “study-in” late Wednesday night. scheduled for Monday with McCormick and Philip J. Furmanski, executive vice president for Academic Af fairs, to discuss the voice of students on campus.

Earlier in the day, the students held a press conference outside of Old Queens to talk more about their cause.

Among those who spoke at the press conference was Rudolph Bell, a professor of histor y at the University, who spoke about civil rights protests at the University.

“In 1968, President Mason Gross ordered pizza for the people who occupied his office,” Bell said. “He was here in New Brunswick, not on business in California. The vice president for Academic Affairs didn’t inform students about the fire code, he talked to the students.”

Bell stressed the importance of students’ protest to make a difference at the University.

“We must protect access to higher education,” he said. “We need to guarantee access to all qualified individuals.”

After Bell’s speech, Ryan Ramones, a School of Engineering sophomore who left the third floor of Old Queens Wednesday around 4:30 p.m., described the environment inside.

“There were police and administrators walking past us creating a buzz,” he said. “There was a constant police presence, with officers counting us.”

Coppola said she thought the police presence at Old Queens was excessive.

“We had none of our personal belongings, nothing could have been construed as violence,” she said. “We’re peaceful, so having more than one officer is off-putting.”

Jill Weiss, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, said she believes the issues protested are important, and a decision should be made soon.

“Tuition keeps rising and I live out of state, I basically pay double so it’s a big concern,” she said. “These are pertinent issues that need to be addressed.”

KEITH FREEMAN / PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

University history professor Rudolph Bell describes past student activism during the Civil Rights era yesterday in front of Old Queens on the College Avenue campus.

For the second time in the University’s histor y, the Barr y M. Goldwater Foundation recognized all four of the University’s Goldwater nominees for this year.

School of Arts and Sciences juniors Albert Yu and Kiersten Ruisard both won the scholarship. School of Ar ts and Sciences junior Chester Chia and School of Engineering junior Alyssa Kosmides were honorably mentioned.

The foundation — which recognizes promising undergraduate science, math and engineering undergraduate students — announced its results in March by posting the winners, who will receive up to $7,500, and honorable mentions on their website, said Arthur Casciato, director of the Of fice of Distinguished Fellowships.

University students who wished to apply for the Goldwater Scholarship met with Casciato to discuss the fellowship from last fall, and about 21 students decided to apply midJanuar y, he said.

Casciato and a committee of University faculty members reviewed each student’s accomplishments and nominated four students they felt had the highest chances.

“It’s a ver y hard decision. It’s tough to make the choice,” he said. “It’s not just me, but a committee of scientists who read the applications. But the main things we look for are [grade point average].”

The Goldwater Scholarship, unlike any other, focuses solely on an individual’s GPA and research accomplishments, said Lucy Decher, the administrative of ficer for the Goldwater Foundation.

“Ever ything is based on what the scholar brings to the table,” Decher said.

“Depending on the grade level, research is ver y important in whatever their science or engineering field is [along with] GPAs [and] essays. There’s a combination of elements.”

A committee of about 16 or 17 math, science and engineering experts from around the country make the final decisions, Decher said. This year’s GPA average was 3.98.

“We have an independent board of readers who get together ever y year. They’re experts from all over the world of academia and different sciences, and they get together and read all these nominations,” she said. “Then they narrow it down to the scholars and honorable mentions.”

Decher said there is a thin line when differentiating a winner from an honorable mention.

“Ever ybody’s going to be the top of the line of what they’re doing, and it’s a matter of narrowing it down from there,” she said. “You’ve got a pretty big pond full of really big fish, but there’s always one fish better than the other.”

The committee reviewed 1,095 applicants this year, but selected only 275 winners in the country, Decher said.

Despite the tough competition, Casciato said he was not

surprised that all four students —Ruisard, Yu, Chia and Kosmides — were recognized.

Ruisard, who majors in physics and art, said she was happy when she heard she won.

“I was kind of expecting to get nominated, I was pretty confident I’d get one of the four, but not ver y hopeful for the next round,” she said. “It’s something I wasn’t really worr ying about.”

Ruisard said Chia, a cell biology and neuroscience and medieval studies major, called to congratulate her before she got the chance to check the results.

Chia, who was honorably mentioned, said he was happy for Ruisard but hoped he could have captured the coveted spot as well.

“I was happy for those two [winners], but I wasn’t ecstatic [about myself],” he said. “But I wasn’t too hung up on it either. I was neutral.”

Kosmides, who majors in biomedical engineering with a 4.0 GPA, echoed Chia’s disappointment and said she wished she had more leadership positions and research under her belt.

“I wish I could have started research a little earlier, because that’s one of the main things the scholarship looks at,” she said. “A lot of people I know now star ted research their freshman year, so I might have been at a disadvantage.”

Yu, a cell biology and neuroscience major, said via email that he believes the reason he won was because of the way he presented his application, as though he was having coffee with a friend.

“I feel that the selection for this year’s Goldwater winners was not only based on academic excellence, but also personal qualities,” Yu said. “It’s dif ficult to relate to a page of statistics and scientific terminology, and students who appear singularly focused and ambitious were probably at a disadvantage.”

All four students agreed the Goldwater Scholarship inspired them to apply for more scholarships in the future.

“It really introduces you to apply to scholarships,” Chia said. “Goldwater isn’t the only scholarship. It’s really beneficial if you want to apply to other things.”

Ruisard, who believes her achievement was largely due to her research work abroad in Wales, first applied to the fellowship last year with Chia, but was not nominated. She decided to reapply this year after Casciato encouraged her shortly after.

Casciato said he was grateful for University Professor Andrew Vershon, who helped Yu with his cell biology research and Assistant Professor Andrew Baker, who helped Ruisard with her research on physics.

At the end of the day, Casciato said he believes this year’s results highlight the University’s research undergraduates.

“I hope that we continue to show that Rutgers students can compete in the higher levels in terms of the competition for national fellowships, for graduate scholarships domestically and

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Business to pour wine, paint at opening event

BY KEVIN OLLER CONTRIBUTING WRITER

While drinking and driving may be against the law, drinking and painting is a concept that Artists Uncorked, a business opening on May 5 at the Bachi Hair Salon and Via Vita Café location on Easton Avenue, is adopting.

Sumit Agar wal, a School of Ar ts and Sciences alumnus, said the idea for Ar tists Uncorked, a business that teaches people how to paint while offering them wine, came to him while he was a student at the University.

He thought of the idea when he went to a wine and painting party while visiting family in Denver, Colo.

“Instead of just going out to dive bars and drinking with friends and doing the same old thing, my friends and I liked to do different activities when we were drinking.” Agarwal said. “One of those activities was painting. It enhanced the experience.”

Artists Uncorked will feature a wine and painting party while creating a social environment among its guests, said Agar wal, who majored in biology.

“What happens is you walk into a room with 30 blank canvases on easels and sit down with paint brushes and paint beside you. Our instructor, Heather, will take you through the steps to creating your own personal masterpiece while being served wine,” he said.

While searching for venues to hold his business, Agarwal said he spoke with the owners of Bachi Hair Salon and Via Vita Café, who agreed to let him hold his business in their spaces at night after they closed.

“I loved my Rutgers experience,” he said. “I’ve been going out around here [New Brunswick] for so long and have been doing the same thing over and over again that this school and the students would like a new experience in terms of nightlife.”

Agarwal wants to promote his business to older students and

young professionals because he feels that there is no other business like Artists Uncorked in New Jersey, and he hopes to create a fun and exciting experience.

Anyone can sign up for Artists Uncorked, even if they do not have any artistic ability because Agarwal believes it is still a great

“Artists Uncorked allows people ... to unwind ... with a glass of wine, good music, a paintbrush and their friends.”

HEATHER PALECEK Artists Uncorked Painting Instructor

way to learn something new about their personalities.

In order to teach participants how to paint, Heather Palecek, the painting instructor for Artists Uncorked, said she is responsible

for teaching painting to attendees to bring out ever yone’s inner painter personality.

“Ar tists Uncorked allows people the oppor tunity to unwind from their hectic schedules with a glass of wine, good music, a paintbrush and their friends,” said Palecek, who majored in ar t education at Montclair State University.

One of the reasons Palecek loves the concept of the business is because it gives her the opportunity as an educator to teach in a different style.

“I’ve taught in a structured public school art classroom for a few years now and this experience is a much different, laidback, positive and fun way to educate,” she said. “I have just as much fun at Ar tists Uncorked as the people taking the class.”

Agarwal held a few sessions prior to opening his business in order to see how people have responded to his idea.

Katie McGuire, who attended one session, said she had a great

time and felt relaxed in the two and half hours of class time.

“The atmosphere is fun because you are with a group and people you know, but also relaxing because you get to drink wine and paint,” she said.

“My boyfriend and I had a great time doing it together — so I would definitely recommend it for a date night.”

Guests who attend can look forward to music, interacting with friends, meeting new people and winning different prizes such as free sessions to Artists Uncorked, Agarwal said.

People who wish to attend a session must buy tickets — $35 per person, and groups of four or more receive $5 of f each ticket — which can be found at the Artists Uncorked website, he said.

The opening night will feature a Spanish theme in celebration of Cinco de Mayo, Agarwal said. Both Agarwal and Palecek said they are excited for Thursday and hope to see a large turnout.

City library plans festivities for Hindu holiday

BY KEVIN DAHAGHI CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The New Brunswick community can experience Indian culture on May 7 at the Second Annual Holi Festival at the New Br unswick Free Public Librar y.

The librar y and the Rutgers Indian Graduate Students Association (RIGSA) are organizing the event where guests can watch Bollywood dance performances, eat Indian food and receive henna tattoos, said Kim Adams, archival librarian.

“It’s hard to participate in the activities of another culture, so this is a good way to experience and understand a different culture — one that’s around them all the time, but they can’t participate in because it’s off on its own,” she said.

Holi, originally known as Holika, is a Hindu religious

festival celebrated at the end of the winter season, said Sarang Oka, RIGSA president.

“The festival of Holi in India is celebrated as a symbol of the victor y of good over evil,” said Oka, a graduate student. “The way it is celebrated is that on the eve of Holi, they have bonfires going because it symbolized the burning of a demon god.”

The celebration will begin with a demonstration of mehendi, the Indian henna tattoo applied to hands, and will feature a sari-wrapping demonstration, Adams said.

“The mehendi is ver y popular,” she said. “Last year we ran out of mehendi long before we ran out of people.”

After wards there will be music, food, artifact and jewelr y displays and RIGSA members will per form Bollywood dance per formances, Adams said.

“Lots of food is donated by a combination of private people and local restaurants,” she said.

“So it is ver y community-oriented.”

“I want to take this opportunity as a chance to bring friends with me who don’t understand the culture.”

SEAN SHUKLA School of Arts and Sciences First-Year Student

Adams said due to the large number of attendees for last year’s Holi festival, there could be a sizeable turnout this year, including people of dif ferent cultural backgrounds.

“Last year there were about between 100 to 150 people,” she said. “People are very interested in cultures other than their own, so it doesn’t just bring people of Hindu origin who are celebrating this event.”

Oka said he anticipated more people attending the festival compared to last year, because the number of group members expanded.

“So we have decided to make it bigger and better this year,” he said.

The librar y hosts many events like the Holi festival to raise the cultural awareness reflecting the variety of cultures in the New Brunswick community, Adams said.

“We tr y to do some programming relevant to the different groups,” she said. “It’s addressing the stew of people who are patrons.”

Other event sponsors include WWTR-EBC Radio (1170 AM),

Enjoy Explore India and two local families, Adams said.

Oka said the event would help raise cultural awareness and ser ve as an opportunity for University students to experience the Indian culture.

“A lot of students are probably unaware of Holi and what kind of background we come from,” he said. “This is a chance for Rutgers University students to experience what Holi is all about.”

Sean Shukla, a Schools of Arts and Sciences first-year student, said he hopes to attend the festival with friends and learn more about his Indian culture.

“It’s definitely a learning experience and something that I want to be part of,” he said.

“Being that I am of Indian descent, I am familiar with Holi, but I want to take this opportunity as a chance to bring friends with me who don’t understand the culture.”

WORKERS TESTIFY AGAINST PRIVATIZING TOLL COLLECTION To discuss privatizing toll collection on the Garden State Parkway and Turnpike, the Turnpike Authority held a meeting Wednesday where officials and turnpike workers argued their cases.

The proposal to privatize the turnpike and parkway would cost many of the 800 toll workers their jobs, according to an nj.com article.

Workers made one last plea at the meeting Wednesday when they tried to negotiate with the Turnpike Authority.

Turnpike officials said they are looking to privatize in order to cut costs especially from turnpike workers who earn more than $65,000, which is above the national average salar y.

A union of toll workers who are protesting the move to privatization, which would either cost

workers their jobs or lower their salaries by half by a private company, proposed to make $24 million in concessions, according to the article.

Under this proposal, toll workers would see a $6,000 decrease in their paychecks. There would also be a 3.5 percent cut for the other union workers, changes in overtime rules and no more bonuses for workers who leave the agency.

At the meeting, Assemblyman Dan Benson, D-Mercer, identified with some of the union workers’ cause and urged authority officials to negotiate with the workers, according to the article.

“I believe if you did that, you will find that there is a solution that could be found, both for our workers as well as for the residents of New Jersey,” he said in the article.

Fay Stoddart, a toll collector, said she is afraid that the decision will cause her to lose her job, which supports her three children “The job of a toll collector is no easy task,” Stoddart said in the article. “We are met with hostility ever y day by patrons who always seem to be in a hurr y. I’ve had a patron throw his change in my face because he was in a hurr y.”

Stoddart, who suffered injuries after an accident two years ago in which a truck crashed into her toll, said losing her job is not an option she can consider.

“Quitting the job that provided for me and my family wasn’t an option,” she said in the article.

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The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum will be hosting the “Mystics and Moderns: Painting in Estonia before Glasnost” exhibit through Oct. 28. Underground art developed in Talinn, the capital of Estonia in the late 1960s revived the country’s avant-garde past. The exhibit draws from rarely seen works from the Dodge Collection celebrating the opposition to Soviet occupation. Tickets are $6 for adults, and $5 for senior citizens. Museum members, University students and faculty receive free admission. The first Sunday of every month has free admission for everyone. For more information visit zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu/exhibitions/?id=98 or visit the museum at 71 Hamilton St.

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The New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs holds an event aimed to educate senior citizens on the dangers of identity theft yesterday at the North Brunswick Senior Center.

Senior citizens learn fraud defense

BY MONIQUE RICE STAFF WRITER

Dozens of senior citizens learned how to protect themselves from the dangers of identity theft yesterday at the “FedUp: Senior Fraud Education and Protection Program” hosted by the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs.

Thirty-three percent of fraud victims are senior citizens because they trust others easily.

Seniors are losing $2.6 billion every year to fraud, said Assemblyman Upendra Chivukula, D-Somerset.

“Seniors are the No. 1 group of people that are being scammed,” said Margaret Anastos, Community Outreach at N.J. Division of Consumer Affairs. “We come from a generation where we trust people.”

The program, which took place at the North Brunswick Senior Center, began with a video demonstrating the different ways people tr y to access senior citizens’ personal information and tips of how to keep that information safe.

Thomas Calcagni, acting director for the N.J. Division of Consumer Affairs, posed different hypothetical scenarios to the citizens to see how they would respond.

Calcagni said one common crime was known as the “grandmother scam,” where someone will call posing as a person’s grandchild saying they were hurt or they need money wired to them as soon as possible.

Some other common scams include people contacting strangers through email, saying they have a large sum of money to give away if the person contacted replies back with personal information, he said.

Detective John Ambrosino instructed senior citizens about ways to spot someone that may not be who they say they are.

“If somebody comes knocking on your door, and they say they are from the township, and they don’t have a uniform and a marked vehicle, please call us.

We will send someone right there,” he said.

Ambrosino also cautioned the seniors about a group of people that go by the name “Cooper” and are common to the area.

“Cooper is a big name. They said they do roof repairs, paving, painting. They will ask for your money and then they will disappear,” he said.

Ambrosino said seniors need to be proactive in helping themselves and others.

“If you see something, say something, and that’s the

billboard we have posted on Livingston Avenue. Somebody we pick up for burglar y can be wanted for 10 crimes somewhere else, and that’s one less bad person we have on the street,” he said. “If it’s anything out of the ordinar y, just please call the police department.”

Bob Davis, Nor th Br unswick councilman, said people are out there, and they are tr ying to take prey on seniors, but people should use their brains.

“I was born and raised in Brooklyn, and you don’t get nothing for nothing,” he said.

Chivukula warned the seniors of the many ways fraud is changing and technically advancing.

“Those days, they were using telegrams. Now they are using emails,” he said. “Now they want to steal your identity, your social security number, credit card number, your address. They want to steal from you and all your friends, as many as possible.”

The Division of Consumer Affairs licenses doctors, chiropractors, home improvement contractors, beauticians, plumbers and many other professionals, Calcagni said. He urged seniors to check with the N.J. Division of Consumer Affairs if they are in need of a ser vice.

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Crossroads Theatre will host the last performance of “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry at 8 p.m. Marshall Jones, Crossroads-producing artistic director is directing the performances. Tickets cost $50 and may be purchased online or at their box office at 7 Livingston Ave. For more information, visit crossroadstheatrecompany.org.

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Mexican Consul Gaspar Orozco will talk about the importance of Cinco de Mayo at the New Brunswick Free Public Library. He will explain what the celebration means to the Mexican community and attendees will watch the movie “Villa.” The event will be hosted by Friends of the Library in the Carl T. Valenti community room. For more information visit nbfpl.org/friends.html The New Brunswick City Council will be holding the first of its bi-monthly meetings at the City Hall Council Chambers located at 78 Bayard St. at 6:30 p.m.

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The Wayans Brothers will be performing at the Stress Factor y at 90 Church St. through May 8. Shawn and Marlon Wayans are the stars of movies “The White Chicks,” and “The Wayans Brothers.” Shows will start at 8 p.m. ever y night with an encore show at 10:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit stressfactor y.com.

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George Street Playhouse will be hosting performances of “God of Carnage” by Yasmina Reza through June 11. In the play, two sets of parents discuss a playground altercation with their children, but become infantile themselves. “God of Carnage” is translated by Christopher Hampton and was a 2009 Tony award winner for best play. The George Street Playhouse production is directed by David Saint. Tickets can be purchased at tickets.georgestplayhouse.org or at the playhouse at 9 Livingston Ave.

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Gilbert Gottfried will be performing a one-night-only show at the Stress Factor y at 8 p.m. Watch the veteran actor and comedian tell jokes in his unforgettable voice.

You can purchase tickets at the Stress Factor y website or at comedy club located at 90 Church St. For more information visit stressfactor y.com

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The critically acclaimed Phantom Limb is performing a theatrical adaptation of Lemony Snicket’s “The Composer is Dead” at the State Theatre for one day only. Snicket wrote The New York Times best-selling picture book after his successful “Series of Unfortunate Events” series.

Tickets range from $15 to $35 and can be purchased at statetheatrenj.org or at 15 Livingston Ave. For more information call (732) 246-7469.

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New Brunswick Board of Education will be having its monthly meeting to discuss the recent budget decisions and how they will affect the school district. The board will also have their annual reorganization meeting. The meeting begins at 6 p.m. at New Brunswick High School at 1000 Somerset St. To have your event featured on www.dailytargum.com, send Metro calendar items to metro@dailytargum.com.

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Week in review: laurels and darts

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n a column for The Huffington Post yesterday, journalist Dan Rather implored readers to “remember this week of silliness in April.” He makes a great point: With all of the big issues in the world today — including, but not limited to, the storms that tore through the South, a still weakened economy and the uprisings in Syria and Libya — media outlets are spending an inordinate amount of time and money covering the royal wedding in London. We get it: A prince is getting married. That doesn’t happen often. However, there are far more important things we should all be worried about right now, especially the media. We agree with Rather’s sentiment that, while the royal wedding does deserve at least some coverage, it makes no sense to devote so much attention to it, at the expense of all the other things going on in the world. We give the media outlets squandering their resources on Prince William and Kate Middleton darts. *

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With students fighting arduously against tuition increases at the University, there’s one price raise we can get behind: The added $7.50 to meal plans in order for Dining Services to serve cage-free eggs. It’s a negligible amount and well worth the results. Thankfully, the referendum held in conjunction with the Rutgers University Student Assembly elections received overwhelming support, with 66 percent of voters answering in the affirmative. We cannot wait to see the change take effect. Humane foods are always the best option. We give all those who supported the referendum, from the students who implemented it to the students who voted yes, laurels. *

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We’re getting pretty sick of the incessant use of the word “social” in the world today. In the wake of Facebook’s success, it’s become the buzzword for basically ever y company in the United States as they all scramble to find a way to integrate the concept into all of their products and ser vices. The latest to hop on the bandwagon is PepsiCo, with the advent of their Social Vending System. That’s right, Pepsi created a “social” vending machine. Basically, it’s your average vending machine, except it allows users to gift their friends with sodas and personalized videos recorded at the machine. If there’s a reason for this machine to exist, we certainly cannot figure out what it is. Not ever ything needs to be “social,” least of all the act of buying a soda. And if you want to give your friend a soda, why not just buy them a soda and hand it to them personally? We give Pepsi a dart for their desperate, inane attempt to stay hip. *

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Believe it or not, police officers aren’t infallible. Sometimes they make mistakes. They are people, after all. The N.J. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that law enforcement officials would no longer be allowed to destroy notes they take during investigations, whether they are taken at crime scenes or during inter views. This way, defense lawyers would be able to have access to those notes in order to help their cases or to get personal confirmation that all police information is accurate. We agree with the Supreme Court’s decision, as defendants and their lawyers have just as much right to access these important documents as the officers who created them do. We give the state Supreme Court a laurel for ruling on the side of justice for all — as the courts are supposed to. *

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There is a commonly touted fallacy that ever yone is equal in the United States. This simply is not the case. Whether we like to admit it, rich white men are still largely in charge of ever ything, and discrimination against people of other genders, ethnicities and classes still occurs on a daily basis. If you listen to certain members of the Oklahoma government, however, you may be told this is not the case, and therefore, affirmative action is outdated. Even more dangerous than this idea is the legislation being pushed that would allow the state to “not grant preferential treatment to any individual or group on the basis of race, color, sex, ethnicity or national origin,” according to the Associated Press. If you somehow need more proof that this legislation is absurd and overtly discriminator y, look no further than proponent Rep. Sally Kern, R-Oklah. City, who claims that minorities do not earn as much as whites because they do not work as hard and that women do not earn as much as men because they spend more time in the home. Honestly, we find it hard to believe this is happening in the year 2011, but it sadly is. We give Kern and all the proponents of this measure darts.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “The more events, the more free food.”

Ogunwale, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, on the Facebook group, “Where the free food at? Rutgers” STORY IN UNIVERSITY

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wake in a groggy stuzipper on my backpack. I por to the high-pitched smile as I hear a chorus of droning of my alarm pages ruf fling and noteclock. My limbs feel like books closing, obviously lead, and I barely manage to following my lead. The lift my arm high enough to professor has no choice ELIZABETH TAYLOR pound down on the life-savbut to let us go. What can ing snooze button. I have 10 he do? Yell over us? more precious minutes before the process starts I head to Brower Commons with friends. To my again. But for my three roommates in the rooms annoyance I see a group of people tabling for yet next door, this is an all-too-brief respite from the another cause. They are always trying to make me hellish morning of two straight hours of my part with the money I never have, but I know how unremitting alarm. to get away. Inside the dining hall, I eat lunch over Finally, after flipping the “off” switch two hours the light gossip du jour — the behavior of a mutual after the first ring, I fall out of bed with a thud, not friend toward his soon-to-be-ex girlfriend. I reflect bothering to keep quiet for the would-be sleepers. on all that has passed at the end of the day, and I am Forty minutes of clamoring to get ready — 10 self-satisfied. I haven’t physically or emotionally minutes late as always — and I walk out my door hurt anyone. No scandals, no conflicts, no pain. The to see a common room table littered with halfquestion of civility never crosses my mind. My day eaten snacks still in their wrappers that I had left plays out like a Homeric quest: I must overcome all during my midnight study session. antagonists blocking my path as I No time to pick it up now. If anypursue some ambiguous goal. The “I cannot begin one really cares about the mess, need for civility seems artificial. The they can deal with it. I turn my Golden Rule, my mother telling me to guess what back, rushing out the door to the to be courteous: These are not coma completely civil bus stop. pelling motivators to ignore my perHalf the campus seems to be sonal desires in favor of some or uncivil world there, heading to their 9:50 a.m. abstract concept of “civility.” But in classes on the College Avenue focusing on myself, I ignore the would look like.” campus. Determined, I push my unbreakable link between civility way through the crowd and am one and human relationships. of the first people on the empty bus. I make my Civility is not a code of behavior. It is a means way to the back, sit down and throw my overby which people can create healthy, happy relastuffed backpack on the seat beside me. I could tionships. Traveling from residence hall to bus put it in my lap, but it would be uncomfortstop to classroom, I am not on a solo mission. I am able. Five minutes later, when there are more stuengaging in a world where I see, hear, smell and dents than seats, a girl in a red and black sweat feel strangers every day. I make contact with suit asks me to move my bag. I comply, not even countless people — sometimes for seconds, sometrying to hide my scowl. times for decades — and each encounter can have I finally get to class, ver y late, but whatever. positive or negative impacts. Civility creates the There is no back entrance, only a side door. So bridge whereby people can exchange respect and naturally, ever yone sees and hears me as I walk kindness, thus making a positive impact on each in and sit three rows from the front. My profesother’s lives. Civility allows trust to form where sor, irritated, shakes his head as I dig out my before there was apathy and disinterest. Civility notebook and pen from the deepest pocket of my transforms the one-man mission into a blossoming backpack. For the next 20 minutes, I tr y to prenetwork of interconnected stories that shape and tend that I care, taking detailed notes of ever y mold each other for the better. word that drops out of my professor’s mouth.

I cannot begin to guess what a completely civil or But eventually, the monotony of his inflectionuncivil world would look like. I have no idea how less voice gets to me, and I start sketching geoone life lived in absolute civility could change the metric shapes on the margins of my notebook. earth, but I do know what a day rooted in civil Ten minutes later, I doze off. When I come to, behavior can look and feel like, and that is how I only three minutes of class remain. But I’m know civility is infinitely preferable to its alternative. done. This guy has wasted enough of my time.

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TAYLOR continued from page 10 One day rooted in civil behavior looks like a day where my roommates sleep in peace, not turning in their beds as they hear the droning of my earlymorning alarm. It looks like a clean living space where ever y dormer feels comfortable and welcome. It looks like an empty seat on a crowded bus offering rest and a neighbor who looks up and smiles. It looks like a classroom free from disruption where the professor feels respected by his students, enjoys his job and wants to help his students learn. It looks like a smiling face that may or may not be able to spare a dime but is proud of on-campus activism.

It looks like a dining hall table without malicious gossip. It looks like a day when a person, through their behavior, is responsible for the happiness and enrichment of other people’s lives. And it looks like a day when the strengthening of a person’s connection to the people around him becomes enriching.

Elizabeth Taylor is a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore majoring in economics. This essay was an honorable mention in the Project Civility Essay Contest.

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World needs dialogue about LGBTQ issues Letter RYAN STRAUSS y heart sank twice on Monday. The first time, I was riding the train as a group of young teenagers walked on bandying about the “F” word — the same one that has Kobe Bryant on a far-reaching apology tour. I wondered if my support to help pass marriage equality in Trenton, my efforts to fundraise for a local lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning (LGBTQ) organization in Newark, the efforts of all of those like me and those who work so much harder for the cause would really have an effect on the youth who may well have no reason to pay attention to what many of us find to be an endemic problem in our collective culture. It was clear that this anti-gay sentiment, which is still so prevalent in spite of massive efforts to raise awareness and generate tolerance, was learned and accepted, likely a reflection of the persistence of the myth of masculinity in our culture.

The second time, I read about the hate crime charge brought against Tyler Clementi’s former roommate, Dharun Ravi, which, combined with the other charges, would carry a maximum of 10 years in prison. What Ravi did was

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deplorable, and Clementi’s obvious suffering and subsequent death were tragic. But in seeking equality and protection for the rights of a heavily discriminated group, we must be above destroying the lives of others. No doubt, the same heavily masculine, anti-gay sentiment that led the teenagers on my train to nonchalantly express their disdain for gay behavior must have contributed to Ravi’s enthusiasm for broadcasting his former roommate’s exploits. The probationary charge of invasion of privacy and the promulgation of his name and face in connection with one of the highest profile teenage suicides in recent memory place an albatross on his neck that he will carry for the rest of his life. Let’s not downplay the devastating effects of probation and career implosion on a highachieving college first-year student.

Steven Goldstein, the head of Garden State Equality, one of New Jersey’s championing voices for LGBTQ rights and the primary organizer of the marriage equality rallies I attended in Trenton, suggested that these charges would ensure that “potential bullies will now think harder before demolishing another student’s life.” But if religious institutions and cultural icons continue to advance hurtful stereotypes, are we now setting aside jail cells for our impression-

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able youth? Aren’t Clementi’s vulnerabilities, which prevented him from realizing that life would improve given time, in some ways similar to Ravi’s, who fell into a cultural trap and now faces long-term imprisonment as a result? This alleged crime seems plausibly to be an instance in which Ravi regurgitated the counterproductive cultural themes to which many of our youth are exposed and lacked mature judgements as we might reasonably expect of a 19-year-old. It is also reasonable to assume that Clementi’s decision to take his life was under consideration long before his short stay in a University residence hall room with Ravi. Therefore, we could reasonably infer that whatever bullying or social exclusion came in his formative years had already pushed Clementi toward his decision. Wouldn’t that make his childhood tormentors even more culpable for the alleged crime?

To truly honor the memory of Clementi and work for the sea change we seek in our culture, support for these negatively impacting measures are a waste of valuable time and energy. We must contribute to organizing efforts and the conversation around equality and LGBTQ rights. We must support efforts for marriage equality legislation,

emerging local commissions working with government officials to support LGBTQ constituents, sensitivity trainings for schools and educators, and measures that outline positive steps to combat the per vasive disdain that our culture continues to hold for a long-suffering group of people. Ravi should be given a chance to express his remorse, speak out against bullying and make a positive contribution to the LGBTQ movement.

Responding to an overly aggressive social structure with an overly aggressive prosecutorial strategy constitutes an unnecessary abuse of influence by a broadening coalition that should have a better appreciation for the power of condemnation.

Call your representatives in government. Teach your children to respect their LGBTQ classmates. Boycott the cultural institutions and icons that make no apologies for advancing anti-gay sentiments. Eventually, we’ll reach the teenagers on our trains. But let’s leave the concept of an eye for an eye in the past and recognize that we can use the impressionability of our youth for their betterment, not to their detriment.

Ryan Strauss is a Class of 2007 University of Michigan alumnus.

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he Rutgers tennis team won its first round matchup, 4-0, yesterday against West Virginia in the Big East Tournament on Notre Dame’s campus.

The sixth-seeded Scarlet Knights shut out No. 11 West Virginia in singles play, while inclement weather forced the cancellation of doubles competition.

Rutgers advances to face third-seeded DePaul today at noon.

Senior Amy Zhang improved her No. 1 singles record to 16-5 and also received the American Eagle Outfitters Michael Tranghese Postgraduate Leadership Award.

Zhang is the first female to win the award, which puts $5,000 toward postgraduate education.

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The 6-foot-2 guard is the nation’s 114th prospect according to Rivals.com.

Carter attended Brestwer Academy (N.H.) last season but previously played at St. Anthony, where he averaged 15.2 points, six assists and five rebounds in his senior year.

Carter adds his name to the highest-rated recruiting class in Rutgers histor y, which stands as high as No. 11 in the nation, according to Scout.com.

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Panthers drafted Auburn quarterback Cam Newton with the No. 1 overall pick last night at Radio City Music Hall.

The pick capped a big year for Newton, who won the Heisman Trophy and led his Tigers to an undefeated season and BCS National Championship.

Texas A&M linebacker Von Miller was the second player off the board, when the Denver Broncos drafted him.

The Buffalo Bills had the third pick of the NFL Draft and took Alabama defensive tackle Marcell Dareus.

Georgia wideout A.J. Green went to the Cincinnati Bengals and the Arizona Cardinals took Louisiana State cornerback Patrick Peterson to round out the top five.

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were allowed to return to team facilities but not practice, the NFL told players beginning today they can resume practice.

The league also told players they can resume normal procedures, such as meeting with coaches and going over playbooks.

Another signal of normalcy is a memo sent out that will spell out procedures for signing free agents, making trades and other roster moves.

six hits during a regular season meeting against the Knights last year in Storrs, Conn.

With another year to learn the trade, Barnes’ skill set skyrocketed, as the junior now tops almost every statistical pitching category in the Big East, including shutouts (3), strikeouts (69), innings pitched (78), wins (10), complete games (3) and opposing batting average (.152).

The talent is there for the rest of the squad, as well, with UConn leading the conference in batting average (.312) and team ERA (2.86).

But for Anderson, it takes more than just talent to win ballgames.

“They have a lot of talent,” said Anderson, who is hitting .297 this season. “They play well together, but talent doesn’t win games — the team wins games. If we can show up and get the pitching we’ve been getting, we can shut down anybody.”

Shutting down UConn’s bats starts with sophomore ace Tyler Gebler. Gebler, who went six innings and allowed four earned

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runs his last time out, will surely have his hands full today against the Huskies.

But no matter how close he keeps the game, he will need at least some run support.

In his start against Pittsburgh last week to start the series, the Knights’ bats were silent, and remained that way the following day in a 3-0 loss in Game 2 of the series.

But after a breakout day from the plate, the Knights are ready to make a move up the conference standings today against the Huskies.

And with the memory of five losses to UConn last season — the final two in the Big East Tournament — the Knights have plenty of motivation to turn their season around.

“We have the fire going this weekend, and hopefully we take the series from UConn,” Hoermann said.

KNIGHT NOTE: Sophomore shortstop Pat Sweeney, who left Tuesday’s game against Delaware with a pulled hamstring, is doubtful for today’s game with Connecticut.

Hill remains unsure of who would assume the position if Sweeney is unavailable.

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Sophomore righthander Tyler Gebler will throw for the Knights today in their series opener against visiting Connecticut.

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SCRIMMAGE: Pernetti highlights Believe Bowl rosters continued from back to be cooperating [this weekend], so hopefully we’ll have a good turnout.”

For the first time, the “Believe Bowl” precedes the spring game.

An alumni flag football game in honor of Eric LeGrand, the “Believe Bowl” pits Team Teel against Team Hart.

Mike Teel was Scarlet Knights’ star ting quar terback from 2006-08 and won the first three bowl games in program histor y. Ryan Har t preceded Teel as the star ting quar terback, leading the Knights to their first bowl game under Schiano.

With most of the visiting NFL Knights not participating in the game to avoid injury, the star of the show is Athletic Director Tim Pernetti.

Pernetti, who was a four-year letter-winner at tight end for the Knights, will start at the same position for Team Teel.

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— What can fans expect?

On both sides of the ball, expect very simplified play-calls.

Yes, there is a new offensive coordinator and a new system, but the plays are so simple that the spring game is not the time to judge Frank Cignetti.

— What new faces will fans see?

The offensive and defensive lines look completely different from the last time the Knights took the field.

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On offense, Desmond Stapleton, Antwan Lowery and Caleb Ruch remain as key players from last year, but Andre Civil at left tackle and David Osei at center are new this spring to the first team.

Defensively, Charlie Noonan and Alex Silvestro are gone and Scott Vallone will not play because of a few injuries through the spring. The spring game is the first chance for fans to see prep school transfers Kenneth Kirksey and Djwany Mera. Manny Abreu also makes his debut on the defensive line.

— Who will win the most improved awards?

Wide receiver Brandon Coleman and running back De’Antwan Williams are the leading contenders on offense.

Coleman, who redshirted last season, made highlight catches all spring and soared up the depth chart. Williams looks like a new running back in the new offensive scheme.

It is less clear on defense, but cornerbacks Brandon Jones and Mason Robinson frequently receive praise from Schiano.

— What is the recruiting impact?

A ton of high-profile recruits and incoming freshmen will be there tomorrow at Rutgers Stadium. Desmon Peoples and Ruhann Peele will both be in attendance after committing to the Class of 2012.

The Penn Relays slightly hamper attendance at the spring game for recruits, but there is a chance Rutgers receives its third commitment tomorrow at the game.

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Rutgers fans will get their best look at junior running back De’Antwan Williams at Rutgers Stadium tomorrow since he carried the ball six times for 70 yards in Week 1 last year against Norfolk State.

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Junior linebacker Khaseem Greene recorded a sack on Tuesday in the Knights’ second scrimmage of the spring. Greene and the defense look to refine their base set tomorrow in the Spring Game.

LB corps preps for spring game

BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

Given all the flip-flopping within the linebacking corps for the Rutgers football team, it is understandable FOOTBALL that there is still some discomfort.

All three linebacker positions — the MIKE, WILL and SAM — welcomed new occupants to star t the spring but saw continued improvement heading into tomor row’s Scarlet-White game.

But the word “discomfort” does not seem to exist in the dictionaries of any of the three star ting linebackers with the culmination of spring practice on the horizon.

“I feel like we’re playing with a lot of speed,” said junior linebacker Khaseem Greene, who recorded a sack on Tuesday in arguably the team’s most important spring scrimmage. “We’re out there running and hitting, so I’m excited about the defense and to see how it’s going to turn out in the real season when it counts.”

Greene, who bumped down from safety to start the spring season, has been a key cog in the group’s successes through two scrimmages this spring, as the offense proved mostly ineffective in both outings.

As all three linebacker positions seem to conform well to the traits of each player, Greene’s new role gives him more leeway in terms of aggression, and for the 6-foot-1, 215-pounder, he is perfectly fine with that.

The Elizabeth, N.J., native finished four th on the squad with 77 tackles a year ago, but that production will likely increase with more run-stopping responsibilities.

“I feel great,” he said. “I feel like I’ve got it down pat. I feel like I’ve been there since I got here.

Now it’s starting to come as second nature to me. I don’t have to think about it anymore — it just happens.”

But more impor tantly, Greene gave nothing but praise to junior Ka’Lial Glaud, who will operate this season at the MIKE for head coach Greg Schiano. Greene sees Glaud’s abilities meshing per fectly with the role of the defense’s signal caller.

STEVE BEAUHARNAIS “He’s a natural leader,” Greene said. “He’s one of those guys who don’t have to put on a front or have to work to become a leader.

He’s a natural leader. You can tell by the way he sets the fronts and by the way he switches the defenses and things like that that he’s a natural.”

Glaud assumes the former role of now-SAM linebacker, junior Steve Beauharnais, who watched his replacement earn a sack on Tuesday when the offense focused on the passing game before struggling to gain yards on the ground.

Beauharnais, who finished third on the team with 79 tackles last season, sees no ceiling for the 6-foot-2 Glaud operating in the middle of the field.

“It goes up every time he steps on the field,” Beauharnais said.

“Every practice it just goes up and up and up. He’s taking more control than he has before, and I know he’s a really physical guy, a real explosive guy. He’s doing a really good job.”

For Beauharnais, the burden of operating the defense lifts with his shift to SAM, which could also foster more aggression in his game.

Still, the St. Joseph’s (N.J.) product remembers his time quarterbacking the defense last season and is never shy in offering tips to his successor.

And Glaud is always listening.

“To this day he asks me questions, but even leaders need help,” Beauharnais said. “Sometimes it’s good to [gain] experience from a guy that’s been there and done that.”

But the camaraderie of the linebacking core is not limited to the first-teamers.

The No. 2 group, led by Marvin Booker, also meshes well with the starters, Greene said.

“When we’re all in there, we just have a great connection and great connection with each other,” he said.

After two scrimmages of getting the best of first-year coordinator Frank Cignetti’s offense, the defensive unit looks to have repeat success to cap the spring.

Though the spring game is a more basic review of the team’s schemes on both sides of the ball, Greene and the rest of the defense still see the opportunity to finish strong and send a message at the same time.

While the group’s discomfort could be justified, it is certainly not on Saturday’s agenda.

“We’re just going in there trying to shut everybody down,” Greene said. “Whoever they put in front of us, we’re just going to go out and execute our gameplan and shut them down.

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PENNSYLVANIA RUNNING BACK VERBALLY COMMITS TO CLASS OF 2012 Though Desmon Peoples knew a few days ago, the running back made his commitment to the Rutgers FOOTBALL football team public yesterday in the Archbishop Wood (Pa.) library.

The 5-foot-8 running back joined head coach Greg Schiano’s 2012 recruiting class over of fers from UCLA, Pittsburgh and Temple, according to Rivals.com.

Georgia Tech extended an offer this week but could not sway Peoples, who spent last Thursday and Saturday in Piscataway to watch practices.

“I knew last Thursday,” Peoples said Class of 2012. Linden (N.J.) wide at his press conference. “I went to the receiver Ruhann Peele committed just more than a week ago. practice, I liked the tempo, all Although Peoples said he the hype, ‘rah rah’ stuff. I feel expected more offers should like every Division I program he wait to make a decision, that wants to win a national Rutgers was the first school to championship needs that. I felt contact him and made a that I was going to commit. I strong impression. told my dad about it, and he “Ever since early sophosaid just wait until Saturday more year, Rutgers has and see what campus life is expressed a lot of interest, and like and you can go from there.

DESMON I feel like I should just shut After Saturday, I was like, ‘I PEOPLES down the recruiting process love it.’”

Peoples is the second high school right now because I doubt that I will junior to join the Scarlet Knights’ have a relationship like that with any

other team or any other coaching staff anywhere in the country,” Peoples told the assembled media.

Peoples is the first Archbishop Wood athlete to announce his college decision in a class loaded with talent.

Tight end Colin Thompson headlines the group with 19 of fers.

Offensive linemen Frank Taylor and Brandon Arcidiacono have nine and four offers, respectively.

Rutgers is recruiting each of the players, and they made a trip to Piscataway together in January for Junior Day. — Steven Miller

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Senior midfielder Marlena Welsh leads the Rutgers women’s lacrosse team in goals, points, shots and shots on goal, and ranks second in assists. The Jarretsville, Md., native has 34 goals and 10 assists to combine for her 44 points. She plays her final home game with the Knights on Sunday against Georgetown at Yurcak Field.

Senior Day caps careers of five RU athletes

BY JOSH BAKAN STAFF WRITER

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Senior attack Kristen Anderson ranks third on the Knights with 24 goals scored this season and added five assists.

The Rutgers women’s lacrosse team said from the beginning that this seaWOMEN’S LACROSSE son, like ever y GEORGETOWN season, AT RUTGERS is about SUNDAY, 1 P.M. getting into the Big East Tournament.

But the season will take on a whole new meaning on Sunday against Georgetown.

Five Scarlet Knights seniors will grace Yurcak Field for the final time in their lacrosse careers as the season comes to a close.

“It’s always hard to see seniors graduate, especially this group that meant so much to the program,” said head coach Laura Brand. “I’m also happy for them knowing what their futures hold for them.”

The senior class leaves an impact from top to bottom.

When the five graduate, five gaping holes will appear in the star ting lineup.

But Brand knew that the future of the program was in good hands this year with the senior leadership.

“They always bring their best to ever y practice. They bring a lot of intensity. There’s never a question about where their

commitment is,” Brand said.

“Both in lacrosse and off the field, they’re great mentors for some of our younger players.”

And the senior Knights have one final chance to go out with a bang against the Hoyas (8-6, 6-1), who hold the top spot in the Big East.

“It’s always nice to end with such a competitive game,” Brand said. “If we do win this game, for a lot of people it will come across as an upset. It’s not in our eyes. We think highly enough of ourselves that we think we’re going to compete in ever y game that we’re in.”

Although the Knights’ (9-6, 3-4) seniors plan to win this final game, it is also one final chance to add on to their illustrious careers.

For defender Mar y Moran, it is a chance to lead the Big East’s second-ranked defense one final time.

For attack Kristen Anderson, it is a chance to be a leader on the Rutgers offense, having already scored 24 goals this season.

Attack Katie Marino has the oppor tunity to leave an impact in her first year in the star ting lineup, which she made the most of with 16 goals and a team-leading 11 assists.

And midfielder Shawn Lopez has one last chance to build upon the draw controls she had success with all season.

Last but not least, midfielder Marlena Welsh has the oppor tunity to cap of f a standout Rutgers career.

“We’re all excited to play one last time together, but it’s bittersweet because we’re obviously going to miss lacrosse,” Welsh said.

But most impor tantly, the senior class has a chance to lead the future of Rutgers lacrosse one final time.

“The future of the team looks really good,” Welsh said. “If you look at the stats this year, there are a lot of dif ferent scorers. And ever ybody has the chance to step up and prove themselves and lead the team for the coming year.”

Rutgers will look into the future of the program in this final game.

“Even in the last game we got a lot of underclassmen in,” Welsh said. “I’m sure we’ll try to do the same thing against Georgetown.”

The Hoyas head into Piscataway with a dif ferent perspective, as they hope to hang on to their top spot in the Big East.

Even though the Knights were eliminated from Big East Tournament contention, giving the Hoyas another loss would be a satisfying way for the seniors to conclude their Rutgers careers.

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Hendrikson to miss year with ACL

BY SAM HELLMAN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Days away from Dallas Hendrikson’s first chance to play in front of Rutgers football fans, the Junior FOOTBALL College transfer from Iowa received the worst news.

Hendrikson, a center, is done for the season after tearing his ACL earlier in the week.

“He’s going to need surgery,” said head coach Greg Schiano. “He has something that’s going to make him miss the year, unfortunately.”

The transfer from Iowa Western Community College said he felt the timing could not be worse.

Finally settling in as the firstteam center, Hendrikson had his sights set on his first spring game.

“That’s just it — I was starting to play pretty well,” he said.

On the plus side for Hendrikson is that he can redshir t, which means he still has two years of college eligibility after this season.

DALLAS He startHENDRIKSON ed at center for his two seasons at Iowa Western Community College, where he won a Midwest Football Conference Championship last season.

As one of the Knights’ biggest recruiting targets, both of fensive line coach Kyle Flood and Schiano flew out to visit the St. Angsar, Iowa, native.

“It’s tough to stay involved, but I just need to stay around the team as much as I can,” Hendrikson said. “Obviously, I’m going to go to every meeting and I’ll go to every lift and do what I can. It’ll be a long journey, but I’ll be OK and I’ll be back.”

Sophomore David Osei is the new first-team center, Schiano said.

Osei split equal repetitions with Hendrikson this spring but also worked at left tackle because of snapping issues.

“This summer, I’m going to work a ton of shotgun,” Osei said. “Under center, I’ve never had any trouble with it. It’s shotgun that used to give me a lot more trouble. This spring, I’ve made huge strides at that, but I still want it to become automatic, where I can just do it and not even have to worry about it.”

Behind Osei, there are just question marks.

Senior Art Forst worked a little at center yesterday despite his hulking 6-foot-8 frame. Senior Caleb Ruch, working as a left guard, also has experience as a backup center.

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Sophomore quarterback Chas Dodd will play in his first Scarlet-White Game tomorrow, when he can expect to take the bulk of the snaps under center for the Scarlet Knights. Dodd had a big workload this spring after winning the starting job midway through last season.

Dodd readies for final spring scrimmage

BY SAM HELLMAN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Sometimes, even Chas Dodd is shocked by his personal progress.

Wrapping up his senior year at Byrnes High School (S.C.), Dodd did FOOTBALL not even watch last RUTGERS y e a r ’ s SPRING GAME ScarletTOMORROW, 3 P.M. W h i t e g a m e .

Tomorrow, he will be the star of the show.

“It’s really surprising when you think about it actually,” Dodd said. “Especially with this whole new offense. I feel like I have developed in this offense really well. I like what we’re doing and how things are going right now.

We’re all really excited about the spring game and we’re ready to see where it takes us.”

Tom Savage handled every firstteam snap last spring, but that job

became Dodd’s the moment he took over as the starting quarterback against Connecticut.

After Savage announced his transfer to Arizona in the offseason, Dodd became the new poster boy on campus.

But Dodd said he expects his receivers and running backs to have much longer autograph lines after tomorrow’s game.

“We’ll see who does the best [tomorrow], but I doubt it’s me,” he said.

The final scrimmage of the spring is frequently the least important.

Head coach Greg Schiano said the two main goals of tomorrow’s spring game are to stay healthy and put on a show for the fans.

“We’ll tr y to get out of it healthy,” he said. “It’s really more of a day for the fans and the families. We’ll get a little bit out of it for guys that have never played in front of a big crowd. The weather seems

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RU draws Big East’s best in Connecticut

BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

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Senior third baseman D.J. Anderson looks for repeat success today against UConn after a 3-for-5 game Tuesday in a loss to Delaware.

To say there is a sense of urgency for the Rutgers baseball team would be an understatement.

T h e BASEBALL Scarlet Knights CONNECTICUT AT sit three RUTGERS g a m e s TODAY, 3 P.M. below .500 in Big East play with just 11 conference games left and ride a four-game losing skid home to Piscataway for a weekend matchup with Connecticut.

If the Knights plan on making a move in the conference rankings, it must start today against the top team in the Big East, said head coach Fred Hill.

“Every series from now on is a big one for us, starting with this one,” Hill said. “If we can win each series, then we’re going to be in pretty good shape, and that means we have to play well.”

After a stinging 14-12 loss to Delaware earlier in the week — a game in which the Knights

committed four errors — Hill hopes his bats can carry over their pop from the midweek defeat.

The Knights largely struggled from the plate this season, but saw a complete turnaround in Delaware, where they recorded 17 hits on the afternoon to bump the team batting average up to .252.

Sophomore Bill Hoermann and senior third baseman D.J. Anderson led the charge on the day, combining for five hits and seven RBI. But with UConn’s pitching staff coming to town, duplicating the team’s success from the plate against the Huskies could be a tall task.

“I think we were much more aggressive on Tuesday,” Hill said.

“We had a good day [Wednesday] swinging the bat, so hopefully that’ll carry over. Their pitchers certainly have something to do with that, but I think we faced [Matt] Barnes last year and did very well against him, so we’ll see what happens.”

Barnes, UConn’s ace this season, got roughed up for six runs off

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