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Bus driver offers inspiration, ideas to student riders PERSON OF THE WEEK BY RICHARD CONTE STAFF WRITER
As students hop on the LX bus traveling between the College Avenue and Livingston campuses, a welcoming voice greets them, reminding them they are one thought away from greatness. That voice belongs to retired Newark firefighter and now University bus driver Stan McNeil, whose words have become a topic of discussion among students at the University. STAN MCNEIL Videos of McNeil’s motivational speeches posted to social media websites have become popular among students, and a Facebook fan page was created in his honor. Born and raised in South Carolina, McNeil joined the Navy. After leaving the Navy, he became a Newark firefighter, a job he would keep for more than 25 years. McNeil started working as a bus driver at the University in September after two years of retirement, he said. As a man who is married with two kids and who holds faith in God, McNeil said he likes helping people throughout the day. “I enjoy motivating students,” McNeil said. “It’s important to motivate people because it helps bridge the gap.” McNeil said he is helping bridge that gap by offering inspiring words to students — something older people did for him when he was a young man in South Carolina. “Older people gave me encouraging words growing up, so I want to help people today [by giving them],” McNeil said. Another reason for his stimulating words is the fact that he thinks this is one of the greatest generations in history. “I have great expectations for [these students],” he said. “Students in school today are the people who will help find a cure for cancer and AIDS.” Giving these encouraging words is joy for him, McNeil said. “My greatest joy is seeing the students do well,” he said.
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Economics Professor Mark Killingsworth speaks in front of more than 150 School of Arts and Sciences faculty members in support of transparency of the University’s intercollegiate athletic budget.
Faculty supports athletic budget cuts BY RASHMEE KUMAR ASSOCIATE COPY EDITOR
School of Arts and Sciences faculty members passed a resolution calling for more transparency in the University’s intercollegiate athletics program budget yesterday, with an overwhelming majority of 174 to 3 at Voorhees Hall on the College Avenue campus. The resolution also calls for a reduction of the University subsidy to the athletic program and a student referendum on the portion of student fees allocated to athletics, said Mark Killingsworth, a professor in the Department of Economics.
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2013 and reduce the amount every year, so by fiscal year 2016, the subsidy should be no more than $13 million, according to the resolution. The administration said it has already adopted two of the three recommendations in the resolution — increased transparency and cutting down the Athletic Department’s operating budget, according to a University statement. “Direct support to athletics has been reduced by $1 million,” according to the statement. “Fur ther, athletics has been in detailed discussions with members of the senior administration
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“I believe that today’s vote is a ver y significant first step on the road to new priorities for this university — priorities that will put education first,” said Killingsworth, the primar y proposer of the resolution. The final resolution asks the University administration and Board of Governors to present a projected three-year report for the Athletic Department and to put the studentfee allocation for athletics to student referendum by April 15, Killingsworth said. The University will also be asked to impose a moratorium on the amount of subsidy given to the Athletic Department in fiscal year
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Late-night noise violations and crimes connect to Giovanelli’s Pizzeria on Easton Avenue, New Brunswick City Council members said.
City council, law enforcement and city residents debated problems occurring in the area surrounding Giovanelli’s Pizzeria on the corner of Easton Avenue and Condict Street last night during the New Brunswick City Council meeting. New Brunswick Police Detective Michael Debonis said there was a high rate of calls to the police station over a two-year period concerning late-night assaults and suspicious activity outside the establishment. Debonis said Giovanelli’s late hours seemed to contribute to some of the complaints. “Based on this analysis we believe that a lot of this problem relates to Giovanelli’s, not just the intersection of Easton and Condict, and it is creating disturbances to the residents living in the area,” he said. Condict Street resident Jadwiga Karanievski said the late-night activity
outside the restaurant makes it difficult to fall asleep. “I’ve lived here my entire life. I never heard a gunshot until the past year and a half. … There have been three shootings within 100 feet of my house,” Karanievski said. “Everyone goes there because everyone knows Giovanelli’s is the only place to go eat past 3 a.m.” Sam Habib, owner of Giovanelli’s, said it is his legal right to not be responsible for what occurs outside of his establishment. “They’re only putting the [blame on] Giovanelli’s and I think it’s personal. I am responsible for what goes on inside my store and that’s all,” Habib said. The council suggested that the owner hire additional security for maintaining the outside area. The council said they were addressing a business where many complaints have been made and did not intentionally mean to single out the restaurant.
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Rutgers Theater Company will be presenting “Much Ado About Nothing,” at 8 p.m. at the Philip J. Levin Theater on the Douglass Campus. General admission will be $25, $15 for students and $20 for seniors. For more information, contact Jessica Cogan at (732)-932-7511 or email jcogan@masongross.rutgers.edu. Career Ser vices is having an Internship Career Day that will be open to all students and alumni from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus. There will be a wide range of employers that will be speaking with students about internships and co-ops in various fields and industries. Bring résumés and dress professionally. The Committee to Advance Our Common Purposes, the Dean of Douglass Residential College and the Center for Latino Arts and Culture is sponsoring a “Money Matters” film screening and a talk with director Ryan Richmond at 8 p.m. in Trayes Hall at the Douglass Campus Center. “Money Matters” is a coming-of-age story about a 14-yearold biracial girl who tries to navigate faith and sexuality questions of adolescence.
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The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum will have “Passport to Art: The Art of Rachel Perry Welty” from 12:30 to 3 p.m. on the College Avenue campus. Children, parents, grandparents or guardians can work side-by-side on exciting arts, crafts and performance projects conducted by trained educators and artists. For more information, contact the Zimmerli Art Museum at (732)-932-7237 ext. 615 or email ZAMeducation@ad-art.rutgers.edu.
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Student Volunteer Council and Student Life will have a Community Service Fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Livingston Student Center. Students can meet with representatives of local, nonprofit agencies and campus organizations.
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The Eagleton Institute of Politics will host “Humor and Politics: How to Write Jokes when the News is Ridiculous” at 7 p.m. at Trayes Hall in the Douglass Campus Center. The event will feature guest speaker Elliott Kalan, a writer for “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.” The event is free to students, faculty and staff. For more information contact Randi Chmielewski at (732)-932-9384.
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“Entourage” star Adrian Grenier will present his documentary “Teenage Paparazzo” at 7 p.m. the Rutgers Student Center multipurpose room on the College Avenue campus, sponsored by the Rutgers University Programming Association. The film screening will be followed by an art exhibit and discussion with Grenier. Admission is $5 for students with an RUID and $10 for guests.
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United States’ biggest trade par tner, the European Union presents an alternative political and economic model to the one used in the United States. R. Daniel Kelemen, director of the Center for European Studies, said the EU, one of the largest confederations in the world with 27 countries represented, is a model to which the United States can look. Kelemen, an associate professor in the Depar tment of Political Science, said he believes the EU ser ves as a viable model for reform in American policies. His research helped launch “Lessons from Europe,” a two-year program of events that explores what US policy-makers can gain from the experiences of European democracies. The EU is an organization that brings together European countries to cooperate, financially and in terms of security, Kelemen said. “The European Union is an organization that is unprecedented in world histor y, which makes it hard to define. It’s something between a federation and an international organization,” he said. “It’s more unified than an inter national organization and less unified than a federation, such as the United States.” Kelemen said looking at the EU as a whole and learning from individual countries within the Union may be a good option for lawmakers in the United States. America is looking in many areas to reform current policies, he said. “Some European countries can present useful models,” Kelemen said. He pointed to Finland as having one of the top education systems in the world and said that Germany’s operation of an ef ficient public transpor tation system is more developed than any American network. “A number of European countries have much better child care plans for social wel-
fare than America, and ever y European countr y has some form of paid maternity leave,” he said. Even policies that have been under heavy political debate over the past years in the United States, such as health care, have solutions seen in the EU, Kelemen said. “Many European countries have health care systems ranked above U.S. health care systems and are much more cost-ef ficient. The countries spend much less on health care and get better results,” he said. Kelemen said though the European Union is in a crisis at
“It would require a change of approach and underlying principles that we haven’t seen.” R. DANIEL KELEMEN Director of the Center for European Studies
the moment, so far it has gotten out of every previous crisis, coming out stronger on the other side. “One thing that a lot of the media is ignoring in the coverage of this crisis, while some European countries are struggling — Greece, Italy, Spain — others have per formed ver y well throughout the global recession — Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden,” he said. Kelemen said the press coverage focuses on the countries experiencing financial dif ficulty while it ignores the fact that the countries loaning other str uggling countries money are doing economically well. Belinda Davis, an associate professor of histor y, agreed European policies do provide a solid model, but, if implemented, may have some backlash from politicians. “It would require a change of approach and underlying principles that we haven’t seen embraced by U.S. politicians in power for many decades — notions of economic as well as political rights,” she said.
Davis gave the example of security, child care, health care and education, which contrast American tendencies of mass incarceration and militarization. This all ties into the idea of American “exceptionalism,” a theor y that Kelemen said many politicians would use to protest the idea of implementing any sor t of foreign policy — let alone a policy coming from Europe. “Many of those politicians … war n that Europe illustrates the dangers of big government and the welfare state,” he said. But he said while some European countries are displayed as struggling economically, they are actually doing quite well. “The goal [of the European studies program] is to raise awareness to students of contemporar y Europe to counter some of the misconceptions brought by the media. Overall, the program aims to give a better-informed understanding of modern Europe,” Kelemen said. Some students at the University feel a bit dif ferently about modeling the United States after Europe. Michael Demmel, a School of Ar ts and Sciences sophomore, said he feels that shifting to a European model may not be the best idea. “I believe that competition fuels progression in technology and the economy,” Demmel said. He said there is no permanent solution to America’s problem and using the EU as a model may just seem like another shot in the dark. Overall, Kelemen said the EU exemplifies countries overcoming old rivalries and hatreds to come together and cooperate for their mutual benefit. “Over the past 50 years, the European Union has strengthened and developed to a point that no one could have predicted,” he said. “Although many critics have thought that it would fall apar t, it consistently sur vives and gets stronger.”
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NJPIRG discusses plans, goals for upcoming semester BY ADAM UZIALKO CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The University chapter of the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group held its semester kickoff meeting last night at the Douglass Campus Center to discuss their goals. Topics of the night included the group’s efforts to reverse a Supreme Court case and end fracking, a method of extracting oil and natural gas through pressurized fluid and protect drinking water. Gideon Weissman, program associate for NJPIRG, said their campaign aims to lobby to end corporate tax loopholes, especially corporate tax evasion. “We released a report recently of companies that spend more money lobbying than they do paying taxes,” he said. “Our report shows that most of these compa-
nies pay negative taxes each year. These are guys that should be paying their fair share, and they’re not.” Weissman said NJPIRG would also work to reverse the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission — a 2010 case that ruled that the First Amendment prohibits the government from limiting corporations’ and unions’ independent spending for political reasons — because he believes that corporations are not the same as individuals who donate money. “The idea that you can have Super PACs that spend millions and millions on a campaign and not even report where it’s coming from is detrimental to our democracy,” he said. Weissman said NJPIRG is working toward its campaign goals by creating transparency and pres-
NBPD OFFICERS SHOOT ARMED MAN BLOCK AWAY FROM DELOATCH SHOOTING The Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office is investigating a Tuesday night shooting involving two New Brunswick Police Department officers who shot a 19-year-old man after he allegedly fired at them. The two officers involved in the shooting were placed on administrative leave following the shooting, Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan said in a statement. While the prosecutor’s office did not release the officers’ names, Richard Rivera of the Latino Leadership Alliance told The Star-Ledger that Christopher Bornheimer and Drew Weiss, both seven-year members of the NBPD, were involved. The victim, who The Star-Ledger reports is Victor Rodriguez, is in critical but stable condition at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, Kaplan said in the statement. The two officers were on routine patrol at Remsen Avenue and Seaman Street when they saw Rodriguez fire the gun. The officers then fired shots and wounded the victim, who was rushed to the New Brunswick hospital, Kaplan said in the statement. This incident occurred within one block of the Sept. 22 shooting of Barry Deloatch involving New Brunswick police officers. Two officers, Dan Mazan and Brad Berdel, are still on administrative leave pending the outcome of the prosecutor’s office’s investigation of the Deloatch shooting. Mazan and Berdel were on routine patrol when they stopped to question a group of men. A chase ensued when Deloatch fled from the officers, and a struggle in a Throop Avenue alleyway ended in the fatal shooting. Deloatch allegedly used a wooden stick on one of the officers in the alleyway, Kaplan said in a statement. The Sept. 22 shooting spawned a series of rallies against police brutality in the city, with protestors more recently calling for a grand jury to investigate the case. — Amy Rowe
SECURITY: Weekday patrol rate totals $57 per hour continued from front “We’re not tr ying to hurt Giovanelli’s — we’re trying to help it. We don’t want a fatality or something wrong. We need police down there because all the calls, 565 calls are from the Giovanelli’s area,” said Kevin Egan, New Brunswick City Council member. Some residents said hiring security for outside patrol would take unnecessary money out of Habib’s pocket. “I think the city should be responsible for hiring more police for that area. Things going on in the street by his store — that’s not his problem,” said Keith Jones, New Brunswick resident. Charles Renda, a New Brunswick resident, said the council’s suggestion to have the Giovanelli’s owner take full responsibility and hire additional staff is over-stepping its authority.
“I think it’s a little unfair for the council to look at Giovanelli’s to take the sole responsibility of having to pay for off duty police officers for anytime,” Renda said. Debonis said the hourly rate of an officer to patrol the area in front of Giovanelli’s on weekdays is $57 per hour with additional fees — including a vehicle fee — for a possible total of $100 per hour. “You’re talking six hours a night, three nights a week. You’re talking possibly $1,800 a week,” Renda said. “For a small business owner I don’t care how popular you are, that’s a lot of money.” Robert Recine, New Brunswick City Council president, said as a business owner, the owner should not only tend to what is inside the owner’s property, but take responsibility for what happens around it as well. “I think people, neighbors — we have a responsibility to the other neighbors, whether it’s a business within residential areas,” Recine said. “I think he should be responsible for things that happen outside his store.”
suring legislatures to seal corporate tax loopholes while including the University community. “We work in Trenton to fight issues like this,” he said. “We’re going down to Washington to fight issues like this and we’re bringing Rutgers students with us.” After Weissman concluded his speech, representatives from various organizations and campaigns discussed an array of issues including environmental concerns, Citizens United and corporate tax evasion. Dan DeRosa, Environment New Jersey field organizer, said a major campaign NJPIRG is working toward is making water safer to drink through a statewide campaign, including a campaign to stop fracking. “A big issue we’re working on right now is protecting drinking water in the state,” DeRosa said.
After each campaign had a few minutes to speak, they broke down into smaller info groups for attendees to find out more about their initiatives. Each breakout session gave the opportunity for open discussion, the ability to volunteer and offered attendees the chance to ask questions regarding their involvement. David Bedford, a volunteer for the NJPIRG Safe Energy campaign, said the campaign branched off a nationwide PIRG effort against nuclear power and does not have a specific leader at the moment. “The Safe Energy campaign was born this semester as a branch of another campaign,” he said. “Right now things are still pretty undeveloped, so we don’t have a specific leader. But it seems like it’ll be me at the moment.” Bedford said the campaign’s goals and tactics is to educate the
public on energy usage and make an impact on federal policy. “The focus of the campaign is to educate people on the negative effects of nuclear energy and hydraulic fracturing. We also try to affect government policy to end fracking,” said Bedford, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student. He said they worked last semester against hydraulic fracturing with Food and Water Watch and protested at the Trenton capitol building. The Safe Energy campaign started as the Anti-Fracking campaign, with only Bedford and his friend Benjamin McCready, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences first-year student, as members. “We had a focus to ban hydraulic fracturing in Delaware River Basin which would have made New Jersey drinking water highly toxic,” he said.
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FACULTY: University funds department with $26.9M continued from front to achieve an annual and consistent reduction in University support in the coming years.” Killingsworth remained unsatisfied with the University’s reaction, saying the statement has “a lot of spin, but no substance.” “First, it doesn’t say whether the administration is willing to disclose its plans and budget for the athletic program for the next three years,” he said. “[Also] since the subsidy grew from fiscal year 2010 to fiscal year 2012, the cuts this past year clearly are just window dressing, not a serious attempt to cut the subsidy.” The University’s subsidy to the Athletic Department in fiscal year 2010 was $26.9 million, according to the resolution. The University has spent $135 million in student fees and discretionary funds since 2005, in addition to millions of dollars to upgrade athletic facilities. The Athletic Department has acknowledged that the program is not self-sustaining without University subsidy, and President Richard L. McCormick has stated that athletics will most likely never generate revenue for the University, according to the resolution. “It will always be possible that someday in the future the football program will make money,” said Lee Jussim, a professor in the Department of Psychology. “[We can only hope] that they will someday provide a contribution to Rutgers that is worth the cost.”
Anthropology Professor David Hughes said the University should focus more on providing cost-effective athletic options for students. “I believe in a sound mind and body, and I believe in some of the non-revenue benefits of these sports, but there are cheaper ways of doing that,” Hughes said. “We can have any intramural sport we want for less money than the football team loses in one game.” Hughes said the University is in a budgetary crisis and should cut its losses for the sake of academics. “As faculty, we find it an insult to our dignity that we are walking around getting paid a handful of the percentage of what the football coach earns, and he contributes nothing to education except scholarships for disadvantaged youth,” he said. “But those benefits are also achievable without a football team.” Norman Markowitz, an associate professor in the Department of Histor y, commented on former head football coach Greg Schiano’s recent departure from the University to become the head coach of the National Football League’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers. “Greg Schiano left Rutgers in the lurch, earning $2 million a year,” he said. “Schiano is an example of what this university has become — a place where there’s no loyalty, no commitment and frankly, the best thing any faculty member can do is find a way to get bigger, better jobs and get out of here.” The Athletic Department was not available for comment at press time. Derek Gordon, an associate professor in the Department of Genetics, said money should not
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be spent on athletics to the detriment of academics. “When I think of the great institutions of this country and throughout the world like Harvard or Princeton … some of them have excellent sports programs, but what are they primarily known for? They’re primarily known for their academics,” he said. “I think this is a question of priorities.” But Spanish Professor Carl Kirschner said he opposed the resolution because of its inaccurate data and unclear purpose. He said the elimination of student fees allocated to athletics would not af fect the
“The cuts this past year clearly are just window dressing, not a serious attempt to cut the subsidy.” MARK KILLINGSWORTH Economics Professor
University’s football or men’s basketball programs, but it would threaten the women’s basketball team and the 21 Olympic sports teams that do not generate enough revenue to support themselves. “Although it does not explicitly state it, the resolution is an attack on the Olympic sports and the student-athlete participants,” said Kirschner, a former interim athletic director at the University. The statement said student fees do not support football or
F E B RUA RY 2 , 2 0 1 2 men’s basketball, and a referendum to remove athletics from student fees would only harm nonrevenue sports. “If these revenues were curtailed, it could have devastating effects on sports programs that do not generate revenue, likely resulting in the elimination of additional Olympic sports programs,” according to the statement. Killingsworth said in fiscal year 2011, the total cost of nonrevenue sports was $10.7 million, compared to the overall subsidy of $29 million. “There is plenty of room to cut the subsidy without doing anything at all to our non-revenue sports,” he said. “And just maybe the revenue sports can work a little harder to earn some revenue, instead of taking everlarger subsidies.” Killingsworth also noted that budget cuts are affecting the University’s standing as an academic institution. “The University is taking hits [because of budget cuts],” Killingsworth said. “We’re getting killed in the ratings, and I’m not talking about the 25 top football teams — I’m talking about the 25 top graduate programs.” U.S. News and World Report ranked the University 16th among state-supported undergraduate programs in 1997, but in fall 2011 the University tied for 25th place, according to the resolution. In the Academic Ranking of World Universities, the University was placed 38th in 2003 and 59th in 2011, according to the resolution. Among graduate programs, the National Research Council ranked 11 of the University’s
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programs among the top 25 in 1995, but as of last fall only eight remain, according to the resolution. Kirschner said the resolution’s main focus is on cutting back University athletics when it should propose ways to bolster University academics. “If the resolution is anti-football, it should state that. If the resolution is calling for increased expenditures on academics, it should state that. If the resolution is intended as an expression of dissatisfaction with the salary freeze, it should state that,” he said. Maureen Barr, a University alumna and associate professor in the Department of Genetics, said the resolution should make a distinction between cutting the football program’s budget and the Athletic Department’s budget as a whole. “We speak of eliminating athletics as we might eliminate art in the crunch of a budget crisis,” Barr said. “We don’t want to do that. What we need to do is focus on the issues and resentment we have when we look at the football stadium, and for me that sucks the life out of me.” The revised resolution will be presented to University President Richard L. McCormick and the New Brunswick Faculty Council, a representative assembly of faculty members from various schools at the University, Killingsworth said. “We can’t compel the administration or the Board of Governors to do anything, but what we can do is ask them to reorder their priorities,” he said. “This is not anti-athletics — this is pro-academics.”
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Possible radiation leak causes plant to shut down THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — A tiny amount of radiation could have escaped from a Southern California nuclear power plant after a water leak prompted operators to shut down a reactor as a precaution, but plant workers and the public were not endangered, officials said yesterday. The leak was detected Tuesday afternoon in Unit 3 at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, about 45 miles north of San Diego. The seaside plant was taken off line while investigators tried to determine what happened. While the leak was not large enough to require the plant to declare an emergency, any possible leak of radiation into the atmosphere is rare. Also concerning was that “many” tubes that carry pressurized radioactive water were damaged, according to a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The tubes are part of equipment that is virtually new, having been installed in 2010. “The damage that they have found to many other tubes is unusual, and they are attempting to identify the reason,” NRC spokesman Victor Dricks said. News of the possible release of radioactivity was slow to emerge. Shortly after the incident, Southern California Edison issued a statement saying, “There has been no release to the atmosphere.” But yesterday morning Dricks said a small amount of radioactive gas “could have” escaped from a building that houses auxiliary equipment. When asked, Southern California Edison spokesman Gil Alexander did not directly address why the plant used the language it did. He emphasized the relatively minor nature of the incident. “I can’t speak for the NRC but we would agree that there might have been an insignificant or extremely small release,” Alexander said. He said the
DRIVER: McNeil says everyone needs challenges continued from front McNeil said he gets positive feedback from students and his sentiments do not go unnoticed. “People give me very admirable compliments and positive feedback,” McNeil said. “I’m very appreciative of what they say.” Students like School of Arts and Sciences senior John Malchow, said McNeil is the “Mr. Rogers,” from the TV show “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood,” of the University. “Beyond entertainment value and the power of personality, Stan’s message is very meaningful,” Malchow said. “He always encourages students to stay positive, work hard and be kind to one another.” Melissa Mendonca, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, said McNeil is a great motivator to students at the University. “He always makes you feel better after a tough day. It’s great encouragement,” Mendonca said. “It’s a shame he came in so late in my college career.” Sherylene Diaz, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, said McNeil also makes her feel better about her day.
amount might not be detectable by monitors. Dricks agreed, saying the radiation “would not pose a danger to anyone.” The NRC was evaluating the plant’s response to the leak, he said. In November, nuclear watchdog and environmental groups criticized plant operators for taking more than an hour to notify the public of an ammonia leak in a storage tank that prompted the evacuation of some workers. There was no danger to the public, the company said at the time. The Unit 3 reactor returned to full power in February 2011 after it was refueled and its two aging steam generators were replaced. The plant’s other reactor, Unit 2, had similar work. The total retrofit cost more than $670 million. Daniel Hirsch, who lectures on nuclear policy at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said he was concerned that the problem occurred with recently installed equipment. “Edison has historically not been candid about the problems at San Onofre. That lack of transparency causes tremendous distrust and increases risk,” Hirsch said. “It makes one wonder about the quality assurance for the replacement equipment,” he added. “This is not due to old equipment breaking but new equipment that wasn’t up to snuff in the first place.” The latest leak occurred in one of thousands of tubes carrying radioactive water from the plant’s reactor. The leak was initially estimated at a rate of 85 gallons a day — an amount about half of what would require the plant to shut down. Alexander said the rate of the leak was “much less,” but did not provide a figure. The plant is owned by Southern California Edison, San Diego Gas & Electric and the City of Riverside. Southern California Edison serves nearly 14 million residents with electricity in Central and Southern California.
“As soon as you walk inside the bus, he starts clapping. He never stops encouraging you to do the best,” Diaz said. “We need more people like this at Rutgers and in the world. It is so refreshing to hear the encouragement and have someone always rooting for you and believing in you.” Hajra Syed, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, said she was not expecting McNeil’s words of encouragement, but she appreciated them. “His words are sweet and motivational,” Syed said. “It’s nice to see that a stranger can care.” McNeil said he is not doing anything special, just adding onto what great parents and teachers have already done. He said students deserve to strive for the best because they want the country to be the best. “We have to want success for ourselves and other people,” McNeil said. “It makes our community stronger, which makes our country stronger.” McNeil said everyone needs challenges to push them to greatness, and everyone should get a chance, he said. “Students should know that ever yone deser ves a chance,” McNeil said. “Humanity is about bringing the best out of each other.”
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Local bars expect large turnouts for Super Bowl Sunday BY RICHARD CONTE STAFF WRITER
Bar and restaurant employees across New Brunswick have started preparations for this year’s Super Bowl, with hopes that local residents will come out Sunday to watch the New England Patriots take on the New York Giants. The Olive Branch, located on 37 Bar tlett St., originally planned to allow only private gatherings for the game. However, when a New York team of ficially qualified for the event, the decision was made to open the doors to all patrons, said Albert Adjei, Olive Branch manager. Marwan Eid, general manager of Mike’s Courtside Bar and Grill on 1 Elm Row, said previous regular- and playoff-season
football games were beneficial to the bar’s business, even though the Super Bowl brings in the biggest crowd. Eid said he expects even more customers for this year’s Super Bowl, with many N.J. residents coming out to support a local team. “Having a New York team really helps our business out,” Eid said. Previous Super Bowls have always brought in crowds to Mike’s, and last year’s Super Bowl between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Green Bay Packers gave the bar a full house, Eid said. “Ever y playof f game [so far] has been busy,” he said. “We already have reser vations for Sunday.” The George Street Ale House on 378 George St. will
of fer customers incentives during Sunday’s game, said Mike Zenuch, manager at the Ale House. “We’ll have a free buffet and other specials [on Sunday],” Zenuch said.
“The game brings new customers out into the bars [in the city].” BRYAN PAWLING Employee at Mike’s Courtside Bar and Grill
The Golden Rail on 66 Easton Ave. will also be offering specials for their customers come Sunday, said Lorraine Spinelli, a Golden Rail employee.
“We’re having a Super Bowl party with a free buffet,” Spinelli said. “We’re also going to have discounted drinks.” Eid said as the anticipation for the football spectacle continues to grow, local residents would create a fun atmosphere that will be felt throughout New Brunswick. “The game gives an upbeat attitude to the city,” he said. Zenuch said he also thinks the game brings a change in tone to New Brunswick, and that people will come into the city looking for a good time. Bryan Pawling, an employee at Mike’s, said he thinks Sunday would be a good opportunity for local residents to check out some of the spots that are open in their area. “The game brings new customers out into the bars [in the
city],” said Pawling, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences senior. “We expect it to be very busy on Sunday.” If the Giants or the Jets are playing, the game usually helps business, he said. Not every restaurant and bar will make noticeable changes in preparation for the game. Stuff Yer Face, a restaurant on 49 Easton Ave. does not have anything special planned beyond showing the game on television, said Shannon Roth, a Stuff Yer Face employee. While bar and restaurant owners expect a large turnout come kickoff time, some people plan on staying home for the game. “I’m having a small party with friends in my apartment,” said Janis Ikeda, a School of Social Work graduate student.
MIDDLESEX COUNTY CELEBRATES BLACK HISTORY MONTH WITH SERIES OF EVENTS Towns in Middlesex County plan to hold a series of events this month in celebration of Black History Month. The Trustee board Ministr y will host “African Bazaar” at the Zion Hill Baptist Church in Highland Park. The annual event will consist of crafters, vendors and food, according to a mycentraljersey.com article. The New Hope Baptist Church Pastor’s Aide Ministr y will celebrate Black Histor y Month on Feb. 5
hosting their “all-you-can-eat Smorgasbord and Silent Auction” at the New Hope Baptist Church in Metuchen. Tickets are available now for $12, according to the article. The African American Heritage Museum will be hosting a lecture featuring Ralph Hunter, founder of the African Heritage Museum on Feb. 9 in South Brunswick. Hunter will speak on topics of African-American history.
The Crossroads Theatre Company are presenting “The Adventures of Fishy Waters: In Bed with the Blues” on Feb. 16 through 18 at their Crossroads Theatre on 7 Livingston Ave., New Br unswick. The show will feature a one-man show about a blues man who travels through the United States in the 1930s as a hobo, according to a mycentraljersey.com ar ticle.
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PISCATAWAY TEEN ARRESTED FOLLOWING INVESTIGATION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY Authorities announced the arrest of a Piscataway teen last week on charges of child pornography after he avoided detectives in an attempt to destroy computer evidence, according to an article on njtoday.net. Members of the New Jersey State Police Digital Technology Investigations Unit took Hong Yu Wang, 19, into custody on Jan. 26 after conducting an investigative interview at the teenager’s residence, according to the article. Detective Sergeant First Class Chuck Allen restrained Wang after the suspect tried to escape detectives in order to destroy the computer evidence. Wang was found with powerful magnets hidden inside his shoes capable of erasing computer information.
State Police detectives then used a courtauthorized search warrant to search Wang’s residence, where they discovered several videos on his computers containing prepubescent children involved in sexual acts, according to the article. N.J. Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa told njtoday.net that authorities undertake great efforts to capture distributors of child pornography because they are identified as a major component in these types of illegal markets. “We are making it a top priority to detect and arrest those who distribute and view child pornography,” Chiesa said in the article. “The market created for these horrible materials motivates those who torture and exploit children in
this way. We’ll aggressively prosecute anyone who commits these crimes.” Colonel Rick Fuentes, superintendent of the N.J. State Police, told njtoday.net N.J. police are doing ever ything they can to keep similar cases from happening in the future. “The exploitation of society’s most vulnerable will not be tolerated here in New Jersey,” Fuentes said in the ar ticle. “The New Jersey State Police will continue to use ever y investigative measure available to arrest and expose those who perpetrate these heinous crimes.” The charges remain merely accusations, and Wang has not been proven guilty, according to the article.
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QUOTABLE ANDY KALWITZ SAS JUNIOR
“I got 10,000. That doesn’t give me an option for anything. ... I feel like there is nothing you can really change [since] it’s such a big school. That’s what we get for coming to a state college.”
“It should have never been [that students] can’t go back. That bridge shouldn’t be burned. They should be able to come back and re-submerge into student life.”
BRITTANY ROSENGREN SAS SOPHOMORE “I understand them not doing sign-backs anymore. It gives everyone else an opportunity to live in the nicer apartments.”
ALICE LEE — SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES SOPHOMORE CHARLIE GROLL SAS SENIOR
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“I lived in the hotels sophomore year. So, I didn’t get any priority over freshman, which would have been nice.”
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“SEBS students should live with SAS students. ... With SEBS, it’s an apartment [where] you need four people, and it’s not easy to find a lot of people who want to stay on campus.”
JON PARK SAS SOPHOMORE “One thing that bugs me is when students get good numbers and they don’t use them. It’s unfair to the kids who are going to live on campus.”
ONLINE RESPONSE I want to sign back my University apartment — 8%
The system is more fair — 13%
Class location should determine priority housing — 34%
I have no opinion / I plan to live off campus next year — 45%
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n an effort to cut down on what they see as “fraud and abuse and waste of taxpayer dollars,” Republicans in the House of Representatives have proposed a bill that would ban the use of welfare debit cards at strip clubs, liquor stores and casinos, according to a Huffington Post article. The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Charles Boustany, R-La., argued that this measure represents House Republicans’ commitment to preserving the integrity of government programs like welfare and to helping struggling families. Making sure welfare funds are used as appropriately and effectively as possible is an important goal — and one that should be pursued under the right circumstances. But the issue at hand runs deeper than simply mismanagement or an abuse of funds. Rather than represent an earnest attempt to better utilize taxpayer money and assist needy families, the bill seems to do more to berate members of the lower class while eroding confidence in programs like welfare. Critics of the bill, like Elizabeth Lower-Basch, a senior analyst at the Center for Law and Social Policy, a progressive think tank in Washington, D.C., have argued such legislation is “designed to reinforce the ‘unworthy poor’ stereotype.” But what’s more surprising — and equally unconvincing — is the total lack of evidence to support the claim that the abuse of these funds at places like strip clubs and casinos is actually a problem. House Republicans have used as impetus for their argument a handful of news stories about welfare benefits being drawn at ATMs from these locations. In reality, many have contested the problem is not so widespread. According to The Huffington Post, less than half of 1 percent of these funds are being withdrawn from casinos or liquor stores. While many would like to see these funds go toward things other than liquor and gambling, House Republicans should refrain from letting their political ideologies get in the way of the facts.
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ov. Chris Christie’s recent nomination of the first immigrant and the first openly gay black man to the N.J. Supreme Court has lately come under criticism. Some scrutinize Philip Kwon, a South Korean-born immigrant, in response to a federal case involving Kwon’s family, while others questioned possible conflicting interests regarding nominee Bruce Harris, who in the past has advocated for gay rights. Luckily, Harris has recused himself from hearing any gay marriage cases, given his prior involvements in the issue. Still, to many, the nomination may seem quite uncharacteristic. After all, many consider Christie to be a social conservative, and he has routinely proclaimed his opposition to issues like same-sex marriage. Yet with these nominations, Christie has proved that — at least in this case — political ideology does not necessarily have to play a role in decisions regarding the nomination of our public officials. Christie’s nomination of these individuals represents a monumental step toward the diversification of N.J. politics and is largely symbolic of a society growing increasingly tolerant of differences between people. But we should also stop to question whether the nominated individuals truly were the most appropriate choices for these positions. Despite being elected as justices to the state’s highest court, neither nominee actually has any concrete judicial experience. Kwon, the court’s first immigrant, previously worked under Christie when he was the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey. Bruce Harris, the court’s first openly gay justice and its only black one, was elected mayor of Chatham. For Supreme Court justices, experience within the field, as well as other appropriate qualifications, should be required. Inclusion and increased diversity is an important goal, but the color, sexuality or birthplace of an individual should not take precedence over their character and accomplishments. In politics especially, a person’s credentials — as opposed to their skin color or sexual preference — are often the biggest indications of the integrity with which that person will conduct their affairs. We’re glad to see the N.J. Supreme Court finally reflect the diversity of the state that it serves — but we hope Christie based his decisions off more than Harris’ sexuality or Kwon’s place of birth.
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Opponents of the change hat’s in a name? note that the University is For University “the” state university — students, there never say “a” state universiare some clear benefits. You ty — of New Jersey and to can use the phrase “RU bring Rowan on board while screw” to blame even the re-branding the school is to most glaring of lapses in perdo violence to something sonal judgment on the ALEX LEWIS that took 246 years to build. University’s many adminisFor those of us on the trative inefficiencies: “Oh, New Brunswick campus, the proposed merger of man, I was way too drunk by 10 p.m. last night to Rutgers-Camden with Rowan is a tale of two cities. register for my psych lecture. RU screw!” So little of daily life beside the Raritan is informed You can exploit the fact that the initials of our by the presence of our counterparts on the school are homophones with “are you” to whip up a Delaware that it’s hard to tell why the merger mathandy marketing strategy for any club you’re ters for us. In so many ways, it is the best of times involved with. “RU hungry?” “RU voting?” RU sick and the worst of times at the University campus in of seeing repetitive flyers for obscure student New Brunswick. Among the good things: The last groups plastered ad nauseum all over campus? few years have seen the unification of the campus But recently, for the students of Rutgerscolleges into a single School of Arts and Sciences. Camden, Gov. Chris Christie and his proposal to Livingston campus is completing its comeback merge the University’s southern campus with from desolate crater to campus hub. Among the Rowan University, a nearby public college known bad: In the same span of time, our for its education programs, threatacademic rankings in all but a few ened these perks. Christie’s proposal “So little of daily life programs have slipped from their involves rolling the Camden campus positions. In a move that into Rowan and synthesizing a brandbeside the Raritan previous has colloquially come to be known new research university. The powersas “pulling a McCormick,” our that-be did not set exact guidelines is informed by administration channeled staggeror timetables, so the final look and the presence ing amounts of money into a marfeel of the new super-school remains nebulous. But one thing is certain — of our counterparts ginally successful athletics programs and is now facing the wrath it won’t be called “Rutgers.” on the Delaware.” of tax and tuition payers alike. According to the vocal insurBut all of these ups and downs gency of Camden students occurred in a Camden-less vacuum. aggrieved by the proposed action, It’s hard to cancel the notion that very little about that means war. being a University student in New Brunswick In the last few weeks our counterparts on the would change if the school shed its Camden cambanks (of the Delaware, that is) have fired salvo pus. So many people claim to have so much to lose after online salvo at Christie and other legislators, if the merger goes through — whether their contending that dividing the house of the University protestations are legitimate or simply the knee— and merging part of it with a small and unrejerk product of sentimental irrationality is hard to markable teaching college — does egregious harm say. A lot of this un-fear is fueled by something to the value of their degrees. Facebook groups and that most of us believe, but rarely adventure to online petitions advocating against the merger have say: The New Brunswick campus is University gained traction since it was announced. Many are proper. The Camden campus is and always has quick to note that the Camden campus has never been its own beast, so seeing it transformed into been as unified in opposition to the plan as it curthe University South Jersey or Rowan 2.0 matters rently is. The petition with the most signatories — little to us. via the petition-hosting website Change.org — cites There is evidence to suggest the merger really lowered faculty standards as the main reason why does pose a threat to the University’s enduring legthe merger is wrong. end in New Jersey. Our school is itself a synthesis of But the comments on the petition reflect someconquered colleges long since relegated to footnotes thing very different — a deep, personnel and admittedly sentimental attachment to the SEE LEWIS ON PAGE 13 University name and the ethos it invokes.
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LEWIS continued from page 12 in the annals of history. I’m sure we all remember the storied past of the New Jersey College for Women. As for whether the merger would lower the stock of a Rutgers-Camden degree is hard to say — at least, I don’t know enough about what makes a degree’s value rise and fall, so I’m eager to hear the cases for both sides in the days to come. If it makes sense — I mean, if it makes dollars and cents — and would save enough money in the long term to justify the administrative cost of splicing
together two well-entrenched universities, then carr y on. But I encourage my fellow Scarlet Knights to watch intently as the situation pans out and to pay due consideration to the concerns of the students and faculty in Camden. Rutgers is as Rutgers does, and even though it may not always seem like it, Rutgers-Camden is just as much a part of the University as New Brunswick. The Newark campus? That’s another story. Alex Lewis is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in journalism and media studies and political science with a minor in Arabic. His column, “La Nausée,” runs on alternate Thursdays.
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Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 7 — Expect change in the workplace. It's for the better. Stick to practicalities, and meditate for balance. Friends help you understand. Ask, "What can I provide?" Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 7 — It's easier to deal with financial planning and to negotiate contracts now ... and a good time to ask for money. The worse you can get is a "no." Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is an 8 — You get a deserved acknowledgement ... accept it gracefully, and don't forget to send kind words the other way. The money's improving, too. Begin writing or recording. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 9 — You're exceptionally powerful in your communications now. How will you use the power of your word? A blog, book project, podcast or video could be interesting. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is an 8 — You're exceptionally creative, charming and good looking now. Take advantage and make it happen. Be true to yourself, and the money will follow. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is an 8 — It's a perfect day to generate new contacts and communicate with old clients. Listen to their concerns and provide value. Work from home, if possible.
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Head coach Glen Crooks earned 10 commitments in 2012.
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ESPN’s goalkeepers to watch list, also signed to play with the Scarlet Knights. F.C. Stars (Mass.) product Hayley Katkowski is Top Drawer’s No. 19 recruit in the Northeast. Gabby Moreno, 2011 Capital Gazette Player of the Year, played for the Freestate Fur y. Top Drawer’s No. 8 player in New Jersey, Erica Skroski, played for Atlantic United. Erica Sousa is Top Drawer’s No. 50 player in the nation. Adding to the current Canada natives playing for Rutgers, Samantha Valliant joined the Knights. She was a World Cup U17 Camp selection and played for the Pickering Pythons.
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Rutgers Athletics announced the women’s socWOMEN’S SOCCER c e r team’s 10-member 2012 recruiting class yesterday via Twitter. Jackson Liber ty High School product Cassidy Benintente was Top Drawer’s No. 9 player to watch in New Jersey. She joins PDA Charge teammates Rachel Cole, Maggie Morash and Brianne Reed on the Scarlet Knights’ roster. Cole is ESPN’s No. 75 overall recr uit. Morash, a former Pingr y midfielder, was a 2011 First-Team AllState honoree. Reed was named FirstTeam All-State and AllMonmouth County last season. Goalkeeper Alana Jimenez, who made it onto
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GAME: Friars outshoot Knights in RU’s 11-point defeat continued from back conference win. They remain a win away from tying their Big East season total from last year. Freshman for ward Kadeem Jack earned increased minutes, logging 11 and recording a block and a steal. Fellow freshman Derrick Randall, a starter, played a team-low nine minutes for head coach Mike Rice. Providence rode high-percentage shooting to the victor y, making 52 percent from the field for its second conference win. It doubled the Knights in assists with 20, taking advantage of fast-break opportunities against the Rutgers press. While the Knights own four wins against competitive Big East teams, they also claim three losses to teams with little pedigree in the conference. They lost, 69-64, on Jan. 25 to then-last place DePaul, which had only one Big East win at the time. They fell by two points against South Florida, which has yet to emerge as a postseason threat since joining the league in the mid-2000s. The road does not get easier in the future for Rutgers. Louisville welcomes the Knights to the KFC Yum! Center on Saturday, before they return to Piscataway on Wednesday to take on in-state rival Seton Hall. The Pirates started the Big East campaign 4-1 before dropping four consecutive games in conference play. Rutgers travels to Notre Dame the week after, followed by a home matchup Feb. 19 against No. 2 Syracuse. A Feb. 22 contest against top-15 Marquette closes the Knights’ tough stretch.
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he Rutgers men’s lacrosse team will appear on ESPNU on April 14 in its match against No. 7 Syracuse in the ESPNU Warrior Classic in Charlotte, N.C. First-year head coach Brian Brecht said the event is an exciting opportunity for the Scarlet Knights. The Knights and the Orange clashed last season in the ESPNU Warrior Classic in Hartford, Ct., with Syracuse winning, 12-2. Also participating in the classic are No. 6 North Carolina and No. 11 Hofstra, which face off after Rutgers and Syracuse.
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Providence junior point guard Vincent Council scored 11 points and dished a game-high 14 assists last night at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center in a 78-67 Rutgers loss.
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INDIANAPOLIS COLTS owner Jim Irsay said yesterday he expects to meet next week with quarterback Peyton Manning, but any decision on Manning’s future will likely take place in early March. The Colts face a March 8 deadline for a decision on whether they want to retain Manning and pay his $28 million bonus or let him walk as an unrestricted free agent. Manning told ESPN his recovery from spinal fusion surger y in September — his third surger y in 19 months — is going well, despite the fact that he missed all of last season.
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Dan Rinaldi rides Hofstra’s Tim Murphy en route to one of his six major decisions this season. Rinaldi also has two pins.
UPSET: Midlands losses
American before transferring to the Atlantic Coast Conference. Regardless of who Rutgers disappoint unranked Rinaldi draws when it hosts a National Duals regional bracket Feb. 11, continued from back Rinaldi will be tested. Cal a couple,” Goodale said. “That’s Poly’s 18th-ranked Ryan Smith, a good thing that he’s consis- Michigan’s 15th-ranked Max tent … but we need him to pick Huntley, Minnesota’s sixthof f somebody. To be an All- ranked Sonny Yohn and American, he’ll need to pick off Missouri’s 11th-ranked Brent will all be two or three guys. I don’t want Haynes him to wait until the in Piscataway. Then Rinaldi will travel to EIWA Tournament.” Rinaldi had an opportunity to the EIWA Tournament, which place at the Midlands features Cam Simaz, the No. 1 Championships, but he lost a 197-pounder in the nation out pair of matches against of Cor nell, and three other Oklahoma’s Keldrick Hall and ranked wrestlers. The Lodi, N.J., native is used Iowa’s Grant Gambrall. His other loss came against to that type of competition, though, as he Lehigh’s Kadeem wrestled his Samuels, who is “I don’t think he brother, two-time 13-7 this season, Allbut a backup to gets the respect he Cornell American Jerr y 10th-ranked Joe Kennedy. deserves — he’s a Rinaldi, earlier this week. “I should be on two-time national Jerr y, at 6the podium at Midlands placing qualifier, and he’s foot-2, is a more prototypical 197pretty high, but if not ... ranked.” pounder, but the I’m losing there, 5-foot-10 Dan that’s the reason SCOTT GOODALE Rinaldi said what I’m not ranked,” Head Coach he lacks in size, Rinaldi said. “I he makes up for really don’t think I in technique. should be losing “It has its pros and cons,” much, if at all.” While 184-pounders Dan Rinaldi said. “I’m still in a good Seidenberg and Evan Brewer place right now. I see myself on face a nationally ranked opponent the podium at the end of at nearly every dual meet and the year.” So does Goodale, who tournament, Rinaldi has had few opportunities to prove himself moved Rinaldi to 197 pounds in the of fseason with March in against ranked competition. “He needs a big win,” Goodale mind. He just never realized it said. “That’s the best way to might take until March for Rinaldi to prove himself. describe it.” “He’ll never get that Goodale still believes it is possible at 197 pounds for respect,” Goodale said. “He’s Rinaldi, who is 54-22 in his beaten some nationally-ranked career at 184 pounds, and the guys, but he needs to keep it toughest part of his schedule is going. I don’t think he gets the respect he deser ves — he’s a about to begin. It star ts Saturday against two-time national qualifier, and Virginia’s Ryan Malo, who was a he’s not nationally ranked, so three-time Division III All- it’s frustrating.”
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Greg Schiano speaks at his introductory press conference in Tampa, where he could lure Rutgers assistants.
FLOOD’S FOCUS TURNS TO FILLING OUT COACHING STAFF Rutgers head football coach Fraser interviewed yesterday Kyle Flood made his commit- with the Tampa Bay ted offensive linemen promise Buccaneers, according to The to stop Tampa Bay Times. FOOTBALL into his It is possible Schiano courts office regularly once they more of his assistants from arrive in Piscataway. Piscataway. And although he would love He did not dismiss the to, he has no intention of coach- notion Friday at his introductoing them directly. ry press conference, where he Flood said yesterday he praised his Rutgers staff of will hire an offensive “NFL-level coaches.” line coach who will Mark Dominik, have sole control of Tampa Bay general the position group, manager, said but was unwilling Schiano would have to announce who final say on all coachit is. ing hires. “I’m not ready to Flood would not announce who our address specifics yesoffensive line coach terday when he BOB FRASER is just yet, but I know announced his first who it is,” Flood said. recruiting class, but he “He is excellent. I really believe said he would like to have his staff he’s the best offensive line complete by spring practices. coach in the country. Since I’m His contract allows for $1.8 not an offensive line coach any- million to spend on assistants. more, I feel free to say that. He “If we need to do somedoesn’t need me. The players thing, we’ll always act in a will buy into what he does, and judicious, quick manner, but they’ll perform at a high level.” we’re not going to rush anyFlood likely will have to thing,” Flood said. hire a defensive coordinator “Whenever the time is right, as well. we’ll have the best staff we Bob Fraser held the title last can have in place.” season, when Greg Schiano still made all the defensive calls, but — Steven Miller
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2012 RUTGERS FOOTBALL RECRUITING CLASS NAME Carlton Agudosi Brandon Arcidiacono Ryan Brodie Leonte Carroo
POSITION WR OL OL WR
HEIGHT 6-foot-6 6-foot-4 6-foot-5 6-foot-1
WEIGHT 200 260 300 190
HOMETOWN Somerset, N.J. Holland, Pa. Long Branch, N.J. Edison, N.J.
HIGH SCHOOL Franklin Archbishop Wood Long Branch Don Bosco Prep
COMMITMENT DATE May 7, 2011 July 6, 2011 Jan. 25, 2012 Aug. 6, 2011
Yardley, Pa. Mechanicsburg, Pa. Ponte Vedra, Fla. West Paterson, N.J. Paterson, N.J.
Pennsbury Trinity (Maryland) Ponte Vedra Don Bosco Prep DePaul Catholic
Jan. 23, 2012 Dec. 21, 2011 July 6, 2011 Jan. 21, 2012 June 30, 2011
Flood: “Leonte is lightning fast, an All-American track athlete.”
J.J. Denman R.J. Dill* Kyle Federico* Darius Hamilton Davon Jacobs
OL OT PK DL DB
6-foot-6 6-foot-7 6-foot-0 6-foot-4 6-foot-0
310 310 185 260 170
Flood: “We think Davon is a lock-down corner — excellent feet, good quickness, excellent change of direction, closing speed.”
Quanzell Lambert
LB
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230
Sicklerville, N.J.
Timber Creek
Jan. 5, 2012
220 315 290 180 175
Saddle Brook, N.J. Perkiomenville, Pa. Capitol Heights, Md. Linden, N.J. Cheltenham, Pa.
Saddle Brook Boyertown Archbishop Carroll Linden Archbishop Wood
May 26, 2011 June 23, 2011 July 18, 2011 April 18, 2011 April 28, 2011
Montclair Bloomsburg Sayreville Franklin South Brunswick
June 29, 2011 April 30, 2011 July 15, 2011 Feb. 1, 2012 Feb. 1, 2012
Flood: “Quanzell is going to be our middle linebacker.”
Steve Longa Chris Muller Derrick Nelson Ruhann Peele Desmon Peoples
LB OL OL WR RB
6-foot-1 6-foot-6 6-foot-3 6-foot-1 5-foot-8
Flood: “We really feel like Desmon is the quickest running back in the country, bar none.”
Julian Pinnix-Odrick Blake Rankin Delon Stephenson Ian Thomas Jevon Tyree
DL QB ATH WR DB
6-foot-5 6-foot-4 5-foot-11 6-foot-1 5-foot-11
250 190 175 200 180
Montclair, N.J. Bloomsburg, Pa. Sayreville, N.J. Baltimore, Md. Somerset, N.J.
* Already enrolled
CLASS: Flood tells recruits he will lead program full-time continued from back validity to what we tell the people in this local area.” Flood began telling recruits and their families Thursday that once named interim head coach, he intended to have the “interim” tag removed. It became clear that would be the case Monday and Tuesday. Athletic Director Tim Pernetti, who helped recruit after Schiano’s departure, announced Flood’s hiring.
The 19-year offensive line coach was only disappointed that he will be unable to coach the five offensive line recruits that Rutgers signed. Mar yland transfer R.J. Dill already enrolled at Rutgers, and five high school seniors will join him in the summer. Two of them — J.J. Denman and Chris Muller — were high school All-Americans. One — Ryan Brodie — is the top lineman in New Jersey. And another — Brandon Arcidiacono — is ranked as high as the third best center in the country. Flood called Brodie and Muller “prototypical NFL-type left tackles.”
“I’ll tell you what — it’ll be hard for me not to coach these guys. So if you see me over there by the O-line drills in the fall, you’ll know why,” Flood said. “I think when people look back on this recruiting class of offensive linemen, they are going to say there is no doubt that that was the best offensive linemen class in the country.” Rutgers also bolstered depth on the other side of the trenches, most notably with Hamilton, but its second deepest position of the class is wide receiver. Carroo, a four-star U.S. Army All-American from Don
Bosco, headlines the group, but three other targets join him. Franklin product Carlton Agudosi and Linden’s Ruhann Peele were long-since committed to Rutgers, but Baltimore native Ian Thomas held a Signing Day ceremony to announce his destination. The three-star recruit committed to Rutgers over Iowa and North Carolina, joining South Brunswick defensive back Jevon Tyree as one of two lastminute commits. But Flood felt confident about the class long before Thomas and Tyree made their
commitments known. The good feelings started this summer, when commitments began flowing in, and continued through a coaching change. He credited the relationships coaches built with recruits, but also the friendships between the recruits, themselves. “[Muller], Darius Hamilton and many others really held this recruiting class together over the last four or five days,” Flood said. “I think any time you have players recr uiting players, you have something special. This has been unique to my experience for sure.”
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Power schools await Knights at ND BY PATRICK LANNI STAFF WRITER
The Rutgers men’s track and field team put together back-toback team titles the past two weekends, MEN’S TRACK ear ning wins at RUTGERS AT NOTRE DAME INVITE, N a v y and the TOMORROW Armor y Track and Field Center in the Bronx for the Metropolitan Championships. The Scarlet Knights’ effort on the track proved successful, but that success came against nonpower conference schools like Rhode Island, Iona, Wagner and Fairleigh Dickinson. The Knights get their first look at Big East, Big Ten, and Southeastern Conference compe-
tition this weekend at the Notre Dame Meyo Invitational. Notre Dame’s first installment of the meet on Jan. 21 had representatives from two of these conferences. South Florida, DePaul, and Michigan State all competed in South Bend, Ind. But the Notre Dame Invitational features more teams and more power conferences for the Knights. Redshirt junior Adam Bergo said it’s for the best. “Competition is increasing dramatically,” he said. “We’re really psyched to get out there and get even better against the teams we’ve been handed.” Mississippi junior Ricky Robertson may be the toughest competitor Bergo faces all season. Robertson won the high jump at this meet a season ago with a leap of 2.24 meters. The
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Redshirt junior jumper Adam Bergo faces a tough test tomorrow in Mississippi’s Ricky Robertson, an All-American high jumper.
All-SEC and All-American jumper then went on to compete at the NCAA Championships, earning a second-place finish with a height of 2.26 meters. “He’s pretty good,” Bergo said of his competitor. “I’m excited for the competition.” Bergo enters the invitational boasting a season-best height of 2.16 meters. The Westfield High School product attained that mark last weekend at the Metropolitan Championships. He hopes to continue his progression Saturday in South Bend. A competitive field that features several All-Americans in addition to Bergo and Robertson could make high jump the event of the meet. But the competitor of the meet may be Alabama’s Kirani James. On the track last season, James won the NCAA Championship at 400-meters with a time of 45.10. He also took the 400-meter dash a season ago at the Notre Dame Meyo Invitational. The Knights’ sprinting core looks to test James and the other competitors as it builds confidence towards the Big East Championships. Seniors Kevin Brown and Steve Werner look to lead the young sprinting squad against some of the fastest runners in the nation. Coming off their 1-2 finish in the 200-meter dash, and Brown’s first-place finish in the 400-meter dash, the duo attempts to transfer their results from the smaller schools to the nation’s best. With the Big East Championships three weeks away, the stiff competition serves as a test for the team. The opportunity to face steep competition is what the Knights need in preparation for their biggest goal.
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Sophomore runner Tylia Gillon is part of a 4x200-meter relay team with hopes will break a record this weekend.
Field offers tune-up before league meet BY ANTHONY RODRIGUEZ CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Rutgers women’s track and field team’s schedule is heating up, as only three weeks remain until the Big East Championships. The Scarlet Knights compete in the New Balance Collegiate Invitational at the Armory Track a n d WOMEN’S TRACK Field Center RUTGERS AT t h i s N.B. INVITE, weekTOMORROW end in t h e Bronx. There, the Knights hope to improve individual times in order to help make their preseason goals of winning a conference championship a reality. “The meet is the biggest indoor meet you can go to,” said head coach James Robinson. “It’s really a precursor to the NCAA Championship Indoor. We’ll be competing against the best in the country.” In total, there will be more than 100 schools in attendance, and even though only 12 Knights will compete, the variety of competition at the event will undoubtedly benefit Rutgers in its preparation. Robinson expects to see solid performances from freshman Gabrielle Farquharson, sophomores Tylia Gillon and Corryn Hurrington and junior Asha Ruth. “We are looking to break a record in the 4x200 relay,” Robinson said. The Knights have done a good job in recent weeks despite being plagued by injuries. According to sophomore Ashley Deckert, about “half” of the team is cur-
rently injured. In order for the Knights to make noise at the Big East Championships, they need more athletes healthy. Robinson believes Deckert — who is not competing this weekend — will have a big impact in the upcoming weeks. Decker t broke her personalbest time by 14 seconds in the mile last weekend at the Metropolitan Championships. “It’s been a great season,” Deckert said. “I’m hitting the best times I ever hit.” The Newfield, N.J., native attributes much of her success to her teammate, junior Victoria Pontecor vo. “Victoria Pontecorvo is the one who pushes me the most,” Deckert said. “She has been giving us all these good workouts, and we push each other to our limits. I am looking forward to running the mile in the Big East and [the Eastern College Athletic Conference].” After the New Balance Collegiate Invitational, the Knights send athletes to two different competitions. Some of them will compete in the Lafayette/Rider Invitational in the Bronx on Feb. 10, while others will head to Boston to compete in the Valentine Invitational. The Lafayette/Rider Invitational will also carry into the next day. “Overall, the team is progressing very well,” Robinson said. “The next two meets, we will be focusing on individual times, as well as getting players healthy. The only athletes that we will have competing in the next two meets will be the athletes who already qualified for the Big East and ECAC, or those who are relatively close to qualifying.”
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Senior captain Trisha Averill, who owns Rutgers’ school record in the 200-yard breaststroke, is one of many swimmers who endorse head coach Phil Spiniello’s energetic coaching style. With swimmers like Averill, Spiniello guided the Scarlet Knights to seven more wins in his second season.
Spiniello’s passion yields success in second year BY BRADLY DERECHAILO CORRESPONDENT
The “No running on the pool deck” sign that hangs on the wall of the Sonny Werblin Recreation SWIMMING & DIVING C e n t e r might as well be in Latin for Rutgers swimming and diving coach Phil Spiniello. He tends to do the opposite as he roots for every swimmer all the way to the finish. The second-year head coach credits the energy to his older sister and his habit of jumping into the pool and compete ever y time his team cuts through the water. “My sister was on the town team and I got dragged to a meet,” Spiniello said. “I got tired of sitting in the stands. So I asked my mom
if I could join the team. It was a blast, and I never looked back.” While the passion for swimming might have come from seeing his sister compete, Spiniello’s coaching demeanor attests to another woman in his life — his mother. “The way she raised me to be positive and to be encouraging is what I bring into my coaching every day,” Spiniello said. “That’s what I want to be, and that’s what I got from my mom.” Senior Trisha Averill sees the encouragement every day in practice. The co-captain described her coach as “passionate” and willing to do whatever it takes to motivate his swimmers. “What has made us successful is the amount of energy and passion he brings,” Averill said. “He is very
capable of getting us motivated and is constantly pumping us up.” Averill used the motivation and turned in one of the most impressive seasons this year for the program. She collected a Big East Swimmer of the Week award and broke the school record in the 200-yard breaststroke. One of the main reasons Spiniello enjoys the job is the team accolades. “I have a real passion for seeing people reach their potential and believe in themselves,” Spiniello said. “Seeing the school record fall for the 200-yard breaststroke by Trish was a highlight on the year.” Not only has he seen individual success, but Spiniello witnessed the team accomplish a complete turnaround from where it stood last season.
During his first year on the job, the Scarlet Knights finished with a 2-4 regular season record and placed seventh in the Big East Championships. But the Knights continued to work on swimming and diving technique under Spiniello’s guidance in the offseason. They arrived on campus in the fall and reached their win total from last season in their first meet, as Connecticut, Georgetown and Villanova all fell to Rutgers. The team rounded out the season with a 9-2 mark, a symbol of the hard work Spiniello instilled in each one of his swimmers and divers. “Seeing the girls get better and having faster times this season than they did last year was great,” Spiniello said. “These women believe they can
do it, and they are putting it into action.” All of the energy, excitement and support instilled into the program by Spiniello show in the way he conducts himself at meets. His demeanor as he watches athletes push off the block or plunge from the boards is apparent to those in attendance. Every aspect of Spiniello’s job makes him enjoy working with this team. “I have fun every day at work, and it’s just fun to come to practice and to work,” Spiniello said. “That fires me up and gets me up in the morning.” Right now, that passion comes on the sideline as he prepares his team for the Big East Championships.
Sophomore inches closer to perfection in floor routine BY VINNIE MANCUSO CORRESPONDENT
When sophomore gymnast Alexis Gunzelman took to the mat for the floor event Saturday, she did so GYMNASTICS among a passionate home crowd and in an event the Rutgers gymnastics team struggled in for weeks. But her mind was not on the crowd or the past — it was simply on the routine. After all, it was one that she tried to master for months. When all was said and done, a score of 9.825 — tied for her career high — from the judges proved to Gunzelman at last she came close to perfection. “I’ve been trying to perfect this routine since midNovember, so I think that finally everything sort of came together. I hit my landings perfectly and the score was there,” Gunzelman said. “I presented to the crowd and the judges, and they liked what they saw. They gave me the score I think I and they thought I deserved.” Gunzelman’s determination to master her routine is an indication of the kind of character she possesses. The floor event was only one part of a busy day for the sophomore, as she competed in the all-around in all four meets of the quad meet. She was the only athlete performing as an all-around gymnast
that day. While some may have buckled under the pressure, Gunzelman responded with a career-high score of 38.925. “I think we just want to put the best routines up that we have, and those people are the ones who are going to compete,” Gunzelman said. “In practice I work hard and I do what I’m told, and I’m lucky I have those routines that qualify me to go in as an all-arounder.” Gunzelman later reconsidered using the word “luck” to describe the reason she was chosen to perform in the all-around, and with good reason. In only her second year on the Banks, She prides herself on performing in practice the same way she does during meets. According to Gunzelman, it is the effort in practice — not luck — that allows her to compete at such a high level. “I don’t think lucky is really the way to describe it,” she said. “I think you get out what you put in. I’m happy where I am competing in the all-around.” Gunzelman’s teammate, junior Danielle D’Elia, is a relative newcomer to the world of competing as an all-arounder. Adding the vault to her repertoire for her junior campaign, D’Elia competed for the Scarlet Knights in all four events for the first time in Rutgers’ season opener against New Hampshire. She ended the day with a score of 37.875
D’Elia raised that score two weeks later in Pennsylvania to a career-high 38.800 and took first place in the all-around. Similar to Gunzelman, D’Elia continues to slowly perfect her routines over the course of time. “The fact is that these are routines that I have already been doing. It comes down to perfection,” D’Elia said. “In the end, all the gymnasts have pretty much the same skills — everyone is just as good as each other. It comes down to the little things. There is always room for improvement.” In regard to her 38.800 score at Penn, D’Elia knows it is a score in the very early stages of her time competing in the all-around. To her it is one she knows she can surpass one day. That is where Gunzelman and D’Elia share the same mindset. They do not compete in the allaround because of luck or because they are superior to their teammates. It is because they strive to perfect their craft. “There were a lot of highlights that got me the 38.800, but at the same time there were a lot of things I could have done to improve,” D’Elia said. “These are routines I more or less was doing last year, so now to become better it comes down to nitpicking at the things you don’t do right — things that if you did you know you would be at the 9.8 or 9.85.”
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Sophomore Alexis Gunzleman scored a career-high 9.825 points in the floor event Saturday in the Knights’ quad-meet win.
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Knights drop game against league’s worst BY TYLER BARTO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
It became official yesterday, when Rutgers welcomed the highest-ranked recruiting class in school history. ESPN and Rivals.com both rank it among the top 25 nationally. “Every year we’ve been able to — more and more — build that wall around the ‘State of Rutgers,’ so that the players in our area are coming to play for us — the top players,” Flood said. “When a guy like Darius Hamilton does that on TV, what it does is it gives more
The Rutgers men’s basketball team dropped its second decision last night to a Big East team ranked dead-last in the conference standings, MEN’S BASKETBALL falling at Providence, 78-67. RUTGERS 67 The Scarlet PROVIDENCE 78 Knights last won at Providence in 2000. The Knights (12-11, 4-6) narrowed the Friar advantage to 4 points with less than three minutes remaining, but Providence sophomore guard Br yce Cotton hit backto-back 3-pointers to widen the gap. The Friars (13-10, 2-8) boasted four scorers in double figures, led by junior guard Vincent Council, who scored 11 points and recorded 14 assists. Council had all of his points and 10 helpers by halftime. With the loss, Rutgers failed to win consecutive games in Big East play. It won a pair of games against Connecticut and Pittsburgh in early Januar y, but could not string together a win streak since. The defeat dropped the Knights to 1-4 on the road in the conference, compared to a 3-2 record at the Louis Brown Athletic Center. Rutgers trailed, 40-26, at halftime before it trimmed its deficit to less than 10 points with less than 10 minutes left at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center. It used an 112 run to cut the Providence lead to 4, but the Friars again withstood the Knights’ attack. The Knights held a 19-15 advantage early, but Providence closed the half on a 25-7 run. Sophomore for ward Gilvydas Biruta tallied 13 points and 11 rebounds, his first double-digit scoring outburst since Jan. 1 at South Florida. But Biruta shot only 4-of13 from the field. Freshman point guard Myles Mack led the Knights with 16 points, but he missed eight of his 14 shots. Sophomore guard Mike Poole chipped in 13 points off the bench, shooting 6-of-9 from the field in the loss. The Knights shot 50 percent from the field late in the second half, but their early-game scoring woes ultimately cost them another
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Rutgers head football coach Kyle Flood welcomed the best recruiting class in school history — and one of the best in the nation — to Rutgers on National Signing Day, a day removed from his introduction as the Scarlet Knights’ 29th head coach.
Relationships keep RU’s best class intact BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR
When Kyle Flood took over as interim head coach last week, he never doubted he could keep FOOTBALL the best recr uiting class in Rutgers football histor y together. “We had continuity and we had relationships,” Flood said at yesterday’s National Signing Day press conference. “If you have that, this is what should happen.”
It started last Thursday, when five committed Pennsylvanians met at one of their homes to discuss the departure of former head coach Greg Schiano and their futures at Rutgers. It took another step over the weekend, when top New Jersey recruits Leonte Carroo and Ryan Brodie publicly reaffirmed their commitments. It became even better Tuesday night, when five-star defensive lineman Darius Hamilton committed on television, then three of the New Jersey’s other top defenders announced they would sign National Letters of Intent.
Junior 197-pounder needs upset to earn recognition BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR
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Junior 197-pounder Dan Rinaldi attempts to turn Hofstra’s Tim Murphy on Friday in an 11-3 major decision. Rinaldi is 13-1 in dual meets in his first year at 197 pounds.
Rutgers head wrestling coach Scott Goodale does not hesitate to speak up for his wrestlers. No, he quickly responds, junior 197-pounder WRESTLING Dan Rinaldi does not get the respect or attention he deser ves nationally. The two-time NCAA Championships qualifier is 18-4 on the season and 13-1 in dual meets, but unranked in each of the major national polls. Head coach Scott Goodale thinks Rinaldi deserves better. Rinaldi could not care less. “The good thing about it is a couple months from now, nobody is going to remem-
ber the rankings,” Rinaldi said. “If I’m on the podium, nobody is going to say I wasn’t ranked. It won’t really matter at that point.” Rinaldi was in the preseason rankings at 184 pounds, but he jumped to the 197-pound weight class this season and dropped. He wrestled Maryland’s Christian Boley in his third match of the season and held a 40 lead until a pair of stalling calls Goodale questioned let Boley back into the bout to force overtime. Rinaldi lost, and Boley ascended to No. 5 in the nation at 197 pounds with his 27-1 record start to the season. “When he’s supposed to win, he wins. And when there’s a chance and it’s a tight match, he’s dropped a couple and he’s won
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