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Terrance Hayes shares poetry with students BY DANIEL ROGERS CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Award-winning poet Terrance Hayes brought his words to life Wednesday for about 125 attendees in the multipurpose room of the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus. Mark Doty, acting director of the University’s Writers House, said Hayes was a natural choice for the “Writers at Rutgers Reading Series.” “He’s become a major voice in contemporary poetry, and his work vibrates with a number of disparate influences: jazz, Spanish surrealism and the blues among them,” Doty said via email correspondence. Doty said hearing a writer read their work changes the way poetry is heard. “It can be a life-changing experience to hear a great writer read, and it’s often the case that hearing a writer’s voice or making personal contact with an author in other ways, changes how we read and opens doors to literature,” Doty said via email. Audience members laughed at Haye’s jokes before he began to read as a way to ease the tension in the room. “I do take it personally when you all are really quiet,” Hayes said. “I know it means you’re attentive, but it makes me nervous.”

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Terrance Hayes reads poetry with about 200 people last night at the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus.

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About 600 community members crowded Gordon Theater on the Rutgers-Camden campus Wednesday to witness the University Board of Governors’ reaction to the proposed Rutgers-Camden and Rowan University merger.

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A group of more than 800 students, faculty and community members gathered Wednesday in Camden for a University Board of Governors meeting. A majority of the group protested against a possible merger that Gov. Chris Christie proposed last month between Rutgers-Camden and Rowan University. “It was a powerful event,” said Matt Cordeiro, the president of the Rutgers University Student Assembly. “It really demonstrated that the entire Camden community and even a good portion of the wider Rutgers community is very against this proposed merger.” The Board of Governors unanimously approved a proposal that indicates all current University students enrolled, and those who will enroll for the 2012-2013 academic year, will receive a diploma with the University name. Daniel Cook, an associate professor in the Department of Childhood

Studies at Rutgers-Camden, said Camden would not feel at home if merged with Rowan University. “The people you see here in red, the memos, op-eds and letters to editors — these attest to … a deep sense of value to this place, this campus,” Cook said of the turnout. “There’s an intense, fierce loyalty here because Rutgers is a part of us.” University President Richard L. McCormick said at the meeting that Christie’s proposal should not be implemented because content is not yet clear. “An agreement has not yet been struck between the legislature and the governor, so the four corners of the plan are not entirely known,” he said. State Sen. Donald Norcross, D-5, said the governor should not ignore his southern New Jersey constituents who want a strong institution for higher education in the area. “As we move down the road, 30 percent of the population is in the southern part of the state, but we only have 12 percent in the seat of

higher learning,” he said. “[Camden] only gets 55 cents of every dollar that goes north to New Brunswick. That is wrong.” Cook said the Board of Governors should not take Camden away from its University roots. “The feelings here … that always seem to be discounted, sometimes by the distinguished senators of New Jersey, are not mere sentiments and cannot be dismissed,” he said. “This is how institutions are built, this is how they function, and anyone who works in this business will understand that.” Julie Ruth, an associate professor in the Department of Marketing at the Rutgers-Camden School of Business, said the merge would ruin the University’s reputation. “If Rutgers severs Camden, Rutgers will be perceived as breaking a relationship — not just any relationship — but betraying members of its own family,” Ruth said. “Culturally, we don’t turn our backs on our families. This will be an act of

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The School of Environmental and Biological Sciences Office of Special Programs and the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity honored University alumnus Paul Robeson Wednesday during a Black History Month celebration. The “Paul Robeson, A Chautauqua: Life, Views and Legacy” lecture at the Livingston Student Center aimed to inform students about Robeson because he was an important member in the University’s history, said Israel Laguer, senior counselor in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. “We believe wholeheartedly in what Paul Robeson stood for, his vision [and] his legacy,” Laguer said. “What

Activists protesting local police brutality marched through the streets of New Br unswick on Wednesday, ending their rally at City Hall on 78 Bayard St., the site of the City Council meeting. Protestors star ted their rally on the intersection of Remsen Avenue and Seaman Street, the area where two local residents were shot during altercations with New Br unswick police of ficers. They passed the New Brunswick Police Depar tment chanting “no justice, no peace,” while they marched down Kirkpatrick Street to Bayard Street.

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Sexes divide, face challenges to build connections BY MARGARET MORRIS CONTRIBUTING WRITER

While the Society of Hispanic Engineers challenged their male and female members to compete in a “Battle of the Sexes” Tuesday, their teamwork ultimately brought them closer together. The boys won 1800 to the girls’ 800 points in a competition that was made to unite the students, said Selene Velez, SHE president. School of Engineering sophomore Justin DeOliveira, a SHE member, said he helped plan the event at Paul Robeson Cultural Center on Busch Campus to have an interactive competition between boys and girls as part of a Valentine’s Day celebration. “Battle of the Sexes” is part of the organization’s mission to help its members on student concerns such as tutoring, finding internships, academic guidance and finding time to relax, said Velez. SHE makes an effort to refer to the group members as part of a family away from home, with goals that are not solely oriented toward Hispanics or engineering, said Velez, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “Our mission is to recruit, retain, and graduate minority students in the STEM [Science, Technology, Engineering and Math] fields. SHE is also open to people in the business field and welcomes students of any ethnicity,” she said.

Velez said the competition was made up of 15 boys and six girls, which reflected the low amount of women working in the field of engineering compared to men. “[It was] a direct representation of the female-to-male ratio in most fields of engineering,” she said. Questions and challenges came from four categories — coordination, knowledge, miscellaneous and teamwork. In each categor y, contestants had an opportunity to win 100, 300 and 500 points. Boys and girls competed in a wide variety of activities, such as wheelbarrow races, stacking the Tower of Hanoi, charades, a backwards spelling bee and a physics question. The first competition was a hula-hoop challenge to test the students’ ability to work together. Teams of five stood in a circle while holding hands and had to pass around a hula hoop without disconnecting their hands. The boys’ team won 500 points through the challenge because they passed the hoop around the circle faster than the girls’ team. Another 500 points were awarded to the boys’ team for answering the physics question correctly. The physics question represented the knowledge portion of the competition, in which the boys and the girls had to figure out the force pushing a block weighing 10 kilograms against the wall.

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Diego Urquiza, a School of Engineering first-year student, left, and Ana Santa Cruz, a School of Engineering junior answer a physics question Tuesday during the knowledge portion of the competition.

The boys’ team found the amount of force that was being pushed against the wall was 200 Newtons — without any given formulas — for which they received another 500 points. Other challenges included a coordination competition of wheelbarrow races in which girls and boys raced from one side of the room to the other.

Although the boys won several parts of the competition, the girls’ team was able to gain 300 points for spelling words backwards and 500 points for stacking the Tower of Hanoi faster than the boys. The Tower of Hanoi is a puzzle with three pegs, in which one of the pegs is a stacked pile of rings that decreases in size from the bottom to the top.

The objective of the puzzle is to restack the pile from the first peg to the third peg without placing a larger ring on a smaller ring. SHE Webmaster Nelson Caballero said the event allowed him to spend time with his family. “This is my second family,” said Caballero, a School of Engineering senior.

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NOVELIST, ALUMNUS JUNOT DÍAZ TO SPEAK AT COMMENCEMENT Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and University alumnus Junot Díaz will be the keynote speaker at the University’s 246th anniversary Commencement, announced at Wednesday’s Board of Governors meeting in Camden. At the University-wide graduation ceremony, which will take place May 13 at 12:30 p.m. at High Point Solutions Stadium in Piscataway, Díaz will receive an honorary Doctor of Letters degree, according to Media Relations. Díaz will receive $30,000 for his speech at Commencement, a fee paid with private funds from the Rutgers University Foundation’s fundraising efforts, according to Media Relations.

VIOLENCE: Residents ask for more police presence continued from front Tormel Pittman, a city activist, said the protestors gathered at the meeting in response to the shootings of local citizens Victor Rodriguez and Barr y Deloatch at the hands of the New Brunswick police, two events that have sparked a series of community protests. “You know why we are here,” Pittman said. “It’s because [Rodriguez] was shot in the back by the New Br unswick police. We were here in September doing the same exact thing because [Deloatch] was killed by the New Br unswick police. We come [here] looking for answers.” Victor Rodriguez, a 19-yearold man shot on Jan. 31 during an incident involving two New Brunswick police of ficers of f the intersection of Remsen Avenue and Seaman Street, is paralyzed from the waist down. Rodriguez’s shooting occurred within one block of the Deloatch shooting on Sept. 22. Since then, the NBPD has repor ted about two-dozen

The writer earned his bachelor’s degree in English from Rutgers College in 1992 and was inducted into the University’s Hall of Distinguished Alumni in 2010, according to Media Relations. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2008 for his novel, “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” a novel about a Dominican growing up in New Jersey, with some scenes taking place at the University’s New Brunswick campus. Díaz teaches creative writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and at the University he lived in

shootings, three of which resulted in deaths. Council Vice President Rebecca Escobar, who presided over the meeting in the absence of Council President Rober t Recine, said the city approved the creation of an auxiliar y police unit to bridge the gap between the police and the people. NBPD Capt. William Milligan, said the department is a response to complaints about a lack of a police presence on foot throughout the city. “Two officers are detailed on Remsen Avenue Corridor and French Street Corridor [patrolling on foot] regularly in the afternoon,” he said. Maritza Rodriguez, Victor Rodriguez’s cousin, said Victor told her the police continued to shoot even after he had fallen into a submissive position. “[After] he received those shots [in the back], he took off … and threw the gun away and started raising his hands and fell to the floor. A couple seconds later he received two more shots in the back,” she said. The Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office is investigating Victor Rodriguez’s shooting.

Maritza Rodriguez said she hopes that the community can learn from the mistakes that happened in her cousin’s case, and that ever yone can move on with their lives after the issue is resolved. “It takes an incident like this for something new to happen,” Maritza Rodriguez said. “We hope that what happened to Victor will end.” Mayor James Cahill criticized Pittman on Feb. 3 and blamed his ef for ts for the recent spike of crimes in the city. “For more than 15 years, the city has experienced a steady and marked decrease in crime and, in par ticular, violent crime,” Cahill told mycentraljersey.com. “It is no coincidence that the recent spike in violent crime cor responds directly with the inflammator y and antipolice rhetoric of Pittman and his cohor ts.” In response to Cahill’s recent statements, Pittman said the allegations are unfair. “I want to dispel the myth that I am against police officers,” Pittman said. … “But we can’t let the of ficers of f the hook that did the wrong thing.”

a creative writing living-learning community, according to Media Relations. Díaz’s family left his poor neighborhood in the Dominican Republic’s Santo Domingo neighborhood in 1974 for Parlin, N.J., when he was six years old. He enrolled at Kean College for one year before transferring to the University, working part-time jobs to pay his tuition, according to Media Relations. After his time at the University, Díaz earned his master’s degree at Cornell University and wrote a series of stories based on his experiences in the Dominican Republic and New Jersey.

Kathleen Feeney, a former New Brunswick resident, said city of ficials have recently been involved in controversial stories. Feeney referred to a video that showed Kevin Jones, an aide to Cahill, sitting on a park bench with absentee votes from the city council elections sitting on his lap. “Let’s talk about [corr uption],” Feeney said. “Why has Kevin Jones not been prosecuted? He was not authorized as someone who could handle ballots.” Feeney said she used to be a par t of a New Brunswick community group, but left the city after her relationship with the local police depar tment became strained. “I lived … ver y near to this area for 26 years,” she said. “I sold my house and fled New Brunswick because I became afraid of the police. I spoke out and became under threat.” Henr y Torres, a New Brunswick resident, expressed his frustrations with the way city of ficials have been handling many of the problems community members have raised, and said he hopes that solutions can be provided in the near future.

“Ever y time we come here, you never have answers,” Torres said to the council members. “Something has to change, and I said it last time I was here and the time before that and the time before that.” Escobar said council members are concerned with the residents’ issues, but that official responses could not be provided until the cases were themselves resolved. “Sometimes we can’t give you answers because there is an investigation going on,” she said. Escobar said she hopes the community would concentrate less on complaining about the problems and instead focus on possible solutions. “I have yet to hear suggestions from people on how we can improve. Let’s work together,” she said. The protest group plans to continue attending city council meetings until they feel that their voices have been heard, Pittman said. “We are willing to do that until we get some answers,” Pittman said. “After two shootings, the police director has yet to address the public. The community is tired.”

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known as a Chautauqua, based on Robeson’s life. “A Chautauqua is a first-person historical narration,” Jefferson said. “I am going to try — to the best of my abilities — [to] embody Paul Robeson up until the year 1958.” Jefferson said a Chautauqua could be divided into different sections, with each one bringing a unique element to the performance. “The first stage is the monologue. With this monologue, I will become the character I am playing. The second stage is the character’s ability to interact with other members of the crowd, so I will answer any questions in the point of view of Paul Robeson,” Jefferson said. Jefferson said the audience should remember that he was performing a version of Robeson based in 1958, so it would not make any sense to ask questions concerning modern day issues. The Chautauqua included a performance of one of Robeson’s songs, as well as a historical look at some of the details of his life and time at the University. Jefferson said the event was important to him because he felt the University alumnus always had an influence on his own life. “Paul Robeson was seemingly always around me,” he said. “When I first came to Rutgers, it was 1976. That was the year he passed away. I was also president of the Paul Robeson center here on campus. So Paul Robeson and I have always been drawn to each other.” After the Chautauqua, members of Alpha Phi Alpha performed a dance tribute and sang their fraternal hymn in Robeson’s honor.

reenacted in presentation, video continued from front we are trying to do is capture and educate our fellow students who don’t understand the history and legacy Paul Robeson left behind.” Robeson was the third black student enrolled at the University, the first black University football player, and valedictorian of his graduating class. The event celebrated a figure that deserves to be honored all year, not just during Black History Month, said Prosper Godonoo, the director of the Paul Robeson Cultural Center. William Murray, the president of the University’s chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, presented a video encompassing Robeson’s life, including his involvement at the University, his artistic career and his role in the civil rights movement. Murray, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, said Robeson used to be a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. The occasion marked the first time the fraternity participated in a campus event that honored their former brother. “We’ve honored Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and W.E.B. Dubois, who are both brothers of our fraternity, but we’ve never really honored Paul Robeson. He was a pivotal member on campus,” Murray said. Marvin Jefferson, a professor at Bloomfield College, took the stage after the video to perform a unique monologue and impersonation,

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HAYES: Author advises young poets to keep writing continued from front Hayes read several of his poems, including “A House is Not a Home,” and “Lighthead’s Guide to Addiction.” “No one really knew that I wrote,” he said. Hayes said his earlier pieces of writing were about girls that he had crushes on. “I was too young to really even know anything about poetry or other poets,” he said. “I was writing poems, but I hadn’t had anyone direct me in terms of what poems were.” Before becoming a poet, Hayes said he went to graduate school with the intentions of becoming an English teacher. “I just thought people wrote poems because they liked poems, not because they wanted to make a living,” Hayes said. “I knew I would always write

CAMDEN: Sweeney says he backs dialogue with Christie continued from front unmistakable disloyalty.” Senate President Stephen Sweeney, D-3, said in the meeting that critics should be open to negotiation like Christie, who agreed to allow current students to graduate under the University name. “It would be horrible to kill an idea when you don’t know what it is,” Sweeney said. “You need to understand what we’re dealing with.” McCormick said despite his objections, he must negotiate to make the merger work financially. “We are working with the governor’s office to find a fair and equitable way for those costs to be paid,” he said. Sweeney also encouraged people to keep an open mind about the merger, because the plan would boost the quality of education in South Jersey. “If we look at the condition of southern New Jersey, you’d see it fell far behind, and [however] much a consortium, a merger, a partnership, whatever the details are — let’s work them out,” he said. “It’s about raising the bar for everyone.” But John Oberdiek, the director

poems, but I thought I would make my living teaching poetry.” Hayes said students that are interested in becoming writers should simply write. “It’s not a business, it’s not math — it’s really not like anything that we’re sort of trained to do in our culture, in which value is placed on earning potential,” he said. “Do it if you have to do it. If you don’t have to do it, do something else.” Rose Laurano, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, said she wanted to hear Hayes read because she thought it could help to understand a writer’s style. “I thought [he] was amazing,” Laurano said. There were moments when I was totally just caught by the images, his voice and just the essence of the poems. I felt my heart beat up.” Hayes has written four books of poetry, was winner of the 2001 National Poetr y Series and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award.

of Faculty Research at the RutgersCamden School of Law, said the merge would destroy the quality of education rather than improve it. “[Rutgers-Camden would] cease to be a nationally recognized law school,” said Oberdiek, a professor at the School of Law. “It will immediately jeopardize our ability to retain our faculty and students who come across the nation and region for a Rutgers education.” Norcross said rather than forcing the merge, the campus should receive more funds for educational development. “When we take a look at the disparity of resources of those in the northern part of the state and the southern part of the state, it’s sickening,” he said. An Eagleton Institute of Politics poll released Tuesday shows most New Jersey voters disagree with the proposed merger. Fifty-seven percent of voters oppose the merger, with only 22 percent supporting it and 21 percent unsure, according to the poll. The poll surveyed 914 adults from all over the state from Feb. 9-11 on both landline and cellphones. “Gov. Christie’s plan to merge Rowan and Rutgers-Camden may be the most unpopular idea he has put forward to date,” said Eagleton Poll Director David Redlawsk in a press release.

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Erin Vogel, an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, will lecture on the behavioral, morphological physiological adaptation to fruit scarcity in wild orangutans at 4 p.m. at the Marine Sciences Building. The Ecology and Evolution Graduate Program is sponsoring the seminar.

The Rutgers University Programming Association will host “RUPA Karaoke Night” at the RutgersZone in the Livingston Student Center. Students can choose from a variety of songs to sing in front of friends from 8 to 11 p.m. while complimentary appetizers are served.

The Student Volunteer Council will conduct its “MLK Day of Service” from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., starting the day at the Rutgers Student Center multipurpose room on the College Avenue campus to choose their volunteer site. To register, visit getinvolved.rutgers.edu/svc. The Rutgers Theater Company will hold its last performance of “Much Ado About Nothing” at the Levin Theater on Douglass campus. The play, a Shakespearean comedy about wisecracking, reluctant lovers Benedick and Beatrice, starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $15 for students, $20 for University alumni, employees and seniors, and $25 for the general public.

Rutgers Study Abroad will host a “Summer Study Abroad Fair” at the Red Lion Café on the College Avenue campus from 6 to 9 p.m. to introduce students to the 100+ study abroad opportunities offered through the University. For more information, visit studyabroad.rutgers.edu. SHADES and SCREAM Theater peer educators will teach students how to respond effectively to racist, sexist or homophobic behaviors in “STAND UP. STOP HATE. REPORT BIAS: Bystander Inter vention Workshop for Student Leaders.” The event takes place at 9 a.m. at the Busch Campus Center multipurpose room. For more information, contact Mary Conroy at mkconroy@rci.rutgers.edu or (848) 445-4088.

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The Rutgers Film Co-op and New Jersey Media Arts Center along with the University’s cinema studies program will sponsor screenings of the winning films and digital videos of the 2012 United States Super 8 Film and Digital Video Festival in Voorhees Hall at 7 p.m. on the College Avenue Campus. Tickets are $9 for students and seniors and $10 for the general public.

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Students can attend “Choosing Your Major or Career Using Your Personality Type” to decide their major with a different approach. The interactive seminar, hosted by Career Services, will give students the opportunity to match their personality types with a major using the Myers-Briggs personality style. The seminar will run from 2:45 to 4:15 p.m. in Room 411 of the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus.

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Patricia Strach, an associate professor in the Departments of Political Science and Public Administration and Policy at SUNY Albany, will give a talk on “Selling Health: Consumer Marketing, Political Participation and the Breast Cancer Campaign in the United States” in the first-floor conference room at 112 Paterson St. in downtown New Brunswick. The Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research will run from noon to 1:30 p.m. The Center for Teaching Advancement & Assessment Research will host a workshop teaching students how to incorporate media with PowerPoint presentations. Students will learn how to integrate audio and video in presentations on the PC. Different audio and video format compatible with PowerPoint and available Web resources for downloading free content will also be covered. The free workshop will run from 9:45 to 11:15 a.m. in room 172A of Davidson Hall on Busch campus.

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Prison fire kills more than 300, deadliest in 80 years THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — A fire started by an inmate tore through an overcrowded prison in Honduras, burning and suffocating screaming men in their locked cells as rescuers desperately searched for keys. As many as 300 people were killed in the world’s deadliest prison fire in eight decades. The local governor, who was once a prison employee, told reporters Wednesday that an inmate called her moments before the blaze broke out and screamed: “I will set this place on fire and we are all going to die.” Comayagua Gov. Paola Castro said she called the Red Cross and fire brigade immediately. But firefighters said they were kept outside for half an hour by guards who fired their guns in the air, thinking they had a riot or a breakout on their hands. Of ficials have long had little control over conditions inside many Honduran prisons, where inmates have largely unfettered access to cellphones and other contraband. Sur vivors told investigators the unidentified inmate yelled “We will all die here” as he lit fire to his bedding late Tuesday night in the prison in the central town of Comayagua, north of the capi-

tal of Tegucigalpa. The lockup housed people convicted of serious crimes such as homicide and armed robbery. The blaze spread within minutes, killing about 100 inmates in their cells as firefighters struggled to find officials who had keys, Comayagua fire department spokesman Josue Garcia said. “We couldn’t get them out because we didn’t have the keys and couldn’t find the guards who had them,” Garcia said. Other prisoners were set free by guards but died from the flames or smoke as they tried to flee into the fields surrounding the facility, where prisoners grew corn and beans on a state-run farm. Rescuers carried shirtless, semiconscious prisoners from the prison by their arms and legs. One hauled a victim away by piggyback. Comayagua, which houses members of the nation’s largest gangs, was built in the 1940s for 400 inmates, but its population had more than doubled to 852, with only 100 guards to maintain order. Unlike U.S. prisons, where locks can be released automatically in an emergency, Honduran prisons are infamous for being old, overcrowded hotbeds of conflict and crime. Survivor Ever Lopez, 24, who was serving time for homicide, said he was sleeping when the fire broke out about 11 p.m.

“I saw the smoke from cell block six, and it spread throughout the prison,” he said. “The other prisoners and I broke through the roof with our bare hands and fled. Thank God I’m alive.” Officials said 272 people were confirmed dead, but many prisoners were unaccounted for and the death toll could go to 300 or more. Among the dead were six prisoners who drowned after trying to seek refuge in a water tank. There were 852 people in the prison at the time of the blaze. A prisoner identified as Silverio Aguilar told HRN Radio that he first knew something was wrong when he heard a scream of “Fire, fire.” “For a while, nobody listened. But after a few minutes, which seemed like an eternity, a guard appeared with keys and let us out,” he said. He said there were 60 prisoners packed into his cell. National prison system director Danilo Orellana defended the guards’ decision to keep firefighters out as flames lit up the night sky. “The guards first thought they had a prison break, so they followed the law saying no one could enter to prevent unnecessary deaths,” he said. Honduran President Porfirio Lobo said on national television

that he had suspended the country’s top penal officials, including Orellana, and would request international assistance in carrying out a thorough investigation. “This is a day of profound sadness,” Lobo said. Outraged relatives of dead inmates tried to storm the gates of the prison Wednesday morning to recover the remains of their loves ones, witnesses told The Associated Press. The crowds were driven back by police officers firing tear gas. Channel 5 television showed dozens of inmates’ relatives hurling rocks at officers. “We want to see the body,” shouted Juan Martinez, whose son was reported dead. “We’ll be here until we get to do that.” Orellana said the convicts were allowed to work outdoors, unlike those held in a maximum-security facility for the country’s most dangerous prisoners in the capital, Tegucigalpa. Located in the middle of irrigated fields and several large ponds, the prison was comprised of eight buildings set close together, with an open, dirt prison yard within a central compound. A single dirt road led into the facility, which has a soccer field on the property. Honduras has one of the world’s highest rates of violent

crime, and its overcrowded and dilapidated prisons have been hit by a string of deadly riots and fires in recent years. Officials have repeatedly pledged to improve conditions, only to say they don’t have sufficient funds. Tuesday’s blaze was the world’s deadliest prison fire since 1930, when 322 prisoners were killed in Ohio. The U.S. State Department has criticized Honduras for “harsh prison conditions” and violence against detainees. A 2004 fire at a state prison north of the Honduran capital killed more than 100 incarcerated gang members. A fire a year earlier at a nearby facility killed 70 gang members. And in 1994, a fire sparked by an overheated refrigerator motor in an overcrowded Honduras prison killed 103 people. Honduran authorities have repeatedly pledged to improve conditions, but human rights groups say little has been done in the country of 7.6 million people, a major transit route for drugs headed from South America to the United States. “This is a problem that’s existed for a long time and the solutions haven’t been applied. But now we have to do something even though we don’t have the money,” Security Minister Pompeyo Bonilla told reporters.

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ew Jersey has been given a unique chance to re-evaluate its approach to education free from the impositions of the national education reform program No Child Left Behind Act. President Barack Obama exempted New Jersey and nine other states from the act’s requirements last week, citing the states’ struggles to address proficiency gaps between students of low- and high-income schools. And while it may be disappointing that New Jersey has failed to keep up with the program’s goals — which mandate that all students be proficient in math and reading by 2014 — it will ultimately leave the state in a better position to address education on a more immediate level. No Child Left Behind, with its one-size-fits-all “teaching to the test” approach to education reform, has done little to improve the quality of education since in was originally enacted by former President George W. Bush 10 years ago. Student proficiency levels have increased little, and the program’s emphasis on standardized test taking has arguably corrupted the atmosphere in many classrooms across the state. The program’s goal-driven approach to education has visibly affected teaching methods and student perspectives on learning. Instructors have altered their own approaches toward education, focusing mainly on those aspects that will result in improved test scores. Students are also taught to value a perfect score on the High School Statewide Assessments in place of a true interest for subjects. Achievement on standardized tests in math and reading has come only at the marginalization of subjects like social studies and science. Evidence for the program’s failure can be found in these 10 states, which are now left to remedy what No Child Left Behind has spoiled. Schools can now be given the opportunity to do what works for them, rather than what is dictated by a national education reform program. This exemption will also allow states, and hopefully the current administration, to reconsider a program that has done little for the quality of education across the nation.

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he recent death of the iconic pop singer Whitney Houston has been met with solemn and commemorative sentiment from the public. However, this sentiment has not been without controversy, and, in certain instances, insensitivity — the most recent example being the public’s reaction to Gov. Chris Christie’s decision to fly flags at half-staff in honor of the Newark, N.J. native. Christie has faced a surprising amount of heat from critics for this move, with some arguing that, considering her history of drug use, Houston does not deserve such an honor. Regardless of the right or wrong of Christie’s decision, it seems the matter has been blown out of proportion. Americans have a tendency to dramatize national events — especially ones relating to the lives of celebrities. Christie’s decision is his own, and it seems to fit well with a track record of peculiar behavior that frequently falls under national spotlight. But this criticism — aside from being callous — misses a greater point as to why the governor’s decision may be labeled misguided. Ordering flags at state government buildings to be lowered for a celebrity, however popular, mingles two separate cultures of society — politics and popular culture. Christie is correct in labeling Houston a “cultural icon” — but this does not necessarily entitle her to a flag flown at half-staff. The act of raising or lowering flags at a government building seems more closely associated with political events and enterprises than anything else, and the world of pop culture should be far removed from that of the statehouse. We believe that national celebrities do not merit a flag flown at halfstaff — at least not by the order of state officials. Forcibly, by virtue of being governor, Christie’s decision has been made to represent the opinion of all N.J. residents. But, as we have seen in this case, public opinion is not unanimous, and this is why the decision received backlash. Friends and family will no doubt mourn Houston with the respect she is due at her funeral to be held Saturday at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark. Christie’s decision to lower flags on top of it all may be a bit much, and he may be overstepping his own bounds by indirectly forcing the state to honor the singer’s death with his decision. But by any standard, Houston was no messiah — although the amount of media coverage her death has garnered makes us think she might be. Lesson of the day? Don’t mix pop culture and politics.

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A pre-match ceremony will honor Ashnault, DeMarco and matchups before postseason Hopkins before the first bout of the Knights’ final dual meet, but it will not mark the continued from back end of their involvement with r unner-up Boris Novachkov the program. to overtime. Ashnault and DeMarco — Qualifying would be its own both captains — will live togethvictor y for Hopkins. He er in New Brunswick next year never had a full year in and take on a role with the prothe lineup after transferring gram, they said. DeMarco is confrom Middlesex Community sidering a career in fighting after College to rejoin working with the team Goodale, his former for at least a year. Jackson Memorial He will likely High School coach. undergo surger y to Jesse Boyden and repair his LCL and a Carl Buchholz each ruptured muscle conappeared at heavynected to it in his right weight this season, knee after his season. but Hopkins will repreIt could end any time sent the Scarlet he takes the mat. DANIEL Knights at the Doctors told HOPKINS EIWA Tournament. DeMarco he is at risk His final test comes of injuring himself tonight against Drexel’s 19thmore if he wrestles, even with a ranked Kyle Frey. Goodale calls brace, prompting his decision to Frey an athletic wrestler, which sit against Drexel. His career presents a better matchup for will end in the postseason, the 215-pound Hopkins, who whether it is because of injury or constantly faces larger competia result. That is the way he tion in his first year up from wants it. 197 pounds. “You have to weigh the “It’s hard when I weigh in at worst-case scenario and cost 215 and at match time I’m probversus benefit,” DeMarco said. ably even lighter than that after “The worst-case scenario is sweating and warming up,” my career would end on a Hopkins said. “I get dudes that Thursday night match and not are 255, 260 and just laying even have the oppor tunity on me. That’s hard to deal to make a run at the tournawith. Some of them are decepment. Ultimately the goal is tively fast.” the NCAAs.”

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Max Borghard watched in September as Hurricane Irene ravaged the Rutgers rowing team’s ROWING b o a t house. He knew the storm’s capacity for destruction dealing with Hurricane Floyd in 1999. So the Scarlet Knights waited out the flooding, taking in tow their boats and equipment. “Rowers are very adaptable to the situation,” Borghard said. The 17-year head coach continues to go through another transition. He lost a veteranheavy team entering the 2012 season, instead relying on freshmen and sophomores. So he turns to two of his seniors, Ellie Kleiman and Katie Quinn. Kleiman competed during the summer with the Vesper Boat Club in Boathouse Row, Pa., one of the spor t’s landmarks. She worked with the under-23 development program, winning “some pretty big events,” Borghard said. Quinn, a coxswain like Kleiman, is a mainstay under Borghard. “They bring a wealth of knowledge to the young rowers,” he said. “There’s probably 14 years of rowing experience between the two of them. That’s something you need to have on a team like this.” Borghard said the turnover in rowing is natural, welcoming waves of walk-ons with little prior experience. He brings in seasoned rowers but still takes in his fair share of newcomers. He points to their success in other high school sports as indicators of their athleticism. The transition period is not as demanding, Borghard said. “Rowing is a relatively simple skill,” he said. “It’s not like learning to play soccer or lacrosse. If you like working hard and you like pushing your-

self, you’re going to be fairly successful in rowing.” Borghard pushed them in Januar y, when the Knights trained in Tampa the week before the spring semester began. He used the fall to work on fitness, land training and technique. He continues to look for leaders in the group and will likely find some during the spring season, when Rutgers competes in four races before the Big East Championships. “It definitely opened up a lot more in terms of unknowns,” Borghard said. “You see someone like Jeremy Lin, who is coming off the bench for the [New York] Knicks and lighting the world on fire. It’s a reminder to give people opportunities and see what they can do.” Borghard notices the changing landscape in the sport. The Ivy League plans to begin its own league championships in the near future. The Big East will react accordingly, sending its champion as an automatic qualifier to the NCAAs. Most programs capped the season with the Eastern Sprints, which welcomed 18 teams toward the end of April. The Big East Championships will likely take its place. “We’ve got a young team this year, but we still want to strive to match last year’s results,” Borghard said. “As we get to the end of the season, we’ll be a lot faster than we were at the beginning of the season.” Borghard grew up with the sport. The son of a rower, Borghard arrived at Rutgers in 1983 as a two-sport athlete. He rowed in the fall and flirted with track and field. But ultimately the water won out — “I was brought up around the sport,” Borghard said — and he returned eight years after graduating. “Rowing,” he said, “was the main season.”

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Jan. 5/Tampa

Team training trip

March 24/Philadelphia

Murphy Cup Regatta

March 31/Syracuse, N.Y.

Quad meet against Boston University, Cornell, Syracuse

April 14/Cherry Hill, N.J.

Knecht Cup

April 28/Indianapolis

Big East Double-Duel

May 13/ West Windsor, N.J.

Big East Championships

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RU aims for top-10 finish in Big East BY ANTHONY RODRIGUEZ CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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utgers junior wrestler Scott Winston is questionable for tonight’s matchup against Drexel with a pinched ner ve. The 165pounder sustained the injur y last week in practice. Winston already missed time with a dislocated shoulder earlier in the season. He holds a 16-5 record including a 10-2 mark in dual action. If Winston sees action this week, he will meet one of Drexel’s two ranked wrestlers in No. 18 Joe Booth.

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current NFL linebacker Gar y Brackett will return to campus Sunday to sign copies of his new book “Winning: From Walk-On to Captain, in Football and Life.” The Indianapolis Colts captain will sign his book prior to the No. 2 Syracuse at Rutgers men’s basketball game at the Louis Brown Athletic Center. The Glassboro, N.J., native walked on to the Rutgers football team as an undersized linebacker his freshman year before becoming team captain his senior year.

T HE S ETON H ALL MEN ’ S basketball team will par ticipate in the 2012 Basketball Hall of Fame TipOff Tournament. The Pirates will play in the invite-only event Nov. 16-18 at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn. Ohio State, Washington, and Rhode Island are among the top teams in the field. Seton Hall is 18-8 this season under second-year head coach Kevin Willard.

FORMER ST. PATRICK (N.J.) star Kyrie Ir ving returned to action Wednesday against the Indiana Pacers after he sustained a concussion last week against the Miami Heat. Irving suffered the injury Feb. 7, when he fell and hit his head on Dwyane Wade’s knee. The rookie point guard missed three games with the head injury. Ir ving is averaging 18.0 points and 5.1 assists in his first season with the Cleveland Cavaliers.

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Rays signed manager Joe Maddon to a three-year contract extension through 2015. The 58-year-old coach’s deal was officially announced Wednesday at Tropicana Field. Maddon is 495-477 in six seasons with the club and led the Rays to three playoff appearances during his tenure. He led the Rays to their first World Series berth in 2008, when they lost to the Philadelphia Phillies.

After all of the hard work this season, the competition the Rutgers women’s track and field t e a m WOMEN’S TRACK h a s b e e n RUTGERS AT waiting BIG EAST CHAMPS, for is SATURDAY finally close. The Scarlet Knights travel to the legendar y New York Armor y in the Bronx this weekend to compete in the indoor Big East Championship. “The main team goal is to be in the top 10,” said head coach James Robinson. “We were last, last year indoors, so we’ve got to make a jump from last to middle of the conference first before we can start getting to a position where we could challenge for a conference championship. We are still a couple of years away from that, but if we get in the top 10 right now, that’s where we need to be. That’s our team goal.”

The Knights worked the Big East and ECACs. One throughout the season to make thing is for sure: The Knights their goal a reality. Since presea- do not plan on slowing down son training began in August, anytime soon. many athletes had their “It star ted slow, but sights set on the Big East there was an adjustment periChampionships, od,” said sprintwhich will be the ers coach Lou biggest competiTomlinson. “Now “It’s been a long tion of the indoor they’re coming thing, but it’s season for the along well. I am Knights. ver y excited.” good because “We always The Knights joke with Coach should only conwe are reaping [Robinson] that it’s tinue to improve the benefits from a never-ending boxas they move ing match,” said the outall the hard work.” toward sophomore Corryn door season. On Hurrington of team the active roster, CORRYN HURRINGTON practices. “It’s been the Knights have Sophomore Sprinter a long thing, but it’s few seniors and good because we largely boast are reaping our benefits from all freshmen and sophomores. the hard work.” “I’m ver y happy with the Rutgers’ hard work is also improvement we’ve seen,” the main reason why the team Robinson said. “I’m ver y happy has been able to accomplish so with the maturation of our much this season. The Knights youth — ver y happy with the already set multiple school freshmen coming in and makrecords as well as many per- ing their presence felt. We are sonal-best times, all while see- ver y excited. Ever ything is ing more athletes qualify for going well so far.”

Rutgers does not doubt nerves will be present with the heightened stage, but it does not anticipate those nerves playing any factor in its ability to run. The team has been waiting for the moment for quite some time. “I am ner vous, but I am just more so excited,” Hurrington said. “Any meet, I’ll always have ner ves and stuff, but once you get in, your endorphins are up, and your adrenaline is pumping, and you’re just ready to run. It’s time. It feels like a million months of training for this day.” With the way the team performed throughout the season, it is reasonable to imagine the Knights can accomplish their goal of a top-10 finish. “We just want to make a name for ourselves,” Hurrington said. The tournament runs from Saturday to Sunday, which gives the Knights less than a week between the Big East Championships and their next tournament, the NYU Fastrack Invitational, which begins Feb. 24 in the Bronx.

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Knights seek redemption following first loss of year BY BRADLY DERECHAILO CORRESPONDENT

Doubles play was a big factor Sunday in the Rutgers tennis teams’ loss to Princeton. The TENNIS Scarlet Knights ARMY AT star ted RUTGERS, off tenFRIDAY, 1 P.M. tatively a n d slowly against the Tigers, according to head coach Ben Bucca. Their first doubles pair of senior Jenifer Holzberg and sophomore Vanessa Petrini dropped the match, 8-1, which set the tone for the Knights in doubles action. Senior Morgan Ivey understands why Bucca’s focus this week in practice was on Rutgers’ doubles play. “We focused a lot on doubles and staying aggressive in doubles,” Ivey said. “He really wants to make sure we stay on our front foot and stay going after the ball regardless of our opponent.” The next opponent is Army, which arrives in the midst of a six-game winning streak. For Rutgers to start off strong, it has to establish aggressive play from the first ser ve at the Atlantic Club. That tone begins with Holzberg and Petrini, who have been strong early in the year in the first position for the Knights despite their Sunday defeat. The combination produced three No. 1 doubles match wins, including an 8-2 victory against Lehigh in the season opener. Sophomore Stefania Balasa and freshman Noor Judeh begin in the second doubles position for Rutgers. The duo produced the lone doubles victor y in the loss to Princeton, defeating Joan Cannon and Katherine Flanigan, 8-6. While Army serves as another strong test in the beginning of the season, Bucca knows the team’s success lies in a strong

start in doubles, which he emphasized all year. “What we decided we needed to do was to work on playing aggressive and explosive doubles right from the start,” Bucca said. “We have been working on some strategies and play patterns to facilitate that.” If doubles play serves as the lynchpin for Rutgers’ success, singles action represents the consistency the team possesses to fall back on. In its three victories of the season, the Knights did not drop a match to their opponents. The Knights have experienced recent success against their next opponent — they won their last three matchups against the Black Knights. But Army presents a different challenge this year to Bucca’s team. It currently owns a 6-1 record in spring action, including victories against Big East members Connecticut and Seton Hall. Ivey knows how competitive the Black Knights will be when they arrive in New Jersey. “My past three years here we have always beaten them, but they are a very tough opponent,” Ivey said. “They are relentless and tenacious out there. But I think we are equally as determined.” Bucca chalks up Army’s success to the regimen it goes through in West Point, N.Y. “They are well-coached, disciplined, in shape, so we’ve had ver y close matches with them,” he said. “The difference is that we have been able to come out slightly ahead. We need to come ready to play to put our best foot for ward.” Rutgers needs to continue that trend over the weekend, when it begins Big East Conference play Sunday at Syracuse. But for now, the goal is making sure Army does not hand the Knights their second straight loss. “It’s going to be a great Big East match [against Syracuse],” Bucca said. “We’re excited for it, but we first have to focus on Army.”

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Sophomore Stefania Balasa, pictured, and freshman Noor Judeh won, 8-6, on Sunday against their doubles opponents from Princeton. Their victory was the only one Rutgers produced in doubles.

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Rutgers head field hockey coach Meredith Long announced the addition FIELD HOCKEY of five players Wednesday to the 2012 roster, marking her first recruiting class since she took over the program. “At the start of the year we set out to build a program around the best field hockey talent in New Jersey,” Long said in a press release. “It is our goal to compete at the highest level in the Big East Conference and nationally.” To help the Scarlet Knights’ struggling offense, Long brought in forwards Alyssa Bull and Nicole Imbriaco. Bull accumulated 72 goals and 111 assists, including 35 goals and 33 assists in her final season. Imbriaco tallied 68 goals and 52 assists. Carley Hawkins and Ali Stever both bring high school experience at back. Katie Champion rounds out the recruiting class in the midfield. — Staff Report

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Tough Air Force program awaits RU at Syracuse BY VINNIE MANCUSO CORRESPONDENT

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Sophomore attackman Scott Klimchak and the Knights look for their first win of the season Sunday against Air Force.

When the Rutgers men’s lacrosse team travels to Syracuse, N.Y., on Saturday to take MEN’S LACROSSE on Air Force, it RUTGERS AT does so AIR FORCE, without SUNDAY, 11 A.M. a scouti n g report of its opponent. While the Scarlet Knights already have a game under their belt — a loss to No. 2 Duke — the matchup is Air Force’s season opener. But head coach Brian Brecht knows the Knights can expect physicality going against a military academy. “Air Force is going to be one of the most well-coached programs both of fensively and defensively that we are going to play this year. At a service academy, they are going to play hard and are going to be relentless with all the hustle plays and physical on defense,” Brecht said. “You get into the flow of the game and you see some things you can’t prepare as much. The one thing we can prepare for is a hard-fought game. We are going to have to meet the physicality and meet the hustle.” But the Knights are no strangers to a relentless, physical game at in the early par t of the season. In the season opener against the Blue Devils, Rutgers saw its defense withstand a 51-28 shot advantage for Duke, with junior goalkeeper Rudy Butler making 16 saves.

But while the Knights eventually fell to the No. 2 team in the countr y, Brecht saw the game as a bonding experience for the team. Brecht also sees going against the untested Air Force as a plus. “I do think that is something that is an advantage,” he said. “No one is going to give us as much trouble as Duke. It is not only with the game experience down in Duke but also the trav-

“Our biggest goal is no matter who we are playing, if they ... beat us, they are going to have to earn it.” BRIAN BRECHT Head Coach

el down to Duke. We have already traveled as a team and we have already prepared as a team. That does help.” But again, the Knights know the Falcons’ physicality of the Falcons will outweigh their lack of game experience. If the Knights cannot match Air Force’s physical nature, experience likely means nothing. “At the end of the day, it is about execution during that 60minute game,” Brecht said. “You can have all the experience in the world traveling to away games, but if we can’t run by someone, if we can’t catch

and throw, and if we can’t put the ball in the back of the cage, that experience does not mean much.” Yet with the Duke game out of the way, Brecht knows perhaps the hardest obstacle for his team this year is behind it. To him, nothing but opportunity awaits in the rest of the schedule. “Cer tainly ever y year, ever y team wants to get that first win,” Brecht said. “Whether it’s me, the coach in my first year at Rutgers, the seniors who are in their last year or a freshman playing their first year of ball, we all want to get the first one sooner rather than later.” Now preparing for the second test, Brecht knows what he wants to carry over from the Knights’ season opener. Playing the No. 2 team in the nation for 60 minutes was a good learning experience for the Knights, but it did not result in a win. To get the first win of the season, the Knights have one goal. They want to be as physical as a branch of the military. “I thought we played extremely hard [at Duke]. I thought we had a lot of passion. There is no doubt we played hard, and we did not back down,” Brecht said. “Our biggest goal is no matter who we are playing, if they are going to beat us, they are going to have to earn it. We just have to limit the turnovers, sharpen some things up and make it a lot harder for teams to earn those goals.”

Freshman lefty provides pitching solution for Rutgers BY JOEY GREGORY ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

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Junior Abbey Houston picked up her first win of the season Saturday, when she held Mississippi Valley State to two runs.

Entering the season, the Rutgers women’s softball team did not have offensive issues on paper, and SOFTBALL its defense was an upgrade from last year. Pitching was the biggest question mark for the Scarlet Knights, according to head coach Jay Nelson. Rutgers’ No. 1 starter, junior Abbey Houston, was coming back after leading the team with a 5.44 earned run average and 52 strikeouts a season ago. Senior Noelle Sisco would also provide a veteran presence to the staff. But beyond them, it was not clear what the status of the group would be. Sophomore Megan Williams was still injured with no timetable for her return, and freshman lefthander Alyssa Landrith had yet to be tested. So to get a little more clarity as to what his pitching staff would look like, Nelson involved the rookie lefty immediately. In the second game of the season-opening tournament in Lafayette, La., Landrith faced No. 24 Tulsa. If he had the choice, Nelson might have sent a more experienced pitcher out to face the ranked opponent, but his options were limited. “It was her first game of her college career. That was a tough one,” he said “I would have had

Megan pitch in that game if she was healthy, but Megan wasn’t healthy. So we threw Alyssa into the fire in a way.” But Landrith did not mind at all. She welcomed the challenge. Almost immediately, she noticed the difference in hitters at the next level. “I was happy [Nelson] did it,” she said. “I know what to expect now. It’s college — it’s a lot different than it used to be. Teams are a lot better, hitters are a lot stronger.” She could not blow hitters away or fool them with movement like she did at Vacaville High School (Calif.). “They’re a lot more disciplined. They don’t always swing at junk pitches,” she said. “You really have to make it move. An inch lower and it’s out of the park, so you have to make sure it’s perfect.” Tulsa proceeded to prove her right. The Hurricanes knocked in 14 runs on 10 hits, not exactly what Landrith had in mind for her first collegiate appearance. That meant she had to put more practice time into her pitch movement rather than the speed. “You can throw it 90 mph, but if it’s straight down the middle of the plate, they’re going to hit it,” she said. Despite the high run total, Nelson thought his rookie starter pitched well. She dug herself into a hole early with four consecutive free passes — two walks and two hit batters — but bounced back nicely, Nelson said.

He has more confidence in his staff now than he has since he started at Rutgers, and Landrith is a big part of the reason why. “I think this is the best staff we’ve had since I’ve been here,” Nelson said. “I think Alyssa is going to be a really good pitcher.” It is not only Nelson that has taken notice of the freshman’s potential. Houston caught on to how valuable of an addition Landrith is moving for ward. Part of it is thanks to the way the Vacaville, Calif., native carries herself. “Her confidence [is impressive],” Houston said. “You can just she tell she just believes in herself, and she has this swag that she turns on like she’s better than the batter.” Landrith has another advantage that makes her a valuable addition to the team. Many pitchers have their go-to pitch, the one they resort to over and over, usually because it is the only one they have real confidence in — but not Landrith. “She can move the ball around the plate,” Houston said. “She doesn’t have just one pitch that works for her. She has lots of different pitches.” Since college softball is no longer foreign to her, Landrith can continue to grow and adjust to the change in competition. “It’s a totally different caliber of ball,” she said. “Now I’ve got my feet wet a little bit, and I know what to expect, and I can work hard from here.”

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Head coach Mike Rice’s team lost its ninth Big East game Wednesday.

The Rutgers men’s basketball team entered the Joyce Center on Wednesday knowing No. 23 Notre Dame rarely loses its composure there. MEN’S BASKETBALL The Scarlet Knights forgot theirs RUTGERS 53 instead, falling, 71NOTRE DAME 71 53, despite a 5-point halftime deficit. The Knights’ (12-14, 4-9) play in the second half worsened so much head coach Mike Rice opted for senior walk-on Charlie Rigoglioso for a stretch. The loss dropped Rutgers to 1-6 in its last seven games, winning only once since January, when it beat Notre Dame (18-8, 10-3). The Fighting Irish, meanwhile, continue their upward spiral. They are winners

of seven in a row, losing last to the Knights on Jan. 16 at the Louis Brown Athletic Center. But South Bend is a far more welcome sight for Irish head coach Mike Brey. Notre Dame lost only once there during the last two seasons. Its junior center, Jack Cooley, showed why. Cooley controlled the interior, recording four offensive rebounds in the early going. Knights junior wing Dane Miller held his own in the first 20 minutes, but Rutgers ultimately brought little to the table. It failed to score at least 60 points for the seventh time this season. While the Knights forced Notre Dame into untimely turnovers in their first contest,

the Irish flipped the script in the rematch. The Knights gave the ball away 13 times and committed 26 personal fouls. Notre Dame fouled half as much. It also went to the free throw line 32 times, while Rutgers took only 10 shots from the charity stripe. Rice preached getting to the top eight in the Big East standings earlier in the campaign. But his vision looks less and less likely with each game. Only three teams in the conference have a worse record in league play than the Knights. They currently hold a tie with Pittsburgh and Villanova, who endure down years on their respective campuses. — Tyler Barto

Rutgers preps for postseason play on Senior Night BY STEVEN MILLER SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Rutgers head wrestling coach Scott Goodale long said senior 133-pounder Michael DeMarco is the type of wrestler that embodies WRESTLING his program. The Lyndhurst, DREXEL AT N.J., native went RUTGERS, winless in the state TONIGHT, 6:30 P.M. tournament as a high school senior, walked on at Rutgers, then fought his way into the lineup for four years. But he will be out of the lineup for Senior Night tonight against Drexel at the College Avenue Gym as he continues to recover from a torn lateral collateral ligament. This year, getting healthy for the postseason is what Goodale’s program is all about. “It would be awesome to wrestle, my last chance ever to wrestle here,” DeMarco said. “But when it’s all said and done, I haven’t worked and came where I came from the past five years to wrestle Senior Night against Drexel … to get my hand raised and hobble off. It would mean more than anything to get to the national tournament and make a run.” So DeMarco will continue to practice the next two weeks — he began wrestling live late last week — in preparation for the EIWA Tournament, where Goodale estimates he will need a top-six finish to qualify for the NCAA Championships. “We just don’t want to push it because there’s no real reason to,” Goodale said. Demarco’s absence leaves 141-pounder Billy Ashnault and heavyweight Dan Hopkins as the only seniors in the lineup. Each has his own postseason aspirations. Ashnault is an All-American contender — he is a two-time NCAA qualifier that last weekend took last year’s national

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Senior 133-pounder Michael DeMarco controls his Brown opponent Jan. 6. DeMarco will sit tonight in the Knights’ home finale against Drexel while an injured LCL and ruptured muscle heal. Fellow seniors Billy Ashnault and Daniel Hopkins will take the mat.

RU SUFFERS FIFTH DEFEAT IN ROW, SINKS FARTHER INTO MIDDLE OF CONFERENCE

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Head coach C. Vivian Stringer’s team continues to struggle in the Big East.

All the pieces were in place Wednesday for the Rutgers women’s basketball team to end its losing streak. The No. 21 Scarlet Knights WOMEN’S BASKETBALL were fully healthy, RUTGERS 50 and they passed the stretch of their WEST VIRGINIA 60 schedule consisting of ranked teams and those they historically had trouble against. But it did not stop West Virginia from extending Rutgers’ losing skid to five in its 60-50 win. For the first time since Jan. 24 against DePaul, head coach C. Vivian Stringer started junior guard Erica Wheeler.

Wheeler broke her slump with an 11point effort that included a 4-for-4 showing from the free-throw line. Her work was almost all of the Knights’ production in from the charity stripe. Rutgers (17-8, 6-6) shot 5-for-9 from the line. West Virginia (19-6, 9-3) forward Asya Bussie alone outshot the Knights, 7-for-11, from the line in her 15-point effort. The Mountaineers also put the Knights away with 3-point shooting. A Brooke Hampton 3-point shot broke the game open with 2:41 to go, giving West Virginia a 6point lead. Junior center Monique Oliver remained the Knights’ mainstay of consistency with a 14-point effort to lead the team. Fifth-

year senior point guard Khadijah Rushdan also kept the Knights in the game with 13 points and a team-leading nine rebounds and six assists. Freshman forward Christa Evans earned her first career start. Veterans surrounded her on the court. Stringer kept her in the game for 27 minutes, but Evans fouled out. Senior forward April Sykes received her second start in a row after beginning the past two games on the bench. The Starkville, Miss., native partly broke her scoring slump with a 10-point effort. Rutgers hopes to end its slump Saturday, when it travels to Villanova. — Josh Bakan