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Junior 174-pounder Greg Zannetti recorded a technical fall last night in the Rutgers wrestling team’s 24-9 win against Drexel, its final dual meet of the season.

U.’s global center opens renovated campus location BY AMY ROWE STAFF WRITER

The University’s Center for Global Advancement and International Affairs invited faculty including President Richard L. McCormick to an open house for its newly renovated 30 College Ave. office. The center, which opened its office in November to undergraduates, is working with various departments at the University to re-energize and build the University’s global connections, said Joanna Regulska, vice president for international and global affairs. “Rutgers has an enormous amount of treasures to share with the world and our role is to unbury them,” she said. “We didn’t have this one-stop gateway before for students and faculty.” Regulska said the center’s role is to advance personal and institutional relationships abroad through various activities and programs. “It’s important because it really shows how deeply involved and global we are and how we can deal with [other countries] to advance Rutgers,” she said. President McCormick said the center’s new office is beautiful and its central location on College Avenue is necessary for an office dealing with international relations. “International research and opportunities are vital to our students,” he said. “Even those who grew up in New Jersey and will live here [all of their] life will be global citizens. They’ve got to be ready for life and work in a global society.” Alison Price-Rom, the center’s director, said the University is interested in establishing programs in countries including China and India because of their advancing economies. “[China and India] send many students overseas, but we’re interested in any area that Rutgers faculty and students are interested in,” she said. McCormick said many students and faculty want to go to China, but the University should focus on other areas as well. He also said he hoped the University would someday establish campuses abroad. “The whole world must be open to Rutgers students and faculty,” he said. “We must pursue these opportunities and put Rutgers on the map around the world.”

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About 200 protestors opposing same-sex marriage rally yesterday outside the State House in Trenton, N.J., hours before the New Jersey State Assembly passed the Marriage Equality and Religious Exemption Act. Gov. Chris Christie plans to veto the bill.

State Assembly passes gay marriage bill BY JOVELLE TAMAYO EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

TRENTON — After about two hours of forum in the State House, the New Jersey State Legislature voted in favor of same-sex marriage. But the discussion is far from over. The N.J. State Assembly passed the Marriage Equality and Religious Exemption Act yesterday 42-33. The state Senate passed the corresponding bill on Monday, 24-16. But Gov. Chris Christie stands by his vow to veto the bill when it reaches his desk, according to nj.com. “We have a history in our country of having difficulty of balancing out issues of sexuality and issues of about equality,” said Assemblywoman Sheila Oliver, D-34. Because the votes did not reach the two-thirds majority for both voting bodies, the efforts were not enough to override Christie’s probable veto. Assemblyman Reed Gusciora, D-15, said he believes putting the issue of same-sex marriage on the ballot is the wrong thing to do.

“Let’s go back to marriage laws in 1766 — when divorce was illegal, when women were property … and then there were arranged marriages,” he said. “The fact is that marriage has evolved over time. We actually base them on love this time around.” More than 100 activists — some wearing blue in support of the bill’s passing and others wearing red to demonstrate their opposition — filled the gallery seats at the State House to await the Assembly’s resolution. A group of about 200 protestors, composed of individuals from different religious and political affiliations, rallied outside the building in support of Christie’s referendum. Most of the state Republicans who spoke supported putting the issue to ballot, including Assemblywoman Allison McHose, R-24. She said the issue is not about civil rights. “This is not about discrimination against someone’s choice,” McHose said. “This, today, is a discussion of [whether we should], as 120 members of the Legislature, be deciding this important and fundamental change.”

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Panel explores gender roles in technology

INDEX UNIVERSITY The “Pedagogy of the Museum” ties educational values to art.

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OPINIONS Washington State recently passes legislation to legalize same-sex marriage. See if we give it a laurel or dart.

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McHose said legislators should debate on what New Jerseyans want, like re-entering the workforce or lowering property taxes. The bill stipulates that civil unions in the state of New Jersey will be abolished and that all current civil unions will become marriages, according to an NJSpotlight.com article. The bill also states it will not require any religious institution to make a marriage official. Assemblyman Louis Greenwald, D-6, questioned why a same-sex couple could not have the same rights as a heterosexual couple. “Why should access to a mortgage in New Jersey be denied to a couple because they are two women?” he asked the chamber. “Why should access to quality health care be denied to a spouse of a person they have been committed to for years because they are the same sex?” Assemblyman Jay Webber, R-26, said he opposes changing the traditional form of marriage.

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DAILYTARGUM.COM Assistant Dean for the Douglass Project Elaine Zundl moderates a panel of women in the science and technology field last night at the Douglass Campus Center.

There are many successful women in the fields of science and technology — but they are rarely seen or heard. This was one theme of last night’s “Gender and Social Media Panel: Being Female in a Virtual World” discussion, which looked at the stereotypes many women face when working in technology fields. The talk, sponsored by Douglass Residential College and the Department of Library and Information Sciences, featured three women panelists with research interests in gender constructs in technology and science. Assistant Dean for the Douglass Project Elaine Zundl, who organized and moderated the discussion held in the Douglass Campus Center, said though there are many successful women in sci-

ence and technology, women are still not represented as equally as men. Panelist Alice Marwick, a postdoctoral researcher in social media at Microsoft Research New England who researches online identity and consumer culture, said this is not because women are less interested in these topics or that they are less able to study them. Rather, a lot of it comes down to culture. Jessa Lingel, another panelist who is a Ph.D. candidate in the University’s Department of Library and Information Science, said stereotypes in society reinforce masculine associations with technology and computer science. One stereotype is Bill Gates-esque, where there are one or two men in jeans and sweats tinkering on computers in their free time in their garages, Lingel said.

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Assistant curator defines uses of art Museum professional envisions artwork as learning, teaching tool BY RENE POLANCO CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Daily Targum is hosting a Writer’s Workshop from 4 to 5 p.m. at the Merle V. Adams room at the Cook Campus Center. Students will learn how to conduct interviews, write news articles and edit stories. There will be free food and drinks. All majors are welcome. 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 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.

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.

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The University’s Teaching Assistant Project looked to draw art into their lesson plans yesterday in the “Pedagogy of the Museum,” promoting museum art in the classroom. The event, held at the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus, promoted the idea of using museums and art for educational purposes. Eveline Baseggio, a graduate assistant at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, said she wants to use art to influence the science of teaching and learning while bringing the University closer to the museum world and the museum closer to the University. “I came up with this workshop to give you an idea of what brings art and other disciplines together. We can bring things from art and museums into classrooms that may not be about art to show students different perspectives,” she said. She said the University contributed to art expressions during the 1950s and 1960s. “Rutgers was the avant-garde for the modern art,” Basseggio said. “There was a movement called Fluxus that challenged people to see art in any expression of life. They wanted to bring art to everyday life.” The Fluxus movement is known as a period in which artwork was based on the unpredictable, ordinary moments of everyday life ideas, according to the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum website.

“Even a speech, or a spoon on a table or opening a refrigerator could be seen as art. It was almost a playful view of [Fluxus] art,” Baseggio said. She said art could influence students and professors through visual paintings, and can allow them to gain observational, memorization and creative skills. “There are actually museums for FBI agents and police officers because by looking at art, people really learn how to notice things, memorize things and describe them,” she said. “What they do is show the FBI agent a painting for about five minutes … and ask what they remembered about it.” As for observation skills, Baseggio said she is interested in the way people see different things in the same piece of artwork. “There are so many different objects, details and things. The more you look at a piece of art and talk about it with others, the more you notice,” she said. Bassegio said an art piece allows individuals to step away from their experiences and lets them think critically and freely about the work. She said sometimes students are unable to understand the deeper meaning of art because they are not able to see past what is directly in front of them. “As I stimulate the conversation by asking them questions, they realize the genius of the painting and how there is no one explanation for any painting because there are so many different layers,” Baseggio said.

Another way art can be stimulating is by looking at photographs, she said. “If you are studying the Civil Rights Movement, what better way to study it than by studying photographs from the time?” she said. “It is not simply recording a moment of history, but it allows people to interpret it.” She said art surrounds students on campus — such as the art in the Zimmerli — but sometimes students neglect to take advantage of the museum. “Sometimes we don’t realize that we have resources right here that we don’t use,” Baseggio said. “There is so much art there, and the educators there are fantastic and knowledgeable. They get so much meaning from anything, and it is fascinating.” Jason Rimmer, a University senior program coordinator, said there are students who are interested in art and would benefit from an event like this. “This is the second semester we offered it, and the first one had a decent turnout, so we decided to hold it again,” he said. “In all likelihood, we’ll run it the next two semesters. After that, it depends on its continued popularity and finding someone to replace Eveline.” Maren Daniel, a teaching assistant in the Department of French, said she found the workshop to be a helpful guide to make use of art in her career. “As someone who is going to be a literature and language teacher, I’m interested in how I could enrich my classes and how I could integrate art into my curriculum,” she said.

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CENTER: Program caters to only undergraduate students continued from front The University is specifically interested in India because its second-largest group of students comes from India, PriceRom said. “There’s a lot of interest from the School of Engineering in working with India,” she said. “There are many individual faculty interests we’d like to build on.” The center already has a partnership with Brazil, called Science Without Borders, PriceRom said. Brazil’s government offers 100,000 scholarships to fully fund undergraduate students studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics to go abroad, and many come to the University, she said. While the program only caters to undergraduate students, the University would like to attract graduate and post-doctoral students to study in New Brunswick, she said. The center is also trying to establish a program to fund University students’ education in other countries, including those who study the humanities.

PANEL: Lingel says class consists of 80 percent males continued from front And there is also one for the librarian profession — it is gendered around a female image, even though librarians, too, use a lot of technology but in different ways, she said. “These are two very different images that we have that are popular culture images of technology and gender,” said Lingel, who studies how gender constructs can affect how marginalized groups and subcultures interact with technology. “They really tell us about what we expect people to be doing in terms of gender and technology.” Lingel said she also notices a difference when teaching. While instructing an undergraduate course in the School of Communication and Information’s Department of Information Technology and Informatics — which is in the same vein as computer science — her students are 80 percent men. But when she teaches a master-level course for library sciences, it is 80 percent women, though both subject areas are technology-intensive. “The myth that women aren’t good with computers is eroded. … We have these [stereotypes that are] really hard to break down because they are so common in our popular culture,” Lingel said. Janet Vertesi, a third panelist who is a Cotsen postdoctoral fellow at the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts and a lecturer in sociology at Princeton University, said in the past, women were at the forefront of technological and computer developments. Before computers, many women held jobs that involved computing data. When the modern-day computer started to evolve, women transitioned to the programming side. “And then over time, those women continued to recede into the background again,” said Vertesi, who researches the progression of gender and technology historically. She said the work in computer science and technology that women do is comparable to the work men do, but it is often degraded.

“We’re tr ying to generate funding for our students and faculty to go overseas and do work on behalf of the University to generate research opportunities that way,” Price-Rom said. The center is working with the Institute of International Education to establish international partnerships with India and Brazil along with World Learning to bring students from South Asia and the Middle East to the University, Price-Rom said. Regulska said she wants the University to become a destination for international students, and will continue to establish programs and activities to attain this goal. “We’re here to provide support in new partnerships and opportunities,” she said. “We’re [responsible for] the internationalization of Rutgers.” The center’s staff is looking forward to establishing international ties for the University, Regulska said. “It’s truly an exciting moment for us. It’s a new space, a new building and a new future in many ways,” she said. “This would not have happened if financial resources were not put on the table. Many offices across the University have made this happen.” “Along a historical view, you consistently see women who take on technological work that gets devalued,” Vertesi said. For this reason, Vertesi said feminism’s role in technology should be to make women’s work in these fields visible and reward them for it. Julianne Davis, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences first-year student who was at the panel discussion, said the information presented — that women can succeed in male-dominated fields — could be applied to any career path. “Some jobs are more male-oriented but in reality anyone can do them,” said Davis, who is interested in entering biotechnology. Rosheen Chaudhr y, also a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences first-year student who was at the discussion, found the talk interesting because she wants to major in either math, engineering or computer science. Sometimes, being in classes with mostly males who have been around these fields for a while can get discouraging, she said. “Technology and all these engineering fields are portrayed as male-dominated, but there are women behind the scenes,” Chaudhry said. Zundl, whose department supports people interested in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) majors, said there are a lot of stereotypes around these fields, so her hope with his discussion was to create a place where technology and gender issues could be discussed in a broader sense. At the University, she said there are other support resources for women interested in STEM, such as the Woodbury BuntingCobb Residence Hall on Douglass campus, which is a community for undergraduate women interested in STEM to live among other women graduate researchers. There is also the SUPERScience for Undergraduates: A Program for Excellence in Research mentoring program for women interested in research. Zundl said she hopes there can be more similar programming in the future to help dispel stereotypes about both women and men in technological fields.

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Assemblywoman Sheila Oliver, a co-sponsor of the same-sex marriage bill passed in New Jersey’s State Assembly yesterday, speaks in favor of equality at the State House chamber in Trenton.

BILL: Fifty-three percent of NJ voters favor referendum continued from front Connor Montferrat, the president of the Rutgers College Republicans, said New Jerseyans should have the chance to see the bill and make a conscious decision on voting day. “[Christie] wants to veto it because his opinion is getting in the way and he would like to see it on ballot,” said Montferrat, a School of Ar ts and Sciences senior. Daniel Pereira, the vice president of the Rutgers University Democrats, said he believes the referendum would not be on the ballot by November. “But if it is on the ballot in November, I think the people of New Jersey will do the right thing and have New Jersey join the

other states that allow same-sex marriage,” he said. Christie also said that Senate and Assembly Democrats were engaging in political theater because they were already aware of his opposition to the bill, according to NJ.com. “Extending equal protections for all people is absolutely not political theater,” Pereira said. If the bill passes, New Jersey would join seven other states and one district in allowing same-sex marriage — Iowa, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Washington, Vermont, New York, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C. About 54 percent of New Jersey voters suppor t the legalization of same-sex marriage, while 53 percent of voters simultaneously favor Gov. Christie’s call for a referendum, according to a Feb. 13 Rutgers-Eagleton poll.

“It may be that given several polls showing majority suppor t among voters, suppor ters of same-sex mar riage think it would win in November,” said Eagleton Institute of Politics Director David Redlawsk in a press release. “But in the face of a likely intensive campaign from opponents, this could be wishful thinking.” Christine Cook, a Newpor t, N.J. resident, rallied in suppor t of traditional marriage. “Same-sex marriage is against God’s law and against natural law,” she said. “It doesn’t produce a family, and promotes disease and promiscuity.” Michael Myers of Hamilton, N.J., said he was happy about the outcome of the Assembly meeting. “I think Gov. Christie’s veto of the bill is going to be like a little blip in histor y,” he said.

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What do you think of the University football team’s new head football coach, Kyle Flood?

QUOTABLE JEREMY WEDICK SAS SOPHOMORE

“It was a smart move by Rutgers, but the ultimate question is can he coach?”

“He wants to win and hopefully he can pull through. I just hope he is better than Greg [Schiano].”

MICHAEL GOLDSTEIN SAS FIRST-YEAR STUDENT “Hopefully, he will be able to continue the success of Rutgers football.”

COLIN MCDONNELL — SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES SOPHOMORE CHLOE WHISKOW SAS JUNIOR

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“I am happy the old one could move on. It gives them both an opportunity to step up.”

$750,000

Jan. 31

$100,000

The date Flood became the Rutgers head football coach.

The amount Flood’s salary will increase every year.

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Flood’s starting salary without bonuses and incentives. He is the lowest-paid coach in the Big East.

“I think it is a decline from Schiano. Schiano turned the team’s record around.”

DAKOTA DAHLIN SAS FIRST-YEAR STUDENT “I don’t really follow the games. I just don’t have the time.”

ONLINE RESPONSE

I’m happy he won’t be paid as much as Schiano — 29%

I love that he kept the recruiting class together — 47%

He needs to coach a few games first — 14%

I still want Greg Schiano — 5%

I wish it were someone with prior experience as a head coach — 5%

I love that he kept the recruiting class together

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I’m happy he won’t get paid as much as Schiano did

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He needs to coach a few games first

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I still want Greg Schiano

I wish it were someone with prior experience as a head coach

THIS WEEK’S QUESTION What do you think of the proposed Rutgers-Camden, Rowan University merger? Cast your votes online and view the video Pendulum at www.dailytargum.com

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Week in review: laurels and darts

or individuals on both sides of the aisle, the recent resurgence of debates concerning religious liberty has not come without frustration. The tension was made more apparent yesterday during a House Oversight and Government Reform hearing on religious liberty and birth control. Three Democrats walked out of the hearing after House Committee Chairman Darrel Issa, R-Calif., refused to let progressive women testify on the panel, which consisted exclusively of men from conservative religious organizations. For us, there is much to take issue with here. First, Issa’s refusal to include representatives of both sides of the argument regarding these issues is nothing short of unnerving, and, as one of the rogue Democrats described, closely resembles the dealings of an “autocratic regime.” Yet these Democrats who walked out of the hearing are also to blame. Progress cannot be made on these issues unless there are those who are willing to fight to have both sides of the argument heard. In this case, both parties deserve darts. Handling an issue that affects so many with such biased action is inexcusable. But giving up is no solution, either. *

Medical practice has made great leaps in recent years, and we can find a testament to this fact at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, which recently became one of the first hospitals in the country to offer groundbreaking aortic valve replacement technique. The treatment, called Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement, allows surgeons to replace a dysfunctional aortic valve more efficiently and neatly than older methods, like open-heart surgery. The U.S. News and World Report has also ranked RWJUH one of the country’s best hospitals. It’s good to hear such an established health care center, working with the most state-of-the-art technology and techniques, is right here in our own city. RWJUH deserves a laurel for its dedication to providing residents of Central Jersey with top-of-the-line medical care. *

Everyone knows romance, relationships and sex are the key ingredients to concocting the perfect Valentine’s Day. It’s what makes the holiday so grand and the cheesy Hallmark cards bearable. But subjects like sex cannot be tossed around as easily as can all the cheap chocolate we buy for our loved ones on this day. It’s important to learn about the pros and cons of these things before we dive headlong into them. In this respect, the University’s Latin American Student Organization has our backs. In preparation for V-day, the organization held an event in which students were able to talk and learn about relationships, sex and the implications they can have for college life. Students learned secrets to a healthy sex life at the event through condom demonstrations and flashcard games. The Latin American Student Organization deserves a laurel for their efforts to educate students about these issues. *

The town of Keene, N.H., is by many standards a relatively unassuming location to find examples of the increased militarization of our nation’s police forces. The town has a population of 23,000 people, and has seen only two murders since 1999. Yet, despite the apparent innocence of such a place, the town has just accepted a $285,993 grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to buy a Bearcat. Now, if you’ve never seen a Bearcat, we’d advise you to look it up. Weighing eight tons and concealed behind a thick layer of armor, the personnel vehicle bears close resemblance to a tank. Our question is, what could this town possibly need a vehicle like this for? Police forces across the country, whose main purposes are to protect a town’s citizen, do not require an armored personnel vehicle to accomplish this task. Keene deserves a dart for equipping their police force with a Bearcat. We see no reason for any township to own such a vehicle. *

Adding to the list of states that have embraced same-sex unions, Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire on Tuesday signed into law the state’s first same-sex marriage bill. “I’m proud our same-sex couples will no longer be treated as separate but equal,” she said. The legalization of gay marriage in Washington is just another indication that U.S. citizens are warming up to the idea of equal rights for homosexual and heterosexual couples alike. Our own state just yesterday passed a same-sex marriage bill that will likely be vetoed by Gov. Chris Christie, and it deals with the same issue, — states like Washington provide a guiding light for the rest of the nation to follow. Washington deserves a laurel for recognizing the importance of equality and legalizing same-sex marriage.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “Even a speech, or a spoon on a table or opening a refrigerator could be seen as art.” Eveline Baseggio, a graduate assistant at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, on the potential for seeing art in all aspects of life STORY IN UNIVERSITY

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for half of the time. Petty niversity students acts like this need to end. are privileged to Be true to yourself, and surround themstop worrying about being selves with an extremely nice to ever yone. The diverse student body. That University student body is diversity lies not only in comprised of adults. Adults basic demographics, but should be mature enough to also in a multitude of subJOSH BAKAN not want to impede on somecultures. Many of these body’s First Amendment sub-cultures contribute rights solely because of a statement that could be positively to this school, but there is a gaping body construed as offensive. Paul Simon wrote in 1964 in of students that detracts from all that the “The Sound of Silence” about the danger of a socieUniversity works for. It is not bros, not even hipty in which people keep their thoughts to themsters — but a group you have not even heard of: selves. Simon was 21 years old when he wrote the the “peesh” sub-culture. song, fresh out of one of the peeshiest neighborHere is the definition of a peesh, also known as a hoods in Newark. When Simon met Art Garfunkel, “shween” once you cross the Pennsylvania borders: he met another man who wanted A peesh is not a bad guy, and I canchange. And so they harmonized a not emphasize that enough. But “Any time you are beautiful ditty that ruffled the let’s say you were locked in a room shweeny masses. They were not with a peesh. Maybe an elevator or in class, on a bus or afraid to offend, and their song a meat locker, for about an hour or went straight to No. 1 on the so. If you were stuck with any other in a residence hall, charts. You can do the same if you person in the world, you would both it is quite likely that stop being a peesh. possess the conversational abilities The other thing you can do is to speak on a variety of topics. a peesh is only a develop an interesting hobby. Maybe things would even turn out stone’s throw away.” Peeshes are made, not born. like “The Breakfast Club,” and you Shweeniness is developed by not two would end up closer than ever being very good at anything at an before. But if you were stuck with a early age, and therefore not pursuing anything peesh, the only topics you could think to talk about interesting. But that does not excuse you from findwould be basic fillers like school or the weather. ing an interesting hobby. Just because you are not They are just that kind of person. good at something does not mean that you cannot Take a moment to think about all the shweenies be interested. Not everyone can speak French, do you encounter in your daily activities. Any time you the Charleston or play the saxophone. That has not are in class, on a bus or in a residence hall, it is quite stopped people from trying all three. My athletilikely that a peesh is only a stone’s throw away. cism was inhibited at an early age from a family hisThere are a variety of peeshy indicators. If they contory of cankles, but that did not stop me from sider themselves a fan of a certain sport but their becoming an associate sports editor for The Daily most detailed commentary is, “that was a good Targum. Find something you are mildly interested game,” you have a peesh. If they find humor in in, and pursue it. You have nothing to lose, except newspaper comics, you have a peesh. If their your peesh label. favorite song is “Hey There Delilah” by the Plain University students, you are privileged to attend White T’s, you have a peesh. a school that provides you with so many opportuniI am not saying that we should shove these ties. You can literally pursue any hobby you want. shweens in a trashcan — the creator of the word, Break out of your comfort zone, and find something School of Arts and Sciences senior Joe Tamimi, interesting. This University has produced wellwould not support that. Even if a peesh brings rounded people since 1766. The least you can do is shweeniness into your radius, that is still no reason become a better conversationalist when you are for bullying. Rather I would like for people who may stuck in that meat locker. fall under a peeshy personality to examine what they can do to become a more complete human Josh Bakan is a School of Arts and Sciences being. The first thing they need to do is stop being sophomore majoring in journalism and media studnice. Cars stop for me to cross the street, ies and English. He is an associate sports editor at people hold the door for me when I am 20 feet away, The Daily Targum. and I have no idea what people are apologizing

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Education must remain intact Letter JOHN BURTON This letter is a response to the Feb. 8 letter by Jim de Lyon, published in The Newark Star-Ledger under the title “Rutgers’ place.”

ut not all proud, tradition-filled state universities are the same. The most prestigious universities have been invited to join the Association of American Universities. There are prestigious private universities in the AAU, including Har vard University, Princeton University, the University of Chicago and Stanford University. But there are also state universities that belong to the AAU. In the Big Ten Conference, for example, all of the public universities, including Michigan State University, the University of WisconsinMadison, the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and

Ohio State University, belong to the AAU except the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. And in the Pac-12 Conference, six of the 10 public universities, including the University of Arizona, the University of California-Los Angeles, the University of Oregon and the University of Washington are in the AAU. When the Big East Conference completes the disgorgement and restocking of members, there will be public universities from coast to coast, including the University of Connecticut, Boise State University, San Diego State University, the University of Houston, the University of South Florida and the University of Central Florida. However, only one state university of the “new” Big East is a member of the AAU. Indeed, even if private schools, such as Southern Methodist University, and basketball-only schools, such Georgetown University

and Notre Dame University, are included, only one of the 17 schools in the Big East is a member of the AAU. Our University. The University faculty is concerned that the substantial allocation of funds to under write the athletic program will jeopardize the academic accomplishments of the University. We do not want to replicate the experience of the University of Nebraska, which was expelled from the AAU in 2011 because the quality of the academic program had deteriorated, or of Syracuse University, which withdrew from the AAU last year because expulsion was imminent. Instead, the faculty wants to keep the University in its proper place as — dare I say the words — a glorified public university. John Burton is a School of Management and Labor Relations professor emeritus.

Vote during RHA elections Letter ANDREANA BAREFIELD he University Residence Hall Association is a student-volunteer government organization that represents all students living in University residence halls. RHA, along with Residence Life administrators and the residence hall presidents, works vigorously to improve student life on campus. Throughout the academic term, RHA organizes many educational, social, leadership development and ser vice programs for residential students. RHA hosts a town hall ever y semester where students can voice their concerns and

opinions to some of the University’s biggest names in Transpor tation Ser vices, Housing and Residence Life, Information Technology and Dining Ser vices. RHA’s town hall will be broadcast Feb. 20 live on RU-tv. This year in particular, RHA has had a hand in helping vote for the name of the new apar tments on Livingston campus. RHA also par ticipates in events like “Monster Mash,” “Big Pink Volleyball Tournament” and “Scarlet Day of Ser vice.” RHA coordinates a “Leadership Development Day” ever y semester in which Hall Government members learn how to further develop their skills as leaders and their roles in their hall governments.

Online voting for the RHA elections will end Friday, Feb. 17. We would like to encourage ever y University resident to vote. Your vote will not only guarantee the greatest academic year for RHA, but the greatest academic year for our residents as well. Go to rha.rutgers.edu/vote no later than 11:59 p.m. Friday to place your vote. Ever y vote today makes our future stronger. If you have any questions concerning the organization or elections, contact Matthew Zielinski, coordinator of Special Programs at mattzie@rci.rutgers.edu. Andreana Barefield is a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore. She is the RHA secretary.

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Redshirt freshman forward Kadeem Jack defends Seton Hall’s Brandon Mobley on Feb. 8. Head coach Mike Rice started Jack for his length and athleticism against No. 23 Notre Dame.

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Freshman 141-pounder Anthony Perrotti wrestles last night at 157 pounds for the second dual meet in a row, winning, 8-6.

WIN: Zanetti, Seidenberg capture wide-margin victories continued from back through the entirety of his 2-0 decision. And it peaked in Greg Zannetti’s 20-5 technical fall at 174 pounds. “He energizes ever ybody in the building,” head coach Scott Goodale said of Zannetti, who improved to 26-3. “They understand he’s going to score points. He may give up some, but he’s going to score. That’s what we’re tr ying to create here.” Sophomore Daniel Seidenberg followed Zannetti’s technical fall with a 12-3 major decision for his first victory since suffering a shoulder injury at the Virginia Duals. He returned last weekend, but he took a pair of losses. “I’m not saying that’s an excuse to lose, but I still felt like I was shaking some rust off,” Seidenberg said. “Now that I have a few matches back and finally have a full week of practice, I feel confident.” Seidenberg won nine consecutive bouts before taking an injur y default Jan. 20 against Lehigh. Rutgers had not received a decision at 184 pounds since Jan. 14. It was the same streak at 157 pounds, which produced only three dual-meet decisions this season — two to open the season, then another against Buffalo. Freshman Anthony Perrotti, who started the season at 141 pounds, changed that.

The N.J. high school state champion last season at 130 pounds picked up an 8-6 decision against Drexel’s Austin Sommer with a two-point nearfall. “That changes the whole complexion of the dual meet — you get a win where you’re not expected to get one,” Goodale said. “The other guys understand that and they can wrestle loose and relaxed.” The Knights followed with a pair of bonus-point victories, but there were encouraging signs for the EIWA Tournament in two weeks throughout the match. Goodale wants Zannetti to take better shots, and after reminding the 16th-ranked 174pounder of that midway through the bout, Zannetti did. He wants Seidenberg to score more points, and the sophomore consistently scored takedowns. Ashnault struggled again to escape from the bottom, but he dominated Frank Cimato from his position on top. “He’s doing the little things you have to do to win matches at the national tournament,” Goodale said. But it all star ted with Langel in a match that held no postseason implications. His role now is to work out with sophomore 125-pounder Vincent Dellefave, who dropped a 5-3 decision to start the match. So for one more night Langel was the spark. “I felt that going through my head — we’ve all talked about it,” Langel said. “I needed to go up [a weight class], and I had no problem with it. I wanted to do what was best for the team. That’s my position.”

Then you’re at Marquette’ — it’d be too much for these young guys,” Rice said Monday. The Orange are likely the Knights’ toughest test in recent memory. But Rutgers had its fair share of success against top-10 teams, beating four in three seasons at the RAC. Syracuse is the benchmark. Still, it remains mortal. The Orange rank 14th in the league in rebounding margin, largely because their 2-3 zone inhibits them on the defensive

end. They pull down more than 22 defensive rebounds per game, which is 13th in the Big East. Rice opted for a more athletic frontcourt against Notre Dame, starting redshirt freshman forward Kadeem Jack for his length and quickness. But Jack might now be a necessity — not a luxury — against the Orange. Boeheim has larger versions of Jack. He also has more. Six of Boeheim’s regular contributors stand above 6-foot-7. His frontcourt is rangy, strong and aggressive. The Orange average 13 of fensive rebounds per game. The Knights allowed 13 to the Irish.

But Rutgers’ schedule does not get easier once Syracuse returns to upstate New York. A matchup with No. 12 Marquette in Milwaukee awaits, followed by a reunion with Seton Hall. A 4-11 start to Big East play is not far from the realm of possibility. But it does not mean it would not be disappointing, following a 3-3 stretch to begin the conference schedule. For some, it means looking back to those top-10 victories, even if they are now distant memories. “All the good times that we had, all the big games we know,” said junior for ward Austin Johnson on Monday. “We know we’re more capable than what we’re putting out right now. We just have to stick with it.”

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Sophomore Alexis Gunzelman competes on the beam last Saturday in a quad meet at the Livingston Recreation Center. Gunzelman and the Knights take on fellow EAGL Conference members Maryland and West Virginia on Saturday in College Park, Md. Rutgers lost to the Mountaineers earlier in the season.

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Following its first-place finish in the familiar confines of the Livingston Recreation Center last Saturday, GYMNASTICS t h e Rutgers RUTGERS AT gymnasMARYLAND, tics team SATURDAY, 7 P.M. travels to Maryland this weekend for a quad meet. The Scarlet Knights will see some familiar faces in the West Virginia Mountaineers, which Rutgers faced in only its second meet of the season. The last time the two squads met in Januar y, the Mountaineers ousted Rutgers at West Virginia, 193.425-191.650.

But entering the weekend, head coach Louis Levine is adamant he is far more concerned with his own team than any they face at the meet. “The one thing about gymnastics is you can’t really worr y about who you are going against. You control your own destiny,” Levine said. “If we go in there and we do our job, I think the rest takes care of itself.” In several ways, Rutgers is not the same team that crossed paths with the Mountaineers a month ago. For one, the Knights have competed without sophomore Luisa Leal since the last West Virginia matchup. Leal paced the Knights the first two meets of the season, taking the allaround title for two straight meets.

But since then, sophomore Alexis Gunzelman stepped into the role of the Knights’ go-to all-around performer. Gunzelman took first on the podium in the all-around each of the last three meets. In her newfound role, Gunzelman noticed the rest of the team has progressed, as well. Since the West Virginia matchup, the Knights have raised their overall score from meet to meet. They hit their highest mark at 192.500 in a quad meet at Pittsburgh. Most recently, the Knights took first place with their second-highest score of 192.375 at home against Brown and SUNY Cortland. “I definitely think that we are getting better — you can see it when we compete,” Gunzelman said. “We just get ahead of ourselves. With confidence, we sort

STRETCH: ’Nova ranks fourth in league in 3-pt shooting continued from back plan to use the competition to prepare for tournament season. “You want to win a Big East Championship. You want to win a national championship,” Rushdan said. “At this point in time, being the best team on that day is taking it one day at a time.”

of lose it. I think we just need to finish the meet with confidence.” No meet highlights the Knights’ tendency to falter toward the end as much as their last outing at home. Even though Rutgers came away with a firstplace finish, the team agreed it only lived up to its potential in two of the four events. “We hit bars and vault really strong [last Saturday], and then we got into the beam and floor and we kind of fell apart,” Gunzelman said. Even if the Knights had not already fallen to West Virginia earlier in the year, they would still have the incentive of the possibility of a win within the EAGL Conference. A win against West Virginia or host team Maryland would give the Knights their first conference win of the year.

But first they must smooth out the inconsistencies that plagued their last meet. “Our goal right now is to go into the meet and hit five out of six routines in each event,” Gunzelman said. “I think being able to do that is really going to help our scores, especially against West Virginia and Mar yland.” Levine sees a team that has improved skill-wise from the one that last faced West Virginia. The team’s mindset will determine its fate, he said. “It is just about putting in the repetitions and building confidence,” Levine said. “It is continuing to do routines that enable you to go up there knowing you can do it, and you’re not just hoping to get through it.”

The first opportunity to break the losing skid comes Saturday at Villanova. The most glaring number for the Wildcats (15-11, 5-8) is their below-.500 Big East record. The Knights have not faced a losing Big East team during their current five-game losing skid. But when ’Nova wins, it usually does so with 3-point shooting. Its .337 shooting percentage

places it four th in the Big East. Rutgers ranks 13th in the conference with a .286 percentage, but the Knights displayed signs of breaking out of their slump, exposed Wednesday at West Virginia. Senior forward April Sykes scored in double figures for the first time since Jan. 29 against Georgetown. Junior guard Erica Wheeler played all 40 minutes Wednesday in her 11-point output. Stringer benched Wheeler for three games and Sykes for two amid the losing streak, but the Hall of Fame coach is hopeful for both scorers. “The bad part is it’s not that they’re being belligerent. It’s not that they enjoy the embarrassment,” Stringer said. “Each and every one of them is trying to make the freshmen better. They’re trying to be better themselves.” Stringer felt the embarrassment throughout the Knights’ longest losing streak since the 2001-2002 season. But she put this group together, the team with a heralded recr uiting class and upperclassmen toward the end of their collegiate careers. The Knights did not do what they hoped in the tough stretch of their schedule, but Stringer wants to make the most of their limited time before the Big East and NCAA Tournaments. “They realized [in West Virginia] that they’re all connected to each other,” Stringer said. “As [Rushdan] goes, so does April. As April goes, so does [Rushdan] and Erica and [junior center Monique Oliver] and the whole team.”

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Senior forward April Sykes drives to the basket Sunday against St. John’s. She scored 10 points Wednesday at West Virginia.

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he Rutgers women’s basketball team hopes to avoid its longest losing streak since the 20012002 season. The Scarlet Knights bring their five-game slide to Villanova on Saturday and open a much easier stretch of schedule. The Knights lost six straight a decade ago. That streak came in a 9-20 season when guard Cappie Pondexter was ruled ineligible. Pondexter started for the Knights for four years before she transitioned to the WNBA. The Knights finished 21-8 the year after. Rutgers struggled similarly in Khadijah Rushdan’s twogame absence. When the senior point guard was out, she took the team’s offensive consistency with her. “You’re trying to figure out what we’re doing wrong and why we’re doing it,” said head coach C. Vivian Stringer. “We still need each person, and no one can absolve themselves.”

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and former New York Met Gary Carter died Thursday after a nearly year-long battle with brain cancer. The 57-year-old was a pillar of the 1986 World Series team. Carter last made a public appearance earlier this month at Division-II Palm Beach Atlantic, where he coached the baseball team. His health declined in recent months after May 2011, when he was diagnosed with four brain tumors. His children accepted an award in his honor in January at the New York Baseball Writers’ Association of America dinner. Carter retired in 1992 with 324 home runs. He was elected into the Hall of Fame in 2001.

As Rutgers head softball coach Jay Nelson watched the team warm up before practice Tuesday, he noted SOFTBALL several RUTGERS AT positive performTEXAS STATE, ances TONIGHT, 6:30 P.M. from the seasonopening tournament. “[Freshman first baseman] Ashley Alden hit some balls really hard. She had a couple doubles and hit a line drive that almost took the center fielder’s glove of f,” he said. “[Junior middle infielder Jennifer Harabedian] played well. [Junior middle infielder] Ashley Bragg hit the ball well. She got a couple hits and hit the ball hard even when she didn’t get hits.” Freshman Jackie Bates also put up solid numbers last weekend, which earned her a spot on the Big East Weekly Honor Roll. The Lincroft, N.J., native picked up 2 RBI on Day 1 and her first collegiate home run on Day 2, which broke a 3-3 tie with Mississippi Valley State. In Nelson’s eyes, the 2012 team is the best he has had since he began at Rutgers. The first encouraging sign came Saturday, when the Scarlet Knights won their first game of the season. It was the first time the Knights opened with a win during junior starting pitcher Abbey Houston’s tenure. For Nelson, the drought was even longer. Not since 2004 has Rutgers kicked off its season with a victory. “Last year we got blanked [in the opening tournament]. We were 0-4,” Nelson said. “We were kind of feeling our way last year and got in stride at about the third tournament. This year, we’ll hit [our stride] a little earlier.”

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point guard Jeremy Lin gave credit to teammate Carmelo Anthony on Thursday for giving him a shot with the Knicks. Lin appeared on ESPN New York 1050’s “The Michael Kay Show,” confirming Anthony told head coach Mike D’Antoni to put him in the Knicks’ Feb. 4 game against the New Jersey Nets. The Harvard product broke out with 25 points and seven assists off the bench before being named a starter two days later. Lin praised Anthony’s scoring and playmaking and said he will benefit from Anthony’s return.

DESPITE A NEED FOR wideouts, Minnesota Vikings general manager Rick Spielman said Thursday his team is not interested in Randy Moss. Spielman cited the players’ disinterest, which stems from Moss’s second stint with Minnesota in the last month of the 2010 season.

Junior shortstop Ashley Bragg hit .252 last season with two home runs and 19 RBIs. She also picked up at least one RBI in three of four games in last weekend’s tournament in Lafayette, La. To keep pulling at least a .500 record, the Knights need to fix offensive problems. Although there were some solid showings in Louisiana, Rutgers needs to divert from its largely inconsistent offense, Nelson said. “We had some good performances and we had some inconsistencies, and that’s early in the year,” he said. “Our athletes recognize what their mistakes are. It’s just a matter of fixing them.” Their first chance to test their hard work is this weekend, when the Knights travel to San Marcos, Texas, to compete in the CenturyLink Classic, beginning with a matchup against Texas State. Although Rutgers is off to its best start in eight years, Nelson does not want to put too much pressure on the still unproven team.

“Texas State is in the top third of the nation. Dayton is pretty good,” he said. “They’re going to be a good test for us. We could come out 5-0 but I would be happy with 3-2.” Houston disagrees. With what she saw out of the Knights in practice and in Louisiana, she thinks they can do better. “I think it’s going to be good competition,” she said. “I think we could come out of it 5-0, though. I don’t think we’re going to lose at all.” The confidence is based on experience. The 2011 season — Rutgers finished with a 19-30 record — was a struggle for a squad that was largely unproven and had holes to fill.

With more experience and new additions such as Bates and pitcher Alyssa Landrith, Houston said this year’s team is a step up from years past. “We’ve grown. As a whole we’re all older and more experienced,” Houston said. “We all trust each other and we all have that chemistry.” While the Centur yLink Classic does not feature ranked teams like the Knights saw to open the season, competition could still be as tough. “You can’t take anybody lightly,” Nelson said. “We played Texas Souther n last year. We beat them fairly easily, but you never know. Maybe they come up with a big-time freshman pitcher and they’re a much better team.”

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It has been a long decade for any Big East school not named Connecticut or Notre Dame. The Big East MEN’S TRACK juggernauts RUTGERS AT c o m BIG EAST CHAMPS, bined to SATURDAY win the last 10 Big East Indoor Conference Championships. The Rutgers men’s track and field team seeks to put an end to that dominance this weekend, but it can only accomplish it through a balanced team effort. “The big thing with track and field is ever ybody says it’s an individual spor t,” said head coach Mike Mulqueen. “It’s really a team spor t where the individuals score in their events to give you a team score. … It doesn’t rest on one guy’s shoulders.” A complete team ef for t would cer tainly lighten the load on the shoulders of senior All-American Aaron Younger. He had a hand in scoring 28 of

the 66 Rutgers points last year jump champion Adam Bergo in its fifth-place finish. and his sprained ankle. Bergo, Younger looks to capture his who competes in all three third consecutive 500-meter jumping events, insists the crown, while also tr ying to injur y is no longer an issue. defend the team’s 4x400-meter “It only really would ever irrirelay title. But he needs the help tate me when I planted for the of his teammates if he wants to high jump because it’s an awkland the Scarlet ward plant,” he Knights’ first said. “But now, I “It’s really a team Big East don’t really feel Championship. any pain.” sport where the Senior sprinter R e d s h i r t Steve Werner plans freshman Corey individuals score to have a hand in it. Crawford and in their events. It Werner competes in senior Tyrone the 200-meter dash, also doesn’t rest on one Putman the 400-meter dash expect to score guy’s shoulders.” and the 4x400-meter points for the relay alongside K n i g h t s . MIKE MULQUEEN Younger, classmate Crawford has the Head Coach Kevin Brown second-best long and sophomore jump distance in Corey Caidenhead. the Big East this The Knights enjoyed a produc- season at 7.59 meters, while tive year in the jumping events, plac- Putman boasts the second-best ing members in the top three in the triple jump distance at conference in the high jump, triple 15.22 meters. jump and long jump. Expectations In the shot put, junior James on the jumpers are higher than they Plummer faces tough competihave been in recent years. tion. He competes against Whether those expectations DePaul’s duo of senior Tim can be fulfilled or not depends Nedow and sophomore Matt largely on two-time indoor high Babicz, who have the two best

shot put marks in the conference, respectively. Nedow’s league-leading shot put distance of 20.35 meters also leads the nation and broke a school record. The Knights have their work cut out for them in the heptathlon, as the Connecticut trio of Jake and Ben Waruch and Jesse Chapman, owns the three best heptathlon scores in the conference. The Knights hope their combination of senior Mike Baird, who finished third in the decathlon last year, and freshman Mike Fritz, who has the fifth-best heptathlon score in the conference, helps them crack the top three in the event. Baird returned from an Achilles injur y last week. He has not competed in a heptathlon this season. Still, he has a message for the rest of the field this weekend at the championships. “They should be scared,” Baird said. “Big East Championships time is full of surprises — you never know what you’re going to get.”

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The Rutgers men’s basketball team entered its matchup Wednesday with No. 23 Notre Dame having lost five of its last six games. It then faced three conMEN’S BASKETBALL secutive games against the top-three SYRACUSE AT Big East programs. RUTGERS, The Scarlet SUNDAY, 1 P.M. Knights began the stretch with an 18point loss to the Fighting Irish. The road does not get easier Sunday, when the Knights take on No. 2 Syracuse at the Louis Brown Athletic Center. “We’re really going to be locked in on having the best possession of offense, the best possession of transition defense to the best halfcourt defense,” said head coach Mike Rice on Monday. “We’re as locked in as that.” Dane Miller heeded Rice’s call against the Irish. The junior wing scored 11 points and added 12 rebounds for his fifth double-double of the season. He had 10 and 10, respectively, in the first half alone. But only freshman guard Eli Carter joined Miller with 10 points, dropping Rutgers to 411 when less than three players score in double figures. The Knights are 0-7 when scoring less than 60 points. “They play at their pace. [Notre Dame is] a smart team,” said sophomore guard Mike Poole on Monday. ‘Their players stick to their strengths.” The Orange (26-1, 13-1) bring their own set of assets to Piscataway. Under head coach Jim Boeheim, Syracuse leads the Big East in scoring and scoring margin, beating opponents by more than 16 points on average. Boeheim claims arguably his deepest roster, having 10 players if he needs them. Rice said earlier in the season Boeheim’s five substitutes could contend for a conference title on their own. The Orange shoot the highest percentage in the league, lead the conference in blocks and rank second in assists. If any team has Final Four pedigree, Syracuse fits the bill. But Rice cannot afford to have the Knights (12-14, 4-9) take much notice. “If you start to look — ‘Oh, we have Notre Dame who’s top 25. You have No. 2 [Syracuse].

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Junior 133-pounder Joey Langel, right, fills in for senior Michael DeMarco last night in the Knights’ dual-meet finale against Drexel. Langel, who will not wrestle in the postseason, scored the first Rutgers points at the College Avenue Gym.

Langel sparks Rutgers’ dual-meet win BY STEVEN MILLER CORRESPONDENT

Joey Langel consistently sparked the Rutgers wrestling team’s lineup for the past two seasons, when he made the 125-pound spot in the lineup WRESTLING his own. He wrestled up a DREXEL 9 weight class again RUTGERS 24 Thursday night against Drexel at

the College Avenue Gym, but the result was no different as he picked up the first points for the Scarlet Knights en route to a 24-9 dualmeet victory to end the season. It was the last match of the season for the junior Langel, who will give way to injured senior Michael DeMarco at 133 pounds for the postseason. But it started the Knights on the way to their first dual-meet win since Jan. 22 against Navy. “I think it showed a little bit today that I can still get the guys going,” said Langel, who

did not wrestle until Jan. 6 after offseason shoulder surgery. “It’s just a matter of inspiring the guys and getting everybody up. My style for some reason gets the fans up and the guys into it. When you hear that crowd roar, it gets you going.” The roaring began with Langel’s first takedown less than a minute into his match. It intensified as senior 141pounder Billy Ashnault flir ted with pins

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Senior point guard Khadijah Rushdan skies for a shot Sunday as a St. John’s defender looks on. Rushdan enters the final stretch of her career, which spans five years.

Rutgers head women’s basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer gave herself the tall task of assimilating a five-member recruiting class into a veteran-loaded team. WOMEN’S BASKETBALL In the midst of a five-game losing RUTGERS AT streak and with VILLANOVA, only four games SATURDAY, NOON left until the Big East Tournament, Stringer still undertakes the process. “You have seniors making the same kind of mistakes that they make, not wanting to make the mistakes that they’re making, [and] freshmen that want to do the right

thing but just can’t function with the pressure that we have,” Stringer said. The Scarlet Knights’ frustration does not only run through their head coach. As the time left in fifth-year senior guard Khadijah Rushdan’s career shrinks, her agitation grows. “My time is dwindling down, and there’s no next year for me,” Rushdan said. “It’s hard for younger players to understand that just because it’s not their senior year. You can’t expect them to know that. It’s very important for me to make sure I go out with a bang.” The Knights (17-8, 6-6) now pursue hope in the final stretch, which consists of four teams below them in the Big East standings. They fell from a 6-1 conference record in the last five games. They now

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