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Jacob Nettleton, a Robert Wood Johnson Medical School student, rallies against the American Legislative Exchange Council. Protestors gathered yesterday in downtown New Brunswick outside Johnson & Johnson Headquarters.

Movement protests corporate greed BY GIANCARLO CHAUX METRO EDITOR

About 30 protestors gathered in front of the Johnson & Johnson headquar ters at the intersection of George and Albany Streets last night as par t of a nationwide Occupy event that targeted corporate greed. Jacob Nettleton, one of the organizers of the protest, said the rally was part of the “National Day of Action to Shut Down the Corporations,” an event which consisted of a number of coordinated protests in more than 70 cities across the countr y. “The reasoning behind this particular rally and the protest against J&J is that J&J … works through the

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American Legislative Exchange Council to systematically work against any health care reform at the state and federal level,” said Nettleton, a student at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. But J&J spokeswoman Carol Goodrich told mycentraljersey.com that the company works with many political organizations on policies. “Johnson & Johnson is committed to supporting sound public policy,” Goodrich said in the article. “In this regard, we work with many organizations across the political spectr um on a variety of policy issues related to health and other topics that impact patients, consumers and our company.” James Love, a speaker at the rally, said he was protesting against J&J’s refusal to provide licenses for its

patents on their AIDS medications. The company, he said, declined to cooperate with an international health group seeking to supply health relief to poor patients around the world. “The Medicines Patent Pool has been endorsed by several governments and public health groups as part of an effort to get voluntar y licenses to patented AIDS drugs … so they can make cheap AIDS drugs in developing countries,” Love said. “[J&J] made the decision in December not to license their patents.” Love, director of Knowledge Ecology International, an organization that deals with the effects of intellectual proper ty on public

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Dharun Ravi used a friend’s computer to spy on Tyler Clementi, Ravi’s gay roommate, said the friend, who testified yesterday afternoon in the Middlesex County Courtroom. Ojha, who lived at Davidson Hall C on Busch campus with Ravi and Clementi, said Ravi asked him if he could use his computer for something, though he was not given an exact reason. Ojha, now a sophomore at the University, said he saw Ravi around 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 21, 2010 in the student lounge of Davidson C on Busch campus. It was then that Ravi asked Ojha for his computer, which he used to test the webcam in his and Clementi’s room. He was then able to angle the camera toward Clementi’s bed. Clementi, Ravi’s gay roommate and the target of the alleged spying, committed suicide the next day by jumping off the George Washington Bridge. “[Ravi] clicked my iChat icon, then he clicked his video. He had his ‘auto-accept’ feature set up,” Ojha said. “And at that point, he went to his room and told me to check the angle on the webcam.” Ojha said Ravi had slightly angled the camera toward Clementi’s bed. Ravi then came back to Ojha’s room, grabbed his belongings and left, Ojha said. “Ravi said, ‘it’s happening again between 9 and 12,’ and if I wanted to check it out, I should try iChat around 10:30,” Ojha said, referring to Ravi seeing Clementi kissing another man during a prior viewing session. Ravi’s defense attorney, Steven Altman, asked if Ravi had told Ojha not to tell anyone else about what he had seen. Ojha said he did not remember. He also admitted to sending out two text messages to two friends Ojha and Ravi had met during the first week at the University. On Sept. 19 and Sept. 21, Ravi asked him to text the two students telling them to check Ravi’s Twitter. Later that same night, Clementi approached a Davidson Hall resident assistant to request a room change. During the video screening, Clementi had realized his roommate was spying on him, said Raahi Grover, a former resident assistant at Davidson Hall C. Clementi went to Grover’s room around 11 p.m. Grover, a University alumnus, said students are typically supposed to go to their assigned resident assistant, but Clementi went to him. Grover did not recall if Clementi’s resident assistant had been in the building at the time. Grover said Clementi’s voice was shaky so he invited him in for a closed-door conversation in his room. “I could tell by the tone of his voice he was uncomfortable,” Grover said. The 20-minute conversation involved Ravi and an incident that occurred that evening. During this conversation, Grover said he told Clementi to write an email “referencing whatever needed to be referenced,” and Clementi did so in a 12:03 a.m. email, which was later duplicated in an incident report. “I feel as though my privacy has been violated, and I am extremely uncomfortable sharing a room with someone who would act in this wildly inappropriate manner,” Clementi wrote in his email to Grover after he met with Grover in his room. Supreme Court Judge Glenn Berman said jurors are prohibited from seeing the words “wildly inappropriate” because the phrase aligns with a judgment Clementi made on Ravi based on past experiences, rather than Clementi’s state of mind when he filed the report. The incident report was filed through a system, in which the report was distributed electronically to the senior management hall director and the University Residence Life coordinator for Busch campus. Grover reported in the email, “Tyler prefers a roommate switch asap and prefers a punishment.” Grover included that he thought the room change should be applied as soon as possible. “I offered him that if he wasn’t feeling comfortable with his living arrangement, I had an extra bed in [my] room,” Grover

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Professor to present effects of weight stigma in Greece BY YASHMIN PATEL UNIVERSITY EDITOR

While being over weight comes with certain health risks, social stigmas attached to an individual’s weight can also have negative effects on their health, according to a University professor and her team of researchers. A study conducted last year by A. Janet Tomiyama, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, in collaboration with a team of researchers at the University of California in San Francisco found weight stigma as a factor in inducing stress in overweight women. Tomiyama and collaborators will present their findings in Athens, Greece, this month to the American Psychosomatic Society’s 70th annual “Scientific Meeting,” she said via email correspondence. Tomiyama said the research, which was funded by the National Institute of Health, spoke with 42

overweight or obese women who were predominately white. All women reported experiencing stress because of weight stigma, or treating someone in a negative way because of their weight. People often assume that diabetes and high blood pressure are the only reasons to be overweight, but stress is known to produce similar side effects, Tomiyama said. She said past studies have focused on the psychological outcomes to weight stigma, but those findings did not look at the actual health outcomes. “Maybe part of what’s driving these bad health consequences in obesity isn’t being obese, but it’s the stigma … as a response to society’s social stigma to being overweight,” she said. Tomiyama said the researchers asked the women about their direct experiences with people who treated them differently because of their weight or if they felt they lost employ-

ment opportunities because of their weight. “I took overweight and obese women, and I asked them how much weight stigma they encounter and how much do they sort of internalize and accept that weight stigma as something that

“... If we can get rid of weight stigma, then we can help everyone no matter what weight they are.” A. JANET TOMIYAMA Assistant Professor in Department of Psychology

is true and deserved,” she said. Researchers also tested levels of cortisol, a stress hormone, in the women’s saliva and blood, Tomiyama said.

“Cortisol actually has been linked with weight gain,” she said. “So it might be this vicious cycle where you experience weight stigma that stresses you out and your cortisol goes up that leads to further weight gain, and the cycle starts all over again.” Oxidative stress, or an imbalance of the production of oxygen and the body’s inability to detoxify, can have a negative impact on weight, Tomiyama said. “I found that to the extent that you experience weight stigma, the more stress hormone [and] the more cellular aging that a person had,” she said. Tomiyama said in an email correspondence that increased stress hormones are not good for the body because they make people behave dif ferently, exercise and sleep less and eat unhealthy. She said a person’s actually weight does not matter — it is the experience of weight stigma that relates to stress hormone and cel-

lular aging that can change the cycle of social stigma. “I think that’s really important because that means that if we can get rid of weight stigma, then we can help everyone no matter what weight they are,” she said. Bhoomi Shah, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, said she would not judge anyone who is overweight because she knows what it is like to have body image issues. “Maybe if you stop viewing people [negatively], then [overweight people] will perceive themselves differently, too,” she said. Gavin Pellenberg, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said being overweight could create obstacles for individuals because of their image. “I think there’s a disadvantage — some stores will hire certain people if they think they look better to have a better image,” he said. “I think that as a result people associate overweight people as not being a representative of a product.”

U. PROFESSOR DISCUSSES BIRTH CONTROL MANDATE, POLITICAL DEBATE A federal mandate requiring employers to cover bir th control for women who have health insurance in the workplace is a women’s rights issue, a University chair told Rutgers Today. Cynthia Daniels, a chair in the Depar tment of Political Science, said in a Q-and-A with Rutgers Today that the bir th control mandate has made contraception an issue this centur y. “It’s par t of that bigger political game and par t of a larger struggle over women’s rights to reproductive autonomy,” Daniels said in the ar ticle. Although President Barack Obama announced shifting the cost of contraception to the insurance companies and away from religious organizations, the issue over the mandate is ongoing, according to the ar ticle.

“The fact that we even have to be having this conversation is a sign of how regressive American politics and the American political culture have become,” she said in the ar ticle. “We are talking about access to contraception — we are not even talking about access to abor tion.” Daniels said she believes the debate over contraception access will benefit Obama in the long run because he is willing to compromise, according to the ar ticle. She said some people that are anti-abor tion are also anti-contraception, in which they are tr ying to implement a view of sexual morality on others, according to the ar ticle. “I think that is the bigger political agenda, because if you are not for pregnancy preven-

tion and you are not for pregnancy termination, then really what you are talking about is tr ying to enforce a conser vative sexual morality on a majority of Americans,” Daniels said in the ar ticle. Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., introduced the idea of having employers deny insurance coverage for contraception ser vices that are dif ferent from its religious beliefs, according to the ar ticle. “If we are going to be selective about what drugs are covered or not, based on politics, than we are going to pretty quickly enter into a system that is chaotic and not based on the real health care needs of the American public,” Daniels said.

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The Rutgers Astronomical Society is hosting Professor Tad Pryor for a lecture on “Observing Satellite Galaxies of the Milky Way with the Hubble Space Telescope.” The lecture, part of a series hosted by the society, is free and open to the public, and is accessible for non-astronomy majors. Pryor will give his lecture at the Physics Lecture Hall from 8 to 9:15 p.m. on Busch campus. The Livingston Theatre Company presents “Bare,” based on a book about Catholic high school seniors dealing with issues of sexuality and personal identity. The opening show is at 8 p.m. at the Livingston Student Center. Tickets are $8 for students, seniors and faculty, and general admission is $15. For every ticket purchased, $1 will go toward the It Gets Better Project. The Rutgers University Student Assembly will sponsor the “Save Our Future” teach-in at 7:30 p.m. at the Red Lion Café at the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus.

Comedian Aziz Ansari will perform his routine at the State Theatre in downtown New Brunswick. This event is hosted by the Rutgers University Programming Association. Tickets can be purchased over the phone, online at statetheatrenj.org or at the State Theatre box office. For more information, visit getinvolved.rutgers.edu.

Rutgers Recreation and Rutgers Ballroom is having a “Dance Workshop: Hustle Basic and Beyond” to teach the fundamentals and some variations on the official hustle from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the College Avenue Gym. Attend with or without a partner. Admission fee is $15 or $8 with a University student ID. For more information, contact Carmen Valverde at (732) 932-8204.

Rutgers Student Life will host “Student Professional Development Series: Professionalism/Interview Etiquette” from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Raritan River Lounge in the Student Activities Center on the College Avenue campus. Presenters will provide participants with tools needed to have a successful interview. Participants will be provided tips that will help them make a great impression throughout the interview process. Register at www.surveymonkey.com/s/73D836S to participate.

The Palestine Children’s Relief Fund will host its annual dinner banquet “Small Hands, Big HeARTs” to recognize the artwork and stories of children who received humanitarian relief from PCRF. The event will take place at 7 p.m. at the Rutgers Student Center multipurpose room on the College Avenue campus.

The Mason Gross School of the Arts will host the Symphony Orchestra at the Nicholas Music Center at 7:30 p.m. on Douglass campus. The event will feature the University Kirkpatrick Choir and Riverside Choral Society under the direction of Patrick Gardner. General admission will be $20, but $10 for students.

Author and educator Laura Simms conducts the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum’s sixth annual “Celebration of Storytelling,” which will focus on the themes friends and the gift of dreams. The free event is from 10 to 11 a.m. at the museum on the College Avenue campus. For more information, call (732) 932-7237, ext 640.

The Rutgers University Programming Association sponsors “Founder of ESPN: Bill Rasmussen” at the Livingston Student Center. A University alumnus and creator of ESPN, Rasmussen will return to campus with the stories behind the sports channel more than 30 years after its founding and how being an entrepreneur has shaped his life.

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Patrick Love, director of Knowledge Ecology International, speaks to about 30 protestors. He said the new CEO of Johnson & Johnson would not react to the protest, which was one of 70 Occupy rallies across the nation.

GREED: Protesters face obstacles when coming together continued from front health, said he traveled to speak at the protest in downtown New Br unswick from Washington, D.C. “I was invited to come here and speak by Doctors Without Borders,” Love said. “They are a very large humanitarian organization that provides health care in all sorts of difficult places around the world such as conflict zones and poor countries.” Nettleton said the replacement of J&J’s longtime CEO Bill Weldon, who recently announced he would be stepping down after a series of product recalls, would not make a

meaningful dif ference to the good turnout. We didn’t really movement’s protests. know what to expect, but this is “ALEC has been around since OK,” he said. 1973, so because Nettleton said J&J is only one of weather affected “It’s a good thing these large corporathe movement in tions that work recent months, that people go out through ALEC to but the consistent and ... protest. It has rallies have shown undermine health reform, I don’t the protestors helped improve the that think one company are still dedicated changing their political debate in to accomplishing CEO necessarily their goals. the United States.” means there will be “It really rings a change in the true when they JACOB NETTLETON methods of ALEC,” say, ‘You can’t Robert Wood Johnson Medical he said. evict an idea School Student Nettleton said whose time has the protestors faced come,’” he said. obstacles in coming “Just because together, but he was pleased with throughout the cold winter [and] the group that came out to the rally. there aren’t a lot of physical occu“The weather is not too good pations of public space, it doesn’t and it’s cold, but I think there is a mean there isn’t a lot of solidarity

that is geared toward occupying the discourse.” The group hopes they were able to influence the community by protesting in one of the busiest intersections in downtown New Brunswick, Nettleton said. “There aren’t people walking by because of the weather, but we have received a lot of beeps and comments from cars,” he said. “Hopefully, we’ll hear responses from the community afterwards.” Love said the protests are making an impact on the national level as well as the local communities. “It’s a good thing that people go out in person and physically make protest,” he said. “From our point of view, it has helped improve the political debate in the United States in a positive way.”

N.J. voters, for the past four decades, still think they pay too much in state and local taxes for what they get in turn, according to a new RutgersEagleton Poll. About 18 percent of state voters say they get their money’s worth from the taxes they pay. Seventy-six percent of voters disagree. A review of 40 years of Eagleton polls shows that this has not changed. Seventy-three percent of respondents said in 1972 that they paid too much for state ser vices. While in 1984, less than 70 percent said they were not getting their money’s wor th for state ser vices, 64 percent were unhappy while 29 percent thought they paid the right amount for ser vices, according to the poll. Voters also acknowledged the state’s high tax rate — 85 percent say they pay more in comparison with other states. “Historical data show that … taxes … have been among the highest in the nation for … the past 40 years.” said David Redlawsk, poll director for the Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling, in the press release. “It took a while for people to fully recognize that fact. … Complaints about taxes have been around as long as taxes themselves.”

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Director busts myths behind biotechnology BY ADAM UZIALKO CORRESPONDENT

Gregory Jaffe, the director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, dispelled several myths about genetically engineered foods yesterday during a lecture at the Marine and Coastal Sciences Building on Cook campus. Genetically engineered crops, or biotech crops, are not nutritionally better or worse than organic crops, Jaffe said. “… The industry has been arguing for a decade now that they will have more nutritious crops coming out,” he said. While Jaffe thinks biotech crops are here to stay, he said regulations and improvements are necessary for them to grow in the United States and abroad. “I think the next generation has big potential to get us more nutritious crops,” Jaffe said. Richard Fuller, a University alumnus who opposes genetically engineered foods, said he does not think biotechnology crops will benefit the public. “I came here because I wanted to know whether [Jaffe] would give the public point of view or the corporate,” Fuller said. “Bottom line, I think, is that they should be renamed the ‘Center for Science in the Corporate Interest.’” Fuller attacked the Monsanto Corporation, a multinational biotech corporation, for its alleged use of terminator seeds in India. “These terminator genes were put into the products so at the end of the year, the seeds would be destroyed,” Fuller said. “So year after year, these farmers, who relied on storing seeds to save money, were forced to buy new seeds.” He said Monsanto intentionally inserted the genes to increase their profits from the farmers. “The number of suicides of these poor farmers has been increasing for the past three years, and I imagine it goes back further than that,” Fuller said. But Jaffe said there has been a reduction in the amount of farmer poisoning from crops that are genetically engineered to produce their own pesticides. Biotechnology crops are becoming a widespread product, with 16.7 million farmers growing them in more than 29 countries, Jaffe said. But the U.S.

FRIEND: Jury listens to part of housing incident report continued from front said. “I realized the housing office wouldn’t respond, so that’s why I made him that offer.” Clementi declined. Ojha said Ravi never said anything negative about Clementi. “He said [Clementi] was a nice guy,” Ojha said. “He just

Food and Drug Administration does not approve genetically engineered foods before people eat them, he said. “Back in 1992, the FDA had a policy based on interpretations of the law and science, that genetically engineered crops would be generally recognized as safe,” he said. Organic and biotech crops can coexist on the same farm, Jaffe said. Many farmers will have one area for biotech crops and another for organic. The method of how organic crops are grown distinguishes them from other crops, including biotech crops, he said. “Organic food production uses specific agricultural methods set up by the USDA [U.S. Department of Agriculture], and if you want to be organic, you have to follow those rules,” Jaffe said. “The organic rules specifically state that biotech inputs cannot be used.” Jaffe said biotechnology alone is not the savior of all agricultural woes, but it is a useful way for farmers and consumers to get more out of their food. “Biotech is not a silver bullet. It’s not a solution for every agricultural constraint for farmers,” he said. “It can provide benefits to farmers, the environment and in the future, some consumer benefits.” While genetically engineered crops are environmentally sustainable, they also impact biological diversity by creating resistant insects, Jaffe said. “If we abuse the development of insect-resistant crops, then we will begin developing breeds of insects that are resistant to that sort of thing,” he said. Xenia Morin, associate dean and liaison for sponsored programs, said a big issue with implementing biotech products is because of a deep, regulatory framework. “There are certainly many products on the shelf. Some estimates say it takes $15 million to get a product through U.S. regulatory approval,” she said. “Every country must get approval for the release of specific crops, which means fewer people can present products, and it limits the benefits of biotech.” Morin said biotech benefits do not stop at crops but extend to animals as well. Morin said potential future genetic enhancements could prove beneficial to the environment. seemed shocked at seeing his roommate make out with a man.” Ravi is charged with invasion of privacy, bias intimidation, witness tampering and hindering arrest, with up to 10 years in prison. Ojha is expected to finish his cross-examination tomorrow morning, and M.B. is expected to testify today. The trial, which started last Friday, is expected to last three to four weeks.

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Syrian government threatens activists with ground invasion THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — The Syrian regime showed a new determination yesterday to crush its opponents, vowing to “cleanse” a rebel-held district in the besieged central city of Homs after nearly four weeks of shelling. Government troops massed outside the embattled neighborhood of Baba Amr, raising fears among activists of an imminent ground invasion that could endanger thousands of residents, as well as two trapped Western journalists, who have been under heavy bombardment. A Spanish journalist who had been stuck in the area escaped Wednesday to Lebanon, the second foreign reporter to do so since a government rocket attack last week killed two of his colleagues and wounded two others. The fate of the foreign journalists has drawn attention to Homs, which has emerged as a key battleground between government forces and those seeking to end the regime of authoritarian President Bashar Assad. The government’s increasingly bloody attempts to put down the 11-month uprising have fueled mounting international criticism. The Obama administration summoned Syria’s senior envoy in the United States, Zuheir Jabbour, over the Homs offensive. The State Department’s top diplomat for the Mideast, Jeffrey Feltman, expressed his “outrage over the monthlong campaign of brutality and indis-

criminate shelling” in Homs, according to a statement. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told members of Congress on Tuesday that Assad could be considered a war criminal. U.N. humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said Syria had not yet agreed to allow her to into the country. Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, called that refusal “shameful.” “Rather than meeting the needs of its people, the barbaric Syrian government is preparing its final assault on the city of Homs,” Rice said in a statement. “Meanwhile, food shortages are reported to be so severe that people, especially children, will soon start dying of hunger.” The U.N. and the Arab League have appointed former SecretaryGeneral Kofi Annan as their joint envoy to Syria, but Damascus says it needs more information on his mission’s goals before it will let him in. The U.N. estimated that more than 7,500 people have been killed since the anti-Assad struggle started in March 2011, when protesters inspired by successful Arab Spring uprisings against dictators in Tunisia and Egypt took to the streets in Syria. As Assad’s forces used deadly force to stop the unrest, protests spread and some Syrians took up arms against the regime. Activists put the total death toll at more than 8,000, most of them civilians. China urged world powers to provide humanitarian assistance to Syria, as Beijing tries to bolster

ISRAEL, US DISCUSS ISRAEL’S POSSIBLE ATTACK AGAINST IRAN JERUSALEM — Israel’s prime minister sets off this week on a U.S. visit clouded by a deepening rift with Washington, which is pressing Israel to hold off on any attack against Iran’s suspect nuclear program. Although Israel says it has not decided whether to strike, it has signaled readiness to do so — a move that would have deep worldwide implications. Senior Israeli officials say Israel would have to act by summer in order to be effective. U.S. officials, wary that an Israeli strike could drive up oil prices and entangle the United States in a new Mideast military confrontation during the presidential election season, want to give diplomacy and sanctions more time to work. These differences have created tension ahead of Benjamin Netanyahu’s arrival at the White House next Monday. Aides to the Israeli leader would not say what he plans to tell President Barack Obama. “The meeting will be a good opportunity to clarify both sides’ stands on ... how to act against the Iranian nuclear threat, which both sides agree is grave,” Vice Premier Moshe Yaalon told Israel Radio. Israel’s Haaretz and Israel Hayom newspapers reported Wednesday that Netanyahu wants Obama to deliver an explicit military threat to Iran in a joint statement to be issued after the meeting. Differing assessments of urgency underlie the disagreements on Iran. Israel considers a nuclear-armed Iran to be a threat to the existence of the Jewish state. It cites Iranian leaders’ repeated calls for Israel’s destruction, support for anti-Israel militant groups and its arsenal of ballistic missiles that are already capable of striking Israel. It also fears a nuclear Iran would touch off an atomic weapons race in a region hostile to Israel’s existence. Israel itself is thought to have a significant arsenal of nuclear weapons, though it does not admit that as a matter of policy. Israel takes little comfort in the U.S. assessment, reiterated Tuesday by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, that Tehran has not decided whether to build a nuclear bomb. Iran denies it is making nuclear weapons. Israeli officials note that the U.N. nuclear agency said recently that Tehran is rapidly moving ahead with a key elements associated with bomb making, and Iran is moving its nuclear operations deeper underground. They believe these developments are strong signs of Iranian intentions. — The Associated Press

diplomacy while continuing to oppose any armed intervention in the conflict. Heightening fears of greater carnage, a Syrian official said the government was planning a major offensive against the Homs neighborhood of Baba Amr. “Baba Amr will be under control complete control in the coming hours and we’ll cleanse all the armed elements from the area,” he said, speaking on condition of anonymity under government protocols. Activists reported heavy shelling throughout Homs, raising concern that the government was preparing a ground invasion to take back the city. Government forces have showered parts of Homs since the first week of February with daily barrages of mortars, tank shells and rockets. The violence has caused many to flee the city of 1 million people, Syria’s thirdlargest, while those who remain are trapped inside. Hundreds have been killed in recent weeks, activists said, including residents who foraged for food outside their homes. It was virtually impossible to reach anyone inside Baba Amr on Wednesday. Activists elsewhere in Homs said their colleagues based in the neighborhood had quit communicating with the outside because of fears the army would trace their satellite signals to target them. “Today has been very scary,” said activist Mulham al-Jundi, speaking from another part of Homs via Skype. “They are still killing in Baba Amr and the water

and electricity have been cut to most of the city.” He and his colleague ran their computer off of a small generator to communicate with the outside, he said. Armed rebels from a loose-knit group called the Free Syrian Army had been fighting with pro-government troops on the outskirts of Homs to try to keep them from entering, but he said their inferior arms weren’t much of a deterrent. “The Free Army has been trying to defend the area with almost no ammunition for 15 days. What can a Kalashhikov do against a tank and a mortar? How can they resist?” Many civilians had fled the city’s rebel-held areas, he said, “but now those who are in are stuck. There’s no way out.” Homs is about 12 miles (19 kilometers) northeast of the frontier with Lebanon, and cross-border smuggling has been key to the city’s survival and to arming the rebels because of the links between Sunnis in northern Lebanon and the Sunni majority in Homs. The city also has a minority population of Alawite Muslims, the sect to which Assad and most of his security forces belong. The ordeal of the foreign journalists, who sneaked into Syria illegally to report on the uprising, has drawn attention to Homs’ plight. Spanish photographer Javier Espinosa crossed safely into Lebanon, according to his domestic partner, Monica Garcia Prieto. His employer, El Mundo, confirmed it.

Two French journalists, Edith Bouvier and William Daniels, remain in Baba Amr, Prieto said. Bouvier and British photographer Paul Conroy were wounded last week in a government rocket attack on a makeshift media center that killed American-born journalist Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik. Conroy was smuggled into Lebanon on Tuesday after fleeing the neighborhood Sunday night. The activist group Avaaz said Syrians it supported got both men out of Baba Amr and into Lebanon. It said Espinosa left the neighborhood with Conroy, but the group came under shelling and Espinosa stopped to tend to the wounded while Conroy went on. Espinosa later met another group of Syrians who took him to Lebanon, Avaaz said. Thirteen Syrians were killed while aiding the escape, the group said. The Local Coordination Committees, a human-rights monitoring group, said Bouvier refused to leave Baba Amr without the Syrians who were wounded by shelling while attempting to help her escape, and she has called on the French ambassador for help. The French Foreign Ministr y demanded that the Syrian regime observe a ceasefire so Bouvier and Daniels could be evacuated. In Damascus, Foreign Ministr y spokesman Jihad Makdissi said the government wants to evacuate the journalists but is being prevented by gunmen.

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Egypt lifts ban for seven Americans THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO — Egypt lifted a travel ban yesterday on seven Americans charged with fomenting unrest by working for illegally funded pro-democracy groups, signaling an end to the worst crisis in Egypt-U.S. relations in 30 years. The clash put $1.5 billion in annual American aid to Egypt at risk and sparked intense behindthe-scenes negotiations between the two countries to find a way out. Defense lawyer Thar wat Abdel-Shaheed said the seven Americans, including the son of U.S. Transportation Secretar y Ray LaHood, could only leave the country if they post bail of 2 million Egyptian pounds (about $300,000). They have also signed pledges to attend their next hearing. “The ban was lifted on humanitarian grounds, but the bail is way too high,” Abdel-Shaheed, who represents some of the American defendants, told The Associated Press. Secretar y of State Hillar y Rodham Clinton said the United States was encouraged by reports the ban was lifted but added she had no confirmation. Egyptian officials said the travel ban was lifted by the country’s top prosecutor at the recommendation of the case’s investigating judge. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case. It was not immediately clear whether the charges against the Americans would be dropped. But even before the ban was lifted, there were signs the case was dissolving under intense U.S. pressure. The trial of more than 40 U.S. and foreign aid workers opened on Sunday and was adjourned until late April. The court’s three judges excused themselves from the case on Tuesday, citing “uneasiness.” Only the Egyptian defendants attended Sunday’s hearing, and the judge gave no instructions to police to ensure the American and other foreign defendants attend the next hearing.

The workers were charged following a December raid by Egyptian security of offices of 10 nonprofit pro-democracy and human-rights groups, confiscating documents and equipment. The groups were accused of financing protests over the past year with illegally obtained funds and failing to register with the government as required. The groups insist their financing is transparent, and all their efforts to register have been stalled by the Egyptian government. The seven Americans who were banned from leaving are among 16 Americans on trial in the case. The other Americans had already left the country before charges were filed against them. Twenty-seven others are on trial, including 16 Egyptians as well as German, Palestinian, Serbian and Jordanian citizens. The travel ban on the non-American foreigners in the case has also been lifted if bail is posted. The defendants faced charges of using illegally obtained funds to incite protests against the military rulers. They worked for a variety of democracy-promoting organizations, including four U.S. groups. The heavily publicized case of the four U.S. pro-democracy groups has been linked to the turmoil roiling Egypt since an 18-day popular uprising forced Hosni Mubarak to step down in February last year after three decades in power. Rights activists have sharply criticized the investigation into the civil society groups and the charges against the workers. They say it is part of an orchestrated effort by the ruling generals to silence critics and cripple organizations critical of their handling of what was supposed to be a transition to democracy. The charges dovetail with constant pronouncements from the militar y that protests against their rule are directed by unnamed, dark foreign forces, a claim that is ridiculed by Egyptian activists. Still, the case resonated among many

Egyptians who often suspect foreigners, particularly from the West, of meddling in Egypt’s affairs. Egypt and the United States have been close allies since the late 1970s, soon after the Egyptians abandoned decades of partnership with the Soviet Union and signed a peace treaty with Israel, the first Arab nation to do so. Informally, U.S. aid to Egypt is hinged on Cairo keeping the peace with Israel. U.S. officials, furious over the case, have threatened to cut off aid to Egypt — $1.3 billion in military aid this year and $250 million in economic assistance. The suspicion of foreigners among some Egyptians was exploited by the generals against the small but vibrant segment of the population opposed to their rule. They used their allies in the media and the Islamist-dominated parliament to portray their critics as agents of foreign powers while projecting an image of themselves as the nation’s true patriots. A senior Cabinet minister was quoted over the past few weeks as saying the United States and its close ally Israel worked to stop Egypt from becoming a democratic and prosperous nation after the ouster of Mubarak, a close U.S. ally. Reports in the state media spoke of Egyptian intelligence reports that employees of the nonprofit groups were linked to the CIA. The final resolution of the case, which would follow a string of high-profile visits to Egypt by top U.S. figures, will be seen by some as a climbdown by the generals in the face of U.S. pressure. Curiously, the crisis erupted while the military — the Egyptian institution that benefited the most from the close ties with Washington — was at the helm. That prompted many to speculate that the generals may have all along intended to back down at the point where they believe they have har vested all possible domestic gains from the crisis.

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THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS PROTEST EDUCATION SPENDING CUTS IN BARCELONA BARCELONA, Spain — Tens of thousands of students protested education spending cuts in big cities across Spain yesterday, and the demonstrations turned violent in Barcelona as angry young adults clashed with police. Riot police charged a crowd outside the stock market in Barcelona, Spain’s second largest city, after protesters who broke away from a peaceful rally numbering thousands threw rocks and other objects. Video in Spanish media showed protesters setting plastic garbage containers alight with flares, causing a blaze that destroyed at least one car. They also hurled rocks at the glass front door of a bank branch. Some students made their way to the University of Barcelona and took refuge from riot police in a plaza inside the campus, denying that they started the violence. Student Pau Bronsoms, 22, said police used truncheons to hit protesters and fired rubber bullets. “We did not expect this degree of repression,” he said. “Nobody broke anything until they charged.” A regional police official in Barcelona declined comment on tactics used to break up the demonstration, speaking on condition of anonymity because of department policy. Spain is in the midst of a deep economic crisis, with the unemployment rate for people ages 16-24 at nearly 50 percent. Many young adults fear they have no future in the country and are angry at the new conservative government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, which is enacting widespread austerity cuts to prevent the country from being forced into a bailout such as those taken by Greece, Ireland and Portugal. Large protests also took place Wednesday in Madrid and Valencia, but there were no reports of violence. — The Associated Press

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he United States has always — at least, for the most part— relied on a justice system that gives equal and fair trial to those accused of criminal activity. Only recently has it become more obvious that our country’s officials have strayed away from this practice, pointing to terrorism plots like Sept. 11 as need for less forgiving, more stringent protocol regarding the detainment of individuals charged with such activity. Congress passed a mandate just last year that requires all suspected al-Qaida operatives be held in military custody, rather than be tried in civilian justice systems. In an attempt to make this policy more flexible, President Barack Obama’s administration has drawn up waivers that would exempt cer tain prisoners from Congress’ mandate. The waivers, according to an nytimes.com article, would apply “to any case in which officials believed that placing a detainee in military custody could impede counterterrorism cooperation with the detainee’s home government or interfere with efforts to secure the person’s cooperation or confession.” But while we applaud the Obama administration for taking this step, however minor, toward reforming the country’s corrupted policy, we protest the administration for not doing nearly enough to promote the proper use of an individual’s Sixth Amendment right, regardless of who the individual is in question. Policy measures that infringe upon the civil rights of individuals across the country seem to have grown in both number and scope in recent years. The congressional mandate is just one example of this trend. The waivers, however, would allow suspects to be dealt with by local officials and tried in local courts — respecting the rights the U.S. Constitution supposedly grants to all individuals. If we as a nation wish to promote a society in which all are treated with equal respect, we must employ policies that reflect such a commitment to individual rights. The Obama administration, as well as future administrations, must make it a point to accomplish this.

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A case for free speech, part I abiding pluralism. Of course, the way that our country looks and functions today reflects a whole bunch of philosophies that won out over others. But at the most base level, we require ideas to win or lose ALEX LEWIS based on their merit, on the y now my faithful free marketplace of speech. readers (all three of you, counting my We pay an uncomfortable price to embrace this mom) will have my style pretty much principle: We have to protect everyone’s rights, nailed: I make a few timely references to some including those who say things that offend, infuriate annoying University-related phenomena, call out or contradict us. And everyone means everyone — the numbskulls responsible for said phenomena, the offensive, the biased and, yes, even those take a passing swipe at Tinsley Hall on the College mouthbreathers in Tinsley Hall. The exceptions to Avenue campus, stick a fork in it, and call it a colthis right are few, and the list of things you actually umn. If I’m lucky, I manage to eke out a chuckle or can’t say is a narrow one indeed. In fact, it’s limited two in the process. only to those things that include a credible threat of In the midst of all this laugh-seeking, I someviolence and those that constitute harassment times have to resort to the uncouth based on the time, place and manjoke. I rarely prioritize political corner of their delivery. “But at the most rectness or sensitivity for sensitiviNote that these prohibitions flow ty’s sake before a hearty sense of from objective criteria — never base level, we require humor. The comedy giants upon from content judgments or how whose shoulders we all stand ideas to win or lose badly someone’s feelings got hurt. showed us that sometimes, it can be Someone should have told the based on their merit, University. As a public university, worth it just to be offensive, without attaching any grandiose message to on the free market- our school has every requirement it. Comedians like Richard Pryor to extend all of the constitutionally place of speech. ” and George Carlin didn’t just break guaranteed rights to all of its stuthe status quo — they smashed it dents at all times: Don’t let anyone with careers full of pushing the at the University ever tell you that envelope of sensitivity. In doing so, they dragged you waived your right to speech or privacy or America kicking and screaming into a broader horiassembly or petition or due process just by zon. For me, that’s all the reason I ever need to enrolling. You didn’t. When you become a Scarlet make a mean joke. I’m not arrogant enough to think Knight, you didn’t check your basic rights at the that I’m advancing the comedy zeitgeist in the same Old Queens gate. way as Pryor and Carlin when I make a cruel quip. And yet, plastered all over campus this year are But in some small way, I’m paying tribute. posters from the Or wellian “Bias Prevention Usually, the really taboo stuff also happens to be Education Committee” reminding you that “there is the least funny. No need to censor people who make no such thing as ‘free’ speech.” What they really truly offensive jokes — the silence that follows their mean is that all speech has consequences — a true would-be laugh line is all the sanction they’ll need. and valuable point to make. But it’s a scary thing to But you don’t have to buy my justification. The read at a school that currently maintains an ambiguU.S. Constitution includes a robust protection for ous and over-broad disciplinary policy regarding your speech in the First Amendment of its Bill of bias and verbal dissent in its newly streamlined stuRights. Appreciate what this means: The governdent code. It’s the kind of policy that’s easy to misment of our country has been humble enough to interpret as a license to abridge your First presume that no ideological stripe, or theory, or Amendment rights — more on that in a forthcomschool or dogma is inherently “better” or “more ing edition of “La Nausée.” right” than any other. The only ethic the First SEE LEWIS ON PAGE 11 Amendment embraces is that of a constant and This column is the first part in a series that will examine free speech at the University and abroad. Specifically, it will attempt to answer how ‘free’ free speech really is.

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Grant asylum to B Indonesian families F or the past several months, more than 80 Indonesian immigrants in New Jersey have faced the possibility of deportation by U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement for overstaying their visas. The individuals, most of whom are practicing Christians and have lived here for more than 10 years, fled to the United States in the 1990s to escape religious persecution at the hands of a largely Muslim population. After pleas and a number of meetings with officials from the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Newark, in December 2011 the group received a temporary reprieve. The issue is, of course, a sensitive one: How does one arbitrate on matters concerning U.S. law and current immigration policy on one hand, and on the other, the residence of a people who have built their lives on U.S. soil? But the most recent effort undertaken by community members to delay — or permanently annul — this deportation came in the form of an eight-hour “call-a-thon” yesterday at the Reformed Church of Highland Park. Supporters urged politicians and customs officials to pass a bill that would grant eight men who face deportation as soon as March — along with all Indonesians who entered the United States between 1997 and 2002 — the ability to apply for political asylum. Some would argue that allowing these residents stay, given the fact they they’ve acted in clear violation of local and federal immigration policy, would set a poor precedent for other cases similar in nature. It also remains unclear as to why these individuals did not apply for asylum in the first place, if indeed they fled to the United States to escape religious persecution. But the fact remains that these families have lived here for more than a decade in the same way that any “legal” resident has — paying taxes, bearing children, building families and contributing to the general welfare of their respective communities. Despite being undocumented in a legal sense, there is nothing illegal about the way these individuals have lived their lives. Unfortunately, the country’s current immigration policy may offer little hope for these families. If deported, the eight men will have to wait at least 10 years until they might be able to return. But this does not mean these individuals — as well as community members — do not have a right to protest and plea with officials to have their case heard.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “The numbers of suicides of these poor farmers have been increasing for the past three years, and I imagine it goes back further than that.” Richard Fuller, a University alumnus who opposes genetically engineered foods, on the effect those foods have on rural farmers in America STORY ON FRONT

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LEWIS continued from page 10 Whether we like it or not, February 2012 will go down in University history as the month sorority girls ruined Internet memes for the rest of us. The Daily Targum recently reported in the Feb. 21 and 22 issues on the advent of the “Rutgers Memes” Facebook page and how it provided a forum for all of we Knights to share witty views of the quirky, conflicted and — thanks to the public relations nightmare known as the reality TV show “Jersey Shore” — much maligned New Jersey collegiate lifestyle. The Targum also noted that the site’s creators censor any offensive memes. If you’ll forgive me a moment of “hipster-esque” culture critique, an underground phenomena like the meme can only stand the sunlight of the mainstream for so long before it withers into mediocrity. Sure, there’s still the occasional hyper-relevant laugh to be found, but most of the University memes now rank somewhere between puns about basketball player Jeremy Lin and straight-to-DVD

“American Pie” spin-offs on the universal list of “Painfully Unfunny Things.” If I had my way, I’d remove the whole page for crimes against comedy. But I wouldn’t censor the offensive ones just for being offensive. I would be remiss if I didn’t offer a resource for anyone who has ever been the victim of persecution because of something they’ve said — or wished to say but weren’t allowed — at the University. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education since 1999 has been fighting the good fight against First Amendment violations. If you think a professor, administrator, other student or the University itself has violated your right to protected speech — which, again, is most speech — then I encourage you to check out theFIRE.org. Actually, everyone in academia should give the site a visit and learn about the resources available. It’s never a bad idea to know your rights. Alex Lewis is a School of Ar ts and Sciences senior majoring in political science with a minor in African, Middle Eastern and South Asian languages and literatures.

Division in Israel required for peace Letter JORDANA GILBERT here is a wall in Israel, and I thank God ever y day for its existence. To be quite honest, much of this “wall” we hear so much about is actually a chain-link fence with motion sensors, but that’s just semantics. Whatever you want to call it, it is there — and yes, it prevents people from freely entering Israel. These are the facts. I’m sure by now you’ve written me off as some kind of monster, but if you bear with me I will explain. On Sept. 28, 2000, the second Intifada began. This was a period rife with tension between Israelis and Palestinians, just after former U.S. President Bill Clinton’s attempt to forge peace between the two sides fell apart at Camp David. Militant Palestinians, of fended by former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s visit to the Temple Mount, began a string of violent attacks against Israeli policemen. Molotov cocktails were thrown, bombs were left at bus stops, and suicide bombers attacked restaurants and buses. It was a dark time in Israeli and Palestinian histor y, with many casualties on both sides. I personally remember the fear in peoples’ eyes at the thought of going outside of their homes. When I was 12 years old, my family went to a restaurant in downtown Jerusalem. We hoped to pick a good restaurant not because of the food, but because of the chance that we’d get blown up by a Palestinian suicide bomber if we picked the wrong one. A restaurant nearby was attacked several days later, and many innocent people were killed. That could have been my mother, my father and me. This story is not unique in any way. There were 73 attacks from September 2000 to July

2003, killing 293 innocent people. No one in the country could avoid the danger because suicide bombers attacked everywhere. Bus stops, restaurants, open markets, health clinics, malls — everyone in the country risked their lives by merely going outside. Construction of the security fence began in 2002 in an effort to stem the flow of Palestinian suicide bombers into Israel proper. From August 2003 to the end of 2006, there were only 12 bombings. Since then, the numbers have dwindled to even fewer. I visited a checkpoint in the security fence in 2007 near East Jerusalem. One of the commanders manning the fence at the time told me that although the number of terrorist attacks in Israel had decreased, the number of attempts had stayed the same. The security fence is doing its job — it prevents suicide bombers from entering Israel and saves countless innocent lives. Do not get me wrong — the need for the security fence is painfully tragic. I don’t deny the discomfort it causes many innocent Palestinians as they wait in lines to go through checkpoints, and I wish with all of my heart that there was peace in the region so that security measures like the fence were unnecessar y. But the current need for the fence is undeniable. It is not discriminator y nor is it a symbol of a nonexistent Israeli apartheid. It is an unfor tunate reality born of necessity. Instead of petitioning Israel to remove the fence immediately and once again allow suicide bombers to inundate its cities, we should focus on engendering peace in the region through dialogue and a striving toward mutual understanding. Only then can the security fence come down. Jordana Gilbert is a School of Engineering junior majoring in biomedical engineering.

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End fracking everywhere Letter KAITLIN D’AGOSTINO here was an excellent editorial in The Daily Targum on Feb. 23 about a New York judge’s ruling to allow Dryden, a town in upstate New York, to ban fracking. But, in the last line of the editorial, there was a sentiment expressed that seemed senseless and out of place, stating, “fracking may be deemed appropriate for certain areas.” I wholeheartedly disagree. The public health hazard of having carcinogenic and extremely toxic chemicals seep into the aquifers that hold our groundwater is not a risk worth taking. In many communities around the country and closer to home, fracking has proven to be a severe health risk

that hurts the public and helps the greedy corporate. Though fracking generates a lot of money, it is just unnatural. Fracking, by any basis, is wrong, regardless of how many people live around the site. Everyone, regardless of residence, deserves reliably potable tap water. Letting companies frack in less densely populated areas still allows them to practice fracking — and could lead to them expanding over time to more densely populated areas. By giving these companies the power to frack even one site, we are giving them control over our drinking water and our land — a prospect that must be left to the residents, not the companies. So with this, I argue that we must work to ban fracking, not just on a case-by-case basis, but on a national

basis, too. There are entire countries that have banned the practice and the United States can work toward that, too. Our land is beautiful and not meant to be populated by the occupancy of frackers and their ugly sites. Our water is valuable, and with only 1 percent left in the world accessible for human consumption, we cannot risk a drop to become polluted. The true answer is that we must stop our dependency on oil, and look to other alternatives. Whether we frack or not, it’s a well that eventually — and universally — will run dry. Kaitlin D’Agostino is a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore majoring in environmental science with a minor in Arabic. She is a campaign coordinator for the “Take Back the Tap” campaign.

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Today's Birthday (03/01/12). Saturn spends most of 2012 in Libra, your Eighth House of joint resources. Target debt reduction this year, and then build savings and retirement funds. Saturn's about learning and responsibility. Career and education both sparkle. Love and social life's not bad, either. To get the advantage, check the day's rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging. Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 6 — Finish a job carefully. A solution to an old problem becomes apparent, and reviewing the cards again reveals new strategies that weren't obvious before. Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 6 — Wait until later to discuss an upcoming purchase ... the timing's not right. Heed a friend's warning. When choosing, consider the impacts on your health. Gemini (May 21-June 21) — Today is a 6 — Impulsiveness can cause accidents, so slow down a bit. Check your footing, and play strong. Refuse to be suppressed. Recharge batteries when low. Cancer (June 22-July 22) — Today is a 7 — Think it over a little longer. It should be ready to go later. Traffic's blocked for now. Stick close to home, and take care of some lingering responsibility. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 7 — Belt it out: You've got something to say, and they're listening. You have some wonderful friends. The best things in life are free. Enjoy them with gusto. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is an 8 — Don't jump the gun; listen for the timing. Step carefully, and watch where you're going. Pay attention, and you master the dance. Now you're jamming.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 7 — Imagine the finished product, and you can spot potential problems before they arise. If you get stuck, take a walk and think it over. Calm down to untangle. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 6 — Stay close to home, but make sure to recharge with a stroll outdoors. Don't miss the forest for the trees. Look at the big picture. Get plenty of rest. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 7 — At first, the task may seem impossible. Create teamwork to make it happen, and exceed expectations. Don't forget to give thanks. There's room for love. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is an 8 — Keep working on it with as few distractions as possible. But don't cut corners to get the job done. Pay attention to detail. Slow down to get it done faster. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 7 — Don't throw your money away; be creative with what you've got. Open windows and let a romantic breeze fill your heart. When all else fails, use humor. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 6 — Your family helps you to overcome a difficult situation. Lean on them more than you might normally. Thank them. They know you'd do the same. Don't take it personally.

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MOMENT: RU begins assessment of new practices continued from back February is tough as it is … but once you add injuries and losses from an individual and team standpoint, everybody’s morale starts going down a little bit.” Rutgers won its dual-meet finale against Drexel, then took five days away from the mat before starting a training cycle that will take the team through the postseason. Intense training workouts give way to two-a-days on the mat, then two days off before the strength training resumes. The Knights followed a similar pattern last year, but not as focused and with less emphasis on rest, Goodale said.

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Junior wing Dane Miller drives Saturday at Seton Hall.

HURDLES: Wildcats suffer despite talented roster continued from back But Villanova is still dangerous. The Wildcats held doubledigit leads against now-No. 20 Notre Dame and Connecticut last week before losing to both in overtime. The talent Wright assembled belies its low conference standing. Junior center Mouphtaou Yarou was the third-best player at his position in high school, according to Rivals.com. Wayns and junior guard Dominic Cheek were Rivals four-star commits. But seldom-used center Maurice Sutton is Wright’s only senior. “Sometimes it’s just the scheduling,” said junior wing D a n e Miller. “It puts you in the situa t i o n where you m i g h t have to p l a y Syracuse, UConn, DOMINIC N o t r e CHEEK D a m e , Cincinnati in a row. You have the confidence and play those teams and lose a couple in a row, [then] your confidence boils down and stuff happens.” The Wildcats (11-17, 4-12) have lost seven of their last eight. Rutgers (13-16, 5-11) dropped eight of nine, including six straight, before outlasting Seton Hall on Saturday in overtime. “When you lose six in a row, you’re not in a great frame of mind,” Rice said. “If anything, it made the guys believe in the formula and what I’m talking about. It just lifts up their spirits. Any time you lose for a whole month — I don’t care who you are — you’re going to doubt yourself.” The Knights lost six of eight a year ago before knocking off the Wildcats. A win at the Louis Brown Athletic Center this time around would not be unexpected. But it does mean it would lack meaning. “Guys wanted the win [last year]. We felt like we were going to win when we stepped into the building,” Miller said. “We saw everybody’s eyes in the locker room. Hopefully we know how important this game is.”

“We wanted to keep doing what we were doing because we had such a good dual-meet season,” Goodale said. That was never an issue this year, when the Knights used the regular season to work their way toward peaking in postseason tournaments. Although it will take another two weeks to see whether the program’s shift in emphasis was worth it, the first look comes at Princeton. “This is by far the best two weeks we’ve had,” Goodale said. “Everybody is on board with what they have to do. We’re going to be healthy, we’re going to be fit, we’re going to be in shape, we’re going to be rested, we’re going to wrestle as hard as we can. Whatever happens at that point happens.”

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Head coach Scott Goodale the Knights’ goal this weekend is to finish in the top three at the EIWA Tournament at Princeton.

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RU closes indoor season at ECAC event BY ANTHONY RODRIGUEZ STAFF WRITER

The indoor track season comes to an end as the Rutgers women’s track and field team g e t s WOMEN’S TRACK ready to compete RUTGERS AT t h i s ECAC CHAMPS weekend at SUNDAY t h e E C A C Indoor Championships. The ECAC is arguably the biggest meet the Scarlet Knights have seen up until this point of the season. After a disappointing 13thplace finish at the Big East Championships two weeks ago, the Knights enter the ECAC looking to score a top-15 finish. With the talent on the their roster, led by the 4x400-meter relay team, the goal is a realistic possibility. “To recap the Big East Championship, I was ver y pleased,” said sprinters coach Lou Tomlinson. “As a track

coach, the watch tells ever y- Hurrington practiced Monday for thing, and when your athletes go the first time since the injury and out there and perform at their is expected to run at the ECAC. best, you have got to be satisfied “We are hoping she can get with that.” back to the level that she was at Performing at their best may two weeks ago,” he said. be a little tougher for the Knights If Hurrington is not able to this weekend, considering sopho- go, Rutgers will be forced to rely more Corr yn heavily on its H u r r i n g t o n other athletes. sprained her ankle F r e s h m a n “We come out no during the 4x400s p r i n t e r matter if it was a meter relay at the G a b r i e l l e Big East is bad day or a good Farquharson Championship. one of the ath“Maybe we didletes the Knights day. We come out n’t get the things will lean on more and work for the that we wanted to if Hurrington or score as many better of ourselves.” cannot compete. points as we want“As a team, I ed to, or we didn’t expect us to all GABRIELLE FARQUHARSON get the places that improve our Freshman Sprinter we wanted to, but at time because the end of the day we’ve all been the athletes competed at their working hard,” Farquharson very best and that’s all that you said. “For myself, personally can ask,” Tomlinson said. I’m thinking about getting bet“Coming into the ECAC we are ter for myself and also looking for a little more of the the 4x400.” same, for athletes to go out there Junior Asha Ruth and senior and perform at their best.” Nwamaka Okobi also expect to According to Tomlinson, produce solid results for the

team. Ruth and Okobi have competed at a high and consistent level throughout the course of the indoor season. “I’m just looking for us to stay focused and go as hard as we can,” Ruth said regarding the ECAC. “I know there is going to be a lot more schools here bringing their A games, so we just have to make sure that we go hard.” Despite the adversity the Knights faced throughout the season, one thing remains certain: The team’s confidence never wavered. “I feel like I always say this, but we are on the come up,” Ruth said. “Watch out.” Farquharson echoed the sentiment, albeit with less confidence. “In the beginning of the season, it was a little rough,” she said. “But I think at the end of the day, our work ethics are hard. We come out no matter if it was a bad day or a good day. We come out and work for the better of ourselves, and ultimately that is what got us to where we are now.”

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utgers women’s basketball senior point guard Khadijah Rushdan made the final Big East Weekly Honor Roll. Rushdan earned a mention on the final honor roll of her career Tuesday after aiding the Scarlet Knights in an undefeated stretch with three double-digit scoring performances. She notched her first double-double of the season Monday with 13 points and 11 rebounds against Marquette. The Wilmington, Del., native averaged 16.3 points, 6.3 rebounds and 3.3 assists per game in those three games with a .548 shooting clip.

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junior pitcher Tyler Gebler will miss tomorrow’s start against No. 10 Georgia Tech because of arm tightness. Senior righty Ryan Fasano will take his place. Gebler missed the Miami series two weeks ago for the same reason. Fasano took his place Feb. 18 to pitch 6 2/3 innings of one-run ball in the 41 loss to the Hurricanes. Gebler made his season debut last Friday against Old Dominion. He allowed six runs in 5 2/3 innings, but he struck out five while walking only one. Fasano will make his second start of the season. The Stony Point, N.Y., native made six starts last year.

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soccer for ward Amy Pietrangelo and Team Canada continue their preparation for the 2012 CONCACAF Women’s U20 Championship. “2012 is a huge year for me, and this qualifying tournament is the start of it,” Pietrangelo said in a press release. “I will do ever ything I can to help bring the team to the World Cup this summer.” The team currently trains in Panama before beginning the eight-team qualifying tournament March 1 against Haiti. Canada then faces Jamaica on March 3 and finishes March 5 against Mexico.

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New coach expects progress BY AARON FARRAR CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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Senior Mike Kuhn handles the ball Nov. 28 against UMBC.

Walk-ons provide stability BY TYLER BARTO SPORTS EDITOR

Rutgers head men’s basketball coach Mike Rice never had a senior to lean on this season on the court. But one of his two senior walk-ons — Charlie Rigoglioso — in early February made Rice’s job easier off of it. “He just stood up in the middle of a film session and talked about what boys MEN’S BASKETBALL do and what men do,” Rice said. “He talked about it for about 10 minutes — spontaneous outburst. He had enough.” Rigoglioso and fellow walk-on Mike Kuhn spent three seasons together under two different head coaches. Kuhn contemplated leaving the program in 2010 following former head coach Fred Hill Jr.’s departure. But Kuhn’s relationship with Rigoglioso, who transferred and returned to the program, helped him keep his faith. “It’s been huge. Coming to Rutgers and having a guy like Charlie — a brother figure so to speak — has been tremendous,” Kuhn said. “We’ve become best friends over this time, and it’s been a blessing.” Rigoglioso played in 25 games in 2007-2008 at Moravian, earning 20 starts and shooting 41 percent from the field for the Greyhounds. But he returned a year later, sitting out the season as per NCAA transfer rules. “I guess I was a little fickle when I was younger,” Rigoglioso said. “I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do our where I wanted to be. But I love it here. I embrace it.” Rigoglioso played eight minutes in 2011 against Connecticut, the eventual national champion. He also appeared in the Scarlet Knights’ 2010-2011 season opener at Princeton, which made the NCAA Tournament. “If I made that one shot in the first minute, I think my whole college career would be different,” he said. “I still have nightmares about it.” Kuhn arrived in 2008 after playing point guard at Christian Brothers Academy. He won the Knights’ scholar athlete award twice. “Kuhn was always talking about, ‘What’s the difference between successful Big East teams?’ They’ve been there,” Rice said. “They’re experienced.”

Athletic Director Tim Pernetti named Rob Shutte as head Rutgers men’s golf coach Feb. 14. MEN’S GOLF Following the departure of former head coach Chris Mazzuchetti, Shutte was brought in to be his successor and take the reins of the young Scarlet Knights. Shutte begins his stint at Rutgers with seven years of collegiate head coaching experience under his belt, including the last two seasons as Lehigh’s head women’s golf coach. He has enjoyed every moment since his hiring. “It has been pretty great so far,” Shutte said. “The Rutgers community and athletic department have been great to be around. The players have embraced me and want to learn.” Shutte brings positivity and optimism to the young team. “Some characteristics that I bring to this team are developing players to the next phase of life and improving player personnel,” Shutte said. “I want to get the most out of my players at all times in all aspects of life.”

The PGA Class A member has some work to do in improving the Knights, but he is confident in the job he will do. He sees a lot of potential in the team he inherited. “The team is very young,” he said. “We have one senior, one junior and a bunch of sophomores. There is a lot of talent.”

“There is not a huge margin of error for us.. There is some work that has to be done for improvement.” ROB SHUTTE Head Coach

While the team has potential, it failed to make a significant splash in any tournament during the fall season, despite sporting two freshmen in Hyung Mo Kim and Jacob Stockl. Shutte does not negate the fact that it will be a work in progress throughout the season. Improvement does not occur overnight. “There is not a huge margin of error for us,” Shutte said. “There

is some work that has to be done for improvement. The conference is not easy.” Shutte makes his first appearance as head coach March 16, when the Knights travel to the Siena College Homewood Suites Invitational in Port St. Lucie, Fla. Shutte enters the job with ties to the Metropolitan region. He ser ved as assistant golf professional at Arcola Countr y Club in Paramus, N.J., in 2003. He also worked as a program administrator and teaching golf professional at First Tee of Metropolitan New York in 2002 in the Bronx. Shutte hails from a Rutgers family. His father was a three-year football letterwinner at Rutgers from 1969-1971 as a defensive back, wide receiver and kicker. He was also a three-year letterwinner on the baseball team from 1970-1972 as an infielder. Shutte’s mother, Catherine, is also a Rutgers graduate. Shutte has high expectations in bringing that successful nature to golf. “I want to improve in all areas,” he said. “I want us to continue to do the right things this spring. But most importantly, keep the program in the right direction.”

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Sophomore attackman Scott Klimchak, left, and senior midfielder Will Mangan rank in the top three in scoring for the Knights and first-year head coach Brian Brecht. Rutgers seeks answers to its offensive inconsistencies Saturday, when it faces off against Lafayette at the RU Turf Field.

RU vies for better of split personalities at home BY VINNIE MANCUSO CORRESPONDENT

To the casual obser ver, it would appear the last two games of the Rutgers men’s lacrosse team’s MEN’S LACROSSE season featured LAFAYETTE AT two difRUTGERS, ferent SATURDAY, 1 P.M. Scarlet Knights teams taking the field. The Scarlet Knights handl e d Wagne r a w e e k a g o o n its home tur f in a 9-5 victor y, be s ting th e S e a ha w k s i n nearly ever y statistic. But in their home opener Sunday against Mar ylandBaltimore County, the Knights

were the team being handled, allowing the visiting Retrievers to go on scoring tears and leave the RU Tur f Field with an 11-7 win. Whether the Knights can find success Saturday when they return home to take on Lafayette depends on which Rutgers team decides to show up to play. The difference in effort has not gone unnoticed by head coach Brian Brecht. “When you are playing at this level, no one is giving you anything,” Brecht said. “We earned the game at Wagner. We were on the road. We did not earn this one [against UMBC]. I thought we gave this one away.” If the Knights squad that showed up against Wagner

comes to play against Lafayette, Brecht will see a team that dominates across all areas of the board. The Rutgers offense fired a nonstop onslaught at Wagner goalkeeper Nicholas Gibaldi, outshooting the Seahawks by an impressive margin of 42-14. The Knights scooped up eight more ground balls than Wagner, while freshman midfielder Joseph Nardella battled to win 12-of-18 face-of fs. In clear attempts, Rutgers was a perfect 16-16. But if the Knights put up the same defensive effort they did against UMBC, Lafayette will be able to score at will. Twice in the UMBC matchup, the Retrievers went on unan-

swered scoring streaks that added up to an insurmountable hill to climb for Rutgers. The second quarter began almost immediately with UMBC firing four straight goals past junior goalkeeper Rudy Butler. The third frame saw much of the same, this time with three unanswered goals in a span of little more than a minute. And yet Brecht sees the inconsistency as a sign of the early portion of the season. At this point in the Knights’ schedule, the first-year head coach thinks it is time for the team to decide who it wants to be. “It is February still. We have not even gotten to league play yet. We haven’t even made it to March,” Brecht said. “We had a heart-to-heart in the locker room, and we have to figure out if we are

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RU TOPS RIVAL PRINCETON IN DOUBLE OT Regulation and two overtime periods were not enough to determine a winner WOMEN’S LACROSSE (2OT) last

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Junior shortsop Ashley Bragg has started all seven games this season for the Rutgers softball team. She has a .375 batting average with six hits and three RBI in 16 at-bats. Bragg also owns a .900 fielding percentage with seven put-outs and two errors.

Rutgers prepares for top-10 Georgia BY JOEY GREGORY ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

The bats for the Rutgers softball team are starting to emerge. The Scarlet Knights own four h o m e SOFTBALL r uns, three RUTGERS AT f r o m OHIO, senior TOMORROW, 3 P.M. t h i r d baseman Brittney Lindley. But the defense is a different story. The defense that shows up depends on the day — the team has committed 12 errors this season — and is sometimes unreliable. And when the defense is not there, the opponent’s run total climbs quickly. “We’ve had our ups and downs so far. We’ve had games where we’ve been really solid, and we’ve had games where we’ve been not so good,” said junior shortstop Ashley Bragg. “Consistency is key, so once we get that consistency everything is going to start to work together.” So head coach Jay Nelson had the team make good use of the nearly two-week layoff. After giving his players some down time to recover, he got them back into practice with situational drills. He wants the team to be familiar with any possible circumstance during games so that when the time comes, every player knows her role. That will be more useful than ever as the Knights prepare to face their most daunting opponent of the season, No. 7 Georgia, in this weekend’s tournament.

“Their basic overall athleticism [makes them so good],” Nelson said. “And [Lu HarrisChamper] is a good coach. ... They have all of the ingredients for good recruiting, and they’re in a good environment.” The Bulldogs offense should not be ignored either. Georgia went 4-1 in its last tournament in Cathedral City, Calif. Its only loss was to No. 4 Washington. Georgia racked up 15 home runs in the tournament, including a school-record six in its win against Cal State Fullerton. While odds of beating the seventh-ranked team are not great, the game can still benefit Rutgers because of how good its opponent is. “I think that’ll be the best competition we’ve faced so far, so it’s going to be a true test to see how far we’ve come through the first two tournaments this season,” Bragg said. Other teams in the field, while competitive, do not present nearly as tough of a challenge. On paper, the Knights are still the underdogs, but Nelson does not see it that way. “They’re all good teams,” he said. “They’re probably all better than us RPI-wise, the way we finished last year. We’re much better than we were when we finished last year.” None of the teams outside of Georgia are ranked, and Rutgers has proven itself against tough competition this season. Texas State — the source of the Knights’ last victory — beat top-10 team Baylor in its last tournament. But to Rutgers, the opponent does not matter. The goal

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Senior third baseman Brittney Lindley leads the leam in eight offensive categories, including hits, home runs and RBIs. is the same for each game, so the approach has to be the same, as well. “We’re going to treat every team the same,” Bragg said. “We’re going to go into every game like we’re facing Georgia or the best team we’ve faced so far.” And to beat a team as good as Georgia, being ready is key. So that has been the focus in the days leading up to the tournament, Bragg said. The fewer mistakes the team makes, the fewer chances the Bulldogs have to capitalize on them.

“Those things come from mental mistakes and not being prepared, more than anything,” Bragg said. “I think it’s just being there mentally and always having the right state of mind.” The Knights’ first test of their preparation is tomorrow at 3 p.m. when they take on Ohio, followed by their 7 p.m. game against Georgia. And as usual, Nelson set reasonable, realistic goals for his team. “I’m looking to see us compete. I would like to start the way we finished at Texas State,” he said. “It’s a pretty good tournament, so I’d like to come out of it 3-2.”

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night, when the Rutgers women’s lacrosse team traveled to No. 8 Princeton. With more than 66 minutes of gameplay gone and sudden victor y rules in effect, sophomore midfielder Lauren Sbrilli found the back of the net to lift the Scarlet Knights to an 11-10 victory against the Tigers. The goal was Sbrilli’s second consecutive on the night and third overall. But she was not the only source of of fense in the upset. Senior midfielder Ali Steinberg and sophomore attack Megan Clements also managed hat tricks. Clements netted all of her goals in the first half en route to her first career three-goal performance and a two-goal Rutgers advantage at the break. Senior attack Danielle Mascera also did her part, chipping in with three assists. Despite the eighth-ranked opponent, Rutgers led for most of the game, falling behind only once when, with 9:36 left in the game, the Tigers took an 8-7 advantage. But save for that and two ties — one midway through the first half and another with 33 seconds left in regulation — the Knights held the lead throughout the game at the Class of 1952 Stadium. The upset was the second in three years against Princeton. The last upset came in 2010 and was also on the road. Rutgers continues its road trip March 7 with its second consecutive Ivy League opponent in the Pennsylvania Quakers. The Knights end the road trip with a March 10 meeting with Hofstra. — Staff Report

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Knights,’Nova face hurdles as young teams BY TYLER BARTO SPORTS EDITOR

Rutgers head men’s basketball coach Mike Rice used to show clips of the shot. He needed to last year with only seven scholarship players, and MEN’S BASKETBALL even this season during his freshVILLANOVA AT men’s nonconferRUTGERS, ence struggles. TONIGHT, 9 P.M. But Jonathan Mitchell’s last-second heave last season against then-No. 10 Villanova, resulting in a 4-point play and upset win, is a thing of the past now. “I’ve been there, done that with Villanova,” said head coach Mike Rice. “Now it’s all about taking care of your home court. We have two games at home, and three remaining games where … they may be favored [or] we may be favored. … That’s another par t of growing and becoming consistent.” Mitchell is long gone, playing in the Gold division of the Spanish Basketball League with C.B. Tarragona. Corey Fisher, the Wildcat guard on the other end of the play, graduated, as well. So did a combined four major contributors on both sides from the Scarlet Knights’ banner victory. The results show it. Villanova, normally a Big East powerhouse, has the third-worst record in the conference. The Knights, one of the youngest teams in the nation, matched last year’s league win total already with five. “I think it’s very similar,” Rice said. “It’s getting out of your own way, making sure you don’t make the same mistakes, taking care of the ball — all the things young teams do. Like us, they’ve done it before.” But with Rutgers remaining relatively healthy, Wildcats head coach Jay Wright suffered a rash of injuries in arguably his most trying season. Junior point guard Maalik Wayns, Villanova’s leading scorer, suffered a knee injury in early February. Wildcats freshman forward JayVaughn Pinkston landed on a basketball during warm-ups last week, resulting in an injured ankle. Rice called Pinkston the most improved player in the Big East. “Then you talk about what Maalik Wayns was doing right before he got injured,” Rice said. “He was an all-league performer, no doubt about it. It’s what you find with young teams. [Wright] has a young team.”

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Junior 165-pounder Scott Winston handles Harvard’s Ian Roy on Jan. 6 en route to a pin at the College Avenue Gym. Winston is a likely No. 2 seed, while teammates Mario Mason, a junior 149-pounder, and junior 174-pounder will likely earn top seeds at EIWA’s.

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Head coach Mike Rice reacts Feb. 22 at now-No. 8 Marquette’s Bradley Center.

Junior 149-pounder Mario Mason ties up Drexel’s Shane Fenningham on Feb. 16.

The individual portion of the season that the Rutgers wrestling team stressed all year long begins Saturday, and it finally has a team goal to go with it. After toiling through four months of a dual-meet season WRESTLING that was little more than a formality, the RUTGERS AT postseason starts EIWA TOURNEY with the EIWA SATURDAY, 9 A.M. Tournament at Princeton, where 10 conference titles and 46 NCAA Championship bids will be awarded. At the tournament geared toward individuals, the Scarlet Knights want to finish in the top three of the 14-team field. They finished in third place last year at Bucknell. “Everyone knows what’s at stake now,” said head coach Scott Goodale. “We finally have a team goal. A top-three finish in this conference would be great. We want to be a top-three team in the EIWA. That’s our goal and I think it’s fair.” But yet again, Goodale’s eye is on the next tournament. Just as he kept an eye on March throughout the entire dual-meet season, he will enter Jadwin Gymnasium with the NCAA Championships on his mind. He says junior 165-pounder Scott Winston is practicing as well as he ever has, reminiscent of the lead-up to last year’s tournament, which Winston won.

He says junior 149-pounder Mario Mason is fully healthy and back in his groove. Mason and junior 174-pounder Greg Zannetti will likely be the top seeds in their weight classes, and Winston will likely be a No. 2 seed. Conference titles are on the table, but are not necessarily the focus. “We want to be great this weekend, we certainly do, but it’s about putting yourself in a position to be involved in the national tournament and be an All-American,” Goodale said. “It doesn’t matter what you place. You might not see the best Mario Mason, Scott Winston or Billy Ashnault, etc., etc. It’s about getting through and going from there.” That is because for this program to take the next step, it needs to put someone on the All-American podium in St. Louis at the national tournament. Rutgers has nine All-Americans in its history, with the most recent in 2002. Before that, there are none since 1983. Three Knights entered last season’s national tournament with a seeding that favored to put them on the podium, but each lost before they got there. It prompted Goodale to re-evaluate and alter the way he ran his program, and it labeled the dual-meet season as secondary to the postseason. But Goodale had no idea what type of toll the losing would take. “We made it through the grind,” Winston said. “That month of January, beginning of

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