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The Rutgers baseball team earned its most lopsised victory of the season in yesterday’s 15-4 win against Fordham to get back on track after losing three of four.

Santorum quits race, Romney maintains lead

Projected cost absent from merger plans

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Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum decided to suspend his campaign for the Republican nomination yesterday and dropped out of the 2012 presidential race.

Ruth Mandel, director of Eagleton Institute of Politics, said the former Pennsylvania senator could have stopped his campaign because the numbers did not add up in his favor to win the Republican nomination.

“If he had stayed in and not won his home state of Pennsylvania, he would have been in a much a weaker position for the future,” she said. “There would have been fewer options in the future.”

Santorum strongly appealed to one section of the Republican Party, mostly composed of the party’s evangelical right, Mandel said.

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Rick Santorum, former Pennsylvania senator, suspends his campaign yesterday for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination.

Contracts disatisfy part-time lecturers

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A part-time lecturer accused the University of being unfair toward parttime employees in a YouTube video, which was eventually shared on Twitter by former University football player Ray Rice.

His business card reads “Rabbi Dr. Bernhard H. Rosenberg,” professor at Yeshiva University and part-time lecturer in the Department of Communication at the University. Rosenberg recently learned he would not be teaching public speaking at the University this summer, a course he has taught for 23 years.

He thinks he lost his job over trivial arguments because his relationships within the department are unsteady.

Karen Novick, associate dean of the Department of Communication, said

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Rosenberg’s case is a “personnel issue” and did not indicate whether enrollment levels were the exact issue.

“Within the department as a whole I believe enrollments were down a little,” Novick said.

But Rosenberg’s dissatisfaction with the University is shared among parttime lecturers across departments.

“We hear about $1.5 billion to be spent on the merger and the potential of another $10 million if the University decides to leave the Big East, so the funds are there,” said Eleanor LaPointe, a part-time lecturer in the Department of Sociology. “Are we educating students … or are we wheeling and dealing in athletic conferences?”

Because of state budget cuts in 2010, the University suspended plans to negotiate raises for its staff, according to USAToday.com, whose research

points out that since 2006 the school has spent almost $1.5 million dollars on its athletic department.

Aside from the lack of funding, parttime lecturers have no job protection, Rosenberg said. Part-time lecturers are not promised more than one semester of work at a time.

“This affects every part-time lecturer on this campus,” Rosenberg said in his YouTube video. “We are nothing.

We are trash. We are slave labor. We have no rights.”

LaPointe wrote two letters to The Daily Targum in October and December 2011 describing the problem further.

“The growing ranks of [part-time lecturers] … make notoriously low wages, have little or no health care coverage, are often expected to engage in

The Board of Governors is expected to vote Robert L. Barchi in as the next University president today at a special public meeting at 10:30 a.m. in Winants Hall on the College Avenue campus.

Barchi, the outgoing president of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, was revealed as the BOG’s choice when the University’s Media Relations accidentally ROBERT L. uploaded his photo to its website, BARCHI according to nj.com.

The soon-to-be 20th University president said he would step down from his position last June, after eight years in office at Thomas Jefferson, according to nj.com.

Barchi was the provost of the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned his Ph.D. He has his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Georgetown University, according to nj.com.

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TRENTON — Frustrations were high at the Senate Budget and Appropriations committee hearing yesterday when senators did not learn an estimated cost of the UMDNJ Advisory Committee’s proposed plan to restructure higher education in state.

With the July 1 deadline looming for the proposed merger, which includes Rutgers-Camden joining Rowan University and the University inheriting Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, the Cancer Institute of New Jersey and the University of Medicine and Dentistry’s School of Public Health, committee leader Sen. Paul Sarlo, D-Bergen, felt aggravated.

“Quite frankly it’s insulting that … we can’t get a dollar amount for how much the state [will pay] for this

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Conrad Herwig, chair of the jazz studies program, conducts the Rutgers Jazz Ensemble last night in the Nicholas Music Center on Douglass campus as part of a night of original compositions and arrangements.

Cabo Granato, president of the Newark College of Arts and Sciences Student Government Association, is at risk of being expelled right before his expected graduation in May. Granato faces serious disciplinar y punishments after Clayton Walton, associate dean of student life on the Newark Campus, filed complaints about him in the Student Conduct Office and Ethical Development after the two had a confrontation in Walton’s office.

The complaints will be reviewed at a hearing at the New Brunswick campus on April 13, Granato said.

“I can be stripped of my presidency of the [Student Government Association],” he said, “I’m facing expulsion. I’m facing very serious charges.”

Walton declined to comment on the incident because it is still under investigation.

The claims came after Granato uncovered some charges in the student government’s budget that were unaccounted for.

“There was a charge from August 1 for $1974.77,” Granato said. “It was labeled as ‘2010-2011 Giveaways’ in the ledger.”

Granato said there was also a deduction of $717.14 appropriated to the “cyber lounge,” located on the third floor of the Paul Robeson Campus Center.

“The cyber lounge is supposed to be free for students,” Granato said.

Granato said he and Par th Parekh, NCAS-SGA treasurer, are the only ones able to control the funds.

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U. professors encourage poetry writing, appreciate art form

BY LISA BERKMAN CORRESPONDENT

Celebrating poetr y allows people to experience an art form that they may not experience on a regular basis.

The Academy of American Poets introduced April as the National Poetry month in 1996 to appreciate the art form, said Colin Jager, an associate professor in the Department of English.

The month encourages people to think about poetr y as something that can be a part of daily life as opposed to something that only happens in the classroom, he said.

Taking a break from everyday life is possible through poetry, said Rebecca Klaver, a teaching assistant in the Department of English.

“Everyone is moving a million miles an hour. Poetry is something that requires you to hold a break, concentrate, breathe and

be in the moment,” said Klaver, author of the poetry collection “L.A. Liminal.”

Writing a poem every day in April became a part of the “Poem-a-Day Challenge” nine years ago to help poets get past writer’s block and realize they can create poetry on a regular basis, said Evelyn Shockley, an associate professor in the Department of English.

“When poets undertake the challenge together, just by talking to each other or posting poems on collective blogs, they inspire one another to stick to it,” Shockley said.

Jager said the modern day should incorporate the Ancient Greek mentality through using poetry as a social tool.

“It was not something people wrote in solitude up in their bedroom,” he said. “One thing National Poetry Month tries to do is return that kind of performative and public aspect to poetry.”

Klaver said writing poetry can often change a person by revealing things they otherwise could not access.

“It reflects back to you, to teach something about your-

“Poetry is something that requires you to ... concentrate, breathe and be in the moment.”

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self,” she said. “As you get older, it can get a lot more than that. It can teach you about the world. It can show you new forms of knowledge.”

Jager said poetry is not simple to do and cannot be accomplished through spilling out emotions on a page.

“It’s about form and structure,” he said. “Ever y time you write, you can’t just ignore that and expect to release a good poem. What you’ll produce is just a collection of clichés.”

Klaver said there is often a stigma attached to poetry. Many believe poetry is too complicated or too dull. National Poetr y Month is meant to defy these assumptions and shine some light on the subject.

Klaver said she believes poetry is not merely a puzzle to be unlocked and that everyone can get involved.

“There are lots of ways poetry can be enjoyed without even knowing what a poem means,” she said. “You can enjoy it for the feeling it gives you and just the sound of the language.”

Jager said the subject can be taught in a better way to get students more interested.

“Kids have this idea that poetr y is hard or that they don’t like it,” he said. “Some bad middle-school teacher along the way gave them that idea, but actually teaching poetr y is a real joy.”

Shockley said the University should have more opportunities for non-English majors to get involved in poetry so they can learn to appreciate it.

“I wish they would see how much poetry is another form of entertainment, of spiritual growth, and reflection upon oneself,” she said. “All of these things ought to be available to students.”

The University offers opportunities for students to experience poetr y, Shockley said, including a “Writers at Rutgers” series, journals like The Anthologist and a slam team called Verbal Mayhem.

U. HELPS GREEN CARD HOLDERS GAIN CITIZENSHIP Citizenship Rutgers will help eligible green card holders apply for U.S. citizenship on April 29 on the New Brunswick campus.

The program, which is part of the Eagleton Institute of Politics’ Program on Immigration and Democracy, facilitated the citizenship process of almost 300 N.J. residents from about 30 countries in six continents, according to an article in Rutgers today.

“New Jersey is rich with immigrants who, like generations before them, come in search of their own American dream,” said Anastasia Mann, the program’s director.

The University teamed up with the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service last November to naturalize 34 people.

“Research shows that naturalized citizens pay higher taxes, earn higher wages and participate in their communities at high rates than non-citizens,” said Mann, an Eagleton assistant research professor.

“Citizenship Rutgers meets individuals’ needs for application assistance, while advancing our shared interests as a nation.”

She said anyone interested in becoming a citizen should attend the event to meet with an immigration professional. They will receive free photos and paperwork required for the naturalization process.

To apply, participants should be at least 18 years old and reside in the United States for at least five years — three years if residing with or married to a

U.S. citizen. They must live in New Jersey for at least half of the time they have lived in the country.

Prospective citizens should bring their green card, passpor ts, proof of residence, employment histor y, mar tial status, criminal histor y and children’s information.

Citizenship Rutgers is funded by the Office of the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, in partnership with the School of Management and Labor Relations and Rutgers Schools of Law in Newark and Camden.

The citizenship event will be on April 29 from noon to 3 p.m. at the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus. To register, call (732) 932-9384, ext. 330.

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STUDENT: Granato still has no details on missing funds continued from front When the deductions could not be verified within his organization, Parekh contacted Assistant Dean Genevieve Sumski, who works in the same department, which handles the areas where funds were allocated, Granato said.

Sumski told Parekh, a Rutgers Business SchoolNewark senior, the $2,000 was appropriated to cover expenses for a party, including a rental popcorn machine, lanyards and other favors.

Granato said his organization did not buy the items for the party, and he still does not know the reason for the cyber lounge deduction.

A week after speaking with Sumski, Granato and John Swift, chair for the Student Life Affairs Committee, went to Walton’s office to get to the bottom of the charges and ask for a contract to account for the expenses.

Swift said the dean was becoming “irate” and said he started loudly yelling at Granato.

Walton told Granato that his office was the last stop and that he should have had all his information and looked through his organization’s old minutes before coming to him, Granato said.

But the NCAS-SGA president also said he went through the proper chain of command and came up with no documentation at all.

“Your office is not the last stop,” Granato had said to Walton, nodding to administrators above Walton.

At this point, Walton asked Granato to step into his inner office from the outer room.

Swift, a Newark College of Arts and Sciences junior, remained in the outer office, but said he could still hear the conversation the two had inside.

Granato and Swift both quote the dean as saying, “Either we are going to have a meeting with the chancellors, or we can step off campus, and we can settle it that way, but this is going to happen.”

Granato said he felt intimidated, claiming that he made an obvious allusion to a fistfight.

“I reached for the door handle and he blocked my exit, grabbed the handle first, and said no,” he said.

Granato said he felt the 6foot-5-inch dean imposed himself as a bully.

Soon after Sumski came into Walton’s office, Granato said.

“He changed entirely when somebody else was in the room,” he said. “He starts telling me that I’m a new leader on campus — that I’m mean, I’m abrasive, nasty, and misinformed.”

Sumski complained to the Rutgers University Police Department, who filed a report that listed Granato the complainant, and Walton the suspect on harassment charges, with Sumski and Swift as witnesses.

Granato’s next move was to meet with Gerald Massenburg, associate chancellor for Student Life, who hired Walton after he was promoted from the same position, he said.

“Massenburg said that he would investigate it and that he wanted the testimony of me, [Swift] and Shawn Banerjee, [head of the SGA judicial branch],” he said.

After the testimonies were sent to the associate chancellor’s

office, Granato said Massenburg emailed him about an expedient investigation on both the altercation and the budgetary dispute was to follow.

“That was six months ago and I’ve heard no word,” Granato said.

Granato said he received an email from Timothy Grimm, Dean of Students for the University’s New Br unswick College Avenue campus, three weeks after his discussion with Massenburg.

“There was a complaint lodged with the Student Conduct Office for disorderly conduct and harassment, bullying and intimidation,” he said.

After the charges were issued, Granato said he went to New Brunswick to see Grimm for a preliminary hearing.

Grimm explained to Granato that he did not need to worry about the case, according to Granato’s account.

But when Granato returned to school, he found that the case had not turned out the way Grimm had predicted.

“On Jan. 23, I received an email from Dean Grimm that said I was being charged with both conduct violations,” he said.

Grimm said Granato could either accept responsibility and the sanctions of fered in his earlier email to him or present his case at a disciplinar y conference.

Granato responded to Grimm, saying he would choose the latter option.

“I am formally sending you my denial of any and all charges levied against me by Clayton Walton. I formally request a University hearing to review these charges,” he said.

Granato said he decided to take action and began to organize a petition, which has about 300 signatures and a “call-in day” to Grimm’s office yesterday.

Granato said he requested the hearings be held in public, but the request was denied because Walton refused, and both parties must agree.

Granato believes the University has not only done nothing, but also never intended to do anything.

“I think most of it is a farce,” he said, in reference to the first meetings with Massenburg and Grimm. “Massenburg only met with me because of pressure from student leaders.”

He described himself as being blindsided by the conduct violations, claiming that he is a victim of University scare tactics.

“This was an October incident, so why is the hearing a week before graduation?” he said.

John Connelly, the Rutgers University Student Assembly vice president, agreed that Granato was being victimized and said he would testify as a character witness for Granato. “[Granato] has spent the entire time I’ve known him and his entire academic career standing up for students,” said Connelly, a School of Arts and Sciences junior.

Connelly said the University was punishing Granato for doing his job.

“A student who wanted to know what was going on with fees went to an administrator and is being punished for being a student leader,” he said.

Rutgers-Newark’s spokesperson declined to comment on the ongoing investigation.

Granato said that he still has not received documentation or information regarding the misappropriated funds.

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RACE: Mandel says Obama trumps Romney in likeability continued from front “He doesn’t speak to the rest of the Republican Party and doesn’t speak to independents,” she said.

Mandel said he would not have been able to pick up populous states like California, New Jersey and New York, but would of had a better chance of picking up some southern states.

She said Santorum tried to find a way to pick up votes from Texas, but winning the state was impossible for him.

“He probably was not successful in negotiating with Gov. [Rick] Perry or the Texas Republicans about coming out with the delegates he needed even if he did well in Texas,” she said.

She said Santorum’s inability to gain enough delegates to get ahead of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was becoming clearer.

Although former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is still

PLANS: 30,000 students leave N.J. yearly, McCormick says continued from front merger,” Sarlo told Rochelle Hendricks, the state’s secretary of higher education.

Hendricks told the committee that although she had no basis to give them an estimated cost, the universities have been looking into the financial aspect of the plan over the last few months, recruiting outside legal and financial expertise.

“Clearly, an integration of this magnitude will take time, effort and commitment to bear fruit,” Rochelle said. “But let us not dismiss the benefits and find ourselves, in 10 years, looking back at this moment in time wishing we had acted decisively.”

While the senators acknowledged the plan’s merits, some could not get past the lack of a price tag for the merger.

Sen. Nellie Pou, D-35, said she could not understand how a task force could come up with such a complex concept like the merger plan without any sort of financial analysis.

CONTRACTS: U. pays lecturers $1,500 per credit hour continued from front unpaid work … [and] may not know whether they will have a job next semester and are increasingly treated as replaceable ‘units,’” LaPointe said in her letter.

Regardless of how many students are in a class, part-time lecturers are paid $1,500 per credit hour, or $4,500 for a three-credit course, LaPointe said.

But their contracts have expired, and negotiations are under way for new ones, she said.

Steve Peterson, a part-time lecturer in the Department of Math and chief negotiator for the union representing part-timer lecturers, said the University has denied his requests.

in the race, Mandel said the field is clear for Romney to be the likely nominee at the Republican National Convention.

Romney’s campaign will shift its resources to the states that he believes are needed to get the nomination, she said. “[Romney] will focus more and more on the president as his opponent and not on a primary opponent,” Mandel said.

The race between President Barack Obama and Romney will be competitive because the president is vulnerable on some issues, she said.

In the national polls, the president is ahead in terms of likeability but is not ahead of him in areas such as jobs and economy, she said.

“It’ll be a hard fought race on both sides,” she said. “We have seven months to go, that’s a long campaign.”

Some states will be fought over for both Romney and Obama, Mandel said, including Ohio, Virginia and Florida.

“It means that there’s a competitive opportunities, and the

White House will not take the race for granted,” she said. “Both will fight for independents which is a large group of voters.”

Connor Montferrat, president of the Rutgers College Republicans, said even though Santorum was gaining in the polls, he did not think the candi-

“When I go out to buy a house, I look for the best house that I can afford,” Pou said. “I don’t go out and look for the best house and worry about cost later.

I think it’s an unacceptable way of looking at things.”

University President Richard L. McCormick told Sarlo that the University has estimated a cost of $40 to $50 million over the next two years for the University to absorb the components of UMDNJ as part of the merger plan.

“The cost to the state to accomplish the mergers will be worth the benefits that will improve the state and its residents,” McCormick said.

He said all the expenses will be made one time only, and mostly cover integrating the information technology and payroll systems of the University and UMDNJ. But there are some other substantial costs that come with the merger, McCormick said, which involve refinancing about $450 million in outstanding UMDNJ bonds and the $950 million in outstanding University bonds.

Aside from merger talk, Hendricks announced that direct

aid to state colleges and universities has stayed mostly stagnant.

She also announced that the state would provide $500,000 to increase the Educational Opportunity Fund, a program that provides aid to students in more disadvantaged areas of the state, for the first time in years.

Peterson said part-time lecturers want a longer contract terms, compensation for overseeing independent study and a 3 percent raise, based on their current yearly income from the University.

But the University refused the first two requests and countered the third with a 1 percent raise, based on how much they make in a semester.

“Our contract is very simple, we’ve just been stonewalled for over year now,” Peterson said.

“It’s been very frustrating for us.”

The University is not discussing any issues surrounding the contractual negotiations, said Greg Trevor, senior director of University Media Relations.

“The negotiations are ongoing and continue to be productive,” he said.

LaPointe said the University treats part-time lecturers like “replaceable units.”

The request for part-time lecturers to receive their raises, proposed by the AFT-AAUP branch at the University, would cost the school a fraction of what it spends on the athletic department, LaPointe said.

She said the issue is just as grave for students, many of who will enter the same or equally unreliable careers. Worse still is when part-time lecturers suffer because they oversee independent study.

“It is hard to say no, but if you agree to it, you are donating your time ... time that may be very precious, especially if you are teaching multiple courses on multiple satellite campuses, multiple jobs or even at multiple universities,” LaPointe said via email correspondence.

Rosenberg said he can still make ends meet with his other jobs, but said it is unfortunate that other part-time lecturers might not be as lucky.

“I don’t think it really matters too much at this point because he was sort of out of the race anyways.”

STEPHEN MENNITT School of Arts and Sciences Senior

date was going to be the nominee of the Republican Party. “[With] his loss in his home state in re-election with about 18 or 19 points, [he] is not an electable person because of his

“I fear the vision of higher education as a pathway to bright futures has been lost in New Jersey and the nation.”

RICHARD L. MCCORMICK University President

But Pou pointed out that when she divided the $500 million increase by the more than 12,400 students in New Jersey who received aid from EOF, she came up with about $40 more per student.

“I find it hard to understand that $40 is considered to be a real commitment to the poorest stu-

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stance on his issues — he’s your true conser vative,” said Montferrat, a School of Arts and Sciences senior.

Romney is more moderate, so he will make for a closer race with Obama, he said.

“I’m behind any nominee of the Republican Party to defeat President Obama,” Montferrat said, Daniel Pereira, vice president of the Rutgers University Democrats, said he was not surprised that Santorum suspended his campaign for the Republican nomination.

Because the numbers were heavily in Romney’s favor, Pereira, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, said it was not possible for Santorum to make a comeback.

“I think [Obama is] going to win. They’re going to see a true contrast between people and ideologies, “ he said. “Romney is more into money, and Obama worked his way up through a working class. … [He is] supporting students [and] the middle class — Gov. Romney is supporting his friends.”

Pereira said he thinks polls tighten as Election Day approaches, but believes Santorum would probably have lost the primary in his home state of Pennsylvania.

“I really don’t think there was any way for him to win. … I wish he could have stayed in longer because it’d be better for the president to have to have the Republican nomination drawn out more,” Pereira said.

Stephen Mennitt, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, said although Santorum was able to gain support from some southern states, most of the country does not agree with his radical ideas.

“I don’t think it really matters too much at this point because he was sort of out of the race anyways,” Mennitt said.

Matthew Knoblauch, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, said, as Democrat, he would vote for Obama no matter who the Republican nominee is, but prefers having Romney as the nominee over Santorum.

“Santorum in my opinion would be a terrible leader of America,” he said.

dents who are looking for an education in-state,” she said.

McCormick spoke as the chair of the N.J. President’s Council, which includes the president of each college and university in New Jersey that receives funding from the state.

He stressed the need for a higher education facilities bond issue on the ballot in 2012 and more funding for the operating budgets of each school.

“Higher education facilities across the state are in need of significant upgrades and expansions,” he said. “If the state’s colleges and universities are going to continue to play an essential role in New Jersey’s economic growth and recovery … they must have the support they need.”

N.J. residents are driven out of state for education because of a lack of funding for operations and facilities, McCormick said.

“Each year more than 30,000 of our residents who aspire to attend college in New Jersey are forced to leave the state,” he said.

“These students are our future workforce, our future taxpayers and our future leaders. Many of these young men and women have lost New Jersey forever.”

McCormick called for the senate to invest in higher education because it provides the best return on investment. “[The returns] contribute to equality, freedom and opportunity for every resident of every state in the nation,” he said.

The lack of funding causes the United States to fall behind global competitors in math, science and engineering, McCormick said.

“I fear the vision of higher education as a pathway to bright futures has been lost in New Jersey and the nation,” he said.

McCormick’s account of the state of higher education funding in New Jersey made Sarlo wonder if the Rutgers-Camden and Rowan merger to create a comprehensive research University in South Jersey would make things worse.

“I don’t believe we’re fully funding one research university [Rutgers],” Sarlo said. “Do we have the capability to fund and research two research universities?”

McCormick said the merger would throw a third research university in need of funding into the mix when UMDNJ is included.

“New Jersey has not yet shown the capability of doing that,” he said.

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METRO

APRIL 11, 2012

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Writers share work at city library to honor poetry month

BY GIANCARLO CHAUX METRO EDITOR

In celebration of National Poetr y Month, local residents had a chance to listen to art firsthand Monday night at the New Brunswick Free Public Library.

More than 80 people gathered at the library’s community room, where they heard two hours of original poems from 37 individuals, mostly from New York and New Jersey, said Jacquelyn Oshman, a senior librarian at the library in charge of organizing the event.

The occasion marked the 14th consecutive year the library hosted the event, she said.

While it is generally marketed toward New Brunswick citizens, the event also attracted poets from other areas.

“A lot of people were from outside of New Brunswick, but

you figure it’s something everybody can do whether they’re from here or from Brooklyn — poetry is the same for everybody,” she said.

The Academy of American Poets first created National Poetr y Month in 1996, and Oshman said the month’s celebrations have grown in popularity ever since.

“The turnout was tremendous. Last year we had 20 fewer poets, so we had about 60 people that came, and this time we had at least 80 because that’s how many chairs we have,” she said.

Despite the diverse crowd representing the New Brunswick community, there was a noticeable lack of University students in attendance. Oshman said she hopes students will take advantage of the city’s events in the future.

“They’re in New Brunswick, [and] they’re only here for four years so they should … see what the community is like and when they go back home, they can remember New Brunswick in a different light. Sometimes they hear about shootings, but here you have poets in New Brunswick,” she said.

But there was not a lack of students in general, as several New Brunswick High School students presented poetry about France as a common theme.

“Their French teacher has an assignment every year, so usually we have 20 or 30 students from New Brunswick High School,” Oshman said.

Chanel Fernandez, a University alumna, said the event showed that the community still holds a sense of appreciation for poetry.

“I thought the turnout was really impressive,” said

Fernandez, who read her poetry at the library. “It was good to attend something that seems to be so valued by the people that were attending it.”

Fernandez said she hopes other organizations find the time to join the library in celebrating the month.

“I think it’s impor tant — especially in a little state like New Jersey — because people don’t think that art lives in the little cities, so I think it’s really important for people to know that art can be cultivated here and still thrive,” she said.

During her time at the University, Fernandez said she sought out a poetry community on campus and eventually became the editor-in-chief of Mosaic, Douglass campus’ art and literary magazine.

Fernandez believes the lack of a presence from the University at

the event comes down to the library’s minimal advertising.

Craig Knox Jr., a student at Middlesex County College, presented his poem “Dreams” at the event, which was his first time participating in an open poetr y reading.

“Poetry is a way of expressing all the things that we see in our daily lives that we can’t really put into words because poetry is about the rhythm and soul,” said Knox, who has been writing poems for five years.

The librar y has seen the event grow in recognition since it was originally introduced, which suggests that the tradition should be kept alive for the New Brunswick residents, Oshman said.

“It keeps getting bigger each year,” she said. “We definitely plan on having this event again next year.”

MIDDLESEX ROBOTICS TEAMS QUALIFY FOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP Members from three robotics teams based in Middlesex County have qualified to participate in the First Tech Challenge World Championship, according to mycentraljersey.com The teams, which have 28 members, were invited to compete in the tournament in St. Louis, Mo., from April 25-28 after winning several interstate competitions, according to mycentraljersey.com.

Stella Carr, the co-coach of the “Say Watt? 3539,” “Watts up? 5169” and “Watt the Hex? 4311” robotics

teams, said all of the members are excited to participate in the tournament, according to the article.

“We were enormously proud when we learned that the teams were going to the world championship,” Stella Carr, who coaches the teams alongside her husband, Jim, told mycentraljersey.com “This is a wonderful group that has been recognized for its hard work, ingenuity and innovation.”

The tournament will pit teams of up to 10 students against each other. The different groups are respon-

sible for designing, building and programming their robots to compete against other robotic teams, according to mycentraljersey.com The teams have already participated in competitions outside of New Jersey, traveling to Delaware, Pennsylvania and New York, Jim Carr told mycentraljersey.com.

Of the 2,100 teams that compete for a spot in the world championship, only 150 qualify to attend, according to mycentraljersey.com.

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PENDULUM APRIL 11, 2012

Q:

Do you think the University’s student government is effective?

QUOTABLE ANJALI PATEL SEBS JUNIOR

“No, I haven’t even heard of them. If I was in [Rutgers University Student Assembly], I would try to reach out to everyone.”

“I haven’t heard anything about RUSA at Rutgers.”

JACLYN MILLER SAS FIRST-YEAR STUDENT “I don’t really know anything about it.”

JOEL PARK — SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES JUNIOR

2010

The year of the first democratic

WHICH WAY DOES RU SWAY?

RUSA elections

8 percent

12

The estimated voter turnout for last year’s RUSA elections

The total number of RUSA representatives students can elect

BY ENRICO CABREDO AND CONOR ALWELL

Source: ruassembly.com

ALEX MEKLIN SAS JUNIOR “It’s all about who you know, not what you do.”

KEVIN ROMERO SEBS JUNIOR “They help students engage in social changes, and they help facilitate problems around campus.”

CAMPUS TALK

BY THE NUMBERS

MARY RUFFNER SAS JUNIOR “[RUSA] gives the students a voice from a student perspective.”

ONLINE RESPONSE

I don’t care — 18% No — 44%

Yes — 38%

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THIS WEEK’S QUESTION Was The Medium, the University’s weekly satirical paper, within its rights in its “pro-Hitler” parody of Targum columnist, Aaron Marcus?

Cast your votes online and view the corresponding story, “Columnist orders bias investigation,” at www.dailytargum.com.

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APRIL 11, 2012

WORLD

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Nigeria violence spreads THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KADUNA, Nigeria — In this Nigerian city where soldiers stop cars at sandbagged checkpoints and police officers carrying assault rifles warily guard their fortified headquarters, a local church could only weld together small barriers made of scrap iron to block the road to their sanctuary.

Those barriers, like pat-down searches and car trunk checks, offer little protection from the increasing violence taking place across Nigeria. Those attacks include the recent suicide car bombing Easter Sunday in Kaduna, the capital of Kaduna state, which killed at least 41 people and sent bullet-like shrapnel everywhere.

As violence grows worse in northern Nigeria, those wanting to attack symbols of the country’s weak central government are turning away from increasingly protected government installations. Instead, suicide bombers and gunmen now target softer targets in the nation of more than 160 million people, like modest churches and the informal plastictable bars that open across the country each night.

As those attacks grow, so do the casualties among the countr y’s working poor, a group already facing high unemployment and meager wages.

“You don’t know who will be the next target,” said the Rev. Emmanuel Babah, whose Assemblies of God Church in Kaduna sits down the street from the scene of Sunday’s suicide car bombing. “It’s disturbing.”

Nigeria’s north has been under increasing attack by a radical Islamist sect known as Boko Haram, which is blamed for more than 390 killings this year alone, according to an Associated Press count. Boko Haram has killed Christians, Muslims and foreigners in its growing fight against the Nigerian government over the introduction of strict Shariah law across the country and the release of all imprisoned followers.

But other attacks unclaimed by the group regularly occur across the Muslim north and the countr y’s restive central belt, the dividing line from the largely Christian south.

Gunmen open fire at outdoor beer gardens. Bombs explode near nightclubs and other areas.

Assailants attack rural villages in nighttime raids.

Meanwhile, Nigeria’s north holds the poorest regions of the country, as farming has waned with the nation’s dependence on crude oil sales and as the population rapidly grows. About 75 percent of the people in Nigeria’s northwest and northeast live in absolute poverty on less than $1 a day, according to the country’s National Bureau of Statistics.

Begging children, known as almajiri, roam northern city streets with plastic bowls, sent by their parents from rural villages with hopes they may receive an education at Islamic schools.

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Chinese leaders announce that Bo Xilai is suspended from the Communist Party’s Poltiburo and Central Committee, and his wife is a suspect in a homicide investigation. Politics experts claim this may be the end of Bo’s poltiical career.

China ousts president, accuses wife of murder THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING — A flamboyant and telegenic politician who until recently seemed destined for the top ranks of China’s leadership was stripped of his most powerful posts on Tuesday and his wife named in the murder of a British businessman as Chinese leaders moved to stem a scandal that has exposed divisive infighting.

The announcement that Bo Xilai was being suspended from the Communist Party’s Politburo and Central Committee and that his wife was a suspect in a homicide investigation put an end to a colorful political career. Mediasavvy with a populist flair, Bo gained a nationwide following for busting organized crime and for reviving communist culture while running the inland megacity of Chongqing.

His publicity-seeking ways angered some in the top leadership, however. In recent weeks, allegations of Bo’s and his family’s misdeeds leaked into public view, threatening to complicate preparations by the leadership for a delicate, oncea-decade transition to younger leaders at a congress later this year.

“This means the political career of Bo Xilai is over,” said Cheng Li, a Chinese politics exper t at the Brookings Institution in Washington. “The party wants to really resolve the Bo Xilai crisis in a relatively short period of time. They want to make sure that the attention for the 18th party congress will not suffer too much from the Bo Xilai episode.”

Bo’s patrons included retired party elders who retain

influence over senior appointments, and among his vocal suppor ters were influential generals and party members, scholars and ordinar y Chinese who identify themselves as leftists. His removal raises questions about whether Chinese leaders will have to make concessions to them to achieve the political balance that has restrained factional fighting in recent decades.

“A political succession that seemed completely predictable has been upended,” said June Teufel Dreyer, a China politics expert at University of Miami. “We may be in for more surprises.”

An editorial to r un Wednesday in the par ty’s People’s Daily newspaper appealed for unity and said the investigation into Bo’s violations would show the leader-

ship’s “solid resolve in safeguarding party discipline and the rule of law.”

Tuesday’s announcement, carried by state media, provided details of what has been a lurid and embarrassing scandal for the leadership.

Bo’s removal from top government posts came on suspicion of involvement in unspecified but “serious discipline violations,” the Central Committee said, and his case was handed over to internal party investigators.

His wife, Gu Kailai, and an orderly at their home were being investigated for intentional homicide in the death of Briton Neil Heywood, the Xinhua News Agency said. Heywood’s death in November in Chongqing was initially blamed on excessive drinking, something his friends have said he was not known to do.

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OPINIONS

PA G E 1 0

APRIL 11, 2012

EDITORIALS

Virtual instruction hurts education T

he Garden State’s first comprehensive “virtual” charter school has begun to enroll students for the coming fall semester. The New Jersey Virtual Charter School, a for-profit education company based out of Newark, N.J., will hold all of its classes online - an idea that has residents throughout the state - as well as our own editorial board - fervently throwing up our arms in protest.

The school will admit students for kindergarten through 10th, providing them with instruction almost entirely online. Teachers will interact with these students potentially hundreds of miles away. What’s more, the school already has 300 students enrolled, and is part of a growing trend of full-time online schooling across the country.

For students like ourselves, who’ve spent their entire educational careers in traditional classroom settings, virtual education is a relatively foreign concept - and a frightening one at that. We’re hardpressed to see in what way online-instruction can improve the quality of education for a student. Many have already argued the excessive role technology has begun to play on the lives of young people throughout the world - and online education seems only to compound this issue.

But an even greater problem with this approach seems to be its removal of the social component necessary for a well-rounded education. Student-teacher interaction and student-student interaction will be replaced by interaction between student and computer monitor. A traditional classroom setting not only refines the cognitive capacities of students, but helps to shape the social capacities which are necessary for the real world.

This is not to say that online education is entirely faulty - such a setting might serve well students who may not fit comfortably in a traditional classroom setting. But for the vast majority of students, it should at most be used as a supplement to traditional education practices.

Cast your vote for RUSA elections T

oday is the last day for students to cast their vote in the third annual Rutgers University Student Assembly elections. On the Rutgers United Party ticket, RUSA Vice President John Connelly is running for president, Sherif Ibrahim for vice president and Pavel Sokolov for treasurer. The opposing ticket, running under the Old Raritan Party, is composed of RUSA Treasurer Scott Siegel for president, Joe Fontana for vice president and Sabrina Arias as treasurer.

RUSA elections have received less-than-ideal voter turnouts in the past from the student body. Just about 8 percent of University students participated in last year’s election, during which School of Arts and Sciences senior Matt Cordeiro was elected RUSA president.

Such a low level of voter turnout, coupled with recent student concerns relating to the interests and underlying motives of past and present RUSA members, has forced us to question the effectiveness of this student government in catering to the needs and interests of the student body.

It’s also clear to us, however, that student participation in the student government election process must increase if the University is to see these issues resolved.

One of our columnists last week criticized members of Rutgers United, who currently hold a majority of seats within RUSA, for favoring issues they deem important, rather than issues which affect a majority of students at the University. The author pointed to last year’s anti-fracking campaign, largely spearheaded by Rutgers United, as evidence of this.

While we don’t necessarily think this to be a problem with Rutgers United members specifically — after all under Rutgers United, the University witnessed the lowest tuition hike in 10 years — we do acknowledge it to be a greater, systemic problem of student government in general. Low voter turnout and poor participation from a college’s student body will invariably lead to a student government agenda that is somewhat removed from the general interests of the student majority.

RUSA can only be as effective as the student body demands it to be — and this requires that students make their voices heard. One way to do this is through the election process. With this in mind, we urge students to get out and cast their vote before online poll closes tonight, at 11:59 p.m.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “They go out, pole vault a little bit — and then lay on the mats and get a tan. I don’t tan, and we don’t lay on the mats.”

Pat Gray, a pole vaulter for the University men’s track and field team, on the difference between high school- and college-level pole vaulting STORY IN SPORTS

MCT CAMPUS

Recognize rights of women The Minority I Report

I’ve witnessed these n the whirlwind that is women address the comboth our domestic polimittee with power ful tics and international speeches regarding the viorelations, we witness many lence rural women have to matters of injustice and face, the unequal treatment inequality that need to be they are subject to and addressed at a governmentheir relentless solidarity tal level. We rightly — and AMANI AL-KHATAHTBEH with the plight of women all clearly insufficiently — recover the world. Nobel ognize the difficulties of Peace Prize Laureate Leymah Gbowee even gave people of different colors, backgrounds and relian incredible address to the delegates reminding gions. Quite often, however, we fail to recognize the us of the incredible power of the CSW and the challenges of the largest minority of all — women. importance of safeguarding rural women’s rights Despite its lack of media attention, last month in our world. hosted two very important weeks for the global It has also been extremely valuable witnessing community, the 56th session of the Committee on the leading role the Center for Women’s Global the Status of Women. Women from all over the Leadership, par t of the School of Ar ts and world, representing countless cultures and lanSciences, in the CSW. The CWGL has hosted a guages, convene every year to discuss and address number of parallel events for the CSW, addressing issues facing women around the globe. I have had topics like the violence that rural the unique privilege of being a delwomen have to face in their dayegate to this year’s session, and it to-day lives, as well as co-sponis thus far one of the most reward“It is a sad reality sored countless events in collaboing experiences of my life. that 60 percent ration with international non-govThe CSW has astutely decided to focus this year’s session on of chronically hungry ernmental organizations. Seeing the incredible participation and addressing the rights and wellpeople are women power of women I work with has being of rural women. As a segfilled me with pride and inspired ment of our global society that is and girls.” me to aim higher in the global overwhelmingly overlooked, rural struggle for women’s equality. women not only face some of the Yet, with all the promise of the greatest gender inequalities, but CSW, it was a shocker when the committee sesalso harbor tremendous potential in revolutionizsions concluded with no unanimous resolution. ing societies and economies the world over. By Even in the middle of all the negotiations and suppressing this population, we are holding back awareness-raising that occurred, at the end the our humanity from reaching its utmost abilities. committee remained fragmented on sexual and It is a sad reality that 60 percent of chronically reproductive rights of women. This is a clear teshungry people are women and girls, and countries tament to how conflicted this issue remains for difwith the highest levels of poverty are also the ferent cultures in the world and raises the quescountries with the highest levels of gender tion of whether a consensus can ever be reached inequality. While rural women in less developed on the topic. countries make up 50 percent of the agricultural Women make up half of our global society. labor force, they are greatly deprived of the same Knowing this, it is impossible for an individual productive resources as their male counterparts. society to truly progress without raising the place If they were allowed equal access to these of its women and safeguarding their rights comresources, UN Women estimates that the women’s pletely. Despite the CSW’s lack of a resolution this increased contribution to farm production could year, I am still filled with hope that one day, this skyrocket 30 percent, taking 150 million people dream will become a reality. out of hunger.

The powerful female leaders at the CSW recAmani Al-Khatahtbeh is a School of Arts and Sciences ognize these facts and countless other realities sophomore majoring in Middle Eastern studies and politfacing rural women, and have taken it upon themical science with a minor in French. Her column, “The selves to collaborate with worldwide organizations Minority Report,” runs on alternate Wednesdays. in drafting resolutions to address these problems.

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O PINIONS

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University student leaders set example I

’ve had the high honor of serving on the Rutgers University Student Assembly Allocations Board for the past four years. It has been the highlight of my leadership development at the University.

There is a lot to be proud of at this University. From student activism to cultural awareness, Rutgers’ students have demonstrated outstanding leadership on and off campus. Student organizations host fantastic programs at the University that show their unique talents. The Bhakti Club and the Arab Cultural Club are two organizations that stretch every dollar we allocate to them to advertise and promote their events. If you look anywhere on campus, you will certainly see a “Sacred Sounds” or ACC event flyer.

Sherif Ibrahim and Gopika Kapadia, the Bhakti Club vice president, have done phenomenal work with their respective organizations and should be applauded for sparking students’ interest in their cultural and religious traditions.

TEDxRutgers, a program hosted by the International Students Association and the Cognitive Science Club, was a

small-scale proand RUSA gram for the past Allocations. All of two years. I saw our budget prothere was a major posals and policy ZAIN AHMAD appetite for an changes were intellectually stimapproved without ulating program at the University, so I a hitch mainly because of transparency invited them in for a meeting in fall 2011 and trust. I authored the first to discuss the potential to impact the stu- Nondisclosure and Viewpoint Neutrality dent population in a uniquely creative Agreement this semester, which binds all manner. Martha Farag and Wei Jie Tan Allocations Board members into a conenthusiastically tract with the embraced the notion, University, saying they “From student activism will uphold their deciand now TEDxRutgers is headed to be one of sion-making to the to cultural awareness, the best programs highest ethical stanthis year. dards in accordance Rutgers’ students have On another front, I with our guidelines for demonstrated am proud to say that funding. The agreethe relationship also highlights outstanding leadership ment between RUSA and the the significance of viewon and off campus.”

RUSA Allocations point neutrality in Board has never been determining funding better. I want to thank for student organizaRUSA President Matt Cordeiro, Vice tions, which basically means each President John Connelly and Internal Allocations Board member must remove Affairs Chair Pavel Sokolov for maintain- their biases when determining whether a ing a healthy relationship between RUSA program is fundable or not. If they are

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unable to remove the bias, they are asked to excuse themselves from participating in the conversation. In conjunction with the University’s former auditor and the director of the Student Activities Business Office, I’ve implemented ethics training as the first part of the Allocations Board biannual budget retreat. As I pass the gavel to the newly selected chairwoman, Emmi Morse, I feel confident that the safeguards I’ve put in place will strengthen the integrity of the Allocations Board and provide a fair approach to funding for all student organizations. The new Allocations Board will work endlessly to serve as a major financial resource for all registered student organizations at the University with the utmost importance placed on ethicalness and fairness.

To all the student organizations and leaders I’ve come in contact with over the past four years, it has been an honor and privilege ser ving alongside with you.

Thank you.

Zain Ahmad is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in political science with a minor in religion.

Free speech does not protect The Medium’s antics Irreconcilable I Differences n one episode of the TV show “Seinfeld,” the title character Jerr y Seinfeld suspects that his dentist converted to Judaism just to tell Jewish jokes. Jerr y meets his dentist’s former priest in a confessional booth and explains his theor y. The priest asks, “And this offends you as a Jewish person?” Jerr y answers, “No, it offends me as a comedian.”

What offends me most about the University’s weekly “satirical” newspaper, The Medium, is not its writers’ regular use of bigoted slurs to refer to women, blacks, Jews, Arabs, Latinos, IndianAmericans, Asian-Americans and countless other groups. No, what offends me is that they think it’s funny.

Not only is it unfunny, it’s pathetically unfunny. The Medium is the University equivalent of a little kid waving his arms in the air, tr ying to attract the adults’ attention. When the grownups finally look his way, the kid places his hand in his armpit to make farting noises. Ever y person over the age of 11 rolls their eyes, but the kid is left to bask in his own self-perceived glor y.

The difference between the child and The Medium is that the little kid has not insulted anybody and does not know any better.

In an attempt to satirize the University, The Medium has instead turned itself into a laughingstock. And it’s time for the University to pull the plug and end the nonsense.

Let’s dispel never, ever be some of the argutaken seriously, but ments that supits content often porters of The goes beyond any Medium are sure reasonable level of to make: good fun. Last 1. The First week’s issue of The Amendment proMedium ran a NOAH GLYN tects it. mock opinion Of course the piece, credited to writers and editors of The Medium have The Daily Targum columnist Aaron the First Amendment right to publish their Marcus with the headline, “What about the inane filth. No one suggests otherwise. good things Hitler did?” I’m no lawyer, so I There is no constitutional guarantee, how- cannot intelligently comment on whether ever, of University fundit’s illegal to falsely ing. Moreover, the attribute someone’s “The Medium is the University has numername and face to a colous speech codes that University equivalent of a umn, but I happen to be explicitly restrict all a dues-paying member little kid waving his arms of the human race. And sorts of speech on campus. Even though these my expert opinion, in the air, trying to attract in codes are heinous violathis was not in good fun. tions of the First 3. It’s comedy. the adults’ attention.”

Amendment, they are I admit I sometimes still University policy. If chuckle while reading the rules are to be enforced at all, surely The Medium, but that alone does not this would be a perfect opportunity. make it comedy. Some of the best comedi2. It’s all in good fun. ans — Louis “C.K.” Szekely, for example After appealing to the First Amendment, — can be downright offensive, but they The Medium’s defenders are likely to point seamlessly work their offenses into their out that every issue of The Medium has a funny bits. The Medium simply rewords brief disclaimer: “The Medium is pure the same jokes in every issue. I bet that I satire and we have never, ever taken our- could find numerous jokes about anal sex selves seriously.” They counter any criti- in every issue of The Medium. Unless the cism with a shrug of the shoulders, as if to authors have discovered a novel way to say, “Hey man, who cares? Don’t take us joke about it, then I suspect that the jokes seriously.” I agree —The Medium should have started to stale.

4. Students need it to gain “realworld” experience.

One of the best ways to learn about the world of publishing is to actually work in it, and The Medium offers that opportunity. Fortunately, anyone who wants to experience the exciting world of meeting deadlines and copyediting can also work for the Targum, thus making The Medium redundant.

Every rationale that exists for continued University funding of The Medium falls apart under closer inspection. The fact that the University has continued to support it after all these years is more a testament to University President Richard L. McCormick’s gelatinous spine than to The Medium’s value.

Former University professor Eugene Genovese said at a 1965 University teachin, “Those of you who know me know that I am a Marxist and a Socialist. … I do not fear or regret the impending Viet Cong victory in Vietnam. I welcome it.” Predictably, his comments sparked political backlash, but the University president at the time, Mason Gross, protected Genovese’s academic freedom and refused to fire him.

The point is that not all free speech is created equal. Professor Genovese was worth defending. The Medium isn’t.

Noah Glyn is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in economics and history with a minor in Jewish studies. His column, “Irreconcilable Differences,” runs on alternate Tuesdays.

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DIVERSIONS

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Horoscopes / LINDA C. BLACK

Pearls Before Swine

APRIL 11, 2012

STEPHAN PASTIS

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utgers men’s basketball forward Gilvydas Biruta officially transferred to Rhode Island, according to CBS Sports.

The sophomore departs for the Rams to play for his former coach at St. Benedict’s Prep (N.J.), Dan Hurley.

Biruta played both of his seasons in Piscataway for head coach Mike Rice, although Rice did not recruit him.

He ended his sophomore season averaging 9.7 points and 5.3 rebounds per game.

Biruta’s foul trouble issues carried into his second season, when he recorded a team-leading 105 fouls.

Biruta made the Big East All-Rookie Team in 2011 in Rice’s first season with the Scarlet Knights.

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Rutgers women’s lacrosse midfielder Lauren Sbrilli to its Weekly Honor Roll, the league office announced.

Leading the Scarlet Knights with seven points last week, the sophomore tallied six goals and one assist.

She also managed one draw control, forced one turnover and went 1-for-3 on free possession opportunities, helping the Knights to a 1-1 record on the week.

It is Sbrilli’s second time making the list, with her first coming after she netted a game winner, dropping thenNo. 7 Princeton.

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lacrosse senior midfielder Michael Diehl earned a spot on the Big East Weekly Honor Roll.

The Flemington, N.J., native notched a career-high four goals — all in the second half — Saturday against No. 13 Villanova, marking the second hat trick of his career.

The four goals helped mount a comeback attempt against the Wildcats that ultimately fell short.

Diehl has 21 points on the season, with 18 goals — matching his junior-year total — and three assists.

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team is in preparation for the Knecht Cup Regatta, which takes place Saturday in Camden. The Scarlet Knights compete against more than 60 schools at the event.

In last season’s competition, the varsity eight boat took second place in the grand final, surrendering its lead to Grand Valley in the final 500 meters.

The event marks the first time the Knights compete in April, with the last competition coming on March 31, when they faced off against host Syracuse, Boston University and No. 16 Cornell.

the sideline, I could make adjustments to my game by seeing them work as a team.”

Her improvement is evident in Rutgers’ 7-5 record this season. Not only has she led the Knights in goals, but she has accumulated back-to-back Big East Honor Roll selections — the most on the team.

Being recognized by the conference was an honor, the Wading River, N.Y. native said.

Anderson credits the work put in during the summer and fall to rejoin her teammates as a reason why she has played so well this season.

“I just think I’m a lot more focused this year and more confident with myself,” Anderson said. “I know the injur y took a lot out of me, and it motivated me more to be a team player. I love this team, and I want to be there for my teammates, so that has pushed me to be a better player.”

If there is anyone happy to see her healthy and back on

the field, it is head coach Laura Brand-Sias. Anderson enters Friday’s matchup against Louisville scoring on 55.6 percent of her shots and accounting for 22 percent of the team’s goals scored.

She also brings an energy Brand-Sias believes is invaluable to the Knights’ success in their remaining games.

“It’s great to have her back and to have her per forming well this season,” Brand-Sias said. “She’s ver y intense and passionate about the spor t and about us being successful, so it’s always great to have a kid like that.”

The midfielder has turned up her play recently, notching 11 goals this month in three games. And with three Big East games remaining — including two at home — her of fensive surge arrived at the right time for Rutgers.

“The games for us are obviously Big East games, so for me to get my sixth straight hat trick is awesome, and I’m super excited,” Anderson said.

“Just the momentum that has helped car r y me through those past six games is really helpful.”

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Junior midfielder Stephanie Anderson overcame a 2010 season in which she played in only six games because of a knee problem.

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Junior righthander Pat O’Leary allowed two runs in five innings against Fordham yesterday to earn the first win of his career.

WIN: Knights score eight in year’s best offensive inning continued from back the defeat. They walked off of Bainton Field losers of their first home Big East series.

The Knights wanted to leave home differently against Fordham (14-19). They only took two innings to change the impression.

“We were disappointed in the one inning we had against St. John’s,” Hill said. “We’re pretty resilient. We’ve had a number of games … where the next game we bounced back and played pretty well.”

Zavala and Ackerman assured this game would be different.

Ackerman stepped up for his second career at-bat when Rutgers led, 2-1. The Pope John XXIII High School product lined one to right center for a two-run double to begin his 3-for-4 game. “[I was] just working hard, seeing the pitchers,” Ackerman said.

“I started out with that big hit, so I just went out there to get more.”

A four-run lead was not enough for the Knights. Rutgers loaded the bases for Zavala’s second at-bat, and Zavala’s double cleared them.

The eight-run second inning was Rutgers’ greatest offensive output in an inning all season.

“You don’t get that very often, and that kind of changes the complexion,” Hill said of the inning.

Zavala and Ackerman were not finished producing, and neither were the Knights.

After four innings in which the Knights scored only one run, they added six in the seventh.

Ackerman and Zavala recorded their third and second hits of the game, respectively. Both scored, but it took an ef for t from the entire Knights lineup — no play drove in more than one run except a two-RBI triple from sophomore pinch-hitter Joe D’Annunzio.

Rutgers pitchers also had bad memories from last week, when they gave up 42 runs in five games.

Junior righty Pat O’Lear y was on the mound for 5 1/3 of those innings. He allowed only two runs in his star ting debut against Columbia, but he left New York with a no-decision.

O’Lear y (1-0) had another successful start against Fordham, allowing two earned runs in five innings.

“With a big lead like that, you just try to throw strikes and not get people on base to try to get the game moving,” O’Leary said.

“You don’t want to blow a lead like that.”

With a secure lead, Hill put in replacement players on offense and defense. After nearly clearing his roster, the Knights still finished with Melillo on the bench.

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Knights seek improvement in final two meets

BY AARON FARRAR CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Rutgers men’s golf team competed in the Penn State Invitational on Saturday and Sunday in MEN’S GOLF S t a t e College, Pa., marking the midpoint of the Scarlet Knights’ season.

The Knights finished in 10th place out of 14 teams, carding a 936.

Freshman Jacob Stockl led the Knights on the first day of action with a score of 156, and he tied for 34th place after the first round.

Another young player paced Rutgers in the event on the second day of competition.

Freshman Hyung Mo Kim, a

Norwood, N.J., native, led the way with a score of 157. At the end of the event, he finished tied for 39th in the 78-player field.

Rutgers now has only two more events left before the season comes to an end. Stockl believes the team had a good outing, but it still needs to compete for the remainder of the season.

“Overall, we played better than we did in our last match,” Stockl said. “We played with much more confidence, and we trusted a lot of our shots. But I didn’t realize how close we are to the end of the season already. We have to continue to play with competitiveness.”

The Knights have one match in Princeton before their season finale

in Orlando at the Big East Championships. Rutgers has a chance to compete against talent in its conference. But before then, head coach Rob Shutte needs the team to continue to improve if it wants to be a threat in the final competition.

“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.”

Now with half of the season finished, the Knights are not looking in the past. They now focus on what they have to do to finish the season on a high note. With the end of the season in sight, the Knights want to finish strong, especially in the matches that remain.

“I want us to remember our game play,” said sophomore Jonathan Renza. “In our last few competitions, I want us to take what we experienced this season and use it to take our game to a higher level. I think that we can finish strong, but we have to want to.”

Even though the season nears an end, there is still plenty more competition left.

Shutte does not want the team to lose sight of the fact that there is still more golf in store.

He wants it to compete as if it is at the star t of the season again.

“I want the guys to have that same energy that they had at the star t,” he said. “We have to

maintain that same power if we want to finish the season the way that we said in the beginning of the season. I know my guys have what it takes. I just have to see if they are going to utilize ever ything.”

The Knights have two more opportunities to use all they learned this season. Stockl has faith in the team and believes it will do what is necessary to end its campaign well.

“For the rest of the season, I want to continue to improve my game and my work ethic,” Stockl said. “By the end of the season, I want Rutgers to be one of the most competitive teams in the Big East.”

RU looks for first win against ND in four years

BY JOEY GREGORY ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

Following a three-game sweep of Georgetown, Rutgers head softball coach Jay Nelson said he SOFTBALL thought the team could compete with tougher opponents.

The Scarlet Knights proved him right last weekend against Louisville. Although they fell to the Cardinals in all three games, none of the losses were by more than two runs.

Rutgers lost by scores of 1-0, 2-0 and 3-2, receiving good pitching in all three contests.

The combination of freshman Alyssa Landrith (11-7) and junior Abbey Houston (4-10) threw 18 1/3 innings, holding the No. 12 team in the nation to an average of two runs per game.

But while the Knights (1620, 5-6) saw productivity from the mound, the plate was a dif ferent stor y.

During the three-game series, Rutgers hitters amassed only seven hits against the Cardinals (33-2, 7-2), with five coming in Game 3.

In the third game of the set, while baserunners did not come at a premium — Rutgers had someone on base in every inning — timely hits did.

The combination of Tori Collins (15-1) and Chelsea Leonard (7-0) kept runners from scoring for the better part of the game, preserving the lead.

Senior third baseman Brittney Lindley was the only

Knight to pick up a hit in more than one game, only senior centerfielder Lindsey Curran had more than one hit in a single game and sophomore first baseman Alexis Durando was the only player to drive in a run for Rutgers in the series.

The Oakland, N.J., native picked up two RBI in Game 3, plating Lindley and junior second baseman Jennifer Harabedian with a double to right centerfield.

Game 1 was perhaps the biggest letdown on the trip, with the contest remaining scoreless through the first 6 1/2 innings. In the final frame, Louisville freshman Kayla Soles drove in teammate Jordan Trimble on a double to end the game.

Now Rutgers must face another tough opponent in Notre Dame (19-10, 3-0), which enters the twogame set riding an eight-game winning streak.

The Fighting Irish have also won the last four games in the series and have a 28-7 all-time advantage. Rutgers last beat Notre Dame on April 14, 2008, by a score of 5-4.

The pitching staff needs to post another solid performance if the team has any hope of getting back on track.

It has its hands full with Irish catcher Amy Buntin, the No. 3 hitter in the Notre Dame lineup.

She owns a .376 batting average and is tied with first baseman Dani Miller for the team lead in RBI with 29.

The doubleheader begins today at noon at the RU Softball Complex.

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Sophomore first baseman Alexis Durando was the only Knight to drive in any runs last weekend against Louisville. Her two-run double in Game 3 brought Rutgers within one run.

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Senior Chris Wycoff attempts a 5.06-meter vault at a tri-meet this season. An injury forced him to redshirt in the spring.

Pole vaulters use bond to achieve team goals

BY BEN CAIN STAFF WRITER

When Chris Wyckoff found out he was going to Rutgers as a senior in high school, he immediately MEN’S TRACK knew who to call. The Toms River East High School product phoned his friend and fellow pole vault competitor Pat Gray, who also committed to Rutgers.

The two met the summer before their junior years of high school as members of the High Performance Athletic Club, a summer travel team. They also competed against each other in high school at the Meet of Champions.

Wyckoff called Gray to ask him to be his roommate their freshman year. They shared more in common that year than a living space, as their time competing against one another helped them better each other’s technique in the pole vault.

“I feel by jumping together in high school, we learned each other’s technique, and it made it easier once we got to college to know what we had to work on and how to coach each other,” Wyckoff said.

The road for the two juniors has not always been easy in their careers as Scarlet Knights, but the pair has stayed the path and persevered through various injuries.

Gray pulled his left hamstring at the end of his senior year at Hightstown High School, and the injury lingered with him for the first two years of his career. In his first healthy season, Gray captured third in the Metropolitan Indoor Championships with a height of 4.65 meters.

Still, he looks to score his first points in a Big East Championship meet. He gets his chance next month, when the Knights travel to Tampa.

“As a pole vaulter, sometimes you get called a head case. And you get called a head case because you’re like, ‘I know what I need to fix, but I can’t fix it,’” Gray said. “And it’s really these games that you end up playing with yourself, trying to figure out what’s going to work to keep you consistent. Consistency is the most important thing.”

Wyckoff has been able to establish that consistency for the Knights when healthy. As a sophomore, he finished third in the pole vault at the indoor IC4A Championships and fourth in the outdoor IC4As. But a broken ankle his freshman year and a pulled left hamstring this season prevented him from reaching his goal of becoming a Big East champion.

“My goal is to win a Big East Championship along with a team Big East Championship,” Wyckoff said. “I feel like everything’s pretty much there, I just need to put it together and get a little bit more consistent.”

He has to wait until next season to reach that goal, as a pulled left hamstring suffered at this year’s indoor IC4A Championships forced him to redshirt the outdoor season.

As pole vaulters, the two normally reach heights of 15 to 17 feet in the air. But they must still contend with the perception that their skill is not as taxing as other track and field events.

“It’s funny because people say, ‘Oh, you’re a pole vaulter,’ and they think of high school pole vaulters,” Gray said. “They go out, pole vault a little bit — and then lay on the mats and get a tan. I don’t tan, and we don’t lay on the mats. We vault maybe once or twice a week depending on where the meets fall.

And all the other days are literally just training to keep you strong.”

The duo hopes to finish its career strong with a Big East title.

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Junior guard David Osei, left in red, blocks redshirt freshman defensive tackle Marquise Wright on March 31 during practice. Osei and sophomore tackle Taj Alexander began the spring as first-teamers along the Knights’ offensive line, which suffered a setback Saturday with news of sophomore Betim Bujari’s ankle injury.

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BY TYLER BARTO SPORTS EDITOR

Matt McBride refers to the Rutgers football offensive line as a puzzle piece. The junior offensive lineman, along with classmate David Osei, continues to find himself plugged into different holes.

“McBride fit in right away,” Osei said. “He’s the only person I can say that’s shuffled around more than me.”

With sophomore guard Betim Bujari sidelined with an ankle injur y he suffered Saturday, McBride could be the Scarlet Knight to benefit most. Head coach Kyle Flood said yesterday the earliest Bujari could return is the final week of spring practice.

Bujari started on and off a year ago before entrenching himself in the spring on the first team.

“Betim’s one of my favorite people to play with,” Osei said.

“But we have depth, so it’s not anything we’re worried too much about. When Betim comes back, he’ll come right back in.”

The Knights offensive line mixed and matched pieces nearly every game last season, when the starting five rarely went a series without substitutions.

Flood tried to shy away from the rotation this spring, but Bujari’s injur y and sophomore Kaleb Johnson’s absence compromises that plan.

“We’ve had to juggle a little bit,” Flood said.

A number of players, namely junior guard Antwan Lowery, earn opportunities to impress the coaching staff with the instability.

Lowery, once a starter last season, remains in competition for time.

“If he can continue [to be consistent] through the end of

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spring,” Flood said, “it would be hard to foresee a situation where he wasn’t one of our starters.”

Redshirt sophomore Taj Alexander, currently pegged as Rutgers’ starter at right tackle, also made an impression on Flood through seven practices.

Osei said he thinks Alexander is still athletic enough to play defensive line, where he played as a true freshman.

“He probably found a home here on the of fensive line,” Osei said.

The same remains to be seen for Osei. The 6-foot-4, 280-pounder played center, guard and tackle last season before settling in at right guard during the spring.

He began the 2011 season starting at center.

“I’ve moved around a lot,” Osei said. “When people have to step up, it’s not anything new to anyone anymore. No one’s been forced to be in a new position.”

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candidates to start at quarterback or running back separated themselves nearly halfway through spring practice.

“I’m pleased with the progress they’re making,” he said. “What I’m hoping is the next block of six practices will be a significant jump for those guys at both positions.”

Junior Chas Dodd and sophomore Gary Nova split reps at quarterback Saturday, when Dodd threw a pair of touchdowns. Nova went 10-for-26 for 119 yards.

“It wasn’t as good as we wanted it to be production-wise,” Dodd said Saturday. “We had a few missed opportunities where we weren’t able to move the ball like we wanted to.”

Sophomore r unning back Jawan Jamison continues to split time on the first team with classmate Savon Huggins. Jamison scored on a 51-yard touchdown pass Saturday before leaving with an injur y.

Bujari also saw his scrimmage cut shor t, but Flood said the injuries are not serious.

“None of the dings are longterm deals,” he said. “Whether or not they get back this spring, I’m not sure. They’re not surgical. These guys will get back ready for the summer program 100 percent.”

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to hear news regarding the health of junior tight end Malcolm Bush, who suf fered a lower-leg injur y yesterday in practice.

“My initial reaction is I don’t think it’s going to be that serious,” he said. “But until the doctors look at him and Xray it … that’s when we’ll find out for sure.”

Bush saw time with the absence of senior D.C. Jef ferson, reduced to a noncontact role in the spring because of injur y.

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from Saturday’s scrimmage, Flood said freshman kicker Kyle Federico’s play encouraged him.

Federico went 4-for-5 on field goal attempts, with a long of 39 yards.

“His ball right now gets up a little quicker than some of the other guys,” Flood said. “I thought he separated himself a little bit, even though I’m not ready to make a final decision there.”

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Junior quarterback Chas Dodd participates in a drill March 30 during practice. Dodd remains a candidate to start.

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Junior returns from injury on torrid pace

BY BRADLY DERECHAILO CORRESPONDENT

In the Rutgers women’s lacrosse team’s loss to Syracuse on Saturday, midfielder Stephanie Anderson registered team-leading WOMEN’S LACROSSE her 30th goal of the season on a pass from junior attack Annie McGinley.

The goal also led to Anderson’s sixth hat trick. But for the junior, being the team’s leading scorer did not cross her mind entering this season.

Injuries tend to keep things in perspective, and Anderson is happy with taking the field.

“I came into the season just hoping that I could play after coming off of a major injury last year and hoping that I was going to have a major role,” Anderson said.

The injury occurred midway through her sophomore campaign, when Anderson tore her ACL against Hofstra.

Anderson came off of a rookie season in which she played in all 16 games for the Scarlet Knights while registering 16 goals and 20 points.

The knee injur y put a halt to her onfield progression. Anderson found the back of the net nine times in six games before suf fering her season-ending injur y. But Anderson turned her time away into a learning experience.

“I had a lot of time to watch the games and be on the sideline and just seeing my team,” Anderson said. “So just being on

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Junior rightfielder Steve Zavala hit 2-for-4 with three RBI and two runs yesterday against Fordham. Zavala drove in three with a double in the bottom of the second inning, which accounted for the seventh of eight Knights runs in the inning.

RU earns season’s most lopsided win

BY JOSH BAKAN ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

ALEX VAN DRIESEN / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Junior midfielder Stephanie Anderson leads the Knights with 30 goals.

Rutgers head baseball coach Fred Hill essentially replaced junior catcher Jeff Melillo — the usual No. 3 hitter — with freshman outfielder Matt BASEBALL Ackerman, who had FORDHAM 4 stepped to the plate once this season for RUTGERS 15 the Scarlet Knights.

It was common for sophomore Michael Zavala to catch for

Melillo while Melillo served as designated hitter or first baseman.

After a series of lineup changes before yesterday’s game against Fordham at Bainton Field, junior rightfielder Steve Zavala hit third, Melillo got the day off and Ackerman was the new lineup addition.

After two RBI from Ackerman and three from Zavala, Hill has no regrets on his changes in Rutgers’ 15-4 win, the Knights’ largest margin of victory this season.

“We hit the ball very well,” Hill said. “The weekday pitching isn’t the best either, so we

can’t get too excited about it. But we did what we were supposed to do — that’s the best thing.”

Hill chose a risky game to switch around his lineup. Fordham had won five of six, including last weekend’s sweep of Temple.

Rutgers (16-15, 4-5) lost three of four before facing the Rams.

The eighth inning of Saturday’s 17-10 loss to St. John’s was fresh in the Knights’ minds.

Rutgers used three pitchers and allowed seven unearned runs off of three errors in

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KNIGHTS DROP UNEVEN AFFAIR WITH IN-STATE RIVAL PRINCETON The Rutgers men’s lacrosse team lost to Princeton, 13-4, yesterday at Class of 1952 Stadium.

The four-goal total was the Scarlet Knights’ lowest MEN’S LACROSSE output of the seaRUTGERS 4 son, previously a six-goal outing PRINCETON 13 March 17 against St. John’s.

The Knights made a late run against the No. 15 Tigers, with scores from sophomore midfielder Anthony Ter ranova and freshman midfielder Brian Goss to bring the score to 12-3 with six minutes remaining.

Rutgers (5-7) scored three goals in the second half after recording only one in the first half, but the Tigers’ sticks were more ef fective.

Princeton scored nine goals in the second half, including six unanswered,

until eight minutes remained in the four th quar ter.

The Tigers ended with a 3-0 advantage in the third period, and the Knights did not score until Terranova’s goal.

In the first half, senior midfielder Will Mangan scored his 25th goal of the season with 7:27 remaining in the second period to extend his scoring streak to 18 games.

The game was scoreless for the first 13 minutes before junior midfielder Tucker Shanley tallied the first goal with 1:59 left in the first quar ter.

After two consecutive losses, the Knights attempt to upset another ranked opponent in No. 13 Syracuse in their third-to-last game of the season at the ESPNU Warrior Classic on Saturday in Charlotte, N.C. — Staff Report

NOAH WHITTENBURG / PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR / FILE PHOTO

Freshman midfielder Brian Goss scored a goal yesterday in the Knights’ 13-4 defeat at No. 15 Princeton, which totaled nine goals in the second half.