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New Brunswick corporation Johnson & Johnson was on the receiving end of criticism yesterday as protesters shouted outside the company’s shareholders meeting. Members of Occupy New Brunswick, Occupy Big Pharma and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals gathered on the corner of Albany and Nielson streets to protest Johnson & Johnson on a number of counts. Problems stem from all the way up the ladder of the pharmaceutical company, said Ellen Lasner, a protester from Occupy Big Pharma who stood at the intersection with a sign in hand. “I’m asking Johnson & Johnson what they think about their new CEO Alex Gorsky. Forbes has alleged that he is involved in fraud and defrauding Medicare,” Lasner said. “I’m asking what they think about this, but I guess they don’t know or they don’t care.” Dotti Ji, another protester from Occupy Big Pharma, said Johnson & Johnson has been involved in many malpractice lawsuits, including insufficient drug testing and not making the side effects of some of these drugs clear. “We’re protesting their corruption of the medical system. They have bought the Medicare system, they bribe doctors and there’s about 63 lawsuits on the drug Levaquin, a drug that has left people with permanent disabilities,” Ji said. Bill Price, vice president of Corporate Media Relations at Johnson & Johnson, said it is normal for a company as big as Johnson & Johnson to receive lawsuits, but he said he could not comment on the nature of these lawsuits. Sushmita Venugopalan, a University graduate student and member of Occupy New Brunswick, said par t of the problem stems from the American Legislative Exchange Council, a nonprofit organization and corporate leg of Johnson & Johnson dedicated to working with corporations to help write down laws for legislators to pass. “For example, Gov. Chris Christie has passed a lot of legislations that look a lot like laws ALEC has proposed and Johnson & Johnson is a par t of ALEC, so basically they’re lobbying,” Venugopalan said.
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Leroy Haines, assistant director of Residence Life for Livingston campus, accepts his award yesterday at Winants Hall.
The 13th annual “Human Dignity Awards Ceremony” honored University students and faculty yesterday in Winants Hall on the Old Queens campus for extraordinar y achievement and commitment to promoting diversity. “Diversity is intrinsic to our academic excellence,” said University President Richard L. McCormick. “People who get education in an environment where men and women who don’t think the same way and who are dif ferent from them are better prepared for life.” Ji Hyun Lee, one of the recipients, worked to make the University a productive place for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning AsianAmerican students on campus. “Change happens little by little,” said Lee, director of the Asian American Cultural Center. She said the Building Real Intergroup Dialogue for Greater Equality was formed as a dialogue space for anyone, but especially Asian-Americans who self-identify as gay.
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BANK FORGIVES LOANS OF U. STUDENT SIX YEARS AFTER DEATH After six years of requests, Cleveland-based bank, KeyBank, forgave the debts of Christopher Br yski, a former University student who died six years ago. Br yski died in 2006 after being in a vegetative state for two years because of a brain injur y, according to The Washington Post. The decision came in response to an online petition created by Br yksi’s brother on Change.org. The petition collected more than 75,000 signatures, according to The Washington Post. While the federal government had canceled its $5,000 loan to Br yski, Keybank, a private lender, did not do the same for the $51,000 that was still owed at the time of Br yski’s death.
Bryski’s family has been making monthly payments of several hundred dollars to the bank for the last six years, according to The Washington Post. Ryan Br yski, who created the petition, said he is happy so many people helped his family raise awareness about the issue. “My family tried for years to get KeyBank to forgive my brother Christopher’s loans after he died, and for years they ignored us,” he told The Washington Post. “Thankfully, they couldn’t ignore the 75,000 people who signed our petition.” After responding to the petition, the bank issued a release stating they would adopt a “case-by-case” policy for similar situations in the future, according to The Washington Post.
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NJ Folk Festival to show state’s Bulgarian culture BY AMY ROWE NEWS EDITOR
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DJ BENT spins records at the SKULLTRA Benefit Concert for Autism Speaks, hosted by Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity, in the Multipurpose Room of the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus.
New Jersey’s Bulgarian culture will be on display Saturday on Douglass campus at the 38th annual New Jersey Folk Festival. Elena Poptodorova, Bulgaria’s ambassador to the United States, is scheduled to make an appearance. Each year, 15 students work with faculty advisor Angus Gillespie through a course and internship in the Department of American Studies to learn of a particular New Jersey ethnic group’s culture and plan the festival from start to finish. The festival’s board of trustees selects the cultural group featured at the festival a year in advance, with board Vice President Bill Selden selecting Bulgaria this year because of his par ticular interest in its folk culture, said Gillespie, professor in the Depar tment of American Studies.
“The number of Bulgarian immigrants in New Jersey is rather tiny,” he said. “We’ve already done a lot of larger groups, such as the Italians or the Greeks or the Irish, but this year it’s Bulgaria’s turn.” Gillespie said the festival, which is expected to attract about 10,000 visitors, includes a demonstration of Bulgarian bread making, lectures on different aspects of Bulgaria’s folk culture and a food and craft market. The festival will also feature performances on four dif ferent stages, with a female group of Bulgarian vocalists and dancers, along with an 11-piece brass band Zlatne Uste playing Bulgarian and Balkan dance music, said Kur t Utenwoldt, Skylands stage coordinator. Gillespie said Poptodorova is going to accept a certificate of appreciation that University President Richard L. McCormick plans to present to her at
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Clarence Fennimore, a master carver from Tuckerton, N.J., uses wood to create ducks throughout this week at the Livingston Student Center to show students the importance of folk art. The wooden ducks are then painted to represent different duck species to help duck hunters catch live ducks.
Artist carves wooden ducks to honor folk culture BY SKYLAR FREDERICK STAFF WRITER
As a preview for the New Jersey Folk Festival on Saturday on Douglass campus, an ar tist in residence spent the past week car ving decoy ducks to attract real ducks. The festival’s heritage brings in dif ferent ar tists and crafters to demonstrate the culture of Nor th American folk ar t to University students, said Robyn Drag, heritage area coordinator for the festival. “Duck decoy car ving is actually ver y emblematic of New Jersey folk culture,” said Drag, a School of Ar ts and Sciences senior. Clarence Fennimore, a master car ver from Tucker ton, N.J., said he paints the ducks he car ves to look like a cer tain species of duck so hunters can place them in the water to attract live ones. Ducks swim toward the decoys because they feel safe being around other ducks while in the water, he said. Fennimore, who has spent more than 20 years of his life
car ving decoy ducks, presented a demonstration of duck decoy car ving, a skill he learned from his uncle. To car ve the ducks, Fennimore said he begins with Jersey cedar wood and chops it with a hatchet, then uses a
“Duck decoy carving is actually very emblematic of New Jersey.” ROBYN DRAG Heritage Area Coordinator for the New Jersey Folk Festival
drawknife and a spokeshave to form the body of the duck. He paints the ducks in a total process of about 8 to 10 hours to complete the decoys. Fennimore car ved 15 ducks this week inside the Livingston Student Center. He also brought “sneak boxes,” which originated in Bar negat Bay, New Jersey to use along with the decoy ducks.
“A sneak box is a ver y shallow draft boat that can run in just a few inches of water,” Fennimore said. These boats were anchored in the reeds where the hunters could stay hidden from the ducks. “The beauty [of the boats] is that they were light, could be pushed over the mud and dragged around in shallow water,” Fennimore said. Drag said the festival, which has been running for 38 years, attracts 15,000 people annually. The festival aims to educate the community about dif ferent aspects of New Jersey Folk culture. Folk ar t refers to ar t created anywhere from early America to the rise of modernization for a functional purpose, she said. These ar tists usually have not had technical training and are tradition carriers, passing their craft on to others. With many people drawn to the festival each year, Drag said the attraction helped create Rutgers Day. Angus Gillespie, director of the festival, stressed the importance of
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Students participate in folk art through painting wooden duck decoys at the Livingston Student Center. Fennimore’s demonstration. “It is intended to promote and draw interest to the upcoming events at the folk festival,” said Gillespie, a professor in the Depar tment of American Studies. Gillespie said the depar tment co-sponsors the festival, which features traditional crafts and traditional music. The depar tment aims to
educate the community on aspects of American histor y that are often forgotten. “In the American Studies depar tment, we teach not only American histor y and American literature, but also we deal with subjects that are not treated by other depar tments such as folk histor y, folk literature and folk ar t,” Gillespie said.
RUTGERS-NEWARK GRADUATE SCHOOL SELECTS PSYCHOLOGY PROFESSOR AS DEAN Maggie Shiffrar was appointed the dean of the Rutgers-Newark Graduate School, according to University Media Relations. Shiffrar, a professor in the Rutgers-Newark Department of Psychology, will assume the position on July 1. “As dean, Maggie Shif frar will bring exceptional experience in scholarship, teaching, research and training to the Graduate School,” RutgersNewark interim Chancellor Philip Yeagle told Media Relations. Shif frar has ser ved several leadership positions at Rutgers-Newark since becoming a professor
there in 1991, including director of the graduate program and the psychology depar tment chair. She researches the visual perception of the human body, which focuses on how the visual system, motor system and social psychological processes interact. Shif frar’s current studies are on social challenges of autistic people triggered by other people’s actions, according to Media Relations. Shif frar has published more than 60 ar ticles and chapters, as well as two books. “She is a nationally respected and frequently published scholar who has also devoted herself to
the training of doctoral and post-doctoral students at Rutgers,” Yeagle said. She has trained many students, undergraduate and graduate, who have gone on to fur ther educational pursuits in graduate school or as faculty members, according to Media Relations. Born and raised in California, Shif frar received her bachelor’s degree in psychobiology from the University of California at Santa Cruz. She got her Ph.D in psychology at Stanford University. The dean-to-be lives in New Providence, N.J., with her partner Dr. Angele Thompson.
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should come out and see the festival, which was designed with in mind. groups are featured annually them “It’s a really good chance to see what some of the students continued from front have been doing and it shows them things that they can do,” the Eagleton Institute of Politics he said. for her participation in the folk For his third year involved festival. in the festival, Utenwoldt said “We’re extremely pleased and he has enjoyed passing down proud that the ambassador has knowledge to students new to accepted our invitation to attend the festival. the 38th edition of the N.J. Folk “I’ve sort of seen this thing Festival,” Gillespie said. coming together twice before, Utenwoldt, a School of Arts and both times it was sort of an and Sciences senior, said each exciting and terrifying process,” year the festival team invites fighe said. “This year it’s much ureheads of the cultural group more rewarding because I feel featured, but this is the first time like I’m in more of a position that one has accepted. I can mentor people.” “It means a lot because it Yasay said she looks forward shows that we’re kind of pushing to the festival because it is her out globally, not only just this chance to see all part of the N.J. Folk of the hard work Festival but to and planning fall Rutgers, it means a “When we get to into place. lot to everybody I “It ends up year 113, we’ll have think,” he said. being the best M i c h e l l e to start repeating part, seeing Yasay, festival everything finally manager who has ourselves.” come together … been working on ANGUS GILLESPIE and seeing all the the festival since Festival Faculty Adviser crowds enjoy she was a firstwhat you put year student, said together yourstudents should self,” she said. “It’s a profound come to the festival for a difexperience. … It’s something I ferent and interesting experidon’t think I could’ve done or had ence with culture on campus. an experience with somewhere “Our workshops are rather else at Rutgers.” interactive, and it’s great for Utenwoldt said seeing the [students] to learn about these festival’s culmination on local heritage groups that are Saturday is dif ferent for him found within the state,” said this year as a senior. Yasay, a School of Ar ts and “For me, the festival this year Sciences senior. “A lot of these is sort of coming to a close, but a [groups] are just in your new beginning at the same time neighborhood next door, and because I’m graduating,” he said. you don’t know about it.” Gillespie said the New Jersey Gillespie said students Department of State identified should come to the festival to 113 ethnic groups living in the learn about Bulgarians, an ethstate, and Bulgaria is just one the nic group they might not be festival’s board decided to feature familiar with. this year. “We celebrate the diversity of “When we get to year 113 we’ll all the groups in New Jersey, and have to start repeating ourin the long run we hope to proselves,” he said. “But so far we’ve mote a more harmonious sociegot a long way to go.” ty,” he said. Utenwoldt said aside from stuLisa Berkman contributed to dents enjoying a warm Saturday this story. having fun with friends, they
AWARDS: Linder builds LGBTQ outreach in Newark continued from front “When you are gay, you already have a lot to deal with across the board and then you add another layer of culture — being Asian American — and all the cultural values that follow,” Lee said. She said many AsianAmericans already struggle with being Asian and American, and now on top of that sexuality is added, which is a real struggle. Through her career at the Asian American Cultural Center, she has seen many students who struggle with this issue, which is why it is so close to her hear t. “They share with their small group of people and will tell me, but they can’t share it with anyone else,” she said. Lee said some are simply unable to talk about being gay with their parents because of the sometimes oppressive atmosphere. “This is why we create that space with students, so we can star t something here, tr y to get students [to] talk about it,” she said. “The more you talk about it, it becomes normal to talk about it. We want to break the silence.”
Lee said she and her group of students are tr ying to encourage others to engage in the general dialogue. “We are trying to change the norm and to de-stigmatize topics related to sexuality,” she said. Donovan Linder, a RutgersNewark College of Ar ts and Sciences senior, was also awarded for his leadership for working with LGBTQ community on campus. “When I was coming as a freshman, I was wondering where are people like me? Besides being black, it was like where are other LGBTQ students on campus?” Linder said. Linder was also applauded for remodeling RU Pride, a group for LGBTQ, to make students to feel comfor table on campus. “I wanted them to feel that Rutgers is their safe home because many of them were going back to their closet,” she said. Linder and members of RU Pride also helped establish an LGBTQ studies minor and the Diversity Resource Center in the fall. Leroy Haines, assistant director of Residence Life on Livingston Campus; Claudio Mir, program coordinator for Civic Engagement and Ser vice Education Partnerships; Wendell Pritchett, chancellor of Rutgers-
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Mason Gross School of the Arts senior Francesca Fiore exhibits her performance piece at the opening reception of the “I SPY” BFA thesis show yesterday in downtown New Brunswick.
MISCONDUCT: DEVCO ignores city’s residents, Cobb says continued from front ALEC has received negative press in the past for advocating legislation, such as the Stand Your Ground law, a self-defense law that played a role in the death of Trayvon Martin, Ji said. Venugopalan agreed with Ji, saying Johnson & Johnson should not associate themselves with the nonprofit organization. “Our main goal today is to ask Johnson & Johnson to get out of ALEC,” Venugopalan said. “There are a lot of big corporations [and] big companies that have gotten out of ALEC, like McDonalds, Pepsi and Coca Cola.” Price admitted to Johnson & Johnson’s involvement with ALEC, but said the company does not condone all of ALEC’s policies. Protesters also raised concerns over Johnson & Johnson’s relation-
Camden campus; and Donald Roden, associate professor of history, also received awards for their achievements. Edward Ramsamy, chair of the Committee to Advance Our Common Purposes, said his committee promotes the practice of diversity and equity at the University and in the communities surrounding the University. “Our mission is to work with students, faculty and staff who present a range of co-curricular initiatives that educate, illuminate and stimulate the campus communities,” he said. This is to honor people who do extraordinary things to enhance diversity and social justice, said Cheryl Clarke, dean of students for Livingston campus. “We are hoping that students will go out and continue their work and impact students,” she said. McCormick said diversity at the University is intrinsic to academic excellence. “We hope our students will live deep into the diverse 21st century,” he said. He said these recipients are exemplars who will become models for the next generation. “These are the people we admire. These are the activities we cherish. This is the kind of institution we want to support forever,” he said.
ship with the New Brunswick Development Corporation, a local real estate company. Tim Cobb, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, said residents are unhappy about DEVCO’s inability to provide affordable housing, despite the company’s promised mission of revitalizing New Brunswick. Cobb, one of the protesters, said many of DEVCO’s projects, such as the Gateway Transit Village and the Heldrich Square, have not been targeted toward lower-income residents in the city. “The [Wellness Plaza] being built is supposed to be DEVCO’s required community space, but the cost for a family of five to use the space will be close to $18,000 a year. … Twenty percent of the city lives below the poverty line. … That’s not community space,” Cobb said. Price said Johnson & Johnson has worked with DEVCO, but it was always in the spirit of benefiting the community. “Yes we are involved with DEVCO. Johnson & Johnson has
been a part of the New Brunswick community for 126 years, and we want to help change the quality of life in the city,” Price said. Cobb said he understands DEVCO is constructing new projects in the city, but the problem lies in the direction they are taking the community. “[New Brunswick] used to have a vibrant and rich culture,” Cobb said. “In my opinion, there is a correlation between a rise of DEVCO properties and a decline in culture here in New Brunswick.” Price said he was aware that there was a protest during the company’s shareholders meeting yesterday, but he could not comment on it nor did he know what it was about. Cobb said Johnson & Johnson is aware of the situation and has chosen to ignore it. “We have tried to contact Johnson & Johnson several times, so if [Price] is unaware, then he is literally not paying attention,” he said.
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Two bombers attack Nigerian newspapers THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ABUJA, Nigeria — A suicide bomber and a man armed with explosives attacked two Nigerian newspaper offices yesterday, killing seven people and wounding at least 26. The radical Islamic sect Boko Haram claimed responsibility. Boko Haram said it coordinated the attacks on Nigeria’s major daily newspaper ThisDay in the capital, Abuja, and an office building it shares with two other newspapers in the city of Kaduna. It threatened to target other journalists in the future. In Abuja, the suicide bomber rammed his car through the gates of the ThisDay office and drove into the reception area before the explosion, said Nwakpa O. Nwakpa, a spokesman for the Nigerian Red Cross. The blast killed at least three people and wounded others, Nwakpa said. Soldiers and police officers quickly surrounded the building, which had part of its roof torn away and all its windows blown out by the force of the explosion. The blast focused on the end of the building with the newspaper’s
printing press, while the newsroom sat far away from the blast. However, the force of the explosion overturned tables and scattered debris through the journalists’ workroom. The attack in Kaduna also included a car loaded with explosives at an office building ThisDay shares with The Moment and The Daily Sun newspapers. However, people at the office quickly surrounded the car, witnesses said. The driver then began shouting that there was a bomb inside the car, witness Jemilu Abdullahi said. Those there allowed the man to open the trunk of the car and he pulled out and threw an explosive, which detonated, Abdullahi said. At least four people died in that blast, Nwakpa said. Authorities later arrested the bomber, Kaduna state police commissioner Mohammed Jingiri Abubakar said. “What I can tell you is that for these dangerous elements, everybody is a target,” Abubakar said. Another bomb exploded late yesterday afternoon on the outskirts of Kaduna, causing unknown injuries, police said.
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Bakers demonstrate in front of Downing Street in London yesterday against the government's proposed decision to impose a 'Pasty Tax,’ that includes a 20 percent tax to hot baked goods. Citizens have made a petition consisting of 500,000 signatures against the tax.
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he Los Angeles Times reported this week of six teens in California’s San Fernando Valley who were hospitalized after ingesting — of all common household things — hand sanitizer. Apparently, they found the substance — which can have an alcohol content of as high as 120-proof — can be used as a quick way to get a buzz. As college students, we realize people will go to almost any length to get a high — from bath salts to aerosols — but even we must admit, this is a new low. We dart the teens for resorting to consuming hand sanitizer to get drunk. Whatever happened to simply raiding the ’rents’ alcohol cabinet? ***** If you happened to see a scruffy, grey-bearded man, wearing multiple ties and a boot atop his head marching up and down College Avenue two days ago, don’t be frightened. You weren’t hallucinating, and were certainly not alone — we saw him too. The man goes by the name Vermin Supreme — or, alternatively, the “Friendly Fascist” — and he just so happens to be running for the 2012 presidential campaign. Supreme rallied in front of Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus Wednesday, outlining his campaign platforms — which include mandator y dental hygiene and a pony for ever y American. How can anyone deny such political insight? These are serious problems facing ever yday Americans, people. We laurel Supreme for his antics. We don’t know about you, but we’re ready to endorse a new presidential candidate — and his name is Vermin Supreme. ***** Finals are just around the corner. For students, that means it’s time to pull ourselves up by our boot straps, hit the books and get started on that term paper we left to the ver y last week of the semester. Most of us will accompany these studies with few hours of sleep, many cups of coffee and some sparing meals devoid of any nutritional substance. Add to this an almost insufferable amount of stress, and you have all the ingredients that constitute the typical University student’s end-of-the-year grind. But ah, such is life here on the Banks. We’d like to take this opportunity to dar t finals themselves — because without them, our lives would be so much easier. ***** As next semester approaches, the University is hearing more and more about plans for Livingston campus’ new residence hall apartments and plaza. While construction is still under way, the new facilities are expected to be pretty impressive. According to University Housing, administrators aim to create a “mix-use” environment of Livingston Plaza, which could potentially include a movie theater, a diner and up to 10 retail stores. When these plans come to fruition next year, Livingston could turn into quite the campus hub — which is good, considering how far it has come since its days as a desolate, seemingly uninhabited parking lot. We laurel University Housing and the steps it’s taking to bring Livingston into the spotlight. ***** Following a similar review of the fatal shooting of Barr y Deloatch, another Middlesex County grand jur y will meet about the shooting of Victor Rodriguez. Rodriguez, a 19-year-old New Brunswick resident, was left seriously injured after police opened fire on him early last year. Both of these instances have ser ved as points of contention in recent months, spurring protests and criticism from city residents who view the shootings as instance of police brutality and injustice. It’s clear, however, that to make sense of the events surrounding the shootings, this is a necessar y step. We laurel Middlesex County prosecutors for taking this step and bringing both cases to the attention of a grand jur y.
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here is lots of talk the rest of the population, these days about then somebody is losing. “class war fare.” Then class war fare is a The term is slung like problem. mud in Washington, in Which brings us to the statehouses across the real question: Do such countr y, on the television conditions exist currently? and in the newspaper. Any SAM BERMAN Do economic trends inditime the left talks of raiscate that one par ty ing taxes on the wealthy engaged in class war fare to pay for ser vices for the poor, the right accus- has come to dominate at the expense of other es them of engaging in redistribution of wealth, par ties involved? And, if so, who is winning and or “class war fare” for “political gain.” who is losing? Alter natively, when the right protests any Here are some numbers that may help you increase in government spending, especially make up your mind: when it’s paid for by tax increases, the left One. The share of total pre-tax income accuses them of waging a war on the poor and possessed by the top 1 percent of the middle class so that their overlords (the American wage-earners rose from a low of super-wealthy elite) can get ever-larger slices of 8.9 percent in 1976 to about 23.5 percent in the economic pie. With so many accusations fly- 2007. From 1950 to 1980, that number hovered ing back and for th, it can be at about 10 percent, down from dif ficult to discer n the its previous peak of 23.9 “ Is class warfare truth. What is really going on percent in 1928. In other here? Does class war fare words, the top 1 percent getting out of hand? exist? And if so, who’s the share of pre-tax income is at And are you on the aggressor — the 99 percent or levels not seen since the the 1 percent? of the Gilded Age, an era losing side of that war?” peak Well my fellow students, I’m characterized by political corsor r y to tell you that the ruption and economic inequalianswer appears to be ty, and one which came, of contradictor y. Both sides are right, and both course, to a rather thrilling conclusion in sides are wrong. October 1929. Politics has been generally defined as a Two. From 1947-1979, productivity of the struggle over “who gets what, when and how.” average American production and non-super viIn other words, the political arena is one in sor y worker (a categor y which now makes which dif ferent groups duke it out over the up about 80 percent of the private sector distribution of society’s resources. By this workforce) rose by 119 percent — average commonly accepted definition, not only is “class hourly compensation for the same categor y rose war fare” — defined as a str uggle by 100 percent. In other words, the two were between the various classes over the limited closely linked — as, economically resources a nation has at its disposal — con- speaking, they should be. And then, in 1979, this stantly being waged at ever y level of link between productivity and compensation government, it is inherent in government. It is suddenly ceased to exist. Between 1979 unavoidable. Its existence should come as a and 2009, productivity rose by a staggering 80 shock to nobody. In fact, the impor tant thing to percent. Average hourly compensation rose by remember about class war fare is not even who only 8 percent. is winning. In a growing economy, ever ybody Three. During the economy’s expansion can win. Normally, class war fare is just a com- under former President Bill Clinton, which petition for growth, and as long as the balance lasted from 1993 to 2000, the real income of the of power is reasonable, ever ybody’s slice of pie top 1 percent grew annually by 10.3 percent. will get larger. Things only get ugly when this is The bottom 99 percent saw their real no longer the case. When one por tion of the income grow annually by 2.7 percent during the population is devouring a dispropor tionately same period. During the expansion under large share of the economic pie — be it the 1 percent or the 99 percent — at the expense of SEE BERMAN ON PAGE 9
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BERMAN continued from page 8 former President George W. Bush, it was even worse — the top 1 percent saw their incomes rise by a roughly equal percentage (10.1 percent), but the bottom 99 percent saw theirs rise only by 1.3 percent. And while it is true that the top 1 percent also received heavier losses than the rest of the population during the downturns that followed each expansion, in the 2007 recession, their losses were about four times greater than that of the bottom 99 percent. Contrast that with the 10 times greater growth captured during the preceding expansion. And, for the whole period from 1993 to 2008, the top 1 percent saw their incomes grow about four times faster, each year, than the bottom 99 percent. So is class war fare getting out of hand? And are you on the losing side of that
war? There are of course plenty of economic factors at play here. The power of increasing technology and globalization — which af fect and alter some of the trends that we have been obser ving since the end of World War II — cannot be overstated. But while such economic factors may cer tainly describe the mechanism by which this change is taking place, these numbers tell a fairly unambiguous stor y as to the nature of that change. So, when, before the general election in November, you hear both par ties accusing each other of engaging in petty “class war fare,” keep in mind that this shouldn’t be a surprise. The only relevant question concerning class warfare is whether there is a balance of power. As long as that balance is maintained, ever ybody wins. Class war fare is only a problem when one side dominates. Sam Berman is a School of Ar ts and Sciences sophomore.
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here is No Liberal Bias in Academia Ever y so often at this college, or any other college, you hear a student with strong conser vative views say that they feel like there’s a liberal bias in their classes. They may say professors or fellow students ostracize them for their small-government or pro-foreign intervention beliefs. What’s interesting is that these persecuted conservative students are almost always a social sciences or humanities student. They often complain about how they are marginalized at the University for their conservative perspectives. I have no doubt their experiences with liberal bias at this school were authentic, but I don’t think their experiences say anything about the political slant of the University or academia as a whole. You see, if they were majoring in business like me, they’d feel right at home. At the Rutgers Business School, which is just as much a part of the University as the School of Ar ts and Sciences, there are tons of conser vatives, students and professors alike. And you’re more likely to get criticized for saying something liberal or socialist than you are for saying something libertarian or conser vative — as a student with views all around the political spectrum, I’ve experimented. In my years at the University, I have had more professors go on digressions in which they discuss their conser vative beliefs than I have had professors go on digressions in which they discuss their liberal beliefs. I propose this framework for understanding political views and academia. Think of each academic discipline like you would a profession — because really that’s what an academic discipline is, a type of scholarly profession. Don’t professions often have political biases? Sometimes these biases are easily explainable. Heavily unionized professions as well as civil ser vice professions tend to attract liberals and turn people liberal because liberal ideology often supports union power and well-funded government agencies. Many ecclesiastical professions also tend to attract conser vatives and turn people conser vative because social conser vatism often emphasizes religious-based traditional family values. Sometimes the biases are not as easily explainable. However, I cannot definitely say why
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there are more liberals in enter tainment and more conser vatives in the militar y. Nonetheless, political slants in professions seem to be the rule rather than the exception. It should ED REEP not be surprising, then, that certain academic disciplines also have slants. There will always be people with certain worldviews attracted to certain academic disciplines and certain academic disciplines that produce people with certain worldviews. For the person with a minority worldview in an academic discipline, make sure you can freely express yourself and have your views respected, but don’t accuse your school or the whole system of being biased. Honestly, if you’re being trained in macroeconomics classes how to inter fere in the economy on behalf of the government, don’t be surprised if most people there suppor t government inter ference in the economy. If you’re being trained in public health classes how to craft public policy that forces consumers to make healthier choices, don’t be surprised if most people there are sympathetic to the nanny state. If you’re being trained in finance class how to avoid paying taxes, don’t be surprised if most people there suppor t lower taxes. And if you’re in women’s and gender studies classes, don’t be surprised if most people there are sympathetic to feminism, but even if you’re in a class that has nothing to do with anything political and you see a lot of people of a cer tain ideology, don’t be surprised. This is how the world works. Dif ferent types of people are rarely randomly distributed in anything. Academia consists of many dif ferent disciplines, and any of these individual disciplines may be biased, but academia as a whole is simply too broad to have any kind of political slant. And as for the University, whether your experience will involve more exposure to liberalism or conser vatism depends on what you want to study. Don’t let fears of bias sway you to a cer tain major, however, because most people are too busy and polite to care about your politics anyway. Ed Reep is a Rutgers Business School junior majoring in supply chain and marketing science with minors in economics and business and technical writing.
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HISTORY: Seniors hope to make up for elimination continued from back fuels the Knights against Georgetown, said head coach Brian Brecht. “Rutgers has never beaten Georgetown ever, in the history of playing,” Brecht said. “I talk about legacy and putting your stamp on something — what a great opportunity for these 40 student-athletes to prepare for a great week of practice, travel well and have a win that no other Rutgers team has ever had.”
Brecht sees the game as a second chance specifically for the senior class, which without a chance for tournament glor y looks to leave something behind. “For these seniors to get to seven wins and do something and leave the program better than they found it — what a great opportunity,” Brecht said. For Hover, a win against Georgetown suf fices in place of a Big East Tour nament ber th in his final year on the Banks. “If we can finish the season by beating Georgetown for the first time, that is our playoff right there,” Hover said.
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Junior catcher Jeff Melillo bats No. 3 for a Knights lineup that sits fourth in the Big East with 268 runs scored.
HITTERS: Combination of batters improve RU lineup continued from back baseman D.J. Anderson led all Scarlet Knights last year with 25. The Rutgers offense centers around Kivlehan and Melillo, and it has improved significantly. The Knights scored 235 runs last year, which placed them 10th out of 12 Big East teams. They have already surpassed that total with 268, fourth in the conference. “Early in the season, we struggled with that,” said assistant coach Tim Reilly. “We swung at a lot of balls in the dir t, a lot of of f-speed stuf f down. But we’ve improved, and we’ve really narrowed it down and hit strikes.” Double-digit scoring outputs like that against the Bearcats were infrequent in 2011 — Rutgers did it only four times. The Knights bats were not as hot in the other two games in that series, which were both losses. Rutgers (23-17, 8-7) travels to Cincinnati (13-29, 2-13) today with a lineup that has scored in double digits in nine games already and has a better chance at Big East Championship contention. Much of that has to do with the addition of Kivlehan and the improvement of Melillo. In his rookie season, Kivlehan has already made a solid case for Big East Player of the Year by leading the league with a .400 batting average, a .487 on-base percentage and .677 slugging percentage.
Kivlehan has made it through his first month of Big East play, but most pitchers still do not have an answer for him. “I think [pitchers] figured him out,” Reilly said. “I think sometimes they’ll make a mistake and he’ll hit it, and he can hit pitches that aren’t mistakes.” Major League Baseball scouts have been to Rutgers games, and Kivlehan knows they are watching him. But the West Nyack, N.Y., native has the same focus as the rest of the Knights. “There’s a time and a place to think about that,” Kivlehan said. “We’re in the middle of a Big East race, so we have to worry about that stuff.” Melillo often gives Kivlehan someone to bat in with his .451 OBP, which is eighth in the conference and eclipses his .248 OBP from last season. The North Hunterdon High School (N.J.) product also hits for power with a .474 slugging percentage that doubles last year’s percentage of .235. “Plate discipline, swinging at certain pitches, choosing counts to swing at, when to swing, when not to swing,” Melillo said on how he has progressed. “I think I’m a lot less aggressive early on this year than I was last year.” Rutgers faces a tough Cincinnati rotation in junior righthander Zach Isler, freshman lefthander Zach Morris and sophomore righthander Christian McElroy. All sport ERAs of four or less, and none started in last year’s series against the Knights. But the rotation is equally unfamiliar with the 3-4 combination of Melillo and Kivlehan.
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SPOT: Knights seek play that mirrors effort at Iona continued from back “She goes in, she throws strikes, she moves the ball and changes speeds well,” said head coach Jay Nelson. “She doesn’t get herself into trouble.” The Knights (23-24, 9-10) need more solid performances as they continue their push toward the playoffs. St. John’s (19-30, 7-9), which is also fighting for playoff position, stands in their way. The Red Storm currently own the eighth and final playoff spot, only 1.5 games ahead of Pittsburgh. While 10th place is not very daunting to a team that has beaten teams in third and fourth place this season, the team emphasizes that it approaches every team the same way. “Everyone on the team has that mindset,” Landrith said. “We’re going to be working on staying sharp, keeping the momentum from [Wednesday] and not take [St. John’s] lightly and win all three [games].” Nelson believes the formula for topping the Johnnies is not
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complicated. The Knights must perform the same way they did against Iona. “We [need to] play fundamental softball like we did [against Iona],” Nelson said. “[In Game 2 against Iona] we got runners on, we stole bases, we bunted people over, we got key hits against two very tough pitchers. Our plan is to do what we do, not let St. John’s alter what we do.” If Connecticut, which has the same Big East record as Rutgers, wins any of its games against Syracuse, the Knights must post at least one win against St. John’s if they want to secure a playoff spot. On the flip side, DePaul, ahead of Rutgers, can fall back if it drops its upcoming games against Seton Hall and Providence. But the Knights want to continue their winning streak and ride the momentum into the postseason. Not only do they expect to make the Big East Tournament, but they also plan on doing some damage. “I’ve never been in the Big East Tour nament before,” Landrith said. “But I think if we keep playing like we’re playing, we’re going to be the team to beat.”
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utgers men’s basketball team guard Eli Carter made the 20112012 All-Met Men’s Basketball Third team yesterday, as presented by the National Invitation Tournament and the Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association. Car ter averaged 13.8 points per game for Rutgers, ranking four th among Big East freshmen. He also ranks third in 3-point field goal percentage and fifth in steals amongst his conference classmates. Carter was the Big East Rookie of the Week after scoring 31 points in an 85-83 double-overtime win against thenNo. 10 Florida and 19 points in a 67-60 victory against thenNo. 8 Connecticut.
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Sophomore Kristen Bradley takes part in the high jump April 14 at Rutgers’ Metropolitan Championships.
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Sophomore left fielder Loren Williams hit a home run against Iona on Wednesday, knocking in the only run of Game 1.
The Rutgers women’s track and field team’s schedule comes down to the final week. The Scarlet WOMEN’S TRACK Knights c o m RUTGERS AT pete at PENN RELAYS, t h e TODAY P e n n Relays in Philadelphia today, and then conclude their regular season tomorrow at the Lions’ Invitational at TCNJ. The Knights will only participate in limited events during the Penn Relays. Participants include the 4x400-meter relay team, senior Nwamaka Okobi in the long jump and sophomore Tylia Gillon in the 100-meter dash. “It is quite a prestigious award for her because it is an elite group,” said sprinters coach Lou Tomlinson of Gillon. “A lot of athletes request to run in the event, but they only take approximately 25. It is a high honor for her.” Even though the Knights will run limited athletes in the Penn Relays, the team still has goals to accomplish. “What we are doing is the 4x400 relay to improve our seeding in the Big East,” said head coach James Robinson. “And secondly, we are trying to break a school record that is 32 years old and was set in 1980.” The 4x400-meter relay team consists of Gillon, freshman Gabrielle Farquharson, sophomore Corryn Hurrington and junior Asha Ruth. The relay team set the school record several times for the indoor season’s 4x400meter relay. “I think they started off a little slow,” Robinson said. “They had to adjust to the workouts and to
Coach Lou, but from the middle of the season on, they have put remarkable work in, and it has paid off.” During the last few days, Ruth has experienced minor aches and pains, which the coaches and training staff monitor closely. Ruth’s ailments made the coaches contemplate forgoing the 4x400-meter relay altogether, but they decided to give it a tr y. Ruth will not compete in the other events she was selected to par ticipate in at the Penn Relays, including the long jump and the 4x200-meter relay. Trainers are optimistic that with a couple of days of rest, Ruth will be ready for the conference championships. “Even though we may not be at 100 percent this weekend, I am expecting some good things from these young ladies,” Tomlinson said. “I am excited to see this group run together for the first time in the outdoor season.” The Knights will send eight athletes to compete in the Lions’ Invitational. “Our goal here is to get faster times,” Robinson said. “We are trying to continue to improve. We are looking to get sharp and for the girls to run fast, period.” The Lions’ Invitational is the last meet before championship season begins, and the coaches and athletes are optimistic they can accomplish their goals of finishing in the Big East and ECAC Championships’ top 10. “You see the girls come together at the meets and jell really nicely,” Robinson said. “It is a really tight unit when you get to meets and they don’t always get to practice together. They are starting to mature as a group, and cohesiveness is how you make a championship-level team.”
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basketball coach Mike Rice announced yesterday junior wing Vincent Garrett signed a National Letter of Intent to play for the Scarlet Knights. Garrett averaged 16 points and six rebounds per game last season at Lee College in Baytown, Texas. “He is a ver y gifted athlete with the ability to score the ball at many levels,” Rice said in a press release. “Vincent is also a mature young man who has developed and excelled due to a tremendous work ethic.” Garrett also considered scholarship of fers from Oregon State, Texas A&M and UNLV.
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guard Jordan Theodore and forward Herb Pope made the All-Met Division I First Team. Theodore started all 34 games at the point last season, earning second-team AllBig East honors. He finished second in the Big East with 6.6 assists per game — his 225 assists broke a 49-year-old school record — and ninth with 16.1 points per game. Pope was a third-team AllBig East selection, averaging a career-best 15.1 points per game and finishing second in the conference with 10.4 rebounds per game. The forward is one of six Pirates to score more than 1,100 points and 900 rebounds in his career.
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Subdivision conference commissioners, Notre Dame Athletic Director Jack Swarbrick and other college football of ficials decided yesterday to scrap the eight-team and 16-team playof f proposals. BCS spokesman Bill Hancock said the sport’s 11 conference commissioners would take two-to-seven playoff proposals — involving four teams each — to their respective university presidents, according to ESPN.
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Redshirt freshman Quentin Gause participates in a linebacker drill April 3 as position coach Dave Cohen looks on. Head coach Kyle Flood said he was pleased with the development of the Knights’ young defensive linemen during the spring, when he gave autonomy to his position coaches.
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Kevin Snyder saw little of Quentin Gause last season after a few weeks, but the linebacker he noticed could not play the position instinctually for the Rutgers football team. Gause, a redshir t freshman, is hard for Snyder to not recognize now. “I’m incredibly surprised. I had no idea what he could do,” Snyder said. “I wasn’t sure what he would know, but he picked it up ver y fast. He’s a real hard worker.” Gause credits his accelerated development to his work with linebackers coach Dave Cohen and the Scarlet Knights’ embarrassment of riches at the position.
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He turns to Cohen off of the field after he looks to senior Steve Beauharnais on it. “Steve is a great teacher,” Gause said. “He can definitely be a coach. He can be an NFL player and a coach.” Gause took his coaching to High Point Solutions Stadium last Saturday, when he recorded a team-high eight tackles. And with Snyder and junior Jamal Merrell briefly sidelined because of injur y, Gause’s emergence is even more impor tant. “It’s a whole different thing in the game because you’re going out playing,” Gause said. “It’s not like breaks in practice. It’s going to play football. I can release all that and let ever ything flow. The game is much easier than practice.”
He looks forward to tomorrow’s Scarlet-White Game, when a contingency from his native Rochester, N.Y., sees him play for the first time since high school. Rutgers men’s basketball wing Dane Miller, also a Rochester native, will also be in attendance, Gause said. But he continues to gain his own suppor t group among the Knights’ linebackers, namely Beauharnais. “When I first came in, he’s like, ‘When you learn the rest of the defense, you can do your job much better.’ He knows it so well because he’s been here longer,” Gause said. “I want to get to that point.”
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the spring season. Still, the quarterback position will move forward as is. “That was nice to see the culmination of a lot of hard work,” Flood said. “I think we accomplished most of what we set out to accomplish. There were a couple things I didn’t know if we’d be able to accomplish, like the quarterback situation.” Flood plans on revising the team’s depth chart in the next few weeks, but several positions remain uncertain. He made a conscious effort to allow his position coaches develop relationships with the players in his first spring. “I’m pleased with the operation,” Flood said. “We’re for tunate none of the injuries we’ve sustained so far will carr y forward into the summer. We
feel like ever ybody will be healthy coming back for the summer program.” Flood plans to meet with head athletic trainer David McCune and the Knights’ training staff before determining reps for the Scarlet-White Game, which begins at 3 p.m.
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Federico earned reps yesterday at punter, where Flood said he is an “emergency guy.” Federico, an early enrollee, continues to see the majority of the team’s reps on the field goal unit. “We’d prefer not to have the same person punt and kick if we can avoid it,” Flood said. “It just wears him down a little bit.” Federico converted seven of nine field goals this spring in the Knights’ pair of scrimmages.
Knights prepare for Big East Champs in Orlando BY AARON FARRAR CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Rutgers men’s golf team plays for the final time this season at the Big East Championship this weekend in Orlando. MEN’S GOLF T h e Scarlet RUTGERS AT Knights BIG EAST CHAMPS c l o s e out the SUNDAY year in t h e Sunshine State, where they also kicked off the season. Rutgers had two weeks to prepare for its final match, and
head coach Rob Shutte believes the team is ready to compete at a high level in the tournament. He has constantly worked with the players on the course to get them in the right mindset for their last match. “I think they’re going to go out and compete,” Shutte said. “We had a really good team meeting yesterday, and we walked through the course a lot. My guys have been practicing ever y minute they have the oppor tunity to in order to prepare themselves.” The season finale for the Knights opens Sunday and comes to a close Tuesday.
Rutgers hopes to end the season on a high note and build momentum to carr y into the fall 2012 campaign. The Knights bring an end to a season that was full of adjustments and gaining experience. In Shutte’s first year as head coach, he inherited a young team comprising mostly underclassmen. Rutgers comes of f of a 12thplace finish out of 13 teams April 15 at the Princeton Invitational in Princeton, N.J. Sophomore Jonathan Renza led the Knights, carding a score of 218 to finish tied for 14th in the 75-player field. He turned in
a tournament-best 37 pars in the event. The team’s best outing was the first tournament of the year, when it placed fifth in March at the Homewood Suites Invitational. Following the match, the season was full of multiple finishes of ninth or worse. Shutte is optimistic about where the team can go and is encouraged that the Knights will become the winning team he plans to help create. “I like the positivity,” he said. “No matter what the results say at the end of the day, the players bring this sense of positivity that helps them play harder. It also
brings momentum. If they continue to have this momentum, we can play ver y well and I can see that.” The Knights continue to work on a strict gameplan as the Big East Championship approaches. Shutte gets the golfers accustomed to the changing weather and the challenging course they may face. “One thing that we have been working on is our ball strikes,” Shutte said. “The guys have been getting up early in the morning, working for a half an hour before every practice just to work on those things. It just shows that they are serious and want to play hard.”
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Red Storm threaten RU playoff spot BY JOEY GREGORY ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
Alyssa Landrith has made a living this season making headlines for the Rutgers softball team. First the freshman became the No. 1 starter on the pitchSOFTBALL ing staff. Then she earned a shutout ST. JOHN’S AT against a ranked RUTGERS, Florida State team. TOMORROW, NOON Ten days later, Landrith no-hit Seton Hall. But she topped it all Wednesday, when she tossed a per fect game against Iona, the first at Rutgers since 2000, when freshman Andria Koehler shut down Monmouth. When pitchers are in the midst of posting a clean sheet, they are usually well aware and avoid contact with the rest of the team. Landrith had no clue. “I didn’t actually know that I threw [a perfect game] until after the game,” she said. “My team had to tell me.” Usually pitchers sit on the other side of the dugout, so it is easy to avoid reminding them of the feat they are about to accomplish. Landrith did not know, so the team was very careful to keep it that way. “My catcher [senior] Kylee [Bishop noticed] … nobody had gotten on base,” Landrith said, “but she didn’t want to say anything to me because she pretty much could tell that I had no idea because I was just focusing on the next inning.” That focus remained throughout the game, and she sent all 21 batters she faced back to the dugout. During the game, Landrith could feel she had her strong stuff against the Gaels. “I felt pretty focused that game,” she said. “I felt like I had my stuff. I was making pitches really good, and I think balls just kind of fell in my favor.” The Scarlet Knights have gotten that out of Landrith all year. But the starters behind her have been shaky for the better part of the season. Senior Noelle Sisco put an end to that against Iona. In her first complete game of the season, Sisco picked up five strikeouts without walking a batter in a 4-1 victor y.
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Third baseman Pat Kivlehan leads the Big East in hitting, OBP and slugging.
Pair of hitters excel in new lineup spots BY JOSH BAKAN ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
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Freshman pitcher Alyssa Landrith leads the Knights with 17 victories, which also ties her for second place on Rutgers’ single-season list with Kelly Gallagher.
The Rutgers baseball team won by its largest margin of last season in a 17-2 victory April 16, 2011, against Cincinnati. Junior catcher Jeff Melillo sat on the bench. Junior third BASEBALL baseman Pat Kivlehan was not on RUTGERS AT the team. CINCINNATI, Melillo usually TODAY, 6:30 P.M. batted late in the order when he played last year, and Kivlehan was still ser ving as a defensive back for the Rutgers football team. Both have now combined to create one of the best 3-4 hitting tandems in the Big East. “We drive in runs, and that’s doing our job,” Melillo said. Kivlehan and Melillo have 32 and 25 RBI, respectively, so far this season. Former third
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Knights look for first win against Hoyas in history BY VINNIE MANCUSO CORRESPONDENT
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Senior attackman Kevin Hover closes out his Rutgers career tonight against Georgetown. Both teams are eliminated from Big East Tournament contention.
When it comes to postseason tournaments, the Rutgers men’s lacrosse team’s final game against MEN’S LACROSSE Georgetown technically holds no RUTGERS AT weight. Both the GEORGETOWN, Scarlet Knights and the Hoyas are TONIGHT, 7 P.M. ineligible to enter the Big East Tournament, and Saturday’s matchup is the final game of the season. But what the game lacks in conference drama, it more than makes up for it in history. No Rutgers team has ever defeated Georgetown in the history of college lacrosse. And with no pressure of the upcoming postseason on their shoulders, this year’s Knights are more determined than ever to be the first to re-write history. “It is a great opportunity, especially since Georgetown learned they will not be making the tournament, as well,” said senior attackman Kevin Hover. “It is kind of just a rubber match between us now. We both want to get that nice win to finish off the season.” The last time the two teams collided, the Hoyas narrowly escaped the confines of
Yurcak Field with their undefeated streak intact. The Knights (6-8, 1-4) nearly toppled their Big East foe thanks to a late-game comeback, but eventually lost, 14-9, to become one more Rutgers team to fall to Georgetown (6-6, 2-3). Sophomore attackman Scott Klimchak, who tallied a hat trick in the last meeting with Georgetown, still has memories of the game and is determined to make this weekend’s matchup a season highlight. “We have nothing to lose. We are going to go out there and try and beat them for the first time,” Klimchak said. “It is weird that Rutgers has never beat them in the past, so this year could be the year that we finally beat them and hopefully get some positives out of this season.” Despite its inability to qualify for the Big East Tournament, this year’s Georgetown squad is still a formidable task for the Knights. In the Hoyas’ latest effort, they took down No. 15 Syracuse, 10-8. When Rutgers faced Syracuse on April 14, the Orange handed it the most lopsided loss of its season and officially ousted it from Big East Tournament contention. But the fact that they do not have the oppor tunity to play in the tournament
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