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NJ Folk Festival delivers taste of Bulgarian culture BY ALEKSI TZATZEV AND MARY DIDUCH SENIOR STAFF WRITERS
A class continued a 38-year-old University tradition this Saturday by bringing a little bit of Bulgarian culture to New Brunswick at the N.J. Folk Festival. Held on the Wood Lawn in front of the Eagleton Institute of Politics on Douglass campus, the festival brought in around 10,000 to 15,000 attendees — including Bulgarian Ambassador Elena Poptodorova, said School of Arts and Sciences senior Matt Hueston, an event coordinator. President Richard L. McCormick appeared on the main Skylands Stage to present a certificate of appreciation to the dignitary, who thanked McCormick and the attendees for hosting the festival and celebrating the small southeastern European nation. “This is my first day at Rutgers, and I think I’m gaining more knowledge already,” Poptodorova said. She compared Bulgarian and American higher education. “We have a population of about 7.5 million, and we try to invest in education as much as we can, and we make sure we train skillful young people,” Poptodorova said. “Here in America, given the large population, you
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Performance artist Brady Wegener climbs a ladder as part of his act, “The Class Clown,” during Rutgers Day festivities on Cook campus. The day-long event attracted about 75,000 people to the University from around the state.
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In its fourth year, Rutgers Day provided an opportunity for more than 75,000 New Jersey residents to discover the University and everything students and faculty do throughout the year. Spanning the College Avenue, Busch, Cook and Douglass campuses, Rutgers Day included student- and faculty-r un demonstrations, programs, per formances and displays for attendees to interact with.
RUTGERS UNITED STUDENTS AGAINST SWEATSHOPS OCCUPY OLD QUEENS Dissatisfied with University President Richard L. McCormick’s decision to keep the University affiliated with the Fair Labor Association for the next two years, 22 students against the working conditions in FLA-monitored factories Friday occupied Old Queens. Anna Barcy, a member of the Rutgers United Students Against Sweatshops, said she and her fellow members had left a disaffiliation letter for McCormick to sign the week before, but went to pick it up Friday unsigned, hoping to speak with the president about his decision. Barcy, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, said McCormick had sent them a letter Wednesday that said his biggest reason to remain with the FLA is that their Foxconn report set a precedent for human rights. But in one of the facilities included in the report this week, 100 workers stood on the roof threatening to jump, protesting the working conditions that are a direct result of the FLA’s reforms, Barcy said. “Overtime hours had been cut to 36 hours, but production targets for each hour have gone higher and their wages have not gone up,” she said. “They’re still working at poverty wages since they have no other employment alternatives. The lack of hours is detrimental because they need the money.” About an hour into the students’ occupation of Old Queens, Vice President for Student Affairs Gregory S. Blimling told the students that McCormick, who was at the University Senate meeting, could not meet with them. The students remained there for four hours until Blimling told them they would be arrested for trespassing if they stayed there past 5 p.m, she said. “We were really disappointed … that the administration would rather arrest students than listen to what they have to say. It’s unfortunate,” Barcy said. — Amy Rowe
COLLEGE AVENUE Along with per formances from the Rutgers University Glee Club and OrphanSporks, Christian Fernandez, a Rutgers Future Scholar, brought his band to play at the Big R Stage on Voorhees Mall on the College Avenue campus. The band opened with “Someday” by The Strokes. Other songs included “D is for Dangerous” by Arctic Monkeys, “Seven Nation Army” by The White Stripes and “Steady as She Goes” by The Raconteurs.
“Basically, we hear a song and someone’s like, ‘we should totally cover that,’” said Fernandez, a sophomore at Health Sciences Technology High School in New Brunswick. Fernandez said he started the band two years ago with his friend Jafed Ramos. “[My favorite part] is the interaction with the crowd,” said Ramos, a guitarist and vocalist for the band. Fernandez said his RFS mentor, School of Arts and Sciences junior Corey Caso, helped him get involved with playing at Rutgers Day.
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Project offers students off-campus bulk pick-up BY REENA DIAMANTE SENIOR STAFF WRITER
When University students leave their of f-campus apar tments this summer, sometimes their furniture, electronics and appliances get left behind. To tackle the issue of excessive bulk being discarded, the University and New Brunswick will initiate a pilot program this May, Project Move Out, aimed to reduce waste heading into landfills to keep city streets clean, said Dianne Gravatt, director of environmental services and grounds. “Rutgers needs to be a responsible neighbor, and this project will help educate the students that much of what they casually throw away can be reused, and recycled,” she said. There is more than 300 tons of additional waste discarded on New Brunswick streets, which has proven to be difficult to regulate in regular waste pick-ups, Gravatt said.
“The city would have to discard most of the items in a landfill as they would not have time to pick up, sor t and properly recycle the items,” she said. Project Move Out provides free pick-up of bulk items for University students who register online at ruof fcampus.r utgers.edu/projectmoveout before noon on May 24 at designated locations around New Br unswick, Gravatt said. “The second, fifth and sixth wards in the city are plagued ever y May with messy piles of furniture, electronics and appliances tossed out without care,” she said. “Not only is it costly, but it creates a huge mess.” The University and city chose the areas because of its relation to Douglass campus and the College Avenue campus around Easton Avenue, George Street, French Street and Huntington Street, she said.
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Student establishes bass fishing club on campus BY JULIAN CHOKKATTU CONTRIBUTING WRITER
University students can reel in big fish this fall with a new sea bass fishing club. Miles Kong, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences sophomore, said he decided to star t the club because he wanted to fish with his fellow students. “I had a passion for bass fishing and just wanted to gather people with a similar interest in it as well,” Kong said. “It is also taking a big boom right now in popularity, so I thought I could bring it to Rutgers.” The club will travel to different lakes and ponds throughout New Jersey, such as Lake
Hopatcong and Swar tswood Lake, and compete at the national level, Kong said. “All lakes and ponds around New Jersey have bass. It’s pretty easy to find them since they are mostly everywhere,” he said. He said the club is focused mostly on bass fish because of its current popularity in national competitions. “Bass is the best spor t fish because of the thrill you get when you catch them — and it’s pretty popular nationwide,” Kong said. “There’s no other league for colleges as well, so bass fishing was the only way to go.” The club was given $500 from the University to start up and is in league with the Forrest L.
Wood (FLW) College Fishing organization, Kong said. The organization supplies the club with boats, he said, but
“Bass is the best sport fish because of the thrill you get when you catch them.” MILES KONG Founder of Sea Bass Fishing Club
members of the club must get their own fishing gear. Kong said fundraising still needs to be done and proposes
the idea of selling T-shirts to raise funds for the club. The club’s main goal is to practice and participate in the FLW Outdoors’ National Guard College Fishing competition Kong said. For members to reach the competition, the club will hold mini tournaments among its members to determine who should compete. “Two people will go to the nationals from that point. It is a one-day tournament with about 40 universities, and they have to catch a limit of five bass. Whoever weighs the biggest wins the competition,” Kong said. In the FLW nationals, the first-place team will get $100,000, half of which would be
donated to the University and the rest to the club. Tyler Daniel, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, said he enjoys fishing and is enthusiastic about joining the club. A few University students have mixed feelings about the new club. “I’ve [fished for sea bass] a few times, and it’s a lot of fun,” said Jeremy Pollack, a Rutgers Business School first-year student. Other students have very little experience with fishing. “I’ve never done fishing, so I don’t know anything about it, but why not? I could just give it a tr y,” said Suprabhat Vaidyanathan a University graduate student.
RUTGERS-CAMDEN PROFESSOR APPOINTED PRESIDENT OF ACCOUNTING ASSOCIATION Sungsoo Kim, a professor in the Rutgers School of Business-Camden, was appointed as the president of the American Accounting Association’s Mid-Atlantic Region for the 2012-13 academic year. Some responsibilities Kim will take care of involve appointing special committees, acting as chairman of the region’s steering committee and taking the lead at the region’s annual business meeting, according to a University Media Relations article. The American Accounting Association encourages excellence in accounting education internationally, in which the Mid-Atlantic region ser ves six states
including more than 800 accounting faculty and doctoral students, according to the article. “As a senior member of AAA, it is my professional obligation to lead the association,” Kim said. “Currently, the accounting profession is going through seismic changes by trying to convert the current accounting rules into an internationally uniformed accounting rule.” He said it is impor tant to provide leadership to faculty members and doctoral students and to provide impar tial research to the users of accounting information.
“The role of accounting faculty during this transition is to provide timely and relevant research findings to the policy makers, the business community and investors,” he said. “I intend to focus on the development of research framework for the members in the upcoming year.” Kim served as program chair during the 2011-2012 year for the Mid-Atlantic Region before his appointment as president. Kim received his bachelor’s degree from a university in Korea and a doctoral degree in accounting from Bernard M. Baruch College, City University of New York, according to the article.
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CELEBRATING RUTGERS About 75,000 visitors, including alumni and NJ residents, came to the University’s fourth annual Rutgers Day on Saturday, with more than 500 activities across the College Avenue, Cook, Douglass and Busch campuses.
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VISITORS: Event brings both young, old to campus continued from front “We meet every week after school. It’s an academically based program, and we keep it college-minded. … We just hang out,” Caso said. The program of fers suppor t to low-income students from New Br unswick, Camden, Newark and Piscataway who show academic promise, said Eve Sachs, RFS program coordinator. If they get admitted to the University, they receive free tuition, she said. “[RFS] star ts in seventh grade, when your teacher recommends kids they think have potential,” Fernandez said. “I guess my teacher thought I had potential.” Fernandez said he wants to attend the University. While he is unsure what he wants to major in yet, he said music would be involved. Another activity on the College Avenue campus that involved the University community was “Let’s Book-it!” run by the Graduate School of Education. Elementar y school students used construction paper, yarn and colored pencils to create their own books, said Farah Hussain, president of the Teachers’ Initiative for
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homes that lack a proper environment for the animal. “Breeders do it for profit, they’ll sell to anyone for money,” Hodanish said. “You’ve got people who live in cities and apar tments that don’t have an adequate situation for a wolf dog. They’re pack animals, and they can’t be alone.” He said most of the adopted dogs end up at farms, but other locations are not excluded from consideration. “It depends on how much wolf they have in them. If they’re mostly dog, they can be house pets,” Hodanish said. Although the wolf dogs have played the par t of aggressive dogs for films like the 2010 Disney movie “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” Hodanish said they are naturally goodtempered. “They had to play mean dogs,” he said. “But they couldn’t get them to growl, so they had to use rubber bands to hold back the skin around their mouth to make it look like they were baring their teeth.” Amy Polachak, who went in the cage and petted the wolf dogs, said she did not expect them to be as friendly as they were. “They’re really nice, really calm,” said Polachak, a Cook College alumna. Besides the wolf dogs, visitors could learn about natural resource programs that
nitrogen ice cream demonstration and a flight simulator. At a University Dining Ser vices’ presentation, an ice sculptor car ved out ar twork while the Busch Dining Hall staf f prepared and ser ved panseared scallops with salsa throughout the day. “It’s pretty cool, there’s lots of free food ever ywhere and cool societies that I’m learning more about,” said Divya Vijapurapu, a School of Engineering sophomore. “I wanted to suppor t my club, and now I’m looking at all of the other clubs, too.” The “Construction on Campus” attraction showed off the University’s current and upcoming projects. Visitors showed a lot of interest in the new Livingston housing, which adds 1,500 beds to the campus, said Frank Wong, the executive director at the Of fice of University Capital Planning and Development. An additional solar canopy project will cover 33 acres of parking lot space and generate 33 percent of electricity on Livingston campus, Wong said. Other featured additions were the new business school on Livingston campus, a music hall on Douglas campus and the new bus shelters that will be rolled out across all campuses. The University Division of Continuing Studies set up a simulated campus environment on several monitors. “You can pick an avatar and you can actually fly through the business school,” Wong said. Linda Seiler, 60, and Isabel Seiler, 89, said they have visited Rutgers Day ever y year, but were both excited about the School of Engineering, having never before visited Busch campus activities. “I’ve been excited to go to engineering, since that’s my love,” said Seiler, a University alumna. “You know what I’ve enjoyed so much? It’s the enthusiasm of the students. I wish I had known — we’re both enjoying this immensely.”
MultiAmerica, a program within the GSE that promotes awareness of diverse student populations. “It’s a way to engage literar y skills and talk about books and reading at a young age,” said Hussain, a University graduate student. She said the event appealed to a range of ages. “We’ve had a number of different grade levels,” Hussain said. “I had one boy in first grade, and he was saying, ‘I know what a topic sentence is. … Others are more excited to illustrate their books.” COOK/DOUGLASS Horses, goats and pigs are a common sight at the Cook Farm. But visitors who came to Cook/Douglass campus for Rutgers Day had the oppor tunity to see a dif ferent kind of animal — wolf dogs. The Howling Woods Farm, a nonprofit organization in Jackson, N.J., that rescues domestic-bred wolves and wolf dog hybrids, brought three wolf dogs to Cook campus as par t of Ag Field Day, said Mike Hodanish, the owner and manager of Howling Woods. “They’re very friendly,” said Hodanish, a Cook College alumnus. “If a young kid went in there and fell on top of them, all they’d do is lick his face.” He said Howling Woods typically takes in wolf dogs from
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reflect Cook campus’s environmental focus. The “One Barrel at a Time Co-op” sponsored by the Rutgers Cooperative Extension Water Resources Program drew attention to water conservation with a rainwater barrel ar t show, featuring barrels decorated with images ranging from paintbrushes and pens to butter flies and trees. Amy Boyajian, a program associate with the RCEWRP, said it was a way to engage the ar t community while raising awareness about saving water. “We’re tr ying to get people to think about how they use water. It’s a precious resource,” she said. Lisa Evrard, a senior program coordinator with RCEWRP, demonstrated the practical application of rain barrels alongside the ar t show. Water from a garden hose dripped from a miniature roof into a gutter to simulate rainfall — but instead of pouring into a storm drain, a rain bar rel caught the runof f, she said. “You can save it and use it later to water the garden,” Evrard said. “It’s a 55-gallon drum. If you have a decent rainstorm, that’s a lot of water.” BUSCH Science, technology and innovation comprised many of the attractions on Busch campus, including the formula racecar exhibition, a liquid
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TASTE: Bread-making can foster harmony, Savova says continued from front have a large selection for more. Here alone at Rutgers, you can have so many excellent students — in Bulgaria it’s a smaller pool, so we have to make sure they are the best.” Hueston said it was a big surprise that the Bulgarian counsel was able to attend the event. “[Dignitaries] are usually very busy and don’t get a chance to come,” he said. The main stage also featured a variety of traditional Bulgarian folk acts — from bands to dance troupes. New York City-based, allfemale dance group Bosilek, the Bulgarian Folk Dance Ensemble — “Sweet Basil” in Bulgarian — performed several traditional dances from different parts of Bulgaria for the crowd. The dancers — most of whom were from Bulgaria — were dressed in traditional garb including white peasant blouses, yellow scarves, plaid jumpers and gold coin necklaces, a design from the Bulgarian region of Thrace. Artistic Director Cathie Springer, a non-Bulgarian with a love of Bulgarian culture and dance, helped start the group more than 30 years ago, which has performed around the nation. Mariya Vasileva, who moved to the United States from Bulgaria several years ago, works in finance but enjoys dancing on the side. “[Through dance,] you express yourself. … It also connects me back to my roots,” she said. There also were about 80 craft vendors and 20 food vendors lining the festival. All the vendors are juried, which ensures that the crafts are all handmade authentically, Hueston said. But there were no Bulgarian food vendors. Judy Jaffe, a jewelry merchant who makes her creations from recycled watches, sold her designs at the festival for the second time this year. “I don’t like taking watches apart, but I like very much creating different things out of them,” she said. Jaffe, who has been making jewelry for 20 years, gets the parts for her designs through networking — her friends or connections often help her find pieces when they hear of what she does. But not all the tents featured crafters or food. Nadezhda Savova, a doctoral candidate in the Department of
Anthropology and a research fellow at Princeton University, discussed her organization, the International Council for Cultural Centers and Bread House Network, at the heritage tent. The group, which started in Bulgaria but has worked in Jerusalem with Israelis and Palestinians, aims to ease cultural tensions, foster cooperation and spur interreligious dialogue through a unique method — bread-making. “The mission of this organization is to inspire people to make their own bread, because it acts as a community-building event,” said Savova, a Bulgarian native. Their tent had some of their bread out to sample with oil or honey. “It’s a powerful method of community building. It’s ver y psychological. … We like to say, ‘you make it, you bake it, then you break it,’” Savova said. N.J. Folk Festival Board of Trustees member Bill Selden, who studied Bulgarian folk music extensively in Bulgaria and plays two Bulgarian folk instruments, came up with this year’s theme, Hueston said. The board provides support and financial guidance, as well as helps select each year’s theme. Hueston became one of 15 student coordinators through the class, “Folk Festival Management,” run annually by Festival Director Angus Gillespie, a professor in the Department of American Studies. The festival is entirely student-run through this class, which meets once a week for three-hour sessions, he said. The students run all aspects of the festival, including managing five performance stages — Hueston ran the Pinelands Stage — craft vendors, food vendors and media relations, among others. Hueston, who was the financial coordinator for the festival last year, said the class is a great experience, and all of the students get to know each other well. It also provides a lot of real-world experiences and skill development — from managing performers to communicating effectively to working with a $50,000 budget. “It’s like an internship as well as a class,” Hueston said. Brady Root, a University graduate student, visited the festival with her sister, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences sophomore Lindsay Root, and parents. The family par ticularly enjoyed the folk music. “The instruments are different, and to me music is multicultural,” said Rebecca Root, Brady’s mother. “It tells a story.”
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Lela Novak, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences junior, climbs the rock wall in the College Avenue Gym on Friday during Rutgers Rockwall’s first “Knight Klimb.”
PROJECT: Program plans for 300 tons of garbage continued from front Waste Management and University personnel will pick up the appropriate eligible bulk items, such as furniture, television sets, computers, game consoles, refrigerators, and bring them to the appropriate recycling facilities, Gravatt said. Students can discard bulk items by bringing them to Lot 30 behind the College Avenue Gym and Lot 99 D on Cook campus from May 29 to June 1 between 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., she said. Gravatt said some of the benefits to par ticipating in Project Move Out are redirecting usable items, reduction of waste in landfills and a reduction in the carbon footprint. “Obviously we are killing our planet with off-gassing from contaminates leaching into landfills from electronics and appliances,” she said. “We are filling up our landfills wasting space.” Project Move Out can also be positive for the city, because it saves money used for landfills, said Russell Marchetta, public information of ficer for New Brunswick. “It would cost the city more money, because we would get charged by the tons,” he said.
“This is good for the students, for Rutgers and for the city.” Though there is no way to determine how many of the 24,000 students living of f-campus live in the New Brunswick area, Gravatt said as the student population grows, the number of students living of fcampus grows, as well. Several colleges with intercity campuses face similar problems during student moveout, Gravatt said. New Br unswick approached the University about the issue and initially proposed a ban on bulk disposal during move out. “The university wanted to work this out, as it would have a negative impact on students, so a plan was developed by University Facilities and representatives from the mayor’s of fice,” she said. The city first considered an ordinance imposing for residents to only put out bulk garbage at specified times, but instead decided to take this mutual course of action, Marchetta said. “That’s a restrictive situation, let’s work with the University and the students so that ever ybody benefits,” he said. “It was just easier and better to work in collaboration, and get this done properly.” The University and city anticipate 300 tons of bulk garbage collected at the end of the program and will meet together to evaluate
its success to decide future plans, Gravatt said. Marchetta said he hopes Project Move Out will be successful and expand next year with other components, including a way for the bulk items to be reused by other students or residents. “If somebody says I’m getting rid of a desk … another student might say, ‘I’m in need of a desk,’” he said. “They’ll set up a method to redistribute what is getting rid of to what’s needed, so it doesn’t go to get recycled. It’s recycled to another person.” Spencer Klein, Rutgers University Student Assembly offcampus senator-elect, said he knows how difficult the off-campus student move-out period is. Klein, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, said it became difficult when the city considered passing an ordinance that could possibly fine students for throwing bulk garbage on the streets. “It’s good to know it’s going in the other direction, that they are actually helping students,” he said. Klein said he will participate in Project Move Out and disposed his bulk items in an organized fashion. “It’s a good idea that we take advantage of whatever opportunity the University gives us to make it easier, especially if the environmentally conscious of us do so in a sustainable manner,” he said.
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Middlesex council collects unused prescription drugs ZACH BREGMAN STAFF WRITER
The Dr ug Enforcement Administration gave local residents a chance to safely dispose of their unwanted medication at several takeback sites throughout Middlesex County Saturday as par t of their four th National Prescription Dr ug Take-Back Day. The program aimed at removing unused prescription dr ugs because of the potential dangers of abuse, said Linda Surks, a staf f member of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence. “There are collection sites all across the countr y,” Surks said. “In Middlesex County we coordinate coverage all over the county, and we have volunteers there to provide educational material to those who come in to dispose of their medications.” The disposal process, which was completely anonymous, received a positive reaction from the community, Surks said. “I can’t tell you how many times I heard from my volunteers, people with bags and boxes filled with medications from family members who
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Residents were encouraged to make anonymous deposits at take-back collection sites located throughout the county as part of the fourth National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day.
recently passed, and they were so grateful that they had a place to go and dispose of the medications safely,” she said. The initiative is sponsored and coordinated by the DEA, but Surks said many of the local organizations, such as the coalition in Middlesex, helped to publicize it. After the drugs are collected, Surks said they are safely incinerated through a par tnership with Covanta Energy. The NCADD of Middlesex County helped plan a similar
project in 2009, bringing out more than 400 police depar tments and other law enforcement agencies throughout New Jersey. The movement, called “Operation Medicine Cabinet,” collected 9,000 pounds of old, unwanted drugs, Surks said. “It was actually the first time that a state had coordinated [a take-back initiative],” she said. Surks said the project was a success, and they collected about 121 tons of unwanted medication when the program went national.
“To be perfectly honest, it’s mostly to raise awareness about the problem of prescription drug abuse, and it doesn’t hurt to get 121 tons of unwanted medication out of people’s homes,” she said. Surks said she believes the key to making the program successful is having a consistent message. “This is the four th time it’s being done nationally and because people are more aware of this, they are more likely to par ticipate,” she said. Surks said the Middlesex NCADD will continue to support
future take-back days and she hopes the event will continue to gain support from the local communities. “We in Middlesex County are working on getting a permanent collection box installed. The New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs recently started a program that is converting what is essentially a recycled old mailbox into a box to collect medications,” she said. Surks became involved with the organization after her 19year-old son Jason, a University student, passed away from a prescription drug overdose. The hope, she said, is to remove unnecessary drugs before they end up in the wrong hands. Ryan McDevitt, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, said the program seemed like a good idea, especially at a college where a lot of students probably have medication lying around for injuries and other things. “I just hur t my leg too so I had leftover painkillers,” McDevitt said. Varun Sidhu, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, agreed and said she thinks drug disposals are necessary to reduce the potential harms of unused prescription drugs. “I think it’s good just because it’s safer that way ... and drugs would be less accessible, which would lead to less people using them,” she said.
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Legal community debates severity of child porn sentences THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Their crimes are so loathsome that some hardened courtroom veterans recoil at viewing the evidence. Yet childpornography offenders are now the focus of an intense debate within the legal community as to whether the federal sentences they face have become, in many cases, too severe. By the end of this year, after a review dating to 2009, the U.S. Sentencing Commission plans to release a report that is likely to propose changes to the sentencing guidelines that it oversees. It is a daunting task, given the polarized viewpoints that the commission is weighing. The issue “is highly charged, both emotionally and politically,” said one of the six commissioners, U.S. District Judge Ber yl Howell. On one side of the debate, many federal judges and public defenders say repeated moves by Congress to toughen the penalties over the past 25 years have badly skewed the guidelines, to the point where offenders who possess and distribute child pornography can go to prison for longer than those who actually rape or sexually abuse a child. In a 2010 survey of federal judges by the Sentencing Commission, about 70 percent said the proposed ranges of sentences for possession and receipt of child pornography were too high. Demonstrating their displeasure, federal judges issued child porn sentences below the guidelines 45 percent of the time in 2010,
more than double the rate for all other crimes. On the other hand, some prosecutors and members of Congress, as well as advocates for sexual-abuse victims, oppose any push for more leniency. At a public hearing in Februar y, the Sentencing Commission received a victim’s statement lamenting that child pornography offenders “are being entertained by my shame and pain.” “They need to be taught how much pain they inflict and a greater term of imprisonment will teach them that [and] will comfort victims seeking justice,” the victim said. “I don’t believe that short periods of imprisonment will accomplish these things.” Once completed, the Sentencing Commission report will be submitted to Congress, which could shelve it or incorporate its recommendations into new legislation. Already, the commission has conveyed some concerns. In a 2010 report on mandatory minimum sentences, the commission said the penalties for certain child pornography offenses “may be excessively severe and as a result are being applied inconsistently.” However, similar misgivings voiced by the commission in previous years failed to deter Congress from repeatedly ratcheting up the penalties — including legislation in 2003 that more than doubled average sentences for child pornography crimes. Many of the offenses carr y a mandator y minimum sentence of five years in prison, and the guidelines call for additional
penalties — known as enhancements — based on a range of factors, such as the age of the children depicted in the imager y and whether a computer was used in the crime. As of last year, the median sentence was seven years. In a recent article for the journal of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, former Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and former federal prosecutor Linda Dale Hof fa criticized the approach by Congress.
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“The fact that child pornography offenders can be given longer sentences than child abusers or violent offenders reflects a lack of care by Congress,” Specter and Hoffa wrote. “In the rush to prove itself hostile to individuals who possess or distribute child pornography, Congress has obscured the real distinctions between different offenders.” Hoffa doubts Congress will be eager to ease the guidelines. “If you vote against these harsher penalties, the sound
bite is that you’re protecting child pornographers, and that could be the end of somebody’s career,” she said in a telephone inter view. “It’s a political radioactive hot potato.” As a backdrop to the sentencing debate, Internet-based child pornography has proliferated, and the crime is an increasingly high priority for federal law enforcement agents. According to the Justice Department, federal prosecutors obtained at least 2,713 indictments for sexual exploitation of minors in 2011, up from 1,901 in 2006. This month, the FBI announced that the latest addition to its “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” is a former elementary school teacher, Eric Justin Toth, who is accused of possessing and producing child pornography. In testimony to the Sentencing Commission in Febr uar y, three Justice Depar tment exper ts said the sentencing guidelines for child pornography should be revised — not with the overall aim of making them more lenient, but rather to help the courts do a better job of dif ferentiating among offenders and determining appropriate punishment. “The guideline has not kept pace with technological advancements in both computer media and Internet and software technologies,” the DOJ experts said. As opposed to focusing on the quantity of images collected by an offender, the experts said revised guidelines could take into account the length of time the offender has been involved
with child porn, the degree of sophistication of measures taken to avoid detection, and the extent to which the offender communicates as par t of a network. Investigators unraveled one such network called Dreamboard last year. In all, 72 people were charged with participating in an international, members-only Internet club created to trade tens of thousands of images and videos of sexually abused children. There’s one point of agreement in the sentencing debate: All parties agree that penalties should remain severe — or be toughened — for those who produce and promote child pornography. A key point of contention, by contrast, is the degree to which offenders charged with receipt and possession of child porn pose a risk of physically abusing children themselves, as opposed to looking at images of abuse. New York-based federal defender Deirdre von Dornum told the Sentencing Commission there is insufficient evidence to prove a strong correlation. Child pornography offenders have a lower recidivism rate than child molesters, she said, and many could be safely monitored via supervised probation. “Many of these individuals have stable employment, family support and no prior contact with the criminal justice system,” she said. “Punitive terms of imprisonment do nothing but weaken or destroy pro-social influences in their lives.”
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f you haven’t had the chance to pick your head up from those books in one of the University’s several libraries, now would be a good time to let you know that the final day of the semester has arrived. After a long, arduous year here on the Banks, the end is finally in sight: Finals are upon us, and students around campus can be found saying goodbye to their professors and classmates, and buckling down for the last home stretch — which will undoubtedly be followed by a similarly long, welldeserved celebratory weekend of heavy drinking. But while this is all well and good, it’s our hope that, between the hours of last-minute cramming, late-night cups of coffee and cheap weekend beer, students take the time off to reflect on the past year at the University, and all that it has brought with it. In addition, it’s equally important to remember that while classes may be ending, issues and events that will continue to bear heavily on the University and its future are not. Few years have been quite as defining of the University and its members as the one just passed. The embittered battle over allocations between athletics and academics on campus continued, with both sides making legitimate points. The Scarlet Knights football team put on a solid on-field performance, ending the season with a 9-4,4-3 record. The team also saw Greg Schiano step down from his post as head coach, moving south to head the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. But while Schiano’s departure will be felt for months to come, we look forward to seeing former assistant coach Kyle Flood take the reins. Project Civility, a two-year initiative aimed at fostering civil discourse on campus, concluded its final series of events this semester. A University hallmark, the program forced students and faculty alike to question what civility means to them, as well as help gauge its impact on a university campus. And while — as we argued in a previous editorial — it may not have been entirely successful in achieving its goal, it definitely left its mark. The trial of Dharun Ravi, a former University student who spied on his roommate back in 2010 with a webcam, kept the University in the news for weeks. While the series of events that led to his conviction took place prior to this year, his trial finally came to a head in March with one final verdict — guilty on at least parts of all 15 counts. The University community’s response to the trial’s outcome and issues surrounding it may have been mixed, but there’s no question of the impact that was felt. From newly instituted anti-bullying laws to genderneutral housing to reconsidering the role of social media in the digital age, the implications of Ravi’s trial are seemingly infinite. On the administration front, the University witnessed perhaps one of its biggest changes. University President Richard L. McCormick, who headed the University and its affairs for nearly a decade, announced he would be stepping down from his post in June. President-Designee Robert L. Barchi was announced this month by the University’s Board of Governors as his replacement — a choice, as we argued in an earlier editorial, that will ultimately benefit the University community. Barchi brings an expertise to his position hitherto unseen, and his vision for the future of the University is one that will cater to both academics and funding. But the University community was not the only one to experience change, which was, at times, tumultuous. The New Brunswick community too saw its fair share of events. The shootings of Barry Deloatch and Victor Rodriguez at the hands of New Brunswick police officers erupted in accusations of police brutality and corruption from city residents and served as an impetus for citywide protests. A Middlesex County grand jury has been empanelled for both cases — a step that, we hope, will help bring about answers. While the list is not exhaustive, these are among the bigger events that have helped shape the University this past year. After this week, we’ll be as eager as the next guy to chalk these events up to the past, bury our heads in the sand and try to forget about our academic lives at the University with friends and cold drinks, at least for the summer. But it’s also important to remember that the effects of many of these events are not temporary, but lasting, and will continue to require our attention in the weeks and months to come. A proposed merger between Rutgers-Camden and Rowan University, which threatens the loss of the Rutgers-Camden campus and all that comes with it, looms heavy on the horizon. Gov. 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Forgive me, I realize this he process of craftall sounds very bitter. Believe ing this goodbye colit or not, I do have hope in the umn first began in future. I think things will get December when it hit me that better for new graduates who I was no longer going to be a are lost and confused because part of The Daily Targum. It I think it has to. Because I was a really strange idea to think it’s a waste when people get used to, considering that I KRISTINE ROSETTE ENERIO just sit still and don’t endeavor was letting go of important for something better, particuballast in my life. It was cerlarly when things are unsatisfying. tainly stressful and chaotic ballast, but one that did a That is a piece of advice I hope the 144th Daily good job of keeping my responsibilities in check. So Targum editorial board will consider. Don’t forget that naturally, I wanted my final farewell piece to be wonyou are all a part of a longstanding tradition that’s been derful and articulate and moving. around since 1869. There are not a lot of daily collegiate But just like everything else that I over-think in life, newspapers left in the country, and you all are upholdI never got around to it until now. Class work and my ing that tradition with a much smaller staff than internship got in the way. So did a newfound social life required. I’m sure that your first semester as editors that came as the result of having all this free time, as has been less than perfect, but you’re all alive (except well as turning 21 years old. Of course, these are just for Chase whose leg is broken). excuses. The truth is, I pushed off That’s a feat in itself — one that saying goodbye because I’m “Things are certainly thousands of University journalism scared. When I relinquished my position in February, I was worried. changing in both my life students both past and present cannot say they’ve done. Take this Not because of the new round of and for the rest of the summer vacation as a chance to editors, but because it was the end but not to be idle. Dream up of a huge chapter in my life, and all world. As the common rest, new, innovative ideas so that you of a sudden, I had to readjust and find another bearing. sentiment goes, change is can come back in September with a vengeance. Really leave your mark It’s been three months since absolutely frightening.” on this paper and the University. then, and I graduate in a week, and I But most importantly, develop a still haven’t found my new direction. sense of community with your felCan you blame me? Look at the low editors. You are all working together to publish an world around us. There’s a lot to be fearful for both at award-winning paper. Hover around that same goal, home and throughout the country. The University is and avoid creating divisions among yourselves. getting a brand new president. The Republican Party Because the moment you do, you’ll lose your sense of cannot seem to muster up a candidate to properly chalpurpose in that office which smells like everyone’s lenge an incumbent with a slightly less-than-average food because the air is poorly circulated. And coming approval rating. Kim Kardashian was invited to the to work will be a misery, when really it should be one White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and the House of the most meaningful things you do in life, with peojust passed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and ple you will likely never forget. Protection Act. But perhaps the worst thing of all is that To the 142 and 143 editorial boards, thank you for there are no jobs, especially in the field of journalism. giving me that kind of experience. Thank you for teachThings are certainly changing in both my life and for ing me what is to have a direction, and teaching me the rest of the world. As the common sentiment goes, what it’s like to handle an immense responsibility. Now change is absolutely frightening. that I know, it just makes me hungry to find it again in However, my wise yet offbeat father assured me it’s the real world. There were a lot of good, bad and ugly OK to feel this way when things are so uncertain. times for all of us during our time together. But at least Every generation has its set of concerns to deal with, to I can say that I belonged to a team where every memtackle and to overcome. I won’t lie. I have no solutions ber deeply cared about the same thing. That’s someto alleviate my insecurity. So I supposed the chief purthing some people never get in their entire lives. pose of this goodbye column is to tell you, the reader, And to the Class of 2012, congratulations to us. I that I don’t know where I’m going or what I want to do look forward to floating along the river of life alongside even though I had such a steady course throughout you all. college. I hope that by telling you this, you all will feel a little less alone. Who knows, maybe you have your Kristine Rosette Enerio is a duck-lover, baby with track set, which is great. But for the rest, just know that breasts and a former Daily Targum slave who has nothI will be aimlessly wandering alongside you. Perhaps ing nice or appropriate to say about anything. So take I’ll even be selling out and working for the same instithis column with a grain of salt, a slice of lime and a shot tutions we all loathe so much. We have to eat and pay of tequila. our student loan debt somehow, right?
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Choose wisely, for the sake of mankind Letter DMITRY ZHDANKIN ecently I watched a clip from the 1940 classic film “The Great Dictator.” The short video portrays a brute played by Charlie Chaplin who, shocked by his own thoughts, takes the podium to renounce his throne, calling for people around the world to unite for preservation of humanity. “Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into miser y and bloodshed,” warns the protagonist. The speech is accompanied by brief clips that portray the horrors of environmental damage, poverty and war, juxtaposed with images of kindness and compassion. This video, entitled “The Greatest Speech Ever Made” has received over seven million views on YouTube. Its original message should be regarded within the historical context of its time, but its recent popularity underscores an important discovery: People around the world are recognizing the need to rethink the way we live. Many of us are graduating this May, and many more will continue their education at the University. But what we share in common is the pursuit of our dreams and our interests. There is no better time for our aspirations than now. Our generation is unlike any of its predecessors. We have been bestowed with opportunities unimaginable even a decade ago — opportunities for creative thought, for discovery, for connecting with individuals and sharing ideas all across our unique planet. Never before have the diversity and the beauty of this world been so apparent and so accessible to so many. But despite our potential, we must also think critically about the future that we are facing. As our lives became more global, so have our problems. The issues that you have no doubt heard of before are not simply fodder for headlines and political speeches. They constitute nothing less than the greatest challenge of our time. Yet it is within the reach of our generation to tackle these problems, and we have a responsibility to do so. These issues are no longer a possibility of a comfortably distant future. They are our reality. A 1972 Massachusetts Institute of Technology study, supported by recent research, reports that we set a course so unsustainable that the current levels of resource depletion are going to cause a global economic collapse of an unprecedented scale. This cataclysmic event would be paired with a precipitous population decline accounting for millions of lives lost. According to researchers, we can expect this to occur by 2030 — less than two decades from today. At present, we live in a world plagued by unfathomably prevalent misery. The earth is home to hundreds of millions of people facing hunger, where 16,000 children die every day due to the lack of sustenance, where 1.5 billion people live in extreme poverty. Here at the University, we are endowed with unbelievable opportunities. Most of the people elsewhere in the world are not. We are living in an unprecedented epoch defined by one
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creature, the human being, which is so dominant that it can alter our planet on a geological scale. Over 26 billion tons of carbon dioxide are emitted in the atmosphere every year. The retreat of the Arctic Sea ice, the warming of the oceans, the rapid shrinking of glaciers, the accelerating loss and redistribution of species are some of the most perceptible results of our failed stewardship of the earth. Climate change is no longer a theory, it is a process that has been set in motion and is becoming more difficult to stop with every passing moment. There are over 24,000 nuclear weapons around the world. If a single nuclear bomb that destroyed Hiroshima took the lives of some 90,000 people and an average nuclear weapon in the U.S. arsenal is approximately eight times more powerful than that, it is not difficult to imagine the magnitude of a nuclear disaster we may face one day. These are only some of the imminent issues that surround us now: This list is not exhaustive, but rather constantly growing. It demands our immediate attention. However, my goal in this address is not to elicit despair. Instead, it is to call for a response. In truth, most of this was unknown to me until I began my university education. It is not possible to have an interest in an issue until you become both familiar and invested in the problem. I ask you to care, to begin learning about what is happening to our planet if you have yet to do so, and to continue your pursuit of knowledge if you have already stepped on this path. It is not until we are aware of the dangers we are facing and wise enough to recognize their consequences that we will be able to develop solutions. Complacency is unacceptable. Resignation cannot be tolerated. We must recognize that our choices, large and small, do in fact matter. It might not be apparent at first, yet it is the decisions — not solely the decisions of abstract and distant governments or corporations, but the decisions of real individuals — made in the past that brought us here. The decisions we make today, mine as well as yours, will define our future. When aggregated, these are the decisions that have that magnificent world-changing potential. What we choose to consume, what cars we choose to drive, what books we choose to read, what representatives we choose to elect, what thoughts we choose to have, what words we choose to speak — these are the choices that matter like never before. I am asking you to choose wisely, because our common destiny depends on this choice. I will graduate from Rutgers in only a few weeks, and I hope to dedicate my life to international public service. I plan to work on achieving progress in resolution of some of these issues. Join me in this pursuit in your own way. Collectively and individually, we have the power to shape our global future. I would like to thank Matt D’Elia and John Malchow for their help with this letter. I could not ask for friends more genius than you. Dmitry Zhdankin is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in economics and political science.
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ormer Rutgers football wide receiver Mohamed Sanu was the only Scarlet Knight to get drafted in this year’s NFL Draft. The Big East’s single-season and all-time receptions leader left the draft board at the 83rd overall pick by the Cincinnati Bengals, joining former Knight running back Brian Leonard. Offensive linemen Desmond Wynn and Desmond Stapleton went undrafted, but teams picked up both players. Wynn joins former head coach Greg Schiano and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, while Stapleton ended up with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Former Rutgers running back Joe Martinek signed with the New York Giants. Defensive lineman Justin Francis is the only pro prospect to remain without a team.
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team ended its Big East schedule yesterday with a 3-2 loss to St. John’s, but the regular season is not over yet. The Scarlet Knights take on Lafayette tomorrow in a twogame set, their last of the year. The first game begins at 2:30 p.m. as the Knights tr y to salvage their remaining contests. After suf fering a threegame sweep at the hands of the Red Storm, Rutgers is relying on the Lafayette series to build momentum entering the postseason. Since the losses to St. John’s put the Knights’ Big East Tournament hopes in jeopardy, they needed a loss from Connecticut to earn a spot, and they got it.
THE NEW YORK Yankees moved pitcher Freddy Garcia out of the starting rotation yesterday after another outing in which he failed to get out of the second inning. Garcia transitions to the bullpen after recording a 12.51 ERA this season in four starts. Rookie righthander David Phelps will likely replace Garcia in the rotation, according to CBS Spor ts. Phelps has a 3.57 ERA in 17 2/3 relief innings. The Yankees also wait for star ting pitcher Andy Pettitte, who currently pitches in the minors. NEW
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defensive end Osi Umenyiora has wanted to sign a contract extension, but he and the Giants have yet to agree on a deal in the final year of his contract, according to CBS Sports. Giants general manager Jerry Reese said the team has offered Umenyiora extensions for the past two years. Umenyiora countered by claiming New York only offered incentives on his current deal.
He straddled the sideline Oct. 1 at Syracuse, catching a pass from then-freshman Gar y Nova with one hand. He leapt for a one-handed, outstretched touchdown reception Sept. 10 at Nor th Carolina. And he scaled a Louisville defender Oct. 21 for one of his seven scores. “What I remember most are his amazing catches,” said Jevon Tyree, Sean’s younger brother and a Rutgers commit for 2012. “The catches that Mo made are beyond the NFL. I’ve never even seen catches like that in my life.” Sanu arrived at Rutgers in 2009 as a three-star recruit at safety, according to Rivals.com. He brought versatility — playing quar terback, safety and punter — to Piscataway, where he moved to wideout on the eve of the Knights’ 2009 season opener against Cincinnati. “That’s something a lot of people can’t do and a lot of people struggle
with,” said senior wide receiver Mark Harrison, part of Rutgers’ 2009 recruiting class with Sanu. Sanu caught 10 passes for 101 yards in his Rutgers debut. He eventually lined up in the Knights’ Wildcat formation and returned punts. “Mo could have been the quar terback for Rutgers,” Jevon Tyree said. He showed flashes of passing ability in his first two seasons, throwing a combined four touchdowns. He scored three touchdowns in a St. Petersburg Bowl victor y in 2009, including two on the ground. But former head coach Greg Schiano returned Sanu in 2011 to wide receiver, where he worked during the summer with former position coach P.J. Fleck. The results were staggering. Sanu caught at least 10 passes in six games, broke 100 receiving yards seven times and recorded more receptions than in his first two seasons combined. “[Ray Rice has] gone on to do great things with the franchise tag, what he’s done with the Ravens,” Flood said. “I think it’s going to be ver y similar with Mohamed.”
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Wide receiver Mohamed Sanu arrived in Piscataway in 2009 as a safety with a penchant for hard hits.
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CLARITY: WR Coleman totals nearly 100 yards in win continued from back “Of course, you’re the quarterback — you want to be named the starter as soon as possible,” Nova said. “But coach told everybody that he was not going to make a decision until camp. I’m not really worried about it. I just have to go out there and do what I have to do.” Brandon Coleman is another player not worried about the competition. The sophomore receiver finished with two catches for 98 yards, including a 55-yard touchdown grab in the middle of the field from Dodd in the first half. “It’s a competition — I have no say in it,” Coleman said. “But I root for both of them because at the same time, they both can get the job done.” Competition was also evident in the backfield, where sophomores Jawan Jamison and Savon Huggins split carries with the first team. Huggins finished with 11 carries for 44 yards, while Jamison reached 43 yards on eight touches and found the end zone on a 3yard run in the first quarter. Both rattled off big runs, including Huggins’ 19-yard scamper off of a broken tackle. “I was very satisfied,” Flood said about the running backs. “Some of the questions we were able to answer I think were critical. Going forward with Savon Huggins and Jawan Jamison at the running back position is going to be in good hands.”
While the offense looked fluid with either quarterback behind center, the first-team defense looked all the part of the unit that dominated during the spring. The defensive output included an interception by sophomore cornerback Gareef Glashen in the first half and continuous tackles for loss from the front seven. That unit featured linebacker Quentin Gause, who registered five tackles. The sophomore also collected the Douglass A. Smith Award at halftime for the most improved defensive player of the spring. Gause looks to fill the depth at the position behind a unit that boasts seniors Steve Beauharnais and Khaseem Greene, who combined for only one play in the game. “Quentin Gause is a extremely good athlete, and what he showed us this spring is that he can function within the defense,” Flood said. “He’s made a lot of plays this spring, and because of his size, speed, power, he was able to effect people when he hit someone.” The game not only marked the end of spring training camp, but the first for Flood as head coach. Flood previously spent six seasons as an assistant for the Knights. For Flood, it was only a first in a season filled with them. “This is another day in my life that I kind of cataloged as a landmark day,” Flood said. “It was something that as I would look at my career being an assistant coach dreaming about being a head coach.”
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Junior attack Annie McGinley tied for the team lead with three points in Saturday’s season finale — a 9-7 loss to Georgetown.
BERTH: RU squanders early lead to top-15 Hoyas continued from back half on an unassisted shot. Steinberg scored off of another Mascera assist, and McGinley’s second score at the 18:36 mark moved the Knights lead to 3-0 against the No. 15 Hoyas. Georgetown responded with two goals, but Rutgers kept the Big East’s third-leading scoring team out of the key and managed two more goals by senior midfielder Brittany Davis to enter the locker room with a 54 lead. But it was also the third straight game the Knights faded in the second half. Rutgers held a 4-0 lead against Loyola (Md.) and went shot for shot with the Greyhounds, culminating in a 9-9 halftime score. But Loyola soon pulled away with two separate scoring drives for the win.
“I think we come out of the gates really inspired and fired up to get after it,” Brand-Sias said. “But once we allow teams to get on a little bit of a run, it kind of allows our momentum to get down and our mindset to get down, which can be hard to recover from.” With the win, Georgetown clinched the fourth and final seed in the Big East Tournament. The Hoyas play against No. 1 seed Syracuse on Thursday, as the Orange host the conference championship. The loss marks the last game of the season for the Knights, and the finale for the careers of five seniors. For Mascera, the loss comes with frustration despite her singleseason assists record at Rutgers. She registered two dishes to bring her to 34 on the year. “Obviously it was a big disappointment,” Mascera said. “We had a goal to get to the Big East Tournament. It was in our hands that we were either going to win and go or going to lose and weren’t. We worked really hard.”
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Big East finale ends in disappointment for RU BY JOEY GREGORY ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
The Rutgers softball team sat comfortably in seventh place in the conference only three days ago, in SOFTBALL g o o d ST. JOHN’S 3 position t o RUTGERS 2 secure a spot in the Big East Tournament and it had complete control of its destiny. The Scarlet Knights needed some help from other teams two days later to hold a postseason spot. Syracuse topped Connecticut in 10 innings to help Rutgers to a berth in the conference tournament. That situation comes courtesy of St. John’s, which arrived in Piscataway and took all three games in a weekend series from the Knights, all by a one-run margin. The Red Storm earned a 3-2 victory in Game 3, held on for a 65 win in Game 2 and started the series with a 4-3 decision. “We battled,” Nelson said. “What can I say? We battled and just didn’t come up with the hits at the right time.” The defense did not help at times. Game 2 saw only two earned runs allowed by Rutgers pitchers, and the Johnnies (22-30, 10-9) earned a total of six more hits than the Knights (24-27, 9-13) in the series. The Knights racked up six errors in the game, three from junior shortstop Ashley Bragg.
“We were just a little tense,” said senior center fielder Lindsey Curran. “These games mean a lot.” Game 2 also saw the biggest of fensive production in the series from Rutgers — all five of their runs came in a last-ditch effort in the bottom of the seventh inning. Facing a six-run deficit, the Knights blasted three balls over the fence. Curran, freshman right fielder Jackie Bates and junior second baseman Jennifer Harabedian all hit home runs off of St. John’s pitcher Ashley Beza. But Rutgers ultimately fell one run short. Game 3 saw more of the same on offense, as the Knights missed tying the game by one run, dropping the Senior Day game. On the other side of the ball, Rutgers did not have an answer for the heart of the Red Storm order, especially fifth-year senior catcher Kacee Cox. Cox, the Big East leader in home runs, held true to her reputation. She hit a home run in each game and totaled five RBI in the series. Nelson said she makes it look easy. “[Cox has] been taking batting practice for five years,” he said. “She gets the bat on the ball and she does a good job.” It did not help that freshman Alyssa Landrith did not begin either one of her starts with her usual stuff. That resulted in a combined five runs in the opening innings of Landrith’s starts.
“It took [Landrith] an inning or so to get going both days,” Nelson said. “Once she did, [St. John’s] didn’t hit much.” In both Game 1 and Game 3, Landrith held the Red storm scoreless in the final four innings. But the early r uns were enough for St. John’s to earn victories. So instead of resulting in a secure playoff spot, the weekend series finished in a sea of faces that watched on as Senior Day was spoiled. After the loss, Nelson held his usual team conference in left field. And as most of the players shuffled back to the dugout, five people remained in the outfield. Nelson stood with his seniors and expressed his appreciation. “I told them how proud I am of them,” he said. “They’ve helped build this program up to contenders.” While they held Senior Day yesterday, the Knights are not done with their season. They still have two games left on the regular season schedule — a two-game set tomorrow against Lafayette. The series — despite not affecting Rutgers’ conference position — is instrumental in how much momentum the Knights carry into the postseason. The team still has its eyes on a postseason title. “We have some goals left to accomplish,” Nelson said. “If we get into the Big East Championship, we have a shot to win it.”
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Senior center fielder Lindsey Curran had one of only four Knights hits in yesterday’s 3-2 loss to St. John’s. She also earned a walk.
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Knights use Penn Relays as learning experience BY BEN CAIN STAFF WRITER
Although the Rutgers men’s track and field team did not bring home any titles from the P e n n MEN’S TRACK Relays this weekend, the Scarlet Knights learned more about themselves and what it takes to win come championship season and NCAA Regionals time. The Knights competed against some of the best competition in the nation, much of which they see during the next three weeks in the Big East and IC4A Championships, and the NCAA Regionals thereafter. Rutgers competed in two sections of the 4x400-meter relay, with its best finish coming in the
IC4A heat, when the Knights finished third with a mark of 3:09.12, behind Boston University and the event’s winner, Delaware State. The Knights could have used that time for the Championship of America heat, as it would have qualified them for the final. The heat featured relay teams whose contestants had six of the best 15 times in the East region entering the race. The Knights missed the finals cutof f of the top-eight times with a 13th-place finish overall in the preliminaries at 3:12.16. The team went without its usual anchor in the 4x400, as senior Aaron Younger sat out the meet to further concentrate on getting himself as healthy as
possible. But it did not hang its head and came out of the meet optimistic about the coming weeks. “To know that we were able to almost beat them, and they had their A squads, that’s pretty impressive,” said sophomore Corey Caidenhead. “It shows us that we know we can go to the NCAA [Championships]. Regionals is not the last stop — it should be the NCAA Finals, to be honest. We ran against the best teams in the nation … and we did a great job. We held our own, and I’m ver y proud about that.” If the Knights want to defend their Big East 4x400 title for a fifth consecutive time, they need their team at full strength. Big East rival Pittsburgh was impres-
sive, taking fifth place overall with a time of 3:08.85. But Pittsburgh’s success did not faze Caidenhead, and neither did the fact that Pittsburgh has the best 4x400 time in the conference this year at 3:05.35, nearly five seconds ahead of the Knights. “Pitt is a great team, don’t get me wrong,” Caidenhead said. “But I feel personally that they only have one guy, and he’s special. They have one leg, and if everyone does their part like we always do, then they’re not going to beat us.” In the long jump, redshirt freshman Corey Crawford beat out two top-20 jumpers on the East region leaderboard on his way to a seventh-place finish at 7.43 meters. Crawford looks to
capture his first Big East long jump title next weekend after finishing second indoors this year. Both redshirt junior Kevin Bostick and senior Tyrone Putman represented the Knights in the triple jump. Bostick finished seventh with a leap of 15.09 meters. “I wasn’t particularly happy with what I ended up jumping,” Bostick said. “But at the end, it’s something I can learn from.” Putman’s day ended in disappointment, as well, with a 10th-place finish at 14.32 meters. He tweaked his right knee on his first jump, but said it is simply a “minor injur y,” and that he will be able to compete next weekend at the Big East Championships.
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Senior midfielder Will Mangan ended his career as a Knight with three goals in a 13-8 loss Friday to Georgetown. The season was head coach Brian Brecht’s first at Rutgers.
Brecht’s first season ends with loss BY VINNIE MANCUSO CORRESPONDENT
Entering its season final against Georgetown on Friday, the Rutgers men’s lacrosse team h a d MEN’S LACROSSE nothing RUTGERS 8 to lose and a GEORGETOWN 13 histor ychanging victory to gain. With the knowledge that neither team had a chance to compete in the Big East Tournament, the Scarlet Knights played for a chance to be the first Rutgers team to defeat the Hoyas in program history. And for an entire half, it looked like the Knights would finally add that first check in the win column against Georgetown. But five unanswered goals in the third frame from Georgetown began a downward spiral for the Knights that ended in a 13-8 loss, another in a long list for Rutgers. “It was definitely a disappointing game for ever yone,” said senior midfielder Will Mangan. “It was a close game, tied at half time and ever ything. Then third quar ter we just came out flat. They went on a
big run, and it was just too much to come back from.” Mangan brought the Knights within three goals of the Hoyas early in the fourth with his first goal. The midfielder’s unassisted goal brought the contest to 8-5, the closest the contest became before Georgetown snuck three more past the Rutgers defense. The rest of Rutgers’ scoring for the remainder of the game came from Mangan, who led the offense along with sophomore attackman Scott Klimchak. Each player tallied a hat trick apiece. Mangan’s three goals capped a team-leading senior season, ending his final campaign with 30 goals and 10 assists. “At the end of the day, we need to improve some things. We leaned on Will a whole lot this season, and Will did ever ything in his power [in] this game again,” said head coach Brian Brecht. “As a midfielder, a lot of attackmen don’t reach [40 points]. He was a warrior, a great teammate and a great leader. We might need to find some more Will Mangans for the future.” Even without his help in the coming years, Mangan thinks the
streak of Georgetown losses will end in the near future. “I definitely see the tide changing,” he said. “All around the countr y, the gap is closing. Everyone is getting better players, and the amount of talent is changing. I can definitely see Rutgers knocking off some of the better teams in the future, especially Georgetown.” The co-captain also has high hopes as a whole for the team he called his own for the last four years. With Brecht in only his first year at the helm of the program, Mangan has nothing but faith in putting the team in Brecht’s hands. “The future is bright for this program. Coach Brecht is going to do a great job here,” Mangan said. “It will take a couple years, but I am proud that I was part of [Brecht’s] first class.” As for Mangan personally, neither the final loss to Georgetown nor the conclusion to the season has truly sunk in yet. He said he will not know it is over until today, when he does not dress for practice. “It hasn’t really hit me or sunk in or anything,” Mangan said. “It is going to be weird not going to practice on Monday. It’s a really emotional time.”
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Rotation, offense click in sweep against Bearcats BY JOSH BAKAN ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
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Junior third baseman Pat Kivlehan hit two home runs and notched two multi-hit games this weekend against Cincinnati.
Two meets prepare RU for championships BY ANTHONY RODRIGUEZ STAFF WRITER
The Rutgers women’s track and field team competed this weekend in two events. The WOMEN’S TRACK S c a r l e t Knights first took part in the Larry Ellis Invitational in Philadelphia and then in the Lions’ Invitational held Saturday at TCNJ. The Knights had limited athletes compete at the Penn Relays, but still earned some successful performances. Senior Nwamaka Okobi highlighted the event by competing in the long jump, placing third with a mark of 19 feet, 3.25 inches. The 4x400-meter relay team consisting of freshman Gabrielle Farquharson, sophomores Tylia Gillon and Corryn Hurrington and junior Asha Ruth ran hoping to break the outdoor school record for the respective event. The Knights did not accomplish their goal, but the team ran the best it had all outdoor season. “Overall, the Penn Relays went OK,” said head coach James Robinson. “It was a bittersweet moment for our 4x400-meter relay team. They ran the fastest time they did all year but were not able to make it to the finals. Hopefully we will step up this week heading into the Big East Championships.” The Lions’ Invitational saw two standout performances.
Freshman Felicia O’Donnell participated in the 800 meter and ran a time of 2:15.51. Freshman Allison Payenski also participated in the 800 and finished with a time of 2:16.28. “They ran very well and will be the last two legs of 4x800 relay, which we will run this weekend at the Big East Championships,” Robinson said. “We wanted to see who will run the last two legs this weekend, and they rose to the occasion and ran very well. That was really what the purpose of the Lion’s Invitational was.” Finishing in the top 10 of the Big East Conference has been the Knights’ goal since the beginning of the outdoor season. The Knights also want to finish in the top 10 the following week in the ECAC. The Knights finished 13th in the Big East and fifth in the ECAC during the indoor season. “We have our sights set on the Big East right now, and hopefully we will have our best performances,” Robinson said. The Knights’ planning for the championship season nears a close. “Our preparation is almost complete,” said sprinters coach Lou Tomlinson. “We had a solid week and a half of practice last week. The work is pretty much done. We are just focusing now on fine-tuning and putting the finishing touches on before the Big East begins.”
The Rutgers baseball team has endured a season of surprises. After the Scarlet Knights entered the year BASEBALL expectRUTGERS 5 ing the star ting CINCINNATI 2 rotation to carry them, injuries held it back. The Rutgers lineup has carried them instead through the leadership of junior third baseman Pat Kivlehan. With only three weeks until the Big East Championships, the lineup and pitching finally clicked. The Rutgers rotation set the Knights up for victories last weekend at Cincinnati, and the lineup helped clinch the series sweep. Rutgers combined its pitching and hitting success in yesterday’s 5-2 win against the Bearcats. “We have a number of hitters that can really hit the ball, and I feel comfortable with the lineup one through nine,” said head coach Fred Hill in a statement. “Everyone knows their role and what they are capable of when going to the plate. We want everyone to play to their strengths.” Rutgers led only 3-2 in the eighth inning, but the Knights generated runs this season even without power. Junior first baseman Bill Hoermann recorded an RBI on a fielder’s choice, and then he scored on junior right fielder Steve Zavala’s single. Rutgers (26-17, 11-7) took a 30 lead in the fifth inning, thanks partly to Kivlehan’s two-run home run — his second of the series and 10th of the season. Kivlehan did not know what to expect in his rookie season, but
hitting double-digit home runs still does not surprise him. “I didn’t have expectations,” he said. “I just wanted to make an impact and do my role.” Senior righthander Ryan Fasano (5-3) completed his third victory in as many starts with two earned runs allowed in seven innings. Fasano continued junior lefthander Rob Smorol’s momentum from Saturday, when the pitcher
“[Rob Smorol] has really used the experience he gained in the past ... to put together a solid season.” FRED HILL Head Coach
recorded his team-leading sixth victory of the season, which surpasses all of last year’s pitchers. “Rob has really been a stable part of our rotation this season,” Hill said. “He has really used the experience he gained in the past few years to put together a solid season. The main thing is he is throwing a lot of strikes and stays ahead of hitters.” The of fense put together timely hits in Friday’s extrainning 3-1 victor y and then clicked from top to bottom during Saturday’s 13-1 win. Smorol allowed only one run in seven innings, while striking out seven against the Bearcats (12-32, 2-16). The lineup helped him out with double-digit runs. “The hitters worked to favorable counts and put some
good swings on the ball,” Hill said. Kivlehan shot out his first home run of the series and recorded his second multi-hit game at Marge Schotte Stadium. The West Nyack, N.Y., native also had help from the rest of the lineup, which netted 17 hits. Three came from the bat of junior designated hitter Charlie Law, who notched a team-leading five RBI. Law ended the game a triple away from hitting a cycle, which included a two-run home run in the top of the third. Rutgers scored at least one run in each of the first six innings. Junior righthander Tyler Gebler was not as lucky Friday with run support. “Cincinnati has some good pitchers, and the Friday starter did a nice job of mixing speeds to hold us down,” Hill said. Luckily for the Knights, Gebler threw one of his best outings of the season. He tossed eight innings in his one-run outing, when he struck out eight. He also pitched with a 1-0 deficit until his final inning. “It’s easier to pitch with the lead, but when you’re down, you’re down,” Gebler said. “You need to work a little harder until your offense puts up some runs.” Cincinnati held the lead until the 10th inning, when Rutgers scored two runs off of a pair of Cincinnati errors. Gebler took a no-decision, but he began the rotation’s momentum against Cincinnati. “Pretty much all year [Smorol and Fasano] have been strong,” Gebler said. “We’re pretty much where we want to be with three weeks left in the season, and the bullpen’s strong.”
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Spring game ends with familiar lack of clarity at QB BY BRADLY DERECHAILO CORRESPONDENT
One of the many challenges Kyle Flood faced entering his first season as Rutgers head football coach was settling on a starting quarterback. After a 35-0 FOOTBALL Scarlet win in Rutgers’ ScarletWHITE 0 White Game, he still SCARLET 35 has no answer. “I never put a timeframe on it because I think the players will decide that ultimately, and I think one
guy will emerge,” Flood said. “In a perfect world, you would have one quarterback going into the summer.” With both the first-team offense and defense playing on the Scarlet squad, the stats for both junior Chas Dodd and sophomore Gary Nova reflected the third team defense they faced. Dodd was the first quarterback on the field and finished 6-for-7 for 142 yards and a pair of touchdowns. Nova threw 12-for-13 for 174 yards and a score. During a spring filled with competition, it was only fitting their play mirrored the other
in the Scarlet Knights’ last action before summer workouts. “It is somewhat ironic,” Dodd said. “But again, the elements were not really against us [Saturday] and it was a bit easier, but it was great for us to both come out here and have a great day.” Nova led the last drive of the game, a 93-yard march down the field resulting in an 8-yard touchdown pass to senior receiver Tim Wright — one of Wright’s two touchdown catches on the day.
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Sophomore quarterback Gary Nova threw for 174 yards Saturday and a touchdown.
Sanu joins pro ranks as Bengals’ third-round pick BY TYLER BARTO SPORTS EDITOR
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Wide receiver Mohamed Sanu became the second Rutgers player ever taken in the NFL Draft’s third round Friday, when he went to the Cincinnati Bengals. Sanu joins former Knight Brian Leonard on the Bengals offense.
Mohamed Sanu spent many nights sleeping on the couch of Sean Tyree, a close friend from South Brunswick High School (N.J.). If he FOOTBALL does so now, it will not be out of a necessity. The Cincinnati Bengals took Sanu with the 83rd overall pick in Friday’s NFL Draft. Sanu set the school and Big East records for receptions in a single season in 2011 with 109, adding six more in the Scarlet Knights’ bowl game victor y against Iowa State. In less than three full seasons, he became the program’s all-time leading receiver with 210 career catches. Sanu joins of fensive lineman Jeremy Zuttah as Scarlet Knights third-round picks. “The day-to-day ef fect he’ll have on that locker room and the other players on that team and the community out there in Cincinnati, I think they’re going to be more and more pleased as they get to know him,” said head coach Kyle Flood. Sanu, the only Rutgers player drafted, set a Big East record for catches in a Sept. 24 game, when he hauled in 16 in a victor y against Ohio at High Point Solutions Stadium. He was a unanimous All-Big East First-Team selection, breaking Arizona Cardinal and former Pittsburgh wideout Lar r y Fitzgerald’s single-season catches mark. Sanu said he looked up to Fitzgerald when he was younger, and now joins him in the pro ranks. Like Fitzgerald, Sanu had a penchant for highlight-reel grabs.
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Loss in finale sends Rutgers home without postseason berth BY BRADLY DERECHAILO CORRESPONDENT
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Senior midfielder Ali Steinberg netted a goal in Saturday’s season finale — a 9-7 loss to Georgetown. Senior attack Danielle Mascera assisted Steinberg’s goal.
Everything was in place for the Rutgers women’s lacrosse team Saturday as it controlled its playoff chances. Win and advance to the Big East Tournament. Lose WOMEN’S LACROSSE and go home. a fast start RUTGERS 7 andAfter a halftime lead, GEORGETOWN 9 the Scarlet Knights could not put the Hoyas away, losing their season finale, 9-7, along with their chance at playing in the Big East Tournament. “We had some good moments,” said head coach Laura Brand-Sias. “But what really killed us was getting the draw control in the second half and the amount of turnovers we had. We just didn’t play to our full potential.”
Junior midfielder Stephanie Anderson gave the Knights (9-7, 4-4) their biggest lead of the second half with 26:24 left on an assist from senior attack Danielle Mascera. But the offense faded after Anderson’s strike, along with Rutgers’ chance at advancing to the postseason. Part of Georgetown’s (9-7, 5-3) success goes to Caroline Tarzian, who scored three straight goals to put the Hoyas up by one with nine minutes remaining. Her goal at 9:01 was her fourth of the game. An unassisted goal by Kelsi Bozel at the 3:24 mark sealed the Knights’ fate. “I feel like it wasn’t our best,” said senior midfielder Ali Steinberg. “I feel like we could have done better, and it was just a disappointment. They were just adapting really well to what we were doing.” Junior attack Annie McGinley put the ball between the pipes eight minutes into the first
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