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DOCUMENTING CHANGE An Environmental Protection Agency photo exhibit looks at the state of the environment in United States 40 years ago and today. UNIVERSITY, PAGE 3
The Rutgers women’s basketball team held Sugar Rodgers, the nation’s leading scorer, to only 13 points in a 55-47 win against Georgetown last night at home. / SPORTS, BACK
TICKET REFORM Parking reforms are in order if the University wishes to hear the end of student complaints. / OPINIONS, PAGE 8
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S Super Storm Sandy displaced many ppeeo e pl plee ffrom their homes for several weeks ekss — som omee of them rutgers students. Univer iviver e sis ty Pre er resisiside dent de nt Robert Barchi offered displa spla sp laace cedd st stud uden ud ents en ts the option of a PASS/FAIL FAI AILL gr grad adin ad inng sy s st stem em for o the semester.
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Task force reviews student feedback on emergency system after Sandy BY HANNAH SCHROER CORRESPONDENT
University officials are reviewing emergency procedures across all three campuses following Hurricane Sandy to evaluate the effectiveness of the University’s response. A task force is reviewing data gathered from the Camden, Newark and New Brunswick campuses, all of which sustained different degrees of damage from the storm. Steven Keleman, director of the Office of Emergency Management, said the University’s response to emergencies is reviewed after all major
events. Hurricane Sandy, which swept through the Northeast region of the country in the last week of October 2012, was the most severe in recent history, he said. “I don’t think the hiccups were with the plan,” Keleman said. “What we have to do is look at the situation and apply the plans to them.” He said procedure changes depend on the type of emergency. If the University expects snowfall, the Office of Emergency Management makes sure enough salt is available on the roads and the ploughs are ready beforehand. SEE
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The University has recently entered into a contract with Pearson eCollege in an effort to expand the amount of online and hybrid programs offered for graduate students. More masters degree programs will be available online on the New Brunswick, Newark and Camden campuses, said Richard Novak, associate vice president for Continuing Studies and Distance Learning. “These are opportunities for students … to complete and participate in higher education degrees without coming to campus. The program continues to grow and most recently the university has dedicated itself to a larger growth with the help of [Pearson],” said Novak, director of Special Projects for Academic Affairs. The new partnership deepens the relationship between Pearson and the University, said David Finegold, senior vice president for Lifelong Learning and Strategic Growth. The University already offers two full online degrees, he said, but
the Pearson partnership increases University access to technology, online content through the eCollege platform and worldwide marketing and advising services. The online programs cater to students who are unable to make it to campus due to personal circumstances by allowing further participation in high-quality education, he said. “Think of someone who is working or has a family … learners out there who may have a disability and so it is very difficult for them to personally come to campus … [Or even] active military [who] get deployed all around the world,” he said. “How can they finish their degree?” Though none exist presently, the University will incorporate undergraduate online degrees in the future, Finegold said, though most undergraduates are still looking to have an on-campus experience. Novak said despite some of the differences in opinion concerning online learning, he believes the positive aspects far outweigh any of the negatives. Silvia Muller, instructor and curriculum developer in the Division of Continuing Studies, said even SEE
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BOG’s Perez criticizes politics around position BY JUSTINA OTERO STAFF WRITER
After a year of controversy and senate blocks, Martin Perez, president of the Latino Leadership Alliance of New Jersey, has been directly appointed by Gov. Chris Christie to serve on the University’s Board of Governors. “As a well-qualified lawyer and advocate for the Hispanic community and educational opportunity, Martin brings an important voice of diversity and point of view as the only Hispanic to sit on the current Rutgers University Board of Governors and just the second in its history,” said Christie in a statement on nj.gov/governor. Perez, a University alumnus, said he was originally appointed more than a year ago but N.J. Sen. Robert Smith, D-
17, prolonged signing off on the appointment that would allow the judiciary committee to discuss the nomination. “If [the Senate] does not sign on it, we cannot discuss [the appointment] and so it simply does not get discussed. They have one year to confirm, and if it doesn’t confirm, the appointment lapses,” he said. This time Christie was able to nominate him under new legislation which gave the governor power to directly appoint up to two board members, Perez said, overriding the Senate confirmation process. He said he was unsure as to the exact reasons for the initial delay, but blames the controversy on politics in the state. “That controversy was unnecessary. Politics is a process that is there and probaSEE
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BEE SCOUTS Dr. Thomas Seeley, a professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University, talked about the democracy behind the way honey bees choose their home last night in the Marine Coastal Sciences Building on Cook Campus. He said the hive would send scouts who would judge possible home sites and upon return, they would delegate where the final home site would be. ENRICO CABREDO, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
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Thursday, Jan. 24 The Off-Campus Students’ Associations will host a coffee and donuts event starting at 11 a.m. in the Livingston Student Center lobby. Rutgers University Programming Association will sponsor a two-day indoor ice skating event at Trayes Hall in the Douglass Campus Center. Along with ice skating from 2 to 11 p.m. and crafting from 6 to 9 p.m., there will be free hot chocolate.
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Friday, Jan. 25 The Rutgers Business School will host a career fair exclusive to accounting, finance, management, marketing and supply chain management majors. The event will be held in the Livingston Student Center, in the Livingston Hall, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Rutgers Foundation will be holding their annual blood drive on the College Avenue campus. The drive, rescheduled because of Superstrom Sandy, will be held in front of Winants Hall from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
METRO CALENDAR Wednesday, Jan. 23 The Stress Factory Comedy Club will host an open mic, providing each comedian with 3-5 minutes on stage. Tickets cost $5 and 5 other friends must accompany you. The doors open at 7 p.m., and the show starts at 8 p.m.
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Photo exhibit revisits old sites BY SIMON GALPERIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER
General Electric Representative Daniel J. Collins presents the IN Cell Analyzer 2000 to a group of University researchers yesterday on Cook campus. MARIELLE SUMERGIDO, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Researchers look into new microscope for U. BY IRENE YANG CONTRIBUTING WRITER
University researchers may soon be able to see smaller objects than ever before, thanks to the IN Cell Analyzer system, which conducts High Content Analysis cellular imaging, a new type of microscopy which allows for better and clearer images. Daniel Collins, spokesman for GE Healthcare, presented the GE-developed apparatus yesterday to a group of University researchers on Cook campus. “[HCA allows for resolution] way beyond what people have been able to do traditionally in a manual kind of way,” Collins said. Collins said HCA increases productivity by allowing analysis of more samples of data than ever before, and provides deeper insight with higher resolution and more controls. The machine utilizes a process called the deconvolution method to provide clearer pictures and allow for better analysis of cellular samples, Collins said. “[The pictures generated by the machine are] more representative of what is really going on,” Collins said. In addition, the IN Cell Analyzer 2000 can look at larger areas and its high resolution can identify ever y single nucleus in the area being examined, Collins said. Compared to other older processes, Collins said the benefits of HCA include quicker set up, higher throughput, more objective and quantitative results, more spatial and morphological information and the ability to avoid destroying sample cells. The IN Cell Analyzer 2000 also includes smar t-imaging, which scans entire plates on low magnification and comes back to take high magnification images on what it determines to be more interesting areas, Collins said. Nilgun Tumer, professor of Depar tment of Plant Biology and Pathology, said she contacted Collins to present the $250,000 machine in order to
reach out to the faculty at the University. “The machine is ver y expensive so the University must decide whether they want to pay for it or find other sources of funding. If people found out about [the machine] and believe that their research can benefit, they may get together to apply for funding for this instrument,” Tumer said. She said she found out about the machine through scientific publications that indicated other universities and pharmaceutical companies had purchased the machine. “It would make our work much easier, in terms of being faster and [extracting] more data than what we would normally get,” Tumer said. She said the many positive applications of the IN Cell Analyzer 2000 includes work done at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences identifying inhibitors that specifically target ricin, and inhibitors that target diseases such as cancer. Michael Pierce, lab suppor t specialist for the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, said he scopes out new equipment that may be beneficial to the University. “[The machine would be a] good bridge between the University and biotechnology industries in the area,” he said. Pierce said if the University purchases the instrument, it could charge biotechnology firms and other institutions a fee to use it. “If you have the instrument on the campus, generally the people will be interested and curious about using it, and it begins to benefit people’s work a lot more,” he said. Tumer said her depar tment would work to bring the technology to the University. “We will look for different mechanisms to be able to bring this machine to the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences core facility at Rutgers,” she said. “It is likely that this instrument will benefit many research projects on campus and will be an excellent training tool for students interested in working for the pharmaceutical industry.”
The Environmental Protection Agency’s photo exhibit, “Documerica: Then and Now,” was unveiled yesterday at the University, its 40th location for its 40th anniversary. The exhibition, which has been touring the country, commemorates the EPA by looking at the past and the present of America’s environment, said Jennifer May, special projects coordinator for the EPA’s Public Affairs division. May said it is a re-visitation of photographs taken of the environment from the original “Documerica” project in 1971. The EPA used social media to recruit people from around the country to go out to previously photographed sites and put their new photos on the EPA’s Flickr photo stream. Unlike the original photographers, participants are not compensated for their work, she said. Elizabeth Myer, a stakeholder outreach coordinator for the EPA’s Public Affairs division, said the project is not intended to show the past and present in terms of better and worse. “We want people to get out there and document things as they are, regardless of how they are,” she said. May said the public’s role in the environmental movement supplemented EPA action and regulation, and therefore finds
this public celebration of the EPA’s 40th anniversary fitting. The traveling display comes to the University from New York City and will arrive in Washington, D.C. on March 8, May said. Myer said she and May chose to display the exhibit at the University because they believed it was a place where viewers would be inspired to participate. “We thought Rutgers was a great partner,” Myer said. Mark Robson, dean of Agricultural and Urban Programs at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, said a great deal of good environmental protection originates in New Jersey. “New Jersey has a proud heritage,” said Robson, a professor in the entomology department. “We’ve trained a lot of good environmental scientists here at Rutgers and I’m proud of a lot of them.” More than 250 photos were taken in the state of New Jersey. Nearly two-dozen were taken in Newark, N.J., according to the National Archives website. In conjunction with the exhibit, the EPA’s Regional Administrator Judith Enck will deliver a lecture Jan. 29 called “The End of the Beginning of the Environmental Movement,” Robson said. Enck will discuss what the EPA has done in 40 years and what still must be done. In hopes that student attendance would be high for Judith Enck’s talk,
The EPA unveiled its “Documerica: Then and Now” exhibit, composed of 15,000 images spanning 40 years of the environment. SHIRLEY YU Myer said she scheduled Enck’s presentation in the afternoon. “We were thinking of our own college days,” Myer said. Enck has wanted to speak with students about climate change and the challenges being faced by the nation for some time, Myer said. May said Enck is a very open person who wants to take students’ ideas and incorporate them in her work. “Its going to be a presentation but it’s not going to be all onesided,” May said. The photostream can be found on the EPA’s Flickr photostream. “Documerica” photos can be found on the National Archive’s Flickr stream and website. The exhibition will be in the Cook Campus Center from Jan. 22 through Feb. 5.
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PEREZ Perez says the board should reflect the student body CONTINUED FROM FRONT bly will always be there but we have to overcome most of those problems,” he said. “I’d rather focus on … trying to do the best job I can.” Patricia Bombelyn, Perez’s wife, said politicians should end the game of politics and pay further attention to the needs of the people. “People are very hungry for the partisanship to stop. It is in the interest of everybody to pay attention [to this] because I think anyone who ignores that, ignores it at their peril,” said Bombelyn, a New Brunswick attorney. One of the things Perez said
CLASSES Novak says students will interact better in online courses CONTINUED FROM FRONT though online learning has a different format in comparison to a classroom setting, the goal and end result still remains similar. The online courses have the same process for deriving the learning objective, Muller said. “The focus on what the students should be able to do when they’re finished with the course … stays the same. It’s the strategies we use to get the students there that shift.” She said though she has used in-class teaching to supplement online teaching, she has found online methods to be just as effective for her students.
he would like to work on while on the board is increasing the opportunity for students to attend the University, especially those who lack the financial ability to do so. “I think the University should be accessible to the children of the workers. A person working in a restaurant and has a child … should be able to have the dream to send them to Rutgers … even though they don’t have the means,” he said. Addressing the lack of diversity on the board, Perez said the demographics of the population should be represented and counted to serve them more effectively. “I think Latinos should be represented everywhere. I think the institutions should reflect the population — all the instances of power structure should reflect the population … the people it is supposed to serve … the Latinos and African-Americans and women … reflect the people who pay the bills,” he said.
Bombelyn said as residents of New Jersey, she and her husband are committed to improving where they live as much as they can and are looking forward to advancing on issues from equity to diversity. “I think he has exemplary experience and qualifications as an attorney, as an educator, as a statewide leader and as an advocate. He will put in an incredible amount of work in this job. I am sure he is going to make an outstanding contribution at Rutgers,” she said. Greg Trevor, senior director of University Media Relations, said this proves to be a crucial time for the University since it is in the process of undergoing significant changes. “Mr. Perez will bring a new voice to the board, and we look forward to his advice and counsel as we transition into a larger, more comprehensive research university,” Trevor said.
Perez said he anticipates contributing to the board and once he begins his term in July he will be better informed as to which committees he will serve on. “We are adding medical and research facilities, as well as becoming a member of the Big Ten and its prestigious academic arm, the Committee on Institutional Cooperation,” Trevor said. “The demands on our governing boards will be formidable, and we welcome Mr. Perez’ contributions to the tasks ahead.” Perez said he is thankful to all the students, faculty and staff for supporting him and mentioned Rutgers University Student Assembly for their active support throughout the controversy. “I really appreciate that support,” he said. “I am looking forward to doing the best I can to make them proud.”
“A lot of the faculty is not going to say, ‘I can’t do that because this is a face-to-face class,’ or ‘I can’t do the same face-to-face class because it’s an online class,’” she said. “Most of us do what we need to do to get the job done.” Even though face-to-face interactions are missing, there are alternatives used online to help build the communities and make social connections, Novak said. “Online courses are simply referencing what’s already happening in our society — that younger students have found other ways to use the technology to connect, to form [communities], to form bonds without ever seeing that person face-toface,” he said. “This is not such a foreign thing.” Novak said in many cases students come to class, stay in lecture for the time they are required to and leave without any human contact with their professor. “I don’t think it’s so ‘black and
white’ and ‘either/or’ because sometimes the face-to-face experience is not perfect either,” he said. “The driving goal here, the most important thing is how we make learning more effective (more fun). I believe that. That’s what I’m committed to.” Brent Monahan, curriculum developer and instructor for Continuing Studies and Distance Learning, said in-class methods could often be less effective than online learning. “We waste time in the beginning of class asking, ‘Hi, what’s your name, what’s your major … but I wouldn’t remember much. Now if you do that in a discussion online you can go check it, you can continue talking to people, you can find commonalities, make friends,” Monahan said. He said more faculty members are becoming increasingly familiar with some of the benefits that are offered online.
“[These improvements] are so much better. So as professors see these they say, ‘those things are valuable. Now I recognize I’m going to have to spend more time learning the tools but it’s going to be worth it in the long run for me and my students,’” he said. Monahan said there are many efforts being made to help faculty become better accustomed to working with the online technology as well as using faculty feedback to improve the technology itself. More than 400 of the faculty members from the University gathered in Hickman Hall last week for the 4th annual Online and Hybrid Learning Conference, where they were able to give feedback and discuss the developed online courses, he said. “They give feedback [and] we have a whole group that works on this. … We take this extremely seriously, so these things are constantly improving,” he said.
City elects members to school board BY JULIAN CHOKKATTU STAFF WRITER
For the first time ever, New Brunswick residents voted to elect two members to the Board of Education. Diane Fajardo, a University alumna according to newbr unswicktoday.com, was elected to the one-year term seat with 520 votes, while Ron Hushs was elected for a twoyear term with 515 votes, said Russell Marchetta, New Brunswick city spokesman. Marchetta said the municipal question that passed after November’s vote changed membership on the board from appointed by Mayor James Cahill to elected by registered voters. “An appointed board would have seven members, but now since it’s an elected board, you need nine members, so this is just an election to bring those two seats up to nine,” Marchetta said. Marchetta said he knows no one who can remember the last time the board of education was elected in New Brunswick. “It’s the first time ever, because I was born in 1951, and I don’t remember it,” he said. “My mother [was born] in 1942 and she never remember an elected board of education. My father [was born in 1929] and he doesn’t remember it as well. As far as anyone can remember it’s always been an appointed board.”
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Hurricane Sandy caused varying amounts of damage to the Camden, Newark and New Brunswick campuses. Keleman said the storm was the most severe in recent history. KEITH FREEMAN / OCTOBER 2012
SANDY Keleman says 1,500 students responded to Sandy feedback CONTINUED FROM FRONT Keleman said issues arose during the hurricane outside of University of ficials’ control — those involving power, water and fuel supplies — but these factors are considered during evaluation. “We’re looking pretty much at ever ything,” he said. Following the storm, University President Robert L. Barchi sent out an email requesting student feedback on the University’s emergency preparedness. Many of the 1,500 who responded expressed a want for a better-prepared University, Keleman said. “A lot of them were on campus, and they wanted to see if there was a way [the University] could play a greater role,” he said. “I guess they saw this as their home, and they wanted to do what they could.” Responding to repor ts from the state and national weather ser vices, of ficials aler ted the University and sent out campus information ser vice announcements to the community so students, faculty and staf f could also monitor the storm, he said. In the days before Sandy hit, University staff secured loose items such as garbage cans and outdoor tables, he said. Workers took down the tents used for the previous weekend’s football game and topped off fuel tanks. Keleman said additional facilities and housing and residence life staff were on hand to help with any needs. All University campuses lost power on Oct. 29, he said. Students remained in residence halls until daylight the morning of Oct. 30 after the most severe par t of storm had passed. Keleman said the city of New Br unswick aler ted University officials on Oct. 30 that water in the city’s holding tanks would not last more than 10 hours. Allie Gordon, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore living of f campus, said New Br unswick’s water shor tage forced her and her roommates to conser ve water and go without showering. She said she did not predict the severity of the storm. “I feel bad for complaining about my situation and then seeing all those students sleeping on cots,” she said.
Since the Piscataway campuses receive their water supply from American Water, University staff began relocating students from the New Br unswick campuses to the Livingston and Busch campuses, Keleman said. Shuttles transpor ted students in residence halls without power to the Piscataway campuses until the morning of Nov. 1, he said. “Within 12 hours of the storm, [power on] Busch and Livingston campuses was back up,” he said. The Piscataway campuses received power from public service directly from a cogeneration facility, Keleman said. The Cook, Douglass and the College Avenue campuses began receiving power again on Oct. 31, but officials wanted to give housing and fire safety officials time to ensure order would be restored before allowing students to move back in, Keleman said. Barchi and his cabinet also responded to students concerned about how the interruption would affect their grades, said Greg Jackson, interim vice chancellor of Academic Affairs. Once the University reopened, many students were unable to return to campus, Jackson said. The storm destroyed homes of students and left many without power for weeks. Even more were unable to commute to campus because of damaged cars and suspended public transportation. Jackson, along with Barchi and his council, said they developed a plan to alleviate concerns of tarnished grades. A program allowed students to transform their letter grades into pass or no-credit grades, he said. “It turned out to be a pretty good program,” Jackson said. The program was planned and developed ahead of the hurricane and was ready by the time classes resumed, he said. Keleman said 300 students applied to the program, which applied to all undergraduate students on the Camden, Newark and New Brunswick campuses. “If we were going to do it, it had to be effective for all the schools at Rutgers and all three campuses,” Jackson said. “The point is in our history we’ve never had a disaster this big impact this many students, so we had no precedent for it.” He said the University received letters back from students and parents thanking them because they had less to worr y about. “Should we ever meet with another disaster of this level, we have another play manual,” he said.
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IN BRIEF OBAMA WOULD NOT BLOCK GOP DEBT BILL WASHINGTON — The Obama administration says it won’t oppose a House Republican proposal to increase the nation’s $16.4 trillion borrowing authority for only three months, even though President Barack last week decried such short-term measures as harmful to the economy. The White House Office of Management and Budget issued a statement yesterday saying the GOP measure “introduces unnecessary complications, needlessly perpetuating uncertainty in the nation’s fiscal system.” But it says the administration is encouraged because Republicans backed off their insistence of one dollar of spending cuts for every dollar of increase in the debt ceiling. Without congressional action, the Treasury sometime in late February or early March will not have enough money to pay for all of its obligations, creating the possibility of a first-ever default on the government’s debts.
NJ SUPREME COURT WILL NOT HEAR STUDENT CONDUCT CASE TRENTON, N.J. — The New Jersey Supreme Court will not hear arguments in a case where a school district sought to impose around-the-clock code of conducts on students. The decision lets stand a lower court ruling that struck down the policy that was adopted and later revised by the Ramapo Indian Hills Regional High School District. The appellate court had sided with the state Education Department when it found the district had overstepped its authority. The board in 2009 created a rule that temporarily banned students from sports and extracurricular activities if they were accused of drinking alcohol, using drugs or breaking other laws, off campus or after school. The court sided with a former education commissioner who invalidated the rule.
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CEOs head to forum with less confidence THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DAVOS, Switzerland — As high-powered CEOs flock to the snowy Swiss resort of Davos, they are loaded down with baggage — not just skis and iPads but concerns about the global economy, public mistrust, disappearing jobs and a heap of other challenges. New survey results Tuesday showed a steady drop in the number of CEOs worldwide who are "very confident" that their companies will grow this year. The number fell from 48 percent in 2011 to 36 percent this year. Amid this pessimism, most of them are carefully sticking to a few investments in triedand-true markets, according to the sur vey by accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. "Most are saying that the global economy will stay about the same for the next 12 months. So, not encouraging, maybe not discouraging, but clearly that's affecting their outlook for their own companies' growth prospects," PwC chairman Dennis Nally told The Associated Press in an interview. "The degree of confidence across the board is really down, regardless of whether you're in a developing market or a developed market," he said.
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J&J 4Q profit jumps on higher sales THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Higher sales of prescription drugs and medical devices helped Johnson & Johnson post a much bigger fourth-quarter profit than a year ago, when a slew of charges depressed results. However, consumer health product sales dipped and the company again pushed back its timeline for returning recalled products to stores. In addition, J&J's 2013 profit forecast, for $5.35 to $5.45 per share, is below the average analyst estimate of $5.49. The New Brunswick, N.J., company said Tuesday that net income was $2.57 billion, or 91 cents per share, up from $218
million, or 8 cents per share, in 2011’s fourth quarter. Excluding about $800 million in charges in the latest quarter, earnings would have been $3.38 billion, or $1.19 per share, 2 cents above analysts’ expectations. The charges include J&J's biggest acquisition ever and increased litigation reser ves over recalls of defective DePuy hip implants. The maker of attention deficit drug Concerta, Acuvue contact lenses and consumer health products such as No More Tears shampoo said revenue totaled $17.56 billion, up 8 percent from a year ago but just shy of analysts' average estimate of $17.69 billion.
J&J shares fell 54 cents to close at $72.69 Tuesday. “On the whole, the quarter was no problem,” said WBB Securities analyst Steve Brozak, adding J&J needs to quickly decide what to do with its $12.5 billion in free cash flow. “Are they going to buy, are they going to sell or are they going to stand still?” CEO Alex Gorsky told analysts during a conference call that the company is exploring alternatives such as the sale or spinoff of its Ortho Clinical Diagnostics business. It makes equipment and supplies for detecting and diagnosing conditions such as HIV, diabetes and high cholesterol and for ensuring donated blood is safe.
US stocks rise as industry earnings roll in
SECURITY PROBED IN NJ TRIPLE MURDER LAWSUIT NEWARK, N.J. — School security procedures were the focus yesterday as a civil trial stemming from a triple murder resumed. Iofemi Hightower, Dashon Harvey and Terrance Aeriel were shot behind Newark’s Mount Vernon School on Aug. 4, 2007. Their families have sued the state-run school district, claiming it left gates open when it should have known the schoolyard was a gang hangout. The civil trial entered its second week yesterday. A school district security super visor, the school’s principal and two security guards testified on security procedures at the schoolyard. The Star-Ledger of Newark reports the principal and district super visor testified the gates were to be locked after 6 p.m. by security guards. — The Associated Press
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Romanticizing our dreams to reality CRISSY MLAZZO
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have a theor y about our generation’s par ticular mode of self-determination: we romanticize our chosen future professions in the same way we romanticize our ideal significant others. It's a brilliant motivational technique, one that I believe is born out of a need to ignore the boring and mundane details that are the true stuf f of life-long careers and long-term relationships. Pre-med students want to be renowned doctors who save lives in minutes, not sleep-deprived residents. English majors want to be celebrated screenwriters, not interns. We pin the emotionally charged images we've gleaned from popular culture to our future grown-up jobs, as opposed to focusing on the reality of the job itself. The same goes for our love lives. Twenty-somethings today don't daydream about lifetime companionship and having a house with a yard, the stuf f of real lifelong bliss. We picture someone fitting into our lives per fectly without all the mundane details of getting to know them, like a montage out of a romantic comedy. But life doesn’t happen this fast, and many pop
psychologists would tell you that the ultimate realities. We exist in a society yearning for these grown-up careers where it’s become customar y to work and per fect par tners might be leaving for free in unpaid internships, which us miserable. Right? seems unfor tunate at first. But this I think the opposite is true. Although comes based on the pretense that you we’ve heard enough about how our gen- pretty much know next-to-nothing eration’s pretentious sense of ability about the field you’ll be working in. Of and confidence is ruining our chances course, you’ve built a résumé that of ever becoming complete human proves you understand the field and are beings (read: “Generation Me,” a book capable of showing up, but aside from that you had to read an excerpt from in those students who had the foresight to freshman-year star t inter ning E x p o s i t o r y early, most don’t Writing), we “Pre-med students want to be possess the technihaven’t heard skill to be the renowned doctors who save cal enough about how most helpful our idealism might apprentice to their lives in minutes, not sleepbe helping us. If super visor on the deprived residents.” you took Expos, first day. It actually you probably know seems kind of that Jean Twenge, delusional to think the author of “Generation Me,” postu- that someone would take a chance on a lates that our parents’ push for self- person based on a page-long résumé esteem left us with a lack of ability and and a shor t inter view, but it’s our realisurplus of overconfidence. This would ty. And we’re going with it. explain our unrealistic ideas of what our Twenge will speak at Rutgers this futures will be. Yet these glossy pic- April. While she is undoubtedly a legititures of the future ser ve a purpose, and mate psychologist and researcher, the I think it is to help us ignore the kind of title of her book cannot be mistaken to grimy looking path to getting there: the say anything else of our generation than unpaid inter nships, minimum wage “you are unforgivably selfish.” I’ve jobs, and a few inevitable rejections. heard a few people discount her point Our generation has been given the entirely, while others suppor t her chance to operate under dream-like intense criticism wholehear tedly. I urge conditions in order to achieve our you, freshman or other wise, to consider
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uring the fall semester a few of my friends began to deactivate their Facebook profiles. Before I realized it, my entire house was deactivated on the social media site except for me. At that point I didn’t really care to have a Facebook. I’m not really into stalking random people and thought that I, too, would be able to deactivate without withdrawal. That’s false. When I first deactivated it, I was in a constant state of wondering what meaningless crap people were up to. I didn’t care to know, but I had to know — it was something that had become more or less a bad habit, or an addiction of some sor t. So, for a time, my friends and I were of f of Facebook and essentially of f the grid. We weren’t on Facebook — it was like we didn’t exist. We became the house that had to be texted or verbally told about a par ty because a Facebook invite couldn’t be made. For about two months, people couldn’t find me or know what I was up to for about two months unless they emailed, texted, called or saw me in person. I’d much rather someone ask me how my day was than find out about it through a Facebook status or a photo I posted. I feel as though social networking sites
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are making people less personable. Asking a simple question, like how someone’s day was, may become obsolete — people are too invested in letting others know ever ything about their lives. And they’re not limited to Facebook. They have Twitters, Instagrams and Tumblrs, too. It’s all out there — an endless sea of useless, meaningless jargon for people and, God forbid, a future employer to see. It's not completely meaningless, obviously, or else these social networking sites wouldn’t be making billions of dollars (R.I.P. Myspace, Xanga and all the rest). The point is, some things should just remain private. Allow me to ask you how your day was without having read about it in a status.
“It’s weird that we need a social networking site to tell us things, but that’s what it does.” After spending two months away from the site, I noticed that Facebook introduced something called Graph Search, a new way for users to search for what people are up to using keywords. People can now search their friends to see how many of them like “the beach," for instance. Stalking people is now easier than ever, so thank you
Facebook, for finding creative ways to make a profit. Being able to search for what people are up to makes the status, photo, check-in, whatever it was that was posted, even less personable. No one just searches for something because they care to know that you like hiking or enjoy playing video games all day. When I got back onto Facebook, I also realized that there were, in fact, things that I missed out on, and not all of is meaningless. I guess Facebook has given meaning to things that once would not have mattered. Places people had gone and things they had done without having known other wise if not for Facebook. It’s weird that we need a social networking site to tell us things, but that’s what it does — it connects you with your friends and does a great job, at that. Although Facebook’s great at keeping in touch with friends, nothing beats having a conversation in person or over the telephone. It’s more personal and meaningful when someone puts time and ef for t into that one conversation versus being sidetracked by multiple conversations and mindless jargon on social networking sites. Social networking sites may keep you connected with people, but they don’t nourish lasting relationships. You’re gonna have to pick up the phone. Yashmin Patel is a School of Ar ts and Sciences junior majoring in political science and journalism and media studies. She is the University Editor of The Daily Targum.
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attending her lecture with both your intellect and ideals. They are not mutually exclusive. Perhaps I’m proof of the navel-gaziness of our generation in writing an entire column dedicated to examining whether or not one criticism about my age group is correct. As a liberal ar ts major, I imagine myself being broke enough to complain about it in writing, someday laughing about my years as a struggling writer over cof fee with Judd Apatow and Lena Dunham. These visions are specific, contrived, and var ying levels of unrealistic. But they are also intimate enough to keep me going, to inspire me to reach the point where our expectations are better than reality. The point where they are actually realistic and satisfying, when I’ve gained enough independent experience to continue without blind confidence. They aren’t selfish. Instead, they are personal, and they drive us to reach this point of contentment, whatever that looks like for each one of us. Crissy Milazzo is a School of Ar ts and Sciences senior majoring in English and Public Policy. Her column, “Help Yourself,” runs on alternate Wednesdays. Follow her on Twitter for live updates from that one bench outside of Murray hall @frizzyfilazzo.
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Today's Birthday (01/23/13). Your first half of 2013 supplies fertile ground for creativity. Ideas abound, and fun exploration crews tempt. What would you love to see realized? Set intentions. Your career heats up after June, with expanded income and influence. Come to terms with the past ... divine forgiveness provides freedom. To get the advantage, check the day's rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging. Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 7 — Communication is key; luckily it comes easily right now. Don't sell yourself short, as there's far more to you than you give yourself credit for. Travel virtually. Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 6 — You're especially creative with your money-making capabilities. Others are impressed. Find a way to increase your savings. Pinch yourself to see if you're dreaming. Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Today is a 9 — Go for what you want, making certain that's really where you want to be. A temporary rush of overwhelm brings out your creativity. Outwit the competition. Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Today is a 5 — There's no need to fight, as you both see the path to follow. You're learning quickly. A traveler from distant lands inspires. Continue to invest in family. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 9 — Your optimism is attractive; keep it up. Embrace the contributions that your friends are to you and your quality of life. Return the favor. You get more by giving. There's good news from far away. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 6 — Consult an expert, then trust your intuition to solve the puzzle. Say more about what you need, and what you need to hear. Support your team.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is an 8 — Start by realizing how much you have to learn. You can maximize your career, and your welfare. Keep most of what you know secret, for now. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 6 — Stick to your good judgement. Let people know what you need, emotionally or financially. It's a good time to ask for money. Send out bills. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is an 8 — When in doubt, count your blessings, again. Don't be afraid to ask for what you want, and find support around you, near and far. Express your love in words and pictures. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is an 8 — Quick thinking wins, but you're going to need the stamina. Get plenty of rest and eat healthy. Exercise also helps get your ideas flowing. Get help building your dream. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is an 8 — Your creative juices are flowing. There may be a tendency to want to stop the flood. Let yourself run with the ideas instead. Make a long-distance call for additional benefits. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 9 — Talk about dreams for the future and then get into action. Spreading the word helps find supporters. Keep an important appointment. Love finds a way.
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DEFENSE Injury issues become commonplace for RU against Georgetown CONTINUED FROM BACK energetic Wheeler. But that was better for Rutgers than Wheeler not returning at all. “My tolerance for pain is really low,” Wheeler said, “so once I know the pain, I’ll be fine.” It also meant adding to the list of games this season in which Rutgers (11-7, 2-3) has failed to score 60 points, the 12th of 18. This was the second injury to a pivotal Knights guard in their last two matchups against the Hoyas. When Khadijah Rushdan went down last year, it resulted in a concussion and a five-game Rutgers losing streak. The Knights proved they have the backcourt depth to prevent that and beat a quality Big East team, despite Georgetown’s (11-8, 2-4) similarly slow start in conference play. “[Senior forward] Chelsey Lee had made a comment to [Georgetown head coach Keith Brown] last year when we lost an embarrassing loss at Georgetown that this would never happen again, and he reminded me of that this summer,” said head coach C. Vivian Stringer. As long as Georgetown’s frontcourt kept Oliver and Lee to
SPORTS PAGE 13 pedestrian performances and the Knights struggled from the outside, the Rutgers guards would need to get creative. “In this game, you saw four guards. We’d really run four guards and one post. That’s an issue where we’re hurting more,” Stringer said of the frontcourt’s struggles.
“We’d really run four guards and one post. That’s an issue where we’re hurting more.” C. VIVIAN STRINGER Head Coach
Rutgers has yet to reach a turning point of offensive consistency, even if it can muster enough scoring for a quality conference victory. It was enough to get Georgetown’s Sugar Rodgers in foul trouble and allow Rutgers better control of the game’s pace. Freshman wing Kahleah Copper, whom Brown said he tried to recruit, took some of the scoring load off of Rutgers’ guards with a team-leading 12 points. Her fast break layup with 7:06 to go extended the Knights’ close lead to 40-35, spurting an 8-1 Rutgers run. Having struggled to score in the past, sophomore Syessence Davis provided the only second-
half offense at point guard with four points. The offense at point guard was a different story in the first half, as sophomore Shakena Richardson led Rutgers with seven points in the period. The 5-foot-4-inch Richardson converted two consecutive floaters in traffic over taller defenders, the latter giving Rutgers its biggest lead of the first half at 24-16. “Everybody else has to step up. We know [Wheeler is] a fighter, so we fight for her,” Richardson said. “That’s our senior. We have to go out there and do what we have to do until she got better, and you knew she was coming back.” Freshman guard Precious Person took over for Wheeler four of the seven minutes she was out, holding the Rodgers without a bucket. The Knights held Rodgers to a season-low 13 points and 3-for-20 shooting. Rutgers’ defense has brought it far enough for key victories, but its offense needs to be fixed if it expects success in March. “It stretches the bench,” Stringer said of how much she needed players to exert themselves on defense. “Everybody has to play, whether they can get done what we need to have get done or not, because Georgetown is an outstanding defensive team.” For updates on the Rutgers women’s basketball team, follow Josh Bakan on Twitter @JBakanTargum.
SWEEP Knights’ defensive task centers around Harrison, backcourt CONTINUED FROM BACK even want to think about that. [We want to] remain on the left side of the board and just keep winning. We have big aspirations this year, and we just want to continue to show people we’re a different team than previous years.” Rice has already given the group his vote of confidence, calling it his best team at Rutgers. But beyond that, the team has shown its confidence in each other. It only lost one member from last year’s group — Gilvydas Biruta transferred to Rhode Island — and now has two seniors to lead in Johnson and wing Dane Miller. Now that the team is more talented than it has been in recent history, the goals have been simplified. “The guys just want to rack up as many wins as possible,” Johnson said. “We don’t want to have any relapses and just remain confident in one another and stick to the blueprint the coaches have laid out.” The Knights get their next chance to inch toward their goal tonight, when they complete a home-and-home season series against St. John’s. In the teams’ previous meeting, Red Storm forward JaKarr Sampson missed a 3-pointer as time expired, giving Rutgers a 5856 victory Jan. 23 at Madison Square Garden. But that was not the only close game in the recent history of the tri-state rivalry. In fact, since Rice and St. John’s head coach Steve Lavin have coached their respective teams — both took over in 2010 — neither team has won a game by more than three points and the series is tied, 2-2.
St. John’s guard D’Angelo Harrison scored 20 points Jan. 9 in a 58-56 loss to Rutgers at Madison Square Garden. JOVELLE TAMAYO, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
“[There is a] good chance it’s going to be a one-possession game,” Rice said. “It has been every time. You have to practice and prepare like it, and every possession matters.” Tonight’s game figures to be no different, especially when the Johnnies have a player the caliber of guard D’Angelo Harrison, who ranks second in the Big East in scoring with 19.6 points per game. But Rice believes the reason St. John’s (11-7, 3-3) is dangerous is not because of what Harrison can do, but because he is not alone. Harrison has fellow guards Phil Greene and Jamal Branch to provide support. “You can’t tilt the floor to Harrison so much anymore because of the fact that [Greene and Branch] are making plays, whether it’s for themselves or for other people,” Rice said. “I think they have better spacing with those guards in. That means it’s more difficult.” Greene has tallied 51 assists on the season while committing only 27 turnovers. Branch has
seen limited action because he has to sit out the early portion of the season after transferring from Texas A&M. Rutgers (12-5, 3-3) has to worr y about more than St. John’s backcourt. The Red Storm frontcourt is home to center Chris Obekpa, who leads the Big East with nearly five blocks per game, and Sampson, who averages 13.6 points and 6.6 rebounds per game. “They’re really active, long, athletic, lean, springy-type guys,” Johnson said. “If you throw it up there for them, they’ll get it. You have to get to their body.” The Knights took the first game of the season series on the road, so St. John’s is likely to arrive at the RAC with revenge in mind. With both teams at 3-3 in conference play, the winner earns at least another chance to remain in the top half of the Big East. For updates on the Rutgers men’s basketball team, follow Joey Gregory on Twitter @JGregoryTargum.
VALUE Coach aims to keep rivarly alive after move to new league CONTINUED FROM BACK Senior 174-pounder Greg Zannetti knows firsthand the difficulties Lehigh has handed Rutgers. The closest the Knights came to a victory during Zanetti’s career was a 21-9 drubbing in 2011 at the RAC. The Edison, N.J., native provided the spark Rutgers needed for a win in an otherwise one-sided rivalry that dates back to 1940. After sophomore 165-pounder Nick Visicaro delivered a major decision against Lehigh’s Ben Haas to give the Knights an 11-10 lead, Zannetti took the mat to face the nation’s No. 12 174pounder in Nathanial Brown. A back-and-forth match resulted in a 3-3 tie in the third period. As both grapplers looked to earn position, Zanetti scored a crucial takedown with 10 seconds remaining in the period to deliver a 5-3 decision and put Rutgers on top, 14-10. Zannetti’s win may have been the highlight of the evening, but he did not see it that way. He only saw it as a contribution to a goal the program has been looking to accomplish since he stepped foot on campus.
“Ever yone’s match was as good as mine, it was a team effort,” Zannetti said. “No one’s takedown or major decision was any bigger. That’s just being a team right there.” The win was also special for Smith, who said he has witnessed Lehigh’s dominance before he was a member of the team. “I grew up watching these guys battle each other,” Smith said. “It is just awesome. Just being in this atmosphere and being able to replace those guys I’ve looked up to when I was little, it is an awesome feeling.” Goodale said defeating Lehigh has always been a personal goal, and the win came at the right time. Rutgers is set to move all of its sports to the Big Ten in 2014, a shift that can put the series between the two schools in jeopardy. Both programs are members of the EIWA Conference. Goodale believes the series will remain intact. “I don’t think so,” Goodale said when asked if the rivalry will not be as important. “That’s a pretty important series. I think both programs draw really well. I [would’ve] liked to see us draw better, but they draw really well when we wrestle there, so I don’t think we will lose that.” For updates on the Rutgers wrestling team, follow Bradly Derechailo on Twitter @BradlyDTargum.
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MEN’S TRACK
Thrower headlines NY meet BY ERIC DIMETROSKY CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Head coach Kyle Flood kept similar philosophies his predecessor, Greg Schiano, ran during his time in Piscataway. Flood went 7-0 in his first seven games, becoming the only first-year head coach in Rutgers history to do so. JOVELLE TAMAYO, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Flood makes history as first-year coach BY JOEY GREGORY ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
From the outside, it looked like Rutgers head football coach Kyle Flood faced a difficult prospect of succeeding in his first season at the helm. He had only one assistant coach left from former head coach Greg Schiano’s staff; a young, inexperienced offense; and a quarterback culture that was anything but stable. But to the players, it was Flood’s hire that gave the team a fighting chance. “You would have had to have get used to the system [with an outside hire],” said senior linebacker Steve Beauharnais after the Dec. 28 Russell Athletic Bowl. “It would have been a different defense. We wouldn’t have been as sharp. We would have gotten blown out [against Virginia Tech] or we might not even be [Co-Big East Champions].” Beauharnais said the last thing the team wanted was for someone from another program
to fill the head coaching vacancy and start changing everything. Instead, Flood took over, and the only thing the players adjusted to was a different personality, along with new faces on the coaching staff. Flood’s situation was much different than the one Schiano inherited in 2001. A head coach had not left Rutgers with a winning record since 1983, when Frank Burns ended his tenure. But Schiano took the team to five consecutive bowl victories and built the program into a Big East contender. That is where Flood began. “We were built to win right now,” said senior defensive tackle Scott Vallone on Dec. 28. “I think if we would have overhauled the whole team, that would have hurt us this year and maybe we wouldn’t have had this success and won a share of the conference title.” When Flood entered the position, he had another advantage. Flood had been an assistant under Schiano since 2005, which
meant he had been with the team’s players for their entire Rutgers careers. Almost all of the staff was new, but the head coach was not. “[Flood] recruited me out of high school, so I knew what he was all about,” Vallone said. “I knew that he was a great leader. I felt that he was an example of what the program was about. When Coach Flood inherited [Schiano’s vision], it was a perfect fit.” Through the first seven games, it looked like the perfect fit would produce a perfect season. The Knights toppled their first seven opponents, including Arkansas, a preseason national championship contender. With a dramatic come-frombehind win Oct. 20 at Temple, Flood became the first coach in Rutgers history to begin his career 7-0. The team also became the first at Rutgers to earn a share of the conference title. “To win a share of the Big East title for the first time in the history of our school is tremendous
accomplishment,” Flood said Dec. 28, “and I think that is the accomplishment this senior class is defined by.” He does not believe the seniors will be remembered for the Russell Athletic Bowl loss to Virginia Tech, but some of them have trouble getting past the previous two games. Consecutive losses to Pittburgh and Lousiville to end the regular season forced Rutgers into a tie for the conference title. Had the Knights won one of those games, they would have won the title outright and earned a BCS berth. After managing to keep this year’s recruiting class — widely regarded as the best in program history — intact, Flood now has a chance to debut his first recruiting class next season. And if nothing else, he has shown he can win games. For updates on the Rutgers football team, follow Joey Gregor y on Twitter @JGregoryTargum.
The Rutgers’ men’s indoor track and field team finished in sixth place out of 20 teams at the Great Dane Classic on Friday in the Bronx. The Scarlet Knights, led by senior James Plummer, who took first place in the shot put, earned 37.50 points. Plummer won the event with a throw measured at 17.66 meters, strong enough to qualify for the Big East Championships. Plummer was the most impressive performer, but he did not produce the only strong showing for the Knights in the Bronx. Senior Adam Bergo took second in the high jump with a distance of 2.09 meters, a positive result as he continues his return from injury. The results encouraged Bergo, and he says he is progressing nicely. “Coming of f three months of no activity, I felt good,” Bergo said. “I feel like I’m finally coming into my own with my technique.” Bergo is one of the Knights’ veteran leaders and will be crucial to the team’s success the rest of the season by leading the jumping unit. Fellow Big East members Connecticut and Villanova also participated in the meet, and Connecticut took first place with 126.50 points. Host Albany came in second place with 82 points, followed by Villanova with 71 points in a difficult field. Rutgers rested some of its athletes in anticipation of upcoming meets, but it still had a respectable showing in the Bronx. Bergo was happy with how the team performed against the field despite the absence of some key performers. “We feel like our team goals were accomplished,” Bergo said. “We had a safe meet and did well against tough Big East competition.” The jumper felt especially motivated to compete against Connecticut, one of the Knights’ longtime competitors. “We beat UConn in a number of events and performed well,” Bergo said. “That was ver y big against one of our biggest rivals.” The Knights see Connecticut again in the Big East Championships in mid-February. Senior Kevin Bostick placed second in the triple jump at 14.77 meters, and fellow senior Pat Gray finished in seventh place in the pole vault. Freshman Emeka Eze placed seventh in the long jump, and senior Monroe Kearns took fifth in the 800 meter with a time of 1:56:12. The Knights faired well in long distance, as well, as junior Curtis Richburg placed seventh in the 1,000 meter and sophomore Chris Defabio took seventh in the 3,000 meter.
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KNIGHT NOTEBOOK LATE FIRST-HALF RUN DISTANCES RUTGERS
SWIMMING, DIVING
Freshman shines despite first loss BY IAN ERHARD
There was no disappointment after the meet, as both of the Knights’ captains emphaThe Rutgers swimming and sized the ef for t the team diving team returned to the RU put forth. Aquatic Center last weekend for “That was the most exciting its first competition of the calencollege meet I’ve competed in,” dar year. Zafir said. “We all swam incrediThe Scarlet Knights entered bly and win or lose, we really the weekend undefeated and acted like a team.” set out to avenge their only two The Knights did not lose losses from last season, which momentum Friday after a monthcame from Richmond and and-a-half layoff as several athJames Madison. letes recorded personal- and seaRutgers hosted Richmond son-best times en route to a twoand Central Connecticut State victory day. on Friday, and James Madison Rutgers defeated Central traveled to Connecticut State, Piscataway the 219-80, and next morning. Richmond by a “[The James James Madison score of 164-135. Madison meet] was handed Rutgers “We knew we its first loss of the were in for the most exciting season as the some good comcollege meet Dukes took a petition,” said close victory by a head coach Phil I’ve competed in.” score of 165-135. Spiniello. “It was TAYLOR ZAFIR “I was proud good to come out Senior Co-captain of my team,” and get those said head coach wins and set the Phil Spiniello. “We tone for the second half of swam and dove really well. They the season.” fought the whole way.” Training during the extended The Knights put freshman winter break played a role in the Joanna Wu, sophomore Knights’ performance. Greta Leberfinger, and juniors “The break has been ver y Brittany Guinee and Mar y impor tant and ver y intense,” Moser in the 200-yard Kearney said. “We were just medley relay, in which they able to come out of the winter finished second with a time training and hit ever ything of 1:45.55. off so it’s an awesome start to Wu took first in the 200-meter the semester.” freestyle in 1:52.06 and placed The team began the day first in the 500-meter freestyle with a top finish in the first event at 5:02.07. She finished first swim, as the ‘B’ squad consistin three solo events throughout ing of Wu, Leberfinger, Guinee the weekend. and Moser, finished with a time “[Joanna] has really bought of 1:45:30 minutes. into the program and Wu took the top spot in the doing ever ything that we’re 100-meter backstroke with a asking her to do,” Spiniello time of 55.61 seconds, a personsaid. “She’ll develop into a al best. great swimmer.” Leberfinger placed second in Freshman Morgan Pfaff the 100-meter breaststroke at improved her score from the pre1:05.31 with junior Allyson vious day in the 100-meter backPerrotti directly behind her at stroke, earning a first-place finish 1:06.01. The scores were the best with a time of 56.86 seconds, a of the season for both swimmers. personal best. Guinee improved her seasonShe also took first in the 200best time in the 100-meter butmeter backstroke with another terfly by almost a full second, personal-best finish of 2:04.82. finishing in second place at Guinee and Leberfinger 56.65 seconds. placed first in the 200-meter butShe finished first in the 200terfly and 200-meter breastmeter butter fly at 2:03.52, stroke, respectively. while Zafir and freshman Senior captain Taylor Zafir Casey Penrose placed next finished third in the 1,000for Rutgers. meter freestyle at 10:32.25, the Freshman Sarah Coyne finbest time for Rutgers against ished second in both the 200James Madison. meter freestyle and 50-meter free “I haven’t posted those finals, where she recorded a seatimes, at least in the 1,000, son-best time of 24.49. since high school,” Zafir said. “I The last solo event of the really just fed off the energy of day saw freshman Morgan the team.” Pfaf f finish with the best time In diving, sophomore for the Knights in the 400Nicole Honey scored 267.60, meter individual medley as she the best finish for the recorded a personal-best time Knights, and junior Nicole of 4:27.13. Scott and senior captain Katie The Knights swept Friday’s 1Kearney followed. meter diving event as Kearney “We went into the meet led the way with six dives for a knowing it was going to be a score of 274.70. struggle,” Kearney said. “We “We wanted to start the weekwere cheering until the ver y end as strong as we want to start end and standing behind each the Big East, and we definitely other as a team.” did that,” Kearney said. CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Senior guard Erica Wheeler hoists a shot last night as Georgetown’s Katie McCormick defends. Wheeler returned from a right ankle injury. NELSON MORALES, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
‘D’ puts scoring at premium BY AARON FARRAR CORRESPONDENT
The Rutgers women’s basketball team’s 55-47 win against Georgetown last night was hard-fought and physical. Unlike the team’s lopsided victor y Jan. 16 against Providence, the contest against the Hoyas was a test of defense. Both coaches knew the contest would be a grind-it-out battle until the final buzzer. “It was two teams that can defend and turn each other over,” said Georgetown head coach Keith Brown. “It usually comes down to what team imposes their will.” The team that came away with key stops down the stretch won. The Scarlet Knights found a way to keep pressure on the Hoyas the entire night and held the nation’s leading scorer, guard Sugar Rodgers, to only 13 points before she fouled out. “I think we did a great job as a whole and as a team,” said senior guard Erica Wheeler of the team’s defense. “Recovering out on her when [Rodgers] was open and taking the switch when it was needed, I think we did well with that.” Head coach C. Vivian Stringer saw the physical intensity throughout the game. “It was a matter of who was a better defensive team,” she said. “[Rutgers] takes a lot of pride in its defense.”
After dropping its first three conference contests, the Knights had difficulty competing for 40 minutes. They often found themselves fighting back from big deficits and coming up short in the end.
“Recovering out on her when [Georgetown’s Sugar Rodgers] was open ... we did well.” ERICA WHEELER
East victory of the season on the road against Providence. The Knights poured in 45 first-half points in the blowout win, the most in an opening half this season. They shot 70 percent from the floor and appeared to connect on ever y possession. In the opening half against the Hoyas, the game was knotted at 11 with more than seven minutes remaining. Following a timeout with three minutes left to play, Rutgers ended the half on a 12-2 run to take a 24-16 lead into intermission.
Senior Guard
EARLY But the Knights’ early struggles in league play did not linger for the players, who have put together two impressive victories to pull within a game of .500 in the Big East. As the team returned to the Louis Brown Athletic Center against Georgetown, it appeared to be in an offensive drought. Rutgers could not buy a basket. The Knights finished the first half shooting 42.9 percent from the field after a late surge. Sophomore guard Shakena Richardson helped the team out of its offensive slump by scoring seven points to end the half and said the Knights needed to pick up their intensity. Scoring points was not an issue for the team in its first Big
FOUL TROUBLE WAS
costly for the Knights. Fifth-year senior for ward Chelsey Lee made an early exit after picking up two fouls four minutes into the game. She spent the rest of the half watching the action from the bench, leaving a heavy load in the paint for senior forward Monique Oliver to carry. It was a tough break for Rutgers, as the frontcourt duo has been thriving in the paint and tends to create constant problems for opponents when on the floor together. Lee’s absence forced other Knights to establish a presence. The frontcourt managed to hold its weight, helping pull down 19 rebounds in the first half.
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BEST LAID PLANS Both C. Vivian Stringer and the Hoyas’ Keith Brown planned for a high-intensity, low-scoring game last night in Piscataway. / PAGE 15
YEAR ONE Kyle Flood achieved multiple program firsts in his rookie season as Rutgers head football coach. / PAGE 14
SPORTS
QUOTE OF THE DAY “Our guys had to get over it and break that barrier, and we finally did it.” — Rutgers head wrestling coach Scott Goodale on beating Lehigh for the first time since 1950
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 2013
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL RUTGERS 55, GEORGETOWN 47
WRESTLING
Win against Lehigh holds special value BY BRADLY DERECHAILO CORRESPONDENT
Freshman wing Kahleah Copper defends Georgetown’s Sugar Rodgers, the nation’s leading scorer, in last night’s Rutgers victory. Copper led the Knights with 14 points in their second straight Big East victory. NELSON MORALES, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
As Billy Smith jumped up off the mat and pumped his fist, the redshirt freshman heavyweight broke a barrier that has been more than 60 years in the making. Smith’s 6-0 decision against Lehigh’s Jack Delia on Friday at the Louis Brown Athletic Center clinched a 17-16 victory, the Rutgers wrestling team’s first win against the Mountain Hawks since 1950. While this year’s Lehigh team does not feature the talent head coach Scott Goodale’s teams have faced in the past, it does not take away from the win against a program that has given the Knights problems before Goodale was even born. “Just to say we beat Lehigh [is a benchmark],” Goodale said. “We don’t have to hear about the 61 years or that we can’t win big matches. Lehigh is still Lehigh. They are a young team, probably not the best team they have put out, but it’s still Lehigh. They feel good every time they come here and feel like they are going to win.” SEE
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Defense stymies guard, Hoyas BY JOSH BAKAN ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
Between senior for ward Chelsey Lee recovering from 2011 shoulder surgery, senior forward Monique Oliver’s Achilles’ injury earlier this season and sophomore guard
Briyona Canty’s knee surgery, injuries have been contagious on the Rutgers women’s basketball team. Senior guard Erica Wheeler caught the bug in the first half last night with a right ankle injury, hobbling the next two times she
entered the game in the Scarlet Knights’ 5547 win against Georgetown. That meant few drives, few leads in transition and absolutely no diving for a typically SEE
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MEN’S BASKETBALL ST. JOHN’S-RUTGERS, TONIGHT, 7:30 P.M.
RU aims for season sweep of St. John’s BY JOEY GREGORY ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
The Rutgers men’s basketball team is not used to being .500 or better in Big East play.
Kansas Kansas State
59 55
Iowa Ohio State
63 72
Louisville Villanova
64 73
NC State Wake Forest
84 86
49 47
South Carolina Missouri
Rutgers has its sights set much higher than six wins. “We just don’t want to get below .500,” said senior forward Austin Johnson. “We don’t SEE
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EXTRA POINT
NCAAM SCORES
Michigan State Wisconsin
It has failed to reach seven conference wins under head coach Mike Rice. But with three league wins already and 12 games yet to play, the Scarlet Knights have a good chance to surpass the six-win mark.
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JOANNA WU earned Big East Swimmer of the Week yesterday after three top individual finishes last weekend. She won both the 100- and 200-meter backstroke Friday in a tri-meet.
Freshman heavyweight Billy Smith takes on Iowa State’s Matt Gibson on Jan. 11. ENRICO CABREDO, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
RUTGERS SPORTS CALENDAR MEN’S BASKETBALL
MEN’S TRACK
WOMEN’S TRACK
WRESTLING
vs. St. John’s
at Metropolitan Championships
at Metropolitan Championships
at West Virginia
Tomorrow New York City
Tomorrow New York City
Tonight, 7:30 p.m. RAC
Friday, 8 p.m. Morgantown, W. Va.