THEFT PREVENTION
LEARNING WHILE TEACHING Teaching assistants
The Rutgers men’s basketball team plays host tonight to No. 11 Louisville, whose high-pressure defense threatens the Scarlet Knights, who rank No. 13 in the Big East in turnover margin. SPORTS, BACK
at the University share stories and learn how to deal with sticky situations in class. UNIVERSITY, PAGE 3
INCENTIVE FOR EQUALITY Transitioning from one school to another can be difficult. In memory of Tyler Clementi, his family has opened a center for research and youth services in the digital age. OPINIONS, PAGE 8
Serving the Rutgers community since 1869. Independent since 1980.
WEATHER Snow Shower High: 40 Nighttime Low: 19
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY—NEW BRUNSWICK
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUAR Y 6, 2013
ONLINE AT DAILYTARGUM.COM
U. WORKER APPRECIATION WEEK
Douglass librarian shares transition to US, digitization Denda helps students and staff use digital resources for research Kayo Denda Mabel Smith Douglass Librarian
BY CHELSEA PINEDA CONTRIBUTING WRITER
With her diverse background, Mabel Smith Douglass Librarian Kayo Denda creates projects that both preserve the past and push the University libraries into a world of evolving technology. Born in Japan but raised in Brazil, Denda said she studied architecture and urbanism at a Brazilian university, and in the late 1970s worked as a city planner for mid-level and mid-sized cities for the state of Rio de Janeiro. She said her history of planning influenced her work as a librarian. “Planning and urbanism does require some kind of a master plan so that you can go SEE
LIBRARIAN ON PAGE 4
About 30 students attended the Rutgers University Colleges Against Cancer’s “Relay for Life” kick-off fundraiser at the Multipurpose Room in the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus. The event, which aims to raise awareness about cancer, featured bag decorating, pop music and free food. “Relay for Life” is a nationwide fundraiser sponsored by the American Cancer Society. SMARANDA TOLOSANO
University cancer relay kicks off ‘Relay for Life’ movement aims to raise awareness about cancer, remember lost ones BY EINZEN LESPINASSE CONTRIBUTING WRITER
While decorating luminaria bags, listening to pop music and eating free food last night, attendees could learn about the upcoming “Relay for Life” at Colleges Against Cancer’s kickoff event. CAC hosts the “Relay for Life Kickoff” at Rutgers Student Centers on the College
Avenue Campus to attract new participants to get involved and bring together teams from last year, said Lee, CAC’s public relations chair. The “Relay for Life” is a 12-hour, overnight event on April 12 in which individuals on teams of 15 take turns lapping the track in the Livingston Recreation Center, said Jennifer Lee, a Rutgers Business School sophomore.
“It’s very touching and personal with ever yone that goes, because ever yone knows someone with cancer. It’s pretty much 12 hours of fun but for a good cause,” said Lee, who previously battled ovarian cancer and is currently in remission. CAC informs potential participants about the “Relay for Life” history, how the event works at the University and where its proceeds go, said Kristina Mischke, president of the University’s CAC chapter. “[Relay for Life] is our biggest event nationwide and worldwide,” Mischke said. SEE
RELAY ON PAGE 5
PANCAKE FRENZY IHOP continued its annual tradition yesterday of giving customers free pancakes on “National Pancake Day.” IHOP set up a donation bin for the Children’s Miracle Network, an organization that raises funds for children’s hospitals across the nation. Students from the University enjoyed the free pancakes at IHOP on 900 Easton Ave., Somerset. Look for more photos on PAGE 4. SHIRLEY YU VOLUME 144, ISSUE 73 • UNIVERSITY ... 3 • ON THE WIRE ... 6 • OPINIONS ... 8 • DIVERSIONS ... 10 • CLASSIFIEDS ... 12 • SPOR TS ... BACK
PAGE 2
WEATHER OUTLOOK Source: Weather.com
FEBRUARY 6, 2013
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
HIGH 33
HIGH 39
HIGH 33
HIGH 40
LOW 30
LOW 26
LOW 24
LOW 32
CAMPUS CALENDAR Wednesday, Feb. 6 Julie Langsam lectures on classicism, romanticism and modernity from a painter’s perspective as part of the “Landscape Architecture Common Lecture” at 4 p.m. at the Cook/Douglass Lecture Hall, Room 110 on Cook campus. The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum hosts its monthly “Art After Hours” at 5 p.m. at 71 Hamilton St. Rutgers Study Abroad holds an international summer opportunities fair from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Livingston Student Center. For more information, call (848) 932-7787. The Daily Targum holds its weekly writers meeting at 9:30 p.m. at the Targum editorial office at 26 Mine St. off the College Avenue campus. No experience necessary, all majors are welcome.
Thursday, Feb. 7 The Center for Social Justice and LGBT Communities holds its monthly Q Café at 7 p.m. at Tillet Hall, Room 247 on Livingston campus. There will be free food and drink. Senses Fail, Hands on the Stereo, The Early November and Yes, Virginia perform at 8 p.m. the Rutgers Student Center multipurpose room on the College Avenue campus. The concert is free and part of the Rutgers University Programming Association’s Changemakers Week.
METRO CALENDAR Wednesday, Feb. 6 Andrew Dice Clay performs at 7 p.m. at the Stress Factory Comedy Club at 90 Church St. in downtown New Brunswick. Tickets are $36. There will be a second show at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 7.
Thursday, Feb. 7 Yo Gabba Gabba! performs at the State Theatre at 15 Livingston Ave. through Friday, Feb. 8. Tickets range from $25 to $45. Show times for both days are at 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. The Pat Bianchi Quartet performs at Makeda Restaurant at 338 George St. in downtown New Brunswick. The event takes place at 7:30 p.m. and there is a $5 cover charge. . The C.S. Lewis Society begins its series of discussions based on The Four Loves of C.S. Lewis at 7:30 p.m. on the second floor of the Rutgers Barnes and Noble Bookstore at 100 Somerset St. For more information, contact Chaplain Gregor y Bezilla at bezille@rci.rutgers.edu.
Saturday, Feb. 9 The State Theatre holds a performance of “Monty Python’s Spamalot” at 3 p.m. and again at 8 p.m. at 15 Livingston Ave. Tickets start at $32.
ABOUT THE DAILY TARGUM
RECOGNITION
The Daily Targum is a student-written and student-managed, nonprofit incorporated newspaper published by the Targum Publishing Company, circulation 18,000. The Daily Targum (USPS949240) is published Monday through Friday in New Brunswick, N.J. while classes are in session during the fall and spring semesters. No part thereof may be reproduced in any form, in whole or in part, without consent of the managing editor.
For years, the Targum has been among the most prestigious newspapers in the country. Last year, these awards included placing first in the Associated Collegiate Press National College Newspaper Convention Best of Show award category for four-year daily newspapers. Interested in working with us? Email Olivia Prentzel: managed@dailytargum.com.
OUR STORY “Targum” is an Aramaic term for “interpretation.” The name for the University’s daily paper came to be after one of its founding members heard the term during a lecture by then-Rutgers President William H. Campbell. On Jan. 29, 1869, more than 140 years ago, the Targum — then a monthly publication, began to chronicle Rutgers history and has become a fixture in University tradition. The Targum began publishing daily in 1956 and gained independence from the University in 1980. Scan this QR code to visit dailytargum.com
CONTACT US EDITORIAL 26 Mine Street NewBr unswick, N.J. (732) 932-2012
BUSINESS 126 College Avenue, Suite 431, New Br unswick, N.J. (732) 932-7051
JOVELLE TAMAYO EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ASHLEY MAGNO BUSINESS MANAGER
EIC@DAILYTARGUM.COM (732) 932-2012 x110
OLIVIA PRENTZEL MANAGING EDITOR MANAGED@DAILYTARGUM.COM (732) 932-2012 x101
BUSINESS@DAILYTARGUM.COM (732) 932-7051 x600
ANNA DROOTIN MARKETING DIRECTOR MARKETING@DAILYTARGUM.COM (732) 932-7051 x604
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT The Daily Targum promptly corrects all errors of substance. If you have a comment or question about the fairness or accuracy of a story, send an email to eic@dailytargum.com.
F EBRUARY 6, 2013
UNIVERSITY
Teaching assistants weigh in on experiences Graduate student teachers balance research, learning, instructing BY DOMENIC RUGGERI STAFF WRITER
In his three years as a teaching assistant at the University, Kellen Myers has had some unusual experiences. In one particular incident, a student came to his office hours, filed his nails with his colleague’s nail file, and then fell into a deep sleep while snoring openmouthed, he said. “I let him stay,” said Myers, a fifth-year Ph.D candidate in mathematics. “It was so bizarre, my only reaction was to ignore it.” Myers spoke to a group of fellow teaching assistants yesterday at the Busch Campus Center on strategies for dealing with difficult, disruptive or learning-disabled students. He said most students do not present a problem, but there will always be a few who pose challenges to inexperienced TAs. He said one situation that often comes up is a student disrupting class because of an issue based on appearance, hygiene or dress. In those situations, it is difficult to deal with the problem without singling out the student in an embarrassing way.
Swetha Jinka, a School of Arts and Science first-year student, said while her TAs have been knowledgeable, she would rather learn from a professor. “[TAs] seem insecure some“I once had a student change times, less confident,” she said. his shirt in class. … He had just Myers said TAs need to come from the gym,” Myers said. learn to deal with the unsure “How do you deal with that?” feelings that accompany the Students who directly chalbeginning of a new job and the lenge the TA’s authority pose diffear of public speaking. ficult situations, he said. A stuHe said he recalled an incident may feel like dent in his first the TA is underyear when a stu“I once had a qualified, he said, dent entered since most TAs student change his class late and are graduate stuinterr upted the shirt in class. He dents who are lecture to tell him barely older than had just come from that he could not the students they stay in class. the gym. How do are instructing. “I had this Myers said moment of total anxyou deal with that?” iety,” Myers TAs are often said. KELLEN MYERS viewed in a bad There are as Mathematics Teaching Assistant light, and many many potential high-level private solutions as there colleges and uniare potential versities use their lack of TAs problems in class, he said, but or small amount of TAs as a the best way to combat anyselling point. thing that may come up is to Myers said his friend and felestablish clear r ules in the low TA at an Ivy League institubeginning of the semester in tion, which he declined to name, a syllabus. had firsthand experience with In addition, TAs must avoid that situation. making too many rule excep“After a lecture, a student tions, he said, which can be difficame up to him and said ‘I would cult to do for instructors who are like to see your credentials,’” he barely older than their students. said. “They feel like, ‘I pay so “If you say no late homework, much money, where’s my A?’” then accept late homework, you
will be inundated with late homework,” he said. The University employs 1,172 TAs, said E.J. Miranda, director of University Media Relations, via email correspondence. Their contracts state that they must work an average of 15 hours per week, Myers said. But TAs, who are all graduate students conducting research and sometimes taking classes along with their teaching requirements, often end up working much longer hours, especially around exam time. Jesse Bayker, a third-year Ph. D. candidate and TA in the Department of Histor y, said while it can be intense at times, the experience is positive. Along with his work on a dissertation, Baker said a typical TA assignment would have him working with a professor in a 100to-200-student lecture and leading a small 25-person discussion group once a week. “[It is] definitely positive to work with professors, to collaborate with exper t instructors,” he said. Bayker said the worst experience he had was when a student who performed well in the first half of his course plagiarized most of his work. “I had this one student … he plagiarized straight from Wikipedia and SparkNotes,” he said. “He ended up failing.”
PAGE 3
NJUS marks second year at University BY YASHMIN PATEL UNIVERSITY EDITOR
The New Jersey United Students, a statewide student organization that aims to increase accessibility and affordability for higher education, celebrated its two-year anniversary yesterday. Spencer Klein, president of NJUS, said one of the biggest accomplishments the group made in its two years was the voter registration campaign, where they registered about 6,300 voters statewide. “The more students find out — the more students want to get involved,” said Klein, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “[If] student power is in play then there is ver y little that can’t be accomplished.” Since the organization’s beginning, the group has grown to include about 14 member campuses including the University, Rutgers-Newark, RutgersCamden, Rowan University and Montclair State University. “It’s been a really great two years, but it’s only the beginning of what we look to accomplish,” he said. The organization is working to guarantee in-state tuition for New Jersey’s undocumented students.
FEBRUARY 6, 2013
UNIVERSITY PAGE 4
LIBRARIAN Liauw says librarians do not have much to do with books anymore CONTINUED FROM FRONT
WHERE’S THE SYRUP? Members of the University community enjoy free pancakes at the IHOP on Easton Avenue. With the purchase of one drink, each customer received a short stack of three pancakes. SHIRLEY YU
“So as librarians, the very notion of what we’ve done in the past is into the details of a project, so very, very different today.” that’s the kind of activity that I Liauw, a graduate student studyreally enjoy,” she said. ing library and information sciDenda said at age 27 she ence, said Denda is the head of the moved with her husband to the Margery Somers Foster Center. United States. In 1994, she The center promotes the use enrolled at the University to purof multimedia by using digital sue her master’s degree in production for research projLibrary and Information Science, ects, holding inter view workbut struggled with writing shops for students, and promotassignments in English. ing the multimedia lab in the “In Brazil, architecture at that library, she said. time was tracked as a science … Denda said the center is and if you are tracked in science, working on the Douglass you really don’t write papers,” Alumnae Oral History Project, she said. “I had never written a an intergenerational oral history paper in my life and here, where Douglass Residential schools or majors like library College students help create science [are] really paper-writtranscripts and a digital exhibit ing based.” for the library’s community. But her background enticed “I would like to create this her to work as a University librarcommunity for institutions like ian in October 2000. the Douglass Residential “The diversity, I think, applies College, who are interested in not only for the stupreser ving their dent body but also traditions and to the research passing them “So much of our interests of the facto new genwork is online now down ulty, the kinds of erations,” she said. courses here and Denda said she and so the physical the research would like to crespaces are being they’re involved ate a digital in,” she said. archive of transformed as Along with research and interwe speak.” finding resources views of immifor the library to grant women in KAYO DENDA purchase and New Jersey to capMabel Smith Douglass Librarian attending libraryture their journey sponsored events, from their homeDenda said she focuses on helpland and their feelings about ing both University staff and stutheir identity after living in the dents use digital resources to find state for at least a decade. and conduct research. She said she also works on Axa Mei Liauw, an information projects that focus on women and assistant at Douglass Library, helps the Department of said libraries must evolve to deal Women’s and Gender Studies with new technologies. find resources for research in “Being a librarian doesn’t their discipline. have too much to do with books In 2010, Denda said she anymore,” she said. “It’s kind of received her master’s degree changing, so it’s a lot of tech supin Women’s and Gender port, but still focusing on helping Studies while working as a with research.” University librarian. Denda also embraces digital She said a major upside to her media by digitizing old tapes for job is interacting with the diverse various projects, said Jane students on campus and helping Sloan, a media librarian at them utilize their skills. Douglass Librar y. “I think we try our best to “In the libraries, it’s a particumentor our students in offering lar challenge because so much of them different opportunities or our work is online now and so the bring their attention [to] some physical spaces are being transtopics that might be of their interformed as we speak,” she said. est and so forth,” she said.
UNIVERSITY PAGE 5
FEBRUARY 6, 2013
RELAY Lee says event is about educating U. community about ACS issues CONTINUED FROM FRONT “It’s for a great cause and it brings everyone together.” She said the event can show people who have seen relays before how the event works at a large university. “Rutgers is obviously huge so we do stuff on a larger scale,” she said. CAC is a branch of American Cancer Society run by almost 30 University students who promote cancer awareness and community involvement, Lee said. “CAC is about educating the Rutgers University community about the issues of the ACS, their cancer research and to provide facts to the community to help those who have cancer,” she said. ACS recognized the University’s CAC chapter as one of the grossing chapters in the tristate area, said Mischke, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “It was kind of cool to be recognized by the ACS,” she said. “They’re like our guarding hand.”
Last year the “Relay for Life” raised $80,000, but this year Lee said the organization hopes they can make more than $95,000. Nick Homcy, a University alumnus, said he lost both his grandmother and aunt to breast cancer, and his grandfather is currently battling leukemia. He said events like “Relay for Life” were one of the many reasons he and others founded the University chapter of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity three years ago. “This is my third year doing it and I love it,” he said. Nick Macias, community service chair of the Delta Phi fraternity, said participating in community ser vice events is an important part of Greek life. “You can be in a [fraternity] and just stay in the house all the time or you can be a part of things like this,” said Macias a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “When you do community service with your brothers, you get to help people.”
Students decorated bags to commemorate individuals who are either battling cancer, in remission or lost their lives to the disease. The event was also a way for the Rutgers University Colleges Against Cancer to fundraise for their cause. SMARANDA TOLOSANO
Team leaders are extensions of the Referendum Coordinator. They will be responsible for: · Managing polls and employees on their assigned campus. · Assisting with the hiring process of poll workers/promoters. · Creating work schedules and recording employees’ hours. · Keeping track of traffic and supplies at all designated locations. · Transporting, sorting, and tabulating ballots. · Communicating with Referendum Coordinator daily to review completed tasks and duties. Individuals must be charismatic, great problem solvers, and able to manage people. Please request an application and submit resume to Jaime Brown, the Referendum Coordinator at: dtrefcoordinator@gmail.com by Monday, February 11, 2013.
Compensation (Planning Phase): $120/WEEK (3 days) Compensation (Implementation Phase/Polling): $225/WEEK (5 days) Employment Dates: February 25th – April 26th
PAGE 6
On The
re
FEBRUARY 6, 2013
Christie unhappy with flood insurance for NJ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ENGLISH WEDDING Born-again Christian Carl Hamblin holds banners quoting the Bible as he stands in Parliament Square yesterday in London, England. Parliament voted 400-175 in favor of gay marriage despite conservative protesters like Hamblin outside. GETTY IMAGES
140,000 Sandy flood claims made in all states have been setUNION BEACH, N.J. — Gov. tled, with $3.7 billion paid out to Chris Christie said yesterday the storm victims. In New York, it National Flood Insurance said 32,000 of 56,000 claims Program’s handling of claims in were closed. New Jersey “has stunk,” com“FEMA’s top priority is to get plaining that the program has resources to those in need as been far too slow to get payments quickly as possible, while also to victims of Superstorm Sandy, meeting our requirements with tens of thousands of cases under the law. That’s why we’ve unresolved more than three given our private sector partners months after the disaster. additional flexibility to quickly The governor said excessive pay advance and partial paypaperwork, inadequate staffing, ments, and reduced paperwork cumbersome audits and the requirements so the process can threat of financial penalties move as quickly as possible,” the to carriers and adjusters is interagency said in a statement. fering with the timely issuance In New Jersey, Sandy of payments, prolonging the sufdamaged or destroyed about fering of many New Jersey resi346,000 housing units, resultdents hurt by Sandy. ing in estimated damage and “Our local insurance compafuture storm mitigation costs of nies have been doing a great job $37 billion. of settling and moving these With Wednesday marking claims very quickthe 100th day ly,” Christie said. since Sandy “The national struck, the state “I’ve been as flood insurance and charities are patient as plan has stunk.” still waiting for “I’ve been as the federal settleI’m going to be.” patient as I’m ments so they can CHRIS CHRISTIE going to be,” the determine how NJ Governor governor added. much to award in “They need to get grants to help more people into people rebuild, New Jersey, they need to get to the Republican governor said. work, they need to get to proChristie said he is asking New cessing these things. People Jersey’s congressional delegation need to know how much money to pressure FEMA to improve they’re going to have.” the performance of the flood At a briefing in hard-hit Union insurance program, which he Beach, the governor said only 30 called “a disgrace.” percent of Sandy flood claims had “I’m not going to sit around and been settled in New Jersey. take it quietly any longer,” he said. But the Federal Emergency “We’ve gotten all kinds of assurManagement Agency said later ances that haven’t been met.” yesterday that the latest In comparison, the governor data shows 37,000 of 73,000 said 85 percent of homeowner New Jersey claims, or a little more claims had been settled, or than 50 percent, have been closed. closed, out of a total of more Likewise, the agency said than 430,000 claims filed by more than half of the total homes and businesses.
FEBRUARY 6, 2013
ON THE WIRE PAGE 7
Congress considers limits on lethal drone program THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the No. 2 Democrat in the House, said yesterday that “it WASHINGTON — deserves a serious look at how Uncomfortable with the Obama we make the decisions in governadministration’s use of deadly ment to take out, kill, eliminate, drones, a growing number in whatever word you want to use, Congress is looking to limit not just American citizens but America’s authority to kill susother citizens as well.” pected terrorists, even U.S. citiHoyer added: “We ought to zens. The Democratic-led outcry carefully review our policies as was emboldened by the revelaa countr y.” tion in a newly surfaced Justice Earlier this week, a group of 11 Department memo that shows Democratic and Republican senadrones can strike against a wider tors urged President Barack range of threats, with less eviObama to release a classified dence, than previously believed. Justice Department The drone prolegal opinion justifygram, which has “We ought to ing when U.S. counbeen used from terterror missions, Pakistan across carefully review including drone the Middle East our policies as strikes, can be used and into North to kill American citiAfrica to find and a country” zens abroad. kill an unknown STENY HOYER Without those number of susMaryland Representative documents, it’s pected terrorists, impossible for is expected to be a Congress and the public to decide top topic of debate when the “whether this authority has been Senate Intelligence Committee properly defined, and whether grills John Brennan, the White the president’s power to deliberHouse’s pick for CIA chief, at a ately kill Americans is subject to hearing tomorrow. appropriate limitations and safeThe White House yesterday guards,” the senators wrote. defended its lethal drone program Instead, members of by citing the very laws that some Congress received an unclassiin Congress once believed were fied Justice Department memo, appropriate in the years immediwhich falls short of giving the ately after the Sept. 11 attacks but senators all the information now think may be too broad. they requested. “It has to be in the agenda of First detailed publicly by NBC this Congress to reconsider the News late Monday, the memo for scope of action of drones and use the first time outlines the Obama of deadly force by the United administration’s decision to kill States around the world because al-Qaida terror suspects without the original authorization of use any evidence that specific and of force, I think, is being strained imminent plots are being planned to its limits,” Sen. Chris Coons, against the United States. D-Del., said in a recent interview.
IN BRIEF REPORT: FRANCE MAY START MALI PULLOUT TIMBUKTU, Mali — France’s foreign minister says in a newspaper interview that his country’s troops may start pulling out of a militar y inter vention in the African country of Mali in March. Laurent Fabius is quoted in France’s Metro newspaper as saying, “I think that starting in March, if ever ything goes as planned, the number of our troops should diminish.” The Metro report, published online yesterday night and tweeted by Fabius’ office, gave no firm figures or dates for an eventual withdrawal. France has some 4,000 troops in Mali in an intervention that started last month against Islamist extremists who had seized the north of the country last year and had started pushing toward the capital. Already French troops are expected to start handing control of the fabled city of Timbuktu to African forces this week.
US, CHINA DIPLOMATS DISCUSS NORTH KOREA WASHINGTON — The Obama administration talked to China yesterday about North Korea facing “further consequences” under a recent U.N. Security Council resolution if it conducts a nuclear test, the State Department said. New Secretary of State John Kerry discussed North Korea’s “continued provocative rhetoric”
in a phone call with China’s Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi. It follows Kerr y’s conversations this week with his counterparts from Japan and South Korea, key U.S. allies in the region. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told a news briefing that the three conversations “were remarkably similar” on the importance of implementing the commitments of the January resolution if the North takes further action that violates its international obligations.
CHRISTIE PUTS WEIGHT ON TABLE UNION BEACH, N.J. — Portly New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says the people who elected him shouldn’t worr y about his weight because he’s “remarkably healthy.” The 50-year-old Republican governor said yesterday dieting has been a regular part of his life for 30 years. He says sometimes he’s successful and other times he’s not. He says sometimes “periods of great success are followed by periods of great failure.” Christie has never revealed his weight or medical records but recently has put his weight on the table. Weeks ago he acknowledged to Barbara Walters he’s “more than a little” overweight. And on Monday he munched on a jelly doughnut as a guest on David Letterman’s “Late Show.” — The Associated Press
Calling All Readers! Contribute to The Daily Targum's first themed Instagram hashtag collection. Tag photos of your Rutgers bus rides on Instagram using the tag #DTOnTheBus. Your photos may be featured in our print or online editions!
Don't have Instagram? Don't worry! You can also submit photos to photo@dailytargum.com.
@dailytargum
@daily_targum
#dailytargum
OPINIONS
PAGE 8
F EBRUARY 6, 2013
TARGUM PUBLISHING CO. “Serving the Rutgers community since 1869”
144th EDITORIAL BOARD 26 Mine Street New Brunswick, N.J. 08901 (732) 932-2012
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF JOVELLE TAMAYO
EIC@DAILYTARGUM.COM (732) 932-2012 x110
MANAGING EDITOR OLIVIA PRENTZEL
MANAGED@DAILYTARGUM.COM (732) 932-2012 x101
NEWS EDITOR AMY ROWE
NEWS@DAILYTARGUM.COM
OPINIONS EDITOR CHASE BRUSH
OPED@DAILYTARGUM.COM
DESIGN EDITOR HAKAN UZUMCU
DESIGN@DAILYTARGUM.COM
SPORTS EDITOR TYLER BARTO
SPORTS@DAILYTARGUM.COM
INSIDE BEAT EDITOR ZOE SZATHMARY
BEAT@DAILYTARGUM.COM
COPY EDITOR RASHMEE KUMAR
COPY@DAILYTARGUM.COM
MCT CAMPUS
UNIVERSITY EDITOR YASHMIN PATEL
UNIVERSITY@DAILYTARGUM.COM
EDITORIALS
MULTIMEDIA EDITOR LAUREN VARGA
MULTIMEDIA@DAILYTARGUM.COM
ONLINE EDITOR ARTHUR ROMANO
WEBMASTER@DAILYTARGUM.COM
ASSOCIATE DESIGN EDITOR SHAODI HUANG
DESIGN@DAILYTARGUM.COM
Mandatory tuition fees raise concerns
ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR JOEY GREGORY
SPORTS@DAILYTARGUM.COM
ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR JOSH BAKAN
SPORTS@DAILYTARGUM.COM
ASSOCIATE COPY EDITOR ALISSA ZARRO
COPY@DAILYTARGUM.COM
ASSOCIATE INSIDE BEAT EDITOR RYAN SUJURNATH
BEAT@DAILYTARGUM.COM
ASSOCIATE ONLINE EDITOR LISA CAI
WEBMASTER@DAILYTARGUM.COM
EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS DOMENIC RUGGERI, JULIAN CHOKKATTU, SMARANDA TOLOSANO, MATTHEW BOYER, SKYLAR FREDERICK, ALEX MEIER, ALEXA WYBRANIEC, NISHA DATT, SHIRLEY YU CORRESPONDENTS GIANCARLO CHAUX, BRADLY DERECHAILO, AARON FARRAR, HANNAH SCHROER, SHAWN SMITH STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS MARIELLE SUMERGIDO, LIANNE NG, NELSON MORALES, ENRICO CABREDO SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGERS SHANICE O’BRIEN, KEVIN NICOTERA
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
N
JPIRG has historically been a source of controversy at the University because of the mandatory inclusion of its student fee on students’ term bills. While students have the option of opting out of the fee, NJPIRG is still financed by University students on the pretense of addressing the issues facing our student body. In this context, we are forced to question why our student-contributed money is being used in … Arizona? It is a source of discontent for us that NJPIRG money is being attributed to student chapters in other states. In 2010, NJPIRG allotted $120,234 to Arizona PIRG for the purpose of opening up a new student chapter. Two years later, that Arizona student chapter still does not exist, and University students’ money has not primarily gone toward what we expected. While the money goes to support student activism in other states and in the national chapter in Washington, D.C., we feel that this does not
126 College Avenue, Suite 431, New Brunswick, N.J. 08901 (732) 932-7051 Advertising: x601 Fax: (732) 932-0079
Clementi Center benefits LGBTQ youth
BUSINESS MANAGER ASHLEY MAGNO
BUSINESS@DAILYTARGUM.COM (732) 932-7051 x600
MARKETING DIRECTOR ANNA DROOTIN
MARKETING@DAILYTARGUM.COM (732) 932-7051 x604
OPERATIONS MANAGER ELIZABETH KATZ LIZ@DAILYTARGUM.COM
CONTROLLER SIMONE KRAMER SIMONE@DAILYTARGUM.COM
ASSISTANT MARKETING DIRECTOR PAMELA STEIN PSTEIN@DAILYTARGUM.COM
CLASSIFIEDS MANAGER BRITTANY CAPALBO
CLASSIFIEDS@DAILYTARGUM.COM
SENIOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE JOHN MATSON ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES SHELBY ISSERSON, GABRIELLA VIOLA, DANIEL ENGLISH CLASSIFIED ASSISTANTS LOGAN SYKES
PRODUCTIONS DEPARTMENT 126 College Avenue, Suite 431, New Brunswick, N.J. 08901 (732) 932-7051 x622 PRODUCTIONS DIRECTOR MICHAEL POLNASEK
PRO@DAILYTARGUM.COM
CREATIVE SERVICES MANAGER ED HANKS
CREATIVE@DAILYTARGUM.COM
NIGHT PRODUCTIONS MANAGER GARRET BELL
NIGHTPRO@DAILYTARGUM.COM
SENIOR PRODUCTION ASSISTANT COREY PEREZ PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS ROCKY CATANESE, ALYSSA JACOB, MOLLY PRENTZEL, ANTHONY GALASSO
THIS WEEK’S
PENDULUM QUESTION
do University students justice, who allow the NJPIRG fee to remain on their term bills under the impression that they would be benefitting if not their own concerns, then those of New Jersey students as a whole. We would like to see greater transparency about NJPIRG’s activities, especially prior to students’ payment of the student fee. It is unacceptable that we do not know exactly what our money is going toward and how it is supposedly helping our interests. Our University is not the only university capable of funding other PIRG chapters and so should not be held to that responsibility. Our student body’s money should go straight to helping the student body. With the Targum’s referendum coming up this year, we pride ourselves on using student money to directly benefit the students with our services right on campus. We hope that NJPIRG can uphold the same standard.
I
n the tricky, transitor y time between high school and college, students may not always know where to turn for help. The Tyler Clementi Center, which suppor ts coming-of-age youth, aims to bridge that gap here at the University. The Tyler Clementi Higher Education AntiHarassment Act was passed in the Senate Monday. The document requires higher education institutions that receive federal funding to implement antiharassment policies, as defined by each university. The bill will also set up a grant system for the universities to use to enforce the policies. The center itself will ser ve as a sort of safe haven for young people who are in dark times. Victims, bullies and bystanders will be welcomed and informed by the open environment. Though no one person is morally responsible for the troubles gay youths face, the University seems to have received a good portion of the blame in the particular case of former University student Tyler Clementi. The Internet and Facebook are, perhaps, common accomplices in these tragedies. It is important to recognize that such tragedies are not individual occurrences, but warning signs. Since life in the digital age offers limited wiggle
room online, digital footprints have already marked individuals in this technological battle. Those who seek help are celebrated, but appear few and far between. Because, in all honesty, which shy, isolated students are going to put themselves out there by attending a lecture or symposium? This international “call to action” may not reach the right people at all. Conceptually, mental health counseling should be interactive, interdisciplinar y, and shaped through University students, not just faculty. Without activism in the student body, these banal seminars and symposia may miss their mark. In order to keep the LGBTQ dialogue open, we maintain that action is key. Here at the state’s largest research university, incentive for student participation is a building block for any effective organization. If the center wants to achieve equality, it must be per vasive. Students should feel its outreach. So we feel that action shouldn’t depend on the severity of the situation. All situations involving suicide are severe, and there can be no more discrepancy in the matter. The University as a model for national LGBTQ awareness and equality is a surprising feat: Our school is the first to endorse a center of this nature. For the first of its kind, we have high hopes for smoother sailing online.
The Daily Targum’s editorials represent the views of the majority of the 144th editorial board. Columns, cartoons and letters do not necessarily reflect the views of the Targum Publishing Company or its staff.
Do you agree with N.J.’s mandatory healthcare law for college students?
VOTE ONLINE AT DAILYTARGUM.COM UNTIL TUESDAY, FEB. 12 AT 4 P.M. IF YOU HAVE ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS ON THE TOPIC, SEND A LETTER TO THE EDITOR AT OPED@DAILYTARGUM.COM
FEBRUARY 6, 2013
OPINIONS PAGE 9
Bitches ... can we say that? CHRISTINA MILAZZO
I
f you watched the Super Bowl, or spent five minutes on the Internet in the past three days, you know that the 49ers lost, Beyoncé won, and the power went out somewhere along the way. But, according to major online news outlets, something far more sinister and sensational happened: Justin Timberlake called Britney Spears a bitch. At this point, you’re either independently interested enough in celebrity gossip to continue reading, or you’re thinking that I’m a dumb bitch for adding to the commentary on this non-issue. To the former: Let’s just get to the pretty boring specifics. JT said, “Sometimes in life, you think you found the one. But then one day you find out that she’s just some bitch,” before playing his iconic post-jilted-byBritney-jam “Cry Me a River” at a preshow on Sunday, but insists now that he was just speaking on the idea of your ex losing their meaning and becoming a basic acquaintance, not to Brit herself. The end. Pretty much what we already knew, as far as their relationship goes. No harm, no foul. Right?
This is where the latter joins us again. I weapon used far too often by people to am not a dumb bitch, yet I just referred to describe why they don’t like something. It myself as one because I thought you goes like this: 1) I prefer X so 2) the oppomight. I got there first, so I now own that site of X sucks therefore 3) the opposite of insult. It’s no longer insulting. Instead, I X is “insert meaningless negative critique am flippant. Sticks and stones may break here.” So instead of saying why they premy bones, but “bitch” will never hurt me. ferred something or why they didn’t enjoy Or can it? Surely not at Olde Queens its opposite, they said that the opposite is Tavern? when a stranger gets angry I objectively terrible. They said that it’s bad bumped into them, for everyone. or when my roomStating that you mate jokingly tells “That’s not to say that all guys enjoy something is me to get out of the nice. Stating that are assholes. It’s to say the shower already. In you don’t like those scenarios, something is fine, reasonable thing: not all guys with other people I and stating a reaknow well or don’t are anything. Not all girls are son as to why you know at all, the don’t like someanything.” word seems to thing is even betcarr y little or no ter. But to use the meaning. I feel illogical reasoning nothing. Therefore I can tell you that my of the “that sucks” triton to arrive at the feelings aren’t hurt by the word “bitch.” conclusion that whatever you don’t prefer But, my own use of the word has definitely is, in this case, a “bitch,” is pretty ridicuhurt my own feelings before, or at least lous. It’s dumb. Conversely, it hurts you. been destructive to my personal life. In I used to think I didn’t fit in with girls at fact, the word “bitch” is hurtful to every- all. Most of my friends were guys, and I one in one specific phrase that I’ve said, found that I had trouble talking with other heard other females say, and seen most girls. I thought they were mean. I thought males respond to with tacit, silent agree- they were stuck up. I thought a lot of ment: “I get along with guys better. Girls things about certain girls, and then I decidare bitches.” ed that “they,” all girls, were all of those There’s a problem with the reasoning things, which could be summed up effecimplicit to this statement. It’s what we could tively in one word: “bitch.” People acceptcall the “that sucks” triton, a three-pronged ed that. I was a “guy’s girl.”
Health care mandate stirs controversy “If only [the University] had done research instead of just trying to toe the party line. ... Until partisan politics is stopped on both sides, tax payers will continue to lose.” User HeyNav, in response to the 2/4 column:
Abolish American democracy “The rallying cry for our first Revolutionary War was ‘No taxation without Representation.’ The rallying cry for our new revolution should be ‘No Representation without Taxation.’” User Patrick De Haan RC ’82, in response to the 2/1 column:
NRA stance on assault rifle ban flawed “I believe the term assault rifle is similar to arson match, graffiti paint or pollution oil; a mistaken attempt to blame an inanimate object for the act of human.” Read and comment online at dailytargum.com
Follow us on Twitter @targum_ops or find us on the web at dailytargum.com/opinion.
YOUR VOICE The Daily Targum welcomes submissions from all readers. Due to space limitations, letters to the editor must not exceed 400 words. Guest columns and commentaries should be between 500 and 700 words. All authors must include name, phone number, class year and college affiliation or department to be considered for publication. Anonymous letters will not be considered. All submissions are subject to editing for length and clarity. A submission does not guarantee publication. Please submit via email to oped@dailytargum.com by 4 p.m. to be considered for the following day’s publication.
Crissy Milazzo is a School of Arts 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
QUOTE OF THE DAY
ONLINE COMMENTS User Lea81, in response to yesterday’s editorial:
Therein lies the problem, the other reason the “girls are bitches” explanation should not suffice. There’s no such thing as a “guy’s girl,” in the same way that there are so such things as guys who aren’t “like other guys.” That’s not to say that all guys are assholes. It’s to say the reasonable thing: not all guys are anything. Not all girls are anything. Your feelings about people (of both genders) are complicated, the environment you’re in is complicated. If you find that, on the whole, you’re getting along better with one gender, then it probably has to do with an interaction between you, people and your environment. In categorizing others with simplifications like “girls are bitches” or “guys are assholes,” you’re only limiting your own thought process, not the number of good or bad people you meet. In referring to myself as a “dumb bitch,” I may have limited my readership. I may have limited my own thought process to “I am smart, therefore everyone else who differs is dumb.” Or worst of all, I may have actually believed that, even if just for a second, words could really hurt me.
“
The more students find out — the more students want to get involved.
“
HELP YOURSELF
Spencer Klein, president of NJUS and a School of Arts and Sciences senior, on the voter registration campaign. See the story in UNIVERSITY.
PAGE 10
Horoscopes / LINDA C. BLACK
DIVERSIONS Pearls Before Swine
FEBRUARY 6, 2013 STEPHAN PASTIS
Today's Birthday (02/06/13). Your year enters with special grace. April is good for promotion. Stick with the team you have, and avoid speculation until September. Career launches create demand for your talents. Take advantage and give thanks. 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 an 8 — Expect lots of new directives in the next few days. Friends inspire laughter and brilliant ideas, along with the means to realize them. You're exceptionally insightful socially. Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is an 8 — Romance is in the picture; someone is impressed. Travel conditions improve. Invest in expanding your influence. Provide harmony at a group meeting. Share love. Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Today is an 8 — Review your budget, and pay bills today and tomorrow. Invest in your career. Accept creative input from others. Hidden benefits get revealed. Send or receive longdistance messages. Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Today is a 7 — Share the load, but hold on to the responsibility. Accept an unusual invitation. Draw up plans for a shared dream. This can get romantic. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 7 — Fulfill promises you've made. Listen to partners, and put your heads together. Clear instructions are needed. There's plenty of time to refine later. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is an 8 — You're attractive, and attracted, today and tomorrow. Define your terms and establish rapport. Your words are magic today. Family helps with your work. Sidestep a pitfall.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 9 — This week is excellent for interior decoration. Improve living conditions with shrewd bargaining. Get something you've always wanted if you can find it wholesale. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is an 8 — You're extra brilliant and persuasive. Being careful gets you further than recklessness. Take care of family. Allow for contingencies. Finish a study project. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is an 8 — Keep sorting to find the missing clue. Help comes from far away. This phase can be quite profitable. Parking may get tricky. Revel in romance. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 9 — You're stronger today and tomorrow, with high energy. Keep close track of income and prosper. It's a good time to sell. Family benefits. Assertiveness works well now. Avoid thorns. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 7 — Review priorities, and schedule actions. You don't see the entire picture yet. Ask provocative questions, and contemplate potential outcomes. Discover treasure at home. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 9 — Associates provide valuable input, and friends help you advance. Study with passion. You're coming up with great ideas. There's a sense of calm. Imagine health.
Dilbert
Doonesbury
Happy Hour
© 2013, TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES INC.
www.happyhourcomic.com
SCOTT ADAMS
GARRY TRUDEAU
JIM
AND
PHIL
FEBRUARY 6, 2013
DIVERSIONS PAGE 11
Stone Soup
Get Fuzzy
JAN ELIOT
Pop Culture Shock Therapy
DOUG BRATTON
DARBY CONLEY
Non Sequitur
WILEY
Jumble
H. ARNOLD & M. ARGIRION THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME by David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek
REOYF Brevity
GUY & RODD ©2013 Tribune Media Services, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
ARNOY
CAFROT
Over the Hedge
T. L EWIS
AND
M. F RY
Find us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/jumble
Unscramble these four Jumbles, one letter to each square, to form four ordinary words.
GLITHF Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, as suggested by the above cartoon.
A: Yesterday’s
Sudoku
© PUZZLES BY PAPPOCOM
Solution Puzzle #28 2/5/13
Solution, tips and computer program at www.sudoku.com
(Answers tomorrow) Jumbles: HASTY DUNCE TUMBLE ALWAYS Answer: The garbage dump turned the landscape into a — WASTELAND
CLASSIFIEDS
PAGE 12
F EBRUARY 6, 2013 Policies:
How to Place an Ad: 1.Come to Room 431 of the Rutgers Student Center on College Avenue
• NO REFUNDS FOR CHANGES.
2.Mail ad and check to: The Daily Targum 126 College Ave Suite 431 New Brunswick, NJ 08903 Attn: Classified Manager
• 3.00 PER DAY FOR CANCELLATIONS.
3. Email your ad to: classifieds@dailytargum.com
Adoptions • Birthdays • Events Greek Forum • Lost/Found Meetings • Parties • Travel Miscellaneous
Help Wanted • Internship Job/Career Opportunities Services • Volunteers Wanted Wanted • Miscellaneous
Rates: 4.CHARGE IT! Use your over the phone or by coming to our business office in Rm 431 RSC Monday-Thursday 9 a.m.-5p.m., Friday 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
12
Small classified: up to 20 words, each additional word 30¢ per day DEADLINE: 12:00 p.m. one (1) business day prior to publication
1day
3days
5days
10days
$8.00
$7.50/day
$7.00/day
$6.00/day
Student rate–$5.00 per day
Large classified: up to 25 words, $8.50 each additional inch (11 words) DEADLINE: 12:00 p.m. one (1) business day prior to publication
THE DAILY TARGUM
Electronics Items for Sale Items Wanted Wheels
Apartment for Rent House for Rent • House for Sale Room Available • Roommate Wanted Sublet • Miscellaneous
$21.00
$19.00/day
$16.00/day
$14.00/day
University billed accounts–$22.00, Student rate–$12.00 per day
Display classified:
The Daily Targum has not investigated any of the services offered or advertisers represented in this issue. Readers are encouraged to contact the Better Business Bureau of Central New Jersey for information concerning the veracity of questionable advertising. Better Business Bureau of Central NJ 1700 Whitehorse Hamilton Square Rd Trenton, NJ 08690 (609) 588-0808
Typeset with border; contains graphics, logos, etc. Cash Rate–$10.15/column inch • Billed Rate–$12.15/column inch DEADLINE: 3:00 p.m. three (3) business days prior to publication
126 College Ave., Suite 431 New Brunswick, NJ 08903 732-932-7051, x603
The Daily Targum will only be responsible for errors on the first day run; advertisers must call by noon with corrections. Only advertisers with an established credit account may be billed. All advertising is subject to the approval of the marketing director and business manager.
Oppurtunity is knocking: shop consultants wanted. Go to shop.com/makemadloot and click on "yourshopconsultant" to leave your number
The Rutgers Club 199 College Ave.
MISC
New Brunswick, NJ
APARTMENT FOR RENT
08901 Try Indo Palate 7 Spring Street, New Brunswick 08901.
Servers Needed for the
732-745-7771
BIRCHWOOD accepting
Please Apply in Person
2 BR & 4BR apartments available.
between 3:00pm 5:00pm
FREE WIRELESS
Monday through
INTERNET! 272
Thursday
Hamilton St. Apt. 91
Ask for Nancy or Ray
(732) 828-5607 www.thebirchwoods.com
Restaurant experience is
HELP WANTED
Douglass College Area –
preferred but not
Bishop St & Delavan St.
required. Flexible shifts.
5+ bedrooms (732)-494-1914.
Adult Female Model Female models, over 18, needed for adult photo shoots, References are available upon request.
New Brunswick Apartments for rent -
Contact prepleah@aol.com for details. efficiency apartments from 700.00 1
INTERNSHIP
Email prepleah@aol.com
bedrooms from 910.00 and 2 bedrooms from 1,200 all include heat, hot water and
Babysitter needed T, W, & Th from 4-8pm on Busch Campus. Occasional weekend
cooking gas. Excellent Service 1 block Attention Jewish Students: Learn about your
hours. Experience working with infants &
references
required.
go
bb.rutgers.ad@gmail.com
to College. Please call 908-722-7272
heritage. Earn $300. For more information to
rutgersjx.com
or
Terrific 1BR Apartment Spacious, clean, safe, quiet. Easy parking. All utilities
mgoldberg@rutgersjx.com. !!Bartending!!
included. Above professional office.
$250/day potential
Available
immediately.
bloomandbloomdmds@embarqmail.com
JOB/CAREER OPP
No Experience Necessary, Training Available. Age 18+ ok
HOUSE FOR RENT
800-965-6520 ext. 173
Feedback
study
for
Athsma.
Reimbursement for your time.
Earn $1000-$3200 a month to drive our
Single or Double
Free standard asthma care NIH Non-drug clinical trial. 732-235-3919
brand
new
cars
with
ads. Fully renovated
www.EarnDrive.com
athsmaresearch@umdmj.edu
Hiring referendum team leaders. Perfect
Physical Therapy aid position available Monday and Thursday evening shift.
pay. Seeking students looking for leadership
Located in Edison on route 27. Call
Large common area Back porch 5 min walk to College Ave.
experience. Request an application and
dtrefcoordinator@gmail.com
Washer and Dryer Private Parking
part-time job on Rutgers campus. Excellent
send resume to:
House For Rent
Professional or Student
Caroline, 732-777-9733. Send resume to
Non-smoker
therapist@jcpt1.com.
Call Ms. Kim (732) 207-9245
732-932-7051
September Openings.
TARGUM
June, July, August,
a valid ID.
CLASSIFIEDS
applications for Rutgers Club
10% for Rutgers students with
FEBRUARY 6, 2013
SPORTS PAGE 13
WRESTLER
TEMPLATE
Rinaldi sits one win shy of record for most under Goodale
Rutgers’ philosophy places importance in smaller front of press
CONTINUED FROM BACK
CONTINUED FROM BACK
Rinaldi said. “I’ve had the will to succeed at the highest level, but coming out of high school, I guess I’ve had a little bit of a chip on my shoulder, but it’s so long ago that I’m over it now. If I make AllAmerican this year I can put that behind me completely.” All-American status is not the only thing that lies ahead of him. Rinaldi collected his 100thcareer victor y Jan. 20 against Har vard. In total, he has 103 career victories, which placed him one behind former Rutgers wrestler DJ Russo for most wins all-time for a grappler under Goodale. “He might be the best guy to come through here in the past five years, he’s certainly our most consistent guy,” Goodale said. “He’s pretty durable and tough. He doesn’t want to sit out. He’s not into doctors and not into trainers, he just wants to wrestle.” Rinaldi said all of the accolades would be nice, but his goals go higher than that, as he wants to become the second member of his family to earn AllAmerican status. His older brother Jerr y did it twice at Cornell as a 197-pounder. For now, the focus shifts back in the room with three weeks to go before tournament time, a task that will be done with focus by Rinaldi even if he has to get a new head guard. For updates on the Rutgers wrestling team, follow Bradly Derechailo on Twitter @BradlyDTargum.
The Cardinals caused 32 turnovers in the teams’ previous two meetings. Mack and Seagears, Rutgers’ primar y ball handlers, were only responsible for one. The Knights will likely need similar results tonight, when they host the No. 11 Cardinals with an emphasis on breaking Louisville’s persistent pressure. But getting past Louisville’s first wave — Big East preseason Player of the Year Peyton Siva and guard Russ Smith — are only the first of many obstacles, Mack said. “It’s [center Gorgui] Dieng in the back, and Russ and Peyton Siva are still tr ying to back-tap the ball from you,” he said. “You just have to be as careful as possible.” Rutgers’ pressure defense, meanwhile, has received mixed reviews. Mack said the Knights’ onball press defense must improve, while Seagears said remaining focused longer is a priority. Mack said the team has four or five dif ferent pressure packages, all designed to force a faster tempo. “It’s dif ficult to do it sometimes in the Big East because of the fact that you don’t want to give up layups,” Rice said, “but at times you’re going to have to give up some open shots to get the pace in your strength.”
RUN
running as paramount to the Knights generating runs. She thinks the losses of Lindley and Curran may serve as a wake-up call the Knights need to come together and establish consistent production across the board. “This year we don’t have that one huge hitter that we’re always going to look to get it done,” Bragg said. “I think it’s going to give everyone else an opportunity to step up in big situations and come through on their own, and we have 16 girls that can do that.” On the defensive end, sophomore lefthander Alyssa Landrith leads the pitching staff a year after winning Big East Rookie of the Year. Landrith compiled a 2.28 ERA and 113 strikeouts in more than 200 innings of work. She strives for more of the same in her sophomore campaign by keeping opposing hitters off-balance. “As a pitcher, it’s important I recreate myself and make sure I’m not predictable so I can still be effective,” Landrith said. Nelson believes the pitching staff is deeper than it was last year. He highlights the experience of senior pitcher Abbey Houston and the potential of freshman pitcher Dresden Maddox rounding out the staff. On both offense and defense, Nelson thinks the Knights’ mental framework is the biggest adjustment needed this season.
Rutgers looks for more balanced attack in batting lineup CONTINUED FROM BACK average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, homeruns and RBI. She and former outfielder Lindsey Curran accounted for 13 of the team’s 29 homeruns. With a loss of power from the lineup, Nelson believes the key on offense will be depth throughout the batting order, as opposed to a unit that was more top-heavy last season. “We have to hit one through nine,” Nelson said. “We have to hit .250 to .290 instead of having a few people in the high .100s. We have to be able to move runners a little bit better. We didn’t play the small ball game very well last year.” This philosophy is easier said than done, but Nelson affirms he has the personnel to fulfill it. He notes that several of the Knights gained a valuable year of experience last season, and that the team has a handful of promising freshmen. Junior outfielder Loren Williams, who batted leadof f for part of last season but went into a slump and dealt with injuries, figures to be a key catalyst on offense. Nelson said he expects her to be healthy entering this season. Bragg also stresses small ball and the utilization of speed and base
For updates on the Rutgers softball team, follow Greg Johnson on Twitter @GJohnsonTargum.
Head coach Mike Rice said he did not think about re-ordering his full-court pressure defense because of leaving smaller guards exposed at the back end. LIANNE NG, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER The front of Rice’s press — the 5-foot-9 Mack and 6-foot-1 Seagears among others — will not likely clog too many passing lanes and force deflections. Rice said he never considered changing the structure of his press — namely putting longer wings at the top — because of its ef fect on the back end. “If you’re going to have smaller guys in the secondar y, they’re just going to throw it over their heads, and then it’s a jailbreak,” he said. “We can’t
do it as well or as consistently as [Louisville] because [of] some of [our] personnel and cer tainly the shot blocker in the back. We can’t give up layup after layup after layup and think we’re going to be successful.” So Rice will settle for speeding up the tempo, which he will likely caution against Louisville, which thrives on it. Mack said he thinks Rice trusts the team to press more this year, although its pressure unit
remains a work in progress, specifically its rotations. “We’re getting there,” Seagears said. Rice said the team’s goal is to have a winning Februar y, although what that amounts to remains arbitrar y. “As a coach,” Rice said, “you always have to think you’re getting better.” For updates on the Rutgers men’s basketball team, follow Tyler Barto on Twitter @TBartoTargum.
FEBRUARY 6, 2013
SPORTS PAGE 15 GYMNASTICS RUTGERS SETS STANDARD TO TEAM SCORE OF 195.000
Sophomore Luisa Leal recorded a 9.825 score on the balance beam, as did senior Emma-Rose Trentacosti and freshman Jenna Williams in Saturday’s quad meet at the Livingston Recreation Center. Rutgers’ score of 48.850 on the beam was the third best in school history. NISHA DATT
Knights aim to sustain high-level performances BY GREG JOHNSON STAFF WRITER
Now that the Rutgers gymnastics team has hit the 195.000 score mark it sought all season, the biggest question becomes how the Scarlet Knights sustain the success and prove it was not a fluke. The Knights rode their home crowd to their best performance of the season Saturday, but now they return to the road for three weeks. Rutgers does not have the luxur y of competing inside the Livingston Recreation Center again until March 2, and the possible impact cautions the Knights. “We just have to remember what mindset we were in when
we were in that moment,” said senior Danielle D’Elia. D’Elia said the future bodes well if the Knights continue beating their scores every week and not settling for what they achieved the previous week. Confidence has been a key to improvement all season, but before Saturday, the Knights had no proof of what their talent could produce. They now have a tangible blueprint for hovering around a 195.000. “It was a barrier. You know you have that glass ceiling that we had to break through, and we broke through it,” said head coach Louis Levine. “And so hopefully that leads to the confidence that we need, and [we] can
carry that confidence through in the meets on the road.” Now that barrier has been elevated.
“You know you have that glass ceiling that we had to break through, and we broke through it.” LOUIS LEVINE Head Coach
Levine finally found a lineup producing at a high level, but he said he could implement minor changes moving forward.
MEN’S BASKETBALL OFFSEASON WORK AIDS GUARD’S SUCCESS
Mack alters routine at line BY TYLER BARTO SPORTS EDITOR
Myles Mack, the nation’s thirdbest free throw shooter, said Tuesday he changed his free throw delivery in the offseason to remain focused on the net. The Rutgers men’s basketball team’s sophomore point guard leads the Big East in free throw percentage at 93.8 percent — three percentage points higher than teammate Eli Carter, No. 2 in the Big East. “I just take one dribble and shoot … keep my focus level at the rim more so I won’t have to be thinking about all this other stuff, like dribbling and flipping the ball,” Mack said. Mack said he came up with the idea, which has improved his free throw percentage 15 points from his freshman season. “I used to [dribble] three times then I flipped it,” he said. “It took
my concentration away, so I just did one dribble and just shoot it.” Mack has gone 19-for-19 from the free throw line during Big East play, accounting for more than 16 percent of his points in the team’s nine league games. He has scored far more efficiently than Carter, who has improved his free throw percentage by more than 20 points as a sophomore. Mack is shooting 50.9 percent from the field while taking 8.7 shots per game, nearly four fewer than Carter, who leads the team with 15.2 points per game. Head coach Mike Rice said the Knights worked on shooting, among other areas, since their last game Jan. 30 at Cincinnati. Rice lamented the team’s scheduling earlier in the Big East season, when the Knights had consistently less time to prepare for games than their opponents. “I think it’s very important,” Rice said of the practice time. “We’ll know
in the next three games, to be honest with you.” Part of Rice’s assessment likely revolved around ball handling. The Knights rank 13th in turnover margin and No. 14 in assist-to-turnover ratio in Big East play. Louisville, whom Rutgers hosts tonight, leads the league in steals during Big East play with 10.8, two more than the next best total. Louisville forced 14 Rutgers turnovers last year, including five from Carter. “Their guards never seem to be tired,” Rice said. “[Peyton Siva and Russ Smith] are the quickest two maybe in college basketball, the quickest backcourt. And they have one of the best shot blockers in the country in Gorgui Dieng.” For updates on the Rutgers men’s basketball team, follow Tyler Barto on Twitter @TBartoTargum.
“You don’t want to mess with a good thing, but at the same time, hopefully 195.000 is only the start of where we want to be going and not the pinnacle of where we’re going,” Levine said. Rutgers also believes its fifth meet ser ved as a culmination of the hard work it has put in all season. The Knights feel they have no reason to believe their production will decrease. “I think it’s just that ever yone has been working really hard in the gym ever y single day, and it’s paying of f,” D’Elia said. “We’re competing more and ever yone’s getting a lot more comfor table, and it’s just all finally coming together.”
Junior Luisa Leal said Rutgers’ loss Jan. 26 at Penn State served as a crucial turning point for the team. The disappointment of failure has since fueled the Knights and brought them even closer, she said. “I think we’re going to stay in that [195.000] range or even get better,” Leal said. “The hard part is getting it for the first time, but after you’re there, then you know you’re capable of doing that. Now we have the confidence, we know we can get those scores and we know it wasn’t just luck.” For updates on the Rutgers gymnastics team, follow Greg Johnson on Twitter @GJohnsonTargum.
TOP TO BOTTOM Rutgers head softball coach Jay
GAME OF ADJUSTMENTS Sophomore point guard Myles
NO FLUKE The Rutgers gymnastics team
Nelson stresses a consistent lineup instead of counting on one or two strong hitters. PAGE 13
Mack of the Rutgers men’s basketball team altered his free throw technique in the offseason. PAGE 15
hopes to sustain its performance from last week’s season-high score. PAGE 15
TWITTER: #TARGUMSPOR TS DAILYTARGUM.COM/SPOR TS TARGUMSPOR TS.WORDPRESS.COM
SPORTS
QUOTE OF THE DAY “We have to get to the next level. There’s a clear level between the top of the conference and ... the rest.” — Rutgers head softball coach Jay Nelson on the Knights’ season aspirations
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2013
WRESTLING
MEN’S BASKETBALL NO. 11 LOUISVILLE-RUTGERS, TONIGHT, 7:30 P.M.
Experienced wrestler stays goal-oriented BY BRADLY DERECHAILO CORRESPONDENT
Toward the end of practice yesterday, Dan Rinaldi was paired with junior 197-pounder Dan Siedenburg, one weight class up from the 184-pound senior. Seidenburg was able to get a clean move on him, after which Rinaldi emphatically tossed his head guard as he went to cool down in the locker room. “Sorry about that,” Rinaldi said jokingly. “I get competitive sometimes.” The competiveness is evident in how the Lodi, N.J., native has conducted himself in the Scarlet Knights’ wrestling room for the past five seasons, showing disappointment in his performance despite the obvious weight advantage for Seidenburg. “I love him. He’s a fier y competitor, and it’s a lot of hard work,” Goodale said. “He’s been ver y consistent for us for the past five years, and he’s frustrated. He truly wants to win and that’s probably why he will be successful no matter what he does, so we will see.” His ability to perform on top, what Goodale calls the “X” factor for success on the collegiate level, is what drew the coach to bring Rinaldi into the program back in 2007. Whatever Rinaldi has dealt with until now he insists is behind him. “My work ethic has always been there,” SEE
WRESTLER ON PAGE 13
Sophomore point guard Myles Mack defends Connecticut’s Ryan Boatright on Jan. 27. The Knights have to handle arguably the Big East’s best full-court pressure team tonight against Louisville. NELSON MORALES, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Cards illustrate press template BY TYLER BARTO SPORTS EDITOR
The only thing more telling than watching Louisville’s patented full-court pressure defense is seeing its results. The Cardinals rank first in the Big East in steals per game in conference play, are No. 2 in turnover margin and their leader in steals in Big East play is 6foot-6, 250-pound forward Chane Behanan.
“You can’t really grasp it until you’re in the situation,” said sophomore point guard Myles Mack of the Rutgers men’s basketball team. “On TV, it looks rough. I bet you in person it’s even rougher.” Louisville has provided the Scarlet Knights their share of rough moments. Head coach Mike Rice was ejected from last year’s game at the KFC Yum! Center. The Knights also lost, 55-37, in likely the lowest point of a low 2010-2011 season.
Louisville’s high-pressure, high-energy defense is mostly responsible. “I can’t even explain how dangerous it is,” said sophomore point guard Jerome Seagears. “This might be the reason they were No. 1 in the country at one point. They force so many turnovers, they get so many easy buckets, they get out in transition.” SEE
TEMPLATE ON PAGE 13
SOFTBALL KNIGHTS LOOK TO EXPAND UPON RECENT BIG EAST SUCCESS
Rutgers seeks deeper postseason run BY GREG JOHNSON STAFF WRITER
The Rutgers softball team had qualified for the Big East tournament three years in a row for the first time in team history. But three consecutive times, the Scarlet Knights have fallen in the first round. Rutgers feels a sense of urgency this season to take a leap forward as a program. “We have to get to the next level,” said
Senior 184-pounder Dan Rinaldi owns 103 career collegiate victories. ENRICO CABREDO, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
head coach Jay Nelson. “There’s a clear level between the top of the conference and No. 5 through the rest of the conference.” Led by four seniors, the Knights come in with a mindset firmly seeking to move past a postseason barrier that has halted the team’s championship aspirations repeatedly. “This is my fourth year, and I’ve had the same result every year,” said senior middle infielder Ashley Bragg. “I think for us, especially the seniors, we want to improve even
EXTRA POINT
NHL SCORES New York R. New Jersey
1 3
Toronto Washington
3 2
Pittsburgh New York I.
4 2
Los Angeles Columbus
4 2
Tampa Bay Philadelphia
1 2
Buffalo Ottawa
3 4
NICOLE SCOTT, upon qualifying for the Big East Championships, placed first for the Rutgers diving team in the 3-meter dive and second in the 1-meter dive during each of the last three meets.
more and take this a step further. We as a team honestly believe we can win the Big East Championship, and that’s our main goal.” But as Rutgers sets its sights on that goal this season, it does so without former third baseman and best hitter Brittney Lindley, who graduated last spring. Lindley led the team in several offensive categories last season, notably batting SEE
RUN ON PAGE 13
RUTGERS SPORTS CALENDAR MEN’S BASKETBALL
TENNIS
WOMEN’S TRACK
MEN’S TRACK
Louisville
at Lehigh
Valentine’s Invitational
Valentine’s Invitational
Tonight, 7:30 p.m. RAC
Tomorrow, 3 p.m. Bronx
Friday Boston
Friday Boston