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U. Senate body approves two concept plans USSA, PIRG push to include opt-out fees on term bill BY ALEX MEIER ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
The Rutgers University Student Assembly hosted University President Robert L. Barchi’s first town hall last Thursday with members of the University community. Barchi’s extended speech left student groups such as Students for Justice in Palestine and the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws unable to voice their concerns during the question-and-answer session. NELSON MORALES, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
RUSA town hall leaves questions unanswered BY HANNAH SCHROER CORRESPONDENT
University President Robert L. Barchi intended last Thursday’s town-hall style meeting to include the community voice, but many University students believe their perspectives were left unnoticed.
During the meeting, an assistant to Barchi alerted him to end the meeting before 9:00 p.m., leaving many students’ questions and concerns unanswered. But the determined University chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws rushed toward the
front of the room, asking Barchi to listen to their viewpoint. Rutgers University Student Assembly President John Connelly pounded his gavel and called for order, which interrupted NORMLs’ efforts. Joel Salvino, president of the University’s chapter of NORML, said his organization was on the event’s
speakers list. He believes Barchi intentionally avoided their concerns, especially since he extended his scheduled speech from 30 minutes to 45 minutes. “Here’s a man who’s an expert at stalling, an expert at filibustering,” he said. “We weren’t surprised with SEE
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Q&A with Seth Meyers BY YASHMIN PATEL STAFF WRITER
Seth Meyers is famous for the “Saturday Night Live” sketch “Weekend Update,” which pokes fun at current events, trends and politics. After Rutgers University Programming Association’s “An Evening with Seth Meyers” last Thursday, the Daily Targum sat down with the comedian to discuss ad-libbing, hotdog toppings and eating dinner with the first lady. Daily Targum: How do you come up with the material for “Weekend Update?” Seth Meyers: We have three joke writers, [one] of them myself and they’re just like constantly crawling through the news through the course of the week. … There are about 400 jokes that get written for like the 12 that air.
That’s in one week, so they each write about 30-40 jokes a day, each person, and then I read them all on Friday, and we cut them down to ultimately about 12. DT: Do you have any side projects that you’re working on or know what you want to do after “Saturday Night Live?” SM: I don’t know what I want to do after “SNL.” … I’ll be doing my stand up. But I’m working on a cartoon right now for Hulu … it’s going to be more like a superhero cartoon. DT: Do you think you’re funny? SM: I think I’m all right. DT: If you weren’t a comedian, what would you be? SM: I don’t know, gainfully unemployed. DT: What do you do when you get writer’s block? Do you get writer’s block? SEE
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The Rutgers University Programming Association featured comedian Seth Meyers last Thursday at the State Theatre in New Brunswick. SHIRLEY YU, ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
The University Senate approved two concept plans Friday on the Rutgers-Newark campus to put optout fees for New Jersey Public Interest Research Group and United States Student Association on the student term bill. NJPIRG is funded by opt-out fees, meaning the bill-payer can choose whether he or she wants to financially support the outside organization. If an organization outside the University wants to include their fee on the term bill, the Senate’s Students Affairs Committee must review their concept plan every three years. NJPIRG’s plan passed unanimously and only two members abstained their vote for USSA at last Friday’s meeting at RutgersNewark, said Kristine Baffo, cochair of the Student Affairs Committee on the senate. University President Robert L. Barchi must sign off the concept plan and the following semester the organization must hold a referendum. To pass a referendum, more than 25 percent of University students need to vote and the majority of those need to vote yes, said Pavel Sokolov, a Senate member. Sokolov, a Rutgers Business School junior, said he hopes both plans pass through referendum. “I personally believe both provide a lot of value for the University, especially in the development of the student body. I’ll be very happy if Barchi signs off.” But during his town-hall meeting last Thursday, Barchi expressed discontent with opt-out fees, stating that outside groups do not always agree with all students’ opinions and those who wish to support these groups should opt-in financially. Sokolov believes the opt-out option addresses this concern. “Well, if you actually have the strong feelings, you might as well opt-out,” he said. “I understand his concerns are valid.” Sokolov said RUSA and other student groups plan to provide
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Wednesday, Feb. 27 Rutgers University March of Dimes hosts “Bundles of Joy” at 8 p.m. in the Livingston Student Canter. Participants will wrap baskets of supplies for parents and family of premature babies staying in the hospital, including toothbrushes, hand towels, hand sanitizer. The event is free and food and drink will be provided.
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LGBT center focuses on allies Center for Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities helps U. community understand sexuality, gender issues BY CARLETT SPIKE CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Nina Duong, a member of Rutgers Student Life, said while lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and queer people face oppression daily, the University is taking steps to make them feel more at home. “I personally identify as a lesbian female here on campus. And just sitting in [the] back there and seeing the number of allies that are here just makes me feel like this community is really welcoming,” said Duong, a graduate student in the School of Education. One of these steps, the Safe(R) Space program, hosted by the Center for Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities on Friday at the Livingston Student Center, attracted students and faculty interested in staying informed about current LGBTQ issues. “We have it open to all students and faculty because we think it’s really important to have a shared language here on campus,” said Jenny Kurtz, director of the center. At the beginning of the session, each attendee gave both their name and their preferred pronoun.
Zaneta Rago, assistant director at the center, said asking preferred pronouns in the beginning of a conversation eliminates any need to make assumptions about others. But Rago said while knowing terminology creates an understanding of the general location of a person’s identity, it may not give all the details that a full address would. Linnea Dickson, assistant vice-chair for Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Psychology, said Rago’s assessment was accurate. “We tend to think, well that’s the word and that’s the definition,” Dickson said. “I like the idea that she acknowledged that these are fluid terms that are always changing and even when it’s not changing, each person may have their own take on it.” The training included various group activities to help attendees better understand the issues LGBTQ students face on a daily basis. Duong said she made a list of what she calls “the four I’s of sexual oppression” to apply them to LGBTQ issues at the event. “[Transforming] the four I’s of oppression: ideological oppression, institutional oppression, internalized oppression
and interpersonal oppression … to issues faced by LGBTQ students was really interesting,” Duong said. Duong said the fight involves not only the LGBTQ community but also ever yone who cares about human rights. “We are not going to be able to end homophobia by ourselves, and it is a big deal that our allies really take a part of this movement,” she said. “I think this is the first step, by going to something like this and educating yourself on what are the challenges facing the LGBTQ community.” Rago said the environment the University creates plays a large role in LGBTQ issues. “We at the center are not the only folks doing this work because we cannot and should not be the only ones who are up to date on LGBTQ issues,” Rago said. “We need to make sure that there are people in ever y corner of the University who can help students feel comfortable.” The Center for Social Justice and LGBT Communities hosts the sessions on the last Friday of ever y month, but will expand the program to include a training session for graduate students interested in becoming program facilitators.
The Center for Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities hosted a training session Friday at the Livingston Student Center for students interested in LGBTQ issues. LIANNE NG, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
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University President Robert L. Barchi said he supports federal action at last Thursday’s town hall, hosted by the Rutgers University Student Assembly. NELSON MORALES, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
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it. We were disappointed, but weren’t surprised.” Salvino, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, said NORML wanted Barchi to listen to a proposed amendment to the University’s code of conduct, which states that students found possessing less than two ounces of marijuana on University property will not be reported to the police, and instead will be sent to Alcohol and Drug counseling. Currently, University students arrested for possession of marijuana lose federal financial aid, he said. “We want to keep the police out of the dormitories for marijuana possession,” he said. “We think it should be treated just as underage alcohol consumption — it is just as illegal but treated completely differently … If you’re [a] convicted rapist, you won’t lose your federal aid,” he said. But Salvino said he does not believe that Barchi and University administrators will take NORML seriously. “They’re trying to marginalize and laugh at us … kids are dropping out of school because of simple marijuana possession,” he said. The 9:00 p.m. deadline also stopped members of Students for Justice in Palestine from voicing their perspectives, said Mohammad Barakat, a group member. “We were more disappointed with how the president handled the overall event, not just for our group, but for all groups involved,” he said. SJP wanted to ask Barchi to take a firm position in support of human rights, said SJP President Aman Sharifi. “As New Jersey’s state University, Rutgers must take every step to insure [that] all people’s rights and dignity are upheld,” said Sharifi, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. But even those who spoke felt the way Barchi structured the meeting left many open-ended questions and indicated that student organizations need to work hard to meet and have in-depth conversations with the University president about student issues, said Giancarlo Tello, a Rutgers-Newark College of Arts and Sciences junior. “I think we figured out he’s going to be ver y much a politi-
cian about these issues,” he said. Tello, an undocumented immigrant unable to receive instate tuition, urged Barchi to show support for the In-State Tuition Act in writing. Although Barchi actively supports federal action, he asserted that undesirable consequences might be the result of passing state bills A1659 and S2355, which would grant in-state tuition for students who attended a New Jersey high school for at least three years and graduated. John Connelly, president of the Rutgers University Student Assembly, said he agrees with Barchi’s stance that current laws waste human potential by preventing undocumented immigrants from receiving in-state tuition. But he said the president did not provide an expansive explanation for his reasoning, and his stance does not match up with his previous statements. During the meeting, Barchi said the bills inactively rest on the state docket, but Tello said they are active and the Rutgers University Tuition Equality Coalition and other statewide coalitions have cosponsors for the bills. Barchi also claimed the bills will not provide students with federal aid. Tello said 14 other states passed similar legislation without facing challenges from federal law, so his claim should not factor into the University’s decision to sign in favor of the bills. “I don’t know how that could be a concern when it’s not something that’s going to be a legitimate issue,” he said. Margarita Rosario, a member of the Rutgers University Tuition Equality Coalition, said although the state legislature will not grant undocumented students access to federal aid, it will give them in-state tuition rates and state aid. “A lot of students [in general] don’t receive federal aid but they do receive state aid,” said Rosario, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore. But despite the negative feedback, Connelly said Barchi’s presence marked the beginning of an important dialogue with students. He said he appreciates Barchi’s push to involve the students in the University’s strategic planning process and search for new upperlevel administrators. Connelly said he looks forward to having a private conversation with Barchi to further understand his perspective. “I look forward to getting him to clarify his position,” he said.
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PLANS Baffo says USSA’s plan harder to pass since it is new CONTINUED FROM FRONT Barchi with further information detailing how these groups will benefit the University. “I’m sure after we work with him he will be more amicable and understanding,” he said. Barchi also acknowledged that he believes USSA is a political group that may act against the views of several students, but Baffo said the organizations fight for the interests of all students, such as protecting Pell Grants. “From my knowledge, it is the oldest student organization, and it’s always been in the interest of students,” said Baffo, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore. “I can understand how he can have concerns because he wants to know what he is signing is geared toward student interests.” Since USSA’s concept plan is new, Baffo said it would have more difficulty getting Barchi to approve. “Its harder to get rid of something that’s been here rather than something that hasn’t necessarily started,” she said. NJPIRG’s current presence in the University will help its plan pass, Sokolov said. “I also think that PIRG has such a good support base,” he said. “I’m sure they’ll be able to make their case as well.” The Senate also charged recommendations to the report that
dictates how the University president is evaluated, said Sam Berman, the New Brunswick student delegate for the Senate Executive Committee. The president is evaluated every six years, and more than 25 percent of the University community sign a petition to trigger an early evaluation, said Berman, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. The report establishes how to form the committee that conducts the evaluations, detailing how it selects faculty members, Berman said. But Berman said the end of the report bluntly brushes aside how students are selected — stating that student involvement on the committee is optional. The change eliminated this vague language and mandated that the evaluation committee must include students, he said. The Senate also discussed Massive Open Online Courses and passed a series of recommendations on how to proceed with exploring the option, Berman said. MOOCs would provide free, noncredit education to the public, Sokolov said. Baffo said many Universities are moving toward providing MOOCs. “Rutgers was looking at that to be competitive with other universities,” she said. Sokolov said does not believe online education can replace classroom learning, but it can benefit certain demographics. “If students have a passion to learn and doesn’t have the time, resources or commitment, it’s always an avenue,” he said.
CHARITY WHEELS Khalia Goodwin, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, participated in the Wheelchair Relay Race yesterday at the College Avenue Gym, hosted by Rutgers Empowering Disabilities to raise awareness for people with disabilities. Proceeds of the event go to the Douglass Developmental Disabilities Center. JOVELLE TAMAYO, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
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MEYERS Meyers says his favorite show is “Breaking Bad” CONTINUED FROM FRONT SM: I do get writer’s block all the time. I think it’s important to get up [and] walk around. I think it’s good to stop writing while you have a lot of stuff to write — so that time hopefully you could sit down and have a couple things ready to go. DT: How much do you ad-lib? SM: It depends. It depends on the house on any given night, and like if you feel like there’s something that they’re going with you in a way that you feel they want to hear more about it, that sort of dictates if I ad-lib. DT: What’s the dumbest thing you did in college? SM: The dumbest thing I did in college — I did a lot of dumb things in college. I guess like there were a few times we drove home from bars where there were too many people in the car, so I’d just get offered to get in the trunk. It was probably not too smart. DT: What was it like hosting the White House Correspondents’ dinner? SM: It was good. You just want it to go well. You know I feel like a lot of people are paying attention and people have been great, and people have been not-so-great, and you want to end up on the right side of that ledger. DT: What was it like to meet the president? SM: Well it was exciting. It was mostly like weird to me knowing that you have to tell
Saturday Night Live’s Seth Meyers entertained a packed crowd at the State Theatre last Thursday, which was hosted by the Rutgers University Programming Association as a part of their “An Evening with Seth Meyers” comedy show. SHAWN SMITH
jokes right in front of them. I was very nervous. My biggest memory of the night was having … to eat with the first lady — I sat next to the first lady and ate next to her so I spent 90 minutes worried about my table manners. I was worried if I was using the right forks and stuff. DT: Soup, salad or breadsticks? SM: Soups, you caught me in the winter. … If it were summer I probably would have said salads. DT: Are you superstitious? SM: I’m a little superstitious. I
won’t walk underneath a ladder if I could avoid it. DT: How many hours of the news do you watch? SM: I think it gets pretty repetitive, so I [like to try and] keep it to five if I can. DT: Who do you think is funnier, Tina Fey or Amy Poehler? SM: Oh I — I think they are equally funny. It’s like watching gods fight. DT: What’s the most frequently played song on your MP3 player?
SM: “Mr. Brightside” by The Killers. DT: Are there any movies that made you cry? SM: There are so many movies that made me cry. I cry a lot at movies. I’m a crier. Stuff gets me all the time. DT: What’s your favorite TV show? SM: I’m going to go with “Breaking Bad.” DT: Do you think TV shows are getting better or worst? SM: I think the last 10 years
has been the greatest it’s ever been. I just hope it can maintain it. DT: What scares you the most? SM: Heights. DT: What do you like on your hot dog? Do you like hot dogs? SM: I like hot dogs. I would have it with mustard, relish and like crispy onions. DT: Do you and your brother get into a lot of fights? SM: We’re great. We’re like best friends. We never fight.
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Researchers receive $10.1 million grant BY INGRID PAREDES CONTRIBUTING WRITER
A new grant from the National Institute of Health may help University researchers come closer to a cure for the HIV virus. The NIH awarded the $10.1 million grant to the Department of Chemistr y and Chemical Biology professors and Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine researchers Edward Arnold, Joseph Marcotrigiano, Roger Jones and Ronald Levy earlier this month. The researchers work with structure-based drug design in their laboratories on Busch campus. Their method examines how drugs interact with proteins, said Joe Bauman, a post-doctorate at the CABM. At the center, Bauman said his lab group screens small molecules to develop new compounds that can inhibit the effect of a disease. Anti-HIV research was one of the first applications of structurebased drug design. The idea is to attack its proteins responsible for replication — and particularly reverse transcriptase and HIV protease, Arnold said. Reverse transcriptase converts viral RNA to DNA, said Dishaben V. Patel, a graduate student at the Ernesto Mario School of Pharmacy
who works at the CABM. Viral DNA eventually infects the host. Arnold said his team and the late Dr. Paul Janssen of Janssen Pharmaceuticals have already developed two FDA-approved drugs that targeted reverse transcriptase, a protein in the HIV virus that makes it difficult to fight. “While the drugs worked against most strains of HIV, resistance did occur,” he said. “The virus can change and lose the ability to be blocked by a given drug.” With the new funding, the team hopes to better attack the issue of resistance, he said. HIV protease, meanwhile, makes the replication of the DNA possible, Marcotrigiano said. While the CABM focuses on reverse transcriptase, the researchers’ partners at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., study HIV protease. This cooperative effort will hopefully lead to faster discovery of more effective drugs. Steve Tuske, a research associate at the CABM, said he examines how drugs interact with each other. To create an effective drug, the center must know how individual drugs interact with each other, Tuske said. That is a key part of structure-based drug design. But before the researchers can test any drugs, they must
Dishaben V. Patel, a graduate assistant at the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, is a part of the research team working to find a cure for HIV. PAUL SOLIN first synthesize HIV’s proteins, Marcotrigiano said. Once they produce the proteins in HIV, they can study them in isolation. “[Anti-viral] drugs must be made from a combination of different drugs for different proteins that knock down replication,” Marcotrigiano said. At Marcotrigiano’s laborator y, he and University alumna Jillian Whidby work on protein synthesis. The two developed a new way that allows them to produce a lot of challenging and difficult proteins that have not been done anywhere else, Marcotrigiano said. “Making proteins is very difficult, but you can’t really observe structural biological systems [like
virus structures] without them,” he said. They have already found costeffective ways to produce many proteins that allow researchers to build models necessary for structurebased drug design, he said. “That will be our most important contribution to the grant,” Whidby said. Marcotrigiano said researchers found the individual parts of the HIV virus, but have yet to figure out how the domains fit together. “Unfortunately, there are just too many missing pieces from the HIV structural puzzle,” Marcotrigiano said. “This is a largely unexplored area.” This is not a problem just for HIV, but also for bacterial infections and cancer, Arnold said.
“Some of the kind of things that we learn through research in one system has implications for broader disease problems,” he said. Whidby said the researchers kept coming to Marcotrigiano because he could make the proteins in new ways. “It’s important to think outside of the box and come up with new ways to produce them — otherwise we can’t study them in isolation,” she said. Arnold said despite the challenges, new technology will help the researchers make advances toward better, more cost-effective drugs. “It is challenging,” he said. “A lot of scientific discipline involves creativity. Each person brings their own training, their own personality, to the problem.”
Physics professors make developments in flexible electronics BY ANDREW RODRIGUEZ CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Electronics have been getting thinner and smaller for decades, but now there is a new characteristic to expect in devices — flexibility. The work of University scientists aims to change rigid tools such as calculators, e-readers, watches and other electronics. Vitaly Podzorov, an associate professor in the Depar tment of Physics, said he, along with researchers Hee Taek Yi and Szu-Ying Wang, are making strides in flexible
organic electronics. The group explores the conductive behavior of organic materials, which are mainly made of carbon and hydrogen, Podzorov said. He said his group is trying to utilize the beneficial properties of the organic materials they know work already. Podzorov said the softness and flexibility of the materials is because of the weak interactions between atoms, named Van der Waals interactions. “This only results in mechanical flexibility. They are still very durable devices,” he said.
Vitaly Podzorov, associate professor in the Department of Physics, and Hee Taek Yi, post-doctoral student in the Department of Physics research flexible electronics. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY ANDREW RODRIGUEZ
The flexibility of the device is related to its thickness. Podzorov’s group uses a necessary layer of insulation that is 40 times thinner than a human hair, said Yi, a postdoctoral student in the Department of Physics. “When I first joined the group, we had a time-consuming process for creating components. I developed a method that makes flexible electrical components very easily,” Yi said. He said they changed the methods used to form these materials, including creating a vacuum to form the desired component. “It’s flexible, easy to make and cheap,” said Wang, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Chemistry. “It may have many applications based on people’s needs.” The devices turned out to be very flexible and were easy to test, Podzorov said. They first made working devices on these flexible substrates using commercially available plastic mylar films. “The thing is that we’re the first to experiment with flexible semiconductors,” he said. A semiconductor is the backbone of modern electronic components. It is traditionally made from hard metals like silicon oxide or magnesium, he said. “Before us, people were using hard substrates because they’re commercially available and conveniently flat,” he said. He said silicon is found easily in the earth, but costly to process. In processing, the scientists need hightemperature furnaces,
high-pressure vacuums and considerably expensive equipment. What makes silicon semiconductors expensive is the purification process, he said. Keeping it pure is simple. “You can kick Silicon with your foot and nothing would happen,” he said. “You can wash it in acetone, and it’s as good as new.” Nobody understands the conductive organics yet because they are hard to maintain, he said. “It’s very easy to spoil an organic sample. Many of them oxidize or degrade easily. We’re trying to work with more stable systems by creating our own,” he said. Physical behaviors of conductive materials are very specific and somewhat predictable, he said. What they’ve discovered through experiments is the electron behavior in organic materials resembles that of inorganic materials. “There are many groups that do computational studies on this. We don’t do this. What is more valuable for us is to experimentally show something in an unambiguous way,” he said. The researchers are trying to design clear-cut experiments that make physical mechanisms clear, he said. “What I like to do is something very new. It is much less explored and that makes working with new materials exciting,” he said. He said there is no clear consensus on many physical behaviors, such as energy transport in organic materials. In his experiments, Podzorov
said he binds an electron with a metal and migrates this pair, called an exiton, into an organic material, which leads to emission of energy in the form of a photon. The hope is to create organic materials that have simple and low processing needs, he said. Researchers hope they would eventually learn to conduct with only one molecule. “We’re trying to figure everything out about organic materials. We’re not worried about the commercial-end of things, we are a physics department,” he said. There is a separate experiment dedicated to testing the wear and tear of a device, he said. “We try to find the optimal condition of organic semiconductors,” Wang said. “We need to fully understand them before we put them in devices.” One trade-off is that organic materials transfer electricity less efficiently than traditional inorganic materials, he said. “This is compensated by specific applications, such as flexibility, inexpensive processing, and self-generated light emission,” Podzorov said. Podzorov said they do not want to replace inorganic materials, but improve on some existing products. “We’re not trying to replace silicon. This is important to understand. We’re trying to occupy some niche of applications that silicon is not doing very well on,” Podzorov said. “It’s clear that organic semiconductors won’t be able to beat silicon. And they don’t have to.”
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ou saw this editorial coming. We had high While the principle behind not supporting the bills expectations for University President Robert L. seems unfair because it lands on the shoulders of one Barchi’s town hall meeting last week, and those specific group of people, we are unfortunately maneuexpectations disappointingly fell flat. We feel that the presvering a social establishment that is the result of laws ident’s responses to students’ concerns seemed unaffectthat came into being a long time ago. Though this situaed and impersonal, especially after a series of personal tion should not have come to fruition in the first place, testimonials from the University community on issues we now have to decide how to address it in the least that matter to them. However, the response that was most damaging way possible; and, rather than taking a piounsatisfactory to us was that pertaining to in-state tuition neering role in assuaging it, the University is instead for undocumented students. choosing to remain apprehensive about the financial We’ve already made it clear how we feel about this outcome if such a change were to occur. issue in an editorial from Nov. 13, 2012 on New Jersey It is estimated that there are 60,000 young illegal United Students’ efforts to garner support for the bills, immigrants in the state. These are residents that are curwhich would allow undocumented N.J. students to pay rently attending or are about to apply for college, and the the same tuition rates as N.J. citpassage of the tuition equality izens. As it stands, the current bills may become a serious “It is estimated that there are strain on the University’s funds. policy requires that students prove their legal residence in Washington State last week 60,000 young illegal New Jersey in order to pay approved the DREAM Act immigrants in the state.” lower tuition. Many University House bill — the main concern students whose parents brought of its passage was the state’s them to the United States at a inability to provide financial aid young age are forced to pay unaffordable rates that prefor its already-eligible university students, let alone a vent them from completing higher education in a timely new pool of eligible applicants. manner, if they are able to obtain it at all. While this is a reasonable argument, it is also imporBarchi announced Thursday that the University is tant to note that 14 states have already passed tuition unable to support the state initiatives at the moment equality bills for undocumented students. The House of because of the possibility of “undesirable consequences,” Representatives in Oregon has, as of Friday, approved a and instead stated his support for immigration reform at a similar policy in its state. Dialogue on this issue has federal level, especially with the DREAM Act. The been sweeping the country, and it is important for New DREAM Act, which failed to pass in 2010 and is currently Jersey — and especially the University — to continue being reintroduced, would create a pathway to citizenship the debate in order to reach a fair outcome. for undocumented students. He also told students that the While Barchi’s statements on Thursday may have University would try to keep tuition increases as low as been hard to hear for some, we are reminding our stupossible, though there is no guarantee of a tuition freeze. dent leaders that the conversation is still not over. The University’s stance is not only insufficient, but Although the University has taken its position on the seems to be highly ambiguous. While Barchi did not matter, we highly encourage our student organizations explicitly mention the concerns with the bills, we preto continue pushing their agenda and rallying support sume that in distancing itself from the legislation, the behind their cause. We all know that there is still plenty University is keeping its current students, and the ramifiof work to be done on this issue, and there is none more cations they may experience by its passage, in mind. One capable of handling it than our University community. such concern is the impact that tuition equality might It’s not over ’til the fat lady sings, and Barchi is definitehave on the financial aid of other University students. ly not one. The Daily Targum’s editorials represent the views of the majority of the 145th editorial board. Columns, cartoons and letters do not necessarily reflect the views of the Targum Publishing Company or its staff.
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Student government matters too COMMUNITY MATTERS SAM BERMAN
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niversity President Robert L. Barchi has paid a lot of lip service to the idea of shared governance and has himself referred to students as one of the largest stakeholders in the University community on many occasions. But for all his rhetoric about including students in the decision-making process, the true test of his commitment to shared governance will come not on his terms, but on ours. The strategic plan, Barchi knows, can have no legitimacy if students are not a significant part of the process. So it’s no wonder that he has ensured plenty of opportunity for students to give input. Whatever Barchi’s motives — whether he is genuinely interested in students’ opinions about the future of our University or primarily concerned with ensuring a broad buy-in from all segments of the University community to whatever the final product might be — he should be applauded for taking these steps. I encourage every student to take full advantage of these opportunities. But it’s one thing for Barchi to ask for our input when he needs it. It is something else entirely for him to genuinely take unsolicited student opinions to heart. Last Thursday night, I was hoping he would demonstrate his commitment to that ideal. I’m sorry to say, I went home disappointed. For one thing, Barchi’s attempt to characterize a proposed $3.50 opt-out fee on students’ term bills to support national and
statewide student advocacy efforts as “coercive” revealed a disturbingly paternalistic view of his role vis-à-vis students. Given that current University policy allows us students to decide for ourselves whether we find such fees acceptable through a regular referendum process, these types of fees are significantly less coercive than the annual tuition hikes of hundreds of dollars that the administration sees fit to saddle on already debt-strapped students. University policy notwithstanding, however, Barchi indicated that he might prevent students from weighing in on this issue because of his own personal objections. Taken together, his comments indicated a troubling assessment of students’ capacity for autonomy and self-government. There were other discouraging moments as well. The president refused to support state legislation ensuring in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants who grew up attending New Jersey schools and who pay taxes to the state. And despite the impressive turnout (the Student Activities Center was packed with eager students, many of whom had their own questions for the president), Barchi did not stay for long and left after only a few questions. But of course, the most disheartening comment Barchi made on Thursday night was one of those moments that visit every politician’s nightmares. I have to assume, after all, that he simply misspoke. On the topic of everincreasing tuition rates at the University, Barchi claimed that the cost of attending the University was “a bargain” for which we ought to be thankful — which, of course, it most certainly is not. This was probably not his best rhetorical moment. And, to be fair, it was likely not what he meant to say. No doubt he meant that we
are getting a phenomenal bang for our buck, or that the University is cheap in comparison with many private institutions (though I’m not sure how much that comparison is actually telling). Still, the comment rubbed a lot of people the wrong way, and the fact that he said it in response to a student’s very real concerns about tuition, which has a tendency to climb ever higher in the face of declining state support, shows a fundamental disconnect between Barchi’s immediate concerns and students’ experiences. Students and administrators agree on many things, and where there is agreement, cooperation is easy. Unfortunately, there is also bound to be disagreement on many important matters. As a member of the Rutgers University Senate, I am willing to work with Barchi to bridge that gap when it appears. Other student leaders are willing to work with the president to bridge that gap. Is the president, in fact, willing to work with us when there is disagreement? On Thursday night, Barchi repeatedly praised what he called a free exchange of ideas, and he even claimed to have enjoyed himself. I hope he did. We enjoyed having him. But at the end of the evening, many students felt slighted by what, at times, came off as a dismissive attitude toward student government. Even I got the distinct impression that if he could create a legitimate strategic plan without asking for student input, he would. I hope that Barchi can reassure us all that this isn’t the case. Sam Berman is a School of Arts and Sciences junior majoring in political science with a minor in economics. His column, “Community Matters,” runs on alternate Mondays.
Don’t be misled about tuition equity COMMENTARY GIANCARLO TELLO
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ecently, the University had its first opportunity to speak with University President Robert L. Barchi on some key student concerns. With the support of my peers and fellow students, I proceeded to share my personal testimonial as a tax-paying, undocumented youth living in New Jersey for the past 17 years. I laid my personal story on the line, emphasizing the fact that despite all my time in New Jersey, I was still being charged out-of-state tuition at the University. Because of this, my allies and I, many of who are students of the University themselves, have been pushing for a Tuition Equity bill — a bill that if passed by the State Legislature, would change the law so that others and I would be considered N.J. state residents for the purposes of the higher education tuition assessment. At this town hall, we had hoped that our own University president, who is supposed to work in and support our interest and ability to obtain a higher education, would at the very minimum sign a support letter for the bills we had introduced. Barchi, however, decided to ignore the issue entirely and hide behind a wall of politics. Here, I will review his main arguments as to why he refuses to simply sign a letter acknowledging something he himself covered during his slide presentation: Undocumented immigrants being denied access to affordable higher education is a lost asset to America and its universities. 1. The University supports the DREAM Act
That is completely awesome, and I sincerely appreciate the sentiment behind the support. However, what the Rutgers University Tuition Equity Coalition and I are asking for is support for a state, not federal, bill. I would have appreciated if he stayed focused on the topic I was asking the question over, instead of sidestepping. 2. Tuition equity for “DREAMers” is against the law. This is blatantly false, as 14 other states, including Texas under Gov. Rick Perry, have already implemented similar legislation. This is also avoiding the fact that we are simply asking him to sign a letter of support for the bill. The people who would actually enact it and decide if it is legal would be the N.J. State Legislature. 3. The state bill is going nowhere — it’s on the docket. Again, this is false and shows a deep and direct disrespect to the hundreds of the University’s students who have been fighting for months on this campaign. We have — through our collective efforts with allies across the state, including the United States Student Association N.J. branch, the New Jersey United Students — obtained much co-sponsorship. 4. His statement involving “unintended Consequences for Rutgers” I would have loved for him to clarify on this point instead of speaking as if we could not comprehend. My simple request was a signature for a letter in support of tuition equity, I did not ask for him to change any University policy on his own. Any final result would be through changes by the N.J. Legislature. If he feels he has legitimate concerns about how this will affect the University, I hope he clarifies on this point.
As it stands, however, if tuition equity did pass, we would have many more students able to attend the University, thus increasing its overall revenue. 5. Federal aid wouldn’t help “DREAMers” That’s completely fine — we know that passing tuition equity does not change any federal laws. All we are asking for is for his support in recognizing fellow undocumented youths and myself as rightful N.J. residents, which we are under state law. My fellow students and I would hereby like to request a follow-up meeting with Barchi on this issue so we may begin a real dialogue and ensure that he is properly apprised of what is going on. We ask that Barchi stand by his students, his largest constituency, and support tuition equality for “dreamers.” Giancarlo Tello is a Rutgers-Newark College of Arts and Sciences junior majoring in political science.
Video fad is cultural appropriation QUEER TIMES JEREMY LAMASTER
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opefully as this column goes to press the “Harlem Shake” video meme will be dead. Last I heard, “The Today Show” had produced their own video, effectively killing the meme in the same way something becomes uncool as soon as your parents start to like it. However, despite the meme’s impending doom because of short consumer attention spans, a cease and desist should be ordered. The University, especially official University units (I’m looking at you, Rutgers Recreation) should reconsider their perpetuation of the meme mainly because the trend is gross cultural appropriation that erases the original African-American “Harlem Shake” born from the Manhattan neighborhood of the same name in the early 1980s. As online outlets The Root and VICE reported earlier in the week, the real Harlem Shake represents an African-American urban cultural icon. A completely different viral YouTube video titled “Harlem Reacts to ‘Harlem Shake’ Videos” surveys black Harlem residents’ opinions on the video memes. One common observation: Predominantly white people are claiming, distorting, and making a mockery of black cultural icons. This ultimately ends in the erasure of the icon’s original purpose or value (a.k.a. cultural appropriation). Another commonly referenced example of cultural appropriation is the donning bindis or tribal headdresses as fashion statements white people. Regardless of intent, the act teeters from “appreciation” and to “appropriation” when the original significance of the icon is lost. It is likely that 99.9 percent of “Harlem Shake” videographers and actors had little to no prior knowledge of the original, and it is equally likely that no one’s goal was the erasure of a piece of black culture. However, it still happened, and it is no coincidence that predominantly white people participate in the joke at the expense of a black dance. It is no coincidence that the white artist behind the song is profiting greatly off the sample of a black artist. It is no coincidence that Harlem native Azealia Banks gets immediately blasted for releasing a remix of the song, and the copyright infringement by millions of YouTube users goes ignored. It is no coincidence that a Google or YouTube search of “Harlem Shake” will fail to return any semblance of the original Harlem Shake (aside from a nested Wikipedia article). There is some semblance of justice. Athletes in Illinois and New York are being suspended from their schools or teams for their video renditions of the Harlem Shake. Moving forward, there is little to do but wait for the meme to die. At the vary least, there should be acknowledgement that prank meme displaces the original Harlem Shake and we should expect our institution (I’m looking at you again Rutgers Recreation) not to continue to perpetuate and promote cultural appropriation. Maybe they should take down the video. Jeremy LaMaster is a first-year graduate student in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies. His column “Queer Times” runs on alternate Fridays. Follow him on Twitter @JWLaMaster
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RUN Knights once again squander large lead as fouls plague team CONTINUED FROM BACK is … our quickness, particularly at the one, two and three.” Most of the run came in transition, as the Friars (15-11, 7-8) nearly doubled their scoring total in one third of the time it took to score in the first half. Before that run, Providence made only one quarter of its field goal attempts. In the final 4:16 of the first half, the Friars shot 7-for11 from the floor. Cooley believes it was because his team had a number of shooting options and created opportunities for them. “When [forward] LaDontae [Henton] is making shots, it makes us a really hard guard because we feel our guys can live in the lane,” he said. “A big part of our scouting was to penetrate and pitch and penetrate with a purpose.” It also helps when all three starting guards can distribute. Cotton, Council and freshman Kris Dunn combined for 15 assists on 25 made field goals, while the Knights assisted on only nine of their 26 shots made. And as Providence’s shots fell, so did Rutgers’ drive and tenacity. “We have a tendency, when [the opponent] goes on a run, we have a tendency to feel sorry for ourselves,” said head coach Mike Rice. “You are in the wrong league to do that. We have to have that mentality and toughness for 40 minutes.” More often than not, that sentiment enters Rice’s postgame press conferences. In their last contest against Villanova, the Knights entered halftime 10 points ahead. By the time the final buzzer sounded, that lead was nothing more than a distant memory, and they lost by eight. Rutgers has shown the ability to hang with elite teams such as Georgetown and Louisville, but end up falling short of wins. “Every game we come out we have our runs — then we look like a really good team, and then something happens and we look like a really bad team,” said junior guard Mike Poole. “We have to figure it out.” As usual in Rutgers’ contests, fouls played a part in the loss as well. The Knights are already down one guard in sophomore Eli Carter, and Rice wanted to reduce the amount of minutes his remaining sophomore guards, Myles Mack and Jerome Seagears, played so they can finish games stronger. But when Seagears picked up his fourth foul with nearly 17 minutes left in the game, it did not look like he was going to finish the game at all. And in order to keep some order to the offense, Rice had to keep Mack on the floor. He played all but six minutes. “Jerome was off tonight,” Rice said. “It’s such a small margin of error now that Eli’s not here. It’s too difficult right now when he’s on the bench for that long of a time.” It will not get any easier as Rutgers has to take on two ranked opponents in its final three games, one of which is Big East-leading Georgetown. For updates on the Rutgers men’s basketball team, follow Joey Gregory on Twitter @JGregoryTargum.
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With Pearsall being the only Penn State grappler not ranked in the match, his technical fall Nittany Lions cruise to victory despite was indicative of the type of talent Rutgers has not experilack of bonus points in match wins enced all season. Senior 174-pounder Greg Zannetti, who lost by decision, 6But Penn State dictated the CONTINUED FROM BACK 2, does not believe the talent difmatch regardless, and the 141ference is so vast. pound match may have been the It was a fitting end to what “It’s not what the score biggest indicator of the gap can only be described as a shows,” Zannetti said. “We could between both teams. domination — a match illushave won some matches and Senior Trevor Melde had trating the gap between a maybe believed in Penn State’s reigning national champion it more, but I know Brian Pearsall and a program tr ying to find its with myself, I have –— the Nittany identity before its move to the “[Penn State to believe it — and Lions’ lone Big Ten, where it will face applies] a lot of you have to go out unranked grapPenn State annually. there and believe pler — in control “We’re a long ways away,” pressure and we it — but I don’t with a 4-2 lead in Goodale said. “We weren’t realhave to get guys in think the score the first period. ly close in those bouts. They’re But with a sudjust a good team top to bottom here to match that.” shows how good we are.” den move, in all three phases — top, botSCOTT GOODALE Scott Winston, Pearsall contom and neutral [positions]. Head Coach who missed the trolled him, They apply a lot of pressure, Knights’ last two resulting in a and we have to get guys in here matches with a leg injur y, was technical fall to put the Nittany to match that — and that’s a one of the question marks that Lions up, 12-0, early on. hard thing to do.” needed to be addressed. The 141-pound bout was Despite the bonus-point The senior 165-pounder Rutgers’ best opportunity to keep emphasis assistant coach Frank kept the match scoreless in the the match close, as senior 125Molinaro described as what sepafirst period against No. 5 pounder Joey Langel and junior rates his former program from a Andrew Alton, but Alton dictat133-pounder Vincent Dellefave lot of teams, the Knights only let ed the rest of the match and each exited their matches withup one major decision and a pin exited with a 10-3 victor y. out allowing bonus points. in the contest.
“The third period got a little out of control, and I star ted doing some stupid things position-wise — and that’s why [the match] got like that,” Winston said. “I just need to continue to stay positive.” It is hard to stay that way with this type of loss. Rutgers has two weeks between now and the EIWA Tournament to find any conclusions that can be drawn from the match. But one conclusion was arrived at, and it only took a glance at the scoreboard at the end of the match to see where the Knights stand with the best of its future conference home. “It’s a dif ferent level of wrestling,” Goodale said. “Right now, we are in a stage as a program where we are tr ying to find All-Americans, and they’re preparing to win a national title and that’s the reality and the way they think right now.” For more updates on the Rutgers wrestling team, follow Bradly Derechailo on Twitter @BradlyDTargum.
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FEBRUARY 25, 2013 WOMEN’S LACROSSE RUTGERS 5, FAIRFIELD 3
Knights overcome rain for second win BY IAN ERHARD STAFF WRITER
The Rutgers women’s lacrosse team earned its second home victor y of the season Saturday by defeating Fair field, 5-3. The Scarlet Knights delivered the win despite a rainy, low-scoring match. With the victory, Rutgers (21) avenged its double-overtime loss last season to the Stags. “Last year they got up on us, and we had to crawl our way back into the game,” said head coach Laura Brand-Sias. “It felt good [today] to be in control for the entire 60 minutes.” The Stags garnered some of fense in the final six minutes when midfielder Melanie Raso scored her sixth goal of the season. Fairfield made it as close as a two-goal game after midfielder
Courtney Chmil converted a free position shot with under two minutes left. But Rutgers gained possession of f the ensuing draw and were able to run out the clock. Rutgers took a 5-1 lead when freshman attack Hally Barnes scored her second goal of the game on a free position shot with less than seven minutes remaining. Rutgers was without senior midfielder Stephanie Anderson, who was sidelined for the game with an injur y, so the Knights were able to find another of fensive threat in Barnes, who scored two goals in the second period. Barnes opened the half with an unassisted score less than two minutes in, which gave the Knights a 4-1 lead. “She has the benefit this year of us needing some people to step up, and she definitely
has the ability to do it,” BrandSias said. “I expect big things from her, and I expect her to get better and better with ever y game.” The plan entering the game was to control the tempo, BrandSias said. The team focused on having solid possessions by staying patient in the offensive zone. As a result, Rutgers put a higher percentage of shots on net than in its last game Feb. 20 against Temple, when the Knights fell, 8-7. Rutgers opened the second half by possessing the ball almost exclusively for ten minutes. The Knights then found another scoring chance when freshman midfielder Chrissy Schreiber rang a shot of f the post. Junior midfielder Amanda Trendell forced a quick turnover to give the Knights possession following the goal.
Junior midfielder Katrina Martinelli (17) scored two goals in Saturday’s win at home against the Stags. She leads the Knights with nine goals and 13 points. LIANNE NG, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
She capitalized on a free position shot with five seconds left in the period to give the Knights a 3-1 lead and momentum entering halftime. “It’s always good going into halftime up and on a positive note,” said junior midfielder Katrina Mar tinelli. “The most impor tant thing is helping your teammates up and getting them excited to go into the next half of play.” Mar tinelli increased her point total to 13 through the first three games and now leads the Knights in scoring, after she tallied only 11 points in 12 games last season. “[Martinelli’s] always had it in her. I think she’s just kind of come out of her shell this season,” Brand-Sias said. “She’s just a good player — has good composure — so we’re not surprised that she’s gotten it done.” Senior goalie Lily Kalata made six saves, including four in the second half. The low-scoring outcome can be attributed to constant rain and low temperatures at game-time. Kalata said goalies played a big role in the game on both sides, especially when players’ strings were loose from the rain and shots landed in unpredictable areas. “Just staying poised and being patient with your defense,” Kalata said of the challenges of playing in wet conditions. “Never faltering, even when the pressure gets on or they’re changing up their game — we just have to stay cool.” The Knights’ defense forced Fairfield into short possessions as the Stags turned the ball over 11 times in the game. Kalata was able to weather the storm late when the Stags applied more pressure in an attempt to catch the Knights.
STREAK Head coach insists win against RU holds no special value CONTINUED FROM BACK title 41 fewer years than Stringer, was as certain about his team as an open Nadirah McKenith shot. A lay-up from the guard with 3:33 left extended the Red Storms’ lead to 60-43, giving McKenith her 21st point of the game and helping St. John’s to its sixth consecutive victory against Rutgers. McKenith was adamant postgame about Tartamella’s message of taking each game one at a time and the opponent not mattering. Tartamella had her back upon St. John’s winning its fifth consecutive game. “You could call it a political answer, but that’s the way that we taught it to our players and how we show growth,” he said. “An immature player would have given you a different answer. A mature player gave you the answer that it should have been.” St. John’s led by as much as 22 with 14:19 left in the game. Rutgers closed the gap, but it can only surmount so much of a run with an offense struggling from the paint to the perimeter. Sophomore guard Shakena Richardson made a 3-pointer to close St. John’s lead to 19 — which did not seem statistically significant. But that field goal actually broke the 74-minute scoreless streak she and sophomore guard Syessence Davis have posted, stretching back to Feb. 16 against Connecticut. Davis followed with a lay-up to complete the five points Rutgers received from its point guards. Senior guard Erica Wheeler was the only Knight to reach double-digit scoring. But she also scored only 11 and shot 4-for-11. She and sophomore wing Betnijah Laney, the team’s toptwo completely healthy scorers, also contributed seven of Rutgers’ 19 turnovers. St. John’s had two options for consistent scoring, which was two more than Rutgers possessed. Briana Brown supplemented McKenith’s performance with 13 points off 5-for-8 shooting. The sharpshooting guard picked up for leading scorer and backcourt mate Shenneika Smith, who scored five points off 1-for-8 shooting. “I tell her all the time, ‘don’t hesitate, just shoot and let it go,’ and she’s been great for us this whole season,” McKenith said of Brown. Rutgers allowed strong first halves to McKenith, Brown and guard Aliyyah Handford, as the trio scored 26 points. They combined to outscore Rutgers entering the locker rooms, as the Johnnies held a 34-20 lead at halftime with a 12-2 run to close the period. In the past two seasons, St. John’s has put out a stronger team than Rutgers. Only a few years ago, the Knights were competitive with the likes of rivals Connecticut and Tennessee. But St. John’s victory leaves Stringer with no answer of how the season came to this and a sign that times have changed. For updates on the Rutgers women’s basketball team, follow Josh Bakan on Twitter @JBakanTargum.
FEBRUARY 25, 2013
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Providence starters prove overwhelming for RU BY JOEY GREGORY CORRESPONDENT
Providence guard Br yce Cotton played as advertised. The Big East’s leading scorer exceeded his season average Saturday with 22 points. But the reason the Rutgers men’s basketball team lost its game to the Friars, 76-72, is not because Cotton overwhelmed them, but because the star ting unit as a whole did. The Friars received little help from their bench — only six points came from nonstarters. They did not need their help though, since the five starters combined for 70 points. Guard Vincent Council scored 12 points, which does not look as impressive compared to Cotton’s 22. But Council saved his points for crucial situations. “When you’re a senior and you’ve been in this league for as long as he’s been, you need your seniors to score the baskets when you need to win games, and I thought tonight on his drive he had the basket that basically sealed the game,” said Providence head coach Ed Cooley. “That’s what you need your seniors to do when they’re point guards.” That drive came with 16 seconds left in the game, shor tly after the Scarlet Knights shrank the Friars’ lead down to one possession. Council drove toward the basket and lifted a floater into the air. The ball grazed Rutgers senior wing Dane Miller’s finger tips and dropped in, increasing Providence’s lead to five points and leaving the Knights less than enough time to catch up. “We didn’t get a stop when we needed to, and that’s the difference,” said head coach Mike Rice. “They finished the game, and we didn’t.”
The finish was not the first time Rutgers could not get a stop. Providence ended the second half on a 19-0 run. And during that run, Council collected five points and his third assist of the game. Before the game ended, he picked up seven more points and doubled his assist total. But his six assists were still less than his season average of 7.3. “We’re a good basketball team when he’s facilitating,” Cooley said. “We’re a better basketball team when he’s an assist leader versus a scorer.”
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Providence sealed their Big East Tournament fates, though both are ver y different from each other. With the win, the Friars solidified a first-round bye and will not have to play on the first day of the tournament. Two teams who will not be playing aided them. The departure of West Virginia to the Big 12 and Connecticut’s postseason ban means there will only be 14 teams in the conference tournament this season. That led the Big East to switch from eight to 10 teams that receive a first-round bye. The Friars are the 10th team, much to the approval of Cooley. “That’s all we’ve talked about the last two days,” he said. “If we could come on the road and get a win, we solidify ourselves not playing in that Tuesday game. I’m tr ying to build a program that’s going to win long term, and I thought this was a great stepping stone for us.” Rutgers, on the other hand, cannot escape playing the Tuesday game — even if it wins out. The only question is which seed it will be. But Rice said he is just thinking about the next game, not the tournament.
Sophomore forward Kadeem Jack secures a rebound Saturday against Providence. Jack had his best game of the season against the Friars, registering 15 points and 10 rebounds. MICHAEL BOON
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Kadeem Jack earned his first career double-double with 15 points and 10 rebounds. “You could almost say Kadeem is consistent and has arrived,” Rice said. Rice faulted Jack for being too generous late in
the game, but pegged him as a potential star ter for future games. Jack credits his strength training with his recent improved per formances. “My confidence comes from working out, more than [from] games,” he said. “You can
have a good game, but you can go back and have a bad game after that if you don’t keep working out.” For updates on the Rutgers men’s basketball team, follow Joey Gregor y on Twitter @JGregoryTargum.
KNIGHT NOTEBOOK ST. JOHN’S FRESHMAN HITS DOUBLE-FIGURE SCORING
Red Storm youth supplements upperclassmen BY JOSH BAKAN SPORTS EDITOR
NEW YORK — As the Rutgers women’s basketball team relies on its youth, it is increasingly likely that the Scarlet Knights do not play in the NCAA Tournament until at least 2014. Some of the St. John’s upperclassmen shined, but freshman guard Aliyyah Handford put them in position to dominate. “We all step up,” said St. John’s guard Briana Brown. “When someone goes down, we all step up. That’s just what we do for each other.” Handford contributed 10 points and four boards in Saturday’s 61-48 win against Rutgers. She made the Knights pay for fouling her by shooting 6for-6 on free throws. She averages 9.4 points per game this season and has been
instr umental in the Red Storms’ five-game winning streak. She averaged 15 points and 7.5 rebounds per game in the two matches before facing Rutgers. She entered double-digit scoring when senior guard Erica Wheeler fouled her on a conver ted lay-up. That put St. John’s ahead, 51-30, with 12:07 remaining. Rutgers’ young players were not so impressive. Freshman wing Kahleah Copper stood out with seven points and seven boards, including three on offense. After St. John’s took its 51-30 lead, Rutgers developed an 8-0 run. It culminated with sophomore wing Betnijah Laney heaving an assist to Copper from behind half court. But head coach C. Vivian Stringer has been careful with giving her freshmen too much
responsibility, and Rutgers needed more than Copper’s contributions to topple St. John’s. The 36.2 percent shooting clip and 19 turnovers created most of Rutgers’ problems. “I don’t even understand this. I’m seeing things that I have quite frankly never seen before in my life,” Stringer said. “And I don’t see that that bad in practice in terms of missing lay-ups or five-foot shots, and not thinking before you make passes and all the crazy things that happened.” Laney was Rutgers’ secondmost productive underclassman with eight points and 10 rebounds. But Laney continues to be passive despite proven ability to be responsible for more scoring, taking only six shots against St. John’s.
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Monique Oliver and Chelsey Lee were completely healthy. But the Knights have had to learn how to win with Lee out of the lineup because of a knee injury and Oliver hobbled by a bone bruise in her ankle. They have yet to figure it out. While Lee sat out for the third straight game, Oliver played only 15 minutes. Oliver was productive in that time with five points and three blocks, but she has played more than 20 minutes in only four of the past 11 games. St. John’s head coach Joe Tartamella still sees this as a vital win for his team. “It’s nice to be able to win any game in our conference — let alone it be against Rutgers, Syracuse, anybody,” he said. “Every win is important.” Rutgers led the rebounding battle, 36-33, and held a 26-18 advantage in the paint, but
entered the season relying more on its frontcourt than St. John’s.
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consecutive game, Stringer failed to secure her 900th victory. She still hates to hear about it and does not want to focus on it. Stringer also does not want to focus on how her team is on the cusp of missing the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 11 years. She just wants to win. “It didn’t matter if we were in the bubble or drowning, honestly,” Stringer said. “I think sometimes we know that that makes a difference, but honestly I wasn’t even thinking about the bubble. I wasn’t really caught up in that bubble.” For updates on the Rutgers women’s basketball team, follow Josh Bakan on Twitter @JBakanTargum.
WEATHERING THE STORM The Rutgers women’s lacrosse team fought through wet conditions to grab its second win of the season. PAGE 14 TWITTER: #TARGUMSPOR TS DAILYTARGUM.COM/SPOR TS TARGUMSPOR TS.WORDPRESS.COM
FOREVER YOUNG The inexperienced Rutgers women’s basketball team continued to have offensive problems inside and outside against St. John’s. PAGE 15.
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TOO MUCH TO HANDLE The Rutgers men’s basketball team struggled to contain the Providence starting lineup. PAGE 15 QUOTE OF THE DAY “You could almost say [sophomore forward] Kadeem [Jack] is consistent and has arrived.” — Rutgers head men’s basketball coach Mike Rice
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2013
THE WORST OF TIMES WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
WRESTLING NO. 1 PENN STATE 34, RUTGERS 0
MEN’S BASKETBALL
Friars’ 19-0 run proves detrimental for Rutgers in third consecutive defeat BY JOEY GREGORY CORRESPONDENT
Derrick Randall plays sparingly, despite his contributions, because of the experience ahead of him. He sits behind a senior, a junior and a redshirt sophomore. In Saturday’s 76-72 loss to Providence, he scored six points in nine minutes. Two of those points helped extend the Rutgers men’s basketball team’s lead to 10 points with nearly five minutes remaining in the first half. Then that lead came tumbling down. Guards Vincent Council and Br yce Cotton — the Big East’s leading scorer — led the Friars on a run reminiscent of the Scarlet Knights’ conference opener against Syracuse. And 19 unanswered points later, Rutgers (13-13, 4-11) was staring at a nine-point halftime deficit. “We want to play in transition more,” said Providence head coach Ed Cooley. “We feel our advantage in a lot of Big East games
Head coach C. Vivian Stringer has little explanation for her team’s slump. TIAN LI
Stringer remains stalled at 899 wins as RU stretches losing streak to four games BY JOSH BAKAN SPORTS EDITOR
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NEW YORK — Rutgers head women’s basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer can only promise one thing about winning her 900th game after the Scarlet Knights’ 61-48 loss to St. John’s. “You know what, I’m going to get it before I die,” she said. “That much you can count on.” Stringer’s joking aside, Rutgers left the Carnesecca Arena on Saturday with its fourth consecutive loss on the back of its youth. Stringer was every bit as dumbfounded as freshman forward Rachel Hollivay when she passed a ball to nobody out of bounds with 1:54 left. “I’ve never seen a team like that,” Stringer said of Rutgers (14-12, 5-8). “I’ve never seen a team that has far more talent than what it’s showing seem to care as they do and just — lights, camera, action, it’s time to play [and they struggle].” Meanwhile, Joe Tartamella, St. John’s (1510, 9-4) rookie head coach who has held the SEE
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No. 20 Pitt. St. John’s
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Boston C. No. 6 Duke
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Cincinnati No. 25 ND
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Illinois No. 7 Mich.
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Georgia Tech Virginia
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No. 4 Mich. St. 60 No. 18 Ohio St. 68
Redshirt freshman heavyweight Billy Smith kneels down on the mat during his match with Jimmy Lawson, a 3-2 loss in the second tie breaker. ENRICO CABREDO, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Reigning national champion shuts out Knights at RAC as program begins two-week break before postseason BY BRADLY DERECHAILO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
With a questionable reversal in the books to cap Penn State’s 34-0 win against the Rutgers wrestling team, Jimmy Lawson gave a salute to the 3,557 fans in attendance, a move head coach Scott Goodale did not appreciate as he exchanged words with the Penn State heavyweight. “I’m a coach, and he’s an athlete — and we shouldn’t get into it with each other, but I respect the sport and respect what we’re
trying to do, and he should know better,” Goodale said. “That’s one I definitely wanted.” Redshir t freshman heavyweight Billy Smith took a 1-1 tie against Lawson into over time. Both sparred in the overtime period, but no moves were made until the first tiebreaker period, in which Lawson started on top. Smith escaped from Lawson to go up, 2-1, but Lawson registered a reversal that left Goodale with a sour taste in his mouth. SEE
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JENNA WILLIAMS
led the Rutgers gymnastics team on the uneven bars Saturday at Denver with a score of 9.775. The rookie averages 9.806 in the event to lead the team.
Derrick Randall attempts a lay-up during Rutgers’ 76-72 home loss to Providence. MICHAEL BOON
RUTGERS SPORTS CALENDAR WOMEN’S BASKETBALL vs. South Florida Tomorrow, 7:30 p.m. RAC
SWIMMING, DIVING
WOMEN’S TRACK
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at Big East Championships
at ECAC Championship
at IC4A Championship
Wednesday, 10 a.m., 6 p.m. Indianapolis, Ind.
Friday Boston
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