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U. ice hockey Team surpasses Harvard, moves into third nationally gains national recognition
U. Debate Union climbs the ranks
The club team and its members qualify for tournament, awards BY ERIN PETENKO STAFF WRITER
The Rutgers University Debate Union clenched their third place national ranking after competing in tournaments at the University of Albany and Franklin & Marshall College. COURTESY OF THE RUTGERS UNIVERSITY DEBATE UNION
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The Rutgers University Debate Union now ranks third in the country — surpassing Harvard University, which currently ranks fifth. RUDU won first place at a tournament at the University of Albany on Feb. 22 and placed third in the Franklin & Marshall College tournament the same weekend, leading to its current ranking. Since the team’s rankings within the American Parliamentary Debate Association
are dependent on a point system rather than direct competition, they were able to overcome Harvard without actually encountering them. Storey Clayton, RUDU’s coach, said he was overjoyed when they passed Harvard. Since it is his fourth year at the University, he has trained with everyone on the current team at some point in the beginning of their career, he said. “It’s satisfying to see that the [debaters’] hard work has paid off,” Clayton said. Getting to third was far from easy, he said. Earning their third-place rank in the country took a yearlong effort.
“Actually passing [Harvard] is a cumulative process, but it takes a yearlong process,” Clayton said. He said his biggest initial challenge was getting people to believe the University could be in the same list as schools such as Har vard, Princeton University and Johns Hopkins University. But the University now ranks higher than all of those universities. Ashley Novak, RUDU’s president, said she was also really proud of the debate team. SEE
Beginning their ritual chant in their locker room, the University’s ice hockey team continues onto the ice where the fans join in on chanting. This ritual has proven lucky—the club team now ranks eighteenth in the nation. This season’s team also qualified for the ACHA Men’s Division One National Tournament for the fourth consecutive year, said Andy Gojdycz, the head coach. But this is their first year in the Eastern States Collegiate Hockey League, where the qualification is based on ranking, not auto-bidding, according to head coach Andy Gojdycz. “We have the right guys on the team, they’re hard workers and they’re a passionate group,” he said. But the ice hockey team’s accomplishments expand beyond the rink. Eight team members qualified for Academic All-American status, meaning they earned a GPA of 3.3 or higher, Gojdycz said. Only junior and seniors qualify for this award, he said. For the team’s underclassmen, the average GPA is 3.5. “Not only do they graduate, but they excel at academics at Rutgers,” he said. The team has 10 seniors, two juniors, eight sophomores and eight freshmen. Gojdycz said he is proud of the seniors in particular. SEE
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Latinos share stories in documentary U. students create documentary showing the Latino experience for cinema class BY ERIN PETENKO STAFF WRITER
Daisy Garden told the stor y of her family’s continuous struggle to seize the American Dream more than 10 years after leaving the Dominican Republic. Gisesella Ramirez recounted the life of a University transgender woman tr ying to gain acceptance from her traditional mother.
Garden, Ramirez and seven other University students showcased accounts of the Latino experience last Friday in Voorhees Hall on the College Avenue campus as a par t of the New Jersey Film Festival. The creation process began last spring when students signed up for the “Documenting Latino Lives” class, which merged cinema studies with traditional academics, said Al Nigrin,
professor of Cinema Studies and the director of the festival. He said they received on-the-job training to learn how to produce, direct and edit films, with surprising results. “I didn’t feel like I was watching student films,” he said. The class presented challenges for the inexperienced directors, said Megan Maldonado, a University alumna. “Ever ything was so compact,” she said. “Now we’re learning how to use a camera, now we’re lear ning how to edit, now we’re learning how to create SEE
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The University ice hockey team won against Drexel at ProTec hockey pond on Feb. 13 in Somerset, N.J. NISHA DATT, PHOTO EDITOR
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CAMPUS CALENDAR Monday, March 4 Mason Gross School of the Arts hosts a performance by jazz pianist Fred Hersch at 12:30 p.m. the Nicholas Music Center on Douglass campus. Admission is free.
Tuesday, March 5 Career Services will host a workshop on internship from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Career and Interview Center in the Busch Campus Center. The workshop will help elaborate on the opportunities internships bring students, as well as instruct students on how to prepare for their search. Mason Gross School of the Arts will be hosting the Rutgers Jazz Ensemble. The performance, which will be held in the Nicholas Music Center at 7:30 p.m., will be conducted by Conrad Her wig with guest artist Fred Hersch. Tickets are $5 for students, $10 for University alumni, employees and seniors, and $15 for the general public.
Wednesday, March 6 Career Ser vices is sponsoring an information session on CareerKnight, the University’s online system for career counseling. The workshop will be held in the Rutgers Student Center from 12 to 1 p.m. and pre-registration is required.
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SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT A $3 million figure presented in last Friday’s column titled “Barchi must show more accurate picture,” which described an estimated loss of revenue resulting from the passage of the In-State Tuition Act, cannot be confirmed.
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Theta Delta Chi, Autism Speaks collaborate through robotics BY JULIA DAWIDOWICZ CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The University’s Theta Delta Chi fraternity marks four years of partnership this semester with Autism Speaks, the world’s leading autism science and advocacy organization. With the help of Peter H. Bell, executive vice president at Autism Speaks, Theta Delta Chi founded Bros UniteD in spring 2010. They created BUD with the goal of providing adolescent boys with autism the opportunity to create and maintain positive relationships with Theta Delta Chi brothers during an eight-week long mentorship program during the spring semester, said Joshua Rosenheck, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “Actually seeing the impact your help makes, rather than just donating money to [autism] research is truly rewarding,” he said. Each BUD participant, called a “lil bro,” is paired with up to three Theta Delta Chi brothers, called “big bros,” Rosenheck said. Theta Delta Chi brought the “lil bros” to yesterday’s RoboRaiders event, in which volunteer engineers from Johnson & Johnson worked together with the Hillsborough High School RoboRaiders team to perform mechanical and technical functions on robots. The “lil bros” could control robots with the help of their “big bros,” learn about robotics science, build their own lava lamps and participate in a paper airplane contest. “My favorite part was seeing the lil bros interact with each other in a such a positive environment fostered by big bros,” Rosenheck said. “It brings out the best in big bros and lil bros alike.” “Lil bros” engage in a number of activities with their “big bros,” including trips to the Liberty Science Center, the RutgersZone and University basketball games.
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The brothers of Theta Delta Chi hired a hip-hop dance instructor this semester to run a class for BUD participants in the Theta Delta Chi house located on the College Avenue campus. He said some of the “lil bros” danced better than the “big bros.” Rosenheck has played a role in the life of Tyler Bell, Peter Bell’s eldest son. Rosenheck built a website to showcase Tyler Bell’s artwork. Peter Bell believes this program helped improved his son’s confidence and gives him the closest experience possible to being a college student. “[The brothers of Theta Delta Chi] go above and beyond what they can and should do,” Peter Bell said. “[Rosenheck] went out of his way, and it is a nice testament to the value of the program.” Thomas Novak, a RutgersNewark Business School senior, is just one of about 50 mentors in the BUD organization. His involvement began during his first year, and he continues to nurture a bond with his “lil bro,” Mike Clemens, for the fourth year in a row. Clemens was diagnosed last year with a heart valve problem. After hearing the news, Novak said he did not hesitate when he hopped on a train to visit Clemens at the NewYork-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital. Novak said it was clear to him that Clemens was not himself. Following Novak’s visit, Clemens’ mother contacted Novak and said that his visit had helped her son’s condition improve significantly and that her son recovered a few weeks afterwards. “One of the main reasons I chose to join a fraternity my freshman year was because of the philanthropy aspect,” Novak said. “From the first moment I met my lil bro, our relationship clicked.”
The Theta Delta Chi fraternity and Autism Speaks pose together as Bros UniteD, also known as “BUD.” The groups teamed up with engineers from Johnson & Johnson and the RoboRaiders robotics team from Hillsborough High School to build a robot to compete in yesterday’s event. COURTESY OF JOSH ROSENHECK
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Team predicted to rank third in nation for 2012-2013 season CONTINUED FROM FRONT “Our team has worked incredibly hard,” said Novak, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “We definitely deserved to overcome Harvard this year.” The team encountered some challenges along the way, she said. RUDU lost strong debaters in recent years and faced difficulty training the newer members. But she now believes her team stands exactly where they want to be, Novak said. Rachel Moon, the public relations chair for RUDU, said she really enjoyed the publicity from the ranking. She is happy that they are improving the image of public institutions like the University. Moon said public institutions have a certain negative stigma among debate teams, but RUDU proves that this should not be the case. “Rutgers is made up of really intelligent people,” Moon said. Jamie Nolan, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, said the others should not think a university’s public or Ivy League status determines its success. “Others shouldn’t underestimate us just because we are public,” Nolan said. Novak said Harvard’s lower ranking should not faze the team. The members on Har vard’s
debate team focus more on their individual rankings. The University, on the other hand, has the opposite mentality — they focus on the performance of the entire school. Novak said the team is working toward a second place rank, but Brandeis University —who currently holds that position — is ahead of RUDU by a large margin. According to the APDA website, Yale University is ranked first in the nation above Brandeis, while Johns Hopkins is ranked fourth below the University. Clayton said he believes the team will finish the 2012-2013 season ranked third in the country, because they have a great number of points between them and the teams behind them. RUDU will not only have bragging rights, but also will receive an award and recognition from the league, along with the other schools ranked in the top 10, he said. Only six weeks remain before RUDU competes at the APDA National Championship. With seven members qualified for Nationals, more students than ever will represent the University, Clayton said. Novak expects her teammates to outdo last year’s performance. Moon, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said she feels confident about nationals. “I have no worries that we’ll do well,” Moon said. Clayton said winning nationals and becoming the national champions would be a huge accomplishment. “Being in third, we’re not favored to win. But we do have a shot,” he said.
FILMMAKER Aivaliotis says Mexican restaurant film stems from food anthropology interest CONTINUED FROM FRONT a stor yline. It was a fast learning process.” Maldonado signed up for the class as a last-second decision, sacrificing the completion of her second major in criminal justice, she said. “I knew that if I didn’t take the class that I would regret it, so I weighed out and the benefits and the class won over criminal justice,” she said. Her film focused on a Dominican-owned hair salon that had a mostly black clientele. She said the inspiration came from research she conducted for her political science major. When she first visited the salon, she expected to portray the experiences of Latino customers at the store, but she had to adjust her focus to the reality. “Going in, I had a certain vision, but that vision was not being realized,” she said. “Instead, I analyzed the real environment around me.” Another documentar y centered around three sisters raised by devout Catholic parents. Filmmaker Brayan Zambrano, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, said his subjects were friends whose religious perspective interested him.
“From talking to them, I got a good sense of what family was and what religion was to them,” he said. At times, Zambrano said he faced difficulties in attempting to capture the true persona of his inter viewees. “One sister, who I’ve known for years — the moment she got
“Going in, I had a certain vision, but that vision was not being realized. Instead, I analyzed the real environment around me.” MEGAN MALDONADO University alumna
behind the camera, she became stoic and reserved,” he said. One filmmaker admitted she could never go in front of the camera. Filmmaker Jess Rosney, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, said she would be too ner vous. “I’m very self-conscious about how I look on camera,” she said. To get subjects more comfor table for her film “Out,” a look at the Latino LGBTQ community, she contacted a ner ve-wracking number of
people before she found the per fect personalities. “Some of them were afraid at first, but they were all very forthcoming with their stories,” Rosney said. She said she is always thinking of what she learned in class and tr ying to apply it to her endeavors. “I went to field school in Bolivia over the summer, and I kept wishing that I could have filmed that,” she said. Heather Aivaliotis said the story behind her film “Sazón,” a depiction of a traditional Mexican restaurant in New Brunswick, came from her interest in food anthropology. “My original premise centered on how college students consume food at the local Chipotle, but the chain was not so keen on having people film there,” said Aivaliotis, an alumna. Ulla Berg, professor of Anthropology and Latino Studies, told her about the immigrant-run restaurant, but it took a couple tries to find customers to film, and weeks to get owner Fernando on film. “The entire interview process was done in one night,” Aivaliotis said. “I wish I had had more time to expand the story arch.” The class also changed how the students viewed the film industry, Zambrano said. He now has a second eye for what goes into the movies he sees. “It gave me an appreciation for the vision in these films,” he said. “After this, it compounded my love for movies even fur ther.”
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HOCKEY Players work with children’s hospitals, club workshops CONTINUED FROM FRONT “The seniors have great leadership, and the freshman want to emulate them and what happened this year,” he said. The hockey team is also a candidate for the American Collegiate Hockey Association’s community service award, which the team clenched two years prior, Gojdycz said. “They did a lot of children’s hospitals and a lot of work in club sports, with community outreach, and they sponsored a child a team,” he said. The team does not function as separate entities — they work as one. From 6 a.m. practices and road trips to living, eating and studying together, the teammates have a close frater nal connection with one another. Like an older brother, team member Marc Buccellato said he tries to help the underclassmen both on the ice and with their everyday schedule. “I help them with preparation, eating habits, training habits in the gym and time management,” he said. Freshman Andrew Koslov said he feels this sense of brotherhood. “The seniors took the younger kids under their wings, and we really just have a family,” he said. Koslov, winner of the team’s Rookie of the Year award, said he played hockey since age six. Growing up, the New Jersey Devils inspired him to push hard as a player. “There’s lot lots of intensity and movement in the game, and something about playing it makes it really special,” he said. Buccellato said the team’s captain, Jason Adams, has inspired him in particular with his record-breaking scores. “He put Rutgers on the map for hockey in our division,” he said. He got to know Adams this year while living with him in the hockey house, and the their talks usually center around hockey, he said. “We talk about how to better the team, what we can do the make the program better as whole for next year,” he said. The ACHA invited Adams, a School Of Environmental And Biological Sciences senior, to compete in the annual ACHAhosted all-star game. He will also tr y out for the University Games, hosted by ACHA and USA hockey, where students can compete against other countries. Buccellato said he always had to prioritize his academics over the spor t, because he wants to be able to support his family in the future. He has received a few job offers in sales, or may possibly go for his master’s degree in Business at the University. Whatever happens, he said he would rely on lessons learned on the ice. “Learning how to lose … with things not going your way, you come out a stronger person,” he said. “It helps you move on, progress, and never look back.”
The University ice hockey team qualified for the ACHA Men’s Division One National Tournament for the fourth consecutive year. NISHA DATT, PHOTO EDITOR
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Kerry releases $250M for new Egypt
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (center) meets with Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed K. Amr (right), and US Ambassador to Egypt Anne W. Patterson during a meeting at the Egyptian Foreign Ministry on March 2 in Cairo, Egypt. Kerry is visiting Egypt for two days during an 11-country tour of Europe and the Middle East. GETTY IMAGES
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO, Egypt — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday rewarded Egypt for President Mohammed Morsi’s pledges of political and economic reforms by releasing $250 million in American aid to support the country’s “future as a democracy.” Yet Kerry also served notice that the Obama administration will keep close watch on how Morsi, who came to power in June as Egypt’s first freely elected president, honors his commitment and that additional U.S. assistance would depend on it. “The path to that future has clearly been difficult, and much work remains,” Kerry said in a statement after wrapping up two days of meetings in Egypt, a deeply divided country in the wake of the revolution that ousted longtime President Hosni Mubarak. Egypt is trying to meet conditions to close on a $4.8 billion loan package from the International
Monetary Fund. An agreement would unlock more of the $1 billion in U.S. assistance promised by President Barack Obama last year and set to begin flowing with Kerry’s announcement. “The United States can and wants to do more,” Kerry said. “Reaching an agreement with the IMF will require further effort on the part of the Egyptian government and broad support for reform by all Egyptians. When Egypt takes the difficult steps to strengthen its economy and build political unity and justice, we will work with our Congress at home on additional support.” Kerry cited Egypt’s “extreme needs” and Morsi’s “assurances that he plans to complete the IMF process” when he told the president that the U.S. would provide $190 million of a long-term $450 million pledge “in a goodfaith effort to spur reform and help the Egyptian people at this difficult time.” The release of the rest of the $450 million and the other $550 million tranche of the
$1 billion that Obama announced will be tied to successful reforms, officials said. Separately, the top U.S. diplomat announced $60 million for a new fund for “direct support of key engines of democratic change,” including Egypt’s entrepreneurs and its young people. Kerry held out the prospect of U.S. assistance to this fund climbing to $300 million over time. Recapping his meetings with political figures, business leaders and representatives of outside groups, Kerry said he heard of their “deep concern about the political course of their country, the need to strengthen human rights protections, justice and the rule of law, and their fundamental anxiety about the economic future of Egypt.” Those issues came up in “a ver y candid and constructive manner” during Kerr y’s talks with Morsi. “It is clear that more hard work and compromise will be required to restore unity, political
stability and economic health to Egypt,” Kerry said. Syria and Iran were topics of discussion, according to officials. With parliamentary elections in April approaching and liberal and secular opponents of Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood saying they will boycott, Kerry called the vote “a particularly critical step” in Egypt’s democratic transition. Violent clashes between protesters and security forces have created an environment of insecurity, complicating Egyptian ef for ts to secure vital international aid. Officials in the Egyptian presidency said Kerry stressed the need for consensus with the opposition in order to restore confidence in Egypt that it can ride out the crisis. Morsi was reported to have expressed the importance of Egypt’s relationship with the United States, which is based on “mutual respect” and focused on the importance of the democratic process in building a strong and stable nation.
ELIZABETH, N.J. — Authorities are investigating a police shooting that left a man critically wounded in northern New Jersey. Elizabeth police say Sharif Tankard of Roselle was among a group of men who were confronted by two detectives late Friday inside the Oakwood Plaza housing complex. The confrontation soon became physical, and Tankard allegedly disarmed one of the detectives. Tankard was then shot in both legs by one of the detectives. Tankard was taken to a hospital, where he was listed in critical but stable condition. Tankard faces charges of aggravated assault on police, disarming a law enforcement officer and threatening an officer with the use of that weapon. His bail was set at $500,000 and it was not known Sunday if he has retained an attorney. The shooting remains under investigation.
CAR WRECK LEAVES TWO DEAD HAMILTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Two men were killed when their car overturned on a southern New Jersey roadway and they were ejected from the vehicle. A Hamilton Township police officer on routine patrol discovered the crash just before 2 a.m. Sunday. Both victims were found a short time later and were taken to hospitals, but each was pronounced dead a short time later. It did not appear that anyone else was in the vehicle when the crash occurred. Authorities did not immediately release the victims’ names because they were still notifying their family members. The cause of the crash remains under investigation.
SMOKING BAN PROPOSED ON MUNICIPAL PROPERTY PRINCETON, N.J. — Another New Jersey community is considering a plan to ban smoking in public areas. Princeton's Board of Health is scheduled to vote March 19 on a proposal that would ban smoking on municipal property, townowned public parks and outside pools. First-time violators would face $250 fines. Proponents say the measure would help save lives and improve the quality of life for all. But critics of the proposal say they are worried about infringing on people's personal rights. Officials say dozens of New Jersey towns and municipalities already have similar no-smoking ordinances. —The Associated Press
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Army trains with virtual technology THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FORT BLISS, Texas — More than a dozen troops carefully maneuver through overgrown shrubs, firing laser-tag rifles at the enemy as they advance on a compound in the New Mexico desert. Fifty miles away in West Texas, other soldiers in helicopter and tank simulators provide air and ground support for the virtual training exercise. An Army supervisor watches it all unfold on a computer screen at a Fort Bliss command center. The real mission, however, comes next: a thorough, high-tech review of the soldiers’ tactics. The exercise is part of a new Army virtual program that records every aspect of training missions so soldiers can use video game-like replay to study how effectively the ground and air forces interacted. The system — a major upgrade over previous platforms that didn’t fully integrate tank and helicopter communications — will be installed at posts across the U.S. and abroad. The Integrated Training Environment is designed to cut costs, sharpen soldiers’ ability to interact with various units and allow the military to more quickly train the growing ranks of troops returning from deployment. However, it is not intended to do away with live training altogether, but rather, to better prepare soldiers for real-life training exercises. “[Training gives soldiers] muscle memory through repetition ... so when we are in Iran, Syria, Africa, it’s going to kick in,” said Sgt. 1st Class Donald Jones, who operated a tank simulator during the exercise. Officials say the push for more practical training operations comes at a critical time. The Pentagon’s budget faced cuts as high as 13 percent in some of its accounts after Congress couldn’t reach a deal to avert automatic, across-the-board spending cuts. Mike Casey, spokesman for the Army’s Combined Arms Center-Training program, said it wasn’t immediately clear what impact the across-the-board cuts that took effect Friday would have on the program. Inside the command center, dozens of computers run the simulations that can replay the entire exercise on a giant screen. The live, virtual and computer-generated forces come together seamlessly, much like the replays from video games that allow the user to rotate the images to view the mission from any angle. By the time the drill is over, the infantry team had fired hundreds of rounds, cleared several buildings and called for artillery support, all of it recorded by ITE. Commanders can see in the replay how ground troops battled through computergenerated artillery fire while tanks battled each other a few miles away. Some soldiers complimented the new equipment required for the system, including the lighter laser-sensors on their helmets. “The older models were like having a TV screen in the back of my head,” said Pfc. Victor Colon, while their sergeant debriefed his unit after the drill.
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Karachi car bomb kills 37, wounds 141 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KARACHI, Pakistan — A car bomb exploded outside a mosque on Sunday, killing at least 37 people and wounding another 141 in a neighborhood dominated by Shiite Muslims in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi. No one has taken responsibility for the bombing, but Shiite Muslims have been increasingly targeted by Sunni militant groups in Karachi, Pakistan’s economic hub and site of years of police, sectarian and ethnic violence. The bomb exploded outside a Shiite mosque as people were leaving evening prayers. Initial reports suggested the bomb was rigged to a motorcycle, but a top police official, Shabbir Sheikh, said later that an estimated 220 pounds of explosives were planted in a car. Col. Pervez Ahmad, an official with a Pakistani paramilitary force called the Rangers, said a chemical used in the blast caught fire and
spread the destruction beyond the blast site. Several buildings nearby were engulfed in flames. Men and women wailed and ambulances rushed to the scene where residents tried to find victims buried in the rubble of collapsed buildings. The blast left a crater that was 2 yards wide and more than 4 feet deep. “I heard a huge blast. I saw flames,” said Syed Irfat Ali, a resident who described how people were crying and trying to run to safety. A top government official, Taha Farooqi, said at least 37 people were confirmed dead and 141 more were wounded. Sunni militant groups have stepped up attacks in the past year against Shiite Muslims who make up about 20 percent of Pakistan’s population of 180 million people. Sunni militants linked to al-Qaida and the Taliban view Shiites as heretics. Tahira Begum, a relative of a blast victim, demanded the
government take strict action against the attackers. “Where is the government?” she asked during an interview with local Aaj News TV. “Terrorists roam free. No one dares to catch them.” Two brazen attacks against a Shiite Hazara community in southwestern city of Quetta killed nearly 200 people since Jan. 10. Pakistani militant group Lashkare-Jhangvi claimed responsibility for the bombings, which ripped through a billiard club and a market in areas populated by Hazaras, which are mostly Muslim Shiites. Pakistan’s intelligence agencies helped nurture Sunni militant groups like Lashkar-eJhangvi in the 1980s and 1990s to counter a perceived threat from neighboring Iran, which is mostly Shiite. Pakistan banned Lashkare-Jhangvi in 2001, but the group continues to attack Shiites. According to Human Rights Watch, more than 400 Shiites
were killed last year in targeted attacks across the countr y, the worst year on record for anti-Shiite violence in Pakistan. The human rights group said more than 125 were killed in Baluchistan province. Most of them belonged to the Hazara community. Human rights groups have accused the government of not doing enough to protect Shiites. The Hazara community held protests after the Jan. 10 bombing, which spread to other par ts of the countr y. The protesters refused to bur y their dead for several days while demanding a militar y-led crackdown against the Lashkar-e-Jhanvi group. Pakistan’s president dismissed the provincial government and assigned a gover nor to r un Baluchistan province. No operation was launched against the militant group until another bombing in Februar y killed 89 people.
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Interest Research Group for having an opt-out fee on our tuition bills. Our apprehension primarily came from the lack of transparency about where student New Jersey United Students is pushing for a $3.50 funds were going, as well as the eventual revelation opt-out fee on students’ tuition bills every semester to the organization funneled these funds to an Arizona go towards the United States Student Association. The chapter that still does not exist today. Ibrahim reasopt-out fee would include the $3.50 as an optional sures us that “a large portion [of the USSA fee] is earcheckbox on the bill. It would be pre-checked, and marked to New Jersey.” So, as long as NJUS and USSA allow for students to remove it if they don’t want their keeps us in the loop with the information that we are money going to the national organization. entitled to, we feel much more comfortable with the The organization, USSA, aims to “amplify the stureferendum passing. dent voice by mobilizing grassroots power to win conIt’s equally important, however, that the issue is crete victories on student issues.” decided by students by being put It would basically advocate for to referendum. It is, after all, stu“It’s only $3.50 student interests at a national dents’ money, and students level. Our money, which could should be the ones to decide a semester. Some collectively be around $100,000 if where it goes. Putting the measstudents — and let’s the referendum passes, would go ure to a University-wide vote towards the organization’s misensures just that. face it, we all know sion statement. And while we are concerned someone — spend more The referendum is a student that many students will be vote that requires 25 percent, unaware of the new fee being than that on a burger.” plus one, of the student body in added to their bill, we stand by order for it to pass. the opinion that it is each individSherif Ibrahim, vice president ual’s responsibility to be complicof RUSA, believes that “increasing student input so it of what is enumerated on their tuition bills and what campuses can reflect our desires for education is why they are paying for. it all matters.” During University President Robert L. Barchi’s The student fee, and the way that it is to be decided town hall meeting on Feb. 21, he stated his preference upon, seems very reasonable. It’s only $3.50 a semesof an opt-in fee over an opt-out fee — which would ter. Some students — and let’s face it, we all know place the $3.50 as an optional unchecked checkbox on someone — spend more than that on a burger. We the tuition bill that students can choose to pay. might as well put that money towards an organization The University Senate has already passed the prothat seems invested in our interests as a student body. posal to put the fee to a referendum vote, and it now This takes us to our next point — the fee can only awaits Barchi’s decision whether or not to let the be acceptable if there is as much transparency as posvote happen. sible about what our money is being used for. In our We think it is fair, and we encourage Barchi — and Feb. 6 editorial, we criticized the New Jersey Public the student body — to give these thoughts due attention. 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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Don’t be discouraged from living the dream PHILOSOPHIES OF A PARTICULAR AMERICAN ED REEP
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magine having a passion for the arts. Now imagine having a passion for the arts while also working a full-time job in the arts, always surrounded by that sharp human pleasure associated with expression. That sounds like a dream — “the dream.” But for many, it does not come true. Every year, scores of discouraged young people accept that their artistic pursuit will be no more than a hobby as they go off to find a traditional full-time job. My fraternal twin brother, Jack Reep, is not one of them. After graduating from Cornell University this May, he will work full-time as a guitarist on a cruise ship. I spoke with him about his journey to become a professional musician, and let me tell you — it’s no accident he’s where he is today. You see, Jack fell in love with music when he was elementary-school-aged, and throughout his youth, he practiced the instruments he played constantly. He
already had thousands of hours of quality all my energy into what he taught me. If I musical experience by the time he was a had the option to do homework or practice junior in high school. He considered for Steve, I would practice for Steve and studying music in college, but then he got crunch in my homework later. If Steve his SAT scores back. In his words: “I got ever pointed out an error or something an 800 in math, and the family, school and that could be better, I would obsessively community started laying down the pres- practice it and overkill it for the next time sure for me to be a doctor, lawyer or engi- I saw him. By listening to everything Steve neer. They didn’t see the value in doing told me to do, it gave me a solid guitar foundation from music. They were which to work from,” thinking from almost he said. a purely financial “If you have what it takes Jack also plays viewpoint.” Jack got to live the dream, gigs out in public accepted to Cornell every week and has and ended up studydon’t compromise. been heavily ing psychology, his Fight for the dream.” involved with “second favorite Cornell’s jazz prothing behind music,” gram since his first but while there, he year. At college, he put as much time into gave himself a full-scale music education. Not only did Jack minor in music, but music as he did his major and then some. Coming into senior year of college, I he took the initiative to find dedicated professional mentors like Paul Merrill, the really thought my brother was going to director of Cornell’s jazz program, and work as a psych researcher somewhere. Steven Brown, a retired music professor But then he surprised our parents and me from nearby Ithaca College who had actu- — landing a full-time job as a cruise-ship ally taught Merrill. Jack ended up taking musician shortly after I landed my fulllessons with Brown. “Knowing that I was time business job. Of course, we shouldn’t fortunate enough to score lessons with have been surprised. He later told me his such a respected teacher, I began putting music reading skills were a huge reason
Barchi detached from the student body COMMENTARY MARIOS ATHANASIOU
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hen University President Rober t L. Barchi was announced as the new president of the University, many wondered how he would compare to his predecessor, Richard L. McCormick, in addressing the concerns of students. Was there perchance a glimmer of hope, a ray of optimism, that we would have a president with whom we could work toward bettering our university, its policies and its practices? This past Thursday, when Barchi held his first town hall, the veil of obscurity surrounding the president’s perspective was lifted as we saw him for who he really is — a disconnected executive who views his constituents, the student body, as easily mislead, easily silenced nuisances that can be treated with disrespect and dismissal. Barchi wasted no time altering the meeting’s arrangement, springing a presentation upon the student gathering (a plan that he had somehow failed to share in advance), bragging about the advancements the University made and the accomplishments of staf f at the University — all in a presentation that took so much of the event’s time that a only mere handful of student had time to ask questions. A portion of his presentation addressed the University of Medicine and Dentistr y of New Jersey merger, which was still in the process of being fully implemented. But shockingly, the show-and-tell failed once more to discuss the actual cost of the procedure. As many pointed out before, after and even during the plan’s signing, nowhere in the 130 pages of legislation, nor in the meetings leading to the bill being passed, has the actual cost caused by the absorption of UMDNJ’s debt been addressed. And yet, while this number still remains undefined, Barchi has informed the State Senate Committee that this figure could
hit $75 million, 50 percent more than the highest estimate produced during the May deliberations. This of course raises the question of how the University plans to offset such a massive debt, many speculating the answer to be tuition. Oh, but I forgot, tuition isn’t a problem according to Barchi. It was a phrase that may not have caused ever yone’s ears to perk up, but left mine burning. Barchi claimed the University’s tuition rates are a “bargain” and compared the University’s cost to other colleges’ rates, something students should be grateful for. I beg your pardon? Barchi, I must here ask, is it that you are so out of touch — so alienated from your constituency — that you fail to see how
“[Barchi is] a disconnected executive who views ... the student body as easily mislead, easily silenced nuisances that can be treated with disrespect and dismissal. ” disrespectfully you have just addressed students struggling to afford a higher education? Or is it that you simply do not care about who can afford an education at our university? Whenever the subject of student debt comes up in conversation, I’m disturbed to see, those without loans and debt are within the minority more often than not. How is tuition affordable when 60 percent of college students have loans they have taken out in order offset the cost of tuition? Why have I had countless conversations with students who had to leave the University because they could not afford to stay? Why did a student who sat in that ver y room next to you have to star ve, losing 30 pounds in a semester because they had to make the choice between tuition and nourishment? Just how detached from your student body — from the perils of middle-class families so many
students here come from — do you have to be to not see that tuition is far from a bargain and just how offensive such a claim is? Attempting to detract from the matter of tuition here at the University by comparing us to other higher education institutions is misdirection that is transparent and inadequate. The question at hand here is not tuition at other schools, but tuition here. Are we honestly to believe that with all the brilliant minds at our University and all the staff employed, a solution in which tuition does not rise and a quality education is affordable and available to all is so preposterous? If you expect us to believe that, you severely underestimate the intelligence of your students. I did not mention in this column the manner in which Barchi addressed instate tuition, for there already exists a piece written far better than I could articulate that ran Monday. The manner in which the University and its president address and acknowledge students and their concerns needs to change. No longer can the practice of in loco parentis continue, in which the administration acts as parents addressing their students as children. A new dialogue is needed, one in which students are treated as equals and are treated with respect, one where the president of our university is not so alienated that he views tuition as an af fordable expense, and one that works toward ensuring the education is accessible to all. So, Barchi, you are left with two choices: respect your students and attempt to aid them, or continue your confrontational stance. In the case of the latter, I hope you are prepared — being a new member of our university community, you may not be as acquainted with the student body. We are not the type to take these issues passively, and we are not an enemy you wish to make.
Marios Athanasiou is a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore majoring in political science. He is an internal manager for Rutgers Student Union and the parliamentarian for New Jersey United Students.
he got the job. He’d been honing those skills since elementary school. Jack still has a long journey ahead of him. And I bet it’ll be a dream, “the dream.” He tells me, “I love music so much that I’m very happy to be doing it constantly. I wouldn’t have it any other way. In short, you get out what you put in. If you really want to reach the next level, you have to fully commit yourself one hundred percent. You could say it’s my religion, my passion, my obsession or whatever else.” If you have what it takes to live the dream, don’t compromise. Fight for the dream. Jack has inspired me. Even though I’ll have a business job by day in which I work very hard, I promise you, readers of The Daily Targum, that I am going to be a full-fledged artist at night. Whatever our day job or major is — if we have that passion burning inside of us, we should all be artists. Ed Reep is a Rutgers Business School senior majoring in supply chain and marketing science with minors in business and technical writing and economics. His column, “Philosophies of a Particular American,” runs on alternate Mondays.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Cutbacks unfair Thank you for reporting the article on the Department of Psychology’s new testing format and its budget woes. I took an online exam today, and what I might say here might be contradicting to what I said in the article. It was not terrible. Because I have been taking linear online quizzes for two courses and I was taking the test in a nearly empty computer lab, these factors might have contributed to a pleasant test experience. But the tests online are definitely different, and it takes time and preparation to get used to them. Professors should prepare their students by issuing online linear quizzes to get use to the format. Sakai needs to adjust to be able to handle more students logging in at the same time. There are even talks that online tests would be conducted in the classrooms, as students would bring in their laptops — or wireless devices, but I don’t think any student should be subjected to taking an exam on their cell phone — and take the test in class. This way, professors can directly answer students’ questions and the linear format might not be needed. But even more preparation is needed — laptops need to be provided for students who do not have a wireless device or a suitable wireless device, and the classrooms need to have better Wi-Fi connections to sustain 200 students taking a test. After speaking with Dr. Lee Jussim, chair of the department, I believe that the main issue should be focused on the budget problems. After all, that’s how the paper exams had to be eliminated. As Natan Santacruz noted in Thursday’s article, it is bothersome that millions were spent on the athletic department moving to a different conference, but the Department of Psychology is running on its reserve fund. Other students and I cannot help but wonder where our tuition is going. Tracy Ng is a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore majoring in sociology and psychology.
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Scott is the first Big East Champion under Spiniello in his three years coaching the program. On the last day of competition Saturday, freshman Joanna Wu rounded out her first-career Big East Championships with a sixth-place finish in the 200meter backstroke. Sophomore Greta Leberfinger also took home a sixth-place finish in the 200meter breaststroke finals. In the final event of her collegiate career, senior co-captain Taylor Zafir finished the 1650meter freestyle event with a time of 17:10.12. The Knights found themselves in fourth place after Friday’s competition. Rutgers compiled 128 points in the third day of competition while setting a new school record in the 400-meter medley relay. Spiniello said the relay team surprised some people with its performance. It went from seventh place to finishing third in the finals. A squad consisting of Wu, Leberfinger and juniors Mary Moser and Brittany Guinee earned the milestone with a time of 3:40.52. Wu took fourth in the 100meter backstroke, her strongest event, and placed fifth Friday in the 200-meter freestyle. She was followed by freshman Sarah Coyne for the Knights. Both athletes made an early mark in their first Big East Championships during the first two days of competition. Wu finished the 500-meter freestyle with a time of 4:49.99, improving her preliminary score by more than three seconds. Moser took ninth in the 50meter freestyle with Coyne behind in 13th place. Both finished in less than 24 seconds. Rutgers started off the Big East Championships strong with 153.50 total points after the first two days. The divers began the first day with sophomore Nicole Honey grabbing ninth place in the finals of the 3-meter event. Honey completed a score of 271.00, with Scott right behind at 268.60. Both divers have been at the top of the standings for the Knights throughout the season. Scott took sixth place in the next day’s 1-meter dive with a score of 264.60 — and was followed closely by senior co-captain Kate Kearney. The relays provided Rutgers with early scoring opportunities. Before the record-setting performance Friday, the Knights took seventh place in the 800meter freestyle finals with a squad of Wu, Moser, Guinee and freshman Morgan Pfaff. Rutgers earned a pair of fourth-place finishes in the 200meter medley relay and 200meter freestyle relay events. “As a team, we definitely had the potential, and we came through with it,” Spiniello said. “We got people into the top eight in the morning swims, so we could come back at night in the finals and score big points.”
the first Hoya since 2003 with that distinction. The Scarlet Knights, meanwhile, took only 15 free throws as a team. Thirty-one team fouls for the Knights (13-14, 4-12) led to 42 Georgetown (23-4, 13-3) free throws and nearly 47 percent of the Hoyas’ total points. In a meeting last season in Washington, D.C., Rutgers recorded 29 team fouls as Georgetown shot 25-for-36 from the free throw line. The Knights went 4-for-7 from the line in that game. This time, Porter was at the heart of the disparity. The potential NBA Lottery pick was fouled at the 3-point line, in the low post and nearly everywhere in between. In his last three games, Porter has averaged 27.6 points, seven rebounds and a 58-percent mark from the field, increasing his
national visibility with ever y highlight-reel play. Rice could not deny the impact of Porter’s ascent on splitsecond foul calls. “I’m sure [the referees] know who Otto Porter is,” Rice said. “We didn’t have an answer. We haven’t had an answer the last three times we’ve played Otto Porter.” Rice’s switching defense did not help. His scheme, in which players Nos. 1-4 switch man-to-man responsibilities, often left Porter matched up in the paint against smallish guards. Then again, Porter proved capable in open space against Rutgers’ big men, driving past senior for ward Austin Johnson for a reverse layin, widening Georgetown’s second-half lead to 10. “He did it to everybody,” Rice said. “He got everybody to foul him. We get so anxious and uptight when he’s around us.
Make him make a shot. We put him on the line that many times, he’s going to kill you.” The Knights’ of fense was less effective. It never looked comfortable against Georgetown’s man and zone looks, and senior wing Dane Miller said the team “took like three 3-pointers from halfcourt.” Rutgers shot 37 percent from the field, and only junior forward Wally Judge scored in double figures. “We go into points where we can’t make a shot,” Judge said. “At times, that rushes us. Everybody’s looking to make the next shot for the team. You see them not falling, and it’s kind of contagious.” It has been that type of season for the Knights, whose four conference wins have come by an average of three points. Rice’s motion offense has had its issues, but a larger psyche problem remains. It can happen when a team loses eight Big East games, including three of its last four, by 10 points or less. “Every time we miss a free throw, every time we miss a putback, every time we go soft,” Rice said, “it takes away some of that passion and energy you
have to have to defend Otto Porter and Georgetown.” Rice lamented stretches in Big East play when higherranked opponents had noticeably longer preparation time for the Knights. He does not have an argument this time. Rutgers last played a week earlier, while Georgetown came in of f of a double-over time game Wednesday. Associate head coach David Cox spent three seasons under Hoyas head coach John Thompson III, and Rice said the team knew how Thompson would get Porter involved. Porter showed few ill effects for Rutgers’ planning. His stat line was one of many things the Knights did not plan for. “We didn’t know we were going to send him to the free throw line 18 times and he was going to make 15 of them,” Miller said. “It was a tough game for us. Ever y time we basically put our hands on him, they called a foul.” For updates on the Rutgers men’s basketball team, follow Tyler Barto on Twitter @TBartoTargum.
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MARCH 4, 2013 GYMNASTICS RUTGERS WINS QUAD MEET WITH 195.975 RECORD SCORE
RU makes history books in Senior Day rout BY GREG JOHNSON STAFF WRITER
A sea of emotional gymnasts and coaches embraced senior Danielle D’Elia after she nailed a floor exercise routine Saturday at the Livingston Recreation Center for the final time. The Rutgers gymnastics team set a school-record score of 195.975 on Senior Day, sweeping its quad meet against Cornell, William & Mary and Brockport. For D’Elia, all the work the Scarlet Knights put in this year finally paid off. “It’s amazing. It feels so good to finally get exactly where we’ve been wanting to go,” D’Elia said. “We are just on the road to being really great and making history. That’s really honestly all you can ask for as a senior.” A program-record score of 48.975 on vault ignited the performance, as junior Luisa Leal anchored the event for Rutgers
with an individual team-record score of 9.925. But Leal accredits junior co-captain Alexis Gunzelman — who set a career high in the all-around with a 39.225 first-place outing — for setting the tone with an enhanced-level routine her teammates had never seen before. “Alexis’ vault set everything up, because we’re used to seeing her vault a certain way, and she stuck it. We never see her stick it,” Leal said. “She started with a [9.825] vault and everyone else had to get a 9.8 or better.” Leal followed Gunzelman’s lead, executing the first crisp vault dismount of her career. “When I did it and I saw the judges’ faces, I was like, ‘God, I’ve been waiting for this moment three years. I don’t even know what to say. Should I scream, or smile, or laugh?’” Leal said. “It was awesome.” A fired-up Knights unit never looked back.
Rutgers proceeded to post a season-high score of 48.950 on the uneven bars. Freshman Jenna Williams led the team with a careerhigh mark of 9.900 — the highest of any Knight this season. D’Elia also competed a bars routine, earning a 9.800, for the first time since Jan. 26, when she hurt her shoulder. “It was a little nerve-wracking because I hadn’t competed bars in a while, but I did exhibition [Feb. 23] at Denver, so that was a good thing,” D’Elia said. “I just got back into it and [head coach Louis Levine] made a decision that I was ready.” On floor, D’Elia and Leal sealed the historic outing with scores of 9.875 and 9.900, respectively, as Rutgers set another individual event record with a team score of 49.250. Pacing back and forth behind the media table before her final home performance, D’Elia spoke to no one as an overwhelming confliction of feelings dawned on her.
“It’s definitely an array of emotions,” D’Elia said of the moment. “It doesn’t feel real, and it doesn’t feel like this was my last time ever competing in here, so before I went on I just wanted to do my best for the team and really do everything I can to help us get to where we got [Saturday].” Two routines after D’Elia, Leal ended the meet where she started it — anchoring an event. She refused to disappoint the packed crowd. “Being anchor on the last event — especially when you’re at home — is such an honor and such a privilege that you just feel like you can’t let your people down,” Leal said. For the second straight time at home, Rutgers had accomplished something for the history books. “[D’Elia’s] been amazing on floor her whole entire career here. She’s been our rock through everything. It was great for her to go out on such a great routine,” Levine said. “All the seniors did an absolute great job today.”
SOFTBALL
Rutgers slugs four wins in Va. BY GREG JOHNSON STAFF WRITER
For the last two weeks, Rutgers head softball coach Jay Nelson asserted the Scarlet Knights’ offensive inefficiencies at San Antonio were merely a result of seeing live pitching for the first time this season. In their second tournament at Virginia this weekend, the Knights proved him right, slugging their way to 6.8 runs per game — more than double their output at San Antonio. In a Sunday doubleheader, the Knights compiled 16 runs in a sweep against Cornell (2-2) and George Mason (5-7). Sophomore lefthander Alyssa Landrith proved to be a workhorse on the defensive side, hurling all 14 innings with 13 strikeouts and no walks. Nelson said the strong strikeout-to-walk ratio and little signs of fatigue were critical factors in making the decision to pitch Landrith in back-to-back games. Rutgers defeated host George Mason, 7-2, in the final game behind a four-run third inning. Sophomore outfielder Chandler Howard hit a three-run double to give the Knights a 3-0 lead they would not relinquish. It capped off a weekend of precisely the consistent power hitting Nelson was looking for. “We hit the ball hard. It was good to see us making adjustments from game to game and from pitcher to pitcher,” Nelson said. “We’re hitting all throughout the lineup.” Against Cornell, Rutgers put together another rout, winning 91. After batting only 1-for-14 in the opening tournament, sophomore outfielder Jackie Bates went 2-for3 with a homerun to cap off a series in which she amassed two homeruns and seven RBI. Nelson said Bates is now producing exactly what the team wants from its No. 3 hitter. “She’s becoming much more balanced up there,” Nelson said. “Our tendency in the first weekend was to get out under our front foot and be early on ever ything. She’s now staying really balanced in the batter’s box, so her approach is getting better. She’s seeing the ball much better.” Junior outfielder Loren Williams continued her hot hitting from San Antonio, going 3for-5 with two RBI against the Big Red. She leads the team with a .429 batting average for the season. The only game the Knights did not win came in the second game of a Saturday doubleheader against George Mason, getting shut out, 3-0. “They threw a pitcher that was a little off-speed, and we kind of panicked. We started pressing,” Nelson said. “Then they came back with her [in the last game]. We talked to the team, and they realized that they just had to stay back on her. We knocked her out of the box.” Landrith went the distance in that contest as well, surrendering only one earned run. In its opening doubleheader on Friday, Rutgers (6-4) exploded for 18 runs, defeating George Mason, 8-3, and Rider (2-7), 10-0 in five innings.
MARCH 4, 2013
SPORTS PAGE 15 KNIGHT NOTEBOOK RUTGERS SHOOTS JUST 40 PERCENT FROM LINE
Junior forward Wally Judge throws down a dunk during Saturday night’s 64-51 loss to Georgetown. Judge was the only Rutgers player to score in double figures with 11 points after shooting 5-for-9 from the field. Forward Dane Miller and guard Myles Mack each had nine points. NELSON MORALES, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Knights fail to convert free-throw opportunities BY JOEY GREGORY CORRESPONDENT
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Facing No. 7 Georgetown and the nation’s No. 10 scoring defense is tough enough as it is. It is even more difficult when the Hoyas spend most of the game on the free throw line. And it is near impossible to come out on top when the person who takes most of those free throws is player of the year candidate Otto Porter. The Rutgers men’s basketball team received a firsthand look at this Saturday night, when an excessive free throw differential led to a 64-51 Scarlet Knights loss to the Hoyas. The contest with Georgetown saw an inordinate amount of fouls called, even for the Knights’ standards. Georgetown picked up a very uncharacteristic 21 fouls. But Rutgers would not be outdone in one of the few categories
it has been consistent in all season. It totaled 30 team fouls. Both teams’ foul numbers were higher than they expected, but that can be attributed to the referees, who were consistent in the little amount of contact they allowed. But the Knights do not concern themselves with that. “That’s not my call,” said junior for ward Wally Judge. “We can’t make the refs make a different decision. We have to play through it. It’s not what the refs call that balances out the game. It’s how we play.” Rutgers sent the Hoyas to the line for 42 shots. They drained 30 of them. Porter led the charge in that stat, going 15-for-18 from the charity stripe. His 15 points from the line alone topped all of his opponents. Judge was the only Knight to reach double figures, notching 11.
Rutgers, on the other hand, did not reach the line often and failed to take advantage when it did. The Knights took 15 free throws and made six of them, a 40 percent clip — their season average is 71 percent. That created a disparity in scoring, which yielded a difference in offensive style. The Hoyas — since they had suppor t from 30 made free throws — were able to maintain their slow, relaxed, ef ficient style of offense. They took only 33 shots. Most of that of fense involved dumping the ball to Porter and letting him play the way they are used to. On Saturday that involved driving and drawing fouls. “You can get to the hole and shoot free throws,” Porter said of sacrificing jump shots for dribble drives. “They’re free, so you want to shoot free throws.”
Rutgers, on the other hand, did not have the luxury of free throws. That led to the Knights taking 54 shots. But while they took 21 more shots than the Hoyas, they only made five more. And shooting 40 percent from the line and a 37-percent clip from the field is not going to beat the Big East leader.
S OPHOMORE GUARD M YLES Mack was the clear candidate to pick up the majority of the slack following fellow guard Eli Carter’s season-ending injur y. That has been confirmed by opposing defenses, which clearly have keyed in on the Patterson, N.J., native. “He’s so good,” said Georgetown head coach John Thompson III. “[A ninepoint night] is abnormal for him.”
Mack put up nine points for the second consecutive game, this time on 3-for-13 shooting. To make matters worse for Rutgers, Mack — the Big East’s best free throw shooter — did not reach the line once. But he was not the only Knight to endure trouble against the Hoyas, especially around the basket. On 10 offensive rebounds, Rutgers picked up only four second-chance points. “It just helps your energy. It picks you up,” Rice said of made shots. “Ever y time we miss a free throw, ever y time we miss a put-back, ever y time we go soft, it takes away some of that passion and energy you have to have to defend Otto Porter and Georgetown.” For updates on the Rutgers men’s basketball team, follow Joey Gregory on Twitter @JGregoryTargum.
TENNIS RUTGERS 5, MARQUETTE 2
Undefeated conference record remains intact BY JIM MOONEY CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Rutgers tennis team delivered a victor y against Marquette on Friday for the Scarlet Knights’ third victor y in a row. The win also broke a streak of three consecutive losses to the Golden Eagles. “This was a big confidence booster for us,” said head coach Ben Bucca. “Marquette is always one of the leading teams in the Big East.”
The Knights (5-2, 2-0) took the doubles point behind another strong performance from junior Vanessa Petrini and freshman Gina Li, who defeated Rocio Diaz and Ali Dawson, 8-2, in the opening match. Following a no finish in the second doubles match, sophomores Lindsay Balsamo and Noor Judeh clinched the doubles point, 8-4, against Aleeza Kanner and Aina Hernandez Soler. “The whole team had a lot of energy coming into this match. Marquette is always tough,”
Balsamo said, who is now 5-2 in singles play. “It was really exciting to clinch the doubles point and really set the tone going into singles competition.” Bucca also expressed his approval of the strong doubles play against Marquette (9-5, 0-2). “I think we played some of our best doubles of the season,” he said. Marquette did not go away quietly in singles play. Ana Pimienta needed a tiebreaking third set to defeat Petrini in the No. 1 singles
match. The setback was only Petrini’s second loss this season in singles play. But Li delivered a win against Diaz in straight sets, 6-0, 6-2, to compensate for Petrini. “Vanessa and I played a really good match in doubles and I just brought that energy and momentum into my singles match,” said Li, who improved her singles record to a team best 6-1 and increased her singles win streak to three. The Knights made a final r un to seal the victor y.
Freshman Lindsey Kayati defeated Erin Gebes, 6-3, 6-3, and also improved to 5-1 in singles play. The Knights turned to Judeh and Balsamo to seal the victor y. Judeh defeated Hernandez Soler to give the Knights the match. Balsamo finished out the match with a victor y over Kanner, 6-2, 6-2. With an undefeated record in the Big East, Rutgers continues conference play tomorrow at Storrs, Conn. to face Connecticut.
HOYA PROBLEMS The Rutgers men’s basketball team could not control Georgetown forward Otto Porter on Saturday in its’ 64-51 loss. PAGE 15
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GOLDEN EAGLES DOWN The Rutgers tennis team remained undefeated in Big East play Friday, when it defeated Marquette, 5-2 . PAGE 15
SPORTS
FINDING BALANCE The Rutgers softball team’s line up stepped up as the Knights won four of five this weekend. PAGE 14 QUOTE OF THE DAY “When I did it and I saw the judges’ faces, I was like ... ‘should I scream, or smile, or laugh?’.” — Rutgers gymnastics junior Luisa Leal on the best-executed dismount of her career
MONDAY, MARCH 4, 2013
SWIMMING, DIVING
MEN’S BASKETBALL NO. 8 GEORGETOWN 64, RUTGERS 51
Scott captures first place at championship
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Lackluster Cincinnati defeats RU
BY IAN ERHARD BY JOSH BAKAN
STAFF WRITER
SPORTS EDITOR
The Rutgers swimming and diving team placed fifth at the Big East Championships this weekend with a total score of 410.50 points. The Scarlet Knights improved their point total from last year’s event by 163, when they finished in eighth. “I couldn’t be prouder of how the women performed in getting top five,” said head coach Phil Spiniello. “That was our goal all year long as a program — to improve upon our finish of last year, to be a top-five program in the Big East.” The Knights ended only five points behind Villanova in fourth place and were 28 points shy of taking third. Junior Nicole Scott highlighted the four-day event for the Knights by earning gold Saturday in the platform diving event with a score of 273.25. “I was elated with Nicole Scott’s performance and all the divers as a whole” Spiniello said. “The diving crew brought in a lot of points for the program at this meet and [were] a big piece of this puzzle.” SEE
Senior wing Dane Miller, right, attempts to defend Georgetown forward Otto Porter on Saturday in Rutgers’ 64-51 loss. Porter finished the game with 28 points.
PLACE ON PAGE 13
NELSON MORALES, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Porter hands loss to struggling Knights BY TYLER BARTO CORRESPONDENT
Joanna Wu finished sixth in her event at the Big East Championships. SMARANDA TOLOSANO, JANUARY 2013
COLLEGE BASKETBALL SCORES Villanova 64 No. 23 Pitt (OT) 73
No. 9 Mich. St. 57 No. 4 Mich. 58
DePaul South Florida
73 83
Virginia Boston C.
52 53
Purdue No. 17 Wisc.
69 56
Fairfield Marist
60 73
WASHINGTON, D.C. — For all of his prowess — 28 points, eight rebounds, four steals and three blocks — Otto Porter’s loudest ovation came when he finally sat down. The Georgetown for ward was so effective Saturday at the Verizon Center that his first break came with 23.2 seconds left, a 64-51 Hoyas victor y well in hand.
“I don’t know if anybody in this room could have predicted what he is right now,” said Rutgers head men’s basketball coach Mike Rice, whose team lost its 10th game in 11 tries. “It’s not close who the Big East Player of the Year is right now. If he keeps continuing, it’s not even close for National Player of the Year.” Porter went to the free throw line like it, making 18 trips and converting 15 of them, SEE
EXTRA POINT
TYLIA GILLON was one of three athletes from the Rutgers women’s track and field team to advance to the finals of Saturday’s ECAC Championships after the sophomore took second in the 60-m.
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Before entering Cincinnati, it was quite likely the Rutgers women’s basketball team would need an incredibly successful Big East Tournament to make the NCAA Tournament. After Saturday’s 56-48 loss to the Bearcats, that became all but certain. Cincinnati (12-16, 4-11) ended the game with an 8-0 run once Rutgers (15-13, 6-9) tied the game at 48 with 2:12 left. Center Lesha Dunn sparked the late run with two free throws on the next possession to complete her 14-point outing. Rutgers’ comeback to tie the score came on a Knights run where Dunn and sophomore wing Betnijah Laney alternated to dominate scoring. Laney scored six consecutive points — she ended with 14 — for Rutgers to close Cincinnati’s lead to 48-46. Sophomore guard Shakena Richardson tied the game by sinking both her free throws. Rutgers closed a 10-point gap to tie the game, following Cincinnati’s 44-34 lead with 8:09 left. That came with another timely Dunn jumper to give the Bearcats a double-digit lead. But, the Knights hurt their chances too early — which put them in a 25-19 deficit at halftime. Freshman for ward Rachel Hollivay led the way for Rutgers in the first half with seven points and two blocks. Although she added a block in the second half, she did not score. Senior guard Erica Wheeler picked up the scoring load with a team-leading 15 points. For the second straight game, she had a solid performance from beyond the arc, making three 3-pointers. Guard Dayeesha Hollins again proved to be a problem for Rutgers, scoring 17 points including 11 in the first half. Hollins scored 20 points Feb. 9 in Piscataway. Rutgers ends its regular season tonight against Pittsburgh (9-19, 0-15), the lone winless team in the Big East, at the Louis Brown Athletic Center. But after losing to Cincinnati, the idea of an easy win for Rutgers is becoming non-existent. For updates on the Rutgers women’s basketball team, follow Josh Bakan on Twitter. @JBakanTargum.
RUTGERS SPORTS CALENDAR WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
TENNIS
MEN’S LACROSSE
at Connecticut
vs. Holy Cross
Tomorrow, 2 p.m. Storrs, Conn.
Tomorrow, 3 p.m.
vs. Pittsburgh Today, 7:30 p.m. RAC
MEN’S BASKETBALL vs. Marquette
RU Stadium Complex
Tomorrow, 7 p.m. RAC