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GO FOR THE MONEY Amy Siskind, a former Wall Street executive, believes women should stop caring for other people and try making as much money as they can in the first few years of their professional careers. UNIVERSITY, PAGE 3
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After Rice, pressure on Pernetti State Senate president calls for athletic director to resign
Candidates also answer emailed questions from student body
BY JULIAN CHOKKATTU NEWS EDITOR
Although there is increasing local and national pressure for Athletic Director Tim Pernetti to resign from the University, there is continued silence from the administration. The call to fire Pernetti, or for him to resign, comes after the University fired former head men’s basketball coach Mike Rice on the morning of April 3, after a video displaying the former coach’s verbal and physical abuse of players surfaced during basketball practices. University President Robert L. Barchi postponed a Strategic Planning town hall meeting that was set to take place yesterday at Rutgers-Newark. The administration was not available for comment at press time as to why it was canceled. N.J. State Senate President Stephen Sweeney, D-3, released a statement asking for Pernetti’s removal from his post as athletic director at the University. “It is becoming abundantly clear that Tim Pernetti cannot remain in his position as athletic director at Rutgers,” he said in a statement. “For the good of the school, its students and its faculty, he should either resign or be removed from his position immediately.” Sweeney said Rice is eligible for a $100,000 bonus for finishing out this season, which would not have happened if he were
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Rutgers University Student Assembly presidential hopefuls Pavel Sokolov and Sherif Ibrahim, and vice presidential candidates Stefany Farino and Carlos Or tiz waged a head-to-head debate last night at the Student Activities Center on the College Avenue campus in light of the upcoming elections. Ibrahim, a School of Ar ts and Sciences junior, said working to implement shared governance — allowing students of ever y University depar tment to have decisionmaking power — is a unique tenet of his platform. “Creating a nexus between civic engagement and RUSA and the University administration could be a great step forward,” he said. “It’s going to allow us to push for ward student representation and put student interest first. This University exists for us.” Sokolov, a School of Ar ts and Sciences junior, said his position on student outreach singles him out. In response to concerns about RUSA’s SEE
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State Senate President Stephen Sweeney, D-3, released a statement asking Athletic Director Tim Pernetti, above, to resign. TIAN LI, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / FEBRUARY 2013
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University hosts dinner for veteran appreciation BY BRIDGETTE BJORLO CONTRIBUTING WRITER
BLACKHAWK UP The University Army Reserve Officer Training Corps was airlifted yesterday to Fort Dix Army Base, near Trenton, N.J., for a joint training exercise from the field behind Voorhees Chapel on Douglass campus. See more photos on PAGE 7. SMARANDA TOLOSANO, MULTIMEDIA ASSOCIATE
While many college applicants are hanging their graduation tassels, others are removing their combat boots. More than 300 student veterans met yesterday at the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus for the eighth annual Veteran and Military Appreciation Dinner, sponsored by PNC bank. The University paid tribute to the veterans who walk the New Brunswick campus everyday as a way to commemorate their service and sacrifice to the country. The Of fice of Veterans Ser vices has been nationally rec-
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ognized as a center of excellence and ranks third in the countr y in veteran programs and ser vices, according to Militar y Times EDGE magazine. The office acts as a key resource to student-veterans and helps ease the transition from life in combat to life in the classroom, Ryan Tomlinson said. Tomlinson, graduate student at the Edward J. Bloustein School and Iraq War Marine veteran, reflected on his challenging adjustment to college. “The experience is kind of surreal, because you go from an environment that is very structured to an environment that is very SEE
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The Office for Violence Prevention and Victim Assistance presents the Eve Ensler play “The Vagina Monologues” at 8:30 p.m. at the Livingston Student Center. Tickets are $5 for students and $7 for nonstudents. The money collected will go to The Rape Crisis and Intervention Center of Middlesex County and the V-day Organization.
Sunday, April 7
The Mason Gross School of the Arts presents a performance by HELIX! New Music Ensemble at 2 p.m. at the Nicholas Music Center on Douglass campus. The event costs $15 for the general public, $10 for faculty, employees and senior citizens and $5 for students.
Tuesday, April 9
The Department of American Studies and the Collective for Asian American Studies presents the Third Annual Asian American Studies Undergraduate Symposium at 3 p.m. at Murray Hall on the College Avenue campus. The lectures will feature research by undergraduates working in Asian American studies. The event is free and open to everyone.
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Former Wall Street executive gives tips on success for women BY ERIN PETENKO STAFF WRITER
Amy Siskind believes women should forget about helping people and focus on making money the first few years of their life. Siskind, a former Wall Street executive who later became president of The New Agenda, an organization for women’s empowerment, spoke at the Livingston Student Center yesterday about how women can be successful post-graduation. The majority of workers at more charitable jobs are women, even though those jobs pay less, she said. “Women have it drummed into their heads that they have to help people,” Siskind said. “You have to help yourself first.” She said women also tend not to self-promote and are less arrogant about their achievements, factors that put them behind. Women who want to get a promotion or pay raise should develop a short pitch that points out their contributions to the business, Siskind said. “Sometimes women will ask for things, and by the time they’re done, you don’t even know what they’re asking for,” she said. Whether women workers get a pay raise has little to do with education, experience or attractiveness, Siskind said. Instead, it is all about the money. “What you are worth is what revenue you generate,” she said. “What really gets you paid is whether the business goes with you.” Siskind said women often have unrealistic expectations about success, especially directly after graduation. “You’re not going to be CEO in the first two days,” she said. “The first decade of your life is going to be hard work.”
In the first few years of their career, workers should put in extra hours to get ahead, she said. When they have commitments later on, they have bargaining power over what they could do. During the first few years, networking is essential, Siskind said. “Every job I got in my career was because of friends,” she said. Some of Siskind’s opportunities came from unexpected places, including casual friends. “When I went to get my second job, I had an interview at a Japanese restaurant,” she said. “It was not going well — [the interviewer] was totally indifferent. Then, when she mentioned she’d gone to [University of Virginia], I told her I knew someone there. She called him and he told her the truth [about me].” Siskind said women need to take more risks in their career choices and in what they do with their career. When she was leaving her first job at NatWest personal banking, finance was in the middle of a crisis. Her last interviewer told her she was not going to be successful at her new career in sales and trading, she said. Siskind had to make a decision about following his advice to give up. “I had two choices: I could either take the risk or stay there on the Titanic,” she said. She chose to move ahead from her old job and became even more powerful, while her old company failed. Now whenever a challenge comes up at work, she thinks about his advice and relishes the chance to prove him wrong. She said she had failed many times in her career, but never let her failures drag her down. “If you fail, you have to pick yourself up and start again,” she said. “You’re all going to fail.
Amy Siskind, a former Wall Street executive, said women should focus on making money in the first few years of their professional careers yesterday at the Livingston Student Center. ELAINE ZHANG
Never look back, only at what you’re going to do next.” Students have many more opportunities to take risks, she said. They are free to choose careers and change them at will. “If that is your talent, then you have to make the most of it,” she said. Courtney Afriyie, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, said Siskind’s advice about choosing majors and making money particularly affected her, since she was a psychology and sociology major. “I’m questioning a lot of things now,” she said. She said she enjoyed hearing that society overempha-
sized per fection at the price of risk-taking. “We put too much pressure on students,” she said. “When I do badly on something, I have to remind myself I always have the chance to do better.” Much of what Siskind discussed about Wall Street is still true, said Marissa Joseph, who helped organize the event. “My sister works at [Standard & Poor’s 500 index], so it’s interesting to hear a young person’s perspective as well,” said Joseph, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “And a lot of what she says, I heard from my mentor at Rutgers Wall Street last summer.”
She said she invited Siskind to speak this year because she enjoyed the talk last year. Sylvia Cordero, a career management specialist at the University, said networking with people in New Jersey helped her to find her current job, and women should be more forward in pursuing their goals. “Communication pertains to success in any field, in any setting,” she said. Cordero frequently advises students to take risks and not worry about failure. “My advice is, expose yourself to as many things as possible to develop thick skin,” she said. “If you don’t have failure, you will never learn.”
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PERNETTI Lynn says media should lay Clementi’s name to rest CONTINUED FROM FRONT fired last year. “How long does anyone think a professor at Rutgers would have lasted if they yelled at their students, called them homophobic slurs and threw books at their heads when they answered a question wrong?” he said. “The response after watching the video should have been immediate, clear and final.” Troy Stevenson, executive director of Garden State Equality, agrees. As a part of an organization that pushes for civil rights, which was also a strong proponent for anti-bullying legislation in New Jersey, Stevenson said teachers and coaches are supposed to mentor and protect students. The University’s student-athletes deserve better, he said, and the administration has a lot of questions to answer regarding Barchi and Pernetti’s response toward Rice. “If [head] coach Rice had been fired when [the abuses] came to light, it would have been good enough,” Stevenson said. “Why didn’t the athletic director let the student population or the public know about it?” Stevenson said he believes the reason for Pernetti’s desire to not alert the public about
Rice’s actions stems from a cultural problem. “It goes directly to the idea that it was easier to make it hushhush than to make it public,” he said. “I think that speaks loudly to what’s going on in the University — if that’s going on in the athletic department, what else is hidden at the University?” Rice’s physical and verbal abuses highlight the need for more funding and a better understanding for bullying, Stevenson said. “This is New Jersey’s state university, this is not a place where this is supposed to happen, via athletics or education,” he said. Stevenson said if Pernetti felt a three-game suspension was the correct response for Rice’s actions, Pernetti should have still released the video. “He obviously knew there was going to be public outrage,” he said. “I don’t know [Pernetti as a person,] but his primary function is the education and security of the student population — and he failed at that,” Stevenson said. But Pernetti is not the only one facing heat for the lack of immediate and severe action against Rice. Ten faculty professors of the University signed a letter asking for Barchi’s resignation, which they sent to the University’s Board of Governors and Board of Trustees. “We, the undersigned faculty of
Rutgers University, are demanding the immediate resignation of our President Robert Barchi, in light of his inexcusable handling of Coach Mike Rice’s homophobic and misogynist abuse of our students,” the letter read. The letter goes on to explain other issues the authors who penned the letter have with Barchi, such as the lack of transparency Barchi exhibited in his relations with them and arrogance toward issues of diversity. But out of the 10 faculty mem-
“QSA welcomes the athletic department to open discussions … to be proactive in this issue.” REBECCA LYNN President of Queer Student Association
bers that first signed the letter, nine are from Rutgers-Newark, and only one is from the New Brunswick campus. The faculty members said in the letter that Barchi was at the Newark campus on April 2 to explain to legislators “his mistreatment of the Newark campus.” “During yesterday’s meeting, President Barchi already knew of the unfolding Rice scandal, yet declined to inform the legislators present,” the letter read. “Again, it is indicative of his pattern of lack of transparency that he did not ‘come clean’ at this critical moment.”
None of the 10 professors who signed the letter were available for comment at press time. Rebecca Lynn, president of the University’s Queer Student Association, said Rice’s termination was a responsibility on the University’s part, as there was no other choice. “I think whether it is gender, race and sexual orientation, no one likes to see their own personal identity used as an insult,” Lynn said. “Students were offended, and a lot of them identify with the community. If the language was different, the [situation] wouldn’t have been any different — any community involved would be deeply insulted.” But Lynn, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, said it does not make sense to have Pernetti and Barchi resign, though she understands the community’s call for it. “I understand their source of anger, but I don’t think it is a completely rational thought. Right now people are emotionally driven, and they need to take time and consideration and investigate the issue instead of jumping to conclusions and pointing fingers,” she said. “It all comes down to one individual’s actions.” Lynn said the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer community is making a strong presence in the University, especially after kicking off “Gaypril,” on April 1, a month dedicated to raising awareness of LGBTQ issues. “QSA welcomes the athletic department to open discussions … to be proactive in this issue,” she said. When asked about the national media coverage of Rice on campus,
along with the links made to the suicide of Tyler Clementi in 2010, which stemmed from cyber-bullying, Lynn grew frustrated. “I hate the link to Tyler Clementi … We need to put Tyler’s name to rest,” she said. “He’s also an individual, and we don’t know what his stance would be. We wouldn’t want our names associated with it. [They] need to show what the campus has done.” Ahmed Gewiley-Elbakly, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, said he believes the administration’s actions are justified and also believes the actions Pernetti and Barchi took against Rice last fall were reasonable. “I don’t think they did anything wrong by not firing him outright, because, being a fan of the basketball team when I first came [to the University], I could see that the players had potential, and it didn’t seem like they were getting tortured,” he said. “I could empathize with Pernetti for not [wanting] to let it get out.” He believes Barchi and Pernetti should not resign. “Absolutely not — leaders don’t quit in the face of adversity,” he said. “If they did, we would have no leaders.” A Facebook group titled “I SUPPORT TIM PERNETTI” was created yesterday and reached around 2,000 members at the time of publication. A Twitter account with the handle, @ThisisRutgers was created yesterday to highlight the University’s achievements, in response to the negative coverage the University is receiving.
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RACE Farino says RUSA needs to increase presence on campus CONTINUED FROM FRONT student outreach, Sokolov, a founder of RUSA’s Student Af fairs Committee, said he helped organize a town hall style meeting on Livingston campus where students met RUSA members and administrators to discuss changes on the campus. He said arranging town hall meetings on ever y campus would address this problem, as well as holding of fice hours to give students a chance to provide feedback for allocations funding. Ibrahim believes speaking to and building relationships with diverse student communities and organizations is the most ef fective way to facilitate outreach. When asked how RUSA will better promote student organization, Ibrahim said under his presidency, they will do research and take a stance on showing students what Student Life is, what organizations exist and how students can get involved. Sokolov believes RUSA needs a medium, like a newsletter, to highlight student accomplishments. “I really want other organizations, other student leaders, to be inspired by ever yone’s accomplishments,” he said. “I want to foster a culture where students’ success is not only academic, but really through involvement.” Joe Cashin, student repre-
Vice presidential candidates Stefany Farino, left, and Carlos Ortiz, right, discussed why they are running for the position, and ways for RUSA to increase its presence on campus. TIAN LI, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER sentative to the Board of Gover nors, asked the candidates about RUSA’s role in the recent controversy surrounding the athletics depar tment. Ibrahim believes that after investigating the situation more thoroughly, RUSA should develop a well thought-out statement that reflects the student body’s sentiment. Sokolov said in the investigation, RUSA should specifically focus on third-par ty interests. “I would like to see insight to what that was about and make sure the third-par ty individuals that Rutgers uses for their practices have the same values — that is, a commitment to diversity, a commitment to acceptance and a commitment
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to fur ther nur turing the student body,” he said. Katherine Yabut, a RUSA senator, asked the presidential hopefuls how they plan to reform RUSA internally. Sokolov wants to create the position of organizing director to manage various RUSA campaigns, such as in-state tuition, voter registration and engagement in the New Brunswick community. Ibrahim said RUSA members are appointed to their committees, and wants to see these members have delegated roles to make sure all members of committees are actively working and organizing. He also wants the position of vice president to be split into internal and external roles.
Both vice presidential candidates have unique reasons why they chose to r un for the position. Or tiz, running with Ibrahim, endorses Ibrahim’s platform of shared governance because as an out-of-state student, he wants his specialized interests to be heard. Farino, r unning with Sokolov, experienced many injustices growing up as a child of Ecuadorian immigrants. She believes RUSA is the best vehicle to enact change. She said RUSA needs to increase its presence on campus. “RUSA tends to target student groups that are doing political things,” she said. “We should also reach out into the
LGBT community. I used to go to LLEGO last year, and I never saw a RUSA.” Or tiz agrees with Farino’s point, but also feels RUSA should release a monthly video on its agenda and hold weekly general body meetings with different times and locations. He wants to hold accountability sessions for RUSA representatives as well. “Our constituents should know what they’re up to and how they are actually serving them as a representative,” he said. By having committee chairs hold one-on-one meetings with each member and assigning organizing directors for campaigns, Farino said members would be made more accountable.
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It won’t come as a surprise that many of you are seeing yourselves at the center of negative media attention. With a swarm of media trucks parked on the College Avenue campus and a herd of media officials questioning every possible student about former head men’s basketball coach Mike Rice, students can’t help but feel their privacy is intruded. While the issue does require grave attention, it must not come at the cost of overshadowing everything else going on in the world. This dart is for the media — for bombarding not only the campus but also students who neither are, nor want to be, directly linked with the controversy.
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RU CRUSHES GAYPRIL A month of programming, termed “Gaypril,” has been dedicated to the LGBTQA community. The event, kicked off by Lance Bass, was attended by a large audience and will revolve around issues concerning members of this community. The event remained open to all and helped boost the confidence of all its members. This laurel is for “Gaypril,” a medium that allows people celebrate and instill a sense of togetherness.
The @RU_Crushes Twitter page, which began as an informal portal for students to post their confessions and crushes, seems to have gone too far. The page is flooded with sexually obscene confessions, some which toe the line between being somewhat offputting and straight-up offensive. We dart @RU_Crushes for escalating rather quickly from little cute confessions to scandalous expressions and ridicule. The Medium’s got a personals section for that.
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President Barchi ignored physical abuse WEIGHING IN COURTNEY AVERETTE
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opened my email account Wednesday morning to find an email from University President Robert L. Barchi. I was going to ignore it like I usually do, but since the subject line showed it had to do with head men’s basketball coach Mike Rice, I decided to read it. I didn’t get past the first paragraph before I was instantly turned off. His second sentence states, “Because of the seriousness of the situation and the national attention it has drawn, I wanted to let you know about this decision as soon as possible.” Am I the only one who noticed he specifically mentions the “national attention” of the situation? So, if this
weren’t receiving national attention, would it agement. I don’t know about you, but I don’t have been ignored and continued? That think that was harsh enough. Why wasn’t he should not be his first concern. His first con- fired before now? You mean to tell me that it cern should be the well-being of the players, wasn’t realized until the end of the basketball not what everyone else thinks about it. What season that he was still behaving in this manner? No way. I believe about the physical and the problem is that the emotional abuse those players endured? “Where on earth can you get video was leaked, and there’s “national I understand the a job and keep it even after since attention,” Barchi is idea of damage control and looking out for the it’s known that you’ve been trying to save face. Where on earth University’s image, physically abusing others?” can you get a job and but how concerned keep it even after it’s was he when this situknown that you’ve ation was first brought been physically abusto his attention last fall? He didn’t seem as though he was that ing others? Pernetti agreed to the slap on concerned then. Oh wait, I forgot that Rice the wrist Rice was given, based on an “exterwas given a vacation, penalized $75,000 in nal investigator’s findings and recommendafines and lost salary (that would be consid- tions.” I’m sorry, but the ultimate decision ered pocket change to him, considering his was Barchi’s and Pernetti’s regardless of salary) and ordered to undergo anger man- what recommendations were made.
Let’s forget about the physical abuse for a minute. Rice’s behavior falls under bullying. What happened to the University’s anti-bullying policy? The University compliance website clearly states that “verbal assault, harassment, intimidation, bullying or defamation interferes with the mission of the university and each member of this community is expected to be sufficiently tolerant of others so that all students are free to pursue their goals in an open environment, able to participate in the free exchange of ideas and able to share equally in the benefits of our educational opportunities.” I guess the policy should have been more specific. Maybe it needs to state “allow athletes to feel safe during practice hours,” because apparently, their welfare was ignored in this situation. Courtney Averette is a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore. Her column, “Weighing In,” runs on alternate Fridays.
Vote for shared governance COMMENTARY MOHAMMAD BARAKAT
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he Rutgers University Student Assembly elections have rolled around, and it’s time to vote for change. That is exactly why I will be supporting Sherif Ibrahim — the current RUSA vice president, Carlos Ortiz and the Knights for Change. The Knights for Change understand how important student involvement is when it comes to University-wide decisionmaking no matter how small or how big the issue is. This includes decisions pertaining to computer labs, financial aid lines, student transportation, student unity, tuition and other academic and legislative affairs. To tackle such an array of issues, the Knights for Change have decided to implement structural change here at the
University through the use of shared gover- ion will be as equally important as adminisnance. The Student Board of Governors does trator opinion. And I genuinely mean student not have representative voting power on the opinion because students selected for shared administrative level, and it does not seem like governance will not only be members of the University will magically grant this power RUSA, but they’ll be members of the general student body. to the board on its To some, the own. That means it is up to us the students “To some, the implementa- implementation of shared governance of the University to tion of shared governance may seem like an demand that we have a more meaningful may seem like an impossible impossible feat, but it is not a new idea. It say in the decisionfeat, but it is not a new idea.” has been implementmaking process and ed in the past. This to support those with model of governance the same goals. The implementation of shared governance would has been passed and is being utilized by the do just that because it would give students a University of Wisconsin-Madison — one of direct say in every department of the the Big Ten schools — and if their student University they deemed vital to the student body can do it, so can ours. Shared governance is what sets Sherif experience. We will no longer have to serve on administrative search committees and Ibrahim, Carlos Ortiz and rest of the advise administrators. Instead, student opin- Knights for Change apart from their com-
petitors. They are not just out to solve a single issue or a handful of issues. They want to create a system that can be used by the student body to handle all issues that arise today and those that arise long after they have graduated. Ultimately, the implications of shared governance are huge because they allow students an entry point into every single dimension of University life and power to change that life as they see fit. It will create a path to problem resolution for this generation and for future generations. The core of shared governance is not just about resolving a current issue that the University student body is facing, but meaningful structural change for all issues that will lead to the betterment of the University for everyone. Mohammad Barakat is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in economics and political science.
Greek community and RUSA go hand in hand COMMENTARY IAN WOLF
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utgers University Student Assembly elections will take place from April 8 to April 10. Traditionally, voter turnout for student government elections at the University is ver y low. Why should greek life care about this particular election? In this election, there are two ver y strong candidates running for the position of president. However, Pavel Sokolov and members of his ticket, Rutgers Students First, will focus on the issues that matter to the University greek community. Historically, Rutgers student governments and greek life have worked together to solve issues that affect offcampus life and specifically the off-campus greek community. A significant example of the relationship between these two communities occurred in the early 1990s. Rob Hill, then-president the now-defunct Rutgers College Governing Association, worked with the greek community to stop the New Brunswick City Council from allowing vacancy decontrol. Vacancy decontrol would have allowed landlords to raise rent without any regulations. The student
Ever y year, the University sees anothgovernment and greek life came together on the issue and stopped the city er greek house demolished and replaced from hurting thousands of off-campus by a new apartment complex — the most University students. If elected, Pavel recent being Delta Upsilon and Delta Phi Sokolov’s leadership would help rekin- on Union Street. Sokolov and company would establish relationships with New dle this relationship. Greek life has a vested interest in this Brunswick officials and individual landRUSA election because it could offer sev- lords to examine this trend. Another way that Rutgers Students eral structural changes that might take First will benefit the the student governgreek community ment in completely would be by codifferent directions. “Let’s face it — greek life and marIf members of offers a lot of programming sponsoring keting greek-sancRutgers Student’s First are elected, ranging from philanthropic tioned events. Let’s face it — greek life they will re-establish events to campus cleanups.” offers a lot of proa subcommittee gramming ranging under the RUSA from philanthropic Legislative Affairs Committee called the New Brunswick events to campus cleanups. Sometimes, Legislative Subcommittee. This subcom- only negative events get recognition on mittee would connect with the City campus. Greek programing could be Council, as well as the City of New made even stronger with added publicity Brunswick Board of Education, to from the student government. The stuexpress the views of University students dent government has the ability to share to these elected officials. After all, the event information with the entire underUniversity has an undergraduate popula- graduate population. For this alone, it is tion in New Brunswick of more than a clear no-brainer that greek life should 30,000 full-time students, while the city vote Rutgers Students First. The Rutgers University Student itself has a total population of more than 55,000. Rutgers Students First will make it Assembly is attempting to tackle coma priority to have student voices heard in mon-sense parking-meter reform, which was spearheaded by School of Arts and the greater New Brunswick community.
Sciences senior Spencer Klein. Don’t you hate getting a parking citation for your meter running out? Sokolov wants to start a dialogue with City Council and the New Brunswick Parking Authority that would make parking in the 6th Ward more feasible for students, as well as having new meters installed that would accept RU Express. Additionally, alternate-side parking started again yesterday. How many of you got a ticket because you forgot about this rule? Rutgers Students First would make students aware of this city regulation and look into having it only apply between the middle of May and late August, a period when many students are home for break. Above, we have laid out a plethora of tangible reasons why members of the greek community — and the off-campus community as a whole — should vote for Pavel Solokov and his ticket. If a historical relationship between the student government and greek life isn’t enough of a reason for you to vote for Rutgers Students First, then hopefully all those parking tickets are compelling enough to garner your support. Ian Wolf is a School of Ar ts and Sciences junior and president of the University’s Sigma Pi chapter.
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ABUSE Flood keeps practice his team’s main focus during turmoil CONTINUED FROM BACK Flood did not give his opinion on the issue and continues to keep spring practice his priority. “We’re in spring practice, trying to make our team the best that we can be to get ready for our season next year,” Flood said. “That whole situation is really not in my job description, but I’m confident that the people in the decision making will do a good job.”
SPORTS PAGE 13 SENIOR JEREMY DEERING has not played defense since he saw time at cornerback at Leto (Fla.) High School. Deering moved from r unning back to safety for his final year, where he wants to “finish what he star ted” with the Scarlet Knights. But Deering started at running back, moved to wide receiver and then back to running back before this move. His lack of association with a single position has become an identity. He is also currently practicing without junior safety Lorenzo Waters, who is out with a broken finger. Flood does not expect the injury to be long-term.
Although now Deering plays defense, he feels the move to safety will psychologically be no different for him than any other transition. “It depends what you’re switching too,” Deering said. “I wouldn’t say it gets easier or harder. It just depends on where your skillset is, and what you’re comfortable with doing and what you have to get comfortable doing.” The 6-foot-2, 210-pounder has the right build for safety. Flood said March 25 that Deering is Rutgers’ starting safety for spring practice. Deering replaces former safety Duron Harmon, whose departure left one of several holes in the secondary.
Deering’s main focus for filling that hole is refining his technique. “My skillset suits that position because of my size and speed,” Deering said. “I have to work on other stuff like footwork, but that’s going to come with practice.”
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Federico first practiced with Rutgers last spring. In his second spring with the Knights, there is much more of a kicking competition that is part of his motivation to improve. “I want to be perfect inside 40 yards,” Federico said. “The majority of the kicks will come inside 40 yards, so that’s a big thing. Closer kicks need to be made. And then obviously I want to get more accu-
rate from long distance, because when I need those, you’re only going to get a few [opportunities].” Sophomore Nick Borgese also has a legitimate shot next season at being Rutgers’ main kicker. His 5-for-8 performance as a mid-year walk-on was good enough to give him a legitimate shot. Federico recorded a slightly lower field goal efficiency at 6-for11. He missed two field goals between the 30- and 39-yard lines before sustaining a hip injury through four games. For updates on the Rutgers football team, follow Josh Bakan on Twitter @joshbakan. For general Rutgers sports updates, follow @targumsports.
RIVALS Smorol holds team’s chances of staying above .500 in Game 1 CONTINUED FROM BACK In Smorol’s last two games — against Louisville and Villanova — the Clark, N.J., native has gone 2-0, struck out 12 batters and allowed just 11 hits and two runs in 15 innings pitched. Smorol is currently eighth in the Big East with a 2.38 ERA and sports a 3-1 overall record for Rutgers. If his stats hold true, Smorol will give the Knights the chance for their sixth consecutive win and keep their record above .500. Rutgers eclipsed the benchmark Wednesday in its win against the Gaels. Though the Knights have also produced at the plate during the five-game winning streak, Seton Hall (13-13, 3-3) will arguably have one of the best offensive stoppers in the conference. Josh Prevost, the Pirates’ ace, owns a 2-1 record this season in four starts. Prevost is sixth in the Big East with a 2.05 ERA, owns 17 strikeouts in his limited time as a starter and has only allowed six runs all season. Barring an uncharacteristic performance by both, today’s game should be nothing short of a pitching duel. If Smorol cannot go the distance, Rutgers has proved in their recent games the bullpen can handle the load. Senior lefthander Rob Corsi pitched two and one third innings against Iona, allowing no runs on three hits with three strikeouts for his third save this year. Corsi did give up three walks as well, but Hill believes Corsi, along with senior righthander Nathaniel Row, are the Knights’ best options out of the bullpen. “We need a lefthander in that position, and he should be our guy,” Hill said. “Although he walked a couple guys, which makes it a little scary, he still did well.” If Rutgers gets to Prevost early, it will allow confidence to set in. Though this will be arguably one of the better pitching staffs the Knights will face all season, freshman third baseman Matt Tietz, who has been a part of their offensive production lately, believes they will be ready when their in-state rivals take the field at Bainton. “We need to get ready for the pitchers they throw at us,” Teitz said. “We’ve been throwing the ball pretty good, so that’s a good thing and hopefully we pull it all together.”
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Recent wins bring momentum BY GREG JOHNSON CORRESPONDENT
The Rutgers softball team has gained a high level of confidence. The Scarlet Knights (19-13, 33) have won 12 of their last 16 games behind strong pitching and a lineup developing cohesion and timely hitting. Head coach Jay Nelson highlighted several encouraging signs of progress from his club, notably wins against two talented teams in Hofstra on Wednesday and South Florida on March 23. “In the last couple of weeks, they beat a team [South Florida] that went to the final eight, and they beat a team [Hofstra] that was one game away from going to the final eight [last year],” Nelson said. “So that’s a positive. I think they’re pretty confident right now.” Rutgers also had a strong Florida trip from March 15-24, when it went 7-3 with two of the losses coming by only one run. Despite two of those defeats coming to Big East opponent USF, the Knights quickly responded — taking two of three from UConn to reestablish a .500 mark in conference play. The focus now shifts to Georgetown (13-22, 3-2), with whom the Knights begin another pivotal three-game conference series tomorrow at the RU Softball Complex. But for Rutgers, it is just another set of games. “We just try to stay consistent, regardless of the team we face,” said junior first baseman Alexis Durando. “We try not to put a
name on each team and just play them as another game.” Durando displayed a sound mental approach in the Knights’ first game against Hofstra, when she ended a scoreless tie in extra innings to give Rutgers its first win since 2004 against the Pride. The Knights left eight runners on base in the first seven innings, but the performance in clutch situations did not demoralize Rutgers’ cleanup hitter. “I think honestly, in the first couple of at bats, I felt good, but obviously we try to improve our at bats as the game goes along,” Durando said. “[Assistant] coach Ryan [McMullen] always tells us that our last at bat should be our best at bat, so I just tried to keep that mentality, especially when things don’t go your way over the course of a game.” Mental consistency escaped Rutgers on defense in the second game against Hofstra, where a crucial error in the first inning put it in a 4-0 hole even its pesky offense could not dig out of. “We were a little sloppy in the second game [yesterday],” Nelson said. “We’ll do that. We’ll play really well and then we’ll lapse maybe an inning, and then get right back after it. Sometimes it just takes a little reminder that we have to focus a little bit more.” But mental deficiencies do not demoralize the Knights. For Rutgers, the fact it chipped away at Hofstra’s lead in three separate innings and brought the tying and go-ahead runs into scoring positions in the ninth served as a morale booster. “The fact that we came back I think was more important than
the fact that we lost,” Durando said. “It emphasizes the fact that we’re not a quitting team, and even though we might get down in some situations, there’s always an opportunity to come back.” Freshman righthander Dresden Maddox has a chance to come back strong on the mound this weekend after allowing her first earned runs Wednesday in nearly two weeks. The Knights’ No. 2 starter followed up sophomore lefthander Alyssa Landrith’s eight-inning shutout in Game 2 with a poor performance, lasting only two and one-third innings. “I just want to get back to what I was doing before, obviously, throwing a lot of strikes and keeping batters off balanced,” she said. “Just go back right at them like nothing happened.” Nelson will likely give her that chance. He said despite being pleased with Houston’s two and two-thirds innings of shutout ball in relief, Maddox will probably get the ball in the Knights’ second game against the Hoyas tomorrow, unless Landrith needs to be relieved in the first game. The series concludes Sunday at noon. “These are definitely games that we can win, and I think it’s important to just maintain our consistency,” Durando said. “We just need to focus on getting better and improving our record in the Big East.” For updates on the Rutgers softball team, follow Greg Johnson on Twitter @Greg_P_Johnson. For general Rutgers sports updates, follow @targumsports.
Junior Doug Walters completed his best score of the season at the Whiting-Turner Towson Invitational. JOEY GREGORY
Junior’s offseason work pays dividends Shutte noticed the changes in Walters on and off the course, but the changes are no surprise Junior Doug Walters recalled to him. a day in 2010 when he made the In his second year with the Rutgers men’s golf team as a team, Shutte witnessed Walters walk-on. perform to his potential. Since the first day he took the It began last fall when Shutte course as a Scarlet Knight, he has handed Walters more responsiconstantly proven he belongs. bility and held him accountable Now in his third year and as a leader. Walters was expected sixth golf season — the Knights to interact with his teammates play two seasons each school and develop personal skills. year, one in the fall and one in Shutte said it took some coachspring — and the Blairstown, ing to get Walters settled into his N.J., native is a three-time captain role on the team and to become and displays the results of consismore approachable. He took the tency and relentless effort. advice and met his coach’s expec“[Doug] is a guy that has gottations. Walters not only mastered ten better every year he has those skills, but they were evident played golf,” said head coach Rob through his actions. Shutte. “He came to Rutgers as a “[Doug] has become more good golfer, not a great golfer. But comfortable with who he is,” he is starting to believe his abiliShutte said. “He is trying to have ties to go out and a lot more of a shoot rounds in neutral mindset. the 60s and put He is not trying to “You want to rounds together get too high, too get better under par, which is low and overemowhere we need to tional in things. It within each be as a program.” has allowed him to season — you Off his best play better golf.” performance of Preparation have to progress.” the year, Walters has been one of DOUG WALTERS said he is not done the most imporJunior showing what he tant characteriscan do on the tics as a golfer. course. He tied for fourth overall In ever y match, practice and this weekend at the Whitingteam meeting is approached Turner Towson Invitational after with readiness. carding a 224 and received allWith one more season left in tournament team recognition. his career at Rutgers, there is He used the offseason to develalways room for improvement. op his game after several hours in He seeks to be at his best by the gym and numerous repetitions the time of his departure. with his swing in order to come “My time is running out, back to be an effective leader. [even though] I still have a full “You want to get better — year left next year,” Walters within each season, you have to said. “But I am not going to progress,” Walters said of his have any regret. I am working preparation during the offseareal hard in the gym and on the son. “I have a mindset that there range, so I will not look back is always somebody out there when I graduate and say, ‘I trying to beat you. That is the wish I had more time or kind of attitude I try to push worked harder or did this myself toward.” and that.’”
BY AARON FARRAR CORRESPONDENT
APRIL 5 2013
SPORTS PAGE 15 FOOTBALL CARREZOLA CAUGHT EIGHT PASSES LAST SEASON
Senior continues adjustment back to tight end BY BRADLY DERECHAILO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
When junior fullback Michael Burton went down with a leg injury Sept. 25 against Arkansas, it left Rutgers head football coach Kyle Flood with a tough decision. Keep Paul Carrezola at his natural position of tight end or utilize the senior’s blocking abilities at fullback to supplement Burton’s absence. Flood elected to do the latter, limiting the Langhorne, Pa., native’s role on the offense to paving running lanes. Carrezola is back at tight end this spring, though he said it has not been a completely seamless transition back to the position he played since his days at Neshaminy (Pa.) High School. “It feels good, but it is an adjustment again because I didn’t really do much of it last year,” Carrezola said. “I don’t want to say its normal, but it feels better to be there.” Junior quarterback Gar y Nova has seen the flip-flopping Carrezola has done since Nova has been at Rutgers, as he has gone from tight end to H-back to last season’s role as fullback. Carrezola had eight receptions last season as he split time between the two positions, collecting 45 yards with a touchdown grab in Rutgers’ 35-26 victory against the Razorbacks. In his three-year career, he has 14 career receptions for two scores. Nova is glad Carrezola is back from his blocking role in the backfield, as Nova can now get him the ball more. “When Burton went down, Paul had to take the role, but I think it is better for him now,” Nova said. “I think he is in his natural habitat.” The move back to tight end was also essential for Flood, as
Senior Paul Carezzola returned to the tight end position during spring practice after spending the majority of 2012 at fullback. He is one of only four tight ends to get reps in spring practice, now that junior fullback Michael Burton is healthy. TIAN LI there are currently just four tight ends seeing reps during spring camp. Carrezola joins junior Tyler Kroft, senior Tyler Bellia and newly conver ted senior Michael Larrow as Nova’s check-down options. Kroft is the only one out of the three with a reception in his college career— he hauled in three grabs for 59 yards and a score Oct. 13 at home against Syracuse. Flood wants to see more from the group during tomorrow’s scrimmage. “I think we are building a little bit of depth, and I think we
needed to,” Flood said. “Cer tainly Paul Carrezola and Tyler Kroft have a résumé to at least look at ... Saturday will tell us a little bit more to how close we are to add to that depth and to give those other guys an oppor tunity to say ‘hey, who is going to be the play makers?’” Carrezola, Kroft and the rest of the unit have to deal with a new tight ends coach as well as Ron Prince, the Knights’ first-year offensive coordinator. After serving last year as a defensive assistant, Anthony Campanile will have the duties
of the tight ends coach, developing reliable targets coming off of the line. But it is Prince who Carrezola will have to get more used to. “From what I’ve seen now, it’s a lot of different rules,” Carrezola said of his new offensive coordinator. “He puts us wherever on the field and we do what he asks us. It’s just another offensive coordinator. We just have to take what he says, and take his coaching and try to execute what he gives us.” It will take the rest of spring and summer camp for Carrezola to adjust back to his old role and
for depth to develop for the shorthanded group. Nova is optimistic they can make it happen. “They’re doing a great job,” Nova said. “We only have four of them, but they are doing a nice job and taking a lot of reps. They have a lot of things to learn, but they are doing the best they can and doing a great job.” For updates football team, Derechailo @Bradly_D. Rutgers spor ts @targumspor ts.
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Two-week layoff prepares Knights for UConn BY IAN ERHARD STAFF WRITER
Senior attack Annie McGinley enters today’s game with a three-goal performance March 24 against Marquette. MARIELLE SUMERGIDO, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
The Rutgers women’s lacrosse team kicks off a fivegame homestand today when it hosts Connecticut at the RU Stadium Complex. The Scarlet Knights (8-2, 0-1) search for their first Big East win this season, after a loss March 22 against No. 7 Notre Dame. With nearly two weeks since their last game — a 9-4 win March 24 against Marquette, which is not a member of the Big East in women’s lacrosse — the Knights have had ample time to prepare for the Huskies (7-1, 0-1). “UConn always plays tough against us,” said junior attack Megan Clements. “I think if we just go out there, use what we’ve been practicing the past two weeks and just realize from here on out — it’s go time, you can’t stop, you can’t rest.” The extra time off has benefited the offensive game plan, where the team prepares to
face UConn’s backer zone defensive system. “It’s something we haven’t come across all season — it’s pretty rare,” said senior attack Annie McGinley. “Our defense has actually been playing ever y single day in practice for the past week in a backer defense to prepare us, because it’s so different.” Connecticut’s defense utilizes a two-three zone, with a sixth player in the middle who can slide to the ballhandler. Head coach Laura Brand-Sias said along with preparing to face UConn’s defensive style, the offense must execute the things it has worked on and stay patient with the ball. The current stretch of games at home has come at an opportune time for the Knights, as Big East play is just beginning. Rutgers is a perfect 5-0 this season on its home turf. “It’s huge … especially against conference teams, you want to be home,” Brand-Sias said. “The big
part for us is we need to do everything we can and take advantage of it.” McGinley is a player to watch this weekend for Rutgers. With five goals in the last two games — including a hat-trick against the Irish — she looks to provide more offense during Big East games. In her final season, McGinley wants to avenge conference defeats from previous years — including last season’s 15-10 loss at Syracuse — the Knights’ opponent on Sunday. The Orange (5-3, 0-0) open up conference play against Villanova on Friday before traveling this weekend to the RU Stadium Complex. Ranked fifth in the country in the latest deBeer Media Poll, Syracuse’s Alyssa Murray leads the Orange in scoring. With a five-goal performance Saturday at Northwestern, she extended her goal total to 24 on the season to go along with 12 assists.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY “I have a mindset that there is always somebody out there trying to beat you.” —Rutgers junior golfer Doug Walters on what motivates him
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KNIGHT NOTEBOOK FLOOD ENCOURAGES PLAYERS’ PARENTS TO VIEW PRACTICE
MEN’S BASKETBALL
RU assistant resigns as staff shrinks BY BRADLY DERECHAILO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
Head coach Kyle Flood trusts the University’s administrators to make the right decision about Athletic Director Tim Pernetti. He said yesterday he only hires coaches he would be comfortable coaching his son. TIAN LI
Flood speaks against abuse BY JOSH BAKAN SPORTS EDITOR
Rutgers head football coach Kyle Flood knows the athletic department is having enough issues dealing with the possibility of the boss being fired. Flood said yesterday he had not spoken with Athletic Director Tim Pernetti in the previous 24 hours. The news of former men’s head basketball coach Mike Rice’s dismissal has spread the issue of coaches’ abusing
players from Piscataway to the national spotlight. Flood said he has always been serious about preventing that. “The way we structure our practices — they’re open to parents at any point,” Flood said. “I told recruits that, I told the parents that and when I go through the hiring process, it’s always important for me to hire coaches that I would be comfortable coaching my own son. For me personally, I have coached players for the last 20 years with that same thought in mind.”
Flood has also not spoken with his players about the possibility of Pernetti losing his job for how he handled the Rice situation. He leaves that to University President Robert L. Barchi and other Rutgers administrators. “We spend quite a few hours each year in the Hale Center working toward our goals as a football program, and we don’t really have the extra time to move in other directions,” Flood said. SEE
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BASEBALL SETON HALL-RUTGERS, TODAY, 3 P.M.
In-state rivals toss top pitchers in matchup BY BRADLY DERECHAILO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
Though Rutgers head baseball coach Fred Hill said Wednesday his team did not get as many hits as he would like to have seen against Iona, the Scarlet Knights still managed 10 hits, with RBIs in clutch situations.
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against Iona. “We always have close games with them, and they are excited about playing. It should be a good weekend.” Rob Smorol will throw for the Knights at Bainton Field this afternoon, and the senior lefthander has been dominant in his last two Big East starts. SEE
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In the Knights’ (13-12, 5-1) past two games, they have strung together 27 hits and 21 runs, with the middle of the lineup finally producing like the veteran unit it is. Against Seton Hall, runs will be at a premium for the Pirates and Rutgers if both starting pitchers perform as they have been. “It should be pretty enthusiastic,” Hill said after Rutgers’ 6-3 win Wednesday
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SCOTT BIEDA scored a career-best three goals in the Rutgers men’s lacrosse team’s 10-9 loss to Providence on March 30. The freshman attack is third on the team with 18 total points this season.
As the fallout continues from the release of practice tapes and subsequent termination of former Rutgers head men’s basketball coach Mike Rice, one of his assistants has followed his way out of the door at Piscataway. Assistant coach Jimmy Martelli resigned yesterday in the wake of the Scarlet Knights’ continued negative presence in the national media, according to nj.com. Martelli — who served as an assistant under Rice back at Robert Morris and has been with Rice since he took over the head coaching vacancy in 2010 — was witnessed shoving two players on the tapes compiled by former Director of Player Development Eric Murdock. “Jimmy was spoken to about the matter,” Pernetti said Tuesday before ESPN released the tapes on “Outside the Lines.” “We dealt with that. Certainly, the tape focused on Mike, but it brought some other things to light that we dealt with at the same time that we dealt with Mike.” Martelli’s conduct is just one of the many revelations that has come to light in the past week — and when asked about the situation at the Final Four press conference, NCAA President Mark Emmer t called Rice’s practice actions “pretty appalling.” But he declined to comment further on possible sanctions and penalties Rutgers could face for not revealing Rice of his duties when the University first knew of the tape back in November. Emmert also declined to consider what happened with Rice and the University as an instance of “lack of institutional control” or “failure to monitor at the press conference.” Martelli, the son of longtime St. Joseph’s head coach Phil Martelli, was not suspended by Pernetti when he was first made aware of the incident. Martelli was the first major hire Rice back in 2010 and has been with Rice since 2007 at Robert Morris. He also had coaching stints at RandolphMacon College and Dickinson College, where he graduated from in 2005. Interim head coach Dave Cox and assistant coach Van Macon are the only coaches left on the staff at this time.
RUTGERS SPORTS CALENDAR MEN’S TRACK
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vs. Seton Hall
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vs. Connecticut Today Williamsburg, V.A.
Today, 3 p.m. Bainton Field
Today, 3 p.m. RU Stadium Complex
Tomorrow, noon RU Softball Complex