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2012 June 30 • Former Director of Player Development Eric Murdock’s contract ends without being renewed.
Sept. 26 • Kozyra again communicates with the University and requests a meeting with University representatives.
July 11
July 11–19
July 19
July
• Murdock’s attorney, Barry Kozyra, sends a letter to the University claiming ‘wrongful termination.’
• Athletic Director Tim Pernetti investigates Murdock’s claim.
• The University responds to Kozyra's letter and says he did not provide evidence to support his claims.
• Sometime in July, the video coordinator of the men’s basketball team provides Kozyra with a video compilation of all practices from 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 seasons.
Nov. 26
Nov. 27
• University representatives meet with Murdock and Kozyra. • Kozyra shows Pernetti the 30-minute DVD containing clips of basketball practice.
• Pernetti meets with Rice, who says many of the clips were out of context, but acknowledges some were inappropriate. Rice denies that he fired Murdock.
Nov. 29 • Kozyra sends another letter setting a Dec. 6 deadline for the University to address these issues before Murdock filed a lawsuit.
• The University hires independent investigator John Lacey.
2013 Jan. 21 • Independent investigation by John Lacey concludes.
April 2 • ESPN airs the video in its ‘Outside the Lines’ segment.
April 3 • University President Robert L. Barchi convenes with Pernetti and watches the DVD for the first time. • He decides to fire Rice immediately.
April 5 • Pernetti hands in a letter of resignation.
SOURCE: INVESTIGATIVE REPORT BY JOHN LACEY OF CONNELL FOLEY LLP
• Barchi holds a press conference, apologizing to the University. • Murdock files lawsuit.
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University could have fired Rice earlier for cause BY JULIAN CHOKKATTU NEWS EDITOR
After receiving word on former men’s basketball head coach Mike Rice’s abusive actions in July 2012, the University took several months
to launch an investigation, and even though there was cause for termination, it still took several months to fire him. The University saw the termination of Rice last week, following a 30-minute compilation video that
surfaced displaying Rice’s physical and verbal abuse toward players during practices. Following Rice’s termination, three University of ficials resigned: Athletic Director Tim Pernetti, John Wolf, general
counsel at the University, and Assistant Men’s Basketball Coach Jimmy Martelli. The resignations came after the University received criticism for not taking swifter action, and the situation has now prompted an
investigation by the F.B.I., according to the New York Times. But Pernetti said in his letter of resignation that his first instinct when he saw the DVD in November SEE
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Dance Marathon raises City’s Board of Education record-breaking funds candidates host fundraiser BY SHAWN SMITH BY TAYLOR LONDINO
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Ever yone knows 24 hours make up a day, but for the volunteers of Dance Marathon, 32 hours can change a life. For firsttime dancers like Kimberly Difranco, the idea of dancing for 32 hours was really exciting. “This is all for an amazing cause and a great organization,” said Difranco, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “I volunteered last year, and this year, I wanted to get more involved.” Difranco was among the first 10 dancers to hit their minimum goal SEE
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The University held the annual Dance Marathon over the weekend. NELSON MORALES, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Now that the New Brunswick community can elect members for their school board, an independently driven group of candidates hope to build a sense of community and promote fair funding for students and parents. The three members in the running are Stephanie Rivera, a School of Arts and Science senior, Sean Monahan, a University alumnus, and Martin Arocho, community member and parent of public school students. The candidates held a fundraiser on Saturday at the
Alfa Ar t Galler y on 108 Church St. in New Br unswick. Put together by friends, family members and the candidates themselves, the event drew in suppor t and donations. “Everyone that is working with us are either close friends, family members, or grassroots organizers,” Rivera said. “People that are a part of this community. These are the people that are getting the campaign off the ground.” Rivera, recently admitted to the Graduate School of Education, said she would aim to bridge the gap between the New Brunswick community and the University community.
“It’s really a shame that in the same city we have such a resourceful University, and then we have public schools with the highest dropout rate,” she said. Rivera said even though she does not have the life experience of the other members on the ticket, her experiences at the University promoting activism in education and her passion for urban communities makes her the per fect candidate for the board. “We live in this bubble that is the University, but we are surrounded by such a unique community that SEE
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Red Mango celebrates grand opening with free frozen yogurt BY ERIN PETENKO STAFF WRITER
Chocolate sauce, Fr uity Pebbles, yogur t chips and a selection of fruit from mango to kiwi are only some of the topping options at the new Red Mango Frozen Yogur t and Smoothies, located at 98 Albany St. in New Brunswick. Po Wong, co-owner of the new store, said the store sells frozen yogurt, smoothies and parfaits healthier than those at other frozen yogurt establishments. Red Mango has been open for a month, but held its grand opening ceremony on Saturday, where the owners offered free frozen yogurt hoping to attract new regulars. One New Brunswick resident, Jacob Lepiarz, said he and his friend stumbled upon the store by chance. He was surprised at the quality of the food. “We were going to go to Jamba Juice, but the taxi dropped us off across the street from here, and we decided to check it out,” he said. Wong said he chose to open a Red Mango because he wanted to do something to help the New Brunswick community. “I lived in California, and Red Mango was booming over there,” he said. “I think it now has the potential to grow. I
picked here because there are more younger people, especially young women, who have more knowledge regarding healthy food.” He said Red Mango frozen yogurt is better because it uses natural ingredients and live probiotics. It is also delivered to the store weekly rather than kept long-term in a fridge. Co-owner Shau-Ning LeeWong said she wanted to see people using their frozen yogurt not as a dessert or a treat, but as a meal substitute. “Rather than something greasy, they can come in here and have something good,” she said. Frozen yogurt has more advantages to it than the average ice-cream dish, said Lauren Pompey, membership counselor at the Robert Wood Johnson Fitness and Wellness Center. “We are proud suppor ters of healthier options like Red Mango,” she said. “The toppings are fresh, and there’s more variety.” Many center members live in the area, so it is convenient for them to stop by the store, she said. Another local, Judy Kolva, said she went at first because of a coupon in the mail but came back because she liked the peanut butter and Nutella flavors.
The new Red Mango Frozen Yogurt and Smoothies store on Albany Street, which opened Saturday, is hoping for customers to have frozen yogurt as a meal substitute. NELSON MORALES, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
“The most dangerous part is that it’s right down the street from where I work,” she said. She said she enjoys boba, which are small, juice-filled capsules of tapioca that are available as a topping. “I love how they have these interesting toppings, it makes this place an excellent addition to New Brunswick,” she said. The work environment at the store for the last month has been fun and easy, said Sharon Chung, an employee. “My friend knew the owners, so I decided to apply online,” said Chung, a School of Arts and
Sciences sophomore. “They’re very flexible.” She said despite working with the yogurt all day, she still enjoys the various flavors. “I come here when I don’t have work,” she said. Managing to balance the store and other needs is a challenge for both the owners. Shau-Ning Lee-Wong said she works the regular hours and comes back late at night for closing. “I’m here all day,” she said. “I prep the food in the morning, and then I control all the day-to-day issues we have.”
Po Wong said he works as an accountant in Manhattan fulltime while still coming to the store regularly. “It’s tough to find a way to balance my life and my work,” he said. “I wish there were more than 24 hours in a day.” He said he hopes to attract a lot of students looking for a comfortable place to study. The store of fers free Wi-Fi and power for laptops. “Some students like Starbucks, but some of them say it’s too dim,” he said. “This place is bright and clean. They’re welcome to stay as long as they like.”
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CAUSE Report finds that Rice broke his contract CONTINUED FROM FRONT of Rice’s behavior was to fire him immediately. “However, Rutgers decided to follow a process involving University lawyers, human resources professionals, and outside counsel,” he said. “Following review of the independent investigative report, the consensus was that University policy would not justify dismissal.” But an investigative report, conducted by John Lacey of Connell Foley LLP, who was hired by the University on Nov. 27, 2012, states that Rice did “cross the line” of permissible conduct within the University’s Policy, Section 60.1.13, which would have given the University cause to fire Rice. “I fired him. Not for cause. I just fired him,” said University President Robert L. Barchi during a press conference on Friday afternoon. Barchi dismissed Rice on Wednesday, April 3, after watching the DVD for the first time and after Rice received penalties on Dec.13, 2012, including a three-game suspension and a fine of $75,000. According to nj.com, if Rice had been fired for cause, the University would not owe him any remaining salary, but as he was not, Rice is
owed 75 percent of his remaining base salary and additional guaranteed compensation, which totals to $1.0875 million over the last two years of his deal. But according to the investigative report, the University did have grounds to fire Rice earlier with cause. Former Director of Player Development Eric Murdock, whose contract ended with the University on June 30, 2012, had his attorney, Barry Kozyra, send a letter to the University on July 11, 2012, claiming that he had been “wrongfully terminated” from his position. The letter was addressed to Pernetti and then-Interim University President Richard L. Edwards. It also highlighted “alleged misconduct by [Rice].” Kozyra asked the University to provide footage from basketball practices from 2010, when Rice began as head coach. The report went on to resolve four allegations made against Rice: one regarding his conduct and a “hostile” work environment, one regarding the University’s policies relating to bullying, harassment or assault, one regarding his violation of National Collegiate Athletic Association rules and one regarding his conduct and the University’s Conscientious Employee Protection Policy. The report said Rice did not create a “hostile work environment as that term is understood in connection with anti-discrimination and anti-harassment policies.”
The report finds that Rice believed his aggressive practices would help the team play better. In regard to bullying, harassment and assault policies, the report did find that although Rice believed creating “chaos” on the court to change the “culture” of the University’s basketball program would help improve players’ performance, there are limits to what is considered acceptable. The report found that Rice also broke his contract. “We believe that AD Pernetti could reasonably determine that Coach Rice’s actions tended to embarrass and bring shame or disgrace to Rutgers in violation of Coach Rice’s employment contract with Rutgers,” the report said. With the NCAA rules, the report states that Pernetti talked to Rice after hearing about the possible violations for the first time. After learning of the possible violations, the University self-reported them. Certain sanctions were imposed on Rice, and the University issued two letters of admonishment to Rice. The report also found false Murdock’s claim that Rice wrongfully terminated him. But Murdock filed a lawsuit against the University on Friday, claiming he was fired for being a “whistleblower.” “Efforts to get Rutgers to address its problems were ignored for months,” Murdock said at a separate press conference. “Instead, I was removed from my position. That is wrong, and that is why I filed a lawsuit.”
The report said Rice got into an argument with Murdock because Murdock did not attend to his duties during a basketball camp in June. Murdock asked Rice if he could go speak at another camp, but Rice told him he had to stay at his camp. On the first day, Murdock did not show up to Rice’s camp. Following heated phone calls, emails and texts, Rice told Murdock they would talk about his absence on Monday, July 2, 2012, the report said. Pernetti told Murdock before July 2 that only he had the power to fire someone. He told Murdock to meet with Rice on the following Monday, and if Rice and Murdock could not work through the situation, Pernetti said he would take care of it himself. “Unfortunately, [Murdock] failed to attend the Monday meeting,” the report said. “He also failed to contact either AD Pernetti or Coach Rice to arrange to attend any such meeting.” As Murdock’s contract ended on June 30, the report said Pernetti honored his expired contract, but did not attempt to negotiate any new contract with Murdock. After Kozyra sent the letter, which claimed “wrongful termination” and cited Rice’s actions on July 11, 2012, the report said Pernetti investigated the issue. But Pernetti had known about Rice’s abusive behavior long before. “Pernetti himself was upset with certain of Coach Rice’s behavior in February and March 2012 and AD Pernetti had met with Coach Rice
at the time and cautioned him that singling out a player for punishment, or mistreatment of players, would not be tolerated in the future,” the report said. After speaking with Rice, other members of the basketball team, including assistant coaches and attending practices himself, Pernetti was confident Kozyra’s claims of “abuse” and an “environment” of “non-compliance within the men’s basketball program” were not true. But the University responded by providing Kozyra with 219 DVDs, with more than hundreds of hours of footage of practices during the 2010-2011 and 20112012 seasons, the report said. It took several weeks to receive a response from Kozyra, the report said. It was not until Sept. 26 that Kozyra contacted the University and sought a meeting with University representatives. Again, it was two months later that both parties met, on Nov. 26, 2012, the report said. It was the following day that the University hired the independent investigator and began assessing Kozyra and Murdock’s claims. Murdock’s attorney sent a letter to the University on Dec. 6, 2012, demanding $950,000, and after the University declined to pay the amount, he eventually released the video. Tyler Bar to, spor ts correspondent, and Bradly Derechailo, associate spor ts editor, contributed to this article.
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“I think we should make it our priority to help our kids first,” Arocho said. He said if elected, his ticket Candidates aim to will evaluate the current promonitor federal grams aimed toward helping stuschool funding dents graduate and aiding them in finding a job afterward. “We need to use our resources to really check out CONTINUED FROM FRONT what is working, and if they are not, we need to work to create we shouldn’t ignore and we need new programs and offer more to look at them as a part of our resources to these students to family,” she said. tackle this problem,” he said. Rivera worked for New Rivera said she hopes to Brunswick High School’s menestablish town halls, which tor program for over a year, would gather teachers, parents and said this hands-on experiand students to par ticipate in ence with students gives her the school board’s decisionan enlightened perspective on making process what New and to feel like Br unswick stu“I think it will be members of dents need. the community. Arocho appregreat not to have “We really ciates the ef for t [New Brunswick need to make the of Rivera for wanting to help Mayor] Jim Cahill parents in this community realthe students in appoint another ize that these are the New their schools, Brunswick comboard.” and that they munity succeed. SEAN MONOHAN have the power to Arocho is a University Alumnus influence the father to a gradudecisions being ate of New made,” she said. Brunswick High Rivera said members of School, two students at the organizations such as the Health Sciences Technology National Association for the High School and two students Advancement of Colored at Woodrow Wilson People approached her, Elementar y in New expressing interest in running Brunswick. He said his experiprograms through the ence with the public school University for New Brunswick system pushed him to run for middle school students. the position.
The candidates running for the New Brunswick Board of Education Saturday held a meet-andgreet fundraiser. A University alumnus, a School of Arts and Sciences senior and a city resident are all running for seats on the board. NELSON MORALES, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Monahan said the board recently scaled back funding for the mentor program through the University. “But the goal is to do the exact opposite, because these programs greatly help combat the high drop-out rates in the schools,” he said. Eric Straub, a volunteer helping with the campaign, said the candidates’ suppor ters want board members who can make decisions without the bias of political interests.
“I think it will be great not to have [New Brunswick Mayor] Jim Cahill appoint another board, but to have three people who really care about education, who are independent and will fight directly for parents because they are elected by members of the community,” he said. The candidates pride themselves on being the grassroots campaign in this election, Monahan said. He said they aim to monitor the federal funding for the
schools to ensure that the funds will go straight to students and teachers in the classroom — not just to the administrators. “We want to make things better for the kids,” he said. “That is why we are running. We are not connected to any of the entrenched political interests, so we have the freedom to put the kids first and to be impartial.” Students who are registered to vote in New Brunswick can vote for new board member April 16 on the College Avenue campus.
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Top: This year’s Rutgers University Dance Marathon exceeded all previous years’ totals — $503,641.77. Dance Marathon over the past 14 years, has raised over $3.1 million for charity. SHAWN SMITH
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MARATHON CONTINUED FROM FRONT of $350. Her group raised money for a little girl who they had the opportunity to spend time with at the end of the marathon. Dance Marathon celebrated its 15th year anniversary Saturday in the College Avenue Gymnasium, with the main theme of “Kids at Heart,” said Danielle Rossi, director of community outreach for the marathon. Although the event had one main theme, portions of the day were also themed to keep dancers engaged for the whole 32 hours. “We had over 600 dancers register for this year’s event, more than we have ever had before,” said Rossi, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “This year, we wanted to go bigger and better, and I think our [main] theme, ‘Kids at Heart,’ is our best one yet.” Dance Marathon last year raised a total of $442,075. They raised this year a record-breaking $503,641.77.
Families meet with various greek life organizations that they have helped and supported through the RU4Kids initiative. SHAWN SMITH
Dance Marathon has, over the past 14 years, raised more than $3.1 million. Rossi said this year’s Dance Marathon had a lot of innovation going into it, as it was not only the 15-year anniversar y, but the event also celebrated Rudy Marathon’s — the Dance Marathon mascot — 15th birthday by throwing a large party for him. For some dancers like Mark Sharp, assistant manager for Student Life, the event seemed like one giant par ty. His team consisted of himself and Matt Ferguson, associate director for Student Life. Together, they managed to raise $8,400. “I was inspired by [someone] I went to high school with to get involved and form a team for this year’s Dance Marathon,” Sharp said. “My colleague Matt and I are the first faculty to participate in Dance Marathon. Next year, we hope to put together a bigger team.” Sharp said while he may be older than most of the participants, it did not stop him from keeping his energy up and standing the entire time.
Members from greek life organizations introduce their sponsored kid from RU4Kids to the dancers at Dance Marathon. SMARANDA TOLOSANO, MULTIMEDIA ASSOCIATE
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“The hardest par t has been for the marathon — a mash-up of staying on my feet for the current pop songs. entire 32 hours,” he said. “But “I had heard that Dance I have not sat down once, and Marathon was a lot of fun, so I I feel like I still have decided to get involved,” he said. more energy than some of the “One of the associate directors other dancers.” said it was a lot of fun, so I decidSome of the biggest inspiraed to do it.” tion he saw came from students who were not forced to be at the ALTERNATE DONATIONS marathon by an organization, Along with donating and but from those who participated collecting funds for the on their own accord, Sharp said. Embrace Kids Foundation, For returning dancers could dancers like Neil donate in other Stocco, a School “My hair looks great ways. During the of Arts and 32, hours Smiles on me, but it will Sciences senior, for Shira look even better on swabbed mouths this year’s Dance Marathon seemed looking for bone a kid with to have a much mar row donors, cancer.” bigger turnout and Sparks Hair than ever before. Design collected JAKE SPOONE “There are a lot hair donations. University Alumnus more people this Eleven stuyear, more dents lined up to dancers, and it just seems more donate hair, including Jake over whelming,” Stocco said. Spoone and his brother Josh “After dancing last year, there Spoone, who both donated for was no doubt in my mind that I kids with cancer. Jake Spoone, would be doing it again this a University alumnus, said he year.” has par ticipated in the previStocco said his favorite par t ous three years and grew his of the entire event is the family hair out specifically for hour, when the families who this event. have been suppor ted by the “My hair looks great on me, various organizations involved but it will look even better on with the marathon come out on a kid with cancer,” Jake stage and give speeches about Spoone said. how they have been af fected Josh Spoone, a graduate of by the event. Raritan Valley Community “Family hour is great because College, said he cuts his hair you actually see where the once a year and decided this year money raised is going,” he said. it would go to charity. Josh “Last year, another brother and Spoone heard of Dance myself were the only two to come Marathon through his brother here. This year, we have a team and was excited to be a part of of eight, so it is growing.” the event. “I’m not normally good in front of people,” he said. GUIDEBOOK INTEGRATION “Surprisingly, getting my hair cut One of the biggest changes on stage made it much more fun. that made this year dif ferent It was great seeing the reactions from last year was the integraof the people watching.” tion of Guidebook, a schedulJake Spoone said he was glad ing phone application, Stocco to be a part of the state’s largest said. It was much easier to just student-run philanthropic event pull out your phone and see and looks for ward to coming what was coming up instead of back next year. flipping through a packet. William Schlosser, a School of Ar ts and Sciences junior, PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE enjoyed engaging with the Organizers this year wanted dancers at the event. to highlight kids and the While it may have been his event’s previous accomplishfirst time at the event, he was not ments, said Diana Ferrante, looking to just be a dancer. director of enter tainment for Instead, jumped right into the Dance Marathon. role of “Morale Captain.” Ferrante, a School of Arts and Schlosser was constantly Sciences senior, said once the found on stage helping lead the marathon ends, organizers start dancers on the main floor in working on plans for the next choreographing the theme song year right away.
Students not only dance, but also dress in costumes for charity. NELSON MORALES, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
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Organizers chose the main theme, so the dancers can relive their childhoods and the children who are battling cancer can have a day to enjoy theirs. “We created six themes for the day that highlighted dif fer-
dancers moved on to the spor ting event of the night — playing video games and board games, while still on their feet. As the mor ning continued, dancers ate breakfast and gained a second wind. By
said Amanda Lowney, an Er nest Mario School Of Pharmacy first-year student. The personal aspect of meeting and being a par t of the kids’ lives is what makes the students passionate, she said.
DJs from Hurricane Productions provide music throughout the entire 32-hour event. As the night progressed, the DJs turn the atmosphere from a charity event into a nightclub. NELSON MORALES, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
ent points of our childhood — from games to prom,” Ferrante said. “We thought of our favorite par ts of growing up and knew we needed to include toys, recess and spor ts.” Besides the themes, Ferrante said incorporating social media has become a large par t of the event. The hashtag #RUDM2013 was highlighted all night, as par ticipants’ Tweets, Instagram photos, Facebook statuses and Vine videos used the tag. “Last year was big with social media,” she said. “We have seen an improvement on social media and want to get the word out there.” The event also encouraged dancers to use #Rutgers on Twitter to highlight the positive aspects of the University in light of the bad press from the former head men’s basketball coach Mike Rice scandal, Ferrante said. “When people look at Rutgers, they should look at our leadership. [Events like] this are what we are all about,” she said. “People should recognize this student-run event instead of stressing over the negative events this past week. This is the definition of Rutgers.” One of the more formal parts of the night, themed “90s Prom Night,” featured Sega Genesis and Nintendo-64 video-game consoles, as well as a band aptly named “Nine Deeez Nite.” Dancers changed into dresses and suits and danced as the band played top ’90s hits like Third Eye Blind’s “SemiCharmed Life” and Haddaway’s “What is Love (Baby Don’t Hur t Me).” Dance Marathon transformed into a nightclub at midnight, called “Club DM,” and allowed outside visitors to come in for a $10 donation to dance, Rossi said. From midnight until 3 a.m., visitors danced to house music as the lights turned down and the gym became reminiscent of a nightclub. As each song transitioned into the next, the crowd swayed to the rhythm, mimicking tall grass moving in the wind. The event wound down after “Club DM,” as guests left and
noon, dancers were moving and dancing again.
RU4KIDS Families met with various groups, including greek-life organizations that have supported and worked with them for the past year as part of the RU4Kids initiative. RUDM created the RU4Kids program, said Andrea Poppiti, constituent liaison for recruitment for RUDM, which matches patients with student organizations and allows the organizations to help provide support for families. Poppiti, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, said students visit the kids at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and allow their parents to have time to themselves. Members of greek life wore T-Shir ts suppor ting the kids they sponsored, with ever ything from encouraging messages to hashtags. Marcus Flores and Paul Myron, of the Phi Sigma Kappa frater nity, said they wore simple T-Shir ts that read #JoeyStrong to suppor t the child they met through RU4Kids. Flores, an Er nest Mario School Of Pharmacy
“When people look at Rutgers, they should look at our leadership.” DIANA FERRANTE Director of Entertainment
sophomore, said helping suppor t a child and his family was a rewarding experience. Myron, a School of Ar ts and Sciences senior, said this year’s Dance Marathon was his first, and the experience was tremendous. “It’s one thing to work for and donate to a name,” he said. “It’s another thing to build a relationship with the family and child and be able to help them out.” Members of the Phi Delta Chi fraternity sponsored Jackie Balavram, a high school sophomore who suf fers from stagethree Hodgkin’s lymphoma,
“It’s really great to have her come out and see what we are doing,” Lowney said. “She is having a great time, making jokes and hanging out with us.” Sheilah Balavaram and Steven Balavram, Jackie Balavram’s parents, said the experience with the fraternity has been unbelievable. “We have always been big supporters of Rutgers,” Sheilah Balavram said. “The students have done all this hard work, and we just want to thank them for it.” Jackie Balavram said she enjoyed hanging out with the students who visited her in the hospital and spent time with her over the past year. “They are all my friends, and it’s great that I can come out and see them,” Jackie Balavram said. Nidhi Parekh, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said the fraternity Alpha Phi Omega stayed on their feet for the entire 32 hours in support of their kid, Andre Brown. “Andre is such a great person, and he is so much fun to be around,” she said. “He is always in great spirits ever y time we see him.” As Dance Marathon drew to a close, dancers and supporters were emotional and looking forward to the closing ceremonies. Before the total was announced, Matt Mednick, director of finance for Dance Marathon, announced the top fundraisers from each of the different groups. Included was a mention of a non-greek group, which was created specifically for fundraising for Dance Marathon. “Carpe DM, a new group whose name is a play on words for ‘seize the day,’ raised $24,779 in their first year,” Mednick, a Business School junior said. “The overall group was the sorority Phi Sigma Sigma, who raised $42,660.” The social fraternity Chi Psi raised a total of $36,107, Mednick said. The top professional fraternity, Alpha Zeta Omega, raised $13,082. A cumulative “ahh” was heard when dancers relaxed and were able to sit down. Thirty-two hours after they started dancing to change lives, students were finally able to go home and get some much needed rest.
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U. Chem-E-Car team ranks first in competition BY ANDREW RODRIGUEZ CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The University’s hydrogen fuel-cell team took first in a daring display of chemical craftsmanship this weekend during the Chem-E-Car Competition — a battle of chem-mechanical wits settled through alternative energy shoebox-sized cars. The University hosted the three-day competition filled with professionals and students from various schools in the mid-Atlantic area. The competition is one of many in the American Institute of Chemical Engineers MidAtlantic Student Regional Conference. “There are about 300 people total, 274 of which are students from 25 different schools,” said Sumit Sikka, president of the University chapter of AIChE. This is the first time the University’s Chem-E-Car team has ever placed first in the competition, said Sikka, a School of Engineering senior. “The hydrogen fuel-cell car cost about $800 total,” said Emanuel Scoullos, a School of Engineering senior. The hydrogen fuel-cell cars split water into hydrogen and oxygen and use that energy for transportation, he said.
“According to the rules, the car needs to run on some alternative energy,” said Gary Spingarn, captain of the Chem-E-Car team. “You need to stop your car, but you can’t use traditional electrical or mechanical breaks.” The team uses a chemical reaction to stop the car, called an Iodine Clock reaction, said Spingarn, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. The Iodine Clock reaction idea is credited to Maya Gelman, a School of Engineering junior. The other team’s car ran on biodiesel fuel, said Anurag Sakhamuri, a School of Engineering senior. “The differences are pretty major. We have an engine that runs on our ver y own synthesized biodiesel,” said Daniel Granda, a School of Engineering junior. Their ideas were fleshed out in the fall, and more of the building started in the spring, he said. “We want to emphasize the fact that it’s a green car, so we’re using things you can easily find at home. In total, the car cost about $300 to make,” Granda said. The goal is to raise awareness for biodiesels and to make more people consider biodiesel as an alternative energy fuel, he said. “Biodiesel is much safer to use and transport than gasoline. The
only way to ignite it is to take a bottle of Windex and spray it against a fire directly to some biodiesel. Gasoline would ignite immediately,” Granda said. The engines in the competition are usually fuel cell or batteries, he said. “Next year, if we start seeing more biodiesel cars, you’ll know who star ted it,” said Elliot Taylor, a School of Engineering sophomore. The car has seen a few hiccups in performance along the way, Taylor said. “The biodiesel car unfortunately didn’t run at all,” Sakhamuri said. Despite the car’s performance, the use of a new engine definitely turned some heads, Scoullos said. The track varies from year to year, but competitors are told about the track long beforehand, Spingarn said. The track this year was plastic. “Sometimes, there are hard rubber floors, sometimes it’s plastic. They don’t care if there’s a bump here or there, we just have to deal with it,” he said. The University’s hydrogen fuel-cell car was the only car to stop directly on the line, Spingarn said. “There are several rules for disqualification: Deviating 45
More than 300 people participate in the University’s Chem-E-Car competition last weekend, 274 of which are students from 25 different schools. PAUL SOLIN degrees from the starting path, having dangerous exhausts, going past 100 feet or using chemicals rated for high flammability,” he said. One of the more common disqualifications is the 100-feet rule, Spingarn said. “Before the competition, a series of judges determine whether your car is safe or not. If you have [too much] reactivity, a flame will make your car explode. We can’t have that,” he said. Most of the funding for the Mid-Atlantic Student Regional
Conference came from wellknown companies and organizations such as Colgate-Palmolive, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Bristol-Myers Squibb and the Rutgers Alumni Association, Spingarn said. If every school rotates the opportunity to host it, the University will not host it for another 30 years, he said. “It was perfect timing for us to win. The top-five teams here move to the nationals, which is hosted in San Francisco around October,” Spingarn said.
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Researchers use 3D printing to mimic functions of tissue Professor talks advances in regenerative medicine, organ synthesis BY JOSHUA HOGATE CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Technological advancements in regenerative medicine and organ synthesis in recent years have led innovations in the health-care industr y. Now, there is hope for new advancements from a seemingly unrelated field: three-dimensional printing. Jordan Miller’s University of Pennsylvania research team is using the improved capabilities of three-dimensional printing to mimic the functionality of the human tissue, he said at a presentation on Feb. 18 at the Biomedical Engineering building on Busch campus. “Cells outperform devices. The focus is now on regenerative medicine, which has proven invaluable throughout its brief histor y,” said Miller, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania. The science began in the 1980s with the invention of skin grafting, which involves the transferring of a portion of a patient’s healthy skin to a damaged area to ease the healing process, he said.
Aside from skin grafting, regenerative medicine has been used in corneal repair and other sur face operations, but has so far been limited to two-dimensional tasks. Miller said his work aims to break this limitation. “Scientists have not yet recreated solid organs, because there is currently no way to ensure that the internal cells have a constant deliver y of oxygen and nutrients,” Miller said. All three-dimensional organs have complex vasculature composed of vein and arterial systems. These structures are difficult to emulate, he said. Miller and his team are using three-dimensional printing technology to create lattice structures and surround these structures with various gels engineered to simulate the properties of organs. “These structures will someday resemble the vasculature of organs,” Miller said. The printing system, called RepRap, is an open-source project founded in Februar y 2004, he said. The software and machiner y are capable of printing complex three-dimensional str uctures, with diameters
ranging from 200 to 1200 microns, precisely the size range needed to create vein and ar ter y designs. “I was definitely fascinated with the multi-disciplinar y approach Dr. Miller took
“The focus is now on regenerative medicine, which has proven invaluable throughout its brief history.” JORDAN MILLER Professor at the University of Pennsylvania
in his research — especially on applying things like 3D printing to a biomedical context like organ design,” said Sagar Singh, a graduate student in the Depar tment of Biomedical Engineering. Miller said he uses an unlikely material to make up his lattice structures — sugar. It has impor tant biocompatible characteristics, such as the ability to dissolve without harming nearby cells and the
rigidity to withstand the development process. “Sugar is like glass physically, but not chemically,” Miller said. Through architectural analysis of human organs and experimentation with gel characteristics like stiffness and density, he hopes to someday be able to recreate organs simply by printing out their vasculature and surrounding them with the necessar y cells and gel, he said. “Our structures are robust enough to withstand the pumping of blood. This is extremely important, as weak organ structures would collapse under the combined forces of circulating blood and clustering cells,” Miller said. In addition to new capabilities for printing, advancements in nanotechnology are proving to be useful for tissue engineers. Hongjun Wang, a postdoctoral fellow at Stevens Institute of Technology, is constr ucting scaf folds on the nanoscale and studying their ef fects on cells. “When one vital organ stops, that ends a life,” Wang said. “If we can replace organs, we can make our lives longer.”
He said his goal is to create a more beneficial cellular environment. “We want to recapture key features of the cellular environment,” Wang said. Wang and his team use electrostatic forces to control the orientation of nanofibers in a three-dimensional matrix and then populate those matrices with cells. “We can control the nanofibers’ orientation by manipulating the electric field,” Wang said. He said the greater porosity and sur face area of nanospun fiber matrices make them much more practical environments for cells compared to microscopic fibers. “It is a more manipulative method that suppor ts cell growth and spreading,” Wang said. As the limits of technology are pushed and overcome, biomedical engineers will continue to innovate and develop new tissue-engineering methods to the benefit of people ever ywhere. “Tissue engineering brings a lot of promise, but there are still a lot of challenges to tackle,” Wang said.
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IN BRIEF POLICE CHARGE MAN WITH THREE WEAPONS OFFENSES NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — A North Brunswick man has been charged with three weapons of fenses after a shootout with police. Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan says 26-year-old Akeem Williams faces two weapons possessions counts and another for having a weapon with a prior conviction. Bail has been set for Williams at $150,000. The incident occurred early Saturday afternoon. Kaplan says several of ficers shot Williams on the street not far from the University campus after he fired a weapon he had been car r ying. Police had responded to a repor t of a man with a gun in the area at a little after noon. Williams was taken to Rober t Wood Johnson University Hospital and was listed in stable condition.
CICADAS MAKE A COMEBACK
TIME IS NOW With the New York City skyline in the background, immigration reform advocates participate in a 'Time is Now' rally on April 6 in Jersey City, N.J. for immigration reform. Labor unions and immigration reform advocacy organizations held the event at Liberty State Park to urge Congress to find a path to American citizenship for the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States. GETTY IMAGES
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — Like clockwork, after 17 years they’re coming back. “They” would be cicadas, the big, noisy bugs that climb out of the earth about every decade and a half to make everyone’s life more exciting. Exper ts tell Gannett News Ser vice that the bugs live underground and feed of f fluid that gathers near the roots of plants, then emerge from the soil when its temperature reaches 64 degrees. They’re largely harmless, but their sheer numbers can cause headaches. Some areas could see as many as a billion of the cicadas per square mile. That can lead to a lot of dead bugs all over roadways and grassy sur faces. They can also disr upt outdoor events with their loud buzzing. New York radio station WNYC is helping to track the invasion.
POLICE MONITORING IF MOTORISTS STOP FOR PEDESTRIANS FOR T LEE, N.J. — Motorists in one nor thern New Jersey town are getting an expensive surprise when they fail to stop for pedestrians crossing the street. Police in Fort Lee recently have set up decoy operations, in which a plainclothes officer crosses the street at one of the city’s dangerous intersections. Motorists who don’t yield way have been pulled over. Fifty-six on Friday received tickets. Police tell The Record the operation is in response to an increasing number of accidents involving pedestrians. They say 12 pedestrians have been struck in Fort Lee in the first two months of 2013. Sixty-eight people were struck last year, and four died. — The Associated Press
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Project turns pay phones into ’90s time machines THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Want to journey to a grittier time in New York City’s not-too-distant past, when the murder rate was sky-high, Times Square was a crossroads of crime and por n, Starbucks had yet to ar rive, and hardly anyone owned a cellphone? A project designed to promote an art exhibit has turned 5,000 Manhattan pay phones into time machines that take callers back to 1993, a pivotal year in the city’s art, culture and politics. Pick up a receiver on the rarely used phones that still dot the New York streetscape, punch 1-855-FOR-1993 and you will hear a notable resident recounting what life was like 20 years ago on that block. “We liked, creatively, the idea of using a sort of slightly broken, disused system as the canvas of this project,” said Scott Chinn of Droga5, the ad agency behind the campaign for an exhibit titled “NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star.” An eclectic mix of artists, writers, food and fashion stars, and others has been recruited to reminisce, including chef Mario Batali, actor Chazz Palminteri, pornographic performer Robin Byrd and former Yankees pitcher Jim Abbott, who in 1993, threw a no-hitter in. The narrators describe a New York that was dirtier, bloodier, raunchier and less gentrified than today — but also an easier
place for a talented young person to gain a foothold. Batali says in his sound bite that opening a restaurant was easier in 1993 when he debuted his first restaurant, Po. “You didn’t have to have a rich daddy or an investor or put together a team or anything like that,” he says. “It’s sad to watch the cost of business push the real individualist entrepreneurs out of the game.” Bike shop owner Dave Ortiz remembers when the city’s Meatpacking District, now home to trendy restaurants, nightclubs and pricey boutiques, was the wild, wild West. “The rats were huge,” he says. “They were as big as cats, so you had to walk in the middle of the street. It’s amazing what they turned it into. It’s cool, but it’s lost its, like, authenticity.” Rudy Giuliani was elected New York City mayor in 1993 and promised to crack down on crime and make the city more livable. The number of homicides in the city — 1,960 in 1993 — had already dropped from a high of 2,245 in 1990 but has plunged steeply since then. In all of last year, there were 414. The city’s AIDS crisis peaked in 1993 at 12,744 diagnoses. Terrorists staged the first attack on the World Trade Center. The look of the city has changed dramatically as national retailers have replaced independent merchants. New York City’s first Starbucks opened in 1994.
DANCIN’ IN THE MOUNTAINS Ethnic Igorot mountain folk perform a traditional dance during the celebration of the Lang Ay Festival in Bontoc on April 6 in Mountain province, Philippines. The annual Lang Ay festival commemorates the anniversary of the foundation of the Mountain Province with street dances, theatrical performances, sporting events and agricultural trade fairs that showcase the rich local history and culture of different mountain tribes in the northern Philippines. GETTY IMAGES
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The University administration brought the negative media attention upon itself for a clearly negligent handling of the situation. It quickly became a question of what could have possibly been happening behind closed doors that allowed this abuse to continue for an ollege Avenue has been riddled with news crews additional several months after first being discovered. for days, and it’s a scene that University students However, it’s very fortunate for us that the abuse have become accustomed to over recent years. going on with our basketball team was caught on tape Likewise, they have also become accustomed to negaand brought to light — even in spite of Murdock’s tive media attention that, rather than focusing on the issues underhanded intentions in doing so. This is not only an which need to be addressed, sometimes opts to unnecesopportunity for our school to take a lead role in ensursarily attack the academic institution instead. While our ing our athletics department offers the safest and most campuses have become the scene for hot-topic news storewarding experience possible for its athletes, but also ries, we would hope that the media would have done a betfor programs around the country to revisit the wellbeter job of constructively directing focus on things that ing of their athletes. would improve society, rather If we really want to give due than get a higher viewership for attention to the problem, then a five-minute story slot. “Everyone should be thinking we would take this opportunity A quick Google News search about the abuse going on behind to question the social-gender of “mike rice scandal” turns up expectations of “masculinity,” more than 1 million search the scenes at other schools’ which allow this type of behavresults spanning news sites athletics departments and the ior to be deemed acceptable or around the world. The story of the abusive former University societal shortcomings that breed that led to Rice calling his athletes a bunch of “fairies.” We head men’s basketball coach that abuse in the first place.” would take the time to think has become a national sensaabout the rampant homophotion, first being spurred on by bia that still exists in our socieESPN and then picked up by ty and how a University official could have possibly notable news outlets like USA Today, National Public thought it was okay to call young men “faggots” in such Radio and Forbes. Most stories focus on the clearly unaca negative way. It’d make us rethink our understanding ceptable behavior in the University’s athletics department. of abuse and how it affects people, especially students The Daily Beast ran a story called: “[University] athat such a formative age in their lives. letes stay silent on Mike Rice,” criticizing our athlete’s Hopefully, this media hype will lead to a change in refusal to comment on the controversy and prompting the paradigm on our college campuses. Hopefully, it will question of, “what else could the University be hiding?” prompt positive changes like better surveillance at colHowever, the conclusion we need to collectively lege sports practices. Hopefully, it will allow people to reach is this is not solely our University’s issue — it’s a realize that there is much more to the story than the wide-scale collegiate one. name of a single University. Instead of focusing on our school and its unfortuBut for now, we’ll just continue maneuvering ournate recent history, everyone should be thinking about selves around press vans and getting approached by the abuse going on behind the scenes at other schoolreporters with microphones, hoping to get the next big s’ athletics departments and the societal shortcomings comment on the latest University scandal. that breed that abuse in the first place. Editor’s note: This is part two of a series on the developing Mike Rice controversy. Stay tuned for more of our thoughts on the matter in coming days.
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Leaving tips should not be necessary PHILOSOPHIES OF A PARTICULAR AMERICAN ED REEP
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recently went to RutgersZone and ordered a seltzer with unlimited refills for two dollars. That’s a great deal inand-of itself, especially for a seltzer-lover like me, who can easily sit at a table and drink seltzer for half a day. After giving two bucks to the waitress, I remembered that RutgersZone was a bar of sorts, and the custom at bars is to tip. I handed the waitress an extra dollar, and to my surprise, she said, “I’m sorry. I can’t take tips.” She shouldn’t have been sorry. That’s amazing. I hate tipping with a passion, and now that I know RutgersZone disallows tipping (technically, they allow tipping for charities and employee development, but there is no tipping directly to employees), I plan to go there all the time. An eating/drinking establishment where I can sit down and get service without having to tip is a dream come true. Even though I regularly tip and often do so generously, I truly despise the practice for a number of reasons. First, it stresses me out tremendously. The last thing I want to do after a nice meal with friends is annoying mental math to fig-
ure out what a fair tip would be and what everyone should contribute to it. Even though I am good at figuring out tip amounts, the mental work of doing so really detracts from my dining experience when I go out to eat. Many times, I would rather pay more money at a pricy fast-food restaurant than go through the ordeal of tipping math at a cheap sit-down place. The math gets even worse when different people at your table want to tip at different rates or tip relative to their order size. It often gets terribly complicated. If you’re an establishment that cares about customer experience, why make customers go through this misery every time they eat? Why not try to make their experience as enjoyable as possible? Second, tipping forces me to pay for extra service I don’t need. The custom is to give particularly good tips to servers who go above and beyond in serving you. But often, I don’t need my servers to go above and beyond. I’m just happy if they’re reasonably attentive. When servers do go the extra mile and refill my drink a bunch or get me something special, instead of appreciating them, I think, “Oh, great, now I have to give you an extra dollar or two. Gee, thanks.” Servers should try to give “wow” service to everyone regardless, because it helps their establishment’s reputation. When customers get extra-good service for free, that’s when they really feel special and appreciative.
Third, tipping encourages tax evasion. Restaurants often pay their employees a rate below minimum wage and expect them to make most of their compensation through tips. As far as benefiting the employees, this system has its positives and negatives. As far as the public is concerned, this system has huge negatives. Employees who receive cash tips often do not repor t their earnings to the Internal Revenue Service. This is a widespread form of tax evasion. If service workers were instead compensated exclusively by salary or an hourly wage, they would have to report their earnings to the I.R.S. and pay their fair share of taxes. With budget deficits being a huge problem for our country, making sure the government gets all the revenue it deserves is very important. I want eating, entertainment and hospitality establishments to ban tipping, raise their prices reasonably and pay their service workers better wages. I am tired of this practice, which shafts customers and the public as a whole.
JOEY GREGORY
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hen I woke up Thursday morning, I checked Facebook as I normally do — and saw my good friend, colleague and Sports Editor Josh Bakan’s column in response to the previous day’s firing of now former head men’s basketball coach Mike Rice. He called for Pernetti to either be fired or to change his ways. Shortly after I finished reading, I received a text from an old roommate asking me if I thought Pernetti should be fired. While I respect Josh’s opinion, I greatly disagree with it because I think Pernetti was a victim of a flawed system in the ever-powerful public eye. I, of course, agree with the Rice firing. I spent the winter as one of the men’s basketball team’s beat writers for this newspaper, so I got a firsthand look at the intensity of Rice’s demeanor every week. A team cannot move forward with a coach who is not backed by his entire team (as is evidenced by the three players who left the program in the last two seasons). So yes, I support the decision to fire Rice just as I’m sure most, if not all of you do. But the matter of forcing Pernetti to resign is a different story. Let me explain. The first thing I mentioned as an issue was the flawed system. Whether schools will admit it — and most won’t — wins are the No. 1 priority. I’m not endorsing this notion. I’m just saying this is the reality of college sports, especially high-profile ones. This is evidenced by the amount of stories being uncovered about players who have had their grades adjusted, tampered with or faked in order to remain eligible. There are also schools giving short, meaningless suspensions to players doing poorly in classes. This is why it warms my heart to see a program like Georgetown University’s, from which the second-best player, Greg Whittington, was suspended for the season for failing a class. But the majority of schools use any means to keep players on the field or court, many of which are NCAA violations.
Anyway, like I said — wins are at the top of the list. And whether they will admit it, those in the athletic department most likely considered this reasoning when deliberating on Rice’s punishment at the end of last year. Here is what I mean: At the beginning of Rice’s suspension, the team was 7-2, a very admirable mark for the Knights. Then the story of Rice’s behavior surfaced in December, and Rice was suspended for three games. First off, did anyone else find it convenient his suspension ended right before the Big East schedule, when the tougher and more important portion began? Good timing for the team. Secondly, if Rice had been fired then, although associate head coach David Cox — who took over in Rice’s absence and is now the interim head coach — is experienced, there was no guarantee he would be as good as Rice. We now know the team struggled in the Big East anyway, but the athletic department did not know this when reviewing the tapes the first time. If Pernetti left the team with an interim head coach entering Big East play, he would essentially abandon them at a most crucial time. Because of this, the head-coaching search would have been rushed, and it would have been from a small pool of coaches, which is much larger now that the season is over. So letting Rice finish out the year was the best decision for the team as far as wins go. Even if it was not what Pernetti wanted to do, the decision was within the mindset that college athletics force athletic departments to take. This is the flaw in the system. Sometimes people — in this case a very competent and capable athletic director — are forced to make decisions which are secretly fueled by the priority of wins simply because it is the way things work. Again, I’m not endorsing the idea, simply stating the reality of it. I also said he was a victim of the public eye. What is the difference between late last year and now? Nothing — except for the fact that the public has seen the tapes. There was no word of Rice’s abusive behavior continuing beyond his suspension. Nobody called for any firings when it was handled within the department, and Rice finished the season. But once the public saw Rice’s behavior, a maelstrom of
Open letter from faculty in support of Barchi
negative publicity followed. Once this happened, the only way to relieve public pressure was to sacrifice a scapegoat. In this case, it was Pernetti. He was forced to resign simply because they thought the public might let up if it happened. If you were to examine Pernetti’s letter of resignation, you’ll find he said: “We agreed that it was in the best interests of Rutgers University that I step down.” “We” means Pernetti and President Barchi. To me, “we agreed it was in the best interests” means they did not think Pernetti deserved to be fired, but rather, they thought it needed to be done for the school’s sake. So the decision was not made by Barchi and Pernetti, but rather forced by uninformed, reactionary public pressure because this is what often happens. So congratulations public, you forced out a man who oversaw the continuing improvement of the wrestling and football programs — among others — and was a key player in the move to the Big Ten, a major step for the University. Reports are continuing to surface saying members of the board influenced Pernetti, so the decision not to fire Rice last year may not have even been his. With all the negative publicity in recent years, the University had its chance to take a stand, show some backbone, make the right call and keep Pernetti in a job he rightfully deserves. But instead, it caved in to public pressure. Sadly, it feels as though handling these matters has regressed to a witch-hunt. Whomever the crowd points at is who ends up on the end of the noose. Finally, those of you calling for Barchi’s head as well, get real. The man should not be faulted because he trusted Pernetti to do the job he was hired for. Pernetti was not at fault and therefore, Barchi is not at fault. Axing people who have not done anything wrong only sets the University back, and this is exactly what has happened with Pernetti’s forced resignation.
On Sept. 1, 2012, Robert L. Barchi became the 20th president of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. A neuroscientist and medical neurologist, Barchi wrote on the occasion of his appointment, “We need a fundamental change in the way we teach, the way we do research and the way we finance those entities as we move forward.” We applauded this exciting invitation to achieve greater levels of excellence at the University. Barchi, formerly the president of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, arrived here with a clear vision for the University — focused on academic excellence, outreach and partnerships and sound fiscal policies. He has provided strong and unwavering support for the restructuring of higher education in New Jersey through the integration of most units of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, as mandated by the 2012 New Jersey Medical and Health Sciences Education Restructuring Act. In the fall of 2012, he joined a statewide coalition of university, business and labor leaders urging voter support of a $750 million bond act for higher education construction, and in December he launched an inclusive university-wide strategic planning process. Barchi is leading the University through a transformation process that will greatly expand our mission of instruction, research and service. As scientists and as faculty members, we fully support Barchi’s vision and leadership. We believe that we will see enormous new opportunities to excel in the medical, dental and health sciences, bolstered by our existing strengths in basic health science research capabilities. Existing programs at the University and at the University of Medicine and Dentistry will benefit immensely from new synergies with research, teaching and practice in pharmacy, nursing, the life and social sciences, engineering, law and business, the arts and humanities and many other areas of strength. For our students and for the residents of this state, we will create an even more robust institution with far more academic options. But we know that the road to excellence in higher education is not always a clear path. Priorities differ and controversy is a fact of life. Over the years, many of us have argued with one another about the proper place of athletics in university life. But we all agree that abusive behavior and racial and homophobic language have no place at our University. We know Barchi stands with us on this matter. Barchi shares our long-standing commitment to access and diversity — he embraces these as central values in the state’s premier higher education institution. We all care deeply about building and maintaining a community that respects and celebrates difference and seeks to enhance educational opportunities for citizens of the state. A very unfortunate chapter in University life unfolded over the last several days, and the healing process will take time. Given his strong and decisive leadership, we have no doubt that Barchi will address these issues quickly and firmly. We strongly support his continued leadership.
Joey Gregory is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in journalism and media studies with a minor in philosophy. He is a sports correspondent at The Daily Targum.
Forty-five members of the University faculty signed this letter. To see the full list of names, view this article online at www.dailytargum.com
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,” normally runs on alternate Mondays.
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PLAY Fourth inning proves turning point for win in RU’s series finale CONTINUED FROM BACK In the bottom half of the fourth inning, junior first baseman Alexis Durando smacked a line-drive single to left field with two outs. After a sacrifice bunt and sacrifice fly moved her to third base, freshman utility player Stephanie Huang snuck a single under the third baseman’s glove to give the Knights a 1-0 lead.
SPORTS PAGE 17 “We needed base runners, and at that point in the game, I think it was important for us to just stay aggressive,” Durando said. “We needed to be able to just play and produce runs.” The old-fashioned small ball completed a shift in momentum Rutgers would not relinquish. The Knights tacked on two more runs in the fifth inning on a double by Howard over the centerfielder’s head. But Georgetown did not go quietly. In the seventh, the Hoyas finally scored their first run off two hits and put the tying runners on base with two outs. Nelson jogged out to the mound to settle down Landrith,
who responded by inducing a popup to senior second baseman Jennifer Harabedian for the final out of the game. The ace ended the series where she left of f the day before — closing out a win. Rutgers grabbed a victory in the second game of Saturday’s doubleheader, 7-4, behind a Durando grand slam in the third inning that broke the game open. Making her first start since March 15, senior righthander Abbey Houston held a Georgetown offense that scored 12 runs in Game 1 to only four in four and onethird innings. “Abbey Houston was the star [Saturday],” Nelson said. “We
needed it out of her, and she gave it to us for four innings. She really picked us up, gave us a chance.” Landrith finished the final two and two-thirds innings for the save, allowing only two hits. Nelson believes it gave his ace necessary confidence entering the final game. That was because she was a victim in what resembled a highly contested home run derby in the first game as Rutgers fell, 12-11. The Knights had no answer for shortstop Alexandria Anttila, who finished with an impressive line at the plate — 4-for-4 with four homeruns and 10 RBI, including the eventual game-winning two-run blast in the top of the seventh.
Landrith cited several adjustments she and senior catcher Kaci Madden made later that day. “I communicated with my catcher a little bit more, and we looked at some hitting charts,” Landrith said. “We talked with the coaches on proper ways to set those hitters up — some mistakes we made and how to fix them, and it was a success.” The Knights’ resiliency allowed them to grind out two more crucial conference wins and its second series win in as many weekends. “We need to stay on a roll,” Durando said. “Just staying above .500 [in the Big East] is huge for us, and we have Villanova on Wednesday — so that’ll be important for us too.”
SERIES Gebler wins middle game to avoid sweep against Seton Hall CONTINUED FROM BACK Granite broke up the stalemate in the top of the fifth inning, when he drove in designated hitter Jon Beaubien on a Law fastball to make it a 1-0 lead. It was only Law’s third hit allowed in the game to that point. Law appeared rattled after that play, as he plunked Selden in the head on the next at bat and tossed a wild pitch after that, which allowed Granite to score to make it 2-0. Law let Seton Hall load the bases in the first, but he fielded a lined grounder off the bat of second baseman Mike Genovese. He threw home for the second out and Melillo completed the double with a throw to first. The loss secured Rutgers’ first Big East series loss this season, as the Knights defeated Seton Hall in the second game Saturday, 7-5. In a back-and-forth game, senior righthander Tyler Gebler went five and two thirds innings for his third win of the season. But Gebler did so without his best stuff. “I kept us in it, but I didn’t really have a lot of my pitches,” Gebler said. “I didn’t have my cutter. My changeup was kind of flat. I just threw my fastball a lot. They’re not a bad-hitting team — better than what I expected. They just hit every mistake I made.” Senior left hander Rob Corsi finished out the game and allowed three hits and one earned run. He was able to get the Pirates to ground out, picking up his fourth save of the season and his second in as many appearances. “Corsi did a hell of a job. That’s the best he’s pitched all year,” Hill said. Junior outfielder Brian O’Grady and junior second baseman Nick Favatella both homered to provide Rutgers with its share of clutch runs, while Law went 1-for-3 with three RBI. The Knights dropped their first game to the Pirates on Friday, 15-1. Rutgers is still 6-3 against Big East opponents, and O’Grady sees that as a reason for the team to keep its head up despite the series loss. “We have a great ball club when we put everything together,” O’Grady said. “I think we can play with anyone, and I don’t think we are going to let this get in the way of competing.” For updates on the Rutgers baseball team, follow Bradly Derechailo on Twitter @Bradly_D. For general Rutgers sports updates, follow @targumsports.
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Former UCLA head coach interested in Rutgers BY BRADLY DERECHAILO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
Former UCLA head men’s basketball coach Ben Howland has interest in taking over the coaching vacancy at Rutgers, according to CBS Sports. Before the Scarlet Knights can make a move on Howland or any other coaching candidate, they must first hire a new athletic director. University President Robert L. Barchi said at a press conference Friday the athletic department’s first priority is to find a replacement for Tim Pernetti, who stepped down in the wake of former head coach Mike Rice’s firing. But when an athletic director is found, the next step is to replace Rice. Howland could be a possible candidate for the position, and sources told CBS Sports some
boosters would be in favor of Howland as the next coach because of his ties to the area. Howland recruited in New York area from 1999 to 2003 during his time as Pittsburgh’s head coach. At UCLA, Howland led the Bruins to seven NCAA Tournament appearances in 10 seasons with the program. During that span, UCLA made the Final Four three times. UCLA was the Pac 12 regular-season champion this season with Howland in charge. But the Bruins lost to Minnesota, 83-63, in the first round of this years’ NCAA Tournament, prompting the school to fire Howland. While Howland remains a possibility for the Knights, one of Rutgers’ rumored targets has already pulled his name out of contention for the job. Rhode Island head coach Dan Hurley, rumored to be one the
University’s top targets, said yesterday on “The Ian O’Connor Show” that Rutgers is not in his plans for next year. “I’ve had no conversations [with Rutgers],” Hurley said. “Obviously because of the [Hurley] name and because of our history in New Jersey, there’s going to be a natural connection to be made there.” Under Hurley last season, Rhode Island went 8-21 in the Atlantic 10 in his first year as head coach. Hurley coached the year before at Wagner. Hurley went 223-21 as the head coach of St. Benedicts of Newark before he took over at Wagner. Sports Illustrated reported Saturday that Rhode Island and Hurley were close to a two-year contract extension that would keep Hurley with the Rams through the 2020 season.
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Despite falling just shy of qualifying for the NCAA Regionals, the Rutgers gymnastics team sent four individuals to the postseason Saturday at West Virginia — its most qualifiers since 2004. Junior Luisa Leal — named EAGL Team MVP on March 22 — earned a 39.175 all-around competition score to highlight the Scarlet Knights action. The Cali, Colombia, native tied for sixth among 17 gymnasts, only 0.025 points short of second place and qualification for the NCAA Championships. She finished fourth among 42 competitors on the uneven bars where she earned her highest individual event score of 9.850. Junior co-captain Alexis Gunzelman also competed allaround for the second time in her career, tallying a 38.400. Her top two scores came on the uneven bars and vault with marks of 9.825 and 9.775, respectively. The Tabernacle, N.J., native earned this season EAGL First-Team AllUneven Bars honors. Rutgers’ other two qualifiers were rookies who this year provided the Knights with depth. Freshman Jenna Williams, also an EAGL First Team All-Uneven Bars selection, flourished again in the event on the regional stage with a 9.750. Classmate Claudia Salinas, an EAGL First Team All-Balance Beam selection, proved a solid specialist in her event as well with a 9.125. Head coach Louis Levine said he is proud of how the individuals — all expected to return next season — proved themselves against national forces. The top goal entering next season remains qualifying for the event as a team for the first time since 2007.
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APRIL 8, 2013 MEN’S BASKETBALL
University President Robert L. Barchi said Friday the first time he saw the Mike Rice tapes was last Tuesday night. ENRICO CABREDO, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Extortion case to be reviewed by FBI menced by us on behalf of Mr. Murdock,” said Kozyra during Friday’s press conference. “It The F.B.I. is investigating raises questions of the conduct whether former Director of at Rutgers University in respect Player Development for the to its basketball program in Rutgers men’s basketball team regards to publicity this week.” Kozyra continued to defend Eric Murdock tried to extort money from the University, Murdock’s reasons for filing according to an Associated the lawsuit. “This lawsuit is about why Press report. The investigation is looking this wasn’t discovered sooner,” into whether Murdock made Kozyra said, “and why Rutgers the video of then-head coach University did not uncover Mike Rice physically and ver- what was happening in its basbally abusing his players to get ketball practices that went on for an extended period of time.” money out of the school. Murdock preThe source, sented the video who told the “This is a classic to ESPN on Associated Press Tuesday, when it about the investiwhistleblower showed the clips gation, spoke on case that’s of Rice on anonymity “Outside the because the F.B.I. been commenced Lines” with Bob has not by us.” Ley. Murdock announced the appeared in a tape investigation yet. BARRY KOZYRA segment on the The University Eric Murdock’s Lawyer show stating Rice did not renew would change his Murdock, who Rice hired in 2010, after his two behavior in the presence of Pernetti and that he was fired seasons with the team. Murdock and his lawyers because he tried to bring to filed a lawsuit against the light the issues he had with University on Friday, claiming Rice’s coaching style. Barchi acknowledged Friday his contract was unlawfully terminated and held a press con- that if Murdock never produced the tapes, the fallout and ference to discuss the lawsuit. Murdock’s lawyers asked in subsequent firing of Rice would December for $950,000 to settle likely have never happened. employment issues in regards to Barchi stated he did not see the the non-renewal of Murdock’s videos of the practices until contract. Barr y Kozyra, Tuesday night. In an investigative repor t Murdock’s head attorney, told the University that if a settlement conducted by an independent was not agreed upon by Jan. 4, law firm hired by the University, Murdock would be prepared to it was found that although some take legal action against the of Rice’s coaching techniques University. Rutgers did not were in question, he did not create a hostile work environment respond to Murdock’s request. “This is a classic whistle- for his players and the rest of blower case that’s been com- the coaching staff.
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Former Director of Player Development Eric Murdock said he was wrongfully fired in 2012 from the University. TYLER BARTO
Murdock files suit against University BY BRADLY DERECHAILO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
Editor’s note: This story originally appeared online at www.dailytargum.com Friday, April 5.
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EAST HANOVER, N.J. — When Eric Murdock first came to the University’s athletic department in June 2012 with allegations of former head men’s basketball coach Mike Rice abusing his players, the University did not take action, Murdock said. “Efforts to get Rutgers to address its problems were ignored for months,” he said. “Instead, I was removed from my position. That is wrong, and that is why I filed a lawsuit.” Dressed in a beige suit at the Hanover Manor, Murdock made a brief statement to a room of reporters as he expressed how he felt about Rice’s termination. “Mike Rice’s removal was long overdue, the first step to stopping the mistreatment of Rutgers’ student-athletes,” Murdock said. “When Rutgers finds out about something wrong involving its students, they should act immediately.” Murdock filed a whistleblower lawsuit today against the University for what his lawyer, Barry Kozyra, said was a wrongful removal from his position as director of player development. Kozyra said Murdock asked in June if he could be excused from Rice’s independently-run basketball clinic, run by what Kozyra called Mike Rice LLC, to be a guest speaker at Bridgewater High School, where his son attends. When Rice declined, Murdock found a replacement at the clinic and went anyway, returning within the hour, Kozyra said. Upon Murdock’s return, Rice told him to not continue with the clinic, Kozyra said. During the same time period, Murdock made aware Rice’s mistreatment of players to the University. Murdock claimed almost a month later on July 11, 2012, that he was wrongfully terminated. “There is no rationale for having Mr. Murdock let go,” Kozyra said. “Mr. Murdock advised them
there were problems with the way Rice was handling the student-athletes, and days later, he was informed that his promised contract he was going to receive was not going to be renewed.” Kozyra said players came to Murdock with complaints of Rice’s mistreatments. “That did happen,” Kozyra said. “[But] I wouldn’t want to compromise the privacy of those students who made those comments to Mr. Murdock at this time.” Murdock, who spent nine seasons in the NBA after he was drafted in the first round from Providence, maintained through his lawyers he did not reveal the tapes for financial reasons. “[It] is clearly not true,” Kozyra said when asked if the lawsuit was for financial gain. “Mr. Murdock acted without any motivation of money when he brought this to the attention of Rutgers in June 2012. It’s Rutgers that didn’t act. We provided the video to Rutgers in November to take appropriate action. Rutgers had the video since June. It’s their video footage.” ESPN obtained the 30-minute DVD from Murdock on Tuesday of Rice throwing basketballs, cursing and shoving his players. The footage was presented on “Outside the Lines,” and Murdock appeared on the program highlighting what Rice said and did during practices. Murdock said on the program Rice would act differently when Pernetti was around. When Pernetti was not present, Murdock said Rice would use profanity when his players did something wrong. Kozyra mentioned in his opening statement Rutgers never acknowledged Murdock’s hand in the revelations of Rice’s treatment of his players. Kozyra believed if Murdock never revealed the tapes, Rice could still be employed with the University. “Frankly, if Rutgers is sincere about coming clean and doing what it has to do, it should recognize the person who brought this to its attention,” Kozyra said. “If Mr. Murdock never brought this to their attention and lost his job for doing so, would this still be going on because no one bothered to look?”
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MEN’S LACROSSE VILLANOVA 11, RUTGERS 9
Midfielder Matt Klimchak scored three goals for the Knights on Saturday at Villanova, but it was not enough as RU fell, 11-9. TIAN LI, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Rutgers’ losing streak reaches eight games BY JIM MOONEY STAFF WRITER
The Rutgers men’s lacrosse team’s late comeback bid fell short Saturday as Villanova took the 11-9 victory. This marks the team’s eighth straight loss. “We were going into a Big East game against an opponent that has had our number recently, and we were tr ying to get this win for the seniors who haven’t beaten these guys,” said head coach Brian Brecht. “We did a great job fighting for all 60 minutes but just came up short. I’m proud of our effort. I just wish we could win one of these one-goal games.” The Scarlet Knights (2-9, 04) trailed the Wildcats 10-6 with four minutes left in regulation when they attempted to pull off their comeback. Junior midfielder Matt Klimchak scored his third goal of the game to cut the lead to three. The Knights lost freshman goalie Kris Alleyne during the game to an upper-body injury and was replaced by junior goalie Steven Lusby. Lusby was able to keep Rutgers in the game despite Villanova (4-6, 3-0) outshooting it, 47-35, in the game. “Matt had a great week of practice, and battled some injuries early in the season,” Brecht said. “It’s nice to see him starting to put together his game now that he is healthy once again.” Klimchak’s goal proceeded goals from junior attack Nick DePaolera and freshman midfielder Jacob Coretti to bring the Knights within one with 90 seconds left in regulation. It was the second 3-0 scoring run for Rutgers in the game. A late slashing penalty against Rutgers gave Villanova a man-up
opportunity in the last minute of the game. The Knights’ offensive production came from six different players, and eight different players registered a point. Including Klimchak’s hat trick, sophomore attack Brian Goss tallied one goal and two assists to give him his fourth multi-point game of the season. But Villanova kept the pressure on Rutgers all game and forced the Knights to play from behind most of the game. Rutgers trailed 2-0 after the first quarter before Klimchak delivered a man-up goal. Coretti found the back of the net with 3:51 left in the half for his first goal of the game, but the Wildcats would score two goals to go into halftime with a 4-2 lead. The third quar ter began with the Knights’ first 3-0 run, which included Klimchak’s second goal. Rutgers also received goals from Goss and junior attack Scott Klimchak, who extended his scoring streak to 11 games. Sophomore midfielder Joseph Nardella dominated the face of with wins in 17 of 24 face-offs. Nardella also scooped up a team-high eight ground balls in the contest. “With guys like Kris and Joseph, you know exactly what you are going to get from them,” Brecht said. “A guy like Joseph gives your team some confidence when playing from behind, knowing there is a good chance that he is going to win the face-of f and keep the momentum going your way.” The Knights will return home this Tuesday against No. 8 Princeton.
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he Rutgers women’s lacrosse team fell short in its upset bid in yesterday’s 10-8 loss against No. 5 Syracuse at the RU Turf Field. Syracuse midfielder Katie Webster scored the go-ahead goal with 6:56 left before attack Kailah Kempney prevented Rutgers’ chances of victor y with 1:16 remaining. Webster and Kempney only scored one goal apiece, but did so when it was impor tant. Midfielder Kayla Treanor led the way with three goals. The Scarlet Knights were in the lead with 24:06 left in regulation until when Webster scored. Junior attack Megan Clements gave the Knights that lead with her second goal of the game. See tomorrow’s issue of The Daily Targum for full coverage.
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When Dontea Ayers first arrived on campus, he was far from hesitant to contact Savon Huggins with concerns. “I had a lot of questions,” Ayers said. “I was blowing up Savon’s phone a lot.” The aspirations for the freshman r unning back to become Huggins’ complement in the Rutgers football team’s backfield have led the Salisbur y, Md., native to rely on the veteran in front of him for answers on ever ything from the playbook to how to break down practice film. “Since I got here, he has helped me with what I should be doing and what I shouldn’t be doing with the plays and everything,” Ayers said. “He’s been like a big brother to me. Any questions I have, I can just contact Savon.” Though there is still a lot of time between the Scarlet Knights’ spring game and the start of training camp in August, the way Ayers takes that advice will determine if the early enrollee will see some time behind Huggins. With the departure of Jawan Jamison, Huggins is the only returning running back from last season’s team with considerable playing time. While junior Michael Burton will have his chance to tote the rock from the fullback position, Huggins will still need to be relieved. His injur y histor y in his two seasons in Piscataway is also a reason why head coach Kyle Flood would like someone to emerge as the Knights’ No. 2 running back sooner rather than later. So it will be up to Ayers, redshirt freshman Desmon Peoples
Barring a major setback, junior running back Savon Huggins will be Rutgers’ No. 1 tailback this season. The Knights are still looking for his backup. ENRICO CABREDO, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER and sophomore Paul James to emerge as Huggins’ complement. Only 2 of those 3 received reps Saturday at High Point Solutions Stadium during Rutgers’ first scrimmage of the spring. James, who is still recovering from a hip injury he sustained earlier in the spring, sat out. So Peoples and Ayers took the majority of the carries with the No. 2 offense. “I’m pleased with the depth,” Flood said after the scrimmage. “I think at different times we saw some nice things from Desmond Peoples, saw some things from Dontea [Ayers] ...We have a group of running backs that I think can have a positive effect on the team.” Peoples and Ayers offer different running styles for Flood. At 5-foot-9, 175 pounds, Peoples brings a change of pace
from Huggins’ downhill style of running. His 14-yard scamper to the outside of the field during the scrimmage showed why he is the Knights’ quickest backfield option. Ayers’ thick build — he is also 5-foot-9 but weighs 205 pounds — allows him to get through the first level of the defense. If Rutgers wants to duplicate its running back production from last season, Peoples knows either he, Ayers or James needs to emerge in the coming months. “It’s ver y impor tant,” Peoples said of a ser viceable backup. “Like we did last year, we’re not going to use just one running back the whole game. It’s ver y important to develop the No. 2 back.” Jamison recorded 1,075 yards on the ground last season for Rutgers, while Huggins’ 410
rushing yards and two touchdowns came on 119 attempts. With Huggins stepping into the starting role, Ayers knows there are plenty of opportunities for carries. But right now he is just worried about overcoming the learning cur ve presented to first year players. He also knows he has Huggins around for help. “My main focus right now is just getting better and getting back to 100 percent,” Ayers said. “Everything else — the depth chart and where I’ll be placed — that’s going to come. I’m just worried about bettering my craft.” For updates on the Rutgers football team, follow Bradly Derechailo on Twitter @Bradly_D. For general Rutgers sports updates, follow @TargumSports.
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hur t its Big East Tournament prospects in yesterday’s 6-1 loss to Syracuse at the RU Tennis Complex. The Scarlet Knights’ only point came from freshman Mariam Zein, who defeated Brittany Lashway in fifth singles, 6-2, 4-6, 11-9. The Orange swept doubles play, as only junior Vanessa Petrini and freshman Gina Li made it to a tiebreaker in their 8-7 (7-5) defeat in first doubles. Rutgers continues action tomorrow against Seton Hall at the RU Tennis Complex. See tomorrow’s issue of The Daily Targum for full coverage.
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took the Colonial Relay title Saturday, as the Scarlet Knights captured three field event titles and top times in the 4x200-meter relay and 100 meter. Rutgers led with 133 points in the 31-team field. The descending finishers were Bucknell with 116 points, Monmouth with 77.5 points, Shippensburg with 60 points and Virginia Tech with 59 points. Sophomore Kadeem Douse took first place in the 100meter finals. Sophomores D’Andre Jordan and Corey Crawford and freshmen Rajee Dunbar and Emeka Eze took first in the 4x200 with a time of 1:26.13.
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track and field team also clinched first place Saturday in its Colonial Relays. Junior Tylia Gillon repeated as the 100-meter champion, also taking first place as part of the 4x100 and sprint medley relay teams. Junior Asha Ruth finished four th in the 100 meter. Rutgers scored 104 points in the 104-team field. Delaware finished second with 95 points, Monmouth placed third with 87 points, Villanova ended fourth with 86 points and Virginia Tech rounded out the top finishers with 69 points in fifth. The 4x100-relay team finished with a time of 46.36, consisting of Gillon, Ruth, senior Ekene Ugboaja and sophomore Gabrielle Farquharson.
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SPORTS PAGE 23 FOOTBALL PLAYERS HELD CLOSE RELATIONSHIP WITH FORMER ATHLETIC DIRECTOR
Kyle Flood said Saturday he is grateful former Athletic Director Tim Pernetti gave him the opportunity to head coach at Rutgers. Flood is uncertain whether he will have a say in who becomes the next athletic director, as several coaches had in 2009 before Pernetti took the position. TIAN LI, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Flood praises Pernetti for tenure at RU BY JOSH BAKAN SPORTS EDITOR
Former Athletic Director Tim Pernetti’s resignation Friday was especially poignant for the Rutgers football team, as Pernetti played tight end from 1989-1993 for the Scarlet Knights. “I know how Tim feels about Rutgers University,” said head coach Kyle Flood after Saturday’s scrimmage. “I know it’s a special place for him, so for him to have trusted me with the program that
he was a part of as my first head coaching job — I’ll always be grateful to him for that.” Junior running back Savon Huggins said Pernetti was vital in keeping the team together last year upon former head coach Greg Schiano’s departure to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Pernetti also made an impact on Huggins — New Jersey’s top high school prospect in 2011 — ever since the St. Peter’s (N.J.) Prep product visited spring practice out of prep school.
“He was a great guy to us,” Huggins said. “We loved him. He was like one of us. He traveled with the team, he was always there, he encouraged us in practice, but it sucks that he’s not around anymore.” But Flood insisted Pernetti’s departure will not affect the recruiting process. Between Rutgers’ academic and on-field achievements, he thinks the program will be just fine. Pernetti became athletic director April 1, 2009, when Flood was
still an assistant coach. This might be the first time Flood gets a say in who becomes athletic director. Schiano, head women’s basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer and former men’s basketball coach Fred Hill, Jr., were consulted in Pernetti’s hiring process. Flood is still unsure of how much his opinion will affect this hiring. “I think anybody’s individual agenda at the University is really not the most important thing right now,” Flood said. “I think collectively we have to figure out what are going to be the most important things to the University.”
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Former cornerback Logan Ryan told head coach Kyle Flood in bowl practice that then-wideout Ian Thomas would make a good cornerback. JOVELLE TAMAYO, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / NOVEMBER 2012
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Logan Ryan and then-redshirt freshman cornerback Tejay Johnson were among the members of Rutgers’ secondary who thought Ian Thomas would make a solid cornerback during bowl practice in December 2012. Ryan gave Flood his opinion then, so Flood experimented with the wide receiver at cornerback toward the end of that practice period. Thomas has gotten used to his new position, even though he said he only played corner a couple times in high school when his team’s opponent had a wide receiver that needed to be shut down. “I’m staying here,” Thomas said. Thomas has adjusted smoothly to the steep learning curve of adjusting to cornerback. He even intercepted a pass Thursday in practice. The Franklin (Md.) High School product has gone from scout team in bowl practices to splitting time with the ones on the depth chart. Thomas is suited for cornerback because of his 6-foot-1, 200-pound frame, his long arms and his hard-hitting ability, Johnson said. Perhaps most important in the switch was Rutgers’ positional depth.
“I think that’s what it was. We had a lot of wideouts and not a lot of cornerbacks,” Thomas said, “and they saw me as a guy that could play either one, so they put me at corner.” Another move to help figure out the corner depth was allowing freshmen Nadir Barnwell and Delon Stephenson to enroll early. Johnson, only a sophomore, is the veteran of the young group in terms of playing experience. He likes what he sees so far. “I know when I moved here [at Rutgers], it was like whoa, whoa, whoa,” Johnson said. “It’s a lot to learn. I’m proud of them for them to be learning the defense as fast as they can now so they can play faster and faster.”
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tackle Al Page and redshir t freshman defensive end Julian Pinnix-Odrick are done with spring practice because of a lower-leg procedure and a torn ACL, respectively. Pinnix-Odrick, the No. 9 recruit in New Jersey in 2011 according to the Star-Ledger and Rivals, is likely to miss next season. “My experience with those type of ACL injuries is that generally, the rehab process would go into the season to a point where I don’t know that he would be back for the season, but those decisions all get made later on,” Flood said. Flood said Rutgers would have run more reps Saturday if the team were healthier. “With the numbers we have, it wouldn’t have been productive for the team to do that,” he said. For updates on the Rutgers football team, follow Josh Bakan on Twitter @joshbakan. For general Rutgers sports updates, follow @targumsports.
BASKETBALL FALLOUT After Tim Pernetti resigned
SAME STORY The Rutgers men’s lacrosse team fell short
TIME TO EMERGE Kyle Flood has the
as athletic director, Eric Murdock filed a lawsuit against the University. PAGE 20
in another close Big East contest Saturday at ‘Nova, extending its losing streak to eight games. PAGE 21
task of finding a backup to relieve tailback Savon Huggins. PAGE 22
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QUOTE OF THE DAY “We loved him. He was like one of us. ... But it sucks that he’s not around anymore.” — Rutgers football junior running back Savon Huggins on former Athletic Director Tim Pernetti
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SOFTBALL
BASEBALL SETON HALL 5, RUTGERS 3
RU climbs above .500 in Big East play BY GREG JOHNSON CORRESPONDENT
Faced with a decisive rubber game of a pivotal Big East series for the second straight weekend, the Rutgers softball team again turned to sophomore lefthander Alyssa Landrith. Once again, the Scarlet Knights’ ace delivered with her sixth complete game of the season as Rutgers (21-14, 5-4) defeated Georgetown, 3-1, yesterday at the RU Softball Complex. Landrith allowed only four hits and one walk, as she routinely was ahead in the count to keep the Hoyas (14-24, 4-4) off-balance. Head coach Jay Nelson needed few words to describe his ace’s excellence in clutch situations. “She’s a big-time pitcher,” he said. “She does that.” But it did not come with ease. In the middle of a scoreless contest in the top of the fourth, Landrith hit two consecutive batters with only one out. With Georgetown threatening to seize momentum, the Vacaville, Calif., native received help from her defense. Sophomore leftfielder Chandler Howard and junior rightfielder Loren Williams charged in to snag the final two outs and escape the jam. “Even when you falter a little bit in an inning, it’s really great as a pitcher to have that kind of defense behind you — have those big plays,” Landrith said. “My outfield and infield are great, so it’s definitely a luxury to have.” SEE
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Sophomore outfielder Vinny Zarrilo was one of only two Rutgers batters to collect a hit in yesterday’s 5-3 loss to Seton Hall. The Pirates won the three-game series against the Knights, 2-1, to move one game over .500. NISHA DATT, PHOTO EDITOR
Knights drop Big East series BY BRADLY DERECHAILO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
Lefthander Alyssa Landrith tossed a complete game in another series finale. NISHA DATT, PHOTO EDITOR
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MLB SCORES New York Y. Detroit
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Boston Toronto
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Minnesota Baltimore
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Kansas City Philadelphia
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Washington Cincinnati
It was sophomore outfielder Vinny Zarrillo’s drive to right field in the bottom of the seventh that summed up how the Rutgers baseball team was doing against Seton Hall lefthander Greg Terhune. It was a deep hit, but found its way into outfielder Scott Kalamar’s glove on the warning track. The bad luck was prevalent during Terhune’s one-hitter against the Scarlet Knights in yesterday’s 5-3 loss to the Pirates at Bainton Field. Terhune allowed his first hit of the game in the bottom of the eighth, as senior righthander Charlie Law collected an RBI single. The Knights (14-14, 6-3) managed two more runs in the bottom of the ninth against
Brian Gilbert, but Mike Genovese corralled a hit by Zarrillo to end the game. But Rutgers could not figure out how to get to the lefty before that. “It was a very frustrating game,” Zarrillo said. “We hit a lot of balls hard and I think we should have gotten to him earlier. It just really didn’t work in our favor ... He was keeping a lot of guys off-balance.” The Knights were effective in putting the ball in play — their five strikeouts and three walks dictate that — but they could not get their hits to steer away from the Pirates defense. “I thought we should have done a better job with the bat,” said head coach Fred Hill. “We did hit some balls on the nose but they weren’t falling.” Unlike the Knights, Seton Hall (15-14, 5-4) was successful at the plate, as Law was pulled
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MARIAM ZEIN scored the only point for the Rutgers tennis team as it fell, 6-1, to Syracuse at home. The point came in the No. 5 singles match, as Zein won in three sets against Brittany Lashway.
in the top of the seventh with no outs for senior lefthander Nathaniel Row. Roe could not stop the Pirates, as a bloop single by third baseman Chris Selden brought in a run. On the same play, Vinny Zarrillo’s throw into third got away from freshman shortstop Matt Tietz, and Zach Granite scooted home for a 4-0 lead. Scott Kalamar then drove in Selden as Row only recorded one out before he was taken out for freshman lefthander Howie Brey. Law lasted six innings and allowed four runs on five hits with five strikeouts. “I thought he did a pretty good job,” Hill said. “He threw a lot of pitches and he was behind, which hurt him a little bit. He competes, and that’s all you can ask him to do.” SEE
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RUTGERS SPORTS CALENDAR WOMEN’S GOLF
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at Georgetown Invitational
at Fordham
at Villanova (DH)
vs. Connecticut
Tomorrow, 3:30 p.m. Bronx
Tomorrow, 7 p.m. RU Stadium Complex
Wednesday, 1 p.m. Villanova, Pa.
Today Washington, D.C.