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Theater company to celebrate 15th year
The Livingston Theatre Company will celebrate its 15th anniversary May 11 with a gala featuring present and past members of the company. NELSON MORALES, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
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BANKIN’ ON THE BEATS The Rutgers University Programming Association hosted ‘Beats on the Banks, featuring Alesso,’ Friday at the Louis Brown Athletic Center on Livingston campus. NELSON MORALES, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
The Livingston Theater Company has put on plays and musicals for University students for the last 15 years, from shows like “Footloose” to “Little Shop of Horrors.” The University’s LTC marked their 50th show with a production of “The Producers” on Saturday and Sunday, the last showings of the year for the LTC.
University alumnus Jason Goldstein said he founded the Livingston Theater Company during his first year 15 years ago to provide students with a cheap way to go see live musicals and give the performers a way to exercise their creativity. “For the 15th anniversary, we decided to have a party — like a reunion to bring everyone back,” Goldstein said. He said the point of the reunion was to give former members a
chance to reconnect and reminisce and to help current students involved with the Livingston Theater Company see they are a part of a legacy. The members get to meet all the generations of past students who are just as enthusiastic about theater as they are, Goldstein said. The anniversary gala is set to take place May 11. Goldstein said it would SEE
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University students present research at annual symposium BY ENRICO CABREDO STAFF WRITER
Joseph Pellegrino, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, judged the research posters created by students Friday. ENRICO CABREDO, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Gabriela Pikul said she never thought she would be researching particle collisions — the Aresty Research Center gave her the chance to do so. “[My professor] said, ‘there’s this program, you should apply for it. It’s a good way to get started in research,’” said Pikul, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. The Aresty Research Center held its ninth annual Undergraduate
Research Symposium Friday at the Rutgers Student Center. The symposium showcased the research of more than 450 undergraduate students who participated in the many programs offered by the research center. Hundreds of posters were displayed in the Multipurpose Room, and 18 panels of undergraduate researchers discussed their work. The center was founded in 2004 after a donation from Jerome and Lorraine Aresty, University alumni, said Dean Matthew Evans, director of the Aresty Research Center.
Evans said, originally 30 students conducted research through the center. It has since grown to involve more than 400 students, with more than 200 faculty members committing their involvement for next year. “Rutgers is an engine for knowledge, creation and innovation, and getting undergrads involved is crucial,” Evans said. The students’ research spans 60 departments, institutes and centers throughout the University, Evans SEE
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UNITE Half Marathon winners shy of Olympic qualifications BY SHAWN SMITH CORRESPONDENT
On a cold, brisk morning yesterday, beneath a cloudless, sunny sky, about 6,000 people stood in silence before the fourth annual UNITE Half Marathon and 8K. During the moment of silence for the Boston
Marathon, the only sound was that of thousands of flags rustling in the breeze. Then, with a bang, the runners were off. Organizers distributed roughly 3,000 American flags before the race began, said Michele Redrow, co-owner and race director for CGI Racing. The Scarlet Knight held a
large American flag during the national anthem. The event spanned the major parts of the Busch, Livingston and College Avenue campuses and redirected bus routes for the majority of the morning. According to the CGI Racing website, Demesse Tefera, a
34-year-old from Washington D.C., finished first in the male participant category of the half marathon, ended with a time of 1:07:50, just 2 minutes and 50 seconds behind the Olympic qualifying time. Hirut Beyene Guangul finished first in the female participant category of the half marathon with a final time
of 1:16:41, 1 minute and 41 seconds over the Olympic qualifying time, according to the website. She also finished among the top five runners. The University and United Healthcare sponsored the race, which had the majority of the SEE
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CAMPUS CALENDAR Monday, April 22 The Mason Gross School of the Arts presents the final day of the “B.F.A. Thesis Exibition I: but no, yeah” at 10 a.m. at Civic Square at 33 Livingston Ave. in New Brunswick. The program will feature the theses of students earning Bachelors of Fine Arts.
Thursday, April 25 The Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy and the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life presents Columbia University History Professor Kenneth Jackson at 5 p.m. at Civic Square at 33 Livingston Ave. in New Brunswick. Jackson will present the lecture “Newark’s Decline and Resurgence in the 20th Century as Lessons for Urban America: The Rise, Fall, and Recovery of a Great Metropolis, 1916-2016.” The lecture is free and open to all. The Rutgers Jazz Chamber Ensembles perform at 7:30 p.m. at the Maryott Music Building on Douglass campus. Eleven groups will play songs by Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk and John Coltrane, among others. The event is free and open to all.
Sunday, April 28 The National Society of Leadership and Success holds its Spring Induction Ceremony at 1 p.m. in the ARC on Busch campus. Students being inducted have maintained a 3.2 GPA and completed community service hours.
METRO CALENDAR Wednesday, April 24 Motown singer Gladys Knight performs at 8 p.m. at the New Jersey State Theatre 15 Livingston Ave. in New Brunswick. Tickets range from $28 to $105. For more information, visit statetheatrenj.org.
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Students share Caribbean culture with U. community BY IJEOMA UNACHUKWU CONTRIBUTING WRITER
University students experienced Caribbean culture Saturday with food, dancing, fashion and per formances by inter national reggae ar tist Shaggy, as well as many local bands. The West Indian Student Organization celebrated its 35th annual Caribbean Day with a carnival-themed party outside the Paul Robeson Cultural Center on Busch campus. WISO was founded in 1973 to bring together the Caribbean students at the University who did not have a large presence at that time, said Novelette Harris, vice president of WISO. “It’s the biggest event of the year,” said Harris, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “We attract a lot of non-RU students too because it’s really just a celebration of Caribbean culture. You’ll never see another event like this on campus.” Caribbean steel-drum musicians Ekklipse Steel Band, a Jamaican group from Rockland County, N.Y., comes to the event ever y year. Richard Nathan founded the band ten years ago
to teach his children about their culture and then started recruiting other children to join the band, said Ekklipse Captain Jevaun Grant. Grant said he did not want to stop performing even after he left Rockland County to come to the University, so as a part of WISO, he invited his band to come perform. “Music is very important, it’s what brings everybody together,” Grant said. “There can be poverty and war going on throughout the Caribbean, but music is the one thing that we can all unite under.” The main event was Shaggy, said Selica Blagrove, WISO president. Getting him to perform was surprisingly easy. “We have a booking agent for the club, so we contacted Shaggy’s agent and he was free today, so we got him,” said Blagrove, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. The international sensation not only sang some of his songs, but performed covers of other Caribbean hits. At the end of his performance, he danced with the crowd to “Harlem Shake” by Baauer and “Where Have You Been” by Rihanna.
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WISO’s booking agent Briana West, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said she brought Brooklyn rappers Hood Heroes ENT to the University because she believed they have a distinct sound and a message that the Caribbean Day goers would enjoy. Another big star of the day was not a person but food. One of
“We attract a lot of non-RU students too, because it’s really just a celebration of Caribbean culture.” NOVELETTE HARRIS Vice President of West Indian Student Organization
the vendors featured was Twinklebones Catering from New York, which specializes in Caribbean and American cuisine. Wendy Mayers, who runs the business, said she made the decision to include foods such as jerk chicken and pork, curry shrimp, plantains and rice and peas because everyone can identify with these foods.
“Food is majorly important,” Mayers said. “I just want people to come and experience it and experience all that Caribbeans have to offer, because it’s a lot.” The main part of the festivities focused on the all-day Caribbean fashion show, which ran throughout the whole day. The models were students who auditioned a month ago and have been rehearsing weekly leading up to the main event. “Our culture is vibrant and our clothes display our culture and who we are. It’s who I am. It describes me because my style and culture is different than ever ybody else,” said model Anita Mambia, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student. Each segment featured different local designers such as Bag Ladie INK and clothes ranging from casual day wear to swim wear. The celebration also featured several dance troupes, such as Cheese Bandits, Chaos Theor y, Team Flee, Twese Dance Troupe and WISO Dance troupe. Each dance group performed to certain songs that paid homage to Caribbean music and its successors. “It’s so impor tant because the whole culture is about par-
ties and fun and uniting through music,” said Chaos Theor y Dancer Ayana Phoenix, a School of Ar ts and Sciences first-year student. “I feel like it’s a great way for AfricanAmericans to bond with Caribbean-Americans.” While the event focused on the culture and ar ts of the Caribbean region, student volunteers representing Rober t Wood Johnson University Hospital had a booth set up for free testing for the human immunodeficiency virus. “We see that HIV is an epidemic and af fects a lot of people — especially in the New Br unswick area,” said Ayana Moxey, a School of Ar ts and Sciences junior. “They aren’t getting tested even though the testing is free, so we’re just tr ying to get the word out there, so more people will get tested.” Jenetta Greaves, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, said at the end of the night, she left the festivities excited and content. “I thought it was amazing. I had a lot of fun too,” she said. “My favorite par t was when Shaggy performed. He had the whole crowd bumping.”
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COMPANY Mulfelder says technicians build sets from ground up CONTINUED FROM FRONT be a dress-up event featuring speeches, dinner, hor d’voures and a live jazz quartet. “We’re going to reflect on our impact on Rutgers and on ourselves, how it’s instilled a sense of pride in all of us for bringing Rutgers live musical theater for all these years,” he said. “We’re bringing back a lot of the former performers to do some live performances.” He said many of the former Livingston Theater Company members continued to have successful careers in live theater and other creative fields. “One woman who worked with us, Erica Spitz, she did photography and makeup for us at LTC. She was working at ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ for over six years in the makeup department, and she’s done movies such as ‘Men in Black 3,’” Goldstein said. One of the reasons Goldstein said he was proud to be a member were the bonds he made with his co-workers. “We also have a couple marriages of people who met each other at LTC,” he said. He said he is very proud with how the current members of the company are performing.
APRIL 22, 2013 “I was in opening night of ‘The Producers’ and said to the board, ‘Thank you guys for not just continuing this organization but also advancing it and strengthening it,” Goldstein said. Megan Cherry, the de facto LTC president, said she found out about the Livingston Theater Company at her first-year involvement fair and started out as a costumer for the first show of that year. “I’m very much looking forward to meeting the past presidents that came before me,” said Cherry, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. During her time with LTC, she has dabbled in many positions, she said. “I’ve assistant directed, I’ve assistant stage managed, I handled the props, I ran box office for the company and now I’ve worked my way up to being the president,” she said. Cherr y said she was ver y interested in theater in high school, and so the LTC allowed her to get involved in a community with whom she shared a love of theater. “There’s so many opportunities, and you make so many great friends,” Cherry said. Cherry said her dream is to go into theater, specifically house management, and that is why she studies communication. “It’s definitely a great extracurricular, but I would really like to further my career postgraduation,” she said.
The Livingston Theatre Company performed ‘The Producers’ yesterday at the Livingston Theater, its last production for the semester. NELSON MORALES, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER The last show, “The Producers” was particularly well done, Cherr y said. The show showed a level of talent and effort that allowed the company this year to go out with a bang. Joanna Muhlfelder, the current production manager, said she looks for ward to seeing past generations of LTC members. She wants to meet, not just ones that she knows personally from recent generations, but ever yone who started the company and did the earliest shows. “I think LTC is the most welcoming, accepting group of people that you can possibly find, and it’s just a really great group of people to spend your time
with here because its such a diverse group,” Muhlfelder said. She said the LTC inspired her to go into live theater after leaving the University as well. Muhlfelder said her favorite play to work on was “The Rocky Horror Show.” “It was a blast, it was so much fun, and that was definitely my favorite one. It had a lot of really cool technical elements that we took risks with and challenged ourselves,” she said. Muhlfelder, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, said the turn out for Saturday night’s sold-out showing of “The Producers” was 300 to 350 people, including alumni, making it a big night for the company.
“Our tech group builds our set and stage from the ground up, we spend a whole weekend making [the Livingston Student Center] into a theater,” Muhlfelder said. A new setup the company is tr ying out is moving their orchestra in front of the stage where the audience can see them, Muhlfielder said. Typically, theaters put the orchestra behind the stage. “I think that the Livingston Theater Company has become one of the strongest student organizations at Rutgers, and it’s really been an outlet for the Rutgers community to see great theater,” Goldstein said.
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IN BRIEF The University has appointed Nydia Flores, associate professor Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP to in the Graduate School of spearhead the independent Education, Ronald Garutti, memreview of the circumstances ber of the Board of Trustees, around the physical and verbal Cheryl Hart, senior manager of the University Budget, Denise abuse that surfaced in April. The review will also focus on Hover, class of 1979 University the University’s actions before alumna, Ruth Anne Koenick, and after the termination of for- director of the Office for Violence and Victim mer men’s basketball head coach Prevention Mike Rice. The results will be Assistance, Jeffrey Longhofer, director of the Tyler Clementi made public. “It is incumbent upon my Center, Jorge Marcone, associate administration and the Board of professor in the School of Arts Governors to understand fully and Sciences, Daniel O’Connor, how this transpired, to learn from chair of the New Brunswick Faculty Council, it and to take such Shaun O’Hara, actions necessary class of 1999 to ensure that our “These individuals University alumathletics program bring a wide range nus, Jennifer meets our expectaO’Neill, class of tions for integrity of knowledge, 1995 University as well as sucexperience and alumnus, Brian cess,” University Perkins, vice President Robert perspectives to chair of the Board L. Barchi said. the table.” of Overseers, B a r c h i Ronald Quincy, announced the list ROBERT L. BARCHI director of the of members to University President Center for serve on the comN o n p r o f i t mittee to search for a director of intercollegiate Management and Governance, Dudley Rivers, chair on the athletics. “These individuals bring a Board of Trustees, William wide range of knowledge, experi- Rodgers, a professor in the ence and perspectives to the table Bloustein School of Planning and in order to conduct an expansive Public Policy, Philip Scalo, class and thorough search for an out- of 1975 University alumnus, standing athletics director,” Kenneth Schmidt, member of the Board of Governors, Susan Barchi said. The panel is co-chaired by Schurman, dean of the School of and Labor University alumna Kate Sweeney Management and Richard L. Edwards, execu- Relations, Candace Straight, tive vice president for Academic member of the Board of Governors, Kathr yn Uhrich, Affairs. The members of the search dean of Mathematical and committee will include: Stefania Physical Sciences, Scott Walker, Balasa, School of Arts and executive director of Academic Sciences junior, Dorothea Support Ser vices for Student Berkhout, executive director of Athletes and Karen Stubaus, vice Administration in the Bloustein president for Academic Affairs School of Planning and Public and Administration. The search committee will Policy, Lauren Braswell, class of 2007 University alumna, Hollis work with Parker Executive Copeland, member of the Board Search, a firm appointed by the to help with of Trustees, Steven Darien, mem- University ber of the Board of Trustees, the process.
SYMPOSIUM Sran says Aresty gives resources to contact any professor CONTINUED FROM FRONT said. The symposium grouped the projects into STEM — Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics — humanities and social science disciplines. Gurpal Sran, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, presented his research in economics with the humanities section of posters. He said his sister inspired him to do research, but he was skeptical of being able to find opportunities in his field. Through the research center, Sran found an opportunity to research bank examiners with Eugene White, a professor in the Department of Economics. “[The Aresty Research Center] gives you resources to contact any professor you want in any field,” Sran said. The Aresty Research Assistant program, Sran said, was the easiest way for him to dip his feet into research. The center cooperated this year with the Byrne seminar to launch the Aresty-Byrne research program, a series of one-credit research classes available only to first-year students, Evans said. Anthony Bonini, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, was enrolled in one of the five ArestyByrne seminars. Instead of applying, students simply sign up for the class. Bonini said he and his class worked with Clark Chinn, an associate professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, on promoting reasoning conceptual change in sci-
ence to examine the reasoning and decision-making skills of middle-school students. “We were examining in what ways students can learn science better,” Bonini said. Their research looked at the relationship between scientific models of explanation and the evidence behind those models. Bonini’s class compared the responses of a control-group middle-school class and an experimental-group class that determined their own criteria for good evidence, he said. “Despite the fact that there were two different types of classes … we found that in some cases there was not a lot different between the two,” he said. Bonini said he signed up because it appeared to be more engaging than the average Byrnes seminar without being too time consuming. “The benefits include being exposed to this level of research without needing to commit as much time as other Aresty Programs would,” Bonini said. Shannon Eskola, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, researched with William Vesterman for his memoir entitled “50 Years on the Banks: A Lover’s Quarrel.” Vesterman, an associate professor in the English Department, will celebrate 50 years next year working at the University. “One of the things [Vesterman] is interested in is his time when he was teaching at Livingston College, when it was an experimental college,” Eskola said. Eskola said she and Vesterman are examining the effectiveness of old Livingston College practices, such as letting students choose their own grades. In her time as an Aresty research assistant, Eskola also compared the growth of the
University’s administration with the growth of other aspects of the University. Because of Vesterman’s long tenure, the task is proving to be daunting, Eskola said. “I have a snapshot here of four years from 2006 to 2010, but [Vesterman] is interested in looking from 1964 to 2014,” said Eskola. She hopes to continue to work with Vesterman on this project in the future. During the symposium, two judges evaluated the poster presentations, and awards were given to the best ones. Charles Keeton, an associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, said the judging was not meant to make the symposium competitive. “The judges are there to provide constructive criticism for each student’s presentation and work,” said Keeton, faculty director of the Aresty Research Center. “My goal is to talk to faculty about the value of participating in undergraduate research.” Aresty mainly connects faculty to students through an online database known as the Undergraduate Research System, Keeton said. Faculty members post their research opportunities, and students in turn apply for the positions. Justin Pyndus, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, has been through the Aresty Research Assistant program twice now. One of his lab advisors introduced him to the research center. “You have a lot of freedom to do whatever you want,” Pyndus said. “There is no wrong way to do this.” Pyndus said he hopes to go to medical school and believes his research will allow him to put his foot in the door. “This is Rutgers right here. This is what we do — research,” Pyndus said.
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WINNERS
“The Rutgers University Police Department worked closely with its local, state and federal Redrow says race has enforcement agencies to help ensure public safety during the raised $300,000 since UNITE Half Marathon on the inception Piscataway and New Brunswick campuses and … We were able to CONTINUED FROM FRONT assist in bringing this event successfully to Rutgers without incipar ticipants in the half dent,” said Lt. Nicholas Chiorello marathon, Redrow said. of RUPD. The race partnered with about Frederique Delhaye, another 24 different charities, none of runner in the marathon, did not which were exclusive to their share Glatz’s view on the police members, Redrow said. Since its presence, and felt they were inception, the race has raised much more subtle. about $300,000. “The police were ver y dis“One group this year from creet at the event today,” Lawrenceville Prep raised Delhaye said. “It is also a much $10,000 on their own,” she said. smaller event — we are only “All participants can raise for any [6],000 runners, as opposed to charity of their choice.” 30,000 runners.” During his two-hour run, While it was a smaller event, Chuck Glatz, a University alumand only a half marathon, nus, said he noticed the weather Delhaye said she and her huswas perfect for running. band did think about the events “It was real nice out,” he said. “It in Boston prior to the race. was a good time on a beautiful day.” “We grieved for them, and Glatz said he ran in the we kept them in our thoughts,” marathon because it is a personal she said. fitness goal of his. It was his secD e l h a y e , ond year in the whose final time marathon, and he “It’s in its fourth was around two likes coming back and fifteen to the University year and we closed hours minutes, said this to run. “The water sta- at 6,000 people. This was her second marathon ever, tions were perfectis the largest half and she was ly placed along the [marathon] in the grateful the course,” he said. University “The miles were state.” opened its doors also marked MICHELE REDROW to host. It was really well.” Co-owner and Race Director for also nice to hear Redrow said CGI Racing bands and music the weather condialong the entire tions for the event course, which were perfect by kept the run interesting. 8 a.m. When the half marathon “This was by far the best year star ted in 2010, about 2,000 we have ever had for weather,” athletes signed up, Redrow she said. “Even if it was just a litsaid. As of Sunday, the race tle chilly.” had a cap of 6,000 people, with Despite the recent events in more than 400 students runBoston, including the bombing at ning in the event. the Boston Marathon, Glatz said “It’s in its fourth year and we he was undeterred yesterday closed at 6,000 people. This is the from running. largest half [marathon] in the “That was incentive to be here state,” she said. “We are talking and run today,” he said. “I did with Rutgers about raising the notice more Rutgers security cap to 7,500 for next year.” around. I also saw some state The great thing about the troopers and some Piscataway or event is that it showcases the New Brunswick police.” University, Redrow said. It shows Prior to the event, Redrow the University in a different light. said she met with officials from “We are thrilled the University local, state and federal authoriembraces the race, and it gets betties to make precautions for ter every year,” she said. the race.
The UNITE Half Marathon and 8K featured more than 6,000 runners and has raised more than $300,000 since its inception. PHOTO COURTESY OF MICHAEL GUCCIONE
APRIL 22, 2013
SCIENCE
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Professor shares story of search for extraterrestrial rocks BY ANDREW RODRIGUEZ CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Not every theoretical physicist finds himself in the desolate regions of Russia in search of valuable extraterrestrial rocks. And even fewer find themselves the subjects of a story involving bears, Soviet smugglers and KGB death threats. The Department of Physics and Astronomy invited professor Paul Steinhardt from Princeton University to speak Saturday afternoon at the annual Irons Lecture at the Physics Lecture Hall on Busch campus. He discussed his search for a naturally occurring crystal, which led him to discover an alien mineral. The quasicrystal is a curiosity, said David Vanderbilt, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. “Most of the theory is known well by many, but it’s not so often that you get to hear of an adventure,” Vanderbilt said. Traditional crystals are materials with regular rates and traditional shapes, such as the square, rectangle, parallelogram and hexagon, he said. The determining factor of these quasicrystals is in the regular but differing rates in which their atom patterns repeat. “If you open a textbook up until the 1980s, one of the first things you learn in chapter one is that there is a certain forbidden symmetry in crystals you’ll never see in nature,” Steinhardt said. “These are the symmetry we see in quasicrystals today.” Tiling a wall can be done without gaps using many different shapes but never a pentagon. The pentagon has what is called five-fold symmetr y, he said. This is the fundamental shape of the quasicr ystal. “The most forbidden symmetry of all the possible shapes in quasicrystals is the icosahedron.
It’s a solid with six independent five-fold symmetry axes. It doesn’t violate the five-fold rule once, but six times,” he said. Five-fold symmetry was supposed to be a closed subject, he said. Since its first successful synthesis, the quasicr ystal debate changed from impossibility to natural reoccurrence. “This is possible in a mathematical representation. So we think, ‘If tiles can do it, why can’t nature do it?’” Steinhardt said. There was evidence toward natural fabrication, but scientists were not sure, he said. “You want to know if these quasicr ystal materials are robust or delicate,” he said. “All of the laborator y materials were formed under ver y delicate conditions.” He said it is unlikely that nature fabricated a quasicr ystal on its own, when laborator y synthesis called for ver y delicate temperature and pressure conditions. “It is possible that nature’s made them before us, so we may find some that are millions of years old. If not, we have created the first ones. We began to pursue,” he said. Researchers star ted with their first set of samples saved in the computer database in Princeton. After three years of slicing, dicing and testing, there was no progress, he said. After these attempts in 2001, they began looking for help. No response came for six years, he said. But in October 2007, mineralogist Luca Bindi responded. “We’re lucky, because he immediately became as fanatical about the search as I was. He had things in his collection that were not in our computer database at all. One of them turned out to be a collection of some 10,000 dif ferent minerals,” he said.
Professor Paul Steinhardt from Princeton University shared his experiences finding extraterrestrial rocks with quasicrystal structures yesterday at the Physics Lecture Hall on Busch campus. TIAN LI, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER One of these minerals, named Khatyrkite, would be the driving force of the entire adventure, he said. “In our sample, Khatyrkite was a material we hadn’t known. The examination revealed the most beautiful pattern I’d seen. This was a quasicr ystal and had the same symmetr y of the forbidden icosahedron,” he said. Testing revealed the composition to be 63 percent aluminum, 24 percent copper, and 13 percent iron — exactly that of the first true fabricated quasicrystal. However, they still had no idea how it was formed, he said. “To find the original source of the sample, all we had was a letter with the original seller of the 10,000 minerals in 1990 and all it had was the name of the collector,” he said. From there, they found the former head of the Institute of Platinum of Russia, who had moved to Israel, he said. “His memory of the location was fuzzy, but he was willing to
go back to Moscow and look for the sample for $15,000,” he said. Steinhardt decided not to trust him, but this meant a complete dead end, he said. “We received death threats from former KGB agents when later seeking help from our guy in Israel,” he said. “He turned out to be involved with smuggling platinum and platinum fakes, which were valuable at the time.” Following the trail of the late collector’s diar y, they looked for the man who, in 1990, found the sample containing the quasicr ystal and reported it as platinum to the head of the institute, he said. He agreed to guide them to the site and help them find more Khatyrkite, he said, and led them to Chukotka, Russia. “The Russians told us we had to go by truck when there were no roads on Google Ear th. They assured us not to wor r y — we crossed streams and mowed down tall grass in these trucks. It was
like a four-day roller coaster ride,” he said. The trucks were prone to breaking down while millions of mosquitos and numerous bears lurked around, he said. “We dug out about one and a half tons of materials from up and down the stream. Completely by hand, because using regular shovels would break the material,” he said. After examination of the oxygen isotopes in the samples, it turned out these icosahedrites in the Khatyrkite were extraterrestrial, forged in the infancy of our solar system, he said. “It felt like a wonderful affirmation of this entire crazy stor y that ever yone had grains of doubt about. Since then, we’ve found about nine grains of material that we are currently studying. It is a work in progress,” he said. Colin Marks, a student at Highland Park High School, said he enjoyed the talk very much, and feels it will figure into his future plans.
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A University alumna conducted a recent study to provide psychologists with a new neurological understanding of female sexual behavior in rodents and a new path toward advancements in human sexual medicine. Loretta Flanagan-Cato, who graduated from the University in 1985, studies the influence of the sex hormones estrogen and progesterone on the brain at the end of the menstrual cycle in rodents. Sarah Ferri-Kolwicz, a graduate student in Flanagan-Cato’s laborator y at the University of Pennsylvania, said she conceived the experiment as a part of her dissertation. “Uncovering the estrogeninduced differences through the cycle can begin to shed light on some of the mechanisms involved in reproductive behavior,” she said.
The team infused estrogen and progesterone into the rats’ ventromedial hypothalamus, the region of brain responsible for sexual activity, FlanaganCato said. She said the team wanted to see how the hormones changed the morphology of neurons, ner ves that are responsible for activity in the brain. The team found that increased estrogen levels in ventromedial hypothalamus decreased the length of long dendrites, the extended ends of neurons, and increased the density of spines, or signal transmitters, in shor t ones, Flanagan-Cato said. Flanagan-Cato said progesterone treatment shor tened the dendrites back to their original length. These combined levels of estrogen and progesterone at the end of menstrual cycle cause rodents to exhibit female sexual behavior.
The same occur red in prairie voles, another rodent species. Flanagan-Cato said they used prairie voles, because unlike rats, the presence of potential mates induces their menstrual cycle. Studying the two species allowed the team to determine whether the hormones in the ventromedial hypothalamus change the str ucture of the dendrites when regulated under dif ferent physiological controls, she said. “In both cases, high estrogen levels led to reproductive activeness,” FlanaganCato said. She said the team then focused their study on finding a correlation between the high estrogen levels and oxytocin, another hormone involved in sexual reproduction. The team decided to study oxytocin because they unexpectedly found it in the dendrites of neurons in the ventromedial
hypothalamus, said Dipak Sarkar, a professor in the Department of Animal Sciences at the University. Flanagan-Cato said her team found the estrogen treatment of these dendrites resulted in more activity by the ventromedial hypothalamus, but they cannot tell what this means for sexual behavior in rats. Oxytocin is just one factor for sexual behavior, Sarkar said. “Still, we have done lots of case studies for oxytocin. It is appearing to be useful for [explaining] the behavior,” he said. At the moment, Flanagan-Cato said the work has missing links. Sarkar said he thinks Flanagan-Cato and Fer riKolwicz’s work may eventually benefit couples troubled with impotency or other issues. “Realistically, this [research] is applicable to humans,” he said. “At this
stage, not yet. We need more done in the future, but … sexual issues have a ver y huge market. Anything about mating per formance and behavior has its benefits.” Fer ri-Kolwicz said their work might go beyond sexual issues. “I think this research is impor tant in highlighting estrogen’s ef fects in the brain, which can have implications in neurodegenerative and psychological disorders, many of which af fect men and women dif ferently — in prevalence, progression or severity,” she said. While this is a work in progress, Flanagan-Cato said her work at least has evolutionar y significance. “There’s a lot of dependence on female sexual behavior,” Flanagan-Cato said. “Without this behavior, there would be no reproduction or no future generations.”
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This is obviously a highly sensitive topic because t’s been a busy weekend in the Boston bombers’ we are dealing with someone that is accused of carrysituation, but despite the developments that have ing out a possible terrorist attack, killing innocent peotaken place, one thing remains the same — we ple. However, what we need to remember is that he is still have no answers. still only accused and has not yet been convicted of This, however, isn’t stopping the public, media and anything. Our justice system operates under the government from regarding Dzohkhar Tsarnaev, assumption that one is innocent until proven guilty. known as “suspect 2” in the Boston marathon bombYet, the public is rushing to assume that Tsarnaev is ing, as a terrorist. not only guilty of being the bomber, but also that the Tsarnaev, a United States citizen, was found bleedbombing is a terrorist attack, and that he is linked with ing in a boat in Watertown, Mass. with severe wounds, outside organizations — none of which are currently presumably from the shootout that killed his brother anything beyond mere speculation. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, or “suspect 1.” Upon his capture While authorities may have been taking into considFriday night, all of Boston — and even University stueration and acting upon all possibilities of what else dents at the Rutgers University Programming Tsarnaev could be capable of that could harm the public, Association’s concert featuring music producer Alesso it is moments like these — ones of — erupted into chants of “USA!” heightened fear, paranoia and inseas the fundamental American rights we are all entitled to whit- “It’s a telling moment of what curity — that we must be most of our rights and how far tled away. the government can do to a cognizant the government is extending its Every U.S. citizen is entitled U.S. citizen on U.S. soil.” reach beyond them. The way to be read their Miranda rights Tsarnaev is treated will be a definupon arrest. However, Tsarnaev, ing factor into how the governlike many terrorist suspects ment can treat the rest of us. It’s a telling moment of what before him under the Obama administration, will not the government can do to a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil, and be read his Miranda rights before being “extensively it is definitely a moment we all need to pay attention to. questioned” by authorities. This is a result of the “pubRegardless of whether we believe Tsarnaev is lic danger” exception in the Fifth Amendment of the guilty, the facts remain. At the moment, he has not U.S. Constitution, which allows authorities to forego been implicated in anything, and it is still not certain Mirandizing suspects in the case of an urgent and whether the Boston marathon bombing was a domesimminent endangerment of public safety. tic or foreign attack. While many media outlets are However, this exception can only be invoked in cerrushing to draw any possible connection between the tain situations — like if Tsarnaev was holding an undetTsarnaevs and Islam — and therefore tie it to extremonated bomb — and this does not seem to be one of ism — analysts are still speculating that this may be them. Further, Miranda rights are meant to protect more similar to homegrown situations like the suspects from being compelled “to be a witness against Columbine shooting. Basically, there are still too many himself after his arrest,” according to the Washington unanswered questions for the public to assume and act Times’ extensive analysis on the lack of merit behind upon anything. using the exception against Tsarnaev. Despite Tsarnaev’s possible actions, his treatment Not surprisingly, the American Civil Liberties by the government sets a precedent for all Americans Union is concerned with the 19-year-old’s treatment — and it is one we must remain conscious of. as well.
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Men are the oppressed gender PHILOSOPHIES OF A PARTICULAR AMERICAN ED REEP
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oth historically and presently, women are painted as the more oppressed gender. Men supposedly were and are better off. This is an illusion, however, and the fact that men’s oppression has not been properly recognized only illustrates its severity. At least in the West, it is men who had it worse and continue to have it worse. Women were oppressed and continue to be oppressed, but not to the same degree. Consider work. Yes, historically women were barred from working in many professions, with their labor being confined to the home. Homemaking, however, wasn’t such a bad way to spend your time compared to mining, soldiering or a host of other physically dangerous professions men exclusively had to do in the past. Homemaking also seems pretty nice compared to a lot of the dull white-collar professions men found themselves in. And in the modern day, it is far easier for women to enter traditionally male work than for men to enter traditionally female work. Women are actually commonplace in fields like business, law, medicine and academia, and there are more women than one might think in fields like technology or the militar y. How many men are in nursing or childcare, though? Today, it is cer tainly considered stranger for a man to be a nurse or a preschool
teacher than it is for a woman to be a computer programmer. For that matter, it is still considered ver y odd for a man to be a full-time homemaker. And if a man expresses a desire to be a homemaker right out of school, without ever really working, the criticism of him would be unfathomable. War is another potent example of men being oppressed. In almost all wars where conscription has taken place, it has been exclusively men who were conscripted. Think about all the ridiculous hardship that men have had to endure fighting in wars while women were able to stay at home. In World War I alone, the suffering and death inflicted on men in par ticular was extraordinar y. The event could be considered a holocaust for the male gender, of which there exists no comparison for women in the West.
“Women were oppressed and continue to be oppressed, but not to the same degree. ” Women also sometimes complain about how society looks down on them when they are overt in seeking romantic partners. Many women dislike how they are forced to be reactive in this process — the courted as opposed to the courter, their best bet for finding someone being subtext that may not always get across their romantic message. These women don’t realize that the alternative — having to be proactive
in courtship — is much worse. Though men should have more choice for partners in theor y, in practice, they have less choice because the risk/reward proposition of asking out most women is negative. Also, a woman who asks out men risks only shame in the shortterm. A man who waits to be asked out by women risks lifetime singleness. Some will say that men cannot possibly be the more oppressed gender because they have held and continue to hold greater governmental, economic and social power than women. This is not a fair point, because oppression is fundamentally about the miser y of the victims, not their power. I do not think gender oppression is caused by one gender oppressing the other. In histor y, men have oppressed men and women have oppressed women. It is cultures that perpetrate gender oppression. I do think that women are more oppressed than men in cer tain cultures, par ticularly those where the mutilation and maiming of women is openly encouraged. For Western cultures, however, it’s men who have gotten screwed. Our generation can change society by changing how we think. In progressive communities, the recent phenomenon of the stay-athome dad is a great start. Ever yone, regardless of gender, should have the same expectations and opportunities. 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 Par ticular American,” runs on alternate Mondays.
Be mindful of all rape-victim barriers COMMENTARY CHELSEA WAIT
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t takes a TV show to reveal the profundity of victim blaming in today’s society. Let me tell you what I mean. In the first episode of Bates Motel on A&E, Norma Bates is brutally attacked and raped by a neighborhood man. She proceeds to stab him to death after he leeringly tells her, “You liked it.” Flashfor ward to the fourth episode, and Norma is arrested for her rapist’s murder. What did the fans say about the arrest? Geez, Norma. All you had to do was tell the police. This whole thing would’ve been easier if you had just gone to them. Her son Norman even commented, “It’s your own fault.” Now granted, this is a TV show, but it is indicative of a more widespread problem in our society today. When I thought about the roots of the response to Norma and her actions on social media, my mind was blown. The specifics have changed but the game is still the same: in sexual assaults and rapes, survivors are still the ones being blamed. It is no longer, “She asked for it” but “She was stupid not to report it.” This type of thinking is so offensive and hurtful that I thought I would expose a few of the realities and myths of rape reporting. Myth: New technologies, training and funding have made reporting a rape a less painful process.
Reality: Giving a statement to the police can be exhausting, traumatizing and extensive. Reliving the violence of the attack deters many survivors from speaking out. The physical exam needed to gather evidence is often demoralizing and harshly invasive. Having to confront the possibility of a pregnancy or contracting a sexually transmitted disease is terrifying, not to mention the medical costs of treating injuries or the money lost from time off work.
“It is no longer, ‘She asked for it!’ but, “She was stupid not to report it!” Myth: Reporting a rape will bring about swift justice for a survivor. Reality: Many rape kits needed for trial sit for months before being tested. That means the ensuing rape trials can stretch on for years. In Los Angeles alone, there is a backlog of nearly 12,000 kits waiting to be tested. On top of the long wait time, 97 percent of rapists never spend a day in jail. Myth: Women are more likely to report rapes now, as stigmatization surrounding the subject has lessened. Reality: 54 percent of rapes are never reported. Why? Many sur vivors who speak out are still ostracized or blamed
for what has happened to them. Need proof? Just think about the Steubenville rape case. Moral of the stor y is this: Do not condemn a rape victim for not going to the police. Reporting takes courage. Imagine sitting for hours, retelling in exact and vivid detail how you were violated to people you do not know, over and over. Imagine having to wait months to know if anything will happen to the person who attacked you. Imagine having to face that person in trial, see them on the news or hear about them through neighbors, friends and coworkers. In the long term, pressing charges can bring about justice for sur vivors and put away repeat offenders. It can also bring a sense of closure — in some cases just the act of speaking out can help a sur vivor begin to heal. However, in the shor t term, reporting can seem daunting, discouraging and traumatizing. In many ways, sur vivors suffer in the hands of the criminal justice system. In a society where rape culture, female blame and victim shame are still prevalent, why would anyone criticize a rape survivor’s choice not to go to the police? I think we all need to be a little more aware of the barriers that keep survivors from telling their stories. Reporting is not easy, not straightforward and not a choice that outside parties should ever disparage, judge or interject upon. Chelsea Wait is a 2012 University alumna.
COMMENTARY JUSTIN LESKO
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t is a shame that I have to make it clear that I am straight to start an article in support of gay marriage. Often, the reader will assume a writer in support of gay marriage is a homosexual trying to serve his or her own self-interests, and delegitimize the argument. I am a heterosexual male who is not a member of any gay-straight alliances or campaigns. I am simply writing to defend what is moral. Watching clips of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s got me thinking about this topic. They were not necessarily clips of Martin Luther King Jr.’s speeches or sit-ins at Woolworth counters. While the amazing actions of those leaders and freedom riders cannot be expressed in words, that is not what this current battle for equal rights is about. Fortunately, people are not now being sprayed with fire hoses that could take the bark of trees. We do not turn on the news to see 80-pound German Shepherds attacking protesters. Admittedly, the stakes are not as high, and we are fortunate for that. That is not to say there is nothing at stake. What really moved me about these Civil Rights videos were the clips of white men speaking against the movement. I was disgusted by how ridiculous these men sounded only forty years ago. That got me thinking of what our legacy would be in the fight for gay rights. To borrow a phrase from those who oppose gay rights, let’s think about the children. In forty years, do we want our children and grandchildren to be as disgusted as I was by the rhetoric and hate used now to deprive homosexuals of their rights? Here is a quote from Republican Representative Michele Bachmann: “It isn’t that some gays will get some rights. It’s that everyone else in our state will lose rights.” Former Texas Governor Rick Santorum stated, “If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual [gay] sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything.” Do we want future generations to hear more of these speeches or sound bites and feel the same pit in their stomach that I get when I hear George Wallace say “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever?” Will they cringe and ask us why it took so long, like we do when we see Bull Connor speaking? In 2013, it is time for us, the students of America, to realize that gay rights are an issue that will define our generation. It is no longer a question of whether gay marriage is legalized but when, and we are the ones to answer that. It is time for action, and simply making your Facebook picture a red equality sign or tweeting will not get the job done. Regardless of the upcoming Supreme Court decision on the Defense of Marriage Act, we must educate ourselves, unite and make sure we are not the generation to live with a group of human beings having their rights infringed upon. We must not settle for the “separate but equal” civil union. Just as white Americans helped in the Civil Rights movement, heterosexual Americans must stand up for equality. Do we want to be the generation that does nothing? To paraphrase Santorum, think of the children. Justin Lesko is a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore majoring in journalism and media studies and political science.
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Junior attack Scott Klimchak scored the Knights’ first goal of the game against Duke to tie the game for the last time at one. TIAN LI, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
COACH Blue Devils score five goals in third to crush hopes of Rutgers comeback CONTINUED FROM BACK Leading 9-3 at halftime, Duke would not give Rutgers an opportunity for a comeback and came out in the second half with momentum. The Blue Devils scored the final five goals of its seven-goal run to open the quarter. The Knights were able to stop the run when sophomore midfielder Rich Rambo found the back of the net with 3:13 left in the third — the last goal of the quarter. Rambo’s goal was one of only two shots Rutgers had in the quarter. Duke led, 14-4, entering the final quarter. Trailing 5-1 to start the second quarter, junior midfielder Benjamin Schwing got the Knights on the board early to cut the lead to three. Duke would answer with two goals of their own to push it back to 7-2.
Sophomore attack Brian Goss scored his only goal of the game to get Rutgers within four goals before the Blue Devils scored two more goals in the final two minutes of the half. Duke’s high-powered offense wasted no time making a statement, scoring in the first 90 seconds to take a 1-0 lead. Junior attack Scott Klimchak responded for the Knights off a feed from Terranova, who had his second consecutive multipoint game. Klimchak’s score extended his goal streak to 14. Following the goal, Duke went on a 4-0 run to close out the quarter and take a 5-1 lead. The Blue Devils never trailed in the game, and the first quarter would be the last time the game was tied. Rutgers moves its focus to next week’s season finale Saturday against Georgetown for Senior Day.
Sophomore midfielder Rich Rambo scored RU’s only goal of the third quarter, as the Knights took only two shots in the period. TIAN LI, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
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FOES Knights’ effort in spite of defensive injuries not enough CONTINUED FROM BACK A strong counter-attack with quick passes downfield resulted in back-to-back goals by midfielder Katrina Geiger and attack Kara Burke. But senior goalkeeper Lily Kalata and the Knights defense
managed to hold the Greyhounds to 10 goals on 26 shots, despite missing a few injured players. “Our defense had a ton of obstacles in front of them and — all things considered — they played very well,” Brand-Sias said. “When you’re playing a talented offense that has a good shooting percentage, there’s only so much you can do.” On Senior Day for the Knights, a pair of freshmen scored the only two goals in the first half. Midfielder Chrissy Schreiber gave the Knights their second score late in the period, but four
goals in a six-minute span gave the Greyhounds a 6-2 lead at the half. Barnes scored on a free position shot after the offense was scoreless for the first 23 minutes. The score ended a 3-0 run by the Greyhounds to start the game. Attack Annie Thomas capitalized on a Knights defense that was not set up. She ran from behind the net for an uncontested shot to give Loyola an early twogoal lead. After a methodical pace by both offenses to begin the game, Payton struck with the first goal for Loyola.
Rutgers had negative momentum after losing to Georgetown (11-3, 5-1). Barnes went top shelf on Georgetown goalkeeper Barb Black with less than 10 minutes remaining for the team’s fourth goal of the second period. Rutgers was able to match the Hoyas’ scoring in the second half. Junior midfielder Katrina Martinelli strung together two consecutive goals early on in the period. Junior attack Megan Clements followed with a goal on a bouncing shot and forced Georgetown to regroup with a timeout.
Senior goalkeeper Lily Kalata helped the Knights defense hold Loyola to 10 goals on 26 shots despite injuries. But thanks to its lowest scoring output of the season, Rutgers fell, 10-4. LIANNE NG, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / FILE PHOTO / FEBRUARY 2013
But two Hoyas goals a minute and a half into the second period — along with a dominating first 30 minutes of play — left Rutgers in a major hole. Four different players contributed with three points apiece and midfielder Meghan Farrell paced the Hoyas in goals with a hat trick. They took a 9-1 lead into halftime after midfielder Sophia Thomas buried a goal with five seconds remaining in the first period. Martinelli, who finished with a hat trick of her own, had the best look for the Knights offensively in the first half. She scored unassisted after running up from behind the net. Before Mar tinelli’s tally, Georgetown put together an 8-0 lead. Midfielder Kelyn Freedman finished up the run by faking a shot high and shooting low past Kalata. Six of the Hoyas’ first-half goals were unassisted. “First half, we had a terrible time,” Brand-Sias said. “Credit Georgetown for what they’re doing and recognizing that I don’t think our composure was great. I don’t think our team effort was necessarily the best at that moment. I think we picked it up in the second half.” The Knights offense could not keep possession for any substantial amount of time in the first period. Georgetown exhibited pressure in every area of the field and Rutgers was overmatched early on. Most of the play took place in the Knights’ defensive zone, which put immense pressure on the second-ranked scoring defense coming in. “It was tough, we can stop them as many times as we want, but if the ball keeps going into our end, eventually it’s going to go in,” Kalata said.
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RU to move into tough East division BY GREG JOHNSON CORRESPONDENT
When Rutgers joins the Big Ten conference in the fall of 2014, it will not have it easy. According to an ESPN report, the Scarlet Knights will be one of seven teams comprising the football conference’s newly aligned East Division. The other six are Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, Penn State, Indiana and Maryland. That means Rutgers annually will face the Buckeyes, Wolverines and Nittany Lions, who finished a combined 20-4 last season in Big Ten football. Ohio State went undefeated and ended last season ranked No. 3 in the AP Top 25, but faced a one-year bowl ban because of recruiting violations. The West Division is proposed to contain almost all Central Time Zone teams, including Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, Wisconsin and Purdue. The divisions will abandon their current Legends and Leaders alignments, which puts more of an emphasis on competitive balance than geography. Big Ten teams will also repor tedly play nine league
games annually beginning in 2016. In addition to its six division games, Rutgers will also play three teams from the West Division. A 10-game conference schedule had been considered but is no longer a possibility because of the necessity of teams needing seven home games a year, a source told ESPN. Among all football teams currently in the conference, Ohio State, Northwestern, Michigan and Nebraska all finished in the top 25. League officials are expected to finalize the division alignments sometime this week. Rutgers basketball will be staring at an equally challenging conference schedule when they make the jump to the Big Ten. Five teams in the conference finished in the final top 25 USA Today Coaches Poll this past season — including three in the top seven. Michigan, who ended the season ranked No. 2, made the NCAA Tournament finals. But the Wolverines are about to lose their two leading scorers, guards Trey Burke and Tim Hardaway, Jr., who recently declared for the NBA Draft.
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APRIL 22, 2013 BASEBALL PITTSBURGH 6, RUTGERS 3
Loss in ninth inning completes Panthers sweep BY BRADLY DERECHAILO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
After senior righthander Charlie Law left in the bottom of the ninth with one runner on in a 3-3 ballgame, freshman reliever Howie Brey was called in for the Rutgers baseball team to duplicate his lategame heroics from earlier last week. But Pittsburgh centerfielder Stephen Vranka connected on a three-run, walk-off homerun off of Brey, clinching the series sweep of the Scarlet Knights (1819, 8-7) and solidifying itself behind Louisville for second place in the Big East. “Today was a real tough one,” said junior second baseman Nick Favatella. “It’s always important to get the third one when you lose the first two, and come back and fight the way we did towards the end and to come up a little bit short, it hurts.” With one out in the bottom of the ninth of Pittsburgh’s (29-10, 9-3) 6-3 victor y, Law (3-4) allowed third baseman Sam Parente to reach on a double, forcing head coach Fred Hill to pull the Mainland, N.J., native for Brey. A single by pinch hitter Boo Vasquez put two on for the Panthers before shortstop Evan Oswald lined out to junior shortstop Pat Sweeney. That brought Vranka to the plate against Brey, who pitched three and a third innings against Monmouth on Wednesday to secure a 7-6 victor y against the Hawks. But unlike his success at Bainton Field, Brey left a hittable pitch for Vranka to drive over the fence for his fourth homerun of the season. “Howie came in and threw strikes, and that’s all we asked him to do,” Law said. “I let up that double with one run on a bad pitch and Howie came in and got another out and he was just another pitch away from
Freshman reliever Howie Brey could not duplicate his late-game success from earlier last week, serving up the game-winning runs in the ninth inning of Game 3 yesterday against Pittsburgh. The loss handed RU a sweep. WILLY MELOT / FILE PHOTO / APRIL 2013 getting us out of there and keeping the game going, but the kid had a good swing. There’s not much you can do.” Law scattered eight hits and four earned runs through eight and a third innings — the longest outing of his career — while striking out five Panthers in the process. Hill has been most pleased with Law’s appearance in the later part of games. “I was impressed by how Charlie Law pitched and kept us in the game,” Hill said in a statement. “He has gotten better as the year has went on, working deep into games.”
But one of his few miscues gave Pittsburgh a three-r un lead in the bottom of the sixth. With a runner on and two outs, Law gave up an RBI single to left fielder John Peluso and a two-run double to Parente to put the Knights in a 3-0 hole. Rutgers came up with eight hits in Game 3 — a fall-of f from its recent of fensive production — though a three-run eighth inning that gave the Knights hope to go home with at least one victor y from the series. Sweeney scored on a wild pitch, while an RBI single by sophomore leftfielder Vinny
MEN’S BASKETBALL RUTGERS HOLDS FIVE SCHOLARSHIP PLAYERS
Carter becomes fifth to transfer BY JOSH BAKAN SPORTS EDITOR
Sophomore guard Eli Carter announced via Twitter on Friday he will transfer from the Rutgers men’s basketball team. “I have officially been released from Rutgers mens basketball team and I’m exploring all options,” Carter tweeted. He then followed that tweet saying, “My experience at Rutgers has been great but it’s time for me to move on now! I appreciate you all. Thanks!” Out of the five players who have recently transferred from the Scarlet Knights, Car ter played the biggest role on the team. Car ter has led Rutgers in points per game in each of his two years. He averaged 14.9 points per game last season and 13.8 per match his freshman year.
The Paterson, N.J., native ended his season by fracturing his fibula Feb. 16 against DePaul. That match kick-star ted a five-game losing streak in a stretch where Rutgers lost 11 of 12. Car ter’s release came a day after junior guard Mike Poole also received a transfer release. That was also the same day the University agreed on a five-year deal with head coach Eddie Jordan. An of ficial announcement of Jordan as the new head coach could occur as soon as early this week, pending approval from the University’s Board of Governors. It remains to be seen how much of an influence Jordan will have on retaining what is left of the roster. His decision to retain assistant coaches David Cox and Van Macon might help his cause.
Jordan is left with five players under scholarship for now — sophomore guard Myles Mack, junior for ward Wally Judge and sophomore for wards Kadeem Jack, Greg Lewis and Der rick Randall. Rutgers also has three walkons remaining. St. Anthony (N.J.) High School head coach Bob Hurley, who coached Mack and Car ter, said Thursday he had not yet spoken to either since the hire of Jordan was announced. Rutgers only won two games without Carter — March 8’s 5651 victor y against Seton Hall and March 12’s 76-57 blowout against DePaul in the Big East Tournament. Rutgers, which averaged 65.4 points per game last year, surpassed that threshold only twice in seven games without Car ter.
Zarrillo brought in freshman third baseman Matt Tietz. Senior catcher Jeff Melillo delivered an RBI on an error by the Panthers to make it a tie score. It was enough to make Favatella confident Rutgers could avoid a sweep “Any time you score three runs in one inning — we did have some bad breaks in the earlier part of the game — but we definitely felt like we held the momentum,” he said. It did not help that the Knights dropped a doubleheader Saturday against the Panthers either, as they combined to allow 23 runs in the first two contests of
the series. Pittsburgh beat Rutgers, 14-5 and then 9-4. Rutgers gets seven games outside of Big East play before a pivotal three-game home stand with Connecticut beginning May 3, and Law knows the time between now and the Huskies gives his team time to regroup. But the sting of being swept by a team Rutgers felt it was on par with talent-wise will hurt for a while. 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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APRIL 22, 2013 TENNIS
FOOTBALL BURTON RETURNS FROM SEASON-ENDING ANKLE INJURY
RU falls short in Big East tourney thing we could do was to play our best tennis,” said freshman Gina Li. Louisville swept Rutgers, 4-0, but the final score did not tell the The Rutgers tennis team story of the match. The Knights finished their season this played strong and battled hard weekend at the Big East throughout the match. Championships after losses to “The Louisville match was one Louisville and Marquette. of the hardest-fought matches that The Scarlet Knights would see a I have ever played in,” said freshfamiliar opponent Saturday in No. 8man Mariam Zein. “It was one of seeded Marquette. Rutgers beat those matches where the score Marquette, 5-2, earlier in the season. doesn’t tell the whole story.” Marquette would surprise the Rutgers played ever y posiKnights in this match, sweeping tion well against Louisville (16them with a score of 4-0. 7, 3-0), but the Cardinals were Rutgers saw some different indiable to play a step above the vidual matchups from the previKnights and take ous match with the victor y. Marquette that “We really ended up giving “We had nothing to played our hearts the Knights lose, and even out against some trouble. The match comthough we lost, we Louisville,” Li said. “We had nothing to pleted a successful all felt like we lose, and even season for the Knights in which played some of our though we lost, we all felt like we they finished with strongest tennis.” played some of our an overall record of strongest tennis.” 14-9 and 8-4 in Big GINA LI R u t g e r s East play. Freshman looked to bounce “Overall the back in singles energy against play after struggling in doubles Marquette could have been betbut ended up losing the first ter, but in the grand scheme of three singles contests, which things, we had some really great gave the match victor y to matches and a really good seaLouisville and sent the Knights son,” said freshman Gina Li. to the consolation bracket. Like Louisville, Marquette also Louisville had strong doubles played strong doubles matches play and was able to take the against the Knights and took the opening point from the Knights doubles point early. Marquette in that segment. would then control singles play, The future is bright for Rutgers sweeping the first three points. because they are not graduating After defeating St. John’s in any players this season. The same their opening-round match roster will be back and ready to Thursday, the Knights were play again next season. faced with a tough test Friday The Knights now begin to preagainst No. 3-seeded Louisville pare for next season, when they in the quar ter final round. will look to improve on their “We knew that Louisville was a 2012-2013 campaign. strong team, so really the only
BY MIKE KOSINSKI STAFF WRITER
Junior fullback Michael Burton played in only four games last season after suffering a broken ankle. The Knights look for him to provide run blocking. TIAN LI, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Fullback aids in several aspects BY GREG JOHNSON CORRESPONDENT
Few benefit more from the return of junior fullback Michael Burton to the Rutgers football team this spring than junior running back Savon Huggins. Bur ton, who needed season-ending surger y after breaking his ankle Sept. 22 at Arkansas, played in only four games last season. In the Scarlet Knights’ prostyle offense, he plays a pivotal role in blocking up front. Head coach Kyle Flood likes seeing him pound out tough yards in the redzone. And Huggins knows Burton’s presence helps free up running lanes. “He’s been doing a great job. He’s a leader to the running backs and the fullbacks,” Huggins said. “We watch film together, we talk, and he’s definitely done a great job for us this spring.” Bur ton’s impor tance to the success of Rutgers’ r unning game is unequivocal, as there is a distinct contrast in overall production when he is not on the field. The Knights averaged 154.2 rushing yards per game in the four games Burton played in last season. In the nine he sat out, they averaged 106.8 yards on the ground. While Burton said his ankle feels healthy again following Saturday’s scrimmage, he is not yet satisfied with his production. “I thought it was a good day, but I have to get better,” Burton
said. “It was my first real game scrimmage in a couple of months since I’ve been injured, but I just have to keep watching film and get better.” Bur ton had plenty of time to study game tape last season while rehabilitating his ankle. He also took advantage of the weight room, bulking up to 230 pounds. A lack of game action frustrated Bur ton, but being able to per fect some of the little things of f the field may have made him a better player in the long run. “I was able to focus on the playbook and things like that,” Burton said. “I think that ultimately is going to help me, but there are some new plays I have to focus on for this spring and continue to finish and just keep getting better.” The fullback’s versatility extends beyond the running game. Burton showed Saturday he is also a sure-handed receiver in the passing game, making several smooth catches on outlet throws from junior quarterback Gary Nova. But the Long Valley, N.J., native refuses to become complacent in that department either, insisting he still needs to become a bigger force in the open field. “After the catch, I have to get better,” Burton said. “I have to work on my finishing moves. I didn’t do too great of that [Saturday]. I just want to be more of a threat after I catch the ball.” Flood said the running game as a whole is not where it needs to be right now.
For an offense that relied heavily on effective running last season, Saturday’s scrimmage painted a different story. Huggins in particular found negative yardage in roughly 15 carries on the ground. Flood is not overly concerned, though. “In our attempt to build depth, we probably have so many players playing with the first group that we lack continuity on offense,” Flood said. “When you roll a lineman through, when you roll a tight end through … it is building depth, and I think in the long run it’s going to help us, but I think we’ve sacrificed some productivity right now because of it.” The bigger concern to Flood in the running game is ball security. All three running backs atop the depth chart coughed the ball up at least once Saturday, which Flood called unacceptable. But fumbling in April does not worry Huggins. He thinks the running game simply must execute and focus on better understanding schemes heading into the last week of spring practice. “It’s just all part of the spring,” Huggins said. “Everything is not going to be perfect, but we’ve got to just continue to keep doing what we’ve been doing and trust in our coaches and our technique, and the rest will take care of itself.” For updates on the Rutgers football team, follow Greg Johnson on Twitter @Greg_P_Johnson. For general Rutgers sports updates, follow @TargumSports.
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he Rutgers men’s and women’s track and field teams competed in the Larry Ellis Invitational this weekend in Princeton, N.J. The men ear ned seven Big East- and five IC4A-qualifying marks. Sophomore Corey Crawford paced the men’s team with a Big East-qualifying per formance in the long jump, where he placed second with a distance of 7.04 meters. He also recorded league- and IC4A-qualifying marks in the 100 meters and 200 meters. The Knights also had second-place results from senior Adam Bergo in the high jump and senior Chris Wyckoff in the pole vault. Bergo’s 2.09-meter mark and Wyckoff’s 4.90-meter mark qualified them for Big East and IC4A. The women had a trio finish in the top eight of the 400 meter. Sophomore Christa Dibernardo produced a secondplace time of 55.13 seconds, qualifying her for Big East and ECAC. Freshman Alayna Famble took sixth with a mark of 56.73 seconds, and junior Corr yn Hurrington seized eighth with a time of 57.28 seconds.
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yesterday traded cornerback Darrelle Revis to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for the 13th overall pick, sources told ESPN. The Jets will reportedly also receive a conditional fourthround pick in 2014 that could become a third-rounder if Revis is on the Bucs roster on the third day of the 2014 season. Revis also signed a six-year, $96 million contract extension that makes him the highest-paid defensive back in NFL history. The only higher-paid defender is Buffalo Bills defensive end Mario Williams.
GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS forward David Lee was ruled out for the remainder of the playoffs yesterday after tearing his right hip flexor, according to ESPN. The injur y occurred during Game 1 of the War riors’ loss Saturday to Denver in the first round. It leaves Golden State without key offensive production in the frontcourt, as Lee led the NBA with 56 double-doubles this season. He averaged 18.5 points, 11.2 rebounds and 3.5 assists in the regular season.
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Senior Quron Pratt is the only healthy, active wide receiver who has caught a pass in each of the past two years for the Knights. Pratt is part of a wide receiver group that is much shorter than last year’s unit. TIAN LI, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Pratt leads WR corps with intelligence BY JOSH BAKAN SPORTS EDITOR
Quron Pratt last year was an exception. Out of the four Rutgers football wide receivers with more than 20 receptions last season, Pratt was the only one shorter than 6-foot-3. Now that receivers like the 6foot Pratt are the Scarlet Knights’ norm, Pratt has to show his unit that size is not everything. “You never get down on that,” Pratt said Saturday, regarding what he tells his receivers who lack height. “You never [let any-
one] tell you that you can’t do anything, no matter how slow you may be, how short you may be. Just go out there every day, because you’re good enough to be here.” There are many receivers faster than Pratt too. Although he was one of the best quartermile performers in South Jersey at Palmyra (N.J.) High School, that does not translate into quick acceleration. Pratt exploits matchups with his football IQ. He rarely catches a long pass, since most defensive backs are around his height. But he said he has focused on studying ever y offensive and
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coach Tom Thibodeau told ESPN yesterday he expects center Joakim Noah (plantar fasciitis) and guard Kirk Hinrich (thigh bruise) to play in Game 2 tonight against the Nets. Noah played in Game 1 Saturday after being ruled doubtful earlier in the day. He was largely unproductive in just 13 minutes of action off the bench, collecting only four points and five rebounds. He was also in noticeable discomfort, but insisted he would play in Game 2. If Noah does play, Thibodeau said he will start. “He’s a plus,” Thibodeau told ESPN. “ I think that we feed off of what he can do defensively, and offensively he has a very unique skill set because of the way he can pass the ball.”
Junior Savon Huggins was 1 of 3 Rutgers running backs who fumbled in Saturday’s scrimmage. TIAN LI, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
defensive position to quickly get a mental edge on each play, which range from defensive coverages to blocking schemes. That translated into a 37-yard completion in Saturday’s scrimmage, which was almost 20 yards more than his 17.7 yards-pergame average last season. Junior Miles Shuler and sophomore Leonte Carroo also made big receptions Saturday. Despite athletic advantages over Pratt, Shuler and Carroo both must learn to succeed without height advantages, at 5-foot-10 and 6foot-1, respectively. “I thought Quron and Leonte and Miles, they made plays when they had the opportunity to make plays,” said head coach Kyle Flood of the scrimmage. “That’s exciting, and I think all three of those guys can be playmakers in our offense. It gives us more depth as we go forward.” Flood said he also wants to see more consistency from redshirt freshmen Carlton Agudosi and Ruhann Peele, but he likes their progress. Since junior wideout Brandon Coleman is sidelined for spring practice because of a knee procedure, Pratt is the only wide receiver catching passes with significant collegiate experience. Despite less than impressive numbers, Pratt leads active Rutgers wideouts in combined receptions in the past two years, 54 to 5, and the other five of those receptions are Shuler’s. Pratt has never caught more than 32 passes in a year, which he did in 2011, but his experience could set him up for a breakout year.
“Quron’s probably the best route runner on our team, and he’s probably one of the hardest workers on our team,” said junior quar terback Gar y Nova. “He’s not the biggest guy, not the strongest guy, not the fastest guy either, but he’s one of those guys who’s always going to be out there running in the of fseason, grabbing me to throw.” Without Shuler’s quickness or Carroo’s athleticism, Pratt must have that breakout year through fulfilling Rutgers’ mantra. “I know I’m not the biggest or the fastest, but the smart player is the better player,” Pratt said. “That’s a [phrase] we use around here.” Junior Savon Huggins, redshirt freshman Desmon Peoples and freshman Dontea Ayres all fumbled at running back in Saturday’s scrimmage, which leaves Flood concerned. “As we go forward, we need to find a running back who can hold onto the ball,” Flood said. Ayres’ fumble resulted in a turnover. Huggins also struggled to consistently run past the line of scrimmage. Sophomore running back Paul James has been injured for each spring scrimmage, but he will be a prime candidate in Rutgers’ tailback competition when he returns. For updates on the Rutgers football team, follow Josh Bakan on Twitter @JoshBakan. For general Rutgers sports updates, follow @TargumSports.
BACK IN ACTION Fullback Michael Burton, a key
SERIES SWEEP The Rutgers baseball team could not find
DROPPING LIKE FLIES Eli Carter became the
member of the Rutgers football team’s run game, returns this spring from an ankle injury. PAGE 18
a win this weekend against Pitt, falling yesterday in the last inning on a walk-off homerun. PAGE 17
fifth player to be granted a release from the Rutgers men’s basketball team. PAGE 17
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QUOTE OF THE DAY “I know I’m not the biggest or the fastest, but the smart player is the better player.” — Rutgers football senior wide receiver Quron Pratt on his relative lack of size and athleticism
MONDAY, APRIL 22, 2013
WOMEN’S LACROSSE
MEN’S LACROSSE NO. 6 DUKE 16, RUTGERS 7
Knights fall to pair of ranked foes BY IAN ERHARD CORRESPONDENT
The Rutgers women’s lacrosse team dropped its final two home games of the regular season last weekend. The Scarlet Knights fell yesterday at home to No. 13 Loyola, 10-4, following a 13-5 loss Friday to No. 8 Georgetown. Loyola (9-6, 5-1) dominated defensively, holding the Knights to their lowest scoring output of the season. Rutgers (9-6, 1-5) went through two scoreless spans that lasted nearly 25 minutes each, despite nearly matching Loyola in shots. “Their goalie played well. She definitely covered her angles, but again it’s our shooting,” said head coach Laura BrandSias. “Our shooting is not good, and that has been the difference in quite a few of our games.” Freshman attack Halley Barnes paced the team as she scored both of Rutgers’ first and last goals. The Greyhounds stormed out to a sevengoal lead early in the second period. SEE
FOES ON PAGE 16
Junior midfielder Anthony Terranova led the Knights with two goals Saturday against the Blue Devils. Both came toward the end of the contest but were not enough to lift Rutgers as it fell to Duke’s scoring firepower, 16-7. TIAN LI, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
RU loses without suspended coach BY JIM MOONEY STAFF WRITER
Attack Haley Barnes paced RU against Loyala with two goals. TIAN LI / FILE PHOTO / APRIL 2013
EXTRA POINT
MLB SCORES New York Y. Toronto
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Los Angeles D. Baltimore
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Washington New York M.
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Atlanta Pittsburgh
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Kansas City Boston
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Chicago Milwaukee
No. 6 Duke soundly defeated the Rutgers men’s lacrosse team Saturday, 16-7, to drop to 2-12 on the year. The storyline of this game changed considerably Friday when Rutgers (0-5) announced the University’s suspension and pending investigation of head coach Brian Brecht for alleged verbal abuse.
No players were available for comment on the situation, and the University will not comment during an ongoing investigation. The Scarlet Knights scored the final three goals of the game following Duke attack Jordan Wolf scoring two of his game-high five goals to open the four th quar ter. Junior midfielder Anthony Terranova scored both his goals in the quar ter, while
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freshman attack Scott Bieda added one of his own to make it a 16-7 Blue Devils lead. Duke’s offense was dominant, scoring seven unanswered goals between the second and third quarters. The Blue Devils (11-4) outshot the Knights 55-31 in the contest, which included having double-digit shots in every quarter. SEE
COACH ON PAGE 15
RUTGERS SPORTS CALENDAR
CHANDLER HOWARD extended
WOMEN’S GOLF
BASEBALL
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her hitting streak to 14 games Thursday against Iona with a 2-for-2 day. The sophomore outfielder has also reached base in 23 straight games.
at Big East Championship
at Delaware
vs. Syracuse (DH)
vs. Wagner
Tomorrow, 3:30 p.m. Newark, Del.
Wednesday, 1 p.m. RU Softball Complex
Tomorrow, 3 p.m. Bainton Field
Today, Tomorrow Orlando