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U. course looks at homophobic language, opens student dialogue BY TAYLOR LONDINO CORRESPONDENT
Brendon Votipka created a new “Research in the Disciplines” writing course at the University this semester, titled “That’s So Gay,” to open up a dialogue about the implications of casual homophobic language in society. Votipka, a par t-time lecturer for the School of Ar ts and Sciences Writing Program, said he began developing the course when Trinyan Mariano, who oversees the Research in the Disciplines courses as assistant director in the Writing Program, asked him to pitch an interesting course. “In a way, designing this course was a dream come true,” he said. “I’m passionate about facilitating conversation about queer issues and am thankful to work for a state university that encourages diverse conversations in the classroom.” The first phase of the course, Votipka said, analyzed diverse sources from author Byr ne Fone’s “Homophobia: A Histor y” to Macklemore and R yan Lewis’s song “Same Love” to dissect homophobic language and labels. Many words and phrases used to describe non-normative sexualities have changed and evolved especially in recent histor y, he said. Votipka said the word “homophobic” has been used SEE
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Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan has resigned to take a position in the state Attorney General’s Office, according to mycentraljersey.com. Andrew Carey, Chief of the Narcotics Unit in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Newark, will be sworn in Monday as acting Middlesex County prosecutor. The resignation comes after two weeks of allegations against Kaplan of racism, discrimination, political retaliation, nepotism and questionable relationships. Kaplan was not available for comment at press time.
Sameen Jalal, a DREAM Rider, is participating in DREAM4TK’s initiative to raise $1 million for the Embrace Kids Foundation by biking from New Brunswick to Orlando in the summer. The trip is expected to take 25 days, beginning July 28 and ending August 25. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY JULIAN CHOKKATTU, NEWS EDITOR
DREAM Riders to bike to Fla. for charity BY JULIAN CHOKKATTU NEWS EDITOR
It’s not biking 60 to 80 miles a day from New Brunswick to Orlando that has Sameen Jalal worried — it’s jumping out of a plane with his fellow “DREAM Riders” at the end of the trip to celebrate their accomplishment. Jalal, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, is one of four other bikers that will ride to Florida as a part of the DREAM4TK initiative to raise $1 million for the Embrace Kids Foundation. “The moment when I heard about [the initiative] to when I
joined was about a half a second,” he said. “I always wanted to go on an epic bike ride.” The idea for DREAM4TK and the ride came in November, when a member had a sister who was diagnosed with cancer and realized nonmedical bills are what weighed the most on his family, Jalal said. The Embrace Kids Foundation helps families that have children diagnosed with cancer and blood disorders with their nonmedical needs, he said. “You wouldn’t really think of the nonmedical needs of the families as much when you hear someone has
cancer,” Jalal said. “They help with the day-to-day things, and that’s something the Rutgers community loves.” Other organizations, such as Rutgers University Dance Marathon, raised just over half a million dollars for the Embrace Kids Foundation last month, and along with them, DREAM4TK is looking to raise $1 million before the year ends. “The members of DREAM4TK are all leaders from different organizations on campus, they have proved themselves and are amazing people to work with,” he said.
“I’ve learned so much in the past few weeks.” The initiative has raised $11,475 so far — mostly from personal donations. Their purpose is to raise money from companies willing to sponsor the bike ride, said Ricky Trent, a DREAM rider. Trent, who planned the route, said the riders plan to hit Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Baltimore, Richmond, ride along the coast of North Carolina, Charleston, pass Jacksonville, Fla., get through Daytona Beach, and finally stop in Orlando. SEE
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More than 1,000 flock for U.’s first Color Me RU BY JUSTINA OTERO CORRESPONDENT
Students, faculty and staff gathered in all-white attire this Friday with plans to be saturated with six different colors for the University’s first Color Me RU run on Livingston campus. The University’s Recreation department decided to have the run after noticing the vast amount of students’ requests, said Emilie Buckley, building manager for University Recreation. Among student organizations, students, faculty and staff, 1,000 runners registered for Friday’s event. The three-mile run consisted of six different color zones where volunteers threw $5,000’s worth of colored cornstarch on the runners throughout the course. “At [Rutgers Recreation] we try to do things that are popular and things that are a part of pop culture at that time,” said Buckley, a
Rutgers Business School senior. “This has been successful across the nation as well as various colleges, so we wanted to just do something that students liked.” Anne Finetto, fitness coordinator for Rutgers Recreation, said because of the run’s popularity, the department wanted to make it more accessible for the students. “We wanted to offer something that was affordable because the color runs aren’t cheap and a lot of the time you have to go to New York City or travel 45 minutes … to get to the run,” Finetto said. “There were many students who wanted to bring it here.” She said the online registration filled up before the department began advertising the run throughout campus. “The kids wanted this type of event, so that’s why we really decided SEE
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Students participated in the University’s first Color Me RU run Friday on Livingston campus. More than 1,000 runners registered for the event. YESHA CHOKSHI, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
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Tuesday, May 7 Today is a reading day. The Rutgers Energy Institute’s annual symposium takes place from 8 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. at the Fiber Optic Materials Research Building on Busch campus. The free event will feature former U.S. energy secretary Steven Chu. For more information, visit rei.rutgers.edu or email Beatrice Birrer at bea@marine.rutgers.edu.
Wednesday, May 8 Today is a reading day. The Center for Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities hosts its annual Rainbow Graduation to honor achievements of the University LGBT community. The event takes place at 6 p.m. at Trayes Hall in the Douglass Campus Center. The keynote speaker is Cheryl Clarke, a black feminist activist.
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Fashion show raises funds for charity BY IJEOMA UNACHUKWU STAFF WRITER
The Livingston Student Center was packed last night for the annual “Breast Cancer Pink Fashion Show” sponsored by King Bee Media and fashionSTYLE Magazine. The fashion show featured celebrity designers such as Sean Jean, local designers such as Indo-Western inspired Mitan Ghosh and professional and firsttime models from the University. At the open casting call at the Livingston Student Center on March 30, producers Lamont and Jeana Bowling encouraged passersby to audition for the show, Lamont Bowling said. Lamont Bowling said he chose the University to host the fashion show because he loved the University and its community environment. He also wanted a lot of student involvement for the event, he said, because he believed that would be the best way to get the event publicized. “We encourage student involvement and we want the Rutgers community to buy into the event, and we think by having the students come to the event, it will make the event that much successful,” Lamont Bowling said. The Pink Fashion show began three years ago as a spin-off of the Atlantic City Fashion Week, he said. After doing the fashion shows in Atlantic City, Lamont Bowling said he and his wife wanted to do some-
thing to give back. He chose to focus on breast cancer because the disease runs through his and his wife’s family, and the couple knew many people who had the disease. Taylor Telesford, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, said her friend encouraged her to try out. To Telesford’s surprise, she was chosen over other professional models. “I was shocked and honored at the same time because I’ve never really practiced walking except for in my room, in my mirror, like most girls do,” Telesford said. Another model, Ebun Adenekan, said he decided to randomly audition along with Telesford after he saw how much fun she was having. “I always thought I was goodlooking, so I just wanted other people to know it too, but really I just thought why not take the chance? It can’t hurt. In the end, it was worth the risk,” said Adenekan, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student. Adenekan said he and Telesford modeled Intellect Clothing, an up-and-coming brand based in Brooklyn. The day was long and tedious for Telesford as she went through outfit fittings, run throughs and hair and make-up, she said. “It’s harder for girls who aren’t all the same exact size,” Telesford said. “I also had to make sure I could walk down the runway in heels without falling on my face. People don’t realize it, but modeling is a sport.”
Jovan Oliver, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, said he modeled for DTLR, a celebrity designer that creates unique urban-inspired designs for the lifestyle of today’s youth. Oliver said he did multiple runthroughs to make sure his outfit fit properly and his hair and expressions were perfect. “My goal is just to do what I’ve been practicing and not make any mistakes. … I’m nervous. It’s my first show,” Oliver said. The main event began with designer DTLR, which boasts clients such as Lil Wayne, Pharrell and Jim Jones, Bowling said. To support the brand, Jim Jones’ mother was also in attendance of the event. In the theme of the event, many of the models had family members and friends who were afflicted by breast cancer and walked in the fashion show as a way to honor their past. Antoine Peay, a professional model, said her mother and grandmother died of breast cancer. “I sometimes think about them when I model events like this,” Peay said. “It’s been a while, and as time goes on, the pain heals, but I always keep them in my heart.” The fashion show star ted with an introduction and some testimonials from breast cancer sur vivors, who talked about the struggles of living with the disease, but highlighted the hope and the friendship that kept them going.
FLYING HIGH The Rutgers Malaysian Students’ Association hosted the Malaysian Kite Festival: WOW Wau! Friday as a celebration of the coming summer by the Passion Puddle on Douglass campus. KARL HOEMPLER, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
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RIDERS Trip from New Brunswick to Orlando, Fla. will take 25 days, 1,500 miles CONTINUED FROM FRONT “It’s going to be a long bike ride, so something is bound to happen,” said Trent, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “But we’re prepared for anything that happens, such as if the weather gets bad, a bike breaks down or someone gets hurt — we’re taking all the proper steps.” Trent said the bikers have planned to be followed by a support vehicle that will house the media crew, as well as hold any supplies they need for the trip. The vehicle will also act as an emergency vehicle in the event that a rider gets hurt. Jalal is about to graduate, and he said he was in a “crisis” before he joined DREAM4TK. He felt as though he did not give back to the community as much, or make a big enough
impact on the University community before he left. “I founded HackRU, but that only affected the computer science field as a whole, so this is my push to change the University in a lot of ways,” he said. Jalal is not only involved in the ride, but is heavily involved in sponsorship for the initiative, as the bikers would need many resources such as Gatorade, bike seats and other necessities. He said the Embrace Kids Foundation was the first sponsor of the initiative and provided the funding they needed to acquire the bikes for the trip. Jalal was a Google representative until last week. He said his new job at Facebook is set to begin in September. He is also planning to attend Google I/O, a developer conference where the search giant
displays its upcoming software and hardware. Attending the conference allows him to get Google Glass, a new device from Google that is a wearable computer with a headmounted display. It screens information in a hands-free format and
“For a group of college kids to embark on a journey like this, it’s going to be an amazing achievement — for all of us.” CONNOR SIVERSKY DREAM Rider
allows the user to interact with it using voice commands. But Jalal will receive another pair of Google Glass as he is one of the many winners of Google’s “If I Had Glass” competition, a push to encourage people to show the different activities people could accomplish while wearing the headset.
“I said I would be riding 1,500 miles from New Brunswick to Florida for kids with cancer, and I got it,” Jalal said. “There’s so much hype about it. … It’s a whole new perspective. We’re going to be streaming a video, and hopefully we’ll have enough content for a documentary we’re making after the trip.” The trip is set to end in Disney World, he said. “The land of dreams — I wasn’t the one to come up with the idea, but this project is a dream in itself, it’s fitting, and hopefully we can fulfill the patients dreams,” said Connor Siversky, another DREAM rider. Siversky, a Rutgers Business School first-year student, said he wanted to get involved with organizations on campus when he came to the University. “They brought me on late. I was talking to Phil Lubik, and as a freshman it’s pretty easy to be isolated in a dorm room,” he said. “It sounded a little impossible, which is what is intriguing about it, if we can make this happen, that would be an amazing thing — I was on board as soon as I was asked.”
The initiative has about 50 members, and six of the original members are brothers of Chi Psi fraternity. Siversky said the trip will be a challenge, but the motivation comes from the children and families affected by cancer. “A lot of the money that goes into cancer research, a lot of the people that are affected by cancer will never see that money,” Siversky said. “So the Embrace Kids Foundation [helps] out with the day-to-day things, it’s really an amazing organization.” The riders will kick off July 28, and the trip is expected to last for 25 days until August 25. The riders will bike in sets of four days, with rest stops on the fifth day, Jalal said. They are looking to get sponsors from hotels along the way, or will camp or stay at homes from others sympathetic to their cause. “We’re all excited, the whole dream team,” Siversky said. “We’re a little antsy right now, but we’re getting the ball rolling, and when it does happen, for a group of college kids to embark on a journey like this, it’s going to be an amazing achievement — for all of us.”
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DIALOGUE Votipka says students were diverse in course CONTINUED FROM FRONT throughout the past century to describe people opposed to open gay and lesbian expression of identity, but recently The Associated Press has switched it for the term “antigay.” “The first term might validate that a person who reviles homosexuals because of an incurable fear or legitimate phobia, whereas ‘antigay’ can reveal the political position that is more accurate for a politician or institution,” he said. He said the terms used to discuss such issues change rapidly, and the class focused discussion on the motivations and implications behind these changes.
PAGE 5 He said students in the course also read and analyzed academic studies on these topics. As with all other “Research in the Disciplines” course, the students spent the second half of the course developing unique and original research projects, Votipka said. “Students in the first iteration of ‘That’s So Gay’ knocked my socks off with fascinating projects,” he said, “Topics included sexism within homophobia, gay teen substance abuse, Christian and Jewish inclusion and exclusion, the outing of Frank Ocean as bisexual on Tumblr and queer portrayals in fashion, advertisement [and] television.” Votipka said the students in the course were as diverse as the research projects themselves in terms of sex, gender, sexuality and experience with the material. “Some students came to the course very well-read in queer studies literature, but for most students this course is the first academic platform they’ve had to
discuss their questions, feelings and theories about LGBT identity,” he said. Votipka said the assistant directors of the Writing Program that he had worked with have been ver y supportive of the course. “Although, when I say the title to some of my more mature colleagues who are unfamiliar with phrases like ‘no homo,’ the focus of the course often takes extra explanation,” he said. James Carroll, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student who took the class this semester, said the most transformative par t of the course was reading and analyzing academic sources focused on homophobic language. “There was a technique we used, called ‘10 on 1,’ in which we would take one phrase and write 10 implications and really analyze and contrast how words are used across different sources,” he said. “That was pretty transformative for me.”
Carroll said his final research project focused on antigay feelings within Chinese immigrant religious movements in the United States. “We are becoming more accepting [in the U.S.], but I really wanted to look at how the issue of homosexual expression collides with religious expression,” he said. Carroll said originally he was uncomfortable with the openness and free expression of the course, but eventually he came to appreciate the analytical and productive flow of ideas. But Mariano said she was ver y excited to r un the new course because it allowed for a safe and academic environment for students to talk about these issues. “Professor Votipka was willing to take on a class like this that looked at the language surrounding sexual orientation, which is a ver y tough topic to discuss in college,” she said. “People shy away from it — it’s
uncomfor table for people on any side of it.” Mariano said a course grappling with these kinds of issues was very timely and necessary at the University, considering the two-year anniversary last semester of University student Tyler Clementi’s suicide and the recent Mike Rice scandal. “Something we were ver y careful about doing was making sure we weren’t only appealing to members of the LGBTQ community, that we would have a range of voices represented,” she said. Mariano said she thought it was enormously important to have these kinds of discussions at the University. “There have been some amazing conversations and a sense of community built around the course by people from all sides,” she said. “I think the tragedy surrounding Tyler Clementi has given Rutgers the opportunity to lead the way in addressing these issues that need to be addressed at universities nationwide.”
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COLOR Runners enjoyed festival, after party with music, food CONTINUED FROM FRONT to put it on to make the students happy. We had faculty and staff sign up, but it was really an event geared toward putting on a fun and affordable event for the students,” she said. The run was not the only attraction, as runners enjoyed both a pre-festival and after-party with music, food, a candy bar and other interactive activities. Finetto said the department worked with the Rutgers University Programming Association, the Louis Brown Athletic Center, the Rutgers Housing Association and the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs to put on the after party, each having a different stage with a DJ and band. “My big thing is that as students … part of our student fees go to recreation so you [should] take advantage of what is available to you,” she said. “I think it’s cool that our department isn’t doing things they’ve always done … and it was just a fun way to distress before finals.” Donnie Benjamin, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, said he has always seen the run advertised and was eager to see it come to the University. “I loved it,” Benjamin said. “I’ve wanted to do it for a long time and
PAGE 7 I was so glad that Rutgers actually had one here. It was so much fun just hanging out, they did a really good job with it.” He said he appreciated how the run encouraged students to get active, as well as its social aspect. “I’m very into exercise so I’m all about getting out there and being active. It was also great to meet people and have a good time,” Benjamin said. Finetto could tell the students had fun just by looking around. She was satisfied in being able to put on an event that the students could appreciate. “I think it went really well, people seemed to really enjoy themselves. Everyone was running around, taking pictures together and they all seemed happy covered will color. It just looked like a really fun event,” she said. Parts of the run were recorded and will be added to the department’s annual recap video, Buckley said. The video will be played during orientation for incoming first-year students. “It’s not a serious race,” Finetto said. “They are not doing it for the time, they are doing it for the fun of just being covered with color. They all wear white and they come back at the end all rainbow-colored. It was definitely one of those feel good things.” She said she enjoyed seeing the students socializing and enjoying the weather in a safe and healthy manner. “It was also a beautiful day and everything about it seemed to work,” she said.
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More than 1,000 students registered for the University’s first Color Me RU run on Livingston campus. The online registration for the event was full before the event was even planned.
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Researchers use Hubble Telescope to look at star formations BY ANDREW RODRIGUEZ CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The key to understanding the birth of our galaxy and stars is suspected to lie far, far away. Some of these stars are billions of years old — almost as old as the universe itself. University researchers are investigating different parts of the universe using the Hubble Telescope in the Hubble Telescope Ultraviolet Ultra-Deep Field to further understand star formation in galaxies similar to ours. “We’re studying galaxies in the particular regions of sky in the southern hemisphere that’s been studied with the Hubble Space Telescope to detect galaxies in the distant universe,” said Peter Kurczynski, a research assistant in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. They have discovered galaxies at a redshift of near three, he said. These redshift values estimate the age of the galaxy to be about 11 billion years old, only two billion years after the Big Bang. “Ultraviolet observations see the light from young, massive hot stars,” said Harry Teplitz, the principal investigator of the UVUDF project. “Understanding star formation helps us to understand how galaxies evolved into the ones we see today.” The space between distant galaxies and the earth absorbs light that is in the ultraviolet wavelength, he said. They use the colors the galaxies emit to estimate the distance of the galaxy from our planet.
“This is called the L yman break technique, which uses the colors the galaxies emit,” said Eric Gawiser, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. “We get different sets of galaxies and get to study the evolution in time in this early epoch of the universe.” If the team sees it in a blue waveband and it drops out to an ultraviolet waveband, they can use that information to infer how far away that galaxy is, Kurczynski said. The shorter the wavelength, the farther away the object is expected to be. “One person’s nuisance is another person’s science. In this case, when you’re working with visible light you don’t want there to be dust because it blocks light,” he said. Galaxies emit both visible light and microwaves, which they use to get data on radiation that tells them how fast galaxies are forming stars and how long ago that happened, he said. The team obser ves some galaxies where stars form dense clumps, Teplitz said. These stars migrate together to form larger structures within the galaxy. “What makes these galaxies stand apart is that they’re generally very blue, but at certain parts of the spectrum they’d drop red,” Gawiser said. “There are blue galaxies in the universe, there are red galaxies in the universe, but these are galaxies that are blue all the way across, but then suddenly look red.” This is because they are so far away the hydrogen between
them and the earth is absorbing their light, making them look red, he said. The L yman break method takes advantage of this. “It works because Hydrogen atoms between us and the galaxy absorb much of the light from hot stars. Very little light is seen at shorter wavelengths,” said Teplitz, a staff scientist in California Institute of Technology. Until the UVUDF project, there had been very little ultraviolet data taken on the ultra-deep field, he said. “One of the things that we’d like to study in these galaxies that we’re able to study is their dust content,” Kurczynski said. It is significant in scientists’ overall understanding of star formation to understand dust itself, he said. Dust obscures about half of the starlight in the universe. “Dust affects galaxies [like] dust affects something like the sunset that you see on earth,” he said. “As the sun gets lower on the horizon and goes through a layer of dust, it makes the sun look red-orange. The light from a galaxy becomes red the same way.” Before light reaches the Earth from stars, it has to pass through dust in the galaxy to get out, he said. “In order to measure the dust in galaxies, we have to measure the light from these galaxies in a whole different bunch of wavebands put together and get an overall picture of a spectrum of light that’s emitted,” he said. The ones that are really blue have no dust, the ones that are
University researchers are investigating different parts of the universe using the Hubble Telescope to further understand star formations. PHOTO COURTESY OF ERIC GAWISER somewhat blue have some dust and every once in a while they look a little red because they have a lot of dust in one place, Gawiser said. “They don’t assume how much dust a galaxy will have, we actually measure the dust empirically and see how it affects the color,” he said. As dust absorbs the starlight, it heats up to negative 279 degrees Fahrenheit, Kurczynski said. This is nonetheless detectable on earth because although that dust is very cold, it is still giving off some heat, he said. “Time is very useful to us because then telescopes become
time machines,” Gawiser said. “I could have a nearby sample of galaxies to study today, one from 100 millions years ago, one I can study from billion years ago and so on.” The galaxies they are discovering in the UVUDF project are very dim, and extremely far away, he said. “As we look out into the universe, we discover how vast and an amazing place it is,” Kurczynski said. “It’s a testament to human creativity and ingenuity and hard work that we’re able to learn so much about the universe from what are fundamentally very faint signals.”
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Physicist studies particles with Large Hadron Collider database BY ERIN PETENKO STAFF WRITER
University physicist Sevil Salur studies par ticles in conditions similar to the ones existing only microseconds after the Big Bang. To research the nature of subatomic par ticles in extreme heat and pressure, she and her research assistants, including undergraduates Leo Yu and Alex DeMaio, collect data from two large par ticle colliders and per form elaborate calculations on their movements. At the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland and the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider in Brookhaven, N.Y., researchers collide subatomic par ticles such as protons, electrons and the nuclei of atoms at high speeds, said Salur, who recently won the undergraduate teaching award for her honors physics course. Yu, School of Ar ts and Sciences senior, said his work focuses on refining, studying and plotting information from the massive LHC database. “We generate graphs based on dif ferent cuts of data that we want, since we’re only
interested in a small subset of the data,” he said. The LHC is a par ticle accelerator that uses magnets to speed up par ticles as they move through a 17-mile tunnel, Salur said. Researchers there finely tune the force of the magnets so the par ticles hit each other. “They’re really delicate machines, a large team of scientists maintain them,” she said. “They’re really more elaborate than a space shuttle.” The LHC is closed for renovations until 2015, she said. Until then, she had plenty of data to analyze. More than 2,500 people work with data from the LHC, but only 50 to 60 research heavy ions in her team as par t of the collaboration. At the RHIC, the accelerator is not as power ful, but she is able to study var ying system sizes. Salur focuses on the behavior of quarks, which make up all other subatomic par ticles, and gluons, which hold the quarks together, she said. Under the extremely hot and dense conditions created in par ticle collisions, quarks no
longer behave like they normally do. “If you put [a quark] into such high-density conditions, it doesn’t really remember what par ticle it belonged to, so it’ll behave more freely,” said Salur, an assistant professor in the Depar tment of Physics and Astronomy.
“As the universe expanded, the energy density goes down, which causes a freeze into the particles we have now.” LEO YU School of Arts and Sciences Senior
Yu said the situation was comparable to an ice cube melting into water. As ice melts, it loses kinetic energy in the high-temperature environment. “The state of energy in the Big Bang is ver y high, analogous to the water,” he said. “As the universe expanded, the energy density goes down, which causes a freeze into the par ticles we have now.”
The first microsecond is a quark and gluon soup, Salur said. After that, the strong force, which binds protons to neutrons and quarks to each other, began to take over and the current arrangements formed. The only place where these conditions exist now is in the center of neutron stars, Salur said. Salur said one of the dif ficulties of finding out what happens in these collisions is they are simply too hot and too high-energy for any current detectors. Instead of placing the machiner y inside the collision, she said, they have to study the par ticles from a fur ther distance and extrapolate information about the movement and energy of the par ticles. “We get the final end product, and then we have to go back and study what really happened,” she said. Quarks come out of the collision as jets, or streams of particles. Yu said these jets are unstable and decay fast by the time they get to the detector. “We have to do a reconstruction of the particles,” he said.
So far, there are no practical applications to their research, Yu said, but they cannot be sure what they are going to find in the future. As undergraduates, DeMaio and Yu did ver y few of the higher-level calculations, but instead applied filters to the data sets they received from the database, eliminated unnecessar y noise from the data and created graphs and plots, DeMaio said. The environment in a professional laborator y was new to DeMaio, who found the work was more about learning than conforming to a teacher’s standards. “Your code is pretty much guaranteed not to run correctly the first time, so being stressed isn’t going to help,” said DeMaio, a School of Engineering sophomore. The team’s work was performed in collaboration with a larger team of physicists from dif ferent universities and research groups, Yu said. “Salur is always on the phone talking with people from around the world,” he said. “It’s really interesting to work in such a large collaborative setting.”
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Coalition wins majority again THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia’s long-governing coalition won national elections Sunday to extend its 56 years of unbroken rule, fending off the strongest opposition it has ever faced but exposing vulnerabilities in the process. The Election Commission reported that Prime Minister Najib Razak’s National Front coalition captured 127 of Malaysia’s 222 parliamentar y seats to win a majority Sunday. Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim’s three-party alliance seized 77 seats, and other races were too close to call. It was the National Front’s 13th consecutive victor y in general elections since independence from Britain in 1957. It faced its most unified challenge ever from an opposition that hoped to capitalize on allegations of arrogance, abuse of public funds and racial discrimination against the government. Najib urged all Malaysians to accept his coalition’s victory. “We have to show to the world that we are a mature democracy,” he said. “Despite the extent of the swing against us, (the National Front) did not fall,” he said in a nationally televised news conference. Anwar signaled the opposition might dispute the results, saying “irregularities” cost his alliance numerous seats with narrow margins. Within minutes of the National Front’s declaration of victory, thousands of Malaysian opposition supporters replaced their Facebook profile photos with black boxes in a coordinated sign of dismay.
The Election Commission estimated more than 10 million voted for a record turnout of 80 percent of 13 million registered voters. They were also voting to fill vacancies in 12 of Malaysia’s 13 state legislatures. Though it retained power, the National Front is weaker than it was at its peak in 2004, when it won 90 percent of Parliament’s seats, and about the same as it was a month before the vote, when it held 135 seats. Its hopes were dashed of regaining the twothirds legislative majority that it held for years but lost in 2008. Three well-known Cabinet ministers and at least one state chief minister were likely to lose their parliamentary seats. The Malaysian Chinese Association, the second-biggest party in the ruling coalition, saw many of its candidates defeated as Malaysia’s ethnic Chinese minority community continued to abandon the National Front. Among the major dif ferences between the National Front and Anwar’s alliance are coalition affirmative-action policies that benefit the majority but often poor Malay population. Malay leaders in the National Front say those policies are still needed to help poorer Malays, but opposition critics say they’ve been abused to benefit mainly well-connected Malays, and that all underprivileged Malaysians should get help regardless of race. “I am really fed up,” said Andrew Charles, a Malaysian businessman working in Australia who flew home to vote for the opposition in a suburb outside Kuala Lumpur. “There are more abuses in the system and
there is no equality among the races. After 56 years, it is time to give others a chance to change this country.” Others saw the National Front as the path of stability. “The government has made some mistakes but the prime minister has made changes and I believe they (the National Front) will do their best to take care of the people’s welfare,” said Mohamed Rafiq Idris, a car business owner who waited in a long line at a central Selangor state voting center with his wife and son. Some voters lined up for more than an hour at schools and other polling places, showing off fingers marked with ink to prevent multiple voting after they had finished. Najib said one of his priorities would be a “national reconciliation” plan to ease what he called a worrying trend of political polarization. He did not give details, but noted that ethnic Chinese, who comprise about a quar ter of Malaysia’s population, turned away from the National Front in what he called a “Chinese tsunami.” An opposition win would have represented a remarkable comeback for Anwar, a former deputy prime minister who was fired in 1998 and subsequently jailed on corruption and sodomy charges that he says were fabricated by his political enemies. He was released from jail in 2004. Anwar and other opposition leaders voiced suspicions Sunday about electoral fraud. Claims of bogus ballots and an apparent ease in which some voters cleaned the ink stains off their fingers dominated social media.
A voter shows his inked finger after casting his vote yesterday in Penanti, Penang, Malaysia. Millions of Malaysians cast their vote on Sunday in one of the most tightly contested Malaysian election since independence in 1957. The opposition coalition, Pakatan Rakyat (People's Alliance), led by former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim is seeking to gain power on a national level against the ruling party Barisan Nasional. GETTY IMAGES
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A firefighter surveys burned hills near Hidden Valley at the Springs fire on May 4 near Camarillo, Calif. Improving weather conditions are helping firefighters get the upper hand on the wildfire which has grown to 28,000 acres and is now 56 percent contained. GETTY IMAGES
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IN BRIEF TWO KILLED IN ACCIDENT ON ROUTE 78 NEWARK, N.J. — Two people were killed when a car overturned on a nor thern New Jersey highway, trapping both victims inside. State police say the accident occurred just before midnight Saturday on Route 78 in Newark, though the cause of the crash remains under investigation. The car driven by 27-year-old Diego Ayoso of Kearny was eastbound on the highway when it spun out of control near milemarker 57, rammed a barrier and crossed over into the express lanes. The car then struck a concrete and metal fence in the median, overturned and eventually ended up in the eastbound local lanes.
ASSAILANT STABS TWO MEN Volunteers and supporters of Imran Khan, chairman of the Pakistan Tehrik e Insaf (PTI) party, wait for his address during a rally for party volunteers yesterday in Lahore, Pakistan. Pakistan's parliamentary elections are due to be held on May 11. Imran Khan of Pakistan Tehrik e Insaf (PTI) and Nawaz Sharif of the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PMLN) have been campaigning hard in the last weeks before polling. GETTY IMAGES
Women denied right to vote in Pakistani village THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MATEELA — For decades, not a single woman in this dusty Pakistani village surrounded by wheat fields and orange trees has voted. And they aren’t likely to in next week’s parliamentary election either. The village’s men have spoken. “It’s the will of my husband,” said one woman, Fatma Shamshed. “This is the decision of all the families.” Mateela is one of 564 out of the 64,000 polling districts across Pakistan where not a single woman voted in the countr y’s 2008 election. The men from this village of roughly 9,000 people got together with other nearby communities to decide that their women would not vote on May 11 either. Next week’s election will bring a major first for democracy in Pakistan — the first time a civilian government has fulfilled its term and handed over power to another. But women still face an uphill battle to make their voices heard in the political process, as voters, candidates and in parliament, where they hold 22 percent of the seats in the lower house. Women represent only about 43 percent of the roughly 86 million registered voters, according to election commission data. In more conser vative areas like Khyber Paktunkhwa province and Baluchistan, the percentage drops even further. In places like Mateela, the fact that men decide women should not be allowed to vote is a decades-old tradition. Some men say women don’t have the mental capacity. Other times they don’t want wives and daughters to leave the house. Some simply don’t see the point. At a recent gathering in the village, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Islamabad, activists tried to encourage the opposite. The Association for Gender Awareness & Human
Empowerment, an independent group working to increase voter participation, met with residents, trying to encourage them to let women vote. Mateela’s men sat with male activists in a courtyard near the village mosque. Secluded behind a gate, the women sat on a concrete floor and listened to a female activist talk about the benefits of voting. Yar Mohammed, one of the village elders, insisted it isn’t a matter of discrimination. The problem, he said, is that the local polling station is mixed gender. The men worry that their wives and daughters will be harassed, so they want a separate women’s station. In some places, but not all, polls are specified for men or women only. “We stop our women from going to polling stations because we think if they do, men would tease them by staring or touching them,” he said. Mateela’s women cer tainly want a political voice. They talk of their desire to see better roads, schools where their daughters can get an education and a reliable supply of gas for cooking and heating. They don’t directly defy their fathers and husbands — but they do lobby them to change their minds. One resident, Mohammed Shamshed, said the women in his family “come up to us and say, ‘We want to vote.’“ “But we tell them that it is a collective decision,” he said. Rubina Arshad said things are slowly starting to change as men and women become more educated. “This is the tradition and the culture, from many, many years ago. We could not cast the vote,” she said. Another deterrent to women voting has been that many don’t have the proper identification card, called a CNIC card. Historically, many men in conservative areas haven’t seen the need to send their wives or daughters
to get the ID card or haven’t wanted to pay for it. But activists say that has begun to change in recent years — in large part because it makes more financial sense for men. Poor women who want to receive money through the Benazir Income Support Program, a government plan to give money to poor people, need a valid ID card. And many programs that give out aid to flood victims or people displaced in fighting in the tribal areas also require an ID card. “These two have tremendously enhanced the registration of women,” said Muddassir Rizvi, CEO of the Islamabad-based Free and Fair Election Network. “If they see an advantage of a relationship with the state, then they agree to things.” There are other encouraging signs as well, with more women competing in the elections. In Pakistan, 60 of the 342 seats in the lower house of parliament, known as the National Assembly, are reser ved for women. They are handed out to parties in proportion to how they do in the overall race, so women don’t have to campaign publicly for them. But women can also run for the general seats, in competition with men on the campaign trial. In 2008, 64 women ran for general seats and 18 made it to the parliament. This year, the number of women contesting general seats has jumped to 161, out of a total of 4,671 candidates, according to data provided by U.N. Women, which focuses on women’s empowerment and gender issues. Elections for provincial assemblies saw a bigger rise, with 355 women running among nearly 11,000 candidates, up from 116 in 2008. The type of women running has also changed. Traditionally, many female candidates have been from wealthy, land-owning families and were seen more as a continuation of political dynasties than as
women entering politics in their own right. Benazir Bhutto was famous for being Pakistan’s first female prime minister, but she was also the daughter of a powerful political family. Experts say many of the women running this year are from the middle or even lower classes. A woman in the tribal area of Bajur is running for parliament, marking the first time a woman has ever run for election from the conser vative tribal areas that border Afghanistan. In the southern city of Hyderabad, a Hindu woman is also running for election. Still, the number of female candidates is extremely low, and most run as independents without the support of a political party. The Pakistan People’s Party, the party that Bhutto headed before her assassination in 2007, is fielding women candidates in only 7 percent of the races. A PPP spokeswoman, Sharmila Farouqi admits that is not enough. “There is a perception that women cannot contest elections against men due to many reasons,” she said. “There is a need to encourage and support women.” When they do get into the parliament, women tend to get down to business. According to FAFEN’s data, female lawmakers last term asked more questions and submitted more bills and resolutions than men. The women also banded together to help pass five pieces of important legislation protecting women, including laws against sexual harassment in the workplace, according to Farkhanda Aurangzeb, from the Islamabadbased Aurat Foundation. In Mateela, the men say they are willing to let women vote if the election commission sets up a separate polling station. But the commission said that isn’t possible because the voting lists had already been finalized.
PATERSON, N.J. — Paterson police say a taxi driver and another man were hospitalized after being stabbed in the torso by an unknown assailant. It’s not yet known what sparked the incident, which occurred around 1:35 a.m. Sunday in the area of Summer and Oak streets. But authorities say both victims are expected to recover from their wounds. Police say the taxi driver drove himself to the hospital, while the other man was taken there via ambulance. Their names were not disclosed. No arrests have been made. Authorities would not say what type of weapon the assailant used in the attack.
NEW JERSEY MARATHON SEES LARGE SUPPORT, EXTRA SECURITY OCEANPORT, N.J. — Thousands of runners have taken to the streets for the New Jersey Marathon, cheered on by crowds who faced tighter security measures imposed after the bombings at the Boston Marathon. Spectators were barred from bringing bags to areas near the start and finish lines of Sunday’s race and access to those areas was also limited. Meanwhile, some parking areas near the lines were closed and bombsnif fing police dogs were patrolling areas surrounding the race route.
MEN ESCAPE SINKING BOAT UNSCATHED GREENWICH, N.J. — Two Pennsylvania men escaped serious injury when the 20-foot boat they were in sank in waters off southern New Jersey. State police tell The Press of Atlantic City that 45-year-old Richard Stevens of Philadelphia and 21-year-old Matthew Puglin of Plymouth Meeting made a distress call just before 6 p.m. Saturday. The men reported the boat was taking on water about a mile off the Cohansey River in the Delaware Bay. The State Police Marine Unit at Bivalve responded along with the Coast Guard and rescue crews from Lower Alloways and Greenwich townships. The men were soon spotted clinging to a cooler in the water. Authorities say both men were treated for hypothermia. – The Associated Press
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End tyranny of all-beef hot dogs PHILOSOPHIES OF A PARTICULAR AMERICAN ED REEP
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f all the classic American foods, few are as polarizing as the hot dog. While hamburgers and grilled chicken sandwiches are almost universally adored, there is a notable segment of the American population that dislikes hot dogs. Think of how many leftover hot dogs there usually are at barbecues while the hamburgers get gobbled up the moment they come out. Hot dogs taste disgusting to a lot of people or at least are noticeably less appetizing to them than other dishes served on July 4. There’s a reason why hot dogs get a lot of hate, however, and it has to do with the fact that people are eating the wrong types of hot dogs. I know exactly what the antidog crowd feels because I’ve eaten what often passes for hot dogs in our country, and it’s a disgrace. After studying the issue and sampling many hot dogs, though, I have figured out the problem. The problem with hot dogs in America is that many of them only contain beef.
The original hot dogs, which originat- for their goodness and a deeper baseed in Frankfurt, Germany, were specifi- ment for their badness. Especially in the New York area where cally pork-and-beef sausages, and the best hot dogs in America today stick we live, I feel like all-beef hot dogs are with that formula. The mixing of pork much more popular than pork-and-beef and beef is the whole point of hot dogs hot dogs, which is a shame. At supermar— it’s what gives them their great smoky kets, pork-and-beef hot dog brands are flavor. If you make a hot dog with just often off to the side and far outnumbered by all-beef hot one kind of dogs, and as far meat, you kill as restaurants, I of f the most "I acknowledge that many in the have to go out important charNew York area have religious of my way to acteristic of the food, and then objections to eating pork, which is find ones that serve pork-andit’s no wonder big reason for all-beef hot dogs beef hot dogs. the result doesn’t taste that being so popular around here, and Even at establishments that special. Think that’s fine, but enough’s enough. ” ser ve them, of it this way: like the amazthe all-beef ing Tido’s on hamburger is analogous the pork-and-beef hot dog, Easton Avenue, I must often ask specifiand the all-beef hot dog is analogous to cally for pork-and-beef hot dogs when the turkey burger, which is another pale generally ordering hot dogs, as though imitation of the real thing. Imagine how they were some kind of specialty item and much worse people would feel about not the authentic variant of the food. I hamburgers if the turkey burger were acknowledge that many in the New York more popular than the all-beef hamburg- area have religious objections to eating er. Turkey burgers can be good just as pork, which is a big reason for all-beef hot all-beef hot dogs (like those at Nathan’s) dogs being so popular around here, and can be good, but there’s a lower ceiling that’s fine, but enough’s enough. Most
End U. hypocrisy on marijuana use JAMES APPLEBAUM
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arijuana seems to be the most controversial plant and widely used drug in the world. It has invaded every facet of society, creating criminal behavior ranging from major drug trafficking to simple everyday drug use. I’m not going to delve into the broad range of statistics from a wide variety of sources on marijuana use, but the fact is that it is becoming more relevant in our society, regardless of your personal feelings on the issue. Several groups recently made their voices heard at the University, spreading their concerns about marijuana use here. For example, at one of University President Robert L. Barchi’s town hall meetings earlier this semester, the University’s National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Law brought attention to the issue. Relevant crime statistics can be found on the University’s Public Safety Department website from 2009 to 2011. The grand total of drug-related crimes reported by the Rutgers University Police Department had remained around the
same during this period. The number of incidents occurring on public property halved. On the other hand, the number of incidents in on-campus residences reported to the RUPD had doubled over this time period. The crime statistics report that from 2009 to 2011, the total number of drug-related incidents reported to the RUPD occurring on all campus property basically tripled from 67 to 131 arrests.
"Our school has somewhat of a reputation for being a party school, and Public Safety obviously turns a blind eye to much of what goes on in that aspect of the student life here.” Walk into any student center and visit one of our many convenience stores. Inside, you’ll find a wide array of food, living necessities, school supplies and University merchandise. Behind the counter, the stores have cigarettes, which are available to students. Also available to students are Game and Dutch Masters cigars, as well as the recent addition of EZ Wider rolling papers.
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Of course many people may wonder what the problem with this is. It provides students easy access to certain goods that would other wise be difficult to obtain, especially living on Livingston and Busch campuses. And while yes, they are technically tobacco products, it’s an open secret that nobody purchases a Grape Dutch cigar to spend 20 minutes lounging outside enjoying the fine quality of the smokable product they just purchased. Our school has somewhat of a reputation for being a party school, and Public Safety obviously turns a blind eye to much of what goes on in that aspect of the student life here. So why, in this case, is the school unwilling to budge on their stance on marijuana? I believe that it’s time for the University to address its policies on marijuana use, especially if they are going to turn a blind eye to the sale of drug-related products in their on-campus stores. You may not think it’s a big deal now, but when you’re handcuffed in the back of an RUPD police car on your way to the station after being caught with half a gram of weed, it’ll seem like a completely different stor y. James Applebaum is a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore.
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Americans are fine with pork products and eat them on a regular basis. It’s not fair that a minority culinary preference has had such an undue influence on the overall culinary preferences of the New York area. It’s not fair to people like me who love pork-and-beef hot dogs and want to eat them regularly. It’s not fair to the populace that has been deprived of the superb gastronomic experience of pork-and-beef hot dogs, and it’s not to fair to hot dogs, an amazing food that gets a bad rap unfairly because people think a worse-tasting untraditional variant is the real thing. Let’s change our culinary culture and give pork-and-beef hot dogs their rightful place as the default. On a final unrelated note, let me shamelessly plug my new “Philosophies of a Particular American” blog at www.apar ticularamerican.blogspot.com. After college, I hope to continue the action, and I want you, good readers, to check it out. 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,” ran on alternate Mondays.
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Laurels and Darts “While I acknowledge a lot of this falls on the shoulders of faculty for not ... explaining this to their students — please do take evaluations especially for TAs and Assistant Professors — seriously.” User Ask_ATK, in response to the 5/2 column:
Who R U Dating? “No where did I assume arrogance and the stereotype of stupid girls to be correlated. I merely said that a girl should not put down a guy with her intelligence if she sees that he is not as bright as her.”
The moment when I heard about [the initiative] to when I joined was about a half a second. I always wanted to go on an epic bike ride.
Sameen Jalal, a DREAM rider and School of Arts and Sciences Senior, on joining DREAM4TK’s initiative to raise money for the Embrace Kids Foundation. See the story on FRONT.
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HUSKIES Rutgers sits in middle of conference with two series remaining CONTINUED FROM BACK lead. We never gave up and had a lot of energy on the field and in the dugout and we had good at bats.” Those at bats were not evident in the early stages as Rutgers fell in a 2-0 hole. UConn third baseman Bryan Daniello grounded out to second base in the second inning which scored rightfielder Stanly Paul. Second baseman LJ Mazzilli drove in shortstop Tom Verdi in the first inning for the early UConn lead. But Rutgers was able to rebound and did so at the right time after struggling offensively in the past week. The win kept Rutgers in the top half of the conference standings, separating itself from the Huskies as the Knights beat them Saturday, 9-4 after Friday’ 3-1 loss. The Knights currently sit in fifth place with six games remaining in conference play. “We played a good series and we want to get at least two out of three next week and then it doesn’t make any difference, and I think we will be in good shape when we play South Florida,” Hill said. “We’ll play South Florida tough too.”
Senior first baseman Charlie Law drove in one run in Rutgers’ 4-2 victory yesterday against Connecticut. Rutgers clinched the series with the win, as the Knights retired nine straight batters to end the game. TIAN LI, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / FILE PHOTO / MAY 2013
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MAY 6, 2013
SPORTS PAGE 18 BASEBALL TEAM COLLECTED OVER $13,000 FOR CANCER RESEARCH
IN BRIEF
Knights shave heads for charitable cause BY BRADLY DERECHAILO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
After the Rutgers baseball team’s 4-2 victor y against Connecticut yesterday, the team made its way to the practice field, where chairs and electric razors were waiting. It was all part of the Scarlet Knights suppor t for the Vs. Cancer Foundation, as the Knights shaved off all of their hair for charity.
Senior catcher Jeff Melillo, who started the fundraiser, said to the crowd that gathered after the game that they were able to raise over $13,000 for the Vs. Cancer Foundation, more than $3,000 more than their goal of $10,000. According to scarletknights.com, the Vs. Cancer Foundation is dedicated to saving kids’ lives with the use of student athletes and the community to fund life-saving ef for ts. Half of the proceeds
will be given to national cancer research and the other to local childhood cancer hospitals. Senior lefthander Rob Corsi was one of the first to get his head shaven, and had a good attitude about his new look. “Definitely a new breeze,” Corsi said. “We’re going down to Florida soon, so maybe it will keep me cool. So it’s cool.” Each member of the team’s heads was shaved all the way down as hair covered the prac-
tice field. Other members of the athletic department participated as well, including newly hired men’s basketball coach Eddie Jordan. Head coach Fred Hill was proud of the way Melillo and the rest of the team pulled together for a good cause but was hesitant in par ticipating in it. “Jeff did a great job organizing it,” Hill said. “... I also have to make a donation, but I’m not cutting my hair.”
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ew York Yankees shor tstop Eduardo Nunez left the team’s game yesterday against the Oakland Athletics in the fifth inning with tightness in his left rib cage. Manager Joe Girardi said Nunez is day-to-day after an MRI came back negative. The shor tstop hopes to return tomorrow when the Yankees play the opener of a three-game road series against the Colorado Rockies.
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Nets were eliminated from the playof fs Saturday night, the team announced yesterday it will not be renew the contract of P.J. Carlesimo. The 63-year-old Carlesimo, who was named interim head coach after the firing of former head coach Avery Johnson in December, went 35-19 during his regular season tenure. General manager Billy King insisted the decision had nothing to do with the first-round loss to the injur y-riddled Chicago Bulls, but rather was an evaluation of the entire season. “It was a difficult decision, and we talked about it, but looking at the long-term and the future of this organization, I felt it was best to look elsewhere to tr y and find the right fit,” King told ESPN. Some high-profile candidates being speculated that the Nets will reportedly reach out to are Phil Jackson, Jeff Van Gundy and Stan Van Gundy.
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LeBron James earned his fourth MVP award yesterday, becoming the youngest player to earn the honor four times. The only other players to be named MVP four times are Michael Jordan, Bill Russell, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Wilt Chamberlain. The 28-year-old nearly won the award unanimously, receiving 120 and 121 first-place votes. Shaquille O’Neal is the only other player to hold that distinction, falling one vote shy of unanimous selection in 2000. Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant finished second in the voting, with New York Knicks for ward Carmelo Anthony taking third. A firstplace vote for Anthony was the only one James did not receive. Rounding out the top five were Los Angeles Clippers point guard Chris Paul and Los Angeles Lakers shooting guard Kobe Bryant, respectively fourth and fifth.
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Brian McCann will come off the disabled list today when the team opens a series with Cincinnati, according to ESPN. McCann has not yet played this season after having surgery to repair a torn labrum in his right shoulder in October. He has been scorching in his minor league rehabbing, hitting .364 with four homeruns. But the biggest uncertainty when he returns is shoulder durability on throws down to second base, but McCann said he feels ready.
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MAY 6, 2013 KNIGHT NOTEBOOK
Junior outfielder Loren Williams compiled only two hits across three games against Pitt this weekend atop Rutgers’ lineup. NISHA DATT, PHOTO EDITOR / FILE PHOTO / APRIL 2013
Scarce hitting eludes Knights of postseason BY GREG JOHNSON CORRESPONDENT
An inability to string together hits in bunches plagued the Rutgers softball team throughout much of the second half of the season, and it could not stop the trend in its biggest game of the year. The Scarlet Knights put together only three hits yesterday at home against Pittsburgh with its season on the line. They did the same in Game 1 of Saturday’s doubleheader in a loss that led to a series defeat when it could simply not afford one. On an afternoon when it was evident Rutgers brought plenty of energy to the diamond, the results were puzzling. And the Knights had no excuses. “We just couldn’t pull it together,” said junior outfielder Loren Williams. “There’s really not much to say about it. A lot of us didn’t swing at good pitches. … We just have to make better decisions in the box.” No starter the Knights faced in Big East play after April 14 against Notre Dame boasted a sub-3 ERA. Most were not overpowering, either. “They’re just good and hit their spots,” said head coach Jay Nelson. “That’s what they do. They don’t throw hard, don’t throw multiple pitches. They throw two — in, out.” But the Knights could never quite adjust, often trying to do too much at the plate. In the aftermath of it all, Rutgers’ biggest frustration was knowing it has no opportunity to make amends until next year. “We didn’t hit. We didn’t do what we were supposed to do,” junior first baseman Durando said. “I wish I
could say there’s always next time, but if this is it, then this is it. It’s just something more that we have to work on in the offseason.”
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have secured Rutgers the eighth seed in this week’s Big East Tournament, but there was a slim possibility it could still get in even after falling to Pittsburgh. The Knights needed Connecticut, St. John’s and Seton Hall to all lose for that to happen, and it nearly did. Connecticut lost at DePaul and St. John’s fell in the final inning at Villanova, but Rutgers’ in-state rival played spoiler. Minutes after the Knights’ contest with the Panthers ended, Seton Hall scored the go-ahead run at Georgetown in the seventh to win, 2-1, crushing any hope of Rutgers sneaking into the field. But the Knights blame no one but themselves, knowing they had several opportunities down the stretch to take control of their destiny. A club that won six of its first 10 conference games dropped 10 of 12 to end the season. It all just reinforces the competitiveness and unpredictable nature of the Big East. “It’s one of those years where it just happens,” Williams said. “We had a really good year, but we just have to move forward, keep making progress as the year goes on and as the years continue, the program will get better and things will start to happen.” For updates on the Rutgers softball team, follow Greg Johnson on Twitter @Greg_P_Johnson. For general Rutgers sports updates, follow @TargumSports.
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Senior righthander Abbey Houston tossed five pivotal innings Saturday for Rutgers, surrendering only one earned run. NISHA DATT, PHOTO EDITOR / FILE PHOTO / APRIL 2013
Senior pays dividends in final appearance BY GREG JOHNSON CORRESPONDENT
In her final outing Saturday for the Rutgers softball team, senior righthander Abbey Houston laid everything on the line. With the Scarlet Knights fighting for a Big East Tournament appearance, the New Egypt, N.J., native helped keep their season alive. Houston (3-5) started against Pittsburgh and delivered five strong innings, striking out four and allowing only one earned run. She especially came up clutch in the first and second innings, twice stranding the bases loaded. Rutgers eventually captured the win in nine innings, 4-3. “I was really pleased that Abbey held us close there and we were able to win the last game that she pitched in her career,” said head coach Jay Nelson. Houston often flew under the radar this season for several reasons. Freshman righthander Dresden Maddox leapfrogged her as the team’s No. 2 pitcher early in the season, often leaving Houston as
the odd one out in critical games. She was only able to pitch 66 innings — mainly as a reliever this season — after throwing 85 frames the year prior. Although she finished her senior campaign with a respectable 3.50 ERA, Houston often had to leave early in appearances throughout the year because of shaky command leading to a poor strikeout-to-walk ratio of 37-to-49. In spite of all that, head coach Jay Nelson insists Houston stayed integral in the team’s success in other ways in the dugout and off the field. “Abbey is the heart of the team,” Nelson said. “She makes people smile. She makes people happy, and she works. She works as hard as anybody. At the end of this we had 16 players and we were 16 strong, and that was our motto.” Along with Rutgers’ three other graduating seniors — shortstop Ashley Bragg, second baseman Jennifer Harabedian and catcher Kaci Madden — Houston was honored in a ceremony with flowers and pictures before Game 1 of Saturday’s doubleheader.
MAY 6, 2013
SPORTS PAGE 21 MEN’S TRACK
Knights place third in conference meet BY BRADLY DERECHAILO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
The Rutgers men’s track and field team finished third at the Big East Championships held at the Bauer Track and Field Complex on campus, and the Scarlet Knights did it with impressive individual performances. Senior thrower James Plummer was named the Big East’s Most Outstanding Field Performer after he won the Big East discus title. The South Toms River, N.J., native set a new championship record with his throw of 60.85 meters. His toss was 8.12 meters further than the nextbest throw by second-place finisher Andrew Wells of Pittsburgh. Connecticut’s Eric Masington finished third in the event with a distance of 51.88. Plummer also finished fourth in the shot put with a distance of 16.57 meters. In that event, Louisville’s Brad Vivace finished first with a 17.53-meter throw, Masington placed second with a throw of 17.38 meters and Louisville’s Steve Wade held third with a distance of 16.61 meters. Connecticut won the title with a score of 119.5. Notre Dame placed ahead of Rutgers with a 107.5 total as the Knights finished with a 103.5 team score.
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Four Knights competed in the last day of racing events yesterday with senior runner Monroe Kearns having the highest finish. The Jackson, N.J., native finished second in the 800 meter with a 1.50.16 time, which qualified her for the IC4A Championships. Kearns placed behind Villanova’s Samuel Ellison, who finished with a time of 1:49.901. Freshman runner Kyle Holder finished third in the 400-meter hurdles and also qualified for the IC4A Championships with a finish of 53.23 seconds, just .02 seconds behind the second place time set by Connecticut’s Chris Whyte. Notre Dame’s Jarrod Buchanon won the event with a time of 52.131. Sophomore sprinter Kadeem Douse and sophomore sprinter Corey Crawford also competed in races on the final day as Douse finished seventh in the 100 meter and Crawford placed in sixth in the 200 meter. In field events, senior jumper Adam Bergo placed second in the triple jump behind South Florida’s Mathew O’Neal, while senior jumper Kevin Bostick finished right behind Bergo for third. The Knights return to action May 10-12 when they compete in the IC4A Championships in Princeton.
MAY 6, 2013
SPORTS PAGE 22 KNIGHT NOTEBOOK
Head coach Fred Hill said Sunday he will consider whether to keep lefthander Rob Corsi, above, in the rotation. NISHA DATT, PHOTO EDITOR / FILE PHOTO / MAY 2013
Reliever may see time in starting rotation BY BRADLY DERECHAILO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
Senior lefthander Rob Corsi made his second straight start yesterday against Connecticut as senior righthander Tyler Gebler continues to deal with a sore shoulder. But that did not stop the Toms River, N.J., native from making an appearance in the game. Head coach Fred Hill pulled Corsi after six innings of work in favor of Gebler, who made his first relief appearance of the season. Gebler pitched three innings out of the bullpen and allowed no hits, as he retired nine straight batters. As a result of his performance, Hill said he may keep Gebler in the bullpen and allow Corsi to start. “His shoulder was bothering him, so he took a week off and came back and it might be the spot for him,” Hill said. Gebler is no stranger to relief pitching, as he was the Knights’ full-time closer his freshman year. In that season, he collected a school-record 12 saves en route to being named a freshman All-American by Collegiate Baseball Newspaper. “It felt a lot better,“ Gebler said of coming out of the bullpen. “Freshman year I was kind of put there. I’m kind of coming back trying to start again, and it just had that late-game feel to it from freshman year. It felt pretty good.” Hill said he will decide in the next couple of days whether he will stick with Corsi as the Knights’ No. 3 starter, and the main reason is because of his recent performances. Corsi allowed just two runs off five hits in his six innings. Against Creighton on April 27, he threw five innings without allowing a run. It is important for Gebler to return in any capacity as the Knights continue to fight to make the Big East playoffs. But if he continues to have problems with
his shoulder, Corsi has no problems with starting games as long as Gebler pitches well too. “It’s something I feel like you get progressively more comfortable with,“ Corsi said. “It was a huge pick-up for Tyler to be able to come back this weekend. Whenever he is throwing the ball it makes us a better team.”
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midweek game for the Knights, as they will play St. Peter’s tomorrow at Bainton Field. Hill scheduled the lone game against the Peacocks because of a rainout against Richmond earlier in the season that was never made up. St. Peter’s (14-29) has lost five straight games and has won just one game in its last 11 outings, including a 13-8 loss to Monmouth, which Rutgers defeated April 17, 7-6. It will be the Knights’ final nonconference opponent of the season, as they close out the regular season with series against Georgetown and South Florida. The Knights also announced its series with Georgetown will consist of a doubleheader Saturday and one game on Sunday.
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John Jennings started for junior Pat Sweeney, who sat out yesterday’s game with a sore shoulder. Jennings hit 2-for-3 against UConn, including an RBI single to tie the game, 2-2, in the sixth inning. “Jennings got a key hit, and he didn’t even know he was going to play today,” Hill said. “He did a really great job for us today.” Jennings has star ted 10 games for Rutgers in his freshman season. For updates on the baseball team, Bradly Derechailo on @Bradly_D. For Rutgers spor ts follow @TargumSpor ts.
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WOMEN’S TRACK RUTH CAPTURES LONG JUMP TITLE
RU finishes ninth at champs BY BRADLY DERECHAILO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
Sophomore first baseman Ashley Alden hit a two-run homerun in the second inning yesterday to cut Pittsburgh’s lead in half. NISHA DATT, PHOTO EDITOR / FILE PHOTO / MARCH 2013
Knights fall short of Big East Tournament BY GREG JOHNSON CORRESPONDENT
The task at hand for the Rutgers softball team in its regular season finale yesterday was clear — win and it would be in this week’s Big East Tournament field. But securing that coveted victory proved elusive all afternoon at the RU Softball Complex, as the Scarlet Knights could not quite dig out of an early hole, falling to Pittsburgh, 6-3. Freshman righthander Dresden Maddox walked in the first run with one out in the second inning after allowing another walk and two singles. Head coach Jay Nelson had a short leash on his starter, removing Maddox (96) after just one and a third. “Walks hurt us early in the game,” Nelson said. “Their fourrun rally was started by a walk with one out. They didn’t hit a ball hard that whole inning and scored four runs.” But as it did all season, Rutgers (30-26, 8-14) showed resiliency until the very end. The Knights quickly responded to the Panthers’ (19-29, 8-14) four-run second in the bottom of the frame. Sophomore first baseman Ashley Alden fouled off several pitches before finally blasting a two-run homerun on a full count to right field to cut Pittsburgh’s lead in half. Rutgers chipped away again in the fourth on an RBI single from freshman shortstop Melanie Slowinski to cut the lead to 4-3. But Pittsburgh held the Knights scoreless in the final three innings. And in the seventh, the Panthers tacked on two huge insurance runs of f sophomore lefthander Alyssa Landrith to seal the win and Rutgers’ Big East fate. The Knights had few words to sum up their frustration after the game.
“It sucks,” said junior first baseman Alexis Durando. “There’s just really no way to put it I guess. I don’t know.” Still, Rutgers hangs its head high, knowing yesterday’s do-ordie scenario would not have even been a possibility had it not split Saturday’s doubleheader. That outcome Saturday was hardly a formality, as the Knights lost the first game and trailed in the second, 3-2, going into the bottom of the eighth inning. With their season down to their final three outs, the Knights answered one last time. Sophomore outfielder Jackie Bates drove an RBI double to right field to tie the game, then won the game, 4-3, with a single in the ninth. “We’re always going to fight,” said junior outfielder Loren Williams. “We’re always going to compete, because we know we can. It’s not always going to end up how you want it to. [Saturday] we were able to pull out a win from it, but today, it didn’t happen. We have to take the positives from it and move forward.” The first game was another tight one-run affair. Landrith (17-15) hurled seven strong innings, striking out 12 while walking only one batter. But she allowed two runs in the third that were the difference in the game, as Rutgers only mustered one run on three hits. For Rutgers, there may be no bigger disappointment in missing the postseason than knowing it came while tying for the second-most in school histor y with 30 wins. “I’m not worried about the future of this team,” Nelson said. “It just hurts to go out that way.” For updates on the Rutgers softball team, follow Greg Johnson on Twitter @Greg_P_Johnson. For general Rutgers sports updates, follow @TargumSports.
The Rutgers women’s track and field team concluded the third day of competition yesterday on campus in the Big East Championships with a ninth-place finish. Notre Dame won the team title with a mark of 153 points. Connecticut placed second with a 102.75 score, and South Florida came in third with a 97.75. Villanova and Pittsburgh rounded out the top five with team totals of 80.5 and 72, respectively. The Scarlet Knights’ score of 56 points placed them in ninth right behind Georgetown and ahead of Syracuse, which scored 46 team points. Junior Asha Ruth captured the long jump title, as her distance of 6.14 meters was good enough for first place. Marquette’s Carlye Schuh placed second with her jump of 6.13 meters, while another Rutgers jumper, junior Ekene Ugboaja finished third with a jump of 6.10 meters. Freshman Adrienne Williams finished 14th in the triple jump
with a distance of 11.23 meters, while junior Kristen Bradley paced seventh in the 100-meter hurdles heptathlon thanks to her score of 15.90 meters. She also tied for third in the high jump heptathlon with a distance of 1.66 meters. Junior Tylia Gillion finished third in the 100 meter, as her time of 11.66 seconds qualified her for the ECAC Championships. South Florida’s Aireonna Bailey finished first in that race with 11.48 seconds, while Notre Dame’s Aijah Urssery placed ahead of Gillion with a time of 11.56. Sophomore Gabrielle Farquharson competed in two events in the final day of the championships, including an eighthplace finish in the same 100-meter race with 11.95 seconds. She also placed seventh in the 200-meter race with 24.16 seconds. Ruth finished the highest for Rutgers in the 200-meter event with a third-place finishing time of 23.79. South Florida and Pittsburgh runners finished ahead of Ruth, as Bailey crossed the line first with a time of 23.40 and Panthers runner
Jonnique Lawrence finished with a time of 23.59. In team action, both the 4x400meter and 4x800-meter relay teams finished sixth in their respective heats, as both finished with qualifying times for the ECAC Championships. The 4x400 team, consisting of Gillion, Farquharson, Ruth and junior Corr yn Hurrington, finished the race in 3:99.99, just .07 seconds shy of a fifth-place finish. Notre Dame finished in first in the event, Pittsburgh placed second and Georgetown finished in third with a finishing time of 3:38.49. The 4x800 team of sophomores Christina Dibernardo, Felicia O’Donnell and Allison Payenski and junior Ashley Deckert finished their race with a time of 9:05.76. In that race, Villanova placed first with an 8:34.23 time, while Notre Dame and Georgetown finished second and third, respectively. Rutgers’ next event will be in the ECAC Champions from Friday to Sunday, which will take place in Princeton.
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‘O’ WOES The Rutgers softball team tallied only 13 hits in three games this weekend against Pitt. PAGE 19 QUOTE OF THE DAY “I wish I could say there’s always next time, but if this is it, this is it.” — Rutgers softball junior first baseman Alexis Durando on the end of the Knights’ season
MONDAY, MAY 6, 2013
BASEBALL RUTGERS 4, UCONN 2
Freshman third baseman Matt Tietz hit 0-for-2 in yesterday’s 4-2 victory against Connecticut, but drove in the go ahead run in the sixth inning on a sacrafice fly. Tietz had one of three RBI for Rutgers in the sixth inning in which the Knights collected four hits. TIAN LI, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / FILE PHOTO / MAY 2013
Knights clinch series win against Huskies BY BRADLY DERECHAILO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
Thanks to timely hitting and solid pitching performances, the Rutgers baseball team was able to avoid a home series loss to Connecticut yesterday with a 3-2 come-frombehind victory. Senior lefthander Rob Corsi allowed just two runs in his second start of the season, and senior righthander Tyler Gebler delivered three innings of relief for the Scarlet Knights (22-25, 10-8) to secure the win and their first series vic-
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The Knights had just two hits on Tabakman until the bottom of the sixth, when they crossed three runs across the plate. Senior catcher Jeff Melillo reached first on a base hit and advanced to second on a pass ball. A base hit by senior right fielder Steve Zavala moved Melillo over to third for senior first baseman Charlie Law, who drove Melillo in on a sacrifice fly to give the Knights their first run of the game. After Huskies head coach Jim Penders signaled for reliever Dan Freehan, Rutgers responded with a bases-loaded RBI single by
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tory against a Big East opponent since they played Cincinnati on April 14. “It’s huge,“ Corsi (3-3) said of the series win. “We’ve been stumbling a little bit lately. This is great as a confidence booster, especially in a game like that where you come from behind and piece something together. It lets you know that when you’re down, you’re not out if you keep clawing back. We showed a lot of heart today.” Despite its pitching performances, Rutgers struggled offensively against UConn righthander Jordan Tabakman.
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redshirt freshman John Jennings to even the score. A sacrifice fly to centerfield by freshman third baseman Matt Tietz gave Rutgers the lead. The Knights had the bases loaded in the previous inning as well, but sophomore leftfielder Vinny Zarrillo grounded out to third to end the inning. The inning did not matter though, in large part because of Jennings. “It was really important,“ Jennings said. “You never want to let them get comfortable with a SEE
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