THE D AILY T ARGUM Volume 141, Number 103 S E R V I N G T H E R U T G E R S C O M M U N I T Y S I N C E 1 8 6 9 INDEX WEEKEND WARRIORS Today: Mostly cloudy High: 57 • Low: 40 The Rutgers women’s basketball team posted a 2-1 record at the Big East Tournament, behind huge efforts from sophomores Nikki Speed and Chelsey Lee. See PAGE 18. ONLINE @ DAILYTARGUM.COM DIVERSIONS ...... 12 CLASSIFIEDS ...... 14 SPORTS ...... BACK A Harvard professor suggests drug prohibition is the problem, not the answer. Walmart sparks controversy by selling black Barbie dolls for about half the price of white dolls. UNIVERSITY OPINIONS OPINIONS ....... 10 WEDNESDAY MARCH 10, 2010 NATION .......... 8 IN FOCUS ......... 7 UNIVERSITY ....... 3 A new text-messaging system created by a University student allows people to send a text message to determine what time their next bus is coming. University Director of Transportation Services Jack Molenaar endorses this system. NICHOLAS BRASOWSKI System texts schedule for student commute BY DEVIN SIKORSKI CONTRIBUTING WRITER For students who have ever waited more than 20 minutes for a bus in frigid winter tempera- tures, a new text-messaging sys- tem is trying to prevent the situ- ation from happening any longer. Vaibhav Verma, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year stu- dent, recently debuted his new text-messaging system that gives students the information they need when preparing for their next bus ride. “The system works by texting the word ‘rubus,’ followed by the abbreviation for the stop you want, to the number 41411,” he said. “A text message will be sent back giving the student times for every bus coming to that stop.” The abbreviations for the stops are available at his Eden Web site, http://www.eden.rutgers.edu/~v verna/nextbus. Verma said his interest in creating the new system was based on his dissatisfaction with the current one. “Ever since last semester, I’ve liked the idea about ‘NextBus,’” Verma said. “However, when I looked at their Web site, I felt it was a pain to use.” Students were happy to hear about a new system that does not require going to a computer to get bus arrival times. Council to help build group trip BY COLLEEN ROACHE CORRESPONDENT When the University’s chapter of Habitat for Humanity goes to Miami next week, time on the beach will be the last thing on the agen- da, but the College Avenue Council’s unanimous vote to provide the organization with $500 will make conditions a bit more bearable. The council voted to pro- vide the money at last night’s meeting. All funds will go toward trip expenses, not directly to students, who are paying their way. Victoria Gilbert, council president and Habitat for Humanity treasurer, was glad to Rutgers-Newark Institute of Jazz Studies Grammy-winning director Dan Mor- genstern, left, greets musician Dizzy Gillespie. See PAGE 7 for full story. COURTESY OF JAMES HERSHORN JAZZ HANDS Transportation survey steers toward U. concerns University Department of Transportation Services will release a survey March 31 to receive student feedback about the University’s transportation system. THE DAILY TARGUM BY CHRIS ZAWISTOWSKI STAFF WRITER Whether they are in favor of it or not, many University students have an opinion on campus transportation. Now is their chance for their voices to be heard. The University Department of Transportation Services is seeking feedback on the University’s transit system through its annual transporta- tion forum and Web survey, available through the DOTS Web site at park- tran.rutgers.edu. “It’s just helpful for us as a tool, because it gives us another layer of feedback and information, typically from faculty, staff and students that might not show up [during] something like the transportation forum,” said Jennifer Stuart, manager of transporta- tion and planning for DOTS. The survey, which will be open for comments until March 31, the date of the forum, provides the department with comments and suggestions on the transportation system and guides future improvements, she said. More than 750 members of the University community have already answered the survey, with 90 per- cent of the responses coming from students, DOTS Director Jack Molenaar said. The department has issued the sur- vey for a number of years, Stuart said. They are looking to see how answers have changed and to examine the causes of such changes. The survey was developed before the installation of the NextBus sys- tem, so it is particularly interesting to see how responses have changed as a result of the bus tracking sys- tem, she said. “We try to keep the questions con- sistent with other surveys so you can track the data, but we have also tried to make it simpler and just to highlight the thing most critical to us so it is easy to fill out,” Molenaar said. Via the survey, students may express their choice of what should be the top transportation priority for the University. Options include increased transit service during peak hours on select bus routes, increased weekend ser vice, bicycling sharing programs or bicycle lockers. Rutgers Health Services and Rutgers Occupational Health continue to offer the injectable H1N1 vaccine free of charge SEE SURVEY ON PAGE 4 SEE TRIP ON PAGE 4 SEE COMMUTE ON PAGE 4 COLLEGE AVENUE COUNCIL see the bill — which the council amended to allot $200 more than the requested $300 — pass. “I think it’s a great co-spon- sorship,” the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy junior said. “The College Avenue Council is not only helping students on this campus, but reaching out. It’s a charitable effort. I think it’s going to directly benefit the students who — even in this hard economy — are working to help others.” On Habitat for Humanity alternative Spring Break trips, volunteers relinquish luxuries and make an effort to live on as little as possible, said Gilbert, who joined the organization during her first year at the University. Students sleep on church floors, eat limited diets and make use of mass transit for the duration of the trip. “We get to travel to different locations and meet lots of dif- ferent people, but we do so in a very inexpensive way,” she said. “It’s a service organiza- tion, so as much money as we can spend on directly benefiting the charity, we will.”
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INDEX
WEEKEND WARRIORSToday: Mostly cloudy
High: 57 • Low: 40The Rutgers women’s basketball team posted a 2-1 record at the Big East Tournament,behind huge efforts from sophomores Nikki Speed and Chelsey Lee. See PAGE 18.
ONLINE @DAILYTARGUM.COM
DIVERSIONS . . . . . . 12
CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . 14
SPORTS . . . . . . BACK
A Harvard professorsuggests drug prohibition is theproblem, not the answer.
Walmart sparks controversy by selling black Barbiedolls for about half the price ofwhite dolls.
UNIVERSITY
OPINIONS
OPINIONS . . . . . . . 10
WEDNESDAYMARCH 10, 2010
NATION . . . . . . . . . . 8
IN FOCUS . . . . . . . . . 7
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A new text-messaging system created by a University student allows people to send a text message to determine whattime their next bus is coming. University Director of Transportation Services Jack Molenaar endorses this system.
NICHOLAS BRASOWSKI
System texts schedulefor student commute
BY DEVIN SIKORSKICONTRIBUTING WRITER
For students who have everwaited more than 20 minutes fora bus in frigid winter tempera-tures, a new text-messaging sys-tem is trying to prevent the situ-ation from happening any longer.
Vaibhav Verma, a School ofArts and Sciences first-year stu-dent, recently debuted his newtext-messaging system thatgives students the informationthey need when preparing fortheir next bus ride.
“The system works by textingthe word ‘rubus,’ followed by theabbreviation for the stop youwant, to the number 41411,” hesaid. “A text message will be sent
back giving the student times forevery bus coming to that stop.”
The abbreviations for the stopsare available at his Eden Web site,http://www.eden.rutgers.edu/~vverna/nextbus.
Verma said his interest increating the new system wasbased on his dissatisfaction withthe current one.
“Ever since last semester, I’veliked the idea about ‘NextBus,’”Verma said. “However, when Ilooked at their Web site, I felt itwas a pain to use.”
Students were happy to hearabout a new system that doesnot require going to a computerto get bus arrival times.
Council to help build group tripBY COLLEEN ROACHE
CORRESPONDENT
When the University’schapter of Habitat forHumanity goes to Miami nextweek, time on the beach willbe the last thing on the agen-da, but the College AvenueCouncil’s unanimous vote toprovide the organization with$500 will make conditions a bitmore bearable.
The council voted to pro-vide the money at last night’smeeting. All funds will gotoward trip expenses, notdirectly to students, who arepaying their way.
Victoria Gilbert, councilpresident and Habitat forHumanity treasurer, was glad to
Rutgers-Newark Institute of Jazz Studies Grammy-winning director Dan Mor-genstern, left, greets musician Dizzy Gillespie. See PAGE 7 for full story.
COURTESY OF JAMES HERSHORN
JAZZ HANDS
Transportation survey steers toward U. concerns
University Department of Transportation Services will release a survey March31 to receive student feedback about the University’s transportation system.
THE DAILY TARGUM
BY CHRIS ZAWISTOWSKISTAFF WRITER
Whether they are in favor of it ornot, many University students have anopinion on campus transportation.Now is their chance for their voices tobe heard.
The University Department ofTransportation Services is seekingfeedback on the University’s transitsystem through its annual transporta-tion forum and Web survey, availablethrough the DOTS Web site at park-tran.rutgers.edu.
“It’s just helpful for us as a tool,because it gives us another layer offeedback and information, typicallyfrom faculty, staff and students thatmight not show up [during] somethinglike the transportation forum,” saidJennifer Stuart, manager of transporta-tion and planning for DOTS.
The survey, which will be open forcomments until March 31, the date ofthe forum, provides the departmentwith comments and suggestions onthe transportation system and guidesfuture improvements, she said.
More than 750 members of theUniversity community have already
answered the survey, with 90 per-cent of the responses coming fromstudents, DOTS Director JackMolenaar said.
The department has issued the sur-vey for a number of years, Stuart said.They are looking to see how answershave changed and to examine thecauses of such changes.
The survey was developed beforethe installation of the NextBus sys-tem, so it is particularly interestingto see how responses have changedas a result of the bus tracking sys-tem, she said.
“We try to keep the questions con-sistent with other surveys so you cantrack the data, but we have also tried tomake it simpler and just to highlightthe thing most critical to us so it iseasy to fill out,” Molenaar said.
Via the survey, students mayexpress their choice of what should bethe top transportation priority for theUniversity. Options include increasedtransit service during peak hours onselect bus routes, increased weekendservice, bicycling sharing programs orbicycle lockers.
Rutgers Health Services and Rutgers Occupational Health continue to offer the injectable H1N1 vaccine free of charge
SEE SURVEY ON PAGE 4
SEE TRIP ON PAGE 4
SEE COMMUTE ON PAGE 4
COLLEGEAVENUECOUNCIL
see the bill — which the councilamended to allot $200 more thanthe requested $300 — pass.
“I think it’s a great co-spon-sorship,” the Edward J.Bloustein School of Planningand Public Policy junior said.“The College Avenue Council isnot only helping students onthis campus, but reaching out.It’s a charitable effort. I thinkit’s going to directly benefit thestudents who — even in thishard economy — are working tohelp others.”
On Habitat for Humanityalternative Spring Breaktrips, volunteers relinquishluxuries and make an ef fortto live on as little as possible,said Gilbert, who joined theorganization during her firstyear at the University.Students sleep on churchfloors, eat limited diets andmake use of mass transit forthe duration of the trip.
“We get to travel to differentlocations and meet lots of dif-ferent people, but we do so in avery inexpensive way,” shesaid. “It’s a service organiza-tion, so as much money as wecan spend on directly benefitingthe charity, we will.”
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Economist injects U. with drug legalization viewsBY JEFF PRENTKYCONTRIBUTING WRITER
Harvard University economicsProfessor Jeffrey Miron spoke tomore than 200 people Mondaynight about drug prohibition inthe United States and the effectslegalizing drugs could have onthe economy and society.
Located in the BuschCampus Center, the lecture,titled “The Economics of DrugLegalization,” focused on a pos-itive and normative analysis ofdrug prohibition and the effectsit has on the black market,while including comparisonsbetween today’s drug prohibi-tion and the 1920s and early1930s alcohol prohibition.
“Alcohol prohibition is thesingle best episode for lookingat this question of how muchdoes prohibition reduce the con-sumption of the prohibited com-modity,” Miron said. “Evidencesuggests maybe a 20 percentreduction in alcohol consump-tion during that time period.That’s not zero, but it’s not enor-mous either.”
Federal, state and local gov-ernments in the United Statesspend about $49 billion eachyear to support prohibition, hesaid. They make almost 1.8 mil-lion arrests per year on drugcharges alone.
Governments also forgo about$34 billion in revenue that theycould collect if drugs were a legalcommodity like alcohol or ciga-rettes, he said.
“Advocates claim that drugprohibition has substantial bene-fits, alleged to include reducingdrug use and abuse, loweringcrime, improving health and pro-ductivity and making the moralstatement thatusing drugs iswrong,” Mironsaid. “At the sametime, the oppo-nents of currentpolicy believe thatin fact drug prohi-bition, not thedrugs themselves,is what causes a lotof these harms.”
P r o h i b i t i o ndoes not eliminatethe demand or thesupply for drugs, he said. Mostprohibited goods, such as alcoholunder alcohol prohibition, all con-tinue to be supplied and demand-ed even under strongly enforcedprohibitions, thus forcing themarket underground.
A black market economy canlead to increased violence andcorruption, income-generatedcrime, racial profiling and thediminished quality control ofdrugs, including needles,
which can lead to increasedHIV and other blood borne dis-eases due to unclean condi-tions, Miron said.
He said there is considerableevidence that prohibitions aresomewhat ef fective, but onlymoderately effective in reduc-ing consumption.
For example, for the past 25years in the U.S., drug prices
have fallen dra-matically to a fifthor a sixth of thelevel they were atin the early 1980s,Miron said.
“Over the sametime period, U.S.attempts toenforce prohibi-tion escalated dra-matically, so allthose extraarrests, imprison-ments and expen-
diture, accompanied by the lowerdrug prices, was the exact oppo-site of what policy was trying toaccomplish, which was to raisedrug prices,” he said.
Miron argued that differencesin the way drug laws are enforcedin different countries do not cor-relate well with the amount ofdrug consumption.
“About nine years ago,Portugal decriminalized alldrugs, not just marijuana but
cocaine, heroine and metham-phetamine. They saw no percepti-ble change in measures of druguse,” he said. “That again sug-gests that prohibition is a relative-ly minor deterrent of the extent towhich people use drugs.”
The University’s Departmentof Economics organized the lec-ture. Funding for the talk camefrom the Class of 1970 as part ofa series of different lectures thathave been held over several years.
“We were very pleased withthe turnout. It’s a topic wethought a lot of students and peo-ple in the community would beinterested in,” said Jeff Rubin, aUniversity professor of econom-ics and lecture organizer.
Josh David, a School of Artsand Sciences sophomore,enjoyed hearing the perspectiveof drug prohibition from a liber-tarian viewpoint.
“A lot of times, you’ll hear avery liberal or conservativeviewpoint,” David said. “Ithought many of the points werevery valid and I really enjoyedthe question and answer sessionas well.”
Miron said if drugs were legal-ized, he would go out and tryeverything on the first day.
“I’ve been studying this stuffmy whole life, of course I’m curi-ous,” he said.
“The opponents of current policy
believe that in factdrug prohibition ...is what causes a lot
of these harms.” JEFFREY MIRONHarvard Professor
Members of the University com-munity will be able to view top come-dians from Comedy Central for a dis-count at the Stress Factory in down-town New Brunswick.
“Comedy Central finds …Something to Laugh About!” willbenefit Women Helping Women,which provides local women, chil-dren and families with therapeuticand support services, according to aWHW press release.
Full-price tickets for the Tuesday,March 16 show are $50, whichincludes a buffet dinner. Tickets are$30 cash only for University students,faculty and staff who bring this copy ofThe Daily Targum.
“The group of women performingat the benefit are fantastic and extreme-ly funny,” said Anne Safran Dalin, eventorganizer and WHW board member inthe release. “Thanks to the generoussupport of Comedy Central andCareOne, people coming to the eventwill be doing a good deed while havinga great time.”
The lineup includes Leighann Lord,who received an NYC Black ComedyAward; Ophira Eisenberg, one of NewYork Magazine’s Top 10 Comics; andAmy Schumer, who debuted on NBC’sLast Comic Standing.
“Comedy Central is pleased andproud to support this event and anorganization like Women HelpingWomen which does so much good forwomen and children in our local com-munities,” said JoAnn Grigioni,Comedy Central vice president of tal-ent, in a release.
— Mary Diduch
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Director of TransportationServices Jack Molenarr said, atyesterday’s College AvenueCouncil meeting, that the newsystem is simple, effective andapproves of the use by students.
Ryan Riccobene, a School ofEngineering junior, said he didnot like having to access a com-puter before going to a bus stop.
“The text-messaging systemwould make it much easier, becauseI’m not always able to check thecomputer for bus times,” Riccobenesaid. “Everybody has phones, so itseems much more effective.”
Verma said his system is muchmore effective than the NextBussystem, because it is more general.
“It makes finding bus times sim-
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The choices are based on rec-ommendations the departmentreceived from prior surveys, partic-ipation in the Rutgers UniversityStudent Assembly and campuscouncil forums, and direct sugges-tions on its Web site, Molenaar said.
A new question reflecting thetough economic climate —“Which is your top priority toimplement if funding were tobecome available?” — was addedto this year’s survey, he said.
“In tough fiscal times, we arealways trying to weigh what wouldbe the biggest bang for our buck,”Stuart said. “I think these are all
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Habitat for Humanity’s tripwill give six students the oppor-tunity to build homes for low-income Americans, Gilber tsaid. The students did notreceive allocations from theRutgers University StudentAssembly and therefore wererequired to pay $375 each outof pocket.
RUSA Treasurer YousefSaleh supported the bill and pro-posed the amendment toincrease funding.
“I’ve seen first-hand thegood that [Habitat forHumanity] has done,” saidSaleh, a School of Arts andSciences junior. “As treasurer,when they’ve come in for morerevenue, they’ve told me theirstories. It’s very touching.”
He had personal experiencesthat influenced his decision tovote as he did. He has donework with the organization,through which he had theopportunity to build a house fora disabled individual andenjoyed the experience.
“It was just a good feeling,”Saleh said. “It was very heart-warming to do [the build].”
The council welcomes otherorganizations that need supportto come to them for help.
“We do have this moneyavailable to [organizations],”council Vice President ArielBucher said. “If people are plan-ning events in the future, wejust encourage them to contactus, and we can hopefully helpthem out.”
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worthy improvements, but [thesurvey] gives us another layer offeedback to make that decision iffunding were to become available.”
The department actively con-siders all the suggestions and inthe past, the surveys and forumshave helped to bring aboutchanges in the system, she said.
For example, they receivedfeedback in an earlier survey thatbuses were too crowded at thebeginning of the semester, Stuartsaid. This led to additional busesalong University routes to accom-modate the increased bus usagewhen classes begin.
The department also changedexam schedule service based onpast surveys and campus councilfeedback, Molenaar said. Theresult was decreased reading dayservice to provide for increased
service on exam days during theend of the fall semester.
The transportation forum,scheduled for March 31 from 6 to 8p.m. in Room 411A of the RutgersStudent Center on the CollegeAvenue campus, will give students,faculty and staff members an oppor-tunity to voice their opinions in aninformal discussion, Stuart said.
“The more ways we can getinput and feedback, the more ithelps us,” Molenaar said.
The department will discuss pro-posed changes to the transportationsystem for the coming academicyear, like a potential increase inparking ticket fees, he said.
Many University students hadnot heard about the survey orforum but said they would bewilling to fill it out once it comestheir way.
Daniel Jang, a Mason GrossSchool of the Arts first-year stu-dent, said the survey could be auseful tool and plans to completeit, but worries the University willnot take the suggestions seriously.
“It seems like surveys aredone just to be done, but theycould be OK if [the University]actually looks at it,” Jang said.
Steve Getic, a School of Arts andSciences first-year student, said it isimportant for the University to getstudent recommendations on thebus system to make improvementswhere necessary.
“I think it is important to takedifferent feedback from differentpeople on the bus system,” saidGetic. “If the school looks at thesurvey and considers the possi-ble changes, they can maybe addmore buses to some of the lines.”
pler because you only have to selecta bus stop and not a route,” he said.
The new system also does notrequire a smartphone.
“As long as you can receivetext messages, this service willwork for you no matter whatphone you have,” Verma said.
Since the service is still indevelopment, some students area bit doubtful of its effectiveness.
Madelena Santore, a School ofArts and Sciences sophomore,expressed her concern about thesystem, saying she does not trustits accuracy.
“I would definitely use the newtext-messaging service. But if it isnew, I’m kind of skeptical on howefficient it really is,” she said.
Verma admitted the system isstill in the development stage, andthat he would need a bigger serv-er if the system becomes popular.
“The system has received[more than] 5,000 requests for
bus times since I launched it lastTuesday, which is around 1,000requests per day,” he said.
Knowing that a much bigger sys-tem is needed to keep the systemrunning, the Rutgers UniversityStudent Assembly stepped in tohelp Verma develop the system.
“RUSA is going to provide mewith resources I currently don’thave, like using their Web host torun the service,” he said.
Yousef Saleh, vice-chair ofRUSA, said the organization hadto help Verma because it wassuch a promising system.
“When we first heard aboutVerma’s system, we had to jumpat the opportunity to help himand give him the necessary toolsto develop it,” said Saleh, a Schoolof Arts and Sciences junior.
The first step is to run the serv-ice on the RUSA Web server, whichVerma said would help out the sys-tem tremendously, Saleh said.
RUSA is always looking to helpstudents who have a new idea orneed help in any area, he said.
“Once we find out there is [a]student who needs help withsomething, we help that studentout,” Saleh said. “I feel it is the jobof the student assembly to do so.”
He was interested in the systembecause it allows students withouta computer to get the bus times.
“Not every student has asmartphone,” Saleh said. “I findthat this system is much easier touse than going on a computer tofind the times.”
He also said that RUSA wantsto make sure the system is stillaround even after Verma leavesthe University.
“We want it to be somethingthat is sustainable, seeing as itcould definitely expand to muchgreater levels,” Saleh said. “Weare looking in the long-termsense to keep it in the system.”
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NAACP tutors, supportswith New Jersey grant
BY SARAH LAZARUSCONTRIBUTING WRITER
In an effort to bridge the gapbetween high school and col-lege, the University’s chapter ofthe National Association for theAdvancement of Colored Peopledeveloped a new program tohelp students at PiscatawayHigh School.
The organization will use a$30,000 grant from the state atthe start of April to launch theprogram, which incorporatesboth academic help and a supportsystem outside of school, NAACPUniversity chapter PresidentCharney Robinson said.
“In so many ways, it’s both atutoring and a mentoring program,”NAACP Universitychapter VicePresident JessicaMoise said. “It ini-tially started as atutoring programto help the childrenof Piscataway, butthen we realizedthat it would bemore helpful tobuild a relationshipwith the students.”
Unlike other tutoring pro-grams on campus where studentscome at different times and workwith different people, the NAACPwill try to establish a sense of sta-bility, Robinson said.
“We’re going to be workingwith the same kids, and the samekids will get the same tutors,” saidRobinson, a School of Arts andSciences senior. “Although [atutor] may be helping a studentwith his math homework, the tutorwill also have a relationship withthe student so that he/she will feelcomfortable opening up to thetutor about other problems.”
A commitment to learning isa major tenet of the NAACP,she said.
“One of the main goals ofNAACP is education, so wethought this was an opportunityto achieve that goal on a locallevel,” Robinson said.
The initiative will focus ontutoring and mentoring, but theorganization also plans to includefield trips, one of which will be a“Rutgers NAACP tour,” which isalready a five-year program theNAACP started as a part of theirhigh school outreach.
The tour, which takes placeonce in the spring and once inthe fall, allows high school stu-dents to come to the University,where they receive housing,activities and planned tours sothey can get a feel for theUniversity, Robinson said.
Other possible activitiesinclude trips to see plays andworkshops about college majors.
“We definitely want to putthem on a collegiate path,
because they’renot necessarilyencouraged to goto college eventhough Rutgers isright around thecorner,” Robinsonsaid.
Other studentsare also support-ive of the project,such as Veronica
Figueroa, a School of Arts andSciences first-year student.
“I think [this program] givesstudents a chance to have agood role model of your race,”she said. “It’s a chance to seesomeone of color coming backto help younger students out.”
NAACP Metuchen-Edisonchapter President ReggieJohnson, a leader of one of themost influential local chapters,wrote the grant proposal,Robinson said.
“[Johnson] really helped usout with obtaining the grant forthis project,” she said.
Although the NAACPreceived the funds monthsago, they were frozen duringthe transition from former Gov.Jon S. Corzine to Gov. ChrisChristie, Robinson said. Nowthat the funds are available,plans for the program canmove forward.
Former DuPont Fellow Peter Gillies assumed his role last Mondayas founding director for the Rutgers Institute for Food, Nutrition andHealth — a University initiative to promote research in the scientificfields of agriculture, food science, nutrition science and human health.
“Gillies’ strong ties to scientific and professional networks …moves Rutgers a major step forward to its goal of bringing the best inresearch and education to respond to the urgent and growing chal-lenges to nutrition and human health the world over,” said RobertGoodman, executive dean of the School of Environmental andBiological Sciences in a statement.
Gillies, a noted expert on lipid and lipoprotein metabolism, spentnearly 30 years working with DuPont’s world-class research anddevelopment organization, according to a University Media Relationspress release.
To honor his career of scientific contribution and leadership, hewas made a DuPont Fellow in 2008, a rank held by only 12 other sci-entists within the company.
In academia, Gillies held adjunct professorships with universitiessuch as Pennsylvania State University and the University of Delaware.
He is also active in various professional societies likeAmerican Heart Association, Society of Toxicology and AmericanSociety of Nutrition.
The institute was established in 2008 after the Universityreceived a four-year, $10 million grant from the Robert WoodJohnson Foundation.
As one of the University’s main initiatives, the institute aims to focuson challenges in cardio-inflammatory disease, cancer and obesity.
Plans for the institute’s home include a four-story building on Cookcampus containing state of the art laboratories, computing facilitiesand “smart” lecture halls and classrooms.
“I am honored and excited to be named the founding director ofthis signature initiative, one that has national and global resonance,”Gillies said. “I am eager to begin the work to advance Rutgers’ longtradition of leadership in food science and nutrition.”
— Kristine Rosette Enerio
NOTED SCIENTIST, EXPERT DIRECTSNEW UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE
“We definitely wantto put them
[mentorees] on acollegiate path ... ”
CHARNEY ROBINSONRutgers NAACP President
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Expand your horizons! Take a trip to the East with this cel-ebration of Asian cultures and traditions at 7:30 p.m. in theLivingston Student Center. Spend your evening with excit-ing performances and cuisine from the University’s ownstudent groups and local vendors representing Japan,China, the Philippines, India and other Asian countries.Supplies are limited.
Join Rutgers’ Liberty In North Korea at 9:30 p.m. in Room105 of Voorhees Hall on the College Avenue campus for aspecial presentation of the National Geographic documen-tary “Inside North Korea,” hosted by Lisa Ling. The doc-umentary shows glimpses of real life in North Korea.
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11 Those interested in teaching fun science projects and artsand crafts to middle school students are invited to attend aRutgers in the Community meeting. Meetings are heldevery Thursday at 9 p.m. in Room 112 of Murray Hall on theCollege Avenue campus. For more information, contactSean Lo at [email protected].
The Center for Latino Arts and Culture and the Departmentof American Studies is hosting a screening of the film“Brincando el Charco” from 4 to 6 p.m. in the GraduateStudent Lounge behind Au Bon Pain on the College Avenuecampus. A conversation with the director of the film,Frances Negrón-Muntaner, will follow.
13 School is out until March 21 for Spring Break! Enjoy the vacation!
23 Students considering living in off-campus housing can learntheir rights as a tenant at “Tenants’ Rights in New Jersey,”scheduled to be held from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in Room 410 ofthe Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus.A guest speaker from the Housing Coalition of Central NJwill discuss topics regarding tenants, landlords, leases, secu-rity deposits and other issues regarding living off campus.Visit ruoffcampus.rutgers.edu for more information.
25 Sacred Sounds is back at 8:30 p.m. in the Busch CampusCenter Multipurpose Room. The evening will feature musi-cal meditations, exotic drumming and dance as well asworld-famous Kirtan bands As Kindred Spirits andMayapuris. Those interested should RSVP and get updatesat www.bhakticlub.org.
26 All interested photographers are welcome to attend TheDaily Targum photographers’ meeting in Room 403 of theRutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus. Themeeting will take place from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. We will beholding a weekly photographers’ meeting to discuss impor-tant housekeeping business, assign events and facilitate sev-eral workshopping activities. Pizza will be served.
27 “Exploding Stars and Atom Smashers” is the topic of theannual Henry R. and Gladys V. Irons Lecture in Physics andAstronomy at 2 p.m. in the Physics Lecture Hall on BuschCampus. The speaker, Dr. Michael Smith, is a DistinguishedScientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.The Lecture is free and open to the public.
28 The exhibit, “Perspectives Through the Lens: Soviet ArtPhotography in the 1970s-80s,” ends today in the JaneVoorhees Zimmerli Art Museum on the College Avenuecampus. This collection presents a selection of more than60 photographs from the Norton and Nancy DodgeCollection of Soviet Nonconformist Art by FranciscoInfante, Vladimir Kupriyanov, Boris Mikhailov andAleksandr Slyusarev, four major Soviet artists working withphotography in the ’70s and ’80s.
much money, he remembers one thing theeditor said that motivated him to con-tribute to the publication.
“He said something that stuck in mymind — it’ll be good for the musicians,”Morgenstern said.
He began his career in April 1947 uponarriving to New York City. Growing up inthe World War II era, German-bornMorgenstern spent much of his child-hood traveling around Europe due toNazi invasions.
Although he was born in Munich, hewas raised in both Austria and Denmark.He did not set foot on German soil until hewas 24 years old in the U.S. Army.
Morgenstern said when he first arrivedin New York City, he had different aspira-tions than most European immigrants hadat that time.
“Most people, when they come to NewYork for the first time, they want to see theEmpire State Building, but I wanted to see52nd Street,” he said. “It is true — 52ndStreet at that time was this long block ...where there were more jazz clubs in thatstretch than anywhere else in the world. Itwas like the center of jazz.”
Morgenstern describes the most mem-orable moment in his life as the day he metArmstrong in his dressing room in April1947 at New York City’s long-gone RoxyTheater.
“That led to a long friendly relationship,but meeting Louis for the first time, thatwas a terrific experience,” he said. “He is,was, remains the greatest single figure in music.”
Morgenstern said while he understandsthat many people think jazz music is losingits audience, he disagrees.
“I have to laugh because all of mylengthy life I’ve seen articles like that start-
ing in the mid ’50s: ‘Is jazz dying?,’” hesaid. “It’s not going to die — there con-tinues to be good, young upcoming
musicians all the time, and there are youngpeople who are interested in listening tothe music.”
He said the evolution of music has ledto the merging of jazz, classical and rock music.
“You don’t have to be interested in onekind of music, whether you’re a player or alistener,” Morgenstern said. “Music is stillplayed and heard all over the world. Themain thing is the music, and the music continues to be something that is verymuch alive.”
Morgenstern’s extensive knowledge ofjazz has not only led him to win awards, butit also opened the door to opportunitiesother than writing.
His talent led Ken Burns to askMorgenstern to act as senior adviser to his10-part PBS series, “Jazz.” He co-producesand co-hosts the institute’s “Jazz from theArchives” program on WBGO-FM and co-hosts the monthly Jazz ResearchRoundtable at Rutgers-Newark.
Morgenstern has been working withthe Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers-Newark for almost 35 years. He is thefirst person to ever hold the title of direc-tor at the once completely graduate stu-dent-run facility.
“The institute is a wonderful collectionand it was, [in the beginning], sort of anorphan at Rutgers because it was a free-standing unit,” he said. “It wasn’t part ofthe music department.”
Morgenstern said the institute is knownas the place with the most jazz materialunder one roof in the state.
Morgenstern would like to be mostremembered for his writing and hopesreaders can take pride in his work.
“I hope they’ll want to read some of thethings I’ve written about the music, butalso — not alone but with the help of oth-ers — what I’ve established at the insti-tute,” he said.
every decade, along with several awardsincluding the Deems Taylor Award inDecember 2007 — his third and second ina row — from the American Society ofComposers, Authors and Publishers forhis liner notes on “If You Got to Ask, YouAin’t Got It!”
He also was named the 27th recipientof DownBeat magazine’s LifetimeAchievement Award in 2007, as well as arecipient of the Legacy Award from TheRecording Academy.
“It’s nice because it makes you feel thatyou’re still with it. People still respond towhat you do,” he said.
Yet Morgenstern credits most of hissuccess to the musicians.
“I’ve been lucky in the sense that I havesome really good music to write about,” hesaid. “The eight Grammys I won allinvolved good music, so if you have somegood music to write about, then you’rehalfway there already.”
Morgenstern’s career stretchesbeyond just jazz writing. He was the editorfor DownBeat magazine for seven years,has written jazz and theater reviews forThe New York Post, was record-reviewerfor the Chicago Sun-Times and is current-ly the editor of the Annual Review of JazzStudies and the monograph series Studiesin Jazz, all while contributing to numerousbooks about jazz.
Josh Morgenstern, his son, said eversince he can remember his father hasbeen winning countless awards for his work.
“He won so many of them when I was[a] kid, [and] it has always been excit-ing,” Josh Morgenstern said. “It’salways exciting when he wins and it’sgreat that he’s able to keep getting that recognition.”
Dan Morgenstern began his jazz writ-ing career before 1962 when he wrote hisfirst liner note, but his passion for writing
was always presentand popular in hisfamily, as his fatherwas a journalist in Europe.
But he neverthought he wouldbecome a jazz jour-nalist until he wasoffered a positionwith a British jazz journal.
“I became ajournalist, but itdidn’t occur to methat I would getp r o f e s s i o n a l l yinvolved in jazz,”he said.
W h i l ehe did notget paid
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Dan Morgenstern remembers thefirst time the sounds of jazz music filledhis ears. He was just 9 years old when hefirst encountered Fats Waller, a 1920sjazz pianist. Once his fingers hit thekeys, Morgenstern knew he had foundhis passion.
“I didn’t know a smattering of English— I didn’t understand what he wassinging about or talking about — but hewas full of life, and he had tremendousbeat with tremendous rhythm,” saidMorgenstern, director of the Institute ofJazz Studies at Rutgers-Newark. “Thatdidn’t turn me into a jazz fan over night,but it started something.”
And it did star t more than just something.
To date, jazz journalist Morgenstern,80, has won eight Grammys for writingalbum notes for several jazz artists —more than any person has ever won in thatparticular category.
His most recent Grammy honors aseven-piece CD set discussing LouisArmstrong’s career and music between1935 to 1946 called “The Complete LouisArmstrong Decca Sessions (1935-1946),”on Mosaic Records.
The album notes, which originated asliner notes on the back of records, aim totell the listener more about the music andthe artists, Morgenstern said. He has writ-ten more than 500.
“You want to involve the reader rightaway, which is something that would serveto make the record interesting and appeal-ing,” he said. “The thing about writingliner notes is that you want to enhance thelistening experience and make musicmore accessible to the listener.”
Morgenstern won his first Grammy in1973 and has won a couple since then for
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Morgenstern, left, gives Wynton Marsalis, artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center,a tour in the early 1990s of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers-Newark.
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Morgenstern, right, greets Louis Armstrong at the Rhode IslandNewport Jazz Festival in 1970, a year before Armstrong’s death.
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married and then carried their16-month-old twin daughtersdown the aisle, and AngelisaYoung and Sinjoyla Townsendhugged and smiled after beingdeclared “partners in life thisday and for always.”
“All of us have responsibili-ties to ensure the success ofthis joint endeavor,” said theRev. David North, who marriedTownsend and Young. Heasked guests to “respect thelife path that they choosetogether” and “commit to lov-ing them.”
“I accept this charge,” theguests responded.
About 100 guests stayed forthe three ceremonies. A cellistplayed, arrangements of yellowchr ysanthemums, roses andcarnations flanked the stage,and cream and gray programsannounced the couples’ namesalong with: “Congratulations tothe couples on this historic day.”
About 150 couples were eligi-ble to pick up marriage licensesafter applying last week. Many ofthem stood in line March 3 at themarriage bureau of the district’sMoultrie Courthouse for four or
more hours. Like all couples, theyhad to wait three business daysfor their licenses to be processed.
By the time the marriagebureau closed Tuesday, 42 cou-ples had returned to pick up theirlicenses. At least a dozen couplesmarried and returned the licens-es the same day. Couples do have10 days to return their licensesafter they have been married, somore couples may have actuallytied the knot.
Couples plans for ceremoniesvaried. District residents EvaTownsend and Shana McDavis-Conway, planned to marry imme-diately at a ceremony by their plotin a community garden, wherethey’ve grown carrots and pota-toes. Others said they would bejoined over the next severalweeks and months. A large num-ber — many of whom had heldprevious ceremonies — plannedto marry at the city’s courthouse.Normally, the courthouse hostsfour to six weddings a day, butover the next several weeks, offi-cials are expecting 10 to 12 perday because of the demand forsame-sex ceremonies.
Rebecca and Delia Taylorpicked up their license Tuesdaymorning and a minister friendimmediately married them out-side the courthouse. The couplesaid they long ago exchangedrings and considered themselvesmarried. Still, they were grinningafter picking up their certificateinside the courthouse.
“We’ve referred to each otheras wives,” Rebecca Taylor said.“It’s just a legal document, so ifanything happens to one of us, wehave rights.”
describe the contents ofBrown’s backpack.
The other employees in thebuilding at the time have beenof fered grief counseling,Denton said.
“This is a tragic event, andour hearts go out to all of thefamilies,” said Vernon Baisden,assistant vice president for pub-lic safety.
Police released two 911 calls.In one, a caller tells the dispatch-er that he pulled into the garageand heard gunshots. He identi-fies Brown as the shooter andsays Brown was in the process ofbeing fired.
Brown, who was still on proba-tion as a recent hire, had recentlycomplained to a union representa-tive that his supervisors were beingunfair in their evaluation of him, saidRichard Murray, president ofCommunications Workers of
America Local 4501,which representscustodial workers atOhio State.
“He was frus-trated and upset,certainly. But hedidn’t make anythreats or any-thing,” Murraysaid. The unioncouldn’t do morewith the case
because Brown didn’t file a for-mal complaint, he said.
Brown was released fromprison in 1984 after servingabout five years on a charge ofreceiving stolen proper ty,records show. The case filehad been archived, and moreinformation on the crime was-n’t immediately available, pris-ons spokeswoman JulieWalburn said.
On his job application,Brown checked “no” whenasked whether he had everbeen convicted of a felony ormisdemeanor. A letter fromOhio State of fering him the jobsaid it was contingent on a satisfactor y criminal back-ground check.
Baisden declined to commenton whether the check was com-pleted. Ohio State’s policy onbackground checks depends onthe type of job position, he said.
Both shooting victims hadworked for the university forabout 10 years. Family mem-bers reached Tuesday declinedto comment.
Classes went on as scheduledyesterday. More than 55,000 stu-dents attend the main campus inColumbus. The maintenancebuilding is next to a power plantand across the street from OhioStadium, home to the university’sfootball team.
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WASHINGTON — Onebride wore a black suit, theother had on a white one withrhinestones. They walked downthe aisle to Billy Joel’s “Just theWay You Are” and kissed afterthe pastor pronounced them“legally married.”
The Rev. Darlene Garner,61, and the Rev. CandyHolmes, 53, were among thefirst same-sex couples tomarry in Washington on yes-terday, when the districtbecame the sixth place in thecountry to conduct the unions.
“You have been in love, andyou have recognized it all along.But today, the love that youhave recognized in your heart isrecognized by the District ofColumbia,” the Rev. DwayneJohnson told the couple.
“Equality and justice for allnow includes us,” Garner saidafter the ceremony.
Both she and Holmes areleaders in the MetropolitanCommunity Churches, a groupof Christian churches that pri-marily serve the gay and les-bian community.
The district joins Connecticut,Iowa, Massachusetts, NewHampshire and Vermont asplaces that issue same-sex cou-ples marriage licenses.
Garner and Holmes wereone of three couples married atthe of fice of the Human RightsCampaign, which does advoca-cy work on gay, lesbian andtransgender issues. In theother ceremonies, ReggieStanley and Rocky Galloway
Ohio State janitorshoots three on job
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — AnOhio State University janitor whowas about to lose his job walkedinto a maintenance building forhis early morning shift yesterdayand shot two supervisors, killingone of them and fatally shootinghimself. No students were hurt.
Nathaniel Brown, 51, arrivedfor work at the nation’s largestuniversity dressed in dark cloth-ing, a hooded sweatshirt and abackpack. He then opened fire inan office suite using two hand-guns, campus Police Chief PaulDenton said.
Brown spent five years inprison in the 1970s and ’80s forreceiving stolen property but liedabout it on his job application,records show. It wasn’t immediate-ly clear whether Ohio State haddone the required backgroundcheck on him.
Ohio Statereleased docu-ments fromBrown’s person-nel file showingthat supervisorscomplained hewas tardy, slept onthe job and hadproblems follow-ing instructions.The universitysent him a letter March 2 inform-ing him that his employment wasto end Saturday.
About a half-dozen otheremployees were in the buildingwhen the shooting began,Denton said. He described theshooting as work-related but did-n’t describe a motive.
The shooting was reported at3:30 a.m. yesterday. Police tacti-cal units surrounded the buildingand found Brown with a self-inflicted gunshot wound in agarage bay, Denton said. He waspronounced dead at a campushospital several hours later.
Brown had been scheduled towork his normal third shift,Denton said.
One of the victims, buildingservices manager LarryWallington, 48, died at the scene.The other, operations shift leaderHenry Butler, 60, was in stablecondition at Ohio StateUniversity Medical Center, offi-cials said.
Butler wrote a letter Feb. 11recommending that Brown beterminated, according recordsreleased by the university.Even though colleagues hadmade a special ef fort to helpBrown, he was not improving,the letter said.
Denton declined to saywhether other employees weretargeted. Police also didn’t
“This is a tragicevent, and our
hearts go out to allof the families.”
VERNON BAISDENAssistant Vice President
for Public Safety
Sinjoyla Townsend, left, becomes emotional as Angelisa Young looks on during their wedding on thefirst day same-sex couples are legal to wed under a new law passed yesterday in Washington, D.C.
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“It’s just a legaldocument, so if
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have rights.” REBECCA TAYLOR
raise our endowment to amore respectful level, some-thing akin to PennsylvaniaState’s, it would still onlypay for roughly 2 percent oftotal expenditures. So whyis this relevant?
The issue is actuallymuch larger than budgetaryconcerns. As one of the old-
est universities in the country, it is curious that wehave not accrued a larger endowment. It is impor-tant to highlight this because in many ways anendowment tells a story about a university’s gradu-ates — it is an indicator of both their prosperity andtheir attitude toward their alma mater. More pre-cisely, since an endowment is predominantly com-prised of donations given by graduates of the insti-tution, there are only two reasons why theUniversity would fail to garner more money: Ouralumni earn relatively less than those of other simi-larly reputable schools, or our alumni do not feelinclined to give back.
The first possibility is easily disproved.According to a 2009 report, by mid-career the average University alum-nus is earning $93,000 as comparedto the average Columbia alumnusearning $100,000 by the same pointin time. This is especially impressivewhen you consider how much lessour University alumni invested intheir education. Moreover, the aver-age mid-career University alumnusearns nearly $9,000 more than his
Pennsylvania State counterpart, who takes home$84,600. The disparity between endowments then issimply not explained by a similar disparity betweenincome levels among graduates.
Of course, this leaves us with the grim conclu-sion that our University alumni opt to donate far lessfrequently than other university graduates with sim-ilar income levels. Unfortunately, as much as Iwould love to blame this on the abrasive nature ofthe Rutgers Telefund workers, I doubt this canexplain away much of the disparity.
Sadly, something about our dismal endowmentseems to make perfect sense when you considerthe attitudes of many University students.Empirically speaking, it seems that all too oftenstudents at this University describe their successnot “because of Rutgers,” but rather “in spite ofRutgers.” Many times the underlying sentimentappears to be “yes, despite that 200-pound balland chain around my ankle that is RutgersUniversity, I made a name for myself in [insertfield of study here].” The RU Screw pervades us,
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T he Daily Targumpublished an articlelast month, “U.
endowment climbs despiteeconomic woes,” in whichthe author celebrated thefact that amid the financialcrisis the University’sendowment suffered littlerelative to other colleges.Never mind that the article’s title disingenuouslysuggested that our endowment actually increased— in reality, it only decreased less than others —but more problematic was that the underlying expla-nation of why the endowment suffered relativelyless was never provided. That is, while the man-agers of our school’s endowment fund deservecredit for only losing 15 percent as compared to the20 to 30 percent lost at other institutions, the truthis that with less money to work with, our school waslikely forced to make conservative investments. Inother words, we did not have the luxury to risk los-ing anything, and more importantly, we were likelybarred from entering into more lucrative but riskierinvestments that require higheramounts of principle.
While the article made referenceto our endowment’s total size —$508 million — it never properlyplaced this number in any sort ofmeaningful perspective. Considerthe following: Our University’s fundsrank 105 in the country. This placesit in the neighborhood of BerryCollege, Oberlin College and severalother tiny liberal arts schools that enroll fewer stu-dents than can fit in Scott Hall on the CollegeAvenue campus and may (or may not) be locatableon Google maps. To be fair, we also have an endow-ment analogous to some other large state universi-ties, such as the Louisiana State University system,which enrolls more than 83,000 students acrossfour public universities, none of which anyonewould voluntarily attend.
Moreover, it is not that we only have a dismalendowment in comparison to the Ivy League —Harvard University’s is an astonishing 50 timesgreater — which obviously benefits from havingwealthy donors pay to ensure that their son ordaughter get admitted on “legacy.” Unfortunately,we also fail to compete with other similarly rep-utable state universities, such as Pennsylvania andMichigan State, both of which double our fund at$1.2 and $1.1 billion respectively.
Pragmatically speaking, having a small endow-ment means having less money to spend onresearch grants, scholarships and other awards thatmake the University a more attractive place for topstudents and professors. But even if we were able to
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“You don’t have to be interested in one kind of music ... The main thing is the music, and the music continues to be something that is very much alive.”
Dan Morgenstern, director of the Insititute of Jazz Studies Rutgers-Newark, on types of music
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ERIC KNECHT
W e all have our friends who update their Facebook statusesseveral times a week, and then there are those who tire-lessly rush to a computer and log onto the Web site simply
to inform the rest of us how they are doing. The worst are those whoneedlessly use their Blackberrys and iPhones in order to tell the worldof “lunch with my BF!” or “time for bed.” According to The New YorkTimes, the world’s most popular social network will add a new featureallowing users to more accurately update their locations via the statusupdate option. This location-based feature raises the questions of pri-vacy and unnecessary updates from those who have so far onlyannoyed their friends with constant and, for now, location-free updates.
Privacy is a constantly stressed issue for which Facebook hasraised users’ concerns. Now with this location-based feature, con-cerns certainly increase. A user who updates his status constantly willbe faced with a more exposed Facebook page. This would let anyonewho has privileges to the user’s profile to more accurately “stalk” himor her. Why would anyone need to inform us of his location anyway?In addition to privacy issues, the sheer levels of annoyance will con-siderably rise with an increase in people who choose to update statusand location.
In order to accurately look at these reported daily routines, welooked at several of our friends’ Facebook statuses. We will let thereader decide how pointless some of them are. A certain user, viaFacebook for Blackberry of course posted, “dinner with friends, thenplanet earth!” and “time to go to sleep, all.” Perhaps it is a bit prejudiceto pick on one person, but the rest of Facebook users do the exactsame thing. If it is not annoying bedtime updates, it is plans to go to“Theta Delta Chi party [tonight].” Giving users the opportunity to eas-ily update their locations then only brings our need to visit the Web sitedown. If we were concerned with the mundane nature of most collegestudents’ activities, we could still easily stalk our favorite person, butotherwise, location-based updates only cause us to frown.
Just please put your Blackberry or iPhone down and abandon thehabit of telling the rest of the world what lunch has in store for you. Inregard to location, simply do not endanger yourself with needlessupdates and spare the rest of us the quick signing off Facebook onlyto avoid cringing at your status.
Facebook updatesinnately annoying
“Having a smallendowment meanshaving less money
to spend onresearch grants ...”
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W almart has always been at the forefront of slashing pricesand exploiting workers, but in recent news, it was involvedin a more peculiar issue. According to an ABC News article,
a store in Louisiana decided to discount black Barbie dolls for the sakeof selling its spring inventory. The public took it as something differ-ent. The issue, which has been circulating the Internet, is that thewhite Barbie dolls sell for almost double their black counterparts — $3versus $5.93. And while it may look as if the racial aspect of this is pre-dominant, Walmart claims it was purely a business decision. And afterall, why wouldn’t it be?
Despite the unfavorable image most of us have of Walmart, it wasmaking a tactical retail decision. There are plenty of other types ofdolls that have aimed to sell to different people. For example, if a littlegirl had the dream of becoming a ballerina, she would buy the doll thatmost closely resembles her dream. Basically, the way a doll is dressedand accessorized is just as important as the color of its plastic, or skin.The simple marketing decision to sell black dolls at lower prices wasonly a response to the fact that the toys were not selling as successful-ly. The red tags on the black dolls’ boxes meant that they were thesame price — up until the decision to discount them, rather than makean innate statement that white is better than black. Any business-mind-ed corporation or individual would resort to discounting the productthat is least sellable.
In addition to the marketing aspect, little children do not know anybetter than the doll they actually like. Their views are not of color or eth-nicity — they simply go for the toy they most like. Blaming a child forpicking the “wrong” color doll would be completely unfounded. Kidswill want whatever they want and any question of political or socialissues does not reach their brains as they are, after all, still untainted.
It is logical to take the standpoint of racial injustice, but that is sim-ply not the case here. Demand of the customers is the sole driver forthis business decision. Any question of inequality has no place in theissue. It is important not to make a big deal out of such situations,because kids are at risk of learning habits from generations involvedin racial segregation in the past. Any question of race then should nothave even been asked.
Simple marketingsets Barbie prices
this respect, NYC has set theprecedent for school closures.
First of all, many of the lowestperforming schools are not locatedin Manhattan. Nineteen of theseschools to be closed are located inthe Bronx, which is a high needarea. The school I currently workat is one of 483 total high schools,and it represents the 17th highest-need school in the entire city.
Second, such an action raisesquestions about the validity ofprogress reports, report cards,quality reviews and systems ofaccountability that were estab-lished to measure the quality ofinstitutions across the city. Many ofthese schools received C’s on theirprogress reports — which doesnot qualify them for closure.Taxpayers spend hundreds of mil-lions of dollars each year on thesesystems of accountability that havebeen completely disregarded.
Finally, the charter schoolmovement in NYC has strongadvocates with Bloomberg,Obama, NYC Public SchoolsChancellor Joel Klein andEducation Secretary Arne Duncan
in power. There is no doubt thatmany of these current publicschools that are phasing out will bereplaced with charter schools thatwill impose an unfair selectionprocess that leave special needsstudents to public schools. And wewonder why the public schools fail.
One of the fallacies of charterschools is the notion that they are“public” institutions. Let’s correctthis by clarifying that charterschools are funded using public tax-dollars, however, they are not nec-essarily equally accessible to every-one the way public schools are. Ifyou compare the overall populationsof charter schools to public schools,you will notice the dichotomy wherepublic schools are burdened byhigher populations of special needs,recently incarcerated and ESL stu-dents than charter schools.
So what does a “successful”public school look like in NYC?One notable example is StuyvesantHigh School, whose most recentfreshman class contains only sevenblack students, representing lessthan 1 percent of their cohort.Aren’t “public” school populationssupposed to reflect the diversity oftheir community? What does it
mean for a school to be “public” ifthis is not the case? Have we reallypursued equality or have we retro-gressed to segregation?
Although a lot of the problemsin NYC are a result ofBloomberg’s mismanagement, itis really the fault of Obama who isdangling a massive carrot in frontof the mayor’s nose. The questionis where is this carrot leading us— better educational outcomes forour highest need children? Themoney that NYC acquires through“Race to the Top” will not alter thestudent population in the commu-nity I teach. So better educationaloutcomes as a result of closingschools and increasing fundinginto a mismanaged system isessentially paying for miracles.
Stephen Lee is a biology teacherin New York and a Rutgers CollegeClass of 2007 alumnus.
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makes us cynics while we arehere and likely makes us reluc-tant to give back later on.
Why is this worth pointingout? Because if there was ever atangible indicator one couldpoint to when making an argu-ment as to why this Universityshould stop accepting so manystudents, it is the endowment.This is not a new argument. Asthe number of students contin-ues to increase, the quality ofstudent life invariably goesdown. Each time students getpushed off buses and are late forclass, cannot find available tablesat the library, cannot register fora class they are actually excitedto take, or fail to secure a place tolive within a reasonable distancefrom the school, there is anotherreason to be dissatisfied withtheir college experience. Inother words, there is anotherreason to believe they somehowtriumphed over — not with thehelp of — the University.
Simply put, if we accept lessstudents we only lose the leastcompetitive applicants. We getstronger enrolling classes withmore available resources, plac-ing students in a position to beeven more likely to succeed. Inturn, ever yone at theUniversity has a better experi-ence, the way in which studentsview the school changes, andworld hunger is ultimatelysolved (maybe the last bit is astretch). At the least, whenTelefund calls us 20 years fromnow we are far less inclined tosay: “No thank you, I wouldmuch rather give to [inser tgraduate school here].”
If nothing else, the take awayis this: Next time you hear“Rutgers ranks 105” in somegiven category, rather thanassume this is somehow a posi-tive sign, take a moment to askwhat this actually says about ourUniversity and how it reflectswhat actually takes place hereon campus. I assure you, it isbetter than simply debatingabout the tea party.
Eric Knecht is a RutgersCollege senior majoring in eco-nomics and history.
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M ayor-for-life MichaelBloomberg has decid-ed to attack the public
school system by shutting downthe bottom 10 percent of schoolsin his third term as mayor of NewYork City. This decision is propa-gated by President BarackObama’s “Race to the Top” fund-ing for public school systems,which would qualify New Yorkstate for more than $700 million.
Let’s make it clear that Ibelieve in a lot of what Obamaadvocates out of schools: Longerschool days, extending theschool year and diversifyingextracurricular activities.However, the “race to the top”message has resulted in schoolclosures across the country. In
‘Race to the top’ message lost in public education
STEPHEN LEE
Letter
“Aren’t ‘public’school populationssupposed to reflect
the diversity of their community?”
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Horoscopes / LINDA C. BLACK Pearls Before Swine STEPHAN PASTIS
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Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) —Today is an 8 — The more yousatisfy your practical desires,the better you work with yourteam. Group creativity incorpo-rates logical decision-making.Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) —Today is an 8 — You learnabout karmic results today.Reasonable effort has pro-duced fiery, even argumenta-tive results. Deal with the fall-out immediately.Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) 2— Today is a 6 — Divide yourattention between groupresponsibilities and your recre-ational desires. Both can hap-pen if you manage time well.Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) —Today is a 5 — If at first youdon't succeed, try somethingnew ... really and truly differ-ent. It may not feel logical, butit will work.Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) —Today is a 6 — A dream imagereveals the creative directionof someone in your circle.They weren't keeping secrets;they just weren't talking.Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) —Today is a 7 — The girls inyour group take a practicalapproach. Find a unique angleto convince the guys. Logicprobably isn't enough.
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While Cincinnati (17-14, 7-11)heated up in the final seven and ahalf minutes, Rutgers (15-17, 2-13) went cold. Rosario, whoscored an efficient 26 points on8-of-18 shooting, did not scorefor a six-minute, six-secondstretch in which the Bearcatsturned a five-point deficit into aneight-point lead capped byParker’s three-pointer after yetanother offensive rebound.
Rosario drew a foul and con-nected on one of his two freethrow attempts, but then made apair after Cincinnati hit one of itstwo attempts.
But the Knights just could notshake the cold shooting. After theRosario layup at that 9:37 mark, theywent 1-of-8, with only a mid-rangeAustin Johnson jumper breaking upthe steady diet of misses.
Beatty finally scored from thefield with his driving layup cut-ting the lead to 63-59 with 54.7seconds remaining. After tradingbaskets, RU was forced to sendCincinnati to the foul line for thefinal 38.7 seconds.
Deonta Vaughn made both ofhis and so did Mike Coburn afterhe was fouled on a shot attempt.An errant Cincinnati pass on theinbound led to a wild scrum thatresulted in RU’s JonathanMitchell going to the free throwline where the junior calmlyknocked down both of his shots.
Vaughn, the Bearcats’ steadysenior, went back to the linewith 23 seconds left but madejust one leaving the door openfor Rosario.
The sophomore came downthe court and rattled home a threeto tie the score at 68 — only tohave Stephenson win it late.
Mitchell finished with 15points and junior guard MikeCoburn added nine off the benchfor the Knights.
The first half had a good ebband flow to it with neither teamholding an advantage of morethan six. RU took a one-pointlead into intermission afterCoburn made one of two free throws with 1.8 seconds remaining.
The Bearcats advance to playLouisville tonight in the secondround of the Tournament.
in the season.Against NCAA Division I
teams, the division immediatelybelow the Auriemma division incollege basketball, the Huskieshave an NCAA record 72 consec-utive victories, breaking theirown record two nights agoagainst Notre Dame.
The best part? Auriemmadoesn’t even care.
“I don’t think about it,” he saidafter tying the record in a rout ofSyracuse in the quarterfinals. “Idon’t — you know, I just don’t care,I guess, is my biggest thing. I knoweverybody else around the coun-try does. I know everybody wantsto ask me. I know everybody wantsto write a story about it.”
To junior Maya Moore, whowas there since win No. 1 of thestreak and played a key role innumbers 2-72, the achievementis a special one.
But it was not enough to drawemotion from the calm and col-lected two-time Big East Playerof the Year. Because unless thewinning streak reaches 78, itmeans nothing.
“You have to have great lead-ership first of all,” Moore saidon the accomplishment. “Itstarts with coach Auriemma andgoes down to our seniors andspreads to the rest of us, some-body to come every day withtheir hardhat on and reallymake sure that they come withthat competitiveness.”
How good is Connecticut?The 72-game winning streak isjust the tip of the iceberg whenit comes down to impressive sta-tistics. Here are a few fun facts to dwell on while SelectionMonday looms:
DURING THE 72-GAMEstreak, the Huskies won eachgame by at least 10 points and havenot lost a regular season gamesince Feb. 3, 2008, against Rutgers.
CONNECTICUT LEADS THEnation in eight major statisticalcategories including assist-to-turnover ratio (1.36), field goalpercentage (52.1 percent) andscoring defense (47.5 points pergame for opponents).
CONNECTICUT IS 264-11all-time as the No. 1 overall team inthe Associated Press top-25 poll.
THE HUSKIES HAVE GONE223 consecutive games withoutallowing an opponent to shootmore than 50 percent from thefield. The last team to do so wasBoston College in 2004.
BY SHOOTING 16-FOR-19from the floor in the win overSyracuse, Big East Player of theYear Tina Charles set a Big EastTournament record for mostmade field goals in a game.
JUNIOR FORWARD MAYAMoore became the fastest player in Connecticut history to cross the 2,000-point mile-stone with her 16 points against Syracuse.
THE HUSKIES ARE 46-4as the No. 1 seed in the Big EastTournament.
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department is enjoying success.What’s not to love?
Let’s go dancing — Thewomen’s basketball team mayhave lost in the semifinals of theBig East tournament, but withthe run that it made in the timespent at the XL Center, theNCAA Tournament committeewould be insane to refuse headcoach C. Vivian Stringer’ssquad’s admittance.
After laying all over Cincinnatilike a Tempur-pedic mattress andshocking No. 12/11 Georgetownin double overtime, the ScarletKnights showed that they havethe potential that deserves to beput on the national bracket.
More than a feeling — Thewomen’s lacrosse team is off toits best start since a good half ofthis campus was born.
With its first 4-0 start since1990 and a recent entrance intothe national rankings at No.18/20, the team has laid downenough beatings to make a long-shoreman proud.
How do you think this team gar-nered a ranking so quickly? Rutgersbeat then-No. 20 Cornell 8-6 andshocked then-No. 9 Princeton threedays later 12-11, stifling any hopesof a Tiger comeback.
More pleasant surprises —Originally aiming to get in thetop-15, the women’s track teamfinished fourth Sunday in theEastern Collegiate AthleticConference Championships with33 points.
Fourth place, when it is out of51 scoring teams, is obviouslysomething to be proud of, andsomething that adds a little pres-sure on the team to perform oncethe outdoor season rolls around.But at this point, that added pres-sure is something the team lookslike it can handle.
BY SAM HELLMANCORRESPONDENT
NEW YORK — Seton Hall headc o a c hB o b b yGonzalez,w h ot w i c eb e a t
Rutgers and coach Fred Hill dur-ing the regular season, led thePirates (19-11, 19-9) to a safe get-away over Providence (12-19, 4-14)in the 7 p.m. game last night, win-ning 109-106 after blowing a 29-point lead.
The Friars stormed back inthe final minutes and cut thelead three points and had anopen look for three at thebuzzer, but guard Duke Mondybricked the attempt.
“It was kind of like two differ-ent games,” said Gonzalez.“Sometimes when you get up likethat, it’s not easy to stay ahead ina game that long.”
Forward Herb Pope led SetonHall with 27 points and 11 boardsand guard Jordan Theodore pro-vided 21 points and six assists.
“Games are never safetoday,” Gonzalez said. “It’s
never over until that clock runsdown. We’re just happy to sur-vive and advance.”
In the highest scoring regula-tion game in Big East Tournamenthistory, Providence’s JaminePeterson exploded for 38 pointsand 16 boards.
BETWEEN SESSIONS, THEBig East announced its post-sea-son awards and Syracusecleaned up. Coach Jim Boeheimtook home Coach of the Year forthe third time and forward WesJohnson took home Player ofthe Year.
“We’ve had great playersand we had the Player of theYear in our league and we justhad a great group,” Boeheimsaid. “It’s a tough conference towin and we’ve never had a teamplay any better than this in 34years in this conference.”
Notre Dame’s Tim Abromitistook home Scholar Athlete ofthe Year and Cincinnati’s LanceStephenson won Rookie of the Year.
IN THE SECOND GAME ATthe Garden, St. John’s (17-14, 6-12) handed the ConnecticutHuskies’ butts to them.
At least that was UConn headcoach Jim Calhoun’s take on the73-51 debacle at the hands of theRed Storm.
“They come out here with pur-pose, physicality and quite franklyhanded us our butts,” Calhounsaid. “They knocked us off allscreens. They completely out-played us. They were much hun-grier than we were.”
Forward Sean Evans pacedthe Storm with a double-double— 19 points on 7-of-9 shooting
P icture the happiestmoment of your life —something good enough
to produce a solid Patronus.Now take that moment and com-pound it with winning the lot-tery, getting a puppy and everyother stereotypical variable forinstant happiness imaginable.Imagine that, take a momentwith a Snickers, and let it all hityou again.
Spring Break is in two days.It’s warm out. Almost every fac-tion of the Rutgers athletics
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BASKETBALL
Weather not the only thing heating up as Rutgers rolls
Pirates deny Friars’ Herculean comeback bid at Garden
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Seton Hall junior forward Jeff Robinson scored 15 points and grabbedsix rebounds in the Pirates’ 106-103 shootout victory over Providence.
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After his Syracuse Orange posted a 28-3 regular season record, theBig East named head coach Jim Boeheim Coach of the Year.
ISIAH STEWART
After posting five goals and two assists in two games, senior attackBrooke Cantwell was named to the Big East Weekly Honor Roll.
THE GOOD
and 10 rebounds — and forwardJustin Brownlee chipped inanother 13 points and four blocksoff the bench.
Connecticut (17-15, 7-11)had a chance to play its wayinto the NCAA Tournamentwith an impressive per form-ance but is doomed to the National Invitational
Tournament after yesterday’sembarrassing performance.
“I have great respect for theNIT — always have,” Calhounsaid. “We were fortunateenough in ’88 to get our pro-gram going with a great NITwin. It’s always a good time tomake sure you look at yourteam, see what they have.”
Progress — The softball teamheaded into this weekend’s USFtournament with a 1-9 record —not something to brag about.
Coming from a five-loss tour-nament in Arizona, the Knightsneeded to make a statement.
Four wins and one loss later,and head coach Jay Nelson has ateam with a .333 winning percent-age and a helluva lot more confi-dence as it delves deeper into theunderbelly of the season schedule.
Dos is close — Yes, finishingsecond is never as good as finish-ing first, but when that first placeteam is the defending nationalchamps and your second placescore is the best of the season,one can definitely gleam somepositives from the outcome.
The gymnastics team foughtfor a chance in the national spot-light all season. This meet justputs it one step closer.
NCAA no shows — Senior hur-dler Kyle Grady will not attendthe NCAA Championships formen’s indoor track. According toGrady, he missed the trip by one spot.
Sophomore jumper AdamBergo will not make a secondappearance as well, after tying forsecond in the IC4As and winningthe Big East title for the secondyear in a row.
Garage sale — The final gamefor the women’s basketball teamin the Big East tournament, whileclose, could have went the otherway if two aspects of the gamewere different.
Shooting from beyond the arcis one thing, but going 1-for-9 willkill you in the long run. That and18 turnovers is enough to makeany coach’s stomach do flips.
More sweepage — The baseballteam lost three more this week-end at No. 4 Georgia Tech, drop-ping their overall record to 1-8.
Yes, the overall schedule thusfar this year is really tough, butsomething has got to be donebefore the losing mentality getsengrained into the team’s head.
The perfect opportunity lies inwaiting this afternoon when NJITvisits Bainton Field for theKnights’ first home match of the season.
Fashion Police — It’s warmout. That in no way is ugly. Butwhat is ugly are poor fashiondecisions already being made bythe denizens of Rutgers.
Friends, there is a fine linebetween acceptable and hideous,and many are crossing it.
Let’s use good decision-mak-ing and stamp out this atrocitybefore the dining halls start los-ing customers.
BILL DOMKE’STHE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY
THE UGLY
THE BAD
In his third start — a 5-0 lossthis past Friday — Gaynorpitched six innings, moving himinto fifth place on the all-timecareer innings pitched list in RUhistory with 236 1/3 innings.
Much of the struggles can beattributed to the difficult teamsthe Knights have faced thus far,including the Yellow Jackets and aseason-opening series against No.12 Miami. Facing top opponentsright off the bat is a trademark ofhead coach Fred Hill Sr.’s earlyyear scheduling.
“They are good teams but westill want to go out and perform. I’mnot making any excuses for the waywe have played,” Gaynor said. “Ourschedule is the way it is and to bethe best you have to play the best.”
Georgia Tech brought the bestto the Knights, winning the threegames by a combined score of 33-9, including a 5-0 shutout in theseries opener.
This was the first time that RUfailed to score a run in a gamesince April 26, 2008, when thePirates of Seton Hall defeated theKnights by a score of 4-0.
“We were spotty,” Hill said.“Our pitching had a couple of hay-
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F or the third straight weekin the 2010 season, amember of the Rutgers
men’s lacrosse team earned a BigEast Weekly Honor selection.
The selection of senior mid-fielder Justin Pennington markshis second straight weekly confer-ence honor after a strong per-formance in his team’s 15-6 victo-ry over St. Joseph’s. Penningtonscored three goals, tallied oneassist and scooped four groundballs in the contest.
THROUGH THE FIRSTthree weeks of the seasonInsideLacrosse.com selectedRutgers men’s lacrosse fresh-man goalie Rudy Butler to its listof the top-25 freshmen in thecountry. Butler posts a 5.76goals-against average throughthree games this season, whichis good for tops in the conferenceand third best nationally.
The freshman also earned hisfirst Big East honor roll lastMonday after strong performanc-es against Wagner and MarylandBaltimore-County.
THE NEW YORKYankees announced Tuesday thatthe New Era Pinstripe Bowl,which will be held at YankeeStadium, will launch Dec. 30 forthe 2010-2011 college football sea-son. The game will feature theteam with the third-best Big EastConference record against theteam with the sixth-best Big-12Conference record and runsthrough the 2013 season.
THE KANSAS CITYChiefs signed former New YorkJets running back Thomas Jonesto a two-year $5 million dealTuesday, just a week after theJets released Jones. The 31-year-old running back recorded thebest statistical performance ofhis career last season, as he ranfor 1,402 yards and crossed thegoal-line 14 times en route to hisex-team’s appearance in the AFCChampionship game.
STEPHEN STRASBURG, THEnumber one overall pick in lastyear’s MLB Draft, made his springtraining debut Tuesday for theWashington Nationals.
The rookie pitcher recordedtwo scoreless innings for hisclub, ensuring them that the$15.1 million offer they signedhim to is worthwhile.
Strasburg led all of Division Ibaseball with 195 strikeouts in 109innings while maintaining a stellar1.35 ERA in his senior season withSan Diego State.
PHILADELPHIA EAGLESquarterback Michael Vick wasone of 32 recipients of this year’sEd Block Courage Award, award-ed Tuesday evening in Baltimore.The Eagles also picked up Vick’scontract option Tuesday, givinghim a $1.5 million bonus duesometime this week.
But the honor did not comewithout controversy, as protestersrallied outside the ceremony toexpress their anger concerningVick’s earning of the award a yearafter he was released from prisonfor running a dog fighting ring.
Knights limp into home opener against NJITBY ALEX JANKOWSKIASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
After a grueling nine-game roadtrip to start the season, the Rutgersbaseball team hosts NJIT this after-
noon inits homeo p e n e rin anattemptto cureits early
season woes.And if this past weekend’s
series against No. 4 GeorgiaTech is any indication — threelosses for the Scarlet Knights —a game at Bainton Field couldbe just what the doctor ordered.
“It feels good to finally play agame at home,” said senior pitch-er Casey Gaynor. “We have donea lot of traveling the past fewweeks and we have beautifulweather here. It’s nice to get backinto a home routine.”
Gaynor, like the Knights,struggled in the early going thisseason, posting a 0-3 recordwith a 5.94 ERA. Likewise, RUonly mustered one win in nine tries.
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Senior pitcher Casey Gaynor is 0-3 on the young season with a 5.94 ERA. Gaynor is fifth all time on theKnights career innings pitched list with 236 1/3 innings pitched after Friday’s loss to No. 4 Georgia Tech.
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Rutgers baseball coach Fred Hill Sr.’s squad is 1-8 and coming off athree-game sweep heading into today’s home game against NJIT.
NJIT AT RUTGERS, TODAY, 3 P.M.
BASEBALL
The Rutgers women’slacrosse team puts its perfect
4 - 0s t a r t
to the test tonight againstAtlantic 10 foe Saint Joseph’sat the RU Turf Field.
The Scarlet Knights areoff to the best start since1990, and made their firstappearance in the nationalrankings this week at No. 20in the IWLCA poll.
The 4-0 record this sea-son is not the only streakRutgers hopes to keep aliveagainst the Hawks. In 13games against SaintJoseph’s, the Knights holda per fect 13-0 record,including a 7-6 come-from-behind win last season in Philadelphia.
After posting five goalsand two assists over theKnights’ past two games
against No. 9 Princeton andDelaware, senior attackBrooke Cantwell was namedto the Big East WeeklyHonor Roll. Cantwell is tiedfor the team lead in goalswith eight, sharing the markwith junior attack KristenAnderson, who earned honorroll accolades the week prior.
The Knights endured abit of a scare against theBlue Hens as a late four-goallead steadily evaporated. Butjunior midfielder MarlenaWelsh came through in theclutch, scoring her secondgame-winning goal in asmany games.
Rutgers has the chance tomake program historytonight, as the Knights havenever won five straightgames to start a season.
— Steven Williamson
HAWKS TO TEST RUTGERS’ UNBEATEN STREAK
WOMEN’S LACROSSE
wire innings and our bats neverseemed to get the big hits when weneeded them. We got people onbase and moved them around, butwe could never get key base hits.”
But now it is time to put thefirst nine games behind them,
and focus on going 1-0 at home.Hill believes that playing in theconfines of their home ballparkwill loosen the team up.
“Being home makes thingseasier and they are going to bemore comfortable,” he said.“Everything seems to fall in placewhen you are at home. The pos-sibility of winning when you’re onyour own field is much greater.”
One Knight who is looking toimpress in his debut at Baintonfield is freshman second base-man Steve Nyisztor.
In his inaugural season on theBanks, the Toms River product isbatting .281, including a two-hitgame in the series finale againstGeorgia Tech, a game in which RUcollected only six hits as a team.
“Right now I think it’s too earlyto grade my performance,” he said.“College baseball is a lot faster thanhigh school [baseball]. The upper-classmen have told me what toexpect and are helping me transi-tion in all aspects of the game.”
No matter what the team’srecord is, there is always some-thing about kicking off the homeschedule that brings new hope tothe ball club.
“I’m very excited to finallyplay at home,” Nyisztor said. “Myfamily is going to be there so it’llbe nice to be able to play in frontof them again. Hopefully we canget the win and start buildingsome momentum.”
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The Rutgers women’s basketball team made its case for a bid in theBig Dance this weekend at the Big East Tournament in Hartford,Conn. The Scarlet Knights finished with a 2-1 tournament recordthat included a double-overtime upset over No. 12 Georgetown.Rutgers ultimately fell 56-49 to No. 9 West Virginia in the semifinalgame and awaits its NCAA postseason fate on Selection Monday.
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BY STEVEN MILLERSPORTS EDITOR
NEW YORK — HamadyN’Diaye could not script it any
better.J u s t
more thanfive min-utes intot h e
Rutgers men’s basketball team’s69-68 loss to Cincinnati, the sen-ior center blocked the 355th shotof his career — the all-timerecord for the Scarlet Knights.
It was a no-doubt-about-itblock — not a gift from the scor-er’s table — as the 7-footer
reached above the rim and sentIbrahima Thomas’ effort deepinto the corner.
The Dakar, Senegal, nativesecured his place in RU history sixyears after he came to the UnitedStates. The record-tying shot cameagainst one of his closest friends,who followed him from Senegal tothe United States shortly after.
It was N’Diaye’s second blockof the game, but for good meas-ure he added four more.
N’Diaye finished the first halfwith four blocks, tying RU’s sin-gle-season record of 144.
Former Knight Roy Hinsonsaw his name drop to second inthe record books from both cate-
gories, the latter set in the 1982-83 season.
THREE HOURS BEFOREtipoff, Cincinnati already won oneof its battles with the Knights.Conference coaches electedBearcats forward LanceStephenson as Big East Rookieof the Year, over RU forwardDane Miller.
The pair are both unanimousselections to the league’s All-Rookie team. “Miller — yeah,Dane Miller,” Stephenson said,when asked if he was aware of whohis competition for the honor was.“I’m not going to make this into acompetition [during the first-roundmatchup]. The most importantthing is to win the game. That’swhat I’m going to try to do.”
The two got to know each othereven better during the first-roundmatchup. RU often played zonedefense, but Stephenson matched upagainst Miller in the Bearcats’ man-to-man play. Miller finished the con-test with one point and five rebounds,while Stephenson outshone him with13 points of his own, including thegame-winning free throw after Millerfouled him on a drive.
As the Bearcats took and extend-ed their lead late in the first half,Stephenson was at his best. Hescored five points in a matter of sec-onds, making two free throws, steal-ing the inbounds pass, driving, scor-ing and converting a three-pointplay after a foul. During the season,Stephenson peaked at the begin-ning during Cincinnati’s MauiInvitational run and at the end of thecampaign when he averaged 16.75points with 8.25 rebounds in theteam’s last four games. TheBrooklyn native averaged 12.1points during the entirety of confer-ence play, compared to Miller’s 11.9.Both players won the conference’s
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N’Diaye blocks out spot in Rutgers’ record books
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Hamady N’Diaye set the Rutgers men’s basketball team’s careerblock record with an emphatic block in the first half for number 355.
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Bearcats freshman Lance Stephenson beat out Rutgers forwardDane Miller yesterday for Big East Rookie of the Year honors.
Perfect home recordon line against ’Nova
BY TYLER DONOHUESTAFF WRITER
The Rutgers tennis team has aprime opportunity to extend its win
streak tot h r e e
when it hosts Big East rivalVillanova this afternoon at the RUTennis Complex. The ScarletKnights (5-3, 1-1) are unbeaten inthree home matches this springand are playing with confidenceafter two impressive wins.
Head coach Ben Bucca ispleased with his team’s per-formance in Piscataway this sea-son and believes the Knightsare at their best when playing at home.
“We’re clearly a better team onour home court. We like the envi-ronment here and play well here,”Bucca said. “A number of fans comeout and I know the girls get inspiredby that.”
RU played inconsistent tennisduring the early portion of the sea-son, but the group appears to havefound its groove over the past cou-ple weeks. The Knights swept con-ference opponent Georgetown 7-0on Feb. 25 before outlasting Army5-2 on Sunday.
The contest against Army wasgrueling. It lasted more than fivehours and many of RU’s playersendured lengthy, hard-foughtmatches. Sophomore JenHolzberg does not believe there
will be a hangover effect fromSunday’s difficult match.
“The match [against Army] wasdefinitely straining but I think weare in good condition as a team,”Holzberg said. “We had Monday offand got some rest so I think we’ll bephysically ready to play hardagainst Villanova.”
The Wildcats come into townlimping. They are 0-6 on the seasonand were outscored by a total of 47-1 in their matches. ’Nova is fresh offa trip to San Diego, Calif., where theteam dropped three matches at thePoint Loma Nazarene Tournament.
Holzberg, the Knights’ No. 2 sin-gles player, does not expect a letdown when RU takes on the strug-gling conference foe.
“Respect is the main thing forconference matches and that’s whatwe are looking for,” Holzberg said.“We want to prove that we are oneof the better teams in the Big East.We should win this match so it’simportant that we go out and do it.”
A win over Villanova wouldimprove RU to 2-1 in Big East play,the lone loss coming in the spring’sopening match at Syracuse.Assistant coach Alex Arlak knowsthe Knights should not take today’smatch for granted.
“This one is important for us.One of the main team goals for thisseason is to earn a high seed in theBig East tournament,” Arlak said.“Every conference win helps uswork toward that goal.”
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Rookie of the Week honor threetimes and Stephenson took homethe most recent.
“I wasn’t really thinking aboutthis award, I was just trying toplay hard and win games andthat’s it,” Stephenson said. “Inever said before the season, ‘Ihave to win this award.’ I didn’tput any pressure on me.”
Sophomore guard MikeKuhn, a walk-on more common-
ly saved for late-game, out ofreach situations, made his BigEast Tournament debut. With1.8 seconds remaining in thefirst half, Kuhn subbed in forJames Beatty to avoid a thirdfoul on the junior guard. TheBearcats attempted a half-courtshot that was no good, withKuhn as the closest defender asthe teams entered halftime withRutgers ahead 32-31.
Could anyone pull off the upset?Nothing is impossible, but handingtop-ranked Connecticut its first losssince President Barack Obama wasjust a junior senator from Illinoiswould rank even higher thanAppalachian State over Michigan infootball or George Mason’s FinalFour run.
And that’s even if it is No. 2Stanford or No. 3 Nebraska thatpulls it off.
The best thing No. 7 WestVirginia should do after making itand getting stomped, 60-32, in thefinals is pat themselves on theback for essentially winning theBig East Tournament —Connecticut’s games should noteven count. The Huskies are notin the Big East. They are in aleague of their own.
“UConn is on another planet,”said Rutgers head coach C. VivianStringer after a 37-point loss earlier
BY KYLE FRANKOCORRESPONDENT
NEW YORK — The way thisseason has played out for theRutgers men’s basketball team, a
heartbreak-ing loss in
the first round of the Big EastTournament only seemed fitting.
Cincinnati freshman LanceStephenson knocked down a freethrow with 1.8 seconds remainingto lift the 11th-seeded Bearcats to a69-68 victory over the 14th-seededScarlet Knights last night atMadison Square Garden.
Stephenson missed the secondfree throw intentionally and soph-omore guard Mike Rosario’sthree-quarter court heave cameup well short.
Stephenson finished with 13points and nine rebounds. JaquonParker also added 13 points andYancy Gates had 10 of his own.
With 7:51 to play, things wereexactly where they were at half-time with the Knights up by oneafter Cincinnati’s Ibrahima Thomasknocked down a short jumper.
The Bearcats took the lead 54-52when Stephenson converted a fastbreak layup and free throw givingthem the lead for the first time sinceearly in the second half.
On the ensuing inbound pass,RU junior guard James Beattythrew the ball directly toStephenson who converted anotherthree-point play giving Cincinnati afive-point lead — its largest of thegame at that point.
The Bearcats used their heightadvantage to pound the glass. It isthe same formula that has cost theKnights all season. Cincy won therebounding battle 44-28 with 19coming on the offensive end.
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Cincinnati freshman Lance Stephenson iced the game from the free throw line with less than two seconds to play, despite late-game heroics from guardMike Rosario. The sophomore drained a contested three-pointer with less than a minute remaining but the Bearcats held on for the one-point win.SEE OUT ON PAGE 15
Game-tying three-pointer in final minute not enough as Bearcats hit winning free throw with 1.8 seconds to play
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Head coach Geno Auriemma’s Connecticut Huskies are in the midst of arecord 72-game winning streak after a win yesterday over West Virginia.
UConn not satisfied as records pile upW hy is Connecticut head
coach Geno Auriemmathe best coach in the
history of women’s basketball?Well the numbers behind it — sixnational championships and 729career wins in 25 years — suremake an argument.
But Auriemma is so goodbecause he is never satisfied.
After winning it all last season,all he did was complain.
He closes his autobiography“Geno: In Pursuit of Perfection”complaining that center TinaCharles is not good enough despitea national championship.
“She was a second All-Americain 2009 and I know she isn’t goingto be happy until she’s a first teamAll-America,” he writes. “In themeantime, we’ve got work to do.The 2009 National Championshipis already old news in these parts.”
And what did he do? Continuesuccess, snapping his old record SEE UCONN ON PAGE 15
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and the NCAA record by winning72 consecutive games includingthe Big East Championship lastnight over West Virginia.
He still was not satisfied.“I can’t speak for everybody
else that’s sitting out there andeverybody that’s anywhere thathas a microphone or a pen that’sgoing to ask me about it, but I’msure that, I don’t know that 71changes anything,” he said afterbeating perennial top-10 teamNotre Dame for the third timethis year to set the new winningstreak record.
