THE D AILY T ARGUM Volume 141, Number 105 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 HAWKEYE KNOCKOUT Today: Rain High: 63 • Low: 48 The Rutgers women’s basketball team’s season came to an end this weekend after Iowa topped the Knights 70-63 with an impressive three-point shooting performance. ONLINE @ DAILYTARGUM.COM DIVERSIONS ...... 10 CLASSIFIEDS ...... 12 SPORTS ...... BACK The Campus MovieFest supplied more than 50 teams with equipment to create a five-minute film. The choice between paper and plastic would have to be phased out after years of wastefulness. UNIVERSITY OPINIONS OPINIONS ........ 8 MONDAY MARCH 22, 2010 PENDULUM ....... 7 Gov. Chris Christie’s budget address last Tuesday proposes to slash funds from many public universities and other state agencies in an effort to balance the state’s billion-dollar deficit. GETTY IMAGES BY NEIL P. KYPERS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF An all-star crew of University administrators presented their solu- tions manual to the issues brought up at the Nov. 5 Rutgers University Student Assembly town hall meeting and during “What’s on Your Mind Month.” At the town hall portion of the March 11 Rutgers University Student Assembly meeting — the first since February — administrators distrib- uted a 24-page report detailing all the requests and the actions, if any, being taken to address the issues students raised last November. “This is probably the most compre- hensive effort to assess and respond to student issues I have seen on my watch,” said University President Richard L. McCormick at the meeting. The administration addressed issues ranging from extending library hours, increasing the printing allowance for Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy students, adding more buses and increasing vegetarian options at the dining halls. “In many instances, arriving at our answers was a matter of redirecting resources … in other cases, we were already in the process of fixing the problem that you identified,” McCormick said. “Still in other cases, we found that your concern was based on misinformation, and we’ve sought to clarify the matter.” The administration has made a commitment to not only solving stu- dent life issues but improving class- room quality as well, he said. “It’s a three-year process, and we U. officials respond to student ideas Historic campus to trace roots at annual event BY DEVIN SIKORSKI CONTRIBUTING WRITER More than 50,000 people attended last year’s inaugural Rutgers Day, and University students, faculty members and alumni are preparing to top the pre- vious exhibition of the state university of New Jersey. Rutgers Day, scheduled to take place on April 24, will consist of more than 430 programs on every campus, providing the public with a window into what stu- dents and academic departments here have to offer. “Rutgers is the state university of New Jersey, and we serve the people and com- munities of the state,” College Avenue campus Dean Matt Matsuda said via e- mail correspondence. “Yet, if you would ask, many [New Jersey] residents might say that they actually know little about what a great research university does.” The College Avenue campus this year will offer an array of activities that exhib- it the rich history of that campus. There will be walking tours of a Revolutionary War battlefield and the first residence hall at the University, according to a University press release. Visitors will also be able to see the Visitors watch the University’s marching band and dance team at last year’s first annual Rutgers Day on the Busch campus. THE DAILY TARGUM BY GREG FLYNN CORRESPONDENT For many University students, a higher education in New Jersey may soon require deeper pockets. Gov. Chris Christie’s proposed fiscal year 2011 budget aims to reduce the state’s multibillion-dollar deficit by cutting into state funding, which puts $173 million in allocations for higher education on the chopping block. In a letter to the University community, University President Richard L. McCormick said the University’s direct state operating aid during the next aca- demic year would be cut 15.1 percent and would be $46.6 million lower than the University’s original appropriation for the current fiscal year. The final University budget will not be imposed until after the state’s budget is reviewed, modified and enacted by the legis- lature, which must be done by June 30. State budget cuts down on college funds The first weekend of Spring Break saw a blustery storm make its way through the New Brunswick area disrupting power, bringing down trees and flooding roads and residences. “We had, much like the rest of the state, many of the same problems,” said Antonio Calcado, vice president of facilities and capital planning. “We lost 30 mature trees here in New Brunswick/Piscataway. That’s a pretty significant number — that’s trees that are gen- erally 30 to 45 feet in height.” Some buildings flooded because pumps could not keep up, he said. Two roofs were lost at the Livingston campus compound where University Facilities is located. There were dozens of leaks and a power outage on both Cook and Douglass campus from the evening of March 13 to 7 a.m. the next day, Calcado said. The Rutgers Indoor Practice and Conditioning Facility on Busch campus, also known as the bubble, collapsed due to the storm. The University this week expects to fix and re-inflate the facility. Cook campus was hit hardest due to the loss of power, flooding on Route 18 and fallen trees, Calcado said. Fortunately, the storm came at a time that most of the housing buildings were empty due to Spring Break, he said. But there was some relocation of students, which was done through housing. “It was fortuitous that it happened this week- end, because even the upcoming weekend would have been more difficult already because stu- dents [are] coming back,” Calcado said. But the University was prepared with a sys- tem to deal with the worst the storm could bring, he said. An emergency operations group was activated Saturday, and the availability of resources like emergency generators and buck- et trucks helped with the recovery. The storm did take its toll financially, cost- ing around $100,000 after all the costs are accounted for, Calcado said. “From overtime costs of bringing people in to the cleanup effort in and of itself, we don’t have the final numbers … based on previous experience it will be up there,” he said. Although the storm has passed, University Facilities is working to prepare the campus for students returning from spring break. “One of the things that we need to do is to care- fully look at the trees … at what’s hanging,” Calcado said. “We need to and have been looking at these things and doing inspections.” — Neil P. Kypers SPRING BREAK STORM STRIKES CAMPUS FACILITIES UNIVERSITY ....... 3 SEE FUNDS ON PAGE 4 SEE ROOTS ON PAGE 6 SEE OFFICIALS ON PAGE 6 architecture on the campus, such as Kirkpatrick Chapel and the Old Queens building. “Interestingly, during the semester, not many students spend much time in the Old Queens part of College Avenue,” Matsuda said. “But as the historic begin- nings of the University are there, both current students and proud alums can be engaged in [the] ceremony.” Visitors will have the opportunity to ring Henry Rutger’s bell located in the Old Queens building and interact with costumed actors representing famous people from the campus’ history, he said. The Old Queens building was not a popular attraction last year, but the University is working to change that, Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs Delia Pitts said. “There was so much activity going on further down in the [Voorhees] Mall that many visitors did not come over,” she
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High: 63 • Low: 48The Rutgers women’s basketball team’s season came to an end this weekend after Iowa topped the Knights 70-63 with an impressive three-point shooting performance.
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The CampusMovieFest suppliedmore than 50 teamswith equipmentto create a five-minute film.
The choice betweenpaper and plasticwould have to bephased out afteryears of wastefulness.
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Gov. Chris Christie’s budget address last Tuesday proposes to slash funds from many publicuniversities and other state agencies in an effort to balance the state’s billion-dollar deficit.
GETTY IMAGES
BY NEIL P. KYPERSEDITOR-IN-CHIEF
An all-star crew of Universityadministrators presented their solu-tions manual to the issues broughtup at the Nov. 5 Rutgers UniversityStudent Assembly town hall meetingand during “What’s on Your Mind Month.”
At the town hall portion of theMarch 11 Rutgers University StudentAssembly meeting — the first sinceFebruary — administrators distrib-uted a 24-page report detailing all therequests and the actions, if any, beingtaken to address the issues studentsraised last November.
“This is probably the most compre-hensive effort to assess and respond tostudent issues I have seen on mywatch,” said University PresidentRichard L. McCormick at the meeting.
The administration addressedissues ranging from extending libraryhours, increasing the printingallowance for Ernest Mario School ofPharmacy students, adding morebuses and increasing vegetarianoptions at the dining halls.
“In many instances, arriving at ouranswers was a matter of redirectingresources … in other cases, we werealready in the process of fixing theproblem that you identified,”McCormick said. “Still in other cases,we found that your concern was basedon misinformation, and we’ve soughtto clarify the matter.”
The administration has made acommitment to not only solving stu-dent life issues but improving class-room quality as well, he said.
“It’s a three-year process, and we
U. officialsrespond tostudent ideas
Historic campus to trace roots at annual eventBY DEVIN SIKORSKI
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
More than 50,000 people attendedlast year’s inaugural Rutgers Day, andUniversity students, faculty membersand alumni are preparing to top the pre-vious exhibition of the state university ofNew Jersey.
Rutgers Day, scheduled to take placeon April 24, will consist of more than 430programs on every campus, providingthe public with a window into what stu-dents and academic departments herehave to offer.
“Rutgers is the state university of NewJersey, and we serve the people and com-munities of the state,” College Avenuecampus Dean Matt Matsuda said via e-mail correspondence. “Yet, if you wouldask, many [New Jersey] residents mightsay that they actually know little aboutwhat a great research university does.”
The College Avenue campus this yearwill offer an array of activities that exhib-it the rich history of that campus.
There will be walking tours of aRevolutionary War battlefield and thefirst residence hall at the University,according to a University press release.Visitors will also be able to see the
Visitors watch the University’s marching band and dance team atlast year’s first annual Rutgers Day on the Busch campus.
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BY GREG FLYNNCORRESPONDENT
For many University students, a highereducation in New Jersey may soon requiredeeper pockets.
Gov. Chris Christie’s proposed fiscalyear 2011 budget aims to reduce the state’smultibillion-dollar deficit by cutting intostate funding, which puts $173 million inallocations for higher education on thechopping block.
In a letter to the University community,University President Richard L.McCormick said the University’s directstate operating aid during the next aca-demic year would be cut 15.1 percent andwould be $46.6 million lower than theUniversity’s original appropriation for thecurrent fiscal year.
The final University budget will not beimposed until after the state’s budget isreviewed, modified and enacted by the legis-lature, which must be done by June 30.
State budgetcuts down on college funds
The first weekend of Spring Break saw ablustery storm make its way through the New Brunswick area disrupting power, bringing down trees and flooding roads and residences.
“We had, much like the rest of the state,many of the same problems,” said AntonioCalcado, vice president of facilities and capitalplanning. “We lost 30 mature trees here inNew Brunswick/Piscataway. That’s a prettysignificant number — that’s trees that are gen-erally 30 to 45 feet in height.”
Some buildings flooded because pumpscould not keep up, he said. Two roofs were lostat the Livingston campus compound whereUniversity Facilities is located. There weredozens of leaks and a power outage on bothCook and Douglass campus from the evening ofMarch 13 to 7 a.m. the next day, Calcado said.
The Rutgers Indoor Practice andConditioning Facility on Busch campus, alsoknown as the bubble, collapsed due to thestorm. The University this week expects to fixand re-inflate the facility.
Cook campus was hit hardest due to the lossof power, flooding on Route 18 and fallen trees,Calcado said.
Fortunately, the storm came at a time that mostof the housing buildings were empty due to SpringBreak, he said. But there was some relocation ofstudents, which was done through housing.
“It was fortuitous that it happened this week-end, because even the upcoming weekend wouldhave been more difficult already because stu-dents [are] coming back,” Calcado said.
But the University was prepared with a sys-tem to deal with the worst the storm couldbring, he said. An emergency operations group
was activated Saturday, and the availability ofresources like emergency generators and buck-et trucks helped with the recovery.
The storm did take its toll financially, cost-ing around $100,000 after all the costs areaccounted for, Calcado said.
“From overtime costs of bringing people into the cleanup effort in and of itself, we don’thave the final numbers … based on previousexperience it will be up there,” he said.
Although the storm has passed, UniversityFacilities is working to prepare the campus forstudents returning from spring break.
“One of the things that we need to do is to care-fully look at the trees … at what’s hanging,”Calcado said. “We need to and have been lookingat these things and doing inspections.”
— Neil P. Kypers
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architecture on the campus, such asKirkpatrick Chapel and the OldQueens building.
“Interestingly, during the semester,not many students spend much time inthe Old Queens part of College Avenue,”Matsuda said. “But as the historic begin-nings of the University are there, bothcurrent students and proud alums can beengaged in [the] ceremony.”
Visitors will have the opportunity toring Henry Rutger’s bell located in theOld Queens building and interact withcostumed actors representing famouspeople from the campus’ history, he said.
The Old Queens building was not apopular attraction last year, but theUniversity is working to change that,Assistant Vice President for StudentAffairs Delia Pitts said.
“There was so much activity going onfurther down in the [Voorhees] Mall thatmany visitors did not come over,” she
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Film competition to spotlight amateur talentBY JEFF PRENTKYCONTRIBUTING WRITER
The bright lights ofHollywood will come to theUniversity this week as CampusMovieFest, the world’s largeststudent film festival, makes itsway to the Banks for the firsttime in its eight-year history.
Sponsored by the RutgersUniversity ProgrammingAssociation, the competition willprovide student filmmakers with theequipment needed to create theirown five-minute films to compete forprizes and the chance to have theirfilm screened at both regional andnational levels, said Sera Bayruns,vice president of RUPA’s Films andMedia Committee.
More than 50 teams from theUniversity have already signed upfor Campus MovieFest, which isopen to all aspiring student film-makers regardless of previousexperience or skill level, she said.
“We want to give people thathave absolutely no experience in
film the chance to see what it’slike to be a filmmaker,” saidBayruns, a School of Arts andSciences junior. “That’s thething about this event, it’s opento anyone no matter what yourskills are.”
Campus MovieFest will pro-vide the University teams with anApple laptop, a Panasonic HDcamcorder and 24-hour tech sup-port, to create and edit their films,she said.
The films, which must beunder five minutes and free ofdiscriminating or excessivelygraphic content, will be judgedby students involved in eitherRUPA or a film club at theUniversity and possibly a repre-sentative from the cinema stud-ies department, a dean or anadministrator, she said.
The top-16 films will bescreened at a red carpet finale onApril 6 at the Cook Campus Centerwith the best films moving on tothe regional grand finale in May inNew York City and showcased on
AT&T phones and in-flight movieson Virgin America airlines, accord-ing to the festival’s Web site.
The best films in the regionalcompetition will advance to theCampus MovieFest Grand Finale
at the Wynn Las Vegas in June,according to the site.
Students at the school levelwill compete for prizes like iPodnanos or shuffles, a copy ofFinal Cut Studio and an ElgatoeyeTV hybrid in categories forbest picture, best comedy andbest drama, according to the site.
The free filming equipmentwill be distributed at theDouglass Campus Center onTuesday, the deadline for stu-dents to sign up for the festival,Bayruns said.
Students can sign up for thefestival by visiting the festival siteat www.campusmoviefest.com.
Participating students will begiven six days to finish their films,which are due March 29.
Frank Piccirillo, a member ofKnight Time Productions, a cam-pus television and film organiza-tion, said the organization ispleased that Campus MovieFestis coming to the University.
“Not only does it get ourname out there, but it gives peo-ple who aren’t involved in ourclub the chance to get involvedwith movie making in general,”said Piccirillo, a School of Artsand Sciences first-year student.“There are so many talenteddirectors, actors and screen-writers at Rutgers that are justitching to get their stuff out
there. It’s a great opportunitythat we are given.”
For the festival, Piccirillo plansto direct a movie with more of acreepy feeling, something thatwould make the audience feeluncomfortable and on-edge.
Dominick Nero, a School ofArts and Sciences first-year stu-dent and a standup comedian, isworking with his roommate to filma comedy skit. He hopes to win thecompetition’s best comedy prize.
“I think it’s a really goodopportunity for people to getinvolved with filmmaking,” Nerosaid. “Especially since it’s soaccessible to everybody sincethey give you the free camera andthe tripod and everything, it givespeople the chance to do some-thing that they probably wouldn’tnormally do.”
More than 75,000 studentsnationwide are expected to partic-ipate in this year’s CampusMovieFest, which will featuremore than 50 schools nationwide,according to the site.
The American Physical Society awarded twoUniversity professors with $10,000 each last weekin Portland, Ore., to recognize their outstandingresearch contributions, according to a UniversityMedia Relations press release.
The society awarded physics Professors Sang-Wook Cheong and Daniel Friedan for their contri-butions to condensed matter physics, which dealswith the physical proper ties of solid and liquid matter.
Cheong, director of the Rutgers Center forEmergent Materials, received the society’s James
C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials, which rec-ognizes his work in understanding a class of mate-rials called “multiferroics.” These materials havethe potential to improve semiconductor electron-ics, boost solar cell ef ficiency and increase thedata storage capacity of hard disk drives.
Cheong shares the award with professors con-ducting similar research at the University ofCalifornia, Santa Barbara and the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley.
The society awarded Friedan, a member of theRutgers New High Energy Theory Center, the
Lars Onsager Prize for mathematical descriptionsof how complex materials behave. Friedan sharesthe award with Stanford University’s StephenShenker, who was a physics professor at theUniversity from 1989 to 1998.
Their work examined “critical phenomena,”where a material’s phases such as solid, liquid andgas converge or coexist. Their formulas specifycritical phenomena types present in nature andtheoretical models.
— Mary Diduch
UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS RECOGNIZED FOR NOTABLE RESEARCH
“This event [is]open to anyone no matter whatyour skills are.”
SERA BAYRUNSRUPA Films and Media
Committee Vice President
Now students have to pay toplay and fundraise in order to bal-ance their club budgets.
The bill, which passed unan-imously on March 11, allocates$2 per semester from theschool fee for the sport clubsexecutive board, which willthen distribute funds as itsmembers see fit.
Increases would increaseavailable RUSAAllocations feesby 8 percent.
The sportclub allocationprocess is similarto the manner inwhich profession-al schools, likethe EngineeringG o v e r n i n gCouncil, allocatetheir funds, Born said.
But since the $2 is under anumbrella fee, there is no way toopt out of paying the sport clubfee, said RUSA TreasurerShayna Davis.
Sport clubs only make uppart of the need to increase theoverall fee by $10, RUSA Vice-Chair Yousef Saleh said. Theother part is the rate of pro-gram growth at the University.
“If we don’t [increase schoolfees] you are going to get a lotmore complaints and a lot more
unfunded programs,” saidSaleh, School of Arts andSciences junior. “In order tomaintain the diversity of pro-gramming on campus, we haveno choice but to increase thestudent fee.”
Eric Kaplan, student repre-sentative for the Board ofGovernors, said he has no objec-tion to the fee increase but wants
people to under-stand that the goalis not to make ahabit of addingexcessive fees tostudents’ termbills.
“Allocations hasknown we weregoing to need toraise the studentfee … and it’sbeing done right atthe last minute,”
Kaplan, a School of Arts andSciences junior, said.
More input and discussion isneeded on the topic, and itshould not have been pushed onthe body this late in the semester,he said.
Ultimate Frisbee ClubPresident Geoffrey Irving wasexcited when he heard the newsand said this is a step in theright direction.
“My team has systematicallylost more and more funding
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When the state’s budget iscut, the University looks forother sources of revenue, defersexpenditures and cuts its ownbudget, Vice President forUniversity Budgeting Nancy S.Winterbauer said.
“We will be looking at effi-ciencies and cutting costs andfinding ways to save money,”she said. “But we’ve had cutsthat are so significant over thelast four years, that it’s dif ficultto find new efficiencies afteryou’ve beendown this roadseveral times.”
Since studenteducation is fund-ed largely in partby student tuitionand fees and stateappropriat ions,cuts in state fund-ing mean theUniversity musteither cut backservices or raisetuition to substitute for lost statedollars, Winterbauer said.
“We are certainly looking attrying to not do double-digit[percent] tuition increases,”she said. “I can assure youwe’re going to do everything tokeep the tuition increase asreasonable as possible.”
New Jersey already had thesecond-highest average pub-lished tuition and fees for in-state students at public four-year colleges and universitiesat $11,167 in the 2009 to 2010academic year, according to aCollege Board report.
If the cuts were enacted, theUniversity’s operating aid wouldbe at its lowest since 1994,McCormick said.
In fiscal year 1994, theUniversity received $254.461 mil-lion in state funding, Winterbauersaid. The proposed fiscal year
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Fee increase to help fund club sportsNEIL P. KYPERS
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
The Rutgers UniversityStudent Assembly voted beforeSpring Break to begin fundingclub sports at the University andis increasing the school fee from$71 to $81. The decision will besent to referendum for the nextacademic year.
Increased programmingcosts and a need for club sportfunding are the main causes forraising the fee, which hasremained the same since 2007,though the number of organiza-tions at the Universityincreased from 250 to 360.
“We don’t have the power tosimply increase [funding],”RUSA Chair Werner Born said.“[Our decisioin] sends [the feeincrease] to referendum for theUniversity students [to decide].”
RUSA hopes to include thefee increase and its new consti-tution in the same referendumso students do not need to gothrough three referendums —the two for RUSA and anotherfor The Daily Targum — thisyear, Born, a School ofEngineering senior, said.
Sport clubs previouslyreceived funding from a RutgersCollege fee, but under the under-graduate school consolidation in2007, the fee no longer exists.
The proposed fiscal year 2011 budget reduces funding for Tuition Aid Grants and the EducationalOpportunity Fund program. It would eliminate funding for incoming freshmen in NJ STARS.
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“There is no reasonnot to fund thembecause ... $10 ischump change.”
CODY GORMANSchool of Arts and Sciences
sophomore
On the verge of a possible 33percent cut in state aid,Woodbridge Township SchoolDistrict is considering cuttingkindergarten classes all togetherto save money.
District Superintendent JohnCrowe made the announcementFriday, and said the suggestionwas made in an e-mail fromMiddlesex CountySuperintendent of SchoolsPatrick Piegari, according to anarticle on injersey.com.
“We had no idea that anythinglike a 33.2 percent cut in state aidwould hit our district,” Crowe said,according to the article. “Why, inthe days leading up to the fundingannouncement, we were evenhearing that it might even be closeto flat funding.”
The school board Fridayevening voted to send the countyschool official a preliminary budg-et for next year reflecting a loss ofmore than $8 million in state aid,according to the article. The stateDepartment of Education onThursday revealed the amount.
Unlike most school districtsin the state, Woodbridge’skindergarten classes are alreadyhalf-days.
The public will be able to getits first look at the budget at ameeting tomorrow at ColoniaMiddle School in Woodbridge.The board will discuss the budgetat a meeting Thursday at 6 p.m. atWoodbridge Middle School.
— Ariel Nagi
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2011 budget includes $262.778million in aid.
The University’s budget was$881 million in 1994, she said.The current year’s budget is$1.9 billion with state aid com-prising 24 percent.
The budget has grownbecause grants and contracts,tuition and fees, student housingand dining have increased,Winterbauer said.
Still, many of these new rev-enues are not available to sub-stitute for lost state support,she said.
The proposed state budgetreduces funding for Tuition AidGrants and the Educational
Opportunity Fundand does not pro-vide funding forincoming fresh-men in the NJSTARS scholar-ship program,McCormick saidin the letter.
Federal stimu-lus money helpedsoften the blowof a cut of rough-ly 5 percent tothe University’sstate aid last
year, but such funds will not beavailable this time around,Winterbauer said.
“I don’t see a similar whitehorse over the horizon this year,”she said. “New Jersey doesn’thave any more stimulus moneythat it could use to plug the holein the higher education.”
In addition to stimulus dollars,faculty and staff unions’ agree-ments to defer $30 million in con-tractually obligated salaryincreases helped alleviate finan-cial troubles, Winterbauer said.
The University should be ableto honor its recently negotiatedmemorandums, Union of RutgersA d m i n i s t r a t o r s - A m e r i c a nFederation of Teacher PresidentLucye Millerand said.
“Rutgers managementshould not have trouble financ-ing our raises, and quite frankly,they shouldn’t have trouble
“I’m sure that people at the
University are working very hard
with what they have. JOHN ASPRAY
School of Arts and Sciencesjunior
keeping the number of facultyand staff that are needed to runthis university,” Millerand said.“Executive hiring went on lastyear to an extent that I think is irresponsible.”
University spokesman E.J.Miranda said the president’s cab-inet and other senior administra-tors did not receive pay raisesthis year either.
Together, the two AmericanFederation of Teacher-affiliatedlocals represent more than7,500 faculty and staff positionsat the University.
Staff contribute to theUniversity’s mission by bringing
in money for financial aid and mak-ing aid accessible, assistingresearch at the library, keepingcampuses clean and performingother jobs that keep the Universityoperating, Millerand said.
“We are not overstaffed in anyarea,” she said. “We’re not a dragon the University. We’re part ofthe engine.”
Rutgers University StudentAssembly representative JohnAspray hopes to work with theUniversity to increase transparency.
He said if comprehensivebudget information, whichexplains how dif ferent departments are funded and
how that money was spent,were readily available, studentscould contribute more produc-tively to the University’s budget process.
“The line coming out ofTrenton may be that theUniversity is a huge, bloatedbureaucracy that is corrupt, butI don’t think that’s true,” saidAspray, a School of Arts andSciences junior. “I’m sure thatpeople at the University areworking very hard with whatthey have. If you increase trans-parency, you can dispel a lot ofthose rumors. If it’s true, it’llcome out as true.”
from the University where ournumbers have been growingand growing every year,” saidIrving, a School of Arts andSciences junior.
The team pays dues rangingfrom $40 to $120, he said. Theyalso pay for the six to seventournaments members attendeach semester.
Soccer Club team memberSean Matteo knows first-handthat having to pay out-of-pocketcan put a constraint on enjoying afun sport.
“It was hard last semesterbecause we would have to driveto games and if we needed to stayanywhere it was us funding [thetrip],” said Matteo, a School ofEngineering first-year student.
Yet Calvin Kwon, a ErnestMario School of Pharmacysophomore, said the fee shouldbe elective, as not all studentsare involved in club sports.
“I think [an optional fee] is abetter option, but I don’t thinkeveryone would pay for that,”Kwon said. “It’s a hard decision.”
Since the fee increase is just$10, funding for club sports isa good thing, said CodyGorman, a School of Arts andSciences sophomore.
“There is no reason not tofund them, because they get nofunding and $10 is chumpchange,” he said.
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Researchers receive funding to rerank tweetsBY JOE GESSNERCONTRIBUTING WRITER
A University research team isworking to revolutionize Twitter’ssearch engine and develop a betterway to search through user tweets.
Funded through a $60,000 grantfrom Google, Mor Naaman, an assis-tant professor in the School ofCommunication and Information,and a team of University researcherswill try to create a search engine onthe popular social networking Website that returns the most popularand relevant tweets first instead ofthe most recent.
The team will also work todevise ways to rank the credibili-ty of Twitter users, Naaman said.
“The goal is to develop a betterway to reason about ranking in theTwitter network,” he said. “Beingable to rank better on Twitter willhelp us make a step forward inmaking these types of networksmore useful and effective as com-munication systems.”
Google includes Twitter mes-sages in its search results.Finding the most reliable andcredible tweets are important tothe corporation, Naaman said.
He said Twitter and othersocial networking media arebecoming an important means ofcommunication, but little isknown about how the informa-tion posted on these Web sitescan be used.
“These systems have alreadyshown considerable impact onthe information, communicationand media infrastructure of ourentire society,” Naaman said.“But at the same time we still donot know how to effectively usethe information posted on these platforms.”
Jeffrey Boase, an assistant pro-fessor with the School ofCommunication and Informationand a member of Naaman’sresearch team, agrees that socialnetworking sites are growing inpopularity and provide new
opportunities for researchers tostudy communication processes.
“Twitter is an example of anemerging form of communicationand it opens up new opportunitiesfor understanding some funda-mentals of the communicationprocess,” Boase said.
With his background in sociol-ogy and computer science, Boasesaid he is able to draw on theoriesfrom these fields to study whycertain influences occur onTwitter and whether algorithmscan be created to see how certaintheories match with reality.
Naaman, who has a doctoratein personal information manage-ment and worked at Yahoo!Research Berkeley for three yearsbefore coming to the University,has extensive experience withsocial networking media.
During his time at Yahoo!most of his attention was devotedto Flickr, which Naaman said wasthe first popular “Web 2.0” socialmedia platform.
His research at the Universityaims to understand both thesocial and technical aspects thatgovern activity in these Web sites.
Naaman and his research teamhave been collecting tweets to usefor their research sinceSeptember and so far have collect-ed more than 200 million tweets.
He hopes these tweets willhelp answer questions like whatkind of information about thenation’s cities, habits and societycan be extracted from tweets.
The research team is com-posed of three PhD students inaddition to Naaman and Boase.Each student has a differentbackground, which helps to giveseveral different points of view,Boase said.
“It’s a good example of howresearchers from different disci-plines can join forces to do inno-vative research,” he said.
Shannon Kemp, a School ofArts and Sciences senior andoccasional Twitter user, said
because Twitter is relatively new,it makes sense that its searchengine wouldn’t be as good as Google’s.
But she looks forward tochanges to social networkingsites’ search engines.
“I think it’s time that Twittercomes up with a better searchengine,” Kemp said. “I think peo-ple now realize it’s not going tofade away into obscurity.”
Kemp said Twitter proved tobe an important line of communi-cation when Iranian anti-govern-ment protesters used the site lastyear to expose images and videoswhen the government shut downthe media.
Twitter users were able toexpose the abuses of the protest-ers when there were no journal-ists around to report on it, trans-forming the site from a means ofself-promotion into an extremelyimportant site, she said.
“If you think about it, it’sincredible,” she said.
NJPIRG snaps image of student debtBY JESSICA URIECONTRIBUTING WRITER
In support of the Student Aidand Fiscal Responsibility Act, NewJersey Interest Research GroupStudent chapters will present aphoto-petition toward the end ofthe month to state senators.
The petition differs from usualpetitions because rather than sign-ing, students were photographedwith a sign displaying how muchdebt they will be in when they grad-uate, said Sarah Clader, an NJPIRGemployee and University alumna.
“It puts a face to the amount ofmoney that [students] owe, mak-ing it a lot more personal,” saidNJPIRG Campaign CoordinatorMohamed Eladawy.
Eladawy, a School ofEngineering junior, hopes thepersonal nature of the photo-peti-tions will translate into more sup-port for the bill.
“It’s a really attention-gettingway to do a petition that reallyputs a face on the problem of stu-dent debt,” Clader said.
NJPIRG began collecting photo-graphs of students on campus abouta month ago by setting up tablesoutside, Grassroots CoordinatorSamuel Obergh said.
The SAFRA bill is intended toincrease federal student aid bycutting the federal subsidies thatare granted to banks that providestudent loans, Eladawy said. Themoney used for subsidies wouldthen go directly to the students.
The bill will invest millions ofdollars in the Federal Pell Grantand in a grant program for com-munity colleges, according to theCommittee on Education andLabor Web site. It will also investin programs to improve access tocollege and in institutions thathistorically serve minorities.
“It’s trying to eliminate the mid-dle man between federal studentaid and the students themselves,”Eladawy said. “It creates a direct
connection between the federalgovernment and the students.”
The bill will constitute one ofthe largest increases in federalaid in United States history,Clader said.
“A college education is gettingmore and more necessary in oursociety and it’s getting more andmore difficult to afford,” she said.
The Pell Grant has notincreased with inflation, Cladersaid. The bill would help make upthe difference.
“Cutting the subsidies freesup $40 million to increase federalaid,” she said.
Student debt delays gradu-ates’ ability to buy homes andstart families, Clader said. It pre-vents some students from pursu-ing fields such as teaching, asocial work that pay less thanother careers, because the stu-dents have to worry about theirability to repay their loans.
“What students can do is con-tact their senators and let themknow how important this bill is tothem,” Eladawy said. “The morestudents that contact the Senate,the more you show that there isactually support for this bill.”
One of the main problemsPIRG faces is the public’s generallack of knowledge about the bill.
“Although this seems like a real-ly great bill, no one knows about it.And that’s one of the biggest issues,that no one knows that this is actu-ally going on,” Eladawy said.
Clader said private lending cor-poration Sallie Mae opposes the bill.
In response to the opposition,PIRG will be hosting “Take aSwing at Sallie Mae” later thisweek outside of Brower Commonson the College Avenue campus.
Regardless, Obergh, a Schoolof Arts and Sciences sophomore,is confident NJPIRG’s efforts willhave an impact.
“When you see a face next to$20,000 or $30,000 in debt, itbecomes a little bit more personal. Itgives the numbers a face,” he said.
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.
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24 Editors from The Daily Targum will hold a writers meetingfor current and prospective writers at 9:30 p.m. in the S-Lounge on the 4th floor of the Rutgers Student Center onthe College Avenue campus. They will assign stories andanswer questions about writing articles. No previous writ-ing experience is required, and anyone interested is wel-come to attend.
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.
Those who want to teach fun science projects and arts andcrafts to middle school students are welcome to attend aRutgers in the Community meeting at 9 p.m. in Room 112 ofMurray Hall on the College Avenue campus. For more infor-mation, contact Sean Lo at [email protected].
The Rutgers Chemistry Society will welcome a veteran ofscience demonstrations who will display many excitingexperiments that can be used for events such as RutgersDay and Outreach. The meeting will take place at 8:30 p.m.in Room A260 of the Wright-Rieman building on Busch cam-pus and is mandatory for all members who signed up for theOutreach Program. Leo, the coordinator, will be going overthe planned experiments as well as information regardingscheduling, presentations and transportation. If you cannotmake it to this meeting, please contact him ASAP [email protected] or at (551)-206-8939.
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.
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 than 60photographs from the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collectionof Soviet Nonconformist Art by Francisco Infante, VladimirKupriyanov, Boris Mikhailov and Aleksandr Slyusarev, fourmajor Soviet artists working with photography in the ’70sand ’80s.
Grassroots coordinator Samuel Obergh speaks on the steps of Capitol Hill alongside House SpeakerNancy Pelosi and many other college students across the nation in support of the Student Aid Bill.
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“[The petition] putsa face to the
amount of moneythat [students] owe,
making it a lot more personal.” MOHAMED ELADAWY
NJPIRG Campaign Coordinator
Assemblyman John Bramnick, known as the funniest politician in New Jersey, entertains the crowd with aline of jokes Thursday at an Elijah’s Promise Soup Kitchen fundraiser at the Crossroads Theater downtown.
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have dedicated $10.5 million toimproving classrooms on theNew Brunswick/Piscatawaycampuses, even when that isspent … there will still be class-rooms in need of improvement… we will do our best in theyears ahead [to allocatefunds],” McCormick said.
But not all student requestscould be met. Meal swipe usageat restaurants in downtownNew Brunswick and longer din-ing hall hours are just twoexamples of requests theUniversity cannotfulfill.
The full docu-ment can be foundonline at the presi-dent’s Web site.
While the meet-ing highlightedareas that wereraised previously,students broughtforth more issues, like the newbandwidth policy, after theadministration finished its pres-entation.
Students also raised ques-tions relating to the University’sperformance in securing fundingfor higher education.
School of Arts and Sciencejunior John Aspray called toquestion McCormick’s policyand attitude in securing statefunding, arguing that waitinguntil next year to get better isnot enough.
“Saying ‘Oh, I guess we willhave to wait until next year’isn’t the kind of leadership weneed — we need compellingarguments,” said Aspray, chairof RUSA legislative af fairscommittee. “[Gov. ChrisChristie] is actually blaming[the budget crisis] on you, and
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said. “This year, we wanted tobring more visitors by offeringmore for them to see and do.There is going to be an array offood and fun activities for chil-dren surrounding the building,which was all organized by thealumni organization.”
Rutgers Day activities onCollege Avenue will not berestricted to just the NewBrunswick campus. It also willshowcase some of the work fromthe Newark and Camden cam-puses, Matsuda said.
Businesses and organizationsaround New Brunswick will alsobe involved in activities on theCollege Avenue campus, he said.
“As [the College Avenuecampus] is a very urban cam-pus, directly integrated withneighborhoods around NewBrunswick, the community
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With the April 15 deadline for filing taxes quickly approaching,help from the Accounting and Finance Honors Society, BetaAlpha Psi, could not come at a better time.
Volunteers from Beta Alpha Psi have come together onceagain to help the taxpayers of New Brunswick with their onlinefiling in a program they call Volunteer Income Tax Assistance.The community service initiative began on Feb. 5 and will rununtil April 10.
“[Librarians] like to reach out to the public, because a lot ofthem come into the library for help with filing their taxes andthere’s only so much the librarians can do, so having BetaAlpha Psi help every year is great, especially with their expert-ise,” said Joye Crowe-Logan, a librarian at the New BrunswickFree Public Library.
This community service project has been in action for a fewyears and offers New Brunswick taxpayers a beneficial and freeservice to help deal with their tax concerns, she said.
Jennifer Lin, community service administrator of Beta AlphaPsi, oversees the volunteers at the New Brunswick Public Librarywhile they are helping taxpayers with filing. She also volunteersevery Saturday.
“Part of our community service efforts is to prepare taxreturns for low to middle class New Brunswick citizens,” said Lin,a Rutgers College senior.
Beta Alpha Psi used to work with Emanuel CDC, an organiza-tion that also volunteers to help low-income tax holders, she said.Together, they coordinated tax returns, until Emanuel CDC wentout of business due to financial reasons.
The Accounting and Finance Honors Society is dedicated togiving their time to various other community service projects,including working at Elijah’s Promise Soup Kitchen, but thisspecific community service project is perfect for Beta AlphaPsi, Lin said.
The VITA program is beneficial to both the public and the hon-ors society, she said.
“This program is good for our members because it specificallydeals with accounting and that is what we know best,” Lin said.
All meetings are held by appointment only on Fridays from 11a.m. to 2 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. To make anappointment, call the library at (732)-745-5108, ext. 25, or visit thelibrary at 60 Livingston Ave. during operating hours.
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I don’t see a reframing of the argument.”
McCormick said the budgetdeficit is so large there is no wayChristie can do anything withoutdamage all around.
“I don’t think there is anythingI could say, be it strident or be ithumble or be it eloquent, or be itany combination of the above,that would change the arith-metic,” he said.
As the University faces thelooming Christie budget, RUSA islooking to leave University supportand incorporate as an independentstudent organization, while stillretaining control of student fees.
“Student government would besimilar to NJPIRG [New JerseyPublic Intrest Research Group] and
the Targum … ifthe students wereto choose thispath, would [theadministration]support it?” saidMatt Cordeiro, a School of Arts and Sciencessophomore.
Executive VicePresident for Academic AffairsPhilip J. Furmanski said if RUSAsought independence, theUniversity would be opposed to itmainly because of the funds thatRUSA has control over.
“It’s not a question of the trust ofthe students, and it’s not a questionof the use of the money. It’s a ques-tion of the separation of the respon-sibility and of the authority from theaccountability,” Furmanski said.
Another element he raised withincorporation was that theUniversity would not engage inshared government with an out-side organization, which is whatRUSA would become.
“You see the entire leadership ofthis University here tonight …about how to improve circum-stances … and that’s something weare not going to do with an outsideagency,” he said.
“We will do our bestin the years ahead
[to allocate funds].” RICHARD L. MCCORMICK
University President
zone will bring in partners fromcity markets, cultural centersand public services, like thefire and police departments,”Matsuda said.
Campus deans and studentgroups will be cooperating to puton various programs, he said.
“The deans will likely be oper-ating one of the stages aroundthe Bishop House area, fieldingmulticultural acts and talents andlending support to the numeroussocial action, philanthropic, com-munity service and greek-lifeorganizations, connecting theircharity and volunteer work tothe public,” Matsuda said. “Inshort, [there will be] somethingfor everyone.”
Hilary Smith, a School ofEnvironmental and BiologicalSciences junior, said RutgersDay allows the surroundingcommunity to take part in dif-ferent activities and showcasethe University.
“Rutgers Day gets the wordout about our school [to people]who might not know about us,”
she said. “The activities allowboth students and families tocome and see our school.”
Many students are also get-ting involved this year in holdingevents at Rutgers Day. More thana third of the programs will bestudent-run, according to thepress release.
Malay Pansheria, a School ofEnvironmental and BiologicalSciences junior, is the treasurerof Pilot Me, an organizationwhose members mentor underprivileged children in the community.
Rutgers Day gives childrena chance to get involved andexposes them to resources they may not know exist,Pansheria said.
“I think it is a great opportu-nity for kids who are underpriv-ileged to get to know about theUniversity,” he said. “They usu-ally don’t have the resources tofind out about Rutgers, so it is agreat way to let them knowthere is a college out there forthem and that they can go.”
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“Usually when I see trash on the ground, I pick it up and throw it out. In our [residence halls], we havetrash cans so we usuallybring them down to thebasement and we also recycle.”
SPENCER KENTLIVINGSTON COLLEGE JUNIOR
“I smoke less cigarettes. I’llwalk more. If I can walkinstead of drive I’ll do that.”
AARON LEESAS JUNIOR
“I like to recycle and also Itry to consume less … whenI buy things I tend not tobuy things which are disposable. I try to buy fromcompanies that are more orless green or eco-friendly,although those are problematic in themselves.”
ALISON GIBBONSSAS JUNIOR
“Actually, I just bought oneof those [reusable] waterbottles, so I’m going to stopusing bottled water.”
MELISSA SELLAMDOUGLASS COLLEGE SENIOR
“I try to turn my lights offmore often when I’m nothome … if I’m not using it Ireally try to remember toturn it off.”
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“I pick up garbage that I see in [New] Brunswick, and I wait until I get
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This brings me to mytalking point — the
Referendum. Referendum is a mandatory voteput before the student body every three years.The University Senate guidelines state that theundergraduate student body of the Universitymust approve of all special student organizationfunding. Students vote to approve the fee ontheir term bill that funds Targum. Additionally,the fee is fully refundable. This fee is whatallows the Targum to remain daily, independentand full of content free from the sway of outsidegroups, and without it the Targum risks adecrease in publication and quality. It allows usto stay student-written and student-managed ofdedicated students who are gaining knowledge,
experience and training in a waythat no classroom can give. This isavailable to all the students at theUniversity, and we always needpeople interested in working withus. The Targum is like anotherclass — a very demanding class —but one that puts you into the fieldand puts you in charge. And fromthis, we hope to benefit an entirecommunity, providing the
University with a newspaper, one run by stu-dents and one students can be proud of. TheTargum leads the nation in four-year daily col-lege publications, winning first place in the cate-gory at February’s Associate Collegiate Pressconvention in Phoenix. Additionally a number ofour writers and photographers are also award-winning. New Jersey Sports Writers Associationgave the first and second place award for collegesports writers in the state to two people from oursports section.
Therefore, if you are an undergraduate stu-dent at the University with less than 105 credits(in other words, all undergraduates) get out tothe polls on your campus March 22 to April 12and vote yes in the Referendum.
The Targum hopes to be a paper that is morethan a distraction from a boring class. It is thesource for information in the University and city.It is an opportunity for anyone who steps up and
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Daily Targum and theTargum Referendum thattoday is kicking off its firstday of polling. I was origi-nally a Cook College chem-istry major coming out of asmall North Jersey towncalled Pompton Plains. I came to the Universitybecause it is affordable and close enough where Ican still do my laundry at home, but my parentsdo not feel like coming to visit me. Now I am aSchool of Arts and Sciences political sciencemajor living off-campus in a nice two-family home.I am having the ultimate college experience.
I went from a residence hall to an on-campusapartment to off-campus apartment and with allthose moves came a better respect for collegelife. This is not an easy place to be when you areresponsible for all aspects of your life. Now factorin that I am the editor-in-chief of the Targum andlife has become increasingly busy. It all beganwhen I opened up the Targum oneday and saw an ad for the position.I talked to my friend who, at thetime, was an associate news editor.He suggested I apply, so here I amtoday representing one of the old-est collegiate newspapers in thecountry and proud to do it.
The Targum has been in exis-tence since 1869. We have beenindependent of the University since1980, as it should be. The paper is a teaching insti-tution set up for students, whether journalism isyour major or not. I think if anyone out there hasany doubts about their ability to get involved withthe Targum you should come in and talk to one ofour editors, I know firsthand. Opportunities areoffered to anyone willing to work hard and dedi-cate him or herself to the paper. It is somethingyou should be doing if your goal is to work for apublication, newspaper, magazine or tabloid. Yourcollege paper is the best and most available wayto gain experience and build a resume and portfo-lio. That is not mere suggestion, that is fact —most professionals will tell you that if you do notwork for your college publication you will have avery difficult time working for any publication. Iimplore all students out there to come to ouroffice at 26 Mine St. between the hours of 5 and7 p.m. and meet us all.
You will find in our office the most dedicatedand understaffed group of students who strive tomeet the standards of the large and critical
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“I don’t think there is anything I could say, be it strident or be ithumble or be it eloquent, or be it any combination of the above, that
would change the artithmetic.”University President Richard L. McCormick on Gov. Chris Christie’s decision to cut state
funding to the University
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NEIL P. KYPERS
W ith Gov. Chris Christie’s proposal to cut funding from prettymuch every sector of state spending, a great number of peo-ple stood up in opposition to the man that they elected sever-
al months ago. Despite these protests though, his cuts, which will affecteducation as well, might not be an unreasonable phenomena. With thesurpluses in some state educational institutions, spending additionalmoney to simply say that it was a fair financial allocation could be calledexcessive. If an institution has the money left over to operate at the sameor close to usual terms, then a cut on part of the state would seem rea-sonable, if only to overturn the deficit that has reached the billions.
The benefit or reason for the all-around cuts is the fact that the statecannot remain in a negative fiscal situation for as long as some of usmay hope. The close to $11 billion deficit was a product of previousadministrations, such as Gov. Jon S. Corzine’s — therefore a move onthe part of our current governor was the only step left to take.
Although this may not react as well with the majority of Universitystudents, the dynamic system of spending all that is given is somewhatto blame. The spending by the University would then be the only bodyto be accused for rash financial decisions and poorly spent funds.
Christie’s plan would also affect other aspects of state spending, ashe would, according to his budget address, decrease funding asminutely as possible, attempting to cut from each sector as little as pos-sible. For example, cuts from state agriculture would be as much as 24percent and those in banking would reach 12 percent. Educationstands at a distant 8 percent cut, as Christie’s plan would simply be forevery department to “tighten its belt.”
According to his address, $2.9 billion of the budget gap was closed bychanging the way state departments operate and at what budget theyoperate. And with regard to state education, as it is the foremost subjectthat relates to us, the University would simply have to resort to address-ing faculty salaries and where cuts would have to be made. With the nix-ing of the Greening Project, we have already taken a cut and as long aseducation remains at the forefront of University President Richard L.McCormick’s plans, rather than increasing professors’ salaries, studentswill get through this seemingly rough process.
If anything, we, as students, should worry about how the Universitytakes these expected cuts and addresses our well-being as gently as itcan, rather than standing up against Christie’s cuts — a series of fiscalreforms that have been long overdue.
Long-needed budgetcuts correctly employed
“I implore all students out there
to come to ouroffice at 26 Mine St.... and meet us all.”
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Neither paper nor plastic
W hat are we to do in a world of an ever-present debate of cli-mate crisis and global warming? And while there are alwaystwo sides to that question, when it comes to simple measures
that we could take to reduce waste, we must take every opportunity. InBaltimore, the question of “paper or plastic” is almost unnecessary asboth bags already cost 25 cents apiece. And in San Francisco, the debateis even simpler: Plastic merchandise bags have been banned, leavingcustomers with the much more environmentally friendly, paper bags orreusable carriers. Although paper is not a bad option, reusable bags arethe right choice for the millions of Americans who waste plastic bags bythe dozen, with every trip to the local supermarket.
Consumers are wasteful, perhaps even more so today than they were10 years ago, and the fact that most of us go home carrying four or fiveplastic bags is not acceptable. Whether we throw those bags out or stuffthem in a drawer for a rainy day, the reason for paper or reusable bagsremains. While plastic is not biodegradable and takes much more ener-gy to be recycled, paper is easily recycled and reused but is still part ofwaste and should be phased out over time. The 99 cents reusable bagsare therefore the most sustainable option to date. One would only needa couple of them and they last forever in comparison to paper or plastic.Stores, while they seem to only be grabbing at customers’ pockets withthese dollar-bags, are simply pushed forward by city and state environ-mental laws — ones that serve us all in the long term.
The problem is that, in addition to waste, people are also forgetfulor lazy. Even if one does buy a bag or two that can be reused, theywould probably time and time again forget the bag at home. Perhapsthen, there is or will be a better way to clean our towns, but until then,reusable bags and paper bags are our only safe choices.
Fees for plastic or paper bags seem to be necessary until we learn to usenon-disposable bags. The 90-or-so cents would be nothing but a lesson forsociety in order to make it accustomed to living in the 21st century. Cities likeBaltimore, San Francisco and the Outer Banks of North Carolina have takena path that many others still need to follow. Until then we will be faced withthe dilemma of paper or plastic, when the only choice should be, neither.
salaries.” Hear hear. Imagine theopposite, giving Congress thesame health coverage the aver-age American gets. Now that’s aplan. Once they see how brokenit is first hand, maybe they will sitdown, work together and fix it.
But after a year of apparent“jamming the bill down ourthroats” as the news and opinionoutlets have called it, only recent-ly did such a sit-down occur.
At the health care reform sum-mit, I watched one side reach outand the other pull away. WhenSen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., said,“We’re not really that far apart,”and Rep. Rob Andrews, D-N.J.,said, “If we can resolve this [dif-ference], I think we can agree,” Ilooked forward to an engaged
discussion. But I winced whenRepublicans across the tablerepeatedly stated the need tostart over, ignoring the option todiscuss, collaborate andexchange ideas.
The worst of it is that peoplethink this sit-down was such aspecial event. Comedian JohnOliver put it best when he sug-gested that Congress “couldagree to gather in a building reg-ularly to share ideas about howto run the country.” Sounds eeri-ly familiar to what should behappening daily.
The columnist also called theprocess of reconciliation a shadytactic. I think Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., would agree with this, hav-ing recently said, “It’s a bad poli-cy.” But the very same Greggsaid on the floor in March 2005,
“Reconciliation is a rule of theSenate. All this rule does is allowa majority of the Senate to … passa piece of legislation. Now isthere something wrong withmajority rules? I don’t think so.”To which I would agree.
When last I checked, a majori-ty was 51 out of 100, not 60. I waseven considering calling my fifthgrade teacher to have a word withher. Then I hear that since 1980,17 of 23 reconciliation bills weresigned into law by Republicanpresidents alone. This wouldexplain why Obama recentlyasked Congress to vote, saying,“[The health bill] deserves thesame kind of up-or-down vote thatwas cast on welfare reform, theChildren’s Health InsuranceProgram, Cobra health coveragefor the unemployed, and bothBush tax cuts.”
Obama promised to try toreach across the aisle and worktogether, but lately all I havebeen seeing is an opposing sidewhose intention is solely to getwhat they want or not worktogether at all. People look toblame Obama for the lack ofbipartisanship, I say blame yourcongressmen and congress-women. Because if we have todeal with people like Sen. JimBunning, R-Ky., who objectednine times to a 30-day extensionof unemployment benefits formore than one million peopleduring one of the worst reces-sions in history, and who noted,with a laugh, that he was missingthe Kentucky-South Carolinagame that started at 9 p.m., thenI do not think it matters who ourpresident is. Oh and Mr.Bunning, I would think you canafford a TiVo.
Ehud Cohen is a School ofEngineering sophomore.
an impressivevideo stand in forlow grades.However, Tufts’Dean of the Schoolof Arts andSciences Robert J.Sternberg con-tends that thevideos help “assessapplicants’ creativity, wisdom and practicalskills …[and] applicants who are strong inthose areas tend to have higher freshman[grade point averages] and participate inmore extracurricular, leadership and citi-zenship activities in college.” So, it is quitelikely that future applicants will feel thepressure to top current Tufts YouTube sen-sations, like the girl whocreated a dance sequenceinspired by math terms,whether it is optional or not.
Well, maybe you are stillrecuperating from theordeal of getting into theUniversity, but, sooner orlater, you will again set outto distinguish yourself forgraduate school, lawschool, medical school orthe job market. It is a trendthat will follow us the rest of our lives. And,unfortunately, there is nothing that can killthe high of Spring Break like rememberingthese challenges you have ahead of you.
I cannot say I am happy to be repeatingthe miserable pattern of building a skill set,a network and a persona to be evaluated;however, I am incredibly thankful that Iwas spared the process, as well as the anx-iety and feelings of inadequacy associatedwith it, for the first 18 years of my life. Tuftsmay be increasing the pressure it places oncollege applicants, but the intensity of theirapplication procedure is slowly being over-
shadowed by cityprivate preschools.
My motherrecalls that theonly criterion forbeing acceptedinto preschoolwhen I wasenrolled was hav-ing crossed the
milestone of potty training. I did not needto be a numbers wizard, a reading prodigyor show any artistic promise. Yet, today,private preschools with entrance examshave gotten parents feeling as if toddlersneed to diversify their skills and overshad-ow their peers from day one.
The New York Times explored theexpanding role of for-hireoccupational therapists inthis race to breed superiorchildren in “Watch How YouHold That Crayon.” A posi-tion, which was traditionallydesigned to aid disabledchildren in developing theirmotor skills, is now beingused to speed up naturallyacquired processes in per-fectly capable kids. WithinNew York City upper crust
families, occupational therapists arebecoming a staple in childhood educationrather than a last resort.
At least parents and teachers used topretend that we simply had to try ourhardest and show some effort to gainrecognition. Now, the focus is squarely onbeing better than the other guy. Of course,nothing is more representative of thisdrive to surpass one’s peers than forcingearly childhood development to happenahead of schedule.
The mentality that we all need a résumépacked with clubs, awards and internships
just to secure an above-minimum-wage job— or that we need to demonstrateadvanced motor skills just to snag a spot ina mommy-and-me class — is slowly forcingeveryone to feel inadequate.
Certainly, having a competitive attitudehas done positive things for society. But,perhaps this intense pressure to be thebest is simply setting most of us up for fail-ure. With successes, rather than gainingconfidence in yourself and your abilities,you are left wondering: Could I haveachieved this without professional coach-ing? Would I have gotten this job withouthaving padded my credentials? Did I sim-ply cajole, rather than genuinely impress,my interviewer?
Working so hard to outperform others,we lose that sense of having given a task allwe have got — always feeling as if we needto push ourselves to do more. And as theprocess of applying to schools and jobsbecomes more aggressive, even shiningapplicants fear they may be unqualified.When those with top-tier skills, experienceand very little competition push them-selves harder than necessary, they,undoubtedly, give the rest of us a run forour money.
Those crazed parents may not recog-nize it, but it is not a race to be the firstkid in your class to master penmanship.And Tufts may not agree, but adding anapplication component that is accessiblefor the world to see, may simply hoistalready soaring levels of competition to atraumatic point. Contrary to popularopinion, we might all benefit from beinggiven that long-lost “‘A’ for effort” everyonce in awhile.
Larissa Klein is a School of Arts andSciences junior majoring in English and arthistory. Her column “Definition of Insanity”runs on alternate Mondays.
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A handful of Scarlet Knights mayhave never enjoyed a ride on theREXL bus, never eaten a fat sand-
wich from the Grease Trucks or neverattended a football game. Yet, asUniversity students, we have all shared atleast one common experience: Having suf-fered and survived the stress of applyingto this University.
Once accepted, some probably soughtrefuge from these application stressors inthe least scholarly of collegiate pastimes.Spring Break and St. Patrick’s Dayshenanigans might have succeeded as theantidote to mounting pressures — dullingthe gruesome memories of after-schoolactivities, SAT preparation classes andnumbing the pain of upcoming applica-tions. Unfortunately, many of us are stillhaunted by the agonizing months of lec-tures from nagging parents and the end-less lists of advice from harried guidancecounselors we faced back in high school.
The college application process is notfor the weak-hearted and, with each aca-demic year, the competition and, there-fore, the expectations grow. People saythat the essays were painful, and the wait-ing was torturous. But most harrowingwas the desperate attempt to differenti-ate oneself from one’s peers, only to feelas if it was impossible to keep up, letalone outshine them.
If it was not difficult enough to standout scholastically in your activities and inan essay, some schools now encouragestudents to set themselves apart throughmore creative means. Tufts University hasintroduced an optional YouTube submis-sion as part of their undergraduate appli-cations, allowing students to showcasetheir talents, media skills and innovation.
Tufts has stated that a poorly con-structed video submission cannot hurtone’s chances of being accepted, nor will
Competitive attitude not always definitive
“... some schoolsnow encourage students to set
themselves apartthrough more
creative means.”
Definition ofInsanity
LARISSA KLEIN
I n the past few weeks I havenoticed a steady flow of let-ters and comments, with left
and right bashing over healthcare and taxes, but few actualideas or proposals. This changedwhen I read the column,“President abandons promise,”when he stated at the end that tofix our government we shouldvote every single member outand start over. But while this isindeed a tempting plan, the lead-up to this plan involved bashingPresident Barack Obama’s workand not the work — or lackthereof — of our congressmenand congresswomen.
For example, after showingevidence of the American peo-ple’s distrust in the proposedhealth care bill, the authorwrites, “Obama has said he isokay with being a one-term pres-ident, as long as he helped peo-ple. It almost sounds like heexpects people not to be veryhappy with him.” Makes sense tome. Wouldn’t one prefer to be aone-term president who attemptsto enact reform, helping millionsof Americans, rather than a two-term one who sent us to anunnecessary war, drove up thenational debt by slashing tax forthe wealthy and brought us toour current economic state?
Recently, Obama said in aspeech about health reform, “Myproposal would give uninsuredindividuals and small businessowners the same kind of choiceof private health insurance thatmembers of Congress get forthemselves, because if it’s goodenough for members ofCongress, it’s good enough forthe people who pay their
Blame Congress for partisanship
EHUD COHEN
Letter
O il is a diminishing andexpensive source ofenergy, and coal is dirty.
Alternative energy sources,including solar and wind power,can only provide 10 to 20 percentof our energy requirements.
President Barack Obama hasincreased government loan guar-anties for new nuclear powerplants from $18.5 to $54.5 billion,which should give impetus to thenuclear power industry.
There are 20 nuclear plantsundergoing decommissioning,and we could construct new2,000 megawatt units at thesesites for a reduced investmentby using the existing infrastruc-ture. Nuclear plants have provid-ed clean, cheap and safe powerfrom 104 units. The only acci-dent was at Three Mile Island,where almost all of the radiationwas contained in the contain-ment building. Subsequently,
Nuclear energy necessary for progress
DONALD MOSKOWITZ
Letter
“... I say blame yourcongressmen andcongresswomen.”
that today, as you walk to class,to the dining hall, or to thegym, do not walk past the peo-ple telling you to go vote, donot avert your gaze or avoidthe polling places. Instead,please take a minute beforeclass, after class or even duringclass because you are bored,and vote in the Referendum.And vote YES!
Neil P. Kypers is editor-in-chiefof The Daily Targum. He is aSchool of Arts and Sciences juniormajoring in political science witha minor in philosophy.
the Nuclear RegulatoryCommission made changes inhow it regulates nuclear powerplants, and this has significantlyreduced any risk to public safety.
We have to address the prob-lem of leaking radioactive waste-water from underground pipes.The solution might be usinghigher quality pipes or movingthe pipes above ground wherethey can be easily monitored.
Another problem is the dis-posal of nuclear waste, whichhas been collecting on plantsites. The solution is to neutral-ize and recycle the waste.France has perfected a processto recycle nuclear waste, and itis able to generate 80 percent ofits energy requirements fromnuclear power.
We need more nuclear powerplants to counter the effects ofglobal warming, eliminate for-eign oil purchases and reducethe use of fossil fuels.
Donald Moskowitz is a residentof Londonderry, N.H.
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Today's birthday (3/22/10). The cosmos provide the challengeof intense work this year. To make the most of your opportuni-ties, keep your purpose in mind with the help of a note on yourmirror or a mantra on your tongue. Observe carefully before youcriticize. Dream as big as you dare! To get the advantage, checkthe day's rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
Aries (March 21-April 19) —Today is a 7 — A female livensup the work environment withrude jokes about people inpower. Try not to fall off yourchair laughing. Remember thepunch line for later.Taurus (April 20-May 20) —Today is a 7 — The taskmaster isback! Never let it be said thatyou can't get the work done. Letco-workers fend for themselves.Gemini (May 21-June 21) —Today is a 6 — Today youunderstand what someone'sbeen trying to tell you for thelast few days. Sometimes dis-tance allows you to perceivethe level of caring.Cancer (June 22-July 22) —Today is a 6 — Words trulymatter today. What you saynow could come back to hauntyou. Stick to practical concernsif possible.Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Todayis a 6 — You might take up anew area of study now. Some-one needs to do the research,and it might as well be you.Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) —Today is a 6 — Set the barhigh where communication isconcerned. Clarity is essential.Add persuasive language toclinch the deal.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) —Today is a 7 — Who said hardwork can't be fun? If you havesomeone to share the task, youcan enjoy the sore muscles. Addgood music, and a tea party later.Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) —Today is a 6 — Ease into work.You don't need to hit theground running. Take amoment to review and choosethe best strategy. Caution winsover impulsiveness.Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) —Today is a 5 — Try to get offthe hot seat today. You've takenenough punishment. Use yourtalents to escape, or wave amagic wand and disappear.Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) —Today is a 6 — It's Monday.Embrace your work, pay atten-tion and save the dreamy moodfor later. Persuade yourself thatyou're in the right place.Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) —Today is an 8 — Personal energyfeeds on basic logic. What yousee, in many ways, is what you get.No frills are necessary just now.Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) —Today is an 8 — Dip into cashreserves for a creative pur-chase. Be sure you've shoppedfor a bargain, but also demandquality. It's an investment.
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to see a vision, a dream and agoal that I had coming here isstarting to take suit.”
Hill did not gointo many specificswhen asked aboutwhat needs to bedone to improvethe program but he did singleout an upgrade to facilities.
Pernetti hasalready statedplans for a renova-tion to the 31-year-old Louis BrownAthletic Centerthat would include a new practicecourt, scoreboard, playing floorand locker rooms.
“One of the big things is thefacilities and the renovation of theRAC, and the addition of a practice
facility,” Hill said.“We have greatsupport in thisadministration —for them to go outand be able toraise the money tomove this for-ward; this is a veryexciting time.”
As he’s alwaysdone, Hill refusedto quantify suc-cess as a numberand said it won’t
be judged on whether he makesthe NCAA tournament in yearfive. But he did reveal that a .500
Big East season is a realistic goalfor this team.
Everybody on the rosterexcept senior center HamadyN’Diaye is expected to return.
“This is the type of team, and I’venever mentioned it before because Ididn’t think it was a realistic goal inmy first four years here, to talk aboutwhere we want to take the program.But this is a team I feel very confi-dent about that can be a .500 team inthe Big East,” Hill said. “I think ifyou’re a .500 team in the Big Eastand finish in the top-eight in the con-ference with that record, then youare an NCAA tournament team.
“That’s where I’m looking tohead and I love the guys comingback. I think that’s a very realisticgoal for us and this program.”
The 15 wins were the most inHill’s four years, but during histenure Rutgers is just 47-77 over-all and 13-57 in the Big East.
“There was no sense ofurgencies on my part for any-thing except to move this pro-gram for ward,” Hill said. “Ilook forward to meetings likethe one we had today. Ithought we had a great meet-ing and I’m really excitedabout the guys in the programand what they can do. I’mexcited that we can really start
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MEETING: Hill targets
next season for Tourney berth
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T he Rutgers baseballteam had a successfulSpring Break, winning
six of its eight contests inFlorida and Virginia.
The Knights swept FloridaInternational by a combinedscore of 46-30 and took two-of-three from both Florida Atlanticand Old Dominion.
For full coverage, see tomor-row’s edition.
THE RUTGERS MEN’Slacrosse team kicked off itsSpring Break with victories overPenn State and Marist, but fell toArmy Saturday at West Point.
The Scarlet Knights bravedthe weather against the NittanyLions in a 7-4 win and outlastedMarist by a score of 10-9. TheBlack Knights got the better ofRU in an 11-8 decision.
For full coverage, see tomor-row’s edition.
THE RUTGERS WOMEN’Slacrosse dropped its first tworoad games during SpringBreak, but got off the schnidewith an 11-8 victory in Coloradoagainst Denver.
The first loss came againstHofstra, when the Pride nar-rowly claimed a 10-9 victory indouble overtime. Loyola domi-nated the scorecard inBaltimore, beating RU 18-6.
For full coverage, see tomor-row’s edition.
THE RUTGERS TENNISteam won two of its threeSpring Break matches, top-ping Towson State and No. 24Nova Southeastern but fallingto No. 5 Barry.
The Knights played all of thematches in Miami, and openedthe three-game trip with a 7-0 vic-tory over Towson State. They fellto Barry 6-3, but rebounded to topNova Southeastern by a 5-2 score.
For full coverage, see tomor-row’s edition.
THE RUTGERS MEN’S ANDwomen’s track and field teamsopened their spring seasons atthe USF Bulls Invitational inTampa and combined for fiveindividual titles.
Both of the men’s victoriescame in the field, with sopho-more Adam Bergo winning thehigh jump and classmate JamesPlummer taking home the dis-cus title.
For the women, juniorNwamaka Okobi won the triplejump, senior Michelle Gomes fin-ished first in the 200-meter dashand senior Jessica Bandy andsophomore Alex Kelly combinedfor a one-two finish in the javelin.
For full coverage, see tomor-row’s edition.
“I’m excited that wecan ... start to see a vision, a dream
and a goal that I had ... is starting
to take suit.”FRED HILL JR.
Head Coach
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there were a lot of times wherewe’d get the steal and couldn’t con-vert,” said senior forward MyiaMcCurdy. “What we need to do offthe 55 is to convert off of every play— that would have helped us.”
All five Hawkeye startersscored in double figures.
Rutgers (19-15) opened thegame 2-of-10 from the floorbefore settling into an offensiveflow. The Hawkeyes, meanwhile,turned to the inside-out combo ofcenter Morgan Johnson andguard Jaime Printy for the bulkof their scoring.
Johnson scored six straightpoints on the Hawkeye’s 6-0 runmidway through the first period,while Printy went 2-of-3 from thethree-point line. The duo enteredhalftime with eight points each,ahead 28-21.
The final blow to RU’s up-and-down season, the game is notone that Stringer’s players willsoon forget — all for the better,she said.
“I hope that we do remember[this game],” Stringer said. “Ihope that it does hurt, I hope thatit stings and I hope that weremember why this happened —paying attention to small things,because small things do matter.”
ANDREW HOWARD/ SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER/ FILE PHOTO
Senior guard Brittany Ray finished her Scarlet Knights career with a
15-point performance in the first-round, NCAA Tournament loss.
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BY STEVEN WILLIAMSONSENIOR WRITER
STANFORD, Calif. — All theRutgers women’s basketball teamwas playing for against Iowa was
another 40minutes.
An additional 2,400 seconds ofgame time, another chance tostep out on the hardwood. Theprospect of not having to gohome after only one game, thechance for more experience.
That wish was not granted.Now, with three seniors grad-
uating, the Scarlet Knights havesix returning players for nextyear. The only question thatremains for them is what will theytake out of Saturday’s loss?
“I think we’ve got a whole lotmore to do,” said head coach C.Vivian Stringer. “How good canwe be? I don’t know, I couldn’thave told you what we were goingto do coming in here.
“So much of winning has to dowith the mental mindset. You canhave all the skill in the world butif your mind’s not tough or if yourmind doesn’t think like it shouldthen what difference does itmake? The jury’s still out.”
At the least, it was an atypi-cal postseason experience forthe Knights.
Coming into the season, RUmade an appearance in the Sweet16 for five straight years. Thisseason, the Hawkeyes ousted theKnights before they even gottheir foot in the door.
Though RU put up a valiantef fort and one of its more com-plete games of the season, itstill came up short. Iowa’s del-uge of three-pointers in the sec-ond half was simply too muchto overcome.
Now, with the departure ofRU’s only three upperclassmen,all eyes are on the returning six.To some, the lack of a seniorpresence next season could beseen as a negative.
Sophomore forward ChelseyLee views it as an opportunity.
“What I think is great aboutthe returning class is we don’t
have the seniors,” Lee said. “So ifwe don’t know each other by nowwe’ll have a bunch of time overthe summer and two more yearsof playing together and hopefullywe can make it all the way to thebig game.”
Though their tournament lifeonly lasted one game, Stringersaid she was determined to makesure that all six of the Knights’returning players got a taste of anNCAA Tournament game.
In last season’s tournament,Stringer kept her freshmen onthe bench out of the desire to“survive,” she said. But Lee,sophomore guard Nikki Speedand classmates April Sykes andKhadijah Rushdan all saw crucialminutes against the Hawkeyes.Freshmen Monique Oliver andErica Wheeler made appearancesof their own down the stretch.
“I will say that all of themgot really valuable experience,”Stringer said. “I was quick tomake substitutions to getever ybody a taste, assumingthat everybody was going toget in and make a dif ference inthe game.”
An area of concern cominginto Saturday’s contest was whichKnights team would show up.Would it be the RU squad thatfired on all cylinders againstLouisville, or upset Georgetownin two overtimes? Or would it bethe team that looked listless andlost in a blowout loss at homeagainst Syracuse?
Though the Knights held theirown against Iowa, the pattern ofinconsistency is something thatthe returning squad knows theymust address.
“We waited too late to find ourintensity and to know the type ofteam that we are,” Lee said. “Wehave to learn who we are andidentify. ‘We’re the ScarletKnights, we’re a running team.We’re the Scarlet Knights, we’re adefensive team. We’re the ScarletKnights, we’re a pressing team.’”
After the game, an emotionalSpeed admitted that the roller-coaster quality of the season wasone of its biggest detriments.
NCAA experience invaluable for young squad
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
ANDREW HOWARD/ SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER/ FILE PHOTO
Freshman center Monique Oliver (44) scored four points and added two rebounds against Iowa as head
coach C. Vivian Stringer made an effort to give all her players NCAA Tournament experience.
“We can’t have that,” the guardsaid. “That hurts us. Roller coast-ers hurt us.”
Four years ago, RU’s depart-ing trio of seniors were usheredinto the sport’s biggest stage onthe backs of their upperclassmenbut were never able to return.
And while the team fell shortthis year, there is always some-thing to be learned. Starting next
season, the Knights’ destiny liesin the hands of its four juniors —what they make of this yearremains to be seen.
But despite the disappoint-ment of the year, Stringer seesthe underlying potential.
“[The seniors] came into a sit-uation, those juniors took them toplay in a national championshipand that was an incredible ride,”
Stringer said. “Unfortunately weas a team were not strong enoughthis year — the seniors as well asthe heralded, if you will, fresh-men and sophomores — to sus-tain the real kind of pressure andexpectations that were upon us.
“So we struggled quite a bit,but I do believe that ultimately,before they leave, they will enjoythat kind of success.”
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Coach firings and early exits shake up Big EastBY SAM HELLMAN
CORRESPONDENT
Maybe the Big East’s overcon-f i d e n c ewas itsw e a k -ness orper haps
its faith inits friends. Whatever the cause,the conference that put eightteams in the NCAA Tournamentand another five in the NationalInvitational Tournament, set itselfback decades with embarrassingperformances on and off thecourt since the conclusion of theconference tournament.
In the 12 days since CountryRoads blared in West Virginia’svictory at Madison SquareGarden, nine of the conference’s13 teams in the postseason lost inthe first two rounds and twocoaches made headlines as theirschools fired them.
SETON HALL GAVE BOBBYGonzalez the boot after a brutalhome loss to Texas Tech in thefirst round of the NationalInvitational Tournament.Gonzalez’ off the floor antics com-bined with zero postseason suc-cess proved to be his downfall.
Forward Herb Pope, ejectedin the first half, punched aTexas Tech player below thebelt twice in the 87-69 loss at thePrudential Center.
Robert “Stix” Mitchell, kickedoff the team before the game byGonzalez, also made headlinesafter police arrested him for duct-
taping and robbing eight peopleat gunpoint.
ST. JOHN’S ALSO FIRED ITScoach, Norm Roberts, after a firstround NIT loss to Memphis. TheTigers won, 73-71, at home on abuzzer-beater.
THE FIRST WEEKEND OF THENCAA Tournament is where thebrunt of the embarrassmentcame to fruition. Second seededVillanova, after barely survivingagainst No. 15 Robert Morris inthe first round, crumpled againstNo. 10 St. Mary’s Saturday in thesecond round.
President Barack Obama’sFinal Four pick from the Southbracket allowed St. Mary’s centerOmar Samhan to score 32 pointsin a 75-68 victory.
All-American guard ScottieReynolds’ career with theWildcats came to an end as theHerndon, Va., native shot a com-bined 4-for-26 in the two games.
POPULAR ELITE EIGHTpick Georgetown, a three-seedand runner-up for the Big Eastcrown, put up an insufficienteffort against 14th-seeded Ohioand become the first three-seedto lose in the first round inthree years.
The Hoyas fell, 97-83, allowingthe most points ever in theschool’s NCAA Tournament his-tory. After the loss, center GregMonroe told the media heplanned to return to Georgetownnext season rather than declarefor the NBA Draft.
NO. 6 SEEDS MARQUETTEand Notre Dame suffered similarfates as both started slowly andlost tight contests to 11 seeds.
For the Fighting Irish, star cen-ter Luke Harangody had no impactin his final game, scoring a measlyfour points in the 51-50 loss to OldDominion. Marquette made thePac-10 look impressive by falling80-78 to Washington. Four startersscored at least 13 points for theGolden Eagles behind 63 percentshooting beyond the arc, but it wasnot enough.
SYRACUSE AND WESTVirginia helped the conferencesave face, cruising to the Sweet 16as respective one and two seeds.
The Orange cruised past 16-seed Vermont and eight-seedGonzaga in the first two rounds,winning by a combined 45 pointsin the contests. Similarly, theMountaineers handled theiropponents, 15-seed Morgan Stateand 10-seed Missouri, andadvance to face 11th-seededWashington.
Three-seed Pittsburgh nar-rowly missed out on the round of16, after missing two last-secondthree-pointers in a 71-68 loss tosixth-seed Xavier.
CONNECTICUT ANDCincinnati both remain alive inthe NIT after South Florida lost58-57 to North Carolina State inthe first round.
Both play tonight with theHuskies facing No.1 seedVirginia Tech and Cincinnati fac-ing No. 3 seed Dayton.
JEN KONG
Officials ejected Seton Hall forward Herb Pope (15) from the Pirates’
opening-round NIT loss after he punched a player below the belt.
BIG EASTPOSTSEASON REPORT
MEN’S BASKETBALL
BY JOSH GLATTSTAFF WRITER
For most students, Spring Breakis a carefree time. Going to a warmlocation is the sole focus. For the
Rutgersgymnas-t i c st e a m ,r e l a x -ation was
not possible, but it was a rewardingbreak nonetheless. During the weekoff, the Scarlet Knights participatedin two meets, winning one of them.
RU hosted Towson and Yale onMarch 13 in the final home meet of
the season. The Knights did notallow the pressure of giving seniorsAlyssa Lewandowski, PrishaniSeebadri and Laura Sevarino a goodsendoff impact their performancenegatively. The entire team rose tothe occasion, scoring a 192.675 —its highest score since 2005.
“It was senior night and all thegirls wanted to do a great job forthe seniors,” head coach ChrystalChollet-Norton said. “I was reallynice for the seniors. We had avery good crowd.”
Despite experiencing the emo-tion of competing in the LivingstonRecreation Center for the last time,the three seniors all managed to
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Senior Laura Sevarino capped her home career with the Knights by
earning a season-high 9.775 on the beam against Townson and Yale.
“I just wrestled stupid[against Williamson],” Russosaid. “After that I got on kind of aroll but then they took a breakafter my second match on Friday,which threw me off. You don’twant to take a break when youhave momentum.”
Of the six other Knights thatcompeted in the tournament,two grapplers — Dan Rinaldiand Joe Langel — took part intheir first NCAA championshipand neither disappointed.
In the 174-pound bracket,Rinaldi advanced to the secondday after winning his openingmatch but falling to eventualchampion Jay Borschel of Iowa,knocking him into the consola-tion bracket.
In the second day of competi-tion, Rinaldi dropped a hard-fought 5-4 decision to fifth-seed-ed Scott Glaser of Minnesota.
“It was definitely a great expe-rience,” Rinaldi said. “I used to goto tournaments to watch mybrother wrestle but I can’t put intowords how different it is being outon the mat in that atmosphere.”
Langel, wrestling in the 125-pound bracket, got off on theright foot in his first tournamentby upsetting 10th-seededChristopher Ntee with an impres-sive 11-5 score. The redshirtfreshman dropped his next bout,moving him to the consolationbracket and on to the second daywhere Ross Gitomer of Virginiaeliminated him.
“I think [the freshmen] did agreat job,” Russo said. “They gotexperience and that is the mostimportant thing to take awayfrom the national tournament.You see guys who have big yearsin the regular season but then
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have performances to remember.Sevarino posted a season high of9.775 on beam and tied her careerhigh of 9.750 on bars en route to ateam-leading all around score of38.575. Seebadri tied a season highscore of 9.750 in vault.Lewandowski continued the trendof setting personal bests with acareer-high 9.800 in floor exercises.
“I was really happy that theseniors finished their careers athome on a high note,” Chollet-Norton said.
The Knights traveled Southon March 20 to compete againstNorth Carolina. In a meet thatwas largely out of reach, RU fell196.225-187.200.
Leading up to the meet, theKnights faced flooding in theirgym’s foam pit that the team wastasked with cleaning, a brokentoilet on the bus, lost cell phonesand purses, and nausea on thelong bus ride to Chapel Hill, N.C.
“We just got to a point wherewe had to laugh,” Chollet-Nortonsaid. “We already made Nationalsand we just had to move on.”
On top of all that, the Knightswere also without freshman JennaZito, one of the team’s most con-sistent performers. After compet-ing in all around in every meetand establishing herself as one ofthe team’s top performers,Chollet-Norton gave Zito the meetoff. She suffered from an ankleinjury in practice and Chollet-Norton wanted to play it safe.
Despite the loss, there were sev-eral bright spots for RU. FreshmanEmma-Rose Trentacosti scored acareer-high 9.700 in vault to leadthe team. After setting her season-high in beam in her previous meetwith a 9.775, Sevarino tied thatscore to finish second overall.
The team returns to action onMarch 27 at the East AtlanticGymnastics League Championships.
malfunction mentally at the tour-nament and they defeat them-selves. Experience is somethingyou can’t have enough of.”
Junior Billy Ashnault alsoadvanced to the second day ofcompetition after a rough end tohis regular season. After notplacing at the EasternIntercollegiate WrestlingAssociation conference tourna-ment one-week prior, Ashnaultwas given an at-large bid to com-pete in the national tournament.
The Lock Haven transfermade the most of his opportunity,going 2-2 in Omaha highlightedby his opening round technicalfall over Joe Pantaleo of Liberty.
“We always stress that youwant to wrestle your best inMarch, and for [Ashnault], itwas late March,” Goodale said.“He was only a few wins awayfrom doing something special.He was in a great mindset, andonce you get to that level, any-thing can happen.”
Junior Daryl Cocozzo, seniorLamar Brown and sophomoreTrevor Melde did not make it tothe second day, dropping thefirst two matches in theirrespective brackets on the firstday of competition.
Top-ranked Iowa won itsthird-straight team title with134.5 points. Fellow EIWA squadCornell came in second with 90points. The Knights finished in32nd place with 18 points.
The Knights’ quest for an All-American leads them to theWachovia Center inPhiladelphia, the site of nextyears’ NCAA Championships.
“I can’t wait,” Rinaldi said. “Ialready have a lot of friends andfamily telling me that they wantto come out to the tournamentand watch me wrestle. It’sgoing to be incredible being soclose to Rutgers. Hopefully I’llbe able to make it and wrestlehard for everyone.”
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BY SAM HELLMANCORRESPONDENT
Since an abysmal start inwhich the Rutgers softball team
lost fivestraightg a m e sby at o t a lscore of
50-1, a new squad emerged.The Scarlet Knights never
quite pulled the title belt downfrom the top of the ladder in tour-nament play, but they went fromout cold on the mat to climbingthe ladder in the final three tour-naments of the season.
RU won its first game in thesecond week of the tournamentseason and 6-out-of-10 in the finaltwo tournaments. Take away anuncharacteristic 0-5 start, and theKnights are 9-9 and heating upwith the weather.
“We’ve come a long way fromour first game and that was kindof what I had in mind,” saidhead coach Jay Nelson. “I want-ed the team to see where theyhad to get and they’re startingto do that.”
The last time out, the Knightsswept a double-header againstMissouri State behind the tagteam of ace hurlers NicoleLindley and Holly Johnson.
Lindley, the team’s lone sen-ior, beat up the Bears in a 5-1 vic-tory — striking out eight battersin a complete game, though sheallowed 10 base runners.
A big home run by junior firstbaseman Mandy Craig and threeRBI provided the offensive sparkin the victory.
The second game of the dou-ble-header made for the Knights’most convincing win of the sea-son. Without a home run, RU put12 runs on the board to just onefor Missouri State. The first fourspots in the batting order com-
bined to go 6-for-17 with five RBIand junior left fielder MickenzieAlden had three hits, two RBI andthree runs out of the ninth slot inthe order.
“We just improved,” Nelsonsaid. “We keep getting betterevery game. We’re hitting prettywell and our pitchers areimproving. They’re starting tocontrol games.”
Johnson never let the Bearscome close, holding them with-out an earned run and strikingout seven in her second completegame victory of the season.
“Defensively we made somereally good plays. We only hadone error in the double-headerand it didn’t hurt us. Mickenziealso had a great over-the-shoul-der grab at the fence to savesome runs.”
Prior to the double-headersweep of Missouri State, theKnights fell 6-3 to Wichita Stateand placed as the runner-up in atournament in Stillwater, Okla.
In the loss to Wichita State,catcher Kylee Bishop drove intwo runs out of the clean-up spot,but the combination of all fourRU pitchers gave up threeearned runs and three unearnedin the loss.
In the tournament, theKnights qualified for the finalsthrough an 8-5 victory overWisconsin in the semifinals, butlost to host Oklahoma State in thechampionship game.
“We started off slowly butwe improved and we got intothe championship game,”Nelson said. “Bad calls hurt usotherwise it may have been adif ferent result.”
The Cowgirls shut out RU,2-0, but Nelson said a missedcall by the umpire on a hit-by-pitch with the bases loadedchanged an inning that shouldhave resulted in runs for theKnights (9-14).
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Senior Nicole Lindley threw a complete game and recorded eight
strikeouts in the first half of a double-header sweep of Missouri State.
BY KEVIN O’ROURKESTAFF WRITER
Heading into her fourth andfinal Zone A Diving Championship,senior co-captain of the Rutgers
swimmingand diving
team Erin Saunders felt she was peaking at the right time.Judging by last weekend’s results,she was correct.
Saunders racked up 550.20points to post a career-best sixthplace finish in the three-meterdive and matched her 2007 show-ing in the one-meter, placing fifthwith 528.60 points.
“It was good to see theimprovement there,” saidSaunders. “Every other year Iwent into Zones and I was tired orI was hurt and this year it was justreally exciting. I wasn’t tired, Iwasn’t sore, there was nothingkeeping me from doing well so Ijust let myself go and it was great.”
Amanda Burke of Rider tallied672.30 points to take top honorson the three-meter board and nar-rowly missed out on adding theone-meter title to her résumé, fin-ishing seven points behind MeiliCarpenter of Buffalo. The two
headlined a strong field thatexpanded to include divers fromcompeting institutions inMaryland and Virginia for thefirst time.
Despite the depth of the field,Saunders made a strong bid toqualify for the NCAAChampionships. Needing to placesixth or better to earn an invite tothe Championships, she finished10th out of 43 divers.
“She dove tough,” Rutgers div-ing coach Fred Woodruff said ofSaunders. “She made some errors,but that’s life. She had a good lastmeet and I was happy she couldput together a nice weekend. Shecompeted very well.Unfortunately, she kind of fell a lit-tle bit short of getting to Purdue,[host of the NCAAs,] but she hadsome great competition too. “
Competing on her homeboards in her final college eventmade the experience all the moreenjoyable for Saunders.Teammates, family and friendswere all in attendance at theRutgers Aquatics Center to rooton the Holmes, Pa., native.
“I wasn’t stressed out about it,”Saunders said of diving in front ofher home crowd. “After I dove
prelims, in both events, I just hadthis calmness come over me and itwas cool because it was the finalsand that’s when I dove my best.”
Saunders was also able toblock out the distraction thatgoes with the realization of theend of her Knights career — evenif it has yet to fully register.
“During the meet, it started tohit me a little bit and I think that’swhen I relaxed and kind of gotthat calm feeling,” she said.“Immediately afterwards, I wasupset but I don’t think it will fullyhit me until next week when theother girls are going back to prac-tice and I don’t have to.”
Junior Jen Betz and freshmanKatie Kearney return to lead theKnights’ divers next season, butWoodruff made no bones about it— Saunders will be missed.
“I’m going to miss her likecrazy,” said Woodruff. “She’s agreat person. Regardless of thediving, she’s really a pleasure tocoach, to go to practice every dayand have her there and just to talkabout things that have nothing todo with diving. She was definitelydedicated. She led by example aswell as in word. She’s really a hardperson to replace.”
Strong finish caps Saunders’ career
DIVING
BY TYLER BARTOSTAFF WRITER
As the 2010 spring football sea-son approaches, Rutgers head foot-ball coach Greg Schiano knows that
his youngr o s t e r ,
comprised of 62 players with threeor four years of eligibility remain-ing, will have to mix and match.
That process will be furthermagnified by the absence of a fewnotables, who will miss springpractice with offseason surgeryand rehabilitation.
Chief among the absentees isjunior offensive lineman DesmondWynn, who will not participate inspring drills after shoulder sur-gery. Wynn, who started at bothguard positions last season, will beready for summer practice,Schiano said.
Without Wynn, the of fensiveline, which lost three startersfollowing the 2009 campaign,will undoubtedly take on a dif-ferent look during spring ball.
“I’m not really sure,” saidSchiano when asked about the
makeup of his offensive line. “WithDesmond down, I know the guysthat are going to be in the mix.We’re going to move guys around.”
Sophomore running backDe’Antwan “Rocket” Williams willalso be forced out of practice follow-ing knee surgery in the offseason.
Following Jourdan Brooks’transfer to Morgan State,Williams is expected to competefor viable playing time behind jun-ior Joe Martinek. But Williams’absence opens the door for juniorTyrone Putman, a former Rutgerstrack runner, who will likely getsubstantial carries in spring ballalong with a few others.
“I see things there,” saidSchiano of Putman, a FortWashington, Md., native. “Andhe’s going to get a shot now. He’sgoing to figure out if he’s goodenough to do it at this level or not.”
Another back that will likelyadd to the position’s summercompetition is fifth-year seniorKordell Young. The oft-injuredYoung had knee surgery after the2009 season and is ready for sum-mer practice, Schiano said.
The West Deptford, N.J., nativeled the Scarlet Knights in rushingin 2008 with 554 yards, but wasplagued by recurring knee injuriesthat forced Martinek into action asa freshman.
In a non-football-related inci-dent, early-enrollee Betim Bujarihas an undisclosed injury, forcinghim to miss spring practice.
The freshman offensive line-man was expected to compete foropen positions, but his injurydelays that opportunity.
“It’s a shame about Betim’s sit-uation because he was ready togo, but you can’t mess aroundwith some things that need to betaken care of,” Schiano said.“We’ll do that and then we’ll gethim back in the summer time.”
The other Knights who willnot be able to participate in thecoming weeks include tight endFabian Ruiz, wide receiver JamalMerrell, linebacker ColinMcEvoy, linebacker MarvinBooker, and wide receiver MasonRobinson, who suffered a season-ending knee injury in last sea-son’s opener against Cincinnati.
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Sophomore tailback De’Antwan “Rocket” Williams will miss the Knights’ spring practices after undergoing knee
surgery during the offseason. The Woodbrige, Va., native is expected to return for the summer camp.
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Three-pointersrain on helplessScarlet Knights
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Head men’s basketball coach Fred Hill will remain at the helm for his fifth season aftermeeting with athletic director Tim Pernetti and putting an end to rumors of his dismissal.
BY STEVEN WILLIAMSONSENIOR WRITER
STANFORD, Calif. — Minutes after theRutgers women’s basketball team’s 70-63 lossat the hands of Iowa, a subdued Brittany Ray
sat at the podium.The Scarlet
Knights’ NCAATournament lifelasted only 40 min-utes, and her career
in a Rutgers uniform finally came to an end.After the team’s up-and-down season finishedon the Hawkeyes’ terms, the senior guardreflected on her time as a Knight.
“I’d have to say the season was a little bitof a rollercoaster but we showed up near theend,” Ray said. “Being a senior you want togo out differently and advance as far as youcan, but unfortunately we lost our first game.But it was just a blessing that I was able tocome here and get a scholarship and play forCoach Stringer.”
RU saw four players score in double fig-ures, including 15 points from Ray and 14from sophomore forward Chelsey Lee.
Statistically, Saturday’s game was one ofthe strongest the Knights played this season.The Knights sported an even assist-to-turnover ratio and a 52 percent shooting clipbolstered it in the second half.
But in the end, the Hawkeyes were sim-ply better, outrebounding the Knights 39-29 and hitting 44 percent of their three-point opportunities.
“Honestly, if we had to lose to somebodythere’s no other team I’d like to lose to thanthe Iowa Hawkeyes,” said Rutgers headcoach C. Vivian Stringer. “I thought that weplayed hard, but Iowa is just better. We justweren’t quick enough and they played a bet-ter game today.”
After facing a deficit for the majority of thegame, RU finally regained the lead with justover 14 minutes to play on a layup by Lee.
While RU increased its lead to five, theHawkeyes’ Kachine Alexander drained back-to-back threes to reclaim the narrow advantage.
Iowa’s three-point shooting was as lethalas advertised. Though the Hawkeyes wentonly 2-for-11 from downtown in the first half,they more than compensated in the secondwith an 8-of-12 shooting clip.
“We’re exchanging twos and they’reexchanging threes. We are not a three-pointshooting team, number one,” Stringer said.“So it looked like we were scoring more, butwhen you’re making that many threes, that’swhat going to happen.”
Neither team took a commanding advan-tage, swapping buckets through the final min-utes. With only 3:35 remaining in the game,RU found itself trailing by only three, butnever got over the hump. Iowa drained anoth-er three-pointer while RU imploded, turningthe ball over back-to-back possessions as theHawkeyes stormed ahead on a 7-0 run.
The Knights had one final shot at bring-ing the game within a single possession on asteal by sophomore guard Nikki Speed, butthe ball rolled around the rim and off, endingRU’s hopes of the comeback win.
“We were not very smart today,” Stringersaid. “Anxious and excited, but not very smart,and that’s why we’re sitting here with the ‘L.’We knew what Iowa was going to do, there wasnothing that they did that surprised us.”
The Knights pulled out all the stops, butcould not find the winning formula.
Stringer shuffled the lineup, looking forthe perfect combination to stifle theHawkeyes’ attack. The Knights whipped outthe 55-press repeatedly, but struggled to gen-erate points off their defense.
“I think when we actually picked up thepress we did a good job getting the steals, but
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Hill stays onafter meetingwith Pernetti
BY KYLE FRANKOCORRESPONDENT
Fred Hill Jr. is not got going anywhere —at least not next year.
Rutgers athletic director Tim Pernettia n n o u n c e dWednesday that Hill
will remain the men’s basketball head coach.“Fred Hill is under contract as our men’s
basketball head coach,” Pernetti said in astatement. “We had a productive meetingand look forward to working together tobuild the program.”
The two met Wednesday afternoon to dis-cuss the goals and needs of the program andHill said the meeting went very well.
“We had a great meeting about the direc-tion of the program like we do at the end ofevery year,” Hill said in a teleconference. “Itwas my first opportunity to sit down with Timand we’re excited where we are going andthe support of the administration.”
If Hill were fired, the University wouldowe him just over $1.5 million with that totalrising to $1.8 million if he was let go afterApril 5.
Rumors regarding Hill’s future persistedfor the majority of the season. The ScarletKnights started Big East play 0-8 before fin-ishing 5-13 in the league and 15-17 overallrecord. They fell to Cincinnati 69-68 in theopening round of the Big East tournament.
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Redshirt freshmen Dan Rinaldi, top, and Joe Langel got a taste of the national spotlight this weekend when they joinedfive other Knights at the NCAA Championships in Omaha, Neb. Both grapplers advanced to the second day of wrestling.
No All-Americans cues bittersweet endingBY ALEX JANKOWSKIASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
The season came to a close for the finalseven members of the Rutgers wrestlingteam this weekend at the 80th NCAA
Championships inOmaha, Neb. And
although the Scarlet Knights sent themost wrestlers to nationals since 1960,their quest to bring home an All-Americanfell short.
“I’m a little disappointed we didn’t bringhome an All-American, but that’s not on anyone of our wrestlers, they all did a great job,”
said head coach Scott Goodale. “Somethingwe learned as a coaching staff is that it’s allabout being tough. We can compete from atechnical and a talent standpoint, but youhave to be mentally tough. We are going tostress that area.”
All year long the frontrunner to reach All-American status on the RU roster was heavy-weight D.J. Russo. The junior fell one matchshort of earning the honor, when he droppeda 4-2 decision in overtime to defending cham-pion Mark Ellis of Missouri.
For the Knights, their drought without anAll-American extended to eight years withthe loss, not having an All-American since
2002 when Tom Tanis earned the distinction. “This will drive [Russo],” Goodale said.
“We have come a long way but we have tobreak through on that level. There are guysout there that believe they are always goingto win, we have to work on spreading thatmentality to our guys.”
The road in the tournament becametougher for Russo when he was upset 3-0 byWest Virginia’s Brandon Williamson. Fallinginto the consolation bracket, the Netcong,N.J., native rebounded by pinning two oppo-nents to set a date with Ellis.
