THE D AILY T ARGUM Volume 141, Number 119 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 ARTS AND CRAFTS Today: Partly cloudy High: 82 • Low: 54 With their fifth Biennial underway, The Whitney Museum gives young and up-and-coming artists an opportunity to showcase the fruits of their vast skill and imagination. ONLINE @ DAILYTARGUM.COM DIVERSIONS ...... 12 CLASSIFIEDS ...... 14 SPORTS ...... BACK The first candidate for dean of Douglass campus discusses her vision for the campus. Students share their opinions on this year’s five-band Rutgersfest lineup. UNIVERSITY PENDULUM OPINIONS ....... 10 THURSDAY APRIL 8, 2010 PENDULUM ....... 9 UNIVERSITY ....... 3 Undergraduate students with 45 or greater degree credits can register for Fall 2010 classes tonight from 10:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. No one was injured in yesterday’s three-car collision in front of the Student Activities Center on the College Avenue campus, where a pickup truck crashed into a parked Ford Taurus, which then landed on top of a parked Honda Civic. RAMON DOMPOR/ ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR Facility opens new identity at U. Three-car crash causes delays on George Street BY ARMANDO ALVAREZ STAFF WRITER The petals from the cherry blossoms across campus draped Livingston yesterday afternoon as University President Richard L. McCormick cut the red rib- bon to officially unveil the new student center. Also present were Sen. Bob Smith, D-17, Piscataway Mayor Brian C. Wahler, Vice President for Student Affairs Gregory S. Blimling, Livingston College senior Victoria Rowlands and Executive Director of Student Life Elizabeth O’Connell-Ganges. “There has yet to be an institution on campus with as many spaces to utilize,” O’Connell-Ganges said. “We’re having an open house to show- case all the new technology.” The grand opening cele- bration highlighted the new facilities and technology now available. One aspect O’Connell- Ganges spoke of was the high-tech collaborative learn- ing center, where students can connect their laptops to computer-projection systems at each workstation to do group work. Jason Goldstein, board member of the Rutgers University Alumni Association, played an active role in getting the expansion in the student center. “I spent years with under- graduates and graduates to see this moment,” he said. “I can sense the dedication of all the people over the years who helped to put this together.” While eating at Sbarro and Dunkin’ Donuts, mem- bers of the community can bask in the light beneath a high-ceiling sunroom with three large-screen televi- sions playing news and entertainment programming. Of the many new features in the center, the Rutgers Zone, which will open offi- cially on Monday, stands out as an ultra-modern lounge. University President Richard L. McCormick snips the red ribbon yesterday at the grand opening of the Livingston Student Center. The center includes the new Rutgers Zone lounge. NICHOLAS BRASOWSKI/ SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER BY COLLEEN ROACHE ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR Shattered glass and a downed speed limit sign covered the sidewalk after a pickup truck caused an accident involving three vehicles early yesterday near the Student Activities Center on the College Avenue campus. According to witness accounts, the driv- er of a pickup truck from Pieros Construction in Somerville, N.J., was unable to stop the vehicle and ran into a parked Ford Taurus owned by Kean University first-year student Matthew Horner. The impact sent the Taurus flying, and it then landed on top of a Honda Civic, owned by University student Chris Del Corral, which was parked on the opposite side of the street. No one was injured. Del Corral, an Ernesto Mario School of Pharmacy first-year student, was not sure of exactly how the situation played out. But he made speculations about the accident, which resulted in police towing the vehicles. “Apparently, the truck hit [Horner’s car], which was apparently down the road,” he said. “The truck driver said the brakes weren’t working.” Rutgers Business School junior Raah Grover ties a turban on School of Arts and Sciences sophomore Abe Stanway yesterday as part of Sikh Awareness Day. BONNIE CHAN/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER TURBAN TIME Council meets resistance on litter clean-up initiative BY DEVIN SIKORSKI ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR The New Brunswick City Council’s attempt to keep the city “green” met heat- ed opposition from the public last night, arguing that the ordinance was unjust for city residents. The council passed an ordinance last night that would raise fines for landlords and tenants who have litter on their prop- erty. The ordinance raises the fines for the offense from a steady $65 fine to increas- ing amounts for each offense thereafter. The fines range from $100 for the second offense to $500 for the fourth offense. Council President Elizabeth Garlatti said she hopes the increased fines would stop people from littering and make the city cleaner. The public was not about to let this ordi- nance pass unchallenged, with Garlatti interrupting many times to bring order. Michael Schaeffer, a city resident in the fifth ward, said he never sees an end to the amount of litter on his property. SEE CRASH ON PAGE 4 SEE FACILITY ON PAGE 6 SEE LITTER ON PAGE 4
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ARTS AND CRAFTSToday: Partly cloudy
High: 82 • Low: 54With their fifth Biennial underway, The Whitney Museum gives young and up-and-coming artists
an opportunity to showcase the fruits of their vast skill and imagination.
ONLINE @DAILYTARGUM.COM
DIVERSIONS . . . . . . 12
CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . 14
SPORTS . . . . . . BACK
The first candidatefor dean of Douglasscampus discussesher vision for the campus.
Students share theiropinions on thisyear’s five-bandRutgersfest lineup.
UNIVERSITY
PENDULUM
OPINIONS . . . . . . . 10
THURSDAYAPRIL 8, 2010
PENDULUM . . . . . . . 9
UNIVERSITY . . . . . . . 3
Undergraduate students with 45 or greater degree credits can register for Fall 2010 classes tonight from 10:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m.
No one was injured in yesterday’s three-car collision in front of the Student Activities Center on the College Avenue campus,where a pickup truck crashed into a parked Ford Taurus, which then landed on top of a parked Honda Civic.
RAMON DOMPOR/ ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Facility opens new identity at U.
Three-car crash causes delays on George Street
BY ARMANDO ALVAREZSTAFF WRITER
The petals from the cherryblossoms across campusdraped Livingston yesterdayafternoon as UniversityPresident Richard L.McCormick cut the red rib-bon to officially unveil thenew student center.
Also present were Sen. BobSmith, D-17, Piscataway MayorBrian C. Wahler, Vice Presidentfor Student Affairs Gregory S.Blimling, Livingston Collegesenior Victoria Rowlands andExecutive Director of Student Life Elizabeth O’Connell-Ganges.
“There has yet to be aninstitution on campus with as
many spaces to utilize,”O’Connell-Ganges said. “We’rehaving an open house to show-case all the new technology.”
The grand opening cele-bration highlighted the newfacilities and technology now available.
One aspect O’Connell-Ganges spoke of was thehigh-tech collaborative learn-ing center, where studentscan connect their laptops tocomputer-projection systemsat each workstation to dogroup work.
Jason Goldstein, boardmember of the RutgersUniversity AlumniAssociation, played an activerole in getting the expansionin the student center.
“I spent years with under-graduates and graduates tosee this moment,” he said. “Ican sense the dedication ofall the people over the yearswho helped to put this together.”
While eating at Sbarroand Dunkin’ Donuts, mem-bers of the community canbask in the light beneath ahigh-ceiling sunroom withthree large-screen televi-sions playing news andentertainment programming.
Of the many new featuresin the center, the RutgersZone, which will open offi-cially on Monday, stands outas an ultra-modern lounge.
University President Richard L. McCormick snips the red ribbon yesterday at the grandopening of the Livingston Student Center. The center includes the new Rutgers Zone lounge.
NICHOLAS BRASOWSKI/ SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
BY COLLEEN ROACHEASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
Shattered glass and a downed speedlimit sign covered the sidewalk after apickup truck caused an accident involvingthree vehicles early yesterday near theStudent Activities Center on the CollegeAvenue campus.
According to witness accounts, the driv-er of a pickup truck from PierosConstruction in Somerville, N.J., wasunable to stop the vehicle and ran into aparked Ford Taurus owned by KeanUniversity first-year student MatthewHorner. The impact sent the Taurus flying,and it then landed on top of a Honda Civic,owned by University student Chris DelCorral, which was parked on the oppositeside of the street. No one was injured.
Del Corral, an Ernesto Mario School ofPharmacy first-year student, was not sure ofexactly how the situation played out. But hemade speculations about the accident, whichresulted in police towing the vehicles.
“Apparently, the truck hit [Horner’s car],which was apparently down the road,” hesaid. “The truck driver said the brakesweren’t working.”
Rutgers Business School junior Raah Grover ties a turban on School of Arts and Sciences sophomore AbeStanway yesterday as part of Sikh Awareness Day.
BONNIE CHAN/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
TURBAN TIME
Council meets resistanceon litter clean-up initiative
BY DEVIN SIKORSKIASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
The New Brunswick City Council’sattempt to keep the city “green” met heat-ed opposition from the public last night,arguing that the ordinance was unjust forcity residents.
The council passed an ordinance lastnight that would raise fines for landlordsand tenants who have litter on their prop-erty. The ordinance raises the fines for theoffense from a steady $65 fine to increas-ing amounts for each offense thereafter.
The fines range from $100 for the secondoffense to $500 for the fourth offense.
Council President Elizabeth Garlattisaid she hopes the increased fines wouldstop people from littering and make thecity cleaner.
The public was not about to let this ordi-nance pass unchallenged, with Garlattiinterrupting many times to bring order.
Michael Schaeffer, a city resident inthe fifth ward, said he never sees an endto the amount of litter on his property.
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SEE FACILITY ON PAGE 6
SEE LITTER ON PAGE 4
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Of the three candidates vyingfor the title of the next Douglasscampus dean, the first to give avision talk — a speech on herideas for the future of the campus— spoke Tuesday afternoon at theMabel Smith Douglass Library.
Harriet Davidson, an associateprofessor of English and women’sand gender studies, has beenserving as interim dean ofDouglass Residential Collegeduring the search for a new dean.Her speech, entitled “Making UpPeople, or Why FeministEducation Matters,” was basedon philosopher Ian Hacking’s the-ory about knowledge and power,and focused on the sciencebehind feminist theory and thevalue of the subject.
“Social sciences are the fieldsin which human behavior is stud-ied by people caught up in thevery society and culture studyingthe human behavior, so you havethat looping effect,” Davidsonsaid. “Education is where culture,policies and all other methodolo-gies shape a student. We want toshape that student into a liberalarts citizen.”
She also discussed severalother important facets of feministeducation, otherwise known asfeminist pedagogies.
“Feminist pedagogy hasextended what we know, how wecan know and it also changes theway we know what we know,”she said.
Davidson also emphasized theimportance of women’s collegesin today’s society.
“Gender is the issue of the21st century,” she said.“Although trends recently forwomen’s colleges have becomeless strict and allowed men intotheir institutions, the concept of awomen-centered college isextremely important.”
Douglass presents the best ofboth worlds, Davidson said. Thecollege serves as a large coedresearch facility, a small women’scollege and a leader in women-centered education, she said.
If selected, Davidson wants tofocus on the concept of improvingfeminist education in order toturn out stronger and more confi-dent women in society.
“I think the woman leader isthe kind of person that is in theprocess of being ‘made up’ inHacking’s sense,” she said.“Certainly, there have beenwomen leaders throughout histo-ry, but not enough to make alarge impact on society. Womenexercise leadership, particularlyin the household, but it was nevercalled leadership.”
Davidson emphasized thesignificance of building strongvalues in women and stressedthe importance of using gen-dered education to create a suc-cessful woman.
“I want to encourage peerleadership, the concept of livinglearning — learning outside ofthe classroom,” she said. “Thesetypes of effective programs imple-mented in institutions and col-leges can help women becomemore confident.”
Davidson closed her speechby making one point stand outabove the rest — that feminist
Interim Dean of Douglass Residential College Harriet Davidson shares her potential plans shouldshe be chosen as dean. She emphasized the importance of women’s college in today’s society.
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education can make a big differ-ence in the world.
“Feminist theory is that educa-tion matters, which creates mat-ters as opposed to mind,” she said.“We change the way the bodyworks and functions. Feministeducation makes diversity a differ-ent matter. In these ways, feministeducation can change people,space and the world.”
Cook Campus Dean RickLudescher found the speech veryinformative and educational.
“I enjoyed the speech, … becauseI am not familiar with feminist theo-ry,” he said. “I really learned some-thing. Also, the concept behind howyou make a woman leader is some-thing I found to be very insightful.”
Dean Barbara Balliet, an asso-ciate dean at Douglass, thought
the speech was very eloquent andlooks forward to the two otherspeeches to come.
“We just heard the first ofthree wonderful candidates wehave coming to be dean ofDouglass,” she said. “Peopleshould come out and hear all thegreat things that are going on andall the great ideas that peoplehave for the future of Douglass.”
During Feeney’s discussionwith the council, David Harris, aLivingston Avenue resident, saidshe was framing the problem asthe “immigrants’ fault.”
Feeney responded by sayingmany of the people she encoun-tered were immigrants, and shedoes not discriminate because ofthat. But she still feels knowledgeis needed.
“There is a tremendousamount of education that needs tobe done, plus enforcement,” shesaid. “The burdensome task forthe homeowner to pick up theirlitter needs to stop.”
Donna Caputo, the NewBrunswick Recycling Coordinator,reminded the public to call citymaintenance if there is a problem
and that the city is trying to makethe city green by controlling litter.
“Many of you have seen theadvertising we have done aroundthe city,” she said. “These signsare posted all around the city …and we are going to be seeingthem more and more. We’re try-ing to teach these people not tolitter … and working to raiseawareness [with these signs].”
Harris, who supported theincrease in fines, echoed thewords of Mahoney, saying it isthe homeowner’s responsibilityto remove litter.
“The simple point is part ofthe luxury of owning the prop-erty is taking care of it,” hesaid. “I guess at some pointthere is going to be a proposal
for God to come down andremove the snow.”
Harris added enforcement offi-cials are too busy with more seriouscrime in the city, like controllingdrugs and stopping gang violence.
“Do we want [the police] to gochasing people for dropping apotato chip bag on the ground?The answer is no,” he said.“Saying that the police depart-ment should run around chasingpeople who drop the potato chipbag is just ridiculous.”
Harris proposed a differentsolution for the litter problem byimplementing cans throughoutthe city like he does in front of hisproperty, which he said proves tobe successful.
“What we’re finding on garbageday is that [the cans] are heavywith litter because people areusing them,” he said. “So the pointis, if we want to be proud owners ofa property, then we have to takethe bitter of the sweet.”
The public agreed, saying ifthere were more garbage cansaround the city, then maybe thelitter problem would be solved.
Ben Major, a resident in thefifth ward, said another part of theproblem is that many residents donot tie their trash bags. He saidwhen the trash is collected the lit-ter is dispersed in all directions.
“I’ve cleaned up my yardbefore the evening trash is pickedup, and I wake up to more litter,”he said. “Has there been any sortof consideration for inspectors togo around and see if the trashbags are tied properly?”
Despite the complaints of thepublic, Harris reminded his fel-low residents that the garbagecans do work, and it is still thehomeowners’ responsibility tokeep their property clean.
“We are living examples onour properties [with] three largecontainers. You will find that the[majority] of people use the con-tainers if they are available,” hesaid. “And this is at no cost to thecity, just pride in our property.”
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Horner, who was visiting hisgirlfriend Stephanie Furman inFrelinghuysen Hall on the CollegeAvenue campus, was shocked tosee the damage to his vehicle,which rendered it unworkable.
After hearing the commo-tion the crash caused, hechecked outside, like many inthe surrounding residencehalls, to see what was going on.But he did not expect to see hiscar involved.
“Basically, I was chillingupstairs in Stephanie’s room.Then I looked out the window,and my car was way down thestreet on top of another car,”he said.
The crash surprised Furmanas well, but she was also glad noone was hurt in the accident.
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“As soon as I clean up the frontof my house, the garbage is back.I think just enforcing the old lawswould be of help,” he said.
Schaeffer added that the peo-ple who actually commit thecrime of littering are not the peo-ple who take the fine.
“If it becomes a problem forthe homeowners, the fine doesn’tgo to the people who are actuallycommitting the offense,” he said.“We still have to clean it upwhether they get a fine or not.”
Mike Mahoney, chief housinginspector for the city, said there isno other way to stop the litteringproblem besides issuing tickets tolandowners and not the personactually committing the crime.
“We are issuing tickets to thelandlord, that’s all we can do. Wecan’t issue tickets to the tenantsand we can’t catch the people wholitter,” he said. “Every homeowneris responsible for maintainingtheir grounds, basically 24/7.”
Still, the public was not happywith Mahoney’s comments.Kathleen Feeney, a city residentin the second ward, saidMahoney’s workforce and otherpublic departments should beable to catch the people whocommit this offense.
“Yes we can. We have policeofficers on the street. We havecity workers out there. It is peo-ple like me — city citizens — thatstop someone I see littering,” shesaid. “I think that it’s asking toomuch of the homeowner and thecitizen to catch people littering.”
Feeney said because the littersituation in New Brunswick is sobad, she had to start organizingher own community cleanups.
“We go out and clean up cityblocks,” she said. “Every neigh-bor knows that I’m the ‘litter lady.’It has become very burdensome.”
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The cause of the crash in front of the Student Activities Center onthe College Avenue Campus yesterday is still under investigation.
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“Do we want [thepolice] to [chase]
people for droppinga potato chip bag
on the ground? The answer is no.”
DAVID HARRISNew Brunswick resident
Assembly Democrats yesterday said despite Gov. ChrisChristie’s promise to veto all tax increases, his proposed budgetcould result in higher tax bills for many N.J. residents, hitting sen-iors and the middle class the hardest.
“This budget is — in Gov. Christie’s very own words — anassault on the middle class,” said Assembly Budget CommitteeChairman Louis Greenwald in an article in The Star-Ledger. “Thegovernor needs to get off the rhetoric. Those are tax increases.”
Democrats cited a number of provisions, including a tax cred-it reduction on the poor, increased hospital taxes and eliminationof business tax credits.
Treasurer Andrew Sidamon-Eristoff said the Democrats wouldhave to agree to disagree. “They’re just not tax increases,” he saidin the article.
Sidamon-Eristoff said plans by Democrats to increase taxes onhigh-income earners would hurt the state as it tries to pull itselfout of the recession.
“To do so would break faith with the people of New Jersey —already the highest taxed in the nation — and undermine NewJersey’s economic competitiveness and job creation at a particu-larly vulnerable stage in the economic cycle,” he said.
According to the article, lawmakers said cutting more than$1.26 billion in aid to towns and school districts would prompthigher property taxes even as towns and schools propose layoffsand other spending cuts.
But Republicans said towns have ways to deal with the cuts. “The Chicken Little scenarios that have been trotted out …
stretch reality,” Assemblyman Jay Webber said in the article.“We’re going to get through this crisis together, not holdingeveryone harmless.”
— Ariel Nagi
DEMOCRATS ARGUE CHRISTIE’SBUDGET PLAN WILL RAISE TAXES
“We were inside and we heardthe biggest crash ever,” saidFurman, a School ofEnvironmental and BiologicalSciences first-year student.“None of us were in our cars,which is good.”
Police directed traffic, whichwas slowed due to the accident,until the scene was cleared.
This is the second accident totake place in the area within thelast month, following a crasheddelivery truck on March 9 infront of the River Dorms.
The driver from PierosConstruction and the passengertraveling in the vehicle refusedto comment.
The New Brunswick PoliceDepartment is investigating thecause of the accident, Sgt. DavidMartella said. PierosConstruction could not bereached for comment.
— Sam Hellman contributed tothis article
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Finale unveils top three short filmsBY JEFF PRENTKY
STAFF WRITER
After only seven days of film-ing and editing, School of Artsand Sciences seniors LaurenFoster and Stephen Beeston tookhome the Best Picture awardTuesday night at the red carpetfinale for the Campus MovieFest.
Chosen out of 16 five-minutefilms, “The Harvest” — written,directed and edited by Foster andBeeston — premiered to morethan 200 people in the CookCampus Center MultipurposeRoom, where a variety of prizeswere awarded to the filmmakersas well as to the audience.
“[The film] chronicles the livesof five people as they basicallycome together to share a singlemoment,” said Foster, who alsoacted in the film. “It’s the idea thatin life, nothing is perfect, not evenone whole day is perfect. But amoment can be, and so it tries toput that on display.”
Campus MovieFest, theworld’s largest student film festi-val, came to the University for thefirst time last month and providedstudent teams with an Apple lap-top, a Panasonic HD camcorderand 24-hour tech support —everything needed to create andedit a film of their choice.
Out of a total 130 film submis-sions, “The Harvest” and two otherfilms were awarded the main threecategories of Best Comedy, BestDrama and Best Picture.
Beeston, who played a smallrole in the film, said one of thebiggest challenges his team facedwas actors dropping out at thelast minute.
They also had to film over twodays while working withinclement weather, he said.
“[Losing an actor was incon-venient] because so much of it isoutside and [a] wall of picturesneeded to be constructed in the
rain [as a prop]. It was disas-trous,” Foster said.
The Best Comedy awardwent to “Good Money,” whichchronicled a day in the life oftwo moms from New York Citywho smoked during their lazyexercise routines, spoke withaccents and puckered red lipsand hated their husbands.
“We just got together and start-ed writing down funny conversa-tions that we could have with eachother that would be about makinggood money,” said ElenaCallahan, a co-creator of the filmand a Douglass College alumna.“Then we just kind of went intothe park and improvised.”
Pilar Timpane, the fellow co-creator of the film and also aDouglass College alumna, saidthe characters try stay young byundergoing a lot of plastic sur-gery. They also take vacationsevery weekend and spend a lotof money.
“We just enjoy talking aboutour things because we don’t real-ly have a fullness in our lives,”said Timpane, role-playing as oneof the characters.
Lizette Gesuden, a member ofthe Firehouse production teamresponsible for “Good Money”and three other films, said the fes-tival was a lot of fun.
“We’re really blessed,”Gesuden said. “Our team did real-ly well and we’re all really excited.”
The Best Drama award wentto the film “Dim,” which told thestory of a house burglar whobecame the victim of the mali-cious, vengeful blind tenant hetried to rob.
Aside from the three main cat-egories, the film “Whisper” wonthe Golden Mobile award formost uniquely portraying andincorporating a mobile phone intotheir film.
At the end of the night, theaudience voted via text message
for their favorite film in the AT&TWild Card category.
The winner of the Wild Cardalong with the winners of thethree main categories will moveon to the Northern RegionalGrand Finale on May 1 at theSchool of Visual Arts Theatre inNew York City.
The International GrandFinale will be held at the Wynn inLas Vegas in June, according tothe Campus MovieFest Web site.
Winners received an ElgatoeyeTV hybrid, an iPod shuffle —or iPod Nano for the winners ofBest Picture — and a copy ofFinal Cut Studio. Audience mem-bers were also entered into a raf-fle and won prizes such as FinalCut Studio and an iPod shuffle.
Campus MovieFest is also onAT&T’s Cellular Video Network,where 80 million people canwatch select University films, saidMike Pullano, a member of theCampus MovieFest team.
Marie Pace, a member of theRutgers University ProgrammingAssociation and a School of Artsand Sciences sophomore, co-host-ed the evening alongside Pullano.
“I think that for the first timedoing this that we had a reallygood turnout,” said VicePresident of the Media and FilmsCommittee for RUPA SeraBayruns, a School of Arts andSciences junior.
Because of the high volume ofsubmissions, Campus MovieFestrepresentatives narrowed downthe selection for the judges,which consisted mostly of RUPAmembers, watched the best 25films and then picked the top 16.
“I think it’s a really goodopportunity for students toexpress their creativity and getchallenged,” Gesuden said. “Wedon’t have a film department atthe University, so any opportunityfor people who are interested inmaking films is a good one.”
The Cultural Collisions Multicultural Show attracts a crowdTuesday night to Trayes Hall in the Douglass Campus Centerwith its wide assortment of University performers.
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“Student Life and theLivingston Campus Council hada lot of input as to the gamesand what students would likeout of this room,” said AdamHelgeson, a School of Arts andSciences first-year student.“Virtual put-put has to be tried— it’s so unique, such a percep-tual experience.”
The Rutgers Zone will also bea hub for signature sundaes andrush events for fraternities andsororities, he said.
“Hopefully, lots of people willhold their events here,”Helgeson said. “It’s such a coolhangout place. Once they’redone with class on Livingstoncampus, students can come hereto play pool or just sit at the barfor a soda or two.”
The Rutgers Zone will alsoremove the pressures associatedwith drinking or dressing up atbars or clubs, he said.
The Rutgers Zone is outfit-ted with its own Scarlet Knightstatue, complete with its signa-ture scarlet cloak. Skee ball,basketball, baseball and foot-ball games, air hockey, bil-liards, pinball and a comfort-able lounge area complete theroom, which faces a bar withfive large-screen televisions.
A jukebox nearby playedoldies, like Simon andGarfunkle’s “Mrs. Robinson” andThe Eagles’ “Hotel California.”
“We arranged with a thirdparty company to license all themusic to really provide the bestatmosphere for our students tohang out in,” Helgeson said.
The multipurpose aspect ofthe Rutgers Zone and state ofthe art audio-visual equipmentwill be of great use, Director ofStudent Centers and ProgramsKathryn Kuhnert said.
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The new Livingston Student Center includes a game room, a jukebox that plays classicmusic and technology such as brand new flat-screen televisions.
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Government watch-dogs weary of privatiza-tion yesterday expressedcriticism of Gov. ChrisChristie’s plans to assigngovernment functions —like public parking andinformation technologyservices — to private con-tractors, according to anarticle on nj.com.
Such action wouldlead to the loss of up to2,000 state governmentjobs but would save thestate $50 million, accord-ing to the article.
Inspector GeneralMary Jane Cooper saidprivatization can be effec-tive but generally worksbest if it has existed as aninitial part of the system.
“I believe that privati-zation can work,” Coopersaid. “But where itworks, the project hasbeen carefully set upfrom the beginning.”
The New JerseyPrivatization Task Force,a branch of the Christieadministration workingto save money with thisagenda, met for the firsttime yesterday to discussthe plans.
— Colleen Roache
WATCHDOGS SAY PRIVATIZATION
COULD CUT 2,000 JOBS
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“We’re all certainly excitedfor the new open-floor plan,flexibility of space and the newtechnology,” she said. “Wehave multipurpose and state ofthe art audio-visual equipmentthat we’ll be sure to utilize tothe fullest extent.”
Livingston Hall, in which theguest speakers gave theirspeeches, seats 330 and has sev-eral large projection screens andan audio-video station, fromwhich a multitude of lightingenvironments can be controlled.
“Really, this is a spectacularcenter that students, faculty,staff, alumni and members ofthe community can utilize fordaily events,” O’Connell-Ganges said. “It offers multiplefunctionalities and opportuni-ties for student and faculty con-nections with a bold arrange-ment of events.”
The council also helped bringa printing center to BuschCampus Center this semester,Doshi said.
“We’re getting a new dish-washer at the dining hall becauseof our ‘What’s On Your MindMonth’ survey and event wherepeople complained about cups inthe dining halls,” she said.
Facilities recently fixed a per-sistent puddle in front of the din-ing hall on campus because of aresolution the council passed ear-lier in the semester, Doshi said.
The council plans to hold astress-relief event, Nycz said.
“We’re trying to get studyspace, where we have somefood, coffee, just a place torelax,” he said.
The council plans to hold theevent on May 2 from 12 to 4 p.m.at The Cove in the BuschCampus Center, Doshi said.
The council has distributedabout $4,700 ofits $5,000 in allo-cations to date,she said. Thecouncil funds stu-dent organiza-tions, and organi-zations boostawareness of thecouncil in return.
“We’ve sentrepresentatives to
every event that we co-spon-sored,” he said.
At the meeting Tuesday, thecouncil approved resolutions allo-cating $525 for the RutgersEngineers Without Border’s GolfOuting event and $300 for theBiomedical EngineeringSociety’s semi-annual barbecue.
According to a resolution,EWB’s golf outing on April 23aims to raise awareness aboutthe organization and the world-wide water crisis. The event isopen to students, family andfriends of the University commu-nity for a fee which entitles pur-chasers to lunch, giveaways,range balls and golf carts, theresolution said.
School of Engineering juniorDavid Pal, EWB’s finance chair,said the event would cost $50 forstudents and $75 for non-stu-dents. Pal said to get a similargolf experience elsewhere, a per-son would have to shell out $150.Pal said money raised by theevent would be used to fund trav-el and supplies for EWB’s inter-national projects.
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BY GREG FLYNNCORRESPONDENT
The Busch Campus Councilcontinued its practice of allocat-ing funds to student organiza-tions and dealing with campusconcerns Tuesday night at theBusch Campus Center, in themidst of one of its last meetingsthis semester.
Council ParliamentarianJonathan Nycz, a School ofEngineering junior, reviewed thecouncil’s accomplishments thissemester on a bittersweet note.He said if the new RutgersUniversity Student Assembly con-stitution is passed during itsupcoming referendum, the coun-cil would likely not exist next year.
“The purpose of BuschCampus Council is to handle mat-ters on Busch campus versusRUSA, which handles University-wide issues,” Nycz said. “I thinkthat something like the stressbreaker event is important forBusch campus and isn’t some-thing that would really be tackledby RUSA.”
The last official meeting of thecouncil this semester will be heldon April 13 at 8:15p.m. at the BuschCampus Center inRoom 120.
C o u n c i lPresident ShaivalShah, a RutgersCollege senior,detailed the coun-cil’s allocationsthis semester andits resolutionsabout potholes, puddles anddirty bathrooms.
The council is still working onfilling out a resolution to sendUniversity Facilities andMaintenance regarding areas oncampus that tend to bloom pud-dles during rainy days, Shah said.The puddles are an inconven-ience to students, he said.
“It becomes a safety issue,because it’s hard for students tocross campus,” Shah said. “IfFacilities can somehow fix theinfrastructure of the sidewalks sothat even during rain it’s still tra-versable, students wouldn’t haveto stretch their legs, jump over orwalk around puddles.”
The council also sentFacilities a resolution about poorrestroom conditions on campus,he said.
Still, Shah acknowledged thatstudents do contribute to themess in many campus bathrooms.
Council CorrespondingSecretary Krina Doshi, a Schoolof Engineering junior, said thecouncil requested increasedmaintenance during rush hours.
“We’ve sent representatives
to every event that we co-sponsored.”
JONATHAN NYCZCouncil Parliamentarian
BuschCampusCouncil
National Endowment Chair James Leach will deliver akeynote address to inaugurate the Cultural and HeritagePreservation Program.
“Cultural Heritage Now: Prospects, Directions, Futures/APublic Conversation,” which marks the beginning of the RutgersCultural Heritage and Preservation Program of the RutgersDepartment of Art History, is scheduled for April 10 from 10 a.m.to 5 p.m. in the Alexander Library on the College Avenue campus.Leach is scheduled to speak at 1 p.m.
The conference is designed to start a conversation on theobstacles of cultural heritage preservation as well as explore thefuture of the field, according to a University Media Relationspress release.
The Penn Cultural Heritage Foundation is co-sponsoring theconference, and the School of Arts and Sciences and the NewJersey Council for the Humanities are also providing support.
— Mary Diduch
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“It could be better. Talib Kwaliis a good artist, [but] there area lot of good artists out theretoday that everyone listens to.It seems like [RUPA] justscraped someone up from the bottom of the barrel.”
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With Christie’s budgetannouncement, the unionhas repeatedly told the peo-ple of New Jersey that teach-ers will be cut and educationwill falter. This is a com-pletely absurd gesture. Howlittle do public school teach-ers in New Jersey care aboutthe education of their stu-
dents? NJEA is threatening to fire teachers basedon seniority and refuse to acknowledge that meritbased pay works. They are against school vouchersand charter schools, yet these are the people edu-cating the youth of our state.
If the NJEA is looking to save jobs, why do notthey? The over 800,000-member union can waivetheir $730 annual “voluntarily” fees for mandatedmemberships and save teachers from payingtoward their own health insurance. Why won’t theNJEA open up their record books and show the peo-ple of New Jersey how and where they spend theirmoney? Do students learn better when transparen-
cy is absent from their educators, orhow about when their teachers chas-tise policies, like the freedom tochoose your school?
The University is in a similar situ-ation — will the University chooseeducation as its No. 1 priority? Or willthey promote a policy that enhancesthe paychecks of the Union ofRutgers Administrators-AmericanFederation of Teachers and deliver
more unnecessary changes to a school already infiscal disrepair. The University does not have toraise tuition or fees, as long as they cut spendingwhere it is necessary and live within their means.
Christie is now forcing lawmakers, school dis-tricts and universities to practice personal responsi-bility and accountability. For far too long, policy-makers in New Jersey and administrators at ourUniversity figured they can give students and resi-dents all the services they wanted, but failed to tellthe people that it would come with a steep price andan empty wallet. Christie is not only cutting spend-ing, but empowering all New Jerseyans. When wasthe last time a member of the government gave thepeople options? Christie has put the ball in thecourts of unions, saying the state has no money, weare broke, I am sorry but these are the sacrificesyou are going to have to make, so please put yourmoney where your mouth is.
Finally, New Jersey government is allowing deci-sions to be made at the local level. For the Universityand the NJEA, that decision will determine how
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will see lobbyists and unionmembers quivering in theirboots. It might last fouryears or it might last eight,but this is a sight that is ararity in New Jersey, and itdoes not come a momenttoo soon. Gov. Chris Christie has finally taken asledgehammer to the state’s budget and the almost$11 billion deficit New Jersey has incurred for morethan the past eight years. His proposed budget,which is tragic for those drunk under the impres-sion that government works as a philanthropistorganization takes aim directly at the bully of StateStreet — The New Jersey Education Association.
Former Gov. John S. Corzine promised $609 mil-lion of federal stimulus money to fund school dis-tricts throughout New Jersey without any consider-ation that the money might not be there in thefuture. When the Democrats signed into law theAmerican Recovery andReinvestment Act of 2009,Conservatives, libertarians, moder-ates and even a few Democratsunderstood that stimulus moneywould offer immediate relief andthen disappear. New Jersey is nowfacing that crisis; Democrats havebeen irresponsible with both federaland state tax dollars for years. Forsome moronic reason, it has beendeemed that spending on school districts can onlygo up and never down. As if unmerited pensions andsweetheart Cadillac insurance plans, paid for by tax-payers enhances the education of students.
Christie, depicted as the big bad wolf by theNJEA has now proposed an $820 million cut inpublic school spending and $173 million to high-er education, including a 15 percent reduction inUniversity aid. This cut is not an attack on edu-cation. Rather, it is a message from the governortelling the teachers union and the University tolive within their means and conduct some sort ofpersonal responsibility and accountability. Theteachers union has a chance to prove to studentsand parents that they are serious about educa-tion. Under Christie’s proposed budget, not oneteaching job needs to be cut as long as NJEAreopens contracts, stops pay increases — espe-cially for underperforming “educators” — andhave union members contribute 1.5 percent oftheir salary to their own health insurance. Inother words, NJEA members would be forced topay on average $750 of their paycheck into theirinsurance plan.
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Christie battles Goliath
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“Feminist pedagogy has extended what we know, how we canknow and it also changes the way we know what we know.”
Harriet Davidson, interim dean of Douglass Residential College, on feminist education
STORY IN UNIVERSITY
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“Christie has putthe ball in the
courts of unions,saying the state
has no money ...”
T ent State University is back and they are as hip as ever. One ofthe more spectacular events to take place at the Universityonce again camps out for more state funding. It kicks off on
Rutgers Day, yet we believe that not even the high-profile opening daycan slow the recent funding cutbacks. Hundreds of student activistsspend night and day outside and ultimately accomplish nothing —except perhaps some foul-smelling artistic performances.
The predictions are once again grim, if not only for the overall inep-titude of the event, but also for the failure to properly publicize it. In awell-informed college community, all would know that the close to 200students camp out on Voorhees Mall on the College Avenue campus inprotest of ever-rising tuitions and corresponding loans. The tentsapparently symbolize the direness of our situation after graduating col-lege and having to pay off tens of thousands of dollars in loans. In thiscase, perhaps the organizers’ point rings true, but a large part of thestudent body knows very little of it.
Most people will walk down in the heavy darkness of the pathwaybetween Murray Hall and Van Dyck on the College Avenue campuscome April 24 and will only see and hear the sounds of “a bunch of kidshaving fun.” The cause is therefore lost. Those who want to join theirfriends in spending a couple of nights in a blistering hot, sweaty tent,they need only pay $5. But their goal is to escape the busy college stu-dent’s life if only for a day or two and hear some “cool” music and poet-ry perhaps. The irony is that this urban “getaway” is filled with thehundreds of others who do the same thing at the same place, for thesame reason — surely not supporting the cause.
Politicians have come down to New Brunswick in — at most — aweat students’ abilities to spend time with their buddies. What a surprise?Those officials, though, do nothing more than show their faces inorder to reinstate our trust in them — for the little that they do.
Tent State’s intentions are natural and make sense, as no one wantsto see themselves in debt after college. But the cause is executed false-ly. The promotion of the event was a mere art stand, or two, in front ofBrower Commons on the College Avenue campus, where passersbycould express their artistic personas. There is nothing wrong withthat, except for the fact that art is very indirectly linked to the sup-posed Tent State cause. The same goes for the performances onVoorhees Mall as well. The several “artists,” clad in VelvetUnderground or tie-dye shirts, hardly help students in their efforts tohalt tuition hikes. Their crude attempts to put on a show entertain theirfriends and random strangers, but do nothing more than that.
The idea is far-fetched. A handful of hipsters cannot change mattersas foreign to them as economic policies and state budgets. Go campout for a few days, do not shower, but don’t think you have changed afiscal trend that has been going on for years.
Tent State campers: Please stay at home
Marcus My Words
AARON MARCUS
Keep complaints to yourself
I t is no secret that Twitter, Facebook and several other third-partyWeb sites monitor and store personal information. But now, thisinformation is being put to use — at least to benefit those who use
the Internet as an arena to expulse their complaints and pointless argu-ments. Twitter, for example, plans to compile users’ “tweeted” com-plaints about the companies they work for in order to create an oppor-tunity for Internet providers or carmakers to improve their services.While we see the benefits of such a service, this will only lead millionsof Internet whiners and nitpickers to unite on one Web site and com-plain, with no resolutions in sight.
The Internet is already a cesspool of useless user commentary, withforums spanning from Best Buy product review Web sites to Facebookand isawyourutgers.com. These places are packed with unimportantcomments posted by teens who are angry with their parents or peoplewho want to tell the world about why their job sucks. We simply com-plain about everything. Giving these people an open forum, then, is anobvious mistake.
There are those relevant and useful complaints that hit the nail onthe head when it comes to product reviews, but those would be buriedunder the massive amounts of garbage that will further pollute Twitterand Facebook. The sheer number of status updates announcing,“Dinner time!” or “I love my friends!” already overwhelm us — wedon’t think we can take any more than that.
People are dissatisfied — this is true. We cannot all be happy witheverything every single moment of the day, and some people believethat the Internet is the place for those thoughts and comments thatwould be better suited for a diary. In essence, we do not want to see asupposedly private world view posted on a blog designed for everyoneto see. It’s simple — leave your stupid comments in your pocket.
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leaders, Teach For America hasreceived federal funding for the past10 years. Teach For Americarequested $50 million this year fromU.S. Congress to meet demandsamong college students and com-munities. Under a new proposal cur-rently before Congress, Teach ForAmerica’s federal funding for 2011to 2012 would be eliminated.
Without federal funding, TeachFor America would be unable tohire more than 1,350 teachers whowould reach 86,000 students in the2011 to 2012 school year.
In his column, the author sug-gests that Teach For Americacorps members leave educationand abandon the battlefront ofeducational inequity when theirtwo-year commitment ends. It iscritical to look at the actual data.
Contrary to the columnist’s claim,nearly two-thirds of Teach ForAmerica’s 17,000 alumni still workfull-time in the field of education
— long after the end of their two-year commitment — even thoughless than 10 percent had been con-sidering a career in teachingwhen they entered the corps.
The proposed federal fundingcuts come at a time when our
nation’s public schools need reformmore than ever. More than 14 mil-lion children living in low-incomecommunities are performing belowgrade level on standardized testsand are falling further behind theirmore affluent peers each year.
With an annual $50 millionappropriation from Congress,Teach For America would be ableto double in size over the next fiveyears. At this scale, the organiza-tion would be able to providenearly 17,000 corps member posi-tions each year and reach morethan one million underserved stu-dents in nearly all 50 states.Teach For America will havemore than 50,000 alumni by 2016,who will create a powerful leader-ship force for meaningful andbold education reform.
As University students, we canmake our voices heard to Congresson one of today’s most urgent civilrights issues — education. IfCongress fully funds Teach ForAmerica, more children will beequipped with the high-quality edu-cational opportunities they deserve.I hope you will join me in a grass-roots campaign to call and e-mailSens. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., andRobert Menendez, D-N.J. You canalso help by texting “TFA” to 30644to contact our state senators aboutthe importance of maintaining fed-eral funding for Teach For America.
Ben West is the RutgersUniversity Campus CampaignCoordinator for Teach ForAmerica. He is a Rutgers Collegesenior majoring in political science.
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A s the campus campaigncoordinator for Teach ForAmerica here at the
University, I am especially excitedthat several hundred ScarletKnights applied to the program.That’s why I am troubled by a newfederal budget proposal thatwould dim future admissionsprospects for college seniors andderail the organization’s long-termgoal of ending educational inequal-ity. As a result, I felt compelled torespond to Tuesday’s column inThe Daily Targum, “Cuts to TFAnot significant.”
Due to its strong track record ofproviding high-quality teachers and
Teach for America needs support now more than ever
“... Teach For America would
be able to double in size over the next five years.”
W e place our elderlyloved ones in nursinghomes with the
expectation that the staff willmeet all their needs and offer thebest quality of care we think weare paying for. The fact is thatthese facilities often fail to caterto more than patients’ dietaryneeds, medications and basicactivities of daily life. When eachday presents the same pre-dictable routine and lacks theexcitement we pursue in ouryouth, this is the point when wetruly stop living.
Four University students inProfessor Julie Fagan’s “Ethics inScience” course are bringing newlife to a local nursing home, RoseMountain Care Center, through acollaborative effort with fellowstudents and the local communi-ty. Joe Jang, Katie Doyle, RichardChien and I hope to jumpstart awidespread movement for stu-dents and musicians to give backto their communities through aninitiative we call TheEntertainment Therapy Project.
It is not necessarily a newidea, but it is one that has consis-tently shown to clinicallyenhance quality of life for the eld-erly and alleviate agitation, anxi-ety, depression and sensomotorsymptoms of neurodegenerativediseases. Our group is comprisedof students, each with unique tal-ents, who aspire to take musictherapy to the next level.Currently we are recruitingmusicians from the Universityand surrounding community toprovide tasteful and stimulatingentertainment for the residentsof Rose Mountain Care Center.We have been invited to start theproject as soon as next Tuesday.
Under the supervision ofProfessor Fagan, we will be con-tributing our time and talents inand outside the classroom, andThe Entertainment TherapyProject promises to shed newlight on music therapy as a sup-plement to clinical care with themission of getting students andmusicians involved in their com-munities. Those interested in tak-ing part of the effort can [email protected].
Anthony Burdo is a School ofEnvironmental and BiologicalSciences senior majoring in biologi-cal sciences and minoring in music.
Therapyutilizes
musical aid
ANTHONY BURDO
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much they value education. Forschool boards, they will decide ifcuts in state spending shouldresult in higher property taxes orstanding up to the teacher’sunion. Christie has promised to
not sign one piece of legislationthat raises taxes on the people ofNew Jersey and our businesses.Making New Jersey not only moreaffordable but producing a betterbusiness climate in order to pro-duce real, private sector jobs thatare not tied down to the govern-ment and taxpayer dollars.
Ultimately, New Jersey has agovernor that is standing up to
Goliath. The leaders of thesepublic unions need to under-stand one thing and one thingonly: They do not work for somesupervisor, state legislator orexecutive bureaucrat, thesepublic union members work forthe people of New Jersey. Theyare nothing without us, and weare done with their bullying.The people of New Jersey
elected Chris Christie to showthese people that they cannothide in the dark anymore,you’re boss is here and this timewe mean business.
Aaron Marcus is a School ofArts and Sciences sophomoremajoring in political science andhistory. His column “Marcus mywords” runs alternate Thursdays.
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BEN WEST
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Horoscopes / LINDA C. BLACK Pearls Before Swine STEPHAN PASTIS
Today's birthday (4/8/10). Your challenge this year is to buildself-esteem for yourself and for any children in your life. Inde-pendence comes first. Find ways to generate enthusiasm for activ-ities that don't require anyone's help. Then, cultivate your pow-ers of observation and imagination. 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 — Although moneyisn't the real issue, that may behow you've been keeping track ofwho loves whom more. A betterway is to see who can be most cre-ative in expressing their caring.Taurus (April 20-May 20) —Today is a 6 — You may want torun away from home, but youneed to focus on householdmatters. Handle practical issuesearly, then escape to a movie.Gemini (May 21-June 21) —Today is a 6 — Although youwant to get your ideas out,now's the time to carefully con-sider all the ramifications andmodify your message.Cancer (June 22-July 22) —Today is a 5 — Everyone digs in,entrenched and stubborn. Thiswould be a good day to pursuepersonal matters and save yourenergy for later. It will work out.Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today isa 6 — Today is all about appear-ances. Hair and accessories mat-ter. Achieve a unique look usingmaterials already in your posses-sion. You find yourself on stage.Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) —Today is a 5 — Your desire forindependence takes you out ofyour normal work routine. Youdon't have to leave the country.Just let your imagination wander.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) —Today is a 6 — The challengenow is to love what you're doingfor as long as you're doing it,and to let go as soon as it's fin-ished. Release any negativity.Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) —Today is a 7 — Use your tal-ents to resolve disagreementsabout the basics. Be preparedto restate your arguments forthe sake of clarity.Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)— Today is a 6 — The onlyway to get anywhere today isthrough team effort. Focus onthe most practical means youcan find. Then, throw yourselffully into it.Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) —Today is a 6 — To get the mostout of a relaxing time, displayenthusiasm for someone else'ssuggestion. Spend money judi-ciously, but don't pinch pennies.Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) —Today is a 5 — Keep the homefires burning today. You needspace to pursue independentaction. Ask someone else tomanage plans for this evening.Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) —Today is a 5 — Consider waysto keep everyone focused. Cre-ative minds (including yours)have a way of wandering off.Reiterate the purpose.
Dilbert SCOTT ADAMS
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In Rock Hill, S.C., two weeksago, Rutgers men’s track andfield jumpers Adam Bergo and
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finished one and two in both thehigh and triple jumps, respective-ly. Last week in Williamsburg,Va., Bergo placed second in thehigh jump while Bostick tookthird in the triple jump.
For the Scarlet Knights, successin the jumps unit relies heavily onthe talented duo. Their relationshipthough, predates their time atRutgers by more than a decade.
Bergo and Bostick, two of themost skilled jumpers in the BigEast, attended the same elementaryschool in Englewood, N.J. They justdid not know it at the time.
“I didn’t really know about[Bergo] until I came here,” saidBostick, a former football andtrack standout at BergenCatholic. “He was like, ‘Oh, I wentto Lincoln Elementary School aswell.’ He was telling me aboutsome of the teachers and I waslike, ‘I remember that teacher.’”
As fate would have it, upon theirarrival at Rutgers, Bergo andBostick lived one floor apart duringtheir freshman year. Since then,the pair developed a noticeablechemistry and competitive nature,propelling them to Big East stature.
“I think it’s great,” said associ-ate head coach Kevin Kelly of theduo’s relationship. “They’reroommates and they’re the sameyear. They competed against eachother in high school and now
they’re teammates. So it’s kind offun and I think they enjoy it andkind of thrive off of one another.”
Bergo and Bostick comple-ment each other perfectly.
Bergo, a Westfield HighSchool product, is slighter ofbuild, enabling him to uncoil hisway to back-to-back Big Eastindoor titles in the high jump.Bostick, built and powerful, useshis frame to achieve maximumdistance in the triple jump.
It took less than a full indoorseason for a then-freshman Bergoto establish himself as a legiti-mate Big East contender, winninghis first conference crown with ameet-best jump of 2.20 meters.Bostick, on the other hand, is juststarting to show his potentialafter winning the triple jump atthe Asics Winthrop Invitationalwith an effort of 15.05 meters.
“I’m sure [Bostick’s] goal is tobe the Big East champion in thetriple jump,” Bergo said. “Wedon’t really ever talk about the BigEast Championships and whetherthat motivates him … but my com-petitiveness would want me to goout there and do just as well, if notbetter than the next person.”
Their marked differencesextend past the track and field cir-cuit, as Bergo displays a chatty, per-sonable nature while Bostick main-tains a reserved persona. And theywould not have it any other way.
Bergo and Bostick are inextrica-bly linked to each other. Theirnames come one after another onthe Knights’ roster, they practicedaily together and have an apart-ment with each other next year. Thepair also boasts arguably the most
competitive and deep units on team— especially with the signing ofsought-after recruit Corey Crawfordfor the 2010-2011 campaign.
“Adam and Bostick, they’re likebest friends,” senior teammateBruce Owens said. “I think they tryto outdo each other just to get bet-ter. And Bergo, he’s been doing thissince he came and stepped foot atRutgers. Bostick is just doing excel-lent right now. I think he’s feedingoff of Bergo’s success … exactlywhat we need at the Big East, comeconference championships time.”
For Bergo and Bostick, practiceis their sanctuary. Whereas otherdynamic duos may exchange ver-bal jabs and friendly bets, the twokids from Englewood are as com-posed and deliberate as ever, anaspect of their relationship Kellyfinds surprising.
“It’s funny, not so much,” saidKelly of possible “war of words”between the two at the Rutgers’practice bubble. “They just kind oflet their performances speak forthemselves. I think there’s … somejabs in there but not to the extent ofguys that I’ve had in the past.”Bergo and Bostick have theirsights set on Big East recognition,on ridding the ghosts from a disap-pointing team finish from the 2010indoor season and on being thefaces of the Knights’ track and fieldprogram for years to come.
They are now a far cry from thetwo first graders at LincolnElementary that did not even knoweach other. Soon though, a lot ofpeople will become acquainted toAdam Bergo and Kevin Bostick.
Consider this a proper introduction.
Duo creates long-lost chemistry
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to third to end the threat andthe inning.
Strikeouts plagued Rutgers allgame long with every starter inthe batting order striking out atleast once, good for 11 timestotal. Reliever Zach Epstein ledthe Lions in the strikeout depart-ment, sending five Knights backto the dugout empty handed.
After giving up the seventh-inning long ball, Lillis suffered theloss (0-1) while Eric Williams (2-0) earned the win for Columbia.
After playing Ivy Leagueschools Princeton and Columbia,it’s back to the Big East grind forthe Knights. Notre Dame waits inSouth Bend, Ind., for a three-gameseries starting Friday with Rutgers.
The Fighting Irish (10-17, 1-5)are off to a rough start in confer-ence play after South Floridaswept them in Tampa andGeorgetown took two of threefrom ND in Maryland.
For the Knights, outfielderMichael Lang — who sat out theloss against Columbia with a sorehamstring — knows that gettingoff on the right foot is key to anyconference series.
“Winning the first game isalways a big factor,” the Dumont,N.J., native said. “Our pitchingjust has to keep doing what
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they’re doing and our hittersneed to keep swinging well. Wehave a great team chemistry rightnow and we are looking good.”
As someone who has beenaround his fair share of Big Eastmatchups, head coach Fred Hill Sr.echoes the statements of his lead-off hitter that a good start is crucial.
“Well I think the key to theNotre Dame series is getting off toa good start in each of the games,”said Hill, in his 27th season withthe Knights. “Instead of trying tocome from behind, if we can goout and jump ahead that alwaysmakes things more comfortable.”
This is the first conferenceseries at home for the Irish andthe second on the road forRutgers. In their first Big Eastseries away from home, theKnights cruised to a three-winsweep over Georgetown, a teamthat won its series against NotreDame. Whether home or away,the Knights like their chances inBig East matchups.
“No, we are used to [playingaway],” Lang said. “That’s whywe start our season down Southfor the first four weeks of the sea-son. We get used to this and usedto traveling.”
For Matthews, the only differ-ence between home and awaygames is where he sleeps at night.
“We keep the same mentalitywe have always had,” theTeaneck, N.J., native said. “Theonly thing that changes is that weare in a hotel.”
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It takes a special breed ofathlete to switch focus from asport they played their entire
life toa n o t h e r
in a matter of two years. Junior Latoshia Bost of the
Rutgers women’s track teambelongs to that breed.
After enjoying success as atennis standout since she wasnine years old and passing upscholarship offers fromMaryland, Towson and GeorgeMason, Bost decided to try herathletic abilities in a differentarena her sophomore year ofhigh school.
Since then, her track skillstook off.
“I started actually enjoyingtrack more than tennis,” saidBost. “It really was a toss-up, Icould have gone with tennis ortrack, but I started to actuallybecome more serious with track.”
Initially, Bost sought to attendJames Madison to run track, butsettled for Maryland-BaltimoreCounty due to the lack of scholar-ship funding at other schools,including JMU.
Coming out of high schoolthe junior admits to not beingthe fastest she could have, butmuch of that was due to herlifelong marriage to the gameof tennis.
Upon arriving at UMBC, Bostquickly hit the ground running.
As a freshman, she won the500-meter in the American EastConference championships, earn-ing herself conference Rookie ofthe Year accolades.
But soon after, Bost made herway north to the Banks to begin anew campaign at Rutgers.
“I felt like I was a big fish in alittle sea,” said Bost. “[UMBC] isa small-time school and the trackprogram wasn’t the greatest. Iwasn’t being challenged enough Ididn’t think.”
However, the main reason forthe transfer was the scholarshipdisputes Bost admitted to havingwith the new head coach thattook over at UMBC after herfreshman season.
“He didn’t want to give me afull ride,” said Bost. “I wonRookie of the Year, broke theirschool record coming in, and wonthe 500-meter dash title there,and he didn’t want to up my schol-arship. So I said ‘okay I’m goingto leave.’”
Though she did suffer a stressfracture in her left leg after herfreshman outdoor season, Bostwasted no time in making a goodfirst impression her new team’shead coach.
“[She’s] a very competitiveperson,” said head coach JamesRobinson. “She brings a realtoughness to the team that weneed for everybody to catch ahold of.”
This past indoor season, the jun-ior added to her trophy case by fin-ishing runner-up in the Big EastChampionships while also captur-ing a third place spot at the EasternCollegiate Athletic ConferenceChampionships –– both impressivemarks based on the level of compe-tition in each conference.
As an upperclassman, Bostrelishes the leadership role andalways pushes to get the bestout of her teammates. From herearly years with a racket inhand to her time now on thetrack, the junior always pos-sessed intense competitiveness.
“Even when I was younger, inall sports and all facets of life, I
liked to push people,” Bost saidof her leadership. “At the end ofthe day when we go to Big Eastand compete and I see the nameon the paper it doesn’t just say‘Latoshia Bost placed this,’ itsays ‘Rutgers.’”
But like most collegiate run-ners, reaching the NCAA plateauis always a main goal. With justtwo outdoor seasons left in hercareer, Bost is aware that notmuch time remains for her toreceive national recognition.
Her head coach is in thesame boat.
“I’d like to see her qualify fornationals in the 400 meters or800 meters,” said Robinson.“Her and I are both on the samepage with how we want toaccomplish it and in what eventsso right now we need to goabout training harder and get-ting to that point.”
As the season progresses,Bost continues to stay motivat-ed, whether it is through herworthy competition on the trackor her immense course load inthe classroom.
She continues her studies tocomplete her major in biology,and aspires to attend medicalschool to become a pediatriccardiologist following her timeas a Scarlet Knight — target-ing schools like Johns Hopkinsand Georgetown.
Nevertheless, for the secondto last time in her athleticcareer, Bost can zone in on suc-cess for herself and her teambefore hanging up the trackshoes for good at the end ofnext season.
“When I see track windingdown it’s definitely sad,” saidBost. “But it’s definitely bittersweet; I think when it finally endsits going to hit me.”
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JEN KONG
Freshman midfielder Stephanie Anderson finished last night’sgame against Monmouth with a pair of goals and two assists.
just in practice,” said head coachLaura Brand-Sias. “So it’s gameslike this where they’re getting thattime and a little bit of experience totake it to the next step and play inbigger games. We need that downthe stretch in the Big East.”
But the runaway victory didnot come without a price.
The Knights suffered a scarein the first half when sophomoreattack Annie McGinley fellbehind the cage and remaineddown for several minutes.
A trainer helped McGinley,favoring her left leg, off the fieldand carted her back to the
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Junior trades aces for races
Knights’ bench. The sophomorewould not return in the game.
“It’s wait and see,” Brand-Sias said. “We don’t know whathappened, but we’ll just hope forthe best.”
With Monmouth behind them,the Knights are set to embark ontheir final five-game stretch of theseason — all Big East contests.But if Rutgers ever needed a tuneup before delving back into con-ference play, yesterday’s gamecertainly did the trick.
By roughing up the Hawks,the Knights secured victories overboth their intrastate opponentsthis season, the other being then-No. 9 Princeton, putting Rutgersperfect in Garden State play.
“It’s a nice feeling,” KristenAnderson said with a laugh. “I guesswe’re the top dogs of New Jersey.”
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F ormer Rutgers men’sbasketball centerHamady N’diaye
began play in thePor tsmouth (Va.)Invitational last night, whichinvites the best seniors fromcollege basketball to partici-pate in a four-day tourna-ment in front of NBA scouts.
N’diaye, playing for theTidewater Sealants, is one of64 centers from across thecountry to participate in thetournament. Other membersof the Sealants include for-mer UNC for ward MarcusGinyard, former Nor thernIowa for ward Adam Kochand former Arizona guardNic Wise.
Former Scarlet Knightsguard and currentPhiladelphia 76ers coachEddie Jordan also competed inthe event as a senior.
FORMER MIAMIDolphins outside linebackerJason Taylor visited the NewYork Jets yesterday and isadamant about getting a con-tract completed within thenear future.
No deal with Taylor wasfinalized as of yesterday —the 13-year NFL veteran isalso drawing interest from theNew England Patriots, as wellas the Dolphins.
Taylor’s agent, GaryWichard, received a call earli-er in the week from Jets headcoach Rex Ryan informinghim that the Jets wanted towork out a deal with theAkron product.
THE MILLEDGEVILLE,Ga., police department hand-ed over their investigationreports on PittsburghSteelers quarterback BenRoethlisberger Tuesdayevening to local district attor-ney Fred Bright.
Bright acknowledged hereceived the police reports andwitness statements regardingRoethlisberger and his allegedassault on a 20-year-old womanat a Georgia club. He would notcomment until reviewing thereports in their entirety.
Ed Garland,Roethlisberger’s lawyer, hiredhis own team to investigate theclaims and dispute the report,although no charges were filedto date.
FORMER OHIO STATEbasketball forward EvanTurner will forego his seniorseason and enter the 2010 NBAdraft, he announced yesterdayat an OSU press conference.
Turner, the AP Player of theYear, propelled the Buckeyesto the NCAA Tournament’sSweet 16 before falling toTennessee. He is widely con-sidered a top-five selection inthe upcoming draft.
Turner, who led OSU tothe Big Ten’s regular-seasonand conference tournamenttitles, averaged 20.3 points,9.2 rebounds and 5.9 assists per game during the2009-10 season.
BY STEVEN MILLERSPORTS EDITOR
Joe Lefeged returned akick 91 yards for a touchdownlast season. He also blockedtwo kicks and made 44 tacklesas a special teams and defen-sive giant.
They are not bad numbers.They just are not the best, con-sidering the senior safety playedon the Rutgers football teamwith Devin McCourty.
McCour ty’s touchdownreturn was for 98 yards. Heblocked three kicks, not two.He also finished second on theteam with 80 tackles andplayed over 100 downs against Connecticut.
This year, Lefeged is thelone return man with a touch-down to his name, the playerwith the knack for getting tothe football as it hits the kick-er’s foot and the unchallengedleader of the Scarlet Knights’ secondary.
“That’s the goal,” Lefegedsaid, when asked if he couldstep into McCourty’s specialteams’ role. “Devin was proba-bly one of the best specialteams players in the countrylast year, so that’s what I’mstriving for — to be the best Ican be.”
Sophomore safety DuronHarmon, competing for play-ing time at safety behindLefeged and sophomoreKhaseem Greene, already ben-efited from McCourty.
Against South Florida, whenMcCourty forced Bulls’ puntreturner Faron Hornes to fum-ble, Harmon was there to scoopthe ball up.
That was on the field, but theMagnolia, Del., native said Lefegedhelps him both on and off of it.
“Joe has been my big broth-er and every time I have aquestion, he’ll be right therewith an answer,” Harmon said.“It’s not even about footballsometimes. If I just needadvice or just need somebodyto talk to, he’s always there forme to talk. Having someonelike him is really a big help.”
ONE OFFENSIVE LINEMANsat out while another continuedhis return.
Senior center HowardBarbieri was fully dressed atpractice, but did not participatein any drills. Redshirt freshmanDavid Osei played some centerin his absence, but head coachGreg Schiano said he exhaledwhen he learned Barbieri will beall right.
“He’s done for the spring,but he’s going to be OK — hedoesn’t need surger y,”Schiano said.
True freshman guard BetimBujari, who enrolled early thissemester, participated in his fifthpractice after he was held out forfear of complications from a bro-ken nose.
The Secaucus, N.J., nativesaid since arriving at Rutgersin January his focus is entirely
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Senior safety Joe Lefeged, who credits Devin McCourty with helpinghim become a leader, looks to continue his special teams success.
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Darrell Givens (3) practiced at safety for the first time yesterday, after spending the first six springpractices at cornerback. Givens was one of three highly-touted redshirt freshmen cornerbacks.
SPRING PRACTICE NOTEBOOK LEFEGED FILLS MCCOURTY’S ROLE
on football, even thoughSchiano encourages earlyenrollees to attend prom andwalk in graduation.
“I just cleared high school outof my mind and concentrated onwhat I need to do here,” Bujarisaid. “Prom is actually coming upand I hadn’t thought about that— now I need to find a date.”
On an offensive line thatSchiano said has yet to impress,Bujari shows talent.
“He’s got a chance,”Schiano said. “He’s a raw guy,meaning he’s very strong,very talented. He just needs tolearn the system, learn thetechnique we use.”
REDSHIRT FRESHMANDarrell Givens moved from cor-nerback to safety, breaking upthe group of three highly toutedcornerbacks that redshirted intheir first season at Rutgers.
“It’s just another example oftinkering to get the best peoplein position [to make plays],”Schiano said.
After moving from wideoutto cornerback one practice ago,sophomore Marcus Cooperimpressed his coach.
“I’ll tell you what, he has aknack,” Schiano said. “In theone-on-ones I liked watchinghim. He has to learn the posi-tion, which will take allspring, but he has some natu-rally ability.”
THE KNIGHTS HAVE THEIRfirst scrimmage of the springSaturday at Rutgers Stadium.Yet to make any major depthchart moves, Schiano saidscrimmage performances carrymore weight.
“It’s the closest thing youhave to getting out there [in agame setting],” Schiano said.“There’s something dif ferent.What I like now is we havethis facility, [the RU Tur fField], so when we set foot inthat stadium, it’s somethingspecial. Whether it’s a gameor a scrimmage, you can tell the energy is a little dif ferent.”
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WITH STEVE NYISZTOR
THE DAILY TARGUM’S
Targum Associate Sports Editor A.J. Jankowskichats with the freshman second baseman abouthis name, his ink and his head coach’s inability
to operapte technology ...
A.J. Jankowski: Is there any significance to wearing the num-ber 41?Steve Nyisztor: My number all through high school base-ball and basketball was 14. But when I got here [seniorpitcher] Dennis Hill had 14, so I figured this was as closeas I could get.
AJ: Going back to your high school days, was there ever afirst day of school where a teacher could pronounce yourlast name correctly?SN: [laughs] No. Not at all.
AJ: What were some of the pronunciations you got?SN: I get “Nister” a lot. Most of the time they wouldn’t evenattempt it.
AJ: If you weren’t playing baseball, what sport would you beplaying?SN: Basketball definitely.
AJ: Were you always playing center because of yourheight?SN: I was usually shooting guard. I could shoot the ballpretty good. I basically grew up playing as much basket-ball as I did baseball, so this year was really the first year Imissed out on it. During the winter we were practicing a lotso I didn’t get to play and I really missed it.
AJ: Were you happy with Duke winning the national tourna-ment?SN: No I was actually really mad. [Sports information director] Doug Drabik: What?! C’monNyisztor.SN: I hate Duke. I’m a fan of college basketball and any-body but Duke. I was really pulling for Butler there.
AJ: Growing up in Toms River with all of the baseball historythere, were you forced to play baseball?SN: Actually when I was younger I really didn’t even want toplay. My mom forced me to play T-ball, so I think I owe a lotto her.
AJ: Who’s your baseball team?SN: Yankees. I loved watching the playoffs [last year], it wasgreat that they won.
AJ: Xbox 360 or Playstation 3?SN: Xbox 360.
AJ: Favorite game?SN: Call of Duty.
AJ: So far what has been your best memory at Rutgersunrelated to baseball?SN: Probably a lot of the new people that I’ve met. It’sreally been the first time since I went to middle schoolthat I’ve met this many new people. Outside of baseball,there are a lot of people in my dorm that I becamefriends with. It’s nice.
AJ: I see you’ve got some inkage going on over there, whatare your tattoos? SN: I’ve got praying hands that say “Faith” on my forearm.I’ve got “Live for the moment…” and then I have my initialsand then I have “Pride” written down my ribs.
AJ: Which one hurt the most?SN: The ribs definitely.
AJ: Say you are playing in Major League Baseball, whatballpark do you want to play in the most?SN: I’d probably want to play for the Mets in their new stadi-um. I’m a Yankee fan but growing up my Little League teamwas always the Mets so I’ve kind of always stuck with thatand I like their new stadium.
AJ: Alright last one, what are the chances that [head coach]Fred Hill Sr. gets a cell phone?SN: [laughs] Five percent and if he gets one he won’t knowhow to use it.
SAM HELLMAN
Sophomore third baseman Brittney Lindley drove in the only two runs for the Scarlet Knights in yesterday’sdouble-header sweep at the hands of Hofstra. Lindley hit a solo home run and had an RBI single.
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Playing on its home turf forthe first time this season did notprove to be enough to wake up
t h eRutgerssoftballt e a m ’ sb a t sw i t h
eight total hits in a double-headersweep by Hofstra at the RUSoftball Complex.
Starting Hofstra pitchersOlivia Galati and Erin Wade heldthe Scarlet Knights to one runapiece in each of the two gameswith Rutgers losing 4-1 in the firstgame and 2-1 in the second.
“We’re not hitting,” said headcoach Jay Nelson. “It’s kind ofabout our timing and how we’realways out on our front foot.We’re going to work on stayingback. It was really evident with
the second pitcher because shethrew a lot of change-ups andyou could see all of our hitters[out in front].”
Senior ace Nicole Lindleywent the distance in game two,but allowed 10 runners to reachbase and gave up two earnedruns on 111 pitches. The first ofNicole Lindley’s two earned runscame on a hit by pitch with thebases loaded, though Nelsonargued the call saying the batterleaned into the strike zone.
The second run came on asolo blast to deep left center and itproved to be the difference.
“When you get into gameslike this, it’s one or two mistakesthat can cost you the game,”Nelson said.
Nelson argued three calls dur-ing the double-header that couldhave gone either way.
“The close calls were a littlefrustrating, but as a pitching staffwe know what we have to do,”
Nicole Lindley said. “We need tobear down.”
Sophomore third basemanBrittney Lindley provided thelone RBI in the second game.After a sacrifice bunt got pinchrunner Lindsey Curran to sec-ond base, Brittney Lindleygrounded the ball up the middleto cut the game to a one-runlead for Hofstra.
Brittney Lindley alsoknocked in the only RBI in thefirst game with a solo home runto deep center in the bottom ofthe first.
“My eyes lit up and I just hit ithard and it went out,” BrittneyLindley said.
Hofstra already led 3-0 atthe time after a rough firstinning and overall rough outing for sophomore Holly Johnson.
“In the first game, Holly didn’thave it,” Nelson said.
Nelson pulled Johnson inthe four th inning after shegave up four runs on seven hitsand opted to give freshmanAbbey Houston a chance to fin-ish out the game. Houston,pitching in her first ever gameat the RU Softball Complex,excelled in 3 2/3 innings — notallowing a run.
“I was really happy for her,”said Nicole Lindley. “We set thesegoals for our pitching staff ofwhat we want to do the rest of theyear and I feel like she really tookit to heart.”
The sweep by Hofstra (24-6)marked the first home stand forRutgers after opening the yearwith 27 consecutive games on theroad — the longest stretch inschool history.
The Knights (12-19, 0-2)return home this weekend for athree game, in-conferenceseries with Connecticut beforehosting both Louisville and Army next week in double-headers.
“Obviously the outcome was-n’t favorable, but I think that weplayed on our field and we havetwo days to practice and fix thethings we need to fix and we takeon UConn this weekend,” saidNicole Lindley.
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Freshman pitcher Abbey Houston relieved sophomore Holly Johnson inRutgers’ first game yesterday, surrendering no runs in 3 2/3 innings.
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BY STEVEN MILLERSPORTS EDITOR
When it comes to spring practice,Mohamed Sanu is not a rookie.
Unlike 28 of the other 29 members oflast year’s recruiting class, the sopho-more enrolled early and participated inthe Rutgers football team’s spring prac-tices last year.
But during the 15-practice season, theScarlet Knights’ No. 1 wideout workedout at the position that he first tried withtwo practices remaining last spring.
Sanu joined the Knights as a hard-hit-ting safety from South Brunswick. Heearned the praise of head coach GregSchiano at the position before a lack ofdepth at receiver forced his move to theoffensive side of the ball.
After the switch, the Most ValuablePlayer of the St. Petersburg Bowl neverlooked back — until now, when a year ofexperience at wideout provides the foun-dation for Sanu to develop even more.
“I had to study a lot last year, duringthe spring and summer, looking at gametape in a new position for me,” Sanu said.“Now, I have a year under my belt and Iknow what I’m doing. I know all the fun-damentals that need to develop in mygame, so I know what I need to do.”
Sanu learned the fundamentals andput them together for 51 receptions, 639yards and three receiving touchdowns inhis rookie campaign.
Now comes the challenge: perfectthose fundamentals as the only estab-lished player at a position full of uncer-tainty. Only four other wideouts claimreceptions, combining for 13 catches, 174yards and one score.
But of those four players, three aresophomores. The position is young, tal-ented and begging for someone to stepup like Sanu did a year ago.
“It’s exciting, because we know we havea lot to grow, but you just have to study a lotand make sure you have that playbook,”the 6-foot-2, 215-pounder said. “We have aton of guys — freshmen coming in and abunch of guys here. We just want to seeeverybody evolving their game, gettingbetter each play and moving along.”
Of the 13 wideouts, 11 are sophomoresor redshirt freshmen. In the summer, six
true freshmen will join, including 6-foot-6Brandon Coleman — an Under ArmourAll-American with the potential to repli-cate Sanu’s quick impact.
Still, Sanu is the undoubted leader ofthe group — following a pair of Rutgers’record-setters in Tennessee TitanKenny Britt and NFL-hopeful TimBrown in that role.
“I don’t feel like that, I just see it as anopportunity to help the team out,” Sanusaid. “We have a couple guys around meand we can bring them all along so we, as
a group, are all at that top level.”For this group, speed and
talent are not the issues — put-ting it all together is.
“We’re not where weneed to be, espe-
cially withthe details androute running,”Schiano said early inthe spring season. “I think[the competition is] going to be allthrough camp — there are a lot ofgood players there and we’re bringingsome more in.”
In a competition with so much youth,it is only fitting that new wide receiverscoach P.J. Fleck will not turn 30 untilfive days before the regular seasonfinale at West Virginia.
“I love Coach Fleck — that guy’sthe man,” Sanu said. “He’s real ener-getic. It’s not that he’s young, hejust knows a lot about the game.He’s been there, done that. Heknows what happens and how toprepare for every situation.”
Although Sanu is the mostexperienced of the Knights’ wide-outs, he is still learning. But theyouth movement, which worksclosely with a certain sophomorequarterback named Tom Savage,is reason for excitement.
“Savage is a great player,Mohamed’s a [sophomore] andthis connection we all have isgoing to be good for the future,”said sophomore Mark Harrison,who caught a touchdown pass atConnecticut last season. “We def-initely feel like we have some-thing going there.”
BY SAM HELLMANCORRESPONDENT
Fighting the odds is nothing new forformer Rutgers football wide receiverTim Brown.
As a 5-foot-7 wide receiver weighing inat just 151 pounds, Brown was even toosmall to be considered a legitimate playerat the college level.
All he did, however, was smashRutgers receiving records and startevery game of his senioryear — totaling 1,150receiving yards and nine touchdowns.
In the NFL, playingthat small is nearlyunheard of, but Brownwould not have it anyother way.
“Like I told ever y-body back home, I like itlike this,” Brown saidafter working out atRutgers’ Pro Day. “I likeit the hard way. That’show I’ve always wantedit. I like to be uncertain so when I getout there I can show everybody I cando it.”
Brown’s speed or athleticism is nota concern at the next level, butgetting up from hit after hit at hissize is unlikely. But ask Brown
and all you have to do is look atwhat he did with the Scarlet Knights.
“Once you pop on the tapeand see how much I love thegame, my play on the fieldshows a lot,” Brown said.
“And thenwhen yousee me inperson, I’m
a great guyto be
a r o u n d .Off the field
issues are, Imean, zero.I’m just wait-ing until that
day comes.”Brown proved
to be injury-resistantduring his four years at
Rutgers. As a truefreshman, he crackedthe depth chart at the end of
the season and his two touch-down grabs in the Texas Bowl made the
difference in the school’s first bowl winin history.
He did nothing but make plays as asophomore and junior and never suffereda serious injury.
The only time Brown actually enduredan injury came as a senior, but that wasnot a result of his play as much as it wasa strange accident.
Against Syracuse in the 10th gameof the year, left tackle Anthony Davisfell on Brown during a running play
and injured his ankle.Brown fought throughthe injury and pulled in11 balls for 223 yardsand two touchdowns inthe three games that followed.
“I think Tim hasproven that he’s a bigplay receiver,” said headcoach Greg Schiano. “Ithink the thing that a lotof people wanted to seewas could he take thepounding of being anevery-down guy. I think
he’s proven that.“I don’t look at the stats that much,
but his yardage and total catches [madefor] a great average and he played a lotof plays. Someone will take a chance onhim with the speed he has.”The ankle did not hold up quite as wellin the months to come.
Brown spent most of his post-bowlgame time rehabbing instead of actuallytraining for the Pro Day and, as a result,struggled without a chance to properlywork out or heal up.
He ran a 4.44 40-yard dash, butvowed that he would improve upon thatwhen he worked out privately in Floridaafter he recovered.
“Not at all,” Brown said on if he wassatisfied with the way he ran. “I ranalright, but I know I can do better oncemy ankle gets healed.”
Brown is considered a late-round toundrafted receiver according to mostreputable scouts, but his hiring ofagent Drew Rosenhaus may be a signin his favor.
Rosenhaus is known as an agent whoonly works with the best — representingNFL stars like Terrell Owens, ChadOchocinco, Kellen Winslow Jr., FrankGore and Lance Briggs.
“He’s a great guy,” Brown said.“He’s funny. He’s a great guy to bearound. It’s a great thing for me. He’sa big help for me. I know he’s going todo his job and I just have to do my job.Some of his clients are my friends.They tell me great things about him,and he’s been watching me for a long time.”
The two names that mean the most to Brown are Santana Moss and DeSean Jackson.
Neither Moss nor Jackson standsabove 5-foot-10 as wide receivers, butboth have impressive careers as speedy,slot players.
“They are great players in the NFL,but I’m going to be myself,” Brownsaid. “I’m going to do my thing andwe’ll see when I get to the next level.”
MOHAMEDSANU
TIMBROWN
OUT WITH THE OLD, IN WITH THE NEW
“Once you pop on the tape and see
how much I love the game, my play
on the field shows a lot.”
TIM BROWNWide Receiver
RAMON DOMPOR/ ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Sophomore Mohamed Sanu is the lone returning wideout with significant experienceunder his belt after establishing himself last season as an option behind Tim Brown.
SANU, MOHAMED: 6-FOOT-2, 215 POUNDS
51 CATCHES, 639 YARDS, 3 TOUCHDOWNS
62 CARRIES, 356 YARDS, 5 TOUCHDOWNS
BROWN, TIM: 5-FOOT-6, 151 POUNDS
55 CATCHES, 1,150 YARDS, 9 TOUCHDOWNS
40-YARD DASH: 4.44VERTICAL JUMP: 28 INCHES
BY STEVEN WILLIAMSONSENIOR WRITER
By the second half of theRutgers women’s lacrosse team’sslaughtering of Monmouth last
night, theidea thatS c a r l e tK n i g h t sw e r egoing to
win was not up in the air.The one thing that was air-
borne, however, was midfielderMary Cryan.
The senior soared in front of thecage in the second half, scoring apair of dazzling back-to-back midairgoals as Rutgers downed theHawks 18-6 at the RU Turf Field.
For the midfielder, who doesnot tower in stature, the approachis simple.
“I have no idea how I [get up sohigh], I just jump,” Cryan said.“They call me ‘Flyin’ Cryan’ … I’vegot ups.”
With senior attack MeghanFlanagan lurking behind the net,Cryan took a quick cut and leapt,catching the ball mid-jump androcketing it past the frozenMonmouth goalkeeper before hit-ting the ground. A minute later, themidfielder replicated the feat, butshe was not the only Knight on fire.
Ten different players scored forRutgers (8-3), eight with two goalsapiece to help produce the team’sseason-high 18 goals.
But it was the Anderson sisterswho did the majority of the damageon offense for the Knights.
Junior attack Kristen Andersonscored two goals and added threeassists, while freshman midfielderStephanie Anderson added twogoals and two assists of her own.
“We’ve been working hard onoffense and today was a game wherewe had to come in, play our game com-pletely and just play great and executeon everything because we’re going tohave to execute later on [in the sea-son],” Kristen Anderson said. “We’vegot some hard games coming up.”
Executing did not seem to bea problem.
Rutgers dominated Monmouth(5-8) in nearly every statistical cate-gory, outshooting the Hawks 31-11and holding a commanding 20-6advantage in draw controls. Theromp over the Hawks marked thesecond-straight game Rutgers hasscored at least 15 goals.
With the win, Rutgers moves to aperfect 8-0 all time against the Hawks.
With the lead well in hand, theKnights rotated in both of their back-up goalkeepers in freshman AimeeChotikul and sophomore transferMichelle Zaffuto, marking the firsttime Zaffuto saw action this season.
Rutgers also mixed in a healthyhandful of its bench, including jun-ior Katherine Marino, who scoredher first goal this season, and soph-omore Danielle Mascera, whorecorded her first point as a Knightwith a second half assist.
“[The bench players are] practic-ing hard every day, and they’re reallyclose to getting on the field and it’shard for them to get that experience
SPORTS A P R I L 8 , 2 0 1 0
T H E D A I L Y T A R G U M
P A G E 2 0
Fred Hill Jr. emerged from ameeting with Athletic DirectorTim Pernetti, just three weeks
ago, stillt h e
men’s basketball head coach. That may change within the
next 48 hours.Pernetti met with University
attorneys to determine if Hill canbe terminated for a breach of con-tract under a behavioral clause,according to Gannet New Jersey.This all stems from an April 1incident that occurred after theRutgers baseball team beatPittsburgh 9-8 atBainton Field.
Hill got into a ver-bal altercation withPittsburgh headcoach Joe Jordano —in which he may haveused profanity —prompting Pernettito release a state-ment Tuesday thatsaid Hill was under investiga-tion by the athletic depar t-ment, which did not make fur-ther comment yesterday.
Gannett New Jersey reportedthat Pernetti asked Hill to stayaway for the remainder of theseries, but Hill showed up any-way and parked in his car behindthe outfield fence, where Pernettispotted him.
A source close to the programtold Gannett New Jersey that Hillwould be fired by the end of theweek. If Hill were fired for abreach of contract, theUniversity would be off the hookfor the $1.8 million that he is
owed over the remaining threeyears of his deal.
Hill’s decision to return toBainton Field may be the outPernetti needs to dismiss him.
During his tenure Hill is just47-77 overall and 13-57 in the BigEast. That overall mark is thethird worst in program history.He won five league games thisseason, the most during his fouryears in charge.
Rumors have also swirled sur-rounding several of Hill’s players.Multiple media outlets reportedTuesday that sophomore star
guard Mike Rosario ismulling a transfer.
Gannett New Jerseyreported Rosario andhis family were at theLouis Brown AthleticCenter yesterday tomeet with Pernetti butthat no release hadbeen granted and anyrelease would need
Pernetti’s approval.Rosario’s high school coach at
St. Anthony, Bob Hurley Sr., toldThe Daily Targum that he plans onmeeting with Rosario either Sundayor Monday when he returns from acoaching clinic in Dublin.
“Sometimes I just think this iswhat losing does,” Hurley said.“They’re still not winning andwhen you’re always playing andyou’re not winning then you’renot happy — and you shouldn’tbe. I need to talk to him and seewhere things are.”
— Kyle Franko and Steven Miller
MEN’S BASKETBALL
JUDGEMENT DAY LOOMS FOR HILL JR.
FRED HILL JR.
Onslaught of goals leads to comfortable victory
JEN KONG
Junior attack Kristen Anderson tallied two goals and three assists in the Knights’ 18-6 victory overMonmouth. Anderson’s two scores made her one of eight Rutgers players to earn more than one goal.SEE VICTORY ON PAGE 16
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ANDREW HOWARD/ SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER/ FILE PHOTO
Senior pitcher Kyle Bradley lasted only 2 1/3 innings in yesterday’s 12-11 loss to Columbia. Thestarter gave up five earned runs as the Knights fell to the Lions for the second straight season.
BY A.J. JANKOWSKIASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
For the second-straight seasonthe Rutgers baseball team fell vic-tim to Ivy League foe Columbia.
The Lionsd e f e a t e dthe ScarletKnights ina 12-11shootout
yesterday at Robertson Field inNew York City after the 9-1 drub-bing they inflicted on the Big Eastsquad last season at Bainton Field.
This time around the Knights(15-12, 5-1) could not keep theLions (12-12) from crossing theplate as starting senior pitcherKyle Bradley lasted only 2 1/3innings while giving up five earnedruns on five hits. Sophomorereliever Willie Beard did not fairmuch better, going 1 1/3 inningsand giving up six hits that lead tofour earned runs.
The game went back and forthwith each team putting runs on theboard inning after inning. Rutgerspulled ahead 11-10 in the top of theseventh inning off of a pinch-hit
two-run home run from seniorcatcher Jayson Hernandez.
Senior reliever Kevin Lillisentered the game in the bottom ofthe frame to attempt to quiet theLions and preserve the lead. ButColumbia roared back to take theadvantage, courtesy of a two-runhome run of its own from juniorAlex Ferrera.
The Knights threatened in theeighth by rallying with two outsto load the bases, but third base-man D.J. Anderson grounded out
