THE D AILY T ARGUM Volume 142, Number 114 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 MARCH MADNESS Today: Rain High: 42 • Low: 35 THURSDAY MARCH 31, 2011 Inside Beat dukes it out among 32 of hip-hop's leading artists. Through all of the upsets and close calls, only one can take the crown as 2011’s ultimate hip-hop emcee. INDEX ONLINE @ DAILYTARGUM.COM OPINIONS ....... 12 DIVERSIONS ...... 14 CLASSIFIEDS ...... 16 A Highland Park business this weekend will host a three-day festival for Earth Day. The University’s new commencement ceremony stirs up conflicting emotions. OPINIONS SPORTS ...... BACK METRO UNIVERSITY ....... 3 METRO ......... 10 Douglass Governing Council members listen to Dean Marjorie Munson speak Tuesday night about Douglass College history. The council also decided to support the Save the Education Campaign. For the full story, see PAGE 3. CAMERON STROUD / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER RULING LADIES Dancers warm up for 32-hour charity event BY LUCIE LOZINSKI CONTRIBUTING WRITER Students will dance the week- end away during the 13th annual Dance Marathon, the largest stu- dent-run philanthropic event in New Jersey. Dance Marathon is a 32-hour event that benefits the Embrace Kids Foundation, a non-profit organization that helps the non- medical needs of families of chil- dren with blood disorders, said Danielle Bechta, Director of Community Outreach. Mark Inverso, director of Finance, said Dance Marathon’s goals have not changed, but the staff aims to improve efficiency this year with the hopes of raising more than last year’s total of $378,001.75. “We’re still trying to help the organization as much as possible financially and morally, have as many dancers as possible, and have as strong an event as ever,” said Inverso, a Rutgers Business School junior. “Over the past 12 years, we have raised $2.3 million, so we have ambitious goals for this year.” Although Dean of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs JoAnn Arnholt offers support and guidance for the event, student volunteers make all decisions and plans, said Bechta, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. The organization’s Board of Directors and Central Planning Team was hired in May 2010 and has been holding weekly meetings and various promotional events all year, she said. “So that tells you how much work we actually have to put into an event of this magnitude,” Bechta said. The board began planning for Dance Marathon 2011 over the summer and was broken down into seven main teams to manage the event — Community Outreach, CBS producer visits campus to talk news BY DMITRY ZHDANKIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER Rick Kaplan, executive producer of CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, disclosed his personal experiences of working with multiple television outlets during his Wednesday night question and answer session. The event, held at Alexander Library on the College Avenue campus, provided a platform for University students to network and learn from Kaplan, said Benjamin Davis, a professor in the journalism and media studies department. Topics of the night included recent develop- ments in the Middle East and the direction of the news industry in the upcoming years. In the past, networks would hang onto news until 6:30 p.m. and would display it across the three networks for the 6:30 p.m. news. But now the news network is much faster paced, Kaplan said. “So until [the news anchors] would announce ‘Good evening, here is the news,’ you did not know it,” he said. “Today, when the news is presented, you’ve already seen it — it’s been on CNN, it’s been Rick Kaplan, CBS Evening News executive producer, shares his 35 years of experience with students last night in the Alexander Library on the College Avenue campus. NELSON MORALES / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Health care laws up cost of tuition BY NEIL P. KYPERS SENIOR STAFF WRITER Although some students expect to see an increase in their tuition for next school year — what they may not be expecting is an increase to a cost of their University-provided health insurance. The new federal health care legislation, coupled with a N.J. state law that requires full-time students at colleges or universities have health insurance to cover basic hospi- talization, will increase the cost of the mini- mum coverage provided by the University. “Effective this coming year, we are going to have a hard waiver program that has a minimum limit of $100,000,” said James Breeding, director of Risk Management and Insurance at the University. This will be an increase of between $600 and $800 from the mandatory cov- erage provided currently with a limit of $5,000 at about $170 per student, which anyone without insurance must pay, Breeding said. “If [students] don’t have health insur- ance, they will have to buy into this pro- gram, but the cost they are getting it at is very competitive,” he said. If students do have insurance, they will be able to avoid paying for the cover- age through the hard waiver program, which allows students to opt out of the coverage if they can provide proof of insurance through another means, Breeding said. This is a change from the former poli- cy of a mandatory fee on students’ term bills for what the University considered necessary coverage, he said. Breeding said on average about 39 per- cent of the approximate 100,000 students in the state colleges had to buy into coverage, U. utilizes new media to reach students BY TABISH TALIB CONTRIBUTING WRITER Various University departments are trying to communicate with students on popular forms of technology by creating smart phone applications and using social media websites like Twitter. An electrical and computer engineering senior project team created “RULost,” an iPhone application that provides University students with information and data about the University, project leader Kyle Sherman said. “The app brings everything together — Nextbus, dining hall menus, links for lots of the University departments and all the servic- es within My Rutgers,” said Sherman, a School of Engineering junior. The application has five main features — links for the various departments, dining hall menus, numbers and contacts for University resources, a link to The Daily Targum mobile website and the Nextbus application, Sherman said. “For the Nextbus part of the application, we took away the hassle of picking a route and a direction,” he said. “You just pick a start point and an end point, and the app will tell you what bus to take.” Sherman said phone applications dealing with the University were lacking and as a result, he and School of Engineering seniors David Buchman, Joe Morreale, Dan Carew and Ryan Hennessy created the application for their software engineering capstone sen- ior design project. “There are only six applications for Rutgers in the iPhone app store and one of SEE MEDIA ON PAGE 4 SEE DANCERS ON PAGE 5 SEE TUITION ON PAGE 4 SEE PRODUCER ON PAGE 6
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A Highland Parkbusiness this weekend will host a three-day festivalfor Earth Day.
The University’s new commencement ceremony stirs upconflicting emotions.
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Douglass Governing Council members listen to Dean Marjorie Munson speakTuesday night about Douglass College history. The council also decided tosupport the Save the Education Campaign. For the full story, see PAGE 3.
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RULING LADIES Dancers warm up for32-hour charity event
BY LUCIE LOZINSKICONTRIBUTING WRITER
Students will dance the week-end away during the 13th annualDance Marathon, the largest stu-dent-run philanthropic event inNew Jersey.
Dance Marathon is a 32-hourevent that benefits the EmbraceKids Foundation, a non-profitorganization that helps the non-medical needs of families of chil-dren with blood disorders, saidDanielle Bechta, Director ofCommunity Outreach.
Mark Inverso, director ofFinance, said Dance Marathon’sgoals have not changed, but thestaff aims to improve efficiency thisyear with the hopes of raising morethan last year’s total of $378,001.75.
“We’re still trying to help theorganization as much as possiblefinancially and morally, have asmany dancers as possible, and haveas strong an event as ever,” said
Inverso, a Rutgers Business Schooljunior. “Over the past 12 years, wehave raised $2.3 million, so we haveambitious goals for this year.”
Although Dean of Fraternityand Sorority Affairs JoAnn Arnholtoffers support and guidance for theevent, student volunteers make alldecisions and plans, said Bechta, aSchool of Arts and Sciences senior.
The organization’s Board ofDirectors and Central PlanningTeam was hired in May 2010 andhas been holding weekly meetingsand various promotional events allyear, she said.
“So that tells you how muchwork we actually have to put intoan event of this magnitude,”Bechta said.
The board began planning forDance Marathon 2011 over thesummer and was broken down intoseven main teams to manage theevent — Community Outreach,
CBS producervisits campusto talk news
BY DMITRY ZHDANKINCONTRIBUTING WRITER
Rick Kaplan, executive producer of CBSEvening News with Katie Couric, disclosed hispersonal experiences of working with multipletelevision outlets during his Wednesday nightquestion and answer session.
The event, held at Alexander Library on theCollege Avenue campus, provided a platform forUniversity students to network and learn fromKaplan, said Benjamin Davis, a professor in thejournalism and media studies department.
Topics of the night included recent develop-ments in the Middle East and the direction ofthe news industry in the upcoming years.
In the past, networks would hang onto newsuntil 6:30 p.m. and would display it across the threenetworks for the 6:30 p.m. news. But now the newsnetwork is much faster paced, Kaplan said.
“So until [the news anchors] would announce‘Good evening, here is the news,’ you did not knowit,” he said. “Today, when the news is presented,you’ve already seen it — it’s been on CNN, it’s been
Rick Kaplan, CBS Evening News executive producer, shares his 35 years of experiencewith students last night in the Alexander Library on the College Avenue campus.
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Health carelaws up costof tuition
BY NEIL P. KYPERSSENIOR STAFF WRITER
Although some students expect to seean increase in their tuition for nextschool year — what they may not beexpecting is an increase to a cost of theirUniversity-provided health insurance.
The new federal health care legislation,coupled with a N.J. state law that requiresfull-time students at colleges or universitieshave health insurance to cover basic hospi-talization, will increase the cost of the mini-mum coverage provided by the University.
“Effective this coming year, we are goingto have a hard waiver program that has aminimum limit of $100,000,” said JamesBreeding, director of Risk Management andInsurance at the University.
This will be an increase of between$600 and $800 from the mandatory cov-erage provided currently with a limit of$5,000 at about $170 per student, whichanyone without insurance must pay,Breeding said.
“If [students] don’t have health insur-ance, they will have to buy into this pro-gram, but the cost they are getting it at isvery competitive,” he said.
If students do have insurance, theywill be able to avoid paying for the cover-age through the hard waiver program,which allows students to opt out of thecoverage if they can provide proof ofinsurance through another means,Breeding said.
This is a change from the former poli-cy of a mandatory fee on students’ termbills for what the University considerednecessary coverage, he said.
Breeding said on average about 39 per-cent of the approximate 100,000 students inthe state colleges had to buy into coverage,
U. utilizes new media to reach studentsBY TABISH TALIBCONTRIBUTING WRITER
Various University departments are tryingto communicate with students on popularforms of technology by creating smart phoneapplications and using social media websiteslike Twitter.
An electrical and computer engineeringsenior project team created “RULost,” aniPhone application that provides Universitystudents with information and data about theUniversity, project leader Kyle Sherman said.
“The app brings everything together —Nextbus, dining hall menus, links for lots ofthe University departments and all the servic-es within My Rutgers,” said Sherman, aSchool of Engineering junior.
The application has five main features — linksfor the various departments, dining hall menus,numbers and contacts for University resources, alink to The Daily Targum mobile website and theNextbus application, Sherman said.
“For the Nextbus part of the application, wetook away the hassle of picking a route and adirection,” he said. “You just pick a start point
and an end point, and the app will tell you whatbus to take.”
Sherman said phone applications dealingwith the University were lacking and as aresult, he and School of Engineering seniorsDavid Buchman, Joe Morreale, Dan Carewand Ryan Hennessy created the applicationfor their software engineering capstone sen-ior design project.
“There are only six applications forRutgers in the iPhone app store and one of
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Council supports maintaining access to higher educationBY ELI AUSLENDERCONTRIBUTING WRITER
By endorsing the Save theEducation Campaign in a unani-mously passed resolutionTuesday night, the DouglassGoverning Council (DGC) aimsto recognize the importance ofhigher education.
The Save the EducationCampaign entails a congregationof students on April 13 to raiseawareness throughout NewJersey to the legislature and thegovernor in Trenton that higherpublic education matters to thestudents and the University, classRep. Valerie Weiss said.
“To continually cut funds fromhigher education is detrimentalto the students and the universi-ty,” said Weiss, a School of Artsand Sciences junior.
Weiss believes the Save theEducation Campaign will send aclear message to Christie and tothe state legislature the Universitystands behind students in the callto stop cutting aid to publicschools across New Jersey.
“What we are doing withthis campaign is promotingaccessible education,” shesaid. “The largest benefit tothis campaign is that there isstudent involvement and to show that students do care about the cuts in their education.”
The campaign, led by the NewJersey United Students and sup-ported by the Rutgers UniversityStudent Assembly (RUSA), aims tomobilize students to lobby mem-bers of the state legislature toreconsider the current tuition caps
Marjorie Munson, former assistant dean of Douglass College, recommends different scholarshipsfor students and gives some history of the school Tuesday night in the Douglass Campus Center.
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placed on state institutions by Gov.Chris Christie, said Erika Remache,Class of 2011 representative.
Remache, a School of Arts andSciences senior, said DGC’s unani-mous vote for the resolution sup-porting the campaign shows sup-port for and solidarity with RUSA’sefforts and all those concernedwith this issue as a whole.
“Having a state universitymeans getting access to qualityand affordable higher educa-tion,” she said. “We feel studentsshould have a right to maintainthat access. The event is headedin the right direction to try tounify student voices, not only forthe school but New Jersey state.”
The meeting also featured for-mer Assistant Dean MarjorieMunson, Douglass College’s unof-ficial historian and primary facili-ties liaison.
Though retired, Munson stillworks part time with theUniversity and can still be foundon-campus in her office in CollegeHall on Douglass campus,Remache said. She works withadministering scholarships forDouglass students and mentionedupcoming ones for students.
Munson discussed the historyof Douglass College, includingthe suicide of Mabel SmithDouglass and the school’s sur-vival through calamities like the1918 flu pandemic.
On the agenda at the meetingmembers proposed resolutions for
timely DGC meetings and the reso-lution to promote Woodbury andBunting-Cobb residence halls’Lengthy Locks event, to occur onApril 10 on Douglass campus.
Lengthy Locks raises moneyfor the Teen Cancer Foundationand the hair cut at the event willgo to Pantene’s BeautifulLengths, which distributes wigsfor free through select American
Cancer Society wig banks,Remache said.
The two resolutions will bevoted on next week, she said.
Since the speaking time forMunson was lengthy, the councilchose to bypass reports, Remachesaid. Reports involve news fromRUSA’s general body meetingsthat greatly affect the study body,but the committee meetings took
place last week centered on indi-vidual projects.
Remache said for this weekthe council meetings will bequicker and straightforward.
“The meeting was quite pro-ductive,” DGC Internal VicePresident Kyrie Graziosi said.
Reena Diamante contributed tothis article.
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since the other universities haveoperated on a hard waiver policyprior to the University.
“Seventeen thousand to 19,000students might have to pay anadditional $600 to $800 more ontheir term bill,” he said. “The uti-lization by our students of what weconsider to be a necessary cover-age showed there was a need forstudent health insurance.”
The New Jersey Presidents’Council commissioned a taskforce, which Breeding chairs, toexamine student health care.
The task force sent out arequest for a proposal to deter-mine a rough idea about thecost for the new requirements ofthe insurance.
“When Rutgers goes to a hardwaiver, we know we have doneeverything we could to make it as
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them is a Nextbus applicationthat crashes all the time,” he said.
Sherman thinks there aremany advantages for students tohave smart phones.
“I see a huge number of students with smar t phonesand it’s mostly because ofSakai and email,” he said.“Someone who has to wait for acomputer to check his emailmight not know that class hasbeen canceled.”
Other departments, such asthe University’s Department ofTranspor tation Ser vices, arealso engaged in new mediawith active Facebook andTwitter accounts which areused to update the studentpopulation with changes in ser vices, said JackMolenaar, director of theUniversity’s Depar tment ofTransportation Services.
“We star ted around twoyears ago and it started of fwhen I saw the [Center forDisease Control] usingTwitter,” he said.
Molenaar said the advan-tages to these social mediasites are that ever ything isfaster and the sites keep thesystem flexible.
“If I update on Facebookwhich then automaticallytweets it that we need to plow acertain lot, within an hour thelot will be empty,” he said.
Most students follow theTwitter or Facebook feed foremergencies and information,Molenaar said.
“People use it when there are snow issues, and it’s great because
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At a transportation hearing yesterday, Sen. FrankLautenberg, D-N.J., offered recommendations for new safe-ty precautions on tour buses.
Suggestions included seat belts on buses, stronger roofsand windows, onboard devices to monitor drivers’ hoursand fatigue and better government oversight of operators,according to an nj.com article.
But these additional safety precautions are nothing new,rather suggestions have been around for years, accordingto the article.
The hearing was prompted by a recent N.J. Turnpiketour bus accident and the Bronx bus crash that killed 15people earlier in the month.
“Older travelers who take motor coaches to casinos planon gambling, but they do not expect to play Russian roulettewith their safety en route,” said Joan Claybrook, co-chair ofAdvocates for Highway and Auto Safety advocacy group, inthe article.
The bus company involved in the recent Turnpike crashin East Brunswick had one of the poorest rankings in theUnited States for unsafe driving, according to the article.
Drivers of Super Luxury Tours of Pennsylvania havebeen written up several times for failing to understand oranswer basic English commands and having insufficientmedical certificates showing they are physically able to han-dle the bus.
Super Luxury Tours of Pennsylvania also violated regu-lations that prohibit drivers from being behind the wheel formore than 60 hours a week or 70 hours in eight days,according to Department of Transportation records.
The company is suspended for violating insurancerequirements and has been placed out of service,Lautenberg said in the article.
President of the American Bus Association, PeterPantuso spoke with Claybrook about the costs of equippingbuses with seat belts and other safety measures.
Claybrook estimates the cost would range from “a nick-el to 10 cents” per passenger, which would be about $7,000per bus, according to the article.
While Pantuso anticipates the cost for seat belts torange between $13,000 and $15,000 and cost around$75,000 per bus.
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BUS CRASH PROMPTS SENATOR TO INCREASE SAFETY MEASURES
cost effective as we can by com-petitively leveraging a large pur-chasing pool to get the best dealpossible,” Breeding said.
According to a statement fromAetna, the insurance company iscommitted to providing the bestplans in order to meet the needsof universities they work with atan affordable rate.
“The premiums for studenthealth plans — like all other healthplans — are impacted by the risingcost of health care services thatare covered under these plans,”according to the statement.
There are some concernsabout affordability, especially onother campuses like Newark,where at least 70 percent of thestudent body is on financial aid,said Gerald Massenburg, associ-ate chancellor for Student Life atRutgers-Newark.
“With students juggling somany different economic chal-lenges we felt this one would bean added burden to them,”Massenburg said.
Massenburg, also a memberof New Jersey Presidents’Council’s task force, said thoseinvolved know that any costincrease will create a financialburden, which could affect a stu-dent’s future education.
“It could have an adverseeffect where students will switchfrom full time to part time, but itis hard for me to say that for cer-tain,” he said.
The reason the University, andother schools around the state,have not had large coverage poli-cies before is because the statelaw mandating insurance neverdetailed what the coverage had tobe, Breeding said. But the newfederal law spells it out.
“We made affordability a high-er priority than adequacy of cov-erage,” he said.
Increases will not stop afterthis year, and the cost will contin-ue to rise since this is the firststep of a three-year phase-in pro-gram that will be fully implement-ed by 2014, Breeding said.
RU-info retweets it as well,” he said.
Molenaar also liked themobility of the services andsaid he could change any Nextbus changes, tweetsand Facebook updates fromhis phone.
“Also, all the tweets to@RUDOTS come directly to me,”he said.
The reason these apps andnew media are so popular isbecause of the amount and theway in which people use it, saidJohn Pavlik, chair of theDepartment of Journalism andMedia Studies.
“The No. 1 reason is the popu-larity and ubiquity of mobilemedia,” he said.
If University departmentsand faculty do not use this newmedia, Pavlik said they wouldbe foolish.
“Students are using thesenew technologies,” he said. “Ifyou don’t use these tools, it would be like not usingbooks when students are read-ing books.”
There are also dangers forstudents who engage in newmedia but do not understand therisks, Pavlik said.
“Students need to use newmedia wisely and understand theeffect on others and their digitalfootprint,” he said, citing therecent story of the University ofCalifornia at Los Angeles studentwho posted a racist rant onYouTube.
Pavlik also believes that newmedia should be taught inclassrooms but said the courseshould be augmented.
“In my class I use a hybridapproach. There is face-to-facetime along with online supple-ments in media to watch [and]discussion boards, which pro-vide a 24-hour access to learn-ing,” he said.
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Students rally against tuition hikesBY MORGAN MURRELL
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
New Jersey United Students(NJUS) members along withsupporters and protestors ral-lied yesterday afternoonagainst recent Universitytuition increases during “TheTuition Monologues.”
NJUS chapter organizerMatt Cordeiro felt the event,which took place outsideBrower Commons on theCollege Avenue campus, wasnecessary to give students anoutlet to express their feelingson tuition increases.
“Seventy percent of studentshere receive financial aid andabout 30 percent receive PellGrants,” said Cordeiro, who isalso vice president of RutgersUniversity Student Assembly.“People have problems payingtuition but they rarely have aplace to talk about it, so I wanted to set up a space wherethey could talk about theirtuition problems.”
NJUS formed the event tofacilitate students with educa-tional expenses. The recentstatewide budget cuts are disapproving not only to the attendees of “The TuitionMonologues,” but also to students across New Jersey,Cordeiro said.
NJUS member DongguYoon said the main purpose ofthe event was to give studentsa sense of collectiveness andshow financial problems arenot solitary.
“The event encouraged mebecause I wanted to help put aface to this problem,” saidYoon, a School of Ar ts andSciences junior. “We hope thata lot of people will come outand share their stories and real-ize that real students, maybe
even someone right next toyou, is going through similarfinancial problems.”
Despite the low attendance,those present stepped up to the microphone one by one, to express their views on tuition.
“In a way I feel my yearshere have been more of a rob-bery of my and my parents’bank account than an actualeducation,” said Kurt Kugel,
a Mason Gross School of Arts senior.
Dan Herbert, a School ofArts and Sciences senior, usedpoetry to express his own finan-cial struggle.
“I’m bleeding Benjamins,I’m hemorrhaging Hamiltons,I’m dripping Jacksons, becausefor ever y teacher tr ying toteach me something truly fan-tastic, there is a guy in anof fice somewhere asking mehow … paper or plastic,”Herbert said.
Gov. Chris Christie alsoreduced funding statewide forEducational OpportunityFunding (EOF) by 8.7 percent,which decreases the opportuni-ty and access to equal learning,according to the EOF website.
“Like most University stu-dents I have to work and takeout a bunch of student loans,”
said John Connelly, a School ofArts and Sciences sophomoreand EOF student. “I’m going to be up to my armpits in debt … there’s no way not toget angry.”
Cordeiro said the financialdebt would not only af fect present students but also negatively af fect future stu-dents’ opportunities.
“Instead of being able to goout and do the next cool thing orinvent the next Facebook, I’mgoing to have to work somelame job somewhere,” he said.“It’s almost like a loss opportu-nity and we’re mortgaging ourfutures for something that isn’teven our fault.”
NJUS member Beth Breslawthought the forum allowed stu-dents to share their opinionswithout feeling isolated.
“This is not a private struggle… we’re all going through it,”said Breslaw, a School of Arts andSciences junior.
The recent budget cuts notonly affect University studentsbut all students in New Jerseyand needs to be addressed bystudents, Cordeiro said.
“The Tuition Monologues”was a preview for another NJUSevent happening at VoorheesMall on the College Avenue onApril 13 called “Walk intoAction,” which will encouragestudents to address the recentbudget cuts, he said.
“Walk into Action,” fundedin par t by the RutgersUniversity Student Assemblyand external organizations, isscheduled to occur on nineother participating NJUS col-lege campuses. The organiza-tion will set up tents, distributeflyers and provide enter tain-ment with the theme beingfocused on higher education inthe state.
Recruitment, Operations,Catering, VolunteerManagement, Entertainment andFinance, she said.
“This year, we really wantedto reach for bigger sponsors, getmore dedicated dancers, recruitmore first-year students to volun-teer and just try to one-up theamazing job that the board didlast year,” Bechta said. “Everyyear we want to improve uponwhat was done previously.”
Teams work year-round toraise money through bake salesand burrito nights — not justthrough recruiting dancers,Inverso said.
“Another way is through ourfinance team, which goes out tostreet corners in Edison, NewBrunswick, Milltown andPrinceton asking people to sup-port the cause,” he said.
With about 400 dancers andmore than 1,000 students involvedoverall, the planning process forthis event takes about 10 months,said Julia Crimi, director ofVolunteer Management.
“The people that are mostinvolved do [Dance Marathon]because they love being here,”she said. “We throw an insaneevent that takes so much timeand effort, but we do it togetherand have a great time and ofcourse, we do it for the kids.”
The organization’s proximityto campus allows studentsinvolved in Dance Marathon toactually see their work pay off,Crimi said.
“Since [the Embrace KidsFoundation] is located in NewBrunswick, we are able to meetthe kids and see directly whereour efforts are going,” she said.“Students offer emotional relieffor parents and relieve the stressof the daily life of these kids. We
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“I’m going to be up to my armpits
in debt … there’s no way
not to get angry.” JOHN CONNELLY
School of Arts and Sciences Sophomore
offer companionship, hope and ashoulder to lean on.”
While Dance Marathonrequires commitment and rais-es money for a cause, it is alsoa recreational event for theUniversity community withmusical per formances fromfive live bands and performers from local dancetroupes, said Elizabeth Appert,director of Entertainment.
“We plan theme hours, tour-naments, arts and crafts andother things to entertain thedancers,” said Appert, a School ofArts and Sciences senior. “Thismay seem obvious, but we wantthe students to have fun — theyhave given up a weekend to helpkids who need it.”
This year, the entertainmentteam created a morale team toget more students involved,she said.
“We had a couple competi-tions throughout the year to getdancers involved before the actu-al event so that they would feelmore involved with themarathon,” Appert said.
Inverso said students can onlyget the true experience of DanceMarathon by attending and see-ing the children’s smiles.
“All the families and the chil-dren there — when you meetthem and see them smiling, andthey thank you for all your hardwork and dedication, and you’retired, but you’re doing it for them— it’s an incredible feeling thatyou can’t experience anywhereelse, ” he said.
This year’s Dance Marathonwill star t at 10 a.m. onSaturday, April 2, and finish at6 p.m. on Sunday, April 3 at theCollege Avenue Gymnasium,Crimi said.
“Dance Marathon is the great-est, most unique event on cam-pus and one that students willnever forget,” Crimi said. “It’s notevery day that 1,000 RU studentsgather in one place over onecause, all for the kids.”
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on Fox, it’s been on MSNBC.”During the question and
answer portion, School of Artsand Sciences junior BrittanyAlston asked what point the net-works and media outlets are will-ing to sacrifice expediency foraccuracy or good quality of news.
Kaplan said in an around-the-clock environment of news report-ing, it may be extremely difficult toensure complete accuracy.
“The executives of the cablenetworks will tell you that theydemand accuracy, but the sheerchallenge of [fast-paced report-ing] means that the mistakes inomission are made,” he said.
Faculty and students interact last night with CBS Evening News executive producer Rick Kaplan,who answered their questions about the broadcast news industry.
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In regard to a question raisedabout the influence of theWestern media on the demonstra-tions in the Middle East, Kaplansaid the news channels have aresponsibility to report such situ-ations accurately.
“You do not a have a responsi-bility to rally the people of Egyptinto a revolution, whether it is rightor wrong,” he said. “Your responsi-bility is to report what is going on.”
Davis said the goal of theevent was for Kaplan to share 35years of professional experiencewith University students.
“This session is all aboutwhere the news business is andwhere it is going,” said Davis, theevent’s organizer.
Kaplan, a veteran of networktelevision, previously worked forCNN, MSNBC and ABC, he said.He is a recipient of numerous
awards and honors, including atotal of 44 Emmy Awards.
“This man is an informationgenius,” Davis said. “Rick is a typeof artist that can, in a matter of min-utes, put together information thatwill relate to a huge mass of people.”
Mickey Hennessey, a Schoolof Arts and Sciences senior,thought the question and answersession was a great opportunityto network and gain importantinformation about the industry.
“It is extremely important tonot only learn while in the class,but also to learn from successfulpeople,” Hennessey said.
Alexander Price, a School of Artsand Sciences junior, said he obtainedimportant career tips and insights.
“I plan on going into televisionproduction,” Price said. “To getexperience from a national execu-tive producer, I think is amazing.”
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Mason Gross School of the Arts senior Amanda Donner captures a Millburn, N.J., firefighter showing how to extinguisha car fire during a controlled demonstration. Submit photos for publication to [email protected].
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PHOTO OF THE WEEK: BLAZING DEMOTrial startsfor killer of NJ students
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NEWARK, N.J. —Attorneys painted sharply con-trasting pictures Wednesdayof a man on trial for the slayings of three college stu-dents in a crime that shocked the violence-plaguedcity of Newark in 2007 and gal-vanized support for a host ofanti-crime measures.
Defense attorney RaymondMorasse’s summation paintedAlexander Alfaro as a “scaredkid” threatened into action bya violent older brother and, fol-lowing his arrest two weekslater, urged to lie about hisinvolvement by a detectivewho told him he could helphimself by making his storysynch up with those given byother defendants.
Hardly, Assistant EssexCounty Prosecutor ThomasMcTigue argued. The then 16-year-old Alfaro had been amember of the MS-13 streetgang for several months andknew what he was doing whenhe responded to half-brotherRodolfo Godinez’s order tobring a machete to the MountVernon School playground onthe night of Aug. 4, 2007.
“Just because he looks young,that’s not a defense,” McTiguesaid. “Maybe he’s not the devilincarnate, but he’s not aningénue either. “He’s a 16-year-old kid in the city of Newarkwho’s been an MS-13 memberfor several months. He’s noshrinking violet.”
Alfaro and five others werecharged in the execution-stylemurders of college-boundfriends Iofemi Hightower andDashon Harvey, 20, and 18-year-old Terrance Aeriel. Afourth victim, who isn’t beingidentified by The AssociatedPress because of sexual assaultcharges against two otherdefendants, was slashed andshot but survived her injuriesand testified against Alfaro.
The shocking crime jump-started anti-crime measuressuch as the installation of sur-veillance cameras that were cred-ited with decreasing violentcrime in the city.
Wednesday’s dueling two-hour-plus closing argumentsfocused on the central ques-tions the jury must take upwhen it begins deliberationsThursday: Was Alfaro underduress before, during andafter the murders due tothreats by Godinez; was he abystander or participant in therobber y and subsequentattacks and was he the victimof police chicanery?
Morasse characterized theinvestigation as “sloppy” andassailed the police for not video-taping Alfaro’s statement to themafter his capture in Virginia.
“It would be the most impor-tant piece of evidence but youdon’t have it,” he told jurors.“Why? Because they didn’t wantyou to have it.”
A detective testified thatinvestigators were led tobelieve a video system wasworking at a juvenile facility inVirginia, but later discovered itwas undergoing maintenance.Alfaro’s statement was record-ed by two audio recorders.
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31 Rutgers University Programming Association will be host-ing “Inside the Nicole ‘Snooki’ Polizzi Studio” with twoshows in Livingston Hall at the Livingston Student Center.The show stars “Jersey Shore” star Snooki with her comedi-an side-kick Adam Ace. Doors for the first show open at 7p.m. and the show starts at 8 p.m., while the second showstarts at 10 p.m. with wristbands required for entry.University students get a wristband between 4 and 7 p.m. atthe Livingston Student Center. Students must bring theirRUID. Seats are available for non-University students andwill be admitted on a first-come, first-serve basis.Wristbands will be distributed in the order of the showtimes, with the 8 p.m. wristbands being handed out first. Formore information, visit getinvolved.rutgers.edu.
1 RU Wanawake, a student organization that unites collegewomen for the interests of Africa, will host its 2nd Annual“Honoring the African Woman” banquet at 7:30 p.m. in theDouglass Lounge of the Douglass Campus Center. The clubwill be presenting awards to three women who improvedAfrica through philanthropic work and dedication.Entertainment of the night includes a performance by R&Bsinger Rotimi. The event is free. For more information, visitthe organization’s Facebook page or [email protected].
2 To support the Embrace Kids Foundation RutgersUniversity Dance Marathon will take place in the CollegeAvenue Gym this weekend. Dance marathon is a 32-hourstudent-run event to raise money for the Embrace KidsFoundation, a non-profit organization that aids the non-med-ical needs of the children with cancer and blood disorders.Dance Marathon is now closed to dancer registration butapplications are still available for alumni dancers, set up andclean up crew and fundraisers. For more information, pleasevisit marathon.rutgers.edu/home.
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4 The Off-Campus Students’ Association will hold a car main-tenance workshop and meeting starting at 8 p.m. in Room407 of the Rutgers Student Center. Participants will learnhow to change a tire and more car tips. For more informa-tion, visit getinvolved.rutgers.edu.
9 Rutgers University Programming Association will hold a tripto see “American Idiot” on Broadway with discounted stu-dent tickets. The bus departs from the Rutgers StudentCenter at noon and will return at 9 p.m. after the show.Ticket cost includes the discounted student tickets and trav-el expenses, and costs $35 for students and $45 for faculty,staff, alumni and guests. Tickets are on sale from 9 a.m. to 4p.m. at the Student Activities Center. For more information,visit getinvolved.rutgers.edu.
11 Ginormous Games featuring Hot Air Balloon Rides will takeplace at the Douglass Woodlawn from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.depending on the weather. Crafts and games will be avail-able while in line. Space and time is limited so rides will begiven on a first-come, first-served basis. Rain date is slatedfor Monday, April 25. For more information visit get-involved.rutgers.edu.
15 Rutgers University Programming Association will hostRutgersfest beginning at 1 p.m. at Yurcak Field on Buschcampus located at Frelinghuysen Road and Scarlet KnightWay, off of the traffic circle. Inflatable games/rides, freephoto booths and a free musical performance are all part ofthe day’s activities. Musical guests include The Battle of theBands winner, Yelawolf, 3Oh!3 and Pitbull. For more infor-mation, visit getinvolved.rutgers.edu.
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17 Unite Half Marathon, a 13.1 mile run to support more thannine charities, will start at the Werblin Recreation Center onBusch campus and continue through Johnson Park and endon College Avenue. Racers must be able to complete the halfmarathon in four hours or less and race numbers arerequired to participate. Participants must be at least 12 yearsold to participate, be in good health and physically preparedto take on the challenge and must show photo ID to receivea race number and timing tag. Coaches, baby-joggers, bikes,dogs, in-line skates, skateboards or dogs will not be allowedon the course. Racers must pay an entry fee, which includesregistration and a T-shirt. For students race entry will cost$45 and $85 for individuals with no University affiliation.Teams of two may enter for a reduced rate of $120 for theteam. Entertainment, as well as health expos, will be provid-ed throughout the race course. For more information,please visit unite.cgiracing.com.
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Central Jersey manufacturers find success in small numbersBY AMANDA DOWNS
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
With a steady decline in theeconomy and an increasinglydiverse workforce, MiddlesexCounty residents can see manylarge-scale manufacturers aredownsizing into smaller-scale busi-nesses to speed up production.
While many citizens blamethe economy solely for thischange in manufacturing, CarlSpataro, director of theMiddlesex County Office ofEconomic and BusinessDevelopment believes the coun-try’s diversity is the main reasonfor the change.
“Small companies providemore opportunities by offeringnot only white but now blue col-lar jobs,” Spataro said. “Also,the medical industry can nowaccommodate all skill levelsand positions.”
Manufacturing companies aremaking their decisions based onsuppliers, research and the over-all development of the industry,he said.
“Think of Rutgers, it is in themiddle of two major hospitals andanother one being built inPlainsboro,” Spataro said.“Manufacturing is coming frompharmaceuticals and logistics.”
This concentration in phar-maceuticals and logistics is aresult of employment automation
Big manufacturing companies like Super Stud Building Productsin Edison are moving from big cities to small towns to adjustto the economy and workplace diversity.
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and the use of computers, whichcauses industries like manufacturing to downsize, he said.
“Casinos in Atlantic City manyyears [ago] had employers, butnow it is all automated,” Spatarosaid. “People can cash in chips bythemselves.”
Spataro believes the UnitedStates is becoming a technology-based country and althoughthere are positives and negativesinvolved with this change,Middlesex County has used tech-nology to create diversity andhelp N.J. residents overcome eco-nomic downturns.
“Solar panels are now hot inthe market place because of tech-nology relations to the industry,”he said. “That’s why we don’t seethem employ 2,000 people.”
Middlesex County shows anunemployment rate lower thanthe national and state average, hesaid. Even in the economic down-turn, Middlesex continues to leadin-state construction projects.
Technology, pharmaceuticalsand logistics replaced the heavyindustrial demand and provedmore prosperous now that NewJersey is on the perimeter ofmajor airports, Spataro said.
Compared to the national aver-ages, the size of surroundingemployers also changed, he said.
“We have been able to replacethose losses in other industries,”
he said. “If an industry goesdown, another comes in andremakes it. No building remainsvacant for long.”
Although larger-scale manufac-turers are not as prominent todayas they were before, they stilldepend on manufacturing, he said.The progression of the economyas well as diversity has directedMiddlesex County into the direc-tion of small-scale businesses.
In response to this progres-sion of business, MichaelKerwin, president of SomersetCounty Business Partnership,said he believes the quality of life,education and workforce areresponsible for the success.
Kerwin said Somerset Countyhas seen similar changes.
“Days of the large manufactur-ing companies coming in are overfor now,” he said. “There is aniche for smaller manufacturersin emerging industry areas.”
Even though the SomersetCounty Business Partnershipdoes not directly work withMiddlesex County, both coun-ties often collaborate, he said. InCentral Jersey the basis of man-ufacturing is progression andwhatever the state itself can doto make New Jersey more attrac-tive for business.
“It is just a natural economiccycle,” Ker win said. “NewJersey in the last couple ofyears has started to turn the
corner and become a little morebusiness friendly.”
Overall, both Spataro andKerwin agree that large-scalemanufacturing is no longer thetrend as job opportunities havedecreased in Middlesex County.
At the moment, manufactur-ing employment and a numberof manufacturing establish-ments in New Jersey havedeclined, said John Maddocks,vice president of EconomicDevelopment at SomersetCounty Business Partnership.
“At the same time there areother measures of manufacturing,
including gross receipts and quar-terly/annual payroll that areequally as important to measure,”Maddocks said.
Spataro said he thinks manu-facturing in Middlesex County,the state and nationwide,declined due to numerous fac-tors, including production effi-ciencies and automation.
“We center around diversity,”he said.
For the future Spataro hopesmanufacturers will learn to ben-efit even more from diversityand the resources available inCentral Jersey.
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House to host weekendof earth friendliness
BY RIDA AHMEDCONTRIBUTING WRITER
The White Lotus Home, aneco-friendly establishment inHighland Park, will host a seriesof Earth festivals from April 8 to10 in order to highlight environ-mental awareness for Earth Day.
The Earth Weekend festival iscelebrated to inspire awarenessand appreciation for the earth’snatural environment, saidMarlon Pando, president andowner of the White Lotus Home.
“The purpose of this celebra-tion would be to go ahead andreestablish ourselves as the lead-ers of the industry,” he said.
The White Lotus Home, adomestic manufacturer of naturaland organic bedding products,will provide high-quality, hand-made and environmentally friend-ly products to its clients, retailersand wholesalers, Pando said.
“We are a green company,” hesaid. “We make products fromscratch to finish and bring themfrom the farm to the factory andthen straight to the retail floor.”
Gayle Brill Mittler, owner ofGEEBEE Marketing, Inc., saidthe White Lotus Home is dedi-cated to creating a safer earth byproviding organic products madein the country.
“It is a very exciting event forour community and the greaterNew Brunswick area,” she said.
Different events are sched-uled to run each day at the WhiteLotus Home’s main facility,Pando said. Festivities plan tokick-off with “Hands AcrossHighland Park” on the first dayfrom 4 to 6 p.m., Pando said.
“Participants will join hands,forming a human chain of handsto help the earth, from the WhiteLotus Home storefront headingtoward New Brunswick,” he said.
The event is scheduled totake place during rush houralong Raritan Avenue inHighland Park since thousand ofcars drive through on the way toNew Brunswick or Edison,Mittler said.
“We are hoping to form ahuman chain of people from theWhite Lotus store towards thebridge linking Highland Parkand New Brunswick during rushhour,” she said.
The first 200 registered partici-pants will receive a T-shirt, Pandosaid. Following the first event,
Police arrested a man early Tuesday who they believe robbed nineNew York City banks and one Edison bank.
The man, Mara Mikhaylich, was arrested in Queens, N.Y. around 9:30a.m., according to an article in nj.com.
Police found Mikhaylich after they saw him enter a car he had stolenafter robbing an Edison bank, said Special Agent James Margolin of theBrooklyn FBI office in the nj.com article.
Mikhaylich arranged a car ride Monday to the Edison Cathay Bank at1175 Route 27. He pulled his gun out, pointed it at one of the bank tellersand demanded the teller to hand him money.
The teller gave him an undisclosed amount of money and a pack ofcash that contained red dye set to explode and notify police ofMikhaylich’s location, Margolin said in the article.
The dye soon exploded after Mikhaylich left the bank and caused thebank robber to drop the bag of cash.
Mikhaylich fled in a car after the original driver ran away but wasarrested Tuesday morning while carrying a 9 mm.
Police believe Mikhaylich is nicknamed the Holiday Bandit after steal-ing from three banks in December, according to the article.
In addition to these robberies, he is suspected in six other New Yorkbank crimes and possibly two in New Jersey.
Photographs of Mikhaylich have been recorded on security cameras invarious banks, showing his involvement with the robberies, Margolin saidin the nj.com article.
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POLICE CATCH MAN SUSPECTEDOF SEVERAL NY, NJ ROBBERIES
people may attend an expo inwhich vendors can showcase theirhomemade organic products.
“[There are] arts and craftsfrom soaps and dog biscuits, all theway up to people who provide serv-ices on how to make your homesand business a creative place.”
Following the expo will be abeer-tasting event, Mittler said.
“The Organic Wine and Beertasting is designed to educateconsumers about fine organicwines and great tasting beers,”she said.
Consumer advocate DebraLynn Dadd will talk about livingan organic life at the event,Mittler said.
The day’s activities will con-clude with organic wines and fin-ger foods for adults, she said.
The Green Art Exhibit willclose the event on Sunday, Pandosaid. Organic-themed artworkwill be on display and availablefor purchase from local artistsand artisans.
Some of the people whoorganize the event are Universitystudents, he said.
“In my experience, the stu-dents that work for me are veryconcerned about their future,” hesaid. “They decide to work forWhite Lotus Home, a companythe helps save the Earth with eachmattress it handcrafts.”
Arnold Weinberg, a MasonGross School of the Arts sen-ior, said more University stu-dents should get involved andparticipate in the White LotusHouse event.
“I think this event is importantfor the University, but morespecifically, for young people toget involved because the wholething is a learning experience,”said Weinberg, who also helpedraise money for White LotusHome studios “Jazz on theBanks” for inner city schoolsscarce in musical instruments.
Weinberg said learning aboutviable and more sustainablelifestyle options is important tothe growth of society.
“I hope to attend the organicexpo and the food and wine tast-ing session to learn more aboutenvironmentally sound prod-ucts,” he said.
Weinberg said the WhiteLotus Home also of fers stu-dents a place to entice their cre-ativity and grow their love forbeing green.
behind our televisionscreens, it’s all good fun. It isinstitutionalized ridicule. Butbringing her to campus final-ly makes this real. She canhear our sneers up close.Sure, she doesn’t mind, butwe probably should.
For one, our morals are atstake. I’m no poster boy for morality, but tonight’sevent will be taking the premise of “Jersey Shore”too far. Watching the show at home includes somesemblance of fiction — even if what we’re seeingmight be real, it is appearing on our TV screen.With the show there is some remove, but tonight’sevent destroys that space. “Inside the Nicole‘Snooki’ Polizzi Studio” will have audience membersactually laughing in Snooki’s face. It is based on“Inside the Actors Studio,” but her interviewer is acomedian and the show is listed as comedy. Snookiis the butt of the joke and she seems to be proud ofit. But just because almost every action on “JerseyShore” is at best morally dubious, that doesn’t mean
we should follow suit.Sure, Snooki is complicit in all
of this. But why not? After all, sheis cashing in. RUPA has not andwill not disclose how much it paidto book Snooki, apparentlybecause a clause in her contractdemands it. That’s probablybecause the price is higher than itshould be — maybe enough for a
lifetime supply of Vlasic Kosher Dills. But anyguess at her price is pure speculation, and that’swhat’s scary. RUPA ought to invite entertainers,but what is Snooki without her bronze band ofhooligans? How interesting can she be outside ofthe televised snafus that characterize her? It isn’teasy to justify spending lots of money to hearSnooki talk about Snooki.
But I recognize that some people honestly enjoySnooki. RUPA recognizes this too, and that’s whythey invited her. What I don’t believe is that RUPAis appealing to the entire student body with thisshow. There are some holdouts, like me, who don’tfind it appropriate, funny or worth our time to hostthe reality TV star. I do not look forward to the day— if it hasn’t come already — when Snookibecomes a legitimate public speaker, so ubiquitousand relevant that it’s worth buying four hours of hertime so she can publicly narrate her life story. Thatwould be a situation.
Joe Hernandez is a School of Arts and Sciencessenior majoring in English and Spanish. His column“The Soapbox,” runs on alternate Thursdays.
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“We throw an insane event that takes so much time and effort, but we do it together and have a great time
and of course, we do it for the kids.”Julia Crimi, director of Volunteer Management for Dance Marathon, on planning the event
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I t seems that, these days, the American labor force is under siege bythe Republican Party. The entire nation watched while Gov. ScottWalker (R-Wis.) fought against collective bargaining rights — and
eventually won. Now the fight has shifted to Ohio, where the GOP isonce again looking to throw away years of progress for labor rights. Thistime it isn’t unions who Republicans are putting the pressure on.Instead, it’s child labor laws. Let that one sink in for a moment. We’recertain you’ll be scratching your head as much as we are right now.
Bill LD 1346, currently being considered by the Ohio House ofRepresentatives, seeks to make a lot of changes to the existing childlabor laws. It would allow employers to pay employees under 20 lessthan minimum wage — $5.25 an hour, to be exact — during the first180 days of employment. It also would remove the cap on the amountof hours a worker 16 or older is allowed to work on school days andallow minors under 16 to work four hours on school days.
We see no reason for this bill to be approved, much less introducedin the first place. Child labor laws are there for a reason, as minors areamong the most exploitable sections of the labor force. Deregulatingchild labor is a mistake, plain and simple. By removing caps on hours,the bill could allow employers to cut into the time high school studentsneed to do their schoolwork. Anyone who argues that employerswould be sensitive to a student’s school needs has probably never actu-ally worked a job while in high school. Also, paying people under theage of 20 less than minimum wage is just not fair. As laborers, theydeserve to be paid at least the minimum wage, just like everyone else.Many minors have jobs because they need to either support them-selves or their families. Very few high school students are getting jobsjust for kicks.
Ohio Rep. Paul Gilbert (D) brings up a good point regardingMaine’s unemployment rate. Currently, the state is more than 8 per-cent. With that many people looking for jobs, why would the GOP belooking to create a cheap, unprotected labor force? In the words ofGilbert himself, “If we had a shortage of job applicants or potentialworkers, then you could look at other populations to ease that strain onthe workforce.” However, that is not the case.
Despite what many members of the GOP would have you believe,laborers have rights and protections for reasons. Stripping them is notan option, especially when it comes to children.
Keep child laborlaws in place
A lot of students are upset about the changes made to theUniversity’s commencement ceremonies. We can’t blamethem. The University is an old school, rich with traditions and
its own colorful mythology. The traditional ceremonies were a part ofthat tapestry. However, this is not the first move the University hasmade away from its traditions, and it certainly will not be the last. Infact, this stage of the University’s existence really began back in 1982,before many of us were born. That was the beginning of the union ofthe various residential colleges — e.g., Rutgers College, LivingstonCollege, etc., into one. This merger was completed in 2007, with thecreation of the School of Arts and Sciences.
Many of us were not even students at the University when theSchool of Arts and Sciences was formed, so it is odd we have such nos-talgic yearnings for something we never had in the first place. Still, wecannot help our feelings. As students at the University, we want to feelconnected to the tradition. We want to be embedded in the school’s his-tory. Unfortunately for us, we never really had a shot at that. Traditionslike breaking the clay pipes at graduation may seem small, but we donot believe we’re making mountains out of molehills. Little details likethis are important because of their symbolic weight.
It’s difficult to be saddled with the weight of starting new traditions.Grudgingly, we admit it makes sense for the University to change thecommencement ceremonies. Whether we prefer the old structure tothe School of Arts and Sciences, this is what exists now and accommo-dations must be made. In terms of efficiency, this new commencementceremony is the way to go. In time, this will become the new traditionand years down the line, students will be upset when it, too, changes.
Everyone has felt it before — the longing for something we’venever even had. It’s never pleasant watching old traditions die in favorof new ones. If there were some way to make commencement morepersonalized, and to keep the old traditions alive, that would be great.We’d throw all of our support behind it. But, as it stands now, this iswhat we get. That doesn’t mean we can’t be dissatisfied with it, though.
U. commencementupsets traditions
A merica’s preeminentpoof-sporting super-star will appear on
campus tonight for an eventcalled “Inside the Nicole‘Snooki’ Polizzi Studio.” Theshow is modeled afterBravo’s “Inside the ActorsStudio,” so comedian AdamAce will presumably interview the “Jersey Shore”star about her life and misadventures. The RutgersUniversity Programming Association (RUPA) con-tracted Snooki but won’t disclose how much theypaid for the pleasure. I cannot make this stuff up.
Full disclosure: I have watched “Jersey Shore.”We all have. I’ve been ensnared by the endearingguido romance between Sammi Giancola andRonnie Ortiz-Magro — how cavalierly they brokethe rule to never fall in love at the Jersey shore! Ihave fond and vivid memories of Jenni “JWoww”Farley urinating on the uninhabited top floor of aclub. I listen to anything Paul “Pauly D”DelVecchio says. But my affinity for the show isdirectly proportional to how easy itis for me to watch it. I won’t go outof my way for “Jersey Shore.” And Idon’t think anyone else shouldeither, tonight especially.
Because it’s called reality televi-sion, it’s easy to forget that “JerseyShore” is a television show and — atits root — fictional. The elaboratesituations and absurd antics of thecharacters — if you can call them that — are alldone mere feet from a camera crew. Sometimes weeven see a producer or a bodyguard rush the frame,adding to the show’s “reality” but detracting from itscharacters’ “reality.” So, to a degree, each characteron “Jersey Shore” is playing some altered version ofthemselves. What’s bizarre about this show is thatthe space between the real characters and their fic-tional selves appears to be exceptionally small.Snooki, especially, is too comfortable and too off-the-wall to be making it all up. They’re the real deal.
That’s what makes tonight’s event so strange.“Inside the Actors Studio” was initially created soacting students could learn the trade from the pros.Host James Lipton takes his time to dissect themethods and personalities of his interviewees, whodrop the act for an hour or two of candor. The wholeaim is to learn. But tonight, even though Snooki isgoing as herself, the whole aim is to laugh — at her,more specifically. After all, that’s why we watch theshow. From the safety of our couches, we can guf-faw at all the sinewy bros we want without recourse.We can make fun of Snooki’s Bumpit-inducedreverse pompadour and not feel bad about it. From
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“Bringing [Snooki] to campus
finally makes this real.”
The Soapbox
JOE HERNANDEZ
mine told me that because his col-lege is ranked higher than mineand his major is the hardest withinhis university (based on the opin-ion of his adviser), his courses areharder than mine. So let me getthis straight: My college isn’tranked as high as his and my majorisn’t deemed the hardest, so I mustnot face the samelevel of difficultyas him?
First of all, foranyone who usesrankings to justifytheir undergradu-ate studies, youlook very foolish.Those subjective rankings arebased on graduate schools. Veryfew rankings give stress to under-graduate learning quality. All rank-ings are very subjective. A univer-sity is ranked according to the fac-ulty, research publications, expan-sion of faculties and how muchgrant money they are bringing in,not the difficulty of the courses.
In my opinion, it does not mat-ter where you’re doing your
undergraduate or what your majoris. Learning becomes important onthe individual basis. A persongoing to Camden County Collegemajoring in business might beworking their behind off to learnmore than someone going to theUniversity of Pennsylvania’sWharton School of Business.
Some of the great-est entrepreneursand thinkers in ourcurrent age —Steve Jobs, MarkZuckerberg andGeorge Hotz —dropped out ofschool because
academic life just wasn’t for them.As potential educated students,does that make us better thanthem? Absolutely not.
As we see in our current econo-my, individual skills outweigh auniversity degree. College stu-dents from Ivy League schools andpublic schools are having a hardtime finding jobs. College is a time— now more than ever — to growwhile concentrating on our
interests and discovering ourskills, so we can use them for thebenefit of mankind. Thus, peoplewho think they are making “ratio-nal” inductive reasoning with sub-jective information should rethinkwhat they learned in school. Thoseindividuals need to get a broaderpicture of the world around us.
In a world of great sufferingand ignorance, it is our job asfuture leaders in the global mar-ket to collaborate with one anoth-er to solve many of the world’sissues. Countries, corporationsand individuals from all walks oflife have to start working with oneanother to solve the vast issuesour world faces today and will facein the future. As society progress-es, old models of how we runthings need restructuring. Itwon’t be a piece of paper that willbe making these changes. It willbe the passion that burns withinour hearts and minds.
Davendra Goswami is a student at the New JerseyInstitute of Technology.
they may result in a meltdown ofthe economy. Start with the prem-ise that investors have a right toexpect a return on their invest-ment. This return is called profits.Profits are the federally taxablepart of a business’s revenuestream, and they represent onecomponent of the price consumerspay when they purchase a productor service. Profits are as importantas any other cost. Without profits,investors will abandon the enter-prise. In this manner, consumerspay corporate taxes. Corporationsonly serve as collection agents forthe government.
In a competitive environment— which the private sector pro-vides and the government doesnot — corporations are restrainedin the prices they can charge.Corporations must price theirproducts at the lesser of thesetwo — the cost to bring to marketor whatever the market has beenestablished at by the competition.The result is that when taxes areincreased, other expense areasmust be cut. The first cost areasto be limited are usually researchand development and employee
costs. This hurts economicregrowth and further burdens thesocial programs offered by gov-ernment. The liberal, knee-jerkreaction is to raise taxes more.
In recent years, we have wit-nessed an unprecedented growthof government that has far sur-passed the growth of our coun-try’s gross domestic product.
Clearly, this is unsustainable andhas placed a burden on our prog-eny for as far into the future as wecan project.
For individuals and for busi-nesses, the result is bankruptcy.For feckless politicians, printingmore money is the answer. Thisresults in the devaluation ofeverything we own and anincrease in the prices of every-thing we buy.
Finally, a significant groupof Americans have joinedtogether to say enough isenough. Their goal is to restorefiscal sanity by reigning in gov-ernment spending. RichardFink, a noted economist, hascompleted a study of the rela-tionship between freedom andprosperity. It should not be sur-prising to learn that the freestnations are also the most pros-perous. Frankly, anyone withthe slightest sense of geo-politi-cal perspective would havecome to the same conclusionwithout such an exhaustivestudy as the one compiled by Fink.
The tea party patriots arefighting for your future free-doms. The long-term power bro-kers of both parties are workingovertime to paint the tea partymovement as extreme. Contraryto the author of the column’sassertion that we are waking upwith a post-election hangover,the only regret we have is thatwe ever bought into the liberalbilge in the first place. We willcontinue working tirelessly to
elect candidates who representAmerica’s founding principles.
What has happened to theDemocratic Party since formerPresident John F. Kennedy chal-lenged us with his inauguraladdress, “Ask not what yourcountry can do for you —askwhat you can do for your coun-try?” Those words have longsince been lost to the currentgeneration. Instead, the left inUnited States devolved into aconsortium of hyphenatedAmericans each asking the gov-ernment for continually increas-ing benefits as though in a self-entitled state of frenzy. Is thismorally acceptable? What is thedifference between keeping theproduct of another’s work — slav-ery — and confiscating the prod-uct of another’s work — taxation?
In the words of formerPresident Gerald Ford, “A gov-ernment big enough to giveyou ever ything you want isstrong enough to take every-thing you have.”
Larry Blatterfein is a RutgersCollege alumnus.
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The tragic events in Japanhave nothing to do with the cur-rent global economic meltdown.Our economic woes are a resultof too much government, andthat is the result of 75 years of lib-eral policies. Too many govern-ment services that cost far toomuch are burdening our produc-ers, resulting in economic drag.
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Daily Targum on March 28,thoughtfully draws distinctionsbetween Iraq and Libya. Yet it issurprising that his analysis of therun-up to the Iraq war is sketchy.The author claims “[formerPresident George W.] Bush atleast attempted to maintain a sem-blance of democracy by lubricat-ing the months leading up to thebeginning of the conflict with apublic relations campaign con-cerning the necessity of the con-flict.” Unfortunately, this public-relations campaign relied on fabri-cated or inaccurate evidence indi-cating the existence of weapons ofmass destruction in Iraq, as wellas false suggestions that Iraq sup-ported the 9/11 terrorists. Bushtherefore committed our troops towar without proper justificationand alienated many Americanallies such as France andGermany in the process.
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Junior outfielder Mikelyn Messina returns to her home state ofConnecticuit this weekend, when Rutgers takes on Uconn.
Galati boasts a 1.44 ERA andshutout innings against some ofthe best offenses in the country.As a freshman last season, sheheld Rutgers to one run in a winfor Hofstra (18-9).
This season’s offense put upfour earned runs against Galati,but the pitching did not hold onthe other side.
“We came out not swinging thebat, but the second time aroundwe made some adjustments andstarted hitting her and getting onbase,” Lindley said. “She’s a goodpitcher and she moves the ballaround a lot and it was good thatwe were able to get on her.”
Rutgers took a 2-0 lead whenLindley hit a two-run shot thatcould have been three runs if notfor miscommunication on a steal-call. Lindley’s home run not onlygave the team its only lead of thegame, but put her into a tie forsecond all-time in school historywith 20 home runs.
But starting pitcher NoelleSisco gave back the lead, allow-ing two runs in each of the nexttwo innings. Only two wereearned runs.
Alden, batting eighth in theorder, provided the biggest offen-sive spark for the Knights. Thesenior starting left fielder hadthree hits in the game, includingher first home run in more thantwo years.
“Mickenzie really had a greatday,” said head coach Jay Nelson.“She hit the ball hard and had thefirst hit of the game on a bunt. Westruck out six straight times[against Galati] before Mickenziegot us started.”
Things fell apart for the ailingKnights in the bottom of thesixth inning. Trailing, 4-3, afterAlden’s home run, momentumwas on their side until the Pridepieced together six runs offreliever Megan Williams.
Rutgers loaded the bases inthe top of the seventh andscored a fourth run, but the leadproved insurmountable.
“We’re discouraged becausewe’re losing, but we’re not dis-heartened,” Nelson said. “We’recontinuing to fight and not wor-rying about a losing streak. Wejust go out and try to win gamesand that’s what we’re going to dothis weekend.”
A road series with theConnecticut Huskies (11-13, 1-1)is the next stop for the strug-gling Knights.
Rutgers and Connecticut areevenly matched statistically, butthe Huskies are seven spotsahead of the Knights in the con-ference standings.
“We just have to keep going.Between now and our last game we’re already so much better and if we keep buildingmoment, we’ll be ready forUConn,” Alden said. “We haveto cut down on the little mistakes. Our defense wasn’tgood today and neither was the baserunning.”
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Rutgers attempts to rebound in Va.BY ADHAAR SHARMA
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Rutgers women’s trackand field team travels to Williamsburg, Va., this week-
end tocompetein theColonialRelays.
A l lrunning
events will be held indoors inZable Stadium at College ofWilliam and Mary.
Conditions for this meet aredrastically dif ferent from theBulls Invitational last weekend,in which the Scarlet Knightsran in the blistering heat ofTampa, Fla.
The cooler weather and indoorrunning will be optimal for dis-tance runners to get their seasonstarted on a high note.
“The Colonial Relays havemore distance events than theBulls Invitational,” head coachJames Robinson said. “It will be agreat place for the distance run-ners to start the season.”
Distance runners did nottravel with the team last week and this meet will be thefirst action they see in the out-door season.
The distance squad, whichconsists of athletes competingin the 800-meterand above, strug-gled during theindoor season.
The loss of jun-ior captain KellyFlannigan and thesqaud’s lack ofexperience of theduring the wintercontributed to thelow number of winsit garnered.
The Knightslook to bounceback from thoseobstacles, especially since the Colonial Relays are a team championship and everypoint will be crucial to aRutgers victory.
“The distance squad workedhard since the end of the Big EastChampionships last weekendwith very little rest, and they are
ready for the outdoor season,”Robinson said.
Points in track and field areawarded to the top eight places,and during the Big EastChampionships the Knightsfailed to accumulate even
one point.S o p h o m o r e
Ekene Ugboajaalso looks to bol-ster the Knights’point total in thetriple, high andlong jump.
After startingthe indoor sea-son explosively,Ugboaja’s per-formance taperedthrough themeets indoors.
U g b o a j aplaced sixth in the long jump lastweek but did not compete in thetriple jump.
The cornerstone for theKnights are their sprinters, andthey showed that during lastweekend’s performance.
Freshman Tylia Gillon, juniorBrittni Rodriguez and senior
Jamie Walker all qualified for theBig East Championship in theBulls Invitational.
Junior Danai Lendor also qual-ified for the Big East Tournamentlast weekend in the 400-meterhurdles in her first meet afterfour years.
The 4x100 and 4x400-meterrelay teams also qualified for theChampionships with their timesin last weekend’s performance.
The relay teams performedver y well during the winter and now look toward finishingthe outdoor season with victories in the Big East andECAC championships.
Senior captain NatalieClickett did not qualify for theshot put but did qualify for theECAC and the Big East with herdiscus throw.
The athletes and relayteams that qualified can nowuse the rest of the season toimprove their performance andshave as much time of f theirruns as possible.
Rutgers will also compete the100-meter hurdles, distance med-ley and sprint medley relays.
“The distance squadworked hard ... with very littlerest, and they
are ready for the outdoor season.”
JAMES ROBINSONHead Coach
P urdue head men’s bas-ketball coach MattPainter agreed on a con-
tract extension that keeps himin Indianapolis through the2018-2019 season.
The extension came afterPainter engaged in talks withhis alma mater, Missouri.
Painter earned the Big TenCoach of the Year award threetimes with the Boilermakersand led them to the Sweet 16 in2009 and 2010.
Missouri is still looking to fillits head coaching void, as for-mer head coach Mike Andersonleft last week for Arkansas.
THE CLEVELANDCavaliers, who earlier in theyear went on the longest losingstreak in sports’ history, got theone victory they wanted themost. The Cavs toppled LeBronJames and the Miami Heat lastnight, 102-90.
The game marked James’ sec-ond homecoming after turninghis back on the Cavaliers in favorof joining Dwayne Wade and theHeat during the offseason.
Cleveland gained the winTuesday night despite blowing a23-point lead and James postinga triple-double. Anthony Parkerdropped 20 points for the Cavs,including a 3-pointer that cappeda 12-0 run by Cleveland to theend of the game.
TEXAS A&M LINEBACKERVon Miller earned an invite tothe NFL Draft, despite being aplaintiff in a high-profile lawsuitagainst the league.
Miller joined the likes ofTom Brady, Peyton Manningand seven other NFL players inan injunction seeking to blockthe current player lockout.
The senior linebackerreceived the Butkus Award lastseason and is projected as ahigh first-round selection.Miller has yet to respond to theleague’s invitation.
FORMER NBA ALL-STARJalen Rose admitted that hisblood alcohol level was over thelegal limit on March 11 whenhe was pulled over by police.
Rose got into a single-vehi-cle car accident that day andvoluntarily submitted to a bloodalcohol screening.
The former Michigan stand-out apologized in a statementyesterday but did not specifyhis blood alcohol level.
Rose will appear in court onApril 20.
THE PITTSBURGHPenguins do not expect captainSidney Crosby to return to reg-ular season action.
The Penguins clearedCrosby to return to morningskates on game days, but he willnot participate in full practices.
But general manager GregShero did not rule out Crosbyfor the Stanley Cup playoffs.
Crosby has not played sinceJan. 6 due to a concussion.
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“They have a lot of scoringthreats,” Brand said. “When youtry to shut down one or two oftheir players, someone else isgoing to step up.”
Notre Dame also returns allbut one defensive starter fromlast season, including All-BigEast defender Jackie Dohertyand sophomore goalie EllieHilling, who faces the Knightswith a year of experience underher belt.
Rutgers and Notre Damealso both share experience inclose games.
The Knights won three gamesby one goal whilethe Irish were onthe losing end ofthe same numberof games, includ-ing their last two.
The Knights’only one-point lossof the year cameagainst Princetonon March 2, when the Tigerswon, 11-10.
“We learned a lesson from[Princeton] so
that when we’re in close gameswe can come out on the win-ning end,” Brand said.“Hopefully we’re not in that sit-uation where we have to win atthe end, but if we are, the play-ers feel comfortable being inthat position.”
Rutgers also enters thematchup off an 11-7 loss lastSaturday against Syracuse.
“We played passively in thebeginning of the [Syracuse]game,” Brand said. “That’swhy we had to play a game of catch-up.”
The Orange handed theKnights their first Big East loss of the year, but againstNotre Dame the Knights hopeto rebound in their goals to make the Big East andNCAA Tournaments.
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Senior Shawn Lopez started each of the Knights’ first nine gamesin the midfield, where she totaled 20 draw controls.
The similarities between theKnights and Fighting Irish aidedRutgers in practice.
When the Rutgers offense anddefense scrimmage, they knowthey will face similar opponentsin South Bend.
“A lot of times we’re practic-ing for a certain team — wemake a lot of adjustments,”Lopez said. “When we have tomake adjustmentslike that, it’s notnecessarily help-ing because that’snot the way wenormally play.”
When Rutgersgoes up againstNotre Dame, thegames traditionallygo down to thewire because of theparallels in skilland playing style.
Most recently,Rutgers beat NotreDame, 12-11, last season in overtime.
In the overtime period, now-graduated attack BrookeCantwell scored her third goal ofthe day on an isolation shot to capthe Rutgers lead.
Cantwell was the Knights’most dominant scorer last sea-son, when the Knights relied onfewer options to score.
The Irish were in a similar sit-uation when they relied on mid-fielder Shaylyn Blaney, whoscored 40 goals last season, andattack Gina Scioscia (39) for thebulk of the scoring.
Rutgers and Notre Dame runmuch more balanced attacks thisseason. Blaney is back for hersenior season, but she is just oneof six Irish goal scorers between10 and 15 goals.
“Hopefully we’re notin that situation
where we have towin at the end,
but ... the playersfeel comfortable.”
LAURA BRANDHead Coach
TEAM: Knights, Irish have
history of contested matchups
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After beating Louisville on Sunday and allowing just four runs, pitching struggledfrom the outset against theirNortheast Conference opponent.
And when freshman relieverCharlie Lasky allowed three runsin the top of the ninth, it meantRutgers’ final two runs were allfor naught.
Senior third basemen D.J.Anderson drove in Lang andscored in the ninth, but withtwo men on and one out, thelast two batters struck out toend the game.
It was a familiar sight forRutgers, which stranded 13 run-ners on base.
“It comes with the season,”said Anderson, who went 2-for-2 with an RBI and tworuns scored. “Sometimes youdon’t get big hits when youneed him. I feel confident that as the year goes on, as weget more experience under ourbelt, we’ll play better. You sawit against Louisville — weplayed well then.”
But a win against the perennial Big East power seemedforever ago yesterday, when anythought of momentum carryingover quickly disappeared.
Junior starter Willie Beardallowed six runs before leavingwith two outs in the firstinning, and the situation onlyworsened for the Knights.
Senior Sean Campbell, whorelieved Beard and escaped the
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ASHLEY ROSS
Senior third baseman D.J. Anderson went 2-for-2 at the plate for the Scarlet Knights yesterday,when he scored two runs against Wagner and drove in another in the loss.
inning, left the field in an ambu-lance after taking an errantthrow in the head.
Sophomore shor tstop PatSweeney left an inning laterafter injuring his ankle, fur ther weakening theKnights’ middle infield.
It does not appear as if theywill receive a boost any timesoon, with sophomore short-stop Steve Nyisztor still bat-tling an illness doctors have yetto identify.
“Offensively, he’s a prettybig cog for us. The loss of hisbat is hurting us big,” Hill saidof last season’s leader in bat-ting average. “He’s still very,very weak. One day he’s OKand the next day he feels lousy.He’s lost some strength andhe’s lethargic.”
So the Knights were leftscratching through the middleinnings, when any effort at arally lacked conviction.
Junior reliever Ryan Fasanowas left on the mound to holdoff the damage that only wors-ened after his four innings ofone-run ball.
“My job was to keep us in theballgame and not let their leadget any larger,” Fasano said. “Iwas just trying to throw strikesand keep it to a six-run game.”
But a six-run deficit was notwhat Rutgers expected againstWagner (6-14), and neither wasa stop-and-go offense.
“The midweek games arereally, really important at theend of the year,” Hill said.“Those are the games whereyou see second-line pitching.You need to play better than wedid today.”
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Senior pitcher appears OK after injury to headBY T.J. NAGY
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Rutgers baseball teamsuffered two crucial injuriesduring yesterday’s 11-5 loss
a g a i n s tWa g n e r.The firstoccurredb e t w e e nthe first
and second innings, when sen-ior pitcher Sean Campbell wasstruck in the head by a wild ballthrown by freshman catcherMichael Zavala.
Campbell remained down onthe field for close to 15 minuteswhile head coach Fred Hill andthe team’s trainer checked onhim. An ambulance arrived at thefield soon afterwards.
Campbell eventually got to his feet and was able to walk to the ambulance, wherehe was checked for any serious injuries. According to Hill, the prognosis is some-what promising.
“He was coherent out thereon the field when I was withhim,” Hill said. “Everything’sprecautionary as of right nowjust to make sure that every-thing’s OK.”
As for the team’s moraleafter the injury, Hill under-stands the struggle his teamhad to cope with.
“It is dif ficult,” Hill said.“But they know there’s nothingthey can do about it, so theyhave to get back out there andplay. I’m sure they were awareout there of how bad it couldhave been though.”
Junior pitcher Ryan Fasano,who relieved Campbell, pitcheda solid four innings while giv-ing up one run, three hits andtwo walks.
KNIGHTNOTEBOOK
ASHLEY ROSS
Sophomore shortstop Pat Sweeney left yesterday’s game against Wagner in the third inningafter spraining his ankle and being cleated on a collision at second base.
THE DAILY TARGUM
Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun has his team in the Final Fourfor the fourth time, and faces an old foe in John Calipari.
No. 4 Kentucky (29-8)
No. 3 Connecticut (30-9)
No. 11 VCU (28-11)
No. 8 Butler (27-9)
FINAL FOUR — HOUSTON
The Final Four kicks off thisweekend in Houston with two ofthe more surprising matchupsin recent history.
Virginia Commonwealthplays Butler at 6 p.m. in
a meeting of the highestseeds ever.
Kentucky tips of f against Connecticut after-ward in a battle of storied programs.
Campbell was taken toRobert Wood JohnsonUniversity Hospital to undergofurther testing.
ONCE THE GAMEcontinued, the second injury to hit the Knights in the contest occurred not too longafter. Sophomore shortstop Pat Sweeney was injured in thetop of the third inning afterWagner first baseman Jack
Rice slid hard into second on a sacrifice bunt.
Sweeney went down clutch-ing what appeared to be hisankle and was quickly helped offthe field. It remains unclearwhether Sweeney will return forthe Knights’ upcoming serieswith Seton Hall.
“It doesn’t seem serious,” Hillsaid. “But a sprained ankle could betwo hours or it could be three days.Hopefully he’s OK tomorrow.”
Freshman second basemanNick Favatella moved to short-stop after the injury, a position heknows quite well, and the mid-game transition did not throwhim off guard.
“I played shortstop for threeyears in high school,” Favatellasaid. “In midgame, switchingpositions is a little bit different,but in the end you’re still catching the ball and throwing it to first.”
On Favatella’s first play at thenew position, he capitalized on amistake by Wagner’s GabyRamirez, catching Ramirez tryingto run back to third base after over-running the bag. But an inninglater, Favatella recorded an errorwhen he missed a ground ball.
Infielder Dan Perrine tookover for Favatella at second base.Perrine, who started 15 times forthe Knights this season, endedthe game 0-for-2 with a walk.
SETON HALL (11-10) IS UPnext for the Knights this weekendin an important three-game con-ference series in Piscataway.
The Knights won two againstthe Pirates last May and aim forthe clean sweep this time around.
A series win against their in-state rivals may be the catalystthe Knights need to boost theirlowly 8-14 record.
“We just need to play ourgame,” Favatella said. “Becausewhen we do, not many teams canbeat us.”
For Hill, it is all about continu-ing to put the pieces togetherboth offensively and defensivelyin order to develop a winningteam, especially with all thegrowing injuries.
“We’re trying to put thingstogether,” Hill said. “And for theSeton Hall series, we’ll probablyplay a couple kids who look pret-ty good with a bat because wecertainly need some hits at theright time.”
The series opens on Friday at3 p.m. at Bainton Field.
“It’s a big rivalry for us,” saidsenior third baseman D.J.Anderson. “We always look for-ward to playing them. It’s also bigfor us. We’re 1-2 in the confer-ence and we want to win two ofthree and possibly sweep them toget things back on track.”
T H E D A I L Y T A R G U MSP O RT S2 2 M A R C H 3 1 , 2 0 1 1
BY TYLER BARTOASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
When Rutgers head footballcoach Greg Schiano approachedjunior Steve Beauharnais about
switchingto strong-
side linebacker in the offseason,Beauharnais met the decisionwith enthusiasm.
The 6-foot-2 Beauharnaisstarted three games at SAM dur-ing his freshman season, when hemade a name for himself on spe-cial teams before wracking upfive sacks.
“I think coach made a verygood switch,” Beauharnais said.“I talked to a couple coachesand I’m so aggressive — mystyle of play is so, so aggressivethat they put me at the mostaggressive position that wehave — SAM linebacker. I’mable to do what I did my fresh-man year.”
But Beauharnais’ work lastseason at middle linebacker,where he started all 12 games forthe Scarlet Knights, helped the230-pounder just as much as histime at SAM.
“I have experience at theactual position,” Beauharnaissaid. “But I also have experiencefrom playing MIKE linebacker.When I was at that position, Iknew what everybody was doingall the time. So I already knowthe SAM job.”
Beauharnais’ ability to playmultiple positions is all the moreimportant for Schiano, whoadmitted the linebacking corpsdoes not have the same depth asthe secondary.
Junior Khaseem Greene start-ed all 12 games a year ago for theKnights, but now slides into thebox as a weak-side linebacker.
Classmate Ka’Lial Glaud fig-ures to be the voice of theRutgers defense at MIKE butowns only two starts over two sea-sons in Piscataway.
Add in a thin crop of rookiesand seldom-used special teamsplayers, and Beauharnais’reunion at SAM not only
became a luxury for the SaddleBrook, N.J., native, but a neces-sity, as well.
“We’re deep and inexperi-enced at a lot of positions,”Schiano said. “We have somefront-line guys that have played and then we got a lot of young kids that are really tal-ented but need reps. I don’tknow if you noticed, but wedon’t have that much depth atlinebacker and D-line is kind oftwo and a half.”
Senior Manny Abreu movedto the defensive line as a productof Greene’s transition, bringingto the trenches a player with alinebacker’s mentality.
Abreu, the Knights’ previousstarter at SAM, and Beauharnaisshared some of the same experi-ences on the strong side, andAbreu will play virtually the sameposition as Beauharnais as anedge rusher.
“It’s going to be very, veryhelpful,” Beauharnais said ofAbreu’s position change. “Hisposition that he is basically likemy position, his old position. It’sjust that he’s going to be in athree-point stance all the time.”
After a 4-8 campaign, one ofSchiano’s chief goals was toimprove the overall speed of hisdefensive unit, which includedsetting Beauharnais free to makeplays behind the backfield.
Beauharnais stood out duringhis rookie season for his abilityto make plays in space but facedthe daunting task of transition-ing to MIKE during his sopho-more season.
Now free of making defen-sive calls and being responsiblefor the defense’s positioning,Beauharnais has the liberty to“cause havoc ever ywhere,” he said.
Still, what Beauharnaisnoticed most after one day ofspring practice was not hischange in scenery but Schiano’srenewed energy as a defensiveplay caller.
“He’s doing a lot now,”Beauharnais said. “He’s callingthe signals, he’s running around,running the drills. Practice-wise,I’m seeing another side of coachSchiano. I never thought he wasa run-around guy. He’s prettyfast, to tell you the truth. I likehim this way.”
“My style of play isso, so aggressive
that they put me at the most
aggressive position that we have.”
STEVE BEAUHARNAISJunior Linebacker
FOOTBALL
JEFFREY LAZARO / ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Junior linebacker Steve Beauharnais broke into the Scarlet Knights’ defense as a freshman playingweakside, and he will return to the position after starting last year at middle linebacker.
Junior moves back to aggressive ways
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BY STEVEN MILLERSPORTS EDITOR
Ask Manny Abreu about the last timehe began a play with his hand in the dirt,and the senior can give you a preciseanswer: He was a freshman tight end atUnion Hill High School (N.J.).
But ask the recently converted line-backer what it feels like, and the answereludes him.
As the senior begins his first set ofspring practices at defensive end, thebiggest adjustment is growing accus-tomed to playing with his hand down.
“I’ve never had my hand down. I’vealways been on my feet,” Abreu said.“I’m struggling a little bit because I’mnot used to … exploding from the posi-tion. The beginning of practice was alittle tough, but it got better and I gotused to it. I can only imagine in a fewweeks how much more comfortable Iwill be.”
Abreu is one of a handful of ScarletKnights using the spring to learn anew position.
Some, like junior Khaseem Greeneand sophomore Jordan Thomas,played the position in high school. Butnot Abreu.
He never even thought about leavinghis spot at linebacker, where he startedseven games as a true freshman andeight last season.
Then head coach Greg Schiano sat down with Abreu and proposed the switch.
“I was a little bit surprised, but coachonly did it for my best interest,” Abreusaid. “I was a little shocked, but I thoughtit over, talked to my parents and myfiancée, and we gave it a shot trusting thehead man.”
Schiano pitched the idea to Abreu onthe grounds that it was not only a betterfit for Rutgers but for Abreu’s careerafter college.
After the Knights lost six straightgames to end last season, Schiano want-ed to infuse speed into his defense bymoving starters down a level.
And with Abreu’s 6-foot-3 frame, hebelieves he is a better fit for the NFL atdefensive end.
“Being such a big guy and it beingso similar to the linebacker spot, I’ve
been playing for a while, he said itwould be a better spot for me,” Abreusaid. “I took his advice — I trust theman — so I said, ‘Hey, why not give ita shot?’ It’s a little hard right now. I’mnot used to it, but I like it. It’ll eventu-ally come smoothly.”
One thing that does come smoothly toAbreu is the playbook.
He spent his first three seasons andredshirt year learning the role of alinebacker and that included knowingwhat the defensive line did in front of him.
Now he keys in on a single targeton a given play, and he still appreciatesthe importance of what is happeningwith the linebackers behind him.
“He knows how important his job isout in the front,” junior middle line-backer Ka’Lial Glaud said. “He knowswe back up the D-line. If the D-linemesses up with something, then wehave to back it up. Manny knows howimportant that is now.”
With simplified responsibilities,Abreu’s main focus is on adjusting tothe style.
But he showed something at line-backer, where he made 99 tackles and 1.5sacks, that convinced Schiano he has afuture on the defensive line.
“We think he can do that,” Schianosaid. “We’ve seen him do some thingswith his hands when he’s at linebacker sowe think he can do that, but I’m anxiousto see. I hope so, because that can reallyhelp us.”
Schiano’s belief is so strong thatAbreu began camp on the first-teamdefense.
Rutgers replaces last year’s startingdefensive ends, so there are obviousquestion marks.
But Abreu and Schiano believe hewill soon be able to answer the mostdifficult one — what it feels like withhis hand down — and grow accus-tomed to defensive end.
“Like coach says, you have to build equity in a program. I havethroughout the past years,” Abreusaid. “Just by him putting me in the first-team defense, it shows that he has confidence and he believes that although it is new, I can adjust to it.”
JEFFREY LAZARO / ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Senior Manny Abreu started 15 games at linebacker through his first threeseasons, but is a first-team defensive end at the outset of spring practice.
BY TYLER BARTOASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
After nearly four months off betweenthe end of the Rutgers football team’s2010 season and its first spring practice,the Scarlet Knights’ coaching staff couldnot blame junior Ka’Lial Glaud if he dis-played some rust.
But despite just one day at middle line-backer on his résumé, Glaud showed noill effects after transitioning from theweak side, barking out the defense’s callsabove the rest of the field noise.
And in the process, Glaud earnedthe attention of an especially impor-tant onlooker.
“What I saw today — I have no idea if[Glaud] did his job very well — but whathe did is he took control of…getting thesignal, making the front call,” said headcoach Greg Schiano. “[He was] veryloud, very in control. That’s somethinghe brings to the table.”
The 6-foot-2, 223-pound Glaudearned a pair of starts at strong-sidelinebacker last season after regularstarter Manny Abreu suffered a kneeinjury against Army at the NewMeadowlands Stadium.
But after Schiano re-tooled the defen-sive side of the ball with a variety of posi-tion changes, Glaud’s move to MIKEappears to be more permanent.
For Glaud, the move to the center ofthe defense could not be more instinctive.
“It actually kind of feels natural,” hesaid. “I like the chance to get out thereand the chance to be a leader and kind ofbe in command of the defense. I want theresponsibility to take on that challenge.So it feels good.”
Glaud approached classmate SteveBeauharnais, the Knights’ starter atMIKE for all 12 games last year, about thenuances of the position in the offseason,and Beauharnais provided Glaud with adirect response.
“The first thing I started off is thatwhen I passed the torch to him, that youhave to be a leader at all times,”Beauharnais said. “You have to be thecommander-in-chief out there. You’re thecommander-in-chief out there and that’swhat he has to be.”
Glaud now finds himself as the face ofa completely revamped linebacker corps,
one that features converted safetyKhaseem Greene at WILL andBeauharnais’ return to SAM, where hestarted three games as a true freshman.
But after appearing in 12 games as afreshman to go along with 19 tackles ayear ago, the Winslow Township HighSchool (N.J.) product is hardly new to thedemands of the position.
“It helps me a whole lot,” Glaud said ofhis playing experience at Rutgers. “Whenyou come inside you wonder, ‘How strongis everybody? How fast is everybody?’Then you get to go out there and…seethat everyone’s just like you. There’s areason that everybody’s here. And afterthat you get a competitiveness and theinsights just take over. And I think I havethat right now.”
Not counting the daunting vocalaspect of MIKE, which he said comes nat-urally, Glaud needs to improve his padlevel while filling the hole left in offensivelinemen’s wake, he said.
“The real big thing I think I have towork on is just staying lower,” Glaud said.“If I stay lower and I get all the film workin and the whole mental thing, I thinkeverything else will take its course.”
While many pegged Glaud to earnmore significant playing time earlier inhis Rutgers career, the newly anointedMIKE feels no sense of urgency to sal-vage his final two seasons with theKnights.
The Atco, N.J., native finds himself inthe film room more often than he did asan underclassman and now regularlypicks the minds of his linebackers coach-es and Beauharnais.
“First, [Beauharnais] told me all thebad things about the mistakes that hemade to help me get better,” Glaud said.“When we sit inside film, if I ever have aquestion about the position he lets meknow what not to do. Then he tells mewhat to do after that — after the coachesteach me and everything. He basicallytries to make sure I’m good.”
Glaud now has no problems askingquestions or bringing up points in posi-tion meetings, where the coaching stafflikely hears Glaud above the rest.
“That’s just something that’s a part of my game, part of my personali-ty,” Glaud said. “I guess I’m just a loud speaker.”
ANDREW HOWARD
Junior linebacker Ka’Lial Glaud started two games last season on the strong side,but begins spring practice as the Scarlet Knights’ starting middle linebacker.
SAME FACES,DIFFERENT PLACES
KA’LIALGLAUD
MANNYABREU
Position: MLBHeight: 6’2”Weight: 223 lbs.
Position: DEHeight: 6’3”Weight: 255 lbs.
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T H E D A I L Y T A R G U M
BY JOSH BAKANSTAFF WRITER
The Big East contains a variety of adver-saries for the Rutgers women’s lacrosse team
with many differentstyles of play.
But the ScarletKnights face anopponent tomorrowin South Bend, Ind.,with a style of play
that nearly mirrors their own in Notre Dame.“They have a pretty strong defense. We
have a pretty strong defense,” said seniormidfielder Shawn Lopez. “They rely on a lotof one [on] ones on attack and so do we.”
But the similarities are no coincidence.Notre Dame head coach Tracy Coynecoached Rutgers head coach Laura Brand onTeam Canada’s women’s lacrosse team.
“They work closely together. They do alot of talking,” Lopez said. “They like torecruit the same kind of players. My coachhas learned some things from her andmaybe even vice-versa.”
RU preparesfor team withsimilar style
Rutgers junior Eric LeGrand wasreleased from the Kessler Institute forRehabilitation yesterday after spending
more than sixmonths at the
West Orange, N.J., center.LeGrand, who suffered a paralyzing
injury making a tackle against Armyon special teams, will reside at hisaunt’s home in Jackson, N.J., for thetime being.
LeGrand will return to Kessler’sWest Orange facility once a week for rehab as an outpatient. He
will also rehabtwice a week at the KesslerR e h a b i l i t a t i o nCenter in OceanTownship.
D o c t o r sr e m o v e dLeGrand’s tra-cheotomy lastweek, as the 20-year-old continuesto make progress.
He is enrolledin a Monday night class, “Blacks andEconomic Structures,” which he joinsvia videoconference.
The Avenel, N.J., native last appearedon campus at the Scarlet Knights’ annu-al Pro Day, and also made two other doc-umented appearances.
LeGrand was present at a Februaryfundraiser at the Louis Brown Athletic Center and also joined histeammates for their first meeting ofthe spring semester.
Donations to the Eric LeGrandBelieve Fund can be mailed to:
“Eric LeGrand Believe Fund”PNC Wealth ManagementAttn: Kimberly G. Kingsland,
Senior Trust AdvisorOne Palmer Square Suite 201Princeton, NJ 08542
— Staff Report
BY STEVEN MILLERSPORTS EDITOR
After Michael Lang scored a seventh-inning run yesterday to cut the
Rutgers baseballteam’s deficit to fourruns, the ScarletKnights tried any-thing to rally.
Five playerspinch-hit through the final two innings
against Wagner in an attempt to cut intothe Seahawks’ advantage, but first theyhad to keep Wagner off the board.
So when three-hole hitter KevinMcDonnell responded to Lang’s run with a double to lead of f the next inning,Rutgers head coach Fred Hill told hispitcher to appeal.
Freshman reliever Joe Esposito aimed forfirst base, which he did not believeMcDonnell touched, and sent his throw wide,bounding into foul territory.
McDonnell advanced on the error, scoredon the next at-bat, and Rutgers’ last-ditchrally fell short in an 11-5 loss at Bainton Field.
“What can I say? That’s ridiculous,” Hillsaid. “It was just a very, very poor play. Ithought our performance was very poor. Wedidn’t play very well at all. We did thingswe’ve never done before.”
And the Knights (8-14) did it against weak-er competition.
ASHLEY ROSS
Junior reliever Ryan Fasano threw four innings for the Scarlet Knights and allowed one run after starter Willie Beard left inthe first inning and reliever Sean Campbell left Bainton Field in an ambulance with a head injury.
Rutgers plays sloppy in loss to weaker Wagner
RUTGERS AT NOTRE DAME, TOMORROW, 7 P.M.
WOMEN’S LACROSSE
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Skid hits 11with loss toHofstra ace
BY SAM HELLMANCORRESPONDENT
Home runs by captains Brittney Lindleyand Mickenzie Alden gave the Rutgerssoftball team a chance to end a 10-game
losing skid.But the lead, sup-
plied by Lindley’stwo-run blast, didnot hold against oneof the toughest
pitchers on the East Coast.Losing 10-4 yesterday against
Hofstra and Colonial Athletic AssociationPitcher of the Year Olivia Galati, the Scarlet Knights (10-19, 0-3) now carr y an 11-game losing streak into this weekend’s three-game road serieswith Connecticut.
“It’s frustrating,” said Lindley, a juniorthird baseman. “We want to get that winand we keep getting close and letting it getaway. We know we have the fight in us, butwe have to take that next step.”
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SAM HELLMAN / FILE PHOTO
Senior outfielder Mickenzie Alden went 3-for-3 yesterday, scored two runs and beltedher first home run in two years in a 10-4 loss on the road to Hofstra.
