be able to give our emerging artists some sound advice for their careers and their lives as artists,” said Tom Minucci, president of the Mason Gross Student Government Association, in an email correspondence. After compiling a list of possible candidates, the convocation speaker committee — comprised of Minucci, Mason Gross School of the Arts Associate Dean Dennis Benson and one faculty member from each depart- ment — narrowed down the names, said Minucci, a Mason Gross School of the Arts junior. “[The choices were] notable people in their respective fields. Being so close to New York City, that included some very attractive possibilities,” he said. “Many of the faculty members have worked with or know the individ- uals and began the process of contact- ing people and feeling out if they were interested.” The committee decided the speaker should have a background in either dance or visual arts since the last two convocation speakers were actress Kristin Davis and musician Paquito D’Rivera, Minucci said. Mason Gross School of the Arts sen- ior Maria Giancola said she is looking THE D AILY T ARGUM Volume 142, Number 120 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 PROTECT THIS HOUSE Today: Partly Cloudy High: 54 • Low: 42 FRIDAY APRIL 8, 2011 The Rutgers softball team rebounded from a previously poor showing at home to sweep Iona in dominant fashion yesterday at the RU Softball Complex. INDEX ONLINE @ DAILYTARGUM.COM OPINIONS ........ 8 DIVERSIONS ...... 10 CLASSIFIEDS ...... 12 At a City Council meeting, residents discuss the Remsen Avenue Firehouse construction. A study shows that Congress members taunt each other a quarter of the time in session. See if we gave them a laurel or dart. OPINIONS SPORTS ...... BACK METRO UNIVERSITY ....... 3 METRO .......... 6 RUSA stands against credit union move Membership minimum to apply to greeks Kristen Clarke, RUSA University Affairs Committee chair, stresses the importance of having the student credit union remain on campus. NICHOLAS BRASOWSKI / SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER BY ANASTASIA MILLICKER CORRESPONDENT Rutgers University Student Assembly (RUSA) members met last night to voice their disagree- ment over the closing of the Rutgers University Student and Alumni Credit Union (RUSACU) on campus. RUSACU signed a contract to merge with Affinity Federal Credit Union in July 2010, conse- quently consolidating their board of directors with Affinity, said Kristen Clarke, University Affairs Committee chair. Their lease for their operating location in the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue cam- pus, which ends on May 20, was not renewed. Instead, they plan to move to an Affinity location in New Brunswick, she said. Clarke highlighted a resolution that calls for RUSA to oppose the move. BY CAMILLIA SHANKS CONTRIBUTING WRITER Student Life’s student group policy could pose a threat to some fraternities and sororities next fall when the requirement for a minimum of 10 members is set to take effect. The policy was implemented after the Transformation of Undergraduate Education (TUE) in 2007, when individual colleges were eliminated and the Department of Student Life was estab- lished, said Kerri Willson, associate director of Student Involvement. Before, each undergraduate college had its own minimum number of members to be recognized as a student group. For greek organizations, the minimum was five peo- ple before they joined with Student Life, said JoAnn Arnholt, dean of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs. “Now, for a number of different reasons, like budg- et and strengthening the chapter and the ability to par- ticipate in the community, we knew we would eventu- ally move to the 10 number,” she said. But Dalmar Mohamod of the historically black fra- ternity, Alpha Phi Alpha, finds the policy unfair. “After graduation our chapter will have six mem- bers,” said Mohamod, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “We do a lot for the University, and it’s not right that we might be discharged due to this policy. It’s going to place a lot of strain on us to recruit people every year.” Bryan Wilson, Interfraternity Council president, said the chapters with less than minimum requirement of members should not be overly concerned. “There are about six [chapters] that have under 10 members currently, and they were notified this past fall,” said Willson, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “The policy goes into effect in Fall 2012, and we will provide ongoing support and resources to make sure they meet the member requirement.” Arnholt said despite this change, the TUE had a pos- itive effect on greek life, doubling total membership of SEE MINIMUM ON PAGE 4 Eddy Portnoy, left, a Yiddish language instructor at the University, joins Robert Mankoff, cartoon editor of The New Yorker, for an evening of “Cartooning Jew- ish New York” last night at the Cook Campus Center. SEAN MACDONALD SKETCH THIS Critic to speak at Mason Gross ceremony BY RASHMEE KUMAR ASSOCIATE COPY EDITOR Even as the Mason Gross School of the Arts Class of 2011 walks across the stage this May, it will still receive advice from a critic. The Mason Gross School of the Arts convocation, which will take place May 14 at the State Theatre in New Brunswick, will feature keynote speaker Peter Schjeldahl, the head art critic for The New Yorker, said George Stauffer, dean of the Mason Gross School of the Arts. “I think as an art critic, he will bring an insightful viewpoint on the field and SEE CRITIC ON PAGE 5 Douglass celebrates Dean Jaquelyn Litt BY ANASTASIA MILLICKER CORRESPONDENT For this year’s Douglass Founder’s Day, the Douglass Residential College (DRC) offi- cially welcomed Dean Jacquelyn Litt into its family after she was appointed last summer to the position. The Voorhees Chapel on Douglass campus filled Wednesday morning with dis- tinguished University officials like President Richard L. McCormick and representa- tives from women’s colleges throughout the country as they gathered for the celebration of Litt’s convocation. George H. Cook Campus Dean Richard Ludescher opened the event with a small speech about Litt’s positive attributes. “As you all know, a well- known sense of humor is not required of a dean. … There are few better ways to nurture and encourage the trust, affection and respect of undergraduates,” Ludescher said. McCormick took the stage after Ludescher and said he was delighted to welcome Litt as the new Douglass College dean. “She is a scholar of achieve- ment, a leader of vision and con- viction,” he said. “While each day she was here, we become more delighted and excited about the choice we made in asking her service.” Douglass Governing Council President Pamela Chin agreed with McCormick and SEE RUSA ON PAGE 4 SEE DEAN ON PAGE 5 Students with 30 or more degree credits can register for classes from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m.
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be able to give our emerging artistssome sound advice for their careersand their lives as artists,” said TomMinucci, president of the Mason GrossStudent Government Association, in anemail correspondence.
After compiling a list of possiblecandidates, the convocation speakercommittee — comprised of Minucci,Mason Gross School of the Ar tsAssociate Dean Dennis Benson andone faculty member from each depart-ment — narrowed down the names,said Minucci, a Mason Gross School ofthe Arts junior.
“[The choices were] notable peoplein their respective fields. Being so
close to New York City, that includedsome very attractive possibilities,” hesaid. “Many of the faculty membershave worked with or know the individ-uals and began the process of contact-ing people and feeling out if they were interested.”
The committee decided the speakershould have a background in eitherdance or visual ar ts since the last twoconvocation speakers were actressKristin Davis and musician PaquitoD’Rivera, Minucci said.
Mason Gross School of the Arts sen-ior Maria Giancola said she is looking
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RUSA standsagainst creditunion move
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Kristen Clarke, RUSA University Affairs Committee chair, stresses theimportance of having the student credit union remain on campus.
NICHOLAS BRASOWSKI / SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
BY ANASTASIA MILLICKERCORRESPONDENT
Rutgers University Student Assembly (RUSA)members met last night to voice their disagree-ment over the closing of the Rutgers UniversityStudent and Alumni Credit Union (RUSACU) on campus.
RUSACU signed a contract to merge withAffinity Federal Credit Union in July 2010, conse-quently consolidating their board of directors withAffinity, said Kristen Clarke, University Af fairsCommittee chair.
Their lease for their operating location in theRutgers Student Center on the College Avenue cam-pus, which ends on May 20, was not renewed.Instead, they plan to move to an Affinity location inNew Brunswick, she said.
Clarke highlighted a resolution that calls for RUSAto oppose the move.
BY CAMILLIA SHANKSCONTRIBUTING WRITER
Student Life’s student group policy could pose athreat to some fraternities and sororities next fall whenthe requirement for a minimum of 10 members is setto take effect.
The policy was implemented after theTransformation of Undergraduate Education (TUE)in 2007, when individual colleges were eliminatedand the Department of Student Life was estab-lished, said Kerri Willson, associate director ofStudent Involvement.
Before, each undergraduate college had its ownminimum number of members to be recognized as astudent group.
For greek organizations, the minimum was five peo-ple before they joined with Student Life, said JoAnnArnholt, dean of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs.
“Now, for a number of different reasons, like budg-et and strengthening the chapter and the ability to par-ticipate in the community, we knew we would eventu-ally move to the 10 number,” she said.
But Dalmar Mohamod of the historically black fra-ternity, Alpha Phi Alpha, finds the policy unfair.
“After graduation our chapter will have six mem-bers,” said Mohamod, a School of Arts and Sciencesjunior. “We do a lot for the University, and it’s not rightthat we might be discharged due to this policy. It’sgoing to place a lot of strain on us to recruit peopleevery year.”
Bryan Wilson, Interfraternity Council president,said the chapters with less than minimum requirementof members should not be overly concerned.
“There are about six [chapters] that have under 10members currently, and they were notified this pastfall,” said Willson, a School of Arts and Sciences senior.“The policy goes into effect in Fall 2012, and we willprovide ongoing support and resources to make surethey meet the member requirement.”
Arnholt said despite this change, the TUE had a pos-itive effect on greek life, doubling total membership of
SEE MINIMUM ON PAGE 4
Eddy Portnoy, left, a Yiddish language instructor at the University, joins RobertMankoff, cartoon editor of The New Yorker, for an evening of “Cartooning Jew-ish New York” last night at the Cook Campus Center.
SEAN MACDONALD
SKETCH THIS
Critic to speak at Mason Gross ceremonyBY RASHMEE KUMAR
ASSOCIATE COPY EDITOR
Even as the Mason Gross School ofthe Arts Class of 2011 walks across thestage this May, it will still receive advicefrom a critic.
The Mason Gross School of theAr ts convocation, which will takeplace May 14 at the State Theatre inNew Brunswick, will feature keynotespeaker Peter Schjeldahl, the head artcritic for The New Yorker, said GeorgeStauf fer, dean of the Mason GrossSchool of the Arts.
“I think as an art critic, he will bringan insightful viewpoint on the field and SEE CRITIC ON PAGE 5
Douglass celebratesDean Jaquelyn Litt
BY ANASTASIA MILLICKERCORRESPONDENT
For this year’s DouglassFounder’s Day, the DouglassResidential College (DRC) offi-cially welcomed DeanJacquelyn Litt into its familyafter she was appointed lastsummer to the position.
The Voorhees Chapel onDouglass campus filledWednesday morning with dis-tinguished University of ficialslike President Richard L.McCormick and representa-tives from women’s collegesthroughout the country as theygathered for the celebration ofLitt’s convocation.
George H. Cook Campus DeanRichard Ludescher opened theevent with a small speech aboutLitt’s positive attributes.
“As you all know, a well-known sense of humor is notrequired of a dean. … There arefew better ways to nurture andencourage the trust, affectionand respect of undergraduates,”Ludescher said.
McCormick took the stageafter Ludescher and said hewas delighted to welcome Litt as the new Douglass College dean.
“She is a scholar of achieve-ment, a leader of vision and con-viction,” he said. “While eachday she was here, we becomemore delighted and excitedabout the choice we made inasking her service.”
Douglass GoverningCouncil President Pamela Chinagreed with McCormick and
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With Earth Day approachingon April 22, the Universityfound a way to make transporta-tion greener.
The Commuter Transit andParking Services for Rutgers-Newark hosted its “SecondAnnual Cherry Blossom BikeRide” through Branch BrookPark Wednesday to encourage“green” commuting, said BradArmstrong, parking of ficesupervisor.
It served as a University initia-tive to overcome obstacles theincreasing student populationfaces with limited parking spaces.
“The direction of theUniversity is to try to get the stu-dents and faculty and staff, aswell, to commute ‘green’ andthink about more responsible‘green’ behaviors,” he said. “Iimplement programs that hope-fully give students incentives tochange their commuting mindsetand bring about a new commut-ing culture.”
About 30 students arrived atthe starting point at Rutgers-Newark Bicycle Park,Armstrong said.
“There is a lot of enthusiasmfor the students to get on theirbikes, get some exercise andfresh air, enjoy their environmentand see that biking is a viable andsustainable means of commutingto and from the school,” he said.
Campus police escorted thegroup to ensure all studentssafely crossed the intersectionand handled general safety con-cerns to Branch Brook Park,where various speakers waitedfor them, he said.
Speakers included membersof the Branch Brook ParkAlliance who discussed the parkand the various recreationalactivities occurring there,Armstrong said.
Representatives from theEssex County Sheriff ’s Officewere also present to assure thestudents the park was safe, hesaid. Newark police officersexplained how they keep Newarksecure despite staff reductions.
Members of the Brick CityBike Collective spoke about gen-eral bike safety, he said.
In addition to encouraging“green” commuting and the useof the University’s bike program,
Armstrong said the ride can alsoinspire students to become moreinvolved in community activitiesin surrounding areas.
He hopes the event expandsand promotes bike riding on alarger scale, beyond saving park-ing spaces.
Armstrong is consideringfuture collaborations with theBrick City Bike Collective to helpstudents become involved insome of the local events like theTour De Newark.
“A vision of mine personallyis that I would like to see on theRutgers-Newark campus awhole bunch of bike enthusiastsget together and form them-selves a little bike club,” he said.
Bike riders received a freelunch and giveaways, includingbackpacks, water bottles, hel-mets and ankle straps, beforethe trip to Branch Brook Park,he said. The University provid-ed students who did not havebicycles with one of the 14 itowns and 10 it rents.
Both rides were held duringfree periods for students so theydid not need to miss classes,Armstrong said.
Jaquil White, a Rutgers-Newark Business Schoolsophomore, noticed the crowdon campus.
“I remember seeing peoplebike riding earlier and hearingabout biking for parkingspaces,” she said. “I think it isa good idea to put a bit ofdecline in pollution and itwould help with making roomfor parking.”
Some University students sawpositive benefits to the ride.Joshua Epstein, a School ofEnvironmental and BiologicalSciences sophomore, believed itwould inspire people to use theirbikes more, for both commutingand recreational purposes.
“I bike to all of my classeseveryday because I enjoy theexperience, and it’s a lot betterthan having to take the buses,”he said.
Epstein said he would like tosee the initiative spread through-out the New Brunswick campus,as well.
“With our bus system andwith the amount of studentshere at Rutgers, we could save alot of energy by promoting bikeriding and it would also be a lotof fun,” he said.
Group links genocide, povertyBY ANDREA GOYMA
CORRESPONDENT
Students from the University’sem[POWER] and Warm Heartorganizations collaborated to host“Honoring the Past, Building aBetter Future,” an event heldWednesday in which audiencemembers jumped into a discussionon genocide and poverty.
Divya Sonti, president of theUniversity chapter of Warm Heart,said her group was motivated tohold the event with hopes to edu-cate students on the problems facedby people in developing countries.
“We wanted to host an eventlike this because I think there’s adifference between doing nicethings for people and really under-standing what’s going on in devel-oping countries,” said Sonti, aSchool of Arts and Sciences senior.
The panel discussion on geno-cide and poverty was held atLivingston Hall and featured guestspeakers Alex Hinton, director ofthe Center for the Study ofGenocide, Conflict Resolution andHuman Rights at Rutgers-Newark,Elizabeth Amaya-Fernandez, aUniversity health education spe-cialist and Greg Sullivan, programdirector of IRATE and Friends.
Hinton said the most importantlesson to learn in reducing povertyis to respect local knowledge.
“Whenever you say develop-ment, you imply un-development,progress implies regression, civi-lized implies savagery. So whenyou use or think in these termsthey imply the binary opposite,”said Hinton, a professor ofAnthropology and Global Affairsat Rutgers-Newark.
Established in Fall 2009,
em[POWER] is a student-run, non-profit organization that focuses onthe dilemma of landfill communitiesaround the world, said em[POWER]President Henry Chao.
Em[POWER]’s mission is toestablish a methane-based powerplant fueled by municipal waste inorder to develop schools andcommunity infrastructures in thelandfill community, said Chao, aSchool of Engineering senior.
“What we want to do is takeorganic waste that’s found in theselandfills, collect them, put them ina biodigester and collect themethane produced from thiswaste, then use that to power anelectric generator,” he said.
Warm Heart, which was found-ed in 2008 by Michael Shafer,Professor Emeritus of political sci-ence at the University, is a nonprof-it organization that also focuses onsustainable renewable projects.
Shafer and his wife, EvelindSchecter, started the organizationwhen they moved to the village ofPhrao in Thailand, Sonti said.
“What we’ve found going intothis very poor community in north-ern Thailand is that there areresources, but the people don’tknow how to put the pieces togeth-er to leverage it and that’s the rolewe’ve taken,” said Schecter, treasur-er and CFO of Warm Heart.
University alumna TaraDeWorsop, who left for Thailandafter her graduation in 2008, isWarm Heart’s U.S. director andhelped found Warm Heart’sMicroenterprise Project, Sonti said.
“It was definitely a challenge tolet [the Thai government] knowthat we’re not there to tell the com-munity what to do,” DeWorsop said.“It’s more about, ‘You identify the
problem and we’ll provide whateverskills and knowledge to help you.’”
University Warm Heart chaptermember Takmila Chowdhury, aSchool of Arts and Sciences sopho-more, said microenterprises arelike small businesses that oftenhelp the Thai people learn how tobuild sustainable small businesses.
“One of the things we’re try-ing to prevent [throughmicroenterprises] is human sextraf ficking,” Chowdhury said.“By helping them learn skillsand do business, they’re provid-ing money for themselves andtheir families, which puts chil-dren at a lower risk of being vic-tims of sex trafficking.”
All Warm Heart artisans arepaid retail prices for the productthey produce and receive half ofthe profits generated by WarmHeart sales overseas, saidSabrina Persaud, a School ofEnvironmental and BiologicalSciences senior.
The other 50 percent of theprofits goes back to theMicroenterprise Project to fundits programs, she said.
Em[POWER] also held theirsecond annual Students in Servicecompetition, where one group ofUniversity students is awarded a$500 cash prize toward communi-ty development, Chao said.
This year’s winners wereRutgers Thaakat member RidahMannan, a School of Arts andSciences senior, and ThaakatExecutive Director UzmaBawany, he said.
Their project “Raising theRoof” aims to help build five new10-by-12 yard zinc-roofed homesfor five families in Blama Peri,Sierra Leone, Chao said.
A panel of speakers discuss understanding the connections between genocide and povertyduring “Honoring the Past, Building a Better Future” Wednesday night on Livingston campus.
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Students meet to bike ride through Branch Brook Park in Newarkto promote enviromentally friendlier ways of transportation.
COURTESY OF BRAD ARMSTRONG
The University currently rec-ognizes more than 70 differentchapters in comparison to the 57chapters recognized in 2007, with
the number anticipated to risewith more student involvement,Arnholt said.
“The more we have, the bet-ter,” she said. “The more wehave, the more students findinterest, [which] generates morestudents thinking about the possi-bility of going greek.”
Tempera said the increase insize would not have a negativeeffect on regulating policies andUniversity codes.
“I do not think having so manyorganizations will make it harder tokeep track of proper behaviors,” shesaid. “Dean Arnholt and AssistantDean Amy Vojta do a great job ofmaking themselves available, pro-viding educational resources aboutall University policies.”
Elizabeth O’Connell-Ganges,executive director of Student Life,said the increase in greek organi-zations at the University proves tobe positive, especially with thesuccess of Dance Marathon.
“You can look at the numbersand see the benefits,” O’Connell-Ganges said.
Fraternities and sororitiescontributed 31,000 of communityservice hours last year and morethan $300,000 dollars in charita-ble donations this year, she said.
“The numbers speak forthemselves,” Arnholt said. “Thepositives definitely outweighthe negatives.”
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sororities and fraternities in thepast four years from 1,168 to3,247 people.
“It’s because we’re apart ofStudent Life now,” she said.“When TUE happened and thedepartment [Student Life] wascreated, we came in about sixmonths after the initial start, andit’s definitely the logical place forus to be.”
Kristen Tempera, president ofthe Panhellenic Association, saidanother reason for greek life’ssuccess on campus is theincreasing number of first-yearstudents and the greek involve-ment with the New StudentOrientation this past fall.
“The fact that the greek commu-nity has grown so much, I think stu-dents are more aware of our pres-ence on campus and come out toseek more information,” she said.
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“I think studentsare more aware of our presence on campus and
come out to seek more information.”
KRISTEN TEMPERAPanhellenic
Association President
“[RUSACU] is the only one inNew Jersey to recognize currentRutgers University students,alumni and other affiliates, espe-cially students with current agesbetween 18 and 22, to give them aset hold on their financialprocess,” she said.
A University student startedthe credit union out of his roomin Clothier Hall on the CollegeAvenue campus in the 1980s, andthe National Credit UnionAssociation recognizes the creditunion, Clarke said. The creditunion is open to anyone associat-ed with the University.
“Credit unions by far are1,000 times better than banks,”Clarke said. “Banks makemoney by lending out money.But credit unions give moneyback to their users in the formof dividends.”
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)announced yesterday that it rewarded the University a federalgrant worth about $100,000 to initiate a bedbug educationaloutreach program.
Over a 19-month period, 50 N.J. city residents will learn todeal with existing bedbug problems and ways to preventfuture infestation, according to an nj.com article.
“Bedbugs are a problem that hits all communities and theyare a particular problem in New Jersey, where we have thehighest population density in the country,” Judith Enck, EPAregional administrator, said on the EPA website.
The University will be able to use the grant to create amodel Integrated Pest Management program located in anaffordable housing community in Jersey City.
With this model, the University will focus on engaging thecommunity, detecting bedbugs early on, learning non-chemi-cal control practices and using insecticides with low toxicitylevels, according to the EPA website.
A University-conducted survey from February found fiveout of eight surveyed communities encountered heightenedbedbug control costs between 2008 and 2009, according to theEPA website. Three out of 14 surveyed management teamssaid they could afford it.
“The best way to fight bedbugs is to be educated on whatdoes and doesn’t work and to find practical, lower cost ways ofreducing infestations,” Enck said on the EPA website.
— Reena Diamante
EPA GIVES U. GRANT FOR BEDBUGEDUCATIONAL PROGRAM
School of Arts and Sciences sophomore Erin Bartnett picks out clothes during RutgersUniversity Alternative Breaks’ clothing swap Thursday afternoon in the Busch CampusCenter International Lounge. People who brought five pieces were able to take five away.
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RUSA co-adviser Lori Smithsaid more students should beencouraged to join the creditunion as part of their best inter-ests and is concerned a move offcampus may discourage this.
“[The first step toward keep-ing the credit union on campusis for] more students to join thecredit union,” Smith said. “Thiswould be of the students’ inter-est, and [they would] find itvery convenient.”
Josh David, a School of Artsand Sciences senator, said tar-geting parent associationscould boost the appeal of thecredit union because a lot ofstudents consult their parentsfor financial support.
“Something you might want todo is send out a pamphlet toinform students, to enhance thevitality of this organization,” saidDavid, a School of Arts andSciences junior.
RUSA also discussed thefuture of the Rutgers UniversityProgramming Association’s(RUPA) activities planning.
Members addressed RUPA’srecent af fairs, including“Jersey Shore” star Nicole“Snooki” Polizzi’s March 31visit to campus.
Kerri Willson, director ofStudent Involvement at theUniversity, said she was con-cerned that $32,000 went not onlyto Snooki, but also toward agentfees, traveling expenses,overnight comedians, two per-formers and two different shows,among other expenses.
She said the departmentwants students to have a balanceof academics and leisure.
“[We want] student-life pro-grams that keep you out of thebars on Easton Avenue and letstudents have fun,” Willson said.
Engineering GoverningCouncil representative andSchool of Engineering juniorRoss Kleiman suggested theUniversity democratize large-tick-et items such as high-pricedartists and put them on a ticketfor the student body to vote on inthe future.
Rutgers tradition and I look tothe present, to the remarkableDouglass women on this cam-pus, tomorrow’s leaders,” she said.
In terms ofwhat keeps hermotivated eachday, Litt gavethe example ofMabel SmithDouglass, thefirst dean of theNew JerseyCollege forWomen, knownnow as the DRC.
“ M a b e lSmith’s pioneer-ing vision gave us a publicwomen’s college and a legacyof service,” Litt said. “Douglassfocused on the future forwomen’s college education,battling the system that exclud-ed women from higher educa-tion in the state of New Jersey
and we continue her policy today.”
In addition to Litt’s convoca-tion, audience members spent a
portion of themorning discussingMabel SmithDouglass’ legacyand other influen-tial DRC women.
“We holdtoday’s convoca-tion on Founder’sDay, which ismarked eachspring by the asso-ciate alumna ofDouglass Collegeto celebrate the
victories of Mabel SmithDouglass,” McCormick said.
Douglass traditions arealmost as old as the institution,which was founded in 1918,McCormick said.
“The first graduating classof 1922 gave us the Yule log,
the yearbook, sacred path cere-mony and the AssociateAlumnae Organization, all ofwhich remain vital to the col-lege today,” McCormick said.
Audience members includedDRC alumna Mary ZimmermanChyb, Douglass College Classof 1971, who said she was excit-ed the University’s women’scollege remains strong todaydespite former 1982 DeanMar y Parkin’s belief that itwould die away.
“The home that I live in wasbuilt by my parents in 1968 andnow and then it has changedover the decades. But thenagain, it is still my home andmuch has changed in our col-lege,” Chyb said.
Chyb said good for tune,hard work and brilliant leadershave made it possible forDouglass to be the college forwomen and the place wherewomen learn to lead.
The Scarlet Knights JazzTrombones will also perform at theevent, Stauffer said.
Following the ceremony, areception will beheld at the CivicSquare Buildingin NewB r u n s w i c k ,Minucci said.
Like theSchool ofE n v i r o n m e n t a land BiologicalSciences gradu-ates, Mason Grossstudents will havea signature noise-maker to distin-guish them fromthe rest of thegraduating class at theUniversity-wide commencementon May 15 at Rutgers Stadium onBusch campus, Stauffer said.
“While [the noisemaker] istop secret, to be unveiled only at
the University commencement,I can say that it will produce anawe-inspiring, highly nuancedand supremely artistic effect,”
he said.Giancola said
she will be attend-ing both theMason Gross con-vocation and theUniversi ty -widecommencement.
“I’m lookingforward to beingable to share thisexperience withmore of my familymembers andfriends becausethe [MasonGross] convoca-
tion is a smaller ceremony wherewe can only invite a limitedamount of people, whereas the[University-wide] commence-ment allows for unlimitedguests,” she said.
The senior theses of Giancolaand more than 30 other MasonGross students are on displayuntil April 15 at the MasonGross School of the Arts Galleryin New Brunswick.
“This art show is an opportu-nity for senior art students to dis-play our individual talents and isboth the conclusion to our time atMason Gross and the beginningof our future in the fine artsworld,” she said.
The Mason Gross Class of 2011has performed at the New JerseyPerforming Arts Center inNewark, danced at the Alvin AileyDance Theater in New York,exhibited at the White Spacegallery in Manhattan and appearedbefore 106.5 million viewers in aSuper Bowl XLIV video with rap-per Jay-Z, Stauffer said.
“Every graduating class isunique … This is a class of can-doartists who have followed theirpassions,” he said.
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forward to the opinions andadvice Schjeldahl can offer theClass of 2011.
“Schjeldahl is a relevantchoice,” she said. “Some MasonGross graduates might choose topursue a career in art criticism.”
Although the convocation isusually held in the NicholasMusic Center on Douglass cam-pus, the new venue was chosen toaccommodate the school’sexpanding student body and theirfamilies and guests, said Staufferin an email correspondence.
Departmental and schoolawards for academic and artisticaccomplishments will also be pre-sented and retiring faculty andtheir artistic accomplishmentswill be recognized, he said.
CRITIC: Venue moves to
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gave brief remarks on behalf ofthe student body.
“[Litt’s] past accomplish-ments as a founding chair ofthe University of Missouri’swomen’s studies depar tmentand her work with women’sstudies at Iowa StateUniversity [and AlleghenyCollege] show her commit-ment to women’s education,”said Chin, a School of Arts andSciences junior.
In response to McCormickand Chin’s comments, Litt saidshe is inspired every day bythree things.
“I look back on Douglass’commitment to its remarkablehistor y, I look ahead toDouglass’ connection to a rich
DEAN: Litt looks to past,
future, present as inspiration
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“Every graduatingclass is unique …
This is a class of can-do artists
who have followedtheir passions.” GEORGE STAUFFER
Mason Gross School of the Arts Dean
“Dean Litt’s pastaccomplishments
... show her commitment to
women’s education.” PAMELA CHIN
Douglass Governing Council President
Rutgers UniversityP r o g r a m m i n gAssociation will hold atrip to see “AmericanIdiot” on Broadway
with discounted student tickets.The bus departs from theRutgers Student Center at noonand will leave at 9 p.m. after theshow. Ticket cost includes thediscounted student tickets andtravel expenses, and costs $35 forstudents and $45 for faculty, staff,alumni and guests. Tickets areon sale from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. atthe Student Activities Center. Formore information, visit get-involved.rutgers.edu.
“Ear th-Size Exoplanets andIntelligent Life in the Universe”is the topic of the annual HenryR. and Gladys V. Irons Lecturein Physics and Astronomy from2 to 3:30 p.m. in the PhysicsLecture Hall on Busch Campus.The speaker, Geof frey Marcy, isa professor of astronomy at theUniversity of California atBerkeley. The Lecture is freeand open to the public. For fur-ther information, seephysics.rutgers.edu/irons.
Ballroom Dance workshops willtake place in the College AvenueGym from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. In theupper gym, attendees will learndances for weddings, rumba andswing basics. No experience isrequired. Participants can attendwith or without a partner. Thereis a rotation system. For experi-enced dancers, there will be afoxtrot and swing workshop inthe main gym. Register at recre-ation.rutgers.edu/classes or pay$8 at the door students withRUID and $15 without RUID.There will be a Ballroom DanceParty from 8 to 11:30 p.m. BrianNash, recreation class instructorand head coach of the RutgersBallroom Dance Team, will playmusic for general ballroom danc-ing in the main gym of theCollege Avenue Gym. The eventis $5 for students with RUID and$10 without RUID. Proper semi-formal attire is requested. Nojeans, T-shirts, sneakers or flip-flops. For more information call(732) 932-8204 or email [email protected].
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Ginormous Gamesfeaturing Hot AirBalloon Rides willtake place at the
Douglass Woodlawn from 5 to 8p.m. depending on the weather.Crafts and games will be avail-able while in line. Space and timeis limited so rides will be givenon a first-come, first-servedbasis. Rain date is slated for April25. For more information visitgetinvolved.rutgers.edu.
Rutgers Empowering Disabilitieshosts “Disability Awareness Day”at the Rutgers Student CenterMultipurpose Room. There willbe four guest speakers with dif-ferent disabilities, including alum-nus Jacqueline Jackson andSantina Muha, 2009 Ms.Wheelchair. There will be interac-tive obstacle courses to ‘experi-ence’ disabilities, music and food.First 30 attendees will get achance to enter raf fle. Doorsopen at 6:30 and runs until 10:30p.m. Proceeds will go to theNational Multiple SclerosisSociety. For any questions [email protected].
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Group encourages students to clean cityBY SAMIRA FARIDCONTRIBUTING WRITER
In an effort to recruit morevolunteers for its second annual“Stop. Think. Go Green.” pro-gram, the New BrunswickEnvironmental Commission is onthe lookout for students whocould serve as block captains.
With the help of theDepartment of Public Works,the commission created “Stop.Think. Go Green.,” a programthat organizes cleanups withblock captains and their neighbors, said Bill Bray, city spokesman.
“[The program] is makingresidents aware of the dif ferentsources of litter and how theycan change their own personalbehavior to help reduce theincidence of litter,” he said.“Our public education programis teaching our elementar yschools about the need to putlitter and trash in its place.”
Although the programkicked off last December, mem-bers became active toward theend of March and are in pursuitof volunteers to become blockcaptains, said Erin Connolly, amember of the New BrunswickEnvironmental Commission.Block captains are responsiblefor organizing and executingperiodic mini-cleanups.
Block captains are also incharge of reaching out to theirneighbors and encouragingresidents to help clean up neighborhood litter,Connolly said.
“We’re passionate about keep-ing New Brunswick clean, andmy aim is to significantly reducelitter in our city,” she said.
The Clean City CaptainProgram, established last yearunder “Stop. Think. Go Green.,”supplies residents with recyclingbags, gloves, garbage bags andall kinds of other products andinformation to encourage agreener city environment, saidSteven Haddens, a NewBrunswick block captain.
The program is growingsteadily, and there is currently anorganization at the Universitycalled Hub City Cleanup Crew,Bray said.
“We started Hub CleanupCrew through Rutgers becausewe wanted students to help pickup trash during the weekend,”said Haddens, a School of Artsand Sciences senior. “Afterbecoming official, we got a budg-et from the school.”
Connolly started a Facebookpage called, “New BrunswickClean City Program,” to keep resi-dents up-to-date with the progressof “Stop. Think. Go Green.”
“We also distribute informa-tion to other neighbors whomight not have participated to letthem know how the block gotcleaned,” Bray said.
People can either volunteerfor future cleanups or help bychanging how they handle theirtrash, primarily reducing litter,Haddens said. That is one of thefirst things volunteers educatecommunity members on whilecollecting garbage twice a week.
Haddens said he is pleasedwith the progress of the cleanupsand hopes to clean up many dif-ferent areas of the city.
“The cleanup really doesn’ttake very long, and so far [as ofApril] we’ve done four cleanups,”he said. “We started Hub CityCleanup through the school, sowe do one every week.”
So far, 27 people are involvedwith “Stop. Think. Go Green.,”Haddens said.
“After cleanup, we give freepizza and soda for everyonethat comes and helps,” he said.“All the block captains are freeto choose the day and timethey want to clean up. Usuallythere are 12 to 15 students thatcome out.”
To recruit more volunteers,the commission held a meetingin March to recognize the mostsuccessful block captains,Connolly said.
“The environmental commis-sion’s meeting was very success-ful and it allowed for more peopleto get on board and go ‘green,’”she said.
Bray said the Hub CleanupCrew’s cleanups, in which vol-unteers hand out litterbags topeople in city parking lotsever y month, have impactedNew Brunswick in the bestpossible way.
“You would be amazed at theamount of impact something assimple as picking up red cupsafter a party will have,” he said.“All litter is manmade, and if wecan change how people behave,we can eliminate it.”
To promote recycling and environmental friendliness, volunteers from the New BrunswickEnvironmental Commission are recruiting students to serve as block captains.
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City council meetingshows residents divided
BY ANDREW SMITHSTAFF WRITER
Community members at lastnight’s City Council meetingwere unhappy about severalissues, including the BuccleuchPark sewage pump.
The sewage pump renovationwas opposed most strongly byNew Brunswick resident BruceNewling on several grounds.
The City of New Brunswickreported no more space otherthan what the original pumpcurrently occupies — a 378square-foot region — will beused in the renovation.
But Newling, who measuredthe ground himself, thinks thecurrent pump occupies 203square feet and therefore the cityis using an additional 105 feet inthe renovation.
“The city has misrepresentedits application to the state, andyou can’t go forward with thepublic hearing tomorrow becauseof that fact,” he said. “You haveadvertised erroneous informa-tion. You’ve said there’s no diver-sion of land addition to what’scurrently used, but there is addi-tional land being used.”
Thomas Loughlin, city busi-ness administrator, said the cityemployed a surveying companyfor the area and that he alsomeasured it himself.
Regardless, Newling arguedthat council members are not pro-fessional surveyors or geogra-phers, as he himself was. Themembers of the council did notdeny they had no professionalexperience in this capacity.
Newling was also concernedthat the underground tunnel sys-tem was not strong enough toprevent sewage from pouring intothe river.
Loughlin said the reason forrenovating the pump was purelyto avoid such discharge.
“We are not ignorant of thestorm store matter. It was amatter of a huge argumentback in November as to where
the storm store system dis-charged,” he said. “It’s one ofthe reasons we’re building thepump station in the first place.It’s antiquated equipment. We don’t want discharge intothe river.”
Newling was advised to attendto the public hearing last night toexpress his concerns, as thecouncil said this was not theappropriate venue to be express-ing such concerns.
Other issues of concern dur-ing the meeting included park-ing spot removals and addi-tions, the approval of city prop-erty for a variety of activitiesand the Remsen AvenueFirehouse rehabilitation.
The council, faced with pass-ing a bond ordinance to author-ize the $2 million appropriationfor the rehabilitation of the fire-house and a down payment of$96,000, encountered concernsfrom Charles Renda, a NewBrunswick resident.
Specifically, Renda worriedabout the use of CommunitySquare funds to alleviate debtand whether it was a necessityfor the funds to go toward the renovation.
“You had mentioned the factthat there was $825,000 comingin from Community Square thatwould be applied to this debt inthe near future,” he said. “Is thereanything in this paperwork or inthe ordinance or in the bondissue itself that requires themoney be applied there?”
Council President RobertRecine addressed the concernsand said the council did not knowif this was stipulated directly butwould check. He also said itwould be unlikely for the funds togo toward other projects.
Among the approved ordi-nances at the meeting were theuse of the Buccleuch Park pavil-ion for “Change your Mind Day,”an event sponsored by the SoShim Sa Zen Center, as well asseveral contracts for baseballfield fences.
At the last City Council meeting, residents voiced concernsover the city’s handling of the Buccleuch Park sewage pump.
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Krasinski and his plethora ofJim faces?
It’s about who picks it upand the way they handle theshow. If you’re taking some-thing that is known to beraunchy and controversial,why would you put it on achannel where you cannot
give it enough room to be dirty?Watching the MTV version of “Skins,” I couldn’t
help but laugh whenever characters’ f-words werebleeped out — that, and the actors had two modesof talking, monotone and yelling. The essences ofcharacters I love were dissolved into cheapAmerican remakes with awful wardrobes and a lackof believability.
An example of a remake gone great and executedcorrectly is Showtime’s launch of “Shameless,” a racyshow about a low-class Chicago family whose trou-bles revolve around their alcoholic, mostly-absentfather. Although the characters are almost complete-
ly derived from the British original,the actors have run with the moldsand made them into real people.
In the case of “Shameless,” I havenot seen the original and do not feelthe desire to — especially since itseight seasons are virtually unavail-able unless bought, and I’m too poor.Showtime did a more than sufficientjob, giving them the room to curseand drink profusely and swim in a
pool completely naked. It was announced last month that MTV plans to
remake “Inbetweeners,” a popular British showthat could be described as a wacky, clever teen sexcomedy. This isn’t going to go well, guys.Especially since other up-coming shows include“Teen Wolf” — really? Two movies weren’tenough? — and a revamp of “Beavis and Butthead.”
So let’s review. Problem: Taking something oncegreat and making it crappy. Culprit: MTV.Underlying issue that would take another column toarticulate: Our culture has a lack of creativity andcannot think of its own ideas.
Warning to MTV: If you dare try to pick up“Misfits,” I will be furious. And it would tank,because there is nobody else on this planet as hilar-iously crude and inappropriate as Robert Sheehan.
Taylere Peterson is a School of Arts and Sciencesjunior majoring in journalism and media studiesand English with a minor in art history. She is themanaging editor of The Daily Targum.
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“You would be amazed at the amount of impact something as simple as picking up red cups after a party will have.”
Bill Bray, city spokesman, on cleaning up New Brunswick
STORY IN METRO
QUOTE OF THE DAY
I f it seems to you like Congress members spend far too muchtime bickering and far too little time getting anything done,well, according to Harvard University Professor Gary King,
you’re right. King conducted a study in which he searched fortrends in the writings of Congress members. He found — perhapsunsurprisingly for some — that Congress members spend 27 per-cent of the time “taunting each other.” Yeah, we’re pretty upset bythat, too. While we had a hunch that it was the case, seeing it incold, hard numbers is just downright depressing. We give theCongress members dar ts for wasting so much time. To think,we’re paying them.
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The University is such a large school with so many eventsoccurring all the time that it’s incredibly dif ficult for students tokeep up with what is going on. Often, this leads to people missinggreat events that they had no idea about in the first place. That’swhy Thomas O’Malley, a School of Engineering junior, had theright idea to develop the “Student Event Finder.” The Facebookapp collects events happening all over the University, as well as atother colleges, and presents them all to users on one page. This isjust the sort of thing that Facebook should be used for — makingstaying connected to the world easier. We laurel O’Malley for put-ting in the time and ef fort to make this app.
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Bill O’Reilly is, as everyone knows, a perennial curmudgeon.The man never seems to have a nice thing to say. Even when he’strying to dole out a compliment, he cannot do it without lettingsomething nasty seep out, as evidenced by his comments about“The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart. O’Reilly called Stewart the“smartest of the left-wingers on television,” praising Stewart’scomments about the Obama campaign’s 2012 launch video.O’Reilly said, “You know, he’s smart to do that … even though hisaudience is primarily stoned slackers who vote left no matterwho’s running.” We give O’Reilly a dar t for being, well, kind of ajerk, even when he’s making an attempt at playing nice. Honestly,O’Reilly, if this is what you think a compliment is, perhaps it’s bestto stick to criticism.
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Following the explosive reaction to the Nicole “Snooki” Polizzidebacle, School of Arts and Sciences junior Paul Tranquilli start-ed a Facebook group entitled “College Avenue Freeze Out: Let’sBring the Boss to Rutgers.” According to Tranquilli, “[TheUniversity’s] image is tarnished, and bringing someone likeBruce here will help people refresh their thoughts aboutRutgers.” While we don’t necessarily agree that bringing BruceSpringsteen to the University will really change anything, weenjoy seeing students start grassroots movements in an attempt toincite change. For this, we give Tranquilli a laurel. Even if wedon’t think Springsteen is enough to combat the poor light Snookicast on the University, we still think it would be awesome to havehim come play. We’re hoping for the best.
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When Gov. Chris Christie isn’t out pushing reform of all stripesin New Jersey, he takes the time to stay in touch with the littlepeople — including Jesse Koczon, the 5-year-old Old Bridge boywho became an Internet sensation when a video of him cryingbecause he was “too small to be the governor” went viral.Christie’s response? He signed a proclamation Wednesday thatmade Koczon honorary governor for the day. This is a prettyheart-warming story, and it speaks to the depth of Christie’sheart. Regardless of what you think of him as a politician, youhave to admit: He has proven himself to be a pretty good guy. Wegive Christie a laurel for paying attention to even the smallestresidents of the state.
D o you rememberwhen MTVlaunched its first
music video, “Video Killedthe Radio Star” by TheBuggles? Neither do I, but Ihear it was an excitingmoment in pop culture.
Well, The Buggles were aBritish synthpop/New Wave band and their songentered history in 1979 when MTV used the band’sto-be one-hit wonder (random fact: about 2 minutesand 57 seconds into the video, Hans Zimmer can beseen playing a keyboard).
The Limousines, an Indietronica band fromCalifornia, released an album last year that includeda single called “Internet Killed the Video Star.” Andbelieve it or not, it’s a reworking of The Buggles’original song.
I don’t want to say the song is bad because I like itand actually do think it’s more of an homage than arip-off, but it’s a great example of how Americans havea habit of taking things already madeand trying to do it all over again, andsome people are really bad at it.
MTV is a prime suspect. When I heard MTV was picking
up “Skins” to be Americanized, purehorror and rage flooded through mymind, body and soul. The UK ver-sion of “Skins,” which airs on aBritish cable channel called E4 inthe vein of HBO, may just be abouta group of college-attending teenagers who drink,sleep around and consume drugs like water — butit was the characters that made the series unforget-table, not necessarily their outrageous actions.
The kind of character I’m talking about is the typethat cannot be recreated, the one-in-a-million kind ofpeople who can only be played by the actors that firstslipped into them. And MTV thinks that a handful ofnobodies who can’t act could manage to pull off thecasual ease of personality actors like Joe Dempsieand Jack O’Connell had in playing Chris and Cook(from Generations One and Two, respectively)?
I’m not saying it’s impossible to remake thingsinto equal or even better versions. I enjoy the U.S.version of “The Office” with the kind of pleasuresmall children experience when consuming their pil-lowcase of candy on Halloween: gleefully gluttonous.
But NBC did it right. Yes, they took certainarchetypes of characters from the British versionand threw them at American actors to run with. Butwho cannot agree Steve Carrell plays an amazingMichael Scott? And who isn’t in love with John
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MTV— stop ruining remakes
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“The essences of characters
I love were dissolvedinto cheap
American remakes.”
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TAYLERE PETERSON
Week in review:laurels and darts
which celebrities are “better” forthe school.
Students have begun to askquestions about what RutgersUniversity ProgrammingAssociation’s (RUPA) role is andwhat its relationship to the studentbody should be. I agree with thesentiment expressed in Thursday’sletter in The Daily Targum, titled,“Students must control events”:Having a student-run program-ming association can be a powerfulcatalyst for building a vibrant stu-dent culture. I also wholeheartedlyagree with the author’s calls forfurther transparency within theorganization. But I think the divi-siveness of the Snooki controversypoints to a larger issue, one thatcalls into question the structure ofRUPA. Many students expressedthe idea that they had little say inthis decision about how their cam-pus fees were spent. According toMonday’s brief in The DailyTargum, titled, “RUPA says 2,000students asked for Snooki appear-ance”: “Before selecting a per-former, RUPA members brain-storm ideas, analyze trends in cam-pus programming and gauge stu-dent input while maintaining an
annual programming budget.”This resembles the work of a mar-keting department, not an organi-zation that should be accountableto the students who pay its fees.Such an arrangement reducesmost students to the role of con-sumers of pre-selected events. It’sunsurprising, then, that many
students feel the work of RUPAdoes not reflect their interests,even if events like Snooki’s appear-ance are very well attended. RUPA is playing for popularity, not participation.
If we want the University tohave an interesting culture, thenwe should strive to buildarrangements that foster studentparticipation beyond surveys
and websites. Rather than tryingto see which media figures dobest in polls of student prefer-ences, we should work toward aculture in which students workdemocratically to create art andevents that genuinely reflect stu-dent life at the University. Thereare plenty of organizations thatdo this on campus, but they arenot the focus of RUPA’s support.Students will feel more engagedif they and their peers can bedirect participants in the culturallife of the University, not merelypassive spectators of pre-arranged spectacles. TheUniversity touts itself as a cultur-ally and intellectually attractiveplace to be, but a truly interest-ing university culture emergesfrom a focus on students andideas. The more the Universitytries to simply bring in popularculture from outside, the more itloses its own distinctive identityas a school. While exposure tooutside ideas is undoubtedlyvery important, the Universitymust do more to promote stu-dent-generated arts and culture.
It’s easy to lay blame solely atthe feet of RUPA for these
shortcomings, but I think thatoversimplifies the issue. If stu-dents feel alienated from the cul-tural events that happen at theUniversity, then they should takea more active role in shapingthose events. While I do believethat a democratic, student-gener-ated culture at the University willultimately be more interestingand rewarding for students, it willalso require more work. I thinkthe conversation sparked bySnooki’s visit can help us figureout a better way to organize thecultural life of the University. Weought to re-examine the relation-ship between RUPA and inde-pendent student events, and fig-ure out how to best support a cul-ture in which all students have anopportunity to meaningfully par-ticipate. This will help revitalizestudents’ perception of theUniversity far more than any sin-gle celebrity visit. When that hap-pens, the University will have areputation it can take pride in.
Andrew Foltz-Morrison is aSchool of Ar ts and Sciences junior majoring in philosophyand geography.
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F ollowing the controversysurrounding Nicole“Snooki” Polizzi’s visit to
the University, a group of stu-dents have undertaken a projectto bring Bruce Springsteen tocampus. The leader of this effortgave his reasoning inThursday’s brief in The DailyTargum, titled, “Facebook grouphopes to draw Springsteen tocampus”: “[Our] image is tar-nished and bringing someonelike Bruce here will help peoplerefresh their thoughts aboutRutgers.” While I am a longtimefan of Springsteen’s music, thiseffort is completely misplaced.Replacing one N.J. celebrity withanother misses the point entire-ly. The University should notjudge the strength of its reputa-tion on the names of the celebri-ties it can bring to campus. Theeffort to improve the school bybringing Springsteen trivializesthe lessons we can learn fromthe controversy about Snookiinto a shallow argument about
University needs participation, not spectacle
“We ought to re-examine
the relationshipbetween RUPA
and independentstudent events.”
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“[If] you shoot 47 times, youhave to score more than eightgoals — simple as that,” Stagnittasaid. “We have to finish our oppor-tunities and get a little sharper onthe offensive side of the ball for sure.”
But that is not to say the Knightsdefense is completely without itsown problems that need remedy-ing. The defensive woes go back tothe Knights’ 12-4 loss to No. 10Army, a game that saw stretches oftime in which the Black Knightsseemed to score at will.
“It goes back to a couple ofthings, defense being one of them,”Stagnitta said. “We make a couple ofmistakes defensively a game, andour opponents always take advan-tage of them.”
And despite the problems facingthe Knights, Stagnitta and Co. knowthey have potential. The team gotoff to a torrid 4-0 start this seasonand hopes to get back to their win-ning ways.
“It’s only a matter of timebefore it all comes together forthis group. Things get betterevery week,” Stagnitta said.
“Everything that’s happened inthe past week, it’s not for lack ofeffort, that’s for sure.”
And hopefully things cometogether quickly, since theKnights ride a three-game losingstreak that cannot continue ifthey hope to earn an NCAATournament bid, which eludedRutgers since the 2004 season.
“It’s one we have to get,”Stagnitta said Saturday’s game atMarist. “We just have to keep get-ting better, and I think we arecapable of getting better.”
But Stagnitta is not the onlyone who knows the Knights neara do-or-die situation if they do notpick up a win this weekend.
“It’s a really big game consid-ering we’ve lost our past three,”said junior midfielder Mike Diehl.“But I think we’ve finally learnedfrom our mistakes. We’re reallygoing to bring it to the practicefield this week and Saturday we’llbe ready.”
No matter the opponent thisweekend, the most important prob-lems that need fixing stem fromthe Knights’ own side of the field.
“We prepare for these things,but our focus and our decision-making has to be better,” Stagnittasaid. “Our focus and our prepara-tion at the end of the day are thethings we just have to get better at.”
SKID: Coach cites shot,
goal disparity as concern area
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Senior outfielder Mickenzie Alden drove in four runs in Rutgers’second win against Iona yesterday, including a walk-off single.
“I think that performance washuge for her,” Sisco said. “Iona wasn’t too bad of a hitting team andshe pitched them well. She’s goingto be ready for this weekend.”
Offensively, Rutgers was asdominant as it has been all season.
The entire batting order pro-duced in the doubleheader, combin-ing for 22 hits in 51 at-bats.
Sophomore second basemanJennifer Harabedian was the onlystarter without a multi-hit day, butshe made up for it with her firstcareer home run.
In the second game, outfieldersMickenzie Alden and LorenWilliams caused the most troublefor Iona pitchers Sarah Jackson andEileen McCann.
Alden drove in four runs, includ-ing a walk-off single in the fifthinning, and Williams reached basethree times from the leadoff spot.The freshman centerfielder stolefour bags and moved to 14 steals onthe season.
“At home, you have to set thetempo on the field before you get anat-bat, so it’s up to our pitchers to getit started,” Alden said. “Our pitcherswere outstanding today and we justkept hitting. It’s definitely a lot
better feeling when you’re up to batand your pitchers are on fire.”
The first game was competi-tive until the Knights put up fiveruns in the third and fourthinnings with clutch hitting bysophomore Kaci Madden. Thecatcher drove in the first two runsof the game on a single and fin-ished with three RBI.
Madden also made the heads-up play of the day behind theplate in the top of the thirdinning. With the bases loadedand one out, Madden forced arunner out at home and caughtanother runner napping on thirdbase to end the inning and pre-serve the shutout.
The three-game winningstreak and pitching improve-ments bode well for Rutgers as itfights for an improved standingwithin the conference. In 11thplace going into the weekendseries with Seton Hall, theKnights could jump as high asfourth place with a sweep overthe last-place Pirates.
“We’re not going out therethinking about our recordbecause we have the mindset thatwe need to win every game,”Curran said. “We’re going outthere this weekend thinkingwe’re going to sweep Seton Halland that’s it. That’s what we haveto think, and that’s what we’regoing to do.”
WINS: Nos. 1 through 9
hitters register 22 hits vs. Iona
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Rutgers splits team upon eve of home meet
BY LIZ SWERNSTAFF WRITER
The Rutgers men’s track andfield team is splitting up this week-
e n d ,w h e npart ofthe teamstays instate fort h e
Rutgers Invitational and the othertravels west to Phoenix for the SunAngel Classic at Arizona State.
“I’m excited to go to Arizona andget a chance to compete in reallynice weather,” said junior sprinterSteve Werner. “It’s a very goodmeet, and it will be a great place forus to put up some good numbers.”
This early in the outdoor sea-son, the Scarlet Knights havebeen dealing with less-than-stel-lar weather conditions, like highwinds and rain. The trip toArizona offers those members ofthe team traveling a chance tocompete in a warmer climate.
“It’s all about chasing the weath-er, really,” said head coach MikeMulqueen. “They run explosiveevents, and it’s good to get them outthere in the warmer weather.”
In addition to Werner, fiveother Knights are traveling west.
Mulqueen also sends mem-bers of the team to Arizona to geta chance to compete against dif-ferent teams and conferences.
“With the competition’s loca-tion moving westward for theweekend, we should run intosome guys we wouldn’t normallysee until nationals,” said seniorthrower Jeremy Pennino. “We’rehoping to perform big.”
Pennino, along with throwingteammates senior Chris Bradleyand junior James Plummer, hope
to use the higher level of compe-tition as an opportunity to quali-fy for NCAA Nationals in thesummer. The three throwershave already qualified for BigEast Championships.
The rest of the team will stay atRutgers for its first home meet ofthe season at Bauer Track and FieldComplex on Livingston campus.
“It’s nice to compete at hometwo weeks in a row,” Mulqueensaid. “About 600 athletes areexpected and some alumni arecoming back to compete.”
The Knights host theMetropolitan Championships nextweekend, which is a much biggermeet drawing more teams.Freshman runner CoreyCaidenhead looks forward to theRutgers Invitational as the firsthome meet of his collegiate career.
“Overall, I feel it’s a blessing toperform in front of people whosupport you,” Caidenhead said.“It motivates you to do better.Having family, friends, alumni andfans watch us perform will makethis home meet inspirational.”
Also on the minds of theKnights is the upcoming Big EastChampionship meet in early May.Each meet before then is achance to achieve a better quali-fying time or mark.
“The main goal of this week-end is to just get prepared for BigEasts and make sure we’re mov-ing in the right direction,”Werner said.
The Big East conferencenamed Plummer Men’s FieldAthlete of the Week on Tuesdayafter he won the discus throw atthe Colonial Relays last weekendin Virginia.
The Rutgers Invitational is thisSaturday at 10 a.m., at the BauerTrack and Field Complex.
challenge is adjusting to dif fer-ent cour t conditions ever yweek and to how fast or slowthe courts are.”
Rutgers traveled toMorgantown, W.Va., last week-end and defeated bothPittsburgh and West Virginiaby indentical 6-1 scores on con-secutive days. The Knights ven-ture through the Big East land-scape once again on Saturdayto square of f againstGeorgetown at noon inWashington, D.C.
“We have beatenGeorgetown in the past, butthey are having an exceptionalyear,” said head coach BenBucca. “This past weekend thescore may have shown a deci-sive victory, but the matcheswere very close and highly con-tested. Everyone on the teamexpects the same thing whenwe play Georgetown.”
The key to Rutgers’ successthis weekend will be doubles,as is usually the case. TheKnights were very inconsistentin doubles play earlier in theseason but were nearly flaw-less during their eight-matchwinning streak.
“Doubles has improved overthe past month, for sure,” saidfreshman Stefania Balasa.“Winning the doubles point sig-nificantly improves our chanceat winning the match as a wholeand helps us go into singleswith a bit less pressure.”
Bucca experimented withthe Nos. 2 and 3 doubles slotsever since the team’s SpringBreak trip to New Orleans.Junior Leonora Slatnick andfreshman Vanessa Petrini hadmarginal success in the No. 2slot, winning one out of twomatches last weekend in
Morgantown, but Balasa andjunior Morgan Ivey swept theweekend in the No. 3 position.
“We played well in doubles — that was the consen-sus of the team,” Bucca said.“We’re definitely star ting toclick, and the result is that it isshowing in our record.”
Doubles is not the only areawhere the Knights currentlyclick, as Zhang led the singlescharge for her surging squad.The captain has not lost a sin-gles match since late Februaryand handled all obstacles in her path.
“I feel like I’ve been playingpretty well,” Zhang said. “Theconditions at the courts in West
Virginia last weekend wereweird, so it was a little bit of achallenge playing there. I’mexpecting to win both matchesthis weekend. Georgetownshould be a tough match, but I am looking for ward to it.”
Zhang and Co. are not afraidto display their confidence, butthey earned that right on thislong winning streak. As fortheir coach, he just wants totake things one match at a time.
“We need to come out readyto play just like any othermatch,” Bucca said. “If we dothat and play well, then weshould be able to continue ourwinning ways.”
TRIP: Team enters weekend
on heels of pair of road wins
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THE DAILY TARGUM
Senior captain Amy Zhang led the Knights’ improved singles play,combined with their change in fortune in doubles.
RUTGERS ATRU INVITATIONALTOMORROW, 10 A.M.
MEN’S TRACK
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F ormer St. Patrick HighSchool boys’ basketballcoach Kevin Boyle
stepped down yesterday from hisposition at the dominantElizabeth, N.J., school.
Boyle spent 23 years leadingthe Celtics, but will take over thesame position at MontverdeAcademy (Fla.). He ran into prob-lems last season with St. Patrick,which the NJSIAA investigatedand barred from the playoffs dueto illegal practices.
Boyle made St. Patrick oneof the “Big Three” high schoolbasketball programs in thestate, along with St. Benedict’sand St. Anthony.
St. Patrick most recently pro-duced Villanova guard CoreyFisher, North Carolina guardDexter Strickland and Dukeguard Kyrie Irving, whodeclared for the NBA Draft yes-terday after one season. Seniorforward Michael Gilchrist isheaded to Kentucky.
THE SOUTH CAROLINAGamecocks suspended quarter-back Stephen Garcia for the fifthtime in his career due to “behaviorthat is unacceptable.”
Head coach Steve Spurrierconfirmed the suspension wouldlast throughout the spring semes-ter, and further action would bedecided upon afterward. Spurrierwould not go into details on whatcaused the suspension.
The suspension for the trou-bled quarterback — his secondthis spring — is just the latest in astring of incidents since Garciaarrived at the school.
Garcia released a statement onMarch 24, stating, “nothing bad isgoing to happen again.”
CHICAGO BEARS GREATWilliam “The Refrigerator” Perryhad his one and only Super Bowlring returned to him with thehelp of a 10-year-old boy namedCliff Forest.
Forrest reached deep into hiscollege savings to withdraw$8,500 to buy Perry’s ring, whichwas for sale in New York.
The 10-year-old took a flightto Chicago to attend an auto-graph session and return thering to Perry, who was recent-ly diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome.
The lineman and occasionalgoal-line running back, who ledthe 1985 Bears to a Super Bowlwin, declined to comment on howhis ring ended up for sale.
FURTHER PROVING THATthe NFL players’ union debate isfar from over, the two sidesagreed to continue talking butcannot agree as to where.
A lawyer representing play-ers suing the NFL wrote toDistrict Judge Susan RichardNelson, stating that the playersare willing to reengage in media-tion in her federal court in St.Paul, Minn.
But the NFL sent its own let-ter proposing to resume talksmore than 1,000 miles toWashington in the office ofFederal Mediator George Cohen.
Word on the Street
BY TYLER BARTOASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
At 6-foot-6 and 258 pounds, jun-ior D.C. Jefferson has all the physi-cal tools to be an imposing presence
at tight endfor the
Rutgers football team.So it is only fitting that
Jefferson’s biggest adjustmentsoccur off the field, where the WinterHaven, Fla., native works with first-year offensive coordinator FrankCignetti and first-year tight endscoach Brian Angelichio.
“Personally, I think I’ve beendoing pretty good,” Jeffersonsaid. “I haven’t done the best, butwe just have to get into our play-books and get everything togeth-er. I just want to master the play-book, give myself the most oppor-tunities and our offense the mostopportunities to excel.”
The former quarterback recruitnow has a full year and offseason attight end under his belt and has thepotential to be a featured receiver inCignetti’s pro-style offense.
But head coach Greg Schianostill wants to see more fromJefferson and the tight end unit asa whole during the spring, whilethe rest of the offense graspsCignetti’s offensive formula.
“Consistency,” Schiano said ofhis expectations for the tight ends.“We’re still not consistent with anyarea of the game, whether it’s foot-work, pass receiving. There’s tal-ent there — we just need to get more consistent.”
In order to fulfill Schiano’srequirement, Jefferson regularlyspends post-practice time withAngelichio working on footwork andgetting off the line of scrimmage.
Through four spring practices,Jefferson is a fan of Angelichio,who served under the samecapacity last season at Pittsburgh,along with Cignetti and defensivebacks coach Jeff Hafley.
“He’s a great tight end coach,”Jefferson said. “He’s very stricton our details and stuff and helpsus out on the field so we canfocus on it. He knows a lot ofthings that help us out.”
Jefferson caught a modest 10passes for 166 yards and one touch-down in his first full season at tightend after converting from quarter-back in 2009.
The former Louisiana Statecommit juggled with a completelyrevamped offensive line last sea-son, along with a pair of startingsignal callers, including sopho-more Chas Dodd.
Jefferson has a “pretty good”relationship with Dodd, and themultiple offensive tackle rotationsduring the spring have not hin-dered his chemistry with the lineunit, he said.
“When everyone is in their play-books, and we’re all at one, every-one syncs together,” Jefferson said.“So it’s just playing ball and havingfun. Outside of football and stuff, weall mingle with each other.”
The prospect of playing in arun-first of fense — promptedby Schiano and directed byCignetti — should open uppassing lanes down the field forthe physically imposing junior,but Jef ferson will compete for
passes with a host of skilledwide receivers.
The emergence of the middletier of the Scarlet Knights’ receiv-ing corps during the spring sud-denly put receptions at a premium,and Jefferson is up for the chal-lenge, he said.
“I like the competition — itmakes us play better,” Jeffersonsaid. “I’m excited to be amongsteach other, playing good, doingwell. That’s what wins games.”
Despite the expectations forthe of fensive unit underCignetti, Jefferson still has mod-est goals for himself to close outspring practice.
Jefferson suffered nagginglower-body injuries throughoutthe 2010 campaign, and theprospect of focusing on a familiargameplan — one similar to histrue freshman season — isenough for him to tackle for theremainder of the spring.
“I just want to see myselfgetting better ever y day,”Jef ferson said. “I don’t want tobe at a standstill.”
BY JOSH BAKANSTAFF WRITER
Second in the Big East inpoints allowed, the Rutgerswomen’s lacrosse team’s defense
f i n a l l yfound suc-
cess with a blend of experienceddefenders and some who are newto the mix.
One of the players whobridged the gap between the twogroups was freshman ChelseaIntrabartola, who landed thestarting job in the second game ofher collegiate career.
And the freshman defenderis blending right in with the veterans.
“I think it’s an honor,”Intrabartola said. “I feel privi-leged to be out there. I learn fromthem, and they give me adviceevery game and every practice.”
Although the defender isjust star ting her collegiatecareer, she transitioned moreeasily than most freshmen notonly because of her skill, butalso because of her
confidence playing with the Scarlet Knights.
“It’s definitely a lot morecompetitive than anywhere I’veplayed before, but I try not tothink of it that way,” Intrabartolasaid. “These girls are studentsjust like me and ath-letes just like me. I trynot to think of thecompetition levelwhile I play.”
By the numbers, itlooked likeIntrabartola’s breakoutgame was on Tuesdayagainst Monmouth,when the Commack,N.Y., native causedfour turnovers for acareer high.
But Intrabartola has been aconsistent defender all season,even when her production doesnot show up in the box score.
“I think she did step up andstart taking more chances thanshe has been, but I don’t want todiscredit the job she’s done priorto the Monmouth game,” saidhead coach Laura Brand.
Brand had a message for herdefense and the entire team afteran 11-6 loss last Friday to NotreDame: be more aggressive.
Many of the Knights took thatmessage to heart in their 19-9 vic-tory over Monmouth earlier this
week, especiallyIntrabartola.
“She did have a greatgame against them andreally took to heart thethings that we were say-ing in terms of beingmore aggressive ondefense, and we sentthat message to every-body as a whole,” Brandsaid. “I think she reallystepped up and took that
to heart.”Intrabartola not only consis-
tently showed the heart to securea key role on defense, but shealso showed the ability as a one-on-one defender.
“She’s probably one of — if notour best [one-on-one] defender,”Brand said. “There have been veryfew defenders that I’ve seen in mytime here that can guard [Rutgers
leading scorer] Marley Welsh. Sheconsistently stops her in practice.”
When Intrabartola wasrecruited, she had more experi-ence under her belt than just highschool lacrosse.
She participated in the Under-17 World Championship in 2007at Trent University in Canada andalso served as a reserve player onthe Long Island Empire team in2008, which also included sopho-more teammates StephanieAnderson and Lily Kalata.
Her experience up to thatpoint helped Brand seeIntrabartola’s potential to makean early impact when she recruit-ed the defender to Rutgers.
And so far, that vision holds true.
“It always comes down to howconfident they feel when they gethere, and how well they blend intopractice and really show whatthey can do,” Brand said of incom-ing freshmen. “She’s a smartdefender and she understandsteam defense, so it didn’t take hertoo long to learn the system andlearn how things are done.”
WOMEN’S LACROSSE
Rookie makes instant impact under Brand
CHELSEAINTRABARTOLA
FOOTBALL
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Junior tight end D.C. Jefferson caught only 10 passes for 166 yards and a score last season but figures to be more involvedin new offensive coordinator Frank Cignetti’s pro-style offense, which will be predicated on the running game.
Jefferson focuses on off-the-field factors
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RU tries toend skid inMarist visit
BY VINNIE MANCUSOSTAFF WRITER
In the midst of a three-game skid — two inthe Big East — the Rutgers men’s lacrosseteam’s next game against lowly Marist may be
what it needs to getback on track.
But head coachJim Stagnitta believesthe Scarlet Knightsshould be morefocused on overcom-
ing an even bigger obstacle: themselves. “We’re our own worst enemy. As much as
anything else, it’s us that’s the problem,”Stagnitta said. “I still haven’t seen the teamthat came out and beat us by themselves.It’s still hard to convince me that we’veplayed a team that you look at and you say,‘OK, that team is that much better than our team.’”
Stagnitta mainly refers to a Knightsoffense that is prone to missed opportunitiesand an inability to finish plays. In Rutgers’ lat-est contest — a 9-8 loss at New MeadowlandsStadium in East Rutherford, N.J., to confer-ence rival St. John’s — the attack and mid-field tallied a total of 47 shots on goal, 16 ofwhich came in the fourth quarter alone.
RUTGERS AT MARISTTOMORROW, 1 P.M.
MEN’S LACROSSE
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Junior midfielder Mike Diehl and the Knights enter tomorrow’s road contest at Maristafter three consecutive losses, two of which occurred during Big East play.
Matches withHoyas, ’Catscap road trip
BY MATT CANVISSERCORRESPONDENT
With only three matches remaining onthe schedule, the Rutgers tennis teamreached the home stretch with an opportu-
nity for one lastpush up the BigEast ladder.
The ScarletKnights concludethe road portion oftheir schedule this
weekend with a pair of conference match-es on Saturday and Sunday at Georgetownand Villanova, respectively.
“I’m very confident about our standingin the conference heading into this week-end,” said senior captain Amy Zhang. “Weare shooting for the sixth seed, whichwould be very advantageous at the BigEast Tournament.”
The Knights rose quickly in the BigEast standings with five straight confer-ence wins, but they all took place on theroad. The team has yet to play a singlematch on the Rutgers campus, and thisweekend will not be any different.
“It has been tough. We would just lovea home match where our friends couldcome,” Zhang said. “The biggest
RUTGERS AT GEORGETOWNTOMORROW, NOON
TENNIS
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Knights earnpair of winsover Iona
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Junior pitcher Noelle Sisco brought her record to 4-5 on the season yesterday, when she picked up a Game 1 win over Iona.Sisco allowed just three hits, which all came in the third inning and struck out four batters in her first shutout of the season.
BY SAM HELLMANCORRESPONDENT
A dif ferent Rutgers softball team greet-ed the RU Softball Complex in yesterday’s
doubleheader.Twelve days
removed from anembarrassing 23-0home loss toSyracuse, the Scarlet
Knights gelled on both sides of the ball, run-rul-ing Iona twice in a sweep.
Rutgers (13-21, 1-5) dropped the Gaels, 8-0,and, 11-3, in a pair of games that ended after fiveinnings because of mercy rules.
“This is the way we should be playing,” saidjunior Lindsey Curran, who had her first homeat-bats of the season after a hand injury. “It feelsgood to beat up on a team. We’re a really goodhitting team, and this is what we should be doingto teams all of the time.”
Junior Noelle Sisco dominated the Iona hit-ters in Game 1 with her first shutout of theseason. Sisco fanned four hitters and was per-fect with the exception of a three-hit thirdinning. She advances to 4-5 on the season withthe win.
“I think our confidence started to build up[after beating Connecticut],” Sisco said. “Westarted to put it together then, and it keptgoing through this week. We’re definitelypitching better.”
Freshman Megan Williams took her firststep to winning back her confidence in Game 2,picking up a complete-game victory and allow-ing just two runs.
Williams, who began the season 5-1,improves to 6-5 with the victory.
