University administrators officially can- celled Rutgersfest, the annual end-of-the-year concert and carnival sponsored by the Rutgers University Programming Association (RUPA), last week due to violent activity that took place in New Brunswick after the concert. The event, which has about 6,600 guests who say they are attending, is an effort on behalf of its coordinators to keep tradition alive and continue what Rutgersfest was with- out the concert, said Anthony Flotterton, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student. “It’s a day for us to enjoy celebrating here and to show school spirit,” he said. Despite the name and the slated date for the event, April 20 of next year, the event is not all about partying. “We’re trying to bring back Rutgersfest with a new identity — a more secure identity,” Farag said. The Ragefest coordinators — which besides Woletz, Farag and Flotterton include School of Arts and Sciences first - year Joe Goldstein and School of Engineering first years Daniel Moritz and Daniel Rico — believe their event will be a success because it is planned for students by students. Farag said Ragefest would not have as many incidents involving students who do not attend the University because the Facebook event is closed and only University students can join. THE D AILY T ARGUM Volume 142, Number 131 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 ’CUSE CRUSH Today: T-storms High: 71 • Low: 56 MONDAY APRIL 25, 2011 The Rutgers men’s lacrosse team fell, 12-2, to No. 4 Syracuse on Saturday in Connecticut. The Knights remain winless in the Big East Conference. INDEX ONLINE @ DAILYTARGUM.COM OPINIONS ....... 10 DIVERSIONS ...... 12 CLASSIFIEDS ...... 14 As part of a seminar, students design virtu- al art that can be viewed through a phone application A new provision to the 9/11 health care bill may require FBI screening of 9/11 responders. OPINIONS SPORTS ...... BACK UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY ....... 3 METRO ......... 9 Medha Patkar, an Indian social activist, explains how corporations took advantage of Indian citizens and land for development at a public talk Friday night in the Busch Campus Center. JEFFREY LAZARO / ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR SOCIAL JUSTICE Although the Facebook event page sets a non-University-supported “Ragefest 2012” for April 20 of next year, about 6,600 people already say they plan to attend. Through the event, coordinators hope bring back Rutgersfest with a new, more secure identity. JEFFREY LAZARO / ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR Students elect RUSA board for next year BY ANASTASIA MILLICKER ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR The University student body elected School of Arts and Sciences junior Matthew Cordeiro as the next Rutgers University Student Assembly (RUSA) president over his competitor Ross Kleiman, a School of Engineering junior. Cordeiro won by a margin of 259 votes. “We [Rutgers United] want to make a positive change working for students. I think students made the right choice,” said Cordeiro, who is currently the RUSA vice president. He and the other elected students will assume their new titles this Thursday. The second annual external Rutgers United Student Assembly elections for the upcoming 2011-2012 academic year came to a close Thursday night after two days of online voting. Yousef Saleh, RUSA president and RUSA Elections Committee Chair, said Cordeiro played an impor- tant role in this past RUSA board and believes Cordeiro will con- tinue to serve the student body to the best of his ability. “There are some things you can only learn through experience,” said Saleh, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “I know he’ll do well … and continue to fight for students.” Saleh said although the RUSA gavel may look light, it carries a lot of responsibilities. “The student body wins at the end of the day,” he said. “In the past year [alone], Matt Cordeiro was a big part of the ‘Budget Teach-In,’ the ‘Walk into Action’ and the formation of a statewide stu- dent union, and he has been very active with the stu- dent body.” The closest race was for vice president between Rutgers United’s Thomas Nicholas and Scarlet Knight Party’s Anthony Weigand, with Nicholas win- ning over Weigand by one vote, Saleh said. “This is the second year of the open democratic election,” he said. “We’ve had [one-vote wins] when we had a closed elections, but we haven’t had this happen before on such a large scale.” Nicholas, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, said he was shocked but appreciative of his victory. MATTHEW CORDEIRO THOMAS NICHOLAS SCOTT SIEGEL SEE RUSA ON PAGE 4 Plans begin for student-led ‘Ragefest’ BY AMY ROWE ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR It only took a few minutes after reading University President Richard L. McCormick’s email about the cancellation of Rutgersfest for School of Arts and Sciences first-year stu- dents Hamer Farag and Barry Woletz to cre- ate a “Rutgersfest 2012” Facebook event. But after the threat of legal repercussions for using the trademarked event name and University logo, Farag changed it, and “Ragefest 2012” was born. “[Rutgersfest] was an event that helped us relieve the stress of a long school year,” Farag said. “It’s really upsetting the [administration] canceled it.” SEE RAGEFEST ON PAGE 5
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University administrators officially can-celled Rutgersfest, the annual end-of-the-yearconcert and carnival sponsored by the RutgersUniversity Programming Association (RUPA),last week due to violent activity that took placein New Brunswick after the concert.
The event, which has about 6,600 guestswho say they are attending, is an effort onbehalf of its coordinators to keep traditionalive and continue what Rutgersfest was with-out the concert, said Anthony Flotterton, aSchool of Arts and Sciences first-year student.
“It’s a day for us to enjoy celebrating hereand to show school spirit,” he said.
Despite the name and the slated date forthe event, April 20 of next year, the event is notall about partying.
“We’re trying to bring back Rutgersfestwith a new identity — a more secure identity,”Farag said.
The Ragefest coordinators — whichbesides Woletz, Farag and Flotter toninclude School of Arts and Sciences first -year Joe Goldstein and School ofEngineering first years Daniel Moritz andDaniel Rico — believe their event will be asuccess because it is planned for studentsby students.
Farag said Ragefest would not have as manyincidents involving students who do not attendthe University because the Facebook event isclosed and only University students can join.
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As part of a seminar,students design virtu-al art that can beviewed through aphone application
A new provision tothe 9/11 health carebill may require FBI screening of 9/11 responders.
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Medha Patkar, an Indian social activist, explains how corporations took advantage of Indian citizensand land for development at a public talk Friday night in the Busch Campus Center.
JEFFREY LAZARO / ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
SOCIAL JUSTICE
Although the Facebook event page sets a non-University-supported “Ragefest 2012” for April 20 of next year, about 6,600 peoplealready say they plan to attend. Through the event, coordinators hope bring back Rutgersfest with a new, more secure identity.
JEFFREY LAZARO / ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Students electRUSA boardfor next year
BY ANASTASIA MILLICKERASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
The University student body electedSchool of Arts and Sciences juniorMatthew Cordeiro as the next RutgersUniversity Student Assembly (RUSA)president over his competitor RossKleiman, a School of Engineering junior.
Cordeiro wonby a margin of259 votes.
“We [RutgersUnited] want tomake a positivechange workingfor students. Ithink studentsmade the rightchoice,” saidCordeiro, who iscurrently theRUSA vice president. He and the otherelected students will assume their newtitles this Thursday.
The second annual external RutgersUnited Student Assembly elections for theupcoming 2011-2012 academic year cameto a close Thursday night after two days ofonline voting.
Yousef Saleh,RUSA presidentand RUSAE l e c t i o n sCommittee Chair,said Cordeiroplayed an impor-tant role in thispast RUSA boardand believesCordeiro will con-tinue to serve thestudent body to the best of his ability.
“There are some things you can onlylearn through experience,” said Saleh, aSchool of Arts and Sciences senior. “Iknow he’ll do well … and continue tofight for students.”
Saleh said although the RUSAgavel may look light, it carries a lot of responsibilities.
“The student body wins at the end ofthe day,” he said. “In the past year[alone], Matt Cordeiro was a big part ofthe ‘BudgetTeach-In,’ the‘Walk into Action’and the formationof a statewide stu-dent union, and hehas been veryactive with the stu-dent body.”
The closestrace was for vicep r e s i d e n tbetween Rutgers United’s ThomasNicholas and Scarlet Knight Party’sAnthony Weigand, with Nicholas win-ning over Weigand by one vote, Salehsaid.
“This is the second year of theopen democratic election,” he said.“We’ve had [one-vote wins] when wehad a closed elections, but we haven’thad this happen before on such alarge scale.”
Nicholas, a School of Arts andSciences first-year student, said he wasshocked but appreciative of his victory.
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SCOTT SIEGEL
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Plans begin for student-led ‘Ragefest’BY AMY ROWE
ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
It only took a few minutes after readingUniversity President Richard L. McCormick’semail about the cancellation of Rutgersfest forSchool of Arts and Sciences first-year stu-dents Hamer Farag and Barry Woletz to cre-ate a “Rutgersfest 2012” Facebook event.
But after the threat of legal repercussionsfor using the trademarked event name andUniversity logo, Farag changed it, and“Ragefest 2012” was born.
“[Rutgersfest] was an event that helped usrelieve the stress of a long school year,” Faragsaid. “It’s really upsetting the [administration]canceled it.” SEE RAGEFEST ON PAGE 5
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Smartphone application serves as space for art exhibitBY TABISH TALIB
CORRESPONDENT
A growing smartphone appli-cations market inspiredUniversity students to hold an artexhibit this week in a virtualrealm through augmented reality.
Six student groups of the “Artand City Design” seminar createdvirtual landscapes, sculpturesand murals that could be viewedthrough the Virtual Public ArtProject (VPAP) channel on theiPhone and Android applicationthe “Layar Reality Browser,” saidAndrew Zitcer, the seminar’steaching assistant.
“Each model is placed withGPS coordinates, so you go to thelocation, use your phone’s cam-era and interact and view the [art-work] with the magic of yourphone,” said Zitcer, a graduatestudent in the Edward J.Bloustein School of Planning andPublic Policy.
One group in the seminar,M2DB, has their exhibit at theRemsen Avenue firehouse offGeorge Street in NewBrunswick, which is in an urbanarea in the process of redevelop-ment, said Sharanya Durvasula,a M2DB member.
“The building is beingrepurposed into a communitycenter, and our group designeda mural to reflect that,” saidDur vasula, a School of Artsand Sciences junior.
One of the students in thegroup made a mural of awoman with bright-coloredhair voicing a famous Spanishproverb, said Nicola Mammes,M2DB project leader.
“We hope it will serve as ananchor to the community,” saidMammes, a School of Arts andSciences junior.
M2DB’s project also has abrightly colored “tattoo” on thestreet that was created to bring people to the firehouse,she said.
“The firehouse is a beautifulbuilding, but it’s on RemsenAvenue,” Mammes said. “A lot ofstudents don’t wander into thearea, and we thought the tattoowould be a good way to drawthem in.”
Mammes said althoughworking with the technologyhas been dif ficult, it was still aninteresting experience.
“I worked with geographicinformation systems and interac-tive mapping to gain planningexperience,” she said. “My part ofthe project was to plan why thisart should go here.”
Other groups took an architec-tural approach and some studentschose to create virtual sculptures,Zitcer said.
“The project being dis-played at Passion Puddle [onDouglass campus] is two sculp-tures that are somewhat avant-garde,” he said.
Durvasula said none of herteammates considered the projectan entirely virtual experience.
“We started off with practicalboundaries, but the projectopened up, and we didn’t have toabide by certain rules, like gravi-ty,” she said.
Dur vasula said the sculp-tures in Passion Puddle are themost interesting because theydefy reality.
“The sculptures are floating,and you can physically walkthrough them and view themfrom the inside,” she said. “Asan artist, it is really interestingto create things like this.”
One of the class’ objectivesis to learn about art and thepublic interest, Zitcer said.Each of the six groups aimedto create some mural or sculp-ture the public could see.
“The project was so that thestudents could have real inter-action with people who can seetheir art and also so that theycould have public input on thefinal design,” he said.
The course is cross-listed inboth the Mason Gross School ofthe Arts and the Edward J.Bloustein School of Planning andPublic Policy, Zitcer said.
“It’s the first time that hasever happened, and it’s goodbringing together students fromboth fields,” he said.
After seeing an art exhibi-tion in Philadelphia usingVPAP, Zitcer contacted the indi-vidual who created the channel.The creator turned out to beChristopher Manzione, aMason Gross School of theArts alumnus.
Manzione started his firstVPAP show by placing two ofhis sculptures in 14 dif ferentcountries around the world inmajor cities, Zitcer said.
Manzione said the technolo-gy is a good substitute to creating 3-D models because 3-D printers are expensive.
“I’ve seen an architecturalcompany do something similar by placing a vir tual
By using a smartphone application, viewers of the VPAP art exhibitcould see a dragon by Passion Puddle on Douglass campus.
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model on site, and I think thetechnology will continue togrow,” he said.
Manzione said while thepractical uses of the Layar appli-cation and VPAP channel arebeneficial, bringing attention to
them was an intriguing andunique experience.
“I try to popularize the exhibitsmostly online using Facebook andTwitter,” he said. “The art requiresa smartphone, so I think the audi-ences are similar.”
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“I want to thank them for theirsupport,” he said. “Everybody ishappy for Matt, and we’re readyto make a difference next year.”
Nicholas said one of his firstpieces of legislation as RUSA vicepresident would be toward the ter-mination of the $7 transcript fee.
“In addition to the initiative tomake Rutgers more handicapaccessible, I would like to advo-cate for terminating the $7 tran-script fee,” Nicholas said. “Wewant to hit the ground running.”
Although Kleiman, who ranunder the Scarlet Knight Party,did not win, he would be consid-ered an ex-officio for RUSAunder the new constitution.
“I reached out to Matt and will bemeeting with him to discuss theimplementations of policies such asactive communication with studentsand taking care of some other inter-nal issues in the assembly, such asensuring a successful turnoverbetween academic years,” he said.
As an ex-officio voting mem-ber of RUSA, Kleiman would beable to continue his work on mul-tiple fronts at the University,including working with students,faculty and the administration onlowering textbook prices.
Cordeiro said although Kleimandid not win the presidential posi-tion, he still ran a good campaign.
The election this year did notincrease in the number of voters,despite the two-day voting period,Saleh said.
Pavel SokolovJoel SalvinoRyan BondarSonia SzczesnaHajar HasaniJulian FensterheimMelany CruzAlfonsina Hernandez
Off-Campus SenatorsRenee CoppolaSpencer Klein
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY STUDENT ASSEMBLYSPRING 2011 ELECTION WINNERS
“The voting percentagestayed about the same, but Iguess the people who vote careabout RUSA and the entireUniversity,” he said. “Next year,[Cordeiro] may want to changeit up and change it up on peo-ple’s platforms.”
The voting period did come withsome appeals, according to theRUSA election results publication.
Michael Alter, a ScarletKnight senator-at-large candi-date and School of Arts andSciences junior, was disquali-fied from the election when hesent out an email to the presi-dents of sports clubs promot-ing School of Arts and Sciencessophomore Scott Siegel astreasurer, according to theRUSA elections report.
In the email, Alter allegedly toldthe presidents that Siegel, who is amember of the RUSA AllocationsBoard, would be able to work withthe board to get favorable fundingfor sports clubs if elected as thenext RUSA treasurer.
This action violated electionguidelines since it implied aquid-pro-quo agreementinvolving the use and dissemi-nation of student fees that isnot content-neutral, accordingto the report.
Cordeiro said RUSA is plan-ning on using the summer as anopportunity to organize.
“The Rutgers United move-ment is getting together, and weare going to make use of the sum-mer as a platform to get thingsready,” he said. “We are startingto get things together now thatelections are over, so we will beready for the fall.”
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Students teach NJ residents energy efficiency methodsBY LIZ TAYLOR
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
While some forms of energyremain unsustainable and expen-sive in the United States,University students from the NewJersey Public Interest ResearchGroup’s (NJPIRG) EnergyService Corps devoted theirEarth Day to teaching homeown-ers how to save money on theirenergy bills.
NJPIRG and AmeriCorpssponsored the campaign onFriday to educate and engagecommunities on the issue of ener-gy efficiency, said Stefany Farino,an NJPIRG intern.
Students split into pairs andspent more than two hours inHighland Park, going door-to-doorand offering tips on ways to con-serve energy by keeping aware ofenergy leakage in household appli-ances and offering to weatherizehomes, said Farino, a School of Artsand Sciences first-year student.
“We do simple things likeweather stripping, caulking thewindows and insulating pipes,and we also tell them at the endhow they are wasting energy andhow they can do simple things tofix it,” she said.
Farino said the weatheriza-tion is simple and beneficial,because it conser ves energyand reduces the energy bills ofcommunity residents.
The Energy Service Corps’objective was to educateenough people to attain a big-ger, semester-long goal of edu-cating 300 homeowners or ten-ants and 500 school children aswell as weatherizing 25 homes,Farino said.
Carl Johnson, Energy ServiceCorps campus organizer, said theorganization surpassed theirgoals on Saturday morning as aresult of Friday’s efforts.
Visiting Highland Park resi-dents on Friday was the group’sthird service day project of the
semester, she said. The groupheld a weatherization day proj-ect in the past where it weath-erized 20 houses and has alsogone to a middle school toteach sixth graders about energy conservation.
The Energy Service Corps focus-es on three initiatives — weatheriz-ing homes, teaching kindergarten to12th-grade students and educatingadults, she said.
To accomplish their goals, par-ticipants in the Energy ServiceCorps at the University meet onceevery week, apart from otherNJPIRG meetings, to discuss andplan ways to educate the commu-nity, Farino said.
Some Energy Service Corpsmembers said they were motivat-ed to volunteer their time,because they wanted to send amessage to the community tostop wasting energy.
Omar El-Dakkak, an EnergyService Corps member, said hebecame conscious of taking care
of his environment after taking anenvironmental science class andunderstands the financial con-cerns of energy.
“Hopefully, it will make peo-ple more energy conscious ofhow much energy they are actu-ally wasting,” said El-Dakkak, aSchool of Environmental andBiological Sciences first-yearstudent. “I think the incentive tosave money will motivate peopleto do it.”
Naghem Al Yassiri, a Schoolof Arts and Sciences sopho-more, said based on past expe-riences, she thinks the EnergySer vice Corps’ ef for ts couldaf fect community engagement.
“Even if it’s something small,like changing a light bulb, it canstill make a huge difference,” shesaid. “You never know, maybethey’ll pass it on to a friend or afamily member and tell them totry it.”
Before educating people as agroup, Energy Service Corps
members do so on an individuallevel. Al Yassiri said she foundherself exchanging facts aboutenergy ef ficiency in her conver-sations with others throughthose experiences.
She said she would ask peo-ple if they knew that if theyunplug their appliances whenthey’re not using them theycan save almost 40 percent ontheir energy bill.
“Some of them would notknow, and some of them wouldknow and starting telling memore information,” she said.“So it’s not only educatingthem, it’s also educating me asa person.”
Farino said after becoming apart of the Energy Service Corpsinitiative, it is not difficult to makean influence on the community.
“We train people on the spot sothey can do it, which is the bestpart about Energy ServiceCorps,” she said. “Anyone can doit if they get trained.”
University professors Gregor y Moore andThomas Banks were elected for membership in theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences, a presti-gious honorary society that provides for independ-ent policy research.
Both professors specialize in string theory, a part ofphysics that aims to provide an understanding ofnature’s basic forces and fundamental particles, accord-ing to a University media relations news release.
The forces include gravity, electromagnetism andthose responsible for the stability and deterioration ofatomic nuclei.
Moore, who along with Banks is a professor inthe Department of Physics and Astronomy at theUniversity, focuses on mathematical physics, withan emphasis on string theory, M-theory and gaugesin his research. Banks researches theoretical ele-mentary particle physics, cosmology and super-string/M-theory.
Banks and Moore are among 212 new members ofthe American Academy of Arts and Sciences, who willcontribute to studies of science and technology policy,global security, social policy, American institutions, thehumanities and education, according to the release.
“It is a privilege to honor these men and women for theirextraordinary individual accomplishments,” said LeslieBerlowitz, academy president, in the release. “The knowl-edge and expertise of our members give the academy aunique capacity — and responsibility — to provide practicalpolicy solutions to the pressing challenges of the day.”
The two new additions join 16 other University facultymembers in the academy, according to the release.Banks and Moore will be inducted at a ceremony on Oct.1 at the academy’s headquarters in Cambridge, Mass.
— Amy Rowe
UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS TO JOIN ARTS AND SCIENCES HONORARY SOCIETY
“People are going to drink andhave to go to the hospital, so theyhave to be prepared for that.”
But University spokesmanE.J. Miranda said Ragefest wouldreceive no such support.
“The University has canceledRutgersfest, and Rutgers will notfund or support a similar event,”he said.
The Ragefest coordinatorsthought there were many flawswith the planning of Rutgersfest.
“I thought it was extremelypoorly organized,” Farag said.“The concert was ridiculous. Halfof the people there weren’tRutgers students.”
Moritz saidthe problem withoutsiders comingto Rutgersfest istheir lack ofrespect for the University.
“ R u t g e r s f e s twas open, every-one knows when itis, and some arenot coming here tovisit anyone,” hesaid. “Becausethey were showing
up [for after the concert], theyshowed no respect for the school.We pay for our surroundings andwe respect them.”
All of the Ragefest creatorsagree the ultimate goal is tobring Rutgersfest back to the University.
“We will get something backin [the next] four years,” Faragsaid. “If it turns out to be suc-cessful — and we have a goodfeeling it will — maybe theadministration will see and bring[Rutgersfest] back.”
Moritz said a year off fromRutgersfest might do theUniversity some good.
“A year of f from Rutgersfestis a good idea. It will let thehype die a little bit,” he said.“We can have Ragefest andthen Rutgersfest.”
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“We want to bring backRutgersfest, that’s why wemade the event closed to stu-dents who don’t come here,”he said. “[We don’t want] otherpeople ruining it.”
Goldstein said he is moreon board for bringingRutgersfest back and believesthe end-of-the-year celebrationwould be incomplete without a concert.
“I still think weshould have theconcert andimplement somesolutions to theproblems,” hesaid. “Studentscan only bringone or two guests. It shouldnot be free andopen to the public, just for Rutgers students.”
Because Ragefest was justcreated, the coordinators donot have a set idea for what theday would exactly entail. Butthey plan to sell Ragefest T-shir ts and hold events andfundraisers throughout theschool year to possibly fund a musical act for the day, Farag said.
“Some schools don’t pay forthe people performing at con-certs. Each [student could] payto see whoever is performing,”Moritz said. “If we want fundingfrom the school, it would be hardto launch.”
To avoid the violence of thisyear’s Rutgersfest, Farag said theevent would need some support.
“We still need the support ofthe administration and NewBrunswick itself,” he said.
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Bryan Hansen, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, plays guitar for a group ofUniversity students Friday night at the RutgersZone in the Livingston Campus Center forthe Rutgers University Programming Association’s open mic night.
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“If we want funding from
the school, it would be
hard to launch.”DANIEL MORITZ
School of EngineeringFirst-Year Student
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25 Rutgers Liberty in North Korea will present “Sounds ofLiberty II” at 7 p.m. at Trayes Hall in the Douglass CampusCenter. The event is free with food and entertainment.“Sounds of Liberty II” will feature A4EFFORT, Janice Kim,A Little Affair, Zay Tate and Jason Min among others.Attendees can learn more about the crisis in North Korea.Donations are welcome.
Douglass’ Social Justice House is sponsoring a panel titled“Ingredients For Change: A Panel Discussion About FoodJustice” from 7 to 10 p.m in the Bunting-Cobb Lounge, locat-ed in Woodbury Residence Hall, 49 Dudley Rd. Our pan-elists include: Charlie Huebner, a Rutgers alumnus andgrass-fed cattle farmer from Hopewell, N.J., RutgersGardens Director Bruce Crawford, Mary Ann Schrum,director at the farmer’s market at the Rutgers Gardens andJohn Leary from New Brunswick’s George Street co-op.Contact [email protected] if youhave any questions.
The Environmental Science and Engineering Club willhost an Environmental Career Fair from 4 to 7 p.m. at theCook Campus Center Multipurpose Room B. It will hostcompanies from environmental fields that are looking tohire college students for internships and full-time jobs.Contact Anthony Lopez at [email protected] any questions
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28 The Rutgers University Programming Association (RUPA)is hosting a Hot Dog Happy Hour from 3 to 7 p.m. onMorrell Street next to the Rutgers Student Center on theCollege Avenue campus. Stop by and take some free sam-ples of hot dogs from across the United States.
The Center for Cultural Analysis will hold “Practice, Politicsand the Everyday” where speakers Richard Bernstein, pro-fessor at the New School for Social Research and BrinkleyMessnick, a professor at Columbia University will offer per-spectives for understanding the relationships between socialpractice and political possibility. They will also talk about thepolitical boundaries that exist in the Middle East, UnitedStates and North Africa. For more information about the lec-ture, please contact Curtis Dunn at [email protected] orat (732) 932-8426.
26 The New Jersey Blood Services will be collecting bloodfrom University students in the lobby of the Louis BrownAthletic Center (RAC) from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m on theCollege Avenue campus. Anyone, from students toUniversity researchers and staff members are encour-aged to donate their blood. In order to schedule anappointment, please call 1-(800)-933-2566 or visitdrm.nybloodcenter.org/PublicScheduler/Authenticate.aspx. For more information on the event, please emailRutgers Marketing at [email protected] orcall (732) 445-3342.
30 The University will hold Rutgers Day from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.where students and their families will have the opportunityto engage in festivities on Busch, Cook/Douglass and theCollege Avenue campuses. Busch campus will feature manyscience-related demonstrations, an Engineering OpenHouse where students could learn about ongoing scienceprojects at laboratories, Scarlet Knight Way for sports loversand a Virtual Visual of Livingston where students can moni-tor Livingston campus’s construction progress. The CollegeAvenue campus will explore the impact of culture on theUniversity by hosting cultural events by the Asian CulturalCenter and the Center for Latino Arts and Culture, amongothers. In addition, students can participate in aHuckleberry Finn reading marathon or attend a series ofwriting events at the Plangere Writing Center. Among otheractivities on College Avenue include a tour of AlexanderLibrary. Douglass campus will feature activities that includea plants sale, tours through the Rutgers FloricultureGreenhouse. Dining Services chefs will also reveal cookingsecrets and healthy eating advice to students who wish tosee. For more information, please contact the CampusInformation Services at [email protected] or at(732) 445-4636.
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Residents highlight Sierra Leonean culture through festivalBY JEFF PRENTKY
STAFF WRITER
In celebration of the 50thIndependence Day of SierraLeone on April 27th, about 1,500people gathered Saturday toengage in Sierra Leonean culturalactivities, like painting native por-traits and discussing their coun-try’s history.
The Sierra LeoneanCommunity of New Jersey collab-orated with the Hamilton StreetBusiness & CommunityCorporation (HSBCC) to hold theevent, which took place atNaaman Williams Park inSomerset, N.J.
“We are all citizens of the world,and that is what America is allabout,” said Efren Dato, executivedirector of HSBCC. “We belong toan immigrant country and every-body’s welcome as long as we
believe in the rule of law, pursuit ofhappiness, liberty and equality.”
Dato explained the history,colonization and independence ofSierra Leone, a name that datesback to 1462 when thePortuguese sailor Pedro daCintra dubbed the country Serrade Leão, meaning LionMountains, he said.
The celebration began with aparade at noon from HighlandAvenue to Hamilton Street inSomerset, where FranklinTownship Mayor Brian Levinerode on a float and later spoke inthe park.
“The enthusiasm and theexcitement, the spirit of the peo-ple of Sierra Leone, especiallythose that live here in FranklinTownship, is beyond description,”Levine said.
The cultural program in thepark featured speakers, artistic
exhibits, ethnic group perform-ances, children’s activities andethnic foods.
Assemblyman UpendraChivukula, D-17, and UnionCounty Freeholder MohamedJalloh were chosen as GrandMarshals for the event.
“Fifty years of independencemeans responsibility,” Chivukulasaid. “You have chosen theUnited States as your home. It’s agreat home for all of us. Let’swork together toward peace andprosperity for all the world.”
Jalloh said part of what makesAmerica unique is that peoplecan maintain their heritage, cul-ture and history, making theUnited States more of a saladbowl than a melting pot.
“In a melting pot, things cometogether and they lose theiruniqueness and you don’t knowwhat’s what or who’s who. That’s
not what happens in the UnitedStates,” he said. “You have a mixof anything you can think of withdifferent colors, textures, flavorsand they come together.”
Jalloh praised the diversityand acceptance of culturesthroughout the country, especial-ly in New Jersey.
“It’s a beautiful thing ... it’s some-thing that is certainly beautifulabout America and it’s somethingthat’s extra special to New Jersey,”he said. “When I go to other states Idon’t quite experience the samething as we do here in New Jersey.”
Mariatu Sesay, a Jersey Cityresident and an executive mem-ber of the Sierra Leone OnlineClub — a support group forSierra Leoneans and a sponsor ofthe event — also described theimportance of the occasion.
“We’re all so proud to live to seethis day, because in the next 50 years
some of us might not be here,” shesaid. “But this is history and we’regoing to live to tell the story.”
Attendees included familiesfrom New Brunswick, as well asfamilies from states likeMaryland. Pavi Jalloh, a Somersetresident, said she was proud ofthe large turnout and that theevent was a collective effort.
“[The festival’s] an opportunityto collectively celebrate somethingthat we’ve all worked so hard forover the years,” Pavi Jalloh said.
While Manny Harding, a NewBrunswick resident, agreed theevent signified unification of theAmerican Sierra Leoneans, hesaid the country could do more torecognize small minorities.
“[The festival] means a lot tothe country as a whole, not mealone,” he said. “The country hascome a long way, but we’ve still gotmore to do.”
At a ceremony at Woodbridge Town Hall last week, 89-year-old World War II veteran Walter Lemiska received aDistinguished Flying Cross medal.
During his time as a torpedo bomber over Japan,Lemiska flew over cities and attacked airfields in 21 dif-ferent missions, according to an nj.com article. Lemiskaonly needed 20 missions to apply for the medal.
The veteran, who now has four grandchildren andthree great-grandchildren, won separate honors for twodifficult missions he was on. But when Lemiska appliedfor a Distinguished Flying Cross medal 66 years ago,
navy officials denied his request and said he had alreadybeen recognized enough for his accomplishments.
“I said to them, ‘You mean because I went on twomore hazardous flights, I don’t get this?’” Lemiska saidin the article.
Lemiska reapplied for the medal this year, but whenasked to reproduce a copy of his flight record, he wasunable to do so, according to the article. In response,Lemiska’s daughter and son-in-law contactedLemiska’s former pilot and retrieved their father’sflight log.
The former pilot looked back at his service with mixedfeelings that represent both good and bad times.
“It was a good experience,” Lemiska said in the article.“I don’t know if I’d have wanted to go through it again.”
State Sen. Joseph Vitale, D-N.J., presented the awardto Lemiska last week and said that while he regrets it wasdone so late, is happy for Lemiska.
“Only 66 years late, but as they say in the Navy, betterlate than never,” Vitale said in a statement in the article.
— Ankita Panda
VETERAN HONORED WITH DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS 66 YEARS AFTER SERVICE IN WAR
driving yourself. Be specif-ic. Choose your con-text. Define your terms. Howwould civility, chosen as a wayof living, change the worldaround you?
A reading panel of faculty,staff and students evaluated the student essaysusing criteria in the following six areas: the-sis/argument, organization, supporting evidence,originality, engagement and presentation. The read-ing panel selected a first, second and third-prizewinner, and two honorable mentions. We are proudto present their work and congratulate them all.
Sincere thanks to The Daily Targum, formerEditor-in-Chief Neil Kypers and current Editor-in-Chief Mary Diduch for their support and sponsor-ship of this essay contest. Thanks, as well, to EmilyRyan, education manager and our contact with TheNew York Times, and the members of the essay
contest reading committee for theirenthusiasm for and investment inthis contest.
Finally, the University is indebt-ed to Kathleen Hull and MarkSchuster, the founders and co-direc-tors of Project Civility at theUniversity, for focusing our atten-tion on the ways we interact with
one another. If we cannot start by examining whatwe do to and with one another every day — as ourstudent essayists have articulated in their own ways— we will have no understanding of how and whatwe would like to change. I hope that you will ponderthese essays — whether or not you agree with theviewpoints they share — as they provide a daily,weeklong, look into a few student perspectives onthe New Brunswick campus. These five essays rep-resent the many submitted by University under-graduates, all of whom took the time to think andwrite about their own perceptions and experience ofcivility in their daily lives. I hope, after ProjectCivility at the University has faded away, that theidea of civility — the aspirations and challengescivility presents to us — will linger. I hope that thoseof you who have thought about what you would liketo change in the world around you, and those whobegin to think more as a result of these student voic-es, will continue to do what you can to make theUniversity a place you want to be.
Now: on to the essays! Note: The views expressed in these essays are
those of the student authors and do not representthe opinions of any other faculty, staff or studentsinvolved with Project Civility at Rutgers or its co-sponsors. For more information on Project Civility,go to projectcivility.rutgers.edu.
Michelle J. Brazier is a senior executive associatein the Office of Undergraduate Education.
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“We are all citizens of the world, and that is what America is all about.”
Efren Dato, executive director of the Hamilton Street Business & Community Corporation
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Y ou would think the federal government would herald 9/11first-responders as heroes. They did, after all, come to thenation’s aid during one of the darkest and most devastating
moments of American history. Instead, these people had to fight fortheir right to receive treatment for the various ailments many of themsuffered as a direct result of getting involved in 9/11 clean-up and res-cue operations. Unfortunately for these heroes, that isn’t where theinsult ends. Now, as the 9/11 health bill is being fiercely debated inCongress — a debate which should not even have to happen in the firstplace — Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., has added a provision which wouldmake it so anyone seeking medical care through this bill would haveto first be screened by the FBI for any possible ties to terrorist organ-izations. If that sounds downright crazy to you, that’s because it is.
As stated above, these men and women should be treated as nation-al heroes, and it’s a shame they aren’t. This provision merely addsinsult to injury by suggesting that these brave people who risked theirlives almost without taking the time to think about it could be con-nected to the same kinds of people who are responsible for the tragedyin the first place. We think John Feal, a construction worker whoworked at Ground Zero, said it best when he told the Huffington Post,“It’s comical at best, and I think it’s an insult to everyone who workedon The Pile and is sick and suffering from 9/11.”
It could perhaps be that this provision is just another move by politi-cians to avoid helping out citizens with their often unbearable healthcare costs. It wouldn’t be the first time, and it won’t certainly be thelast. Whatever the case is, the fact remains that people like Stearnsactually have the gall to look national heroes in the eyes and suggest,“You risked your life for this country. Now, let’s make sure you aren’ttrying to destroy it.” Does anyone actually think that some of theresponders could be involved with terrorist organizations? Frankly, wefind that sort of notion to be bordering on lunatic conspiracy theory.
It’s an outright shame that there has even had to be a debate aboutwhether the federal government should provide these responders withhealth care. Politicians should have jumped at the chance to repaythese brave citizens. Instead, not only are people actively fightingagainst giving them health care, but some are suggesting that theymay be terrorists themselves. Our hearts go out to all of the police offi-cers, firefighters, construction workers and others who are about to beslapped in the face yet again by the very same nation they put theirlives on the line for.
9/11 bill provisiondisrespects responders
Y our iPhone is tracking you. No, really, it is. The device con-stantly collects information on where you are and stores it inan unencrypted file, meaning that it is relatively easy to access.
Once this information came to light, people started to get understand-ably upset. Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., and Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass.,are two public figures who have raised a bit of a ruckus over the factthat Apple is apparently tracking customers, as both of these politi-cians have publicly called out Apple and Steve Jobs, demandinganswers for the tech company’s oddly Orwellian software. It isn’tunusual for devices such as iPhones and Androids to keep track ofwhere their users are. Not only that, but these devices also offer theirowners the option to turn off the tracking feature so the device nolonger records their whereabouts.
But that doesn’t mean there isn’t a problem here. It isn’t the track-ing that we find upsetting in this situation. Rather, it’s the fact that ittook national news coverage for many people to find out that theirsmartphones were keeping a record of this information. It’s one thingto include a global positioning system in a phone so that users can takeadvantage of it and apps can utilize it. It’s another thing to do so with-out warning users in advance. In fact, it’s just creepy. What Appleshould have done is been upfront with all device users. That wouldhave solved all of their problems.
Instead, what the public gets is a phone that covertly tracks them,thereby infringing on their privacy. Also, if the phone is going to trackusers, the least Apple could do is keep the data a little more protected.As it stands, it is relatively easy for people to access the data, and weare not comfortable with that at all.
So, tech companies, take note of Apple’s failure here. Consumers,make sure you’re aware of exactly what your getting yourself intobefore purchasing these gadgets. While smartphones can make greataccessories to anyone’s life, you run the risk of putting yourself intoan awkward, uncomfortable position if you don’t educate yourselfbefore buying.
Alert consumers of tracking feature
C ongratulations to theProject Civility EssayContest winners!
First Prize: Kendall LaParo, School of Arts andSciences senior
Second Prize: John W.Connelly, School of Arts and Sciences sophomore
Third Prize: Zehra Ali, School of Arts andSciences senior
Honorable Mention: Jade McClain, School ofEnvironmental and Biological Sciences junior
Honorable Mention: Elizabeth Taylor, School ofArts and Sciences sophomore
Over the next five days, The Daily Targum willfeature in its Opinions section the writing of thesefive Rutgers undergraduates who are being recog-nized for their submissions to the Project CivilityEssay Contest, co-sponsored by The Daily Targum,The New York Times and Project Civility at Rutgers.
Project Civility is a two-year ini-tiative, launched in fall 2010, andsponsored by the Offices of StudentAffairs and UndergraduateEducation at the University. Theoverarching goals of Project Civilityhave been to promote a university-wide dialogue and to focus ourattention on civility in the context ofour culturally and racially diverse research universi-ty. Our local efforts have dovetailed, quite synchro-nously, with the broader calls of our political leadersto embrace the vital connection between civility anddemocracy. Consider the stated aspirations of theco-founders of Project Civility: “We aim to shed lighton what civility is and what we can each do to makeour society (both within and without Rutgers)reflect our ‘better selves.’”
The essay contest was an invitation forUniversity undergraduates to join the conversationand shed their light on our community. Last fall, asone element of the Project Civility initiative, under-graduates in New Brunswick were invited torespond to the following essay prompt: How wouldcivility, chosen as a way of living, change the worldaround you?
We start with the premise that civility is morethan manners. It is more than etiquette. It is a wayof being, of living in the world, a way of having rela-tionships with others. But what does this mean onany given day? What would a way of life predicatedon civil behavior look like? Or consider — are theretimes in life when civility is not the choice to make?What are the alternatives?
This essay prompt asks you to approach the broadquestion above in light of your own experiences, inparticular, at the University — with your roommates,your friends, your instructors, your classmates, at thelibrary, in the dining halls, at the student centers, inyour classes, traveling around campus on the buses or
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“How would civility,chosen as a way
of living, change theworld around you?”
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MICHELLE J. BRAZIER
At the University,as in every school,we like to study thebare-bones process-es that make us whowe are. Evolutionsmiles apologetical-
ly and concedes that self-interest populatedour planet. Economics shrugs and tells usthat greed fuels our capitalist machine. It isan enticing cop-out, the idea that we have to— in some way — be “bad.” Egotism is natu-ral. Self-love inevitable.
But maybe some days — today, forexample — we can reflect on our day andtry: Caring is natural. Altruism is inevitable.
We take our skills, proclivities and ener-gies and hand them out freely to family,friends, neighbors and strangers. We putthem toward jobs which permit society tofunction, we lend them to people who askfor help, and we offer them to the people welove without a second thought. I will takemy house as an example, not because myhouse is in any way extraordinary, butbecause it is ordinary. We are eight normalcollege students. We quibble over who has-n’t taken the garbage out. Even now, think-ing about the unclaimed pile of dishes in thesink makes me wonder just how civil any ofus really is. However, if I step back from thepetty things, I actually live with a group ofnormal, average people who exhibit extraor-dinary acts of human kindness on a dailybasis and never think of getting anything in
my mind, buteveryone’s basicdecency made asmall enoughimpression torecall at the end ofthe day. Civilitydoesn’t stick out. It’s everywhere.
I am taking a risk. You had a terribleday. You are a cynic. A stranger cut you offand flipped you off on Route 18, and youwill not believe me. The world is a mess.We fight wars, we yell racial slurs, we don’tsay, “Excuse me.” You see all these thingsand “civility” doesn’t even cut it anymore.You need respect, understanding and sym-pathy. You need, say it, love.
But your cynicism reinforces my point.Any person who looks around and sees alack of civility already believes in civility.Recognizing a problem is the first step tochanging it. If what you see around youupsets you, then you are one less personcontributing to the problem.
I am taking a risk when I say, “Nothingwould change.” There are a few things thatI would love to change about the way peo-ple interact with each other, and a healthydose of civility would certainly help. But Ibelieve negative human interactions arethe exception, not the rule. They are justmore memorable, and they make a betterstory. In reality, we already survive oncivility in the giant web of human depend-ence that we call “society.”
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“This is how lazy and incompetent officials handle problems.Instead of doing something constructive, they just cancel events.”
User “lea,” in response to April 21st’s letter “Do not let outsiders ruin our school’s events”
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I f our world ran on civility, nothingwould change.
It already runs on civility.Does this sound overly optimistic?
Calculate every human interaction youhad today. Most people walked past youwithout incident, most cashiers rang youup correctly, most cars held tight in theirlanes and most colleagues saw you andsmiled. Unremarkable, yes, and forget-table. So forgettable that you may not havenoticed any of it until now.
I played this little game with myself. Inminutes, my long day transformed into awelcoming committee of people waiting toperform some simple, civil act for me so Icould continue with my life. My roommateleft extra coffee in the pot. A bus stoppedso I could cross the street. A man yelledafter me that I dropped my scarf. Astranger held the door. My professorasked me how I was. I seemed to ask fornothing and get everything.
But this cheery pattern was soon test-ed. There was a fiasco in the bathroom ofMurray Hall, with 20 women jammed up inline, all trying to make it to class, and onlyone stall with toilet paper. And yet some-how, it was a room full of smiles and know-ing looks, with everyone taking turnsinforming the newcomers and passingdown bunches of toilet paper to anyonewho missed the memo. If they had beenrude and irritable, it might have stuck in
Continue to be civil in everyday lives
Daily review: laurels and darts
A s students, we’ve come to expect professional conduct from ourprofessors. Of course, this isn’t always the case, as evidenced bythe actions of University of Iowa Professor Ellen Lewin, who sent
an email to the school’s college Republicans group which simply read “F--- you, Republicans.” According to Lewin, the email was in response to thegroup’s announcement of “Conservative Coming Out Week.” Lewin foundthe declaration of the event offensive, because it seemed to belittle minor-ity groups. While this may or may not have been the case, Lewin is a pro-fessor. It is her duty to act maturely and responsibly when interacting withstudents. If the event truly offended her, there were many better ways forher to go about it, instead of firing off such a childish and profane missive.We give Lewin a dart.
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One of the hottest topics in America these days is illegal immigrants andhow our nation should deal with the problem of illicit entry into the country.Unfortunately, these sorts of debates often neglect a very important aspectof the whole issue: Illegal immigrants are people and they deserve respect.The Mercer County Community ID program, started by the Latin AmericanLegal Defense and Education Fund, is a great program because it does notfall into this trap. Instead, it treats all residents, legal or illegal, equally.Anyone can apply for a community ID, and they are accepted by many offi-cial government organizations in Mercer County as proof of identification.Since the cards do not disclose citizenship status, illegal immigrants canapply for them. Regardless of how one feels about illegal aliens, these peo-ple still deserve the right to be able to identify themselves when they needto. Therefore, we give the community ID program a laurel for acting as agreat first step toward legal citizenship for many of these people.
A t my local Borders theother day, I picked up abook called “How to Build
a Fire: and Other Handy ThingsYour Grandfather Knew.”Realizing that I may someday wantto know how to build a fire to pos-sibly impress a lady friend whilecamping, I picked the book up ona whim. What really struck mewas what I found in the table ofcontents. Of course there werechapters on how to build a fire,how to catch a fish, how to paint aroom and how to make beef jerky,but as I scanned further down thelist, I saw titles like “Soldiering On:How to Be Brave,” “How to Writea Love Letter,” “How to Make aToast,” “How to Protect YourHome” and a few other things thatreally took me by surprise. Theauthor Erin Bried had writtenabout some really wonderful
Look to elders for inspiration on living life fullyJOO KIMLetter
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KENDALL LAPARO
things that I realized would actual-ly take a lifetime of rich experi-ences to learn. It occurred to methat over the years, all our grand-parents have earned those skillslike merit badges.
As I stood there browsingthrough some of the chapters, Ibegan to think about my owngrandfather, whom I love dearlywith all my heart. Throughout allthe time we have spent togetherduring my 22 years, he has alwaysbeen so full of stories that didn’tseem to be much more than sto-ries. But somehow, picking upthis rather whimsical book actual-ly triggered memories of some ofthose precious stories and thepossible meanings behind each ofthem. He once told me of the timeJapanese soldiers invaded hishigh school in Korea, and howthey rounded up the students totake them god-knows-where, andhow he and his friends hadescaped by climbing a fence
around back. Another time, I triedto learn more about his mysteri-ous past by asking him how hemet my grandmother, from whomhe seems inseparable, and how hecame to prosper as South Korea’seconomy developed and othersuch unanswered questions. Witha strange expression thatbetrayed what must have beennostalgia, he told me of how hehad met my grandmother in heryouth while he was starting abusiness with some friends. As Ilistened to the stories, I had beenincredulous not only of the factthat my sagely grandfather hadonce been a young man, but alsoof how he had experienced whatseemed to me like ancient history.As the book got me thinking, Iimagined how scared he musthave been during the war andhow brave he was forced to be inorder to survive those dangeroustimes. I began to wonder whatkind of romance my grandparents
had built in their youth andthroughout their lives to be such asolid team 60 years later.
What my grandfather sharedwas a simple tale of a life lived tothe fullest. One repeating themewas that there were always obsta-cles and challenges, but none thatweren’t to be met head-on with per-severance and integrity. Hearingthose stories about the old daysfrom my grandfather, I get thesense that for him and my grand-mother — and the rest of his gen-eration — working hard and doingthe right thing is simply howthey’ve always lived. Like my owngrandparents, our fathers’ fathersall over the world are quietly andoften humbly living among us.They have worked and foughtthrough world wars, depressionsand baby booms, and now they arewith us to witness the developmentof things like global outsourcingand online dating. It’s hard for usto show love or even simple
respect to these magnificent menand women disguised as old folkbecause it’s just too easy to takethem for granted. But reflecting onmy own life experiences filled witheasy entertainment, social media,get-rich-quick scheming and morefirst-world problems than ever, Iwonder if I’m somehow missingthe point of it all.
Dan Rooney, the owner of thePittsburgh Steelers, writes in hismemoir, “In those days growing upon the North Side, we didn’t thinkabout your skin color or youraccent or what church you went to.What mattered was that you livedup to your word, pulled your ownweight and looked out for yourfriends.” Rooney, speaking like agrandfather, captures in just a fewwords the profoundly simple ethicof hard work and dignity that all ofus would do well to remember.
Joo Kim is an Ernest MarioSchool of Pharmacy graduate student.
return. I genuinely believe that each of themmakes the world a slightly better place, andthey do it in their spare time — just for fun.One organizes Dance Marathon for theEmbrace Kids Foundation, another workswith at-risk youth, another organizes anenvironmental film festival and keeps us allrecycling, another feeds stray cats, anotherdevotes half his life to taking care of hismom, and three of us are currently puttingtogether a concert for Rutgers AgainstHunger. Those are just the obvious exam-ples, which overshadow the smaller acts ofsharing food and offering rides. I don’t thinkwe are alone in our need to contribute.
So my presumptuous prescription forour community, from no position ofauthority, is that I don’t have one: Keepdoing what you’re doing.
Keep in mind, however, that “keepgoing” is a far less static directive than itmay sound. Staying the same is, counter-intuitively, a continual process. Living a liferuled by civility requires constant action— action you already do — and an alertmind you already have. Civility is alreadythe currency of our daily lives, but unlikecurrency, you have an infinite amount tospend. So look around you, and use it well.Just like you have been.
Kendall LaParo is a School of Arts andSciences senior majoring in English with aminor in music. This essay placed first inthe Project Civility Essay Contest.
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of 16 faceoffs to give Rutgerspossession and allow scoringopportunities.
But the Knights failed to capi-talize on those opportunities.
“Chris Mattes was terrific, ashe has been all year,” Stagnittasaid. “We just did not take advan-tage of his performance.”
The Knights also failed tocapitalize on a number of man-up opportunities throughoutthe game. Scott Klimchak foundhimself in front of the cagewhen the Orange were down aman in the first frame, and jun-ior Mike Diehl had a similarshot on goal in the third.
Both goals were denied bySyracuse netminder JohnGalloway, who holds the recordfor most wins in NCAA historywith 55 in 61 starts.
The weeklong break fromreal game action between theKnights’ last contest and theirmatchup with the No. 4 team inthe nation could be blamed forthe stagnancy of the Knights’offense, but Stagnitta does notsee that as the source.
He sees it for what it is: anall-around bad day against askilled team that undoubtedlytook advantage.
“I don’t think that hurt us atall,” Stagnitta said of the week-long preparation. “Could it have?Yeah, you might be able to look atthat and say, ‘Yeah that’s it.’ Butwe just looked nervous. Wepicked a bad day to have a badday, that’s for sure.”
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Junior attack Will Mangan accounted for 50 percent of the Knights’ scoring output with his goal Saturday against No. 4 Syracuse.Mangan and senior attack Kory Kelly scored Rutgers’ only two goals against the Orange in Connecticut.
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kind of a sense of urgency and atthat point things didn’t go very wellfor us.”
Gavin put Loyola ahead, 6-3, withtwo consecutive free position shotsseven minutes into the second halfbefore Rutgers called a timeout tostop the Greyhounds’ momentum.
“They were definitely placingtheir shots a lot better than they didin the first half, which is somethingthat we weren’t doing,” said seniormidfielder Marlena Welsh.
Rutgers led, 3-2, with 9:28remaining in the first half after aWelsh free position shot.
Welsh got fouled on an AliSteinberg free position shot thatwent wide.
Loyola led, 2-1, before Rutgersturned the ball over with a creaseviolation. Loyola cleared the balldown the field only to have it savedby sophomore goalie Lily Kalata.
Rutgers then cleared it for aWelsh unassisted goal on the rightside to tie the game, 2-2.
The Knights got on the board 10minutes into the game, whenMarino bounced it in inside theeight-meter arc after causing aturnover on a bad Loyola pass.
But even though it was closein the first half, Rutgers looks toimprove its shooting and put itsgame together for all 60 min-utes heading in its final twobouts — starting tomorrowagainst Villanova.
“We need to focus on our shoot-ing more,” Welsh said. “The last twogames are Big East games, so wehave to win them. That’s our plan —to win.”
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Senior attack Katie Marino gave the Knights their first goal of the game Saturday against No. 6 Loyola and added another tallylater in the Big East Conference contest. Rutgers has just two games remaining on its regular season schedule with the loss.
Gillon was placed in the second heat.
“Unfortunately I wasn’t withthe girl who got first place and isundefeated,” Gillon said. “It wouldhave been a little better, but evenbeing in the second fastest heat, Iwas really happy with my secondplace. I was satisfied.”
Beyond the questionableseeding, head coach JamesRobinson explained that hisand several other coaches’hand timings were significantlyfaster than the of ficial
timing system. “The time system was of f
the whole time because those100 times were fast,” Robinsonsaid. “I timed the race fourtimes over, [so] me and a cou-ple of other coaches … agreedthat [Hawthorne] ran close to11.30 hand timed and othercompetitors were much faster.”
Hawthorne’s of ficial timewas 11.82 and Gillon’s was12.21, which Robinson claimedwas much closer to 12.0.
Gillon’s second place in the100-meter dash was the highestamong all Knights on the track,but sophomore Ekene Ugboajamatched that place in the fieldwith a second-place finish inthe triple jump.
Her jump of 39 feet marks acareer best and puts her in agood position for the Big East Championships.
Robinson called seniorCourtney Sample’s 400-meterhurdle performance the “bestoverall performance.”
“An outstanding per form-ance [from the second heat aswell] for her,” Robinson said.“As a senior, you look to themto provide leadership andexample, and she’s doing thatand has come along way.”
Sample joined the Knightsas a sophomore and improvedtremendously as her final sea-son nears completion. Her timein the 400-meter hurdles putsher in the top six in the BigEast and qualifies her for theECAC meet.
Robinson will look towardSample, senior thrower NatalieClickett and junior javelinthrower Alex Kelly for theirleadership, experience and con-sistency as the team heads toVillanova in two weeks for theBig East Championships.
Clickett is coming of f afourth-place finish in the shotput, where she battled heavyrains, and a third-place finish inthe discus. Kelly comes off of athird-place finish in the javelin.
DePaul padded the score lateand won, 9-4.
“Most of the stuff that we’reseeing are plays that we’veworked on,” Nelson said onwhat went wrong. “It seemslike we get a little bit tight inclose situations. That’s a dif fer-ence. DePaul has been toregionals a number of times.They’ve been there before andwe haven’t. Once we get to thatpoint, we’ll be OK. “
The pair of losses — raincancelled Saturday’s planned
Game 3— didnot hur t theKnights (18-25,6-8) in the BigEast standings.R u t g e r sremains in sev-enth place, withthe top eightqualifying fort h eT o u r n a m e n t ,but needs astrong finish tomake it back-to-back years in
the postseason.Last-place Villanova (15-28-
1, 2-14) hosts the Knights onWednesday before they finishthe regular season with athree-game series againstPittsburgh (28-14, 7-6).
Four or five wins should guar-antee a playoff spot for theKnights. Three wins puts them onthe bubble and anything less like-ly means an end to the season.
“We’ve only got [five]games left, so our fate is in ourhands as far as the Big East,”Nelson said.
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Compliments of Lindley’s11th and 12th home runs of theseason and a blast by sopho-more catcher Kaci Madden, theKnights scored four runs in thethird inning and five in thefourth.
Junior centerfielder LindseyCurran and sophomore secondbaseman JenHarabedian com-bined for anotherseven hits tobecome the thirdteam all season toput up double dig-its on the BlueDemons’ pitchingstaff. The other twoschools, Texas andLouisville, have acombined 74 winsthis season.
“It’s somethingto be proud of, butwe really wanted to come out andwin,” said senior Mandy Craig,who drove in three runs. “Losinglike that is kind of rough. We real-ly battled. We really hit theirpitchers hard. We just fell short.”
The Blue Demons pouncedearly in the first game on fresh-man starter Megan Williams.Williams gave up six runs —four earned — in two inningsbefore exiting.
Senior Mickenzie Aldenhelped Rutgers battle backwith a two-run triple in the bot-tom of the second inning, but
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“Losing like that is kind of rough. We really battled.We really hit their
pitchers hard. We just fell short.”
MANDY CRAIGSenior First Baseman
The Rutgers softball teammoved Senior Day ceremoniesto Friday because of the
impend-ing rain
the following day, honoringthree seniors between games ofa doubleheader.
Seniors Mickenzie Alden,Mandy Craig and Jen Meinheitreceived a slew of gifts fromtheir teammates in a bitter-sweet farewell to the RUSoftball Complex, losing bothends of the doubleheader.
The underclassmen hit thefield early, dressing up thedugout with streamers, andlined up for a standing ovationas the senior trio wentthrough the line and huggedeach teammate.
“That was a nice moment,”Craig said. “It was unexpectedbecause I thought it would be[on Saturday], but I’m glad wegot it in. It was really good ofour underclassmen to pull outall the stops for us. It was reallynice of them.”
Alden had two hits in sevenat-bats on the day, including atwo-run triple in the first game.Craig went hitless in Game 1but drove in three runs on twohits in Game 2.
Meinheit did not playbecause of a knee injury ear-lier in the year, but she saidshe feels fine after successfulACL surger y last week inNew York.
— Sam Hellman
SOFTBALL
SAM HELLMAN
Mickenzie Alden, left, and Mandy Craig were two of threesenior Knights honored Friday at the RU Softball Complex.
SENIOR DAY CEREMONY MOVED UPDUE TO WEATHER CONCERNS
Weather affects seedings, timesBY PATRICK LANNICONTRIBUTING WRITER
For a certain period of theday, its e e m e d
Mother Nature would cut theRutgers women’s track andfield team a break for the firsttime in three weeks. But as therain cleared from Princeton’sWeaver Track and FieldStadium, the automatic timingsystem was temporarily damaged and the meet was delayed.
Once the meet resumed, theScarlet Knights continued to beaf fected by the timing andseeding system. Among thoseaffected were 100-meter com-petitors Tylia Gillon, JamieWalker and Brittni Rodriguez.
Gillon’s second-place per-formance represented the meetcoordinator’s mistakes.
The 100-meter dash, whichusually features preliminar yheats with the top six or eightcompetitors advancing to afinal heat, ran as six heats, withthe fastest time from any heatwinning the competition.
The seeding, which is usual-ly arranged by a competitor’sfastest performance of the sea-son, was also altered. Gillon’sseason-best time of 12.07should have qualified her firstin the fastest heat againstthree-time Big East 100-meterchampion Trisha-AnnHawthorne and teammatesRodriguez and Walker. Instead,
“As a senior, you look to them
to provide leadershipand example, and
[Courtney Sample] is doing that.”JAMES ROBINSON
Head Coach
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Inclement weather changedthe Rutgers football team’sSaturday scrimmage atRutgers Stadium to a practicein the Bubble.
A week after the ScarletKnights’ defense dominated arainy scrimmage, the moveallowed more even competitionduring situational settings.
“As the head coach, it’salways hard because you wantboth sides to win,” said headcoach Greg Schiano. “The wholepractice was good — the give-and-take. When you’re doingwell, that’s what it’s like — oneside isn’t dominating.”
Sophomore quarterbackChas Dodd completed justthree passes in last week’sscrimmage but was more on-point inside the bubble.
A slightly under-thrown passprovided the highlight of theafternoon, when redshirt fresh-man wideout Brandon Colemanpulled in a touchdown on thegoal line.
Tightly covered, Colemanreached around his defender toget a hand on the pass, bobble ita few times and make the grab.
“I’m not going to lie, thatdoes bring energy to the team —that ‘Wow, big play,’” Colemansaid. “But when that play’s over,you still have to chop the nextplay, whatever it is.”
Schiano, who is helpingdefensive backs coach JeffHafley in the secondary, spentthe live situations on the offen-sive sideline.
“Since I was over there work-ing with the offense, I loved it,”Schiano said. “If I was on that[defensive] sideline, I wouldn’thave liked it.”
The Knights will have theirsecond spring scrimmageTuesday before the Scarlet-White game on Rutgers DaySaturday ends the spring season.
Junior defensive tackleScott Vallone returned to fullparticipation a week after injur-ing his ankle during theKnights’ first scrimmage.
“I was impressed that hepushed through,” Schianosaid. “I know it hurts a lot, buthe wanted to be out there. Itwas a little worrisome. I wasafraid he could get hurt worse.It’s great to see him out there,especially because when I wasstanding over him out on thefield [last week], I was worriedit could be worse.”
SENIOR CORNERBACKMason Robinson continues toimpress at cornerback in hisfirst spring on the defensive sideof the ball.
The former running backworked his way into a three-manrotation with junior BrandonJones and sophomore LoganRyan and continues to improveas he learns the defense.
“He’s starting to understandeverything,” Schiano said. “Hehas as good feet as anybodywe’ve ever had. He can stop on adime. He mirrors routes.Knowing what to do, that’s whatgives you confidence. He’s goingto be good. He’s going to be abig, big contributor.”
THE FULLBACKcompetition remains incompleteuntil senior Joe Martinek’sreturn in training camp, but atrio of Knights is working out atthe position now.
Sophomores MarcusThompson and Robert Joseph,and freshman Michael Burtonall receive snaps and touches inthe new pro-style system.
“[Burton] tries to do what weask him to do. He may not havethe ability to do everything weask, but he’s a talented guy,”Schiano said. “He’s competingfor the starting fullback spotnow. Joe will come back and thatwill add to the competition.”
SPRING PRACTICE NOTEBOOK OFFENSE IMPROVES IN BUBBLE
BY LIZ SWERNSTAFF WRITER
The Rutgers men’s track andfield team traveled south on
Route 1last week-
end to compete at the home of
their N.J. rival, Princeton, at theannual Larry Ellis Invitational.
The Scarlet Knights participatedin two days of competition at WeaverTrack and Field Stadium and leftwith many top performances.
Junior thrower JamesPlummer was one of those top
performers in the discus throw.Plummer won with a mark of 198feet 3 inches — more than 30 feetahead of the runner up.
“I have been gradually gettingbetter and better each week,”Plummer said. “My techniquekeeps getting better and better andthat makes you throw far.”
After this weekend’s meetresults, Plummer moved up tothird in the country in the discus.
The South Toms River, N.J.,native also took seventh place inthe shot put. His best mark was athrow of 51 feet 9 inches.
In the field events, juniorAdam Bergo took home secondplace in the high jump with amark of 6 feet 11 inches. He alsoplaced sixth in the long jump witha leap of 22 feet 9 inches.
Sophomore teammate ChrisWyckoff tied for second in the polevault with a mark of 16 feet 3 inches.
On the track, the Knightsrounded out with more top per-formers. Senior sprinter AaronYounger competed for the firsttime this season after battlinggroin injuries.
He opened with the 400-meterintermediate hurdles and placedseventh out of 50 competitors.Younger finished with a time of53.62 seconds, qualifying him forthe Big East Championships intwo weeks.
The Franklinville, N.J., nativeencountered problems when themeet delayed and his groin tight-ened up before the race.
“I couldn’t get to full speed, soI wasn’t even out of breath afterthe race,” Younger said. “It’s stillgood though, cause it shows I’min shape.”
Junior Steve Werner finishedninth overall in the 200-meterdash. His time of 21.95 secondsalso qualifies him for the BigEast Championships.
In the 4x400-meter relay, theKnights placed fourth out of 30teams. The relay, composed ofWerner, freshmen Karon Purcelland Corey Caidenhead and juniorKevin Brown, finished with a timeof 3:14.03.
“For the relay I split 47.3 [sec-onds], which is a personal record,”Caidenhead said. “It could havebeen a 46-high, but I got out slow. Ineed to work on my start because Ihave the speed and strength.”
Caidenhead also ran a leg in the4x100-meter relay with Werner,Bergo and senior Tyrone Putman.The relay finished eighth overallwith a time of 42.80 seconds.
“We ran without really work-ing on baton exchange,”Caidenhead said. “With morework and a nice day we can takeoff one more second to place inBig East’s.”
Top marks highlight RU’s well-rounded weekend
COURTESY OF PAT GRAY
Junior James Plummer moved to third nationally in the discusafter throwing 198 feet 3 inches at the Larry Ellis Invitational.
JOVELLE ABBEY TAMAYO / SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Chas Dodd, above, struggled in Rutgers’ first scrimmage againstMason Robinson and the defense, but rebounded in practice.
ANDREW HOWARD
MEN’S TRACK
Word on the Street
T he Rutgers baseballteam returned fromPittsburgh this week-
end on the wrong end of athree-game series sweep.
The Scarlet Knights’ Big Eastopponent outscored them, 15-3,in the series, and shut them outwith 4-0 and 3-0 victories in aThursday doubleheader.
The teams were scheduledto meet Friday, but rain delayedthe game a day, and Pitt tookthe finale Saturday, 8-3.
Senior outfielder MichaelLang reached base five timesand fell a home run short of a cycle.
For full coverage, see tomor-row’s edition.
THE BOSTON CELTICSfinished a sweep over the NewYork Knicks yesterday in thefirst round of the NBA Playoffs.
The Celtics easily handledthe Knicks at Madison SquareGarden with a 101-89 victory.Knicks for ward CarmeloAnthony led all scorers with32 points.
The Miami Heat wereunable to complete a sweep oftheir own, as the Philadelphia76ers took Game 4 at theWells Fargo Center, 86-82.
LeBron James scored 31points and grabbed sevenrebounds, but a Lou Williams3-pointer with 8.1 secondsremaining ensured the seriesreturned to Miami.
THE PHILADELPHIAFlyers and Buffalo Sabres areheaded to a Game 7 in the first round of the NHL Playoffs.
The Eastern Conferenceopponents played a pair ofovertime games this week-end, which they split.
The Flyers won yesterday,5-4, on a Ville Leino goal.
THE TEMPLE SOFTBALLteam safely returned toPhiladelphia yesterday after atornado in St. Louis forced trav-elers to evacuate the airport.
The plane the Owls werescheduled to fly on blew overwith winds estimated at morethan 100 mph. Winds tore of fpart of the Lambert-St. LouisInternational Airport roof.
Temple bussed back toPhiladelphia, where it playsTuesday against St. Joseph’s.
ARSENAL APPEARED TOdrop out of the EnglishPremier League title race yes-terday, when it lost, 2-1,against Bolton.
Wanderers midfielderTamir Cohen entered thegame in the 85th minute andheaded in a corner kick to putArsenal nine points behindManchester United with fourgames remaining.
It was the Gunners’ firstloss in their past 17 EPL con-tests. They play ManchesterUnited on May 1, but the RedDevils’ May 8 matchup withChelsea will have greater title implications.
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Rutgers fails to capitalizeversus Loyola
BY JOSH BAKANSTAFF WRITER
On paper, it looked like Loyola dominated theRutgers women’s lacrosse team in its 15-6 win.
As the No. 6 team in the nation, that domina-tion would have made sense, too.
But the Scarlet Knights (8-6, 2-4) had manyopportunities on Saturday at Yurcak Field, where
they simply could notcapitalize off theiropportunities againstthe Greyhounds.
In a nine-goal win,the Greyhounds (12-
1, 5-1) only generated a 29-24 shot advantage.“We should not be scoring six goals on 24
shots,” said head coach Laura Brand. “You putthe momentum in the other team’s favor whenyou don’t put the ball in the back of the net.There’s absolutely no excuse for that game tobe 15-6.”
Loyola did not pull away with the lead untilthe second half, when it created a 12-3 scoringadvantage in the period.
Greyhounds attack Ashley Cahill cappedthe Loyola scoring at 15-5 with 32 secondsremaining. Mercy rules would have enacted ifthe goal did not occur in the final two minutesof the game.
“They have attackers that take pride in theirresponsibility. They shoot the ball very well,”Brand said. “They are a very high-scoring teamand if you play defense for that long, you’regoing to break down at some point.”
Senior attack Kristen Anderson scored afterrebounding a shot that bounced off the highpost to break up a streak of six consecutiveLoyola goals and put the score at 13-5.
Before that streak, attack Katie Marinoscored her second goal of the day inside theeight-meter arc to break a Loyola streak of fourconsecutive goals to start the second half.
Before Marino’s shot, another Greyhoundmade a run of her own. Loyola senior GraceGavin gave the Greyhounds a firm lead in thesecond half with four unanswered goals to addon to her 52 goals this season.
“We got pretty frantic [in the second half],”Brand said. “We were trying to see what we
BY VINNIE MANCUSOSTAFF WRITER
Rain awarded the Rutgers men’slacrosse team an entire week of prepara-
tion for itsmatchup with No.4 Syracuse — amatchup that couldnot only give theScarlet Knights
their first Big East win, but also halt a five-game skid that is dangerously close to spi-raling out of control.
But a lowly offensive outing by theKnights (5-7, 0-3) Saturday at Connecticut’sRentschler Field only kept a giant zero intheir Big East win column and tallied anotherloss to their streak with a 12-2 defeat.
“We have been a good offensive team forabout a month now and just were nottoday,” said head coach Jim Stagnitta. “Theguys we usually count on offensively justdidn’t show up today. They looked nervousout there. We were tentative, we did notattack the cage, we put the ball on theground a lot and we just gave it to them.”
The Knights’ young offensive weapons,which were consistently productive theentire season, went cold against theOrange’s highly regarded defense.
Redshir t freshman Scott Klimchak,who leads the team in both goals (21) andpoints (32), failed to register a singlepoint. Scott’s twin brother, Matt, whofound the back of the net in every gamesince he returned from a knee injury, alsofailed to put points on the board.
Sophomore Duncan Clancy, who trailsKlimchak in points by only one and leadsthe squad in assists, added his name to thelist of of fensive Knights who ended theday without a goal.
“The young guys struggled out there.They looked nervous,” Stagnitta said.“Some of it was bad decision-making andsome of it was flat out fundamentals — pass-ing and catching and the easy stuff.”
Beside the Knights’ two goals from jun-ior Will Mangan and senior Kory Kelly inthe first and fourth frames, respectively,junior Chris Mattes of fered a lone brightspot for Rutgers’ of fense.
Mattes, who has the highest faceoffwinning percentage in the nation, won 12
CAMERON STROUD / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Junior Chris Mattes, right, won 12 of 16 faceoffs for the Knights on Saturday against No. 4 Syracuse, but Rutgers could notcapitalize on his efforts. Mattes owns the highest faceoff winning percentage in the nation.
’Cuse dominates despite RU’s week of prep
Knights blow lead late to capdoubleheader loss to DePaul
BY SAM HELLMANCORRESPONDENT
Losing hurts. But for the Rutgers soft-ball team, two losses Friday againstDePaul hurt more than usual.
Not because itwas Senior Dayand not because itdropped theScarlet Knightsbelow .500 in the
Big East, but because they had the bestteam in the conference on the ropes andthey let them off the hook.
Leading by four runs with nine outsremaining, the Rutgers bullpen anddefense let the Blue Demons force extrainnings. And after multiple chances towalk of f victorious in the second game ofthe doubleheader, the Knights surren-dered five runs in the 10th and fell, 15-10.
“There were mistakes across theboard,” said junior third baseman and cap-tain Brittney Lindley. “This loss doesn’t
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SAM HELLMAN
Senior third baseman Brittney Lindley hit her 11th and 12th home runs of the seasonduring the Knights’ series over the weekend with Big East juggernaut DePaul.
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fall on any one person. There are a lot ofthings we could have done better.”
Five errors and defensive miscommu-nications allowed DePaul to tie the gamewith four unanswered runs through thesixth and seventh innings.
Rutgers put runners in scoring positionwith a chance for a walk-of f in both theseventh and ninth innings, but failed tobring a runner home. In the top of the10th, DePaul closed the door with a five-run inning off Abbey Houston, who sur-rendered seven earned runs in the game.
“We made too many errors and that letthem in the game,” said head coach JayNelson. “We just didn’t execute. That’s thething — we have to do a better job of execut-ing on defense.”
Before the late collapse, the Knightswere in command of the first-place team inthe Big East after the best two-inningstretch any team had against DePaul all season.
