THE D AILY T ARGUM Volume 143, Number 108 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 WORK OF ART Today: Sunny High: 68 • Low: 44 THURSDAY MARCH 8, 2012 INDEX ONLINE AT DAILYTARGUM.COM DIVERSIONS ...... 10 CLASSIFIEDS ...... 12 Ranked fifth out of 33 teams, the University’s cricket team qualifies for a championship tournament and will compete over spring break. Clementi case sheds light on role of electronic messages and social media in court proceedings . OPINIONS SPORTS ...... BACK Photography can be a captivating and vivid artistic medium. This week Inside Beat places a spotlight on photographer Amanda Charchian. UNIVERSITY ....... 3 UNIVERSITY OPINIONS ........ 8 PENDULUM........ 6 WORLD .......... 7 Supporters, critics react to popular online campaign BY JOVELLE TAMAYO EDITOR-IN-CHIEF A video, titled “KONY 2012,” went viral Tuesday night as it amassed more than 12 million online views in the past two days and surfaced on Twitter streams, Facebook feeds and blogs throughout the world. In the 30-minute video Jason Russell, who is a co- founder of the nonprofit organization Invisible Children, asks viewers to focus on 20 celebrities and 12 politicians in the hopes that they will take up the cause and disseminate its message to arrest Ugandan gueril- la leader Joseph Kony before the end of 2012. “We are going to make Joseph Kony a household name,” Russell said in the video. “Not to celebrate him, but to bring his crimes to the light.” Scott Siegel, treasurer for the Rutgers University Student Assembly, said he first saw the campaign video on Facebook. “I was on Facebook [Tuesday] night, and I saw a few of my friends had posted about this Kony, whatev- er Kony was,” said Siegel, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. The online “KONY 2012” campaign video features clips from the 2007 documentary “Invisible Children,” in which Russell shares the story of Jacob, a Ugandan boy who witnessed his brother’s death in the hands of Kony’s supporters. Kony’s guerilla group, the Lord’s Resistance Army, has allegedly kidnapped more than 66,000 Ugandan children, according to the World Bank, and forced them to kill, rape and fight to make Uganda a Christian state. The Invisible Children Foundation’s four-yearlong campaign sparked a national movement asking people to reach out to legislators to encourage American aid in Uganda to end Kony’s chokehold. Barack Obama’s administration sent 100 military advisers in October 2011 to several African countries to help fight against the LRA, according to npr.org. “Never before has [the campaign] been viral,” said Jasmine Chow, a Mason Gross School of the Arts jun- ior who has been involved with the campaign since 2007. “It’s blowing up now.” But as quickly as the video spread throughout the international community, critics voiced their con- cerns — pointing a finger at Invisible Children, con- demning the group for a lack of transparency and poor internal relations. Bloggers, like Grant Oyston of visiblechil- dren.tumblr.com, brought forward photographs of the organization’s founders holding weapons and links to articles that challenge the reliability of the charity. “These problems are highly complex, not one- dimensional and, frankly, aren’t of the nature that can be solved by postering, filmmaking and changing your Facebook profile picture, as hard as that is to swallow,” wrote Oyston, a student at Acadia University in Canada. Jack Bratich, an associate professor in the School of Communication and Information, believes that because there are plenty of governments enacting abuses in the world, the fact that this cause is sudden- ly getting attention is puzzling. “What I found interesting was that some of these students don’t typically share political content,” Bratich said via email correspondence. “All of them had some version of a mysterious command to ‘watch this.’” Bratich questioned the video’s intent and theorized that perhaps the video is targeting college students. “It seems like a meme designed to spark outrage, while few know much about the conditions in Uganda,” he said. “And it’s a little premature to have a reaction to it. Yes, it’s getting a lot of hits, but ‘why’ is the question.” Russell repeated in the video that the best way to defeat Kony and stop the LRA’s crimes is to make Kony well-known through marketing and reaching out to individuals who can make a difference. “We are targeting 20 culture-makers and 12 poli- cy-makers to use their power for good,” Russell said Ravi’s police interrogation viewed in trial Defense attorney Steven Altman walk down the hallway to the second floor Middlesex County Courtroom with assisting defense attorney, Philip Nettle and their client, Dharun Ravi. Prosecutors presented Ravi’s initial police interrogation video yesterday. ENRICO CABREDO / ASSOCIATE STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / FILE PHOTO BY YASHMIN PATEL UNIVERSITY EDITOR The day after Tyler Clementi committed suicide on Sept. 22, 2010, Dharun Ravi told police that he did not set up his webcam to spy on his roommate. But when police asked if he thought he had violated Clementi’s privacy, Ravi responded “yes” in the interrogation video presented in yesterday’s trial. Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office investigator Michael Daniewicz conducted Ravi’s interrogation the day after Clementi’s death. Ravi told Daniewicz that the tweets he posted about the alleged second viewing of Clementi and his male guest were composed “jokingly.” SEE TRIAL ON PAGE 4 J.R. Martinez, a U.S. army veteran who survived a roadside bombing in Iraq, speaks on perseverance and optimism at the Cook Campus Center multipurpose room. Martinez, an ABC daytime drama actor, won Season 13 of “Dancing with the Stars” with his partner Karina Smirnoff. NELSON MORALES / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER A HERO’S STORY SEE CAMPAIGN ON PAGE 4 In the interrogation video, Ravi said he turned on the webcam in his room to monitor his possessions after Clementi’s guest entered their Davison Hall C room on Busch campus. Ravi described the guest as an older male who was “slightly overweight” with short, dark hair and facial hair. “I was little creeped out,” Ravi said in the video. “I just got a bad vibe from him.” In the video, Ravi said he turned on the webcam Sept. 19, 2010 using his friend Molly Wei’s computer through an auto-accept feature on iChat. Ravi told Daniewicz that during the viewing, he briefly saw two men being intimate in the corner of his room, but he could not tell exactly what they were doing. He proceeded to tell his friends what he saw, including a tweet in which Ravi said he “saw his roommate making out with another dude.” Clementi requested the room for the night again on Sept. 21, 2010, Ravi said in the video. Although Ravi said he was “weirded out” about Clementi’s guest, only identi- fied as M.B., he let Clementi have the room again. Ravi said that this time, he turned his webcam away from Clementi’s bed and shut his computer off. Ravi told Daniewicz that he asked a friend to call Ravi via iChat to ensure the camera was off. Ravi said that he friend confirmed that the connection failed. Lokesh Ohja, Ravi’s friend and a Davidson Hall C resident at the time,
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Ranked fifth out of 33teams, the University’scricket team qualifiesfor a championshiptournament and willcompete over spring break.
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Supporters, criticsreact to popularonline campaign
BY JOVELLE TAMAYOEDITOR-IN-CHIEF
A video, titled “KONY 2012,” went viral Tuesdaynight as it amassed more than 12 million online viewsin the past two days and surfaced on Twitter streams,Facebook feeds and blogs throughout the world.
In the 30-minute video Jason Russell, who is a co-founder of the nonprofit organization InvisibleChildren, asks viewers to focus on 20 celebrities and 12politicians in the hopes that they will take up the causeand disseminate its message to arrest Ugandan gueril-la leader Joseph Kony before the end of 2012.
“We are going to make Joseph Kony a householdname,” Russell said in the video. “Not to celebrate him,but to bring his crimes to the light.”
Scott Siegel, treasurer for the Rutgers UniversityStudent Assembly, said he first saw the campaign videoon Facebook.
“I was on Facebook [Tuesday] night, and I saw afew of my friends had posted about this Kony, whatev-er Kony was,” said Siegel, a School of Arts andSciences junior.
The online “KONY 2012” campaign video featuresclips from the 2007 documentary “Invisible Children,”in which Russell shares the story of Jacob, a Ugandanboy who witnessed his brother’s death in the hands ofKony’s supporters.
Kony’s guerilla group, the Lord’s ResistanceArmy, has allegedly kidnapped more than 66,000Ugandan children, according to the World Bank, andforced them to kill, rape and fight to make Uganda aChristian state.
The Invisible Children Foundation’s four-yearlongcampaign sparked a national movement asking peopleto reach out to legislators to encourage American aidin Uganda to end Kony’s chokehold.
Barack Obama’s administration sent 100 militaryadvisers in October 2011 to several African countries tohelp fight against the LRA, according to npr.org.
“Never before has [the campaign] been viral,” saidJasmine Chow, a Mason Gross School of the Arts jun-ior who has been involved with the campaign since2007. “It’s blowing up now.”
But as quickly as the video spread throughout theinternational community, critics voiced their con-cerns — pointing a finger at Invisible Children, con-demning the group for a lack of transparency andpoor internal relations.
Bloggers, like Grant Oyston of visiblechil-dren.tumblr.com, brought forward photographs of theorganization’s founders holding weapons and links toarticles that challenge the reliability of the charity.
“These problems are highly complex, not one-dimensional and, frankly, aren’t of the nature that canbe solved by postering, filmmaking and changingyour Facebook profile picture, as hard as that is toswallow,” wrote Oyston, a student at AcadiaUniversity in Canada.
Jack Bratich, an associate professor in the School ofCommunication and Information, believes thatbecause there are plenty of governments enactingabuses in the world, the fact that this cause is sudden-ly getting attention is puzzling.
“What I found interesting was that some of thesestudents don’t typically share political content,” Bratichsaid via email correspondence. “All of them had someversion of a mysterious command to ‘watch this.’”
Bratich questioned the video’s intent and theorizedthat perhaps the video is targeting college students.
“It seems like a meme designed to spark outrage,while few know much about the conditions in Uganda,”he said. “And it’s a little premature to have a reaction toit. Yes, it’s getting a lot of hits, but ‘why’ is the question.”
Russell repeated in the video that the best way todefeat Kony and stop the LRA’s crimes is to make Konywell-known through marketing and reaching out toindividuals who can make a difference.
“We are targeting 20 culture-makers and 12 poli-cy-makers to use their power for good,” Russell said
Ravi’s police interrogation viewed in trialDefense attorney Steven Altman walk down the hallway to the second floor Middlesex County Courtroom with assisting defenseattorney, Philip Nettle and their client, Dharun Ravi. Prosecutors presented Ravi’s initial police interrogation video yesterday.
The day after Tyler Clementi committed suicide on Sept. 22, 2010,Dharun Ravi told police that he did not set up his webcam to spy on his roommate.
But when police asked if he thought he had violated Clementi’s privacy, Ravi responded “yes” in theinterrogation video presented in yesterday’s trial.
Middlesex County Prosecutor’sOffice investigator Michael Daniewiczconducted Ravi’s interrogation the dayafter Clementi’s death.
Ravi told Daniewicz that the tweetshe posted about the alleged secondviewing of Clementi and his male guestwere composed “jokingly.” SEE TRIAL ON PAGE 4
J.R. Martinez, a U.S. army veteran who survived a roadside bombing in Iraq, speaks on perseveranceand optimism at the Cook Campus Center multipurpose room. Martinez, an ABC daytime dramaactor, won Season 13 of “Dancing with the Stars” with his partner Karina Smirnoff.
NELSON MORALES / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
A HERO’S STORY
SEE CAMPAIGN ON PAGE 4
In the interrogation video, Ravi saidhe turned on the webcam in his roomto monitor his possessions afterClementi’s guest entered their DavisonHall C room on Busch campus.
Ravi described the guest as an oldermale who was “slightly overweight”with short, dark hair and facial hair.
“I was little creeped out,” Ravi said inthe video. “I just got a bad vibe from him.”
In the video, Ravi said he turned onthe webcam Sept. 19, 2010 using hisfriend Molly Wei’s computer through anauto-accept feature on iChat.
Ravi told Daniewicz that during theviewing, he briefly saw two men beingintimate in the corner of his room, buthe could not tell exactly what they were doing.
He proceeded to tell his friends whathe saw, including a tweet in which Ravi
said he “saw his roommate making outwith another dude.”
Clementi requested the room for thenight again on Sept. 21, 2010, Ravi said inthe video.
Although Ravi said he was “weirdedout” about Clementi’s guest, only identi-fied as M.B., he let Clementi have theroom again.
Ravi said that this time, he turned hiswebcam away from Clementi’s bed andshut his computer off.
Ravi told Daniewicz that he asked a friend to call Ravi via iChat to ensurethe camera was of f. Ravi said that he friend confirmed that the connection failed.
Lokesh Ohja, Ravi’s friend and aDavidson Hall C resident at the time,
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‘Horse Heroes’ help animal science students earn degreesBY HANNAH SCHROER
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Carey Williams gives theneedle a twist and pulls it freefrom its cap before securing itonto a syringe handle. Shelocates the mare’s jugular veinwith her left hand, pressingwith her thumb until the veinbulges from the shaved patchon its neck.
Williams, associate directorof outreach at the UniversityEquine Science Center, stepsback and turns to her two newstudents, holding up the 18-gauge needle so they can see itsbevel. Before she demonstratesholding the needle at a 45-degree angle so it does not go through the vein, she interrupts herself.
“You guys aren’t funny with blood, are you?” Williams,an associate extension specialist at the University,asks her students.
Williams began collectingcontrol blood in 2003 when shearrived at the University.Williams and her students takeblood twice a month for the NewJersey Racing Commission’sdrug testing lab, filling 40 tubesat a time and sending the vials tostate police in East Rutherford.
The 23 mares in theUniversity’s research herd, splitbetween the Ryders Lane andCollege Farm Road facilities, areconsidered heroes by their han-dlers because they tolerate bi-monthly blood collections andhelp in research studies toadvance equine science,Williams said.
The mares in the researchherd also provide a hands-onlearning experience for stu-dents, a component required toobtain a degree from theDepartment of Animal Sciences,said Karyn Malinowski, directorof the Equine Science Center, a unit of the University NewJersey Agriculture Experiment
A horse from the University’s research herd leans on a fence on Cook/Douglass campus. Caring forthe horses is part of the “Equine Practicum” curriculum for animal science students.
COURTESY OF THE EQUINE SCIENCE CENTER
Club sport reaches championship tournament BY RICHARD CONTE
CORRESPONDENT
While many University students are taking a break from school next week, the University Cricket Club will be fighting for a National Championship.
The club sport is sending a team of 13 University students to the AmericanCollege Cricket Spring BreakChampionship tournamentfrom March 14-18.
Many teams from universi-ties around the countr y willalso be there, making the fieldvery competitive, said NisargChokshi, captain and presidentof the team.
“There are a couple of goodteams in our group. … We’rehoping to have some good com-petition,” said Chokshi, aSchool of Engineering junior.
The team is one of the bestcollege cricket teams in thenation, and hopes to do wellthis year, he said.
“We are ranked five out of33 teams [in the nation],”Chokshi said. “We are also the
top-ranked team in our tourna-ment group.”
Nearly 30 teams from colleges and universitiesacross the nation will partici-pate in the championship thisyear, he said. Earlier in theyear, all the teams were placedin a group, in which they willplay round-robin style duringthe first round.
“About 29 teams from theUnited States are going to be atthe tournament,” said UditPatel, vice-captain of the team.“Also, one team from Canadawill be participating.”
After the top two teams ofeach group are determined, thetournament will be played in asingle-elimination format,Chokshi said.
“There will be about sixteams in each group and [thetournament] will be playedknockout style,” he said.
The University is one of theseeded teams in its group,along with the University ofFlorida, according to american-collegecricket.com
Chokshi is not only a suc-cessful college cricket player
but an international player aswell, said MohammadChaudhry, a team member.
“Chokshi has led our teamto the [regional] finals before,”said Chaudhr y, an ErnestMario School of Pharmacy jun-ior. “He also plays internation-ally for the United Statesnational cricket team, so he hasa lot of experience.”
Another notable player isMuhammad Ghous, one of theteam’s impact players, saidPatel, a School ofEnvironmental and BiologicalSciences senior.
“He played very well on theteam [at the Nor theastChampionships] and scoredabout 45 runs,” Patel said.
Cricket is a team sport withtwo teams of 11 players, Patelsaid. The main objective of thegame, like baseball, is to scoremore runs than the opponentafter participating in an equalnumber of innings.
Plays start at the pitch, a 22-yard-long area, where one play-er bowls or throws the ballwhile another tries to hit theball and score runs, Patel said.
Running from one side of the pitch to the other scores a run in cricket, he said.Teams can also score runs byknocking ballsoutside of aboundary inthe field.
“ H i t t i n gthe ball [direct-ly] out of theb o u n d a r ygives 6points toyour team,” he said. “If the ball hits the ground first,then hits the boundar y, itaccounts forfour runs.”
T h e r eare manyways to becalled out in cricket,including hit-ting the stumps — wood-en posts that hold the cricketbails, Chokshisaid. A bail is a
stick that sits on top of the stumps.
“There are aboutseven ways to getout [when playing
cricket],” he said. Teams must fundraise
to get to the tournament,Chokshi said.
“We get our money throughfundraisers [during the year],”Chokshi said. “Once Rutgerssees how dedicated we arethey help support us withextra funding.”
The team hopes to winat the American CollegeCricket Spring BreakChampionship to add onto
its success of winning at theregional Nor theastChampionships this pastOctober, Chokshi said.Members of the team alsowant to perform well for theirother teammates.
“We have five seniors intheir last year, so we want towin for them,” Chokshi said.“Our fingers are crossed thatwe will play well.”
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Station, which researches ways to improve horse care and health.
Malinowski began growingthe research herd in 1980, shesaid. The University has pro-vided a permanent home overthe years for more than 100Standardbred horses.
“We’ve had some mares herefor 15 years,” Malinowski said.
The center’s exercise physi-ology lab on College FarmRoad, known as “the red barn,”is one of only two laboratoriesin the country not associatedwith a veterinary college. Thesingle-story red barn contains14 stalls each of dif ferentdimensions on one side and ahigh-speed treadmill on the laboratory side where researchtrials are conducted.
Malinowski said running ahorse on the treadmill requires12 people, manpower the cen-ter cannot afford.
“With the state continuallyshrinking funding to highereducation, we’ve been scram-bling to find resources to takecare of those mares,” she said.
University students assistwith research at the center andget training and degree credits inreturn, Malinowski said.
Williams works with studentswho need research and experi-ence-based credits for theirdegrees. This semester sheteaches 12 students from“Equine Practicum” and“Research in Animal Science”courses, she said.
“Equine Practicum” teachesgeneral care and maintenance ofhorses, and involves feeding andgrooming horses, and muckingout stalls, Williams said.
She demonstrates how todraw blood to new practicum stu-dents every semester. Researchstudents, who have alreadylearned to draw blood in theoryclasses, now reinforce theirknowledge through repetitionand practice, Williams said.
The 18-gauge needleWilliams uses to draw blood isthe same size used on humans,she said. Because horses do nothave nerve endings in theirveins, they just feel a hand ontheir neck. The actual needle
feels like a fly bite to them,Williams said.
Maggi, a 10-year-oldStandardbred horse who wasdonated to the University in 2006from the StandardbredRetirement Foundation, stoodquietly in her corner stall whileWilliams filled three vials andhanded them off to researchassistant Danielle Smarsh.
Smarsh, a graduate student inthe School of Environmental andBiological Sciences, joinedWilliams’ lab at the end of herfirst semester at the University.Working with Williams, Smarshresearches how exercise train-ing and age affect the balance ofoxidants and antioxidants in horses.
Smarsh found that a smallimbalance from training canadapt a horse’s skeletal muscle for further training andhelp improve its performance,but too much oxidative stresscauses muscle damage andsoreness.
She uses catheters to drawblood samples, which she latermeasured for stress levels, while
running the horses on the tread-mill. She also took muscle biop-sies of skeletal muscle lookingfor markers of stress.
The 11 mares in Williams’research group are only broughtinside for tests, special feedingsand regular monthly weigh-ins.
At monthly weigh-ins, stu-dents weigh the mares and lookat fat padding on the neck, shoul-ders, ribs and rump beforeWilliams assigns the horse anumber between 1 and 9 on asubjective weight scale.
Williams ran her hands overStardust, a bay mare donatedfrom B.J. Farm on Long Islandwhen she was 3 years old. Now11, Stardust remained still whileWilliams checked fat levels andasked her students for theirconclusions. Though thepadding of fat through the neckwas high, Williams designatesStardust a true 5.
“There’s not a whole lot ofsquish [on her shoulders],”Williams said while gently prod-ding the horse’s shoulder.
Williams said the subjectiveweight scale looks at the overall fat cover on a horserather than focusing on bodyweight. Though Frankie, whoweighs in at a 5, is the skinniestin the group while Maggi, a 6.5,is the heaviest, she said bothhorses are within the healthyweight range.
All the horses look the sameat first because they are brownor bay, Smarsh said, but theyhave different personalities, dif-ferent likes and dislikes andtheir own favorite handlers.
Cascade, an 11-year-old marewho has been at the Universitysince 2003, rubbed her halteragainst the metal grill of thestall, creating a loud grindingsound of metal on metal.Williams scolds the mare as shepasses the stall, calling thehorse an attention hound.
“Cascade is a big goof,”Smarsh said with a smile.
“Because you’re going to havepeople flyering New Brunswickand putting up posters, I see thepotential for the [New BrunswickPolice Department] or [RutgersUniversity Police Department]being a little bit upset with thepotential vandalism that wouldoccur,” Siegel said.
Siegel plans to work with the event’s local organizers to channel the energy intosomething productive.
Because of the criticisms ofInvisible Children, Siegel is cau-tious of donating money directlyto the foundation, but still findsmerit in the movement.
“I haven’t seen a campaignlike this put together,” Siegelsaid. “To me, it’s innovative. It’srevolutionary … and very inter-esting to see how social mediacan influence policy-makers andculture-makers. This really is amodel for other social causes toemulate in the future.”
Chow said the InvisibleChildren Foundation displayscertain information and mightnot be able to provide all theinformation about the Ugandangovernment and all the respon-
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testified in court on March 1that Ravi asked for his help thatnight to position the webcamtoward Clementi’s bed.
“Anyone with iChat, I dareyou to video chat me betweenthe hours of 9:30 and [mid-night]. Yes, it’s happeningagain,” Ravi tweeted on Sept.21, 2010.
When Daniewicz mentionedthe tweet during the interroga-tion, Ravi claimed he was beingsarcastic in the post and did notintend to view Clementi and hisguest again.
Ravi said in the video that hetried to reach out to Clementi
and sent him a text apologizingfor the Sept. 19, 2010 incident.
“I want to make amends forSunday night. … I’ve known youwere gay, in fact one of my closestfriends is gay. … I don’t want toruin your freshmen year,” Ravisaid in a text message to Clementi.
Ravi told Daniewicz he did not want Clementi to think hewas spying.
The interrogation ended whenRavi’s father, who was waitingoutside the room, asked to havean attorney represent his son, towhich Ravi agreed.
Ravi is charged with invasionof privacy, bias intimidation, witness tampering and hinderingarrest with up to 10 years in prison.
The trial is scheduled to con-tinue today and is expected to lasttwo to three more weeks.
TRIAL: Ravi says in video
he tried apologizing to Clementi
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22 The Thaakat Foundation presents “Live, Laugh and Learn,”an event featuring performances by University groups DholEffect, Bhangra Academy, SWARA and Focused Movement.The event is at the Cook Campus Center multipurpose roomat 7 p.m. Shahnawaz will cater the event. Tickets are $10 inadvance or with a student ID, and $15 at the door or withouta student ID.
in the video, as images ofcelebrities and politicians —including Stephen Colbert,Mark Zuckerberg, CondoleezzaRice and John Kerry — flashedon the screen.
The “KONY 2012” video endedwith promotion of the national“Cover the Night” event sched-uled for April 20. The event,intended to happen between sun-set and sunrise, encouragesactivists to blanket their townswith paraphernalia sporting the“KONY 2012” campaign message.
The campaign’s website offers“action kits,” which include posters,bracelets and shirts displaying theofficial campaign message.
University students createdFacebook groups for the Universityand New Brunswick “Cover theNight” events.
University and NewBrunswick organizers are stillworking out the specifics of theevents, such as the meeting place,said Chow, one of the Facebookgroup creators.
“I think that while Facebookand Twitter may attract people toget involved for only a short peri-od of time. [The sites are] makinga positive impact because they cre-ated a platform for more people toeducate themselves on the situa-tion,” Chow said.
21 Academy Award-nominated documentary “If a Tree Falls”will show at the Cook Campus Center at 8 p.m. The screen-ing will follow pizza, popcorn and a Q-and-A with directorMarshall Curry. For more information, contact LaurenChoinski at (848) 932-5273.
23 The Rutgers Theater Company presents “Homemade” abouta young gay couple who decide to start a family. The open-ing show takes place at 8 p.m. at the Phillip J. Levin Theateron Douglass campus. Tickets are $15 for students.
25 Rutgers Student Life and Rutgers Health Services sponsorthe “Sex, Love and Dating” Conference at 11 a.m. at theBusch Campus Center. Students will learn about intimacy-related topics that affect everyday college students. [email protected] to pre-register.
Big Sean and Miguel perform at the College Avenue Gym at8 p.m. Student tickets are $15 for balcony seats and $20 forthe floor, and guest tickets are $25 for balcony and $30 forfloor. The Rutgers University Programming Association willhost the event.
“It’s sad to me thatit’s just now that
people are openingtheir eyes.”MARVIN JULES
School of Arts and Sciences Junior
26 Artist Ellen Levy and University psychology professorMaggie Shiffrar discuss cognitive processes in relation toart and science at the Busch Campus Center’s Center HallAuditorium from 7:15 to 8:30 p.m. For more information,contact Nicole Ianuzelli at [email protected] or (932) 732-3726.
sible parties for creating the sit-uation in Uganda.
“There are other peopleinvolved in [creating] the situa-tion [in Uganda]. It’s not just oneman,” she said. “But I do thinkthis campaign is going to makepeople who really do care findthat information on their own.”
But some students, likeMarvin Jules, are skeptical of thecampaign’s effectiveness.
“Obviously the man is a mon-ster. Obviously [Kony] has doneterrible things,” said Jules, aSchool of Arts and Sciences jun-ior. “It’s great that [the cam-paign] is shedding light on thesituation.”
But he does not anticipate forthe campaign to continue longenough to make an impact.
Jules alluded to the 2010 Haitiearthquake, in which thousandswere affected, including mem-bers of his family.
“Right when the earthquakehappened, the media was allover it,” he said. “People wantedto come to their aid. Initial reac-tion was strong … but as theweeks went on, then months,people stopped thinking about it.”
Jules said the problems fol-lowing the earthquake in Haitiare far from being solvedbecause while the earthquakehappened more than two yearsago, people still live on thestreets and in places that looklike war zones.
“Things like this happen allthe time,” Jules said. “It’s sad tome that it’s just now that peopleare opening their eyes.”
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Group’s fundraiser hopes to help sick children in Middle EastBY RENE POLANCO
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The University’s chapter ofnonprofit organization PalestineChildren’s Relief Fund hosted abi-annual fundraising banquetTuesday at the Rutgers StudentCenter on the College Avenuecampus in an effort to raiseawareness about the medicalproblems Middle Eastern children face.
The event “Small Hands, BigHearts,” included a screeningof a documentary, along withguest speakers who presentedseveral murals that childrenfrom the Gaza Strip painted inan attempt to show how chil-dren deal with their strugglesthrough art.
PCRF is dedicated to provid-ing relief to those who lack med-ical assistance in the MiddleEast, said Pasent Elhelw, a NewJersey chapter of the PCRFboard member. More than 950children have been treatedsince 1991 in the organization’sdifferent centers.
“The mission is to addressthe medical and humanitariancrisis facing Palestinian youthsand suf fering children fromMiddle Eastern nations,” Elhelwsaid. “They are treated throughPCRF chapters in the UnitedStates and Europe.”
The New Jersey chapter ofPCRF has been running for thepast six years, N.J. PCRF boardmember Jamila Hasan said.This year’s edition of the ban-quet represents the chapter’sthird bi-annual event.
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Hasan said the organizationprovides relief to a wide variety of medical issues.
“It can be anything fromwheelchairs or crutches tosevere cases, like kids who havelost limbs in shootings and bomb-ings,” Hasan said. “Sometimeswe help kids with cancer, birthdefects, burns or whatever thecase may be.”
Ali Jadalhack, an N.J. PCRFmember, said the event wasimportant because it showedstudents the struggles of lessfortunate children, such as his15-year old nephew who camefrom Saudi Arabia to have atumor removed from his leg.
“PCRF is a bridge for peoplewho need help and people who
can organize ways to help them,”he said.
Jadalhack said his nephewwould have lost his leg if the treatment was not deliveredin time.
“Seeing the human elementof how these kids receive help isthe key. It’s all about helpingpeople who can’t help them-selves,” Elhelw said
Elhelw said the organizationis appreciative to all the dona-tions it receives, as the moneyhelps them become more effi-cient in achieving their goals.
A portion of the proceedsfrom the fundraiser go towardthe construction of a new hospi-tal in the Middle East. The hospi-tal, called the Pediatric Center
Oncology Hospital, will be thefirst public hospital available inPalestine, Elhelw said.
Elhelw said even cash-strapped students who cannotdonate money can still help byspreading the world about theorganization’s mission.
“Speak to doctors, pharmacistsor anyone else with the means tohelp,” she said. “If you donateyour services, money or refer usto someone, it can help a lot.”
In addition to donations andpublicity, PCRF is also in need offamilies who are willing to take inthose who are brought to theUnited States for treatment,Elhelw said.
“We need host families becausethey’re the ones doing a lot of
work. Families who come here fortreatment need someone to staywith while they’re here,” she said.
Manika Jain, a School ofEngineering first-year student,said she came out to the eventbecause she wanted to show hersupport for PCRF’s cause.
“It was nice to see how thisorganization is helping the livesof young children,” Jain said.
Nevin Varghese, a School ofEngineering first-year student,said the event gave her a newperspective on some of the issuesin the Middle East.
“I really enjoy the documen-tary because it was really eye-opening, and it gave a glimpse ofthe lives of young Palestinians,”Varghese said.
Students view artwork made by children from Gaza on Tuesday at the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus as a part of thePalestine Children’s Relief Fund’s fundraiser for children in the Middle East.
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JERUSALEM — Jewish American activists are in Ethiopia toescort remnants of one of the oldest communities in the JewishDiaspora to Israel, organizers said Wednesday.
Tens of thousands of Ethiopian Jews were brought to Israelin clandestine operations starting more than three decades ago.Jews are granted automatic citizenship in Israel according to its“Law of Return.”
Thousands of descendants of Ethiopian Jews who wereforced to convert to Christianity in the 19th century, known asthe Falash Mura, were left behind. The quasi-governmentalJewish Agency, with backing from American Jewry, has beenworking to bring the remnants of the community to Israel.
Activists from the American United Jewish Appeal were inEthiopia this week to prepare a group of 70 Falash Mura forthe journey.
“It was moving to see ... the excitement on their faces as theyprepare to leave for Israel,” said Marty Keltz, 48, a doctor from NewYork who is on the mission with his 17-year-old daughter Sarah.
Keltz spoke from Ethiopia shortly before the group was toboard a plane with the Falash Mura.
Ethiopian Jews trace their ancestors to the ancient Israelitetribe of Dan. The community was cut off from the rest of theJewish world for more than 1,000 years.
About 120,000 Ethiopian Jews live in Israel today, a smallminority in a country of 7 million. Their absorption has beenproblematic. Suffering from lack of a modern education, manyhave fallen into unemployment and poverty and have watchedtheir family structures disintegrate. Ethiopian Jews charge vet-eran Israelis with racism in their treatment.
Some 3,000 Falash Mura are waiting to immigrate, saidMicha Feldman, a former Israeli diplomat involved in the immi-gration of Ethiopian Jews since the 1980s.
Feldman, who is with the American group, said about 250immigrate to Israel every month. “If it continues at this rate,they will all be in Israel by this time next year,” he said.
Because of some doubts about their Jewishness according tostrict religious laws, the Falash Mura must undergo ritual con-versions when they arrive.
— The Associated Press
ACTIVISTS HELP BRING MEMBERSOF JEWISH DIASPORA
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Satellite images show Iranian attempt to remove nuclear materialsTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
VIENNA — Satellite imagesof an Iranian military facilityappear to show trucks and earth-moving vehicles at the site, indi-cating an attempted cleanup ofradioactive traces possibly left bytests of a nuclear-weapon trigger,diplomats told The AssociatedPress yesterday.
The assertions from the diplo-mats, all nuclear experts accred-ited to the International AtomicEnergy Agency, could add to thegrowing international pressureon Iran over its nuclear program,which Tehran insists is for peace-ful purposes.
While the United States andthe European Union are backing asanctions-heavy approach, Israelhas warned that it may resort to apre-emptive strike against Iran’snuclear facilities to prevent it fromobtaining atomic weapons.
Two of the diplomats said thecrews at the Parchin military sitemay be trying to erase evidenceof tests of a small experimentalneutron device used to set off anuclear explosion. A third diplo-mat could not confirm that butsaid any attempt to trigger a so-called neutron initiator couldonly be in the context of trying todevelop nuclear arms.
The diplomats said they sus-pect attempts at sanitizationbecause some of the vehicles atthe scene appeared to be haulagetrucks and other equipment suit-ed to carting off potentially con-taminated soil from the site.
The images, provided bymember countries to the IAEA,the U.N’s nuclear watchdog, arerecent and constantly updated,one of the diplomats said. The
diplomats all requested anonymi-ty because they were not author-ized to discuss the information onthe record.
The IAEA has already identi-fied Parchin as the location of sus-pected nuclear weapons-relatedtesting. In a November report, itsaid it appeared to be the site ofexperiments with conventionalhigh explosives meant to initiate anuclear chain reaction.
It did not mention a neutroninitiator as part of those tests, butin a separate section cited anunnamed member nation as say-ing Iran may have experimentedwith a neutron initiator, withoutgoing into detail or naming a loca-tion for such work.
In contrast, the intelligenceinformation shared with the APby the two diplomats linked thehigh-explosives work directlyto setting of f a neutron initiatorat Parchin.
In explaining such a device,the agency’s November reportsaid that “if placed in the center ofa nuclear core of an implosion-type nuclear device and com-pressed, (it) could produce aburst of neutrons suitable for ini-tiating a fission chain reaction.”
If Iran did try to trigger a neu-tron initiator, it would hardeninternational suspicions byadding a nuclear component to asuspected string of experimentslinked to weapons developmentthat generally have not includedradioactive material.
Iran has previously attemptedto clean up sites considered suspi-cious by world powers worriedabout Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
Iran razed the Lavizan Shiancomplex in nor thern Iranbefore allowing IAEA inspec-
tors to visit the suspectedrepository of military procuredequipment that could be used ina nuclear weapons program.Tehran said the site had beendemolished to make way for apark, but inspectors who subse-quently came to the site fiveyears ago found traces of urani-um enriched to or near the levelused in making the core ofnuclear warheads.
The Iranians also embarkedon an extensive redo at the Kalay-e Electric Co., just west ofTehran, before agency inspectorswere given access nine years ago.Although the site was re-paintedand otherwise sanitized, samplestaken from Kalay-e also showedtraces of enriched uranium,though at levels substantiallybelow warhead grade.
One official from an IAEAmember country with good intel-ligence on Iran said the Parchinneutron initiator experimentswere conducted between 2003and 2010. Another said any suchtests were closer to 2003, addingit was not clear whether theywere successful.
The timing is important.U.S. intelligence officials say
they generally stand by a 2007intelligence assessment thatasserts Iran stopped comprehen-sive secret work on developingnuclear arms in 2003. But Britain,France, Germany, Israel andother U.S. allies think such activi-ties have continued past that date,a view shared by the IAEA, whichsays in recent reports that someisolated and sporadic activitiesmay be ongoing.
Iran vehemently denies allega-tions that it conducted anyresearch and development into
atomic weapons and says thetotality of its nuclear activities aremeant purely to generate poweror for research.
Asked for comment, AliAsghar Soltanieh, Iran’s chief del-egate to the IAEA, told the AP hewould not discuss any nuclearissues until after he delivered hisstatement to the agency’s 35-nation board meeting Thursday.IAEA officials also said they couldnot comment.
Attention most recentlyfocused on Parchin several daysago, when senior IAEA officialsfirst spoke of unexplained activi-ties at the site without sayingwhat they could be and said aninspection of buildings there wastaking on added urgency.
One of six diplomats whospoke with the AP said his coun-try continued to reserve judg-ment on what the movements atthe site meant but two others whohad seen recent spy satelliteimagery said the trucks and otherequipment at the site almost cer-tainly showed attempts to clean itof radioactive contamination.
They declined to go into detailbut said radioactive traces couldalso be left by material other thana neutron initiator, such as urani-um metal which can be used as asubstitute for testing purposes.
IAEA expert teams trying toprobe the suspicions of secretweapons work by Iran tried —and failed — twice in recentweeks to get Iranian permissionto visit Parchin. Tehran then saidon Monday that such a visit wouldbe granted.
But it said that a comprehen-sive agreement outlining condi-tions of such an inspection mustfirst be agreed on — a move dis-
missed by a senior internationalofficial familiar with the issue as adelaying tactic. He, too, request-ed anonymity because his organi-zation does not authorize him tospeak publicly on confidentialIAEA matters.
The diplomats and officialsspoke ahead of a meeting of theIAEA board Thursday focusingon Iran’s defiance of U.N.Security Council demands to enduranium enrichment — whichcan make both nuclear fuel andfissile warhead material — anddispel other suspicions that itmay be seeking nuclear weapons.
That session was to takeplace Wednesday but had to beadjourned to give six world pow-ers time to find common groundon how harshly to criticize Iran.They agreed on a text lateWednesday but only aftermarathon negotiations reflectingthe dif ficulty of presenting aunited front at upcoming talkswith Iran.
Officials did not detail the text agreed upon, but the United States, Britain, France andGermany wanted a joint statementthat takes Iran to task for defyingU.N. Security Council resolutionsdemanding it end uranium enrich-ment and cooperate with an IAEAprobe of suspicions it secretlyworked on nuclear arms.
A senior Western diplomat,however, told the AP that Russia and China, which have condemned Western sanctions on Iran as counterproductive,sought more moderate language.He spoke on condition ofanonymity because his govern-ment does not authorize him toshare confidential informationwith reporters.
speed above 10 mph. In hock-ey, players voluntarily step infront of solid rubber that, ifhit by the right player, canexceed 100 mph. ZdenoChàra holds the record at108.8 mph.
Players have suffered amyriad of injuries — includ-
ing broken bones and concussions — all to protectthe goal, which has somebody protecting it anyway.Broken bones have become commonplace simplybecause of blocked shots. For example, an article onNHL.com discussed Devante Smith-Pelly’s recentinjury. The Anaheim Ducks loaned Smith-Pelly, 19,to Team Canada for the recent World JuniorChampionship. During the team’s first game, Smith-Pelly blocked a shot from a member of TeamFinland, which resulted in a broken foot. Despitethe injury, he attempted to stay in the game, but
skating was too painful.Philadelphia Flyers player Ian
Laperriere is another example. He gotdown to block a shot from a NewJersey Devils player and took the puckin the face. He did block it … with hisface (he didn’t mean to use his faceobviously, but that’s where the puckhit him), and felt post-concussionsymptoms for several months after.
No sport has any amount of voluntary risk like ablocked slap shot.
And as a disclaimer, I know football has big hitsand injuries, but you know you’re going to get hitand try to hit back. In addition, what’s hitting you isa player that is not moving 100 mph. He isn’t evenmoving one-fifth of that speed. And with the NFL,ESPN discusses most of the concussions daily. Theonly concussed NHL player talked about (usually infive to eight seconds) in recent history is SidneyCrosby, and he is the sport’s biggest name.
Finally, the players are quiet. Each sport has itsdivas that love to be loud and in the spotlight.Hockey doesn’t. It’s not flashy, it’s humble. Playersaren’t out in the spotlight, no players are designated“divas” for their antics like some wide receiversfamously are, and they are unknown in comparisonto the other big sports. There are not excessive celebration penalties, and there have been virtually
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I bet since I’m one ofThe Daily Targum’sassociate sports edi-
tors, you all expect me towrite about sports — and Iwill, but not about the sportyou might think. And that’sexactly the problem.
When I was growing up, Iwas raised with a sports hierarchy. Baseball wasking. I could say “Yankees” before I could say“mommy.” Next came football. But with football Iwas left to pick a team on my own, and since I enjoyrooting for (most) New York teams, I ended up atthe Jets and became part of the rare breed — itseems — that can also root for the Giants. Finallythere was NBA basketball and the New York Knicks.
As I got older I delved into college sports, onceagain free to form my own alliances. But one sport Inever got into was hockey, and I could never figure outwhy. What was it about the NHL thatmy dad was not into it, and I was noteither? I mean, I could even watchgolf for God’s sake, but never consis-tently watch hockey. If you really lookat it, it seems like the “working-classhero” tough and gritty sport morethan any other.
The biggest feature of hockeythat warrants more recognition isthe toughness and skill required to play the sport.Sure, football has hits as well, but they’ve added somany rules that it changes things. And there’s onlyone good hit per play at the most. In hockey, an ath-lete could be leveled at any time, hit the ice, and thenwould have to just get up and keep going. And for agood portion of hockey’s history players weren’t evenrequired to wear helmets.
As far as skill goes, have you ever tried to iceskate? I have, and at first it’s really tough. But hockeyplayers skate better than they walk. They skate for-ward, backward and stop on a dime without falling.Most sports require running, which comes a lot morenaturally than skating. I’m not saying the other sportsdo not require skill, but hockey should not be slight-ed because it requires less skill. It doesn’t.
Secondly, I cannot think of another sport in whichplayers willingly put their bodies in danger to preventpoints. This kind of plays into toughness as well.Football players run around in the field, but theyexpect other players to hit them occasionally with a
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When Tyler Clementi found out that his former roommate,Dharun Ravi, had been spying on him via a webcam he had set up intheir room, the former University student quickly filed a request withUniversity Housing for a room change.
Although the case —which charges Ravi with invasion of priva-cy, bias intimidation, witness tampering and hindering arrest — isincomplete, it has brought national focus to issues affecting col-lege-age students across the nation. From renewed perspectiveson both suicide awareness and privacy invasion to changes in anti-bullying policies at both the University and state level, its implica-tions have forced us to question things that have been previouslytaken for granted.
The most powerful — and potentially most controversial —implication that may be taken from the case involves the use of evi-dence derived from text messages, email and social media outletslike Twitter in court proceedings. That is, this particular case hasforced us to reexamine the extent to which the role of modern tech-nology can play — or, more importantly, should play — in legalcases like Ravi’s.
The case against Ravi has largely hinged on correspondenceslike the one mentioned above — carried out over text messagesand emails between witnesses in the trial, the defendant orClementi himself. The impact of testimonies from witnesses whohave had personal interchanges with either Ravi or Clementi havearguably paled next to evidence that has been taken from techno-logically-mediated correspondences. In ef fect, prosecutors — aswell as Ravi’s lawyer — have relied largely on these messages,sent from Ravi’s cellphone to witnesses and from Clementi’s cellphone to M.B., the guest with which he had intimate meetings ona number of occasions, to recreate the events surroundingClementi’s death.
Yet evidence of this sort, which has only truly materialized in recentyears with the use of text messages, email and social media outletsbecoming a major means of communication between individuals, is rel-atively new to court settings. In what way, then, should evidence likethis be handled?
This notion has already been exemplified by the Clementi case.Text messages and emails, tossed back and forth by young adults whoprobably gave little thought to the full import they could potentiallyhold in a court setting, are now being used as primary evidence in trial.In some cases, the way in which these correspondences have beenhandled by either party’s attorneys — such as scrutinizing the intend-ed meanings behind otherwise harmless text lingo like “OMG” and“LOL” — can be viewed quite comically. In others, however, this han-dling seems inconsistent.
According to Judge Glenn Berman, the portion of the email inwhich Clementi requested a room change because his “roommateused a webcam to spy on me” was not allowed into evidencebecause, without Clementi’s own testimony, it could be deemedhearsay — the legal term for testimony in court where the wit-nessed may not have direct knowledge of the fact that is stated. Itseems capricious, however, why certain other excerpts from thatsame email were allowed as evidence under the very same circum-stances. It’s even more puzzling why Ravi’s lawyer, Steven Altman,was allowed to reveal text messages sent between Clementi and hisguest, M.B. Following the same line of logic, these messages toolack the testimony of Clementi himself, and thus are on a similarlevel as the email.
The way in which such evidence has been handled in this casehighlights the changing nature of communication between individu-als, as well as the extent to which this means of communication canbe used in a legal setting. Young people, who have grown up usingtext messages, emails and social media to connect with others just asthey have any other form of communication — but who have neverbeen forced to reflect on the permanency electronic correspondencecan have — are now learning that this kind of communication mayprove to be a possible liability.
It’s clear that the use of electronic media as evidence holds greatsignificance in Ravi’s trial and may set the tone for similar cases in thefuture. Perhaps this case will serve as a warning for the online gener-ation and urge against thoughtless virtual communication.
“When I was growing up,
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no highly publicized monetaryissues other than the lockouts.
But the question still remains— why? If hockey is a tough, work-ing-class sport that has the small-est percentage of fame-hungry ath-letes, why does it remain the leastpublicized of the four biggestsports leagues (MLB, NFL andNBA being the other three)?
I think the reasons for why itshould be given more attention arethe exact reasons why it is not. It isnot the sport for today’s consumer.Today’s consumer cares moreabout the latest scandal or prisonsentence or flashiest plays.Hockey is too down-to-earth for that. Blake Griffin dunks and buzzer-beaters flood theSportsCenter lineup while gutsyhockey plays are left off. They onlyshow a couple goals and then
move onto what LeBron Jamessaid this morning on Twitter.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m stillloyal to my other sports. I just thinkhockey needs a bigger share of thespotlight. I recently had a brief con-versation with a friend about this.He said he turned on a sports chan-nel to see Flyers highlights andhad to wait forever to see them.Not many people seem to careabout hockey these days because itsimply isn’t glamorous enough fortoday’s typical sports fan.
People often reference malepride, part of which says that menalways have to act tough and likemanly things, and if they do,they’ll earn respect as a man. Wellas far as sports go, hockey istough as it gets, but it doesn’t getthe recognition it deserves.
Joey Gregory is a School of Artsand Sciences junior majoring injournalism and media studies. Heis an associate sports editor at TheDaily Targum.
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Senior point guard Khadijah Rushdan defends a shot from Connecticut guard and fellow leagueAll-First Team member Tiffany Hayes on Sunday in the Big East Tournament in Hartford, Conn.
At times, the defense did notaid the hurlers much.
The Knights committed eighterrors in the tournament, andopponents turned those into 12unearned runs.
Of fensive firepower wasalso tough to come by in the tournament.
Ohio held Rutgers hitless inGame 1, and only senior LindseyCurran, junior JenniferHarabedian and freshmanChandler Howard managed mul-tiple hits in a single game. Eachdid so only once.
Sophomore Megan Williamssees it as a learning experience.
“We just look at our mis-takes from this tournament,”she said. “It’s just a fault orstep back, but that’s not whowe are as a team. It’s not whowe’re going to be as a team.We’re going to go back to howwe were, keep the energy, keepthe faith.”
Thanks to the last tourna-ment, Rutgers has plenty ofthings to focus on in practiceleading up to this weekend’s USF Invitational.
The most important adjust-ment needed is more aggression on defense, Nelson said.
But his issue is that it is notas easy as it would be with of fense.
“On offense, you can runbases, you can steal bases andtake extra bases and double-steal and bunt and dif ferentthings,” he said. “On defense,you have to get the mentalitythat you’re attacking.Sometimes we sit back a little bit.”
Williams knows it is notonly defense that needs work.The pitching needs its fair share of practice before Clearwater.
“We’re going to work on get-ting ahead of batters,” she said.“A lot of times we have a ten-dency to fall behind on batters.”
The Knights begin playtomorrow at 9:15 a.m. againstWestern Michigan.
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WORD ON THE STREET
C olumbia head footballcoach Norries Wilsonwill be the Rutgers
football team’s new runningbacks coach, according to TheStar-Ledger.
Wilson also served asConnecticut’s offensive coordi-nator from 2002-2005. Hereplaces Ben Sirmans, who leftbefore ever coaching a day forthe Scarlet Knights.
Head coach Kyle Floodoriginally hired Sirmans fromBoston College to replaceChris Hewitt, who left for a jobwith the Baltimore Ravens.But Sirmans opted to takeposition as running backscoach with the St. Louis Rams.
The hiring of Wilson leavesspecial teams coordinator asthe only opening on the staff.
THE TEMPLE FOOTBALLteam will begin play in the BigEast Conference this season,according to ESPN. The Owlswill join the league in all othersports beginning in 2013.
The football team participat-ed in the Mid-AmericanConference from 2007 throughlast season, while all other pro-grams played in the Atlantic 10.
Temple will pay the MAC a$6 million exit fee. The schoolwould owe the A-10 another $1million for giving the conferenceone year’s notice to leave or $2million for less than one year.
A CHAIRMAN OF THENCAA men’s basketball selec-tion committee said that enter-ing Selection Sunday,Kentucky and Syracuse havethe edge for a No. 1 seed,according to ESPN.
In a Selection Sunday pre-view yesterday, committeechairman Jeff Hathaway saidvia teleconference theWildcats and Orange are likelyto get two of the No. 1 seeds.
Hathaway, the formerConnecticut athletic director,put other teams into a secondechelon: Duke, Kansas, NorthCarolina, Missouri, Ohio Stateand Michigan State.
He also said the Big Ten,widely perceived as the topconference this year, will notreceive special considerationfor a top seed.
MICHIGAN FOOTBALLwide receiver Roy Roundtreeand linebacker Kenny Demensmay have violated NCAArules, according to spokesmanJustin Dickens.
Both posted messages ontheir Twitter accounts tocongratulate a recently com-mitted recruit.
They tweeted to linebackerMike McCray of Trotwood-Madison High School (Ohio)yesterday after the highly tout-ed recruit decided to play forthe Wolverines.
The NCAA declined comment.
Michigan put itself on twoyears of probation in May2010 for four major practiceand training violations underformer head coach Rich Rodriguez.
GAME: Tournament leaves
Knights with multiple issues
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Delle Donne and Rushdan wereseniors that year. Delle Donnewent for her fourth state title.
But on March 4, 2007,Rushdan performed better thanthe best basketball player in thenation. She outscored and outre-bounded Delle Donne. Rushdan,at 5-foot-9, even played somedefense on 6-foot-5 Delle Donnein St. Elizabeth’s 55-45 victory.
“It made me feel like I accom-plished what I needed to,” Rushdansaid. “I would be really upset if Ihad to leave high school withoutwinning the state championship.”
Then the No. 13 recruit in thenation arrived at Rutgers. She lefta St. Elizabeth’s program whereFerrier said Rushdan “meanteverything.” She moved on to
play with a cast of highly toutedrecruits that head coach C. VivianStringer molded into her system.
Rushdan entered it as a head-strong rookie, which would not flywith Stringer’s intimidatingcoaching style. Instead, Rushdanembraced it.
“She was unapproachableafter a loss,” Ferrier said. “Years[after high school], Stringerbrought leadership out of her.”
Joining a team a year removedfrom an NCAA Finals run, leader-ship was not hard for Rushdan tocome by. Rushdan cites formerKnights Matee Ajavon,Epiphanny Prince and BrittanyRay as mentors.
“I love them to death,” she said.“They taught me not only skillthings, but just keeping a positivemindset and to be strong mentally.”
Rushdan is the team leaderfour years later to every Knight— upperclassmen and freshmen alike.
“[Rushdan] gives us moreflexibility because other peopleare not straining to dominate theball, make the hard decisionsand be calm,” said senior for-ward April Sykes. “She’s ourcomfort zone when she has theball in her hands.”
But Rushdan wants more thana Sweet 16 appearance. Even a 41-year head coach views Rushdanas a leader.
“There really is not a replace-ment for … Khadijah Rushdan,”Stringer said. “Make no mistakeabout it, who are the people whorun the engine?”
An ovation from the RAC faith-ful and an improbable state titleforced smiles out of Rushdan.Now Rushdan wants another rea-son to do so.
“I definitely want to get far-ther than we have been,”Rushdan said. “I have to doeverything to make sure we get there.”
WAYS: Rushdan wins state
title against nation’s top recruit
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CONOR ALWELL / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
It is the final event of a seasongeared solely toward performingthis month, when each weightclass names eight All-Americans— the one thing Goodaleacknowledges is missing from hisprogram is to take the next step.
But with Mason, Winston, sen-ior 141-pounder Billy Ashnault,junior 174-pounder Greg Zannettiand junior 184-pounder DanRinaldi, Goodale has the fivewrestlers he always expected to
contend for aspot on thepodium.
Ashnaul t ,M a s o n ,Rinaldi andWinston allqualified forthe tourna-ment twicebefore.
“The mind-set is that
we’ve been talking about it allyear,” said Ashnault, a captain.“The work’s been done. We justhave to focus on staying healthy,taking care of our body andwrestling seven minutes hardagainst anybody in the country.”
Health is the biggest concern forMason, who remains on crutchesafter spraining his ankle Saturday atthe conference tournament.
Mason’s Round of 12 loss lastseason was one of the motivatingfactors for an offseason of changearound the Rutgers program,which devalued its dual-meet sea-
son in an attempt to peak at theMarch 15-17 championships.
“We built it up for this weekend,built it up for March, so then wehave to do something,” Goodalesaid. “If we don’t … we have to goback to the drawing board. We’renot going to quit at trying to do whatwe need to do here. We have sometalented kids who are talentedenough to win at this tournamentand become All-Americans ornational champs. We just have to
find a way tobreak through.”
F o rWinston, thatway might behis motivation.
He expect-ed to be an All-A m e r i c a nalready, andhe knowswhat it lookslike when hefalls short.
The only thing blurry from lastseason’s loss is the cinder blockwall he sat and stared at, butonly because he looked at itthrough tears.
“I found out the hard way thepast couple of years that it onlymatters at this tournament,”Winston said. “To be honest, in mymind it’s two-time All-American orbust at this point. Next year is allfine and dandy, but I’m worriedabout right now — what’s going ontoday, what’s going on tomorrow.There’s no reason why not.”
I can be sitting in that hallwayagain crying. You might as welljust suck it up and fight.”
That is the attitude headwrestling coach Scott Goodalewants from the five ScarletKnights that qualified for thenational tournament.
W i n s t o nand junior149-pounderMario Masonare back afterd r o p p i n gtheir Roundof 12 boutslast year inPhiladelphia,where theyneeded one
more decision to reach the podi-um as All-Americans.
Both were favored in the seed-ings last season. Now, neither is.
“The reality is it doesn’t mat-ter where you’re placed,”Goodale said. “You’re going tohave to wrestle those guys any-way. You might have to wrestlethem in the first round, but thereare so many upsets. There’sgoing to be dudes falling, andthen some guys will get through,but you’ll see a lot of upsets. Youhave to be able to come off aloss, too.”
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Runner sets goals fornational recognition
BY ANTHONY RODRIGUEZ STAFF WRITER
The first time sophomore sprint-er and long jumper Asha Ruth rantrack was during her junior year ofhigh school. It was around the time
Ruth start-ed to real-
ize she had potential and a realopportunity to earn a scholarship tocompete at the Division I level.
Ruth worked continuously tomake her goal a reality, and in 2009Ruth became a part of the Rutgerswomen’s track and field team.
“When I recruited Asha, Isaw that she had tremendoustalent and ability,” said headcoach James Robinson.
Ruth entered her freshmanyear ready to compete and per-form at a high level, but her rookiecampaign was cut short because ofinjury. At the beginning of hersophomore year, Ruth still dealtwith the injury and redshirted.
“It really has been a struggle,”Ruth said. “It was hard. I neverhad an injury in high school, butthe experience made mestronger and hungrier.”
When Ruth was finally clearedto participate, she was deter-mined to make an impact.
“I have big goals,” Ruth said. “Isee myself going to the Olympics,so I force myself to work hard. I’venever settled for not being thebest in anything I’ve ever done.”
Ruth’s dedication is starting toshow on the track. Only halfwaythrough the year, Ruth alreadyproved herself to be one of theScarlet Knights’ top athletes.
In her first ECAC champi-onship, Ruth scored in both the200-meter dash, placing fourth, andthe long jump.
Ruth also placed eighth in the200-meter dash at the Big EastChampionships and is an impor-tant part of the 4x400-meter relayteam, which broke the event’sschool record.
“Asha no doubt is the hard-est worker on the team,”Robinson said. “She is rightthere with [senior sprinter]Nwamaka Okobi. They just havetremendous work ethic andhave pushed each otherthroughout the entire year.Everyone needs to be like thosetwo in terms of work ethic.”
If Ruth stays injury-free, theteam does not doubt she willcontinue to improve. Enteringthe outdoor season, Ruth has arealistic possibility of becomingan NCAA Regional qualifier inthe long jump.
“Asha has had a very productive,very good season,” said sprinterscoach Lou Tomlinson. “She is atremendous worker who is veryserious about her craft, and it showsin her results. It’s a great thingwhen you have a combination of tal-ent and work ethic like she does.”
Even though Ruth sets highgoals for herself, she exceededwhat she thought she was going todo this season, attributing a lot ofthat to Tomlinson.
“Coming into the season, Ithought I would excel in the longjump,” Ruth said. “But running-wise, Coach Lou has reallybrought out the speed in me.”
Ruth still has two moreyears of eligibility to improveafter this season.
“I just want to compete with thebest of the best,” Ruth said. “I amvery excited for this outdoor sea-son because I know that I havemore to give.”
BY BRADLY DERECHAILOCORRESPONDENT
While it has been nearly a monthsince Nicole Scott last competed onthe boards, the sophomore diverwas thankful for the practice time itgave her and her teammates.
“I think it actually helped usthis year because at [the Big EastChampionships] we all did reallywell,” Scott said. “But there were
things weneeded tofix, so thishas givenus time tofocus onthe details
of our dives and try and get themcompletely solid.”
The time in the Sonny WerblinRecreation Center pool will comein handy tomorrow, when theRutgers diving team begins com-petition in the ZoneChampionships in Buffalo, N.Y.
Schools from the East Coastwill send their divers to theregional Zone A Championship.
Each athlete has an opportunityto advance to the NCAAChampionships from March 15-17 in Auburn, Ala.
The last time the ScarletKnights took to the water wasFeb. 12 at the Big EastChampionships in Pittsburgh.Head diving coach FredWoodruff wished there was a lit-tle less time between now and thelast time the Knights competed.
“The girls are doing well,”Woodruff said. “I think weaddressed a few things that I thinkwill help them dive a little better pos-sibly in this meet. But it’s also been amonth out of competition, so it’s alsoa little funky that way, too. They’rekind of biting at the bit to go.”
The Knights have a reason tobe excited to get back in thewater. In the diving portion of theBig East Championships, theteam placed third with 52 points,behind Notre Dame and eventualconference swimming and divingchampion Louisville.
But a performance that did notcount toward the Knights’ score
at the conference championshipswill aid Scott the most.
The Toronto native earnedbronze in the platform event inPittsburgh. The dive has been amajor focus during their break forScott and her teammates.
“We’ve been practicing a lotof our dives like doing a lot ofrepetitions of our dives on allthe boards,” Scott said. “We’vebeen focusing a lot on our plat-form dives, too, because wehaven’t practiced that a lot dur-ing the year, and it’s a biggerfocus for Zones.”
The 3-meter dive will also be amajor event for Rutgers.Freshman Nicole Honey placedeighth in the 3-meter event dur-ing the league championshipswhile Scott finished ninth.Sophomore Valentina Gordonscored a 13th-place finish, whichgave the Knights three top-15places in the event.
Sophomore diver Nicole Scott, who finished eighth in the 3-meter at the Big East Championships,prepares for her possible season finale tomorrow at the Zone Diving Championships.
Divers cap season at Zones
WOMEN’S TRACK
LOSS: Five RU wrestlers
secure NCAA tournament bids
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DAN RINALDI GREG ZANNETTI
BILLYASHNAULT
Junior righthander Tyler Gebler, left, will pitch out of relief this weekend at Florida Atlantic. Gebler missed two of three series this season because of arm tightness.Junior catcher Jeff Melillo looks to get back on track after a 1-for-7 clip last weekend against No. 9 Georgia Tech.
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Tyler Gebler watched No. 9Georgia Tech sweep the Rutgersbaseball team last weekend in aseries of sporadic productionfrom his fellow pitchers.
But the junior righthander sawit all from his computer.
Gebler stayed home fromAtlanta because of arm tightness
— hem i s s e dtwo oft h eS c a r l e tKnights’t h r e e
series for that reason — butGebler is tired of missing time.
In the upcoming series thatbegins tomorrow at Florida Atlantic,Gebler will be a relief pitcher.
“I was hoping to be healthyfor last weekend, but we hadkind of a step back,” Geblersaid. “We’re going to take itslower this time — definitely along-term thing.”
Gebler has only appeared inone game all season, a no-deci-sion Feb. 24 against OldDominion. He stumbles into aKnights bullpen that needs help,having given up 10 earned runs tothe Monarchs.
“We have to get our bullpensquared away,” said head coachFred Hill. “What we had troublewith all weekend was really thelatter innings.”
Gebler could be exactly whatthe Rutgers bullpen needs. TheToms River South High Schoolproduct closed for the Knights hisfreshman year, concluding with a1.75 ERA and 12 saves.
The Knights’ bullpen includesfour pitchers with more than oneappearance so far this year. Onlyjunior closer Jerry Elsing sportsan ERA lower than 4.76.
Gebler can fill an immediateneed for relief pitching, but hesaid the team’s focus on him ispreparing for March 23, whenconference play begins.
“You have to look at the bigpicture,” Gebler said. “We’re look-ing to compete in the Big East, somy goal is to get healthy.”
Junior catcher Jef f Melilloalso watched one of the Knights’losses. Melillo rested in Sunday’s6-3 loss.
The Knights only walked twicein that game. Melillo struggledagainst Georgia Tech pitching,not walking at all in the series.
Melillo, the usual cleanup hit-ter, said the lineup needs to work
on plate discipline and workingthe count.
“We’ve been working inpractice on two-strike approachhitting,” he said. “We just battlein there and not necessarilychange anyone’s swings, butchange ever yone’s approachwhile hitting to battle more andwork deep into the count to try to gain walks and elimi-nate strikeouts.”
Florida Atlantic (8-5) is notthe No. 9 team in the nation, butthe Owls’ pitching staff cannotbe underestimated. Its ERA is3.79. It was even lower before a16-1 loss Tuesday to first-ranked Florida.
FAU’s starters also have oneluxur y the Knights’ rotationdoes not — the comfort of nothaving to pitch deep into a game.
Three of the Owls’ fourstarters average less than sixinnings per outing. Rutgers’ (3-6) starters average the same,but in the team’s three wins,each starter pitched at least 52/3 innings.
The FAU bullpen has beenmore reliable. Its top three reliefpitchers sport ERAs less than two.
Gebler was consistent hisfreshman year, but he will eventu-ally move back to the rotation. Hispresence could pressure his fel-low relievers.
Before Hill decides who willplay what role, he is looking tosee who overcomes the pressureand improves from the GeorgiaTech series.
“We had to go to the bullpen.It didn’t work out,” Hill said.“Sometimes it does, sometimesit doesn’t.”
BY VINNIE MANCUSOCORRESPONDENT
When the Rutgers gymnasticsteam takes the mat this weekendfor its tri-meet against Towsonand West Chester, it will be thelast time it does so in front of itshome crowd.
And while the majority of theteam returns to experience the
h o m ea t m o s -p h e r en e x ty e a r ,five sen-ior and
graduatemembers of the Scarlet Knightsuse the equipment at theLivingston Recreation Center forthe last time.
With only two meets left in theregular season, this weekend’shome meet is another bittersweetstep on the road to the end of theseniors’ careers on the Banks.
“This has all actually been a lotof fun because of course this is mysenior year, but I know the seasonis coming to an end,” said NicoleSchwartz. “It is really hard becauseI love my team so much. I havebeen with them for four years, andto know my journey is almost done— it would be hard for anybody.”
Schwartz competes for theKnights on the balance beam, anevent she was partial to since shearrived at Rutgers. As she standson the beam in front of the homecrowd, her only expectations areto contribute toward the Knights’overall score.
“That is the event I love. Ialways go out and do the best Ican,” Schwartz said. “As long as Iknow that I made it out of my sen-ior season, not getting injured andto go out on beam helping my teamthe best I can, that is all I want.”
For the younger members ofthe team who do not leave afterthis season, the meet is still asemotional. Sophomore all-aroundleader Alexis Gunzelman aims tohonor the seniors by competingthe only way she knows how.
“I definitely do not think thereis any added pressure. You gointo every meet and your goal isto get the high score for the year,”Gunzelman said. “I don’t thinkthere is any reason to put anypressure on yourself. You justhave to go out there and do whatyou have been doing, week in andweek out.”
When the Knights placed firstin their last meet a week ago,Gunzelman noticed a heightenedsense of energy from the team. Inthe final home meet of the sea-
son, Gunzelman wants the pas-sion to continue.
“I hope we can carry that intothis week, being as excited andloud as we were. It gives the teamthe sense of doing for the team,not just yourself,” Gunzelmansaid. “Everything you do on thegymnastics team now, it is aboutteam work and getting that highscore as a team.”
The day will be no less emo-tional for head coach LouisLevine. When Levine was promot-ed from assistant to head coachthis season after the departure ofChrystal Chollet-Norton, helooked to create a new culture ofgymnastics at Rutgers.
Along for the entire ridewith him is the class that cameto Rutgers the same timeLevine started as an assistant.For the first-year head coach,no group has been more benefi-cial to him than the one hesends of f this weekend.
“With the end of Chrystal’scareer and the beginning of mineas head coach, we have reallybeen trying to up the level ofgymnastics around here,” Levinesaid. “This senior class has been ahuge part of that. The meet thisweekend is going to be an excit-ing day and a sad day all at thesame time.”
RU faces final home meet with senior gymnasts
TRI-MEET AT RUTGERS, SATURDAY, 1 P.M.
GYMNASTICS
NELSON MORALES / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Senior Nicole Schwartz performs Feb. 11 on the beam. Schwartzand four other seniors compete for the final time at home.
RUTGERS AT FLORIDA ATLANTIC, TOMORROW
BASEBALL
Pitcher re-enters bullpen role from freshman year
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Rutgers tunesgame for nexttournament
BY JOEY GREGORYASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
One thing Jay Nelson has not seen fromhis team this season is consistency.
The Rutgers head softball coach wit-nessed his team start slow, surge, go coldand get swept in its last tournament.
In the openingtournament inLafayette, La., theScarlet Knightscould not pushacross runs or gethitters out at times.
The offense showed up to San Marcos,Texas, and the team looked like it started toclick. The Knights won two of their threegames and averaged more than five runs pergame during the tournament.
But when Rutgers arrived in Athens, Ga.,last weekend, its defense and pitching beganto falter. Opponents scored a combined 44runs in five games.
Nelson chalked some of that up to thelevel of competition.
“[This was] probably the toughest of thetournaments, but I thought we really had ashot to win three of the games,” he said.
The middle two games characterizedthat toughness.
Rutgers suffered a 12-1 loss at the handsof No. 7 Georgia on Friday, and then the fol-lowing day let a 6-1 lead turn into a 14-6deficit against Mercer.
According to Nelson, part of the issueagainst the Bears was the pitching staff’slack of sharpness it showed in Texas.
“The pitchers lost the strike zone,” he said.“We had six walks in an inning and a hit batter.”
The absence of freshman pitcher AlyssaLandrith did not help.
After picking up three of Rutgers’ first fourwins, the lefty earned the nod in the tourna-ment opener. But Nelson removed her afterfour innings because of tightness in her arm,and she sat out the remaining three games.
SEE GAME ON PAGE 13
RUTGERS VS. WESTERN MICHIGANTOMORROW, 9:15 A.M.
Memory ofloss hauntsRU junior
BY STEVEN MILLERCORRESPONDENT
Scott Winston is done losing sleep overlast year’s NCAA Championships, but thatdoes not make the cinder block wall he satand stared at any less clear in his memory.
The junior 165-pounder already knows ifhe gets into any tough spots next week at the
national tourna-ment in St. Louis,the image will befresh in his mind.
“If I get into adogfight and it’sabout advancing …
and it gets tight and I’m hurting a little bit, I’mgoing to start thinking about that hallway,”Winston said. “It was the worst feeling in theworld. That’s when that feeling will come intoplay. If it really gets tight, I can tough it out, or
SEE LOSS ON PAGE 14
BY JOSH BAKANASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
When Khadijah Rushdan received a louderovation than anyone else on the Rutgerswomen’s basketball team on Senior Night, thepoint guard could not help but crack a smile.
It was one of the rare times she did so onthe Louis Brown Athletic Center hardwood.
The Scarlet Knights faithful are moreaccustomed to Rushdan expressing pain,frustration and a contempt for losing.
It does not matterif she is running the
point, driving through the lane, playing thepost or diving for a loose ball. When thegame begins, Rushdan is all business.
After four years of grueling effort,Rushdan decided it was not enough. Her fifthseason collectively relieved the Knights.
“She wants it that much more,” said seniorguard Nikki Speed. “She’s not done playing withus. We all love the fact that she did come back.”
Rushdan experienced something that noteven her fellow seniors can claim: an EliteEight appearance.
The rest of the Knights roster has notmade past the Sweet 16. She was on the 2007-2008 team that sniffed the Final Four, sepa-rated by a 10-point loss to eventual nationalchampion Connecticut.
Rushdan viewed that game from the side-lines with a knee injury. Nearly four yearslater, she wants to return to the Knights’ win-ning tradition.
This year’s NCAA Tournament is herlast chance. Each game could be her last,and that is her motivation to exude endless ef fort.
“Being a senior and knowing that all Ihave is 40 minutes, it’s definitely essential forme to go out there and give it all,” Rushdansaid. “It’s going to be emphasized, beingaggressive but being aggressive in a smartway, putting myself in the best position formy team.”
Getting far in the tournament will betough for No. 24 Rutgers. ESPN bracketol-ogy projects the Knights as a No. 7 seed, thesame as they were last year when theypacked their bags after the second round.
But Rushdan’s will to finish business goesback to her days at St. Elizabeth High Schoolin Wilmington, Del.
“She wasn’t going to graduate withoutwinning a state title,” said Thomas Ferrier,Rushdan’s high school coach. “By all means,she had to win a state title.”
Rushdan made it to the finals twice.Both were losses, and both were to thesame team: Ursuline Academy, led byElena Delle Donne.
Delle Donne is now a Naismith CollegePlayer of the Year Candidate at No. 7Delaware, averaging 28.3 points and 10.4rebounds per game. In Wilmington, she wasa three-time state champion and the toprecruit in the nation in 2007.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
CONOR ALWELL / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Senior point guard Khadijah Rushdanprepares a free throw against UConn.
CONOR ALWELL / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Senior point guard Khadijah Rushdan attempts to shoot over Connecticut sophmore center Stefanie Dolson. UConn eliminatedRutgers in the third round of the Big East Tournament. Now the Knights anticipate their placement in the NCAA Tournament.
