BY MARISSA OLIVA STAFF WRITER The University will expand its course selec- tion through additional online courses starting this month with a new platform — Coursera. Coursera is a social entrepreneurship company that partners with the top univer- sities in the world to offer free courses online for students to take, according to the Coursera website. There are currently 2.7 million students and 62 universities that have enrolled in Coursera courses, said Daphne Koller, co- CEO and co-founder of Coursera. Students do not need to belong to a uni- versity or college to enroll in courses at Coursera, she said. Koller said the University has imple- mented the Coursera platform because they want to help provide great courses to stu- dents. In the platform, a professor pre- records the materials within a course. “Assignments are graded by the comput- er or by a peer-grading process,” she said. “Students help answer each other’s ques- tions on the discussion forum.” WEATHER Showers High: 48 Nighttime Low: 32 Serving the Rutgers community since 1869. Independent since 1980. VOLUME 144, ISSUE 89 • UNIVERSITY ... 3 • OPINIONS ... 10 • DIVERSIONS ... 12 • CLASSIFIEDS ... 14 • SPORTS ... BACK RUTGERS UNIVERSITY—NEW BRUNSWICK ONLINE AT DAILYTARGUM.COM THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2013 BLUE COLLAR REALITY COLLABORATING ON ENERGY Graduate students from the University’s Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship discuss their experiences researching renewable energy. UNIVERSITY, PAGE 3 THE MEDIUM’S CATASTROPHE The Medium is known for its offensive and distasteful humor. Yet they apologized for an article that upset the greek community. OPINIONS, PAGE 10 Shows like AMC’s “Immortalized” represent a departure, as networks have abandoned glamorous cities like New York or Los Angeles in favor of rustic, southern locales. Inside Beat looks at these new ‘Blue Collar’ shows. INSIDE BEAT Cuts in psychology impact exam format BY JUSTINA OTERO CORRESPONDENT Responding to budget issues, the University’s Department of Psychology has decided to experiment with conducting exams online, replacing the more costly Scantron sheets. Some professors have successfully conducted their exams online, but others have run into significant problems that have provoked mixed responses from students, said Lee Jussim, chair of the Department of Psychology. Tracy Ng, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said the new online format would cause trouble for students taking exams. Ng said two of her professors saved enough Scantron sheets to allow the students to have paper exams for their Sorority to close before fall 2013 BY SHAWN SMITH CORRESPONDENT College and Greek life go hand-in-hand for many stu- dents, and getting accepted to a sorority is a dream come true for some members of the University. For the sisters of the University chapter of Alpha Chi Omega, the dream will end after this semester. Cassandra Kotsolakis, president of AXO, said the sorority will remain an active sorority at the University for the spring semester, but will close before the start of the fall. Natasha Marchick, a member of AXO, said she was upset the chapter is closing after she joined last semester. “I’m sad and disheartened that we are getting shut down,” she said. “My sisters and I were devastated when University adds new online course program Documentary analyzes history of Indian cuisine The Department of Psychology’s budget cuts by the School of Arts and Sciences is affecting the way students take their exams. Students believe the new format would only cause problems. MARIELLE SUMERGIDO, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER BY RASHMEE KUMAR STAFF WRITER From between the flaky folds of a lentil flatbread, a Toronto professor and video artist uncovers issues of identi- ty, culture and diaspora in his latest documentary. Richard Fung will present “Dal Puri Diaspora” tomorrow at 7 p.m. at the Livingston Student Center, in an event host- ed by the Collective for Asian American Studies. Fung said he made the documentary after becoming interested in the migration of staple foods. He wanted to know how roti, an Indian bread, became the lentil-stuffed bread known as dal puri in the Caribbean nation Trinidad and Tobago, where Indians make up the largest ethnic group, he said. “People were at first incredulous that I was interested in tracing history through something as humble as the roti, but then they got excited,” said Fung, an associate professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design. The stark differences between the two related flatbreads SEE PSYCHOLOGY ON PAGE 5 SEE SORORITY ON PAGE 7 SEE CUISINE ON PAGE 9 SEE PROGRAM ON PAGE 6 The Theta Tau chapter of Alpha Chi Omega will be shutting down before the fall semester due to their small plege class. SHIRLEY YU, ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR FAST FACTS Coursera is a massive open online course platform offering free online courses through top universities around the world 2.7 million students and 62 universities have enrolled in Coursera courses to date The program, along with RutgersOnline, is part of the Universi- ty’s new Pearson Managed Program final — but for another course, Ng will be taking all her exams online. “It’s the most direct effect in a way. This is our testing, and tests make up a lot of our grade. I can tell there is a lot of has- sle, a lot of unforeseeable things happening, so a lot of things are out of control,” she said. Although the switch has financial benefits for the depart- ment, Ng said it still has its drawbacks, since the influx of stu- dents on the network caused it to recently malfunction. “We tried to take the exams in class and that was a fail because RUWireless couldn’t handle all of us,” she said. “I feel like the system is not really ready. Right now, it’s just a quick fix … kind of like putting a Band-Aid on a massive wound.” Koller said Coursera provides invaluable opportunities and experiences for students. “It helps them learn new things, which is important for expanding minds and opening job opportunities,” she said. Rome Chopra, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, used the Coursera database in the past and said he is extremely pleased with the sys- tem. He took an introduction to finance course for his own personal enjoyment and felt extreme- ly connected with the professor, he said. “The professor in my course was prompt with emails, helped me through material and even provided a video lecture review that I could watch at any time,” he said. Chopra said he aims to complete three Coursera courses by the time he graduates next year. Nina Dudko, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, said Coursera is a great program for the University to adapt, but thinks the platform could be better. “Online classes are more convenient than traditional classes, but college credit should be given,” she said.
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BY MARISSA OLIVASTAFF WRITER
The University will expand its course selec-tion through additional online courses startingthis month with a new platform — Coursera.
Coursera is a social entrepreneurshipcompany that partners with the top univer-sities in the world to offer free coursesonline for students to take, according to theCoursera website.
There are currently 2.7 million studentsand 62 universities that have enrolled inCoursera courses, said Daphne Koller, co-CEO and co-founder of Coursera.
Students do not need to belong to a uni-versity or college to enroll in courses atCoursera, she said.
Koller said the University has imple-mented the Coursera platform because theywant to help provide great courses to stu-dents. In the platform, a professor pre-records the materials within a course.
“Assignments are graded by the comput-er or by a peer-grading process,” she said.“Students help answer each other’s ques-tions on the discussion forum.”
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BLUE COLLARREALITY
COLLABORATING ON ENERGY Graduate students from the University’s IntegrativeGraduate Education and Research Traineeshipdiscuss their experiences researching renewable energy. UNIVERSITY, PAGE 3
THE MEDIUM’S CATASTROPHE The Medium is knownfor its offensive and distasteful humor. Yet they apologized for an article that upset the greek community. OPINIONS, PAGE 10
Shows like AMC’s “Immortalized” represent a departure, as networks have abandoned glamorouscities like New York or Los Angeles in favor of rustic,southern locales. Inside Beat looks at these new‘Blue Collar’ shows. INSIDE BEAT
Cuts in psychology impact exam format
BY JUSTINA OTEROCORRESPONDENT
Responding to budget issues, the University’sDepartment of Psychology has decided to experiment withconducting exams online, replacing the more costlyScantron sheets.
Some professors have successfully conducted theirexams online, but others have run into significant problemsthat have provoked mixed responses from students, said LeeJussim, chair of the Department of Psychology.
Tracy Ng, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said thenew online format would cause trouble for students taking exams.
Ng said two of her professors saved enough Scantronsheets to allow the students to have paper exams for their
Sorority to closebefore fall 2013
BY SHAWN SMITHCORRESPONDENT
College and Greek life go hand-in-hand for many stu-dents, and getting accepted to a sorority is a dream cometrue for some members of the University.
For the sisters of the University chapter of Alpha ChiOmega, the dream will end after this semester.
Cassandra Kotsolakis, president of AXO, said thesorority will remain an active sorority at the Universityfor the spring semester, but will close before the start ofthe fall.
Natasha Marchick, a member of AXO, said she wasupset the chapter is closing after she joined last semester.
“I’m sad and disheartened that we are getting shutdown,” she said. “My sisters and I were devastated when
University adds new online course programDocumentary analyzeshistory of Indian cuisine
The Department of Psychology’s budget cuts by the School of Arts and Sciences is affecting the way students taketheir exams. Students believe the new format would only cause problems. MARIELLE SUMERGIDO, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
BY RASHMEE KUMARSTAFF WRITER
From between the flaky folds of a lentil flatbread, aToronto professor and video artist uncovers issues of identi-ty, culture and diaspora in his latest documentary.
Richard Fung will present “Dal Puri Diaspora” tomorrowat 7 p.m. at the Livingston Student Center, in an event host-ed by the Collective for Asian American Studies.
Fung said he made the documentary after becominginterested in the migration of staple foods.
He wanted to know how roti, an Indian bread, became thelentil-stuffed bread known as dal puri in the Caribbean nationTrinidad and Tobago, where Indians make up the largestethnic group, he said.
“People were at first incredulous that I was interestedin tracing history through something as humble as theroti, but then they got excited,” said Fung, an associateprofessor at the Ontario College of Art and Design.
The stark differences between the two related flatbreads
SEE PSYCHOLOGY ON PAGE 5
SEE SORORITY ON PAGE 7
SEE CUISINE ON PAGE 9 SEE PROGRAM ON PAGE 6
The Theta Tau chapter of Alpha Chi Omega will beshutting down before the fall semester due to theirsmall plege class.SHIRLEY YU, ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
FAST FACTSCoursera is a massiveopen online courseplatform offering freeonline courses throughtop universitiesaround the world
2.7 million studentsand 62 universitieshave enrolled inCoursera courses todate
The program, alongwith RutgersOnline, ispart of the Universi-ty’s new PearsonManaged Program
final — but for another course, Ng will be taking all herexams online.
“It’s the most direct effect in a way. This is our testing, andtests make up a lot of our grade. I can tell there is a lot of has-sle, a lot of unforeseeable things happening, so a lot of thingsare out of control,” she said.
Although the switch has financial benefits for the depart-ment, Ng said it still has its drawbacks, since the influx of stu-dents on the network caused it to recently malfunction.
“We tried to take the exams in class and that was a failbecause RUWireless couldn’t handle all of us,” she said. “I feellike the system is not really ready. Right now, it’s just a quickfix … kind of like putting a Band-Aid on a massive wound.”
Koller said Coursera provides invaluableopportunities and experiences for students.
“It helps them learn new things, which isimportant for expanding minds and opening jobopportunities,” she said.
Rome Chopra, a School of Arts and Sciencesjunior, used the Coursera database in the pastand said he is extremely pleased with the sys-tem. He took an introduction to finance coursefor his own personal enjoyment and felt extreme-ly connected with the professor, he said.
“The professor in my course was promptwith emails, helped me through material andeven provided a video lecture review that I couldwatch at any time,” he said.
Chopra said he aims to complete threeCoursera courses by the time he graduatesnext year.
Nina Dudko, a School of Arts and Sciencesjunior, said Coursera is a great program for theUniversity to adapt, but thinks the platformcould be better.
“Online classes are more convenient thantraditional classes, but college credit shouldbe given,” she said.
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After Shannon Morath graduat-ed with a degree in English andFrench from New York University,she decided to apply to theIntegrative Graduate Educationand Research Traineeship at theUniversity because of an interest inenvironmental research.
“It’s been a long journey, but theprogram was the reason I came toRutgers,” said Morath, a third-yeargraduate student in the RutgersPlant Biology Graduate Program.
IGERT funds graduate studentsfor two years while they pursueresearch. The University is onlyone of two to have had six IGERTprograms, said Johanna Bernstein,the program coordinator for thenanotechnology and energyresearch sector.
Morath and Chris Petoukhoff,also an IGERT student, discussedsustainable energy and nanotech-nology in solar panels at theEnergy Café hosted by the RutgersEnergy Institute Wednesday in theBusch Campus Center.
Other IGERT students alsocreated posters to depict themany projects they are involvedin, said Linda Anthony, programcoordinator for the sustainablefuel IGERT program.
Bob Kopp, associate directorof the Rutgers Energy Institute,said he wanted a forum thatwould bring faculty, students andstaff together.
“It’s coffee and an informaldiscussion,” he said. “It’s more
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Bernstein said the Universitysupplements funding from NationalScience Foundation. Since 1998,there have been 300 programs with150 currently active.
Along with research, studentsparticipate with the many facets ofenergy technology through multi-disciplinary graduate classes andcollaboration between differentmajors, Morath said.
For her environmental impactresearch, Morath said she workedwith biology, public policy and pub-lic health students.
Bernstein said the programhad a variety of majors, such aschemistry, physics, materials sci-ences and electrical and mechani-cal engineering.
Petoukhoff, a School ofEngineering second-year graduatestudent, said his IGERT team wentto Highland Park ElementarySchool to teach third-graders aboutclean energy.
“We had to explain the basics tothem, which is completely differentfrom most academic presenta-tions,” he said. “But they enjoyedthe hands-on activities, so it waspretty fun.”
In his talk, Petoukhoff dis-cussed his research about solarenergy and nanotechnology,which he said could have implica-tions for the cost and function ofsolar panels.
“They have a lot of reallyinteresting features, but theyalso have a lot of limitations,”he said.
Petoukhoff said he uses plas-tic, an organic material, to pro-duce cells that would be cheaperto make and have less waste dur-ing production.
These plasmonic structuresnow contain gold, silver and indi-um, a rare element, so they areexpensive and not as efficient ascurrent materials, Petoukhoff said.He is working to change that.
He said his work is a combi-nation of theory and experi-ment. Petoukhoff is trying totest the things he finds in theo-ry to see whether they may betrue in application.
“We really don’t know where it’sgoing right now,” he said. “I hope ittakes off, but it might end up dyingeventually or becoming a niche.”
He said he hopes to get a facultyposition and continue learning,teaching and doing research.
Morath’s research varies fromstudying the chemicals released byfungi, to the use of cyanobacteria inbiofuel, to studying the effects of atree eradication project in an urbanarea, she said.
Morath said as part of the pro-gram, she helped create the newexhibit on alternative energy atthe Liberty Science Center inJersey City.
She said she studied theeffects of fungi and the volatileorganic compounds they produceon yeast and plants. She hopes touse this information to assist thegrowth of plants that could bemade into biofuel.
“Plants are wonderful littlebioreactors, and the idea is to use
that wisdom and see how we cantake the knowledge plants synthe-size and use that to make sustain-able fuels,” Anthony said.
Through the program, Anthonysaid she was able to collaboratewith the researchers at theWaksman Institute of Microbiology.She used them to look at the effectsof cyanobacteria, or algae, she said.
She said the program gave herthe opportunity to network.
“This past summer, we wenton a trip to Brazil to meet scien-tists [and] learn their processesfor sugarcane production,” shesaid. “That’s how I got into theyeast project.”
Anthony said students in theIGERT program have the best ofboth worlds.
“They get [to] do their Ph.Dresearch with top-notch profes-
sors in an energy-related field,and then they’re involved in theextra activities NSF requires usto do,” she said.
Daniel Nolte, a School ofEngineering senior, said heenjoyed hearing about the hot-button topic of energy. Hewas skeptical about the alterna-tive options.
“A lot of people say solar energyis a great alternative, but they don’trealize to take the entire nation andpower it with solar energy, you’dneed a solar array the size of Utah,”he said.
He said as a senior, he wanted tohear more about graduate researchand options.
“Anything that gives me a littlebit of a feeling for what [graduate]students are into [is] always helpfulfor my future planning,” he said.
The School of Arts andSciences’ shrinking budgetcaused the department’s finan-cial issues, Jussim said. Recently,the Department of Psychologyhas relied on its reserve account— funds they independentlysaved over time.
“No one has said we have nobudget … but we are operatingon fumes. I don’t expect that tobe permanent … they know wehave reserves, so at least for theshort term, we can survive onthis,” Jussim said.
Ng said earlier in the semes-ter, two courses conducting theonline exams at the same timecaused the Sakai system to crash.
The online exam format pro-hibits test-takers from returningto previous questions to changetheir answer, which is anotherissue for students, Ng said.
Jussim said the departmentunderstands students’ concernsand will work to figure out how tomake better use of the online meth-ods. Their primary concern is toensure that the switch from print toonline runs smoothly and effective-ly — showing students how to usethe new format is secondary.
“The most relevant thing is, itdoes provide appropriate testingof what you learned in thecourse,” he said. “The issue iswhether it’s a valid assessment of
Ng says two courses conducting online examsat the same time caused Sakai to crash
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The Department of Psychology is facing budget cuts that are forcing students to switch to anonline exam over the Scantron and written format. MARIELLE SUMERGIDO, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
what you know, and if you can dothat for less [money], then thereis no reason for us not to do that.”
Richard Falk, acting executivedean of the School of Arts andSciences, said moving the examsonline will be cheaper, but thedepartment will consider thewellbeing of students beforedoing so.
“We look at [whether] this [is]an effective way to teach the stu-dents,” he said. “We can’t be driv-en by the finances, we look at themost effective way for students tolearn, and that’s the way we wantto do the teaching. Money is afactor, but it doesn’t override.”
Natan Santacruz, a School ofArts and Sciences sophomore,said the department teaches psy-chology students like him aboutscientific method and the impor-tance of conducting tests proper-ly. He said the University shouldapply these techniques to theirdecision-making.
“We’re taught how studies needvalidity, [meaning] that tests shouldmeasure what you say they’re meas-uring, and the education systemisn’t doing a great job … measuringstudents’ knowledge,” he said. “Ifwe’re not doing a good job as it is, Idon’t understand why they wouldlimit themselves even further.”
Santacruz said his psycholo-gy class of 300 already usesonline exams.
“What bothered me was theywere spending billions … that they
didn’t need to spend moving theathletic programs to a differentconference,” he said. “That’s anunnecessary expenditure, especial-ly if they are having such financialdifficulties … the University is per-fectly comfortable spending allkinds of money in other areas.”
Contrary to rumors, thedepartment will not lose all fund-ing, but their budget has signifi-cantly diminished, Jussim said.
He said the University’sefforts to compensate for thedecline in funding from state sub-sidies and faculty raises haveattributed to the cuts.
“I have entirely … differentopinions about it,” he said. “If youdon’t have the money, you cannotgive the money, I get that. But atthe same time it has been verydifficult trying to run the depart-ment on essentially no budget.”
The depar tment hasendured these cuts with thehelp of their reser ve funds,while the School of Arts andSciences evaluates what can bedone to address the issue in thefuture, he said.
“SAS is in the process ofrethinking how it does budget-ing, and I am sure we will havesome budget next year,” he said.“I know [what] SAS says, and Ibelieve them — that they arecommitted to providing budgetsthat we can operate with … theyrecognize that we can’t operatethis way.”
In order to resolve the prob-lem, the school has to figureout an ef fective way to lessenthe amount of money given to the depar tment, while ensuring they still haveenough, Falk said.
“Because of state cuts … it’sbeen more difficult to do the fund-ing we want, but in no cases hasthe department been cut off fromfunding,” Falk said. “They havereserves to carry them throughand … the dean’s office is commit-ted to funding the undergraduate[education] that we need to.”
He said the funds the depart-ment receives from winter andsummer sessions in addition todonations will be adequate forcarrying them through the short-age.
“I have a budget committeeforum to look at how the depart-ment should be funded in thefuture, and I would say the firstgoal is to cover the cost of under-graduate [education],” he said.“That’s the principle. So there isno danger that psychology cannotcover these costs.”
In addition to the University’sadoption of Coursera, theUniversity also has a programcalled RutgersOnline, which beganin the fall of 1999.
Richard J. Novak, associate vicepresident for Continuing Studiesand Distance Learning, saidRutgersOnline is the unified admin-istrative umbrella to facilitate theoffering of the University’s fullyonline degree programs across thecountry and around the world.
“RutgersOnline works with thevarious schools and departmentson all three Rutgers campusesthat offer online degree pro-grams,” he said.
Nearly all of these degree pro-grams are a part of the newlyannounced Pearson ManagedProgram, where the world’s largesteducation and technology compa-ny is partnering with the Universityto provide the highest-qualityonline learning experience for stu-dents who will never come to thephysical University campuses,Novak said.
The Pearson ManagedProgram is important, he said,because online learning hasbecome a very competitive areawithin higher education.
He also said, in order to havean effective presence, a universi-ty needs to have a larger scaleand unified approach in present-ing itself as an option for prospec-tive students.
“[Online learning] enablesRutgers to achieve economies ofscale by marketing the entireUniversity program and then pro-viding specific information about
FEBRUARY 28, 2013UNIVERSITY PAGE 6
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each individual program,” he said.“Thus, Rutgers will be able to bemore cost-effective and reachmany more people with a ‘OneRutgers’ approach to onlinedegree programs.”
Michelle Casey, a College ofNursing junior, said havingonline programs is crucial forthe University.
“I often wondered why Rutgersdid not offer fully online pro-grams,” she said. “I think this willbe a great opportunity for studentswho need to use these sources forreasons such as illnesses or jobs.”
Through the PearsonManaged Program, students canaccess a suite of concierge servic-es, Novak said.
The program assigns students arecruitment coach who helps themdetermine if online learning suitsthem and directs students to thecorrect online degree program. Ifthe University admits a student, heor she will be assigned an execu-tive coach.
“The coach will check in withthem to make sure they are beingsuccessful in their online coursesand will connect them to eithertheir instructor or other appropri-ate resources,” he said.
Additionally, as students nearcompletion of their online degreeprogram, they will have the oppor-tunity to work with career coacheswho will review their resume, assistthem with interviewing skills andprovide them with access to a vari-ety of online tools, including vari-ous job data banks, Novak said.
Novak hopes RutgersOnlinewill continue to grow and expandthe degree programs availablefor students.
“We know that this type of pro-gram provides access to highereducation for students, especiallyadult students who might not oth-erwise have access or the opportu-nity to complete a Rutgers degree,”he said.
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we got the news.”Marchick said trouble arose
for the chapter after recruitmentand initiation in the fall of 2012.
“Headquarters flew in after thefall recruitment and said we weregoing to be shut down because wehad a small pledge class,” she said.
After working hard duringrecruitment, Marchick said thenews devastated the sisters at AXO.
“We worked so hard for formalrecruitment, working in heels andinviting girls into our house,” shesaid. “We put all of our hearts intorecruitment and this was not theplanned outcome.”
The shutdown was a decisionthat was not made lightly, saidJanine Grover, marketing andcommunications director atAXO headquarters.
“It is a very hard decision totake the steps to close a chapter,”she said. “It is one that is notmade easily, but the memberswill continue to be valued mem-bers of the organization.”
Grover said the shutdownbefore the fall semester came as aresult of efforts for recruitmentfrom the sorority. The organiza-tion’s focus was more towardrecruiting members and not on pro-grams within Alpha Chi Omega.
“Primarily, they are not get-ting the experience we want our
U.’s student-run satirical publicationretracts negative article on Theta Tau
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The University’s chapter of Alpha Chi Omega will be closing before the end of the fall 2013semester. The Medium, the University’s satirical newspaper, caused a controversy yesterdaywhen they published an article defaming the sorority. SHIRLEY YU, ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
chapters to have,” she said. “Wewant them to focus on being lead-ers and better versions of them-selves, as well as participate inprograms our chapters are in.”
Marchick, a School of Artsand Sciences junior, said shejoined because she had friends inthe University capter who recom-mended the sorority.
“They have always been warmand friendly to all the members,”she said. “They looked for uniquequalities in all of their pledges.”
Marchick said she was happywhen she became a member, asshe was able to make friendshipsand network for future endeavors.
“I met a lot of friends and gota lot of best friendship experi-ences out of it,” she said. “Theywere always genuine and mademe want to pledge with them.”
The decision to close theUniversity chapter of AXO mayhave been given a lot of thoughtat headquarters, but Kotsolakis,a School of Engineering junior,said chapter members werenever informed.
“We were never informed, andwe were given the OK by our[headquarters] to initiate ournew members last semester,which showed no sign of a shut-down,” she said.
Grover said there was not asingular reason that led to theshutdown of the chapter, but thedecision had to be made.
“It is not something we want todo, we want to work out a way tokeep a chapter open,” she said. “Itcomes down to asking ourselves‘How long can we afford to supportit?’ [and] ‘Can we better use theresources elsewhere?’”
The sorority became a target ofridicule on campus yesterday, whenthe University’s student-run satiricalnewspaper, The Medium, publisheda controversial article about AXO’sclosing. The article caused manyGreek-life organizations to speak outagainst the publication.
The Medium then issued anapology through its Facebook pageand website, and removed the onlineversion of the article.
“We are very humbled by theresponse from Alpha Chi Omega
and the Greek community, andunlike other articles in the past thatcaused a controversy, we believe thestudent response was so unanimousthat we couldn’t ignore it,” saidJordan Gochman, editor-in-chief ofThe Medium.
He said in the past, studentsbroke into factions over controver-sial articles — some supportingthem with others against them.
“The Medium will continue totake pride as the weekly humormagazine of Rutgers University,which is one of the only weekly col-lege humor magazines in NorthAmerica,” said Gochman, a Schoolof Arts and Sciences senior.
While AXO will be closed by theupcoming semester, the currentmembers will become alumni of the
organization, Grover said. They willeach have a lifetime membership inthe organization, as well as access tovarious opportunities.
“They can join our virtual chapteralong with graduates from Rutgers,”she said. “They can volunteer at ourevents, and they can apply foremployment at our headquarters inIndianapolis. They can remain asactive as they want to be.”
Grover said current mem-bers at the University are wel-come to become active mem-bers again if they decide to joinother areas’ members.
“As they move around the coun-try they can network and build theirown network within the organizationto further themselves in their lives,”she said.
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served as the ideal canvas for explo-rations of colonialism, history andthe Indian diaspora, Fung said.
“With dal puri, one can see howthe food changed in ingredients,ways of preparation, significanceand identity,” he said. “It’s the per-fect metaphor.”
Even within the category of dalpuri, Fung said the preparationvaries not only among regions of theworld, but also among individuals.
“Some people like lots of grounddal inside, while others find that toogritty,” he said. “Some like theirssuper thin, whereas my aunt servedme a thick dal puri, which sheproudly said was the homemadekind, not like in a roti shop.”
With the help of research grantsto cover travel and production costs,Fung said he went to London,Trinidad, India and Africa toresearch dal puri and shoot film forthe documentary.
Anita Mannur, an associate pro-fessor of English and AsianAmerican studies at MiamiUniversity of Ohio, said Fung’s doc-umentary engages with immigrantnostalgias of particular foods tounderstand the complexities of foodand identity.
Fung’s work is always thoughtfuland does not provide easy answers,said Mannur, author of “CulinaryFictions: Food in South AsianDiasporic Culture.” Instead, it asksto think more about the structuresof our desires.
“Why do we find comfortwith certain foods? How didsomething like dal puri come toexist in the Caribbean and bearso little resemblance to its name-sake in India?” said Mannur,who will speak at the post-screening discussion.
Fung said Indo-Trinidadians, aswell as other diasporic populations,may not realize that what theyknow as Indian or Chinese food isonly representative of one region ofthose countries.
“In places like Trinidad, it’s hardto grasp the utter diversity thatexists in countries like India, Chinaand Africa,” said Fung, who isChinese-Trinidadian.
People often have misconcep-tions about what kinds of foods arenative to each country becausethere is a range of tastes and prepa-rations of the same food within acountry, said Mannur.
“Who gets to decide what is realIndian food and what is not? Ifthere is something like authenticIndian food, does that somehowsuggest that there is fake Indianfood?” she said.
Mannur said food can foster asense of community, but can alsoostracize people, especially those inthe diaspora.
She said it could be difficult,especially as a child, to explain toothers why that ethnic group’s foodsmells or looks weird.
“I think of the weird looks Igot from kids when I ate curriedtuna fish sandwiches and howthat made me feel like even moreof an outsider,” she said. “I thinkthis is the flipside of food as feel-good multiculturalism.”
Michelle Stephens, an associateprofessor in the English depart-ment, said University students withorigins in the Caribbean shouldattend the screening to engage withpreviously unknown aspects oftheir heritage.
Students who do not know muchabout the Caribbean may find thatFung’s documentary challengespreconceived notions about the cul-ture and traditions, she said.
“[Fung’s work] presents a side ofthe Caribbean that is not aboutsandy beaches, palm trees and fun inthe sun, but rather an exploration ofalternative worlds in the Caribbean,and … colonialism that still shape[s]the tourist gaze on the Caribbeanislands today,” Stephens said.
Mannur said she is excited tohear how the attendees relate thedocumentary to their personal con-nections to food.
“Food is such an important partof our lives and to get to thinkabout it critically is fun and engag-ing,” she said. “I also hear therewill be roti, so why not relish theopportunity to have some excel-lent food for thought to nourishyour mind and palate.”
Fung says he went to London, Trinidad, Indiaand Africa to research dal puri and shoot forhis documentary
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This comes on the heels of The Onion — seeming-ly The Medium’s role model — publicly apologizing fora tweet it made that called 9-year-old actressQuvenzhané Wallis a “cunt.” Amid the controversy,they buckled and deleted the offensive statement. OnFeb. 26 we published a commentary from our formernews editor that called on people to “take a joke,” and
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Interestingly enough, on theirFacebook page, The Medium com-mended our publication on theopinion and even “appreciate[d]the gratuitous use of the ‘c-word’ inany form of print media.” Yet for apublication that advocates for a lib-eral exercise of the right to free-dom of speech, The Medium hyp-ocritically ate its words just
because they offended the greek community.We couldn’t think of another time that we’ve seen our
fraternities and sororities so fervently unite and get upin arms over an issue like this before. It seems to havecome more with the intent of proudly defending fellowgreeks rather than for condemning the inexcusable sex-ism portrayed in the satirical newspaper. And why isn’tanyone getting angry about the clearly racist portrayalof another sorority that was mentioned in the article?
Members of the greek community are not superior toanyone in our University by default. The Medium ismeant to indiscriminately offend — trust us, we’ve bornethe brunt of it. If one of us has to take it, we all have totake it. No one is supposed to get special treatment, andThe Medium totally punked out under the slightest pres-sure of intimidation. Frankly, we’re disappointed.
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T sk, tsk, tsk. You dropped the ball on thisone, Medium.
The University’s supposedly hardcore, give-no-shitssatirical paper did the journalistic unthinkable yesterdayand issued a public apology for an article that seems tohave offended the greek community on campus.
Many copies of the offensive newspaper issue myste-riously vanished from student centers and buildings, andThe Medium took down the article from their website.But don’t worry — we got a great screenshot of it first.
The article, titled “Alpha ChiOmega to Shut Down; ‘We don’twant to be like you ugly bitches’Potential Pledges say” insensitivelycovered the sorority’s oncoming clo-sure, depicting it as an animal farmwith a “pledge class consist[ing] of ameasly three wildebeests and an ele-phant.” The article also goes on todescribe the sorority sisters as fat,ugly and animal-like.
In one reported quote, TheMedium even depicted a pledge from a Latin sororityas speaking in a stereotypically trashy way.
There is no doubt about it — the article was incrediblydistasteful, derogatory and sexist. It was published on thesame day as The Daily Targum’s front-page story of aUniversity alumna dealing with her daughter’s bulimia-related death. It was also published during National EatingDisorders Week, which is meant to draw awareness to asensitive issue in our body-obsessed and image-centricsociety. Some of us may have been pissed when we firstread The Medium’s article, but we all became pissed whenwe watched how The Medium dealt with the controversy.
Sure, the article was false journalistic trash, buthow is that different from any other article that TheMedium has ever written? It’s a satirical newspaper —that’s what it’s supposed to do. Offend people. And if it
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parents. The realization usually hitsaround 10 or 11, maybe sooner for some. Itbecomes clear every decision made onyour behalf nudges you closer and closerto a predetermined ultimate goal. Forsome Arab girls, dare I say most, that is ahappy marriage(with all the neces-sary gossip sur-rounding it), a life-time of providing andsupporting and manychildren. To be clear,I could never arguethat the experienceof resistance so vividin my memories isthat of every Arabgirl. It’s very apparent to me that a risingnumber of women recognize this end as atraditional path and choose it regardless —after all, as the wise writer RenateRubinstein would suggest, “freedom is theright to choose the habits that bind you.”
For me, unfortunately, this natural coin-cidence of wants shared with my motherdid not occur. The reasons why are com-plex and scary to approach so I won’t beaddressing them here. What I would like
to address is how my story, and the storyof other girls like me, is quiet in the loud,bright world of explosions, gunfire,women’s bodies, and poor plot twists onscreen. Until Merida in “Brave,” Pixar hadbuilt stories around male experiences —
male robots, maleinsects, male fish,even male cars.
I shine a light onthis reality, not todemean or scoldPixar (their work isbeyond adequate inmany other ways) butto illustrate the under-representation ofwomen, and
inevitably women’s stories, in all aspects offilm — as characters, as producers, as writ-ers, as editors and so on. In a study com-pleted in Fall 2012 by the Institute forWomen’s Leadership here at Rutgers, it wasfound that “not only are women dramatical-ly underrepresented behind the scenes inthe U.S. film industry, they are also grosslyunderrepresented on the screen. Between1977 and 2006, women made up only 27.3percent of single speaking characters.”
The U.S. female population is 50.9 per-cent according to Census data from 2010.In other words, half of us are female. Andyet there’s a clear disparity between thenumber of women who actually exist inAmerica and the number of women whoexist as active, speaking characters onscreen. The reasons for this gap rangefrom film being a male-dominated indus-try to the weirdly widespread notion thatmen won’t watch films with leadingwomen, naively coined as “chick flicks.”These reasons are created, supported andexacerbated by the notion that women’sexperiences are not worth sharing,women’s experiences won’t be consumedand referenced by the public, and ulti-mately, that women’s experiences are notprofitable to recreate on screen.
But these assertions have been provenwrong repeatedly — from “Thelma andLouise” to “Bridesmaids” to “Kill Bill” andnow “Brave.” Women exist, in many forms,doing stuff, all over the place, and peoplelike it.
Yasmeen Fahmy is a 2012 Universityalumna and clerical assistant for theInstitute for Women’s Leadership.
week that made me cringe and annoyed meso much that I feel a moral obligation toshare them.
The first happened this weekend at aparty, when a random stranger called myfemale friend a slut. Itwas completely unex-pected, because it isso far from the truth.My friend was wear-ing a tight shortdress and taking pic-tures of herself — Iam convinced this isthe only reason shewas targeted as a slut. But get this: Myfriend has a boyfriend of three years. Sowhy was he so quick to drop the S-word? It’sbecause we live in a society that makeshuge assumptions about individuals.
The ubiquity of the word “slut” basesits foundation on assumptions and judg-ments people make about each other. It
shouldn’t be okay that our outfits triggerthe way we are perceived. And we all makejudgments on people by their appearance— women to other women, men to womenand women to men. We assume, we label
and criticize blindly— it’s disgusting.
The second inci-dent that really mademe cringe occurredat Brower Commonson the CollegeAvenue campuswhen my friendbrought up her
acquaintance’s promiscuity. She calledher acquaintance a slut because of hersexual desire for both men and women. Icould not believe she could think thatbeing bisexual was her excuse to get with“double the people.” Truth is, what thisacquaintance intends is none of our busi-ness. This example brings us to another
important factor in slut-shaming: the factthat we feel the need to make our neigh-bor’s business our own, when it is not.
Our college environment makes slut-shaming an ordinary event because wewitness these girls firsthand in miniskirtsor walking back to their place the morn-ing after a night out. Of course, it couldbe hard to ignore such behavior, but wemust realize that this has nothing to dowith us. We are in no place to make judg-ments on someone else’s appearance orapproach to sexual topics. And it is espe-cially not our place to discuss the promis-cuity of anyone else. The choices that oth-ers make in their sex lives are betweenthem and their partners.
Dannielle Romoleroux is a School of ArtSciences sophomore majoring in politicalscience and women’s studies and minoringin French. Her column, “Fourth Wave,” nor-mally runs on alternate Wednesdays.
you do not have the skill-set employers arelooking for. However, if you do have a back-ground in Excel and you can use more fea-tures than a graphing calculator, then it isnot so bad. In general, if you have technicalskills — basic programming, accountingconcepts, finance,and so on — you willbe better off.
This is where theuniversity can step in.Columbia Universityhas a program calledBusiness Edge. Inshort, it is a businessminor, but it is tai-lored for liberal-artsmajors to give themthe foundational busi-ness skills to succeed in the work place.
A perfect solution would be to offer asummer business session that is gearedtoward liberal-arts majors and teaches all thebusiness basics. This would bring additionalrevenue for the university and liberal-artsmajors won’t have conflict with their current
course load. Also, it is a good use of yourfreshman and sophomore summer when youare too young to be hired by companies.
Hard skills are crucial to landing a job. Butthe other side of the coin is, in the long-term,the most important set of skills are the soft
skills. Don’t let thename be deceptive —soft skills are exceed-ingly difficult to teachin a classroom settingand are best learnedwith hands-on experi-ence. You can be lec-tured about projectmanagement strate-gies, conflict resolutionand delegation untilyour ears bleed, but
the only way to learn these skills is by doing.These are the skills you want to learn in
college because the stakes for failure arelow. Imagine you have no experience in del-egation and you are put in charge of a$700,000 project for work — expensivelearning curve, right? The same concepts
and principles apply regardless of howexpensive the project is — you can join anynumber of organizations and learn how todelegate and your screw-ups only cost $100.
Getting involved with on-campus organi-zations is the best way to pick up cheap lead-ership opportunities where the cost of failureis low. Aside from the business skills, youmay even pick up a cool hobby that is a con-versation point in your interview — I lovetalking about writing for The Daily Targum.
The last part is the hardest to explain,but simply you need to get off your ass. Itis a competition to get jobs, and it is fierce— the economy sucks and everyoneknows it. Your bachelor’s degree is not aguarantee of a job. You can be in charge ofyour job prospects and your career trajec-tory. Learn some skills, get work experi-ence, and get involved on campus, and youtoo can be an employed philosophy major.
Ben Gold is a School of Arts andSciences senior majoring in philosophy andhistory. His column, “Talking Shop,” runson alternate Thursdays.
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I am a philosophy major with a good job— yes, we do exist. I’m not here toboast, but my experience as a liberal
artist to a healthcare consultant can providepotent insights to help liberal-arts majors toget into the workforce and for the universi-ty to facilitate it.
The most important factor is work experi-ence. I worked four internships in differentfields performing different roles. Not only dointernships get your feet wet in the businessworld, but they also signal what your workpreferences and aptitudes are. Not surprising-ly, the hardest internship to get is the first one,and it might be unpaid. Don’t worry — you’llget paid eventually, and your efforts will behandsomely rewarded when you graduate.
For liberal arts majors, the first intern-ship is the most difficult to get because
Don’t underestimate the importance of work experience
TALKING SHOPBEN GOLD
I was a senior in high school when I firstwrote about slut-shaming. At the time,I didn’t think I would be revisiting the
topic two years later. According toHuffington Post Blogger Soraya Chemaly,slut-shaming is a form of “embarrassing,insulting or otherwise denigrating a girl orwoman for her real or extrapolated sexualbehavior, including for dressing in a sexualway, having sexual feelings and/or explor-ing and exhibiting them.” This column isthe result of my frustration with the wordslut and those who abuse it.
I can accurately say I hear the word atleast once per day and twice per weekend.There are two specific instances this past
There is no excuse for slut-shamingFOURTH WAVE
DANNIELLE ROMOLEROUX
A week before the Academy wouldcrown its favorites I was submit-ting my $1 to our office pool. I
had a few reservations about betting onTommy Lee Jones as I wanted ChristophWaltz to win, but all Internet sourcespointed in that direction and, as we know,everything on the Internet is totally true. Ialso marked down Daniel Day Lewis forBest Actor, Anne Hathaway for BestSupporting Actress, and “Brave” for BestAnimated Feature Film. As I marked thebox, I floated back to watching “Brave,” orrather, crying in the theater while some-thing was playing.
The movie resonated with me. It wasloud in my mind for weeks after. And itreminded me of a time when I imaginedbuilding a good relationship with mymother, long before today. I’m sure mystory isn’t much different from the storiesof other girls, especially Arab girls.
As a child, you’re never told that youwill inevitably reach an impasse with your
Why are there no women on the silver screen?COMMENTARY
YASMEEN FAHMY
“I can accurately say I hearthe word [slut] at leastonce per day and twice
per weekend. ”
“Getting involved with on-campus organizations isthe best way to pick up
cheap leadershipopportunities where the
cost of failure is low. ”
“Until Merida in ‘Brave,’Pixar had built
stories around male experiences — male robots,male insects, male fish, even
male cars. ”
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Horoscopes / LINDA C. BLACK Pearls Before Swine STEPHAN PASTIS
Happy Hour JIM AND PHIL
Today's Birthday (02/28/13). Overall, this year is about fun, love andcreativity. Domestic life bustles until summer, when romance carriesyou away. You'll both teach and study this year. Travel to an ancestralhome. Keeping financial and time management practices in well-oiled harmony provides ease and peace. To get the advantage, checkthe day's rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
Aries (March 21-April 19) —Today is an 8 — You're moreresponsible for getting your econo-my growing than you think. Closefriends help you surpass obstacles.There's profitable work coming in.Accept their encouragement.Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Todayis a 7 — Find the perfect balancebetween work and play, or combinethem. It's possible. But don't over-look possible breakdowns. Takecare not to provoke jealousies.Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Todayis a 7 — Disagreements motivateaction and create a domino effectthat helps solve the puzzle. Yourinput is key. Go ahead and be deci-sive. Don't waste time arguing.Notice what you're committed to.Cancer (June 21-July 22) —Today is an 8 — Your heart istorn between business and pleas-ure. You know which one tochoose if you consider carefully.Home calls you tonight; post-pone travel or risky propositions.Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today isa 9 — Things may seem upsidedown today, but your mental pow-ers are strong. Don't gamble withyour reserves, however. Make sureto take care of your health. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Todayis a 9 — For the coming month,rely on a supportive partner.You're very lucky in love now. Addorganization to avoid missing animportant date. Stop doing some-thing that's unprofitable.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) —Today is a 9 — Look deeper andgain insight into your own high-er values. Begin planning homeimprovements. Do what workedbefore with a touch of your ownoriginality. Drink plenty of water.Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) —Today is a 6 — Be cautious withmoney. Try not to spend it all,and you could even profit. Giveyour partnerships some care. It'sbest if you don't force things tofit. Gentle pressure works best.Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) —Today is a 7 — Love is all you need.Detours may happen on the way toyour destination, so you may wantto give yourself plenty of time. Getin touch with your creative andopen mind. Friends lend a hand.Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) —Today is a 9 — You take on a vastproject. Being well organized iscrucial, especially because not allturns out as it appears. Give itfull effort and get a bonus.Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) —Today is an 8 — Don't buy treatsnow; add them to your wish list.Your experience is worth morethan your possessions. Throw yourhat over the fence and commit tosomething you've always wanted.Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Todayis a 6 — There may be conflictingorders, which forces you to be cre-ative. Being prepared is only part ofthe equation. You also have toimprovise. It's all in the listening.
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T he San Francisco 49ershave agreed to sendquarterback Alex Smith
to the Kansas City Chiefs,according to ESPN.
League sources told ESPNthe Chiefs will give up this year’ssecond-round pick in the NFLDraft, the 34th overall selection,along with a conditional mid-round selection in the 2014 draft.
The deal cannot be made offi-cial until March 12, and if success-ful, will give the 49ers 15 selec-tions in this year’s upcoming draft.
As a result of the deal, theChiefs are expected to release for-mer starting quarterback MattCassel, who has two years remain-ing on a $63 million dollar contract.
Smith suffered a concussionin the middle of last season,resulting quarterback ColinKaepernick taking over. Smithdid not regain his starting role asKaepernick led the team all theway to the Super Bowl.
Before his injury, the former2005 first-overall selection passedfor 1737 yards for 13 touchdownsand five interceptions.
ALABAMA HEAD FOOTBALLcoach Nick Saban announced thedismissal of four players from theprogram, according to CBS Sports.
Defensive back EddieWilliams, linebackers D.J.Pettway and Tyler Hayes andhalfback Brent Calloway were alldismissed in connection witheither second-degree robbery orcredit card fraud.
Williams, Pettway and Hayeswere arrested Feb. 11 for rob-beries on campus, whileCalloway was arrested for usingcredit card stolen from anAlabama student.
THE NEW YORK KNICKSannounced yesterday that forwardRasheed Wallace will miss theremainder of the season with a footinjury, according to CBS Sports.
Wallace will undergo surgeryon the broken foot he sustainedearlier in the season, and recov-ery will take at least eight weeks.
After coming out of retire-ment, Wallace came off thebench for the Knicks and aver-aged 7.3 points and 4.3 reboundsper game in 20 games.
Though Wallace could beback for the start of the playoffs,it is unlikely he will contribute.
The Knicks are currently33-20 this season and are thirdin the Eastern Conferenceplayoff standings.
THE NBA SUSPENDEDcenters David Lee and RoyHibbert one game each yester-day for their involvement in analtercation at the end of theTuesday game between theIndiana Pacers and GoldenState Warriors, according toCBS Sports.
The incident occurred in thefourth quarter after Lee andHibbert got into a shoving matchthat resulted in both benchesclearing as the fight was draggedinto the stands.
Warriors guard StephenCurry and forward KlayThompson along with Pacer’sguard Lance Stephenson werefined $35,000 for their involve-ment in the shoving match, butwill not miss game action.
Lee will appeal his suspen-sion, but Hibbert will serve histonight in the Pacers’ gameagainst the Los Angeles Clippers.
IN BRIEFMEN’S BASKETBALL PIRATES PROVIDE KNIGHTS WITH BEST CHANCE FOR VICTORY
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The Rutgers men’s basket-ball team has seen a tale of two seasons.
The first half saw wins highlighted by impressive scoring feats against out-of-conference opponents.
Led by sophomore guardsEli Carter and Myles Mack, theScarlet Knights were on a mis-sion to prove head coach Mike Rice’s preseason comments true.
Rice said during Oct. 19’sMedia Day the team wasstronger, and along with the yearof experience, would lead to visi-ble improvement.
In addition, ESPN’sBracketologist Joe Lunardi list-ed the Knights as one of his“first four out,” proving the pos-sibility for them to earn theirfirst NCAA Tournament bid inmore than 20 years.
The 10-2 out-of-conferencerecord made it look like the third-year head coach’s expectationswould be fulfilled.
That was shortly followed bythe best five-game start to a BigEast schedule (3-2) under Rice,which further increased thepotential for the team to increaseits accomplishments.
At that point in the season,Rutgers was well above the linethat would hand them a bye in the first round of the Big East Tournament.
All the Knights had to do waswin four of the remaining 13 gamesto set a new mark for Big East winssince Rice took over the program.
They even won against aranked Pittsburgh team to lifttheir résumé for the rest of a dif-ficult conference slate.
That difficult slate also hadsome games against teams suchas St. John’s, Providence andDePaul, all of which have lowerRPIs than the Panthers.
But despite the numbersbeing in their favor, the Knightswill have to win out in theirschedule in order to achievethose four wins.
The only conquest during thelast 10 games came in the com-fort of the Louis Brown AthleticCenter against a weak SetonHall team.
Now the Pirates look like theonly winnable game left on theschedule, as the other twomatchups include ranked oppo-nents in No. 8 Georgetown andNo. 22 Marquette.
The issue is not that Rutgerscannot compete with thetougher teams — it performsbetter than a team that has lostnine of its last 10 — but that itcannot compete for the entiregame, as evidenced in the 19-0run it gave up Saturday against Providence.
“We had a good ef fort,” Ricesaid after Saturday’s game,“but in the Big East, that’s
not good enough. You need to fight for 40 minutes and be consistent.”
In recent games, theKnights have been the modelof inconsistency. They haveheld sizeable leads in nearlyevery game — some of whichreached double digits — andlost all of them.
Against more daunting oppo-nents, they could use the excusethat they were outmatched, butnever do.
Rutgers always remainsfocused on how close it camerather than congratulatingitself for almost pulling of f an upset.
“There was some execution,”Rice said. “Moral victories aren’tworking here. We need consisten-cy and a mentality.”
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That responsibility is going asdeep into games as possible to putless of a burden on the bullpen.
“[Going long innings] puts ahuge amount of relief on ourbullpen because it saves arms,”said senior reliever Nathaniel Roe.“Guys are able to stay fresher intothe rest of the weekend and itmakes everything ten times easieras far as preparation is concerned.”
Roe closed out the game shutoutfor Smorol on no hits with onestrikeout in the bottom of the ninth.
“When the guy gives you thatgood of a game, you are going towant to finish it off for him andget the W,” Roe said. “Obviouslythere is some added pressure butyou know what you have to doand pretty much compete.”
There is urgency to do well inhis relief, it also allows Hill tosave the majority of his bullpenfor later in the series, where theymay be needed more if the No. 2and 3 starters do not go as long.
“It’s big,” Smorol said. “You gowith whoever is hot, either[Nathaniel] Row or [senior relieverRob] Corsi or even [ junior relieverCharlie] Lasky, and you only haveto use one or two of them ratherthan using three or four of them.… It’s big on their arms not pitch-ing a lot over the weekend.”
For Hill to enjoy that luxury,Smorol will have to replicate hisouting in the Knights’ first gameagainst Georgia Tech. TheYellow Jackets are No. 16 in thecountry according to BaseballAmerica with a 6-1 record.
But Hill sees no reason whySmorol cannot match with thestep up in talent.
“I think he likes the chal-lenge,” Hill said. “He likes to pitchagainst the better teams and thisis one of the better teams we aregoing to play. He’ll be ready.”
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Yellow Jackets giveSmorol opportunityearn second victory
PSYCHE
CONTINUED FROM BACK
Stringer provideslessons beyond gamethat she coaches
VICTORY
CONTINUED FROM BACK
Senior guard Erica Wheeler said she cried “a couple times” when an opponent had preventedhead coach C. Vivian Stringer from her 900th win. NELSON MORALES, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Rutgers finally snapped out ofits four-game skid. The playersknew the victory would eventual-ly come, but became anxiousafter failing to secure the win fortwo weeks.
But they struggled in recentweeks and their troubles began totake a toll on a team that was des-perately trying to win a game forits coach.
“It is almost a little heart-breaking because she gives herheart out when she coaches,”said senior guard EricaWheeler after the game. “So tonot get her that 900th win assoon as we needed to, I cried acouple times at night. It wasimportant tonight to definitelyget her that win.”
As the regular season windsdown, the Knights remain opti-mistic. Sophomore forwardBetnijah Laney made it simple.
“We’re just working to get her tomore and more wins and hopefully,a National Championship,” she said.
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the Scarlet Knights to execute,shouting at players after a miscueor praising them for good play.
She feels she holds the respon-sibility to provide each player onthe roster with the essential toolsto go beyond basketball.
Her goal is to transform herplayers who are becoming accli-mated to college to adults whohave success in the future.
“My purpose in life is to helpyoung women,” Stringer said.“[Help them] to be strong, to keepgetting up and to be empowered.”
Stringer recently told the storyof her contributions after she wasfeatured in a PBS documentaryentitled “Makers: Women WhoMake America,” which happenedto premiere on the night of her his-toric feat.
The Scarlet Knights (15-12, 6-8)delivered Stringer win No. 900 afterfending off South Florida 68-56.
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WRESTLING RUTGERS HOST CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP FOR FIRST TIME
Offical weighs in on EIWA TournamentBY BRADLY DERECHAILO
ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
For the Rutgers wrestlingteam, it will be one of the morecomfortable EIWA Tournamentsin recent memory.
The Scarlet Knights can chalkthat up to a program first.
Rutgers will host the tourna-ment on campus for the firsttime since it became a memberof the conference.
But the reason the tourna-ment has not come to campushas nothing to do with theschool itself.
It is because Rutgers has sim-ply never inquired about hostingthe event.
“Basically, it’s been a prettyinformal process in the past, wherethe coach meets with their athleticdirector or sports administratorand says they want to host theEastern Championships and theypick a date,” said Greg Strobel,Executive Director of the EIWA.
WOMEN’S TRACK
RU pushesfor successin meet
BY EMMANUEL GERMANCONTRIBUTING WRITER
Rutgers head women’s trackand field coach James Robinsonenters his seventh year as headcoach after 11 years as an assistant.
With the Scarlet Knights prepar-ing for the Eastern College AthleticConference meet, held at BostonUniversity tomorrow, Robinson isconfident his team will perform.
“Our goals are higher thanlast year,” Robinson said. “Topthree is our goal, so we will try togive it a good run. Expectationlevels are always going up, so wewill try to be on that podium.”
In order to reach those goals,the team has to get healthy at theright time, along with workinghard in practice.
Robinson said the Knightshave been on the right path inthose circumstances.
“It has been tough with kidsin and out with injuries,”Robinson said. “But we’re not theonly team to deal with that.Every team deals with it, but ourkids were nicked up and are nowgetting healthy.”
Outside of the NationalCollege Athletic Association’sChampionships, the ECAC is themost important for the Knights.
Robinson believes his teamhas done everything it can withthe scarce amount of time to per-form well in the event.
“We increase the intensity alittle [as time nears],” Robinsonsaid. “The athletes are gettingfaster and are in [better] condi-tion. We got to make sure theyare in top shape.”
The physical part is just onedynamic to such a significantcompetition, with the other per-taining to mentality of runninga championship.
“As far as the trip goes, there isno fatigue at all. We’re fresh,”Robinson said. “There are otherteams that have to travel evenmore than us, so we will be ready.”
The Scarlet Knights competedwell last year, but failed to securethe top-three finish Robinson wants.
For now, he wants to see histeam on top of the podium ineach event.
Strobel said the conferenceofficials like to get who is host-ing the tournament years inadvance, as the tournamentalready has a home through the2015 season.
The tournament will be heldMarch 8-9 at the Louis BrownAthletic Center, a sight that allowsfor high attendance numbers.
Strobel said that the idealnumber for the postseason venuewould have seating for 2,000-3,000 people.
As far as the facility is con-cerned for Strobel, who also usedto be the head coach at Lehighand is in the wrestling Hall ofFame, it is an ideal place.
“The RAC is a great facility. Iwent there a couple of years ago,and I was really impressed withit,” Strobel said. “It really makessense to go to the RAC and it’s abeautiful facility. It’s a great loca-tion right off of the freeway, soI’m expecting a big crowd and forthem to do a good job of hosting.”
While the appearance of thehost arena is a bonus, the driv-ing force comes from themoney generated from theevent, and if Rutgers can getthe RAC even half full, it wouldmean a lot of money for all of the schools involved, Strobel said.
“Traditionally, the tournamenthas made money,” Strobel said.“Princeton did pretty well andmade money and we always dowell at Lehigh.”
No matter the case, the tour-nament at least provides Rutgerswith a chance to put behind thePenn State match, a 34-0 defeat atthe RAC.
For Winston, hosting the tour-nament is just another reasonwhy he believes the program ison the way up.
“It means a lot to me,”Winston said. “If you weren’tfrom [New Jersey], you proba-bly didn’t know what Rutgerswas, and that’s including all of
the teams in the EIWA. ... Iwould love to get another one,and that’s where all my focus isright now and my focus is to get better.”
While it is a milestone forRutgers, it will be short-lived, asRutgers is set to move to the BigTen Conference in time for the2014-15 season.
So for Strobel and the rest ofthe EIWA, the tournament rep-resents the last chance for theconference to get a look at thedeparting program.
“We’re sorry to see them go to the Big Ten, but understand the reasons why interms of other sports,” Strobelsaid. “Rutgers has been a great competitor for us andbeen a great team in the EIWA Conference.”
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The Rutgers women’slacrosse team travels toMonmouth on Saturday,attempting to string togetherconsecutive wins for the firsttime this season.
The Scarlet Knights (2-1)lost their only game on theroad to Temple on Feb. 20,after they failed to hold onto atwo-goal lead.
The Owls scored four unan-swered goals en route to a sec-ond-half comeback, one of theKnights’ only missteps ondefense this season.
Junior defender Chelsea Intrabartola said she and the rest of Rutgers’ defense benefit from head coach Laura Brand-Sias’ game plan of ball control. The defensewill have to play a larger part for RU with the absence of leading scorer Stephanie Anderson, who is sidelined with a knee injury. LIANNE NG, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Knights gear for Hawks without offensive threatthe Knights have benefitted bydeveloping early chemistry.
“They all kind of know whatthe other one is going to bedoing,” Brand-Sias said. “Theywork off of each other and com-municate really well.”
Much of the Knights’ abilityto stall the Stags’ scoring camefrom smart play in their offen-sive zone.
Junior defender ChelseaIntrabartola said the defense ben-efits from the Knights being care-ful with the ball and not commit-ting a lot of turnovers.
“It’s a lot harder when theoffense and defense are sort ofplaying separately from eachother,” Intrabartola said. “Whenwe’re all having a good game, it’sa lot easier for us to do our jobon defense.”
Rutgers possessed the ballfor long periods of time, con-trolling the tempo of the gameand holding back on betterscoring opportunities.
Monmouth enters the gamelooking for its first victory ofthe season. The Hawks (0-3)lost to Navy Sunday by a scoreof 16-4.
For the Knights, it may bedifficult to resist taking moreshots against a stumblingHawks squad.
But Brand-Sias is not con-cerned with what the opponentbrings to the match and will stickto her game plan.
Monmouth has allowed nofewer than 14 goals in each ofits first three games and hasyet to eclipse seven goals on of fense.
The Hawks even surren-dered 14 goals to Fairfield in itsseason opener.
“Shot placement is a bigthing for us,” Martinelli said.“We really need to focus on plac-ing the ball and making smartdecisions on when to shoot andwhere to shoot.”
Junior midfielder Katrina Martinelli will become Rutgers’ biggest threat on offense thanks to Anderson’s injury. Martinellicollected nine goals in three games, two more than she had all of last season. LIANNE NG, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Rutgers has allowed an aver-age of 5.33 goals per gamethrough three contests, good foreighth-best in the nation.
In the win against Fairfield lastSaturday, the Knights held the Stagsto three goals and only one throughthe first 50-plus minutes of play.
While the Knights onlyscored five goals in the game,their plan proved to be enough toget the victory.
Rutgers may have to makedefense its first priority going for-ward, after losing senior co-cap-tain midfielder StephanieAnderson to a knee injury.
In two games this season,Anderson tallied seven goals and
along with junior midfielderKatrina Martinelli, provided mostof the Knights’ offense.
“Steph was a big part of ourteam, but while she’s out we defi-nitely need to have people step-ping up and being leaders on thefield and off the field,” Martinellisaid, “Because when she’s not in,it makes a big impact.”
In the season opener againstManhattan, Anderson tied a sin-gle game career-best mark withfive goals scored.
With Anderson possiblysidelined for the rest of thenon-conference schedule,Martinelli becomes the maintarget on of fense.
She scored on a free positionattempt against Fairfield withless than five seconds remain-ing in the first period to givethe Knights a two-goal lead atthe half.
But head coach Laura Brand-Sias believes the rest of theKnights’ offense will cometogether with enough experience.
“I think that we’re a very well-rounded offense,” she said. “Wehave a lot of different weapons soit’s a matter of getting enoughpractice time to really develop thechemistry between all the talentthat we have.”
Rutgers returns five playerson defense from last season and
TOUGH ROAD AHEAD Two ranked opponentsremain on the Rutgers men’s basketball team’sschedule, as it looks to end a season full of disappointments on a high note. PAGE 17
COLLEGE BASKETBALL SCORES EXTRA POINT RUTGERS SPORTS CALENDAR
SPORTS
PROGRAM FIRST The Rutgers wrestling team will hostthe EIWA Championships next week for the first andonly time in team history, with the Knights set to moveto the Big Ten in the near future. PAGE 18
SCORING BLUES The Rutgers women’slacrosse team will rely on its wholeroster to compensate for the scoringloss of Stephanie Anderson. PAGE 19
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“We had a good effort, but in the Big East, that’s not good enough.”
— Rutgers head men’s basketball coach Mike Riceon Saturday’s loss to Providence
KEVIN BOSTICKtook third place in the BigEast Championships twoweeks ago with 15.11meters in the triple jump,which qualified the seniorfor tomorrow’s IC4AChampionships is Boston.
MEN’S LACROSSE
vs. Stony Brook
Saturday, 1 p.m.RU Stadium Complex
WOMEN’S TRACK
at ECACChampionship
FridayBoston
MEN’S TRACK
at IC4A Championships
FridayBoston
GYMNASTICS
vs. Cornell, Brockport, William &Mary
Saturday, 1 p.m.Livingston Gym
No. 7 GTownConnecticut
South FloridaNo. 23 Pittsburgh
No. 4 MichiganPenn State
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Virginia TechNo. 5 Miami
No. 15 Ok. St.TCU
Saint Joseph’sNo. 18 Saint L.
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BASEBALL SMOROL’S PERFORMANCE ON HILL BENEFITS BULLPEN, DEFENSE
Senior lefthander Rob Smorol allowed no runs on four hits with seven strikeouts in eight innings of work Friday against ODU.The performance netted Rutgers No. 1 starter Big East Pitcher of the Week honors. THE DAILY TARGUM, APRIL 2012
Start benefits pitcher’s psyche BY BRADLY DERECHAILO
ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
Rutgers head baseball coach Fred Hillknew exactly what being named Big EastPitcher of the Week would do for RobSmorol’s mentality on the mound.
“I think his confidence level has to be skyhigh,” Hill said. “It adds a little more to that.He certainly deserves it.”
Smorol earned the recognition thanks tohis showing on the hill in the Scarlet Knightsfirst victory of the season. SEE PSYCHE ON PAGE 17
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Head coach C. Vivian Stringer is relievedto stop focusing on getting win No. 900. NELSON MORALES, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Head coachreflects on900th victory
BY AARON FARRARCORRESPONDENT
As the time on the clock eventuallyexpired at the Louis Brown Athletic Centeron Tuesday night, fans and players alikecould not contain themselves following thefinal buzzer.
Rutgers head women’s basketball coachC. Vivian Stringer waltzed to midcourt as thelatest college basketball head coach to col-lect 900 victories.
By the end of the historic night, chants of“900” and “C.V.S.” rang out, and several cam-era flashes brightened the arena as fans triedto capture the moment.
As the cheers silenced and people turnedto exit the building, the Hall of Fame coachbelieved the accomplishment transcendedthe 40 minutes of basketball that had justbeen played.
“It is more than a game, it is about apreparation for life,” said Stringer, who is inher 18th season at Rutgers. “It is aboutunderstanding that when things are roughyou may get knocked down and there may bedoubters, but you will still rise.”
In the 42 years of coaching the sport shehas an indescribable passion for, Stringerdoes not view her job as just creating plays for
SEE VICTORY ON PAGE 17
The senior lefthander threw eight inningsin the 3-0 win against Old Dominion, an efforthe partially credits to the rejuvenation of hiscurveball he worked on in the offseason.
He struck out seven Monarchs in his sec-ond start of the year, bringing his total to 13 thisseason. The total is the highest on the team.
With only one walk in the game and twoon the season, his control is more importantthan any awards he receives.
Still, he does not mind the attention.“It felt good. I guess you can say it was well
deserved,” Smorol said. “I was happy that I
was able to get some recognition, but I’mmore happy with how the way I threw andhopefully I can continue that and not reallyworry about the accolades and worry aboutthe game.”
The performance also put a stamp onSmorol being Hill’s No. 1 pitcher. Smorolsaid his spot in the rotation does not matterbecause he and senior righthanders TylerGebler and Charlie Law share equal respon-sibilities no matter who starts which day.
