Research Symposium Friday at the Rutgers Student Center. The sympo- sium showcased the research of more than 450 undergraduate students who participated in the many programs offered by the research center. Hundreds of posters were dis- played in the Multipurpose Room, and 18 panels of undergraduate researchers discussed their work. The center was founded in 2004 after a donation from Jerome and Lorraine Aresty, University alumni, said Dean Matthew Evans, director of the Aresty Research Center. Evans said, originally 30 students conducted research through the center. It has since grown to involve more than 400 students, with more than 200 faculty members commit- ting their involvement for next year. “Rutgers is an engine for knowl- edge, creation and innovation, and getting undergrads involved is cru- cial,” Evans said. The students’ research spans 60 departments, institutes and centers throughout the University, Evans University alumnus Jason Goldstein said he founded the Livingston Theater Company during his first year 15 years ago to provide students with a cheap way to go see live musicals and give the perform- ers a way to exercise their creativity. “For the 15th anniversary, we decided to have a party — like a reunion to bring everyone back,” Goldstein said. He said the point of the reunion was to give former members a chance to reconnect and reminisce and to help current students involved with the Livingston Theater Company see they are a part of a legacy. The members get to meet all the generations of past students who are just as enthusiastic about theater as they are, Goldstein said. The anniversar y gala is set to take place May 11. Goldstein said it would BY SHAWN SMITH CORRESPONDENT On a cold, brisk morning yester- day, beneath a cloudless, sunny sky, about 6,000 people stood in silence before the fourth annual UNITE Half Marathon and 8K. During the moment of silence for the Boston Marathon, the only sound was that of thousands of flags rustling in the breeze. Then, with a bang, the run- ners were off. Organizers distributed roughly 3,000 American flags before the race began, said Michele Redrow, co-owner and race director for CGI Racing. The Scarlet Knight held a large American flag during the national anthem. The event spanned the major parts of the Busch, Livingston and College Avenue campuses and redi- rected bus routes for the majority of the morning. According to the CGI Racing web- site, Demesse Tefera, a 34-year-old from Washington D.C., finished first in the male participant category of the half marathon, ended with a time of 1:07:50, just 2 minutes and 50 seconds behind the Olympic qualifying time. Hirut Beyene Guangul finished first in the female participant category of the half marathon with a final time of 1:16:41, 1 minute and 41 seconds over the Olympic qualifying time, according to the website. She also fin- ished among the top five runners. The University and United Healthcare sponsored the race, which had the majority of the SEE WINNERS ON PAGE 6 WEATHER Partly Cloudy High: 55 Nighttime Low: 42 Serving the Rutgers community since 1869. Independent since 1980. VOLUME 144, ISSUE 117 • UNIVERSITY ... 3 • SCIENCE ... 7 • OPINIONS ... 8 • DIVERSIONS ... 12 • CLASSIFIEDS ... 14 • SPORTS ... BACK RUTGERS UNIVERSITY—NEW BRUNSWICK ONLINE AT DAILYTARGUM.COM MONDAY, APRIL 22, 2013 Theater company to celebrate 15th year University students present research at annual symposium The Livingston Theatre Company will celebrate its 15th anniversary May 11 with a gala featuring present and past members of the company. NELSON MORALES, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER BANKIN’ ON THE BEATS The Rutgers University Programming Association hosted ‘Beats on the Banks, featuring Alesso,’ Friday at the Louis Brown Athletic Center on Livingston campus. NELSON MORALES, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER BY ZACHARY BREGMAN STAFF WRITER The Livingston Theater Company has put on plays and musicals for University students for the last 15 years, from shows like “Footloose” to “Little Shop of Horrors.” The University’s LTC marked their 50th show with a production of “The Producers” on Saturday and Sunday, the last showings of the year for the LTC. SEE COMPANY ON PAGE 4 BY ENRICO CABREDO STAFF WRITER Gabriela Pikul said she never thought she would be researching particle collisions — the Aresty Research Center gave her the chance to do so. “[My professor] said, ‘there’s this program, you should apply for it. It’s a good way to get started in research,’” said Pikul, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. The Aresty Research Center held its ninth annual Undergraduate UNITE Half Marathon winners shy of Olympic qualifications Joseph Pellegrino, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, judged the research posters created by students Friday. ENRICO CABREDO, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER SEE SYMPOSIUM ON PAGE 5
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Research Symposium Friday at theRutgers Student Center. The sympo-sium showcased the research of morethan 450 undergraduate students whoparticipated in the many programsoffered by the research center.
Hundreds of posters were dis-played in the Multipurpose Room,and 18 panels of undergraduateresearchers discussed their work.
The center was founded in 2004after a donation from Jerome andLorraine Aresty, University alumni,said Dean Matthew Evans, directorof the Aresty Research Center.
Evans said, originally 30 studentsconducted research through thecenter. It has since grown to involvemore than 400 students, with morethan 200 faculty members commit-ting their involvement for next year.
“Rutgers is an engine for knowl-edge, creation and innovation, andgetting undergrads involved is cru-cial,” Evans said.
The students’ research spans 60departments, institutes and centersthroughout the University, Evans
University alumnus JasonGoldstein said he founded theLivingston Theater Company duringhis first year 15 years ago to providestudents with a cheap way to go seelive musicals and give the perform-ers a way to exercise their creativity.
“For the 15th anniversary, wedecided to have a party — like areunion to bring everyone back,”Goldstein said.
He said the point of the reunionwas to give former members a
chance to reconnect and reminisceand to help current studentsinvolved with the LivingstonTheater Company see they are apart of a legacy.
The members get to meet all thegenerations of past students who arejust as enthusiastic about theater asthey are, Goldstein said.
The anniversary gala is set to takeplace May 11. Goldstein said it would
BY SHAWN SMITHCORRESPONDENT
On a cold, brisk morning yester-day, beneath a cloudless, sunny sky,about 6,000 people stood in silencebefore the fourth annual UNITEHalf Marathon and 8K. During themoment of silence for the Boston
Marathon, the only sound was thatof thousands of flags rustling in thebreeze. Then, with a bang, the run-ners were off.
Organizers distributed roughly3,000 American flags before therace began, said Michele Redrow,co-owner and race director for CGIRacing. The Scarlet Knight held a
large American flag during thenational anthem.
The event spanned the majorparts of the Busch, Livingston andCollege Avenue campuses and redi-rected bus routes for the majority ofthe morning.
According to the CGI Racing web-site, Demesse Tefera, a
34-year-old from Washington D.C.,finished first in the male participantcategory of the half marathon, endedwith a time of 1:07:50, just 2 minutesand 50 seconds behind the Olympicqualifying time.
Hirut Beyene Guangul finishedfirst in the female participant categoryof the half marathon with a final time
of 1:16:41, 1 minute and 41 secondsover the Olympic qualifying time,according to the website. She also fin-ished among the top five runners.
The University and UnitedHealthcare sponsored the race,which had the majority of the
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Theater company to celebrate 15th year
University students present research at annual symposium
The Livingston Theatre Company will celebrate its 15th anniversary May 11 with a gala featuring present and past members of the company. NELSON MORALES, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
BANKIN’ ON THE BEATS The Rutgers University Programming Association hosted ‘Beats on the Banks, featuring Alesso,’ Friday at the Louis Brown Athletic Centeron Livingston campus. NELSON MORALES, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
BY ZACHARY BREGMANSTAFF WRITER
The Livingston Theater Companyhas put on plays and musicals forUniversity students for the last 15years, from shows like “Footloose” to“Little Shop of Horrors.”
The University’s LTC markedtheir 50th show with a production of“The Producers” on Saturday andSunday, the last showings of theyear for the LTC. SEE COMPANY ON PAGE 4
BY ENRICO CABREDOSTAFF WRITER
Gabriela Pikul said she neverthought she would be researchingparticle collisions — the ArestyResearch Center gave her thechance to do so.
“[My professor] said, ‘there’sthis program, you should apply forit. It’s a good way to get started inresearch,’” said Pikul, a School ofArts and Sciences junior.
The Aresty Research Center heldits ninth annual Undergraduate
UNITE Half Marathon winners shy of Olympic qualifications
Joseph Pellegrino, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, judged the research posters created by students Friday. ENRICO CABREDO, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER SEE SYMPOSIUM ON PAGE 5
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CAMPUS CALENDARMonday, April 22The Mason Gross School of the Arts presents the final day of the“B.F.A. Thesis Exibition I: but no, yeah” at 10 a.m. at Civic Square at33 Livingston Ave. in New Brunswick. The program will feature thetheses of students earning Bachelors of Fine Arts.
Thursday, April 25The Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy andthe Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life pres-ents Columbia University History Professor Kenneth Jackson at 5p.m. at Civic Square at 33 Livingston Ave. in New Brunswick. Jack-son will present the lecture “Newark’s Decline and Resurgence in the20th Century as Lessons for Urban America: The Rise, Fall, andRecovery of a Great Metropolis, 1916-2016.” The lecture is free andopen to all.
The Rutgers Jazz Chamber Ensembles perform at 7:30 p.m. at theMaryott Music Building on Douglass campus. Eleven groups willplay songs by Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk andJohn Coltrane, among others. The event is free and open to all.
Sunday, April 28The National Society of Leadership and Success holds its SpringInduction Ceremony at 1 p.m. in the ARC on Busch campus. Studentsbeing inducted have maintained a 3.2 GPA and completed communityservice hours.
Wednesday, April 24Motown singer Gladys Knight performs at 8 p.m. at the New JerseyState Theatre 15 Livingston Ave. in New Brunswick. Tickets rangefrom $28 to $105. For more information, visit statetheatrenj.org.
Thursday, April 25Comedian Lewis Black performs at 8 p.m. at the New Jersey StateTheatre at 15 Livingston Ave. in New Brunswick as part of his cur-rent tour, “The Rant is Due.” Tickets range from $35 to $75. Formore information, go to statetheatrenj.org.
Students share Caribbean culture with U. communityBY IJEOMA UNACHUKWU
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
University students experi-enced Caribbean cultureSaturday with food, dancing,fashion and performances byinternational reggae ar tistShaggy, as well as many local bands.
The West Indian StudentOrganization celebrated its 35thannual Caribbean Day with a car-nival-themed party outside thePaul Robeson Cultural Center onBusch campus.
WISO was founded in 1973 tobring together the Caribbeanstudents at the University whodid not have a large presence atthat time, said Novelette Harris,vice president of WISO.
“It’s the biggest event of theyear,” said Harris, a School ofArts and Sciences junior. “Weattract a lot of non-RU studentstoo because it’s really just a cele-bration of Caribbean culture.You’ll never see another eventlike this on campus.”
Caribbean steel-drum musi-cians Ekklipse Steel Band, aJamaican group from RocklandCounty, N.Y., comes to the eventevery year. Richard Nathanfounded the band ten years ago
to teach his children about theirculture and then started recruit-ing other children to join theband, said Ekklipse CaptainJevaun Grant.
Grant said he did not want tostop performing even after heleft Rockland County to come tothe University, so as a part ofWISO, he invited his band tocome perform.
“Music is very important, it’swhat brings everybody togeth-er,” Grant said. “There can bepoverty and war going onthroughout the Caribbean, butmusic is the one thing that wecan all unite under.”
The main event was Shaggy,said Selica Blagrove, WISO pres-ident. Getting him to performwas surprisingly easy.
“We have a booking agent forthe club, so we contactedShaggy’s agent and he was freetoday, so we got him,” saidBlagrove, a School of Arts andSciences senior.
The international sensationnot only sang some of his songs,but performed covers of otherCaribbean hits. At the end of hisperformance, he danced with thecrowd to “Harlem Shake” byBaauer and “Where Have YouBeen” by Rihanna.
WISO’s booking agent BrianaWest, a School of Arts andSciences sophomore, said shebrought Brooklyn rappers HoodHeroes ENT to the Universitybecause she believed they have adistinct sound and a messagethat the Caribbean Day goerswould enjoy.
Another big star of the daywas not a person but food. One of
the vendors featured wasTwinklebones Catering fromNew York, which specializes inCaribbean and American cuisine.
Wendy Mayers, who runs thebusiness, said she made the deci-sion to include foods such as jerkchicken and pork, curry shrimp,plantains and rice and peasbecause everyone can identifywith these foods.
“Food is majorly important,”Mayers said. “I just want peopleto come and experience it andexperience all that Caribbeanshave to offer, because it’s a lot.”
The main part of the festivi-ties focused on the all-dayCaribbean fashion show, whichran throughout the whole day.The models were students whoauditioned a month ago and havebeen rehearsing weekly leadingup to the main event.
“Our culture is vibrant andour clothes display our cultureand who we are. It’s who I am. Itdescribes me because my styleand culture is dif ferent thaneverybody else,” said modelAnita Mambia, a School of Artsand Sciences first-year student.
Each segment featured differentlocal designers such as Bag LadieINK and clothes ranging from casu-al day wear to swim wear.
The celebration also featuredseveral dance troupes, such asCheese Bandits, Chaos Theory,Team Flee, Twese DanceTroupe and WISO Dancetroupe. Each dance group per-formed to certain songs thatpaid homage to Caribbeanmusic and its successors.
“It’s so important becausethe whole culture is about par-
ties and fun and uniting throughmusic,” said Chaos Theor yDancer Ayana Phoenix, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student. “I feel like it’sa great way for African-Americans to bond withCaribbean-Americans.”
While the event focused onthe culture and ar ts of theCaribbean region, student vol-unteers representing RobertWood Johnson UniversityHospital had a booth set up forfree testing for the humanimmunodeficiency virus.
“We see that HIV is an epi-demic and af fects a lot of peo-ple — especially in the New Brunswick area,” saidAyana Moxey, a School of Artsand Sciences junior. “Theyaren’t getting tested eventhough the testing is free, sowe’re just tr ying to get theword out there, so more peoplewill get tested.”
Jenetta Greaves, a School ofArts and Sciences senior, said atthe end of the night, she left thefestivities excited and content.
“I thought it was amazing. Ihad a lot of fun too,” she said.“My favorite par t was whenShaggy performed. He had thewhole crowd bumping.”
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“We attract a lot of non-RU students too,
because it’s really just acelebration of
Caribbean culture.” NOVELETTE HARRIS
Vice President of West Indian Student Organization
“I was in opening night of‘The Producers’ and said to theboard, ‘Thank you guys for notjust continuing this organiza-tion but also advancing it and strengthening it,” Goldstein said.
Megan Cherry, the de factoLTC president, said she foundout about the Livingston TheaterCompany at her first-yearinvolvement fair and started outas a costumer for the first showof that year.
“I’m very much looking for-ward to meeting the past presi-dents that came before me,” saidCherry, a School of Arts andSciences junior.
During her time with LTC,she has dabbled in many posi-tions, she said.
“I’ve assistant directed, I’veassistant stage managed, I han-dled the props, I ran box officefor the company and now I’veworked my way up to being thepresident,” she said.
Cherry said she was veryinterested in theater in highschool, and so the LTC allowedher to get involved in a communi-ty with whom she shared a loveof theater.
“There’s so many opportuni-ties, and you make so many greatfriends,” Cherry said.
Cherry said her dream is togo into theater, specifically housemanagement, and that is why shestudies communication.
“It’s definitely a greatextracurricular, but I would reallylike to further my career post-graduation,” she said.
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be a dress-up event featuringspeeches, dinner, hor d’vouresand a live jazz quartet.
“We’re going to reflect onour impact on Rutgers and onourselves, how it’s instilled asense of pride in all of us forbringing Rutgers live musicaltheater for all these years,” hesaid. “We’re bringing back a lotof the former performers to dosome live performances.”
He said many of the formerLivingston Theater Companymembers continued to have suc-cessful careers in live theater andother creative fields.
“One woman who workedwith us, Erica Spitz, she did pho-tography and makeup for us atLTC. She was working at ‘ThePhantom of the Opera’ for oversix years in the makeup depart-ment, and she’s done moviessuch as ‘Men in Black 3,’”Goldstein said.
One of the reasons Goldsteinsaid he was proud to be a mem-ber were the bonds he made withhis co-workers.
“We also have a couple mar-riages of people who met eachother at LTC,” he said.
He said he is very proud withhow the current members of thecompany are performing.
Mulfelder says technicians build setsfrom ground up
COMPANY
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The Livingston Theatre Company performed ‘The Producers’ yesterday at the Livingston Theater, its last production for the semester. NELSON MORALES, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
The last show, “TheProducers” was particularly welldone, Cherry said. The showshowed a level of talent and effortthat allowed the company thisyear to go out with a bang.
Joanna Muhlfelder, the cur-rent production manager, saidshe looks forward to seeingpast generations of LTC mem-bers. She wants to meet, notjust ones that she knows per-sonally from recent genera-tions, but everyone who startedthe company and did the earli-est shows.
“I think LTC is the most wel-coming, accepting group of peo-ple that you can possibly find,and it’s just a really great groupof people to spend your time
with here because its such adiverse group,” Muhlfelder said.
She said the LTC inspired herto go into live theater after leavingthe University as well.
Muhlfelder said her favoriteplay to work on was “The RockyHorror Show.”
“It was a blast, it was so muchfun, and that was definitely myfavorite one. It had a lot of reallycool technical elements that wetook risks with and challengedourselves,” she said.
Muhlfelder, a School of Artsand Sciences senior, said theturn out for Saturday night’ssold-out showing of “TheProducers” was 300 to 350 peo-ple, including alumni, making ita big night for the company.
“Our tech group builds ourset and stage from the groundup, we spend a whole weekendmaking [the Livingston StudentCenter] into a theater,”Muhlfelder said.
A new setup the company istr ying out is moving theirorchestra in front of the stagewhere the audience can seethem, Muhlfielder said.Typically, theaters put theorchestra behind the stage.
“I think that the LivingstonTheater Company has becomeone of the strongest studentorganizations at Rutgers, andit’s really been an outlet for the Rutgers community to see great theater,” Goldstein said.
The University has appointedCahill Gordon & Reindel LLP tospearhead the independentreview of the circumstancesaround the physical and verbalabuse that surfaced in April.
The review will also focus onthe University’s actions beforeand after the termination of for-mer men’s basketball head coachMike Rice. The results will bemade public.
“It is incumbent upon myadministration and the Board ofGovernors to understand fullyhow this transpired, to learn fromit and to take suchactions necessaryto ensure that ourathletics programmeets our expecta-tions for integrityas well as suc-cess,” UniversityPresident RobertL. Barchi said.
B a r c h iannounced the listof members toserve on the com-mittee to searchfor a director of intercollegiateathletics.
“These individuals bring awide range of knowledge, experi-ence and perspectives to the tablein order to conduct an expansiveand thorough search for an out-standing athletics director,”Barchi said.
The panel is co-chaired byUniversity alumna Kate Sweeneyand Richard L. Edwards, execu-tive vice president for AcademicAffairs.
The members of the searchcommittee will include: StefaniaBalasa, School of Arts andSciences junior, DorotheaBerkhout, executive director ofAdministration in the BlousteinSchool of Planning and PublicPolicy, Lauren Braswell, class of2007 University alumna, HollisCopeland, member of the Boardof Trustees, Steven Darien, mem-ber of the Board of Trustees,
Nydia Flores, associate professorin the Graduate School ofEducation, Ronald Garutti, mem-ber of the Board of Trustees,Cheryl Hart, senior manager ofthe University Budget, DeniseHover, class of 1979 Universityalumna, Ruth Anne Koenick,director of the Office for ViolencePrevention and VictimAssistance, Jeffrey Longhofer,director of the Tyler ClementiCenter, Jorge Marcone, associateprofessor in the School of Artsand Sciences, Daniel O’Connor,chair of the New Brunswick
Faculty Council,Shaun O’Hara,class of 1999University alum-nus, JenniferO’Neill, class of1995 Universityalumnus, BrianPerkins, vicechair of the Boardof Overseers,Ronald Quincy,director of theCenter forN o n p r o f i t
Management and Governance,Dudley Rivers, chair on theBoard of Trustees, WilliamRodgers, a professor in theBloustein School of Planning andPublic Policy, Philip Scalo, classof 1975 University alumnus,Kenneth Schmidt, member of theBoard of Governors, SusanSchurman, dean of the School ofManagement and LaborRelations, Candace Straight,member of the Board ofGovernors, Kathryn Uhrich,dean of Mathematical andPhysical Sciences, Scott Walker,executive director of AcademicSupport Services for StudentAthletes and Karen Stubaus, vicepresident for Academic Affairsand Administration.
The search committee willwork with Parker ExecutiveSearch, a firm appointed by theUniversity to help with the process.
said. The symposium grouped theprojects into STEM — Science,Technology, Engineering andMathematics — humanities andsocial science disciplines.
Gurpal Sran, a School of Artsand Sciences sophomore, presentedhis research in economics with thehumanities section of posters. Hesaid his sister inspired him to doresearch, but he was skeptical ofbeing able to find opportunities inhis field.
Through the research center,Sran found an opportunity toresearch bank examiners withEugene White, a professor in theDepartment of Economics.
“[The Aresty Research Center]gives you resources to contact anyprofessor you want in any field,”Sran said.
The Aresty ResearchAssistant program, Sran said,was the easiest way for him todip his feet into research.
The center cooperated thisyear with the Byrne seminar tolaunch the Aresty-Byrne researchprogram, a series of one-creditresearch classes available only tofirst-year students, Evans said.
Anthony Bonini, a School of Artsand Sciences first-year student, wasenrolled in one of the five Aresty-Byrne seminars. Instead of applying,students simply sign up for the class.
Bonini said he and his classworked with Clark Chinn, anassociate professor in theDepartment of EducationalPsychology, on promoting rea-soning conceptual change in sci-
ence to examine the reasoningand decision-making skills of mid-dle-school students.
“We were examining in whatways students can learn science bet-ter,” Bonini said. Their researchlooked at the relationship betweenscientific models of explanation andthe evidence behind those models.
Bonini’s class compared theresponses of a control-group mid-dle-school class and an experi-mental-group class that deter-mined their own criteria for goodevidence, he said.
“Despite the fact that therewere two different types of class-es … we found that in some casesthere was not a lot differentbetween the two,” he said.
Bonini said he signed upbecause it appeared to be moreengaging than the averageByrnes seminar without beingtoo time consuming.
“The benefits include beingexposed to this level of researchwithout needing to commit asmuch time as other ArestyPrograms would,” Bonini said.
Shannon Eskola, a School ofArts and Sciences sophomore,researched with WilliamVesterman for his memoir entitled“50 Years on the Banks: A Lover’sQuarrel.” Vesterman, an associateprofessor in the EnglishDepartment, will celebrate 50 yearsnext year working at the University.
“One of the things [Vesterman]is interested in is his time when hewas teaching at Livingston College,when it was an experimental col-lege,” Eskola said.
Eskola said she and Vestermanare examining the effectiveness ofold Livingston College practices,such as letting students choosetheir own grades.
In her time as an Arestyresearch assistant, Eskola alsocompared the growth of the
University’s administration withthe growth of other aspects of theUniversity. Because of Vesterman’slong tenure, the task is proving tobe daunting, Eskola said.
“I have a snapshot here of fouryears from 2006 to 2010, but[Vesterman] is interested in lookingfrom 1964 to 2014,” said Eskola.
She hopes to continue to workwith Vesterman on this project inthe future.
During the symposium, twojudges evaluated the poster pre-sentations, and awards weregiven to the best ones.
Charles Keeton, an associateprofessor in the Department ofPhysics and Astronomy, said thejudging was not meant to makethe symposium competitive.
“The judges are there to pro-vide constructive criticism foreach student’s presentation andwork,” said Keeton, faculty direc-tor of the Aresty Research Center.“My goal is to talk to faculty aboutthe value of participating inundergraduate research.”
Aresty mainly connects facultyto students through an online data-base known as the UndergraduateResearch System, Keeton said.Faculty members post theirresearch opportunities, and stu-dents in turn apply for the positions.
Justin Pyndus, a School of Artsand Sciences junior, has beenthrough the Aresty ResearchAssistant program twice now. Oneof his lab advisors introduced himto the research center.
“You have a lot of freedom to dowhatever you want,” Pyndus said.“There is no wrong way to do this.”
Pyndus said he hopes to go tomedical school and believes hisresearch will allow him to put hisfoot in the door.
“This is Rutgers right here.This is what we do — research,”Pyndus said.
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Sran says Aresty givesresources to contactany professor
SYMPOSIUM
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“These individualsbring a wide range
of knowledge, experience and perspectives to
the table.” ROBERT L. BARCHI
University President
IN BRIEF
“The Rutgers UniversityPolice Department worked close-ly with its local, state and federalenforcement agencies to helpensure public safety during theUNITE Half Marathon on thePiscataway and New Brunswickcampuses and … We were able toassist in bringing this event suc-cessfully to Rutgers without inci-dent,” said Lt. Nicholas Chiorelloof RUPD.
Frederique Delhaye, anotherrunner in the marathon, did notshare Glatz’s view on the policepresence, and felt they weremuch more subtle.
“The police were very dis-creet at the event today,”Delhaye said. “It is also a muchsmaller event — we are only[6],000 runners, as opposed to30,000 runners.”
While it was a smaller event,and only a half marathon,Delhaye said she and her hus-band did think about the eventsin Boston prior to the race.
“We grieved for them, andwe kept them in our thoughts,”she said.
D e l h a y e ,whose final timewas around twohours and fifteenminutes, said thiswas her secondmarathon ever,and she wasgrateful theU n i v e r s i t yopened its doorsto host. It wasalso nice to hearbands and musicalong the entirecourse, which
kept the run interesting.When the half marathon
started in 2010, about 2,000athletes signed up, Redrowsaid. As of Sunday, the racehad a cap of 6,000 people, withmore than 400 students run-ning in the event.
“It’s in its fourth year and weclosed at 6,000 people. This is thelargest half [marathon] in thestate,” she said. “We are talkingwith Rutgers about raising thecap to 7,500 for next year.”
The great thing about theevent is that it showcases theUniversity, Redrow said. It showsthe University in a different light.
“We are thrilled the Universityembraces the race, and it gets bet-ter every year,” she said.
APRIL 22, 2013PAGE 6
par ticipants in the halfmarathon, Redrow said.
The race partnered with about24 different charities, none ofwhich were exclusive to theirmembers, Redrow said. Since itsinception, the race has raisedabout $300,000.
“One group this year fromLawrenceville Prep raised$10,000 on their own,” she said.“All participants can raise for anycharity of their choice.”
During his two-hour run,Chuck Glatz, a University alum-nus, said he noticed the weatherwas perfect for running.
“It was real nice out,” he said. “Itwas a good time on a beautiful day.”
Glatz said he ran in themarathon because it is a personalfitness goal of his. It was his sec-ond year in themarathon, and helikes coming backto the Universityto run.
“The water sta-tions were perfect-ly placed along thecourse,” he said.“The miles werealso marked really well.”
Redrow saidthe weather condi-tions for the eventwere perfect by 8 a.m.
“This was by far the best yearwe have ever had for weather,”she said. “Even if it was just a lit-tle chilly.”
Despite the recent events inBoston, including the bombing atthe Boston Marathon, Glatz saidhe was undeterred yesterdayfrom running.
“That was incentive to be hereand run today,” he said. “I didnotice more Rutgers securityaround. I also saw some statetroopers and some Piscataway orNew Brunswick police.”
Prior to the event, Redrowsaid she met with of ficials fromlocal, state and federal authori-ties to make precautions forthe race.
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BY ANDREW RODRIGUEZCONTRIBUTING WRITER
Not every theoretical physi-cist finds himself in the desolateregions of Russia in search ofvaluable extraterrestrial rocks.And even fewer find themselvesthe subjects of a story involvingbears, Soviet smugglers andKGB death threats.
The Department of Physicsand Astronomy invited professorPaul Steinhardt from PrincetonUniversity to speak Saturdayafternoon at the annual IronsLecture at the Physics LectureHall on Busch campus. He dis-cussed his search for a naturallyoccurring crystal, which led himto discover an alien mineral.
The quasicrystal is a curiosi-ty, said David Vanderbilt, a pro-fessor in the Department ofPhysics and Astronomy.
“Most of the theory is knownwell by many, but it’s not sooften that you get to hear of anadventure,” Vanderbilt said.
Traditional crystals are mate-rials with regular rates and tradi-tional shapes, such as thesquare, rectangle, parallelogramand hexagon, he said. The deter-mining factor of these quasicrys-tals is in the regular but differ-ing rates in which their atom pat-terns repeat.
“If you open a textbook upuntil the 1980s, one of the firstthings you learn in chapter oneis that there is a certain forbid-den symmetry in crystals you’llnever see in nature,” Steinhardtsaid. “These are the symmetrywe see in quasicrystals today.”
Tiling a wall can be donewithout gaps using many differ-ent shapes but never a penta-gon. The pentagon has what iscalled five-fold symmetry, hesaid. This is the fundamentalshape of the quasicrystal.
“The most forbidden symme-try of all the possible shapes inquasicrystals is the icosahedron.
SCIENCE PAGE 7APRIL 22, 2013
Alumna provides advancements in sexual medicine
Professor shares story of search for extraterrestrial rocks
Professor Paul Steinhardt from Princeton University shared his experiences finding extraterrestrial rocks with quasicrystal structures yesterday at the Physics Lecture Hall on Buschcampus. TIAN LI, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
INGRID PAREDESCONTRIBUTING WRITER
A University alumna con-ducted a recent study to pro-vide psychologists with a newneurological understanding offemale sexual behavior inrodents and a new path towardadvancements in human sexu-al medicine.
Loretta Flanagan-Cato, whograduated from the Universityin 1985, studies the influenceof the sex hormones estrogenand progesterone on the brainat the end of the menstrualcycle in rodents.
Sarah Ferri-Kolwicz, a grad-uate student in Flanagan-Cato’slaboratory at the University ofPennsylvania, said she con-ceived the experiment as a partof her dissertation.
“Uncovering the estrogen-induced differences through thecycle can begin to shed light onsome of the mechanisms involvedin reproductive behavior,” she said.
SCIENCEIt’s a solid with six independentfive-fold symmetry axes. It does-n’t violate the five-fold rule once,but six times,” he said.
Five-fold symmetry was sup-posed to be a closed subject, hesaid. Since its first successfulsynthesis, the quasicrystaldebate changed from impossibil-ity to natural reoccurrence.
“This is possible in a mathe-matical representation. So wethink, ‘If tiles can do it, why can’tnature do it?’” Steinhardt said.
There was evidence towardnatural fabrication, but scientistswere not sure, he said.
“You want to know if thesequasicr ystal materials arerobust or delicate,” he said.“All of the laboratory materialswere formed under very deli-cate conditions.”
He said it is unlikely that nature fabricated a qua-sicrystal on its own, when labo-ratory synthesis called for verydelicate temperature and pres-sure conditions.
“It is possible that nature’smade them before us, so we mayfind some that are millions ofyears old. If not, we have createdthe first ones. We began to pur-sue,” he said.
Researchers star ted withtheir first set of samples savedin the computer database inPrinceton. After three years ofslicing, dicing and testing, therewas no progress, he said.
After these attempts in 2001,they began looking for help. No response came for six years, he said. But inOctober 2007, mineralogistLuca Bindi responded.
“We’re lucky, because heimmediately became as fanati-cal about the search as I was.He had things in his collectionthat were not in our computerdatabase at all. One of themturned out to be a collection ofsome 10,000 dif ferent miner-als,” he said.
One of these minerals,named Khatyrkite, would be thedriving force of the entireadventure, he said.
“In our sample, Khatyrkitewas a material we hadn’tknown. The examinationrevealed the most beautiful pat-tern I’d seen. This was a qua-sicr ystal and had the samesymmetr y of the forbiddenicosahedron,” he said.
Testing revealed the composi-tion to be 63 percent aluminum,24 percent copper, and 13 per-cent iron — exactly that of thefirst true fabricated quasicrystal.However, they still had no ideahow it was formed, he said.
“To find the original source ofthe sample, all we had was a let-ter with the original seller of the10,000 minerals in 1990 and all ithad was the name of the collec-tor,” he said.
From there, they found theformer head of the Institute ofPlatinum of Russia, who hadmoved to Israel, he said.
“His memory of the locationwas fuzzy, but he was willing to
go back to Moscow and look forthe sample for $15,000,” he said.
Steinhardt decided not totrust him, but this meant a com-plete dead end, he said.
“We received death threatsfrom former KGB agents whenlater seeking help from our guyin Israel,” he said. “He turnedout to be involved with smug-gling platinum and platinumfakes, which were valuable atthe time.”
Following the trail of the latecollector’s diary, they lookedfor the man who, in 1990, foundthe sample containing the qua-sicrystal and reported it as plat-inum to the head of the insti-tute, he said.
He agreed to guide them tothe site and help them find moreKhatyrkite, he said, and led themto Chukotka, Russia.
“The Russians told us wehad to go by truck when therewere no roads on GoogleEarth. They assured us not toworr y — we crossed streams and mowed down tallgrass in these trucks. It was
like a four-day roller coasterride,” he said.
The trucks were prone tobreaking down while millions ofmosquitos and numerous bearslurked around, he said.
“We dug out about one and ahalf tons of materials from upand down the stream.Completely by hand, becauseusing regular shovels wouldbreak the material,” he said.
After examination of the oxy-gen isotopes in the samples, itturned out these icosahedrites inthe Khatyrkite were extraterres-trial, forged in the infancy of oursolar system, he said.
“It felt like a wonderful affir-mation of this entire crazy storythat ever yone had grains ofdoubt about. Since then, we’vefound about nine grains ofmaterial that we are currentlystudying. It is a work inprogress,” he said.
Colin Marks, a student atHighland Park High School, saidhe enjoyed the talk very much,and feels it will figure into hisfuture plans.
The team infused estrogenand progesterone into the rats’ventromedial hypothalamus,the region of brain responsiblefor sexual activity, Flanagan-Cato said.
She said the team wanted to see how the hormoneschanged the morphology of neurons, ner ves that are responsible for activity inthe brain.
The team found thatincreased estrogen levels inventromedial hypothalamusdecreased the length of longdendrites, the extended ends ofneurons, and increased thedensity of spines, or signaltransmitters, in shor t ones,Flanagan-Cato said.
Flanagan-Cato said proges-terone treatment shortened thedendrites back to their originallength. These combined levelsof estrogen and progesteroneat the end of menstrual cyclecause rodents to exhibit femalesexual behavior.
The same occurred inprairie voles, another rodentspecies. Flanagan-Cato saidthey used prairie voles,because unlike rats, the pres-ence of potential mates inducestheir menstrual cycle.
Studying the two speciesallowed the team to determinewhether the hormones in theventromedial hypothalamuschange the structure of thedendrites when regulatedunder dif ferent physiologicalcontrols, she said.
“In both cases, high estrogen levels led to repro-ductive activeness,” Flanagan-Cato said.
She said the team thenfocused their study on findinga correlation between the highestrogen levels and oxytocin,another hormone involved insexual reproduction.
The team decided to studyoxytocin because they unexpect-edly found it in the dendrites ofneurons in the ventromedial
hypothalamus, said DipakSarkar, a professor in theDepartment of Animal Sciencesat the University.
Flanagan-Cato said her teamfound the estrogen treatmentof these dendrites resulted inmore activity by the ventrome-dial hypothalamus, but theycannot tell what this means forsexual behavior in rats.
Oxytocin is just one factor for sexual behavior,Sarkar said.
“Still, we have done lots of case studies for oxytocin. It is appearing to be useful for [explaining] the behavior,”he said.
At the moment, Flanagan-Catosaid the work has missing links.
Sarkar said he thinksFlanagan-Cato and Ferri-Kolwicz’s work may eventuallybenefit couples troubled withimpotency or other issues.
“Realistically, this[research] is applicable tohumans,” he said. “At this
stage, not yet. We need moredone in the future, but … sexu-al issues have a very huge mar-ket. Anything about matingperformance and behavior hasits benefits.”
Ferri-Kolwicz said theirwork might go beyond sexual issues.
“I think this research isimpor tant in highlightingestrogen’s ef fects in the brain, which can have implica-tions in neurodegenerative andpsychological disorders, many of which af fect men andwomen dif ferently — in preva-lence, progression or severity,”she said.
While this is a work inprogress, Flanagan-Cato saidher work at least has evolution-ary significance.
“There’s a lot of dependenceon female sexual behavior,”Flanagan-Cato said. “Withoutthis behavior, there would be no reproduction or no future generations.”
This is obviously a highly sensitive topic becausewe are dealing with someone that is accused of carry-ing out a possible terrorist attack, killing innocent peo-ple. However, what we need to remember is that he isstill only accused and has not yet been convicted ofanything. Our justice system operates under theassumption that one is innocent until proven guilty.
Yet, the public is rushing to assume that Tsarnaev isnot only guilty of being the bomber, but also that thebombing is a terrorist attack, and that he is linked withoutside organizations — none of which are currentlyanything beyond mere speculation.
While authorities may have been taking into consid-eration and acting upon all possibilities of what elseTsarnaev could be capable of that could harm the public,
it is moments like these — ones ofheightened fear, paranoia and inse-curity — that we must be mostcognizant of our rights and how farthe government is extending itsreach beyond them. The wayTsarnaev is treated will be a defin-ing factor into how the govern-
ment can treat the rest of us. It’s a telling moment of whatthe government can do to a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil, andit is definitely a moment we all need to pay attention to.
Regardless of whether we believe Tsarnaev isguilty, the facts remain. At the moment, he has notbeen implicated in anything, and it is still not certainwhether the Boston marathon bombing was a domes-tic or foreign attack. While many media outlets arerushing to draw any possible connection between theTsarnaevs and Islam — and therefore tie it to extrem-ism — analysts are still speculating that this may bemore similar to homegrown situations like theColumbine shooting. Basically, there are still too manyunanswered questions for the public to assume and actupon anything.
Despite Tsarnaev’s possible actions, his treatmentby the government sets a precedent for all Americans— and it is one we must remain conscious of.
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I t’s been a busy weekend in the Boston bombers’situation, but despite the developments that havetaken place, one thing remains the same — we
still have no answers.This, however, isn’t stopping the public, media and
government from regarding Dzohkhar Tsarnaev,known as “suspect 2” in the Boston marathon bomb-ing, as a terrorist.
Tsarnaev, a United States citizen, was found bleed-ing in a boat in Watertown, Mass. with severe wounds,presumably from the shootout that killed his brotherTamerlan Tsarnaev, or “suspect 1.” Upon his captureFriday night, all of Boston — and even University stu-dents at the Rutgers University ProgrammingAssociation’s concert featuring music producer Alesso— erupted into chants of “USA!”as the fundamental Americanrights we are all entitled to whit-tled away.
Every U.S. citizen is entitledto be read their Miranda rightsupon arrest. However, Tsarnaev,like many terrorist suspectsbefore him under the Obama administration, will notbe read his Miranda rights before being “extensivelyquestioned” by authorities. This is a result of the “pub-lic danger” exception in the Fifth Amendment of theU.S. Constitution, which allows authorities to foregoMirandizing suspects in the case of an urgent andimminent endangerment of public safety.
However, this exception can only be invoked in cer-tain situations — like if Tsarnaev was holding an undet-onated bomb — and this does not seem to be one ofthem. Further, Miranda rights are meant to protectsuspects from being compelled “to be a witness againsthimself after his arrest,” according to the WashingtonTimes’ extensive analysis on the lack of merit behindusing the exception against Tsarnaev.
Not surprisingly, the American Civil LibertiesUnion is concerned with the 19-year-old’s treatmentas well.
“It’s a telling moment of whatthe government can do to a
U.S. citizen on U.S. soil.”
Moments of fear result in violated rightsTsarnaev’s case should not mean government empowerment
Reality: Giving a statement to thepolice can be exhausting, traumatizingand extensive. Reliving the violence ofthe attack deters many survivors fromspeaking out. The physical exam neededto gather evidence is often demoralizingand harshly invasive. Having to confrontthe possibility of a pregnancy or con-tracting a sexually transmitted disease isterrifying, not to mention the medicalcosts of treating injuries or the moneylost from time off work.
Myth: Reporting a rape will bringabout swift justice for a survivor.
Reality: Many rape kits needed fortrial sit for months before being tested.That means the ensuing rape trials canstretch on for years. In Los Angelesalone, there is a backlog of nearly 12,000kits waiting to be tested. On top of thelong wait time, 97 percent of rapistsnever spend a day in jail.
Myth: Women are more likely toreport rapes now, as stigmatization sur-rounding the subject has lessened.
Reality: 54 percent of rapes are neverreported. Why? Many survivors whospeak out are still ostracized or blamed
for what has happened to them. Needproof? Just think about the Steubenvillerape case.
Moral of the story is this: Do notcondemn a rape victim for not going tothe police. Reporting takes courage.Imagine sitting for hours, retelling inexact and vivid detail how you were vio-lated to people you do not know, overand over. Imagine having to waitmonths to know if anything will happento the person who attacked you.Imagine having to face that person intrial, see them on the news or hearabout them through neighbors, friendsand coworkers. In the long term, press-ing charges can bring about justice forsurvivors and put away repeat offend-ers. It can also bring a sense of closure— in some cases just the act of speak-ing out can help a survivor begin toheal. However, in the short term,reporting can seem daunting, discour-aging and traumatizing. In many ways,survivors suffer in the hands of thecriminal justice system.
In a society where rape culture,female blame and victim shame are stillprevalent, why would anyone criticize arape survivor’s choice not to go to thepolice? I think we all need to be a littlemore aware of the barriers that keep sur-vivors from telling their stories.Reporting is not easy, not straightfor-ward and not a choice that outside par-ties should ever disparage, judge orinterject upon.
Chelsea Wait is a 2012 University alumna.
teacher than it is for a woman to be acomputer programmer. For that mat-ter, it is still considered very odd for aman to be a full-time homemaker. Andif a man expresses a desire to be ahomemaker right out of school, with-out ever really working, the criticismof him would be unfathomable.
War is another potent example ofmen being oppressed. In almost allwars where conscription has takenplace, it has been exclusively men whowere conscripted. Think about all theridiculous hardship that men have hadto endure fighting in wars while womenwere able to stay at home. In WorldWar I alone, the suffering and deathinflicted on men in par ticular wasextraordinary. The event could be con-sidered a holocaust for the male gen-der, of which there exists no compari-son for women in the West.
Women also sometimes complainabout how society looks down on themwhen they are overt in seeking roman-tic partners. Many women dislike howthey are forced to be reactive in thisprocess — the courted as opposed tothe courter, their best bet for findingsomeone being subtext that may notalways get across their romantic mes-sage. These women don’t realize thatthe alternative — having to be proactive
in courtship — is much worse. Thoughmen should have more choice for part-ners in theory, in practice, they haveless choice because the risk/rewardproposition of asking out most womenis negative. Also, a woman who asks outmen risks only shame in the short-term. A man who waits to be asked outby women risks lifetime singleness.
Some will say that men cannot possi-bly be the more oppressed genderbecause they have held and continue tohold greater governmental, economicand social power than women. This isnot a fair point, because oppression isfundamentally about the misery of thevictims, not their power. I do not thinkgender oppression is caused by onegender oppressing the other. In history,men have oppressed men and womenhave oppressed women. It is culturesthat perpetrate gender oppression.
I do think that women are moreoppressed than men in certain cul-tures, par ticularly those where themutilation and maiming of women isopenly encouraged. For Western cul-tures, however, it’s men who have got-ten screwed. Our generation canchange society by changing how wethink. In progressive communities, therecent phenomenon of the stay-at-home dad is a great start. Everyone,regardless of gender, should have thesame expectations and opportunities.
Ed Reep is a Rutgers Business Schoolsenior majoring in supply chain andmarketing science with minors in busi-ness and technical writing and econom-ics. His column, “Philosophies of aPar ticular American,” runs on alternate Mondays.
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B oth historically and presently,women are painted as themore oppressed gender. Men
supposedly were and are better of f.This is an illusion, however, and thefact that men’s oppression has notbeen properly recognized only illus-trates its severity. At least in the West,it is men who had it worse and contin-ue to have it worse. Women wereoppressed and continue to beoppressed, but not to the same degree.
Consider work. Yes, historicallywomen were barred from working inmany professions, with their laborbeing confined to the home.Homemaking, however, wasn’t such abad way to spend your time comparedto mining, soldiering or a host of otherphysically dangerous professions menexclusively had to do in the past.Homemaking also seems pretty nicecompared to a lot of the dull white-col-lar professions men found themselvesin. And in the modern day, it is far eas-ier for women to enter traditionallymale work than for men to enter tradi-tionally female work. Women are actu-ally commonplace in fields like busi-ness, law, medicine and academia, andthere are more women than one mightthink in fields like technology or themilitary. How many men are in nurs-ing or childcare, though? Today, it iscertainly considered stranger for aman to be a nurse or a preschool
Men are the oppressed genderPHILOSOPHIES OF A
PARTICULAR AMERICAN
ED REEP
Revisitinggay rights
I t takes a TV show to reveal the pro-fundity of victim blaming in today’ssociety. Let me tell you what I mean.
In the first episode of Bates Motel onA&E, Norma Bates is brutally attackedand raped by a neighborhood man. Sheproceeds to stab him to death after heleeringly tells her, “You liked it.” Flash-forward to the fourth episode, andNorma is arrested for her rapist’s mur-der. What did the fans say about thearrest? Geez, Norma. All you had to dowas tell the police. This whole thingwould’ve been easier if you had just goneto them. Her son Norman even com-mented, “It’s your own fault.”
Now granted, this is a TV show, but itis indicative of a more widespread prob-lem in our society today. When I thoughtabout the roots of the response toNorma and her actions on social media,my mind was blown. The specifics havechanged but the game is still the same:in sexual assaults and rapes, survivorsare still the ones being blamed. It is nolonger, “She asked for it” but “She wasstupid not to report it.”
This type of thinking is so offensiveand hurtful that I thought I wouldexpose a few of the realities and myths ofrape reporting.
Myth: New technologies, training andfunding have made reporting a rape aless painful process.
Be mindful of all rape-victim barriers
“Women were oppressed and continue to be
oppressed, but not to thesame degree. ”
COMMENTARYCHELSEA WAIT
“It is no longer, ‘She asked for it!’ but,
“She was stupid notto report it!”
COMMENTARYJUSTIN LESKO
I t is a shame that I have to make it clearthat I am straight to start an article insupport of gay marriage. Often, the
reader will assume a writer in support of gaymarriage is a homosexual trying to serve hisor her own self-interests, and delegitimizethe argument. I am a heterosexual male whois not a member of any gay-straight alliancesor campaigns. I am simply writing to defendwhat is moral.
Watching clips of the Civil RightsMovement of the 1960s got me thinkingabout this topic. They were not necessarilyclips of Martin Luther King Jr.’s speeches orsit-ins at Woolworth counters. While theamazing actions of those leaders and free-dom riders cannot be expressed in words,that is not what this current battle for equalrights is about. Fortunately, people are notnow being sprayed with fire hoses that couldtake the bark of trees. We do not turn on thenews to see 80-pound German Shepherdsattacking protesters. Admittedly, the stakesare not as high, and we are fortunate for that.That is not to say there is nothing at stake.
What really moved me about these CivilRights videos were the clips of white menspeaking against the movement. I was dis-gusted by how ridiculous these men sound-ed only forty years ago. That got me think-ing of what our legacy would be in the fightfor gay rights.
To borrow a phrase from those whooppose gay rights, let’s think about the chil-dren. In forty years, do we want our childrenand grandchildren to be as disgusted as Iwas by the rhetoric and hate used now todeprive homosexuals of their rights? Here isa quote from Republican RepresentativeMichele Bachmann: “It isn’t that some gayswill get some rights. It’s that everyone elsein our state will lose rights.” Former TexasGovernor Rick Santorum stated, “If theSupreme Court says that you have the rightto consensual [gay] sex within your home,then you have the right to bigamy, you havethe right to polygamy, you have the right toincest, you have the right to adultery. Youhave the right to anything.”
Do we want future generations to hearmore of these speeches or sound bites andfeel the same pit in their stomach that I getwhen I hear George Wallace say“Segregation now, segregation tomorrow,segregation forever?” Will they cringe andask us why it took so long, like we do whenwe see Bull Connor speaking?
In 2013, it is time for us, the students ofAmerica, to realize that gay rights are anissue that will define our generation. It is nolonger a question of whether gay marriage islegalized but when, and we are the ones toanswer that. It is time for action, and simplymaking your Facebook picture a red equali-ty sign or tweeting will not get the job done.
Regardless of the upcoming SupremeCourt decision on the Defense of MarriageAct, we must educate ourselves, unite andmake sure we are not the generation to livewith a group of human beings having theirrights infringed upon. We must not settle forthe “separate but equal” civil union. Just aswhite Americans helped in the Civil Rightsmovement, heterosexual Americans muststand up for equality. Do we want to be thegeneration that does nothing? To paraphraseSantorum, think of the children.
Justin Lesko is a School of Arts andSciences sophomore majoring in journalismand media studies and political science.
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Leading 9-3 at halftime,Duke would not give Rutgersan opportunity for a comebackand came out in the second halfwith momentum. The BlueDevils scored the final fivegoals of its seven-goal run toopen the quarter.
The Knights were able tostop the run when sophomoremidfielder Rich Rambo foundthe back of the net with 3:13 leftin the third — the last goal ofthe quarter.
Rambo’s goal was one of onlytwo shots Rutgers had in thequarter. Duke led, 14-4, enteringthe final quarter.
Trailing 5-1 to start the sec-ond quarter, junior midfielderBenjamin Schwing got theKnights on the board early to cutthe lead to three. Duke wouldanswer with two goals of theirown to push it back to 7-2.
Junior attack Scott Klimchak scored the Knights’ first goal ofthe game against Duke to tie the game for the last time at one.TIAN LI, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Blue Devils score five goals in third tocrush hopes of Rutgers comeback
COACH
CONTINUED FROM BACK
Sophomore midfielder Rich Rambo scored RU’s only goal of thethird quarter, as the Knights took only two shots in the period.TIAN LI, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Sophomore attack Brian Gossscored his only goal of the gameto get Rutgers within four goalsbefore the Blue Devils scoredtwo more goals in the final twominutes of the half.
Duke’s high-powered offensewasted no time making a state-ment, scoring in the first 90 sec-onds to take a 1-0 lead.
Junior attack Scott Klimchakresponded for the Knights off afeed from Terranova, who hadhis second consecutive multi-point game. Klimchak’s scoreextended his goal streak to 14.
Following the goal, Dukewent on a 4-0 run to close outthe quarter and take a 5-1 lead.The Blue Devils never trailed inthe game, and the first quarterwould be the last time the gamewas tied.
Rutgers moves its focus tonext week’s season finaleSaturday against Georgetown forSenior Day.
APRIL 22, 2013SPORTS PAGE 16
BIG TEN
RU to move intotough East division
BY GREG JOHNSONCORRESPONDENT
When Rutgers joins the BigTen conference in the fall of 2014,it will not have it easy.
According to an ESPNreport, the Scarlet Knights willbe one of seven teams compris-ing the football conference’snewly aligned East Division. Theother six are Ohio State,Michigan, Michigan State, PennState, Indiana and Maryland.
That means Rutgers annuallywill face the Buckeyes, Wolverinesand Nittany Lions, who finished acombined 20-4 last season in BigTen football. Ohio State wentundefeated and ended last seasonranked No. 3 in the AP Top 25, butfaced a one-year bowl ban becauseof recruiting violations.
The West Division is proposedto contain almost all CentralTime Zone teams, includingIllinois, Iowa, Minnesota,Nebraska, Northwestern,Wisconsin and Purdue.
The divisions will abandontheir current Legends andLeaders alignments, which putsmore of an emphasis on competi-tive balance than geography.
Big Ten teams will alsorepor tedly play nine league
A strong counter-attack withquick passes downfield resultedin back-to-back goals by mid-fielder Katrina Geiger and attackKara Burke.
But senior goalkeeper LilyKalata and the Knights defense
But two Hoyas goals a minuteand a half into the second period — along with a dominat-ing first 30 minutes of play — leftRutgers in a major hole.
Four different players con-tributed with three points apieceand midfielder Meghan Farrellpaced the Hoyas in goals with ahat trick.
They took a 9-1 lead into half-time after midfielder SophiaThomas buried a goal with five sec-onds remaining in the first period.
Martinelli, who finished witha hat trick of her own, had thebest look for the Knights offen-sively in the first half. She scoredunassisted after running up frombehind the net.
Before Mar tinelli’s tally,Georgetown put together an 8-0 lead.
Midfielder Kelyn Freedmanfinished up the run by faking ashot high and shooting low pastKalata. Six of the Hoyas’ first-halfgoals were unassisted.
“First half, we had a terribletime,” Brand-Sias said. “CreditGeorgetown for what they’redoing and recognizing that Idon’t think our composure wasgreat. I don’t think our teameffort was necessarily the best atthat moment. I think we picked itup in the second half.”
The Knights offense could notkeep possession for any substantialamount of time in the first period.Georgetown exhibited pressure inevery area of the field and Rutgerswas overmatched early on.
Most of the play took place inthe Knights’ defensive zone,which put immense pressure onthe second-ranked scoringdefense coming in.
“It was tough, we can stopthem as many times as we want,but if the ball keeps going intoour end, eventually it’s going togo in,” Kalata said.
Knights’ effort inspite of defensiveinjuries not enough
FOES
CONTINUED FROM BACK
Senior goalkeeper Lily Kalata helped the Knights defense hold Loyola to 10 goals on 26 shots despite injuries. But thanks to itslowest scoring output of the season, Rutgers fell, 10-4. LIANNE NG, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / FILE PHOTO / FEBRUARY 2013
games annually beginning in2016. In addition to its six division games, Rutgers willalso play three teams from theWest Division.
A 10-game conference sched-ule had been considered but is nolonger a possibility because ofthe necessity of teams needingseven home games a year, asource told ESPN.
Among all football teams cur-rently in the conference, OhioState, Northwestern, Michiganand Nebraska all finished in thetop 25.
League officials are expectedto finalize the division alignmentssometime this week.
Rutgers basketball will bestaring at an equally challengingconference schedule when theymake the jump to the Big Ten.
Five teams in the conferencefinished in the final top 25 USAToday Coaches Poll this pastseason — including three in thetop seven.
Michigan, who ended the sea-son ranked No. 2, made theNCAA Tournament finals. Butthe Wolverines are about to losetheir two leading scorers, guardsTrey Burke and Tim Hardaway,Jr., who recently declared for theNBA Draft.
managed to hold the Greyhoundsto 10 goals on 26 shots, despitemissing a few injured players.
“Our defense had a ton of obsta-cles in front of them and — all thingsconsidered — they played verywell,” Brand-Sias said. “When you’replaying a talented offense that has agood shooting percentage, there’sonly so much you can do.”
On Senior Day for theKnights, a pair of freshmenscored the only two goals in thefirst half.
Midfielder Chrissy Schreibergave the Knights their secondscore late in the period, but four
goals in a six-minute span gave theGreyhounds a 6-2 lead at the half.
Barnes scored on a free posi-tion shot after the offense wasscoreless for the first 23 minutes.The score ended a 3-0 run by theGreyhounds to start the game.
Attack Annie Thomas capital-ized on a Knights defense thatwas not set up. She ran frombehind the net for an uncontestedshot to give Loyola an early two-goal lead.
After a methodical pace byboth offenses to begin the game,Payton struck with the first goalfor Loyola.
Rutgers had negativemomentum after losing toGeorgetown (11-3, 5-1).
Barnes went top shelf onGeorgetown goalkeeper BarbBlack with less than 10 minutesremaining for the team’s fourthgoal of the second period.
Rutgers was able to match theHoyas’ scoring in the second half.
Junior midfielder KatrinaMartinelli strung together two con-secutive goals early on in the peri-od. Junior attack Megan Clementsfollowed with a goal on a bouncingshot and forced Georgetown toregroup with a timeout.
SPORTS PAGE 17APRIL 22, 2013
BASEBALL PITTSBURGH 6, RUTGERS 3
MEN’S BASKETBALL RUTGERS HOLDS FIVE SCHOLARSHIP PLAYERS
Carter becomes fifth to transferBY JOSH BAKAN
SPORTS EDITOR
Sophomore guard Eli Carterannounced via Twitter on Fridayhe will transfer from the Rutgersmen’s basketball team.
“I have officially beenreleased from Rutgers mens bas-ketball team and I’m exploring alloptions,” Carter tweeted.
He then followed that tweetsaying, “My experience atRutgers has been great but it’stime for me to move on now! Iappreciate you all. Thanks!”
Out of the five players who have recently transferredfrom the Scarlet Knights,Carter played the biggest roleon the team.
Carter has led Rutgers inpoints per game in each of his two years. He averaged14.9 points per game last sea-son and 13.8 per match hisfreshman year.
BY BRADLY DERECHAILOASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
After senior righthanderCharlie Law left in the bottomof the ninth with one runner onin a 3-3 ballgame, freshmanreliever Howie Brey was calledin for the Rutgers baseballteam to duplicate his late-game heroics from earlier last week.
But Pittsburgh centerfielderStephen Vranka connected on athree-run, walk-off homerun offof Brey, clinching the seriessweep of the Scarlet Knights (18-19, 8-7) and solidifying itselfbehind Louisville for secondplace in the Big East.
“Today was a real tough one,”said junior second baseman NickFavatella. “It’s always importantto get the third one when youlose the first two, and come backand fight the way we did towardsthe end and to come up a little bitshort, it hurts.”
With one out in the bottomof the ninth of Pittsburgh’s(29-10, 9-3) 6-3 victory, Law (3-4) allowed third basemanSam Parente to reach on a dou-ble, forcing head coach FredHill to pull the Mainland, N.J.,native for Brey.
A single by pinch hitter BooVasquez put two on for thePanthers before shortstop EvanOswald lined out to junior short-stop Pat Sweeney.
That brought Vranka to theplate against Brey, whopitched three and a thirdinnings against Monmouth onWednesday to secure a 7-6 vic-tory against the Hawks.
But unlike his success atBainton Field, Brey left a hittablepitch for Vranka to drive over thefence for his fourth homerun ofthe season.
“Howie came in and threwstrikes, and that’s all we askedhim to do,” Law said. “I let upthat double with one run on abad pitch and Howie came inand got another out and he wasjust another pitch away from
Loss in ninth inning completes Panthers sweep
getting us out of there and keep-ing the game going, but the kidhad a good swing. There’s notmuch you can do.”
Law scattered eight hits andfour earned runs through eightand a third innings — the longestouting of his career — whilestriking out five Panthers in the process.
Hill has been most pleasedwith Law’s appearance in the laterpart of games.
“I was impressed by howCharlie Law pitched and kept usin the game,” Hill said in a state-ment. “He has gotten better asthe year has went on, workingdeep into games.”
But one of his few miscuesgave Pittsburgh a three-runlead in the bottom of the sixth.With a runner on and two outs,Law gave up an RBI single toleft fielder John Peluso and atwo-run double to Parente toput the Knights in a 3-0 hole.
Rutgers came up with eighthits in Game 3 — a fall-of f from its recent of fensive pro-duction — though a three-runeighth inning that gave theKnights hope to go home with at least one victory fromthe series.
Sweeney scored on a wildpitch, while an RBI single bysophomore leftfielder Vinny
Zarrillo brought in freshmanthird baseman Matt Tietz. Seniorcatcher Jeff Melillo delivered anRBI on an error by the Panthersto make it a tie score.
It was enough to makeFavatella confident Rutgers couldavoid a sweep
“Any time you score threeruns in one inning — we did havesome bad breaks in the earlierpart of the game — but we defi-nitely felt like we held themomentum,” he said.
It did not help that the Knightsdropped a doubleheaderSaturday against the Pantherseither, as they combined to allow23 runs in the first two contests of
the series. Pittsburgh beatRutgers, 14-5 and then 9-4.
Rutgers gets seven games out-side of Big East play before a piv-otal three-game home stand withConnecticut beginning May 3,and Law knows the time betweennow and the Huskies gives histeam time to regroup.
But the sting of being sweptby a team Rutgers felt it was onpar with talent-wise will hurt fora while.
For updates on the Rutgersbaseball team, follow BradlyDerechailo on Twitter @Bradly_D.For general Rutgers sports updatesfollow @TargumSports.
Freshman reliever Howie Brey could not duplicate his late-game success from earlier last week, serving up the game-winning runsin the ninth inning of Game 3 yesterday against Pittsburgh. The loss handed RU a sweep. WILLY MELOT / FILE PHOTO / APRIL 2013
The Paterson, N.J., nativeended his season by fracturinghis fibula Feb. 16 againstDePaul. That match kick-start-ed a five-game losing streak in a stretch where Rutgers lost11 of 12.
Carter’s release came a dayafter junior guard Mike Poolealso received a transferrelease. That was also thesame day the Universityagreed on a five-year deal withhead coach Eddie Jordan.
An of ficial announcement ofJordan as the new head coachcould occur as soon as earlythis week, pending approvalfrom the University’s Board of Governors.
It remains to be seen howmuch of an influence Jordanwill have on retaining what isleft of the roster. His decisionto retain assistant coachesDavid Cox and Van Maconmight help his cause.
Jordan is left with five play-ers under scholarship for now — sophomore guardMyles Mack, junior for wardWally Judge and sophomoreforwards Kadeem Jack, GregLewis and Derrick Randall.Rutgers also has three walk-ons remaining.
St. Anthony (N.J.) HighSchool head coach Bob Hurley, who coached Mack and Car ter, said Thursday he had not yet spoken to either since the hire of Jordanwas announced.
Rutgers only won two gameswithout Carter — March 8’s 56-51 victory against Seton Halland March 12’s 76-57 blowoutagainst DePaul in the Big East Tournament.
Rutgers, which averaged65.4 points per game last year, surpassed that thresholdonly twice in seven games without Carter.
thing we could do was to play ourbest tennis,” said freshman Gina Li.
Louisville swept Rutgers, 4-0,but the final score did not tell thestory of the match. The Knightsplayed strong and battled hardthroughout the match.
“The Louisville match was oneof the hardest-fought matches thatI have ever played in,” said fresh-man Mariam Zein. “It was one ofthose matches where the scoredoesn’t tell the whole story.”
Rutgers played every posi-tion well against Louisville (16-7, 3-0), but the Cardinals wereable to play a step above the
Knights and takethe victory.
“We reallyplayed our heartsout againstLouisville,” Li said.“We had nothing tolose, and eventhough we lost, weall felt like weplayed some of ourstrongest tennis.”
R u t g e r slooked to bounceback in singles
play after struggling in doublesbut ended up losing the firstthree singles contests, whichgave the match victory toLouisville and sent the Knightsto the consolation bracket.
Louisville had strong doublesplay and was able to take theopening point from the Knightsin that segment.
The future is bright for Rutgersbecause they are not graduatingany players this season. The sameroster will be back and ready toplay again next season.
The Knights now begin to pre-pare for next season, when theywill look to improve on their2012-2013 campaign.
SPORTS PAGE 18 APRIL 22, 2013
BY GREG JOHNSON CORRESPONDENT
Few benefit more from thereturn of junior fullback MichaelBurton to the Rutgers footballteam this spring than junior run-ning back Savon Huggins.
Bur ton, who needed sea-son-ending surger y afterbreaking his ankle Sept. 22 atArkansas, played in only fourgames last season.
In the Scarlet Knights’ pro-style offense, he plays a pivotalrole in blocking up front. Headcoach Kyle Flood likes seeinghim pound out tough yards inthe redzone.
And Huggins knowsBurton’s presence helps freeup running lanes.
“He’s been doing a greatjob. He’s a leader to the run-ning backs and the fullbacks,”Huggins said. “We watch filmtogether, we talk, and he’s def-initely done a great job for usthis spring.”
Burton’s importance to thesuccess of Rutgers’ runninggame is unequivocal, as thereis a distinct contrast in overallproduction when he is not onthe field.
The Knights averaged 154.2rushing yards per game in thefour games Burton played inlast season. In the nine he satout, they averaged 106.8 yardson the ground.
While Burton said his anklefeels healthy again followingSaturday’s scrimmage, he is notyet satisfied with his production.
“I thought it was a good day,but I have to get better,” Burton
Fullback aids in several aspects
FOOTBALL BURTON RETURNS FROM SEASON-ENDING ANKLE INJURY
Junior fullback Michael Burton played in only four games last season after suffering a brokenankle. The Knights look for him to provide run blocking. TIAN LI, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
TENNIS
BY MIKE KOSINSKISTAFF WRITER
The Rutgers tennis teamfinished their season thisweekend at the Big EastChampionships after losses toLouisville and Marquette.
The Scarlet Knights would see afamiliar opponent Saturday in No. 8-seeded Marquette. Rutgers beatMarquette, 5-2, earlier in the season.
Marquette would surprise theKnights in this match, sweepingthem with a score of 4-0. Rutgers saw some different indi-vidual matchups from the previ-ous match withMarquette that ended up givingthe Knights some trouble.
The match com-pleted a successfulseason for theKnights in whichthey finished withan overall record of14-9 and 8-4 in BigEast play.
“Overall theenergy againstMarquette could have been bet-ter, but in the grand scheme ofthings, we had some really greatmatches and a really good sea-son,” said freshman Gina Li.
Like Louisville, Marquette alsoplayed strong doubles matchesagainst the Knights and took thedoubles point early. Marquettewould then control singles play,sweeping the first three points.
After defeating St. John’s intheir opening-round matchThursday, the Knights werefaced with a tough test Fridayagainst No. 3-seeded Louisvillein the quarterfinal round.
“We knew that Louisville was astrong team, so really the only
RU falls short inBig East tourney
“We had nothing tolose, and even
though we lost, weall felt like we
played some of ourstrongest tennis.”
GINA LIFreshman
said. “It was my first real gamescrimmage in a couple of monthssince I’ve been injured, but I justhave to keep watching film andget better.”
Burton had plenty of time tostudy game tape last seasonwhile rehabilitating his ankle.He also took advantage of the weight room, bulking up to230 pounds.
A lack of game action frus-trated Burton, but being ableto perfect some of the littlethings of f the field may havemade him a better player in thelong run.
“I was able to focus on theplaybook and things like that,”Burton said. “I think that ulti-mately is going to help me, butthere are some new plays I haveto focus on for this spring andcontinue to finish and just keepgetting better.”
The fullback’s versatilityextends beyond the running game.
Burton showed Saturday heis also a sure-handed receiver inthe passing game, making sever-al smooth catches on outletthrows from junior quarterbackGary Nova.
But the Long Valley, N.J.,native refuses to become compla-cent in that department either,insisting he still needs to becomea bigger force in the open field.
“After the catch, I have to getbetter,” Burton said. “I have towork on my finishing moves. Ididn’t do too great of that[Saturday]. I just want to be moreof a threat after I catch the ball.”
Flood said the running gameas a whole is not where it needsto be right now.
For an offense that reliedheavily on effective running lastseason, Saturday’s scrimmagepainted a different story. Hugginsin particular found negativeyardage in roughly 15 carries onthe ground.
Flood is not overly con-cerned, though.
“In our attempt to build depth,we probably have so many play-ers playing with the first groupthat we lack continuity onoffense,” Flood said. “When youroll a lineman through, when youroll a tight end through … it isbuilding depth, and I think in thelong run it’s going to help us, butI think we’ve sacrificed some pro-ductivity right now because of it.”
The bigger concern to Floodin the running game is ball secu-rity. All three running backs atopthe depth chart coughed the ballup at least once Saturday, whichFlood called unacceptable.
But fumbling in April does notworry Huggins.
He thinks the running gamesimply must execute and focus onbetter understanding schemesheading into the last week ofspring practice.
“It’s just all part of the spring,”Huggins said. “Everything is notgoing to be perfect, but we’ve gotto just continue to keep doingwhat we’ve been doing and trustin our coaches and our tech-nique, and the rest will take careof itself.”
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APRIL 22, 2013 SPORTS PAGE 19
T he Rutgers men’s andwomen’s track and fieldteams competed in the
Larry Ellis Invitational this week-end in Princeton, N.J.
The men earned seven Big East- and five IC4A-qualify-ing marks.
Sophomore Corey Crawfordpaced the men’s team with aBig East-qualifying per form-ance in the long jump, where heplaced second with a distanceof 7.04 meters. He also record-ed league- and IC4A-qualifyingmarks in the 100 meters and200 meters.
The Knights also had sec-ond-place results from seniorAdam Bergo in the high jumpand senior Chris Wyckoff in thepole vault. Bergo’s 2.09-metermark and Wyckoff’s 4.90-metermark qualified them for BigEast and IC4A.
The women had a trio finish inthe top eight of the 400 meter.
Sophomore ChristaDibernardo produced a second-place time of 55.13 seconds, qual-ifying her for Big East and ECAC.Freshman Alayna Famble tooksixth with a mark of 56.73 sec-onds, and junior CorrynHurrington seized eighth with atime of 57.28 seconds.
THE NEW YORK JETSyesterday traded cornerbackDarrelle Revis to the Tampa BayBuccaneers for the 13th overallpick, sources told ESPN.
The Jets will reportedly alsoreceive a conditional fourth-round pick in 2014 that couldbecome a third-rounder if Revisis on the Bucs roster on the thirdday of the 2014 season.
Revis also signed a six-year,$96 million contract extensionthat makes him the highest-paiddefensive back in NFL history.The only higher-paid defenderis Buffalo Bills defensive endMario Williams.
GOLDEN STATE WARRIORSforward David Lee was ruled outfor the remainder of the playoffsyesterday after tearing his righthip flexor, according to ESPN.
The injury occurred duringGame 1 of the Warriors’ loss Saturday to Denver in thefirst round.
It leaves Golden State withoutkey offensive production in thefrontcourt, as Lee led the NBAwith 56 double-doubles this sea-son. He averaged 18.5 points,11.2 rebounds and 3.5 assists inthe regular season.
CHICAGO BULLS HEADcoach Tom Thibodeau told ESPNyesterday he expects centerJoakim Noah (plantar fasciitis)and guard Kirk Hinrich (thighbruise) to play in Game 2 tonightagainst the Nets.
Noah played in Game 1Saturday after being ruled doubt-ful earlier in the day. He waslargely unproductive in just 13minutes of action off the bench,collecting only four points andfive rebounds. He was also innoticeable discomfort, but insist-ed he would play in Game 2.
If Noah does play, Thibodeausaid he will start.
“He’s a plus,” Thibodeau toldESPN. “ I think that we feed off ofwhat he can do defensively, andoffensively he has a very uniqueskill set because of the way hecan pass the ball.”
IN BRIEFFOOTBALL PRATT FOCUSES ON STUDYING EVERY POSITION
BY JOSH BAKANSPORTS EDITOR
Quron Pratt last year was an exception.
Out of the four Rutgers foot-ball wide receivers with morethan 20 receptions last season,Pratt was the only one shorterthan 6-foot-3.
Now that receivers like the 6-foot Pratt are the Scarlet Knights’norm, Pratt has to show his unitthat size is not everything.
“You never get down on that,”Pratt said Saturday, regardingwhat he tells his receivers wholack height. “You never [let any-
one] tell you that you can’t do any-thing, no matter how slow you maybe, how short you may be. Just goout there every day, becauseyou’re good enough to be here.”
There are many receiversfaster than Pratt too. Althoughhe was one of the best quarter-mile performers in South Jerseyat Palmyra (N.J.) High School,that does not translate intoquick acceleration.
Pratt exploits matchups withhis football IQ. He rarely catchesa long pass, since most defensivebacks are around his height.
But he said he has focused onstudying every offensive and
Senior Quron Pratt is the only healthy, active wide receiver who has caught a pass in each of the past two years for the Knights.Pratt is part of a wide receiver group that is much shorter than last year’s unit. TIAN LI, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Pratt leads WR corps with intelligencedefensive position to quickly get amental edge on each play, whichrange from defensive coveragesto blocking schemes.
That translated into a 37-yardcompletion in Saturday’s scrim-mage, which was almost 20 yardsmore than his 17.7 yards-per-game average last season.
Junior Miles Shuler and soph-omore Leonte Carroo also madebig receptions Saturday. Despiteathletic advantages over Pratt,Shuler and Carroo both mustlearn to succeed without heightadvantages, at 5-foot-10 and 6-foot-1, respectively.
“I thought Quron and Leonteand Miles, they made plays whenthey had the opportunity to makeplays,” said head coach KyleFlood of the scrimmage. “That’sexciting, and I think all three ofthose guys can be playmakers inour offense. It gives us moredepth as we go forward.”
Flood said he also wants tosee more consistency from red-shirt freshmen Carlton Agudosiand Ruhann Peele, but he likestheir progress.
Since junior wideout BrandonColeman is sidelined for springpractice because of a knee proce-dure, Pratt is the only widereceiver catching passes with sig-nificant collegiate experience.
Despite less than impressivenumbers, Pratt leads activeRutgers wideouts in combinedreceptions in the past two years,54 to 5, and the other five of thosereceptions are Shuler’s.
Pratt has never caught morethan 32 passes in a year, which hedid in 2011, but his experiencecould set him up for a breakout year.
“Quron’s probably the bestroute runner on our team, andhe’s probably one of the hard-est workers on our team,” saidjunior quarterback Gary Nova.“He’s not the biggest guy, notthe strongest guy, not thefastest guy either, but he’s oneof those guys who’s alwaysgoing to be out there runningin the of fseason, grabbing meto throw.”
Without Shuler’s quickness orCarroo’s athleticism, Pratt musthave that breakout year throughfulfilling Rutgers’ mantra.
“I know I’m not the biggestor the fastest, but the smartplayer is the better player,” Prattsaid. “That’s a [phrase] we usearound here.”
Junior Savon Huggins, red-shirt freshman Desmon Peoplesand freshman Dontea Ayres allfumbled at running back inSaturday’s scrimmage, whichleaves Flood concerned.
“As we go forward, we need tofind a running back who can holdonto the ball,” Flood said.
Ayres’ fumble resulted in aturnover. Huggins also strug-gled to consistently run past theline of scrimmage.
Sophomore running backPaul James has been injured foreach spring scrimmage, but hewill be a prime candidate inRutgers’ tailback competitionwhen he returns.
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Junior Savon Huggins was 1 of 3 Rutgers running backs whofumbled in Saturday’s scrimmage.TIAN LI, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
No players were available for comment on the situation, and theUniversity will not comment during an on-going investigation.
The Scarlet Knights scored the finalthree goals of the game following Duke attack Jordan Wolf scoring two ofhis game-high five goals to open thefourth quarter.
Junior midfielder Anthony Terranovascored both his goals in the quarter, while
freshman attack Scott Bieda added one of his own to make it a 16-7 BlueDevils lead.
Duke’s offense was dominant, scoringseven unanswered goals between the secondand third quarters.
The Blue Devils (11-4) outshot theKnights 55-31 in the contest, which includedhaving double-digit shots in every quarter.
BACK IN ACTION Fullback Michael Burton, a keymember of the Rutgers football team’s run game,returns this spring from an ankle injury. PAGE 18
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SERIES SWEEP The Rutgers baseball team could not finda win this weekend against Pitt, falling yesterday in thelast inning on a walk-off homerun. PAGE 17
DROPPING LIKE FLIES Eli Carter became thefifth player to be granted a release from theRutgers men’s basketball team. PAGE 17
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“I know I’m not the biggest or the fastest, but the smart player is the better player.”
— Rutgers football senior wide receiver Quron Pratt on his relative lack of size and athleticism
CHANDLERHOWARD extendedher hitting streak to 14games Thursday againstIona with a 2-for-2 day.The sophomore outfielderhas also reached base in23 straight games.
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MEN’S LACROSSE NO. 6 DUKE 16, RUTGERS 7
Junior midfielder Anthony Terranova led the Knights with two goals Saturday against the Blue Devils. Both came toward theend of the contest but were not enough to lift Rutgers as it fell to Duke’s scoring firepower, 16-7. TIAN LI, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
RU loses without suspended coachBY JIM MOONEY
STAFF WRITER
No. 6 Duke soundly defeated theRutgers men’s lacrosse team Saturday,16-7, to drop to 2-12 on the year.
The storyline of this game changed con-siderably Friday when Rutgers (0-5)announced the University’s suspension andpending investigation of head coach BrianBrecht for alleged verbal abuse.
WOMEN’S LACROSSE
Knights fallto pair ofranked foes
Attack Haley Barnes paced RU againstLoyala with two goals. TIAN LI / FILE PHOTO / APRIL 2013
BY IAN ERHARDCORRESPONDENT
The Rutgers women’s lacrosse teamdropped its final two home games of the reg-ular season last weekend.
The Scarlet Knights fell yesterday athome to No. 13 Loyola, 10-4, following a 13-5loss Friday to No. 8 Georgetown.
Loyola (9-6, 5-1) dominated defensively,holding the Knights to their lowest scoringoutput of the season. Rutgers (9-6, 1-5)went through two scoreless spans that last-ed nearly 25 minutes each, despite nearlymatching Loyola in shots.
“Their goalie played well. She definitelycovered her angles, but again it’s ourshooting,” said head coach Laura Brand-Sias. “Our shooting is not good, and thathas been the dif ference in quite a few ofour games.”
Freshman attack Halley Barnes pacedthe team as she scored both of Rutgers’first and last goals.
The Greyhounds stormed out to a seven-goal lead early in the second period.
