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Department earns grant for expansion

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With a $9.5 million grant, the Rutgers University Cell and DNA Repositor y (RUCDR) is looking to expand the second floor of Nelson Laboratories on Busch campus.

The grant, a gift from the National Institute of Health (NIH), will enable the repository to carry out plans that, since 2006, have been in motion.

Established in 1998, RUCDR holds more than hundreds of thousands of samples from 300,000 people, said Michael Pazzani, the University’s vice president for Research and Graduate and Professional Education. “[RUCDR] … stores cell samples of various diseases including samples from people with autism, alcoholism and bipolar disorder,” he said.

Since the repository is the epicenter of research, people are starting to demand an expansion, said Director of RUCDR Jay Tischfield, who officially applied in February 2009 for the grant from NIH. “The repository is growing steadily, the building cannot keep up with the volume of work we do,” said Tischfield, a genetics professor. “We have more than 100 employees and the building cannot accommodate the amount of employees we have, so we applied for the award.”

Currently, the robots used in the genetics research are scattered around campus because there is not enough space for them in the repository, he said.

“We can’t keep million-dollar robots in dusty corners and we simply don’t have enough space in the RUCDR to store them,” Tischfield said.

With the robots in various spots around Busch campus, transportation

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An alteration to the University policy on residence crime will require a change in how residential assistants report on-campus incidents, including sexual assault. The RAs will have additional training to prepare for crime-related situations.

U. revises residence hall crime policy

BY NEIL P. KYPERS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

The University modified its policy on residence hall crime by requiring resident assistants to report all crimes, including sexual assault, to the Rutgers University Police Department.

If a sexual assault were previously reported to a resident assistant, they would be required to report it to their direct superior. Under new regulations, they must immediately call the authorities.

“We are basically telling [resident assistants] that when a crime is reported to them, it’s not their judgment as to whether or not it should be reported, and RUPD will determine what will happen in that circumstance,” Vice President for Student Affairs Gregory S. Blimling said.

This alteration deviates from the policy on the Office for Violence Prevention and Victim Assistance (VPVA) website, which states that reporting an incident of sexual violence is a decision only the victim should make.

“There are many reasons why a victim may choose not to report the incident to authorities including … fear of retaliation from the perpetrator … history of mistrust of the police and other authorities,” according to the VPVA website.

The change has been communicated to RAs and will be included in the new RA training material, Blimling said.

The University is always working to improve practices and procedures, and the change was to best comply with the Clery Act, Blimling said.

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“In all cases that there was a crime reported we are under an obligation — under the Clery Act — to inform the police so they can make a determination as to whether or not a timely notice is required and a crime alert should be issued,” he said.

The Clery Act requires the police to provide the community with a crime report if a threat is determined, RUPD Lt. Richard Dinan said via e-mail correspondence.

“The purpose of reporting the crime to the police is to ensure that the University complies with its obligations under federal law to issue what is known as a Timely Warning or Crime Alert in the event the alleged crime rep-

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Members of the SEBS Governing Council aim to increase student involvement and input when making decisions for the spring semester.

The SEBS Governing Council met in the Cook Campus Center earlier this week to discuss, among other things, its plan to house students from the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences on Cook campus.

Many students have complained about not having designated School of Environmental and Biological Sciences housing for students on campus, council President Zaid Abuhouran said.

“More and more students have been displaced from the Cook campus,” said Abuhouran, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences junior.

“They’re no longer near the academic center, which is upsetting.”

Nathan Girer, council vice president and internal af fairs chair, said School of Environmental and Biological

SEBS Governing Council Sciences students feel frustrated that they do not have their own housing.

“They are building new apartments on Busch exclusively for engineering students,” said Girer, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences senior. “If they are going to be limiting in that sense, it’s like they’re giving a right to some students yet taking one away from SEBS students.”

As part of its initiative to increase awareness of their situation on campus, Abuhouran said the council elected Diana Onushcak, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences junior, to serve as the

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New media builds group’s global impact

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The University canceled classes yesterday after sixth period or 4:30 p.m. on the New Brunswick and Piscataway campuses because of inclement weather. Accidents on Route 18 altered bus routes to the Cook/Douglass campuses.

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University first-year students Jayshil Desai, Chris Farina and Gabrielle Rossi received an invitation to join the World Mind Network for their activism in student government and their individual work within each of their respective fields of technology and social-justice issues.

The World Mind Network is an international organization that addresses educational, environmental and social-justice issues through technology.

Based on the metaphor that laptops and smart phones can be seen as a global brain, the organization focuses on expanding its presence through YouTube, Skype and the iPhone, said John Toomey, a World Mind Network administrator.

“Now we all are familiar with these [devices], but for the most par t we use them as toys or to do things more conveniently,” said Toomey, organizer of the University’s chapter. “What’s new is … if you push these things to their limits and combine their capabilities, you can achieve amazing results.”

Because the Internet increases efficiency of projects, it has become the launching pad of ideas, Toomey said.

“You can create a social movement, star t an environmental project, initiate a worldwide philosophical discussion, conduct a web-based social science experiment and do it in a few hours,” he said. “Because of social networking, it can keep expanding after that few hours — even if you’re no longer involved.”

The World Mind Network has connections to exper ts in many fields and relies on technology to increase the ef ficiency of the students’ projects, which was the basis of how students are selected, Toomey said.

School of Engineering firstyear student Jayshil Desai based his project in the hopes of combining popular video games and political education.

“Games like ‘LittleBigPlanet 2’ could be used to teach and spread information, but at the same time, still appeal to the gaming audience,” Desai said.

Desai hopes to expand his project as the year progresses.

School of Arts and Sciences first-year student Chris Farina created the charity Cards from Africa, which designs and sells homemade cards with proceeds going toward Rwandan orphans.

“We are able to spread the word about the websites we support by creating Facebook pages,

Twitters, LinkedIn profiles and even Xanga or other blogs about them,” he said.

The goal of the World Mind Network is to utilize the Web and technology to advance these social service projects, Farina said.

School of Arts and Sciences first-year student Gabrielle Rossi helps Pakistani women sell their handmade bags, weaving, jewelr y, woodwork and other products, with proceeds helping the women become more financially stable.

“I can effortlessly contact several hundred Facebook friends who can reach out to all their several hundred friends,” she said.

“Technology really is the key to reaching so many people.”

Although Rossi has been unable to obtain the products from the women due to difficulties in the fiscal exchange, Rossi hopes to sell the products in the Douglass Campus Center.

Currently there are five University students involved with The World Mind Network, but members of the organization can be located all over the world, including students at Yale, Harvard and overseas in London, she said.

“Even still, the Rutgers students involved with the organization have just begun their journeys, and there is much that lies ahead,” Rossi said.

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POLICY: New policy aims to provide victims best support continued from front resents a continuing danger to the community,” Dinan said.

Although victims are not required to pursue police involvement, police participations allows the incident to be documented so it can be compared to other crimes that may have happened, said Rhonda Harris, chief of RUPD. “It just means that the police are able to take that information and make decisions about the safety of the community and the ongoing threat to the other individuals in the residence hall or who might frequent that area,” she said.

Harris said it is also important because the statute of limitations for these types of crimes gives victims a time frame to react if they do not wish to take action when the police respond. It also helps to facilitate solutions like room changes with housing.

The officers are required to have yearly training to respond to these types of scenarios, she said.

“They receive training at the police academy. We receive training from the county prosecutors office. We have training that occurs in house in the RUPD. We have a policy that dictates how these crimes will be handled and how officers will address it,” Harris said.

The goal of the new policy is to provide a victim with all the possible information about what their options are, Blimling said.

“Ultimately, it is the student’s decision if she or he wishes to file a police report, but we want to make sure they know what all of their rights are, what all of their options are and provide them the best services possible to protect as many students as possible,” he said.

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Aside from housing for School of Environmental and Biological Sciences students, the council will also work to revise its constitution.

HOUSING: Council polls on facility conditions continued from front new public relations chair.

“One of our goals this year is to create a new name for the council around campus,” he said. “We want to promote awareness on Cook so students will know we can help them with their issues.”

In addition to housing, the council is also concerned with involving students in their decisions.

“We’re polling students on what they think about the restroom facilities in their classroom buildings,” Abuhouran said.

“We’re really trying to get students’ voices heard.”

The council hopes to attract more student groups who will

ask them for allocations and funding for events, said Greg Resch, the council’s allocations chair and food science representative.

“We only just began giving allocations to student organizations last semester,” said Resch, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences senior. “SEBS students no longer have to ask [the Rutgers University Student Assembly] for allocations, so we’re trying to get the word out earlier and get more students involved.”

At the meeting, the council’s allocations committee passed three resolutions to fund the Alpha Beta fraternity, the University student chapter of the Botanical Society of America and the Society of Animal Science on Cook campus.

Aside from the demand for housing for School of

Environmental and Biological Sciences students, the University Affairs committee plans to address new bus shelters around Cook campus.

“The bus shelters we have now are inefficient,” Abuhouran said. “They don’t really shelter students well.”

In terms of internal affairs, the SEBS Governing Council will seek out changes to its constitution’s bylaws and begin planning the elections for next year’s council, he said.

The council’s current constitution was written by the Cook Council, which dissolved into the SEBS Governing Council, Girer said.

“Our constitution has nothing to do with us,” Girer said. “We’re rewriting it because there are a lot of gaps and holes.”

The council is also concerned with the upcoming graduation ceremony, Girer said. Ever y school within the University will have one ceremony, yet each school can have its own graduation ritual.

“We want to make sure the rituals of Cook College graduation are continued,” Girer said. “We’ve made a Facebook group for SEBS students to exchange ideas for a new ritual as well.”

The council will meet with Bob Goodman, executive dean of the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Feb. 7 to learn more about the continuation of Cook College’s traditions at commencement.

“We’re really trying to get the word out about what our council does,” Resch said. “We’re here to help students and make changes.”

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Gun violence survivor to speak at film festival

BY SONJA TYSIAK CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Colin Goddard was a 21-yearold senior when the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre left 32 dead and 17 injured. Goddard, who survived four shots to his body, will visit the University Saturday for the screening of the film, “Living for 32.”

As part of the New Jersey Film Festival, “Living for 32” recounts Goddard’s experiences and advocacy for stronger gun control, said Maria Cuomo Cole, producer of the film. By filming the sur vivors, she was able to put a human face on the gun law debate.

“Reading newspaper accounts and watching television news broadcasts about an incident does not communicate the impact of a survivor’s personal story,” Cole said. “These real messages touch a responsive chord with people from both sides of the issue.”

The film not only shows Goddard’s past, but it tells the tale of his present and future in advocating for stricter gun control laws.

After recovering with three bullets still inside him and finishing his degree, Goddard volunteered for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, the nation’s largest gun control organization.

“He convinced them to sponsor him in wearing a hidden camera and going undercover into gun shows all across America to prove how easy it is for anyone to buy a gun with no identification, no Brady background check and just a wad of cash,” Cole said.

Through the Brady Campaign, Cole met and was inspired

by Goddard.

“The first time I heard Colin share his chilling account of the 11 minutes of terror he endured when Seung-Hui Cho, a fellow Virginia Tech student turned assassin, took the lives of 32 classmates and teachers, I felt compelled to help him communicate the almost unfathomable experience,” she said.

Cole introduced Goddard to Kevin Breslin, the director of “Living for 32,” and asked him to collaborate to make the picture.

“Colin is a tough young man, and he made it clear he is not a per former,” Breslin said.

“When you make a film with this depth of emotion, you have to be responsible to the subject matter, have his tr ust and [what] matters are his moments, the beats of his honesty and truth.”

Breslin believes students should take a stance against gun violence and said the obsession with guns and inefficient legislation allowed not only for the Virginia Tech massacre, but also the Tucson shooting.

“Get some lazy politician who has been on the fence to wake up,” Breslin said. “When a House of Representatives member is shot along with a 9-year-old girl, who is killed, it is the responsibility of students. Do not sit on the fence.”

Some of the pending legislation discussed in the film most directly af fects the countr y’s student population, Cole said.

For example, there are pending laws in states like Texas that would force guns onto college campuses.

Goddard’s stor y could help viewers understand the importance of standing up for what they believe in and not being afraid of their voices to be heard, Cole said.

“Colin shares an intimate account of the terror that he and his classmates endured, and the courageous journey of renewal and hope that he has chosen to pursue,” she said.

“Living for 32” will debut Saturday at 7 p.m. in Voorhees Hall on the College Avenue campus.

“The film was selected by a panel of our jurors because they thought it was ver y important, especially for students, to watch,” said Alber t Nigrin, executive director of the Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center. “I have seen the film, and it is ver y inspirational and moving.”

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CHRISTIE HELPS TOWNS AVOID DECLARING BANKRUPTCY Gov. Chris Christie’s administration is working with municipalities statewide to help avoid declaring bankruptcy, according to an ar ticle on nj.com.

Christie said he does not believe states need to be permitted to declare bankruptcy just to escape debt, according to the article.

“I don’t think we’re at that stage yet,” Christie said in the article. “I think it’s an idea that is out on the table. We need, as elected governors, to take responsibility for what’s going on in our states.”

If states were permitted to declare bankruptcy, it could potentially save them millions of dollars, but union

contracts could be voided and pension benefits reduced, according to the ar ticle. This could make it harder for New Jersey to borrow money for other projects.

“Declaring bankruptcy would have a big impact not only on the residents of the state but on the financing of the state, on the selling of bonds, on the budget process,” former Delaware Gov. Pete du Pont said in the ar ticle.

The governor’s office is working with municipalities to maintain their financial obligations, according to the article. So far, towns are creating recovery plans, but none are in danger of declaring bankruptcy.

“The financial rules and regulations that the state established many years ago prevent the kind of bankruptcies which occurred in the public sector back in the days of the Great Depression,” Executive Director of New Jersey League of Municipalities Bill Dressel said in the article.

Regardless of any plans Congress has regarding federal handouts, Christie said he would continue to restrict New Jersey spending.

“It’s time to make the tough decisions, and default is not the tough decision,” he said in the article.

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allows more project showcasing continued from front between the multiple laboratories has become an issue, he said.

“We have a slew of golf carts, which we use to get around to the other buildings and laboratories, and let’s just say they are not efficient or fool-proof and leave lots of room for human error,” Tischfield said.

When the application was submitted, the NIH reviewed the application based on certain criteria, depending on which program the University applied for under the Recovery Act, said Gregory Farber, deputy director of the Office of Extramural Activities at the National Center for Research Resources at NIH. “Those applications were permitted to request between $2 million and $15 million in funds,” Farber said.

Experts from the research community review each application that is sent to NIH, he said.

Following the second round of reviews and a summary statement given by each applicant, NIH awards grants based on the applicant’s final scores.

“Part of peer review is to see if the funds requested are appropriate for the research that is proposed and after peer review is finished, there is a second level review that is conducted by the National Advisory Research Resources Council,” he said.

After applicants are selected for funding, NIH staff gather to discuss the exact amount of funding that should be allocated to each applicant.

“For the Recovery Act, we received about 1,200 applications and funded just fewer than 150 projects,” Farber said. “The major concern in making funding decisions was the quality of the proposal as evaluated in peer review.”

An applicant’s geographic location also determines how much funding they should receive, Farber said.

With the funding awarded, Tischfield hopes the University can showcase more research projects.

“We received a $9.5 million grant to renovate the laboratories to house our research and create more space for our numerous projects going on,” Tischfield said.

The construction of the second floor of Nelson Laborator y should begin early this year and end by early 2012, Tischfield said.

“We are gutting the entire second floor and dividing the building 60 percent [to accommodate] the robotics lab, the process lab and the RUCDR,” he said. “The rest [of the floor will be] offices and spaces for our faculty to use.”

The renovation will add 10,000 square feet of space to the repository, which Tischfield said is a great addition considering the repository now fills about 22,000 square feet in the current facility.

He said RUCDR is one of its kind because it is the only place that attracts the most diverse group of people around the world.

“We receive samples and send samples all over the world,” Tischfield said. “In the office we have a map of the world with pinpoints of places where we send our samples. We’ve sent and received samples from China, Harvard University, New York universities and Yale.”

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“Get On the Bus: Can We Be Kinder Towards One Another on the Rutgers Buses?” is a discussion about campus civil behavior on the University bus system, the second largest bus system in the state of New Jersey. Moderated by Dean of Students Michelle Jefferson and Graduate School of Education student Luis Levya, the discussion will begin with articles from archives of The New York Times concerning a 1920s “civility on the bus” initiative. The discussion will take place at 7 p.m. in the Fireplace, NJC Lounge on second floor of the Douglass Campus Center.

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Rutgers Geology Museum will host its annual Open House with a mineral sale, lectures on geology and kids activities including identifying minerals and volcano exhibits.

Lecturers will include Dr. Elisabeth Sikes, Dr. Brain Stump, Ph.D student Jason Schein and Ph.D candidate Morgan Schaller. Admission to the event is free. Visit geologymuseum.rutgers.edu for more information.

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The C. S. Lewis Society of the University will discuss chapters 1 to 2 of “The Problem of Pain” from 5 to 7 p.m. at Canterbury House located on 5 Mine St., New Brunswick, N.J. A light supper will be served. To request a copy of the discussion book contact Chaplain Gregory Bezilla at bezilla@rci.rutgers.edu.

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“Strategic Human Resource Management: Business Strategy” is the first in a series of workshops in the Strategic Human Resource Management Certificate Program. This workshop will consider decisions regarding strategic expansion, the introduction of new products or services as well as the diversification into complimentar y industries. The course is scheduled to run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Janice H. Levin Building on Livingston campus. Each workshop, sponsored by the Rutgers Center for Management Development, costs $475.

Visit www.cmd.rutgers.edu/humanresoruces-advanced.html for more information.

Apply to be a staff member for Rutgers Model Congress 2011. The conference will be held on April 14 to 17 in the Hyatt Regency Hotel. Designed for high school students, Rutgers Model Congress is a conference that simulates the workings of Congress. Help teach approximately 500 high school students from around the country the value of civic engagement and political involvement in domestic and international politics. A general interest meeting will be held at 9 p.m. in A6 in Frelinghuysen Hall on the College Avenue campus.

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Art after Hours will feature a tour from 5 to 9 p.m. of the exhibition “Dancing with the Dark: Joan Snyder Prints,” a women's-themed poetry showcase, including an open-mic opportunity and a performance of Renaissance and Baroque madrigals. Complimentary light refreshments are also offered. Take advantage of a 20 percent discount in the museum store and receive 50 percent off the soft cover monograph on Joan Snyder's paintings with the purchase of “Dancing with the Dark: Joan Snyder Prints.”

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N.M. considers drug testing to qualify for unemployment benefits THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SANTA FE, N.M. — New Mexico lawmakers are considering a new requirement for people to qualify for state unemployment benefits as more residents seek public assistance in a sour economy: saying no to drugs.

State Senate President Pro Tem Tim Jennings, who has proposed that residents pass a drug test to qualify for unemployment benefits, called the testing on Wednesday “tough love” for those who could get work if they weren’t drug users.

“Those people who choose to be unemployed for using drugs are just robbing from those people who are legitimately unemployed,” said Jennings, a conser vative Democrat from Roswell.

No state currently requires drug testing to receive public assistance, but at least 16 states have proposed legislation for that as many state lawmakers nationwide work to close budget gaps, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

The proposal in Santa Fe comes as a measure on yesterday cleared the Missouri House for dr ug testing of welfare applicants if the state suspects they are using illegal drugs.

Last year, Idaho lawmakers asked a state agency to study the cost of dr ug-testing those who receive welfare assistance, food stamps or other public aid.

Some employers require random drug tests for their workers.

Critics argue, meanwhile, that requiring dr ug testing

for public assistance likely is unconstitutional.

Jennings’ proposal would require applicants for jobless benefits to pay for the drug

“Clearly, this federal government had no intent of including drug users in these cash benefits.”

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testing. If an individual failed or refused a drug test, they would be disqualified from receiving unemployment benefits for 26 weeks but after that could apply again.

Jennings’ proposal has yet to be considered by a committee but it faces opposition from the American Civil Liberties Union.

“We’ve got protections against the government’s intrusion into our privacy, and requiring people to disclose the chemicals that they put into their body as a condition of getting benefits they are other wise entitled to is a clear violation of the 4th Amendment,” said Peter Simonson, executive director of the ACLU in New Mexico.

Drug tests, he said, also can produce false positive results — denying benefits to those in need of governmental assistance.

Under the Missouri legislation, people who fail a drug test would lose their benefits under the federal Temporar y Assistance for Needy Families program for one year. A second

vote by the House is needed to send the bill to the Senate, where similar measures have been introduced.

“Clearly, this federal gover nment had no intent of including drug users in these cash benefits,” said Rep. Ellen Brandom, R-N.M. A decade ago, Michigan enacted a law requiring random drug testing of all TANF recipients but it was later found unconstitutional by a federal appeals cour t, according to the ACLU. “A drug test is basically a ver y invasive search of your body, a search of the most intimate realm of privacy, and so the government has to have extremely good reasons to intrude into your personal information at that level,” said Simonson.

CHRISTIE DOES NOT INTEND TO REPAY FOR CANCELED RAIL PROJECT TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey officials say the state should not have to repay the federal government for work done on a canceled rail tunnel project because the cancellation was not the state’s fault.

Gov. Chris Christie said Tuesday that the state would not comply with the federal govern-

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SAS SOPHOMORE “I don’t really know anything, but I can’t see why it could be harmful. I think they are both important New Jersey schools, so coming together would benefit the students more.”

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n reaction to the fatal shooting of Lakewood, N.J., Police Officer Christopher Matlosz, state Sen. Robert Singer, R-Ocean, has put forward a piece of legislation which would reinstate the death penalty in New Jersey. Singer’s reasoning is that, “For certain crimes, however, life in prison is not justice.” Essentially, Singer is endorsing the asinine logic behind the use of the death penalty — that is, that two wrongs make a right. As every child is taught by their parents, that is not true.

We understand Singer is upset about Matlosz’s death, and he has every right to be so. Matlosz died senselessly in the line of duty. But reinstating the death penalty will not bring him back, nor will it serve to avenge him in any way. Instead, it will just lead to more senseless death — the only difference being that this senseless death would be government-sanctioned.

In a way, Singer’s decision to introduce this legislation now suggests that it is nothing more than a reactionary response and not a well thought-out solution for violent crime. New Jersey removed the death penalty in the first place for a reason. It is a barbaric form of punishment, one which makes the government no better than the criminal who receives the penalty. It would be regression for the state to bring it back. We should always be moving forward, not sliding backwards — especially in tragic times such as these.

If Singer feels that life in prison is too light a punishment for violent criminals, he should seek to reform the prison system instead of being rash and attempting to fight violence with more violence. There is certainly room for improvement within New Jersey’s prison system and we would whole-heartedly support reform in that area.

New Jersey has not executed anyone since 1963. Why break such an impressive humanitarian streak? It is easy to act on one’s gut reactions in times of tragedy. But acting without reflection, as it seems Singer is doing in this case, often leads to terrible mistakes.

Reinstating the death penalty is a perfect example of an impulsive action, which is ultimately a mistake, even though the intentions behind the action were good.

We have faith the rest of New Jersey’s legislators will not let this bill come to pass, so we are not too worried about one man’s mistake becoming an entire state’s problem. Still, Singer needs to rethink his choice to introduce this bill.

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hould a mother ever be arrested for trying to provide her children with a good education? Most people would be appalled at the mere suggestion of punishing natural maternal care, but Kelley Williams-Bolar of Akron, Ohio, was subject to just such punishment when she was convicted of lying about her address in order to send her children to a better school district. While what WilliamsBolar did was, in fact, illegal, arresting her for it seems a bit extreme.

Williams-Bolar should have gone through the proper channels to get her children into the Copley-Fairlawn School District, which she thought would provide them with a better education than the Akron Central District. We won’t contest that. But there was no need to arrest her for her conduct. The school merely should have deregistered her children and sent them back to their proper district. Presiding Judge Patricia Cosgrove admitted that Williams-Bolar was sentenced to prison as an example: “I felt that some punishment or deterrent was needed for other individuals who might think to defraud the various school districts.”

It is unfair to turn Williams-Bolar into an example, especially when all she was trying to do was give her children a better life. She never would have resorted to defrauding the school district if she was provided with better public education inside of her legitimate district. If anyone is at fault here, it is the public school system — public education is failing nationwide. Individuals considering defrauding the school districts do not need a deterrent. Instead, they need better schools, so that they would not have to resort to fraud in the first place.

This debacle lends even more support to Gov. Chris Christie’s education reforms in New Jersey, especially the proposed Opportunity Scholarship Act. The act would make it so people like Williams-Bolar, who find themselves faced with failing public schools, would have the chance to give their children better educations without resorting to criminal activity. Ohio should take notice of what Christie is trying to do in New Jersey and follow suit. In fact, most of America should pay attention to Christie’s education reforms. Ohio is not the only place where things like this are happening.

In one way, Cosgrove succeeded in making Williams-Bolar an example — although not in the way she intended. Williams-Bolar’s case now stands as an example of how broken the United States’ public school system is and how badly it needs repairs.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “Get some lazy politician who has been on the fence to wake up.”

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passed through, original title he House of intact, ignoring the murders that Representatives passed happened in the first week alone legislation called of 2011. In the interest of political “Repealing the Job-Killing Health correctness, the same principle Care Law Act” almost three that avoided a word to avoid weeks ago. Rep. Gabrielle offense, how do we account for Giffords, D-Ariz., was shot a day JOE HERNANDEZ those actually killed who were later, and the word “kill” took on ostensibly ignored by the bill’s a chilly and dubious connotation. original title? This may seem a trivial objection, but it’s Side-stepping Republicans scrambled to find alternatives meant to show how idiosyncratic a politically correct for the “k word.” Gloating about their early accomplishphrase can be. No doubt handfuls of Americans will ment wouldn’t stop, so they retreated to rhetoric for a think twice before saying “kill” when they don’t literally solution to ad nauseam repetition of the insensitive verb. mean the act of terminating a living being.

Shortly after, Speaker of the House John Boehner, RWe have all seen this kind of behavior, what jourOhio, converted his token histrionics into the more-symnalist Trevor Butterworth reminds us in his recent pathetic adjective, “job-crushing.” Let’s hope Godzilla article in The Atlantic is a kind of “scrupulous literaldoes not show up and prompt another about-face. ism.” Careful speakers will use a precise mixture of In his essay “Authority and American Usage (Or, words with clear meanings in speech devoid of any ‘Politics and the English Language’ is Redundant),” semblance of metaphorical language to avoid politiDavid Foster Wallace busts the myth that the English cally incorrect slip-ups. Sounds like a blast — I mean, language is an apolitical entity. It’s just the opposite sounds like an enjoyable experience. Vigilance like really: Ideologies floating around Capitol Hill highly this tends to reduce words to only one of their meanaffect what we say — consciously or unconsciously. ings, and in all probability, it isn’t the original.

The left used political correctness to manage the But sometimes the opposite happens: A word surge of identity politics in the second half of the 20th has a clear meaning but a totally separate connotacentury. As American society began to lose its cohetion and is used when it specifically sion and fragment into certain groups suits that speaker’s interest. Back to with certain histories, there had to be “No doubt handfuls politics: Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., a way to refer to these groups of peocaught some flak in recent days for ple that honored their respective traof Americans comments with Nazi overtones he ditions — and that did not make them made about Republicans’ propaganmad. But hypersensitivity toward will think twice da. After the invariable backlash, minorities gave way to hypersensitivibefore saying ‘kill.’” Cohen apologized, but stubbornly ty about everything as “stewardessasserted that Conservatives’ claims es” became “flight attendants” and that President Barack Obama’s Donald Duck donned trousers. The health care bill is “socialistic” are no more than left’s attempt to be nice left the field wide open for con“lies.” Well, that is not entirely right, since parts of servatives to talk straight and be proud of it. the bill do mandate that the government will control The case of this bill is a special one for the right. what was once a privately-controlled industry. What At first, Conservatives in Congress appealed to their I think Cohen means is that words have meanings frustrated constituencies with the vitriolic label “joband connotations and that conservatives who dub killing.” The compound adjective alone effused the the bill “socialist” are using a word that does not right’s brash, no-nonsense attitude and dealt with an wrongly describe the contents of the bill but whose issue the public cared about. But after the Tucson connotation is the principal motivation for its use. shooting, Conservatives turned to political correctThey want to get people angry, not engage them in ness in a sympathetic, yet savvy move. I don’t mean a discussion of political theory. Words like socialism to say that Conservatives in Congress care less about cease to have meaning but only connote emotions their wounded colleague than a piece of legislation — the reader or hearer is meant to feel.

I do not believe that. But with the “real-world backPolitically correct speech, at once literal and figpocket pragmatism” obvious in the original title of urate, no doubt influences the modern American the bill, the Tucson shooting gave Republicans an vernacular. It’s not the ideal situation, but so long as opportunity show that they can be heartfelt too, a there are scrupulously literal people as well as insidchance they don’t often enjoy. But my concern about iously connotative ones, the English language and the titular revision is not a political one. It’s semantic. its many forms just might have a chance.

The adjustment from “job-killing” to “job-crushing” was arbitrary. It just so happens that the same men and Joe Hernandez is a School of Arts and Sciences women who wrote the bill knew someone who was shot senior majoring in English and Spanish. His column, the day after it passed through the House. Had the “The Soapbox,” runs on alternate Thursdays.

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BAKA encourages justice, not hate that later became the Israeli army. This massacre occurred BAKA: STUDENTS during the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, during which UNITED FOR MIDDLE roughly 800,000 Palestinians EASTERN JUSTICE were forcibly expelled from their s an organization comhomeland on the basis they mitted to principles of were the “wrong” ethnicity for social justice, human the Jewish state. The events of rights and anti-racism, BAKA: 1948, known in Arabic as the Students United for Middle Nakba — the “catastrophe” — Eastern Justice, is appalled at the are as tragic in Palestinian hisfabrications and inflammator y torical memor y as is the accusations published in yesterHolocaust for European Jewry. day’s letter in The Daily Targum, Contrary to the author’s impli“Fight anti-Semitic thought, cation, the event’s theme is not speech.” The author accuses that Israel is identical to Nazi BAKA of anti-Semitism for Germany. Rather, it is that all endorsing an upcoming event oppression based on identity is titled “Never Again for Anyone.” equally abhorrent, no one’s sufHad the author provided more fering should be privileged over details, it would be clear his accuanyone else’s, all humans are sations are baseless polemic. entitled to justice, and as Jews The event is organized by suffered in the Holocaust, so too, three national organizations — did Palestinians in the Nakba. All American Muslims for Palestine, human suffering matters — no the International Jewish Antimatter its scale, historical occurZionist Network rence or location. and the Middle Condemning “All oppression East Children’s oppression is not Alliance — and dependent on based on identity endorsed by a picking which is ... abhorrent.” number of humantypes we deem the itarian, lesbian, worst, but rather gay, bisexual and affirming Martin transgender, greek life and antiLuther King Jr.’s famous obserracist student organizations at vation, “Injustice anywhere is a the University. BAKA is proud to threat to justice everywhere.” be one of them.

The Holocaust was the tragic Our criticism of Israel and/or result not only of centuries of Zionism is rooted in a critique of European anti-Semitism, but the nationalism, settler colonialism, world’s silence during such an human rights abuses and military atrocity. The past 63 years of occupation, not in hatred of the ongoing oppression against the Jewish people or religion. The Palestinians — be it the siege of author’s letter is part of an ongoGaza, military occupation in the ing campaign on the part of supWest Bank, apartheid in Israel porters of Israel to silence and itself or the plight of Palestinian intimidate Palestine solidarity refugees — is also an atrocity activists by attacking their integrithat cannot be forgotten. The lesty rather than engaging in an son of “never again” means modintellectually honest discussion. ern injustices can and must be In this vein, the author conprevented before it is too late. veniently fails to mention that With that, BAKA cordially two of the event’s speakers, invites all members of the Hajo Meyer and Hedy Epstein, University community, including are self-identified anti-Zionist the author, to attend “Never Again Jews. The former is an for Anyone.” The event is to be held Auschwitz concentration camp Saturday at 6:30 p.m. in Trayes Hall sur vivor and the latter is a in the Douglass Campus Center. refugee from Nazi Germany Listen to the speakers’ stories, both whose entire family perished.

Jewish and Palestinian, and recogMeyer and Epstein’s voices nize their shared humanity. Then will be in conversation with that decide for yourselves what values of Dawud Assad, a Palestinianthis event embraces.

American community activist and sur vivor of the ethnic This letter was written on cleansing of his village, Deir behalf of BAKA: Students United Yassin, by the Zionist militias for Middle Eastern Justice.

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Junior Leonora Slatnick and partner Morgan Ivey dropped their doubles match, while Ivey also suffered a close defeat in singles.

OPENER: Knights suffer sweep in doubles matches continued from back The win was Petrini’s first of her Rutgers career in her first attempt. The victory came after she and freshman partner Stefania Balasa had already been shut out in their doubles contest.

The rest of the Knights did not fare much better in doubles as the team of juniors Morgan Ivey and Leonora Slatnick fell, 8-2, in their contest. Rutgers’ premier doubles team of senior captain Amy Zhang and junior Jennifer Holzberg also fell in their match, but were facing what Bucca called a “top 20 caliber team.”

“We want to work on doubles,” Bucca said. “This school has a long tradition of success in doubles, and we put a lot of pride in our doubles play. We can play better than what we showed today.”

The singles matches were much more competitive and each of them was close with a couple even reaching three sets. The Princeton defense was excellent throughout the match as they were often able to return even the Knights’ toughest of fensive chances.

“I thought the team fought really hard, and we had a very close match with Princeton even

though the team score didn’t reflect it,” Zhang said. “We had several singles matches that were very close and really could have gone either way. This was our first match so nerves definitely played a factor.”

Zhang lost a tough bout, 6-2, 6-3, with one of the top tennis players in the region in Princeton’s Hilary Bartlett (1-0). Zhang went 16-4 all of last season en route to being named All-Big East and team most valuable player for the second consecutive year.

“Amy played Amy’s game,” Bucca said. “She knows how to play a high level of tennis, and she handled herself well.”

Ivey also turned in a valiant performance in singles despite ultimately suffering a defeat. The junior returned to the court after having been plagued by chronic knee issues. She was able come out on fire winning her first set 6-0, before falling in the following two.

Holzberg was also able to take her opponent Taylor Marable to three sets before ultimately losing 6-1, 4-6, 6-4. Balasa and junior Maryana Milchutskey lost their singles matches in straight sets.

The Knights will now get in a week of practice to refocus and regroup before travelling to Lehigh on Feb. 3. In the next eight days, the Knights will look to improve their doubles play and work on finishing offensive opportunities, Bucca said.

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as ever y day at practice.

“We warm up for races Rutgers record in 500-meter together and talk about what we need to do in order to be successful,” continued from back Caidenhead said. “[Younger] the Big East Championships in explains splits and tactics to Februar y, beating out former me, which takes a lot of stress teammate and school coof f of the race.” record-holder, Steve Swer n, The Franklinville, N.J., for the win. native leads by example for the Younger is back in season team, mostly by giving ever ythis year and a proud leader of thing he has as soon as he the team. steps onto the track each day.

“I heard about Aaron when I “[Younger] always finishes was recruited by other schools ver y strong at the end of because the 4x400 was runpractice when it’s the ning 3:06 and he was the hardest,” said junior teammate anchor leg,” said Caidenhead, Steve Werner. who trains for the same events Younger attributes his leadas Younger ever yday at pracership skills and humility to tice with him. “A lot of people other leaders in his life. don’t know him “I’ve never because he doeshad a coach or n’t really talk person in my “When I was about how fast he family coddle younger on the is. And if you me,” Younger were to put othsaid. “When I team, I always ers in his situawas younger on wanted to be like tion they would the team, I brag about it. It always wanted to the older guys shows how much be like the older of a good person guys and take and take charge.” he is.” charge. I wanted AARON YOUNGER The 6-foot-2 to be the point of Junior Sprinter r unner proves the arrow.” humility may be When it the key to succomes to the cess on the track. Younger upperclassmen Younger looked already secured qualifying up to, there was no lack of taltimes in the 400- and 500-meter ent, either. The 4x400-meter run for the Big East and IC4A relay Younger anchored ranked Championships.

14th in the nation last spring “I tr y to pass on to the and competed at NCAA nationyounger guys that being on als in Eugene, Ore. this team is above just your“Making it to Oregon was self,” Younger said. “Each perone of the greatest things I’ve son needs to do their best, but ever done,” Younger said. “I they also need to do what’s have that in the back of my best for the team.” mind as a big motivational facIn the team’s case, it may tor to do even better.” mean a teammate has to He also keeps bigger goals double up on events they do in the back of his mind as not normally run just to get motivation when he competes more points in a meet, accordeach week. ing to Younger.

“The Olympics are next Younger takes his position year,” Younger said. “I’d have a as one of the leaders of lot of work to do, it’s just the Scarlet Knights seriously, a matter of putting the giving advice at meets as well pieces together.”

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UCONN: Sykes shoulders RU’s offensive burden in loss continued from back without a mid-range jumper by junior April Sykes during the run, the damage could have been much worse.

Then again, if the Knights (127, 5-1) didn’t have Sykes at all, a blowout would have turned into a scoring clinic by the Huskies.

“It has everything to do with my teammates,” said Sykes, who led the Knights with 20 points, going 4-for-8 from 3point land. “In practice, coach has been telling me to relax because when I think about my shot I miss. I wasn’t thinking, I was just playing ball again.”

Something Stringer had to fall back on during the Knights’ five-game winning streak was the team’s post play and the leadership of junior guard Khadijah Rushdan.

But aside from 12 points from sophomore for ward Monique Oliver last night, both were as ice-cold as the wintry conditions outside the RAC. Rushdan registered just two points with a forgettable 0-for11 shooting per formance, while junior for ward Chelsey Lee recorded just three points and three boards.

“I would have liked to help my team out, contribute a little more with the points but it’s done and over with. I can’t dwell on it,” Rushdan said. “As far as dwelling on it, I can’t really do that because then it’s going to haunt me for the rest of the games and affect my play.”

Before the night turned sour for the Knights, they found themselves in a tight game with their conference rivals.

But whatever success the squad found in the first half, the Huskies found that much more.

Still, one thing was evident: The playmakers came out to play Sykes put the team on her back, going 3-for-3 from beyond the arc and cashing in on a breakaway layup for the game’s first points. For UConn, Moore went 4-for-9 and scored 10 points, but started the game off by missing her first three shots and the team shot only 29 percent in the period.

“You can’t really get all wacked out about whether shots are going in or not,” Auriemma said. “You can get upset about not getting good shots. In the second half when we came out we didn’t try to force it in there to Maya.”

But it was in the paint where the Knights struggled — something they have not done of late.

UConn outrebounded Rutgers, 14-10, in the first stanza, but more impor tantly gained a 6-1 advantage on the of fensive glass. Couple that with eight Knights turnovers and the Huskies’ relentlessness and the squad faced a three-point deficit at half.

And even though the team did make it more of a fight than last year’s blowout, Rushdan is not satisfied.

“The game is two halves,” the Wilmington, Del., native said. “It hurts because we had ever ything we needed. Our coaching staf f prepared us unbelievably well for this game.

To come out in the second half and to get hit like that, it hurts.”

For the Knights to improve in Big East play, they will have to wait until Saturday, when they travel to Louisville to continue a slew of conference matchups.

The Huskies now own six straight victories over Stringer’s squad, and barring a meeting in the conference tournament at the end of the season, the Hall of Famer will have to wait another year to give the program an updated glimpse of a UConn victor y.

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Junior guard Khadijah Rushdan averaged 13.7 points per game entering last night’s contest, but managed just two points against Connecticut while dishing out nine assists and grabbing nine rebounds.

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Pair of top teams suffers home losses

BY TYLER BARTO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

Now more than ever, the Big East Conference slate is truly under way. Two of the top four teams in BASKETBALL t h e league suf fered MID-WEEK REPORT a loss — at home, no less — this week, although one lost considerably more during the timeframe.

Here’s a look at the Big East’s upper half power rankings:

BIG EAST

1.) Pittsburgh (19-2, 7-1) — The No. 2 Panthers were bound to lose a Big East game eventually, but their 56-51 loss to Notre Dame on Monday was surprising given the Fighting Irish’s poor road record in the conference.

Head coach Jamie Dixon’s team is still very well on track for a high seed in March, despite Pitt’s underachieving track record in the NCAA Tournament.

Best wishes go to the Rutgers men’s basketball team, which has the misfortune of a visit from Pittsburgh after the Panthers’ first league defeat.

2.) Connecticut (17-2, 5-2) — Kemba Walker and Co. continued their impressive streak of victories Tuesday, when the Huskies defeated a tough Marquette team, 76-68, in Wisconsin.

Walker tallied only 14 points, but UConn is rising due to the play of sophomore center Alex Oriakhi and freshman wing Jeremy Lamb, who continues to impress on the of fensive end.

The No. 5 Huskies return to familiar Gampel Pavilion at

noon on Saturday, when No. 23 Louisville pays head coach Jim Calhoun a visit.

3.) Villanova (17-2, 5-1) — The No. 8 Wildcats ear ned arguably the most impressive road win of the season on Saturday, when they defeated Syracuse at the Carrier Dome in front of more than 30,000 Orange faithful.

Senior guard Corey Fisher has not lost a step since taking the reins of the Wildcat of fense from depar ted mainstay Scottie Reynolds and averages 18.8 points per game — fifth best in the conference.

Scoring from fellow senior Corey Stokes has tailed of f a bit during the middle of the conference season, but the Wildcats have more than enough options to keep up.

4.) Notre Dame (17-4, 6-3) — The Irish’s upset over Pitt at the Petersen Events Center, where the Panthers seldom fall, was more than impressive, especially with the play of senior guard Ben Hansbrough.

But Hansbrough did not have to bear the load offensively, as for ward Carleton Scott dropped 16 points and nine boards on the Panthers in the win.

The key for No. 15 Notre Dame is to not suf fer a letdown, but that should not be a problem with a trip to DePaul next up on the schedule.

5.) Syracuse (18-3, 5-3) — Head coach Jim Boeheim never fully endorsed his 2010-11 Orange and the Big East is starting to understand why with a recent three game losing skid.

Losses to ranked foes Pitt and ’Nova are nothing to be ashamed of, but when Seton Hall

dropped a 90-68 decision on the Orange, a red flag swirled high in the Carrier Dome rafters.

The No. 9 Orange have a chance to right the ship on Saturday, when a meeting in Milwaukee with Marquette offers a tough scenario.

6.) Louisville (15-4, 4-2) — The surprising No. 23 Cardinals began to make a run in the conference despite head coach Rick Pitino claiming a rebuilding year in Louisville.

But just when the Big East retained some sor t of stability, a struggling Providence team dropped the Cardinals, 72-67, in Rhode Island.

Louisville needs more from for ward Ter rence Jennings, who only averages 8.6 points and 4.7 boards per game.

7.) West Virginia (13-5, 4-2) — The Mountaineers continue to be an enigma — expectedly so. After losing go-to scorer Da’Sean Butler to graduation, ever yone in Morgantown, W. Va., expected junior for ward Kevin Jones to pick up the slack of fensively.

But senior guard Kasey Mitchell has filled the scorer’s role for head coach Bob Huggins and led the Mountaineers into a matchup with Louisville last night at the KFC Yum! Center.

8.) Marquette (13-8, 4-4) — With all of the talent head coach Buzz Williams assembled with the Golden Eagles, the team still needs to figure out how to win close games.

Guard Darius JohnsonOdom and for ward Jimmy Butler are dynamic scorers, but transfer Jae Crowder has been the most pleasant surprise in Milwaukee.

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Freshman Luisa Maria Leal-Restrepo and transfer Danielle D’Elia are two newcomers to the Knights that made immediate impacts.

RU looks to continue strides after UNC win

BY JOSH GLATT

In addition to working on fundamentals and cleaning up er rors in routines, CholletThe Rutgers gymnastics team Nor ton is focused on instilling not only faces the daunting task of a sense of belief in her team. competing against West Virginia After years of tempering expecand Pittsburgh on Saturday, but it tations, she believes that the also has to improve on one of the Knights need to recognize how team’s best performances in talented they truly are. recent “We need to get the girls GYMNASTICS m e m o - believing that they can beat RUTGERS AT ry. anyone,” Chollet-Nor ton said.

T h e “This team has the talent and WEST VIRGINIA, PITT S c a r l e t depth to keep getting better.”

SATURDAY, 7 P.M. Knights Chollet-Nor ton’s athletes look to seem to be following the build on their season-high coach’s lead, exuding confiscore of 192.050 that earned dence by recognizing the them a victor y over long-time team’s vast potential.

East Atlantic Gymnastics Sophomore transfer Danielle League (EAGL) rival Nor th D’Elia, who was recently named Carolina for the first time since EAGL Specialist of the Week, has 1976 — along with quickly established herself as a Pennsylvania and Brown — in star performer and rapidly the first home meet of bought into Cholletthe year.

Norton’s message.

For head coach Although she took first Chr ystal Cholletplace in all three events Nor ton, the goal is to she participated in and continue to strive for propelled her team to a better scores and victor y, D’Elia recognever grow complanizes the team needs to cent with success. keep improving.

Chollet-Nor ton made “We had some falls DANIELLE it clear that despite here and there [on D’ELIA her team’s early sucSaturday],”D’Elia cess, there is still said. “We aren’t going room for improvement. to be per fect all the time, but “We honestly think we are a that is something we have to 194, 195 [point] team when we strive for. This team has a lot of get ever ything together,” potential, and it’s great to be Chollet-Nor ton said. “A 192 is a par t of it.” great star t to that. We have to Freshman Luisa Lealbe cleaner and sharper.”

Restrepo, another impressive The Knights face a tough newcomer, also seems to recogfield, competing against a home nize the team’s ability to comteam in the Mountaineers, as pete with any team they face. well as Pittsburgh, which aver- Like D’Elia, Leal-Restrepo sees ages over 192 per contest. it as a goal to have the team While Chollet-Norton stick 24 out of 24 routines, believes her team is capable of despite recognizing that perfecwinning, she is also realistic, tion is hard to come by. acknowledging that her team is “Even though we won, we an underdog. did have some mistakes,” Leal“It’s going to be a tough Restrepo said after Saturday’s meet,” Chollet-Nor ton said. “I meet. “We’ll need to work on just hope we can give all our mistakes to tr y to be Pittsburgh a scare.” per fect in our next meet.”

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BY SAM HELLMAN CORRESPONDENT

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utgers women’s lacrosse senior midfielder Marlena Welsh was selected to the preseason AllBig East team.

The Jarretsville, Md., native finished 2010 with eight caused turnovers, 15 draw controls and nine ground balls.

Welsh was voted to the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches’ Association Mid-Atlantic Region second team last season, as well as the Big East All-Academic Team.

Welsh was voted to the AllBig East team by the nine Big East women’s lacrosse coaches, who also voted on Big East team rankings, in which Rutgers finished sixth.

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outfielder Rocco Baldelli decided to retire at 29 years old. He will become a special assistant with the Rays.

Baldelli played in only 10 games last season, but made the Rays’ postseason roster.

The 2010 season was not the first time injuries hindered Baldelli’s promising career. After 2004, the outfielder never played 100 games in a season.

Baldelli began his professional career as the sixth overall pick in 2000 and finished third in Rookie of the Year voting in 2003.

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lockout looming for the 2011 NFL season, commissioner Roger Goodell said he would cut his salar y to $1 if there is a work stoppage in March after the collective bargaining agreement expires.

Goodell also said he does not want to receive any bonuses under those circumstances.

The commissioner currently makes $10 million per year plus bonuses.

Union chief DeMaurice Smith responded to Goodell’s comments, tweeting “If we have a deal by Super Bowl, I’ll go down to 68 cents.”

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dealership employee was fired earlier in the week for wearing a Green Bay Packers tie the day after the Packers beat the Chicago Bears in the NFC Championship Game.

The employee, John Stone, has been offered his job back.

The general manager of the car dealership, Jerr y Rober ts, claimed he asked Stone to take off his tie five times in 30 minutes.

Stone has since been offered another job at another Chicago area dealership.

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a minor league deal with the New York Yankees.

Colon last played in 2009 with the White Sox, finishing with a 4.19 ERA in 12 starts.

The 37-year-old won the American League Cy Young award in 2005 with the Los Angeles Angels.

Rutgers junior April Sykes got the fans on their feet for one of the loudest cheers of the season in the f i r s t minute of KNIGHT action last NOTEBOOK n i g h t against No. 2 Connecticut.

Sykes stripped the ball from Husky freshman Bria Hartley at midcourt and put the Knights ahead, 2-0, with a transition layup.

Unfortunately for Rutgers, that was its largest lead of the night.

Connecticut traditionally draws the strongest crowd of the season for the Scarlet Knights because of the longstanding rivalry between Hall of Fame coaches Geno Auriemma and C. Vivian Stringer, but yesterday’s game left the Louis Brown Athletic Center emptier than expected.

Whether it was the icy roads prior to tipoff or the heavy snow predicted to begin around halftime, the RAC lacked its usual Connecticut turnout. Rutgers announced a season-high 4,703 as a paid attendance, but the entire section behind the marching band remained empty, with both upper sections half-full and plenty of empty seats in the lower sections.

“This is a tough place to play in,” said UConn senior forward Maya Moore. “The first year I came here, we lost. It’s tough to play here and I think we realized that and we kept our cool.”

Sykes rolled her shoulder hard on the floor in the first half and played the rest of the game in pain, but put up her best performance against the Huskies in four career games.

The Starkville, Miss., native scored a game-high 20 points on eight of 16 shooting after averaging four points on 26 percent shooting against the Huskies going into the contest.

“April Sykes had a great game shooting the ball but I think we did a pretty good job ... making her make some tough shots,” said UConn head coach Geno Auriemma.

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Briana Hutchen provided her most valuable minutes of the year during the back-and-forth first half.

The 6-foot-1 forward that averages just 6.6 minutes per game played twice that in the first half alone, when she pulled in two rebounds and hit two shots, each of which tied the game.

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Junior Jaymee Tucker scored one point on a late foul shot last night in her first game as a Scarlet Knight after walking on to the team.

RAC on Feb. 5, 2008, when the Knights took down the Huskies, 73-71, behind 33 points from Epiphanny Prince.

“We have got to work harder so we’ll be pushing more,” said head coach C. Vivian Stringer. “We should be confident that we can play with the best and we look to get better.”

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her first career point as a Scarlet Knight in a big way.

After joining the team as a walk-on Saturday, Tucker knocked down a free throw at the end of the game, keeping her team from losing by 20.

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KNIGHTS DROP ROAD DECISION AT CINCINNATI The Rutgers men’s basketball team fell, 72-56, to Cincinnati last night at Fifth Third Arena. The loss dropped the Scarlet Knights (12-8, 3-5) to just 1-3 on the road in conference play.

Senior forward Jonathan Mitchell led the Knights in scoring with 20 points, but senior guards James Beatty and Mike MEN’S BASKETBALL Coburn combined for 8 RUTGERS 56 turnovers on CINCINNATI 72 the evening.

Rutgers shrunk its deficit to three at 47-44 with less than seven minutes remaining, but the Bearcats (18-3, 5-3) went on a 13-5 run over the next three and a half minutes.

Sophomore wing Dane Miller contributed 11 points and five rebounds, but no other Knights scored in double figures against Cincinnati.

Rutgers trailed, 31-30, at intermission behind 50 percent shooting from the field, but the team turned the ball over nine times in the second half en route to being outscored by 15 points.

The Knights managed to get to the free throw line just 14 times and shot 1for-11 from beyond the arc.

By comparison, the Bearcats converted 73 percent of their free throws and sank six of 18 3-point attempts.

Rutgers managed just 10 points from its bench, which is still limited with freshman guard Austin Carroll’s knee injury.

Cincinnati forward Rashad Dixon led the Bearcats with 20 points on 5-for-10 shooting, while forward Yancy Gates hauled in a team-leading 12 boards in the win.

Gates’ efficiency on the glass aided Cincinnati in outrebounding Rutgers, 3424, on the night.

Rutgers dropped its last three contests with Cincinnati after two losses to the Bearcats last season, including a 69-68 defeat in the first round of the Big East Tournament at Madison Square Garden.

The Knights return to action on Saturday, when No. 2 Pittsburgh visits the Louis Brown Athletic Center for the teams’ only meeting of the season.

— Tyler Barto

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Junior forward April Sykes scored a game-high 20 points last night against No. 2 Connecticut. Despite only a three-point deficit at halftime, the Knights suffered a 19-point loss at the Louis Brown Athletic Center.

No. 2 UConn breaks away after halftime

BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ CORRESPONDENT

There were plenty of instances when the Rutgers women’s basketball team managed to send the Louis WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Brown Athletic Center crowd into a CONNECTICUT 63 frenzy last night in RUTGERS 44 Piscataway.

But those flashes did not light up the scoreboard enough in the Scarlet Knights’ favor.

No. 2 Connecticut blew the doors of the RAC open in the second half to cap a 63-44 conference win, leaving head coach

C. Vivian Stringer and Co. with only a glimpse of their 2008 upset.

“I think we played hard,” Stringer said.

“I thought we were a little tired and that’s unfor tunate. But I have to give credit to them, they’re [UConn] playing the same kind of minutes and they play hard.”

Whatever head coach Geno Auriemma said to his team in the locker room at halftime, it worked to perfection come game time.

A Tiffany Hayes free throw with 4:16 left in regulation gave the Huskies (19-1, 8-0) a 26-point lead — their largest of the game.

Hayes led the team in scoring with 18 points on 6-of-10 shooting after an explosion in the second half, as senior sensa-

tion Maya Moore ended the contest with 17 points.

“Even before the coaches came in at half time we just looked at each other and said the shots are going to fall,” Moore said. “In the second half we didn’t have to depend on offensive rebounds because the shots were falling. I think we were a little bit more aggressive, but the shots were falling.”

UConn took advantage of a 17-2 run in the first six minutes following intermission — a scoring spurt anchored by freshman guard Bria Hartley and Moore. The pair combined for 12 of the team’s points in the span, and

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Humble junior excels in sprints for RU track

Knights drop spring opener at Princeton

BY LIZ SWERN

BY MATT CANVISSER

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When Aaron Younger broke the school record in the 500-meter last season, he did not jump, shout or show any kind of color ful fanfare for MEN’S TRACK the win. The camera on the track zoomed in on his face showing only a modest smile.

For someone with as much modesty as the junior sprinter, even that was a vivid reaction.

“He’s great and humble, especially for a man who runs such fast times,” said freshman teammate Corey Caidenhead.

Younger quickly proved last year he was an up-and-coming star when it came to his events — the 500-meter, 4x400meter relay and the 400-meter intermediate hurdles. He broke the school record in the 500 meter with a time of 1:01.44 at

The Rutgers tennis team opened its season Wednesday with a tough 6-1defeat at No. 37 Princeton. The Scarlet Knights were shut out in TENNIS three doubles RUTGERS 1 matches and lost five of six singles PRINCETON 6 contests.

“The focus should be on the fact that Princeton is a quality team,” said head coach Ben Bucca. “This was our first match of the year and we played well. The dif ference was only a couple of points, but you are never satisfied when you lose.”

Freshman Vanessa Petrini scored the Knights’ (0-1) only victor y, defeating Princeton’s Caitlin Bar tlett, 6-4, 6-2, in consecutive sets.

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Junior Jenna Holzberg and doubles partner Amy Zhang dropped their first match of the campaign against a strong Princeton duo after a successful season last year.

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