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The Rutgers wrestling team won its 20th dual meet of the season on Saturday, when it topped EIWA-opponent Navy, 23-9, in Annapolis, Md.

Stress levels rise among first-years, survey says

BY ANDREA GOYMA CORRESPONDENT

Although some first-year students relish the thought of living away from home, an annual survey indicates they feel the most stress during this time in college.

The survey, conducted by the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP), said the emotional health of students entering the nation’s baccalaureate colleges and universities is at its lowest point during their first year of college.

Of more than 200,000 first-year students who participated, only 51.9

percent reported their emotional health as “above average” in 2010, a 3.4 percent drop from 2009, according to the survey. When students first reported their emotional health in a 1985 survey, 63.6 percent placed themselves in that category.

“Many first-year students tell us their coursework is far more difficult than they anticipated, particularly in relation to their high school experiences,” said Mar y Kelly, staff psychologist and suicide prevention specialist at the Counseling, Alcohol and Other

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Wayne Firestone, president of Hillel International, speaks last night at the first Scarlet Blue and White event that discussed the University’s role in maintaining a positive association with Israel.

Leaders promote Israel relations

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Alumnus Aldrick Brown wins an award from the Sundance Film Festival for his film “Kyarwanda,” which recounts six citizens’ stories of the 1994 genocide. For the full story, see PAGE 3.

In its first event, Scarlet Blue and White par tnered with the Rutgers Hillel Student Board to bring University student leaders and speakers together to discuss the impor tance of maintaining a strong relationship between the University, New Jersey, the United States and Israel.

Liran Kapoano, Scarlet Blue and White President, said the event served as both a way to launch Scarlet Blue and White,

but also to bring together student organizations that support the progress of Israel.

“We planned this event back in November, really as kind of a launching pad for our group,” he said. “We’re a consensus group.

We’re looking to bridge gaps between pro-Israel suppor ters and other organizations.”

Speakers at the event included Hillel President Wayne Firestone, Deputy Consul General of Israel in New York Shlomi Kofman and Congressmen Frank Pallone, D6, and Leonard Lance, R-7.

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Pallone said one of the goals of the event was to focus on the impor tance of a better relationship between the U.S. and Israel.

He discussed the threats of Iran and Turkey, highlighting that focus on the Middle East is also important.

“As we see the unrest in the last week or so in the Middle East, particularly in regards to Egypt and what could possibly happen there if there’s an unfriendly government,” he

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Supporters stand outside Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus last night during a candlelight vigil held in memory of the Haiti earthquake. Donations raised will go toward New Jersey for Haiti.

A candlelight vigil commemorating the lives lost of more than 300,000 Haitians one year ago during the ear thquakes was held last night on the steps of Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus.

The vigil, ran by the Haitian Association at Rutgers University, began at 8:04 p.m. to signify 1804, the year Haiti became an independent country, said Dagma Isaac, public relations officer for HARU. “We want to remind people that although it’s been a year since the earthquakes, it’s still an issue,” said Isaac, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “There was a cholera outbreak that killed 900 people, there’s no clean water or food, and there’s a city made up of a million tents where victims are living.”

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Alumnus gains acclaim at Sundance Film Festival

BY ROBERT ADASHEV CONTRIBUTING WRITER

University alumnus Alrick Brown showed the breakdown of cultural boundaries during the Rwandan Genocide in his film “Kinyar wanda,” which earned the 2011 Sundance Film Festival World Cinema Audience Award.

“Kinyarwanda” — named after the official language of Rwanda — featured the stories of six Rwandans during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide of the Tutsi people. The film depicted how cultural borders were broken when mosques opened their doors to protect Tutsi refugees from the mass killings, Brown said.

“Faith is part of the film, but it’s interfaith. It’s general faith about belief, hope and love,” Brown said.

“The film criticized men and their actions, but not their religions.”

Brown was introduced to the project through a friend who lived in Rwanda as a Peace Corps volunteer, and his interest in teaching people about the world led him to take part in making the film.

“He had a Rwandan friend who I was e-mailing back and forth for some time, and that friend turned out to be Ishmael Ntihabose, the executive producer,” Brown said.

“He got a grant to do a film and he asked me to come to Rwanda to help him make it.”

After hearing dozens of stories from people affected by the genocide, Brown had to choose which tales to tell.

“I kind of looked at the executive producer,” Brown said. “I told him the stories I felt were the most powerful, the ones I felt

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“Kinyarwanda,” a film directed by University alumnus Alrick Brown, depicts the personal experiences of six Rwandans during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide and the defiance of religious boundaries to save lives.

would resonate with audiences the most and the ones that were so distinct from anything they’ve ever heard before.”

Because it was an independent film, they did not have a Hollywood movie budget, said Cassandra Freeman, an actress in the film. To stay within budget, Brown needed to shoot the entire film in 16 days.

Freeman said Brown wrote the script quickly and focused on individuals as a way to humanize the subject.

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pening. To see all these stories happen with that backdrop, it makes it look like these stories are not just a statistic and it makes it very real,” he said.

Movies like “Crash” and “Pulp Fiction,” which Brown recalls seeing for the first time at the Busch Campus Center, inspired him to use a non-linear approach when telling the story.

“I remember sitting there feeling like I was watching something completely new,” he said. “I felt with that in mind and the other films I could give African

audiences, and all audiences for that matter, a different style.”

Shooting the film in Rwanda added to the film’s realism, but the location’s rainy season and grasshopper season were challenging.

“There were hundreds of thousands of grasshoppers ever ywhere, killing lights and everything else,” Freeman said.

“They don’t really have an infrastructure set up there for film, but Brown and the producers made everything as comfortable as possible.”

When he was 5 years old, Brown’s family moved from Jamaica to Plainfield, N.J., and the move left him feeling like an outside observer of American culture.

Seeing himself as an outcast, Brown was drawn to the University because of its diversity.

“Rutgers is an international community. You get to meet people, you get to engage people,” Brown said. “The environment, the coursework [and] some of the professors were really influential. I studied English, but I had a very holistic education, and that’s what I needed to be a better filmmaker.”

The films Brown made were intended to educate people through storytelling, he said. He fantasized about acting like Indiana Jones, traveling around the world and bringing adventures to students.

“That’s actually what I’m doing, you know? I go to crazy beautiful places, make movies and bring those stories back to the classroom,” Brown said.

Judges at the Sundance Film Festival took notice of Brown and his crew’s hard work by selecting the film out of thousands to appear at the festival, Brown said.

The film is No.1 in terms of buzz among the Sundance audience, according to the Sundance website.

“For an alumnus from Rutgers to win such a prestigious award, which I guess it is good for the school and it gets the school’s name out there in a positive way,” said Kevin Nielsen, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “As a student at Rutgers, I’m proud of that.”

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A survey by the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) reported that University students experience the lowest point of emotional health in their first year of entering college. First-year students like Bharat Verma, Jack Lee (above) and Deepta Janardhan (below) reported they were stressed over borrowing funds to pay for school and the uncertainty of the job market.

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Dr ug Assistance and Psychiatric Ser vices (CAPS).

School of Engineering first-year student Hyun Seo said cramming for exams and maintaining high grade point averages are major stress factors for first-year students.

“Not everybody studies consistently throughout the semester, so they all have to cram in the end,” Seo said. “The GPA is another factor because you see it all the time, and if it’s bad you don’t feel good, obviously.”

The survey reported that the economic climate has influenced students’ college choice and academic performance.

Kelly said many students are already stressed about borrowing the necessary funds to get a degree and the uncertainty of the job market before coming to the University.

“Some first-year students are already thinking about graduate school, both as a way of adding to their credentials and as a respite from having to find a position,” she said. “Of course, the prospect of taking out loans for graduate school only adds to the stress.”

The percentage of incoming students who reported taking out loans remains high at 53.1 percent, but more students reported receiving grants and scholarships — 73.4 percent in 2010 compared to 70 percent in 2009, according to the data.

In a new question asking whether the economy affected students’ college choice, 20 percent “agree strongly” and 42.1 percent “agree somewhat.”

Awais Hashmi, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, said that despite his acceptance to New York University, his decision to attend Rutgers University was based on financial aid.

“I’m ver y content with my decision to attend Rutgers,” he said. “I don’t feel bad about it whatsoever because I have friends who go to NYU who are thinking about what their situation might be when they have to pay off their loans.”

School of Arts and Sciences first-year student Kristina Knight said her Advanced Placement classes in high school caused her a lot of stress but were necessary to save money in college.

“I took a lot of A.P. and honors courses in order to place out of classes in college,” Knight said.

“If you don’t have to take a lot of entry-level courses [at college], it saves you money.”

Another trend in the survey shows the differing stress levels between men and women. While only 17.6 percent of incoming male students reported feeling overwhelmed, 38.8 percent of female students felt stressed in this manner.

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“This finding is consistent with data published by the National Center for Health Statistics, which suggests that women in general are more likely than men to report psychological symptoms,” Kelly said.

One hypothesis is that men may be less willing to admit to distress because of the differences in socializing men and women, she said.

Even though the survey data suggests emotional health has decreased, more students than before — 71.2 percent — rated their academic abilities as “above average.”

Although high levels of drive to achieve and academic ability are often considered positive traits, they could also contribute to students’ feelings of stress, said John Pryor, lead author of the report and director of the CIRP, in a press release.

Students are also acutely aware of how competitive it is to earn good internships, jobs or scholarships, Kelly said.

“Some may respond by overwhelming themselves with more activities than they can realistically handle — all in the service of improving their résumé,” she said.

But Brian Chu, University associate professor of clinical psychology, said there is less of a correlation between academic ability and stress.

“I think this is a kind of study that requires a control condition,” Chu said. “[The relationship between academic ability and stress] is not totally in correlation and is the type of finding that can be distorted by relying solely on self-report.”

While self-assessment surveys are tested for validity and reliability, there is always the issue of “social desirability response,” said Caroline ClaussEhlers, University associate educational psychology professor. “[Social desirability response] is when people respond based on what they think people want to hear or what they think would be socially desirable,” Clauss-Ehlers said.

Because the survey involves a huge sample, it helps alleviate that factor, she said.

Clauss-Ehlers advised that if students are feeling stressed it is important they remain social rather than withdraw.

“Isolation isn’t helpful because students or anyone can lose the perspective that other people are also going through [the same situations],” she said. “[They’re also] thinking, ‘how are people dealing with it and how can I deal with it?’”

Despite the results, the survey also reported that students remain optimistic about their college education, with 57.6 percent believing there is a “very good chance” they will be satisfied with college — the highest this figure has been since 1983, when it was also 57.6 percent.

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Representative Frank Pallone, D-6, states his support of Israel and its right to exist as an independent country and Jewish state.

ISRAEL: Pallone speaks against violent campus speech continued from front said. “I think that it is ver y impor tant for the U.S. to achieve a peaceful settlement.”

Pallone also touched upon the issue of anti-Semitic rhetoric on campus, noting that freedom of speech should be protected, but hateful speech that could spark violence should not be tolerated.

“It’s often times difficult tr ying to figure out how to protect the freedom of speech, but at the same time make sure hateful speech is not protected,” he said. “Rutgers prides itself on being a center for diversity, but at the same time, that creates an environment where there could be a lot of dialogue, but we can’t allow speech that encourages violence.”

Lance reflected on the current protests in Egypt and what should be done.

“We have to make sure, moving forward, that Egypt recognizes its responsibilities, particularly in Gaza,” he said. “I am well aware … that as the situation in Egypt develops, Egypt must recognize that Israel is heavily involved.”

Both congressmen expressed their support for Israel and its right to exist not only as an independent country, but also as a Jewish state.

Jerr y Enis, adviser for Hillel, said this event was created to allow people to present their points of view about Israel and its relationship to the United States.

“What they wanted to do was create a platform in which ever yone could present their points of view on Israel, and the pluses and minuses of

Israel’s relationship with the U.S. and in par ticular, New Jersey,” he said.

Despite his responsibility to stay neutral in on-campus University disputes, Rutgers University Student Assembly President Yousef Saleh said it was a good event, but he felt attendees could have been more open about their thoughts and feelings on the issue, and to even offer help.

“I did not feel it was as politically courageous as I would like it to be,” he said. “I would have liked for people at this event to promote extending a hand in helping resolve this oncampus dispute.”

Saleh, a School of Ar ts and Sciences senior, said more should have been discussed that was relevant to the current on-campus issues facing groups like Scarlet Blue and White.

“I felt like it was a cheerleading event and more should be done by both sides to come together in discussing their differences and how to move forward in fostering a positive climate,” he said.

Before the event began, Kapoano said he would agree to co-sponsoring an information event with student organizations like BAKA: Students United for Middle Easter n Justice in order to help address all of the current oncampus issues.

“I was actually planning on writing an open letter to The Daily Targum and to BAKA inviting them to co-sponsor an event,” he said.

Out of the 45 student organizations invited to the event, 24 were represented and the room was filled to its maximum capacity, said Raf fi Mark, Hillel’s Israel Planning Committee member.

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VIGIL: Event brings in $50 for disaster relief organizations continued from front The Liberated Gospel Choir began the vigil with an a cappella version of “Total Praise” by Richard Smallwood.

“It meant a lot for us to perform at the vigil, since we have a couple of Haitian members,” said the choir’s director and School of Arts and Sciences sophomore Jean Marc Edma. “Our way of supporting Haiti is singing, and this was a great way to show our support.”

After the choir sang, HARU’s President Dominick Ambroise asked the crowd for a moment of silence for those who died in Haiti.

“We want to re-inspire those who have forgotten about Haiti and let them know there is still trouble there,” said Ambroise, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “If you know something’s wrong, I’d hope you’d feel more proactive about it just by knowing about it.”

HARU gave out “Haitian Relief” buttons for a minimum $1 donation at the vigil, which brought in around $50 to help fund Haitian relief through the non-profit organization New Jersey for Haiti, Isaac said.

“Money is objective,” Ambroise said. “Anyone can give me money.

I want people to show they care with their presence at this vigil and other Haiti benefit events.”

Stan Neron, executive director of New Jersey for Haiti, spoke about the situation in Haiti at the vigil.

“Buildings and homes have come down,” he said. “Some could see their family members, others could not under all of the rubble.

Those who did had to bury them on the spot by setting them on fire and cremating them.”

Neron said the way to help Haiti is by taking action, starting here at the University.

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The candlelight vigil featured performances by The Liberated Gospel Choir, which sang various songs in a cappella. Members of the Haitian Association at Rutgers University aimed to raise awareness of the problems that continue to exist after the disaster.

“We have to go and take back our countr y,” he said.

“The international community needs to follow our lead. There are NGOs [non-governmental organizations] there, but not many reflect the United States.”

Neron asked those who speak Creole in the crowd to chant “Haiti will not be destroyed” a few times to signify solidarity for the Haitians.

New Jersey for Haiti, which formed a year ago, is dedicated to improving the situation in Haiti by raising money to provide essential solutions, he said. One such ef for t is the purchase of solar-powered water systems that can pump up to 30,000 gallons of fresh water into str uggling Haitian communities.

“We also need to educate the children there,” Neron said. “It

takes $200 to educate a child in Haiti. Some of us have boots that cost that much here.”

After his speech, School of Arts and Sciences junior Jenelle Dunkley performed an a cappella version of “Can’t Give up Now” by Mary Mary.

“I didn’t expect the vigil to be such a celebration of Haitian culture,” said Samantha Orner, a School of Arts and Sciences firstyear student. “I really loved all the

music. It was very emotional.”

Ambroise held a longer moment of silence after Dunkley’s performance.

“I really appreciated this vigil,” said Arielle De Lain, a School of Nursing sophomore. “I lived in Haiti, I went to high school there. I know people who were hurt by the earthquakes.

I’ve seen the situation there, with the tents. It’s necessary for people to make a movement.”

BILL CLEARED TO DEREGULATE TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY A New Jersey Senate committee passed a bill today that could remove certain regulations over telecommunications companies.

Businesses say the Market Competition and Consumer Choice Act will make the industry more competitive by leveling the playing field for cable and television companies, according to an nj.com article.

“Passage of this bill will send a very strong message, that in the area of telecommunications infrastructure ...

New Jersey is on the cutting edge of innovation and opening itself up to investment,” President of Verizon New Jersey Dennis Bone said in the article.

Although it keeps regulations for 911 calls and other public safety services, it lifts laws that would require companies to provide credit for when customers experience a cable outage for more than a few hours.

In addition, it removes laws that ensure cable companies do not discriminate or refuse service, and laws that require corrections of billing errors, according to the article. It also throws out laws that protect customers from slamming or switching a consumer’s telephone company for local or long-distance service without permission.

If passed, companies would also not be required to carry public education and government channels.

“Consumers very much want their government to at least provide a safety net,” said Stefanie Brand, director of the New Jersey Division of Rate Counsel, part of the New Jersey Department of the Public Advocate in the article.

“We won’t have any recourse.”

The New Jersey League of Municipalities advised the panel to slow down and take more time to consider the bill’s effects.

“It seems trivial to some people, but I can assure you that it is not trivial to people in the community who care about those issues,” Assistant Executive Director of the League Michael Darcy said in the article.

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Vanessa Farquharson, author of the book “Sleeping Naked is Green,” is coming to talk about her 366-day journey to live a more environmentally conscious lifestyle by making one positive change each day. She is also going to give away the secrets about how students can go green on campus. The event is sponsored by the Rutgers University Programming Association and will take place at 8 p.m. in Cook Campus Center Multipurpose Room.

Auditions for the 2011 Rutgers’ production of “The Vagina Monologues” will be held 8 to 10 p.m. in Scott Hall room 120. No preparation necessary. For audition criteria and more information about how to get involved join the Facebook group “VDAY Rutgers University-New Brunswick: The Vagina Monologues 2011” or e-mail vdayrutgerstvm@gmail.com.

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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.”

The TJC Campus Ministry is holding a Bible study on 1 Timothy 2 from 9:10 to 10:45 p.m. in Scott Hall room 202. All are welcome. For more information please contact tjc.campusministry@gmail.com.

The Department of Religion is hosting a public forum called “Religion and Violence: South Asian Perspectives” from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the Cook Campus Center Multipurpose Room. Edwin F. Bryant, a professor from the Department of Religion, will moderate the event. The event will feature Maya Chadda of William Paterson University and Michael Jerryson of Eckerd College. Chadda will discuss “The Challenge of Designing Strategies for Preventing Religious Violence in South Asia,” while Jerr yson will discuss “Buddhism and Violence: Discourses, Antecedents and Manifestations.”

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Sarah Rosenfield, a professor from the Department of Sociology, will speak at “Race, Gender and Well Being: The Paradox of Women’s Mental Health” from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at the Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building on Douglass campus. The lecture is in conjunction with the Institute for Research on Women Distinguished Lecture Series on “The Art and Science of Happiness.” For more information contact the IRW at 732-932-9072.

Nigel Smith, professor of English and co-director of the Center for the Study of Books and Media at Princeton University, will give the University Libraries’ 2011 Louis Faugères Bishop III lecture from 4:30 to 7 p.m. at the Alexander Library on the College Avenue campus. Smith’s lecture will celebrate the opening of the exhibition, “Milton and the Cultures of Print,” on display in the Special Collections and University Archives Galleries until May 31, 2011. For more information contact Fernanda Perrone at 732- 932-7006 ext. 363 or hperrone@rulmail.rutgers.edu.

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Ananya Roy, a leading scholar in comparative urban studies and international development will present a lecture entitled, “The Urban Centur y: Ecologies and Epistemologies of Dwelling in the Global South.” In this talk, she will present an analysis of global urbanism, paying particular attention to cities of the global south. Roy is a professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California-Berkeley. The lecture will take place at the Alexander Library in the fourth floor lecture hall at 4:30 p.m. It will be followed by a reception.

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An executive dean’s lecture featuring Susan Solomon entitled, “A World of Change: Climate Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow,” will take place at 6:30 p.m. at the Cook Campus Center Multipurpose Room. Solomon is a senior scientist at the Earth System Research Laboratory at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She is an internationally recognized leader in atmospheric science, particularly for her insights in explaining the cause of the Antarctic ozone “hole.” Solomon’s current research focuses on issues relating to both atmospheric chemistry and climate change. Please join us for this dynamic presentation, which is part of the “Ecologies in the Balance?” year-long seminar series to examine possible solutions to sweeping and unprecedented global environmental, social and economic challenges and to explore the opportunities for intervention that these changes represent.

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BY CLIFF WANG CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Comedy producer Jef f Singer held a full-day comedy workshop last Saturday at The Stress Factory Comedy Club in New Brunswick to teach budding comedians how to survive in the industry.

Singer, executive consultant for the Just For Laughs International Comedy Festival, educated the audience members on the kind of material bookers, agents, managers, casting directors and judges are looking for in comedians, said Stress Factor y owner, Vinnie Brand.

“Jef f’s seminar is one of the only ones I’ve seen that breaks the business down for the performer,” Brand said. “Going to the seminar will help a comic … cut through years of painful self-discover y and strip away inaccurate assumptions of the business.”

Singer, who declined to comment, is acclaimed for producing shows such as “Dating It” and “Reading It.” He has worked with comedians such as Rober t Schimmel, Patton Oswalt and Sarah Silverman.

Brand said many people in the business look to Singer as the go-to guy in the industry because he is brutally honest and objective in his critiques.

The event, which started around 10 a.m. and lasted until 6 p.m., gave the audience insight on how to market to comedy producers, he said.

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Jeff Singer hosts a comedy workshop at the Stress Factory to advise people interested in comedy on how to write comic routines, deal with managers and attract prominent casting directors in the industry.

“Jeff has a keen eyesight into stand-up, performers and material alike and has a true love of the art form,” Brand said. “Jeff gives performers what they need most — honesty.”

The workshop was divided into two main sessions — for the first half, Singer advised the audience on how to write a successful comedy act, said Patrick Howitt, an employee at The Stress Factory. In the second, every person delivered a fiveminute routine and received commentary from Singer.

“He talked about past experiences and stories, and really informed us about the business side of the industr y,” said Howitt, a School of Arts and Sciences junior.

Stress Factor y receptionist Randi Feldbauer said he was surprised by the diversity of people who attended the workshop.

“Newbies and veterans alike wanted to test their material and hopefully improve it,” said Feldbauer, a Mason Gross School of the Arts senior.

Singer talked about some of the major comedy artists in the business and discussed how to deal with top managers, club bookers, television executives, record labels and agents, Howitt said.

Howitt said the workshop helped teach aspiring comedians how to analyze their strengths and weaknesses on the stage and achieve their individuality and distinction as a performer.

He found that the workshop was an effective way to receive

constructive feedback and advice in a highly supportive classroom environment.

“His feedback was where he feels you are in terms of how the industr y would see you and where you eventually needed to be,” Howitt said.

Although the event cost $125 and attracted about ten attendees, Howitt said it was wor th it and encourages more comedy students to look into Singer’s program.

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Catherine Lombardi and other New Brunswick restaurants held a fundraiser for the “Eric LeGrand Believe Fund” on Saturday evening.

City restaurants hold LeGrand fundraiser

BY KRISTINE CHOI CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Eric LeGrand Believe Fund, established by the Rutgers Division of Intercollegiate Athletics, held a charity event in New Brunswick last Sunday to support LeGrand, a defensive tackle for the University football team, and his family during rehabilitation.

More than three months have passed since number 52, Eric LeGrand, suffered a major spinal cord injury in a Rutgers versus Army game — an injury leaving him temporarily paralyzed from the neck down.

A number of participating restaurants in New Brunswick, including Panico’s and Panico’s Brick Oven Pizza on Church Street, provided a variety of special menus, pledging to donate a minimum 50 percent of each ticket price to the Eric LeGrand Believe Fund.

“We have a personal interest because the owner was at the game with his 13-year-old son when they saw Eric actually get hurt,” said Lisa Panico, wife of the owner of Panico’s and Panico’s Brick Oven Pizza. “So when the idea came about we were extremely interested in participating in tonight’s program.”

Tickets for most of the restaurants started at $100, with the higher ticket prices around $250.

Depending on which ticket they purchased, dinners were given special three-course tasting menus.

Catherine Lombardi on Livingston Avenue, another participating restaurant for the Eric LeGrand Believe Fund, experienced so many reser vation requests that they had to schedule a second night to accommodate everyone.

Part two of the fundraiser will include a small silent auction on Feb. 27, according to the Catherine Lombardi website.

The event was considered an overall success, with a turnout so large that there was barely any room left to move around in the Panico’s restaurant, Panico said.

“Eight hundred people came out this evening in New Brunswick,” she said. “It’s an evening to be with the coaches and the Rutgers family.”

The motivation behind the fundraising event was a group effort because people wanted to be part of a supportive community, Panico said.

“We discussed it and felt as though this was the right thing to do for New Brunswick,” she said.

Amidst the crowd of people, there were various pieces of Scarlet Knight décor, including a poster board where the people in attendance wrote messages of support and encouragement for LeGrand.

Greg Schiano, head coach of the University football team, got on stage at the Panico’s restaurant to make a speech.

“A lot of times, when someone goes through something like this, they all of a sudden become the greatest kid ever,” Schiano said. “Well, Eric was the greatest kid before this all happened and he’s continued to do that.”

Schiano also spoke highly of LeGrand’s success at the rehabilitation facility, which is located less than an hour away from the University campus.

“He’s been unbelievable,” Schiano said. “I’ve been [there] when he leaves for his rehab and two hours later he shows back up drenched.

He approaches this thing just like he did football … it’s just a different set of challenges.”

LeGrand inspired his friends and family when he was taken off his ventilators last Thanksgiving weekend and again when he regained some sensation in his hands mid-December, according to an inter view on the Eric LeGrand Believe Fund website.

“I believe that I will walk again one day,” LeGrand said in the interview. “I believe it. God has a plan for me and I know it’s not to be sitting here all the time. I know he has something planned bigger for me.”

Schiano said he was proud to be par t of the University community, especially on a night where people from all over New Brunswick came to support the cause.

“A lot of people like to take shots at New Jersey and say bad things, but you know, when something happens to one of our own it’s really neat to see everyone circle the wagon and support him … a night like tonight just reaffirms that to me,” he said.

As Schiano finished his speech, people in attendance broke out in a round of applause.

“I can tell you that Eric’s going to get back,” Schiano said. “His dream and his vision is to be leading us out of [the stadium] tunnel.”

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s the world watches the current state of chaos unfold in Egypt, one thing everyone is calling attention to is the nation’s total lack of Internet access. Interestingly enough, Sen. Joe Lieberman, IConn., has decided that now would be a good time to introduce an Internet blackout bill for the United States. If successful, the bill would give the president the ability to seize control of the Internet — and even shut it down, if deemed necessary — in the event of an emergency. This is a pretty hypocritical step, considering that President Barack Obama himself has urged the Egyptian government to restore Internet access to its citizens.

The mere proposition of this bill is unacceptable. Sponsors of the bill claim that the president would not use this power to control a rowdy populace, as is the case in Egypt. However, there is no way to guarantee that, and such a statement is certainly not one that anyone should ever take on good faith from their government. This is far too much power to concentrate in the hands of a governing body, much less in the hands of one man. If anything, this bill would make it easier for a president to establish some sort of totalitarian rule in a democratic nation. That may sound alarmist — and, in some ways, it is — but it’s true. Allowing the president the ability to shut down the Internet at will is a dangerous step that could potentially have very negative repercussions.

The Internet should never be completely shut down, especially not in times of emergency, as the bill stipulates. In fact, the Internet is incredibly useful in emergencies. It is one of the most effective ways to communicate important information to masses of people at great speed. If the country were to enter a state of emergency, Internet communications would be the easiest way for the citizens to access information regarding said emergency. Shutting down the Internet would only rob the people of this important access, thus keeping them in the dark during a time when they should be as informed as possible.

It isn’t that we feel the United States government is full of corrupt individuals who would jump at the chance to take advantage of the nation.

Rather, it is that the people can never be too careful when the government starts acquiring the ability to control such integral aspects of their lives. We have to ask — will this bill really be used to promote safety, or will it be used to control the people, as the world has seen in Egypt?

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cCaskey East High School in Lancaster, Pa., is making an odd move in an attempt that is supposed to aid black students — they have decided to segregate them. After discovering that roughly one-third of the school’s black students scored “proficient or advanced” in reading on the Pennsylvania System School of Assessment — compared to 60 percent of the school’s white students — McCaskey East instructional coach Angela Tilghman suggested that the school separate students according to race and gender and place them in homeroom classes with a teacher of the same race and gender. For example, the school would place a group of black male students together in an all black male homeroom and assign a black male homeroom teacher to the group. Tilghman may have proposed the plan as a means of helping black students achieve more, but segregation is not the way to do that.

A far better plan would have been to separate the students according to how they scored on the assessment test and place them in homerooms accordingly. That way, all students — regardless of race or gender — would receive the mentoring they need in order to achieve more in school.

In segregating the students according to race and gender, rather than academic need, the school is implying that the students’ scholastic performance is a result of their innate physical attributes and that they must be treated differently because of these attributes. Essentially, in trying to give the black students the chance for success that the school feels they need, the school is actually hindering that success and reinforcing negative stereotypes. The students need liberation from such hurtful prejudices, not an educational system that supports them, no matter how inadvertently.

Maybe this development is the result of hypersensitivity to race and gender. While it is obviously a good thing to recognize the racial and gender identities of students so that those students may take pride in them, it is possible to go overboard. That is, it is possible to become so wrapped up in recognizing these qualities that they become overemphasized and result in a damaging “separate but equal” mentality — as is occurring at McCaskey.

We applaud the school’s good intentions, but we thoroughly disagree with their chosen method of turning those intentions into practice. Since academic success is what the school wishes to promote, they should help the students according to their educational needs — not according to their biological qualities. The school is trying to push their students forwards but is only succeeding in sliding backwards into an outdated and damaging mentality.

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their help. At the ver y irst BAKA: Students least, an explanation as to United for Middle why Jews would be upset Eastern Justice at the undertones of the tried to use student fees to event to the attendees break international law and would have been acceptsend a flotilla to Gaza. able. Perhaps explaining Then they used student AARON MARCUS the relationship between fees to bring Norman Hitler and the Grand Mufti Finkelstein, a Holocaust of Jerusalem during the Holocaust. While Hitler minimizer, to campus. Finally, they planned on was attempting to conquer Europe, he had his hosting an event comparing Israelis to Nazis and eyes set on the entire world, and Haj Amin alassumed that the Jewish and pro-Israel communiHusseini, the Palestinian leader at the time, was ty would stand idly by while they did so. Not so more than happy to lend a hand. He helped fast, BAKA — the Jewish community on campus recruit more than 20,000 Palestinians for the has had enough of your hateful rhetoric, scare Waffen SS and was promised to be leader of tactics and blatant disregard for human histor y.

Palestine after the extermination of the more We did not come out in the hundreds because you than 350,000 Jews living in the region. wanted to host a pro-Palestinian event. We came Aside from the historical justification for Jews out because the mere accusation that Israeli acts being upset with last Saturday night’s event, it of self-defense are in the smallest amount compawas in its ver y essence an extreme case of antirable to the systematic genocide of more than 11 Semitism. To those of you who like to chide million people is deplorable. around the definition of antiHoda Mitwally, public relations Semitic and how it applies to all of officer for BAKA, could not have “If BAKA’s events those from a Semitic background, made it any clearer as to why the a grip. Ever y individual underJewish community showed up in are intended to help get stands that in today’s society, antidroves. “We are not claiming that Semitism refers to a certain perone oppression is worse than the end suffering ception of Jews. The European other,” she said. But I am. I am worldwide, why not Union took this one step further going to make it quite clear that the gassing and butchering of the start with genocide and stated that the manifestation of anti-Semitism can be representJewish people — 6 million of them in Darfur?” ed by both, “claiming the exis— is far worse than the Palestinian tence of the State of Israel is a struggle in Gaza and the West racist endeavor … [and] drawing Bank. I am not saying their strugcomparisons of contemporar y Israeli policy to gle does not matter — ever y human life is valuthat of Nazis.” able, and I acknowledge that is a tragedy in and Still, if one holds the idea that Israel defending of itself, but it is not even remotely similar. If itself is comparable to gassing Jews, then perhaps BAKA or the International Jewish Anti-Zionist one could explain the procedure conducted Network were concerned in the least bit with the Saturday of segregating Jewish and Israel suptheme of their program, “Never Again for porters from the rest of the event’s attendees?

Anyone,” they would have made clear at the Why did BAKA or their sponsors start to charge event that Hamas and Hezbollah’s acts of genocian entrance fee to those with different ideologies dal intention will not be tolerated. However, they than their own? Why did they pompously and failed to do so. There was no mention of the racially find anyone looking like an anti-Israel supHamas charter calling for the obliteration of porter and give them green wristbands, telling the Israel or the genocidal rhetoric of Hezbollah Jews huddled together that they were event staff leader Hassan Nasrallah who said publicly, “If and security? Sure, we could attend the event if we they (Jews) all gather in Israel, it will save us the wanted to, but that all of a sudden meant we would trouble of going after them worldwide.” There have to suppor t a cause that borderlines was no condemnation of the 59 heinous refugee Holocaust denial, and no righteous Jew or gentile camps still active in Arab countries and how only would do such a thing. BAKA made a point of that Israel naturalized all citizens after being attacked inside the event when they told their supporters in 1948. that there was now a $5 mandatory entrance fee If BAKA’s events are intended to help end sufand that those who do not want to pay the fering worldwide, why not start with genocide in entrance fee probably do not support the event.

Darfur? If BAKA is so keen on sending flotillas to help star ving and deprived people, there is a SEE MARCUS ON PAGE 11 countr y called North Korea that could really use

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MARCUS continued from page 10 Fur thermore, using the annotation that members of the Jewish community were protesting a Holocaust survivor is a tactic of pitting one Jew against another. Hajo Meyer and Hedy Epstein’s survival of Nazi genocide are heroic. Their vehement anti-Semitic and anti-Israel rhetoric on the other hand is not. BAKA probably should not be touting their featured speaker. After all, his biggest fan is David Duke — a former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and known Holocaust denier. To justify their rhetoric with the excuse of having Holocaust sur vivors speak would be similar to allowing Duke to speak for all Americans.

Israel supporters inside the event, who were allowed in for free before the mandator y fee, recollect on the trashing of Elie Wiesel’s name. As I contemplated this, I sat thinking what my family members and the millions of people raped and murdered by the Nazis would say. I believe they would use a collection of Wiesel quotes, and it would sound something like this, “My kindelach, in Jewish histor y there are no coincidences, indif ference is the epitome of evil. There may be times when we are powerless, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”

Aaron Marcus is a School of Arts and Science junior majoring in political science and history.

He helped organize a protest against the event, “Never Again for Anyone.” His column, “Marcus My Words,” runs on alternate Tuesdays.

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et me begin by saying that this statement is on behalf of no one but myself as a University student — not as Latino Student Council political chair or Rutgers University Student Assembly parliamentarian — before someone asks for my resignation. With that out of the way, I hereby place a call for civility on campus.

I am utterly disgusted at the kind of slander and attacks that have been going on over the past days between several Jewish organizations and BAKA: Students United for Middle Eastern Justice. There have been several dif ferent issues brought up through letters that accuse the members of BAKA of being anti-Semitic, suppor ting terrorism and ever ything in between.

Whether anyone believes these accusations or not is entirely up to them, but all I ask is there be a little civility.

Throwing around terms like “anti-Semitic,” “ter rorist,” “Nazi” and other slanderous sentiments is not civil.

Frequently bashing a student organization in the University’s newspaper is not

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here are three major obstacles on the road to conflict resolution and reconciliation, and ultimately to a better future for all parties involved: The desire to win, the need to be vindicated and the quest for retribution. While being rooted in intrinsic human urges and needs, they are irrevocably futile and counter-productive. All three impediments are flagrantly exposed in the mounting tensions around BAKA: Students United for Middle Eastern Justice group’s activities on campus and the reactions they invoke. Unfortunately, instead of dialogue and understanding, animosity and misconstruction rule while ineffective means and bad counsel defeat good intentions.

When I saw the invitation of BAKA to their event this weekend, I was both enraged and saddened. The invitation boasted two pictures side by side: One of Palestinian refugees from 1948 and the other of Jews in a concentration camp. My outrage was emotional — as a second-generation survivor, I was appalled by the memory of the Holocaust deliberately exploited in the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. My sadness however, was rational: I knew that once again what seems to be a good objective will backfire due to ignorance, fretfulness and bad judgment. If the goal of the BAKA group was to call attention to the anguish of Gaza and to alleviate the suffering of its people, they certainly chose the worst approach to do that. Comparing the Gaza affliction with the Holocaust is strategically

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civil. Creating an incredibly hostile environment at an event with distinguished guests promoting global peace is not civil.

For those that do not know, the University has been promoting civility on our campus so that we may create a better environment for ever yone to do what they came here to do — learn and become a better person. That call appears to be ignored by many.

Fur thermore, I consider it uncivil and unjust to make drastic slandering assumptions about a grassroots student organization via a plethora of well-resourced community networks not once but on several occasions with no foreseeable end.

I am a firm believer in Mar tin Luther King Jr.’s statement: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice ever ywhere” and therefore ask for the attacks on BAKA to stop and for a more civil avenue to be pursued with mediation if necessar y. The issue at hand is much larger than the University community and af fects more than just Jewish or Palestinian students.

Jorge Casalins is a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore majoring in political science.

misjudged, historically unfounded and morally wrong. Could the systematic, methodical and meticulous annihilation machine of the Nazis seriously be compared with anything? Is there any Jewish, Israeli or Zionist equivalence to the devilish plan of “Mein Kampf?”

Is there any racist, all-encumbering ideology to eradicate Muslims, Arabs or Palestinians? Selective analogies never serve their purposes. Juxtaposing a picture of Palestinian refugees with Holocaust victims is like matching elephants with snails: They both eat grass. Other than that it is a ludicrous association. The urge to increase awareness and raise consideration to a genuine crisis should not be based upon revolting comparisons and alienating depictions. It is self-defeating and harmful to the noblest of causes. If the purpose is relief for Gaza, detestable correlations should not have been the way to do it.

Context is essential to comprehending complex political issues, and it is certainly a necessity in understanding the heartbreaking situation in Gaza. However, simplistic and biased accounts will do a disservice to the advocates of change. The closure on Gaza is presented as sheer Israeli cruelty and preventing vessels from arriving to the impoverished strip is portrayed as vicious and inhumane. But why is Israel so unwavering and so wary about supplies for Gaza? Perhaps because there were numerous attempts to smuggle in weapons and ammunitions there to continue the armed struggle against it. The two most outrageous were the ship Karine A seized in 2002 full of rockets and missiles on board, and in 2009 the Cypriot vessel Monchegorsk was captured carrying a whole tank, artillery and mortar shells as well as materials to be

used for producing rockets. Telling the entire story is not only an ethical obligation but also indispensable to expedite relief for the Gaza people. Had it not been for the Israeli apprehension of arms to extremists, the blockade would have been lifted a long time ago, as it has been before. In the same vein, the occupation itself is an abomination and a moral burden to Israelis and most of them would have given it up had they been reassured that violence and terrorism would not torment them anymore. If the purpose is relief for Gaza, contextualization should have been the way to do it.

Here are some facts that must be reckoned with: First, an independent Palestinian state could only be achieved by cooperation of Palestinians and Israelis. Such an undertaking is arduous and sensitive but it is the only guarantee for Palestinian nationhood.

Confrontation, defiance and violence were habitually malicious inhibitors on the road to both Palestinian and Israeli escape from their miseries because, and this is the second fact, there is interdependence between these two belligerents. They are entangled in despair and in hope. Hence for Palestinians, independence stems from interdependence. A third fact is that most Israelis and most Palestinians yearn for peace. They are tired of this hopeless and tragic conflict. Their protracted dispute is fed by reciprocal negative images, miscommunication, fear and despair. These factors stimulate suicide bombers to Israeli streets and rocket attacks on the Negev on the one hand, and humiliations at checkpoints and Jewish settlers’ harassment on the other.

There are extremists on both sides who benefit from the continuation of this strife and they should be

marginalized by sanity and the willingness to survive and prosper.

Palestinians and Israelis have similar and shared goals: A viable independent Palestinian state and a genuine collaboration to promote peace and stability between them in light of the regional volatility and madness that are brewing all over.

These common goals are feasible but they must be preceded by several bold and intertwined decisions — ending the occupation, getting rid of extremists on both sides and the treatment of each other with dignity and respect. If the purpose is relief for Gaza, building trust in order to dissipate fear should have been the way to do it.

If the purpose is to win the conflict, establish vindication and to get even, it is doomed to failure.

But if indeed the purpose is to alleviate the anguish of Gaza, as well as the hardships of all Palestinians and Israelis bogged down in this century old folly of rancor, compassion must replace antagonism and practical moderates must take over from delusional and deceiving extremists. I write these lines with all my heart. I write these lines as a professor of political science whose expertise is conflict resolution and dialogue. I write these lines as a teacher whose classes are coattended by Arabs, Muslims, Jews and Israelis. I write these lines as an Israeli who served in the army and witnessed at close-hand how violence and hatred smell, feel and look. I write these lines as a peace activist who still believes in the possibility — or better yet, the inevitability — of a better future for all in the Middle East.

Dr. Muli Peleg is the Schusterman Visiting Scholar for Israeli affairs at the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life.

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Junior forward Chelsey Lee struggled in the Scarlet Knights’ last two games, averaging just 4.5 points in the pair of conference losses.

WOES: RU’s frontcourt struggles in two-game skid continued from back Aside from junior for ward April Sykes, who is averaging 14.5 points per game to lead the team, there is an offensive void that is never consistently filled.

During the team’s winning streak, sophomore center Monique Oliver and junior forward Chelsey Lee filled that void, with the post pair making the Big East honor roll in consecutive weeks.

Since then, the two have str uggled to maintain their form, pushing the load on Sykes and junior guard Khadijah Rushdan, who is tr ying to rebound from two straight tough outings.

The Wilmington, Del., native last scored in double figures in the squad’s road win at Cincinnati two weeks ago, when she tallied 16 points to tie for the team’s lead in scoring on the night.

But this could be the perfect game for Rushdan to get back on track.

Although the Knights fell to the Red Storm last season in Piscataway, Rushdan recorded

14 points on 7-of-16 shooting to lead the team in scoring.

Rutgers also has a historical edge working in its favor, as the Knights have dropped just two games against St. John’s all-time on the road.

And with the emergence of a confident Sykes — something missing a year ago — Rushdan should feel more comfortable than ever in the team’s short trek up the turnpike to New York.

But as a whole, the Knights have quite the task at hand.

The Johnnies relied on a balanced attack in their win a year ago, as four players scored in double-figures en route to victory.

Three of those players — sophomores Nadirah McKenith and Shenneika Smith and junior Da’Sheena Stevens — look to once again wreak havoc on Stringer’s defense, and with a clear height advantage all across the board, the trio could be difficult to contain.

But the Knights have shown ability to battle a height deficiency before, when they were able to stifle No. 19 Georgetown’s 6foot-6 center, Sydney Wilson to seal an early-season upset.

Rutgers has shown its youthful inexperience at times this season, as well as its ability to play with the elite.

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Junior guard Khadijah Rushdan scored 14 points last season in a 60-52 loss to St. John’s at the Louis Brown Athletic Center.

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Freshman Mike Wagner, black, won his 197-pound bout Saturday in Annapolis, Md., against Navy’s Greg Prioleau, 6-1. The South Planfield, N.J., native sat out the Scarlet Knights’ previous match against Rider in favor of Middlesex Community College transfer Dan Hopkins but boasts a 10-11 record on the season.

DECISION: Cocozzo tops EIWA leader in victories continued from back Saddoris entered the matchup leading the EIWA in victories this season with 27 and stands second all-time on the Navy wins list with 137 victories.

But it was Cocozzo who earned the only takedown in the match late in the third period to claim the victor y.

“Dar yl wrestled a ver y smar t, technical match,” Goodale said. “One takedown was all that he needed. He did

a good job of controlling the tie-ups and controlling the pace of the match.”

Cocozzo closed to within four wins of 100 in his career that spans over his seasons with Edinboro and Rutgers. With only three matches left on the schedule, No. 100 will have to come at the EIWA Tournament.

“I think his preparation [makes him successful],” Goodale said. “He’s always been a good wrestler. The thing that got in the way of Dar yl was Dar yl. As far as flat-out wrestling goes, there aren’t many better in our room.”

The match against Navy was not all pleasant for the Rutgers’ coaching staf f, as the bout between sophomore Dan Rinaldi and No. 11 Luke Reber tus at 184 pounds ended in some controversy.

The two battled it out to a 22 tie after regulation and headed into sudden death over time.

With neither grappler able to score a takedown, the match went into a ride-out scenario in which each wrestler had 30 seconds to escape the grasp of his opponent.

Rinaldi was unable to escape Reber tus in the four th overtime and was on his way to retur ning the favor to

Reber tus, when a stalemate call from the referee provided an oppor tunity for the Midshipman to escape and earn the win.

“Rinaldi was riding him out and they called a stalemate to give the kid a fresh start when he is on his belly,” Goodale said.

“It was the most offense that was happening the whole match and they stopped the match. I don’t understand why they stopped the match at that point.”

Reber tus came away with the 3-2 decision, but it was not without protest from the Knights’ sideline.

“I don’t think boring is the right word, but both guys were

ver y tentative,” Goodale said of the regulation periods.

“For our guys to achieve their goals, they have to get after it.”

The controversial win did little to dent the Rutgers’ lead or the team’s spirits as true freshman Mike Wagner stepped right in at 197 pounds and earned a 6-1 decision.

“We’ve given [Wagner] a couple of days off since he isn’t used to wrestling for this long of a season. But we feel like he is back to normal now,” Goodale said. “He’s getting better with every match and that was the goal. And he loves it. He loves to wrestle.”

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any Rutgers women’s soccer players earned awards at the Scarlet Knights’ annual banquet Sunday at the Rutgers Visitor Center.

Senior midfielder Gina DeMaio earned the Knights’ Most Valuable Player award.

Fellow senior Rheanne Sleiman won this year’s Coach’s Award.

The North Vancouver, Canada, native registered a 4.0 GPA this semester, never missed a training session or class and started all 20 games.

Sophomore defender Shannon Woeller earned the team’s scholar-athlete award.

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center Maurkice Pouncey has not been ruled out of Super Bowl XLV, according to head coach Mike Tomlin.

The Pro Bowl rookie suffered a high ankle sprain in the AFC Championship against the New York Jets.

Backup center Doug Legursky will fill in for Pouncey if he is inactive.

Pouncey or Legursky will have to defend 337-pound nose tackle BJ Raji, who in the NFC Championship became the heaviest player in postseason history to score a touchdown, according to ESPN.

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Meyer makes his debut tomorrow during ESPNU’s coverage of national signing day.

He will work weekly regularseason games and the programs “College Football Live” and “College Gameday.”

With Florida, Meyer won two BCS national championships. He finished his coaching career with a record of 10423 in 10 seasons with Bowling Green, Utah and Florida.

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fee with Liverpool to sign Fernando Torres. Liverpool will receive about 45 million pounds — or $72 million — from Chelsea in exchange for the striker.

The figure is only two million pounds less than the most expensive purchase in soccer history, which was in 2009 for Manchester City for ward Carlos Tevez.

Torres signed through 2013 with Liverpool. The striker will help Chelsea defend its titles as Premier League and FA Cup champions.

THE BALTIMORE ORIOLES signed a pair of pitchers in Justin Duchscherer and Mark Hendrickson.

Duchscherer signed for $4.5 million plus incentives.

Hendrickson signed for $900,000, according to an MLB source.

Duchscherer earned a 2.89 ERA in only five starts last season with the Oakland Athletics.

Hendrickson, a former NBA player, finished with a 5.26 ERA last season out of the Orioles’ bullpen.

The team also faltered on floor exercises — an event that is ordinarily the team’s strength. After relying on floor exercise for the victor y at home, the Knights were unable to put together clean routines.

“We had two falls on floor that we didn’t have at home,” Chollet-Nor ton said. “We didn’t have our best routines, but we will figure it out this week.”

One of the bright spots for Rutgers continues to be freshman Luisa Leal-Restrepo. In only her four th collegiate meet, Leal-Restrepo took first place in all-around scoring with a personal season high of 38.850.

Chollet-Nor ton believes that LealRestrepo is only beginning to scratch the surface of her talent. “ S h e CHRYSTAL will be one of the CHOLLET-NORTON top athletes at the East Atlantic Gymnastics League Championships,” CholletNor ton said.

But Leal-Restrepo’s performance may not have been possible without a shift in the lineup order prior to the meet.

Chollet-Nor ton recognized that Leal-Restrepo was struggling on bars and made a choice that seems to have solved the problem.

“She can’t wait around to go last on bars,” CholletNor ton said. “We moved her to first and it worked out.”

Chollet-Nor ton made it clear that with her new team depth, there is more accountability for mistakes.

“We have so much depth that the lineup is not set,” Chollet-Nor ton said. “There are no guarantees for anyone.”

The Knights next compete at the Livingston Recreation Center on Friday in a tri-meet against Bridgepor t and Brown.

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Senior Kiah Banfield, above, and freshman Alyssa Straub tied for a sixth-place finish in the vault with scores of 9.725. Freshman teammate Luisa Leal-Restrepo won the event with a 9.800, part of an impressive day for the Cali, Colombia, native, who also won the all-around competition.

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RU takes second at Champs

BY ADHAAR SHARMA CONTRIBUTING WRITER

JEFFREY LAZARO / SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Junior guard Ashton Gibbs’ 24 points on Saturday against Rutgers helped prevent No. 4 Pittsburgh from joining Connecticut and Villanova as top Big East teams to fall and avoid a two-game losing streak for the Panthers.

Plenty of upsets dominate Big East weekend

BY TYLER BARTO AND ANTHONY HERNANDEZ STAFF WRITERS

Pandemonium swept through the Big East this past week, as Pittsburgh, Connecticut, Villanova and Syracuse BASKETBALL all transformed i n t o t h e i r MID-WEEK REPORT o w n cases of upset city.

Intra-conference foes beat up on each other, sending some reeling programs fur ther down the rankings and ascending others among the elite.

Despite the random string of upsets, there is still a clear picture atop the Big East.

BIG EAST

1.) Pittsburgh (20-2, 8-1) — Despite losing, 56-51, in rare fashion to No. 8 Notre Dame at the Petersen Athletics Center, the No. 4 Panthers own just one blemish in conference play and retain the top spot.

Head coach Jamie Dixon made sure his team avoided an even greater letdown against unranked Rutgers on Saturday, besting the Scarlet Knights, 6562, cour tesy of Ashton Gibbs’ 24-point per formance.

2.) Notre Dame (17-4, 6-3) — With an upset of Pittsburgh last week, the No. 9 Irish ascended in the national rankings, jumping all the way up to No. 8 in the countr y.

Beating Pittsburgh is one thing, but beating down on the Panthers in their own house is enough to make some serious noise.

3.) Louisville (17-4, 6-2) — The No. 15 Cardinals upended the Huskies in a double-overtime thriller, but any team owning a conference loss to lowly Providence does not deserve to be directly under Pittsburgh in the rankings. Defeating Kemba Walker and UConn was a start, but with games against Georgetown, Notre Dame and Syracuse on tap, there is still plenty of room for more statements.

4.) Connecticut (17-3, 5-3) — The No. 6 Huskies had their six-game winning streak snapped in a double-over time 79-78 hear tbreaker against head coach Rick Pitino and visiting Louisville. But give credit to UConn for giving Walker a suppor ting cast in the game, as Shabazz Napier and Jeremy Lamb scored 23 and 21 points, respectively. Syracuse is next for head coach Jim Calhoun’s squad, which need not look past ’Cuse’s current four-game slide.

Freeman’s 30 points propelled the Hoyas to an upset victor y over ’Nova, but the success was long overdue for head coach John Thompson III’s team.

The transition to a more guard-oriented of fense took more time than many outsiders believe, but Georgetown’s win over the Wildcats could provide the spark sorely needed to propel the Hoyas back into the national picture.

7.) West Virginia (14-6, 5-3) — The Mountaineers will not amaze anyone with a highlightreel of fense or a suf focating defense, but head coach Bob

Huggins has done more with less this season.

West Virginia ear ned an impressive road victor y at Cincinnati over the weekend but face a surging Seton Hall team in its next contest.

8.) Syracuse (18-4, 5-4) — My, how the mighty have fallen. After starting the season unblemished, the No. 17 Orange dropped their last four contests, capped off by Saturday’s defeat against Marquette.

Head coach Jim Boeheim has a tough task in front him, namely with managing freshman center Fab Melo, who has not found a bona fide role in Syracuse’s of fense.

5.) Villanova (17-4, 5-3) — Head coach Jay Wright’s Wildcats suffered a 69-66 loss to Georgetown in one of the most topsy-turvy Saturdays of the season.

Despite dropping three of its past four contests, No. 12 Villanova is still in stable condition with its senior backcourt of Corey Fisher and Corey Stokes.

The Wildcats have a chance to get back to their winning ways on Wednesday, when they welcome a pesky Marquette team to Villanova, Pa. JEFFREY LAZARO / SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

6.) Georgetown (16-5, 5-4) — Senior guard Austin

Senior guard Austin Freeman (15) scored 30 points against Villanova on Saturday in a Georgetown upset in Philadelphia.

For a second-place finish at the Metropolitan Championships this weekend, the Rutgers women’s track WOMEN’S TRACK a n d RUTGERS 142 f i e l d t e a m SECOND PLACE scored 1 4 2 points, five shy of winner St. John’s at the Armory Track and Field Center in New York, N.Y. The rest of the field gave little challenge to the Scarlet Knights, with third place Manhattan finishing at 75.5 points.

But head coach James Robinson was not satisfied with his team’s per formance.

“Few people performed really well but overall we were flat,” Robinson said. “I could understand the placing if we went out and performed at our highest.

We had enough talent to win and we have only us to blame.”

Freshman Tylia Gillon delivered a first-place win in the 60-meter dash and finished second in the 200-meter dash.

The freshman sprinter has placed in the top three in ever y race she ran this season.

“She has already infiltrated the Rutgers top five for the 60meter and 300-meter dash,” Robinson said. “She has the potential to be one of the best in Rutgers histor y.”

Junior Brittni Rodriguez finished third in the 60-meter dash and senior Jamie Walker came in fifth. Walker also came in sixth in the 200-meter dash.

Senior Cour tney Sample and freshman Rachel Leeke finished fourth and sixth respectively in the 400-meter dash.

Junior Zainab Bisiolu placed four th in the 500-meter dash to round out the sprint events for the Knights.

Overall, the Knights gained 44 points from the sprinters compared to a 39-point overall score by eighth place Fairleigh Dickinson.

In the distance events, sophomore Victoria Pontecor vo finished third in the mile, freshman Brianna Deming placed second in the 3000-meter and sophomore Anjelica Brinkofski took second place in the 5000-meter.

Outside of the top-three finishes, sophomores Stephanie Krausser and Jennifer Spitzer, as well as freshman Rashmi Singh placed in the top eight in the 800 meter, 1000 meter and 5000-meter.

In the jumps, Rutgers missed its captain, Nwamaka Okobi and sophomore Asha Ruth. The women failed to place in the top three in all three events.

Regardless, freshman Emily Vargas placed sixth in the high jump and fourth in the long jump. Freshman Ekene Ugboaja finished fifth in the long jump and seventh in the triple jump.

Senior Natalie Clickett won the shot put.

Rutgers placed second in both the 4x400 and 4x800 relays, losing to St. John’s in both events.

Sophomore Lindsay Bertulis and freshmen Vanessa Arientyl, Tara Wuko and Ashley Deckert led Rutgers to a first-place finish in the distance medley.

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DON BOSCO RB COMMITS TO RUTGERS The Rutgers football team powerhouse. Don Bosco quarreceived another verbal com- terback Gary Nova committed mitment in the days after initially pledgleading up to the ing to play college National Signing Day football at Pittsburgh. in the form of Don Canevari’s recruitBosco running back ment just picked up in Paul Canevari. recent weeks, when Canevari commitboth Akron and ted after taking an Rutgers expressed of ficial visit to interest in him spendPiscataway this ing a semester away weekend, according and enrolling next PAUL to Rivals.com.

January. Canevari will CANEVARI The 6-foot, 207sign his Letter of pound tailback is the second Intent on Wednesday and Rutgers Class of 2011 commit- enroll with the Class of 2011. ment from the North Jersey — Steven Miller

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SCHIANO ALLOWS SAVAGE TO SPEAK TO FLORIDA SCHOOLS Head football coach Greg Schiano granted Tom Savage permission to speak to Miami and Florida in regard to his transfer, according to Rivals.com.

Schiano initially denied permission to Savage and an appeals committee upheld the decision, but the 10th-year head coach said he changed his mind after sitting down with the Scarlet Knights’ former quarterback.

Savage still has the option of returning to Rutgers, but Schiano was not optimistic about those odds.

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Tom Savage threw for 2,732 yards and 16 touchdowns in his career.

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Freshman Kara Millaci qualified for the Big East Championships in her last opportunity at the RU Invitational, where she posted season-best times in the 100- and 200-yard butterfly races. The Whitehouse Station, N.J. resident, spent much of her competitive swimming career in Piscataway at the RU Aquatic Center.

Freshman earns Big East qualifier in last chance

BY MATT CANVISSER CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The goal all season for Rutgers head swimming and diving coach Phil Spiniello was to as SWIMMING & DIVING see many of his athletes qualify for the Big East Championships as possible.

It may have been a stretch to think that all 22 members of the team would qualify, but the Scarlet Knights got one step closer to that goal at the RU Invitational thanks to freshman Kara Millaci.

“I was ver y excited to qualify,” Millaci said. “I hope to go even faster at the Big East Championships in about two weeks.”

In order to qualify for the Big East Championships, swimmers and divers must post times under a set qualifying

time at any point throughout the season. Millaci was able to post her season-best times in the 100- and 200-yard butter fly at the Invitational — the last event of the regular season.

“It was huge because this was the last oppor tunity for her to qualify,” Spiniello said. “[Millaci] qualifying is a great sign for things to come in her future.”

Millaci made the Big East cut by finishing the 100-yard butterfly in 59.69 and the 200-yard event with a time of 2:09.39.The entire team was noticeably excited for her when she qualified, including Spiniello, who let out the loudest cheer in the RU Aquatic Center.

“Each day my teammates and coaches cheer for me in sets and always help me push myself to the next level,” Millaci said. “Seeing them at the end of

the lane before my races last weekend really motivated me to swim fast so I would be down with them in Kentucky for Big East [Championships].”

KARA MILLACI Millaci is unique among the rest of the swimming and diving team for an unlikely reason: She is one of only six swimmers on the team from the Garden State.

Millaci hails from Whitehouse Station, N.J., and has been com-

peting at the Sonny Werblin Recreation Center for more than 13 years with her club and high school teams.

But being close to home was not originally a selling point, as she ver y nearly headed nor th to compete in the Atlantic 10 Conference for Rhode Island.

“I was actually not considering Rutgers until about a month before I had to decide where I was going to go to school,” Millaci said. “I thought it would be too close to home and I have been swimming at this pool all the time since I was about 5 years old.”

The Knights are glad she made the decision to come to Rutgers, as Millaci’s vastly improved times at the RU Invitational led directly to the Knights being named the Most Improved Team of the Week by collegeswimming.com.

The Knights improved their fastest times by 100.5 percent according to the website, narrowly edging Tennessee, which improved 100.3 percent.

The Big East Championships begin late next week in Louisville, Ky. The diving competition kicks of f Friday, Feb. 11 and lasts until Feb. 13. The swimming events begin on Wednesday, Feb. 16 and conclude on Saturday, Feb. 19.

The anticipation is building for Millaci and the rest of the Knights as the culmination of their season is rapidly approaching. “[Coach Spiniello] has been talking about the Big East Championships almost ever y day since we star ted training in September,” Millaci said. “Now that I have qualified, I hope to help the team out as much as I can and swim fast there.”

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BY A.J. JANKOWSKI ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

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Senior Daryl Cocozzo upset Navy’s sixth-ranked wrestler Bryce Saddoris, 3-2, in their 157-pound bout in Annapolis, Md. The win brought Cocozzo’s career total to 96, and the nation’s 16th-ranked 157-pounder will have an opportunity to reach 100 at the EIWA Tournament.

Despite Mother Nature’s attempts to slow it down, the Rutgers wrestling team shoveled its way out of New Jersey this weekend and trekked to WRESTLING Annapolis, Md., for RUTGERS 23 a match against conference foe Navy.

NAVY 9 The No. 9 Scarlet Knights returned to the Garden State with a 23-9 victor y over the Midshipmen and their 15-match winning streak still intact.

“The weather really didn’t play much of a factor into the match,” said head coach Scott Goodale. “If we didn’t wrestle well, then we would have dropped it. We showed up there ready to wrestle.”

Despite dropping the first bout at 133 pounds, the Knights (19-1) claimed seven individual victories over Navy (4-3) and improved to a per fect 7-0 in EIWA competition.

The biggest win of the day came via the 157pound matchup between two grapplers who have seen their fair share of close matches.

Senior Daryl Cocozzo earned his 96th career victor y with a 3-2 decision over Navy’s Bryce Saddoris.

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RU capitalizes on Pitt errors to finish second

BY JOSH GLATT CORRESPONDENT

Following its biggest victor y in recent histor y, the Rutgers gymnastics team finished second in a tri-meet against two tough opponents GYMNASTICS in West Virginia RUTGERS 191.025 and Pittsburgh.

Coming into SECOND PLACE the meet, head coach Chr ystal Chollet-Nor ton expressed her desire to compete with Pittsburgh.

The Scarlet Knights accomplished that goal, finishing with a 191.50, ahead of the Panthers’ 189.025.

But defeating Pittsburgh was not the accomplishment Chollet-Nor ton anticipated it being.

“They self-destructed,” Chollet-Nor ton said of Pittsburgh’s per formance. “Beam was the worst for all three teams, but Pittsburgh wasn’t able to recover.”

Chollet-Norton was concerned about the struggles on beam, but she was pleased with her team’s ability to bounce back from a poor performance in the event.

“They didn’t fall apar t after beam,” Chollet-Nor ton said. “I always tell my girls they have to bring it and they really did fight after beam.”

Despite noting the positive implications of her team’s resiliency, CholletNor ton recognizes that for her team to reach scores in the range she wants, it will need to improve upon limiting its mistakes.

“We have to figure out the problems in the gym,” Chollet-Nor ton said. “We have to practice as if it’s a meet and compete as if it’s practice.”

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Rutgers head women’s basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer will take her squad on the road five more times this season, beginning tonight with a matchup against St. John’s at Carnesecca Arena. Stringer and Co. lost each of their last two games after winning five straight.

Knights seek to solve road woes in Queens

BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ CORRESPONDENT

With the final stretch of the season winding down for the Rutgers women’s basketball team, consider it WOMEN’S BASKETBALL judgment day.

The Scarlet RUTGERS AT Knights (12-8, 5-2) ST. JOHN’S, battle formerly TONIGHT, 7 P.M. ranked conference rival St. John’s tonight in Queens, N.Y., in the first of the

final five road contests until the end of the year.

And if the squad’s record away from the Banks so far this season is any indication, it could be a rough final month for head coach C. Vivian Stringer and her team.

The Knights are almost a week removed from being considered among the elite in the Big East, but with back-toback double-digit conference losses and a date with the Johnnies (15-6, 4-4), they could soon become an after thought.

Still, even with two blemishes after starting the season unbeaten in the Big East, all is not lost for Stringer and Co. Rutgers has shown ability to bounce back this season and the ability to be consistent — apparent in the team’s fivegame winning streak that ended with a loss to No. 2 Connecticut.

But these gritty traits — traits most Stringer teams have — appeared only in flashes for the Hall of Fame head coach.

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