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Artists from across the pond are making their way over with a new kind of sound.

Inside Beat takes a look at the latest acts on the forefront of invasion.

Record snowfall strains U. budget

BY MAXWELL BARNA CORRESPONDENT

Following a record-setting month of snow, state climatologists say it is not safe to put away the salt and shovels yet, while the University’s Facilities and Capital Planning staff are hoping the winter weather eases up.

New Brunswick has accumulated 51.1 inches of snow — well above the current state average — which falls at more than 38 inches, Assistant State Climatologist Mathieu Gerbush said.

“Just to give you an idea, if you compare that to the average from 1970 to [the] present, that’s almost double the average snow-

fall in a typical New Brunswick [winter], which is around 27.4 inches,” he said.

New Brunswick received 30.4 inches of snow in January alone, said New Jersey State Climatologist David Robinson via e-mail correspondence.

“The 30.4 inches in January is a record for the month,” said Robinson, University chairman of the Department of Geography.

“Records at New Brunswick go back to 1894 [and] this was the second snowiest of any month during this 118 year interval.”

Antonio Calcado, vice president of Facilities and Capital

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Director, author and New York University Professor Spike Lee spoke to a crowded audience about his introduction into the movie-making world last night in the Livingston Student Center. See more photos on PAGE 4.

Filmmaker shares advice, experience

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University students wait for the campus buses in sleet and ice. New Brunswick this winter received a record-breaking amount of snow, totaling about 51 inches.

Film director and author Spike Lee spoke about his life and gave career advice last night in the Multipurpose Room of the Livingston Student Center, where the crowd was so large that many could not enter.

Lee, who teaches film at New York University, said he felt in his element speaking to a room full of students.

“I’m glad to be here,” he said.

“I really enjoy speaking to young minds.”

Lee said he first gained interest in filmmaking during a summer away from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga., when the poor economy in New York left little room for summer jobs.

“I took out my Super 8mm camera and just ran around the city with it,” he said.

“I filmed looting in Harlem and hustlers outside night clubs and peoples’ reactions to the Berkowitz killings.”

Lee returned to school and declared a major in mass communication, which gave him the opportunity to work with film and

eventually compile his footage into a documentar y.

Though he said he lacked motivation before finding his passion, Lee excelled in school once he started making films.

“I stayed in the film lab until they threw me out,” he said.

Lee told his audience that choosing career paths they enjoy is more important than pursuing money.

“People choose majors based on how much money that can make,” he said. “That’s the wrong step in my opinion. I believe the minute

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Panel reflects on Egyptian protests’ causes

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To an audience of more than 100 students and members of the public, a panel of University faculty analyzed and tackled misconceptions about the events in Tunisia and Egypt yesterday in the Busch Campus Center Multipurpose Room.

The panelists discussed how the uprising started in Egypt because of the educated youth who want democracy rather than the work of religious or extremist organizations.

“The young people want to integrate Islamism and democracy,” said Eric Davis, a University political science professor.

Davis challenged the popular conception that the protestors in Egypt have organizational ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.

“The Muslim Brotherhood are not a unified organization,” he said.

Younger members of the Brotherhood have made strategic alliances with secular groups, leading the older and more fundamentalist faction to denounce the younger members, Davis said.

Like Davis, art histor y Assistant Professor Tarek Kahlaoui also addressed explanations of the cause and leadership of

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INDEX Using firsthand experience, a professor teaches a course on sign language.

OPINIONS The L.A. County Department of Public Health created a flier detailing the safest way to consume Ecstacy.

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Egyptian protestors rally in the streets, demanding to oust President Hosni Mubarak. A panel of University professors addressed myths cycling in American media about the uprising.

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Course connects deaf, hearing communities

BY MORGAN MURRELL CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Speaking with hands instead of words, University students lear ned American Sign Language (ASL) through a course that focuses not only on helping students develop their skills, but also gaining a better understanding of the deaf community.

School of Communication and Information co-adjunct professor Charlotte Karras star ted teaching ASL at the University in the summer of 1990, when she was asked to share her abilities with University students.

Although Karras has partial hearing as a side effect from a childhood disease, she said she does not let her disability get in the way of her teaching. She sees her disadvantage as a bene-

fit to expand her knowledge about sign language on a collegiate level.

“I wear two hearing aids and can talk to the class with no problem,” she said. “Without my hearing aids, I am almost deaf. I have to lip-read, hear with my hearing aids and watch facial and body expressions.”

Although her winter and summer session courses usually fill to capacity, Karras was skeptical of the idea of students flocking to join her ASL classes when she first began teaching.

“In a way, I was ner vous because I did not know how the students would react to learning sign language,” she said.

“Six weeks is a short time to learn sign language, but the students did quite well and a few went on to Interpreter Training Program to become sign language interpreters.”

Britany Martin, a RutgersNewark senior, is not deaf but decided to take Karras’ winter session course to expand her knowledge of the language

“Six weeks is a short time to learn sign language, but the students did quite well.”

CHARLOTTE KARRAS School of Communication and Information Co-adjunct Professor

she experienced as a child in Sign Choir.

“I was really amazed at how many lawyers and doctors are

out there that are deaf,” Mar tin said. “I plan on becoming a lawyer myself, and I believe that having this sign language background will allow me to converse with all my clients, deaf or hearing.”

Karras said the courses are beneficial to both the deaf and hearing for certain professions as well as just for general knowledge of the language.

“I think sign language classes are good to have around on the college campus,” said Isabel Rodriguez, a RutgersNewark sophomore. “Many institutions such as schools and churches need sign-language interpreters. Whether students are interested in linguistics or therapy, sign language is a good skill to have.”

Rodriguez hopes not only to learn sign language for her own personal fulfillment, but also to

communicate with her cousin who suffers from severe hearing loss.

“I think this class opened up all of our eyes to see how people communicate with this disability, and I think they were more interested in learning how to communicate with the deaf people,” Martin said.

Karras has been using sign language since she was 10 years old and wants students to engage in her passion of signing by taking ASL classes or joining groups that support the deaf community. “[The class] inspired me more to learn about sign language, and I would recommend ASL to other students,” Martin said. “ASL is another language, like Spanish or French. I think that more people should be knowledgeable about the deaf community and all the accomplishments they have.”

BOARD OF GOVERNORS APPROVES NEW VICE PRESIDENT FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS Peter McDonough, former director of Communications under Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, will take over starting March 1 as the University’s Vice President for Public Affairs.

The Board of Governors approved McDonough, a founding par tner of the Princeton Public Af fairs Group, on Monday, according to a University Media Relations press release.

“He will ser ve as the chief adviser to University President Richard L. McCormick,

Rutgers governing boards and other University leaders on matters involving state, federal and local gover nments,” according to the press release.

He will also ser ve as chief adviser to civic and community groups, New Jersey businesses and non-profit organizations, as well as be responsible for the development and implementation of strategies for outreach and advocacy.

McDonough will be taking over for Jeannine LaRue, who will retire after almost 40 years of

private and public ser vice to the people of New Jersey.

“In an era of unprecedented fiscal challenges, Jeannine LaRue has done an outstanding job as a tireless advocate on behalf of Rutgers to federal, state, local, community and business leaders,” said McCormick in the release. “I can think of no better successor than Pete McDonough.”

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Crowds of University students and members of the public gathered in Livingston Student Center last night to listen to director Spike Lee share his filmmaking experiences. He also encouraged students to pursue their dreams. The Department of English’s “Writers at Rutgers Reading Series” sponsored the free event.

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continued from front you’re born into this earth, you have a talent, and without exposure, it can’t be nurtured.”

Lee repeatedly said parents can often be the ones to kill students’ dreams, but no one can kill their true passion.

“You don’t want to be stuck in a dead-end job and end up hating your parents,” he said. “If you find a job you love, it’s not work anymore. I have to wake up at 4 a.m. some days when shooting, and I jump out of bed.”

The 52-year-old director said he became a filmmaker not for fame or money but to tell stories.

School of Arts and Sciences first-year student Eric Sarragh found inspiration in Lee’s speech, which he felt was applicable to his everyday life.

“I deal with being biracial — half white and half Puerto Rican — so hearing him talk put a battery in my pack,” he said.

Lee also addressed the idea that racial “[Lee] has stereotyping shaped of AfricanAmericans in U.S. culture the media is a by bringing barrier to their progress in the issues of race United States. and culture “Misguided to a national young minds equate educalevel.” tion with DENA SEIDEL whiteness and Writers House ignorance Director of with blackDigital Storytelling ness,” he said.

“Education was a vehicle to get out of slavery. We have to turn this around. There is no color on intelligence.”

During the question and answer portion of the night, one student asked Lee his opinion of MTV. “I won’t let my daughter watch ‘Skins,’” he said. “What 16year-olds know today is what I knew when I was 23.”

Rutgers Business School firstyear Christine Nau appreciated the personal feel of Lee’s talk.

“He spoke to us as friends,” she said. “I didn’t know what to expect. He just let us know his story and what path to take, and I thought it was really great.”

Lee visited the University as part of the English Department’s “Writers at Rutgers Reading Series” and discussed how he became a filmmaker by documenting the daily struggles of African-Americans in New York City.

“Spike Lee is one of the most talented directors in America,” said Dena Seidel, director of Digital Stor ytelling at the Writers House, one of the event’s co-sponsors. “He has shaped U.S. culture by bringing issues of race and culture to a national level.”

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Undergraduates interact with Cook faculty and staff at the Undergraduate Research Mixer last night at the Cook Campus Center.

They also introduced the students to research programs and projects.

BUDGET: Facilities uses plows, salt in eight instances continued from front Planning, said the large amount of snow has proven problematic for both students and maintenance workers.

There have been eight events — instances when Facilities needed to bring out plows and salt — since Dec. 26, seven of which occurred in the past 31 days and accumulated more than 55 inches of snow, he said.

Calcado said the problem is not removing the snow from the ground, but where to place it.

“We’re not really built to stack it, we’re built to push it to the side,” he said. “When we [wound] up with that much snow in 31 days and no melting, it became a very difficult situation in anything more that would fall.”

Because the system is built only to clear walkways and roads instead of stacking the snow into large piles, the over whelming

amount put Facilities in a difficult the region. Thus more snow than situation, Calcado said. rain,” he said.

The large accumulation of The amount of snow the snow this winter has also unbal- Northeast receives is also related anced the budget. to fluctuations in the North “At this point in time, my best Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), a guess is we are somewhere in the pressure system spanning from neighborhood of about three Greenland to the South Azores, quarters of $1 million in snow Gerbush said. removal,” he said.

“The easiest “If this continues, way of explaining “We will handle we would have to is that the NAO work with the strongly influall of [the snow] central adminisences the storm in a way that tration to get track across the some relief, just [United the University will Eastern like every town in States],” he said.

New Jersey.”

“There are two be safe to travel.”

This year’s dif ferent modes, ANTONIO CALCADO accumulation in positive or negaFacilities and Capital Planning the Northeast is tive, and when it Vice President related to the flow tends to be negapattern of the tive, we more polar jet stream, often in the which more often than usual has Eastern [United States] see been sitting toward the south, colder temperatures and Robinson said. snowier weather.”

“Storms move along the jet Because the NAO has been and being just to our south, pro- persistently negative since late vide us with moisture while cold November through early January, air from the arctic can filter into New Jersey has experienced

snowier weather and may be getting more, he said.

“Looking at the NAO forecast, it’s supposed to drop toward the end of February, so that might suggest we may have a return to more winter weather after the next week or two weeks or so,” he said.

Although ner vous about the inclement weather, Calcado said the facilities staff would do their jobs and complete the tasks at hand regardless of the weather.

“We’ll handle anything that comes our way,” he said.

“Ever y event is different, so we plan for ever y single one differently. But we will handle all of them in a way that the University will be safe to travel the roads and … walkways.”

Despite the efforts of facilities and maintenance, people still need to use caution when traveling in bad weather, Calcado said.

“Ever ybody should remember, and I’ll caution people, be careful,” he said. “They need to take caution in slippery spots and find the best route for travel.”

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An executive dean’s lecture featuring Susan Solomon titled, “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, a senior scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is an internationally recognized leader in atmospheric science, particularly for her insights on explaining the cause of the Antarctic ozone “hole.”

Solomon’s current research focuses on issues relating to both atmospheric chemistry and climate change. Come see this dynamic presentation, which is part of the “Ecologies in the Balance” yearlong seminar to examine possible solutions to global environmental challenges.

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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 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.”

For more information please contact Susan Rosario at (732)-932-9641 or srosa@rci.rutgers.edu.

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Rutgers University Programming Association’s concert and coffeehouse committee is hosting progressive rock band, Circa Survive at 8 p.m. at the Rutgers Student Center Multipurpose Room. Tickets are on sale at the Student Activities Center from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. or online.

Student tickets cost $10, and faculty, staff, alumni and guests cost $15. Only one student ticket per RUID and all sales are final. Guests and students must be 18 years or older to attend. For more information, please visit getinvolved.rutgers.edu.

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Chi Upsilon Sigma, Lambda Sigma Upsilon, Pi Delta Psi and the Optic Orthodox Fellowship have teamed up to sponsor a blood drive, “Save a Life, Donate Blood.” It will take place in the Rutgers Student Center Multipurpose Room from 12 to 6 p.m. due to the emergency blood shortage. All donors will receive a free Tshirt and snacks. For more info, please e-mail Jared at JTamasco@nybloodcenter.org.

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The Nutrition Club will host a student-networking event and dinner 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Douglass Campus Center Lounge. Dinner will also be served. Seniors and juniors will be giving advice to first-year students and sophomores about their experiences at the University, ways to get involved and tips on classes. Interested seniors and juniors need to respond via Facebook or e-mail at rutgersnutritionclub@yahoo.com.

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PANEL: Professor speaks on situations of Egyptian youth continued from front the Middle Eastern protests broadcasted in the mainstream American press.

“Twitter had ver y little to do with it. Facebook, on the other hand, did,” said Kahlaoui, confronting the prospect of a socalled “Twitter Revolution” in Tunisia.

More than two million Tunisians use Facebook, and the largest Facebook groups boast hundreds of thousands of members, he said.

“The largest newspaper prints just 60,000 copies,” Kahlaoui said.

Arabic Assistant Professor Samah Selim, an Egypt native, told of her recent visits with friends and family in Egypt in which she repeatedly asked, “When is it going to explode?”

She described the bleak circumstances of Egyptian youth, who regularly face repression and police brutality committed by the regime.

“Since the infamous elections in 2005, the regime has constantly been arresting and torturing people who are dissenters,” Selim said.

To bolster her claim, Selim referred to as an example a video that documented police officers sodomizing a detainee with a broomstick.

The death of Khaled Said, the owner of an Egyptian Internet café, at the hands of police also sparked protests earlier this year, she said.

“We’ve all heard stories about people being thrown out of windows,” she said.

Davis also noted the economic divide between the general Egyptian public and their leaders.

“Twitter had very little to do with [the protests].

Facebook, on the other hand, did.”

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“Most Egyptians live on $2 to $3 a day, while [President Hosni] Mubarak could be worth between $40 billion and $70 billion,” Davis said.

He said the United States has unwittingly suppor ted a culture of corruption by granting millions in aid to the Mubarak regime.

Meanwhile, Assistant Professor at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Sinan Antoon, analyzed explanations of the revolt that instead pit the United States as the prime mover.

“Some have credited Obama’s Cairo speech or even the Bush Doctrine for what is happening, as if these people are stagnant and static and feel nothing, and Obama came and woke them up,” said Antoon, an Iraqi poet.

Regardless of what motivated the protests, histor y Assistant Professor Toby Jones said the protestors face a long and probably violent road in order to move away from the rule of autocrats and toward a democratic state.

“It is not likely to be a smooth or easy process because the Army is still there and the Autocrats are still there,” he said.

Jones linked the autocratic rule in the Middle East with the rise of militar y development, charging Omar Suleiman, Mubarak’s second-in-command and a candidate for Egypt’s next strong man, as one of the most brutal men in the regime.

“A democratic outcome would be better for Tunisia,” he sad. “It would be better for Egypt, it would be better for Israel, and it would be better for America.”

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“I don’t see how it can be handled better — they’re doing the best that they can. It’s in their best interests to operate as efficiently as they can, so logically, they’d be doing the best that they can.”

“New Brunswick is terrible.

There’s still ice all over the ground. [The University] needs to cancel more classes.”

MATTHEW YANG SAS SENIOR “It’s not that bad … it’s pretty constant, you see trucks go by … at least you see people working.”

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“I do think that some things could be done better, like the moving of cars for [parking] lot cleaning …

I’ve had to go to Livingston twice this year just to move my car.”

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The inches of snow that fell in New Jersey throughout January 2011

“I think that they haven’t really been considerate of commuter students.

I think that sometimes the roads have been really bad, and I just hope no one’s been put in harm’s way.”

MARIE DI IORIO SAS SOPHOMORE “I feel like with the buses, it’s been hit or miss with me … and I know they’re utilizing smaller academy buses because of the snow, but [it’s not good that] you’re going from big buses to smaller buses.”

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Governor approves proposal for new tunnel THE ASSOCIATED PRESS UNION CITY, N.J. — Gov. Chris Christie is taking credit for a new proposal to build a second commuter rail tunnel under the Hudson River after he killed a similar project already under way.

At a town hall meeting yesterday in Union City, Christie said his decision in October to cancel the nation’s most expensive public works project spurred a far better plan.

“I said: Why don’t we do this?

Why doesn’t Amtrak build the tunnel? We were getting it stuck to us by the state of New York and the federal government,” Christie said. “And I said, ‘No, no, no. You’re not going to stick it to the state of New Jersey while I’m governor — no chance.’”

On Monday, Amtrak and New Jersey’s two U.S. senators announced a new proposal, called the Gateway Project, to build a new tunnel under the Hudson River as an alternative to the Access to the Region’s Core plan.

Christie, a Republican getting national attention for his budgetcutting ways, canceled the project Oct. 27 because he said the state would be on the hook for nearly all cost-overruns, which his administration estimated at up to $5 billion on top of the $8.7 billion original price tag.

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Although not involved with the plan, Gov. Chris Christie said in a town hall meeting yesterday in Union City his cancellation of the Access to the Region’s Core plan inspired the proposed Gateway Project.

The federal government and Por t Authority of New York and New Jersey each contributed $3 billion to the project, while New Jersey’s share was $2.7 billion. The state and Por t Authority were responsible for overruns.

The new project is estimated to cost $13.5 billion — or roughly $5 billion more than ARC tunnel.

“They told me I made up the cost overruns,” Christie said. “As the plans become more clear, if they want New Jersey to become a partner with New York, with the

federal government, I’ll consider a fair deal for New Jersey.”

At the time, it was the most expensive public works project in the country.

The tunnel was intended to double the capacity for trains traveling between New York City

and New Jersey, routes that are now close to capacity and frequently delayed.

The new tunnel plan, which Christie was not involved with, would follow the same basic 9mile path from Secaucus to New York that had been proposed for the other tunnel and would open in 2020, two years later than the scrapped ARC tunnel.

There are significant differences in the projects.

Unlike the ARC project, Amtrak would also have use of the tunnels, so it would not increase capacity as much for NJ Transit riders but would allow for high-speed trains to run in it.

The ARC tunnel would have ended north of New York’s Penn Station, which serves Amtrak in addition to Long Island Rail Road and NJ Transit commuter trains. The proposed one would connect directly to new tracks at Penn Station rather than end far beneath the Macy’s store at West 34th Street.

There is not funding in place yet for the new proposal, although Amtrak has committed to spending $50 million on a preliminar y engineering and design study.

The project could be a cheaper choice for New Jersey in the long run because of partnerships with Amtrak and other states.

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SAY STATE ELECTRIC RATES TO DECREASE TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey residents will see lower electric bills this summer.

Utility regulators say the rate decreases will range from three to five percent, depending on the power company.

Average monthly bills will be reduced by $4.27 to $5.63.

The amounts were determined after the annual auction for basic generation ser vice recently conducted by the state Board of Public Utilities.

The BPU announced the results on Wednesday.

The new rates will be effective June 1 for customers of Atlantic City Electric, Jersey Central Power & Light, PSE&G and Rockland Electric.

Of ficials attribute the lower rates to favorable market conditions.

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CAMDEN, N.J. — The Camden City Council has to again star t tr ying to figure out how to balance the city budget after rejecting a plan Tuesday that could have brought back about 60 laid-of f police and firefighters but also would have raised proper ty taxes 23 percent.

The city outside Philadelphia is among the nation’s poorest and most crime-ridden. It has been in a fiscal crisis for decades, but it has deepened as tax revenue has declined and the state has cut its aid.

Last month, the city laid off nearly 400 city employees, about one-fourth of all its workers. The cuts were deepest in the police department, which lost nearly half its officers, and the fire department, which lost one-third of its firefighters.

The 23 percent property tax increase that Mayor Dana Redd proposed would have been the first in the city in nearly a decade. The cost would have

been about $160 per year for the average homeowner.

That was not an easy sell in a place where residents are fuming about how they are already getting less for what they pay.

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We blame the mayor, we blame council, but where does this blame actually go?”

ROBERT MCGEE Camden Resident

city’s first proper ty value reassessments in 18 years, which will result in higher taxes for some homeowners — and lower bills for others.

More than 150 people showed up to Tuesday’s council meeting, some of them holding bright yellow signs with hand-lettered messages like, “Mayor stop stepping on me,”

the Philadelphia Inquirer and Courier-Post of Cher r y Hill repor ted.

Robert McGee, a 57-year-old lifelong Camden resident, said he has had enough of the fighting.

“This year, I will be leaving this city,” he said. “I’m tired of the fight. We blame the mayor, we blame council, but where does this blame actually go?”

The City Council sided with the angry residents and voted down the increase by a 6-to-1 vote.

Now, the council and the administration are looking for a new way to balance the budget without such a big tax increase.

The city also received some help Wednesday when it was awarded a federal grant of $5.1 million for firefighters. It was not immediately clear how many firefighters might be able to be rehired with the money.

One complication is that the city applied for the money to hire additional firefighters.

It now needs to determine whether it can use the money to rehire some that were laid off.

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esperate times call for desperate measures, as the old adage goes. Belgian Sen. Marleen Temmerman seems to agree. In an attempt to expedite the process of forming a Belgian government — the country has been without one for 241 days at this point — Temmerman has suggested the spouses of those involved in the negotiations go on strike. To be more specific, Temmerman is suggesting a sex strike. That is, she is asking the spouses of those involved withhold sex from their significant others until a solution is reached and a government is formed. Temmerman hopes that doing so will spur the negotiators to reach a resolution faster. While it is a pretty hilarious idea, it could actually end up being pretty effective. Is there any better carrot to hold in front of a person than potential sexual gratification?

The sex drive is perhaps the most universal of all human urges.

Regardless of race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, creed or political affiliation, pretty much every one wants to have sex — and overcome any obstacle that stands in their way of having it. What better way to tackle the problem of creating a government than promising politicians they will be able to satisfy their urges once they have done just that? The only problem is making sure the people involved in the strike will keep their promise to abstain. This is a chance for these spouses and significant others to become true patriots. All they have to do is renounce sex for a little while and, voila — they become heroes of Belgium.

Perhaps Temmerman’s proposed strike should rest on even stricter terms. They could strike until the best possible government is created.

This would prevent the negotiators from throwing together a slapdash government just to be rewarded. Maybe Belgium’s resulting government will end up being the best government the world has ever seen?

That could just be hyperbole, but, really, one never knows.

A sex strike may be an incredibly unconventional solution to a serious problem but that does not mean it should not be taken seriously.

Belgium needs a government. There is no doubt about that. Why not try to tackle the issue from every available angle? Besides, it is refreshing to see a politician from any country come up with a creative solution to a problem, rather than merely traverse the same tired avenues, which often result in slight change, if any.

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hat is more important — enforcing a zero-tolerance drug policy or ensuring the safety of those who decide to ingest illicit substances regardless of their illegality? That is the question raised by a flier released by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, which is not the average piece of anti-drug propaganda.

Rather than staunchly denounce the use of Ecstasy, the flier offers tips for how to safely consume the drug. Many have criticized these fliers, and department officials have responded that they will be “immediately revising” the flier as a result, but perhaps the LA County Department of Public Health had its heart in the right place. There is nothing wrong with trying to save lives under any circumstances.

People are going to take drugs like Ecstasy no matter what the law says about them. While some people may heed the calls of the various anti-drug campaigns in existence, many others will disregard them. No one would contest that illicit drug use is simply a fact of life. Why not provide users with safety tips?

For example, look at the failings of abstinence-only sex education.

Rather than instruct teenagers on how to safely engage in sexual conduct, these programs admonish them to stay away from it all together. The results of such programs? Students educated this way have less information about or access to contraception so that, when they do engage in sexual intercourse, and many of them will, their chances of pregnancy or contracting an STD are significantly higher. Students who are educated about contraception, on the other hand, tend to have safer sex.

The same idea applies to the LA County Department of Public Health’s fliers. Armed with the knowledge of how to safely take Ecstasy, far fewer people will run the chance of dying as a result of taking the drug. Regardless of whether or not a person decides to take Ecstasy, they are still a human being — and every human being has the right to live. A government agency should help those human beings live as safely as possible.

County Supervisor Michael Antonovich said, “Counseling young people on the use of the illegal drug Ecstasy is stupid and contrary to Los Angeles County’s zero-tolerance policy on drugs.” The only thing more stupid than counseling the youth on how to safely take Ecstasy is leaving them in the dark — thus increasing the chances that they’ll make a fatal mistake. Sure, people should be abstaining from Ecstasy altogether, but let’s not forget that we are talking about human beings here — a species that has never been renowned for its ability to always make the right decision.

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I am not alone in this sentiment.

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That is to say, I have my fair share of detractors.

It is important, however, to reflect on why the Critics of my writing have said, for example, that I _______ (event) ever happened in the first place and lack _______ (quality), which I maintain is absolutehow the American press depicted it. In recent years, ly _______ (true/false). They have also said I am an countless _______ (group of people) have been pubopportunist, that my writing benefits from the mislicly and unsympathetically engaging in _______ fortunes of others. To this I can only say one thing: (noun with -ism). Just like Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi’s when life hands you lemons, make _______ (noun). novel, “A Shore Thing,” this is both _______ (adjective) and _______ (adjective) for American culture, Joe Hernandez is a School of Arts and Sciences but not many people see it this way. In fact, few peosenior majoring in English and Spanish. His column ple cared at all about the issue until recently. To me, “The Soapbox,” runs on alternate Thursdays. this is a perfect example of the _______ (state of

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n celebration of Valentine’s Day, the members of the Rutgers University ONE Chapter are going to reveal our secret crush. I mean, if you can’t say it on Valentine’s Day, when can you, right? The object of our affection isn’t so much a person per se, but rather an instrument that could save four million lives in five years: childhood vaccines.

We’ll admit, this is not a conventional crush, but you can’t help what you love. These inexpensive tools can help us to stop pneumonia and diarrhea — the top two killers of kids under five years of age. Not exactly swoonworthy, but while we often do not think twice about getting vaccinated in this countr y, nearly three million children a year die unnecessar y in the developing world due to lack of access to these life-saving tools — that is more than the lives lost to malaria, “The object HIV/AIDS of our affection and tuberculosis combined. isn’t so much How do we love thee a person per se, vaccines? Let but rather us count the an instrument w a y s : Vaccines are that could save the best buy four million in public lives in five health, providing a life- years: childhood time of provaccines. ” tection, while ultimately helping to establish a foundation for more productive communities. If you are a skeptic in love, here is living proof that vaccines work: Because of vaccination programs between 2000 and 2008, measles deaths fell by 92 percent in Africa.

We need your help in making this a lasting love connection. Ask your classmates, professors, friends — or even your secret Valentine’s Day love — to urge our government to fund these two new vaccines and secure brighter futures for millions of children. Also, be sure to look out for our events this semester.

Are you ready to fall head over heels for vaccines? Add your voice at our school’s webpage at ONE.org/campus and experience the passion for yourself. What could be more romantic than saving lives?

William Tsang is a School of Ar ts and Science senior double majoring in psychology and cognitive sciences.

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American pieced together a 90 run to go up by three with wins at 141, 149 and 157 pounds.

At 141 pounds, junior Trevor Melde was unable to upset No. 13 Matt Mariacher, as the two wrestled an even bout throughout. In the end, Mariacher’s quickness did not enable Melde to put two moves together to earn a takedown and American took the bout, 3-1.

The Eagles pulled even as Ganbayar Sanjaa upset sophomore Mario Mason in a battle of two ranked opponents at 149 pounds. Sanjaa controlled the match from the get-go and Mason was unable to utilize the quickness that propelled him to No. 4 in the rankings.

“Mario has really gutted it out for us,” Goodale said. “He’s been walking around with walking pneumonia, and he hasn’t been on the mat for 10 days. We didn’t want to wrestle him, but we thought he was still our best bet. He just didn’t have it.”

American took the lead behind its star grappler, Steve Fittery, No. 1 in the nation at 157

pounds. But senior Dar yl Cocozzo sent a message that he was not going to go down without a fight by scoring a takedown in the bout’s opening seconds.

But Fittery proved to be too much down the stretch and Cocozzo fell, 6-3.

“I thought Daryl gave us a spark early,” Goodale said. “And what goes unnoticed is guys like Cocozzo … going out there and riding people out in the third period. It’s not a win, but those little things are what makes this team who we are.”

But American’s lead was short lived, as Scott Winston earned a third period takedown to defeat Patrick Graham by a 41 decision.

The dual kicked of f with Rutgers jumping out to an early 6-0 lead fueled by an upset at 125 pounds.

Sophomore Joe Langel continued his impressive wrestling in front of a home crowd and earned a 7-4 decision over No. 20 Nick Arujau.

Langel put a reversal and near fall points together to get the Barn rocking early on. The Howell, N.J., native is now 15-6 on the year.

Junior Mike DeMarco followed up Langel’s performance with 7-5 decision of his own over Kevin Tao. DeMarco’s record now stands at 15-12 and the Lyndhurst, N.J., native moved to 9-9 in dual-match action.

“Nobody, including you guys, would have picked Mike DeMarco to win a match for us, but that’s about as big of a win as we’ve had all year,” Goodale said.

“That’s huge for us and again, you never know who is going to step up for us.”

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Junior Mike DeMarco evened his dual-match record at 9-9 last night with a critical 7-5 victory at 133 pounds over American’s Kevin Tao. The decision gave Rutgers an early 6-0 advantage.

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Students stormed the court for the first time in the Mike Rice era after the Scarlet Knights’ win.

MIRACLE: Mitchell hits winning foul shot to start frenzy continued from back denial position. It was like perfect timing.”

Mitchell strolled to the free throw line after an official timeout, took the ball from the referee and promptly sunk the gamewinning point with ease.

The basket sent the RAC faithful, on its feet for nearly the entire second half, into its final frenzy before the Wildcats’ inbounds attempt sailed out of bounds and out of harm’s way.

For Mitchell, the converted free throw was as easy as it looked.

“I just had to calm down, relax and breathe,” Mitchell said. “Coach asked me if I wanted to sit down. I’m in the gym until 12 to 1 o’clock in the morning and I just said, ‘Hey, it’s just another night in the gym.

Nobody’s here. The lights are off.’ I just stepped up like a senior should and knocked down the free throw.”

But before Mitchell’s heroics could come to fruition, the Knights had to overcome a 10point disadvantage with just under three minutes remaining.

A pair of free throws shrunk Rutgers’ deficit, but a loose ball rebound on a dive by sophomore Dane Miller gave the Knights another possession with just under two minutes to play.

Mitchell and Beatty nailed a pair of 3-pointers moments later before Rutgers scratched and clawed to

“I just said, ‘Hey, it’s just another night in the gym. Nobody’s here. The lights are off.’ I just stepped up like a senior.”

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foul and preserve the clock.

“It goes to show you how talented they are,” said Rice, who earned his first victory over a ranked opponent in just 24 games on a Rutgers sideline. “And the single-most thing we’ve improved upon this season as a program is the toughness and resolve that this team has. It wasn’t very pretty for a lot of the night, but again, they did enough apparently.”

Villanova freshman James Bell knocked down a pair of free throws to give the Wildcats a four-point lead at 72-68, but Miller converted his now-patented tip-in — reminiscent of the one he earned in an upset of then-No. 7 Georgetown a year ago — to draw Rutgers within two.

But Bell responded with a contested 3-pointer in traffic to give ’Nova a two-possession lead with only 11 seconds remaining in the game.

Beatty answered the 3-pointer with a bank of his own beyond the arc — one that took only four seconds off the clock.

The Knights fouled Fisher on the next in-bounds, setting up a series of events that could potentially define the rest of a career for Mitchell and the rest of a season for Rutgers.

“We’ve been believing,” said Mitchell, who exalted his fourpoint play on the scorer’s table after the final buzzer sounded, engulfed by a student section that charged the court in awe.

“The whole Rutgers community kind of adopted that word. We just come with that mentality ever y day. Coach has that ‘never quit’ mentality. We’re never going to quit — no matter what.”

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Senior forward Jonathan Mitchell’s 25 points and game-winning free throw served as the catalyst for the Knights’ 10-point comeback against the Wildcats in the game’s final three minutes.

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Mitchell’s foul shot sparks celebration at RAC

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Senior forward Jonathan Mitchell scored a game-high 25 points, none bigger than a game-winning foul shot with .8 seconds left.

Jonathan Mitchell treated it like just another night in the gym. He closed his eyes, picKNIGHT tured an NOTEBOOK e m p t y L o u i s Brown Athletic Center and drilled a free throw.

When he opened them, a sea of scarlet enveloped him in the first storming of the court under head coach Mike Rice.

“It’s amazing. I can’t describe it,” Mitchell said. “I’ve never been in a situation like this before. On the Big East stage, you can go on forever.”

Mitchell, a former NCAA champion with Florida, has plenty of experience with fans rushing the court — but never in a victor y.

“When I was at Florida, I was always on the other end because we used to lose,” Mitchell said.

“That was the first [on the other side] I’ve ever been a part of. It was great. Our whole Rutgers community is doing a great job of supporting us this year.”

For the freshmen players, yesterday was the liveliest home crowd they’ve seen.

“We just didn’t want to let our fans down,” said freshman Mike Poole. “We play so hard.

We practice so hard and our fans deser ved this win. I knew [Mitchell] was going to make it, but I had no idea the fans would rush. That was crazy. I

got bumped by some random guy and realized it was a fan, then like two more. Then it was just a party.”

In beating No. 9 Villanova, the entire Scarlet Knight squad gave credit to the 6,892 fans at the RAC that stormed the court after the loss.

“The last five minutes the building was electric,” Rice said. “That’s the way the RAC should be. That’s the way the

“I got bumped by some random guy and realized it was a fan, then like two more. Then it was just a party.”

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RAC is going to be. Hopefully it accelerates people fearing the RAC.” Mitchell’s 25 points marked a career-high for the senior, who according to Rice, is “stepping up at the end of his career like no other.”

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guard James Beatty, was on the other end of the winning four-point play for the Scarlet Knights.

Beatty responded from a brutal first half with 12 second-half points on 4-of-6 shooting and the biggest pass of the night.

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improbable final minute when he drilled a 3-pointer with 1:34 on the clock to cut the Wildcat lead to two points from 10 less than a minute prior.

“I was going crazy like I made the shot,” Beatty said.

“We work so hard. Ever y day, we come in and we fight and get after each other and we never quit … and tonight we finally didn’t beat ourselves.”

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“You could just tell that we weren’t going to give up,” Beatty said. “The fans were in it the whole game. They never quit on us. The student section was pretty much sold-out. I’m ver y thankful for the fans who came out and supported us this whole entire season. They’ve been faithful to us.”

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ends a four-game skid and kept the team from dropping to .500 for the first time since November.

Rutgers has a chance for back-toback Big East wins and a Seton Hall sweep Saturday at 7 p.m at the RAC. “I hope this gets the guys hungr y for more,” Mitchell said.

“After tonight, we [begin] preparation for Seton Hall. We have to enjoy tonight the right way — the safe way — but tomorrow, we’re right back to work.”

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Pitt remains at top without Gibbs

BY JOSH BAKAN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Big East prides itself with seven teams in the Associated Press rankings.

With BASKETBALL less than a month u n t i l MID-WEEK REPORT March Madness, eight Big East teams are making a name for themselves, with Pittsburgh firmly established at the top of the conference standings.

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1.) Pittsburgh (22-2, 10-1) — The No. 4 Panthers are still rolling even without junior guard Ashton Gibbs, their leading scorer.

Pittsburgh beat West Virginia, 71-66, in Morgantown, W. Va., on Saturday, making up for the absence of Gibbs with a 48-point second half.

The Panthers will have to compete without Gibbs again on Saturday, when they head to The Pavilion to do battle with Villanova.

2.) Notre Dame (19-4, 8-3) —

Senior Ben Hansbrough has done everything in his power to live up to the legacy of his brother Tyler, who won a national championship in 2009 at North Carolina.

Under the guard’s leadership, the No. 8 Fighting Irish are as much of a contender as any team in the nation with Hansbrough as an AllAmerican candidate.

Notre Dame has won five in a row, with its most recent win coming against Rutgers, 76-69, at the Joyce Center.

3.) Villanova (19-4, 7-3) — After a 17-1 start, the No. 9 Wildcats suffered a cold streak, losing three of four.

But ’Nova is hanging in there with consecutive wins against Marquette and West Virginia before arriving in Piscataway. The senior backcourt tandem of Corey Fisher and Corey Stokes leads the Wildcats, but recently youth stepped up under head coach Jay Wright.

4.) Georgetown (20-4, 7-4) — The No. 11 Hoyas quietly won six straight coming into a Wednesday night showdown at

Syracuse in the Carrier Dome.

Despite a 43-point performance from Providence’s Marshon Brooks, Georgetown hung on to win, 83-81, on Saturday at home.

The conference leader in field goal shooting at 50 percent, Georgetown faces Marquette on Sunday in Washington, D.C. 5.) Syracuse (20-4, 7-4) — The No. 12 Orange came out of their slump with a win over the No. 10 Huskies followed by a 72-49 win on Saturday over South Florida.

Syracuse held UConn junior Kemba Walker to eight points, the lowest output of the year for the Naismith Award candidate.

6.) Louisville (18-5, 7-3) — In a conference where star power is not hard to find, the Cardinals continue to earn results with depth, as eight scorers average six points or more.

Coach Rick Pitino utilized his depth well, coaching the Cardinals to the top of the Big East in point differential.

The Cardinals barely got by host DePaul, 61-57, on Saturday and faced an even bigger obstacle last night, when they took on Notre Dame.

7.) Connecticut (18-4, 6-4) — The No. 10 Huskies scratched and clawed their way past Seton Hall on Saturday in Newark, N.J., after losing back-to-back contests.

Conference Player of the Year candidate Walker continues to lead the way under head coach Jim Calhoun, but the Big East is starting to catch up to the dynamic New York City guard.

UConn can get back to its winning ways under the brightest lights at Madison Square Garden tonight against St. John’s.

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Junior guard Ashton Gibbs averages a team-high 16.3 points per game for Pittsburgh, but could miss up to two weeks with injury.

8.) West Virginia (15-8, 6-5) — The Mountaineers suffered a single-digit loss to Pitt at home on Monday, but continue to play tough defense under head coach Bob Huggins.

Senior Casey Mitchell struggled in his return to the team after being suspended, leaving the scoring onus on junior forward Kevin Jones.

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Colombian balances new school, country to excel for RU

BY JOSH GLATT CORRESPONDENT

For any incoming freshman, college life offers a series of challenges before one feels fully accliGYMNASTICS mated.

For Luisa Leal-Restrepo, the transition has been harder than that of her average classmate.

In addition to being a 17year-old in a new environment, Leal-Restrepo is an emerging star for the Rutgers gymnastics team with the pressure of Olympic hopes of her own.

Leal-Restrepo was born in Colombia and only lived in the United States for two years.

Despite her lack of familiarity with her surroundings, LealRestrepo has taken to her new environment well.

Her connection to her new school and the Garden State is aided by the fact that LealRestrepo always had Rutgers at the top of her list of schools.

“I’ve always wanted to come to Rutgers. It’s a great school all around,” Leal-Restrepo said.

In her first semester at Rutgers, Leal-Restrepo pulled double duty, taking a 16-credit workload and training privately for the Olympics as well as with the Scarlet Knights.

Despite all these responsibilities, Leal-Restrepo managed to balance her schedule.

“I love the girls on the team, I love the academics, and I love the campus. I’m really happy here.” Leal-Restrepo said. “The only problem is that I miss my family, but I get to talk to them all the time.”

With her family still living in her home countr y, her coaches recognize their responsibilities extend beyond the gymnastics mat.

“I’m like her mother away from home now,” said head coach Chr ystal CholletNor ton. “I’m there for her for anything. Then again, I do that for all the girls, especially freshmen. Her mother trusted me and her coach, Juan [Agudelo], with her. Juan and I work hand and hand with her.”

Over the past few meets, Leal-Restrepo began to establish herself as one of the most outstanding per formers on the team.

At Connecticut on Sunday, Leal-Restrepo finished first in vault, floor exercise and bars. Her 38.775 was enough to place first in all-around competition. This type of per formance is the norm for her, as she finished in the top three in all-around competition in two of her past three meets and regularly sets new career highs in multiple events.

While Leal-Restrepo’s performance is not unexpected, Chollet-Nor ton is happy to see her freshman per form up to her potential.

“She is going to be one of the top athletes at the [East Athletic Gymnastics League] Championships,” CholletNor ton said. “She is working really hard in the gym and doing ever ything she can to get better.”

Going for ward, LealRestrepo is focused on accomplishing all of her goals, including guiding Rutgers to new heights and making it to the Olympics.

“We want to help her achieve her dream of the Olympics,” Chollet-Nor ton said. “Even with all her other training though, she is fully committed to the team.”

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Freshman Luisa Leal-Restrepo trains for team competition with the Knights and personally with Juan Agudelo as she attempts to qualify for the Olympics for her native Colombia.

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Freshman looks to shave seconds, qualify

BY PATRICK LANNI CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Rachel Leeke is no stranger to the 400-meter dash.

The freshman from Brooklyn h a s WOMEN’S TRACK c h a l lenged RUTGERS AT herself VALENTINE’S INVITE in the TODAY, 1 P.M. event since her freshman year of high school.

Olympians Jeremy Wariner and Sanya Richards said running the 400-meter dash is a true test of speed and endurance. Leeke agrees that the 400-meter tests those qualities of an athlete, but also tests a runner’s strength.

Her high school success at Medgar Evers College Prep culminated in the spring of her senior year, when she placed 13th at New Balance Outdoor Nationals — a meet featuring some of the best high school runners in the nation.

Leeke hit her personal best time earlier that season, running a 57.63 at the 43rd Glenn D. Loucks Games.

In a meet that featured some of the metropolitan area’s fastest runners, Leeke placed seventh.

Upon joining the Rutgers women’s track team, Leeke faced a new test. Outside of speed and strength training, Leeke was asked to take on the 500-meter dash.

“I was a little blindsided,” she said. “I felt okay about it, though, because I knew running anything above 400 meters would only make my 400 stronger in the long run.”

Leeke went into the blocks for the first time as a collegiate athlete at Princeton’s Jadwin Gymnasium feeling afraid and nervous.

Nervous about her first experience in the 500-meter dash, Leeke ran like any rookie would.

Her collegiate debut was anything but stellar, but represented better things to come.

After competing in three meets in the 400-meter dash and the 4x400-meter relay, Leeke set out to test herself in the 500-meters again at the New Balance Invitational.

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he Michigan State and North Carolina men’s basketball teams plan to further their plans to play each other aboard an aircraft carrier on Veteran’s Day. The Spar tans’ athletic director announced that the matchup will take place in the San Diego Harbor and the car rier’s capacity is approximately 6,000 fans.

Former Spar tan Magic Johnson will be in attendance as a par ticipant in the game’s basketball clinic for children of the troops.

While Michigan State has struggled as of late, the No. 21 Tar Heels took on No. 5 Duke last night after beginning ACC play with a 7-1 record.

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Freshman Rachel Leeke excelled in the 400-meter dash in high school, but also runs the 500-meter for the Scarlet Knights and has one more opportunity to qualify for the Big East Championships.

At the Armor y Track and Leeke’s top priority now is to pick competing in an individual Field Center in the Bronx, Leeke up the Big East qualifying time this event makes you feel a lot approached the blocks a bit weekend at the Valentine’s better about yourself,” said more confidently. Knowing what Invitational at Boston University. Leeke. “I just want to put to expect in her second outing, Leeke is already set to compete on myself out there and give it all Leeke ran a smarter race and the Scarlet Knights’ 4x400-meter I’ve got in the 500 and the results were apparent. relay team in two weeks at the Big become a better athlete.”

Placing 14th overall, Leeke East Championships in Akron, Ohio.

Leeke has shown promise in finished third among Big East “I feel real confident Rachel will her first collegiate season. competitors. Running a time of get the time at Boston,” said head Adjusting to a new race is difficult 1:17.46, Leeke fell just shy of the coach James Robinson. “Now its for any track athlete, but making Big East qualifying time of 1:17.24. about race strategy. She’s been that switch in a rookie season “I didn’t know it was so slow between 200 and 300 meters makes it even more difficult. close,” said Leeke. “I thought and will need to pick up her pace.”

Leeke will approach the the qualifying time was 1:16, so As for the future, Leeke is blocks even more confidently in I missed it by a second, but unsure about her goals, her third outing in the 500-meter when I found out it was so close, but wants to give it her all. dash and will look to shave off the I was even more mad because “There is a lot more pride in 0.022 seconds needed to qualify it was basically in reach.” doing your own work and so for the Big East Championship.

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the NFL, the Dallas Cowboys and owner Jerr y Jones yesterday, claiming they were deceived at the Super Bowl, where about 400 fans had to give up their seats.

The NFL offered money, tickets, merchandise and other perks to the disgruntled fans, but it could not stop the lawsuit.

Michael Avenatti is representing the fans and seeking $5 million in actually damages — a number that could triple under the state’s trade law, according to Bloomberg.

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practiced with just 10 men yesterday, when captain Paul Pierce sat out due to illness and was just the latest player sidelined.

Head coach Doc Rivers expects the longtime Celtic to be OK for tonight’s marquee game against the Los Angeles Lakers, but his absence in practice marks another setback.

Center Shaquille O’Neal and forward Jermaine O’Neal were also absent, but guard Delonte West did return for his first full practice since fracturing his wrist in November.

The St. Joe’s product is expected to return to game action later in the month.

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headlines by stopping his car to help a stranded family whose car broke down on the side of an English road.

Paul Long, who was driving his two children to school yesterday morning, said countless cars ignored him before Beckham pulled over to offer assistance.

The England internationalist is training with Tottenham until Feb. 22 and will return to the Los Angeles Galaxy for the MLS season.

NFL OWNERS AND representatives for the NFL Players’ Association met yesterday at an undisclosed location in Washington D.C. to discuss the collective bargaining agreement.

Another meeting is scheduled for this morning as the sides attempt to come to terms and avoid a potential lockout for the approaching season.

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Sophomore quarterback Tom Savage will visit Arizona later this month as he searches for a home after leaving Rutgers.

Although Rutgers head football coach Greg Schiano allowed quar terback Tom Savage FOOTBALL to talk to Miami about a potential transfer, it appears that door may have closed.

Former Michigan quar terback Tate Forcier announced his decision to transfer to Miami.

Forcier also considered Kansas State, Washington, Arizona and Montana before settling on the Hurricanes.

“Miami had the best oppor tunity,” Forcier told ESPN. “There is so much positive energy around this program and I really want to be a part of it. I love these coaches and feel like they are the right guys for me. I had a great visit and I really want to be a par t of the rebirth at Miami.”

Savage included Miami on a list of 25 schools he wanted

to consider transferring to, but Schiano initially vetoed the Hurricanes as an option.

After an appeals committee upheld the coach’s decision, Schiano spoke fur ther with Savage and decided to

TATE FORCIER allow the sophomore to contact Miami about a transfer.

Now, the position is crowded with new Hurricanes head coach and former Temple head man Al Golden welcoming Forcier to Coral Gables, Fla. Both Forcier and Savage star ted as true freshmen

at Michigan and Rutgers, respectively, but were replaced last season.

Forcier threw for 2,050 yards and 13 touchdowns that season, and Savage offered similar numbers. Savage set Big East true freshman records with his 2,211 yards and 14 scores.

The 6-foot-1, 192-pound Forcier lost his spot in favor of early Heisman Trophy candidate Denard Robinson, while freshman Chas Dodd surpassed Savage on the depth chart.

Arizona is also at least one of the options for Savage, who will visit the Tucson, Ariz., campus later this month, according to TucsonCitizen.com.

Schiano previously said Savage would be welcomed back at Rutgers, should he decide not to transfer, but admitted in an interview with Rivals.com that scenario is unlikely.

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Senior Kory Kelly is the leading returning points producer this season for the Rutgers men’s lacrosse team after he finished third on the team last season.

The South Brunswick product scored 19 goals and tallied five assists while starting 11 of the Scarlet Knights’ 13 games.

Returning attack corps shows promise for RU

BY VINNIE MANCUSO STAFF WRITER

Lacrosse is a game where any team can win at any time, and one MEN’S LACROSSE shot can m e a n RUTGERS AT the difHOFSTRA fer ence SAT., SCRIMMAGE between victor y and crushing defeat.

No one knows that better than Rutgers head men’s lacrosse coach Jim Stagnitta.

“Like any other game where you shoot the ball and have a goalie, sometimes you can outplay people and not come out on the positive side,” the ninth-year coach said. “[Last year] was one of those years where on a number of occasions a goal here, a goal there would have made a dif ference.”

Stagnitta and the squad hope those goals will come this year, as the Scarlet Knights have been especially focused on improving last year’s 6-8 record with aggressive scoring and finishing plays.

“We have to be more consistent in the goal, honestly,” Stagnitta said. “We’ve been very athletic — big, strong, able to go out on the field and compete with just about anyone. But I don’t know if our lacrosse IQ was at a level where, when it came down the stretch, we were able to take advantage of situations.”

After losing a number of key contributors to graduation last season, Rutgers features a well-balanced squad with both talented newcomers and experienced veterans.

Up front, Rutgers is looking at one of the most talented groups of attackmen in years.

Led by retur ning senior and leading scorer Kor y Kelly, sophomores Duncan Clancy and Kevin Hover, along with redshir t freshmen Matthew and Scott Klimchak, the

JIM STAGNITTA Knights have a young, but aggressive, attacking unit.

“Our attack group as a whole is probably the most improved part of our team,” Stagnitta said. “We just have a higher quality of player and

depth there then we had. I think those guys are certainly going to make an impact and make us a better team — less predictable, more well-rounded.”

A counterbalance to the team’s young, hungry offense is its midfield and defensive positions, which are loaded with experience.

Junior midfielders Mike Diehl and Will Mangan are both three-year starters, while team captain and four-year starter Brian Shemesh bolsters the defense along with junior Jacob Fradkin, who last year led the team in caused turnovers.

“People are always saying, ‘You have to be able to save the ball, you have to win face-offs, you have to be able to finish,’” Stagnitta said. “Our attackmen are as good as finishers as we’ve had in a while. We can win face-offs and we have good experience on the defensive end.”

The Knights will need to play consistently all year if they want to make an NCAA Tournament appearance.

After one preseason scrimmage on Saturday against Hofstra, the team launches into their highly competitive season.

Four teams that made it to the Tournament last year — Syracuse, Army, Princeton and national runner-up Notre Dame — appear on Rutgers’ schedule as well as a matchup with Big East rival St. Johns at the New Meadowlands Stadium.

“We’re going to take this one day at a time,” Stagnitta said. “We’re not going to look ahead. We’re dealing with every game as a single entity.”

The method of taking its time and focusing on finishing may prove beneficial for Rutgers, because the difference between defeat and glor y could be one shot.

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‘MIRACLE OF TWO MINUTES’ Mitchell caps Rutgers rally from 10 down in final two minutes, earning Rice’s signature win over No. 9 Villanova at RAC

BY TYLER BARTO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

The Rutgers men’s basketball team spent each of its past four Big East games searching for answers to its close losses and its inability to finish off marquee opponents.

The Scarlet Knights experienced the same underdog feeling for 38 minutes last night against No. 9 Villanova, which wrote the same script the Knights had seen throughout the conference season — a 10point lead and a presumably sealed fate.

But after a loose ball rebound, a hardearned tip-in, a quartet of 3-pointers, a missed free throw and a prayer by senior forward Jonathan Mitchell, Rutgers finally received a sense of validation by way of a dramatic 77-76 victory over ’Nova at the Louis Brown Athletic Center.

“Like coach [Mike Rice] said, we’ve been in this situation and I always told myself I always wanted to take the last shot,” said Mitchell, whose 25 points was a career-high, but whose four-point play with 0.8 seconds left was inextricably the moment of his career. “I always want the game on my shoulders and [James Beatty] did a great job of separating on the screen and kicked it back to me. And I just let it fly.”

After Wildcats senior Corey Fisher missed one of two free throws to keep the contest at a one-possession game with six seconds left, Beatty — presumably the Knights’ (13-11, 4-9) first option to shoot — brought the ball up the floor.

But Villanova (19-5, 7-4) contained the senior point guard off of Mitchell’s screen, leaving Beatty with just one viable option: pass the ball to Mitchell on the perimeter.

Mitchell took the feed from Beatty and without hesitation launched the secondbiggest shot of his playing career. The biggest shot followed without any time runoff — Fisher was called for a shooting foul on Mitchell’s release.

Mitchell later termed the series of events “the miracle of two minutes.” “[Fisher] was in the denial position,” said Villanova head coach Jay Wright, who lost his first contest against Rice in three close meetings. “[Mitchell] caught the ball and [Fisher’s] hand came up through the

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Students surround first-year head coach Mike Rice after storming the court in celebration of the Scarlet Knights’ improbable come-from-behind victory over No. 9 Villanova last night at the Louis Brown Athletic Center.

Rutgers rallies with major decision, pin to top American

BY A.J. JANKOWSKI ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

Midway through its match with American, the Rutgers wrestling team found itself in a precarious position — losing. Not only were WRESTLING the No. 7 Scarlet AMERICAN 15 Knights trailing, but they were down RUTGERS 19 to a team ranked below them.

But the Knights proved why they belong in the top 10, erasing the three-point deficit and winning the bout, 19-15.

“This is Division I wrestling,” said head coach Scott Goodale, whose team has now won 16 straight. “We can wrestle this one tomorrow, and it would be totally different.

It’s somebody new stepping up every night.”

The teams split the bouts as each squad won five, but bonus points proved to be the deciding factor with Rutgers (20-1) earning a major decision at 174 pounds and an

electrifying pin at 184 pounds courtesy of senior Alex Caruso and sophomore Dan Rinaldi, respectively.

“The coaches talked to me before the match and told me that ’74 and ’84 could be deciding factors,” Caruso said. “I knew I had a job to do. Not just win but get bonus points too. They were expecting four [points] out of me and I got four.”

Rinaldi brought the house down and the College Avenue Gym to its feet when he pinned Thomas Barreiro. The Lodi, N.J., native put on a takedown clinic for the first period before getting Barreiro flat on his back midway through the second.

“I knew it was going to be a close match,” Rinaldi said. “I just wanted to go out and get bonus points to help the team. It worked out well.”

Caruso put Rutgers ahead for good minutes early by thoroughly dominating Tanner Shaffer for seven minutes to earn the 14-5

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KEITH FREEMAN

Sophomore Joe Langel beat another top wrestler last night in 20th-ranked Nick Arujau, taking a 7-4 decision to start the match with a victory at 125 pounds.