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The Rutgers men’s basketball team fell, 69-64, on Saturday to rival Seton Hall, despite a team-high 24 points from senior forward Jonathan Mitchell.
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U. unites schools at graduation BY AMY ROWE ACTING ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
For the first time, a University commencement ceremony that retains old and begins new traditions will be held May 15 in Rutgers Stadium on Busch campus. The 245th ceremony will mark the first time a full class from the School of Arts and Sciences will graduate. And with graduating classes from all of the other schools present, the stadium can accommodate everyone, University Secretary Leslie Fehrenbach said. The Student Commencement Review Committee, made of students from different University schools and classes, will make decisions about music and traditions for the ceremony, Fehrenbach said. “We deal with small issues, to what song plays when President [Richard L.] McCormick announces we’ve graduated,” said School of Arts and Sciences senior Ariel Bucher, a committee member. “We’re trying to get a lot of student input. Anyone who wants to give feedback is able to.” One concern the committee is working on is keeping old commencement traditions, committee member Zaid Abuhouran said. “We want to keep the old Rutgers College tradition of breaking the clay pipes in front of Old Queens,” said Abuhouran, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences junior. “But we also want to change things. We’re helping decide what aspects of graduation affect students most.” When the dean of each school announces a graduating class at commencement, every school will do something different to recognize their graduation, Abuhouran said. “Maybe one school will use noisemakers or clappers,” he said. “We thought [the School
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STOMP, an international dance troupe that uses everyday items as part of its rhythmic production, performs at the State Theatre on Livingston Avenue this past weekend, drawing in an audience throughout the state of all different ages.
Dance troupe stomps into New Brunswick BY ANASTASIA MILLICKER STAFF WRITER
International dance troupe STOMP brought not only brooms, inner tubes and newspaper percussion but also a full house as they pounded the stage this past weekend at the State Theatre. Using a mixture of household items such as garbage cans, lighters and kitchen sinks, STOMP created a defining percussion production, a “rhythmical prodigy,” rehearsal director and actor John Sawicki said. “We make music out of everyday objects and really everything around us is always making music,” he said. Audience members usually get an idea of the show through YouTube videos, Sawicki said. They then come in knowing the main aspects of drumming, but not the characters. “There are 12 people in the cast and eight on stage per night,” said actor Guido Mandozzi. “We change roles every night, so each time the audience member sees the show, it’s a different actor so it’s like a different show each time.”
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BY ARIEL NAGI The Daily Targum elected its 143rd editorial board Friday, and though the new board is not completely filled yet, the staff is full of hopes and aspirations of improving the newspaper overall, while still continuing some of Targum’s traditions.
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Composer and songwriter Harry Owens appears as the keynote speaker for the New Jersey Collegiate MENC Convention yesterday at the Nicholas Music Center on Douglass campus.
“The lighter lullaby was really amazing, not only because it used such simple objects but the coordination and the artistic genius behind the act was truly incredible,” she said. “I don’t know how they do it. They have such precision that makes it so clean and beautiful.” Siedia, a regular theatre attendee, was surprised to see such a mixture of age groups for this show after she saw parents, grandparents and children in the audience “I would recommend this show to any age group,” she said. “It brings back memories of children when they are younger banging on pots and pans and making music.” One aspect of the show that displeased some audience members was the lack of dialogue, said Renee Hiader, exempt professional at the University’s Center for Urban Policy Research. “It was an interesting show, and what the actors did was amazing but it was sort of long and I didn’t like the fact that there was no speaking,” he said. “I feel as though if there was communication the storyline would be better.”
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“STOMP,” which ran about an hour and 45 minutes long, was a high-energy spectacle relying both on actors’ skills and audience participation. During one act, audience members were encouraged to snap and clap along to the game of imitation initiated by Sawicki. “The whole aspect of audience participation was really enjoyable,” said Gia Rodriquez of Perth Amboy. “Most shows that I have been to, actors just feed off of the audience’s applause but STOMP uses the applause and reactions and incorporates them into the show.” Rodriquez said banging on a metal tube or rubber inner tube to make amazing music is unbelievable. “Using a pipe as an instrument is not the typical idea you get when you’re given a pipe,” Rodriquez said. “Yet the fact that they managed to use it to make air sounds that sounded almost like rainforest sounds is very creative.” A segment called the lighter lullaby used only lighters and dim lighting to capture some audience members’ attention, like Connie Siedia of Cranford.
THE VETERAN Coming into the office as a first-year stuMARY dent eager for a byline, DIDUCH Mar y Diduch went EDITOR-IN-CHIEF from a contributing writer to an associate news editor in less than a year. She eventually became Mar y, managing editor of the world, and now Mar y, editor-in-chief of the Targum. “I really have seen it all,” said Diduch, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “People have loved us and people have hated us, so I hope that I can take all of those experiences
and repeat what we’ve done well and avoid what we haven’t.” MANAGING MOGUL Once known as the design master, Diduch recruited Taylere Peterson as the design editor last term. Now a School of Arts and Sciences junior, she is taking her skills in design and journalism to the next level as managing editor and bridging the two to create a better newspaper. TAYLERE “I’m looking forPETERSON ward to working with MANAGING EDITOR Mary. We talked a lot about improving the paper and making it so that people want to pick it up and read it more,” she said. SMALL AND MIGHTY After editorial stole her from business,
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