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Recine said although he was not authorized to speak of the case, he did learn new facts surrounding Jake Kostman’s situation from the council meeting that he was unaware of.

“When anything’s under investigation, I can’t talk, but sometimes people bring something up that I didn’t know about before,” he said.

J.T. Kostman, a former police officer, voiced his concern with the lack of police action taken in his son and Najjar’s case.

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With spring break less than a month a way, students may want to consider health and safety travel information before going abroad.

More than 2,500 U.S. citizens are arrested abroad every year — almost half of them on drug charges — including possession of a small amount of illegal substances, and many accidents resulting in death or injury are linked to alcohol or drug use, according to the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Consular Affairs.

Many countries, including popular spring break locations like Mexico, have different standards of safety from those of the United States, the bureau’s spokesman John Echard said.

The bureau recognizes cities in Mexico like Tijuana, Ciudad Juarez, Nuevo Laredo and other border towns as places with high criminal violence and drug activity.

Despite the current danger in the countr y, the School of Arts and Sciences Honors Program will travel to Mérida, Mexico this semester with a group of 14 students, Assistant Dean of the University’s Honors program Julio Nazario said.

The program has kept in touch with the bureau and the Study Abroad Department to ensure a safe trip, he said.

“We had the idea of providing an experience of the Mayan ruins to students who took ‘[Honors] Colloquium’ last semester,” Nazario said. “We’re not going to the spring break festival in Cancun.”

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Members of the New Brunswick City Council listen to citizens’ concerns about the New Brunswick Police Department last night in light of the recent lawsuit filed earlier this month by School of Arts and Sciences sophomores Jake Kostman and Kareem Najjar.

Citizens appeal to city council for action

BY ANKITA PANDA METRO EDITOR

Several New Brunswick citizens spoke of the need to prevent aggressive behavior by the New Brunswick Police Department (NBPD) at last night’s city council meeting.

Among those present was School of Arts and Sciences sophomore Jake Kostman, who is suing the NBPD for allegedly beating him and School of Arts and Sciences sophomore Kareem Najjar, who was not present at last night’s meeting in City Hall.

The lawsuit was filed this month as the result of an incident that occurred in December where NBPD officers

allegedly broke into Kostman and Najjar’s shared Somerset Street home, beat them and ransacked their property.

Before the meeting came to order, Kostman, who attended the meeting with his father J.T. Kostman, said he was tentative to speak but wanted his concerns to be heard by the public.

“I haven’t thought about [speaking] tonight,” Jake Kostman said. “I think it’s important to bring public awareness.”

During the meeting, Sean Monahan, a Middlesex County Democratic committeeman for Ward 5, District 2 — where the incident occurred — opened a discussion about Jake Kostman’s lawsuit and discussed his concern

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with the violent nature of the crime and the public’s lack of information on it.

“I wanted to make sure the council was aware of the issue,” he said. “Residents should be more aware that they can film police.”

Monahan said he believes the city law enforcement needs to be fixed.

Council President Robert Recine said he did not believe he had enough information to comment as the incident is still under investigation.

“I didn’t see the video, I only know what I read in the paper and it was from one side what I read,” Recine said. “Until I get both sides and the investigation runs its course, that’s as far as

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Gov. Christie says he wants the cast of the “Jersey Shore” to go back to New York.

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives released plans to cut millions in funding from the federal college financial aid grant, the Pell Grant.

The spending bill, planned for the remainder of fiscal year 2011, proposes to cut $845 from the maximum $5,500 Pell Grant.

Funding has been cut across the board in an attempt to pull back discretionary spending by 24 percent, according to a release from Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Ky., House Appropriation Committee chairman.

“This legislation … is a massive down payment on the new Republican majority’s commitment to drastically decrease discretionary funding in order to help our economy thrive and spur job creation,” according to the release.

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President raises awareness of growing non-theism

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With more than 40 to 50 million atheists, and only about 50,000 in an identified organization, Dave Silverman, president of American Atheists, spoke Tuesday about the upcoming atheist movement at Humanist Chaplaincy at Rutgers University Tuesday night open forum.

The event’s purpose was to promote two of the organization’s missions — to create a community for non-theists and to raise awareness, said Barr y Klassel, humanist chaplain at the University. “[We felt] there should be a place for us, here, on campus, to meet others like us, to discuss anything we would like to discuss, to hear great speakers and to get a sense we’re not by ourselves out there,” Klassel said.

Silverman drew attention to the problem of organization in the context of religion by comparing how most Methodists, Lutherans and Presbyterians choose to identify themselves within the larger category of Christianity while most atheists choose to identify themselves differently.

“If you ask an agnostic, they’ll say agnostic,” he said. “If you ask a secular humanist, they’ll say secular humanist.”

Silverman said this division and categorization is the main problem with atheism.

“While [Christians] are taking the larger term to make themselves look bigger, [atheists] are taking the more precise terms, as a movement and making ourselves deliberately look smaller,” he said.

Silverman said this mentality is the result of Christianity being the dominant religion in the United States for most of its history.

“We have atheists, nationwide, still in fear,” he said. “Still afraid to come out of the closet. Still [ashamed] for knowing there is no invisible man in the sky.”

Silverman hopes to change the mentality of fear and shame by directing the group focus to what he calls the “closet atheists.”

“Religious people are not our target audience,” he said. “The atheists, who are sitting in pews and writing those checks every month, I want them thinking about the word ‘scam.’ I want them thinking about the word ‘victim.’”

The message is to convince atheists not to be afraid of what they know, Silverman said.

Using popular references such as the “The Matrix” and the childhood tale of the “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” Silverman urged

the audience to recognize fiction when they see it.

“We’re going to tell people what they already know,” he said.

“That the emperor is naked, ‘The Matrix’ is a fictional movie and Gods don’t really exist.”

Some attendees questioned Silverman about what he would consider a “win” for atheism.

“A win means atheism is a given as a part of society,” Silverman said. “A win means an atheist can get elected to governor or senator or president without it being a big deal. A win means we have nothing to complain about.”

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Dave Silverman, president of American Atheists, defends the atheist movement and his billboard campaign Tuesday night at the Student Activities Center on the College Avenue campus.

Silverman predicts this win will be obtained within the next 15 years.

The movement relies heavily upon the people who are becoming more active, he said. Recent college graduates, people in their early twenties, will make the most difference.

“As these people start to vote, as these people start to become involved in the movement, we’re going to see a dramatic shift in how many people we have involved in the movement,” he said.

Thomas O’Rourke, a School of Ar ts and Sciences sophomore, took part in the discussion as a member of the University’s Humanist Chaplaincy and said he had a newfound respect for Silverman.

“I guess I wasn’t aware of this huge atheist movement but I took a lot from this lecture, especially awareness of the whole atheist movement,” said Greg Arutiunov, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore.

David Lam, a University alumnus, had a more fixed view coming into the discussion.

“I am an atheist and I find the cumulative effects of religion, which is a form of irrationality, to be very harmful to humanity, in our society,” he said. “I find that our progress from an irrational society to more rational society can make our quality of life better for everyone.”

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Students compete in the “Feud for Food” competition last night in the College Avenue Gym. Hosted by Rutgers Recreation, teams guessed top answers to questions asked “Family-Feud” style. Proceeds went to the Middlesex County Food Bank.

TRAVEL: Honors group travels to safe region in Mexico continued from front Mérida is a small town in the Yucatan peninsula, where crime is not as prevalent as in border towns, he said.

“It’s the safest region there,” Nazario said. “There is a desire by the people in the Yucatan area to make sure it attracts tourists.

I’ve been there before and there was not one incident.”

Nazario contacted Elizabeth Dunkel, study abroad director in Mérida, to help arrange the trip. Dunkel, who has run the program in Mérida for the last 17 years, also extended the ser vices of an experienced driver to the group.

“Because we’re going with the director, and they have a driver who is experienced and knows the area, it will be an asset and should relieve concerns about safety,” said Larissa

Klein, a School of Ar ts and said she feels safe going on the Sciences senior. trip because it is organized.

Klein said she was hesitant “They told us to go out in to travel to Mexico alone. pairs and that you don’t want to “When I asked my parents go anywhere at night,” Losardo if I could go on the trip, it said. “These are all the comwas an issue because of the mon-sense things you would do border towns and the Mexican pretty much anywhere. It’s drug cartel,” she said. “I didn’t ver y well organized — that want to go by myself or with my makes me feel calmer friends. But with an organized about ever ything.” group trip, I feel Aside from very comfortable.” being aware of “There is a desire their surroundAt an orientation for the ings, students by the people Mérida trip, might also want in the Yucatan area to learn of Nazario stressed the importance of health precauto make sure staying together tions before going as a group. said it attracts tourists.” abroad, “We do everySchool of Ar ts JULIO NAZARIO thing together, we and Sciences junHonors Program eat together, and no ior Megha Sinha.

Assistant Dean one goes out alone,” Sinha, who he said. “This is a went on a prudent security Foundation for measure — I’d use it if we were International Medical Relief of going to New York or Philadelphia.” Children trip to Peru over last Brianna Losardo, a School of year’s spring break, was the Arts and Sciences sophomore, only vegetarian of the group.

“Meat is a big par t of culture in South American countries,” she said.

“I ate more vegetables than the other people on the trip, and I guess my stomach was not acclimated to their food, and I wasn’t adjusted from traveling to a foreign countr y, so I got pin worms.”

Sinha said she had knowledge of health and safety precautions to take because she had traveled to developing countries before. But in this case, she could not follow them.

“Drink things that have been prepared. Boil liquids and definitely avoid fruits and vegetables as much as you can,” Sinha said. “Be war y of street food — you never know where it’s from. We have ver y delicate digestive tracts being from the United States.”

Consular Affairs is active on Facebook and Twitter, and encourages students to check both locations for travel advisories, Echard said.

ment,” he said.

J.T. Kostman said NBPD put their own cops’ reputation above his son and Najjar’s safety.

“Officers shouldn’t be above the law. If they commit a crime, it should be investigated with immediacy as with any o t h e r crime,” he said.

“If this was any other perpetrator, the investigation would have been launched immediately and we would have gotten a response.”

Middlesex County Democratic Committeeman Cedrick Goodman, Ward 4, District 1, said he believes new cops on the force are more aggressive than they used to be.

“We want our officers to know of … the overly aggressive nature they have,” said Goodman. “We have to curb it and let them know that if they’re overly violent, we have to have a program and [reprimand] them before it spirals out of control.”

Goodman said he wants cops to undergo serious training that teaches them how to practice restraint in stressful situations.

“This could be my son or it could be your son, and a police officer could snap under stress,” he said.

Following the meeting, J.T. Kostman said he was displeased by the council’s lack of knowledge in his son’s case and by the police’s poor investigation.

“Frankly, I don’t think [anything happened by the end of today’s meeting],” he said.

“I’m stunned by the lack of response.”

Jake Kostman said last night’s council meeting was only step one in a long process to illustrate some of the issues with the law enforcement. He hopes the city council will take action.

“It forces city council to take some initiative,” Kostman said. “We’re definitely going to take this to the next level and contact city officials and see where it goes.”

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School of Arts and Sciences junior Jordan Slavens and sophomore Michael Mizrahi, right, donate blood Tuesday night in a University-wide blood drive to support the “Eric LeGrand Believe Fund.”

Blood drive donates to ‘Believe fund’

BY GREGORY FOREST CONTRIBUTING WRITER

A campus-wide blood drive was held Tuesday night at recreational centers across the University as par t of its “Rutgers Recreation has Heart” week of events with a focus on supporting the “Eric LeGrand Believe Fund.”

Hospitals in the tri-state area received the blood and for each pint donated, New Jersey Blood Ser vices contributed $2 to the fund, said Marie Forrestal, New Jersey Blood Ser vices director of donor recruitment.

“This blood drive will benefit patients at about 200 hospitals in the New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania area,” Forrestal said. “Ever y unit of blood donated today will be separated into three separate components helping three different hospital patients.”

The event was chosen as a way for students to help a peer as well as people in need of blood, said Assistant Director of Recreation at the University Albert Gomez, who was present at the drive.

“We thought it was something that the student body would rally around without costing them anything,” Gomez said. “The goal is to donate a thousand pints of blood and to help Eric LeGrand.”

Despite this main focus, another aim of the drive was to break the 1,045-pint record of blood collected in a single drive, a title currently held by Drexel University, Forrestal said.

“We are trying to break the record for the most pints collected at a single blood drive,” said Forrestal. “Rutgers has a history

“We thought it was something that the student body would rally around without costing them anything.”

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of collecting some of the most blood in drives in the Northeast in one-day blood drives.”

At the end of the day, the final count reflected a total 632 pints collected, said Dave DeHart, director of Recreation Facilities, who oversees operations at the Werblin Fitness Center on Busch campus.

To provide further incentive to give blood, the donation sites gave the first 250 donors at each recreation center a free pint glass, as well as free ice cream and other refreshments.

Regardless of the goal and giveaways, some students felt that the drive was an important cause to contribute toward.

College of Nursing sophomore Jasmine Farrahat said she was inspired to give blood after finding out how significant a single donation is.

“I felt like I had to participate and be more involved in the community,” she said. “When they gave me the bag, they said that one bag of blood can help save four people’s lives. That really touched me because I really do want to help people.”

Farrahat also said the staff running the drive was kind and hospitable.

“They accommodate you and the nurses are very focused,” Farrahat said. “They kept asking if you were dizzy or if you were feeling light-headed. They made sure that the entire experience was as pleasant as it possibly could be.”

School of Arts and Sciences junior Nicole DiMaggio said she donated because she was a friend of LeGrand’s and wanted to be able to contribute towards his cause.

“The service was great, everybody was really nice, and I’m glad I donated,” DiMaggio said.

“I like to give blood because it’s beneficial and helps people,” School of Arts and Sciences sophomore Raffi Mark said. “Donating blood is really important to do and it’s easy.”

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CUTS: More than 1 million students may lose federal grant continued from front If enacted, the plans would take effect the following academic year, University Director of Financial Aid Jean McDonaldRash said.

She said this could result in serious consequences for about 14,000 students across the New Br unswick, Newark and Camden campuses that receive this grant.

New Jersey Public Interest Research Group advocate Rich Williams said because of the consistent spikes in college tuition, grants provide the best way the federal government can help students get their diploma.

If this change is implemented, 1.5 million students, out of the 9.2 million nationwide who currently receive the grant — could lose their funding, while the rest would see a 15 percent decrease in the amount awarded, Williams said.

McDonald-Rash said the House is looking to save money ever ywhere, but the program does not have enough funds because of more recipients than previously expected.

“There’s no question that something needs to be done about the level of spending in this country. However, we cannot cut in levels that are investments,” Williams said.

He said this change would particularly affect those who receive the maximum award — the neediest students who are at the tip-

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“Without that, it will be too difficult for them to pay for college,” he said.

Many need-based college students might be forced to take on more debt, McDonald-Rash said.

“Students need to be careful in how much debt they can take on,” she said. “So when you cut grant aid, what that does is create a gap that is filled by borrowing more.”

She said students should not take on too much debt, as it is difficult finding employment after school and defaulting on a loan affects credit years later.

McDonald-Rash said affected students might also be forced to consider their options, such as commuting to school or working more.

T H E DA I LY TA R G U M Pell Grant recipient Chana Morrison said she would have to increase her work hours to compensate for the decrease in grant money, which she is not required to pay back, if this change passes.

“I work full time to pay for whatever tuition I have left over from grants and loans and scholarships,” said Morrison, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “So for every little bit of money they take away from me, I have to work more.”

President Barack Obama on Monday said in his budget proposal for the next fiscal year, which will start Oct. 1, that he plans to maintain Pell Grants but end the relatively newer ability to be awarded two in a year.

“It may not be the right step, but it’s definitely the right starting

point for maintaining the Pell Grants,” Williams said.

Since the program is expecting a $20 billion shortfall next year, removing certain benefits from the award could create the savings needed to help maintain the program at its current level, but McDonald-Rash said this is not ideal.

“Neither [Obama’s nor the House’s plans] is the best, because the best thing would be to keep increasing to try to keep up with increases of costs of education in time,” she said.

McDonald-Rash said students should stay active in advocating for more financial aid.

“Students [should] take an active role, let their opinions be heard and make their leaders know how important they are,” she said.

POLICE APPREHEND SIX MEN CONNECTED TO DAYTIME ROBBERY Police from East Brunswick, New Brunswick and state troopers arrested six men in connection with committing a daytime home invasion robbery yesterday afternoon on Wyckoff Street.

Three residents were in the house when the men entered, some carrying weapons, Lt. J.T. Miller of the New Brunswick Police Department said in an article on mycentraljersey.com.

The suspects allegedly left with electronics and drove of f in a van, which of ficers eventually caught near Exit 10 on the New Jersey Tur npike, according to the ar ticle.

The six men were then arrested and property was recovered, Miller said in the article.

Miller declined to release the types of weapons or the suspects’ names, according to the article. Charges are still pending.

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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 on the College Avenue campus.

Tickets are on sale at the Student Activities Center from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. or online with student tickets costing $10, and faculty, staff, alumni and guests costing $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.

The University chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will have its 102nd annual Founders Day Banquet in the Livingston Student Center.

The banquet features keynote speaker State President of the NAACP James E. Harris. There will be a student achievement awards given out, a buffet-style dinner and a gala after the program. This event is from 9 p.m. to midnight and is free to all students, family and friends. For more information, contact chapter president Jordan Muse at jmuse251@eden.rutgers.edu.

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Career Services will host New Jersey Career Diversity Day from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus. The event is open to the public and no pre-registration is required. Career Services advises students to bring résumés and dress professionally for the career day. For more information visit careerservices.rutgers.edu or contact Career Services by phone at (732)-932-7278.

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Rutgers Student Life will host, “Your A to Z Guide to Everything Intimate — The 2011 Sex, Love & Dating Conference,” a sex and dating conference that address sexual issues of college students. Admission is free, but pre-registration is required at sexlovedating.eventbrite.com. The event will take place from noon to 6 p.m. with check-in beginning at 11 a.m. at Busch Campus Center. For more information, visit getinvolved.rutgers.edu/programs-and-events.

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Rutgers University Programming Association will host a free yo-yo workshop from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Rutgers Student Center atrium. Students will learn tricks such as “Around the World” and “Walk the Dog” with a yo-yo expert. RUPA will provide yo-yos while supplies last.

Visit getinvolved.rutgers.edu/programs-and-events for more information.

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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 noon to 6 p.m. due to the emergency blood shortage. All donors will receive a free T-shirt and snacks. For more info, please email Jared at JTamasco@nybloodcenter.org.

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Discovered manuscripts tap into Plainfield history

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Plainfield Public Librar y lead archivist Sarah Hull uncovered more than just manuscripts during her routine inventor y at the librar y — she uncovered 17 historical documents from the 18th and 19th centur y.

Her findings included a 1749 receipt for a property sale from Joseph Allen, a 1789 English indenture and an 1806 handwritten store ledger for a past city business, but the most interesting piece found was a city charter dated back to 1869, Hull said.

“I’m not surprised we have buried treasures in our archives room,” said Librar y Director Joseph Da Rold. “The manuscript

charter is certainly the jewel of the discoveries.”

A document from a March 2, 1914 Courier News article was a rare find, because the article was almost unable to be printed after a large blizzard, Hull said.

“The storm had hindered the newspaper’s linotype machines and the Courier News staf f thanked local resident Jack Horner for getting out this issue by providing him the motorcycles that were used to ‘run’ the disabled machines,” she said.

The papers were found stored in a box labeled “Manuscript” and were thought to be from the 1990s but were lost throughout the years because they were not cataloged, Hull said.

Hull said she was curious to see what was in the container

and was happy to find that the contents were interesting.

“Some of the documents had Mylar wrapping and they were all neatly organized into folders,” she said. “They were in

“I’m not surprised we have buried treasures in our archives room.”

JOSEPH DA ROLD Plainfield Public Library Director

great condition considering their age.”

The local histor y collection has grown over the last ten years, Da Rold said. Although this recent discover y was not

the largest one, it was significant given its content and character.

The librar y staf f is excited about the discover y, said Assistant Director Mar y Ellen Rogan.

“Since the discover y of the documents was published in the local newspaper, many local historians and patrons have been eager to view the documents,” Rogan said.

“We had phone calls from many people interested in the material.”

For now the documents are being kept from the public and will be scanned and displayed online at a later time, Rogan said.

“Some of these items have provenance in Pennsylvania, and we will ascer tain which

historical agency in that state should become the repositor y for them,” Da Rold said. “We expect to retain all of the New Jersey documents, most of which will need conser vation work to preser ve them.”

The librar y plans apply for grants to under write the conser vation costs, and Da Rold said his staff will be scanning and transcribing them so historians may view them on the librar y’s website.

“The librar y already has quite a collection of not only Plainfield histor y but United States histor y as well,” said Hull, “I think these newly found documents would be a great complement and be of interest to many local historians in Plainfield and Central New Jersey.”

FORMER OFFICERS RECEIVE SENTENCES FOR STEALING PARKING FEES Two former security officers, both New Brunswick residents, have been sentenced for stealing more than $100,000 in parking fees from the New Brunswick Parking Authority.

For stealing $60,000, Hicham Saadi, 39, was given 364 days at the Middlesex County Adult Correction Center and three years probation, according to an article on mycentraljersey.com.

Thirty-year-old Thevio Eliscar was sentenced to seven years in prison for stealing $45,000.

Middlesex County Superior Court Judge Glenn Berman ordered the defendants repay the stolen money, according to the article.

The pair is a par t of a group of employees arrested for the same charges, and the other defendants are waiting for trial, according to

the ar ticle. The men admitted to taking the money on multiple instances and splitting it among the others.

Officials said Saadi and Eliscar would not be allowed to hold public jobs again in New Jersey, according to the article.

—Mary Diduch

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eople are increasingly becoming more reliant upon social networking sites to stay connected to each other, so it makes sense that HTC mobile is planning to release two phones that include a Facebook button. Consider what that means — Facebook has become such an integral part of life that people need to access it immediately via a button on their phones. The Facebook button is a potent symbol, which signifies contemporary society’s over-reliance on the Internet in facilitating all interactions.

At the risk of sounding nostalgic, it used to be that children came home from school and ran out into the neighborhood to knock on doors and scrounge up enough playmates for a round of tag. Now, kids run straight to the computer and log into Farmville. When people feel lonely, they don’t push themselves to seek help — they merely start pouring their emotions out to strangers on blogs and nothing gets solved. Sure, social networking sites serve some really important purposes, but there is no substitute for good old-fashioned interfacing with flesh and blood human beings.

Consider, for example, the Egyptian revolution — this was a movement roughly 30 years in the making, and it happened because people came together as one. But a lot of people are crediting Facebook and Twitter with starting the revolution. These sites definitely helped facilitate the revolution, there’s no doubt about that. But to claim they did anything more than facilitate is absurd. That was a revolution caused by people — not the Internet. Give credit where credit is due.

Facebook is becoming more and more important, and the Internet is surpassing real life. There are many benefits to staying connected through the Internet, but talking through a monitor will never be the same as talking face-to-face. Let’s not forget that.

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he U.S. health care system is evil — or so teen pop sensation Justin Bieber would have you believe, according to a recent interview with Rolling Stone. On a semi-related note, Gov. Chris Christie has made it known that he — unlike a large portion of University students — is not a big fan of MTV’s “Jersey Shore.” In fact, Christie plans on telling his “good friend” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to “take [the cast] back” to New York because New Jersey does not care for them. How are these not-quite-news items related? It’s simple — on one hand, we have a pop culture figure making claims about politics, and on the other, a political figure making claims about pop culture. But the big difference is that Christie is qualified to make his claims publicly. Bieber is not.

This is a time in which pop culture and the government have been coming closer together. In fact, they have merged to the extent that people perceive of President Barack Obama as a sort of celebrity president.

Is this conflation a good thing? In some ways, it is absolutely harmless.

For example, it is kind of fun to find out what songs elected officials have on their iPods. At the same time, people have to remember the crucial difference between pop culture and politics. Namely, that pop culture is a matter of taste, while politics are a far more complicated beast.

As a human being, Christie is automatically a member of mass culture. As such, he has every right to espouse his opinions on something like “Jersey Shore” in a public forum. Everyone has that right — pop culture is something everyone is a part of. It informs our everyday lives, no matter how much we try to remove ourselves from it. One need not be an expert on something like trashy reality television to express their feelings about it.

But not every human being is a political expert — especially when it comes to something as complex as health care. Of course, Bieber is entitled to his opinion — everyone is allowed to have an opinion on pretty much everything. But when media outlets like Rolling Stone and The Huffington Post print someone like Bieber’s comments on health care, all they are doing is wasting space. Bieber’s opinions on health care do not constitute news. Does anyone really care what a 16-year-old pop singer thinks about American health care? If they do, they shouldn’t. If Bieber wants to express his opinions on health care — something he is not intimately acquainted with — let him do it. Just don’t waste time and paper letting the world know what he said.

In short, it comes down to this: When politicians talk pop culture, it humanizes them, and citizens like to feel closer to their elected officials. When pop culture icons talk politics, it makes them sound simple. Of course, this is a sweeping generalization, but it certainly applies in the case of Justin Bieber.

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Purge Ron Paul from GOP Irreconcilable E Differences

He is a 10-term congressver y year, thouman who until this year has sands of failed to receive any major Conser vative and congressional assignments.

Republican activists During the 2008 Republican descend onto Washington, Primaries, Ron Paul won 1.6 D.C. for the Conservative percent of the delegates.

Political Action Conference.

Considering that pathetic CPAC holds a straw poll for NOAH GLYN statistic, it is no wonder Ron its participants to express Paul supporters were so their opinions on whom excited when 9 percent of CPAC voted for him. they want to be the Republican nominee for presiAt CPAC, Ron Paul supporters made their presdent in the upcoming election. Texas Rep. Ron Paul ence felt, as they repeatedly interrupted speakers won last year, and he won again this year — as widewith whom they disagreed. Most of them yelled ly expected — with 30 percent of the vote. Winning about auditing and ending the Federal Reserve two CPAC straw polls seems like a high-water mark System, because, as one Ron Paul supporter for Paul’s ambitions. But in fact, Ron Paul remains a explained to me, “The Fed is the biggest threat to marginal, yet dangerous figure. humanity.” Never mind nuclear Iran or Jihadist terWhile Congressman Paul’s victory will grab the rorists, it was so clear to this person that not only is headlines, it is worth placing the straw poll in propthe Fed unconstitutional, but its very existence is er context. Straw polls do not actually reveal anythreatening American autonomy. That the United thing other than the opinions of the people in a States has managed to live with the Fed for close to room at a given time. The CPAC straw poll tabulates a century without crumbling did not register with the opinions of highly biased — both in the statistihim. Then the conversation took a stranger turn, as cal and political sense — people. New Jersey, for he told me that he believed the 9/11 attacks were an instance, had an overrepresented group of activists inside job — that no terrorists hijacked the four airat CPAC, due to New Jersey’s geographic proximity planes and the World Trade Centers to Washington, D.C. During actual collapsed because of controlled Republican primaries, California “The reality is that explosions. I quickly ended the conhas more delegates than New versation. A couple of minutes later, Jersey, but it is more difficult for a Ron Paul is just he and his friends moved to differConservative Stanford student to as marginal ent seats. But towards the end of attend CPAC than it is for someone CPAC, when they announced that like me. Wealthy Americans are also as he has Ron Paul had won the straw poll, I overrepresented at CPAC, as they spotted this person celebrating by are more able to afford taking off always been.” shouting, “End the Fed! End the several days of work, renting a hotel Fed!” It is easy to dismiss this as one room and paying for admission. crazed individual who does not represent the vast Eleven thousand people attended CPAC this year, majority of Ron Paul supporters, but a significant but only about 3,000 actually voted in the straw poll. portion of Ron Paul’s base believes the U.S. governOut of those 3,000, 30 percent voted for Ron Paul. ment was behind the 9/11 attacks. Worse still, those Consider that among a group of highly motivated who do not believe in 9/11 conspiracies accept the Conservatives — only about 30 percent even cared Truthers among their ranks. to vote, and out of that 30 percent, 30 percent voted If there is one area Ron Paul has been truly sucfor Ron Paul. That means approximately 9 percent cessful at over the years, it is his ability to draw in of CPAC voted for Ron Paul. the lunatic fringe of the conservative movement Conservatives should be wary of using revoluinto his base of supporters. What is it about Ron tionary imagery, but using the word “revolution” is Paul that attracts these kinds of people to his base? justified in some cases. The “Reagan Revolution” For one, Ron Paul allows them to exist within his and the “Gingrich Revolution” refer to specific movement. He has repeatedly refused to condemn points in American political history where the status and ostracize the 9/11 Truthers who support his quo was greatly altered by Republican victories. mission. Secondly, many of these conspiracy-oriRon Paul uses the word “revolution” to refer to his ented Ron Paul supporters live under the assumplibertarian movement of supporters. At the begintion that someone — often the government — is ning of his CPAC address, he declared, “I’m glad to always out to get them. Ron Paul plays into that see the revolution is continuing.” Ron Paul’s manithought process by vilifying American foreign, festo is titled, “The Revolution.” Ron Paul wants to monetary and fiscal policy. When Ron Paul argues be the head of a serious movement to reshape the Republican Party in his image, but the reality is that SEE GLYN ON PAGE 11 Ron Paul is just as marginal as he has always been.

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GLYN continued from page 10 that America brought 9/11 on itself by stationing American soldiers in Saudi Arabia, his supporters see that as a nod and a wink for them to continue their efforts. The fact that Ron Paul frames the issues in revolutionary terms further emboldens his supporters. Americans ought to be skeptical of their government and they ought to ask serious questions to make governments more transparent, but both Ron Paul and his supporters engage in unhealthy cynicism.

My disdain for Ron Paul has nothing to do with his libertarian beliefs. On the contrary, I wish more people held libertarian beliefs about the proper role of government.

Originally, I opposed Ron Paul because I disagreed with his naïve, isolationist foreign policy beliefs, but I still respected him as a libertarian.

The longer Ron Paul remains on the political scene, though, the more he exposes himself to be an opportunistic charlatan who attracts the very worst of the Republican Party and the conservative movement. To oppose Ron Paul is not to oppose libertarianism, because Ron Paul is the not the sole libertarian in Congress.

Republicans ought to embrace libertarianism as an integral part of a winning coalition, but they should purge Ron Paul and his rag-tag band of supporters.

Noah Glyn is a School of Arts and Sciences junior majoring in economics and history. He is president of the Rutgers College Republicans.

His column, “Irreconcilable Differences,” runs on alternate Thursdays.

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ecent news has reported the volunteer efforts of citizens toward cleaning up Tahrir Square in the aftermath of 18 days of tumultuous protests. Among the remains of the assembly where impromptu shelters, smoldered debris and blood stains as witness to the early clashes with police, the trash-of-ever ydaylife left behind by hundreds of thousands and a foreverchanged Egypt.

Among the uncertainty that lies ahead for the Egyptian people and the rest of the world, there is a clear image of the power of the organized masses to demand and achieve change.

Through the sheer power and legitimacy of a completely organic democratic force, the people of Egypt overthrew a tyrant of 30 years.

When analyzing and reflecting upon the weeks and months before the “Revolution of Jan. 25,” it is difficult to find any single political party or activist group that can be accredited with organizing or early promotion of the protests. Instead, you find young organizers like Wael Ghonim, activists like Ahmed Salah and martyrs like Khalid Saeed. You do not find newspaper ar ticles, of ficial press releases or TV news segments. Instead you find Facebook pages, Tweets and YouTube videos. When the Egyptian government shut down the Internet and cell phone ser vice, the movement continued to spread by word of mouth, hastily printed flyers and makeshift signs.

In early June 2010, more than seven months before the

protests, a activists such 28-year-old as Salah, who Saeed was disappeared arrested and s h o r t l y beaten to Jan. CHRISTOPHER PFLAUM after death by 25 — thoupolice in Alexandria. The news sands filled the streets demandof his murder spread through- ing Mubarak’s resignation. out the Internet along with a After his release from 11 days postmortem photograph of his of secret government detention mangled face. The story behind and the resignation of Mubarak, his death, which led to his even- Ghonim commented to tual martyrdom in the preceding reporters, “I’m not a hero. The social struggle, was that Saeed real heroes are the youth who had been beaten to death in are behind this revolution.” order to cover up evidence of Even now, as the protests the involvement of police in ille- have ended, Tahrir Square has gal drug trafficking. been cleaned and the Internet In response to Saeed’s passing restored, you still find a lot of and rumor of murchatter on der at the hands of Facebook. Using “Young people can Google Chrome corrupted police, a Facebook group to view change the world Translator was launch called “We are all Khalid “We are all Khalid with nothing more Saeed,” you can Saeed.”

Google in the discusthan a keyboard, find executive Ghonim, sion section many 30, the original topics including Facebook and author of the site this one: “The a worthy cause.” demands of the used it to begin to organize and people of Egypt express the frustraafter the revolutions he and others had toward tion of Jan. 25 for a new constiformer President Hosni tution.” It is clear that the peoMubarak’s reign. ple of Egypt are steadfast in As weeks and months passed, their demands for ushering in unrest felt by the masses due to a non-cor r upt and free corruption, low wages and new government. sharply rising living costs began This has not been the first to spread and fuel itself like a example of profound change wildfire on sites like Facebook, resulting from digital grassTwitter and YouTube. The tip- roots efforts. The election of ping point was the Jan. 25 demon- the 44th President of the United stration-turned-revolution as pro- States in 2008 has been attribtesters clashed with police. uted in part to the massive supOrganizers chose the day for its port from young voters. Many significance as the Egyptian of these voters got “plugged-in” National Police Day. Through to the campaign through mainly digital — but also old-fash- Facebook and other Internet ion grassroots efforts by young outlets. Right now, there are

Carpe Diem

already Facebook pages to reelect or not to re-elect President Barack Obama in 2012, along with dozens of similar sites for an election that is less than two years away.

It is with the vivid example of Egypt and the subtle reminder of Obama’s successful election that one can truly say that young people can change the world with nothing more than a keyboard, Facebook and a worthy cause.

When looking at Egypt, it is a population of around 80 million people and a median age of only 24 years. When looking at other countries in the region, Iran has a median age of just over 26 years, Iraq with a median age of 20.6 years, in Afghanistan only 18 years and the Gaza Strip around 17.5 years of age. These are countries with their futures literally in the hands of college-aged students. This fact, coupled with the ever-growing speed and access to the Internet and sites like Facebook and Twitter, can only lead one to wonder about the where and when the next “Revolution of Jan. 25” will be. Perhaps it will be a revolution with a different cause and a different result.

But one can be assured that the Internet and sites like Facebook and its young users will play a prominent role.

Christopher Pflaum is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in genetics with a minor in political science. He is the president of the Rutgers University Democrats. His column, “Carpe Diem,” runs on alternate Thursdays.

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Sophomore Tyler Gebler will get the opening day nod for Rutgers after recording 12 saves as the closer in his freshman season.

OPENER: Poll places RU sixth in Big East in preseason continued from back after his team was predicted to finish sixth in the Big East in the preseason.

“We were in the same spot last year, and we were one game away from the [Big East] championship,” Hill said. “You might want to say that’s a motivating factor to prove them wrong, but that really doesn’t mean much at this stage. The only thing we’re worried about is where we end up at the end of the year.”

And with a good number of experienced players coming back to play for Hill, the Knights have the roster to make noise in the conference.

Four starters return under Hill, while Nyisztor as well as senior outfielder Michael Lang — a .346 hitter last season –– return as the squad’s top two hitters.

Also returning to the Banks are junior outfielder Ryan Kapp and infielder Russ Hopkins, with Kapp garnering All-Big East preseason honors along with Nyisztor.

The Knights were swept each of the past two seasons in their opening three-game set against the Hurricanes, but that did nothing to cage the team’s excitement heading into this season, especially not that of sophomore Tyler Gebler.

The right-hander served as the team’s closer a year ago, but makes the switch from the

bullpen to the starting rotation this season for Hill.

“Just thinking about it all week is making the week go a little longer,” said Gebler, who will start tomorrow for the Knights on opening day. “You’ve got to kind of stay focused. It’s going to be a different kind of atmosphere down there, but I think we’re all ready to handle it.”

Gebler, a Toms River, N.J., native, recorded 12 saves last season as a freshman and joins a rotation that includes junior right-hander Willie Beard, sophomore right-hander Jerr y Elsing and sophomore southpaw Dan O’Neil.

Gebler sees no reason why this year’s rotation cannot improve from last year, even without the team’s former ace, Casey Gaynor. “[The starting rotation] looked good all fall, they looked good in the winter and we’re ready to go,” Gebler said “[Junior] Nate [Roe] has got a lot of experience, [sophomore] Rob [Smorol] has got experience out of the pen. It’s an experienced group of guys and hopefully we can carry our staff a little bit.”

But more than anything else, the Knights are just ready to get out and play ball, regardless of where anyone selected them to finish this season.

“We’re ver y excited about playing,” Hill said. “After going through the winter we’ve gone through and not being able to get on the field, we’re very excited to go to Florida and have some good weather.”

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Fifth-year senior Alex Caruso, top, spent four seasons in Bethlehem, Pa., with Lehigh before transferring over the summer to Rutgers. The Green Brook, N.J., native owns a 27-7 record thus far in his only season with the Scarlet Knights.

GROUND: Knights ride 16-match win streak into RAC continued from back classes, but you don’t know. I hope this is the year.”

If there was ever a squad primed to knock down the walls of history, this Rutgers group is it. Winners of 16 in a row, the Knights represent some of the top names in wrestling that New Jersey has to offer.

The grapplers are excited to get the chance to showcase their talent in front of what should be a capacity crowd at the RAC, but they are keeping it in perspective.

“I’m just thinking of it as another match,” said sophomore Joe Langel, who will begin the festivities for Rutgers at 125 pounds. “It’s a rivalr y, but you don’t want to over hype it too much. You just want to go in there and wrestle your match.”

Langel and several Knights got their first taste of the wrestling machine that is Lehigh l ast year, when Rutgers traveled to Bethlehem, Pa., and lost, 28-3.

Goodale banks on that experience to prove cr ucial this time around.

“To be honest with you, we were very, very young last year,” he said. “Since that time they’ve had an EIWA [Tournament], they’ve had a national tournament and they’ve had three or four huge matches, whether it’s at the [College Avenue Gym] or the RAC. That experience can only help.”

One Knight who needs no introduction to Lehigh is fifth-year senior Alex Caruso. The Green Brook, N.J., native spent the first four years of his collegiate career with the Mountain Hawks before deciding to transfer to the Banks for his final season.

Emotions are certainly running high in the days leading up to the return of his former team,

but Caruso knows there is work to be done.

“I’m close with a few of those guys on the team. We talk weekly and some of them on a daily basis,” he said. “I know that [tonight] will be a totally different atmosphere. We might have to put our friendship on hold for a couple of hours.”

Caruso’s replacement at 174 pounds, Rober t Hamlin, now wrestles at 184 and is ranked No. 4 in the countr y in his weight class.

It is Lehigh’s (13-6) ability to corral the best wrestlers from all over the country, coupled with a loyal and stringent fan base that makes this national powerhouse a model of consistency.

“One thing that they have that I think we don’t is a rich tradition,” Caruso said. “They pride themselves on it. It’s a small school, but wrestling is the biggest sport there.”

Knowing the following that comes with a program such as

Lehigh, Goodale knew this match was destined for the RAC. “There was no doubt,” said Goodale on where the dual would take place. “You couldn’t fit the Lehigh people in [the Barn] alone. That goes back to what Lehigh brings, their tradition. Plus we’re winning at the RAC. We win at the RAC and want to have all of our big matches at the RAC.” And while nobody can erase what has happened in the past, tonight is a chance for the Knights to seize the day and begin a new chapter 61 years in the making.

“When I was at Lehigh, we kicked the crap out of Rutgers ever y year and didn’t really think much of it,” Caruso said.

“Now that I am on the other side, it’s definitely time for a change. It’s time to start building a streak of our own. It’s time to win this one and next year and the year after that. It’s time to make it a real rivalry.”

he Rutgers women’s tennis team received recognition off the tennis court this week for its performance in the classroom.

For the second year in a row, the squad received the 2010 National Girls and Women in Sports Team Academic Award from the NJAIAW, which recognizes academic success. The team totaled an average GPA of 3.656 for the 2009-2010 academic year.

Senior Amy Zhang was also named this year’s Rutgers NJAIAW Woman of the Year. The honor comes after the captain won the 2010-2011 American Eagle Outfitters Big East Institutional Female ScholarAthlete Award earlier this year.

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operating officer Jeff Wilpon announced that the Wilpon family will maintain ownership of the team.

The Wilpons face a $1 billion lawsuit from a trustee trying to recover funds for victims of the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme.

Jeff Wilpon is still searching for a minority owner for the Mets who would control 20-25 percent of the team.

Madoff stated that the Wilpon family never had knowledge of his Ponzi scheme, according to his prison interview conducted by the New York Times.

THE OAKLAND RAIDERS extended the contract of Pro Bowl defensive lineman Richard Seymour by two years.

Although exact terms of the contract are still undisclosed, the deal would make Seymour the highest paid defensive player in the NFL, according to ESPN. The 31-year-old finished last season with 5.5 sacks at defensive tackle, but also played defensive end for the Raiders.

Oakland placed the franchise tag last season on the Georgia product, but now the Raiders can place the tag on another player, like tight end Zach Miller.

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deadline for the St. Louis Cardinals and first baseman Albert Pujols passed yesterday, making it likely that the slugger will hit the free agent market.

In his career with the Cardinals, Pujols won three National League MVPs, hit 408 home runs and batted .331 over ten seasons.

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that their oak trees located at Toomer’s Corner, where fans celebrate big wins, are dying.

The university claims someone deliberately killed them.

Toomer’s Corner has been a cornerstone of the university for years, a spot where the Tigers faithful would celebrate important victories, including the national championship earlier this year.

The school reports that “lethal doses” of tebuthiuron, an herbicide commonly used to kill trees, was applied to the soil around the trees. Local police are investigating the incident.

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Seton Hall’s absence changes outlook at Championships

BY LIZ SWERN STAFF WRITER

COURTESY OF RUTGERS ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS

Senior sprinter Steve Werner is a member of the Knights’ 4x400-meter relay team that will compete for a title this weekend. The Cardinal O’Hara (Pa.) product placed third last year in the 200-meter.

It is the Big East weekend for the Rutgers men’s track and field team, as the MEN’S TRACK Scarlet Knights RUTGERS AT travel to BIG EAST CHAMPS, Akron, SATURDAY, ALL DAY Ohio, for one of their biggest meets of the season.

The atmosphere will be slightly different given the absence of Seton Hall, which cut its track program last spring due to budget cuts in the athletic department.

“It is definitely going to be different this year without Seton Hall,” said junior sprinter Steve Werner. “Especially for us since we always went head-to-head with them in the sprints, specifically the 4x400-meter relay.”

Seton Hall edged past Rutgers last season at Big East Indoor Championships in the 4x400meter relay for the win. But the Knights reclaimed the title of Big East Champion in the relay when they won the following spring at Big East Outdoor Championships.

“It will be weird without Seton Hall being there,” said senior sprinter and member of the relay, Aaron Younger. “But the competition will be just as strong this year.”

The Knights send a host of new competitors to the meet this weekend, including freshman Corey Caidenhead.

“I feel blessed that I’m able to compete on such a high level like Big East Championships,” Caidenhead said. “I’m excited to see what I can do.”

Caidenhead qualified for the conference championship meet in the 500-meter dash and the 800meter run. He is also a member of the qualifying 4x400-meter relay.

Another fresh face at the meet is freshman jumper Devin Jones.

Jones is seeded in first place in the triple jump and fourth in the long jump.

“After this weekend I want to be Big East champion,” Jones said. “I also want to be the school record holder.”

Jones’ personal best is less than two inches from the school record in the triple jump.

“I really want ever yone to do well in their events,” Younger said. “I want the younger guys to see what the Championships are all about and step up to the challenge.”

Members of the 4x400-meter relay — Younger, Caidenhead, Werner and junior Kevin Brown — look to this weekend as their chance to win.

“I think we have the talent to win the 4x400 if we put a good race together,” Werner said.

The Big East weekend, comprised of a day of preliminary races and a day of finals, is one of the biggest competitions of the year.

“I’m hyped to see my teammates go out there and show what Rutgers track and field is all about,” Caidenhead said. “We have guys who can win their events. All the guys will lay their hearts and souls on the track without any regret. It’s going to be an exciting championship.”

The reigning indoor Big East champion in the 500meter, Younger is one of those runners with the potential to win. He ranks first in the conference in the event going into the meet.

“I want to dominate the events I’m running,” Younger said. “We need to use this weekend to show the other teams we can compete with them, even with our small numbers.”

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Rutgers searches for better results in opening weekend

BY SAM HELLMAN

going to be interesting to see how our pitchers come along here. I think we’re going to be all right.”

Like a refreshing drink of Last season, the Knights startice water after a r un, the ed off in brutal fashion after pracRutgers ticing in similar wintry conditions SOFTBALL softball for the entire preseason. In a fivet e a m game tournament in Tempe, RUTGERS AT b r e a k s Ariz., Rutgers lost all five games MINNESOTA, out of by a combined score of 50-1 to FRUDAY, 9 A.M. s n o w y kick off the season.

This year will be different, Piscataway in style tomorrow, Messina said. opening its 2011 season in “We have higher expectasunny California. tions of ourselves, higher stanComing off the best finish dards that we hold ourselves under head coach Jay Nelson, to,” she said. “We know what the Scarlet Knights bring we’re capable of and we will increased confidence and swag- push each other to higher levels ger to the UC-Riverside each day.”

Tournament, where they play Nelson said he expects to four games over the weekend. use the same defensive align“It’s definitely going to be dif- ment from last season, but has ferent,” said junior not developed a right fielder concrete batting “It’s going to be Mikelyn Messina. order yet.

“We have been In the infield, interesting to see cooped up inside senior Mandy how our pitchers the RAC and Craig returns to inside the Bubble first base, sophocome along here. for a couple of mores Jennifer months now. But I think we’re going Harabedian and we’re excited and Ashley Bragg to be all right.” ready to go. It’s return to the about time.” middle infield JAY NELSON Senior centerand junior slugHead Coach fielder Jen ger Brittney Meinheit is more Lindley checks in excited than most because of a at third base. chance to play in front of a home Junior Kylee Bishop and sophcrowd. Meinheit hails from omore Kaci Madden platoon at Anaheim Hills, Calif., just a 40- catcher again this season with a minute drive from the UC- four-player rotation of Meinheit Riverside campus. and senior Mickenzie Alden, as Meinheit worked primarily at well as Messina and junior the top of the batting order last Lindsey Curran in the outfield. season, when she finished second On the mound, sophomore on the team in hitting with a .235 Abbey Houston checks in as the batting average and second in new ace of the staff, Nelson said, runs with 22. with junior Noelle Sisco and “Jen’s excited,” Messina said freshman Megan Williams of her two-year teammate. “She behind her. can’t wait to go back home where Freshman middle infielder she’s from. So that’s a bit of extra Loren Williams, from Los motivation for her.”

Angeles, would be in heavy conThroughout the weekend tention as a speedy leadoff hittournament — the first of five to ter to start the season but is batopen the season — Rutgers faces tling through a hand injur y, Minnesota, UC-Riverside and Nelson said.

Loyola-Marymount twice.

Forecasts predicts rain all “It’s a little different than last weekend in Riverside, but year,” Nelson said. “We were Nelson said he hopes the team young last year in our team, but can play around the rain to get in our pitching had a bit more matu- as many games as possible and rity, but this year we came out may add more games Sunday if more experienced and our pitch- games on Friday and Saturday ing is a little bit younger. It’s do not take place.

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Senior Mickenzie Alden returns as part of a four-outfielder rotation this season after moving from the infield prior to last year. The Spokane, Wash., native scored 16 runs and drove in 15 last year.

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Knights travel to face two top teams

BY NEIL P. KYPERS SENIOR STAFF WRITER

JEFFREY LAZARO / SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Sophomore Jenna Zito enters this weekend’s quad meet coming off of a career-best performance on the balance beam.

RU sends qualifiers to Akron for Champs

BY ADHAAR SHARMA CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Rutgers women’s track team looks to culminate its season on a high WOMEN’S TRACK note with strong RUTGERS AT performBIG EAST CHAMPS, ances at SATURDAY, ALL DAY the Big E a s t Championships, held from this Saturday to Sunday in Akron, Ohio.

The Scarlet Knights face stiff competition from other Big East schools, five of which made an appearance in the top 25 this season.

Qualification for the Big East Championships depends on a complex formula based on individual performance, while athletes must beat the time or distance set by the Big East.

The Knights have 12 qualifying athletes for the meet, along with the 4x200, 4x400 and the distance medley relay teams, which are automatic qualifiers.

Freshman Tylia Gillon qualified for the ECAC championships this season and will run the 60meter and 200-meter dash.

Freshmen Corryn Horrington and Emily Vargas, sophomore Jennifer Spitzer and junior Brittni Rodriguez qualified in the Valentine’s Invitational last weekend for the 400-meter, high jump, one mile run and 200-meter respectively.

Rodriguez and senior Jamie Walker will run the 60-meter dash this weekend and junior Zainab Bisilou competes in the 500meter run.

Vargus and sophomore Ekene Ugboaja qualified for the triple, long and high jumps

and look to continue their dominant per formances.

Senior Viveca McDonaldOrtiz qualified for the pentathlon after placing second at the Metropolitan Championships.

Senior Natalie Clickett looks to win her second Big East championship after winning the first in the discus during her freshman year.

Clickett threw extremely well all season and her success earned her the Big East Female Field Athlete Honors for this week — the first for a Rutgers female athlete since the award was conceived three years ago.

“She is the eighth seed going, and we are hoping she even furthers her personal record this weekend and scores high,” said head coach James Robinson.

Rutgers will not have anyone competing in the 800-meter, 3000-meter and 5000-meter races and the 60-meter hurdles.

The Knights will miss a key member in the 4x400-meter relay since sophomore Asha Ruth cannot compete in her events due to a season-ending injury.

“It is a big loss but just like any other time other people will have to step up and do better,” Robinson said.

Ruth was also scheduled to compete in the 200-meter and the long jump.

The team has been training hard for the Championships this week in order to shave the maximum times from the athletes’ personal records.

“We want to keep their bodies fresh,” Robinson said. “We have been mostly working on their speed and turnover, whether it be distance runners or sprinters.”

Entering its last stretch of meets to end the season, the Rutgers GYMNASTICS gymnast i c s RUTGERS AT t e a m COLLEGE PARK, MD., looks to FRIDAY, 7 P.M. prove it can compete with national contenders.

The quad meet in College Park, Md., pits the Scarlet Knights against two of the top 36 ranked programs Friday, as well as three more opponents than their previous meet against SUNY Cortland where they earned the highest combined team score in seven years.

“We are trying to focus on our strongest routines — the ones that are going to hit and be consistent,” said head coach Chrystal Chollet-Norton. “These are some of the top teams in the country.

We want to show them that we belong in that level as well.”

Chollet-Norton said the available depth in the lineup means there is more flexibility of routine going into each meet, and the team can put the best routines and gymnasts with experience out to compete.

“We can’t be happy with a 191 anymore,” she said. “We have to put the routines that we know if they hit, we are a 194 team. So that’s what we are going for.”

Freshman Luisa Leal-Restrepo said that although Penn State and Maryland, two of the competing

squads, are ranked No. 18 and No. 33, respectively, Rutgers is looking to go out and show that it improved to a 194 team.

Leal-Restrepo, who was named East Atlantic Gymnastic League (EAGL) Rookie of the Week on Tuesday after taking four event titles in the last meet, said because it is easier to get distracted watching the other teams do their routines, team support will help the most.

“We have to put the routines that we know if they hit, we are a 194 team.

So that’s what we are going for.”

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“The last weekend we had a dual meet, so we were really focusing … and didn’t have time to look at other teams and that had a really good result,” Leal-Restrepo said.

Chollet-Norton said that at this meet, the Knights won’t have a bye and will be able to go straight through, starting with bars and ending on beam.

“We are ending on beam, so we’re really excited about that,” she said. “We get our three strong lifts and beam is our strong event, but we can calm down when we get to beam.”

Sophomore Jenna Zito, who struggled on beam until she scored a career high last meet, said the three strong events before beam can get the energy level up so the team can finish strong.

“We have the skills, we have the numbers — now it’s about perfecting the little things,” Zito said. “I think it is putting the finishing touches on the routines and knowing that our skills are just as good as these teams.”

Senior Leigh Heinbaugh said that having the conference recognize Leal-Restrepo with her EAGL award and sophomore Danielle D’Elia, who won an EAGL Specialist of the Week award on Jan. 25, inspires the team going into this meet.

“We can actually beat these teams, especially not since we haven’t beaten them in a few years,” Heinbaugh said.

Maryland (7-3) is coming off a three-meet road trip.

Mar yland freshman Katy Dodds was named EAGL Specialist of the Week for her career-high performance for the second consecutive week on vault, posting a 9.900 to lead the Terrapins to a score of 194.225.

Penn State, ranked No. 18, scored a season-high 195.975 against North Carolina.

The Nittany Lions (6-4) have posted scores above 195 in five of its six winning meets this season.

William and Mary (3-10) has wins over Temple, Penn and West Chester, but is coming off a loss at its last meet.

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125 Mitch Berger, (8-15)

Joe Langel, (15-6)

133 No. 17 Frank Cagnina, (15-3)

Mike DeMarco, (17-12)

141 Stephen Dutton, (15-10)

Trevor Melde, (24-9)

149 Joey Napoli, (12-9)

No. 9 Mario Mason, (22-4)

157 Sean Bilodeau, (7-7)

No. 15 Daryl Cocozzo, (22-8)

165 No. 19 Brandon Hatchett, (13-8)

No. 5 Scott Winston, (16-2)

174 No. 10 Austin Meys, (17-8)

Alex Caruso, (27-7)

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Head coach Scott Goodale’s .769 winning percentage in his four years at Rutgers ranks No. 1 among all time Scarlet Knight coaches with a record thus far of 70-20-1.

BY A.J. JANKOWSKI CORRESPONDENT

The United States saw its fair share of changes between 1950 and the present day. Gasoline was 18 cents a gallon, basketball legend Julius Erving was just born and the mascot for Rutgers athletics was a rooster known as a Chanticleer.

But one truth has stood the test of time since Feb. 22, 1950 — the Rutgers wrestling team has not beaten Lehigh.

The Scarlet Knights are ready to rewrite histor y at the Louis

Brown Athletic Center tonight, when the squad pits its 20-1 record against a team which owned them for over half a century.

“We’re not talking about the whole 1950s thing,” said head coach Scott Goodale. “We’re just going about it as another dual meet.”

It is hard to ignore the staggering statistics, however, that favor Lehigh since that 16-11 Rutgers victory in New Brunswick so long ago. The Mountain Hawks won 36 straight duals over the Knights and own the series record with a staggering 39-1 mark.

Since its one triumph, Rutgers registered in the double digits against Lehigh only six times and its closest loss came in 1956, when the Mountain Hawks escaped with a 17-15 victory.

So while the Knights enter today’s matchup ranked No. 7 and Lehigh comes in at No. 10, it is clear who is the underdog.

“To be honest, it’s not the best matchup in the world for us,” Goodale said. “They’re probably favored in six of the 10 weight

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No. 4 Robert Hamlin, (22-2)

Dan Rinaldi, (18-6)

197 No. 19 Joe Kennedy, (15-8)

Mike Wagner, (12-12)

Key Bout HVY No. 4 DJ Russo, (25-4)

No. 1 Zach Rey, (24-0)

The dual will likely come down to the final bout, which sets the stage for another chapter in the Russo v. Rey rivalry. The two met in the finals of the EIWA Tournament last year, with Rey winning, 2-1, in overtime.

Tonight — 7:00 p.m. — Louis Brown Athletic Center No. 7 Rutgers vs No. 10 Lehigh Streaming live on ScarletKnights.com

RU readies for annual opener in Coral Gables

BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

With all the success Steve Nyisztor had in his first year in Piscataway, BASEBALL he could find it easy to slip into complacency.

The Rutgers baseball team’s sophomore shortstop has been on a tear since his senior year at Toms River North High School, and that hot streak carried over into his rookie campaign with the Scarlet Knights last season, when he hit .410 to lead the Big East.

Nyisztor was showered with accolades since he arrived on the Banks and a year ago helped lead the Knights all the way to the conference semifinals.

But for the second straight season, the Knights were predicted to finish lower than they expect in the conference, something that Nyisztor does not take lightly.

“We saw it,” Nyisztor said of the Big East preseason poll, which

slated the Knights in the sixth spot out of 12 teams. “That’s something we use as motivation. Other coaches in the Big East think we should finish [sixth]. Obviously that’s not where we see ourselves, so we’ll use that when we go into Big East play as motivation to try and prove all those people wrong.”

With the first conference game not coming until March 25, the Knights still have plenty of time to think about Big East play.

But starting tomorrow, Rutgers’ 2011 season gets underway, and as it does every season, a different roster will run onto the field to take on No. 20 Miami in the team’s annual opening series.

But in the grand scheme of things, preseason rankings mean nothing, especially to head coach Fred Hill.

The 1,000-gamewinner led the Knights to the conference semifinals against Connecticut last season

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Sophomore Steve Nyisztor, who is making the move from second base to shortstop this season for the Knights, led the Big East last season with a .414 batting average.