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Residence halls to offer gender-neutral roommate option

BY MARY DIDUCH EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

The University for the first time next year will allow men to live with women under cer tain conditions in three on-campus residence halls.

Demarest Hall on the College Avenue campus, New Gibbons on Douglass campus and Rockoff Hall in downtown New Brunswick will allow those who receive a lottery assignment to live there the option to live with someone of another gender, said Joan Carbone, executive director of Residence Life.

Students must choose their roommate if they select the gender-neutral housing option, she said.

“We will not place students together who don’t know each other of different genders. It has to be someone you choose,” Carbone said.

Students can also apply to Demarest or New Gibbons’ special interest housing and if accepted, elect the gender-neutral housing option, she said. But these rooms will not be set aside for anyone, male or female, wishing to live together without the given housing assignment or acceptance into the programs.

School of Arts and Sciences first-year student Nina Macapinlac will be residing with her friend Philip Lu, also a School of Ar ts and Sciences first-year, next year in Demarest.

“Phil and I were really good friends before so I’m completely fine with this,” she said, adding that her parents also did not mind.

As an anthropology major, Macapinlac applied for the Cultural

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New Gibbons on Douglass campus is one of the three residence halls that will next year test the option of rooming with someone of the opposite gender. Students must choose their roommate to be approved.

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Researchers tap into ancient volcanic history

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Three researchers linked local New Jersey geography to understanding global environmental changes.

University professors Dennis Kent and Jim Wright and graduate student Morgan Schaller of the Geological Sciences department discovered that massive volcanic eruptions from 200 million years ago caused a doubling of the earth’s atmospheric carbon dioxide in northeastern New Jersey.

“The Newark Rift Lake system has been the subject of study for more than 100 years,” Schaller said.

“So there is a tremendous amount of knowledge about the duration of the sedimentary cycles and the time span or earth history that they represent.”

Northeast New Jersey and Pennsylvania are considered the most enriched places to study the ancient volcanic history with its huge amount of background work that has been accomplished before, he said.

Studies regarding carbon dioxide changes in Earth’s atmosphere are essential to understanding its greenhouse gases, Schaller said.

Typically in individual volcanoes eruptions, the carbon dioxide emissions do not affect the climate, said Anthony Broccoli, professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences. But the massive eruptions Morgan has studied would raise the carbon dioxide levels enough to warm the earth by 3 to 8 degrees Fahrenheit.

“This study has particular relevance because of its implications for short term increases in carbon dioxide, as well as the long-term rock weathering atmospheric carbon dioxide balance, which probably controls earth’s climate over geologic time,” Schaller said.

The researchers obtained measurements from the National Science Foundation funded drill cores through the Newark Basin section from various parts of New Jersey that recovered more than 30 million years of earth history through the Triassic to the Jurassic period, Schaller said.

Black rocks called the palisades and their contents are part of these eruptions where important information was preserved, said Kenneth Miller, vice chair at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Along the Hudson River, the rocks become more exposed down the turnpike past Route 78 through the Watchung Mountains.

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Members of the RUSA Allocations Board explain the appropriation of student fees last night on the College Avenue campus.

Rutgers University Student Assembly gave its annual state of the RUSA allocations address last night during its meeting at the Student Activities Center on the College Avenue campus.

The allocations committee conducts an audit each spring based on organizational reports, new Student Activities Business Office penalties, as well as innovations through “how to” guides for organizations, said RUSA auditor James Joseph.

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Graduate fellows to mentor young urban students

BY ANDREA GOYMA CORRESPONDENT

University graduate students in the Urban Teaching Fellows (UTF) program began their annual eight-week-long “Youth in Action” research project yesterday to empower urban students, their peers, school and community.

Fourteen fellows will teach this year at Samuel E. Shull School, McGinnis Middle School and Perth Amboy High School in Perth Amboy, N.J., and East Orange Campus High School in East Orange, N.J., said David Damaschke, program co-coordinator and facilitator at Per th Amboy High School via e-mail correspondence.

He said the most important aspect the youth will take away from the program is a sense of selfconfidence and intellectual worth.

“By giving students the opportunity to speak up about issues or questions they have in their environment through research, students will be able to see the value of themselves personally and in their community,” Damaschke said.

The UTF’s goal is to develop teachers who are aware of the social and educational inequalities in urban schooling while giving the future teachers opportunities to gain theoretical and practi-

cal understandings by working with youth in their environments, he said.

“Students will develop a question regarding their school or community and through our program leader’s facilitation, become active members through actionbased research like interviewing, surveying, polling and outreach,” said Damaschke, a student in the Graduate School of Education.

Once finished with the project, students will present their findings at the Rutgers Graduate School of Education, said Barbara Kalimanis, a member of the “Youth in Action” cohort at Shull Middle School, via e-mail correspondence. They will also gain exposure to the possibilities of university life.

“We will be introducing the ‘Youth in Action’ project by having the students introduce themselves and come up with questions and issues they have,” said Jennifer Turley, the project’s cofacilitator at Perth Amboy High School, via e-mail correspondence. “Then in small groups, they have to act out different aspects of the problem or issue using improvisation.”

Turley, a Graduate School of Education student, said this introductor y meeting would be an interesting and fun way to get the students to start thinking about the larger eight-week project.

The program is specifically aimed at developing the students’ researching skills but the program is also multi-faceted, Damaschke said. The fellows will conduct many community-building activities and developing students’ reading, writing and publicspeaking skills.

“Students will also learn how to effectively work as members of a team, which will include learning how to accept individuals dif-

“It’s a great feeling when you build a positive relationship with the students and they can trust you.”

BARBARA KALIMANIS “Youth in Action” Member

ferent from themselves, learning how to actively listen and how to give and take constructive feedback,” he said.

The UTF cohort, who leads the “Youth in Action” project, is comprised of graduate students who completed their student teaching practicum during the previous fall semester, said Lilia Arfinengo, a member of last year’s UTF program, via email correspondence.

“Graduate students who are selected for the cohort of fellows receive specialized support and preparation, including supervised placement in urban schools for practicum and teaching internship experiences and a course on vital issues in urban education,” said Arfinengo, a Graduate School of Education alumna.

“Youth in Action” member Brian Canares said he was motivated to participate in the program because it aligned with his goals and philosophical beliefs about education.

“UTF really invests in creating sustainability in urban education,” said Canares, a Graduate School of Education student, via e-mail correspondence. “The people who apply to this program aspire to be long-time educators and they really want to make an impact in the educational system in America.”

Damaschke, who taught for four years in the non-profit Middle Earth Programs for Youth in Somerset County, said he knew that if he wanted to make a difference in any of his students’ lives, he needed to have the expertise in working with urban students and in urban districts.

“My students are hardworking individuals who face hard environmental factors,” he said. “In conversations with my students many have told me

that they financially contribute to family rent and grocer y costs or live by themselves and are responsible for looking after younger brothers, sisters and cousins.”

Canares said he saw his students as people who have different experiences and perspectives from other people.

“People sometimes see their challenging attitude towards teachers as a negative aspect,” Canares said. “I see it as a new and exciting way to ensure that I’m constantly on my feet [and] I truly think that you need to constantly challenge yourself in life if you want to be fulfilled.”

Kalimanis, who worked with suburban students for the last 10 years, said she is motivated to teach because she could recognize small but positive steps her students were making daily towards academic achievement and success. She said the fulfillment experiences working with urban students is unprecedented.

“It’s a great feeling when you build a positive relationship with the students and they can tr ust you because you are not only their teacher but their mentor, their confidante and their go-to person for ever ything,” said Kalimanis, a Graduate School of Education student.

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HISTORY: Results link SPECIAL INTEREST HOUSING OPENS DOORS TO LGBT COMMUNITY

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The University next year is expanding its on-campus housing offerings in another way — by adding the only lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender-specific special interest section called “Rainbow Perspectives” in the New Gibbons residence hall on Douglass campus.

“The goal is really to have something that’s dynamic and evolving and suits the people who are living there,” said Jenny Kurtz, acting director of the Center for Social Justice and the program’s coordinator.

Kurtz, who has been at the University for three years advising LGBT students and allies interested in learning more about gender and sexuality, said many students have expressed interest for this type of housing, which would create programs, dialogues and projects related to LGBT issues.

OPTION: Policy may help eliminate some roommate fears continued from front Studies special interest housing option in Demarest and became intrigued when she saw the option to live with a male on the program application.

“I was curious, but I didn’t know I was going to pursue it because I didn’t know who I was going to live with,” she said.

When Lu told her he was having difficulty finding housing for next year, they decided to room together.

“Now that there’s gender-neutral housing, friends that are the opposite sex can room together,” Macapinlac said. “It was just a really convenient situation.”

The program next year will be conducted in only three residence halls as a pilot to see if this change is successful and one the University will continue, Carbone said.

One potential issue stems from Residence Life’s requirement to fill every space at the University. If a student in gender-neutral housing drops out of his or her room, it

FUNDING: RUSA passes intent to condem police brutality continued from front “We receive $1 million through student fee allocations, $500,000 per semester and $80,000 in special event funding which we spilt among 350 organizations,” said RUSA Allocations Chairman Janaki Shah.

The $45 from student fees goes toward the dean’s fee where $12 is taken out, Shah said.

“The student governments from the respective professional school councils take 80 percent and the rest goes to RUSA,” Shah said.

The committee plans to branch out to student groups using Google initiatives, Joseph said.

“New logistics of RUSA allocations includes 48 hour response email, virtual office hours, online scheduling of one-on-one meetings and a new website,” said Joseph, a Rutgers Business School junior.

All board positions for the 20112012 RUSA allocation board are open and applications go online tomorrow, said RUSA Public Relations personnel Matthew Ruffe.

“There seems to be a lot of energy from student groups and individuals to have a special interest section focused on LGBT issues,” she said.

Other residence halls, like Demarest on the College Avenue campus, have similar sexuality and gender special interest sections that are LGBT-inclusive, but they are not LGBT-specific like “Rainbow Perspectives,” she said.

The program’s goals are to be highly participatory and reflect what the group is passionate about, she said, adding that members will also work to educate and inform others on campus about LGBT awareness and issues.

In addition to allowing gender-neutral housing with admittance into the program, “Rainbow Perspectives”

rooms will also be open for nine months, so students do not have to go home during the winter or spring breaks, Kurtz said.

“Rainbow Perspectives” is not exclusive to LGBT students, Kurtz said. Many allies, those who are not LGBT-identified but support LGBT causes, expressed joining the program.

So far, Kurtz has only heard support for the new section.

“The enthusiasm around this community has been really thrilling,” she said.

The deadline to apply for this housing option, which is open to students of all ages, has passed, but Kurtz said any interested student should still contact her and apply.

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larly the transgender community, it’s a huge issue,” she said.

School of Arts and Sciences senior Aaron Lee was one student who advocated for genderneutral housing to Residence Life in the past.

“I think it’s really great that we’re going to have it, and it will be available for kids next year,” Lee said.

In light of Tyler Clementi’s suicide last semester — which occurred shortly after the firstyear student’s roommate allegedly filmed his encounter with another male without his knowledge — Lee said this change is important to ensuring future LGBTQ students feel more comfortable living on campus.

“I just think it’s really awesome that it’s going to be an option for people living there …

I bet it’s not just going to be a pilot program,” Lee said.

Kurtz thinks the new policy is a good start but said it remains to be seen whether it will expand or not.

“What we have to do is see what are the evolving needs, see what folks are asking for and then arise to meet those needs,” Kurtz said.

“We want to represent a plethora of members and represent all aspects of the community through an application process to ensure we encompass the diversity of the University,” said Ruffe, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore.

RUSA also passed a resolution to condemn police brutality with a student review board.

The resolution will provide students and residents of New Brunswick an opportunity to voice their concerns about the recent allegations against the New Brunswick Police Department, said Stacy Milliman, a RUSA senator.

“These actions of the New Brunswick police officers is not an isolated event, rather prevalent among the department and needs to end,” said Milliman, a School of Arts and Sciences junior.

There is no mechanism for reviewing the board for proper conduct, but the anticipated deadline has the resolution moving forward during the fall.

“A follow up plan needs to be introduced to city council within the next few weeks, but there would be a referendum [requiring] a certain amount of signatures before the election in November,” she said.

“If we are representing the University community, then I feel as though Piscataway Township Police Depar tment should be included.”

Another issue brought up at the meeting was the motion for RUSA to join the United States Student Association (USSA).

“USSA is a powerful, student building organization,” said USSA President Victor Sanchez.

“It is our mission statement to support education and produce better leaders.”

RUSA President Yousef Saleh said USSA is a great opportunity for RUSA, but the membership fee is an issue.

“Originally there was a $7,000 membership fee, we felt as though that was too expensive, and we felt there was a cheaper option, so we went to the professors’ union and they gave us $2,000, and [with a discount] it will only cost $2,000 for us to join,” Saleh said.

The rate has been reduced because the association will pay the pro-rate rather than yearly rate that will keep the association in the USSA until October, Saleh said.

The motion for RUSA join USSA will be decided next meeting, Saleh said.

Items reported to the review board include violations to the proper code of conduct, the use of derogator y slurs and any instance of disrespect, Milliman said.

“Members would be democratically elected from the city of New Brunswick, with one or two elected from ever y ward,” she said. “There is an internal af fairs board within the police depar tment, but it doesn’t work because the police of ficers are too close-knit.”

Cities such as New York City, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas and Cleveland have citizen-run review boards, Milliman said.

“Police of ficers are unlike other state of ficials because they have legal sanction to use physical force against civilians,” she said. “The power of civilian review boards has been successful in the past, like the one in New York City, [which] has subpoena power,” Jonathan Nycz, a School of Engineering junior, said the resolution failed to mention Piscataway police officers, who are also part of the University community.

“Two of our campuses are in Piscataway and are patrolled by Piscataway police,” Nycz said.

“What is special is the collection of coreholes we have through these rocks,” he said. “In our core library we have 42,000 of core through the rocks of the Newark Basin, the geological area that runs from the Newark border to Trenton. The coreholes preserve an unweathered, easily sampled record that Schaller worked on.”

Sitting on top of the whole sequence are igneous rocks that can be correlated across four continents, Schaller said. The rocks are the result of massive eruptions, but the timing and duration of these events is recorded best in the sediments of the Newark Basin.

Schaller, Kent and Wright discovered atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations could be doubled in a very short amount of time by colossal and rapid episodes of volcanism.

“Continental flood basalts like the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP) are voluminous enough to cover several million square kilometers of earth’s surface, and presumably, a similar response may be observed to other events of similar scale, such as the Siberian Traps,” Schaller said.

CAMP is a large igneous province (LIP), which is a term used for the outpourings of lava that cover approximately millions of square kilometers of Earth’s surface, he said.

While there are LIPs at other times in earth history, such as the Siberian Traps 250 million years ago, the CAMP might be one of the massive events erupted 200 million years ago, he said.

“This is the first unequivocal link of large scale volcanic eruptions, LIPs, to a major increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide,” Miller said. “Such a link has been suggested but these are the first data to prove a link.”

There is no active volcanism in New Jersey or the east coast of the United States today, Schaller said.

At the time of the eruptions, what is now New Jersey was at the center of a supercontinent called Pangea, Schaller said. When Pangea split apart at its center to form the Atlantic Ocean, a series of basins called rift basins formed.

“Lakes formed in these basins and filled with sediments,” he said. “When the CAMP erupted, lava flowed into these rift basins.

For this reason, the CAMP rocks are very well preserved in places such as New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut.”

The test was performed in ancient soils in each lava flow unit in the Newark rift basin and acquired an atmospheric carbon dioxide increase above each lava flow, followed by a systematic decrease over the subsequent interval, Schaller said.

“Our results show for the first time that large igneous province volcanism can increase the concentration of carbon dioxide in earth’s atmosphere, which certainly must have environmental consequences,” Schaller said.

The rates of large changes in carbon dioxide due to modern emission circumstances, such as releasing 9 billion metric tons of carbon by burning fossil fuel, may be associated with this LIP, though the environmental effects of LIPS is still a hot debate, Miller said.

Schaller, Kent and Wright’s research will allow them to rethink the way the atmospheric system responds to a perturbation.

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Greek organizations stroll for childrens’ literacy

BY ELIZABETH TAYLOR CONTRIBUTING WRITER

In this year’s annual “Stop, Drop and Roll” dance competition, Beta Kappa Psi fraternity out-danced six other greek organizations and took home first place Wednesday night in the Busch Campus Center Multipurpose Room.

The event, hosted by the Delta Phi Omega sorority, featured fiveminute choreographed rhythmic line dancing called “strolls,” by Beta Kappa Psi, Iota Nu Delta, Kappa Phi Lambda, Psi Sigma Phi, Sigma Sigma Rho, Alpha Phi Omega and Alpha Phi Alpha.

“A stroll competition is people in greek organizations line dancing, coming out and showing their stuff,” said Jinisha Patel, event coordinator and vice president of Delta Phi Omega. “It’s about showing your pride for your organization, the pride that everyone gets out of it is the exciting part.”

New fraternity Beta Kappa Psi, the first team to dance in the competition, presented a high-energy performance that mixed athletic dancing with comedic showmanship and won the judges’ choice award for the best stroll.

The Beta Kappa Psi dancers also incorporated audience participation into their routine, at one point dancing to the audience clapping without any musical accompaniment.

Matthew Mieles, a member of Beta Kappa Psi, said he was thrilled to be par t of the winning team and did not think his fraternity would go so far in the competition.

“I’m excited. I was really not expecting to win,” said Mieles, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences sophomore.

“My fraternity is actually not on campus yet. We’re still trying to colonize here, so this is really good for us.”

The judges’ panel consisted of seven volunteers from a sampling of greek organizations, including Alpha Phi Omega, Sigma Beta Rho, Delta Epsilon Psi, Iota Nu Delta and Delta Kappa Delta.

“Criteria [for the dance competition] consisted of overall appearance, organizational pride, uniqueness and creativity,” said Dhaval Amin, a member of the judging panel from Iota Nu delta.

Amin, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, said judges had no doubt Beta Kappa Psi outperformed the rest, so the decision to crown them as champions was unanimous.

“We all thought [Beta Kappa Psi] were the best,” he said.

“They left a lasting impression clearly because even through all the acts, they withstood the challenges to win.”

During the event, audience members had the opportunity to weigh in their opinions for the viewer’s choice award and text votes for the team they enjoyed the most.

When technical difficulties prevented event organizers from receiving the audience’s texts, the students cheered for their favorite groups instead.

The audience presented the viewer’s choice award to the co-ed greek organization Alpha

Phi Omega, which per formed its first stroll in the organization’s histor y.

Their dance show included white masks that covered the identities of the dancers.

Delta Phi Omega hosted many events in the past week, including the stroll competition, to raise awareness for the sorority’s philanthropy cause for children’s literacy said Patel, a School of Arts

and Sciences senior. Proceeds went to Asha for Education.

“We have been book-driving and tabling for the last two days, [and] we had another dance cultural event on Friday. This is our last event,” she said.

Although the dance competition only lasted an hour, turnout for the event was high, with many audience members standing for lack of available seats.

Mieles said the high turnout combined with the audience reaction to the show left many anticipating next year’s stroll competition.

“I’m really looking for ward to it next year and hopefully because it was a success this year, more fraternities will come in and the competition will be even more intense,” Mieles said.

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Fraternity members strolled Wednesday night at the “Stop, Drop and Stroll” competition at the Busch Campus Center. Alpha Phi Omega hosted the competition with proceeds going to Asha for Education.

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Students show off their University swagger last night at the second annual “Rutgers on the Runway” in the Student Activities Center on the College Avenue campus.

The event highlighted 15 name brands of University apparel, including Tommy Hilfinger and Victoria’s Secret. Proceeds went to Dance Marathon.

ALUMNA CREATES SITE TO RATE LANDLORDS After University alumna Diana Brown sued her New Brunswick landlord when she moved into an apartment infested with cockroaches, she decided no one should have to go through that experience.

After the lawsuit, which Fox’s “The People’s Court” aired last week, Brown created goodlandbadlord.com, a website that not only teaches students — often susceptible to off-campus landlord abuse — their rights as tenants but also allows students to rate landlords in their area.

Brown said she is not the only one who experienced problems with a landlord. “[Others] say they have the same problem,” she said. “They don’t know they want to sue their landlord, or they don’t know how. They think they need a lawyer to do it, but you don’t.”

The website breaks down the legal process if a tenant wants to take their landlord to court, explains what could be sued over and advises on rights and gathering evidence.

“I think it’s important for people to know, especially in New Brunswick where you could be taken advantage of like I did,” Brown said.

As of now, the site only operates for New Brunswick, specifically the University community. But Brown is working on expanding.

“I’m just trying to look out for my friends and my siblings,” she said. “I don’t want the same thing that happens to me to happen to other people.”

— Mary Diduch

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ast week, we laureled the bizarrely enjoyable video game adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby.” This week, however, we have a much more negative opinion on another adaptation of the book — the movie. It isn’t the fact that it is being turned into a movie that is upsetting. Rather, it is the fact that the movie is being filmed in 3-D. There is absolutely no reason to taint the “The Great Gatsby” by presenting it in 3-D. 3-D movies are little more than cheap, flashy gimmicks that often resort to special effects to mask weak plots and bad acting. One has to ask, “What possible aspect of ‘The Great Gatsby’ needs to jump off the screen?” This is a great American stor y and cheapening it by releasing the film adaptation in 3-D is pretty unforgivable.

Fitzgerald must be rolling in his grave. For deciding to insult a classic piece of literature, director Baz Luhrmann — and ever yone else involved in making this decision — receives a dart. *

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Despite Leader Moammar Gadhafi’s abhorrent use of violence and his absurd claims that the protestors in Libya are being fed “hallucinogenic pills in their coffee with milk,” the uprising is continuing on in the countr y. Like the Egyptians before them, the Libyans are making great strides for ward in their efforts to overthrow an inhumane government, and we applaud them for taking to the streets — even in the face of militar y forces. Even one of Gadhafi’s aides, Ahmed Gadhaf al-Dam — who is also the despot’s cousin — has joined the revolt, fleeing to Egypt in an act of protest against Gadhafi’s decision to call in the militar y on the people. We give the Libyan protestors a laurel for their brave and valiant efforts. It is truly amazing to see people come together and fight for justice, no matter what. *

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Perhaps the members of the Arizona Legislature just weren’t thinking when they decided that now was as a good a time as any to put forth a measure looking to designate the Colt revolver as the official state gun — especially considering what happened to Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson not too long ago.

Whatever the case, it is not just the timing that makes this move to designate an official state firearm a bad idea. Arizona’s decision to establish a state firearm is nothing short of a glorification of weapons and the damage they can potentially deal. We understand American citizens have the right to bear arms, but there is no reason to revere them as state symbols. Can’t Arizona find something more peaceful to represent their state? For endorsing violence as an integral part of Arizona’s histor y and identity, we give the Arizona Legislature a dart. *

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While President Barack Obama has denounced the constitutionality of Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act — the section that defines marriage as being between a man and a woman only — the University is also making its own strides forward for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning community with the introduction of “Rainbow Perspectives.” This new, special interest housing specifically covering LGBTQ issues, while also permitting gender-neutral housing, will start in Fall 2011 and will be located in New Gibbons on Douglass Campus. This is a great decision on the University’s part and long overdue. For this, we give the University a laurel. *

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Is perceived immorality justification enough to censor something? While immorality is a concept that is up for a lot of debate depending on the situation, we’re going to have to say in the case of AshleyMadison.com, that, no, immorality is not reason enough to censor this site. AshleyMadison.com is a website which facilitates users in their attempts to engage in extramarital affairs. Companies such as Facebook, Google, ABC and Fox have been denying the website the ability to run advertisements, and Facebook has gone as far as blocking messages containing the website’s URL. Let us be clear — it is not that we are in support of cheating on one’s spouse.

What we are in support of, however, is AshleyMadison’s right to exist. The website is not engaged in any illegal conduct. Therefore, censoring it seems to be a case of companies playing morality police. For this reason, companies denying AshleyMadison the right to advertise — especially Facebook — all receive darts.

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he 21st centur y ing all her new albums for has been the death 46 cents a day. of the digital age And while I write halfof music. With the crejokingly, we should be ation of the mp3 format thanking whatever God and the iPod, iTunes, we choose that we haven’t iPhone and the dawn of seen the music industr y the age of piracy, from come to this in the past PATRICK DANNER Napster to Limewire to decade. As a business BTJunkie, the music industr y has incurred, that, in the ’80s and ’90s, became more and what they consider, crushing blows. The market more about the CEO, the producer and the is shrinking, producers are taking losses left label, it would’ve made sense for them, like and right and we, the consumers, have become most American industries, to find cheap labor a culture of “pirates.” and promote the hell out of it. It’s the quickest Now, I do not know how to “torrent.” I don’t and easiest way for them to make a buck and, understand how it works and I become nervous most impor tantly, in that system, the ar tist when I see a slew of tiny boxes littered across my would need absolutely no talent. They could litscreen. That this makes me, in the eyes of my peers, erally be 3OH!3. Thanks, Rutgers University technologically illiterate, says something.

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It says that music piracy has become so comThe project for record labels will quickly monplace that the legality of it never crosses our become to adapt to this new method of music minds. It has become more socially acceptable than consumption. We shouldn’t make it illegal. We underage drinking or those few Adderall you pop shouldn’t criminalize people for file sharing anythe night before your exam. For more than we should me for letpossibly the first time there is an ting my friends watch Showtime “We truly have illegal activity for which we can say on my cable. Instead, record truthfully, “Everyone’s doing it.” labels should brace themselves, a chance to witness, I am not trying to moralize. Just get back to looking for good for the first time, the musicians — not marketable because I never bothered to learn how to pirate music doesn’t mean I — because, in the next de-industrialization musicians don’t wish I could. But for now I five years, democratic word-ofget by with Youtube, mainly, and mouth will be the only publicity of music.” pass my flash drive around like a wor th anything. They’ve adapted church collection basket for any before, with the rise of FM radio, and all my friends to load with the music I do not the tape deck and the music video. I do not want to pay $20 for. think it’s unreasonable for the consumer to In fact, despite the laws passed, harsher by the expect them to do it again. day, I think it’s time for artists and record labels This evolution of the industr y would mean prito embrace the age of piracy as an age when, for marily that the music industr y will no longer be once, it will be solely the people who decide the industr y of music — it would allow it to what’s good. Success will no longer be left up to become the industr y of touring and merchanthe ad campaigns, and no longer left up to whoevdise. Big name musicians will be forced to be er’s opening for this week’s biggest artist. How do actual artists, to create a live experience differyou think Less Than Jake got a video on MTV all ent and genuinely better than their recordings, those years ago? Snoop Dogg. No joke. By removno longer able to rely on their sponsors and sell ing the traditional idea of the consumer from the out Madison Square Garden on the ad campaign music business, by granting unlimited access to around it. We will no longer have to know, or the material, the music industr y folds. To me, care, that Sprite is sponsoring the latest The that’s a good thing — because printers are an Roots tour. We should relish the fact that we, industr y, music shouldn’t be. We truly have a seriously, have a good chance of seeing that. chance to witness, for the first time, the de-industrialization of music. And to me this comes not a Patrick Danner is a School of Arts and Sciences moment too soon, as I heard through the senior majoring in English with a minor in Italian grapevine that the concept of “Katy Perr y” was studies. His column, “Stoop Musings,” runs on going to be outsourced to a Mumbai slum, recordalternate Fridays.

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No, no, no — a final goodbye from Buffalo Soldier Frontlines I cannot think of two sections that are more polar opposites than sports and opinions. Instead of immersing myself in world politics or the national debt, I spent the last few years in a press box at Yurcak Field or driving alone to Bethlehem, Pa., for a wrestling match.

To me, politics extend only so far as to debate whether or not Pete Rose belongs in the Baseball Hall of Fame. When two opposing sides engage in a violent act in sports, the end result is usually just a five-minute major penalty for fighting or at worst, a three-game suspension.

But one thing that always held true about the editorials and columns in this publication is that there is always a point to be made. Even if that point ruffled a few feathers along the way — shout out to a certain former editor who is a snazzy dresser, a soccer fan and shall remain nameless — there was a message to be heard. So before I jump into the lamentation of my final days with The Daily Targum, there is just one point I’d like to make.

Go out and enjoy life in the company of others, plain and simple. No matter what it is that piques your interest, there are at least 100 other students on this campus with the same hobby. This is going to be the last time in your life when you are grouped with hundreds upon thousands of students, all sharing the same goal of knowledge. Well, some also want to get it in with as many people as possible, but the main goal is still to achieve higher education. Don’t spend your four years here sitting in your dorm room playing Call of Duty and never socializing with anyone.

Get involved. Whether it’s through greek life or the Japanese Conversation Club or Oxfam, there is something for your niche.

It doesn’t even have to be with a club sanctioned by the University.

But nobody is going to hand you these opportunities on a silver platter — you have to be proactive and seek them out.

As someone who lacks social grace, it was tough for me to get

It is going to be a strange next couple of months for me. No more Hansel n’ Griddle. No more night edits, staying in the fourth floor of the Rutgers Student Center until 2 a.m. No more getting A.J. JANKOWSKI to spend eight hours a day with some of the brightest minds the University has to offer. involved at first. It also didn’t help But I’ll survive in the real that I grew up seven hours away world somehow. For starters, I from New Jersey and talk like a think I am going to celebrate my Canadian. But I built up the retirement from the Targum with courage somehow, and through a much-needed relaxing night in both my fraternity and the Targum, with a very patient girlfriend.

I have made lifelong friends and I cannot thank the 142nd had some fun along the way.

Editorial Board enough for the lifetime of memories we seemed “Go out to pack into one small hut on Mine Street and the best of luck and enjoy life to the new board. I don’t know in the company half of you nearly as well as I hoped, but from what I gather the of others, plain paper is in good hands.

I’d like to thank all of the players and simple.” and coaches who gave me pleasure of covering their teams over the years. It’s safe to say that I would And I wouldn’t trade any of it not even be anywhere near landing for the world. Well, I’d trade a job in the journalism world if it some of the rough mornings, but weren’t for their willingness to that’s it.

tolerate my questions and their inspirational performances.

And last but not least, I want to give my most heartfelt thank you to Anthony, Tyler and Steve.

I’m not going to try and sum up all the guidance and laughs that you three have given me the past two years, so I’ll let someone else do it for me. The following quote came from Jerry Seinfeld to his compatriots on their final day on the set of one of the most iconic shows of this or any generation: “For the rest of our lives,” he said, “no one will think of one of us, without thinking of the rest of us. And I can’t think of three people I’d rather have that be true of.”

A.J. Jankowski is the outgoing associate sports editor and is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in journalism and media studies. You can begin to look for his work as a biographer in a few years, well after he reimburses a lonely McDonald’s value meal. Since he retired from the office, the laughs in the sports corner are stuck in a mire. Also: fire, liar, perspire. Boom, roasted. Oh, and he does not smoke with cigarettes.

Fight UN Human Rights Council’s inaction Letter EHUD COHEN

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he United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) — established in 2006 — by name alone invokes a sense of justice, of doing the right thing for all people, regardless of race or gender. As the abhorrent killing of innocent protesters continues in Libya, with a death toll breaching the thousands and the quelling of recent protests and basic freedoms continuing in Iran, one would expect this council to enact resolutions condemning these acts. U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay’s challenged the council — the council is independent of her — on Tuesday to live up to its calling and take urgent action to help stop bloodshed.

The council has since responded with a statement. Not a resolution, not a call for investigation into

the matter of hundreds of innocents killed in open streets — just a statement. When last year’s flotilla incident in the Mediterranean Sea occurred, the UNHRC was all over it, launching a separate investigation and issuing a more than 50-page report accusing Israel of violating human rights and international humanitarian law. That was for the unfortunate death of nine people among many onboard who, in a controversial attempt to break an embargo, violently attacked Israel Defense Forces soldiers as they boarded the ship.

And as for the deaths of several hundreds of innocent protestors in Libya, as Libyan pilots are being ordered to bomb the crowds? Thus far just a statement, though there is a meeting this Friday to discuss a resolution. The inaction thus far should not be too shocking, however, as Libya is currently a member of the UNHRC, along with various other nations with questionable human-rights records, such as

Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, who both are in fear of popular uprisings modeled after the Egyptian democratic movement. Many countries belonging to the council have their human rights abuses well documented, even if the UNHRC does not take them to task. And while Iran was not elected to the council, it was elected to serve this year on the U.N.’s 45-member Commission on the Status of Women, a body dedicated to “gender equality and advancement of women.” The sheer notion of Iran sitting on that council is ludicrous.

The UNHRC did meet last Friday, though not to discuss the recent violence in northern Africa.

No, what the council found more immediately necessary than acting on the reprehensible and abhorrent actions of one of its own members was Israeli settlements.

To be clear, settlement policy is central to Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, but settlements are not the sole issue central to the peace

process — let alone Middle East peace — especially when Israel has repeatedly indicated a willingness to discuss the future of settlements in direct talks and even acted on it in the past through the 2005 withdrawal from settlements in Gaza, only to be met by rocket fire.

Rocket fire that was also ignored in the meeting, as the council again failed to condemn the hundreds of missiles fired just this year at Israeli towns — missiles whose aim, pure and simple, is to harm as many civilians as possible. It should be noted that a grad rocket was fired on Beersheba just two days ago.

The United States joined six other nations, including Canada and Israel, in opposing the UNHRC’s draft resolution on its working rules in 2007, on the basis that the agency was ignoring human-rights violations around the globe while obsessively focusing on Israel. It would seem the UNHRC has continued to ignore the world while instead focusing on

the sole Middle East democratic state. It would behoove the entire international community to speak out against the UNHRC’s continued inaction and hypocrisy, to call for the expulsion of Libya from the council — as many have done recently — and for the council to begin working towards enacting resolutions to condemn all humanrights violations, regardless of their country of origin. “It is certainly up to the council members if they want to reinforce or maintain any credibility,” said Frej Fenniche, an aide to Pillay who heads the Middle East and North Africa department.

The UNHRC is set to finally meet this Friday to discuss a draft resolution regarding the recent events in Libya and discuss Libya’s role in the council. One can only hope it will be more productive than recent meetings.

Ehud Cohen is a School of Engineering junior majoring in electrical and computer engineering.

Take democracy back from all special interests Letter SAM BERMAN

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ne of the most convincing arguments against public-sector unions I’ve heard relies on the principle that private-sector unions and publicsector unions are inherently different creatures. It goes something like this: Private-sector unions provide individual, private-sector workers a means of organizing to represent their interests in order to even the other wise over whelming odds at the negotiating table with powerful executives. Public-sector unions, on the other hand, deal with a government monopoly. A lot of the same pressures that help workers and managers in the private sector come to a mutually beneficial agreement simply don’t exist in the public sector. As a result, public-sector unions act on behalf of government employees in a capacity much more akin to lobbyist groups than negotiators,

advocating for an ever-growing share of government revenue and an almost absurd level of job security for its constituents, without regard to the efficiency or effectiveness of government as a whole. And since the taxpayers have no lobby to represent them at the negotiating table — unlike in the private sector, where business executives are capable of representing themselves — the end result is that public unions give government employees disproportionate power in determining the allocation of government revenue. In a democracy, voters should have more control over such things than any one interest group. Thus, public unions themselves are abhorrent to democracy and need to be checked or eliminated altogether.

Even if you disagree, let’s accept this argument as valid for the moment. And, indeed, it is certainly plausible. The Cato Institute, a libertarian think-tank in Washington, D.C., published a report in January 2010 that found average compensation, including

benefits, of state and local government employees was 45 percent higher than that of privatesector employees, despite large budget deficits. That sounds less like a mutually beneficial contract negotiated by two parties interested in coming to an effective compromise and more like a contract negotiated to benefit one side, the government employee, with the other side, the taxpayer, unable to drive a harder bargain.

So we have our argument, and we have accepted its validity. In logic, you learn that for an argument to be valid, it must take a valid argument form. Think of an argument form as a generalized statement. Here, “argument form” refers to the premises — that Party X (public unions) are a powerful lobby group for Group Y (government employees), that Group Z (taxpayers) has no counterbalancing lobby group and that Party X affords Group Y greater representation in determining the allocation of public funds than Group Z and the conclusion that Party X needs to be checked or eliminated

altogether. The thing about a valid argument form? Every specific argument of that form is valid.

Watch this.

Let’s keep Group Z as the taxpayers. But let’s replace Party X with, say, the “Chamber of Commerce” and Group Y with “business executives.” Or maybe we should replace Party X with “the NRA” and Group Y with “gun owners.” Or we could call Party X “banking lobbyists” and Group Y “financial institutions” such as Goldman Sachs.

If it’s a valid argument for the limiting or dissolution of Party X, it’s valid regardless of whether Party X is the Service Employees International Union or the Chamber of Commerce. Either we recognize and work to rectify the undue influence that lobbyists across the political spectrum have over our politics or we do not. But it is simply far too dangerous to pick and choose which vested interests to allow ever-more uncontested dominance over our politics.

If we’ve decided, as a country, the time has come to take back our

democracy, then let us take it back from all special interests.

Which brings me to my final comment. I’d like to make a quick note on the idea that taxpayers are unable to effectively represent themselves at the negotiating table. To me, this seems like an odd assertion to make in a democratic society. As a fundamental principle, the people are represented by whomever they elect to public office. Our own Gov. Chris Christie is a perfect example of this — the New Jersey voting public, perceiving the public sector to be receiving unfair wages and benefits in a time of economic crisis, elected someone they thought would drive a hard bargain at the negotiating table.

The claim, of course, is that politicians will say anything in order to get elected, then lack the political will to act once in office. Well, you get what you vote for, I suppose. That’s the essence of democracy.

Sam Berman is a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student.

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Attaining their 10th conference victor y tomorrow afternoon against the Mountaineers would set the Knights up nicely heading into their season finale at last-place Seton Hall.

But a loss would drop them out of the top-four discussion and make the Knights’ capper in South Orange, N.J., a must-win on the road.

Made clear in its near defeat at the hands of USF, Rutgers is still very much susceptible to losing against a one-win conference opponent.

But Stringer’s gritty group is also very much capable of overcoming any obstacle.

“Even though it was at home, [South Florida is] a good team,” Stringer said following the Knights’ narrow victor y.

“They’re feisty, they’re quick and like [junior for ward] Chelsey [Lee] said, they kind of keep you off balance in terms of what you expect. But you always want to see a team that fights back, and I thought that we did.”

If there is anyone on the Knights’ roster that knew the significance of the game, it was Lee, who dismissed any notions of looking down on the Bulls leading up to the contest.

And though she was quiet in the first half, all the Miami native needed was the final five minutes of action, when she scored 10 points to will the Knights to victor y.

“Those hits were inside. They were very specific,” Stringer said

After nearly two years in Magic City with Coleman, Beatty committed to Rutgers over offers from three other Big East schools.

Rutgers lost veteran point guard Anthony Farmer to graduation, leaving only then-junior Mike Coburn as the other viable option at the point during Beatty’s inaugural year.

“Mainly it was because [Rutgers] didn’t have a point guard,” Beatty said. “I could come in and contribute right away because I didn’t want to go somewhere and sit behind somebody for a year. They definitely recruited me really hard. They showed me that they wanted me to be a part of this program.”

Beatty split time with Coburn at point guard during non-conference play in his first season, but solidified his spot at the point by the time Big East competition rolled around.

The Miami-Dade product quickly took command with his voice in Piscataway, much like he did in the packed New Hanover weight room with his high school counterparts.

“I actually had him talk to our team this past summer … about the expectations out of high school, the winning — that losing is not an option,” Angel said. “You could have heard a pin drop. He’s big-time around here.”

Beatty continued his consistent guard play under new head coach Mike Rice and was a focal point of the Knights’ rebuilding

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C. Vivian Stringer has her team riding a two-game winning streak entering tomorrow’s afternoon matchup with West Virginia. of Lee’s plays in the post down the stretch. “We felt like she could handle her girl, so we were trying to isolate more.”

Lee averaged 14.2 points per game over the Knights’ past four contests and should once again prove an integral part of Stringer’s gameplan with the Mountaineers in town.

West Virginia’s Asya Bussie, a 6-foot-4 for ward, will test Lee down low in the RAC finale.

But with the Parkway Academy (Fla.) product playing her best basketball of the season at the right time, the Knights could be poised to con-

tinue their strong run to close the year.

“I think Rutgers is a Cinderella team,” Lee said.

“You never think they’re going to be there and out of the blue we come there. But we can’t just think because that’s our histor y and our reputation that that’s what’s going to happen again.

“We’re not the same players that played a year ago or two years ago. We need to just grind –– get in there and make sure we’re doing what needs to be done so we can make that run.”

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effort at the RAC in Year 2 after numerous player transfers.

But Beatty’s stock rose exponentially among the Rutgers faithful over the course of four minutes against then-No. 9 Villanova on Feb. 9, when he hit four 3pointers — including a banked-in shot that took just four seconds off the clock.

“It was definitely one of my best moments at Rutgers because I was a part of it,” Beatty said. “I was able to impact it and come back and get that win, especially with a tough team like Villanova, who’s ranked in the top 10 in the country.”

The scene following the Knights’ comeback over ’Nova validated the hard work of Beatty, Coburn and senior for ward Jonathan Mitchell more than any other singular occasion during their senior campaigns.

The JUCO point guard, the four-year commit and the Florida transfer — more valuable together than as individual parts — aided Rice’s recover y process faster than initially anticipated with the win.

And in the process, Beatty, Coburn and Mitchell set the foundation for Rice’s vision for the program, regardless of what happens Sunday against West Virginia during the Knights’ Senior Day. It is a fitting home finale for the trio, whose career paths were nothing if not unexpected.

Parts 1 and 2 of this 3-part series on the Rutgers men’s basketball seniors can be found online at dailytargum.com/sports. They will be honored before Rutgers hosts West Virginia at noon Sunday at the Louis Brown Athletic Center.

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BY MATT CANVISSER STAFF WRITER

The Rutgers tennis team takes its show on the road once again t h i s TENNIS weekend as it RUTGERS AT faces LOUISVILLE, another TODAY, 2 P.M. set of back-toback matchups at Louisville and Xavier. The team heads to Louisville, Ky., to open Big East Conference play today at 2 p.m. against the Cardinals.

“We were really excited to play Louisville last year and we thought we had a good chance of beating them, but the match got rained out,” said junior Leonora Slatnick. “I know the team is pretty excited to play them this year. We should be able to pull out a victory.”

The Scarlet Knights (4-2) are confident heading into Big East play and have high expectations for themselves in the league this season. The Knights were bounced in the second round of the conference tournament by South Florida last year and they made it clear that another early loss this year would be considered a disappointment.

“Our goal is to make it to the semifinals of the Big East Tour nament,” Slatnick said.

“We have a lot of strong teams

in the conference that are top in the countr y, so obviously if we beat one of them that would be awesome, but we’re looking to be in the top four at least.”

Immediately after its conference opener, Rutgers travels north to Cincinnati, Ohio, for an early match at 9:30 a.m. against Xavier.

“We played Xavier two seasons ago and it was a close match that we won,” said junior Morgan Ivey. “We’re hoping it’ll be a more decisive victor y this time. We have a stronger team right now and we have a lot of confidence coming into this match.”

The additional strength of the team this season came from the newfound depth that the Knights have in singles competition. The arrival of freshmen Stefania Balasa and Vanessa Petrini bolstered the Rutgers lineup from top to bottom and solidified the fifth and sixth singles slots.

“It’s great having that much depth on the team. [Balasa and Petrini] have such a high confidence level,” Ivey said. “It’s tough being a freshman coming into such a big university and joining a team with such a strong record the past couple of years, but they have really come in and proven themselves.”

Singles matches were the team’s strength in the early part

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Junior Greg Zannetti boasts an 18-2 record this season while redshirting and wrestling at 174 pounds unattached from Rutgers.

JUNIOR: Zannetti remains unbeaten after November loss continued from back Mack Lewnes. In Zannetti’s defense, Lewnes ranks No. 3 in the nation and was ranked No. 1 when the two faced off.

While it tallies in the loss column, the close bout made it possible for Zannetti to realize just how near he is to the top.

“I learned that I’m closer than I thought,” he said. “I’m right there with them. I can compete with those guys.”

Despite taking until his junior year for Zannetti to realize far along he is, his potential is something the Scarlet Knights’ coaching staff picked up on the moment he arrived at Rutgers.

“I think that part of the reason he’s having such a successful season is the consistency he’s shown since he’s been on campus,” said assistant coach John Leonardis.

“He’s developed some technique, but to be honest with you, he’s just a kid that’s bought into what we’ve preached since Day 1.”

And as his redshirt year comes to a close, Zannetti is miles away from where he sat in last year’s starting lineup at 165 pounds. But that is not to say he

is finished improving.

“I’m going to go back to the tapes over the summer to break down what I still have left to work on,” he said.

Zannetti compiled a 22-12 record last season and will likely reenter that lineup next year with the graduation of Alex Caruso. Returning to a starting spot is the next step toward attaining his goal of becoming a national champion. It is a goal that does not sound too far-fetched given the improvements shown.

“What he’s done in this redshirt year is he’s painted a picture for the younger guys of what should happen during a redshirt year,” Leonardis said. “He’s certainly going to look to be a starter in our lineup next year and not just starting, but making noise on the national level.”

It is hard to imagine an AllAmerican coming from a littleknown school, but from what Zannetti showed this season it is more than possible.

And that is due in large part to a dedicated work ethic and a proper redshirt year.

“You can make somebody good if they are willing to do it,” Goodale said. “[Zannetti] is willing to put in the time, and that’s what we saw from him [in high school]. Those guys are always going to end up being the best Division I wrestlers.”

of the season and already helped the Knights rack up four shutout victories.

But doubles has surprisingly been the Knights’ Achilles’ heel despite a long tradition of success, and it cost them already this season, most noticeably in a loss to Columbia. Ivey and Slatnick have a record of 2-2 in the No. 2 doubles slot for Rutgers and believe they will improve as the season progresses and they build chemistr y.

“There’s always work to be done, but we’re definitely growing as a team,” Ivey said. “We’re still feeling each other out.

We’re learning what to expect from each other as we’re playing, which definitely helps us advance as a team.”

The entire squad will be put to the test by this weekend’s rough schedule with the afternoon match, an early morning match the next day and travel in between. The two-day stretch is an impor tant barometer for the Knights’ physical and mental endurance.

“It will definitely be a challenge, but I think it will be good for us because during our spring break trip, we’ll have about four matches back-toback,” Ivey said. “We also hope to play four matches in a short span at the Big East Tournament, so this should be a good test.”

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Junior Leonora Slatnick plays on the Knights’ No. 2 doubles pairing this season with classmate Morgan Ivey.

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Knights head south for second series

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he Rutgers wrestling team set yet another benchmark by ranking ninth in the final NWCA/USA Today coaches’ poll, its highest ranking since last year’s No. 22 finish.

The Knights, who tallied a school record-high of 21 dual meet wins, began the season ranked No. 22 but climbed as high as seven during the year.

Three of their victories came over ranked opponents in No. 3 Virginia Tech, No. 11 American and No. 16 Missouri.

The team competes in the 107th EIWA Championships from March 5-6 at Bucknell.

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its first win of the season yesterday, defeating Arkansas, 4-3, in extra innings.

Sophomore Kaci Madden scored the walk-off run in the bottom of the ninth on a passed ball. Hurler Noelle Sisco started for the Knights, giving up three runs in 4.1 innings with four strikeouts, while sophomore Abbey Houston earned the win, throwing a no-hitter in 4.2 innings.

Down by one in the sixth, sophomore Mickenzie Alden scored the tying r un that would hold for the rest of the contest and send the game into extra innings.

The Knights continue competition in the Holiday Inn Emerald Beach Islander Classic in Corpus Christi today against Texas Southern.

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Saints released Jeremy Shockey this week, but he may already have his sights set on a new team.

The Super Bowl-winning tight end passed a physical with the Miami Dolphins yesterday, although it is still unknown whether a contract is being negotiated.

Shockey, a former Miami area star, lives in South Beach during the off-season.

Shockey, whose stats declined throughout his career, ended last season with 41 catches for 408 yards in 13 games.

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Cardinals must look for a new ace as starting pitcher Adam Wainwright plans to go through seasonending surger y.

The right-hander, who complained of arm stiffness after a throwing session on Monday, will undergo a procedure to replace a ligament in his right elbow. The surger y, known as Tommy John surger y, requires months of rehabilitation.

Wainwright, the runner up in last year’s National League Cy Young Award, finished last season with a 20-11 record and a 2.42 ERA.

Looking at the Rutgers baseball team’s semifinal loss in the Big East Tournament last seas o n BASEBALL could prompt RUTGERS AT those MICHIGAN with an TODAY, 2 P.M. outside perspective to call the year a disappointment.

But head coach Fred Hill thinks other wise, and judging by his team’s tight play against No. 18 Miami last weekend, it is easy to understand why.

“I might look at it a little bit dif ferently,” Hill said of his team, which won 30 games last season. “For some people, if you don’t win the championship, it’s not a good year. Our sport’s too hard. Ever y game is a new game, you perform for ever y game and we’d love to win a championship — that’s our goal, don’t misunderstand me. But if you don’t win a championship, it doesn’t mean you haven’t had a good year.”

The Scarlet Knights (1-2) carr y that game-by-game approach this weekend, when they return to the Sunshine State to take on Michigan in Port St. Lucie. The three-game set, which star ts today at 2, marks the second leg of Rutgers’ annual pilgrimage to Florida to start the season.

While Michigan is not a familiar opponent to the Knights, the Wolverines enter the weekend on a three-game losing streak to a trio of

Rutgers’ Big East rivals.

As a Big Ten representative in the Big Ten/Big East Challenge, Michigan dropped consecutive games to No. 21 Louisville, St. John’s and No. 22 Connecticut.

The Knights make it four Big East opponents in a row for the Wolverines, but aside from conference affiliation, the two programs do not know much about one another.

“They don’t know much about us, we don’t know much about them,” Hill said. “So it’s going to be a matter of just preparing yourself to just play another ballgame, but play hard and do the best you can.”

Hill sends out the same three starters he did against the Hurricanes, as sophomores Tyler Gebler and Rob Smorol and junior Nate Roe take the mound in Game 1, 2 and 3, respectively.

All three struggled with walks in their season debuts, something Gebler, who walked five batters in six innings of work, hopes to improve upon when he takes the mound.

“Don’t walk guys,” Gebler said of what he learned from his first career start. “That’s what comes back to hurt me. I walked a lot of leadoff guys, hit some batters and that really put me in holes. “ On the other hand, offensive production is something Hill hopes can take of f against Michigan. The Knights averaged just six hits per contest over their opening stretch, as sophomore shor tstop Steve Nyisztor and senior Michael Lang carried the team from the

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Sophomore righthander Tyler Gebler takes the mound today for his second career start, as the Knights face Michigan in Florida. plate with a combined six hits in Coral Gables, Fla. But the Knights fly into their return trip to Florida with the same one-game approach as always — the ver y mindset that propelled them to finish among the top teams last season in the conference.

And for the second week in a row, Hill sends his team on the field against another toptier program, something that — based on last season —

should pay dividends as the year progresses.

“If you look at our schedule, we probably play the toughest pre-conference schedule in the Northeast,” Hill said.

“That’s been our philosophy since Day 1 … we want to play good competition early. It helps our process and they [the team] see good teams, see how they act, see how they play. I think it helps us down the road.”

RU, UMBC meet with unfamiliar looks

BY VINNIE MANCUSO STAFF WRITER

The Rutgers men’s lacrosse team will not face the same Mar yland-Baltimore County s quad MEN’S LACROSSE tomorRUTGERS AT row that handed UMBC it a narSATURDAY, 1 P.M. row 6-5 defeat last season.

Then again, the Scarlet Knights are not without some rebuilding of their own.

“It’s a big game for both of us in the sense that we’re both very different from last year,” said head coach Jim Stagnitta.

“They’re trying to replace some talented players, as are we. It’s a really good test early on to give us an idea where we are and what we need to do.”

The Knights (2-0) travel to Baltimore, Md., coming off a dominant weekend in which they overcame both Wagner and Manhattan by a combined 28-8 score.

But Rutgers is still a team with a lot of youth, particularly on offense, which includes two redshirt freshman and a sophomore.

And the newcomers are still recovering from the busy weekend.

“We threw a lot at them in a weekend. It’s tough early in the year to play two games,” Stagnitta said. “It seemed like a great idea when they scheduled it. We were hoping to get some of these young kids some playing time.”

The veteran players on the team noticed the heart their younger teammates showed during their weekend homestand and know they will be a big part of Saturday’s matchup.

“It’s a lot of fun because they’re three very talented players,” said junior attackman Kevin Hover of his younger counterparts on offense. “They bring a nice mentality to the game.

They’re all very creative. They’re always going to make a good play — if not the best play — which I know will carry over to the game at UMBC.” The Retrievers (1-0), whose offense has two sophomores and a redshirt freshman, hold one advantage that is nothing new to UMBC lacrosse.

Famed head coach Don Zimmerman has been with the Retrievers since 1994 and led the team to five American East regular season championships and three conference tournament championships. Stagnitta and Co. feel Zimmerman is the biggest obstacle to overcome.

“They’re just well coached,” Stagnitta said.

“Don Zimmerman is fundamentally one of the best coaches in the countr y, always has been.”

The guidance of the threetime American East Coach of the Year makes UMBC a team that allows for a small margin for error.

“They’re a team that doesn’t beat themselves,” Stagnitta said.

“They don’t do a lot, but they’re ver y good at what they do.”

The Knights look to battle the regimented style of play of

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Junior attackman Kevin Hover scored two goals on nine shots in the Scarlet Knights’ pair of opening weekend games.

the Retrievers by making sure there is no room for mistakes in their own gameplan.

“We really have to focus on ourselves first before we can worr y about what they’re going to do”, said junior defenseman Andrew D’Agostino. “If we can make ourselves perfect first I don’t think we have to worr y too much about [UMBC].”

And Stagnitta is confident that no matter how well disciplined Zimmerman has the Retrievers, he will have the Knights ready to play the game they know best.

“Our philosophy is we play against faceless opponents,” Stagnitta said. “Ever y week we show up we want to play the same way and put the onus on the other team to make the adjustments to us.”

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Beatty commands RU offense after two years at Miami Juco Vocal point guard leads HS to state title after falling short twice

BY TYLER BARTO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

Hoisting a congratulatory banner after Miami-Dade Junior College’s conference championship in 2009, James Beatty was on top of the world.

MEN’S BASKETBALL The 6-foot-2 SENIOR DAY - PT. 3 OF 3 Beatty and three other teammates destined for major Division I basketball programs led Miami-Dade — one of the nation’s top JUCO programs — to yet JAMES BEATTY another Southern Conference championship.

“Miami-Dade was one of the biggest opportunities for me, being that they’re a junior college powerhouse,” Beatty said. “They are always ranked in the top five, top 10 in the country. I knew that if I went there that there would be Division I scouts there, also.”

It was in one of those crowded southeastern gymnasiums that Beatty came in contact with former Rutgers head men’s basketball coach Fred Hill Jr., who wanted the North Carolina native to join him in the Big East.

But before Beatty endured another change of scenery and before the now-senior point guard began to run the Scarlet Knights’ offense at the Louis Brown Athletic Center, he was a vocal basketball junkie growing up in New Hanover, N.C. “He would scream at you,” said Kirk Angel, Beatty’s coach at New Hanover High School. “He was really fun to coach because

he was so smart. He was probably the most cerebral player I ever coached. His basketball IQ was through the roof. If you weren’t working at his level, I’ve seen him scream kids down in the locker room. Nobody’s going to go back at him because nobody worked harder than him.”

Beatty’s determination with the Wildcats propelled his team to a North Carolina state championship his senior year after coming up short the two previous seasons.

The moment was not lost on the scrappy 18-year-old, who played shooting guard under Angel because the Wildcats needed his dynamic scoring punch.

“It was probably the best feeling I had dealing with basketball,” Beatty said. “We kept on coming up one game away and being so short to my last year winning it. It was probably my greatest accomplishment so far.”

But despite numerous offers from ACC programs out of high school, Beatty did not qualify academically, forcing him to the JUCO route and a program almost 800 miles South of New Hanover.

It was at Miami-Dade where Beatty first met Will Coleman, an athletic big man with whom he teamed up to overpower the JUCO ranks for two seasons.

“At first when I didn’t know him, I thought he was spoiled just because it was the first time I met him,” said Coleman, who now occupies the paint at Memphis. “There was a lot of nit-picking about what he didn’t like.

Once we got together and hung out a while, that’s when I rubbed off on him, and we hung out all the time.”

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Senior point guard James Beatty took control of the Knights’ halfcourt attack midway through his first season, during which time he led the team in assists per game.

Junior excels at 174 pounds in redshirt year

BY A.J. JANKOWSKI CORRESPONDENT

A redshirt year in wrestling is unlike one in any other sport. Often times, it is used in college sports solely for medical purposes or to help a freshman take a WRESTLING backseat and learn the ropes before being relied on to contribute to the team.

But for the Rutgers wrestling team, a redshirt year can come at the beginning, middle or end of a college career. Regardless of when it comes, the redshirt is expected to make some strides.

Junior Greg Zannetti is not making strides in his redshirt year. He is making leaps.

“This is what a redshirt year should be like,” said head coach Scott Goodale. “He never misses a day of practice even though he’s a redshirt.

He didn’t take Christmas break off. We want all of our guys to have that type of mindset.”

When redshirting, wresters are not allowed to travel with the team but can instead compete unattached in other tournaments. Zannetti owns an 18-2 record this year and most recently took first place on Feb. 19 at the National Collegiate Open in the 174-pound bracket.

“I’m really just trying to win every time I’m out there. But more than wins and losses, I’m trying to focus more on technique,” Zannetti said. “I’m working on staying focused, some technical things and getting into a pre-match routine so I’m ready to go for next year.”

Zannetti’s last loss came all the way back on Nov. 14, when he fell, 4-2, to Cornell’s

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Junior forward Chelsey Lee got back to her early season form over the past four contests, as the Parkway Academy (Fla.) product averages 14.2 points per game in that span. The Miami native most recently scored 18 points against South Florida.

Rutgers seeks complete effort in RAC finale

BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

It did not take long for head coach C. Vivian Stringer and the Rutgers women’s basketball team to get back on the Louis Brown Athletic WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Center floor after the first half against WEST VIRGINIA AT South Florida. The RUTGERS Scarlet Knights SATURDAY, 2 P.M. came back to the hardwood down nine with six minutes to spare before the

second half began and quickly did enough to earn a victory over the inferior conference opponent.

The Knights welcome West Virginia to the RAC tomorrow to close out their home slate, looking to string together two halves and avoid relying on another second-half surge.

But with each game gaining more significance as the season wears on, Stringer’s squad begins to display more and more resilience, something it did not have to start the year.

“We were inspired in the second half [against USF],” Stringer said. “They knew

what had to happen. It would be a shame for us to discount what I really felt has become a part of our own guts and our own DNA. I think they learned some things, they owned some things within themselves right now. It would have been so bad for us not to fight and back it up because I think we learned how to do that.”

With No. 1 Connecticut, No. 7 Notre Dame and No. 11 DePaul atop the standings, a quartet of teams remain in contention to snag the fourth seed.

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