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The Rutgers men’s basketball team takes on DePaul in Chicago tonight with Big East Tournament seeding implications on the line, as the Knights are currently No. 12 in the league.

DANCERS BUST SURPRISE MOVES IN BROWER COMMONS Thir ty members of Rutgers University Dance Marathon (RUDM) per formed the first flash dance of any organization yesterday in Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus.

When cued by loud music around 1 p.m., the participants stripped off their sweatshirts to reveal matching bright green T-shirts and performed a synchronized dance in the middle of the dining hall, which can hold up to 800 students.

RUDM held the dance to raise awareness for the marathon, which is less than one month away, said Julia Crimi, director of volunteer management.

The entire dance lasted for four songs and took more than a month to choreograph, she said. But RUDM has been planning the event since the summer and practiced in the space when it was closed.

They chose Brower for its location and centrality among the campuses, said Crimi, a School of Arts and Sciences junior.

“We wanted a place with high visibility, and our student centers don’t have a large enough space for good video angles,” she said.

RUDM is a student-run philanthropic event where participants are not allowed to sit for 32 hours. The event raises money for the Embrace Kids Foundation, which aids kids with cancer and blood disorders.

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School of Arts and Sciences senior Sirfaraz Piracha, left, and School of Arts and Sciences junior Ibraheem Catovic co-founded the Center for Islamic Life at Rutgers University when they noticed a lack of Muslim religious leaders on campus.

Muslim chaplains continue CILRU growth

BY KRISTINE ROSETTE ENERIO NEWS EDITOR

Members of the University’s Muslim community took a step for ward in their ef for ts to develop the Center for Islamic Life at Rutgers University (CILRU) with the hiring of two Muslim chaplains on campus.

Since the start of this semester, Brother Faraz Khan and Imam Moutaz Charaf have been serving part-time as campus chaplains, giving guidance, advice and council to all University students.

“You could be a super-conser vative Muslim. You could be a completely liberal Muslim who’s maybe just Muslim by name,” said Ibraheem Catovic, cofounder of CILRU. “You could be

Jewish, Christian — it’s not an issue.

You’re free to use the ser vices of the chaplain.”

As a University alumnus and a former chaplain on campus in 2007 — before the previous chaplaincy became defunct — Khan said he returned to give back to a community he is a part of and make sure Muslim voices are represented.

“If there’s someone there for these youth … then it makes things easier for them just to transition in life,” he said.

Charaf earned a master’s degree in Islamic studies as well as Muslim-Christian relations at Hartford Seminar y in Connecticut and has often worked with local Muslim communities in the tri-state area as well as various college campuses like Drew University.

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“I had a great opportunity to work with different people and do a lot of counseling.

So I love to do that. I feel if I can be of any help to anyone, why not?” he said.

Other than working as a chaplain, Charaf also holds a computer-related job, and Khan works as a full-time senior geologist for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.

“They’re basically volunteering their time.

They like our idea for our project a lot, and they see a lot of potential there,” said Catovic, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “So right now they feel they don’t want to financially stress the organization by demanding money.”

As part of their duties, the chaplains will hold classes related to Islam for University

Jonnie Penn, one of four friends who stars in the MTV reality series “The Buried Life,” talks about some of the goals he accomplished on his bucket list.

The four friends on the MTV reality series “The Buried Life” have helped deliver a baby, competed in a krumping competition and played basketball with President Barack Obama.

But they still have to make it to space.

Brothers Duncan and Jonnie Penn and their friends Ben Nemtin and Dave Lingwood relayed stories of their adventures in pursuit of life goals last night in the Multipurpose Room of the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus.

Before a crowd of 500 students, the young men, all in their 20s, gave their answers to one question — What do you want to do before you die?

Although each had a unique story of his origin with the group, a longing for a greater meaning to life was at the center of them all, a theme that stemmed from the show’s eponym, a poem Jonnie Penn read in college. “[The poem] touched us because it was like that’s exactly the feeling I had,” he said. “When I’m feeling bad or when everything’s so crazy, I feel like I’m buried. I want to just bust through that.”

Although the show is now in its second season, the group began its journey during the summer of 2006, when Nemtin started calling companies to ask if they wanted to get involved with a new production company called The Buried Life.

Soon enough, the guys received free products and money to help support them on their travels and got in with a local newspaper, which sent a photographer to see Nemtin become a knight for a day.

The next day, their goal of being on the front page of a newspaper was accomplished.

But fulfilling their dreams is not just fun and games for members of the group. For every one of the 100 items completed on their bucket list, the four friends commit themselves to helping others to do the same.

“You can make an incredible difference in someone’s life just by helping them give a voice to what they want to do before they die,” Jonnie Penn said.

Nemtin related one stor y of a cancer patient whose wish was that the guys would help sick kids enjoy their childhoods.

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NY Times columnist sees worth of institutionalized religion

BY SUKANYA RIA DUTTA CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Ross Douthat, the youngest oped columnist ever employed by The New York Times, shared his views Monday night about the decreasing role of institutional Christianity in the last 40 years and its acceleration in the last two decades.

In an event titled “Moral Majority to Moral Minority: Politics in a De-Christianizing America” in the Douglass Campus Center, he said the sexual revolution and the development of birth control pills during the 1960s caused Catholics to reconsider the role of the Vatican in their lives.

“The pill gave women more control over their lives and stability that made Catholic morals and ethics seem more and more unnecessary,” Douthat said.

His past columns admonished the media for being too harsh on Sarah Palin, criticized President Barack Obama’s policies and proposed stricter immigration laws.

Douthat, who is also the film critic for National Review magazine and a published author, calls himself a conservative thinker. He does not support gay marriage or the recently passed health care bill and would like to see Roe v.

Wade overturned.

“Globalization also introduced Americans to different ways of approaching their daily lives,” he said. “The sexual abuse by many of

the priests and others members of the Catholic Church produced a lot of dissatisfaction.”

Waning institutional Christianity brings consequences, Douthat said.

Churches in the early and mid-20th century were an integral part of society and culture. People went to church regularly and had a religious framework to define social goals and the direction of the nation.

“The decline of religious culture can’t just be measured in the huge drops in attendance to Protestant, Methodist and Catholic churches in America,” Douthat said. “Church budgets have diminished, donations to churches are much less and the student populations at seminaries have greatly decreased.”

Douthat attributed the strength of the Civil Rights Movement and anti-war protests to institutional Christianity. He said it aided immigrants with assimilation and settling into America and worked to ensure the sanctity of marriage and families.

Weakening of institutional religion in the United States gave way to the phenomenon of Moralistic Therapeutic Deism (MTD), Douthat said. Sociologists Christian Smith and Melinda Denton conducted a 2005 study called, “National Study of Youth and Religion,” showing a substantial majority of teenagers seeing themselves as religious believers in Jesus Christ.

Smith and Denton consistently found in the thousands of interviews they conducted that teenagers today lack depth in their understanding of religion, he said.

Some chief tenets of MTD are that God created the world and watches over it, be nice and fair to everyone and respect all religions and be happy and feel good, Douthat said.

“God doesn’t have to be an constant presence in one’s life, except when one has a problem, and good people go to heaven,” he said.

“Basically, just don’t be an a—hole.”

Implications of MTD, which stresses stability, contentment and not bothering anyone, allowed two main battles in the culture war, abortion and gay rights, Douthat said.

“Abortion opponents can argue that abortion is icky and mean to the fetus and therefore does not make anyone feel good,” he said. “It’s harder for opponents of gay rights to pass the guideline of MTD, because to deny rights to particular groups can be seen as being an a—hole.”

Advantages of MTD include tolerance and an openness that absolves one of the desire to impose their beliefs onto others, but a consequence is mellow faith, Douthat said. MTD produces people who are self-satisfied, creating hubris where people consider only their happiness when making decisions.

“This sort of hubris is illustrated by [former] President George W. Bush’s worst days in office,” he said. “It also creates a complacent mindset that will comfort the comfortable, and brushes over problems that require difficult choices and change.”

When speaking about the alarm of conservatives reacting to the de-Christianizing of America, Douthat said conservatives were victims who addressed a reasonable concern. He said secular liberals were paranoid and excessive.

“Alarmist liberals panic that religion breeds nationalism and could create an ‘American Taliban,’” Douthat said. “They fear that the power of evangelical religion is dangerous and imagine Sen. Pat Roberts [R-Kan.] as the Ayatollah Khomeini and Sarah Palin as [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad.”

Only a few decades ago, a religious right did not exist, as prolife and opposing gay rights doctrines were mainstream ideals before, Douthat said.

“The increased profile of the religious right led to a backlash among the youth,” he said.

Douthat ended the session with a remark about the ongoing budget conflict in Congress. He said the Democrats’ desire to raise taxes and the Republicans’ preference for lower spending are being used as political tools.

He said Obama and the Democrats are doing a terrible job with the budget. Since it is disadvantageous to discuss raising taxes, Democrats keep spending at the current level and are more scared to talk about raising taxes than Republicans are of talking about cutting spending.

“This causes the Republicans to go out on a limb and cut programs, and then the Democrats say the Republicans are hurting Americans when really the Democrats are unwilling to offer a solution themselves,” he said.

It was Douthat’s nuanced conservatism that inspired Eagleton Institute of Politics Director Ruth Mandel to ask him to speak at the University.

“We wanted someone who would inspire fresh viewpoints and a lively exchange,” Mandel said. “We knew that Douthat’s thoughts on politics and religion would be provocative and inspire different opinions.”

Saheli Sarkar, a School of Social Work sophomore, said Douthat was one of the best speakers he’s ever listened to at the University.

“He was smart without ever being condescending,” he said.

“I don’t think I would agree with the decline of religious institutions in America, but I do agree that American youth is becoming too complacent and less willing to organize and work toward real change.”

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GOALS: Group advises students to live life to fullest continued from front And with just a few calls to Toys “R” Us, they were able to arrange a shopping spree for children with the illness, an experience Nemtin said had a big impact on the group.

“The moments that were sticking with us when we were doing all these trips were the moments when we were helping somebody else,” Nemtin said.

After reports from local media outlets shed light on the group’s mission, hundreds of e-mails from people all around the world flooded their inboxes.

“It seemed to have resonated with people the same way it resonated with us,” Duncan Penn said. “[Because] the common denominator is ever ybody is going to die someday.”

They were at first hesitant to accept offers from networks for a television show for fear of losing

control over production, but after turning down several offers, they agreed to work with MTV, Duncan Penn said.

But there was just one condition.

“Why couldn’t we make a show the way we wanted to?”

Johnnie Penn said. “We went to MTV and said, ‘We will do this if you let us do the show.’

Amazingly, they said yes.”

Their first televised mission was crashing a party at the Playboy Mansion, which was Lingwood’s lifelong dream.

“Ever y Halloween dance, I went as Hugh Hefner,” he said.

The group ran into some legal trouble, but after handwriting a letter to Hefner himself, they were granted permission to put their first episode on television last year and are now in season two.

Although much of the event, sponsored by Rutgers University Programming Association, was lighthearted, the guys wish to encourage students to think deeply about their own goals and pursue them ardently.

U NIVERSITY “In life, you just have to do what you do,” Jonnie Penn said.

“Doing what you do in your life inspires other people to do what they want to do. We’ve seen that ever y day for the last five years.”

He said writing goals down, working to achieve them and then helping others can make students’ dreams a reality.

After the event, students relayed their own goals, from making someone smile every day to walking on a red carpet.

Graduate School of Education student Joe Thompson, a fan of the show, appreciates the men’s sense of philanthropy.

“The best thing about the show is that at the end, they help someone live out their dreams [as well],” Thompson said.

School of Arts and Sciences sophomore Crystal Kucuk, who has watched both seasons of the show, agreed.

“I like what they do, that they also give back to other people,” she said.

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Alpha Chi Omega and Phi Sigma Kappa members sit down to eat last night for the Pizza Bagel Fundraiser. Proceeds benefitted Women Aware Inc., a domestic violence shelter in New Brunswick.

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Duncan Penn and Ben Nemtin, two stars of “The Buried Life,” share their adventures from crashing a party at the Playboy Mansion to helping arrange a shopping spree for chronically ill children.

students and will hold office hours where students can meet with them, he said. Office hours take place on Mondays and Wednesdays in the Busch Campus Center.

“Hopefully, through [these classes], students will be more confident and comfortable in approaching the chaplain in a one-on-one type of situation and working at resolving their own issues,” Catovic said.

CILRU hopes to hire a fulltime paid chaplain within the next two years, he said.

Although finding chaplains marks an important accomplishment for CILRU, it is just one of a few short-term plans to develop it as an independent non-profit organization that serves a similar purpose for Muslims as Rutgers Hillel does for the Jewish community and the Catholic Center at Rutgers for Catholics.

Co-founder of CILRU Sirfaraz Piracha said he and Catovic first realized the need for an Islamic center and a Muslim chaplaincy on campus when they attended a Februar y 2009 “Trilogue,” a Muslim, Christian and Jewish interfaith gathering.

“It was kind of interesting because their groups had chaplains. Some even had multiple,” said Piracha, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “But then you have the Muslims … [who] were kind of like figuring their way through without a chaplain.”

They began brainstorming and crafting ideas, working even through summers to sort out name and mission changes as well as legal and other issues, he said.

“We literally revamped this idea, kept running it, refining it every couple months,” Piracha said. “I think now we’ve sort of finally sat down and understood what we want, how to do it and then going forward from there.”

At the moment CILRU has a five-person board of trustees that consists of the Piracha, Catovic, a graduate student and two alumni, Catovic said. They also have a voluntary student support group of about 20 people.

“We kind of wanted to mix it up a little bit and really have

all dif ferent diverse backgrounds contributing to ideas,” Piracha said.

With a chaplaincy established, Piracha and Catovic have been working to raise funds, spread awareness about their effort among the community and meet with other religious chaplains and organizations on campus.

They also hope to acquire a physical location for CILRU in coming years to ser ve as a central point for the Muslim community, Piracha said. A building would enable them to house chaplaincy activities and host programs.

“I think a physical presence helps, especially now when you see Islam on the news all the time,” he said. “You’re in college … You’re inquisitive, everyone’s inquisitive. We want to know, ‘Really, who are these people?’”

But like the chaplaincy, Catovic said the facility would not be exclusive to Muslim students — the entire University community would be welcome.

Both Piracha and Catovic said working on CILRU had its frustrating moments, especially when it came to revamping and revising ideas.

Keeping up momentum and motivation was also a necessary struggle in order to keep the project alive, Catovic said.

“This is something you’re kind of starting from scratch.

There’s not a lot of people who are there to back you and support you. You really have to keep the project moving,” he said.

But Catovic said the project would not have progressed as far as it had if all those involved took a break.

Meanwhile, Piracha said the experience allowed him to grow as an individual in both intellect and maturity.

“I just look back at myself thinking of some of the original ideas that we had and where we’ve come now,” he said. “Just constantly going through the wire and putting it through the filter and thinking, ‘This is what we do need.

Let’s be practical here.’”

Despite the struggles, Catovic felt starting CILRU was a good undertaking.

“We really get to experience different types of people,” he said. “We got to really learn how the University works.”

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“Art after Hours” celebrates women in the arts from 5 to 9 p.m. in the Jane Voorhees Zimmeril Art Museum on the College Avenue campus. Curator Marilyn Symmes will give a tour at 5:30 p.m. of the exhibition, “Dancing with the Dark: Joan Snyder Prints.” Professional printmaker Marsha Goldberg demonstrates monoprint techniques from 6 to 7 p.m. and at 7:30 p.m., Meaghan Woods and Co. present original choreography that responds directly to the shape, color, texture and content of work in the Zimmerli collections.

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A film screening of “The Heretics” will take place at 7 p.m. at the Douglass Lounge in the Douglass Campus Center.

Written and directed by Joan Braderman in 2009, this film documents the 1970s Heresies Collective and the groundbreaking art magazine “Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics.” Twenty-four artists, including Joan Snyder, speak about extraordinary times, when they challenged established notions of gender and power. A conversation with Braderman follows the film. This program is co-sponsored by Douglass Residential College, Rutgers Institute for Women and Art, the Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions and the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum.

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The Rutgers University Programming Association will host a movie night and dessert with Academy Award-winning film, “Black Swan.” The movie starts at 7 p.m. in the Student Activities Center on the College Avenue campus. For more information, please visit getinvolved.rutgers.edu.

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Rutgers University Programming Association, Rutgers Hillel and the Rutgers University Muslim Student Association are bringing “Stand Up for Peace” to the University. Comedians Dean Obeidallah and Scott Blakeman will perform their act in Trayes Hall in the Douglass Campus Center from 8 to 11 p.m. The event is free, but the groups are for small donations, which will go to Rutgers Dance Marathon to support the Embrace Kids Foundation.

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Award-winning photographer Rosalie Winard will present photos from her book “Wild Birds in the American Wetlands” and her personal archives in a talk titled, “A Spectacle of Wings.” The exhibition will be at 2 p.m. at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum on the College Avenue campus. Winard’s photographs have been published in Audubon, ArtForum, Time and The New York Times. Her work is also in the collections of the Library of Congress, the New York Historical Society and others.

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School got you in a knot? Unwind with celebrity yoga instructor, Yogi Charu at “Pure Yoga!” a free event sponsored by the Bhakti Club at Rutgers University from 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. at the Rutgers Student Center Multipurpose Room on the College Avenue campus.

Born in the Caribbean and trained in the Himalayas, Charu brings a refreshing new style to yoga and travels the globe sharing his mystic adventures. Everyone, from beginners to seasoned experts, is welcome. For more information and to RSVP, visit bhakticlub.org.

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Historical New Brunswick house dates back to Victorian era

BY AMANDA DOWNS CONTRIBUTING WRITER

City residents can get a glimpse into 19th century New Brunswick life at the William H. Johnson House.

Located on 52 Welton St., the house was recognized in the New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places in 2006, said Elizabeth Ciccone, the house’s treasurer and secretary.

Ciccone still finds historical artifacts in the house after renting for the past 20 years and enjoys living in the past everyday in her home.

“It is most interesting because I live in a museum,” she said.

The property was home to William H. Johnson, a successful owner of a painting and wallpaper company, along with his wife and daughter from 1870 until his death in February 1905, said Ciconne, a School of Communication and Information business specialist.

“It was a high-class business,” she said. “We would see [it] as a white-collar occupation at that time.”

Though the wallpaper he installed in New Brunswick homes may have been peeled off, Johnson’s home is still intact with the original wallpaper he put up himself, which is one of the main reasons the property is

recognized as historically significant, Ciccone said.

“I don’t want to sell the house,” she said. “My goal would be to establish a charity in support of the building and donate it to the Friends of the William H. Johnson House organization, but it is expensive to maintain.”

Charles Stephenson, vice president of the Friends of the William H. Johnson House, said

“Believe me, you will find my house … it definitely sticks out.”

ELIZABETH CICCONE William H. Johnson House Treasurer and Secretary

the house is important to New Brunswick’s history.

“I agreed to serve on the board due to my interest in historic preservation and my personal belief in the importance of the [house] and the Victorian period to the history of New Brunswick,” he said.

Stephenson, who lived in the house for four years, said many who tour the house notice how different it is without heating or working fireplaces, compared to modern houses.

Stephenson said hot air was pushed through the ductwork in the chimney as a source of heat, but the house has a heating system to accommodate the Ciccone family.

Stephenson and Ciccone noted the kitchens were for servants rather than homeowners, so they were smaller and not decorated.

“Coming across an intact house from the period is exciting and provides a window into a time which until recently was vilified by design and historic professionals,” Stephenson said.

Morris Kafka of the New Brunswick Historical Society said this particular home has been preserved with minor changes to accommodate his preferences. “[It was] on the Livingston Avenue historic district application to the state in 1994 as ‘the most intact resource in the district’ or something to that effect,” he said.

“I’ve made great efforts to preserve the structure while updating mechanical systems, insulation and comfort to modern standards.”

Ciccone said residents often fail to appreciate and take advantage of the resources possible in New Brunswick. She encourages people to make an appointment to tour the house and see its historical integrity.

“It is still historical inside, it’s not like any other home around it,” she said. “Believe me, you will find my house … it definitely sticks out.”

COURTESY OF ELIZABETH CICCONE

The William H. Johnson House, located on 52 Welton St., was built around 1870, with its exterior last renovated in 2009.

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U. alumnus features song-inspired art gallery

BY LIZ TAYLOR

used them,” Lim said. “[Dalelio] makes ar t a tangible and binding par t of University students have the the home.” opportunity from now until In addition to using tradiMarch 10 to visit Mason Gross tional ar tistic media such as School of the Arts alumnus ink and acr ylic paint, Dalelio Dennis Dalelio’s artwork at the said he likes to add nontradiAlfa Art Gallery on Church Street tional materials like old clothin downtown New Brunswick. ing, dir t, doors and rust from The ar tist, who graduated water filters to illuminate his from the University in 1998, ar twork’s abstract and historisaid his ar twork for the cal qualities. galler y’s “Three Years of “A lot of the stuf f [houseSong” exhibition was inspired hold objects used in the exhibiby his own music. tion] had histor y from my own “I just started making songs life,” he said. “I used a blanket — my son would bang on a from the years I was a bachedrum or be in the background of lor. A lot of the clothing was the song and my wife would sing clothing from my wife’s grandalong with me,” Dalelio said. “It parents who both passed away, was basically an audio journal of so it’s kind of like keeping a our life as a famifamily histor y ly as well as my embedded in the “It’s kind of responses to ar twork even in the world.” the materials I an unusual Dalelio said his was using.” exhibit incorporatapproach from A n o t h e r ed his as well as major influence traditional his wife and son’s of Dalelio’s ar temotions. work was his fine arts artists.”

“My goal when son, whose childGALINA KOURTEVA my first son was hood scribbles Alfa Art Gallery born was to creand drawings Assistant Director ate something ser ved as the every day just to foundational keep making artwork and also lines for his own ar twork, to involve my wife and my son in Dalelio said. a way in my artwork,” he said.

The Alfa Art Gallery, which Every day for a year, Dalelio celebrates its three-year anniversaid he wrote songs that were sary on March 11, exhibits all inspired by his everyday life and types of art but focuses, in large his love for indie rock music. part, on multidisciplinar y art, “[The songs would be about] said Galina Kourteva, the assisanything from world news to tant director at the gallery. For local happenings to situations Dalelio’s exhibition, viewers with family or friends,” he said. were attracted to his unique After he wrote his songs, approach to art.

Dalelio said he spent another “We were looking for sometwo years illustrating them, thing more experimental, first making small drawings something that fits our multiinspired by the contents of his disciplinar y approach,” songs, then transferring the Kour teva said. “In this case, drawings onto larger scrolls Dennis was a pretty interesting and finally transforming his ar tist. He first wrote the songs drawings and ideas into the and then he went back and large paintings featured at based of f the songs, he drew the exhibition. the paintings.”

Alfa Art Gallery curator Jewel Kourteva described Dalelio’s Lim said Dalelio’s artwork, which artwork as unique and distinct features objects hanging from the from those she has seen before wall alongside unframed painted and encourages ever yone, canvases, gives off an almost sur- including students, to visit real effect.

“Three Years of Song.”

“It’s like they are suspended “It’s kind of an unusual in time. The works are keeping approach from traditional fine the essence of the people who arts artists,” she said.

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Support higher taxes on NJ millionaires

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Rutgers-Eagleton poll released yesterday shows that 72 percent of the N.J. voters polled support higher taxes for the uppermost reaches of the tax brackets. This is curious to note, given that last year Gov. Chris Christie vetoed a measure to do just that.

Perhaps Christie should heed the call of the voting public and increase the taxes on the state’s millionaires. We all know they can afford to pay higher taxes, although they will be predictably resistant to such a measure. Of course, there is selfishness involved in most millionaires’ rejections of the higher taxes. They like to spin the “I did it myself” story, conveniently forgetting many only did it themselves because of the resources and support society gave them. Also, as N.J. citizens, they should be willing to take the same kind of hits people in other tax brackets took to close the excruciatingly large budget gap.

Many Americans are quick to adopt rugged individualism as their personal ethos — especially, it seems, those at the top of the economic ladder. The problem with that though is it ignores the basic fact that human begins are social animals. People live together — in nations, states, cities, towns, etc. All of these people living together constitute a society, and that society provides these people with better lives than they would have if they tried to strike out on their own. Against this social backdrop, rugged individualism is pretty much impossible. Think about it: How much of a rugged individual are you if you attend public school? Or drive on government-funded roads? Or eat government-subsidized food?

The point is that in America, no one truly makes it on their own.

Everyone takes advantage of the opportunities society gives them in order to make it to the top. But once they are up there, they tend to forget all the public resources that helped them with the climb. More millionaires need to start taking cues from people like Warren Buffett and Bill Gates and realize they have a responsibility to the society that helped them become so ridiculously successful — especially when their country or state is in dire economic straits.

People are fond of calling America the “Land of Opportunity,” and that can be a pretty accurate nickname for this country. However, people — in this case, millionaires especially — often forget to thank the country which offers these opportunities in the first place. What better way than to throw it some extra money when it really needs help getting back on its feet?

Fetal testimony proves no point T

he so-called “Heartbeat Bill” is a piece of legislation proposed

by Ohio state Rep. Lynn Wachtmann which would, if passed, make illegal abortions in any situation where the fetus has a demonstrable heartbeat. To show their support for the bill and sway opposing parties to their side, pro-life group Faith2Action has coordinated an almost cartoonish plan — to have a fetus testify in court.

According to the Huffington Post, “The testimony … will consist of projecting an ultrasound image of the pregnant woman’s uterus onto a screen in the courtroom. The image will also show the fetus’ heartbeat in color.” Quite frankly, we find this to be positively beyond absurd. It is a clear attempt by Faith2Action’s members to go for the gut, rather than using rational thinking.

If anything, this fetal testimony seems like a mockery, detrimental to Faith2Action’s cause. How many people are going to sit in the courtroom and seriously consider this projected sonogram as actual evidence? An image of a fetus’ beating heart proves nothing about the fetus’ right to life. After all, animals have beating hearts and we do not hesitate to kill them for food. Or consider criminals sentenced to the death penalty — do not they too have beating hearts? Does that beating heart automatically mean they have a right to life? Then again, it’s a good thing that Faith2Action’s fetal testimony plan is so unlikely to be taken seriously, as this “Heartbeat Bill” could strike serious damage to women’s reproductive rights in Ohio.

Speaking of women’s reproductive rights, this fetal testimony raises an important question that needs to be addressed: Where is the mother going to be during this testimony? Will she be in the court?

Will she be allowed to give her own testimony? It is rather telling that Faith2Action’s plan does not mention the pregnant woman at all. In choosing to ignore the woman’s existence in favor of allowing the fetus to “testify,” Faith2Action is valuing the fetus over the woman. This plan reduces the woman to nothing more than a vessel whose only purpose is to carry the fetus to term. But, of course, this is downright untrue.

The pregnant woman is a human being herself, and in all their fighting for the fetus’ “rights,” pro-life groups such as Faith2Action tend to forget that. Why is it that it seems like, in situations such as this, pro-life groups are more concerned with potential humans than living ones?

QUOTE OF THE DAY “God doesn’t have to be a constant presence in one’s life, except when one has a problem, and good people go to heaven.

Basically, just don’t be an a--hole.”

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Appreciate diverse world views The Fourth I Estate

My school friends would watched the dark make fun of me for liking black cloud engulf the politics and the stock marNew York City skyline ket. And brown girls, well on Sept. 11, 2001, originatI guess they liked that I ing from where the two was brown. glimmering skyscrapers Growing up, I often had used to stand. I was 11 AMIT JANI deep conversations with years old then. I stood my younger cousin who watching an almost lived in Carteret, N.J. at the time. He would tell motionless screen, as if the world had paused outme how hard finding his personal identity was. side the windows of my elementar y school — “There is not a black America and a white Joseph H. Brensinger No.17 in Jersey City, N.J. I America and Latino America and Asian America saw a drastic change in the way that kids who — there’s the United States of America,” said then resembled me were treated after that day. I Sen. Barack Obama in his 2004 Democratic noticed my peers who were brown were suddenly Convention Keynote Address. But for my cousin, being called “bin Laden” and the Middle-Eastern he was called an Indian in America and an children were being pushed around. Did this American when he visited relatives in India. No monumental day suddenly help us elementar y matter how many times race was swept under the school kids in Public School 17 realize we were rug by political rhetoric, race was still a highly different based on our skin color, bringing racial visible topic for my young friends and me. acknowledgement to the forefront of our young I was surprised to read a line that Bobby Jindal, minds? I wish that were true. the first governor in America of Indian-American The truth is, race was always visible in Jersey descent, wrote in his book, City, and it stuck out like a zit “Leadership and Crisis,” “I never before prom night. You saw it in “In eighth grade, felt culturally different from your the way people interacted in the typical Baton Rouge kid,” he wrote. barbershops, the conversations I dressed black, How could he not? Even fifth you overheard in the bodegas, and graders in my school noticed it. you especially noticed it in school. thought white Regardless if they were Caucasian, In my elementar y school, the and looked brown.” black or Asian-American, everyone smart people were looked down felt culturally different from one upon and you gained notoriety another. Perhaps race was not as based on how well you could crack prevalent a topic for Jindal’s community, but it jokes about other people — jokes that were racialsure was for us. Our elementary school taught us ly derogative most of the time. This did not fly so about diversity before it was in the teaching planwell with my Indian parents, who scolded me for ner. It taught us that we were all different and bringing home 95s on my grammar test — my there was nothing we could do to change that. education was the reason they immigrated to Sure we could try to dress a certain way and speak America, they said. So my afternoon activities conslang with a specific dialect, but at the end of the sisted of coming home from school, checking out day we could not change who we truly were Yo-Mama joke websites for an hour, followed by inside. But this did not deter us from trying. This doing all my homework and simultaneously readwas the beauty of growing up in an inner-city enviing Time magazine, BusinessWeek and ronment — you were able to experience many difNewsweek before going to bed. ferent cultures and customs.

Sometimes, “We just wish we could be black I can relate to Jindal in some ways. I spent a or Hispanic,” my elementar y school friends substantial time living in St. Joseph, Mo., with my would say. I understood what they were saying. uncle’s family when I was younger. Throughout all They were tired of being bullied and picked on. my travels around the world, there is no place like They simply wanted to assimilate. If you needed St. Joseph where I have felt more accepted. a poster child for the melting pot that America Although the majority of locals were white, there symbolized, I was the quintessential example. In were sprinkles of color throughout the town. I eighth grade, I dressed black, thought white and looked brown. My mom used to yell at me for SEE JANI ON PAGE 9 wearing T-shirts that hung beyond my knees.

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t a time in history when the American economy has been stagnant, our leaders must make tough decisions in all aspects of society. As a University student studying economics and histor y, it is relieving to me to have received an important e-mail message on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011, from President Richard L. McCormick addressing his opinions on the 2011-2012 New Jersey State Budget Proposal. The message was sent to all University students and staff explaining the implications the budget proposal will have on the University community.

McCormick starts his address by stating Gov. Chris Christie’s proposal will reduce spending by 2.6 percent and follows with this statement: “Among the cuts are reductions in most of the executive departments of state government. It is gratifying that, against this backdrop, the governor counted funding for higher education as a ‘core priority.’”

Having two important New Jersey leaders on the same page gives our state an upper hand on many other states in disarray.

Christie’s focus on aiding higher education will help drive New Jersey’s economy in the years to come. By setting a foundation to build off, Christie has set up a successful environment for growing economic activity. In my four years at the University, I have never witnessed an address such as this and was pleased that McCormick was able to acknowledge Christie’s actions toward grant programs that assist many undergraduate students.

“Preser ving operating support and increasing student aid are welcome signs that the longterm decline in higher education funding has come to a halt,” McCormick said in the proposal.

As a senior graduating this spring, I am proud to see these actions taking place as well.

Although they will not affect me, they will affect the lives of many young students who possess potential but do not have the means to fund a college education. Reading this letter has made me proud of my state and the University for solving a problem that has been growing since my enrollment.

Having our governor and University president on the same side creates positive energy throughout the state. Because of the economic stress we face today, this is more important than ever.

Anthony Riga is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in economics with a minor in general history.

JANI continued from page 8 never noticed any prejudice or discrimination whatsoever from anyone there. Perhaps this was the United States Obama was referring to in his speech. At the humble age of 5, I looked up to my older cousins who both attended high school in St. Joseph. I would be in my Power Rangers underwear while they brought home their warm-spirited friends, all of whom were

white and loved warm Indian roti and Pepsi every time they came over.

Such a homogeneous group of friends was unimaginable for me in my hometown. If my best friends were to be in a room together, a person might think I were tr ying to initiate World War III. I currently have two best friends who are of Jewish descent, another from Palestine, one from Pakistan and the last from India. Adults used to ask me when I was younger if having a best friend from Pakistan bothered me,

MARCH 2, 2011 given the constant conflicts that Pakistan and India shared. I always answered with a resounding “No.” Perhaps this would have been an issue in other parts of the world or certain regions in America, but we were able to look past that. Being raised in Jersey City made peoples’ skin colors somewhat invisible. I was able to judge them more so on their character rather than an assumption based on culture. I bring with me a diversity that is not based solely on my skin tone or socioeconomic status,

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but through my perspective of the world. It allowed me a shrewd understanding of being street-smart, while instilling in me values of compassion and tolerance for others. I will never forget the life lessons the potholed streets of Jersey City and the green plains of Missouri farms taught me.

Amit Jani is a School of Arts and Sciences junior majoring in journalism and media studies and political science. His column, “The Four th Estate,” runs on alternate Wednesdays.

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Today is an 8 — Your optimism Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — is contagious. Have you considToday is a 7 — You don't need to ered a career in public office? rearrange all the furniture to Today is a good day to develop make your home feel like new. It your leadership skills. People may just require a new plant or are listening. some new music. Enjoy your nest.

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Celebrate diversity, and share Cancer (June 22-July 22) — words for all.

Today is a 6 — The dead Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — autumn leaves feed spring flowToday is a 9 — Wealth comes ers. When the day looks dark, easily when you're open to imagine a double rainbow in receiving and sharing it. Pay speyour future. Be patient. Somecial attention to your insights thing's gestating. today. They're golden. Give back Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — to get more.

Today is a 7 — Don't worry Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — about updating your Facebook Today is a 9 — You're on top of status. Get together with the world, looking down on crefriends in real-time instead. ation. Celebrate singer Karen You'll all appreciate it. Add Carpenter's birthday. Celebrate time outdoors moving your music. Use your vantage point to body for extra points. look ahead.

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Senior Kiah Banfield ranks fourth on the Knights with an average score of 9.736 in the floor exercise, twice reaching a high of 9.850.

IMPACT: RU leadership comes from team’s eight seniors continued from back “[The seniors] are all in the gym working hard every day, whether they are going to see a meet or not. That is truly special,” Chollet-Norton said.

One of the top performers on the team, senior Kiah Banfield began her career as a lesser-regarded athlete not quite sure if she would be able to compete at the college level.

Her rise to her current position as a stalwart talent on the floor lineup exemplifies the spirit of the senior class.

“I am really proud of myself because I was injured most of my high school career, so I wasn’t even sure if I was going to do college gymnastics,” Banfield said. “When I got here I wasn’t up to the level, so I worked hard to get to where I am today. I’m just glad to know

that I reached the goal that I set for myself.”

Like Banfield, fellow senior Leigh Heinbaugh acknowledges how far she came personally and how much the gymnastics program grew during her time at Rutgers.

“It feels like I’ve been part of a growing process,” Heinbaugh said. “It’s great to know that the team is going to keep getting better even after I’m gone.”

Last week’s meet was naturally a career highlight for the entire senior class. Following up a per formance that saw the Knights post a historic score will be no easy feat, especially with the subsequent meet being Senior Day and the last home meet of Chollet-Norton’s career.

“To be part of the third-highest score in Rutgers history is amazing,” Heinbaugh said. “I just want to go out there and do the best I can. It’s just me and the beam, so I’m not going to be worried. We are just going to try to do the best we can for Chrystal.”

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ROLE: Anderson sisters continue career together at RU continued from back increased role in her second season at Rutgers.

“I’m definitely taking on more of a role in the midfield and on offense,” Anderson said.

“The offense is more geared towards dodging, give-and-go’s and cutting, and those are some of my strengths.”

And although the offense does not completely run through Anderson, she is preparing for the possibility.

“I want to improve my dodging and keep working on my confidence,” Anderson said. “If I’m a goto player, I’ll be ready when those times come.”

Anderson has the privilege of playing with her older sister, senior captain Kristen Anderson, to gain necessary knowledge.

The Anderson sisters played lacrosse together since Stephanie was in kindergarten, and they both

played at Shoreham-Wading River High School, starting when Stephanie was in eighth grade.

“I think this year she’s taken on more of a leadership role because she’s a captain, but she’s always been a leader to me,” Stephanie said. “Being her younger sister, I always envied her for things she’s been able to accomplish.”

Kristen also sees Stephanie as a leader.

“She’s been a leader since she was little, but now she’s in even more of a leadership position,” the senior captain said. “She has that charisma that makes her a born leader.”

That leadership is a substantial part of the reason why Stephanie stepped up so far this season.

“She’s improved her confidence and the way she constructs herself with the ball,” Kristen said. “She knows the rest of us will trust whatever moves she makes.”

Kristen has many accomplishments of her own, racking up 59 goals and 19 assists in her collegiate career.

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Sophomore Stephanie Anderson, right, ranks second on the team with five goals on nine shots through RU’s first two games.

DEPAUL: Blue Demons apply pressure under Purnell continued from back an emotional day. Tomorrow we come right back ready to work.”

But the Knights must best DePaul (7-22, 1-15) tonight in Chicago to help cement their seeding in the conference tournament. And while the Blue Demons own just one Big East victory, Villanova barely eked out a two-point win in overtime over head coach Oliver Purnell’s team earlier in the season.

Re-established after his time at Clemson, Purnell’s constant fullcourt pressure could pose a challenge for the Knights, but Rutgers earned plenty of experience against the press throughout the Big East season.

“We love to play the game and we have a road game coming up, then another road game and the Big East Tournament,” said senior guard Mike Coburn. “There are plenty of games left that we can win and let the season continue on. Yeah, we lost some games, but there are still games left.”

If the Knights win out to close the regular season, a more manageable contest against Seton Hall would await a team with potentially six Big East victories — one more than last year’s total.

Although unlikely, a scenario remains in which both Providence and struggling South

Florida could move ahead of Rutgers to leave the Knights at No. 15 in the conference.

In that case, the Knights would potentially face one of five teams that currently stand at 9-7 in conference play, including No. 19 Villanova and Marquette.

Still, Rutgers’ biggest focus is simply getting back to winning, something that has not happened often over the Knights’ past nine games that featured eight defeats.

“All we’ve talked about was improving and getting better, trying to win games in the Big East,” Rice said. “That’s all we’ve ever talked about and that’s all we’re ever going to talk about.”

Rutgers could potentially face the fifth-place team — currently No. 12 Syracuse — if it manages to get by its opponent in the Nos. 12-13 matchup in the first round of the Big East Tournament the previous day.

But the onus is on improving the team’s opening-round matchup as best as possible, and that likely means a third date with Seton Hall rather than facing a deeper, more battle-tested conference opponent.

“We have more basketball to be played, to be honest with you,” Rice said. “We still have two more games left and the Big East Tournament. We’re still getting better. If we knock down shots, we’re a different team. We keep on saying that and waiting for it, but it’s going to happen.”

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Three-hole hitter targets greater improvement

BY SAM HELLMAN CORRESPONDENT

Through nine games, Rutgers softball slugger Brittney Lindley has a .591 batting average. She leads the SOFTBALL Scarlet Knights in nearly every offensive statistical category and is fresh off a three-hit game her last time out.

But the junior team captain insists she can do more.

“I can hit it even more solidly than I have been hitting the ball,” the junior third baseman said.

“I’ve let too many pitches that went down the pipe get by. The coaching staff can tell you that.

I’ve hit some weak ground balls that I got lucky and beat out.”

Lindley, who returns as Rutgers’ No. 3 hitter this season, is the offensive anchor for a team that has 20 more runs this season than it did at this point a year ago.

Lindley also returns with one home run record down and another home record in her crosshairs. As a sophomore, the Cicero, N.Y., native belted a school-best 13 home runs, also leading the Knights in batting average, slugging, runs and RBI along the way.

As a junior, Lindley has 17 career home runs — good for fourth all-time in the program — and is four away from Sarah Kalka’s all-time mark.

“I’m a lot more confident than I was when I came here,” Lindley said. “I know the game better. I know what I’m doing better. I’m more aggressive when I hit and when I’m in the field. I’m taking charge a lot better.”

The Knights named Lindley as one of their three team captains in the offseason, along with seniors Jen Meinheit and Mickenzie Alden.

“Brittney is a really great leader for this team,” said sophomore

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he Rutgers women’s basketball team added another name to the Big East Weekly Honor Roll when the league announced this week that junior guard Khadijah Rushdan earned a spot.

Rushdan joins sophomore center Monique Oliver and junior for ward Chelsey Lee, who received the honor earlier in the season.

Rushdan contributed to the Knights’ 4-0 week, which included wins over No. 21 Marquette, South Florida, No. 19 West Virginia and in-state rival Seton Hall with an average of 11.7 points, seven rebounds and 4.7 assists. Her 20 points led all scorers against Marquette.

The guard’s success helped the Knights earn a No. 4 seed in the Big East Tournament and a double-bye to the quarterfinal round.

T HE N EW Y ORK J ETS went on a senior cutting spree on Monday, releasing three players —Kris Jenkins, Jason Taylor and Damien Woody — all over the age of 30.

shortstop Ashley Bragg. “She leads by example and is obviously really productive at the plate. It’s a great person to have playing next to you in the infield.”

Leading up to this season, Lindley went through her first offseason without her older sister, Nicole Lindley, alongside her in a Knights uniform. Nicole Lindley, the team’s ace the past three seasons, graduated in May but remains with the team to help out where she can.

Nicole Lindley was one of the strongest leaders in the Jay Nelson era at Rutgers and her younger sister aims to help make up for the loss of her leadership and experience.

“I definitely miss not seeing her on the mound, but it is also more relaxing for me,” Lindley said of her elder sister. “I can stay focused on what I’m doing and not worry about what she’s doing on the mound. She’s my sister. It’s natural to pay attention to that.”

But the pitcher’s absence also leaves a void in the Knights — something Brittney Lindley attempts to fill with her leadership.

“Now that she’s gone I know I have to help step up,” she said. “I feel like I progressed into a leadership role since these three seasons. I feel like a lot of people look up to me on this team and I know that I have to do things right and get things done.”

And despite her torrid numbers through the first two tournaments of the spring, Lindley wants to do more.

“I definitely think we’re going to see a lot more improvement from tournament to tournament, not just me but the whole team,” Lindley said. “I want to make sure that I recognize down-the-pipe pitches better. Those are the pitches you need to get right on top of, especially against really good pitchers.”

Running back LaDainian Tomlinson, 32, reportedly has nothing to worry about.

According to league sources, the Jets will retain the tailback for the 2011 season, despite his declining performance last year.

Tomlinson failed to surpass the 50-yard mark in his last six regular season games but still ended the year with a team-high 914 yards and 4.2 yards per carry.

Tomlinson would share the backfield with Shonn Greene and Joe McKnight and would likely be primarily limited to a role as third-down back.

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began once again Tuesday, this time including New York Giants owner John Mara. Mara is the first owner to participate in the debate since a federal mediator became involved.

The two sides are running out of time to come to an agreement, as the current collective bargaining agreement ends midnight on Thursday of this week.

Jeff Pash, the league’s leading negotiator, said he doesn’t think the two sides “could have a greater sense of urgency.”

THE ST. LOUIS Cardinals’ starting rotation suffered another setback yesterday, when former Cy Young Award winner Chris Carpenter injured his hamstring.

Carpenter said the injury is not serious, but he temporarily joins Adam Wainwright on the shelf.

Wainwright under went Tommy John surgery Monday and will miss this season.

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Junior third baseman Brittney Lindley leads the Scarlet Knights with a .591 batting average through two pre-conference tournaments, adding two home runs, nine RBI and seven runs scored.

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Big East seed on line against lowly DePaul

Sophomore steps into scorer’s role

BY TYLER BARTO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

BY JOSH BAKAN STAFF WRITER

The Rutgers women’s lacrosse team entered the season knowing WOMEN’S LACROSSE that it would not have a go-to player and PRINCETON everyone would AT RUTGERS, need to share the TONIGHT, 7 P.M. scoring load.

One of the players who stepped up to that task to help lead the Scarlet Knights to their first two wins is sophomore midfielder Stephanie Anderson.

Most recently, Anderson tallied three goals on Saturday at Cornell. Before that, the Wading River, N.Y., native scored a game-winning goal in the final minute of action at Temple, giving the Knights an 11-10 victory.

“There are so many go-to players on this team and there are so many talented girls out there,” Anderson said. “I was a little surprised [getting the final shot against Temple].”

Although Anderson was shocked to be the player called upon in the waning moments, she may see more of those opportunities because of the team’s new look.

Former Knight Brooke Cantwell led Rutgers in goals last year, just as she did every season since her sophomore campaign.

But since the attack graduated, the Knights looked to other scoring options.

“Last year we didn’t have as many go-to players,” Anderson said. “This year we have many go-to players and we’re able to seek out each other.”

But Anderson, who ranks second on the Knights with five goals this season, is seeing an

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Head coach Mike Rice leads the Knights into their final two regular season games in his inaugural season with Rutgers, which hopes to improve its Big East standing.

With two games remaining in the regular season and the Big East Tournament looming in nearly a week, the Rutgers men’s basketball team still believes it MEN’S BASKETBALL has a reason to continue its hard work.

RUTGERS AT It would be diffiDEPAUL, cult to argue otherTONIGHT, 8:30 P.M. wise, given the Scarlet Knights visit lowly DePaul and youthful Providence in a fourday span before playing on the first day in the conference tournament.

“We have lost eight out of our nine and it’s getting away,” said head coach Mike Rice. “So yes, it would give us a little bit more energy … coming into the Big East Tournament. They’re on the road and two difficult opponents.”

Victories over both DePaul and Providence, which own a combined four league wins, could possibly vault the Knights up a spot in the conference standings for Big East Tournament seeding.

Rutgers (13-15, 4-12) trails in-state rival Seton Hall by one game for 12th place in the conference, and the Pirates have home games remaining against No. 15 St. John’s and Marquette.

Still, the Knights would likely play the Pirates on Day 1 of the tournament at Madison Square Garden in the Nos. 12-13 matchup at 2 p.m.

Providence and scoring phenom Marshon Brooks would need victories over No. 11 Louisville and Rutgers to jump the Knights for the 13th spot in the Big East standings.

“We have two games in a row to end out the season — two winnable games, in my opinion,” said senior forward Jonathan Mitchell.

“So we just have to come back. [Sunday] was

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Seniors’ impact lost in success of impressive freshmen

BY JOSH GLATT CORRESPONDENT

For the Rutgers gymnastics team, the 2011 season was a rousing success. The Scarlet Knights performed at a consistently higher level than GYMNASTICS they have in years, most recently earning the third-highest score in Rutgers histor y Saturday in Piscataway.

While some of the credit can go to the younger athletes that provided the depth necessar y to compete at the highest level, the transition to a higher level of gymnastics began with the senior class.

The Rutgers gymnastics team holds its annual Senior Day meet on Saturday at the Livingston Recreation Center, ser ving as a time for the team’s long-time head coach Chr ystal Chollet-Nor ton to look back on the accomplishments of her eight seniors.

Chollet-Norton recognizes that the team would not be in its current position without the seniors.

“They have always been a leadership class,” she said. “It’s a big class –– it’s eight of them, and we even have a few walk-ons and they all stayed. Even though some of them are not in the event, they are still supportive. It is one of those things that we win as a team and lose as a team.”

While the senior class produced several top performers, Chollet-Norton acknowledged that some of the athletes that do not compete in meets are leaders in their own right.

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Senior Leigh Heinbaugh recorded a season-high 9.575 on the beam in the Scarlet Knights’ most recent meet. She also participated in the vault once, and will be one of eight seniors honored Saturday before their final home meet.