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News crew films in gender-neutral bathroom

BY KRISTINE ROSETTE ENERIO NEWS EDITOR

CBS 2 News violated University policy Tuesday when they filmed inside the secondfloor gender-neutral bathroom in Demarest Hall on the College Avenue campus.

Magee Hickey, a reporter for CBS 2 News, along with a camerawoman were working on a segment about the University’s new genderneutral housing option and gained access when a hall resident swiped them into the facility, which is restricted to residents only through an ID card swipe.

“A resident brought us in. We wouldn’t have had any other way to go in,” Hickey said. “We were invited in by the student.”

But according to the University’s policy 80.1.6 Section IX, “Media representatives must obtain permission from OMR [Office of Media Relations] or the appropriate campus communications offices to enter all areas of residential buildings.”

Joan Carbone, executive director of Residence Life, said the CBS team did not acquire the proper credentials to be in the facility and even if they did, she would have never permitted them to film inside a bathroom.

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Demarest Hall residents must have swipe access to enter the second-floor bathroom, which is one of two gender-neutral bathrooms in the building on the College Avenue campus. Students expressed concern over CBS 2 News filming footage Tuesday without permission.

Cuban leader’s daughter visits Camden campus

BY RYAN FLOOD STAFF WRITER

CAMDEN — Alina Fernandez, daughter of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, spoke at Rutgers-Camden last night about her struggles and the lessons she learned growing up as the daughter of a dictator.

“I speak about the influence of Cuba politically in the past century and the next,” she said. “It’s a mix of historical and political stories.”

The event began as a speech from Fernandez, followed by a short question and answer session with those present.

Focusing on her life in Cuba, Fernandez chronicled her life up until the point she fled, fearing for her daughter’s life.

“The first institution destroyed in Cuba was the family,” she said.

Throughout the speech, Fernandez provided facts and anecdotes of the country, which she said goes to great lengths to keep its business to itself.

“A revolution becomes a dictatorship when the state owns your life,” she said.

“When you try to do something about it, you go to jail.”

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STUDENT SHOT IN ANKLE DURING DRUG DEAL A 21-year-old University student was shot in the ankle Tuesday night in the midst of a drug deal gone wrong, said New Brunswick police in an nj.com article.

The shooting occurred around 10:40 p.m. near the 100-block of Louis Street in New Brunswick. The unidentified student was taken to nearby Rober t Wood Johnson University Hospital for treatment of a non-life-threatening injur y, according to the ar ticle.

The suspect fled the scene in a black vehicle, police said in the article.

Police said the incident is still under investigation.

In the article, New Brunswick Police Director Peter Mangarella said the depart-

Christie approves funds to reopen local school

INDEX UNIVERSITY Alumnus MarvinKazembe Jefferson acts in “Paul Robeson, a Chatauqua.”

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ment has seen a “recent increase in crimes involving Rutgers students who are involved with the sale, use and distribution of illegal drugs.”

Mangarella said these students are more likely to be caught in a violent situation.

University officials said only a small number of students commit crimes.

“The vast majority of the 38,000 Rutgers students in New Brunswick are focused on their studies and are responsible young adults,” of ficials said in the ar ticle.

The incident is among a series of drugrelated crimes involving University students.

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Dancers perform original choreography inspired by surrounding galleries at the third annual “Dance Within the Art” last night at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum. Featured artists included Joan Snyder and Boris Sveshnikov.

Gov. Chris Christie signed off on the A. Chester Redshaw Elementary School construction project, a New Brunswick school that, five years ago, was torn down.

The school’s children have been reporting to a warehouse-like facility at 40 Van Dyke Ave., since 2006, an arrangement that was only intended to last for three years, said Richard Kaplan, New Brunswick Public Schools Superintendent.

“We’re ver y excited,” he said. “[Former Gov. Jon S.] Corzine’s administration worked with us closely. They said they had the money to build a new school, but after tearing it down they called and told me they didn’t have the money for it.”

Students and faculty are happy they will be able to attend a school closer to their homes, said Vikki Abdus-Salaam, the school’s principal.

“It was great news to hear. We’re all ecstatic,” she said. “It’s been a long time coming. Our students and staff are looking forward to attending a school in their own neighborhood.”

The school was one of 10 school projects Christie approved last week, when he narrowed down from a list of 51 schools seeking new facilities, Kaplan said.

“I’m excited that Christie’s administration has seen fit to right the wrong of its predecessor,” he said. “We recognize there are limited funds, but we’re happy. I know there are 41 other folks who aren’t very happy.”

The school building will stand at the site of its old structure on Livingston Avenue between Delavan and Comstock Streets, but Kaplan said he is not aware of a timeline for the construction.

“Other than the Christie’s announcement that we’re on the list, we haven’t heard anything,” he said. “I believe

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Alumna provides personal insight to her art

BY ANDREA GOYMA CORRESPONDENT

University alumna Joan Snyder displayed a selection of more than 100 of her abstract prints at her first retrospective exhibition, “Dancing with the Dark: Joan Snyder Prints 1963-2010,” at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum. “[This exhibition is] a huge survey of Snyder’s work in print although she’s widely celebrated as a painter who has numerous exhibitions on her works [at museums like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art],” said Marilyn Symmes, Zimmerli Art Museum curator. “But this is the first retrospective exhibition of her prints.”

The works range from landscape and portrait woodcuts completed during Snyder’s years as a student at the University in the early 1960s to her later works that draw from deeply personal imagery, Symmes said.

“It’s also the first time that a lot of these prints have been seen,” Snyder said.

“Dancing in the Dark” provides insight and examples into Snyder’s creative process, with proofs and etches accompanying some of the final edition of the prints, Symmes said.

One of the paintings, “Resurrection,” which was inspired by newspaper accounts of female

rape and murder, was displayed with her first etches along with nine proofs that led to the final printed edition of the painting, Symmes said.

“This particular study helps you understand the organization and the structure [of Snyder’s creative process],” she said.

Symmes said Snyder is innovative in her work and is not traditional in her practice.

“What’s distinctive about [Snyder’s] prints is that she’s overcoming the challenges of combining this media that aren’t usually printed together,” she said. “[She] work[s] with woodcuts, sometimes lithography, sometimes etching and monoprint, so the combinations are pretty innovative.”

While the goal of printmaking is to make a uniform impression that looks exactly like the previous print, Snyder said she likes to do each impression slightly differently.

“What’s interesting about [Snyder’s] work is that her images look very improvisational, but it’s actually a product of a lot of calculation and a lot of effort and thinking,” Symmes said.

“There’s a lot of evolution.”

Snyder said while spontaneity remains within monoprints, she agrees with Symmes that the work has to be calculated because she is working with layers.

Symmes said she began work in Decemeber 2007 with Snyder for the exhibition.

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Joan Snyder presents her selection of woodcut prints ranging from landscape to portraits at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum.

“This was a process that evolved over more than two years,” Symmes said. “So I looked at every proof, every variant, every print and then I went to see other impressions in other museums on the East Coast in order to pick the best impressions to include in the exhibition here.”

Accompanying the exhibition is the first book documenting Snyder’s prints, which provides insights into her life and art and also serves as a comprehensive catalogue of the exhibition, Symmes said.

“I personally think that [Snyder’s] art deserves wider recognition, even wider than what it’s received now — not only in this country but abroad,” Symmes said.

She also wants others to realize how Snyder has impacted the history of American printmaking.

“Much of [printmaking] history has been by male artists, especially when Joan was working in the ’70s and ’80s,” she said. “Snyder was steadily working away in these eras and didn’t always get the attention she deserved at the time she was doing it.”

Snyder said her creativity originates from a combination of things.

“I don’t think any artist can say it’s this or that, but it’s a combination of things,” she said. “I mean, whenever you’re doing something creative you have to be thinking, you’re feel-

ing it, and you’re physically doing it.”

Snyder will also be inducted this May into the University’s 2011 Rutgers Hall of Distinguished Alumni, along with four other, said Donna Thornton, vice president for Alumni Relations.

Snyder, who graduated from Douglass Residential College with a bachelor’s degree in sociology, said it was only during her senior year when she decided to take an art class.

“I just wanted to take a painting course, it was just a whim,” Snyder said. “It was something that I really felt like I wanted to do, but I didn’t know why.”

University alumna Carol Hamlin who works with the Associate Alumnae of Douglass College said they nominated Snyder for the award.

“There’s a wonderful array of different techniques and almost different styles, and you can really see the progression of [Snyder’s] art,” she said. “I just think her mastery of her many techniques is just superb.”

University alumna Allie Skislak, who worked at the opening as a volunteer along with her husband Andy Skislak, also said it is the universality of her work depicting the human that will make her work last a long time.

“She captures all the major things there are in life but in a beautiful and colorful way,” she said.

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NJ split on proposed state budget

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New Jersey voters that paid attention to Gov. Chris Christie’s proposed budget for the fiscal year 2012 appear to be split in their evaluation of it, according to a recent Rutgers-Eagleton Institute of Politics poll.

A total of 45 percent of the voters polled confirmed to be “pleased” with the new budget, while 48 percent of respondents expressed their discontent.

“Because it is Gov. Christie, who has such an impact on the political environment, people are just aware and the media coverage is just intense,” Poll Director David Redlawsk said.

Those pleased with the new budget overwhelmingly cite Christie’s budget cutting, as well as his decision-making and leadership style, as the two most crucial factors that contributed to their affirmation of the governor’s proposal, according to the poll.

But results report that respondents who are displeased with the new budget are stressing that the proposed budget is not fair, as it appears to target the middle class, working people, the poor or the elderly.

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spending and Christie’s leadership style.

The budget’s proposed spending on higher education reveals a $25 million increase in tuition aid for college students, according to the poll.

But there is a $4.7 million decrease in state funding for the New Jersey Student Tuition Assistance Reward Scholarship program and a $3 million decrease in other student aid programs, according to the poll.

Overall, the state funding of financial assistance is expected to rise by $19.6 million, which is a 1 percent increase from last year, according to the poll. No spending cuts to the University or other senior public institutions have been announced.

“At the moment the University appears to be relatively protected,” Redlawsk said. “The governor seems to recognize it is important to do more for higher education in the state.”

The poll shows that a majority of respondents who confirmed their awareness of the new budget proposal also said the governor should be willing to compromise during the budget negotiations.

Such compromise may be achieved in the ensuing debate between Christie and the state’s Democratic Senate President Stephen Sweeney, Redlawsk said.

“The policies proposed by Sweeney and Christie are slightly different,” he said. “When we talked [with respondents] about Christie, the policy was less supported than when we talked about Sweeney. But when we talked about it in a bipartisan way, it got the most support.”

John Malchow, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, said Christie has been honest and forthright about the budget cuts.

“The state of New Jersey needs large and forceful cuts at the moment,” Malchow said.

“Christie’s ability and willingness to ensure these cuts does not appear to be undermined by his panache.”

Voters are especially critical of the cuts to pensions and medical insurance of public sector workers, according to the poll.

Sabrina Arias, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, said Christie places the blame on public sector employees for the diminishing purchasing power of middle-class residents.

“In reality, the public sector employees are the ones who constitute a large portion of the state’s middle-class population,” Arias said.

The poll of 912 N.J. adults was conducted through both landline and cell phone households from Feb. 24 to 26, according to the Rutgers-Eagleton press release.

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shooting footage in the bathroom was both insulting and an invasion of privacy.

“The fact that they recorded the inside of our bathrooms, that just felt entirely unnecessary and pointless,” said Kulikowski, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “There’s no reason to film inside a bathroom. I just think it’s absurd.”

Veronica Koons, Demarest Hall co-president of programming, said the reporters do not have a right to be in the bathroom especially since there were students showering.

“It’s one thing to ask for student opinions, but to come into our home and go into our private area where we clean and do our business, that’s way too much,” said Koons, a School of Arts and Sciences junior.

If the bathroom was limited to women or men only, Koons said she would have found it just as offensive.

“Whether its single-sex or gender-neutral, privacy is privacy no matter what,” she said.

“You’re just coming in without so much as a warning and you’re making it public.”

Jordan Gochman, Demarest Hall outreach coordinator, said many current and former residents have expressed their anger to him over the incident.

While he sees this new housing option as a great advancement for the University and believes it should be reported, he also thinks there should be some discretion.

“Last year’s outreach coordinator … worked extremely hard to get the gender-neutral bathrooms on the second floor,” said Gochman, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore. “This just completely undermines ever ything we’ve done in order to keep the dorm safe and appropriate for everyone that lives here.”

Gochman said the executive board and other housing administrators would meet soon to discuss the issue.

“Once we all push our heads together, we’re obviously going to make some big changes about privacy rights and ever ything else,” he said.

express discomfort over filming continued from front “To have them in the bathroom where someone was actually showering was just outrageous,” Carbone said.

The news segment, which is available on the organization’s website, features a three-second clip inside the bathroom where School of Arts and Sciences junior Daniel Spektor’s foot is shown inside a stall as he takes a shower.

He said another student was also showering at the time.

“We asked the students who were showering. We said we wanted to show them and they were fine with it,” Hickey said.

“We asked ahead of time.”

Hickey said it was not necessary for the students to sign release forms since their images were not shown.

But Spektor said no one asked his permission to record while he was in the shower and he did not know someone was filming.

“I think it was only 15 minutes later when I started getting out of the shower stall with only a towel on that I saw the camerawoman and anchor woman,” he said.

As Spektor was leaving the bathroom, he saw they were recording and asked them not to broadcast his image, which they did not include in the segment.

Although Spektor does not find the broadcasted clip of his foot invasive, he believes it was inappropriate for Hickey and the camerawoman to film inside the bathroom.

“I don’t think it was the proper environment to do so when people were in there,” he said. “If it was empty and they wanted to show how the shower stall worked on the inside then that would have been more understandable.”

But he did give them permission to film a round video shot of his room’s interior.

The filming left members of the Demarest Hall community upset and outraged.

Demarest Hall Treasurer Patrick Kulikowski believes

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Alumnus Marvin-Kazembe Jefferson performs as Paul Robeson, the first African-American student to attend the University at “Paul Robeson, a Chatauqua” at the Cook Campus Center Multipurpose Room.

Performance honors Paul Robeson

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In honor of Paul Robeson, the first African-American student to attend the University, MarvinKazembe Jefferson, a professional actor, played Robeson Tuesday night in a Chautauqua, a first-person monologue of a historical depiction.

The Community of Students Involved ‘N’ Education (COSINE) club organized the event in the Cook Campus Center to raise school supplies and donations for children in Haiti and to honor Black History Month.

“Robeson was a great historical figure and brought about a lot of change and was part of the foundation to the diversity we have today here at the University,” Jefferson said. “It’s important for people to know who he was. It’s important for people to remember.”

During the Chautauqua, Jefferson embodied Robeson and told his story while emphasizing his opinions and key points of his life.

Robeson was a singer, actor, athlete, scholar and social activist, who started his career at the University, Jefferson said in his performance.

Throughout the whole Chautauqua, Jefferson emphasized Robeson’s importance within history and said the University should put in more effort to keeping his spirit alive.

Jefferson came to the University the same year Robeson passed away, he said.

“It wasn’t until 1997 that I really started studying him, and I’ve been studying him ever

since,” Jefferson said. “As a Chautauquan, I learn more things about him, and I could study him till I die and still not know everything.”

Robeson was born in 1898 and raised in Princeton, Jefferson said in character. Robeson graduated from Rutgers College in 1919, went to Columbia Law School and earned his degree in 1923.

“Because of Paul’s greatness, the University has a couple of buildings named after him,” Jefferson said. “The University cut him off in the 1950s — they weren’t allowed to talk about him.”

After living in London, Robeson became politicized, Jefferson said in his performance. Robeson participated in many civil and human rights movements, as he became a fighter against the fascist movement.

The University ostracized Robeson because it did not want to embrace the controversy in the issues he believed in, Jefferson said. Robeson boldly stated he was a socialist. There were people in the University who did not want others to know Robeson’s father was a slave or that he was one of the best University students.

“When Malcolm X came, when Martin Luther King came, it was already 20 to 30 years after Paul Robeson had been somehow in their shoes,” Jefferson said.

“He was the precursor for all of these things.”

Accused of being a communist, due to his friendship with the Soviet Union, Robeson was put under sur veillance of the FBI and CSI, which many believe led the United States

government during the 1950s to nearly destroy him, Jefferson said in character.

There were rumors the FBI killed him since he was one of the most surveyed people in history, Jefferson said. Some say so much pressure was put upon him that he developed bipolar disorder. Others say his death was drug induced.

“His son believed that the CIA and the FBI had a huge part in his death,” Jefferson said. “The information from the period of his death was destroyed in their files.

Because of his beliefs, Paul had been a danger to the system.”

Not only did the COSINE club want to recognize a great historical figure in black history, but they also presented a successful University alumnus, said Quanika Stover, president of the COSINE club.

“Because Paul Robeson is an alumnus of Rutgers, a great athlete, part of the glee club and he also performed in plays, he is someone who exemplifies the tr ue spirit of Rutgers,” said Stover, a School of Environment and Biological Sciences senior.

Nathan Gwira, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, said Robeson should be as well known as Harriet Tubman, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King.

He said Robeson deser ves more than just buildings named after him, since he participated in the civil rights movement.

“Part of the reason why I came to Rutgers University was because of Paul Robeson,” Gwira said. “He’s been someone I look up to for years now.”

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SCHOOL: Facility to hold 675 students up to fifth grade continued from front they’re putting together a timeline for construction.”

Spokeswoman Edye Maier of the Schools Development Authority, the state organization that will handle the construction project, said each of the 10 projects must first be evaluated by standardization criteria.

“The schools will be evaluated individually, and they’ll present them to the board for further action,” she said. “There is no timeline for Redshaw Elementary School yet.”

The facility where classes are held was a brand new structure,

and the school is the first to occupy it, Kaplan said.

“When you’re in the building, you actually believe it’s a school,” he said. “It had 60-foot high ceilings, which were lowered to 10 feet. It’s heated and has computer access but [scarce] windows. It’s a temporary facility — it is not nor has it ever served as a warehouse.”

Kaplan said the city’s Lincoln Elementary School operates in a neighboring facility, which was emptied out of its original building for renovations but will return in September to its Bartlett Street location.

The facility does not have the amenities that most schools have, Abdus-Salaam said.

“There are many sacrifices we have to make,” she said. “We

don’t have an auditorium, windows in the classroom or natural lighting. We make do with the few amenities we have.”

At its location on Van Dyke Avenue, there is a gymnasium and a cafeteria but no playground for the students and thus, no recess, she said.

“I think the students are looking for ward to having recess again, so they can run around and play and have fun,” she said.

“Currently, the school does not offer that to students, but it’s just as important as reading, writing and arithmetic.”

The new school will hold 675 students from grades 1 to 5 with the resources it needs, Kaplan said. It will have a playground, a gymnasium, a cafeteria, an auditorium, a library, music and art

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At its current location, more than 700 students are enrolled at Redshaw, which is more than the new building can accommodate, Abdus-Salaam said.

“We’ll have to figure out a way to deal with the overflow of students,” she said.

Abdus-Salaam looks forward to holding assembly programs and school-sponsored events in the new auditorium, she said. She also looks for ward to natural lighting in the classrooms.

“Research shows that a student’s physical environment affects their learning,” she said.

“Our students should not have to wait their whole school career to have the kind of school environment they deserve.”

CAMDEN: Fernandez answers questions about Cuba continued from front In addition to telling her own stories, Fernandez helped answer the questions of students and Cuban escapees alike.

One student asked about the state of education in Cuba.

“Education is free, but you can’t read what you want to read or write what you want to write,” Fernandez said.

When asked about health care in Cuba, Fernandez said people are treated like children from the time they are born until they die.

Her stories ranged from life inside her home as a child to the government of Cuba as a whole.

“I come from a country in which revolution is endless,” she said.

Talking about Castro as a father as opposed to the dictator the world sees him as, Fernandez spoke of how she did not realize who Castro was at first but soon had to deal with the challenges of having a dictator as a father.

“I kept trying to hide behind my name ‘Fernandez,’ but it didn’t work,” she said.

Fernandez said Castro was a distant man who increasingly put all of his focus into the ruling of his country.

“Once you think you’re God, you stay that way and you distance yourself,” Fernandez said.

“He managed to have everything under his control.”

Despite the dramatic context of her story, Fernandez kept the mood light-hearted with frequent jokes and the occasional blunt but informed response.

Fernandez said health care in the United States and Cuba is doomed.

“I think any extreme is bad,” she said.

The coordinators of the event as well as those in attendance thought the speech was a unique experience in that it was not the average Women’s History Month event.

“I felt it was an intriguing story you don’t often get to hear,” said Monique Mathews, assistant coordinator of campus events at Rutgers-Camden. “It’s a stor y based internationally, often we only hear U.S.-based stories during the month.”

Some students believed they learned more about Cuba’s problems from the event.

“I think I have a much clearer picture of the social control in Cuba,” said Vance Patrick, a Rutgers-Camden senior.

Other students attended out of curiosity from stories they heard.

“It interested me because I come from a Hispanic culture, and it’s common to talk about other Hispanic events,” said Stephanie Cosmi, a Rutgers-Camden senior.

“Castro was talked about in our household. She surprised me by being so anti-Communist and that she was the only one of her siblings that left Cuba.”

Some of the audience attended because they are very familiar with Fernandez’s struggle, as they escaped from Cuba themselves.

“We care about the country we left, you get a sense that you are the lucky one because you got to leave,” said Gladys Rodriguez, who fled Cuba. “It’s a personal thing, we’re very connected. If we were still in Cuba our life would be different.”

As for the future of Cuba, Fernandez is unsure but thinks it cannot stay this way forever.

“I’m still amazed and surprised that [Cuban leaders] act like nothing is going to change,” she said.

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BY NATALIE FLYNN STAFF WRITER

“Israel, the Apartheid Analogy and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement,” was held Tuesday evening as part of Palestine Awareness Week sponsored by BAKA: Students United for Middle Eastern Justice on Douglass campus.

Journalist Max Blumenthal was featured among several speakers at the event, which was held in conjunction with Israeli Apartheid Week, said Hoda Mitwally, BAKA public relations officer.

“Since the attack on Gaza in 2008-09, there has been a tremendous shift in public discourse on Palestine,” she said. “We’ve seen this shift occurring globally, and it has been happening right here in the United States. Our goal is to bring this important conversation here to Rutgers and encourage our student body to act.”

Mitwally, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, explained the “Apartheid Analogy” as comparing the situation for Palestinians in Israel to the South African apartheid.

“Many discussions of Israeli apartheid center around the occupied West Bank,” she said.

“But we wanted to bring to light how it operates against Palestinians within Israel proper.”

Blumenthal, who has written for publications like The New York Times, spent seven months of the last two years in Israel. He spoke after a presentation from his research assistant about the living situation of Palestinians in Israel.

“Leave the West Bank out of the apartheid discussion,” he said. “Israel is a Jewish and democratic state, but what this did was make the Palestinians the victims of democracy.”

The Fourth Geneva Convention states it is illegal to transport a population to an occupied territory, BAKA treasurer Michael Dunican said.

Blumenthal said discrimination is a problem that Palestinians face in Israel.

“Land laws are the principle means to dispossess Palestinians … and the Development Authority Law allowed the state to evict people from land they previously owned,” Blumenthal said.

Hannah Schwarzchild, cofounder of American Jews for a Just Peace, talked about BDS, a form of civic resistance and opposition, in her speech.

“BDS is part of an age-old, well rooted, well grounded campaign of non-violent resistance to oppression,” Schwarzchild said.

Schwarzchild cited Gandhi and Rosa Parks as two examples of those who practice civil disobedience. She emphasized that local initiatives can be powerful, and that through educating the public, BDS can have a large impact.

BDS resulted from the failure of the Oslo peace process and is a call upon the international community

until three criteria for Palestinians are met, Schwarzchild said.

“BDS is a way for us here in the United States to use the power of the consumer to make an impact on such a pertinent global issue that affects all of us,” Mitwally said.

Ali Abunimah, a fellow at the Palestine Center in Washington, D.C., explained in his speech the criteria the Palestinians wish to have met.

“The goals for today are ending the occupation that began in 1967, ending all forms of discriminatory practices and respecting and promoting and implementing the rights of Palestinian refugees,” Abunimah said.

At the close of the evening, Blumenthal was asked a question on normalization.

He replied by saying the apartheid system of Israel/Palestine, like that of Jim Crow in the United States, is one of an unbalanced power structure, and the oppressed cannot sit down with the oppressor on equal terms until the oppressor acknowledges their actions.

Blumenthal stressed the need to have joint Palestinian-Israeli and Arab-Jewish initiative that works together to end Israeli occupation and apartheid.

“You don’t have to agree with me that a one state solution is the best solution,” Blumenthal said.

“You just have to agree that all discrimination is wrong.”

Some members of Rutgers Hillel, like Vice President Kim Schwartzman and Orthodox Community Chair Zeke Pariser, said Israel is not an apartheid state and not even comparable to events in South Africa.

“We strongly feel that to call Israel an apartheid state is a gross misinterpretation of an apartheid,” said Pariser, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “Any quick Wikipedia search or any really basic fact-finding will stress on that.”

Schwartzman said the wall actually helps more than its hurts people, as it diminished the amount of deaths and crimes.

“In the early 2000s, there were 400 Israeli deaths because of suicide bombers,” she said. “After the wall was put up, there was statistic a few years later saying there were only eight deaths.”

Schwartzman said the wall not only helps Israelis but is beneficial to Palestinians as well.

Israel extends support and aid to Palestinians.

The wall is also used as military checkpoint that makes sure people are not bringing weapons across the barrier, she said.

“Everyone is given the same rights and the same consideration and where as in South Africa they were not,” Schwartzman said. “It’s very different things and just to compare the two is really wrong.”

Reena Diamante contributed to this article.

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Legality does not guarantee morality

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niversity students may remember that fateful day in the fall of 2009 when the absolutely deplorable Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) came to protest at the Rutgers Hillel House.

Fortunately, that day ended on a surprisingly positive note, as hundreds of students took the streets to support Hillel in the face of the WBC’s vitriolic, unfounded rhetoric. Of course, the University has not been the only community affected by this rogue “church” — it seems improper to even use that term in relation to people as despicable as Pastor Fred Phelps’ brood. Communities all over the United States have been subjected to the group’s hateful tactics, and, unfortunately, this is going to continue for the foreseeable future. The Supreme Court ruled yesterday in an 8-1 decision that the Westboro Baptists’ activities are well within their First Amendment rights. This is one of the prices we pay for our various freedoms in the United States — even the absolute worst folks are allowed to speak their minds.

We are a little surprised that the Supreme Court justices did not rule that the WBC’s protests were obvious examples of hate speech, but we suppose it is because the group is, in fact, a church. As such, these protests are expressions of their religious tenets and therefore protected. It is a sort of loophole that allowed the WBC to win the day, then. But this is America — land of the free, and freedom often gets complicated. As much as the WBC sickens us, we have to at least be thankful that the Supreme Court took all the facts into consideration when making their decision. The only thing worse than allowing the WBC to continue on unhindered is to compromise the basic principles of freedom upon which our nation is founded.

The nation has to remember though that just because the WBC is legal, that does not mean they are good or right. We recognize that we are probably preaching to the choir — so to speak — in condemning the church’s actions, but we feel it necessary to reaffirm our feelings on the WBC in light of the Supreme Court’s judgment. It is the duty of every American to exercise their freedom of speech whenever the WBC comes to their town and mount a counter protest. There is one benefit to having a group like the WBC terrorize the country — it spurs the rest of us to come together and fight for what we believe in.

Unity is hardly ever a bad thing.

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ov. Chris Christie can be a tough politician to get a handle on.

He is not exactly the perfect manifestation of the popular consensus on what makes a Republican. For example, while many Republicans are throwing their support behind Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wis.) and his efforts to essentially destroy collective bargaining for public unions, Christie publicly announced his support for collective bargaining at a Hillsborough, N.J., town hall meeting. In the words of the governor himself, “Let’s get rid of civil service and let everything be collectively bargained.” This is one of the things that makes Christie such an admirable person — regardless of your political affiliation, you have to give him credit for standing behind his principles instead of party lines.

New Jersey residents have been pretty anxious about what will happen to public unions in this state. But now they can take solace in the fact that Christie is in full support of collective bargaining. It must be noted that some are suspicious about Christie’s support for public unions and understandably so. After all, he has been locked in a long and vicious battle with the teachers union, the New Jersey Education Association. But according to Christie, his supposed assault on the teachers union “has nothing to do with breaking the union, it has to do with share sacrifice.” Perhaps Christie is just blowing smoke. It is entirely possible that he has some sort of ulterior motive. But, as of now, any conspiracy theories regarding Christie’s support for collective bargaining are nothing more than vague notions. Christie has not done anything in the past to suggest that he hides his motivations or changes his opinions to mollify the public.

One of the most common attacks launched against public unions is that they have benefits that the private sector does not have, and therefore, they should be dismantled. There is a selfish “if I’m going down, I’ll take everyone else with me” mentality behind this attack, as it suggests that no one should be allowed to have things that others do not have.

Thankfully, Christie is going about this the right way — rather than seeking to destroy public unions, he is merely asking them to share the sacrifices that the private sector has had to make. His decision to do so through the avenue of collective bargaining shows that Christie understands that vicious attacks on public unions are not the answer. Instead, there must be a negotiation process — it is only fair for all parties involved.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “You don’t have to agree with me that a one state solution is the best solution. You just have to agree that all discrimination is wrong.”

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cover their public employll Republican goverees. This state legislation nors’ eyes are on defining the rights and proWisconsin and tections of public workers Ohio. If anti-union measis the target of the current ures are successful in these political leaders in Ohio two states, there is the and Wisconsin. strong possibility that simiThe fact of this issue is lar policies will spread to CHRISTOPHER PFLAUM that newly empowered other Republican led states.

Republican governors are Our own Gov. Chris Christie waging a war motivated by partisan politics and is licking his chops in anticipation of a roast of pubdiscrimination. It is an assault on hard-working lic employee unions in these states. His finger-pointAmericans by greedy sociopathic top-down ing rhetoric at union benefits and pension obligadimwits in an attempt to try and wiggle out of tions during his recent annual budget speech gives financial obligations on which they blame their some insight into his desire to bring an anti-union current state budget crises. The motivation is battle here to New Jersey. Luckily, we have a legisbased on a deplorable but win-win strategy for lature that is less eager to blame others for our curRepublicans. It is a strategy that weakens tradirent budget crisis and instead focus on reasonable tional democratic supports and strengthens tradisolutions and a way forward. tional republican supports. For example, you have But other states across the nation are not as governors such as our own Christie who refuse to insulated as we are from this new Republican stratpay pension fund obligations for our hard-working egy of blame-for-gain. It has already been more middle class state employees in favor of tax cuts. than two weeks of protests since the newly elected In their minds, the union workers that they are Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker threatened to remove screwing out of a pension — who in recent histothe rights of public employees to engage in collecry always support Democrats — would never vote tive bargaining through their union representafor or support them in elections tives. Even after offers of benefit anyway. Though, those who they reductions and pay cuts, Walker is “Gov. Chris Christie are able to secure tax cuts for are still not willing to halt his anti-union threats. In Ohio, the senate has just is licking his chops current and possible future supports. It is a strategy that sacrifices passed a bill through committee in anticipation American values to capitalize on that would eliminate the rights of partisanship. thousands of public workers to of a roast of public political If allowed to go unchecked, these protest and limit their rights to Republican majority states will be setnegotiate details of their state conemployee unions.” ting back the rights of our publictracts. Knowing what is at stake, working citizens to an era preworkers in these two states and National Labor Relations Act. What comes next: the across the United States have been showing their elimination of a minimum wage, the reinstatement of support for public employees and their rights to child labor or the allowance of a 16-hour workday? collectively bargain and protest. As early as 1768, Although dramatic, the point is that the right to strike workers here in the United States have had to rise and assemble to form collective bargaining strategies up and protest against injustices, unsafe working should be the right of all American workers. Instead, conditions and the attitudes of employers who were we are left with a national policy that excludes state, driven by greed and the intoxicating spirit of capifederal and agricultural workers from being guarantalism. It was not until the declining working conteed these rights out of fear. It is a government fear ditions of the Great Depression and bloodshed by that citizens will be able to disrupt the tranquility and workers in protest that the issue of worker’s rights harmony of the day-to-day functions of government. made its way into congressional legislation. The And only recently, Republican leaders are taking movement ultimately culminated into the passing advantage of this exclusion under the federal law as a of the National Labor Relations Act of 1935. Under way to threaten and bully concessions out of public this act, workers were given the right to form employees. My only question is — why aren’t their unions, collectively bargain and take part in strikes. more people in the streets protesting?

As a result, the American workforce saw drastic improvements in pay, retirement security and Christopher Pflaum is a School of Arts and working conditions.

Sciences senior majoring in genetics with a minor in But Section 152 of this act establishes by definipolitical science. He is the president of the Rutgers tion the exclusion of federal, state and public University Democrats. His column, “Carpe Diem,” employees from protection. In light of this fact, runs on alternate Thursdays. many states have enacted similar protections to Due to space limitations, submissions cannot exceed 750 words. If a commentary exceeds 750 words, it will not be considered for publication. All authors must include name, phone number, class year and college affiliation or department to be considered for publication. Anonymous letters will not be considered. All submissions are subject to editing for length and clarity. A submission does not guarantee publication. Please submit via e-mail to oped@dailytargum.com by 4 p.m. to be considered for the following day’s publication. Please do not send submissions from Yahoo or Hotmail accounts.

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Stand together for peace, despite differences Letter WILLIAM EASTMAN, BAHAA HASHEM & JANE VORKUNOVA

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e are Bahaa Hashem, Will Eastman, and Jane Vorkunova of the Rutgers Shalom/Salaam e-board.

Our organization aims to bridge the gap between Jews, Arabs and Muslims through community service, cultural exchange and mutual respect.

Rutgers Shalom/Salaam is a non-political organization that focuses on bringing people who might otherwise never speak and encouraging

them to work together toward common purposes. We believe that by being united by shared causes, like charity, we are able to better see the humanity in one another and take a step forward rather than backward.

We wish to extend an invitation to anyone in the University community, and in the surrounding communities, to join us at a fantastic event: StandUp For Peace. StandUp For Peace is a comedy duo consisting of Scott Blakeman, an American Jew, and Dean Obeidallah, an American Palestinian, who use their comedy to inspire positive interactions between Jews, Arabs and

Muslims. They will come to campus Saturday, March 5 at 8 p.m. in Trayes Hall of the Douglass Campus Center.

“This Saturday, will you stand up for peace?”

The show will be free admission, but a small donation to Rutgers University Dance Marathon will be suggested.

Dance Marathon raises money

for the Embrace Kids Foundation, a nonprofit organization that aids the non-medical needs of children with cancer and blood disorders. It is a wonderful cause, and we are grateful to be able to support it. A Dance Marathon representative will be in attendance to award spirit points to fraternities, sororities and organizations that are participating in the marathon. Rutgers University Programming Association, Rutgers Hillel, Rutgers University Muslim Students Association, the Rutgers Pakistani Students Association, the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund-Rutgers and the campus

Deans of Busch, College Avenue and Livingston are joining us to co-sponsor this event. We all have causes, and we all have beliefs.

But there is something special to say when people can stand together in unity, in spite of their differences. So, this Saturday, will you stand up for peace?

William Eastman is a School of Ar ts and Sciences junior majoring in political science and history. Bahaa Hashem is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in political science with a minor in Middle Eastern studies. Jane Vorkunova is a Rutgers Business School junior.

Journalists must respect privacy of others Letter JORDAN GOCHMAN

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here are places where you have no expectation of privacy, such as a public sidewalk or a crowded bus.

There are security cameras throughout the campus that are probably being viewed at this moment by some person you have never met. But surely you can feel solitude when in a bathroom or shower stall. According to certain members of the media, though, this is apparently public space, too.

If you watched the local news yesterday, you would have seen some nice coverage of the new gender-neutral housing program that will be starting at the University in the fall of 2011.

Most of the attention focused on Demarest Hall, where I am a

resident and the Outreach Coordinator. If you watched CBS 2 New York, you would have seen the lovely gender-neutral bathrooms that were installed in Demarest during the summer of 2010. These bathrooms even have swipe access to keep track of who accesses the bathroom.

You would have also seen residents of Demarest Hall showering in these bathrooms. Of course, there was no nudity and no reporter pulled open the shower door to surprise a freshly cleaned student, but the fact remains: A reporter and her cameraperson entered a private bathroom, meant solely for use by residents of Demarest Hall and disregarded the inherent privacy of the space.

According to students who were in this par ticular bathroom at the time, the reporter gave no advanced notice of

entering the bathroom and attempted to ask questions of students when they were clad only in towels, still soaking wet from their showers.

“Surely you can feel solitude when in a bathroom or shower stall. ” I speak on behalf of Demarest Hall when I say that is one of the most negligent, intrusive and offensive things done by a member of the media I have ever seen. The gender-neutral bathrooms were specifically designed by Residence Life to prevent something like this from happening. Within hours of the incident occurring,

residents of Demarest Hall were expressing their frustration through social networking and approaching members of the Residence Life staff to figure out what happened.

I personally encountered the reporter, Magee Hickey, outside the building, interviewing another resident. By the time I had met her, she had already entered, filmed the area in question and returned outside. I politely introduced myself and she promptly asked me if she could return inside. I, unaware of what she already did, escorted her. As I did, I calmly mentioned that I was escorting her out of concern for residents, since reporters had been extremely invasive in other residence halls following recent on campus incidents. As we walked up the stairs, she looked at me and said, “Yeah, we’re horrible people.”

Indeed.

During her time on campus, I did not see any representatives from Rutgers Media Relations with her, nor any of the other reporters on campus that day. While a representative does not need to be there in a public setting, I think it should at least be required for when a journalist enters a residence hall.

I ask any student of journalism at the University to not follow the example of this reporter. Yes, the public has a right to information.

But that doesn’t mean you have to invade the privacy of others to get it, especially in a place as private and intimate as a shower stall.

Jordan Gochman is a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore majoring in labor studies and employment relations and theater.

He is the Outreach Coordinator for Demarest Hall on the College Avenue campus.

Israeli Apartheid Week unfairly criticizes Israel Irreconcilable M Differences arch is a great month because it has a little something for everyone. Sports lovers have spring training and March Madness.

The Irish have St. Patrick’s Day. College kids have spring break.

There is one unfortunate event during March, though, that brings much animosity to college campuses for one week every year: Palestinian activist groups sponsor Israeli Apartheid Week.

The problem with Israeli Apartheid Week is not that it merely brings a dark cloud to an otherwise great month, but it is based on a dangerous lie that seeks to inflict pain not only on Israel, but on all of Israel’s supporters as well.

Israeli Apartheid Week began in Toronto in 2005 — according to the official website — to end what the organizers called “the occupation and colonization of all Arab lands,” among other stated goals.

Since then, the movement has grown to take place in more than 40 major cities across the globe.

The current aim is “to educate people about the nature of Israel as an apartheid system and to build Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns as part of a growing global BDS movement.”

There are numerous problems with Israeli Apartheid Week, but perhaps it is best to start local.

Is New Brunswick an apartheid city? Before you

answer, consider the large minority population just a few blocks away from the University campus. Are these people truly represented by the New Brunswick government?

Probably not. Are their living conditions worse than that of the typical University student? Yes. Is New Brunswick an apartheid city? No. The word “apartheid” means something very specific. It refers to an official government policy of racial segregation and suppression. The most famous example of apartheid was in South Africa, where a ruling class of whites suppressed the political, social and economic rights of the blacks in that country. Another example was the American south under Jim Crow, when blacks were forced by law to use separate water fountains, attend different schools and sit in the back of buses. By using the word “apartheid,” the organizers are calling Israelis — and those who support Israel — racists. The logical extension of their argument is that those who support Israel are equivalent to those who supported racial discrimination under Jim Crow and South African apartheid. In reality, Israel is nothing like American Jim Crow or South African apartheid.

Unlike those two cases, Israel has no laws to discriminate against

“Apartheid” should not be used to simply mean racial inequity. If that is the definition used, then every racially diverse society in the world is an apartheid state, including New Brunswick.

NOAH GLYN Israel, like New Brunswick, has different racial groups racial minorities. Many Israeli that face different challenges. For Druze and Bedouins serve in the years, Sephardic Israelis faced military, as do gays. Ethiopians social discrimination within Israeli are increasingly becoming sucsociety, but thankfully their condicessful in Israeli society, even tions have been improving over though they have lived there for a time. Hopefully, the economic, relatively short period of time. political and social conditions will Arabs are active in the Israeli govquickly improve for minority groups living in New Brunswick, but even if they do not, that does “Compared to not mean New Brunswick is an apartheid city. Neither New the reality Brunswick nor Israel has laws to discriminate against minorities. in the Middle East Anyone who calls Israel or New ... Israel is a haven Brunswick an “apartheid” state is stretching the use of the word to of freedom, liberty indicate a condition found in and democracy.” nations around the world, including most Arab countries. That they have targeted the world’s only preernment, serving as members of dominantly Jewish state with this Knesset (Israeli Parliament) and invective speaks more to their own in the Israeli Foreign Service. motivations than the reality of race There were no southern black relations in Israel. congressmen in the Jim Crow The most definitive evidence south, and political rivals — like to contradict the accusations of Nelson Mandela — were jailed apartheid comes directly from during South African apartheid.

Israel’s Declaration of The comparison between Israel Independence. It states that and those two cases has no basis Israel “will ensure complete in historical reality. equality of social and political

rights to all its inhabitants, irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture.” Some may argue that those are the ideals that Israel wants to strive towards, but the reality is that it falls far short of reaching them.

That is a fair criticism, but it is worth pointing out that no racially diverse society throughout all of human history has ever fulfilled those ideals perfectly.

The authors of the Constitution of the United States strived to create a “more perfect union,” but they also understood that no nation or person is perfect. Israel, much like the United States, attempts to perfect itself in many ways. Those who criticize Israel are unable to answer a very simple question: Compared to what? Compared to utopian ideals, of course Israel falls short.

Compared to the reality in the Middle East, where tyrants squash political protests, reign in free speech, imprison independent journalists, and limit Internet access, Israel is a haven of freedom, liberty and democracy.

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

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

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SITE: Zhang faces rematch with Marquette’s No. 1 singles continued from back One of the lone bright spots for the Knights in last season’s trip to Helfaer Tennis Stadium was the play of now-senior captain Amy Zhang. Zhang scored one of the Knights’ only points with a 6-1, 7-5 win in the No.1 singles spot against the Golden Eagles’ Paola Calderon.

Zhang has not played up to her All-Big East status this season, putting up a 4-4 mark in singles and dropping two matches last weekend at Louisville and Xavier.

She will be pitted against an opponent seeking revenge on BEN Sunday in Calderon, all while trying to break out of her personal funk.

“It’s definitely been ver y frustrating,” Zhang said. “I need to work on maintaining my consistency, especially on my backhand, my serve and returns.”

A loss against Marquette this time around would once again be the Knights’ second conference defeat after they came up shor t at Louisville.

The Knights fell, 4-3, in a close contest and failed to win the doubles point like each of their losses this season.

“I think we have a ver y strong doubles lineup, but our main weakness is getting caught off guard early,” Zhang said. “This can be a big problem in doubles — you dig yourself

into a hole very quickly if you aren’t ready to go right away.”

Despite the occasional struggles in doubles play, Rutgers received some very strong showings in singles competition.

Holzberg shined thus far in the No. 2 singles slot and, as of Feb. 3, has been on a seven-match winning streak.

“I have been playing well in singles so far and have been more confident than I have been in the past,” Holzberg said. “I’ve been working on my mental strength, which has made me more consistent as well.”

The Knights also received stellar play toward the bottom of their lineup from freshmen Stefania Balasa and Vanessa BUCCA Petrini, which improved the depth of the team significantly. Petrini leads the team with a 7-1 record in the No. 6 slot, while Balasa is on a seven-match win streak of her own in the No. 5 position.

“Stef is progressing very nicely,” Bucca said. “She’s on quite a roll playing great inspired tennis.

She has a very bright future with this program.”

The Knights need everyone in the lineup to step up if they are going to topple rival Marquette and put one in the Big East win column.

“The girls will be ready,” Bucca said. “They know the talent level of Marquette and the competitive nature of our recent matches. This is what college sports is all about.”

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RALLY: Pair of goals in

The goal came after a timeout with 24 seconds remaining.

43 seconds aid comeback effort Rutgers took advantage of its previous timeout earlier in the game, as a pair of Marlena continued from back Welsh goals tied the game “They were doing a great at 6-6. job sticking with cutters.

“I just recollected them [in Princeton runs a good of fense, the timeout],” Brand said. “I and we were doing a really just told them we’re a team good job keeping that gets the them out.” draw because “I’m really proud The Knights we’re feisty. We trailed for 39 fight for ground of the heart they minutes in reguballs and they lation — up until just needed to be had at the end a Lindsey Watts refocused.

We of the game when weren’t covering goal.

Senior attack cutters that were things weren’t Katherine Marino breaking high. going our way.” scored her second We tur ned the goal of the game ball over and LAURA BRAND with 43 seconds were giving up Head Coach left in regulation. fast breaks down Rutgers won the the field.” subsequent draw The Tigers and brought the ball downfield to entered the second half with a 5-3 senior Kristen Anderson behind lead off of four unanswered goals. the cage.

Rutgers was able to get out Anderson passed it to to a 3-1 star t in the first half Watts and the junior attack’s but struggled to find the back goal tied the game at 8-8 of the cage after claiming an with eight seconds remaining early advantage. in regulation.

“A team like that has a lot of “I’m really proud of the heart of fensive firepower,” Brand they had at the end of the game said. “Our defense was playing when things weren’t going our way too long. Lily was having way,” Brand said. to save the ball too much.”

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ROOKIE: Knights face

with tenacity and truly wanting each win.”

Bragg represents a quarter of five opponents in third tourney the sophomore class with a year of starting experience. continued from back Second baseman Jennifer really scared and nervous and Harabedian started all 55 games afraid of doing poorly. Now that I last season and each of the first have that first win under me, I can nine of her sophomore season. go in there more confident like I Catcher Kaci Madden shared was in high school. I can just do my duties with Kylee Bishop through thing and stop worrying so much.” two seasons, and sophomore pitchSenior first baseman Mandy er Abbey Houston emerged in the Craig also hails from offseason as the new ace Virginia, but her homeof the staff. town of Manassas, Va., “The sophomore lies closer to Piscataway class is really close,” than Hampton. Craig is Bragg said. “We all live third on the team in hittogether, and we’re ting with a .375 average. always doing things Rutgers (3-6) faces together, and we know five teams through the that our teammates rely weekend in the third of on us even more this seaMEGAN five preseason tournason. We’ve all experiments. The Scarlet enced things together WILLIAMS Knights, winners of and that makes us three of their last five, expect the stronger as a unit.” momentum to continue against Prior to last weekend’s tournaFairleigh Dickenson (3-1), Marist ment, head coach Jay Nelson (0-5), Central Connecticut State focused on defensive execution as (1-4), Brown (0-0) and Maryland an area with room for improveEastern Shore (1-6). ment. Despite two fewer errors in “The last few games have defithe second tournament, Nelson nitely been a confidence booster,” said the defense still needs work. sophomore shortstop Ashley “We’re still not where we need Bragg said. “If we keep playing to be defensively,” he said. “Our hard, we’re going to keep seeing defense was certainly better than results. We have to go out there the first week, though.”

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he East Atlantic Gymnastics League (EAGL) recognized freshman gymnast Luisa Leal-Restrepo as Gymnast of the Week for the second time this season.

Leal-Restrepo set a school record last Saturday in a trimeet against Bridgeport and Ursinus with an all-around score of 39.375. The effort topped the previous school record of 39.300, set exactly one year before Leal-Restrepo topped it. Her score led the Knights to a total score of 194.150 — the third highest score in school history.

The freshman also captured the bars, balance team and floor exercise in the meet.

The award marked LealRestrepo’s second honor, as in February she earned EAGL Rookie of the Week.

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Williams returned home today after two major health scares.

The 13-time Grand Slam winner suffered from a blood clot in her lungs and later needed treatment for a hematoma.

Williams underwent emergency surger y at a Los Angeles-area hospital, and she is now working towards recovery. The former champion has not played an official match since she won Wimbledon on July 3, the fourth time in her career. She cut her foot on broken glass after the victory, and her return has been delayed ever since.

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pitcher Josh Beckett will miss his next scheduled spring training start due to concussion symptoms.

The righthander complained of symptoms after being hit in the left temple on Monday while warming up in the outfield. Stolmy Pimentel will take Beckett’s place in the next scheduled starting Thursday against the Philadelphia Phillies.

Boston confirmed that Beckett passed the necessary tests and is eligible to return.

The Red Sox expect him back for his next scheduled start after Pimentel, but the decision falls on the team’s pitching coach, Curt Young.

OAKLAND

A THLETICS

outfielder Coco Crisp was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving.

Crisp was released from jail and arrived at Phoenix Municipal Stadium on time for pregame drills before Oakland’s exhibition game against the Cleveland Indians.

The outfielder is the third Major League player in the past three weeks to be charged with DUI. Detroit Tigers first baseman Miguel Cabrera and Cleveland Indians outfielder Austin Kearns face similar charges.

The A’s refused to comment on the matter.

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Redshirt freshman spearheads youthful attack

BY VINNIE MANCUSO STAFF WRITER

On a squad whose offense is in the middle of a youth movement, the Rutgers men’s lacrosse team’s MEN’S LACROSSE brightest star may be one of its youngest of all.

Only a redshirt freshman, attackman Scott Klimchak more than made his mark as a member of the Scarlet Knights, who sorely lacked a productive attack in the past.

“I’ve said it all along, what [Klimchak] brings to the table is something we’ve really needed,” head coach Jim Stagnitta said. “I knew it was there from the beginning from his recruitment.”

Klimchak, who garnered both All-Conference and All-American honors at A.L. Johnson High School, finished his high school career fourth on the New Jersey alltime scorers list with 385 points.

The Clark, N.J., native brings his explosive offensive attack to Rutgers, where he is tied for second on the team in goals scored with six. In the Knights’ season opener against Wagner, Klimchak led the team with seven points.

“In that game [against Wagner], I let the plays come to me — I didn’t try and force anything,” Klimchak said. “I was patient and the points just added up.”

But for someone so young, Klimchak does not let his early success get to his head. Like a seasoned veteran, he knows that he can always strive to be better.

“I feel like I’m playing pretty well, but I know that I can do better than how I’m doing right

now,” Klimchak said. “I still feel like I have more ability in me.”

The coaching staff also noticed how Klimchak treats the game like someone far beyond his years.

“He has great lacrosse sense and great lacrosse skills,” Stagnitta said. “[Klimchak] has made two or three plays that we hadn’t even had the abilities to make over the last few years. He has the ability to make everyone around him better because of his vision and his lacrosse I.Q., which is off the charts.”

A substantial reason Klimchak feels so comfortable with the game is the relationship he has with twin brother, Matthew, who is also on the team. The two played together their entire lives, and it shows when they are on the field together.

“Matt and Scott definitely have that twin bond going on,” junior attackman Kevin Hover said. “They always know what the other is going to do.”

But Matthew, who missed his entire high school senior season due to nagging injuries, is out for an estimated six weeks due to knee surgery. Scott knows it will be a substantial loss to the team and anticipates the moment when he can once again play alongside the person who has always been out there with him.

“Me and Matt always grew up playing together, and we always wanted to keep playing together,” Scott Klimchak said. “We feel like it’s an advantage when we’re out there together because we both know exactly what each other are going to do and where each other are. Hopefully he’ll be back soon so we can play together again.”

Knights prepare for improved performance

BY LIZ SWERN STAFF WRITER

The Rutgers men’s track and field team travels to Boston for another MEN’S TRACK championship RUTGERS AT m e e t IC4A CHAMPIONSHIPS t h i s SATURDAY weekend at Boston University’s Track and Tennis Center.

The Scarlet Knights left last year’s IC4A Championships disappointed. After less than stellar performances and two injuries, the Knights hope to end this weekend on a higher note.

“That was probably the worst 20 minutes of Rutgers track and field history,” said senior sprinter Aaron Younger, who suffered an injury last year during his 400-meter dash, crushing his hopes of qualifying for NCAA Indoor Championships.

After a second injury to his teammate in the 500-meter dash minutes later, the Knights had to drop out of the 4x400-meter relay — an event they previously hoped to win.

“I’d rather not think about last year while I’m there,” Younger said. “That’s not something I want to have on my mind.”

The Franklinville, N.J., native will once again run the 400-meter dash in hopes of qualifying for NCAA Indoor Championships on March 12.

Also on the track, freshman Corey Caidenhead has his first chance to compete at the IC4A Championships, running the 500meter dash as well as a leg in the 4x400-meter relay.

“This is the right meet to get a personal record due to the design of the indoor track,” Caidenhead said. “I would love to get a personal record in the 500.”

Boston’s track facility contains a six-lane 200-meter track. A 200meter track’s turns are tighter, but with banked turns it requires less effort on a competitor as they run.

Caidenhead’s fellow member of the relay, junior sprinter Steve Werner, also hopes the track’s design will help better the team’s performances.

“I’m excited because I really like Boston’s track,” Werner said.

“I think individually and as a relay we can run some really good times with the fast track and good competition.”

Aside from the Terriers, the Knights will see competition from programs such as Cornell and George Mason, as well as Navy.

Off the track, freshman Devin Jones and junior Kevin Bostick return to the field events, where both will compete in the triple jump.

Jones took home the Big East Championship and captured the school record in the triple jump two weeks ago with a leap of 50 feet, 9.25 inches.

“This weekend is very important,” Jones said. “I have to jump about a foot more to solidify a spot at nationals.”

Bostick also holds NCAA Indoor Championships in his mind as he competes this weekend in the triple jump and high jump.

“I can’t wait to get out there and just have fun with it,” Bostick said. “Big East’s is over now, so I hope I can keep my season going into nationals.”

CAMERON STROUD / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Redshirt freshman attack Scott Klimchak led the Knights with seven points — including four goals — in the team’s season-opening win over Wagner.

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Late RU rally spurned by goal in double overtime

BY JOSH BAKAN STAFF WRITER

CAMERON STROUD / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Junior attack Lindsey Watts tallied a goal with eight seconds left against Princeton last night at the RU Turf Field, tying the Knights at 8-8 with the visiting Tigers. But Princeton left Piscataway with a win on a goal in the second overtime session.

Temporary site plays host to final match

It took two overtime periods and a response to a furious rally by the Rutgers women’s lacrosse team, but the Scarlet Knights still sufWOMEN’S LACROSSE fered their first loss PRINCETON 9 of the season.

Princeton put RUTGERS 8 the ball in the back of the net in double overtime to claim a 9-8 victor y on sophomore attack Jaci Gassaway’s third goal of the evening.

The goal came with 25 seconds remaining, capping of f a Tigers possession that began at the star t of the period during the in-state rivalr y game. The domination of possession time proved to be a problem for the Knights (2-1) the entire game.

“We didn’t cherish our possessions on offense,” head coach Laura Brand said. “I don’t think we made great decisions on the offensive end. I think [the defense] played really well. It stinks that that goal went in at the end, and that’s something I wanted to express to them.

“A team like that has a lot of offensive firepower, so to hold them to single-digit goals says a lot.”

The defense gave up only 25 shots, and sophomore goalie Lily Kalata had nine saves.

“We let them squeak in and get right on the crease, and they would take good shots from there,” Kalata said.

Although Princeton did not score a lot, its advantage came in possession time, which included more than two-thirds of each of the last two overtime periods.

“They had the ball a lot because they’re a patient offense and they were getting many opportunities, but every time they got an opportunity we would force them out,” Kalata said.

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Rookie takes mound in home state

BY MATT CANVISSER

BY SAM HELLMAN

STAFF WRITER

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The Rutgers tennis team continues its hunt for its first Big East Conference win Sunday against bitTENNIS ter rival Marquette.

The match is the MARQUETTE AT last for the Scarlet RUTGERS Knights at their SUNDAY, 9 A.M. temporary home at the Atlantic Club in Manasquan, N.J. Rutgers hosts its final three home games on campus at the RU Tennis Complex, barring cooperation from the weather.

“I’ve liked playing [at the Atlantic Club], but I’m excited to be back on campus after spring break,” junior Jennifer Holzberg said.

“The facility is nice there, but it is just tough for our fans to come and support us being so far away.”

That fan support should be useful for the Knights (5-3, 0-1), who fell to Marquette, 5-2, last season on the road in Milwaukee, Wis., for its second Big East loss.

“We have quickly built a great rivalry against Marquette,” head coach Ben Bucca said. “The matches have always been very close, and we are expecting the same type of challenge. We’ll practice hard this week and come to be ready to play strong tennis.”

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Senior No. 1 singles player Amy Zhang likely faces Marquette’s Paola Calderon for the second consecutive season on Sunday, when Rutgers goes for its first league win.

With her first career win in the books, freshman pitcher Megan Williams has her sights set on a more personal milestone — her first start in front of SOFTBALL her family.

As a native of RUTGERS VS. FDU Richmond, Va., no HAMPTON, VA. member of the TOMORROW, 4 P.M. Rutgers softball team is more excited about a weekend trip to Hampton, Va., for the Lady Pirates Classic.

“I get to go home,” said Williams, whose home is less than two hours from Hampton.

“I’ve got a lot of people coming between my high school friends and my old teammates and my family. It should be a lot of fun.”

Williams picked up her first career win last weekend against Texas Southern, her only appearance in the first nine games of the season.

“It’s kind of nerve-wracking, but I’m excited,” Williams said.

Battling nerves is expected as a freshman, she said, but after finally getting on the field, Williams expects things to calm down.

“I need to improve my mental attitude,” Williams said. “I went in there [the first time]

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