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The Rutgers women’s basketball team lost its semifinal matchup in the Big East Tournament against Connecticut last night, when Maya Moore led the Huskies in dominant fashion.

Advocates testify at medical marijuana hearing

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Toms River, N.J., resident Jim Miller speaks in front of Department of Health and Senior Services hearing officers yesterday morning for his late wife who relied on marijuana for multiple sclerosis relief.

TRENTON — Patients, health care workers and advocates of the New Jersey Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act confronted officials from the Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) yesterday at a public hearing that addressed the law’s new regulations regarding the medical distribution of marijuana.

“These regulations are unconstitutional; they are arbitrary and capricious,” said attorney Justin Escher Alpert, a patient from Livingston, N.J., who supports the legalization of medical marijuana. “They are against the spirit of the law.”

The New Jersey Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act, passed in January 2010, has not been implemented yet, according to a press release from the governor’s office.

Gov. Chris Christie and assemblyman Reed Gusciora, D-Princeton, who

sponsored the bill, announced a compromise agreement in December that added more rules and restrictions to the measure.

The public hearing, held at the Trenton War Memorial, is part of a longer process of adoption required after changes to the original bill, signed by former Gov. Jon S. Corzine, became law.

The new rules put a limit on the amount of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive chemical present in marijuana that gives it its hallucinogenic and therapeutic effects, at a maximum of 10 percent, according to the N.J. statute.

Unlike California, New Jersey’s system does not allow patients to procure marijuana by growing it at home or buying it at a local dispensary, according to the governor’s press release. Instead, there will be just six Alternative Treatment Centers (ATC) divided evenly throughout New

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Poll shows NJ voters support tenure reform

Alumnus promotes diversity as path to success in business

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An Eagleton Institute of Politics poll released Saturday found that New Jerseyans support important elements of Gov. Chris Christie’s plans Opinion on to reform teacher the current K-12 tenure and pay. teacher tenure system Fifty-eight percent of registered PERCENT voters disapprove of of private union the current tenure members policies, while 40 disapprove percent approve, PERCENT according to the of nonunion institute’s poll of 912 households New Jersey adults. disapprove “In some areas, there is frustration PERCENT that students aren’t of Independents doing better,” said are in favor David Redlawsk, Eagleton Institute of Politics poll director. “This causes concern that it might be linked with the idea of bad teachers.”

Families both with and without school-age children support the reforms that would eliminate lifetime tenure, revamp teacher evaluation procedures and tie teacher pay to performance, according to the poll taken between Feb. 24 and 26 through telephone.

The survey also found varied opinions depending upon a person’s party affiliation, their views on Christie and whether they belong to a labor union, said Redlawsk, a University professor of political science.

Public employee union households proved to be stronger supporters of the current K-12 teacher tenure system, according to the poll.

Meanwhile, 55 percent of private union members disapproved, and 64 percent of non-union households do not favor it.

Redlawsk said New Jersey public union workers naturally support the current policies because the majority of them are teachers.

“It’s simply that a teacher’s union has negotiated this issue over the years, and labor households tend to support what labor unions do,” he said.

By a 2 to 1 margin over the Republicans, Democrats support current tenure policies, according to the poll.

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CEO of DiversityInc Luke Visconti discusses diversity and its connection to success last night at the Cook Campus Center Multipurpose Room.

University alumnus and CEO of DiversityInc magazine Luke Visconti visited the Cook Campus Center Multipurpose Room last night to explain the importance of diversity and how former Vice President of Rutgers College George H. Cook influenced both himself and the University.

Visconti, who graduated in 1982 with a bachelor’s degree in biology, said Cook changed higher education during the Civil War era by introducing science and technology to the University.

“Cook ended up causing a revolution that changed the way things are done,” he said. “You take people, teach them things so they can create a gross domestic product.”

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OPINIONS A San Francisco man is leading a movement to ban male circumcision in the city.

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Ilana Shafir, a survior of the seige of Sarajevo shares her stories at “An Artist’s Journey” last night.

The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life sponsored the event.

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Buddies create bonds at Special Friends Day

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Special-needs youths came to the University last Sunday to watch movies, play games and bond with students in the 20th annual Special Friends Day. The event, which was hosted

by Rutgers Recreation and the Recreation Activities Crew (RAC), took place from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Cook/Douglass Recreation Center.

University students from fraternities, sororities and organizations such as Seeing Eye Puppy presented arts and crafts tables for the special needs children and their buddies.

All the children and their assigned student buddies had the opportunity to pet dogs, play basketball and swim in the swimming pool, said Rita Mockute, a first-time buddy at the event.

“It’s been a lot of fun. … The kids are really awesome — they’re really cute,” said Mockute, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences sophomore.

“Brittany, my friend, just gives kisses and hugs all the time and I met all her friends.”

Mockute said she hopes her special friend, 22-year-old Brittany Sessa, had a good time painting her face.

“I was a lion, right?” said Sessa, describing her face decorations.

Organizers situated a moon bounce at one corner of the gym across from a deejay booth and basketball hoops.

Additional rooms in the recreation center were used as playrooms for children and featured movies such as “Tarzan” and “The Jungle Book”.

In order to ensure ever yone’s safety, general volunteers and professional recreation staf f members guarded all exits, said Michael Doughtie,

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Student buddies and their special friends fly a parachute in the air Sunday at the University’s 20th annual Special Friends Day in the Cook/Douglass Recreation Center. Other activities included arts and crafts tables, swimming and basketball.

RAC chair. People were also stationed in the locker rooms to prevent participants from slipping on wet floors.

RAC chairs had to stay in communication with each other through two-way radios to prevent problems and respond to situations, said Doughtie, a Cook College senior.

Before the day concluded with parents picking up their children, all 94 children and 188 buddies had the chance to compete in a parachute game where children and buddies

held onto the edge of the parachute and launched balls into the air, he said.

Doughtie said he considered the event an overall success, but still sees areas in which it could have improved.

“We had a few more obstacles to get around this year in terms of a couple kids who didn’t show up [and] a couple kids who showed up really late,” Doughtie said.

“That starts a process of us having to scramble and get general volunteers to become buddies for the kids.”

Matthew Derocker, whose 19year-old autistic son Joe has attended Special Friends Day for the past 13 years, said he is grateful for the event and hopes it will continue in the future. “[Joe] likes swimming, he swims all the time. He loves water — more of a texture thing,” Derocker said.

To gain publicity for the event, the RAC notified surrounding schools, such as the Douglass Developmental Disabilities Center, about Special Friends Day so that school officials could

inform parents to bring their kids, Doughtie said.

At the end of the day, Doughtie said the most rewarding feeling for him is to see everyone satisfied.

“What’s the most fun for me right now is walking around and seeing the smiles on everybody’s faces, and just the satisfaction of looking around knowing that we put this together,” he said. “Then at the end of the day when all the parents are coming in, you can see how exhausted some of the kids are and you know that we did our job.”

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Students dine in formal wear Sunday night at Kappa Phi Lambda’s “Las Vegas Nights.” The event featured casino games, live music and donated proceeds to the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum.

MARIJUANA: Six ATC applicants to recieve license continued from front Jersey where patients can pick up their medication.

Christie’s compromise measure restricted access even more by denying ATC operators the ability to transport marijuana from the center to a patient’s home, according to a press release from the governor’s office.

“Many of the patients we’re going to be working with are those in the home care setting who have already exhausted the need and utilization of acute care centers,” said Nora Giurici of the New Jersey Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.

Giurici feels this unnecessarily restricts patients’ access and can only burden the ATC. “More than a year later, not a single patient has been able

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to legally access medical marijuana,” said Roseanne Scotti, N.J. director of the Dr ug Policy Alliance.

A.J. Ballinger, an unemployed veteran who suffers from posttraumatic stress disorder, expressed his disapproval of marijuana legalization.

“I am done,” Ballinger said.

“I cannot sit here and wait for you guys to figure out the most lucrative system to be put in place when you’re talking about my mental health, my family name.”

When N.J. resident Jack O’Brien was called to speak, he walked to the microphone and took off his shoes.

“Everybody’s got 10 fingers and 10 toes, right? Not me. It’s extremely painful,” said O’Brien, who displayed his knotted hands and feet to the panel.

Jim Miller of Toms River, N.J., also came to testify on behalf of his late wife who died of multiple

sclerosis and relied on marijuana for relief.

“There’s a big difference between ensuring that only qualified patients have access and ensuring that qualified patients do have access,” Miller said.

Contenders for ATC licenses were similarly nervous.

“You cannot go into business with this much uncer tainty,” said Flakewood Tucker, who applied for the credentials to operate an ATC. Tucker said there is no way to ensure a company can give plants at a 10 percent THC level, causing any ATC to risk going out of business, unless they have deep pockets.

DHSS will announce the six winners of the ATC licenses on March 21, said Donna Leusner, the DHSS Communications director.

Eighty physicians from 19 of the 21 counties in New Jersey have applied to gain the legal ability to prescribe marijuana to patients, Leusner said.

Sixty percent of respondents agreed with connecting pay to Christie affects reform support evaluations, while 35 percent disagreed, according to the poll.

“The public doesn’t think that continued from front student test scores should be the Independents favor the policy only thing that teachers should with 36 percent approval. be evaluated on, but when we Redlask said people’s supinclude test scores with other facpor t of Christie and his protors like classroom observations, posals was a major factor for people see that as a valid part of a voters — with 21 percent of bigger evaluation process,” those who suppor t the goverRedlawsk said. nor versus 56 percent of those Michael Slott, University who disapprove of Christie. labor studies par t-time lectur“What we are really finding er, said he believes tenure in the data is how liking or disneeds to be reformed, but liking Christie plays a big role teachers have a right to due in voter decisions as he has process first. been extremely outspoken on “Tenure was established in this issue,” he said. “So I think the first place to provide a measpeople who find Christie appealure of job security for teachers ing are more likely to support who faced discrimination, the things he tends favoritism, nepoto address.” tism and the The proposed pressure to “Linking tenure changes to tenure adhere to orthoto student include evaluating dox viewpoints,” teachers on stanSlott said. test scores dardized test He also said is not right.” scores, classroom a l t h o u g h obser vations and teacher perVALERIE ALBANO school-wide stuformance is Watchung Hills dent performance, crucial, providHigh School Teacher he said. ing adequate “The idea is to resources for tie tenure and teacher evaluation schools and understanding the together so that the system impact of students’ social and wouldn’t be automatic anymore,” family environments is equally he said. “Low-performing teachimpor tant. ers would be let off if their evaluValerie Albano, an American ations are poor, which is not the literature teacher at Watchung case now.”

Hills High School, said she is Nearly two-thirds of voters opposed to tenure being based showed that they support the on student test scores. administration’s proposal, “It is okay to fire teachers according to the sur vey. for being lazy at their job, but Christie’s suppor ters favored linking tenure to student test with an 81 percent. Those who scores is not right,” she said. do not favor Christie were split “Sometimes the student must between 48 percent approving not be tr ying hard enough. It’s and 50 percent disapproving. just not a fair assessment for In an Eagleton Institute of the teacher’s capability.”

Politics poll conducted last Katherine Mosquera, a October about the specific issue Rutgers Business School senior, of teacher’s pay being directly said the tenure reform would tied to student test scores, 28 prove to be efficient only if proppercent approved of tenure. er types of controls and regulaVoters believe that teacher’s tions were taken. pay should not only be tied to “Controls such as score perscores but to other factors, such formance comparisons should be as the town in which they teach done by external sources,” she and the subjects or areas of spesaid. “This will control teachers’ cialization that should also be deliberate curves in grades and covered, Redlawsk said. inaccurate scoring.”

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COMMITTEE CHAIR REJECTS VOTE ON VACCINE EXEMPTION BILL Assembly Health and Senior Services Chairman Herb Conaway, DBurlington, refused to vote on a bill that would give school children the option to skip mandatory vaccines if their parents claim a “conscientious exemption.”

Conaway said in an nj.com article the bill would lead to a higher prevalence of preventable diseases.

“We as a world are free from polio because we have mandatory vaccinations,” Conaway, who is a medical doctor, said in the article.

But Deborah Ginsburg, a supporter of the bill, said offering an alternative would increase vaccination rates. “[I am] very concerned about the trends that point towards a reduction of parental rights when it comes to mandatory vaccination,” Ginsburg said in the article.

If passed, parents or guardians can submit a form to the local health department to claim the exemption, according to the article. At the moment, children can only be excluded from mandatory vaccinations for medical or religious reason.

Those who claim the “conscientious exemption” will not be allowed to attend school during a disease outbreak or threat, according to the article. The state commissioner of health could suspend the exemption in an emergency situation.

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DIVERSITY: Visconti helps start Navy ROTC unit continued from front Visconti credits the United States’ high gross domestic product to the country’s superior innovation in human and civil rights.

“Businesses must be inclusive,” he said. “If we’re all created equally then it is more inclusive and you’ll have better talent in the end.”

Visconti said Cook’s quest to educate the United States technologically and his tendency to never stop thinking is what led to such innovation.

“Diversity is lucrative to success,” he said. “By 2044, less than 40 percent of the workforce will be white.”

Visconti, whose publication features information on the business benefits of diversity, first became involved with diversity in the Navy where he eventually served as an N.J.-based minority officer recruiter.

“My parents didn’t tolerate bigoted talk growing up,” he said. “My fraternity here had black and Latino brothers, which I was very proud of. So I thought I could do the job.”

With help from a fellow black Naval pilot, Visconti got a handle on recruiting minorities. His friend also made him realize diversity’s value.

“My friend told me he liked to listen to cassette tapes of Martin Luther King Jr.’s speeches during long car rides,” he said. “It made me think about what my connection was to him.”

This reminded Visconti of how people often do not realize the presence of their predecessors, pointing to his fellow classmates’ ignorance to who W. Braddock Hickman was while sitting in Hickman Hall on Douglass Campus.

Visconti, a member of the University’s Hall of Distinguished Alumni and Board of Trustees, is focused on giving back to the University for giving him so many chances.

“I would never have thought I would be here speaking to you today,” he said. “I was a horrible student because I had a really good time in college.”

His way of giving back is through co-chairing the Rutgers Future Scholars program.

Students from New Jersey’s inner cities are given a mentor to guide them through high school, and upon graduation they have a good chance of attending the University, Visconti said.

“These eighth graders had no hope left of going to college, but now they have a path there,” he

said. “I would have never thought, ‘I could never go to college.’”

Visconti said the University evolved a lot since Cook left his mark with respect to providing financial aid.

“We’ve evolved into a big 55,000 student University, but we’re ranked 48 out of 50 schools in terms of funding for higher education,” he said.

Through his work for Rutgers Future Scholars, Visconti met someone interested in starting a Navy ROTC unit on campus. His connection to the University allowed him to book a meeting with University President Richard L. McCormick to discuss it further.

“I’ve got the Navy and Rutgers in one room,” he said. “It was a dream come true.”

Visconti said a Navy ROTC unit should be coming here in the fall.

“It means a lot of money for this school,” he said. “My belief is that the United States is powerful in feeding and educating people rather than [the amount of] weapons.”

Visconti encouraged the alumni and students in attendance to donate to the University, he said.

“Ask your friends and family to donate,” he said. “It’s a different place now, before they could display ‘RU Screw’ in neon lights.”

Steven Le, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences junior, said he found inspiration in Visconti’s speech.

“It posed a question of value and what you can get out of four years at Rutgers,” he said. “It makes you think about what they do to contribute to you as a person and makes you want to give back to a school that has given you so much.”

Ehsanur Meah, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences first-year student, was interested to hear a Cook College alumnus speak.

“His success made me realize that coming to college was the right decision and that there is so much knowledge out there,” he said.

Visconti was invited to speak after the President of the Cook Community Alumni Association David Singer saw him emcee last year’s Hall of Distinguished Alumni.

“He’s an excellent speaker and I had no idea he was a Cook graduate,” Singer said. “He’s such a success story out of the many alumni who started here at Cook.”

Lesleyann Atherly, a 2005 Cook College graduate, learned helpful business insights from Visconti.

“What I took away from his speech was to invest in human capital and the need to invest early,” she said. “It translates to a better economy and ultimately a better country.”

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The Humanist Chaplaincy at Rutgers University will host an event titled, “Can Science Determine What is Right and Wrong?” from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in the Student Activities Center lounge on the College Avenue campus. Gary Brill, an instructor in the Department of Psychology, will lead a discussion on author Sam Harris’ new book “The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values.”

For more information, e-mail rutgershumanist@gmail.com.

As part of the Scarlet Series: The Student Professional Development Workshop Series, Rutgers Student Life will hold a session to address the fear of public speaking and give advice on how to address nerves. The workshop will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. in Room 120A of the Busch Campus Center. Participants must register for the workshop at www.surveymonkey.com/s/6B7FMQ7. This is just one of the eight-part series that aims to develop personalized leadership skills so students can gain a competitive edge.

The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America will be hosting “An Evening With Jerusalem PostDefense Analyst Yaakov Katz” at 8 p.m. at Rutgers Hillel on 93 College Ave. Katz is a defense analyst for The Jerusalem Post. He has covered settlements, the Gaza disengagement and the Second Lebanon War. He is an expert on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the possible nuclear threat from Iran. Talk will be followed by a question-and-answer session. Food will be served. For more information, e-mail Noah Glyn at nglyn@eden.rutgers.edu.

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Join the Rutgers University Programming Association in the Livingston Student Center lobby from 1 to 4 p.m. for “Totes for Hope.” Participants will get a chance to decorate tote bags and give donations for the Orphan Foundation of America.

For more information, visit getinvolved.rutgers.edu.

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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 www.bhakticlub.org.

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Anna Chave, professor of art history at Queens College and the graduate center at the City University of New York will give a lecture at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum on College Avenue campus at 4:30 p.m. called “High Tide: Deploying Fluids in Women’s Art Practice.” Chave is widely known for her scholarship on feminist art, gender and identity mainly with respect to 20th century art. Chave’s lecture is offered as a feminist context for the special exhibition “Dancing with the Dark: Joan Snyder Prints 1963-2010.”

Chave’s lecture is free to museum members, University students and staff with identification and children under 18.

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A concert called “Sima Trio: Music of Serge Rachmaninov” will take place at 3 p.m. the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum on College Avenue campus. One of the most dynamic young trios in contemporary classical music, the Sima Trio performs Rachmaninov’s Trio No. 1, as well as works by Joseph Haydn, Felix Mendelssohn and Lera Auerbach. Tickets are $15 for the general public, $10 for museum members and $5 for students with valid identification. Children under 18 are free. Tickets are sold on the day of the concert beginning at 12:30 p.m. on a first-come, firstserve basis, beginning.

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Join Rutgers University Programming Association at Ginormous Games from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Busch Campus Center International Lounge. Enjoy the best the spring season has to offer such marshmallow peeps and decorating eggs. All free while supplies last.

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European diplomats aim to create no-fly zone over Libya THE ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED NATIONS — Britain and France are drafting a United Nations resolution that would establish a no-fly zone over Libya to prevent Muammar Gadhafi’s air force from bombing civilians and rebels fighting to oust him from power.

A British diplomat at the U.N. stressed Monday that the resolution is being prepared as a contingency in case it is needed, but no decision has been made to introduce it at the U.N. Security Council.

Pressure for the no-fly zone appears to be intensifying after Gadhafi’s regime unleashed its air power on the poorly equipped and poorly organized rebel force trying to oust their ruler of 41 years.

The heavy use of air power on Sunday — and again on Monday — signaled the regime’s concern that it needed to check the advance of the rebel force toward the city of Sirte, Gadhafi’s hometown and stronghold which lies on the main road to the capital, Tripoli.

Libya’s U.N. ambassador and his deputy have urged the council to impose a no-fly zone to prevent Gadhafi’s forces from bombing civilians. Rebel fighters have also urged its establishment, saying they can take on Gadhafi’s

elite ground forces but are outgunned if he uses his air power.

British Foreign Secretar y William Hague told the House of Commons Monday, “NATO has been tasked to work on a range of options, including the possible establishment of a no-fly zone.”

“At the U.N. Security Council, we are working closely with partners on a contingency basis on elements of a resolution on a no-fly zone, making clear the need for regional support, a clear trigger for such a resolution and an appropriate legal basis,” Hague said.

French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said Saturday before leaving for Cairo that “we are currently working in New York with the British to achieve a resolution of the U.N. Security Council creating a no-fly zone in order to prevent bombings.”

A French diplomat at the U.N. said ideas for a resolution must be discussed with the entire 15member Security Council before a proposal is drafted. The French and British diplomats spoke on condition of anonymity because the discussions are taking place in private.

We are evaluating all the options to be able to face the evolution of the situation on the ground,” French Foreign Ministr y spokesman Bernard Valero said. “We are conducting this work in close coordination

with all our partners, the countries concerned and all the international and regional (forums).”

Valero said Monday that Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa told Juppe at their meeting in Cairo on Sunday that the 22-member Arab group supports a no-fly zone.

But Arab League spokesman Hesham Youssef told AP on Monday that the organization did offer not blanket support.

He said a no-fly zone “is something we do not object to,” but he stressed that any such measures must have Security Council authorization.

“So we will not be supporting any unilateral action, and we do not tolerate foreign interference in the internal affairs of Libya,” Youssef said.

Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, who heads the interim National Council set up by the opposition in Benghazi, has met with delegations from European countries and discussed possibilities for a no-fly zone or Western air strikes on bases from which attacks are launched, an opposition official close to the council said Monday.

He did not say where the discussions stood and would not specify which European countries sent delegations.

Security Council authorization is not required to impose a no-fly zone, but many countries say it is

essential to give the militar y action legal authorization from the U.N.’s most powerful body.

A no-fly resolution is likely to face opposition from Russia and possibly China.

Last week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov described the idea of imposing limits on Libyan air space as “superfluous” and said world powers must instead focus on fully using the arms embargo, travel ban and asset freeze approved on Feb. 26 by the Security Council.

Russia’s NATO ambassador Dmitry Rogozin also warned that “a ban on the national air force or civil aviation to fly over their own territory is still a serious interference into the domestic affairs of another country, and at any rate, it requires a resolution of the U.N. Security Council.”

President Barack Obama has made clear that all options are on the table, including a no-fly zone, but U.S. officials have also stressed that any military action must be an international effort.

Several U.S. senators, including John McCain, have called on the Obama administration to support a no-fly zone.

But U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned last week that imposing a no-fly zone would amount to an act of war because “a no-fly zone begins with an

attack on Libya” to destroy its air defenses. He also cautioned that an attack on Libya could drag the U.S. military into another conflict, even as nearly 150,000 troops continue to battle in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Western diplomats have also cited difficulties in having enough aircraft and bases to police a nofly zone effectively.

As Libya appeared to be sliding toward civil war and a humanitarian crisis continued along its borders with Egypt and Tunisia, European leaders appeared to be renouncing previous policies and struggling to come up with new ones — fast.

Chief among the unresolved questions are whether Europe might use force to try to stop the violence, and whether it would give diplomatic recognition — or even money or other aid — to the Libyan rebels.

“There is no fixed position, really,” a European Union official said late Monday, speaking on condition of anonymity because consultations have been private.

NATO defense ministers will meet in Brussels on Thursday and Friday. European Union foreign ministers will meet for two days in Budapest Friday and Saturday. And EU heads of government have been called to a special session in Brussels on Friday to discuss Libya.

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Mohammed Azam, 27, was charged with assault and leaving the scene of an accident and was being held on $100,000 bail. He did not enter a plea at his arraignment Monday. His attorney Joshua Benjamin said Azam denies committing any crime.

Police said four men hailed Azam’s cab at about 4 a.m.

Sunday in Midtown Manhattan and asked to be taken to the Bronx after they got inside.

Azam refused, according to prosecutors, saying it was too far away, the trip would make him late to turn in his taxi at its depot and he would have to pay a $30 fee. It is a typical but illegal complaint by yellow cab drivers who often do not want to

head into the outer boroughs because it is not worth the money to make the lengthy trip.

But the men knew that once they were in the cab, the driver was required by law to take them to their destination — and they got into an argument that culminated with the driver stopping at the Midtown police precinct, authorities said.

The four passengers and Azam went inside, where officers told the taxi driver he was required to take the fares where they wanted to go. As they left the precinct, one of the men decided to take another taxi, prosecutors said.

Azam told the other three to get into his car, but when one of them had his hand on a passenger door handle, the driver abruptly backed up, yanking the passenger and throwing him to the ground, prosecutors said.

Then he drove forward, ramming the other two, who were carried along on the car’s hood for 30 yards before the car turned and they fell to the ground, prosecutors said.

Anthony Loreto, 22, was critically injured and was in a medically

induced coma.

Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Gregory SanGermano said doctors are not sure if he is going to live.

Frank Lembo, who also was struck, was in stable condition. The third man suffered bruises but was not seriously injured.

Azam, who is married and originally from Bangladesh, has been in the United States for 17 years and is a U.S. citizen, his attorney said. He is studying medicine while also driving a taxi.

“He’s chasing the American dream. He’s doing ever ything he can, as a hardworking immigrant ... to make a better life for himself,” Benjamin said in court.

“He is a person who does things by the book.”

Azam’s brother Mohammed Nobi told local media that his brother relayed a different version of the incident to him, telling him the men were driving in another car and got into an accident with Azam’s cab.

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he practice of male circumcision has pretty much become the standard in American culture. Of course, someone always comes along to challenge societal norms, no matter how unmentionable they may be. In the case of circumcision, that someone is Lloyd Schofield, a San Francisco resident who is leading an effort to ban the practice in the city. According to Schofield, “This is a human rights issue. What you’re doing is you’re taking an infant and removing the most sensitive part of their body.” While circumcision tends to go largely unchallenged, Schofield’s movement suggests that maybe we should take another look at the practice. Is it comparable to, say, female circumcision, which has been decried by people the world over?

The short answer is, well, no. There is a tremendous difference between the act of female circumcision and its male counterpart. In most cases, female circumcision is an act of denial, in the sense that it seeks to restrict the amount of pleasure a woman can receive through sex. In this way, it is a complete and total human rights violation, for it forces a woman to forgo sexual pleasure against her will. Male circumcision, on the other hand, does not deny the male pleasure. Some argue that the removal of the foreskin makes a man less sensitive — but, even if that is true, the effects on male sexual pleasure are far less extreme than the effects of female circumcision on female sexual pleasure.

This is to say nothing of the religious repercussions of banning circumcision. The act plays a major role in Judaism, so banning it would be akin to France’s decision to ban the burqa. It would be an act of the government infringing on the religious freedoms of the people. To ban circumcision would be unconstitutional. As much as we have to worry about the church infiltrating the state, we also have to worry about the state seizing control of the churches. They need to be kept separate in all situations.

Plus, there are benefits to male circumcision. We won’t go into too much detail here (Who wants to read a long list regarding the pros of an absent foreskin?). But we will say that many medical officials agree that circumcision is good for hygiene and can also help to prevent the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases. All in all, it turns out that banning male circumcision is not a move the government should make.

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he Global Network Initiative (GNI) is a movement comprised of a batch of technology groups, including big names like Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, dedicated to defending free speech on the Internet. It is kind of odd, then, that both Twitter and Facebook have declined to sign on to the initiative, even though they are two of the biggest social networking websites in the world. After all, Twitter and Facebook are veritable soapboxes for public voices on the web. It is discomforting that neither one of these sites have signed onto the GNI, leaving users to ponder over their commitment to protecting free speech. This situation serves as an important reminder that Twitter and Facebook are not government entities, even though they are every bit as ingrained in the daily operations of American society as the government. In fact, what people often forget is that these websites are both companies. They are not necessarily beholden to the people in any meaningful way — other than ways which serve their profit margins.

We are not suggesting that these companies do not care at all about their users and their rights to free speech. That would be a dramatic conclusion to draw from their decisions not to sign onto the GNI. But it is undeniable that this refusal is highly symbolic. The Internet is a sort of modern-age Wild West, one of the last places on earth where anything goes. This is both a good and a bad thing. It is good because people can get away with and have access to a lot of things that they can’t inside the confines of physical society. It is bad because some of these things people can get away with are things which they cannot do in physical society for very good reasons — for example, the FBI’s attempts to secure information from the Internet without legal backing.

As an unregulated space, the Internet leaves web surfers vulnerable to a lot of threats, including threats to their free speech.

Internet users need some sort of help when it comes to defending their rights on the web, and it would be great if Facebook and Twitter would pledge in some meaningful way to provide such defense. Unfortunately, they have not, which means web surfers have only themselves to rely on when it comes to Facebook and Twitter. Remember: Keep yourself educated and understand how you are protected on these sites because, apparently, they are not going to do that for you.

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around 10 p.m., which is t has come to my understandable because attention that the lives that is when most of those who comUniversity classes will be mute to school, when comover. Be that as it may, it is pared to those who live in ANDRE PEREIRA not entirely fair to those residence halls, have who cannot make the time slightly more irritable facbecause they have obligations that they need to tors. This irritability is largely due to early classfulfill, which can only be performed by being es as well as late-night club meetings. home as early as possible. Should something be First of all, it truly depends on what time a done with the clubs to better help commuters particular event or obligation is set for as well as make the meeting times? I certainly think so, and the amount of time it takes for a commuter to get from what I can see, some really significant there on time. Let’s face it — when it comes to improvements are being made at the University. commuters, New Jersey Transit has the ability to For example, there is the Gateway Project, which, either make your day run ver y smoothly or turn when finished, will definitely help make commutit into a nightmare, all because of unforeseen ing more enjoyable, but it does not necessarily consequences. Sometimes the train is too early help commuters meet with their fellow club memor too late, or you miss it by a few seconds. Now bers. But it does undeniably ser ve as an impetus this question comes into play: Should there be for club leaders to start thinking late-waivers for those who comabout the commuters. mute by train? It all really depends “The University If the clubs at the University on the factors, and they are not truly star ted taking commuters always definable. is getting more into account, then it could ver y When it comes to missing a deadline for something incredibly commuter-friendly, well be said we will be seeing more commuters joining clubs. impor tant, such as an exam or a but there are still This is not a definite fact, but it paper’s due date, the consecertainly be noted that there quences for that can be potentialmany improvements can is a direct correlation between ly horrifying to your grade, and if to be made.” club meeting times and the said occasion does occur, then amount of commuters a club has you will need some sor t of note in their roster. If, let’s say, all the that will prove your statement clubs had more than one meeting time on sepatrue. But you cannot conjure up some note just rate days, or even the same day, then that will because you decided to hit the snooze button on certainly help the commuter’s schedule, ultiyour alarm clock to sleep for a few more minmately resulting in having more commuters on utes — which inevitably turn into hours. Hey, attend these meetings and become more active when these things happen, we have no one to in school activities. It is true that there are clubs blame but ourselves, and we eventually star t to for commuters, but these clubs are mainly for learn from these scenarios to do things such as commuters to meet with one another, not neceswaking up an hour earlier or getting more than sarily for extracurricular activities. The comone alarm clock. Also, let’s not forget what hapmuter lounge and the Gateway Project may pens when the roads aren’t too friendly due to ser ve as an excuse for those who commute to inclement weather. Those who commute will stick around campus for a longer period of time, either simply not go to class at all because it is but, generally speaking, most would either go close to impossible, or they will tr y with all their home or go to work. The University is getting might to make it to school on time because they more commuter-friendly, but there are still many have a professor who expects punctuality from improvements to be made. all their students.

When it comes to the matter of being a part of Andre Pereira is a School of Arts and Sciences a club, this is where we commuters generally do junior majoring in English with a minor in psychology. not have much control. Most clubs will meet at

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damage. That’s the frustrating part because I know we’re a lot better team than our record says.”

It is not just the record, but also the manner of the losses that has Rutgers limping into New York. After blowing a 13-point advantage in the regular season finale at Providence on Saturday, Rice gave his team a day off before turning to Seton Hall.

The close defeats and near upsets of the early Big East season gave way to thrashings and blown leads the past four games.

“I gave them a day to get past it, because it was the toughest loss I’ve had in a while,” Rice said.

“As [assistant coach] Jimmy Martelli says, we have 2,400 seconds left in the season — that’s how many seconds are in a game.

Every second counts now, so you have to put it past you. Hopefully we take this taste out of our mouth with a ‘W.’” While Rutgers struggles, the Pirates enter as the conference’s 12th seed after a pair of wins over No. 17 St. John’s and NCAA Tournament hopeful Marquette.

The New Jersey schools split their regular-season series, with each road team returning home with victories.

But the rubber match takes place on neutral ground in an arena that represents New York City basketball and the recruiting hotbed each program wants to conquer.

“It’s definitely bigger,” Mitchell said. “It’s our in-state rival and we split with them during the season,

they set just a week earlier. The win also improved the team’s record to 18-7 — the highest win total in school histor y.

Pride and emotion overwhelmed Chollet-Norton by the end of the meet, after her team delivered an exemplary performance and a post-meet ceremony honored her and the seniors.

“The girls believe that they can do it. Everyone is getting comfortable with their routines at the right time,” Chollet-Norton said. “It’s great for the seniors that they get to go out and do something memorable. It was a really emotional day and it was special seeing all the alumni there to support the team.”

Beyond the emotional aspects of the meet, Rutgers needed to post a high score to boost its case for qualifying for regionals. By setting a new season-high, the Knights are able to count their second-highest score of 194.150, dropping a significantly lower score.

“I told the girls before the meet that we can’t have a 192 this meet. We need to have a 194 or higher,” Chollet-Norton said. “They really rose to the occasion and got the score we needed to get.”

Senior Leigh Heinbaugh knew all that was on the line Saturday, but said the team approached the meet as normally as possible. With all that was at stake, Heinbaugh acknowledged that the performance they put on was even sweeter.

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Senior forward Jonathan Mitchell and the Knights lost to North Carolina in their last visit to Madison Square Garden. so those bragging rights will be there and we can knock them out of the tournament. It’s a privilege and an honor to be able to play on that floor, because not too many people have an opportunity to do that.”

Mitchell played at MSG with senior guard Mike Coburn in high school, but fond memories of the building have since disappeared.

In his sophomore year at Florida, Mitchell lost in the semifinal game of the National Invitation Tournament. Coburn cannot even remember his last win at MSG. For Rutgers, it came in 2006 against Seton Hall in the Big East Tournament.

Now, Coburn, Mitchell and classmate James Beatty

take the court hoping to break that run and extend their college careers.

“I don’t want to take the jersey off for the last time [today],” Mitchell said. “I want to stretch this thing out as long as I can.”

For that to happen, the Knights must conquer their recent demons.

It just so happens they have to do it on one of the biggest stages in the country.

“To get a win in my home state, Madison Square Garden — it’s the best arena in the whole country,” Coburn said. “But it’s beyond just the arena, it’s wanting the season to continue. We want to keep fighting, keep winning and ride it as long as we can.”

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“We had our best score of the year,” Heinbaugh said. “All the seniors did really well and we just had our best meet of the year at the perfect time. We just had a great time and we were so happy that we could do it for Chr ystal.”

There was a retirement ceremony for Chollet-Nor ton and a Senior Day presentation following the meet. While the scope of the per formance itself was dif ficult to get past, Chollet-Nor ton and the seniors appreciated the honors bestowed upon them.

“I was so proud of all the seniors and happy to see them go out on a great meet and be honored for what they have meant to the program,” CholletNorton said. “I really couldn’t have asked for a better meet to end my career on.”

While the story of the day was the results the team achieved, it was not the main focus of the ceremony in CholletNorton’s honor.

“I’ve never had kids and they all joked that my cats are my kids, but it’s really nice to know that I have made an impact and helped build their character and see that they are fine young women,” CholletNorton said.

It was a testament to her reputation as a person and a coach that Athletic Director Tim Pernetti played an integral role in the post-meet festivities, personally acknowledging Chollet-Norton’s contributions to Rutgers.

“Tim has been so great in supporting our program,” CholletNorton said. “It was really nice of him to come here for the seniors and for my retirement.”

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RUTGERS: Defensive measures fail to halt UConn continued from back “We didn’t get back up,” Sykes said. “Any time you’re playing a team like UConn you have to score points. It was us –– the whole game was our fault. We didn’t do what we were supposed to do.”

The Knights stuck to their mantra of slowing down the pace of the game and turned to head coach C. Vivian Stringer’s 55-press at times in the second half in an attempt to sway the momentum.

But Auriemma had an answer for all Stringer threw at him, holding Rutgers to a 36.4 shooting percentage and forcing 13 turnovers in the contest.

And due to a lack of visits to the charity stripe, Stringer was never able to get her press in a groove.

“We didn’t show up. We didn’t deserve to be out there on the same floor as Connecticut,” Stringer said. “Quite frankly, Geno did us a big favor by bringing in players whose names I didn’t even know, and they still scored. ... It was like somebody had blown smoke on our face.”

With Sykes struggling and nothing doing for the Knights from sophomore center Monique Oliver and junior forward Chelsey Lee, who fouled out with eight minutes to go in regulation, the backcour t remained the lone scoring option for Rutgers.

Sophomore guard Erica Wheeler did her part, notching four second-half 3-pointers to lead the team with 15 points.

The Miami native scored all nine of the Knights’ points during an eight-minute stretch in the second half.

After an anemic half offensively and Wheeler’s final 3-pointer with 34 seconds left in regulation, Stringer and Co. looked up at a 24-point deficit and eyed an imminent semifinal elimination.

While some may point to youth, Stringer was reluctant to make any excuses following the defeat.

“We didn’t show up. We did not show the mindset,” she said.

“We’ve got four juniors — that’s enough. We only have two freshmen. We can’t say that [UConn] had more players than we had.

I’m not tr ying to make an excuse. You’re not going to get that from me.”

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utgers men’s lacrosse senior Chris Mattes earned recognition yesterday as a member of the Big East Weekly Honor Roll.

Mattes is the third Scarlet Knight named to the honor roll in three weeks.

The Westfield, N.J., native earned his first Big East accolade after winning 13 of 14 faceoffs in an 11-1 win Saturday at St. Joe’s. The midfielder won 51 of 65 faceoffs this season.

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Sophomore center Monique Oliver and the Knights’ lineup shot only 36.4 percent from the field in their loss to No. 1 UConn.

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receiver Braylon Edwards’ driving while intoxicated case has been adjourned until May 16.

Edwards’ attorney requested additional time to file motions in hopes to eliminate evidence, including breath tests taken at the scene of the arrest.

A judge adjourned the case in November so the defense could file a first round of written motions, and in January while the Jets were in a playoff run.

T HE S UPREME C OUR T announced it would not review a decision throwing out a lawsuit stemming from the New England Patriots’ 2007 Spygate scandal.

The court refused to revive a New York Jets fan’s class-action lawsuit against the Patriots and head coach Bill Belichick.

Carl Mayer, a lawyer in Princeton, N.J., sought $185 million for Jets fans alone.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell punished the Patriots by stripping the team of their first-round draft choice and fining the team and Belichick.

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men’s basketball coach Pat Knight three years after taking over for his legendary father, Bob Knight.

Pat Knight was 50-60 with the Red Raiders, failing to make a single NCAA tournament.

Knight remains with Texas Tech for the Big 12 Tournament before stepping down from his first NCAA head coaching job.

In the past three seasons, the Red Raiders are 12-36 in the Big 12 — the second worst record in the span, only beating out Iowa State.

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Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard a one-game suspension after he picked up his 16th technical foul for the season.

Howard sat out yesterday against the Portland Trail Blazers. It was only the fifth game missed for the Atlanta high school product and the first game he missed in two years.

For ever y technical foul Howard now receives during the regular season, Howard or Magic head coach Stan Van Gundy will be automatically suspended for an additional game.

The 16th technical came when Howard swung his elbow at Kyle Kor ver on Friday against the Chicago Bulls.

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C. Vivian Stringer’s team will likely enter the NCAA Tournament as a No. 8 or 9 seed after winning five of the past six games.

UConn defeat does not affect standing

BY SAM HELLMAN CORRESPONDENT

HARTFORD, Conn. — Even though the Rutgers women’s basketball team lost last night to Connecticut, the Scarlet Knights go into Selection Monday KNIGHT with a NOTEBOOK h e a d of steam.

Rutgers has five wins in its past six games after losing to No. 1 Connecticut — three of which came against ranked opponents, as well.

No matter where the Knights end up, they have momentum on their side.

“We have to pay a lot more attention to the details that we think we know,” said head coach C. Vivian Stringer on what needs to change moving for ward. “The great teams know how to win. All we need to do is do what we do, but do it a little bit better. Take care of the ball and execute.”

The loss to the top-ranked team in the country does not hurt Rutgers’ NCAA Tournament stock. The Knights were safely in the Tournament after they beat No. 25 Marquette for the second time.

In terms of seeding, the Knights (19-12, 11-5) are likely an eight- or nine-seed on Selection Monday.

With Connecticut locked up as a top overall seed, the other three No. 1 slots are a battle between Baylor, Duke, Tennessee and Stanford.

“Ever yone has to come together and play as a team,” said junior for ward April Sykes. “If we can’t [do that], then we’re never going to compete with teams like the Tennessees, the Baylors and the UConns.”

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proved too dangerous for Chelsey Lee. The junior forward fouled out with seven minutes left in the game.

Lee played just 25 minutes before fouling out and did not score a point.

“It definitely hurts us a lot because she’s a great rebounder,” Khadijan Rushdan said.

“When we lost [her], we lose a lot of our inside presence, especially with [UConn] being such a good team.”

Immediately following Lee’s fifth foul, Julie Paunovic entered the game at the five with Sykes handling the four for the majority of the game.

In her second career Big East Tournament game, Paunovic scored five points in the final six minutes.

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competitive with UConn via the long-range shot. After initially trying — and failing — to score in the post, the Knights reverted to the 3-pointer against the Huskies’ zone defense.

The Knights shot 8-for-19 from 3-point range with Erica Wheeler leading the way. The sophomore guard shot 5-for-9 from beyond the arc.

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Knights drop third match by one-point margin

BY MATT CANVISSER STAFF WRITER

The Rutgers tennis team suffered the latest in a string of heartbreaking defeats Sunday, when it fell to Marquette, 4-3, in the final match at TENNIS its tem4 porar y MARQUETTE winter 3 home, RUTGERS t h e Atlantic Club in Manasquan, N.J. It was the Scarlet Knights’ third loss of the season — each by one point.

“The match was extremely close, and I thought we played well as a team. It even literally came down to the last point,” senior captain Amy Zhang said. “We have a lot of close matches under our belts that will be very useful for the rest of the season.”

The recurring theme for the squad is its inconsistency in doubles play, which popped up again against Marquette. The Knights (5-4, 0-2) failed to record a victor y in doubles, which gave the Golden Eagles an early 1-0 lead.

“The matches were so close and we had opportunities to win, but the breaks just didn’t go our way,” head coach Ben Bucca said.

“We may make some changes as far as lineups go, but it’s really a matter of execution and truly believing in ourselves.”

The Knights’ top team of Zhang and junior Jennifer Holzberg kept it close against their nationally ranked

opponents, No. 79 Christina Ruiz and Rachael Hush but were unable to come away with the win.

Juniors Morgan Ivey and Leonora Slatnick also suffered a narrow defeat in the second slot, while the freshmen team of Stefania Balasa and Vanessa Petrini fell in the third slot.

“I think we played well, but just fell short,” Zhang said. “Jen and I definitely could have won

“The matches were so close and we had opportunities to win, but the breaks just didn’t go our way.”

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our match, and [Ivey and Slatnick] were also close to winning, so we almost had it.”

The Knights mounted a comeback in singles and picked up three key victories. But just as in their earlier contests against Louisville and Columbia, they never picked up the fourth win to seal the match.

Zhang returned to the win column with a 3-6, 7-6, 7-5 victory after suffering two singles defeats last weekend against Louisville and Xavier. She dropped the first set to Marquette’s Kelly Barry but bat-

tled back and took the next two sets in a match that needed extra tennis before it was decided.

“I’m glad to have gotten this win because it meant that I was mentally and physically tough enough to battle through the impor tant points,” Zhang said.

“I knew from the star t that I could win this match and that it was just a matter of playing the way I knew how and not letting ner ves or fatigue get the better of me.”

Balasa and Petrina recorded the Knights’ two other singles wins. The rookies are tied for the team’s best individual record at 8-1, and Balasa sports an eight-match win streak in the No. 5 slot.

Holzberg was on a long win streak of her own in No. 2 singles before Olga Fischer of Marquette snapped it. The two combatants traded blows through the first two sets as Holzberg took the first, 7-5, and Fischer responded in the second at 7-6, before Fischer finished off her opponent, 6-1.

“It was a heartbreaking loss.

Jen was up for most of the match and just came up short,” Bucca said. “She’s such a fierce competitor. She’ll bounce back and continue to win a lot of matches for us.”

Next up for the Knights is the annual spring break trip, when they play three matches in four days. Rutgers heads to Louisiana this year to face New Orleans, Southeastern Louisiana and Xavier.

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Senior No. 1 singles player Amy Zhang defeated her Marqette opponent in three sets after last weekend’s two-loss effort.

Pair of field athletes break record twice

BY LIZ SWERN STAFF WRITER

The Rutgers men’s track and field team’s weekend in Boston for the IC4A Championships featured a record broken twice.

Junior jumper Kevin Bostick broke MEN’S TRACK t h e RUTGERS 46 PTS. s c h o o l T-SECOND PLACE r e c o r d in the triple jump with a leap of 15.58 meters, just more than 51 feet 1 inch.

But freshman teammate Devin Jones, the previous record-holder, broke the record again minutes later. Jones finished in first place, edging Bostick by just a centimeter with a jump of 15.59 meters.

“The meet was great,” Jones said. “I was so nervous. Up until my last jump, Kevin had the record. I couldn’t believe I beat him by only a centimeter.”

Jones and Bostick finished in first and second place, respectively, to score a total of 18 points in the event. The Scarlet Knights left Boston University’s Track and Tennis Center with 46 points overall and tied with Liberty for second place at the championship meet.

Bostick shocked himself at the meet by recording a personal record in the triple jump.

“IC4A’s was definitely fun,” Bostick said. “It ended the indoor season the way I wanted with a personal best. I just didn’t know it would be by two feet. It was a great surprise.”

Also in the field events, sophomore Chris Wyckoff finished

third in the pole vault with a mark of 4.90 meters, or a little more than 16 feet.

“I’m happy finally breaking 16 feet,” Wyckoff said. “I was happy placing third — there was a lot of good competition. I want to carry this momentum into the outdoor season.”

On the track, senior sprinter Aaron Younger placed second in the 400-meter dash with a time of 47.54.

The Knights also scored in the 4x400-meter relay at IC4A’s. Composed of Younger, juniors Kevin Brown and Steve Werner and freshman Corey Caidenhead, the relay earned a third-place finish with a time of 3:10.70. The time is three seconds faster than the relay team’s best this season.

“We didn’t get the time we wanted, but we always have to look at the positives,” Caidenhead said. “Everybody’s splits decreased and it’s the fastest we’ve ran.”

The relay team hoped to use the weekend as a chance to qualify for NCAA Indoor Championships next weekend.

“The 4x400 ran really well, but we didn’t come close to qualifying,” Younger said. “The time was the fastest we’ve run all year and according to coach [Mike Mulqueen], it’s the second fastest time indoors in school histor y. So we didn’t do too badly.”

After the weekend at the IC4A Championships, the Knights look for ward to the outdoor track season, which begins in a few weeks.

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Knights put together complete performance

BY JOSH BAKAN STAFF WRITER

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Senior first baseman Mandy Craig contributed 10 hits and 10 RBI in 15 at-bats in front of several family members over the weekend, when the Knights won four of five contests.

Heart of order carries RU in Va.

BY SAM HELLMAN CORRESPONDENT

The Rutgers softball team called for across-the-board improveSOFTBALL m e n t prior to RUTGERS 13 l a s t UMES 3 weekend’s pre-conference tournament in Hampton, Va. Five games and three days later, the results spoke for themselves.

The Scarlet Knights won four of five games, with the offense putting up video-game numbers in all four wins.

Through the five games, the heart of Rutgers’ order, juniors Brittney Lindley and Mikelyn Messina and senior Mandy Craig, batted a combined 23-for-42. The trio scored 16 runs, drove in 21 and belted five of Rutgers’ six home runs of the weekend.

“You expect your upperclassmen to do well, but they definitely exceeded my expectations,” head coach Jay Nelson said. “All three of them were locked in. We were all hitting the ball hard, but those three especially were in the zone.”

Playing in front of a strong family contingent in her home state, Craig had 10 hits and 10 RBI in 15 at-bats and smacked two home runs over the fence.

The performance earned her Big East Player of the Week honors.

“I had a big following,” the Manassas, Va., native said. “It was a really nice weekend for me. It felt good to put up numbers like that in front of my family. It was the first time my aunt saw me hit a home run and my whole family was there cheering me on.”

Batting in front of Craig, Lindley continued her torrid start to the season with six hits in 13 atbats, seven runs and six RBI. Right fielder Mikelyn Messina belted her fourth and fifth home runs of the season.

“It’s good that we were all on at the same time,” Craig said.

“When that happens, it’s hard not to score sometimes. We’re seeing

“Finishing with a win was a positive ... but I really think we should have gone 5-0.”

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the ball well and feeling really confident right now. It’s ver y exciting to be at .500 this far into the season.”

Rutgers’ four wins included a 15-3 clubbing of Brown on Saturday and yesterday’s 13-3 win over Maryland Eastern Shore.

The lone loss came Saturday in a 7-1 affair against Central Connecticut State.

“We didn’t exceed our expectations,” Nelson said. “Finishing with a win was a positive and I’m happy going 4-1, but I really think we could have gone 5-0.

Central Connecticut played a really good game and we made a couple of mistakes. We could have won, but they pitched us really well.”

Building a big lead over Maryland Eastern Shore on the final day allowed Nelson to

empty his bench and provide a series of season-firsts for less experienced players.

Outfielder Danielle Procopio saw her first real action of the season and delivered four hits.

Sophomore Katie Berman and freshman Alexis Durando each got their first at-bats and first runs of the season and junior Kelsey Peretti had her first atbat of the year.

“I was glad that we got everyone some time,” Nelson said. “We wanted to get some more in during the Brown game, but that one wasn’t in hand until the last inning when we couldn’t make any more subs.”

As a pitching staff, Abbey Houston, Noelle Sisco and Megan Williams each won a game over the weekend.

Williams, whose family was in attendance from nearby Richmond, Va., won her second and third career games.

“We still have a ways to go,” Nelson said of the staff. “There are too many walks. I’m happy that they all got wins and that we got Megan going strong. All three of them have done really well at times, but they have all struggled too.”

A 4-1 showing in Hampton brings the Knights to a .500 record for the first time since 2008. Their 7-7 record through three preseason tournaments marks the best start under Nelson and best overall since 2003 through 14 games.

Winning seven of their past 10, the Knights have a sunny spring break in store for them.

Rutgers plays its penultimate preseason tournament in Boca Raton, Fla., this weekend and its final one the next weekend in Tampa, Fla.

From the starting whistle to the final minute, the lead for Rutgers women’s lacrosse over Delaware on Saturday only seemed to increase in its most WOMEN’S LACROSSE dominant DELAWARE 5 win of the season.

RUTGERS 13 T h e Scarlet Knights (3-1) scored more and allowed fewer goals than they had all season in their 13-5 win over the Blue Hens at the RU Turf Field.

Part of the reason for the milestones was that Delaware played a different style than any other Knights opponent, but one to which the Knights could adjust.

“They hug the eight [meter arc], they don’t really like to pressure us and we controlled the tempo of the game,” head coach Laura Brand said. “We were moving a lot more, keeping our heads up, setting picks, just looking to find our cutters. We were working hard off the ball.”

Four of those 13 goals came from senior attack Kristen Anderson, who scored more than half of her seven goals this season against Delaware.

“I’ve been trying to find my balance all season,” Anderson said.

“You have to bounce back from the things you mess up on and today was a redo for me. We had more movement on attack. We didn’t want the defense to play too much of the game, so we took the balance back.”

Anderson led the attack, but four Knights finished with multiple

goals, including junior Ali Steinberg with three. Senior Marlena Welsh, junior Lindsay Watts and sophomore Stephanie Anderson each contributed a pair of goals.

“We were more cohesive. We were getting more open options,” Welsh said. “Even our dodges and our one-versus-one plays were better.”

But when the defense took control of the game, it took advantage of its opportunities.

Delaware beat Rutgers on draw controls, 13-7, but Rutgers capitalized on its defensive opportunities despite a stat it did not lose all season to date.

“Today, we were prepared to stay on our cutters tighter and we were ready to send our doubles early,” Welsh said.

Delaware did not put a point on the scoreboard until there was 13:52 left in the first half, but its scoring troubles did not end there, either. The Knights began the second period with a 4-0 run, not allowing a goal until 14:07 remained in the game.

“We forced a lot of turnovers, which we weren’t doing last game,” Brand said. “We controlled the pace on the offense, so we weren’t playing as much defense.”

The last time Rutgers allowed five goals or less was nearly a year ago in a 17-5 win on March 10, 2010 over St. Joe’s.

“They did a much better job of taking chances, sending faster doubles, hedging out on the ball and looking for interceptions,” Brand said.

Rutgers suffers sweep at hands of Yellow Jackets

BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

A victory over once-ranked Miami and a sweep of Michigan gave the impression that the Rutgers baseball team was ready to get over BASEBALL t h e RUTGERS 3 hump heading GEORGIA TECH 14 into its weekend series against No. 23 Georgia Tech.

But the Yellow Jackets abruptly halted the Scarlet Knights’ momentum with a series sweep of Rutgers, capped with a 14-3 victory Sunday afternoon in Atlanta, Ga. “It’s definitely not easy, especially after the weekend we had at Michigan [last week],” said junior righthander Nathaniel Roe, who took the loss in the series finale.

“It kind of feels like we took a step back as a team, but the best we can do now is practice and try and fill in the missing pieces and try and figure it out.”

The Knights (4-5) found themselves in each contest early on, but the host team rallied late in games.

In the sixth inning onward of the three contests, Georgia Tech (8-4) outscored Rutgers, 17-2, as the Knights could not lineup match the firepower of their tough opposing.

Other than senior right fielder Michael Lang — owner of a multihit performance in four of the team’s past six contests — much of the Rutgers lineup struggled against the Yellow Jackets’ starting rotation, which surrendered 18 hits to the Knights in the series.

“I think we need to just be more patient and swing at better pitches,” Lang said. “I’m sure every coach can tell their team that. We tend to swing at some pitches out of the zone — curveballs in the dirt or changeups in the dirt. I would just say pitch selection, that’s the main thing.”

After facing a 4-3 deficit through three innings in Game 2 of Friday’s doubleheader, Georgia Tech answered by notching five runs between the fifth and sixth innings to put the game out of reach. The first half of the scoring burst ended sophomore starter Rob Smorol’s day after 4 1/3 innings of work, giving the lefty his first loss of the season.

Just hours earlier in Game 1 of the series, sophomore righthander Tyler Gebler suffered a similar fate after allowing 12 hits and three earned runs in 5 2/3 innings on the mound.

“What we can do now is just work on the things that we didn’t do well, especially 1-2 counts and 0-2 counts,” Roe said. “Finishing off the hitters is something that we really have to work on, especially falling behind hitters. It’s something that’s going to cost us in the long run.”

The Knights were outscored, 33-8, in the series, eerily similar to the 33-9 run disparity from a year ago.

But no matter how deflating the sweep may be, all the team can do is move for ward, starting Wednesday afternoon with the Knights’ home opener at Bainton Field.

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Rutgers falls to top-rated Connecticut

BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

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Connecticut senior Maya Moore, the Big East’s Player of the Year, scored 22 points last night against the Knights in the Big East Tournament semifinals in Hartford, Conn., propelling No. 1 UConn to yet another finals appearance.

HARTFORD, Conn. — Believe it or not, drawing a rematch with No. 1 Connecticut have WOMEN’S BASKETBALL should been the least of Rutgers RUTGERS 51 the women’s basketCONNECTICUT 75 ball team’s worries yesterday heading into its semifinal Big East Tournament matchup.

But one look at UConn forward Maya Moore’s stat line from a day prior — a 2-for11 shooting clip to go with six points — and the Scarlet Knights should have known what to expect.

If they did not, the UConn star sure did.

“It’s not just the stats, it’s the way I played yesterday [that bothered me],” said Moore, whose 22 points against the Knights propelled the Huskies to a 75-51 victory. “That’s how we determine if it’s a good game or a bad game, [but] we took advantage of it [tonight]. I tried not to make that game yesterday for nothing.”

Heading into the locker room with a 19point advantage following a 3-pointer by UConn freshman Bria Hartley, the Huskies did not come close to relinquishing their double-digit lead in the second half.

Much of that rests on Moore’s production and Kelly Faris’s 19-point explosion, but UConn’s defensive ef for t cannot be overlooked.

UConn head coach Geno Auriemma had his squad set up shop with a variation of manto-man and a 2-3 zone on the defensive end, and from there the Huskies took the Knights out of their comfort zone.

Rutgers sharpshooting for ward, junior April Sykes, struggled to get her shot going at the XL Center and finished the contest with just nine points on 4-for-10 shooting after an 18-point showing in the Knights’ quar ter final matchup with Marquette.

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Home finale ends with high score for season

Rice, Knights search for first win at MSG

BY JOSH GLATT

BY STEVEN MILLER

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The question heading into ever y gymnastics meet over the past month was not whether the Rutgers gymnastics team would win, but GYMNASTICS what records it RUTGERS 194.350 would break in the process.

The FIRST PLACE Scarlet Knights’ Senior Day meet Saturday was no exception.

During an intensely emotional competition that ser ved as the last home meet for the senior class and head coach Chr ystal Chollet-Norton’s career, the Knights put on yet another historic performance. The Knights scored a season-best total of 194.350 to earn first place in front of a school-record crowd of 1,231.

In addition to the attendance record, the Knights set the third-highest score in school histor y, besting the mark of 194.150

Mike Rice sat in front of his television about 30 years ago, skipping school to watch the first round games of the Big East Tournament.

Jonathan Mitchell MEN’S BASKETBALL went to class at Mt. Vernon High School RUTGERS VS. (N.Y.), but he snuck SETON HALL onto the Internet to TODAY, 2 P.M. check scores.

The Rutgers men’s basketball team takes on Seton Hall today in the first round of the tournament at Madison Square Garden.

Maybe Mitchell saw the Scarlet Knights beat the Pirates in 2006, but his squad wants to accomplish something Rutgers could not do since: win.

“We want to leave a mark in the Tournament,” the senior for ward said.

“Ever ybody gets invited to the Big East Tournament, but we want to do some

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Head coach Chrystal Chollet-Norton capped off the final home meet of her career on Saturday, when the Knights posted a season-high score of 194.350.

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