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George W. Bushwarns the nationabout the dangersof growing nativism. Did we give him alaurel or dart?

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The day after adding a heralded 24-player recruiting class, Rutgers head footballcoach Greg Schiano announced the hiring of tight ends coach Brian Angelichio.

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Solar panelssweep centralJersey town

BY LAURA TRANSUECONTRIBUTING WRITER

Some South Plainfield residents may havewitnessed a gradual integration of solar panels to the central New Jersey utility poles inthe past two years because of an expanding solar program.

PSE&G partnered with clean energy company Petra Solar to create the program and last week, opened a new network operationscenter in South Plainfield, said Mary Grikas, vicepresident of Communications at Petra Solar. Thenew center will allow for the direct monitoring andmanagement of panels around the world.

“We developed [the center] and theSunWave Energy Portal software to help monitor and control the entire system and support utilities,” she said. “Utilities companiesare trying to control and manage the energycoming into the grid to keep the grid stable.”

Grikas said Petra Solar’s technologies provide aninnovative model for integration with the gridbecause they allow companies to monitor and control the voltage levels of individual panels.

Each panel also comes with a micro conver ter that allows energy to connectdirectly to the grid, she said.

“The trend is for utilities to deploy renewable products that don’t deteriorate the integrityof the grid,” she said. “With solar energy, voltage lev-els go up and down [due to the weather and sun], andthis is hard on the grid.”

This model also fits into New Jersey’sbroader energy master plan, said ClintonAndrews, director of the Urban Planning program at the Edward J. Bloustein School ofPlanning and Public Policy.

“The New Jersey energy master plan empha-sizes three things — environmental improve-ments such as reducing greenhouse gases, eco-nomic progress [which means ensuring

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New energy-efficient LED streetlights will save the city of New Brunswick $216,000over their 12-year life span and reduce the city’s electrical use by 43 percent.

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New LED lights decrease city’scarbon footprint

BY AMY ROWECORRESPONDENT

New Brunswick is taking strides to reduce its electricity bill and carbon footprint with the installation of single-headedLED light fixtures along George Street.

The fixtures, which line the road from New Street to Church Street, are par t of the George Street Reconstruction Project, saidcity spokesman Bill Bray.

The LED lampposts burn 100 watts of electricity and replaced double-headed mercury vapor light fixtures that burned 350watts, reducing the city’s electrical use forstreet lighting by 43 percent, Bray said.

“Besides saving tax payer money, we’redoing our par t to save the planet and combat climate change,” he said.

New Brunswick spends $900,000 on street lighting each year, Bray said. Out of the 47 LED fixtures on George Street, each

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Due to budget cuts, the RutgersUniversity Programming Associationchose only two performers — rapperPitbull and electro-pop duo 3OH!3 — instead of the usual three for this year’s Rutgersfest.

“We get a budget that depends on theschool and from that budget we work onconcert ideas with our middle manageragent, then we pick artists that will bestsuit the University and its population,”said RUPA Rutgersfest committee member Elise Powers.

The budget was an issue when determining the ar tists and eliminating choices for ar tists,

said Powers, a School of Ar ts and Sciences sophomore.

Since the University has such a diversepopulation, RUPA tries to get it all in oneshot and book artists that will not cater toone genre but the whole community, said Mariah Presbery, a RUPA Rutgersfest committee member.

“We try to give students the best experience they can get, and get an artistthat will satisfy the majority of the popula-tion on our budget of around $95,000,” saidPresbery, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore.

The festival will take place on April 15this year, but not on its usual campus.

Due to construction on Livingston,Rutgersfest this year will be moved to Busch campus, Presbery said.

The more than 200 people in attendance received more than aMichael Jackson tribute at RUPA’s King of Pop event last night, as theywere among the first to know the identi-ty of the performers.

Musical acts Chaos Theory, RU Breaksand I.O.U. and a Jackson impersonatorperformed at the tribute event at theRutgers Student Center on the CollegeAvenue campus.

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Dr. Freeze, a Michael Jackson impersonator, performs in the Rutgers StudentCenter Multipurpose Room last night as part of “Remember the King of Pop,”an event hosted by campus comedy group A 4 Effort.

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IN HONOR OF THE KINGFemale physicist earnspraise for advocacy

BY ELIZABETH ZWIRZCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Physics Professor EmeritaNoemie Benczer Koller contributedmore than five decades of profes-sional work to the physics commu-nity, but she also spent her profes-sional life advocating for the rightsof her fellow scientists.

Recommended by her peers,Koller was nominated for the 2010Nicholson Medal for HumanOutreach, an annual award recog-nizing the humanitarian aspect ofphysics and physicists.

“Noemie has given up manyhours of her professional life tomaking a difference for scientistswho are persecuted around theworld and unable to pursue theirscience,” said University physicsProfessor Jolie Cizewski, who nom-inated Noemie.

At a time when the student bodyand faculty were entirely male,Koller began working at the

University in 1960 and was the firstwoman hired at Rutgers Collegeand its physics department.

“I knew it was a men’s college,but I didn’t realize the faculty wasall men. I was very naïve at thetime,” Koller said.

Women who did work at theUniversity usually worked atDouglass College, she said.

“The physics department waskind and normal,” she said. “I neverrealized it was a special situation.The department was very friendlyand I wasn’t worried about it.”

But Koller star ted to getinvolved with gender issues whenshe became the first female facul-ty member to receive tenure atthe University.

The first project she pursuedensured that women in physicswere given the same opportuni-ties as men. She and her teamanalyzed the income of the

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Rutgers Night Live cast members Bryton McGrath, Daniel Conroy and Kelsey Flanigan act in an original scene last semester. The sketchcomedy group is scheduled to entertain again this Friday and Saturday night in the Cabaret Theatre on Douglass campus.

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Comedy group to perform second installmentBY HEATHER TEDESCO

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Rutgers Night Live (RNL),an original sketch comedyshow in the spirit of NBC’s“Saturday Night Live,” aims toenter tain University studentswith topical sketches and digi-tal shorts Friday and Saturdaynight at the Cabaret Theatre onDouglass campus.

“We’ve been working reallyhard over a short period oftime,” said Ryan Tomczyk, anRNL actor and School of Artsand Sciences sophomore. “It’sgoing to be a fan-tastic show andyou’ll be sorry ifyou miss it.”

The RNL castconsists of mem-bers from theU n i v e r s i t y ’ si m p r o v i s a t i o n a lcomedy troupes Afor Ef for t and No Diving, as well as cast members from the College Avenue Players’ Comic Relief, Tomczyk said.

The show will feature a newssegment called The MediumNews Minute, written and per-formed by staf f of theUniversity’s satirical newspaper,The Medium, said John Bender,the show’s host.

“It’s the Batman utility beltof sketch comedy,” saidBender, a School of Arts andSciences senior.

Lords of Liechtenstein,made up of School of Arts andSciences senior DanRauchwerk and his youngerbrother Noah Rauchwerk, isthe night’s musical guest. Thebrothers, who describe theirmusic as alternative, will per-form four songs at RNL.

This performance marks thesecond installment of the come-dy series, because the first twosold-out shows in Novemberindicated demand for moreappearances, said DominickNero, the show’s creator.

Nero, a School of Arts andSciences sophomore, neverexpected the show to be as popu-lar as it is.

“This is something I’ve beendreaming about since highschool, and there’s no doubt inmy mind that this will be a showto remember,” he said.

RNL’s first performances fea-tured the musical talent ofUniversity singing group DeepTreble as well as the comedy ofits host, School of Arts andSciences junior Boris Van DerRee, Nero said.

Some roles from the firstinstallment willbe reprised thisweekend, whilenew actors andwriters are also on board, he said.

Plans foranother install-ment of RNLthat would openin April are inthe works, andNero said thecast looks for-ward to produc-

ing additional performances ofRNL during the next school yearand beyond.

Nero said his dream is for the show to become a legacy within theUniversity’s community.

“Rutgers Night Live is notthe kind of show you can find atany other university,” Nero said.

The Cabaret Theatre, whichis dedicated to putting on stu-dent-run theatre productions,has already sold out the RNL8:30 p.m. Friday performance,but tickets are still available forthe 8:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m.Saturday per formances, he said.

Tickets for the performanc-es are $5 for general admissionand $3 with a University issuedidentification card, Nero said.Because of the response to theNovember per formances, hesuggested reservations be sentvia e-mail to cabthe-atre@gmail.com.

Executive Dean BobGoodman will be aguest at the School ofEnvironmental and

Biological Sciences GoverningCouncil meeting. He will be opento answer questions and addressconcerns of the SEBS communi-ty. Meetings are open to the pub-lic so come with your questions.The meeting will take place at 8p.m. in the Cook Campus Centerin Room 202.

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Ananya Roy, a leadingscholar in compara-tive urban studies andinternational develop-

ment, will present a lecture enti-tled, “The Urban Century:Ecologies and Epistemologies ofDwelling in the Global South.” Inthis talk, she will present ananalysis of global urbanism, pay-ing particular attention to citiesof the global south. Roy is a pro-fessor of City and RegionalPlanning at the University ofCalifornia-Berkeley. The lecturewill take place at the AlexanderLibrary in the fourth floor lecturehall at 4:30 p.m. It will be fol-lowed by a reception.

Spike Lee is a notable writer,director, producer, actor andauthor who revolutionized boththe landscape of independent cin-ema and the role of black talentin film. Widely regarded as a pre-miere African-American filmmak-er, Lee is a forerunner in the “doit yourself” school of filmmaking.He will speak at 8 p.m. in theLivingston Student CenterMultipurpose Room. WritersHouse and Rutgers UniversityProgramming Association willsponsor the event. It is free andopen to the public. For moreinformation please contact RheaRamey at 732-932-7380 orrhea.ramey@rutgers.edu.

Those interested on taking partin a research project are wel-come to attend the SpringUndergraduate Research Mixerfrom 5 to 7 p.m. in the CookCampus Center MultipurposeRoom. The UndergraduateResearch Mixer provides anopportunity for undergraduatestudents to discover researchprograms and specific researchprojects. Some of these pro-grams require research assis-tants and are sometimes paidpositions. Undergraduates can berecruited for independentresearch projects or senior hon-ors programs for the spring orfall semesters. Please confirmattendance by emailing joan-ba@echo.rutgers.edu.

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The SEBS/Cook CampusCouncil will hold their weeklymeeting at 7:30 p.m. in the CookCampus Center.

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Students to showcase original sketches, digital shorts inspired by NBC’s ‘Saturday Night Live’

School of Arts and Sciences sophomore Stephen Hilger performs in front of a sold-out show. This semester’s performance will featurethe Lords of Liechtenstein as the musical guest.

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Koller is also one of the leading experimentalnuclear physicists around theworld and has made a dif ference to many scientists,she said.

“She has absolutely been aninspiration, to me in particular,” she said.

To write a supporting letterfor her nomination, Cizewskialso contacted StanfordUniversity Professor HermanWinick, a long-time friend of Koller.

In his recommendation letter, Winick said Kollerworked on human rights for scientists, noting her work with the AmericanAssociation for theAdvancement of Science,American Physical Society andCommittee on InternationalFreedom of Scientists.

“This prize is a well-deserved recognition for theoutstanding outreach workthat Noemie has done duringher long career in areas such as gender issues, humanrights and international

physics,” he said in the letter.In terms of physics,

Koller became involved with student mentoring in thelabs through Project SUPER,Science for Undergraduates: A Program for the Excellence in Research.

Project SUPER, which is a part of the Douglass Projectfor Rutgers Women in Math,Science and Engineering, is an enrichment program that provides programming andopportunities for undergradu-ate women pursuing the sciences, Cizewski said.

Even though she is now retired, Koller continuesbasic research with her students, who she said arehappy to still have her.

“I never noticed it while I was working with the students,” she said. “It’salways many years later whenyou meet them again somewhere. They’ll tell youthat you were an inspirationand gave them so much confidence.”

Koller said it is both her love of her students and her love of physics that keep her going ever y day, despite obstacles in her way.

“It’s not a program, it’s the way I am. This is not something I wake up in the morning and say, ‘What do I have planned for today?’”she said. “I do physics because I like it and I help students because I like them. It’s all a joyride.”

analyzed the income of theemployed University facultyand discovered that womenwere grossly underpaid.

Koller said despite the worthiness of her cause, her stand-ing at the college was a main component of her research.

“I had tenure at this time.Without this, you don’t do anything,” she said.

Other than her research,Koller also worked with theForum on International Physics,a gathering of physicists interested in internationalaffairs and spreading physics toplaces where there are no books or teachers.

The forum instituted programs where they canexchange students and facultymembers, a par tnership developed between dif ferentgroups in Europe andAmerica, she said.

“We didn’t have enoughpeople in the group to do what we wanted to do andEurope didn’t either, so we collaborated,” Koller said.

Cizewski, who has knownand worked with Koller formore than 20 years, saidKoller works on the behalf of scientists who are unable todo the work in their home countries or have trouble coming to give presentationsin the United States.

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School of Arts and Sciences First-year students Bianca Rivera and Jacquelyn Cotton, right, topple agame of Jenga at last night’s Class of 2014 First Semester Survival Party in the Student Activities Centeron the College Avenue Campus. The Rutgers University Programming Association sponsored the event.

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PARTY LIKE IT’S 2014

one will save the city $32 permonth, which totals $18,000saved per year.

“The lamps are projected to last 12 years before the LED component needs to be replaced,” Bray said. “You’dusually burn three sets of light bulbs in that time. Over their 12 year lifetime, the lights will save $216,000.”

LED street lights will eliminate emissions equivalentto 40,420 pounds of carbondioxide, he said.

“It’s like taking 20 tons of carbon dioxide emissionsannually out of the atmosphere,” Bray said.

The lights are par t of a pilot program the city has in collaboration with PSE&G,which is funded by a $100,000grant from Middlesex County,Bray said.

Each single-headed light is focused to shine on cer tain areas of the street,which amounts to less light pollution, he said.

“PSE&G is working with the city to see how ef fective the lights are,” Bray said. “We’re very thankfulfor these lights. They’re not usually a standard fixtureavailable for streets and roadways. They’re cutting-edge stuf f.”

For now, New Brunswick is replacing any burnt out mercur y vapor lamps withinduction lamps from PSE&G,Bray said.

Induction lamps, whichPSE&G began installing in New Jersey municipalities,are brighter, last four times longer and cost less to operate than the existing model, said

Nicole Swan, a business analyst for PSE&G.

“This program is a win-winfor the communities we ser ve,” said Ralph LaRossa,PSE&G’s president and chiefoperating of ficers in a pressrelease. “It brings a new green source of lighting to our neighborhoods as it provides some relief to municipal budgets.”

Bray said the city receivedno complaints about the lights thus far.

“They’ve been up for severalmonths now and we haven’treceived any complaints,” he said. “For most people, they don’t realize what they are walking by.”

One employee at Har vestMoon Brewer y, located at 392 George St., complainedabout the lights, more specifically about theirabsence in front of the restaurant.

“They re-paved and put lightson the entire street except forthis one block,” Dario Galati said,general manager at the brewery.“We have to wait until May to getthem, but they still closed ourblock during construction.”

The road between ChurchStreet and Albany Street wouldbe paved and lined with LEDlights after the construction’sbreak for the school year, Bray said.

As long as LED technologyevolves rapidly enough, thecity will be able to af fordinstalling the lights on other streets, he said.

“Stores like Home Depothave a growing offering of LEDlights,” Bray said. “You can buythem for your home and get thesame type of energy savingsthrough their use.”

The entire George StreetReconstruction Project, the onlyreconstruction on the streetsince 1984, will take less thantwo and a half years, he said.

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affordable energy] and energy security,” said Andrews, theUniversity’s solar decathlonteam advisor.

Because New Jersey doesnot have any natural energyresources, it is a challenge tofind companies that fit thesethree objectives, he said. Inthat way, Petra Solar has comeup with a superior solution.

By providing additional benefits and functionalities toutilities and distribution systems, Petra Solar of fersmore than just providing amass of power, said FrankFelder, director of theUniversity’s Center forEnergy, Economics andEnvironmental Policy at theEdward J. Bloustein School ofPlanning and Public Policy.

“There may be additionalcosts, but there may be additional benefits,” he said.

Andrews said he believesintegrating the wires with thegrid might prove useful as theeconomy becomes more electricity-dependent.

“In a lot of cases, we areswitching toward electricityfrom other fuels like naturalgas and oil,” he said. “You can’tmove electricity without wires.The grid is going to stick around.”

But the distributed nature ofthe solar system requires a lot

PANELS: NJ legislation

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“I do physics becauseI like it and I help students, because

I like them. It’s all a joyride.”

NOEMIE KOLLERPhysics Professor Emerita

of monitoring, Andrews said. “We’re trying to figure out

how well a pole-top strategy isworking,” he said. “No one hasever done it before, so there isneed for extra monitoring.”

The solar company’s technologies provide flexibili-ty and control to other utilitycompanies, Andrews said.

“The Petra Solar model canbe one element of many thingsoperating in parallel, such aspole-top panels, solar farmslike the one on Livingston campus and rooftop panels,” he said.

By providing distributedsolar energy from panelsspread out over the state onexisting utility poles, PetraSolar does not have to spendmoney purchasing land forsolar farms, building andstaf fing a power plant or set-ting up new electricity wires, Grikas said.

Felder said New Jersey alsohas an aggressive solar program.

“New Jersey has a legislativemandate to increase solar powerbetween now and 2025,” he said. “[The mandate states] thatover time, 20 percent of the energy purchased by utilitiesmust be from renewable sourcesand about 2 percent should be solar.”

Felder said New Jersey has a wide range of solar initiatives from small-scale indi-vidual panels to solar farms.

“I think over time we willsee which work the best, andit may be a combination,” he said.

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Unexposed urban issuesinspire two filmmakers

BY SONJA TYSIAKCONTRIBUTING WRITER

After witnessing firsthandhow people become disen-gaged from political corrup-tion, Detroit natives AndrewRodney and Daniel Falconerbrought the stor y of theirhometown’s struggle to the screen.

Their film “Deforce,” whichwill be shown during the NewJersey Film Festival atVoorhees Hall on the CollegeAvenue campus Saturday at 7p.m., focuses on America’surban plight.

“While Detroit’s problemsgrab a lot of headlines, we sawno attempts from visual mediato deliver an informative, acces-sible history, so we decided tomake an ef fort,” Rodney said.

After graduating college,Rodney worked for DetroitForming, Inc. as a utility man onEight Mile Road with many“Detroiters.” Initially unexposedto the deep city problems, hesaw two cowork-ers murdered due to drug-related incidents.

“The mediaonly tells thesymptoms, notwhere they comefrom,” he said.“We want toshow the roots tomore ef fectively fight them.”

Rodney, a self-proclaimed Detroit advocate,saw how important it was tospread the word, not only aboutDetroit’s problems, but the dete-rioration of America’s cities.

To make the film, Rodneycalled Falconer, one of his closehigh school friends, to direct it.

“Once he approached mewith the idea, we both pouredourselves into the research anddevelopment,” Falconer said.“Once it became clear that ournarrative was vital, we knewthat we’d have to see it throughto completion.”

Rodney and Falconer foundthe financial problems, such asurban residents’ per capita of$15,000 a year, not the onlyissues plaguing the city. Forinstance, in 2009, Detroit expe-rienced four to six shootings a day.

“[Detriot’s] former mayorwas just indicted for organizedcriminal activities,” Rodneysaid. “The school system isunder an Emergency FinancialManager as it carries a debtload of well over $1 billion.These are some headline grab-bers, but they are all just symp-toms of extremely deep-seated problems.”

Falconer and Rodney saidDetroit’s problems began in the’60s with former PresidentRichard Nixon’s “War onDrugs,” which made it morelikely for a black child inDetroit to be imprisoned thanto graduate from school and ledto violent crimes and racial politics.

“For a majority ofDetroiters, it is a black andwhite thing. Politics are racial,”Rodney said.

Rodney learned the majorityof black residents only believean individual of color will be ableto effectively represent them.

On the local level, raciallyfactionalized voting increasedDetroit’s hardships by givingcity of ficeholders almostunchecked political power, hesaid.

“From the first African-American mayor, to the lastmayor, Coleman Young, whowas forced from office in 2008following a perjury conviction,Detroiters have suffered sub-stantially from this par tisan-ship,” he said.

Falconer and Rodney foundmany of the politician’s plansincluded a short-term benefitfor the majority causing a long-term detriment for all the city’s residents.

“The school system carriesa multi-year debt burden of

over $1.47 bil-lion,” Rodneysaid. “Ever ymonth, we hearabout new devel-opments incases of peoplebeing caught forimproper rela-t i o n s h i p s .The publicschool sys-tem graduatesjust about a

quarter of children that startthere while acquiring some ofthe worst scores in the country.”

“Deforce” takes a new per-spective on a maligned city anddelves into the largely untoldhow and why of these prob-lems, said Albert Nigrin, execu-tive director and curator of the Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center.

“Looking beyond over-repor ted factors like thedecline of the American autoindustry, Falconer explores thesystemic divisions at the coreof Detroit’s crisis,” he said.

Nigrin believes the film hitsthe roots of political corruptionto expose what really broughtthis city to its knees.

Newark and Detroit shareabout as much as any twoplaces could, Falconer said.The conditions revealed aretrue far beyond them.

“Rutgers students shouldsee ‘Deforce’ to consider thatmaybe ever y city has thembecause the deck has beenstacked against certain people,rather than because they justdon’t know how to governthemselves, as we’re so oftenencouraged to believe,” he said.

Nigrin said the conditionsrevealed and the histor yexplored is, at once, specific toDetroit and universally sharedwith nearly all of America’s poorest, forgotten urban centers.

“For a majority of Detroiters, it is a black

and white thing.Politics are racial.”

ANDREW RODNEY“Deforce” Producer

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Dance studio reopens doors to new facilityBY ANDREA GOYMA

CORRESPONDENT

Scarlet Mambo Studio, aHighland Park school of dance,re-opened its doors at a location 10 times larger thanits predecessor.

Dany Joshua, director ofScarlet Mambo, said the old location was too small to accommodate the volume ofstudents registering for classes.

“This new space is bigger —while the old location was about300 square feet this one is about3,000 square feet,” he said.

Lurdys Rodriguez, a classparticipant, said even thoughthe previous studio was nice, it was too small to hold lessonsand warm-ups.

“Because [the old facility]was a gym, we needed to leaveat a certain time so sometimeswe didn’t have time to graspcertain techniques or a lessonwasn’t completed — we had towrap things up rather quickly,”Rodriguez said.

At the new location, Joshuacan teach his students how todance and allow them morespace to warm up, all with theaddition of bigger windows andmirrors, she said.

Joshua said the new locationhas the feel of an old urban-style factory.

“[The new studio] has a spacey, vintage industrial feelto it. You don’t feel like you’re in Highland Park, youfeel like you’re in an old indus-trial building in New YorkCity,” he said. “It has big windows and there’s a lot of light coming in.”

Camila Sanchez, a ScarletMambo dance instructor, said the new building is spacious and has beautifulhardwood floors.

“We now have the flexibilityto of fer more time to our students, which was the maingoal,” she said.

Scarlet Mambo is a dance studio and company that formedin November 2006 and focuses onLatin dancing, specifically theSalsa and the Cha-cha-cha,Joshua said.

The company hosts events at the Perlé Night Club andLounge in New Brunswick called“Salsa Thursdays,” but only thoseover the age of 21 may attend, asalcohol is served, Joshua said.

“[Our events at Perlé] canlimit the number of people whowant to learn to dance Salsa andwho want to practice their movesand skills because of the agerequirement,” he said.

Because the studio does nothave that age restriction, itsevents are open to all ages, hesaid. Scarlet Mambo plans to hostan open house event where the company will offer free sam-ple classes, a dance social and live performances.

“Some of the internationaldance instructors from aroundthe world who come and performwith us at Perlé will also be performing at the open house,”Joshua said.

Rodriguez said she and her dance group will attend the open house and look forward to it.

“We’ve already been talkingabout what we’re going to do and who we’re going to

Highland Park dance studio, Scarlet Mambo, relocated from an old gym in Highland Park to a new building in New Brunswickthat has 10 times more interior space, including bigger windows and mirrors.

ANDREA GOYMA

Scarlet Mambo Dance Studio hopes to accommodate morestudents who register for classes with its new location.

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The New Jersey StateSupreme Court dismissed acharge Monday against a NewJersey Superior Court judgeaccused of making an anti-Semitic comment to an attorney.

Judge William L’EWertheimer, supposedly madethe comment toward Jewishattorney William L. Gold twoyears ago, according to annj.com article. The exchangeoccurred in an Elizabeth court-room when Wertheimer pulledGold and another attorneyaside to discuss the court’supcoming trial schedule.

Gold said when he and theother attorney, who is alsoJewish, asked Wertheimer toleave court early to attend aPassover Sedar, the judgeresponded by asking bothattorneys if trial should endearly so they could attend a “Bund Meeting.”

The German-AmericanBund was a Nazi organizationin America that held Anti-Semitic demonstrations,according to the article.

Following the incident,Gold filed a complaint to theAdvisory Committee onJudicial Conduct (ACJC) – anine-member body made up ofretired judges, members ofthe State Bar Association andthe general public, asking forWertheimer’s apology, accord-ing to the complaint. But thejudge said his comment was directed neither towardGold nor the other attorney.

The ACJC chargedWertheimer in August 2009with violating the Code ofJudicial Conduct, according to the article.

But State Court ChiefJustice Stuart Rabner dismissed the complaint altogether two days ago, following the ACJC’s recentreport requesting such action,Wertheimer’s attorney MarcWolin said in the article.

Gold said he was disappointed by the decisionand believes it sends thewrong message.

“I was pretty offended thatat any level an anti-Semiticcomment would be acceptedby the court,” Gold said in thearticle. “He (Wertheimer)admitted he said it.”

— Ankita Panda

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invite. We’re like a family over there,” she said.

Sanchez said she enjoys teaching something of value topeople who really want to learn and like having fun doing it.

“I look forward to seeingthe students,” she said. “Wehave many regulars and theyare great people. It’s not the typical teacher-studentclassroom setting.”

She also said she enjoys thefriendships that develop in the studio and help pupils bond with their instructors.

“Our students eventuallybecome people we grow to care about,” she said. “It’s likeone big family.”

Rodriguez enjoys learningfrom Joshua and considers

him to be a compassionateinstructor.

“[Joshua] is very caring and hewill teach you until you get it,” shesaid. “He doesn’t leave the studiountil you get it. And if he knowsthat you’re having trouble he’ll do itagain the following time we meet.”

She also said Joshua is aunique instructor in that he gives his students a historyand background on the typesof dances he teaches. He alsoe-mails his students ar ticlesabout dances from around the world.

A University alumnus, Joshuastarted dancing in the University’srecreation program before takingclasses in New York City. He hastaught dance for about five years,during one of which he has workedat Scarlet Mambo.

made man such that he“became a living soul”(Genesis 2:7). Man didnot become living souls.Consider also that mod-ern science has shownthat identical twins are

formed from the splitting of one ovum at a pointafter conception. Knowing this reality, it isalmost impossible to believe that the ovum isitself alive. A soul cannot split in half and onesoul cannot simultaneously be two souls. Theensoulment of bodies — the process by whichthey truly become alive — does not necessarilyoccur with the physical formation of those bod-ies. In a resurrection process described inEzekiel 37:6, God says, “And I will lay sinewsupon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, andcover you with skin, and put breath in you, andye shall live.” Adam likewise was formed but notmade alive until God “breathed into his nostrilsthe breath of life” and then “became a living

soul” (Genesis 2:7).The truth is evident. Christians

need to stop blindly listening toclergymen and start reading theBible — with a concordance athand. A small handful of ambigu-ous scriptures taken out of contextare used to justify the belief thatabortion is murder. Just because apriest or pastor says something

does not mean it is true.So much strife has been caused by the false

belief that the unborn are alive. Living people,like abortionist George Tiller have been mur-dered over misconceptions that can easily becleared up in 10 minutes. God’s word clearlyshows that people are only alive in His eyesfrom the moment they are born until themoment they die. There are no souls lurking ina woman’s uterus.

Christianity is a joyous truth, but many main-stream churches have for hundreds of years dis-torted it. Christians should no longer stand forfalsehoods. Abortion is not murder. Whether it isadvisable in every circumstance is another mat-ter. It definitely has a place in a humane and yes,even a religious society.

Ed Reep is a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore majoring in pre-business with a minorin economics.

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G od does not viewunborn babies asalive. Never in the

Bible does he say he does,and at times, he even sayshe does not. God’s word islogical, clear and speaksfor itself. As most of the Christian mainstream iswrong about what happens to people after death,it is also wrong about what happens to peoplebefore life. There is nothing morally incorrectabout abortion in and of itself, and Christianshave no divine grounds to oppose it. Let us lookat indisputable scripture that proves terminatingthe unborn is not murder. Just a note — I amusing the King James Bible for the purposes ofthis argument.

First, see Job 3:16. Satan tormented Job, andin his self-pity, he wishes that “as an hiddenuntimely birth I had not been; as infants whichnever saw light.” Here, he states his desire tohave died in a miscarriage before leaving thewomb. He also states the conse-quence of this miscarriage wouldbe that he “had not been.” Thiscan only mean he would neverhave existed — i.e. he wouldnever have been alive in the firstplace. In this verse, God is makingabundantly clear that no “murder”would occur in an abortion, mere-ly the quenching of a possibility.

Powerful evidence is also found in the book ofEcclesiastes in which King Solomon states, “Ipraised the dead which are already dead morethan the living which are yet alive. Yea, better ishe than both they, which hath not yet been, whohath not seen the evil work that is done under thesun” (Ecclesiastes 4:2-3). Here, he makes a dis-tinction between the living and those “which hathnot yet been.” Since we know from Job that onedoes not exist until he is born, this means thatGod does not consider the unborn living. In fact,the unborn are closer to the dead because they“hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing”(Ecclesiastes 6:5). The dead also “know not anything” (Ecclesiastes 9:5). The unborn experiencethe same oblivion as the dead, which makessense since they do not yet exist in the same waythat the dead no longer exist — unless resurrect-ed, a process frequently compared to birth.

Consider also that the Bible defines a personas a distinct entity. In the Book of Genesis, God

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QUOTE OF THE DAY

“There is nothingmorally incorrect

about abortion in and of itself.”

O ften, American politicians posit the United States as theforemost champion of liberty and democracy in the world,despite the nation’s conduct demonstrating otherwise.

That’s why it’s great when America really lives up to the reputationit has created for itself. As the Egyptian people are fighting fortheir rights in the Middle East, President Barack Obamaexpressed his support for them — albeit with the level of reserveone would expect from him. Still, we are glad to hear that Obamahas called for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to respect andfoster the “rights and aspirations of the Egyptian people.” IfAmerica wants to continue calling itself the hero of democracyeverywhere, then the nation needs to support the Egyptian peoplein their struggle. For doing just that, Obama receives a laurel.

* * * *

While we have supported some of Gov. Chris Christie’s reformsand budget cuts in the past, we have to call into question his deci-sion to veto a bill that would have expanded New Jersey’s Medicaidprogram so more women would have access to family planningservices. Christie claims he vetoed the bill because it would havebeen “financially irresponsible.” But, as Assemblywoman LindaStender, D-Union, points out, “On one hand, he says he’s notopposed to birth control, but yet he shows up at a rally last weekand joins a group speaking against women being trusted to maketheir own decisions about their reproductive health care.” It seemsChristie has put his own personal morals before the well being ofthe people this time. For caring more about his pro-life crusadethan the needs — and rights — of New Jersey women, Christiereceives a dart.

* * * *

Who would have ever thought that former President George W.Bush would be warning the country about what seems like a rapiddescent into nativism and xenophobia? Despite how shocking andunrealistic it may sound to some, Bush has done exactly that in arecent interview. Bush expressed his belief that a “rational immi-gration policy” would pass in America at some point in the future,but that it would take some time because of the increasing preva-lence of nativistic tendencies in citizens and politicians. Hopefully,people will recognize that Bush is speaking the truth in thisinstance and that the American people need to fix their ways assoon as possible. Perhaps his willingness to publicly call out thisgrowing nativism will speed up the process of passing the afore-mentioned immigration policy. Bush receives a laurel for sayingwhat needs to be said.

* * * *

Everybody knows that smoking is bad for you, but there comesa point when a democratic government needs to recognize that itspeople have the right to cultivate whatever habits — good or bad— they so desire. The New York City Council has effectivelybanned smoking in all city parks, beaches and pedestrian plazas. Inwide-open public spaces, adults should have the right to spark upcigarettes. They are, after all, completely legal. As Daniel Feldman,a John Jay College public management professor, said, “There’s alot of air out here, not that much cigarette smoke.” If the city coun-cil approved the ban as a means of urging smokers to quit — thatis really none of their business. For overstepping its boundaries,the New York City Council receives a dart. At this rate, who knowswhen they will decide to ban tobacco altogether?

* * * *

Gay marriage opponents constantly point to the supposed factthat children need a mother and a father to become successfulmembers of society. Zack Wahls, an engineering student at theUniversity of Iowa, is a living counterexample of such ridiculousnotions, and we applaud his decision to speak in the Iowa House ofRepresentatives against a resolution which seeks to end civilunions in the state. Wahls is an impressive individual for sure. Heis a small business owner and an Eagle Scout, and he scored in the99th percentile on the ACT. Although the resolution unfortunatelypassed, despite Wahls’ best efforts to the contrary, he remains anexcellent example of the fact that criticisms against same-sex mar-riage tend to be absolutely baseless. Wahls receives a laurel forputting up a good fight — it is a shame the Iowa House ofRepresentatives was too foolish to comprehend what he said.

Commentary

EDWARD REEP

Week in review:laurels and darts

corporations as greedy and profit-motivated. Businesses shouldinstead be extolled for exactlythat reason.

This is quite obvious, but cer-tainly a topic for a different typeof discussion.

One of the aspects of bigbusiness that progressivesbemoan is the immense dona-tion to politicians, which severe-ly distort the democraticprocess because they incentivizeeconomic legislation that favorsone industry or company overanother. While the resoundingopposition to corporate med-dling in politics may be fair, theidea that new legislation shouldforbid this is a shortsighted andsuperficial solution to a second-ary problem. To fully addressthis seemingly serious conflict,one must look to the primary,systemic flaw that dwarfs anyeffects of corporate maligning ingovernment — politicians, andaggregately the federal govern-ment, have an unmatched powerto drastically alter the mecha-nisms of the American economy.

The rational, evident and nec-essary solution to this structuralproblem that is undermining theentire economy — through short-ages, price distortions,inequitable taxation, unemploy-ment and subsides, all of whichstem from the power of politicalpull — is a complete separation ofstate and economics. That is —just as with the separation ofchurch and state — the compre-hensive removal of all the govern-ment’s power to rule and distortwhat should be free, volitionaleconomic transactions.

Undoubtedly, many will cryfoul over the mere suggestionof this necessary separation,

probably while vilifying the“misbehavior” of Wall Streetand simultaneously demandingfurther regulation of the finan-cial markets, since they believeWall Street investors caused thefinancial crisis and subsequentrecession. If one looks towardthe fundamental roots of bothWall Street “malfeasance” andthe exacerbated business down-turn with a resolutely unbiasedperception, one will come to theunavoidable conclusion that thegovernment’s intrusion — intoa supposedly free economy —caused all the hardship.

It is widely accepted — andtherefore, I will not spend energyproving — that mainly two factorsor events led to the current stateof the economy: the rapid declineof the housing market, colloquial-ly described as a burst asset bub-ble and the subsequent failure ofLehman Brothers, Inc. The begin-nings of this recession — ignor-ing the systemic flaws building upsince before the Civil War — tookplace in 2000 when the housingmarket experienced an unusualexplosion in home valuations. In2006, aggregate home valuespeaked at about 160 percent theirtrend value and fell appropriatelyand precipitously back to aroundtrend values within two years. Ashome values started to fall, some

homeowners went into foreclo-sure, as their mortgage debtexceeded the value of their prop-erty, which caused the value oftheir neighbors’ houses to falleven more, which started aninescapable propagation — andthus the hollow supports of theoverweight housing marketcrumbled. What was the precur-sor of this enormous asset bub-ble? The Federal Reserves —which has the legal authority totwist the value of individuals’money, and thus property, at itswhim — persistent maintenanceof an unnaturally low interestrate. Cheap mortgages and ever-rising property values made realestate investment very attractive.

To compound this systemic,predestined failure, investmentbanks created a new investmentproduct called collateralizeddebt obligations or CDOs thatlumped together these mort-gages and sold them in pieces toinvestors. When the housingmarket — the derivative of theseCDOs — collapsed, the subse-quent collapse of the financialsystem was merely a predeter-mined conclusion. Why did theinvestment firms create CDOs inthe first place? Essentially, thefederal government had laidlayer upon layer of stifling regu-lation over the financial sector,which inevitably led investmentfirms to create dangerouslyrisky products that could fitthrough the tortuous loopholes,in the search for more competi-tive options for their customers.

Not only did the synergy ofirresponsible monetary policyand protectionist regulation leadthis country into its recession,but it also has failed to stimulatethe economy even two points’

worth of unemployment. Thestimulatory ability of fiscal policythat Keynesians swear by simplydoes not exist. Moreover, whilestealing individuals’ compensa-tion for their labor, the federalgovernment made an unforgiv-able and irredeemable promise tosteal more and more of it to payoff the debt it accumulated to failat “rescuing” the American econ-omy — which needed rescuingonly because of the government’seconomic disruptions.

The manifestations of the gov-ernment’s economic policy ofintrusion and distortion go onand include the primary reasonsfor the intensity and duration ofthe Great Depression, but it isimpossible to be exhaustive inexamples, and frankly, the para-digm of governmental controland coercion is self-evidently eviland market-defeating. It is basedin the belief that consumers needprotection from Goliath corpora-tions, when reality really showsthe need for a complete absenceof regulation so that all trades canoccur only through the volition ofboth parties. The essence of gov-ernmental influence on private,economic decisions — force — iscontradictory to its goal, andmore importantly, it violates theindividual rights guaranteed inour Constitution. Aggregately,the right to act on our own judg-ment in a way that best serves ourown self-interest. In order to pre-serve what’s left of those rightsand of a productive, innovativefuture, the government must becompletely stripped of its powerto control our economy.

Jimmy Winters is a School ofEngineering junior majoring inbiomedical engineering.

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W hen the governmentis given the power —or gives itself the

power — to influence the econo-my in any way, it can only act toserve special interests. It is inca-pable of promoting productionand efficiency better than theindividuals in the marketplace.Therefore, a rigid separationbetween economics and statemust be instituted at the highestlevel of law.

A completely unregulatedmarket leads to the most desir-able outcomes because the peo-ple in the market — which, in adeveloped country, is everyone— act to bring about their owndesires, which only they cantruly know. In a clean, capitalisteconomy — which is nothing likethe squalid, leashed economy ofthe United States — productionis rewarded by those who benefitfrom it through proportionalcompensation. Because ofdecades of implementing irra-tional, counterproductive legisla-tion, the United States’ economyhas become, at best, a mixbetween capitalist and socialist.Proponents of a welfare state,which cannibalizes the producersfor the sake of the unable, non-producing leeches, wish to sub-stitute their judgment as stateplanners for the judgment andfree will of others, yet they ignorethe inexorable conclusion of sta-tism — universal poverty anddeath. Look to Soviet Russia andit is clear this claim is much moresubstantial than speculative.

Today, “progressives” arebesotted with demonizing big

Divorce economic policy from state’s control

“The governmentmust be

completely stripped of its power

to control our economy.”

University must better address student needs

I n a remarkably callous act ofselfishness, the University —or perhaps more specifically

the Department of TransportationServices (DOTS) and DirectorJack Molenaar — decided in astroke of brilliance to, withoutwarning, shut down all campusbuses in the middle of Tuesdaynight including the Knight Mover,effectively stranding dozens ofstudents all across the four cam-puses without transportation.

The Rutgers UniversityDemocrats and I had just fin-ished our meeting and found

US should support Egypt’s democractic revolution

T he revolution in Egypthas me glued to my digi-tal screens. I have con-

stantly been watching the Al-Jazeera English live streamonline, waiting to be updated asU.S. news channels’ coverage hasbeen lacking.

What I notice more on Al-Jazeera is a local coverage of theEgyptian people and their strug-gle for freedom. American cover-age has predictably been U.S.-centric, asking how the out-comes could affect United States

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ourselves stranded on theCollege Avenue campus at mid-night, having been thrown out ofthe Rutgers Student Center intothe freezing rain with no trans-port. This is a situation dozensof students similarly found them-selves in. Were we given fairwarning that all bus services,including the Knight Mover,would be shut down? Not an iota.Was DOTS concerned by thefact that it had just strandeddozens of students in the freez-ing rain with no shelter or trans-port? Not one bit. So I mustquestion what exactly was goingthrough the mind of the peoplewho made this decision.Perhaps they thought that

students should hitchhike theirway back home.

That is ultimately what Iended up doing. A student I did-n’t even know was kind enoughto give me a ride in his car backto my residence hall. Maybe hedeserves my tuition moneymore than the University. Andcertainly the Rutgers UniversityPolice Department and the NewBrunswick Police Departmentdeserve no greater credit. Apolice car rolled down the streetslowly. The officers looked atevery one of us standing there indangerous weather conditionsand coldly ignored our attemptsto talk to them or request assis-tance. My suggestion to the

DOTS is to turn the RUPD into ataxi service. It’s not like theyhave anything more productiveto do.

Molenaar is always saying heunderstands what Universitystudents want. My suggestion toMolenaar is to go out to theCollege Avenue campus or someother campus in the middle ofthe night, stand outside in thecold and rain for several hoursand then manage to get homewithout using his car or theUniversity buses. Then he canclaim he understands. TheUniversity believes it can treatits students however it pleasesand that we will just put up withit. Well, so far they have not

been wrong, but maybe some ofthe students who were injuredlast night when they fell on theice — and there were some —should consider their options,because it seems to me thatlarge institutions like theUniversity simply do not carewhat happens to their studentsunless they suf fer legal or financial consequences.

But let’s not end this on a badnote, so I would like to give cred-it to all the students who helpedeach other and came together inthat difficult time. It’s more thanI can say about the University.

Ajay Kumar is a School of Artsand Sciences junior.

relations with the Middle Eastand how this could affect Israel,our main ally in the region.

While this may be pragmatic,it diminishes the struggle theEgyptian people expressed onthe streets of Cairo, Alexandriaand Suez. Media pundits havebeen discussing PresidentBarack Obama’s administra-tion’s decision not to supportEgyptian President HosniMubarak, an ally of more than 30years, and thus have shown sup-port of the protesters.

Israel fears losing an ally inMubarak and the void his expul-sion would leave behind. Yes, itis not known who will lead

Egypt next, but that is the costof democracy. If we truly standfor the principle rather thandemocracy as meaningless rhet-oric to spout out when oneneeds to justify foreign policychoices, then we should supportthe revolution and not fear it.

The despicable hypocrisy inU.S. foreign policy in supportingdemocracy while propping upfriendly dictators has to cease. Iapplaud the Obama administra-tion for treading the fine linebetween pragmatism and silentsupport of the Egyptian people.There is cleverness in not sup-porting the revolution out loud,as some would interpret it as

U.S. involvement. I, however,deplore the pundits for trivializ-ing a democratic revolution.How can we promote democra-cies in Iraq and Afghanistan andstand against them in the rest ofthe world?

People have taken inspira-tion throughout the MiddleEast after the revolutions inTunisia and Egypt. Protestshave broken out in Moroccoand Yemen. King Abdullah II ofJordan has dissolved his parlia-ment and ordered to implementchanges, though this may onlybe super ficial. China hasblocked Internet searches onEgypt for fear of revolution.

While I was thinking about thestruggles of the Egyptian peopleand eagerly anticipating their suc-cess — in contrast to the punditsat MSNBC and Fox News — Iremembered the powerful wordsof Bob Dylan, “There’s a battleoutside and it’s raging. It’ll soonshake your windows and rattleyour walls, for the times they area-changing.”

The revolution is happeningnow. To oppose it would be futileand irresponsible.

Tabish Talib is School of Artsand Sciences junior majoring injournalism and media studies andpolitical science.

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Although Shuler is not oneof the five early enrollees in the24-player class, heplans on spending asmuch time as possiblethis spring at the Hale Center.

After signing theirNational Letters ofIntent on Wednesday,Shuler and the othercommits are now ableto workout with theteam and sit in on meet-ings — something thatwill be useful as Shulerlearns to play receiver.

“I’ll be at Rutgers almostevery weekend now, working

out, lifting weights, gettingready and learning the plays,”

he said. “We have anew offensive coordi-nator [Frank Cignetti]and I can’t wait to learnfrom him because he’s really sharp.”

So is Shuler, whichis part of what madehim such a covetedrecruit who took offi-cial visits toNorthwestern andStanford and heardfrom Notre Dame until

the very end.Colleges across the country

saw that in the 5-foot-10,

185-pounder, and he sees it in hisfellow future Knights.

“Besides the talent part, thisclass is full of character andthat’s a big thing,” Shuler said.“When we come in next year,we’re coming in together andwe’ll be really good.”

First, Shuler has to make his speed translate to his new position.

But he already has all theintangibles Rutgers looks for.

“We love Miles and we lovehow much he loves Rutgers,”Schiano said. “He has alwaysbeen a Rutgers guy. We can’t waitto get him here on campus andreally get him started.”

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N ew York Yankees start-ing pitcher Andy Pettiteis set to announce his

retirement from baseball.The 38-year-old has been

wrestling with talks of retire-ment for several seasons, whichbecame more serious after the2010 season ended in disap-pointment against the Texas Rangers.

Pettite, a three-time All-Star,accumulated a 240-138 record in13 seasons with New York andthree with the Houston Astros.He also holds the record for mostpostseason games won as a pitch-er with 19 games.

Pettitte’s retirement leavesthe Yankees with a shallowpitching rotation with C.C.Sabathia, Phil Hughes and A.J.Burnett as the only experiencedreturning starters.

THE NEW YORK KNICKSwere fined $200,000 by the NBAfor holding illegal workouts withcollege prospects.

The workouts started in 2007and continued up until the mostrecent draft. Knicks general man-ager Donnie Walsh denied anyknowledge that the workoutstook place.

The league also fined Knicksscout Rodney Heard $20,000 fororganizing and overseeing the workouts.

THE ATLANTA FALCONSsigned a three-year contractextension with head coach MikeSmith. Smith has posted threewinning seasons in as many yearswith the team and brought theteam to the playoffs twice.

Although the team did notdisclose exact details, Smith’snew deal is expected to add asubstantial pay raise to thecoach’s original four-year, $2.2million contract.

The Falcons had the NFC’sbest record this season at 13-3,but lost to the Green Bay Packersin the divisional playoff round.

THE CINCINNATIBengals hired AFL veteran JayGruden as their new offensivecoordinator after firing BobBratkowski on Monday.

Gruden, the younger brotherof former NFL coach JonGruden, played quarterback forLouisville for four years beforemoving on to playing and coach-ing in the Arena Football Leaguefor 18 seasons.

Cincinnati is hopeful aboutthe aggressive, attacking styleGruden hopes to bring to theoffense after a disappointing 4-12 season in 2010 and therequest for a trade from quar-terback Carson Palmer.

BOB GRIESE, A MEMBER ofboth the NFL and CollegeFootball Hall of Fame, retiredfrom broadcasting after 29 years— the last 24 of which were onmajor networks, ESPN and ABC.

The two-time All-Americanspent his professional footballyears with the Miami Dolphins,where he won two Super Bowlsand was a part of Miami’s 1972undefeated season. Griese alsowent to six Pro Bowls.

both have an opportunity tomake an immediate impressionin Piscataway.

“We can have a great impact,”said Shuler, the nation’s No. 127recruit. “Savon Huggins has tocompete for the spot, but we’reall anticipating he’ll start. He’s agreat running back and that’s awide receiver’s best friend,because everyone needs to bethe box and I can go over top ofcoverages, hopefully. We canmake big plays there.”

RUTGERS: Shuler one

of two All-Americans on RU

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MILESSHULER

THIRD FORMER PITT COACH JOINS RUTGERS STAFF

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Head coach Greg Schiano brought three new coaches ontohis staff this season after Dave Wannstedt resigned at Pitt.

For the third time this of f-season, the Rutgers football

t e a mpicked

up a deposed formerPittsburgh assistant.

Head coach Greg Schianohired Brian Angelichio toser ve as the team’s tightends coach. He will join for-mer Pitt coaches FrankCignetti and Jef f Hafley in Piscataway.

“Brian is agreat fit for ourfootball family,”Schiano said in apress release. “Hehas a bright of fensive mindand has demon-strated an excel-lent ability to recruit and develop players, something that is a staple of our program.”

Schiano saw Angelichio’sability to work with tightends firsthand the past fiveyears against Pitt, especiallythe past two seasons.Panthers’ tight ends DorinDickerson and Mike Cruzcombined for 56 yards andthree touchdowns in two Pitt wins.

“From competing againstRutgers and Coach Schianofor the previous five years, Ihave a tremendous amountof respect for the tradition hehas built at Rutgers,”Angelichio said. “I am excit-ed to contribute to the pro-gram and help win a Big Eastchampionship.”

The hiring creates oddnumbers on theRutgers staff, whichstill requires that somethings be cleared up.

After coachingdefensive backs atPitt, Hafley’s rolewith Rutgers is notyet defined. Co-defen-sive coordinator EdPinkham held therole last year and isstill listed on the

coaching roster.Angelichio replaces Phil

Galiano as tight ends coach,but Galiano remains onRutgers’ staf f, with his rolenow undefined. Galianorejoined Schiano last seasonafter spending the previouslythree years as defensive coordinator and linebackers coach at Florida International.

— Steven Miller

BRIANANGELICHIO

FOOTBALL

There’s still a lot of basketball leftand a lot of games to be won.”

The road does not get anyeasier for the Knights, whoface four ranked teams in theirnext five games.

The first of those contestscomes on Sunday, whenRutgers (12-10, 3-7) travels toSouth Bend, Ind., to do battlewith No. 8 Notre Dame (18-4, 7-3).

Head coach Mike Brey’steam thrives on a balanced half-court offense — one that fea-tures five players that averageat least 9.2 points per game.

And the Irish are 9-2 whensenior guard BenHansbrough, theyounger brotherof former NorthC a r o l i n a great TylerH a n s b r o u g h ,leads the team in scoring.

Notre Dame isthird in the BigEast in 3-pointfield goal percent-age with a 38 per-

cent clip from beyond the arc,aiding the Irish in a plus-10scoring margin.

The Knights match up wellwith the Irish in terms of size —Brey’s rotation has no playerover 6-foot-9 — but Notre Damewill be ready and willing to out-slow Rutgers in its half-court sets.

Wins and losses aside, theKnights must continue to show aconsistent edge in order to pullout close contests, Rice said.

The methodical pace inSouth Bend promises to pro-vide more of the same.

“Now it’s on them. There’sgot to be more of an urgency,”Rice said. “And I’m placing thatsolely on our seniors. And againthey’re playing really hard forme in games. There’s got to be more.”

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Mike Coburn combined for 53 points.

“We’re defending. We haveour moments on offense, but forthe most part it’s not an offen-sive juggernaut,” Rice said.“The difference has been [theopponent] is getting to the freethrow line more. You can do astudy on whoever makes morefree throws … they’re going towin the most percentage ofgames. I don’tknow what it is,but it’s just theway it is.”

Beatty andCoburn com-bined for just twopoints inWednesday’s lossin Queens, N.Y.,and the Jan. 20victory over theBulls was the lasttime both scoredin double figures.

And after posting a double-double in the Knights’ 66-60win over Seton Hall, freshmancenter Gilvydas Biruta has justeight points and eight boardsin the past three contests.

The result is a heavier of fen-sive burden on Mitchell, whoscored at least 12 points inseven of Rutgers’ last eight games.

The former Florida transferhas been a model of consisten-cy in his second season withRutgers and now finds himselfin the unenviable position oftrying to right the Knights’ psy-che after another trying defeat.

“Coach Rice has done every-thing he can to bring it out of us,”Mitchell said. “It just all comes onto us now. The season is not overby any stretch of the imagination.

OUTPUT: Beatty, Coburn

struggle against Johnnies in N.Y.

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JARED MILLERHead coach Mike Rice inherited a Rutgers program that entered the 2010-11 season with a lack of depth at the

guard positions and no original members of the Knights’ 2008 recruiting class.

“There’s still a lot of basketball

left and a lot of gamesto be won.”

JONATHAN MITCHELLSenior Forward

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next game, coming out score-less in the Knights’ mostrecent loss against St. John’s.

Sophomore center MoniqueOliver led the team with 22points against the Johnnies, butscored just 20 points in the twoearlier contests.

And junior guard KhadijahRushdan, the team’s secondleading scorer, is averagingjust 4.6 points per game duringthe losing streak while going acombined 4-for-25 from the field.

But amid the recent strug-gles, Stringer can still findplenty of positives from thefirst time the Knights and Orange met.

While that game resulted inthe team’s most balancedoffensive attack of the season,the defense was a key cog inthe winning ef fort.

Rutgers forced 20 turnoversin the contest and heldSyracuse to a 34.8 shootingpercentage for the game, playing the defense on whichStringer’s teams have made a living.

It was not a perfect win byany means –– the Knights werestill outrebounded, 47-34, and

SKID: Trio battles spotty

play with No. 25 ‘Cuse on tap

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Junior forward April Sykes, the Scarlet Knights’ leading scorer this season, struggled in her last outing, going 0-for-12 from the field and finishing the game with zero points.

BY MATT CANVISSERCONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Rutgers tennis teamearned its first win of the season

y e s t e r -d a y ,when itshut outLehigh,7-0, in

Bethlehem, Pa. It was the secondtime in as many seasons thatRutgers shut out Lehigh at theLewis Tennis Center.

“Our confidence was reallyhigh today going in to Lehigh,”said junior Jennifer Holzberg.“It felt good to know we couldbeat them, and then to go

out and do it in such a convincing way.”

The Scarlet Knights (1-1)worked on doubles in practicethis past week after failing toregister a doubles victory intheir opening day loss toPrinceton. The work seemed topay off in their second match ofthe season, as they did not suf-fer a doubles loss to Lehigh.

The Knights’ top team ofHolzberg and senior captainAmy Zhang won its match, 8-2,as did the team of juniorsMorgan Ivey and Mar yanaMilchutskey. FreshmenVanessa Petrini and StefaniaBalasa completed the sweep bywinning their match, 8-1.

“We came out strong andplayed really aggressively indoubles,” Holzberg said. “Weworked a lot on doubles in prac-tice. We focused on construct-ing points and what to do whengames get really close.”

The singles results yieldedmore of the same, as Lehighfailed to win a single set against Rutgers.

Milchutskey attributes theKnights’ success to their train-ing and overall fitness.

“It’s tough playing a doublesmatch and singles match backto back,” Milchutskey said.“But we lift every morning anddo sprints after ever y practice so we have that edge

over our opponents all the time.”

Zhang, the team’s reigningtwo-time MVP, struggled in hersingles match winning, 6-2, 6-1.Holzberg faced a tight contest atfirst, but finished strong with hermatch going 7-6, 6-0. Milchutskeyhad no problem at all, winning, 6-0, 6-0.

“I went out with confidence,made very few errors and playedsmart tennis. I think that showedin my scores at the end,”Milchutskey said.

The younger half of theKnights lineup had just as muchsuccess as the veterans againstthe Mountain Hawks. Petrininotched the second victory of

her career, 6-2, 6-4, in just hersecond collegiate match whileher fellow freshman Balasa alsowon by a count of 6-1, 6-0.Sophomore Michelle Greenrounded out the Rutgers victorywith a 6-1, 6-1 win.

The Knights will now betested with their first quickturnaround of the season. Theymay have received a confidenceboost from Lehigh, but onSaturday the team heads toWest Point, N.Y.

“Army is a tougher team,”Milchutskey said. “We need tocome out with the same attitudeand confidence against them that we showed against Lehigh.”

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Junior Maryana Milchutskey won her singles match yesterday at Lehigh in straight sets, 6-0, 6-0, in a sweep for the Scarlet Knights. Milchutskey also partnered with classmate Morgan Ivey to claim a victory in doubles play at the Bethlehem, Pa., campus.

Knights claim first victory with shutout over Lehigh

still gave up 23 points to soph-omore guard Elashier Hall ––but the win was still one of themost well-rounded per form-ances this year that Stringer saw from her team.

And with that kind of per-formance lacking during theteam’s losing skid, tapping intothat win could provide thespark needed to get back on track.

The Orange enter the con-test fresh off a 71-48 blowout atthe hands of Notre Dame, butwith a win could tie Rutgers in the Big East standings.

Game action kicks of fSunday at noon at the LouisBrown Athletic Center.

KNIGHT NOTES:Oliver leads the team in

scoring in Big East play thisseason, averaging 17.3 pointsper contest to go along with 7.1rebounds per game.

RUTGERS IS 8-1 AT THERAC this season, with the onlyloss coming to No. 2Connecticut on Jan. 26.

THE KNIGHTS CURRENTLYstand in seventh place in theBig East, a game ahead of St.John’s and Louisville, whichhanded the team its last two losses.

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Shuler readyto start playingWR at Rutgers

BY STEVEN MILLERSPORTS EDITOR

LONG BRANCH, N.J. — Miles Shulernever lined up in the slot during his high

school career. Henever used his blaz-

ing speed to go deep past the secondary.The U.S. Army All-American played quar-

terback and runs track at Long Branch HighSchool, so when he debuts with the Rutgersfootball team, it will only be his second timeplaying wide receiver.

But that does not matter to head coachGreg Schiano, who believes the recently-signed 2011 commitment has the speed andfootball IQ that will translate.

“When you watch him play, he is not onlyfast in track but he plays with football speedand that doesn’t always transcend,” Schianosaid. “Miles is a football player that also runstrack, which is what we need.”

The speed with which Schiano’s recruitingclass came together following Shuler’sDecember commitment was as impressive asthe receiver’s speed on his 22-yard touchdownreception in the Army All-American Bowl.

After pledging his future to Piscataway,Shuler took it upon himself to continuerecruiting many of the other top prospectsRutgers landed in arguably its best class inprogram history.

“I’ve been recruiting, trying my hardestand it paid off in the end,” Shuler said. “Iwanted to start a trend committing there,because Rutgers never had the top NewJersey players stay, and I wanted to start that.We’re solidifying the class.”

The biggest recruit Shuler helped attractto Rutgers was four-star running back SavonHuggins, a Jackson, N.J., native who is closefriends with Shuler.

Both played in All-American games andare among Rivals.com’s top 150 recruits. And

Inconsistentscoring outputplagues RU

BY TYLER BARTOASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

Rutgers head men’s basketball coachMike Rice entered the season knowingthat his Scarlet Knights would be a work

in progress.But after

W e d n e s d a y ’ sheartbreaking 58-56 loss to St. John’sat CarneseccaArena, Rice has to

prove to the Knights that the progress isworth the work.

“Everybody plays hard. If you’re going tobe good, you’re going to play hard in thisleague,” Rice said. “It’s the teams who canplay hard with that purpose and not foul andstill have that same intensity and that edge[that succeed].”

Rutgers has now lost three straight con-ference games — two by a combined fivepoints — after besting South Florida andSeton Hall consecutively to earn a 3-4 recordin Big East play.

But despite entering the season withoutformer leading scorer Mike Rosario and fel-low Class of 2008 teammate GregoryEchenique, the Knights still have the abilityto put the ball in the basket.

Senior forward Jonathan Mitchell com-piled six games with at least 20 points,capped off by 21 and five reboundsWednesday against the Johnnies.

Senior point guard James Beatty has two20-point outbursts of his own, while sopho-more wing Dane Miller contributed doublefigures in 12 games.

But the Knights’ go-to players offen-sively have yet to put it all togetherthroughout the course of a game — withthe exception of Rutgers’ win over USF, inwhich Mitchell, Beatty and senior guardJARED MILLER

Senior forward Jonathan Mitchell took on a leadership role in his second season withthe Knights, who have dropped back-to-back contests by a combined five points.

Knights seek balanced attack amid three-game skidBY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ

CORRESPONDENT

Three games, three different identitiesand three instances of the same outcome.

This is the story of the Rutgers women’sbasketball team over the past three con-

tests, a stretch inwhich the team hasstruggled to clickon all phases.

But with No. 25Syracuse (16-4, 4-4) paying a visit

to Piscataway this weekend, the ScarletKnights have the perfect opportunity tobreak out of their shell –– just like theydid the first time the two teams met upthis season.

Four Knights scored in double figureswhen Rutgers (12-9, 5-3) defeated theOrange, 78-67, on Jan. 11 in Syracuse.

Head coach C. Vivian Stringer’s teamhad an identity then, and having just lostjunior guard Nikki Speed to a foot injury,the backcourt did not yet feel the ebbs ofthe ever-flowing season.

But after losing to No. 2 Connecticut,63-44, to kick of f the team’s three-gameskid –– a game when the backcourt andfrontcourt were in complete disarray ––the inconsistencies built up.

Junior forward April Sykes scored 20points in consecutive games againstUConn and Louisville, but fizzled out theJEFFREY LAZARO / SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Sophomore center Monique Oliver leads the Scarlet Knights this season with 17.3 points per game in Big East play. The Las Vegasnative looks to continue that trend Sunday against Syracuse, as she scored 27 points en route to a win in the teams’ first meeting.

FOOTBALL

RUTGERS AT NOTRE DAME SUNDAY, 12 P.M.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

SYRACUSE ATRUTGERS SUNDAY, 12 P.M.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

SEE RUTGERS ON PAGE 13 SEE OUTPUT ON PAGE 14

SEE SKID ON PAGE 15