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About 600 community members crowded Gordon Theater on the Rutgers-Camden campus Wednesday to witnessthe University Board of Governors’ reaction to the proposed Rutgers-Camden and Rowan University merger.
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A group of more than 800 stu-dents, faculty and communitymembers gathered Wednesday inCamden for a University Board ofGovernors meeting. A majority ofthe group protested against a pos-sible merger that Gov. ChrisChristie proposed last monthbetween Rutgers-Camden andRowan University.
“It was a powerful event,” saidMatt Cordeiro, the president of theRutgers University StudentAssembly. “It really demonstratedthat the entire Camden communityand even a good portion of the widerRutgers community is very againstthis proposed merger.”
The Board of Governors unani-mously approved a proposal thatindicates all current University stu-dents enrolled, and those who willenroll for the 2012-2013 academicyear, will receive a diploma with theUniversity name.
Daniel Cook, an associate profes-sor in the Department of Childhood
Studies at Rutgers-Camden, saidCamden would not feel at home ifmerged with Rowan University.
“The people you see here in red,the memos, op-eds and letters toeditors — these attest to … a deepsense of value to this place, thiscampus,” Cook said of the turnout. “There’s an intense, fierceloyalty here because Rutgers is apart of us.”
University President Richard L.McCormick said at the meeting thatChristie’s proposal should not beimplemented because content is notyet clear.
“An agreement has not yet beenstruck between the legislature and the governor, so the four cor-ners of the plan are not entirelyknown,” he said.
State Sen. Donald Norcross, D-5,said the governor should not ignorehis southern New Jersey con-stituents who want a strong institu-tion for higher education in the area.
“As we move down the road, 30percent of the population is in thesouthern part of the state, but weonly have 12 percent in the seat of
higher learning,” he said.“[Camden] only gets 55 cents ofevery dollar that goes north to NewBrunswick. That is wrong.”
Cook said the Board ofGovernors should not take Camdenaway from its University roots.
“The feelings here … that alwaysseem to be discounted, sometimesby the distinguished senators ofNew Jersey, are not mere sentimentsand cannot be dismissed,” he said.“This is how institutions are built,this is how they function, and anyonewho works in this business willunderstand that.”
Julie Ruth, an associate professorin the Department of Marketing atthe Rutgers-Camden School ofBusiness, said the merge would ruinthe University’s reputation.
“If Rutgers severs Camden,Rutgers will be perceived as break-ing a relationship — not just anyrelationship — but betraying mem-bers of its own family,” Ruth said.“Culturally, we don’t turn our backson our families. This will be an act of
Terrance Hayesshares poetrywith students
BY DANIEL ROGERSCONTRIBUTING WRITER
Award-winning poet Terrance Hayes brought his words to lifeWednesday for about 125 attendees in the multipurpose room of theRutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus.
Mark Doty, acting director of the University’s Writers House,said Hayes was a natural choice for the “Writers at RutgersReading Series.”
“He’s become a major voice in contemporary poetry, and his workvibrates with a number of disparate influences: jazz, Spanish surreal-ism and the blues among them,” Doty said via email correspondence.
Doty said hearing a writer read their work changes the way poet-ry is heard.
“It can be a life-changing experience to hear a great writer read,and it’s often the case that hearing a writer’s voice or making person-al contact with an author in other ways, changes how we read andopens doors to literature,” Doty said via email.
Audience members laughed at Haye’s jokes before he began toread as a way to ease the tension in the room.
“I do take it personally when you all are really quiet,” Hayes said. “Iknow it means you’re attentive, but it makes me nervous.”
Demonstrators rally againstlocal violence
BY GIANCARLO CHAUXMETRO EDITOR
Activists protesting local police brutalitymarched through the streets of NewBrunswick on Wednesday, ending theirrally at City Hall on 78 Bayard St., the siteof the City Council meeting.
Protestors star ted their rally on the intersection of Remsen Avenue and Seaman Street, the area where two local residents were shot during altercations with New Brunswick police of ficers.
They passed the New Brunswick PoliceDepar tment chanting “no justice, nopeace,” while they marched downKirkpatrick Street to Bayard Street.
Tormel Pittman, a city activist, speaks out against the recentNew Brunswick shootings Wednesday at a city council meeting.
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Paul Robesoncelebrated forhis influence
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The School of Environmental andBiological Sciences Office of Special Programsand the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity honoredUniversity alumnus Paul Robeson Wednesdayduring a Black History Month celebration.
The “Paul Robeson, A Chautauqua: Life,Views and Legacy” lecture at the LivingstonStudent Center aimed to inform studentsabout Robeson because he was an importantmember in the University’s history, saidIsrael Laguer, senior counselor in the Schoolof Environmental and Biological Sciences.
“We believe wholeheartedly in what PaulRobeson stood for, his vision [and] his lega-cy,” Laguer said. “What
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Sexes divide, face challenges to build connections BY MARGARET MORRIS
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While the Society ofHispanic Engineers challengedtheir male and female membersto compete in a “Battle of theSexes” Tuesday, their team-work ultimately brought themcloser together.
The boys won 1800 to thegirls’ 800 points in a competi-tion that was made to unite thestudents, said Selene Velez,SHE president.
School of Engineering soph-omore Justin DeOliveira, aSHE member, said he helpedplan the event at Paul RobesonCultural Center on BuschCampus to have an interactivecompetition between boys andgirls as part of a Valentine’sDay celebration.
“Battle of the Sexes” is part ofthe organization’s mission tohelp its members on studentconcerns such as tutoring, find-ing internships, academic guid-ance and finding time to relax,said Velez.
SHE makes an effort to referto the group members as part ofa family away from home, withgoals that are not solely orientedtoward Hispanics or engineering,said Velez, a School of Arts andSciences junior.
“Our mission is to recruit,retain, and graduate minority stu-dents in the STEM [Science,Technology, Engineering andMath] fields. SHE is also open topeople in the business field andwelcomes students of any ethnic-ity,” she said.
Diego Urquiza, a School of Engineering first-year student, left, and Ana Santa Cruz, a School of Engineering
junior answer a physics question Tuesday during the knowledge portion of the competition.
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Velez said the competitionwas made up of 15 boys and sixgirls, which reflected the lowamount of women working inthe field of engineering com-pared to men.
“[It was] a direct representa-tion of the female-to-male ratioin most fields of engineering,”she said.
Questions and challengescame from four categories —coordination, knowledge, miscel-laneous and teamwork. In eachcategory, contestants had anopportunity to win 100, 300 and500 points.
Boys and girls competed in awide variety of activities, such aswheelbarrow races, stacking theTower of Hanoi, charades, abackwards spelling bee and aphysics question.
The first competition was ahula-hoop challenge to test thestudents’ ability to worktogether. Teams of five stood ina circle while holding handsand had to pass around a hulahoop without disconnectingtheir hands.
The boys’ team won 500points through the challengebecause they passed the hooparound the circle faster than thegirls’ team.
Another 500 points were award-ed to the boys’ team for answeringthe physics question correctly.
The physics question repre-sented the knowledge portion ofthe competition, in which theboys and the girls had to figureout the force pushing a blockweighing 10 kilograms againstthe wall.
The boys’ team found theamount of force that was beingpushed against the wall was 200Newtons — without any given for-mulas — for which they receivedanother 500 points.
Other challenges included acoordination competition ofwheelbarrow races in which girlsand boys raced from one side ofthe room to the other.
Although the boys won severalparts of the competition, the girls’team was able to gain 300 pointsfor spelling words backwards and500 points for stacking the Towerof Hanoi faster than the boys.
The Tower of Hanoi is a puzzlewith three pegs, in which one ofthe pegs is a stacked pile of ringsthat decreases in size from thebottom to the top.
The objective of the puzzleis to restack the pile from thefirst peg to the third peg with-out placing a larger ring on asmaller ring.
SHE Webmaster NelsonCaballero said the event allowedhim to spend time with his family.
“This is my second family,”said Caballero, a School ofEngineering senior.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and University alumnusJunot Díaz will be the keynote speaker at the University’s246th anniversary Commencement, announced atWednesday’s Board of Governors meeting in Camden.
At the University-wide graduation ceremony, which willtake place May 13 at 12:30 p.m. at High Point SolutionsStadium in Piscataway, Díaz will receive an honoraryDoctor of Letters degree, according to Media Relations.
Díaz will receive $30,000 for his speech atCommencement, a fee paid with private funds from theRutgers University Foundation’s fundraising efforts,according to Media Relations.
The writer earned his bachelor’s degree in English from Rutgers College in 1992 and was inducted into the University’s Hall of Distinguished Alumni in 2010, according to Media Relations.
He received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2008 for his novel, “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” a novel about a Dominican growing up in New Jersey,with some scenes taking place at the University’s NewBrunswick campus.
Díaz teaches creative writing at the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology, and at the University he lived in
a creative writing living-learning community, accordingto Media Relations.
Díaz’s family left his poor neighborhood in theDominican Republic’s Santo Domingo neighborhood in1974 for Parlin, N.J., when he was six years old. Heenrolled at Kean College for one year before transfer-ring to the University, working part-time jobs to pay histuition, according to Media Relations.
After his time at the University, Díaz earned his mas-ter’s degree at Cornell University and wrote a series ofstories based on his experiences in the DominicanRepublic and New Jersey.
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Tormel Pittman, a cityactivist, said the protestors gath-ered at the meeting in responseto the shootings of local citizensVictor Rodriguez and BarryDeloatch at the hands of theNew Brunswick police, twoevents that have sparked aseries of community protests.
“You know why we arehere,” Pittman said. “It’sbecause [Rodriguez] was shotin the back by the NewBrunswick police. We werehere in September doing the same exact thing because [Deloatch] was killedby the New Brunswick police. We come [here] lookingfor answers.”
Victor Rodriguez, a 19-year-old man shot on Jan. 31 duringan incident involving two NewBrunswick police of ficers of fthe intersection of RemsenAvenue and Seaman Street, isparalyzed from the waist down.
Rodriguez’s shootingoccurred within one block ofthe Deloatch shooting on Sept.22. Since then, the NBPD hasrepor ted about two-dozen
shootings, three of whichresulted in deaths.
Council Vice PresidentRebecca Escobar, who presidedover the meeting in the absenceof Council President Rober tRecine, said the city approvedthe creation of an auxiliar ypolice unit to bridge the gapbetween the police and the peo-ple.
NBPD Capt. WilliamMilligan, said the department isa response to complaints abouta lack of a police presence onfoot throughout the city.
“Two officers are detailed onRemsen Avenue Corridor andFrench Street Corridor[patrolling on foot] regularly inthe afternoon,” he said.
Maritza Rodriguez, VictorRodriguez’s cousin, said Victortold her the police continued toshoot even after he had falleninto a submissive position.
“[After] he received thoseshots [in the back], he took off… and threw the gun away and started raising his handsand fell to the floor. A couple seconds later hereceived two more shots in theback,” she said.
The Middlesex CountyProsecutor’s Office is investi-gating Victor Rodriguez’sshooting.
Maritza Rodriguez said she hopes that the communitycan learn from the mistakes that happened in hercousin’s case, and that ever yone can move on withtheir lives after the issue is resolved.
“It takes an incident like thisfor something new to happen,”Maritza Rodriguez said. “Wehope that what happened toVictor will end.”
Mayor James Cahill criti-cized Pittman on Feb. 3 and blamed his ef for ts for the recent spike of crimes inthe city.
“For more than 15 years, thecity has experienced a steadyand marked decrease in crime and, in par ticular, violent crime,” Cahill toldmycentraljersey.com. “It is nocoincidence that the recent spike in violent crimecorresponds directly with the inflammator y and anti-police rhetoric of Pittman andhis cohorts.”
In response to Cahill’srecent statements, Pittman saidthe allegations are unfair.
“I want to dispel the myththat I am against police of fi-cers,” Pittman said. … “But wecan’t let the of ficers of f thehook that did the wrong thing.”
Kathleen Feeney, a formerNew Brunswick resident, saidcity of ficials have recently been involved in controversialstories. Feeney referred to a video that showed KevinJones, an aide to Cahill, sitting on a park bench withabsentee votes from the city council elections sitting onhis lap.
“Let’s talk about [corrup-tion],” Feeney said. “Why hasKevin Jones not been prosecuted? He was not author-ized as someone who couldhandle ballots.”
Feeney said she used to be apart of a New Brunswick com-munity group, but left the cityafter her relationship with thelocal police depar tmentbecame strained.
“I lived … very near to thisarea for 26 years,” she said. “Isold my house and fled NewBrunswick because I becameafraid of the police. I spoke outand became under threat.”
Henr y Torres, a NewBrunswick resident, expressedhis frustrations with the waycity of ficials have been han-dling many of the problemscommunity members haveraised, and said he hopes thatsolutions can be provided in thenear future.
“Every time we come here,you never have answers,”Torres said to the council members. “Something has tochange, and I said it last time I was here and the time before that and the time before that.”
Escobar said council mem-bers are concerned with theresidents’ issues, but that of fi-cial responses could not be pro-vided until the cases werethemselves resolved.
“Sometimes we can’t giveyou answers because there isan investigation going on,” she said.
Escobar said she hopes thecommunity would concentrateless on complaining about theproblems and instead focus onpossible solutions.
“I have yet to hear sugges-tions from people on how wecan improve. Let’s work togeth-er,” she said.
The protest group plans tocontinue attending city councilmeetings until they feel thattheir voices have been heard,Pittman said.
“We are willing to do thatuntil we get some answers,”Pittman said. “After two shoot-ings, the police director has yetto address the public. The com-munity is tired.”
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we are trying to do is capture andeducate our fellow students whodon’t understand the history and legacy Paul Robesonleft behind.”
Robeson was the third blackstudent enrolled at the University,the first black University footballplayer, and valedictorian of hisgraduating class.
The event celebrated a figurethat deserves to be honored allyear, not just during Black HistoryMonth, said Prosper Godonoo, thedirector of the Paul RobesonCultural Center.
William Murray, the presidentof the University’s chapter of theAlpha Phi Alpha fraternity, pre-sented a video encompassingRobeson’s life, including hisinvolvement at the University, hisartistic career and his role in thecivil rights movement.
Murray, a School of Arts andSciences senior, said Robeson usedto be a member of the Alpha PhiAlpha fraternity. The occasionmarked the first time the fraternityparticipated in a campus event thathonored their former brother.
“We’ve honored Dr. MartinLuther King Jr. and W.E.B. Dubois,who are both brothers of our frater-nity, but we’ve never really honoredPaul Robeson. He was a pivotalmember on campus,” Murray said.
Marvin Jefferson, a professor atBloomfield College, took the stageafter the video to perform a uniquemonologue and impersonation,
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known as a Chautauqua, based onRobeson’s life.
“A Chautauqua is a first-personhistorical narration,” Jefferson said.“I am going to try — to the best ofmy abilities — [to] embody PaulRobeson up until the year 1958.”
Jefferson said a Chautauquacould be divided into different sec-tions, with each one bringing aunique element to the perform-ance.
“The first stage is the mono-logue. With this monologue, I willbecome the character I am playing.The second stage is the character’sability to interact with other mem-bers of the crowd, so I will answerany questions in the point of view ofPaul Robeson,” Jefferson said.
Jefferson said the audienceshould remember that he was per-forming a version of Robeson basedin 1958, so it would not make anysense to ask questions concerningmodern day issues.
The Chautauqua included a per-formance of one of Robeson’ssongs, as well as a historical look atsome of the details of his life andtime at the University.
Jefferson said the event wasimportant to him because he feltthe University alumnus always hadan influence on his own life.
“Paul Robeson was seeminglyalways around me,” he said. “WhenI first came to Rutgers, it was 1976.That was the year he passed away. Iwas also president of the PaulRobeson center here on campus. SoPaul Robeson and I have alwaysbeen drawn to each other.”
After the Chautauqua, membersof Alpha Phi Alpha performed adance tribute and sang their frater-nal hymn in Robeson’s honor.
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unmistakable disloyalty.”Senate President Stephen
Sweeney, D-3, said in the meetingthat critics should be open to negoti-ation like Christie, who agreed toallow current students to graduateunder the University name.
“It would be horrible to killan idea when you don’t knowwhat it is,” Sweeney said. “Youneed to understand what we’redealing with.”
McCormick said despite hisobjections, he must negotiate tomake the merger work financially.
“We are working with the gover-nor’s office to find a fair and equi-table way for those costs to be paid,”he said.
Sweeney also encouraged peopleto keep an open mind about themerger, because the plan wouldboost the quality of education inSouth Jersey.
“If we look at the condition ofsouthern New Jersey, you’d see itfell far behind, and [however] mucha consortium, a merger, a partner-ship, whatever the details are — let’swork them out,” he said. “It’s aboutraising the bar for everyone.”
But John Oberdiek, the director
of Faculty Research at the Rutgers-Camden School of Law, said themerge would destroy the quality ofeducation rather than improve it.
“[Rutgers-Camden would] ceaseto be a nationally recognized lawschool,” said Oberdiek, a professorat the School of Law. “It will immedi-ately jeopardize our ability to retainour faculty and students who comeacross the nation and region for aRutgers education.”
Norcross said rather than forc-ing the merge, the campus shouldreceive more funds for educationaldevelopment.
“When we take a look at the dis-parity of resources of those in thenorthern part of the state and thesouthern part of the state, it’s sick-ening,” he said.
An Eagleton Institute of Politicspoll released Tuesday shows mostNew Jersey voters disagree with theproposed merger.
Fifty-seven percent of votersoppose the merger, with only 22 per-cent supporting it and 21 percentunsure, according to the poll. Thepoll surveyed 914 adults from allover the state from Feb. 9-11 on bothlandline and cellphones.
“Gov. Christie’s plan to mergeRowan and Rutgers-Camden maybe the most unpopular idea he hasput forward to date,” said EagletonPoll Director David Redlawsk in apress release.
Hayes read several of hispoems, including “A House isNot a Home,” and “Lighthead’sGuide to Addiction.”
“No one really knew that Iwrote,” he said.
Hayes said his earlier piecesof writing were about girls thathe had crushes on.
“I was too young to reallyeven know anything about poet-ry or other poets,” he said. “I waswriting poems, but I hadn’t hadanyone direct me in terms ofwhat poems were.”
Before becoming a poet,Hayes said he went to graduateschool with the intentions ofbecoming an English teacher.
“I just thought people wrotepoems because they likedpoems, not because they wantedto make a living,” Hayes said. “Iknew I would always write
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poems, but I thought I wouldmake my living teaching poetry.”
Hayes said students that areinterested in becoming writersshould simply write.
“It’s not a business, it’s notmath — it’s really not like any-thing that we’re sort of trainedto do in our culture, in whichvalue is placed on earningpotential,” he said. “Do it if youhave to do it. If you don’t haveto do it, do something else.”Rose Laurano, a School of Artsand Sciences first-year student,said she wanted to hear Hayesread because she thought itcould help to understand awriter’s style.
“I thought [he] was amazing,”Laurano said. There weremoments when I was totally justcaught by the images, his voiceand just the essence of thepoems. I felt my heart beat up.”
Hayes has written four booksof poetry, was winner of the 2001National Poetry Series and afinalist for the Los AngelesTimes Book Award.
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16 Erin Vogel, an assistant professor in theDepartment of Anthropology, will lecture on thebehavioral, morphological physiological adaptation tofruit scarcity in wild orangutans at 4 p.m. at theMarine Sciences Building. The Ecology and EvolutionGraduate Program is sponsoring the seminar.
Students can attend “Choosing Your Major orCareer Using Your Personality Type” to decide theirmajor with a different approach. The interactive sem-inar, hosted by Career Services, will give studentsthe opportunity to match their personality types witha major using the Myers-Briggs personality style.The seminar will run from 2:45 to 4:15 p.m. in Room411 of the Rutgers Student Center on the CollegeAvenue campus.
17 The Rutgers University Programming Association will host“RUPA Karaoke Night” at the RutgersZone in the LivingstonStudent Center. Students can choose from a variety of songsto sing in front of friends from 8 to 11 p.m. while compli-mentary appetizers are served.
The Rutgers Film Co-op and New Jersey Media Arts Centeralong with the University’s cinema studies program willsponsor screenings of the winning films and digital videos ofthe 2012 United States Super 8 Film and Digital VideoFestival in Voorhees Hall at 7 p.m. on the College AvenueCampus. Tickets are $9 for students and seniors and $10 forthe general public.
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The Rutgers Theater Company will hold its last perform-ance of “Much Ado About Nothing” at the Levin Theater onDouglass campus. The play, a Shakespearean comedyabout wisecracking, reluctant lovers Benedick andBeatrice, starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $15 for students, $20for University alumni, employees and seniors, and $25 forthe general public.
21 Rutgers Study Abroad will host a “Summer Study AbroadFair” at the Red Lion Café on the College Avenue campusfrom 6 to 9 p.m. to introduce students to the 100+ studyabroad opportunities offered through the University. Formore information, visit studyabroad.rutgers.edu.
SHADES and SCREAM Theater peer educators will teachstudents how to respond effectively to racist, sexist orhomophobic behaviors in “STAND UP. STOP HATE.REPORT BIAS: Bystander Intervention Workshop forStudent Leaders.” The event takes place at 9 a.m. at theBusch Campus Center multipurpose room. For more infor-mation, contact Mary Conroy at [email protected] (848) 445-4088.
23 Patricia Strach, an associate professor in the Departments ofPolitical Science and Public Administration and Policy atSUNY Albany, will give a talk on “Selling Health: ConsumerMarketing, Political Participation and the Breast CancerCampaign in the United States” in the first-floor conferenceroom at 112 Paterson St. in downtown New Brunswick. TheInstitute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Researchwill run from noon to 1:30 p.m.
The Center for Teaching Advancement & AssessmentResearch will host a workshop teaching students how toincorporate media with PowerPoint presentations. Studentswill learn how to integrate audio and video in presentationson the PC. Different audio and video format compatiblewith PowerPoint and available Web resources for down-loading free content will also be covered. The free work-shop will run from 9:45 to 11:15 a.m. in room 172A ofDavidson Hall on Busch campus.
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Prison fire kills more than 300, deadliest in 80 yearsTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras— A fire started by an inmate torethrough an overcrowded prisonin Honduras, burning and suffo-cating screaming men in theirlocked cells as rescuers desper-ately searched for keys. As manyas 300 people were killed in theworld’s deadliest prison fire ineight decades.
The local governor, who wasonce a prison employee, toldreporters Wednesday that aninmate called her moments beforethe blaze broke out and screamed:“I will set this place on fire and weare all going to die.”
Comayagua Gov. Paola Castrosaid she called the Red Cross andfire brigade immediately. But fire-fighters said they were kept out-side for half an hour by guardswho fired their guns in the air,thinking they had a riot or a break-out on their hands.
Officials have long had littlecontrol over conditions insidemany Honduran prisons, whereinmates have largely unfet-tered access to cellphones andother contraband.
Survivors told investigatorsthe unidentified inmate yelled“We will all die here” as he lit fireto his bedding late Tuesday nightin the prison in the central townof Comayagua, north of the capi-
tal of Tegucigalpa. The lockuphoused people convicted of seri-ous crimes such as homicide andarmed robbery.
The blaze spread within min-utes, killing about 100 inmates intheir cells as firefighters struggledto find officials who had keys,Comayagua fire departmentspokesman Josue Garcia said.
“We couldn’t get them outbecause we didn’t have the keysand couldn’t find the guards whohad them,” Garcia said.
Other prisoners were set freeby guards but died from the flamesor smoke as they tried to flee intothe fields surrounding the facility,where prisoners grew corn andbeans on a state-run farm.
Rescuers carried shirtless, semi-conscious prisoners from the prisonby their arms and legs. One hauleda victim away by piggyback.
Comayagua, which housesmembers of the nation’s largestgangs, was built in the 1940s for400 inmates, but its population hadmore than doubled to 852, withonly 100 guards to maintain order.Unlike U.S. prisons, where lockscan be released automatically in anemergency, Honduran prisons areinfamous for being old, overcrowd-ed hotbeds of conflict and crime.
Survivor Ever Lopez, 24, whowas serving time for homicide,said he was sleeping when the firebroke out about 11 p.m.
“I saw the smoke from cellblock six, and it spread throughoutthe prison,” he said. “The otherprisoners and I broke through theroof with our bare hands and fled.Thank God I’m alive.”
Officials said 272 people wereconfirmed dead, but many prison-ers were unaccounted for and thedeath toll could go to 300 or more.Among the dead were six prison-ers who drowned after trying toseek refuge in a water tank. Therewere 852 people in the prison atthe time of the blaze.
A prisoner identified as SilverioAguilar told HRN Radio that hefirst knew something was wrongwhen he heard a scream of “Fire,fire.”
“For a while, nobody listened.But after a few minutes, whichseemed like an eternity, a guardappeared with keys and let us out,”he said.
He said there were 60 prisonerspacked into his cell.
National prison system directorDanilo Orellana defended theguards’ decision to keep firefight-ers out as flames lit up the nightsky.
“The guards first thought theyhad a prison break, so they fol-lowed the law saying no one couldenter to prevent unnecessarydeaths,” he said.
Honduran President PorfirioLobo said on national television
that he had suspended the coun-try’s top penal officials, includingOrellana, and would request inter-national assistance in carrying outa thorough investigation.
“This is a day of profound sad-ness,” Lobo said.
Outraged relatives of deadinmates tried to storm the gates ofthe prison Wednesday morning torecover the remains of their lovesones, witnesses told TheAssociated Press. The crowdswere driven back by police officersfiring tear gas.
Channel 5 television showeddozens of inmates’ relatives hurl-ing rocks at officers.
“We want to see the body,”shouted Juan Martinez, whose sonwas reported dead. “We’ll be hereuntil we get to do that.”
Orellana said the convicts wereallowed to work outdoors, unlikethose held in a maximum-securityfacility for the country’s most dan-gerous prisoners in the capital,Tegucigalpa.
Located in the middle of irri-gated fields and several largeponds, the prison was comprisedof eight buildings set closetogether, with an open, dirtprison yard within a central com-pound. A single dirt road led intothe facility, which has a soccerfield on the property.
Honduras has one of theworld’s highest rates of violent
crime, and its overcrowded anddilapidated prisons have been hitby a string of deadly riots and firesin recent years. Officials haverepeatedly pledged to improveconditions, only to say they don’thave sufficient funds.
Tuesday’s blaze was theworld’s deadliest prison fire since1930, when 322 prisoners werekilled in Ohio.
The U.S. State Department hascriticized Honduras for “harshprison conditions” and violenceagainst detainees.
A 2004 fire at a state prisonnorth of the Honduran capitalkilled more than 100 incarceratedgang members. A fire a year earli-er at a nearby facility killed 70 gangmembers. And in 1994, a firesparked by an overheated refriger-ator motor in an overcrowdedHonduras prison killed 103 people.
Honduran authorities haverepeatedly pledged to improveconditions, but human rightsgroups say little has been done inthe country of 7.6 million people, amajor transit route for drugs head-ed from South America to theUnited States.
“This is a problem that’s exist-ed for a long time and the solu-tions haven’t been applied. Butnow we have to do somethingeven though we don’t have themoney,” Security MinisterPompeyo Bonilla told reporters.
Roosevelt proved that aprogressive governmentthat takes a hands-onapproach to economicsthrough investment, jobcreation and unemploy-ment benefits is most suc-
cessful. Progressives also present a more com-passionate economic system. Social welfare pro-grams such as Medicare, Medicaid, SocialSecurity and poverty reduction programs are allmorally superior to simply allowing the free mar-ket to sort out the problems of those in societywho need the most help.
In social policy, a government that refers to his-torical tradition in order to justify its own inactionin ending prejudice and discrimination is always in
the wrong. A society which servesas a moral exemplar to the rest ofthe world is one in which the gov-ernment ensures that all peoplesare af forded equal rights.Throughout America’s 236 years,progressives have continuallycome out on the right side of his-tory when it comes to social jus-tice. Between the women’s suf-frage movement, the civil rightsmovement and the evermore-suc-
cessful gay rights movement of the modern day,progressives have always been the ones fightingfor equality and against prejudice.
So, if you ask what attracts me to progressivepolicy, I must answer by saying that time andtime again, it has been on the right side of histo-ry as the most effective and morally superiorform of governance. It is hard to not be attractedto a political ideology that seems objectively andhistorically better than its counter ideologies.Progressives want to affect society in a way thatthey know will yield the best long run resultswhile creating a more compassionate, moralworld. They want to be able to help individualswhile simultaneously building a greater, strongernation. I realize that progressive public policyand progressive action are the best ways toachieve this.
Justin Hayden is a School of Arts and Sciencessenior majoring in political science and philoso-phy with a minor in sociology.
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T hese tumultuouspolitical times havenot only people on
cable news questioningeach other’s political views,but also people in daily life.Of course the pundits ontelevision will debate each other while acting as ifthey cannot even fathom the merits of their oppo-nent’s viewpoints — they have to put on an enter-taining show. But what surprises me is that peo-ple in daily life — fellow students, coworkers andsometimes professors cannot seem to fathom themerits of or entertain the thought of opposingpolitical viewpoints. I myself am a progressive,but I can understand the viewpoints of the otherside and even at times agree with some of them.Though most people in universi-ties are also progressives, thereare many who aren’t and of thosewho aren’t, some cannot seem tofathom why progressives sub-scribe to their particular politicalideology. Here is my reason forbeing a progressive.
Society’s natural state is one ofconstant flux, but it does not nec-essarily evolve for the better on itsown. When left to its own devices,society may naturally evolve along a more enlight-ened path, but it also has the ability to devolveinto a more backward civilization. In order toensure that society is in the direction of continualimprovement, something must be at the helmguiding it. The only thing that has the ability toeffectively guide society along the right path isgovernment. Conservatives and libertarians wantto limit government, but without the guiding handof government moving society along an enlight-ened path, society runs the risk of devolving.Progressives realize this.
In economics, the laissez-faire approachresults in huge wealth disparities between people,growing divides between socio-economic classes,and boom and bust cycles. For example, thederegulation of the American economy since the1980s has led to the current situation of majorwealth disparities, a shrinking middle class andeconomic bubbles, which, when they burst, crip-ple people’s financial lives. In pulling this countryout of the Great Depression, President Franklin
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N ew Jersey has been given a unique chance to re-evaluate itsapproach to education free from the impositions of the nation-al education reform program No Child Left Behind Act.
President Barack Obama exempted New Jersey and nine other statesfrom the act’s requirements last week, citing the states’ struggles toaddress proficiency gaps between students of low- and high-incomeschools. And while it may be disappointing that New Jersey has failed tokeep up with the program’s goals — which mandate that all students beproficient in math and reading by 2014 — it will ultimately leave the statein a better position to address education on a more immediate level.
No Child Left Behind, with its one-size-fits-all “teaching to the test”approach to education reform, has done little to improve the quality ofeducation since in was originally enacted by former President GeorgeW. Bush 10 years ago. Student proficiency levels have increased little,and the program’s emphasis on standardized test taking has arguablycorrupted the atmosphere in many classrooms across the state.
The program’s goal-driven approach to education has visibly affect-ed teaching methods and student perspectives on learning. Instructorshave altered their own approaches toward education, focusing mainlyon those aspects that will result in improved test scores.
Students are also taught to value a perfect score on the High SchoolStatewide Assessments in place of a true interest for subjects.Achievement on standardized tests in math and reading has come onlyat the marginalization of subjects like social studies and science.
Evidence for the program’s failure can be found in these 10 states,which are now left to remedy what No Child Left Behind has spoiled.Schools can now be given the opportunity to do what works for them,rather than what is dictated by a national education reform program.This exemption will also allow states, and hopefully the current admin-istration, to reconsider a program that has done little for the quality ofeducation across the nation.
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T he recent death of the iconic pop singer Whitney Houston hasbeen met with solemn and commemorative sentiment fromthe public. However, this sentiment has not been without con-
troversy, and, in certain instances, insensitivity — the most recentexample being the public’s reaction to Gov. Chris Christie’s decision tofly flags at half-staff in honor of the Newark, N.J. native. Christie hasfaced a surprising amount of heat from critics for this move, with somearguing that, considering her history of drug use, Houston does notdeserve such an honor.
Regardless of the right or wrong of Christie’s decision, it seemsthe matter has been blown out of proportion. Americans have a ten-dency to dramatize national events — especially ones relating to thelives of celebrities. Christie’s decision is his own, and it seems to fitwell with a track record of peculiar behavior that frequently fallsunder national spotlight.
But this criticism — aside from being callous — misses a greaterpoint as to why the governor’s decision may be labeled misguided.Ordering flags at state government buildings to be lowered for acelebrity, however popular, mingles two separate cultures of society —politics and popular culture.
Christie is correct in labeling Houston a “cultural icon” — but thisdoes not necessarily entitle her to a flag flown at half-staff. The act ofraising or lowering flags at a government building seems more close-ly associated with political events and enterprises than anything else,and the world of pop culture should be far removed from that of thestatehouse.
We believe that national celebrities do not merit a flag flown at half-staff — at least not by the order of state officials. Forcibly, by virtue ofbeing governor, Christie’s decision has been made to represent the opin-ion of all N.J. residents. But, as we have seen in this case, public opinionis not unanimous, and this is why the decision received backlash.
Friends and family will no doubt mourn Houston with the respect sheis due at her funeral to be held Saturday at the New Hope BaptistChurch in Newark. Christie’s decision to lower flags on top of it all maybe a bit much, and he may be overstepping his own bounds by indirect-ly forcing the state to honor the singer’s death with his decision. But byany standard, Houston was no messiah — although the amount of mediacoverage her death has garnered makes us think she might be.
Lesson of the day? Don’t mix pop culture and politics.
Waiver gives NJeducation chance
Don’t mix popularculture and politics
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A pre-match ceremony willhonor Ashnault, DeMarco andHopkins before the first bout ofthe Knights’ final dual meet,but it will not mark the end of their involvement withthe program.
Ashnault and DeMarco —both captains — will live togeth-er in New Brunswick next yearand take on a role with the pro-gram, they said. DeMarco is con-sidering a career in fighting after
working with the teamfor at least a year.
He will likelyundergo surgery torepair his LCL and aruptured muscle con-nected to it in his rightknee after his season.It could end any timehe takes the mat.
Doctors toldDeMarco he is at riskof injuring himself
more if he wrestles, even with abrace, prompting his decision tosit against Drexel. His careerwill end in the postseason,whether it is because of injury ora result. That is the way hewants it.
“You have to weigh theworst-case scenario and costversus benefit,” DeMarco said.“The worst-case scenario is my career would end on aThursday night match and noteven have the oppor tunity to make a run at the tourna-ment. Ultimately the goal is the NCAAs.”
Senior 141-pounder Billy Ashnault locks eyes with an opponentSaturday at the National Duals. He has one more home match.
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runner-up Boris Novachkov to overtime.
Qualifying would be its ownvictory for Hopkins. He never had a full year in the lineup after transferringfrom Middlesex CommunityCollege to rejoinGoodale, his formerJackson MemorialHigh School coach.
Jesse Boyden andCarl Buchholz eachappeared at heavy-weight this season, but Hopkins will repre-sent the ScarletKnights at the EIWA Tournament.
His final test comestonight against Drexel’s 19th-ranked Kyle Frey. Goodale callsFrey an athletic wrestler, whichpresents a better matchup forthe 215-pound Hopkins, whoconstantly faces larger competi-tion in his first year up from 197 pounds.
“It’s hard when I weigh in at215 and at match time I’m prob-ably even lighter than that aftersweating and warming up,”Hopkins said. “I get dudes thatare 255, 260 and just laying on me. That’s hard to deal with. Some of them are decep-tively fast.”
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JOVELLE TAMAYO / EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
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Max Borghard watched inSeptember as Hurricane Ireneravaged the Rutgers rowing
t e a m ’ sb o a t -
house. He knew the storm’scapacity for destruction dealingwith Hurricane Floyd in 1999.
So the Scarlet Knights waitedout the flooding, taking in towtheir boats and equipment.
“Rowers are very adaptable tothe situation,” Borghard said.
The 17-year head coach con-tinues to go through anothertransition. He lost a veteran-heavy team entering the 2012season, instead relying on fresh-men and sophomores.
So he turns to two of his seniors, Ellie Kleiman andKatie Quinn.
Kleiman competed duringthe summer with the VesperBoat Club in Boathouse Row,Pa., one of the sport’s land-marks. She worked with theunder-23 development program,winning “some pretty bigevents,” Borghard said.
Quinn, a coxswain like Kleiman,is a mainstay under Borghard.
“They bring a wealth of knowl-edge to the young rowers,” hesaid. “There’s probably 14 yearsof rowing experience betweenthe two of them. That’s some-thing you need to have on a teamlike this.”
Borghard said the turnover inrowing is natural, welcomingwaves of walk-ons with little priorexperience. He brings in sea-soned rowers but still takes in hisfair share of newcomers.
He points to their success inother high school sports as indi-cators of their athleticism. Thetransition period is not asdemanding, Borghard said.
“Rowing is a relatively simpleskill,” he said. “It’s not likelearning to play soccer orlacrosse. If you like workinghard and you like pushing your-
self, you’re going to be fairlysuccessful in rowing.”
Borghard pushed them inJanuar y, when the Knightstrained in Tampa the weekbefore the spring semesterbegan. He used the fall to work on fitness, land trainingand technique.
He continues to look forleaders in the group and willlikely find some during thespring season, when Rutgerscompetes in four races beforethe Big East Championships.
“It definitely opened up a lotmore in terms of unknowns,”Borghard said. “You see some-one like Jeremy Lin, who is com-ing off the bench for the [NewYork] Knicks and lighting theworld on fire. It’s a reminder togive people opportunities andsee what they can do.”
Borghard notices the chang-ing landscape in the sport. TheIvy League plans to begin its ownleague championships in thenear future. The Big East willreact accordingly, sending itschampion as an automatic quali-fier to the NCAAs.
Most programs capped theseason with the Eastern Sprints,which welcomed 18 teams towardthe end of April.
The Big East Championshipswill likely take its place.
“We’ve got a young team thisyear, but we still want to strive tomatch last year’s results,”Borghard said. “As we get to theend of the season, we’ll be a lotfaster than we were at the begin-ning of the season.”
Borghard grew up with thesport. The son of a rower,Borghard arrived at Rutgers in1983 as a two-sport athlete. Herowed in the fall and flirted withtrack and field.
But ultimately the water wonout — “I was brought up aroundthe sport,” Borghard said —and he returned eight yearsafter graduating.
“Rowing,” he said, “was themain season.”
Veteran coach preparesfor changing of guard
ROWING
DATE/LOCATION
Jan. 5/Tampa
March 24/Philadelphia
March 31/Syracuse,N.Y.
April 14/Cherry Hill,N.J.
April 28/Indianapolis
May 13/ West Windsor,N.J.
RUTGERS ROWING TEAM 2012 TIMELINE
EVENT
Team training trip
Murphy Cup Regatta
Quad meet againstBoston University, Cornell, Syracuse
Knecht Cup
Big East Double-Duel
Big East Championships
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Rutgers junior wrestlerScott Winston is ques-tionable for tonight’s
matchup against Drexel witha pinched nerve. The 165-pounder sustained the injurylast week in practice.
Winston already missedtime with a dislocated shoul-der earlier in the season. He holds a 16-5 recordincluding a 10-2 mark in dual action.
If Winston sees action thisweek, he will meet one ofDrexel’s two ranked wrestlersin No. 18 Joe Booth.
FORMER RUTGERS ANDcurrent NFL linebacker GaryBrackett will return to cam-pus Sunday to sign copies ofhis new book “Winning:From Walk-On to Captain, inFootball and Life.”
The Indianapolis Coltscaptain will sign his bookprior to the No. 2 Syracuse atRutgers men’s basketballgame at the Louis BrownAthletic Center.
The Glassboro, N.J.,native walked on to theRutgers football team as anundersized linebacker hisfreshman year beforebecoming team captain hissenior year.
THE SETON HALLMEN’S basketball team willparticipate in the 2012Basketball Hall of Fame Tip-Off Tournament.
The Pirates will play in theinvite-only event Nov. 16-18 atthe Mohegan Sun Arena inUncasville, Conn.
Ohio State, Washington,and Rhode Island are amongthe top teams in the field.Seton Hall is 18-8 this seasonunder second-year head coachKevin Willard.
FORMER ST. PATRICK(N.J.) star Kyrie Irvingreturned to action Wednesdayagainst the Indiana Pacersafter he sustained a concus-sion last week against theMiami Heat.
Irving suffered the injuryFeb. 7, when he fell and hithis head on Dwyane Wade’sknee. The rookie point guardmissed three games with thehead injury.
Irving is averaging 18.0points and 5.1 assists in hisfirst season with the ClevelandCavaliers.
THE TAMPA BAYRays signed manager JoeMaddon to a three-year con-tract extension through 2015.
The 58-year-old coach’sdeal was officially announcedWednesday at Tropicana Field.
Maddon is 495-477 in sixseasons with the club andled the Rays to three playoffappearances during histenure. He led the Rays totheir first World Series berthin 2008, when they lost tothe Philadelphia Phillies.
WORD ON THE STREET
RU aims for top-10 finish in Big EastBY ANTHONY RODRIGUEZ
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
After all of the hard workthis season, the competition theRutgers women’s track and field
t e a mh a sb e e nwai t ingfor isf i n a l l yc l o s e .
The Scarlet Knights travel tothe legendar y New YorkArmory in the Bronx this week-end to compete in the indoorBig East Championship.
“The main team goal is to bein the top 10,” said head coachJames Robinson. “We were last,last year indoors, so we’ve gotto make a jump from last to mid-dle of the conference firstbefore we can start getting to aposition where we could chal-lenge for a conference champi-onship. We are still a couple ofyears away from that, but if weget in the top 10 right now,that’s where we need to be.That’s our team goal.”
The Knights workedthroughout the season to maketheir goal a reality. Since presea-son training began in August,many athletes had their sights set on the Big EastChampionships,which will be thebiggest competi-tion of the indoorseason for theKnights.
“We always joke with Coach[Robinson] that it’sa never-ending box-ing match,” saidsophomore CorrynHurrington of teampractices. “It’s beena long thing, but it’sgood because weare reaping our benefits from allthe hard work.”
Rutgers’ hard work is alsothe main reason why the teamhas been able to accomplish somuch this season. The Knightsalready set multiple schoolrecords as well as many per-sonal-best times, all while see-ing more athletes qualify for
the Big East and ECACs. Onething is for sure: The Knightsdo not plan on slowing downanytime soon.
“It star ted slow, but there was an adjustment peri-
od,” said sprint-ers coach LouTomlinson. “Nowthey’re comingalong well. I amvery excited.”
The Knightsshould only con-tinue to improveas they movetoward the out-door season. Onthe active roster,the Knights havefew seniors andlargely boast
freshmen and sophomores. “I’m ver y happy with the
improvement we’ve seen,”Robinson said. “I’m very happywith the maturation of ouryouth — very happy with thefreshmen coming in and mak-ing their presence felt. We arever y excited. Ever ything isgoing well so far.”
Rutgers does not doubtnerves will be present with theheightened stage, but it does notanticipate those nerves playingany factor in its ability to run. Theteam has been waiting for themoment for quite some time.
“I am nervous, but I am justmore so excited,” Hurringtonsaid. “Any meet, I’ll alwayshave nerves and stuff, but onceyou get in, your endorphins areup, and your adrenaline ispumping, and you’re just readyto run. It’s time. It feels like amillion months of training forthis day.”
With the way the team per-formed throughout the season, itis reasonable to imagine theKnights can accomplish theirgoal of a top-10 finish.
“We just want to make a namefor ourselves,” Hurrington said.
The tournament runs fromSaturday to Sunday, which givesthe Knights less than a week between the Big EastChampionships and their nexttournament, the NYU FastrackInvitational, which begins Feb.24 in the Bronx.
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“It’s been a longthing, but it’s good because we are reaping
the benefits from all the hard work.”CORRYN HURRINGTON
Sophomore Sprinter
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Knights seek redemption following first loss of yearBY BRADLY DERECHAILO
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Doubles play was a big factorSunday in the Rutgers tennisteams’ loss to Princeton.
T h eS c a r l e tKnightss tar tedoff ten-tat ivelya n d
slowly against the Tigers,according to head coach BenBucca. Their first doubles pair ofsenior Jenifer Holzberg andsophomore Vanessa Petrinidropped the match, 8-1, whichset the tone for the Knights indoubles action.
Senior Morgan Ivey under-stands why Bucca’s focus thisweek in practice was on Rutgers’doubles play.
“We focused a lot on doublesand staying aggressive in dou-bles,” Ivey said. “He really wantsto make sure we stay on our frontfoot and stay going after the ballregardless of our opponent.”
The next opponent is Army,which arrives in the midst of asix-game winning streak. ForRutgers to start off strong, it hasto establish aggressive playfrom the first serve at theAtlantic Club.
That tone begins withHolzberg and Petrini, who havebeen strong early in the year inthe first position for the Knightsdespite their Sunday defeat.
The combination producedthree No. 1 doubles match wins,including an 8-2 victory againstLehigh in the season opener.
Sophomore Stefania Balasaand freshman Noor Judehbegin in the second doublesposition for Rutgers. The duoproduced the lone doubles vic-tory in the loss to Princeton,defeating Joan Cannon andKatherine Flanigan, 8-6.
While Army serves as anoth-er strong test in the beginning ofthe season, Bucca knows theteam’s success lies in a strong
start in doubles, which heemphasized all year.
“What we decided we neededto do was to work on playingaggressive and explosive doublesright from the start,” Bucca said.“We have been working on somestrategies and play patterns tofacilitate that.”
If doubles play serves as thelynchpin for Rutgers’ success, sin-gles action represents the consis-tency the team possesses to fallback on. In its three victories ofthe season, the Knights did notdrop a match to their opponents.
The Knights have experi-enced recent success againsttheir next opponent — they wontheir last three matchups againstthe Black Knights.
But Army presents a differentchallenge this year to Bucca’steam. It currently owns a 6-1record in spring action, includingvictories against Big East mem-bers Connecticut and Seton Hall.Ivey knows how competitive theBlack Knights will be when theyarrive in New Jersey.
“My past three years here wehave always beaten them, but theyare a very tough opponent,” Iveysaid. “They are relentless andtenacious out there. But I think weare equally as determined.”
Bucca chalks up Army’s suc-cess to the regimen it goesthrough in West Point, N.Y.
“They are well-coached, dis-ciplined, in shape, so we’ve hadvery close matches with them,”he said. “The dif ference is thatwe have been able to come outslightly ahead. We need tocome ready to play to put ourbest foot forward.”
Rutgers needs to continue thattrend over the weekend, when itbegins Big East Conference playSunday at Syracuse.
But for now, the goal is mak-ing sure Army does not handthe Knights their secondstraight loss.
“It’s going to be a great Big Eastmatch [against Syracuse],” Buccasaid. “We’re excited for it, but wefirst have to focus on Army.”
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Sophomore Stefania Balasa, pictured, and freshman Noor Judeh won, 8-6, on Sunday against theirdoubles opponents from Princeton. Their victory was the only one Rutgers produced in doubles.
HEAD COACHINTRODUCES
FIVE COMMITSRutgers head field hockey
coach Meredith Longannounced the addition
of fivep l a y -
ers Wednesday to the 2012roster, marking her firstrecruiting class since shetook over the program.
“At the start of the year weset out to build a programaround the best field hockeytalent in New Jersey,” Longsaid in a press release. “It isour goal to compete at thehighest level in the Big EastConference and nationally.”
To help the Scarlet Knights’struggling offense, Longbrought in forwards AlyssaBull and Nicole Imbriaco.
Bull accumulated 72 goalsand 111 assists, including 35goals and 33 assists in herfinal season. Imbriaco tallied68 goals and 52 assists.
Carley Hawkins and AliStever both bring high schoolexperience at back.
Katie Champion roundsout the recruiting class inthe midfield.
— Staff Report
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Entering the season, theRutgers women’s softball teamdid not have offensive issues on
paper, andits defense
was an upgrade from last year.Pitching was the biggest
question mark for the ScarletKnights, according to headcoach Jay Nelson.
Rutgers’ No. 1 starter, juniorAbbey Houston, was coming backafter leading the team with a 5.44earned run average and 52 strike-outs a season ago.
Senior Noelle Sisco wouldalso provide a veteran presenceto the staff.
But beyond them, it was notclear what the status of the groupwould be.
Sophomore Megan Williamswas still injured with no timetablefor her return, and freshman left-hander Alyssa Landrith had yet tobe tested.
So to get a little more clarity asto what his pitching staff wouldlook like, Nelson involved therookie lefty immediately.
In the second game of the sea-son-opening tournament inLafayette, La., Landrith faced No.24 Tulsa.
If he had the choice, Nelsonmight have sent a more experi-enced pitcher out to face theranked opponent, but his optionswere limited.
“It was her first game of hercollege career. That was a toughone,” he said “I would have had
Megan pitch in that game if shewas healthy, but Megan wasn’thealthy. So we threw Alyssa intothe fire in a way.”
But Landrith did not mind atall. She welcomed the challenge.Almost immediately, she noticedthe difference in hitters at thenext level.
“I was happy [Nelson] didit,” she said. “I know what toexpect now. It’s college — it’s alot dif ferent than it used to be.Teams are a lot better, hittersare a lot stronger.”
She could not blow hittersaway or fool them with movementlike she did at Vacaville HighSchool (Calif.).
“They’re a lot more disci-plined. They don’t always swingat junk pitches,” she said. “Youreally have to make it move. Aninch lower and it’s out of thepark, so you have to make sureit’s perfect.”
Tulsa proceeded to prove herright. The Hurricanes knocked in14 runs on 10 hits, not exactlywhat Landrith had in mind for herfirst collegiate appearance.
That meant she had to putmore practice time into her pitchmovement rather than the speed.
“You can throw it 90 mph, butif it’s straight down the middleof the plate, they’re going to hitit,” she said.
Despite the high run total,Nelson thought his rookie starterpitched well. She dug herself intoa hole early with four consecutivefree passes — two walks and twohit batters — but bounced backnicely, Nelson said.
He has more confidence inhis staff now than he has sincehe started at Rutgers, andLandrith is a big part of the rea-son why.
“I think this is the best staffwe’ve had since I’ve been here,”Nelson said. “I think Alyssa isgoing to be a really good pitcher.”
It is not only Nelson that has taken notice of the fresh-man’s potential.
Houston caught on to howvaluable of an addition Landrith ismoving forward. Part of it isthanks to the way the Vacaville,Calif., native carries herself.
“Her confidence [is impres-sive],” Houston said. “You canjust she tell she just believes inherself, and she has this swagthat she turns on like she’s betterthan the batter.”
Landrith has another advan-tage that makes her a valuableaddition to the team.
Many pitchers have their go-topitch, the one they resort to overand over, usually because it is theonly one they have real confi-dence in — but not Landrith.
“She can move the ball aroundthe plate,” Houston said. “Shedoesn’t have just one pitch thatworks for her. She has lots of dif-ferent pitches.”
Since college softball is nolonger foreign to her, Landrithcan continue to grow and adjustto the change in competition.
“It’s a totally different caliberof ball,” she said. “Now I’ve gotmy feet wet a little bit, and I knowwhat to expect, and I can workhard from here.”
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Junior Abbey Houston picked up her first win of the season Saturday, when she held Mississippi Valley State to two runs.
SOFTBALL
Tough Air Force program awaits RU at SyracuseBY VINNIE MANCUSO
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When the Rutgers men’slacrosse team travels toSyracuse, N.Y., on Saturday
to takeon AirForce, itdoes sowithouta scout-i n g
report of its opponent. While theScarlet Knights already have agame under their belt — a lossto No. 2 Duke — the matchup isAir Force’s season opener.
But head coach Brian Brechtknows the Knights can expectphysicality going against a mili-tary academy.
“Air Force is going to be oneof the most well-coached pro-grams both of fensively anddefensively that we are going toplay this year. At a service acad-emy, they are going to play hardand are going to be relentlesswith all the hustle plays andphysical on defense,” Brechtsaid. “You get into the flow of thegame and you see some thingsyou can’t prepare as much. Theone thing we can prepare for is ahard-fought game. We are goingto have to meet the physicalityand meet the hustle.”
But the Knights are nostrangers to a relentless, physi-cal game at in the early part ofthe season. In the season open-er against the Blue Devils,Rutgers saw its defense withstand a 51-28 shot advan-tage for Duke, with junior goalkeeper Rudy Butler mak-ing 16 saves.
But while the Knights even-tually fell to the No. 2 team inthe country, Brecht saw thegame as a bonding experiencefor the team.
Brecht also sees goingagainst the untested Air Forceas a plus.
“I do think that is somethingthat is an advantage,” he said.“No one is going to give us asmuch trouble as Duke. It is notonly with the game experiencedown in Duke but also the trav-
el down to Duke. We havealready traveled as a team andwe have already prepared as ateam. That does help.”
But again, the Knights know the Falcons’ physicalityof the Falcons will outweightheir lack of game experience.If the Knights cannot match AirForce’s physical nature, experi-ence likely means nothing.
“At the end of the day, it isabout execution during that 60-minute game,” Brecht said.“You can have all the experi-ence in the world traveling toaway games, but if we can’t runby someone, if we can’t catch
and throw, and if we can’t putthe ball in the back of the cage, that experience does notmean much.”
Yet with the Duke game outof the way, Brecht knows per-haps the hardest obstacle forhis team this year is behind it. To him, nothing but oppor-tunity awaits in the rest of the schedule.
“Certainly every year, everyteam wants to get that firstwin,” Brecht said. “Whetherit’s me, the coach in my firstyear at Rutgers, the seniorswho are in their last year or afreshman playing their firstyear of ball, we all want to getthe first one sooner rather than later.”
Now preparing for the secondtest, Brecht knows what he wantsto carry over from the Knights’season opener.
Playing the No. 2 team in thenation for 60 minutes was agood learning experience forthe Knights, but it did not resultin a win. To get the first win ofthe season, the Knights haveone goal.
They want to be as physical asa branch of the military.
“I thought we playedextremely hard [at Duke]. Ithought we had a lot of passion.There is no doubt we playedhard, and we did not backdown,” Brecht said. “Ourbiggest goal is no matter whowe are playing, if they aregoing to beat us, they are goingto have to earn it. We just haveto limit the turnovers, sharpensome things up and make it alot harder for teams to earnthose goals.”
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“Our biggest goal isno matter who weare playing, if they... beat us, they are
going to have to earn it.”BRIAN BRECHT
Head Coach
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Sophomore attackman Scott Klimchak and the Knights look fortheir first win of the season Sunday against Air Force.
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KNIGHTS DROP SIXTH GAME IN SEVEN TRIES WITH LOSS TO NO. 23 NOTRE DAME
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Head coach Mike Rice’s team lost its ninth Big East game Wednesday.
The Rutgers men’s basketball teamentered the Joyce Center on Wednesdayknowing No. 23 Notre Dame rarely loses its
composure there. The Scarlet
Knights forgot theirsinstead, falling, 71-53, despite a 5-pointhalftime deficit.
The Knights’ (12-14, 4-9) play in the sec-ond half worsened so much head coachMike Rice opted for senior walk-on CharlieRigoglioso for a stretch.
The loss dropped Rutgers to 1-6 in its lastseven games, winning only once sinceJanuary, when it beat Notre Dame (18-8, 10-3).
The Fighting Irish, meanwhile, contin-ue their upward spiral. They are winners
of seven in a row, losing last to theKnights on Jan. 16 at the Louis BrownAthletic Center.
But South Bend is a far more welcomesight for Irish head coach Mike Brey.Notre Dame lost only once there duringthe last two seasons.
Its junior center, Jack Cooley, showedwhy. Cooley controlled the interior,recording four offensive rebounds in theearly going.
Knights junior wing Dane Miller held hisown in the first 20 minutes, but Rutgers ulti-mately brought little to the table.
It failed to score at least 60 points for theseventh time this season.
While the Knights forced Notre Dameinto untimely turnovers in their first contest,
the Irish flipped the script in the rematch.The Knights gave the ball away 13 times andcommitted 26 personal fouls.
Notre Dame fouled half as much.It also went to the free throw line 32
times, while Rutgers took only 10 shots fromthe charity stripe.
Rice preached getting to the top eight inthe Big East standings earlier in the cam-paign. But his vision looks less and less like-ly with each game.
Only three teams in the conference havea worse record in league play than theKnights. They currently hold a tie withPittsburgh and Villanova, who endure downyears on their respective campuses.
— Tyler Barto
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Head coach C. Vivian Stringer’s teamcontinues to struggle in the Big East.
Rutgers preps for postseason play on Senior NightBY STEVEN MILLER
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
Rutgers head wrestling coach ScottGoodale long said senior 133-pounderMichael DeMarco is the type of wrestler
that embodies his program.
The Lyndhurst,N.J., native wentwinless in the statetournament as ahigh school senior,
walked on at Rutgers, then fought his wayinto the lineup for four years.
But he will be out of the lineup for SeniorNight tonight against Drexel at the CollegeAvenue Gym as he continues to recover froma torn lateral collateral ligament. This year,getting healthy for the postseason is whatGoodale’s program is all about.
“It would be awesome to wrestle, my lastchance ever to wrestle here,” DeMarco said.“But when it’s all said and done, I haven’tworked and came where I came from thepast five years to wrestle Senior Nightagainst Drexel … to get my hand raised andhobble off. It would mean more than any-thing to get to the national tournament andmake a run.”
So DeMarco will continue to practice thenext two weeks — he began wrestling livelate last week — in preparation for the EIWATournament, where Goodale estimates hewill need a top-six finish to qualify for theNCAA Championships.
“We just don’t want to push it becausethere’s no real reason to,” Goodale said.
Demarco’s absence leaves 141-pounderBilly Ashnault and heavyweight DanHopkins as the only seniors in the lineup.
Each has his own postseason aspirations.Ashnault is an All-American contender
— he is a two-time NCAA qualifier thatlast weekend took last year’s national
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ENRICO CABREDO / ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Senior 133-pounder Michael DeMarco controls his Brown opponent Jan. 6. DeMarco will sit tonight in the Knights’ home finaleagainst Drexel while an injured LCL and ruptured muscle heal. Fellow seniors Billy Ashnault and Daniel Hopkins will take the mat.
All the pieces were in place Wednesdayfor the Rutgers women’s basketball team to end its losing streak. The No. 21
Scarlet Knightswere fully healthy,and they passedthe stretch of theirschedule consist-ing of ranked
teams and those they historically had trou-ble against.
But it did not stop West Virginia fromextending Rutgers’ losing skid to five in its60-50 win.
For the first time since Jan. 24 againstDePaul, head coach C. Vivian Stringer start-ed junior guard Erica Wheeler.
Wheeler broke her slump with an 11-point effort that included a 4-for-4 showingfrom the free-throw line.
Her work was almost all of the Knights’production in from the charity stripe.Rutgers (17-8, 6-6) shot 5-for-9 from the line.
West Virginia (19-6, 9-3) forward AsyaBussie alone outshot the Knights, 7-for-11,from the line in her 15-point effort.
The Mountaineers also put the Knightsaway with 3-point shooting. A BrookeHampton 3-point shot broke the game openwith 2:41 to go, giving West Virginia a 6-point lead.
Junior center Monique Oliver remainedthe Knights’ mainstay of consistency witha 14-point effort to lead the team. Fifth-
year senior point guard Khadijah Rushdanalso kept the Knights in the game with 13points and a team-leading nine reboundsand six assists.
Freshman forward Christa Evans earnedher first career start. Veterans surroundedher on the court. Stringer kept her in thegame for 27 minutes, but Evans fouled out.
Senior forward April Sykes received hersecond start in a row after beginning thepast two games on the bench. The Starkville,Miss., native partly broke her scoring slumpwith a 10-point effort.
Rutgers hopes to end its slump Saturday,when it travels to Villanova.
— Josh Bakan
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