“People were upset aboutthe amusement decision andthe amount they paid to haveher perform, [so] the senatoris trying to create better allo-cations in the future,” saidSarah Brennan, legislativeaide to Kyrillos.

Brennan said people wereupset because the money peo-ple were paying for Polizzicould have gone toward high-er education, especially intoday’s economy.

“I don’t think he’s againststudents having entertain-ment but rather, this is a callfor more transparency,” shesaid. “It’s not just for enter-tainment like Snooki — we’reusing her as an examplebecause it was controversial.

presence as well as loud chants fromthose left behind spurred McCormick tostep outside.

“Now I know you want me to say thatthere will not be a tuition increase nextyear. I cannot say that, because … thestate appropriation that Gov. [Chris]Christie has set for Rutgers next year isa level budget. That’s better than a cut,”he said to the crowd.

McCormick expressed support forthe cause that brought everyone togeth-er and said he is frequently in Trentonlobbying for the things they demanded.

“I’m doing my share to communicatethese needs to our elected officials. AndI’m really proud of you for being willing

to do yours,” he said. “Otherwise, togeth-er we can’t keep Rutgers public, which isexactly what we should be doing.”

He encouraged the crowd to bringtheir issue to the state’s capital them-selves, arguing that their appearance asconstituents would send a stronger mes-sage to legislators.

After McCormick’s response, ralliersheaded back to where their marchbegan in the morning — on the steps ofBrower Commons on the CollegeAvenue campus.

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Growing up, Rachel Maddow was heavily involvedin social activism and did not see herself getting intonews media until her friends dared her to walk-on for aradio show.

Maddow, television host and political commentator,engaged about 600 attendees in an open dialogue yester-day morning about “The Rachel Maddow Show” and herviews on politics and the media at an Eagleton Institute ofPolitics’ “It’s ALL Politics” speaker series event held yes-terday in the Nicholas Music Center on Douglass campus.

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Rachel Maddow of MSNBC’s “The Rachel MaddowShow” speaks yesterday to about 600 people.

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Snooki visit inspiresbill in NJ senateBY ANASTASIA MILLICKER

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Following the controversysurrounding Nicole “Snooki”Polizzi’s comedy show at theUniversity on March 31, Sen.Joseph Kyrillos Jr., R-Monmouth/Middlesex, will pro-pose a bill that would give stu-dents a choice to pay their stu-dent fees at public universities.

“Mandatory fees tacked onstudent tuition bills were usedto pay a $32,000 speaking feeto a degenerate reality televi-sion star who offers neitheruseful advice nor any appre-ciable talents,” Kyrillos said ina statement.

In the statement, Kyrillos sug-gests implementing a system ofchecks and balances so students’fees do not go to waste.

‘Walk into Action’ draws in hundreds

Nicole Lee, president of TransAfrica Forum, presents yesterday in Civic Square in NewBrunswick on the humanitarian assistance given to the victims of the earthquake in Haiti.The Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy sponsored the event.

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information and prepare foraccounting through an equationlaid out on a tri-fold postercalled “Accounting for yourFuture,” said Ashley Yang, aRutgers Business GoverningAssociation member.

“The accounting equation isassets equals liability plusstock holder’s equity,” saidYang, a Rutgers BusinessSchool junior. “Assets are goingto be your future and then lia-bility is like your responsibili-ties, and stockholder’s equity isyour experience. Your futureequals your responsibilitiesplus your experiences.”

Aside from learning aboutaccounting, the table will alsohave a jar full of coins, and stu-dents will have to guess theamount of coins in it to possiblywin a prize.

The finance table will have astock ticker game where stu-dents can decide whether or notthey should invest in popularcompanies that are householdnames, said Ceida Plasencia, aRutgers Business GoverningAssociation member.

“We have companies so peoplecan learn more about other typesof products that the companiesoffer,” said Plasencia, a RutgersBusiness School junior. “They’llhave to mix and match the stockticker to the company and learnabout whether that’s the companyto invest in or not.”

Students interested in market-ing can learn about brandingthrough games and trivia at themarketing table.

“We’re doing things like matchthe slogan to the brand, matchthe characters with the brand,

blindfold people and have themstick their hands into stuff andhave them figure out what’s whatbased on their sense of touch,”said Nina Dudhale, a School ofArts and Sciences senior andRutgers Business GoverningAssociation member.

At the management table, stu-dents will have the chance todevelop their management abili-ties by discovering what kind ofleadership qualities they havethrough a personal question-naire, said Shuparna Kareem, aRutgers Business GoverningAssociation member.

“People can come to our tableand find out what their leadershipstyle is,” said Kareem, a RutgersBusiness School senior. “Thereare 20 questions — based on thenumber of points that they have,they have a certain task identityand relationship identity.”

The supply chain table willshow students the importance ofbeing on time and meeting adeadline through the process ofputting together a s’more, saidMay Chiu, a Rutgers BusinessGoverning Association member.

Graham crackers, Hersheychocolate bars and marshmal-lows will be located at a dif fer-ent distributor, where studentsneed to answer a question, shesaid. Students will move fromone distributor to another, thento a retailer and finally to the customers.

“They’ll have to reach thatpoint by a certain time, so if theyget questions wrong they haveto stay in the same place,” saidChiu, a Rutgers Business Schooljunior. “If they miss that dead-line, then they can’t invest intheir s’mores.”

The Rutgers BusinessGoverning Association chose tohold tables on the businessschool’s majors in the hopes ofeducating students about busi-ness as something they canpotentially be a part of,Plasencia said.

“We want people to learnabout the respective studentorganizations we have on cam-pus and for students to learnabout the majors so they can fig-ure out if that’s something theywant to do,” she said.

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The Rutgers BusinessGoverning Association will investits effort in hosting five tablescorresponding to the majors theschool offers on April 30 at thisyear’s Rutgers Day.

Each of its tables on Buschcampus will provide informationabout the accounting, marketing,management and global busi-ness, finance and supply chainand marketing science majors,while giving students a chance toask questions they may have about business, saidNiloufar Mahgerefteh, presidentof the Rutgers BusinessGoverning Association.

“They will get a generalunderstanding of what eachaspect of business is and howthey can relate it to their every-day lives,” said Mahgerefteh, aSchool of Arts and Sciences sen-ior. “We’re also there to answerquestions about the RutgersBusiness School.”

At the accounting table, stu-dents will receive background

“[Students] will get a general

understanding of ...how they can relate[business] to their

everyday lives.”NILOUFAR MAHGEREFTEH

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Rutgers Day will feature activities and boothsfrom more than 500 University organizations onApril 30 spread across Busch, Cook/Douglassand the College Avenue campuses.

Habitat For Humanity volunteers will demon-strate how to command the most power and accu-racy with a hammer and critique those who wishto try on the College Avenue campus, accordingto the Rutgers Day schedule of events.

Alternative Breaks will give visitors an idea of aday in the life of a person living below the poverty

line at its station on College Avenue, along withinformation on how poverty affects everyone,especially in New Jersey.

Rutgers Student Bakers and Rutgers AgainstHunger will have cupcake decorating on Busch cam-pus, with proceeds from donations going to Share OurStrength’s Great American Bake Sale and RutgersAgainst Hunger. Those on a diet can donate a bakedgood to a homeless shelter in New Brunswick.

The Food Science Club will be offering home-made ice cream on Cook/Douglass, where the

Society of Animal Science will also offer tours ofthe Cook farm and free refreshments.

The A For Ef fort Improv Comedy Troupewill have improv games modeled after “Whose Line is it Anyway?” on the College Avenue campus.

The University’s a capella groups DeepTreble and OrphanSporks will move around allthree campuses throughout the day.

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they have to but because theycan,” she said.

Before signing on withMSNBC, Maddow said she madesure she was given complete edi-torial freedom.

“I don’t want to be told that Ican’t cover something,” she said. “Idon’t want to be told that I have tocover something, and I don’t wantyou to tell me how to cover it.”

A self-described “liberal withesoteric policy interests,”Maddow said while she has apoint of view and an opinion, shedoes not use her show to pro-mote her own agenda.

As an openly gay newsanchor, Maddow said she issometimes accused of using hershow as a platform to advocategay issues.

“Being openly gay may under-cut any political impact of sympa-thetic coverage we give to gaypolitical issues because I thinkpeople assume I’m only coveringit because I’m gay,” she said.

Maddow admitted she and herstaff are notorious for making last-minute decisions, sometimes evenwhile in the middle of the show.

“If I change my mind up untilthe time we are on the air, and wewill have guests sitting in the chairfor the third block of the show[who already arrived on set], …during the first block of the show,we’ll send them home. That’s howbad I am at my job,” she said.

Despite her assertive and sar-castic television persona,Maddow revealed she is notalways that way off screen.

Some Muslim students and groups held tables to provide the University community with the chance to learn about Muslimreligion and culture. The event, held for Islam Awareness Week,will run outside Brower Commons on the College Avenue campusuntil Friday and features a variety of speakers.

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“I am a total grump and adepressive. You’re not going tobelieve this about me, but it’s true,”she said. “If the world has a silverlining, I am the deep, dark cloudwithin it. But I do love my job.”

Maddow said while she doesnot understand the curiosity thepublic has with the RepublicanParty and the tea party move-ment, she is fascinated with con-servative politics.

“Very little attention is paid tothe Republican Party’s future,”she said. “Republicans have avery, very, very wrong view onhow to both get and keep politicalpower that I think is driven by theconservative movement. [But]the conservative movement andthe Republican Party are two sep-arate things.”

Maddow said Pakistan is thenation the United States shouldbe most concerned with.

“I think we have a saturationfor international news, and wehave so many wars all the timethat we have a sort of responsibil-ity and an inclination to follow thewar,” she said. “The war inPakistan is secret, so it’s harderto pay attention to.”

Maddow said Pakistan is themost anti-American place in theworld, despite the billions of dol-lars the United States gives thecountry to essentially expeditethe possibility of a nuclear warwith India.

“It is a disaster,” she said. “It’snot a disaster waiting to happen,it’s an extant disaster unfoldingfor the last 10 years, and we can’tget our heads around it.”

While she would like todraw more American attentionto the situation in Pakistan,Maddow said it could be dif fi-cult to make Pakistan resonate

among all of the United States’other foreign obligations.

“Rachel Maddow is somebodywho is very popular, a little bitcontroversial and certainly talksabout politics in a particular way.We thought she was an excitingaddition to our program,” saidKathy Kleeman, senior communi-cations officer at the EagletonInstitute of Politics.

The Eagleton Institute ofPolitics invited Maddow throughUniversity alumnus Julia Nutter,who interned with Maddow hersenior year and is now the pro-duction assistant on “The RachelMaddow Show,” she said.

“[Maddow] doesn’t go out anddo a lot of speaking, so we werefortunate to be able to have thatconnection,” she said.

Kleeman attributed the lowstudent turnout to the fact thatMaddow could only speak in themorning since “The RachelMaddow Show” is at 9 p.m. week-days on MSNBC.

“We [also] learned that RachelMaddow’s demographic skews alittle bit old,” she said.

Mike Tomaszewicz, aUniversity alumnus, attended theevent because he is an avid fol-lower of Maddow’s show.

“I like the fact that we’re lis-tening to somebody who’s aRhodes Scholar, somebody whohas a Ph.D in political science,”he said.

Meredith Kalman ofPiscataway, N.J., said she believesMaddow provides a perspectiveno other news outlet provides.

“I watch Rachel’s show everyday, and I just think she talksabout the things that nobody elsetalks about, the things that peopleignore and don’t actually go outand advocate about,” she said.

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Students start onlinegreek aparrel company

BY ADONNIS GARVINCONTRIBUTING WRITER

With the continuing concernof unemployment rates in thecountry, some students wereinspired to find alternative waysto earn a living after college.

School of Arts and Sciencessophomore Anik Chadha andRutgers Business School first-year student Bill Hendricksonsaid they decided to take theentrepreneurial route.

Chadha and Hendricksonlaunched getyourgreek.com, awebsite specializing in greek appar-el to students at the University, inFebruary even though plans for itbegan last semester.

“We basically distribute cloth-ing to anyone who needs it,”Hendrickson said. “We special-ize in greek attire and have ourown website.”

Although the team has an officelocated on 46 Bayard St. in NewBrunswick, the focus remains onthe website, Chadha said.

“We have a team of web design-ers and everything. We have finalsay of how it operates,” he said.

With the main company head-ed in New York City, Chadha andHendrickson handle schools allthroughout central New Jersey.

“We’re in charge of sales andmarketing for the central Jerseydivision,” Chadha said. “In addi-tion to the University, we serveschools like [The College of NewJersey] and Rowan [University].”

Neither Chadha norHendrickson is part of a greekorganization, but they saw frater-nity and sorority involvement asan opportunity to create a market.

“I saw people were paying highprices and there wasn’t muchlocal competition. So I started sup-plying one fraternity here atRutgers, Pi Kappa Alpha, and ittook off from there,” Chadha said.

Hendrickson said getyour-greek.com prides itself on givingdiscounts to students withoutsacrificing quality and service.

“We’re all about speed of serv-ice, price and personality,” he said.

Even with competing greekapparel stores in the area,Chadha and Hendrickson saidthey believe being students

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themselves gives them an advan-tage, as other students in thecommunity can relate to them.

“We’re not business gurus oranything. I like to party a lot andhave a good time and so does Anik,”Hendrickson said. “Basically, we’renormal Rutgers students who sellquality products for less money andwith more efficiency.”

Despite their young age, bothChadha and Hendrickson saidthey understand their marketand products.

Eugene Veltman, Pi KappaAlpha president, said he is thank-ful for the company’s low prices.

“Prices in the New Brunswickarea were expensive and[Chadha’s] were significantlycheaper,” said Veltman, a School ofArts and Sciences junior. “So westarted doing orders and now webasically go to him for everything.”

From this initial businessarrangement, Veltman said hewould recommend the businessto anybody.

“It’s quick, local and inexpen-sive, but most importantly reli-able,” he said.

As word about the companyspreads throughout the campus,Oluwole Adeyomoye, a memberof Phi Beta Sigma fraternity,liked the idea of a student-rungreek apparel company.

“I think it’s cool that studentswho go to school here run it,” saidAdeyomoye, a School of Arts andSciences junior. “Even though I’venever brought from there, I couldsee myself doing so in the future.”

Contrary to stories of collegeentrepreneurs quitting school tobuild their company, like BillGates of Microsoft and MarkZuckerberg of Facebook, thisbusiness pair said they intend tofinish school.

“I just want to see where thecompany will take me, though I’mnot sure what yet,” Chadha said.

Getyourgreek.com offersthem a chance to explore theiroptions while still remaining inschool, Hendrickson said.

“School is always a focus, but wewant to expand, expand, expand,”he said. “We’re a few regular stu-dents whose mission is to providequality clothing to the Universitycommunity, it’s as simple as that.”

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The crowd of supporters for “Walk into

Action” met yesterday on the steps of

Brower Commons on the College Avenue

campus, grew in size when it later moved to

Voorhees Mall and then made its way to Old

Queens campus to bring their message to

University President Richard L. McCormick.

Hundreds of students, faculty and other

supporters came to protest tuition hikes and

declining state aid to higher education.

Jersey campaign, said studentlabor and coalition need justice.

“We need to give voice to bet-ter priorities, investing in thingsin higher education,” Duffeysaid. “The unions have made sac-rifices, but the sacrifices fromauthority [members] are yet tobe seen.”

Candice Amich, a graduatestudent in the English depart-ment, said McCormick did nothonor teaching assistants’ eightpercent raise per year but insteadfroze the budget.

“He froze the budget andour wages, yet they still man-age to hire a new vice presi-dent and directors and such,”Amich said.

Gary Rhoades, AAUP generalsecretary, said although thecrowd was small at the first rallyin the morning, students acrossthe nation are standing up forpublic education.

“One thing we need to getstraight — the state is not broke,the country is not broke, theUniversity is not broke, the onlything that’s broken is the orderof priorities,” Rhoades said.

Rhoades said the future liesin today’s youth, and studentsmust make the first steptoward change.

Student loan debt is higherthan credit card debt nationwide,which is a sign that something iswrong, said RUSA LegislativeChair Dong Gu Doon.

“There’s a crisis of prioritiesin New Jersey. We have hopethough,” Doon said. “StatewideNJUS Day of Action is where

four-year public universitiesare standing together for higher education.”

Some students, like School ofArts and Sciences senior AlexHoward, were encouraged toshow up to the rally by their pro-fessors and instructors.

“I do believe that there’s a lotof injustice going on,” Howardsaid. “I think it’s an importantthing for people to stand up,even if they don’t know exactlywhere they stand becausewhat’s going on right now, it’skind of a travesty.”

But Amanda Smith, a Schoolof Arts and Sciences senior,attended the rally with her 14-year-old sister Elizabeth in mind.

“I felt obligated to comebecause I’m graduating with$80,000 worth of debt, and I real-ly hope that my littler sister does-n’t have to pay $100,000 to gohere,” Smith said.

Daphney Dupervil, a School ofArts and Sciences senior, waspresent to fight for more attentionto the Equal Opportunity Fund(EOF), a program that helpsthose from under privilegedneighborhoods pay for college.

“EOF is a dying population.I’m a graduating senior and[it’s] only because of EOF,” shesaid. “I’ve come from ElizabethHigh School. We have theworst high school in the state.So graduating in four years is abig accomplishment.”

While McCormick asked stu-dents to show up in Trenton forthe cause, Dupervil suggestedthat the University providebuses to bring students over

“Take us to Trenton with you,that’s what I call trying,” shesaid, in response toMcCormick’s address.

Larry Romsted, a professorin the Department ofChemistry, was one of many fac-ulty members who came toshow their support.

“I think public universitiesare being turned into privateschools by essentially increasingtuition all the time … andthey’ve been cutting down theamount of money that’s beencoming from the state. I’magainst it,” he said.

As a person who taught atthe University for about 30years, Romsted has seen howthe patterns of higher educationfunding increased class size butalso decreased support staff.

“Undergraduate organicchemistry … has an enrollmentof 1,000 students in it. It’s threelectures,” he said. “There are …recitations associated withthose, which have as much as30 or 40 students in them.They’re now up to being reallyhuge recitations.”

Still, Romsted considers therally — based on the turnout — abeginning, not an end, since it isfighting against a system that hasbeen established long ago.

“We’re talking about the pos-sibility of resisting decades ofthis kind of stuff. That’s a bigdeal, not a little deal,” he said.“People have to think about whatit means to give up on publicschools and mostly what itmeans is that lower income peo-ple can’t afford it anymore.”

John Connelly, an NJUSmember, was happy with theturnout and feels the organiza-tion could only build a largecrowd to indicate how voicelessstudents feel.

“The idea of a movement isto keep moving. So we have tokeep building, we have to keeplobbying the state House. Wehave to keep talking to admin-istrators here on campus aboutstudent needs,” he said. “Thefact that so many studentsshowed up here today impliesthat so many students feel voiceless.”

Connelly, a School of Artsand Sciences sophomore, saidit is up to students to make a change.

“It’s our job as citizens, asstudents here at Rutgers, tohelp our administration and ourelected of ficials do the rightthing because they have a lot ofimpetus not to do the rightthing,” he said. “We have toremind them there is a verygood reason to do what’s goodfor students.”

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(AAUP) and the University com-munity came forward with griev-ances because of the past cuts tothe higher education budget.

John Aspray, NJUS co-founder, said students need avoice in the decision-makingprocess here at the University.

“New Jersey is experiencinga crisis in leadership and priori-ties when it comes to highereducation, and we need to takeback higher education,” saidAspray, a School of Arts andSciences senior.

The N.J. government funds30 percent of higher educationin the state and 20 percent of theUniversity’s budget, saidRichard Moser, a senior staffrepresentative from RutgersCouncil of AAUP Chapters.

“Where is money going?”Moser asked the crowd.

School of Arts and Sciencesjunior Richard Garzon spoke onbehalf of the RutgersUniversity Students AgainstSweatshops (RUSAS) about thetroubles of students with finan-cial trouble at the University.

“The true crisis here is notof money but rather a crisis ofpriority,” he said. “Studentsgraduate college with an average of $20,000 in studentloan debts.”

Robert Duffey, a representa-tive for Better Choices for New

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“We’re talking aboutthe possibility

of resisting decades of this kind of stuff.”

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spent until the end of the year,”she said.

Castillo said if the studentfees become an option on termbills, like the New Jersey PublicInterest Research Group, itwould not only hurt RUPA butthe more than 300 organiza-tions that receive funding fromRUSA allocations.

School of Arts and Sciencessophomore Rachel Hochhausersaid she believes student feesshould be optional because theygo toward leisure activitiesinstead of education.

“If it is something education-al, it should be mandatory, but ifit’s not, then it should be option-al,” Hochhauser said. “I don’tagree with the whole Snookicoming to campus and wouldhave rather opted out of paying

for that event.”W a n H u i

Guan, a RutgersBusiness Schoolfirst-year stu-dent, said if thestudent feeswere lowered, itwould be morebeneficial thanmandating them.

“I think theyshould be option-al because theyforce people topay the fees evenif they don’t

agree with the programming,”Guan said.

Zaid Gallo, a Rutgers Schoolof Business first-year student,said the per-semester fee is afair price to pay to bring bigartists at Rutgersfest.

“That money goes towardgetting big names to the festi-val,” Gallo said. “We get 3OH!3rather than a no-name DJ.Although I’m not a huge fan ofPitbull, I’d rather have himthan DJ Fuzzy-Fuzzy, so I think the student fees shouldstay mandatory.”

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[I believe he is] just calling formore transparency.”

More information on the billwill become available in thecoming weeks, as it is still beingdrafted, Brennan said.

Ana Castillo, president ofthe Rutgers UniversityProgramming Association(RUPA), said the bill would notonly hurt RUPA but every stu-dent organization on campus.

Castillo, a School of Artsand Sciences senior, said theoption of paying student feeswould be dif ficult to imple-ment, as it would be impossibleto keep track ofwho paid.

“We held alecture lastnight with anauthor, so withthe bill, wewould need acomplete list ofwho paid theirstudent fees andwho didn’t,” shesaid. “What hap-pens if they did-n’t pay their stu-dent fees andwanted toattend the event? What wouldwe do then?”

Another option brought up byseveral sources, including theRutgers University StudentAssembly (RUSA), was publish-ing the reports online, butCastillo said the problem withthat is some people might not befamiliar with the expenditures.

“None of our expenses arehidden and can be found, butsending out a general reportwould be difficult because …things can change, and we don’tknow how much we actually

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Sen. Joseph Kyrillos Jr., R-Monmouth/Middlesex, aims to propose a bill that would make student fees optional for public universities.

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“If it is somethingeducational, it should

be mandatory but if it’s not, then it should be optional.”

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Poll shows divide over charter school expansion BY MORGAN MURRELL

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

An Eagleton Institute of Politicspoll conducted last Thursday foundN.J. voters closely divided onwhether charter schools should be expanded.

Poll results show that while 44percent of voters expressedapproval for charter schoolexpansion, another 42 percentvoiced concern.

Charter schools are publiclyfunded tuition-free schools ofchoice that operate freely fromregulations of traditional publicschools and often times specializein particular curriculums such asmathematics or science.

People who showed their sup-port for charter school expan-sion called public school par-ents, educators and facilitiesinefficient, said Ruth Mandel,

director of the Eagleton Instituteof Politics.

“[People who support charterschools] want an alternative ofquality education,” she said. “Thepublic school argument, on theother hand, is if you want toincrease the educational perform-ance in public schools then theresources should stay in the tra-ditional public schools.”

Parental and teacher dissatis-faction of traditional publicschools is primarily due to educa-tional reasons including largeclass sizes, poor safety regula-tions and low academic stan-dards, according to uscharter-schools.org.

Although charter schools donot serve all students, especiallythose with physical and learningdisabilities, they still provide amore specialized education sys-tem that some people prefer, said

David Redlawsk, director of theEagleton Center for PublicInterest Polling.

“Founders generally establishcharter schools for three reasons— to realize an educationalvision, self-government and toserve a special population in thecommunity, although most char-ter schools do not apply to all chil-dren’s needs,” he said.

Votes from the African-American population tended tobe positive with the poll for anincrease in char ter schoolsdespite past negative responsestoward other reforms,Redlawsk said.

Mandel said many AfricanAmericans believe money takenfrom public schools and generat-ed into new charter schoolswould bring a positive outcome.

“There are so many urbanareas with a predominantly

minority population where publicschools have not been perform-ing up to par, which ultimatelyaffects the future of the studentsliving in these areas,” she said.

Redlawsk said he found thisfact enlightening.

“One of the most interestingfindings is that blacks in urbanareas are very positive inresponding toward the idea andwhites tend to have a negativeresponse,” he said.

Opponents of charter schoolexpansion like Dawn Hiltner,New Jersey EducationAssociation (NJEA) spokesper-son, criticized Gov. ChrisChristie’s possible increasedfunding for charter schools inthe state.

“It’s all a part of the gover-nor’s agenda. He really wants toturn education into a businessmodel — to make teaching a

competition instead of glorifyinga teacher’s ability and skills,”she said.

The vote for an increase incharter schools also dependson the enrollment system,known as a lotter y, which randomly selects potential stu-dent applications and generatesthe school’s waiting list,Redlawsk said.

The lottery-based admissionhas caused controversy becauseof the children who do not getchosen and are left to chooseanother ultimatum, he said.

“The reason the lottery existsis because there are more stu-dents and families who want toget in … more schools equalmore spaces,” Redlawsk said.

Christie has not yet finalizedthe decision to increase aid and expand charter schools inNew Jersey.

Local New Brunswick nonprofit organization coLAB Arts will host “Still Segues” to showcase movement in photography. The organization,located on Bayard Street, also features dance and theater shows as well as movie premieres.

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Photo exhibit to depict movementBY LIZ TAYLOR

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Collaborative Arts (coLABArts), a nonprofit New Brunswickorganization that features danceperformances, art workshops andfilm screenings, will dedicate thismonth toward artistic movementin photography.

The organization will debut itsfree, two-month-long exhibition,“Still Segues,” on April 22, whichwill feature emerging artists fromthe Rutgers Photography Club,said Theresa Francisco, co-curatorof the exhibition.

The opening will run from 7 to10 p.m., at the coLAB Arts head-quarters on the Third Floor of 49Bayard St., in downtown NewBrunswick, she said. As of now,the exhibition’s end date has notbeen fixed, but it will run throughthe beginning of May.

For those who miss the open-ing of the exhibition, coLAB Artswill also hold a “Second-LookReception” a week later on April29, Francisco said. Both nightswill feature wine and food as wellas music by University lab techni-

cian Alex Denman-Brice andUniversity students Jeff Deppaand Damian Kulikowski.

The exhibition consists of theworks of seven University stu-dents from the RutgersPhotography Club who sought tocapture the ideas of movementand motion through their photo-graphs, she said.

Because the student photogra-phers have different majors,Francisco said they would bringunique perspectives of motion totheir works.

“The exhibition is about move-ment and motion through thebody, through activity, throughnature, through different cameratechniques, and one artist focus-es on the absence of motion,showing a world without move-ment,” Francisco said.

Skyla Pojednic, co-curator of theexhibition, will feature some of herown work in “Still Segues.” coLABArts chose the theme of movementfor the exhibition because it wasalready a common factor in manyof the submitted photos.

“Movement comes from thephoto by allowing for your eye to

physically move across the imagebecause of how lines were [orweren’t] juxtaposed by the sub-ject of the photo itself,” saidPojednic, president of theRutgers Photography Club.

Some of the photos focus onthe movement of humans, whileother photos focus on movementin nature, such as shots of haloarcs around the sun or shots thatinvolve the Earth’s physical rota-tion, said Pojednic, a School ofArts and Sciences junior.

The Rutgers PhotographyClub has been preparing for the“Still Segues” exhibition sinceFebruary, she said. Although thephotos in the exhibition share acommon theme of movement, thesubject of the photos varies,reflecting the photographers’ dif-ferent backgrounds and interests.

Dan Swern, one of thefounders of coLAB Arts in the fallof 2007, said his organization fos-ters a unique art scene in NewBrunswick by promoting andexhibiting emerging local artists.

“We create events for visualartists, dance artists and theaterartists,” said Swern, a Rutgers

College alumnus. “Our focus is inpresenting emerging artists —young artists specifically — intro-ducing them to the NewBrunswick and Rutgers communi-ty by providing them with a publicplace for their work to be seen.”

Pojednic said coLAB Artshelps the Rutgers PhotographyClub because it allows the club toexhibit their photos for a longperiod of time.

Francisco said coLAB Artshopes to further develop anunderground art culture in NewBrunswick that attracts artistsand art enthusiasts and is a viablealternative to the arts communityin New York City.

“We want to do outreach tobring in all types of artists thatare in the neighborhood,” shesaid. “We want people who don’tknow where to go to come to usso we get a foundation for artiststo help them move up in the arts.”

Francisco said coLAB Arts notonly exhibits visual arts but alsofeatures events with poetry, the-ater, film, comedy and differentkinds of writing that are free andopen to the public.

Superior Court JudgeBradley Ferencz ruled yester-day that 25 text messages sentbetween five teenagersaccused of beating to death 49-year-old Old Bridge residentDivyendu Sinha can be used incourt as evidence followingProsecutor ChristopherKuberiet’s motion.

The teenagers, ChristopherConway, 17, Julian Daley, 16,Cash Johnson, 17, StevenContreras, 17, and ChristianTinli, 18, allegedly beat Sinhato death the evening of June25, 2010 while Sinha was walk-ing with his wife and two sons,according to an nj.com article.

Many of the text messagesthat will be used in court wereexchanged about 10 minutesafter the incident betweenConway and Daley, whobragged about their roles inthe incident.

Ferencz said he would alsoallow several Facebook entriesto be used against theteenagers, according to thearticle. The texts andFacebook messages describedwhat the boys should tell thepolice if ever caught.

In response to Ferencz’sdecision, Conway’s attorneyCharles Uliano and Daley’sattorney Mitchell Ansell, said10 of the messages betweenConway and Daley were noth-ing more than teenagers brag-ging and should not be used asevidence of conspiracy.

“It’s boasting by teenagersabout an event that hadalready taken place,” Ulianosaid in the article.

Ferencz reserved a deci-sion on nine of the 10 mes-sages referred to by Uliano,and said he does not believethe nine messages are reasonenough to charge fiveteenagers of conspiracy,according to the article.

Authorities determined thatall five teenagers were underthe influence of alcohol at thetime of the incident.

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16 Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commissionand the Folklife Program for New Jersey will present thePalaspas: Traditional Filipino Palm Weaving Workshopwith Samahan Cultural Heritage, Eastern Seaboard, Inc.at East Jersey Olde Towne Village at 1050 River Rd. inPiscataway from 2 to 3:30 p.m. The workshop is offeredfree of charge but advanced registration is required.Attendees will learn how to create special folk craft. Toregister, please contact the commission at (732) 745-4489or 711 via the New Jersey Relay Service.

Historically Black College and Universities College Fair,Inc. will host a “Knowledge is Power Community Walk.”The walk begins at 8 a.m., and ends at noon in BuccleuchPark. The event is rain or shine with a minimum of $20registration fee for individuals. The money raised will gotoward funding educational programs to inform studentsabout financial aid, applying to college and providingscholarships. For more information, visit hbcu-cfnj.com/KIPW.html.

Raíces Cultural Center Ensemble will demonstrateparts of the Yoruba religion through Orisha rhythms,dances, and chants. The ensemble will perform at theHub City Teen Center at 411 Joyce Kilmer Ave. from 4to 7 p.m., Orisha drum, dances and song are a tribute toforces of nature and demonstrate the belief of the inter-relationship of the physical and spiritual oneness of allthings. Admission is free. Attendees will view clips fromthe film “Rumba en Havana con Yoruba Andabo” anddiscuss music, dance, history and evolution of the tra-dition. For more information, please visit raicescultur-alcenter.org/film_club_raices_110416.html.

FlyHigh Entertainment presents City of Stars, featuringa special performance by Markice “Kesan” Moore. Theconcert will be from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., at New BrunswickHigh School on 1000 Somerset St. Part of the proceedswill be donated to a local charity. Tickets cost $10 to $15.For more information, contact Brando at (201) 640-6794or events@flyhighent.com

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17 Gerald Steichen will conduct a musical salute to JohnWilliams, writer of movie music soundtracks including“Jaws,” “Star Wars”, and “Schindler’s List,” at 3 p.m., atthe State Theatre at 15 Livingston Ave. Tickets will rangefrom $20 to $65 with group discounts available forgroups of 12 people or more. For more information, visitstatetheatrenj.org.

14 Crossroads Theatre will host “A Raisin in the Sun” byLorraine Hansberry through May 1 with performancesat 8 p.m. and with Thursday, Friday, Saturday andSunday matinees. Marshall Jones, Crossroads-producingartistic director will be directing the performances.Tickets cost $50 and may be purchased online or at theirbox office at 7 Livingston Ave. For more, visit crossroad-stheatrecompany.org.

15 New Brunswick Public Library is hosting a two-day booksale, selling thousands of books along with videos, CDs,DVDs and more. The Friends of the Library book salewill be in the Carl T. Valenti Community Room April 15from 1 to 7 p.m., and April 16 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Formore information on the event, please visitnbfpl.org/friends.html.

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22 CoLAB Arts, a New Brunswick nonprofit organizationwill open its photography exhibit “Still Segues” at theirheadquarters on the third floor of 48 Bayard St. Theexhibit will feature photographic collections from arange of photographers, including students from the RUPhotography Club. The theme of the workshop is move-ment, and photographers will showcase ideas of motionin the photos. The exhibit will focus on movement inhumans as well as in nature. Photographers will use theirunique backgrounds to differentiate their galleries fromone another. The exhibit, which will run from 7 to 9 p.m.,is free and open to all members of the public and will con-tinue until at least the beginning of May. For more infor-mation on the artists and “Still Segues,” please checkcolab-arts.org or facebook.com/colabarts.

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Engineers to enter alternative fuel cars in competitionBY TABISH TALIB

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The American Institute ofChemical Engineers’ (AIChE)University chapter expects towin first place in the nationalChem-E-Car competition thisfall after winning fourth lastweekend at the regional levelat Penn State University.

“We’re going for gold, andwe’re going to win,” saidIbrahim Akaba, a member of the University’s chapter of AIChE.

The competition requires ateam to create a car the size ofa shoebox that runs and stopsonly through a chemical reac-tion, said Michael Edley, stu-dent supervisor of the project.

The team fell to No. 1University of Maryland, No. 2University of Pittsburgh andNo. 3 Bucknell University,according to the BucknellUniversity website.

Akaba, a School ofEngineering sophomore, saidthe hydrogen fuel cell car the team created won four th place because of a small problem with its con-struction that stopped it from traveling the full distance,but he hopes for victory afteran adjustment.

The hydrogen fuel cell car ispowered by splitting the pro-tons and electrons of hydrogenatoms, said Edley, a School of

Engineering senior. The electrons then run through the electrical circuit and the protons join up with oxy-gen atoms.

“Thus, the only products arewater and electricity,” he said.

The stopping mechanism ofthe car is built around a flash-light, a photo sensor and a vilethat turns the liquid from clear to dark purple in aniodine clock reaction, whichcauses the light to miss thephoto sensor and stops the car,Edley said.

“The reaction can be cali-brated to turn purple at dif fer-ent times depending on howmuch potassium iodate we add,allowing us control over thestopping time of the vehicle,”he said. “This is impor tantbecause we do not know how far the car will have totravel until we are actually atthe competition.”

Edley said because therewere so many students eagerto par ticipate in the competition, the University’sAIChE chapter decided toenter two teams with two dis-tinct car designs.

“We decided it would be better to have about five peopleper car instead of 10 to one,” he said.

The second car in the com-petition, powered by an alu-minum air batter y, failed tomove on to the next level of

competition but won the “MostCreative Drive System” awardat the competition, said LindaGao, a member of AIChE.

The wheels pointed slightlyto the left and could not beadjusted while the car was inmotion, causing it to go out ofthe V-shaped boundar y line,Akaba said.

“The car went much fartherthan we expected, but it went out of the designatedboundar y area, so it didn’tqualify,” said Gao, a School ofEngineering junior.

Gao attributed the perform-ance of the aluminum air bat-tery car to chance.

“We had changed our motorjust before the competitionbegan, and it just all happenedto work,” she said.

Gao said the car was the onlyof its kind at the competition. Thebattery works when compoundsin the charcoal and saltwaterreact with the aluminum foil.

“The charcoal acts as a con-ductor and the aluminum, oxy-gen and water react to createaluminum hydroxide andpower the motor,” Gao said.

Akaba said he was proud ofthe aluminum air battery design.

“We were the only one at thecompetition with this type ofbattery and the cost to make itwas lower than the hydrogenfuel cell,” he said.

Akaba said most big carmanufacturers are using

hydrogen fuel cell batteries as an alternative to gasoline, but believes theyshould be looking in other directions.

“The aluminum air batteryour team is pushing is also agood alternative and is cheaperto make,” he said.

While the hydrogen fuel car ismoving on to the national compe-tition in the fall, many of its engi-neers are moving on, Gao said.

“The seniors are graduating,so it will just be three of usreturning to the national com-petition,” she said. “But wehope to recruit more people.”

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers built two shoebox-sized cars running on chemical reactions for a national competition.

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students have causes. Andthat’s good. Even if that’strue, it’s no excuse forunnecessary hollering andinvasive goading. Keepyour cause quiet, and thepeople who want to partici-pate will seek you out.

Unlike some of my con-temporaries who appeared

on these pages recently, I’m not coming downagainst the right of these people to do what they do.That’s obviously not in question. Rather, theirchoice to do it so abrasively baffles me. In my case,the tactic is counterproductive.

Sure, maybe I would have signed your petition tosave seals in the Arctic if you, your friend and yourfriend’s friend hadn’t verbally accosted me with theproposition. I like seals just fine. But now I’m angry

and, since you’ve made me haphaz-ardly tear out my iPod earbuds inorder to hear you, frazzled. Your inis making people feel like they haveno way out. But I have no problemturning up my music and walkingoff with a grunt. To me, that is not asrude as shouting at every strangerthat walks by.

I may even support these caus-es, but I never stick around long

enough to know. This, you may say, is my problem.The jerk just walks by without making any eye con-tact, but I know he hears me! That repellent atti-tude is exactly why I don’t stop at your table. Themission of an organization is one thing, but a packof patronizing members is another. Just because Idon’t buy a brownie from your bake sale, that does-n’t mean I don’t want your magazine to go to press.It means I don’t want to buy a brownie from yourbake sale, probably because you shrieked “BAKESALE!” as I casually passed your table. The peoplewho want to buy brownies, or sign your petition ordonate to your organization, will do so. Catchingpeople off guard so they feel uncomfortable orembarrassed by not buying or signing or donatingis, to me, bad form. Let folks do what they want.Use your inside voices.

Speaking of voices, I think the one in KevinCostner’s head in “Field of Dreams” was right: “Ifyou build it, he will come.” But there’s a catch: If youshout it in his face, he will get pissed off. Or maybethat’s just me.

Joe Hernandez is a School of Arts and Sciencessenior majoring in English and Spanish. His column“The Soapbox,” runs on alternate Thursdays.

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“Although I’m not a huge fan of Pitbull, I’d rather have him than like DJ Fuzzy-Fuzzy, so I think

the student fees should stay mandatory.”Zaid Gallo, Rutgers School of Business first-year student, on student activity fees

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A s the oft-invoked bit of Benjamin Franklin’s wisdom goes, “Theythat can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safetydeserve neither liberty nor safety.” This statement has been

applied fiercely to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) eversince the institution of stricter airport security measures last year, and ene-mies of these measures now have a great example of what can happen whenthey go wrong. At New Orleans Armstrong International Airport on April 5,Scott and Selena Drexel watched as a security officer patted down their 6-year old daughter. Footage of the pat down has gone viral, and it is disturb-ing to watch. While it doesn’t seem the TSA agent searching the girl is doinganything maliciously, it is nonetheless highly inappropriate for an adult totouch a 6-year-old child in such a manner, no matter the situation.

There’s security, and then there’s outright paranoia. The actions ofthe TSA in this case fall squarely in the latter camp. We understandthat, in post-9/11 America, safety is a No. 1 priority, and that is com-pletely acceptable. However, it is too often the safety measures takenare too extreme to be truly justifiable. Safety that comes at the price ofnear-molestation may as well not come at all.

What makes this case all the more disturbing is the fact that numer-ous adults voiced how uncomfortable and humiliating these pat downsare. Remember John Tyner, the man whose, “If you touch my junk, I’llhave you arrested” threat to a TSA officer last year became a veritableslogan of the anti-enhanced pat down brigade? Think about it: If a 31-year-old male is uncomfortable with the security measures, how is a 6-year-oldgirl going to feel?

This particular instance isn’t just embarrassing for the TSA but,because of the footage’s popularity on the Internet, it has also become anembarrassment to the United States. It speaks volumes about our coun-try’s current state of mind. That is, everyone is a potential threat to soci-ety. We simply cannot go on living like this. Something needs to change.

According to an official statement from the TSA on the pat down,the organization is “exploring additional ways to focus its resourcesand move beyond a one-size-fits-all system.” This is a good way toaddress any future incidents like this, but it will not lead to securitymeasures that don’t rob people of basic human dignity.

TSA goes too farwith precautions

Online classes are growing. According to a U.S. Department ofEducation report, more than 1 million students from kindergartenthrough 12th grade took online classes in the 2007-2008 school year.Many students at the University and other colleges across Americaengage in them as well. But with the growing appeal of online classescomes a serious debate: Do Internet-based courses provide the samequality of education as their old-fashioned counterparts? While wethink that there are benefits to online instruction, we do not feel thatthey can or should replace the physical classroom experience. At most,Internet classes should be used as supplements, not as substitutes.

One of the major problems with online courses is the lack of interactionwith a teacher or professor. This is detrimental on two levels. First, there isno teacher or professor to which students are accountable. As such, thereis very little motivation for students to work their hardest and activelyengage with the course material. With physical classrooms, the professor’spresence acts as a sort of goad. Sure, a student may think they do not needto go to class because they can learn the material on their own, but thethreat of losing points because of absences spurs many of them to attendanyway. As it often turns out, students cannot learn everything on theirown. Actually being present for class often results in a student learningmore than they even thought there was to learn in the first place.

The second level on which this lack of professors is detrimental isthat it makes seeking help much harder for students. In traditionalclassroom settings, a student having a difficult time with material canapproach their professor in person — that is what they are there for.When it comes to online classes, students often have nowhere to turnbeyond Google, which usually just inundates them with a slew of use-less sources that do not actually explain anything as well as a realhuman being could.

When it comes to integrating the web with classes, we think the bestway to go is the hybrid route, which uses online materials and courseworkas supplements to an in-class experience with a professor. With this, stu-dents get the best of both worlds. Sacrificing desks and lecture halls forkeyboards and web browsers is a risk that not every student can over-come. We are certain that there are students who have had good experi-ences with online classes, but we are also certain most students do not ben-efit in the same way from Internet courses as they do from the real thing.

Web courses cannotreplace classrooms

S ometimes I don’tknow which side ofCollege Avenue I

ought to walk down. Thatmay seem like a petty con-cern, but it will really makeor break my mood on thesepleasant spring days. See, Idon’t like being solicited.But no matter where I go orwhat I do, I can’t get away. Clean-water petitions tothe left of me, bake sales to the right and here Iam, stuck in the middle. On particularly sunnydays these tables seem to emerge out of nowhere,and the voices issuing from behind them, withoutfail, are always way too loud. The peaceful silenceis broken by someone urging me to sign this orsoliciting a donation for that. I’d have to skip classthe whole semester through to avoid their head-quarters in front of academic build-ings. It’s like being thrown into areally annoying episode of “TheTwilight Zone.”

This behavior even creepsindoors to places like the RutgersStudent Center, where the road toSubway is paved with unyieldingactivists. The solicitor purposelytakes his or her work inside,where it is quieter and more awk-ward for the passerby to avoid contact. Now fourwalls surround you and there’s no street tocross or alley to duck into. This is how they getyou. Not that they really care about you anyway.It isn’t your individual personality that mattersbut rather what you can provide. Yes, for the32nd time, I voted in the New Jersey PublicInterest Research Group referendum. Pleasestop asking.

Soliciting in public for organizations and caus-es does not, from what I’ve seen, ever involvehateful or incendiar y speech. No FirstAmendment right is being pushed to its limit —although maybe the Founding Fathers shouldhave included a decibel-level clause. The contentof what’s being yelled at me is harmless, and I’mthankful for that. But this kind of behavior vio-lates tacit norms of social interaction. Rarely in abig city do you see this kind of stuff happening.New Yorkers, especially, take the walk-don’t-talkattitude to an extreme. But sidewalks, save forthe occasional crazy, are normally adequatemeans of getting from one place to another with-out substantial hindrances. I get the feeling thatthe rampant soliciting is overlooked herebecause this is a college campus. And college

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JOE HERNANDEZ

one night. This is absurd andinexcusable. I speak particularlyfor the undergraduates who workincredibly hard to pay themselvesthrough college — I was one ofthem. I currently work full-timeand take graduate classes atnight. The fact that any portion ofhigher learning money would bespent to make an untalented reality star even richer is simply shameful.

Let me also congratulate theUniversity and the RutgersUniversity ProgrammingAssociation (RUPA) on perpetuat-ing this country’s unhealthyobsession with mindless realitytelevision, which is no doubt mak-ing our youth dumber by the cat-fight. I don’t care if 100,000 peo-

ple attended the event — it wouldstill be 100,000 people with theirheads up their rear ends. Thereare a lot of things that are popular

among students that should notbe encouraged and I think this isone of them. I know it hasbecome almost cliché to say at

this point, but this is part of thereason why our students arebeing left in the dust by studentsof other countries who are moremotivated and focused than theirAmerican counterparts. I just did-n’t expect an institution of higherlearning — and my alma mater,nonetheless — to contribute tothis trend.

Maybe I was wrong to want togo to the University in the firstplace to try to make somethingmore of myself. I mean, despitethis fancy degree, my chances ofever getting paid $32,000 to speakat an event are pretty slim —apparently even if I become aNobel and Pulitzer Prize winner.

I am not a parent who is pay-ing their child’s tuition or an old

school alum who is not with thetimes and is enraged over thismisuse of tuition funds. I am 20something years old, a workingprofessional and a self-payingstudent who knows when some-thing is ridiculous and wrong. Iguess I just expected more outof my University than to playinto this unintelligible pop-cul-ture phenomenon. I expectedthat the University might beabove the stupidity andthoughtlessness that is the“Jersey Shore.” I guess I waswrong — again.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I havehomework to do.

Darren Monroe is a RutgersBusiness School graduate student.

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D ear University, I write toyou as both an under-graduate alumnus

(Class of 2005) and current grad-uate student in the UniversityMBA program. I cannot expressto you how disappointed I wasupon hearing the news of Nicole“Snooki” Polizzi’s paid appear-ance at the school.

This is a complete embarrass-ment, and the school’s claim thatthe tuition funds used were allo-cated for “entertainment” purpos-es is nonsense and simply missesthe point. The bottom line is that$32,000 went to paying Snooki for

Snooki’s appearance embarasses UniversityDARREN MONROE

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student who knowswhen something

is ridiculous and wrong.”

Daily review: laurels and darts

Apparently, the state of New Jersey is pretty nice to its employees — nice enough, in fact, to spendmore than $22 million a year on clothing allowances. It would be one thing if all of this money went tocover the costs of uniforms, but more than $3 million of it goes to workers who are not required topurchase uniforms. In the words of state comptroller Matthew Boxer, “It’s absurd.” There is no rea-son the state needs to be paying for its workers’ clothes. After all, aren’t employees given salaries sothey can go out and purchase things like clothes on their own? We give the state a dart for this grossabuse of funds.

* * * *

The University last year had an all-time high of 11 Fulbright grant recipients, and it isn’t doing tooshabby this year. So far, nine grantees have been confirmed. Needless to say, this is a great honor forthe University, and for each of the students who received these grants. Anyone still sore over theSnooki incident can certainly take solace in this, as it is a sign that just because a reality star came tocampus, that does not mean students don’t receive excellent educations at the University. We give allnine Fulbright recipients laurels for their great work and for making the University look pretty goodright about now.

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Junior third baseman Brittney Lindley belted a grand slam in last weekend’s sweep over Seton Hall.In Rutgers’ last series with USF, the Knights’ all-time home leader went deep once.

little nervous and shying awayfrom the strike zone before.”

South Florida (27-15, 7-0) rep-resents a new type of challengefor the surging Scarlet Knights,winners of their last six games.

The Bulls have the toughestpitching staff in the Big East and arecurrently on top of the standings.

CHANGEUP: Bulls offer

daunting challenge with rotation

continued from back

For comparison, South Floridaheld Syracuse to four runs over athree-game series. AgainstRutgers, the Orange scored 23runs in a five-inning stretch and 38in a weekend.

“Their pitching is tough,”said head coach Jay Nelson. “Weare a very improved team, butwe’ll see how improved [today].”

The Knights (16-21, 4-5) needthe big bats from the weekendto carry over to South Florida.

Junior third basemanBrittney Lindley, also a member

of the Big East weekly honorroll, led the way with a grandslam, but the entire lineup wasproductive in a 22-run weekend.

With sights set on a spot in theBig East Tournament, the Knightscould jump from seventh to ashigh as fifth place or as low as 11thbased on today’s doubleheader.

“We have to get our bats backup to where they were and I knowwe can do that in practice,”Curran said of facing USF. “If wehave a decent week of practice, Ithink we’ll be fine.”

While on the lookout, theFaa saw something in Lang thatno other program did, and dedi-cated himself to making the St.Peter’s Prep product a betterplayer.

When it comes to Lang, whodid not receive a scholarshipoffer after his senior season inhigh school, the Faa’s effortsproved crucial to getting him achance to play for Hill.

“If it wasn’t for him, I wouldn’tbe where I am at all — not evenclose,” Lang said. “He prettymuch taught me how to hit inhigh school. He got me toRutgers. I wouldn’t be atRutgers, I’d be at Rowan rightnow if it wasn’t for him.”

Lang contem-plated playingDivision III base-ball at Rowanbefore the Faagot him a tryoutfor Hill.

But eventhough Langearned a spot onthe roster, play-ing time did notadd up early on in his fresh-man year.

Through those struggles,Lang turned to the Faa for advice.

“I would call him up and I’dbe like, ‘I’m not playing,’ andthis and that, and he was theone who got me through allthat,” Lang said. “He gave meadvice on what to do. He wasthe one who helped me througheverything. He was a pretty bigpart of my life.”

Eventually the stars alignedfor Lang, as he ascended to a star ting role in right field midway through his rook-ie campaign.

From there, the rest is histor y, and Lang went on to solidify his spot in the lineup as one of the

most dangerous hitters in recent memory.

The Dumont, N.J., native hitat least .317 in each of his fourseasons in Piscataway, butaccording to Lang, none of thatwould have been possible with-out the Faa.

“He taught me so much.Everything he said was of value— that was the thing with him,”Lang said. “He didn’t BS you.He told you straight up what hethought. He was just a real per-son — he just said it how it is.He’s a character — he was anhonest guy. He was just a realupfront person, and if you did-n’t like it then too bad.”

The Faa’s colorful personali-ty is somethingrecalled by any-one who encoun-tered him. Thelongtime JerseyCity icon couldoften be spottedwith a wad ofchewing tobaccoon the side of hischeek, with aquirky attitudeand straightfor-ward approach.

Within theconfines of the city, the Faa willlikely always be rememberedas one of the most influentialspor ts advocates for those very characteristics.

But for Hill, Lang and therest of the Rutgers baseball pro-gram, the Faa will always have aspecial meaning.

“I honestly remember himas one of the best guys I’ve evermet in my life,” Lang said. “Oneof the most willing [people] —very caring. He looked out forhis guys more than anything. Ifyou acted the right way withhim and treated him well andwith respect, he treated youlike a son. He was almost like afather figure to me in certainaspects of my life.”

While he dabbled in a number of dif ferent profes-sions in the realm of sports,perhaps the Faa’s greatest contributions came in his serv-ices to aspiring athletes inJersey City.

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ICON: Ford earns trio of

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Head coach Fred Hill built a close relationship with Ed Ford over his 28-year tenure with the ScarletKnights. Ford helped players like Michael Lang, Evan Pimental and Alberto Vasquez get to Rutgers.

“Everything [Ford] said was of value —that was the thingwith him... he was just a real person.”

MICHAEL LANGSenior Right Fielder

A good friend to St. Anthonyhead basketball coach BobHurley, the Faa was a key advo-cate for support of local athlet-ics in Jersey City and a respect-ed judge of talent for athletics inthe state.

That is where players likeVasquez, a star catcher for theKnights until 2003, Pimentel andLang come in.

All three are Jersey Citynatives and all three can point

back to the Faa’s help for get-ting their shots to play baseballat Rutgers.

“He helped us because of ourrelationship and helped us inthe recruiting aspect of JerseyCity players,” Hill said. “Wewould generally hear from himwhen he thought there was aplayer that could come here andhelp us, especially right off thebat. He was always on the look-out for us.”

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With the Big EastChampionships three days away,the Rutgers men’s and women’sgolf teams are about to find out if

all theirh a r dwork willpay off.

Bothh e a dcoaches

are satisfied with the improvementthey saw in their teams and believethey are strong enough for a show-ing that can exceed expectations inPalm Harbor, Fla.

Everyone on the men’s teamworked hard all season and itjust needs to translate to thecourse, said men’s head coachChris Mazzuchetti.

“It’s all about going out thereand executing,” he said.

And with the consistent devel-opment in his players’ games,Mazzuchetti believes the ScarletKnights can and will do just that.

“I expect the guys to havetheir best performance of theseason,” he said.

The field is wide open andstrong, and the men’s team cannotwait to get out there and get going.

“They are focused and under-stand the level of competition,”Mazzuchetti said. “They are real-ly excited to get another roundof competition.”

Mazzuchetti is happy to see ifhis team reach the point in whicheverybody is on the same pageand ready to take on the rest ofthe conference.

As far as expectations go,

Mazzuchetti is not looking forspecific scores, but will ratherjudge them by his own standards.

“I don’t want to put a numberon the guys,” he said. “I just wantthem to go out there and take itone shot at a time.”

Something he believes willhelp the Knights is more favorableplaying conditions, which werenot ideal at many locations duringthe season.

“We need to schedule moresouthern tournaments in the springand more tournaments around herein the fall,” Mazzuchetti said.

But no matter the conditions,he said he believes his team willbe ready.

While the men’s team is only afew days into its preparations forthe Big East Championships, thewomen’s team and head coachMaura Waters-Ballard preparedfor more than a week.

The Knights keep improvingand look like they can finish wellahead of several teams in thedeep field, Waters-Ballard said.

They can take advantage of thelong layoff in between tourna-ments to work on their game sothey are sharp once they arrive inFlorida, she said.

Waters-Ballard’s confidence inher team matches the amountMazzuchetti has in his, and shebelieves any one of her playerscan turn in a big score that will putRutgers ahead of a significant por-tion of the field.

With both Big EastChampionships starting in justthree days, the teams begin to getfocused and take aim at theirgoals to exceed all expectations,self-imposed or otherwise.

RUTGERS AT BIG EAST CHAMPS, SUNDAY - TUESDAY

GOLF

YEE ZHSIN BOON

Junior Elisa Mateer and the Rutgers women’s golf team last competed two weeks ago in theGeorgetown Hoya Invite. The squad had time to prepare for the Big East Championships.

Coaches exude confidence entering Big East Champs

to an extended deliberation peri-od for Peele, Candia said. “The offers would have beencoming in,” Candia said. “Whatkind of took people back werehis academics. Looking at histranscripts as an early highschool kid, he didn’t do too well.But right now at this point, he’son track and so he’ll be fine.”

Candia did not find out aboutPeele’s decision to com-mit to the Knights untilafter Peele’s conversa-tion with Schiano yes-terday, Candia said.

Peele said he wasexcited about joininga deep wide receivercorps guided by wide-outs coach P.J. Fleck,in his second seasonas the Knights’ posi-tion coach.

But Peele’s ability extendsbeyond the sidelines, Candiasaid, as he can also returnkicks and punts, which he rou-tinely did during his three sea-sons at Linden.

“He’s a hard worker. He’s socompetitive,” Candia said. “Hecan do it all.”

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Word on the Street

F ormer Rutgers receiverKenny Britt was arrest-ed after an officer saw

him speeding in his hometownof Bayonne, N.J.

Bayonne Police Chief RobertKubert said Britt faces chargesof eluding the officer, hinderingapprehension and obstructinggovernment function.

The Tennessee Titan wasdriving his Porsche at 71 mphin a 50 mph zone, Kubert said.

Britt first denied being in thecar, then denied driving and thenfinally admitted he was behindthe wheel, according to Kubert.

The passenger in the carwas also charged with posses-sion of marijuana.

THE RUTGERS WOMEN’Sbasketball team made anotheraddition to its 2011 recruitingclass yesterday, when wingBetnjah Laney signed to playwith the Scarlet Knights.

Laney is ranked the No. 11overall recruit by ESPNHoopGurlz, and joins headcoach C. Vivian Stringer’s No. 5recruiting class. The classincludes three players rankedin the ESPN HoopGurlz Top-100 — No. 6 Briyona Canty, No.18 Shaken Richardson and No.51 Syessence Davis

FORMER NEW YORK METCarlos Delgado announced hisretirement from baseball, giv-ing up on coming back from ahip injury.

Delgado announced his deci-sion yesterday at a news confer-ence in his native Puerto Rico.

The 38-year-old finished his 17-year playing career with 473 homeruns and a .280 batting average.

The two-time all-star said hehas not decided on his next step.

WITH THE NFL LOCKOUTdragging on, Minnesota Vikingsdefensive end Ray Edwards isset to make his professionalboxing debut on May 20 at aMinnesota casino.

Edwards signed a two-fightcontract. He will begin in a four-round bout against a yet-to-be-determined opponent.

Edwards is guaranteed$5,000 from the fight in additionto 50 percent of the gate pro-ceeds from the fight at GrandCasino Hinckley.

LOS ANGELES LAKERSguard Kobe Bryant is underreview after appearing to muttera gay slur toward referee BennieAdams on national televisionafter receiving a technical foul.

After getting hit with thetechnical in a key WesternConference matchup with theSan Antonio Spurs, Bryantstormed to the bench and yelledthe referee’s name. He thenappeared to direct a homopho-bic slur toward Adams whileTNT cameras were still on him.

Bryant since issued a state-ment saying his words should“not be taken literally,” and thathis actions were due to “frustra-tion during the heat of the game.”

“He’s an electrifying, excitingathlete to watch,” said Candia,who cited academic concerns forPeele’s modest recruitment as ajunior. “It’s kind of like if he’s onthe field, you’re goingto look at him. Hedraws attention.”

Rutgers recruitedPeele as an under-classman at nearbyLinden, N.J., and theprogram established arapport with Peelefrom the beginning ofhis high school career,Candia said.

Peele took severaltrips to Rutgers during his timeat Linden, including participat-ing at the Badger Sports 7-on-7in the Bubble in March as amember of the NJ Flash.

But if not for concernsregarding his academics, moreprograms likely would haveoffered the 170-pounder, leading

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RUHANNPEELE

BY PATRICK LANNICONTRIBUTING WRITER

As the Rutgers women’s trackand field team hosts the Metropolitan OutdoorChampionships this weekend,

t h eS c a r l e tKnightswill tryto mir-ror ther e s u l t s

of this year’s MetropolitanIndoor Championships.

As the event moves out-doors, the Knights will try tooutscore Big East foe St. John’sand claim first after falling five points short of the RedStorm indoors.

The outdoor competitionfavors the Knights, as the indoorcontests do not include thejavelin and discus events.

Adding the 400-meter hurdles isan advantage for the Knights, aswell. The addition of these events iscrucial, as junior javelin throwerAlex Kelly and senior discus throw-er Natalie Clickett have legitimatechances of winning their events.

On the track, Danai Lendoralso stands a chance to win the400-meter hurdles. The potential30 points would bolster theKnights’ score and give Rutgers amajor advantage in the meet.

Clickett is coming off a first-place finish in the discus and shotput from last weekend’s RutgersInvitational. Throws of 46 feet 3inches and 150 feet 1 inch in theshot put and discus, respectively,put her well above competition.

Kelly threw a season-best lastweekend of 140 feet 9 inches, whichplaced her third overall behind twounattached competitors.

Although the additional pointswill be more than useful, the

Knights still need strong per-formances on the track, as well.

The Knights look for a repeatperformance in the sprints,where they scored 39 pointsbetween the 60-meter dash, 200-meter dash and 400-meter dash.

The outdoor meet features the100-meter dash instead of the 60-meter dash, but the Knights willfeature just as strong of a show-ing in the event.

Junior Brittni Rodriguez leadsthe Knights in the 100-meter dashafter a first-place finish at theRutgers Invitational.

Freshman Tylia Gillon andsenior Jamie Walker will also con-tribute to the overall score. Gillonrecorded the fastest 100- and 200-meter dash times this season. Akey member of several relays,Gillon participates in multipleevents this weekend.

The Knights distance teamneeds to repeat its indoor per-

formances for the Knights to takethe meet.

The 4,000-meter distance med-ley relay scored 10 points for theKnights at the indoor champi-onship with a first-place finish.Another standout performance inthe event will be crucial thisweekend for the Knights.

Sophomore VictoriaPontecorvo and freshmanBrianna Deming added six andeight points, respectively, in theindoor meet with a third-place fin-ish in the mile run for Pontecorvoand a second-place finish forDeming in the 3,000-meter run.

Taking first in this meet wouldbe a major step in the right direc-tion for the Knights. After failingto score in the Big East IndoorChampionships, the Knights canenter the outdoor championshipmeet with more confidence withanother championship meetunder their belt.

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WOMEN’S TRACK

JOVELLE ABBEY TAMAYO / SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Junior Danai Lendor will compete in the 400-meter hurdles this weekend in the Metropolitan Championships on Livingston campusat the Bauer Track and Field Complex. The Lawrenceville, N.J., native won the event last weekend at the Rutgers Invitational.

RU looks to top Johnnies in outdoor meet

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BY SAM HELLMANCORRESPONDENT

Jordan Thomas will always have hisathleticism to fall back on while learn-ing his new position at defensive back.But to the people keeping a close eye onhim this spring, it is the sophomore’smental toughness that gives him achance to be great.

“Jordan’s got boatloads of talent,speed, explosion,” said Rutgers headfootball coach Greg Schiano. “He justhas to continue to learn the position, andhe’s doing that. He’s working hard at it.He’s very serious about football. It’s justa matter of time.”

Thomas’ teammates at defensiveback see the same thing. When theylook at Thomas, they see plenty of poten-tial and the right kind of football mind toreach that potential.

“He has a lot of upside to him,” saidjunior cornerback Marcus Cooper, whoconverted from wide receiver last spring.“He has very good speed. He has verygood feet and he has the will. That’swhat’s going to carry him.”

After leading the team in rushing lastseason and finishing fourth in totalyards from scrimmage, Thomas’ movecame as a surprise when Schianoannounced it at a press conference priorto spring practice.

For Thomas, the move just made toomuch sense.

Thomas informed Schiano of his inter-est in defensive back during the evalua-tion period between the end of the sea-son and the start of spring.

Seeing local cornerbacks likeDarrelle Revis and Antonio Cromartie ontelevision and the success of theMcCourty twins influenced his interest,he said.

“Nowadays in the NFL, you see thetaller corners and the faster cornersbecoming prominent,” Thomas said.“The wide receivers are getting biggerand stronger, so you need a lankier cor-nerback to cover them. I think it’s a per-fect fit for me.”

Through half of the spring and near-ing the end of his freshman year of col-lege, Thomas said he is happy and com-fortable with his situation.

Enthusiasm does not begin to expressThomas’ thoughts on his new role.

“I love the change,” Thomas said. “Ilove being on the defensive side of thefield and being with coach Schiano and[secondar y coach Jef f Hafley]. It’sreally cool.

“It’s awesome covering these guysnow. You joke around with them a lot, butit’s all about competition. It can get pret-ty intense since I was one of them lastyear. I love it.”

But the transition is not easy.Thomas has no college experience

on defense, but his speed and histeammates help him limit mistakes, he said.

“The toughest part is just stayingcalm, cool and collected out there,”Thomas said. “At cornerback — that’s areally hard position. You have a lot ofresponsibility out there, and you have tobe mentally tough enough to handle.”

Thomas pointed to Cooper, whomade the same change 12 months prior,and sophomore Logan Ryan as hisbiggest helpers.

“[Cooper] is telling me just to calmdown and be patient,” Thomas said. “Iget on edge out there and I’m not alwayspatient, and he keeps me calm. Loganreally helps me with the scheme of thedefense. It’s new to me — brand new.I’m starting to get used to it now, but alot of that is because of Logan.”

Cooper’s advice for Thomas is tonot forget what he learned from his time on of fense, but to use it as an advantage.

“Just use what we learned onoffense,” Cooper said. “Use the tips helearned at receiver and at running backto gain an insight into what these guysare going to do against you.”

Should Thomas’ transition takelonger than expected, the Rutgerscoaching staff has the option of red-shirting him for the upcoming season.That decision would not come until latein training camp.

A redshir t is a possibility, butbetween the lack of established depthat cornerback, Thomas’ blazing speedand his value on special teams, itbecomes a tough decision for thecoaching staff.

SAM HELLMAN

Sophomore Jordan Thomas led the Scarlet Knights in both rushingattempts and yards last season, when he became Rutgers’ primary back.

BY SAM HELLMANCORRESPONDENT

Midway through his second springcampaign with the Rutgers football team,De’Antwan Williams is a new man.

Nicknamed “The Rocket” for his 83career touchdowns and 6,909 rushingyards at Woodbridge High School(Va.), Williams has yet to blast off as aScarlet Knight. Continually “in themix” within a very crowded backfield,Williams struggled in Kirk Ciarrocca’soffensive scheme and only receivedlegitimate action in games that werealready decided.

“I was more than frustrated,” Williamssaid. “I just wasn’t understanding things[in the old scheme] as well as I should,and now I can already tell I’m makinggreat progress.”

The best change for Williams in first-year offensive coordinator FrankCignetti’s scheme is the increased roleof the fullback.

Whether it is fifth-year senior JoeMartinek, sophomore MarcusThompson, injury-plagued Robert Josephor walk-on Michael Burton that wins thestarting job, Williams sees tremendousopportunities for himself.

“That’s really exciting because there’salways holes,” Williams said. “Now I canjust be myself, be a running back andmake plays.

“It all fits together. This offense iswhat I’m used to and it’s all comingtogether. That’s why every day goes sowell right now. I’m familiar with theoffense. I’m catching onto things fasterbecause I’m more familiar with it. It’s allin my comfort zone. I’ve been aroundthis all my life.”

Through half of spring practice,Williams is making the most of his oppor-tunity and catching head coach GregSchiano’s eyes for the right reasons.

“I thought Rocket ran the ball hard.He’s been doing that all spring,” Schianosaid after last Saturday’s scrimmage.

The once overcrowded backfield forthe Knights is now full of opportunity.

Martinek, Mason Robinson andJordan Thomas are at new positions.Casey Turner transferred out, andKordell Young is out of eligibility andmoving on with his life.

Williams and redshir t freshmanJawan Jamison are top dogs by default,but that does not mean both are not tak-ing full advantage of their chances inthe spotlight.

“I thought our running backs did avery good job of making cuts, and a cou-ple of times defenders flashed in thebackfield and they made great cuts andturned a potentially 2nd-and-13 into a2nd-and-7,” Schiano said in reference tolast Saturday’s 11-on-11. “That’s not theplays people write about or talk about,but those are the plays that win footballgames. Second-and-7 is a whole lot dif-ferent than 2nd-and-13.”

But the running back situation getsmore crowded than an A bus around 1:10p.m., when training camp rolls around.

Converted wideout Jeremy Deeringwill be fully entrenched as a runningback by that point and Savon Hugginsenters the fray.

Many consider Huggins, the high-est-rated recruit in school history, theleader to hear his name called as astarter against North Carolina Central.But it will take more than recruitingaccolades for Huggins to claim the spotif he wants it.

Williams can tell you that.Before Jan. 28, which will become

“Savon Day” in the near future if youask any Rutgers fan, Williams was thehighest-rated running back recruit toarrive at Rutgers.

Ranked No. 7 in Virginia and No. 135nationally on Rivals.com, Williams fellvictim to the hype in his first trainingcamp. He never surpassed the likes ofMartinek, Young, Robinson andJourdan Brooks.

In Williams’ first two seasons, hereceived the brunt of his touches againstDivision I-AA opponents. He totaled 346rushing yards and one touchdown.

But with Cignetti calling the shots,Williams said he feels like he can be “TheRocket” again.

“I’m an I-formation tailback,” Williamssaid. “With the patience and the reads,that’s what’s best for me. I like to runbehind a fullback. It’s just like I canunderstand where to cut and where torun so much easier. It’s something insideof me, like an instinct or something. I’vebeen doing it all my life.”

SAM HELLMAN

Junior running back De’Antwan Williams had a 100-yard rushing game largely inthe fourth quarter as a freshman, but never saw regular carries for the Knights.

SAME FACES,DIFFERENT PLACES

DE’ANTWANWILLIAMS

JORDANTHOMAS

Position: RBHeight: 5”8”Weight: 195 lbs.

Position: CBHeight: 6’1”Weight: 205 lbs.

But no matter how Ed Fordearned a place in the lives of themany he impacted in Jersey City,they all knew him by one name —“The Faa.”

The 65-year-old died Tuesdayafter a long battle with health issues,leaving behind the many athletes,coaches and citizens within theHudson County lines he touched.

But those lines never stoppedthe Faa from leaving his mark onRutgers athletics, specifically tohead baseball coach Fred Hill andthe rest of the Scarlet Knights’baseball program.

“We had a longstanding rela-tionship,” said Hill, who coachedat Rutgers for 28 seasons. “I metEddy when he was a scout for the

Chicago White Sox and had a lotof dealings with him at that time.He was very instrumental in try-ing to help the kids from JerseyCity. Alberto Vasquez and[senior] Mike Lang and [sopho-more] Evan Pimentel are all kidshe steered our way.”

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T H E D A I L Y T A R G U M

Linden WRmarks RU’sfirst commit

BY TYLER BARTOASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

Linden High School (N.J.)wide receiver Ruhann Peele

became thefirst mem-

ber of the Rutgers football team’s2012 recruiting class when hecommitted late Tuesday night tohead coach Greg Schiano.

The 6-foot-1 wideout hadanother offer from Temple anddrew considerable interest fromIllinois, said Linden head coachDeon Candia, but Peele’s familiar-ity with the Scarlet Knights soldhis commitment.

“We talked about it for a longtime,” Peele said of his commit-ment to Rutgers. “I just reallythought it through and thoughtabout it some more. I told [myfamily] about two weeks ago.”

Peele cited the Knights’coaching staf f and graduatingplayers as the main factors incommitting to Rutgers.

Peele participated in theRivals’ Five-Star Showcase onMarch 12 in Oakland, N.J., wherethe wideout impressed enough toearn the combine’s MVP award atthe position.

Peele displayed an innate abili-ty to get off the line of scrimmageagainst a talented defensive backgroup and made routine catchesen route to winning the award.

The wide receiver will join analready crowded receiving corpswhen he arrives in Piscatawaynext year, one that likelyincludes returning star tersMohamed Sanu and MarkHarrison, along with the 6-foot-6Brandon Coleman.

BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

Some knew him as a MajorLeague Baseball scout, others as a

high schoolb a s e b a l l

coach and even more for his effortsas a former columnist for TheJersey Journal.

CAMERON STROUD / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Michael Lang, above, walked onto the Rutgers baseball team after Ed Ford, who passed away Tuesday at age 65, introduced theSt. Peter’s Prep product to Rutgers head baseball coach Fred Hill. Lang became a scholarship player and leads Rutgers in hitting.

Jersey icon leaves mark on Rutgers baseball

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BASEBALL

FOOTBALL

Freshman’s changeupsolves midseason slump

BY SAM HELLMANCORRESPONDENT

When freshman pitcher MeganWilliams needed to make a change,she looked to her change.

Williams came up on the shortend five times during the Rutgers

s o f t b a l lt e a m ’ s 1 3 - g a m el o s i n gstreak. In17 inningsp i t c h e d

from March 18 to April 4, Williamswent 0-5 with an ERA approaching 19.

Then her changeup shook Ionaand Seton Hall hitters out of theirshoes and things turned around.

On her path to a second honor-able mention on the Big EastWeekly honor roll, Williams wonthree games within a three-dayspan with a 0.82 ERA.

“She’s definitely changed herattitude a lot and she’s so muchfun to catch for,” said sophomorecatcher Kaci Madden. “Shealways has something positive to

say during a mound visit andshe’s a good kid. Her changeup isworking so well right now, andthat’s a pitch that she didn’t evenhave at the start of the year. She’sturning her game around.”

In her three-game winningstreak, Williams (8-5) struck outseven betters. Four came onchangeups, including the final outof a sweep over Seton Hall.

Quickly becoming an out-pitch forWilliams, she did not even developthe pitch until earlier in the season bypracticing it on her teammates.

“In practice, sometimes she’llfreeze you,” said junior outfielderLindsey Curran. “She got thatworking well [against Seton Hall].Those hitters looked like fools.”

Before Williams hit her roughpatch, she started the season at 5-0. Her overall ERA is 5.62 goinginto today’s doubleheader againstSouth Florida.

“I feel a lot better,” Williams said.“I think I’m just more focused andmore aggressive, whereas I was a

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SOUTH FLORIDA AT RUTGERS, TODAY, 1 P.M.

SOFTBALL

CAMERON STROUD / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Freshman Megan Williams is the lone Rutgers pitcher with a winning record at 8-5, and all of her lossescame in a 13-game losing streak. Since then, Williams won each of her three starts.