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The Institute of Womenand Art educates students about theknowledge gained frommisinterpreted perceptions.

Facebook profiles are asprivate as our livingspaces. Employers mustrespect this as socialmedia evolves.

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The Rutgers baseball team takes Bainton Field today to face visiting Wagner,where assistant coach Joe Litterio spent 12 seasons.

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IBM, U. work to further supercomputer research

Electronic mail system to debut in fallBY JOVELLE TAMAYO

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Next fall, students could be using touchscreens to pick up their snail mail.

University Mail Services plans to replacethe traditional manual mailboxes at all cam-pus mail centers with ByBox, an electronicmailbox network system.

“The current system is flawed in the sensethat it’s often inconvenient for students toreach the hours that the mailing system isopen,” said Grant Whelply, president of theUniversity Residence Hall Association. “As a

result, it’s very hard for students to take timeto pick up their packages.”

The new system will accommodate 150box units within a “bank” and would allowstudents to receive both their letters andpackages in the same pickup at any time.

The box units, which come in differentsizes — to fit anything from a stack of letters toa golf club bag — are also interchangeable,said Frank Scalice, manager of Mail Services.

“Let’s say we have an influx of studentson the Cook campus. It’s very easy to addboxes from another location — all they do isplug into the back,” he said.

Mail Services will email students a noti-fication when they receive a letter or pack-age. Students will then type in or swipetheir RUID at a bank located on their speci-fied campus, sign the touchscreen pad andan appropriately-sized box with their mailwill open, Scalice said.

With the new system, students will beable to choose the campus where theywant to receive their mail using themyRutgers portal or Mail Services web-site, he said.

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The massive “Excalibur,” the University’sown supercomputer and the only one availablefor commercial users in New Jersey, sits in thebasement of the Busch campus Hill Center.

Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno and ManishParashar turned the IBM Blue Gene/Psupercomputer on for the first time yesterdayafternoon in the Hill Center’s data center, tosignify the launch of a high-performancecomputing center and collaboration betweenIBM and University researchers.

The Rutgers Discovery InformaticsInstitute, which maintains the supercomputer,intends to better the economic competitive-ness of the state’s research groups and to inte-grate education, research and infrastructurethrough the IBM collaboration, according toan RDI2 fact sheet provided at the ceremony.

“It’s great for students,” said Parashar,director of the RDI2 New Jersey Center forAdvanced Computation. “They can work onreal problems that are relevant, partneringwith industry and using leading infrastruc-ture. But what we’re most excited for is thatthis is just Step 1.”

The program also hopes to help compa-nies overcome the financial and informationbarriers associated with using the super-computer technology.

RDI2 intends to use a revolutionary approachthat combines research and education to supportformerly unfeasible multidisciplinary research,education and development, said Parashar, a pro-fessor of electrical and computer engineering.

Fan Zhang, a Ph.D student studying withParashar, said his research focuses on mak-ing the programs and applications already on“Excalibur” faster and more efficient in everyaspect, including writing data, power andmemory usage.

“It’s going to be a way for students to actual-ly have access to a large machine, to actually doreal science,” said Moustafa Abdelbaky, anoth-er Ph.D student under Parashar. “It’s going toallow us to do real experiments, so we don’thave to do smaller simulations anymore.”

Undergraduates and graduates across dif-ferent disciplines will have access to the com-puter for their research projects, as wouldresearchers outside the University communi-ty, Abdelbaky said.

Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno converses with colleagues, includingManish Parashar, after turning on supercomputer “Excalibur.”

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City programconnects mayorwith students

BY ANASTASIA MILLICKERNEWS EDITOR

New Brunswick Mayor James Cahill sat at atable for about two hours inside the DouglassCampus Center to answer questions frompasserbys regarding community concerns and happenings.

The table, a part of the New Brunswick and theUniversity’s “Student Connections” program, wasdesigned for the city to have a “city council on wheels,”so students who want to attend city council but cannotmake the meetings can voice their concerns about thecommunity, said Kyle Kirkpatrick, New Brunswickcommunity development administrator.

But some did not even notice the mayor’s presence.

“At first I didn’t recognize who he was,” saidElizabeth Davis, a School of Environmental andBiological Sciences first-year student, who wasborn and raised in New Brunswick.

One concern shared by students and residentsof New Brunswick is parking, Cahill said.

The city is building additional parking decksand is working with residents with parking passes

Professor advocates environmental action BY LISA BERKMAN

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The climate is crashing fast and univer-sities are being blindsided, said DavidEhrenfeld, a School of Environmental andBiological Sciences professor, to an audi-ence of around 220 people in the CookCampus Center during the “ExecutiveDean’s Distinguished Lecture.”

Ehrenfeld stressed the importance ofthe University’s role in the environmentalcrisis yesterday with a plan during hisevent, “Reinventing the University for the21st Century.”

Ehrenfeld said universities should not shuttheir eyes to the upcoming environmentalemergency, comparing this environmentaldenial to the reluctance of American citizens toaccept Germany and France as serious threatsuntil the catastrophic bombing of Pearl Harbor.

“Full-scale denial of that change entailsgreat risks,” Ehrenfeld said. “Once greatschools will find themselves left behind in aworld that no longer exists.”

Ehrenfeld said people should be alarmedthat oil reserves are quickly disappearing withno tangible solution in sight.

If the entire volume of the earth was oil andif every last drop was extracted — assuming

the growth rate of 7.4 percent a year — thenthere would be no oil left in 342 years,Ehrenfeld said.

“Of course only a tiny part of the earthis made of oil, and we expect that some-how technology will make the cheap oillast forever,” he said.

Ehrenfeld said the rise of oil costs is puttingairlines out of business, limiting internationalbusiness relations and contributing to the eco-nomic crisis-affecting students.

Ehrenfeld said importing products willsoon become too expensive to handle, and

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Derek Connery, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, opens his manual University mailbox at the Cook Campus Center.Next semester these boxes will be replaced with an electronic system.

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SEE ACTION ON PAGE 5David Ehrenfeld, a University professor, speaksabout the community’s role in climate change.

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very old topic in art,” Levy said.Levy worked as an artist for theNASA at the Kennedy SpaceCenter, sketching events like theChallenger launch of 1986, whichmade her ponder why humanssometimes fail to see the obvious.

Levy conducted an experimentto test inattentional blindnessthrough an illusion. She foundthat individuals frequently failedto see a moving object in the back-ground when looking at the imagefor the first time because of theirattention on the prominent image.

From this experiment, whichwas briefly demonstrated at theevent, Levy concluded that art isable to gain attention, if an indi-vidual focuses long enough.

Shiffrar introduced the aspectof illusion to Levy’s discussion ofinattentional blindness.

“Inattentional blindness saysthat the only thing my brain iscoming up with is a conscious rep-

resentation of the one to maybefour things that I am paying atten-tion to. The rest is illusion,”Shiffrar said.

Shiffrar used texting whiledriving as an example of inatten-tional blindness, because peoplecannot pay attention to the roadand the cars around them whiletexting, which makes them moredangerous than drunk drivers.

The discussion betweenShiffrar and Levy stressed theimportance of perception, aware-ness and knowledge in the fieldsof art and science, as well as ineveryday life.

“You can only learn what youpay attention to. So if you’re notpaying attention to people, thenhow can you develop levels ofvisual sensitivity to people?”Shiffrar said.

Jasmeet Bawa, a School ofArts and Sciences first-year stu-dent, attended the talk based on

her interest in how science andart overlap.

“I like when people are speak-ing about things they’re passion-ate about, things that they’vestudied and dedicated so muchof their lives to,” Bawa said. “Myinterest was also sparked by thefact that the event was focusedon women.”

Brittany Graf, a School ofEnvironmental and BiologicalSciences graduate assistant, saidscience and art have a lot to gainfrom each other. She said shecould relate to the talks fromwomen in these fields, as she hasstudied women’s studies in thepast and is a scientist herself.

“I definitely learned a lot aboutthe psychology aspect of scienceand learned that art experimentsactually can exist,” Graf said. “Thediscussion was interesting to seemore of the discussion on percep-tion as a whole and how art and

science can both ask questionsabout that.”

Shiffrar said creativity is adominant aspect of science and isfound within experiments and theprocess it takes to design them.She said she learned to breakthrough constraints in her field togain the freedom to study whatshe wanted.

Women make up about 10 to 20percent of faculty members in sci-ence and mathematic fields, saidNatalie Batmanian, associatedirector of the Office for thePromotion of Women in ScienceEngineering and Mathematics.

She is taking part in an institu-tional transformation at theUniversity that will make womena more prominent aspect in thesefields, Batmanian said.

“I like to be involved in thewomen in science program,and I believe that science andart have a lot to gain from eachother, so this is a very dif ferentsort of program that toucheson topics that I guess a lot ofpeople don’t cover generally,”she said.

The “Talking Creativity” seriesis funded by the National ScienceFoundation, which awarded a five-year grant to the Office for thePromotion of Women in ScienceEngineering and Mathematics,Batmanian said.

“The grant will end in 2013,and we hope to continue with theprograms that we started, like‘Talking Creativity’ to promotebest practices in faculty hiring andpromotion and working withadministrators and the wholecommunity to bring visibility towomen,” she said.

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Amy Tran interviewed more than 600 Asian studentsat the University to find their take on the meaningsbehind dishes from China, Vietnam, Korea and Japanfor her interdisciplinary Asian-American and communi-cations studies thesis.

“In Asia, there are a lot of wishes and thoughts con-veyed through food,” Tran, a School of Arts andSciences senior, told Rutgers Today. “Food has a basicmeaning, but there’s also an underlying message.”

She found that those whose families have lived inthe United States the longest and have higher accul-turation levels are less likely to know that red datesare served at Korean weddings to represent fertility,according to Rutgers Today.

Tran chose her thesis topic because she believesfood bridges language and generational barriersamong Asian-Americans.

The East Brunswick native, whose parents are fromVietnam, with her father being half-Vietnamese andhalf-Chinese, learned a rice cake can have varied dif-ferent meanings depending on culture and its prepara-tion process, according to Rutgers Today.

In China, rice cakes symbolize growth when servedon New Year’s Day, as they show a person is gettingbigger and better. In Korea, cakes are served in soupsand sometimes formed to resemble half-moons, Tran said.

The shape stands for the notion that people are alwayschanging and that there is always room for improvement,according to Rutgers Today.

Tran has an interest in food, but her study is unre-lated to her chosen career path, dentistry, she toldRutgers Today.

“I think learning about all of this will help me,though,” she told Rutgers Today. “In every profession,you need to work with dif ferent people. And food is agood way to get to learn about them.”

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Speakers use illusions to inform students on fallacies of perceptionBY SKYLAR FREDERICK

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Though usually seen as twoentirely separate fields, scienceand art both stem from creativeand perceptual backgrounds.

To highlight the similaritiesbetween these fields, Ferris Olin,co-director of the University’sInstitute for Women and Art,organized the “Talking Creativity:Conversations Between Scientistsand Artists” series, featuringspeakers with art and sciencebackgrounds.

Maggie Shiffrar, director ofthe Visual Cognition Lab atRutgers-Newark, discussed thescience of perception at theseries’ fourth installmentMonday, “Perceptual Illusion:Women in Science and ArtDiscuss Cognitive Processes.”

Shiffrar spoke of three princi-ples of perception, pointing outthat perception is socially con-structed, so perception of anobject could override a person’sknowledge of it.

“We bring to perception awealth of other types of infor-mation. Perception involves alot of construction [and] a lot ofinterpretation of limited bits ofinformation,” Shif frar said.“Coming up with an interpreta-tion of that ambiguous informa-tion is really tricky.”

Ellen Levy, a scholar of bothart and science, discussed thephenomenon of inattentionalblindness.

“Inattentional blindness is thephenomenon of not being able tosee things that are actually there,and I found that in fact this is a

Panelists speak at the “Talking Creativity: Conversations Between Scientists and Artists” series about therole misconception has in overriding a person’s knowledge on Monday at the Busch Campus Center.

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28 Denis Johnson, winner of the 2007 National Book Award forhis novel “Tree of Smoke,” will be at the Rutgers StudentCenter multipurpose room on the College Avenue campusas part of the “Writers at Rutgers Reading Series.”Admission is free and open to the public. For more informa-tion, contact Leandra Cain at (732) 932-7633 or email RheaRamey at rhea.ramey@rutgers.edu.

The Centers for Global Advancement and InternationalAffair along with the Department of Journalism and MediaStudies and School of Communication will host a documen-tary viewing of Gender and Global Documentary at 7:40p.m. in the School of Communication and Information build-ing on the College Avenue campus. For more information,contact Montague Kern, mlkern@rutgers.edu.

Panelists stress needto conserve water

BY SEOYOUNG CHOICONTRIBUTING WRITER

While New Jersey has anabundance of water, not all of itis clean and accessible. Butlocal activists are looking tochange that.

Panelists Mark Robson, ChrisObropta and Marcela Oliverabrought their concerns about theinfrastructure of water to about20 students Monday at the CookCampus Center.

Obropta, extension special-ist in Water Resources with theUniversity’s CooperativeExtension, said every personmakes either a positive or negative action toward the environment.

“If you are polluting, youraction — no matter how small itis — it accumulates and makethings worse, and when youclean it, it becomes better,” hesaid. “Ever y person’s actionmakes a dif ference.”

Obropta said the waterresource program aims to takeregular water and stop drinkingbottle water.

“The bottomline is we needclean water,”Obropta said.

He said citiesshould spendmoney to protectwater fromwhere it comesfrom instead ofpaying billions ofdollars for a filtration process.

“We getportable waterwhich saves money in theprocess,” he said.

Obropta said one of the solu-tions to clearing up wastewater isthrough a green infrastructure toallow storm water to seep downinto the ground instead of flowinginto the sewage.

Having deeper wells canhelp address the problem ofwastewater because deeperwells usually do not contain ameasurable amount of arsenic,said Mark Robson, dean ofAgricultural Programs.

Robson said it is a problemto drill up to 100 feet deep toestablish a local infrastructurefor a well since it would requirecommunities to become edu-cated about water systems andwater purifications to make a dif ference.

“Water is the resource weneed to survive — it impacts

every dimension,” Robson said.“Think about it. … We can gomany days without eating, but wecan only last about two days with-out water.”

Although technology isimproving, Obropta said energycosts are increasing.

Obropta said students cantake action to conserve waterthrough lobbying to theUniversity to get bottled waterout of the vending machines andto stop drinking bottled water.

“We seem like we have a lot ofwater here in New Jersey, butthat doesn’t mean we shouldwaste [it],” he said.

Obropta said the Universityshould be the leader inresearch for water and lead thepublic in water conser vationand protection.

“We should be setting theexample because we have somuch knowledge here,” Obroptasaid. “We should take the knowl-edge and help the public makebetter choices.”

Kaitlin D’Agostino, cam-paign coordinator of “TakeBack the Tap,” which organ-

ized the panel,said that theirgoal is to get ridof bottled wateron campusthrough givingstudents free,reusable water.

“ F i l t r a t i o nprovides stu-dents with extrafiltered water forfree, and thisway they don’thave to buy bot-

tled water and use the filtra-tions located on campus cen-ters,” said D’Agostino, a School of Ar ts andScience junior.

She said water is an importantresource for everyone to haveaccess to.

“Rutgers should care aboutmaking this campus bottle-freebecause it’s a place where one ofour most important resources —water — can be shared,”D’Agostino said.

Nicholas Fuzer, a RutgersBusiness School first-year stu-dent, said he learned about thedifferent ways water can be saved.

“People take water forgranted so much that we don’tsee the possibilities,” he said.“This gave me a dif ferent perspective on how to recycle water.”

“We can go manydays without eating,but we can only last

about two dayswithout water.”

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to ease the situation, but the cityis looking to promote bicycle rid-ing, he said.

Cahill said the city plans to builda bike trail from the CollegeAvenue campus to DouglassCampus, which is expected to costthe city about $8 million. The city isapplying for grants with the N.J.Department of Transportation formoney to fund this initiative.

Another concern of the city,especially with the upcomingmove-out for students living inoff-campus houses, was the bulktrash moratorium, Cahill said.

Students will still have theopportunity to call theDepartment of Public Works andhave three bulk items to bepicked up during regular trashcollection time.

The University also willarrange two drop-off centers onDouglass Campus and theCollege Avenue campus for bulkitems, Cahill said.

Security was also a concernthat students expressed,Kirkpatrick said.

Crime in the city has gonedown, Cahill said. For the last 20years, the crime rate was cut in half.

“There was a spike in crime in2011, but it’s going down,” Cahill said.

He said the city created acommunity volunteer taskforce, which helps to improvethe relation between the city

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three days after the studentreceives the email notification willbe delivered to the Tillett Hall maildistribution center on Livingstoncampus for students who directmail to Busch or Livingston cam-puses, and the AdministrativeServices Building II on Cook cam-pus for students who direct mail tothe College Avenue, Cook orDouglass campuses.

All oversize packages, whichmake up about 3 percent ofincoming packages, are automat-ically sent to the distribution cen-ters, Scalice said.

Some students believe thatthe route to the Cook campus dis-tribution center is already incon-venient for students.

“ASB II is a short hike downRyders Lane,” said ZaidAbuhouran, a School of Arts andSciences senior. “There’s no saferoute to get there [from campus].”

But mail services would con-tinue to work with students tomake arrangements if an over-size package pickup is inconven-ient, Scalice said.

“When I lived on campus andused campus mail, I did notcheck [my mailbox] often,” saidKemberley Valderrama, a Schoolof Arts and Sciences senior. “Butit was mostly because the combi-nation wouldn’t work, or I wouldforget it.”

Abuhouran, president of theSchool of Environmental and

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students should get accustomed toworking hands-on in this new era.The dean proposed to integratepractical courses into the Universitycurriculum to foster this movement,with potential classes including per-sonal finance, agricultural care andcomputer troubleshooting.

Jim Applegate, a retired pro-fessor of ecology, said the pro-posal is good in theory, but thecourses may be difficult to inte-grate into the curriculum.

“You have a good idea of whateverybody should be exposed to,”Applegate said. “But then what arewe going to strike out of the rest ofthe curriculum? That’s not an easything to do.”

Daniel Van Abs, a part-timelecturer in the Department ofHuman Ecology, said the pro-

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and computer science — toencompass areas like cancer andgenetic research, medical imag-ing, environmental research andmaterial science, according to aUniversity press release.

RDI2 plans to offer a master ofbusiness and science program inDiscovery Informatics and DataSciences, according to the RDI2fact sheet. The center also plans tooffer training and support servicesto industrial and academic users, asit makes more resources available.

Richard Teitelbaum, the IBMclient executive for the state, saidhe had personal and professionalinterest in participating in the project.

Teitelbaum, who graduatedthe University in 1976,

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Biological Sciences GoverningCouncil, said as a two-yearCook resident, he has experi-enced both the window hoursto pick up mail and the oldlock-and-key systems imple-mented on Cook campus.

“Lockers would be muchmore convenient,” Abuhouransaid of the new system. “They’remore accessible during the day,especially for students that havetheir own schedules to follow.”

Since Salice started as MailServices manager in June 2011,he began to work on changingthe state of the mail system.

“The mailboxes are very old,so companies don’t even existanymore to fix the mailboxes,”Scalice said. “So it’s very difficultto fix a mailbox — we usually justhave to move a student around.”

Scalice conducted a mail sys-tem survey last summer with thehelp of 40 student workers. Healso enlisted 100 graduate stu-dents to test out the ByBox sys-tem during the summer session.

The survey allowed Scaliceto analyze the number of pack-ages coming in, the sizes of theincoming packages, identifythe high and low volume peri-ods and to evaluate customerservice complaints.

Results revealed that about84,000 packages were receivedbetween Sept. 1, 2011 to the endof January 2012. Mail Servicessees the highest incoming pack-age traffic during the first monthof each semester, Halloween andValentine’s Day, Scalice said.

Scalice also facilitated theinstallation of stamp kiosks at allthe mail centers this academic

year to allow students to pur-chase stamps when the postoffice window is closed.

At the kiosks, students maypurchase stamp books, expressand priority stamps, and soon,supply stamps, he said.

Mail Services plans to install amail chute for outgoing mail, inaddition to the larger outgoingdrop boxes that were installed inFebruary 2012, he said.

“We also identified that thesystem we have now has been ineffect forever,” Scalice said. “It’sjust not working anymore. Wewould get a lot of complaints fromstudents about customer serviceand a change was needed.”

Construction of the new elec-tronic mailbox system is sched-uled to begin soon afterUniversity Commencement onMay 13.

While the total number ofbank modules per mail center willdepend on the campus, Buschcampus will likely have the mostbanks because it holds the high-est student resident population.There is a total of 14,000 individ-ual units to match the number ofresidential students at theUniversity, he said.

Current Mail Servicesemployees working windowhours will be absorbed back intoMail Services to avoid lay offs.

The Livingston campus mailcenter renovation will be delayeduntil the Tillett Hall constructionprojects finish.

“[The new system] is anincredible way of recognizingthat students have very hecticlives,” said Whelply, a School ofArts and Sciences junior.

and the New Brunswick Police Department.

Cahill said the city is alsoengaging in more bicycle patrolsand encouraging residents toknow their community liaison,who is a non-police officer forthose who do not feel comfort-able speaking with the police.

Giovanelli’s late-night hoursalso became a security concern,which were brought to the coun-cil’s attention last month whencrime rates in the area were high.

Despite the concern overlate hours at this local busi-ness, the New BrunswickDiner opened this month on a24-hour schedule.

“There’s a difference — onedraws in a larger crowd duringlunch, while the other draws in acrowd at night,” Cahill said.

Because the 24-hour-diner isstill new, the council will takeaction if any concerns arebrought to its attention, Cahill said.

The “Student Connections”program also administers sur veys about the city asking students if they had anyissues, in order to find outmore about student concerns,Kirkpatrick said.

Another feature of the sur-vey is a portion where studentscan indicate their interest inbeing contacted about theirparticular issue, so someonewith the city can reach out tothem to address individualconcerns, Kirkpatrick said.

The “Student Connections”program will travel to the restof the University campuses forthe next four weeks,Kirkpatrick said.

alluded to his time as an undergraduate.

“Thirty-five years ago, I remem-ber coming to the Hill Center,where the supercomputer ishoused, to feed punch cards intothe main frame there,” he said.

When Teitelbaum becameaware IBM sought collaborationopportunities with national univer-sities, the University jumped tomind as one of the places to poten-tially start the project, he said.

“It’s not about the machine.It’s not about the hardware,”Teitelbaum said. “It’s about thesubstantive research that ourresearchers and [theUniversity’s] researchers hope tocollaborate with.”

Working with academiaallows the expertise of placeslike the University to mergewith other leading edgeresearchers in the industry andgain leverage out of large-scaleresources like “Excalibur,” saidMichael Henesey, vice presi-

dent of business developmentat IBM.

“You would think withresources like this, Rutgers and theindustry with the state of NewJersey [will] be able to computa-tionally serve those waves of datathat are inevitable and upon usnow,” Henesey said.

Kim Guadagno, who taught atRutgers-Newark Law School from2001 to 2009 before entering publicoffice, said she attended the com-memoration event to market thestate of New Jersey.

Plans for the development of anadvanced computation center,Innovation Park@Rutgers, areunderway. The development isexpected to cost $72 million, wouldcreate 722 direct and indirect jobsand absorb about $53 million instate gross domestic product by2013, Guadagno said.

The University’s computing cen-ter would rank eight among thenation’s 62 scientific computer cen-ters, Guadagno said.

posed system of hands-on experi-ence in courses would not workin the modern world.

“These kinds of opportunitiesthat he’s talking about would begreat additional opportunities if thestudents were here on campus allthe time,” Van Abs said.

Christopher Smith, a School ofEnvironmental and BiologicalSciences junior, said these coursescould benefit the University’s repu-tation in the educational community.

“It would draw a lot of peopleto come into Rutgers,” Smithsaid. “It would boost our stand-ings. Students would definitelyenjoy it. I know I would.”

Van Abs said he believes teach-ing children early on will help themin their future and will probably bemore effective.

“If students were given hands-onexperience in middle school andhigh school as I was, then theycome into college expecting theseopportunities instead of havingthem be a revelation,” he said.

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Middlesex centers bring care to local veterans BY GIANCARLO CHAUX

METRO EDITOR

New Jersey is home to morethan 400,000 veterans, with over33,000 living in MiddlesexCounty alone. The significantveteran population has led to thedevelopment of centers acrossthe county that provide aid tothose who served, said Sgt.Armando Vasquez, public affairsspecialist for the VeteransMemorial Home in Edison.

“It’s just the right thing todo,” Vasquez said. “Obviously,veterans sacrifice a lot whenthey enlist. It’s the least we cando when they come back andneed help in their twilight years.It’s an ode of gratitude from thestate of New Jersey as well asthe nation.”

The memorial home, a 332-bed facility, was rebuilt in 1999to help veterans who are in needof assistance or shelter, he said.

“Basically, what they do atthe center is provide compre-hensive ser vices for NewJersey veterans. They havearound-the-clock medical andnursing care, which is providedby a full-time staf f of physiciansand nurses, as well as recre-ational activities for [the resi-dents],” Vasquez said.

Veterans come to the areaafter serving in many differentwars across the world, yet theyall share in common the factthat they spent a part of theirlife protecting the country theylove, he said.

“The Vietnam veterans inNew Jersey are close to 140,000.We have 78,000 Gulf War veter-

ans, about 61,000 from theKorean conflict and about55,000 World War II veterans,”he said.

Vasquez said while there is agreat amount of aid delivered bythe staff at the local centers,there is still a lot that local resi-dents and students can offer theveterans in their communitieswho need support.

“I would say they could domore volunteering,” he said.“There are many organizationsthat are veteran-friendly, so justv o l u n t e e r i n gwhenever theyhave any eventsgoing on to sup-port veteranswould be veryhelpful to theirpopulation.”

Veterans inMiddlesex canalso find supportat the many cen-ters inPiscataway, such as theAmerican Legion Post on SouthWashington Avenue, saidGeorge Morris, assistant barmanager at the Post.

The Post provides veteranswith a wide range of assistance,including wheelchair drives, aswell as recreational activities,Morris said. It is a way for vet-erans from the different wars toget together and socialize.

“We aid veterans dating backfrom wars such as Korea andVietnam right up to Grenadaand Iraq,” he said.

Morris believes the local non-veteran public appreciates the work

done at the center as well, and vol-unteers often work hand-in-handwith community organizations suchas the Boy Scouts to better reachout to the veteran population.

Tom O’Connell, a member ofthe Legion Post and veteran of theVietnam War, said the veteransare happy to find places that takecare of them and their needs.

“After the Vietnam War, thecountry really spurned veter-ans, so here they have a place tocongregate, have parties and

picnics,” saidO’Connell, a localr e s i d e n t .“[Legion] is a selfsufficient organi-zation that wasstarted afterWorld War I inFrance, and thenit spread to theUnited States.”

O’Connell saidPiscataway ise s p e c i a l l yinvolved in veter-

an af fairs, considering theamount of residents in the townwho have previously servedtheir country.

O’Connell believes recenttimes have been kind to thelocal veterans and said the com-munity in general has grown toappreciate the population —something he did not experi-ence when he initially returnedfrom Vietnam.

“I’ve found that there is morerespect for veterans,” he said.“We lost that after Vietnam.There were parades for thereturning [World War II] vets,but during Vietnam, when there

were anti-war demonstrations,veterans were more or less treat-ed as [second-class] citizens.”

Initiatives to help veterans canalso be found at the University,where the Veterans Services pro-gram makes efforts to create asmooth path for returning stu-dents who have served in the cur-rent war, said Stephen Abel,director of Veterans Services.

“We serve as a one-stop shopfor Rutgers student veterans tohelp them with any issues thatthey may have — whether theyare school-related or not — thatwould distract them from gettinga quality education,” Abel said.

Returning students, themajority coming from either Iraqor Afghanistan, can find a repre-sentative from Veterans Servicesin virtually every student agencyoffice across campus, Abel said.

The Veterans Services officewas established in July 2010 buthas already gained plauditsfrom several publications acrossthe nation, Abel said. The mostimportant of these is theMilitary Times, a weekly news-paper with a readership of overone million people.

“Rutgers was ranked the third[college for veterans] in thecountry among all four-year col-leges in the nation … and No. 1among all large universities,”Abel said. “ So … we have beenable to go a very long way in arelatively short period of time interms of national recognition.”

The center has helped closeto 850 veterans so far with morethan 2,700 separate issues,including counseling and finan-cial problems, Abel said.

A 42-year-old Perth Amboyman will receive his sentenceMay 20 for fatally beating hiswife two years ago and dump-ing her body in Virginia.

Franklin Camacho Jr. faces20 years in prison withoutparole as per a plea bargainwith the Middlesex CountyProsecutor’s Office, in whichhe pleaded guilty to one mur-der count, according to nj.com.

Camacho admittedThursday to Superior CourtJudge Joseph Paone to strikingLeonilda Caceres, 45, numer-ous times in the head with asmall sledgehammer at theirhome around Jan. 20, 2010,according to Middlesex CountyProsecutor Bruce Kaplan.

Caceres’ family filed a miss-ing persons report afterCamacho told them that U.S.immigration authorities arrest-ed Caceres, according tonj.com.

This was the same storyCamacho gave to police whenthey visited his apartment onMadison Avenue, according tonj.com.

Police followed Camachoafter he left his house, trackinghim via cellphone. Virginiapolice found Caceres’s bodyJan. 21, 2010 in a trashcan in ashopping center parking lot inWoodbridge, Va., according tonj.com.

Camacho is being held on$2 million bail at the MiddlesexCounty Jail.

MAN RECEIVESSENTENCE AFTERMURDERING WIFE

“It’s an ode of gratitude

from the state of New Jersey, as well

as the nation.”SGT. ARMANDO VASQUEZPublic Affairs Specialist for the

Veterans Memorial Home

Theoretically, though,the University could sur-vive — albeit unpleasantlyand in a form unrecogniz-able to current students —by raising tuition, cuttingcosts and finding alternatesources of funding.Students and faculty, onthe other hand, are the

lifeblood of a university, and this proposedschool in southern New Jersey would threaten todraw away bright minds that would otherwise beattracted to the University. All of these factorstogether — the loss of state and federal funding,the loss of the resources of Rutgers-Camden andthe increased competition for the brightest fac-

ulty and students — would inthe long run have disastrousef fects on the value of aUniversity education. And if youdon’t think that will retroactive-ly af fect the value of yourdegree, think again. As the pres-tige of a University educationdiminishes, so will the prestigeof being a University alumnus. I,for one, would prefer to see thatprestige increase.

So I’m afraid this is an issue you cannot affordto ignore. But to understand what precisely isgoing on, some history is needed. Christie com-missioned the N.J. Higher Education Task Force,headed by former Gov. Thomas Kean, in summer2010 to look into ways to restructure higher edu-cation in the state, with an eye toward cuttingcosts while improving the quality. The findings ofthis commission, unveiled in January 2011, includ-ed about 70 individual proposals. But the mostambitious by far was a proposal that the Universitymerge with the University of Medicine andDentistry of New Jersey — or, more accurately,the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and theSchool of Public Health within UMDNJ. The Keancommission made no mention of separatingRutgers-Camden from the University. Indeed, thecommission called for a greater commitment tosupporting Rutgers-Camden as an integral part ofthe State University of New Jersey.

The proposal, of course, to merge theUniversity with parts of UMDNJ, called for

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STORY IN UNIVERSITY

QUOTE OF THE DAY

M an the towers,lower the gates,ready our

defenses — the Universityis under assault.

As you all go about yourdaily business as a studenthere at the University,Rutgers-Camden is the tar-get of what its faculty hastermed a “hostile takeover” by Rowan University.Gov. Chris Christie, in what appears to be an unex-pected alliance with the Democratic president ofthe N.J. Senate, Stephen Sweeney, is pushing hardfor a proposal that would transfer “all of Rutgers-Camden’s property, assets and state funding” toRowan. In other words, Christie, Sweeney and allwho support this deal are propos-ing that Rutgers-Camden —undoubtedly an essential ele-ment of what allows theUniversity to proudly wear themoniker of “The State Universityof New Jersey” — be ripped awayfrom us and given, for nothing inreturn, to Rowan.

This is not some abstractnational debate that will have lit-tle consequence on your dailylife. If the merger is allowed to proceed, you willfeel it. Funding from both the federal and stategovernments will decrease at a time when tuitionis already growing steadily and funding from thestate is already woefully inadequate, and onlybecoming more so. The resources of Rutgers-Camden — including a world-renowned law schoolfrom which my father graduated in 1985 — wouldno longer be a valuable component of the greaterUniversity community. But the real dangers of thismerger — the worst effects of allowing this deal togo through — would be felt three, five or even 10years down the road. With the presence of a newresearch university in southern New Jersey — thelanguage used by supporters of this proposal, as ifto ignore the fact that Rutgers-Camden is part of aresearch university already — would come conse-quences that would gradually erode the value of aUniversity education. For instance, the new insti-tution would be a direct competitor to theUniversity for students, faculty and state funding.State funding, as I have already mentioned, isalready in jeopardy, and that’s without adding theload of another state university on top of that.

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University under attack

T wenty teenagers from Nassau County, Long Island, N.Y., werearrested last fall for being caught cheating on college entranceexams. The students used fake IDs to take the tests — either

the SAT or the ACT — for other students. To prevent future instancesof cheating from occurring, the SATs and the ACTs now require stu-dents to upload photos of themselves when they register for the exam,which proctors would check on the day of the test.

Cheating on college entrance exams happens, and we understand thatofficials would want to decrease the number of cases in which such cheat-ing takes place. This type of cheating is unfair to everyone. But we questionhow serious a problem cheating actually is on these exams, and whethersuch a measure will be more effective than those currently in place.

As college students, we all remember the long, arduous processthat accompanies both registering for the SATs or ACTs, and sittingthrough four hours of tedious bubble-filling on the day of the exam. Itwas also repeatedly instilled in us throughout our high school careersjust how important these exams would be. Because of this, most, if notall students tend to take these exams pretty seriously — and cheatingseems to be a rare occurrence.

Of course, with the sheer number of students — more than 2 mil-lion in 2010-2011 alone, according to College Board — cheating isbound to take place. The current preventative measures taken againstcheating, which, among other things, require students to bring a photoID on the day of the test, does much to deter students from this.Requiring students to upload photos upon registration, then, seemslike an unneeded and ineffective step. It’s easy to imagine a deter-mined student finding a way around this requirement, too.

Perhaps a better solution to cheating on these exams lies with in-classproctors — who monitor students on the day of the exam and are alsoresponsible for checking and verifying students — is indeed who theyclaim to be. As much attention must be paid to these proctors, under whommost cases of cheating seem to go unchecked, as the registration process.

“Rutgers-Camden is the target of what

its faculty has termed a ‘hostile takeover’

by Rowan University.”

SAT, ACT cheatingmeasures unneeded

Employers mustrespect privacy

S ocial media is a relatively young player in the lives of individu-als in the digital age. The way in which we use this form ofmedia is constantly changing — as is the way in which it’s han-

dled in regard to certain legal statutes. The recent trial of Dharun Ravi,a former University student charged with spying on his roommate viawebcam, is just one example of this.

It’s true that the line between the acceptable and unacceptable inonline conduct remains hazy, but there are some boundaries that youjust don’t cross.

This notion was made clear after The Associated Press reported lastweek that private and public agencies across the nation have been asking jobseekers for their social media login information, including Facebook andemail passwords. The companies were doing so in order to “vet applicants,”using information dug up from Facebook profiles to decide whether a givenapplicant was right for the job. In an age when Facebook profiles often housean individual’s entire personal life, such conduct is comparable to requestingthe keys to a person’s home — neither of which would ever be acceptable.

The actions of these companies have, of course, shocked many.Beyond privacy matters, the practice seems to run contrary to federal lawitself. Nationwide employment laws specifically prohibit companies fromdiscriminating based on race, gender, age, and religious preference — allof which can be found on an applicant’s Facebook profile. U.S. senatorshave already begun to inquire into the legality of such practices — thoughwe see little controversy in the matter.

We can come up with no interpretation of these practices that woulddeem them, in any sense, legal. Facebook profiles are extremely person-al. It’s one thing for an employer to peruse the publicly displayed sectionsof an applicant’s profile page, but it’s something entirely different whenthat same employer requests the keys to the back door, so to speak. Thenature of a Facebook profile is such that a person can easily customizewhat is made public and what is kept private, and while few may tend toutilize this feature, the option itself is an integral part of ensuring an indi-vidual’s privacy on the web.

The question of whether this sort of invasive conduct should be consid-ered illegal simply underlines the infancy of social media itself. The laws haveyet to catch up with reality. But as students who have grown up with suchtechnology and have a clear sense of how deeply personal our Facebook pro-files can be, this is definitely a line that employers should not cross.

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additional scrutiny, and Christiesubsequently appointed anothercommission. Sol Barer, formerchief executive of ficer andchairman of Celgene, headedthis one to explore ways ofimplementing Kean’s sugges-tion. The commission had com-pleted its objective by summer2011, and the process of inte-grating RWJMS and the Schoolof Public Health into theUniversity had begun.

But then, instead of disband-ing the commission, Christiegave them a new mandate.Christie essentially asked theBarer commission to review thestate of higher education in NewJersey. And out of that surpriseturn of events came the currentproposal — the merger betweenRutgers-Camden and Rowan.

It’s important to note thatthis timeline of events clarifiessomething the media has unfor-tunately done a very poor job ofnoting — that the UMDNJmerger and the Rowan-Camdenmerger are not and should notbe considered two parts of apackaged deal. There are manyreasons why this is so. First off,a UMDNJ merger with someother institution is inevitable —the school is financially trou-bled, and its future over thenext few years is uncertain atbest. If it were to becomeunable to support RWJMS andthe School of Public Health,those assets would need to bepicked up by another institu-tion, and the University hap-pens to be in the best positionto do that. The University, onthe other hand, is in no dangerof being unable to financiallysupport Rutgers-Camden. Tothe contrary, in fact, theUniversity has recently investedseveral million dollars in newfacilities on its Camden campus.Furthermore, the UMDNJmerger would be building upona strong partnership thatalready exists. Faculty at theUniversity, for instance, arealready engaged in importantcollaborations with faculty atRWJMS, such as with theCancer Institute of New Jersey,and an integration of the twoseparate faculties could onlyincrease their ability to conductsignificant, cutting-edgeresearch. To my knowledge, nosuch extensive partnershipexists between Rutgers-Camden and Rowan. This is notto say that the two institutionsdo not collaborate at all, but cer-tainly not to the degree that theUniversity and RWJMS do.

Ultimately, this is the kind ofdeal that one normally refers toas a “sweetheart deal” forRowan. They get Rutgers-Camden, and all of its assets,and in return they give up noth-ing. In fact, if this deal has sofew positives — except for thegeneric, vague and poorly-defined benefit of “bringingjobs to southern New Jersey” —you may be wondering: Whatdoes it accomplish? Well, it’s anundeniably good deal forRowan. See, UMDNJ isn’t theonly financially troubled institu-tion in New Jersey. Rowan facesdif ficulties of its own.Specifically, Rowan’s debt load

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is nearly five times that ofRutgers-Camden. In otherwords, for the amount of assetsRowan owns, it has a dispropor-tionately high level of debt.

As a result, they are in a pre-carious economic position, andin particular may find it difficultto raise additional money in thenear future. The addition of theassets of Rutgers-Camdenwould serve to significantly alle-viate this debt burden.

But why should Sweeney orChristie care about Rowan’sdebt load? In an ideal world, Iwould say that they do not —that they are genuinely doingwhat they believe is best forRutgers-Camden, Rowan andthe state. But this is far from anideal world. This is New Jersey,and politics in this state is notthe cleanest of competitions.George Norcross, an N.J. insur-ance executive, happens to be aparticularly powerful supporterof this merger — particularlypowerful because he happens tobe the closest thing we have to aliving, breathing William “Boss”Tweed. An nj.com article refersto him as Sweeney’s “politicalpatron and Democratic power.” Isuppose this is a nice way of say-ing that this unelected individ-ual is one of the most powerfulpolitical players in the state.And, coincidentally, he happensto be chairman of CooperUniversity Hospital’s Board ofTrustees, which has just recent-ly launched a joint medical pro-gram with Rowan. Again, in aperfect world, this would hardlybe worth mentioning. But in pol-itics, and especially in N.J. poli-tics, it would be naïve to believetoo strongly in coincidences.

The Rutgers-Camden deal isfar from finalized. The propo-nents of the deal themselveshardly know how they wouldaccomplish such a Herculeanreorganization effort. Christie,of course, thinks he has theability to do so through anexecutive order, and intends tosign that order as early as July1. This would, of course, incurlegal challenges and thus couldfeasibly take longer than if thedeal is passed through the leg-islature, as Sweeney would pre-fer. But no matter which formthe reorganization takes, it hasto be approved by both theUniversity Board of Trusteesand Board of Governors. At thispoint, the approval of the Boardof Trustees, at least, appears tobe uncertain at best. But givenChristie’s knack for bullyinghis opponents into submission,we students cannot afford toleave the defense of ourbeloved University to our politi-cal allies in Trenton. We cannotafford to ignore the situationand hope it works out for thebest. Make no mistake: This isa titanic political struggle, withmany complicated and conflict-ing interests. The powerfulplayers all think they dictatethe rules and make all themoves. They do not think of thestudents except as pawns. Well,so be it. As any chess masterwill tell you, it can be a gravemistake to ignore a pawn. Let’smake sure the powers that bekeep that in mind.

Sam Berman is a School ofArts and Sciences sophomore.His column normally runs onalternate Fridays.

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R utgers head men’sbasketball coachMike Rice was

named to the NABCCoaches vs. Cancer Council,along with Missouri’s FrankHaith and BYU’s Dave Rose.

The council helps coordi-nate the NABC with theAmerican Cancer Societyand business leaders tocome up with new ways ofraising funds in the fightagainst cancer.

Rice became the fifth BigEast coach on the council,joining Syracuse’s JimBoeheim, Connecticut’s JimCalhoun, Notre Dame’sMike Brey and DePaul’sOliver Purnell. Duke headcoach Mike Krzyzewski andNorth Carolina head coachRoy Williams are also onthe council.

THE RUTGERSfootball team will wear padsfor the first time tomorrowafter beginning its springpractice season Tuesday.

The Scarlet Knights’ firstfull-team scrimmage isscheduled for Saturday, April7, at High Point SolutionsStadium, head coach KyleFlood announced.

But a number of regu-lars, including three-yearstarter Scott Vallone andBig East Co-DefensivePlayer of the Year KhaseemGreene, will not participatebecause of injury.

Flood said he plans toevaluate each unit in six-practice increments. Thefirst scrimmage provides thefirst look for the coachingstaff in a game situation.

SOPHOMORE ALEXISGunzelman has qualified forthe NCAA Regional gymnas-tics competition.

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The score placed herfifth, the best finish record-ed by a Knight in school his-tory at the EAGLs.

DETROIT TIGERS THIRDbaseman Miguel Cabrerahas been cleared to return toaction Wednesday after suf-fering a fractured rightorbital bone.

A batted ball hitCabrera under the righteye last week during anexhibition game with thePhiladelphia Phillies. Theinjur y required eightstitches, but Cabrera toldrepor ters it would notkeep him from being readyfor Opening Day.

WORD ON THE STREET

Watching his recruit in hisrookie season, Brecht likensGoss an impor tant puzzlepiece in building the programmoving forward.

“He is a talented player and astarter for us in the midfield,”Brecht said “He is someone thatwill continue with us and that wecan build a program around overthe next four years.”

Playing as a unit with co-cap-tains Diehl and Mangan is one ofthe biggest benefits Goss enjoysat Rutgers.

The two seniors are two of theKnights’ most consistent offen-sive sparks.

Along with the rookie Goss,the duo has been one of the mostsolid units of the Rutgers offensethis season, Brecht said.

“[Diehl and Mangan] havebeen able to protect him a littlebit and maybe draw some atten-tion away from him,” Brechtsaid. “That group has been verygood and very strong, and hascomplimented each other verywell this year.”

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agreeing to a home-and-homeseries beginning next season inFayetteville, Ark. The contestwith the Razorbacks highlights afour-game stretch in whichRutgers plays three road gamesto start the season.

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Athletic Director Tim Pernetti worked to fill voids left by TCUand West Virginia in the Knights’ schedule in 2012.

LEAGUE: ESPN returns

to Rutgers for Louisville game

RUTGERS 2012 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE

DateSaturday, Sept. 1 Saturday, Sept. 8 Saturday, Sept. 15 Saturday, Sept. 22 Saturday, Oct. 6 Saturday, Oct. 13 Saturday, Oct. 20 Saturday, Oct. 27 Saturday, Nov. 10 Saturday, Nov. 17 Saturday, Nov. 24 Thursday, Nov. 29

LocationNew OrleansHigh Point SolutionsTampaFayetteville, Ark.High Point Solutions High Point Solutions PhiladelphiaHigh Point Solutions High Point Solutions CincinnatiPittsburghHigh Point Solutions

Last MeetingL, 17-14 (2010) W, 45-7 (2009) W (OT), 20-17 (2011) First meeting L, 40-22 (2011) W (2OT), 19-16 (2011) W, 16-6 (2004) W, 29-21 (2004) W, 27-12 (2011) W, 20-3 (2011) W, 34-10 (2011)L, 16-14 (2011)

OpponentTulaneHowardSouth FloridaArkansasConnecticut SyracuseTempleKent StateArmyCincinnatiPittsburghLouisville

“You’re going to play the roadgames at some point,” said headcoach Kyle Flood. “I’m not reallyconcerned about it. We’re excitedabout our first game at Tulane,but we have a lot of things to dobefore that. Our focus will beone-game seasons.”

Pernetti’s focus swirledaround making one-game sea-sons possible. TCU and WestVirginia’s leave meant holes onthe schedule, filled in part by

playing Temple at Philadelphia’sLincoln Financial Field.

But the process was far moreencompassing than that,Pernetti said.

“I’m not sure there weremany schools we didn’t talk toduring the process,” he said.“There are not a lot of opportu-nities out there.”

One returned following afew years’ absence. ESPNpicks up the Knights’ seasonfinale against Louisville at HighPoint Solutions Stadium,returning a Thursday nightmatchup to Piscataway.

Rutgers’ rise to the nationalconsciousness occurred in largepart to Thursday games, espe-cially its 2006 win against thethen-No. 2 Cardinals.

Pernetti sat at attention withplayers in the team’s media roomfollowing practice. A return toThursday quickly became thefocus, he said.

“They were excited. Goingback to 2006 and in that period ofa few years, Thursday nightgames became a major eventdown here,” Pernetti said. “We’vehad a lot of good success on thefield in those games. … You can’tbuy that kind of national expo-sure for your football program.”

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Junior Ashley Bragg snapped her four-game hit streak Sundayin the final game of a three-game set against South Florida.

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teams riding three-game losing streaks.

For Nelson, it is more aboutlimiting the issues than anythingelse in the game.

“The challenge is to keepyour team aggressive,” he said.“When you make a mistake,you should get right back afterit and don’t let one mistaketurn into two or three mis-takes, because then you reallyget into a hole.”

Keeping the same intensitylevel will be dif ficult for theKnights because of their oppo-nent. Based on rankings, SetonHall will likely not present thesame type of challenge thatRutgers’ last two opponents did.

But junior shortstop AshleyBragg does not think that matters.

WINS: High intensity, fewerrors remain focal points

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“It’s the same approach,” Fasanosaid. “[I need] first-pitch strikes,same thing every time. I just have toattack the hitters — can’t give themfree outs with walks.”

Fasano’s experience as a spotstarter makes him accustomed tolimited rest. He allowed twoearned runs in seven inningsagainst Stetson on March 16 in a3-0 loss.

Pitching four days later, whenhe shut out Rider, was not a prob-lem. He views this start as simplyanother time he moves aroundthe schedule.

“So far this year I’ve pitched ona Friday, pitched on a Saturday,pitched on a Wednesday,” Fasanosaid. “The only day left is a Sunday,so it’s just another day to pitch.”

The bullpen served eightinnings after Corsi departed inthe 9-6 win. The relieversallowed only three earned runsduring that stretch.

Three Knights pitched lessthan an inning. Head coach FredHill wants more.

MATCHUP: RU pitcher

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Her aim is for the Knights tocome out the same way they didin their win against No. 18Florida State.

“[Big East teams are] all com-petitive, and we just need to faceeach of them equally in order toget the results that we want,” shesaid. “It doesn’t matter whetherwe’re playing South Florida,Seton Hall, Florida State. We’restill going to come out and try toplay our game.”

The matchup also givesRutgers a good chance to jump-start its offense following threeconsecutive shutouts at the handsof the Big East’s best pitching staff.

The Knights recorded onlyseven hits in the series against theBulls and want to use the finalgame — a 1-0 loss that was con-siderably closer than in the firsttwo games — as momentum,Bragg said.

They need that momentum ifthey want to avoid remaining inthe Big East basement.

“We have to find some guysthat can maybe come in andgive us more than a coupleouts,” he said.

Along with durability, Wagnerpresents the Rutgers (11-10, 2-1)pitching with the challenge ofspeed. The Seahawks have stolen27 bases in 32 attempts.

“You have to adjust to that,”Hill said. “You pay a little moreattention to the guy who youthink is going to run. You’rethrowing over there a little bitmore, putting on a couple ofpickoff plays to let them knowthat you know and try to slowthem down.”

Certain baseball plays makelasting impressions, such as ahome run, a diving catch or pitch-ing to a batter’s head.

If Wagner wants to make animpression on Litterio, its bestchance is aggressiveness on thebase paths. Litterio would notdoubt a successful outing fromhis former team.

“They’re actually doingreally well,” he said. “Theyhaven’t lost a weekend seriesin three weeks right now, sothat’s helpful for me to givesome inside pointers to helpour team here.”

Sophomore Stefania Balasa owns a perfect 5-0 record in Big Eastsingles play and has a team-best 10 wins in No. 4 singles.

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BY BRADLY DERECHAILOCORRESPONDENT

The Rutgers tennis team’s4-3 victory against St. John’son Sunday yielded a familiar

ou tcomein No. 4

singles play: a win for theScarlet Knights.

Rutgers sophomore StefaniaBalasa can take credit for thesuccess in the No. 4 singlesposition. Balasa defeated theRed Storm’s Nakita Austin, 6-4,6-2, moving her conferencerecord in singles to 5-0. As ofSunday’s match, she also sportsa 10-3 overall singles record,good for first on the team in thewin column.

“After a year of competing,I’ve come to understand what youneed to play well,” she said.

Balasa has embraced her rolein No. 4 singles, as she was in thefifth position last season.

Head coach Ben Bucca hasbeen able to rely on Balasa’s playthis season, something he creditsto her work ethic she demon-strated during the summer.

“[Balasa] has really developedinto a hardworking and disci-plined athlete,” Bucca said. “Shehas worked very hard on her fit-ness and it shows.”

Bucca said her conditioninghas resulted in her movingfaster than she ever has on thecourt, which enables her tocover more ground.

But conditioning has notalways been Balasa’s favoritepart of the game, the second-year player said. It took a sug-gestion from a fellow teammateto get her motivated and becomeone of the team’s most consis-tent players in singles.

“Last year, [senior] JenHolzberg asked me if I wantedto go for a run with her. So Istarted running with her andthen running on my own,”Balasa said. “When I was in high

TENNIS

Sophomore enjoysbenefits of practice

ENRICO CABREDO / ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

BY TYLER BARTOSPORTS EDITOR

In a way, Rutgers head foot-ball coach Kyle Flood has theUniversity’s labor studies andemployment relations major tothank for landing its most expe-rienced offensive lineman.

Sure, Flood recruited tackleR.J. Dill out of high school andagain when Dill decided to transfer from Maryland in the off-season. Still, the School ofManagement and Labor Relationsoffered the fifth-year senior some-thing Maryland could not, open-ing the door for an NCAA waiver.

“I gave the University ofMaryland what I owed them,” Dillsaid. “This was an opportunity forme to make a change. I neededthis change for me, personally. Iwasn’t very happy there last year.”

The 6-foot-7 Dill started 33games for the Terrapins, includ-ing 30 in a row across a four-yearcareer. But former Connecticuthead coach Randy Edsall tookover in College Park, Md., a yearago, forcing out longtime coachRalph Friedgen.

The Scarlet Knights landedDill on Dec. 21, bolstering anoffensive line that lost threestarters to graduation.

“Rutgers is going to have agood offensive line here foryears to come,” Dill said. “Butme, I’m kind of a finished prod-uct. Can I get better? Yes, but[the younger] guys have moregrowth to do than I do.”

The NCAA ruling allowinggraduates to transfer — providedthey find a program their previousschool does not offer — remainsrelatively new. But Dill insists hewas not a “free agent,” willing toagree to terms for the best oppor-tunity to play.

SPRING PRACTICE NOTEBOOK EXPERIENCED DILL EMBRACES TRANSFER

RAMON DOMPOR / SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / FILE PHOTO

Kyle Flood took part yesterday in his first spring practice ashead coach, overseeing the team’s various units.

school, I didn’t really appreciaterunning and never really wantedto go for a run.”

That school lies five minutesaway, where Bucca recruitedBalasa while she played at EastBrunswick High School. Buccabelieved the combination of play-ing close to home and the factthat her older sister, Alina, com-peted for the Knights would sellher on the school.

But initially it had the oppo-site ef fect.

“I wanted to get as far away aspossible,” Balasa said. “You lovewhat your older sibling has done,but you kind of want to do yourown thing.”

Balasa considered Wisconsinand Maryland among otherschools, but realized Rutgers waswhere she wanted to continueher career.

Freshman Noor Judeh isthankful for that choice. Judehpairs with Balasa in No. 3 dou-bles. Though the duo is only 4-5in doubles action, it has won twoin a row. Balasa’s experience hashelped Judeh ease into her firstseason competing in doubles,Judeh said.

“Before I played college ten-nis, all I played was just singles,so I was always focused on justmyself,” she said. “[Balasa] wasmy doubles partner from thebeginning and taught me how tobe a team player and how topump up our teammates.”

She and her teammates haveresponded to the support, win-ning two straight matches tobring their record to 8-6.

The winning ways are some-thing Bucca can get used to,like he has with the results of his team’s No. 4 singlesplayer and her accomplish-ments this season.

“She has had a good year,”Bucca said. “Her success hersophomore year has much to dowith the effort she has put intothe sport.”

“In my opinion, that makes itseem like it’s all about football,”he said. “I came here for anopportunity both academicallyand athletically. It was not solelyabout football because I was on a2-10 team last year.”

Dill practiced for the firsttime with the Knights yesterdayand began spring practice as asecond-teamer. But Flood said inhis introductory spring pressconference he foresees Dill lob-bying to start.

FLOOD’S COACHINGstaff worked with players for thefirst time on the field, givingFlood his first glimpse of thecoaches he assembled.

A majority of them were familiar.

“That was critical,” Floodsaid. “Some of the guys on staffI’ve seen … guys like DaveCohen, Rob Spence, DaveBrock. I’ve worked with them

for a significant amount of time.I had a very good feel for whatthey would be like.”

Another, Damian Wroblewski,takes over Flood’s former postwith the offensive line, whichFlood pointed to as an area ofattention, among others.

“The positions that I’m mostinterested in are the ones thatdon’t have true, establishedstarters or two starters,” Floodsaid. “The quarterback positionis certainly going to be a focalpoint. The running back positionis going to be a focal point.”

Flood walked the staffthrough the practice fieldMonday, the finishing touches toplans Flood rehearsed religiously.

“Anxious is a good word. As astaff, I think we went over thepractice plan about 100 times justto make sure,” Flood said. “Wehave new coaches. It really wasn’tme — I know how the field is setup, I know where the drills go.”

the school sued the conference and agreedto a buyout plan.

“I’ve already been talking to the leagueand explaining to the league how we view thesituation and how we can be made whole onit,” Pernetti said.

The league could earn as much as $20million from West Virginia’s buyout, coupledwith TCU’s exit fee and the entrance fee offive schools for the 2013 season.

But the uncertainty of conference realign-ment affected Pernetti’s ability to schedulenon-conference opponents, he said. TheKnights could have looked to anotherDivision I-AA opponent after schedulingHoward on Sept. 8 in their home opener.

“That’s just not for us anymore,” Pernettisaid. “We’re not doing that again.”

So Southeastern Conference powerArkansas became the most desirable option,

Beside extra motivation, Wagner’sother advantage is senior pitcher RyanFasano’s expected innings limit on the mound.

Fasano’s duty as a spot starter pushedhim to the team’s usual midweek games,but he may need to make another startfour days later.

Junior pitcher Rob Corsi left after one-plus innings Saturday against Seton Hallbecause of injury. If the lefthander isunable to pitch this weekend, that meansanother spot start for Fasano on Sundayagainst Georgetown.

Hill capped Fasano to three innings atmost against Wagner (9-14) because of thepossibility of the extra start. Corsi’s injuryultimately means Fasano will pitch at leastsix innings less than his shutout March 21against Rider.

Senior pitcher Ryan Fasano shut out Rider on March 21 in his last start, but Fred Hill,the Knights’ head coach, will limit the righthander to three innings against Wagner.

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Pernetti to discuss financial obligations with league

Knights seekrebound winsat Seton Hall

BY JOEY GREGORYASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

After a turbulent run-in with No. 16 SouthFlorida, the Rutgers softball team left theSunshine State winless in Big East play.

Back in NewJersey, the ScarletKnights’ next oppo-nent, Seton Hall,suffered its ownrout, droppingthree games to a

sub-.500 Connecticut team.Now both teams limp into South Orange,

N.J., today for a doubleheader in hopes ofimproving their respective conference records.

The Knights (11-15, 0-3) enter thematchup with considerable experienceagainst ranked opponents, having playedseven of their games against teams in thetop 25.

But the Pirates (15-15, 0-3) do not havesuch experience. After their first 30 games,they have yet to face a ranked foe. Seton Hallis not slotted to play a ranked team until April6, when it takes on two-time defending BigEast champion Syracuse.

But records are not the only thing in playduring this two-game set.

Before arriving on the Banks, head coachJay Nelson spent 10 seasons as an assistantcoach on the Pirates’ staff under currentSeton Hall head coach Ray Vander May.

“I know the coaches there, so [SetonHall] is always a fun rival,” Nelson said. “It’salways exciting to play those guys.”

While in South Orange, Nelson helpedthe team to consecutive conference titles in2004 and 2005 as well as three NCAATournament appearances.

And twice during Nelson’s time there, thestaff was named the National FastpitchCoaches Association Northeast CoachingStaff of the Year.

But Nelson and Vander May’s historytranscends college.

The two were adversaries, both coachingGroup 1 New Jersey high schools that sitabout 15 miles apart.

Vander May coached at Cedar GroveHigh School while Nelson led the MountainLakes High School squad.

“We’d always battle it out and have a lot ofrespect for each other because we were topprograms in the area,” Nelson said.

But now both coaches are concernedwith righting the ship, with their respective

SEE WINS ON PAGE 14

RUTGERS AT SETON HALL, TODAY, 3 P.M.

SOFTBALL

New player,coach followpath to RU

BY VINNIE MANCUSOCORRESPONDENT

Freshman midfielder Brian Goss hasemerged in his rookie season as the perfectsupport for senior midfielders Mike Diehl

and Will Mangan.But only a couple

of years ago, the thought of wearing the scar-let and white jerseys of the Rutgers men’slacrosse team was not on Goss’ mind at all.He was all set to bring his talents to SienaCollege in New York.

All of that changed when former ScarletKnights head coach Jim Stagnitta resignedlast year after 10 seasons with the program.His replacement, Brian Brecht, was the manwho recruited Goss at Siena.

It was during the recruiting process thatBrecht and Goss established a rapport thateventually led to Goss’ decision to come tothe Banks.

“I got to know Brian over two years agowhen I recruited him when I was at SienaCollege,” Brecht said. “Although it is hard tostep away from a relationship with a recruit andmove on, I was trying to tackle a head duty.”

When Brecht took the job at Rutgers, hewas well aware of the effect it would have onthe recruiting class he worked to build atSiena. Still, he would not ask anyone to joinhim at Piscataway — that was a choice theywould have to make for themselves.

“I knew some guys might entertain theoption of following me and coming toRutgers,” Brecht said. “The one thing Idid not want to do was make that decisionfor them. I wanted them to make thatdecision themselves.”

Goss, upon hearing of Brecht’s departure,was the first player to jump on board toRutgers with the former Siena head coach.His parents required a brief conference, butGoss had already made the decision to followsuit with the coach that recruited him.

“I made the decision because Rutgers it’ssuch a good school — it’s bigger and it hasbetter academics,” Goss said. “I really likedthe way that Coach Brecht recruited me. Weestablished a good relationship right away.”

Goss’ decision to work with Brechtturned out to be beneficial for the first-yearhead coach in the early portion of theKnights’ season. The Arlington Heights, Ill.,native has started every game of the seasonin the midfield, already notching 13 points onseven goals and six assists.

SEE PATH ON PAGE 13

MEN’S LACROSSE

Matchup with old teamexcites Rutgers assistant

BY JOSH BAKANASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

During his 12 seasons as head coach of theWagner baseball team, Joe Litterio really got to

know the Seahawks.But Litterio will

watch it today fromthe opposite dugoutat Bainton Field inhis first year as theScarlet Knights’

assistant coach. Litterio might be the indi-rect key to Wagner’s chance of victory.

“The fact that I’m over here — that’s themost dangerous thing,” Litterio said. “A fewguys were upset that I left, and they want toshow me what they’ve become as players.… They want to prove something to me.”

Litterio returned to his alma mater afterwinning 240 games with Wagner, the mostin school history. SEE MATCHUP ON PAGE 14

WAGNER AT RUTGERS,TODAY, 3 P.M.

BASEBALL

BY TYLER BARTOSPORTS EDITOR

Athletic Director Tim Pernettiannounced yesterday he plans to seekfinancial compensation from the Big East

for the Rutgers foot-ball team’s six home

games next season.The Scarlet Knights’ seventh home game,

a regularity, vanished when TCU reneged itscommitment to the conference Oct. 6 in favorof the Big 12.

“We’ll deal with it in a very direct mannerwith the league,” Pernetti said. “We’re disap-pointed we’re not made whole on a leaguegame with TCU’s departure. Having saidthat, we took control of our own situation.”

The Big East welcomed Temple to theconference following West Virginia’s abruptexit to the Big 12. The Big East planned tokeep West Virginia for one more season, but SEE LEAGUE ON PAGE 13

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Athletic Director Tim Pernetti said he has already engaged in talks with the Big Eastafter TCU’s exit from the league left Rutgers with only six home games next season.

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