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Dance Marathon breakspast fundraising record

BY MARY DIDUCHEDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Thirteen may be an unlucky number,but not for the members of RutgersUniversity Dance Marathon.

The 13th annual Dance Marathon,the largest student-run philanthropy inthe state, raised $380,351.10, edgingout last years record of more than $378,000.

About 410 dancers, about 30 less thanlast year, filled the College Avenue Gymto stay on their feet for 32 hours straight,all to raise awareness and donations forkids with cancer and blood disorders.

Danielle Bechta, director ofCommunity Outreach, said the organiz-ers decided to enforce dancer registra-tion this year, prohibiting anyone whodid not raise the required $350 on timefrom dancing.

They wanted to ensure they enlistedmore dedicated dancers, as some in thepast would not raise the requiredamount of money to participate andtake the place of a more dedicated par-ticipant, Bechta said.

The group also tried to recruit morenon-greek, first-time participants, she said.

SEE RECORD ON PAGE 5Dance Marathon volunteers hold up numbers on stage at the College Avenue Gym toannounce the final amount of money raised for the Embrace Kids Foundation.

MAYA NACHI

Forum encouragesstronger Latinovoice in politics

BY JOHN MALCHOWCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Sen. Rober t Menendez, D-N.J., made an appearanceSaturday as the keynote speaker at a forum where professors,politicians and students, discussed the need to strengthenHispanics voice in government.

Sponsored by The Department of Latino and HispanicCaribbean Studies, Latinos in New Jersey: Representation,Leadership and Empowerment presented ideas about Latinopolitics and organizing in New Jersey.

Power is not yielded, nor is it given; it has to betaken, Menendez said. Use that power in a way that createspolicies, programs and af fects the course of events for the bet-ter of the people.

Menendez said the forum, held at the Edward J. BlousteinSchool of Planning and Public Policy, provides an opportunityto discuss ways in which Latinos can empower themselves.

This new forum gives us the platform to engage on theissues important not only to our community but to all commu-

Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., talks as the keynote speakerSaturday at a forum on Latino participation in government.

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Fewer turn outfor campus walkthan anticipated

BY ANDREA GOYMA CORRESPONDENT

The turnout for the second annual Walk for Water wassmaller than what the Universitys Engineers WithoutBorders (EWB) expected.

Due to overlapping schedules with other Universityevents on the College Avenue campus like the Open Houseand Rutgers University Dance Marathon, this years walk toprovide water sustainability in Guatemala did not have asmany participants as members hoped, said NamrataKulkarni, president of EWB.

We are probably going to have a 5K instead of a walk,so people can walk or run and have it in October when itis not too cold, she said. [We may also] advertise it as apractice run for the Big Chill and really increase ourpublicity for it.

SEE WALK ON PAGE 7Filmmaker Irena Salina, right, explains how travelingopened her eyes to the daily threat of water scarcity.

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Students with 90 or more degree credits can register for classes from 10:00 p.m. to 2 a.m.

The University issued a statement onFriday addressing Nicole SnookiPolizzis comedy performance Thursdayat the Livingston Student Center.

The student-run Rutgers UniversityProgramming Association (RUPA)invited Polizzi and her comedy actbased on student input, according tothe statement. Designated studentfunds are used for programming, nottuition or state funds.

The University does not censor thespeakers students choose to invite tocampus, according to the statement.

Nearly 2,000 students expressed inter-est in attending the event and a secondshow was added. The $32,000 cost forPolizzis appearance included the fee formoderator Adam Ace, who was namedCollege Comedian of the Year by theAssociation for the Promotion of CampusActivities, as well as the booking fee.

RUPA aims to provide cultural, edu-cational, recreational and social events

of interest to the Universitys diversestudent body. Before selecting a per-former, RUPA members brainstormideas, analyze trends in campus pro-gramming and gauge student inputwhile maintaining an annual program-ming budget.

Other than Polizzis appearance thisyear, RUPA brought speakers like direc-tor Spike Lee and environmental journal-ist Vanessa Farquharson to campus alongwith hosting informational programs onautism, how to start a publication and amedia and politics discussion, accordingto the statement.

Polizzis comedy show was not pro-moted as an academic program and aswith any comedy show, the contentsvalue is subjective and studentschoose to attend according to their interests.

Amy Rowe

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Cultural group dances to celebrate 20 yearsBY ANDREA GOYMA

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In honor of 20 years of work-ing to spread Korean culturalawareness through traditionalmusic and dance at theUniversity, the Rutgers KoreanCultural Group (RKCG) per-formed to a sold-out NicholasMusic Center Saturday night onDouglass campus.

Their 20th AnniversaryConcert featured a performanceby special guest Sue Yeon Park,RKCGs mentor since 1993 andthe artistic director of theKorean Traditional PerformingArts Association.

[Park] is not just a per-former, said HaeRim Choi,RKCG president. Ever since ourgroup was established sheshelped out in every way fromestablishing the group to all thevarious performances.

Park is also the first Korean-American artist to receive in 2008the National Endowment for theArts National HeritageFellowship, said Choi, a School ofArts and Sciences senior.

Choi and RKCG memberDahae Yoon think of Park asRKCGs teacher and mother.

[The performers] spent alot of time [practicing] and Imso proud of them, Park said.Im so happy, I feel very richand I think the concert wasvery successful.

Park was responsible forhelping choreograph the dancesand for teaching the membershow to play the instruments,said Yoon, a School of Arts andSciences sophomore.

RKCG included a total of sixperformances at the concert,Choi said.

[For the concert] we have ageneral routine that we performbut we also incorporated a lot ofnew music, she said. [Park]helped us out with arranging theshow and which arrangementsto perform.

Yoon said the concert wouldnot be possible without the sup-port of the Rutgers KoreanCultural Group AlumniAssociation (RKCGAA).

For our 20th anniversary con-cert, which is a big deal to us,[RKCGAA] really helped out a lotand even created a committee. Itwas well prepared in advance,she said.

The production ranged fromBuchae-Chum, one of the mostpopular traditional folk dances inKorea to Parks performance ofthe Buddhist monk dance Seung-Mu, Choi said.

RKCG and alumni performedtogether for the concerts finalperformance, the Poong-Mul No-Ri, a lively percussion dance thatoriginated as a way for farmers topray to the gods for abundant har-vests and to increase productivity,he said.

Yoon said the concert was aproud experience for her after along year of preparing.

We star ted preparing forthe concert last year and webegan practicing last summer,Yoon said. We practice everyweek for either one or two daysand sometimes practices lastall day.

Despite the challenges of par-ticipating in RKCG with work

Members of the Rutgers Korean Cultural group perform dances Saturday night in the NicholasMusic Center on Douglass campus as part of their 20th Anniversary Concert.

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Monica Indart, a visiting assistant professor of theUniversitys Graduate School of Applied and ProfessionalPsychology (GSAPP), is collaborating with UNICEF StaffCounselor Penelope Curling to research the effect of trauma inhumanitarian workers from different cultural backgrounds.

Indart said her study is a result of the increased vio-lence against humanitarian workers living abroad, who asa result, suffer from illnesses such as post-traumatic stressdisorder and acute traumatic stress, according to aRutgers Focus article.

In the last seven years, humanitarian aid workers haveincreasingly been soft targets in civil conflict and terrorism,Indart said in the article. Aid workers used to be seen as off-limits [for violence]. Theyre not seen as sacrosanct anymore.

Humanitarian workers also suffer from psychological prob-lems after dealing with heightened security concerns, restric-tions on movement and seeing other people suffer up close.

Both Indart and Curlings joint research efforts will identi-fy what kinds of disorders humanitarian workers suffer fromand whether their respective cultures play any role, accordingto the article.

[Were] looking at how people define themselves bynationality of the passport they hold, race or ethnicity, tribe orclan, Curling said in the article.

Curling said she and Indart intend to tailor counseling or recommendations to individuals affected differently by culture.

Indart said culture plays a big impact on trauma andhumanitarian workers react differently.

In the United States, the hidden assumption is that thetrauma experience is outside the norm, Indart said in the arti-cle. In developing countries, trauma is part of life.

As a result of this study, Indart hopes her University class-es will learn of the issues abroad.

The UNICEF study is an example I try to weave in when Italk about different populations, she said in the article.

Ankita Panda

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responsibilities, the RKCGAAtries to join and support RKCG asbest they can for whatever thegroup needs, said Joon Yang,RKCGAA president.

We want undergraduates toenjoy the experience as much aswe did, he said. It can be hardfor us to make some time to prac-tice and get things together for anevent but we have many mem-bers so if some members cant doit other members can.

Every year RKCG participatesin the New York Korean Parade,the Boston Parade, the NewJersey Korean ThanksgivingFestival in Bergen County as wellas other events in New York andNew Jersey, Choi said.

We dont only want to pro-mote awareness to the Rutgerscommunity but to the publicalso, he said.

Rutgers Korean StudentsAssociation cultural chair DavidSong said he came to support afellow Korean organization andhad a good experience.

This upcoming Friday, werehaving Project Korea at the StateTheater and were actually incor-porating one of RKCGs dancesin our performances, said Song,a School of Arts and Sciencessophomore. So were going tohave a collaboration.

Jessica Park, 17, from EastBrunswick and Jinsil Kim, 17,from Piscataway said they woulddefinitely return for anotherRKCG concert.

This is the first time weveseen a Korean cultural perform-ance like this because here therearent that many chances to seeperformances like that, JessicaPark said.

Yang thought the concert wasunbelievable and was happy towork with college students.

To be able to be back here toperform with undergraduatefriends is great, Yang said.Luckily we had a great audiencetonight so it was a great and fan-tastic night for us.

After 20 years, Yang hopesRKCG will continue to grow big-ger and stronger in order to con-tinue their legacy of promotingand celebrating the Korean cul-ture to those who are both famil-iar and unfamiliar to it.

Some years we have a lot ofmembers where we have hugeevents and sometimes we getless than usual, he said. Itsalways gone down and up but themore important thing is that wenever stop it keeps on grow-ing and growing.

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About 410 dancers along with families who

benefit from the Embrace Kids Foundation

crowded into the College Avenue Gym

to dance their feet off for 32 hours

at the 13th annual Dance Marathon,

the largest student-run philanthropy

in the state. The event raised more

than $378,000 for the charity.PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN BY MAYA NACHI

gain community ser vice, Iwanted to give back and sup-port the charity that helped meand my family out the most,Amador said.

Many of the involved organ-izations adopt a child thatbenefits from the EmbraceKids Foundation and interactwith them throughout the year.

Its really wonderful whattheyre doing for these kids,Bechta said.

Carla Volpe expressed hergratitude for the members ofChi Psi fraternity whichraised more than $18,000, themost for a fraternity fortheir help with her son Johnny,who was diagnosed in May of2009 with leukemia.

The Embrace KidsFoundation helps us emotional-ly and financially, Volpe said.

The members of Chi Psi

visit 8-year-old Johnny in thehospital, play games and activi-ties with him and invite him tothe Chi Psi lounge on CollegeAvenue for dinners, she said.

We love them, Volpe said.Elysha Padilla, assistant

director of CommunityOutreach, worked with the 25families in the program year-round.

Its definitely been one ofthe most eye-opening, life-changing experiences Ivehad, said Padilla, who was adancer last year.

Padilla said the children inthe organization inspire her.

Any time Im having a badday, I think of the kids. When I look at what they gothrough ever y day, theresnothing we cant get through,Padilla said.

Chelsea Sammons, anErnest Mario School ofPharmacy graduate student,was dancing for the first timethis year and the first timefor her pharmacy honor socie-ty, Rho Chi for her organiza-tions child, 5-year-old Gabriel.

Rho Chi interacts often withGabriel, who was diagnosed in2009 with leukemia. Theythrew him a bowling birthdayparty and in a few weeks willhost a picnic in his honor.

In the final moments of themarathon, Sammons, whoraised $500, said it was a chal-lenge standing for 32 hoursstraight with no sleep.

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Its great that we have somany brand-new people passion-ate about this cause, saidBechta, a School of Arts andSciences senior.

Proceeds will go to theEmbrace Kids Foundation, aNew Brunswick-based charitythat helps the non-medicalneeds of children with cancerand blood disorders. The foun-dation helps families with theirmedical bills and providesother ser vices, like tutoringand emotional support.

Its helping the kids now,instead of going towardresearch, Bechta said.

Emily Amador, a School ofEnvironmental and BiologicalSciences first-year student,benefited from the work of theEmbrace Kids Foundationfirst-hand. When she was diag-nosed with cancer last year asa senior in high school, theorganization helped her familycope with her illness.

For example, the foundationsent a child care specialist to herhospital room every day, toensure she was not bored.

When she came on campuslast fall, she decided she had tosign up for Dance Marathon.

I did not just want to par-ticipate in Dance Marathon to

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A diamond ring glit-tered on the left ring fin-ger of Alyssa Focaraccio,assistant director ofCatering Logistics, afterher fianc proposed toher yesterday on theRutgers UniversityDance Marathon stage.

Focaraccio said shehad no idea her fiancRyan Voigt, who graduat-ed from Marist College,was about to propose.

I thought we weregoing on stage for a linedance and then he wasthere, she said.

While she remem-bers there were photosand a Death Cab forCutie song playing in thebackground, the restwas a blur.

I was in shock, saidFocaraccio, a School ofArts and Sciences senior.

The two met a yearago yesterday, whenthey were set up on ablind date.

As for the record-breaking results of DanceMarathon, Focaracciowas also shocked.

Its absolutely incred-ible. We all worked sohard, she said. It showshow much time andeffort we put into this.

Mary Diduch

MAN PROPOSESTO GIRLFRIEND

AT DANCEMARATHON

I wanted to give back and

support the charity that helped me and my family out the most.

EMILY AMADORSchool of Environmental and Biological Sciences

First-Year Student

to get water, she said. I thinkthe reason why our ancestorswere so respectful of water isbecause water is life.

Salina said it was Adebanjosenthusiasm and EWBs activeengagement toward advocatingand working toward water sus-tainability projects roused her tospeak at the event.

All of a sudden, a whole vil-lage is able to have water, she

said. I think its really amaz-ing all these students are get-ting together [for the walk]when they could be lounging in bed.

Adebanjo said she first sawthe documentar y when shejoined EWB as a first-year stu-dent and it had a meaningfulimpact on her.

After I saw the movie Iwent home and I started cryingbecause Im from Nigeria and Iknow what its like to fetchwater and how much ever ydrop of water means to us, shesaid. I figured what better per-son to come and talk to us.

Students began the walk atVoorhees Mall and then madetheir way toward Hamilton Street,through Records Hall and back,Adebanjo said.

Workshops were also set up atVoorhees Mall to interactivelyteach participants what childrenand adults in Kenya andGuatemala experience every daydue to scarce amounts of water.

EWB member Nadir Williamsled a workshop featuring triviaquestions about water.

Ever since Ive joined EWBIm a lot more aware of my waterconsumption and I try to impartthat to my roommates, saidWilliams, a School of Engineeringsophomore. You dont under-stand how vital water is to ourwhole society with the globalwater crisis. Its a human right.

School of Engineering juniorRamone Barnes came out for thewalk in support of Adebanjo andconsiders the groups cause to beextremely important.

Even though we see [the glob-al water crisis] on the TV, its notreality to us, he said. Knowingthat your friend is actually doingsomething to help these people isa really good cause.

Kulkarni said even studentswho are not part of EWB or anengineering major could still vol-unteer or spread the word.

Right now we need most helpraising money as our projects areentering into the implementationphase, she said. Wed like thehelp of other organizations whodo charity fundraising to join inour fundraising and we need helpon writing grants.

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EWB is about $25,000 awayfrom their goal to raise moneyfor a summer implementationtrip to Guatemala, where theyare working to fix and improvethe village of Antigua SantaCatarina Ixtahuacans nearbywater pumping system, saidTamara Adebanjo, communityservice chair.

EWB donated all the proceedsfrom last years Walk for Waterto PlayPumps International, anonprofit organization dedicatedto delivering safe water solutionsto communities in Africa, butTamara said this year they want-ed to make the walk more per-sonal to the chapter.

Our Guatemala project waspartially implemented duringSpring Break and we want to tryand finish that, so all our fundrais-ing will go toward our projects,said Adebanjo, a School ofEngineering sophomore.

Adebanjo invited FLOW:For Love of Water director andfilmmaker Irena Salina as theguest speaker.

Salina discussed how her trav-els for her film enabled her to geta glimpse of life in villages wherewater scarcity is a daily threat like in Rajasthan, India, one ofthe driest places on earth.

Imagine that at your age,since the age of 7, the reality ofevery girl in that village is to walkat least three hours everyday just

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nities, he said. Hispanics area growing force with manyopportunities to harness thepower we have.

Representation was a majortheme of the day as presenta-tions that cited recent datashowed an under-representa-tion of Latinos in state politics.

Robert Montemayor, direc-tor of the Rutgers LatinoInformation Network, used fig-ures from the Census Bureauto illustrate the Hispanic popu-lation in the state.

I think its ver y impres-sive, said Evan Taparata, analumnus from the School ofArts and Sciences. The datahe was able to compile itsvery ef fective. People do a lotof talking. Its good to see numbers.

Students from nearby univer-sities were attracted to the con-ference and voiced approval ofthe program.

[The presentations] werevery visually stimulating, saidJessica Aramburo, a Seton HallUniversity senior. They spokeon diverse topics and made iteasy to understand at a moreadvanced level.

Speakers and discussionleaders included Perth AmboyMayor Wilda Diaz, representa-tives from the UniversitysSchool of Social Work as wellas the Eagleton Institute ofPolitics and directors of theLatino Health Institute andProgram on Immigration and Democracy.

Discussion at the event alsoraised questions of the rela-tionship between fair represen-tation and economic inequality.

The Latino population is 16percent of the N.J. population the second-largest demo-graphic in the state, according to the PewHispanic Center.

Despite accounting for asignificant por tion of theGarden States population,Latinos make up approximate-ly 6 to 8 percent of the numberof registered voters, he said.

You need to get involved,thats the bottom line, saidMontemayor, who is a par t-time lecturer at the

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Rutgers Business School sophomore Jehseung Noh and School of Arts and Sciences junior MarciaLee strut their stuff last night in the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus at China Nite XVI, an evening of food and fashion hosted by the Chinese Student Organization.

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ON THE CATWALK

I think the reason why ourancestors were so respectful

of water is becausewater is life.

IRENA SALINAFilmmaker

School of Communication and Information.

The faculty cited the lack ofinstitutions as an area for futuredevelopment.

New Jersey is the onlystate with a significant Latinopopulation without a Latinoresearch institute, said AldoLauria Santiago, associate pro-fessor and chair of theDepar tment of Latino andHispanic Caribbean Studies.

Some individuals are hope-ful the conference, whichencourages leadership net-works that have the power tosur vive, will produce moreengaged Latino citizens in state.

Its a good star t for theyounger generation, said ErikaNava, a Douglass College alum-na and representative of theHispanic Directors Associationof New Jersey. You need to beculturally competent.

Menendez and other speakersstressed the importance of stay-ing informed.

We need an impor tantfoundation on education, he said.

Despite the all-day Saturdayschedule, turnout was highand an array of organizationscame together to participate.

One of our goals was toattract many dif ferent nationalorigin groups, said Santiago,the event coordinator. Thereis quite a diversity Mexicangroups, Colombian groups,Dominican groups repre-sented here.

Faculty and students alikewere pleased with the crowddrawn to the forum.

Its just really nice to seethe whole community heretogether, said Sandra Feijoo, aSchool of Arts and Sciencessenior. Theres so manyorganizations involved, butthere are not enough [occa-sions] to get them together.

Menendez took the opportu-nity to announce the beginningof the Latino LeadershipSeries, which will be held oncollege campuses around NewJersey in the coming months.The next installment will takeplace May 21 at theUniversitys Newark campus.

We can do this, Menendezsaid. It is limited only by thepower of our imagination andour willingness to organize,educate and motivate.

church said the church is stillvery much alive.

Around the RevolutionaryWar, the denomination of theDutch Reformed Church splitand the Reformed Church ofAmerica was established hereby John Henr y Livingston,who was the president ofQueens College at the time,Berman said.

The denominations organiza-tion, as well as the founding ofthe church on Neilson andBayard Streets can be tracedback to the early Dutch settlersof the 17th century, whose influ-ences shaped much of the regionalong the Banks of the Raritan,he said.

A two-year period during theRevolutionar y War subjectedthe church and the surround-ing area to abuse by Britishtroops who occupied the town,where they used the 1767 build-ing as a hospital and later a sta-ble, Hamilton said.

The buildings walls are com-posed of brownstone transport-ed up the Raritan River fromNew York City in the late 17thcentury, and the churchs ceme-tery remains the resting place ofsuch influential figures as

T h e o d o r u sF r e l i n g h u y s e n ,J a c o bH a r d e n b e r g h ,Livingston andJames Suydam,along with sol-diers of theR e v o l u t i o n a r yWar, she said.

Berman saidnot only does thechurch stand as atestament to thestates and thecity of NewBrunswicks his-tories it also

represents a major part of theUniversitys history and found-ing in the late 17th century.

Queens College, whicheventually became RutgersCollege and University, waschar tered in 1766 throughseveral years of ef for t byFrelinghuysen, the first pastor,and Hardenbergh, who servedboth as a pastor for the churchand as the first president thecollege, Berman said.

[The church] served forseveral presidential periods assomething like a universitychurch, Kramer-Mills said.Commencements would beheld there and the senior pastorwould at the same time be pres-ident of the church.

The preceding structure wastorn down in 1811 and a newer,more accommodating buildingwas erected in its place, whichstill stands at its present location,Hamilton said.

Kramer-Mills said the churchhas become a spiritual home andhosts the oldest congregation ofthe First Reformed Church in theUnited States, which still remainsstrong today.

This is a place where peoplecan have a spiritual home, hesaid. There are presidents ofRutgers University buried righthere in our backyard.

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Council urges funding to critical servicesBY ANDREW SMITH

STAFF WRITER

In the wake of an economicdownturn, the federal governmenthas yet to finalize a 2011 budgetbut is considering cuts to severalkey social services, which was metwith disapproval on Wednesday ata Human Services AdvisoryCouncil (HSAC) of MiddlesexCounty press conference.

The conference aimed to askthe federal government to decideon a budget for the year and pre-vent services cut from the dis-abled, the elderly and the poor,said Bridget Kennedy, director ofthe Division of Social WorkServices for Middlesex County.

The House of Representativesand Senate have reached the mid-dle of the fiscal year without hav-ing a definitive budget and areinstead relying on the passing ofcontinuing resolutions, she said.

With the House espousing$80 billion worth of cuts and theSenate insisting only $35 millioncan be trimmed, most of the cutswould come from the discre-tionary, non-security budgetwhich includes Pell Grants, sen-ior services, disability servicesand childcare block grants,Kennedy said.

Consequently, Kennedysaid these cuts represent anaf front to middle-class familiesand individuals.

Church holds benefitto preserve building

BY CHASE BRUSHCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Music of the 17th and 18thcentur ys High Baroque eraechoed through the FirstReformed Church of NewBrunswick, Saturday night, inefforts to raise money for thehistoric preser vation andrestoration of the churchsgrounds and building.

The church, located on thecorner of Neilson and BayardStreets, featured musical per-formances by La Fiocca, a clas-sical music ensemble based outof Bucks County, Pa. and othersecular and sacred chambermusical performances.

First organized in 1717, theFirst Reformed Church lostseveral large parts of the prop-erty due to disrepair and facesseveral structural problemssuch as masonry walls that areno longer stable, leaking roofsand pieces of shale and trimthat have fallen from itssteeple, said Ellen Hamilton,church elder and member ofthe Fundraising Committee forthe preservation project.

Also known as the TownClock Church, as it currentlyhouses the citysof ficial townclock in itssteeple, thechurch experi-enced multiplestructural dis-tresses includ-ing a 1971 fire,which destroyedall but two of thechurchs stainedglass windows,Hamilton said.

The NewJersey HistoricTrust gave a$50,000 plan-ning grant in 2008 to beginplanning for a historic preser-vation project and an addition-al grant from the state for$487,797 to restore the build-ings steeple and repair theeducation buildings roof,Hamilton said.

The congregation of 200people raised more than 60percent of the matching fundsfor the grant but has beenunable to completely pay itback, Hamilton said.

Har tmut Kramer-Mills, apastor of the congregation,said the church continues tothrive despite the setbacks,and the benefit concert andthe money raised is a reflec-tion of that.

This is not just aboutbaroque music, Kramer-Millssaid. This is also about theencounter with another cul-ture, another time and dealingwith otherness. Those arethemes our church stands forin the midst of this everdiverse community.

Home of the longest run-ning Sunday school in theUnited States, an inter faithshelter for homeless men dur-ing the winter and House ofManna, which serves meals toneedy families, BenjaminBerman, music director for the

More than 150 attendees packed the Superior CourtJudge Travis Francis courtroom to congratulate CarolDooley on her 50th year of service with the MiddlesexCounty vicinage of the New Jersey judicial system.

Judges, co-workers, family and friends awardedCarol Dooley, the assistant family division manager, withvarious plaques of honor and gifts during her luncheonFriday, according to a mycentraljersey.com article.

She is the longest tenured employee in the currentjudiciary, Trial Court Administrator Gregory Edwardssaid in the article. For some people, its a job. To her,its a commitment. Theres always a smile on her face,and shes always willing to extend a helping hand.

After Dooley completed Woodbridge HighSchool, her father, a sheriff officer, told her about thejob opening with the Middlesex County court systemand remained with the court system since.

She is the matriarch of the family division.Because of her incredible experience and knowledgeof the system, she is unflustered by problems andissues that arise, Judge Deborah Venezia, presidingjudge of the family division Superior Court in NewBrunswick, said in the article.

Dooley, 68, held several positions since hercareer start on March 27, 1961 as a file clerk in thecivil divisions, including positions in civil andchancery divisions and the family division.

When I reached 45 years, I thought Id never reach50, but when I turned around, 50 is here. Its a chal-lenging position, Dooley said in the article. Familycourt is very vibrant. Chancery court is interesting. Ienjoy working in judiciary. Its always changing.

Dooley holds a degree from the University inpolitical science and has taken para-legal courses atMiddlesex County College in Edison, according tothe article. She also experienced working on envi-ronmental cases and labor strikes at National Leadand the Middlesex County Welfare Department inNew Brunswick.

Dooley has no immediate plans to retire, despite50 years of service, according to the article.

I have a couple of work goals I would like to reachbefore I retire, she said in the article. Itll be awhile.

Anastasia Millicker

MIDDLESEX COUNTY COURT HONORS JUDGEFOR 50 YEARS SERVICE TOWARD LAW

This is also aboutthe enounter withanother culture,

another time and dealing

with otherness. HARTMUT KRAMER-MILLS

Pastor of the Congregation of the First Reformed Church

of New Brunswick

Primarily, these cuts comefrom [the discretionary] piece ofthe federal budget, Kennedysaid. This represents only 13percent of the federal budget. Sothe HSAC said this is really badbecause theyre trying to balancethe budget on the backs of lowand middle-income people.

HSAC felt motivated to speakout against the federal cuts topeople with average or lowincome, said Blanquita Valenti, aMiddlesex County freeholder andthe liaison to the HSAC.

We want our congressionalleaders to realize if they preservethe money that normally goes tohuman services, they will help alot of people, she said.Otherwise, theres a lot of dis-abled people who will lose out ona lot of services, and we want tomake sure this does not happen.

HSAC Chairperson JudyTabert expressed similar desiresregarding the budget andstressed the need for finalization.

We are urging congress tofinalize the 2011 budget, Tabertsaid. The passage of the continu-ing resolutions is hurting servicesand the most vulnerable people.We are also asking not to makedramatic cuts, if possible, and totake cuts across the board.

Because these issues areclose to the members of theHSAC, a group aimed to unitedifferent governmental players

toward bringing human servicesto the most vulnerable sector ofthe population, many feltinclined to speak out against thecuts, she said.

[The HSAC] is made up of afew groups of people, [such as]consumer advocates who arecommunity members with aninterest in human services andadvocacy, Tabert said. We haveconsumers themselves, whoreceive human services in a vari-ety of settings. There are also rep-resentatives of provider agenciesor nonprofit organizations provid-ing assistance.

Councils like HSAC are pres-ent in every county throughoutNew Jersey, Tabert said.Although no outpouring of sup-port was visibly seen from theseother councils, she expects to seesubstantial support for the call toarms against budget cuts on April8 at the next state meeting.

On top of the increased sup-port that is expected of otheradvisory councils, Tabert saidtrue change would not be effect-ed without the peoples support.

Individuals can all get intouch with their representativesin Washington, D.C., and let themknow that this is their position the budget needs to be finalized,she said. In this time of econom-ic problems, unemployment andskyrocketing costs of fuel, now isnot the time to be making cuts.

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Group donates cellphones to troopsBY LIZ ZWIRZ

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

For soldiers separated bytheir families abroad with highcellphone bills, Cell Phones forSoldiers encourages people todonate old and new phones in adrop-of f box at the BrunswickMemorial Funeral Home inEast Brunswick.

The organization headquar-ters, located in Norwell, Mass.,sends donated phones to arecycler, ReCellular, saidBrittany Bergquist, the co-founder of Cell Phones forSoldiers. The money raisedthrough this sale of phoneparts or refurbished parts isused to buy prepaid interna-tional calling cards that sol-diers receive on a weekly basis.

We couldnt understand whyphone calls home were not freefor our military while away, shesaid. They give up so much toprotect our freedom and libertythat we couldnt fathom this sortof total disconnect from familywhile serving our country.

The soldiers who receivethese prepaid calling cards arelocated all over the world,Bergquist said.

Currently there is a largeneed in Afghanistan and otherareas of combat but requests arealso often received fromGermany, Africa, Japan and otherareas where troops are sta-tioned, she said.

The Brunswick MemorialHome on 454 Cranbur y Rd.

4 Christ Church New Brunswick will host The Choir ofMerton College, Oxford, England under the direction ofBenjamin Nicholas during their U.S. tour featuring sacredchoral music including works by Purcell, Tallis, Weelkes,Vaughan Williams and Whitacre. The concert will also fea-ture solo organ work by Organ Scholars Natasha Trywhitt-Drake and Anna Stepler. The performance will begin at 8p.m. on 5 Paterson St. General admission cost $15 and $5 forchildren under 12 years old. For more information contactChrist Church at (732) 545-6262 ormusic@christchurchnewbrunswick.org.

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8 Alfa Arts Gallery will host a musical performance featuringPAS featuring Hati, PHASTI, Richard Lainhart, Yan Jun andBlithe beginning at 7:30 p.m. at the Alfa Arts at 108 ChurchSt. Admission costs $6 for admission into the art show andlive performance. For more information, visit alfaart.org.

9 New Brunswick Jazz Project Band featuring trumpeter LeeHogans, Alex Collins on piano, Tom DiCarlo on bass, ChrisBrown on drums, Anthony Ware on sax and AdamMachaskee on trombone will perform at Makeda on 338George St. The jam session will begin at 9 p.m. and will endaround 1:30 a.m. with no coverage charge for the event. Formore information, visit nbjp.org.

Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission andthe Folklife Program for New Jersey will present PysankyTraditional Ukrainian Egg Decorating Workshop withMaster Artist Olga Kobryn at the East Jersey Olde TowneVillage at 1050 River Rd. in Piscataway. There will be twosessions from 10 a.m. to noon and 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Pre-reg-istration is required with a $15 fee for materials and a phoneregistration application at (732) 745-4489. Checks should bemade out to the County of Middlesex/Cultural & Heritageor it may be hand-delievered to the commissions office at703 Jersey Ave. in New Brunswick. For more informationplease visit njtoday.net.

10 Sacred Heart Church will host a Unity Square Cleanup andChildrens Earth Day Celebration promoting the InterfaithCoexistence Project of greater New Brunswick from noon to6 p.m. at the Sacred Heart Church. The event includes aneighborhood clean up from 12:45 to 2:45 p.m. followed bya symposium and home cooked dinner. Speakers includeDonna Caputo, recycling director for the city of NewBrunswick and performances by The Rainbow Choir andRaices Cultural Center Ensemble. Participants are encour-aged to bring their own plastic cups, utensils and napkins toreduce trash. A suggested donation of $5 is encouraged forthe event. For more information contact Lorena Gaibor at(732) 545-0329.

13 First Reformed Church will host Downtown LunchtimeRecitals featuring Frederick Urrey and Daniel Swenberg atthe First Reformed Church. The performance beginspromptly at 12:15 p.m. and includes lute solos, works forvoice and the orbe and German Lieder. Admission is free.For more information, visit firstreformedchurch.net.

14 Cross Roads Theatre will host A Raisin in the Sun byLorraine Hansberry beginning April 14 through May 1 withperformances at 8 p.m. held Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdaysand Sunday matinees. Marshall Jones, Crossroads produc-ing artistic 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.

16 Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission andthe Folklife Program for New Jersey will present thePalaspas: Traditional Filipino Palm Weaving Workshop withSamahan Cultural Heritage, Eastern Seaboard, Inc. at EastJersey Olde Towne Village at 1050 River Rd. in Piscatawayfrom 2 to 3:30 p.m. The workshop is offered free of chargebut advance registration is required. Attendees will learnhow to create special folk craft during the Palm WeavingWorkshop. To register, please contact the commission at(732) 745-4489 or 711 via the New Jersey Relay Service.

Historically Black College and Universities College Fair, Inc.will host a Knowledge is Power Community Walk. Thewalk begins at 8 a.m. and ends at noon in Buccleuch Park.The event is rain or shine with a minimum of $20 registra-tion fee for individuals. The money raised will go towardfunding educational programs to inform students aboutfinancial aid, applying to college and providing scholarships.For more information, visit hbcu-cfnj.com/KIPW.html.

decided to get onboard earlierthis month, said BrianKulbacki, the memorial homesbusiness manager.

We saw their name aroundtheir sponsors websites and inother advertisements and wereintrigued, he said. We arealways looking for new ways toget involved and new ways toreach out to those around us.

As of now, the memorialhome has received 50 to 100phones, and Kulbacki hopes tosend 1,000 more to the organi-zation by Memorial Day.

We acknowledge that it is avery aggressive goal, but withthe response from the commu-nity that weve seen alreadyand the interest from mediasources, we think we can doit, he said. One-thousand cellphones would mean about$30,000 wor th of prepaid minutes for.

Kulbacki said while theBrunswick Memorial FuneralHome loves to involve itselfwith unique sponsorships andcharitable events all the time,its dedication with this particu-lar endeavor shows their faithin the organization.

I think its a fantastic idea,he said. Were not doing it tobenefit the funeral home, andreally, there is no way that it does.

The memorial home doesnot profit from these donationsbecause there is no sellinginvolved, Kulbacki said.Instead, the employees take

the phones and ship them of f as soon as they have col-lected enough.

Cell Phones for Soldiers hasreceived 8.3 million cellphonesand has raised more than $7million since 2004, Bergquistsaid. The organization hopes todeliver 750,000 cellphones in 2011 and for 2012, they wantto increase that number to 1 million.

Robbie Bergquist, BrittanyBergquists brother who co-founded Cell Phone forSoldiers with her, said he isproud of what his organizationhas done so far and hopesthese cellphone donations willenable soldiers to stay in touchwith their families at all times.

We couldnt believe thatkids werent able to talk totheir parents very often duringdeployments, RobbieBergquist said. Im proud ofwhat weve done for our guysoverseas. Its impor tant forthem to keep in touch withloved ones and get that circleof support.

Kulbacki said although hehas never been deployed inwar, he has seen a family friendstruggle with money whilefighting overseas just to stay intouch with his family.

I see the reactions and joythat it brings to his other fami-ly members when he gets tocall home, or even just chat fortwo minutes on Facebook, hesaid. Priceless is the only wayI would describe it.

Regarding the 5,300character personal state-ment, just be aware thatwhile it is an important partof your application, youshould not spend too muchtime fussing over it and won-dering whether what youwrite will appeal to the

admissions committee. As for how much impactyour personal statement will have on your inter-view chances, the admissions director of a top-tiermedical school recently wrote actually, twit-tered that it will only improve the chances of 2percent of applicants, while not having an effecton 95 percent and hurting 3 percent. Bottom line:Dont try to sound over-the-top in your personalstatement, lest you find yourself sounding disin-genuous and falling into that bottom 3 percent.

At approximately 80 medical schools, you aregiven the option of applying through the earlydecision program, which will allow you to know byOct. 1 whether you are accepted at your school ofchoice. Dont take this route, because your

chances of getting acceptedthrough early decision are not bet-ter than through the regularprocess. Furthermore, you are notallowed to apply to any otherschools until Oct. 1, which puts youat the end of the review processand decreases your chances ofreceiving interview invitations andacceptances. Simply put, if yourapplication qualifies for admission

through a particular schools early decision pro-gram, then it will also qualify through the regulardecision process.

After submitting your secondary applications,expect to receive a heap of bad news first. In otherwords, expect several rejections before your firstinterview invitations arrive. Many schools usecomputer screening programs that allow them toquickly send rejections to applicants several daysafter their secondary was sent. This happened tome, and I can guarantee that it will be demoraliz-ing at first and make you question your chances atother schools you applied to, especially if therejections come from schools placed lower onyour list. Just remember that interview invitationsare often extended after lengthy reviews of theapplicants files by members of the admissionscommittee, and that this review requires moretime than a quantitative computer screening.

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There are presidents of Rutgers University buried right here in our backyard.

Hartmut Kramer-Mills, a pastor at the First Reformed Church of New Brunswick, on the history of the church

STORY IN METRO

QUOTE OF THE DAY

W hen it was revealed that Nicole Snooki Polizzi received$32,000 for Inside the Nicole Snooki Polizzi Studio, peoplewere livid. The most prominent reason given for the back-lash is the fact that Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison is beingpaid $30,000 for speaking at commencement in May $2,000 less thanthe Jersey Shore star. On first glance, something seems terribly wrongwith this. At an institution of higher learning, a well-respected authorshould be worth more than a reality show star, shouldnt she? However,this view does not take into account the entire picture. Once that is laidout, it makes sense that Snooki received more than Morrison.

First off, the booking of Toni Morrison marks the first time theUniversity is paying for a commencement speaker. So, then, if we apply thesame logic as the Snooki versus Morrison debate, we would have to saythat, in paying Morrison, the University is suggesting that she is worth$30,000 more than every commencement speaker weve had in the past.No one would make that claim, because, quite frankly, its absurd. PayingMorrison has nothing to do with the value of past commencement speak-ers, just as the price of Snooki has nothing to do with the price of Morrison.

Also, people have to keep in mind that when the Rutgers UniversityProgramming Association (RUPA) booked Snooki, they were looking toschedule an entertaining event that students would enjoy. It is not as ifRUPA was trying to pretend that Snookis show would have an education-al value. RUPA clearly succeeded in doing what they set out to do, becauseboth of Snookis shows sold out. The sad but true fact is that Morrisonwould never sell out two shows in one night at the University. This, ofcourse, is not the Universitys fault it is merely the social climate. Youcannot be mad at anyone for that. In this sense, Snooki is worth her price.

The final point we wish to make is that many people have been throw-ing about the highly inaccurate statement that the University paid both ofthem. This is misleading, because it was not the University as a whole thatcame together and decided how much they were willing to pay forMorrison and Snooki. The money for both speakers came from complete-ly separate funds Snookis funded through student fees and Morrisonsfunded through PepsiCo. Not only that, but Snooki did not receive theentirety of the $32,000 some of it went to her sidekick Adam Ace as well.

In the end, then, the entire issue has been blown completely out of pro-portion. Theres no sense in comparing Morrison and Snookis prices or inbeing mad at the University for the disparity. If you must direct your angersomewhere, direct it at the cultural climate. We live in a world where morepeople are willing to watch Snooki prattle on about nonsense than are will-ing to listen to Morrison deliver a speech.

Do not compareSnooki, Morrison

W eve said it before, and well say it again: One of the biggestflaws in the contemporary Republican Party is the insistenceof most members that any instance of federal funding aidingprivate citizens is tantamount to robbery of the taxpayers. One of themost recent and most ludicrous examples of this is the commentmade by Rep. Denny Rehberg, R-Mont., that Pell Grants are a form ofwelfare. In radio interview with Blog Talk Radio on Friday, Rehberg saidthat Pell Grants are turning out to be the welfare of the 21st century.We cannot believe that anyone would make such a statement.

Rehberg has obviously forgotten or perhaps never realized thatinvesting in the higher education of our nations students is an invest-ment in the future of the United States. With rapidly rising tuition costs,many average people struggle with paying for college or graduate school.This is unfair to these people because the United States promises themopportunities, but they cannot take advantage of many of these opportu-nities without college degrees. Pell Grants, then, are a way to level theplaying field they are not a way for people to leech off the system. Ofcourse, we disagree with this characterization of welfare as a blanketstatement, but it tends to be what Republicans like Rehberg think of wel-fare, so well level out enough to build our argument on his terms.

If you want to build a strong nation, you need a well-educated workforce.As things currently stand, the government does not invest nearly enough inhigher education. Trying to cut back on Pell Grants or take them awayentirely would just make things worse for students. People who get throughschool and obtain degrees are often people who go on to give back to soci-ety. Why would Rehberg want fewer people giving back and makingAmerica a better place? Would he rather see more people having to resortto welfare because they cannot get a job, which pays a living wage? We high-ly doubt that, yet he delivers his comments with a straight face.

People like Rehberg need to realize they cannot cut every single inchof federal spending. Some of it maybe even most of it is necessaryto make our country a great one. Federal money isnt dirty money. Thesooner the GOP realizes that, the better things will be for all of us.

Recognize necessityof Pell Grants

H aving recently fin-ished the medicalschool applicationand interview process, Iwanted to use this column tohighlight some of the lessonsI learned as I trudged alongthe yearlong path all futurephysicians must take beforebeginning their formal medical education.

The medical school application processbegins with the central primary application thatyou submit through the American MedicalCollege Application Service (AMCAS) website.This primary application contains your biograph-ical information, personal statement, activitieslist and letters of reference. Once submitted, theprimary application gets sent to all your selectedmedical schools, most of which in turn send youschool-specific secondary applications that con-tain more questions and essays, in addition to ahefty fee.

After the secondary applications are submitted and wallets emptied there is nothing to dobut wait and pray for interviewinvitations to arrive in your inbox.After the interviews, applicantsoften have to wait approximately amonth before hearing back fromthe admissions committees,though a handful of schools whoadmit on a non-rolling basis waituntil March to make their deci-sions. For applicants fortunateenough to have received multipleacceptance offers, May 15 of the year of plannedmatriculation is the commitment deadline, afterwhich the wait lists start moving.

The first thing I cannot stress enough is theadvantage you give yourself by sending in yourprimary application as early as prudently possibleafter the submission period opens at the end ofMay. This allows you to receive the secondaryapplication sooner from most schools and for yourfile to be reviewed before that of many other appli-cants. Since schools have more seats and inter-view slots available earlier in the application cycle,they can afford to be less selective compared tolater on in the process when the number of posi-tions left narrows down. Even at the non-rollingschools I can only think of six off the top of myhead it is still to your benefit to get your appli-cation in early, because even though decisions arenot made until all applicants are interviewed,these schools still only have a limited number ofinterview slots.

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Learn to play waiting game

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[The personal statement] will onlyimprove the chances

of 2 percent of applicants.

DoctorsOrders

BO WANG

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I n these uncertain times, it isgreat to know exactly wherethe priorities of an institutionlie. Our own University, which inits rich history has traditionallymade top-notch affordable educa-tion its priority, has made it clearthat its current top priority is pro-viding top-notch college entertain-ment. Students entering theUniversity will now know that notonly is our school the eighth old-est university in the UnitedStates, but it also stands tall as thefirst university where the iconicNicole Snooki Polizzi of JerseyShore fame spoke. At a sold-outforum, 500 lucky Universityundergraduates received invalu-able advice on dance moves, ademonstration on hair styling andher general wisdom on life, culmi-nating in the mantra Study hard,but party harder!

Honestly, this is great andSnooki is right. Who in theirright mind would not want to

Snooki harms U.s reputationALEX NIKULKIN

LetterWhen you receive your inter-view invitations, they will oftengive you several dates to choosefrom. Keep in mind that admis-sions of fices are often fairlyflexible with interview dates, sodont hesitate to give them a callto work out an alternative dateif none of the given dates workfor you. Most of my interviewinvitations offered me days inSeptember, but since I wasdoing an internship inMaryland at the time, I man-aged to push all of them to thefollowing month. Try not topush them too far into thefuture for the rolling schoolsthough, or else you will bevying for fewer available seats.

The final major lesson Ilearned, one that took me manymonths into the applicationcycle to fully comprehend, is theinterviews themselves are by nomeans the be-all, end-all ofwhether you get accepted to aparticular medical school. Theadmissions committees know alltoo well they cannot evaluate a

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candidate based solely on two30-minute interviews. Thatwould cause them to lose quali-fied candidates whose only faultwas that they were a bit off theirgame during their interviews.Your entire application file willcontribute to the final decisionprocess, with the interview itselfbeing only one important pieceof it. In fact, I got rejected from aschool at which I thought I hadaced my interview, and acceptedat a school at which I completelybombed interview day.

To all the pre-meds out there,all I can say is that the combina-tion of the applications, essays,interviews and agonizing waittime is nothing short of inhu-mane. Try to keep yourself busy,distracted, whatever. Your lifewill appear to be in a constantstate of limbo throughout thewhole process. However, itmakes the positive outcomes inthe end that much sweeter. Afteryou all get accepted, make sureto go out and celebrate. The hardpart is finally over for now.

Bo Wang is an Ernest MarioSchool of Pharmacy graduate student. His column, DoctorsOrders, runs on alternate Mondays.

spend their four years in collegepartying instead of studyingthose hard subjects like scienceand math? I personally feel thatreceiving a degree in modernclub dancing and binge drinkingwill pay off in the long run. Imean, it did for our belovedJersey Shore icon and it will forall of our undergraduates con-ditional, of course, on the factthat their parents continue to paytheir cellphone bills and let themmove into the family garagecome graduation.

Having established this prece-dent, the University should moveswiftly to assure that all newincoming students receive noth-ing less than excellence in theirUniversity entertainment experi-ence. Within the next months theUniversity should consider usingmore student money to invitesuch distinguished speakers asPamela Anderson, mixed-martialartist Kimbo Slice and the guyfrom the ShamWow TV ads.Speaker fees might be high, andthe University should considersubsidizing these expenses by

diverting funds from the nerds inthe physics department. No priceis too high to provide qualityentertainment in place of obso-lete and hard to learn knowledge.

Experts agree, in the econom-ic turmoil that defined the lasttwo years, the only safe invest-ment was and remains a collegedegree. According to The NewYork Times, college graduatesearn an average of 50 percentmore than those with only a highschool diploma. But no one eversaid anything about the quality ofthat education, giving theUniversity a possibility to exploitthat loophole and give studentsthe right dance moves and hair-dos, rather than any real worldexpertise in sought-after high-tech fields. If other schools likeColumbia and Princeton evendare to look at us the wrong wayon the dance floor, well, you knowwhat they call those losers on theJersey Shore.

Alex Nikulin is a School of Artsand Sciences graduate studentmajoring in geological sciences.

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Aries (March 21-April 19) Todayis a 9 Demand the facts andyou'll get them. They help you fig-ure out what to do next. You havethe message and can get it out. It'sa very lucky moment for love. Askfor what your heart desires.Taurus (April 20-May 20) Todayis a 9 You're more powerfulthan you ever imagined. Try againat something you have failed atbefore. Practice your five-minuteelevator speech and then deliver.Gemini (May 21-June 21) Today is a 7 Listening is themost powerful part of communi-cation. Observe rather thanspend. Completion is withinyour grasp. It's okay to hide out.Consider travel plans.Cancer (June 22-July 22) Todayis a 9 Enjoy inspiring conversa-tion with friends for the next fewdays. They understand and have awider view. Talk over your ambi-tions, dreams and wild schemes.Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Today is a9 Take inventory of assets andliabilities for powerful decision-making. New assignments comein, so make a good impression byyour practical point of view. Atouch of mystery doesn't hurt.Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Today is a 7 Let yourselfexplore. A dream inspires.Romance may well follow, sinceyour brilliance is enchanting.Stop and paint a picture if youhave the urge. You'll be glad forthe memory later.

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able to contribute to the winlike that.

Rutgers (11-20, 1-5) droppedthe first two games of theseries to the Huskies (13-15, 3-2) but feel that momentum ison its side heading into a nine-game homestand.

Its hard to go through a losingstreak like that and keep the spiritsup, Nelson said. But the one

thing about this team isthat they dont give up.Coming home, we havea real chance to turnthings around and thatstarts [tomorrow].

The Scarlet Knightshost Lafayette in a dou-bleheader at the RUSoftball Complextomorrow with theoffense on fire.

Lindley, Bragg,Curran and seniors

Mickenzie Alden and Mandy Craigall homered in the last two games asLindley sets her sights on buildingupon her freshly-set school record.

I look forward to keepingthis going in the future, Lindleysaid. The rest of the team says Ibetter keep going becauseBraggs going to catch me.

T H E D A I L Y T A R G U M A P R I L 4 , 2 0 1 1 1 5S PORTS

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Sophomore shortstop Ashley Bragg went 3-for-4 yesterday againstUConn and cranked her second home run of the season.

state, junior Mikelyn Messina fol-lowed suit with a mirror imagefirst-base dive that gave the teamrunners on first and second withno outs.

The big hit of theinning occurred threebatters later, whenjunior Lindsey Currangave Rutgers the leadwith a two-run singleto right field. Curraninjured her handthree weeks ago, andlast weekend markedher first series ofplate appearancessince her return.

It feels so good just to beback, said Curran, who belteda home run and had three hitson the weekend. I had a reallyhard time not being able to doanything and having to watchus losing so many times. Butinstead of getting down, I waspatient and it feels good to be

BRITTNEYLINDLEY

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F ormer Rutgers centerDarnell Stapleton iscoaching the New YorkSharks a professional womensfootball team.

Stapleton started for twoseasons at Rutgers, and he wasa finalist for the RimingtonTrophy in 2006, when Rutgersallowed only eight sacks.Stapleton transferred toRutgers from Hudson ValleyCommunity College and won aSuper Bowl starting for thePittsburgh Steelers.

The Sharks are a tacklefootball team in the WomensFootball Alliance, and theywon their season opener, 34-20, over the PhiladelphiaLiberty Belles.

BUTLER IS BACK INthe National Championship,where it will meetConnecticut tonight at ReliantStadium in Houston.

The Bulldogs beat 11th-seed-ed Virginia Commonwealth, 70-62, on Saturday to become thefirst team to return to the titlegame since Florida won consec-utive championships in 2006and 2007.

Connecticut beat JohnCaliparis Kentucky squad, 56-55,to return to the NationalChampionship for the first timesince 2004, when it won the BigEasts last title.

EVAN LONGORIA IS ONthe 15-day disabled list just twogames into the season.

The Tampa Bay Rays thirdbaseman strained a muscle inhis left side, and manager JoeMaddon said the injury couldsideline Longoria for a mini-mum of three weeks.

The All-Star third basemanbegan the season hitting 0-for-5with a walk.

The Atlanta Braves similarlyplaced starter Jair Jurrjens on the15-day disabled list with a strained right oblique, retroactive toMarch 25.

AFTER THE NFL enhancedits concussion policy last season,Madden 12 is following suit.

John Madden told TheNew York Times players whosuf fer concussions in thisyears video game will beunable to return in the same game. CommentatorsGus Johnson and CrisCollinsworth will also discussthe dangers of concussionswhen players are hur t in the game.

The iconic game is hostinga fan-vote tournament todetermine the cover athlete.Former Rutgers tailback RayRice lost in the first round. New York Giants wide-out Hakeem Nicks, New York Jets quarterback MarkSanchez and PhiladelphiaEagles quarterback MichaelVick remain in the round of 16.

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getting everyone going real early,Klimchak said. But we just didntreally use the momentum.

Stagnitta chalked up the lossto missed opportunities, and withgood reason. Rutgers offenserecorded 43 shots on goal againstthe Red Storms 27 shots in total.

St. Johns took advantage ofmost every opportunity theywere given today, and we didnt,Stagnitta said. We played hardand we played with an awful lot ofheart, but we just couldnt com-plete our chances. At the end ofthe day, the name of the game isstill making your shots.

The Knights hope to halt theirthree-game losing skid when theytake to the road next week againstnon-conference opponent Marist.

But the loss at the NewMeadowlands in front of thelargest crowd the Knights maysee all season will stick withmany members of the team.

For a lot of us it was our firsttime at the New Meadowlands,Diehl said. I just wish we couldhave came out of here with a win.

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Redshirt freshman Scott Klimchak, the Knights points leader, notched three goals against St. Johnsin a losing effort in the Big City Classic at New Meadowlands Stadium.

IT SEEMS THE INJURIESjust keep piling up for Rutgers.Senior right fielder MichaelLang left Game 2 of the serieswith tightness in his ham-string. Lang came of f thebench Sunday to pinch hit.

Im really not sure just yetif hes OK, Hill said. I hopeso, but Im really not sure.

Sweeney injured his anklelast Wednesday againstWagner and is expected to beout for a few more games. Theinjury occurred after WagnersJack Rice slid hard into second,taking Sweeneys legs out fromunder him.

I dont know if the slide wasdirty or not. I really couldnttell from my angle, Sweeneymentioned after the game.

Senior pitcher SeanCampbell suffered an injury inthe same game after he wasstruck in the head by a ball. OnSaturday, the prognosisbecame clearer.

He has a concussion, Hillsaid. Hes down for a while. Werenot sure how long but were antic-ipating two to three weeks.

RUTGERS NEXT GAMEWILL take place down the road,as it battles another in-state rivalin the Princeton Tigers. The firstpitch is scheduled for Tuesdayat 3:30 p.m.

Over the past 10 meetings, theKnights are 6-3-1 against theircross-town foes, outscoring theTigers by a combined 76-35. Theywill look to win their third in a rowagainst the Ivy League foe.

Last year, the Knights tookdown the Tigers, 10-2. It will bethe 97th time the two teams meet.

count the junior sent a routinepop fly to shallow center.

But a miscommunicationbetween senior centerfielderBrandon Boykin, freshmanshortstop Nick Favatella and jun-ior second baseman Dan Perrineallowed the ball to drop in, givingWalsh a one-out double.

A walk and a bases-clearingdouble later, Rutgers faced aone-run deficit and eventuallydropped the contest, 3-2, in 13innings to their in-state rivals.

Its very dif ficult and Jerrygot a bad rap, I think. A fly ballshould be caught easily, said

head coach Fred Hill. Thatdbe two outs and nobody on.Theres no reason in the worldthat ball should drop. It hurtsbecause its a fly ball itshould be caught.

The Knights tied the gamethe next half inning with oneswing of the bat when juniorthird baseman Russ Hopkins,who went 5-for-14 in the series,took Joe DiRoccos first of fer-ing over the left center fieldwall for a solo shot.

The game remained tied forthe next four innings thanks toa strong five-inning perform-ance by sophomore reliever

Rob Corsi, who struck outseven in relief of Elsing.

The Shore Regional HighSchool (N.J.) product retired 12straight before the Piratessmacked a couple of hits in the13th inning to plate the game-winning run.

[Corsi] did a phenomenaljob, said sophomore lefthanderRob Smorol, who went 7 2/3innings without allowing anearned run. Hes never beenstretched out like that this year.For him to go five strong and giveup two hits and one run, he did aspectacular job.

Before the Knights droppedGame 2, sophomore ace TylerGebler put on a show for all inattendance of the series opener atBainton Field.

The Toms River, N.J., nativewent the distance for theKnights, allowing just five hitsand one earned run in a 4-1 vic-tory over SHU his secondvictory and complete game ofthe season.

The defense I think was thekey because I didnt have a lot ofstrikeouts, Gebler said. Theywere out there making all theplays so that made the differ-ence I think.

Just like in the series finale,the Zavala brothers shoulderedthe load from the plate, makingthe most of their opportunity toplay alongside one another.

While the duo played justone season together atRandolph High School, the pairmade up for years of missedopportunities over the week-end all in just three gamestogether in a Rutgers uniform.

Its something that wellnever get to do again, SteveZavala said. Were takingadvantage of it.

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Rutgers splits Day 1 doubleheader against HallBY T.J. NAGY

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

After 22 total innings, theR u t g e r sb a s e b a l lt e a mpicked upboth a winand a loss

against Seton Hall duringSaturdays doubleheader.

The first game saw Rutgerstop the Pirates, 4-1, with the sec-ond resulting in a 3-2 extra-inningloss. The loss occurred after 13innings of baseball, totaling threeand a half hours.

For the Knights, the lossmay be tough to swallow afterbeing only two outs from victo-ry in the top of the ninth. Buthead coach Fred Hill ensuresthat his team will not let thedefeat haunt it.

Well bounce back, Hill said.Were not down. We have a pret-ty resilient attitude so I think ourkids will come back.

As for team fatigue after play-ing a total of six hours of baseballin one day, Hill is not worried inthe slightest.

These kids are between 17and 19 years old, Hill said. Theyshould be able to play all day andall night.

Even though the Knightsended their Saturday double-header with a loss, the wholeteam stayed positive. TheKnights remained competitivethroughout the day and foughthard until the last out.

We definitely competed, saidsophomore infielder Pat Sweeney.Both games we really fought hard. Itwas just unfortunate we ended up onthe losing side on one of the games.

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Senior right fielder Michael Lang came up hobbling after a late-game double in Game 2 of theKnights series against Seton Hall and did not start in Game 3 as a precaution.

because our town was so big. Itsjust a real honor to play with mybrother. I feel blessed. God isworking wonders in our lives.

The Knights jumped onSHU (12-13, 3-3) starter JonProsinski early at BaintonField, plating three in the open-ing inning courtesy of a two-run single by Michael Zavala.

But his older brother wouldnot be outdone.

Facing a full count with thebases loaded in the bottom ofthe four th, Steve Zavalaknocked a liner up the middlethat scooted past the centerfielder. The ball got far enoughaway that Zavala touched themall and gave the Knights a leadthey would not relinquish.

I was kind of surprisedwhen [third base coach DarrenFenster] sent me, but I had toscoot up a little bit and get thatsecond wind, the sophomoreoutfielder said. It worked out four runs right of f the bat.

Strong pitching dominatedSaturdays doubleheader inPiscataway, and for most of theday the Knights found them-selves looking at two wins.

But with a one-run lead andone out in the top of the ninth,a mental lapse in the outfieldquickly marred their fortunes.

After earning the final out ofthe eighth inning, sophomorecloser Jerry Elsing stepped tothe mound in the ninth andquickly forced a groundball forthe innings first out. JuniorWill Walsh came up next forthe Pirates, and with a 2-2

BROTHERS: Zavalaclears bases on single, error

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A fly ball should be caught easily. Thatd

be two outs andnobody on. Theres

no reason ... that ballshould drop.

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