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Six dance groupsbattle head-to-headto win the top prizewhile fundraisingfor children with AIDS.

The firing of facultyat a Rhode Islandhigh school sparksdebate over qualityof education.

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DEVIN SIKORSKIBY CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Incumbent state Congressmembers currently face no fear oflosing their seats this comingNovember, but there are still manyindependent voters who remainundecided, according to a poll bythe University’s Eagleton Instituteof Politics.

The poll reported that New Jerseyvoters gave incumbents a 25 to 32percent lead statewide when askedabout voting for either their currentCongress member or a challenger.

David Redlawsk, a Universitypolitical science professor and polldirector, said at this point, it is notout of the ordinary for people tonot know who they are going tovote for.

“We’re talking eight monthsbefore the elections in November,so it’s not surprising that manypeople don’t know who they aregoing to vote for,” Redlawsk said.“Most people just don’t thinkabout politics.”

In the five congressional dis-tricts held by Republicans, votersplan to vote for a Republican by a 25to 40 percent margin.

Meanwhile, in the eight con-gressional districts held byDemocrats, voters intend to votefor Democrats by a 22 to 41 per-cent margin.

“This suggests that unless astrong anti-incumbent campaigndevelops, independents may bemostly drawn to the party of their

BY GLEN GABRIELCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Boasting their red mohawks,concert T-shirts and studded beltsand bracelets, University students,as well as several area residents,came to the Louis Brown AthleticCenter on Livingston campusFriday prepared to put their air gui-tar skills to the test.

While they had high hopes ofbreaking a world record for thelargest air guitar ensemble, therewere not enough people — evenwith a strong turnout — to breakthe existing Guinness WorldRecord set at Brock University inCanada where more than 1,436

people gathered last Septemberfor an air guitar performance.

Rutgers UniversityProgramming Association mem-bers were the principal organizersof the event. Other groups likeDance Marathon, RutgersAthletics, Rutgers Dining, RutgersSummer Session, the RU Sure?Campaign and the NewBrunswick Campus Deans Officealso helped.

RUPA Vice President of Spiritand Special Events AlexandriaIntravatola remains optimistic inlight of the unsuccessful attempt.

“Will I say this is a failure?Absolutely not,” Intravatola, aSchool of Arts and Sciences junior,

said. “This event was still success-ful for many people.”

Senior Student ProgramsCoordinator Matthew Fergusonsaid the most important thing wasthat everyone had a good time.

“All of you should be proud,” hetold the crowd. “Everyone whocame out had a great time and afun night.”

Even though the record wentunbroken, there was a silver lining.Every attendee was asked todonate at least $5 to the cause —more than $4,000 will go towardmusic and arts programs for theNew Brunswick School District.

BY JUSTINE D’SOUZACONTRIBUTING WRITER

With the official start of spring about aweek away, more than 100 University stu-dents sprung into action Saturday morn-ing to clean up Passion Puddle on theCook campus, as part of New JerseyPublic Interest Research Group StudentChapters’ Water Watch.

Although the cleanup began at theman-made lake, it extended to the rest ofthe Cook/Douglass campus and toRoute 18.

A lot of trash accumulates in andaround Passion Puddle because of runoffduring the winter, said Eric Struble, eventcoordinator for New Jersey CommunityWater Watch. The cleanup helps get thearea clean for the upcoming season.

“We decided that this is the way tostar t spring with a cleaner campus,”he said.

Because Passion Puddle flows into theRaritan River, keeping it clean helps elim-inate pollution in the Raritan itself, whichis the 13th-most polluted river in the coun-try, Struble said.

“We are out here cleaning not only tobeautify the Rutgers campus but alsobecause we want to do our part to cleanthe Raritan River,” he said. “We could stop

the [pollution] problem before it evengets to the Raritan River.”

School of Arts and Sciences first-year student Edwin Olivas heard aboutthe cleanup on Facebook and decidedto attend to improve the cleanliness ofthe campus.

“The cleaner [the campus] is, the bet-ter it is for us,” Lopez said.

Others, like Sigma Kappa memberAlexandra Menillo, participated as part ofdifferent University organizations.

“One of our [sorority] sisters isinvolved with NJPIRG, and she was help-ing organize the cleanup, so we decidedto support her,” said Menillo, a School ofArts and Sciences sophomore. “We liveon this campus, so it’s convenient.”

She said the Cook/Douglass campusis naturally beautiful and should be kepttrash-free.

“It’s a really pretty campus. Thereshouldn’t be trash,” Menillo said.

Many clean-up workers alsostressed the importance of maintainingPassion Puddle to help keep the cam-pus trash-free.

“I think Passion Puddle is an impor-tant part of Douglass and thereforeneeds to be taken care of,” said

Poll shows uncertaintyin upcoming election

Students shred to win the largest air guitar title ensemble Friday at the Louis Brown Athletic Center on Livingstoncampus. Though they did not break the record, proceeds will help music and art programs in New Brunswick.

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Community splashes into Passion Puddle clean-up

Students line up for dinner and dancing at “Live. Love. Be.HIV/AIDS Awarness Ball” Saturday at the College Avenue Gym.

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A poll by the Eagleton Institute of Politics indicates that 57 percentof the president’s voters plan to vote Democratic in future elections.

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BY JESSICA URICONTRIBUTING WRITER

Chaos stormed the dancefloor Friday night as six groupspopped, locked, dipped andtwirled to compete for a $250prize and the “Rutgers’ BestDance Crew” title.

Judges awarded first place tothe 12-person, hip-hop stylegroup Chaos Theory.

Their performance — themed“Chaos Asylum” — literally leaptoff the stage as some of thedancers ran into the audienceduring the dance.

The Children’s AIDS Network,a student organization that workswith the Robert Wood JohnsonAIDS program, hosted the dancecompetition in the Rutgers StudentCenter on the College Avenuecampus as part of its three-dayAIDS awareness campaign.

Inspired by the MTV show“America’s Best Dance Crew,”Justine Kim, president of theChildren’s AIDS Network, saidthe group wanted to piggyback onthe popularity of the show to gainpublicity for the organization.

“Dance is really popular,especially with the wholeAmerica’s Best Dance [Crew],and there are a lot of great dancegroups at Rutgers,” Children’sAIDS Network co-EventsCoordinator Ariel Lefkovithsaid. “We’ve done a talent showbefore where we’ve had a lot ofgreat dance groups and we’veseen the talent, so we thoughtwe’d unify it into one theme.”

The six groups danced to avariety of styles, including hip-hop, jazz and belly dancing.

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Student dancers from all the participating groups bust a move at “Rutgers’ Best DanceCrew,” hosted by The Children’s AIDS Network to raise awareness for the disease.

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10 Expand your horizons! Take a trip to the East with this cel-ebration of Asian cultures and traditions at 7:30 p.m. in theLivingston Student Center. Spend your evening with excit-ing performances and cuisine from the University’s ownstudent groups and local vendors representing Japan,China, the Philippines, India and other Asian countries.Supplies limited.

13 School is out until March 21 for spring break! Enjoy thevacation!

23 Students considering living in off-campus housing canlearn their rights as a tenant at “Tenants’ Rights in NewJersey,” scheduled to be held from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. inRoom 410 of the Rutgers Student Center on the CollegeAvenue campus. A guest speaker from the HousingCoalition of Central NJ will discuss topics regarding ten-ants, landlords, leases, security deposits and other issuesregarding living of f-campus. Visit ruoffcam-pus.rutgers.edu for more information.

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28 The exhibit, “Perspectives Through the Lens: Soviet ArtPhotography in the 1970s-80s,” ends today in the JaneVoorhees Zimmerli Art Museum on the College Avenuecampus. This collection presents a selection of more than60 photographs from the Norton and Nancy DodgeCollection of Soviet Nonconformist Art by FranciscoInfante, Vladimir Kupriyanov, Boris Mikhailov andAleksandr Slyusarev, four major Soviet artists working withphotography in 1970s and 1980s.

After each performance, thedancers received criticism from afour-judge panel on their original-ity, creativity, presentation, syn-chrony and overall impression.

“I think you guys are fear-less,” said judge Lauren Gibbs ofthe group’s performance, jokingabout the group’s off-stage antics.“You really went all the way there— all the way there, all the wayhere, all the way over there.”

The piece was a compilation ofold and new, said Chaos Theorydancer Stephanie Whitfield, aSchool of Arts and Sciences junior.

Team leader Keenya Logan, aSchool of Arts and Sciences jun-ior, said they put the dancetogether specifically for the com-petition, learning the entire dancein about two weeks.

Logan said the group wasextremely happy with its per-formance at the competition.

“It felt great. We did great [and]we had a lot of fun,” she said.

The other competitors includ-ed Verse One, the RutgersMiddle Eastern Belly DanceTroupe and RAPS Dance Troupe,a jazz-style trio.

Judge Jacque Burgering saidshe was impressed with the cho-reography of second-place teamTeam Technique.

“There were so many different... level changes,” Burgering said.“It was really interesting for me towatch — there was always some-thing going on, and everybodywas engaged all the time.”

Even though they did not win,Verse One dancer Jessica Chan, aRutgers College senior, said sheenjoyed the opportunity to bejudged because it will help thegroup’s future performances.

“Every single time we per-form, all we hear is applause. Wenever really get critiqued, so it’sreally awesome to get critiquesso we know what we have to fix,”she said. “It’s another way for usto get better.”

School of Arts and Sciencesfirst-year student Erika Reyescould not decide which dancewas her favorite.

“It’s hard to compare, becausethere’s the traditional belly danc-ing and the more hip-hop danc-ing and the whole jazzy theaterdancing,” she said. “It’s kind ofhard to pick because they’re allso different.”

All proceeds from the compe-tition will go directly to childrenwith AIDS to help defray the costof necessities like groceries, rentand bills, Kim said.

“When you have a child withHIV/AIDS, there’s a lot of emotion-al burden, financial burden, physi-cal burden, social burden,” shesaid. “What the [Children’s AIDSNetwork] does is address thoseneeds any way they can, whetherthrough programs or events oreven through financial means.”

The organization also hostsbenefit concerts, a Christmasparty for the kids and their fam-ilies, and a Halloween party,Kim said.

Roseanne Marone, programcoordinator for the Robert WoodJohnson AIDS program, said herorganization is extremely gratefulfor the efforts of the Children’sAIDS Network in assisting chil-dren affected by the virus.

“We cannot express theamount of appreciation we havefor CAN,” Marone said.

Holodak said the congression-al elections in November areespecially important for students.

“If you look at the protestshappening in California over col-lege tuition hikes, students needto know that it was Congresswho made such a thing possi-ble,” he said.

Like Holodak, RutgersCollege senior Holden alsobelieves more students need tobecome aware of politics.

“No matter what side of thespectrum you come from, theseissues will affect our lives,”Holden said. “I think they don’tattribute the election with anysignificance. However, studentsshould know what’s going to hap-pen with their future.”

Holden also admits that poli-tics might be puton the back burn-er for many stu-dents because forsome, it is not themost importantpart of their life.

“I think thatbecause theburdens ofbeing a collegestudent are sogreat, it is a lit-tle challengingfor students to

keep up on politics,” he said.“Most of the people my age justseem not to care.”

Holodak expressed the sameopinion. He said University stu-dents do not get involvedbecause it is not a good use oftheir time.

“People think they are wast-ing their time with politics, butthat’s just not the case,” hesaid. “There is a need for stu-dents to be more vocal abouttheir ideals.”

Despite the par tisanshiphappening in Washington D.C.,Holodak and Holden are team-ing up to make politics a big-ger issue.

Holodak said acting solelyin a partisan manner just doesnot work.

“We’ll do loop-meetings withRon and try to come together ontopics,” Holodak said. “We’ll fightabout certain issues, but thenwe’ll hang out afterwards.”

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incumbent congressman, butthere are risks for Democrats inthe current environment,”according to the poll.

The danger lies in the fact thatonly 57 percent of those whovoted for President Barack Obamaplan to vote for a Democrat, while75 percent of those who voted forSen. John McCain, R-Ariz., intendto vote Republican.

Of the amount of registeredvoters that approve of the presi-dent’s job performance, 51 per-cent said they will voteDemocratic in the 2010 congres-sional elections.

Ultimately, 20percent of the 953adults polled saidthey were unsureof how they willvote and 10 percentdo not plan to voteat all.

This air of uncer-tainty and apathy isnot just present inNew Jersey adults,but in college stu-dents as well.

Redlawsk said students shouldbe more aware because the con-gressional decisions affect notjust adults, but everybody.

“Ultimately, the U.S.Congress makes many policies,like student loans,” he said.“Whoever gets elected toCongress has a huge effect onwhat happens in this country.”

Increasing political aware-ness at the University is a com-mon goal for both RutgersDemocrats President AlexHolodak and Rutgers UniversityCollege Republicans PresidentRon Holden.

Holodak, a School of Arts andSciences senior, said politics canbe a painful process, but studentsshould pay attention.

“I think it is a lot to grasp, andthere are a lot of issues out there,”he said. “However, it is the job ofour politicians and officialsstatewide to make this informationas clear and articulate as possible.”

The real point of the night wasnot necessarily to break a record,but to raise money for a goodcause and help some needy chil-dren, said Youna Cho, a RutgersBusiness School sophomore.

“It’s all for the kids,” said Cho,a Dance Marathon member. “Wedo all of this for them. [RUDMis] all about helping the kids.”

When the doors of the RACopened at 7 p.m., participantsflooded into the arena, while aGuinness adjudicator stationedat the entrance took a head countand stamped attendees’ hands.

Lizethe Martinez, a School of Artsand Science first-year student.

School of Arts and Sciencessophomore Nisha Patwardhansaid animals living on campuswould benefit as well, as they willnot be surrounded by trash andcan live a healthier lifestyle.

Struble said the event was bothsuccessful and helped to gain

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time with politics,but that’s just not

the case.” RON HOLDEN

Rutgers University CollegeRepublicans President

The N Result played a mixtureof original and cover songs. Theband’s cover of Bon Jovi’s “Livin’on a Prayer” prompted the crowdto scream out the lyrics.

Lance “The Shred” Kastenalso made an appearance to showparticipants the air guitar movesthey needed to perform, as atten-dees in the RAC followed his cuesand mimicked playing the guitar.

After the attempt, Guinness rep-resentatives announced the recordstill belonged to Canada, which wasfollowed by a unified chant of“U.S.A.!” along with stomping feet.

Free commemorative T-shirts,glow bracelets and necklaces wereavailable to all those who attended.

The University may attempt tobreak another record next year,Intravatola said.

awareness for NJPIRG’s WaterWatch program and its initiatives.

“We try to bring attention tothe pollution that affects ourwaterways,” he said.

Despite some minor prob-lems, Struble said studentsseemed to enjoy spending time making the campus a lit-tle cleaner.

“The biggest success is that115 people came out on aSaturday morning to show thatthey cared about their environ-ment and their campus,” he said.“I’m thrilled about it.”

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BY YASMEEN FAHMYCONTRIBUTING WRITER

In an effort to make morepeople aware about childrenand families coping withHIV/AIDS, hundreds of stu-dents came to the CollegeAvenue Gym to dine and danceSaturday at the first annual“Live. Love. Be. HIV/AIDSAwareness Ball.”

More than $1,000 in dona-tions will go to the AIDSResource Foundation forChildren in Newark, an organi-zation founded in 1985 to pro-vide cost-ef fective and family-centered ser vices to children and families af fectedby HIV/AIDS. The organiza-tion of fers a variety of pro-grams through their Web site.

Event Coordinator CoreyBates was thrilled to see theevent come to fruition. Seekingto fulfill a friend’s wish, Batessaid it was important for him todo everything to make theevent possible.

“I think it’ll definitely makepeople more aware,” said Bates,a Rutgers College senior.

The ball, inspired by AkirahMassenburg, a Universityalumnus and friend of Bates,drew in a diverse crowd rang-ing from first-year students toseniors. To keep the aware-ness spreading outside theballroom doors, the planningcommittee arranged take-home bags filled with informa-tional packets and resourcespertaining to HIV/AIDS.

The turnout exceeded theplanning committee’s expecta-tions and sparked conversationabout what Bates felt is generallya taboo subject.

“We’re trying to find a wayas a whole to better the futureof our society,” said DougPark, the event’s sales and rev-enue coordinator.

Annie Chen, director ofdevelopment at the AIDSResource Foundation forChildren, noted the importanceof not only being aware, but alsosharing information on protect-ing oneself and others.

School of Arts and Sciencesjunior Marianne DePadua said shewas glad to support a good cause.

“There’s a bigger world outthere, and there [are] so manythings that we as people shouldknow about and care about,”she said.

Mark Inverso, a RutgersBusiness School sophomore,said the event was promoted welland the dance and dinner aspectsof the event were great ways todraw in students.

“It sounded like a goodcause, so I decided to justcome out and have a goodtime,” he said.

Bates hopes to pass the lega-cy of this awareness ball down tohis younger committee col-leagues and plans to attend nextyear. The committee hopes tostart planning for the next ball assoon as possible.

Alumnusinspiresfirst-everHIV ball

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Need for speed

The Rutgers University Cycling Team hosted the spring season’s first race this weekend in the Eastern Collegiate Cycling Conference. More than 600 registered riders from the New England region participated in three different eventsthroughout the weekend. About 20 members of the University’s cycling team participated in the event.

because unlike the progressiveincome tax, the FairTax affectsall individuals at the same ratefor their consumption, regard-less of their income. Whetherthey would see it as practicalthough is debatable. In“Federalist No.31,” AlexanderHamilton explains: “A govern-ment ought to contain in itself

every power requisite to the full accomplishment of theobjects committed to its care ... the federal governmentmust of necessity be invested with an unqualified powerof taxation in the ordinary modes.”

In “Federalist No.12,” Hamilton stated that dutiescollected on foreign goods would provide the feder-al government with enough revenue to fulfill theduties assigned to it by Constitution and by legisla-tion. This may have been true during the late 1700’s,but it is unlikely that such a revenue stream wouldbe sufficient to fund the activities of the federal gov-ernment today. From its extensive court system toits sophisticated military equipment, and from taxincentives for home owners to the funding of the

nation’s present-day criminal justicesystem, the modern American statesimply requires much more fundingthan it did in 1787, when theConstitution was adopted.

Replacing a progressive, federalincome tax with the FairTax would belikely to result in a drastic loss of rev-enue that the federal governmentdepends upon to meet its obligations.The FairTax seeks to ensure that noAmerican pays federal taxes onspending up to the poverty level and

then only pays taxes for consumption of retail goodsafter that point. According to economist PaulAnthony Samuelson, the reality is that spending onconsumption goods sees a significant increaseupward until family income is between $40,000 and$60,000. Families with incomes below this point tendto spend all of their income on the consumption ofthese goods, but those with incomes above this pointtend to devote a greater percentage of their income toconsumption of luxury goods and saving, whichbegins to rise as income continues to rise.

Thus, the FairTax may effectively reduce theamount of taxes that are collected from the verywealthy as they save their incomes and pass on theirwealth, which would go relatively untouched by theFairTax plan, which also eliminates gift, estate and cap-ital gains taxes. This may be especially dangerous con-sidering the extent to which wealth is concentrated inthis nation. According to sociologist G.WilliamDomhoff, as of 2007, the top 1 percent of households

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T he tea party patriots’movement claims tobe united by core

values expressed in thenation’s founding docu-ments, such as the FederalistPapers. T.E.A. is an acronymthat stands for taxed enoughalready. Many tea party patri-ots have called for fundamen-tal tax reform, demanding that the nation’s progres-sive federal income tax be replaced with the“FairTax,” which is a federal retail sales tax. Taxingconsumption, assert many members of the tea party,is more fair and practical than a progressive incometax that unfairly burdens more than it burdens others.But are these calls for reform truly in line with whatthe founding fathers wanted? Would the founderslampoon a progressive, federal income tax, and wouldthey believe that the FairTax is a fairer and a morepractical solution?

The Federalist Papers elucidate what some of thefounding fathers may have had to say about the teaparty’s movement against a progressive, federalincome tax. In “The Federalist No.10,”James Madison makes it quite clearthat he believes those who lack prop-erty or who have relatively little prop-erty are a powerful faction that will out-number, and may seek to oppress,those who have acquired more proper-ty as a result of their superior faculties.He claims the most powerful factionwill prevail in a dispute, resulting in theoppression of the more propertied:“The apportionment of taxes on vari-ous descriptions of property, is an actwhich seems to require the most exact impartiality;yet there is, perhaps, no legislative act in whichgreater opportunity and temptation are given to a pre-dominant party, to trample on the rules of justice.Every shilling with which they overburden the inferi-or number, is a shilling saved to their own pockets.”

Madison ultimately believes that this danger will beaverted under the American form of governmentbecause of the many interests that compose it, its sys-tem of checks and balances and its separation of powers.This statement strongly suggests though, that he wouldlook at a progressive income tax as tyranny by themajority. Madison was not opposed by taxes levied bythe federal government; in the U.S. Constitution and theFederalist Papers No. 12, 31 and 32, he and the otherfounding fathers make it quite clear that the governmentcould levy taxes directly and indirectly. However,“Federalist No.10” suggests that Madison and the otherFounding Fathers were opposed to taxes that differen-tially impacted those who owned the most property.

The founders would perhaps be likely to agree withthose in the tea party’s claim that the FairTax is fairer

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FairTax lacks practicality

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BEN WEST

P resident Barack Obama’s harsh educational reforms havecome under fire as of late and while some may say firing facul-ty at public institutions is an unproven method of helping edu-

cation, we believe reform is needed in order to truly increase schoolvalue. In the case of one underperforming Rhode Island school, theboard of education decided to fire all of the teachers due to poor testresults in prior years. The decision to fire the 93 teachers has comeunder great critique as the $3.5 billion federal school aid program getsstarted, according to The New York Times.

Teaching has slowly but surely been turning into just another pro-fession or job until a real career comes through. The sad truth is thatmany public school teachers do not put in the same effort as they diddecades ago. The situation is even grimmer when it comes to under-privileged schools and the children who attend them. If those kidswho grow up in the inner slums of cities are not given proper educa-tional opportunities from the start, the likelihood to succeed decreas-es with age, and the lack of dedicated instructors will only deepentheir hardships.

While trying not to get too into the political aspect of the problem,former President George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind debacle onlyattempted to get students, suited for grade promotion or not, throughthe system and on to high school graduation. Obama’s plan, however,is an example of quality education reform, rather than the supposedlyfair-for-all temporary solution of letting underperforming children andexcelling students graduate at an arm’s length of each other. And withthe addition of a federal school turnaround of $3.5 billion, Obama’ssupport for nixing poor faculty only serves to eliminate those who donot qualify for funding.

The Central Falls, R.I., school that has become one of several loca-tions of debate saw a mere 7 percent of kids passing their 11th gradestate math exams. Therefore, the decision to fire those 93 teachers isvalid, as the district, state or federal administration had to put its footdown on educational reform. After all, even in poor school districts,teachers are some of the highest paid figures and if the ultimate goalis to receive a paycheck, then the reason for teaching and the systemitself has only reversed from times when education was a priority.Underperformance is the instructor’s fault, and if a passion for teach-ing is not his or her top priority, then funding from the federal gov-ernment should be in no way a method of escape for schools.

Firing faculty necessary

“The FairTax affectsall individuals at the same rate for

their consumption,regardless of

their income.”

SEE WEST ON PAGE 9

W ars are led over conflicting beliefs and new religions areinvented and subjected to criticism seemingly everyother day. In the case of the Church of Scientology, mil-

lions of dollars and other methods of support from celebrities havegone to a religion that is almost solely based on a 1954 science fic-tion novel by L. Ron Hubbard. Now, in The New York Times, a storywas published of two members of the organization running theChurch of Scientology who quit after working for the company for 13years. And while we are unable to trace the origins of any major reli-gion to its absolute founding cores, the 1950s are close enough to seethe flaws of Scientology. This begs the question: What is the differ-ence between this organization and an investment-based cult?

Former members Christie King Collbran and her husband Chris,were required to sign a billion-year-long contract committing them towork based on their belief of immortality. Sea Organization, the com-pany behind the Church of Scientology, worked them seven days aweek, while paying the couple sporadic sums of $50 a week. Why thendo people continue to expand this relatively new belief? Perhaps it isthe mystery and innovation of the religion that drags celebrities suchas John Travolta and Tom Cruise in.

The Sea Org. was accused of putting pressure on members to haveabortions and even beat some during planned meetings. The majorityof members of course remain ignorant of the issues behind the cur-tains, but with the spreading resignations of members, even the major-ity sees the faults within this controversial religion. Morals and valuesappear to have escaped the massively funded corporation that ispulling the strings of the Church of Scientology. Overworking andunderpaying its employees, while a case in many other areas of socie-ty, cannot be a core aspect of one of the most successful churches asof late. Headquarters around the world, from Rome to Dallas, are alsoproof of members’ misguided donations to something that has no clearpurpose or benefit to society. And while perhaps the founding values ofthis church were not identical to today’s display of wealth and cult-likerituals, there is something fundamentally wrong with founding a reli-gion after a 1950s science fiction publication.

Christianity and Islam, while they both have oppositions and sup-porters, were founded in times of world civilizations’ development andwere ways of protecting oneself against faulty government. The SeaOrg. though is simply a corporation that depends on the wealth of theindividual members and a book published by a man who has long beendead. The religion is simply based on book sales and celebrityendorsements. Pushing the sales of “Dianetics,” Hubbard’s book, isjust another core value of a religion unneeded by modern people.

Scientology saps logic

journalism and media studies.Upon asking her what had original-ly brought her to the event, she toldme earnestly that it just seemedlike a fun idea. To the question ofwhether she was actively lookingfor romance, she simply stated thatshe was here to go with the flow,and whatever connections shemade she would pursue naturallylike any other. I realized then howsimilar her philosophy concerningthis whole idea was to mine. Sheseemed excited to be making sub-stantial interactions with new peo-ple in a school where that can be anintimidating goal.

Our two-minute chat sessionwas over before we knew it, as Irotated to the next girl in the cir-cle. I repeated this process about20 times that night and I general-ly found the same thing. The girlsthat I talked to were some of themost genuine, brightest peopleI’ve met in passing during my twoyears here at the University.

My only complaints were onesshared by the restof the group. Themusic was a littletoo loud. The musi-cal fare that nightconsisted of sugarypop songs from the’90s, which pro-

duced a somewhat nauseatingeffect after two hours.

It seemed that much of RUPA’swork was geared toward makingthe participants feel less awkward.But as I said, that was hardly aproblem for us. As for me, and Iassume for the rest of the crowd aswell, I would have preferred somelounge piano and darker lighting.

All physical details aside, Ithink that this RUPA speed-datingevent was a positive, productiveway to spend a Saturday night. It’srefreshing to find people excitedby meeting others with differentinterests and attitudes, not tomention breaking boundariesincited by the cliquey dynamic ofthe school. Although my journal-istic intentions barred me fromreceiving any numbers for aValentine’s Day date, I come fromthe event knowing that if I reallyneed to get one for next year, I canstill do it the old-fashioned way.

Michael Schwab is a School ofArts and Sciences sophomore.

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owned 34.6 percent of all privatelyheld wealth, and the next 19 per-cent had 50.5 percent, whichmeans that just 20 percent of thepeople owned a remarkable 85 per-cent of all wealth. This left only 15percent of the wealth for the bot-tom 80 percent. In terms of income,the top 1 percent of income earnersreceived 21.3 percent of all incomein the year 2003, while the next 19percent received 38.6 percent, andthe bottom 80 percent received38.6 percent.

While the founding fatherswould be likely to deride the pro-gressive federal income tax astyrannical it is unlikely that theywould accept the FairTax as aviable alternative. Indeed,Hamilton, in “Federalist No.12,”claimed that: “A nation cannot longexist without revenue. Destitute ofthis essential support, it mustresign its independence and sinkinto the degraded condition of a

WESTcontinued from page 8

A s a University student, theflyer for the “Speed Datingat Rutgers” event first

caught my eye for its simplicity: Achance to undertake a diverse,comprehensive dating journey forthe price of just one can of non-per-ishable food. Put on last month bythe student-run Rutgers UniversityProgramming Association, thespeed-dating event and others like ithave been uniting unsuspectinglovers on campus for years now.

This is a complex romantic erafor college students everywhere.Young adults are exposed to a wideworld of quick, loose sexual cultureand incentives to join it from massacceptance and media plugs. In asetting where students have theopportunity, and are even encour-aged, to get inebriated and engagephysically with each other, this dat-ing event in context was so innocentand direct.

Seeing the eventflyer all over cam-pus suggested afeeling of unanimitythat isn’t alwaysapparent at theUniversity. For aschool that has just about everynationality, we are not always intune with each other, and the diver-sity can have as much of an isolat-ing effect as a unifying one. Theproblem isn’t racism, but awkward-ness, inability to communicate, fearor misunderstanding. It wasrefreshing to me, then, that stu-dents were being encouraged toparticipate in an event that wasn’ttied to one particular group.

Walking into the familiarRutgers Student Center’sMultipurpose Room on the CollegeAvenue campus, the balloon-deco-rated dating set projected a non-threatening environment. At a littlebefore 8 p.m., anxious speed-datersbegin to take their places in twoareas, each comprised of a circlewithin a circle: Girls sat stationary,facing a soon-to-be-rotating cast ofboys. It was somewhat awkward atfirst, waiting for the game to start,but the crowd seemed excited tobegin making connections.

My first speed-dating partnerwas Jade, a sophomore majoring in

Speed dating sparks interest

MICHAEL SCHWAB

Letter

“... she simply statedthat she was here togo with the flow ...”

province. This is an extremity towhich no government will ofchoice accede. Revenue theremust be had at all events.”

As much as they were con-cerned with taxes that did notoppressively drain the rich oftheir resources, they were equal-ly concerned with creating astrong and well-funded nationalgovernment. These were theirpriorities as the founding fathers,and if they were given the oppor-tunity to consider the costs of amodern government and the con-centration of wealth in Americansociety, they would perhaps askthe tea party activists to go backto the drawing board to conceiveof a plan that would effectivelysupply the government with therevenues that it needs withoutdifferentially taxing the morepropertied classes.

Ben West is a Rutgers Collegesenior majoring in political science. His column “The RedLion” runs on alternateMondays. He welcomes feedbackat benwest@eden.rutgers.edu.

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reach the podium at the EIWAtournament.

“They did a great job of bounc-ing back,” he said. “They gavethemselves an opportunity to getan at-large bid. It really dependson what happens around the coun-try. If there are no major upsetselsewhere, they should be fine.”

Junior David Greenwald andsophomore Trevor Melde alsoreached the podium this week-end, making a total of eightKnights who placed in their ownweight-class — the most inschool history since 2004.

As a team, theKnights finishedsixth with 87points. Cornellcame in first with160.5 points.

“I don’t pay toomuch attention tothe team scorehere,” Goodalesaid. “There areteams here that wehave beaten in theregular season, butthey just havegreat individuals

who will be All-Americans andnationals champs.”

Junior Billy Ashnault had atough weekend in his first EIWAtournament. The Lock Haven trans-fer entered as the third seed, butwas eliminated on Saturday whenhe dropped his first two matches.

“It just comes down to who isthe better wrestler these twodays. It shows here. Some peoplehave good days, and some havebad days. It happens to every-one,” Langel said. “He’s upset,but in these types of tourna-ments, anyone can beat anyone.”

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thing is to get that spot into thenational tournament.”

Langel’s impact on the RUlineup is something that caughtthe eye of his coach.

“Awesome,” said Goodale ofLangel’s performance this season.“It’s hard to do what he has done,and I knew that he was capable ofit. If you look at the final top-33 heis going to haveseven or eight winsover guys in thetournament. He’spretty special andhe is going to get awhole lot better.”

With a handfulof at-large bids stillavailable, threeKnights still holdonto hope to jointheir teammates inthe Midwest.

Senior LamarBrown, sophomoreGreg Zannetti and redshirt fresh-man Dan Rinaldi are all next on thelist in their respective weight-class-es should they be granted an extrabid to the tournament.

The wild card bids are to bedrawn today.

“I’m definitely both nervousand excited right now,” Rinaldisaid. “Hopefully in the end it’llwork out in my favor and I canpunch my ticket to Omaha.”

Whether their tickets to theBig Dance are punched, Goodaleis happy at the way thesewrestlers overcame adversity to

OMAHA: Knights finish

sixth in conference tourney

continued from back

“I’m definitely bothnervous and excited

now. Hopefully ...it’ll work out ...

and I can punch myticket to Omaha.”

DAN RINALDIRedshirt Freshman

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lead. The game was effectivelyover after that.

Rutgers didn’t help itself, shoot-ing a dreadful 6-of-22 in the firsthalf. At intermission, the Knightstrailed 40-16 — a season-low scor-ing total for a half.

The final 29-point margin was thelargest ever against Pitt, surpassinga January 1972 defeat by 26 digits.

“I’ve been afraid of this becausewe’ve played guys a ton of minutesthe second half of the season,” Hillsaid. “We had a quick turnaroundcoming off the Seton Hall game withone game to prepare and this was

my worst nightmare come true. Wejust have to let it go and move on.”

The Panthers followed the for-mula beating the Knights by pound-ing them on the glass. Pitt won therebounding battle 41-24, including 17offensive rebounds that led to 17 sec-ond-chance points. Freshman for-ward Dante Taylor had six of theoffensive boards — the same num-ber as the entire RU team.

The Knights fell to 1-9 onroad and 1-8 in Big East gamesaway from the Louis BrownAthletic Center.

“Teams that are terrific win onthe road,” Hill said. “When youlook at the bottom of the league,the reason those teams are in thebottom of the league is they don’twin on the road. I don’t think it’sanything with us. As we continue to

grow, get better players and buildthe program, you learn to win onthe road.”

Sophomore guard Mike Rosariofinished with a team-high 14 points.

Freshman forward Dane Miller,whom Hill endorsed for theleague’s Rookie of the Year strug-gled mightily, and Hill benched himfor a long stretch of the second half.

Frustration boiled over during asecond half timeout when juniorguard Mike Coburn, who dropped10 points, yelled at his teammates.

“It is extremely disappointing,”said N’Diaye, who moved within twoblocked shots of tying Roy Hinson’sschool-record 355. “I expected bet-ter, especially at this point in the sea-son. We didn’t play as a team at alland that’s something I would expectat the beginning of the season.”

EFFORT: Pitt dominates

on glass in resounding victory

continued from back

NICHOLAS BRASOWSKI

Freshman forward Austin Johnson played 17 minutes and scored12 points, one shy of his career-high, in the Knights’ loss at Pitt.

BY STEVEN MILLERSPORTS EDITOR

PITTSBURGH — TheRutgers men’s basketball teamhas a second chance at beating

Cincinnatitomorrownight inthe open-ing roundof the Big

East Tournament at MadisonSquare Garden.

The Bearcats topped the Knightsby seven in their conference openerwhich kick-started an eight-gamelosing streak to open Big East play.

“Going into the tournament, Ithink everyone is reenergized,”said head coach Fred Hill Jr. “It’sthe greatest conference tourna-ment in the country, greatestvenue in the country. To play inMadison Square Garden, I thinkeveryone kind of digs deeper.”

After starting the season 6-0,including an impressive showingin the Maui Invitational, theBearcats earned a top-25 rankingbut dropped out and lost seven oftheir last nine games.

Following the Knights’ 83-54loss to Pittsburgh Saturday, theirpostseason opponent depended onthe outcome of Seton Hall’smatchup with Providence. A thirdcontest with the Hall in as manyweeks was a possibility, but thePirates won and the 14th-seededRU drew No. 11-seed Cincinnati.

The Panthers clinched the No.2 seed in the Big EastTournament after West Virginiabeat Villanova earlier in the day.

FRESHMAN FORWARD AUSTINJohnson had his most productivegame of the season — a result ofplaying at his natural power forwardposition rather than center, where hereceives minutes just to spell seniorcenter Hamady N’Diaye.

The 6-foot-8, 230-pounderscored 12 points, one shy of hiscareer-high 13 against NJIT, andgrabbed two rebounds in 17 min-utes against Pittsburgh.

“I played a lot of different guysin combinations I wouldn’t,” Hill

said. “If you want to look at thebright spot, you have to look atAustin Johnson. He got to play athis more natural position in thepost, and he responded extreme-ly well, which is a good sign.”

Noticeably absent for much ofthe second half was classmateDane Miller.

The forward played 13 minutesin the first half, but just seven in thesecond. The Big East Rookie of theYear contender — an award thatwill be announced Monday —scored three points with threerebounds in the contest.

He averaged 31.5 minutes,12.5 points and 6.5 rebounds perconference game entering thematchup with Pitt.

“You talk about Dane as afreshman, he never really hit theproverbial freshman wall eithermentally or physically,” Hill said,before attributing struggles tothe quick turnaround fromThursday’s Seton Hall game.

PITT IMPROVED UPON ITSimpressive record at the PetersenEvents Center with the SeniorDay victory.

The Panthers are now 132-11 atthe almost eight-year-old facility,which featured a sold-out crowd of12,508. The Knights delivered oneof those 11 losses in a 2007 upset.

As the game wound down, thePitt student section, more affection-ately known as the Oakland Zoo,chanted for walk-on senior TimFrye, who played one minute in theBig East. Both teams cleared theirbenches, as Frye and the Knightssophomore walk-ons Mike Kuhnand Tomasz Kokozinski eachplayed at least four minutes.

FORMER KNIGHTS’ offen-sive lineman and currentPittsburgh Steeler DarnellStapleton was in attendance forthe game.

“It’s tough to watch your almamater take it like this, but I’m aRutgers guy through and throughand I’m going to be for the rest ofmy life,” the Union native said. “Ithurts to see it, but I know they’vehad better days.”

Weekend games set datewith Cincy at Garden

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T he Rutgers baseballteam suffered a sweepthis weekend at the

hands of No. 4 Georgia Tech.

THE RUTGERS MEN’Slacrosse team beat St.Joseph’s 15-6 Saturday, aveng-ing last year’s three-goal lossto the Hawks.

THE RUTGERSgymnastics team finished sec-ond in a tri-meet at Cornell,posting a season-high score of190.950.

THE RUTGERS WOMEN’Slacrosse team beat Delaware12-11 Saturday to improve itsrecord to 4-0.

THE RUTGERS SOFTBALLfinished the USF UnderArmour Invitational with a 4-1record. For full coverage of allevents, see tomorrow’s edition.

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Sophomore forward Chelsey Lee (34) finished last night’s victory overNo. 12 Georgetown with 17 points, 13 rebounds and four blocks.

Mountaineers await in semifinalsBY SAM HELLMAN

CORRESPONDENT

HARTFORD, Conn. — As theRutgers women’s basketball team

w e n tt h r o u g hi t spregamein thebowels of

the XLCenter, No. 7 West Virginia out-slugged DePaul to advance to theBig East Tournament semifinals.

The game mirrored many ofthe Scarlet Knights’ games thisseason, with a defensive strug-gle keeping the score low. ButWVU pulled away in the finalminutes of a tie game, winning47-41, behind 16 points from jun-ior guard Liz Repella.

“We were just able to scoreenough,” said WVU head coachMike Carey. “If we hit our foulshots at the end then it would-n’t be as close as it was, but wedidn’t. We like to make things interesting.”

The Mountaineers take on theKnights at 8 p.m. tonight after theconclusion of the Connecticutand Notre Dame contest.

Last time out, theMountaineers defeated RU, 55-51 on their home court. RU hadtwo chances to tie in the finalminute, but WVU blocked ashot and forced a turnover toend the game.

“It’s tournament time sothey’re going to bring whateverthey’ve got,” Repella said onplaying the winner of RU andGeorgetown. “No matter whowe play, we’re going to have tobe focused and ready to play tomorrow.”

TO QUALIFY FOR THEquarterfinal battle with theHoyas, the Knights routed the14th-seeded CincinnatiBearcats, 70-44, Saturday nightat the XL Center.

RU matched its season-highwith a 51.9 percent mark fromthe floor and senior guardBrittany Ray received substantial

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Freshman forward Monique Oliver (44) shoots in the openinground game against Cincinnati. Oliver shot 4-of-4 for nine points.

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As explosive as they wereagainst Cincinnati in the sec-ond round of the tournament,the Knights (21-13, 11-7) cameout completely flat, missingtheir first seven shots — exact-ly as they did in January vs.Georgetown (25-7, 13-4). RUlooked out of sorts, turningthe ball over, never settlinginto an of fensive rhythm,

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doomed by poor passing and turnovers.

Twelve minutes into thefirst half, the Knights had morefouls than they did points, withfive and four, respectively, butultimately cut the deficit to 23-19 by intermission.

“That was a gutsy win,”Stringer said. “We had twoguards with four fouls and yetwe continued to press and ittakes a great deal out of you,and plus [you] run the risk of afoul. … We as a coaching staf fcouldn’t be more proud — itwas a gutsy, gritty game.”

help on offense for the thirdstraight game. SophomoresKhadijah Rushdan and AprilSykes combined to make 10-of-15shots and 27 points, but Ray ledall scorers with 21 — sinking fivefrom beyond the arc.

“It was good to see theimprovement of ever yone,”said head coach C. VivianStringer. “I thought that theteam played well together andseemed to be free. We commu-nicated, and most importantly,were taking care of therebounds and not turning theball over as we have been.”

FRESHMAN FORWARDMonique Oliver scored ninepoints on 4-of-4 shootingagainst Cincy and currently sitssixth on RU’s all-time single

season list with a .607 field goalpercentage going into yester-day’s game.

She is the first player to shootabove 60 percent since TammySutton-Brown did so in the 1998-99 season.

PRIOR TO TIPOFF AGAINSTCincinnati, Ray received herplaque for making the All-Big EastSecond Team. Ray was the onlyKnight to receive a post-seasonhonor from the conference.

With her five three-pointersSaturday, Ray moved into sec-ond place in RU history with 184field goals from long range. Shesunk the most three-pointers ina Big East game in her careerand the most for RU since for-mer guard Matee Ajavon in 2007against DePaul.

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Speed’s OT threes give RU new Tourney life

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Sophomore guard Nikki Speed (11) celebrates after the Rutgers women’s basketball team’s 63-56 double-overtime victoryover No. 12 Georgetown. Speed hit a three-pointer with 2 seconds left to send the game into its second extra period.

BY STEVEN WILLIAMSONSENIOR WRITER

HARTFORD, Conn. —The Rutgers women’s bas-

k e t -b a l lteamman-a g e d

only one three-point basket against No. 12Georgetown last nightthrough regulation.

The shot came from sen-ior guard Brittany Ray — theonly one she made all game— before she was firmlyplanted on the bench afterfouling out in regulation.

But it was Nikki Speed’sgame-tying three with two sec-onds left in the first overtimethat breathed just a little morelife into the Scarlet Knights.

And it was Speed’sbanked three in the secondover time that ultimatelywon the game, 63-56, andpropelled the Knights intothe semifinals of the BigEast Tournament.

“I’ll say it’s the biggest[shot I’ve ever made],” thesophomore guard said. “I was-n’t even really thinking aboutit. All of us kept saying we’renot going home, and I remem-ber B-Ray said last year we lostin double-overtime [in thequarterfinal game].”

Sophomore for wardChelsey Lee led the teamwith 17 points and 13rebounds and sophomoreguard Khadijah Rushdanadded 14 points.

The Knights made only 16shots from the field in adefensive struggle, but went28-of-36 from the charitystripe to help push them pastthe Hoyas.

Take the venue and thecrowd out of the equation andthe game itself looked similar

to the time the two teams metearlier this season.

But with the victory, a hugequestion was answered forhead coach C. Vivian Stringer— a question of heart.

“I’ve questioned it all year— their heart, their will andtheir desire to play,” Stringersaid. “Today I saw that theyremembered. Sometimesmaybe I think they don’tremember, don’t rememberif they lose they’re going togo home. … You think they’llforget that we lost toLouisville in double overtime[last year].

“But just because theydon’t say it doesn’t meanthey’ve forgotten. I’m happythey’ve remembered what itis to be a fighting ScarletKnight — even if we had lostI would have been extreme-ly proud.”

The Hoyas rendered Rayinef fective, as the seniorfound herself in foul troublein the second half. Raypicked up her fourth foulwith just over 14 minutes toplay, and though shereturned to the game withfive minutes remaining, shefouled out two minutes laterwith a look of disbelief whilewalking to the bench.

“It was hard, and we allknow that Brittany is our go-to and she makes goodshots,” Rushdan said.“You’ve got to credit the peo-ple that were out therethough. You have to makethe best of what you’ve got.We stuck it out and we playedwith that mentality thatCoach Stringer always sees.”

Georgetown freshmanSugar Rodgers hurt theKnights for the second timethis season, finishing with 20points and 12 rebounds.

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Three qualify for Omahaat EIWA Championships

BY ALEX JANKOWSKIASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Threemembers of the Rutgers wrestlingteam punched their tickets to the

N C A ATournament

in an action-packed second day of theEastern Intercollegiate WrestlingAssociation Championships.

Headlining the group of ScarletKnights headed to Omaha in twoweeks is junior D.J. Russo, whofinished second in the heavy-weight bracket. Junior DarylCocozzo and redshirt freshmanJoe Langel also earned automaticbids for finishing fourth in theirrespective weight classes.

“As you get into this tourna-ment, the competition gets a lotharder,” said head coach ScottGoodale. “We’ve got three guysgoing to the national tournamentfor the time being, and that’s a goodnumber to have.”

It was a bittersweet end to thetournament for Russo, who placeda team-high second. He fell in thefinals to Lehigh rival Zach Rey.

Like the other two bouts this year,the contest between the heavyweightswent down to the wire. In the end,Russo was unable to escape in thefinal 30 seconds of overtime, droppinga 2-1 decision at the Stabler Arena.

“I did everything that I neededto do,” Russo said. “I just gotcaught at the end and I got stuck.He’s All-American quality and now Iknow I have to be that much betterto be an All-American.”

Cocozzo heads back to theNCAA tournament for the secondtime in his career and first as aKnight. The Edinboro transferdefeated Brantley Hooks ofBucknell 5-2 in the semifinals of theconsolation bracket to ensure hisspot in Omaha.

After redshirting last season,Langel’s dynamic first year contin-ues in two weeks after he won fourbouts this weekend to earn an auto-matic bid.

“I didn’t really expect it thisearly,” the Howell native said.“Yeah, you want to place high anddo well [at EIWAs], but the main

Effort lackingin blowout at Pittsburgh

BY KYLE FRANKOCORRESPONDENT

PITTSBURGH — Before answering ques-tions in each postgame press conference,Rutgers head men’s basketball coach Fred

Hill Jr. sits and stud-ies his box score.

But after Saturdayafternoon’s 83-54 lossat Pittsburgh, thebiggest problem was

not found on a white sheet of paper.The Scarlet Knights’ performance lacked

effort and the embarrassing score wasindicative of what they deserved.

“I said it at halftime, faces started chang-ing,” said senior center Hamady N’Diaye. “Youcould tell that the team was falling apart. I saidit — all I ask for was to give out the effort.During this entire year, I thought everybodyhad the same mentality and that wasn’t thecase today.”

Pitt got off to a great start, using a 15-0run early in the first half to open up a 13-point NICHOLAS BRASOWSKI

Sophomore guard Mike Coburn scored 10 points and was heated in the Rutgers huddle during a timeout in the 83-54 loss.

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