existing flexibility in policy for mov-ing funding from one program toanother were sent out yesterday toall the governors.

Fifty percent of funding fromsome programs can be reallocatedto support others that states mightfind more necessary without havingto apply for waivers, he said.

“For example, a state could real-locate funds from its drug-freeschool grant to improve teachereffectiveness or fund an after schoolprogram,” Duncan said.

Some suggestions from the con-ference were meant to minimize thenegative impact recessions cancause on students, especially theguidelines to form budget decisionsin making cuts by laying off teach-ers, he said.

Duncan said districts should notlet go of young teachers just becausethey do not have seniority, nor

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N.J. citizens gather in solidarity Saturday on the New Jersey State House steps in Trenton to promote the Wisconsin union workerprotests. A recently published Eagleton Institute of Politics poll reports that state voters generally support the movement.

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An Eagleton Institute of Politics pollreleased Tuesday indicates that NewJersey voters support public workerprotests in Wisconsin despite generallysupporting pension and health-benefitcuts in state.

The poll shows that 65 percent of voterssay Wisconsin workers have a right toprotest against benefits cuts and collectivebargaining, where Gov. Scott Walker has pro-posed to cut public worker pay and benefitsand eliminate collective bargaining rights.

Poll Director David Redlawsk said vot-ers are not looking for public employeeunions to be destroyed.

“New Jerseyans are more supportiveof labor,” said Redlawsk, a Universitypolitical science professor. “We aren’tcompletely surprised to see it in

Wisconsin. It suggests that challenginglabor in the state can ef fectively only goso far.”

Redlawsk said collective bargainingrights are not likely to be eliminated inNew Jersey because it is not on Gov. ChrisChristie’s agenda.

“New Jerseyans would react quitebadly to eliminating unions,” he said.“Christie is not supportive of takingunions apart in New Jersey.”

Voters in New Jersey do believe thatpublic workers pay and benefits are toohigh, Redlawsk said.

“A majority believe they are toohigh,” he said. “The governor and senateleader’s plan provides the possibility ofcuts and they support it. But it’s not thesame as destroying unions reason forbeing, which is collective bargaining.”

Some students stand in support of thepublic worker protests in Wisconsin.

“I stand with the American workersbacking the protest,” said John Aspray,an organizer with the Rutgers StudentUnion. “The moves in Wisconsin are dra-conian. The drive of American businessis to unionize, which is an excuse to paypeople less. We should be working forworkers rights.”

Nicole Buffington, a School of Arts andSciences senior, said the cuts to healthbenefits, pensions and collective-bargain-ing rights in Wisconsin have conse-quences that can affect the nation.

“If this legislation passes, then it ismore likely for other Republican gov-ernors to enact similar legislation intheir respective states,” she said. “Inessence these legislators are basicallyplacing the financial burden of thecountry on unions.”

Artist uses U.database topaint science

Hamza Pérez, a Puerto Rican American rapper, makes an appearance last night ata film screening about his conversion to Islam after he stopped dealing drugs. Theevent was held in the Graduate Student Lounge on the College Avenue campus.

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Scripps Research Institute associate professorand molecular biologist David Goodsell is introduc-ing the world to a new method of understanding sci-ence through art.

Goodsell, a self-proclaimed scientist-artist, usespaintbrushes and watercolors to explain how themolecules of our bodies work, a new approach to theusually formulized and methodic subject.

He uses paint to create visual representations ofcells, atoms and protein matter, in hopes of takingthe edge off of the word science, he said.

“I try to make science exciting and comprehensi-ble with my pictures,” Goodsell said. “I use them tohelp explain how molecules are important to ourhealth and welfare.”

Goodsell finds most of his structures from theUniversity Protein Data Bank (PDB) ResearchCollaboratory Structural Bioinformatics (RCSB),which holds more than 70,000 different structures.

“It is integral in the study of health and diseasehelping scientists and researchers to better under-stand our lives on a molecular level,” saidChristine Zardecki of Education and Outreach forthe data bank.

Zardecki said Goodsell’s work helps peopleunderstand bodily structures and their functions.

“Through David’s artwork, we are able to see theactual structures and make people think about howthey work in our bodies,” she said.

Goodsell creates paintings to accompany his sci-entific column, “Molecule of the Month,” which runson the PDB homepage. The art provides a detailedexplanation of how the structures work.

“The PDB provides a wide array of structures pro-vided by scientists from all over the world, so it’s myjob to just go in and make it seem a little less daunt-ing,” Goodsell said.

Goodsell’s artwork has been featured in maga-zines, newspapers and exhibits in the United States

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U.S. Secretary of Education ArneDuncan worked with all 50 gover-nors to outline a strategy to helpreduce cuts in public educationabout to be enacted by numerousdistricts, he said yesterday in aphone press conference.

The U.S. Department ofEducation met with the governorsthis past weekend to discussreforms in public education employ-ment and layoff policies along withrecommendations in how to redis-tribute funds.

“While we always seek the great-est return on investment for chil-dren and taxpayers, we believestates and districts are in the bestposition to tailor the use of federalfunds to meet the individual needsof students,” Duncan said.

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CORRECTIONSIn yesterday’s University story

“Performance honors Paul Robeson,” it was incorrectly stated that

Paul Robeson was thefirst African-American student

at the University. James Dickson Carr was the first African-American student.

College students are alsoencouraged to make monetarydonations by donating moneysaved from making simplelifestyle changes, Temkin said.

“Each of us could do vastlymore than what we currently do tohelp the world’s children and wecould do so without making a dentin our affluent lifestyle. That wedon’t is a serious moral failing,”Temkin said.

The Rutgers chapter of GivingWhat We Can also allowed studentsto take the first steps in becomingpart of the organization by pledging1 percent of their income.

“We spend a lot of time idoliz-ing our heroes, but we don’t

spend that much time thinking,‘Well I guess I could do that if Ireally wanted to — maybe Ishould do that,’” Ord said.

Gabriella Aron, a member ofCentral New Jersey Coalition forPeace and Justice, thought itwas interesting to hear the per-spective of professors fromOxford and the University.

“Hearing what they had tosay about what University stu-dents can do in their everydaylife and how they can help wasreally great,” he said. “A lot ofkids at the University think theycan’t help because they’re justhelpless undergrads, but theyreally can.”

“There’s a strong tendency forpeople to think about what idealthey value most and then toaddress every moral issue in termsof that ideal,” he said.

Temkin feels as though havinga narrow-minded view of moralityis a mistake.

“The truth about morality iscomplex, and there isn’t just onething that matters morally,” he said.“There are many things that matterregarding most moral issues.”

Rather than corresponding to asingle ideology such as utilitarian-ism, libertarianism or egalitarian-ism, Temkin said one should putmore thought and care into all ofthe relevant factors, Temkin said.

“The human enterprise of try-ing to figure out how to live prop-erly and in harmony with our-selves, others and the largerworld requires that we take abroad perspective,” he said.

He also suggested that takinga moralistic approach to donat-ing, especially toward children,will encourage Americans todonate more often.

“Americans like to think of them-selves as the most generous peopleon the face of the earth,” Temkinsaid. “Whether or not that’s so, it’sinteresting to look at how Americansspend their money.”

Temkin shared statistics onhow Americans decided to spendtheir dollars using the data takenfrom the 2010 Statistical Abstractof the United States.

“It is true that in 2007, Americansgave a total of $306 billion to philan-thropic causes,” he said. “But thevast majority of that went to religiousinstitutions, alma maters and so on.Only a small fraction of it — $13.3 bil-lion went to international aid.”

Although $13.3 billion appears tobe a large number, Temkin said itseems clear that Americans have theability to do more when compared tothe amount spent on luxuries thatsame year.

Individual Americans spent $74billion on toys and sports equip-ment, $323 billion on tobacco prod-ucts and $457 billion on alcohol in2007, he said. They also spent $300to $600 billion on soft drinks andsnack foods, $841 billion on recre-ation and $2.7 trillion on dining out.

Temkin said Americans cando a lot better in the fight to endglobal poverty.

“If Americans cut their consump-tion of junk food, restaurant food,tobacco and alcohol by 25 percentand spent that money on interna-tional aid, this would increase therelief funds by more than 70 times toover $950 billion,” Temkin said.

He said allocating the moneytoward international aid wouldbenefit the United States.

“This would not only be muchbetter for the starving masses of theworld, it would be much better forthe people in the United States inpurely self-interested terms, as theywould then be living much better,healthier lifestyles,” he said.

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Giving What We Can founderToby Ord and University philoso-phy professor Larry Temkin dis-cussed ways to inform the publicabout the facts surrounding glob-al poverty and what individualscan do Wednesday night at theCook Campus Center.

The speech, titled “GlobalPoverty: Why We Should Care andWhat We Should Do About It,” washosted by the University’s chapterof Giving What We Can.

“Giving What You Can is anorganization that is dedicated tofighting extreme poverty in thedeveloping world,” said NickBeckstead, a Department ofPhilosophy graduate student.“We use unconventional meth-ods — we’re not a political organ-ization, we don’t send peopleabroad to volunteer.”

Since its establishment inNovember of 2009 with an ini-tial 20 members, the societygrew to reach more than 100members, said Ord, a philoso-pher at Oxford University.

“It may not sound like a lot,but together we’ve pledged over$30 million for the world’s mosteffective charities — and it’sgoing to make a huge differ-ence,” Beckstead said.

Temkin addressed some ofthe most common issues facingthe movement.

Giving What We Can founder Toby Ord speaks about how peopleneed to spend more time taking initiatives to make a difference.

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Goodsell also cited his grand-father as an early influence whointroduced him to painting at avery young age, when he mostlypainted landscapes and scenery.

“After grad school, I decidedto turn my hobby into my profes-

sion, and it’s been like that eversince,” Goodsell said. “It’s funand it keeps me sane.”

Although Goodsell hasreceived positive feedback abouthis interesting take on science,

some do not have much faith thatthe images will change the diffi-culty level of science.

University science educationexpert and chemistry professorLuke Burke has a slightly differ-ent take on including art in thescientific sphere.

“Science is more then juststructures and what’s under themicroscope,” Burke said.

He agrees that the usage ofpaintings may ease people intoscience, but he does not feelany illustration can portray thereal basis of science, which is numbers.

But Goodsell’s ultimate goalis not to take every structurefrom the PDB and create apainting. He said he wants totake a more lighthearted andvisually stimulating approach toa strict discipline.

“My focus is on the mostimportant structures, the onesmost relevant to our health,”he said.

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University students Amanda Padro, left, Angelina Plaza and JaninaPescinski enact a scene of Cinderella with her evil stepsisters inthe Livingston Theatre Company’s production of “Into the Woods.”

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and overseas like Cambridge,where he attended a conferenceabout the collaboration of artwith science.

For future endeavors, Goodsellis in the midst of extending his artdirectly into the educational aspectof science.

“David’s art has been present-ed to high school students andused to help them create 3-D struc-tures based on what they see,”Zardecki said. “It really aids in theprocess of studying, solving andunderstanding the molecules.”

Before combining his twopassions of science and art,Goodsell studied crystallogra-phy in graduate school, in whichcomputer-generated images ofcells and molecules played amajor role in his understanding.

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should they lay off higher paidteachers in order to reducedeficits in the budget.

“There is a right way to makecuts and a wrong way to makecuts,” he said.

When asked about Last In,First Out (LIFO) policies manydistricts and teacher unions havein place, Duncan said the docu-ments provide solutions that donot resemble such policies.

LIFO is a policy enacted by atleast fourteen states in which theonly basis in choosing individualsto lay off is by seniority, he said.

“Layoffs will be based on anumber of factors,” Duncan said.“We have to provide maximumflexibility.”

The inexperience of manygovernors in office who have tobalance the budget in a recessionwas the reason for convening,Duncan said.

“We have 29 new governors,”he said. “They’re coming intotough situations.”

Teacher union representa-tives were willing to put moreteachers’ salary income backinto pension funds and takeother measures to cooperatewith districts and states despitenational media coverage,Duncan said.

In his meeting with Gov. ScottWalker, R-Wis., protests brokeout calling the governor anti-union and Wisconsin teacherunion representatives were self-willing to make concessions inthe hard economy, he said.

“There are many ways toreduce costs but we need to min-imize the negative impact on stu-dents,” Duncan said.

Camilo Gonzalez, a School ofArts and Sciences junior, said

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“My focus is on the most importantstructures, the ones

most relevant toour health.”

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Associate Professor

he did not think LIFO policieswere very prudent, as senioritydid not reflect actual capabilityin teaching.

“Basing it on seniority iswrong,” he said. “If they hired youfor a job then clearly you werequalified for it to begin with.”

Gonzalez said he thinks differ-ent times call for different levelsof expertise.

“Newer teachers are probablymore adapted to new skills need-ed to deal with students in thecurrent generation,” he said.

Ross Baker, a professor in theUniversity’s Department ofPolitical Science, said hebelieves the current Departmentof Education policy is an over-reach that began with the previ-ous administration.

“Ever since the Bush admin-istration, the federal govern-ment has been more involvedin education and state poli-cies,” he said.

Baker also disagreed with theLIFO policies many states haveand believes those states shouldget rid of them.

“[LIFO] is extremely rigidand leaves no consideration forthe quality of teachers,” he said.“It’s a policy created for adminis-trative ease.”

Baker said the recent attackon teachers and their unions byconservative governors through-out the nation was wrong andalso a bad policy.

“Public school teachershave been demonized,” he said.“I think the move to maketeachers look like drug push-ers, make them look likethey’re bad for society, is notgood public policy.”

Baker believes the focus ofthe anger and of policy choicesshould be directed elsewhere.

“Public school teachers can-not be targets of contempt andscorn because of union trou-bles,” he said.

“There are other ways to fundhigher education and othermethods of taxation that arenot acknowledged, likeMichigan’s increase of corpo-rate taxes.”

Buffington said the financialcrisis in New Jersey is a top con-cern of voters, and they will beinclined to do whatever they canto fix it.

“Christie’s plan is to makecuts to the public sector,” hesaid. “If his budget proposalspass in June, we can see huge

cuts in the pub-lic sector, espe-cially in educa-tion. This willforce manyworkers toretire and willdecrease thequality of pub-lic services instate.”

R e d l a w s ksaid if the bill ispassed, work-ers will losetheir benefits,

and the ability to bargain forthem and agrees withBuffington that it will strength-en ef forts in other states withconservative governments.

“It wouldn’t get very far inNew Jersey’s current legisla-ture,” he said.

He also thinks the bill willnot pass until the democraticleaders who fled Wisconsincome back.

“It depends on whether theycome back,” he said. “If theycome back, it will pass, assumingnone of the Republicans changetheir minds.

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But not all students are insuppor t of the protestors in Wisconsin.

“I think that unions, espe-cially of public workers, aremaking up the majority of theexpenses in our states,” saidAndrew Yuskaitis, a School ofArts and Sciences sophomore.“It’s quite simplytoo much.”

Yuskaitis was notsurprised there wasso much support forthe protests onbehalf of NewJersey voters.

“New Jersey isheavily democraticand unions such aspolice and teach-ers are particularlypowerful,” he said.“It would beexpected that theysupport unions.”

Aspray, a School of Arts andSciences senior majoring inplanning and public policy, saidthere were better ways to han-dle the budget crisis.

“Up until the ’90s, there wasthe millionaires tax,” he said.“It’s a reasonable way to go forthe lowest rates of taxation ofthe highest income bracket.”

He also said the budget crisisis only a crisis in that it must bebalanced somehow.

“The solutions are not cut-ting services or firing peopleor destroying unions,” he said.

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“It’s a good way to promoterecycling on campus.”

“In Norway, we have a system whereyou pay extra for each bottle

and then when you use it, you handit back to the store and you get that

money back. So I’m happy thatthere’s some system that’s being

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University Muslim StudentAssociation are bringing “StandUp for Peace” to the University.Comedians Dean Obeidallah andScott Blakeman will performtheir act in Trayes Hall in theDouglass Campus Center from 8to 11 p.m. The event is free, butthe groups are for small dona-tions, which will go to RutgersDance Marathon to support theEmbrace Kids Foundation.

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“Wild Birds in the AmericanWetlands” and her personalarchives in a talk titled, “ASpectacle of Wings.” The exhibi-tion will be at 2 p.m. at the JaneVoorhees Zimmerli on theCollege Avenue campus.Winard’s photographs have beenpublished in Audubon,ArtForum, Time and The NewYork Times. Her work is also inthe collections of the Library ofCongress, the New YorkHistorical Society and others.

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date — and then perhaps athird, and then what? Imight end up dating some-one because I was too cow-ardly to tell him I did notthink we were right foreach other. That’s a bit

extreme, but it is possible. Ultimately, it onlymakes sense to tell him how I feel and face thepossibility of upsetting him. It seems obvious, Iknow. That stretching of the truth, the “maybe,”opens the door for a whole host of other problems. A flat out “no” would have been thesimplest solution.

I take my own example to show that learninghow to say no to others is an underrated lifeskill. It may often seem more polite to put of fexpressing how you truly feel, but there is avery fine line between observing the conven-

tions of politeness and turninginto a habitual liar. Yes, it is greatto be a polite person, but not atthe expense of compromisingyour thoughts and beliefs for thesake of being “agreeable.” Thetrick is learning how to expressyourself tastefully. Yes, it wouldhave been rude to say “no” whenoffered a serving of that meat-loaf, but that has more to do withthe social setting of the situation

than with the refusal itself. I may have beenabsolved had I said “maybe” in a large social sit-uation — it would have been embarrassing toboth of us had I said “no” in such a case — butas we were alone, I have no good excuse. Theproper course of action would have been tocarefully, kindly let him know that I didn’t wantto go to dinner.

In most circumstances, it is the way in whichyou express yourself that makes what you haveto say rude or polite. If you say exactly what youmean, staying true to your thoughts and inten-tions, you should be able to avoid a sticky situa-tion like mine. Just remember that saying “no”when you mean “no” does not make you rude —it makes you honest.

Cour tney Shaw is a School of Ar ts andSciences junior majoring in English and history.

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T he other day Iplaced myself in an(entirely avoid-

able) unfortunate position. I went on a date with

someone who I ended updeciding was not quiteright for me. But when, at the end of the night, heasked me out to dinner for the next week, I froze.Instead of facing confrontation head on with adecisive “No,” I decided it would be polite to tellhim we should play it by ear. That way, I rea-soned, I would spare us both from an uncomfort-able situation. I would be letting him down easy.He would surely take the hint.

Of course the reality is that I was being ahuge coward. Saying “no” in that situation wouldhave been harder on me than on him — I wouldbe forced to deal with the responsibility of poten-tially hurting someone. Not say-ing no would — in the long run —make both of our lives moreuncomfortable. I was leaving himin limbo, thinking things were allright between us, when I knewthat wasn’t the case.

I did two very wrong things inthis interaction. First, I gave in toa fear of confrontation, and sec-ond, I confused being polite withbeing agreeable. It can be a trickydistinction to make because the two oftentimesgo hand in hand. You wouldn’t refuse a home-cooked meal from, say, your significant other’sMom — no matter how little it suited your taste.Unless you were deathly allergic to whatevershe made, the proper thing to do would be tosmile and act as though it were delicious. Here,the polite action is the one that avoids con-frontation. Sure, you can tell her later that youhate meatloaf, but refusing to eat at dinnerwould just be rude.

The trouble arises when we take that kind ofpoliteness as a model for how to respond in anysituation where we have to do something wewould prefer not to do. In my case, avoiding apossibly messy confrontation did not make me amore polite person. If I continued to be agree-able in an attempt to never insult or hurt thisperson, I would have ended up out on another

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“I know we have a really great philosophy department, having professors joining from across the country is great.

It might be a little troublesome to put that many philosophers in one room together.”

Jorge Casalins, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, on the “Summer Institute for Diversity in Philosophy”

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QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Saying ‘no’ when you mean ‘no’ does not make yourude — it makes

you honest.”

I n these hard economic times, at least one group seems to bemaking out OK — the corporations. According to a report bythe Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), corpora-

tions are currently paying taxes at what CBPP Director ChuckMarr calls “historical lows as a share of the economy.” It’s abouttime that Americans finally stand up to corporations and makethem contribute to the country instead of robbing it blind.Honestly, can anyone possibly find it acceptable that many corpo-rations are paying tax rates in the single digits, given that the restof the population keeps taking kick after kick in the wallet? Foressentially swindling the United States, we give these corporationsdarts. Any business run by reasonable adults should know better— then again, who’s to say that anyone in charge of these compa-nies is a reasonable adult?

* * * *

With spring break shining on the horizon, most if not allUniversity students are looking forward to a week away from class-es. At the same time, most if not all of these students are not look-ing forward to the precious free time they are going to have tospend doing homework while on break. What’s the point of a breakif you have to spend large chunks of it doing schoolwork, anyway?Well, Cornell University is attempting to address this problemthrough a proposed ban on “last-minute” homework assignmentsover break periods. We give the Cornell faculty a laurel for look-ing to give their students some semblance of a break, somethingmost colleges are not very good at. Hopefully Cornell’s adminis-tration will pass this ban and other colleges, the University includ-ed, will follow its lead.

* * * *

Why can’t public workers catch a break these days? It seemslike every member of the GOP decided that public unions are theenemy and need to be taken down. The most recent state to deal ablow to the power of its public unions is Ohio, which passed a billon Wednesday that reduces the bargaining rights of public work-ers and outright bans striking by public workers. Sometimes it justseems like the GOP does not want a single citizen to have a secure,well-paying job. For seriously injuring public unions, the state ofOhio receives a dart. When both the private sector and the publicsector are refusing to give employees good jobs, where are peoplesupposed to turn?

* * * *

Watson, the IBM supercomputer, successfully routed both KenJennings and Brad Rutter, two of the best competitors “Jeopardy!”has ever seen, but he finally met his match on Monday: NewJersey’s very own Rep. Rush Holt. We cannot deny we feel ratherproud to say that one of our statesmen was the one to finallytrounce the seemingly unbeatable machine. Of course, it isn’texactly a surprise — after all, Holt is a nuclear physicist. Fordemonstrating that humans still have the upper hand on theircomputer counterparts, and for giving citizens of New Jerseysomething to brag about that isn’t “Jersey Shore” related, we giveHolt a laurel. We also give him credit for being a legitimatelyintelligent politician — something that’s been relatively hard tocome by these days.

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Everyone has a cell phone these days and every cell phonecomes with a camera. On the one hand, the proliferation of cellphone cameras is a good thing, as it allows people to always havea camera handy to capture moments they’d like to hold on to. Onthe other hand, now that everyone has a camera, the dif ferencebetween private spaces and public spaces is becoming ratherblurry. That’s why Immaculata University’s decision to of fer aclass on cell phone photography, dealing with both technical andethical aspects, is such a good idea. We give the school a laurelfor deciding to of fer this class. If everyone is going to carry cam-eras everywhere they go, they may as well know how and whento use them.

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Champs offer shot atredemption for RU

BY ADHAAR SHARMACONTRIBUTING WRITER

After a disappointing perform-ance at the Big EastChampionships, the qualifying ath-letes from the Rutgers women’strack team look to improve at the

EasternCollegeAthletic

Conference Championships thisweekend at the Reggie Lewis Trackand Athletic Center in Boston.

The ECACs demanda faster qualifying timethan the Big EastChampionships.

The meet includesteams from other con-ferences such as theACC’s Duke and the BigTen’s Penn State, butmore teams do not auto-matically equate tostiffer competition.

“The ECAC is amixed bag,” said head coachJames Robinson. “There are a lotmore teams, but the Big East cal-iber is just the same if not better.”

Athletes that qualified for theECACs include freshman TyliaGillon, juniors Brittni Rodriguezand Zainab Bisiolu as well as sen-ior captain Natalie Clickett.

Rodriguez and Gillon qualifiedwith times of 7.62 and 7.64 sec-onds in the 60-meter dash andBisiolu will compete in the 400meter after her qualifying time of57.02 seconds at the Big EastChampionships.

Clickett will participate inthe shot put and looks tobounce back from last week’s10th-place finish.

The 4x400-meter and the4x800-meter relay teams qualifiedfor their performances, as well.

The 4x400-meter teamincludes Gillon, Bisiolu, fresh-

man Rachel Leeke and juniorCourtney Sample, while the4x800-meter team consists offreshman Ashley Deckert andsophomores VictoriaPontecorvo, Stephanie Krausserand Lindsay Bertulis.

Because no member of thedistance squad or jumps qualifiedfor their event, it is up to thesprinters and Clickett to gainpoints for Rutgers.

The NCAA Championshipsfollow the ECACS the nextweek, but Robinson admits theindoor season is likely to wrapup at the ECACs.

“It’s a far reach that anyone onthe team will qualify forthe NCAA consideringhow much lower thequalifying scores arethan these two meets,”Robinson said.

The timing of theNCAAs might actuallywork out in the favor ofthe Knights for theECAC Championships.

“Because of nation-als some top athletes

might not choose to competeresulting in some watered downevents,” said Robinson.

After the NCAAs, the womenget only a week-long breakbefore they begin their outdoor season.

“That is the differencebetween track and other sports— you don’t get a break inbetween the seasons,” Robinsonsaid. “The whole team has beentraining together with the quali-fied athletes in preparation for theoutdoor season.”

The Knights begin their out-door season on March 17, whenthey participate in the BullsInvitational in Tampa, Fla.

“The outdoor season will becompletely different after the dis-appointing Big East perform-ance,” Robinson said. “All the ath-letes are determined to come outand do better.”

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Junior guard Nikki Speed saw limited action in the Knights’ past three games as she continuesto recover from an ankle injury she sustained early in the season.

an advantage in terms of rest, itworks against them in terms ofmomentum, Speed said.

“They know what to expect,”she said. “Their freshmen and new-comers have seen it. They hadtheir first game. They got their jit-ters out of the way. We have to finda way of getting our freshmen andour newcomers comfortable andconfident without having seen it.”

In last year’s Big EastTournament, Speed played therole of 24-hour hero for a squadscrapping and clawing for anNCAA Tournament bid.

Playing Georgetown, the No. 14team in the country and No. 3 in theconference, Speed hit the two shotsthat won the game and put Rutgersinto the NCAA Tournament.

Speed sent the tight game intodouble overtime with a 3-pointerand hit another in the 49th minuteof action to clinch a victory.

But since that time, basketballbecame a hardship for the juniorguard from Pasadena, Calif.Speed went down with a footinjury two months ago, and aftermissing 11 contests she averagesjust 12.5 minutes per game as abackup guard.

“It gets depressing, but it’salso good to be back,” Speed said.“I’ve never been out for this long,so getting back involved is tough.I missed the first game againstUConn this year, so I’m reallyaiming to get that first win andget a chance to play them this season.”

Rutgers enters the Big EastTournament with as much momen-tum as any conference team otherthan No. 1 Connecticut. Winningfour in a row and two againstranked opponents represents the

second-longest winning streak in the conference behind the Huskies.

“The thing that I’m looking foris to see if the kids can definethemselves,” said head coach C.Vivian Stringer. “I do feel thatwe’re not at an advantage [withthe double-bye]. I think that wewould be better if we had playedanother game.”

Three different teams have theability to tip off against Rutgers atnoon on the third day in Hartford,Conn. No. 12-seed Pittsburgh andNo. 13-seed South Florida playtoday, with the winner facing No. 5Marquette tomorrow. Rutgers nar-rowly defeated both the Panthersand the Bulls at home this seasonand trumped the Golden Eagles onthe road while they were the No.21 team in the country.

A win in the quarterfinalsagainst any of the three teamslikely means a semifinal clashwith Connecticut for the Knights.

BYE: Speed reacts to new

role since foot injury in January

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JARED MILLER

Sophomore wing Dane Miller routinely draws Big East opponents’ No. 1 scorer and facesProvidence’s Marshon Brooks on the defensive end tomorrow at the Dunkin Donuts Center.

game — largely due to Brooks’increasing production — but giveup the most points in the leagueat 75 per contest.

Providence’s scoring dispari-ties led to six losses in the BigEast by double digits, but alsoconsecutive upsets of Louisvilleand Villanova in Providence, R.I.

The Knights (14-15, 5-12)defeated the Friars, 85-72, at theLouis Brown Athletic Center inJanuary for their first Big Eastwin despite 29 points on 8-for-18shooting from Brooks.

“I thought we did a good job[against Brooks] because wewon,” said head coach Mike Rice.“I thought they shot a low per-centage, especially in the halfcourt. I think a lot of their shotscame off our mistakes — us turn-ing the ball over and giving themfast-break opportunities.”

Sophomore wing Dane Millerinevitably will take the task ofdefending Brooks in the half court,much like he did against the BigEast’s top two or three guardsthroughout the conference slate.

But the Knights’ frontcourt willalso draw the assignment of con-taining the high-volume shooteroff screens and defensive switch-

es, which Rice turns to from theone through four positions.

“That’s been us all year,” saidMitchell, who at 6-foot-7 regularlydraws opponents’ guards off pick-and-rolls. “I’ve been guarding allthose guards all year. It’s just kindof another day for me. I’ve been[switching] since our first gameand I do it every day in practice.”

Mitchell contributed 18 pointsin 30 minutes in Rutgers’ win overDePaul on Wednesday, riddinghimself of a 4-for-19 effort in theKnights’ two previous losses.

Mitchell’s renewed offensiveeffort is imperative if the Knightsintend to keep up with the ever-present Brooks, who is second inthe Big East with 36.3 minutesper contest.

Brooks hoisted up 535 totalshots this season, while Mitchellleads the Knights with 334 takesin 29 games.

“You’ve got to contain him,”Mitchell said. “We definitely can’tgive them an advantage of gettingpenetration and kicking becausethat’s what they like to do. We haveto do a great job of making themshoot over us. And if they makecontested shots, we’ll tip our hatsto them.”

Regardless of how they performagainst the Friars, the Knightsknow they will be either the No. 12or 13 seed in the Big EastTournament and draw in-state rivalSeton Hall in the opening round.

THREAT: Knights draw

from first game against Brooks

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Freshman standout Luisa Leal-Restrepo was named EAGL Gymnast of the Week after her school record 39.375 all-aroundperformance in the Knights’ last meet. The honor marked the second time this season Leal-Restrepo earned the award.

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T wo members of theRutgers women’sbasketball team

found their names yesterdayon the Big East 2010-11 All-Conference honors list.

Junior guard KhadijahRushdan and sophomorecenter Monique Oliver bothearned spots on the All-BigEast Second Team, as bothhad breakout seasons in newroles for the Scarlet Knights.

Rushdan, a Wilmington,Del., native, entered the sea-son with the most experiencein the Knights’ backcourtand finished the year averag-ing 12.3 points per game.

The junior also went on tofinish third in the conferencein assists with an average of5.3 per contest.

In the post, Oliver estab-lished her presence early onin the season and finishedsecond in the Big East with2.2 blockers per game. Thesophomore center also aver-aged a career-high 11.3points per game, good forthird on the team.

THE CAROLINAPanthers signed four-timePro Bowl tight end JeremyShockey this week to a one-year deal. The former SuperBowl champion was releasedlast week by the NewOrleans Saints.

The tight end battled nag-ging injuries throughout histenure with the Saints butstill managed 41 catches for408 yards and three touch-downs in 13 games in his lastseason in New Orleans.

WITH THE DEADLINEfor a new collective bargain-ing agreement (CBA) loom-ing, the NFL and PlayersAssociation agreed on a 24-hour extension on the expi-ration of the old CBA.

If the two sides fail toreach an agreement by thedeadline, the league couldbe looking at the first profes-sional football work stop-page since 1987.

The two sides havemere days to settle a dis-pute that involves $9 billionin revenue.

BAYLOR GUARDLaceDarius Dunn wascleared by a grand juryyesterday, ef fectively end-ing the assault caseagainst him.

Baylor’s career leadingscorer, Dunn was accused inSeptember of breaking hisgirlfriend’s jaw.

The grand jury declinedto indict Dunn after thepresentation of additionalevidence. His girlfriend,who is also the mother ofhis young child, also askedfor charges to be dropped beforehand.

The point guard had tomiss the first three gamesof the season due to the investigation.

and five bids for the rest of the weights.

The move couples with the factthat Fusco does not have a fullyear’s body of work at 133 poundsto fall back on in order to grab oneof the precious wildcard bids.

At last year’s EIWATournament, BillyAshnault did notreceive an auto-matic bid at 133pounds, but hissolid individualrecord earned hima trip to the nation-al tournament.Fusco does nothave that luxuryand needs to placein the top three.

“He’s going tohave to put together a good tour-nament,” Goodale said. “Whoknows? This time of the yearthere are so many upsets and theguys who believe they can win willend up winning.”

And Fusco certainly believeshe can win.

“I think I can get an automaticbid,” the Belleville, N.J., nativesaid. “I think I can win. I think Ican make it to the finals and ifnot, then definitely top three.”

While Fusco knows he has anuphill climb, several Knights facea similar challenge as a tough endof the regular season droppedthem from the top of the rankings.

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of experience at 133 pounds

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Sophomore 133-pounder Matt Fusco, bottom, looks to earn an automatic NCAA Tournament bid with a strong weekend.

Senior Day serves as head coach’s final meet

BY JOSH GLATTCORRESPONDENT

The Rutgers gymnastics teamwill compete not only against fourother teams on Saturday, but also

its emo-t i o n s .T h eS c a r l e tKnightsh o s tCornell,

Southern Connecticut State,West Chester and Yale in theirfinal home meet of the seasonand for members of the seniorclass, the final home meet oftheir careers.

Additionally, head coachChrystal Chollet-Norton, a veter-an of 25 seasons at Rutgers, isretiring at the end of the season.For both the senior class and itscoach, it will be the last time they

get the chance to compete in thebuilding they call home.

Following an emotion-filledcelebration at the end of thealumni meet last Saturday,Chollet-Norton recognizes shewill need to make an effort tokeep her emotions in check forher final meet at the LivingstonRecreation Center.

“It is going to be an emotion-al day, but we will try our bestto keep it together and competeto the best of our ability,”Chollet-Norton said. “We needto keep building up momentumheading into EAGLS so we haveto keep focused.”

But the Knights will notattempt to ignore the signifi-cance of Chollet-Norton’s finalhome meet. Rather, they willstrive for the best scores to sendher of f in Piscataway on a high note.

“Chrystal is such a great per-son and we love her so much. Shehas given us so much,” said fresh-man Luisa Leal-Restrepo, who seta school record all-around per-formance. “We need to do it forher and we want her to leave onthe best meet of her life.”

For her senior athletes, it willbe one last opportunities to com-pete in the building that theyrefer to before each home meetas “our house.” Senior LeighHeinbaugh acknowledges that itwill be an emotional experience,but she isn’t worried it will affecther performance.

“I’ll just focus on what I’mdoing and cheer on the othergirls,” Heinbaugh said. “It’s a greatway to keep calm during a meet. Iwant to go out there and set mycareer-best. It’s just me and thebeam, so I just have to rememberI’ve it done it a million times.”

Fellow senior Kiah Banfieldshares her teammate’s mindsetand acknowledges that eventhough the meet will holdincreased significance, it is mostimportant to compete at the levelshe knows she can.

“It’s important we don’t holdanything back because it’s thelast time to enjoy the sport thatwe love,” Banfield said.

After achieving their seasonhigh score of 194.150, theKnights placed themselves in astronger position in the regionalqualifying score rankings. Withthe season quickly nearing itsconclusion, the need for anotherscore in the 193-194 range is high-er than ever.

“If we can do another 194 inthe next few meets we will be in agood position,” Chollet-Nortonsaid. “We also want to be able tosurprise some people at EAGLS.”

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GYMNASTICS

But from sophomore MarioMason at 149 pounds all the wayup to senior D.J. Russo at heavy-weight, the EIWA Tournamentoffers many Knights a chance toredeem themselves and provethey belong on the podium.

“We are going to have guysthat get low seeds that have nobusiness being low seeds,” Russosaid. “I think we are going to lookpretty good when they redeemthemselves and fix whatever mis-takes they made, myself included.

I don’t mean ‘they’— I mean ‘we.’”

Russo roundedout the year fallingto two EIWA coun-terparts inLehigh’s Zach Reyand American’sRyan Flores. Thethree will likely fin-ish at the top of thepack this weekendand again whenthey converge at

the Wells Fargo Center for theNCAA Tournament.

Rey and Flores might be seed-ed higher, just as Cornell andLehigh may be favored to takethe top-two spots this weekend atthe EIWA Tournament.

But when push comes toshove, anything can happen.Things do not always follow theprojected scheme and any teamcan triumph in that recipe for chaos.

“Anybody at this time of theyear can win,” Goodale said.“Anybody can put themselves ina position to win. And when thathappens, a lot of things might notgo according to plan.”

“We are going tohave guys that get

low seeds that have no business being low seeds.”

DJ RUSSOSenior Heavyweight

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Sophomore ace leads Knights into AtlantaBY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ

ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

There are certain responsibili-ties that come with being the No.1 pitcher in the starting rotation.

One oft h o s etasks ismakingsure tos w i n gy o u r

team’s momentum in the rightdirection, which oftentimes says alot about the course of a series.

For sophomore righthanderTyler Gebler, anointed as theRutgers baseball team’s ace inthe preseason by head coachFred Hill, holding up to his partof the bargain has been noproblem through his first twocareer starts.

“It’s always important for yourNo. 1 guy to come out and pitchwell,” Hill said. “Hopefully we canget a game like we did last week-end but that’s really the exceptionthis time of year.

“Most guys aren’t going togive you a complete game theirfirst, second or third time out. Ittakes time to get adjusted toplaying regular games and soforth, but he’s ahead of sched-ule right now.”

Though Gebler allowed fivewalks in his inaugural start in aRutgers uniform on opening day,the Toms River, N.J., native sur-rendered just two hits and did notgive up an earned run.

The Scarlet Knights (4-2) wenton to lose that game in extrainnings but followed up with a vic-

tory in extra innings the verynext night.

The following week, Hill’snew No. 1 tossed a completegame gem in just his secondstart, allowing eight hits andtwo earned runs while pro-pelling the Knights to an 8-2 vic-tory over Michigan.

Two games later Rutgers eyeda three-game sweep of theWolverines and Gebler a spot onthe Big East Weekly Honor Roll.

“You expect to get somethingif you pitch good, but it’s probablymore of a team award,” Geblersaid of the honor. “I gave up eighthits and only had five strikeouts.That’s a lot of defense behind memaking plays, so if I’m down inthe strike zone [and] they’re mak-ing the plays, I guess we’re goingto win some games.”

Hill hopes his ace can make itthree effective starts in a row thisweekend, when the Knights takeon No. 23 Georgia Tech today at4 p.m. in Atlanta.

Most on the team stillremember last year’s trip tovisit the Yellow Jackets, a seriesin which the Knights were

outscored, 33-9. Much of thedamage came in Game 2’s 19-5thrashing, but the bitter memo-r y of the trip as a whole remains.

“You’ve got to look at usgoing down there last year,”Gebler said of last season’ssweep, which dropped theKnights to 1-9. “I know they’rea dif ferent team this year … butthey’re still a great team. Theykind of kicked our butt lastyear. We’ve got to take it oneinning at a time making surethat we’re making plays.”

Something last year’s edi-tion of the Knights did not doearly on in the season was putup runs, but after a 22-runseries sweep of the Wolverines,Rutgers showed this year is adif ferent story.

The top three hitters inHill’s lineup average .300 orbetter, as sophomore shortstopSteve Nyisztor and senior rightfielder Michael Lang are tiedfor the team lead with a .333 average.

But even with the scoringoutput, the burden will likelyfall on the up-and-comingRutgers star and the rest of thepitching staf f when Game 1kicks of f today at RussChandler Stadium.

“You always want to pitchwell,” Gebler said. “But I feellike even if I go out there andhave a rough start, we have abullpen that can come in andclean it up a little bit and extendinnings. I’m not going out therethrowing perfect pitches — I’mtrying to get people out.”

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BASEBALL

“I’m not going outthere throwing

perfect pitches —I’m trying to

get people out. ”TYLER GEBLERSophomore Pitcher

THE DAILY TARGUM / FILE PHOTO

Sophomore righthander Tyler Gebler assumed the No. 1 spot in thestarting rotation in the preseason under head coach Fred Hill.

Rutgers takes on St. Joe’s with unbeaten mark on lineBY VINNIE MANCUSO

STAFF WRITER

When the Rutgers men’slacrosse team rolls intoPhiladelphia to face St. Joe’s

t o m o r -row, ithas ac h a n c eto cap-ture thet e a m ’ s

best start since the 2004 sea-son, when it started of f 4-0.

But that fact will not be onany of the players’ minds andhead coach Jim Stagnitta willnot allow it.

“The last couple of years inpar ticular we’ve been ver yclose to being the team we wantto be,” Stagnitta said. “We haveto stay consistent now, and thebest way to stay consistent is tofocus and make sure we’re not getting beyond ourselves.”

Staying on par with the firstthree games’ accomplishmentswill be no easy feat, as theScarlet Knights (3-0) alreadyracked up a pair of dominantvictories at home againstWagner and Manhattan, com-bined with a strong road win at Mar yland-Baltimore County.

But the Knights — dead seton getting redemption from adisappointing 6-8 season — areaware they are on to somethingspecial that Rutgers lacrossehas not witnessed in recent memory.

“[Saturday] is a good chancefor us to start of f 4-0,” said red-shirt freshman Scott Klimchak,who tallied six goals to aid theKnights to their unblemished

record. “We definitely have a chance.”

But the Hawks (0-2) will notmake it easy for Rutgers.

Although St. Joe’s comes offtwo straight losses to Lehighand Bryant, Stagnitta is a veter-an coach and knows never tolook past a team on its home turf.

“I know they’ve always beena slick team, a skilled team,”Stagnitta said. “We’re not going to be under-estimating them.”

The squad knows it cannotcontrol what the Hawks bringto the table — only its pre-paredness to face them. TheKnights pride themselves ontheir preparation during theweek prior to stepping onto theactual game field.

“It’s important for us to stayfocused on what we actuallycan control, and the only thingright now is how we practiceand prepare for the next oppo-nent,” Stagnitta said. “The mainthing we try to do is focus oneach drill, each practice —start every day fast and finishstrong. We want practice to beharder than the game.”

And so far the formulaequated to three straight victo-ries for the Knights.

A repeat per formancetomorrow would bring Rutgersone step closer to rejuvenatinga program with a recent historyof stagnancy.

“It’s all a matter of stayingthe course at this point. We’refocused right now and we knowwhat we have to do to keep itgoing,” Stagnitta said. “Stay inthe moment, stay in the dayand improve on ever ything we do.

RUTGERS AT ST. JOESTOMORROW, 1 P.M.

MEN’S LACROSSE

CAMERON STROUD / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERRedshirt freshman attackman Scott Klimchak helped the Knights to a 3-0 start to the season with sixgoals in the team’s first three contests. A win Saturday would mark the best start since 2004.

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Rutgers facestough slatein Tourney

BY A.J. JANKOWSKICORRESPONDENT

When the Rutgers wrestling team heads toLewisburg, Pa., this weekend for the EIWATournament, the outlook will be different

than in years’ past.No. 1 Cornell plansto bring home itsfifth consecutiveconference title, but

a handful of pro-grams are in position to dethrone the Big Red.

And that includes the Scarlet Knights.“If we wrestle to where we are projected

to be at, we will be right in the thick of it,”said head coach Scott Goodale. “It’s going tobe hard to catch somebody like Cornell …but if you get some help along the way, younever know.”

The Knights certainly look to improveupon last year’s sixth-place performance, andto do that, the entire lineup top to bottom willhave to wrestle to the best of its ability andthen some.

One grappler who gets to show what he ismade of is Matt Fusco. The sophomore spentthe majority of the year splitting time withclassmate Joe Langel at 125 pounds, butmoved up to 133 two weeks ago to face FrankCagnina of Lehigh.

Fusco knocked off Cagnina and Goodalerewarded him with the opportunity to repre-sent Rutgers in the 133-pound bracket in theEIWA Tournament.

“It’s really exciting. I feel a lot better up at133,” Fusco said. “I don’t have to cut weight andI’ve got a lot more energy. I feel a lot stronger.”

The path for Fusco to reach the NCAATournament in Philadelphia in two weeks isnot an easy one. The NCAA allotted threeautomatic qualifying bids to the EIWA for the133-pound weight class, compared to four

JEFFREY LAZARO/ ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Junior guard Khadijah Rushdan, who earned a spot on the All-Big East Second Team yesterday, leads the youthful Knightsbackcourt into its opening round Big East Tournament matchup Sunday at the XL Center in Hardford, Conn.

Knights plan for double-bye in Conn.BY SAM HELLMAN

CORRESPONDENT

The Rutgers women’s basketball team has mixed emotions about receiving the No. 4 seed in the Big East Tournament.

The ScarletKnights are happy about their four-gamewin streak that

jumped them four spots in the standings but see the corresponding dou-

ble-bye in the 16-team tournament as amajor disadvantage.

“I’d rather be playing [today] or [tomor-row],” junior guard Nikki Speed said. “It isn’tan advantage at all. It kind of hurts usbecause we have to do well in this one tomake sure we play [in the NCAA tourna-ment]. The double-bye doesn’t help us at all.”

With 18 wins to their name, the Knights(18-11, 11-5) see the double-bye as twomissed opportunities to add wins to theirMarch Madness résumé.

Instead of having a chance at wins No. 19 and20 against lower-seeded teams, a shot at a 20th

win would likely come against No. 1 ConnecticutMonday night on the school’s home turf.

“If we would have played that first game orthat second game on Saturday, it would havegiven us possibly another win,” said juniorguard Khadijah Rushdan. “I also think it’sgood for our team, with the amount of peoplewe have and injuries we have, to be able torest and not have to play back-to-back.”

With their first game Sunday afternoon, theKnights will face a team with at least one gameunder their belt in the tournament. While this is

Senior for ward RobertLumpkins will not travel with theRutgers men’s basketball team

when it trav-els today to

Providence, R.I., to take onProvidence, said head coachMike Rice.

The move to not bringLumpkins with the Scarlet Knightson the road was “a coach’s deci-sion,” Rice said.

Lumpkins took a personal leaveof absence from the Knights earlierthis season during a two-gamestretch against North Carolina andVillanova before returning forRutgers’ Big East home openeragainst Marquette.

The 6-foot-7 forward averaged3.7 points in 11.9 minutes per gameas the Knights’ second frontcourtplayer off the bench under Rice.

Lumpkins joined the Knightsprior to the season as a graduatetransfer from New Mexico State,where he played in only eightgames last season.

Rice did not know whetherLumpkins would return to the teamin time for Tuesday’s openinground game against Seton Hall atthe Big East Tournament.

— Staff report

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LUMPKINS OUT OF LINEUP

Friars’ Brooksposes threat inseason finale

BY TYLER BARTOASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

The Rutgers men’s basketball team hadless than 20 hours to bask in its last-minute tri-umph on Wednesday at DePaul before prepar-

ing for its seasonfinale at Providence.

Such is life in theBig EastConference, wherethe Scarlet Knightsbroke a four-game

losing streak against the Blue Demons only toface the league’s leading scorer, wingMarshon Brooks, on Providence’s Senior Day.

“I just had a Senior Day — I know theemotions that come with that,” said seniorforward Jonathan Mitchell. “We just have todo a great job of hushing the crowd early,taking them out of the game and takingMarshon out of his rhythm.”All eyes at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center will beon Brooks, a rangy senior who leads the BigEast in scoring with 24.7 points per game.

The Friars (14-16, 3-14) own the confer-ence’s second-best scoring mark per JARED MILLER

Senior forward Jonathan Mitchell may find himself on the opposite end of defensive switches tomorrow in Providence in order to contain the Friars’ Marshon Brooks.

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WRESTLING

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

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RUTGERS AT PROVIDENCESATURDAY, 7 P.M.

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