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ball coach Mike Rice was fired for mistreating players, shoving them and berating them with gay slurs.
• More than 50 faculty members signed a letter Thursday calling for the dismissal of Athletic Director Tim Pernetti and an explanation from President Robert Barchi for why he didn't fire Rice last year when he learned of a video showing Rice's behavior during practices.
• State Senate President Stephen Sweeney also called for Pernetti to step down or be fired. He said Pernetti deserves credit for getting Rutgers into the Big Ten conference but mishandled this situation.
• "This incident will continue to hang over Rutgers like a dark cloud for weeks, months and perhaps years to come," the Democrat said in a statement.
• Meanwhile, the number of faculty members calling for Barchi to step down more than doubled Thursday to 28.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
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• Today is Friday, April 5, the 95th day of 2013. There are 270 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On April 5, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order creating the Civilian Conservation Corps and an anti-hoarding order that effectively prohibited private ownership of gold.
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• On this date:
• In 1614, Pocahontas, daughter of the leader of the Powhatan tribe, married English colonist John Rolfe in Virginia. (A convert to Christianity, she went by the name Lady Rebecca.)
• In 1621, the Mayflower sailed from Plymouth Colony in present-day Massachusetts on a monthlong return trip to England.
• In 1792, President George Washington cast his first veto, rejecting a congressional measure for apportioning representatives among the states.
• In 1862, during the Civil War, the monthlong Siege of Yorktown began in Virginia.
• In 1887, in Tuscumbia, Ala., Anne Sullivan achieved a breakthrough as her blind and deaf pupil, Helen Keller, learned the meaning of the word "water" as spelled out (Continued on page 42)
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