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Last Tuesday, members of the Rutgers University Student Assembly (RUSA) attended a mobile town hall with Rep. Frank Pallone (DN.J.), who represents New Jersey’s Sixth Congressional District, which includes the city of New Brunswick. Pallone currently serves as the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The committee has jurisdiction over issues such as energy, environment, health care, commerce and telecommunications, according to Pallone’s website. The town hall took place on a Megabus, which is much larger than a standard bus, said Julien Rosenbloom, chair of RUSA’s Legislative Affairs Committee and a key organizer of the event. The bus took members of RUSA, as well as members of the public, to Washington, D.C., where they spoke with other policy makers in the nation’s capital. Rosenbloom said this is the first time a mobile town hall happened between the University and Pallone. The purpose of meeting with Pallone included discussing
aspects of legislation that are pertinent to Pallone’s committee, such as environmental issues, Rosenbloom said. The trip to Washington, D.C. included meetings with Rep. Donald Norcross (D-N.J.) and Rep. Darren Soto (D-Fla.), as well as other officials and policymakers, according to a Rutgers press release. “The day included meetings scheduled with Norcross and Rutgers alumnus Soto of Florida and Adam Minehardt, chief of staff to Rep. Nydia Velázque (D-N.Y.). Students also had a chance to meet with other congressional staffers for the New Jersey delegation,” according to the release. Rosenbloom said the event had been in the works since December and took a multitude of steps to set up. “There’s a lot of moving parts … The event was March 5, so we had a little less than two months to get the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee prepared, put together legislative briefings and then put together a few other things,” he said. SEE HALL ON PAGE 4
Basketball player receives 7 charges, is suspended from team indefinitely BRENDAN BRIGHTMAN NEWS EDITOR
The charges against Issa Thiam, a School of Arts and Sciences junior and member of Rutgers’ men’s basketball team, were all disorderly third or fourth-degree charges. DECLAN INTINDOLA
U. Vietnamese students hold cultural pageant CATHERINE NGUYEN NEWS EDITOR
Last Saturday, Rutgers’ Vietnamese Student Association (VSA) hosted the second annual Miss VSA, a cultural pageant that aimed to highlight Vietnamese culture as well as the diversity of Asian culture. At the event, which sold out the day before, six contestants
from various universities in the Northeast competed for the title of Miss VSA and the opportunity to win money for a charity of their choice. This year’s contestants from Rutgers were Almanda Le, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, Maya Nayak, a School of Engineering senior and YuTing Shen, a Rutgers Business SEE PAGEANT ON PAGE 4
The panel discussion on Dalit feminism featured five panelists and aimed to increase awareness of Dalit and Adivasi communities, who are the members of the lowest caste in India. MICA FINEHART
Panel shares insight on Indian castes, women APARNA RAGUPATHI CONTRIBUTING WRITER
This year’s Miss VSA included six contestants from a range of universities in the Northeast region. Each contestant was required to give a video introduction. CATHERINE NGUYEN / NEWS EDITOR
The Rutgers University Working Group on Dalit and Adivasi Research presented a panel discussion on Dalit feminism and femininity at the Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building. The event, which occurred last Thursday, featured five
panelists and had approximately 25 students and faculty in attendance, was sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers Global, the Institute for Women’s Leadership, the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and the South Asian Studies Program, said Julie Rajan, an assistant professor in
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A member of the Rutgers men’s basketball team was arrested on Friday and faces seven charges, including false imprisonment and terroristic threats, according to an article by NJ Advance Media. Issa Thiam, a School of Arts and Sciences junior who played in 25 games this season, is the player who has been charged and suspended indefinitely from the team. Thiam has been charged with simple assault, criminal mischief, false imprisonment, tampering with physical evidence, possession of a weapon for unlawful purpose, theft by unlawful taking and terroristic threats, according to the article. All charges are disorderly third — or fourth — degree charges, according to the article. This is the first men’s basketball player to be arrested this season.
the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies. The panel is the first of a two-panel series that aims to draw attention to the distinct experiences of Dalit and Adivasi communities, Rajan said, as well as their advocacy efforts by highlighting the experiences and research of Dalit and Adivasi women and allies. Dalits, who used to be known as the “untouchables” of India’s caste system, Rajan said, make up 25 percent of India’s population and the majority of India’s slums. Making their livelihoods by cleaning human waste from streets and public toilets, Dalits have been physically and socially segregated from Hindus of other castes due to misinterpretations of ancient Hindu texts by heterosexual male Brahmins, or members of the highest Hindu caste, she said. Adivasis, or tribal people, have different experiences defined by forced eviction and the appropriation of homelands and environmental resources by British colonial government and post-colonial Indian government. Rajan said more than 700 Adivasi tribes living in forests across India make up 10 percent of the Indian population. In 1991, Rajan said the Indian government combined both the SEE WOMEN ON PAGE 4
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Event highlights pelvis importance for humans CATHERINE NGUYEN NEWS EDITOR
A curator from the American Museum of Natural History came to Rutgers last Friday to discuss the importance of hips, particularly the pelvis, in answering larger questions in the field of paleoanthropology. The event, which is part of a series in the Department of Anthropology, was titled “Hips in Human Evolution” and featured Dr. Ashley Hammond, a paleoanthropologist who has been working with the American Museum of Natural History since last year. “I can use hips to get at some of the bigger questions in anthropology … so bigger questions such as where do we come from, when did major evolutionary transitions occur and what makes humans special,” Hammond said to start off the lecture. Focusing on what made humans special, she said modern humans had a relatively large brain size, made and used tools and were able to interact collaboratively toward common goals. These features, though, were not present in the earliest hominids, which refers to a family of primates that includes the great apes and humans. Instead, both ancient hominids and modern humans were universally identified by physical features related to bipedality, or ability to walk upright on two legs. Hammond said bipedality
was what changed how people moved in the landscape, freeing up their hands so that they could do other tasks. She then referred to Lucy, the skeleton of one of the earliest human ancestors found by paleoanthropologists. While the evidence for bipedality in hominids like Lucy, who lived several millions years ago, were more nuanced, Hammond said the pelvis was suggestive of the trait. “It seems that the pelvis is one of the first parts of the body that really reflects an adaptation for being bipedal,” she said. Ancient primates had ilia, which is one of the main bones forming the upper part of the pelvis, which were flatter and had a different orientation than more modern hominids, whose ilia allowed them to walk more efficiently on two legs. Hammond said the pelvis also revealed details about geographic variation and where ancestors were derived from. For instance, those who lived closer to the equator have narrower pelvises and torsos than those who lived in the poles. The pelvis was also a way to differentiate between genders, especially since females had to give birth, she said. This was significant in determining the gender of Omo-1, which is the name of the skeletal remains of an early modern human found 40 years ago in Omo Kibish, an archaeological site in Ethiopia.
Lucy, the name for the skeletal remains of a hominid found in Ethiopia, was known to be bipedal, or able to walk upright due to the structure of her bones. WIKIMEDIA COMMONS In the early 2000’s, other paleoanthropologists returned to the site. They were able to find new fossils, with some possibly belonging to Omo-1. The centerpiece of the findings was a partial pelvic bone, because
pelvises tend to not preserve very well, Hammond said. Omo-1 had historically been assumed to be a male because its skeleton had been so large. Based on the shape of the sciatic notch, or indent in the ilium, Omo-1
turned out to actually be a female. Hammond said females tend to have a more open notch, and Omo-1’s sciatic notch was in the range of modern human females. “This was contrary to pretty much everything we had assumed about this skeleton in the 40 years beforehand,” she said. The newly discovered pelvic bone also revealed that Omo1 may have even had children in her lifetime, due to a distinct groove in the bone that previous researchers have observed in many women who have given birth, Hammond said. She then spoke about her own experience doing fieldwork, describing her experience with fossils from Eritrea, a country in East Africa. Using data analysis, Hammond compared the pelvises she found in that region compared to other hominids and hominins from different regions and time periods. She said the goal of that work was to show the range of variation between living and fossil hominins. She ended the lecture by giving a preview of the work she planned on doing in the future regarding paleoanthropology. In order to better characterize locomotive diversity, she hopes to reconstruct the shape of the pelvis and gather new fossils. “The bigger question for me is what led to the origins of bipedal function. It’s great that we can characterize the diversity, but how did we get here to begin with?” she said.
Omo Kibish, which is located in Ethiopia, is an archaeological site where, more than 40 years ago, paleoanthropologists found the remains of an early modern human, which they named Omo-1. WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
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HALL Pallone hopes those who feel disconnected from politics learn participation’s importance CONTINUED FROM FRONT Rosenbloom said the event was important to promote civic engagement among students at Rutgers, who
Pallone’s main focus for the town hall was to inspire students to think about public service, and understand the issues that impacted them the most, according to the press release.
“We always worry that young people supposedly aren’t that interested in government or have lost faith in the democratic system. So I’d like to find out why that’s true and what we can do
to change it. And since so many of these students are involved in student government, they’re probably the best people to tell me,” Pallone said, according to the press release.
a wide variety of questions, including questions about the Green New Deal and the state of American politics. “We talked quite a bit about the contours of the Green New Deal,
“I wanted to bring them into the fold, and show them how this works, why the democratic process is important and what you can gain from it.” FRANK PALLONE U.S. Representative New Jersey’s Sixth Congressional District
often feel disconnected from the democratic process and participation in government. “I wanted to bring them into the fold, and show them how this works, why the democratic process is important and what you can gain from it,” he said. Rosenbloom said the students attending the town hall asked
Medicare for All and the current state of politics in the U.S., more broadly. We talked about young people being engaged in the political process. It was a broad range of things. It wasn’t always specific to policy, and it wasn’t always strictly under the purview of Energy and Commerce,” Rosenbloom said.
PAGEANT The social media award was given to Almanda Le for having most Facebook likes CONTINUED FROM FRONT School junior. Other contestants were Vivian Luu from Baruch College, MyPhuong Nguyen from Stony Brook University and Christina Tran from Binghamton University. The two emcees, Trinh Vu, a School of Engineering first-year, and Jason Phu, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, started off the night by describing the background behind this year’s theme: A Night in Saigon. “Saigon, more formally known as Ho Chi Minh City, is a city rich with history and culture. It is where many people with different cultures joined together to display unity,” Vu said. Next was the opening ceremony, a dance choreographed and performed by members of the VSA. The dance incorporated both traditional Vietnamese
elements, such as the ao dai (a Vietnamese garment), and modern elements such as pop music and shoot dancing. The first part of the pageant introduced the contestants, requiring them to make a video answering the prompt of what made them beautiful. Each contestant had a unique answer, with some filming moments when they were performing at Vietnamese shows, some displaying personal moments with friends and family and others singing or cooking in their video. Contestants then displayed their skills in the talent portion of the pageant. Most talents were musical: Le danced with her sorority, Kappa Delta Phi, to a piece she choreographed, Luu sang a mash-up of various songs by Ariana Grande, Shen rapped in Chinese and Tran played “A
WOMEN Singh says activism is survival, not just for their expression of feminism CONTINUED FROM FRONT Dalit and Adivasi groups into one broad category of Scheduled Castes, or SC, Scheduled Tribes, or ST and Other Backward Classes, or OBC, in attempt to increase the visibility and agency of both communities. Since then, India has done little to change the cultural biases that justify the dehumanization of both communities despite global attention brought to the issue in 2010 by the United Nations decision against discrimination based on labor and lineage, Rajan said. Females of both communities experience a range of violence distinct to both their caste and gendered identities, Rajan said.
“It is a myth to think that we can deal with these issues one by one: Gender equality first and Dalit equality next. We must look at the common site of the female Dalit body as the site at which the struggles of caste, gender, and race are fought,” said Evangeline AndersonRajakumar, a body theologian and Dalit womanist scholar. Anderson-Rajakumar, as a Dalit woman, spoke about her realization that she was a devalued body in society and that her starting point was not zero, but negative. “You spend your lifetime trying to get from negative to zero, and it takes another lifetime to move forward,” she said.
Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) said his main focus for the town hall was to get students in the Rutgers University Student Assembly (RUSA) thinking about public service and to understand the social issues that impacted them the most. FLICKR
Thousand Years” by Christina Perri on the piano. On the other hand, Nguyen did a Draw-My-Life style video showing her drawings while narrating a traditional Vietnamese folktale, and Nayak used slam poetry to describe her experience being trans. In the third round of the pageant, contestants then dressed in colorful ao dai and walked across the main stage. Each put
The final part of the pageant was the Q&A, in which contestants were each asked questions on topics such as what differentiated them from the other contestants, their culture and what they thought were the most pressing issues in today’s generation. At the end of the night, the audience drum rolled as the emcees announced the winners of this year’s Miss VSA pageant. Le
“I find it extremely important to address mental health in the Asian American and Pacific Islander community.” VIVIAN LUU School of Arts and Sciences Senior
their own spin on the walk, with some incorporating props such as umbrellas and others dancing as they walked. In between the portions were guest performances from Haru, a K-Pop cover dance club, and Raps Dance Troupe.
was the winner for the social media category, which was determined by the contestant who received the most Facebook likes. Luu was crowned both the fan favorite award, determined by votes from the audience during the event, and the title of Miss VSA 2019.
Caste, Andersen-Rajakumar said, is an imagination of purity and a requisite of the powerful. Members of the upper caste need the female Dalit body in order to define oneself and one’s caste as superior. This, she said, is what leads to violence and discrimination against Dalit women and what gives Dalit women the potential to advocate for their rights. “It is right that they think that Dalit and female bodies are dangerous, it is those bodies that have the power to demystify the caste system,” she said. Manjula Bharathi, a professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, India, agreed with Anderson-Rajakumar and described the common practice of upper-caste members serving tea to Dalits in separate cups. “The moment you are given a separate cup, break the cup,” she said. Bharathi, a non-Dalit woman, began a discussion on the value
of the experiences of other feminist groups to the plight of Dalit women. Jebaroja Singh, a visiting assistant professor at St. John
“You spend your lifetime trying to get from negative to zero, and it takes another lifetime to move forward.” EVANGELINE ANDERSON-RAJAKUMAR Dalit Womanist Scholar
Fisher College in Rochester, New York, also spoke about the impor tance of applying a transnational feminist lens to the Dalit women’s movement. She also said that activism played a unique role in the Dalit women’s movement.
Her organization of choice was To Write Love on Her Arms, which is a non-profit organization that aims to help those who are struggling with depression, addiction, selfinjur y and suicide. “I find it extremely important to address mental health in the Asian American and Pacific Islander community,” Luu said in a pamphlet. “By doing so, together we can educate and provide resources for those who lack awareness and reduce the mental illness stigma.” Jennifer Luu, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, and president of Rutgers VSA said the other charities that would benefit from the event were Children of Vietnam and the Catalyst Foundation. “Miss VSA is a night to celebrate friends, family, culture and charity … It brought my e-board and I so much happiness to see friends, family and the community come together to support and celebrate our contestants, our philanthropy and our organization,” she said.
“Activism is survival, not just a method of expression of feminism for these Dalit women,” Singh said. Thenmozhi Soundararajan, the executive director of Equality Labs and a member of the Dalit community, echoed this thought and explained her expectations of transnational feminist groups. “We don’t have the luxury to write papers about this, we have to take to the streets and speak our truth until our people are free. We don’t have time to wait for movements that don’t speak to our issues,” she said. For Soundararajan, Dalit feminism holds radical potential for both India and the rest of the world. To realize this potential, she said, the international women’s movement should not erase the intersectionality of feminism. “We don’t see ourselves in isolation,” she said. “We see ourselves in collection with many feminist groups.”
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magine calling the police and being sent to voicemail. RISHI MEHTA This is currently how immigrants feel following this administration’s continued neglect of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) constant abuse of power. “Illegals,” is how they are described — the Left even refers to them as “illegal immigrants” — when was the last time they were referred to as human beings? There are a few things that need to be understood. The first one of these things being that no human being is inherently illegal. Our laws were formed on the basis of justice for the disenfranchised, not persecution of them. In one of the wealthiest countries in the history of the world, where Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has the same amount of money as 123 million Americans, and yet still paid $0 in federal income taxes in 2016, the focus is somehow drawn to those who are entering this country to pay taxes, contribute to our economy and societies and be given inalienable rights granted by the Constitution of the United States. Instead, ICE not only set up a fake university in Michigan as a part of a sting operation to detain undocumented human beings, but also issued fake court dates causing these human beings to travel for hours and spend thousands of dollars to go nowhere, according to CBS. This is taunting, this is torture, this is a violation of Eighth Amendment rights these human beings should have. These human beings need lawyers, not walls. They need camaraderie, not divisiveness. Now, you have all of your arguments lined up, but let us go through some of the facts. Prior to that, let me say that it is disgusting that I have to make an economic case for you to be okay with stopping families from being torn apart, hurt and killed. You do not care about this country, you care about yourself, your misguided view of God and your racist, distorted “traditions” you hold so dear. Vox laid out the facts perfectly, and please refer to it if these facts are necessary for you to sleep at night. But, this is an argument of ethics. We find a point of contention in Vox’s article: “What is true is that since people with more degrees — and especially people with degrees in technical subjects — earn above-average incomes, highly educated immigrants have a more positive budgetary impact than less educated ones. Altering American immigration policy to put more weight on in-demand skills, educational credentials and ability to either attract above-market salaries or work in a field where expanding the size of the workforce is deemed socially desirable is a perfectly reasonable proposal,” according to the article.
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“The idea that a human being would need to bring some massive economic value in order to escape persecution, a worse life or unfortunate circumstances is ridiculous and disgusting.” The idea that a human being would need to bring some massive economic value in order to escape persecution, a worse life or unfortunate circumstances is ridiculous and disgusting. Given that premise, this no longer becomes the land of the free, but the land of the exploitable and home of the greed. It is not a perfectly reasonable proposal, because it presents the same problems for immigrants as it does for those here. If I cannot afford “educational credentials,” and the country I live in does not have a free — or severely inexpensive — public education system, then someone who can afford deserves a better life than I do? We could consider applying a version of John Rawls’s “veil of ignorance” to the immigration debate, and if we did, maybe things would be different. The question must be asked: How hypocritical is it that we as a country have the gall to feign concern at rising immigration when those fleeing to seek a better life are the victims of our own imperialist ventures? One can only hope that the apathy and political games of the establishment, as well as the borderline fascistic President Donald J. Trump administration has, in seeking to cage children inspires a thousand more “migrant caravans.” We manufactured this crisis. We owe these asylum seekers much more than a home. “For those who believe in the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the value of America’s ideals, accepting a future of decline and retreat in the name of ethnic purity should be unacceptable,” according to Vox. It would not simply be unacceptable, but treasonous. You are going to try and think of a lot of ways to convince yourself either that these human beings are still somehow bad, or that these facts are not true. And even if none of these facts were true, it would not change a thing, it would not make you any less wrong. What we learn from the Right’s continued support of ICE is to never swim with a conservative, because if they start to drown, they will drag you down them with them as if you are the reason it is happening, they will blame the lifeguard for trying to help, but will not blame the fact that they never learned how to swim in the first place. Rishi Mehta is a School of Arts and Sciences junior majoring in political science and English. His column, “Grass Roots,” runs on alternate Mondays.
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nti-Semitism continues to bloom in the fertile soil of bigotry and hate as the long and ugly history of Jews in Diaspora winds into the hate of contemporary times. There cannot be a denial of the Jewish people’s oppressed and persecuted history, just as there cannot be a dismissal of the continued attacks and demonization of the Jewish people. America was not immune to Nazism, this nation is not invulnerable to intolerance and there needs to be discourse on the widespread hate, xenophobia and racism from the representative leadership of this nation to the people. Controversy around Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) language on Israel had reached its boiling point last week, culminating in condemnation from members of both parties and an eventual Anti-Hate House Resolution. This past February, Omar tweeted “all about the Benjamins” in response to journalist Glenn Greenwald’s tweet criticizing the attack on free speech rights by “GOP Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)” who peddled anti-Semitic epithets in claiming that three Jews — George Soros, Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg — attempted to “BUY” the 2018 election and threatened punishment for Omar over her criticisms of Israel. Insinuating that the United States’ alignment with Israel is based on the influence of organizations like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is situated among the propagated anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that Jewish financiers buy off American politicians. With condemnation coming from Democratic leadership and Republicans across the aisle, Omar “unequivocally” apologized. “Anti-Semitism is real and I am grateful for Jewish allies and colleagues who are educating me on the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes,” she said, while also reaffirming her critique of “the problematic role of lobbyists in our politics, whether it be AIPAC, the NRA or the fossil fuel industry.” The apology settled the matter until her panel with fellow first-year Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) last Wednesday in which Omar discussed how their being Muslim both enables their ability to empathize with intolerance but also constrains their ability to discuss foreign affairs, as commentators will give them a label that ends the conversation and debate. “I want to talk about the political influence in this country that says it is okay for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country,” Omar said, which
was the spark that ignited the most recent condemnation and House Resolution. Her language was problematically reflective of similar, surface-level language of the hateful and anti-Semitic, but Omar herself does not traffic bigotry for political gain. Her history is not of hate towards Jews, but rather a critique of foreign governments that she considers infringe on human dignity. And, since entering office, Omar has been put under a microscope and made the subject of openly bigoted assaults, from the poster linking Omar to the 9/11 attacks that was put up in the West Virginia capital building to Fox News host Jeanine Pirro’s Islamophobic accusation that her religion sets her in disloyal opposition to the Constitution and to the United States. It would be categorically incorrect to imply that Omar’s criticism of Israel stems solely from her Muslim faith or in anti-Semitic beliefs. If one is to call her an anti-Semite for her critique of Israel, one must also label her as Islamophobic for her criticism of Saudi Arabia. But, Omar’s use of the anti-Semitic tropes do stifle the much-needed Democratic discussion of interest group influence on policy, the need for Israeli security and the existent Palestinian experience. The charge of anti-Semitism is at times used to immunize the government of Israel from criticism, but discourse cannot begin through Omar’s language. The Jewish people are not monolithic in their beliefs. The sensitive topic of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the splintering consideration of Israeli security, occupation, nationalism and Palestinian oppression forces open conversation underground, only to be discussed in whispers even among American Jews. The American Jewish identity is complex. With justice and compassion at the center of what it means to be Jewish by the scriptural teachings of Amos, Hesea, Isaiah, Micah, Jeremiah and Habakkuk, there is no simplifying lens to find a solution. But there must be a rejection of the paralyzing framework that posits two extremes in opposition of one another. One can still love the state of Israel and critique the government of indicted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. One can still love the Jewish people and acknowledge that a Palestinian baby is of equal being as a Jewish baby. The killing of innocent Palestinians is just as tragic and just as much of a crime against humanity as the killing of innocent Jews. We must be defined by a moral consistency that knows no bounds within the confines of humanity.
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Dems. allow House of Reps to become home of ill repute A RINO’S VIEW ROBERT SURIANO
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s Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) trying to get President Donald J. Trump reelected? Because the way she is managing her caucus in the house makes it certainly appear so. The Democrats in the House are mistaking Trump’s unpopularity with support of far-Left socialism. This could be a disastrous strategy for them. Look, I would be very glad if they do blow their current advantage. It just seems odd that Pelosi, as wily a political operator as they come, would allow her caucus to run out of control like she is. So, what do I mean by letting the caucus run out of control? I mean that she is allowing the far Left to take charge, failing to reprimand members who have repeatedly shown anti-Semitic remarks and ignoring her moderate wing. Firstly, let us examine why Democrats were swept into power in last fall’s midterm election. The election was not won by socialists, but instead by moderate Democrats in swing districts. For example, New Jersey’s Seventh Congressional District was won by Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-N.J.), who beat moderate Republican Leonard Lance. Malinowski did not win by running as a socialist. He won as a moderate Democrat.
This was the key to retaking the House: Running moderates in suburban districts who where formerly Republican but dislike Trump. There are, of course, these young Democratic freshman members of Congress who are trying to make socialism cool: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and others. But these representatives won their seats that would go Democratic if they ran a nice pair of shoes for Congress. It is a mistake for Pelosi to allow the more radical wing of her party be the face of the
unwilling to work and health care for all Americans. What those last two have to do with the environment and why she would add those things with extreme price tags to an already pricy idea, I do not know. In for a penny, in for a pound, I suppose. The price tag for this will be a trillion dollars a year: Yes, trillion. Pelosi must attempt to control her caucus and not allow things like this to get steam, because certainly Republicans will use it against Democrats come election time. Another issue Pelosi must prevent from taking over is impeachment. Unless slam-
“Pelosi should take more control of her caucus if she wants to maintain a Democratic majority. ” Democratic Congress. You cannot argue that she is not allowing this to happen, as she is appearing on the cover of Rolling Stone with them. The electorate is not ready for radicals, and it is shown by who swing voters elected. For her own party’s sake, Pelosi must reign in the policies of some of her members such as the so-called Green New Deal and the impeachment of Trump. The Green New Deal, as introduced by Ocasio-Cortez, is a radical piece of legislation that cannot possibly be implemented. But what is worse are terrible politics for Pelosi. It includes updating every building in the United States, providing pay for those
dunk evidence is found against Trump, and an overwhelming majority of Americans support it, Democrats should not move to impeach Trump. Republicans know this well from the former President Bill Clinton impeachment, in which even though he was guilty, the American people reacted badly, and the impeachment ended up helping Democrats. So, Pelosi must rein in her caucus. Pelosi shamed herself and her party by not punishing Omar for her repeated anti-Semitic remarks. Omar made remarks questioning the loyalty of Zionist members of the House Representatives to the United States. This duel-loyalty
smear is a classic anti-Semitic trope. This is not the first time Omar has made antiSemetic comments. A few weeks ago, she was forced to apologize for similarly anti-Semitic comments. When will enough be enough for Pelosi? Omar must be removed from the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Bigotry should not be a partisan issue. When Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) made shameful remarks, House Minority Leader and Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) removed him from all committees. Pelosi cannot even stop her members from being openly bigoted. Pelosi should take more control of her caucus if she wants to maintain a Democratic majority. First off, she should publicly promote less radical members of her caucus: For example, Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D- N.J.), who was a Navy helicopter pilot and federal prosecutor before being elected to Congress by a traditionally Republican district. More moderate members like her can be a very powerful force as the face of a party. Pelosi must not let flights of fancy such as the Green New Deal or impeachment take center stage. Finally, she must stamp out bigotry in her caucus. Or do not. I would much rather a Republican Congress, and the country would be better off too. Robert Suriano is a School of Arts and Sciences junior majoring in history. His column, “A RINO’s View,” runs on alternate Mondays.
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ARTificial Intelligence: Can machine-generated art have depth? ELIZABETH LEOCE CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The evolution of art has come a long way, especially with the development of new techniques and elements over time. It has been in our field of vision for quite some time, making art one of the most important characteristics of human existence. Art can come in many forms
and is practiced by all cultures across the globe. It has taken on new meanings through concepts such as religion, landmarks and even in politics. But in recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has been taking over art, a fear for artists as technology replaces jobs in common fields of human endeavors. As AI moves into the field of art and is starting to use algo-
This piece, from Rutgers' Art and Artificial Intelligence Lab, is an example of the kind of work generated through AI. Whether AI art receives critical acclaim remains to be seen. TWITTER
rithms that produce concept These basic machines produce pieces, some artists are starting variations of pre-existing works, to wonder what it means to be confirming that machines are not creative, revamping the definition creating anything original and of originality and replacing it with creating work that is unoriginal. technology. The fear of AI being Therefore, coming to the conclucreative has people questioning sion that creativity and originality whether AI has the ability to es- can’t be programmed. tablish emotions and thoughts. To some artists, creativity does AI has been tricky to talk about not stem from past pieces, but rathsince it is based off human cre- er, what is different between their ativity. In order for AI to create its techniques. Many artists want to own art, it needs human elements change up their everyday routine and ideas to become programmed and to try different ideas. Art can befirst. Therefore, AI is an art of its come repetitive, and AI is something own. Creating that can help AI has taken people think many years in differently. Creorder to perating something “But to build this fect, since it that no one has software is to build off is a very intriever seen before cate computer can leave a great each other's ideas — a program. But impact on someto build this body’s emoprocess mirroring software is to tions. AI has the art techniques.” build off each ability to stem other’s ideas – conversations a process mirand different roring art techperspectives on niques. It is no wonder people art that handmade art cannot do. Art question the originality of a work is supposed to move people and havof art that is produced by AI, ing something as unique as AI has because no one knows the true moved us to the new virtual reality value behind it. Art produced via we are living in. AI can be done in a matter of min“It could be argued that the abiliutes whereas human-made art ty of machines to learn what things can take a couple of days, months look like, and then make convincing or even years. new examples, marks the advent of
'creative' AI. After all, if we enjoy a piece of music or artwork, why should it be disturbing to know that it was entirely machine-made?” according to CNN. As previously mentioned, art should not be “disturbing” even if it is made by AI, it is a fairly new concept and we should be taking it as a progress in the technology and artistic fields. To some artists, AI will never come close to art. A machine simply cannot encompass emotion or ideology in a simple painting. But, Professor Ahmed Elgammal in the Department of Computer Science and founder of the Art and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Rutgers University—New Brunswick “has spent five years teaching his artificial intelligence program to create original artwork,” according to CBS. Elgammal considers himself “the artist in setting up the framework. The machine itself explores the possibilities and gives me answers. So, the machine has a part of the creative process,” he said. How are we sure Pablo Picasso didn’t steal ideas from Claude Monet? As technology advances, we will never be sure of the definition of art and creativity, as well as the emotion behind art. Will this emotion still be there if we continue to use AI? Art has always been up to interpretation, so believing that AI is unique is up to the eye of the beholder.
Women's Day at Douglass encourages, empowers ladies BREANA OMANA CORRESPONDENT
Like the movies show us, a line out the door usually indicates that whatever is going on inside is incredible. That was just the case this past Friday, when the Douglass Diversity and Inclusion Program held its very first Women’s Day at Douglass. From the moment you stepped into Kathleen W. Ludwig Global Village Living Learning Center, you were welcomed by a community of ladies in purple shirts. The event, which which kicked off at noon, started off with an hour full of fun, girl power and Douglass-themed activities. First up was a room full of female students tabling and repping their clubs. Among some of these clubs were Douglass D.I.V.A.S., Muslim Feminists for the Arts, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and Her Campus. Once you made it through the tabling, you were able to choose from an array of fun activities. There was a cookie-decorating room, where you could decorate the iconic Douglass pine tree, free headshots and a photo booth with props. After the fun and games, it was show time with three speakers. First to speak was the fit and fabulous Sara Zayed, founder of the blog Posifitivy.
Zayed felt right at home at Douglass, as she is Douglass Residential College alumna herself. She graduated from Rutgers in 2016 with a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics. Zayed started her health and lifestyle blog in 2015 as a creative outlet for her true passion: Health and wellness. Zayed spoke passionately and candidly about her blog, but most of all, she spoke to us about the importance of knowing ourselves, what we believe in and always living by our values. In addition, Zayed urged us to explore our interests, surround ourselves only with people who uplift us, find healthy ways to work through our self-doubt and negative emotions and lastly to “just do it.” Once you find what you want and love: Do it. Up next was larger-than-life and self-proclaimed “professional re-inventor of life” Deborah J. Holiday, a Class of 1985 alumna. Holiday, who is a life empowerment coach and creator of #loveyourselfie, opened by saying: “You never grow out of your tiaras and crowns, you grow into them.” Holiday, who had done extensive research on bullying in the early 2000s, came to the realization that the biggest bully and battle is in our brains. Since then, Holiday has dedicated her life to helping women realize that the
image you see in the mirror is dictated by you, and not the mirror. Closing the event was none other than President and CEO of Hispanics Inspiring Students’ Performance and Achievement (HISPA) Dr. Ivonne Díaz-Claisse. Díaz-Claisse was born in Puerto Rico, and learned the significance of education at a young age. There was one problem, though.
Díaz-Claisse, who wanted to be a mathematician, was often dissuaded by teachers and people who believed that girls will never be “good enough” at math. It all changed when she met a mathematician in Puerto Rico. Through that experience, DíazClaisse was able to see that she could do it, and she did. Eventually, she ended up working
Sara Zayed, creator of the health blog Posifitivy, was 1 of 3 speakers at Women's Day at Douglass. As a Douglass Residential College alumna, this was a homecoming. INSTAGRAM
for AT&T and getting her Ph.D. in Mathematics. Díaz-Claisse achieved her dreams. But there was an event that changed the trajectory of her career forever. Based on her years of work at AT&T, Díaz-Claisse was asked to speak at a school in Newark. There, she realized that most of the kids looked like her, and when she asked a teacher how many were Latino and Latina, she was told 98 percent were. “What have I been doing, when there is a sea of children who need role models like me, like I did with that mathematician in Puerto Rico?” she said. From there, HISPA was founded, which is an organization that has Latino and Latina professionals serve as role models for students in their communities. “The important thing to reflect on is diversity and inclusion and to start looking at all of us like we are all the same because we are all different," Díaz-Claisse said. In all, Douglass’ very first Women’s Day was a complete success. For three hours, you were able to be part of a community that wants to empower women to see their full potential and reach for the stars regardless of their gender, race, sexual orientation or whatever obstacles may stand in their way. Douglass showed it knows how to celebrate International Women’s Day, and we can only hope that this event will become an annual occurrence.
DIVERSIONS
March 11, 2019
Mark Tatulli Horoscopes
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Page 9 Eugenia Last
Happy Birthday: Lean toward the obvious, and make the most out of what you are blessed with. How you deal with people as well as how you handle your money and health issues will make a difference this year. This is not the year to take risks or to be a follower. Focus on what you have, not what you want. Excessive behavior will lead to trouble. Your numbers are 6, 11, 20, 27, 36, 41, 49.
Over The Hedge
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): You can be open to new ideas, concepts and opinions, but in the end, you have to do what’s best for yourself. Keep your life simple to avoid the drama going on around you. Personal growth will change your life. 3 stars TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Concentrate on getting things done. Finish what you start before you present and promote what you have to offer. Planning and fine-tuning will help you eliminate the competition. You don’t have to fight; you just have to be the best. 3 stars GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Trust in yourself, your ability to survive on your own and your intuitive guide who helps you recognize when someone is taking advantage of you. Put your time and effort into what you believe in and do best. 3 stars CANCER (June 21-July 22): Consider your options and how best to reach your goal. Call in favors from those you know can offer sound advice and the support you need to be successful. A partnership will help stabilize your position and improve your reputation. 4 stars
Pearls Before Swine
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Don’t let stubbornness be your downfall. You may not agree with what others say, but listen to reason and be willing to compromise. How you treat others will make a difference to the outcome of a sticky situation. Avoid petty arguments. 2 stars VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your imagination will run wild, but that doesn’t mean you have to follow through. Choose what you know you can rely on to get you where you want to go. You will be able to make positive changes and gains. 5 stars
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Flesh out your ideas, and look for a sound way to advance. Keep your distance from people who tend to take advantage of you. Concentrate on what you can do to improve a health, financial or contractual problem. 3 stars SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Participate. What you discover by interacting with unique people will help you make a positive change. Don’t argue or fight a losing battle; follow your heart and do your own thing. 3 stars SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Take a moment to weed out the truth. Someone with big ideas will try to solicit you to get involved in a plan that isn’t solid. The information you are given will be exaggerated. Protect your personal information. 3 stars CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Make positive changes to the way you live. Surround yourself with people who motivate and inspire you to strive for success. An emotional situation should be dealt with peacefully. Getting into an argument will make matters worse. 3 stars AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Stay put until you have the facts. If you act on an assumption, you will end up looking bad and giving someone the leverage to manipulate you or a situation you face. Protect against emotional upset and physical stress. 2 stars PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Get the facts before you take part in something you know little about. Knowledge is power, and following through with your plans in the safest way possible will lead to victory. Don’t take chances or show signs of inconsistency or indulgent behavior. 4 stars
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60 “I dare you!”
5 Social class
61 Spirited mount
10 Drag show toppers
62 The Big Easy
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63 Bravo host Cohen
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35 Tom yum cuisine
10 “Wonder ___” (2017 film)
36 Dead-ball and live-ball,
11 Vowel-shaped beam 12 ___ the lily
39 1945 conference site
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22 Sound after “hardy”
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42 “You ___ dead!”
23 Intensifies
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50 “It’s showtime!”
45 Popsicle choice
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51 ___ pro quo
46 Agent, briefly
30 “The Sweetest Taboo” singer
52 Attend
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32 Shock rocker Marilyn
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33 Classify
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49 Easy-to-swallow wines?
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March 11, 2019 MEN’S LACROSSE NO. 20 RUTGERS 9, PRINCETON 8
Knights take Meistrell Cup over Tigers CHRIS TSAKONAS STAFF WRITER
The Rutgers men's lacrosse team defeated Princeton 9-8 Saturday afternoon to claim the Meistrell Cup over its in-state rivals at HighPoint.com Stadium. The game was ultimately a story of two halves, as the No. 20 Scarlet Knights (4-2) took control early only to withstand a late push from the Tigers (2-3) in the fourth period. Rutgers traded a pair of goals with Princeton in the first period, as junior attack Kieran Mullins opened the scoring for the Knights in his return from injur y 7 minutes in. Rutgers would go into the break up 3-2 on an unassisted buzzer-beating solo goal from senior defenseman Garrett Michaeli. Michaeli’s goal would be a tone-setter for the rest of the half, as the Knights would score 6 of the next 7 goals to end the half. This run would be highlighted with 2 goals from sophomore attack Tommy Coyne and scores from midfielders fifth-year senior Casey Rose and sophomores Ryan Gallagher and Brennan Kamish, while sophomore attack Adam Charalambides netted a goal. Kamish's goal was his first goal in a Rutgers jersey. The run would send the Knights into the break up 9-3 on the Tigers.
Rutgers would not score for the rest of the game, as Princeton made adjustments at the half and it showed. The Tigers would get three unanswered goals in the third period, with 2 coming from Princeton's Michael Sowers and a third coming from Chris Brown, who led the Tigers with a hat trick. The quarter would end with the Knights up 9-6. This set up a tense fourth period in which Rutgers fended off a furious comeback from Princeton.
The Knights would manage to keep a clean sheet for the first 10 minutes of the period, conceding a goal to Sowers with 5:29 to go. Brown would get his third goal 3 minutes later. Fifth-year senior goalie Max Edelmann saved a shot from the Tiger's Charlie Durbin in the final seconds to seal the victory. Edelmann had another clutch performance, finishing with 18 saves on 26 shots on target, and allowed Rutgers to preserve its lead despite not scoring in the entire second half.
It was a routine performance in what is turning into a phenomenal season from Edelmann, who is posting a career-high goals against average of 8.75 and a save percentage of .646. The front three returned to full health for the Knights this week, as Mullins returned to the lineup after missing the Loyola and Fairfield games due to injury. Mullins is the team’s second-leading scorer with 13 goals, and he immediately contributed in his return with a goal and two assists today.
FIfth-year senior goalie Max Edelmann made a game-ending save with 6 seconds left in the final period as Rutgers edged out Princeton. CURSTINE GUEVARRA / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / MARCH 2019
The faceoff unit has been plagued throughout the season with inconsistency, as the threeman unit of true freshman Michael Ott and fifth-year seniors Connor Harryman and Alex Schoen went a combined 8 for 20 on faceoffs against Princeton. Ott took the bulk of the faceoffs in this one yet again, going 6 for 14. Schoen went 0 for 4. Harryman was limited to two faceoffs, as he continues to recover from the injury that kept him out for three weeks. This game marks the second win for Rutgers in its previous three meetings with the Tigers, asserting a newfound dominance in one of the oldest rivalries in college lacrosse. The Meistrell Cup was first played in 1922, and has been historically dominated by Princeton, who has won 66 of the 97 meetings between the two. The Knights will have a quick turnaround, as they now look for ward to a Tuesday night matchup with Lehigh. The Mountain Hawks (3-3) are coming off an 11-8 win over Army, but have struggled to produce offensively (9.33 goals per game) after losing leading scorer Andrew Pettit to an ACL injur y for the entire season. For updates on the Rutgers men’s lacrosse team, follow @TargumSports on Twitter.
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March 11, 2019 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL NO. 2 IOWA 72, NO. 3 RUTGERS 67
RU falls to Iowa in conference semifinals SAM MARSDALE STAFF WRITER
An exciting weekend for the Rutgers women’s basketball team came to a disappointing finish, but the glass still very well could be half-full. The No. 3 Scarlet Knights (229, 13-5) defeated No. 11 Purdue 64-49 on Friday night in the Quarterfinals of the Big Ten Tournament at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana.
It was a game in which Rutgers held a 42-41 lead with seconds remaining in the third quarter. That is when true freshman guard Noga Peleg Pelc landed a gut punch to the Boilermakers (1915, 8-10), one they would never recover from. Pelc banked in a 3-pointer from near the right corner as time expired in the third quarter to give the Knights a 45-41 lead, and they took Purdue to the woodshed after that.
Rutgers went on a 14-1 run, capped off by a long 3-pointer from graduate student guard Charise Wilson to put the game away. “The three that (Wilson) hit was huge,” said acting head coach Tim Eatman. “I thought every time they made a run at us, we had someone step up and make a play, and it wasn’t the same person every time.” The duo of fifth-year senior forward Stasha Carey and sophomore guard Arella Guirantes combined to
Acting head coach Tim Eatman and the Knights were eliminated in the Big Ten Tournament, but can still receive an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. DUSTIN NILES / PHOTO EDITOR / FEBRUARY 2019
TITLES Suriano tops Austin DeSanto in semifinal, Ashnault tallies career win No. 118 CONTINUED FROM BACK in the final round of the last Big Ten final of the decade. Both bouts would come against wrestlers representing defending conference champion Ohio State. Suriano would take the mat against Luke Pletcher for a chance at his first career conference title. After three periods, he emerged with that milestone crossed off after a 4-1 decision to deliver the Knights their first champion of the day. “No matter what the injuries are or the negative thoughts, I’m here healthy and I finally got it,” Suriano said. “I wasn’t happy with my performance, but I got it done.”
Then, only 12 minutes later, with an undefeated record, a program best, third conference title and a spot alone at the top of the program’s alltime wins list, Ashnault would face Micah Jordan in a rematch of the final round of the Cliff Keen Invitational back in December. In a back and forth bout that saw Ashnault take and relinquish the lead in the final period, he held an 8-5 lead as time expired. The final seconds ticked down to Ashnault’s ascension to greatest wrestler in Rutgers history. “Eyes are always on you, when you think no one’s watching, that’s when you got to be doing things a little bit better. I think it added up over my career just doing extra
shoot 11- 23 from the field and score 32 points. The Knights also made the Boilermakers’ best player, Karissa McLaughlin, not much of a factor. She shot 3-12 from the field for 11 points and had just two assists. Saturday night did not bring as good of news for Rutgers. It faced off against No. 2 Iowa, who the team lost to 72-66 on Jan. 23 in Iowa City, Iowa. On Friday, the Hawkeyes’ (25-6, 14-4) Megan Gustafson was named the consensus Big Ten Player of the Year. The 6-foot-3-inch senior was not even off to her best start on Saturday night, but the Knights found themselves in trouble early. Even with Gustafson starting 1-7 from the field, other members of Iowa really had it going and the Hawkeyes eventually jumped out to a 51-31 lead. A huge part in Rutgers getting off to a slow start was senior center Victoria Harris, who picked up two early fouls and eventually had four fouls in 6 minutes played at one point in the game. Carey was really the only one who had it going early for the Knights, and as a result of Harris’s foul trouble, she knew she would be seeing Gustafson on the defensive end quite a bit. “I knew that I had a lot on my shoulders, but I had a lot of trust in my teammates coming off the bench,” Carey said. “Jordan
Wallace coming in giving great minutes, Tekia Mack coming in giving great minutes. I knew they had my back through it.” Gustafson led her team in scoring with 20 points on 9-18 shooting and grabbed 12 rebounds. Rutgers roared back, cutting it to a 62-65 game with 2 minutes remaining. “I think I didn’t realize that they were pretty much face-guarding me. I think they played as a triangle-and-two in the first half at some point,” Guirantes said. “But, I think what got me going was when (Wilson) came in and she’s just like, run, just run.” Guirantes finished with 16 points on 5-10 from the field, as well as making all 6 free throws from the foul line. The comeback proved to be too little, too late as the Knights fell 72-67. Rutgers is going to receive an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. Selections are not until next week, so the team will be waiting for them to occur. The Knights are not expected to be a top-four seed in the tournament, so they likely will be making travel plans come next Monday. For updates on the Rutgers women’s basketball team, follow @TargumSports on Twitter.
stuff here and there, and it got me to this point,” Ashnault said. With the win, Ashnault becomes just the second wrestler in the Knights’ history to win three conference titles, and the only to claim three Big Ten Championships (2016, 2017). Both Ashnault and Suriano will have a chance to become the first national champions in program history when they travel to Pittsburgh on March 21 for the NCAA Championships. “I’m in awe of what (Ashnault) has accomplished. He’s one of the greatest to ever don the Scarlet Knights uniform,” said athletic director Pat Hobbs. “(Suriano) is doing exactly what he said he’d do — win championships. I can’t wait to see them and their teammates compete in Pittsburgh.” For updates on the Rutgers wrestling team, follow @TargumSports on Twitter.
No. 1 graduate student 149-pounder Anthony Ashnault is the all-time wins leader in program history with 118 victories over a six-year career on the Banks. THE DAILY TARGUM / JANUARY 2015
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No. 1 graduate student 149-pounder Anthony Ashnault and No. 3 junior 133-pounder Nick Suriano became champions in their respected weight classes, the first time in the Knights’ history that two wrestlers earn the No. 1 spot at the Big Ten Championships. CURSTINE GUEVARRA / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / FEBRUARY 2019
Ashnault, Suriano become first Rutgers pair to win Big Ten titles JACKSON THOMPSON SPORTS EDITOR
Sunday, March 10 will go down as a revered day in the 89-year history of Rutgers wrestling. At the 2019 Big Ten Championships in Minnesota, two Scarlet Knights made claim to their spots in the pantheon of college wrestling as the first pair of Rutgers wrestlers to each finish as conference champions in program history. Junior 133-pounder Nick Suriano and graduate senior 149-pounder Anthony Ashnault conquered the brackets to the final round of their respective weight classes, each earning decisions in the final round to claim Big Ten titles. Suriano won the first conference title of his collegiate career as the third seed in his first season in the 133-pound bracket. His path to
the title began with a rematch against Maryland’s Orion Anderson. Suriano most recently pinned Anderson in the final dual of the season, and two weeks later the first round would yield the same result, with Suriano advancing only 1:10 in the match by virtue of the fall. Suriano would get a rematch of a different variety in the semifinal round after defeating Minnesota’s Ethan Lizak 10-2 in the quarterfinal. Against Iowa’s Austin DeSanto, Suriano fought his way through a match in which he suffered a bloody wound to the head after a DeSanto headbutt. He took a 3-1 lead into the third, but a series of holding calls tied the match, and a takedown in the final seconds gave Suriano the lead and a 6-3 decision. “I came for a fight, and I came for a challenge. I knew it was going to be a bloody war. I came for war,” Suriano said.
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against conference foes earlier in his undefeated season. A 14-2 major decision over Indiana’s Fernie Silva sent Ashnault to the quarterfinal, where he earned a 6-3 decision over Michigan’s Malik Amine. This was a closer result for Amine when compared to Ashnault’s major decision on senior day. Then, in the semifinal round, Ashnault would push his six-year Knights legacy to the brink of immortal status. In a 5-1 decision over Minnesota’s Thomas Thorn, Ashnault improved to a perfect 26-0 on the season and tallied the 117th win of his career, tying Mike McHugh for the most all-time in program history. Sunday saw Suriano and Ashnault, two wrestlers at two different phases in their careers, take the stage to represent Rutgers SEE TITLES ON PAGE 11
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Following the end of the match, judges were forced to restore order after a verbal and slightly physical altercation between the two wrestlers, and reviewed the end of the match after a challenge block was thrown by Iowa coach Tom Brands. Judges ultimately awarded Suriano the victory: One that sent him to the final round and avenged a loss to DeSanto back in January. “I asked him, ‘What did you say last time? You were barking in my face, what did you have to say? It is what it is,” Suriano said. “He got in my face last time, (Brands) was yelling in my ear, everyone was yelling at me. It’s my turn now.” After the semifinal victory, Suriano took to Snapchat to post a selfie with a caption ‘thanking everyone that helped him up when he was down.’ Meanwhile, in the 149-pound bracket, top-seeded Ashnault began his third career conference title campaign with two rematches
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