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Reporter identifies U. student as Denial of Service attack perpetrator

A prominent cybersecurity journalist identified School of Arts and Sciences sophomore Paras Jha as the perpetrator of a series of Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, including ones that targeted Rutgers servers between 2014 and 2016. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY DIMITRI RODRIGUEZ / PHOTO EDITOR

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Over the course of two years, Rutgers University suffered from nearly a dozen Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, which disrupted access to web services like Sakai, disabled internet access for anyone on campus and virtually crippled the school’s network infrastructure.

Last week, cybersecurity reporter Brian Krebs alleged that School

of Arts and Sciences junior Paras Jha was the perpetrator of these DDoS attacks.

Krebs said Jha is also the author of the Mirai botnet, which disabled websites and internet access around the world last year, and alleged that he is known online as “Anna-senpai,” who committed of dozens of Distributed Denial of Service attacks internationally.

Robert Coelho, vice president of DDoS mitigation company ProxyP-

ipe Inc., confirmed that Jha is either Anna-senpai or is close to the coder.

“Paras Jha is Anna-senpai. It is him or someone very, very close to him,” he told The Daily Targum in an email. “The idea ... was presented by me to the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigations), who had the exact same suspicion. I told them some history and everything I knew, and they began their own investigation.

I also confirmed it with Krebs. This was a few months ago.”

ONLINE AT DAILYTARGUM.COM Krebs first began investigating the Mirai botnet after his website was taken down by a massive DDoS attack, he said in his article. He noted similarities between the code composing Mirai and other types of malware he had seen previously.

The use of these other botnets connected him with Coelho.

A conversation with Coelho pointed him toward the theft of IP addresses from ProxyPipe by a cloud hosting company called FastReturn.

This attack led Krebs to a programmer named Ammar Zuberi, the former owner of FastReturn. Zuberi left FastReturn to work for ProTraf Solutions, which Jha’s LinkedIn page says he is the president of. The only other employee ProTraf has is Josiah White, a known programmer and suspected malware author.

In an interview with Krebs, Zuberi identified Jha as both Anna-senpai and “ogexfocus,” also known as “exfocus,” who claimed responsibility for the Rutgers attacks through Twitter and Reddit.

“Zuberi said when he visited Jha at his Rutgers University dorm in October 2015, Paras bragged to him about launching the DDoS attacks against Rutgers,” according to Krebs’ article.

What happened at Rutgers?

Rutgers University was hit by nearly a dozen Distributed Denial of Service attacks over the course of two years, beginning in the fall 2014 semester. The most recent attack took place during the first day of the fall 2016 semester.

These attacks both prevented access to University websites and services from off-campus networks and degraded internet access to students, faculty and staff using RUWireless, Wireless Secure or ResNet. They ranged from only lasting a few hours to impacting the school for days at a time. The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI were both investigating the outages and their cause as of September 2015.

A DDoS attack cripples network infrastructure by overloading it with requests. Under normal circumstances, University servers expect to receive and respond to a given number of requests, but a Denial of Service attack can overwhelm these servers by sending many times the expected number.

In simpler terms, a DDoS attack is equivalent to the entire Scarlet Knights football team simultaneously tackling someone who was only expecting a handshake.

Rutgers hired several mitigation companies to protect its servers in 2015, including Level 3 Network Security Services and FishNet Security, after the first five attacks.

The attacks did not stop that year, though there were only three more disruptions that year, and only one in 2016.

“Even if it wasn’t (Jha’s) decision to attack Rutgers, it would have been very easy for his friends around him to peer pressure him into doing it, particularly (Josiah White),” Coelho said. “(White) comes across in a very innocent light from Krebs’ article likely due to his cooperation, but he was See perpetrator on Page 5

Brodsky Center creates art rental program on campus Mary Berko contributing writer

Students can now add some cosmopolitan flair to their residence halls by renting artwork from PAW Prints, a program that makes professional artwork available for student living spaces.

PAW Prints stands for Prints Available for Walls. The organization’s mission is to give students the opportunity to enjoy art, according to their website.

Over 300 artists collaborated with the Brodsky Center to create this program. The center, which is housed inside of the Mason Gross School of the Arts, commissions artists to create “groundbreaking” work — primarily in print and paper mediums, according to their website.

“We invite professional artists to come to our center and create work with us, which are exhibited at national art fairs, collected and exhibited by museums, sold to private collectors and loaned out across the Rutgers campus to different departments,” said Jennifer Lorenz, communications and program coordinator for the Brodsky Center.

Similar to renting a book from a library, students will be able to present their ID, pay a $5 membership fee to the Brodsky Center and choose from up to 20 different pieces of artwork. The students will own the artwork from Jan. 27 until April.

26, when all pieces will be returned to the center in pristine condition, according to the website.

“We developed PAW Prints with the hope and intention of reaching out to students, giving them the opportunity to house professional, museum-quality artwork in their dorm or apartment,” Lorenz said.

The Brodsky Center has been working with famous artists for over 30 years, with many of their pieces included in collections in the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, according to their website.

PAW Prints will feature work by well-known artists William Kentridge, Lesley Dill, Kiki Smith, Joan Semmel and Sylvia Sleigh. Lesley Dill, a New York-based artist, said this is not the first time she has been involved with selling her art for a good cause.

PAW Prints, which is based out of Mason Gross School of the Arts, allows students to temporarily own professional artwork for their residence halls or living spaces. The program will use artwork that was created on campus. DIMITRI RODRIGUEZ / PHOTO EDITOR “I was involved in the Nasty Woman exhibit and all our works sold for $100,” Dill said. “All the proceeds are going to Planned Parenthood.”

Accomplished artist and former Mason Gross School of the Arts faculty Joan Semmel said she was involved in a feminist portfolio called

“Femfolio” at Rutgers University.

This portfolio brought together 20 female artists who lead the feminist art revolution during the 1970s, according to the Brodsky Center website.

The works of these artists and others will be available to 20 students on a first come, first serve basis. All of

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the pieces available for rent are originals and one of a kind, Lorenz said.

“It’s first come, first served, so students may want to arrive early, especially to get (their) first pick,” Lorenz said. “The work is already framed and will come with instructions on how to safely install them.”

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Students share what they learned travelling over break

There are a number of resources that help make travel more accessible and affordable for students, including Education First and the Rutgers Center for Global Education. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY JEFFREY GOMEZ / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Thomas Lohan

most likely have time off for the holidays.”

Patel said traveling provides an opportunity to experience diTraveling during winter reverse cultures without worrying cess can pose a financial burden about missing schoolwork. to college students, so some stu“It was a long enough break dents utilized Rutgers-sponsored where I could go to a different programs and other cost reduccountry, come ing methods to back and still travel abroad.

“I think any time of the year is the time to travel and explore because there is so much out there, so much to have time to reR u t g e r s see, so much to learn and so much to experience.” lax before going Global Brigades back to school,” is a branch of a francesca girone he said. student-led orSchool of Environmental and Biological Sciences Senior For students ganization with interested in memberships Rixie Cipollina, a School of earning credits while traveling, spanning through North Amer- help in a number of capacities deadlines and get everything toican and European universities, by documenting vitals and pa- gether for the trip, such as plan- Arts and Sciences senior, said the Rutgers Center for Globtient history in triage, shadow- ning ahead to get the vaccines her family stayed in an all-inclu- al Education provides studyaccording to its website.

Through this organization, ing licensed doctors in medical that were recommended and to sive resort while traveling to abroad opportunities during the students research, design and consultations and assisting in a get other necessities such as bug Puerto Morelos, Mexico to min- semester and breaks, which students can apply for, according to construct solutions to problems pharmacy under the direction of spray and bed nets,” Girone said. imize costs.

“Winter break is a great its website.

Payal Patel, a Rutgers Busiin the developing world, accord- licensed pharmacists, according “I think any time of the year is ness School junior, said she also time to travel, especially if to the Medical Brigades website. ing to the website.

Girone said she started plan- planned her 20-day trip to India you’re going to a warm place the time to travel and explore beSchool of Environmental and where you can escape from the cause there is so much out there, Biological Sciences senior Fran- ning for her trip in September months before.

“You have to book the trip well cold,” Cipollina said. “Chances so much to see, so much to learn cesca Girone was a part of the and October of 2016.

“The trip cost $1,620, which in advance and set a budget so are, you can travel with your and so much to experience,” GiMedical Brigade in the beginning whole family because they will rone said. of January. During this time, she included travel, room and board, you don’t overspend,” Patel said. contributing writer

helped deliver medical supplies and treatments to patients in San Carlos, Panama.

“Because it was a service trip, we did a lot of fundraising,” Girone said.

During the one-week Medical Brigade programs, volunteers

food and pretty much everything,” Girone said.

Funds for the trip were raised through Medical Brigades, which keeps track of each participant’s fundraising goals and progress.

“Time management was definitely required to be able to plan

During her 20-day trip to Mumbai and Goa, she said she visited family friends.

“The main costs were the plane ticket and hotel costs,” she said.

“We used different travel sites, like Expedia.com, to find the cheapest plane tickets and hotel rates.”

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perpetrator Krebs says Jha created code for Mirai botnet that targeted, took down websites globally continued from front also instrumental to Mirai, and it’s possible Anna was both of them.”

DDoS and DoS attacks are different from hacks, both in their execution and their goals. Denial of service attacks seek to disrupt, while hacks aim to steal information.

No private information was at risk during the Rutgers DDoS attacks.

What evidence does Krebs present?

Krebs said in his article that he spent several months investigating the identity of Anna-senpai after his site was attacked.

He began by looking into Mirai and connecting the botnet with previous iterations that had been used before.

His site was attacked by many of these iterations, he said.

He traced one of Mirai’s forefathers to an internet gang known as “lelddos,” which frequently attacked Minecraft servers.

Minecraft servers are popular DDoS targets, he said. Operational servers can make their owners thousands of dollars per day, while servers which are knocked offline by an attack lose customers.

As a result, there is an industry built around protecting Minecraft servers by mitigating DDoS attacks. ProxyPipe Inc. is one such company aimed at protecting Minecraft servers.

Coelho said the company is more involved with Minecraft than possibly any other organization.

In Krebs’ article, Coelho connected lelddos to ProTraf by recognizing certain patterns in an attack against ProxyPipe.

Zuberi was later able to confirm this connection, telling Krebs that both Jha and co-owner Josiah White were part of the internet gang.

Krebs spoke to White, who admitted to writing parts of the Mirai forefathers that attacked Krebs’ site.

From White, Krebs discovered Jha’s LinkedIn page, where he found that Jha’s listed qualifications match a list of qualifications posted by Anna-senpai on an internet forum. Further digging turned up several alternate usernames Jha uses.

He also found that Jha used to run Minecraft servers, but later

“There are no leaps, everything is relevant, and the fact he was able to get this much information is mind blowing.” robert coelho Vice President of ProxyPipe Inc.

switched to protecting them from DDoS attacks.

Jha has the technical knowledge to have launched the DDoS attacks in question, Coelho told The Daily Targum. He worked on a few projects with Jha briefly between three and four years ago.

“We would work on specific projects with each other, but I

don’t remember ever finishing any of them,” he said. “The reason Mirai uses (Golang), actually, is likely because I introduced him to the language a long time ago when I made a project.”

Coelho said he lost contact with Jha several years ago.

In Krebs’ article, Coelho said a business partner noticed that some of the code which composes the Mirai botnet shared traits with the code posted by another of Jha’s usernames. This eventually led Coelho to independently determine that Jha was Mirai’s author — Anna-senpai.

Both Krebs and Coelho worked with the FBI in determining Anna-senpai’s identity, Coelho told the Targum.

“The FBI came to the conclusion that it was (Jha) even without us confirming it,” he said. “The FBI collaborated with us to come to conclusions and shared their findings with us. It was great to work with them on this.”

Coelho said he was unaware of the depth of Krebs’ investigation until he read the full article, but that the conclusions Krebs reached were logical.

“There are no leaps, everything is relevant, and the fact he was

able to get this much information is mind-blowing,” he said.

One of the interesting aspects of Krebs’ article comes from the association between Mirai and Minecraft, he said.

“The landscape is very different than people think,” he said. “The actors are very different as well.

All this time, the largest attacks the internet has ever seen were just centered around Minecraft servers. It’s crazy to think about.”

A lawyer for Jha’s family could not be immediately reached for comment. He told NJ Advance Media that Krebs’ article made “lots of leaps of logic,” and that Jha was not Anna-senpai.

Jha’s father also said his son was innocent in the NJ Advance Media article.

The FBI refused to confirm or deny the existence of their investigation. Jha did not respond to a request for comment. The Rutgers Office of Information Technology declined to comment.

A University spokesperson said “We continue to cooperate with law enforcement authorities in connection with the ongoing investigation of the DDoS attacks.

We have no further comment as the matter is under investigation.”

Rutgers professor says students undervalue official course surveys Zachary Peterson contributing writer

Students take a wide variety of information into account when deciding which courses and sections to register for.

As a whole, Rutgers administrators evaluate the quality of teachers and courses using an electronic survey called the Student Instructional Rating Survey (SIRS)

that was developed by staff at the Center for Teaching Advancement and Assessment Research.

But students tend to utilize other resources as well. One popular website that is used to evaluate courses and instructors is Rate My Professors, where users can view profiles of professors that have been generated through various reviews and ratings. The site has culminated more than 17

million total student ratings, according to its page.

While Rate my Professors is used frequently at Rutgers, it is very different from SIRS in that it operates independently from the University and is organized by an unrelated party, said Steven Miller, a professor and coordinator in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies.

“Rate My Professors could be Yelp for all I care,” Miller said.

Rather than use Rate My Professors, Miller said students should more actively utilize the results of SIRS. He has found that students undervalue how important their feedback is to the University.

“The evaluation of teachers is an extremely important part of what we do here,” Miller said. “Students do not comprehend that we really do use (SIRS results) for a number of things … We use them predominantly to look at what the student perception of the teacher is. Then, I as coordinator of Undergraduate Studies, and the chair of our department and the dean of Instruction for SC&I (School of Communication and Information), will sit down with that person.”

The history of the modern 10-question SIRS evaluation dates back to 1994, two years after the Center for Teaching Advancement and Assessment was founded, said Monica Devanas, director of Faculty Development and Assessment Programs. She helped develop the modern SIRS, which consists of 10 heavily researched and considered questions that are just broad enough to apply to all classes but specific enough to gather the much-needed feedback, she said.

“There’s a lot of history and a lot of research that goes into (the creation of the SIRS),” she said.

Some students use Rate My Professors exclusively, regardless of claims to its inaccuracy.

School of Arts and Sciences sophomore Holly Chok said Rate My Professors is a better tool because it allows students to get a wider range of opinions since everyone does not take the SIRS. Others prefer to cross-reference the two sources, School of Arts and Sciences sophomore Priscila D. Ruiz said.

“I think both are good … If I have to pick between different professors, I’ll choose the one with the better (average) rating,” she said.

In general, the Chronicle of Higher Education found that students are more likely to write negative reviews of a professor in third party reviews than in official University reviews. Additionally, professors are capable of manipulating their own results online in a way that is not possible through SIRS. Some students take the courses they need to take regardless of these numbers and reviews, said School of Arts and Sciences junior Zenab Abdelgany, and he personally does not pay particular mind to negative reviews.

“I wouldn’t not take a section because of a bad review, but if I see a good review then I’m more likely to take that section, ” Chok said.

Unlike the Student Instructional Rating Survey (SIRS), Rate My Professors operates independently from the University and can be accessed by anyone. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY CASEY AMBROSIO

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CRIME Jan. 23 BURLINGTON TWP — Eric Thomas II, 30, was shot and killed Saturday night at around 10:40 p.m. Thomas was crossing the intersection of East Broad and Librar y streets when he was shot. The Eastampton man was taken to Lourdes Medical Center where he was pronounced dead. While police have recovered the firearm used, they are waiting for charges to be filed until they release the identities of the suspects.

The “Innovation and Abstraction” exhibit features prints by eight female artists who were influenced by the political turmoil and gender discrimination of the mid-20th century. It will be open until May 31. CASEY AMBROSIO

Jan. 23 TRENTON — Kevin Perr y, 29, of Trenton, was given three years probation for a shooting which occurred two years ago that left one man hospitalized.

In August 2015, Perr y turned himself into police custody after he fired a gun at two men, wounding one man in the foot.

The 29-year-old maintained the shooting was an act of self-defense and that he had suffered injuries prior to the shooting.

As a condition of his probation, Perr y was ordered to not contact the shooting victim.

Zimmerli unveils ‘Innovation and Abstraction’ collection Brielle Diskin

“I initially became intrigued with Atelier 17 through the wonderfully idiosyncratic prints The “Innovation and Abstrac- of Louise Nevelson, one of them tion” exhibit, which opened earli- called ‘Majesty’ is in the show er this week at the Zimmerli Art and soon I was hooked,” Weyl Museum, will feature the work said. “Through my research, I and stories of eight historic fe- discovered there were over 90 female artists who were memmale artists.

“This exhibition tells the im- bers of the studio, far more than portant and largely unknown scholars thought previously.”

The planning of the exhibition story of a group of women artists who worked at the print work- gained momentum when the shop, Atelier 17, and how the idea was suggested by Joan Marsense of camaraderie and spirit of ter, a distinguished professor in creativity they experienced there the Department of Art History, inspired them throughout their who super vised Christina’s discareers,” said Nicole Simpson, sertation and is a friend of the Pollack-Krasassistant cuner House. rator of Prints “Christina and Drawings and I began at the Zimmerli “We should feel lucky discussing it in Art Museum. they blazed a path January 2015, The collecso the whole tion is schedforward for women process, from uled to remain today” concept to the open from Jan. opening on 17 to May 31, Christine Weyl Aug. 4, 2016, according to Art Historian took about a the museum’s year-and-apress release. half,” said Hel“We hope en Harrison, that the Rutgers community will enjoy ex- the director of the Pollock-Krasploring the diverse artworks on ner House.

Weyl said the Pollock-Krasner display and discover how these women broke gender barriers House, where this show opened and shaped the direction of mod- initially, is much smaller than ern art in America, inspiring and the Zimmerli galleries and that influencing later generations of it was challenging to edit the checklist down to fit the capacity female artists,” Simpson said.

The exhibition originated at of the House.

“I’m delighted that the Zimthe Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, a museum affili- merli could add 11 works from its ated with Stony Brook Univer- strong collection of 20th-century sity, and was guest curated by American art,” Weyl said.

The public has shown great art historian Christine Weyl, according to the Zimmerli Art interest in the exhibition and the museum received a number Museum’s website.

Weyl received her doctorate of requests for tours from the degree from Rutgers University University and the community, in 2015 and conducted her dis- said Theresa Watson, communisertation research on printmak- cations coordinator for the Zimers at Atelier 17. She became merli Art Museum.

On Feb. 7, the museum will host acquainted with each of the artists by viewing their artwork and “Art After Hours” for the public.

“We anticipate scholars who reading archival materials, letters and interviews, Weyl said in have studied these artists, as well as individuals who have a an email. contributing writer

particular interest in female artists, printmaking and Atelier 17,” Watson said. “Christine Weyl will be there to give a talk about the show.”

Weyl said this exhibit is especially relevant now based on the way the Women’s March and the inauguration have put the feminist movement in high gear.

According to the Zimmerli Art Museum’s website, Atelier 17 relocated from Paris to New York in

1939 to escape the political conflicts in Europe during and after World War II. Weyl said some artists in the show associated themselves as ardent supporters of women’s rights before second wave feminism engulfed American life in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

“After 20 years of marriage at the age of 40, one of the artists featured in the show, Minna Citron, desired a life outside of marriage

and motherhood, and lacking her husband’s support she divorced him in 1936,” she said.

Given the current political climate, Weyl said it is important for the public to reflect on the historical challenges of the women artists in reaching their professional goals.

“We should feel lucky they blazed a path forward for women today and recognize that we owe the same to future generations of women,” Weyl said.

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OPInions

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Safety of albino people needs to be addressed

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hat is albinism?

It is a rare, GOT RIGHTS? non-transmissible, genetically inherited condition that affects HARLEEN SINGH people worldwide of all genders, ethnicities and nationalities. The most common effects of albinism are the lack of melanin production in hair, skin and eyes (known as oculocutaneous albinism). The lack of pigmentation makes people affected by albinism vulnerable to sunburn and skin cancer from sun exposure. It may even cause visual problems such as photophobia, a severe sensitivity to light. Albinism is widely misunderstood socially, as it is a rare condition with obvious signs in physical appearances — 1 in 20,000 people are said to have the condition.

The physical appearance of people affected by albinism generates false beliefs and myths that are dangerous in themselves because they foster the marginalization and social exclusion of those with the condition. Some myths state that albinism is a result of incest and inbreeding, or that it is a form of punishment from the gods and that drinking the bodily fluids of someone with the condition will enable you to have “magical powers.” The myths are a result of both ignorance and a lack of education on the condition. Those affected with albinism belong to a unique group whose social and human rights have gone unnoticed for years. This perpetuates everything from discrimination, to engraved stigma, to violence towards them across the world. The complexity of the discrimination surrounding albinism touches on a variety of human rights issues including discrimination based on disability and skin color, harmful conventional practices, the trafficking and trading of body parts for witchcraft, infanticide and abandonment of young. The outcasting of albino people is especially detrimental in African countries where rules and regulations are harder to enforce.

To help diminish the abandonment and stigmatization towards albino people in Nigeria, Rep. Linus Okorie (Ebonyi-PDP) sponsored a bill to improve the welfare of albino people. The bill passed its second

“A simple question, like if should they go to the market for food, carries an inconceivable risk of slaughter or harm to satisfy a barbaric demand.” reading on Thursday, Jan. 19. In the debate over the bill, Okorie stated that the lower chamber would not be an actual representative of the people until and unless even the most vulnerable people are protected and are able to live their lives to the fullest potential. The bill is an act to create a strong establishment of the National Agency for Albinism and Hypopigmentation, which is in the lower house as of now. This is a progressive step, as the fate albino people in third world countries is awful. They live in fear, and every day is a gamble with their and their loved ones’ lives. A simple question, like if should they go to the market for food, carries an inconceivable risk of slaughter or harm to satisfy a barbaric demand. Grace Mazzah, an albino member on the board of the Association of People with Albinism, is extremely conscious of the burden and price on her head. “It really raises fear,” she said. “Why should people hunt me like they’re hunting for animals to eat?” In her country, Malawi, four albino people were murdered, one of them being an infant. It is common for parents to remove their children from the education system completely as they would like to avoid the harm. It is ridiculous that minorities are still being marginalized and subjected to such violence and hatred in the 21st century. Diversity should be celebrated, as it is important to learn value from one another. But to do this we must have a certain level of comprehension about each other in order to facilitate both collaboration and cooperation.

Another theory or explanation offered by the Washington Post for the increased crime against albino people is that the violence is directly correlated to the price of food and other necessities, and the higher the prices rise the more crimes are committed. A complete set of albino body parts, including the four limbs, ears, genitals, tongue and nose can go for up to $75,000 on the black market, according to a 2009 report by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. The body parts are used to create healing potions backed by erroneous myths.

According to Amnesty International, more than 7,000-10,000 albino people living in Malawi lead their lives in constant fear caused by superstitions surrounding their physical appearance, but sadly, the Malawi Government hasn’t been successful in securing the welfare of albinos. It is imperative to help those with no voice or no representation in society by helping others become more educated and accepting. The bill for the National Agency for Albinism and Hypopigmentation is the step forward that we need to end the deleterious practices and marginalization of albino people.

Harleen Singh is a School of Arts and Sciences first-year majoring in cell biology and neuroscience. Her column, “Got Rights?” runs on alternate Mondays.

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Women’s March steps in right direction Protests could be beginning of larger progressive movement

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f you have any form of social media or are even the concerned American public about the protests. slightly in tune with your surroundings, you Trump sarcastically tweeted, “Watched protests yeswould know that the Women’s March on Wash- terday but was under the impression that we just had ington took place on Saturday, along with sister an election! Why didn’t these people vote?” This has marches around the world. From New York to Los led some people to believe that the efforts of the proAngeles and further, men and women came out to test, although large in number, are dismissible behave their voices be heard. The protest, dedicat- cause of the lack of action being taken. But Trump ed to championing human rights and highlighting needs to take a step back and remember that former progressive voices, was estimated to have been the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did, in fact, beat largest protest in American history. People from Chi- him out in the popular vote by over 2.9 million votes. cago, Denver, Atlanta, Boston and other cities such Trump’s mocking question has no basis. This tweet as Paris and London, marched in solidarity just a day not only says a lot about the understanding of the after President Donald J. Trump was sworn into of- president, but it also sets a precedent for Trump’s fice. Protestors who held signs up such as, “Misogy- future relations with the people of the nation who do ny and racism aren’t normal,” and “Keep your hands not share his sentiments on certain matters. Rather than calling repreoff my rights,” sent sentatives or leada clear message ers of the protest that not only were “And despite some of the criticism from and inviting them they standing up for to meet with him to basic human rights, opponents of the protest, this march was one discuss the future but also the poliof the most impressive displays of unity and policies that have cies and attitudes them concerned, that Trump had determination that America has ever seen, in Trump chose to incited throughout both size and in purpose.” send out an ironic his campaign. tweet. And as the The biggest leader of the free question that world, this may be a hindrance for any future action seems to be buzzing is: Can the ideas behind the that the Women’s March can lead to. protests fuel a larger movement? With such a large The Women’s March sent a clear message that following and media attraction, what started as a there are people in this nation that will not take the march can become the driving force into a bigger discrimination and prejudice that exists sitting down. pool of possibility for change. And despite some But there are a few obstacles to maneuver around, of the criticism from opponents of the protest, this as well as ideas that need to be agreed upon before march was one of the most impressive displays of unity and determination that America has ever seen, anything larger can be produced from the efforts of the protest. For example, the Women’s March in both size and in purpose.

A movement is only as strong as the actions of removing Students for Life of America, a pro-life, the people behind it. With almost 2.9 million people non-profit organization, from their partner list sends marching globally, letting their voices be heard, one a very divided message out to the public. Learning would assume that the Women’s March on Washing- to find ways to incorporate a larger variety of views ton was as strong as any protest can be. However, into their movement can help the Women’s March Trump does not seem to think the same. Trump reach heights that no one, not even the president of took to his notorious Twitter account to respond to the United States, can stop.

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Housing decisions should prioritize upperclassmen To the Editor:

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utgers’ slogan should be “many will enter, few will win,” instead of the bold claim that it is in any way a leader of the revolution of higher education. Based on the treatment of both students and faculty, the University seems to be first and foremost, a business — a sad result of an overly capitalistic society. But this is not a Marxist rant, merely a question as to whether Rutgers is truly as “Revolutionary” as it claims to be.

Everyone is familiar with the infamous “RU Screw,” and while most are able to jocularly address this incessant frustration, there are some who have truly suffered because of it.

There are several areas where Rutgers and its employees have failed to live up to their boasted standards. The failure of the largest magnitude, however, is the joke of a housing system. Let’s be honest. No one wants to live in a double. While it is totally acceptable to have underclassmen live in the older dorms (I did), juniors and, without a doubt, seniors, should be given top priority in living situations.

If there is even one senior in a group applying

for housing, they should be provided with the living spaces with single bedrooms. They deserve the best for their last year.

“But that wouldn’t be fair!” Actually, it would be. Instead of a faulty lottery system, make housing a hierarchal process. Follow the same sequence we have been (or should have been) following all of our lives: The older you get, the more liberties you receive. When students pay for housing, there is no gamble to see whether or not Rutgers gets the money.

The University’s payment is certain. It only makes sense the people paying the University have living situations that are certain.

And if the process itself is corrupt, the Rutgers administration in charge of and connected to it are even worse. The student is made out to be the bad guy and sometimes, if said student is really lucky, they’ll be insulted by a dean. There is nothing like the feeling when the people put in place to help you are alternately unconcerned and condescending. Simply find yourself in a situation when you are in need of administrative assistance — call, email or walk into the office and calmly and respectively express your frustration.

Guaranteed, you will leave feeling small and harboring a growing hatred for the University “On the Banks of the Old Raritan.”

How about that “Revolutionary RU Screw?”

Sumayya Mateen is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in English.

Public should accept that Trump is president of USA

Remember in 2008 and 2012, when former-President Barack Obama won and Republicans literally threw a hissy fit? This is the same.

Don’t do the same thing. This letter is not meant to say “suck it up.” By all means, go out and fight him, but do it in a productive way.

Contact your Congress representatives To The Editor: to fight against his policies. Participate in do not like President Donald J. Trump. protests against what he stands for. Run I did not vote for Trump and I am not for office. Do everything in your power to particularly happy with the outcome prevent this man from violating your rights. of the election. I did not like most of the But don’t claim he isn’t our president when words flying out of his mouth or his unre- he is.

I would alistic ideas. l o v e Building someone a wall is “Participate in protests against what he to explain not going to me to happen stands for. Run for office. Do everything what is because it is a in your power to prevent this man from productive waste of money about this and would violating your rights. But don’t claim he hashtag? not achieve isn’t our president when he is.”

T h i s anything. question is Saying that not meant M e x i c a n to start people are “rapists” and “murderers” is simply not a debate, it is one that I do not know the true. Women are never to be “grabbed answer to. by the p***y.” Not all Muslim people are Jessica Schoen is a School of Environmental terrorists. But this letter is not about how bad Trump is, it is about the fact that we and Biological Sciences junior majoring in Environmental Policy, Institutions and Behavior. are denying that he is our president.

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Rutgers society promotes dialogue on bioethical issues

The bioethical society collaborates with other organizations to promote important dialogue about current events. They are working to expand their presence on campus. FACEBOOK

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Students can meet and debate the ethics of research and other scientific topics with the Bioethics Society of Rutgers University, a discussion-based student organization on campus.

Alex Lin and Suraj Shukla, both School of Arts and Sciences seniors, are co-presidents of the Bioethics Society, which opens up conversations about bioethical topics.

“Our organization is about creating an open forum where students can come together and discuss current controversial issues in health and medicine,” Lin said. “We know that students have strong opinions about (these topics), and our organization is a place for them to voice that opinion in an open forum and safe space.”

The organization discusses a new topic in each of their meetings, Lin said. Topics range from issues in reproductive technologies, genetic editing and marijuana legalization.

“What I like about bioethics is that it’s so interdisciplinary. We have so many different types of

topics including public health, medicine, law and policy,” Lin said.

One of his favorite discussion topics included the ethics of sending humans to Mars, Shukla said “We talked about how living on Mars would affect someone’s health and what the implications of that would be and sending them

enhance discussions, Shukla said.

They will work with the Pharmacy Governing Council to have discussions regarding marijuana legalization and in the past have collaborated with the Rutgers Astronomical Society to have a conversation about the implications of human migration to Mars.

“We want to do more novel things (like) presenting a case study in the form of a skit or inviting more students from ethics classes from Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital to come talk to us,” Shukla said. “We’re trying to branch out more and have more diverse meetings.”

In addition to these discussion meetings, the organization also hosts events throughout the year.

Every year the club hosts an event called “Real World Medical Ethics,” which features Dr. Eric Singer, an assistant professor of surgery in the Urologic Oncology Section in the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, as well as a member of the ethics committee for the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital.

The Society also holds an annual “Bioethics Symposium” during the spring semester. The symposium has a different theme every year and features a mini-involvement fair and a speaker panel, Lin said.

“Last year our topic was on genetic technologies like clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) technology. This year the theme is going to be on health disparities,” Lin said. “The symposium is a free event and will be held sometime in mid-March.”

Some members of the organization also get a chance to sit in during ethics committee meetings held at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital.

“Every major hospital has an ethics committee composed of physicians, nurses and other hospital staff. Some of us get the chance to actually sit in on these meetings where they talk about ethical dilemmas at the hospital that deals with real patients,” Lin said.

A subdivision of the Bioethics Society is the Bioethics Journal. Vandana Apte, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences senior, is the editor-in-chief of the journal.

“What I like about bioethics is that its so interdisciplinary. We have so many different types of topics including public health, medicine, law and policy.” alex lin School of Arts and Sciences Senior

there and not having a return flight back,” he said. “It was all very speculative and it was a lot of fun to think of all the possibilities.”

Many meetings are organized as open discussions, but some meetings are held in a debate style, Shukla said.

The club tries to collaborate with other organizations to

Singer discusses how bioethics and clinical medicine intersect, Lin said.

“Last year he spoke about Ebola and this year he spoke about rationing scarce medical resources, particularly organs,” Lin said. “It’s a cool way for our members to see how our discussions impact how medical care is actually done.”

The journal accepts article submissions from people nationwide, Apte said.

“Anything that falls under the umbrella of bioethics we consider and accept,” she said. “We have an article about clinical trials taking place in third world countries and how first world countries kind of take advantage of that.”

There will also be an article examining the extent to which medical professionals are trained to perform CPR on women and the stigma associated with performing CPR on women, Apte said.

“We try to urge as many Rutgers students as possible to submit (work),” Apte said. “Often times we’ll go out to professors or their classes and try to get students to submit work that they’ve previously done.”

The journal goes through an intensive editing process and is published in time for the Bioethics Symposium in the spring, Apte said.

Last semester the Bioethics Society started a Facebook campaign featuring the hashtag #RUBioethical.

The campaign features photos of Rutgers students along with their opinion on a certain bioethical topic in the captions.

Apte was one of the first students to post a picture for the social media campaign.

“Everybody should have the choice to use these technologies to have genetically-related children, and withdrawing funding from new assisted reproductive technologies (ART) would deny infertile couples this choice,” Apte said in her Facebook post on reproductive technology.

The campaign is a tangible way of connecting with the Rutgers student population, Lin said. A social media campaign similar to the concept of Humans of New York would be an interesting way to share peoples’ opinions.

Club meetings involve a lot of diverse opinions on topics, Shukla said.

“The multiple perspectives from different majors who have wildly different ideas about things ... they come up with things that I would never think of and I really appreciate that,” he said. “The multiplicity of perspectives is really refreshing.”

SIMPLE SCIENCE It is common for owners to feed their dogs food that they happen to be eating themselves. But some foods, like chocolate, can be particularly dangerous for your companion.

Chocolate contains the chemical theobromine, which is similar in structure to caffeine and a central nervous system stimulant, according to the Milliken Animal Clinic.

The darker the chocolate, the more theobromine chemical it contains.

While the human body contains the enzyme required to break down theobromine, dogs do not have the same enzyme, according to the site.

An influx of theobromine can cause excessive stimulation of the nervous and cardiovascular systems in dogs. This may result in high blood pressure, dehydration, body pains, seizures and possibly death, according to the site.

Larger dogs are able to handle higher quantities of chocolate than smaller dogs, according to the site, but it is always best to take caution and avoid feeding a dog any amount of chocolate.

DIVERSIONS

January 23, 2017

Mark Tatulli Horoscopes

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Happy Birthday: Explore new territory by using your imagination and being innovative and fearless. Implement greater detail and strive to be unique and respectable in the eyes of others. Stop thinking about the changes you want to make and put your plans into motion. Take strides to conquer whatever stands in your way. Engage in truth and expand your knowledge. Your numbers are 3, 10, 16, 20, 23, 32, 47.

Over The Hedge

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Don’t let impulsiveness take over. Use common sense and discuss problems open-mindedly. Look at both sides of a situation and you will find a workable solution. Putting the past behind you will help encourage new beginnings. 5 stars TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Put on your thinking cap and look for a way to improve your qualifications or to gain greater self-awareness. If you can visualize what you want to do next, you can work toward making it happen. Don’t give up; get going. 3 stars

Non Sequitur

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Size up your situation and seize the moment.

You cannot be and do everything for everyone, but you can show compassion and understanding while you proceed to do what’s in your best interest. Don’t follow the crowd -- be the leader. 3 stars CANCER (June 21-July 22): You have choices, and with a little ingenuity and common sense, you will be able to outmaneuver anyone trying to play emotional games with you.

Don’t fold under pressure. Live within your means. Follow your heart.

Make romance a priority. 3 stars

Pearls Before Swine

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Changes bring new beginnings. There is a lot to learn from the experiences you encounter. Dealing with people who can make a difference in your life is favored, so don’t sit at home -- get out and participate. 4 stars SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Get involved in activities or projects that make you think. Use your imagination and you will come up with marketable plans that could lead to greater prosperity. A passionate approach to life and love is encouraged. 3 stars SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Keep an open mind, but don’t be gullible. Ask questions and don’t feel the need to take part in something if you have doubts or feel uncertain about the outcome. Protect your assets, possessions and your physical well-being. 3 stars CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): An open mind will lead to prosperous opportunities. Good fortune is within reach if you stand behind your decisions instead of following what someone else is doing. Staying grounded and using common sense will pay off.

An old crush will tempt you. 3 stars

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Bring about change. Don’t fear the unknown. Revel in learning as you go and showing how spirited you can be. Engage in pastimes that promise to broaden your mind, skills and your friendships. Embark on a new and lively future. 5 stars

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Use your skills, attributes and knowledge innovatively. Bring about change and update your game plan by setting new trends and exploring unfamiliar possibilities. Your ability to be a forerunner and convince others to see your vision will lead to success. 4 stars

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Handle domestic matters and deal with children and seniors carefully. Offering help is one thing, but taking on more than you can handle will lead to criticism. Don’t feel the need to bring about changes just to satisfy someone else’s needs. 2 stars

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Don’t misjudge someone with the potential to disrupt your plans. Emotional interference will leave you in an awkward position if you don’t react quickly. Make sure to follow through with your plans and protect your reputation. 2 stars

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Yesterday’s Solution

Yesterday’s Solution

January 23, 2017

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WIN Rutgers halts 2nd half run to power past Nebraska for 1st Big Ten win of season continued from back hitting his final shot with a second remaining on the clock when he put back his own miss to give Rutgers a 65-64 lead.

It would be enough to snap the skid and hand the Knights their first Big Ten win of the season and the first of Pikiell’s career at the helm on the Banks.

“I was just able to get in a groove, come out and have my teammates set good picks for me,” Sanders said after his first game-winner. “I think the defense paid off a lot, got a couple buckets in transition. It just feels good to get a ‘W.’” The bucket concluded a 6-0 run for Rutgers (12-8, 1-6) in the final 90 seconds, the knockout punch in a back-and-forth full of exchanged blows where the lead swapped hands eight times in the last 13 minutes.

It was at that time that Nebraska (9-10, 3-4) completed an 18-7 run to retake the lead. The Cornhuskers hit their first four attempts in the second half, a complete turn from the 10 minutes before heading into halftime.

Another installment of the hardnosed defense the Knights have played under Pikiell kept the visitors to a 22 percent clip in the opening 20 minutes and forced them to go the final 10:25 minutes of the first half without hitting a shot, missing 17 straight in the span.

A new wrinkle was added into the defense by Pikiell, whose team at times seemed to be playing a soft press, attacking the Huskers with occasional double-teams in addition to the tight man-to-man it

always plays, helped keep Nebraska at bay.

But the defense wasn’t there out of the gate in the second half.

It took the Huskers eight minutes to surpass their first half output, taking a 44-42 lead into the under-12 timeout.

A 7-0 run after junior guard Mike Williams hit a pair of free throws out of the break in play gave Nebraska its biggest lead of the afternoon.

It was at moments like this that opponents began to pull away from Rutgers in its previous losses this season, where the defense would slow and the offense became stagnant.

It wouldn’t happen Saturday — Nigel Johnson wouldn’t let it.

A day removed from his birthday, the junior guard gave the Knights a gift when he hit his third and final three-pointer, kickstarting a 7-0 run that tied the game at 53.

“We knew at halftime, we talked about it, we knew they were going to come out hot and they were going to try to come back in the game,” he said. “They were going to make a run … so we just had to come up with one of our own. Getting a three definitely gave us a spark and we just took over from there.”

It’s no coincidence that Rutgers’ first Big Ten win came on the same day it had one of its lowest turnover count (13) — with only two deemed pick-sixes by Pikiell — and its best free throw shooting night in conference play.

Shooting at a 70 percent clip from the stripe, the

The Knights’ need to claw their biggest of the 14 free throws they made were the final two. way out of a pair of late deficits Junior for ward Deshawn Free- shows that this was not the complete 40 minute perman stepped formance Pikup and hit both iell had been of his attempts with 40 seconds “I was just able to get in searching for, to go, setting a groove, come out and but the difcame up a defensive have my teammates set ference in when Rutpossession endgood picks for me.” gers turned ing with a steal on the jets. from Sanders Corey sanders In reality, before the sophSophomore Guard those perfect omore hit the games from game-winner. start to finish “I had a are few and far bad free throw shooting game against Indiana, between, even more so with the level and I knew I was better than of competition the Knights are facing that,” Freeman said. “I took night in and night out in the Big Ten. This game served as a lesson time outside of practice shooting free throws to be able to for Rutgers, one it could take into the remainder of the season — make those.”

it’s not how you start, it’s how you finish.

But Pikiell isn’t getting too excited over the historic win.

“We’ve been up and we’ve been down, but I don’t think we get too caught up in it,” he said. “I just want our guys to stay the course.

This is a tough journey and a great league. They stayed the course and banded together. We have to continue to grow in that area.

Teams like this that are really good offensively are always going to make runs … They threw punches and we came right back and threw punches and that’s what I want this team to do. I want us to get up off the mat and they did that.”

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Junior guard Nigel Johnson takes the ball up the court in transition in Rutgers’ win over Nebraska.

Johnson went 3-for-3 from the 3-point line. JEFFREY GOMEZ / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Purdue Rutgers follows non-conference blowout with close dual meet against Purdue continued from back Following was No. 14 Ken Theobold, who racked up a pair of technical falls, a 17-1 rout over No. 19 Joey Delgado on Friday and a 15-0 command over Nate Limmex on Sunday.

At 157 pounds, sophomore John Van Brill has become a stalwart, putting down four ranked opponents while claiming his own spot at No. 18.

Van Brill won his match over Alex Griffin due to an injury on the Boilermaker’s behalf.

Against Oregon State, Goodale opted for 165-pounder Anthony Pafumi over Willie Scott to get the fifth-year senior mat time. Pafumi sought more than mat time, rolling over the Beavers’ Rodney Williams to earn his first dual meet match win, which clinched the Knights’ victory over the West Coast side.

Rutgers continued to pile on the pressure, as fifth-year senior 174-pounder Phillip Bakuckas earned an 18-1 technical fall.

Junior 184-pounder Nicholas Gravina added to the scoreline in the next bout, pinning Bob Coleman in the dying moments of the match.

“We really wanted to come back hard and show everybody we are

attackers and good wrestlers,” Gravina said.

At 197 pounds, Correnti enjoyed the biggest win of his young career, upsetting Griego, 3-2, to continue the Knights’ dominance over Oregon State.

To round out both events was heavyweight Razohnn Gross.

The junior squared off against Cody Crawford of Oregon State on Friday, unable afford his team the shutout, losing out by a score of 4-2.

But Gross bounced back against Purdue’s Tyler Kral, gaining a 4-3 sudden victory decision.

For Rutgers, it was a tale of two wildly different dual meets, as the home side commanded Oregon State to victory Friday, following that up with a testing win on Sunday.

Goodale commends his team as one that has “traditionally done a good job bouncing back,” and holds that it was its poise that allowed the Knights to respond in volumes.

“That’s the pace, the intensity, the focus you have to wrestle with to compete at the highest level,” Goodale said. “That’s what we’re trying to preach.”

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January 23, 2017

Page 11 MEN’S BASKETBALL COREY SANDERS SCORES 25 POINTS, GAME-WINNING BASKET

Sanders wills Rutgers to victory against Nebraska Eric Mullin Associate Sports Editor

All 6,294 people packed inside of the Rutgers Athletic Center (RAC) Saturday afternoon likely had a hunch that the ball, along with the fate of the Rutgers men’s basketball team, was going to wind up in the hands of Corey Sanders.

And as the Scarlet Knights came out of a timeout trailing Nebraska by 1 point with under 10 seconds left, that’s exactly what happened.

The sophomore guard ran a pick-and-roll with junior forward Deshawn Freeman on the left side of the court, with Freeman setting a screen to free up Sanders toward the inside. Cornhuskers’ for ward Jack McVeigh, who moments ago seemed to have buried Rutgers by knocking down two consecutive three pointers, stayed home rather than following Freeman out to the arc to put himself between Sanders and the basket.

With a defender both in front of him and to his right, Sanders split the double team, attacked the rim and put up a tough, off-balance shot. After bouncing off the right side of the glass, the ball tipped off the outstretched arm of senior center C.J. Gettys before landing back into the arms of Sanders.

Without hesitation, Sanders rose and banked in a shot off the glass with one second left, sending the RAC into a frenzy.

The last-second bucket gave Sanders a season-high 25 points and, more notably, pushed the Knights to a 65-64 win over Nebraska to snap a seven game losing streak and earn head coach Steve Pikiell his first Big Ten victory.

“We’ve been in tight games.

I’ve been in this situation before.

That spot I wasn’t too worried about,” Sanders said. “I knew I was going to take the last shot.

But I just have to give it to C.J. (Gettys) because I missed the

Sophomore guard Corey Sanders drives to the basket in Rutgers’ 65-64 win over Nebraska at the Rutgers Athletic Center on Saturday. He led the Knights with a season-high 25 points.

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first one. Without C.J. down there keeping it alive for me, I don’t think the game would’ve went how it went. So I’m just very proud to say that he kept it alive for me.”

Rutgers was in a position to win the game mostly because of the efforts by Sanders on both ends of the court late in the game.

With the Knights trailing 64-59 and 90 seconds left on the clock, Sanders found Gettys inside off a pick-and-roll for a lay up. Following a stop and two free throws from Freeman, Rutgers trailed by 1 point with 30 seconds left and was one defensive stand away from giving itself a chance to win the game.

Nebraska put the ball in the hands of its leading scorer of the season, senior guard Tai Webster, who dribbled out as much of the

clock as he could before driving to the rim and bouncing the ball off of his foot.

The loose ball landed right into the grasp of Sanders, setting up the Knights to win the game.

“We wanted to get the ball in Corey’s hands and make something happen,” Pikiell said. “I thought we had a couple different options on that play and when he got to the rim, they iced the ball screens, so they did a good job, but he attacked like he was supposed to do and got the ball up on the rim. We wanted to have a chance and knew we would get a rebound attempt.”

That wasn’t the only time Rutgers had to claw back from a deficit late in the game either. With the game locked at 44, Nebraska reeled off 7 unanswered points and looked poised to run away

WOMEN’S TRACK AND FIELD RUTGERS FINISHES 4TH PLACE OVERALL

Knights take 1st place in two events with sophomore success Kevin Stapleton Contributing Writer

The Rutgers women’s track and field team continued its 2017 season with another strong outing at the UPenn Eight Team Select in Staten Island, New York, taking first place in two track and field events.

Scarlet Knight sophomores Phyllis Gordon and Rhonda Rogombe earned titles in the 400-meter (56.16) and high jump (1.70 meters) events, respectively.

The Scarlet Knights finished fourth overall at the indoor meet with 58 points. UPenn (176 points), the host of the Eight Team Select, took first overall, followed by St. John’s (79 points) and Stony Brook (73 points).

Gordon previously earned first place in the 400-meter event at Rutgers’ previous two meets this season — this marks her third consecutive victor y in the 400-meter, also setting a season-high score for the sophomore.

Rogombe earned her third consecutive high jump victor y of the 2017 campaign.

In other notable track events, the Knights took second place in the 4x400-meter relay event with an Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) qualifying time (3:46.57), which included the foursome of graduate athlete Alayna Famble, junior Bria Saunders, senior Sarah Robbie and Gordon.

Robbie also took third place in the 800-meter event (2:12.42), while Saunders earned third

and fifth places in the 60-meter (7.70) and 200-meter (24.87) events. All three scores are ECAC qualifying achievements.

Senior Br yanna Grant took fifth place in the long jump event (5.51-meter) while sophomore Cameron Daniels secured a fifth-place finish in the shot put event (12.15-meter).

Next week, the Knights will go back to Staten Island to participate in the Villanova Invitational, also at the Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex.

It will ser ve as their fourth meet of the season, the last before Rutgers enters the middle of its season. Registration closes Monday, so the opponents they face remain unknown.

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with the game. Out of a timeout, Sanders knocked down a pull-up jumper, which was the start of 15-7 run.

Sanders scored the final 8 points of that run, including 10 overall, to give the Knights a 5958 advantage.

“We came out of halftime and he got hot and he was just going on a roll,” said junior guard Nigel Johnson. “So we strung together 8 straight points and from there, we knew it was his game so we just kept giving him the ball and letting him operate and letting him get his good looks and let him carry the team tonight and he did that.”

The sophomore guard accounted for over half of Rutgers’ points in the latter half, pouring in 18 points on an efficient 8-for13 clip from the field. Sanders

scored in a variety of ways, mixing in pull-up jumpers and free throws, cleaning up the offensive glass and finishing at the rim in both the half court and transition game. He also led the team in assists with four set-ups.

Sanders was all over the place on the other end of the court in the second half as well. The Lakeland, Florida native pulled down four defensive rebounds, swatted away two shots and came up with the critical steal on Watson late in the game. All three of his key plays led to transition baskets on the other end. “(Defense) is our big emphasis,” Sanders said. “(Assistant Coach) Jay Young is always on our backs 24/7 about defense.

After the Indiana game, he called me in the next day. I just watched coming off screens and how I can make myself a better defense player, shortening the floor and making things easier. All the guys contribute to that. I think we played great defense ... Our defense is what keeps us in the game most of the time.”

Following a shaky start to the season on the offensive end, shooting and scoring wise, Sanders has more than hit his stride in the middle of Big Ten play. Following Saturday’s performance, Sanders has averaged 19 points on an impressive 48.7 percent shooting clip from the field over the past five games.

But unlike the first four games, the Knights were able to capitalize on Sanders’ strong play and collect a conference victory. “(When they took) that 7-point lead, (it) was like, alright, what are we going to do?” Sanders said.

“Coach always says you’re going to hit adversity, so what are you going to do when you hit adversity? Today, we were able to hit adversity and capitalize.”

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“Coach always says you’re going to hit adversity, so what are you going to do when you hit adversity? Today, we were able to hit adversity and capitalize.”

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MEN’S BASKETBALL RUTGERS 65, NEBRASKA 64

Pikiell, Knights get 1st Big Ten win together Brian Fonseca Sports Editor

Steve Pikiell is not one to waver and never one to hit the panic button.

Even in the midst of a seven-game losing streak, the head coach of the Rutgers men’s basketball team remained optimistic, kept to his belief that the team was getting better and that it was getting closer to where he wanted it to be with each passing day.

All the Scarlet Knights needed to get their first Big Ten win of the season, he said, was to play a full 40 minutes. Hot starts were negated by poor play out of the locker room and down the stretch. The physical fatigue of Pikiell’s intense brand of defense and the mental fatigue of struggling on the offensive end would take their toll on the team in the first and final minutes of second half.

Saturday’s matchup against Nebraska looked to be following that script to the T. Rutgers saw a 10-point halftime lead evaporate within a matter of minutes in the second half, the visitors waking up from the first half to hit their first four shots of the second. It looked like another game the Knights had in the bag, one they seemed in perfect position to win, was going to slip away.

But Corey Sanders wasn’t letting this one get away.

The sophomore guard took over in the second half, carrying his team through the final 20 minutes with 18 of his season-high 25 points, See

Head coach Steve Pikiell yells instructions at his team in the second half of Rutgers’ 65-64 win over Nebraska at the Rutgers Athletic Center. The victory was Pikiell’s first conference win and ended a seven-game losing streak. JEFFREY GOMEZ / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

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WRESTLING RUTGERS 27, PURDUE 9

RU powers through Oregon State, Purdue Jon Spilletti Staff Writer

Freshman 125-pounder Brandon Paetzell grapples with Oregon State’s Kegan Calkins in Rutgers’ 38-3 win over the Beavers Friday night. DIMITRI RODRIGUEZ / PHOTO EDITOR

A lot can change over a weekend in collegiate wrestling, and this past weekend was one of change for the Rutgers wrestling team.

The old made way for the new, and the Scarlet Knights brought a lot of “new” to the Rutgers Athletic Center (RAC) over the weekend.

No. 11 Rutgers (9-2, 3-1) enjoyed a brief reprieve from the Big Ten before returning to conference play, defeating Oregon State (2-5, 0-0), 38-3, and Purdue (8-3, 3-2), 27-9, behind two of the most dominant weekends by true freshmen this season.

Against Oregon State rookie 125-pounder Brandon Paetzell secured his first collegiate fall to open the meet while teammate 197-pounder Matthew Correnti knocked off No. 18 Corey Griego.

“That’s my whole thing, to get the crowd fired up, to start early,” Paetzell said. “Score early, score often.”

In the mold of his weight mate 125-pounder Sean McCabe, Paetzell wasted no time mounting his attack, scoring a takedown within the opening seconds en route to a fall just a bit later.

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head wrestling coach, earned his 150th career win on Sunday when the Scarlet Knights defeated Purdue, 27-9. Goodale is currently in his 10th year as head coach of the Scarlet Knights and has a career record of 150-52-1.

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The Phillipsburg, New Jersey, native has seen his stock rise since his buzzer-beating decision against No. 12 Illinois’ Travis Piotrowski.

“It started at 25,” said head coach Scott Goodale. “That’s a true freshman coming against a kid who has beaten three of our guys the past couple of years. So that was huge for Paetzell to come out and do what he did. That gives momentum, that gives you energy, that gives you a lot.

And that’s what you need out of that 125 spot.”

Junior 133-pounder Scott DelVecchio had carried some notable wins into the weekend’s matchups against the Beavers’ Joey Palmer and Boilermakers’ Luke Welch and added one more soon after. Though DelVecchio held a 6-2 edge in the Palmer match, he was unable to collect one over Welch, falling in sudden victory to a 5-4 line after a last-second reversal.

Next on the docket was No. 6 Anthony Ashnault to battle 141-pounders Jack Hathaway and Kyle Ayersman in matches that have gone Ashnault’s way in the past. Ashnault did the same over the weekend, earning 15-2 and 10-0 major decisions, respectively.

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