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Phillip Jacobelli, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, passed away on Jan. 31, said University Chancellor Richard L. Edwards in an email sent to Rutgers—New Brunswick students. Jacobelli, son of Anna-Marie and Louis Jacobelli and brother of Nick Jacobelli, was a resident of Cedar Knolls, according to The Star-Ledger. Visitation is open for students at the Leonardis Memorial Home, located at 210 Ridgedale Ave. in Cedar Knolls, on Tuesday from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m.. The funeral will be held on Thursday at 9 a.m. There will be a mass at Notre Dame of Mt. Carmel Church in Cedar Knolls at 10 a.m., according to the website. Counseling, Alcohol and Other Drug Assistance Program & Psychiatric Ser vices is of fering their help to all those in the Rutgers community af fected by Jacobelli’s passing. “My sympathies go out to his family and to his friends in the Rutgers community,” Edwards said in the email.
Bivid will provide a real-time feed of events happening in a local area. It will also move past limitations seen with existing apps, like having anonymous posts on Yik Yak or only allowing certain types of posts on Instagram. The app offers a chat room for users to communicate with each other quickly. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY CHLOE COFFMAN / ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR
New app plans to exceed popular social media rivals BUSHRA HASAN STAFF WRITER
Many different social media apps allow students to connect, but a new program aims to combine their most attractive features into one central program. Bivid, a mobile application
available on the app store, takes elements from Yik Yak, Snapchat and Instagram, creating a 24-hour video and image stream, said Dean Glas, co-founder and chief executive officer at the company. “Every time you open Bivid, you’re going to see things that you know are happening right now.
These are things that have happened within the last 24 hours,” Glas said. Glas and his fellow co-founder, Mendy Raskin, first met in New York City. Both were dissatisfied at the lack of an application that provided a real-time, feed-based on location.
“We always wanted to be connected to the places that we’re in, New York City especially,” he said. “You’re walking around and there are so many things going on, and you really don’t feel connected to the place.” SEE RIVALS ON PAGE 4
Oysters see new use in river cleanup, puts industry at risk
Oysters were previously part of a thriving industry until over-fishing tanked it. While the industry is making a comeback, a new plan to use them for waterway cleanup may put it at risk, as the oysters used in polluted waters cannot be consumed. JACQELINE DOREY
NIKHILESH DE NEWS EDITOR
One particular delicacy may soon be more difficult to find at Red Lobster. Oysters were recently discovered to have cleansing effects in polluted water, according to a Press of Atlantic City article. One creature
can take in and expel 50 gallons of liquid every day. They are not used to clean large bodies of water yet, but some scientists are considering their use for local rivers, according to the article. The problem with this is they are also a part of a slowly recuperating industry in oyster farming. While farmed oysters or ones from
cleaner waters pose no harm to most consumers, eating oysters from dirty waters would not be good for people. Farming oysters is a time-consuming process as well. In the 1950s oyster-farming as an industry saw severe drops due to overuse of the areas they grow in, among other reasons, according to Rutgers Magazine.
It took five decades and a new type of oyster, called the “triploid” oyster, to start making advances in helping the industry. These new oysters are more environmentally-friendly and are better for consumption, said Ximing Guo, a professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences and with the Haskin Shellfish
Research Laboratory, and the creator of the type. While they are good for the environment and for the industry, they still take a year to mature, according the magazine. If a “dirty” oyster is sold with farmed oysters, it may set the industry back again, according to Press of Atlantic City. In years past oyster farming was also heavily regulated. According to nj.com, a local farmer was arrested and had his equipment disposed of by the Department of Environmental Protection. The charges were eventually dropped but the agency is being sued for damages by the farmer. The organization acknowledged its regulations were outdated, according to nj.com. A law allowing scientists to ignore the agency’s regulations on an “experimental” basis was sent to New Jersey Gov. Christopher Christie earlier in January, according to nj.com. It was signed by the governor shortly after, according to Press of Atlantic City. This bill only affects the oysters being used for waterway cleanup. The hope is they will prove successful in cleaning up waterways.
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Nintendo game team ‘smashes’ their way to victory NIKITA BIRYUKOV
regardless of skill level or game preference, Lagrada said. “We have pretty much the entire range of (skill levels),” Jacobs said. The dull drone of decade old “We have a lot of people who haven’t televisions was near silent below played and are just interested in the cacophony of control sticks. watching or talking about the game Games were being played, and ... Then we have James Liu, who is friendships were being made. 31st in the world right now and No. Scarlet Smash is a club where 1 in New Jersey.” Rutgers students can come together In addition to hosting weekly and play their favorite Nintendo “smashfests,” Scarlet Smash game — Super Smash Bros., is involved in a number of said Sam Jacobs, the club’s vice intercollegiate leagues. president and a Rutgers Business The Melee Games, School sophomore. an intercollegiate The club was circuit for Super founded in Fall 2014 “I always knew that the Rutgers community Smash Bros. Melee, with the intent of was really strong when it came to Smash.” hosted teams from 179 providing a central colleges in the U.S. location for all CHRIS LAGRADA and Canada in its last players, casual and School of Engineering Senior season, said Matthew competitive, who want Zaborowski, the to play new people, league’s commissioner. said James Liu, the “A lot of colleges don’t have club’s founder and president and a been properly supplied, Liu said. School of Arts and Sciences senior. The club also outgrew its old the best players, so even low-level “When we first started, there meeting space and moved to a players can play and travel all over were only a couple of people who larger room in Murray Hall on the and play and meet a lot of new people,” Jacobs said. were at a professional level and College Avenue campus. Rutgers’ team performed well “I used to travel alone to able to travel ... the majority of people don’t really know much tournaments outside of school and in the tri-state area, but has failed about the competitive scene. They now I have like a group of people to make it to the grand finals in like to play with their families, so I can go with out of state and I’m California, he said. The University has fared better coming to the club is like their definitely more passionate,” he said. “Not only are there more in the Super Smash Bros. for the first time traveling,” Liu said. The club has seen tremendous people playing, but more people Wii U interscholastic league, Smash 4 Collegiate. growth since its founding, said are willing to travel for it.” “Rutgers is doing amazing. The club encourages everyone Chris Lagrada, a School of interested in Smash to come out, I always knew that the Rutgers Engineering senior. ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
“There were only around 10 people who would go the first few weeks. If you go there now, I’d say there are at least 30 to 40 people there now,” he said. After GENESIS 3, a recent international Smash Bros. tournament held in San Jose, California, about 30 new members joined the club, Jacobs said. At times, the club’s growth has outpaced its means. Setups, consisting of a game console and a TV, have not always
community was really strong when it came to Smash,” Lagrada said. “We (won) second (place) at regionals. The top-two teams qualified for the divisional championships. Our region, the Atlantic region, would face off against the New England region’s top two teams.” Division championships were played at a national tournament in New York. The Rutgers team came out on top after a difficult finish against the University of Maryland, he said. “Rutgers will be representing the East Coast in (the) grand finals. It’s projected sometime in March, but that depends on the other schools, because they
are still doing their division championships. As far as we know, we are the first ones to qualify,” he said. Scarlet Smash is collaborating with a number of other gaming clubs to host the second Scarlet Classic, a large, multi-game tournament. The date of the event has not been finalized, but the event will be held on the College Avenue campus, Liu said. “Melee is fun. I get to meet a lot of people that I wouldn’t have met otherwise, been to places that I wouldn’t have travelled to otherwise and been as competitive as I would otherwise,” he said.
Scarlet Smash lets students practice their skills with Super Smash Bros. and participate in local competitions. ACHINT RAINCE / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
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RIVALS App aims to combine best features of Yik Yak, Instagram, Glas says CONTINUED FROM FRONT
Officials have trouble striking down on bullying because their Bivid also aims to address the entire business is about being flaws of many other image-shar- anonymous. Especially with the ing and location-based apps, such hyper-connected millennial user base, people can often overstep as Yik Yak. Yik Yak’s original use was more boundaries and make hurtful like Twitter or like a local discus- statements without facing the consion feed. But as the application sequences, he said. Yik Yak enables users to say gained more followers, the content quickly devolved. Yik Yak be- harmful things to other people, came harmful to students, leading said Vanessa Collini, a School of to incidents of cyberbullying and Arts and Sciences sophomore. Bivid also sets itself apart from harassment, Glas said. “You have no idea who you’re other social media platforms such talking to. Anyone near you could as Instagram, Glas said. With Inbe talking about you and saying stagram, users cannot share full vertical videos mean messagand the phoes,” Glas said. tos are not alTo reduce ways relevant the risk of ha“We want to create to what one rassment, Bivcomplete transparency might be interid offers chat rooms, providwithin the community.” ested in. Combining ing a messagthe multimedia ing platform DEAN GLAS benefits of Insthat avoids the Co-Founder and CEO of Bivid tagram with the anonymity of stream-of-conYik Yak. sciousness “We want style updates to create complete transparency within the of Yik Yak could mean Bivid could community, letting people know last “forever,” he said. Snapchat is the most similar exactly who they’re speaking to, app to Bivid, but the latter has no to prevent bullying,” Glas said. Anonymity grants the ability to location-based services, Glas said. Serrano said one of her favorexpress true emotions, said Angelee Serrano, a School of Arts and ite features of Snapchat is the ability to take on-demand videos Sciences first-year student. But Yik Yak has a trade-off with wherever you go. She primarily situations in which people gossip enjoys watching other people’s about how others look, use racial Snapchat stories. Bivid’s features do not exist as slurs and even say something negative about a professor, Serrano said. a whole in the marketplace right Even if the platform can lead to now, which is why he created the some good it really did more harm app to take the best of each currentthan good and the consequences ly existing social media, Glas said. Glas said he was raising awareof cyber bullying have led people ness about his product at Rutgers to commit suicide, Glas said. “An estimated 5.43 million when a parent stopped to speak young people in the U.K. have with him. She was walking her experienced cyberbullying, with first-year daughter to orientation. “This can be a great tool for 1.26 million subjected to extreme cyberbullying on a daily basis,” new students to meet new friends according to the Diana Award An- (and) see what’s happening on campus,” he said. “No matter ti-Bullying Campaign. Additionally it can be challeng- where you are in the world, you ing to limit what can be said and will always feel connected to the places that you’re in.” navigate the app, Glas said.
A mouse was spotted running through a vending machine in Hickman Hall on Feb. 2. Nearly 10 percent of housholds have seen mice over the course of one year. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY CHLOE COFFMAN / ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR
Students find mouse in vending machine on campus in Hickman BUSHRA HASAN
New Jersey area, according to the CDC. It is not a common one, according to the New Jersey Department On Feb. 2, School of Arts and Sciof Health and Senior Services. ences first-year Lamia Kandil and Though up to 50 cases have been her friend found a mouse living inseen in the United States, there side the vending machine at Hickhas never been a case in the state. man Hall on Douglass campus. Other diseases are likewise Kandil said she was standing not commonat the cluster ly spread of vending from mice to machines by “The mouse ran across one of the top rows and went humans, acthe coffee main the side, and we didn’t see it again.” cording to the chine inside state chapter the building. LAMIA KANDIL of the National During this School of Arts and Sciences First-Year Student Wildlife Contime, she and trol Operators her friends saw Association. a small animal quickly mature, according to Rut- Sometimes diseases can be transrun through the device. mitted through intermediary aniThey believe this animal was gers University Libraries. Many people are scared of mice mals, like cats. a mouse. Mice have also been known to “The mouse ran across one because of the potential for disof the top rows and went in the ease. According to the Centers for damage food products and packside, and we didn’t see it again,” Disease Control and Prevention ages, according to the association. They are also dangerous to (CDC), there are a variety of pathoKandil said. books, according to Rutgers LibrarAbout 10 percent of occupied gens carried by these animals. Hantavirus is one example of ies. They tend to destroy tomes in housing units in the northern New Jersey area have shown evidence a disease carried by mice in the order to gather materials for nests. STAFF WRITER
of mice in the last 12 months, according to a Bloomberg report from last year. More mice and other rodents have been spotted in colder regions than warmer ones, according to the report. A typical mouse can breed relatively quickly, and newborns
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FEB. 2 TRENTON — Hykeem Tucker, 28 and Maurice Skillman, 28 are accused of shooting Carl Batie, a Mercer Country Corrections Officer, to death. Three years ago he told the police that he was at the scene of the crime, but did not pull the trigger or see the shooting. Police showed a 35-minute interrogation video of Tucker denying the crime on the fourth day of his murder trial Friday. Prosecutors say the two men arrived at a banquet at the Baldassari Regency Banquet Hall and fired 22 shots at the balcony, where 50 people stood. Only Batie was killed.
FEB. 2 NEWARK — Three men, Eric Santiago, 26, Jonathan Tejada, 23 and Edgardo Mendez, 25 have been indicted on a murder charge in beating a college student in Newark to death last summer. They were indicted on Jan. 15 in connection with the July 2015 killing of of 20-year-old Newark resident Robert Hayes. Hayes, a New Jersey City University student, was discovered naked, beaten and unresponsive by a passerby. The three men are scheduled to be arraigned before the Superior Court Judge Ronald Wigler on a murder charge.
FEB. 2 UNION — Morgan Mesz, 30, is currently on trial for attacking two women with knives and a hatchet in their backyard in Union in 2011. His attorney says it was a psychotic episode that was brought on by smoking synthetic marijuana. Mesz almost killed Barbara Perrine and Caroline Bunnell, his two victims, and he later told police that he was digging for a portal to hell.
FEB. 2 SECAUCUS — Four men, Oscar Rene Filix, 38, John Ulloa, 35, Anthony Ross Koon, 54 and Alan Martin Alderman, 71, were arrested for the possession of 31 kilograms of heroin and the intent to sell on Feb. 1. The arrests were a result of a three month investigation of members of a Mexican drug trafficking organization. The 31 kilograms of heroin is valued at $2.4 million.
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Website ranks geology museum as 14th best in nation CHRISTOPHER BOHORQUEZ CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Rutgers Geology Museum was named the 14th “most amazing higher-ed natural history museum in the country by bestcollegereviews.org. The rankings were based off a number of criteria, including the number of artifacts or specimens in the collection, the number of opportunities provided to students by the museum and the museum’s level of community involvement. To qualify for the rankings, the museums had to be open to the public. Patricia Irizarr y, associate director of the Geology Museum, said she was grateful for the high ranking. “I feel great. We have put a lot of effort in the last five to seven years trying to make the Geology Museum an outreach center for the community,” Irizarry said. “(This is) the best news we can get.” The museum’s mission is to educate the community about natural sciences, Irizarry said. It provides educational programs to schools and other community organizations in the New Brunswick area. Lauren Neitzke Adamo, the museum’s other associate director, said she was honored. “It’s an honor because there are so many great museums around the country, (and) I’m happy
The Rutgers Geology Museum lets students and other guests see fossils, minerals and geologic specimens from the New Jersey region. Part of its ranking comes from the community outreach performed by its staff members. PETE ANCHETA “What we have on display in we are listed among those other areas, according to the Rutgers the museum is only actually a Geology Museum’s website. ones,” Adamo said. Collections are provided to the small portion of collections. The The museum was founded by rest of the collecstate geolotions are under gist George “We have put a lot of effort in the last five to seven the care of the Hammell years trying to make the Geology Museum an outreach Department of Cook in Earth and Plan1872. Its center for the community.” etary Sciences,” collections Adamo said. include minPATRICIA IRIZARRY Thousands of erals, fossils Associate Director of the Rutgers Geology Museum additional samand geologic ples are kept on specimens. Emphasis is placed on the geology museum by contributing donors, the other campuses, he said. One of the museum’s largest of New Jersey and its surrounding according to the museum’s website.
exhibits is a mastodon skeleton that was found in Salem County, New Jersey, in 1869. “George Cook bought this bone collection from a farmer that was a friend of his. Basically, he sent it out to the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C. to be mounted, and by the time that the mastodon came back (to Rutgers), it was (the) same year George Cook passed away,” Irizarry said. Despite its importance to him, Cook never saw the skeleton in the Geology Museum, Irizarr y said. The mastadon skeleton is not the museum’s only exhibit. A mummy also makes its home within its walls. “I’ve been working since my freshman year, so I love it. I love the mastodon and the mummy so I can’t pick which one is my favorite,” said Janelle Hincapie, School of Arts and Sciences junior and museum employee. The public is unaware of a number of the Museum’s exhibits, said Nicole Gryzbowski, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences junior and museum employee. “(Another) really cool thing that has a Rutgers connection is the dinosaur trackways, and why it’s so significant is that the rocks those foot prints are preserved in are the same exact type of rocks that are beneath our feet at Rutgers,” Adamo said.
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February 3, 2016
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Politicians choose to save money over lives
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ove Canal is a section of Niagara Falls, New York, where toxic chemicals were legally dumped and people suffered as a result. I thought that the situation in Love Canal ended in the 1970s. It seems like eons ago. Politicians were reluctantly involved in getting these people their lives back. Toxic chemicals no longer seeped into the bodies of children and adults. There were no longer cancers caused by the substances. Forty-five years or so ago, we dealt with the ordeal. Or so we thought. The situation in Love Canal seems eerily connected to the situation happening in Flint, Michigan. For one, politicians knew exactly what was happening. In this case, they knew the water was unsanitary, but they continued to let the water enter the bodies of children and adults. Why? Because it was cheaper. You know what’s more expensive than cheap, dirty and disgusting water? The end result of sick children and adults. Both Love Canal’s and Flint’s situations caused numerous birth defects, and politicians just let it happen. Ironically, land was purchased for a school in Love Canal because it was cheaper. Lives have been lost because of this Flint situation. Families have been broken apart because politicians do not want to admit wrongdoing and fix a problem. Both the situation in Love Canal and Flint involved people with low incomes. Why is there still a gap between the rich and poor? If these people were not so marginalized, would the issues have been dealt with already? Better yet, would the issues even exist in the first place? It is evident in many cases that people of certain races, economic backgrounds and education are not going to have the same opportunities that other people have and are disenfranchised from the clean lifestyles of wealthy families. Finally, deny, deny deny. Officials declared that everything was safe. The substances seeping into homes and schools were safe in Love Canal and the water quality was safe in Flint. What officials really can’t say is, “Go feed your family with this lead-tainted water.” Independent researchers needed to go in and discover that it was a danger to society. Boy, does that sound familiar? But from where? That’s right! Love Canal. Do people in Flint need to kidnap another official to get things done? Until politicians learn to deal with problems head on instead of trying to make a cheap buck, things like this are going to keep happening. Stop marginalizing people. Stop denying dangers. Fix things that come up before they become so large that they cannot be fixed. In the end, the government loses when the people need to be paid because of injuries. Jessica Schoen is a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences sophomore majoring in environmental policy, institutions and behavior.
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U. research methods should be cruelty-free
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was happy to see the Targum publish an op-ed by an alumna on the cruelty and ineffectiveness of experiments on animals, including at Rutgers. Each year in the United States, around 100 million animals — including rats, mice, dogs, cats, rabbits and monkeys — are tormented in laboratories where they are confined to small, barren cages, cut into, poisoned, addicted to drugs, infected with diseases and killed. At Rutgers, experimenters examining sepsis burned rats by placing them in scalding hot water and cut into them before killing and dissecting them. In another experiment, experimenters put mustard gas into rabbits’ eyes and later killed them and removed their eyes. In experiments like these, pain relievers aren’t required nor are the use of more effective non-animal alternatives. And the majority of animals in laboratories — including mice and rats — are not even protected by the only federal law concerning the treatment of animals in laboratories. Fortunately, more and more scientists are now using faster, cheaper and superior non-animal research methods like organs-onchips — first developed at Har vard — that use human cells and tissues to study diseases and test treatments. It’s time Rutgers fully embraces these cutting-edge animal-free research methods and leave behind cruel and antiquated experiments on animals. Ngoc Kim is a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences junior majoring in ecology, evolution and natural resources. She is president of the Rutgers Veg Society.
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s it fair to hand over 75 percent of your income by foot or by precarious boats at sea just to get away to the government? Are there special circum- from the civil war that wrecked their country. Despite taking so much out of their pay, we don’t stances in which this is acceptable? In the United States, the middle-class is taxed up to 40 percent know the quality of the food and shelter they’re givin federal taxes (an individual making more than en. Moreover, taking 75 percent of anyone’s pay and $413,200 has a tax rate of 39.6 percent), and that’s al- persistently relegates them to the lower socioecoready a contentious number. High earning magnates nomic rung. Refugees are constantly discriminated in the U.S. throw tantrums after being taxed with against. Instances of hurled bottles and fireworks numbers much lower than that. Individuals like War- outside town hall council meetings have been docuren Buffet, for example, have a federal tax rate of 17.4 mented as well as the dumping of severed pig heads percent, as he asserted in his 2010 New York Times at the sites of proposed refugee centers. The latter article, and he claims that’s 18.6 percent lower than demonstrates extreme hostility when keeping in mind that Syrians are predominantly Muslim. If refuother workers in his office, including his secretary. But for the Syrian refugees in the Netherlands, gees are unwanted in the country, it is less likely that money and jobs are hard to come by, and when they they are wanted in adequate paying positions. Takdo acquire a job then they are mandated to give up ing most of the little these refugees presumably earn 75 percent of their income for government taxes in prevent them from exercising self-autonomy and order to cover the cost of food and living expens- self-sufficiency. They don’t have the choice of spending more on their children es. Refugees have paid or buying goods that could more than €700,000 over assist in assimilation. the past four years toward “Inimical environments can This issue is a problem the cost of living in cenpush disenchanted actors on the in the Netherlands, but ters for asylum seekers, edge and this resentment can the question of hospitaliaccording to an article in ty toward refugees is also The Guardian. Asylum potentially make people do things a question in the United seekers are required to they otherwise wouldn’t do.” States. Seven million Syrwork up to 24 weeks a ians have been displaced year once they have been from their homes and 4 in the country for six months. The Netherlands and other European coun- million fled their ravaged country. Out of these tries have garnered criticisms for confiscating cash millions, the United States allowed a measly 10,000 and valuable from refugees in order to pay for the refugees to enter and it’s only been associated with fear. In the U.S., the Netherlands and around the means of their subsistence. In some ways, this situation of simple quid pro quo world, refugees should be given better treatment, makes sense: Refugees are given shelter and food not only because they deserve it, but because inimand the government receives money in exchange. ical environments can only breed tensions between And of course, there’s the old adage, “nothing in life two cultures already wary of one another. This comes free.” Although the 47,500 refugees living in anxiety over the generalization that all people who the Netherlands might have to pay for their stay, a come from the Middle East are terrorists could be 75-percent tax on their income is exorbitant. Extract- a self-fulfilling prophecy. Inimical environments can ing a large portion of the refugees’ income is exces- push disenchanted actors on the edge and this resive considering that these people have already paid sentment can potentially make people do things they so much in high stake, personal risk to get to the otherwise wouldn’t do. Policies like these make it safety of this foreign country — traveling long miles easier to breed terrorists. The Daily Targum’s editorials represent the views of the majority of the 148th editorial board. Columns, cartoons and letters do not necessarily reflect the views of the Targum Publishing Company or its staff.
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New department could honor tuberculosis cure founder
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hen I first came to Rutgers 40 years ago, I had just published with Francis Crick, discoverer of the DNA double helical structure, Sydney Brenner, discoverer of messenger RNA and Sir Aaron Klug, discoverer of the structure of Tobacco Mosaic Virus and Chromatin and Royal Society President. I also brought with me a method for DNA sequencing which Fred Sanger had developed, a double Nobel laureate and Order of Merit. I did the first DNA sequence in the United States at Rutgers, plus introduced the first bioinformatic methods. This was the first real introduction of what I would call genotypic molecular biology to Rutgers. President Edward J. Bloustein and I had long discussions on how to implement this new area of science. I suggested bringing some of my colleagues to Rutgers for several weeks to train Rutgers students and faculty. He suggested building an extension to the Waksman Institute of Microbiology. This was done. This new perspective I had proposed as a theory of genotypic selection looks at the universe from DNA outward rather than phenotype inward. This change in perspective has now occurred in many fields ranging from criminology, therapeutic medicine, diagnostics, pharmacology, microbiology, biochemistry, law, entertainment inter alia. All his pales, however, when compared to what I learned about the discoveries that were made at Rutgers. The most important
of which was the discovery of Streptomycin by a young 23-year-old in a laboratory run by Selman Waksman. His name is Albert Schatz. He isolated an antibiotic which treated and effectively cured tuberculosis and ended the tuberculosis epidemic. He identified two Actinomycetes colonies, one of which came from a soil sample. Both produced streptomycin. This antibiotic for gram negative bacteria discovery was responsible for the creation of much of the worlds pharmaceutical industry coming within 75 miles of Rutgers. Albert Schatz’s discover y that treated tuberculosis would be equivalent presently to having a treatment for the AIDS epidemic and the Ebola epidemic. Albert Schatz wanted to get his PhD in a discipline called Pedology. Pedology is the study of soil. Soil without microbiome is just dirt. Soil is a “living organism” and needs to be studied as such. I met Albert Schatz and his wife Vivian in their later years. His “last lecture,” which he had recorded for my students so they could see what one Rutgers student with just a petri dish was able to do … cure and stop an epidemic. Much like DNA sequencing, monoclonal antibodies and combinatorial chemistr y are now changing the clinical treatment modalities, all areas in which I was a primar y contributor or actual inventor, a similar change has to be introduced in the study of our environment.
I propose a new area in honor of Albert Schatz Genotypic Pedology. This area would start the genotypic and nucleotide sequence (DNA and RNA) analysis of the microbiome of soil in various conditions, and correlating that with soil phenotypes and pseudo phenotypes such as “wetland,” “arid,” “transitional,” “non-wetland,” “remediation areas,” “contaminated soils” and “farmland.” These areas have enormous financial consequence. There should be a complete and careful work up of all the microbiome of most of New Jersey’s soil. In addition, there should be a genotypic and nucleotide sequence work up of all the vegetation and animals which grow and inhabit the various soils. The plants that could be grown and the strains which are adaptive to the particular microbiome will be identified. A simple example, which affected many of the ancestors of the Irish residents of New Jersey and the U.S., is the potato blight, which was responsible for the Irish famine of 1845. A one nucleotide change, also dramatically changed the course of American history. The soil oomycete produces an arginine-any of 20 amino acids- leucine-arginine amino acid motif (RXRL) at the end of a protein, which is toxic to potatoes. If the potato has a complementar y protein which binds this protein called R (receptor) protein (one of many), then this
toxic RXRL protein is neutralized creating a healthy potato. A future direction for Rutgers is developing various hemp strains which would be adaptive to presently uncultivated soils in New Jersey. Much like the University of Copenhagen owns Carlsberg Group brewery and creates a tuition free environment for its students, Rutgers should posture itself to create strains of hemp for the time it will be legal, both under state and federal law. Then, perhaps, we can have a Marshall plan for our own Rutgers students. I propose we raise some starter funds for a building to be called the Albert Schatz Institute to be built on Cook campus land that has a view of the Waksman Institute (if possible). We can set up a change.org site to start this project. Then, anyone who ever used a gram-negative antibiotic should consider donating $1. Then, we would be able to break ground this spring. It should contain the new Department of Genotypic Pedology, which would contain state of the are Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) machines, parallel processing computers, robotic microbiological growing facilities, sample collection rooms for all N.J. vegetation, sample collection rooms for animal and viral samples in N.J. George Pieczenik is a professor in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences’s Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology.
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Get your southern barbecue fix with Brother Jimmy’s NICK DEMAREST
amount of standing room. The entire bar area is also covered in Rutgers University memoraYou can’t help but notice the bilia decorations like vintage, bright, red fluorescent BBQ sign signed football jerseys and Big directly across the street from Ten flags. The staff was very polite and Jimmy John’s with its flamboyant southern-style decor lighting has a very relaxed, easy-going up the storefront of Brother Jim- attitude, which is comforting. It doesn’t seem like there are any my’s on Easton Avenue. When you walk into the uniforms, which speaks to the restaurant, the first thing you relaxed nature of the restausee is a bright, blue sign that rant. They were all dressed in blue jeans and says “Put different colsome south in ored flannels. yo’ mouth,” as The menu you are greet“The pork was juicy, was only one ed by a hostlong ess. The sign flavorful, and the pickles page and isn’t all is hanging on in the wrap gave it that original a wall of Jack a little zest.” in terms of Daniel’s lacontent. Listbeled barrels, ed was variin a room full ous southern of arcade style games, a photo booth and the style appetizers, such as hush puppies, quesadillas and wings, bar and dining room. The ambiance of the bar itself which ranged from $7.75 to is pretty attention grabbing. In- $10.25. Burgers, pulled pork vestments into the furnishings sandwiches and spicy cheesand the overall appearance of esteaks all listed around $10 with the restaurant are quite preva- a choice of sides. There were a lent. Drinks are ser ved in ma- few entrees listed of is they call son jars, ever ything is furnished it “Southern specialties”, such as wood and the music is south- the Fried Chicken Dinner, but ern. The bar area is clearly the that was a whopping $17.95. I decided to save some cash largest portion of the establishment, consisting of about 20 and order off of the “Lunch Speseats, three booths and a sizable cials” menu. I ended up tr ying CORRESPONDENT
Dive into some southern comfort food with classic dishes ranging from pulled pork to steamy mac and cheese. LOUIS KANG the Pulled Pork Wrap, which was ser ved with a side of seasoned mac and cheese, slaw and pickles. The wrap itself was on the small side, but the quality of the food is nothing I can complain about. The pork was juicy, flavorful, and the pickles in the wrap gave it a little zest. In all honesty though, the mac and cheese tasted ver y generic, like something you could get anywhere. I got this whole meal for $8.95.
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Pearls Before Swine
DIVERSIONS Stephan Pastis
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Page 9 Nancy Black
Today’s Birthday (02/03/16). Group efforts go far this year. A springtime cash surge (around 3/8) leads to an educational turning point (after 3/23). Complete an investing phase, and begin two years of travels and studies (after 9/9). Another golden influx (around 9/1) shifts your personal balance sheet (after 9/16). Save for love. To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
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Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is an 8 — Travel seems enticing, but penny-pinching may be in order. Can you send someone else? Good news comes from far away. Your creative work has a bittersweet flavor. Infrastructure comes first. Use what you’ve gained through experience. Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 9 — Closely track the budget. Pool family resources for a shared goal. Your decisions impact your bottom line. Follow rules exactly. Repay a debt. Get a profitable tip from an elder. Listen to someone who’s been there. Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Today is an 8 — Mend fences. Creative negotiation wins big. You get much further together than you would solo. Extend your power base. Delegate to an experienced partner. Responsibilities fall into place. Practice and it gets easier. Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Today is a 9 — Whistle while you work. Use your experience and skills toward financial gain. Upgrade workplace technology, if necessary. Set a juicy goal. Your influence is growing. Take pride in a job well done. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 7 — The game is getting trickier. Follow the rules. Assume responsibility without need to do it all yourself. Strategize. Collaborate to face a challenging adversary. Friends help you advance. You’re gaining points with someone you admire. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is an 8 — Revamp your home to increase the comfort factor. Renovation projects satisfy. Sort, clean and organize. Get expert assistance, if necessary. Share nostalgia. Rely on a friend’s experience. Enjoy family time and domestic pleasures. Play together.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 9 — Throw yourself into a creative project. Write an outline, and develop your ideas. Get engaged in conversation. Maintain momentum with communications. Keep your agreements. Practice with renewed vigor. Explore fresh territory. It’s getting interesting. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 9 — Profitable opportunities knock. Answer the door. Show respect. Advance by using what worked before. The dynamics change now. Keep your word. Angry words are expensive. Make your deadlines, and accept payment graciously. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 9 — Make use of a power surge. A new method takes practice. Stick to tested tricks. It’s a good time for personal transformation. Who do you want to be? Walk or exercise and consider. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 7 — Take it slow and allow time for retrospection and planning. Stock up on reserves, and plot your moves. Get advice, but make your own decisions. Rely on your partner’s strength. Enjoy meditation and exercise. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 9 — Make an important connection. New friends open new possibilities. Collaborate, and provide what’s wanted and needed. Make substantive changes. Take advantage of an unexpected bonus. Community efforts can be fun. Celebrate together. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is an 8 — Even if obstacles arise, find a way to do what you promised. Your actions speak well for you. Completion leads to a raise in professional status. Follow your creative intuition for brilliant insight.
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HOME RU returns home after going winless in 2-game road trip to Michigan CONTINUED FROM BACK Kendrick Nunn (17.8 points per game) is a game-time decision for the Illini, according to The Daily Illini. The Knights’ third-year head coach welcomes the leveled playing field, but brushed off the idea that a smaller opposing rotation alters how Rutgers approaches the game. “It doesn’t change anything,” Jordan said. “We’re gonna game plan for their main action, we’re gonna play with a lot of effort and spirit. We’re at home ... and hopefully we can learn from a lot of our bumps and bruises and downfalls and that we come for ward these next nine games and put to apply what we’ve learned over however many the last games.” Up against a team as deep as the Spartans, Rutgers simply doesn’t have the bodies or size to keep up over the span of a 40-minute, two-half ballgame. But as far as matching up with Illinois is concerned, the foot is clearly taken off the gas pedal. While the Knights have had their fair share of rebounding struggles at the bottom of the Big Ten in rebounding margin (-6.3), the Illini rank last in offensive
rebounds per game (7.7) and 13th in defensive rebounds per game (24.2) in the 14-team conference. The Knights rely on 6-foot-9 senior center Greg Lewis and 6-foot-7 sophomore forward D.J. Foreman to carry the load in the post as 6-foot-6 freshman forward Jonathan Laurent mixes in for both off the bench. As much as the extra time between the three has taken its toll, Rutgers has played with the hand it has been dealt to this point in the season. “We’ve still gotta lace ‘em up just like they do,” Lewis said. “We gotta have every guy that’s suiting up to play their best for us to get a win.” While the Knights’ backcourt returns to the RAC on the heels of guards Omari Grier, Corey Sanders and Mike Williams combining for 52 of the team’s 62 points at Michigan State, none of that matters if Rutgers fails to protect the paint and produce down low as well on the offensive end. The Knights, who have been riding Sanders heavily as the firstyear guard continues to lead all Big Ten freshmen in points per game (14.2), assists per game (3.76) and steals (33), remains reliant on the production of its
RECRUITS Knights earned verbal commitments from multiple New Jersey high school players CONTINUED FROM BACK Rutgers first took a hit with the decommitments of its top two recruits as four-star defensive back Patrice Rene
(Alexandria, Virginia) flipped to Nor th Carolina and Elite 11 quar terback Anthony Russo (Warminster, Pennsylvania) fled for Temple following the
Defensive coordinator Jay Niemann believes Rutgers’ location allows the coaching staff to reach recruits that fit its vision. EDWIN GANO / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / JANUARY 2016
Head coach Eddie Jordan said Rutgers will have the same gameplan against Illinois even if injuries force the opposition to play with a small rotation. EDWIN GANO / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / DECEMBER 2015 guard play in order to spark the team and remain competitive. For Sanders, a former ESPN Top 100 recruit and four-star prospect, none of the losses have altered that confidence needed in order to seize the elusive first victor y in Big Ten play this season.
Instead, as he and Rutgers have continued to break down the season to this point, it’s only added fuel to the fire. “We look at everything. We look at the teams we’re playing, we look at — in film, we’re watching the good stuff we’re doing and the bad stuff we’re doing,” Sanders said.
“And that’s what we’re looking forward to — the positive things. Just keep the momentum, keep faith and come out playing hard.”
switch of the Knights’ of fense to a power spread. While Rutgers picked up three commitments over the past weekend with recruits taking their official visits, it also lost a trio. Three-star tight end Korab Idrizi (Oradell, New Jersey) announced his pledge to the Knights on Jan. 24, but the Bergen Catholic product flipped to Boston College just five days later. Rutgers received two more commitments from a pair of offensive tackles in three-star prospects Sam Howson (Sparta, New Jersey) and Mike Lonsdorf (Somerville, New Jersey), but lost one in three-star recruit Elijah Johnson (Hyattsville, Maryland). Then, another longtime hard commitment, three-star wide receiver Isaiah Wright (West Hartford, Connecticut), flipped to Temple on Monday. But not all has gone wrong for the Knights. Offensive coordinator Drew Mehringer locked up the late recruitment of three-star quarterback Tylin Oden (Spring Hill, Tennessee) to give Rutgers’ new offense a dual-threat that could potentially run the new scheme when he arrives in June. Two more big weapons also came in the form of three-star athlete K.J. Gray (Jersey City, New Jersey) and Ross Taylor-Douglas (Avon, Ohio), a former four-star running back and defensive back recruit out of high school, who comes to the Banks as a graduate transfer with two years of immediate eligibility remaining. Before all of that unfolded, Ash pointed out that those types of relationships would be an area of focus as he got going on recruiting. On top of hosting high school football coaches from around the state at the Hale Center for a meeting of the New Jersey
Football Coaches Association on Jan. 4, Ash hired longtime former Hillsborough and South Brunswick head coach Rick Mantz in a new position as director of high school relations. “It’s a challenge at this point in the game because we are late,” Ash said. “It doesn’t matter if it’s right now in the middle of January or the middle of August, we are going to try to be creative and do things differently to try to build relationships and connections with recruits regardless of where they’re from or what position they play.” But as much as the Knights may have taken a hit with the late transition from Flood to Ash before Signing Day, it hasn’t stopped the first-year head coach from hitting the ground running, working toward signees for the class of 2016 and beyond. Perhaps even more important has been the initiative taken to keep New Jersey home, a concept Rutgers hasn’t been able to quite figure out — at least not consistently — just yet. For now, the Knights have four recruits locked in as early enrollees with locally-grown three-star linebackers Elorm Lumor (Piscataway, New Jersey) and Solomon Manning (Colonia, New Jersey) staying in Middlesex County. “This whole area of the United States, New York, New Jersey, where we’re at, we have a lot of players in this area that are within our reach from a geographical perspective. Not everybody in the country obviously has that luxury,” said defensive coordinator Jay Niemann. “Our job obviously is to go get the best players we can that fit the profile of what Coach Ash wants for our program. We’re in a place from a population base where we have a good chance to do that.”
In total, Rutgers enters Signing Day with 14 future Knights ready to take their talents to Piscataway. But even past now, Ash and his crew have even dipped into the pool of younger local talent, offering class of 2018 prospect Shelton Applewhite (Wayne, New Jersey) of DePaul Catholic, among the other handful of scholarships recently extended. All of it ultimately comes full circle as an initiative taken by Ash to lay the foundation for recruiting Rutgers’ backyard, one coined by Zak Kuhr as #FenceTheGarden, a hashtag the new wide receivers coach coined on Twitter shortly after he was hired. Kuhr didn’t shy away from his intentions on the movement, but he reiterated one key sentiment that serves as a filter for what the Knights look for potential targets. “We’re gonna try to keep the best talent in the state, but only if they fit with our alignment and culture of what we want to get done,” he said. “So they could be the No. 1 player in the state from wherever in Jersey and they can be the No. 1 player in the country for all that matters and if he doesn’t fit in the character category with us, then we’re gonna move on.” Ash, who has said from the day he accepted the job that his primary goal is to change the culture of the program and that the success will follow from there, has clearly been able to shed that ideology off on the assistants that aid his overall recruitment. “Now, if he does (fit), then, yeah, let’s go get him,” Kuhr said. “But it definitely has to be a fit for our culture and what we’re looking for in our recruitments.”
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Page 11 WRESTLING 8 OUT OF 10 KNIGHTS’ STARTERS ARE FROM NEW JERSEY
Homegrown wrestlers fuel Rutgers in monumental season ERIC MULLIN ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
Anthony Asnault was a heavily sought-after recruit in high school, and for good reason. In his four seasons at South Plainfield High School, Ashnault used a perfect 170-0 career record to capture four New Jersey State Championships, becoming the first high school wrestler in state history to be crowned champion four times while maintaining an unscathed record. Ashnault had his pick of the crop when deciding where to wrestle at the collegiate level, with offers from top programs across the country like Big Ten powerhouses Michigan and Penn State. But before the start of his final wrestling season at South Plainfield, he committed to a university in the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association that was right down the road from his hometown. “It was the coaches telling me that this is where the program is going,” the sophomore 141-pounder said reflecting back on his decision to come to Rutgers. “It was really just me believing in them and believing in my abilities to just help us get there … Definitely when I was coming out of high school, this was the vision and the vision’s even higher than this and we’re gona keep going until we get there.” What makes the No. 12 Rutgers wrestling team unique is that Ashnault’s story — a talented New Jersey wrestler who chose to stay home in an attempt to build something special — is shared by numerous grapplers up and down the Scarlet Knights’ roster. Eight of the ten wrestlers in the Knights’ lineup are from in state, with over a third of the overall roster hailing from the Garden State. Junior 125-pounder Sean McCabe, from Ronkonkoma, New York, and sophomore 149-pounder Tyson Dippery, from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, are the lone members of the lineup from out of state. It has been an overall team effort that has pushed Rutgers to a top-12 team in the nation, but New Jersey grapplers have been at the forefront of its success this season. Ashnault, (18-2), junior 157-pounder Richie Lewis (153), senior 165-pounder Anthony Perrotti (14-2) and senior heavyweight Billy Smith (17-5) have been the Knights’ top-four performers this season. Homegrown talent having their fingerprints on a season where Rutgers has vaulted itself into the conversation for one of the top teams in the Big Ten, as well as the nation, has added a fascinating storyline to its historic season. “I love New Jersey, it’s where I was born. I didn’t really want to go anywhere far,” said junior 174-pounder Phillip Bakuckas of Hammonton. “(Volunteer assistant coach Joe) Pollard was the first person that started recruiting me and I came up here, saw a couple matches and I thought this was the perfect spot. I think it’s important that a lot of New Jersey wrestlers stay here.” It may seem hard to believe after surveying the roster, but head coach Scott Goodale doesn’t recruit with the intention of forming some sort of New Jersey All-Star team, rather simply trying to bring the
best possible recruits to Rutgers. With that mindset in consideration, the Knights having a large amount of wrestlers from in state is a testament to how strong New Jersey wrestling truly is. “We get a little bit of a mixture. Some years it’s better than others, but I think we’re doing a pretty good job of keeping the best kids in our state home and we’re gona continue,” Goodale said. “It’s a great wrestling state so for us to be successful we gotta recruit Jersey, but we also gotta recruit guys that fit our mold, fit our character and fit the program and if we need to go outside the state to do it, then we gotta do that too.” When Ashnault committed to Rutgers, it was still in the EIWA and the school moving into the Big Ten wasn’t even in the. But Goodale’s message of having the chance to build something special at their state school hit home with a number of top recruits in the past couple of classes,
including Ashnault, current-redshirt junior Scott DelVecchio and redshirt freshman Anthony Giraldo. His message to those guys has come to fruition much faster than first expected, as the Knights have defeated five ranked opponents and has remained in the top-half of the national rankings for most of the season. There’s no denying that homegrown wrestlers have played a huge role in the Knights’ success this season, something that Goodale, a Toms River native, has likened to. But he is going to continue to go after the best wrestlers, regardless of where they’re from, to bring the program to a point where the top wrestlers from not only New Jersey but from across the country want to come to Rutgers. “I certainly got a lot of pride in this state so in a way yeah that’s kinda cool,” Goodale said on eight of his ten starters hailing from New Jersey. “But at the same point, I just wana win. I just want to
win at the highest level. So I love the fact that (Sean) McCabe is a New York Long Island guy, heck that’s like Jersey anyway right? … It is cool that we do have a lot of Jersey, cause I’m a Jersey guy, but
I don’t really recruit like that. I recruit to try to get the best guys.” For updates on the Rutgers wrestling team, follow @EricMullin_ and @TargumSports on Twitter.
Sophomore 141-pounder Anthony Ashnault has been key to the Knights’ success this season, posting a 14-1 record in dual meets. THE DAILY TARGUM / NOVEMBER 2015
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The Rutgers men’s basketball team finally catches a break from its vaunted Big Ten slate. Facing three conference foes ranked in the AP-Top 25 over the span of its past four games, the Scarlet Knights (6-16, 0-9) enter what should be more of a feasible task when they return to the Rutgers Athletic Center for a 6:30 p.m. tip-off Wednesday night against Illinois on Big Ten Network. Rutgers bounced back from the worst home loss in program history with improved competition in losses to then-No. 9 Iowa and Michigan, but it backtracked again when overwhelmed by then-No. 12 Michigan State’s school-record 17 3-pointers in a 96-62 rout in East Lansing last Sunday night. But with the Fighting Illini (10-12, 2-7) having a down year and entering Piscataway losers in seven of their last nine games, the Knights hope to take advantage of an opponent that pales in comparison to the upper echelon of the conference. The Illini are just as banged up as Eddie Jordan’s squad, which suits up with eight scholarship players on the court. They have just one player taller than 6-foot7 available, which sounds familiar to those traveling to the RAC considering Rutgers had to deal with the same issue over much of the course of January. Illinois 6-foot-10 forward Michael Finke is unlikely to play and second-leading scorer Freshman guard Corey Sanders said Rutgers is evaluating both Illinois and itself in an effort to snap its nine-game losing streak. The guard leads all Big Ten freshmen in points, assists and steals per game. EDWIN GANO / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / JANUARY 2016
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When University President Robert L. Barchi and Athletic Director Pat Hobbs hired Chris Ash as the head football coach at Rutgers and introduced him at a press conference on Dec. 7, it might have been difficult to pinpoint any cons or deficiencies with the move. On the heels of a rocky end to Kyle Flood’s four years at the helm in Piscataway, Ash entered at the time as a defensive-minded, 41-year-old coach beaming with energy and charisma on a mission to shift the culture of a program that needed a facelift following a tumultuous season on and off the field. But the one glaring question that eventually came up correlated back to his lack of ties to New Jersey, the home state that serves as a breeding ground for some of the top high school football talent in the entire country. Ash was splitting his time between finishing out his co-defensive coordinator gig at Ohio State and settling in on the Banks at the
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head coaching opportunity he said he always dreamed of. But as National Signing Day on Wednesday is fast approaching, he has a unique problem on his hands. As the Buckeyes ended their season with a win in the Fiesta Bowl over Notre Dame and Ash came to Piscataway for good, he hired the remainder of his full-time coaching staff and went to work on hitting the recruiting trail for a strong finish. But Ash acknowledged the uphill battle ahead, noting the struggle for his staff getting involved so late in the game. “It’s just a little bit more challenging because typically you’re recruiting guys anywhere from one to two years and you have a very strong relationship with them,” he said. “We don’t have that luxury right now. We’re trying to build relationships with guys in three or four weeks before Signing Day. That’s difficult to do.” To this point, the results have been up and down.
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