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Admissions deems class of 2019 as more selective AVALON ZOPPO ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Each year, it is becoming increasingly difficult to receive a Rutgers acceptance letter.

There is no space for increases in New Brunswick, so admissions will be more selective, said Courtney McAnuff, president of enrollment management.

“That means your diploma is going to be worth a little more each year,” she said.

McAnuff said the class of 2019 has an average SAT score of 1881, which is 16 points higher than last year and 350 points higher than the national average.

About 100 less students will be admitted to Rutgers New Brunswick compared to last year due to overcrowding, McAnuff said. The number of admitted students affects class availability, housing, transportation and financial aid.

The School of Environmental and Biological Sciences has had a trend of increasing SAT score and GPA benchmarks over the years, said

Richard Ludescher, dean of Academic Programs at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences.

Three years ago, Ludescher said SEBS admitted more than 700 students, but the class of 2019 will be about 650 students.

“We want the next class to always be a little bit better than previous classes,” he said.

There is also an increase in demand for the University, McAnuff said. Rutgers has received 36,000 applications for the fall of 2019 so far and is projecting a record of 48,000 total applications.

Admissions received a 12.4 percent increase in first-year applications and a 40 percent increase in international applications this year.

“I’ve been involved with admissions for more than 30 years, and I’ve never seen an annual increase this high,” McAnuff said.

One of the factors that may have caused the increased demand is the attractiveness of the new honors college, McAnuff said.

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Lei Lei, instated as the dean of the Rutgers Business School last semester, was recently named one of New Jersey’s most powerful business women. COURTESY OF LEI LEI

RBS dean named among 50 most powerful business women in state MEGHAN GRAU CONTRIBUTING WRITER

One of the best businesswomen in New Jersey can be found at Rutgers, according to a list of New Jersey’s Best 50 Women in Business for 2015 culled by NJBIZ. Lei Lei, dean of the Rutgers Business School and title recipient, will be recognized alongside fellow honorees, including leaders from other New Jersey schools.

The awards program has celebrated women in senior management-level positions of nonprofit organizations and for-profit businesses for the past 10 years, according to NJBIZ.

Eugene Spiegle, instructor and undergraduate program director at Rutgers Business School, identified some of the work her colleague has done to deserve the recognition.

“Her role initially was that of a professor who really formulated the department of supply chain management and became the chair of the department,” she said.

Lei brought the department from absolutely nothing to third ranked in America over a five year period, according to Gartner Research, and 13th in the world, Spiegle said.

Spiegle said the only trouble in listing some of Lei’s accomplishments is in knowing where to start.

“She’s created a team,” she said. “She’s put it all together in such a way that people work harmoniously. She has made us recognized all over the world.”

Lei created a case study program and brought in a large por tion of the professorial base that is “business-driven,” Spiegle said.

Lei also star ted the Center for Supply Chain Management, which is composed of major corporate par tners who help guide the depar tment through the executive board, she said.

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U. reflects on Chapel Hill deaths A study conducted by the University of California, Los Angeles found 25 percent of college first-year students believe racism to be a thing of the past. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY AARON SAVAGE

Students see racism as thing of past, study finds DAN COREY ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

More than 45 years after the African-American Civil Rights Movement came to an end, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles are making claims that 25 percent of college first-years believe racism is a thing of the past.

In a survey of 153,015 students, UCLA’s Cooperative Institutional Research Program suggests progress has been made with eliminating racism, but not as much as one might expect.

The 25 percent figure, a slender indication of social progress, reflects a 7 percent increase from SEE RACISM ON PAGE 5

VAISHALI GAUBA STAFF WRITER

On Tuesday, Feb. 10, multiple gunshots that claimed the lives of three young individuals rocked the University of North Carolina at the Chapel Hill campus. The impact of these gunshots was felt throughout the nation.

Deah Shaddy Barakat, his wife Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha and her sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, all Muslims of Arab descent, according to The New York Times, became victims of an alleged parking dispute when their neighbor Craig Stephen Hicks plunged bullets into their head.

While the shooter’s motives have not been made clear yet, many see the homicide to be driven by religious hatred.

Randall Styers, chair of the Department of Religious Studies at UNC Chapel Hill, said even if parking was a factor, it is shocking that the shooter selected these specific targets because he had conflicts with others around the area as well.

Yet, it is difficult to gauge the extent to which religion was involved. “(The shooter) had a lot of hostility toward religion in general, so we don’t know if he saw anything specifically in Islam,” he said. “But it is impossible to know if this was a religious conflict or if religion was a precipitating cause, because sometimes a lot that looks like religious violence is not really all that religious.”

The shooting has garnered attention all over the countr y especially in the UNC Chapel Hill campus where nearly 5,000 people

convened to celebrate the lives of the three university students whom Styers described as “remarkable, impressive young people with enormous potential.”

Closer to home at Rutgers, the Muslim Student Association organized a vigil to honor the dead on Feb. 11, according to a previous article in The Daily Targum.

Taufeeq Ahamed, president of MSA, said that even though his initial reaction was to rally against the problem to Islamophobia in America, he decided to organize the vigil because in times like these, people often forget to commemorate those who were cut short of their lives, according to the article.

Nevertheless, Ahamed, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, too

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Students learn how to reduce violence, harassment at U. DAN COREY ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

During the University’s New Student Orientation program for first-years, presenters strive to educate incoming students about bystander intervention. In a new eight-dose program, faculty members are educating current students about how to be engaged in the Rutgers community.

The third and fourth “doses” of the Office of Violence Prevention and Victim Assistance’s program, “SCREAMing to Prevent Violence,” encouraged students to not be bystanders last night at the College Avenue Gymnasium.

Organized in conjunction with Rutgers Recreation, the program strives to take an in-depth approach to educate students about preventing sexual violence in the Rutgers community, said Laura Luciano, assistant director of the Office of Violence Prevention and Victim Assistance.

Using the SCREAM Theater model presented at New Student Orientation, the multi-session class combines in-class training and out-of-class activities to encourage students to keep the Rutgers campus safe from perpetrators, Luciano said.

“We believe that this is the best way to prevent violence from happening,” she said. “It’s unlikely that a sex offender, that a perpetrator, is going to listen to me and say, ‘My behavior is bad and I’m going to stop.’”

Working with Rutgers Recreation was beneficial for VPVA because it allowed for a formalized registration process for the program, Luciano said.

Dividing the program into several sessions facilitates the diffusion of innovation, which allows new ideas to eventually be adopted in a social system, she said.

“In order to create change, you have to saturate the community you’re interested in,” Luciano said.

The evening’s agenda began with a group discussion of appropri-

ate ways to step in and address perpetrator behaviors exhibited in the SCREAM Theater skit, concerning both the advantages and disadvantages of direct confrontation.

Among other exercises, last night’s class featured video clips of the hidden-camera ABC show “What Would You Do?” for participants to identify inter vention opportunities.

The scenes showcased the need to break down barriers to intervention, as well as possible social costs of doing so, Luciano said.

“The idea of bystander intervention builds community,” she said. “It’s the entire community standing up and saying we’re not going to tolerate sexual violence, domestic violence and stalking on our campus.”

Even though bystander intervention is violence prevention strategy, Luciano said it is adaptable in nature, being applicable to other high-risk situations such as drug or alcohol overdoses.

Conventional risk-reduction strategies widely taught in past years are typically not effective in preventing violence in most scenarios, Luciano said.

Citing students involved in greek life and University athletics as examples, she said educating role models is vital for others to adopt the information VPVA is trying to convey to the student body.

“The idea for us is for people to influence their individual communities,” she said. “It’s important for our message to get to [Greek life] because they listen to each other more than maybe they’re going to listen to me.”

Understanding violence prevention strategies is important for every college student to know, said Kelly Spurrier, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore.

“I think it’s really important,” she said. “Everybody should have some sort of background, especially being a college student … incidents happen.”

All individuals, including students, should understand their per-

Students are encouraged to step in and practice bystander intervention when they see their peers challenged with interpersonal violence or harassment by perpetrators.

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sonal capacity to stop high-risk situations and be a good citizen, said Amanda Santiago, a School of Arts and Sciences junior.

Being educated about bystander intervention is critical to making the community safer, she said. The intimate environment of the inclass sessions also makes it easier for individuals to have their questions answered.

“It’s important to know how to correctly intervene in a situation that could possibly be dangerous

for someone,” she said. “I really think that it’s a problem that people ignore dangerous situations and think that someone else is going to take care of it.”

Knowing bystander intervention techniques is critical for student safety on campus because stepping in during times of crisis is simply the right thing to do, Luciano said.

Not intervening when one should feel morally obligated to do so makes the bystander a part of

the problem, regardless of whether or not they believe it, she said.

“It’s really about helping people learn how to confront in a safe way,” she said. “If you’re not intervening, you’re actually part of the issue.”

Dan Corey is a Rutgers Business School first-year student majoring in pre-business and journalism and media studies. He is an Associate News Editor of The Daily Targum.

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ADMISSIONS Rutgers ranks 33rd in world, 8th among public universities in United States, McAnuff says CONTINUED FROM FRONT

The honors college has space for around 500 students and will be competitive.

The average SAT score of an admitted honors student is a 2210, but varies by school, McAnuff said. This is 600 points higher than the national average.

“The new honors college at Rutgers is giving a venue for the very top students not only in New Jersey, but in the nation,” he said.

The movement to the Big Ten conference has helped attract applicants as well, McAnuff said.

Rutgers was ranked 33rd in the world and 8th among public universities in the U.S., which has had a dramatic impact on international applications, McAnuff said.

Rutgers has recently been selected as the site for the International High School Guidance Counselors summit in the summer of 2016, which will affect future international applications, McAnuff said.

“This will bring 1,200 international high school guidance counselors from 93 countries to the University,” he said. “That will have a big impact on international applications.”

Faculty from each school meets with the Rutgers University Undergraduate Admissions in the fall, Ludescher said. They calculate a target number of students

to admit based on predictions, statistics and trends.

One factor that will affect admissions at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences is a change in the list of majors offered by the school, he said.

The faculty at SEBS voted to discontinue six majors offered

by SEBS that were also offered by the School of Arts and Sciences, such as geography, geological sciences and chemistr y, Ludescher said.

“Students interested in those six majors will be applying to SAS rather than SEBS next year,” he said. “This affects the admissions process.”

Ludescher said the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences is not as competitive as other schools, such as the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, the Rutgers Business School and the School of Engineering.

The Mason Gross School of the Arts has the lowest percent of students admitted, while the School of Pharmacy is the most academically competitive school, McAnuff said.

“I think it’s a tribute to the programs,” McAnuff said. “I believe the runner-up for ‘The Voice’ was an applicant at Mason Gross this year.”

The average GPA of students admitted to the School of Pharmacy last year was 4.05 and the

Admission into Rutgers’ latest class of first-year students is statistically more competitive in comparison to previous years in the University’s history, based on SAT scores and enrollment numbers. THE DAILY TARGUM / SEPTEMBER 2012 average SAT score was 2200, he said.

Many students apply to Mason Gross from across the U.S., but classes are small and enrollment is selective.

Rahul Parehk, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year, said he is glad Rutgers is becoming more selective.

“It will help me when I’m looking for a job in the future,” he said.

“When employers see that I graduated from such a competitive school, it will get me the job.”

He said he hopes the University continues to attract international students because it will bring more diversity to the campus and make Rutgers a more recognized name around the world.

“The trend at Rutgers New Brunswick is that the school is more difficult to get into every

year,” Ludescher said. “The primary thing this reflects is that Rutgers is now more desirable, we are getting more applicants and can be more selective.”

Avalon Zoppo is a Rutgers Business School first-year student majoring in pre-business. She is an Associate News Editor of The Daily Targum. Follow her on Twitter @avalonzoppo for more stories.

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RACISM Individuals convince themselves of their tolerance based on a “bias blind spot,” Rudman says CONTINUED FROM FRONT

when the survey question was first asked in 1990, two years before the assault of Rodney King, which would later precipitate the 1992 Los Angeles race riots.

One possible explanation for this phenomenon is how many young people claim they are more tolerant than others, essentially putting themselves on a pedestal, said Laurie Rudman, a professor in the Department of Psychology at Rutgers.

Rudman, a professor of social psychology, said the per vasiveness of a “bias blind spot” in ever y individual’s psyche leads them to believe they are more accepting of diversity than most of their peers.

“Students claim that they’re more tolerant than other people,” she said. “It’s not just with racism, but with any bias (people might) say ‘Oh that’s not me, but everybody else does that.’”

As a result of this, the overt racism prevalent during the Civil Rights Movement has been replaced with a pernicious “underground” racism that self-deludes an individual’s psyche, Rudman said.

Drawing parallels between racism and sexism, she said most people today would not exercise practices of explicit racism for fear of being socially ostracized, but instead maintain a subconscious, more implicit bias.

“It’s the same with any of the ‘-isms’ that have gone underground,” Rudman said. “We don’t even ask people ‘Are you racist?’ anymore.”

Another contribution to the lack of progress of the front of eliminating racism is its institutionalization in the United States Constitution, said Paul Hirschfield, an associate professor in the Department of Sociology.

One of the main reasons why racism went underground is because the Civil Rights Movement rendered overt racist views socially unacceptable and overt racist practices illegal, Hirschfield said.

Due to recent stop-and-frisk and voter fraud practices targeted at minorities, Hirschfield said he is hesitant to use the term ‘implic-

“The best thing you can do is understand (that) you have these biases and then you can try to counteract them.”

LAURIE RUDMAN Professor in the Department of Psychology

it’ when describing the less obvious form of racism, preferring the term “institutionalized.”

Among other examples, he said discrimination written into law facilitates racist practices that result in such patterns as blacks being arrested for marijuana possession at nearly four times the rate of whites, even though use is nearly equal in both races.

“I believe that institutionalized racism is extremely dangerous because there is no conscious racist actor to expose and sanction,” Hirschfeld said. “A majority of U.S. Supreme Court judges …

still apparently believe that conscious discrimination by race is necessary to violate equal protections under the law.”

It is unusual how “racism-denial” peaked last year with the incoming Class of 2018, considering how highly publicized the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner and Michael Brown were, he said.

Although implicit racism is more difficult to overcome, Hirschfield said the Obama Administration has been taking the lead by trying to force school districts to stop differential suspensions and arrests by race, as well as disparities in use of force.

“It is indeed harder to challenge, because of our antiquated association of racism with explicit bias,” he said. “All of us should … educate journalists, politicians and our friends and families about how subtle and institutionalized forms of racism operate in America.”

Implicit biases or racism are a byproduct of the culture we live in, and nobody has the capability to transcend beyond the culture of their society, Rudman said.

Considering how all psychological research evidence goes against the idea that doing so is possible, she said the only way to remedy implicit bias is to acknowledge it and tr y to address its presence in ever yone’s daily routine.

“The best thing you can do is understand (that) you have these biases and then you can tr y to counteract them,” Rudman said. “You need to know you have the disease before you can work on it.”

Dan Corey is a Rutgers Business School first-year student majoring in pre-business and journalism and media studies. He is an Associate News Editor for The Daily Targum.

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DEAN NJBIZ usually recieves around 200 nominations for business women, Plateroti says CONTINUED FROM FRONT

After being appointed as the business school’s new dean in January, Lei was nominated by a colleague, but was not aware of the nomination until the recipients of the honor were announced, Lei said.

The challenge of leading the business school through change is one that Lei said she looks for ward to.

“The dean must be more than a ‘chief academic officer’,” Lei said. “The dean must be a team builder who mobilizes people, and the dean must be a catalyst in the process of transforming Rutgers Business School into a strong position of leadership among our peers in the coming years.”

The ceremony, which will be held March 23, will also recognize female professionals from medical centers and organizations such as the State Bar Association, and companies such as Fidelity Investments and Public Service Enterprise Group.

The program usually attracts about 200 nominations, said Erika Plateroti, representative for NJBIZ. Candidates may be self-nominated or nominated by another person, and must hold significant decision-making authority in their position, according to NJBIZ. The judges concentrate on professional accomplishments, community involvement and advocacy for women, with particular emphasis on recent accomplishments.

RBS has committed to supporting women and preparing them to be leaders in the workforce, Lei said. More than 50 percent of the full-time MBA program at RBS is

composed of women, a statistic greater than any other business school in the Big Ten. “I am honored to be among this prominent group of women leaders in business,” Lei said. “And I look forward to seeing many Rutgers graduates on this list in the future.”

Placement among the state’s top businesswomen is not only a stride for women in the field, but for minority women in particular, Spiegle said.

Rutgers Business School firstyear student Kealyn Engenhart, said the recognition Lei received makes Rutgers even more valuable as a business school and encourages women who are pursuing a business career. “(Recognition) is definitely even more motivation to keep going with a business major,” Engenhart said. “Even my dad says it is a highly male-dominated industry, but hearing that (Lei received the award) gives you the inspiration that you can succeed.”

Although the award indicates a personal accomplishment, Spiegle said that is not the way Lei will approach it.

“Knowing her, it has just humbled her,” she said. “She does not look at awards –– she is constantly telling everybody else what a great job they do. She would look at it as something that would enhance the school or the department.”

Rutgers Business School sophomore Maya Chacko was proud of Lei’s representation of the business school.

“I think she is serving as a role model,” she said. “I know there is a ‘glass ceiling’ in the world today, but I think we’re coming to a time when we can finally put that past us.”

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DEATHS How media portrays deaths leads people to believe this incident was hate crime, Lin says CONTINUED FROM FRONT

was filled with grief on learning about the nature of the incident.

“This is one of the few times that Muslims are being seen as victims,” he said. “I was five when 9/11 happened so I have lived my entire life knowing Islamophobia.

For me to see this is so painful. It’s a culmination of the fears we have felt for so long.”

Saira Berenise Chavez, a Rutgers Business School junior, said she felt the media understated the attack and did not give it the required attention.

“How could the media not be covering it when young lives are being lost,” she said. “In the situation we find (ourselves) in the world, it’s strange to not emphasize this situation. That made it seem like everyone wanted to hide it.”

Expressing disappointment in media coverage was Sam Lin, pastor for the Rutgers Community

Christian Church and chaplain for the University.

“The way the media portrayed it by, only identifying that they are Muslims and not disclosing their ethnic background or anything about them, I think it leads the reader to think of it more as a hate crime than just a tragedy,” Lin said.

The incident also caught University President Robert L. Barchi’s heed who sent a mass email to the Rutgers community highlighting the diversity that Rutgers endorses and condemning any violence, regardless of the motive.

Ahamed said although he really appreciated Barchi reacting to the whole situation, he wished Barchi would have also directed something toward the Muslim community at Rutgers since they are they ones who feel most threatened by the incident at UNC Chapel Hill.

To combat this threat, Styers said incidents of violence are op-

portunities to think about what kind of society we envision of ourselves and about issues like gun violence in America.

“We need to think of better ways to deal with such conflicts,” he said. “What happened here is really senseless and pointless.

The world is going to be a lesser place because of the loss of the lives of these students. These happen all too often in America and that a great, great tragedy for all of us.”

Ahamed too recognized that violence bearing the labels of religion has become commonplace in America and this incident does not stand in singularity.

“There’s one thing I know about the American Muslim community — that there are so many more Deah Shaddy Barakats, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salhas and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salhas. They weren’t an isolated case,” he said.

Vaishali Gauba is a Rutgers Business School junior majoring in business administration and journalism and media studies. She is the former News Editor of The Daily Targum. Follow her on Twitter @vaishaligauba for more stories.

MAMMAL MENTOR Diana Reiss, a marine mammal scientist at Hunter College and the Animal Behavior and Comparative Psychology Doctoral program at The Graduate Center, CUNY, spoke at a lecture, “An Evening with Diana Reiss,” hosted by the Douglass Residential College at the Douglass Student Center.

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CRIME FEB. 18 TRENTON - Rabbi Mendel Epstein, his son, Ari Epstein, and two other rabbis face kidnapping-related charges after a Federal Bureau of Investigation sting led to their arrests in 2013. The men are accused of charging undercover agents $60,000 so they could get a man to grant his wife a divorce that would be recognized by a Jewish court.

FEB. 18 PRINCETON - Princeton police are circulating a photo and asking for help identifying a woman captured on video surveillance at a drug store using a stolen credit. The woman, described as white or Hispanic, between 18 and 25 years old, with a median-heavy build is seen on surveillance video in the Kendall Park Section of South Brunswick. The credit card stolen was from a Princeton home.

FEB. 18 LINDEN - Police are seeking a man they say say deliberately hit another man with his car over what they're describing as a "love triangle." The victim was visiting his girlfriend when the car appeared on the street shortly before midnight. The police said the driver of the 1995 Toyota Camry revved the engine before driving at the victim, who suffered bruises and abrasions to his shoulder, leg and hands.

FEB. 17 NEWARK - Daniel Bedford is sentenced for 25 years in state prison for stabbing Kareem Montague to death. The stabbing occurred in the early morning hours of June 6, 2012, when Montague and his girlfriend were selling PCP cigarettes and Bedford entered their vehicle.

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Local band Fiscal Cliff stands on edge of musical greatness RACHEL NAROZNIAK STAFF WRITER

Breaking into the New Brunswick underground music scene in a self-described “bluesy indie” explosion of sound is the Jersey City and Hoboken based band, Fiscal Clif f.

Now composed of members Carlos Perez, an Ar ts and Sciences sophomore, Mike Prussack, a New York University first-year, Manny Ray, a William Paterson junior, and Luis Garrido, a first-year student in the Rutgers School of Engineering, Fiscal Clif f was not always as refined as it is today.

Instead, the band rose like a phoenix, evolving from the ashes of a previous band in which Prussack and Garrido contributed their creativity and musical talent. When the previous band dissolved, Prussack and Garrido recruited Perez, Fiscal Cliff’s current guitarist and vocalist, and Ray, the band’s resident drummer.

As with all new creations comes the necessity of a name, especially one unique enough to

garner attention in a world buzzing with aspiring bands. When asked if the name “Fiscal Cliff” held any sort of special significance, Garrido chuckled, but denied the existence of such profound meaning.

Reflecting on the potential humor and influence found in cur-

“Basically, we want to be the illegitimate love child of Dr. Dog, Ben Howard, and Delta Spirit.”

LUIS GARRIDO Guitarist of Fiscal Cliff

rent events, Garrido said “The US budget was relevant in the news when we were tr ying to pick a name. ‘Fiscal Cliff’ really started as an ironic joke, but before you knew it, it stuck.”

While the name “Fiscal Clif f” itself rolls of f the tongue with a fluidity that entices listeners,

the musicality of the band is fur thered by its contemporar y, yet unique sound.

Like most music fans, the members of Fiscal Clif f are inspired by their respective favorite bands, yet emphasize the priority of maintaining an original, authentic sound.

“Basically,” Garrido says, “we want to be the illegitimate love child of Dr. Dog, Ben Howard, and Delta Spirit.”

Fans of such ar tists, and curious listeners alike can sample Fiscal Clif f’s work on their website, fclif f.bandcamp. com, where two releases are available for download. In the meantime, the band is focusing on the production of its next release, a full length album possibly due this summer.

Despite its desire to put out an album, Fiscal Cliff remains committed to playing as many shows as possible. Fiscal Cliff once struggled to book shows, recalling the start of their musical venture at the end of high school, when venues often refused to host the band regard-

Fiscal Cliff consists of (left to right) singer-guitarist Carlos Perez, bassist-vocalist Mike Prussack, drummer-vocalist Manny Ray, and guitarist Luis Garrido. COURTESY OF MARIO LOBO

Vocalist and guitarrist Carlos Perez is a sophomore in the school of Arts and Sciences. The band performed January 2 at the Hoboken St. Matthew’s Church. MICHELLE KLEJMONT / MANAGING EDITOR

less of music quality, due to age restrictions.

“We took things into our own hands and homes,” Garrido reminisced, “and hosted shows in our living rooms, basements, churches –– pretty much anywhere, so that our friends and ourselves would have a place to perform, and have a good time.”

Today, the band aims to build upon its past, and expand its reach in the future, especially in New Brunswick.

“We are tr ying to work our way into the New Brunswick basement scene, since there are so many great bands and musicians, and we want to be

a par t of that incredible atmosphere,” notes Garrido.

You can see Fiscal Cliff appear live in New Brunswick on March 2nd, in Montclair on March 8th, in Ramapo on March 27th and again at Rutgers University on April 18th and 25th for Rutgers Day. For more information on Fiscal Cliff, future performances and musical announcements, you can visit them at www.facebook. com/FiscalCliffNJ, or find them on Instagram at @FiscalCliffNJ. For more stories on ar ts and enter tainment, food and lifestyle check out targuminsidebeat.com.

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werking, Afros and cornrows. Each of these overlap between cultures should not be surprising — was once unique to black and African-Amer- but there is a difference between blending cultures ican culture, yet now they’ve become main- and appreciating styles as opposed to claiming them stream trends. It happened through a process called outright. The idea of stamping dances and music as “columbasing,” defined by Urban Dictionary as a pro- your own, while juvenile at a glance, is rooted in uncess in which “white people claim they have invented derstandable notions of being able to relate to a conor discovered something that has been around for cept as unique and individual. As American culture beyears, decades or even centuries.” Just look at the in- comes increasingly homogenous, it makes sense that ception of Rock n’ Roll, pioneered by black artists like different races and groups of people want to be able Muddy Water, Chuck Berry and Howlin’ Wolf. Howev- to trademark ideas, making their own trends distinct er, Elvis Presley, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones from mainstream culture.

It is discouraging that for years, black people have are artists credited with the formation of Rock n’ Roll, completely disregarding the artists they adapted their received criticism for their practices, but then once these ideas become mainstream, it’s as if that struggle music from.

White people are not entirely to blame for “colum- never existed. Hip-hop and rap emerged as a form of sobasing” — the evolution of American culture is. On the cial commentary for black people living in disparaged communities. The surface, it looks music was their polike a misguidlitical freedom, it aled cycle. Black “It’s good to be accepting and non-judgmental people create of cultures and traditions, but issues arise when lowed them to voice their concerns and something, white people are quick to jump onto a trend without be heard when no people initially realizing that there is a story behind the dance, one wanted to lisshun them for it ten. The challenge but then warm up the lyrics or the hairstyle.” is to define artistic to the idea only to boundaries and reclater adapt it as their own. Black women were twerking long before Mi- ognize when said boundaries have been inappropriateley Cyrus and Taylor Swift starting doing it, but back ly crossed. It’s good to be accepting and non-judgmenthen it was viewed as degrading. Yet, once Miley and tal of cultures and traditions, but issues arise when Taylor joined in, the dance became empowering and people are quick to jump onto a trend without realizing important enough to be discussed on the nightly news that there is a story behind the dance, the lyrics or the in an endearing manner. But when people like a style hairstyle. People rarely think about where something of music or manner of dress, they begin to emulate it originated before accepting it as their favorite style of music or dress. without realizing the history related to their actions.

Entertainment and fashion trends are fluid: dances High fashion runways have pocketed blonde and white cornrows and Afros as their own, essentially dis- that were thought of as cheap or offensive are now regarding the long, drawn out politicization of Black in style and what is seen as fashionable today will be women’s natural hair that has taken place in US cul- considered old school tomorrow. Is it so wrong for ture. The Harlem shake began as as a shoulder roll people to like an idea so much that they claim it as and arm shimmy, not a chaotic dance move akin to a their own? Even if imitation is the sincerest form of flash mob. Fashion and entertainment are elements of flattery, the point is to recognize and appreciate where social life that everyone takes part in. Therefore, the trends originate.

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Mack should go down as Rutgers great STUMPER’S SPORTS JAMES STUMPER

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s the Rutgers men’s basketball season winds down, it has become painfully apparent that this team was not quite ready for the Big Ten and the challenges it presents on the court.

With just five regular season games remaining, the Scarlet Knights have been relegated to playing spoiler and tr ying to make magic happen in the conference tournament, just a few weeks away. Anything is possible, but with RU’s last win coming on Jan. 11, it doesn’t seem likely that they will do much damage.

One player who will look to disprove that — and who has been fighting for this program since the day he arrived on campus four years ago — is senior Myles Mack.

The record book shows that Myles Mack has compiled impressive numbers ever since he became a Scarlet Knight. Statistically speaking, the 5’10 guard from Patterson, NJ is one of the greatest RU basketball players of all time. He ranks 9th all-time in points scored, 8th all-time in free throws made, 4th all-time in assists and three-pointers made, and has the second-most steals out of anyone in Scarlet Knights history.

Mack’s incredible on-court production is only part of the reason why he should be remembered by fans. He came in back

in 2011 with one of the more promising recruiting classes in school history. Back then everyone expected the program to skyrocket thanks to the incoming talent, but it sputtered on the court and was even worse off it, after the Mike Rice bullying scandal became national news. That turmoil caused talented players like Eli Carter, Derrick Randall and Jerome Seagears to transfer and put Rutgers in their rearview mirrors. No one is blaming those players, I’m not even sure if I would have wanted to stay within the program after what transpired. Mack, though, who had other options coming out of high school, chose to stay at home and stick with Rutgers despite the uncertainty moving forward. He never gave up on this program at a time when it would have been extremely easy to.

That dedication to the program thrust him into a leadership role, one that he embraced coming into the season, saying at this season’s media day that he was trying to “lead his teammates and get them to lock in every day.”

Mack is one of three seniors in the rotation, along with Malick Kone and Kadeem Jack. With their move into the Big Ten, game time for Mack has increased, with the Scarlet Knights going up against top-tier talent on a weekly basis. Just this season alone, Mack has had the pleasure of going up against names like Yogi Ferrel and D’Angelo Russell, two players who will likely find themselves in the NBA in the not-too-distant future. In addition to just matchups, Mack has had to shoulder an incredible load,

averaging 36 minutes per game, putting him among the leaders in the country.

It hasn’t always been easy on the court, either. There have been more downs than ups, but Mack has been around for a few of the bigger wins in program history – including a heart-stopping victory his freshman year at home against the Florida Gators, and an incredible upset of the #4 Wisconsin Badgers earlier this season. He has provided some amazing individual efforts, including a shooting display earlier this year at historic Assembly Hall in Indiana that took the air out of one of college basketball’s greatest buildings.

“We have been very fortunate to have Myles in our basketball program,” said Assistant Athletic Director Kevin Lorincz.

“Not only is he a talented player, he’s a good person who does things the right way.

There are people in life that you can always count on. Myles Mack is one of those people. He has a very bright future.”

Despite his time at Rutgers not being everything people hoped for, Myles Mack has been one of the few reliable consistencies this program has had to lean on over the past four years. There have been two coaches, two Athletic Directors and a revolving door for the rest of the roster but one of the few constants over the past four seasons has been #4, Myles Mack. For that, Rutgers fans should be grateful.

James Stumper is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in journalism and media studies and history. His column, “Stumper’s Sports,” runs monthly on Thursdays.

Fifty Shades of Grey is sexual violence Christian doesn’t care about Ana’s boundaries. He only cares about his own pleasure.

VICKY TAFT The two don’t engage in any “after care” following their violent sex, because Christian feels no need to make Ana feel cared hen “Fifty Shades of Grey” first for. She is simply a sex toy that he can use came out, so many people were and abuse whenever he wants, further abusexcited by the idea of an erotic ing her love for him. And so many people novel designed to be target women. Many find this abuse sexually appealing. found the novel extremely sexually appealIt’s problematic that this franchise has ing without recognizing that there is a semade so much money and that so many peorious problem surrounding Christian and ple read the book and are now seeing the Ana’s sexual relationship. Christian Grey movie. The movie was released on Valenand Ana seem to fall in “love” in the novel, tine’s Day, a day that’s supposed to celebrate but Christian’s feelings are unclear. What love, and many people celebrated their love is clear is that he loves violent sex. There by watching a woman be abused on screen. is absolutely nothing wrong with BDSM by There are a lot of people who think “Fifty nature; it is a sexual fetish built upon trust Shades of Grey” is a fantastic book, very where the “dominant sexy, and an accupartner” typically posrate representation sesses the majority the BDSM com“Ana is completely submissive, Christian is completely dominant. of of the control and the munity, which is far They establish a safe word to make Ana feel comfortable with “submissive partner” from the truth. “Fifbeing submissive, but it means nothing. Christian ignores it. obeys them. This alty Shades of Grey” ways includes safe promotes violence When Ana says the safe word, he keeps going.” words to indicate against women and when a partner crossmisrepresents the es a line that makes BDSM community. the other one uncomfortable, abruptly endDuring their actual sexual intercourse, The fact that we as a society are able to ing the action. After BDSM sex there is also Ana is completely submissive, Christian is get sexual pleasure out of a book that prowhat is known as “after care,” where the two completely dominant. They establish a safe motes sexual violence against women says a (or more) partners console each other, re- word to make Ana feel comfortable with lot. It clearly indicates that we live with rape establishing that they care for and think of being submissive, but it means nothing. culture, and that needs to change. Violence each other as equals. None of this is present Christian ignores it. When Ana says the against women isn’t sexy. BDSM is not disrein “Fifty Shades of Grey.” safe word, he keeps going. This is not sexy, spectful. Our society needs to start respect“Fifty Shades of Grey” portrays BDSM as and this is not what a healthy BDSM rela- ing each other’s sexual preferences without a fetish of coercion, abuse, and total domi- tionship looks like. If you ask your partner harming one another. Do not read or go see nation without having equal respect for your to stop having sex with you and they keep “Fifty Shades of Grey”. If you do, you are partner. Christian blatantly admits that he going, this is rape. giving money to a franchise that promotes likes to abuse women during moments of inIn BDSM relationships, it is always abuse, and you become part of the problem. timacy, however he does want their consent. known that when the partners are taking on At first Ana is uncomfortable with the idea of dominant or submissive roles, and even saVicky Taft is a School of Arts and Sciencbeing his submissive partner, but he coerces dist or masochist roles, they are equals and es senior majoring in English with a minor her into agreeing. This is the first problem. boundaries are respected, never crossed. in psychology.

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Ana originally said the idea of being fully submissive was too uncomfortable. But Christian pressured her, and almost guilt tripped her into saying yes. Ana felt she had to agree to be his submissive partner because she loved him and didn’t want to lose him. This is not enthusiastic consent — this is coercion and coercion is rape. If Ana had said yes from the start or expressed interest in being his submissive partner prior to being pressured, then there would be no issue here. However, she didn’t want to do it. Ana agrees to violent sex because she loves Christian and felt that not doing it would give him a reason to leave her. She reluctantly submits to him, and thus begins the story that fetishizes rape called “Fifty Shades of Grey.”

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Student government stealing student money This Thursday, Rutgers University Student Assembly is voting on a bill to provide salaries to the RUSA e-board, and of course, the people who actually can vote are the people hoping to receive the money. The executive board of RUSA would like to ensure that RUSA money is spent on themselves. If you oppose this, come to the RUSA meeting Thursday at 8 p.m. in the Student Activities Center on the College Avenue campus.

This Thursday night RUSA is voting to offer salaries to their student officers to prevent any student from being excluded either based on financial reasons, or because a RUSA time commitment prevents them from being employed. However, these reasons are not sufficient to provide monetary compensation. First, even without a financial incentive a number of students run for e-board. Second, many of the e-board, including the secretary and chairs, have part-time jobs alongside RUSA responsibilities. Third, the RUSA e-board ran for the position aware of the necessary time commitment and are aware of the opportunity costs inherent in the position. While RUSA e-board is a time commitment it does not prevent a member from having a job and is not more time consuming than any other student responsibility.

“The executive board of RUSA would like to ensure that RUSA money is spent on themselves. ” If the RUSA e-board wanted to help the students financially then instead of helping themselves, they would send their extra budget to scholarship funds or spend their time advocating for financial support. The e-board can lobby Trenton for more funding, can work with the telefund to solicit funds, can donate themselves or can suggest to Rutgers other ways to cut funding. If RUSA was concerned with how expensive tuition is, then the e-board can work on it.

Tuition was not even one of the RUSA’s e-board’s campaign promises.

When the current e-board ran for election they ran with three campaign promises and have accomplished none of them: shared governance, cheaper textbooks and campus safety. Have they even made progress? Also has the e-board even organized any campaign that helps students this semester? They mentioned helping veterans and students with mental health stigmas, yet all of these bills were tabled or “sent back to committee.” Should an ineffective e-board be compensated? (Unsurprisingly, this bill to pay RUSA members made it out of committee before the other bills.)

If RUSA has extra money, they can give it to causes or scholarships instead of taking it for themselves. Being awarded money for sitting in an office and not accomplishing any of their goals is a greedy bureaucracy.

Maybe RUSA members deserve to be compensated for successful campaigns that help students after they complete their campaign resolutions, because being paid to accomplish nothing is a waste of student money.

Come voice your opinion and hear the vote.

Talia Friedman is a senior in the School of Arts and Sciences majoring in Middle Eastern studies and economics.

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DIVERSIONS Nancy Black

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Today’s Birthday (02/19/15). Mars enters Aries today, motivating profits to begin your next year. Advance your career. Use your power for good.

Friends support your success; nurture your networks. Make preparations to realize a personal objective after 3/20. Carefully track numbers, especially after 4/4. Budget extra for the unexpected. Partnership sparks after 10/13.

Express your love and appreciation. To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 7 — Slow down and think it over. There’s an opportunity if you take time to look for it. Focus on restoring health and wellness, and supporting vitality. Consider mental, physical and spiritual well-being. Rest and recharge.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is an 8 — Words and actions align, but there may be a roadblock. Try another tactic. Dispel confusion with key questions. Your network has the answers. Take a leap of faith. Others respect your good sense. All ends well.

Strengthen reserves.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Today is a 9 — Extend your influence by taking new responsibility.

Achieve a career milestone or new level. Do what you said you would, and the pieces line up. Generate profits from home. Let your partner win. Stand for love.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Today is a 9 — Put your money where your mouth is for a fat payout. Remember the rules.

Don’t fall for an illusion. A delightful adventure carries you off.

Post selfies from exotic destinations. Record the amazing things you’re learning.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is an 8 — Don’t spend more than you can afford or finance a fantasy. Handle obligations and bills before treats. Listen to your partner’s dream, and determine how to support it over time. By working together, you can grow resources.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 9 — Keep your promises with your partner, and dreams become possible. Do what you said, and then create new promises to realize shared goals. Organize your efforts. Together you can accomplish amazing things this month.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 9 — The work you do now and for the next month has long-lasting impact. Make bold declarations and realize them. Play bigger than you normally do. Expand your game. Provide exceptional value, and it comes back to you.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is an 8 — All that practice pays off. The talents you’ve been honing shine in the spotlight.

Long-term benefit is possible. A dream takes focus. Take on a big challenge and win. It’s getting exceptionally fun (and romantic) this month.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is an 8 — Big home renovation projects (or possibly a move) come together this month. Ask for what you really want, and then show up to do the work to get it.

You can make dreams come true.

Set long-term goals.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is an 8 — Talk is cheap, so back yours with action. Get practical, and hone your message down to basics. Declare your intentions, enlist support from your circles, and then keep your word. You can accomplish huge things together.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 9 — Keep showing up and doing what you said this month, and raise your income without stress. Get creative with your work. Play with it. Stay in communication and meet your deadlines.

It could get wonderfully profitable.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 9 — You can realize things you thought impossible this month. Put on your power suit and go drive them wild. Others say nice things about you. A personal breakthrough is available.

Expand your boundaries. Take new ground.

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BATTLE After seven days off since 61-51 home loss to Purdue, Rutgers seeks rebound win CONTINUED FROM BACK haven’t wavered.

“Each game you go into, you should expect to win. And we do,” Jordan said. “No matter what your record says or what kind of streak you’re on, or how things look — good or bad — you expect to go into a game and win.”

If only producing results was that easy.

Five of Rutgers’ last six losses came by double-digits. Three of them were at the Louis Brown Athletic Center, most recently a 61-51 defeat last Thursday to Purdue in which the Knights came on strong late but produced their lowest point total (16) in a Big Ten first half this season.

“For the first 35 [minutes] we were stagnant, we weren’t moving the ball. We weren’t getting the right people touches,” Mack said. “And the last five, we just played like we gave it our all. We did what we’re normally supposed to do with our last five minutes.”

Still, the Knights again found comfort in a solid defensive showing — the Boilermakers shot 40 percent from the field.

“The defensive effort was great,” Jack said. “Coach talked about it during Ohio State, and we wanted to come back and definitely redeem ourselves.”

While defense has often kept the Rutgers in games, costly mental

February 19, 2015 breakdowns — particularly in transition — have kept the Knights from pulling out a road victory this season.

The Knights typically struggle to maintain good offensive possessions once teams switch to a 2-3 zone, limiting Jack’s presence in the paint and Mack’s spacing off screens.

“Other guys have to step up,” Jordan said. “When [teams] take away Myles — when they double-team his pick and rolls — or they double Kadeem in the post, other guys have to be available to make plays and make shots. We just have to get better offensively at what we do.”

Luckily for Rutgers, Iowa has had its own consistency issues.

After winning four of their first five Big Ten games, the Hawkeyes have dropped five of seven league contests. They have also yet to win a conference game (0-6) when scoring fewer than 70 points, making defense all the more critical for Rutgers.

Senior forward Aaron White leads the team with 14.6 points and 6.9 rebounds per game on 50 percent field goal shooting and 80.5 percent free throw shooting, which both rank top 10 in the conference.

With Iowa returning home fresh off a bad loss at Northwestern, Rutgers’ seventh attempt at its first Big Ten road win once again won’t come easy.

“Everybody is going to be tough, no matter where you are,” Jordan said.

“We have some problems that we’ve got to get better at, and that’s what we look at. ... [Iowa] will be ready to play us, whether they won three in a row or they lost three in a row.”

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DRAGONS In final regular season dual, Knights aim to champion last year’s win over Drexel CONTINUED FROM BACK does not care who the opponent is. He and the rest of the Rutgers program know nothing can be worse than the grind of the Big Ten and the elite teams presented all throughout the top-25.

While no team is to be taken lightly, McCabe knows an out-of-conference Drexel team with a below-.500 winning percentage is not as big of a threat as the monster Big Ten schedule the Knights have already seen.

“I think since we’ve been wrestling in the Big Ten Conference, we’re ready for anyone now,” McCabe said. “We’ve faced the five best teams in the country, so we are definitely prepared for them. It should be a good way to get a win before the Big Ten Tournament –– we all want to get a win and feel good going into that so we can surprise some people.”

Coming off of one of their largest wins of the season against Princeton this past Saturday, 2411, the Knights not only want to replicate that result, they want to do better.

Despite the impressive outing, the USA Today/NWCA Coaches Poll that was released Wednesday surprised Goodale. Rutgers was not where it was the week before –– falling two spots –– so Goodale emphasized the need to stay in the poll.

With one match left prior to the Big Ten Tournament, sophomore 125-pounder Sean McCabe said the Knights are ready for anyone.

MICHELLE KLEJMONT / MANAGING EDITOR / FEBRUARY 2015

“It seems like we need to have a better dual than against Princeton,” Goodale said. “We were [No.] 21 in the countr y, won as big as we have won all season and then we dropped two spots to [No.] 23 in the nation. Rankings matter, so if that’s the case, we want to stay in the top-25 going into the Big Ten Tournament.”

Goodale and the rest of the program bought into the mantra “Peak in March” a long time ago.

The idea being that what happens throughout the dual season does not matter if you perform poorly at the Big Ten Championships –– which typically take place the first week of March –– and the NCAA Tournament, which falls during the end of March.

With the last dual meet of the season two weeks away from Big Ten’s, it presents the perfect opportunity to end the season positively so that the Knights perform well in the postseason. With such a rollercoaster of a season, Perrotti already knows how important it is to finish on top.

“You definitely want to end the season with a win and end on a high note,” Perrotti said. “It’s been an up and down season –– we had all the ups and plenty of downs. I think right now we are wrestling at our best, so it will be good to cap the season off with a nice, dominating victory.”

For updates on the Rutgers wrestling team, follow @TylerKaralewich and @TargumSports on Twitter.

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February 19, 2015 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

SOFTBALL

Senior stares down all-time wins record RYAN MORAN STAFF WRITER

Three years ago, senior pitcher Alyssa Landrith arrived from sunny California on the banks of the Raritan to start her collegiate softball career.

Now, she is staring down the chance to break the Rutgers’ softball team’s all-time wins record.

After earning her 53rd career win on Friday against the Santa Barbara, she is now 12 wins short of cementing her legacy with the Scarlet Knights.

She has won at least 17 games in her first three seasons and looks to continue that track record.

“She has been our mainstay and the ace the last three years she has been here,” said head coach Jay Nelson. “She has a good work ethic. ... Her adaptability to changing mid-game and game-to-game is one of the big reasons she succeeds.”

To this point in her career, Landrith sports a 53-37 record with a 2.38 earned run average and 491 career strikeouts. She comes with some serious mileage, having started 63 consecutive games and accumulating 580.1 innings pitched.

“I think from year one to year two, you get stronger,” Landrith said. “You put on more muscle mass and have more explosiveness. You become smarter with batters and how to attack them by mixing speed and locations.”

When Landrith takes the mound, she focuses on helping her teammates.

“I try not to think any statistical things or records,” Landrith said.

“... You have to think one pitch at a time, one inning at a time, one game at a time — and that’s how you win games.”

Since he has recruited her, Nelson has seen Landrith evolve into the rotation’s rock.

“She is a quiet leader that leads by example,” Nelson said. “The team looks up to her to have a solid game and give them a chance. She stays calm throughout, even in the games she doesn’t pitch well. ... She has short term memory.”

An unselfish Landrith kept her teammates in mind regarding how she has been able to get this far.

“I appreciate so much from all the teammates I’ve been with since day one,” Landrith said. “We go through it every day and it’s been a very rewarding experience being here. My composure on the mound has definitely improved from year one to year four.”

Nelson pointed to Landrith’s selflessness and single-stream focus to help the team out best she can. She doesn’t care much about stats or putting herself in a long-storied history at Rutgers, but rather what benefits the entire team.

“It would be a great achievement to be number one in a record book with a long history but I don’t think that’s how she looks at it,” Nelson said. “It’s something she can look back at and be proud of, but right now we are competing to win the Big Ten Conference and that’s her main focus.”

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Winners in 10 of its past 12 games, Rutgers has caught fire at the right time. Senior wing Betnijah Laney attributes the success to all-around team chemistry. NAAZ MODAN / FEBRUARY 2015

Knights hit groove at critical time CONOR NORDLAND CORRESPONDENT

As the temperatures across the New Brunswick and Piscataway areas continue to drop, there is one place where things are heating up at the perfect time.

In its home court at the Louis Brown Athletic Center, the Rutgers women’s basketball team has been playing some of its strongest basketball in recent weeks.

Winners in 10 of their last 12 games, with the lone two losses both at the hands of No. 5 Maryland, the Scarlet Knights are in prime position to make a run in the upcoming postseason tournaments.

Ask anyone on the team and they will accredit the work that goes on behind the scenes.

Effective practices, team chemistry and relying on each other have been the keys to success for the Knights, who have reached 20 wins for the 15th time in 20 seasons under head coach C. Vivian Stringer.

“Just knowing we can count on every single person on the bench and on the floor we don’t have any downers — everyone has energy, everyone just loves to be a part of it,” said senior wing Betnijah Laney. “It’s really key for us going into these games where it’s going to be us against everyone else.”

In their last game against Illinois, eight Knights scored in the contest and the team combined for 18 assists.

Rutgers ranks sixth in the Big Ten with 16.4 assists per game.

Its 70.4 points per game is the highest scoring average of any team since Stringer became the head coach.

But like any team coached

by Stringer, defense always comes first.

This group of Knights are no different, ranking first in the Big Ten in field goal percentage defense at 36 percent. To go with that, their 59.6 points allowed per game ranks second behind Nebraska.

“We tried to be much more focused with getting the ball to the inside,” Stringer said. “We wanted to make sure we moved

“Everyone has energy, everyone loves to be a part of it. ... It’s going to be us against everyone else.”

BETNIJAH LANEY Senior wing

the ball, and I thought the team has been doing a great job of that, and the other is that we wanted the ’55’ to be something that we can count on and we are consistent with.”

The chemistry of the team is imperative to a collective defensive effort that the Knights roll out each game, and the work they have been exerting in practice has been evident during games.

Stringer spoke last week about how she has been changing the normal practice routines in ef for ts to get more out of her players.

Rutgers has been going starter-versus-starter to raise the

competitive level of each practice, relying less on practice squad players and more on those who play impactful minutes on the court.

The results have been evident in ever y game since the switch, with more role players getting involved and starters playing to their strengths and more efficiently.

“I think it’s how we have been practicing,” junior wing Kahleah Copper said postgame last week.

“We’ve been really competing against each other and it really converted. We came out and we were just competitive. We didn’t want them to get the ball, and we were just having flashbacks from practice and those situations, so I think that competitiveness starts in practice and we have to always do that because it shows in games.”

All the positives the Knights have been riding lately will be pivotal once the conference tournament concludes, and it is time to seed the NCAA tournament bracket. Every win is important now, and every minute played by starters and reserves will give the coaching staff a clearer picture of how to form and execute lineups for the postseason.

“Each and every position is proving themselves to be legitimate, and what we hope to do in the next three games is to hope to compliment each other and to recognize all the things it’s going to take to win at the highest levels,” Stringer said.

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February 19, 2015 MEN’S LACROSSE BRECHT SAYS BIEDA CAN BEAT HIS MAN ON SHEER WILL, DETERMINATION

Rutgers attackman finds solace in signs, selflessness KEVIN XAVIER ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

The scorer always gets the praise.

While he is high-fiveing his teammates in celebration, another guy stands alone.

In the distance, behind the bevy of truculent chest bumps and fervent fist pounds is the guy who made that play possible — the assist man.

He may get a high five or two, but his gratification comes from a simpler gesture — the point.

Regardless of sport, when a player scores — most times not until after the fives, knucks and bumps — he will often offer a token of thanks to the player that set him up by extending his index finger.

That is the moment Scott Bieda goes bananas.

Bieda, who runs point for the Rutgers men’s lacrosse team, embodies that assist-man mentality.

The junior shows up early and he leaves late. Everyone thinks he’s a great teammate and he gets a rush when another registers a goal.

“When I set someone up to score, they’ll point back at me and say, ‘That’s all you,’ and that’s when I know I’ve done my job,” Bieda said.

The attacker led the Scarlet Knights in assists last season with 24 and his 1.6 assists per game average ranked 32nd in the countr y.

Bieda feels his vision to see the field is his biggest attribute.

“I would say that I have ability to see things that others just don’t,” the captain said. “Maybe they think that a guy is covered but I think he’s open because I’m able to look off a defender to get him space.”

It’s a selfless and often thankless job to be a facilitator as opposed to a punc-

tuator, but Bieda doesn’t mind the moniker.

In fact, he relishes it.

“It’s easy to find an open guy that’s just like playing catch,” Bieda said. “A great assist guy is able to look off a defender and fit it in to a teammate with a guy on his hands. I think I work as hard as anybody in the country — if not harder — to be that guy.”

His teammates agree.

“Scott Bieda is the best teammate you could ask for.” said junior defender Nick Capparelli.

“Without a doubt.”

Some leaders are vocal, while others lead by example.

Bieda is the latter and more for the Knights.

“He’s always doing extra work and he’s always doing more than everyone else,” Capparelli said.

“You see him playing wall-ball after practice and it makes you wanna put in the extra work.”

But there are times when Bieda needs someone to assist him, someone to set him up to score.

Bieda says that when he is up against it, that man is his grandfather.

Bieda’s grandfather was in the stands for every game. He served as his best friend, mentor and cheerleader.

The 5-foot-9, 2014 Second Team All-Big East assist-man recalled one of the highlights of his career with his buddy and his brother watching in the stands.

“Freshman year, he came to the Duke game and I got a goal,” Bieda said. “It was and is a great memory.”

Five days later, Bieda’s grandfather lost his battle with cancer.

But for Bieda, he wasn’t gone.

His presence takes many shapes and forms, but it is always there.

“I get weird signs that he’s there sometimes and it’s like, ‘Whoa, that’s weird. That was him — no doubt that was him,’” Bieda said. “Sometimes I look up at the clock and it’s 47 up there.

Junior attacker Scott Bieda led the team in assists last year with 24, enough to earn Second Team All-Big East honors. Bieda has three assists in 2015. TIAN LI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / MARCH 2013 That’s him just saying, ‘You got this, stay focused.’”

Down three goals against St. John’s in the season opener on Feb. 7, the sign appeared.

“I looked at the clock and it said 10:47 and we were down,” Bieda said. “So, I looked at my attackmen and said ‘Chris [Trasolini], Jules [Heninburg], we’re not losing this game. We’re coming back from right here.’”

They did. Rutgers rallied from a three-goal deficit to win that rivalr y game on the road in Queens.

Head coach Brian Brecht called Bieda the glue and the

quarterback of the team and placed a lot of onus on the relationship between the team’s play and Bieda’s ability to distribute.

“When everyone is doing things to the best of their ability, he makes them better,” Brecht said. “He has the best will of any of our offensive players. When he’s matched up in a place at a time, his will is hard to guard.”

Brecht is right.

Anyone can guard a player ball-side or net-side. Anyone can face-up or lay off.

But heart, will and determination? Those are a bit different.

There is no shut-down defend-

er for selflessness — and that is what makes Bieda a tough mark.

“Sometimes you might not even get the assist. It’s like a hockey assist,” Bieda said. “You might be the pass before the pass, but that was all you. You drew the double and made the pass to set up that goal.”

And when Bieda gets that fingerpoint for finding an open man, he points his own to the sky, in memor y.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY “You have to think one pitch at a time, one inning at a time, one game at a time — and that’s how you win games.”

- Senior pitcher Alyssa Landrith

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Rutgers seeks rejuvenation in road battle GREG JOHNSON CORRESPONDENT

The Rutgers men’s basketball team’s shooting woes are a contagious problem — so much so that head coach Eddie Jordan says the Scarlet Knights aren’t consistently converting shots even in practice these days.

“We do a lot of shooting in our warm-ups, throughout the practice and different types of shooting,” Jordan said Monday during his weekly teleconference. “We shoot off the dribble, we shoot off the catch, we shoot in the post.

We have big man drills, small man drills shooting. We just haven’t been able to make shots.”

The Knights (10-16, 2-11), losers of ninestraight, have had a whole week to clear their heads before traveling to face Iowa (15-10, 6-6) at 8 p.m. Thursday night at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.

It is by far the longest stretch Rutgers has gone between games in Big Ten action, recently playing as many as three games in six days earlier this month.

Iowa, meanwhile, has dropped two consecutive contests over the last seven days, including an overtime Sunday at Northwestern, which leapfrogged Rutgers for 13th place in the conference with the dramatic win.

Now staring from the Big Ten’s rock bottom, the Knights sorely needed the extra time to regroup.

Senior guard Myles Mack has logged the second-most minutes (937) in the conference.

Freshman guard Mike Williams is still returning to form from a prior ankle injury. Other Knights have seen their production sporadically fluctuate.

It has all spelled one of the program’s roughest stretch in recent memory. Over its first three games this month, Rutgers was porous putting the ball in the hoop — shooting 34 percent from the field and 63 percent at the foul line.

For the season, the Knights’ field-goal percentage (39 percent) ranks dead last in the Big Ten. Yet through it all, Jordan swears that Rutgers’ confidence and preparation in the gym After logging the second-most minutes (937) in the Big Ten through all 26 games of the season, senior guard Myles Mack returns to the floor after a seven-day break looking to snap a nine-game losing skid. EDWIN GANO / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / FEBRUARY 2015

SEE BATTLE ON PAGE 13

WRESTLING NO. 21 RUTGERS-DREXEL, TONIGHT, 7 P.M.

Knights hopeful to slay Dragons in finale TYLER KARALEWICH CORRESPONDENT

The No. 23 Rutgers wrestling team is on a hot streak.

And every grappler on the roster knows it.

After winning four of their last seven dual meets –– with a 19-18 loss against thenNo. 18 Wisconsin decided on bonus point criteria and winning five matches in a 23-17 loss to then-No. 4 Ohio State –– the Scarlet

Knights are optimistic on how their season will end.

Although the season has yet to finish, they do know it will come to a close on the road Thursday against Drexel in what should be an easy win.

When the Dragons came to the Louis Brown Athletic Center last season, the scoring onslaught ensued for Rutgers. With two falls and a forfeit, the Knights closed out the season with a 33-6 win –– their largest margin of victory last season.

When Rutgers faces off with Drexel this time around, a similar result is expected.

Junior 157-pounder Anthony Perrotti said he hopes the Knights take every bout in Philadelphia and it would be disappointing if they didn’t come close to duplicating their performance from a season ago.

Head coach Scott Goodale echoed his sentiments, but also said he was hungry to face another EIWA conference opponent.

“We are looking at another opportunity

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to face a team outside of the conference,” Goodale said. “We are licking our chops to get down there and wrestle –– that’s our mindset.

They match up well with us, so we better come ready to wrestle otherwise it could be a long night. But we feel good and we had a really good week of practice, so we are pumped for the dual.”

Sophomore 125-pounder Sean McCabe SEE DRAGONS ON PAGE 13

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Tomorrow, 12:30 p.m., East Brunswick, N.J.