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U. sees tenth student death since last year AVALON ZOPPO ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
Caroline Yoshimoto, a 28-yearold doctoral student at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, died on Feb. 26, according to a mass email statement sent to Rutgers students by Richard L. Edwards, chancellor of Rutgers-New Brunswick. Her cause of death was not stated. The passing of Yoshimoto marks the tenth student death faced by the Rutgers community between the months of September and February. Yoshimoto was a graduate of Northwestern University, a D.M.A. candidate and a gifted violinist in the Rutgers Symphony Orchestra, according to the email statement from Edwards. Yoshimoto was passionate about chamber music and the vocation of teaching, said George Stauffer, dean of Mason Gross in an email to the Mason Gross community. She taught violin and viola to young children through the SpeakMusic Conservatory in Highland Park, offering lessons in both English and Japanese. “She enthusiastically coached undergraduate chamber-music SEE YEAR ON PAGE 4
Pen Farthing, a former Marine, founder of Afghani animal shelter “Nowzad Dogs” and CNN’s 2014 “Hero of the Year,” spoke about his deployment in Afghanistan in 2006 and his journey as an accomplished individual since then at the 2015 Mark Leadership Conference, a day-long event Feb. 28 at the Livingston Student Center. MICHELLE KLEJMONT / MANAGING EDITOR
Mark Conference seeks to inspire AVALON ZOPPO ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
CNN’s 2014 “Hero of the Year”, Miss New Jersey and a former White House executive pastry chef all have one thing in common: They inspired students from across the state at the third annual Rutgers Mark Leadership Conference.
More than 440 people attended the conference, which was held on Saturday in the Livingston Student Center, to consider the “mark” they would leave on the world around them. Rutgers students were joined by students from Rowan University, Drew University and Stevens Institute of Technology to listen to more than 20 speakers.
From artists to leaders in technology and business, the diversified line-up of speakers made for an event unlike “your typical leadership conference,” said Alyea Pierce, Rutgers alumna and former Ignite Speaker. “This a unique opportunity to discover something new about yourself,” Pierce said. “… (to) think,
‘What will I leave behind and what will be my mark?’” Pen Farthing, former Marine and 2014 CNN “Hero of the Year”, shared his story and the mark he is making in Afghanistan through his non-profit organization “Nowzad Dogs,” the first and only dog shelter in Afghanistan. SEE INSPIRE ON PAGE 4
Creator of ‘Serial’ discusses rise of hit NPR podcast MARY ELLEN CAGNASSOLA CORRESPONDENT
Sarah Koenig, creator of hit NPR podcast “Serial,” is scheduled to stop at the College Avenue Student Center March 4 at 8 p.m. for the Rutgers University Programming Association’s event, “An Evening with Sarah Koenig.” COURTESY OF RYAN GRIFFITH
It is a universally acknowledged truth that public radio podcasts do not become pop culture sensations – that is, until Sarah Koenig, creator and host of the hit podcast “Serial,” came along and got everyone hooked on long-form journalism. Luckily for “Serial” fans at Rutgers, Koenig is set to pay the College Avenue Student Center a visit on March 4 at 8 p.m. The Rutgers University Programming Association invited the “This American Life” producer and veteran reporter for an evening of untold “Serial” secrets and a behind-the-scenes looks into the creation of the crime series. Tickets are currently sold out online. For those out of the NPR loop, “Serial” is Koenig’s re-investigation of the 1999 murder of high school student Hae Min Lee, whose body was discovered in Baltimore’s notorious Leakin Park after her disappearance. Adnan Syed, Lee’s classmate and former boyfriend, was sentenced to life in prison for the murder. Koenig’s findings more than a decade later made “Serial” a controversial and unexpectedly obsession-worthy success over the course of 12 episodes.
Koenig took time out of her busy schedule to talk to The Daily Targum about her start in journalism, surprise success and her plans for her RUPA talk. Mar y Ellen Cagnassola: What can students expect from your RUPA event? Sarah Koenig: I’m going to talk about the journalism that went into making the first season of “Serial,” and I’m going to be playing some tapes, I hope, from the season and also some tapes I haven’t played before. What do you hope to accomplish with this event and others like it? I’m going to be giving other talks in the coming year, and I’m kind of still figuring out what I’m going to be saying in different places. Some of the talks I’ll be giving will be with my partner, Julie Snyder, who made “Serial” with me. So we’ll be doing some things together and others will just be by myself. I guess what I would love is for at Rutgers … I want (students) to get a good idea of what the reporting really looks like from the inside. Because “Serial” has kind of a casual tone –– the style of it is conversational –– I think sometimes people don’t quite
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Students encouraged to consult U. mental health services NIKHILESH DE CORRESPONDENT
According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, more than one tenth of college students have been diagnosed or treated for anxiety in the past year, greatly impeding their ability to succeed academically. With 64 percent of all college dropouts citing a mental health issue as their primary motivator, a host of universities, including Rutgers, offer extensive services to students dealing with stress or battling severe mental disorders. Many students do not seek out help when they need it, said Joshua Roshal, a first year student in the School of Arts and Sciences. These students may not be aware of what resources are available for them or simply do not have the time. Students tend to procrastinate, which would exacerbate their inability to seek help, he said. If a student has an upcoming exam, they would rather cram than get help. “They (may also) not (be) confident in the ability of these resources to help them,” he said. First-year students who have trouble with University classes are not alone, said Lydia Prendergast, an assistant dean in the School of Engineering. Many students fail a class or perform more poorly than they expected when entering college. These students can still have successful college careers, she said. Many resources are available for students having academic issues or experiencing emotional distress to take advantage of, said
Neeta Chandrashekhar, an assistant dean for transfer students in the School of Arts and Sciences. These resources include different academic deans, a student dean or the Counseling ADAP & Psychiatric Services (CAPS) office. “(There are) a lot of resources where students can receive help or assistance from,” she said. “I think a good place to start would be an advising office or a dean of students office. A lot of people there are good people to connect them with other resources.” Tutoring, study groups and various learning centers are available to help students academically, Prendergast said. If a student is having trouble with their major, they also have the option to research a specific major and its career options. Chandrashekhar said because School of Arts and Sciences students do not have assigned academic advisors, students can meet with any advisor within their school. Some School of Engineering students are assigned advisors they can speak with. Students can see a dean during walk-in hours, available Monday through Thursday this semester, Prendergast said. Students can also schedule appointments before coming in. “A student can walk in almost any day of the week and be helped immediately,” she said. “The deans and advisors also have emails, so if a request came in through email we can often start the process (before a student even comes in).”
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All relevant information would be provided as soon as possible to aid a student, she said. Students are also given the option to take more than the traditional four years to complete their degree, she said. This is different from a dual degree or BS/MS program, which are designed from the outset to take five years. “If a student needs more time, if they take fewer classes first semester, or there are other classes they need to catch up on, they can take four, four and a half, five, or six years in order to complete the B.S. degree in engineering,” she said. A student had the option to graduate during any of the three graduation slots every year occurring in October, January, and May, she said. Usually, they would graduate immediately after the term they finish their credit requirements. While there are three gradua-
tion slots, there is only one graduation ceremony, she said. This ceremony takes place in May. Deans in the Office of Academic Services would review a student’s file by request and adjust the graduation date accordingly. A student who needs to take a semester off for any reason can also use that option, Chandrashekhar said. To do so, they would need to take a leave of absence from the University. “When they are looking to come back, they would come back through our re-enrollment process,” she said. The re-enrollment process differs from a traditional application at the University, she said. Students would have a more streamlined application to use when coming back to classes. Any student can withdraw for a semester provided they are
not on academic probation at the time they leave, Prendergast said. They can reapply to the University when they are ready to return. Members of CAPS are trained to counsel students, Chandrashekhar said. Students who are looking for assistance with a mental disorder or just to talk to somebody, can avail themselves of resources there. “Sometimes it’s really difficult to ask for help, but when you do, the resources here are abundant,” she said. “There are a lot of things here that can help people. We hope that students are willing to take the first step.” Nikhilesh De is a School of Engineering sophomore majoring in mechanincal engineering. He is a correspondent at the Daily Targum. Follow him on twitter @eagleraptorjsf for more stories.
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graduate to take an oppor tunity,” he said. “You can have those moments right now.” In addition to professional Krieglstein, founder of Swift Kick, was making 1.5 speakers, Rutgers students million his senior year of college were selected as Ignite Speakers to share their personal journeys on stage in five minutes. CONTINUED FROM FRONT Kellie Palomba, a School Park, New Jersey as a Palestinian minority and the struggle of Ar ts and Sciences junior, Far thing was deployed in to get cast in college plays with gave a moving speech on the 2006 to ser ve in Afghanistan. her disability. While attending lessons she learned from her He soon discovered dog fight- Arizona State University, Zayid brother Michael, who has ing was a norm in the countr y auditioned for the role of a girl severe autism. “This boy truly loves and apafter breaking up a dog fight with cerebral palsy, but did not preciates people for who they get the par t. being held by local police. The enter tainment industr y are,” said Palomba. “We should “This dog then ran into our compound and eventually star t- does not hire disabled people, all aspire to be like him — to love people for who they are, ed to think I was his friend,” he she said. “Ninety-nine percent of the not how much money they said. “… I realized I was spending time with this dog just to time, the character on screen have or whether they have a disability.” pretend I Chris Price, wasn’t in Afanother Ignite ghanistan.” Speaker, shared To en“Just because you are a student right now doesn’t he realized sure the mean you have to wait until you graduate to take an how that comparing dog did not opportunity.” himself to others end up back is unhealthy. on Afghani TOM KRIEGLSTEIN Throughout streets, FarFounder of Swift Kick his four years at thing arRutgers, Price ranged for excelled acathe dog to demically and travel to his home in the United Kingdom. is not being played by an ac- became rigorously involved Thus, the idea for Nowzad tor with disability,” she said. on campus, but realized he Dogs was born. “…and if you’re going to be was only doing this in order to Nowzad Dogs has reunited disabled (in Hollywood), you “measure up to others.” “Unfor tunately, we live in a more than 700 soldiers with better be slim, white and atstray dogs and cats they took tractive. You can’t be disabled culture where we are told to compare ourselves to others,” in during combat. The orga- and brown.” nization’s trap-neuter-release Audiences can make a dif fer- he said. “This ranges from inprogram also combats rabies ence by protesting the inequali- ternships to the likes and comments we get on Facebook.” infection rates and creates job ty on TV screens, she said. Linette Reeman, a Rowan oppor tunities for aspiring vet“If a wheelchair user can’t erinarians. play Beyonce, then Beyonce University sophomore, said “I didn’t star t making my can’t play a wheelchair user,” her favorite par t of the confermark until I was nearly 42,” he she said. “Actors won’t stop ence was listening to the Ignite said. “If you have no idea what turning down those roles un- Speakers. She said she has nevyou’re going to do now, don’t less the audiences stop sup- er been in a venue where students spoke on the same stage panic. You absolutely have plen- por ting it.” ty of time… you have like-mindAnother speaker, Tom Kriegl- as professional speakers. “We’ve all probably been to ed people around you here who stein, reminded students they can help you out.” do not need a diploma to make some leadership event before Maysoon Zayid, an actress their mark. He shared the sto- where we’ve had professionals and comedian, shared her expe- r y of the successful business come and talk to us,” she said. riences with cerebral palsy and venture he launched during his “But it makes a deeper and more powerful impact when it’s our the obstacles faced by per form- sophomore year of college. ers in Hollywood with disabilKrieglstein was one of the own peers talking to us about isities, all the while leaving the first to re-sell older editions of sues that directly affect us.” audience laughing. college textbooks online. Avalon Zoppo is a Rutgers “There are perks to beDuring his senior year of coling palsy,” she said. “I don’t lege, Krieglstein was making Business School first-year student majoring in pre-business. She is an ever have to stand in line at $1.5 million in sales. Disney World.” “Just because you are a stu- Associate News Editor at The Daily Amid laughter, Zayid told her dent right now doesn’t mean Targum. Follow her on Twitter stor y of growing up in Clif fside you have to wait until you @avalonzoppo for more stories.
Inspirational speakers Maysoon Zayid (top), an actress and comedian with cerebral palsy, and Tom Krieglstein (bottom), founder of Swift Kick, a company dedicated to promoting student engagement on campus, spoke at the 2015 Mark Leadership Conference Feb. 28 at the Livingston Student Center. MICHELLE KLEJMONT / MANAGING EDITOR
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duets and trios here at Rutgers, constantly volunteering to take on additional coaching assignments,” Stauffer said in the message. Yoshimoto began playing violin at the age of seven and performed for the Young Steinway Concert Series at the age of 17, according to SpeakMusic’s website. She was a finalist for the Northwestern Concerto Competition, co-concertmaster for the Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra and member of Civic Orchestra of Chicago. Edwards offered condolences from the Rutgers community to Yoshimoto’s family and friends. “The Rutgers community is saddened by the news of
Caroline’s death, and we offer thoughts and prayers to her friends and family members,” Edwards said. Stauffer also extended his condolences. “This is a devastating loss for Caroline’s family and for her many friends and colleagues here at the Mason Gross School,” he said. “We ask that you join us in extending your thoughts and prayers to her family and to all who knew and loved her.” Yoshimoto’s memorial service will be held on Sunday, March 1, at 2 p.m. in the Richard Shindell Choral Hall, located in Mortensen Hall on Douglass campus. Edwards invited members of the Rutgers community to attend the service. Counseling for members
of the University community grieving Yoshimoto’s death is available at Counseling, Alcohol and Other Drug Assistance Program and Psychiatric Ser vices (CAPS), located at 17 Senior Street in New Brunswick. Students living in on-campus facilities are also encouraged to communicate with their Residence Life staff to cope with the loss. Off-campus or commuter students can speak with their Dean of Students. Tim Grimm, located at Bishop House, 115 College Avenue, is the College Avenue campus Dean of Students. Michelle Jefferson, located at 305 College Hall, is the Cook and Douglass campuses’ Dean of Students. Jeffrey Broggi, located at Lucy Stone Hall A239, is the Livingston campus Dean of Students. Sandra Castro, located at the Busch Campus Center, is the Busch campus Dean of Students. A previous version of this article appeared online.
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CRIME FEB. 28 MILLINGTON — Kristof McCoy was charged with four counts of aggravated assault, eluding in a motor vehicle, resisting arrest, possession of a stolen property and criminal mischief after ramming into several police vehicles in a brief car chase. He is now in Middlesex County jail. FEB. 28 PERTH AMBOY — Moises Torres, an 80-year-old man, was missing for nearly a week and recently found dead in Metuchen. The police have no indication of how long the body has been there, but the autopsy to determine manner and cause of death is pending. Torres' family said he suffered from dementia and may have been headed to the C-Town Supermarket in Perth Amboy. The family said he walked everywhere, but this was the only time when he did not return home. FEB. 27 NEW BRUNSWICK — A grand jur y charged a 20-year-old Franklin man with the murder of a 17-year-old New Brunswick boy. Dequan Rogers was accused of killing Joell Burton who lived in the Paul Robeson Village housing complex. The indictment also charges Rogers with possession of a handgun and underage possession of a handgun, according to a news release form the Somerset County Prosecutor's Office. FEB. 27 PISCATAWAY — Two police of ficers — one who was a former standout football player at Rutgers a decade ago — and a dispatcher came to help after they received a call of a baby boy who stopped breathing. They per formed CPR on the unconscious baby, whose skin turned blue, and the baby eventually recovered. The baby was administered oxygen until ambulance from the Rober t Wood Johnson University Hospital and John F. Kennedy Hospital arrived.
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understand the nuts-and-bolt journalism that went into it. So, I’m hoping to kind of convey that. MC: What publications and student media did you work with at the University of Chicago? SK: I did not get my start in school! I didn’t work for any school newspaper or anything like that. I studied political science, Russian history and literature. I was one those people who had no idea what I wanted to do, really. So for a couple of years, I did different kinds of things. I was living in New York City working at a dumb job and trying to be an actress, actually, briefly –– very briefly –– and then I was like, I need a proper job. So I applied for a summer job at a local newspaper where I grew up on Long Island, and that’s where I got my start. I kind of never did anything else since then, and that was in 1993. MC: Your name has been ever ywhere since “Serial” started. You’ve been spoofed on Saturday Night Live and Stephen Colbert has even interviewed you. Did you imagine this kind of success for yourself? It must feel so strange for you as a journalist to now be the stor y. SK: I hope that I’m not the story. I did not expect this at all, none of us expected it at all. It’s a public radio podcast, so none of us expected popular culture to notice us, really. It is weird, it’s really weird to be on the other end of it, and I can’t say I really love it. I find it a little nerve wracking to be interviewed, and I do recognize the irony. I’m trying to give as much as I take. But again, I hope I’m not the story. I hope the story is the
story, and I hope “Serial” is the story. The notion that long-form journalism can be popular, that it doesn’t have to be shorter and shorter, smaller and smaller, less and less investment. You can do the opposite and succeed. I hope that’s the story. MC: What obstacles did you encounter working on “Serial”? SK: We had all the normal obstacles of reporting and investigating a complicated sort of sprawling story, and those are common to any big investigative story. So we hit obstacles of information we couldn’t figure out or get our hands on, or people didn’t want to be interviewed that we really wanted to interview, or people who wanted to be interviewed
And then there was the fact that the story was changing all the time, which I thought was great, but it does make your work more complicated because you have to react to new information as you go. If you do it in one story, like one “This American Life” episode, you report the story and then you’re done. So this is kind of a new animal to have it be ongoing and have to react. But we designed it that way on purpose, we wanted it to be something that we were doing as we went. MC: The investigation into Adnan Syed was riddled with holes and a lot of people were outraged that someone could just be thrown in jail like that after such a flawed investigation and lack of evidence. Was it hard to keep your personal sentiments out of your reporting? SK: I don’t think I did keep my own sentiments out of it, really. I mean, maybe not so much sentiments but my own thoughts about (the case). Especially at the end,
“It doesn’t come out of nowhere: It comes out of a really long time of just working at it. It’s all part of getting where you want to be.” SARAH KOENIG Creator of NPR’s “Serial,” American Journalist and Staff Producer of “This American Life”
but were really scared. We had all of that stuff going on, as you do with any story like this. But then the thing that was especially complicated about it was making it as we went along. We were hoping to have a bunch of episodes ready to go by the time we launched, and we really only had two done. So by the end we really had no cushion at all, it was completely deadline, finishing-the-night-before kind of work, which is really just draining in every way. None of us were really sleeping regularly, we were just churning out the episodes, and that was hard.
I just kind of said where I came down. So it wasn’t a struggle for me to bite my tongue, I felt my job was to investigate as honestly and fairly as I could and come to my own conclusion as far as I was able to. MC: Can you speak to anti-Muslim sentiment’s role in Adnan’s conviction? SK: I don’t really have more to say about that than I already said in the podcast. I think that we all have prejudices. We all have preconceived notions about people that are different from us, so I
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think those probably played a part in the normal way they do. Can you comment on (lead prosecutor on the Adnan Syed case) Kevin Urick’s allegations that your presentation of the Adnan Sayed case was “disingenuous”? It’s simply not true. Is that what he said? I respectfully disagree –– it certainly was not disingenuous on our part. MC: How has “Serial” changed your life in particular? SK: I get a lot more e-mails asking me to do things, and I get interviewed, which I never used to be. And that’s sort of it! MC: Any advice for aspiring Sarah Koenigs? SK: Well, first I would say don’t aspire to be me, do what you want to do. It sounds really old-fashioned, but I think there tends to be a lot of short-cutting in journalism these days because we live in this world where things happen really fast. So there’s just a lot of thinking that needs to happen really fast, and I don’t think the work is helped by that. The advice I would give is that if you want to make something good, you have to work really hard. There aren’t shortcuts in our business, and I think taking shortcuts can sometimes be really dangerous and harmful not only to the profession, but to the people we’re writing about. Don’t underestimate hard work. I remember seeing a couple articles mentioning me saying that I came out of nowhere. Meanwhile, I’ve been a reporter for about 25 years. I started out covering my local school board and fires. It doesn’t come out of nowhere: It comes out of a really long time of just working at it. It’s all part of getting where you want to be. Mary Ellen Cagnassola is a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore majoring in english and journalism and media studies and minoring in psychology. She is the former copy editor at The Daily Targum and a current correspondent.
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US prosecutors begin trial against Boston Marathon bomber From the moment U.S. prosecutors stand up on Wednesday and begin their case against accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, their minds and those of their defense counterparts will be focused on just one thing: The death penalty. Tsarnaev, 21, is accused of killing three people and injuring 264 with a pair of homemade pressure-cooker bombs left at the race’s crowded finish line on April 15, 2013, in the largest mass-casualty attack on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001. The ethnic Chechen, who moved to the United States from Russia with his family a decade before the attack, could be sentenced to death if he is convicted of charges that also include the fatal shooting of a police officer three days later as he tried to flee the city. “The bottom line is you’re not going to get a not guilty in this case,” said Jules Epstein, a Widener University School of Law professor who has represented defendants in federal and Pennsylvania death penalty cases. “I don’t think the defense is arguing that. So every move is with an eye on the end game and that is avoiding death.” Tsarnaev has pleaded not guilty to all charges and his attorneys have offered little detail on their case, with the bulk of both prosecution and defense filings under seal in Boston federal court. But legal experts said the defense
will likely try to show that his 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan, an amateur boxer, who died following a gun battle with police as the pair tried to flee Boston, was the driving force behind the attack. SEEKING EMPATHY Showing that he was heavily influenced by his brother could be a mitigating factor that would persuade a jury to sentence Tsarnaev to life in prison rather than death, legal experts said. For prosecutors, the challenge is to show that he was fully responsible for actions while not making any errors that could result in a guilty verdict or death sentence being overturned on appeal. “With someone who is so young, the strategy would be to try to humanize him in front of the jury,” said Deborah Denno, a Fordham University School of Law professor who specializes in the capital punishment. “In a death penalty case...you try to humanize him as much as possible to make it so the jury empathizes with him.” Finding the jury has been an arduous process, as eligible jurors needed to be willing to consider imposing the death penalty, and not have too personal a connection to the event. The faces of Tsarnaev and his older brother as seen on a surveillance video walking towards the site of the blasts carrying backpacks that prosecutors contend held the bombs are burned into the memory of Boston-area residents.
Defense attorneys (L-R) Miriam Conrad, Judy Clarke and Timothy Watkins arrive at the federal courthouse on the second day of jury selection in the trial of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in Boston, Massachusetts, Jan. 6, 2015. REUTERS Thousands of people were crowded around the finish line when the bombs went off and hundreds of thousands ordered to remain in their homes for four days as police mounted a massive manhunt. Tsarnaev was found hiding in a drydocked boat, where he had written a note suggesting the attack was an act of retribution for U.S. military involvement in Muslim-dominated countries. When the trial opens, prosecutors will be seeking to show evidence that Tsarnaev understood his actions and played an active role in planning and building the pressure-cooker bombs that
ripped through the crowd, tearing the legs off 16 people and killing spectators as young as 10. “If they indeed show that he ordered someone to do something or actively participated in the discussion about where to place the backpacks, made anti-American statements, that would hurt” the defense, said Dean Weinstein, an attorney now in private practice who previously brought death-penalty cases as a state and federal prosecutor. Prosecutors will also need to tread carefully since if the jury finds Tsarnaev guilty and sentences him to death at the trial’s end, expected in June, both
decisions likely would be immediately appealed. Particularly when questioning victims of the attack, prosecutors will need to take care not to elicit testimony so emotional that it would be found inflammatory by an appeals court, experts said. “You can reach a tipping point where the appellate court will say you’ve gone too far,” said Epstein, of Widener University. “The prosecution has to tell the terror and the violence of this case without making it impossible for jurors to react in a rational way when they reach sentencing.” - Reuters
A courtroom sketch shows Boston Marathon bombing suspects Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (2nd R) during the jury selection process in his trial at the federal courthouse in Boston, Massachusetts, Jan. 15, 2015. REUTERS
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National Engineers Week: Engineering New Horizons
Engineers of all fields are celebrated during National Engineers Week. Founded in 1951, the week was created by the National Society of Professional Engineers to coincide with the birthday of the “nation’s first engineer,” George Washington. Different institutions and companies enjoy the week by hosting events and recognizing the accomplishments that further society. This year’s theme was “Engineering New Horizons.”
Colette Hazen, director of the Verizon Network Operations Center, Beth Drohan, vice president for National Network Operations and Thomas Farris, dean of Rutgers’ School of Engineering, share a conversation at the National Engineering Week kickoff event Feb. 23 at the Busch Student Center. COURTESY OF MALCOLM BROWN
U. buddies with Verizon to kick off Engineering Week NIKHILESH DE CORRESPONDENT
Middle school students raced water-powered cars and built circuits Monday at the Busch Student Center as part of the Engineers Week kickoff event, an event co-hosted by Rutgers and Verizon. National Engineers Week is an annual series of events geared toward celebrating the accomplishments of engineers. Verizon hosted the first event at the University where children learned applications to basic mathematics and science lessons while surrounded by actual engineers and engineering students. Teaching children basic science, technology, engineering and mathematical (STEM) principles would help keep them from being intimidated by them later, Beth Drohan, vice president for National Network Operations, said. “The STEM subjects are really critical because when we look out to the future,” she said, “We’re going to need more and more people working in these subjects and these disciplines to be successful ... The future is about (innovation).” The events for the middle school students were designed to intrigue them, she said. The goal is to convince students to continue studying science or math-related fields over the next few years. Students should not be deterred by difficult science or
mathematics courses during their time at school, Drohan said. It is unclear how much this event would influence seventh and eighth graders, she said. The hope is that planting the ideas behind engineering in student
program provides mentors who help them learn and apply their lessons in school. Several of these mentors are University students who volunteer their time at NBMS, she said. She said she was excitied to see
Many of the volunteers were alumni from the University, he said. Connecting to younger students was important, Hazen said. “What we hope for the outcome is that students see the connection between what they’re
“The hard work and the many late nights studying are going to be worth it at the end of the day.” COLETTE HAZEN Director of the Verizon Network Operations Center
minds would lead to them choosing a related field in college. Even reaching only two or three out of the more than 60 students who attended would be a success, Colette Hazen, director of the Verizon Network Operations Center, said. “We need to build the future,” Drohan said. “You have to take time out and say ‘Hey, what’s the path five, 10 years from now,’ and you have to build the future for that.” The students in attendance were all part of New Brunswick Middle School’s “Advancement Via Individual Determination” (AVID) program, Yolande Pastrana, program coordinator, said. Members of the AVID program are middle school students who want to become first-generation college students, she said. The
they were able to attend the kickoff event at the University. “These are students that are focused on wanting to attend college and now they get to come to a real university, Rutgers, and actually have fun working on projects, working collaboratively,” she said. “(They learn principles such as) teamwork, which is all important in the world of work.” This year was the first time Verizon brought students to a university campus, Andrew Allen, director of the Verizon Network Repair Bureau, said. Typically for Engineers Week, students are brought to the company’s facilities for a tour. This year, students were able to see an actual campus as well as engage with college students, Allen said.
learning in school, math, science, programming and the world of work,” Pastrana said. Making sure the students remained engaged through the event was an important factor, Hazen said. Volunteers explained the four different kits that were available, each of which used a different engineering principle. “We didn’t have this kind of support at a younger age (with) understanding what’s out there with disciplines,” Hazen, a School of Engineering alumna, said. “We really try to inspire (students) to pursue something in STEM.” Ellen Yu, a member of Verizon’s Communications Department, said it was important to help these children, since many were from underserved communities.
Programs like the one Verizon help run provide students with an edge they might otherwise not have, she said. University students were given the opportunity to network with Verizon representatives during the event as well, Hazen said. Recruiters took resumes and answered questions about working at Verizon, Allen said. They wanted to provide undergraduate and graduate students a chance to learn more about the company. Engineering students have many opportunities to succeed, he said. Manufacturing jobs are returning to the nation while technology continues to advance. This creates a lot of potential for people interested in pursuing this field, he said. Within a decade, about 80 percent of jobs in any industry would require STEM-related skills, Hazen said. Students should keep their eyes on that target as they work towards graduation. Asking questions and meeting people are likewise important for students going through college, she said. Networking would help all students through a difficult curriculum. “The hard work and the many late nights studying are going to be worth it at the end of the day,” Hazen said. Nikhilesh De is a School of Engineering sophomore majoring in mechanical engineering. He is a correspondent at The Daily Targum. Follow him on Twitter @eagleraptorjsf for more stories.
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Students compete in internship contest
Viral Jogani, a School of Engineering sophomore, discusses his work as an intern at the “Interns Present” competition Feb. 24 in the Fiber Optics Auditorium on the Busch campus. NIKHILESH DE
MICHAEL MAKMUR CONTRIBUTING WRITER
“More than 85 percent of students who have internships receive two job offers after graduation,” read a sign in the Busch Student Center’s University Career Services window. As part of National Engineers Week, several School of Engineering students described their internship experiences for the second annual “Interns Present” competition Feb. 24 at the Fiber Optics Auditorium on the Busch campus. Interns’ presentations were judged on a basic rubric, said Kevin Bailey, the Vice President of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. Among others, criteria included the overall quality of the
presentation, explanation of the internship, applications to their current studies at Rutgers and how it shaped their future. Prizes provided by Lockheed Martin went to third-place winner Todd Alter, second-place winner Anh Le and first-place winner Michael DiBuono. The ultimate goal of the event was to illustrate to students the importance and value of an internship experience, but from a fellow student’s perspective, said Richard Hearin, the Executive Director of University Career Ser vices. “Students are making thorough presentations of what they did, what they learned, who they worked for and so forth ... it brings the experience to life for others, particularly younger
students, who might not be quite said. “They are here to talk about Services strives to help students ready for an internship opportu- students’ future plans and how achieve this. A solid academic background, they plan on getting there.” nity.” Hearin said. Bailey, a University alumnus, combined with strong interest It is important for students to not go blindly into the industry. said events such as “Interns and assistance from faculty, staff They should know what is expect- Present” and the University Ca- and Career Services will help ed of interns and the type of re- reer Services’ Career Knight pro- students become more competisearch that different fields entail, gram are instrumental in assist- tive for internship and job opporsaid Hector Maldonado Perez, a ing students in making informed tunities during their college cadecisions. Students have a lot of reer as well as after graduation, School of Engineering senior. Students will often apply to choices available and being in- he said. He said Career Services has as many internships as possible formed is extremely important. Through Career Knight and drop-in hours four days a week without considering what type of work they require, he said. The other events such as career and are always available by apkey is focusing on a few intern- fairs, University Career Ser- pointment through their website. Pederson says internships are ships that match the student’s vices work ver y closely with profile. Watching interns who al- students as well as the School of extremely important for students ready have experience helps with Engineering to provide as many going into engineering. “The classroom experience opportunities as possible, said this process. Perez said the notion of commu- Henrik Pederson, a professor can only provide so much,” he nity was another inspiration for the in the Department of Chemical said. “You need these kind of competition. Beexperiences cause the School to round out of Engineering is what’s hap“There are many representatives here from many spread through pening during companies, so it gives (students) the opportunity to your time at many buildings all over campus, a the university, network on a low key scale.” group of scholars and this event and alumni wantis just an opHECTOR MALDONADO PEREZ ed to increase a portunity to School of Engineering Senior sense of commusee what some nity within the of that is if you school and bring haven’t had and Biochemical Engineering. multiple disciplines together. this opportunity yourself.” “Career Ser vices manages the The event helps bring the Perez says that internships School of Engineering closer in running of career fairs in the also allow students to explore the sense that students search- fall and also in the spring, and and diversify themselves. Ening for internships have individu- that is where companies know gineers do not restrict themals they can relate to, he said. If that they can meet students for selves to one field, and having they have a question, the student not only jobs, but internships,” “Interns Present” display a vawould not have to reach to a high- Pederson said. “We work ver y riety of internships enables stuer-up, but can instead speak with closely with them in the School dents to explore and find what of Engineering.” a student. interests them. Hearin said that Career SerThe competition was also a good Over half of the students in the opportunity for students to net- vices also helps students become last two undergraduate graduatinternship-ready. Students need ing classes have had internship work with companies, Perez said. “There are many representa- to be both qualified for opportu- or co-op experiences, Hearin tives here from many companies, nities and competent in following said. Events such as “Interns so it gives them the opportunity the processes needed to secure Present” aim to keep that numto network on a low key scale,” he those opportunities, and Career ber growing.
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Todd Alter, a School of Engineering senior, took home second place in the second annual “Interns Present” competition Feb. 24 in the Fiber Optics Auditorium for his breadth of experience as an intern. NIKHILESH DE
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Shivangi Ganatra, a School of Engineering senior, builds a bridge out of uncooked spaghetti for the fourth annual NERD Olympics Feb. 25 at the Busch Campus Center. TIAN LI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Cunav Puthur, a School of Engineering junior, curdles vinegar and hot water to produce a strained putty-like substance Feb. 25 at the NERD Olympics, held in the Busch Campus Center. TIAN LI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Intellect grabs gold at 2015 Nerd Olympics NIKHILESH DE CORRESPONDENT
From making slime to forming clouds, students were able to experience different engineering principles at the fourth annual NERD Olympics Wednesday in the Busch Student Center. The Novel Engineering Regional Design Olympics was designed to be a casual interactive event for School of Engineering students and faculty to attend, said Mansi Sanghvi, the event planning assistant in the dean’s administrative office for the School of Engineering. “It’s kind of an event where you can take a moment to recuperate,” Sanghvi said. “Right now we have midterms, we have to study, but here we can all come together, not in a professional setting, just where you relax and talk to each other.” Different organizations created booths to showcase various aspects of engineering, she said. Theta Tau, the professional coed engineering fraternity, taught attendees how to build circuits to perform certain tasks. Other organizations held spaghetti bridge building competitions, cup stacking contests, backpack races and provided wings for students to enjoy, she said. The School of Engineering hosted a
An element of machine learn- milk, resulting in a solution that booth where students could build ing allows it to determine where a would leave a putty-like substance paper airplanes. “It’s kind of to show that very person’s weaknesses might be so after being strained, he said. “This is what happens during dilittle things in life — you don’t it could focus on those in its aueven realize it — but it’s engi- tomatic mode, he said. A manual gestion to milk and to many other neering,” she said. “It requires an mode also allows a person to di- proteins,” he said. “This is someengineering mindset. You might rect where the ball should go. what disgusting for a lot of people, Another group, Rutgers Univer- but science is not always pleasant.” think you’re just making a paper airplane, but technically there’s a sity Math Science Engineering OutRUSMEO also demonstrated lot of engineering processes be- reach (RUSMEO), showed off two how to create clouds in bottles, scientific principles at the event. hind that.” he said. The first involved milk, vinegar A senior design team from the Atmospheric pressure and temDepartment of Industrial Engi- and hot water, said Donald Chaw- perature vary at the higher altitudes neering also presented their proj- la, a School of Engineering junior. where clouds form, Chawla said. A protein in milk known as ca- Water molecules condense onto ect, a device capable of launching soccer balls at more than 30 miles sein, when combined with two dust particles there. per hour. These environ“They’re here mental conditions to demonstrate could be replicat“You might think you’re just making a paper their design ed by saturating (and) show us airplane, but technically there’s a lot of engineering the air inside a what they’re bottle with alcoprocesses behind that.” doing,” Sanghol, said Prithvi hvi said. “It’s Gandhi, a School MANSI SANGHVI really cool.” of Engineering School of Engineering Senior and Event Planning Assistant in the Dean’s Administrative The machine, senior. Once the Office for the School of Engineering designed to help air is saturated, a train goalkeeplit match is used ers, has a camto fill the rest of era on the front to track a goal- fluoride ions, takes a globular the bottle with smoke and eventualkeeper before the machine fires form, he said. This new protein is ly creates a vacuum, she said. the ball into the net, said Robert known as caseinate. Squeezing and letting go of Changing the temperature and the bottle changes the pressure Schultz, a School of Engineering senior who worked on the project. pH of casein would denature, or inside, and this leads to a cloud The device can change the di- change the shape and properties forming, she said. rection it fires in both horizontally of the protein, he said. More students attended the Vinegar and hot water would event than in any of the previand vertically, as well as change change those properties in the ous years, said Peter Spatocco, the speed it fires at, he said.
president of the Engineering Governing Council. One of Spatocco’s hopes was to see new students attend this year’s event. It was an excellent opportunity for students to attend a carnival-type event after class, Spatocco, a School of Engineering senior, said. He hoped it could also potentially convince undeclared first-year students to choose an engineering field as their major. Hosting the event during midterms probably negatively impacted attendance, Sanghvi said. This year the number of people present fluctuated with classes starting and ending. In the future, the event might be hosted the week before National Engineers Week so as to avoid midterms, she said. At least 80 students attended the event, and not all of these were engineering students, Sanghvi said. “I met people who were pharmacy, computer science (and School of Arts and Sciences),” she said. “People are bringing their friends, and (those people) are bringing their friends.” Nikhilesh De is a School of Engineering sophomore majoring in mechanical engineering. He is a correspondent at The Daily Targum.Follow him on Twitter @eagleraptorjsf for more stories.
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Students cruise or capsize in canoe contest TANDE MUNGWA CONTRIBUTING WRITER
National Engineers Week was brought to a close with Rutgers’ fourth annual “Cardboard Canoe Race,” held in the Sonny Werblin Recreation Center’s pool Friday night. For the event, multiple teams built and raced cardboard canoes across the recreational center pools. Though few canoes withstood the pool’s water, many unique designs were showcased and the event presented an opportunity for engineers of different disciplines to coalesce. Mansi Sanghvi, a School of Engineering senior, said she was enthused by the large turnout at this year’s event. “In the past years we’ve had around eight teams competing, but this year we’ve had 24 teams sign up, so I’m ver y
happy that they’re here,” Sang- “There’s always differences in “The event provides a real hvi said, who helped plan the opinion and approach, so stu- world trial in the engineering event. “Par ticipating in events dents must work together to application,” he said. “Though such as these is a great way to achieve the optimal result.” most things we’ve learned in build connections.” Creativity and engineering classes won’t work perfectly, The event allowed students aptitude enabled competitors because they’re meant for ideto explore some real-world ap- to create aesthetically pleasing al situations, the activity allows plications of students to principles draw from typically whatever found in enintuitions “Participating in events such as these is a great way to gineering they’ve detextbooks v e l o p e d build connections.” and lectures, through said Jeffrey reading textMANSI SANGHVI R a n k i n , books and Fourth Annual Cardboard Canoe Race Planner and School of Engineering Senior assistant attending dean for the lectures.” School of Multiple Engineering. awards were Cooperation and collective designs that obeyed key engi- given to recognize the different thinking were important skills neering principles, said Darshan aspects of the creative process for participants during the Nandha, a sophomore in the during the night. event, he said. School of Engineering. The Genius at Work Award “One of the most importNandha said he participated was given to the “Navier ant things that students learn last year, though this year he Strokes” team for having the is teamwork,” Rankin said. only watched the event. best name and costume. The
team name references a famous set of equations that describe how certain fluids move. Other awards included the “American Eagle” award for team spirit, the “Titanic” award for most spectacular capsize and the “Technical Knockout” award for most creative design. School of Engineering alumni Johanna Doukakis and Bianca Skvirsky won the “Fast and the Curious” Award for fastest time. Their canoe successfully made it across the pool and back, a combined distance of 50 meters. They were considered the winners of the event. “(Engineers) are often times people who love building things,” Nandha said. “Events such as these showcases how engineering goes beyond labs and lectures — it can be a lot of fun especially when you’re allowed to work with your hands.”
Students put their skills to the test at the fourth annual “Cardboard Canoe Race” Feb. 27 at the Sonny Werblin Recreation Center’s pool. TIAN LI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
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On defying societal gender norms Augmented gender box options are next step to social changes
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It is a triggering experience to be called out of a heck here for female, check here for male and if neither applies to you, draw your own carefully constructed identity. Preferred name polbox. Many of us grew up adhering to strict icies and augmented gender options will help to gender roles that categorizes us as either male or deter such transgressions. Rutgers belongs to the female — there was no in-between. Gender is funda- group of the universities in the nation that allow stumental to how we as individuals process the world dents to implement preferred names where legally around us. Everything we do is in some way related possible. The University of Virginia has taken one to gender. Actions either reinforce gender norms or more step and introduced a third gender option go against them. But the population of individuals — neutral. College is a time of self-discovery and who do not fit the binary –– the transgender, gender exploration, poised in the perfect position to allow fluid and gender queer populations –– are making students to express themselves beyond the rigidity of society. Society as a whole is caught up in structheir voices heard. Self-identification is important. Whoever you ture: gender identifiers are needed for information present yourself to be is what the world will see you gathering and statistical reasons. Therefore, allowas. But it’s difficult for individuals to divorce them- ing students gender freedom within school records selves from the idea of gender, so when people do is a starting point. Even if the rest of the world isn’t not conform to the gender binary, it often confuses perceptive to the switch, it’s a step in the right direction. The fact of the the individuals they matter is that gender interact with. If it’s exists on a spectrum: difficult to match “It is a triggering experience to be called it cannot be streamphysical appearance lined to fit one of to preferred names out of a carefully constructed identity.” two perceptions. and pronouns, mixNow that men can ups and misinterprebe stay-at-home dads tations are bound to happen. Therefore, the process is a two-way street of and women can be primary breadwinners without hypersensitivity and respect. It’s a difficult sequence the bat of an eye, it’s clear that change is possible. of events for the individual seeking to express their The speed of that change, however, is questionable gender, and not simple to digest for everyone else. — it’s impossible to know how many years it’s going It’s important to pay homage to the wishes of indi- to take for society as a whole to be comfortable with viduals who are transitioning or figuring out who and understanding of preferred pronouns, names they are and how they would like to be called. But and gender fluidity. It all seems like semantics, but it’s also important to recognize the challenge oth- its not: it is someone’s livelihood, their identity, the ers can have in honoring those wishes. There is a person they present to the universe. The institutiondistinct difference between accidentally omitting an al barriers run like a river, coursing deep and fast individual’s preferred pronouns and making a ver- through society as a whole. Being able to categorize bal or cultural transgression. Someone who is ac- people as male or female is important to the human tively trying to honor a preferred name or pronoun experience. Creating social change is never converequest may still make a mistake and mislabel an nient for the majority: the minority will always be at individual. In such cases, it’s unfair to rush to con- a disadvantage as they wait for the wheels of change clusions of disrespect or ignorance. It makes perfect to begin to turn. But if offering up a third, fourth or sense to be upset, but understanding is required on fifth box to check speeds up that process, then by all means, draw the box. both sides. The Daily Targum’s editorials represent the views of the majority of the 147th editorial board. Columns, cartoons and letters do not necessarily reflect the views of the Targum Publishing Company or its staff.
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On misrepresenting success, flaws of instant gratification
UNVEILING SOCIETY CHRIS SHA
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hat causes higher fatality rates in the United States per year: school shootings or lightning strikes? According to the data from the Crime Prevention Research Center and the National Weather Ser vice, lightning is significantly more deadly. Anyone who thinks other wise is experiencing a phenomenon called the “availability heuristic.” This bias sways our judgment of likelihood, based on how easily examples are called to mind. Lightning strikes consistently cause more death than school shootings, but how often do you see a “Death by Strike” headline in the news? Almost never. Our perceptions are highly influenced by media and it has per verted our perception on the concept of success. This past week, a new app has skyrocketed in the business world with over 100,000 active users and it is valued around $14 million. The app goes by the name of “Wigo,” and the creator is 23-year-old Ben Kaplan who dropped out of college to work on his new company. The last time I have seen a successful startup of this magnitude was when the “What’s App” company exploded on the news. These simple ideas receive an
incredible response, so what is the secret of their success? I am tempted to follow the path of these young entrepreneurs and drop out of college to fully commit myself to my own ideas. However, Rome was not built in a day. After some consideration, I realized that my perception had been corrupted, and that I was not the only victim. The media is teaching the general public to understand the process of wealth accumulation as a “get rich quick” scheme. We are only exposed to the one in a millionth chance, the buzzer
computer programmer who works ever yday for ten years. Bill Gates once said, “I never took a day off in my twenties. Not even one.” However, his stor y will not attract viewers or promote ratings. Media corporates are just giving the people what they want to see. No one cares about the process when ever yone is fixated on the result. This stems from our newfound desire of immediate gratification. As technology improves, ever y new generation grows a little more impatient than the last. Children today are growing up to be the most stimulated human
“The increasing problem of society is the coalition of instant gratification and self-entitlement. Our expectations conform to the idea that effort immediately equates to results. We live in a world of five-second abs and magic blue pill methodology.” beater game winning shot that surprises and captivates the attention of all — the problem is that they rarely happen. Unfortunately, the majority of people continue to wait for it, anyway. In the real world, the climactic moments of success do not exist. The true, consistent rise toward accomplishment takes years and years to develop, but nobody cares about these stories. News companies are not going to bother covering the journey of a struggling
beings since the dawn of man. The more we are conditioned with this constant stimulation, the more tolerant we become of it, which only helps to create an even higher need to seek it out in our day-to-day lives. The increasing problem of society is this coalition of instant gratification and self-entitlement. Our expectations conform to the idea that effort immediately equates to results. We live in a world of five-second abs and the magic blue pill
methodology. However, these overnight transformations do not work. After a day or a month of working out, we expect to see a thinner, more attractive person in the mirror. If we do not see improvement, we lose motivation and go back to the more “comfortable” lifestyle. These are the unrealistic standards of growth that have been implanted in our subconscious by the media. The only way to accomplish things is to put in the ten thousand hours of work. The reason we do not see improvement in ourselves after a short period of time is because our bodies have to adapt to change. After eating junk food and living a sedentar y lifestyle for years, our bodies become programmed to that way of life. When we change our habits, our whole body is undergoing a process of transformation. This is why the beginning is always the most difficult part. The day we give up is usually the day before we start actualizing results. Whether it is health or wealth, the process is ver y similar, if not the same. The plateau exists for a reason, it is life asking, “How badly do you want it?” Be the exception while the rest of the world continues to scratch off their lottery tickets. I would love to win the lottery, but I would much rather deserve to win. Chris Sha is a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore. His column, “Unveiling Society,” runs on alternate Mondays.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Got ethics? On why Reclaiming Rutgers should matter to you As faculty, including teaching assistants and graduate assistants, have been negotiating their contract, which expired in August, they have begun to raise the question that the Union of Rutgers Administrators brought up after the 2010 salary freeze: has the administration “got ethics?” You may have seen “Reclaim Rutgers” signs hanging up on faculty doors. Maybe you have seen the American Association of University Professors and the American Federation of Teachers rallying or tabling at the campus center. This is a matter of everyone’s concern. Public education in a liberal democracy often has competing social and economic goals. Our democratic principles tell us that equality and access should matter and that we should educate for citizenship, while our economic system privileges shareholder value and, at times, embraces anti-democratic practices, which transform education into a commodity. Increasingly, Rutgers finds itself siding with business and aligning itself with shareholders, promoting initiatives that are more appropriate for a corporation than for an institution of learning. To give one example, Rutgers balanced the athletic budget upon entry into the Big Ten but has systematically starved the library, making Rutgers libraries pay consortium libraries fees without providing budgetary support. This is inimical to Rutgers’ stated mission and vision of providing for the instructional needs of students, promoting research and engaging in public service. The question of “got ethics?” is not merely
rhetorical. It is a substantive question that came out of the 2010 salary freeze and it is one that the administration can answer in negotiating the contract, particularly in removing the “subject to” clause. This clause would allow faculty and TAGA salaries to be “subject to” state funding, a provision that the administration already utilized in 2010 when it imposed a salary freeze without demonstrating any financial burden. Faculty, TA-GA and staff working conditions are students’ learning conditions. If part of the University’s mission is to provide for student instructional needs and to promote research, it seems that treating faculty and staff as more than exploitable labor and listening to their concerns should be part of the ethical commitment of the administration to the University and to all of its stakeholders — students, faculty, staff and the public. When the administration has the power to freeze faculty salaries as it did in 2010, when it increases tuition — which has gone up 25 percent in the last six years — and when it places undue emphasis on athletics, it is not ensuring conditions conducive to creative inquiry and authentic learning. When the administration does these things, it communicates a strong message vis-a-vis its ethics. As a TA and a GA, I believe that the duty to reclaim Rutgers is everyone’s and that the consequences of not speaking, of not doing anything, are high. If we want Rutgers to be an institution we are proud to teach at and to graduate from, then we need to make sure that the ethics of the administration are consonant with the weight of its mission. We need to reclaim Rutgers. Deirdre Dougherty is a Graduate School of Education third-year PhD candidate.
Donating used prom dresses is about more than school dances Start looking through your closets, because the Godmother is back this year and needs your dresses. For the last three years, Our Fair y Godmother has provided numerous financially struggling girls the opportunity to attend the prom by collecting gently used gowns and selling them at affordable prices. The average price of a prom dress can run up to $170, but girls can find high quality dresses for just $20 at Our Fair y Godmother events set to begin this month.
“It’s about more than prom. If you can’t afford a dress, there’s much more you have to miss out on due to financial situations.” Jinhee Lee, a junior in the School of Arts and Sciences, founded Our Fair y Godmother in 2012 as a senior in high school after experiencing firsthand the financial hurdles that presented themselves to attend the prom. “I just don’t think it’s fair that a girl can’t go to prom because she can’t afford it,” Lee said. Aside from driving across New Jersey in her mini-cooper to pick up dresses — she once stopped at 27 different houses in a single trip — Lee can be found
waitressing at Edo on Easton Avenue and interning at the Rutgers Foundation. With so much on her plate, she could use some help. “If ever yone took 5 seconds to share the cause on Facebook, at least 1 person out of 100 is bound to donate, and that makes a huge impact,” Lee said. Spread the word. Ask your friends, and families. Share it on social media with the hashtag #OurFair yGodmother2015. You don’t have to be a girl to join in. If the movement seems excessive for one night out at prom, listen to what Lee has to say. “It’s about more than prom. If you can’t afford a dress, there’s much more you miss out on due to financial situations. I’ve been there. I’m dedicated to giving these girls an opportunity to miss out on one less event. So I hope these girls can come to the event, buy a dress, look like their beautiful selves and dance the night away.” It’s true. The dress drive impacts more than just prom –– proceeds raised from dress sales go to charity. Last year, Lee collected a whopping 582 dresses with the aid of her biggest contributor Phi Delta Chi, who gathered over 140 dresses and earned the privilege to donate the proceeds of $1,300 to the Embrace Kids Foundation. Talk about making a difference. The offer still stands: the organization that collects the most dresses will receive all of the profit to donate to a charity of their choosing. As for anyone else interested in donating or volunteering, contact Jinhee Lee at ourfair ygodmother15@gmail.com. Steven Senko is a senior majoring in marketing in the Rutgers Business School.
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DIVERSIONS Nancy Black
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Today’s Birthday (03/02/15). Your excellent service goes well rewarded this year. Catch a financial windfall. Your professional status (and income) rises with disciplined efforts. Begin a new personal phase after the Spring Equinox solar eclipse (3/20). Prepare for summer action (after 6/14). Collaborate for mutual profit, especially energized after autumn eclipses (10/13 and 10/27). Deepen ties for thriving. 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 an 8 — Low-key fun keeps everyone entertained. Don’t let others spend too much of your money. Let someone else pick up lunch. Share a secret. Your intuition is excellent now. Try for anything you want and exceed expectations. Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is an 8 — Get your family moving on a project. Confer and figure out roles and accountabilities. Work together for a common cause. You can get farther and faster now. Reward inspired efforts with delicious food and shared laughter. Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Today is an 8 — Honest efforts pay off in cash. Draw upon hidden resources. Take action. Wear appropriate shoes. Gather up as much as you can. Stash away the surplus. Send announcements and statements. Your influence is rising. Thank your team. Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Today is a 9 — Your assets increase in value, or a new income source appears. Don’t spend it before you get it, though. Your prosperity level is on the rise. Get connected with a natural ally. Friends support what you’re up to. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 9 — A personal issue takes focus under the Moon in your sign. Ask for what’s due. Your services are in demand. There’s an opportunity for a bonus. Conditions are ripe to begin, although possibly chaotic. Spend what’s necessary. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 7 — Quiet solitude can get quite productive. Replace something that’s broken. Keep instruments tuned. Make bold plans. You have others on your side. Consider motivating factors. Once you figure what you want, friends happily assist. Delegate and trade.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is an 8 — Accept a challenge. Learn from the experience of others. There’s extra work available. Re-affirm a commitment. Do what you can to help. Use what you’ve been saving. Accept rigorous coaching and support. Gain more than expected. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is an 8 — A professional dilemma requires a solution. Consult an expert. Find what you need far away. Play by the rules. This game could get fun. The action is behind the scenes. Follow a loved one’s lead. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 9 — Today favors a business trip, class or conference, especially online or close to home. Hold meetings, and accept assistance from your team. Costs may be higher than expected. Work it out. Learn voraciously. Get creative together. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is an 8 — There’s more work coming in. Pace yourself, and keep it organized (especially the numbers). Track efficiency and savings. Set lofty goals. Work out each problem logically. Encourage your associates and they amaze you. Words travel farther today. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is an 8 — You and a partner can really make something happen today. Set your goals high. Invest in comfort, and earn increased productivity. Entertain a generous offer. Launch a new program. Pay back a debt. Emotions drive your effort. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is an 8 — You’re on fire at work. Keep the momentum up. Push boldly forward. Come up with a motivating tagline or slogan, and post it where you can see it. Offer a nice gesture to someone who’s stood by you.
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Terps tear into Knights in College Park, stop win streak at two LAUREN FORSMAN STAFF WRITER
The weekend didn’t provide much of an opportunity to rest for the Rutgers tennis team. After a 5-2 victory Wednesday over Seton Hall at home, the Scarlet Knights (5-3,0-1) traveled south for matches on both Saturday and Sunday, in College Park and Annapolis, Maryland. Not only were the Knights scheduled to play two matches in less than 48 hours, but Saturday’s contest at No. 54 Maryland was the inaugural Big Ten match for both teams. The meeting with the Terrapins (5-4, 1-0) marked the start of weeks of conference play that will include matchups with nationally ranked opponents on a consistent basis. Maryland proved it was worthy of its ITA ranking, snapping the Scarlet Knights’ two-match win streak and handing them their third loss of the season with a 7-0 sweep. Coming off a 5-2 win over Harvard, the Terrapins wasted no time in giving the Knights a preview of the competition that was in store for them.
They quickly secured the team point in doubles action and completed their victory with a singles sweep. Rutgers’ performance was not without intensity and competition, but Maryland was dominant when it mattered. “Maryland (is) a very strong team,” said assistant coach Hilary Ritchie. “From the line they hit very hard, fast-paced shots. We competed very well with them, but they just out-matched us a little bit.” Junior Mariam Zein was unable to travel to Maryland with the team due to family obligations, and as a result, the Knights’ No. 1 doubles team consisted of senior Lindsay Balsamo and junior Gina Li. The duo battled Alexandra Stanova and Welma Luus before ultimately falling, 8-5. At No. 1 singles, Li dropped the first set to Stanova, but was able to battle back and take the second. Stanova eventually put to sleep any hope of a comeback, defeating Li 6-1, 2-6, (7-5). In another fierce matchup that went to a third set, at the No. 4 spot, Rutgers senior captain Lindsay Balsamo took the first set from Luus 6-4, but dropped the next two, 6-1, 7-3.
But Sunday proved to be the better day for Rutgers. The intensity was high in the matchup at the Tose Family Tennis Center in Annapolis. In a match that neared five hours in length, the Knights rallied to defeat Navy by a slim 4-3 margin. In only its second match against a Big Ten opponent in two seasons and coming off a loss to Georgetown, Navy (8-5) provided fierce but expected competition. “I think when you play Navy and Army, you know that you’re going to have to battle. You know that they don’t give up and that they’re a very scrappy team,” Ritchie said. “I think that we thought we were the better team [but] sure enough, though, we had to work really hard for it.” Rutgers’ season-long impressive doubles play proved to be important on Sunday. The Knights captured the all-important team point in doubles, taking two out of three, before dropping three out of six in singles action. The match remained at 3-3 and came down to the No. 5 singles match. After arriving in Maryland after midnight on Sunday, Zein was back in the lineup for the Scarlet Knights.
Junior Mariam Zein earned a three-set win for Rutgers in its team loss on Sunday, 7-0, to Maryland to halt the Knights win streak. TIAN LI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / FEBRUARY 2015
Zein battled for the victory over Audrey Channell 7-5, 4-6, 6-1 and won the match for Rutgers. “I thought I was a better player than my opponent,” Zein said. “Her game style was ver y defensive … so that makes it more of a mental match ... you have to stay in the point. And even if you lose
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Rutgers honors four seniors, ends regular season on high note with rebound win
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finished 12th overall and picked up eight ECAC qualifying marks. In facing competition from athJunior Kaprice James and sophletes at some of the top track and omore Drew Andrews both earned field programs in the country, men- ECAC marks and posted new persontal strength was, to say the least, a al records in the 60-meter hurdles. challenge to maintain. Freshman Bria Saunders Despite being surrounded by clocked in an ECAC time in the palpable temptation to think neg- 200-meter dash for the fourth conatively or anxiously, Farquharson secutive meet this season, while was composed and resilient. junior Alayna Famble earned an “I couldn’t let anyone intimidate ECAC mark with a season-best perme,” Farquharson said. “Being in formance in 400-meter dash. such a big conference, it did have Additionally, senior Jillian Grant, a toll on me. I was actually very freshman Madelen Soto, Saunders nervous but knowing that if I had and Farquharson picked up an good practices and just kept up my ECAC time in the 4x400m relay. positive attitude, and knowing that The quartet clocked in at 3:48.21. I deserve to be there, that helped Spearheading the Knights’ sucme to keep imcess this weekproving myself.” end in the face Never theof vast confer“They just keep less, greatness is ence compeencouraging me to just go tition, Farqurarely achieved in the absence of for it. All the doubts in my harson earned a strong support the gold medal mind, they just took system. Confislung around dence boosters her neck. them right out. in the form of It was not reassurance given. GABRIELLE FARQUHARSON from her RutWith teamSenior sprinter/jumper gers teammates mates, coachproved to have es and family a significant influence on Farqu- members behind her, Farquharson harson’s outstanding milestones moves onward through the rethis weekend. mainder of the indoor season “They just kept encouraging me with the distinction of being a Big to just go for it,” Farquharson said. Ten Champion. “All the doubts in my mind, they “She’s been a great competijust took them right out.” tor — I think that’s her biggest atWith optimistic teammates tribute,” said assistant coach Lou around to keep her spirits up, Far- Tomlinson. “Days like she had quharson overcame fierce competi- this weekend — that comes from tion and emerged a champion. weeks and months of training at a Collectively, the Knights main- very high level and she’s getting tained a positive, motivation- the fruit of those tough days, hard al energy that allowed them to work, that has paid off.” see success. For updates on the Rutgers womWhile Ohio State claimed the en’s track and field team, follow @ Big Ten indoor team title, Rutgers TargumSports on Twitter.
CONTINUED FROM BACK seniors and give them a chance to soak in the cheers from the RAC one last time. “This is the greatest class that has really given everything they possibly can,” Stringer said. “If I had to pick the top 20 players I have coached in my life, they would be in there. They’re not losers, they have truly epitomized what it means to be a team. While defense generated the turnaround for the Knights in the second half, it was the offense that put this game out of reach for Indiana. In total, Rutgers racked up 50 points in the paint and dished out 18 assists in a complete offensive performance. On defense, the Knights held the Hoosiers to 39 percent shooting from the field and forced 19 turnovers. That led to 19 points off of turnovers and 18 fast break points for Rutgers. To Stringer, points off turnovers will be critical for the success of the Knights going forward in the postseason. “We have forced people into 20 or 30 turnovers, but we haven’t been pleased in our ability to convert,” Stringer said. “Being able to score points off those turnovers is something we must do, and it looked better today.” Junior wing Kahleah Copper was a beneficiery of the fast-paced second half, pouring in 15 points in the final 20 minutes for a total of 24 on the game. It was the third-straight game with over 20 points for Copper, who received assistance from senior wing Betnijah Laney and sophomore guard Tyler Scaife in a big way.
Laney recorded her 18th double-double on the season with 18 points and 13 rebounds, and Scaife got into double-figures with 16 points on 8-15 shooting from the field. “It was good to see Tyler (Scaife) knock some shots down, because quite frankly we are going to win 90 percent of the time when the big three — and that’s Kahleah (Copper),
a forty-ball rally, you have to get ready in 25 seconds for the next point. I think it was more about staying mentally tough and fighting for it.” For updates on the Rutgers tennis team, follow @TargumSports on Twitter.
Betnijah (Laney) and Tyler (Scaife) — are hitting shots,” Stringer said. With the emotion of senior night and the regular season behind them, Rutgers can focus on what it has been waiting for all year long — the postseason. “Once we step back on the floor, it’s practice,” Laney said. “We have to get ready for the tournament and who’s next — it’s no dwelling on the past because we have to keep moving forward.” For updates on the Rutgers women’s basketball team, follow @TargumSports on Twitter.
With a game-high 24 points on 71 percent shooting from the field, junior wing Kahleah Copper guided the Knights on offense. LUO ZHENGCHEN
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WOMEN’S LACROSSE DELAWARE 12, RUTGERS 7
MEN’S LACROSSE MONMOUTH 10, RUTGERS 9
Hawks hand RU rotten result KEVIN XAVIER ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
Head coach Dan Donigan said Rutgers must focus on finishing off games. THE DAILY TARGUM / SEPTEMBER 2012
Sophomore Amanda Turturro scored two goals and added an assist for the Knights in their defeat to Delaware on Saturday. EDWIN GANO / ACTING ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR / FEBRUARY 2015
Late rally falls short, streak snapped in DE BRIAN FONSECA STAFF WRITER
Sometimes there are deficits that cannot be overcome and holes that cannot be dug out. The Rutgers women’s lacrosse team suffered its third consecutive loss at the hands of No. 19 Delaware on Saturday, 12-7. The loss ends a five-game winning streak against the Blue Hens dating back to March of 2009. The Scarlet Knights (1-3) are now 11-14 all-time against their rivals from south of the border. Delaware (4-1) entered boasting the fifth-best offense in the nation, averaging 17.5 goals per game and the 11th-best goals against average in Division I, allowing 5.5 goals per game. Delaware scored five unanswered goals in ten minutes to blow the game wide open. Luck was not on Knights’ side during Delaware’s five-goal run, as sophomore Amanda Turturro nearly cut it short when her shot ricochetted off the post. Senior Lauren Sbrilli hit the framework again just a few minutes later off a free position opportunity. Rutgers managed to stop the bleeding for the last 10 minutes of the half. With 5:55 remaining, junior Kim Kolodny scored the Knights’ first goal of the game to reduce the deficit to 5-1 before the teams entered the locker room. “The goal cut down how many goals we were behind and the whole sideline was pumped,” Kolodny said. “It gave us a little bit more confidence that we needed to keep going.” Rutgers entered the second period determined to get back into the game. Sophomore Kristina Dunphey scored two minutes into the second half before sophomore Amanda Turturro finished a lovely feed from senior Melissa Arthur to reduce the Blue Hens lead to 5-3. Fresh off of being named the Colonial Athletics Association’s Player of the Week, Casey Lyons assisted sophomore Kirsten Hale before scoring her second goal of the game putting the Blue Hens up, 7-3.
The remainder of the match was a back-and-forth battle, with the two belligerents grappling for possession and superiority. In the end, McKenzie Rafferty scored her third and fourth goals to ice the game and cement the final score at 12-7 in favor of Delaware. In spite of the outcome not favoring her squad, head coach Laura Brand-Sias was pleased with the resilience her team showed in the second half. “They really worked hard to make the adjustments that we made, and we were a totally different team in the second half,” Brand-Sias said. “In the first half, we had seven turnovers in transition and in the second we only had one, so that’s a massive difference. ... We started to play a lot looser, and the second half was a much better result.” Two seconds before the final whistle blew, senior goalkeeper Candice Dandridge snagged her career-high 13th save of the afternoon, breaking her previous high of 11 set last Wednesday against Monmouth. Despite the loss, she credits the scouting her and her defensive unit put in prior to Saturday’s game for her solid shift in the cage. “Assessing them before the game — watching film, knowing what to do, knowing their habits and learning how to beat them — that’s what helped me and the defense to be a solid defensive unit to stop them from making any type of plays,” Dandridge said. The loss marked the first game this season where Rutgers did not score the first goal of the game, and was also the first time the Knights did not hold a lead. “We have to be ready and play a full 60 minutes. It’s in our control completely,” Dandridge said. “We need to watch film, know what we’re doing wrong, break down habits and prevent that for Wednesday’s game — and the entire season to come.” For updates on the Rutgers women’s lacrosse team, follow @ TargumSports on Twitter.
History has a habit of repeating itself. Head coach Brian Brecht drew a long breath through his nose and exhaled slowly from his mouth in an attempt to compose himself for his postgame interview. The obvious first question — what did he tell his team in the locker room after the game? Brecht began again with a deep breath, followed by a sigh before answering. “I was at a loss for words. I don’t think you have the words for every situation, but I kept it short and sweet,” he said. After fighting tooth and nail for a victory over a winless Wagner on Tuesday, the Rutgers men’s lacrosse team faced a similar threat in Saturday’s game against Monmouth. The Scarlet Knights hosted a Hawks team still in its infancy after joining Division I lacrosse in 2014. Entering the matchup, Monmouth had failed to win a single game at the Division I level, going 0-14 in its inaugural season and beginning 0-1 in 2015. But on Saturday, everything changed. Rutgers wrote itself into the history books in a way the Knights would rather forget. Rutgers handed the Hawks their first Division I win, falling 10-9 after dominating play in nearly every statistical category. But the story sounds familiar. The Knights came into the Wagner game with a decided edge on paper, but the game was tied at nine after three quarters until Rutgers kicked it into highgear in the fourth, negating an upset bid with a 13-10 win. Four days later, when the Hawks descended upon the banks, it was the same story.
Rutgers jumped out to an early 3-1 lead after goals by a pair of freshmen in midfielder Chad Toliver and attacker Jules Heningburg, along with junior attacker Scott Bieda, only to see it fade quickly with the Hawks taking a 6-4 lead into the half. The two teams went back and forth through the final two periods, with Monmouth mounting a three-goal run to go from down, 8-7, to up, 10-8. The Knights added a man-up goal with four minutes left to play to draw within one, but a desperation dart from midfielder Jeff George was thwarted in the waning moments. And when the horn sounded, the Hawks had their program’s first win. “Obviously, we’re disappointed, a little upset, a little shocked,” said senior faceoff specialist Joe Nardella. “(Monmouth) executed better than we did down the stretch and that’s why they ended up coming away with the win.” Another area that has lacked stability and consistency in execution is the play at the goaltending position. Junior Kris Alleyne was named the starter at the season’s outset and held the title through the first three games before being ceded by junior backup Jake Andersen, Tuesday against Wagner. The change was short-lived. After giving up six first half goals, Rutgers inserted Andersen for Alleyne in the second half. But the incumbent’s performance was equally underwhelming. When the Knights began Saturday’s game with Monmouth, freshman Alex Larson was in net at high noon at High Point. The youngster did not appear ready for the responsibility, allowing six first half goals while saving just two. Alleyne played the second half yet again, surrendering just four goals, but four was enough.
The Knights’ coach was candid when asked in postgame if he knew who would be in the cage for Tuesday’s tilt with Army. “After today (Monmouth), no I don’t. And I think that’s one of the things we need to figure out going forward.” Brecht said. “It’s a big concern. It concerns me that we haven’t had a lot of saves the last couple games and when you win a lot of the stats and you’re close in some games, you look at everything –– one shot, one groundball, one save –– everything,” he said. Much like the narrow win over Wagner, the Knights outshot the Hawks by 10 and scooped 19 more groundballs. Nardella dominated at the X, winning a whopping 87 percent of his faceoffs (20-23). But still, somehow, the game was lost. Senior Brian Goss tried to view the game with tactful restraint. “A couple bounces here and there and we just didn’t execute when we needed to,” Goss said. “We really gotta focus on ourselves and learn from the mistakes that we made if we want to get better as a team.” Nardella all but confirmed the Knights’ mindset for Monmouth wasn’t conducive to victory. “We thought that we were going to have a better day than we did ... (I) give a lot of credit to (Monmouth), they played hard, especially down the stretch, and they executed when we didn’t,” the senior said. Nardella and his team know exactly the type of opponent they will be facing Tuesday and they won’t let this lesson go unnoticed. “If (Wagner) or losing to Richmond and Virginia wasn’t a wake up call, this has gotta be one,” he said. For updates on the Rutgers men’s lacrosse team, follow @KevinPXavier and @TargumSports.
Freshman sensation Chad Toliver shrugs off a defender en route toward goal in Saturday’s loss to Monmouth Toliver tallied twice in defeat to give him six in 2015. TIAN LI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
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March 2, 2015 MEN’S TRACK & FIELD RUTGERS FINISHES IN 12TH PLACE AT BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIPS
Knights gain postseason experience at Big Ten meet MIKE O’SULLIVAN STAFF WRITER
They knew it would be a tough team meet to score — and it proved to be just that difficult a task. The Rutgers men’s track and field team finished in 12th place its first time competing at the Big Ten Indoor Track and Field Championships this past weekend, as Nebraska took home the title. While the Scarlet Knights have been getting some quality performances out of key athletes over the past few weeks, they knew heading into the Big Ten Championships that it would be their biggest test of the indoor season so far. The Knights did not want to worry about who they were competing against once the event got underway, attempting to remain poised and focused on their own outcomes. “I thought we competed very hard,” said head coach Mike Mulqueen. “We had several lifetime-bests and season-bests in several events. We added a few more IC4A qualifiers, too.” Despite the underwhelming overall team performance, several Rutgers athletes had solid days and recorded IC4A qualifying marks, as Mulqueen mentioned. Junior jumper Emeka Eze posted a solid performance in the long jump for the Knights, placing eighth overall with a jump of 23 feet and 6 inches (7.20 meters).
The 4x400-meter relay team also contributed to the bright spots. Consisting of senior D’Andre Jordan, junior Rajee Dunbar and freshmen Jordan Jimerson and Stuart Tweedie, the quartet ran a time of 3:12.13, finishing in eighth place for the event. Others in the Rutgers team recorded personal-best marks in their respective events. Senior distance runner Christopher Banafato set a personal record in the 5000-meter race with a time of 14:26.56. Sophomore middle distance runner Brendan Jaeger ran a lifetime-best in the 800-meter race, clocking in at 1:52.29. Both runners picked up IC4A qualifying marks, earning spots for next weekend at the IC4A Championships. These times provided some positives for the Knights to take from the meet as they got their first taste of Big Ten Championship competition. “One of the main things we wanted was to set some personal records,” said assistant coach Robert Farrell. “We wanted everyone to go out there and make sure they’re fighting for every inch, fighting for every second and just compete, which is what they did.” While most of the team was new to the Big Ten competition, junior weight thrower Joseph Velez knew what to expect after transferring from Ohio State.
Junior jumper Emeka Eze earned eighth place in the long jump for Rutgers with a measurement of 23 feet and 6 inches at the Big Ten Championships. TIAN LI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / APRIL 2014 He placed 12th in the weight throw with a mark of 64 feet and 4 inches (19.61 meters), but would have landed an even better mark if not for a foul called on his second throw. On a day where it was difficult for the team to score, Velez still felt the team had accomplished what it wanted to heading into the competition. “As a team, we wanted to go into the meet and compete against
ourselves and to get some more IC4A qualifiers, and we did that,” Velez said. “We accomplished our goal going into the meet, so I thought that was really good.” The postseason run continues this upcoming weekend at the IC4A Championships. Rutgers now knows the level they need to compete at during this stretch of the season, using its performance at the Big Ten
Championships as a lesson moving forward. “Experience is ever ything, especially entering a new league as tough as the Big Ten,” Mulqueen said. “We need to learn from this experience and keep improving.” For updates on the Rutgers men’s track and field team, follow @ TargumSports on Twitter.
GYMNASTICS KNIGHTS GARNER 194.850 SCORE FOR SECOND PLACE FINISH AT TOWSON
Rutgers earns second place finish in quad meet at Towson EVAN BRUNO STAFF WRITER
As the Rutgers gymnastics team wrapped up its quad meet Friday evening at Towson, the results were mixed. While the Scarlet Knights finished ahead of Towson (193.750) and Yale (191.875) with a score of 194.850, they ended up in second place behind Michigan State’s top score of 196.275. Head coach Louis Levine said he felt Rutgers (10-13, 0-8) can still take its game up a notch. “I think we can still do better,” Louis Levine said. “We still haven’t put together four great events. ... We should be a high 48, 49 on ever y single event. We’ve done that on three of four events but we haven’t quite put it all together to put up that high 195 or 196 that we’re looking for.” The Spartans recorded a season-high 49.200 on bars and Burt was awarded first place in the event with a 9.875 total. Kicking off the competition on the balance beam, the Knights posted a 48.050. Sophomore Claire Jones scored a 9.775, the highest total of the rotation. Along with Jones, senior Anastasia Halbig (9.735) and junior Claudia Salinas (9.700) all went over the 9.700 mark. “It was definitely a better performance than NC State,” Levine said. “It’s still not quite where we want to be … It’s been a different event each week. That jump
between five tenths and a point — the difference in our score is a huge difference and really could make us competitive or not make us competitive as we kind of wind down the season here.” In the second rotation, Rutgers put together another strong performance on the floor with a 48.900 team mark. A pair of senior captains led the way, as
Emma Hoffman notched a 9.825 and Luisa Leal made her season debut on the floor with a 9.800. “Luisa (Leal) has this determination and I would say she’s talented,” Levine said on Leal’s performance. “We kind of changed around the plan with her floor, and we were able to kind of quickly put into action a routine that will score well. I don’t think
this weekend was her best performance but man, it was good to see her out there. There’ll be some great performances ahead with her.” Jones also impressed on the floor with a 9.800. Freshmen Jenna Crisalli and Sahara Gipson both put up scores of 9.725 while Elizabeth Groden (9.200) had a solid event as well.
After Luisa Leal’s performance over the weekend, head coach Louis Levine said he was impressed with the senior captain’s versatility. EDWIN GANO / ACTING ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR / MARCH 2014
The Knights posted a season-high 48.975 on vault in the third rotation. Leal landed a season-best 9.900 mark and sophomore April Baker (9.875) recorded a new season-high as well. Senior Sara Skammer and Groden each contributed 9.725’s, followed by Gipson’s 9.750. “We really competed the way we practiced on a pretty consistent basis,” Levine said. “For the most part all year … April (Baker) was back in the lineup this week after being out for a couple weeks. …It’s people pushing each other to get better and better.” Securing a sound 48.925 total on the uneven bars, Williams and Baker each composed a 9.825 mark for Rutgers. Levine was impressed by Baker’s performance in the competition in particular. The Andover, Massachusetts, native earned a season high on vault and contributed totals over 9.800 on both vault and bars. “I think April [Baker] had a really good performance this week,” said Levine. “I thought she did a great bar routine and a great vault. I don’t know if they’re her personal bests, but they’re really close if they’re not. …We had three standout events and two particularly in vault and bars that I was really proud of the way we competed.” For updates on the Rutgers gymnastics team, follow @TargumSports on Twitter.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY “If (Wagner) or losing to Richmond and Virgina wasn’t a wake up call, this has gotta be one.” - Senior faceoff specialist Joe Nardella
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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL RUTGERS 71, INDIANA 60
RU delivers seniors fitting result at RAC CONOR NORDLAND CORRESPONDENT
As the seconds ticked off the clock, the crowd rose to its feet to watch the seniors on the Rutgers women’s basketball team exit the court one last time at Louis Brown Athletic Center. On a day where three seniors were honored in their final home game, the Scarlet Knights (21-8, 12-6) returned to their winning ways in convincing fashion Sunday. The Knights had much to be happy about on Senior Day, cruising to a 71-60 victory against Indiana (14-15, 4-14), snapping their two-game losing streak. After losing its past two games by a combined 30 points, Rutgers came out aggressive from the jump and did not relent until the 40 minutes were over. “It was exciting. We were having a lot of fun on the court and, of course, we wanted to go out with a bang, and I felt that today we did,” said senior guard Syessence Davis. “We played really hard, we pushed the ball and everyone wants to go out on a high note, and I think today we did.” The Hoosiers seemed up to the task of matching the Knights energy in the first half, jumping out to a 21-17 lead and going into halftime down only 30-24. However, Rutgers cranked it into another gear in the final 20 minutes, exploding with a 17-6 run in the first eight minutes of the second half. They forced eight turnovers in that span and maintained a 10-point cushion for the remainder of the contest. The large lead allowed head coach C. Vivian Stringer the opportunity to substitute her Betnijah Laney floats a left-handed hook shot in the first half yesterday at the RAC. With 18 points and 13 rebounds, the senior wing snagged her 18th double-double of the season to lead the Knights to a Senior Day victory. TIAN LI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
SEE RAC ON PAGE 17
WOMEN’S TRACK & FIELD FARQUHARSON MEDALS IN THREE EVENTS AT BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIPS
Senior stages phenomenal performance KAYLEE POFAHL STAFF WRITER
When Gabrielle Farquharson took the track at the Spire Institute in Geneva, Ohio, she knew. The stage was set for the senior sprinter and jumper. With the entire conference eagerly watching as she lined up to her slot in the 200-meter dash, Farquharson took off for the history books. With a hat trick of top performances, Farquharson captured the Big Ten title in the 200-meter dash, was the runner-up in the long jump and took third in the 60-meter dash at the 2015 Big Ten Indoor Track and Field Championships this past weekend. As the first student-athlete at the University to be named a Big Ten Champion, she helped bring home the first Big Ten Championship in Rutgers athletics history. Farquharson posted personal bests in all three events, setting two school records and
securing a national ranking in the 200-meter dash and long jump. “She had a phenomenal weekend,” said head coach James Robinson. “We knew she had a great opportunity to have a histor y-making weekend, but knowing she had the opportunity to do it and for her to go take advantage and perform, that’s two different things. That was just a phenomenal sight this weekend to see her have these performances.” In claiming the Big Ten crown with a 0.6 margin of victory, Farquharson reset the Rutgers indoor 200-meter dash record for the third time this season. She surpassed her previous record set at the Valentine’s Invitational Feb. 14 by .12 seconds, crossing the finish line at 23.50. Farquharson’s new time now sits 21st in the nation. Reaching 6.36 meters (20 feet and 2.5 inches) in long jump on her final attempt,
Farquharson landed in second place just .01m away from the title. With this close runner-up performance, Farquharson bested her previous personal record of 6.31 meters set at the Metro Team Challenge and the Penn State Invitational in Januar y. Her jump currently ranks 13th nationally. Claiming the bronze in the 60-meter dash, Farquharson clocked at 7.38, just .02 behind the Big Ten Champion and .002 behind the runner-up. With the third place finish, Farquharson bested her own top time of 7.48 from the Metro Team Challenge as well as the previous Rutgers benchmark of 7.41 set by Shameka Marshall at the 2006 ECAC Championships. Farquharson’s many successes this weekend, although distinguished and prominent, did not come handily. SEE SENIOR ON PAGE 17
EXTRA POINT
NBA SCORES
Philadelphia Indiana
74 94
Boston Golden State
101 106
Charlotte Orlando
98 83
Cleveland Houston
103 105
Chicago LA Clippers
86 96
New Orleans Denver
99 92
GABRIELLE FARQUHARSON,
senior sprinter/jumper, became the first Rutgers student-athlete to win a Big Ten Championship after winning the 200-meter dash over the weekend.
Senior Gabrielle Farquharson stole the show for Rutgers in Geneva, Ohio. MARIELLE SUMERGIDO / EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
KNIGHTS SCHEDULE
MEN’S LACROSSE
MEN’S BASKETBALL
BASEBALL
WOMEN’S LACROSSE
vs. Army
vs. Maryland
vs. Fairleigh Dickinson
vs. Penn
Tomorrow, 6 p.m., Piscataway, N.J.
Tomorrow, 7 p.m., RAC
Wednesday, 3 p.m., Bainton Field
Wednesday, 4 p.m., Piscataway, N.J.