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‘Vets4Warriors’ hotline offers safe space for soldiers at U. KATIA OLTMANN CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Vets4Warriors provides a safe and confidential avenue for qualified and experienced veterans to provide suppor t for other struggling veterans. To help ser vice members with unique challenges based on militar y life, the United States Depar tment of Defense Suicide Prevention Of fice sponsored staf f members at the Rutgers University Behavioral Healthcare to develop Vets4Warriors. Mark Graham, director of Vets4Warriors and a retired major general, said as a 24/7 national suppor t hotline, Vets4Warriors is designed to be available for veterans, active ser vice members and the families of people who ser ve. According to the Vets4Warriors website, the call center is mostly staf fed with veterans
Rutgers president Robert L. Barchi makes less than at least 17 Rutgers employees. The top earner is Robert Heary, a professor in the New Jersey Medical School’s Department of Neurosurgery with a salary of $3.14 million. THE DAILY TARGUM / SEPTEMBER 2012
Barchi not top salary earner at Rutgers DAN COREY ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
Many students may be surprised to know Rutgers president Robert L. Barchi does not claim the spot of the highest-paid
employee at Rutgers — in fact, he earns less than at least 17 University employees. Fourteen of these 17 highest-paid Rutgers employees are faculty at Rutgers’ New Jersey Medical School in Newark or at
Student loans cause greater stress among more students
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Even with the assistance of extensive financial aid, the physical toll of college tuition loans hits many Rutgers students hard. Many students have family responsibilities, work schedules or loans to worry about, said Gretchen Chapman, a professor in the Department of Psychology who actively researches judgement and decision making. “(Students) often need an extension for deadlines on assignments,” Chapman said. “You can see the stress in their expressions.” She believes it is not necessary for everyone to get a bachelor’s or master’s degree, but it is true that on average, those who do have better job opportunities. According to an article in The Atlantic that cited a University of South Carolina study, the price of higher education in the United States has increased by 250 percent in the past three decades.
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School on the Busch campus, according to MyCentralJersey.com. The remaining three highest-paid employees are athletic coaches. The highest-paid University employee is Robert Hear y,
“Serial’s” Sarah Koenig arrived at the Rutgers Student Center to speak about her hit podcast March 5. LUO ZHENGCHEN
‘Serial’s’ Sarah Koenig speaks about hit podcast MARY ELLEN CAGNASSOLA CORRESPONDENT
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Since Rutgers was recently recognized for producing a large number of Fulbright grant students, current Rutgers students and alumni are sharing their experiences as Fulbright Scholars. Rutgers was ranked as one of the top 10 research institutions to produce the most Fulbright Grant students and alumni for the second year in a row, receiving 19 Fulbright Grants, according to Rutgers Today. The Fulbright Grant is an opportunity for University students and alumni to travel to one of about 150 countries, said Arthur Casciato, director of the Office of Distinguished Fellowships. Fulbright students can plan their own program while abroad and conduct research on a project of their choice, Casciato said. “The students who apply for this grant are very competitive and studious,” he said. “To receive the Fulbright Grant is effort well spent because it is one of the most prestigious grants offered at Rutgers.” The application process starts with recruitment, and then 25 faculty members from the Office of Distinguished Fellowships write evaluations for the students interested in the grant, Casciato said. “The faculty members are loyal and generous by working with the students to prepare their applications,” he said. This is the sixth year in a row where Rutgers has been one of the
top producers in the country for Fulbright research institutions, he said. “It is great (that) Rutgers is ranking in the same category with other high-ranking Universities, such as Princeton, Yale, Harvard and Brown,” he said. When a participant receives a Fulbright grant, he or she gets the opportunity to learn a foreign language, address global issues and develop a competitive edge in the global economy. Lauren Seyler, a sixth-year doctoral candidate in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, said she recently received the Fulbright grant and is studying in France at the Station Biologique de Roscoff until the end of March. “I was absolutely floored when I found out that I received the Fulbright Grant,” she said. “I had worked so hard and hoped so much that I would get this opportunity. I felt privileged, fortunate and a little relieved too.” Her research involves studying marine archaea, an ancient group of microorganisms that are found all over the world, but are very difficult to culture, she said. Seyler is using the Tara Oceans expedition, located at Station Biologique de Roscoff to explore the distribution and diversity of marine archaea, she said. She will determine if they are living in symbiotic relationships with larger single-celled organisms called protists, Seyler said. Seyler said she got a lot out of her
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FRIDAY 2/6 The Depar tment of Entomology hosts “What Triggers and Stimulates Biological Control Agents? The Case of Entomopathogenic Nematodes” from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Thompson Hall on Cook campus. The event is free and open to the public.
The Mason Gross School of the Arts presents “BrukHof fmann Duo: Romeo and Juliet” from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the Nicholas Music Center on Douglass campus. Admission is $5 for students, $10 for alumni and seniors, and $15 for the general public.
The Depar tment of Biochemistr y and Microbiology presents “Gut Microbiota – A Missing Link For Understanding Bioactivity of Dietar y Polyphenols” from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Marine Sciences Building on Cook campus. The event is free and open to the public.
SUNDAY 2/8 The Mason Gross School of the Ar ts presents “Rutgers University Musicology Society Graduate Music Conference: Per formance Space, Per formance Place” from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Rober t E. Mor tensen Hall on Douglass campus. The event is free and open to the public.
The Mason Gross School of the Arts presents “Spring Dance Concert” from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the Loree Gymnasium on Douglass campus. Admission is $5 for students, $10 for alumni and seniors, and $15 for the general public.
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Upcoming week designed to recognize, empower women MEGHAN GRAU CONTRIBUTING WRITER
A carnival-themed social will kick off International Women’s Week at Rutgers on March 9, aiming to empower women and connect campus organizations about women’s issues. International Women’s Day, observed each year on March 8, will be honored throughout the upcoming week with a series of events hosted by the Rutgers chapter of “ONE,” a non-profit nonpartisan advocacy organization, said Shaila Huq, president of “ONE” at Rutgers. A workshop will take place the following day on Tuesday, Huq said. The week will conclude with a screening of the documentary “Girl Rising,” accompanied by a guest speaker Wednesday night. The issues impacting women range from human trafficking to discouraging sentiments towards girls interested in STEM fields, Huq said. “It’s a mixture of ver y recognizable and serious issues that can be affected by policy and advocacy and then smaller cultural issues which require thought and open and honest discourse with the people around you,” she said. Throughout the University’s International Women’s Week, ONE will be collecting menstrual essentials for women in shelters across New Jersey, according to the Facebook page of “ONE” at Rutgers. A School of Arts and Science senior, Huq said feminine hygiene products are one of the items most requested by homeless women and are severely underdonated. Donations can be made at any of the events, and the group will be at the Busch and Livingston student centers throughout the week to accept donations, she said. Specific dates and times will be announced via their Facebook page. The week was inspired by the intersection of International
Women’s Day and the “ONE” campaign’s focus on extreme poverty and preventable disease, said Tiffany Wu, vice president of “ONE” at Rutgers. A Rutgers Business School junior, Wu said International Women’s Week would have a series of events to remind students about issues with women’s empowerment, and inform them about ways they can help the cause. “We’re having this week in honor of International Women’s Day,” she said. “We wanted to use that to draw attention to the fact that poverty affects women and girls in a disproportionate way.” Students who are interested and able to attend an event are likely to learn the most from the screening of “Girl Rising,” Huq said. “It follows nine women and girls and their stories of education and how they rose above their circumstances,” she said. “That really resonates and really starts a dialogue.” The film’s screening will begin at 7 p.m. on Wednesday at the Busch Student Center and will conclude with guest speaker Alexandra Behette, a field associate from “People Connection,” a group that educates students on lobbying for issues such as reproductive health and family planning, Huq said. Female students of varying class years and disciplines will facilitate the women’s leadership workshop, which will be held from 9:15 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. Tuesday night in room 115 of the Loree Classroom Building, Huq said. The intention of the student-led workshops is to create an environment where students can speak comfortably about women’s empowerment, she said. As a result, students will leave equipped with an understanding of the issues and how to engage others in a similar dialogue, she said. Monday’s event will bring together social justice organizations on campus to engage them
International Women’s Week, which will begin on March 9, aims to celebrate the role of women and encourage dialogue about women’s issues. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY NAAZ MODAN / PHOTO EDITOR in improving the communication between groups to strengthen their collective efforts, Huq said. The carnival-themed social will be hosted from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in room 174 of the Busch Student Center, and will concentrate on the theme #DemandBetter, Wu said. The #DemandBetter pledge is sponsored by the “ONE” campaign and refers to the Sustainable Development Goals that the United Nations will establish in September, she said. The Sustainable Development Goals will replace the Millennium Development Goals, a collection of eight international development goals that did not achieve their designated benchmarks within the 15-year time frame, despite substantial progress, Huq said.
“The emphasis is on the fact that the SDGs will affect women and girls the most, because the SDGs are set to really prime them for inclusion in the world in an equal way,” she said. “ONE” at Rutgers already collected about 600 signatures for the pledge, Wu said. Students at the social will have the opportunity to describe the change they want to see in the world and what they are demanding politicians to do to create change by 2030. Manoj Bhagroo, a School of Engineering sophomore, said International Women’s Day hits home for him in the wake of a 2012 rape case in Delhi, India. The lawyers for the defense contended that the victim was
responsible, and said women should not be out at night or wear certain clothing, Bhagroo said. The incident went fairly unnoticed by the American news and public media, but it is important to spread global awareness about the issue, he said. A BBC documentary about the 2012 rape and murder case was scheduled to air on International Women’s Day this Sunday, according to CNN. The film, “India’s Daughter,” was banned by an Indian court, but was released early on March 4 by the BBC in some jurisdictions, according to CNN. “(Empowerment) means that women can express themselves the same way men can express themselves,” he said.
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She said she attempted to speak with Mr. S on multiple occasions, but to no avail. Mr. S eventually told Koenig to “leave him alone” Koenig advises journalism students to constantly after her many inquiries. ask themselves ‘How do you know it’s right?’ The hour-long presentation and post-event Q&A session answered many burning questions CONTINUED FROM FRONT unreleased tapes, police docu- about the case, but also detailed ments and her thoughts on cer- the procedure behind such a Organized by the Rutgers Uni- tain aspects of the case that she complex and open-ended story. In an era of listicles and fast-paced versity Programming Association, did not use on “Serial.” “An Evening with Sarah Koenig” Despite the program’s dark digital journalism, Koenig emphaflooded the multipurpose room of subject matter, Koenig elicited sized the importance of investing the College Avenue Student Cen- laughs as she shared anecdotes time and thought into the journalter with “Serial” lovers looking for and deconstructed “Serial” and istic process. “It was like asking for a sweater the scoop on what went into build- the investigation. ing the podcast that went on to In an attempt to keep the pub- and getting an angry, tangled ball become a pop culture underdog. lic’s opinion from skewing her of yarn,” Koenig said of the police Koenig sat down for a pre-event investigation, Koenig and her documents she obtained through interview with The Daily Targum team did their best to disable the public record. Koenig said last week, sharing her plans for comments on it was “defeatthe talk and her sudden success. “Serial“-related “It’s a public radio podcast, so websites. “In ‘Serial,” we wanted to ing” initially, none of us expected popular culTo her webcreate a story that didn’t because when they first ture to notice us, really,” Koenig site administrafeel fake in any way.” looked at the said. “It is weird, it’s really weird tor Richard’s Adnan Syed to be on the other end of it, and horror, he acSARAH KOENIG Maryland PubI can’t say I really love it. I find cidently postHost and Executive Producer of “Serial” lic Information it a little ner ve wracking to be ed the phrase Act, it was inter viewed, and I do recognize “Adnan did it” like looking at the irony.” from the “Seri“Serial” is Koenig’s re-investiga- al” account on the “Serial” Face- someone’s tax receipts — comtion of the 1999 murder of a Mary- book page while trying to filter in- pletely disjointed. land high school student Hae Min flammatory comments like such. Fact-checking measures takLee, whose body was discovered “Needless to say, he deleted en during the making of “Serial” in Baltimore’s notorious Leakin it immediately,” Koenig joked. were also discussed in Koenig’s Park after her disappearance. “He fretted over the debacle for talk, of which Koenig said she is Adnan Syed, Lee’s classmate a solid week.” especially grateful. and former boyfriend, was sen“Fact checkers have made Koenig spent a significant tenced to life in prison for the amount of time on one character me so much better of a reportmurder. Koenig’s findings more and suspect from “Serial,” Mr. S, er, for sure. I have a voice in my than a decade later made “Serial” the streaking, alcoholic school head now, even when I’m doing a controversial and unexpectedly janitor who found Lee’s body inter views, asking ‘How do you obsession-worthy success over while looking for a spot to urinate know? How do you know it’s the course of 12 episodes. in Leakin Park. She shared Mr. right?” Koenig said, advising Following through on her S’s track record, describing him journalism students to constantpromises, Koenig divulged as a “serial streaker” and “crafty.” ly ask the same questions.
The hear t of “Serial,” Koenig said, is the question of how one can tell what a person is capable of. To this day, Koenig said she still speaks to and maintains a relationship with “Serial’s” most controversial player, Adnan Syed. While she is no longer investigating Syed’s case, she said she spends more time talking to him than anyone else she knows. “My relationship with Adnan — I don’t even know what to call our series of interactions. It was personal, this relationship, it was not purely professional. But it wouldn’t qualify as a friendship, either,” Koenig said. Though not even Koenig can say whether Syed killed Lee 16 years ago, and though there is certainly no shortage of crime reporting in the media today, “Serial” fans can still appreciate the show’s and Koenig’s genuine pursuit of the facts. Koenig said there are entire television networks devoted to murder cases, but so much of that kind of stor ytelling seems focused on making stories seem more fictional than they are. “In these stories, there aren’t contradictions or idiosyncrasies. There aren’t good people who do bad things. In ‘Serial,” we wanted to create a story that didn’t feel fake in any way,” Koenig said.
model that is basically what Wal-Mar t has done with the retail industr y,” said Joe Richard, organizer for the Rutgers chapter of the American Association of University Professors-American Federation of Teachers (AAUP-AFT). “More and more jobs increasingly have low wages and no job security.” Par t-time lecturers reapply for their jobs ever y three or four th months because they are considered to be contingent faculty, he said. Par t-time lecturers have no job security beyond the next semester and no health benefits, as well as little to no suppor t to improve their personal activity as scholars, Richard said. Some of these University instructors earn as little as $4,800
per three-credit class ever y semester, according to MyCentralJersey.com. “It actually harms undergraduate student education because more and more people who are teaching classes are faced with this scenario,” Richard said. “Students are paying more with their tuition dollars and getting less faculty support.” Ever y few years, the AAUPAFT negotiates a new collective bargaining agreement in which they tr y to raise the salaries of academic workers on campus, Richard said. “We have ever y intention of continuing to do that for our par t-time lecturers, as well as our full-time faculty,” he said. “We’ve already been successful with our full-time non-tenured track people in winning them
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through medical practice and not student tuition, according to MyCentralJersey.com. Trailing Hear y is Ira Goldstein, another professor at the New Jersey Medical School’s Department of Neurosurger y, who made $1.65 million in 2014, according to MyCentralJersey. com. C. Vivian Stringer, the Rutgers women’s basketball coach, made $1.63 million in 2014. Hear y and Goldstein did not respond to a request seeking
comment about their salar y distinctions by press time. On the opposite end of the salar y spectrum, half of the 24,829 people employed by the University earned less than $50,000 in 2014. More than 37 percent of classes are taught by par t-time lecturers, instructors who earned a median salar y of $8,727 last year and comprise the tier of some of the lowest-paid workers at the University. “American universities are embracing a business
Mary Ellen Cagnassola is a School of Ar ts and Sciences sophomore majoring in english and journalism and media studies and minoring in psychology. She is a correspondent at The Daily Targum.
CRIME MARCH 5 JERSEY CITY — Syron B. Stone, a 29-year-old fugitive wanted for stabbing a woman's face last month, was caught as he was leaving his mother's burial. There is controversy over the arrest and the pastor who presided over the burial was angered by the timing of the incident. MARCH 5 CLIFTON — Amoaur y DeJesus Sanchez was arrested and charged with possession of heroin, cocaine and drug paraphernalia. He had been distributing within 500 feet from his house. Sanchez was taken to police headquar ters and additionally charged with driving under the influence. MARCH 4 PISCATAWAY — Shareem Brantley, Sameeka Seawright and Jasmine Holloway were arrested as a result of an investigation by the Piscataway Police Depar tment Narcotics Unit. Brantley and Seawright were charged with multiple crimes including distribution of heroin and cocaine and maintaining a narcotics production facility. Moreover, they were also charged with possession of a firearm from the discover y of a stolen handgun at the scene. Holloway, who was present at the scene, was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia. A large quantity of heroin and cocaine — having a street value of $4,050 — was seized.
multi-year contracts, which was a union victor y.” The AAUP-AFT faculty recently won multi-year contracts that will benefit full-time non-tenure track faculty, he said. The faculty union will continue to fight on behalf of all union members, including part-time lecturers, Richard said. “We want to do anything that we can for our part-time lecturers to move away from contingency, and tr y to win job security for them,” he said. Dan Corey is a Rutgers Business School first-year student majoring in pre-business and journalism and media studies. He is an Associate News Editor at The Daily Targum. Follow him on Twitter @_dancorey for more stories.
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STUDENTS Costidis says money, financial obligations is source of stress ‘all the time’ CONTINUED FROM FRONT
Most students have to borrow money to pay for school and this only adds to students’ stress. Chapman compared how people make decisions with normative models of the best or most rational method for making decisions. She says that when applying to college, it is hard not to factor financial issues into the decision. A student’s dream school could not be attainable due to the overall price. She did not think there is an easy answer to whether or not students should attend their dream school when they have to take out a lot of loans. “When you’re paying of f (student loans), the interest rate is always dif ferent,” Chapman said. “Student loans can possibly be good debt that have advantages. However, there are always horror stories of people who went into debt and didn’t find gainful employment.” Chapman points out that everyone wonders about the advantages of going to an incredibly prestigious college. She raised the question of if the Harvard and Stanford names are worth the ticket price. As a psychology professor, Chapman shared her professional opinion about how students should deal with their stress and who they should talk to about it. “Use social support, like friends, family and a religious community if you have one,” she said. “Make sure you don’t isolate yourself. Also, stay healthy and exercise,
along with keeping a healthy diet. Saving for retirement early helps your future as well.” She said that students should not be shy about contacting professional help either inside or outside of Rutgers. Margo Costidis, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences first-year student, said she has a sizable amount of student loans ahead for the next four years. “I get stressed out about money all the time,” she said. “Most recently was probably my apartment cost for next year. My parents and I had a hard time working it out.” Costidis has two summer jobs lined up, one as a hostess at an Italian restaurant and one as a cater waiter, both in her hometown. Right now, her parents are tr ying to pay as much as possible toward her tuition, she said, but she will pay off the rest when she graduates. According to the article on The Atlantic’s website, studies show that college is still a good investment for students and the best hope for future success. “Though loans could potentially be bad for you during early adulthood, other studies have found higher levels of education may lead to better self-reported mental and physical health in the long run,” according to the article. Costidis is an exercise science major and believes that going to the gym works out her stress. Listening to music while at the gym also helps her get over the tolls of finances.
In an article on ScienceDirect, a study on student loans was done to examine the relationship between these loans and early adult mental health. It investigated two questions overall. One regarded the association between the cumulative amount of student loans borrowed over the course of schooling and psychological functioning when individuals are 25 to 31 years old. The other was about the association between annual student loan borrowing and psychological functioning among currently enrolled college students.
The study found that parental wealth modified the relationship between student loans and mental health and loans were associated with poorer psychological functioning. Elizabeth Holmes, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, will also have student loans to pay after she graduates. “I get very stressed out about money,” she said. “I have a very low meal plan, and as a result of rationing my meal swipes, I have to spend a lot of money on take out.” Holmes said she has worked at Kite and Key on the Livingston
campus for about a year and a half. However, she took out loans which she is paying back herself. Her parents cosigned them and she is responsible for making the payments. To destress, she crochets while reading her assignments, or goes to the recreation center on campus to swim for an hour. “(My parents) make sure I have enough money to cover my bills, so I talk to them about it all the time. If I have any issues with my term bill or finances, I would definitely go to the financial aid office at Rutgers,” Holmes said.
A study from the University of South Carolina revealed higher education costs have spiked 250 percent in the last three decades, heightening financial stress among students and their families. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY NAAZ MODAN / PHOTO EDITOR
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SOLDIERS Call center workers educate others about PTSD, trauma, Graham says CONTINUED FROM FRONT
and people who have had close family members ser ve in the militar y. Graham said the key is to employ veterans as operators because they would be familiar with experiences such as deployment, leaving family or having militar y spouses. The workers at the call center are veterans and clinicians, and their training teaches them about the ef fects of trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder, he said. “It would enable an individual on the other end of (the) phone to quickly relate to the situation that the soldier or family may be experiencing, and they can provide them with a solid recommendation of how they might ef fectively solve their problem,” Graham said. He said the program had grown out of another peer-topeer suppor t line run by Behavioral Healthcare. Graham said Vets4Warriors is tailored to provide help for ser vice members who are struggling so they may receive help before beginning to feel completely over whelmed. The call center staf f, referred to as “peers,” discuss caller problems and attempt to help them find fur ther valuable resources. One technique a peer would use to help is to walk a caller through the process of applying for specific medical benefits or aid them in finding ser vices to organize their finances, Graham said. A peer might also
talk to a caller who feels guilty after a friend dies in combat. Graham said one of the keys to Vets4Warrior’s success was how the program had more outgoing than incoming calls. Additionally, Graham said after a customer calls, peers will always call them back later to check up and make sure he or she is making progress.
“If the family’s not functional, the soldier is not going to (be) functional when the soldier is deployed.” SAMUEL WELCH Lieutenant Colonel and Professor of Military Science for Rutgers Reserve Officer Training Corps
To prepare, peers intensively train for two weeks before they begin answering phones and helping veterans, Graham said. Graham said it made sense to star t the program at Rutgers because the Behavioral Healthcare unit had multiple clinicians and a histor y of established peer suppor t hotlines. Initially, Vets4Warriors was developed to suppor t the New Jersey National Guard, but Graham said the program was expanded in 2013 to ser ve the entire nation and all branches of the militar y. The expansion also included accepting calls from the families of
people who ser ve. Graham said this expansion was made possible by funding from the United States Depar tment of Defense. Vets4Warriors now handles all of the militar y hotline’s non-crisis calls while the Militar y Crisis, a toll-free hotline that connects Veterans in crisis and their families with qualified responders, takes calls from ser vice members who are at risk for suicide, Graham said. According to the U.S. Army MWR website, Vets4Warrior’s mission includes maintaining caller confidentiality and privacy. Samuel Welch, lieutenant colonel and professor of Militar y Science for Rutgers Reser ve Of ficer Training Corps, said that it was absolutely true that veteran peers could provide unique suppor t to service members. Welch said the United States Armed Forces works hard toward addressing soldiers’ mental health issues and ser vice members receive a lot of training and psychological evaluations. He said one example of a challenge ser vice members face is to understand how a person’s family can change while they are deployed. Over the last 13 years, there has been a big change in how the army approaches mental health, he said. It is no longer taboo for soldiers to go to counseling, he said. In fact, the militar y now encourages them to seek help. Welch said that unlike a private corporation, the militar y is geared toward helping families. “If the family’s not functional, the soldier is not going to (be) functional when the soldier is deployed,” Welch said.
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experience in Europe. Her experience strengthened her French, allowed her to make new friends as well as learn a new culture, she said. Even though she enjoyed her trip to Europe, Seyler said she experienced culture shock, particularly with French kissing culture. “It was a strange experience for me, and a little uncomfortable,” she said. “I’ve learned to love the French practice of kissing people when you greet each other. It is such a beautiful and intimate gesture.” This grant gave Seyler the chance to travel to other countries as well. During New Years, she went to England and Scotland, and last month she traveled to Spain for an international professional conference, Seyler said. The Fulbright grant is more than just a grant, Seyler said. “It is a real honor to have received this award,” she said. “It comes with a lot of responsibility because it is not just about your short-term stay in another country. It is a lifelong position.” Jimmy Goodrich, a School of Arts and Sciences alumnus, is currently spending 10 months in Stockholm, Sweden due to receiving the Fulbright Grant. Researching abroad seemed like a fun and productive way of taking a gap year, Goodrich said. “When I received this grant I was absolutely elated,” he said. “Who wouldn’t want to spend a year Sweden?” Goodrich has been studying issues at the intersection of moral philosophy and normative economics
about society’s obligations to future generations, he said. Fulbright Grants are different than other grants because they allow students a lot of freedom to study any topic that interests them, he said. “I’m hoping to experience a different way of life and learn a great deal about my chosen topic,” Goodrich said. The commission gave Goodrich and other grant recipients tickets to attend the Nobel Prize Ceremonies in December. “Stockholm has been great,” he said. “The Fulbright Commission has been very hospitable.” Living in Sweden has not been a hard transition, Goodrich said. He is able to go into most movie theaters and see a movie in English. Goodrich had no trouble communicating in restaurants, coffee shops and convenience stores because most Swedes speak English well, he said. Swedes have minor accents, but nothing that is difficult to understand, Goodrich said. There is essentially no language barrier, and he has not learned to speak Swedish because of that. The Department of Philosophy gave him his own office and treated him as if he were a dissertation-stage doctoral student, Goodrich said. He said he attends a few seminars a week and was able to present his research. “The amount of freedom Fulbright has allowed me in this respect has better served me than the kinds of structured master’s programs I would have been involved in elsewhere,” Goodrich said.
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Wipe out winter beauty woes, tips to combat freezing winds RACHEL NAROZNIAK FEATURES EDITOR
William Shakespeare once wrote, “Now is the winter of our discontent.” A line that might be irrelevant outside of an English class surprisingly becomes just the opposite if we imagine our respective beauty regimes as personified rebels, quoting the Bard’s line back to us in a fit of snowy rage. Skin dryer than the Sahara and lips cracked more severely than the screen of your smartphone are only the beginning of the toll that the winter months inevitably take on beauty. While Inside Beat can’t stop the snow from falling –– and no longer wants to build a snowman –– we can offer something far better than a class cancellation: fool proof advice to fight winter’s bite.
DEFY THE DRY:
Winter is notoriously hailed as “cuddling season,” and in a bad sort of joke, is also the season where skin is most likely to dehydrate. For those not looking to scare off “bae” with scaly lizard skin, fear not: moisturizing just got easier. Although lotion has long been viewed as the savior of dry skin, regardless
of application time, moisturizing is shown to be most effective when done in the shower. Many companies make lotions specifically for in-shower use, although any formula thrown into a shower caddy will suffice. Simply towel off and apply lotion as desired. The residual steam will lock in hydration, making accidental inbed leg brushes a lot less daunting, and your skin a lot less creature-esque. The Jurassic Park aesthetic was never flattering anyway.
GET MOUTHY:
Nowadays, most people’s lips closely resemble Brower’s grilled chicken in terms of dryness. If that doesn’t appeal to you, then slathering on an egg shaped balm to combat winter winds will. That is, of course, until it disappears forever into that mysterious land where all bobby pins, hair elastics and chap sticks seem to escape. In the event that you do lose your first line of defense against chapped lips, turn to an already familiar entity: your toothbrush. Gently rubbing a toothbrush against your lips will exfoliate, and rid them of any dr y, dead skin. Next, apply a thick lip
Avoid dry lips by using hydrating salves. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY EDWIN GANO / ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR salve, such as Vaseline, and let it sit overnight for best results. Repetition will lead to smooth, supple lips. Alternatively, if the slug-like texture proves to be too gross for you, turn to green tea instead. Known for its moisturizing abilities, pressing a damp tea bag to your lips for several minutes can alleviate dryness. Simply drinking green tea will help as well, so
swap out the ABP coffee, which only further dehydrates.
AVOID HAIR SCARES:
While sporting the wet hair look can only lead to icicles and an impaired hair flip ability, hair is often tortured by flat irons, hair dryers and other heating tools. As if the brutal burns these accessories can cause aren’t enough, many people saturate their manes with products like anti-frizz se-
rums. Myth busted: while anti-frizz serums may be somewhat effective, hair is naturally dryer and more brittle in the winter due to weather conditions. To avoid frizz, take cooler showers: the hotter the water, the dryer the hair and therefore, more frizz. While the weather is cool, keep a look that’s cooler: follow these simple tips to stay supple, smooth, and glossy just in time for spring’s debut.
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Chris Christie’s presidential bid unlikely to see success LOGICAL LIBERAL SONNI WAKNIN
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n New Jersey, we like our politics, and we hate our politicians. Here, big attitudes reign supreme over big improvements to the state. No one exemplifies this statement more than our current governor, Chris Christie. Christie is known throughout the country as the the loud and large guy from the Soprano State. His politics and personality have made him a household name in politics, and ever since Hurricane Sandy, Christie has been gearing up to make a run for the White House in 2016. While he has bigger goals for his career, Christie might need a backup plan for 2016. A post-Sandy Gov. Christie would have been a good presidential candidate, but post-Bridgegate scandal, Christie is a mess. His image within the state and country has been tarnished, the trust everyone once had in him is totally lost. Christie before the George Washington Bridge scandal was a GOP candidate who won reelection in a heavily blue state by a large margin, proving that people of New Jersey used to think highly of the Governor. However, hubris has been Christie’s downfall. Every step he takes and every decision made is now called into question. Bridgegate was a proverbial knife in Christie’s 2016 plans, but his track record as Governor has really made him go under. During his tenure, Christie has not accomplished much
for our state, save for actively making it worse. New Jersey is continually in the lowest ranks for job and GDP growth out of the 50 states. Christie also worked to cut funding to higher education, i.e. Rutgers, because he was upset that the University chose to enter the Big Ten Conference. The transportation trust fund — which is responsible for money to pay for infrastructure — is close to bankruptcy, and those who were affected by Sandy still haven’t seen aid. The state is falling apart and Christie does nothing substantial to fix the issues. How can one run for the presidency on a ticket of economic stability, growth and conserva-
obligated to pay to its teachers, police, firefighters and other state employees, effectively robbing the pension of any breath. Christie’s actions have just led to the New Jersey courts striking down his plans, finding that Christie’s proposal would allow the state to walk away from its legal obligations and mistreat state workers. The biggest problem with Christie isn’t that he does nothing — it’s the way he does nothing. He’s loud and he’s obnoxious. Above all, Christie represents New Jersey in a negative light. He’s portrayed in the media as almost every stereotype of someone from New Jer-
“Chris Christie will never be president because he is selfish and continually shows his inability to govern. The only thing Christie cares about is if his actions, that affect millions of people in his state, will please a select few in the GOP.” tism when, as a governor, they cannot keep their own state’s affairs in order? Christie’s big claim, what he campaigned on twice, was how he was able to overhaul the broken pension system within the state during his first term. Our state is currently seeing a resurgence of pension related issues, and Christie’s plan of action was abysmal, proving his inability to effectively handle the situation. His idea was to just cut spending that the state was
sey you are going to find. Christie does not keep a low profile, drawing attention to his own missteps. He gallivants around the country on business trips and is constantly out of the state for his own purposes. He goes to watch the Cowboys play and makes insults at the citizens within his own state that criticize his actions. Christie acts however he likes and expects people to accept his behavior. He is childish. Recently, the Rutgers-Eagleton Poll asked citizens what word they would use to
describe Christie, and the top words were “bully” and “arrogant.” When your own constituency describes you as a bully, as someone who is adversarial for their own sake, it is time to reevaluate your own priorities. Christie makes decisions for his state based on his political ambitions and does so openly, without any consideration toward the people he governs. The past two years, New Jersey citizens have had to live through Christie using the state of New Jersey as a doormat while he pushes his way through to the GOP nomination. We get laws that protect animals vetoed, not because of New Jersey citizens’ concerns, but because people in Iowa raise pigs. Christie jet sets to London and goes campaigning in New Hampshire, while folks at home are getting laid off everyday as companies flee the state. Chris Christie will never be president because he is selfish and continually shows his inability to govern. The only thing Christie cares about is if his actions, that affect millions of people in his state, will please a select few in the GOP. America deserves someone better than a person who is best described as a “bully” by his own constituents. The Republican Party deserves better. Sorry Christie, but your focus should be on New Jersey, not yourself, because 2016 is not calling your name. Sonni Waknin is a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore majoring in political science and history. Her column “Logical Liberal,” runs on alternate Fridays.
Social media, digital devices killed celebrity authenticity DIGITAL CANVAS EPATIA LILIKAS
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hinking back, it is quite difficult to remember what life was like before the technologies of today. How did we ever get around without a GPS or call to let our family know if we got caught in traffic and would be late for dinner? The generations to come will never know what it will be like to go a day without looking at a screen or scrolling through a social medium — to their disadvantage, of course. Being born in ’95, I can still remember what it was like to spend endless hours playing outside with the neighbors or reading “The Magic Tree House” series in my spare time, as opposed to navigating my way through Netflix and Facebook like so many young kids do now. As the hands of time have moved forward, evidently, so has our knowledge of technology. This improvement, naturally, came with a few downsides to its many positives. As our understanding of computers and electronics flourished, society’s sense of self and worth devolved, in return. Presently, we see social media used in many different ways, whether it is networking, advertising or even just keeping in touch with friends and family. These are all very practical uses. It allows people to be recognized in all of the ways that they want to be and even add to their connections and future successes. For instance, if you were to own
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a private practice or restaurant, your website could reflect all of the amazing aspects your business has that sets it apart from others, while also helping to create revenue. The best part about social media is that all of this self-promotion is free! Many times, a viral picture or link could be the reason for a person or place’s massive popularity — like a Buzzfeed feature on the best donut shops in New York or someone sharing an article on Facebook of the 15 food trucks that you must eat from in the city. Social media spreads the word quickly. We see the effects social media has on fame just by looking at the Instagram
is going to need to build an image. But before the Internet, or iPhones to post selfies, or websites to share a brand, this image was much harder to keep up. It was most definitely more difficult to attain fame and keep it before social networking. Celebrities’ work ethics were more diligent, their fans were truer and the lack of ridicule and hate comments never diminished their sense of self. Because networking accounts were not in existence, it was less likely people would form a biased opinion on them, so they could, therefore, be true to themselves. If they were being publicly judged, only those reading People maga-
“The generations to come will never know what it will be like to go a day without looking at a screen or scrolling through a social medium — to their disadvantage, of course.” or Twitter posts that celebrities make everyday. Miley Cyrus, with 16 million Instagram followers and Kim Kardashian, with 27 million Instagram followers, rely vastly on the Internet to keep them famous. Have we ever thought how different pop culture was before social media though? Artists and celebrities were more honest with themselves before the era of the Internet. It goes without saying that any person getting attention on TV, radio or magazines
zine or watching Late Night were aware of it. Although social media and the Internet help to get someone’s name and talent out there, it can really disrupt the path of success. It is so easy for people to quickly make assumptions about others, without any real knowledge of the person, just by judging the things they post online. For instance, I dislike Taylor Swift solely based off of the things I hear about her on the Internet, when in reality, I know nothing about her. A reputation could
be ruined in the blink of an eye with misunderstandings like this and it has been seen many times before in the entertainment business. Private matters are now shared publicly and sometimes virally without a second thought. I think now, being in the spotlight is a much more difficult feat to conquer because feedback is immediate and it is not always positive. Because we are all able to hide behind screens and keyboards, it is so easy to post ridiculous or even cruel comments on other people’s social media accounts. There are no consequences to this. It is for this reason that people conform to an image they think others will like because the image they may want could receive negative feedback. We become what society accepts and praises — those that incessantly post crave the attention. They crave getting likes and comments and this does not just apply to celebrities. There’s a certain thrill that comes with posting something to a social network, waiting to see who will like it, or who won’t for that matter. It takes a strong person to withstand this and ignore the nasty things that might be said about them online. After a while, we post what we think is bound to get the most attention, not just any old picture or tweet. All of these new websites and apps have turned us all into social media robots. Epatia Lilikas is a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore majoring in English and economics. Her column “Digital Canvas,” runs on alternate Fridays.
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DIVERSIONS Nancy Black
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Today’s Birthday (03/06/15). Luck favors work and industry this year. Collaboration greases the machinery and allows for unprecedented results. The Vernal Equinox solar eclipse in your sign (3/20) ushers in powerful six-month phase. Take advantage, and craft a bold plan. Things especially boom after June. By autumn teamwork generates breakthroughs. Love and compassion are the foundation of your growing tree. To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging. Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 9 — Make long-term decisions and plans at work. Set your course. Consider main priorities, and schedule action items into the next few months. Balance professional productivity with exercise and fresh air. Get outside and let your thoughts wander. Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 9 — You gain the upper hand in the game. A lucky break changes the outcome. Teamwork is a given now. Pull together, and anticipate upcoming moves. Compromise with another’s request. Play for the love of it. Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Today is an 8 — Make a home improvement with long-term benefit. A partner is full of surprises. Reaffirm a commitment. Take charge. Better functionality at home supports your work. Take time to spearhead a positive change. Order something from far away. Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Today is a 9 — Play the sales role. Improve your routine with a small investment to upgrade your technology. You can make huge transformations. Establish guidelines and controls. Creativity is required. Plan a trip with your partner. Become fully involved. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 9 — Grasp a profitable opportunity. Expand your territory. Discover something about a person you thought you knew. Family comes first. Provide verbal leadership. You are at your most convincing. Provide a glimpse of what you see possible. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 9 — Collaborate with a member of your household. Your work together goes the distance. Your partner can see where you are blind. Assume authority, and lead the way (with their support and vision). It could get lucrative. Love triumphs.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 7 — Quiet introspection fits your mood. Put your creative thoughts on paper. Finish putting the pieces together carefully. Conflicting instructions could add time to the process. Take it slow, and document with pictures. Reveal a secret to someone special. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 9 — Fun with friends takes priority. Ask for what you want. Gentle persuasion is best. Advancement could seem sudden. Purchase a ticket. You don’t have to be present to win! Play for the joy of the game. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 9 — Home changes today have lasting benefit. An infrastructural improvement makes your work easier. Take charge, and choose your angle. Plant seeds. Accept a challenge, and prepare for the test. A brilliant strategy occurs to you. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is an 8 — Completion fosters creativity. Do what you promised. Use the grapevine to find connections for what you need. Your past work speaks well for you. Positivity persuades. Communications and travels flow. Bring your project out into the world. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is an 8 — Turn objections into agreement through gentle persuasion. Ask for resources. The community jumps on board when inspired. Make a shared goal. Love finds a way. Provide leadership, and keep track of the stats. Thank your sponsors and supporters. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is an 8 — Collaboration energizes your project. Inspiration works (don’t attempt to force an outcome). Visualize immense success. Power your way through tasks. Assist someone who is confined. Make a good impression. No one needs to know it was your idea.
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RAC Senior Night will mark first return to RAC for program in eight years CONTINUED FROM BACK not three or four of them, in bar line up consistently throughout their careers … They’ve been a major part of our improvement over the last four years, our making regionals last year, they’ve all been a big part of that.” Although there could be more pre-game jitters than usual for his team, Levine believes competing at the RAC will give his team a huge sense of confidence and energy. “I’m sad to see (the seniors) go away,” Levine said. “I think it’s exciting and they’re excited. We’ve been talking about tr ying to compete over at the RAC for a while now and for it to be their senior meet, I think things are really special.” West Chester, Bridgeport and Bowling Green will travel to Piscataway to take on the Knights (10-13, 0-8) The Golden Rams of West Chester (8-8) are entering the meet on a hot streak. The Rams have won three consecutive meets, including last week’s victories at the Philadelphia Convention Center against Southern Connecticut State and Ursinus College by a score of 190.200189.850-187.175. Majesta Valentine and Cassandra Ringer were both named ECAC Gymnasts of the Week after their efforts last weekend. Caitlin Perr y of Bridgeport was awarded the ECAC Coaches’ Choice Award after putting up a
9.875 on the floor exercise and a 9.475 on vault during her team’s meet on Feb. 28 against Cornell and William and Mar y. The Purple Knights swept the competition and earned first place. Alyssa Nocella performed allaround for Bowling Green (5-7) last Saturday in its loss to Western Michigan. Nocella posted a 9.800 on the floor and a 9.775 on bars. The junior qualified for the NCAA regionals in 2013 and 2014 and earned First Team All-MAC honors last season. Rutgers posted a 194.850 last weekend at Towson in a quad meet for a second place finish. Leal scored a remarkable 9.800 mark on the floor exercise in her season debut in the event. The fifth-year senior was extremely happy with her routine. “Because I’ve been waiting for it so long, you know,” Leal said on her debut. “They told me I was going to be in the lineup and I wasn’t expecting it so, I had to get my mind ready ... I knew I had it in me but, I haven’t competed in floor for so long that, you know, there’s always that little doubt.” The team captain also excelled on vault with a 9.900 total and helped her team compile a 48.975 mark which matched a season high. “Of course vault was a pretty good one (routine) that I had been working on for the whole year,” she said. Hoffman had a solid performance on the floor exercise as
PODIUM Anthony Ashnault carries No. 5 seed into Big Ten Championships at 141 pounds CONTINUED FROM BACK disagree with how competitive it will be in Columbus. Head coach Scott Goodale knows how seasoned the field is, but said the staff and grapplers have prepared as well as any team. “This is a mini-National Tournament,” Goodale said. “I’m not going to say that they will have an easier draw at NCAAs, but it’s not every day that you are ranked 10th in the country and then seeded 10th in the conference tournament. We have a chance to get through this tournament and be seeded at Nationals at a bunch of different weights.” Both Perrotti and Ashnault only have one goal on their mind: make it to the top of the podium and enter the NCAAs with the highest possible seed. That may be easier said than done, but the two wrestlers have their reasoning for how it is possible. Perrotti said while some of the Knights may have dropped matches against Big Ten opponents during the regular season, it will be much more difficult to duplicate that on this stage. Moreover, with the tournament being double-elimination, losing twice is not an option for Perrotti and for Rutgers. “It’s going to be hard to beat some of our guys twice. That’s our motto right now,” Perrotti said. “It’s going to be hard to beat me twice because I’ve been working so much harder ... We’re not going there with an underdog attitude,
we are going to fight and claw like the rest of them.” For Ashnault, his training brought him to a level he has not reached in his career. It’s now just all about using that to peak and make strides in the postseason. “I think it’s important to get to the National Tournament first — you can’t do anything unless you
well. She posted a 9.825 individual total and led Rutgers to a 48.900 team score. “I’m most proud of my floor routine because I got one of my highest scores,” Hoffman said. “I think that even though it wasn’t my best routine, I performed it well, so it was good for me.” Saturday night should present a thrilling evening for the Knights, but the senior gymnasts will have to face the approaching reality that their gymnastics careers at Rutgers are nearly over. “It’s definitely bittersweet,” Hoffman said. “Especially with the seniors. We’ve been with each other for our entire college careers and it’s sad to see it all come to an end. Hopefully we go out with a bang and get a win this weekend.” Leal will have an especially emotional end to her collegiate career on Saturday. She emigrated from Cali, Colombia, nearly eight years ago and her mother will finally take the trip up to Piscataway to see her daughter compete in-person for the first time. Leal agrees with Hoffman that Senior Night will be both a happy and sad occasion. “(It’s) bittersweet you know,” Leal said on performing in her last home meet. “We’re all here for four years, I was here for five. The great thing about college is graduating and all of that. You strive for that. To know that it’s your last home meet ever, it’s pretty emotional and pretty sad. We’ve been asking for so long … from athletics to take us (to the RAC) and it finally happened and for it be my senior meet, it’s pretty great.” For updates on the Rutgers gymnastics team, follow @TargumSports on Twitter.
get there and it starts with the Big Ten Tournament,” Ashnault said. “You’re going to be wrestling the top-10 and, for me, the top-5 guys in the nation in my weight class. ... Knocking some of those guys off, if not all of them, it will mean the world going into NCAAs. If I do that, now I’m a title contender, and in my mind I have the best shot I could put myself in to get the title. This is the best I’ve felt in my whole career, and I think I’m ready.”
KNIGHTS Knights, Wolverines reside at bottom of the Big Ten in scoring offense LeVert, who fractured his left foot days prior to the teams’ first per game while shooting 50.1 per- meeting, is still out. Michigan’s seacent from the field and 68.8 percent son has all but become a lost cause at the line. as well after losing eight of 10. Head coach Eddie Jordan took Like the Knights, the Wolverines much of the blame Tuesday for the rank in the bottom three in the Big drop-off in production of Rutgers’ Ten in scoring offense and field most talented player, who continues goal percentage. They have strugto look uncomfortable and lack con- gled to find consistent scorers outfidence with his jump shot. side of forward Zak Irvin and avoid “It’s part of my responsibility to late-game miscues, most recently get a guy like Kadeem to be more falling in double-overtime Tuesday consistent, and I tried different at Northwestern. ways to do it,” Jordan said. “I just Rutgers could use a sharp outthought there were some things I ing from Jack, who shot 6-for-11 could have probfrom the field ably done better with 13 points, with him — get “Going forward, we’re just six rebounds him closer to the and two assists trying to improve. box maybe, get in 40 minutes him more active, last time against We take what we did get him in more Michigan. (against Maryland) and pick-and-roll Then again, stuff — some the Knights just improve on that.” more scoring opneed ever yone portunities.” to step up these BISHOP DANIELS When indays while Junior guard formed of those shooting 38.6 comments afpercent as a terward, Jack replied, “I don’t have team — 337th out of 351 Division anything to say to that.” I teams. It’s likely that he’ll need to have But after pushing the 10thsomething to say if the Knights ranked team in the country down to are to salvage what they can of a the wire, they still see light at the lost season at the Crisler Center in end of the tunnel. Ann Arbor, Michigan, before next “Going forward, we’re just tryweek’s Big Ten Tournament. ing to improve. We take what we did The good news for Rutgers tonight and just improve on that,” is that during its 13-game losing junior guard Bishop Daniels said streak, no team beat the Knights by postgame Tuesday. “There’s things fewer points than the Wolverines. we’ve got to work on, there’s things Back on Jan. 20 at the Louis we can get better at. The season Brown Athletic Center, six ties and 12 isn’t over yet, so we just have to get lead changes unfolded. Rutgers led better from here.” by as many as six with 9:04 remaining but couldn’t hold on in the 54-50 loss, For updates on the Rutgers men’s despite Michigan being without its basketball team, follow @gregp_j and leading scorer in Caris LeVert. @TargumSports on Twitter.
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Redshirt-freshman 141-pounder Anthony Ashnault says he is ready for the postseason, beginning with the Big Ten Championships.
With only one regular season game remaining, senior guard Myles Mack and the Knights look to get closer to ending a 12-game skid.
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March 6, 2015 MEN’S TRACK & FIELD IC4As, TODAY, ALL DAY
SOFTBALL
Rutgers returns healthy to Boston MIKE O’SULLIVAN STAFF WRITER
The indoor season for the Rutgers men’s track and field team nears its conclusion with the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America Championships this weekend in Boston. In a year where the Scarlet Knights have dealt with key athletes missing time due to injuries, they have managed to pick up several qualifiers for the IC4A’s in recent weeks and will have plenty of chances to win events at the meet. The team is excited to cap off their indoor season with strong performances, capitalizing on crucial marks they have earned over the last few weeks. “The IC4A Championships is a great meet for us to go to,” said head coach Mike Mulqueen. “We will be looking to end our season on a real positive note with some great performances there.” The Knights have been building towards this competition over their previous few meets, continually gaining more qualifiers with each performance. As it stands now, they have over 12 qualifiers for different events at IC4As. Four Knights have earned qualifying times for the 200-meter dash. The group includes juniors Rajee Dunbar and Emeka Eze, senior D’Andre Jordan and freshman Stuart Tweedie.
Another important sprinting event is the 4x400-meter race, in which Rutgers has consistently been scoring throughout the indoor season. During their previous meet in Boston for the Valentine Invitational, the Knights trotted out Dunbar, Tweedie, Jordan and freshman Jordan Jimerson as their quartet for the race, and finished with a season-best time of 3:10.79. The group will look to make an impact on the scoring at IC4A’s, with the full confidence of their coaches in hand. “I think we’ll have a really good weekend at the IC4A’s,” said assistant coach Rober t Farrell. “In the sprints, we have a few guys in the top rankings, and our 4x400-meter team gets another shot at breaking a record we nearly had our last time there.” Another key qualifier for this weekend’s meet is junior weight thrower Joseph Velez. In his previous trip to Boston at the Valentine Invitational, Velez shattered the Rutgers weight throw record with a mark of 65 feet, which his coaches called a big-time throw. Farrell expects more of the same strong performance from Velez this time around, with perhaps a chance to break his own record. “(Velez) is on fire right now,” he said. “He is ready to go and win at Boston, and I think he can really shatter that record again.”
The distance medley relay group also earned a qualifying time at the Big Ten Championships. The group consists of freshman Luke Wiley, sophomore Brendan Jaeger, junior Kyle Holder and senior Chris Defabio. Along with a few other athletes in other events, the four have been picking up their performance of late and are primed to have scoring chances this weekend. “Our multis and heptathletes should do well this weekend,” Farrell said. “AJ Vance will be jumping again since his knee is feeling better, and our distance medley relay should also do well. There’s a lot of reasons to think we’ll do really well.” The familiarity with the indoor complex also provides the Knights with some comfort after having success there earlier in the season. It is the right venue to end the season on a good note, and to improve on marks they have set throughout this indoor season. “It helps that we are familiar and comfortable there,” said Velez. “I liked the atmosphere of the last meet we had there because there was a lot of people there, and a lot of people will be at this meet. I know what to expect in that aspect, and I’m just going to go out there and be comfortable and do my best.” For updates on the Rutgers men’s track and field team, follow @TargumSports on Twitter.
WOMEN’S TRACK & FIELD IC4As, TODAY, ALL DAY
RU aims to paint Beantown scarlet KAYLEE POFAHL STAFF WRITER
Many things can be taught, but experience is earned — not learned. As the Rutgers women’s track and field team heads to the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Championships in Boston, a season perforated with meets against top competition paves the way for a weekend of business as usual. Coming off of the Big Ten Championships meet in Geneva, Ohio, last weekend, the Scarlet Knights are well acquainted with competition from the best collegiate track and field programs in the nation. Rutgers is not in for any surprises. “You’ve got some great athletes in the ECAC, but, I mean, the Big Ten is just as good — if not better,” said head coach James Robinson. “Since they’ve had that kind of run-through already, I don’t think they’ll be surprised or taken aback by the level of competition. I think it’s going to allow them to go in and compete at a higher level.” Being a particularly young team with double the amount of freshman and sophomores (22) than juniors and seniors (11), the Knights place a specific focus on preparing the underclassmen for the fierce completion they face as Big Ten athletes. As experience built with each meet throughout the indoor season, Rutgers’
confidence and performances continue to show improvement. Among the young top performers is freshman sprinter Bria Saunders, who has picked up ECAC qualifying times in the 200-meter dash at the last four consecutive meets. Additionally, she is part of the 4x400-meter relay team that has earned three successive ECAC marks in the latest meets. Gaining momentum with each meet and confidence from her subsequent top performances, Saunders has been able to maintain a strong mindset that helps fuel further success. “The thing that’s been most critical for me this season is being mentally strong,” Saunders said. “Knowing that I am capable of doing things that my coaches have trained me for is basically what’s getting me where I am today.” As experience and confidence within the young team builds, the effects can transparently be seen in performance. At the kickoff of the season, Rutgers picked up just two ECAC qualifying times, both of which were brought in by standout senior sprinter and jumper Gabrielle Farquharson. At the Big Ten Championships last weekend, the Knights posted eight ECAC marks, earned by athletes in each age class. Despite qualifying for the meet, Farquharson will not compete. As the only Knight to qualify for the NCAA Championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas on March
13-14, she will take the weekend off to rest. Among those competing at the ECAC Championships is junior sprinter Alayna Famble, who hopes to take advantage of the opportunity to better her 400-meter dash time. Hurdlers junior Kaprice James and sophomore Drew Andrews, who both clocked in ECAC qualifying times last weekend at the Big Ten Championships, are looking to build on their performances in the 60-meter hurdles. Though Rutgers has just a handful athletes competing in ECACs, those who will can step onto the track with the certainty that this isn’t the mightiest mountain they’ve had to conquer. Using the Big Ten Championships to reinforce their preparation efforts, the Knights seek to both enhance their performances against top competition and wrap up the indoor season on a positive note at the ECAC Championships. Armed with a familiarity with high-level competition, confidence in their ability to perform well, and a strong state of mind, Rutgers ventures up to Boston eager to actively expand on their experience. “It allows them to compete against some of the best kids in the northeast and the east coast,” Robinson said. “It gives them the opportunity to end the indoor season on a high note and set up the outdoor season.” For updates on the Rutgers women’s track team, follow @TargumSpor ts on Twitter.
Sophomore right-hander Dresden Maddox and Rutgers hope to score above the .500 mark when competing in New Mexico. THE DAILY TARGUM / APRIL 2013
Nelson searches for rhythm in southwest RYAN MORAN STAFF WRITER
While the Rutgers softball team ended its play in California last weekend, the trips out west continue. With the Lobo Classic awaiting in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Friday, the Scarlet Knights (4-5) aim to catapult themselves over .500 on the season. This time around, they will only face two other teams in New Mexico (16-7) and CSU Bakersfield (6-10). Unlike their opponents this weekend, Rutgers has not yet reached double-digits in games played. When asked about it, head coach Jay Nelson does not think it will have much effect. “I don’t look at it either way,” Nelson said. “I just want us to be prepared to play our game and that’s my message to the team. It doesn’t matter how many games they played.” After starting the season at the plate slow, the bats came alive last weekend as the Scarlet Knights scored 12 runs one game as well as four in the other. Although senior outfielder Chandler Howard had her eightgame hitting streak snapped, she recovered and fellow senior outfielder Jackie Bates were able to get on the same page. The two stabilized the top of the order, going a combined 15-for26 at the plate with six RBI. But those aren’t the only two who have been hitting, helping Rutgers’ cause at the plate. “We are starting to see some people that haven’t hit, hit the ball,” Nelson said. “Sierra Maddox hit the ball hard, Dana Hendr y pinch hit and got a base hit. We have to get those hitters going in the bottom of the lineup and at batting practice is where we will do it.” Nelson will stick with sophomore outfielder Carly Todd at the top of the order this weekend, unlike switching between her and junior second baseman Stephanie Huang as he had earlier in the season. Instead, Huang will bat 9th to act as a second leadoff hitter and Nelson hopes it will help her
get out of her slump by seeing some better pitches at the bottom of the order. “I think, as the second leadof f hitter, it’s a matter of keeping the lineup going and having that continuation for the lineup,” Huang said. “I think just making sure that I’m hitting the pitches I want to hit and not hitting the pitchers pitches will help my per formance at the plate.” After getting off to some slow starts in some of their first nine games, the Knights aim to get ahead and stay ahead. “I would say when you get out to an early lead, it gets the other team momentum slowed down and the more you can throw that down,” said junior pitcher Dresden Maddox. “The more in favor the game will be on your side. So, I would say, as a pitcher, the early lead helps me pitch my game and throw the pitches I’m comfortable throwing, attacking the batters and not having to pitch around certain players.” However, the trouble for the Rutgers has been maintaining those leads and playing a consistent game throughout the full seven innings which has cost them games this season. “In most of the games, we’ve taken an early lead,” Nelson said. “I think it’s a matter of us staying consistent for seven innings, where we don’t have a mental mistake. It really hurts us. As we play more games, we are going to get more consistent.” After having mixed results last week, Maddox is hoping for a solid per formance this time out. “Sometimes the other team beats you and have a good night like Fresno did,” Maddox said. “But I was still confident in what I was throwing and I carried that momentum into my next performance against UCSB. I just have to trust my stuff when I take the mound.” Rutgers looks to get on track this weekend, starting with CSU Bakersfield on Friday. For updates on the Rutgers softball team, follow @TargumSports on Twitter.
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March 6, 2015 BASEBALL RUTGERS-FLORIDA ATLANTIC, TONIGHT, 6 P.M.
Knights refocus, face another ranked foe in No. 24 FAU TYLER KARALEWICH CORRESPONDENT
The bats finally woke up for the Rutgers baseball team this past weekend against Old Dominion. It may have taken six games for it to happen, but the Scarlet Knights were able to combine effective pitching with timely hitting. Now, they need to duplicate that performance and continue to support the starting pitcher, head coach Joe Litterio said. It starts this weekend when Rutgers (1-6) takes on Florida Atlantic (11-2) in the third weekend series of the year. Earning the first win of the season will help the Knights head into this weekend, Litterio said. But No. 24 FAU presents another challenge this early in the season. “They’re always a solid program, and they just got bumped up into the polls this week to the No. 24 team in the country,” Litterio said. “They’ve won a lot of ball games this year, and I expect a tough weekend. Getting that first win out of the way is big for us. I think we should have had three wins this year, but to be able to get across that, now we know that we can do that and we can move on.” A combination of hitting and pitching has been the recipe for Rutgers’ success and should be moving forward. The Knights’ starters combined to allow only two earned runs in 16 and one-third innings against Old Dominion.
Averaging less than two runs in their six losses to start the season did not give the Rutgers pitchers enough to work with. The support of the offense with good starts from the rotation will be the winning combination, according to junior third baseman Chris Suseck. “I know we went a few games with a low amount of hits and only a few runs, so when we got the bats rolling that last game, the hitting became contagious,” Suseck said. “When one guy gets going, everyone else wants to hit, too. We have some good arms, and we are really relying on ours arms. We have a really good staff, and if we play good behind them, teams should be limited against us.” Junior left-hander Howie Brey has been a rock for the Knights in the early going, cementing his position as the ace of the staff. Along with a starting rotation that has been effective, Brey has shined in his second season as the team’s lead starter. Brey has one loss on the season, but leads Rutgers with a 2.13 earned run average, he has 15 strikeouts in 12 and twothirds innings and has a .186 batting average. Brey sees the same problems and acknowledged the Knights have to come together for success to happen. “Our biggest thing is we have to play as a team,” Brey said. “In
Junior right-handed reliever Reed Shuttle looks to rebound from his last appearance on the bump against then-No. 9 Miami this weekend against Florida Atlantic. THE DAILY TARGUM / SEPTEMBER 2012 our first two weekends, when our hitting is on, our pitching is off ... (and) when our pitching is on, our hitting is off. We just have to come together, and when it finally
does we will be better as a team. Sunday against Old Dominion we did that and it gives us confidence moving forward knowing that we can score that many runs.”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY “Sometime I catch myself in class just daydreaming about it — winning the tournament and getting to Nationals and walking onto the podium.” - Redshirt-freshman 141-pounder Anthony Ashnault
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WRESTLING BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIPS
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Seniors return home to RAC for final meet
Knights eye end to skid in Ann Arbor Saturday
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Gymnastics is back at the RAC. The Rutgers women’s gymnastics team has been ascending through the college ranks for the last year to improve as a program. After hosting numerous sellouts at the Livingston Gym between the end of last season to now, the Scarlet Knights were rewarded. Rutgers will compete at the Louis Brown Athletic Center for Senior Night on Saturday at 6 p.m. Four seniors, Emma Hoffman, Luisa Leal, Sara Skammer and Anastasia Halbig, will celebrate their collegiate careers in the most exciting way imaginable — competing in front of a potentially near-capacity crowd in the venue the program has been fighting to compete in for years. “Yeah, this is definitely the highlight of all the home meets that we’ve had, just because we’ve been waiting for this since our freshman year,” Hoffman said. “There’s always been talk about putting us in the RAC, but it never actually happened. After last year, selling out so many meets, they decided to put us in for senior meet, so it’s really good.” The Knights have not per formed at the RAC in almost eight years. The last gymnastics meet held in the arena was the East Atlantic Gymnastics League Championship on March 25 in 2006. Rutgers earned seventh place in the competition with a team total of 191.425. Senior night will not only be special for the graduating gymnasts, but also for head coach Louis Levine. This group of seniors was Levine’s first recruiting class as the head coach of the team. “It’s the class that came in when I started as a head coach,” Levine said. “They’ve been a part of what I’ve been pushing from the beginning. They’ve done a really good job, they’ve competed a ton as a class. There’s been two, if
It’s difficult to argue there’s a more frustrated player in the Rutgers men’s basketball team’s locker room right now than Kadeem Jack. The senior forward was the first one to speak to the media after the Scarlet Knights’ 60-50 loss to No. 10 Maryland on Tuesday’s Senior Night in Piscataway. He was also the first one to leave. Even after corralling a career-high 16 rebounds, Jack suffered through another dreadful outing from the field, shooting 2-for13 while producing five points and three turnovers in 36 minutes. “I wasn’t hitting shots,” Jack mumbled, “so I just wanted to rebound the ball.” That was just one of a series of terse postgame answers from Jack, who is saying less and less with each loss as Rutgers (10-20, 2-15) gets set to finish its regular season at 2:15 p.m. ET Saturday at Michigan (14-15, 7-10). Jack’s deteriorating offensive game is likely part of the reason why. The Queens native, once heralded as a potential second-round NBA Draft choice, has seen his stock plummet as a senior with a myriad of inconsistencies in Big Ten play. Over Rutgers’ first 11 conference games, Jack scored double-figures nine times. He has done so just two times in the past six contests, shooting a paltry 36 percent from the field over that span. On the season, the versatile 6-foot-9, 235-pounder is averaging 12.8 points and 6.1 rebounds per game, but the scoring is coming at a cost. He sports a 41.5 field goal percentage and a 57.5 free throw percentage, and no Knight is turning the ball over more than Jack (2.7 per game). As a junior, he averaged 14.3 points, 6.8 rebounds and 1.3 blocks in two fewer minutes
Junior grappler Anthony Perrotti says he has been waiting his entire life to compete at the Big Ten Championships. MICHELLE KLEJMONT / MANAGING EDITOR / FEBRUARY 2015
RU prepares to take podium at big meet TYLER KARALEWICH
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It’s just like Christmas morning for Anthony Perrotti, only it feels different. After all, when Christmas morning is over and the toy you’ve been wanting for months becomes boring, that’s it. However, what awaits the Rutgers wrestling team is no Christmas morning — it’s the Big Ten Wrestling Championships in Columbus, Ohio. This is something that Perrotti said he has been waiting his whole life and wrestling career for. “It already feels like it’s been a long two weeks waiting for it,” Perrotti said. “I know the whole team is excited to get out there and show the whole country what we’ve been working for. My whole life — 17 years of wrestling — I’ve been ready for this. You train every day as a little kid for a chance like this. This is huge for me. This is what I’ve been dreaming of my whole life.”
Senior gymnast Luisa Leal will compete at home for the last time at the RAC. YANGENG LIN / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Redshirt-freshman 141-pounder Anthony Ashnault admitted to losing some focus on everyday life, unable to do anything else without the Big Ten Championships and NCAAs on his mind. While he may find his mind wandering off, it ultimately settles in the podium. “Ever y day it’s tough to just get it of f my mind,” Ashnault said. “I don’t want to be thinking too much about the Big Ten, but it’s tough not to think about it. Sometimes I catch myself in class just daydreaming about it — winning the tournament and getting to Nationals and walking onto the podium.” The Scarlet Knights and most of the countr y regard the Big Ten Conference as the best wrestling conference in the nation. With 10 teams from the conference in the top-25 rankings, according to the USA Today/NWCA Coaches Poll, it’s difficult to SEE PODIUM ON PAGE 13
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senior sprinter/jumper, qualified for the NCAAs in the 200-meter dash and long jump. She will compete in the meet March 13-14 at Fayetteville, Arkansas.
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Senior forward Kadeem Jack looks to build on his 16 rebounds from Tuesday. EDWIN GANO / ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR
KNIGHTS SCHEDULE
SOFTBALL
BASEBALL
WRESTLING
TRACK & FIELD
Lobo Classic
at Florida Atlantic
Big Ten Championships
ECACs/IC4As
Friday, 2 p.m., Albuquerque, N.M.
Friday, 6 p.m., Boca Raton, Fla.
Saturday, All Day, Columbus, Ohio
Today, All Day, Boston, Mass.