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GlobeMed helps Uganda residents with meal swipes MADHURI BHUPATHIRAJU CORRESPONDENT

Something as small as a meal swipe can help the life of a person in Uganda.

The GlobeMed club at Rutgers is holding a meal swipe campaign to raise funds for their efforts in Uganda. Students can donate meal swipes and the value of that meal swipe is donated by Rutgers to the organization.

Students can donate one or two meal swipes at tables set up at dining halls or though an online link.

Each meal swipe contributes $3 to the fundraiser.

GlobeMed is a student-run, non-profit organization started in 2011 at Rutgers that focuses on

issues such as global health and public health, said Kevin Xie, a School of Arts and Sciences senior and co-president of the club.

Recently the club has been working with Change A Life Uganda, a non-profit organization. Every summer, the club also sends a few students to the country they are raising funds for, Xie said.

“We devised a project with the non-profit throughout the year and we pitch our ideas and we get their feedback and they pitch their ideas of what they want us to do over there. We put together a cohesive project,” he said.

The meal swipe campaign is a program organized by RUSA, he SEE SWIPES ON PAGE 4

New Jersey had 3.3 million people vote in the 2012 presidential elections, with nearly 2 million votes for Democrats and 1.3 million for Republicans. At the time, there were a little over 1 million registered Democrats and 1.7 million registered Republicans.. GRAPHIC BY RIDDHI PATEL

U. organizations discard opposing views, host voter registration drive JESSICA HERRING STAFF WRITER

On April 20 the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group joined together for the first time with the two governing councils, five political student groups and the Residence Hall Association to encourage students to vote in the upcoming presidential election.

Groups were set up in the student centers on every campus

to promote political activism in a non-partisan manner.

Nainika Paul, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, along with other NJPIRG members, explained to Rutgers University students how to vote and the importance of speaking up.

“We have so many groups on campus who choose to table at different times and for different candidates, but we wanted to show the students and administration on Rutgers, that

when needed, our groups can come together in a non-partisan and united way to give Rutgers students the chance to register to vote for the simple goal of getting their voices heard,” Paul said.

This event marks the first time liberals, conservatives, governing councils and a non-profit organization have joined together for a Rutgers Vote Day, she said. NJPIRG SEE DRIVE ON PAGE 5

Hindi students participate in Yale debate, reach 2nd-place ranking SUSMITA PARUCHURI Mary D’Anella Mercanti is a member of Rutgers One, a group that is working to help increase instructor pay and lower tuition costs for students. COURTESY OF MARY D’ANELLA MERCANTI

Rutgers One fights for fair pay, tuition rollback JONATHAN XIONG CONTRIBUTING WRITER

A coalition of students groups and labor unions are working to defend public education.

Rutgers One, an organization whose major members include the American Association of University Professors-American Federation of

Teachers, United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS), Black Lives Matter and the Union of Rutgers Administration, are actively trying to ensure all instructors are paid fairly without burdening students unduly.

The Rutgers One coalition can trace its roots back to a wage SEE ROLLBACK ON PAGE 4

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Last weekend, two Rutgers Hindi students joined the ranks of Columbia, Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania, New York University and the University of California, Los Angeles, at the annual Yale Hindi Debate, taking home the second place prize in the Non-Native Heritage category.

Shivaniben Patel and Heta Patel boarded a train from Edison to New Haven on Friday for the event.

“The minute we walked in, Seema (Khurana), the coordinator of the whole event, greeted us ... she was so polite and nice,” said Shivaniben Patel, a School of Arts and Sciences junior.

This was Rutgers’ second time at the debate after Shaheen Parveen,

a professor in the Department of African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures at Rutgers first submitted a request for the school to participate in 2014, a year after she first began working at the school.

Other students from the various northeastern colleges filed in slowly, including Bhoomika Joshi and Shikhar Singh, Ph.D. students at Yale University who served as judges alongside Parveen, Shivaniben Patel said.

The students were split into four different groups based on their fluency in Hindi and whether they were of the heritage or not, she said.

The turnout was very diverse, she said.

“I was amazed to see American people speak Hindi so well,” she said. “I was feeling bad about

myself … like, am I speaking worse than them?”

As Indian-born Gujarati speakers, both Shivaniben and Heta Patel placed into the Non-Native Heritage group. Both had learned Hindi in the past, but felt they were no longer as proficient in the language.

“After nine years of not speaking Hindi, I felt like I was losing a part of my culture,” said Heta Patel, a School of Arts and Sciences junior.

“I knew that just because I moved to America, it does not mean that I am done with my culture and I should forget it.”

Shivaniben Patel, who moved to the United States in 10th grade, said she wanted to participate in the debate to improve her Hindi and work on her public speaking anxiety.

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Group ensures student positivity through tables, activities CHRISTOPHER BOHORQUEZ

not know have recognized and greeted her around campus.

“If we get enough of a good From handing out candy and response and if we get enough giving compliments to pass- followers, then we thought about erby, a new student group on making it into a club and continucampus has worked to raise stu- ing it the next four years we are here,” Wyckoff said. “But that all dents’ spirits.

RU Positive is a social change depends on the response we get.”

RU Positive has set up table on project started by a group this semester whose main goal is different parts of the Rutgers campuses to spread to increase awareness. the morale At these taand positivity “If we ... were having a bles, the club of students hard time staying gives out candy around campositive, then a majority to passersby. pus, said JoWhile meetseph Dobak, a of the population ing, greeting School of Arts would also be facing and comforting and Sciencsomething similar.” students, club es first-year members also student.

FARAH RANDELIA hand out fly“ We ’ v e School of Arts and Sciences ers containing noticed that First-Year Student information on there’s not a different ways ton of posito stay positive. tivity, and we “We give out Hershey’s Kisses really just wanted to increase that,” said Kaelyn Wyckoff, a and said ‘have a nice day,’” WySchool of Arts and Sciences ckoff said. “We ask ‘how are you doing,’ and we had sheets on how first-year student.

This lackluster spirit on to stay positive during exams, and campus led to the inception of little helpful hints. And it really helped brightened people’s day RU Positive.

People are becoming more — they spread the word and it aware of RU Positive, Wyckoff said. helped others.”

This, and the group’s other Wyckoff said she has increased positivity with this proj- activities, is a way to bring people ect. Students that Wyckoff does up during exam season, which is STAFF WRITER

Kaelyn Wyckoff, Omer Tekin and Farah Randelia are all members of RU Positive, a group created to brighten the days of students at Rutgers by handing out candy and compliments to members of the University community. COURTESY OF KAELYN WYCKOFF the group’s most active period, Dobak said.

At times, it can be challenging to stay positive, Dobak said.

School of Arts and Sciences first-year student Farah Randelia agreed that lack of positivity was a problem on campus.

Randelia is in charge of advertising for RU Positive. She made the poster that hung in front of

their table and handwrites the flyers they hand out to students.

“A lot of us were a little bit down and having a hard time staying positive,” Randelia said.

“So if we — a small subset of the population of Rutgers — were having a hard time staying positive, then a majority of the population would also be facing something similar.”

Sometimes it is hard to stay positive in college, she said.

Student face stress from many sources other than exams and the stresses of schooling.

Helping students has been a fulfilling experience, she said.

“Throughout the day, seeing people smile at our attempts to get them to smile was worthwhile,” Randelia said.

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April 21, 2016

SWIPES Support will help build water purification plant, educate residents on menstruation, Xie says CONTINUED FROM FRONT

about it. We want to alleviate the stigma,” Xie said.

They also want to create a sussaid. Each semester they allocate the program to a certain club. tainable method for the communiEach club needs to apply for the ty for sanitation.

Their goal is to purchase the program and the top three applicants are chosen to present to materials needed to make the RUSA why their club deserves pads, and then to teach the people how to make the pads, he said. the campaign.

“We need to find a company This is the second time that GlobeMed has been awarded that pursues this sustainable model. Hopethe campaign, fully they he said. (community The club members) has a new fundraising “It’s important to expand can efficiently these goal each ourselves from the bubble create pads on their year that they that we’re in.” own time and use towards maybe create projects with KEVIN XIE a business out their partner School of Arts and Sciences Senior of it,” he said. organization.

“It would help This year the sustain their funds will go economy and to two projthey would be ects that they are working on with Change A distributing this commodity that people need.”

Life Uganda.

Along with this initiative, the The first project focuses on improving the menstrual sanitation club will be doing educational work in a school in Uganda. in a community in Uganda.

Four members of the team will “Half the money we raise will go towards purchasing sanitary be going to Uganda this summer pads for the young girls and to educate the boys and girls women there. Right now they about menstrual health, Xie said. currently use rags which is really They want the children to underunsanitary and can be embarrass- stand that menstruation is a nating as well. There’s a stigma to it ural process and that it is nothing because not everyone is educated to be embarrassed about.

ROLLBACK U. Board of Governors considers different factors when determining tuition, Miranda says CONTINUED FROM FRONT

freeze beginning in 2009. At the time, various organizations campaigned against wages freezes across the board. Since then, various members have organized protests against the University and other groups.

The organization has existed in its present form for close to two years, said David Hughes, president of the AAUP-AFT and professor in the Department of Anthropology.

“It goes back to the campaign for a fair contract for full-time faculty, as well as students against sweatshops, (and) the beginning of their campaign against Nike,” Hughes said.

None of the previous campaigns were run directly by Rutgers One. Each campaign was orchestrated by its involved member. For example, the anti-sweatshop movement was run by USAS. The current campaign for tuition “rollbacks” is the first time Rutgers One has run a campaign under its own banner.

“Only in the last few months have we gone from a clearing house of ideas into an organization that’s tr ying to do something in its own name, the tuition rollback campaign,” Hughes said.

As a result, Hughes said Rutgers One currently has no official relationship with the

University to date. The current campaign would solidify relations between Rutgers One and the University.

The goal of the tuition rollback program is to decrease the price of tuition by 2.5 percent. The rising cost of tuition takes a toll on

The Rutgers chapter of GlobeMed, a philanthropic group, is hosting a “meal swipes for charity” campaign. Students can donate meal swipes to support less fortunate people in Uganda. COURTESY OF KEVIN XIE

The other half of the money will go towards building a wash house in the community, Xie said.

There is a water purification system created by UNICEF that purifies rain water into potable water from the community members to drink, he said.

GlobeMed projects are ones that benefit both the volunteers and the community, Xie said.

“We gain experience in global health initiatives and interfacing with nonprofits that operate here and abroad. It’s great experience for our GlobeMed

kids and also for the community in the developing countr y,” he said.

In previous years, the club has managed to raise $12,000 through this campaign. But, the amount per meal swipe has decreased considerably since previous years so this year the club hopes to raise around $3,500, Xie said.

“We are sticking with CAL U for the foreseeable future,” Xie said. “Our idea of a partnership is that we build a relationship with them and view their problems and

view our capacity as students to serve them.”

Tabling for the campaign at the dining halls is also an important step for raising awareness, he said.

“We don’t always think about the advantages that we have,” Xie said. “What we’re doing here and abroad, and our initiative to make someone else’s life better elsewhere, it kind of boils down to the whole Jersey roots and global reach. It’s important to expand ourselves from the bubble that we’re in.”

ty spokesperson E.J. Miranda in an email.

“The wide range of costs, from meeting negotiated salary increases for faculty and staff, to the operational expenses of campuses spanning the state, as well as all revenues and available sources of state, federal and private funding have been fundamental in setting tuition rates in the past and will be this coming year,” Miranda said.

Salaries and tuition are connected, Miranda said.

“The regular appeals from the unions too, on one hand raise sal-

Joining this organization can be empowering for students, and it is powerful to see the impact students can have on universities.

Both Hughes and D’Anella-Mercanti deny claims that Rutgers One is a radical organization.

“In my own view, I think what we’re asking for is something tremendously conservative. We’re asking for the promise of public education, which goes back to the early 20th century, to be honored by this administration,” Hughes said.

The organization is not radical but rational, D’Anella-Mercanti said.

But both were also critical of Rutgers administration.

“The relationship between the administration and students tends to be somewhat patronizing, and they often pit faulty against students. What we aim to do is to work together and show the strength of the relationship between the unions and the students,” D’Anella-Mercanti said.

Hughes said the University has taken a “divide and conquer” strategy in the past, which prevented a coalition like Rutgers One from coming together.

He said current University President Robert L. Barchi and said Barchi’s “top-down business plan” was designed to maximize profit at the expense of the students.

“The president is concerned primarily with advancing the academic mission of the University and ensuring that the resources are in place to foster academic quality. Any focus on economic efficiency is related to using our resources as effectively as possible,” Miranda said.

CRIME

“There was no direct relationship between salaries and tuition.”

DAVID HUGHES President of AAUP-AFT

the academic success of students, Hughes said.

During the wage freeze, Rutgers informed the teacher’s union that wages were frozen because any wage increase would mean a tuition increase.

“But no, tuition went up in leaps and bounds. That taught us that there was no direct relationship between salaries and tuition,” Hughes said.

Rutgers has close to $144 million in surplus, which would make a tuition rollback fairly simple, he said.

The Board of Governors considers many factors when deciding tuition rates and aims to make Rutgers affordable, said Universi-

aries while on the other hand lower tuition, seem contradictory, at best,” he said.

Rutgers One plans to hold a rally at a hearing on the issue on April 21, at 6 p.m. outside the College Avenue Student Center.

Mary D’Anella-Mercanti, a School of Arts and Sciences firstyear student and a member of Rutgers One, rejected the claim that it was a “protest organization.”

“I think it’s more of a group that observes various problems on campus, whether students are aware of them, or faculty are aware of them, and makes sure the administration does something about them,” D’Anella-Mercanti said.

APRIL 19 NEWARK — Marcus Feliz, 25, pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, felony murder and robbery after an April 10 incident that resulted in the death of Shani Patel, 21, of Toms River and a student of Rutgers-Newark. Felix’s attorney, Joseph Rotella, entered his plea. Fraynned Ramirez, 26, of Hartford, Conn., is also another suspect in this case, and he remains at large. Feliz’s bail was set at $750,000, and he has to surrender his passport.

APRIL 20 JERSEY CITY — Farrarhd H. Gunter, 36, of Newark, is being charged with the murder of a 12-year-old boy and his father during a robbery gone wrong on May 17, 2013. He testified on his own behalf yesterday afternoon.

Gunter also has 10 other convictions including drug possession within 1,000 feet of school property, two counts of receiving stolen property, two counts of possession with intent to distribute and three counts of drug possession.

APRIL 20 JERSEY CITY — A 22-yearold Domino’s Pizza delivery person was robbed at gun point after he arrived at an Arlington Avenue home just after midnight. The delivery person called the house phone several times before going to the door, which was answered by four men all in dark black clothing. One man also had a red bandana covering his face. They robbed the delivery person of his Galaxy Note 5 smart phone, and then two of the other men drove off in his 2015 Toyota Avalon.

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DRIVE It is important for U. students to raise their voices by voting, Paul says CONTINUED FROM FRONT

Shivaniben Patel and Heta Patel competed in the Yale Hindi Debate against students from several Ivy League institutions.

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RANKING Contestants had to defend their word choices, Shivaniben Patel says CONTINUED FROM FRONT

Because her parents do not speak English fluently, she often has to translate into Gujarati for them, and she wants to extend that to help other people, she said.

“I knew how to speak — I took Hindi in India, but it was almost five or six years ago, so I don’t even remember half of the grammar … but I also mix Hindi and Gujarati,” she said. “Even during the speech, I started one or two words in Gujarati.”

The students were given a motion to discuss, debating in Hindi whether the current generation is too coddled. Shivaniben Patel argued for the stance, focusing mostly on younger children in her three-minute speech.

After each speech, the debaters took audience questions from “interjectors,” who were mostly Yale students also studying Hindi.

The nuances of the language came into play when one interjector quizzed Shivaniben Patel on her use of the term “thapki,” a

Hindi word for tapping someone to stop them from doing something, because it is typically used for small children.

She countered, arguing that the word could also be used generally, to extend to having discussions with older children, and is not restricted to punishing small children.

“I was very afraid of public speaking, and I have to learn that,” she said on her decision to participate in the debate. “When I have to speak, I panic, and in my voice you could hear it.”

It was also Shivaniben Patel’s first excursion out of New Jersey without her parents.

The debate was followed by a performance by Yale’s South Asian A Capella group Sur et Veritaal and an Indian dinner.

“I had the best experience and it was the most memorable trip of my life thus far,” Heta Patel said. “It was truly an honor to be able to speak in front of so many high level people in an Ivy League university in a language we are just yet beginning to learn.”

and the other groups knew that this was the right time to do a huge registration drive.

“It is Rutgers’ ‘Revolutionary 250th anniversary,’ and so we wanted to create awareness of the importance of revolutionizing the field of politics through a simple way, such as voting for whoever students think best represents their interests,” she said.

Students were calling and texting their friends to meet them at the table to register, she said.

“Based on tabling an personal interactions alone, the Princeton Review has not seen the full side of Rutgers and has not been presented with the true story that when presented with an opportunity Rutgers students will use their voices and will get on board and even help others in the political processes of the elections,” Paul said.

The joining together of forces under one coalition, the “Rutgers Vote Coalition,” has created an event that will be now be a tradition, she said.

NJPIRG has signed a resolution and agreed that every election season they will come together to get as many students as possible registered to vote, so that Rutgers University can continue to be a force of change and inspiration for the community and other areas, she said.

“NJPIRG has enjoyed every second of working with these groups, especially the governing councils who are the voice of the campuses,” Paul said.

Nick Jermer, the head of the NJPIRG New Brunswick Chapter, said the mission for NJPIRG is to educate and empower the public to take action on social problems, such as fighting poverty, and making higher education more affordable.

“The critical way to take action on these issues is if we get young people to show up at the polls,” Jermer said.

NJPIRG has formed a coalition of student groups to turn out the vote since the 1980s, said Jermer, a Rutgers Business School senior.

In the past three years their vote coalition has registered more than 20,000 Rutgers students, he said.

“I’m hoping the event will prepare organization for the fall, where voter engagement will be huge,” he said.

The goal of this event is to inspire administration to take action

“It is important that organizations take a lead and encourage their members to get involved.”

NICK JERMER Head of NJPIRG’s New Brunswick Chapter

on voter engagement programs at the University, he said. The University should send out an all campus email directing students to StudentVote.org, a tool where student can register to vote online, Jermer said.

They should encourage voter registration on move-in day, orientation and floor meetings in residence halls, he said, as well as encourage door-to-door voter registration in the student residences.

Jermer said Rutgers is currently ranked as the most politically disengaged school in the country.

“But these common sense initiatives will change that when more students have the opportunity to get involved in the elections,” he said. “Student reactions have been nothing but great and exciting.”

Everyone is talking about the elections this year, he said.

“It is important that organizations take a lead and encourage their members to get involved,” he said. “In a time with so much polarization and tension, the College Republicans and College Democrats came together and put aside their differences to take action on one goal, which is to raise our voices.”

John Bingham, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, is the president of the College Democrats of New Jersey and decided along with the executive board to focus on increasing this generation’s involvement in the political process, he said.

This year our generation’s number of those eligible to vote will be roughly the same size as the “baby boom” generation, Bingham said.

In 2012, there were 5,271,837 registered voters in New Jersey, according to The Guardian. Only 3,374,407 voted in the presidential election. A little over one million were registered as Democrats, while 1,719,729 were registered as Republican.

In the presidential election, 1,960,744 people voted Democratic in New Jersey, while 1,383,233 voted Republican, according to Politico.

“I hope to bring awareness. Our generation has a voice and I want to educate students on their ability to influence government, whether it be federal or local,” Bingham said. “Students have a unique voice in the concerns of everyone.”

A student can understand the problems of the contemporary and the future, Bingham said.

“My favorite part of this event was seeing Democrats and Republicans unite in working to give everyone in our generation a chance to register and become politically active,” he said.

Bingham has seen these organizations do voter registration in the past, he said, and hoped to see these groups work together to unite this generation and come together in the political process, he said.

“The leaders of these clubs at Rutgers University have done a remarkable job of setting up and getting the work done,” Bingham said.

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April 21, 2016

1 college narrative doesn’t apply to all

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first became aware of tensions between graduating students from the three Rutgers campuses Wednesday NICHOLAS CRUZ morning when reading a post on the Rutgers Class of 2016 Facebook page that garnered around 650 “likes,” explaining Newark and Camden students shouldn’t attend this year’s commencement featuring President Barack Obama as the primar y speaker because they didn’t have the New Brunswick experience and can’t call this place home. After my initial euphoria that the High Point Solutions Stadium would be filled to capacity at least once in its life, allowing me to delude myself (if only for a moment) that the recent 10,000-seat expansion wasn’t a complete waste of $102 million, I was angered.

The student’s list of what makes our time at New Brunswick unique was the most normative, generic (aside from referencing Hurricane Sandy, which I’m sure Newark and Camden were also affected by) representation of college life I’ve seen, and this is from someone who scrolls past countless Elite Daily “Ten Ways You Know You Went to *Insert Name Here* University” articles on my Facebook newsfeed posted by friends at various large schools across the countr y. I couldn’t find myself, or New Brunswick, in the rosy-with-a-few-difficulties narrative of that post.

I support Embrace Kids, but don’t feel comfortable in the frat-dominated space of Dance Marathon because I’m queer and Latinx. More than that, I’m disheartened by the lack of action by Rutgers students on the levels of lead, a known carcinogen, found in New Brunswick public school water fountains — an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, right?

If it isn’t, maybe we should focus a little more on proving we deser ve to be in New Brunswick by helping the community we displace before we go telling others that this isn’t their home.

Maybe we can make a home big enough for us all.

COMMENTARY

“Maybe we should focus a little more on proving we deserve to be in New Brunswick by helping the community we displace before we go telling others that this isn’t their home.”

I commute to save — by save, I mean free up student loans to help pay family debts a bit quicker. There are many reasons why students attend Newark or Camden rather than the “traditional campus,” and I don’t pretend to know them all, but I do know both campuses have higher percentages than New Brunswick of black, Latinx and other students traditionally excluded from higher education who have overcome ever y obstacle to make it to graduation. Who have just as much of a claim to the Rutgers name and shouldn’t be punished for not attending the flagship. Who might have a different investment in hearing the first black president personally address and congratulate them on their accomplishments — I think students from underrepresented groups at New Brunswick will understand this — than the white student who wrote the post that unsettled me so.

Although I wish she and other like-minded soon-to-be-graduates from New Brunswick can find less exclusionar y ways to celebrate accomplishments, I’m truly happy for her and I do understand the ver y legitimate desire to have loved ones at the ceremony, so I reser ve greater criticism for University President Robert L. Barchi.

If he seriously engaged with the possibility of Obama accepting the invitation to speak at Commencement and wanted to accommodate the entire graduating classes of Rutgers, he could have arranged the event to be held at a venue with an additional 30,000 seats: MetLife Stadium. There might have been more bureaucratic hoops to jump through, but haven’t we hired enough administrators to adequately tackle such logistical challenges?

Side note: I encourage you to come to the House the Hub Benefit Concert this Friday at the Rutgers Student Center. You can bring as many people as you want! We’re tr ying to raise $10,000 to help end homelessness. It’s not much compared to that other event most students throw all their philanthropic energy behind, but it’s currently a reach goal. At the time of this writing, only 8 tickets ($10 each) have been sold. Somewhat surprising if New Brunswick, whose longtime residents are facing rapid, aggressive gentrification due to our University’s presence, is indeed the beloved home for students fortunate enough to attend classes here that the writer of that post made it out to be.

Even if you don’t care for any of this you should still come to the House the Hub event this 7 p.m. Friday, April 22. We’re raffling two tickets to Beyonce’s “Formation” tour. Who doesn’t like Beyonce?

Nicholas Cruz is a School of Arts and Sciences junior majoring in English and cultural anthropology.

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Mandatory fitness? Don’t sweat it Oral Roberts University makes students buy Fitbits for class

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his is America, and in the U.S. of A. people because when you go to the doctor they must still don’t like being forced to do things — not measure your blood sugar, heart rate, etc. Individueven exercise. If citizens don’t want mandato- als should love themselves, but also love themselves ry health insurance or mandatory vaccinations, then to the point where they’ll take care of their health. the people of the United States certainly don’t want Additionally, giving someone a Fitbit can help someone with an eating disorder, since the professor is in mandatory physical activity.

Oral Roberts University in Oklahoma mandates a better position to see how a person worked out five the use of Fitbits for a required physical education hours a day and looks tired and has not eaten, and class for first-year students, and many are furious. can then alert the school so it can provide the person It’s the only university to require students to log with attention and medical service.

The physical education class in Oral Roberts Unitheir health by using this form of technology, and it’s come under fire for making students buy the $150 versity makes it a goal that students walk 10,000 Fitbit Charge HR that records a range of data, includ- steps per day and have 150 minutes of physical activing fitness activity, heart rate, calories burned and ity per week, which isn’t very strenuous. The 10,000 sleeping patterns. The data gathered by the technol- steps might seem like a lot, but walking to class instead of taking a bus or going to ogy contributes to a student’s the gym and using the elliptical overall grade in the class. or treadmill can complete this While people really shouldn’t requirement, and that’s the daibe forced to do things and “Making students buy there’s nothing wrong with Fitbits is just as radical an ly recommended steps by the American Health Association. valuing independence or the idea as buying textbooks That number might seem high, freedom of choice, there is still and making health and plenty of students feel like a plethora of things that people they don’t have the time to exershould do despite how annoying a priority.” cise, but if you’re getting college it may be (paying your taxes, credit there should be time to fit shoveling snow on the sidewalk, these minutes and steps in. getting an education, etc.). The It’s good to know that Oral Roberts University Fitbit is quite expensive, but it’s the equivalent to buying a textbook for a class, and unlike a textbook takes its students’ health and well-being seriously. for a specific class you might not open again, like Physical education courses are being cut througha $150 textbook on the history of dung beetles, out elementary and high school curriculums, but it’s there’s pragmatic value to having the Fitbit after the crucial to a country that’s known for its astounding class is completed. You can still use it to track your obesity rate. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, obesity in the U.S. is “comdaily exercise.

Most of the ire comes from how the program mon, serious and costly.” More than one-third (34.9 might enable eating disorders. People on Twitter percent or 78.6 million) of U.S. adults are obese, and have responded to Oral Roberts University’s require- obesity-related conditions such as heart disease, ment and have said, “Take the numbers out of health stroke and type 2 diabetes are the leading causes of and teach your freshmen how to love your body in- preventable death. The estimated annual cost of obestead,” and “Handing a fit bit to someone struggling sity was $147 billion in 2008.

Making students buy Fitbits is just as radical with or predisposed to developing an ED (eating disorder) is like handing an alcoholic a bottle of win.” an idea as buying textbooks and making health Unfortunately, numbers can’t be taken out of health, a priority.

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Communism must replace capitalism, imperialism MANGOES AND REVOLUTION BECKY RATERO

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started college right after turning 18, and no amount of summers in Brooklyn with my grandparents prepared me for the culture shock I experienced. Born and raised in Spain, there were many things I didn’t expect.

Language, schedules, flavors, consumer society, sexual education (or lack thereof), nightlife culture, politics, religion — to this day I have a hard time understanding how profoundly pervasive the propaganda we’re subjected to is.

Part of me understands the pull for “safe change” in the shape of U.S. elections.

But this will never bring the type of fundamental change the world needs. In Audre Lorde’s words, “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.”

Humanity needs a world without capitalism and imperialism. The horrors of this system include the destruction and plunder of the environment, from drilling in the Arctic to deforestation in the Amazon, a pharmaceutical industry that only cares about profit, the mass production of consumer goods through sweatshop labor around the world, drone warfare that’s directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of

innocent civilians in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia and the list goes on.

For those who dismiss communism as unrealistic or an unattainable utopia, let me ask you: What alternative for capitalism do you propose? This system is directly tied in with, and relies on, oppression by gender, race, class, sexual orientation, ability and more. How can we not struggle to alter the very structure that imposes intersecting forms of oppression on most of humanity?

Monday, April 18, Sunsara Taylor, key initiator of End Pornography and Patriarchy: The Enslavement and Degradation of Women StopPatriarchy.org and writer for Revolution newspaper, and Carl Dix, founding member of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, and co-founder of the Stop Mass Incarceration Network with Cornel West spoke at Rutgers. They support the new synthesis of communism developed

by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. They came to speak about the need for revolution.

The point of communist revolution is not extending U.S. Empire under a different guise, replacing the people in power or about redistributing wealth.

Communism is about developing an acute scientific method to understand the world we live in and how we can implement a political socio-economic system that does not carry the horrors of capitalism woven into its fiber. Like any science, communism

requires digging deep into history, politics, religion and other social structures. It requires critical fact-checking beyond negative propaganda, as well as questioning and thorough analysis. Communism is not about blind dogmatism, mass murder or political imprisonment.

Furthermore, one crucial aspect of this ideology is that it is not about improving the conditions of workers within this country. It is about getting rid of the entire structure of “Empire.” As Carl Dix pointed out “now the whole world can feel the Bern — of their houses being blown apart.” Barack Obama as the first Black POTUS has not improved the conditions of black or brown people in the United States: The color of his skin does not make drone strikes, deportations or prisons any less brutal. Bernie Sanders and other candidates don’t promise anything essentially different.

Under this system it is highly unlikely that we will get rid of a criminal injustice system that maintains torture centers like Guantanamo Bay and Rikers Island. Taylor raised that 85 percent of prisoners at Rikers haven never faced trial and are locked up for the crime of not being able to pay bail.

About 85 percent of prisoners have never had trial at Rikers Island and 95 percent of those incarcerated are black or Latinx in New York prisons.

Under this system, patriarchy is being violently reasserted, regressing to the days

of back-alley abortions, pervasive rape culture glorified in mainstream pornography, the constant hyper-sexualization of girls’ and women’s bodies … In Dix’s words “we need a radical revolt against this revolting culture.” A revolution that allows and encourages everyone in society to flourish intellectually and culturally.

Why don’t we see this? For the same exact reason we choose to ignore racism.

Since we no longer live in a society with overt racism, with blatant legally sanctioned discrimination, it can be hard to visualize the tools with which to even begin to dismantle this system. Protected with language of freedom and democracy, our own ideologies keep us from thinking outside the confines of capitalism and imperialism.

A different system is entirely possible, but we need to start to think critically, and seek the evidence-based truth. We need to grapple with reality, and stop believing in reform and lesser evils. We need to struggle with ourselves, and with others, and we need to start to work towards a common overarching goal that will benefit humanity.

None of this will be easy, but all of this is necessary. We need revolution — we need an all-the-way communist revolution.

Becky Ratero is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in women’s and gender studies and history. Her column, “Mangoes and Revolution,” runs on alternate Thursdays.

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U. ‘raves’ over Cash Cash at College Avenue gym

Student ravers enjoyed the acts of the night by head banging for hours in the College Avenue gymnasium to all the sweet, phat beats. Fans screamed when Cash Cash came out to perform, showing they are true fans. DIMITRI RODRIGUEZ / PHOTO EDITOR

NICOLETTE ACCARDI FEATURES EDITOR

The College Avenue gymnasium turned into a rave last Friday night. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many flashing lights in

a gym before, and it’s all thanks to Cash Cash taking a pit stop at Rutgers.

Flowers in hair, rhinestones on my face, neon-clothed head to toe, I was ready to rave — I’m completely kidding, I would

never be caught dead dressed like that.

As I maneuvered my way into the sea of drunk college ravers, I came across the opening act.

DJ Mayz started playing to get the crowd poppin’ — the party

The opening song Cash Cash was just getting started. The crowd was relatively chill at that played was okay, not really point in time, but that didn’t my style, though — but then it happened. last long.

Their best song “Escarole” As the second act, DJ Trackside started playing, and that’s started playing and I nearly lost when the gym started to turn my mind. Yes, I know, escarole into Electric Daisy Carnival. Stu- is cooked lettuce. But don’t be dents were head banging all over fooled by the name of the song — the place to all the phat beats be- it was a pure eargasm. As the big ing blasted through the stereo screen in the background of the system — including me, guilty show displayed virtual escarole flashing continuously on and off, as charged.

I must say, these kinds of I asked myself, “Am I seriously concerts are a free pass to act- getting excited about seeing viring like an nimrod. No one will tual escarole right now? I need make fun of you since ever yone to reevaluate my life.” It’s okay else is pretty much doing the though, I’ll let it slide this time.

At that same thing. If point I was in you feel like a trance from twerking in the escathe middle “The crowd completely all role flashing in of the dance lost it — they acted like my poor eyes. floor, hey, no President Obama was on There was a one is stopwhole setlist ping you. stage or something — of songs, but My hearing woah, calm to tell you the almost went down people.” truth it’s now out before all a blur. That the headliner is actually a came on, but good thing your girl made it to the final act, Cash Cash. I though, I got lost in the music must say, I was very impressed — Cash Cash, you should be with all the details of the show. flattered. I do remember a couThe production of the set was ple radio hits that played though. very outstanding for it being in a I recall “Take Me Home” and college gymnasium — I rate that “Surrender” blasting through the five stars, bravo. Flashing “rave” gym. How could I not remember? lights, cool, neon visuals — you The crowd was only screaming the lyrics in my ear — such diename it, it was there.

Now, the moment every one hard fans.

When I started to see virtual was waiting for occurred: Cash Cash entered the building. The escarole when I closed my eyes crowd completely lost it — they and heard nothing but muffled acted like President Obama was bass, that’s when I knew it was on stage or something — woah, time to call it a night. I shoved calm down people. The president my way threw the crowd, knockwas in the crowd though, a stu- ing that cardboard Obama head dent brought a huge cardboard right out the that girl’s hands cut-out of his face to the concert. (sorry) and made it out alive. I Whoever that person is, I want to will never look at escarole the same again. be friends with you.

April 21, 2016

Pearls Before Swine

DIVERSIONS Stephan Pastis

Horoscopes

Page 9 Nancy Black

Today’s Birthday (04/21/16). Prioritize love this year. Plan romantic getaways for after 5/9. Disciplined financial strategies pay off. Invest after 8/13. Begin an extra-productive two-year phase on 9/9. Breakthroughs in romance (after 9/1) lead to new directions in a friendship (after 9/16). Share gratitude. To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

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Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 6 — Reach a turning point with a joint account, with this Scorpio Full Moon. Manage a financial transition. Question authority. New circumstances are revealed. Work together. Your partner shows the way to harmony.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 7 — One door closes as another opens with collaborations and partnership. Honor and acknowledge support before welcoming the next phase. Seek a compassionate route.

Share what you’re inventing.

Non Sequitur

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Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 7 — This Full Moon illuminates financial transitions. One phase closes as the next begins. Creative ideas abound ... not all are practical. Choose the option that’s best for family. Compute expenses, and focus on making money.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 7 — Reach a turning point in your personal growth and development, with this Scorpio Full Moon.

Use your power responsibly. Begin a new phase toward realizing a dream.

Pay it forward.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Today is a 7 — Begin a new direction in your work. Finish old projects to clear room for what’s next. Polish the presentation before delivering.

Your excellent service speaks well for you.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 5 — Begin a new phase in your thoughts, philosophies and spiritual contemplation under this Full Moon in Scorpio. Quietly listen.

Remain sensitive to what is wanted.

Nurture health and wellness. Concentrate on clean-up.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Today is a 5 — One game folds as another begins with this Scorpio Full Moon. Take leave of outgoing players as you greet new ones. Discover love all over again. Practice your passion.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 7 — Complete one phase in a community effort or group project, and begin the next under this Full Moon. Confer with allies and teams.

Share gratitude and appreciation.

Get into party mode.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 5 — Household changes arise with this Full Moon in Scorpio. Bid farewell to the old phase, as you greet the new. Pay extra attention to home and family.

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Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 5 — Reach a turning point in a journey under this Full Moon. Begin a new adventure or exploration.

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PITCHING 3 Knights combined for a 2-hit shutout in 8-0 win over Seahawks in Staten Island CONTINUED FROM BACK

good because I was starting to feel more comfortable out there.

Hopefully I can keep doing that.”

After Brito exited following his six shutout innings, freshman James Torres and junior Colin Bohnert combined for the final three innings of work and held onto the shutout.

Starting for Wagner was Danny Marsh, and the Knights were able to jump on him from the early going of the game.

Picking up from where he left off with a 3-RBI performance in the win over Delaware State, junior outfielder Tom Marcinczyk put the Knights on the board in the first inning with an RBI single to score fellow outfielder Mike Carter.

The hit came with two-outs in the inning, and gave the Knights a 1-0 lead.

After a couple of shutout innings from Brito, Rutgers again charged ahead with some offense in the third inning as senior first baseman Chris Suseck launched a sacrifice-fly to push his team’s lead to 2-0.

The big inning came in the top of the fourth, when the Knights broke through for 3 runs and a 5-0 lead.

Carter ripped a 2-run single and another run scored on an error on the same play to make it a 3-run inning, and the Rutgers cruised from there.

The Knights later added 3 more runs to solidify a quality

offensive performance in which they recorded 10 hits.

The trip to Staten Island was a familiar sight for Litterio, who was the head coach at Wagner for 12 seasons.

He is the all-time winningest coach in the history of their program, as he recorded 240 victories during his time there before coming to coach Rutgers.

But he stressed to the team that this was just another game on the schedule to try to win, and his players emulated that mentality with a convincing victory on the road.

“It was a good win for us and it gives us some momentum moving forward,” Carter said. “We take each game seriously and as a chance to get us rolling in the future, so it was important for us to win this game and see if we can build from it.”

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Senior attacker Halley Barnes said she hopes playing on national television Thursday doesn’t have a negative effect on Rutgers.

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Rutgers seeks first Big Ten win over Buckeyes THOMAS CRINCOLI STAFF WRITER

Junior outfielder Mike Carter led the Knights’ offense against Wagner with 3 RBI, going 2-for-2 from the plate.

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MARYLAND

That’s our goal, that’s what we preach. We’re out there to win games, we don’t talk about where After conceding 11 runs on Sunday alone, we are in the standings. What we talk about is executing our plays.”

RU held Maryland to 3 runs in 2 games Winning the two games Wednesday was huge for Rutgers. After defeating Maryland in the first game, CONTINUED FROM BACK A 2-run double in the seventh both teams were deadlocked at Rutgers struck first again by senior Melanie Slowinski three wins in conference play each.

“Definitely,” Dresden Maddox by putting up a run in the sec- would eventually be all for both ond thanks to sophomore Sierra teams as the Knights beat Mary- said, referring to playing extra Maddox’s home run, giving the land by a score of 6-3 and takes motivated in the two games. “We over the Terps 12th spot in the did not want to leave without winKnights a 1-0 lead. ning those two games.”

Maryland would tie the game Big Ten Conference.

Slowinski up in the third led the stat by a sacrifice for the fly by Kristina “If we continue practicing, getting reps, we’ll be good sheet Knights on Dillard, sendgoing into this weekend.”

We d n e s d a y, ing home a going a total runner to tie MELANIE SLOWINSKI of 3-for-6 with the game at 1-1 Senior Outfielder three RBI’s after three inand scoring nings off play. a run.

It wouldn’t “Dresden did an excellent job Although Rutgers wasn’t facing be long before the Knights would regain the lead as they scored 3 another ranked team, Nelson said pitching,” Slowinski said. “So it runs off of three hits and one er- after Wednesday’s game that no was kinda easy having the momatter who the opponent is, they mentum from her.” ror in the top part of the fourth.

With Indiana visiting the A 2-run home run in the fifth need to play court best to win.

“I want us to play our best Banks this upcoming weekend,

by Lindsey Schmeiser would cut the deficit to one and make the game,” Nelson said. “If it’s the Rutgers feels its momentum will worst team or the best team. help them get the magic number score 4-3 in Rutgers’ favor. of six wins in its remaining games.

“I think we need to keep making contact on the ball,” Slowinski said. “If we continue practicing getting reps we’ll be good going into this weekend. I think our momentum will carry us pretty well, just clean up a few things and I think we’ll be okay.”

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The Rutgers women’s lacrosse team is running out of time to make a better second impression in the Big Ten conference.

With only two games left in the season, the Scarlet Knights (3-11, 0-3) return home on Thursday night to take No. 15 Ohio State (11-2, 2-1), hoping to end a fourgame losing streak.

Unlike the rest of the Knights’ games this season, their matchup with the Buckeyes will be featured live in front of a national audience on the Big Ten Network.

While it is not the traditional media coverage Rutgers received this season, senior attacker Kim Kolodny has not put too much thought into it.

“I think a lot of us on the team try to not think about that just because that is another thing to add onto our game of being nervous,” the Farmingdale, New York, native said. “I definitely won’t be thinking about it because it would probably psych me out, so I’m just going to focus on the game and what I can do individually to get the win.”

Kolodny scored her 100th career point this weekend after recording 6 points in the Knights’ 20-9 loss to Northwestern on Sunday. The senior attacker sits second on the team with 26 goals and 37 points.

Trailing right behind Kolodny this season is fellow senior attacker Halley Barnes, who is only 3 points away from her 100 career point. Earlier in the week, Rutgers’ captain said she wants to continue to do her job and score goals as an attacker, while downplaying the thought of achieving the milestone.

Barnes has another chance to reach the milestone against the Buckeyes, a game in which she holds a different outlook in playing on live television.

“I hope that we bring to every game as much energy as we possibly can, so I’m hoping being on TV won’t affect us in a negative way,” Barnes said. “I’m hoping we just go into to it and play our game and come out with a victory. It’s an opportunity to show the world how good we are.”

In a small sample size of games, Ohio State holds the advantage over the Knights’, winning 3 of 4 meetings in the series histor y.

Rutgers suffered two of those losses last season, when the Buckeyes beat them with identical 17-7 scores, once in the regular season and another in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten tournament.

Ohio State’s nine-game winning streak was brought to an end in a 15-5 loss to No.1 Maryland last Saturday.

The Buckeyes’ offense boasts a respectable 12.23 goals per game while converting on nearly half of their free-position attempts this season. Having five different players with 10 or more goals this year, Ohio State has plenty of options to run its attack through.

Most notable of the pack are senior midfielder Cian Dabrowski and senior attacker Rainey Hodgson. Dabrowski leads the Big Ten with over 4 points per game and ranks second in goals per game with a near 3.5 average.

Hodgson has played a balanced role in the Ohio State offense, scoring 25 goals while recording 25 assists. As the second leading point scorer on the Buckeyes’ roster, her enormous amount of helpers this season leads the entire conference.

In the Knights’ two meetings with Ohio State last season Hodgson and Dabrowski combined for 8 goals and 11 points.

While Rutgers has improved on its overall record from a season ago, the game on Thursday will be the last opportunity for the Knights this season to finish better than their one Big Ten win a year ago.

Following the recent loss, for Rutgers’ head coach Laura BrandSias, the mentality of taking it one game at a time remains as the team’s standard moving forward.

“We’ve gotta learn from this game and move on and go into another single game season on Thursday,” Brand-Sias said. “Just do everything we can in the next few days to get better, to give ourselves an opportunity to go 1-0.”

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April 21, 2016

Page 11 WOMEN’S TRACK & FIELD FARQUHARSON OWNS MULTIPLE PROGRAM RECORDS

Senior qualifies for U.S. Olympic Trials in final season BRIAN FONSECA SPORTS EDITOR

Gabrielle Farquharson was sitting on a bus in Florida with her fellow Rutgers women’s track and field team members last weekend, relaxing after completing their participation in the Florida State Seminole Invitational.

The fifth-year senior had put in her best performance of the recently begun outdoor season in Tallahassee, breaking her own school record in the 200 meters as well as earning a first place finish in the long jump with a distance of 6.54 meters.

While she didn’t set the school record in the long jump — she was .03 meters short — Farquharson did earn something better — a qualifying mark for the 2016 United States Olympic Trials.

Under the assumption the qualifying mark was in the 6.70 meter range, the Williamstown, New Jersey, native was caught off guard upon hearing the news.

“My mouth automatically dropped down,” she said of the moment she found out. “It wasn’t even in my head about Olympic Trials, hitting the qualifying mark, so yeah, it was definitely a big surprise for me.”

The news came in the form of a text message from head coach James Robinson, who was sitting in front of the bus checking the minimum jump distance to qualify for the trials and matching it up with the one he had just witnessed.

While Farquharson was taken aback by the news, Robinson knew her reaching the mark was just a matter of time.

“We talked about this last year. I was telling her, ‘listen, I think you could qualify for Olympic Trial next year,’ and at the beginning of the year, when we sat down for our goals meeting, I said the same thing and she agreed,” Robinson said. “I texted (when I found out) because it was already a known goal to me … To me, it was just a matter of time and it happened to manifest this past weekend.”

Senior sprinter and long jumper Gabrielle Farquharson is the first Scarlet Knight to qualify for the Olympic Trials since Shameka Marshall in 2012. She owns program records in the 60, 100 and 200 meters. EDWIN GANO / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / JANUARY 2016 The qualifying mark is the latest success of a final season filled with them for the senior. After redshirting the outdoor season last spring in order to qualify for a fifth-year on the Banks — something she and Robinson planned in her sophomore season — Farquharson had another spectacular winter.

A second consecutive 200 meter title at the Big Ten Indoor Championships with a program record time of 23.32 seconds earned her Second Team All-American status for the second year running.

Unable to participate in the 200 meters at the NCAA Indoor Championships last year due to a hamstring injury, Farquharson finished 14th in the event in this winter’s national indoor championships.

In addition to her program record indoor 200 meter time,

she also broke the record in the indoor 60 meter sprint (7.34 seconds) in the winter and both the 100 meter (11.39 seconds) and the 200 meter (23.25 seconds) sprints in the outdoor season this spring.

While Farquharson said she’s happy with the way her final months as a Scarlet Knight have been going, she is far from satisfied.

Although her jump in the Seminole Invitational was enough to qualify her for the trials, it doesn’t mean she will get an invitation.

Only the top 24 performers in the qualifying period from May 1, 2015 to June 26, 2016 will be asked to attend the trials in Eugene, Oregon, from July 1-10.

So Farquharson is focused on guaranteeing her spot amongst the top two dozen to become the first Knight since Shameka Marshall — whose long jump record

IN BRIEF

T

he Carolina Panthers announced Wednesday that the team has rescinded the nonexclusive franchise tag on cornerback Josh Norman, making him a free agent.

In 2015, Norman’s career-high four interceptions helped the Panthers lead the NFL in interceptions (24), total takeaways (39), points off turnovers (148) and turnover differential (plus-20). He contributed 16 passes defended, three forced fumbles and two fumble recoveries.

In four NFL seasons, Norman has played in 53 regular season games with 38 starts and had 172 tackles, four forced fumbles, three fumble recoveries and 35 passes defended.

He was selected out of Coastal Carolina by the Panthers in the fifth round (143rd overall) of the 2012 NFL draft.

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he Minnesota Timberwolves have agreed to terms with former Chicago Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau to be the team’s new coach and president of basketball operations.

League sources told ESPN’s Marc Stein earlier Monday that Thibodeau was in line to receive a five-year deal in the range of $10 million annually.

“Through this process, we quickly identified Tom as the best leader to shape our talented team and help them realize their full potential,” Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor said in a statement.

“He is a proven winner, leader and one of the most well-respected NBA head coaches over the last decade.”

San Antonio Spurs assistant GM Scott Layden will serve as the Wolves’ general manager righthand man in the front office, the team announced on Monday.

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hicago Blackhawks forward Andrew Shaw has been suspended one game and ordered to undergo sensitivity training after uttering an anti-gay slur from the penalty box to someone on the ice in Chicago’s Game 4 loss at home to the St. Louis Blues.

He will miss Game 5 in St. Louis on Thursday when the Blues, who are up 3-1 in the series, will try to knock the defending Stanley Cup champions out of the playoffs.

“While Mr. Shaw was apologetic and remorseful for both the offensive comments and the inappropriate gesture directed at the on-ice officials, he must be held accountable for his actions,” NHL senior executive vice president of hockey operations Colin Campbell said in a statement. “The emotion of the moment cannot and will not be a mitigating factor for the conduct that is expected of an NHL player.”

she almost broke in Talahassee — in 2012 to reach the trials.

“My motivation is knowing that it’s top 24,” she said.

“Just reminding myself I have to keep going, I have to keep jumping fur ther.”

With two months remaining in Rutgers’ season and three months remaining until the Olympic Trials, Farquharson isn’t focused on winning every meet remaining on the schedule.

Instead, she said she hopes to exceed or match her personal records in the final competitions of her collegiate career while maintaining her health.

But regardless of how she performs at the Big Ten Championships — which are being held the same day as her commencement, where President Barack Obama will be speaking — or at the Olympic Trials, she has already

become a model for what Robinson looks for in all his athletes. “(Farquharson) shows the ladies what they could do if they apply themselves and commit all the way from nutrition and getting proper rest, coming in and putting forth a great attitude and working out every day,” he said. “It’s not easy. You’re looking at a five year career here. She had her trials and tribulations as well throughout her career … but she was always able to bounce back and always able to recover, and not only recover, she was able to get better every year … she excels academically as well as athletically, so she’s the complete package, and a great person to top it all off.”

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QUOTE OF THE DAY

“My mouth automatically dropped down ... It wasn’t even in my head about Olympic Trials, hitting the qualifying mark, so yeah, it was definitely a big surprise for me.”

— Senior long jumper Gabrielle Farquharson on finding out she qualified for the Olympic Trials

THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 2016

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BASEBALL RUTGERS 8, WAGNER 0

Rutgers thrashes Wagner with solid pitching MIKE O’SULLIVAN CORRESPONDENT

Freshman pitcher Serafino Brito tossed a gem against the Hornets, giving up just 2 hits in six innings of work in Staten Island. DIMITRI RODRIGUEZ / PHOTO EDITOR / APRIL 2016

A pair of midweek games prior to welcoming in Penn State for a series this weekend seemed like a potential trap for the Rutgers baseball team, but the Scarlet Knights saw things differently.

After shaking off a slow start and beating Delaware State at Bainton Field on Tuesday, the Knights (18-19, 3-6) responded with another win on Wednesday by traveling to Wagner (10-23. 5-11) and shutting out the Seahawks, 8-0.

The Knights have now won 9 of their last 14 games, and are playing solid all-around baseball as they progress through the heart of their season.

“I thought we came out with a lot of energy today,” said head coach Joe Litterio. “It started a bit slow yesterday, but we came out differently today, and it showed on the scoreboard early on. We attacked early from the first inning and had guys getting on base, and were able to give our pitchers some room.”

Freshman pitcher Serafino Brito (5-2) earned the start for Rutgers, making his seventh start of his first season playing collegiate baseball.

The Oakland, New Jersey, native thoroughly dominated in his outing and gave the Knights exactly the type of lengthy

performance they were searching for after the bullpen pitched 5.2 innings the previous day.

He pitched six innings and went through a stretch of retiring 17 of 18 batters, striking out four and allowing just one hit.

When he exited the game, Rutgers was ahead 8-0, which proved to be the final score.

His recent performances have not gone unnoticed by the coaches, who feel comfortable using him in nearly any situation in any game, as evidenced by his relief appearances.

“Brito has been pitching outstanding for us,” Littero said. “He probably could’ve went all nine innings today, but we were watching his pitch count. He was outstanding and filled up the zone by commanding all of his pitches.”

Brito himself has begun to feel more comfortable adjusting to college baseball with each chance he gets to go to the mound.

He lowered his ERA to 3.50 with his performance, and believes that he will get better moving forward with each appearance.

It is natural for a freshman to play better as they become more acclimated to the collegiate style of play and schedule, which is what Brito hopes will allow him to continue improving and maintain this momentum.

“In the first inning, I started a little shaky, but then I started to settle down,” he said. “I was hitting my spots after that and that was SEE PITCHING ON PAGE 10

SOFTBALL RUTGERS 4, MARYLAND 0

Knights return to win column in Maryland BRET LEVINSON

advanced to third while Huang scored. Senior Melanie Slowinski would fly out to right field, driving in Anico and giving Rutgers an early 2-0 lead.

In the top of the sixth, the Knights added to their lead with a run on two hits.

Sophomore Sierra Maddox singled to left field with one out in the sixth inning. Senior Jordan Whitley then advanced her to second via a sacrifice bunt before senior Elizabeth Adams advanced pinch runner Jacqueline Kott by singling to second base, and then Kott scored while interference was called against Maryland, giving Rutgers a 3-0 lead after six.

Maddox would continue to pitch a stellar game following her teams’ success at the plate by closing out the bottom part of the sixth unscathed.

Freshman Allie Yoffee hit a leadoff solo shot in the top of the seventh to make the Knights’ lead the final score at 4-0.

In game two of the doubleheader, Rutgers took care of business once again, defeating the Terrapins by a score of 6-3.

Junior Shayla Sweeney entered the circle for Rutgers, pitching a total of five innings and allowing three runs.

STAFF WRITER

In order for a team to reach the Big Ten Tournament, it must place in the top 12 of its conference.

For the Rutgers softball team, winning both games on the road against Maryland gave it a slight lead over the Terrapins in the standings and a spot in the top 12 for the Scarlet Knights to control their own destiny throughout the remaining three weeks of the season.

The Knights (20-36, 4-10) defeated Maryland (11-32, 3-11) in both games of a doubleheader Wednesday evening.

Rutgers took game one by a score of 4-0 and won game two by a score of 6-3.

Senior Dresden Maddox took the circle in game one, tossing a complete game shutout, dominating the opposing offense by limiting them to only four hits.

“Dresden came out and shut them out in the first game,” said head coach Jay Nelson.”That was huge.”

The Knights drew blood first in the third inning, scoring 2 runs off one hit and one error.

Senior Stephanie Huang got things started singling up the middle. Freshman Nicolette Anico then reached base on an error and

SEE MARYLAND ON PAGE 10

Senior pitcher Dresden Maddox threw a complete game shutout in the first game of a doubleheader against Maryland. DIMITRI RODRIGUEZ / PHOTO EDITOR / APRIL 2016 KNIGHTS SCHEDULE

EXTRA POINT

MLB SCORES

NY Mets Philadelphia

4 5

Oakland NY Yankees

5 2

Tampa Bay Boston

3 7

Seattle Cleveland

2 1

Toronto Baltimore

3 4

Washington Miami

3 1

BRIAN BRECHT,

head men’s lacrosse coach, has instilled a high-power offense in Piscataway. The Knights currently lead the Big Ten in multiple offensive categories, including goals per game, assists per game, ground balls per game and points per game.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE SOFTBALL

MEN’S LACROSSE

MEN’S TRACK

vs. Penn State

Larry Ellis Invitational

vs. Ohio State

vs. Indiana

Today, 7:00 p.m., Piscataway, N.J.

Tomorrow, 3:00 p.m., Tomorrow, 8:00 p.m., Tomorrow, 3:30 p.m., RU Softball Complex Piscataway, N.J. Princeton, N.J.