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Gunshots fired outside of Glo Ultra Lounge and Tequila Bar called the attention of New Brunswick Police Department officers around 1:35 a.m. yesterday, according to police. There is no suspect description at this time. Derrick Fuqua, 37, and Jawon Tyus, 29, both of New Brunswick, were involved in an altercation outside of Glo Ultra Lounge, located at 367 George St. in New Brunswick, according to police. As responding officers exited their patrol vehicles to break up the fight, shots were fired from inside the crowd, catching Fuqua in the leg and Tyus in the abdomen, according to police. Neither man suffered life-threatening injuries. Both individuals were transported to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, where they were treated and released. Detectives are investigating this incident. Anyone with information is asked to contact the New Brunswick Detective Bureau at (732) 745-5217.
Rutgers Fossil Fuel Divestment, a group dedicated to urging the University to cut its financial ties with fossil fuel companies, finds focusing on fossil fuel divestment as a strategy for getting past the country’s political problems facing climate change. REUTERS
Group urges divorce from fossil fuels on Earth Day NATASHA TRIPATHI ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
Rutgers Fossil Fuel Divestment’s heated passion for climate change motivated them to put together a march and rally: “Earth Week Climate March,” yet again. “What we’re asking for is that
Rutgers divest in some holdings for fossil fuel,” said Shane Patel, president of Rutgers Fossil Fuel Divestment. Rutgers Fossil Fuel Divestment wants to show University students they are able to promote and create change in their local communities. Moreover, they
want to show the administration that their students truly care about climate change action. Patel, a School of Engineering senior and primar y sponsor, hopes to be as successful in channeling a similar spirit among the crowd this Friday as they did last September during the “People’s
Climate March” in New York City. “There were about 440,000 people marching in NYC for climate action,” Patel said. “That was a pretty unprecedented event. We brought about 150 Rutgers students with us.” SEE DAY ON PAGE 5
‘Project Move Out’ picks up students’ bulk items for free KATIE PARK NEWS EDITOR
where Vice Chancellor Felicia McGinty spoke before marching down George Street to Voorhees Mall on the College Avenue campus, where there was a concer t at
As the school year winds down and sidewalk curbs all over New Brunswick become inundated with discarded mattresses and tired-looking couches bound for landfills, Rutgers is partnering with the City of New Brunswick to recycle bulk waste in an effort to reduce the city’s carbon footprint. Besides the benefits of decluttering for the summer and minimizing New Brunswick’s environmental impact, students that participate in the recycling initiative, titled “Project Move Out,” will remove themselves from paying municipal fines for improperly disposing items in violation of the city’s trash ordinance, according to the project’s website. With “Project Move Out,” sanitation workers will provide free curbside pickup of bulk items in New Brunswick for Rutgers students
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A student spray-paints on a canvas as part of the rally for Rutgers’ “Take Back the Night,” a march dedicated to shattering the silence on sexual violence held Wednesday evening on the Douglass campus. YINGJIE HU / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
U. marches, speaks out against sexual violence SOPHIE NIETO MUÑOZ CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Students rallied together to shatter the silence surrounding victims of sexual and gender assault and support survivors last night by
marching down George Street to Voorhees Mall. “Take Back the Night” is a nationwide protest across college campuses that began in the 1970s with the goal of ending sexual and gender violence in all forms.
Women Organizing Against Harassment (WOAH) worked with Douglass Residential College (DRC) and the Violence Prevention Victim Assistance (VPVA) to organize the annual march. Suppor ters met in the Jameson Cour tyard on Douglass campus
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Rutgers develops fund to financially assist LGBTQA students
The Center for Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities is seeking to alleviate the financial burdens of LGBTQA youth with a crowd-funding project, called the “Emergency Fund for Rutgers University LGBTQA Students.” PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY NAAZ MODAN / PHOTO EDITOR
AVALON ZOPPO ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
There are approximately 1.6 million to 2.8 million homeless youth in the United States, and at least 20 percent of them classify as LGBTQA youth, according to the Center for American Progress. The Center for Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities (SJE) is looking to alleviate the financial burdens of some of these youth at Rutgers with a crowd-funding project on the Rutgers University Foundation website. The fund, titled “Emergency Fund for Rutgers University LGBTQA Students,” will be used to provide emergency relief for queer students in need of housing, food, tuition assistance, school supplies and other expenses to ensure their safety, health and academic success, said Zaneta Rago, director of SJE. The project has a goal of raising $19,920, which is based on the year the Center for Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities was founded, in 1992. So far, the project has received 35 percent of its goal, or $7,016, and there are 16 days left to donate. The number of LGBTQA students in need of economic assistance varies from year to year, Rago said. But there have consistently been at least 3 to 4 students each semester who have struggled with parental acceptance or whose families struggle financially. “One must understand the particular circumstances that LGBTQA students may face,” Rago said. “For some students, there is a risk in coming out to their families, which may include the loss of financial support to continue their education. This fund is only one of many tools our University can use to help ensure our LGBTQA students graduate successfully.” The idea behind the fund came through a sustained partnership between the Office of the Deans of Students, the Center for Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities,
the University Foundation and Rutgers University alumni. The Office of the Deans of Students supports students in need of navigating economic, academic and emotional support systems at the University. Collaboration between these offices was the inspiration for the fund.
“Because we work collaboratively, we noticed many years ago that LGBTQA students were coming in consistently, and were in need of a more structured safety net,” Rago said. In five days, the emergency fund raised almost $4,000, according to the project’s page. Contribu-
tors can donate anywhere from $15, which will help one student with basic toiletries, to $1,000, which will pay for a student’s monthly rent. Jim Dougherty, a Rutgers alumnus from the class of 1974 and current member of the Board of Trustees, made a $1,000 contribution. Students who intern at the SJE and others who frequently visit the center were asked to help out with a two-minute video that was featured alongside the project’s crowd sourcing page. “We felt that donors would gain a much stronger sense of the need and feel a more personal connection to the campaign if a video component was included,” Rago said. Crowd-funding is a resource that has significant power, as it asks the entire community to help those in need, Rago said. The power of crowd sourcing sends a positive message to those within the LGBTQA community, and many students have also given to the initiative. “This type of initiative sends a positive message to those within the LGBTQA community that there are people who care about their well-being and academic success,” Rago said. “Cultivating a culture of allies, both within the student community and outside of the student community, is an incredibly powerful notion.”
The SJE is one of the first groups on campus to utilize the new crowd-funding platform through the University Foundation, Rago said. In addition to the SJE campaign, the Rutgers Marching Band has a crowd-funding project to raise money for new uniforms and the Rutgers Field Hockey team has a campaign to raise money for a locker room renovation. In the future, Rago said the SJE will have more online campaigns. “It’s important for alum to be able to donate to the communities that helped to support them while they attended Rutgers University, and this new platform is an excellent way to ensure their funds will go directly to students who may be in familiar situations,” Rago said. Camille Catalon, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, said she understands the hardships that many LGBTQA students face. She said the problems LGBTQA youth face go beyond discrimination. “It’s definitely more than just being discriminated and being told what to be and what not to feel,” she said. “Money problems (aren’t) really the initial thing one thinks when they hear about these communities, but the problem is ver y real and important to understand.”
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Matt Gately, School of Arts and Sciences senior, also agreed that there should be more safe spaces available, while also bringing Jenerson says she will meet with Rutgers’ Chief of to light that not only women face Staff to discuss sexual assault policy these issues, but also gay and transgender students. “We all have a mother, or a CONTINUED FROM FRONT sister, or a grandmother, so we the prevalence of sexual assault always think of it, but also 1 in 6 and gender-based violence, and men are victims of sexual assault it’s not as far-fetched as everyone Scott Hall. so we have to think about that,” At Jameson, students made thinks,” Jenerson said. “It’s in Gately said. posters, learned chants and were our community, on our campus, He said he plans on making taught defense mechanisms by in our residence halls and I want the places we to create a movethe Martial Arts Club. live in safe Kaila Boulware, a School of ment to change by marching Arts and Sciences senior, orga- that culture.” “The biggest thing to remember is if it’s not through them Jenerson hoped nized the rally and hoped to bring clear they’re not consenting to everything it and bringing awareness to the University and victims of sexual awareness. New Brunswick community about assault are one shouldn’t go down.” One imthe prevalence of sexual violence. day able to go to portant issue “If people know more about this the University for KAILA BOULWARE brought up issue, I feel like we can decrease help, but she did School of Arts and Sciences Senior and Organizer of “Take Back the Night” was consent, the numbers in assault, especially not think there is and Gately beon college campuses,” Boulware a clear-cut support lieved that it is said. “I want this event to be a safe system available at space for students to come and the University because of the way language has to be changed,” also important to talk about it. “I don’t understand why we she said. that it’s framed. speak out.” “As it stands right now, there’s need to still teach people what “Victims stay victims,” she said. Raven Jenerson, a School of Ar ts and Sciences sophomore, “There’s not enough support from a lot of victim blaming and de- it is because ever yone should said she wanted there to be a the University (and), from their terrence of victims being able to know at this point,” he said. safer space so sur vivors can peers. Students would feel re-trau- come forward, and it’s damning to “We also need to remind them matized going to the University –– our cause and helping victims get that impaired consent is not feel suppor ted. “There should be an overall a place they give their tuitions dol- the help and support they need,” consent. If you’re drunk, high or roofied, you can’t consent. If Jenerson said. atmosphere of understanding of lars to –– and not be supported.”
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She said she plans on meeting with the Chief of Staf f of Student Af fairs, Anne Newman, to discuss the policy of how the University deals with sexual assault, and hopes to update the procedure to help the students while still meeting legal requirements. “I want to discuss on transparency –– how we get these procedures out there and understood by ever y student that is out walking this campus. I think the
it’s not full consent, you can’t consent, and consent can be revoked at anytime.” Lack of communication and lack of sex can be two very detrimental things, Boulware said. “The biggest thing to remember is if it’s not clear they’re not consenting to ever ything, it shouldn’t go down,” Boulware said. Gately marched in heels to bring to light that gender assault is not specific to women, but to all genders. McGinty said the space she saw was one that everyone felt welcome to occupy, no matter gender or background, and was impressed by the diversity present. “This is really a campus-wide issue,” she said. “For me, this speaks volumes to who we are. We’re not perfect, but we’re trying to be the best at who we are.” She hopes that the entire campus becomes a safe space and sees the march as a beginning. “Years ago, this was seen as a women’s issue, and there’s just as many men here supporting today,” she said. “So for me, I’m just really hopeful of us creating a campus environment where everyone feels valued and safe.”
CRIME APRIL 22 TRENTON — Daniel Wolfe, a man with a history of fleeing the police, was shot and killed by a state trooper after he allegedly crashed a carjacked SUV into another parked vehicle and accelerated into the trooper’s direction. The troopers from the State Police’s interstate Theft North Unit were investigating carjacked and stolen vehicles, when the location of a carjacked Jeep was reported to them. The case is under investigation by the attorney general’s Shooting Response team, which routinely reviews all cases of deadly force by State Police troopers. APRIL 22 HOBOKEN — Amelle A. Hancox has been charged with using a stolen credit card to buy merchandise at a Rite Aid Pharmacy and Kings Supermarket. He appeared in Central Judicial Processing in Jersey City on charges of credit card theft and receiving stolen property. APRIL 22 CAMDEN — Kirby Santos, a Filipino citizen, has been accused of working with a Toms River resident to smuggle $200,000 of firearms parts out of the United States without a license. Santos was arrested in Guam and faces up to five years in prison with a $250,000 fine. APRIL 21 TRENTON — A jury convicted Rabbi Mendel Epstein and two of his three defendants in a federal kidnapping conspiracy case. They are charged with torturing husbands to force them to agree to religious divorces. The jurors acquitted Epstein’s son, David “Ari” Epstein, of all charges.
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DAY Belated Earth Day march will be on Friday starting on Douglass, end at Brower Commons, Patel says CONTINUED FROM FRONT
Patel said targeting fossil fuel divestment is a strategy for getting past the countr y’s political problems facing climate change. The University is in charge of charitable funds in the form of Rutgers’ endowment, and Patel said Rutgers Fossil Fuel Divestment would like the school to take a portion that is invested in fossil fuels and reinvest it in a better alternative. “The logic of fossil fuel divestment isn’t to bankrupt oil and gas companies,” he said. “It is to send a hopeful message that we shouldn’t be profiting off of the destruction of the climate.” Beyond that, Patel said the march also highlights attempts to limit the power of oil and gas companies that tr y to work with Congress to stop climate action from occurring.
“In 2015, big oil companies continue to profit off the extraction and consumption of our Earth’s life’s blood, and those who are least able to deal with the ensuing environmental destruction are made to bear the burden,” according to the event’s Facebook page. As the planet continues to warm, sea levels continue to rise, swallowing island villages and fueling ultra-violent storms, according to the event’s Facebook page. While climate change is not only an issue of socio-economic and environmental injustice, it is also one of the greatest threats to humanity’s sur vival. The march was originally scheduled to assemble yesterday, but had to be moved to Friday due to inclement weather. The expected crowd will start at College Hall on Douglass campus at 4 p.m., then will
march through George Street to the College Avenue campus — all-the-while, making voices in support heard. The march will finish as a rally on the steps of Brower Commons, where there will be speakers and performances in the hopes of raising awareness concerning the climate injustice being propagated by the fossil fuel industry that is choking the life out of our beautiful planet, according to the event’s Facebook page. “We’re hoping to send a message to our students that this is something that they can actually impact,” Patel said. “There’s obviously a ton of students at Rutgers who care about climate change and who want to make a difference, but it’s really difficult to actually do that especially when you’re between the ages of 19 to 22.” Natasha Tripathi is a School of Ar ts and Sciences junior majoring in journalism and media studies and painting and minoring in political science. She is an Associate News Editor at The Daily Targum. Follow her on Twitter @natashatripathi for more stories.
With “Project Move Out,” sanitation workers will provide free curbside pickup of bulk items in New Brunswick for Rutgers students who pre-register between April 20th and May 20th at noon. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY YVANNA SAINT-FORT / OPINIONS EDITOR
ITEMS ‘Project Move Out’ collected about 849 tons of bulk waste in 2014, according to nj.com CONTINUED FROM FRONT
FASHION FACEDOWN Kimberly Yu, an Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy first-year student,
and Trevor Alston, a School of Engineering sophomore, pose for Lambda Kappa Sigma’s “Dress to Impress - A Charity Fashion Show” yesterday evening in the Busch Student Center. RUOXUAN YANG
who pre-register between April 20th and May 20th at noon. Collection will run between May 21 and 27. Workers will hit 69 streets, including popular off-campus residential areas such as Bartlett Street, Central Avenue, Commercial Avenue, Condict Street, Courtlandt Street, Delafield Street, Division Street, Dix Street, Easton Avenue, Guilden Street and Hamilton Street. “Project Move Out” will collect refrigerators, window air conditioning units, microwaves, televisions, video game consoles, cell phones, computers, monitors and printers. Freon, a relatively toxic substance used as refrigerants and aerosol propellants, will be recovered from all collected appliances to prevent leakage into the environment. Other items workers will collect include mattresses, couches, chairs, tables, bookcases, desks and rugs. Excluded items for pickup include vegetative waste, con-
struction material, regular household garbage, hazardous waste, flammable and explosive waste and mandator y recyclable materials. In previous years, “Project Move Out” collected about 849 tons of bulk waste in 2014 and about 518 tons in 2013, according to nj.com. A “Project Move Out” collection area is available for students residing on campus, where individuals need to drop off their bulk waste items on May 21, 22, 26 or 27 between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. behind the College Avenue Gymnasium in Lot 30. Pre-registration is not required, but a valid Rutgers ID must be presented upon dropoff. Students and New Brunswick residents with proof of their city residency can drop off items at the New Brunswick Department of Public Works at 400 Jersey Avenue on May 30 and June 6 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Students can pre-register for “Project Move Out” online at ruof fcampus.rutgers.edu/ projectmoveout.
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Florida’s Marco Rubio rallies to garner support from liberals the potential to antagonize the conservative Republican base he needs to win the primary, party activists said. “To the right it sounds mealy mouthed, and to the left sounds patronizing,” said Martin Cothran, a senior policy analyst for the socially conservative Family Foundation of Kentucky.
CHANGE IN ATTITUDES
Republican presidential candidate U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) speaks at the First in the Nation Republican Leadership Conference in Nashua, N.H., April 17. REUTERS NEW YORK — Marco Rubio, the youthful Republican presidential hopeful who touts himself as the candidate of his party’s future, has been making moves to court a socially liberal faction of his party that represents gay conser vatives. The Florida senator’s staff have held quarterly meetings with the Log Cabin Republicans “going back some time”, their executive director, Gregory Angelo, told Reuters. The meetings with the advocacy group were to discuss legislation, issues and opportunities to “partner on,” Angelo said. Rubio’s office declined to comment on the meetings.
The discussions highlight the tricky electoral math for Republican presidential aspirants like Rubio. The Republican party will struggle to win the White House in 2016 if it relies only on the support of socially conser vative voters. At the same time, presidential candidates will battle to win their party’s nomination without those voters, who often dominate state primaries, or early voting contests. That tension is starkly apparent on gay marriage. For years, staunch opposition to gay marriage was a reliably safe strategy for Republican candidates. No longer.
Facing an electorate that has sharply altered its views on the issue since the turn of the century, even Rubio, who has long opposed gay marriage, has softened his rhetoric, saying last week that he would attend a gay wedding of a loved one. And then in an inter view with CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday he said he believed “that sexual preference is something that people are born with” and is not a choice for most people. While those kinds of comments might help win votes in the general election if he becomes the Republican nominee, they have
Rubio risks alienating people like Bob Vander Plaats, the head of The Family Leader in Iowa, whose endorsement is coveted by many Republican presidential hopefuls each election cycle. “There’s a lot to like about Marco Rubio,” Vander Plaats told Reuters. Vander Plaats said he wanted to hear specific strategies from the Republican candidates on how to fight gay marriage. Any attempts to straddle the issue would be a problem for him, he added. While calling attendance at a gay wedding a personal decision, “I probably wouldn’t be going” to a same-sex ceremony, he said. “That shows me endorsing and supporting something that I frankly really disagree with.” Rubio, a Roman Catholic who often talks about his faith, has long defined marriage as between a man and a woman and said that it should be left to the states to regulate marriage. Asked whether his comments over the past week represented a softening in his views, a Rubio spokeswoman, Brooke Sammon, said his position was “clear and well-established.” The Log Cabin Republicans’ Angelo said, however, that Rubio was “not as adamantly opposed to all things LGBT as some of his statements suggest.” The staff meetings did not include Rubio, he said. The group has also met with Republican presidential contenders: former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina earlier this year and Senator Rand Paul and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, both in 2013. Paul has sought to differentiate between traditional marriage and civil contracts, while Walker said at the weekend he had attended a wedding reception for a gay relative.
Efforts by Rubio, Paul and Walker to add nuance to their views on gay marriage could play well with some younger Republicans, even if it proves unpopular with social conservatives. Among likely Republican primary voters, 68 percent oppose gay marriage, according to Reuters/Ipsos data. By contrast, 49 percent of Republicans aged 18 to 29 support same-sex marriage, while 41 percent oppose it and 10 percent are undecided. The split is much higher among all Americans 18 to 29, regardless of political affiliation. Seventy-eight percent support gay marriage, with 15 percent opposed and 7 percent unsure. Data from the Pew Research Center show how quickly that change has come about: In 2003, 51 percent of people born in 1981 or later supported gay marriage. By 2014, that number had jumped to 67 percent. “It would be a very stupid move, in my opinion, politically for the party or the candidates to hold onto” opposition to gay marriage, said Pat Brady, a former chairman of the Illinois Republican party. Brady stepped down from the post in 2013 in part because of his stance on same sex marriage. Even among many Democrats, attitudes have only recently changed. Hillary Clinton herself, the Democratic front runner, has a history of distancing herself from the issue. “For me, marriage had always been a matter left to the states,” she said in an NPR interview last year. But this month, Clinton issued a statement saying she hopes the Supreme Court rules in favor of same-sex marriage. On April 28, the justices will hear oral arguments on whether there is a constitutional right to gay marriage. A ruling is expected in June. With that case pending, gay marriage is almost certain to come up an event on Saturday hosted by the Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition. Among the speakers will be senators Rubio, Paul and Ted Cruz, as well as Walker and other Republican hopefuls. — Reuters
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McDonald’s chief executive moves to revamp business As McDonald’s Corp prepares yet another plan to revive its business, company watchers have the following advice: reconnect with lower income consumers who remain faithful to the brand, improve wages and ease the financial burden on operators. Steve Easterbrook, the company’s new chief executive, on May 4 will announce his plan to reinvent McDonald’s as a “modern, progressive burger company” that is more responsive to global diners’ increasing demand for fresh, less processed and more customized food. The company signaled its plan for a fresh star t after repor ting another quarter of disappointing financial results. It declined to provide fur ther details ahead of the announcement. Easterbrook has helped forge previous restructuring plans at the world’s largest hamburger chain. They include simplifying complicated menus, flattening management structure, closing hundreds of underper forming restaurants and removing impor tant human antibiotics from its chicken production. Faith Popcorn, founder and CEO of marketing consulting firm BrainReser ve, would like to see McDonald’s embrace the lower-income consumers that account for a big share of its diners and employees. “They should be the champions of the 99 percent,” said Popcorn, who has worked with McDonald’s in the past and advised some of the best known U.S. consumer brands, including Coca-Cola Co and Campbell Soup Co.
A McDonald’s restaurant sign is seen in San Diego, Calif., March 31. REUTERS She advised the company to take concrete steps, such as ser ving healthier fast food and encouraging franchisees to follow McDonald’s corporate leadership to raise wages for restaurant crew members. U.S. franchisees in a recent sur vey said their relations with McDonald’s Corp had hit a new low. They called on the com-
Shares of Facebook dip 2 percent Wednesday Facebook Inc posted its slowest growth in quarterly revenue in two years and higher spending on research and development ate into profits. Shares of the world’s largest Internet social network fell 2 percent in after-market trading on Wednesday. Facebook has warned of heavy investments in 2015 as it steps up efforts to expand a collection of products that include messaging ser vice WhatsApp, photo-sharing ser vice Instagram and virtual reality headset maker Oculus Rift. As a result, Facebook’s operating expenses rose 83 percent in the first quarter as R&D costs jumped 133 percent and marketing and sales spending nearly doubled. However, Facebook said monthly active users grew 13 percent over a year ago to 1.44 billion, with 87 percent of them accessing its service on smartphones and other mobile devices. “It’s a generally solid quarter. The trends are all going in the right direction. The cost rise is one thing that can derail this story,” said Macquarie Research analyst Ben Schachter.
“The question is, can they keep costs under control and what will be the new revenue streams around video, Instagram and virtual reality around Oculus?” he said. The company offered assurances that it has a handle on spending, saying it now expects expenses to increase by about 55 percent to 65 percent this year, a slight decrease at the top end from its previous forecast of 55 percent to 70 percent. It said foreign exchange rates due to the strong U.S. dollar would likely cut revenue in the current quarter by more than the 10 percent it saw in the last quarter. Facebook’s net income attributable to stockholders fell to $509 million, or 18 cents per share, in the three months ended March 31, from $639 million, or 25 cents per share, a year earlier. Excluding items, the company earned 42 cents per share. Facebook said revenue rose to $3.54 billion from $2.50 billion. Revenue from advertising was $3.32 billion, up 46 percent from a year earlier. — Reuters
pany to implement changes to help their bottom lines. The franchisees, who operate nearly 90 percent of McDonald’s U.S. restaurants, worr y the company is tr ying too hard to be all things to all people. They called on management to significantly downsize the menu and rethink a plan for custom burgers that they worr y will be labor-intensive and expensive.
One franchisee also called for cost relief. “Nothing would ignite owner/operators more than lower rent and ser vice fees,” said the franchisee, whose identity was not revealed. McDonald’s rivals such as Wendy’s Co and Burger King have boosted their financials by selling vir tually all their restaurants to franchisees.
McDonald’s could make a similar move by increasing the percentage of its global franchised restaurants to 90 percent from 80 percent, said RBC Capital Markets analyst David Palmer. “We believe that the management gets it,” Palmer said, adding that the question is how long it will take to turn the ship. — Reuters
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Theta Delta Chi Bros UniteD redefines brotherhood, philanthropy
Theta Delta Chi “big bros” stand with their “little bros” for their Bros UniteD event this past Sunday at the Johnson and Johnson Warehouse. COURTESY OF BILL CHERRY
RACHEL NAROZNIAK FEATURES EDITOR
In the midst of media sensationalism concerning fraternities across college campuses this year, it appears that the true meaning of brotherhood may have been buried under a barrage of condemning stereotypes that fail to acknowledge the benefits of Greek organizations. Alternatively, one such fraternity strives to distinguish itself prominently through its philanthropic work: Theta Delta Chi. This past Sunday, the brothers of Theta Delta Chi drew their
“Bros UniteD” program to a close, wrapping up the eight-week effort with a trip to the Hillsborough Johnson & Johnson Warehouse. The program was established at the University in the spring of 2010 by brothers of Theta Delta Chi, with assistance from Autism Speaks, the fraternity’s flagship philanthropy. The program was designed to give adolescent boys with autism the opportunity to connect with the brothers of Theta Delta Chi and to experience the fraternal bond that it’s members share with one another.
Participants, dubbed “little bros,” would be paired with a maximum of three brothers, or “buds,” a sort of nickname reminiscent of the program’s abbreviation, “B.U.D.” These brothers would accompany their “little bro” to a variety of events over eight consecutive Sundays. Since its founding, the program has continued to thrive and has just recently filed for non-profit recognition. Theta Delta Chi presently hosts 15 “little bros,” and 55 participating “big bros.” Brothers who choose to take part in the program must also attend a 45-minute
training session with a representative from Autism Speaks. While the program currently enjoys success and continues to expand, its launch did not originally garner much publicity. Meho Burns, the residing Bros UniteD chair, recalled his initial exposure to the program, when he served as a “big bro” during his sophomore year. “I had a camera that I would take to every event,” Burns stated, “I would take pictures, started making short videos and eventually made a montage to get the word out.”
Given his demonstrated interest in the program, Burns was eventually asked to succeed the former Bros UniteD chair when the time came. Burns, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, is responsible for the program’s overall direction, a task that’s rewards far exceed its challenges. “It keeps you very humble. It’s great to know that what you’re doing has such a big impact on these kids,” he said. “I feel like a lot of things we do at college are for ourselves. It’s cool to have that day a week where you come back from that and make someone else’s life a little bit easier.” The value of Bros UniteD as a program that extends beyond just that of philanthropy, was also highlighted by Theta Delta Chi’s philanthropy chair, Joe Chen. “Any time spent with them is not time wasted,” said Chen, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. The eight Sunday events hosted by Theta Delta Chi often take place in the New Brunswick area and var y in terms of focus, with some events that are more educational and others that are simply for enjoyment. This year, the activities included a trip to the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, mini golfing, a hip-hop dance class and a visit to the TurtleBack Zoo in West Orange, among other Bros UniteD functions. Although funding for the trips and the overall program is mostly reliant upon parental donations to Bros UniteD, brothers of Theta Delta Chi began tabling more frequently this semester in an effort to increase the program’s budget, therefore allowing more program event options to be created.
April 23, 2015 Of the many events overseen by Bros UniteD, Burns cited the trip to the Johnson & Johnson Warehouse as one of the most hands-on for all participants, “big” or “little.” At the warehouse, Bros UniteD members were enter tained by members of the Hillsborough High School “RoboRaiders,” a team of robotics students who demonstrated the various tricks and abilities of their robots. In addition to the robotic show, Theta Delta Chi brothers and their “little bros” also proved to be adept when it came smooth sailing. Once provided with materials of aluminum foil, water and an abundance of pennies, the teams of big and little bros constructed aluminum foil “boats” into which they placed pennies, testing the buoyancy and capacity of their handmade boats. “(The Johnson & Johnson Warehouse) is very interactive with the kids, and they actually get to do these activities, whereas at the Liberty Science Center, they mainly spend their time looking at things. At the warehouse, we actually get to participate,” Burns said. Autism proved to be a cause deeply rooted in the culture of Theta Delta Chi. Earlier in the year, brothers were photographed before their 66 College Ave. residence as blue lights twinkled from ever y window of the house. The mansion’s donning of the shade was in tribute to the Autism Speaks’ “Light It Up Blue” campaign. The bright, optimistic color is the signature color of the organization Autism Speaks. Those who display it show their acknowledgement as well as their support. These roots plunged even further, reaching not only the Rutgers
Page 9 University Lambda Triton chapter of Theta Delta Chi as a whole, but its individual members. Theta Delta Chi President Ryan Walker stressed the relevance and importance of autism as a cause, even outside of his fraternity. “I’ve never personally known anyone (outside of Bros UniteD) with autism, but I do all of my class projects on autism when I have the opportunity,” Walker, a senior in the School of Arts and Sciences said. Walker, who also participated as a “big bro” in Bros UniteD, noted that he still stays in contact with the father of one of his past “little bros,” exhibiting an interest in the program that stemmed from sincerity, on top of sheer responsibility. The Rutgers University Theta Delta Chi chapter remains the primar y Bros UniteD location, but expects to see the program expand across universities and chapters, as the frequency with which schools contacting the fraternity in ef for ts to establish their own program increase. Ryan Sheehan, A School of Ar ts and Sciences junior and Risk Manager of Theta Delta Chi, voiced the significance of the Bros UniteD program to the fraternity, solidifying it as a beneficial oppor tunity for anyone for tunate enough to be involved. “You impact the kids’ lives in a way that donating money can’t,” he said. “Ever yone who participates says that it’s the greatest experience they have. Ever yone just loves it, there’s no other way to describe it — it’s something we’re so passionate about.” The color of brotherhood, it seems, is blue. For more stories on arts and entertainment, lifestyle and food and drink, visit targuminsidebeat@gmail.com
Brothers and their little bros participate in one of their Sunday afternoon events, a hip hop dance class. COURTESY OF BILL CHERRY
Above: Brothers of Theta Delta Chi support Autism Speaks’ “Light It Up Blue” campaign for autism awareness. Below: The Bros UniteD group travels to the TurtleBack Zoo. COURTESY OF BILL CHERRY
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On Clinton, Rice, pushing red button Secretaries of state wrongfully accused of being war criminals
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If a doctor loses a patient on the operating table, n any political blunder, there is always a scapegoat. For better or for worse, one person is they aren’t accused of murder. He or she is still seen usually burdened with the blame for a failure. as an individual who was acting in the line of duty, Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice are two wom- not someone who has committed a grave act. So why en all too familiar with this concept. Both women are politicians like Clinton and Rice accused of beserved as secretary of state, a high-ranking govern- ing war criminals when in most instances, they were ment position inherently concerned with foreign merely acting in a professional capacity? The probaffairs. Similarly, they both served in the position lem is that many of their decision coincide with morduring a time of war, meaning they were forced to al arguments. Rice and Clinton as people are not war make decisions that would benefit the majority of criminals, and as politicians, they are not war crimthe nation, even if such decisions may have caused inals. Yet, as imperfect individuals who have had to act with the nation’s best interest at heart, they have harm to others. Rutgers itself has a special relationship with done nothing more than fail a task, regardless of Rice. Last spring, when she was confirmed as the whatever those implications may have been. It is unfair to accuse any one politician of commitcommencement speaker, the campus erupted with backlash over the decision. Students and professors ting war crimes or an act of a similar magnitude. As alike organized, writing letters to The Daily Tar- every day citizens of this vast and expansive nation, it’s nearly impossible to gum, protesting, rallying fathom the inner workings and ultimately, storming of the American governPresident Barchi’s office. “If a doctor loses a patient on ment. Therefore, just beTheir cries were heard and cause the president or secRice did not speak at the the operating table, they aren’t retary of state at the time is ceremony. It would be foolaccused of murder. He or she is seen as the sole perpetrator ish not to acknowledge that still seen as an individual who of an act, this individual is Rice is one of the political most assuredly not the only figureheads involved with was acting in the line of duty.” person with their finger on the nation’s involvement the big red button. None of in the Middle East and the us are invited to the closedwar in Iraq. But she wasn’t the only person who pulled the trigger. There are door meetings, or involved in the decisions that myriad individuals, including President Bush and dictate how the nation will act. Since 9/11, AmeriVice President Dick Cheney, who played equal, if can foreign relations have become a hotbed for disagreement, simply because there is so much to pay not heightened roles in initiating the war. The same mentality applied to Clinton. As secre- attention to. In the past, the president at the time tary of state, she was tasked with making decisions was blamed for everything. Yet, as that blame has that had serious effects. Yet, none of these decisions shifted, the secretary of state is often forced to bear were made unilaterally. When it comes to Clinton, the brunt of the criticism. It’s important to question people will keep banging the Benghazi drum until any potential or current politician’s past record, and it breaks. She took responsibility for the event, and to ignore what they have done in years prior would while owning up to a mistake does nothing to re- be asinine. But each action should be taken with verse the damage done, her admission speaks vol- a grain of salt and examined within the context of the action. umes toward her character and ability to lead. The Daily Targum’s editorials represent the views of the majority of the 147th editorial board. Columns, cartoons and letters do not necessarily reflect the views of the Targum Publishing Company or its staff.
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NHL’s Playoffs put competition on ice STUMPER’S SPORTS JAMES STUMPER
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t’s the most wonderful time of the year. If you’re a sports fan — even a casual one — this few-week period is one that must be circled on your calendar. The NBA playoffs are underway, Major League Baseball is rolling, the NFL Draft is finally almost here and the most highly-anticipated boxing match in any twenty-something’s lifetime is just a week away. However, the most exciting thing happening on the sports calendar right now is one that may not be the most popular: it’s the NHL playoffs. I’m not here to tell you that hockey is the greatest sport ever created. There are some hockey fans out there who will try and guilt and berate you into thinking that their sport is God’s gift to the earth — I won’t do that. I do happen to be a huge hockey fan, but I know most people could not care less about the NHL’s regular season. This is obvious when you consider how much attention the league gets from mainstream sports media for the majority of the year. If you haven’t been locked into this year’s Stanley Cup Playoffs, I suggest doing so pronto. If your immediate response is “I don’t care about hockey,”— well that’s OK, but I do think you should reconsider.
If you consider yourself a sports fan by any measure, I find it extremely hard to believe that you can’t get behind a fast-paced sport that features back and forth contests, young superstars, insane skill and, let’s be honest, violence. Anyone who says that violence doesn’t sell in American sports should check the NFL’s TV ratings and then get back to me. The first-round Stanley Cup Playoff series that are currently happening are incredible. For one, there are two local teams that are competing against divisional rivals.
“If you’re a sports fan — even a casual one — this few-week period is one that must be circled on your calendar.” The New York Rangers, who absolutely dominated this regular season after losing to the LA Kings in the final last season, are taking on the Pittsburgh Penguins, whose roster features two of the most talented players on the planet in Evgeni Malkin and Sidney Crosby. A few miles east, the young upstart New York Islanders are in a dogfight with Alexander Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals. That series is currently tied at two games apiece, with Games three and four going into overtime. To add some extra spice to that series, this is the final season
the Isles will be playing at their home arena, Nassau Coliseum. The crowds are big, loud and trying to will the Islanders to their first playoff series win since 1993. If each of the New York teams advances to Round 2, they will play each other. Trust me when I say that would be absolute mustsee TV. As for the Devils ... well, sorry Jersey. They missed the playoffs this time around. Another thing that makes the NHL playoffs great is that there is always a chance for an upset — no matter what the regular-season records say. Just a few years back in 2012, the Stanley Cup Final featured the Western Conference’s 8-seed (the LA Kings) against the New Jersey Devils, who were the 6-seed in the East. Anything can happen in the NHL playoffs. A quick glance at how people react to upsets in March Madness shows you how much America loves Cinderella stories. In the NHL playoffs, Cinderella stories abound. So if you’re not a big hockey fan (and don’t lie, most of you aren’t), I would strongly consider flipping on the NHL playoffs over the course of the next few weeks. It’s a great sport — it’s fast-paced, and I promise you this: Missing a LeBron James or Tim Tebow story once, for the sake of watching some playoff hockey, won’t ruin your life. In fact, you may thank me. James Stumper is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in journalism and media studies and history. His column, “Stumper’s Sports,” runs monthly on Thursdays.
Sexualized remarks violate code of conduct “There’s always gonna be that one guy,” “Just forget about it, he didn’t mean anyJENIFER BRANTON-DESRIS thing by it.” Denial and continued acceptance of a systemic problem will not make the problem go away. That kind of harassing behavior and the attitudes it represents he weather has finally broken, and will not enable us as a society to put an end students, faculty and staff eagerly to assault and rape culture, because they seek any excuse to be outside and are a part of it. Such threads are not easily shake off the last remnants of cabin fever. removed, but perhaps with continued diaUnfortunately, along with the joy brought logue and the realization that the attitudes by the sun’s warmth, comes the annual that often lead to assault are bred in the pubbarrage of reminders that my freedom and lic sphere, we can begin to tease them out. security are limited, simply because I am I applaud programs like “SPEAKOUT” that a woman. engage men in conversation, giving them While people around the world finally agency in societal change. I invite the genbegin to engage in discussions about the tlemen of this campus to prevalence of sexual astalk to the women around sault and rape culture, we “... As I headed to the College Avenue Student Center to them and truly listen when need to remind ourselves they present their experithat these things are not grab a quick bite in between classes ... A student exiting ences. I invite you to stand isolated layers of our culAu Bon Pain looked me in the eye and grunted a up for the women around ture that can be easily idenguttural, sexualized response. He then proceeded to you when you hear anothtified and stripped away, or er man make inapproprithings that only occur at watch me walk away while saying ‘mhmm, shake it.’” ate comments. drunken parties amongst There is a policy to adundergraduates. The attitudes that allow rape culture to exist are women interviewed have dealt with some dress this behavior at Rutgers, but I have woven into the very fabric of society. When form of harassment on the subway. When yet to stop a stranger, get his information a woman enters the public sphere, her body my students last semester watched a short and file a report. Quite frankly, I would is no longer her own, and every aspect of film in which a number of men eyed up a have filled out many reports by now, and who she is, and what she does, becomes young woman in public, several of the male I’m certain most other women on campus subordinate to the male-driven social mar- students initially responded with disbelief could say the same. It often seems futile to ket. This often sub-conscious belief results at the “creep factor” and thought it was an me: after all, I’ve always been told to ignore in the acceptance of a wide range of unac- exaggeration. I asked the ladies to respond, it. But I’m tired of just ignoring it and conand the room became quite animated as tinuing on my way. My silence has become ceptable behaviors. My first incident of this year occurred they all began bringing up instances of sim- deafening. Our silence has become deafening. And I will remain silent no more. April 2, as I headed to the College Avenue ilar behavior they had experienced. When I speak to others about these exStudent Center to grab a quick bite in beJenifer Branton-Desris, Ph.D. is a School tween classes. A student exiting Au Bon periences, I’ve received varied responses, Pain looked me in the eye and grunted a and many of them have not been helpful: of Arts and Sciences part time lecturer in the guttural, sexualized response. He then “Relax, he was giving you a compliment,” French Department.
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proceeded to watch me walk away while saying “mhmm, shake it.” Rutgers University’s policy to prevent discrimination and harassment clearly states that “non-verbal conduct” of a harassing nature includes “suggestive or insulting sounds, gestures or whistles,” while verbal conduct” includes, “in some instances, innuendo or other suggestive, offensive, or derogatory comments or jokes about sex ... ” The behavior this student displayed violated both categories. He made me uncomfortable and, quite frankly, nervous. These kinds of incidents are not exclusive to university campuses. A recent survey in Paris revealed that 100 percent of the 600
LETTER TO THE EDITOR Co-educational greek life organizations may be necessary switch In light of the ban on fraternity and sorority parties, the greek community at Rutgers needs to reconsider some of its fundamental values. Some would obser ve the death of Caitlyn Kovacs in September and blame alcohol alone, but demonization of a substance is easy, and ignores the larger context and social issue at hand.
“Gender is non-binary, and sex is not destiny. Nobody should feel like they are ‘predator’ or ‘prey’ at parties on the Rutgers campus.” Since its inception, the greek system has been predicated on the strict separation of sexes. As mixed-sex education has become not only a norm in America, but also a moral imperative, fraternities and sororities have retained this archaic division, remaining a bastion of social conser vatism. Rape myths, strict sex roles and vicious stereotypes thrive in an environment where men and women do not regularly practice (in a domestic context) cooperation, peaceful conflict resolution and interaction in a civilized way. When the only mixed company in the fraternity house occurs during a highly ritualized, alcohol-fueled, sexually-charged frenzy, the result is all-too-commonly tragic. I do not speak from on high as someone who does not partake in greek life, or someone who, like many individuals do, seek for it to be abolished. I can say that there is a better way because I have seen it firsthand. My own social fraternity, Gamma Sigma, though founded in 1946, has operated smoothly as a coeducational institution since the introduction of female membership in 1971. We do not claim to be the perfect model, as we are still constantly adjusting and reevaluating to keep up with society’s changing views on gender. This semester, even, we are rewriting our founding documents to respect one prospective member’s wish to identify as neither male nor female, and to be referred to by gender-nonspecific pronouns. Gender is non-binar y, and sex is not destiny. Nobody should feel like they are “predator” or “prey” at parties on the Rutgers campus, and they are much less likely to if women are ordinar y sisters in the house, running the show and calling the shots just like brothers do, rather than operating in a context where women are commodified and fetishized. The ceiling will not fall if fraternities become co-educational, just as it has not fallen down for us. Positive, progressive reform of the greek system is possible at this critical moment –– if there is the will for it. James Carroll is a School of Ar ts and Sciences junior majoring in computer science. He is a brother of Gamma Sigma.
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DIVERSIONS Nancy Black
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Today’s Birthday (04/23/15). This year’s for home and family. Work takes a new direction. Detail the budget and launch your project after 6/14. Disciplined efforts pay fine dividends. Collaborate for community. Begin a new game (romance possible) after 10/13. Slow the pace and finish old business after 10/27. Rest and restore your spirit. Focus on love. To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging. Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 7 — Home and family take center stage now. Enjoy a domestic phase today and tomorrow. Handle repairs and renovations. Friends give you a great idea and help out to realize it. Group efforts bear fruit now. Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is an 8 — A solution to an old problem is becoming obvious. Keep working, you’re making a good impression. You’re exceptionally intelligent for the next two days. Accept a bonus from a generous person. You’re creating a buzz. Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Today is a 9 — Business grows more profitable. It’s a good time to ask for money. Watch for income opportunities over the next couple of days. Venture outside old boundaries for inspiration. A dream comes within reach. Savor a lovely moment. Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Today is a 9 — Conditions are changing in your favor. Abandon procrastination regarding a personal dream. You’re getting stronger today and tomorrow. Action depends on your will power. Your friends are with you. Dress the part, and step onstage. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 7 — Produce imagery to describe your inner desires. A collage can express a vision or dream. A confusing situation could seem oppressive. Let a spiritual lesson sink in. Peaceful introspection satisfies today and tomorrow. Learn as quickly as possible. Imagine. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is an 8 — Associates provide deeper insights. Many hands make light work today and tomorrow. A group project goes well now. Friends have resources you don’t know about. Share your dreams and fantasies. The invitation says to dress up.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is an 8 — Assume more responsibility today and tomorrow. Keep the others on course. Career matters take priority. Planning helps dreams to come true, and you can see the possibilities. Accept spiritual encouragement and blessings upon your enterprise. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 9 — Today and tomorrow are good for travel. Realize a dream. Visit a place you’ve only seen in fantasies. The news affects your decisions. Check out options. Sometimes the detour is more enchanting than the original destination. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is an 8 — Go over your finances and discover new ways to save money today and tomorrow. Consider strategies for growing your nest egg. Listen to your intuition, while doing your homework thoroughly. A secret intrigue catches your attention. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 9 — The focus is on peacemaking and partnership today and tomorrow. Abundance is available. Negotiate favorable terms. A promise made now is good. Get the contract in writing. Practice your game together. Provide the quality your partner lacks. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 9 — Begin an intense work phase over the next two days. There’s heavy demand for your services. Immediate results could disappoint. Keep at it. Keep the objective in mind. Persistent efforts win out. Work from home if you can. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is an 8 — Make more time for love over the next few days. Get dreamy. Talk about passions and enthusiasms. Go play and have fun. Celebrate with loved ones. Indulge your creative whims. Practice your arts and talents.
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ERRORS Knights’ skid mounts to 15 games, final chance for first Big Ten win lingers CONTINUED FROM BACK I was able to get two goals for my team and I was able to help Lauren with that one assist.” Those who see the score without witnessing the action at Homewood Field will be deceived, as the Knights managed to hold their own in the first half. Despite trailing 4-1 in the opening 11 minutes with its lone goal coming from a rare own goal committed by the hosts, Rutgers came back and reduced their deficit to 4-3 with 10 minutes remaining in the opening period. But after riding the momentum of their two-goal run and enjoying most of the possession of the ball, the Knights gave up two goals following a couple of unforced turnovers. The errors committed by the defensive unit were crucial in diminishing the momentum held by Rutgers entering the final third of the first half, playing a huge role in the remainder of the match. The Knights conceded another two goals before the end of the half, entering the locker room trailing Johns Hopkins, 8-4. Despite the scoreline, Rutgers was even with or within two of the Blue Jays (12-3) in nearly ever y categor y, including shots, draw controls and ground balls. The difference between the two sides came down to execution. “When we weren’t coming up with draw controls and 50/50 opportunities, we knew they could capitalize on our mistakes,” said senior defender Erin Turkot. “A couple of times we threw the ball away and they were able to score and that wasn’t happening for us.”
The Knights began the second half on the strongest note they possibly could. Lauren Sbrilli continued her great goal-scoring form, equalling her career season-high goal total by tallying her only score of the game in the contest five minutes into the latter half of the match. Rutgers did not score again until freshman Kerri Puckhaber scored a consolation goal at the 1:14 mark. The crowd of 125 witnessed the Blue Jays score six goals in the Knights scoreless spell to stretch their lead to 13-6. Johns Hopkins responded to the goal immediately as it did multiple times throughout the contest, restoring an eight-goal lead 12 seconds after Puckhaber scored her only goal of the contest to establish the final score. With one game remaining in the regular season schedule, Rutgers will have one final oppor tunity to earn its first win in the Big Ten when it travels to Ann Arbor to face Michigan. While the Knights look to keep positive in the face of adversity, it’s becoming a dif ficult task. “It’s just frustrating that in ever y aspect, we were there. At the end of the day, it just came down to us not putting the ball in the back of the net and they did,” Barnes said. “It’s frustrating to know that we’re just as good as the team’s we’ve played this year, but it’s just not falling for us. It’s just frustrating.” For updates on the Rutgers women’s lacrosse team, follow @briannnnf and @TargumSpor ts on Twitter.
Senior defender Erin Turkot acknowledged the mistakes made by the Knights that allowed the Blue Jays to have their way in Baltimore last night at Johns Hopkins. NAAZ MODAN / PHOTO EDITOR / MARCH 2015
April 23, 2015
Page 17 SOFTBALL RUTGERS BOASTS 10-6 RECORD IN FIRST BIG TEN CAMPAIGN
Knights demonstrate ability to compete in new conference RYAN MORAN STAFF WRITER
During its first year in the Big Ten, the Rutgers softball team has made its mark. With two series remaining against Penn State and Wisconsin, the Scarlet Knights (26-14, 10-6) stand strong in the top half of the conference at fifth place. As the season has progressed, the team has had to adapt to its third conference in as many years, but its true style of play hasn’t changed. “We came in here with the intention of making an impact on the conference this season, and I definitely think we have,” said senior left-hander Alyssa Landrith. “I also think we have exceeded any expectations that we’ve had and I’m really proud of that.” Most of the time, how a team adjusts to its new conference can be uncertain, but this team is a different group. Evident in their play on the field, the Knights share a strong bond. “The main thing is to stay loose with one another,” said senior left fielder Chandler Howard. “We have a lot of fun in practice and at the games, so the big thing for us is if we are loose, we will play well. We spend every day together, so we kind of feed off each other and have fun when we are together.” The adjustment period was made easier with a veteran team. Although Rutgers only has three seniors, it also boasts plenty of
juniors with experience in the likes of third baseman Jordan Whitley, shortstop Melanie Slowinski, second baseman Stephanie Huang and catcher Elizabeth Adams. While they don’t immediately standout in any offensive, defensive or pitching statistical categories in the Big Ten, the Knights have proven to be effective working with what they have in order to achieve success each time they step out on the field. The wins have come in different forms. In its series against Michigan State on April 3 and 4, Rutgers triumphed with a 6-5 walk-of f in 11 innings in the opener before pounding out 22 runs to out-slug the Spar tans in game two. On Tuesday in their doubleheader against Mar yland, the Knights walked off in peculiar fashion with a bases loaded hit-bypitch for a 6-5 win in the bottom of the seventh before sweeping the Terrapins with a mercy-rule victor y in the rubber match. The unor thodox wins pinpoint the increase in talent that the opposing teams posses, but the athletes have not been the only ones to adjust to the new conference. Head coach Jay Nelson has had to take a slightly dif ferent approach to how he manages his team. “Yes, big time,” Nelson said when asked if he has changed how he coaches. “I was always a regiment coach. I want them to have
fun, but I had a regiment of what they were suppose to do and how to act. But now I’ve had to loosen the reins, because that’s the way they play and when they play their best. They’ve taught me a lot of things, and I am glad for it.” The Big Ten brings an increased level of competition not experienced in the Big East and American Athletic Conference, which the Knights were previously members of. No series is a sure thing — any team can beat one another on any given night. While Michigan (42-6, 15-2), Minnesota (37-7, 12-3) and Nebraska (26-19, 12-5) stand out, they’ve all suffered losses to teams in the middle of the pack in the Big Ten. Rutgers welcomes the competition as it adds for the chance to improve, thrive and increase its chances of furthering the season with the goal of NCAA Regionals in mind. “It’s exactly what I expected,” Nelson said on the Big Ten. “Last place teams can beat your first place (teams), anybody can beat anybody. It’s a very competitive league. The (Ratings Percentage Index) of the league is very different from past conferences helping to possibly get into the NCAA Regionals.” As conference play winds down, Rutgers has proven it can compete with its Big Ten peers. And although the Knights have dropped two of their last three Big Ten series, freshman first baseman Rebecca Hall thinks that it only helps them moving forward.
Senior left fielder Chandler Howard sports a .324 batting average to help guide a potent Rutgers offense in its first Big Ten season. RUOXUAN YANG / APRIL 2015
“I definitely think we are back on track,” she said after sweeping Maryland on Tuesday. “I don’t think that we really fell off track. I think it was good to see the competition earlier in the year than closer to the
Big Ten tournament, so I think we are in a good spot.” For updates on the Rutgers softball team, follow @TargumSports on Twitter.
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April 23, 2015 WOMEN’S GOLF BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIP, TODAY, ALL DAY
Rutgers seeks success in Big Ten Championship EVAN BRUNO STAFF WRITER
The Rutgers women’s golf team will compete for the last time in 2015 this weekend at Indianapolis, Ind., for the Big Ten Championship. The Scarlet Knights will look to wrap up their first sea-
son as a member of the prestigious Big Ten Conference on a high note — with a top finish in its inaugural Big Ten Championship appearance. Rutgers has been on a 10-day hiatus from tournament play since its last event concluded on April 12. On that Sunday
Junior Racquel Zurick finished tied for 27th with fellow Knight Emily Mills at the River Landing Classic on her last outing. TIAN LI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / MARCH 2015
just over a week ago at the River Landing Classic in Wallace, S.C., the Knights secured an eighth place finish. The team’s highlight of the tournament was the season-low score of 299 it shot in the second round. Rutgers improved in ever y round of the event and gained ground in the standings on each day. The Knights were in 11th place after round one, rose to ninth in the second round and moved up to eighth place at the conclusion of the event. As a unit, Rutgers posted a plus-62, 926 at the River Landing Classic with a first round 315, a second round 299 and a third round 312. Head coach Kari Williams was especially impressed with junior Christina Paulsen and the improvements she has made in her game from the fall season going into the spring season. “Christina’s game has really come on strong from looking
from the fall to the spring,” Williams said. “(She’s had) a solid spring, posting a lot of really good scores. You know, the kind of scores that you want your No. 3 player to post. Somewhere between 76 and 78 is a good score for us, and we’ve been able to count on her for scores quite a bit this spring. It’s been real nice.” Paulsen compiled a score of 232, good enough for a tie for 36th place in the individual standings. She shot a plus-16 in the tournament after hitting 78’s in the first two rounds and 76 in the final round. Junior Racquel Zurick and freshman Emily Mills both had impressive campaigns for the Knights this season and continue to light the way for Rutgers with their consistency on the golf course. Zurick and Mills both earned ties for 27th place at the River Landing Classic with plus-13, 229 totals. Mills had a 79 in round one followed by a 74 and a 76 in rounds two and three. Zurick shot a 79 in the first round, a 73 in round two and a 77 in on the last day. The Knights picked up some serious momentum at the River Landing Classic and Williams thought the team had a solid performance at the event. “I’m pretty happy with where we’re headed to going into Big Ten. It’s our low tournament score for a while,” the first-year head coach said. “Obviously, their low round was yesterday at 299 for the year. That’s what you want to have happen right before the championship. We expect to play better and putting in solid per formances from people.” Rutgers will begin play at the Big Ten Championships on Friday and into Sunday at the Fort Golf Resort in Indianapolis. The Fort Golf Resort is listed as one of the top public golf courses in the state of Indiana and Golf Digest named the resort to its “Best Affordable New Places to Play” list. The Knights will be battling some tumultuous weather throughout their time in Indiana. Rutgers will have decent weather heading its way for Fri-
day’s part of the competition, since temperatures will be at a comfortable 62 degrees on the first day. After Friday, it’s a different story — Saturday could be soggy. The golfers will have to play in winds gusting over 14 miles per hour with over a half inch rain in the forecast. The high winds will continue on Sunday with par tly cloudy skies. Williams and her players have been preparing for the Big Ten Championships at the Rutgers golf course on campus the last week or so. The Knights have been practicing hard, and their head coach claims they are ready for their final tournament of the season. “We’ve got about 10 days to get ready, and we’re excited about that,” Williams said after the River Landing Classic. “The course is open, the range is open, so we’re going to be spending a lot of time working on things on the range and then actually going out to the golf course to tr y and implement it.” As a former high school basketball coach, Williams compares her team being able to golf outside the Rutgers golf course for the first time this spring to a basketball team only able to practice one shot all year. “We’ve kind of been like a basketball team that has only been able to practice layups for the last three months and no scrimmaging, so I think it’s going to help us to go out and scrimmage a little bit and actually play golf on the golf course and hit the ball outside of f grass and not of f mats. I’m excited for Big Ten and I think we’ve made some huge progress down here this weekend,” she said at the River Landing Classic. After a top-10 finish at the River Landing Classic and a season low round, the Knights seem to peaking at the perfect time. “We’re just coming around at the right time scoring as a team,” Williams said. For updates on the Rutgers women’s golf team, follow @TargumSports on Twitter.
Junior Christian Paulsen looks to build on her performance at the River Landing Classic, where she finished tied for 36th. TINA LI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / OCTOBER 2014
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April 23, 2015 WOMEN’S TRACK & FIELD PENN RELAYS, TODAY, ALL DAY
Knights keen to come together, execute at Penn Relays KAYLEE POFAHL STAFF WRITER
As a pair of legs in perpetual revolution zooms down the track with another teammate just a few feet ahead, an arm extends forward offering a shiny black baton as an open hand reaches back — the essential hand-off. When it comes to relays, the milliseconds during which baton exchanges occur are often what separates those with gold slung around their necks and those with heads slumped in defeat. The Rutgers women’s track and field team ventures to Philadelphia, Pa., this weekend for Penn Relays — and its main focus has been perfecting the baton hand-off within the relay squads. The Scarlet Knights are keen on the significance of this technicality. “That’s pretty much what makes the relay the relay,” freshman sprinter Bria Saunders said of the exchanges. “As long as we get the passes down, the speed is there. Since it’s a relay meet we just want everyone to come together healthy and be able to get the stick onto the next person without any problems.” Rutgers undoubtedly has the training and the talent, but the execution has been its greatest struggle. Technical details have been a key concentration for the Knights throughout the season,
but the emphasis has increased during practices leading up to this weekend. “We have a lot of relays running, so we’re going to focus on the hand offs and the exchange zone and make sure we get clean passes off for the relays,” said head coach James Robinson. “It’s a big event. It’s a huge relay carnival, it’s very fun, so we’re looking forward to seeing kids perform.” Rutgers will have three relays run this weekend. The 4x100-meter relay team of Saunders, senior Jillian Grant and juniors Alayna Famble and Kaprice James will make their quartet debut on Thursday. On Friday, Saunders, Grant and James will run again with the addition of freshman Imani Beauliere for the 4x200-meter relay. Saturday, senior Felicia O’Donnell will be joined by sophomores Sarah Robbie and Kaitlyn Bedard, along with freshman Deanna DiLandro for the 4x800-meter relay. Though these squad combinations are newly settled on, the Knights are confident in their ability to capture success based on the foundation of their preparation from not only this week, but throughout the season. “We’ve been trying out different relays for the past invitational meets and working on different passes and doing different combinations of people, so we’ve basically been preparing since outdoor
started,” Saunders said. “This is a new combination we’re trying that we haven’t run yet, but I know it’s going to bring a lot of success.” With the Penn Relays being a championship meet, Rutgers has three ultimate goals — make it to the finals, set personal records and clock-in qualifying times for championships later in the season. The uniqueness of track relays lies in the merger of the individual and team aspects of the sport. Not only will the athletes in these three relay squads be running for themselves — they will be running for their teammates as well. “It’s a different mentality. You have to run for your team, so it’s more of a push,” Famble said. “You know, you’re motivated for yourself. But when you have three other people, you have to consider when you’re running. It’s definitely a lot more motivating.” Outside of the relays, there are three Knights that will compete in individual events. Junior Tacquaya Tobias will look to set a season best in the long jump on Thursday. On Friday, sophomore Bryanna Grant will represent Rutgers in the triple jump and freshman Stacey Anning will compete in the javelin. Both Knights took home the titles in their respective events with their season debuts at the Bulls Invitational in March. While Rutgers has been trying to adjust to the demands of Big
Junior sprinter Alayna Famble feels team competition requires a different mentality than competing as an individual in meets. EDWIN GANO / ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR / APRIL 2015
Ten competition, the task is made increasingly more difficult with the youth on the roster — 11 juniors and seniors to counter 22 freshman and sophomores, not including several injured and red-shirted athletes. Though it has been a cumbersome challenge to be consistently successful this season, the Knights plan to use their experiences to their advantage. “We’ve had a lot of ups and downs … so we kind of just have to go out there and use what happened in the past at the past few meets as kind of a stepping-stone,” Saunders said. “We need to put that
behind us and move forward, and use it as motivation to do better.” Going into this next contest, Rutgers looks to qualify on the opportunity to reach a higher level of performance and establish itself as a strong, resilient team. “I really think that we will (personal record),” Famble said. “At Penn Relays there’s so much energy … It’s such a fun meet, so hopefully we have fun and perform well.” For updates on the Rutgers women’s track team, follow @TargumSpor ts on Twitter.
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Junior attacker Halley Barnes believes the fight and heart demonstrated by the Knights is a positive sign of things to come. Barnes led the Knights last night, scoring a pair of goals and dishing an assist to her teammate, senior attacker Lauren Sbrilli, in a 14-6 loss to Johns Hopkins. NAAZ MODAN / PHOTO EDITOR / MARCH 2015
Errors haunt RU against No. 18 Hopkins BRIAN FONSECA
“Today was one of our most well put together games in a while,” said the junior attacker. “It’d be really easy to be a defeated team right now but we showed a lot of hear t, a lot of fight, a lot of hustle and I think that just speaks volumes about the team we are and the team we will be in the future.” Her head coach, Laura Brand-Sias, was quick to acknowledge the fight presented by the Scarlet Knights (1-15, 0-4), but did not
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Halley Barnes could’ve been upset when the final horn blew in Baltimore last night. After all, the Rutgers women’s lacrosse team had just suffered their program-record 15th consecutive loss to No. 18 Johns Hopkins by a score of 14-6. But instead of sulking in defeat, Barnes chose to look on the bright side.
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hesitate to mention the aspects of the game that caused the lopsided result. “I think we fought a whole 60 minutes, which is always nice to see. I’m happy with our production on 50/50 stats like ground balls and draw controls,” Brand-Sias said. “… We had too many key turnovers when momentum was going in our favor and a couple of situations on defense when we didn’t try to cover dodgers.” Barnes paced the team with two goals and an assist, but she again chose to think differ-
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ently than a normal player would after a solid individual outing. Rather than be content with what she did, she was upset with what she didn’t. “I always gauge my performance based on what I didn’t do. I went 0-for-2 at the eight meter line so I have to work on my shooting,” Barnes said. “But I’m glad that SEE ERRORS ON PAGE 16
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