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ICE officers detain at least 10 in targeted operation Kira Herzog News Editor

On Thursday, New Brunswick made national headlines after United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted “targeted enforcement action” in the city, detaining at least 10 residents.

Individuals were arrested from seven sites, all within the confines of New Brunswick, according to MyCentralJersey. The locations ranged from Joyce Kilmer Avenue to French Street and the raids started around 5 a.m.

In a statement to NJ Advance Media, a spokesperson for ICE said the raids were intended to target gang members.

“ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) arrested six people in New Brunswick on Thursday for civil immigration violations,” said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Lou Martinez. “Those arrested are members or associates of transnational gangs. HSI regularly conducts gang enforcement operations across the country to enhance public safety.”

But the city’s residents have pushed back against this claim, with organizations like Lazos America Unida and the Central Jersey Progressives condemning the city’s complicity with the government’s actions. This raid is not the first to have taken place in New Brunswick and this is also not the first time the city’s immigration policy has been the source of controversy.

In February, following the publication of an article in The Daily Targum, residents of New Brunswick protested the city’s stance on immigration at a rally outside City Hall. Their primary motive was to encourage leaders to adopt a “sanctuary city” title.

The original article included a statement sent to The Daily Targum by

New Brunswick’s Public Information Officer Jennifer Bradshaw.

“The New Brunswick Police Department adheres to policies set by the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office, the Office of the Attorney General and the federal government with regard to investigations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement,” she said in the email. “New Brunswick is not a ‘Sanctuary City.’ This would be a matter of local ordinance, and not ‘stance.’ However, New Brunswick is a city largely built on the contributions of generations of immigrants, a fact that the administration is keenly aware of.”

In her email, she attached a brief comment by New Brunswick Mayor James Cahill.

“For more than 25 years, it has been the practice of this administration to welcome and accept all residents of the City of New Brunswick as they are,” Cahill said. “We have no intention to put an end to that practice, regardless of any change in the political climate.”

While the term “sanctuary city” does not have a legally binding ordinance, it affects the process of deportation and the extent to which the ICE can utilize local resources during raids. On Jan. 25, an executive order signed into effect by President Donald J. Trump threatened to impose tax cuts on cities that identified as “sanctuaries” for undocumented immigrants.

According to Reuters, the “Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States” order has already threatened $2.27 billion in funding for the top 10 sanctuary cities in the country.

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Students marched from the Brower Commons steps to College Hall on Friday afternoon for the fourth annual Rutgers Earth March. Among the participants were representatives from the Rutgers Student Environmental Coalition, RU Progressive and the Rutgers Veg Society. JEFFREY GOMEZ / PHOTO EDITOR

Campus organizations collaborate for 4th annual Rutgers Earth March Stephen Weiss Associate News Editor

On Friday, student organizations dedicated to addressing climate change and sustainability met on the steps of Brower Commons for the annual Rutgers Earth March.

The march was organized primarily by Students for Environmental Awareness with the help of other environmentally-focused groups such as Rutgers Veg Society, Rutgers Student Environmental Coalition, RU Progressive, the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group (NJPIRG) and Students for Environmental and Energy Development.

Dan Chulak, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences junior, participated in and promoted the march. As a member of the Rutgers University Student Assembly’s Sustainability Task Force, he said the march was significant to him.

“I think it’s really important for us to show our support for environmental stewardship and sustainability here at Rutgers University,” he said. “There’s a lot that we can do here at Rutgers to improve our standing in terms of sustainability in the Big (Ten) and in the countr y, and we think that by bringing a large group of students together we will have a

larger platform and a louder voice for sustainability.”

Chulak said that by having multiple environmentalist student organizations collaborate, they are able to organize the march more ef fectively.

“I think it went really well. We got a lot of people here. As we were walking, we got a lot of people looking at us and seeing what we are doing and it just gives us a larger platform and allows Rutgers students to see what we’re doing and how passionate students are about the environment,” he said.

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U. supports national science march in D.C Nikhilesh De Correspondent

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Chanting “science, not silence,” and holding signs advocating for properly funded, peer-reviewed research, thousands of scientists and supporters rallied in the nation’s capitol on Saturday.

The march was organized in response to budget cuts proposed by President Donald J. Trump to the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Institutes of Health and several other scientific research organizations, said Matthew Buckley, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

Buckley organized a satellite march with the assistance of Women’s March New Jersey founder Elizabeth Meyer in Trenton, New Jersey to coincide with the march in D.C. “I’m a physicist and in the last couple months I woke up, read the paper and saw that there were horrific cuts being planned for many federal agencies which fund scientific research,” he said. “At the same time, I’m seeing my colleagues in other areas of science which are perhaps more politically sensitive than my own being told that they were not allowed to speak publicly as federally employed scientists.”

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Members of the Rutgers community showed support for Saturday’s science march by attending the event itself and organizing satellite rallies. Earlier this week, University President Robert L. Barchi publicly endorsed the march in an open letter. NIKHILESH DE

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Rutgers chapter of DECA takes part in state conference

While relatively new to campus, the Rutgers chapter of DECA has made a large impact on campus through its events and conferences, which help Rutgers business students prepare for real-world situations. FACEBOOK

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The Rutgers chapter of DECA, which began two years ago, works to prepare business students for the real world through conferences, events and interview skills workshops.

Mwakulomba Juma, the co-president and co-founder of DECA Rutgers and a School of Management and Labor Relations junior, said DECA is a huge organization with 850,000 members worldwide.

The majority of the members and chapters are in high schools, he said. But on a college level, DECA has over 275 national chapters.

“Our mission is to prepare emerging leaders in the business field. One of the ways we do that is through conferences,” Juma said.

The organization has two regional conferences — national and state, he said. In these conferences, members take a cluster exam related to the field and their majors including business entrepreneurship and international marketing.

“We have clusters of every business major including finance,

accounting, human resource and recently added IT cluster. We hold workshops (and) mock trials to prepare the members for regional conferences,” he said.

Members are put in situations where they have to react spontaneously. In one of the clusters, members were given a prompt and had 15-20 minutes to come up with solutions, Juma said.

“If you actually know how to tackle the issue in the time constraints and come up with solutions to make that situation better, that is leadership to me,” he said.

DECA Rutgers holds biweekly meetings with a total of 25 to 30 active members.

They participate in meetings, fundraising events and competitions, he said.

“Two weeks ago, we had our first state conference as the Rutgers chapter. We had most members show up for the chapter unlike other state chapters,” he said.

There are almost 15 colleges in New Jersey that have DECA as a chapter. DECA Rutgers had the most members and also won the most awards at the state conference, he said.

DECA Co-President Evan Kane will soon represent DECA

Rutgers and New Jersey in California, he said.

“I am really proud because we are putting Rutgers and New Jersey on the map in DECA because DECA already has 850,000 members from different states and different countries. That is one of the biggest accomplishments we have had so far,” he said.

“Through role plays, members like me are challenged to solve real case studies that relate to our intended career path.” laniquah demps School of Arts and Sciences Junior

Being a relatively new organization, the short term goal of DECA Rutgers is to increase its membership and have members learn from their experience of being a part of DECA Rutgers, Juma said.

“So one of the goals is to retain as many business kids and change their mindset into entrepreneurs’, and help them with the business world by teaching

them skills like interview skills, how to deal with crisis situations.

Our projection for next semester would be to have at least 50 active members who would be involved in making changes and be active participants in all our events,” he said.

A lot of people do not know about DECA Rutgers because it is a huge school, but the organization really does a lot to help the business students, he said.

“I would suggest people giving it a try. I was a DECA member in high school, four years in a row, and ended up taking up leadership positions. It had a great impact on my life that I wanted to share that with everyone else. That is why I wanted to start it here,” he said.

Laniquah Demps, a member of the organization and a School of Arts and Sciences junior, said that the organization prepares leaders in all fields but focuses primarily on entrepreneurs within the business field.

“Through role plays, members like me are challenged to solve real case studies that relate to our intended career path,” she said.

Every DECA meeting has a purpose. At times, the members have workshops that help them with professional development

and meetings that prepare them for the conferences, she said.

“My long-term goal is to use whatever I learn in the organization, in the real world. I seek to improve my knowledge about entrepreneurship in addition to my interview skills through the organization,” she said.

The organization stands for values and prepares emerging leaders — this is what college organizations should strive for, she said.

“I like DECA and what it stands for. There are a lot of high school chapters and being the fact there is also collegiate DECA, it shows the impact it’s having on students including high school students,” said Alyxandra Muldowney, a member of the organization and a Rutgers Business School junior.

DECA Rutgers meetings are tailored to accomplish its purpose and mission. Some meetings are solely meant to prepare members for conferences while others focus on developing their professionalism, she said.

“I want to improve my interview skills because it will prepare me for the real world when I have to start searching for a job and through DECA, I believe I will definitely be able to accomplish that,” she said.

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RUSA finalizes $108K operating budget Stephen Weiss Associate News Editor

The new members of the Rutgers University Student Assembly (RUSA) Allocations Board, along with four advisors, worked for over 18 hours to determine the distribution of $525,000 to more than 300 student organizations.

Their final product, as well as RUSA’s proposed 2017 operating budget, was presented to the body at the Assembly’s meeting Thursday night, at which both were approved. The money will be transferred to the organizations in January.

RUSA’s 2017 operating budget has a projected cost of around $108,000. The executive board is requesting $105,000 from RUSA Allocations and expects their significant rollover from last fiscal year’s budget to cover the remainder of the cost.

With input from their advisor, Treasurer Shannon Chang, President Evan Covello and Vice President Christie Schweighardt decided not to cut a percentage out of the budget this year. Instead, they will assess the Assembly’s monetary situation after six months and decide if it is necessary to return a portion of the money to Allocations.

Chang, a Rutgers Business

School junior, said that the new executive board is setting money aside for a few new initiatives.

“I spoke with Evan and Christie and everyone on the e-board, and we have a few large scale initiatives for the upcoming year, so we wanted to make sure we have adequate expenses for that,” she said.

Chang said one initiative RUSA is allocating money toward is a collaboration with the Rutgers University Police Department to implement cameras in prominent off-campus streets like Huntington and Delafield on the College Avenue campus.

“We worked off of previous years’ budgets to create what I thought would be an adequate amount (of money) for each section,” she said.

At over $100,000, the Assembly receives a significantly larger portion of RUSA’s allocated funds than any other student organization. With that said, more than $500,000 is planned to be distributed amongst Rutgers’ nearly 300 clubs and groups, all of which are funded by a portion of Rutgers’ student fees.

The organization receiving the most funding for the upcoming year is Rutgers Hillel at $7,238.50, according to the 2017 RUSA Allocations budget.

Hillel requested funding for their Jewish and Israeli Education

Out of the Rutgers University Student Assembly’s operating budget, $525,000 is allocated to student organizations around campus. The assembly currently funds more than 300 Rutgers organizations, ranging from Rutgers Hillel to the Queer Student Alliance. JEFFREY GOMEZ / photo editor Series and Holiday and Cultural Education Series events, at about $4,000 and $3,000 respectively, according to the budget.

Other organizations that are at the top of the list in terms of allocations are the Jewish Student

Union, the Raas and Garba Association and the Rutgers Association of International Relations (RUAIR), otherwise known as Rutgers’ Model UN Team, which are each set to receive north of $6,500 for their events.

At the lowest end of funding, the Queer Student Alliance of Rutgers University will receive $14.22 for their screening of the movie “Milk,” and the Speech and Hearing Club will receive $4.90 for their graduate open house.

Earth Around 40 students gathered at Brower Commons for Friday’s march continued from front Chulak said that he wants to see the creation of an Office of Sustainability at the University.

“We think that (an Office of Sustainability) is key because right now they have a committee, but they don’t have full-time employees dedicated to sustainability,” he said. “Many schools within the Big (Ten) conference already have something like this, so we believe if Rutgers does this it would establish their commitment to sustainability and fighting against environmental injustice.”

Students for Environmental Awareness is working on multiple environmental initiatives, Chulak said, including movie screenings and events to unify students for their cause.

“Within RUSA we have a Sustainability Task Force where we have been researching extensively the structure of the University here at Rutgers and then around the countr y, so we are advocating for changes,” he said. “Change is happening all around us and we just have to embrace the progress and move towards more sustainable practices.”

Kathleen Parrish, an events coordinator for Students for Environmental Awareness and founding member of the Rutgers Student Environmental Coalition, said that her organization aims to coordinate student efforts for the environment.

“The march is really important because environmental issues impact people no matter who they are, what they do, where they go or where they live,” the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences sophomore said.

Students for Environmental Awareness also holds activism campaigns, environmental education workshops and volunteer efforts, Parrish said.

“A lot of times people are worried about marches only having an impact in the moment, but I think they have a more lasting impact when you use them as a way to spark interest in a cause,” she said.

Parrish said that Rutgers is doing a lot of good for the environment, but that there needs to be more well-coordinated initiatives and more widespread educational awareness regarding the issue.

“I think if we had an Office of Sustainability it could kind of coordinate ever ything that’s going on and push the school to be more sustainable,” she said.

Parrish said that she was satisfied with the march’s success.

“It went really well and people seemed hopeful. There’s a lot of really over whelming things going on,” she said. “The news can be over whelming and the whole idea of climate change is over whelming, but you get a bunch of people together and you can hope to create a solution to something.”

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U. toolkit prevents, treats opioid addiction Kelly Kim Contributing Writer

The Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy has released an opioid toolkit designed to address the increasing rate of opioid abuse and addiction throughout the United States.

Opioids are most commonly seen as prescription pain medications in the form of morphine and oxycodone, although heroin, one of the most dangerously addictive substances, is also classified as an opioid.

A 2015 American Society of Addiction Medicine study found that over 63 percent of total overdose deaths were related to opioid abuse. With New Jersey rated as having one of the highest opioid abuse rates, the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy partnered with a local organization to combat the growing trend.

Community in Crisis, an organization located in Somerset County, aims to destigmatize the topic of addiction and educate the public on proper treatment and prevention of overdose deaths, according to the website.

The group expressed interest in creating a toolkit to better equip them. In January of 2016, pharmacy students began designing the kit, said Saira Jan, an Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy clinical professor and leading developer.

Most of the toolkit’s technical contributors are students, faculty and professional staff at Rutgers, while Community in Crisis oversees necessary characteristics of the toolkit.

The toolkit is a free, online accessible resource that is partitioned into seven sections which provide information and instruction on approaching the opioid abuse trend, she said.

“The toolkit is a comprehensive, turnkey document, that encompasses all of the materials and information that would be necessary for organizations within communities to begin

initiatives locally to increase awareness, help prevent opioid addiction and provide treatment,” Jan said via email.

Additional resources come in the form of presentations and posters, providing information ranging from the course of action in the case of overdose to old opioid advertisements, she said.

Much like how studies are continuously releasing new information, the toolkit is an ever-expanding resource that is consistently being updated.

From its inception, the toolkit’s aim was to serve as a national asset than just a local one. The practices and information administered are widely applicable to nationwide cases, although the toolkit is able to be customized according to the region. Any organization distributing the toolkits can include their own contact information and insignia, Jan said.

The University has a histor y of addressing health crises through multiple programs on campus. Initiatives such as Alcohol and Other Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) and Special- A toolkit designed by members of the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy could help to counter the ized Addiction Treatment Ser- rising rates of opioid addiction in the United States by implementing community-based awareness vices (SATS) offer counseling and treatment programs. THE DAILY TARGUM and education within the RutGoing forward, Rutgers PharThe development of the latgers community. What makes have been allocated to various unithe opioid toolkit so distinct is its versities within the state, as well as est kit required no monetar y macy and its collaborators are health facilities in New York, Ohio, expenses. All the contents looking to acquire financial supoverarching demographic. stemmed either from partners’ port to extend its social presence, “The toolkit, developed by Utah, and California, Jan said. resources or Jan said. students from “Drug addiction is a public from medical the terrific d i s c o u r s e s health crisis. It is affecting young Ernest Maat and adult, rich and poor. It’s imrio School of “Drug addiction is a public health crisis. It is affecting available the university, portant that people be educated Pharmacy, is young and adult, rich and poor.” about this issue as much as possishe said. really intendAn integral ble, and that community organizaed to be a saira jan step from ob- tions and schools understand what resource for Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy Clinical Professor taining the resources are readily available,” the countr y, i n f o r m a t i o n Jan said. “The understanding of for communiwas manipu- how drugs and alcohol affect the ty outreach, lating it to be brain development is critical to including outOrganizations, such as the simple and easily accessible for address this issue. We have to reach at schools, health fairs, churches, etc.,” said Chancellor Academy of Managed Care the community. In the future, understand what is contributing of Biomedical and Health Sci- Pharmacy and American Society finances would be directed to- to addiction and address this isof Health-System Pharmacists, ward advertisements, posters sue holistically. The key thing is ences Brian Strom, via email. involvement Although it was recently have also embraced the kit and and banners to further familiar- multi-stakeholder launched, the toolkit has already will be presenting it at their na- ize the public with opioid addic- and engagement and support for families that are affected by it.” tion, Jan said. seen national exposure. They tional meeting.

operation According to ICE, 6 were officially arrested in Thursday’s raid continued from front commented on Thursday’s raid, but New Brunswick Police Department spokesperson J.T. Miller said that police were notified on Thursday morning that ICE agents would be in the area.

According to Miller’s statement to NJ Advance Media, the city’s police force did not play a role in the detainments.

“The sad reality is that peaceful, law-abiding residents in the state are now in a precarious position of living in fear,” said Analilia Mejia, the executive director of Working Families, to NJ Advance Media. “Having an undocumented population living in fear will have an impact on all of our public safety and the economy’s bottom line, whether people realize it or not.”

On Thursday at 5:30 a.m, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers carried out a targeted operation in New Brunswick. JEFFREY GOMEZ / PHOTO EDITOR

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science March was organized in response to budget plan that would cut down scientific funding continued from front Several of the president’s other actions have had a negative impact on scientific research, preventing scientists from accessing public data sets which were collected using taxpayer money and limiting travel between the United States and other countries, he said.

“While my own funding is probably not at the top of the chopping block, you can’t do science under these conditions,” Buckley said.

“I think science and scientific advancement has done a lot for America and a lot for the world, and it concerns me a great deal that these things are being threatened. It seems short-sighted by the administration and officials.”

University President Robert L. Barchi wrote a public letter endorsing the March for Science, in which he said that marchers were “united not by party or ideology but by a respect for research and the power of evidence-based decision-making.”

“The marchers want what all of us want: good health, clean water and fresh air, a strong economy and safe communities,” he said. “They recognize that the rigorous pursuit of scientific discovery and the free exchange of research findings lead to smarter decisions and better public policy to reach these goals. And they believe that government support for scientific research is vital to America’s future.”

One federally funded scientist at the march, whose name is being withheld because they were not permitted to attend or speak

at the event, said they study a small species of shrimp in the Chesapeake Bay. While these shrimp are too small for people to eat, they are a vital part of that body of water’s ecosystem.

Several local animal species eat the shrimp to survive, they said.

“The entire food chain relies on them being a healthy part of it, and on them being abundant,” they said. “So one of the things I do is … track them, and track their parasites and track their locations and see who’s eating them to see how healthy they are. That tells us how healthy the blue crab population is and the rockfish population is.”

The shrimp are also an indicator of the Chesapeake Bay’s cleanliness. If they begin dying off in large numbers, that may indicate that there are pollutants in the bay which can harm other animals or even people. By tracking the shrimp, this scientist can ensure that the appropriate authorities are informed of any issues within the bay.

American University senior Rachel Scalzo said she came to the march to support scientific advancement in light of the proposed cuts to research.

“I just wanted to support the sciences for STEM funding, STEM research, STEM education and also women in STEM,” she said. “Funding research is so important because money, as much as money sucks, we need money to make things happen, and if there is no money we can’t find cures for diseases like cancer, fibromyalgia, (multiple sclerosis), they need research and

they can’t get done without federal funding.”

It is important that America continues to grow and adapt, not only to keep up with the rest of the world but also because innovations in technology development, discoveries in space flight and other breakthroughs help advance the human race, said the biology major.

Jessica Infanzon, a junior at James Madison University studying biological anthropology and English, said she was marching because of the president’s denial of the existence of climate change.

“I am out here because Donald Trump cannot reinvent reality,” she said. “I’m out here to defend

“The marchers want what all of us want: good health, clean water and fresh air, a strong economy and safe communities.”

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against lies and stand up for truth and because my future children and grandchildren deserve a planet that’s not at war for resources and not have people suffering from melanoma.”

The existence of climate change is one issue that has often been denied by political leaders, including Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt.

According to the National Air and Space Administration, at least 97 percent of scientists who study the Earth’s climate agree that the planet is warming.

On Thursday, Climate Central reported that carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere had

reached a new high of 410 parts per million. The previous high of 400 parts per million was reached in 2013, but when record-keeping began, the Earth only had about 280 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

According to the EPA, while some temperature and carbon dioxide increases may help the agriculture industry, it would require other environmental changes. Increasing global temperatures are more likely to reduce yields from agriculture, livestock and fisheries.

“If we don’t start protecting our planet now, we will be in a war for resources in the future,” Infanzon said. “Climate change and our environment is not a partisan issue.

That’s why we’re out here today because we can’t let reality slip away from us. Truth is still truth regardless of if you’re right-wing, left-wing, Republican, Democrat, moderate, what have you, truth still exists.”

Pruitt should not be running the EPA, she said.

While there will be a march to raise awareness of climate change on April 29, science is already heavily involved with it, said a pharmaceutical researcher who was also not permitted to speak at the march.

“I’m hoping people understand how important it is and that the proposed budget cuts don’t happen,” they said. “I think this is definitely just the start … After that you have to go locally, you have to change your government officials’ minds on (these) issues.”

A biotech company researcher who was not permitted to speak said while the march was clearly political, it was not necessarily a partisan event.

Though some participants may have attended simply to join in the other protests against Trump, they believed the

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majority of marchers on Saturday were there to advocate for funding of their research.

“I am a scientist, I have been for nine years now,” they said.

“This is obviously very important to all of us in the scientific community. There are some serious threats facing our country and the planet as a whole, and we’re very troubled by the current administration’s attitude toward scientists and climate change research.”

Gathering thousands of scientists together in one place to share the importance of scientific research will hopefully influence policy going forward, they said.

They said in their time as a researcher, they had never heard of a group of scientists being as politically involved as they were over the weekend. That indicates how important budget cuts to federal research agencies is.

“I think it’s a big deal because scientists as a group are not active, not really,” they said. “I’m hopeful that this will get scientists to become participants in politics, to run for Congress, to hold public office, and to get into positions where they can influence policy.”

Buckley also said he hoped more scientists will run for office and advocate for evidence-based decision making after the march.

“Scientists should be more clear about what they think will happen and what they would like to see happen, for climate change, for healthcare, for funding scientific research,” Buckley said. “I hope that people will be a little bit more vocal about that. I hope that people who are not scientists but are supporters of science will be public about what they believe and our elected officials recognize there is a large constituency of people who feel science should be supported and funded and scientific results should be taken into account when creating policy.”

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April 24, 2017

Columnist should use more humanist ideals

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n April 16, Turkey’s president, COMMENTARY Recep Tayyip Erdogan, took the first major leap in the direction of esDANIEL MARRONE tablishing an authoritarian dictatorship. The change was brought about as a result of a historic referendum that, having been passed with a “majority of public support,” will eliminate the position of prime minister and put almost complete power in the hands of the executive branch. The vote has been criticized by governments and human rights organizations across the globe as having possibly been rigged in Erdogan’s favor. This article will not focus on such accusations. Instead, I would like to respond to an opinion article posted in the April 20 issue of The Daily Targum. The piece, which was part of Meryem Uzumcu’s bi-weekly column, elaborates on the aforementioned subject and reaches some bizarre, ahistorical conclusions.

In an effort to avoid pedantry, I will fix my attention on the overall thesis of the article: that instead of criticizing Erdogan’s regime, the international community should instead gaze into a mirror at its own imperfections. “One needs to take a position that is critical of this international sympathy and media platform,” she writes. She asserts that the best way to support “the Turkish opposition to Erdogan,” is to remain silent, and, to put it colloquially, mind its own business.

The cognitive dissonance at hand is astounding — by acknowledging that there exists an “international community,” and thereby asserting that it should “(revert) its gaze,” she creates a contradiction. All international human rights violations fall under an international jurisdiction and therefore deserve the attention thereof. Uzumcu seems to not grasp the gravity of the two words “international” and “community.”

She attempts to support her argument by stating her belief that “the platform has widened a Turkish public’s visibility without generating a political outcome.” This is not true, as many world leaders, former Secretary of State John Kerry, as well as other North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members have all threatened that passing the referendum solidifying Erdogan’s authoritarian regime might result in Turkey losing their NATO membership: a threat that holds significant geopolitical consequences for Erdogan.

There is a more salient cliché lurking just beneath the opaque, muddy waters of Uzumcu’s extreme isolationism. Despite the fact that no such interventionist measures have even been so much as entertained by any international heads of state, the main assumption here is that the only explanation for international condemnation is that it serves as a precursor of military intervention. This neglects the fact that the past several years of international foreign policy have been characterized by their use of international condemnation in place of intervention. To see the repercussions of this, one need not look further than Syria.

The paramount problem I have with Uzumcu’s pejoration of the term “intervention” is some of the most important decisions of the 20th or 21st centuries. Whether one looks at Bosnia, Rwanda, Kosovo or East Timor, one cannot deny that had it not been for intervention, millions of people, nationalities and ethnicities would have been erased. The era of political and economic globalization is upon us and has been for decades. We are beyond the point of no return.

She concludes her article with the following groundless observation: “Here’s how to support the Turkish opposition to Erdogan: Don’t.”

Capitulation to authoritarians and dictators does nothing to strengthen a country’s opposition, whereas internationalism — whether it arrives in the form of public condemnation or some species of intervention is — and has historically been shown to be, a powerful force for preserving human rights and global stability.

But perhaps the most obscene argument comes in the form of what can be described as nothing less than a complete repudiation of humanism in favor of a fickle and dangerous game of identity politics. In a concern addressed to “the international community at large,” or, more specifically, to “those who desire to show their solidarity with a repressed Turkish opposition to (Erdogan),” she espouses her belief that “the people that will be affected by the results of the referendum live in Turkey. I, as a Turkish-American, will not be affected.” Au contraire.

The entire concept of human rights asserts the fact that we are not and should not be divided into different “tribes,” into different nationalities, ethnicities, religions and to do so is a tactic often utilized by authoritarians themselves. Instead, we are all one species, all one family sharing a short period of time on this rock in outer space. An injustice against one is an injustice against all, and it is our obligation not necessarily to right ever y wrong, but to at the ver y least acknowledge when a wrong has been committed. This is not just an ideal worth the ink it is printed with, it is a philosophy based on preser ving the unalienable rights of mankind, and is worth the countless lives that have been lost fighting so that someday the life of, say, an Afghan woman who is murdered by her family in the name of “honor” will have as much gravity as the life of any human being anywhere in the world. Such is an idea worth laying down one’s life for.

Daniel Marrone is a School of Arts and Sciences incoming first-year.

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Pushing for ‘sanctuary’ food pantries Our political climate might make those in poverty feel unsafe

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utgers students often forget that New Bruns- immigration laws are enforced.” This included an wick is not only comprised of the University, emphasis on the public benefits that immigrants it is a city in itself, with a population of people could receive. Although Trump has yet to sign the who have no connection to the University at all. And order, the conversation it brings up is one that scrutiwithin this population, almost 35 percent of New nizes immigrants. The focus on what immigrants can and cannot receive creates the sentiment that they Brunswick is living in poverty.

The Christ Church Food Pantry is a place in New are taking advantage of benefits they should not be Brunswick where residents who are living in this receiving, rather than creating the atmosphere that poverty can come to ensure that their families do not they are welcome. This affects not only those who go hungry. And while the pantry served an average may be undocumented immigrants, but also those of 189 families in the previous year, it has seen a de- who are documented.

It is a tragedy that people in this nation and in this cline in 2017. The number of families coming into the pantry hit a record low of 125 this March, and city are afraid of accessing food that they and their with the poverty line remaining the same, it seems families need in order to survive because of fear the government instilled in them. But what is even more as though another problem is at play.

The food pantry coordinator, Judith Kuldinow, is tragic is how it seems as though these systematic oppressions are difficrediting the decline cult to fix with just a in the number of program or organizafamilies coming to “But the call for the use of I.D.’s can be tion. With an adminthe food pantry to intimidating to some.” istration that is adthe current political amant in constantly climate in the Unitpushing an agendum ed States. With an estimate of more than half of the families being im- that focuses primarily on eliminating undocumented migrants, Kuldinow feels as though the rhetoric that immigrants from the country, it seems as though President Donald J. Trump is pushing is one that is there is not much that individuals can do to help. instilling fear into these families’ minds. And Kuldi- How does one help those in need when the system is built in a way that keeps them down? now might have a valid point.

While it may be difficult to help the entire nation, Part of the policies that surround food pantries includes those who want access to supplies to “provide Rutgers can at least help those around them in the a photo I.D., a proof of address and birth certificates New Brunswick community. One crucial resource for families who say they have multiple children.” can be meal swipes that students purchase. Rather The reason for this is to ensure that those who re- than wasting extra meal swipes that will never be ceive the benefits of the food pantry are the ones used or rolled over, perhaps students can donate who are actually in need of them and that people are them to families in need. While this may require a not lying about the number of children they have in similar system of organization to the food pantry, order to get extra free food. This is to make sure that perhaps the idea that people do want to help will everyone who needs food is able to access it and that show those who are afraid of the administration’s food is not taken away from those in need just be- rhetoric that there are people who truly want to help. cause of the deceit of someone else. But the call for And by students helping the lives of the people they often forget live right next door, perhaps the Univerthe use of I.D.’s can be intimidating to some.

Earlier in his presidency, Trump drafted up an sity can start a rhetoric of acceptance and generosity executive order that focused on “ensuring that our that will trickle into the rest of the nation.

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April 24, 2017

United Arab Emirates’ example should be followed GOT RIGHTS? HARLEEN SINGH

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outh Sudan, Yemen, Nigeria and Somalia have been hit by a drought since October of 2016 and the effects are worsening with each passing day. Somalia is perhaps the most affected, as this is the third drought that has hit the East African country in the past 25 years, making recovery harder and harder with each passing hit. The case this time has become so severe that it has lead to famine threats and the last time the region was touched by famine, almost six years ago, it took more than 250,000 people with it. This time around, there are more than 20 million lives at risk. The increased number is the result of the ongoing war in the region that has only exacerbated the famine as resources are running out faster. The most alarming fact about this situation is the rate at which cholera has been spreading around the country due to the lack of clean water.

Cholera is a disease caused by the spread of the vibrio cholerae bacterium, which induces a diarrheal illness. Cholera is acquired through the consumption of the bacterium through contaminated foods and water. The disease is particularly harder to treat in this region as it provokes acute diarrhea which in turn causes severe

dehydration, and with no fresh water in the vicinity, people are forced to quench their thirsts with contaminated waters, only furthering the track of the illness.

Somalia’s case is more severe than before because three-quarters of the nation’s crops and livestock have been depleted, resulting in the extreme malnutrition of thousands of children. What many families have been doing to survive is forcibly handing their young daughters into marriage with much older men in exchange for dowry money for mere sustenance, which is a truly

they are frustrated that although they are in a safe town, they are unable to meet the needs of their families. So aid is coming in but not fast enough.” To combat the food scarcity, the United Nations has asked for $4.4 billion in aid but has only received $984 million, a mere fraction of the needs.

There is an overall lack of funding as most countries have a “me first” attitude. But it’s time that nations realized that Somalia is undergoing a grave life or death situation where the slightest aid can make the biggest difference. There is an overall lack of

“First preferences are usually given to the most vulnerable — particularly children, elders and expecting mothers.” heartbreaking resort. At least 20 percent of households are tackling acute dietary shortages, and with each passing day, two out of every 10,000 people pass from starvation.

In an interview, Winnie Byanyima, an executive director of Oxfam International, she gave NPR’s Robert Siegel some insight on the situation of the famine. She stated “ … I met people who have fled their homes, who have lost everything and who are now living in camps. Most of them are not allowed to venture even a little bit outside the towns that they are in because when they step out to find food or sell something they get attacked, raped, assaulted. And

international funding and once received, it’s arduous to deliver the resources to these countries. Northeast Nigeria is especially impossible to aid due to the Islamist group Boko Haram, which has a major presence in the area.

Not all hope is lost though. The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) president, Sheikh Khalifa, launched a donation charity just last week, granting Somalia Dh500 million (equivalent to a little more than 136 million USD). The campaign also raised Dh165 million (almost 55 million USD) through a countrywide telethon last Friday alone.

The Emirates Red Crescent Society, the

UAE’s biggest volunteer humanitarian organization, has also been relentlessly assisting the Somalians, though with great efforts and difficulty. This past Thursday an aid convoy came under attack in Mogadishu, the capital and most populous city of the country. The team was deployed there to scout and ascertain the needs of the residents along with the mission to deliver 10,000 food parcels. The food parcels are handed over in a most-needed manner.

First preferences are usually given to the most vulnerable — particularly children, elders and expecting mothers. The parcels contain flour, rice, sugar, some water and cooking oils and usually last up to six weeks. Currently, there are 200,000 parcels for children and another 50,000 for families, making their way to the nation over a ship. Fortunately, the bomb attack did not result in any casualties, only empowering spirits of those on the aiding mission.

Internationally, the UAE’s example should be followed as it would take a lot of efforts to save and restore the once thriving nation.

It’s important to stay optimistic as many affected families are doing. Completely poor but ordinary families are welcoming those fleeing and in need into their homes. The population itself is determined to fight and survive — they only need some assistance.

Harleen Singh is a School of Arts and Sciences first-year majoring in cell biology and neuroscience. Her column, “Got Rights?”, runs on alternate Mondays.

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April 24, 2017

Research team develops method to transplant neurons Namrata Pandya Contributing Writer

Science tells us that neurons rarely regenerate, and if they do it is at a painfully slow rate.

“Something that seems so farfetched in science fiction is something that we are able to discover in labs right upstairs where I take my classes,” said Sree Gollakota, a School of Engineering senior.

Neural tissue regeneration, what was once the stuff of fiction, is coming to reality.

With Prabhas V. Moghe, a distinguished professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, at the helm, staff and students are currently searching for a way to regenerate and reintegrate neurons.

“Could it be possible to conceive a way to transplant healthy human neurons into the brain?”

Moghe asks.

This is what he describes as the “key unmet need,” the discovery of which is the first part of the research process. After this, scientists write grant proposals, secure funding, put a team in place and finally perform the research.

These transplanted neurons will serve as a regenerative tissue therapy which Moghe and his team specifically created to target

Parkinson’s disease, a neurodegenerative disease.

Parkinson’s disease causes the deterioration of neurons that produce dopamine, causing “symptoms such as tremor, slowness, stiffness, and balance problems,” according to Mayfield Clinic.

For this reason, Moghe’s lab focused on producing dopamine-secreting neurons and reintegrating them into the brain.

“When neurons are damaged, diseased or afflicted, you have various pharmacotherapies or drugs that really address very single symptoms of the problem … but there is no comprehensive way to fix the problem,” he said.

An oft-tested solution has been to replace these neurons completely instead of treating the patient with solely drugs or pharmacotherapies.

Traditionally, scientists have grown neurons in a dish, cut them up and then injected them into the brain, Moghe explained. However, even if the neurons do survive, this method does not cause the neurons to attach to the desired location in the brain.

“Neurons really survive as a colony, as a network,” he said.

To produce this network, the neurons need a scaffold to which they can attach and spread.

The goal was to design a bio-compatible, non-immunogenic

Nanxia Zhou, Nicole Francis and Hannah Calvelli are all members of Prabhas Moghe’s research team which aims to develop technology to counter neurodegenerative diseases. NAMRATA PANDYA and highly permissive three-dimensional scaffold onto which ine can produce these human neurons, he said.

The term “three-dimensional” means that the transplanted scaffold grows and integrates into the area it is placed, interacting, in this case, with other neurons, according to a paper published on NCBI. “There’s a twofold mission here: to produce and reprogram human neurons, and as you grow them in very close contact with

each other on this [3D] scaffolding, the idea is that they would form fruitful connections with each other,” Moghe explains.

In the past, scientists have used fetal stem cells to produce neurons. To avoid this, Dr. Moghe thought to use adult somatic cells.

He does this by using human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (IPSCs).

The idea is to take a skin cell, for example, and engineer the cell with certain genes, he explained.

These genes will send the cell back into its somewhat primordial state, which is the state in which it infinitely propagates into multiple lineages, or multiple cell types.

“What’s cool is that this conversion from a stem cell into a neuron is done in this [3D] scaffold.

So the scaffold is not just there as a bridge or a carrier to take the cells into the brain, but rather as a platform onto which you’re performing this reprogramming and this conversion into the neurons,” he said.

The 3D scaffolds are produced through electrospinning technology, produced in the Rutgers Biomaterials Facility. Electrospinning creates a matt of bio-safe, bio-compatible polymers.

Moghe said to “imagine producing a thick weave, each fiber in the order of a few microns or micrometers.”

This matt is then split into separate “islands” and then injected into the brain.

They have seen a “one-hundred fold increase in how viable [these neurons] are in the brain” versus when they were injected without any scaffolding or network.

Moghe’s lab currently tries to increase the elasticity of the scaffold technology so that it matches that of the brain. Biopolymers are “not mechanically of the same softness, compliance or elasticity that you need in a soft organ like the brain,” he said.

For this reason, they attempt to use a peptide-based scaffold to form soft hydrogel microspheres, which have a high water content and provide a cushion for the neurons.

“We’re creating these microspheres that have neurons trapped between them at high densities, and now they’re in a soft material,” Dr. Moghe said.

Dr. Moghe also hopes to make the conversion of stem

cells to neurons safer by using chemical methods, which will reduce the neurons’ interactions with viruses.

Although Moghe’s lab can be classified under biomedical engineering, he emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of the lab environment in terms of its constituents’ educational backgrounds, across experience level and majors.

He specifically mentions three women in his lab: Biomedical Engineering post-doctorate Dr. Nicola Francis, Chemical Engineering graduate student Nanxia Zhou, and Molecular Biology and Biochemistry undergraduate Hannah Calvelli.

Francis adds that Dr. Rick Cohen and Astha Saini, his undergraduate researcher, from the Stem Cell Resource Center as well as Dr. Zhiping Pang, her other primary investigator from the Child Health Institute of New Jersey, have also been valuable collaborators.

Dr. Francis is officially a research associate for this project, and has her appointment through The Child Institute of New Jersey.

She developed and brought this hydrogel and microfluid technology to Dr. Moghe’s lab.

“There’s multiple projects in the lab that are highly different from each other, and there’s a great spirit of collaboration and scientific work,” she said.

“At this point I do everything myself… and I train students to also be involved in all areas as well. No one is going to specialize in any one thing, I want everyone to be well-rounded and be able to do any of the tasks needed to complete the project,” she said.

Hannah Calvelli, a School of Arts and Science first-year, first became interested in Dr. Moghe’s lab because of its focus on medicine, something she wanted to learn about through research.

“I was a little worried at first because being an undergrad in a different field, that was really intimidating, but Nicola and Nanxia have been my mentors throughout the process and they’re both really good at teaching and trying to explain everything step-bystep,” she said.

“Sometimes people might need things explained a different way, but after working on the same project for a while you learn the jargon in that particular field,” Francis said.

Francis also notes that out of the ten or fifteen people who work in this lab, majority are women, with only a “handful” of men. She says that in all her lab experience at least half of her team members have been women, and she has had many women advisors as well.

Calvelli adds, “I think it’s pretty empowering especially because research is a male-driven field so it’s definitely nice to work with a lot of strong women who are passionate about STEM.” She would recommend undergraduate research and says, “Rutgers has so much opportunity for undergraduate research, it’s definitely something you should try out and they have it for really every field, even outside of STEM.”

DIVERSIONS

April 24, 2017

Mark Tatulli Horoscopes

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Happy Birthday: Take a serious look at your financial situation and strategize how you can lower your overhead. Taking on extra work is possible, but don’t do so if it will put you in another tax bracket. It’s important to divide your time equally between home, work, play and rest. Too much of anything will be costly both physically and emotionally. Your numbers are 4, 12, 26, 28, 32, 34, 45.

Over The Hedge

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Jump into action and do your best to take care of your responsibilities before someone complains. Staying ahead of the game will put you in a positive position later in the day. Don’t let anything interfere with your productivity. 3 stars TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It’s in your best interest not to share personal information with others. Dealing with government institutions will be difficult if you are not up-todate with your personal paperwork.

Keep your life and responsibilities as simple as possible. 3 stars

Non Sequitur

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Pearls Before Swine

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Look for reasons to do something, not for reasons not to. Refuse to let someone interfere with your plans or stop you from traveling to a destination that will help you get ahead. Partnerships look promising. 3 stars SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Don’t take on responsibilities that don’t belong to you. Leave time to engage in the things you enjoy and to get together with the people who motivate and inspire you the most.

Don’t be afraid to do things differently. 3 stars

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You will get back what you put in. Offering your time or help to an organization or someone in need will bring great satisfaction, a sense of belonging and a chance to make new friends. Partnerships are featured. 4 stars

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Stop postponing the things you want to do because you are waiting for someone to join you. Make plans and follow through. When you start living life your way, good things will happen. Become the master of your destiny. 5 stars

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Do something unique. Use your imagination and you’ll come up with a creative idea or solution that will help you avoid a mistake due to someone else’s intervention. Control your emotional reaction to changes at home or at work. 2 stars

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Put one foot in front of the other and refuse to be influenced by someone persuasive, impulsive and excessive.

The fun will end if you find you’ve overstepped your bounds physically, financially or emotionally. Look before you leap. 2 stars

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Travel to an interesting destination. Explore your emotions and inner thoughts.

Engage in activities that will challenge you to do better and to offer more. Take your life and physical well-being seriously. Self-improvement is encouraged. 5 stars

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Look back and move forward. Let your past guide you to a brighter future by adding confidence to the decisions you make regarding money, how you earn your income and who and what you want in your life. 4 stars

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Think twice before splurging on a luxury product that makes unrealistic claims to improve health, wealth or your appearance. You are better off taking a conservative approach to whatever you decide to do. 3 stars

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Look for alternative ways to improve a situation that concerns you without jeopardizing your personal or professional goals. Doing things differently will make others take notice.

Don’t neglect your health or relationships. 3 stars

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46 “The Raven” author

27 A neutral tone

57 Like krypton and

47 Relative of a donkey or zebra

29 “Single” digit

50 Play matchmaker

30 Completely reverse

58 Admires beach bodies

52 ___ Antonio

31 Territories, to gang members

60 Stereotypical place

53 Picnic pest

33 Migratory skinny fish

55 7:1, e.g.

34 “Hasta luego”

61 Thin wood strip

59 Taking apart

35 Prima ___

62 See from afar

64 Fowl pole?

36 Utter, as a double-play?

63 Speck of dust, e.g.

66 “Before I let you go ...”

38 It’s preferred over death

64 Column crosser

67 Victimized Genesis brother

41 Cranberry’s maturing site

65 Scientific eggs

68 Reproductive egg cell

42 Dracula, in another form

69 All eyes and ears

43 Dust jacket plug

70 Thing in the trunk

48 Resurrection Day

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April 24, 2017

Page 12 WOMEN’S LACROSSE KNIGHTS SURRENDER 7 STRAIGHT GOALS IN LOSS

Rutgers drops conference game to No. 17 Northwestern Coby Green Staff Writer

With a win helping to solidify its chances at the Big Ten tournament, the Rutgers women’s lacrosse team had to face yet another ranked opponent in order to do so.

The Scarlet Knights (8-7, 2-3) faced off against No. 17 Northwestern on Saturday morning, but fell to the Wildcats (9-7, 4-1) in what turned into a 14-7 blowout loss in Piscataway.

Rutgers jumped out to an early 3-0 lead and held on to it for quite some time, keeping the Cats scoreless until the 19:15 mark of the first half. Sophomore attacker Abbey Brooks kicked things off with the first goal of the game, then senior team captain midfielder Macy Scott put in her own before Brooks added another off an assist from senior team captain Amanda Turturro.

The Knights retook its 3-goal lead with a goal by junior attacker Kerri Puckhaber, but Northwestern eventually brought it back to two with 12 minutes left in the half.

Both teams were playing stifling defense throughout, with Rutgers not allowing Northwestern into the box and in the few times they did, immediately stripping the ball and running back downfield.

“In the first half we came out strong,” said sophomore attacker Dana Gisonno. “But in the second half, we kind of fell apart. We were losing and we kind of gave up.”

The Knights and Wildcats went back and forth on goals, with the hosts maintaining a 5-4 lead with 3:58 to play in the half off a goal by

Senior captain Amanda Turturro became the 24th all-time player in Rutgers women’s lacrosse history to have 100 points in her career Saturday. JEFFREY GOMEZ / PHOTO EDITOR / MARCH 2017 The Knights took the 5-4 lead to Cats were on a 7-2 run after being Turturro from Gisonno, while the the halftime buzzer, heading into down 3-0 early in the first half.

Cats put in 2 of their own.

Rutgers finally stopped the With the early assist and goal, the locker room with the small bleeding and came back within Turturro became the 24th all-time 1-goal lead.

Northwestern tied things up at one, when Dunphey scored off Giplayer in Rutgers women’s lacrosse history to have 100 points in their 5 goals apiece at the 26:44 mark in sonno’s second assist of the game, but the Wildcats career. Turanswered right turro joins back andmade it fellow senior 8-6 game with midfielder “We came out slow and Northwestern just came out a an 18:57 remaining.

Kristina Dunstep faster than us.”

The Cats really phey in the opened things up record books, amanda turturro for themselves who reached Senior Attacker and took over by the milescoring another stone earlier six goals and 7 this season. straight overall, “It feels great,” Turturro said. “It’s defi- the final half, before taking its first taking the largest lead of the game nitely a big accomplishment, but I lead of the game and adding on an- at eight, more than doubling the other with 21:21 left. Overall, the Knights’ score, 14-6. would have rather won the game.”

“We were getting the draw controls but couldn’t really finish on offense,” Gisonno said.

“Defense was getting some stops but we couldn’t just finish.”

Northwestern kept Rutgers scoreless for nearly 20 minutes, but the Knights threw in 1 last goal from junior attacker Joana Reilly before the horn sounded with the final score at 14-7.

Rutgers had two injur y scares which thankfully remained scares, with Turturro and junior midfielder Paige Paratore both going down in two separate stints. Turturro initially went off to the sideline before running back in, while Paratore jumped up off the ground, fixed her headband and sprinted downfield.

“I was defending the ball and just got tripped up with someone else and landed right on my kneecap, so I actually have to go check with the doctor,” Turturro said.

With the loss, the Knights end the season 4-5 overall at home, having lost three straight at High Point Solutions Stadium.

Rutgers now will play its most important game of the season next week, where a battle for the last spot in the Big Ten Tournament will be up for grabs, when it faces Johns Hopkins (10-5, 2-3) in Baltimore, Maryland.

“We came out slow and Northwestern just came out a step faster than us,” Turturro said.

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April 24, 2017 KNIGHT NOTEBOOK HAGGERTY, MITCHELL MAKE PRESENCE KNOWN IN SPRING GAME

Fresh faces on offense, special teams spell hope for Rutgers Griffin Whitmer Associate Sports Editor

Raise your hand if you had Gavin Haggerty as the star of the Rutgers Spring Game — okay, now put your hand down Ms. Haggerty.

The sophomore made the most of senior David Bonagura’s lingering back injury and earned a spot on the Rutgers football team as a starter, and he certainly delivered. He saw his first action at the end of the first half, lining up for a 40-yard field goal. Haggerty nailed it through the uprights with about 10 yards to spare, giving the Scarlet Knight fans flashbacks of the Jeremy Ito days.

Haggerty, who sat out his freshman year recovering from an injury and did not see game action last season, has three years of eligibility remaining. And while not many people knew who he was going into Saturday, he made his mark.

“I’m definitely eager for fall practice,” he said. “We gotta go through workouts throughout the summer and it’s (all about) just getting better and stuff throughout the summer.”

But he wasn’t the only emerging talent at the scrimmage, as sophomore tight end Nakia Griffin-Stewart and graduate wide receiver Damon “Duwop” Mitchell established themselves as potential key cogs in the offense.

Griffin-Stewart, who redshirted his first year and only saw limited special teams action last year, hauled in four catches for 36 yards and looked the part at tight end, using his 6’5” 250-pound frame to get separation and catch everything thrown his way.

At times, Mitchell looked like a go-to receiver the Rutgers offense was missing last year after Leonte Carroo went to the NFL. He finished with five catches for 73 yards and a 28-yard touchdown catch from junior quarterback Giovanni Rescigno.

But with projected starting tight end Jerome Washington nursing an injury as well as wide receivers Janarion Grant (recovering from season-ending injury in 2016) and Ahmir Mitchell (undergoing ACL surgery a week ago) not participating, head coach Chris Ash still needs to see more consistency from those two position groups.

“Wide receiver and tight end are really the two spots that are the unknowns right now that we need to continue to develop,” he said.

And whether or not Washington recovers and becomes an integral part of the offense, he is another player not on the field during last year’s abysmal 2-10 season.

With the “thud tempo” Ash implemented in hopes of avoiding injuries, there was not much to take away from the running game. But when the team needed to move down the field and score points, it looked to Mitchell, Griffin-Stewart, sophomore wide receiver Dacoven Bailey and junior Rashad Blunt.

Blunt, who redshirted his first year and didn’t see the field last year, had 3 catches for 30 yards while Bailey, a once-promising true freshman who netted

Graduate wide receiver Damon Mitchell led the Scarlet team with five catches for 73 yards, including a 28-yard touchdown from Giovanni Rescigno. Mitchell projects as one of the starting wide receivers in the fall. JEFFREY GOMEZ / PHOTO EDITOR / APRIL 2017 just five touches for -3 yards last season, hauled in five catches for 51 yards, showing improved hands and route running from a year ago.

As Rescigno was finally able to move the offense in the fourth quarter, his touchdown pass to Damon Mitchell wound up tying the game at 13 — the amount of points the White team started with. But with time running out and the score knotted up, it gave the starters reps with fans in the seats and the game on the line.

The offense was able to work the ball to the 24-yard line, setting up Haggerty for a 41-yarder to potentially win the game with a minute left on the clock. Just as he did two times before on that dreary Saturday evening, he put it between the uprights.

“He made some huge kicks out there today at the end. Contemplating whether we were going to go for it at the end or let him kick, and I said, ‘this is a perfect opportunity to see what he can do with people in the

stands,’ and he put it between the uprights,” Ash said of that final kick. “Honestly last year, that was a problem. We would not have been able to do it.

Might have been punting in that situation last year. But he nailed it, and (I’m) really happy for him and the spring that he’s had.”

While kicker was not necessarily a position Rutgers fans were expecting to see excel on Saturday, it maybe offered the most clarity of anything that went down on that field.

There’s a lot of unknowns when playing at thud tempo against your own teammates, but 41 yards is 41 yards.

“There’s always a little bit of pressure, but I think the bottom line just comes down to you gotta go out there and do your job,” Haggerty said. “Every kick’s the same. I’m just a smaller part of a bigger operation.”

For updates on the Rutgers football team, follow @griffinwhitmer and @TargumSports on Twitter.

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offense Kicker Gavin Haggerty’s 3 field goals send Scarlet over White, 16-13 line just comes down to you gotta go out there and do your job,” that was going to be the case,” Haggerty said. “Every kick’s the said head coach Chris Ash. “The same. I’m just a smaller part of a experience is there that we didn’t bigger operation.” necessarily have on the offensive Saturday’s spring game side of the ball.” came to characterize the majorBut for junior quarterback ity of spring camp for the Scarlet Giovanni Rescigno — who had Knights. A lack of virtually any found himself mired in criticism offensive production through 40 last season after failing to deliv- minutes on Saturday represented er offensive consistency after a considerably deep problem for usurping Chris this year’s RutLaviano at gers squad — the position one with a lot of “There’s still a gap that — he hoped question marks to close that surrounding its exists between our gap through core offense and defense right receiving his wideouts. between both now and we knew that Though runthe wide rening backs was going to be the case.” ceivers and the Josh Hicks and tight ends.

Robert Martin “Wide rechris ash had taken the ceiver and tight head Coach burden of the end are really yardage from the two spots then on out, that are the unRescigno started to get a lot more knowns right now that we need to out of the shotgun. continue to develop,” Ash said.

What started with a 19-yard And as Ash detailed Saturday, find of sophomore wide receiv- the significant disparity in talent er Bailey — who had struggled and progress between the offense mightily up to that point — end- and defense started following the ed with a 28-yarder to fifth-year Knights’ first live scrimmage a few senior wide receiver Damon weeks back. At that point in the “Duwop” Mitchell at the back of spring, as the team stands now, the the endzone. defense was significantly ahead of The final scoreline came to be the offense in terms of preparation with yet another three points off and skill. the foot of Haggerty, placing it beOf course, the offensive unit tween the posts from 41 yards out has been debilitated by an assortto give Team Scarlet the 16-13 win ment of injuries and absences over Team White. throughout spring and remains a “There’s always a little bit of much different team than the Rutpressure, but I think the bottom gers faithful will get come the fall. continued from back

loss Knights’ loss to Penn State puts them out of contention for Big Ten Tournament continued from back game. So when Rutgers started off the game 0-for-13 on faceoffs,

it did not seem like the team was in for a promising night.

Penn State freshman Gerard Arceri, who had struggled in

One constant — barring any movement due to incoming freshman quarterback Johnathan Lewis — is Rescigno.

Rescigno threw for 193 yards on an 18-for-30 line Saturday with 122 of those yards coming in the fourth quarter alone.

Despite a glacier-like start for the clear-cut number one, his reliance on a question-filled wide receiver unit late on proved fruitful.

And he felt good about it.

“I worked with coach (Jerry) Kill more and everything kind of

came together and I think as each practice went on, I got better and better and even up until today,” Rescigno said. “I think today was a good day. Going into camp, I hold my high.”

However slow the offense was, Ash’s central concern was put to rest following Saturday’s game, as his players came away healthy due to the “thud tempo” him and his coaching staff implemented.

To boot, Ash insisted that Saturday’s spring game was a major enhancement from last year’s.

If not because of on-field performance, it’s the collective mentality — the camaraderie — that carried the team through 14 practices this spring. In that respect, the Knights are in much better shape than they were in this time last year.

“The chemistry, the brotherhood of the football team,” Ash said. “I really like the chemistry of our team.”

For updates on the Rutgers football team, follow @jon_spilletti and @TargumSports on Twitter.

Head coach Chris Ash patrols the center of the field in the spring game, manning both teams while the coaching staff split on the sidelines. JEFFREY GOMEZ / PHOTO EDITOR / APRIL 2017

Big Ten play, put forth a career effort at the “X” with his 16-of-20 stat line.

In the beginning of the game, the Knights defense was able to keep the game close, but with each faceoff victory for Arceri piling up, it amounted to a deficit too large to come back from.

As the saying goes, you can not score goals if you do not

have the ball, and Rutgers hardly had the ball or any opportunities to shoot. The team was out-shot by the Nittany Lions by a margin of 45-26 and in shots on goal by 29-14.

And on another night the Knights could not come away with a victory, the blame could be placed on anyone but junior goalie Max Edelmann.

Junior goalie Max Edelmann set a career high with 16 saves against Penn State on Sunday night. This comes despite Rutgers taking a 13-7 loss, leaving the team out of the Big Ten Tournament. HENRY FOWLER / APRIL 2017

As he did against then-No. 3 Mar yland last week, he stood on his head, facing a barrage of shots and somehow coming away with a save percentage of over 50 percent.

His 16 saves on the night now stand as a career high.

The game also marked the second straight one in which freshman attacker Kieran Mullins was out of form.

After scoring 8 goals against Michigan, he was shut out against Maryland and registered just one assist against Penn State.

Things weren’t much better for junior Jules Heningburg — who is having a less-productive year following being named All-Big Ten last season — as he recorded just one point on the night with a goal at the end of the first half.

The lone bright spot in that unit was senior Connor Murphy, who although did not record a fourth-straight hat trick, had four points on 2 goals and two assists.

Junior midfielder Christian Mazzone had one of his better games in a Rutgers jersey with 1 goal, one assist, two ground balls and three caused turnovers.

Rutgers’ last chance to showcase itself for the NCAA committee will be on Saturday at noon against No. 7 Ohio State.

For updates on the Rutgers men’s lacrosse team, follow @griffinwhitmer and @TargumSports on Twitter.

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FOOTBALL SCARLET 16, WHITE 13

RU offense stagnant in spring game Jon Spilletti Sports Editor

Sure, Michael Cintron may have broken the Big Ten and Rutgers football records for number of punts last season. But him and Jared Smolar collectively showed they were up to the task to do the same on Saturday.

With eight punts and 284 yards between the two at halftime — resulting in three muffed punts by sophomore wide receiver Dacoven Bailey — it is fair to say neither Team Scarlet nor Team White got off to the starts they wanted.

It was not until sophomore kicker Gavin Haggerty drilled a 40-yard field goal for Team Scarlet with 30 seconds to go in the second quarter that a team got on the board, notwithstanding the 13 handicap points awarded to Team White at the start of the game.

And then on the opposite end of the halftime break, Haggerty took to the field again, this time to deliver a 37-yarder through the uprights.

Through three quarters, it was 13-6 in favor of White, with just six of those points happenning on the field.

“There’s still a gap that exists between our offense and defense right now and we knew Despite getting off to a slow start, junior quarterback Giovanni Rescigno found his rhythm late in the spring game, throwing a fourth-quarter touchdown to Damon Mitchell to propel Team Scarlet over Team White. JEFFREY GOMEZ / PHOTO EDITOR / APRIL 2017

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MEN’S LACROSSE PENN STATE 13, RUTGERS 7

Rutgers suffers disappointing loss at PSU Griffin Whitmer Associate Sports Editor

Going into Sunday night’s matchup against No. 9 Penn State, one thing was very clear for the Rutgers men’s lacrosse team — win and in.

If the Scarlet Knights left State College, Pennsylvania a win over the Nittany Lions, they would clinch a spot in the Big Ten Tournament and position themselves very well for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Tournament.

Nonetheless, Rutgers (9-4, 1-3) put forth an uninspiring effort in a 13-7 loss to Penn State (11-2, 2-2) on Sunday night in a result that guarantees it would not make a return to the Big Ten Tournament after making the final last season.

The only chance the Knights stand at a NCAA Tournament berth would be if they score an upset victory over Ohio State on Saturday afternoon and earn an at-large bid, though the committee taking five teams from the Big Ten is not very likely.

Every lacrosse game starts with a faceoff and every goal is followed with a faceoff.

There is almost a direct correlation between winning the faceoff battle and winning the Head coach Brian Brecht saw his team through a disappointing 13-7 loss in State College at the hands of the Nittany Lions Sunday night. Rutgers is now out of contention for the Big Ten Tournament. JEFFREY GOMEZ / PHOTO EDITOR / FEBRUARY 2017 MLB SCORES

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Boston Baltimore

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Chicago (N) Cincinnati

5 7

Atlanta Philadelphia

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Houston Tampa Bay

6 4

Cleveland Chicago (A)

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AMANDA TURTURRO,

senior attacker, registered her 100th career point for the Scarlet Knights this past Saturday against Northwestern. Turturro is second on the team this season with 38 points and third with 20 goals.

Kristina Dunphey achieved the same feat earlier this season.

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