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Study finds elderly face income inequality issues SAMANTHA KARAS CORRESPONDENT

A decades-long study on income inequality has been updated and finds senior citizens have greater economic issues than when they were younger.

Stephen Crystal, a professor in the School of Social Work, published a paper with co-authors Dennis Shea and Adriana Reyes that found income inequality is higher in individuals older than 64 years old and especially after age 74 than during their traditional working years.

The income received by members in this age group within the lower 40 percent of income distribution went down from 17 percent to 14 percent of the total from when they were younger, while those in the top-most 20 percent saw their income increase from 46 percent to 48 percent of the total.

For those aged 75 or older, the poorest 40 percent of people saw their share of the total income decrease from 15 percent to 14 percent.

About 20 percent of senior citizens receive 50 percent of the total income by those aged 75 and

older, with the lower 80 percent receiving the other half.

This study on income inequality is unique in comparison to all his other works because it likely goes back the farthest in terms of being involved with these questions, Cr ystal said.

While writing a book in 1981 titled “America’s Old Age Crisis” — an extension of his doctoral dissertation — and working as a program evaluator for the state of New York on old-age policy, Cr ystal said he was looking at how to deal with the needs of this specific age group.

As a doctoral student at the time, Crystal said he wanted to step back and take a look at the big picture and how policy strategies were working and what the problems were.

The population of older people was large at the time, and Crystal said it was expected to continue to grow as a percentage of the population.

“We spend something like a third of all federal expenditures on older people,” he said. “So when you think about the problems of the federal budget and all of these things SEE ISSUES ON PAGE 5

The Rutgers College Republicans hosted the state convention on Saturday in the Wood Lawn Mansion on Douglass campus. Various elected officials came to discuss their work and national issues. NIKITA BIRYUKOV / ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

College Republicans hold state party convention on Douglass NIKITA BIRYUKOV ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Rep. Scott Garrett (R) of New Jersey’s 5th congressional district said he decided to run for Congress when he realized “Washington was getting in the way” of what he and his fellow state legislators were trying to do.

Mason Gross group gives high school musical lessons

The New Jersey College Republicans held their annual convention last Saturday at the Wood Lawn Mansion on Douglass campus. The convention featured talks by a number of prominent New Jersey Republicans, including Garrett, Rep. Leonard Lance of the 7th district SEE CONVENTION ON PAGE 4

U. hosts students from University of Utrecht

CAMILO MONTOYA-GALVEZ CORRESPONDENT

On Wednesday and Thursday mornings, echoes of soothing symphonies travelled through the halls of the New Brunswick High School.

The sound could be traced to one of the school’s music rooms, where a group of Rutgers students and students from the high school came together to play various string instruments. Under the guidance of the college musicians, the young orchestra members worked to enrich their violin, viola or cello playing techniques.

The par ticipating University students are par t of the Rutgers chapter of the American String Teachers Association, a national organization for music educators and string instrument players.

The campus group, which was established in the fall of 2014, is the only recognized chapter in New Jersey.

“We really wanted to get a volunteer component because we

“Our Constitution has certain enumerated and limited powers that they put on the federal government, and it’s always my admonition when I’m down in Washington to ask this question ... ‘do I have the constitutional right to actually be doing these things and expanding the powers of the federal government,’” he said.

The Rutgers chapter of the American String Teachers Association works with New Brunswick High School students every week to teach them music. CAMILO MONTOYA GALVEZ / CORRESPONDENT think it’s important to give back to your community,” said Seth Van Embden, president of the group and a Mason Gross School of the Arts junior.

Van Embden and other members of the chapter saw a window of opportunity when they found out that the New Brunswick high school had a string program for students who could not fit orchestra classes on their schedules.

They teamed up with the arts department of the New Brunswick school system and Mar ybeth Purcell, a music teacher in the high school and organizer of the school’s string program.

Having more experienced and technical string players to help

mentor the students has been beneficial, she said. The members of the chapter allow her to divide her students into smaller groups and have them concentrate on practicing their respective instruments.

“When they can go off and work on the particular parts that they are having trouble with (alongside) a Rutgers student, it lets them get it better,” Purcell said.

This one-on-one support is what the chapter’s secretar y, Brianna Tagliaferro, enjoys offering the students the most.

“I really just love working with students and…hopefully inspiring SEE LESSONS ON PAGE 5

In spite of the approximately 3,700 miles of Atlantic Ocean water that separates them, Rutgers students have a lot more in common with their counterparts in the Netherlands than they might think.

Thirteen undergraduate students from the University of Utrecht culminated their week-long stay in Rutgers–New Brunswick on Saturday.

Their arrival was part the “Sister Republics” initiative, organized by the School of Arts and Sciences Honors Program to celebrate Rutgers’ 250th anniversary.

“There is this very sort of heavy Dutch connection with the founding of Rutgers, and part of that is connected with the University of Utrecht,” said Jennifer Jones, dean of the School of Arts and Sciences Honors Program. “Many of the early presidents and teachers at Rutgers had been trained at the University of Utrecht.”

Founded in 1636, the University of Utrecht is the largest institution of higher education in the small European country with more than 30,000 students. When Rutgers University was established as Queen’s

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College in 1766, it adopted the motto “Sun of righteousness, shine upon the West also,” a variation of the Dutch institution’s motto.

To further explore the profound links between the two “spiritual” sister universities, a course was drawn up for students in the School of Arts and Sciences Honors Program, Jones said. Some of the participants were able to travel with her over spring break to the Netherlands and were welcomed by a group of students from the University of Utrecht.

Thus, an invitation, Jones said, was extended to the students who hosted her class to come to New Brunswick and learn about Dutch roots in the region.

The second or third year students from the University of Utrecht – a bachelor’s degree is usually a three-year process in the Netherlands – arrived at Rutgers on Monday.

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The Department of Germanic, Russian and Eastern European Languages and Literatures presents “Empire on the PostSoviet Screen Spring 2016 Film Series” at 5 p.m. at the Zimmerli Art Museum on the College Avenue campus. The event is free and open to the public.

The Catholic Student Association presents “CSA Spirit Night” from 8 to 9:30 p.m. at the Livingston Student Center. The event is free and open to the public.

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Korean students tackle stereotypes with performances

Students held a panel discussion and viewed performances as the Korean Student Association held Project Korea, an event where various artists demonstrated their talents and spoke about fighting stereotypes in the media. COURTESY OF LOUIS KANG

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The Rutgers University Korean Student Association’s (RUKSA) set out to abolish Asian stereotyping with their event Project Korea.

The event focused on the pursuit of passion over tradition, said James Lee, the association’s president and a School of Arts and Sciences junior.

The event highlighted numerous artists of var ying backgrounds, all performing as a way of pushing back against any stereotypes they encountered throughout their lives.

“In the media, (Asian men) are portrayed as nerds, ver y feminine, ver y submissive, quite-kind of people,” Lee said.

“The traditional, stereotypical Asian route would be that your parents want you to study like 24/7 … They want you to become a doctor, a lawyer.”

Pursuit of these financially stable positions can lead to problems later in life, he said.

“There’s a thing called the quarter-life crisis,” he said. “You study this (discipline), and then you get a job and then you realize you really don’t want to do this for the rest of your life.”

This year’s Project Korea was modeled after “The Tonight Show.” It began with host Joshua Tschoe, RUKSA’s social chair and a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, inter viewing performers about their passions and the struggles of pursuing them. After ward, performers took to the stage to do what they do best. “(The rappers) were really truthful. They were genuine,” Tschoe said.

artistic endeavor of honing in on one’s craft.

Awkwafina, Rekstizzy, Dumbfounded and L yricks starred in the documentar y “Bad Rap,” which premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival. The documentar y focuses on how these rappers, while successful, are still not considered household names and have issues breaking into the mainstream culture.

MC Jin was one of the first Asian-American rappers to

“There’s this huge Asian stereotype — be a doctor, be a lawyer — that kind of stigma where being financially stable is always favored over following your passions,” he said.

“Within Rutgers … there are so many people that do have these talents, and some of them are just held back by this kind (of) Asian stereotype, this kind of stigma.”

The rappers played a part often left unfilled, he said.

“You study this (discipline), and then you get a job and then you realize you really don’t want to do this for the rest of your life.”

JAMES LEE RUKSA President and School of Arts and Sciences Junior

This year’s Project Korea also featured six acclaimed performers: Dumbfoundead, JL, L yricks, Rekstizzy, Awkwafina and MC Jin. The panel of six artists discussed the hardships of being labeled “Asian-American artists” instead of simply “artists.”

The panel also emphasized the

break into the mainstream music scene.

After the panel, JL, L yricks and Dumbfounded performed.

MC Jin did a stand-up comedy routine before performing his song “Glow.”

Like the club itself, these performances worked to counteract Asian stereotypes, Tschoe said.

“I feel like people came out because (the rappers) can be role models. They’re pioneers to breaking that kind of ‘bamboo ceiling,’” Tschoe said.

The event also had Korean food, including bulgogi, jaeyook, tofu, ddukbokki, donkasu and japchae.

This was in line with the KSA’s goal of spreading awareness of

Korean-American culture, said Kevin Lee, a School of Arts and Sciences junior and one of the KSA’s culture chairs. “(RUKSA) seeks to build and develop leaders,” said Emily Leung, a School of Arts and Sciences junior and the KSA’s vice president of programming. “The best thing about (Project Korea) is educating the public on things that aren’t really talked about ...

We have the students point-ofview, and the headliners, who actually made a career out of their passion.”

RUKSA is constantly evolving, Leung said.

“This year, we focused a lot more on the students we had here, just to show that it really has more of a relate-ability,” Kevin Lee said.

One of the aims of this year’s Project Korea was to open doors for students outside of academics, Kevin Lee said. The hope is that they find a passion and feel comfortable pursuing it.

Jason Woo, RUKSA’s digital media coordinator and a School of Ar ts and Sciences junior, said the the group pushes him and his peers out of their comfor t zones.

“It’s definitely pushing me to work my hardest,” he said.

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CONVENTION Winner of presidential election will determine Supreme Court in coming years, Lance says CONTINUED FROM FRONT

Thirteen students from the University of Utrecht came to Rutgers as part of an exchange program, which also sent several University students to the Netherlands to learn about the other’s cultures.

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UTRECHT Differences between Americans, Dutch are small, Baas says CONTINUED FROM FRONT

the University of Utrecht. “You always think that the Netherlands is such a small country – no influence – but then you come here and see all these traces of Dutch settlers.”

The visiting students were able to appreciate the influence of their countr y when they traveled with a group of Rutgers faculty and students to New York City on Tuesday. They walked around Lower Manhattan, the location of the former Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, and visited the neighborhood of Harlem, named after the city of Haarleem in the Netherlands.

Since they are all deeply interested in political science, governance and public policy, the students enjoyed watching the frenzy that overwhelmed the city on primary day. Some of them even attended a Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) rally in Brooklyn.

The visit allowed Veronica Baas, a third-year student in the University of Utrecht, to realize that the media’s coverage of American politics is not exactly an accurate portrayal.

“What we see in the Netherlands on television about the American elections…is that is so extreme on both sides,” she said.

“But then when you come here... the differences are much smaller, people are just people and they are just nice.”

Most of the Dutch students were amazed at the size and complexity of Rutgers and said their University campus, which is located in an urban area, is a lot smaller.

“Everything is way bigger here and it doesn’t really matter what,” said Auke Montessori, a second year student in the University of Utrecht. “Specially the buildings, they are huge.”

Meanwhile, Roel Bos found American cuisine ver y different from the food he’s used to at home.

“Your portion sizes here are twice as big,” the third-year student in the University of Utrecht said. “I think this has been the most calories I’ve had ever.”

Although they valued the efficiency of the Rutgers bus system, most of them said they would like bicycles to have more

prominence around campus. In their native Netherlands, biking is the main form of transportation, especially for students.

“I think this whole campus is perfect for biking,” said Julia Shen, a third-year student in the University of Utrecht.

On Thursday the group traveled to the Catskills Mountains in New York, the site of former Dutch settlements and on Friday night, the students decided the best way to end their trip was to attend a staple of American amusement – a baseball game.

Even though he found the stadium food quite overpriced, Alexander Haan enjoyed seeing his first baseball game at Yankee stadium. “It was awesome. I didn’t really like the game itself but still the whole stadium was really cool,” the second-year student in the University of Utrecht said.

Dean Jones is certain the strong bonds between both universities will endure for many years to come and is planning on hosting new Dutch students on campus sometime in the future.

For Britte de Groot, a thirdyear student in the University of Utrecht, the exchange of ideas that these programs provide is critical.

“What I really like about these kinds of trips is that you see that your way of doing things is only one way of doing things,” she said. “There are alternatives.”

economy, (in) this country and across the globe as well,” he said. and State Sen. Michael Doherty of “That’s when things were relatively good, where the financial marthe 23rd district.

Ron Filan and Tom Szymanski, kets were okay. Now where are both previously chairmen of the we? Now we have seen a consolNew Jersey College Republicans, idation in the financial markets.”

Few banks have been created also delivered talks at the event.

Garrett, who said he was voted since 2008. In 2015, CNN report“most radical” of his high school ed there have been only three senior class, represented New Jer- new banking institutions created sey’s 5th legislative district since since 2010.

By using loans with interest 2002. He is the longest serving member of the Congressional rates close to zero, banks have been able to buy up their comCommittee on the Budget.

“If it’s on the front page of petitors, creating a consolidation the Wall Street Journal, it goes in the banking industry and stopping start-ups through our in their tracks, committee,” Garrett said. he said. “It’s a Lance, the very neat comother congressmittee to be on “The question is where man present, because all the spoke to the members of the will we proceed in roughly 40 cabinet come this year.”

College Rebefore you ... so publicans presyou get a great LEONARD LANCE ent about the insight into State Representative year’s coming how governelections and ment works.” the changes The comthe winners mittee is also could bring. one that can be “The question is where will we used to advocate for rollbacks and restrictions on the growth of the proceed in this year. This year of (campaigning), this year (is what) federal government, Garrett said.

Cabinet members and legis- will determine the presidency, will lators in the nation’s capital are determine both houses of the fednot always aware of the needs eral congress, will determine — in of the states they preside over, my judgement — the Supreme Court of the United States as Garrett said.

“If you have absolutely no idea well,” Lance said.

The current vacancy on the U.S. what our roads are like or what our transportation needs are like, Supreme Court, and the ages of why is it that you’re controlling some of the sitting justices, will and dictating to us what we’re do- provide the next president a great ing on our roads and bridges and amount of power over the court, highways in our states?” he asked. he said.

“In my estimate, the next pres“Shouldn’t it be left to the people back in New Jersey to make the ident will get to appoint two or three justices to the Supreme decisions on this?”

Garrett also warned of the pos- Court of the United States,” Lance sibility of a coming financial ca- said. “Fundamentally this country lamity stemming from the trends will be changed if the new president is a Democratic president of certain industries.

“What’s that expression? ‘Be with the ability to appoint liberal afraid, be very afraid.’ We got justices who tend not to interpret through the last crisis of ‘08, and the Constitution but try to be suit caused devastation across the per-legislators.”

CRIME APRIL 24 RIVERSIDE — A woman was shot at a birthday party near Butler and Hooker streets at around 11 at night. The victim as sent to Lourdes Medical Center, where she died because of the extent of her injuries.

Authorities have not revealed what caused the shooting, but an investigation is being led by the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office.

APRIL 24 PATERSON — The Narcotics Division of the Paterson Police Department raided a Jane Street home and arrested eight people Friday night. The police had been conducting an investigation and they found hundreds of packets of drugs.

There was heroin, crack cocaine and MDMA. Six of the men and women arrested were charged with maintaining a drug factory, destroying evidence and intent to distribute drugs near a school, and the other two men were charged with possession of marijuana.

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Out of the total income the aged 65-74 demographic sees, the bottom 40 percent receives only 14 percent of the total income, a 3 percent drop from 20 years ago. GRAPHIC BY MICHAEL MAKMUR

ISSUES Top 20 percent of seniors have same income as bottom 80 percent, Crystal says CONTINUED FROM FRONT

— social security, Medicare — they’re all very big social issues.”

When viewing date over time, Crystal said, he could see that some older people were doing great, but there appeared to be two worlds of aging.

“In a way, this whole line of research ever since — and there’s been probably twenty-something papers of which this is the most recent one — had been about

thinking about this issue of the two worlds of aging and this issue about inequality within the older population,” he said.

Crystal created a concept called the cumulative advantage and cumulative disadvantage model.

This is the basic idea that over a person’s life-course, the people that start out well tend to do better and better.

“The people that don’t start out well tend to fall behind over times,” he said. “So if you look at

a cohort of people that are born within a certain span of years — taking my cohort for example, which is the early baby boomers — you follow them over the course of their life, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.”

Entitlements such as social security play into that problem, he said. That is why income inequality is not something that is exactly the same from countr y to countr y but is worse in the U.S. The greatest income inequality across ages was found in the older generation, according to a a study completed in the 1990s by Crystal and a graduate student at the time, Dennis Shea.

“We talked about how that whole situation is driven by policies like social security and what might be some of the things that would give a better chance to the people of the lower end of that and what was the concentration of income among people in the top 20 percent,” Cr ystal said.

In the past several years, people continued to cite their paper despite its outdated data, causing Crystal and Shea to feel compelled to see whether the inequality in old age is further increased and what it looks like today in comparison to their original paper.

While this data applies to older generations, it correlates to the effects millennials will face as they get older, Crustal said. It would take a collective effort for the government to rethink how it is going to handle its income inequality issues.

LESSONS Students can relax, learn music through program, Jaquez says CONTINUED FROM FRONT

them to play music,” the Mason Gross School of the Arts junior said. “Today I worked with a student on (the) cello. We really worked on some good stuff that I think … is gonna help her improve with the orchestra music that they are playing.”

The school’s string program includes a session for beginners on Wednesdays and an advanced one on Thursdays for students who have been playing a string instrument since fourth or fifth grade, Purcell said.

For Karlina Jaquez, a New Brunswick High School senior, the string program not only teaches her “self-discipline,” but offers her a time in which she can relax and take a break from the many extracurricular activities she partakes in.

She said she can connect with the Rutgers students because of the small age difference.

“Mrs. Purcell was my fourth grade teacher … so she’s a mom now,” Jaquez humorously said. “(With the college students) we can have different conversations…and it’s easier to like have that vibe.”

Jaquez and her classmates will perform various musical pieces in two concerts this June, Purcell said.

Eli Schaf fer, a member of the chapter and a Mason Gross School of the Ar ts first-year student, said the volunteer collaboration with the high school will aid his pursuit to become a music educator after graduation.

“I like to give back and use my time for things like this,” he said. “I like teaching ... and so it’s good to experience what I can now to take it later in life.”

For Van Embden, the initiative is an effective way to direct student volunteer efforts around the University’s surrounding area.

“As Rutgers students living in New Brunswick, we are partially responsible for the ecosystem that New Brunswick has,” he said. “We use its resource to fund our education ... so I think it is really important to give to back to the city that we are living and learning in.”

Moreover, this joint program with the New Brunswick community highlights the often overlooked properties of music, Tagliaferro said.

“Music isn’t just per forming – that’s a big par t of it – but a big par t of it is teaching and helping people get to immerse with their passion in music,” she said.

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hile writing this final column, I am trying to avoid every final-monthJANNA ALADDIN of-college cliché that imbues all discussions regarding life post-college.

Of course, the mix of emotions, the bittersweet goodbyes and the stress of finals, make this an almost impossible task. I wish I could sidestep the astonishment with how quickly college years came and left. Despite this, I’m sure that every graduating senior can attest to the fact that despite the hardships, the high points and the low points, freshman year did not seem to have occurred four years ago.

I wish I could reduce my four-year experience at Rutgers into one, dramatic final column but I cannot. As someone who has been receiving nonstop advice, on graduate school, on apartment hunting and on life I would prefer not to offer some final recommendations and counsel from a wise senior (or whatever that means). Instead I’d like to dedicate my last column, a column admittedly that has been largely critical of Rutgers, to stress the immense amount of privilege that will allow me to call myself a Rutgers alumna.

My story is not uncommon. I am product of two hardworking immigrant parents that always prioritized my education and studies, often at the expense of their own comfort. Both my parents were forced emigrate from Iraq to the United States in 1990 and 1991.

Whether they had intended to remain in the United States or return to Iraq was largely determined by the destructive force, the environmental damage and crippling sanctions with which the United States and international community released onto Iraq. But I digress. In any event, despite coming to the US without any support or means of living my parents were eventually able to ensure that my two siblings and I would receive the best education, both graduate and undergraduate. However, I understand that many of peers continue to fight everyday for their right to an education. In Iraq, students fight to survive, to receive educations despite a lack of educational infrastructure, political instability, and assassinations of academics. At Rutgers students work multiple part time jobs while handling a full course load. Many are subject to an unjust system in which tuition keeps rising and student debt seems insurmountable. Unfortunately, lack of education reform and the student debt crisis excludes students across the US, and at Rutgers from completing their studies. For this reason, and many others, I would like to plead anyone reading this column to hold presidential candidates accountable for the state of education in this country and to put questions regarding higher education accessibility at the forefront of elections.

All year, Rutgers has been engaging in conversations about the historical legacies of exclusions and troubled histories leading up to our current moment. Throughout history, different groups — the LGBTQ community, black students, women (specifically women of color), differently able, etc. — have been and continue to fight for their place at the university. Of course, their place at the university does not entail a place on a brochure on diversity but rather in shared governance, in the student population, and in faculty and administrative positions. Trailblazers, especially those belonging to the Civil Rights Movement, have often been met with hostility, with arrest, and alienation yet they pressed on, propelling their movements forward. This is a tradition that I know will continue to thrive at Rutgers as narratives are disrupted, and students demand their voices to be heard. It is because of the unwavering hard work of these very people, both of the present and past, that diversity of thought, growing calls for inclusion, (relatively) more diverse admission statistics and the persistence of student activism flourish.

At times, activism and organizing felt impossible to propel given how overwhelmingly large Rutgers is, and given the seemingly impenetrable system of bureaucracy. For this reason, many have charged university campuses with becoming apolitical. To those skeptics, I challenge such assumptions. Activists and organizers today are up against the neoliberal order that defines higher education and carves students out as customers and means of profit. Regardless of the discouragement and skeptics, student activism continues to forge larger solidarity networks and uphold intersectionality, placing intersectionality out of the classroom and into practice. Furthermore, students, graduate students and faculty continue to work together to improve the university for the better by claiming power outside of institutional frameworks and structures. It is because of this determination and dedication many of us, including myself, will make it to graduation.

Complaints regarding RU screw aside, Rutgers has been and continues to generate student power. Our experiences at Rutgers are not separate of its history, both the dark and the hopeful. Therefore it will always remain critical and crucial to question the colonial college both as a means of reminding people of our history and a means to move forward.

QUESTIONING THE COLONIAL COLLEGE

Janna Aladdin is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in public health and Middle Eastern studies with minors in history and women’s and gender studies. Her column, “Questioning the Colonial College,” normally runs on alternate Wednesdays.

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Value of Tubman’s face goes beyond $20 Abolitionist’s image on money cracks systematic discrimination

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ymbols permeate our consciousness in subtle Trail of Tears. Although Jackson knew that Native ways. They are reflective of a society’s values Americans would die, he let it go on anyway, and this and culture, and symbols implicitly provide a instance is nothing short of genocide.

No one is perfect, and that includes great histormental map of reality that builds a frame of how we see the world. Putting Harriet Tubman on the face ical figures. Some people are glorified for one speof the $20 bill is undoubtedly a meaningful change cific act, and other facets of their character remain — we will have more variety, rather than the same ignored, overlooked or unknown. Through symbolic white men on currency. Yes, these men were our gestures, we still continue to honor presidents who Founding Fathers, but they aren’t the only ones were slaveowners or presidents like Woodrow Wilwho changed the landscape of American culture son who were major racists, Ghandi who had strange sexual experiments and would lay in bed naked with and history.

But admittedly, people don’t pay attention to the his grandniece and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who money they carry around. Despite years of quotidi- had countless extramarital affairs.

Yet in the case that there’s a an option between an transactions, most people can’t name who’s who on every bill and coin, and that’s perfectly fine. What someone who enslaved black people and killed off Native Americans, and someone who people do subconsciously take freed enslaved black people and away and acknowledge is that in the Civil War as the first prominent women have never “But admittedly, people served woman to lead U.S. troops in an been on the face of a commondon’t pay attention to armed assault, the scale tips heavly used currency. Besides Lady ily and breaks from the weight toLiberty (who wasn’t even a living the money they ward the latter: Harriet Tubman. historical figure) and Sacagawea, carry around. ” Having a woman and, especially who are faces on the rarely used a woman of color, on the $20 bill dollar coins, women weren’t pubforges a step in the right direclicly commemorated on regularly tion — but it’s far from enough. This monumental used American bills.

While feminists and many others celebrated, not commemoration is only a minor detail in the overall everyone was happy with the having Tubman on the scheme of things. Although girls and young people of bill. Public figures like Donald Trump and Ben Car- color are more exposed to those who look like them son gave their two cents, and said this was this was and it may serve as a tool that gives children powerful an attempt at being politically correct, and that she role models to aspire to, it’s jarring to have a woman should instead be on the less circulated $2 bill. They of color on our money because it’s a mere paradox.

When women still make $0.79 to a man’s dollar mourned the loss of Andrew Jackson’s position, but Tubman the abolitionist is fitted to replace Jackson and when black people are likely to be poorer than the slaveholder. Jackson may have done some things white people, then having a black woman on monwell during his time in office, but the abhorrent and ey taunts these disproportionately poorer groups. egregious actions overshadow anything else. De- While a black woman will be on the face of $20 bills, spite being a major slaveowner, like so many of our black women generally can’t get a hold of $20 bills early presidents, Jackson’s record ultimately doesn’t when they’re subjected to institutional and systematic discrimination. qualify him to be admired.

Women and people of color need positive symbols Jackson initiated the forced migration of thousands of Native Americans from the Southeast to and representation, but they can’t feed their families the West, and this notorious exodus is known as the with only that.

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April 25, 2016

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Targum secures place at Rutgers for next 3 years FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK DAN COREY

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fter months of reaching out to the Rutgers community, I am happy to announce that The Daily Targum will continue to publish University news for the next three years. The Targum’s Referendum, which allows our newspaper to remain financially independent from the University, passed in the School of Arts and Sciences, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, School of Engineering and Mason Gross School of the Arts.

First and foremost, thank you to all of the students in all seven schools who supported us by voting “yes.” To those of you who voted “no” — I thank you as well for fulfilling your civic duty, voicing your opinion and reminding us that there’s always room for improvement.

Thank you to every student and organization who supported the Targum by helping us publicize the Referendum and encouraging your peers to vote. All efforts that were made to promote the Referendum — through social media, word of mouth and more — helped us communicate our message to parts of Rutgers that we would not have reached by ourselves.

The Referendum failed to pass the Rutgers Business School, Ernest Mario School

of Pharmacy and Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, but we were extremely close. In total, we needed less than 65 “yes” votes across these schools to have passed the entire Referendum. We’ll have to make some tough decisions, but we’re still alive — though if you already heard The Tab Rutgers’ erroneous Friday morning report, you would’ve thought we were dead and gone.

I want to make this very clear: The Targum and The Tab Rutgers aren’t competitors. We both call ourselves news outlets, but the only real commonality is our duty to train student journalists for the professional world. We’re disappointed that The Tab Rutgers, which like Targum aims to educate our peers, ran a report without attributing information and without first contacting us. A place of learning should

“The Referendum not only granted us the financial stability ... it also confirmed that the second-oldest college newspaper in the United States will reach a historic 150 years of publication.”

While The Tab’s report that we lost three schools wound up being correct, it was merely speculative at the time. I want to make clear that the Referendum Oversight Committee had not released its results at the time of that report, and The Tab never contacted us to ask about the results or what they would mean for the Targum.

We will also continue to cover the three schools we lost, despite reports from The Tab. The report stated Targum “had been funded by all students since 1980.” This is simply not the case. We have failed to pass schools in the past, and while the revenue loss will create a financial burden and force us to make some difficult decisions, we will continue to serve the Rutgers community.

be more responsible. I applaud Muckgers for taking a stance against their behavior.

News stories don’t matter if they aren’t truthful during the time of publication.

Moving forward, a very big thank you to our referendum coordinator, Marnie Newman, and to her assistant, Kashif Khan, for their tireless leadership and organization to make sure the Referendum ran as smoothly as possible. Thank you student team leaders and poll workers for sacrificing two weeks of your time to encourage students to vote.

Thank you Murtuza Hussain and the Referendum Oversight Committee, for ensuring that the polling ran according to guidelines.

Thank you Melaina Fraboni, Kerri Willson, Lori Smith, Jackie Moran, Felicia McGinty

and the Office of Student Affairs for your assistance with the Referendum’s introduction to electronic voting, and for allowing us to conduct the Referendum in the first place.

Thank you, Vice Chancellor’s Student Advisory Council, for supporting the Targum and urging your colleagues to vote “yes.” Thank you Jeremy Berkowitz, for taking the time to meet the editors and publicize the Referendum on your Humans of Rutgers University Facebook page. Thank you Targum alumni, for writing commentaries highlighting the value of Targum — especially Melissa Hayes, for rallying the troops during our time of need. And thank you to The Daily Targum’s entire staff. The appreciation and love that I have for you and your unwavering cooperation, support and dedication to the Referendum and your work cannot be overstated.

The Referendum not only granted us the financial stability to continue publishing after summer break, it also confirmed that the second-oldest college newspaper in the United States will reach a historic 150 years of publication.

But more importantly, the Targum will continue to report on Rutgers news and offer University students a place to make lasting friendships and start careers — just as we have since 1869.

Dan Corey is the editor-in-chief of The Daily Targum. He is a Rutgers Business School sophomore majoring in marketing and journalism and media studies.

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Alumnus explains SpaceX rocket tests, failures GEORGE XIE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Engineering students gathered to learn more about their options after graduating college.

Edward Almaria, a Rutgers alumnus and Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) engineer, spoke with students about his career in a Skype conversation. The event was hosted by Theta Tau, a co-ed engineering fraternity, on April 19.

Almaria graduated from Rutgers in 2011 with a degree in mechanical engineering. He has been working at SpaceX since then, he said.

During his time at SpaceX, Almaria worked as a reliability engineer, propulsion manufacturing engineer and flight safety engineer, he said.

Almaria’s path to his current job started when SpaceX came to a Rutgers career fair. He was very interested in SpaceX and ended up with a full-time offer after graduation, he said.

SpaceX is a company that designs and tests rockets and spacecraft. It was founded by Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and co-founder of PayPal, according to Forbes.

SpaceX’s mission is to make interplanetary life possible, Almaria said.

Before founding SpaceX, Musk wanted to send a greenhouse to

Mars but no space program was willing pay for such an expensive project. Musk’s response was to start his own space company, he said.

SpaceX’s culture is more like that of a technology company than an aerospace company, said Almaria. It is a very fast-paced workplace where one individual has as much responsibility as three people would elsewhere.

Regarding Rutgers students at SpaceX, Almaria said there are

SpaceX, Almaria said launching the Falcon 9 rocket and successfully landing it back on Earth was particularly important. This achievement was especially satisfying because people in the past said this was impossible.

Landing the rocket was significant because it becomes possible to reuse the rocket. Reusable spacecrafts would greatly reduce the cost of spaceflights and expand the market

“Companies will come here to market to themselves or specific organizations will ask them to come.”

AVI SHAH School of Engineering Sophomore

currently about seven to 10 Rutgers alumni working there.

When hiring employees, SpaceX places great emphasis on strong academics and a solid base knowledge of engineering and physics. SpaceX also highly values hands-on experience, which Almaria gained from his senior design project in mechanical engineering, he said.

When asked about the most exciting recent development at

for space travel and satellites, he said.

An audience member asked about the situation of the overall space industry, including other companies such as Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic. Almaria’s opinion is that private space flight will continue growing.

Almaria described some of his own work at SpaceX. While he worked in manufacturing, part of his job was to figure out how to

develop certain manufacturing processes that are usually outsourced in-house.

He also detailed the aftermath of a failed rocket flight. SpaceX engineers meticulously went through the bill of materials and tried to find anything that could be wrong before launching another rocket, he said.

Audience members also asked about the usefulness of a Professional Engineer license or a Master’s degree at SpaceX. Almaria said both might be helpful but not required. He did not feel a need to pursue either one.

Avi Shah, a School of Engineering sophomore, organized the event. The purpose of this event was to have an information session about a company that many students are interested in.

“Typically Rutgers has information sessions from companies,” he said. “Companies will come here to market to themselves or specific organizations will ask them to come.”

Shah reached out to Jean Antoine, who is assistant dean of Enrichment Programs. Antoine had a connection at SpaceX and was able to secure this talk, he said.

“Bringing someone like Almaria to our academic community will increase not only Space X’s popularity but will also show him that we’re very interested in them,” Shah said.

April 25, 2016

SIMPLE SCIENCE HOW DO SOLAR PANELS WORK? With Earth Day being celebrated last Friday, people are thinking more and more about different ways to preserve the environment, including alternate sources of energy.

The sun is essentially a nuclear reactor that fuses hydrogen atoms into helium, sending light particles or photons, into space, according to the website for Scientific American.

Photons have energy that is generally felt by people as heat.

This energy can also be used to “excite” electrons, allowing them to move from one atom to another, creating an electric current, according to the site.

Solar panels use different types of silicon compounds to generate a current when light is shined on it at various frequencies, according to the site.

Most consumers have crystalline silicon panels, which have an efficiency of around 25 percent, while the best panels have an efficiency of almost 40 percent, according to pveducation.org.

Solar power had huge gains in the U.S. in the past few years, and it currently supplies about 0.5 percent of total U.S. electricity, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory website.

April 25, 2016

Pearls Before Swine

DIVERSIONS Stephan Pastis

Horoscopes

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Today’s Birthday (04/25/16). Fall in love again this year. Savor family and friends. Enjoy scientific research and intellectual study. Strategize for larger impact after 8/13. Share your heart newly after 9/1. A two-year busy work phase begins 9/9. Reach a turning point in a community project after 9/16.

Play together. To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

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Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 7 — Travels flow smoothly today. It may be possible to mix business with pleasure. New opportunities present themselves. Explore new topics and keep a journal of your discoveries.

intelligent today. Play by the rules.

Write down what you’re learning. Engage others to participate. Postpone buying stuff you don’t need. Clean up and lend a helping hand.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is an 8 — Figure out finances with your partner. Costs may be higher than expected. Assess reserves and make a plan to raise what’s needed.

Grab a profitable opportunity.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is an 8 — It’s a great day for marketing and sales. You’re especially persuasive. Close a lucrative deal. Work quickly and carefully, without stirring up controversy or jealousies. A rush job preempts scheduled programming.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Today is a 7 — Work out a disagreement with your partner. Controversy could erupt. Cultivate inner peace, especially in heated moments. You don’t need to agree to love each other.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 6 — Focus on personal matters. Don’t worry or try to run away from them. Pass on being a party animal. Stillness and peace allows your mind to discover a solution.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Today is an 8 — Take a more practical direction with your health and wellness. Set long-range goals, and monitor daily practices. Win through self-discipline and persistence. Small changes reap big rewards.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 5 — A quiet day of planning and organization suits your mood.

Address an uncomfortable situation directly, minimizing fuss. Rely on someone experienced and objective.

Everyone won’t like everything. Budget and compromise.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 7 — Practice skills you love. Push your limitations. Old suppositions are challenged ... don’t gamble now.

Stick to tried and true methods and techniques. Get into the flow.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 6 — Give loved ones at home more attention. Someone could use your support. Enjoy domestic pleasures like cooking and sharing meals.

Make popcorn and lounge with a movie. Provide gentle kindness.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 7 — Dig for clues. You’re especially

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 6 — Romantic traditions are bonding. Watch for a hole in your pocket. Impulsive spending could burn one. Enjoy good company on the cheap. Avoid risky business. Prioritize basics and toss the superfluous.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 6 — Prepare for a contest or challenge. Avoid gambles or traveling. Face a deadline with determination. Do the job without giving up your principles. Release an old fear.

You can do it.

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April 25, 2016

LIONS Knights rally in 4th to secure program’s 1st Big Ten Tournament appearance CONTINUED FROM BACK

gonna score, I knew we were gonna come back.”

The first 15 minutes of lacrosse Rutgers played Saturday night looked like a continuation from its late loss to Maryland last weekend.

Penn State blitzed the Knights early and often, finding the back of the net on 6 of its 8 shots on goal in the first quarter. Charalambides tallied the only goal for Rutgers in the opening frame, as it faced a 6-1 disadvantage through 15 minutes.

But the Knights flipped the script completely in the second, this time outscoring the Nittany Lions 6-1 with 4 goals from Heningburg, one from Charalambides and one off the stick of junior midfielder Christian Trasolini.

As the teams came out of the locker room locked at 7, Penn State didn’t waste any time in reclaiming its lead.

The Nittany Lions scored the first 3 goals of the second half in just over three minutes of play.

Bieda and Heningburg sandwiched a fourth score from the opposition before the Nittany Lions netted 2 more goals to stretch out to a 13-9 lead with 4:01 remaining in the third quarter.

To that point in the game, senior goalie Kris Alleyne, who entered with a save percentage of more than 55 percent, had allowed 13 of the 17 shots he faced to get by him and Rutgers had given up more than 11 goals in a game for just the second time this season.

The Knights’ offense had shown it could keep up with Penn State’s No. 15 scoring attack — they just needed their defense to bunker down.

In the final 19 minutes of lacrosse, Rutgers’ defense and Alleyne did just that.

Midfielders Jeff George and Christian Mazzone notched goals in the waning minutes of the second to bring the score to 13-11 entering the fourth. George scored again and Bieda tallied his third goal of the game in the first four minutes of the final quarter to tie the score for the second time of the game at 13-13.

Then, with 7:12 on the clock, Heningburg made what wound up being the No. 10 play on SportsCenter’s top-10 play countdown Friday night to give the Knights their first lead of the game.

“I just saw (the goalie) kinda the whole game, he was just holding it a little bit too long,” Heningburg said of the play. “I happened to be behind the goal that one time and I’ve gotten those a lot at practice and I had one earlier in the season. So I just knew, I just go around wrap it and I just grabbed it.”

Under a minute later, Heningburg notched his career-high eighth point by assisting on Scott Bieda’s third goal of the night, extending Rutgers’ lead to 15-13.

Following a goal at the 3:31 mark to cut the Knights’ lead to one, Penn State called timeout as it had possession of the ball in its offensive zone with 57 seconds on the clock.

Out of the timeout, the Nittany Lions methodically worked the ball around the zone before Mike Sutton finally fired a shot from the left of the attack area that was blocked and scooped up by the Knights. Rutgers cleared the ball and got it into

SERIES Strong starting pitching leads Knights in taking 2 of 3 from Nittany Lions CONTINUED FROM BACK

“He’s been doing it for years now and you go out with a good feeling when he’s on the mound. It doesn’t matter who he’s playing against, because he just goes out there and does his thing. He’s very capable.”

After a few scoreless frames from both teams to start the game, the Knights got the scoring going in the bottom of the third inning as junior outfielder Tom Marcinczyk launched a 2-run triple to deep right field to give Rutgers a 2-0 lead.

The Nittany Lions threatened in the top of the fifth inning by putting runners on second and third base with only one out, but Brey ended the threat by striking out the final two batters of the inning to preserve the 2-0 lead.

In Rutgers’ next time at-bat in the bottom of the fifth, senior first baseman Chris Suseck laced an RBI single up the middle to increase the Knights’ lead to 3-0.

They added a couple of insurance runs in the seventh inning via RBI singles from freshman outfielder Jawuan Harris and senior second baseman John Jennings to bolster their lead to 5-0.

It was the first complete game shutout of the year for Brey, and his third consecutive complete game in Big Ten play.

He believes he has been able to go farther in games because of improved stamina, which has enabled him to feel more comfortable as he progresses through games.

“Last year, I felt a little lackadaisical with some of my training, so I wanted to improve that this year,” Brey said. “This year I’ve made sure to stay on top of my conditioning and to stay in shape, and it’s helped me go longer in games this year.”

The middle game of the series was more competitive, but the Knights prevailed again.

Behind a solid start from sophomore pitcher John O’Reilly and some timely hitting, they emerged victorious, 6-4, to go over the .500 mark for the first time all season.

O’Reilly put together one of his better starts of the year by throwing 6.2 innings, striking out six and allowing just 3 earned runs.

Rutgers led 4-0 heading into the seventh inning, but the Nittany Lions plated four runs in the frame to tie the game at 4-4.

the stick of Adam Charalambides, who circled the attack area one time before time expired.

After allowing Penn State to score 13 times through 41 minutes, the Knights held the Nittany Lions to just one goal the rest of the way, and Kris Alleyne made more saves in the fourth quarter (4) than he had in the first three quarters combined as Rutgers scored 6 of the final 7 goals.

“Kris Alleyne’s an unbelievable goalie, but that fourth quarter, he made some unbelievable saves,” Bieda said. “Maybe it wasn’t his best game overall, but that fourth quarter, he stood tall when we needed him, he made saves when we needed him to, and that’s the real reason we won the game. And the defense struggled a little bit, but that’s a really good offense right there. Penn State’s one of the best offenses in the country, so to hold them in that fourth quarter and on that last drive, that’s an impressive stat in itself.”

Rutgers will head to Columbus, Ohio, to close out Big Ten and regular season play next Saturday

night against the Buckeyes. With a win, the Knights would be guaranteed a No. 2 seed in the conference tournament, and could slide into the top seed if No. 5 Maryland drops its final two games.

But before looking forward to the postseason, the Knights looked back on the historic Friday night that added another layer into an impressive four years from the current senior class.

“For these seniors, they’re never gonna forget this night,” said head coach Brian Brecht.

“A 10-win season, 1 of 5 Rutgers teams to have double-digit wins in a season, first time for Rutgers going to the Big Ten Tournament.

Those seniors have put their stamp on something and they’ve created a great culture here. Certainly proud of every single one of them and everything they’ve given to the program over the past four years.”

Seniors Whitley, Maddox had weekend to remember in final home series of career CONTINUED FROM BACK

On the sunny finale from Bainton Field, Rutgers faced a 7-5 deficit heading into the bottom of the ninth inning.

Kyle Walker came in the game to pinch-hit for Gaby Rosa, and drew a walk to start the inning and spark a roar from the crowd of 407.

Senior catcher R.J. Devish followed with a walk to setup the Knights with runners on first and second with nobody out.

After Penn State pitcher Jack Anderson recorded a strikeout, he walked Suseck to load the bases with one out for Marcinczyk.

Anderson recovered and preserved the win for the Nittany Lions, as he struck out both Marcinczyk and Harris to end the game.

Campbell took the loss and Justin Hagenman earned the win for the visitors, as they were able to escape Piscataway with a lone win.

Despite the ending, Rutgers played solid baseball throughout the weekend against one of the better teams in the Big Ten and hope to build from it moving ahead.

“Penn State is a good team and they’ve been doing very well in conference play, so we knew coming in that it would be tough,” Devish said. “Winning the first two was huge and hopefully we can continue to push forward up the standings.”

Saturday was Senior Day for the Knights, both in name and in results on the diamond.

Rutgers was led by senior pitcher Dresden Maddox — who allowed three runs on three hits in five 1-3 innings to earn her ninth win on the year — in the circle and Whitley at the plate as it defeated the Hoosiers, 6-3.

Sweeney came to stop the bleeding for the second consecutive game. After tossing five scoreless innings, Maddox gave up a 3-run home run as Indiana reduced its deficit in half.

But once the Barrington, New Jersey, native took the circle, the Hoosiers were unable to score again, leaving two runners on base as Sweeney struck out the tying run twice to close the contest.

Following the trend of each game getting closer than the last, Sunday’s contest was the tightest of the three.

Indiana took the first lead of a game for the first time of the weekend, notching a run in the top of the 2nd inning. The Hoosiers were able to hold Rutgers scoreless for four innings, but it wouldn’t be denied on its quest to sweep the series.

With two runners on base, sophomore catcher Sierra Maddox swung for the fences and connected, hitting a 3-run home run to give the Knights a 3-2 lead they wouldn’t relinquish.

Using the experience she gained a day earlier, Sweeney was able to get herself out of another jam in the bottom of the sixth inning, leaving runners stranded at first and third after giving up a run on a pair of doubles.

The senior retired the straight batters in the bottom of the seventh after surrendering a single to open the frame to lock up her second win of the weekend.

Despite facing a number of difficult situations throughout the weekend, Sweeney said she never felt she was down because of who she had behind her.

“I just knew that my defense was behind me and if I threw the ball low (and got) a grounder, pop-up, they were going to make the play so that helps a lot in any game, any situation,” she said. “I didn’t get nervous or anything like that knowing my team had my back.”

With a spot in the Big Ten Tournament locked up with the series win, weight has been lifted off the shoulders of the Knights.

Regardless, they’ll approach their next contest against LIU Brooklyn on Wednesday the same way they have all season.

“I’m not thinking about it. It makes it easier, but you wanna keep going and get the highest finish you possibly can,” Nelson said of clinching a spot in the postseason. “One game at a time.

That’s the way we take it, one game at a time. We don’t look at what we did in the past, we look towards the future, the next game and that’s all we’re looking at … that’s what we’ve preached all year long.”

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Scott Bieda roams the attack area in Rutgers’ win over Penn State. Bieda scored 3 goals and recorded a team-high 3 assists.

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With the Knights looking to prevent a comeback from Penn State, Litterio sent freshman outfielder Mike Martinez to pinch-hit for Christian Campbell, and the move paid off as he launched a go-ahead, 2-run double to give Rutgers a 6-4 lead.

Junior relievers Ryan Fleming and Max Herrmann teamed up to close it out, earning the win and save respectively.

The win showed how the depth of the lineup has improved in recent games, as Martinez provided the game-winning hit after coming off the bench.

“We’re starting to click now as a lineup,” Marcinczyk said. “We’ve been improving in practice and taken that out to games now, and we’re really starting to do our thing out there.”

Rutgers then entered Sunday looking for a sweep and sent Campbell to the hill to make the start but fell, 7-5.

After he threw a scoreless first inning, the Knights exploded with 4 runs in the bottom of the frame to take a 4-0 lead.

The lead did not last long, however, as the Nittany Lions scored once in the second inning and four more times in the third to take a 5-4 lead.

Campbell was replaced after allowing 5 earned runs in three innings and replaced by freshman Serafino Brito, who also threw three innings and gave up two runs.

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Inconsistency continues to plague RU QBs in spring game BRIAN FONSECA SPORTS EDITOR

The Rutgers football team culminated all the work it’s put in over the spring in its 15th meeting of the season Saturday night.

But instead of practicing in front of recruits and high school coaches inside the Rutgers Indoor Practice and Conditioning Facility or outside on turf at the F3 practice field, the Scarlet Knights showcased what they’ve put together in the past month in front of 14,177 at High Point Solutions Stadium in the Scarlet and White spring game.

Despite the attendance being lower than last season’s total of 15,782, head coach Chris Ash was appreciative of the fans who came out to support the first spring game of his time on the Banks.

“It ended up being a great evening, and I’m really appreciative of the fans that showed up to support the football team,” he said. “Like a lot of the events that we have, we’re looking to make each event each year bigger and better, and we’ll do the same for the spring game, but I thought it was a great turnout for our first spring game.”

The White team, consisting of the second string and select fourth stringers, began the game with 17-point cushion in order for the game to be more competitive.

It was unable to surmount the talent gap, however, as it was outscored 33-3 by the Scarlet side, which consisted of the first string and select third stringers, once the clock began running, leading to the final score of 33-20.

Playing under the lights for the first time in the spring, the Knights got a taste of what they’ll see in the fall as they prepare to compete in the no-huddle spread offense for the first time.

“The spring game is as close it gets to a game in the offseason, and I felt really comfortable with the offensive line and the offensive unit out there in the no-huddle offense,” said senior center Derrick Nelson. “I think there’s still more

Junior quarterback Hayden Rettig scans the field for an open receiver Saturday night. Rettig went 4-for-6 for 76 yards and a touchdown in his first two drives. MICHELLE KLEJMONT / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER improvements that we need to do but all in all, I think we looked pretty well and we were a little productive out there.”

Ash didn’t name a starting quarterback prior to the contest, citing the inconsistency both have shown throughout the spring as a reason the competition will run into training camp.

The lack of consistency in the offense was evident to those who tuned into the Big Ten Network Saturday night.

Juniors quarterbacks Chris Laviano and Hayden Rettig split the reps for the Scarlet squad.

While Laviano struggled in his first three series, going 8-for-18 for 73 yards and no touchdowns in the first quar ter, Rettig demonstrated the potential seen in him that

spurred cries from fans to give him an oppor tunity throughout last season.

The Los Angeles, California, native went 4-for-6 in his first two drives, throwing for 76 yards, including a 55-yard touchdown pass to senior wide receiver Carlton Agudosi, who never broke stride in the process.

Results were flipped in the second half as Laviano came out on fire to start the third quarter.

The Glen Head, New York, native started the half with his first touchdown drive of the game, going a perfect 4-for-4 on the 66 yard march downfield. He and senior receiver Andre Patton combined for a 41 yard pass before senior running back Robert Martin charged into the endzone on a 6 yard run.

Junior wide receiver Janarion Grant attempts to evade a defender in the Scarlet and White game Saturday night. Grant had a game-high 140 yards receiving. MICHELLE KLEJMONT / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Laviano continued his solid half two drives later, when he and Janarion Grant connected on a bubble screen before the senior wide receiver went 37 yards to the house, evading a pair of defenders on the way to giving the Scarlet team a 26-20 lead.

On his final drive, Laviano showed an improvement in one of his issues from last year. In the play of the game, he scrambled out of the pocket and threw a 49 yard bomb across his body off his back foot to Grant, who was on the opposite side of the field.

Meanwhile, Rettig went 7-for11 in the fourth quarter, completing seven straight passes before throwing his last three incomplete.

In order to fix the problem that’s holding both quarterbacks from taking a firm grasp on the

starting spot, Rettig will put his head down and get to work in the offseason.

“Just keep working hard, I guess,” he said of the solution.

“Keep doing what you’re doing and actually put more hours in.

We gotta be better.”

Both quarterbacks received a boost from Grant, who had the standout performance of the night. The Trilby, Florida, native gave a sneak peak at how his skillset will be crucial in Rutgers’ new offense as he led the team with 140 yards and a touchdown on 11 catches, most of which came on bubble screens in the backfield. “(Janarion’s) very quick, he’s elusive, he can make people miss in space, he can line up in the slot, he can motion, he can line up in the backfield. He can do a number of things offensively and we’re gonna utilize his skillsets to do that,” Ash said. “I think he’s a perfect fit for what we do offensively.

You’ll see him in a lot of different positions in the fall.”

The Knights will get a day off Sunday following the game and then will attend individual meetings with position coaches throughout the next week in order to receive assessments of where they’re at following the spring,” Ash said.

From there, the players will be back in the weight room in order to prepare for the season that lies ahead.

With the quarterback competition at the top of the list of things to sort out from now until the season kicks off Sep. 3 in Seattle against Washington, Rettig is looking at nothing but how he could improve individually.

“I know everyone gets worried about competition stuff, but you gotta embrace it. You gotta love it,” Rettig said. “You gotta worry about yourself. You really have to worry about what you’re doing to get better every day. Everyone’s good, so you just gotta be better.”

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Rutgers sweeps Indiana to lock postseason trip

Knights seize series from PSU on home field MIKE O’SULLIVAN

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The Rutgers baseball team (20-10, 5-7) hosted Penn State (24-17, 9-6) this weekend for a three-game series at Bainton Field, the first time the Nittany Lions have played on the Banks since 1987.

There was excitement surrounding the series heading into the weekend, as the Scarlet Knights entered having won their previous two midweek games to give them some momentum.

They took advantage of this recent wave of strong play, as the Knights won the series by taking 2 of 3 games.

Playing in front of their home fans for three straight games gave Rutgers some confidence, and it parlayed that into reeling off some crucial Big Ten victories over a rival.

“Looking at the positive side, we came out and won the series, which is always the goal,” said head coach Joe Litterio. “To get greedy, you want to also take the last one, but we just came up a little short in the last game.”

Senior lefty Howie Brey (5-3) took the mound for the Knights in the series opener on Friday afternoon and put together another dazzling performance.

He commanded the strike zone from the first inning throughout the entire game, firing a complete game shutout to lead the Knights to a 5-0 win.

The southpaw struck out seven batters and walked only one, while lowering his ERA to 2.61 on the season.

He has become a model of consistency for the Knights, providing the ace they have been looking for atop their rotation.

“It’s getting scary because now this is kind of what we expect from Howie,” Litterio said.

​Seven days after a mercy rule 11-1 loss to then-No. 21 Minnesota capped off a weekend in which it was outscored 26-2 by the Golden Gophers and saw its losing streak stretch to six games, the Rutgers softball team left its home diamond in a much better position.

The Scarlet Knights (23-26, 7-10) swept Indiana at the Rutgers Softball Complex over the weekend, pushing its current winning streak to five games after ​it swept its doubleheader against Maryland earlier in the week.

While the turnaround for the Knights was quick, it wasn’t the result of any drastic changes.

“Just focusing on what we need to do,” said head coach Jay Nelson on what the key to the recent success is. “We started having better at-bats, we started laying off the bad pitches and I think that’s what helped us.”

Rutgers opened its weekend with its most dominant display, taking the Hoosiers (24-22, 6-11) down in an 8-3 win. Senior third baseman Jordan Whitley paced the Knights at the plate with a career performance, driving in a career-high 4 runs on three hits in four at-bats.

“I just tried to do whatever I could for my team,” Whitley said of her approach. “Obviously we needed to score some runs so just taking each pitch one at a time, trying to see the ball and advance runners.”

After tossing three scoreless innings to start the game, junior pitcher Aubrie Levine found herself in a jam in the top of the 4th frame.

Nelson swapped junior pitchers by putting Shayla Sweeney in Levine’s place, a move which worked. After giving up a double and allowing two more runs in the fourth inning, Sweeney retired nine straight batters to close the game and earn her eighth win of the season.

Sophomore attacker Jules Heningburg holds the ball as he surveys the field. He had tallied a career-high 6 goals and 8 points in the win. EDWIN GANO / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

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Senior Scott Bieda found fellow attacker redshirt freshman Adam Charalambides at point blank range on the right side of the goal.

With two defenders converging on him, Charalambides just barely got off a shot aimed at the top left of the net as he was falling to the ground, but Penn State goalie Will Schreiner stood tall and made the stop.

As Schreiner corralled the ball and tossed it to teammate Tripp Traynor, sophomore attacker Jules Heningburg came out of nowhere from behind the net to deflect the pass into the air, catch the ball in his stick, square his body and blast a clean shot from 8 feet out past Schreiner all in one motion.

It was Heningburg’s career-high 6th goal of the game and gave the Rutgers men’s lacrosse team its first lead of the night over the Nittany Lions after fighting an uphill battle for 52-plus minutes of action.

Heningburg’s relentless sequence was the epitome of the Scarlet Knights’ play Friday night as they simply would not be denied.

The No. 19 Knights (10-3, 3-1) fought back from deficits of five and four in each respective

Senior pitcher Howie Brey throws a pitch in Rutgers’ win over Penn State Friday.

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half to take down No. 17 Penn State (7-6, 1-3) by a score of 15-14 in front of 2,328 on Senior Night at High Point Solutions Stadium.

Jules Heningburg led the way with 6 goals and 2 assists, while Scott Bieda scored and dished out 3 goals of his own.

With the win, Rutgers captured the Friendship Cup from the Nittany Lions for the first time since 2010, reached double digit wins for the fifth time in program history and, most importantly, clinched its first ever trip to the Big Ten Tournament.

After the home finale, the Knights’ 10 seniors were honored upon capping off a perfect 7-0 season at High Point Solutions Stadium in 2016.

“It’s just absolutely unreal,” Bieda said on finishing his home career with a comeback, signature win. “(Senior long-stick midfielder Zack) Sikora made an unreal speech when we were at the diner, just saying how we’ve worked so hard in this stadium and on this field and there’s no way that we’re gonna walk out of here for the last time not on the winning scoreboard ... I think a lot of people were like, ‘you guys were down so much, weren’t you nervous?’ No. I knew we were SEE LIONS ON PAGE 10

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senior attacker, moved into sole possession of the No. 7 spot on Rutgers’ all-time point leaders list with a 6-point effort in the Knights’ win over Penn State Friday. Bieda’s 3 goals and three assists gave him 184 points for his career at Rutgers.

Senior infielder Jordan Whitley drove in 4 runs in Rutgers’ win over Indiana Friday.

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